The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1906, Page 3

sk R “THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY" GOLD MEDAL FORHERO OF WRECKED VALENCIA Bravery of Greek Fire- man Wins Him a Decoration. Bodies of the Victims| | Are Slowly Coming to Shore. ed with ¢ the First f the Greek ectual Grant lands thout or wreck- wh is at Dar- ere toward | ng at L es and casks of the gurf and he ex- »dies will be found | bry t In by gs were made | ore near | ates | were sent s steamship e dlamond, and a chain another body. TOUCHING nd relatives of his niece, offered $100 re- ncle’s body, a de- done on apolis den- ed to-day corpse. | re shipped | The Lorne des of nine | s returning lescription PASSES OV R VALENCIA. | | egain went over the — -+ HERO OF THB VALENCIA WRECK | WHO WAS PRESENTED WITH A | - -L GOLD MEDAL YESTERDAY. wreck and sent in a dory with two Nome | beachmen, who got off three bodies, which Cap: mith had ready. The boat wreck and I broke off & plece of the spar. The hull was seen plairly, ard its plates were broken. No bodles were seen. 1 feel sure that all 1s being done that is practicables though if it were a more settled community more men and stea' ps could be secured and & more sdequete search made. “There were some held theories that my ad been looted of rings , but I do not think so, and leave to-morrow for San Francisco. hes been positively identified, 1 work and compared it with ct to reach San Fran- lies taken from the > wreck and brought here he Wyadda to-night with the bodies found by the Perry, already been almost positively that of Mark Smith of Rock- On this > two rings, buckle keep: the word with aved thereon, and a gold made by the Stand- Another body is that of a big n g a blue sweater, with a gold ring with the letters S. K. engraved ide, and the third is of & man with considerable gold ge work in his teeth. The body is be- to be that of 1. J.-Bruer of Minne- and a telegram was sent to a polis dentist to endeavor to iden- fie grok MAY BE INVENTOR’S BODY. Maker of Wave Motor Believed to Be | Valencia Vietim. VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 4—One of the bodies brought in yesterday by the tug Wyadde is belleved to be that of Fred Starr, an inventor of San Francisco, clippings from a San Francisco paper telling of a wave motor plant installed at Ocean Wave Beach, which was in- vented by him, having been found on the body A dispatch from Bamfield says: The Lorne is leaving to-night with all bodies found up to date. Captain Smith's party found and buried two bodies at Darling to-day. They were badly decomposed and it was impos- sible to move them. P s SURVIVOR FILES SUIT. SEATTLE, Feb. 4.—Charles Allison of | St. Paul, who was one of the passen- | gers on the ili-fated Valencia, has filed in the United States Court the first suit for damages brought against the Paci- | fic Coast Company for damages received in the recent.wreck. The complaint | was filed yesterday afternoon and asks { that | pense for the mental and bodily suf- he be granted $5000 as a recom- g he endured as a result of the strophe. ————————— Brother of iss Van Wyek Reiates 2x- | FAST TRAINS RACING periemce ut Wreck. rived | by other | oy the tug | xperfences, | was of his wife and chil- i P no right over it, the Valencla floating spar, s of the afety valve at low tide. mnd five bodies he wreck. The | oy when or proceeded to ed word that d had been which lert | Perry 1 met Lineman off in a canoe on Fri- Humpbreys, and asked | ome men and remberg and six men were | ashore a mile west of the B Stremberg and his party dld! e good work. Lineman Logan re- | the re the body of woman in the breakers about 100 feet off shore, and could not be secured. Lieutenant 13 he would get it if he had He and four men clam- mberg s s _a | Month bered e the rocks and secured the body, b rising water cut them off ) they hnd &5 d the night on the ks without provisions “When with the five bodies recovered by the Perry this morning she stopped off the FOR MAIL CONTRACT Speed Contest Be- gun by Railroads to the Southwest. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4. contest between mail tralns on the Iron Mountain route and the Frisco-Missouri, K and Texas roads combination to secure the Government award for carry- ng the Southwestern mall was begun his morning. Both trains were stripped, consisting only of mail and express cars, and were drawn by the speediest locomo- procurable on the respective divi- sions. The speed contest will be contin- ued daily for a month, and on the show- ing made the Government mail contract for the Southwest will be awarded. The objective points of each train are Dallas and Fort Worth. The new sérvice will, it is estimated, make a gain of practically a day covering the distance. DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 4.