The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-—NO. 109. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S LIFE IMPERILED WHILE CRUISING LONG ISLAND SOUND ON + e DELEGATES TO THE IRRI SAN GATION CONGRESS APPEAR TO BE ABOUT EVENLY DIVIDED ON THE QUESTION OF REPEALING LAND LAWS — N\ GorraNDER ) Boorri-TvcKzrR PEARY LOSES COUNT OF HS MY WIVES Boston Police Are Certain That He Has Four. BOSTON. Bep a man 2 uate 4 years old and a ew York of s, was confronted s and a list of ysicians night by twe charges e was a polygamist n his own o of h He acknowledged that and swindler and fession he was locked wi up and held for trial his confession Peary said he aid not W many women he had married, olice claim to know of four. The first marriage occurred in San Francisco 1877, when Peary was wedded to Miss Sarsh Pratt. He deserted her a few months later and of all his wives she {s the only one for whom he feels no affec- d to whose support he has not con- 1883, Peary married Mrs Charles Sila (nee Isabelie M. Geneaux) and later deserted her. In 1888 he led to the altar in New York Adeline Colgrove, Boston widow. His next matrimonial wes in Cambridge, this State, on 1902, when he married Annie May 9, ven July Britt From the letters found in Peary’s room at 185 Adolph street to-day it is evident he has been contributing regularly to the support of all of his wives, with the ex- ception of the San Francisco woman. Some of th: letters found show also that b- has been sending money to women in Europe and America. Peary sz & swindler has internafional notoriety. He has served three years in €ing Sine prison, New York, for larceny, and in Boston, London and Paris he has been arrested and convicted on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. His arrest to-day was brought about by wife No. 2 and wife No. 4. When con- fronted by the women at police headquar- ters he sald: “Well, 1 guess the is up and I had better make a clean of it.” He then launched into a confession in- volving a varied assortment of swindling games. He Is a man of fine appearance &nd seems to be highly educated. President’s Suggestions Are Received With Enthusiasm. - Co-operation Is Urged as Necessary to Success. Dvsors ~ = - FRANCISCO, TH — the existing land laws, Including the des- ert land act, the timber and stone act| | and the commutation clause of the home- | stead act, will Be a very close one. Cham- | plons both for and against such action were heard at to-day’s session of the con- gress, George H. Maxwell of the flxecu-i tive committee of the National Irrigation Association and Senator Paris Gibson of | Montana favoring such iction, while Con- gressman Mondell in a lengthy speech took strong grounds against such repeal. Both the repeal resolutions introduced by Mr. Maxwell and the speeches of Sen- ator Gibson and Congressman Mondell were much applauded and it was evident from the feeling displayed that if the ['congress does recommend the repeal of these laws, and it is ger ..l bellef that the committee on resolutions will report in favor of such resolutions, that it will only be after a very hard fight. Interest in the possible action of the congress on this point, in fact, overshadows every- thing else that has come before it. HARD WORK FOR DELEGATES. This was a day of hard work for the | delegates. Besides listening to half a dozen Interesting speeches, numerous res- | olutions were introduced and referred to the resolutions committee, of which Sen- ator Bmoot of Utah nas been elected chairman. Action on the long considered consoli- dation with the Tr: Mississippi Com- mercial Congress was also taken. The committee appointed last year to investi- gate the desirability of such affliation reported through its chairman, Senator Carey of Wyomirg, against such action on the ground that the time had now come for action and the Irrigation Con- gress would best preserve its individual- ity in the work it set out to do so many years ago. The report was adopted unan- imously. The mor g session of the congress was devoted to colonization and the opin- fons of rallroad men and soclologists on the best methods of settling the arid regions with a desirable class of. farmers and small stockmen were listened to with much interest. The feature of the morn- ing session was a speech of Commander 3 l THREE OF THE PROMINENT SPEAKERS WHO ADDRESSED THE DELEGATES AT YESTERDAY'S MEETING OF THE IRRIGATION | SRESS NOW IN SESSION AT OGDE: < GDEN, Utah, Sept. 16.—It devel Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, oped to-day that the fight over [ who gave a very complete description of the proposition to commit the |the methods pursued in the National Irrigation Congress in | Army colonfes of California and Colorado | favor of a repeal of several of|in settiing.them with | teeming tenement districts of the East. e Salvation people from the | ALL URGE CO-OPERATION. All of the speakers urged more com- plete co-operation between States, land owners ard raliroads in the general scheme of colonization, without which, | they claimed, the scheme of irrigation | would be of no value. 