The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1904, Page 35

i Pages’ 5to48| -_ & Pages35t0 48 | — - SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1904. KRUTTSCHNITT'S NEW ASSISTANT B. A Worthington Receives Appointment in Chicago Office of Harriman Lines ot PROMOTION ANNOUNCED it | Given Position With Juris-| diction Over the Gigantic | Transcontinental System | | ave been | had | as- the that ment ancis ———— GENERAL BOOTH-TUCKER OF SALVATION ARMY HERE Noted Evangelist Is Making a Tour | of Inspection of the Pacific i er of New | Salvation and is egiste b He is aking a c of the s b hes on flls; 1 ere for | Colonel George | my of Oak- anged | ng. Monday forenoon will be devoted to conferences in this ci d in the evening he will address eeting at | the Alhambra Theater. Tuesday | officers of the Cali- of the Salvation Army, number, and in the even- the members of | st Church. While in | al will also care- examine the plans of the arm: the establishing of industeal address nese Bapt for school and inspect a lot on the corner an of Fourth d Natoma streets, which the organization purposes to purchase s a site for the new school building. —_——— DAYLIGHT BURGLARS ROB PAGE-STREET RESIDENCE Plunder of Value of $300 Is Stolen From Home of C. Holtman in Family's Absence. The home of C. Holtman at 1809 ge street was burglarized some time Friday afternoon. The thieves worked in the absence of the family and se- cured plunder to the value of $300. The members of the family were all | d believe that the burglars must been cognizant of their move- When they returned at € o'clock they were startled to find the house completely ransacked. The | thieves searched for money, evidently, but did not secure any. A sealskin jacket belonging to Mrs. Holtman taken, > a lady’s dress and ring apparel, aggre- 0 were notified and charge Y 1o a gang of crooks they been working in the West- Addition for some time past. De- ves were detailed on the case, ——te Bankruptcy Saves Pinney. George M. Pinney, stockbroker and clubman, who was recently sued for a large sum of money and an accounting by Delia G. Mahoney, yesterday filed an answer to Mrs. Mahoney's suit. His answer is simply an announcement that as he, under a decree of the Cir- cuit Court, is a bankrupt, he is not lia- ble for any judgment. ber 17 Mrs. | reka | watc | shaved off his | the Department of Californt | lieve Major Willlams. MRS, AMES SUES FOR LARGE SUM Demands $25,000 Damages for Alleged Outrage on Board Steamer Alliance| WAITER DAVIS ACCUSED Pleads Not Guilty of Capital Offense Charged and His Trial Is Set for April 11| bt Mrs. Emma Ames and her husband, A. H. Ames, filed a sult yesterday in the United States District Court to re- cover $25,000 damages from the Caii- | fornia and Oregon Steamship Company for injuries alleged to have been re-| ceived by her at the hands of Thomas Dav a waiter on the steamer Alli- ance, last October. The complaint alleges that on Octo- Ames was outrageously as- aulted in her statercom on board the Alliance by Davis, an employe of the \pany, and that she was so weak from seasickness as to be unable to defend herself against his attacks. It recited that on the preceding day co! is | Mrs. Ames secured and paid for a first class cabin passage from San Fran- | cisco to Portland for herself and three | | small children, the youngest being only 1 our months cid, relying upon the as- | surance given by the company “that | it would furnish care, protection and ntion and opportunity to retire to the cabin at night in separate berths | sder the protection and care of the and its serv- h the circumstances it by Davis, the mplaint charges the company with negligently and carelessly failing to to Mrs. A on to her damage in the sum t Schlesinger filed the complaint srney for Mr. and Mrs. Ame! sion of the outrage, Mrs. Ames, Davis was owed @o leave th: st r at Eu- to the ship's the assault, was paid to her shortly that no heed Davis was arrested in San Franciscc months afterward by Uniteg s Secret Serv Agent George W. the Federal authorities ha d him for the purpose of ag prehending the culprit. a material « He found was ine shop on Montg ied having c itted ime which he was acc d and pleaded fot guilty yesterday morning in the United States Circuit Court. His trial wa et for April 11. If convicted, it will lie in the discre- tion of the jury whether Davis shall be hanged or suffer life imprisonment. —————— DEPARTMENT ADJUTANT GENERAL TO BE RELIEV Major Williams Is Ordered to Ma- nila and Major Dunning Is to . Take His Place. Orders were received from the War { Department yesterday ordering Major | John R. Willlams, adjutant general of , to report to the commanding officer in the Phil- ippines. Major Williams is unable to say when he will depart, as it depends upon the movements of Major Albert Todd, now at the Presidio, who has been ordered to Washington to relieve Major Samuel W. Dunning, who has been ordered to this department to re- Major Willias has