The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1905. : * SON RESCUES HIS NOTHER FROM DEATH PRESIDENT "IN THEIR BURNING HOME y_VrOMAN SLEEPS NEAR THE FLAMES William F. Marten " Proves a Hero at Fire. peabat U T OAKLAND, Nov. 26.—Insensible from smoke and the heat of flames which hed crept upon her as she slept, Mrs. Mattie Marten, residing at 1034 Chester street, was saved from certain death in her burning home this morning by her son, William F. Marten, who, fore- ing his way through the stifling smoke, carried his mother from her room just as the fire burst through the floor. Marten was awakened by the crack- ling of the flames at 4 o'clock this morning and at once located the fire at the rear of the house, near his mother’s room. The young man fought his way through the smoke, and, reaching his mother, found her helpless. He car- ried her to a place of safety. After seeing her safely in the home of George Carter, who lives at 1036 Chester street, Marten returned to his home and went to work to carry the household furniture out of the blazing dwelling. In the meantime an alarm — BE s Z AND LAY Id - SIBLE. IN THE FLAMES WHICH DESTROYED HER HOME IN S WHO BROKE INTO HER ROOM AND RESCUED HER. £ LS EAARE S SHELSELS OAKLAND EARLY YES- SHE HAD BEEN FLEET OF TuE ALLIES ' ARRIVES AT MITYLENE Sultan Proposes m Compromise to Prevent the Se It is doubtful the accept Earthquake Damages a Cathedral. the ob- s morn- [ ing. It ca the Cathedral the extreme sou suffered considerable da were lost. Apyrniy Relief During that trying period in hich women so oiten suffer nervousnes backache, k headache, or other pains, ere is nothing that can equal Miles” Anti-Pain Pilis. hey stop the pains, soothe the nerves, and give to Women the relief so much desired. 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Moore, right half- back of the Unlon Coilege football team, in the Fordham (N. Y.) Hospital last night. “As yet I have not replied to Chancel- lor MacCracken’s telegram,” said Presi- dent Eliot, ‘;and when I do it will be by letter and nbt by telegraph. T shall not call a meeting of college and university presidents to discuss the football situa- | Such a movement should not come me, but from the board of over- tion. from seers.” It would seem from other remarks h President Ellot uttered that he is by no means so hostile to football as he is credited with being. One particular statement that he made seems to show clearly that he is in favor not so much ily abolishing football as he is of ating those objectionable features h make it brutal and dangerous at oresent time. the “‘As the game is now played,” he said, “these things will continue to occur and | will @ vised.” 0 until the playing rules are re- R i BLAMES RULES COMMITTEE. Presideat Wheeler Takes Firm Stand on Football Question. BERKELEY, Nov. 26.—President heeler made public a statement® on | football to-night in which he takes the stand that unless the game is re- | modeied thoroughly it must be abol- The executive head of the Uni- ty of California declared that the failure of the National Rules Commit- | tee to reform the game is responsible for the criticism that has come upon | the pastinie because of numerous fatali- ties and extraordinary accidents. ‘Word was received to-night by the | President that Chancellor McCracken of Union College, New York, had ap- pealed to President Eliot of Harvard University to call a speclal meeting of #niversity presidents to act at once on the subject of football. This move was due to the killing of Moore, a Union College man, in a football game. It was shown ‘that there had been nine- teen fatalities on the gridiron field this season and 135 accidents out of the ordinary. The deaths this season were more than double the average for the last five years, during which there had been forty-five fatalities. In his of- cial statement as head of the University of California President Wheeler said: “The game of football must be entirely made over or it must go. The addition of a few more restrictive rules is not enough. The so-called rules committee is responsible for {ts present status. It promised us reform, particularly this year, but gave none. That com-' mittee must now be totally set aside. I should welcome President Eliot’s ini- tiative” had been turned in from box 25, at Seventh and Chester streets, and tne firemen were soon 4t Work on the fiames, which by this time had made consider- " House Is Now Being As- ‘| ed concerning his attitude.and it is ex- <+ | DRAWN INTO THE FIGHT PR Odell, by a Shrewd Move, | Practically Effects a Part- nership With Mr. Roose- velt in New York Politics SUPPORTS PARSONS FOR CHAIRMANSHIP SEEa T a2l Man Whose Candidacy Was | Suggested From the White Platt’s Rival | . Specialy Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. ~26.