The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1904, Page 4

CISCO CALL, SAT DISTINGUISHED FILIPINOS REACH SHORES O AS GUESTS OF THE NATION AT THE ST. LOUIS EXP F AMERICA OSITION Dowager’s Famous Picture Arrives. Gol Is China’s Star Attraction. packa t the ber hich* terday from t s the & ¢ Empress of ¥ s, wh to Wo the pur- 1s. It s said, do not picture’s expresse a- a foreign the rash orig- picture, Leaves Estate to Children. 1 t | i d-Framed Exhibiti 3> MRS DELNME: RADCL L7 TREpES 242 TREPES or | 2y iR Cartag >z —_———— great ort steamship Siberia yesterday with forty- distinguished i aboard, most citi- | the | ppine: a pictur histc ue and impor- of the United strangers are the coun- | of honor from afar. During their sojourn in America they will be shown the wonders that genjus | istry have reaped from the il- rve fields of modern and ests of the the St uis Exposition | be shown object lessons from | rkshops and fields of ali the will meet the world's mas- 3s and will see the handiw ing artisans from be, displayed for prelude to their educat that vis- the which he is amerce, by politica giance and by common interests, though the peopie and the land » foreign to his and to ass; ations beneath suns 1 with the re- whose pleasure it mal welcome to the the | cer | was ion commit ) extend a | eountry’s visitors, | Major Devol, chief of the transport | service, tendered the committee the use of the Slocum and was = spiendid host | for the party. Governor Pardee and May Schmitz had been asked to be present, but they failed to app Those pregent were: George C. New- hall, who went as president of the Chamber of Commerce; Frank J. president of tne Merchants’ ciation; A. Sbarboro, president of Manufacturers’ and Producers' Association; N. P. Chipman, president of the California State Board of Trade; M. Greenebaum, a leading merchant of this city; Collector of Customs Strat- | ton and his deputy, Willlam Hamil ton | SIGHTING THE GUESTS, | The Slocum left the dock at 9 o'clock | and how in the stream for more than two hours. When, finally, a sig- | nal showed that the doctors had fin | ished their inspection of the ship, the | Slocum approached to bid the guests {a welcome. Long before the commit- | | teemen were within haliing distance | they were buey with sea glasses, try- | ing to descry their guests. Suddenly a bright bit of color loomed above the | deck. It was Senora V. Matta, gowned |in a Parisian creation of crimson, a | belle of the Orient. She smiled to those | aboard the tug and soon the committee had discovered the country’s guests, Unfortunately. for the dignity and | perfect order of the reception a cus- | The will of Jacob H. Sellers of the| omg officer permitted some of the | #irm of Sellers Bros. & Co., who died | strangers to come down the gangplank | st t., was filed for probate | to the deck of the tug and then order- | It disposes of an estate|ed them back again that they might ! $250,000. The en-|be thooughly identified before landing | go to the four sons rters of the deceased. are Frederick, Henry Arthur Seller The daugh- Ad Feigenbaum, Minnie and Estelle, Jennie and Florenz Sellers San- —e————— CHEAP RAT! TO YOSEMITE. $25.90 the Round Trip. To holders of round-trip Eastern’ tick- ets over any road, and their friends ac- nying, the Santa Fe will sell tick- Yosemite Valley and return for Santa Fe is best of all ways to passing directly through two magnificent groves of the famous Big Trees without side ride or extra expense. Ask at Santa Fe office, 641 Market st | on American soil. JOwing to a strong | | tide and the stiff breeze it was almost | | two hours before the tug could be| brought safely alongside the massive | | Siberia, but when the guests were | | once aboard the Slocum the run to the 1 | transport dock was made with little delay. During the run the committee- | men assured the visitors that the peo- | ple of San Francisco, of California, and of the nation were anxious to bid them |2 hearty welcome to American shores. ‘ The Filipinos are for the most part men of mature years, and many of | them showed streaks of gray in their closely cropped hair. CARRIAGES AND FLAGS. When the Slocum arrived . at the | gers withi | with arriages was in wait- ach carriage being dec d with an s. In these the