The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made at thirty ary 1905: San Francisco hours ending midnight Febru- and vicinity: ay except foggy in the morning; .l THE WEATHER. San Francisco for Fair | { 3 GRAND—“‘Mother MAJESTIC—"Old day. <+ THE THBATERS. ALCAZAR—“Captain Jinks." CALIFORNTA—"‘David Harum." COLUMBIA—Grand Opera. CENTRAL—“Why Women Sin.” CHUTES— Vaudeville. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comie Opera. Heidelberg." Matines SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1905. FORMER AMERICAN GIRL BIG: DOCKS WINS FAVOR IN LONDON! JESTROYED Lady Cheylesmore, Sister of Mes. Alfred Vanderbilt, Holds Rank of Mayoress of Westminster, —_—— Considered One of the Handsomest Womenin Smart English Society LONDON, Feb 26—Since her hus- band’s election as civic head of that ancient portion of the nation, the city of Westminster, popular Amsrican peeress, Lady Chey- Jesmore, has been winning golden opin- Sons for herself by the tact, grace and senerous benevolence she playell in ber role of Mayoress. She was formerly Miss Elizabeth French, daughter of the late F. C. French o New ~York, and her younger sister is | she wife of Alfred Vanderbiit. Ehe still retains the good looks which | made her the reigning belle of the Four Hundred of New York before her marriege. She is tall of figure, with & stately presence and features of a | more imposing beauty than is associat- ed with the type here regarded as characteristic of American femininity. Lady Cheylesmore is one of the most popular of hostesses and at her town residence in Upper Grosvenor street requently entertained royalty. te Duke of Cambridge was a s far from being a2 drawing- tic. She is exceedingly fond life in Ireland and Scotland favors North Berwick where she bought a house own money and christened re Lodge. When not re- she generally r she is an excellent busi- and she started the rag by which many women are relieved ot for the rent. She remains and Stripes and iden- with evérything American, se! ROMANCE IN BERMUDA. Baron Cheylesmore, Lord er- aug © omas an of New Orleans, it ate that his son mple. But the king in romantic n years ago a mild ut in the Second mous Grenadier harge of then Colonel packed off to rent. xpected, the a dull place of their insubor- to their ban- ghts of London fficers discovered that ut its compen- season when Cheylesmore beautiful wife. at what his regarded as the oke of luck for him one of those rare so effectually dis- nre able. The ten years cceeded to and estates. HANDSOME COUPLE. rore is a fine figure of His features are of the martial type, too, and wife are regarded as the J.(‘ 1 est couple in 3 d to be the finest col- war medals in the a ey date from the earliest >wn examples, those struck off by Queen Bess to commemorate the defeat Armada, down to the Among other treasures, no icwer than nine ex- es of the Victoria Cross. is family seat, the Manor of Cheylesmore, Coventry, at one time be- Jonged to the Black Prince, but as a country residence he prefers Hughen- den, which formerly belonged to Lord Beaconsfield His marriage had brought him two children, both sons. e POLICY HOLDERS SUE EQUITABLE’S DIRECTORS Legal Action to Prevent the Purchase of the Interests of James H. Hyde. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Through an action begun by many policy holders in the Equitable Life Assurance So- clety, at the instigation of Herbert G. 7Tull of Philadelphia, a new factor has entered into the affairs of the society, which is ¢ tempt on the part of the directors to buy out the interests of James Hazen the Supreme Court of New York to prevent the diversion of any part of the company's surplus for that pur- pose. is treasurer of a large Phila- corporation and a man of high standing in that city. He Holds twenty wears’ endowment policy of the Equitable Society, and has asso- ciated with him ma others who hold large policies in ti mpany. —_————————— TEN JEWS REPORTED KILLED IN RIOT IN RUSSIAN TOWN delp British News Agency’s Account As- serts That Sixty Were ‘Wounded. LONDON, Feb. 26.—A dispatch to a rews agency from Odessa says it is reported fhere that ten Jews have been killed and sixty wounded in an anti-Jewish riot -* Theodora. metropolis, | which proudly clings to its old desig- | that | has dis-| guest at her dinner parties. | lets it to| deft- | ing dependent on the | ng of American candy | Lord | accords with his mili- | Loadon soclety. | ices in the posses- | ft | AMERICAN _ PEERESS, CONSID- ERED ONE.OF THE BEAUTIES OF THE LONDON SMART SET. —_— ISSASSIN RES 0N - AGED A Four Murderous At- facks Made on 0ld People. Special Dispatch to The Call. | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.