—The Frisco-Katy fast mail, which left St. Louis at 2:45 o'clock this morning, reached Denison at 4:57 o'clock this afternoon, three minutes early, after attaining a maximum speed of 76% miles an hour to recover thirteen minutes lost north of South McAlester. A month's speed | The connections of the train passed Dal- las on time. The Iron Mountain-Cotton Belt-fast mail, | which left St. Louis at 3 a. m., reached Texarkana forty minutes late. Fifteen minutes of the loss was recovered, but the train broke in two at Sulphur Springs and reached Dallas at 9:3%, an hour and eight minutes late. A train connecting at Texarkana for provisions. | South Texas passed Longview on time. SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 4—A run of 575 miles In ten hours and thirty minutes was made to-day by a special train over Southern Pacific Railroad from Sparks, Nev., to Salt Lake. The train consisted of threg private cars, locomotive and tender. Vice President and General Manager W. H. Bancroft and other of- fieials were the passengers. The only pur- pose of the fiylng trip was to determine the speed possible under normal condi- tions. The average velocity of the train was fifty-five miles an hour, and at times the Wyadda was bound down |a speed of seventy-five miles an hour was attained. Stops were made for coal and water ntist having carefully examined | HOUSE T HEAR MANY SPEECHES Large Number of Members Want to Enter the Debate on the Railroad Rate Billt |LONG LIST OF ORATORS Fifty Democrats Anxious to Be Granted Time to Talk in Support of the Measure WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. — Chairman Hepburn, in charge of the rallroad rate bill in the House, is unable to see the end | of discussion of that measure. Under the special order it has the right ofi way until disposed of. The very first day of the debate, which was begun last Tues- day, developed the desire of many mem- bers to make speeches. An extra hour was added to each day, and still the list of applicants for time grew larger. Hep- burn has a long list of Republicans who are anxious to be heard, and Adamson, controlling the time on the minority side, says there are fifty Democrats who wish | to be heard in favor of the measure.” Speaker Cannon is inclined to let the de- | bate run and estimates that not before Wednesday or Thursday will the last ’speech be delivered and the vote recorded on the measure. | The friends in the Senate of the ship- ping bill are hopeful ‘of securing some | time during the week to vote on that | measure and the understanding is that | 50 soon as it 1s disposed of tne statehood | bill will succeed it as the unfinished bus- | tness. Much interest is manifested in the ap-, proaching contest in the Senate over the statehood question. Senator Beveridge, | who will again have charge of the bill, |is hopeful of securing a comparatively | ear®¥ vote, but many of his colleagues | tail to agree with him on that point. The supporters of the bill are very strenuous {in its advocacy and their opponents are just as determined. It is not generally expected that either side will yield until there is more definite information as to the probable.result of a vote than can now be secured. The critical . point of controversy will be the Foraker amenament giving the | Arizona people the privilege of voting on | | the question of admission. It s under- stood that the Democratic Senators wjll be almost a unit in support of this amend- ment and that it will also secure a num- ber of Republican votes. Just how many Republican supporters there may be is not known, and until there is definite in- | formation on that point the opponents of the bill will not agree to let a vote be | taken. EAST CRIPFED BY COLD WAYE fBIizzard in the Middle West | | Is Working Toward the At- | | lantic Seaboard and Gulf RO I WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The Weather Bureau to-day sent out the following cold forecast: The severe cold wave that covers the Western States to-day will sweep south- | ward to the Guif coast to-night and east- | ward over the Atlantic Coast States and | | the northern half of Florida on Monday | | and Monday night.” | KANSAS CITY, Feb. 4.—In the twenty- | four hours since Jast night the terapera- | ture in this part of the Southwest dropped | | from 40 to 60 degrees, with close to zero | weather reported at Trenton, Mo., and Wichita, Kas., to-night. A drop to below | zerc is predicted for' Western Missouri |and portions of Kansas, Oklahoma and | Northern Indian Territory by morning. | A light snow fell to-day and was driven | by a heavy north wind that, from Wichita southward into Oklahoma and Northern Indian Territory, became a gale. In Okla- |homa the wind reached a velocity of | forty-eight miles an hour. At Kansas City and Topeka to-night the temperature was 15 degrees.above zero. TOPEKA, Kas., Feb. 4—After being swept by a fierce blizzard for the greater | part of the day, Eastern Kansas to-night |1s in the grip of the most severe cold wave of the winter. The wind has sub- sided and snow has ceased falling. The | minimum temperature was 10 degrees above zero at 10 o'clock this morning. At 6 o'clock to-night it had risen to 16, but had started falling again and it is ex- pected to go below zero for the first time since last February. ARDMORE, L. T., Feb. 4—This section of Indian Territory is In the grasp of the ‘most severe blizzard of the winter. There was a drop of 60 degrees In the tempera- ture since last night, followed by a severe sleet storm. Cattle are in good condition. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 4—The heav- fest snowstorm of the season is raging to-night in Southern Indiana and Western | Kentucky. Many trains are delayed. CHLOROFORMS MAN | FATALLY INJURED Doctor Makes Sure of the Death of a Would-Be Suicide. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. El NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Ambulance Sur- geon Barrett of the Presbyterian Hospital | declared to-night that he administered chloroform to a man who was run over by a Second-avenue elevated train at Six- ty-fifth street station and was caught in the rear trucks of the first car in such a way that he could not be extricated. The chloroform was administered, Barrett said, “to make sure that he was dead.” Dr. Barrett crawled under the car, with hie case of instruments in hand, to give medical ald to the man If he was still alive. When he emerged fifteen minutes later he sald: “] am certain the man was dead. The forward trucks of the car had run over his body, and if he was not dead he was beyond all hope and it would have been inhuman to allow him to suffer. I there- fore administered some - chloroform to make sure he was dead.” There was nothing on the body by which the suicide could be identified. ‘When .the train pulled into the station and was about half way down the plat- form the man, who looked like a laborer, eprang to the track and lay across one of the rafls. The motorman of the train applied the emergency brakes, but not in time to avert running over the prostrate form. The body was so completely wedged in the trucks of the car that it was necessary to send to the repair yards of the railroad company for a wrecking car. A hydraulic jack had to be used to raise the car from the tracks before the body could be taken out. 3, 1906. YINKEE PLIYS |[PRISON IS HOME [(SES FORTUNE INADE_BRITA Five Dramas by Americans to Be Staged in London at Practically Same Time SELL AR ot GOODWIN WILL APPEAR In Case “The Gilded Fool” Pleases He Will Make a Long Stay 'in England Special Dispatch to The Cail. LQNDON, Feb. 4—It 1s about time for a renewed outcry on this . side of the water over the 'ousting” of the British playwright by his American fel- low. With no less than five plays by American authors coming on in London practically all at the same time, thers will be more tearful assertions that the native drama s ‘“moribund,” and as usual complete disagreement among learned doctors as to what is really the matter with the patient. Perhaps there I8' and perhaps there isn't anything to be deduced,from the coming boom in American plays. Mean- while, however, London is looking for- ward with uncommon Interest to at least two of the trans-Atlantic pleces that are now promised In such profu- sion. London doesn’t really care a rap whether a play is home or foreign- made so long as it is worth seeing, and cement that both “Shore he Gilded Fool” are to be here forthwith has proved unu- done sually welcome. It seems, however, that both these tried American pieces are to be Angli- cized to some extent before being given here. Cyril Maude has sécured the rights In “Shore’ Acres” and arranged with Eden Phillpotts to transfer the scene to England, and Nat Goodwin means to submit the Henry Guy Carle- ton play to similar treatment before producing It at the Shaftesbury. This theater, by the way, is open to Goodwin owing to the complete failure of C. M. 8. McLellan’s ambitious “Jury of Fate,” which is to be shelved next week, after a brief career. PLANS OF NAT GOODWIN. Goodwin says that if his old Ameri- can standby should happen to please London, he would be inclined to make a long stay at the Shaftesbury, and to produce there several other items from his American repertoire. And every- body will wish him well, for, as the actor once remarked at a public dinner here, he has already three “tombstones" | in England—the metropolls having frowned on “When We Were Twenty- One” and llkewise given the cold shoulder to “The Cowboy and the Lady” and “An American Citizen.” Of the other American plays that are coming on shortly, perhaps the most in- terest is being taken in Paul Kester's “Dorothy o' the Hall” Written for Fred Terry and Julla Nellson, who made s0 big a success of his “Sweet Nell of Old Drury,” this piece of Kes- ter's has been ready for productlon for ome time, but the Terrys have done so well with their *“Scarlet Pimpernel” that they only recently decided on a change of bill. “Dorothy o' the Hall” will be seen at | the New Theater some time during the coming month. Meanwhilg “The Lion and the Mouse” is to be put on at Froh- man's Duke of York’'s Theater as soon as the run of “Peter Pan” comes to an end, while at Wyndham’s will be seen Michael Morton's new comedy which he calls “The Little Stranger.” . Morton is now with Beerbohm Tree, and “The Little Stranger” is practically the first play he has written since he adapted “Resurrection” for the English actor's use. Tried on in the provinces it has proved a successful laughter-maker and should do well when produced in the