The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1906, Page 2

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Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Go, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUA 30, 1906 EVOLUTION DEPRIVES HIM OF HIS INCOME. Trouble in Poland Causes Enormous Loss to World-Noted Singer. ——— M Y OF HIS INCOME EAU IN POLAND US SINGER. WHO HAS LOST EVERY GH THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, AND HIS HELD BY SOCIALISTS. Jan. 29 has lost ily by the onary out- the C than Reszke sing- £ the largest estates in Po- ac ted the richest man ddenly been deprived f income from his an still be called his. a big palace in Paris nds and many dependent upon hours with a pair of to drive across Jean de ad acres in Poland. The of hie brother and sister ad- 3 so that among them the De Reszkes owned as much land as would make u goodly sized province. Now the | up in arms and are par- e land among themselves the I am I feel the worst should come, to go back to the stage able to make a tour in ica. My few years of teaching ha rested me and have given me time to work out my theories and to put them o practice. But I hope necessity will compel me to give up teaching, for o the music loving world lles there ur beloved Poland.” he contin- “socialists are taking possession of the land. Their object is to divide p into small patches the thousands of acres held by the large landholders. They are everywhere. Thelr steady work of a quarter of a century is being brought to a ciimax. Hesitation in St. "It able pertectly Petersburg upsets everything. It seems as though the end of Czarism and Grand Dukes has come. any right in any land to oppression or. any I do not think. how- No one has encourage peasant other oppression. ever, that our peasants in Poland are oppressed. It is Poland, beautiful, his- torical Poland, and not Russia which interests me. You ask me, can we have back a King? How can I tell? We have been =0 long without one that it is aif- ficult know ‘what to do.” FESTIVAL OF THE HARVEST. In your Poland, M. de zke, have y many castes?” you , no. we are almost ds different as | possible from India in this respect. In- | deed, I think, that practically there are | more castes or classes in the United States than in Poland. In fact, we have omly two notably distinct classes, namely, nobles and peasants. Our no- bles are proud, but I think they are kind. The kindness of landowners in Poland is not necessarily a protection. For kindly disposed peasants are fre- quently compelled to join the mob.” “How do you work the land in your Poland?” “The large landowner works {t through his peasants. The peasants own certain strips of land. The wages | paid them are not large, but they grow | upon the bits of land given them food for themselves and thelr cattle. On Fidays they are permitted to pick up the dead branches of the trees in the forests of the landowners. “In the past a pretty annual custo, obtained, which went to show the friendly relations existing between the | peasant and the noble. It was a spe- | cles of what would be called a Harvest Home In England. When the harvest was gathered in, the people used to as- semble and make presents of little | rustic ornaments to the landowners. Thelr habit was on these occasions, while partaking of the hospitality of their chiefs, to sing their masters’ praises. Frequently they took occa- sion to enhance the virtues of thelr own chief by depreciating and abusing those of their neighbors. “These gatherings were exceedingly picturesque. The brilliant red or yel- low flowers in the shgwls of the wom- en pleased the eye. Altogether I know of nothing so picturesque as & Polish Harvest Home. This pleasant custom will now duobtless disappear Iorever. “Every year the Harvest Home, ftwhich I have tried to describe. used to take place upon my estates and those of my brother and. sister. It is one of the pleasantest memories of my life in Poland. T have tried to do my best for the people; I have lodged them well and otherwise looked after their wants, True, all proprietors are mot good to nocent should not xullty. suffer with the Spectal Dispatc outlook’ M. de Reszke | Amer- | those dependent upon them, yet the in- | to The Call. “I understand that Paderewski has sold some of “his Polish property.,” he |added. “What he has retained is | doubtless in the same condition as that of the rest of us. The state of affairs seems to be not merely a‘revolt, nor a ution, but a dissolution.’ ill Poland get autonomy?” I asked. “I presume she will take it. But the people are not ready for self-govern- | ment and I fear that it will lead to ‘annrchy. And what will follow after { that heaven only knows!" HIS AMERICAN PUPILS. The conversation in Poland had reached a jumping off place and I changed the depressing subject by ask- ing M. de Reszke if he had many Amer- ican pupils. His face brightened up immediately, lighting up with the joy that he takes in his art. S ve fifty American girls study- i ing singing,” he answered. “They are | my hope and pride; their voices are the freshest and the best. I take a limited number of pupils from all nationalities, but I take more from the United States [than from any other country, for the reason that they are the most promis- {ing. But they do not always get a {fair chance. They do not study long | enough. In elghteen months their | voices can be placed, but this is not | enough. A great deal of polishing has to be done. “A young girl comes to me and tells me that she is starving and that she has an excellent offer from some im- | presario. How can I have the heart to tell her not to take i{t? And yet it Is against her iInterests. She goes out unfinished. She is forced by those around her who think aloud to dispose of a large share of her salary for cos- tumes. She has not had time to recu- perate after her studies and she is lia- ble to break down. “Young girls - should stay until I say they are finished and are otherwise ready to appear before the public. It is not fair to the pupil nor to me to have a pupil go out as mine until she has recelved my last finishing touch.” s the singing improving?” No. It has been going from bad to | worse, not only here, but all over the world. Patti sang in my private thea- ter gphe other night, and her presence brought back to my memory the great galaxy of artists now gone. She I8 wonderful. Melba has a marvelous voice, Calve is a great artist, but where are the many gifted ones of our youth? Echo anewers. where? “Had I not taken to teaching, I fear my method would be lost. I try to get the best out of the voices—the purest, the most durable, the freshest tone and the perfection of style. Attention must be pald not only to tone-placing but to interpretation. There must be absolute freedom of tone. Puplls should not be taught to sing by contraction as so many have been lately.” AIDS THE POOR GIRLS. “I understand some young American girls, M. de Reszke, In thelr zeal to get on, study when they have not enough food, that they come to their' lessons looking like ghosts, that not only do you give them lessons for nothing, but you give them money to pay for places at the opera, the Opera Comique and classical concerts. Is all this true?” “Let not your left hand know what your right hand has given. Alas, I do very little. I would like to do much more. The eight young American girls whose names shall be nameless, and whom I am helping, have marvelous voices. On the other hand, some of the young women who study with me be- long to the wealthiest families. I be- lleve the less favored ones would all be provided for if the attention of rich Americans were called to the needs of these students. “I speak from experience when I say that the United States is the most gen- erous country on earth. These young their compatriots by thelr exqui: voices, but many of them 'qumn‘t:: the highest credit upon thelr country. The United Btates s destined to have the best vocal music in the world. Nor is the time far distant when the United States will lead the other na- tions in vocal music. as much as she | does to-day in agricultural imple- ments. A “Speaking about helping American young girls who are studying music, understand that certain M/-h: . ‘migration. girls will not only- afford pleasure to BOYCOTT DUE T0 CONSPIRACY Senators Assert Chinese Merchants and Students Are Not Back of Movement ORIGIN - OF TROUBLE Persons Interested in Getting Coolie Labor. Into This Country Are Responsible WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The Chinese boycott and the administration of the forest reserves divided the attention ot the Senate to-day. The C..nese ques- tion came up in connection with a resolution by Tillman directing an in- vestigation by the Committee on Im- Tillman modified the reso- lution by omitting the major portion of the preamble, and after, consider- able discussion the resolution was re- ferred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses. Dubois expressed the bellef that an investigation would not show that the exclusion laws had been too rigidly en- forced. He sald the boycott was con- fined almost wholly to the Canton dis- trict, which the Taft party, of Wwhich he was a member, was warned not to visit. A few of the party believed, he said, that the Japanese were back of the boycott, for the reason that when American traders leave the Japanese take their place.. All the gullds in the Cantonese dfstrict, said Dubois, were back of the boycott because of the ef- fort to keep. coolles out of the United States. ’ Both Dubois and Teller declared that the students and merchants were mnot back of the boycott and that it orig- inated with persons interested in get- ting coolie labor into this country. Dubois referred to the South and the demand .for Chinese to .supplant negro labor, which remark provoked dis- claimers from Clay and Tillman. The latter said the South had conditions bad enough now without further mix- ing them up. Heyburn raised the question regard- ing the reservation of forests. He sharply eriticized the methods of the forestry bureau and charged it with maintaining a press bureau for the purpose of attacking him. He de- clined, however, to hold the President responsible for this course. He said that the course was calculated to re- tard the development of the West. Du- bois took a contrary view, defending the policy pursued and contending that it was in the interest of the arid region. STON LIS MSTERY HITS OF FOUL LAY