—An un- known enemy, whose motive is as | mysterious as his identity, has made four deliberate attempts to murder the members of the family of J. H. F. Jar- chow, aged 80, who resides in the mis- slon town of San Gabriel, twelve miles ezst of Los Angeles. Twice within the last week large stones have been thrown through the windows inte the room in which Jarchow and his aged | wife were resting. One of these stones | shattered the back of a chair in which Jarchow was sitting. Thursday night the unknown ‘mis- creant killed a dog, which the family | had purchased to protect the place, | and threw its body into the front hall- | An hour later a | way of the house. shot was heard outside and a bullet | crashed through a window of a room which did not happen to be occupied, | but in which a light was burning. Last night the most serious assault was committed. After Jarchow and | his wife had retired there was a fusil- lade of shots outside the house and | several bullets entered their bedroom, two of them knocking plaster upon the | bed of the aged couple. A Chinese who works there happened |to be approaching the place at the time and saw a Mexican step out of a hedge and begin shooting at the house. Before assistance could be summoned the Mexican had disappeared. The matter was reported to the Sheriff and | to-night a Deputy Sheriff, armed with | 2 sawed-off shotgun, is guarding the Jarchow residence. His presence there is not known, even to Jarchow. His jorders are to kill any man whom he sces ghoot at the house. —_—— CHURCH CHOIR VISITS INVALID IN HOSPITAL a| Holds Song Service for the Benefit of Chicago University's President. CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Dr. W. R. Har- per, president of the University of Chicago, rested comfortably to-day at }lhe hospital and his attendants said ! tu-night that his condition was excel- lent. The choir of the Central Church | sang an hour this afternoon at the | Presbyterian Hospital for the patient. After it had finished Dr. thanked each member for the music. SWEDENS = MINISTER S0P Will Issue Marriage Permits to His Countrymen. —_——— Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Notice has been sent.to the Swedish legation in Washington that hereafter all Swedes who marry in any foreign country | must get permission from their dip- lomatic representative if they wish | their marriage to be legally recognized in Sweden. This action is due to the fact that many Swedes have been moving to | nearby. countries, where it was easy | to get divorces, and marrying again, | sometimes - under conditions - that | would not be allowed in Sweden. When a Swede living in the United States wishes to be married and re- turn to his native land he must apply for permission to the Minister in ‘Washington, who, if everything is in | accordance with the laws of Sweden, will issue a certificate to that effect. This certificate must . be - produced when the couple return to Sweden. | In addition the Minister, when ap- | plied to, must publish a notice of the | application, with the names of both parties, in a paper in the city in which the legation is located and in another in the city in which the contracting parties live three weeks in advance of the ceremony. This is similar to the bans published in Sweden for three successive Sundays in advance of any marriage. Because of the great number of { Swedes in New York the Consul there has also been given the right to issue permits, but he is the only person aside from the Minister who has that power in the United States. —— e —— ROYAL COUPLE TO PAY A VISIT TO INDIA Prince and Princess of Wales to Make Extended Tour in the Fall. LONDON, Feb. 26.—It has heen of- ficially arranged that the Prince and Princess of Wales will visit India in November and stay until March, making a tour of the prircipal cities and native states, receiving the chiefs and princes on behalf of King Ed- ward. The King, after consultation ' with the Viceroy, has directea that for j this occasion the exchange of cere- { monial presents shall be dispensed with. Consequently no presents will b= wccepted by the Prince or Princess of Wnles. 