been stationed here at headquar- ters for the last seventeen months. Be- sides being an efficient officer and sol- dier and being held in high esteem by his brother officers, he has made a host of friends among the civilians here by his courtesy of manner and his all around good fellowship. The band of the Philippine scouts left for San Jose yesterday afternoon, where they were scheduled to play at a concert last night. This afternoon they will give a concert at Stanford, and to-night another concert at Red- wood City, returning to this city Mon- day in time to play on the hospital parade grounds at 3 o'clock and again at 5 o'clock. Lileutenant Joseph C. Brady is in command of them during this tour. No orders have been #gceived here as to the time the scouts will de- part for St. Louls, but probably it will be earlv next week. The new infantry target range back of Fort Baker probably will be in fuill working order by the middle of the week. The telephone lines connecting the range with Fort Baker and also with headquarters are practically com- pleted. —_—— Movement of Colonists. According to a statement issued from | the offices of the passenger department of the Southern Pacific Company yes- terday the total number of persons who have availed themselves of the existing colonist rate to visit California during this year is 11.798, of which number 6141 came West by way of Ogden, 377 via Los Angeles, 4263 via El Paso and 1017 through Portland. The daily average was 380.6, as agaisnt 361.9 for the same time last year, when the total number of colon- ist arrivals was 11,218, —_—————— Grand Blossom Day Festival At San Jose, Thursday, April 7. Round trip tickets from San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, $1 75, Other points. one and one-third fare. Tickets good on trains arriv- ing at San Jose April 7; £00d to return same or following day. Ask Southern Pacific proper care and | RESERVOIR IN CYPRESS LAWN Y¥IELDS UP THE DEAD BODY OF KATE BESSLER Unfortunate Girl Ends Her Sorrowful Life on the Day . She Disappers by Plunging Into Remains Are Found Floating e Koazz DESSLER ~ - | Kate Bessler chose the silent city of the dead as a fit place in which to end her ex ce and find eternal sur- cease from the sorrows that beset her young life. Her dead body was found | floating on the placid waters of the reservoir in oress Lawn Cemetery early yesterday morning. | The that surrounded the | disappearance of the unfortunate girl on March from the home of S. Jesson, 1215 Laguna street, whose ward she was, has been cleared and suspicions of foul play have been prac- tically dispelled. Within the ceme- tery where Kate Bessler ended her life her remains are to be interred, to- gether with the secret of the motive which prompted the rash act. The discovery of the bady was made accidentally by W. E. Carre, one of the assistant superintendents of the | cemetery. While walking through the grounds near the reservoir, situated about a quarter of a mile south of the main entrance, he was startled, to see a body floating in the reservoir. Upon coming nearer he found that it was | that of a woman, and the distorted and swollen features, framed in a | alth of auburn hair, were a ghastly sight. Carre communicated with Su- | perintendent McPherson and Coroner Crowe of San Mateo County and the | San Francisco police were then noti- fied. The Justice of the Peace of the | township, E. E. Cunningham, ap- peared in the Coroner’s stead and con- | ducted the inquest. SEEN BY A LITTLE GIRL. The body was taken from the reser- mystery 22 | o GIRL WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND IN RESERVOIR AND MAN WHO IDENTIFIED IT. | V. | voir and placed in a rough pine box. It was fully clad. The dead girl had not even removed her hat before plunging into the water. A jury was selected from the em- ployes of the cemetery and the tak ing of testimony began. Olive David- son, the 13-year-old daughter of A. H. | Davidson, assistant superintendent of the cemetery, was the last one to see Kate Bessler alive and her testimony was most valuable. She said that on | the afternoon of March 22 at 5:30 |o’clock she met the girl on an | electric car bound for the cemetery. ! Upon reaching Cypress Lawn they both alighted, and, owing to the rain, | Miss Bessler offered the child shelter { under the umbrella the first named carried. They walked along the road | until near the reservoir and there Miss Davidson parted company with her new aquaintance, taking another road that led to her home. During the brief walk, the child says, her com- panion appeared to be nervous and ex- cited and frequently glanced back- ward. “I thanked her for her kindness in sheltering me from the rain,” said the little girl, “and she said good-by and by an Employ 3 continued up the road. The day fol- lowing one of the laborers found an open umbrella near the reservoir, but no suspicion of the tragedy was enter- tained.” DUE TO WORK AND STUDY. A recess was taken at this juncture | to