3 The first ill feeling shown during lhei sessions developed over an attempt to change the constitution sd” as to allow each accredited delegate on the floor to vote on pending questions. Some of the | States are heavily overrepresented, and as the constitution of the congress pro- vides that no State shall have more than twenty votes this meant a great deal to Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California Utah and other States with large delega- tions. The row was started by the South- western delegations, who are pulling al- most as a unit for El Paso as the place of meeting in 194, and after a rather sharp debate a motion to’table the pro- posed amendment was carried almost unanimously. This was considered a blow to the chances of Boise, Idaho, for next year. From expressions of delegates to- day there is a possibility that St. Louis may be selected, however, sentiment in favor of that city apparently spreading rapidly. FRUIT AND GRAIN AWARDS. Awards in the fruit and grain exhibit of the arid States will be made to-morrow. The exhibit is considered one of the most elaborate ever shown, rivaling that of the world’s fair in 1893. To-morrow the work of the Unitea States Department of ‘Agriculture regard- ing irrigation and forestry will be put be. fore the congress by Government experts in a number of papers and in the after- noon the delegates will view practical methods of irrigation shown in the State School for the Blind near Ogden, where a model farm is conducted. The seating capacity of the tabernacie is totally inadequate it 1s probable that arrangements for some other hall will be made. Ten minutes were this ‘morning set aside for the reading and in- | in touch with | ea states. | 1anas in LEPER HIOES N A VILAGE OF THE SOUTH Refugee From Hon- olulu Escapes (Cottage Empty When Pursuers Discover Her Retreat. Former Chicagoans Depart and Leave No Clew Behind Them. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 16.—The peo- ple of San Jacinto, a little town southeast of here, at the base of San Jacinto Peak, have just discovered the startling fact that a leper has been mingling im their midst for the last three months without their knowledge. G. L. Greenwell brought the story to this city to-day. Some time ago there arrived ‘at San | Jacinto a Mr. and Mrs. John McQuade, who rented a cottage in the suburbs. He was a carpenter and prosperity smiled on him from the moment that he first set his foot in the town. The couple | made frien®&, but no one ever caught a glimpse of his wife's face, she ‘always appearing in the presence of others heav- fly veiled. The man eyplained this by stating that she was bothered with a painful rash, which, if éxposed to the air, would become the more aggravated. The other day two deputies from the TUnited States Marshal's office arrived 1 town and on golng to fthe house eccu- pled by the couple they found it deserted. After a long search they found several persons who had seen them leave the evening before on the train. The of | ficers explained that Mrs. McQuade was a leper. The couple were married In Chicago several years ago, Where she had been employed as & city school teacher. She was regarded as an exceptionally bright young woman and had received honors from several leading seminaries in the country. They had a desire to travel and s set forth for the Orient. At Honoluiu McQuade was offered a position at a high salary and concluded to settle there. Al- though he protested his wife secured an appointment as principal of the native schools, she having a desire to master he language. This position brought her lower classes and from them she contracted the dread disease. For a time Bhe occupled a cottage in the leper settiement, her home being bullt for her especially, ard in an isolated place, where she would not come in contact with the other lepers. McQuade was desperate and thought if he could get his wife to the United States he could cure her by the change in climate. With the assistance of some falthful natives they succeeded in smug- gling her aboard a steamer. The author- ities thought she had gone to the Orient and did not learn of the true destination until the steamer returned from the Unit- Then it was discovered that the woman had escaped to this country. The San Francisco authorities were noti- fied by cable and since then officers have been on the track of Mrs. McQuade. L 2 o them came in. They included Statehood for New Mexico, Arigona and Oklahoma, for the protection of watersheds supply- ing municipalities with water, to permut the entry and location of coal lands on forest reserves and petitioning Congress | to repeal the lieu land provision of the forest reservation law and that private forest