The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1905, Page 1

- chison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ralflroad ary 18: THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisce for thirty hours ending midnight, San Francisco and vieinity—Rain Friday; high southeast winds. A. G. McADIE, Distriot Forecaster. — Janu- — MAJESTIC— M ORPHEUM THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—'‘Lost River. CALIFORNIA—Black Facu Trouba- dours. COLUMBIA— Saiammbe." CEN’ TRAL-] Lflvfls—vmdlfllle FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—'‘The Darling of the Gods." LYCEUM—Vaudeville, LYRIC HALL—Burton Holmes. izpab."" —Vaudeviile. TIVOLI—Grand odera. \'6?1'\[}'{ XCVII—NO. 44. SAN FRANCISLO FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DEMOGRATY JE AID 10 PRESIDENT Will Support His Railroad Rate Policy. Execntive Scores Victory Over His Republican Opponents. Littls Doubt That Desired Legislation Will Be Enacted During the Present Session. I Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—With the passing of the tariff problem the more one of interstate railroad Tates ol < to the front, apparently to and President Roosevelt has i a decided advantage over the tion. It seems practically certain House will meet this question | and pass a bill. s throwing his influ- in favor of action and the leaders House will try to agree upon a perplexing 1k movement by the Democrats House has greatly aided the efforts for rate legis- rence of leading Demo- t night, called by ams, and it was de- o the Republicans to give or deny a rate bill at this As a result of this conference y of the Interstate Com- tee presented a resolution favor of closing the present hearings on January 23, in get together on a bill. A di- merc to-day ser orde rect vote on this was averted to-day, bui it wi nie up again 1o-MOITOW. Two Rep ans of the committee— Representative Esch of Wisconsin and Towns of Michigan—are ready to vote for the resolution. SPEAKS FOR THE RAILROADS. . Samuel Spencer, president of the B hern Railway, and authorized to e the sentiment of the New :York Central, the Erie, the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul, the Northern Pa- the Illinols Central, the Lacka- na and other railway companies, | epoke vigorously to-day before the House Committee on Interstate and | Foreign Commerce against the Cooper- Quarles bill or any proposition to au- thorize the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to fix railway rates. Spencer | first direct and official repre- e of the railways to be heard by the committee, and his testimony is regarded as the keynote of the opposi- tion to rate-fixing by the Government. no difference of opinion,” T, “between the railroads of the c ry, Congress and the Presi- dent on the subject that rebates are wrong. But I do not think any addi- tion is necessary in order against that particular s. 1If such legislation does ess to be necessary the country will certainly aid and co-operate. n before you is not of that character is that of the power to name a r upon the part of the commission after complaint and hear- ing. It has been claimed this will be & means of stopping rebates. This claim I have no hesitation in disput- ing. FIXED RATE CAN BE EVADED. “It 18 claimed.” he continued, “that this power would be a weapon in the hands of the commission to prevent re- *bates. But a rate fixed by the com- mission can be rebated or evaded just as easily as any other. The use of that weapon, if given to tha commission, would punish not the evader of the rate but the one which upheld the rate.” The most important claim in behalf of the proposition Spencer believed to be that such power would enable the commission to prevent discrimination between localities. This question of adjusting rateg between localities, he sald, was the most difficult and intri- cate of all. The present system was the growth of patural competition not only between local roads, which would | always exist, but between railroads as well. To disturb this system, he main- tained, would not only be a task so enormous that no statement could'! convey a comprehension of it, but would be impossible of satisfactory completion in the hands of a body with authority only te take into considera- tion the one phase of adjusting rates with reference to their equalization so r as the carrier was concerned, and ing out the question of competition be! en localities. SECRETARY MORTON’S VIEWS. Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy and formerly vice president of the At- Company, is the author of an article on the rallway rate question which will be published in the Outlook to- morrow. The Secretary says there are very few complaints against raliroad rates per e in the United States, the chief trou- ble being with “the relation of rates 8s between markets.” He says there are as many rates that are too low as —— T PR Continued on Page 2, Column 4. o N o st S CUSTOMERS WILL SHARE IS PROFIT Novel co operative Plan of Rich Man- ‘wacturer. SENATOR-ELECT FLINT ON THE WAY TO HIS HOME IN THE SOUTH. Ol WIDOW IS CHARGED WITH ARSON Intends to Distribute His! Accused of Applying Holdings Among Patrons and Employes. Modest Salary All He Is to Receive for Continuing fo Manage the Business, Special Dispatch to The Call ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12—Hereafter the profits of the factories of the N. O. Nel- son Manufacturing Company will be apportioned among customers, em- ployes and charities. A statement is- sued by the company follows: “A dividend of 4 per cent on all wages received In the last nine years by employes of one or more years' work has been declared. For 1905 the profits will be divided in the proportion of 1 per cent on capital (above 6 per cent interest), 13 per cent on wages, 2 per cent on gross profits of customers’ pur- chases.” Another statement issued personally by President N. O. Neison follows: “For 1905 my part of the profits of the Nelson and its allied companies (about four-fifths of the whole profits) will be divided four-tenths to the cus- tomers, three-tenths to the employes and three-tenths for public and benev- olent purposes, payable in my stock at 2 price ylelding 6 per cent net income.” These formal notices convey the in- tent of a new plan of. co—qnermxonl evolved by Nelson, to replace &nd be an improvement upon that in force for several years in his factories at Ed- wardsville, 8t. Louis and elsewhere. Concerning his intentions, Nelson said: “The plan of co-operation existing for the last nine years between the com- pany and its employes has been closed, after having paid to employes divi- dends of from 4 to 10 per cent yearly. Under the new plan I shall receive no profits, and will gradually turn over | my stock to those mentioned in the no- tices. For building up, managing and directing the affairs of the company I have been sufficiently rewarded. Here- after the profit will be diverted to the purposes named. I own four-fifths of the stock, the remainder being held principally by employes. ‘“This does not mean that I will sever my connection with the business, al- though at a continued rate of trade like the present it would not be long before my stock will all have been ap- portioned. I shall continwe to work for the company at a salary, which I might say is smaller than some other em- ployes receive, and after I am no longer a stockholder it rests with the owners to determine whether I shall continue in the employ of the company, my foot- ing belng the same as any other em- ploye.” SOLUTION OF CANCER PROBLEN Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 12—The sci- entists who since 1899 have been study- ing cancer at the Gratwick Patho- logical Laboratory of the University of Buffalo, under the patronage of the State of New York, are preparing to re- port facts which indicate that they are nearing the solution of the great prob- lem. The Buffalo laboratory has proved cancer to be a parasitic disease, infec- tious in type; that it has been trans- planted and reproduced in perfectly healthy animals; that the reproduction has been true cancer as it exists i the human and that the disease in animals has been cured by the administration of a serum prepared in the Buffalo la- boratory. Experimentally considered, the ques- tions of the cause of cancer and its ab- solute curability are settled facts. What remains now is the application of the results of the animal experimentation to the cure of the disease as it exists in human beings. Much work remains to be done before Dr. Roswell Park, director of the labor- atory, will be prepared to make the final announcement of the discovery of a serum suitable for use in the allevia- tion and cure of cancer in human be- ings, but that this will be forthcoming in due time is an almost assured fact because of the discoveries which have been made.. The doctors at the univer- sity laboratory have inoculated mice with cancer germs and then cured them by injections of serum. -3 Toreh to Gain Insurance. SRS L Special Dispatch to The Call. SPOKANE, Wash.,, Jan. lZ—-MN i ton, etc., struck a reef off the Bahama | Georgia Antrim, the “rich Alaskan widow,” who created a sensation in Spokane last month by visiting the big stores, saddlery shops, jewelry houses | and other establishments frequented by the wealthy while arranging to open a luxurious residence in this city, and who later gained fame by announcing that $4000 worth of furs had been con- sumed in a small blaze at 1111 Ash street, has been arrested on the charge of having perpetrated wholesale frauds against insurance companies. Detec- tive McPhee went to Seattle and is ex- pected to arrive here with his prisoner to-morrow. “We have positive information that Mrs. Antrim has burned eight resi- dences within the past few months that she might collect insurance,” af- firmed Chief Waller to-night. “These houses were in this city, Seattle, Ta- coma, Portland and San Francisco. The money got by the woman from insur- ance companies amounts to thousands of dollars.” o Mrs. Antrim appeared in Spokane in the early winter. She seemed pos- sessed of vast wealth, dined at the best restaurants and let it be generally knewn that she was. “an Alaskan widow.” She rented a furnished home of