guests iven to the Pa Hotel, where preparation been com- leted for their ent ment and P ire. To-night a banquet wiil b tendered to them and San Francisco will exert herself to mak the stran- her gates feel at home. will remain here until Wednes. and various trips are planned b eceptidh committee, them to Mount Tamalpais, an ex ound the bay and a trip to at i at 7:30 a. among ho compoge the party are: Master A. Fer- E. La- 0. Ramc MEN ARE LEADE the renc de d, will The « mmittee comprised from 1 of Orient is v Their them le there rn their that ers in no in and ret is doubt rich experier ad H. Pardo de they Tavera of Ma- s been a member of the Phil- e Commission ever since 1901. He educated in Spain and in France, is a skiilful physician and diplo- Benito Legarde is also a mem- the United States Philippine SAlbo was vice s that rati Philippine was and mat ber of sident the the republic. Eng fluently Jose R. de Luzuriaga is also a mem- ber of the Philippine Commission, and Cayetano 8. Arellano has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the islands ever since 1900, and throughout the list one will find men whose work as made them prominent, fit repre- sentatives of their country at a fes- tival of the world's commerce and acts. One. of the most interesting persons in the commission and one of the most modest passengers on the Si- beria is Lieutenant General Trias, for- merly second in command to Aguin- aldo. of the Cos- constitution of He General Trias was a capable officer | and carried a skill strategist. He was active all through Aguin- aldo’s campaign, both against the Spaniards and the Americans. —_——— Elect Officers. At the regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Mer- chants’ Assdcigtion held yesterday the out his superior's orders which showed following officers were elected for the | ensuing year: President, Frank J. Symmes; first vice president, Andrew M. Davis; second vice president, Fair- fax H. Wheelan; treasurer, C. S. Bene- dict; secretary, L. M. King. Thirty- three applications for membership | were received during the month. —_—— A Wounderful Tent City. The “tent city at “New” Santa Cruz will give joy to thousands. It is well drained, bas every ~onvenience, and its attractions in- clude mammoth casino and baths; pleasure pler, surf bathing, novel water sports, boating, | fishing, daily military concerts, nightly dances, fine big tree and beach drives, and perfect climate. For special excursion rates through June, July, August and September, ask South- ern Pacific agents. . NEW YORK, May has been appolnted vice president of the Den. Grande Ratlroad Company succeeed Russell Harding, who resigned i order to devote his whole time to the Mis- souri Pacific, m. | and a graduated lawyer. | pr speaks | him a | |Eminent Men From Orient Are Welcomed|John Muir Ends Year by Committee of Prom'nent San Franciscans. of Journeying in Many Lands. | John Muir, the famous botanist and iliar friend of President Roosevelt, | arrived yesterday on the liner Siberia and ended the journey he commenced when he left here a year ago on the Presidential train. Since he was last in San Francisco the famous moun- tain climber has visited Russia, China, Japan, India, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand. He left here in company tessor Sargent and Sargent's son, tending to visit Siberia and study the geological formation of the land. The trip t Russia proved arduous Heavy wearled the bot- anist’s #tomach, and at Shanghai he to his companions and his awn ac my mind Pro- in- with \rough tea drinking said good-by started out on “1 made up said Mu bunt. rs there ago,” was sterday, “that no land fairer than North America. 