The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1904, Page 5

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1901. VOTING FRAUDS | APPALL JURORS| Forgeries on Rosters Tell of Cramming of Ballot Boxes at the I’rimaries} WORK SEEMS TUSELESS Evidence of Crime Abundant, but Clews to Perpetra- tors Are Wholly Lacking | The xi- rors are appalled as ver into the frauds t primary election. Exam- precinct rosters reveals | m Some of the ballot more illegal votes in votes, and so fla- fing that the boards has been concluded, must abetted the bold viola- e goes dee: neat REO RGANIZED SHIPBUILDING TRUST BUYS UNION IRON WORKS AT AUCTION Receiver James Smith Jr., of New Jersey, Knocks Down Big Institution to Agent Pollock, Who Represents the Reconstruction Committee and Shows Large Check i rd Assembly District egal votes cast was of-the total. In pre- est vote was but a the total. It is for this precinct that was charged in the Fairfax Wheelan is were perpetrated on | ened the eyes of nittees to the fact ard for the law and ce on the part of is overwhelming. call for drastic val of an ocean comment of a cent in of crime before helpless to t the ballot ied with the , but ut is a ors cannot signatures of who ille- stand out scrawls of nondescripts | he rosters leave other records ne at the polls to tinize s rs to happened and was Fairfax forward with a were fraudu- th had a smaller g to the results of date make Thur are working their report to RESTRAINS POLICE FROM TRESPASS IN CHINATOWN Chinese Company Obtains Temporary Order From Judge Cook Pending Trial of Case. g order we [ 1 Cook yester- man and the them from rerous places in be owned by various prem- company fooa, of, it ause the ARREST INSURANCE WARRANT FOR OF AGENT Commissioner Wolff After Rep- resentative of Unlicensed Concern. State er Wolff has ice of the Peace ant for the < on a charge e e XS Dohrmann took $1000 in the Old Insurance Com- | ipon the solic- re Mutual Life Insur- e Company has been in the hands ceiver for some time. This com- which ndkes a speclalty of in- i no license to do a and this fact policy it may issue Wolff is illegitimate to earth and against several | | - | RECEIVER FOR THE UNITED STATES SHIPBUILDING COMPANY, WHO YESTERDAY SOLD THE UNION IRON WORKS AT AUCTION, HIS ATTORNEY, THE SOLE BIDDER FOR THE GREAT PROPERTY, AND THE FAMOUS CAPITAL- | IST AND PROMOTER, WHO 1S THE REAL PURCHASER. +- The Union Iron Works Is dead.|said to be in favor of placing all Long live the Union Iron Works! The great ship-building plant at the Potrero has passed out of official exist- ence and has been revived again in the name of the “reorganized com- ,” which includes a number of ern plants that will at a near date be incorporated under a general title. There only one bidder for the institution that has turned out vessels that have won world-renowned rec- ords for efficiency There was not even a rmur when the receiver for the Federal Court of New Jersey asked, “Gentlemen, are there an ther bidders Every eye turned toward Henry T. Scott, expecting that a still small voice would be heard in the impres- sive silence saying I bid three millions. But Henry T. Scott did not open his Ii He stood quietly by and fum- b with the arm on his watch- | « n like a man who is burdened ith something besides a hoe. Mr. Scott was y thoughtful. It was an auspicious event in the history of the great shipyard that has made good ships and leasing history for the American peop The story was whispered early in the day that Mr. Scott had formed a syndicate for the purpose of purchas- | ing the works and that he would henceforth inaugurate a campaign of ship-building that would cause shears to dull when bonds were to be clipped. There was a long conference in the inner office of the Iron Works prior to the auction, and it is rumored among the employes of the establishment that ompromise was effected by which sured that neither Mr. Scott nor Dickie will be disturbed for fully ar, at the end of which time it is likely there will be several changes in the management of the plant. NO WARSHIPS HERE. Another matter of importance to San Francisco and California is that Mr one 3 | involving the building of war vessels on this coast. The new ownership is ADVERTISEMENTS. Y AXMINSTER CARPETS reduced to*122 We have made other reductions in our Carpet Department just as big. For good Carpets at reasonable prices you can’t do better than inspect our comprehensive assortment. W.