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

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San Francisco and Bsturday; light west THE WEATHER. Forecast made st San Francisee for thirty hours ending midnight, July 15: G. H. WILILSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Chayge. the Library.++++ ’ i vieinity—Clgady ‘winds. g SAN Fi{ANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANY WILL AID KING OSCARIREE HOTEL ACTOR FOLK TO REGAIN THRONE OF NORWAY. Promise is Given at the Meeting at Gefle. Swedish Ruler Is Made Fleet Admiral. Denmark Favors the Crowning of Charles. BERLIN, July 14—I hear that the Germas Emperor assured King Oscar ut Gefie yesterday of his warmest sym- pathy and promised to aid in restorimg | kim to the throme of the dual kingdom. As a public proof of his semtiments the Kaiser has made King Oscar a grand admiral of the German fleet. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 14— s Cabinet meeting it de- hat the Ministers were in full agreement that Prince Charles of Den- should accept the crown of Nor- ay, if King Oscar and the other courts most nearly concerned expressed their epproval. King Christian and the other of the Danish royal family avorable to Prince Charles be- of Norway. .—The substance of n Stockholm yester- an-Swedish alliance d was submitted to the ere to-day and the au- ent made that the between Ger- a come be- 4 the D d it been s a strictly Sea e sit of gn to an- vire ¥ nitiative~Provabty " will WOMAN SENT TO PRISON FOR CRUELTY TO CHILD Mrs. Anna West of San Jose Admits Beating Little One and Holding It Under Faucet. SAN JOSE, July 14. who was sted for cruelty to a two-yea clfld a couple of weeks ago, was to-day sentenced to 180 days in the It was proved that the woman was In the habit of beating the child until it s black and hlue and at other times it under & faucet until it was e admitted her gullt. cal here irom Oakland months ago. The child was not ut one she had adopted. rest Mrs. West declares that has run away with an- other woman. She also informed the officers that her husband was wanted in St. Louis by the officers on a serious charge. —_——— REFUSES TO GIVE NAMES OF OFFENDING SHIPPERS ‘Witness Before Interstate Commeree Commissioners Shields Lowuis- ville Men. LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 14.—Inver- state Commerce Commissioners Cock- rell and Clement to-day began a hear- ing of the charges made by East St. Louis shippers that rates to the Soutn- east are manipulated. M. P. Washburn, chairman of the Southern and Missis- sipp! Valley Transportation Assocla- tion, testified that as a result of an investigation here in 1801 irragularities ‘were revealed, but he declined to sive the names of the gullty persons. Sen- etor Cockrell then said: It is to00 late now to punish these people, for the statute of limitations prevents. However, 1 ok Mr. Washburn ought to epeak out, though the offenses were committed by rchants of Loutsville. —_—————————— Hefuses to Accep® Pardonm. July 15.—Paul Derolede, ember of the Chamber of who is in exile in Spain for on with a revolutionary con- 1 1899, refuses to accept the y Presidential decree, saying to await full amnesty. e —ee——————— Torpedo-Boats for Defense. making arrangements tilla of torpedo-boats to °d to the coast squadron. The destroyers heretofore at- > the coast squadron will be at- 1 to the battleship squadron. Head of Navy Training Service. WASHINGTON, July 14.—Rear Ad- miral Thomas has been detailed by the Navy Department as superintendent of the naval training service. This is a new detail, the purpose of its creation being to place the training service un- der one head. —_——— Germans Buy Welsh Estate. LONDON, July 15.—The Daily Tele- graph says to-day that a German syn- dicate has purchased for $1,250,000 the ‘Whiteworth estate near Neath, in the south of Wales, covering 6000 acres of coal lands, containing the finest steam Mrs. Anna West, | | 1l by Justice Davison. | 14 ) 3 g MADE BY THE PROV] PRINCE AND PRINCESS CHARLES OF D! 1 MARK WHO WILL BECOME KING AND QUEEN OF NORWAY, IF THE OFFER ONAL GOVERNMENT AT CHRISTIANIA BE ACCEPTED. LIES INTERESTED SANCTION THE PROPOSAL. IT IS SAID THAT THE ROYAL FAMI- POLICE DUTY MY DEVOLVE UPON LT Strike Is Exhausting Chicago Depart- ment’s Funds. e kB EL L 6pecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, July 14.—Chicago will soon face a double crisis, unless the teamsters’ | strike soon draws to a close—a financial {shortage and a police department de- pleted through inability of the city to pay its men. With emergency policemen ex- hausting the appropriation of the rate of $4000 a day, in addition to the expense of | maintaining a regular force, the total ap- { propriation of nearly $4,000,00 promises to be exhausted within three months. Calamity howlers among the apprehen- sive members of the departmentt pre- dict the possibility of having to appeal to Sheriff Barrett to meintain order and police the city. As he, too, faces an emergency through inability to command funds to pay his present staff of emer- gency deputies, the pessimistic are in- [dulging in doleful pictures of the possi- bility of the ultimate policing of Chicago by militia. e ———— LICK ASTRONOMERS SAIL FOR LABRADOR Professors Curtis and Stebbins to Ob- serve the Solar Eclipse on August 30. ST. JOHNS, N. F.. July 14.