Continued from Page 1, Col. 6 one oxplanation, He had it with him when he was murdered, and the man who committed the deed got this great wealth of plunder, then hastened his gullty foot- steps to a place where he could live with- out fear of detection. RELATIVES ON TRAIL. The discovery of these facts dates back for the last four weeks, during which Stinson's relatives in the East have been seeking to open his safety deposit box in the Union Trust Com- pany. A sister, Mrs. Sarah Cooper, of Portland, Me., and her two daughters sent out Attorney Robert Foster to conduct the legal steps necessary to have the box opened Foster got Special Ad- ministrator William J. Hynes and Attor- ney Thomas J. Hickey to assist him. It was seven years since the disap- pearance of Stinson, and Judge Troutt accordingly, on application, declared the man legally dead. Further proof was given to Judge Kerrigan yesterday morning in the nature of an absolute identification of the photograph pub- lished in The Call seven years ago of the dead body found in Stow Lake as that of Stinson. Judge Kerrigan issued the order to have the box opened, and yesterday afternoon the lock was sawed into. In- stead, however, of the gold and securi- ties thought to be within, the box was empty. There was not even a letter to give any clew to the disposal of the fortune. ‘These are the facts developed yesterday which opened up. the story of mystery. Stinson last visited the vdult on August 12, 1898. He expressed his intention at that time of going to British Columbia. He was known then to possess a fortune of considerable amount. Nothing more was heard of him. A month later a dead body was picked up in Stow Lake by A. Chaquette, a laborer. The body was that of a man about 6§ years of age, with a full beard. Blood stains were found on his face and there was every appearance of foul pla) Three wallets were found turned inside out within his coat pockets. On the small finger of the left hand was found a plain band ring. The initials “J. 8.” were stitched on the tab of the shirt. POLICE WERE BAFFLED. The police Investigated the affair, but could learn nothing of the man or of the manner in which he met his death. He was buried by the city as an unknown. The Call at the time published a photo- graph of the dead body. . Last week an old friend of Stinson saw a legal notice in the papers con- cerning the opening of the safety d posit box. He knew W. J. Evans of the office of Hynes and he went to him about the case. Together they went over the files of The Call until they found the protograph of the man found dead in Stow Lake. Instantly this old friend cried, “That is he. That is John Stinson.” Then followed the order and the opening of the box. Stinson was in the habit of writing to his sister in Portland, Me. He wrote nearly every month, and his last letter was written on August 10, 1898. He had told his sister just before that of his bonds and his mining stooks. He had made her a Christmas present of $4000 shortly before for the bujlding of a house. He also told her that he had made a will. This, too, cannot be dies have given money for British and American Christian tions and the like with the idea that they will help students, Now mark you. I ah a Christian—a firm believer in Christian- ity—but I say these o izations do not help a musical pup The young girl studying music must have a ¢ertain fling or latitude. This is necessary to a op her temperament. I do not m that she should not be in every way correct and ladylike. but the at- ‘mosphere of the Girls’ Christlan Asso- ciations does not promote the growth of the artistic temperament ey ARMED MEN PATROLLING BANKS OF SAN PABLO. Fight Between the Two Rival Companies of Ala- meda County Assumes Big Proportions. Continued from Page 1, Col. S. For several months there has been a quiet but steady absorption of lands car- rying water rights in the watershed of San Pablo Creek above the site of the proposed dam. These purchases have been made in'the Interests of the Realty Syn- | dicate, and the purpose is clearly disclosed by to-day’s developments. But as to the actual title of the property which has be- | come the scene of conflict, that is to say, the reservoir and dam site, there is a pe- culiar situation, Seven-ninths of the Clan-| cy ranch is owned by the Contra Costa Company, which has enjoined Havens, Bmith and the Syndicate from doing any construction work there. To the other; two-ninths the Syndicate claims title, and they also assert that they have located the dam on their own lands. But this is a matter for the rivals to settle by the in- Jjunction proceedings, which will be heard later before Superior Judge Wells at Mar- tinez. A temporary restraining order has been issued, however, and this stops all | work there until the title and other legal questions are settled. Under the law the Syndicate has ten days in which to answer the order to show cause why the temporary injunction should not be made permanent. TO OWN ENTIRE CREEK. ' The issue in the condemnation suit filed to-day is a simple one. The Contra Costa Water Company pu-poses to condemn the two-ninths owned by the Syndicate, and it is explained as follows by Attorney M. C. Chapman: -1 filed condgmnation suits against 126 de- fendants