The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1904, Page 1

: ot - Forecast made cisco for thirty midnight, August San Francisco Cloudy Saturday; inds, with fog. _THE WEATHER. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. . at San Fran- hours ending 6: and vicinity— brisk westerly UME XCVI—NO. 67. SAN F RANCISCO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1904 — Alcazar—“The Tramp.” Fischer's—“Th ™ " California. % California — “A Chutes—Vaudevill 'owa.' Grand—"Shenandoah.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. Tivoli—“The Toreador.” Matinees at All Theaters Except o " Lady lan;:‘ . e Whirl of the = . PRICE FIVE CENTS. MARINE COMMISSION OF CONGRESS ENDS LABORS RESIDENCE * CLARK ATTACHED Young Millionaire [s Sued for $25.000. Bank of Califcrnia Levies on His Couniry Place at San Mateo. = o o d he Action Taken s Was Wholly of tw t lark on accrued in- 2 Mateo Coun= jispatched a deputy ment to the Clark resi- f the t absence of was made by ument on the case were y afternoon, at Redwood to engross the roperty, to 3 sojourned but that it r ay. m A = suit f 3 officials de- pt & was neces- for it was t be preparing home deeded over o h wedding gift. ce the hurried attachment suit. The San Mateo residence was pur- d by Charles W. Clark from Wal- year no one sus- buld inst t the time of the property was heavily mortgaged and part of this incumbrance was assumed the purchaser. Although the of- Is of the bank and Charles Clark day declined to discuss the con- fons of the sale it is general under- od by Clark’s friends that his notes, executed in favor of the Bank of Cali. fornia, were part of deal, given in security for a on the property. go mortgage be trans-! the real exmtel IN SAN FRANCISCO AND CONGRATULATES CITIZENS - -+ TER an interesting sessioh, covering a period of two days, the Merchant Marine Commission of Congress adjourned last evening not to meet again as a || body until the national capital is reached. During the stay of the commission here many of the prominent shipowners, commercial men and representatives " | of sailors before the mast gave their advice on the question at issue—the expansion of the Amerivan merchant marine. Vhile many opinions were expressed | | { and many remedies for the existing evil suggested, the commission will carry away from this port the knowledge that here a great majority ‘of those most inter- | | ested stand as advocates of governmental subsidy, to be enjoyed by all vessels that fly the American flag. | - 3 | || % g 7 T GO D ", et I 3 s [ n...,_ 4 | | i | OF FORMER —_—— Valet Commits Murder. HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 5.—Henry Osborne, a former Police Commissioner and a leading business man, was mur- dered to-day by his former colored | body servant, Joseph Watson. The negro was found to-night hiding under a bed in the basement of the Osborne home. Outside the house at the time the murderer was found a thousand ' persons were gathered and as Watson was escorted down the steps to the pa- trol w on the air resounded with | cries Kill him! Lynch him!"” hut, no violence other than of voice was at- | tempted | Watson, who is 18 years of age and | very unprepossessing in appearance‘; did not quail when face to face with | the shouting crowd. “I had it in for Osborne and I killed him,” he said. *“I am not afraid to die and I am satisfied now that I killed him.” Osborne was killed by of revenge for the latter's discharge as | valet on July 15. Osborne’s family was away, but Osborne slept at home each | night. Watson says that he got into | the house last night after Osborne re- tired and went to sleep in the basement. | This morning Watson went upstairs, when he heard Osborne stirring about | | and met him at the bathroom door, fir- |ing one shot. Osborne ran into his { bedroom and the negro followed and | fired two more shots, both taking ef- | fect. | The shots were heard by persons on ithe street, who summoned the police, | Osborpe was conscious when found and told the officers that he had been shot by the negro. He died upon reaching a hospital. Watson out | ! | | | range of thought. National Legislators Express Gratification at Profitable| Result of Their Work Here. The Merchant Marine Commission of Congress has completed San Francisco. last its labors in Shortly after 5§ o’'clock Senator Gallinger and Representatives Minor, Spight and Humphrey, who compose the commis- sion, announced that, evening from the stand- point of the Pacific Coast, the question | at i e—the expansion of the American merchant marine — had been exhaust- ively discussed, and that the members of the commission would not meet again as a body until they return to the national capital. Facts developed during the session of the commission here demonstrate that a palsy is upon the American merchant marine that demands drastic remedies. A mass of testimony was presented by the many men that appeared before the commission during its sessions in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, and the advice given covered a wide Among the most prominent of the local shipping and commercial men that appeared, the fon is shared that subsidy in some form or another would be the tonic to ¥ lize the dying merchant marine of the United States. PROPHESIL: IMPROVEMENT. R. P. Schwerin Expresses Confidence in American Statesmanship. A