The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1903, Page 1

y chpap Sox ! Eulvbyl Z3a Fragciico = rern_cu&#‘_‘f‘flvfi Traa- l Tilaight, Xoves as: § 27 Wednesday, wity fog; and vicigity— town.’ Columbia—Virginia Harned in " “Iris. Fischez’s—" Rubes and Roses.” Grand—“Ben Mur.” urpheum—Vaudeville. Tke Chutes—Vaudeville. Tivoli—Grand Cpera. 178 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENT Railroad® Threat- s Pacific Coast Company. Fight Against Lumber Carriers Menaces Industry. en Schooners Take Passengers, Which Results in Big usly af- rn Pacific, road. Hence n in the affair port offered a Fe road. Pacific Coast down SECRETLY IN SOUTH. in a few era.ce of this ans sug- cific Coast its threat trade ory. s back several when ti ific Coast Com- w cific Coast & sh ered that a | I r companies cen coast ving of the iis had r traf- a large business be- m at all kinds f the new; siness was n through >, for the ary trav- offices em- vy figured that.it was los 00 and $300,000 a vear competit and er ere at once taken to force the schooner owners out of the passenger eks ago J. C. Ford, vice presi- 2éral manager of the Pa- ompany, accomvanied by e manager of tbe Pacific hip Company, and C. D. passenger agent of , made a hurried trip rnia. Two days »unced in The Call’s ispatches had formulated plans for a bitter fight against the lumber )oner owne They made 7 ic their intention of igurating service of lumber ners between the mnprthern and herp ports and of establishing lum- ards in San Diego, Los Angeles, Barbara, Pasadena and San . with the latter place as the gen- distributing point and then cut the ailing prices of lumber to a point would keenly affect the milling - th EAMSHIPS hern Pacific | to week to Los| | imber of prom- f this city and the | condit of affairs on the | t all the ports | FERRYBOAT SAUSALITO GOES ON BEACH I TIREY COAL H IR CIAISELITO \ AT ANGEL ISLAND DURING A DENSE FOG In Trying to Avoid a Collision With an Anchored Scow Big Passen- . ger Boat Runs Ashore, but No Fatalities Attend the Disaster. HE ferry-boat Sausa- lito, which left the ferry slip on this side last evening at 8:43 o’clock, was wreck- ed on_ the beach at Point K»ox on the western side of Angel Island. The night was very foggy, but Captain C. J. Lucky was steering his regular course. When off Point Knox the captain - sighted an anchored scow, and in trying to get around her the Sausalito ran on to the rocks. The sixty and more passengers remained calm,'and perfect order pre- vailed. The passengers were transferred to the ferry- boat Cazadero and taken to their destination at mid- night. GACY. 3 A ] | b | | + In the dense fog that prevailed over the bay last night the ferry-boat Sausa- lito of the Nc Shore Company ran on the beach at Point Knox on_the western shore of Angel Island No fatalities attended the disaster and {good fortune once again hovered over the passengers that risked their lives in | crossing the dark waters of the bay. | The Sausalito was in charge of Cap- {tain J. C. Luc and his explanation of the wreck, given last night. was that he was on his regular course. bound | from San Francisco to Sausalito, leav- | ing this side at 8:48 ¢ m. While off the shore of Angel Island | the look-out of the Sausalito reported a scow anchored ahead. Captain Lucky claims that he tried to swing the ferry- boat between the scow and the shore. but that his vessel answered her helm very quickly and in an instant the Sau- salito had run on to the sandy beach of the island and then poked her nose against the rocky cliff, To the credit of the passengers, there was not a single sign of panic when it became known that the Sausalito was ashore. The ferry-boat slid on to the beach with an easy, gliding motion and poked her bow high and dry against the rocks of ‘the island. The whistles of the Sausalito at- tracted the attention of the soldiers on duty at Fort McDowell, and a num- ber of the men responded to the companies which have been operating their whn schooner and dabbling in Continued on Page 7, Column 2, | alarm. Word was telephoned from the military quarters to the. Pre- sidio and irom that point to the offices of the North Shore Companvy. and in a little while the ferryboat Cazadero was lying some distance from the Sau- salito ready to give assistance. PASSENGERS TRANSFERRED. The passengers of = the Sausalito were transferred from the wrecked vessel to the Cazadero in the small boats and The Call’s tug. Perfect or- der prevailed. It was after midnight when the Cazadero started