along San. Pablo Creek early this morning at Martinez, We have purchased con- siderable valuaple territory without haggling over prices /and propose wlen we are through | With it to own the entire creek from the mountaina to the sea. Most of the suits ars for the riparian rights only, but wherever we | consider that the land is necessary for our use we are condemning the land as well. We now own seven-ninths of the only real | reservoir site on San Pablo Creek on what is | known as the Clancy place. The remalaing | two-ninths we propose to condemn. This site | lies about ten miles east of the mouth of San Pablo Creek, where it enters the .bay at San Pablo. Above this site the creek extends about six or elght miles farther to the headwaters. Some of this land we have bought and our | suits now cover the entire creek from one end to_the other. The Contra Costa Water Company has long been awake to the value of this water supply and has had holdings there for years and has been gradually acquiring others for the purpose of using this water when the population of the area it now serves demanded it. The ac- tion of the new corporation, however, has forced it to take fmmediate steps and we be- lleve we have the Syndicate headed off. Bar- ring some small purchases of land it has gained we assert it has no permanent foothold. URGES PUBLIC NECESSITY. The suit is based on the theory that the . Contra Costa ,/Water Company re- quires the Clancy land and the other hold- | ings for the public purpose of furnishing | water to the inhabitants of the territory ‘ LI e T B R R found, although the sister confidently expected that it was in the box. MURDER THEORY GROWS. Dr. James Healy, who lives at the California Hotel and who was an Inti- mate friend of Stinson, belleves that the man was murdered for his money. He, too, was surprised when the box was opened yesterday and found to | contain nothing. . He had interested | himself In the search for his old friend several years before, and in 1901 per- suaded Mrs. Cooper to come to San Francisco in the hope of finding some of the property. The box was not opened at that time. John McMahon of the Brooklyn Ho- tel is another old friend of Stinson who testifies to the amount of property that the mine owner held just before his death. He was equally surprised when the box was found empty. He agrees with the theory that Stinson was mur- | dered. Robert Foster will leave for the East | to-day with the news of the empty box | to take to the relatives of the dead man. It is likely that the family will conduct a hunt after the securities, and that possession of the Government bonds and indorsements on some of the securities may give a clew to the crime. which can be served from a supply stored in the proposed reservoir. While the condemnation suit carries a large number of holdings in its wake the crucial point is the reservoir site. A supply of from 6,004,000 to 10,000,000 gallons turbance of any prior appropriation rights. It is sald that San Pablo Creek and its main tributary, Bear Creek, form the only available water supply of con- siderable volume within reach of Oak- land this side of the Sierra Nevada Moun- tains. Amohg recent heavy purchases of water shed by the syndicate was that of the Thornton ranch of 1000 acres on the west side of San Pablo Creek north of | the Clancy place. SITE STRONGLY GUARDED. The active operations by the syndicate are In the hands of the Spring Construe- tion Company, which, with a force of thirty-five men, is holding possession of the disputed property. G. W. Monroe, the foreman in charge of the crew of men, declares that the company is prepared to protect its rights by force of arms If necessary. For three-quarters of a mile along the road to the north of the site | chosen for the dam, armed guards are patrolling the boundary lines of the prop- erty, and they allow no one to set foot on the land claimed by the Syndicate without an order from Monroe, or one of the officials of the company. The guards are in charge of Deputy Sheriff M. G, Aguiar, and those stationed along the road are: Robert Barkley, Jo- seph Fray and Maurice Gregory. A camp for the workmen and guards has been established In the old Laurel Glen Villa, which in years gone by was a well-known pleasure resort of Contra Costa County, but which has now been converted into a veritable fortress, with sentries posted around it day and night, to guard against surprise by the enemy. A stranger approaching the camp would notice nothing unusual until he had passed the boundary lines of the property | now In dispute, but he would get but few steps beyond the property line before he | would be halted by @& sharp order to “hold on there and tell us what your business here is.” BIG DAM PLANNED. The site of the dam which the Realty Syndicate proposes to erect across San Pablo Creek is at a point about six miles northeast of the town of San Pablo, on the Clancy ranch, and is an ideal spot for the establishment of an enormous reser- voir. Those in charge of the work say that they have not yet seen the plans of the dam, but from the place pointed out as the proposed site of the impounding structure it will be about 300 feet long at the top, and will form a lake which wiil be about fifty feet