The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1903, Page 21

Pages 21 t0 32| K O B = FIT = ol - @all, [Fasron] VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 84. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY AUGUST ' 23, 1903—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RELIANCE, FLEET DEFENDER OF THE CUP, BEATS SHAMROCK III BY NINE MINU Test Proves That Victorious Boat Should Lead Challenger in Any Weather OMRS PITCH | DOWN STEEP EIBANKNENT Two Persons Die in Wreck Near Chehalis. Engine Leaves Rails, Dragging Coaches Into Gully. Nearly Two Score Pleasure Seekers Are Bruised and Crippled. Pty first 2 having the , Portland, Dr. H. R. Little- ght jured; H. B. Franzin, land, Portland, Gus Kratz, Port C. F. Frank, Port- hurt internally; W. 0. W. shoulder jured; head, 4, bruised bad ver, ribs and Tillie Cornelius, Portland, shoulder broken; A. J. Mc- niels, Portland, badly bruised; George Blodgett, Portland, leg broken, head Dr. C. W. Cornelius, Portland, seri- ously hurt; Dr. Hickey, arm broken; D 3. Caswell, Portland, seriously injured; r Edmunds, Portland, head brulsed; Carter, Portland, leg broken, head Mrs. Harr, Portland, head hurt; head and face bruised; Otto Portland, ribs broken, hurt in- m H. Souls, Portland, left Thurston H. Daniels, Port- S n at the engine. by a rod on the engine d were taken to Dr. )spital, where physi- acoma, Centralia for them. There bandages and re ty of was a women tore cir skirts for bandages. Probably one the most seriously in- sred is Mrs. C. B. Brown, the wife of a whose hand was torn and was found in the wreckage. £ d her right m broken. She is in a s condition to-night. Engineer Green's injuries are mainly the back, though he sustained a ter- rible blow on the head. Green said: ‘I don’t know what was the cause of the accident. The engine had been steam- ng badly all morning and the injector was not working right. When the acci- it occurred I had let her out and we were going at & good clip, probably ‘thirty Continued on Page 24, Column 1. Glencoes t t arm was amputated | 3 Boats. SHAMROCK FHL o 5. 20 s S s g a7 Start. Turn. 1.55.10 1.58.30 Finish. Elapsed Timie. 3.17.38 3.32.17 3.26.34 3.41.17 TES, ACTUAL TIME, IN A SAIL-FILLING BREEZE Britons Already Acknowledge Futility of the Struggle With Yankee Sloop : 4 | ISELIN PRAISES HE Reliance’s performance to-day spoke for itself. I can add nothing in words. I was always confident that she FAST RELIANCE. { was the better boat and to-day’s result justifies my conten- I tions. Shamrock III did splendidly in windward work. It was fine racing weather and offered a test of the boats. | C. OLIVER ISELIN, Managirg Owner of Reliance. EW YORK, Aug. 2—In a splendid tweive to fifteen knot breeze over a windward and leeward course of thirty miles the gallant sloop Reliance to- day beat the Shamrock III in commanding style by exactly. nine min- utes, actual time, or seven minutes three T deducting the one minute seconds which the defender Sir Thomas Lipton’s third challenger on account of Reliance’s larg- er sailing plan as at present measured. It was a royal water fight for the an- clent trophy, which carries with it the 3 n | concedes to yachting supremacy of the world, and by | a strange coincidence the first victory in the cup series of 1903 occurred on the fif- ty-second anniversary of the day on which the old schooner America captured it in her famous race around the Isle of | Wight. The Reliance beat the British boat three minutes. twenty-four seconds in the thresh to windward and five min- | utes thir seconds in the run down the wind. EXPERTS ARE SURPRISED. The nautical sharps, who had already made up their minds on Thursday that the Reliance could take the measure of | the challenger in any kind of weather, | regard to-day’s test as conclusive, al- though they hardly anticipated so over- whelming a victory. The race even dam- pened the ardor of Sir Thomas, who in- sisted after Thursday’s fluke that his con- fidence in the beautiful craft designed by Fife was greater than ever. Still, like a | true sportsman, he does not acknowledge e defeat and hopes for better luck next time. The single criticism he and his friends make of to-day’s racs is that the only shift of the wind which occurred was to the advantage of the defender. As this shift of the ‘wind occurred on the wind- ward beat, even granting that it ac- counted for the Reliance’'s lead at the turn, the time the defender gained on the home run was more than ample to have given her the race. A It must be conceded, however, that the Shamrock showed herself a wonderful boat in beating to the windward, perhaps the ablest craft in