The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1905, Page 1

» Francisco and Wednesday; THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Franclsco for | thirty bours ending midnight, July 26: | fresh west wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. vicinity—Cloudy | GRAND- | onFHEUM THE THEATERS. ““The Heart of & Geisha.™ Blue Jeane." “Princess Fan Tan." Matle “Jewish Viey/King." Vaudeville. Matines. | TIVOLI—*“Rot Roy.” SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS. (ING OSCAR SERIED BY 15 CABINET S PGS Sweden's Ministry Resigns in a Body. Riksdag Committee Re- jects Government's Peace Plan. Its Report a Challenge to the Norse Seceders From the Dual Union. CHRISTIANIA, July 25.—Commenting situation in Stockholm, all of apers prefer to await the de- on the the news conditions Sweden desires to the . but the majority inciine to the that these conditions will wot aceeptable to Norway. 26.—The Swedish ody yesterday, special com. Riksdag to from the ing m stations nered in the offices, but commit- le secession and should , but that mally open the ution of the union, pesed to agree to owing terms: r £ m each r the king- fortifica- reindeer be- ob- in respect shed by and does ondition for s this morn- g E ex tion over ity « committee s Accord- fortifica~ consent erstood anged to t. Alto- regarded as character of If it is not of a too color nego- EXPECT NORWAY TO YIELD. Sev t of the expressed 1 agree to estion of op 1 ebescite and th ions would not raise & e of recent construction, military value, and thelr e a matter of senti- and if forbearance the negotiations no arise. ny Swedish politiclans are more the after effects of a ground that se- ly weaken Nor- se that she would seek alllances which elgn complications, both Sweden then becoming act- 1 the game of international s of the condition committee wished to s caused a Strong re- large section of the mpos on N entment among Norwegian a people, but already there are ndications refiection will bring calmness hough both the newspapers nd the p appear to strongly ob- ject t0 a general election, there is less oppostion to the idea of a referendum. —— TWO CHILDREN KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF STOVE Five Other Members of Family in Phil- adelphia Seriously Burned by the Accident. PITTSBURG, July 2.—Two dead, two and three others serlously red is the result of an explosion of & gasoline stove early to-day at the home of Levi Titus, a kosher butcher, in Braddock, Pa The dead—HARRY TITUS and MEYER FITUS, ages 7 vears (twins). Fatally burned—MRS. SARAH TITUS, the mother; ELSIE TITUS, aged 3 years. Serfously burned—Levi Titus, the father; Goldie Titus, aged 18; Ray Titus, aged 16 The explosion was caused by the over- turning of @ gasoline stove on which Mre. Titus was preparing breakfast. wders in North | h both | the | WIRTOEND WITH PEACE CONFERENCE ‘This Is the Belief of Japanese & Envoy. {Terms to Be Submitted to Russia Will Be Moderate. | Mikado's People Look Upon America as “An Ally j Without a Treaty.” | | NEW YORK, July 25.—That Japan | will demand an indemnity of Russia |in the megotiations for pence and that | Portsmouth, N. H., next month, is the | | belief of Baron Komura, head of the | Japanese peace delegation, who arrived | | here to-dzy. | | His opinion is voiced by Aimar Sato, | | who is the official spokesman for the Baron on this mission. Sato, in an in- terview to-night, said: confident that peace will be successfully negotiated by the appoint- | ed delegations. The Japanese will be guided by moderation, and no excessive demands will be made, but the senti- ment in Japan and Russia Is for peace, and in the interests of humanity and | propriety there must be peace. |” “The cost to Japan bas been very great. On both sides the loss in men | bas been 570,000, Russia losing 370,000 | of these. The war is costing Japan | $1,000,000 a day and there is a feeling | that there ought to be an indemnity. Asked as ts the probability of an armistice, Sato sald that would be | among the first questions the plenipo- tentiaries would consider. Basing the form of the nego on previous | treaty negotiations, Japan would make the demands for Russia’s consideration, | he sata. FEELING IN DAI NIPPON. The peace terms, while held inviolate those who knew their text, ormulated by the Emperor of Japan and his council Sato was asked tory, the Japanese | “I am the union. | cabinet was re- ! é in the flush of vic- people would not | feel entitied to