The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1904, Page 1

midnight, March 1: day, with showers east wind. A. G. District Ferecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending San Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy, unsettled weather Tues- ; fresh soutL™ | THE WBATHER. CH] MCcADIE, Forecaster. JAPANESE DISABLE TWO RUSSIAN CRUISERS 127200 CALL T B stead.” California—*“Sag Harbor.” Central—“A Break for Liberty.” Columbia — “The Chutes—Vaudeville. Pischer's—“Roly-Poly.” Grand—“Hills of California.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—“The Gypsy Baron.” - + ' TEEX THEATERS. Alcazar—'Miss Hobbs.” Ola MHome- SAN RANCISCO, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AND SINK TORPEDO BOAT AT PORT ARTHUR Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. YINKOW, Feb. 29.---Fifteen Japanese warships appeared at Port Arthur at 10 o'clock this morning and opened a furious bombardment, which continued until 12 o’clock. The cruisers Novik, Askold and Bayan, with four torpedo boats, steamed out to meet the attack, but were forced to retire. The Askold was in a sinking condition and the Novik badly damaged. A torpedo boat was sunk and the Retvizan was again damaged. The bombardment lasted two hours_ and the Japanese fleet I s SRR S 5% et i P - =2 = i g ET PRA CE OF THE NEW RUSSIAN ‘TORPEDO-BOAT FOREL, ONE OF THE SMALLER WAR : CRAFT PARTICIPATING IN THE DEFENSE OF PORT ARTHUR AGAINST THE POW ERFUL JAPAN- ESE FLEET UNDER THE COMMAND OF ADMIRAL TQGO. — MILLIONS | ARE 70 BE Clarence Macgay o i Perpetuate Fath- | er’s Name. | —_— NEW YORK, Feb. 29 —Clarence H. | Tackay, president of the Commercial able Company, to-day addressed a rcular to the stockholders of | he company, inviting a deposit of their etock for exchange for sheres in a trus- ceship created under the laws of Mas- s under the mame of “the jes The capitalization of the Commercial | able Company, which also owns the | ostal Telegraph and Cable Company, | s $15,000,000, upon which 8 per cent viderds are pald. The Mackay Com- anies have authorized for exchange this stock $30,000,000 par value of s own 4 per cent cumulative preferred ares and a like amount of commmon | harcs, 50 that each stockholder in the bie company will recefve for his hold- Zs 200 per cent in the preferred and | 0 per cent in the common shares of | e New concern. The Mackay Companies is an invest- ent trust designed by Mr. Mackay | perpetuate the name of his father, | » provide for the development of the ympanies which he founded and to | afeguard on an even basis with his ' the Interests of those who have vested in the enterprise with which hn W. Mackay was most conspicu- i€ly identified. The trustees, with power to, fill va- | ancies arising from death or resig- ation, are Clarence H. Mackay, John Waterbury, president of the Man- tian Trust Company of New York; | Jefferson Coolridge Jr., president of | € Old Colony Trust Company of Bos- . both directors of the Commercial e Company, and William W. Cook, nwel of ine eompany. he plan is practically an accom- shed fact, a large majority of the mmercial Cable stock already hav- | : been deposited under the agree- nt. The remaining shares will be wived for exchange on or before irch 30, 1904, by the Manhattan Trust e | | diplomats whose countries are oppo: mpany in New York and the Old lony Trust Company in Boston and esers. Baring Bros. in London. Ae- rding to the circular, the first divi- d upon the preferred shares will be ‘9 on April 9, 1904 British Suspected of| Circulating False | War Reports:; Fomenting Discord Between America and Russia. Epecial Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The Russian embassy in Washington denies that the original report charging that Comman- | ! | der Marshall of the American cruiser | Vicksburg had refused to rescue Rus- | sian sailors at Chemulpo came from | and says it came from English sources. It is asserted that Russia will investigate as to the origin of the | | report, believing it was part of a plan | to draw the United States into the The Rus- ! that its | Government protested against the re- | ported inhumanity of Commander Mar- | shall, but this was on the assumption that the report was true. Neither .ls§ it denied that the report created great hostility toward the United States in | Russia, but this is said to have been | just what the English opponents of | Russia desired when they circulated the statement that Commander Marshall had refused aid to drowning Russian sailors when their ships were sunk aft- er an unequal contest in a neutral har- bor. The Russian Embassador has no eriticism of Commander Mar- shall since his expianation was given to this Government, but he intimates that the whole misunderstanding is part of a scheme of the English press and English diplomats to create a breach between Russia and the United States. The news that Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had asked Embassador McCormick to convey to Commander Marshall the high appreciation of the Russian Gov- ernment for his humane conduct to- ward the Russian seamen when the Variag was abandoned created a better feeling here. A good 'deal of gossip is put into cir- culation in the diplomatic corps that Secretary Hay especially is bitter to- ward Russia. This is stumulated by troubles in the Far East sian embassy does not deny to Russia in the world of diplomacy. Hay's colleagues unite in declaring that there is no reason by which the United States can be justly described as lean- | ported here that H. J1. FLAGSIIP IS O ROCKS ‘Bonaventure of the English Navy Wrecked. —_— VICTORIA, B. C., V'eb, 20.