The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1903, Page 21

Pages 21 t0 32| VOLUME XCIV-—N 91. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY. AUGUST 3o, 1903—FORTY-_EIGHT PAGES. Pages 21 t0 32| PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUINING FLAMES SWEEP ADRIANOPLE AND FEROCIOUS TURKS ENGAGE IN CRUEL MASSACRE OF THE HELPLESS INHABITANTS OFIA, Aug. 29.—The Dnevnik publishes a report that one sgction of the town of Adrianople is in ashes and that three other sections are burning. The inhabitants are panic-stricken and the authorities have lost all control. The Turks are committing wholesale massacres. between Ushunkisktri and ISLNDERS THREATENED | B FAMINE One Thousand Per- sons Perish on Caymans. None of _the Group Has a Single Tree Left Standing. Hurricane’s Terrible De- vastation Is Not Yet Fully Known. t disaster has over- islands. All ached here « dgrees that the he i were destroyed reatens the people. £ the loss of lifs is spec-| definite ne men Brac, are In latitude € ff the south coast of 1l and Ja- British West r mmissioner there { ey of & tion of was t the e 1 tmmens escaped the ¢ the w year were up- g tion. This 1s st the greater of this wind es the belief that only stone gs are left in Georgetown. One let- ed here described the destruction r inhabitants . will be the middle of next week be w nd loss of life - but enough is fear that the gulf has not such a series of the Galveston catastroph ———— CONDITION OF IBSEN | IS NOT NOW ALARMING | wegian Dramatist Is Able to Take a Short Walk or Drive Daily. INHAGEN, Aug. 20.—~The condition | rik Tbsen, the Norwegian dramat- en {1l for some time and | P¥ repors ncar death, has undergone no | 1 it is announced here | n no immediate dhn-i has been able to take | daly. ‘* e ee— | Repairs Will Cost $42.000. walk or drive SHINGTON, Aug. 20.—A 1evort has | 1ist as he aid, for it the Navy Department ard ing that an examination Massachusetts gince she had been k shows that it will cost $42,000 r the damages which she recently near Bar Harbor. least 1900 per- | | |read down the 1 . 4 by & Berlin pa % v & Berlin paper toy| 0 poard's expert that $1,500.000 had es- | An unsuccessful attempt was made, the Dnevnik advices add, to blow up the westbound Orient express Tchernkeskra. Only the locomotive, however, was derailed. fPRODUC:ES FIGURES TO SHOW " WHY THE CITY'S ASSESSMENT i " { o G ROLL SHOULD NOT BE RAISED | | WASHIN GTON | cobaE- | | | | CITY OFFICIALS WH( EQUALIZATION YE INCREASE-IN. fHE 2 ESSME PPEARED BEFORE THE STATE BOARD OF TERDAY TO PROTEST AGAINST A PROPOSED NT OF THE MUNICIPALITY. Assessor Dodge Makes a Forcible Argument Before the State Board of Equalization. Specisl Dispatch to The Call. } g R | w citation to izZ fon tu-day a show cause why the 03 should not be raised. on I Washington Dodge, Assessor of Francisco, presented case for municipa and county and made a sirong argument against an increase by the hoard. A large delegation was In a ndance -upon the including Mayor Eugene enstein and H. A. D. M3 bett. segas, isco shows a net increase of r the assessment of last year, e total for 1 3 being sessor Dgdge bruought a mass g with the details of his assess- s which he presented to the board me and he was at all times aimed any proposition t making 2 crease in the roll. San 1 the property of San | | progress and months after the assessment prepared to com- | He | proceeded at once to show the injustice | of the board’'s method of treating mort- gage values in San Francisco. = expert had returned a lang ssed valuc of the mort- posite the assessed value as gages was set o of the property | were made. Asgessor Dodge id that in this list the dates of mortgages were not given, but were contrastcd from the as- sessed property uations of 1902, He showed that the mortgage values were greater than the value of the property. Dodge then showed that under his assessment for this ar these property values are In ex- ess of the mortgages and the claim of t which caped taxation in this foundation in fact. ASSESSMENT OF MORTGAGES. Dodge declared the list to be valucless for the purpose of equaliging the assess- ment for 1003. He said he did not like the idea of the board’s expert making out the manner had no assessing mortgages at a far lower figure than the vglue of the properties given as security warranted. Again, Dodge said, he aid not like to be brought before the board to be told that in interior counties i mortgages were.assessed at morc thap han 3009 mortgages | | which they bad no means of verifying. on which the mortgages | ! sold, all of which had been used by the put the city and the | creased her assessment $110,000,000, while Assessor, apparently, in the- position of | the rest of the State, Los Angeles County | of the expert of the board to show that | reported sold for $69,000 actually brought fteelf was a 1 8an Francieco the revers in San Francisco, will lend two or sed for, while is the case Dodge #ald, the banks three tin as much | sessment | money on gilt-cdge city property as they { Wil on country propertics He then read a number of letters from the officials of savings banks In San Francisco, in all of | which the statement was made that on city property loans to the extent of 8 per