await the arrival of S. Jesson te | identify the remains. He arrived in | company with Detective Coleman and % | unhesitatingly declared the body to be | that of his ward, Kate Bessler. He was examined by Justice of the Peace Cunningham and told of the disap- pearance of the deceased from his [ house and the discovery of a note ad- dressed to him, asking him to request her sister to call and get her belong- |ings. He explained that she always | a relative. of the girl and gave it as his opinion | that too close attention to household duties and study had overtaxed her | physically and mentally. From him | it was learned that the deceased had | often visited the cemetery with Mrs. Thompson, whose husband is buried there. The jury then retired and returned a verdict that the deceased had come to her death from drowning and that she.had taken her own life while suf- fering from mental depression. Notwithstanding the verdict of the Jury, it is understood that Mr. Jesson will have an autopsy performed to ascertain the exact cause of death. From the evidence at hand the girl left her home at 3730 p. m. on Tues- day, March 22, and after returning a book to the Public Library boarded a car for the cemetery. Fitz Wants Sale Set Aside. A suit to set aside the sale of a piece |of realty on Lombard street, near Powell, was filed yesterday by G. L. Fitz against C. S. White, Walter Sut- ton and Edward Hanson. It is claim- ed that White, in 1893, being pressed by his creditors, deeded the property | to Hanson to be held by him in trust for the creditors and that subsequent- ly, after Hanson had left the State, the property was sold by Sutton to the San Francisco Lumber Company, of which he is a representative. Fitz, to whom the creditors of White assigned their claims, wanE the sale set aside and a recelver appointed to resell the property. ® | With ihe ald of a microecope any one can see { what appears to be gilt edge on the best steel, | but a blind man can discover it edge” on the best whiskey—"01d Gilt I . 3 Mrs. Mary Rooney Falls Iead. Mre. Mary Rooney, who resided with her husband at 1721% Mission street, died suddenly at 3 p. m. yesterday at a second-hand furniture store at 189 Valencla street, presumably of heart disease. She had gone to the store with her two little children to sell a mattress to R. H. Larsen, proprietor of the store, and collapsed. Medical assistance was sent for, but before a physician arrived she was dead. The grief of her little children made the scene a heart-rending one. Her hus- band is an electrician empfc’ryed in the Union Iron Works. Demands of Judgment Debtors. Justices’ Clerk McComb returned yes- terday to Auditor Baehr several salary demands of city employes whom judgments have been secured. City Treasurer McDougald refused to cash the demands on the advice of City Attorney Long, who held that the Auditor must draw a demand in favor yof the . judgment creditor, less the | amount exempted from execation by law. As Baehr does not desire to be the judge of what sum the judgment , debtor should pay, he will refuse to | araw such demands, and the matter ,may go to the courts for further ad- | judication. . B —— Knights at Easter Service. | the Knights Templar has accepted an | invitation to attend divine service in |the First Congregational ,Church this evening, when the Rev. George C. Adams will officiate. The members of the commandery Wwill assemble at the asylum and in full Témplar @ni- form, except swords, will march to the church, leaving the asylum at 7:30 p. R. Commander R. W. Campbell has noti- fied all Sir Knights to invite their friends to attend these services. room, a ht and A sunny o ligl e airy A worth living. There are many such rooms and al advertised in mfls TO and APART- ] -HOUSE columns. —_— e e against | Golden Gate Commandery No. 16 of | A McClure Returns to Prison. John E. Davis, a guard at the Ohio State penitentiary, arrived here yes- terday and started East with John | Davis, alias Howard McClure, an es- cape from that institution. MecClure escaped in 1889, after having served six months of a five years’ term for breaking oven a postoffice. He after- ward served a term in the penitentiary at San Quentin for burglary and on the expiration thereof was taken into custody by United States Marshal Shine. ——————— | Thomas Arper Missing. C. T. Arper of 763 Forty-third ave- | nue, Oakland, reported td Coroner Le- {land yesterday that his father, Thom- {as Arper. 