The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for 4 thirty hours ending midnight, Febru- ary 15: San Francisco and vicinity—Clouds { Wednesday; fresh east wind. A. G. McADI®B, District Forecaster. — \'—I-‘ ] o 19U3 CALIFORNTA— CENTRAL—"A to-day. day.- TIVOLI—Grand — L et R RS THB THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"“Are You a Masen®™ mas. CHUTES— Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—“Mother Goose.™ ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. “‘Our New Man:" Night Befors Christ- Matines to- Opera. ~ /TI—NO. 1. SAN PTRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,’19'05. ; MME, REJANES CANCAN CAUSES EYDES DOWNFALL M a u | in the Equitable Companu. HIS ASSOCIATES LOSE FAITH IN HIM Special Dispatch to The Cail. communication ! of directors of | Comp: t 3 e on Thursday, | special meeting of the directors he! The communication, | h the above paragraph is a | nine signatures. Among the James Alexander, | E 5 ond nt: George T. Wil third | ent, and William Alexander, ht about his re- ncy of iety T ie ball took place here two sensational feature was Rejane on a oved Paris- PG - LABOR LEADERS PLAN FINANCIAL SCHEME MY FORM 7 GREAT CORPORATION INVE fs IENT OPEN TO MEN WHO TOIL| *h to The Call ~ D1 Special Dispa n Financial C ed under the law » busi: in ¢ prospectus nt time the have G hares and bonds in of other com- The stock of the proposed com- would be divided into two classes. common stock would consist-of The 5,000,000 hares of $5 each, having fixed rate of interest 6t 4 per cent, cumula- Burchac | Court Build- | tive, subject to the earnings of the company. The preferred stock would | consist of 100 shares of $1000 each. NEWSBOY DIES OF STARVATION Neighbors Say Charity Organiza- tion Ignored Plea for Aid. PITIFUL TALE OF GREATER NEW YORK Special Dispatch to The Call a great financial wn as the Trades Feb 14.—Abraham died In a first of s “Mamma, I'll take care of you. It will not be long before I will grow up and be able to take care of you, | even if father is dead.” Soon afterward his mother and baby brother went to bed. Early to- v Mrs. Koudos was awakened and, | reaching over to where the boy lay, floor rva- y reveals a ard to provide | and baby s, but. be- | tried to°rouse him. All she received 8 Then, neigh- |in reply was a groan. She aroused < was sent to a char- | some of the tenants and they sum- but no reply was re- i moned a physician. | The neighbors treated the boy with | home remedies, but he went into con- | vulsions and when the physician reached the house he was dead. The physician said he believed starvation caused the lad’s death. GRAND ARMY GIVES NEGRO HIGH HONOR Colored Man to Lead in National Parade in Denver. ————— Epecial Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Feb. 14.—At the Massa- chusetts Grand Army encampment bere to-night, 2 negro was clected de- partment commander and will head the big Grand Army parade in Den- ver the coming summer, when the Maseachusetts department will be the official escort of Commander-in-Chief General Blackmar, having the right of line, James H. Wolff, promoted from the 4 had been ailing for a week, t his mother had to carry When he lay down he mother, who was crying l LAWMAKERS HEED PLAINT OF MONKEYS EightHour Lawto Curb Greed of Nebraska Organ Grinders. | his w0 wrs LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 14¢.—Union hours for monkeys, when owned by hand- iets, ie one of the provisions | 11 passed by the Nebraska Senate The measure in general prohibits cru- elty to animals and was introduced at thé request of the Nebraska Anti-Cru- Society. Its authors, however, were pted to include a provision con- erning monkeys by the methods of a band of hand-organ grinders, who plied | their vocation at the State Fair last! season, using the monkeys in the gath- | ering of coins from twelve to sixteen hours a day. Hereafter any organ- grinder compelling a monkey to work more than eight hours a day will be guhjected to a heavy fine, the leading lawyers of the city. Wolff | is a native of Holderness, N. H., and is the only negro who has ever been commander of the Massachusetts de- partment. He saw service with Far- | ragut and Porter at Fort Fisher, Mo- bile bay