George Cummings. Patrolman Stot- ko, who was tenanting part of the house, was making efforts to get hence with his family. Before Stotko got out, however, the fire came. Then “Widow Antrim” was arrested on the unpoetic charge of having stol- en a toilet set from the Krum Drug Company. To ward off the unpleasant notoriety the “widow” went to the edi- tor of an evening paper and offered him $50 to forget that such an unpleas- ant arrest had been made. a police reporter $50 to cut the arrest out of his notebook. Both of these ef- forts failed and the unlucky widow for- feited a $50 bond in the Police Court. She was traced to Seattle and the ar- rest was made. —_————— TWO VESSELS AT MERCY OF WIND AND WAVES Vessel Runs Upon Fire Island Bar and British Steamship Strikes Reef Off the Bahamas. KEY WEST, Fla., Jan. 12—The Brit- ish steamship Andana, from Galveston to European ports with a cargo of cot- Islands about ten miles from Elbow Key Light and is probably a total loss. The captain and crew landed on the Cuban coast. NEW YORK, Jan. 12—While. feeling her way through the dense fog to-day in an effort to reach this port the su- gar-laden steamship Indus from Ha- vana for New York struck Fire Island bar and is now stuck hard and fast. Efforts to float the Indus were begun ' immediately- after she struck the bar. She carries no passengers. GLACE BAY, N. §., Jan. 12—The Gloucester schooner Landseer, which was sunk in a collision in Bay of Isl- ands, N. F., last Sunday, lost five of her crew, Norwegians. She offered | \L\ <A D&Né]GIN THER OF Tz ENATOR -ZLECT /m‘ 5 NEWLY ELECTED JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA, HIS WIFE AND MOTHER, BOTH OF WHOM ANGELES CLUB LIFE, AND HIS TWO CHARMING CHILDREN. 1 ARE PROMINENT IN . LOS SACRAMENTO, Jan. 12.—After the adjournment of the general session of the Senate to-day the San Francisco delegation met to discuss the merits of the various bills that have been intro- ‘duced by San Franciscans since the Legislature opened. The delegation agreed to stand as & unit in favor of the bill' providing for the appropriation of $100,000 for the erection and furnish- ing of a new State normal school build- ing at San Francisco. The discussion on Keane's bill, mak- |ing it a misdemeanor to sell or give away liquors within 1000 feet of any military reservation in' the State, waxed somewhat warm, the members of the delegation being divided on the question. It was finally agreed to con- tinue the argument until a later day. Assemblyman Houser is to withdraw the constitutional amendment intro- duced by him providing for the dispos- ing of State, city and county moneys in banks and will present another which, according to advices received by him !this evening, will be sent him from ! Los Angeles. The new one is more com- prehengive, than the one introduced by Houser and contains a cpmplete { scheme of depositing the funds under | the direction of a special commission {and for the sale of bonds given as se- | curity by the banks in case of default. ] 1In order that voters may clearly under- stand the object of the loans the new amendment will state on its face that the money is to draw interest. It has ; been by experts and is claim- ed to meet every possible objection that could be made. . RAILWAY LEGISLATION. 3 Senator Markey of San Francisco DISCUSSING THE MERITS OF NEW MEASURES. San Francisco SOZOns Meet Special Dispatch to The Call. support’ of every l'l"ély employe in California, though doubtlessly it will be vigorously opposed by the corpora- tions whose lines enter the State. The bill, will make it an offense for any railway company to run any train, either freight or passenger, without & “full crew.” It is contended by vari ous railway unions that the companies, actuated solely by motives of economy, run trains without full crews with the resuit that men are denied employ- ment by them and the safety of pas- sengers is frequently jeopardized. It is expected that the ratification of an amendment to the Los Angeles City charter providing that the life of no franchise shall be more than 21 years will be fought by a powerful street raliway lobby sent here for that pur- pose. The resolution of ratification will be introduced by Assemblyman Houser in the House. It is not known who will lead the opposition, but it is said the support of all the Los Angeles delegation will not be benind the res- olution. The rapid growth of Los An- geles is causing the projection of many new electric lines and the street rail- way corporations do not take kindly to any curtailment of framchise ex- istence. APPROPRIATION FOR DAMS. The people of Placer County want some money from fhe present Legisia- ture to help construct dams for hy- draulic mining. They will probably have measures introduced by Assem- blyman. Duryea. A dam is wanted on ‘Webber Creek below Placerville and another on the Bear River. The amount to be asked for the former is $25,000. For the other dam the people will ask $25,000 or $30,000 and will agree to put will introduce a bill probably to-mor- row that will without doubt receive the Wumtouh—_u S 1‘}‘@ B on MBS TRANKs P. FLINT » p | Tt e Leglslators Mau Row With the GOVernor, Clash Is Likely to Come Over Patronage. R i e Special Dispatch to The Call SACRAMENTO, Jan. 12.