for Sausa- lito with the belated passengers of the wrecked sister boat. When the pas- sengers landed at their destination they stated that they did not know that the Sausalito was off her course until she struck the beach of Angel Island. They credited Captain Lucky and his men with remaining calm un- der the circumstances, and the assur- ances of the ship’s officers that there was no danger served to prevent the slightest sign of panic , among the passengers. Captain Johnson, the regular captain of the Sausalito, was not on duty yes- terday. He went over on a trip of the vessel from San Francisco to Sausalito and remarked that the fog was thicker than he had ever seen it in his twenty- three years’ experience. The crew of the Sausalito at the time of the wreck was as follows: Captain, J. C. Lucky; first officer, Charles H. Jan- sen; second officer, John Nelson; chief engineer, Dennis Gorman, and a crew of sixteen. The master of the Cazadero is_Captain Matheas. The Sausalito’s quota of passengers aboard ‘at the time she struck was as £ Dr. Anderson, Mill Valley: Mr. San- ders, San Rafael: Dr. T. O. Hyde. Mill Valiey; Paul Parker, Mill Valley; S. H. Smith, Mill Vallley; Fred: Carlson, Sau- salito; Harry Marron, San Rafael; T. W. Dolan, Sausalito; T. Clauson. San Rafael; Joseph Grey, Sausalito; Dr. J. B. Cluff, Mill Valley; J. Samuels, Mill Valley; Ralph Sheldon, Mill Valley: D. R. McCann, San Rafael: S. F. Barker, Mill Valley; S. Clifford. Mill Valley: E. Edlander, Mill Valléy: Frank Vard, San Rafael; C, Cohen, Sausalito: T. R. Lef- bruder, San Rafael; S. Jones, Sausalito; A. B. Fields, G. Jones, Sausalito: P. T. Whilf, Joe Samocci, Varo Veucci, J. O'Brien, A. B. Donhey, Miss Farrell, San Rafael; John Starkey. Sausalito: J. B. Salberg, San Rafael, and Miss Har- TIS. PERIL LIES IN THE FOG. The wreck of the Sagsalito last night once again draws attention to the peril of travel on the bay during foggy weather. The Sausalito is the ferry-boat that was in collision with the ferrv-boat San Rafael two years ago, when the latter vessel went to the bottomeof the bay. where she still remains. That there was no great loss of life at that time and the lack of fatalities last night were the work of n~rovidence. A number of passéngers waited in the ferry house of the North Shore Company for many. hours last night, éxpecting that they would be taken to their homes across the bay. The news of the accident daunted some men and went up town to hotels. Others determineéd to cross the dark waters ‘of the bay, however, and at midnight there were about sixty peo- ple patiently waiting for a ferryboat to arrive. Captain Stofen of the Government tug McDowell left this side last night at 11:30 o'clock on a regular trip to Alcatraz and Angel Island. On his arrival back on the bay front, Captain Stofen stated that the fog was very dense. He saw the lights of the Saysalito\and the Cazadero and went closé up to them to offer assist- ance, but he was infotmed that no help- was needed. When the news of the wreck was received in this city a staff of report- ers and artists were dispatched to the wreck in a launch. \On arriving at the spot where the Sausalito was fast on the beach an offer was made to Cap- tain Lucky to transfer some of his passengers to the 'Cazadero, which lay about a half-mile from the wreck. AFFECTING SCENES. The transfer of the passengers was accomplished without ' accident. At half-past 1 o'clock this' morning tlie Cazadero arrived at her slip at Sausa- lito with_the wrecked pa -of the Sausalito. The news of the wreel had alarmed the pretty' settlement across the bay and there was a large crowd of people awaiting the arrival of the Cazadero. R When the Sausalito leit her slip in £ to necessitate the ‘vessel’s going at half speed, and two lookouts were placed on the forward end. ' According to the captain’s statement the vessel was in her regular course until off Point Knox, when the look- out reported a scow lying at anclor beam on before the vessel. The cap- tain was at the wheel at the time. and as soon as the scow was feWnCd he ported his helm and swung the Sausa- lito around in order to escape striking the scow. The vessel either answered her helm too readily or the captain failed to resume his original course in time, for the ferry-boat crashed upon the beach and immediately swung over against the rocks. There were but sixty passengers aboard the boat at the time of the acci- dent, about forty-five men and fifteen women The whole affair was so an- expected that before