1 determined to make its acquaintance. I studied it for thirty-five years, and when 1 left here a ar ago it was not that I had exhausted North America | or that I was tired of it. I wanted to It a few of the theories evolved dur | ing a long term of intimate study. “When 1 got to Shanghai, however and found myself alone, the wander- lust was in my bones. I tock a globe and had a long gloat over the nam of places 1 had often dreamed of v iting. Then I commenced to travel.” | Where other travelers find good, bad | or indifferent hotels, Muir found mountains and trees which he greeted | he visited as old friends. | | in every land He found the heat of India oppressive, but in the Himalaya Mountains real ized a long-cherished dream. The action of ice, he says, is the same all over the world, and in the Himalaya glaciers he found more old friends. | His principal quest in India was the | deodar tree. | found what he describes as a ‘“grand | grove” at Agra, but was greatly dis- | gusted at learning that the owner of a house situated within full view of | the trees knew neither their name nor | their fame. : “The cedars of Lebanon™ are of the | deodar family, and in Egypt Muir met | some more tree friends. He was inter- | ested in Egypt at the | which he says are being conducted with scientific skill and on a stupen- dous scale. Cholera barred the traveler's way to Calro, so he journeyed to Ceylon for a glimpse of the primeval forests of | that part of the world. | It was in New Zealand that he made | the most wonderful finds. The flora | of that land, he says, would make a | dead botanist rise in his grave. He also visited the forests of Luzon, | which he found wonderfully rich. “It was a grand journey, but I'm glad to get home,” he sald after describing the wonders he had seen. President Roosevelt learned of Muir's contem- plated travels when they were together in the Yellowstone. The President gave the botanist a letter addressed to army and navy officers introducing Muir and stating that any favors ex- tended the botanist would earn the personal appreciation of the President. —_——————— * Keane for Senator. The George B. Keane Twenty-third District Senatorial Club was organized last night at Saratoga Hall. Officers were elected as follows: President, Henry D. Byrne; vice presidents, Wil- liam Altmann, Joseph Gassner; re- | cording and corresponding secretary, Samuel T. Kohlman; financial secre- tary, Willlam J. Hennessy; treasurer, ‘William M. Conklin; sergeant at arms, H. H. Ely. Resolutions were adopted indorsing George B. Keane, who is Mayor Schmitz's secretary, for State Senator from this district, After much traveling he | excavations | ward Reaches Among the most eminent of the pas- | sengers on the Siberia was Sir Fred- | erick Treves, K. C. V. O, and | K. C. B., who is making a tour of the ;» world. art., Sir Frederick is one of the most dis- tinguished of England's surgeons. He was brought into prominence by the successtul operation he performed upon King Edward for an attack of appen- dicitis in June, 19®, whereby the King's life was saved. i He has been sergeant surgeon to the | King since 1901. He was surgeon ex- traordinary to the late Queen during 1900-1901, and was knighted in 1901. His ! publications have been numerous and are highly valued in the medical world He is a man of commanding mein, of distinguished appearance and of high bred, affable nne In speaking of hi ndon last tour he said { and have been | ] I 1 ha am a magnifi i Zlorious weather | 1 spent quit India, In China and | Japan, and Iy Uy impressed with those They must be be underst I shall remain h t city until Su nd then we will & the Yos 3 veras big tree w e on to Philadelphia visit in your § shall n to my @ -4 3 -4 B ubjects he declined to dis- it accompanied by Lady and his daughter, Mrs. Deime- ffe. who is the wife of Colonel | Charles Radcliffe of the British army. | During his sojourn in India he and his family were the guests of honor of Lord | | Curzon, Lord Kitchener and the Maha- | rajah of India. y Distinguished attention was also shown him in China and Japan. He| was received here by Dr. T. Willlam White, professor of surgery of the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania. Mrs. White | accompanied the professor. They will all journey East together. Sir Frederick will be the guest of Dr. White in Phila- delphia. Both Lady Treves and her daughter are charming women. Mrs. Radcliffe s a remarkable type of English beauty. They both expressed themselves as de- ! | lighted with their tour and were loud | in their praises of San Francisco as they saw it from the bay. Dr. Ellinwood of the Cooper Medical College went to the Siberia to greet Sir Frederick and invited him to visit | the college, which invitation Sir Fred- | erick said he would be glad to accept. S ABANDON ORIENTAL TRIP. Captain Glen Collins and