strong advocate of subsidy—pro- gressive, not digressive—was found in R. P. Schwerin, president of the Pagific | Mail Steamship Company, who was first called yester morning to pre- |sent his views to the commission. Schwerin began his address by stating frankly that he had no philanthropic ideas about the transportation business. He believed, he said, in running a steamship line to make all the money possible out of it for the stockholders. | Referring to the rapid rise of the Uni- ted States navy, he said he believed that the same wise statesmanship ap- plied to the merchant marine would lift it from its present deplorable con- dition to one of prosperity. Continuing he said in part: “The fundamental principle in the transportation business is economy of operation. Protection has raised the American laborer to practically a mid- dle class position, and it is well, gener- ally speaking, that this is so, but it places such men beyond consideration _ Afor positions as sailors, as their de- — mands are such that they cannot be met with profit by the steamship com- | panies. “Free educational facilities, while a great benefit to American boys, do not fit them for life on the sea. HEducated men are needed to direct the work, but not to perform it, and it is this condi- tion that resuits in foreigners filling the positions on shipboard that many believe should be held in reserve for Americans. “Regarding these good American crews of which you hear politicians say so much, I have something to say: On one of our vessels, out of a crew of fifty-one men, there were but two men that could splice or knot a rope, and these were not Americans. The per- centage of Americans that sail before the mast is deplorably small, I realize that something must be done for the American boy, but this cannot be done on the big limers. Our captains have tried in every way to aid young Ameri- cans that went to sea on our ships, but their efforts nusually resulted in failure. They are hard to discipline, and in clerical capacities they proved inac- curate. “Opportunities should be given for the American boy to go to sea, but first he should be given independent training on a ship devoted to that purpose. The youth must have a square-rigged ship on which to learn the art of navigation. This plan is now being successfully carricd out by the Hamburg-American Line, under subsidy of the German Government. “We have the nucleus for a training fleet in the ship St. Mary of New York. BEvery large coast city should have one of these training vessels, the course of study thereon being fixed at three years. If the Government in- sists on training lads on mail ships it is going to defeat its own purpose. It would be better to reduce any pur- posed subsidy and turn the difference into the support of such nautical in- stitutions. “There are thousands of American young men that would be as glad to go to sea as I was when a boy. I told my father that I would eifher go to sea or run away from home and enter the navy. He could take his choice. He saw that T went to sea. “Reverting to the question of sub- sidy, I do not believe that Congress should ‘frame an assistance bill that would tend in any way- to encourage the building of ships for speculation. This would defeat the very end such a measure. What we want me~t is tramp ships and under the W they should be given opportuniy (o take labor wherever it is the cheapes". Get the ships first, no matter who mans them, and eventually opportuni- ties will grow until enough American | boys will enter the cervice to man all | the vessels flying the American flag. | “I have thought of many ways by which the Government might assist the American marine, but all of them are surrounded by difficulties that are hard to evade. I believe, however, that the Goverment should lend its aid pri- marily to direct malil routes, the ships of which are so constructed that they would be of immediate use to the Government in time of need. This would not only aid the American mer- chant marine, but would be a profit- able investment for the Government.” In this connection Schwerin referred to those subsidized ships flying the Japanese flag that have been taken over by the Nippon Government and are now operating before the besieged ports of Manchuria. Continuing, he sald: “As to the tramp ships the bill should be so framed that they will be assisted when they carry cargoes from ports at which none of the regular mail liners touch. One class of ships should not be brought into competi- tion with the other. Such a condition | would send the tramp ship where it is wanted most. They would then seek ports that could not be served by the regular line. However, I do not be- lieve that this committee nor any Con- gressional committee can frame a bill that will do away with the existing evil. It must be a mixed committee, composed of members of both houses of Congress, and naval and commer- cial men.” Schwerin here referred to the dif- ficulties that confronted him in his! efforts to have the steamships Siberia and Korea so constructed that they would be readily convertible into cruisers and thereby come under a proposed subsidy measure. The diffi- culties were such, however, that he said he was finally compelled to tell the officials to “Go to h—I1" and con- struct the vessels as he saw fit. In this connection Schwerin gave another Continued on Page 2, Column 3, COMPET | He asked the Sultan MAY ORDER A SOUADRON e 10 TURK! Washington IS Tired of the Sultan’s [nsolence. No Heed Paid to Requests Presented by Minister Leishman, Interview for Which American Repre- sentative Waited Two Years Is Futile. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, August 5.—Washing- ton and Constantinople are again in dispute. Secretary Hay to-day receiv- ed a cable dispatch the American Minister to Turkey, stating that satisfactory answer was forthcoming to the request for a settlement of diplomatic differences, made by Leishman in a personal au ence with the Sultan last week. Without making any formal an- nouncement, the State and Navy de- partments encourage the suggestion that the European squadrom will ordered to Turkish waters soon unless a satisfactory settlement be made. Cable.orders were to-day sent to Rear Admiral Jewell, commanding the Euro- pean squadron in the Mediterranean. At the same time Secretary Hay in- structed Leishman to redouble his rep- resentations to the Porte and to ex- from Leishman, no be press the Iimperative desire of the United States for an early answer. No concealment is made of the chagrin of the administration. Secre- | tary Hay returned to Washington only to-day from Lake Sunapee, N. H. Leishman, on last Friday, had suc- ceeded in obtaining an audience with the Sultan. He had sought this inter- view for two years, during which period many new questions had arisen. that American physicians, dentists and other profes- sional men be given the same privilege in the Ottoman empire as professional men from Europe and that the di- plomas of American professional schools be accepted on the same basis as those from European countries. In addition to this, he made plain the earnest desire of the United States for | greater protection and liberties for American rel ous and educational in- stitutions in Turkey. Lastly, he sug- | gested the elevation of diplomatic re- FOF RONE'S (00D WILL Rival Nations Seek Place Vacated by | France. Special Dispatch to The Call. | BERLIN, Aug. 5.—According to in-| tormation gleaned at the headquarters| of the German Roman Catholic party here to-day, the fatherland is already | rioving ‘o acquire the position of the leading Roman Catholic power. The| breach between the Vatican and the| Frencn Government has made this pos- sible. The Kaiser is directing his diplomacy to the acquisition of the heritage of the “eldest daughter of the| church’—universal protection of Catho- | lic interests “in partibus infidelium.” | It is said.that it has already been, settled that Germany shall be given| the much desired protectorship cver the, Levant and other spheres of Teutonic| influence in the Near and Far East. The Vatican is. confronted with the necessity of distributing protectorship | rights among the several children of the church. Austria, in particular, |l; making strong pretensions. | German Catholics are overjoyed with the prospect that their party’s position | cf political predominance in Germany | is assured forever should the Kaiser stcceed in obtaining the place about | to be evacuated by the French. ————— Lady Tweedmouth Is Dead. LONDON, Aug. §—Lady Tweed- mouth (Lady Fanny C. L. Spencer- Churchill), political hostess of the Lib- eral party and a sister of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, is dead, aged 49 years. She was the daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough I action lations between the U Turkey by bassies in Was nople. This man’s prestige ited States and the establishment of em- ngton and Constanti- would increase Leish- n Constantinople and render difficuities more easy of adjustment At the Cabinet meeting to-day it was decided to send in man to show the displeas U..ited States to the Turkis Office and a message to R Jewell at Villefranche, the tents of which are net kmown hich it is certain will give Ad Jewell the information that his s may be needed in Turkish waters The European squadron will not leave the Mediterranean for the Atlan- tic. The battleship squadron has not but iral ips | yet arrived at Gibraltar, but it is ex- pected there within a day or two. The Iowa yesterday left Palermo, Sicily, for Gibraltar, having become detached from the squadrom. The situation now is that the Staxe Department awaits the ,k “ct upon the Sultan of the show displeasure made here to y. ——————— MINISTER BOW LODGES A PROTEST WITH CASTRO United States Objects to the Seizure of the Bermudese Com- pany's Mines. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Minister Bowen has cabled the State Depart- ment that he has lodged a strong pro- test with President Castro against the of the Government in seizing the asphalt mines belcaging te the New York and Bermudese Company. The receiver of the Government is said to be supported by two Venezuela war~ ships in his occupation of the com- pany's property. —_——————— ASKS THAT WARSHIP BE SENT TO MONTE CRISTI Minister Dawson's Request Indicates That Another Revolution Is Impending. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Dawson, the American Minister to San Domin- go, in a cablegram to the State De- partment suggests that it would be well to have a warship at Monte Cristi for a short time. It is inferred from this cablegram that another revelu- | tionary movement is impending