deep at its greatest depth. Lumber for fences and for use in the constriction of the dam had been trans- ported to the scene of operations yester- da- and all preparations Lad been made to commence work on the dam and fences to-day when the work was stopped by the service of the injunction issued by Judge Wells. Since the service of the injunc- tion, #orbidding the building of any fences, the construction of any dam er | the erection of any buildings on the dis- puted property, the orders of the court have been obeyed to the letter by those in possession of the property. No work of any kind covered by the injunction has been done to-day, and Foreman Monroe | says that none will be done until the case | s settled. = The men sent to the scene by the con- struction company were engaged to-day in cutting timber for use in the construc- tion of the dam. and In clearing away and. burning ti underbrush on the slopes which will form the banks of the reservoir. It was intended to put up several tents for the use of the workmen now on the ground, but when the order to erect no buildings of any character whatever on the ground was read it was decided by the officials of the Spring Con- struction Company that it would be bet- ter not to put up even a tent. MEN READY TO FIGHT. A gang of men was at once set to work cleaning up the abandoned building of the old Laurel Glen Villa, and to-night every man in the crew is safely housed Im | bullding which was aiready on the | grouna. When asked whether or fiot their | orders were to keep everybody off the | property except employes of the Syndi- | cate or Construction Company Foreman | of water daily, it is estimated, can be | Monroe said: taken from San Pablo Creek without dis- Our orders are not to allow any one on the land owned by the company represented by me. except those we know, or people holding aa order or permit from some official of the Spring Construction Company or the Realty Syndieate. Of course, this does not ~mean that we would -throw or drive off every man who might happen to take a walk through the creek bottom or a stray hunter or two, but we certainly do not intend to allow any crowd ot men to get inside our lipes at once. Wae are on ths property of the Realty Syn- dicate, and as we are in possession we do not intend to be driven off. The work which being done mow is of a character mot mei ticned in the papers served on us, and W not intend to do anything which will confl in the least with the order of Judge Well But we do intend to stay right hers, and if W have to fight to mainfain possession of this property why that will not be our fault NEW CORPORATION ORGANIZED. The articles of incorporation of the | Syndicate Water Company particularize as follows: That the number of directors of sald cor- poration shall be five and that the names and residences of the directors Who are appointed for the first year, and to serve until the: elec- | tion and qualification of such officers, are as | follows, to wit | Smith, city of Ouakland, Alameds County, Cal. | “F G Havens, township of Oakigad, Alameda Cal. Spring, township of Brooktyn, Ala- meda County, Cal. Touis Titus, town of Berksley, Alameds Cal. . larks, town of Berkeley, Alamedn . Cal. B st ol SHU Rt sald co ration is . 3 . of shares it which it s Jivided in 50,000, at the par value of eacl “ That the amount of sald capital stock which has been actually subscribed is $200,000, and the following are the names of the persons by whom the same has been subscri’ , with the amount and number of shares actually sud- scribed by each of said P'I'T:m! set opposite their respective names, to wit: F. M. Smith, 400 shares, §$40,000 F. C. Havens 400 shares, $40.000. 3. H. Spring. 400 sbares, $40.000, Louls Titus, 400 shares,’ $40.000. §. M. Marks, 400 shares §40.000. HAVENS TELLS PLANS. F. C. Havens of the Realty Syndicate sald to-night: . We are interested in the growth of Oakiand | and belteve ity prosperity is being held back by the present high price of water. With the | supply that we can deveiop we can materially Qecrease this and our patrons as well as thosa | of the opposition would gain the bemefit. We | Eave been supplying the residents of Pledmont for the past five or six years from Sausal | Creek and this is only a small quantity com- | pared with that we will develop, When our plans are carried into execution on San Pabio Creek. Asked if there was any truth in the | story that the Syndicate Water Company had been formed for the purpose of secur- ing all the water rights not already owned by the Contra Costa Water Com- pany for the purpose of forcing the Con- tra Costa later on to sell out when the growth of the city demanded mofe water | Havens sald: | There is nothing in that We belleve that thers is need of water now. This has been fmpressed upon us aiready and we have Deen supplying considerable water already to & large number of residents. We are closely connected with the advancement of this city and belleve that everything that can be dona should be for its improvement. Expansion mieans a great deal and if cheaper water will help the people we purpose giving it to them. Havens said the armed guards on the property were not syndicate men. 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