reservations should be purchased or acquired by condemnation. A long resolution was introduced by George 8. Maxwell, chairman of the Na- tional Irrigation Association, favoring the recommendations contained 1in President Roosevelt's telegram of yesterday for the preservation of the forests, favoring the immediate repeal of the desert land act, the timber and stone act and the com- mutation clause~ of the homestead act. The resolutions Wwere very explicit and were heartily applauded by the delegates. E. M. Brannock of Portland, Or., was scheduled to speak on “The Relation of Irrigation to the Internal Trade and Com- merce of the Country,” but he was not present and his address was presented by T. G. Harley. C. E. Wantland of the Union Pacific Rallway, Denver, delivered an address on “Colonization.” He claimed the national irrigation law will fail uniess improved methods of colonization are adopted and urged greater co-operation between States and land owntn and railroads. John Henry Smith spoke on “The Colo- nization of the West.” and during his talk he devoted some time to a defense of the character of Brigham Young. a Carson, Washington correspondent of the New York Times, also spoke briefly. Governor George C. Pardee of Califor. *The Relation of Colo-’ ation,” as follows: o begloning. 1 wish to make an acknowl- on:.iu_nt. T am Indebtéd for the better part SDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903 BY TERRIFIC GALE THE YACHT SYLPH | Their crews Lives Go | OutI on Sinking Vessels. Shipping Suf- fers in the | Storm. | e No Trace of Lost Ships’ Crews. ELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del., Sept. 16.—The southern storm which had been coming up the Atlantic coast for several days struck the Dela- ware Capes early this morn- Ing with almost cyclonic force, and as a result at least five lives were lost in this immediate vicinity. The storm lasted from 3 o'clock this morning until 7 o'clock. The wind reached a maximum velocity of eighty miles an hour and the rain fell in | torrents. The most seriaqus wreck reported was that which yesterday afternoon befell the schooner Hattie A. Marsh, whose captain, J. B. Mebaffey, and four members of the crew were drowned. The Marsh hailed from New London, Conn., and was bound from Painters Point, Me., for Philadel- phia with a/cargo of paving stones. She was caught in the terrific wind storm out- | side the new stone breakwater. The cap- | tain tried hard to reach the Harbor of | Refuge, but before he could do so the vessel had to anchor and try to ride the | storm. Her anchors did not hold and the schooner with her dead weight of stone was .dashed on the rocks of the Harbor of Refuge. The| steam pilot beat' Philadelphia went to the reseue;- but succeeded 1-saving only Mate Norman Campbell and one seaman. Captain Mehaffey and the four other sall- ors were lost in the fury of the lashing waves. Phe rescued men were taken to | the Lewes.life-saving station and cared for. They were in a ¥ery ¢xhausted con- dition when picked up, SEVERAL CREWS MISSING. In the old harbor southwest of the mari- time reporting station three schooners | dragged“their anchors and collided. They were the Emily F. Northam, the Ade-| line Townsend and the Sea Bird. The| Sea Bird, which was a two-masted vessel, | sank. Her crew was rescued and landed | on the point of Cape Henlopen. The men | were cared for at the life-saving station. | The Northam's jibboom was carried away and her yawl wrecked. The Townsend | lost her head gear and jibboom. The barges Elmwood. Gfibertson and Kalmia, laden with coal from Philadel- phia for eastern points, were sunk in Del- | aware Bay westward of the Brown shoal. were rescued by the tug | Tamaqua, which was towing the barges. | The tug Spartan, which was towing the coal barges Treverton, Hammond and an unknown barge, is reported to have sunk. The barges are anchored at Bear shoal. There are no tidings of the Spar- tan's crew. It is reported that thres coal barges were sunk on the ocean off the capes and that their crews probably are lost. FLYING DISTRESS SIGNALS. An unknown bark is anchored off Ocean City, Md., with distress signals in her rigging. The pllot boat Philadelphia has gone to her assistance. g The barge Marcus Hook, from Philadel- phia for New York, was almost wrecked. She dragged her anchors and was fast drifting on to the cape when - tugboats saved her and towed her to safe anchor- age. Much mirnor damage was done to the breakwater. The Harbor of Refuge east end light and the day mark on the break- water were carried away. Some of the pliing at the reporting station was washed away and the telegraph line was down all day. 4 The fury of the storm was Lewes, mnear here. blown down and chimne; —— STORM mlfl NEW YORK. Many Vessels Are Sunk or Damaged in the Harbor. _NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Greater New York and its environments for several miles in all