The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1905, Page 1

.The Call Prints More News Than Anu Other Paper Published i ————— > south winds. A THE WEATHER. Forecast for December 8: n Francisco and viein ng cloudiness Wednesday, District Forecaster. —Increas- with fresh G. McADIE, THE THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—‘“The Sword of the King." ALHAMBRA—“After Midnight." CALIFORNIA—*London Gaiety Girla.™ CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—"The Collegs Widow."" GRAND—"‘Shadows on the Hearth. MAJESTIC—'‘The Private Secretary. ORPHEUM—Vaddeville. Matinee. TIVOLI—Comie- Opera. Matinee. NEW STREET TWENTY PAGES-—SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1905—PAGES 1 TO 10. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TRANSPORTATION IDEAS ARE UGGESTED TO CITYS MERCHANTS. . Association last evening at the eighth annual dinner of the association The long expected report of Engineer William Barclay Parsons on “The Future Street Traffic of San Francisco” was read before the Merchants' Patrick Calhoun and others spoke The two persons.named strongly favored a trolley road system on Market street and elsewhere, disapproved of subways and advocated piercing of hills with tunnels for street cars. BANNERMAN N SADDLE N ENCLAND Made fie:mier and Will Form New Cabinet. SRR Liberal Leader to Urge Peace,Retrenchment and Reform. 1 would drive the at of the Cabinet be the party to On the o n the part of ti onvert th st organiz send the extreme the men Bannerman agree to Chamberlain ress forward r reform In v public s side of Ireland man- first the the the colonies for i purp t possible will make the fight sgainet the disrup of the United | ngdom. former Lord Presid of the Cou i, was among the callers on the new Premier before th to the palace and in political circles importance ie attached to the visit, as possibly signi- fying some kind of working.agreement on certain points of policy between the anti- protectionist Unfonists, of which the uke has been the recognized leader nce his secession from the Baifour Cab- inet, and the new Government The foliowing official announcement was meade to-night Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman inform King Edward that he would be un % mit his proposed arrangements in commection with the formation of & new Government until ing Edward left London this t Lord Arlington st Crichel, P Tl S BIG IRISH CONVENTION. Home Rule to Be Urged st Gathering in Dublin. DUBLIN. Dec. 5—Flags, bunting and intense popular rejoicing mark the evs of to-morrow’s great convention of th Irish party in this city. Hundreds of visitors from all parts of the country are present. The appearance of the hotels, streets and shops suggests a national fete, Special trains this afternoon brought in the delegates who will make up to- morrow’s great assemblage. The Belfast delegates will reach Dub- lin early to-morrow morning and will march in & body from Amlens-street sta- tion to the convention at Mansion House. This delegation, like innumerable others, has sent assurances of unity in advance. announces that every breeder of dis- cord at this crucial moment must be sup- pressed The Nationalists must close up their ranks to support the collective judgment #f the trusted leaders of the movement. Ciis is the sentiment Willism O'Brien, party | e Duke of Devonshire, Liberal Union. { MASSACRE 0F HEBREWS N ODESSA Children Tortured . Before They Are Killed. | Parents Murdered After | Witnessing Suffer- | ings of Babes. Special Dispatch to The Call LONDON. 6.—The Chronicle's orrespondent Vienna telegraphs: Podwoloczyska, a town on the Russo-Galiclan frontier, 18 crowded with fugitives from Kieff, Odessa, Kharkoff, sVoronezh and other South Russian towns. They relate terrible sterles of anarchy and atrocious cru- el De milies were murdered by whole- sale in Odessa on Sunday last and their property destroyed by booligans. Jew- s childrem were tortured in the pres- ence of their parents ®nd then killed, | the purents themselves being afterward massscred. Hundreds of corpses are | Iving in the streets, no one daring to remove them—not even the nuns offer- ing help to the wounded or the mur- raph The fateful question with = which Russia is now confronted is whether the nation will await the election of the legislative 3 nbly or help anarchy 10 victory. The Cabinet was formed for the purpose of putting power into the hands of a national assemfibly, and if it cannot accomplish this it will re- sign. The aim of the revolutionists is to compel ‘the Cabinet to create a se- ries of accomplished facts, modifying the manifesto of October 30, which the Douma shall then be unable to alter. Ihus they demand a set of temporary measures, such