&J.SLOANE & CO. "FURNITURE-CARPETS - RUGS - DRAPERIES 114-122 POST ST..S.F. Government contracts with the yards that it will control on the Atlantic side. with den fron. the “reorganized | tp, | company”-—in fact, the principals in i the sale and purchase have little to | say regarding the future use of the | plant except to acknowledge that the | shipyards are to be used “for general ship-building purposes.” The story | of the sale is, in short, that the | United States Ship-building Company, having been driven out of business by the Federal courts, has reorganized junder new laws discovered by the corporation’s attorneys, and stands to- day exactly where it stood before the | sales of the combined properties were | ordered, with the exception that the small stockholder will have been and the combined plants will be oper- ated at will by the “reorganized com- pany.” | Henry T. Scott and the present man- | agers of the plant will be retained in their pos! ions for at least a year and be continued indefinitely. Just what arrangement Mr. Scott has made with the Schwab interests is a secret of the one-bid deal that took place yesterday at noon. When the noonday whistle sounded Receiver James Smith Jr., staid and well dressed, seated himself in a chair in front of the Twentieth-street office of the iron works. Charles M. Schwab, unostentatious as a school- bhoy, sat opposite the receiver and kept his head turned from the crowd of everal hundred that had gathered to listen to James Deignan, attorney for the receiver, read the order of sale. Beside Mr. Schwab was Mr. Scott and long before the announcement was made that bids would be accepted the report was current that Scott had withdrawn and would not put in a | bid. This proved to be true. AUCTION BEGINS. “Gentlemen,” commenced Recelver Smith, adjusting his tall hat ana glancing over the sea of faces, streaked with the stains of honest toil and grin- ning with an outward appreciation of the humor of the situation; “gentle- men, it will be necessary for all who wish to bid to deposit for the first parcel, which is the land, good will, bonds and such property as has been itemized in the advertised notice.” There was profound silence for a few minutes, then F. D. Pollock, at- torney for the reorganization commit- tee, broke it by saying: “On behalf of the reorganized company I tender a certified check for $105,000, as per requirement of the court, as a deposit in guarantee.” The receiver then asked if any more gentlemen in the audience desired to deposit a similar check and a titter from the crowd of workmen showed that they were aware of the presence of a very limited number of million. aires. All eyes turned toward Mr. Scott, but he got behind the corner of the building and could neither be heara nor seen. Mr. Pollock, on behalf of George R. Sheldon of the reorganized committee, said that he was authorized to bid $1,400,000 for the plant property as described in the first parcel. No other gentleman being present who felt like making an investment that would go this a few thousands better, the bid went unchallenged. BIG SUMS PASS. The second parcel, consisting of per- sonal property, was knocked down to Mr. Pollock in the manner heretofore described. The total sum paid was $1,700,000, which was the minimum price named for which the plant should be #cld by Judge Lanning of New Jersey - paid off for his share in the concern | This allegation does not meet [ g — in his famous settlement of the old United States Shipbuilding Company’s | affairs. Mr. Schwab did not care to discuss | e sale except to say that so far as| the management of the works is con- | cerned there will be few changes, if | any, for a long time to come.| Whether the corporation will bid on navy contracts he would not say, but it is surmised that the local plant wil} as will be the plants controlled by the | corporation in the East. J. C. Campbell, the well-known local | attorney, was present at the sale as the representative of the New York Surety Trust Company. This concern | holds a second mortgage, amounting | to $10,000,000, on the reorganized ! company. Mr. Schwab and party will not go | East until to-morrow. He says that the | new organization will represent a capi- | talization of $33,000,000 and that all | of the plants owned by the new com- | pany will have plenty of work to do. | Peyond this he refused to make a| statement. About 70 per cent of the | capital stock of the reorganized com- pany will be controlled by Schwab. —_——— WITNESS TESTIFIES TWO DOLLARS' WORTH Jacob Kaufmann was a witness in the trial of the suit of Max Vizziz against A. J. Rich & Co. before Justice of the Peace Lawson yesterday. Responsi- bility for the loss of a trunk was the iseue. Kaufmann was keenly alert for | his fee, refusing to accept the promise of the plaintiff’s attorney to pay after the case is over. “If I don’t get my pay right here, I don't testify,” he de- clared, and then Vizziz came forward with a dollar in part payment. The witness had been on the stand Just an hour when he startled the court with the announcement that he had testified a dollar’s worth and must have another installment before he would proceed. The plaintiff produced another dollar, got Kaufmann’s testi- mony in full, but lost his case. —_——— Probationary Firemen Assigned. Acting Chief John Dougherty of the Fire Department will make assign- ments of the following probationary | firemen recently appointed from the| civil service list and confirmed by the | Board of Fire Commissioners at its last | meeting: A. 8. Robinson, engineer, to| Engine Company No. 35, on Bluxome street; George E. Dunn, hoseman, same | engine company; John J. Loftus, hose- | man, to Engine Company No. 30, on | ‘Waller street; truckmen—George Stol- | zenwald, to Truck Company No. 3, Mar- | ket street; Adolph Steffens, Truck ' Company No. 