The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 2, 1903, Page 1

southeast winds. VOLUME X Sen Frpucisso and vielnity— COloudy, unseftled weather Mon- @ay, with conditions becoming more favorable for rain; light A. G. MoADTE, THE SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1903. . PRICE FIVE CENTS. ROMAN FIREMEN, DIRECTED BY POPE, FIGHT FLAMES IN DATICAN; MILLION DOLLAR LOSS IN CONFLAGRATION AT CONEY ISLAND T INTD FLAMES 10 DIGASTER Three Cars Plunge From Blazing Trestle. i i Fireman Jumps and Is Killed in Tehama Accident. Mail Clerks Sustain Injury and Theatrical Folk Lose Scenery. the trainmen with a SHOWS COURAGE. ng a he MAIL CLERKS Mail ( b ot thed rk the cr: » was awakened by One of the wom s thrown from excitement ran high. led out of the sleepers in Y d time to dress and direction in their night garm ACTRESSES FIGHT FIRE. he members of the “Florodora like demons for over chilly morning air in sa from the burning cars all assistance possible to | ail clerks, and some even | es witn wet sacks and ned | kets | rs burned from 5 o'clock in the the accident happened, m. A relief train was sent | headquarters at Red Bluft. | 1 carried two railroad phy- "ife of Red Bluff and Mag- a, and fifteen volunteer e train arrived at the scene atten at 7:30 o'clock. The plers of the trestle were burned out for @ distance of 100 feet. The track was torn up for seventy-five feet. The trestie is about 9% feet long. After the rellef train had arrived and the baggage trans- terred to other cars, the engine of the sec- ond section pulled the sleeping coaches Continued on Page 2, Column 5. l +) TRAIN BACES | frame later VK= FATICAN v, BOME— > Coney Island’s Bow:= ery Is Reduced to Ashes. LS EW YORK, Nov. 1.—In a blaze lay that baffled the firemen even hours, the Bowery at 'wo lfves so far aré re- ashes P one man was mortally injured, a score of others were hurt, 300 buildings were destroyéd, 500 persons were made homeless and more than $1,000,000 was done. How many more ruins is not known to-night. lists incll d an unidentified negro, dead, and Albert Re County Hosp! jured incl It alone by al x men and five women. marked by Tescues, not the police, but by citizens. fore it had been an hour under way the police could do keep the 50,000 sightseers out of danger. was a Reserves from all the precincts within ten | miles were brought in and Deputy Com- missioners Ebstein and Piper took general charge. BLAZE BAFFLES FIREMEN. The fire engines found it impossible to get 1 buflding used merry-go-round. The firemen thought it would over in a moment, but the blaze had gained headway. It crept un- all be der the building and under the raised street around the piling and ten minutes the Albatross Hotel was aflame. From that time on, while alarm after alarm brought every fireman within ten miles, the fire seemed to jump from walk to walk and from flimsy butlding to flimsy | butiding. ; With the lack of water the fire had the | forest of wooden structures at its mercy, and all that could be done was to save life, if possible, and furniture. Everything por- table was carried out and soon Surf ave- nue for blocks was Impassable because of the barriers of household goods, weep- ing women and children and complaining men. SEVEN BLOCKS IN RUINS. The burned area extended from Tilyou's walk south to Jones’ walk, where a brick wall saved the rest of the resort, and from the Bowery to the ocean, a distance of seven blocks. For two blocks the flames cut a swath westward of the Bow- ery, reaching to Surf avenue, the prin- cipal thoroughfare of the resort. In all this territory but two bulldings were standing to-night untouched. F. F. Henderson’'s music hall, erected two years ago of steel and brick, and cost- ing -$250,000, and Louls Stauch’'s pavilion, valued at a llke 'sum, are among the bulldings destroyed. The Bowery 48 a narrow, board-walked alley thoroughfare, dedicated to cheap dance halls and side shows. The roofs of these flimsy structures were in most in- stances of tarred paper. Caught by the Island was again laid in ad des Lizzie Stein, 6 ben,, dying in the Kings | The most severely in- Be- nothing more than try to to action for nearly four hours. The | alarm came from the Hippodrome, a low | in summer for a | A GALLEPY IV THE VATICAY - «< + OME, New York City R(mr[ Coney Island were the scenes of three great fires yesterday. Much dam- age was done by a blaze in the Vatican before it was conquered by the Roman fire department, under ‘the direction of Pope Pius X. At Coney Island the famous Bowery was swept away, at least two persons perishing, and the property loss being $1,000,000. In the early morning tenement fire in New York yesterday twen- ty-five lives were lost. * o+ rapidly running fire, in quick succession, they