directions were visited to-day by the fiercest wind and rain storm known hereabouts in years. The day be- gan with rain which increased with the felt at Many trees were damaged. wind and for about two hours about mid- day the combined fury of the elements wrought damage -on lan. and water amounting to many thousands of dollars. nhe gale culminated at noon In a wind velocity of fifty-four miles an hour. Ap- parently solld sheet= of water drove across the city, drenching every unfor- tunate caught without shelter and the gauges at the Weather Bureau registered 1.5 precipitation in two hours. Then the storm subsided. - By the middle of the afternoon the wind had dropped to a mere breeze and the sun iroke througn the clouds. The gale was especlally severe at sea, causing havoc to the shipping down the bay, 'her’n mml:hven sunk or ed. e W damage Jrecked trom Staten Isiand. b i of the Staten Island Yacht Club ::Lr was either sunk or wrecked. 7: pilot boat ‘Hermit was driven ‘there was a collision. | engage. The French Government has de- ent sway o iy scared + EW YORK, Sept. 16. Following is a sum- mary of the great hurricane : Killed by storm, 18; missing and probably dead, 12; fatally injured in New York, 4. Greatest velocity of the wind in New York, 63 miles an hour; south of New York, 70 miles an hour. Rainfall amounted 1.29 inches in two and forty minutes. The high wind lasted less than three hours. The temperature at noon, in height of the storm, was 71 degrees. The general direction of | the gale was from the southeast. A feature of the storm wwas the small diameter, cov- ering only a small territory in the East. | FRENCH GUNS T0 THONDER IN MORDCED France Planning for Conquest in | ' Africa. Special Dispateh to The Calt. PARIS. Sept. 16.—Preparations are al- ready well advanced for the next war| of conquest in which a great power wlll‘ to hours | termined to conquer and annex Morocco | and operations on an extensive scale prob- ably will be begun within a few weeks. This ambition of rrance Is, of course, | well known and well understood. What | is not well known and will not be easily understood is that Great Britain has con- sented ‘to stand aside and to abandon her | almgst traditional attitude of protection | of the royal prerogatives of the Sultan of this African kingdom. | Less than ten years ago Great Britain | would not have hesitated to make war | with France, if necessary, in defense of | the integrity of Morocco. The Sultan, as | late as the spring of the present year, relied with absolute confidence upon British support. Whether he has yet be- come aware of its withdrawal has not transpired. The explanation of this radical change of policy on the part of the British Gov- ernment Is only partiaily clear. It has at first glance the appearance of another “cave,” and 3 weak one at that. Its mo- tive, however, is undoubtedly the new effort which Bfitain is making to divorce France from her alllance with Russia. The concession was made by the Brit- ish authorities at the time of the visit of President Loubet to the King in last July, and Delcasse brought back with him to Paris the consent of Lord Lans- downe as’ the greatest coup of his admin- istration. s The approaching campaign will be the subject of the keenest military interest, not- alone in France but to all Europe. Nothing is known and much is sus ted regarding the effectiveness of the ma- chinery and personnel of the French army. It has had no real test. The conquest of Morocco will not be child’s play, although it involves nothing approaching In magnitude the task which Great Britain assumed with a light heart when she sent General Buller with 50,000 men to subdue the Boers. @ riririniniirieieieiele - @ on the center of the city, loosening the 250-foot spire of St. Bartholomew's Pro- testant Episcopal Church on Madison avenue. The steeple of the South Congregatfonal Church in Brooklyn also was loosened. Trees were torn up and the streets of the city were littered with signs and um- prelias of unfortunate pedestrians who happened to be out in the fury of the storm. Telegraph and telephone wires above ground were broken in all parts of the metropolis. The tugboat James Kay was blown on Hogs Rock In Hell Gate and completely wrecked. The captain and crew saved themselves by swimming toward the fsi- and. The streets of Manhattan borough were strewn With broken signs and other Scores of plate glass windows along Broadway were broken, the vicinity of the Flatiron bullding at Twenty-third street suffering severely in this respect. In the Flatiron itself forty windows were smashed. Occupants of the build- m-fll-kvhkmhm structure in the gale and many were so bad. that they left the bullding. An wagon was blown over while ashore ang turning the Flatiron corner and the driv- ‘m‘am'lm-mm'um between and a barkentine. A tugboat was | the avenue, were both seriously hurt. 4 in Hell Gate. of others were more or less Injureq The hurricane burst with cyclonic force | in this neighborhood. PRICE FIVE CENTS, Frail Craft Is Swept by Seas. All on Board Thoroughly Drenched. Tug Sinks in Sight of the Yacht. EW YORK, Sept. 18.