8, Bluxome street; C. S.! Maher, Truck Company No. 1, O'Farrell street, and N. S. Haggerty, to Truck Company No. 7, Seventeenth street. Under charter conditions these men will not become full-fledged fire laddies un- | til the termination of six months, when, | if the chief engineer reports favorably | on their standing, they will become regularly attached to the flre-nfhtlnx, army. —— e Excursion to Monterey. Eastern and other visitors to San Fran- cisco will have a capital chance to see some of the most famous places in California on | Sunday, October 2, when the Southern Pacific will run a popular excursion to Monterey, | The ‘excursion will allow of visits to Hotel Del Monte, Pacific Grove, Presidio, etc., or | Clay and Montgomery streets and a | sible, with thanks. [ not be used for this purpose so much | yere $he clever readings of Miss Mil BOND PRINTING BIDS OPENED Supervisors Will Choose Between Lithographing and Steel Engraving GODCHAUX MAKES PLEA Recorder Appeals in Vain for Relief in Matter of the Pay of Index Clerks The Board of Supervisors yesterday opened bids for the printing of the bonds proposed to be issued by the city for public improvements. Bids were submitted ‘by the Union Litho- graphing Company at $6485 for litho- graphing; Phillips, Smyth & Van Or- den, $5484 (lithographs); New York Bank Note Company, $19,850 (steel engraving); Commercial Publishing Company, $3450 (lithographs); United States Mortgage and Trust Company (316,974 (combination); H. S. Crocker Company, $16,500 for steel engravings and $4250 for lithographs; Britton & Rey, $6247 50 (lithographs); National Label and Lithographing Company, $6850 (lithographs); Galloway Litho- graphing Company, $4820 (litho- graphs). Supervisor Booth said there was some doubt as to whether the bonds | should be lithographed or engraved on | | steel. The bids were then referred to | the joint Committee on Printing and Public Utilites, which will meet next | Friday at 3 p. m. | Bids for the purchase of the bonds themselves will be received by the board next Monday afternoon. | Recorder Godchaux appeared before | the board and again pleaded for relier | from being compelled to dismiss five | of his clerks because Mayor Schmitz | refuses to make the necessary recom- | mendation that the clerks be employed | under a specific appropriation for “index clerks.” Godchaux said the work of the office was crippled and the public was inconvenienced as a result. Mayor Schmitz refused to recede from his stand in refusing to approve the appointments of the men. He said an appropriation was made on a besis of 8 cents a folio to be paid to copyists, when, in fact, they had re- ceived but 6 cents, the difference go- ing to pay the index clerks. Schmitz said favoritism must have been shown, as the index clerks made $100 a month, while the copyists earned but $75. Godchaux explained that the clerks worked longer thaa the copy- | ists. After the discussion took a desul- tory turn the board adjourned without action. WOMEN WRITERS ENTERTAIN AT CENTURY HALL That was a treat—a rarity—that the Pacific Coast Press Association offered their friends yesterday at Century Hall ‘Werd had gone forth to the faithful| that Henry H. Williams was going to| talk upon his recollections of San Fran- | cisco when it wore swaddling clothes— for Mr. Willilams became a San Fran- ciscan when small boats tied up at few scraggly tents sheltered the ven- turesome souls that were scattered over the sand dunes. That announcement was a fetich! The club responded “to a man,” and every member is a better San Franciscan for having_heard that talk yesterday—for | which Miss Ina D. Coolbrith is respon- Ably flanking the recollective talk| “Objects of | dred Ludlum, who gave Affection” and Bret Harte's “Miggles” in fetching fashion. Miss Elizabeth Jaques, a dulcet so- prano, rendered two numbers with a flute obligato (by Mr. Neal) and piano | accompaniment by Miss Julia Kensey. | The Souvenir Magazine, which to have figured on the programme, was passed up for a very good brew of tea| —thus sparing the members and guests | a superfluity of good things, a sin oft | committed in women'’s clubs. | The breakfast to be given at the| California Hotel by the Press Associa-| tion on Tuesday, October 11, was a tea- | time topic. Mrs. Josephine H. Foster, chairman of the breakfast committee, announces | that the affair will be the cleverest | and the best attended function ever| given by the club. T To-day the California Club will en- tertain its members and friends with| an interesting programme—work for| the day being eliminated. The day is in charge of Mrs. John D. Sibley, who | will present Miss Agnes G. Murphy, the | clever Londoner, who will talk infor- mally upon “The Maoris of New Zea- land, Their Homes and Customs.” Miss Aimee Moore, the charming traveling companion of Miss Murphy, will read “A Voice From the Bush.” The music will be rendered by Pro- fessor Theodore Salmon, pianist; Miss May Ferrell, alto soloist, and a ladies’ quartet. A rare day is this play day and an outpouring of members is as- sured—when there’s play ahead. ———— New things to burn in leather and ‘wood novelties, and prices on pyrography outfits are as low as the lowest. Don't forget this. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. « e Mrs. Mitchell Knows Nothing. J. P. Mitchell, who held up and robbed Clerks Flynn and Hearney of the Central Grain and Stock Ex- change, 20 Leidesdorff street, last Fri- day morning, adheres to his statement that he had a confederate who got away with the greater part of the loot. The police have about abandoned the search for the missing coin. Mrs. Mitchell called upon Captain Martin yesterday afternoon and said she knew absolutely nothing about the money. Her husband had not taken her into his condence and she had never inquired. They had lived com- fortably, but not luxuriously, since they were married in October, 1901. Mitchell will be charged with robbery to-day. ———— Mrs. McCarthy’s Condition Critical. Mrs. Octavia McCarthy, who was shot by her husband on September 19, lies in a critical condition at the Emer- gency Hospital. The bullet was located yesterday and cut out by Dr. Stephen from its resting place under the right shoulder blade, where it lodged after fracturing two ribs in its course through the woman’'s body. t the present time her pulse is at 104, which, according to the opinion of the phy- sicians, indicates fever in a high de- | completed and it is to be utilized as a | ADVERTISEMENTS. 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NEW YORX Srrv. b AN M SHERWOOD & SHERWOOD, 213-314 MARKET STREET. SAY SALOONS [CUPID DEFEATS MENACE HOMES| STERN PARENT Residents of Ocean Beach Ob- | Fresno Girl Goes to Lover ject to the Issuance of| When Told to Give Him Up Another Liquor License| or Leave Her Happy Home —— e Residents of the portion of the city| FRESNO, Sept. 26.—Pretty Miss Sa- south of the park are protesting|die Martin loved Elmer P. Erwin well, against the issuance of a license for | but her father did not fancy the youth znother saloon on the boulevard. They | because he was young and only a are backed by Police Commissioner |butcher boy. Despite Martin pere’s ob- Howell. jections the young folks became en- A three-story building, erected with | gaged. Papa Martin, hoping to nip the funds subscribed by residents of the | fomance in the bud yesterday, told his daughter that she must choose bes picturesque little colony, is now about tween her home and the young man. Cupid came out the victor and this afternoon the two were married. When given the alternative by her father the girl packed her trunk and went to the young man’s mother, who is proprietor of the Commercial Ho- tel of this city. Under her sheltering roof the ceremony was performed that made the young persons husband and wife. When young Mrs. Erwin's folks learned of the choice their daughter Sadie had made they were prostrate ";f“r,?ném‘fi:izfg;::“ S—L‘f}; vl\::'l;n:hemf;;llr:‘ with grief and as yet have not become e | reconciled. McCullom, Paul Jennicki, Robert Far- | - - rell, A. C. Campbell, Joseph Herzog, | David E. Marchus, Theodore Henn and as they could get. At that time noth- ing was said about opening a saloon. Robert Fitzgerald. ‘In fact, the first we knew of it was cafe if a license can be procured. A roadhouse midway between the CIliff and the resorts in the neighborhood of Ingleside would make a convenient stopping place, and this, it is feared by the antis, is the use which is to be made of the building, which they sup- posed was to be used as a house for religious and secular meetings. Two years ago a club was formed and incorporated as the Ocean Boule- It was originally intended to buy visitors may enjoy themselves bathing, fishing Sree and a possible accumulation of or in_glass-bottomed boats. Excur- puss produced by the action of the bul- o M s Thrd and Townsend | let. A further examination of her con- o B . Ask about It teday a¢ dition will be’ made to ascertain the e | cause of the fever. two lots in the heart of the district at $450 each, at which price the lots could then have been obtained. A split arcse among the directors, however, when it was proposed to buy boule- vard lots and when the matter was put to vote five favored the boulevard lots. The four objecting were Messrs. Ir- vine, McCullom, Jennicki and Marchus. In explaining the action of the minor- ity, Mr. Marchus said: “The directors deviated from the original plans. We wanted a low, roomy building, acces- sible to all, which could be used for meeting purposes. The majority wished to put up a burlding to cost rot less than $6000 and as much more four weeks ago, when application was made for a license.” The building which has caused such excitement at the beach is a three- story, frame structure, fronting on the boulevard, between K and L streets. The license is asked for in the name of Newton C. Terwilliger. The appli- cation will come up at the meeting of the Police Commissioners one week from to-night and the district south of the park will be well represented. —_———————— BOGOTA, Sept. 26. — President Reyes is meeting with much opposition in the Co- lombian Senate to the resumpticn of amicable relations with the United States. 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