and New Orleans. After the war he graduwated from Dartmouth College and the Harvard Law School. ————— Bishop McLaren Near Death. NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—The condi- tion of Bishop W. E. McLaren of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Chi- cago, who has been ill in this city for some time, was considerably worse to- day. The Bishop is failing fast and the end is said to be a question of only & few days. % JOWA REVENUE COLLECTOR OUSTED FROM OFFICE WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—James U. | fammis, internal revenue collector for the Northern District of Iowa, has been requested to resign. It is stated at the Treasury Department that the basis for this request is the fact that Sammis permittted one of his depu- ties to divide his salary contrary to law with Sammis’ brother, who also was a deputy. . PRICE FIVE CENTS. BALFOUR MINISTRY MAY SURVIVE PRESENT SESSIONCANTEENS f+ OF CREAT BRITAIN'S: PARLIAMENT. Be Direct Reason for the Eruptioni LIBERALS UNABLE TO AGREE ON QUESTION OF LEADERS FOES LOSE TAETYS AlD HIP B A Y4 AT EBALFOLR PRriME MINISTER SECRETARY LANSOOWNE. RITISH MINISTERS WHO SPOKE ON NATIONAL POLICY BEFORE THE TWO BRA ITION, WHO WAS DECLARED BY HIS SUPE MENT IN AN EMBARRASSING POSITION BY EXCEEDING HIS INSTRUCTIONS. ANDER OF TIBETAN EX! REPRIMAND WASHINGTON, John Irwin, U-8. N., of S8an Francisco, now in Manila, will receive a repri- mand from the Navy Department for making a somewhat unseemly spectacle of himself upon the streets of Manila as the result of too with friends upen h} capital Co press of Manila and this cal much talk that the commanding officer was compelled to take notice. a result Irwin stands in line for - will receive a reprimand, but mot martial. surgeon of the army, a the affair, was court-mart i five numbers. Of this the War 1ment states it hds no kno: The last court martial of M g {in the army medical gervice was that of Captain Willlam W. Quinl was count-martialed in Samar -a gle:tded %l;flty !lxpm: two e&unu con- | senjor vice commu jduct unbecoming an officer Aadci oty de g gentleman, but not guilty on eral charges, in which a woman He was reduced fifty-six numbers in |- military rank. general storekeeper at Cavite and fact dlectu.lal? gation of a serl He has been known as a speci served and well-behaved officer. He is married and his wife is living with relatives in San Francisco. : 5 FOR NAVAL PAYMASTER Captain Irwin Gets Inio Trouble in Manila. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, Feb. 14-—Paymaster many potations s arrival in the of our island ons. ent was made upon it in the 80 a court It is reported here that one assistant in Irwin is to be ordered to - duty disposes of any alle- ———————— BUTTE, Feb. b a ‘which more than 0 yo., “ ‘Denver” Lane, caped fro wh m jail l} NCHES OF PARLIAMENT. AND COM- B):gl TO HAVE PLACED THE GOVERN- \War Chief Favors Its Restoration in Army. Says Its Abolishment Has Led to Increase of Drunkenness. e Gfficers Instructed to Submit Unbiased Statements Bearinz Upon —— * S COL FRAaANK YOUNGHUSEBAND - | army to-day g the text of a letter received by the Secreiary of War from Representative Littletiela of Maine, relative to the anti-canteen act. and | | the Secretary’s reply, together with in- | structions to officers with respect to their reports on the subject. In his letter Littlefield states that he is the author of-the anti-canteen amendment and says: “I regret to say that an impression prevails that the officers of the army are not only averse to this legislation, but are prejudiced against it. If this is true, it has created an unfriendly atmosphere, which will not enly im- Ppair the efficiency of the recreation and practically defeat the object of the leg- islation.” aid: in assuming he cfficers in anti-canteen that a great major the army regard amendment as ill-advised to increase rather than decrease drunk- enness in the r s. Indeed, I must admit to you that, as at present ad- viged, T share their oninion. The Secretary ‘then says he recog- nizes that it was the intention of those ‘who favored the amendment to subsii- tute for the canteen :.