3 ¥ ——————— . Zionist Colony for Mexico. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26.—'Pro- phet” Dowie of Zion City is expected to arrive here to-morrow from Cuba. His five deacons now here refuse to talk of the Zionists’ plans, but it i understood a Zionist colony will lo- Harper | cate In Mexico and will devote itself | raising to sugar cane and coffee, BY FLAVE 'Loss by Fire in New Orleans Totals Millions. Vast Freight Terminals of the Illinois Central Burned. Serious Blow to the Export Trade of the Important Southern Shipping Port, 1 ! NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26.—A con- flagration involving millions of dollars’ loss in property and one that strikes a serious, though temporary, blow at the export trade of New Orleans, swept the river front to-night and destroyed the vast freight terminals of the Illinois Céntral, known as the Stuyvesant docks. Nearly a dozen squares of mod- ern wharves amnd freight sheds, two magnificent grain elevators, hundreds of laden cars and vast quantities of freight, including 20,000 bales of cotton, were destroyed, together with a large number of small residences. The fire was still raging fiercely at midnight, at ‘which time it had almost reached the upper end or the Illinois Central property. It has not been de- termined whether there has been any loss of life. ‘The ocean-going shipping seems to have escaped serious dam- age. A number of firemen and em- ployes of the docks were injured. Actual estimates of the losses are im- pussible to obtain to-night, though they may exceed $5,000,000. The Stuyvesant docks extend from Louisiana avenue, almost to Napoleon avenue, a distance of twelve squares. The wharves between these two points Were Covi by miles of trackage and sieel _igon sheds ran the entire e S gy T GREAT ELEVATORS The two grain elevators were of the most modern construction, the upper one having a capacity - of 1,000,000 bushels. Thousands of bales of cotton, several hundred thousand packages of sugar, great quantities of cotton seed and oil cake, lumber and every concelv- able variety of freight filted the ware- houses and sheds. Practically all the export business handled by the Illinois Central was put aboard ships at these docks. The docks and improvements have been under construction for ten years past, elaborate extensions and immense investments having been made after the constitutional conven- tion of 1898 made it possible for. the road to invest permanently at this point. The fire was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock. It was said to have re- sulted from a journal that had not been sufficiently oiled. The whole plant was equipped with gigantic wa- ter tanks and fire extinguishing ap- paratus, but the blaze, small at the beginning, almost instantaneously got beyond control, communicating through the conveyors to the lower elevator and some of the sheds. The response of the Fire Department was prompt, but, owing to the fact that the terminals were not readily acces- sible because of fences and tracks, the engines found difficulty in reach- ing the flames. In a half hour the fire covered two squares, the lower elevator was practically consumed and the flames were sweeping irressistibly both up and down the river. VESSELS TOWED TO- SAFETY. As soon as it bécame known that the zone of the fire was the Stuyvesant docks, harbor = tugs hastened to the wharves and vessels that were moored there were pulled out into the river. At the same time switch engines were rushed to the wharves and hundreds of boxcars laden with freight were drawn to points above the upper end of the terminals before the flames reached them. Hundreds of others, however, were consumed. The wind was blowing down the river when the blaze began, and the fire spread with greater speed in that direction. By 9 o’clock the lower ele- vator and sheds and wharves from Amelia street to Louisiana avenue, a distance of six squares, had fallen in. Fortunately, Louisiana avenue is a very broad thoroughfare and the fur- ther spread of the fire beyond that point into_a residence section was checked. Between the points named, however, the flames swept to com- plete destruction many cottages of the poorer classes, the occupants in a great many instances losing all they possessed. 