more, than any treaty | would allow. to said: | “The Japanese people are not so y decision we | gentle as to abide b | may make, but they pay great respect | to the offices of President Roosevelt | and *his acts have done a great deal | to emphasize the need for peace.” | Sato further said that the Japanese | | would prefer to have the negotiations in | | the English language, as neither Baron | | Komura nor himself spoke French. | : however, would be settled after ent Roosevelt had met the two entatives. As to the attitude of | panese members toward the Rus- delegates, Sato said: admire M. de Witte and Baron | Rosen. The announcement of M. de | Witte’s appointment to the peace con- | ference was more welcome to us than | that of : other person could have | been. We recognize him as a great | statesman.” |3 N TO BE CHINA'S PROTECTOR. Of the future ‘of China Sato said: “If the central government could work in harmony with the district or provincial governments, China would become a great power; but, at present, that seems to be Impossible.” Japan's attitude toward China was | most friendly, sald Sato, and while | maintaining no moral Monroe doctrine over the empire, she felt that it was more or less under Japan's protection. This protection, by way of lilustration, Sato said, was not so strong over China | as that of the United Staes over South America. Sato emphasized the announcement, made frequently before, that Japan did not seek territorial aggrandizement, and on this point safd: ““We want in Manchuria equal opportu- nity or what Mr. Hay called the ‘open door.’ ” : In response to further questions, Sato said that Japan was overpopulated and [that in the opening of Manchuria and Korea an attractive field for immigration would be nearer home than offered in Hawall or America. NOT FOR PEACE AT ANY PRICE. Sato said that, while a desire for peace was the sentiment of Japan, it was not a desire for peace at any price. “Japan is in a very prosperous condi- tion at present,” he said, “and the war | taxes do not fall heavily upon the peo- yple vet. There has already been sub- scribed. $250,000,000 to a new internal loan, and our prosperity is further indicated in the success of our foreign loans.” As to Japan’s attitude toward America, Sato laughingly asked: ““You mean the yellow peril?” and then became more en- i thusiastic in his conversation than upon any previous topic. He said: “We are almost boyish in our enthu- siasm and friendship for America. While we are friendly with China as Orientals, our greatest friends are America and England. 'Why, the first monument ever erected to any foreigner in Japan was that to Commodore Perry and the policy x and conduct of the American people for the last fifty years has been one of help to us. We regard Amecrica as an :uyl without a treaty.” The question was put to Sato gested by a portion of the American presy nt the outbreak of the war, and Sato asked what could bring about such Continued On Page 2, Column 1. ln-nea States in the future, as sug- | vere | were | | | | San Francisco. ; fered ‘terms. ASKS THAT DIVORCE BE ANNULLED Mzs, Lily Onativia Takes Action in France., Former Miss Hastings of San Francisco Attacks Decree. One Time Wife of New York's Dude Says Separation Was Not Valid. ~ Epecial Dispatch to The Cali PHILADELPHIA, July 2.—According to the announcement of Willlam H. Riksdug om the report of | the war will be declared at am end at | \oore an attorney of this city, who has #i committee before consider- | the comiclusion of the negotintions at ! acied as counsel, Mrs. Lilly H. de Ona- tivia, formerly a resident of New York, now traveling in Europe, has begun pro- ceedings in the French courts to have the decree of divorce granted in favor of her husband, Tomasito Luis de Onativia, on July 29, 1903, annulled. Mrs. de Onativia, it is declared, was never served with any notice of the pro- ceedings, the divorce having been granted by default. She has retained an eminent | French attorney to look arter her inter- ests in the matter. An Investigation has revealed the fact, according to the friends of Mrs, de Onitivia, that the re- quirements of the law were not complied with In the original suit. Mrs. de Ona- tivia’s friends say that she firmly be- | lieves the divorce decree will be annulled when the true facts are known. De Onativia has remarried since the de- cree was granted. Three matrimon ventures ‘gre credited to Tomasito Luis de Onativia. He was, a few years ago, prominent in New