The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1904, Page 9

BARTNETT WILL | YIELD T0 YARD Butte and Plumas Road Pro- moter to Have Charge of E Work on Western Pacific| | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1904, BLAZING SCHOONER CAREENS ABOUT BAY IN SEA OF FLAME Fannie Adele, Laden With Inflammable Oils, Takes Fire at Her Dock, Breaks From Her Moorings and Is Blown About at Mercy of the Waves, a Menace to Shipping in the Harbor - 4 & = [+ GOULD READY TO GRADE| [ —_— | 1 . . A luinnel Through Fredonia| | Pass Will Be Company’s| | Means of Exit From State ‘l ’lans are being perfected in this| for the consolidation of the inter-| | ests of the Western Pacific Railway, of hich W. J. Bar is the prominent te and Plumas 1 I n Valley road, preser Yard. From a . been learned ; superseded by nent of the nths - Ix Foxr Ivs “Govarwor. g = MARRHAI " FLAYTING ON PHE Goula = BorwING VmSSEL ~— DONIA PASS CHOSEN. . F ¥ b s Butte . Jey voails, ! An explosion of the gases of an in- | ammable cargo yesterday morning dex of the three schooner Fannie Adele, blew or me: into the air a start- ed a blaze a which' f awhile threatened to wipe ov the wharf ana reh of the Arc 0il Works flames freed the blazing schoon from the whatf and the tide carried - her, a ve e ship floating in a g k as to who was flame, from far wp | all akings, have ere the explosion o 1 eer Yard ) Sausalito. Before “ « direc- ching the crowded yacht anchorage e village the turning tide | w checked progress of the blazing oper. and the incoming current car- € r, 1l burning fierce by a lake of flam- rting place and 1 miles. That noboc Fong Ling Surrendered. y was killed in the explo- | Ding Lina of a Chinese | Sion is nard to understand, but even =% | more derful was the weird cruise won -y ; ¥s evidence st followed. Propelled by the tide - ed with steered by her own sweet will, t e c3 ed out into the har- - h er she might strange freak of chance, this foating fire bofft thread- ed its way through a maze Of vessels, threatening all but harming none. In | tRe schooner’s hold the supply of food | for the flames seemed inexhaustible, k for at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon | tnesses testifie she was burning as fiercely as at 8 ¢ Nguen Lun's trial | o'clock in the morning, half an hour | for Judge Lawlor’s court | after the fire took hold. | (e 3 “‘She sipking,” sald a watcher, | Fong Ling’s surrender | shortly after noon. e of be on account of a re- She was only fooling the spectators, 0 ving been offered for | however, and had she tralled an as- and $6 for the silence of | bestos log llne to a fire-proof indi- Fong, who was also a wit- | cator, the dial some hours later would ase. Officers of the See any claim that such stories rculated in Chinatown in jure the company and that not one word of truth in the further state that d has been offered for the of either man the company will it and would like to know who has circulated such a report. have shown several knots to the Fan- nie’s credit. AT MERCY OF THE WAVES, There was nothing stately about the derelict's progr Now down by the head, as if ready for a dive to the cool depths, she would hesitate, shud- der, brace herself and return to an | even keel. Her bow would raise oc- | casionally, but only for a minute, and ta.- long as there was anything to burn | the Fannie Adele bIZZed. When the explosion occurred the | little schooner was lying at the end of the wharf of the Arctic Oil Company | and her cargo consisted of illluminat- ing and lubricating oils, » large por- tion of which was gasoline. It was | contained in enormous iron tanks, huge iron barrels and tin cases. The | vessel was almost ready for sea and was to have salled to-day for Nome. | Captain John Felsher left his ship yes- | terday morning a little after 7 o’clock and about 7:30 she blew up and im- | mediately took fire. The explosion tore | the deck from its fastemings, and deck, | men and barrels were hurled in every | direction. Some of the barrels were | thrown as far as 400 feet. At the same Think | instant she took fire and was ablaze Coffee The Ca | "On the dock ajongside of which she e use was moored weré 200 cases of kerosene. | POSTUM CEREAL. You Don’t MES MAESTRETTI | But to p vhat e 2 rove what keeps stomach MEMBER OF WORKS BOARD and heart weak and nervous pros- Mayor Schmitz Definitely Announces 1 y That He Has Selected Fire Com- leaving off Coffee 10 days and use missioner for Position. ; Mayor Schmitz announced yester-/ day that he had decided upon the ap- pointment of Frank Maestretti -as Commissioner of Public Works to suc- ceed