—Tt is re- S. Bonaventure, the new flagship of the North Pacific squadron, en route from Portsmouth to Esquimalt, is ashore on the South or Central American coast, and is in a bad position on the rock: The Bonaventure is a third-class cruiser of 4360 tons. She is 320 feet in length, 481 feet beam and draws 19 feet of water. She was built at Devonport and was completed in 1894, two years | after the launching. She steams 19.5 knots and carries 312 officers and men. = . predominates in the Orient than if Rus- sia is victorious. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 29.—The statement of the commander of the United States gunboat Vicksburg re- garding the Chemulpo affair-was coni- municated to the Foreign Office by a press correspondent to-day and was received as a complete and satisfac- tory explanation. Regrets were ex- pressed that the incident had created 80 much feeling here. “We had no official advices on the subject,” said an offictal, “but as the incident was attracting much attention here it is a source of gratification to learn that the statements were not only untrue, but that the Vickshurg was the first to render aid. We desire to preserve the most amicable relations with, the American republic and when the truth is generally known it will doubtless go far toward allaying the irritation caused by the original re- port.” ‘When the Government receives an -official report of the atd rendered by the Vicksburg to the Russian fvounded it will express to the United States its formal thanks, as in the case of the British, French and Itallan warships. TSGR Cigarettes for Czar’s Warriors. ing toward one side or the other. There is no usc denying that at one time there was more sympathy for Japan than Russia, but the pendulum is now swinging the other way, and offi- clals are taking the view that MOSCOW, Feb. 29.—The 1 Club here has voted $50,000 for, the! navy fund and $25,000 foy the’ Red withdrew in-perfect order. Russian art - 1060 TEALS HARD BLOW 10 TH Fog Delivers an Attack - While Gale Is Raging. | -+ Port Arthur Gunners Get Its Range, , — > Fact That Only Three Russian Cruisers | Were in Actiod May Mean THal | [ (Others Are Disabled. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 20.—An' un- confirmed rumor is current here this evening that two Russian battleships and a torpedo-boat have been sunk at Port Arthur. LONDON, March 1.—The pause, in the war operations in the Far East has been broken by another Japanese attack on Port Arthur, of which only, a brief account is vet at hand. This report, however, shows a repetition of the now familiar tactics of Japan, and it is presumed that this attack was made in bad weather, previous tele- graphic advices having reported a se- vere gale raging at Port Arthur. As usual, the Japanese did not remain long enough off the harbor to enable the gunners at the fort to get their range. Again at this time the three cruisers—the Bayan, the Askold and Novik—came out to meet the attack and this suggests that either they were the only effective ships there or that the larger battleships were unable to get out. No news is published here this morn- ing of operaticns or movements other than at Port Arthur. MAIL SERVICE RESUMED. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express says it has been offi- cially announced that the Japanese mail boat service between Shanghal and Japan will be resumed on Satur- day without naval escort. . Many al- leged dispositions of the opposing forces are published this morning, but they differ too much in detail to be of any great value. g According to a report from St. Pe- tersburg, a body of Cossacks from the South Ussuri Province, with quick- firing guns, is advancing along the east coast of Korea to prevent the landing of the m:™ Japanese army, and the comment is made that possibly the landing at'Possiet Bay may have been made with the intention of attacking this force. A dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily Graphic says the Russians are Fleet Retires Belore the| | transferring the guns from the dis- abled ships at Port Arthur to the forts there. REFUGEES PICKED UP. A dispatch from Chefu to the Stand- ard, dated February 29. says a Jap- anese cruiser and a torpedo boat en- tered that harbor without lights at 1 o’clock on the morning of the 20th and it is believed they embarked the Jap- anese who took refuge there after the attempt to “bottle up” Port Arthur. A correspondent of the Times at ‘Weihaiwei, cabling under date of Feb- ruary 29, says: ““A Japanese fleet was seen off the Shantung coast this morning.” A Tokio correspondent of the Times cables that the steamships sunk by the Japanese on either side of the Rus- sian battleship Retvizan at’ Port Ar- ue_practically obstruct the entrance the, illgljy ha§ proceedgd to Pigeon Bay; 1 RUSSIA’S GREATEST DESTROYER OF TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYERS—THE CRUISER NOVIK—REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN. DISABLED BY SHELLS FROM THE JAPANESE FLEET DURING THE LATEST AT- J TACK UPON PORT ARTHUR. I —p TANDERBILT IS HURLED FROM AUTO Millionaire Injured in a Collision in Spectal Dispatch to The Call HAVANA, Feb. 3.