as equal rights for all citizens, which, if granted, would, by their very nature, be not temporary, but definitive and immutable. If the Jewish disabilities are thus »ved by a new minfsterial act anti- rio acconipanied by awful cres, would inevitably follow, be- the people would resent any surpation by the Ministers of power belonging only to the nation and the Czar. Hence the Government is ex- ly desirous of bringing the Dou- together and great haste is now be- made to frame an electoral law. obably an electoral bill, based d iversal but not secret suffrage be adopted by the Cabinet, which tre ow meeting in council. Assuming the Czar assents, strenuous efforts will be made to get the Douma to- gether by rch 6, the anniversary of the em fon of the serfs. The danger of great indeed | — TWO MILLIONS FOR RELIEF. crious disorders within is | American Fund for Russian Hebrews Will Be Donated. | \NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—It was decided | vesterday by the national committees for the relief of Jews in Russia to raise at least 31,000,000 more. When the committee met Mr. Straus said: “I had hoped that this meeting would be our last, but it is not to be, Although more than $1,000,000 has been collected for our coreligionists, no of- fering that could be lur"canhb;fl\sfli}:xen\»" made is sufficient { Jacob H. Schiff report | forwardea ll‘noo‘ooopbyega;?:ttzel:tg Rothschild in London. Since the com- pletion of the first $1,000,000 the com. | mittee has received $35,000. | It was learned yesterday that B. H. Harriman was the anonymous con- tributor of $10,000 last Saturday. oOf the $1,000,000 collected about 20 per cent was contributed by Christians. PR e Russian News inued on Page 4. + = | who is the leader of an insignifican | of Natlonalists, is urged to retml;‘lrroo‘: all disruptive action. The pronouncement of the convention will be strong and unequivocal, and home rule will be set forth as the one reform that includes all others and without which Ireland can never desist from its enmity toward England. All the Jeaders are very hopeful because of the disaster which has befallen the party “organ: twenty years ago to throttle Ireland.” They declare that the@English electorate wants England and Ireland to quit quar- reling, knowing that this can occur only when the present system of government for the latter is abolished. correspondent at St. | telegraphing under date of | and Calhoun Favors Trol- ley Lines on _M ar- ket Street. City Raitway Condi- tions Debated at i Dinner. Association Listens to Report by an Expert. | At the eighth annual dinner of the | Merchants' Association. which was held | last evening at the Palace Hotel, Willlam | Barclay Parsons sumitted a long opin- fon, as an expert, regarding the street traMc, problem of San Francisco. An invitation to pare an opinion was ex- tended to Mr. Parsons by the Merchants' Association some months ago. Mr. Par- sons s the engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, a member of Engineer Parsons Advocates Tunneling the Hez’g/;‘} o 1977, vl [AsSS o - | | | TN =y T T OIY i | T PPS vrvg o N the Royal Commission on Street Traffic Panama Canal Commission. His connec- tions and experience led the Merchants' Association to seek his advice. All the seats at the tables were filled last even- ing when his opinjon was read. Patrick Calhoun and others spoke. PARSONS’' CONCLUSIONS FAVOR TUNNELING HILLS Engineer Also Declares That He ‘Wonld Have the Trolley on Market Street. Succinetly recounted, the conclusions that Mr. Parsons reached are as follows: First—The 'transportation system of San Francisco should be made uniform with the greatest elasticity of operation, and to this end cables, steam engines and horses as motive. power should be abolished, and one system of traction should be introduced. Second—Taking into account the present state of the art, the fact that the greater part of San Francisco's rallways cannot ized | be ot.hcrwmu; changed, and for operative reasons, trolley. Third—That arrangements should be made to extend the rallway system to parts of the city not now equipped with rallways so as to make place for addl- system is the overhead ol LVIE WS OF PROPO of London, and consulting engineer of the | , ticnal population within the city limits. Fourth—That all new trolley lines be ! built with overhead construction greatly superior to that now In use in either San Francisco or other American cities 80 as not to disfigure the appearance of | the streets, and all feed wires be placed | under ground. | Fifthb—That fgr the present the con- struction of a subway on Market street be postponed. Sixth—That two tunnels be constructed under Nob Hill, permitting the removal of the cable lines, and