The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1905, Page 29

THE WEATHER. Forecast made st San Francisco for hirty hours ending midnight, April 2: Sen Francisco and vicinity: Fair Sunday; light north winds A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. e o e — THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—OK day. . ) TIVOLI—Comie - nee to-day. ALHAMBRA—Kreisies Recital. Mati- inee only. CALIFORNIA—"Zira." COLUMBIA—*The Virginian." CENTRAL—"The Gambler.” Matines CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee to- day. GRAND—“L O. U.” Matinee to-day. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. = Matines to- 4 Heidelberg.” Matl- Opera. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RETUBNS TO WRITE OF OLD MISSIONS + Qharles Warren Stoddard to Visit Scenes of Early Experiences = N | & year Chariles War- sayist and nowv: of the t Cambridge s There is & subtle charm in dreamer of dream that can ferred to paper by no hand | | WARMTH AND COLOR. | Those who have read h t the w pany his story to as the writer re- impression on Then a long and Cape | ature full . whose | - has never been able to shake | 2in as a lad of 16, worry- | himself and his people with the| f s 1, rebeliing at nd longing to be free, with the struggle they | as he so character- hat Jittle book store, how well I ember it! All day long going about with that omnipresent duster in hand to hide what I was doing— writing aothing but sonnets, brother asked, ‘Can’t you write ! ng besides sonnets?” 1 was so red of my verses that I hid them behind that quster!” he said@ with that ble boyish chuckle. Oh, the shame of it! My | bottle contains. = - POET. , WHO IS COMING BACK TO THE PACIFIC ST TO W OF ARTICLES FOR THE SUNSET MAGAZINE | HE MI LIFORNIA. 0 -+ emerald of the sea! How many | “I leck upon it as sixteen years lost g s on horseback I've taken |out of my life. I did not live. I was over those islands, spoiled them! Our bungalow, if you could only have seen it, that great tambling home on the cliffs, king the shining, mellow, shimme y. And such fun as we had, ds and I, when they came home from the city—card parties, everything jolly. All he day the fellows were at the city and I at , all alone with Sing; dreaming over his pipe, I busy g stories from that magical and how they've EARLY EXPERIENCE. “Thus two years went by, and a day came when I was ill at ease in that ngalow. I refused to eat and ed behind my mos- quito netting, appetite gone. The boys did all in their power to rouse me, but in vain. My Sing even did his best; one morning he appeared be- fore me with a tray on which were two glasses—it was his maiden cock- tail! a most fearful mixture of Worces- tershire, sauce, oil, everything a I drank {t—and lived. BEven that did not rouse me. I needed to get my ‘boots’ and be off —I'm a two years’ clock, not an eight day. The fever contracted as a boy on that first trip round the Horn has never got out of my veins.” That same restless spirit has driven him to the isles of the seas, to Asia, Africa and Europe.. His sunny, genial spirit, the charm of his own dearly! loved southern seas, has made for him hosts of friends all over the world. Perhaps no writer of the century mbers so many famous literary men and women among his intimate friends. He was personally acquaint- ed with George Eliot, Emil Zola, Al- fred Tennyson, Abbey, Stevenson, whom he visited in his own South Sea isle; Du Maurier, Rudyard Kip- iing and many, many others. “Bret Harte brought me up, ‘you might say,” he mused. “We started the Overland Monthly, in' which Bret Harte did his best work and to which I feebly contributed. At first Bret Harte was dissatisfled with my work; but when I went to the islands and began to write out my dreams from there he wrote, ‘Now you have struck it.” Then Bret Harte went to London and I went off on one of my rambles again.” It was while abroad the last time that he was appointed to the chair of literature In a university at Washing- ton. Mr. Stoddard says very charac- teristically of that period of his 1ifs over- | buried in a classroom!"—so utterly for- {eign is any kind of publicity to his | paturally retiring manner. Yet in his retreat, which he called his “bunga- low,’ he managed to have some charm- | ing times with his friends. A friend of so many great men, 1 Just escaped greatness,” he humorous- Iy remarked. “But 1 learned much in the escape I recall once sending some of my verses to a number of my fa- mous friends, Tennyson among the i number, and the great diversity of opinions expressed was a lesson In the | falibility of human criticism. I have them all now, and look at them ‘occa- | sionally when I am discouraged. And i"rny novel, ‘For the Pleasure of His ]Cnmpany‘—well. it was abused, but I jdon'l mind. I had Kipling's word for | it that it was a ‘go.’ Such fun as I i had writing it! It is my life's feelings, | my_inmost thoughts of things. And ] now I'm ordered not to write—a man | who has lived in it! Obey? I could not! I have written every Jay since I have been up; you can’t break up a habit of forty years in that way.” Boston reluctantly says good-by to this genial spirit, while he wings his | fiight to the Jand he loves so well, to wade knee-decp In roses and to catch the strength of that balmy clime. There | are few choicer spirits in American lit- erature than Mr. Stoddard. Though he may have “just escaped greatness,” vet he radiated enough genial purity | and childlike simplicity to attract into his circle of friends nearly all those of this world’s great souls worth the | knowing. ! —————,—— e | STEEL TRUST NOTIFIES WORKMEN OF INCREASE Corporation Will Give More Pay to Skiled Mill Hands and Other Mechanics. NEW YORK, April 1.—Official notices have been sent out by the vari- ous companies of the United States Steel Corporation informing thousands of workmen of an increase in ‘wages, | beginning to-day. It is estimateq th:{ | the increase will amount in round fig- ures to $§,000,000. Those who will | receive the increased pay will be the laborers, skilled mill hands and the class of mechanics now receiving moderate wages. Agreements with tin plate, sheet steel and other workers, which expire on June 30 next, will not be changed at present. It is expected that higher wage scales will go into effect in these ments have expired. ! 1 departments after the present agree- ldent to-day appointed A. B. Hill post- master at Coalinga, Cal. ¥ | The former noticed at the corner | the floor. Szabaloviez is hated by the TROUBLES OF THE CZAR APPEAR TO BE MULTIPLYING DAILY Unhappy Peasants Resort to Force to Secure Rights Denied Them by Ruler of All the Russias and His Offici als e The subjects of the Czar at home are giving him almost as much trouble as the subjects of the Mikado are giving him in Manchuria. From all parts of Russia come reports of uprisings in which blood is shed by the peasants in what seems a vain endeavor to wrest from their Emperor a recognition of their rights. The infernal machine is their weapon, particularly in cities. Infernal Machines Weapons of the Su Feet Blown Off by Bomb of an ASSassin LODZ, Russian Poland, April 1.—Po- | lice Commissioner Szabalovicz of !hel second district was seriously injured to-day by a bomb, which was thrown at him in the street. He had been sum- moned by telephone to come to the office of the Chief of Police, and start- ed on toot, followed by & policeman. of Konstantinosk and Zawarski streets a poorly clad inan carrying a basket. | As Szabalovicz approached the man suddenly hurled a bomb, which ex- ploded with terrific force, blowing off the Commissioner’s feet and severely wourding him in the breast. It is fear- ed his injuries will prove fatal. The force of the explosion was so great that it ‘tore a hole in the ground two feet Geep and twelve feet in circumference. The accompanying policeman drew his sword and wounded the Commis- cioner’s assailant on the head. When the prisoner was searched a loaded re- volver and some cartridges were found | in his pockets. dying from the sword cuts received. | The explosion was heard about five miles away. All the windows in the neighborhood were shattered. People in adjvining hcuses were thrown to Socialists. He is charged with killing a Socialist during the disturbance here ir December last. e OYAMA'S TURNING MOVEMENT. Advance May Cover an Attack Upon Viadivostok. GUNSHU PASS, April 1.—Contradic- tory reports are being received from Chinese fugitives, most of which indi- cate that there is'd copstant mevement of the Japanese northeast,>as though with the intention of effecting a turn- ing movement at Kirin to cover the be- ginning of an attack on Vladivostok. Chinese report that the construction of a railrpad from Sinmintin to Mukden has been begun. HARBIN, April 1.—Business is para- Iyzed and a general lack of confidence is shown. A majority of the female population is leaving Harbin. It is believed that the Japanese are preparing a bold turning movement, probably to the eastward, and the Rus- sian cavalry is operating widely in o1 - der to avoid a repetition of the surprise at Mukden. s PO PRISONERS WELL TREATED. False Report of Japanese Suicides in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.—Inves- tigation of reports published in Lon- don, to the effect that numbers of Jap- anese prisoners conflned at Medvid have committed suicide reveals the fact that but one man killed himself. He had become ill en route from the! front and regarded his case as incura- ble. The American embassy, which Is looking after the interesis of the Jap- anese prisoners, is entirely satisfied with their condition and praises the kindness shown them by the Russians. g MYSTERIOUS ASSAILANTS. Masked Men Ransack Lodging-Houses and Attack Inmates, HELSINGFORS, Finland, April 1.