79 years of age. had been | missing since last Tuesday morning | from his residence at 339 Fifteenth | avenue, Richmond district, and was {last seen wandering ameng the sand dunes. The missing man is reported | to be deranged. | S P O R Charged With Neglect of Duty. Chief Wittman has been conducting | an investigation as to why Policemen Gardiner and Chavpelle did not discov- er the burglars that broke into and looted the saloon of D. E. Collins, First and Mission streets, on March 21. As a result of his investigation charges of neglect of duty have been preferred against them and Policeman G. W. Nightingale, who re‘leved Gardiner. It is said that the officers have not been patrolling their beats. called him “grandpa,” but he was not | He told of the home life | | 1 1 1 6f the Minarette mining district. REDEEMS MORE OF PARK BONDS — City Treasurer MecDougald the Water-- -The Continues Work of Wiping Out the Municipal Debt PR T INTEREST IS ENORMOUS ! Supervisors Will Have the Sum of $25,000 Available for Public Improvements e o el City Treasurer McDougald yesterday paid out an additional sum of $25,000 on the park improvement bonds of 1874, the redemption of which had been fixed for April 1, 1904, Mec- Dougald stated that the publication of the article that the city was ready to wipe out its only municipal debt was welcome reading to several banks and private holders of the bonds, who had i that they | quite overlooked the fact were now redeemable. “There is one significant circum- stance connected with the redemption | of the park bonds,” said Mr. Mec- Dougald. the bonds amounted to $250,000, the actual sum paid out in interest at 6 per cent during the thirty years of their existence aggregated the enor- mous total of $450,000. It cost the city exactly $700,000 to issue the bonds, or in other words it took $700.000 to do $250,000 worth of con- struction work on Golden Gate Park. “Another point in connection with the redemption of the bonds is that the Board of Supervisors will be able to apply the $25,000 heretofore appro- priated for interest and sinking fund on the bonds to some other purpose. That amount will be available to re- pave accepted streets or for any municipal betterment the board may elect to consummate.” RTS HI ALLED HIM NAMES an Action for Divorce, Al- That She Called Him a “Dog-Faced” Man. Samuel R. Johnson, who was mar- ried to Mary E. Johnson at Reno just four years ago, is of the opinion that his matrimonial venture is a failure. In a suit for divorce he claims his wife had called him a “dog-faced” man and threatened to brain him with a frying- pan. Rosa J. Giannini wants a divorce from Henry P. Giannini on the ground of desertion, alleging that he aban- doned her in August, 1902. They were married in 1897. Judge Graham yesterday issued an order restraining George Ryan, an em- ploye of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, from draw- ing his wages until the court deter- mines the rights of his wife, Anna, to the money. She has sued him for main- tenance. B Invest $2.50. He Files leging $2.50 invested in Le Rol mining stock ma 50; $2.50 in Calumet made $3850: in Portland is now worth $250. We have better promise than any of them had. Send us $2.50 for first pa ment. At an rate write us to-day. | F. Dorado Co. - PUTS MANY AUTOMOBILES ON THE ASSESSMENT ROLL Assessor Dodge Will Add a Consider- able Sum to the City’s Revenue by Taxing the Machines. Assessor Dodge’'s deputies have been busy during the last week pro- curing a list of the owners of auto- mobiles with a view to putting the machines on the assessment roll. Al- ready 400 notices have been sent to owners of automobiles in order to place a valuation for them on the as- sessment blanks. The names of the owners were secured from the records of the park commission, which li- censés the machines to run through Golden Gate Park. As the machines are assessed at one-half their value the sum of approximately $175,000 will be added to the roll by such as- sessment. e Weight of Mails JLimited. Paragraph 1 of section 488 of the Postal Laws and Regulations has been amended by limiting the weight of first-class mail packages fully prepaid . to four pounds. Heretofore this class of matter could be sent, fully prepaid, at any weight. The weight of second- class matter,, fully prepaid, still re mains unlimited. The amendment ap- plies to registered matter as well. PSSASI BT Gets Judgment Against Hart. B. C. Carroll obtained a judgment for $500 against W. H. H. Hart yes- terday in Judge Seawell's court. Hart owed the money to John Partridge, a publisher, He refused to pay Partridge and the lat- ter asigned his claim to Carroll. —————— Board of Works’™ Estimate. The estimate of the Board of Public Works covering the expenditures re- quired during the next fiscal year will be filed with the Board of Supervisors. The statement is in the hands of the typewriter and will be a volumlnouu] affair. ——— Is Your Name Written There? The owners of a certain train, noted for having an unparalleled dining car service, some time ago adopted the hap- py plan of asking passengers to record their impressions in_a log-book. And now the “California Limited” Log-Book is known wherever trayelers assemble. To have a name written there is to have Imd an unique experience in good travel- ng. * Ask about the trip to the St. Louis Fair at 641 Market street, San Francisco. The Santa Fe is the Best Way. i “Although the face value of | for advertising the merits |’ SUES BUILDER - FROM CHICAGO an Francisco