—Profes- scrs Heber Curtis and Joel Stebbins of the Lick Observatory sailed for Labra- dor last night on the mail steamship to arrange for observing the total solar eclipse visible there on August 30. A number of other astronomers, from Great Britaln, the United States and Canada, will follow on the next steam- ship. DEFCT GROWS 58,000,000 I THELVE DAY Federal Treasury Sur- plus Rapidly Dis- appearing. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, July 14—In twelve days of the current fiscal year the treasury deficit is $8,000,000 and it is still growing. For the month it prob- ably will reach $14,000,000, or half as much as it was for the entire fiscal year of 1905. For two years and twelve days the deflcit has been: Fiscal year 1904.. Fiscal year 1965. .. . Twelve days of fiscal year. .. .$41,000,000 24,000,000 §,000,000 In other words, during the past ten years, the tréasury has paid out $73,- 000,000 more than it received. It was enabled to do this simply from the fact that it had a large balance on hand and of this balance or surplus, nearly $120,000,000 was in the national banks of the country. This has been called in until but $55,000,000 of Government funds will remain in the banks after July 15 - In the opinion of officials of the Treasury Department, the amount of money in actual circulation will not be decreased materially by the $11,000,- 000 to be paid in under Secretary Shaw’s call, which matures to-morrow. It is belleved that 75 per cent, if not prac- tically all of the sum derived from this, the second installment of the call, will at once go into national bank circula- pit That was true of the sum paid into the treasury under the first fn- stallment, which matured in January. % s = OCTOCERARIAN FALS TO KeEP PLEDCE T0 WED Noted Names Figure in Suit for Breach of Promise. Azhe 27l e Speclal Dispatch to The Call LYNN, Mass., July 14.—An"attachment for $25,000 was levied to-day upon the property of John W. Hutchinson, the fa- mous abolitionist, in a breach of promise suit in which Miss Ellen F. Wetherell appears as plaintiff. Miss Wetherell, who is about 50 years cld, is one of the best known woman suf- fragists and labor advocates in New Eng- land. She was an intimate friend of the late Mary Livermore and has appeared upon the lecture platform in behalf of woman's right and labor measures in most of the large New England cities. Miss Wetherell says that Mr. Hutchin- says he Is engaged to Of ‘woman of Lynn. Mr. Hutchinson K met the latter woman, who is 2 years old and an ac- complished musiclan, several years ago, “She played so sweetly on a violin that the music moved my heart as it never moved before,” said - ————— SHELTER THE NEEDY City of New York to Build Big . Hostelry. Six Hundred Lodgers Will Be Cared’ t * For Daily. Ample Provision for the Health and Comfort of Indigent Guests. RO R Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 14.—Poor men and | women of New York are to have a lodg- ing-house which, in poirt of comfort and healthfulness, is not equaled. Plans for it have been completed by the archi- | tect, and work on tlie building will be started in about two weeks, so that the | house will he ready for lodgers in next January. While providing.every com- fort and every necessity, the charge to lodgers will be simply that they abides by the rules and xecp clean. As the inirst iustallnent for the ex- pense of the new lodging-house, the city will pay out $175,900 for its con- struction. The site selected for the building is on the south side of Twen- With a large dining-room, where g00d food will be served, many haths, comfortable beds, a large court and & 4 roof garden, those who go te the iodg- ing-house will {ind better accommoda- tions than they receive in uny of the lodging-houses. in ~the city where a charge i8 made. In the new house there will be accommodations for 600 per- sons—500 men «nd 100 women. Thers ‘witf"be two entrances on Twenty-fitfh tréet. one for jner and the other for ‘women, who, on entering the building, will be ushered into separate reception- rooms. From there the men will go to the Lasement, where they will leave their street garments and pass under warm shower baths into a drying-roon:, where they will be given night clothes. the first floor Into a large dining-room, where meals of healthful food will be served, after which they either may sit In the court or on the roof or gov to the comfortable enamneled beds pre- pared for them on the third, fourth andi fiftth floors. HBefore going to their baths all the men will be examined. Those suffering from disease will be sent to separate batli:s, and, after that, to separate sleeping-rooms. On the second floor of the building are the baths for women. Each of these is separated from the others by a par- tition. After disrobing no man or woman will be allowed to touch his or her clothing until he or she is ready to leave the next morning. In the mean- time all clothes will be passed through a disinfecting room. Although it wili be extremely easy