T. P. Woodward, who was pro- POSTUM FOOD | moted to be City Engineer. Publicity P PLACE tration coming, suppose you try umns that Maestretti would secure the plum, and the Mayor's action sim- ply confirms the previous announce- ment. Mayor Schmitz stated that he had not as yet made up his mind as to the successor of Maestretti, who will re- sign from the Fire Commission to ac- cept his new appointment. John | Daughney is a strong candidate for | the place, but may have to give way | to one of several others who are also | aspirants. The Mayor was reticent If you find peaceful sleep, good digestion, heart and nerves getting | practically came stronger you have the cue. regarding the names of the candidates “THERE'S A REASON.” says he will not make them and Get the miniature book, “The known until he has made his final se- . o ” he Fi issiy - Road to Wellville,” in each pkg. “fim yrbandth gt Vit i o) SCHOONER _ FA ING ADELE SHORTLY AFTER THE EXPLOSION, AND HER MASTER. e These immediately took fire, and be- the two a mighty blaze went hing fully 100 feet into the air. e midst of all this the cans and drums that had been hurled up by the explosion, burst while they were in the air and then took fire, giving the ap- pearance of a lot of enormous sky- rockets. The flames burnt the hawsers and the little schooner slowly drifted away from her dock, a seething mass of flames and emitting enormous volumes of black smoke. In the meantime the fire engines arrived upon the dock and, with the tance of the fire boat Governor Markham, after a fierce fight, succeeded in conquering the flames. The dock was badly damaged. The five men that were biown into the | water ;struck out in all directions and were rescued by parties in the vicin- ity. WAS SEVERELY INJURED. Joseph Manne, who was in the hold | at the time of the explosion, was the most seriously injured. He was able to swim a distance of 400 feet, how- ever, and was then dragged out of the | water and taken to the Potrero Emer- gency Hospital, where Dr. W. E. Buell dressed his wounds and from there he was sent out to the Marine Hospital The blazing schooner was now drifting with the ebb tide toward Goat Island. Directly in her path lay the American bark Carrolton. From every appearance this mass of blaz- ing flames was about to sweep down on the bark, but by a most fortunate occurrence of ebbing tide combined with a light breeze she drifted past the anchored bark. The flames at this time were fully 100 feet high. She kept on drifting until she landed di- rectly in the pathway of the Oakland steamers and here for a time she to an anchorage within about a quarter of a mile of | Goat Island. The tug Governor Mark- ham came alongside and commenced pouring volumes of water into her. The deluge kept up for two hours, but made no appreciable effect. About 11 o'clock, however, the flames com- menced to be subdued, and the masts fell overboard with a terrible crash. The Markham then made fast to the burning hulk and towed her out of the path of the steamers. Together they drifted down nearly to Angel Island, the Markham still pouring tons of water over her. Captain Felsher could give no ac- count of how the fire took place. Jo- CITY ATTORNEY TELLS STATUS OF A PENSION Percy V. Long Defines How Rel- atives of Deceased Firemen May Obtain Relief. An opinion of considerable interest to the members of the Fire Depart- ment was rendered yesterday by City Attorney Long in response to the re- quest of the Board of Fire Pension Fund Commissioners as to the right of Mrs. Phoebe F. Hogan, widow of Joseph Hogan, to a pension under the provisions of the charter. Hogan died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 14, 1904. In his opinion Long holds that in order that the relatives of a deceased member of the Fire Department may obtain a pension it would be necessary that the deceased member meet with a violent death, either while in the immediate performance of his duty or from an injury received while in the performance of his duty. Long advises that the claim of Mrs. Hogan be denied, because Hogan was not killed while performing his duty, nor wak his death the result of in- Juries reteived. jmy shoes and smelt a peculiar gassy odor. seph Manne, an able seaman, who was the worst injured, tells the following story: I am & Russian by birth and am 26 years old and reside at 414 Folsom street i morning 1 went into the forecastle to chang . 