5 l WIND AIDS THE FLAMES. The river boats, the employes of the road and the Fire Department con- centrated all their energies in an ef- | fort to save the upper elevator be-| tween Australitz and Constantinople . streets and to check the fire at that! point. The fire, however, ‘radu.gy; worked past the point occupied v the elevator. Heroically the forces -kept at work, but ultimately they were beaten and the big steel struc- ture, covered. with corrugated iron. suddenly burst into flames at 10:30 o’clock, and in half an hour was a complete wreck. At midnight more than nine squares at the terminals had been completely destroyed agz it seemed unlikely the fire would ‘checked until it had reached Napoleon avenue, which also is a very broad street. During the fire a heavy wind blew and the blaze was of indescribable fury, carrying brands to great dis- tances and driving back the crowd of sightseers. Immense pieces of cor- | rugated iron, torn from the sides of the upper elevator, were carried through the air as if they were feath- ers and ud,ropped in cnz ~ di constantly en e £ the firemen and e ! geason of year. a pound of butter in storage at the|side to-night. PITTSBURG GOSSIPS - OVER A WEDDING FATHER FORMS AN ALLIANCE WHICH WAS Special Dispatch to The Call PITTSBURG, Feb. 26.—The mar- riage of Alan Wood of New York to Goldie Mohr, an actress, has attracted considerable attention here because of the position occupied by the Wood family in this city. It has been re- called also that Wood four years ago forbade his son, Walter Dewees Wood Jr., marrying an actress whom he loved and to whom he had become engaged without his father’s knowl- edge. The elder Wood was then engaged with his two brothers in managing the W. Dewees Wood Steel Mill in Me- Keesport, It had been handed down to them by their father, who invented the process for making planished iron and steel. The sons sold the plant to the United States Steel corporation for the largest sum paid for any sheet mill in the combine. Wood selected a companion in Mc- Keesport for his son and sent the two boys to Europe. He gave them all the money needed to remain away abroad and instructed the young Me- DENIED TO SON Keesporter not to permit his son to re- turn home until he had forgotten the girl he would marry. Walter Wood, the son, is now in Santa Barbara, Cal., ! with his uncle, Thomas Dewees Wood. The action of the father in mariy- ing an actress in New York is looked upon by the Wood family and soclety as a fateful occurrence. Wood had been married twice previous to his New York marriage. His first wife was Miss Nannie Knox, a sister of Senator P. C. Knox. His second wife was Miss Alberta Carrier. ' The Wood family lived in a beauti- ! ful mansion on Moorewood avenue, which was sold after the second Mrs. ' Wood died. Wood then moved to New | York and built a home on the River- side drive. This he is said to have given up about a year ago because of | his infatuation for Miss Mohr and be- | cause of the objection his children made to his love affair. ‘Wood is about 60 years old. He is related by marriage to A. Hart Mec- Kee, who married Mrs. Hugh Tevis recently, and to other Pittsburg mil- lionaires. e BOSTON HEIRESS JILTS BARON " WEEK BEFORE WEDDING DAY FINDS SHE IS BOSTON, Feb. 26.—Because Miss Minna Twombley Jones, a relative of the Vanderbilt and Twombley families of New. York, has decided that she does not any longer love Baron Arthur Kambler Edler von Saarberg, a captain of the Austrian army, invitations to the wedding, which was to have taken place in St. Cecelia’s Church on Thurs- day morning, have been withdrawn. Miss Jones reached her decision sud- denly and telegrams were sent on Sat- urday to ‘inform the guests expected from New York and cities that ~ Miss ‘Jones is _a daughter of Mrs. Frank William Jones. She Is twenty years old and most of her life up to the time she was fifteen was spent abroad. _Since then she has lived in Boston, but has made two trips to Europe. The heiress met Baron von Saarberg Special Dispatch to The Call i NOT IN LOVE last summer. The Austrian fell in love with the pretty American girl, and be- fore the summer was over they were engaged. Miss Jones' mother returned to America, but Miss Jones remained | to study music. She is a fine violinist, | and has been one of the players in the | girls’ orchestra, which has enlivened Vincent Club festivals and fairs. Finally the date of the wedding was | announced and the invitations issued. | Miss Jones came to this country on a| steamship with her flance and arrived | in Boston last Tuesday. Up to then she had seemed satisfied with het choice and happy over the prospect her marriage. - Two days later . wrote to the Baron: “I have engaged myself to marry you, and if you insist on it I shall do so. But I do not wish it any longer.” The Austrian officer released Miss 'ones from her engagement at once. He was badly broken up over the turn of his fortune. FIND MORE CHADWICK -~ JEWELRY Officials Locate Col- lection Worth $2§_Q,90_0. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Feb, 26.—Jewelry be- lieved to be worth more than a quarter ot a million dollars, the property of Mrs. Chadwick, has been located in a safe deposit vault in New York and it will be examined within a few days by United States customs officials to as- certain whether any of it has been smuggled. The incident may supply a clew for the eventual unraveling of the mystery of Mrs. Chadwick’s nteced- ents and cause & sensational climax. J. W. Friend, the Pittsburg million- aire, told the secretary he had lent Mrs. Chadwick money on jewelry and pro- duced a note for $74000. He said he had been given this jewelry as col- lateral. He had the jewelry in Pitts- burg for a long time, but when the ex- posure of Mrs. Chadwick’s operations was first made he took it to New York and left it with a safe deposit company in Broadway. “Friend expressed the belief that the note he held from Mrs. Chadwick would be paid. He said that he had not the slightest doubt that all of her money matters would be straightened out and seemed to base his belief on what he professed to know of her antecedents and family connections. / —————————— RESIDENTS OF CHICAGO FACE BUTTER FAMINE Not'a Pound of the Oleaginous Pro- duct to Be Found in Storage at Present. CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—There is a scarc- ity of butter, a famine is in sight and only once in the history of Chicago have grocers asked more for their but- ter than they did yesterday. Butter of good creamery quality brought from 37 to 40 cents a pound in grocery stores. This was not of the best quality, for the grocers felt no hesistancy in de- manding from 40 to 45 cents a pound for that. t there is famine ahead is fore- told by’ the condition of the cold stor- age warehouses in which butter is|liam A. Clark, the wife of Senator stored. Ordinarily there are hundreds | Clark of Montana, is in Dr. William T. thousands pf pounds stored in them | Bull's sanitarium in East Thirty-third _There is not | street. Senator Clark was at her bed- of a po ONIVERSITY WILL C0ST S20.000000 ‘Unidentified Philan- | thropist's Gift to Pitishurg, Special Dispatch to The Call. PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 26.—Thus | far unidentified, some kind philan- iuu—opm is ready to give Pittsburg a | university that will stand for wealth with any institution of its kind in the country. It is believed that Andrew Carnegie is that man, but this cannot be learned positively. - Chancellor Samuel B. McCormick of | the Western University of Pennsyl- vania to-day divulged his hopes of a | greater institution that will represent an expenditure of $20,000,000. The plans have advanced to such a stage that architects will be started at work on models for the buildings as soon as the site has been decided upon. It is believed that the Schenley property will be chosen and that the Carnegie technical school eventually will be made part of the university. ‘With the Carnegie Institute, the insti- tution will be one of the strongest in the world. Chancellor McCormick has asked the Pennsylvania Legislature for $500,000. He received no promises. VICTIM OF STRANGLER A PHILADELPHIA WOMAN Robbery the Motive for the Murder of Miss Kate w in Italy. Special Cable to The Call and N Herald. t, 1905, by the Herald Publishing Company. NAPLES, Feb. 26.—Miss Kate Mac- Cready, who was found murdered in “her villa, near here, was from Phila- i delphia. She had lived entirely alone here for the last eight years. | All indications point to the fact that the crime was committed at least four days ago. It is quite evident that ; the only motive for the murder was robbery. There is as yet no clew to tc}::. person who strangled Miss Mac- —_————— SENATOR CLARK'S WIFE AT THE DOOR OF DEATH | NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—So ill that her life is seriously menaced, Mrs. Wil- ew York An operation was per- | both accepting the challenge of PRESIDENT'S CHALLENGE 10 SENATE 'Antagonism Due fo His Toast t0 a Democrat. 