for all persons to get into the new lodging-house, it wiil be another mat- ter for some to get out. Every person must pass a window, where watchers will be stationed. Here men wanted for :rimes will be taken out and de- tained. TEARS UP THE TRACKS OF A RIVAL RAILROAD Pennsylvania Company De- stroys Wabash Switch- ing System. Special Dispatch to The Call. PITTSBURG, July 14—Open violence between armed forces - is threatened in the bitter fight waged by the Pennsyl- vania Rallroad against the Wabash sys- tem, In an effort to prevent that road from gaining a permanent and valuable foothold in this city. To-night two forces of men are eyeing one another in the ‘West End, where Pennsylvania men have destroyed a switching system three-quar- ters of a mile long, connecting the Pan- handle tracks with the West Side belt road, and costing $100,000. The work of demolition of tracks and grading connecting the belt line,” which is owned by the Wabash, and the Pan- handle, which is part of the Pennsylvania system, was done at night and thus the Pennsylvania had dealt another blow to the Gould plans for which Ramsay of the ‘Wabash had worked so long. The switches from the Belt lize to the Pan- handle had been of advantage to both roads, but the Wabash is greater suf- ferer from their destruction and what is to be dome nOow no one here seems to know. That there can be any peace between the two 1s out of the question despite the reports of “community of interest” plans. —_—————————— Peary’s Arctic Ship Fined. NEW YORK, July 14—An attempt to detain Peary’'s Arctic ship ' Roose- velt had been made by persons who notified the Treasury Department that the vessel had left port without clear- ance papers. The Government officials promptiy imposed a fine of $500 and ‘members of the Peary Club supplied a 5 3 bond. ————ee Sany Victims of a ‘Windstorm. , Manitoba, July 14.—Dur- 56 ty-fifth street, just east of First avenue. | After tbat they will be taken back to | | Independent Organization Ex- | Fiske and Mrs. Leslie Carter. The actors WILL FIGHT THE TRUST Leading Players Strong Combi- nation. e m i, L David Belasco and Mrs. Fiske Announce Plan of Campaign. in pects to Have Big Cir- cuit of Its Own. NEW YORK, July 14.—Announcement of a new combination of actors in America against what is known as the theatrical | trust was made to-day by Lee Shubert. The leading companies in the new com- bination are those headed by David Be- lasco and Mrs. Minnle Maddern Fiske. Lee Shubert will manage the line of the- aters, which will be placed at the dis- posal of Belasco, Mrs. Fiske and others. The new combine will back fifteen com- panies on the road and such actors as| Sarah Bernhardt, Ada Rehan, Jefferson | de Angelis, Henry Miller, Lilllan Rus- | sell, David Warfield, Blanche Bates, Bertha Galland, Robert Hilliard, Mrs. under the new management expect with- in another week to have a separate num- ber of theaters on their own circuit in America to play the year round. Shu-| bert announced that this company now kas fourteen playhouses under its con- trol, including theaters In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louts and Lon- don, England, and that within a week he would be able to open a dozen more to his attractions. Besides these places the mew -combination is counting on the support of independent houses all over the country. The amendment by the the- atrical syndicate managers of a contract which Shubert says he made with them, agreeing to pay them 25 per cent of the profits on all of the syndicate’s attrac- tions booked at his theaters, was the cause of his break from the trust ranks. His friendliness toward David Belasco during the last few montks, he sald, was a further cause of.the new combine. “\We signed a contract with the theatn- cal syndicate which is headed by Klaw & Erlanger, agreeing that the syndicate could book their attractions in our houses for 2 per cent of the profits for a period of five years,” said Shubert. “After we had signed this contract a letter was sent to us by the syndicate asking us to amend the contract by agreeing not to n.d'd any more theaters to our own circuit. Shubert says at this point he has only eight theaters in his own circuit and did not feel strong enough to make a fight against the syndicate. “When 1 asked,” Shubert continued, “why this new amendment was required, I was told that our company had violated its contract with the syndicate by refus- ing to accept some of their attracions which they had booked at our houses. “They said this was a violation of our contract with them, though that docu- ment contained the provision that the syndicate attractions were at all times subject to our order. After this con- versation the matter was allowed to rest for a time. Meanwhile the Lyric Theater Company was extending its own circuit and acquiring new attractions. “When our company was building the Garrick Theater in St. Louis the syndi- cate told us that we would not be al- lowed to book our own attractions in our own houses If we pursued our policy. And yet at their convenience they always filled their.theaters with our attractions. “On my return from Europe last June I was met by Mr. Erlanger and had a chat with him about patching up our difficulties. He told me that if I did not book Belasco in any of our theaters I could have anything I wanted. Because I booked Belasco in one of our houses, the Garrick, he said that the tours of “The Royal Chef” and of “Fantana,” aiready booked, were off. “Let me say that in the present move we are not attempting to fight the syn- dicate, but merely, in self protection, try- ing to find a place for our own attrac- tions.” CALIFORNIA ASPHALT CHOSEN AS THE BEST San Francisco Man Secures I' $298,517 Waterworks Con- tract in Cincinnati. Special Dispatch to The Call “July 4.