1 think some the gasoline must have been | leaking out of the barrels. BURNING LANTERN IN HOLD. Somebody had left a lantern burning there, and all of a sudden the lantern flame seem: to shoot up. I started to go toward it to put it out. when the explosion took pl The duck lifted under me and I was thr down, I jumped up and rushed to the com- panion way, which I found had been blown away, In another Instant a second explosion followed, and I found myself in the bay. I struck out for the nearest wharf, where 1 was pulled out of the water and then taken to the hospital. I am suffering terrible agony, Manne undoubtedly owes his life to his powerful physique and muscular frame. He is six feet tall and weighs about 225 pounds. With his terrible burns it is a marvel to all who saw him how he managed to swim so far. His hair and eyebrows were complete- ly burned off and his face is a mass of lacerated flesh, which is now com- pletely encased in a mask. His hands are terribly burned and there are more than fifty bad bruises on his body. First Mate Knut Knudsen says Le was thrown with the deck more than fifty feet into the air and landed in the water. When he was fished out, to his amazement he found that he had only suffered a slight bruise on the right knee and was able to walk t> the hospital to have it dressed. Al Carter, a laboring man, who was sianding on the dock at the time of the explosion, had his face scorched and had to go to the hospital. Boat- man McGee of Peterson's fleet was passing at the time on his way to Hunters Point. He gives the follow- ing description of the explosion: ROSE OUT OF THE WATER. I was looking at the schooner, when sud- denly there was a slight report and she seemed to come right out of the water. At the same time hugy pleces of her decks and great big barrels were tossed into the air. The whole thing was in flemes from stem to stern at the same time. There was a terrible roaring and crashing sound, and cans and barrels were dropping all around me like so many sticks from fire rockets. The blaze was tremendous and the smell of the black smoke was some- thing sickening. There was such a mass of stuff thrown into the air that I could not see what it looked like. Afterward I heard that the crew was blown up With the rest of the stuff, and if any of them live to tell the tale it 1s & wonder, The little vessel was 21 years old and of 222 tons burden. She has been plying in the coast trade until recently, when her owners, Sudden & Christensen, leased her to the Seattle Shipping Company to take this cargo of ofl to Nome. She was valued At about $8000, partly insured. Her car- go was valued at about $30,000, the principal portion of w was the property of the Standard Oil Com- pany, with full insurance placed in the East. The other shippers were Charles Kunze and the Seattle Shi ping Company. Whether their intar- ests were protected by ' insurance could not be learned. It was reported on the street that M. C. Harrison & Co., managers of the St. Paul Insurance Company, were carrying a line of $16,000 on the car- go. This they deny, but state that they had expected to write a line for some of the shippers and that the pending negotiations would probably have been consummated to-day. The shippers, however, had not given them the order and so they have no responsibility to assume. -4 | | T0 INVESTIGATE WIDOW'S ESTATE Inquiry Will Be Made as, to Disposition of Prop- erty of Mrs. Kryzyanowski PUBLIC OFFICER ACTS Death of Executor Brings Case to Question of What Became of Original Money et Charles Rickman is dead and buried. The mere fact that the deceased has passed to the great beyond would only interest his immediate relatives and friends were it not for the fact that he came to the notice of the public when he applied for and was granted letters of administration upon the estate of the late Palagia Maria Kryzyanowskl, widow of General Kryzyanowskl As quickly as the fact could be trans- mitted over the telephone that Rick- man was dead, Public Administrator Hynes got busy and the result was an application for letters of administra- | tion, The application sets forth that Rick- man has been recognized by the court as the executor of the will of Palagia Maria Kryzyanowskl, but that a final settlement of the estate has never been made, consequently the Public Admin- istrator is the proper person to have charge of the property of the deceased | testatrix. At the time the will was probated a contest was entered by Maria Night- engale, who claimed she was the daughter of Palagia Maria Kryzyan- oyski. Before the matter could be b{ought to an i right of Maria ) tate, a compromise was reached where- by she secured $10,000 and surrendered her rights to any further share in the estate. Rickman was granted the let- ters as executor and is said to