—James L. Breese, the millionaire artist and automobilist of New York, was seriously injured and Honore Laine, who was at one time threatened with death for mak- ing public certain letters from General Weyler, saying that the latter had prepared Havana harbor for, the bat- tleship Maine; was perhaps fatally in- jured to-day In an exciting automobile race between : everal millionaire Amer- ican and Cuban contestants, including Willlam K. Vanderbilt and members of the W. Séward Webb family. » The Breese party, including William K. Vanderbilt and two other men in a Mercedes, was immediately behind the Laine motor. when a terrific crash occurred. Racing witl. the speed of locomotives, four machines were rounding a sharp bend in the road just this side of the little Cuban city, when three mounted policemen were seen riding in an opposite direction. The big Dalmler of forty 'horlepower veered sharply to the side of the road and after running for nearly 500 yards on practically two wheels, toppled over and spilled the occupants down a steep embankment. So close together were the four racing motors that the Van- derbilt-Breese party, with Breese guid- ing the monster machine, crashed into the Laine motor. Vanderbilt was only slightly bruised. % it s OSSP IR Cruiser COLON, Feb. cruiser Prairie ST. |Japanese May Sink| the Mandjur at Shanghai. iCzar Nicholas Eager to See Service at Front. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, March 1.—The Telegraph's Shanghai correspondent cables that the Russian gunboat Mandjur’s position is unchanged. The Chinese report that the Japanese Minister in Peking has again threatened that if the Mandjur ere not disarmed a Japanese cruiser would enter the port and sink her. The Russians continue to contend that the Japanese lost two destroyers | in last “'ed(wsday‘s attac on Port | Arthur. VIENNA, . Feb. 20.—The Zeit pub- lishes a St. Petersburg dispatch stating that the Czar himself desires to go to the Far East, much against General Kuropatkin's wishes. The newspaper says this statement is confirmed by an éxalted military authority, who declares the Russian Emperor is anxious to maintain the fighting traditions of his ancestors and | is convinced of his own ability. Be- sides, he desires by his presence to en- | courage his troops and to check dissen- | sions among his chief officers. Immense demonstrations for and against Russia took place at Prague yesterday. A mob shouting “Down with Japan, England and America” attacked Ge: n students. Czech socialists or- ganized a counter demonstration and the police, with the greatest difficulty, prevented a conflict between the mobs. JAPAN NOT SEEKING TO NEGOTTATE LOAN IN THIS COUNTRY NEW YORK, Feb. 29.—Japanese Con- sul General Uchida of this city said to- day after receiving a cablegram from J. Komura, Minister of Foreign Affairs at Tokio: “I am authorized to state that the Japanese Government has no intention | whatever of raising any Jloan in the United States, and the rumgrs to the effect that representatives of our Gov- ernment are sounding New York bank- ers as to the possibility of negotiating a loan here are absolutely unfounded.” ek ddin M din) ~Pilgrims Visit Seraphin’s Shrine. | NIINI NOVGOROD, Russia, Feb. 29.—Reports from Saraoff, province of RATLROAD 1S WANTED BY GOULD Link of Transconti- nental Line IS IW{L Svecial Dispatch to The Call AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 29.—The W Paso and Southwestern Railroad, which is now owned by Phelps, Dodge & Co., may pass into the hands of the Goulds and be used to form an impor- tant link in a southern transcontinen- tal line of that system. It ‘was learned to-day that George Gould went out of his way on his pres- ent trip to the Pacific Coast to travel over every mile of the El Paso and Southwestern between EI Paso and Bishee, Arizona, including its branches, and that he made a careful inspection of the property as well as.of the min- eral resources of the country through which it passes. This road is more than §00 miles long and is the only road on the continent | which -crosses the great divide on a grade of less than one per cent. It has been peérsistently reported for some time that the Rock Island was negoti- ating for the El Paso and Southwest- ern. It is now said that such a deal was in progress at one time, but that it has been broken off and that it is most certain that the road will pass intovthe hands of the Goulds and will be extended west to the port of San Diego, Cal.,, where land and port and terminal facilities have already been purchased by Phelps, Dodge & Co. The road comnects withethe Texas and Pa- cific, a Gould road, at El Paso. SR PSP L o Britain Fortifying Victoria. SEATTLE, Feb. 29. — England is hurrying supplies, guns and ships to Victoria and plans to make the capi- tal of British Columbia a Western Gibraltar. These preparations for de- fense have been long in progress, but it is only since the war in the Orient began, with the possibility that Eng- land mway become invoived, that the work has been rushed with energy. —_—————— Harper Goes to a Hospital. Feb. 29.—Professor W. "