York as the successor of Evander Berry Wall, the dude. Ona- tivia is a man of fascinating manners and was famed for the variety and style of his waistcoats. Several leading New York clubs had him for a member, and he was familiar at first-night performances at all the theaters. His first wife was Miss Louise Dean Cooley, the daughter of Colonel and James C. Cooley of Westchester, . whom he married in 1893. The marriage proved an unhappy one and she obtained a divorce from him and subsequently was remarried, De Onativia in 1898 married Mrs. Henry Atwater Jerome, whose former husband was a relative of Mrs. Corn- vallis West and connected with the family of this city. Mrs. Jerome was |a daughter of Judge Hastings of Cali- fornia, who founded the law school in Her maiden name was Miss Lily A. Hastings. She obtained from the courts of California in 1897 a divorce from Mr. Jerome, alleging de- sertion. Mrs. Jerome had a large for- tune in her own name. Her marriage to Onativia took place under romantic circumstances in Cairo, Egypt. The manner in which Onativia obtained the | divorce from her was not revealed. OPEN REVOLT *OF THE AGENTS Men Who Place Policies for the Equitable Society Denounce Its Officials XNt Epecial Dispaich to The Cal. NEW YORK, - July 25.—Insurance agents who have been amorg the most valuable allies of the Equitable Soclety to-day proclaimed open revolt against its management and scored some of its most prominent officials for selfishness and cupidity. In the office of Archibald C. Haynes there was a meeting attended by more than 10 Equitable agents, under the im- mediate control of Haynes, who has been generally regarded as the most in- fluential agent operating in the New York district. Haynes heretofore has been a loyal partisan of Gage E. Tar- bell, the Equitable's vice president, to whom s especially entrusted the manage- ment of the soclety’s agents, control of their territory, commissions and ad- vances for renewals. According to a report of the meeting, supplied by one of those present, Haynes is no longer a Tarbell partisan, and has become lukewarm in his former allegi- ance. It is well known that, since the Equitable has been under fire, little or no business has come to its agents, and they have had a hard struggle to place new policies on any terms. Haynes to- day addressed the assembled agents and told them of what he had tried to do for them and how Tarbell had scorned prof- In order that his men might be assured of sufficient income to meet their living expenses until better days shall have dawned, Haynes said, he had written to Tarbell, suggesting that agents be placed on a salaried basis and be allowed to do business with other companies, provided they should each turn in $20,000 of new insurance to the Equitable between July and Decem - ber 81, 1905. Haynes, one of his listeners d, went on to tell them that Tarbell had ignored his first letter, and that, when he had written a second, Tarbell ‘had met it with an emphatic refusal of his request. Haynes therefore called today’s ] JAPAN GIDES ENTHUSIASTIC WWDELCOME TO SECRETARY TAFT AND PARTY. b ! . - - Japan yesterday accorded an enthusiastic welcome to Secretary Tatt, Miss Alice Roosevelt and their party. | Fireworks and gay decorations were provided in their honor at Yokohama. The Americans went by train to Tokio, where a palace has been set apart for their use. - Americans Provided With a Palace in Tokio. ARRIVAL TOLD BY FIREWORKS ! Harbor at Yokohama Decorated for | Occasion. CROWDS CHEER THE VISITORS Minister Griscom Re- cerves Miss Alice Roosevelt. —— YOKOHAMA, July 25.—Secretary of War Taft, with Miss Roosevelt and party, recefved an enthuslastic welcome to Japan to-day. The principal build- | ings, streets and wharves of the city {and the shipping in the harbor were {gaily decorated. A noisy display of | daylight fireworks along the streets | fronting the harbor announced the ar- | rival of the steamship Manchuria at the uarantine grounds at 7 o'clock this mirning. The display continued until the vessel was docked. Lloyd C. Griscom, the Am ister, the nttaches of the tion and - H of Néws o 8, her entatives the - imperial héusehold, Foreign Oflice, War Department and {the Asiatic Society, then boarded the | Manchuria and extended formal greet- ings to Secretary Taft and Miss Roose- velt, who held an informal Teception upon the. deck. The party was then driven to the railroad station through [ the crowded strecte. Boarding a special train, the party departed for Tokio at 10 o'clock this morning, amid cheers of the assembled multitude. | Upon their arrival at Tokio, Secretary | Taft and his personal staff were taken to Shiba, where a detached palace was provided for their accommodation. Miss Roosevelt accompunied Minister Gris- com to the American legation. The voyage was uneventful and the party arrived in good health. * - + meeting of his subsidiary agents for the purpose of laying all facts before them. st el SCORES INSURANCE COMPANIES. Seathing Report of the Massachusetts State Commissioner. | BOSTON, July 2.