that such tunnels be built by thelstreet car companies or by the municipality and leased to the companies. Seventh—That one or more inclined ter- races be constructed on the eastern slope of Nob Hill, so that horses with wagons or carriages may ascend and descend freely. . These recommendations, as will be set forth by the officlal organ of the Mer- chants’ Assoclation In its monthly issue to appear to-day, have not been approved or acted on in any manner, but the as- ‘sociation caused them to be made public to invite discussion. Some of the recom- mendations, so the Merchants’ Associa. tion Review will say “editorially, “were entirely unexpected by the association's president and directors, especially 'the sections relating to the comparative merits of underground conduit and over- Terracing the Slopes of Nob Hill. S b » SED IMPROVEMENTS AND MEN WHO FA VO&CHANGEfl i head trolley transmission; they feel, how- ever, that it is thefr duty to present the report as the most scientific opinion ob- tainable.” * ‘While the association retained a non- committal attitude, the members were evidently greatly interested 'in the sug- gestions that were made and listened at- tentively. Several ideas, especially that relating to inclined terraces on the east- ern slope of Nob Hill, were new. MARKET-STREET SUBWAY WOULD BE TOO COSTLY Mr. Parsons did not favor the con- struction of a subway on Market street. He figured the cost of such subway at $2,000,000 e mile, with stations and equipment, and said that there was not sufficient travel to-day on any one route in San Francisco to pay the operating expenses and interest on any such in- vestment. But one city in the United ! States had attempted the building of a subway supplementary to surface cars, and that was New York, where traffic conditions were of an extraordinary na- ture and mot duplicated in any other city in the world. For short distances up to an average journey length of two or three miles people preferred surface cars. When the dcn-ltglelol the out- lying population was suffictent, a sub- way under Market street and the Twin ‘with branches to the west and south, would be the solution. How- ever, Mr. Parsons would have tunnels in other parts of the city at once. He would tunnel Nob Hill at California street for car lines, and also tunnel be- tween Washington and Jackson streets, and would make Nob Hill more accessi- ble. “For the elimination of the gradients cn Nob Hill I would suggest,” said Mr. Parsons, “that the hill itself be tun- neled, beginning on the west at the east side of Hyde street and running to Dupont or Mason street on the east. For the present two such double track tunnels would seem to be ample, one located under California street and o located to the north of it. under, say. Jackson street, or such other street as may seem more desirable. Tunnels of this character cost less to construct than the accepted type of subway, for the reason that they are so deep‘as not to interfere in any way with sewers, water and gas pipes, thus saving the cost of removing and rebuilding suc underground obstructions; and in t {case under discussion there would net be involved any additional cost for equipment, which, in the comstruction of underground subways, forms a very important item of the total cost. “The tunnel under California street would extend from Hyde street to Du- —_— Continued on Page 3, Columa 1. DALAYHPLES | REPORT v T0 THEPRES Strikes Hard at Mu- * nicipal Ownership in America. LONDON, Dec. 5—The Standard says: “Mayor Dunne of Chicago, recently in- vited Mr. Dalrymple, manager of Glas- gow tramways, over to America to ad- vise him as to the best means of mumic- | ipalizing their tramways. “Mr. Dalrymple was expected to biess municipal ownership, but when he saw what could be done by private entdrprise, when allowed fair play he came to a very different. opinion, and in his report he candidly sald: “‘] came to this country a bellaver in public ownership. What I have seen here—and I have studied the situation carefully—makes me realize that private ownership, under proper conditions, is far better for the citizens of American cities. ~“‘To put the street rallroads, gas works, telephome companies, ete., under municipal ownership would be to create, a 1 machine in every large city that would be simply impregnable. * *“Thése political machines are already strong enough, with their control of the policemen, the firemen and other office- holders. *“If, in addition to this. they could con- trol the thousands of men employed great public utility corporations, the po- litical machines would have a power that could not be {5 The foregoing is given as a portiom of the report sent by Dalrymple to Mayor and by the lattes.