'Candidly Announces That He Will Not Be Bound by Party. Revolt in Upper House the Sequel fo This Declaration of Independence, Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—With Presi= dent Roosevelt and the Republican warhorses in Congress pulling in dif- ferent directions the inauguration will lack the essentials of a party love feast. It is not exaggerating the sit- uation here to say that the President, on the eve of his inauguration and less than four months after polling an unprecedented plurality, finds his leads ership disputed and the whole ques- tion of origination and execution . of policies to be fought out during the next four years. What is regarded as a very signifi= cant incident is being related here about the President, and it has cre- ated & painful impression among mem- bers of Congress who have grown to regard the party as the controlling force in national affairs. The Presi- dent attended a dinner recently at which Senator Cockrell of Missouri was present. Mr. Rooseveit arose and an- nounced that he was going to do an unusual thing, which might cause much comment—that he was about to propose the health of a political op- t. He therefore offered a toast tor Cockrell and in his remarks sarily be bound by party during the four years of his term. His words were taken as a sort of declaration of independence of the Republican party and ‘have been the subject of much comment by Senators. The events of the last two weeks show that the Senate and House are the President and party lines are being drawn against him. It is regarded as inevitable that the mext Congress will witness a struggle between the Presi- dent and Congress in which he may be beaten if the Democrats do not come to his assistance. Men who have sat in Congress and followed the coursé of national polities for the last twenty-flve years say the drift which has set in means that the next Congress will witness the rapid progress of one of the greatest con- tests between a President and the Sen- ate and House that has occurred In several decades. It will be over two great questions—the control of trans= portation and the exercise of power by the President. They expect it to involve the selection of Presidential candidates in 1908. Some men in the Republican party even now are seri- ously discussing the formation of a “conservative” wing of the Republican party for the purpose of fighting the President and his measures. ————————— GIRLS OF TENDER YEARS SOLD BY THEIR FATHERS Become Wives of Men Who Pay for Their Transportation From Italy. CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—That whole- sale traffic in child wives is being carried on in the Dore and Dante school districts is the astonishing dis- covery made by Superintendent of Compulsory Education Bodine and his assistants. Three of girls under 14 years, the comp edu~ cation age, has been thwarted the superintendent within the past month. “There are at least a score more of similar cases in this district,” said the superintendent, to-day, “on which we will have conclusive evidence within the next few weeks. “These marriages have all been con. tracted by their fathers, who have come from southern Italy. They act as matrimonial agents for their daughters and literally sell them men whom the children hawve never seen. “These fathers, as a rule, have pre- ceded their families z«:-h:.maflcs u: re t00 poor to pa; passage their wives and oLan‘ from the old country, The prospective son-in- law, in payment for the bride, agrees te pay for her trousseau and the ocean fare. He also provides the wedding feast.” . ICE GORGES BREAK MENACING PROPERTY Begin to Float Down the Ohio, Kaw and the Platte Rivers. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 26.—The ice gorge, which has filled the Ohio River for mearly seventy-five miles above Louisville, began I:W“lll ':-ntmm The ice in some places twenty feet high. But lttle dnmx was done. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 26.—Float- ing ice m the Kaw River here has wrecked the pile bridges of the Kansas City Belt Line and the Rock Isiand Railroad. A channel was made in the jce to-day by the use of dynamite. - It is believed that little other damage will esult. : LINCOLN, Nebr., Feb. 26.—Ice began moving in ‘the Platte River to-day and with the water high, the results, it is be serious. At Schuyler