—Presi- dent Roosevelt is resting quietly on his train to-night after a day of strenuous and varfed experiences. While en route from Oyster Bay to | New York on the naval yacht Sylph he passed through a terrific wind and rain storm, during which the vessel was In imminent danger. Subsequently he vis- ited the immigration station on Ellis Isi. and, New York Bay, and made a thor- ough inspection of the institution. After dining on the Sylph to-night he went on the revenue tug Chamberlain te Jersey City, where he boarded a speciat on the Pennsyivania Railroad, which is to convey him. Governor Murphy of New Jersey and their invited guests to the battlefield of Antietam. There to-mor- row will occur the ceremonies incident to the dedication of the monument erected to the memory of New Jersey soidiers who fell in the Civil War. Shortly after 10 o'cleck this morning President Roosevelt boarded the Slyph in Oyster Bay. He was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and their son Kermit, Mrs. Richardson, a New York friend of Mrs. Roosevelt; Secretary Loeb, Profes- sor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard Col- lege. Professor J. B. Moore of Columbia University, C. Grant Lafarge of New York @nd Jacob A. Rlis of Richmond Hill, Long Island. In addition the Pres- fdent's guests Inciuded members of the executive staff and representatives of the press associations. ENCOUNTERS THE STORM. When the Sylph weighed anchor the skies werk dark and forbidding, and as | the vessel drew out of the bay = light rain fell. Less than an hour after the Sylph had entered Long Island Sound vhe ran into a terrific wind and rajnstorm. The storm increased in severity rapidly and off Fort Schuyler it developed into a hurricane. The wind blew, according to an estimate made by Lieutenant Preston, commander of the Syiph, at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour. The Sylph, a comparatively small ves- sel, pitched heavily and off Willets Point listed _very sharply to starboard. The President d#nd his guests had been forced to go below and beyond a drenching none of them suffered inconvenience. The storm became even more severe as the vessel neared Hell Gate. The waves and wind swept the deck, making it al- most impossible for the sallors to remain exposed to their force. The baggage of the party, consisting prineipally of hat- boxes and dress suit cases, was swept about the deck and everything movable on deck had to be clewed down to prevent its being swep: overboard. TUG SINKS NEAR SYLPH. In Hell Gate, a quarter of a mile off the port bow of the Sylph, a tugboat hav- ing in tow a large three-masted schoaner was capsized by the wind and waves. She sank stern foremost, but did not settls completely out of sight for perhaps five minutes. Lieutenant Preston wished to stand by to render such assistance to the tug crew as he could, but Captain Wil- jam H. Brainard, an experienced pilot. who was at the wheel, declared it would be foolhardy for the Sylph to attempt a rescue in such a storm: that she almost certainly would be wrecked herself in the attempt. President Roosevelt knew noth- ing of the capsizing of the tugboat until nearly an hour afterward. He then ex- pressed the wish that some assistance might have been rendered the crew. It was the expectation that Mrs. Roose- velt, Mrs. Richardson and some of the guests of the President could be landed at Twenty-third street, Mrs. Roosevelt desiring to pass the day in the city with relatives. Owing to the severity of the storm, which was still raging with furfous energy, it was found impracticable to make a landing at that point. The naval tug Powhattan, in command of Lieuten. ant Commander Pundstone, ran alongside the Sylph. Commander Pundstone sug- gested that a landing be made at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Lieutenant Pres. ton reported to the President the absolute tmpracticabllity of proceeding to Ellis 1siand in the face of the storm. He was supported in his judgment by Lieutenant Commander Pundstone, who megaphoned that it would be impossible to effect a Janding at the island in such a gale. Very reluctantly President Roosevelt consented to abandon for the day his trip to the jmmigrant station. Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Richardson, Kermit Roosevelt, Professor Moore, Professor Hart and Mr. Lafarge were landed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Rear Admiral Rogers, commandant of the pavy yard, went aboard the Sylph and, the storm having abated, it was de- cided that the trip to the island could be made in safety. At 2:05 the Sylph again weighed anchor and arrived off Ellis Island at 2:3. The President and his party wers safely landed.