—President Roosevelt has become a central figure in the fight for reorganization or tne Republican party in wnis county. b%ia tactions express willingness to defer to him and both claim nis support. The most contradictory stories are circulat- sisted by pected that pefore the new chairman of the county committee be elected on December 21 there will be a more defi- nite utterance from the President than any he has yet made. The friends of Odell assert that J. Van Vechten Olcott was agreed upon for chairman of the county commit- tee in the Platt conference in the | Gotham Hotel before Senator Platt went 10 Washington, and they have the news at drst hand from a representa- | tive of Odell, who attended the meet- ing to repcrt what took place. They add that Olcott was selected by Lemuel 1. Quigg as the representative of the traction interests aiter Quigg had of- fered himself us a candidate and his offer had been declined. According to this version, the Presi- dent was quickly convinced that Ol- | scott represented the street railwayai and he then sent for Governor Hig- gins and arranged to have Parsons be- come a candidate. The praise of Par- sons from Governor Higgins ufter tne | return of the Governor irom Albany is! cited in proof of this assertion. Odell's uction in throwing his sup- port to Parsons is deseribed by his au.l-i herents as the shrewdest political move he ever made, checkmating betn the President and Senator Platt in their desire to get rid of him. Finding he could not elect a candidate of his own against both Olcott and Parsons, Odell's friends say, he determined to support the President’s own candidate, so that a victory for Parsons could not fail to | be a victory for Odell in his fight to | maintain his authority over the Repub- lican State organization. In other words, by aiding the President in accom- plishing his purpose in this county, Odell’s friends say, he has made his position in the State impregnable and “the defeat of Oleett will emable him: to block any move that may be made to drive him from the chairmanship of the State committee. That the financial district is inter- | ested in this contest is not denied by the Olcott adherents, although they | scout the charge that Olcott is the trac- : tion candidate. They say Olcott is im- | | patient of the prominent part taken by | | Quigg in kis campaign and that he has | several times been on the point of re- | pudiating him. They assert that the division in the financial district is bringing E. H. Har- riman to the Odell side and his finan- able headway. Ailter neariy an hour the flames were exunguisned, the firc being coningd vu- LTEly 10 loe rear 0L Lue .idriea lio. ‘'ne house, which is owned by Georgi Carter, wus damaged o lie eXtenc ui about $100v, tully coverd by insurance. lars. Marten’s personal luss is small. | whe nre originated unaer the hearth !in the back parior of tne house, and | Marten sald to-day that he thought it { had been smoldering for the last two days, as on several occasions he had de- tected the odor of smoke about the house, but had paid no attention to it, thinking it came from the kitchen stove. The flames must have broken out about 3:30 o'clock this morning, for when discovered by Marten they had already reached the upper floor of the house and had burst tnrough the roof of the one-story kitchen at the rear of the dwelling. The room occupied by Mrs. Marten is directly over that in which the fire originated and as soon as the flames, creating their own draught, reached the second floor they broke through the wall of her apartment. It was at this | time that Marten was aroused from slumber by the roar of the flames. Finding the fire at the back of the house, the son thought only of the dan- ger to which 18 mother was exposed, and, groping his way through the smoke, made his way to her room. He found her helpless from the effect of the smoke and a few minutes more in the suffocating atmosphere would have caused her death. That the house was not destroyed is owing to the good work of the Fire Department, which, 'although handi- capped severely by the bursting of the first line of hose laid to the burning building, quickly got the flames under control after they got to work. Willlam Marten, who is an expert electrician, materlally aided the work of the firemen by keeping the electric lights in the house in working order, so that the firemen had plenty of light at all stages of the fire. BODY TO BE BROUGHT ON A SPECTAL TRAIN NEW YORK, noun to-day at the re lence of Fran- cls rton Harrison, 676 Fifth avenue, that the body of Mrs. Harrison, who was killed in an automobile accident in Long Island City on Saturday morning, would start for California, her native State, on Tuesday evening. Prior to the removal of the body, brief funeral services will be said at the house by Rev. William M. Grosvenor, pastor of the Church of the Incarnation, in the presence of the imme- diate relatives. The funeral and interment will be at San Mateo, Cal., where Mrs. Harrison's father, the late Charles F. Crocker, is buried. The body will start at 6 o'clock on a special train over the New York Central. Besides Francis Burton Harri- son and near relatives, Mrs. Harrison's grandmother, Mrs. Adellne M. Easton, will accompany it. Mrs. Easton started for the West on Monday last, but re- turned as soon as she learned of the death of her granddaughter. i Charles