—The last big contract for the new CIN ex- cept forthe filtration plant, :z warded the commissioners to-day. BIG NAMES A A LURE FOR DUPES Pseudo Reporters Swindle New Yorkers. Pass as Newspaper Men and Sell Space in a Periodical. Portraits of Roosevelt, Cleve- land and Others Adorn Their Letter Heads. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 14—Following the sensation created by a Town Toples man's arrest for alleged extortion of money from the “400,” it became known to-day that a similar scheme, though less ambitious, has been operating suc- cessfully. Having as associate members such men as President Roosevelt, former President Grover Cleveland, Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Potter, Lyman J. Gage, Andrew Carnegie, David R. Francis, Senator Depew, the late Secretary Hay, John Jacob Astor, Dr. Charles W. El- liot, president of Harvard University and Washington Roebling, if one may judge from its letter-head, which bears the photographs of these men, the “Re- porters’ Association of America” has been operated so successfully that it now occupies a handsome office fur- nished with mahogany desks in the ‘Whiteball building on State street. It is needless to say the reporters on the great New. York newspapers are not mémbers of this association. To James P. O'Brien is ascribed the chief credit for the success of the as- sociation, although, except for the ex- treme generosity of many well known men ‘in New York its present success could not have been gttained. On the theory that men actually attached. to New JYork newspapers as reporters were beneficaries of generosity, money has ben flowing freely into the asso- clation’s treasury. One man alone con- tributed $350, while many others have glven Somewhat smaller amounts. In some instances the money was paid for the notoriety that was sup- posed to follow the contribution, while in others the men gave their money on the supposition that they were engag- ing In a charitable enterprise. It is through the medium of the “Public Inspector” that most of the money has been obtained by the con- cern with the high sounding name. This is a monthly publication in which the praises are sounded of those who have in one form or another contrib- uted to the association’s treasury. Health Commissioner Darlington one of those who have aided this “Ri porters’ ” Association. Not only bas he supplied “Public Inspector” with ar- ticles having to do with the publie health, but he has paid for their in- sertion, though possibly in an Indirect manner. ‘Wallace Jackson, an attorney, has been one of O'Brien’'s most generous friends. Paying $300 to have a cartoon and a notice of himself printed, he gave a llke amount to have a picture of his wife inserted In the mext issue. When he learned that she objected to the plan he paid to have the picture sup- pressed. Pty N CALLS FOR TOWN TOPICS’ BOOKS, District Attorney’s Office to Learn How Much the 400 Comtribated. NEW YORK, July 14—With Charles H. Ahle held for the action of the Grand Jury, accused of attempting to extort $500 from Fdwin M. Post, a member of the Stock Exchange, who says he was led to belleve that if he did not subscribe for a volume of “America’s Smart Set” an unpleasant revelation about his personal affairs ‘would be published in Town Toples., Assistant District Attorney Krotel con~ tinued to-day his inquiry into the af- fairs of the Soclety Editors’ Assocla- tion, which was publishing the work. He decided, too, that he would like to know something about the internal management of Town Topics, and for that purpose requested W. L. Daniels, secretary and treasurer of the Town Topics Publishing Company, to produce before him the books and accounts which would show what was done in the way of obtaining subscriptions for the work “Fads and Fancles,” for which the company received subscriptions amounting to $150,000, although the book, after four years of preparation, has not been issued yet. Daniels asserted that he was not the proper person to bring the books, saying this request would have to be made of should he not do as requested. he would | be taken before a Judge on Tuesday and a issued which would bring forth subpena superior the required books. he said he would do product, ‘h‘“:‘dn ::dmth Te-| all he could to produce them. fined asphalt was accep ough Deuel, Judge talking further about his connection with Town Topics, told how man paid a certaln amount to have o it {tem about him kept from Town Topics, but all he had to pay. said the print-

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