cent of the valuation were made, whereas on country property the amount ran from 30 to 33 1-3 per cent Dodge further declared that the attempt he had not assessed the ferred to according to the value of the property, as determined by sales reported by Thomas Magee & Sons’ Real Estate Bulletin, was manifestly unfair. The ex- pert, Dodge asserted, had taken reports of sales made on a rising market and in a section of the city where a boom was in mortgages re- rolls had been completed. PRICES ARE INFLATED. Assessor Dodge then read a letter from Thomas Magee & Song, in which it was stated that in all sales made by that firm the prices given were correct, but that when sales were made by other firms they had to rely mainly on reports of prices, which were largely hearsay and of Later Dodge read a list properties board’s expert in making his deductions relating to the a ments of morigages. Dodge said these saleg would show the | fallacy’of depending upon real estate re- | ports for the purpose of making compari- sons of valuer. He sald Thomas Magee & Sons had admitted the correctness of the revisions in prices he (Dodge) had made from the published reports. One piece of property reported to have been #old for $300,000 had actually brought $25,- 000, said Assessor Dodge. Another plece but $52,000, and o on through a long list, which went to show that a little hooming had been done in the properties which | were changing hands frequently. From 152 to 60 San -Francisco in- excluded, dropped back $30,000,000, making | a difference of $140,000,000. In the thirteen vears from 1890 San Francisco increased its assessment $127,000000, while Los Con_tlnned_an Png; 26, Colu}xm 5. ] | neet the Gould system at Salt Lake with | by G00L0 Wi BUILD A T0 G005 B Plans Two Lines to the Pacific Coast. B One Will Connect Salt Lake City and the Northwest. Expects to Give the Port Great Commercial Importanee. Special Dispatch to The Call SALT LAKE, Aug. 29.—If George Gould | i t carries out his plans, within short time | he will have reached the Pacific Coast with -a rafiroad in two places, ome in California and the other in Oregon. Di- rectly from a man intimately connected with the Western Pacific Rallroad comes the Information that the Coos Bay Rail- road project is part of the same general | scheme. While the two roads m: retain separate corporate identities, the manage- ment will he something liko that of the Union Pagific and-the Oragon Short Line. They are : backed by the same in; terest. i Western ‘Pagie. js to ‘con San ca, while the ( ie to form @ Jink between the northwestern coast. It s the intention to build up a port - which will bid against Port Scattle for the great and grow- of the Pacific Northwest and China, Korea and Japan. The Bay road alt Lake and land s ing trade of Siberia construction of the Siberfan raliroad has given an Immense of the impetus to the trade northwest ports and Gould, backed Rockefeller, is determ share of it. The Coos Bay veyed. is to miles west tural across Salt La d to have a road has not been sur- As projee in a general way, it run from Bay hundred north of the California line, south: through rich timber and agricul- district= in Southern Oregon and northern Nevada and Utah into ke, RIS CANADIAN GOVERNMENT CLOSES A BIG CONTRACT Arvanges for Better Mail Service Be- tween Skagway and Dawson During Winter Season. TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 0.—Hereafter mail service between Skagway and Daw- son will be better than ever before in its histol The Canadian Government has contr: to have 2100 pounds of letters, magazines and papers taken in weekly during the winter. This will include all matter in transit through the Canadian 00s one strip en route to the American Yukon. For this serviee the Canadian Govern- ment will pay $75.000 annually. About a sixth of thie Is for the summer service and the rest for the more difficult winter Under the new contract about double the bulk of mail matter is to be carried and three times as many trips will be made. A White Pass company four vears' contract to carry all the mall between Dawson and White Horse, sum- mer and winter. All classes of mail will be carried both ways in summer without limit or restriction as to quantity. In win- ter all classes will be carried out from Dawson, but only first-class mail, news- papers in single wrappers and magazines service. in single wrappers, addressed to individ- | ual subscribers, RETURNS FROM A TRIP TO THE SIBERIAN COAST Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago Talks Glowingly of the Outlook for Material Prosperity. . SEATTLE, Aug. 2.—Ferdinand Peck, the Chicago millionaire, w. returned | to-day from a long trip through Alaska and to the Siberian coast, where the Northeast Siberla Company, of which he is a director, is operating on large Rus- sian concessions. Peck 18 enthusiastic over the trip from the standpoint of a pleasure excursion and talks glowingly of the outlook for material prosperity in the north. “The_ Beward Peninsula,” said Peck, “is destined to become the greatest gold pro- ducing country the world has ever known, The output from the vieinity of Nome will this vear exceed $5.000.000 and will increase yearly. I visited ail the camps of the reghg and al=o personaily in- spected the tin deposits in the vicinity of Cape York. These are vast and val- uable. Our operations in Siberia are pro- ceeding sutisfactorily and we have no doubt of successful results, but as this is our first year in the field there is noth- ing definite to give out as vyet.” » Peck leaves for his home to-morrow.