the passengers had time to stampede the boat’s nose was high and dry on the beach. | | | | | PILING DERT ON' PACIFI RAILROADS Harriman Is Sus- pected of Gigan- tic Plot. Financial Maneuvers Arousing Much Interest. Mortgage of Millions May Wreck Transportation Companies. There was filed ye: erday for record a document that has led many local financiers, and especially those inter- ested in the welfare of the Southern Pacific Company, to strongly suspect that the Harriman syndicate is quietly planning an absorption of the South- ern Pacific Railroad companies, the Central Pacific Railroad and their many small tributaries into the Ken- tucky corporation of which he is the directing power That the railroad magnate is in a position to carry out such a scheme no one acquainted with the conditions that make him an im- portant factor in Wall street will deny, and that he has long cherished such known in the d. an undertaking is ‘w higher circles of the railroad wo To place those roads in a state of bankruptcy and eventually deliver them to the Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky would be a trick that would necessitate the employment of the same brains that are now employed in the management of the combined systems, and to fully realize an ambi- tion of this magnitude would only be in keeping with the desperate struggle now in progress among the big manip- ulators of the East to gain a firmer grasp on the gigantic railroad holdings of this country. PILING ON INDEETEDNESS. Yesterday afternoon John E. Foulds, assistant chief counsel of the Southern Pacific Company, filed in the Record- er's office a mortgage for the sum of $5,775,000 supplemental to a collateral mortgage of $22,315,000 of December 1, 1900. The indenture is made between the railroad company and the Central Trust Company of New York and se- cures an issue of bonds by the Southern Pacific Company designated in the doc- ument as “two-flve years 4% per cent” gold bonds, to an amount not to ex- ceed $30,000,000. The mortgage sets forth that bonds to the amount of $22,315,000 have been authenticated by the Central Trust Company under the collateral mort- gage, and the Southern Pacific Com- pany is desirous of issuing additional bonds to the amount of 35,775,000, and for the purpose of procuring the au- thentication thereof conveys as secu- rity to the trust company the entire rolling stock of the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Rail- road companies. This stock is valued at $7,219,849. The mortgage is signed for the South- ern Pacific Company of Kentucky by E. H. Harriman, president, and Alex- ander Hamiiton, secretary, and for the Central Trust Company by Francis Hyde, second vice president, and George Bertine, secretary. The prop- erty given in trust as security is enu- merated as follows: Ninety-one loco- motives, thirteen chair cars, seven din- ing cars, twenty-three passenger coaches, 753 box cars, 224 furniture cars, 200 stock cars, 850 flat cars, 512 ofl tank cars, seven acid cars and 10!_ gondola cars. HARRIMAN AT WORK. Long before the beginning of the Keene-Harriman suit it was openly discussed in Eastern railroad circles, and frequently on the quiet in local quarters, that Harriman, under the di- rection of the moneyed men behind him, was planning some means for burdening the older roads financially, with the apparent object of finally tak- ing them out of the control of all but the Southern Pacific Company of Ken- tucky, which holds a lease upon the various lines in the West. Keene and his friends, when they first prepared to bring Harriman into court, The accident occurred at 9:10 and by | raised the cry that a plan to wreck the a number of distress whistles the steam- | leased companies was part of Harri- er Cazadero was summoned. which pro- | man’s schems to acquire a firmer hold ceeeded as quickly as possible to the | on the overland roads and they claimed scene of the trouble. and lowered a|that if they were given a chance they boat preparatory to transferring the | would prove their charge in the courts. passengers from the Sausalito. Owing Since the sudden termination of that to the size of the Cazadero’s boat but | litigation the charge has been frequent- six or seven passengers were allowed | Iy revived and is again being discussed to he taken off at one trip. At 11:50 | by brokers and others of the Western o'clock there still remained about thirty | financial wor’d. It was a subject that passengers aboard. 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