metropolis. Another little instance of American activity in European dramatic affairs is the fact that a German purveyor of entertainment has just arranged for the German translation rights of a short comedy by Curtis Brown, entitled “Mrs. Hazenby's Health,” the English rights of which have been contracted for by James Welch, who expects to produce the play in London this season. CYRIL MAUDE'S WELCOME. Cyril Maude had bad luck when Charing Cross rallway station tumbled over on the Avenue Theater and crushed the result of months of care- ful work and thousands of dollars of expense on the part of the actor-man- ager in the hope of making a perma- nent playhouse for himself. Winifred Emery, who is Cyril Maude's wife and leading lady, has been {ll too, and that has been a seyere blow. So when this popular pair appeared this week In the first performance of “The Superior Miss Pellender” at the Waldorf Theater, there was a mighty outburst of enthu- siasm on the part of the ultra fashion- able audience Cyril Maude can always count on for his premieres. It was an Inexpensive sort of play, calling for only four women and two men, and two sets of scenery. There was good fun In it, too, and good na- ture, and plenty of good writing—but little dramatic effectiveness. It told of the wooing of Mrs. Pellender, a most attractive young widow of the helpless, clinging sort, by the timid and hesi- tating but wealthy Mr. Tister. This pair, of course, was Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Maude. The widow has four children, a romping girl and boy, a pretty daugh- ter of the selfish invalld type, and the eldest daughter, the superior person from whom the play takeg its name. The superior Miss Pellender is Iit- tle better than a young scold, and her rather Inefficlent mother can-. not summon courage to tell her of the engagement to Mr. Tister. That amiable gentleman’s feeble ef- forts to soften his prospective step- daughter's heart:lead her to suppose that it is she whom he is wooing, and in the end Mr. Tister and Mrs. Pellender have to elope, leaving a letter for the girl to read as the final curtain comes down. It was an excellent company and the audience laughed in every possible place out of pure good will; but when Cyril Maude came out in front of the curtain to thank the stalls for their kind atten- tion, some rude person in the top gal- lery interrupted him in a clear, loud voice with these indiscriminating words: “It was a rotten play.” Tt would be more truthful and less unkind to describe this work by Sldney Bowkett as “a pretty little thing.” ———— Tug May Be In Distress. CLEVELAND, Feb. 4—Flashes be- lieved to be distress signals of the fish tug Alberta in Lake Erie were seen by residents of Clifton Park to-night and efforts were made to ascerta'n the loca- tion of the tug without success. She carries aboard Captain Lamp, owner of the tug, and four other men. ——————— Labor Leader CINCINNATI, Feb. 4—For the second time in the last week Michael Donnelly of Chicago, president of the Meat Cut- ters' and Bitcher Union, is strangely missing from this city and the local police have been asked to locate him. ‘Workers’ National | Alleged Murderess Enjoys Every . Comfort. Dora Jennings Goes Shopping When She Pleases. Special Dispatch to The Call. GRANTS PASS, Or., Feb. 4—Dora Jen- nings, the pretty 18-year-old girl who was recently tried in the courts here for the murder of her father, is the first inmate of the new Josephine County jail. The girl has been given spacious quarters in the corridor, outside of the cells. She began her jail life as if she were entering a new and comfortable home. She is an ardent reader and has a table in her quarters piled with books, novels and magazines. Sheriff Lewis regards her as a model prisoner, and though she Is held for the crime of murder he does not deem it necessary to lock her’in a cell at night, and even allows her the liberty and privi- lege of going shopping. As the jury that recently heard her case disagreed, she will be tried again in April. She is confident she will be ac- quitted. Miss Jennings was born in North Carolina and is Possessed of all the grace and charm of the Southern girl. The mystery sarrounding the murder of her father (he was murdered while he slept in the same rcom of the little mountain cabin occupied by the girl, and not more than three feet from her), together with the girl's declaration that she did not hear the shot fired that killed her father, makes her case the most pecullar, as well as the most perplexing, that has ever at- tracted the attention of the court here. INSURANCE REPORT NEARLY COMPLETED Believed It Will Be Ready by the End of the : Week. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—The Legislative Investigating Committee expects to com- plete the labors of framing its 75.000-word report on insurance this week. A meet- ing will be held in this city on Wednes- day or Thursday at which a rough draft of the report will be read to the full committee. Such final changes as the report needs will be made then. District Attorney Jerome for a week has been golng over the testimony brought out at the investigation. Some statement as to the possibilities of a Grand Jury Investigation are looked for to-morrow. The case of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company has been investi- gated by two of hiw assistants. They are reported to have arrived at a conclusion in the matter, but are waiting for the return of their chief before taking fur- the steps. The Fowler house-cleaning committee of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany expects to be able to present its report next Tuesday. It Is said that the report is devoted largely to flluminating the accounts of Andrew Hamilton, the company’s former legislative agent, who is now in_Paris and sald to be syndl- cating enterprises in which the officers of the company figured. M. Charren, a French owner of race horses and gentleman jockey, wore au- tomobile goggles in a recent race, and says they protected his eyes without interference with his vislon, F PRETTY GIRL OREGON GIRL ACCUSED OF MUR- DER WHO HAS FINE QUARTERS IN JAIL. g Lot FAIL TO FIND TRACE OF ALFRED M. BARD 5 Belgian Police Believe the Californian Committed Suicide. Special Dispatch to The Call. BRUSSELS, Feb. 4.—Detective Fogarty of New York and the Belgian police are still investigating the mysterious disap- | pearance of Alfred M. Bard of California. | Mme. Masplon, Bard's former landlady, ! says that Bard drew his money from the : bank on October 20 last with the view of | going to New York. Bard appeared to be despondent and Mme. Masplon begged him to put off his departure. Bard there- | upon left the house, leaving all his be- longings, and néver returned. The police | arer inclined to believe he committed sul- | cide. *Mme. Masplon suggests that domestic troubles were weighing on his mind. —_————————— Sees Father’s Death in a Dream. STERLING, Ill, Feb. 4.—Neil Pal- mer of this city says he saw his father dying in a dream last night, 'and an | hour later received & ' telegram an- nouncing the latter's death. The father was Charles R. Palmer of Chicago. IN VAN QUEST Inventor Spends Quarter of a Million Dellars in a Search for, Pirate Loot AT DEATH Fails to Find Sunken Span ish Galleons Located by Maps That He Inherited Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Forty yeary ago Willlam S. Meade had a fortune of a Quarter of a million dollars. To-day, at 80 years of age, he died, penniless and alone in the St. Clare Hotel, a cheap priced lodging-house on Park Row. The fortune, which he made with an invention for preserving meat, was lost in a number of expensive cruises to the South Seas in search of hidden pirate treasure. Each cruise was expensive, but with unshaken confidence in- his.ultimate unearthing of untold’ wealth he sank his entire fortune in the attempts. Meade asserted that he had fallen heir to maps and directions that would lead to millions of buried wealth. With the wealth won by Lis invention he pur- chased an expensive steam yacht, manned it with a large crew and put on board ma- chinery for raising sunken galleons sup- posed to be full of Spanish gold, and soon after the Civil War set sail for the South Seas. Disaster, wreck,and privation fell to the lot of the first cruise, and Meade and his companions were forced to re- turn without a single find. More money was sunk in fitting out another expedi- tion, but this, too, was a fallure that ended in shipwreck. In twenty yeass, in this manner, Meade sank all of his for- tune. At 60 the aged man was without a dol- lar. He came to the St. Clare Hotel, and, firm in the determination of making an- other fortune, worked steadily on inven- tions, but none ever brought large profits, Of late he was forced to peddle patent gas burners for a living. All the curios he had gathered in his South Sea travels were sold, so that when he dled to-day all he had was the clothing on his back. His body was sent to the Morgue until clabmed by some of his relatives, FOUL AIR IN A MINE CAUSES TWO DEATHS One Vietim Falls From Cage While Being Hoisted to the Top. DENVER, Col., Feb. 4—A News special from Cripple Creek says that foul air in the Blue Bird mine caused the deaths of two men and the Injury to three to- day. Allen Webster and T. Oleson were overcome and were being hoisteg to the top when Oleson tumbled out of ine cage and was dashed to death. Webster ex- pired from asphyxiation before the cage reached the surface. Fred Benjamin was waiting to be hauled to the opening at the top of the shaft, when in some unaccountable way he became wedged between the shaft wall and the cage and was badly crushed. He may not recover. Fred Harvey and W. P. Guseman were unconscious for a time from breathing the poisomous carbonic acld gas which permeated the air in the mine, but recovered and are out of dan- ger. All of the men were just going on duty and had been warned by the foreman to be careful, because the air had been dis- covered fo be in bad condition. Last week of the Sale Come and select the pattern you like the best--—- from woolens that were $20 and $25-—and we’ll ’ bui_ld-you a perfect fitting, splendid wearing suit for $15.75 ends Saturday night at 10 o’clock. --But do so this week-—for this great sale