Bride Re- turn From Honolulu on Siberia. Among the passengers that arrived on the Siberia from Honolulu yester- day were Captain Glen Collins, for- merly of the Queen’s Own Cameron Regiment, and his bride of a few weeks. They were married in Mon- terey a month ago and departed on the last steamer for the Orient. A week ago in Honolulu, however, a | buggy in which Mrs. Collins was rid- | ing overturned and she was thrown to the ground and dragged for some dis- tance. Although her injuries were slight Captain Collins decided to aban- don their proposed trip to Japan and prepared for immediate return to this city. Captain and Mrs. Collins are registered at the St. Francis and will leave in a few days for London. Lieutenant Commander W. W. Bu- chanan of the navy, who arrived here yesterday from the Orient, has been appointed executive officer of the new battleship Ohio. B. C. Colver of the Scripps-McRea syndicate of newspapers was also one Surgeon Whose Operation Saved King | Americ | under the SR - - e AL —— | SOME OF THE DISTINGUISHED TRAVELERS THAT ARRIVED FROM THE ORIENT YESTERDAY ON THE PACIFIC MAIL COMPANY'S BIG LINER SIBERIA. > - = - Ed- This City on Way to London. anese Governm bottled them up in Tokio at the beginning of the war anc ming disgusted with the situa ide his retreat across the Pa cific to this port. He is registered at the St. Francis. J. H. Lewis, a steamship owner of Hongkong, ¢ me in on the Siberia and is staving at the St. Francis. It was one of hi§ vessels, the Halnong. that was ¢ d by the London Times atch-boat and afterward or- from Port Arthur by the vernment. nger jor S. C. of note on the Radcliff of the Regiment, who absence and en route s registered at the hird a leave ‘ngland. v st Manila’s Fire Department. Among those that arrived on the Si- beria yesterday morning was Hugh chief of the Manila Fire De- and former chief of the New Department. Chief Bonner is returning for a well-earned rest and intends to inspect the departments of all the large American citi commenc- Bonner, nt ing with rancisco,. In_order to note the latest improvements. king of the Manila deparfment onner gaid: At Manila . charge fire fightlng consisted itself out. Therefore got to working with an meth he natives were astonished The first American firemen were the regulars provost marshals. We have n at Manila all the latest improvements in t fire fighting line in general use in the Tnit States. « alf the force are native Filipin and the remainder, including the officers, en- gineers and drivers, are Americans. No one was better qualified to orga- nize the Manila department than Chief Bonner. He has spent all his life fight- ing fires and was with the New York Fire Department from 1865 to late in 1899. The last big fire Chief Bonner fought in New York was the fatal Windsor Hotel fire, on Mrch 17, 1899, in which eighteen persons lost their lives. —————— MANSON SPEAKS BEFORE THE TECHNICAL SOCIETY Tells How Reclamation Work Achieved Favorable Results Through Ab- sence of Political Interference,, The members of the Techniedl So- ciety of the Pacific Coast met yester- day morning. They first paid a visit to the Union Iron Works, after which they assembled at the Academy of Sciences Hall, where papers were read by John Richards on “Steam Turbine Motors,” Professor F. G. Hesse on “Jet Pumps—New and Original Theo- retical Developments,” and by Mars- den Manson on “The Reclamation of a Mountain Swamp in Southeastern Oregon.” In the course of his remarks Mr. Manson said: = The reclamation is more than half done over a total area of Afty square miles. The actual dredging was begun the latter part of 1502 and has advanced constantly since with the exception of periods when the ice was too thick for_cverating the dredge. The cost of the excavating had been 3 cents a cublc yard for actual work and expense charging up half the cost of the plant 41 cents a cublc ¥ These favorable resuits were largely due to the fact that there were no boards of trus- tees and self-constituted critics and advisors to interfere in any stage of the work, and the political results in no way affected the conduet of_the work. If the far_grander problems In the Sacra- mento and San Joaquin rivers and eisewhers fould be sttacked under the same conditions qually good