-modiou- post, virtue, and that if cau- tioned to report facts impartially they would obey the direction of the con- stituted authority. He then informed Littlefield that he would transmit the correspondence, together with a cau- tion, to all officers, asking them to shpw no bias in their statements. —_——— STRIKERS WORK ALONG / WELL-DEFINED LINES amusement feature, but will of itself | 1 as likely | PRESIDENT VISITS THE - EAST SIE \“Little Hungary” En- tertains Coun- . lry’s Chiel. | Picturesque Feature of His Sojourn in Greater New York iCosmapohtnn Populace of the Bawery Distriet Gives Joyous Welcoms L] 3 the Problem. fo Noted Guest, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—A circular NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—After two issued by the War Department to the | days of receptions and dinners Presi- {dent Roosevelt left to-night over the Pennsylvania road for Washington. | The events of to-day included a recep- tion at the University Club and to- | night the event of his visit—the dinner | given by the Hungarian Republican | Club in the restaurant “Little Hun- | sary™ on the East Side, where a Presi- | dent was never before seen. The fact that Mr. Roosevelt was to | visit places where he has not been since he was Governor of New York and where no other President, while | in office, had led to unusual police pre- cautions, but nething untcward oc- i curred. | From the moment | carriage entered the East Side dis- trict he received an ovation. Never before had a fraction of the thousands that cheered him seen a nation’s ruler. | Electric lights winked and blinked characteristic legends, gaudy bunting fluttered ,in the wind and the great | East Side showed its enthusiasm in | every imaginable way | the Pregident’s Across Second avenue, at Sixth street, 2 huge electric deviee blazed forth the simple word “Delighted,” a word frequently used in the decorations. STRINGENT PRECAUTIONS. ‘The district through which the Presi- dent dirove and in which he dined is not the safest in the great city. So stringént were the precautions that not -a flashlight photograph was allowed to be taken and aniformed police, plain clothes men and detectives fairly swarmed inside and outside of “Little Hungary.” They were stationed on the roofs and fire escapes in the neighbor- | hood and for two blocks on either side of East Houston street a cordon of police cut off the ecrowds. The night was almost the coldest of the winter, but it did not depress the spirits of the crowd. Before dusk the East Side streets began to pour forth their quota bound toward “Littie Hun- gary,” and these were swelled by sight- seers from all parts of the city, the latter perhaps more anxious to see the raside the fiscal problem all will tend Every entrance to a residence or store within the police line was guarded by an officer, while on housetops opposite the cafes stood policemen to keep these vantage points clear of any evil dis- posed person. The tenants of the near- by houses had been warned in the aft- ernoon by the police to get home be- the lines were drawn, and most of them appeared to have done so. WALLS ECHO WITH CEEERING. Notwithstanding the fact that the _out till the end of the session. The Government's legislative ' programme, which is devoted in the main to social! reforms, will be entirely popular, while the avoidance of discussions-like that of the redistribution of seats and Pre mier Balfour's firmness in thrusting - 2 LONDON, Feb. 14.—The first day’s g e e _""“n = Over the |, spoiitan a crowd as could be proceeding in Parliament lent a rather 4 Polard in any eity in the world. The throngs decided impression in the lobbies that 3 3 s Lo R :d TR were l&;:e best of humeor and no dis- the Government .will manage to hold vinuv i DZ, Russian Poland, o g order rred. v 10 8 H in the same direction. On the other hand, the Liberals ap- pear to be as distant as ever from any | approach to_unanimity on the vexed question of the leadership. Sir Henry | §. Campbell-Bannerman, Karl Spencer. Vi Herbert Henry Asquith and Sir Henry 3 Hartley Fowler all are ‘of as;| probable leaders of the Lil Minis- try, to say. nothing of Lord Rosel 'S even -une{le.or claim to that pos should he be inclined to exert his un- H il i as | ra his | 1 and Deputy Sheriff Alston, after- a |Sea» fight in ‘were