— The populace is greatly aroused by the renewal of ransacking of lodging- houses by masked men, who bound and gagged the Inmates and searched everything. On Saturday night these men destroyed the furniture of board- ing-houses when they discovered in it a picture of Maxim Gorky. The peo- ple suspect that they are agents of the police, but this the latter indignantly deny. No arrests, however, have been made. — e RUMORED PEACE TERMS. Russia May Relinquish ‘All Manchu- rian Ciaims, ST. PETERSBURG, April 1.—Accord- ing to a peace report circulated on the Boerse to-day, Russia will cede the southern portion of the isiand of Sag- halien to Japan and agree that Man- churia and Korea are permanently out- side of the Russian sphere of influence, and the Eastern Chinese Railroad will be turned over to Japan for cession to China or to an international syndicate, upon a consideration of $125,000,000, which Japan will accept in Heu of in- demnity. S e, Russia May Borrow More Money. LONDON, April 1.—A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says that another internal loan of $100,000,000 | will shortly be issued. —_— Supplies for Viadivostok. §T. PETERSBURG, April 1.—Mors than ten trains, stocked with provi- sions and war material, are leaving St. Petersburg daily for Vladivostok. o bt Coalinga’s New Postmaster. WASHINGTON, April 1.—The Pres- He is reported to be| | 1 l Tschertkoff Cor- dially Hated by Poles. Special Dispatch to The Call CRACOW, April 1—Probably the most hated man in all Russian Poland is his Excellency the Governor General of Warsaw, a8 he is officially styled. In reality, however, General Tschert- koff rules over all the ten governments which constitute Russian Poland of to-day, and is more commonly known as Governor General of Poland. This position is perhaps the highest dignity in the service of the Czar. Poland dif- fers from the various governments in Russia proper, as it is still ruled more as a conquered province. The Gover- nor General has committed to him the destinies of 10,000,000 people, = RUSSIAN OFFICIALS WHO ARE THE OBJECTS OF THE HATRED OF THE UNHAPPY POLES. | g ST B IR 7,000,000 of whom are peasants, for the most part unable to read or write. General Tschertkoff has an official salary of 50,000 rubles a year (325,- 000), a palace in Warsaw, a castle in the country as a summer resi- dence, horses and carriages, an army of servants and numerous other per- quisites and privileges. He has also at his dispesal an immensei secret service fund for the expendi-| ture of which he has not to give any | account. All these dignities and emol- uments, however, will soon pass from his grasp, for the general is 76 years| of age, suffering from an incurable disease, and it is said tnat his succes- sor has already been selected, and, in fact, may come here at any time. The Governor General will go away “ynwept, unhonored and unsung.” The Poles hate him with a bitter hatred for i his oppressions, his corruption, and his evil influence upon their beloved coun- try. The new man may be infinitely better—much worse, they say, he can- not possibly be. HIS RISE TO POWER. | Michael Ivanovitsch Tschertkoff, Governor of Warsaw, Ataman of the Cossacks of the Don, General of Caval- ry, Aid-de-camp to the Czar, and mem- ber of the Imperial Council of the Em- pire, was born in 1829. He was edu- cated in the school for imperial pages at St. Petersburg #nd entered the army in 1848. He took part in the defense of Sveaborg, Finland, against the Fran- co-English fleet in 1854,,and fought in the Caucasus in 1858. In 1364 he was appointed Governor of Volhinia, and five years later was made a lieutenant general. He also became Ataman of the Cossacks of the Don, ataman meaning General of Cossacks. In 1877 he was nominated Governor General of Kieff, when he first came into notoriety. His administration is said to have been infamously corrupt and bad, even for a country like Rus- sia, where official corruption prevails generally and, in ‘act, s almost ex- | + bjects e found it was even more than they cowld stand, and General Tschertkoff was re- moved from his post. As is common in Russia when offi- cials of such exalted civil and mili- tary rank are removecC from office, the general was “raised” to the rank of an Imperial Councilor. This was in 1881, and he remained out of office for nearly twenty years. Ceneral Tschert- koff was the faithful and devoted serv- ant of the late Czar Alexander II, and acted as his personal aid-de-camgp dur- ing the Turko-Russian war. Their in- timacy was not entirely unconnected with General Tschertkofl’s wife, whose union with the general was brought about in a very extraordinary manner. PURCHASE OF HIS WIFE. Madame Tschertkoff, who is still liv- ing, was the wife of a minor police