results could be obtained. In the evening Franklin Riffle read a paper on “Pipes and Joints for High Pressure”; H. L. Randall read per on “Vertical Railway Curves C. Couchot spoke on “Armored Con- crete Construction,” 'and J. J. Welsh of the passengers on the Siberia. He was with a number of other news- paper representatives when the Jap- read a paper on “Experiments in Driv- ing Piles for a Foundation With a Steam Hammer." othe cost bas been | L Hawaii’s Governor Is Passenger on Siberia. —— Comes as Delegate to the Republican Convention. o bl Governor of Hawali, ¥, a passenger on ompanied by Mrs. to George Carter, arrived here yeste the liner Siberia. Carter, the r is on his way | Washington will later attend the Republican convention at St. Louis. W ‘4;. Hoogs of Honolulu, who was also on the Siberia, is the Republican dele- gate to the convention from Hawall, | and with Governor Carter will officially | represent the South Sea Territory at the convention. About nine other prominent Hawaiian peliticians will also attend. Governor Carter has before him upon his return to Honolulu the duty of making a large number of appoint- ments, and it is to ¢ with te- rartment concernin these that is the ! main object of his visit to Washington | He is enthusdiastic about affairs in | tke islands nd particularly put the | local government's financial showing He thinks, howev nd is armed with P the to prove the justice of his opinion—that the amount of Govern- ment financial assistance to the island Territory is smaller than Hawail's cc tributions to the national treasury would justify. He says that only by practicing the most rigid economy has his administration able to make both ends meet, and as part of this | economy has been the reduction of school tea s’ salaries he expects to convince the department of Hawail's right to a financial lift ——————— en COMPANY D, LEAGUE OF THE CROSS, WINS TROPHY { After one of the most interesting | competitive lls ever held by the | First Regime League of the Cross Cadets, the C trophy was a the Mechanics Full 000 test. The victorious company was u der command of Captain James | MeCormick and Lieutenants L. Bolanc |and J. F. Foley. | The other competing companies, L, | B, N and A. were ably handled by | their respective officers and it required | considerable deliberation and figuring by the judges to arrive at a verdict Lieutenant Colonel Bolton of the Tenth Infantry, U. S. A.; Captain Phil- |lips of the same organization, and | Lieutenant Hughes of the coast tillery officiated as judges, and Col- | onel Charles. Mo U. S. A., of the Presidio was the reviewing officer ‘They all united in pra | of the youthful soldiers. The League of the Cross Cadets band was one of the most pleasing fea- | tures of the evening and under the able leadership of Lieutenant Ernest | G. Williams rendered a number of se- lections in a manner that called forth | much appls Company H, under | command of Captain F. Daly, covered | itself with gl by construc | forty-foot® bridge in six minutes and a half and taking down the structure in less than five minutes. A sham bat- | le participated in by four companies | was most realistic and the mimic war- fare was thoroughly enjoyed by the spectators. | His Grace Archbishop Montgomery | made the announcement of the judges’ | decision and presented the handsome | trophy to the winning company. The funds realized from the sale of tiek- ets will be used to defray the expe: of fitting up the gymnasium and qua ters of the organization on Market street. In the individual competitive dri Sergeant Milo Kent of Company carried off the honars, e — Howe Club Concert. The initial concert of the Howe Club will be given at Native Sons’' Hall on Thursday, June 2. The curtain will rise at 8:15 o'clock and the programme will be of & high ordér. An admission of 50 cents will be charged, and reserved | seats will be 25 cents extra. Chairs ! may be reserved at Kohler & Chase’s { on and after to-day i —_———————— | Decoration Day at Del Monte. Special round-trip tickets, $10. include railroad fare and two days’ board at the ng the work se. | | A famed Hotel Del Monte. Leave San Francisco next Saturday or Sunday. Through parior car to the hotel. Golf 1inks never greener and surf bathing aelighttul, - . .