T. Crocker, Mrs. Harrison's brother, and Mr. and Mrs. Laurance I. Scott of San cial rivals to the other, among them | Thomas F. Ryan. They explain this by saying that Harriman sought to col- lect campalign contributions for Odell in the last campaign and that he in- sisted on receiving them in person, in- stead of permitting them to be pald di- | rectly to Odell, as chiarman of the State | committee. This demand is said to | have created a feeling which had led the financial leaders to take sides in the reorganization fight. WCURDY TS UTUAL LIF Speclal Dispatch to The' Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 27—The World says Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, has resigned. The date of his resigna- tion depends only on the time required by the trustees to find his successor. The investigating committee did not accept McCurdy’s offer to cut his salary in half, beceuse such acceptance would have pledged them to a continuance of the McCurdy regime. - Quickly following the retirement of McCurdy his son, Robert H. McCurdy. general manager of the Mutual, and his son-in-law, Louis A. Thebaud, the favored general agent for New York, have resigned. Each of these three men has been drawing approximately 1$150,000 & year in salarles and commis- | sions. —————— Two Lumber Mills Shut Down. SANTA ORUZ, Nov. 2%.—Two Ilum- ber mills closed down yesterday for the winter after 2 big season's,run. The mill of the California Timber Company on Waterman Creek and the mill on Deer Creck, belonging to the Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company. S BANNER YEAR BOYCOTT FAILS CANPAICN FUNDS FOR FARMERS| TO CHECK TRADE| MAY SEE LICHT Production for 1905 in the United States Reaches Over Six Billion Dollars ALL RECORDS BROKEN Secretary Wilson in Annual Report Takes Occasion to Score the Speculators ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—“The wealth of the production of the farms of the United States in 1905 reached the high- est amount ever attained in this or any other country—3$6,415,000,000.” his annual report, of which the fordgoing is an extract, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presents an array of figures and a statement telling of the products and profits of the farmers of this country, which, he says, dreams of wealth of production could hardly equal.” Four crops have made high records this year as to value-—corn, hav, wheat and rye—although in amount of produc- tion the corn crop is the only one that exceeds previous yields. In every crop the general level of production was high and that of prices still higher. Besides the enormous yield of wealth, the Secretary estimates that the farms of the country have increased in value during the past five years an aggregate of $6,133,000,000. “Every sunset during the past five years,” he says, “has registered an in- crease of $3,400,000 in the value of the farms of this country.” This increased value, the Secretary suggests, is invested better than In bank deposits or even in the gilt-edged bonds of private corporations. In dealing with the crop report “leak,” Secretary Wilson, after refer- ring to the “gross breach of trust” on the part of one of the employes of the Bureau of Statistics, say: This devartment acted with vigor and dls- pateh when It got evidence of wronkdoing on the Dart of its own officials, but we have no evidence of at the traders’ end of the line, where gambler: sumption disturb values to the injury of both and make loud outcry when creatures of their own kind corrupt officials to betray confidence for the love of money. The responsibility for this “leak’” Is shared by every one, who, to get money without work, gambles in farm products. ~ When this form of industry ceases these parasites who tempt department officials will Rave to work for their bread. The method of handling crop reports, Wilson says, has been thoroughly recast during the year. There also has been a decided change in the methods of work prescribed for field agents. Each agent is now confined to a definite group of famillar by travel each month. Analyzing the, principal crops for the year, the Secretary says that corn reached its highest production at 2,708,000,- 000 bushels, a gain- of 42,000,000 over the rext highest year, 1899; hay is second in order of value, although cotton held second place during the two preceding yea! The hay crop this year is valued at $805, 000,000, Cotton comes third with a valu- ation of $575,000,000, wheat $525,000,000, oats $282,000,000, potatoes $138,000,000, barley $58,000,000,000 tobacco $12,000,000, sugar cane and sugar beets $50,000,000, rice $13,892,000, $54,000,000 over last ye: “The farmer’'s hen,” the Secretary disciplinary or preventive action | interested neftter in the production mor con- | States with which he becomes thoroughly | Exports to China From the United States for This Year Greater Than Ever FIGURES SHOW GROWTH Shipments to the Flowery Kingdom Thirty Millions! Above Figures of 1904 g Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Despite the boycott against American products the export