ignited, flared at a height and then collapsed in a great dust of sparks, which were carried to the roofs of like buildings. Two men, Frank Conley, a salesman, and Peter A. 8. Kelley, a bartender, are under arrest,. suspected of knowing the cause of the fire. They had been seen passing in and out of the frame building in | which the blaze was first seen, —_——— Nebraska Campaign Closes. LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. L—State cam- paign headquarters for botn parties were closed to-day ahd will not be again opened. The managers who remained in the city saw no reason to change thelr estimates. Both clalmed the election of their tickets by good majorities, —_——— I see no reason why every citizen should not rally to support ticket headed by Henry J. Orocker. Its success will insure San Francisco’s welfare. It ought to be elected. , GOVERNOR PARDER. + | OME, Nov. 1L—Fire broke out at half past 8 o'clock to-night in that portion of the Vatican con- taining the Hall of Inscriptions, where the Pope gives his audi- ences and which is adjacent to the famous | Pinacotheca, or gallery of pictures. The alarm caused much confusion and ex- citement in the- Vatican. Strenuocus ‘ef- forts were made to control the flames and the firemen of Rome were called to lend their help. At a quarter past 11 the fire was under aontrol.” No 'lives were lost. No idea of the damage can yet be ab- tained. The Pope came to the scene in person and remained until the arrange- ments to fight the fire were made. The fire caused a-greater sensation in Rome . than any other event since the death of Pope Leo. The safety of the Pope was the first thought in every one’s mind, but this was soon assured. When the Pontift arrived at the scene he or- dered every one to assist In extinguishing the flames. 5 ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. The first intimation of fire was had when smoke was seen issuing.from thé apartment of M. Marle, which is located | Exciting S cenes Attend Disastrous Blaze in the Papal Palace. + * o | Twenty-Five Lives r Lost in Tene- ‘ ment Fire. FATICAY EW YORK, Nov. L.—Twenty-one men, three women and a 10- B months-old baby were burned to death or suffocated in the fire that started early this morning l in the House of All Nations, the five- Lo — 7 — | story tenement house at 426 Eleventh ave- | X lice. and Coroner belleve th EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS OF THE FAMOUS PALACE OF | |pie :flh;:‘,"e e i ey datain " | POPES, WHICH MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE WAS FOR A TIME AT -4 i . THE MERCY OF FLAMES YESTERDAY. Some of the peculiar features of the g 3 S disaster, in addition to the startling loss of life, are that the fire was practically extinguished in twenty minutes; that the police could learn of but one person hav- ing been injured other than those who lost their lives, and that the property loss was only $7000. Most of the dead are Itallans. Their | names follow: Giuseppe Rossi, Antonio above that of Father Ehrle, the librarian, | Rossl, Justino Rossi, Nicholas Nogal, Ple- Who lived over the library itself. Marle - is.a celebrated French restorer of an-| U0 ‘E'::::_r o‘“‘"l‘)‘;';t’sl e, ;‘::;'f": ;;‘;"l‘ "“““““"":’ and g“;"“»"‘)"f; ":;’o"r‘k | baby; Antonto Villimo, Frances Villimo; Faviehs flprr:t!izp::dg‘;g::onsn:afe’ been se. | Sarah O'Tocle, Antonio D'Angelo, Pas- qualo Marotto, Frank Mastrenlo, Mattie lected for part of the Vatican exhibit at| o, .0; jose Mustrim, Pletro Donyaski, the St. Louis exposition. . Joseph Zorowits, Frank Delmonio, Anto- The famous Bramante stalrcase leads | . "5 g, Antonio Uclilini, Giuseppe to that part of the Vatican where the 1 fi N fire broke out. The gendarmes broke in S:::p:“ SO0 IR G Bt Y the doors of Marle’s apartment and found o e e him’ in; Wb (21 ed he re- > » i ety slecr. e & be learned, is Mary E. Quinn, who was ti t to take proper precau- b, Lo b i e burned about the face and hands and se- tion with his kitchen fire, which proba- ; bly biazed up and ignited some near by | Verely brulsed by leaping from a second- floor fire escape to the ground. draperies. The fire started and it rapidly assumed | In several apartments in the tenement such proportions that the gendarmes, | Halloween parties were in progress and who were the first on the scene, gave an | the guests at these added greatly to the immediate general alarm. The whole | number of persons in the house and made palace awoke to instant life. The Swiss | the crush and jam to escape more than Guards, the papal firemen, gendarmes, | it ordinarily would have been. Although priests and domestics all rushed hither | plentifully. provided with fire escapes, and thither in confusion, asking what was | front and rear, escape was cut off a few the