this respect ever sent across the western ocean on a cup hunt- ing expedition. For twelve miles tho great single stickers raced like a team of horses and during that portion of the duel the patriots made no attempt to conceal their nervousness. BREEZE FOR RACING. The racing conditions to-day were ideal. A thin haze hung over the Jersey coast, obstructing the view of the spectators gathered there, but out on the ocean race- course the sea was flooded with sunshine from a vault of fleckless blue. A long ocean swell heaved up from the south and ‘a’ twelve-knot breeze, fresh and strengthening, blew out of the southwest, throwing up fleeting whitecaps on the sparkling ocean. The marine picture was superb. The size of the enormous excursion fleet and the number of sightseers aboard, in the estimation of those who have* wit- Wilkins, | INVESTIGNTE THE ESCAPE OF CONVICTS Prison Directors Begin Inquiry at Folsom. Cowardly Officials Are Booked for Dis- -missal. Four Felons Who Gave Aid to Wounded Guards Are to Be Rewarded. Special Dispatch to The Call FOLSOM, Aug. 22.—That some of the guards were cowardly and that four of the conviets were of great service to the State on the morning of the outbreak, July i, were two of the most important facts established to-day by the investiga- tion of the Board of Prison Directors at Folsom Prison. As a result of the inves- tigation Guards Klenzendorf, Ryason and Chalmers and Prison Physician Plant are slated for dismissal and convicts Joseph Casey, O. C. Clark, John Martinez and Charles Abbott will be recommended for executive clemency. The directors are in- clined to think the responsibility for wae escape of the thirteen desperadoes rests not so much with prison management as with State legislatures which have failed to allow appropriations making possible the acquirement of facilities for restrain- ing dangerous felons. The result of the investigation will be embodied In a re- port to Governor Pardee. Prison Directors Fitzgerald, Felton, Wilkins and Ray arrived in town late last night by special train from Sacramento The remaining director, Robert Devlin, is absent in Europe. The party went imme- diately to the penitentiary, where they were welcomed by Warden Wilkinson. After luncheon the directors assembled in the Warden's office and discussed the situation In a general way for several hours. Wilkinson stated that Guards Scott and Edwards resigned immediately after the outbreak and that Guards Klenzendorf and Ryason had refused to do further duty at the rock crusher. GUARDS TO BE DISMISSED. “Are they still here?”” asked Director referring to guards last named. replied the Warden. “Well, why in thunder don't you fire them?” ejaculated Felton. “I have been walting to hear what you gentlemen had to say about it,” was the answer. Charles Montgomery of the Prison Re- form Commission was the next subject of conversation and his ears should have es,” <+ VIEW OF THE BIG CUP YACHTS WHICH COMPETED YESTERDAY. an international cup race. The concourse of palatial steam yachts was the largest ever seén off Sandy Hook. As the direction of the wind would have carried a windward course from Sandy Hook lightship into the Jersey shore, the committee was obliged to set the mark seven miles farther out. This delayed the start about forty-five minutes and pre- vented the massing of the excursion fleet, as usual, in the form of a great marine amphitheater back of the starting line. Instead, kept back by the revenue cut- ters, they formed a column of hulls and stacks extending three miles toward the Jersey shore, the yachts around the line completing the shape of a fishhook. The course, southwest, carried the yachts- di- rectly into the eye of the wind to a point off Asbury Park. The honors of the start, as on Thurs- day, were captured by the American skip- per. Captain Wringe timed his approach to the line with the Shamrock badly and in an effort to keep off until the gun boomed he almost lost his bowsprit as he luffed up to cross. Barr, as usual, went over in the windward berth, four seconds behind his rival. Both were close hauled on the starboard tack. It was a magnificent sight as they plunged sea- nessed many contests, made a record for| Continued on Page 23, Column 8, . & | LIPTON’S CONFIDENCE UNSHAKEN. %4 burned well. The Warden stated that he was posi- tive that others than the escaped convicts were in the plot. “Kid" Thompson, Myers | and Lavarone are thought to have been | partners in the conspiracy and their con- | nection with the break will be investds E were beaten fairly and squarely. It was splendid | | weather and the “Shamrock did not do as wellasI had cxpected she would in the race to windward and return. I appreciate the splendid manner in which my boat was handled. The Reliance is a wonderful yacht. My confidence in the Shamrock, however, is not shaken. SIR THOMAS LIPTO. ONDON, Aug. 22.