The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 79. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL NELSON A. MILES WILL SECOND THE NOMINATION OF UENERAL JOHN C. BLACK FOR DISTINGUISHED OFFICE T0 TUNNE THE CREST OF SIERRA Harriman Orders Alteration in Railroad. —_— Millions Will Be Ex- pended on Southern Pacific. Steep Grade and Miles of Snowsheds to Be Done Away With EXPLOSION BRINGS BODY TO SURFACE OF WATER s Recover Remains of Miss- New York Man From Canada Lake. N. Y., Aug. 17.—The s came to the sur- Lake early to-day after mite. Evans and 1 have been missing gone for a boat Evans was to Search and water ever , and last night stated that they er the time of the an elopement was however, was disproved ng of Evans’ body. icrttamae 4. Navy Cancels Contracts. 17.—By order of avy Darling, 2 the Crescent Ship- f Elizabethport, N. J., of the cruiser Chat- edo boats Nicholson canceled. The which have been launched, will apleted &t a government yard. Searct been vessels s | ELavA"/Ior WII Name New Leader. But One Can-| didate in Field. d conceded t wa. t y t was certain of election. Weeks before the pi image of the old | soldlers to the coast began General Black Iowa, Kansas, . Michigan, Minne- New York, Eince his a month reported elegation to n with the ibility in the arters of was strong men at th ing the encampm election of General ONLY ONE CANDIDATE. yith Bulkeley out of the running the wed down to the promine: s a candidate and to a qu a Miles would endeavor to inducs him to permit his name to be used. While the | spect was rife, however, the an- J. Corey Winans, chief of staff tewart, nominated, but would be to second the nomination Black. P ve just come from General Black's said the officer, “and it is as certain as the coming day that General 1 prepared to support the first He is an old friend of Black, appreciates the popularity of the is man and knows too well that his own strength, even should his friends t his name forward, is not assure him a victory. can mention General Miles as among those who are anxious to second the nomination of Black and he would 4 y accept the opportunity to put his friend in nomination himself. He hhs announced his candidacy for the der in chief of the Grand Army it had not been for several news- ers which, for reasons best kuown to 1 ght him suddenly to the ble candidate, his name not have been considered m con- nection with the high position at this en- campment. In the future ‘General Miles may possibly be placed in command of the Grand Army. In fact I have learned | t 2 number of States are already planning such a move.” BLACK’S SUPPORTERS. No one knows better the political situa- tion within the Grand Army, in so far as the new commander in chief is con- cerned, than General Stewart and that his chief of staff should so emphatically express himself may be regarded as very significant. | At the headquarters of the Illinois del- | egation, where the stanchest of General | Black’s supporters are to be found, it | was given out among the delegates last {night by Department Commander Partridge that there would be no "oppasmon to General Black at the { convention and that possibly the convention would, iIn accordance with an old custom and a privilege it enjoys under the by-laws, vote to hfve the vic- be one of those not wot d torious ballot cast by the adjutant gen- | Lawlor, former commander in chief of |seconding speeches would not among them being Ala- | authori- | whether the friends of General | was made on the authority | that General Miles | 1 St the nomination arranged to have General Black placed |state, but if the privilege was extended in nomination by General Thomas G.!to the limit I will, vouchsafe th the, fin- | R = -+ eral of the Grand Army. In discussing | the G. A. R., and he added: fshed until the néxt encampment.” of his lifelong friend, | “Just who and how many -will second | The ‘loyalty to General Biack was Colonel Partridge said that it had been | the nomination I-am not prepared to | shown ‘on all sides yesterday. Even friends of General Miles, while praising OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF GRAND. ARMY OF REPUBLIC o MoreArrivals Add to the Crowds. Rt Throngs Fill the City’s Hotels. AN FRANCISCO threw open her gates yesterday in wide fashion and gave generc: " welcome to the heroes of the Civil War, who are now » the midst of the important event of the Thirty-seventh Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republie. According to conservative estimates more than 25,000 visitors were in this city yesterday and-“thérs are still more to come." All day yesterday special trains roued‘ into.the Oakland mole angd sent thousands of veterans and their friends across the bay into San Francisco. In addition to the heroes of the Civil ‘War who fought on dozens of bloody bat- | tlefields, there were the brawny men who served with Farragut and other naval commanders. Hundreds of brave women who did heroic work in caring for the sick and wounded during the conflict be- tween the North and South reached this city to join in the reunion that marks the greatest epoch in the listory of the world. | has at last been discovered. Ladies of the Grand Army of thé Re- | public arrived in many crowds and joined thelr sisters who had preceded them. Hour after hour the scenes on Market street became more animated and by noon | the thoroughfares were congested. The old | soldiers and saflors mingled with the khaki-elad young veterans of the Span- ish-American War, rosy-cheeked army nurses were greeted by those who had followed the same profession forty years ago, but whose hair had whitened with the passing decades. SCENES OF ANIMATION. Men who.had suffered all the horrors of Southern prisons jostled in the crowd with their comrades who had furnished the inspiring strains of the familiar war airs and songs that led them to many of the fields of battle. ‘White-haired and infirm veterans of the Mexican War marched up and down the streets and too often, alas, were ccm- pelled to lean on the arms of the vigorous young fellows from the Presidio who to- day represent the army of Uncle Sam. The entire day was given over to meet- ing old comrades and new friends and from one headquarters to another ths old soldiers and women of the affiated so- cletles went. Every State had its head- quarters for the Grand Army and for the ‘Woman’s Rellef Corps and the Ladies of the G. A. R. The main center of the gatherings was | at the Palace Hotel, where the bulk of the headquarters are located, With re- markable vigor the veterans and the la- dies visited room after rcom In the hotel and the greetings accorded to the guests of the various headquarters were most affectionate. MEET ON EQUALITY. and they mingled with their comrades of many campfires. The old soldiers who had saved up their meney in order to attend the encamp- ment were given a hearty welcome by their former ‘bunkies” to whom fate had accorded plenty of the world’s goods. No matter how rich or how poor a sol- dier might be, all were on an equal foot- ing yesterday, for all had fought in the ranks to preserve the glorlous flag, of which many thousand floated to the breeze yesterday. In the afternoon martial music sounded through the streets and there was a re- markable sight witnessed as a drum and fife corps of old soldiers marched up to the Palace Hotel headquarters of the Grand Army. The veterans blew the fifes and beat the sheepskins with just as much vigor as they wd when they went forth forty years ago at their country’s call. Thousands of old soldiers gathered on the sidewalks and with tear bedimmed eyes listened to the war tunes which had led them to victory and which had sound. Continued on Page 4, Qolm 1. Continued on Page 4, Column 6. P l LOCKJAW MIELDS T0 NEW CURE Chicago Scientist Saves Life of Patient. Injection of Salt So- lution Relieves Sufferer. Restoration Is Effected After Physicians Had Gjven Up Hope. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Aug. 1 A cure for lockjaw The cure is not a theoretical one.\ It has been tested and proved. The discoverer 1s Dr. Samuel A. Mathews, professor of pharmacology in the University of Chicago. Mathews' treatment of the dread disease consists of an intravenous Injection of salt solution. The treatment has been tried "for the first time on George Newman, the ll-year-old son of J. M. Newman of South Chicago. The patient had an acute attack of the malady and was in the last stages when Dr. Mathews wa: discovered reme ter of death Just t up in of Mathews’ disc ply this: The function of the ki carry away from the body all t tend to poison the blood. The poi which causes lockjaw is produced by th tetanus bacillus, a motile germ which forms in wounds. This poison, in cases of lockjaw, paralyzes the kidneys to suct an extent that they are unable to per- form their functions and carry it out of the system. Mathews found from experiments with rabbits, the blocd of which had been pols- oned with tetanus bacillus or with mor- phine, that a solution of salt, when in- jected into their blood, greatly stimulated the action of the kidneys. On Wednesday, July 15. while playing near his home, George Newman caught the large toe of his right foot between the chain and cog wheel of a bicycle and that member was mangled. Dr. Hartman of South Chicago was summoned, dressed the toe and it began to heal nicely. Eleven days later, however, symptoms of lockjaw appeared, and from that time the child grew steadily worse. Last Tuesday the attending Woctors told the anxious parents that they could do | no more; that death was a question of a very short time. One of the ddetors told | the elder Newman of Protessor Mathews The famous generals who figured in the | 5 & conflict of forty years ago were on hand | and his experiments. Mathews was sum- moned. When he arrived George had been in spasms, the last fatal symptom of the disease, for five hours. Mathews had Iit- tle hope in such an extremilty. Three velns were opened in the boy's right arm, and, by means of an instru- ment that resembled a fountain syringe, the salt solution was made to mingle with the blood. The operation was re- peated on Wednesday morning and even- ing. On Thursday morning the solution be- gan to bave the effect aoped for. Befors daylight the kidneys, under the effect of the stimulant, ‘threw off most of the poisonous liquids caused by the tetanus bacillus. In the same time the pulse beats were reduced from 144 per minute to 104 per minute, ————————— May Sue Shipyard Trust. ) NEWARK, N. J, Aug. 17.—Judge Kirk- patrick to-day signed an order permit- ting the New York Security and Trust Company to bring suit against James Smith, as receiver for the United States Shipbuilding Company, in foreclosure pro- ceedings on the $10,000,000 mortgage on the Bethlehem Steel Worka.