—After a wild night in Sacramento the Flint boomers, headed by the United States Senator-elect, took an early fraim to- day for the south. It is assumed that HAPPY HOME LIFE OF THE NEW SENATOR Charming Family of Victor Popular in South. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—It would be difficult to fipd a happier home than that of Senator-elect Flint. Successful though he has been in his professional and political life, his achievements have not been bought at the price of domestic happiness. He never has per- mitted his popularity with his fellow men to draw him from his fireside. He is blessed with a charming family—a wife and two children, Risley, aged 12 years, and Katherine, aged 14 Mrs. Flint, ile not a society woman in the strict sense of the term, is very popu- lar. She is an active worker in the Second Presbyterian Church, of which her husband and children alsé are members, and in the Ebell. Club. She was’ formerly Miss Katherine Bloss, daughter of a well-known hotel pro- prietor of Merced. Miss Katherine Flint is a bright pu- pil in the Marlborough School. She de- clares she will be the first pefson on the special train to-morrow to meet her father and tell him how glad she is. She and her brother share their father's companionship as few children do. Master Risley attends an East Side public school and ever since his father has been a candidate for the Senator- ship he has conducted a perscnal cam- paign among his classmates. “Goodness, I feel as if 1 was most President,” declared Risley when he heard the news from Sacramento yes- terday. He had been preseénted with a pup by a friend and promptly named the dog “Senator.” Flint's mother, Mrs. A. L. Danskin, resides here. She is one of the promi- nent club women of Southern Call- fornia. ———————— Senafor McKee Entertains Colleagues. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 12.—Senator Jamos A. McKee gave a reception at his home in this city to-night to the members of the Legislature, Governor Pardee and other State officers. It was the first function of magnitude of the session and was largely attended. —_————— Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—W. Sanders and wife of Los Angeles at the Hotel Raleigh. H. + they took the train as they took the town last night. Both houses of the Legislature will prabably adjourn to-morrow until Monday. That the session will extend considerably beyond the sixty days prescribed by the constitution is now deemed certain, as very little headway has been made with the regular work. There are premonitions of a clash be- tween the Governor and several State Senators in reference to the distribu- tion of what is commonly known as “executive patronage.” The notlon prevails in the Senate that the chief executive should accept the advice of Senators regarding the fitness and abil- ity of men who may be appointed to the offices of honor and emolument. The fact is recalled that neither Mark- ham, Budd nor Gage, while holding the office of Governor, went out of their way to get the advice of the Senate in the matter of appointments and there are no signs that Governor Pardee will lose sleep in a feverish desire to estab- lish new forms for the distribution of patronage. It is said that the Governor is really held responsible for the ap- pointments and that his hands should be free to select such men as will carry out the policies of the administration with reference to the management of the public institutions wholly supported by the State. ARl CONGRATULATE FLINT. San Joseans Greet Him as He Passes Through Their City. SAN JOSE, Jan. 12,—United States Senator Frank P. Flint was tendered an informal reception by a number of San Joseans at the depot this evening at 7:30 on his way to Los Angeles. ‘Word that Flint was to pass through the city became known this afternoon, and O. A, Hale and former State Sen- ator Oneal gathered a number of their friends to welcome and congratu- late the new Senator. In the Sena- tor's party were W. R. Porter of Wat- sonville, M. C. Patterson, R. Wonkow- sky, John Burr and Messrs. Jeffrays and Jones of Los Angeles. Senator Flint and his party alighted from the car, and during the stay of the train shook hands and chatted with the San Joseans, of whom there ‘were about a score. ——— FLINT GIVEN RECEPTION. . Senator-elect Flint, accompanied by a large delegation of Los Angelans, arrived from Sacramento yesterday and departed for the south on the evening train. During the day he re- ceived many friends in his rooms at the Palace, and at noon he was the guest of the Union League Club at an informal reception. Before his departure last evening for his southern home Senator Flint said he was going home to attend to several business matters and would then return to San Francisco. - He ‘expects to visit and thoroughly in- spect the Mare Island navy-yard in order to acquaint himself with its neede before leaving for Washington, are | which he will reach just before the opening of the next session in March.