—Scathing criticlsm, pointed condemnation and fierce denun- clation of the methods and course of the big insurance companies characterize the | “F— annual renort of Frederick L. Cutting, Commissioner of Insurance for Massa. chusetts, issued to-day. The report is ex- ROOSEVELT ENJOYED HER BRIEF TRIED SURF'RIDING IN A CANOE, ETARY OF WAR TAFT AND ‘MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT IN HONOLULU, WEARING THE LEIS OR GARLANDS. MISS s THE ISLANDS, WHERE . SHE VISITED A SUGAR PLJ STAY IN e — TATION AND xS baustive in its review of methods em.| = - — ployed by big insurance officials during the past several years, to whom he al- ludes in some instances as “‘Judases’ and to one company as the “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Company,” and contains a rec- ommendation that the Legislature, at its next session, take up the matter of defer- red dividends and the relations between insurance companies and thelr allied trust companies and other questions, with a view of compelling reform. The report considers insurance in con- nection with ‘“the gambling instinct of the age" and tells of the influence on the officials, of insurance companies from the “dublous schemes,” “Schemes for getting enormously rich,” with “graft by city of- ficlals, State officials, national officials, petty legislators, Congressmen, United States Senators and-courts subservient to the great moloch; money,” that they have all seen.about them and-they also saw ‘“tainted money eagerly sought by 1 college and pulpft.” . . Commissioner Cutting names several companies. Of the Equitable Life, the Mutual Life and the New York Life, termed the “big three’’ and ‘“the racers,” the report says. that they have been | largely responsible for the excessive ex- penses of the Insurance business to “swell the volume of which, and become the bhig- gest, has led each to pour out money llke water,” and it recommends an im- mediate and gomplete reform of these in respect to the extraordinary deposits made by them with a few favored banks and trust companfes. Fraternal insurance and the cass of, the Royal' Arcanum are dealt with at some length in the.report, the commissioner expressing his opinion that the new rates recently adopted by ‘that order and which caused -ue::; stir ‘within its ranks, are HONOLULU, July 19.—“I never knew there could be so much enjoyment in a Hawallan canoe racing along with.the billows, as I have found at Walkikl beuach to-day. It was perfectly delightful and I wish I could stay to emjoy more o it.” This was the exclamation of Miss Alice Roosevelt at Honolulu, as she leaped from a Hawallan canoe with Act- ing Governor ‘Atkinson. As the Manchuria came up the harbor Mies Alice Roosevelt appeared in the so- clal hall and was immediately greeted by the committee and decorated with leis. Secretary Taft placed a carnation lel about her neck, saying that he conferred on her membership in the Oruer of Ha- wail. - While Miss Roosevelt was at breakfast, Captain Berger and the band amused every ~one by playing twice “Alice, Where Art Thou?’ During break- fast a Hawailan quintet played and sang. As soon as Secretary Taft, Miss Roose- .velt and members of the party descended to the wharf, they were met by mem- bers of the local committee. Miss Roose- velt was_ escorted to a carryall with Mrs. Fred Macfarlane as her escort. Nicholas Longworth occupled a seat behind with Mrs. Dubols of Idaho. - K 3 LUNCHEON AT THE HOTEL. not too hig] . One of the best features of the pro- : & ¥ amme was the visit of the Taft party | YOUNG MAN LOSES HIS LIFE fo the plantation at Alea, where the ) SAVING MOTHER AND SISTER guests were given an opportunity to see a typical sugar plantation. At the mill th:y decorations were elaborate. and unique. - Across the gate was a triumphal arch:of follage bearing on one-side the | overcome 1n a Temement Fire in New Special Correspondence of The Call maile and