trade of the United States with China, as figured up to November, for 1905 ‘was more than twice as large as for the same period in any preceding year. This is shown by a bulletin issued by the bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. The officials who computed it have not concerned them- selves with the reasons for this increase in the face of the boycott. The advent of peace, the industrial awakening of the ‘entire Chinese empire and the efforts which Ameriéan cotton manufacturers | bhave made to make and maintain an| Oriental market have been potent factors in the growth of the export trade. The bulletin says: * In the month of October, 1906, for which the Department of Commerce, through its bureau | of statistics, has just announced its figures, the total was larzer than in any preceding Octo- ber, with the single exception of October, 1904. | The total value of the merchandise exported | t United States to China in the ten months ending with October, 1905, was $30.- 104,267, against $20.557.184 in the a- Ing ten months of 1004, which up to that time was the high record year In our trade with China. | The United States sold to Canada last year exports to the value of $166,000,000. | This amount constituted more than 62 per | cent of the whole Canadian imports, and it was only 11 per cent of the exports of the United States. says, “is becoming a worthy companion to his cow. The annual production of eggs Is now a score of billions. Poultry | products have climbed to a place of more | than a half_billion dollars in value, so the farmer's hen competes with wheat for precedence.” There arc more horses and with a | larger aggregate value than ever before, notwithstanding, as the Secretary say they were “threatened by the bicycle and | later by the suburban trolley and the | | automobile.”” He estimates thelr value at ! | $1,200,000,000, or nearly as much as the! corn crov. Although mileh cows are increasing in | number and value, the report states that | other cattle and sheep have for several | | years been decreasing. There are 17,500,000 ! i milch cows, valued at $2,000,000. Other | cattle are numbered at 43,669,000, with a | value of $462,000,00. Swine number 47-! ! 321,000, valued at $263,235.000. In the aggre- gate the value of farm animals has in- | creased a few million dollars within the { year and since the census of 130 has in- | creased 9 per cent. | With this enormous | Secretary says, the wants of 53,000,000 peo- from productfon, the | George D. Adams, Tow: | holiday goods now on display. Plan Set on Foot by Perry Belmont to Bring About Publicity as to Donations COMMITTEE IS SELECTED Subject Will Be Brought to the Attention of Congress and Legislation Advocated WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Perry Bel- mont of New York, who is advocating a plan for publicity in all matters relating to campaign contributions, has appeinted the following committee to urge legisia- tion on the subject: Joseph W. Folk. Missouri: Governor Lucius C. Garvin, Rhode Island: M. E. Iingalls, Ohlo; MelvilldE. Stone, New York: G. B. M. Harvey, New York: Oscar S. Straus, New York; Norman B. Mack, John G. Milburn, Ed- ward M. Shecard, Martin W. Littleton. J. Hampden Robb, Edward Lauterbach, Francis L. Stenson, former Governor Frank S. D. E. Lockwood, Jullus M. Mayer, B Haven Putnam, all of New York: J. W. Kern, Indiana; Clark Howell, Georgia: John Wanamaker, Philadeiphia: J. H. Clark and Judson Harmonm, Ohlo; W. D. Vandiver, Mis- souri; August Belmoni, New York: J. J. Wil- lett, ‘Alabama; B. B. Smalley. Vermont: Jo- ¢eph Quincy. 'Massachusetts: Jjobn E. Lam Indiana; Colonel Alexander Troup, Conmeot! cut; P.'H. Quinn_ Rhode Island; Charles W. Knapp, Missourt; . Francis L. Stenson, New York; Claude A.' Swanson, Virginia: Ira Rem- sen, Baltimore; John T. McGraw, West Vir- ginia; James K. Jones, Arkansas; Andrew Car- negie, Pennsylvania; William R.” Nelson, Mis- souri; J. G. Schurman, president of Corneil e, University; James te, Tennesses: Benjamin 'Andrews, University of Nebraska: George Ha: Dres- ident of Ambherst College: M. Woolsey Stryker, president. of Hamiiton College. Belmont has sent letters to prominent men throughout the country expressing the opinion that the time has arrived to advocate by means of organization, na- tional in character, the enactment in all States of such legislation on the subject as “embodies the results of the practical experience of Missourl and Massachu~ setts.” . The letter says Wiliam J. Bryan, Judge Gray, Carl Schurz, James R. Garfleld, Ed- ward M. Shepard and Samuel Gompers are among those who have consented to act as members of the national committee now being formed. “The necessity of Federal legislation on this subject has bécome apparent,” it is added, “and such legislation should be strongly supported in the coming session of Congress.” —_————— The New Safety Station At the foot of Grant avenus and O'Farrell street faces the best Trunk, Dress Sult Case, Hand Bag and General Leather Goods Depart- ment in the city—come and see us. 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