* secured 4 | | | | L4 It | | | | | | Insurgen;s Blow Up Lighthouse an Wand qutrol thg B{aqk Sea C_oas{.fl d Station s Bag i | i | i i | l | | i | % ) A VIEW OF TURKISH FORTIFICATIONS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF | | | CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE . ACTING SECRETARY OF THE | { l NAVY WHO HAS DIRECTED THE PROGRESS OF OUR WARSHIPS. | i g | OFIA, ‘Aug. 20.—A telegram from | olutionaries succeeded in crossing the Leren says the rallroad station at | frontier and fighting is proceeding in the Ekshl has been blown up, a num- | direction of Rdslog. ber of officsals killed and the rails | gATONICA, Aug. 29.—1t is om- torn up for a distance of 150 | cigily apnounced that the seven battal- | meters. The insurgents have blown up | jons.of Turkish troops which have beeng the lighthouse at Vasiliko and now occu- py all the principal points along the Black Sea coast. The barracks at Dimitka, near Adrian- ople, have been blown up and the garrison Kkilled, Four thousand Albanians are pil- laging the villages in the districts of Ok- rida ‘and Krushevo. The latter district “has been deserted by the population, who have joined the Insurgents in the moun- tains. The Turkish forces in the frontier districts have been largely increased. * Reports from Constantinople say that 700 medical and veterinary students and | army cadets have been given their di- plomas and commissions without having passed the usual examinations and have been drafted into the third army corps. A number of villages In tha frontier dis- trict of Dubnitza have been burned. A private telegram from Rila, forty miles from this city, says the Bulgarian troops on the frontier have been ordered to combine with the Turkish frontier forees In order to prevent insurgent bands from entering Macedonia, Despite the concentration of forces, however, 100 rev- { Tt is understood that the revolutionists | investing Nevska (captured August 27 by | the insurgents, who killed 200 of the 240 | men composing the garrison) have rccap- tured that place. An imperial irade has been issued ors dering 'the mobilization of 6,000 troops at Kossovo, Roumanta, about fifty ' miles from Uskub. Great excitement prevails in Albania, where the whole population is eager to enlist. A telegram to-day an- nounces the impending arrival of a ship- load of rifles for the Albanian volunteers. are making a strong bid for the sgpport of the Turkish population against the | Turkish Government. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 28 (Friday). —Very little news was received to-day | from the foreign consulates in Macedonia. The Austrian Consul at Uskub reports | that a detachment of troops passing the Austrian consulate discharged their rifies at the consulate. No one was hurt. The persons sent to reopen the light- house at Kuruh-Burgun, in Adia Bay, re- port that it has been completely de- stroyed. | retary Hay. American Warships Make Haste to Beirut. ASHINGTON. Aug. 20.—The Navy Department has re- ceived a cablegram from Rear Admiral Cotton saying that the Brooklyn and San Francisco will sail from Genoa for Beirut Sunday. They have been delayed by coal- ing. The order for them to proceed to | Beirut has not been changed. Acting Secretary Darling to-day sent a cablegram to Rear Admiral Cotton, in- | forming him that Vice Consul Magelssen had not been killed, but had been fired upon. This was done to apprise the com- | manding officer of the squadron of the true situation at Beirut The collier Alexander ported at Maita on her to Manila with coal for the Asiatic station. She will next report at Port Said, and if the exigency is then necessary she will be held to supply the cruisers of the Euro- to-day was re- way | pean squadron with coal. SAYVILLE, L. I, Aug. 29.—Alarmed at the eritical condition of American-Turkish relations, Chekib Bey, the Sublime Porte’s envoy to.the United States, is hastening to Washington for a gonference with Sec- The Minister hurriedly left his summer legation here to-night for Washington, and because of the gravity of the situation it is the Minister’s inten- tion to ask Secretary Hay to forego the customary formalities and receive him im- mediately. The conference,probably will occur at Mr. Hay's house to-morrow aft- ernoon. MINISTER IS WORRIED. The dispatch of the American warships to Turkish waters Is a source of the greatest anxiety to the Minister. Although confident himself that the Washington Government's only motive in taking this actlon wase to protect American citizens, he fears it may have the opposite effect, and render more difficult the efforts of the Sublime Porte. to afford protection to foreigners. The appearance of the Euro- pean squadron off Befrut will. it is point- ed out, be taken by the revolutionists as an evidence of the Washington Govern- Continued on Page 22, Column 2. Continued on Page 22, Column 4