Committee Has Claim of $5100 Because { of Breach of Contract e s i TROUBLE AT EXPOSITION Board of Trade Contributes Sum of $1000 as Share | for Making City’s Exhibit Two important matters concern the committee that is providing a build- ing and exhibit for San Francisco at the St. Louis Exposition. The first is the urgent need for more money, the subscriptions, including the sum appropriated by the San Francisco | Supervisors, not coming within $10,- | 000 of the mifimum amount that is necessary for success. The other mat- ter is a suit the committee has begun in St. Louis against the Chicago con- tractor, Henry W. Schlueter, who re- | fused to carry out a contract that was made by his agent, C. D. Wines, for | the construction of the San Francisco | building on the exposition grounds. The San Francisco Supervisors ap- propriated $15,000 to cover the cost of the San Francisco building. There has been subscribed by citizens an ad- ditional $§ 00. The San Francisco Board of Trade has just voted to con- tribute $1000 to the fund. Five local commercial bodies took part in the formation of the general committee that was intrusted with getting up a creditable building and show for San Francisco on the model street at the St. Louis Exposition. These bodies are the San Francisco Board of Trade, the Merchants’ Association, the Man- ufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce _and the Merchants’ Bx- change. Each body named ten of its members to make up the general com- mittee. It is supposed that all the organiza- tions will now stand back of the com- mittee that the ¢redit of the city may | be sustained by having everything at St. Louis relating to San Francisco on |a good scale. The members of the finance committee say that there is urgent ‘need of the aid of the public. Real estate is principally benefited by | the growth of San Francisco. The ex- pectation is that realty owners will aid the San Francisco exhibition at St. Louis liberally. The suit brought against Schlueter, the Chicago contractor, is for $5100. The papers were served on Schlueter while L. M. King, secretary of the general committee, was in St. Louis. The contract of Schlueter with the San Francisco committee for the enfe- tion of the Sam Francisco building made the price $11,800. T. C. Jud- kins awarded the contract and he came home with the expectation that the work would be started at once. Schlueter, however, refused to carry out the contract.. When this happen- ed, as has already been exclusively re- ported in The Call, Secretary L. M. King was instructed to go to St. Louis and ascertain what could be done. WOULD NOT DO WORK. Mr. King found that Schiueter would not do the work, even when an advance of $1200 was offered above the original contract price by San Francisco. The sum of $13,000 would not mdve Schlueter and he said that he would not do the work for less than $18,000. Secretary King communi- cated with the executive and display committees in San Francisco. When it became apparent that Schiueter would not act new bids were adver- tised for and a new contract was let to Caldwell & Drake of New York for $16,250, an advance of nearly $5000 above the original contract price. When the first contract was let it was supvosed that as the majority of the large buildings for the exposition were practically completed there would be a lull in the building oper- ations on the exposition grounds and also an accumulation of unused ma- terial and that both of these circum- stances would serve to make construc- tion from that time onward quick and economical. 3 The fact is that at the end of the period just before the exposition gates are to open there is great demand for buildings and it is difficult to get any contractor to take in new work. The New York parties who have taken the San Francisco contract have proceed- ed with great speed. The next day after the contract was signed a force of men was at work grading the site for the San Francisco building. Two days later thirty car- penters were putting up the frame of the San Francisco structure, which will be completed during the present month. When all these facts were presented to the San Franecisco Board of Trade Directors A. A. Watkins, president of | the board, urged that the organization ! stand by the committee. His vigorous | remarks were followed by the vote of { the diractors to contribute $1000 to the { exhibition fund. The suit against { Schlueter will be pushed. Smith P. Galt, a prominent St Louis lawyer, has the proceedings in hand. He has advised the San Fran- cisco committee that recovery ought to be had on the bond furnished by Schlueter when the original contract was signed and that San Francisco 4 ought to be able also to recover on ac- count of the damages resulting from delay. ‘While the question concerning the building was unsettled it was difficult to hasten the work of collecting the exhibits. That difficulty has been overcome. The building will exactly accord with the original plang