matter, no one knowing where or | minutes after the fire started by the bod- what the danger was, or what to do. fes of the dead becoming wedged in the opening leading to the ladders. News of the fire was lmmediately con= Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Continued on Column'2, Page 5, |+ FLAYS TRUST -~ PROMOTORS I\ REPOAT 'Receiver Smith De- nounces Them as Swindlers. | —_— |Reveals All Details of the Shipyards Con- solidation. . | Stupendous Frauds Are Al- leged and He Urges | Prosecutions. NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Sensational alle- gations of willful misstatements, falsifi- cation, swindling and fraud In the organi- | zation and flotation of the United States Shipbullding Company;-of attempts to mislead and deceive the investing public by erroneous prospectus statements, and of a deliberate plan to wreck the company by withholding the earnings of the Beth- lehem Steel Company are contained the report of Receiver James Smith of the United States Shipouilding Com- pany, made publlc to-day. Tne report concludes with the recommendation that suit be brought against all persons who received stock of the company without paying full value therefor, cluding the promoters of the comsolidation, the ven- ders of the constituent plants and Charles | M. Schwab, to recover from them such amount as is necessary to pay the debts of the cempany in full. Recelver Smith alsq recommends the sale of the Crescent shipyard plant in New Jersey and the Harlan & Hollings- worth plant at Wilmington, Del., subsid- | tary plants now in partial operation, to avold further loss by depreciation and the enforcement of a receivership for the Bethlehem Steel Company, to insure the payment of dividends on the Bethlehem stock held by the United States Shipbuild- ing Company “AN ARTISTIC SWINDLE.” | In the words of the report, the organi- zation o. he company is characterized as “an artistic swindle,” Receiver Smith as- serting that the value of the plants, their | earnings and working capital, given m | alleged thorough reports of expert ac- | countants,” vary so much from actual fig- ures “as to impel the belief that the fig- ures were wilifully misstated”: that it is extremely doubtful if such accountants’ | reports were submitted at the organization | of the company; that the organization was effected by “dummy” stockholders directors and officers; that statements in the prospectus issued on June 14, 1902, were incorrect; that for property worth | $12,441516 the shipbuilding company pald | in stock and bonds $67.997,000; that “the accommodating directors of the United | States Shipbuilding Company, in_ acquir- ! ing these companies, deltherately gave }away many million dollars in the stock | and bonds of their company”—“wholesale plunder,” the receiver terms It—"to a few persons,” and’ that, so far as the Bethle- hem Steel Company is concerned, “its earnings have been withheld in a delib- erate attempt to wreck the United States Shipbuilding Company.” SCHWAB GETS EVERYTHING. The report deals fully with the name of Charles M. Schwab, and the nature of the Bethlehem transaction, says Smith, is such as “to justify him (Schwab) in say- ing that he did not sell tne Bethlehem Steel Company, but took over the United States Shipbullding Company, the direc- tors of that company giving him 330, 000 in stock and bonds for taking it ot their hands.” The first report deals with the incom- poration of the original United States Shipbuilding Company, with $3000 capital and “dummy” directors and officers, in June, 1902; tHe offer of Promoter John W. Young to sell to it the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, the Harlan & Hollings- worth Company of Wilmington, Del.; the Eastern Shipbuilding Company, the Cande Manufacturing Company, the Crescent Shipyard Company and the Samuel L. Moore & Sons’ Company of New Jersey; the Bath Iron Works dnd the Hyde Wind- less Company of Maine and the Beth- lehem Steel Company of Pennsylvania, and the action on this offer by the com- pany. The incorporators of the company, the report states, were Howard K. Wood, Howard S. Gould and Kenneth McLaren of Jersey City, holding, collectively, the fifteen shares of preferred and fifteen shares of common stock of the company. On June 24, 192, Frederick K. Seward, Raymond Newman and Louis B. Dailey were elected divectors, the minutes recit- ing that Heward K. Wood, one of the in- corporators and subscribers to the stoek, had assigned his right to one share of common stock to each of the persons named to qualify them as directors. No stock of the United States Shipbuilding Company, however, was issued to or placed In the name of these directors so Continued on Page 9, Column 3. L 5 . 2 I am 1o one man’s candidate. HENRY J. CROCXES.