have paid over the money in the matter of compromise. Now that Rickman is dead, the Public Administrator pro- poses to take charge of his estate and inquire what has become of the origin- al amount of $30,000. Nagle & Nagle have represented the daughter of Mrs. Kryzyanowski. It is claimed that in their official positions as representatives of the contestant that they secured a compromise of the contest on the basis of $5000 for their services when the total amount to be granted the daughter was but $10,000. That action led to the removal of Rick- man as executor and the subsequent appointment of the Public Adminis- trator, Now the main proposition is to discover how an estate estimated at $30,000 a few months ago could dwindle to about $13,000. It is c'aimed by the Public Admin- istrator that the case is one worthy of investigution and further contended that thorough sifting of all the acts will show what was originally claimed —fraud. Under the will Rickman was the sole legatee. The compromise effected on behalf of Maria Nightengale precludes any possibility of her securing any further share in the estate, but in or- der to stop the probing of prior events and the exposure of facts relative to the shrinkage of the estate, her name may be used in an application for let- .ters of administration, as she contends blood kin. Under the law the Public Adnjinistrator would be eighth on the list of those whom the court could re- cognize in acts of administration. On the other hand, Rickman was willed the bulk and, in fact, all of the prop- erty, hence his helrs can claim his in- terest although he never completed his report as executor No time has been set for hearing. —_—————————— BOARD OF EDUCATION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS Directors Award Coptracts for Sup- plies for Coming ] Year to Local Merchants. At a meeting of the Board of Edu- cation yesterday afternoon contracts were awarded for the furnishing of necessary supplies to the department for the coming year. The contracts were awarded as follows: San Francisco and San Joaquin Coal Com: pany, Tesla briquetts; Thomas Morton, cos Frank Mordecal, wood; Brown & Power Col pany, January supplies printing and station- ery; Phillips, Smythe & Van Orden, printin Hayden Printing Company, printing; L. caze, printing; Commercial Publi pany, printing; Whitaker-Ray Company, pparatus, furniture and stationery; C. F. Weber & Co., furniture and apparatus; H. S. 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COLUMBIA i LAST 5 NIGHTS—MATINEE SAT. MR. RICHARD MANSFIELD To-night and Sat.—IVAN THE TERRIBLEL Wednesday—BEAU BRUMMEL. Thureday—OLD HEIDELBERG. Friday—DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDEL Matinee Saturday—OLD HEIDELBERG. BEGINNING NEXT MONDAY, Charles Frohman will present Maude Adams (Her first stellar appearance here.) In “THE LITTLE MINISTER." SEAT SALE THURSDAY. GRAN OPERA HOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY TO-NIGHT—THIS WEEK ONLY MELBOURNE MacDOWELL In Sardou's Intense FEDORA NEXT SUNDAY MATINEE—GISMONDA. SPECIAL MATINEE DECORATION DAY. POPULAR PRICES—136 25¢c, 50c, 75c 4 Drama MATINEE SATURDAY. THIRD AND LAST WEEK Of the Delightful Musical Comedy A knaway GIRL BEGINNING DECORATION DAY Monday Matin Revival One Week On}lf the Musical Com- ed: THE TOYMAKER TOY MATINEES MONDAY & SATURDA USUAL TIVOLI PRICES—25¢, S0, Thc. ice, ALCAZAR’5: IS IT FUNNY ? ASK ANYBODY! | TO-NIGHT-+MATS. THURS. AND SAT. | Sydney Rosenteld’s Laughing play. | A POSSIBLE CASE Evgs., 25¢ to 75¢; Mats. 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An entire new burlesque company, io- cluding: Yorke and Adams, Al Fields, Edwin Clark, Caroline Hull, Edna Aug, Garrity Sis- ters, Ben Dillon, Roy Alton, “Star” Chorus of forty voices, the ‘“Radium Girls” —20th century sensation, a world of mew songs, dances, spe- clalties. Seats on Sale Wednesday Morning at ths thea! No advance in the prices. CENTRAL“&x Market st., near Bighth. Phone South 583. TO-NIGHT—ALL THIS WEEK. Matinees Saturday and Sunda: 07'!‘! Davis' Magnificent Com: A ‘GREAT TEMP e cfltcfi-’ Theater of the First A n Francisco Favorite, ..10c to 50o 10c, 18e, 28c JULIA BLANC | the ou%’uum gn 42 Moonlight, Spectacle Kilns. S huyes MOYING PICTURES, showing the TATION | GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY And » Splendid Show Every Afternoen and Bvening in the Theater. / TAKE A RIDE ON THE Esmeralda and Her BABY MONKEY in the INSPECT CABARET DE LA MORT. AMATEUR NIGHT THURSDAY. Admission, 10c; Children, Sc. MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTS, Auslrian Society of SL Joseph, ey