plumaria lels, and the plllars coricealed by masses of greens. Banks of banana staiks, pineapples, beautiful man- goes, ‘feathery pepper branches, golden shower blossoms, faia vines and pluma- ria blossoms,together with many beau- tiful potted palms, completed the decora- tions. Miss Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, Acting Governor Atkinson and Mrs. Ala- tau Atkinson, mother of the Acting Gov- ernor, occupied the table of honor. RIDE WAVES IN A CANOE. After the luncheon, a great migration took place in the direction of Waikiki beach. Miss Roosevelt, Mrs. Dubois, Acting Governor Atkinson and Mr. Dill- ingham went out’ in a fast automobile and went through the "Aquarfum before the crowd arrived. Miss Roosevelt was delighted with the display of fishes. After lingering a long time there, Miss Roosevelt returned to the ‘auto and the party was driven to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown on the beach front, where the finest cance along the shore was in waiting. Miss Roosevelt, Mrs. A, M. Brown, Mrs. Richard Ivers, Acting Governor = Atkinson apd Mr. Nicholas Longworth donned bathing suits and with two stalwart Hawailans. to aid, the canoe was paddled past the Hawailan Hotel Annex and. Moana Hotel frontages, where Immense crowds of ladies, gentle- men and children were massed. . Miss Rooseveit wore a-blue suit with a tightly fitting cap holding her hair to prevent it- from becoming damp, and looked pretty. The other ladies let their hair loose to the breezes. Several other canoes darted out after Miss Rooseveit's craft and in a short time they were rac- NEW Y ¥, %.—Atter saving his s ko Nul,”<and .on the. fnfier, i‘&‘.’:i’ were for a. ti’;'\e':fl;m pfl?; fi ‘the return a luncheon was given to | ing back on the apex of a billow toward from fire. Nathan :Newman, 20 yedrs of | the entire party at the Royal Hawalian | the shore. . age, to-day lost his own life in a burn- ing Brooklyn tenement house. A halt-dozen a les, _all of '.h:-}. Hebrews, living in ' the buliding, we “:‘”rg. When the fire started Newman escaped In ‘safety,” but nw.m;h. eon was ac . served. - The circular mother and | . * He assisted them to |lanai (or ),vmlfluw# : 'mm‘&mxmm&wnw ; 3 e-up:. The property loss was small. * | The celling was. traced with pleture. Miss Rooscvelt showed plain- Hotel. The place was blooming with |y that she enjoyed the fascinating sport, floral decorations and bright with orna- | and called out to members of the party mental luncheon tables. Although. 225 to take a dip and a ride. guests had been arranged for this num- | again the canoe came in on the crest of ber was largely increased when the lunch- | biilows, and in races with other canoes Time and generally won. In addressing Hawallans, Secretary sald: \is;one thing I want to speak to ‘We want to unite in some President’s Dafig/zter Has- Gay Time Riding Waves at Waikik: Beach in Hazwai. one bureau, an executive bureaw, the in- terests of the Philippines, Hawail, Alaska and Porto Rico, so that all matters of Information can come from that bu- reau, and.the Hawailans in Washington can go there and ascertaln the latest in connection with the affairs of Hawail." PLAN TO HOLD UP TRAIN FRUSTRATED Officers Appear and the Rob- bers Escape in the Darkness. SCHNECTADY, N. Y., July 2.—A hold- up of one of the New York Central's ex- press trains was probably frustrated here during the night by prompt action of the railroad officlals. The local . agent received word from Albany to have po- lice at the station whem the American express train passed through here at 12:36 o'clock, as there were several men aboard and fears were entertained that robbery was intended. The train car- ries no passengers. This is the train that Oliver Perry robbed some years ago. The stop sig- nal was set and the train was brought to a halt, and several officers were on the scene. The stopping of the train, however, must have given the intruders a tip that things were not going their way, for in an instant a dozen men were seen jumping off the train into the dark- ness. The officers could do nothing against the crowd, and, although they fired several shots after the fleeing men, there was no capture. —_———————— Warsaw Workmen on Strike. WARSAW, July 25.—Four thousand workmen in the Warsaw Iron Works, and 5000 in the Dombrowa Steel Works struck to-day for higher wages. The striking bakers destroyed a baker's shop in Gochowska street, and In the disturbance which followed one person was killed.