—Much of the same sort of apathy obtalned in London to-day regarding the result of the yacht race as was the case on Thursday. Most of the morning papers made no attempt to display bulletins and those persons who were interested either consulted the news ticker or bought up “extras” which more enterprising jour- nals flung upon the streets at intervais. The fact that news of the Humbert trial came out an hour or so before a bul- letin from Sandy Hook caused a slight misapprehension In some quarters. The newsboys were shouting the result of the trial and some persons bought the papers, thinking the yacht race was over. I saw one gentleman in the Strand take one glance at his paper and fling it away with an exclamation. One of the morning papers announced the result by sending up three red bombs at the Crystal Palace and Hampstead. Even among the Americans in the ho- tels no remarkable degree of Interest in the contest was observable, as most of them regarded the result as inevitable. Call-Herald bulletins which were post- ed by the Royal Temple Yacht Club in the Hotel Cecil attracted considerable at- tention. There are a few yachtsmen in town and two members of this club whom 1 saw had apparently built no hopes on Shamrock IIL The report from New York that Sham- rock III would have to be remeasured caused considerable discussion. In some quarters I heard allusions to Yankee tricks. Such remarks were made by per- sons whase knowledge of yaching mat- ters is nil. HIGH INFANT DEATH RATE DUE TO DOCTORED MILK Denver Health Department Is Pre- paring Complaint Against the Offending Dairymen. DENVER, Aug. partment announced to-day that com- plaints are being prepared against dairy- men who have been distributing milk treated with poisonous preservatives. It is alleged that in the last four days nine- teen infants have died in this city from diseases which can be traced to milk pre- served with formaidehyde. The records of the Health Department show that only thirty-elght deaths ot children under 2 yeéars of age were re- ported last year, while this year during the seven and a half months past sev- enty-five deaths of children under 2 years of age have been reported. —— BRITISH AND GERMANS DO BATTLE IN IRELAND King Edward’s Soldiers and the Kaiser’s Sailors Engage in a Fight. QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, Aug. 22— There was a disturbance to-night between British soldiers and some German salilors belonging to the corvette Stoch on the beach here. During the melee one soldier and a resident of- Queenstown were stabbed. 22—The Health De-| gated later. It was also reported that the employes of the Folsom Light and Power Company were entering the prison grounds and shutting off the water when they thougnt best, relying on the injunction secured | against the Board of Prison Directors several months ago. All were agreed that this state of affalrs should not exist and to-night the situation was discussed with State Edgineer Eckart. Some of the di- rectors want to sue the electric company for a quarter million dollars damages and have the case tested. PLOTS STILL BEING FORMED. The Warden opened his desk last night and tookK out a box which contained ar- ticles discovered in the possession of pris- 'oners on Thursday night. There was a miscellaneous assortment of knives and stilettos, showing that plots were still be- ing formed. After inquiring further into the conduct | ot the guards the officials dispersed for | the night with the understanding that | the morning session should be early in order to finish the work as soon as pos- sible. The first work after breakfast to-day was a tour of the grounds, through which | the desperadoes made their escape July 27. and much integesting information was | elicited from the Warden, Captain Mur- phy and the guards who accompanied the party. It was demonstrated how the con- victs poured in on the prison officials and how the majority of the felons were pre- vented from joining the escapes. The directors passed around the building oc- cupled by the officers and guards and came to the gate leading to the armory. “How did the convicts get through here?” asked Senator Felton. “The guard unlocked the gate,” was the reply of the Warden. The road at this Doint runs behind a high wall of natural rock and the es- caping prisoners were out of range of the guns in the hands of the men in the Continued on Page 24, Column 5.