of- ficial named Vereschagin, and a very beautiful and attractive woman. It is said that she is a Jewess. The late Czar saw her at some maneuvers and ordered that.she be presented to him, and they scon were on very friendly terms. attending the maneuvers, saw the lady also and was deeply enamored of her, and finally bought her from her hus- band for 30,000 rubles (315,000) and married her. Such a seemingly extraordinary af- fair is not uncommon in Russia, and is done In & perfectly legal manner, through divorce procedure. The hus- band for a consideration—in this case the 80,000 rubles—permits his wife to have a divorce, and takes upon himself the role of the gullty party. Under the Russian law only the innocent party may marry again, the gullty one may not do so unless the other should die. In these cases it is considered rather a shabby thingdf a husband isn't will- ing to accommodate his wife in this manner, and sacrifice his character for her sake. Very often the man marries again without waiting for his former wife to die, as it is not difficult to find a priest who will not ask too many questions and insist upon too much evidence re- garding his legal qualifications for en- tering the matrimonial state. General Tschertkoff's marriage turned out to be a very happy one and madame is very popular in Warsaw soclety, much more so than the general. Some few years after his marriage the general was told one day that a stranger wished to see him alone on imwortant business. He was shown into the room and addressing the pected. But Tschertkoff exceeded the usual limits of transgression. He abused his authority in every way and | there were no bounds to his cupidity and extortions. He speedily amassed wealth and purchased an enormous es- tate at Kahorlik in Southern Russia, out of the proceeds of his ill-gotten gains. Finally his maladministration of the province became a public sean- dal, which attracted the attention of the authorities in St. Petersburg, who 7. \ Governor, said: “Your Excellency will remember me no doubt, as you did me the honcr to take my wife some time ago. I come now to inform your Ex- cellency that I have another wife, who is younger and handsomer, and much better altogether than my first wife, and if your Exceilency wishes I will let you have her at the same price.” What his Excellency answered is not report- General Tschertkoff, who was | BAKU'S STREETS LITTERED WITH MUTILKTED DEAD {Grewsome Defals of Awful Massacre Are Received in Londn, —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, April L—Correspondence Just received from Baku gives a vastly fuller account of the horrors of the re= cent massacre there than the Russian | censors allowed to be transmitted by telegraph. At the end of the slaughter of Armenians by Tartars in the Cau- | casian town 500 bedies were counted, most of them shockingly mutilated. The total number of Armenians killed, according to some estimates, is not less than 1000, hundreds having perished in { the flames that consumed their homes. Many women and girls were among the missing, and unprintable stories are told of the treatment received by them from their Tartar assailants, Nearly every street in Baku contained its ghastly litter of victims, stretched out just as they had fallen, the inhabit. ants being too terrified even to cover up the faces of the dead. An English resident at Baku has sent a photograph of one of these scenes, which is for- warded herewith. “What do you think of 1t?" is the inscrivtion which he has placed beneath it. If it were a massacre of Armenians by Turks that had been depicted various religious bodies in London would now be clamoring for vengeance against “Abdul the Damned™ and demanding interference by the British Government. But as the atroeci- tles oceurred in Christian Russia, and were virtually sanctioned by the au- thorities, who did absolutely nothing to suppress the disturbances, they will be | passed over “regrettable incident.” | The Armenians did not by any means submit to being slaughtered like sheep, jand in more than one instance exacted a terrible retribution of their assail- ants. In Zerkovsky street the Tartars besieged a house occupied by Adamoff, an Armenian tradesman. He had been known only as a shopkeeper with a ‘well-merited reputation for driving un- commeonly shrewd bargains, but he had | him the stuff of which heroes are made. When the Tartar mob swooped down upon the house like a pack of wolves he stationed himself on a little projecting balcony with a magazine rifle and opened fire upon them. Hs was a good marksman and he had the pluck that commands a steafly mnerve and a cool head. though he knew that his own death was inevitable in the fight of one against hundreds. i KILLS THIRTY-THREE. Despite the shower of bullets that Continued on Page 30, Column 3. Continued on Page 30, Column 1,