The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1906, Page 3

| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1906. 'VAST CROWD ATTENDS FIREMEN'S BENEFITI(J0UN STATES ICITY DWNERSHIP ’I‘\YEXTY THOUSAND PEOPLE THRONG RECREATION PARK RELINQUISH BROTHER’S ESTATE TO HIS WIDOW Two Denver Men Ignore the Provisions of Rela- tive’s Will. merely have wished WADE SNOW IN e WAIST DEEP SEVENTEEN-DAY TRIP Wyoming Freighters Encounter Hard- Predict Great Loss of Stock. Wyc ah and Feb. iglas 8 k Sprir experienc heir jaded the trail they covered there ick crust feed. DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES. Trust to Nature. A grest many Americans, both men and women, are thin, pale and puny, with poor circulation, becduse they have {li- treated their stomachs by hasty eating or %00 m eating, by consuming ajco- bolic beverages, or by too close confine- ment to home, office of factory, and in consequence the stomsch must be treated s natural way before they can rectify ir earlier mistakes. The museles in many such people, in fact in every weary, thin and thin-blog m, dg hlgl work with great difficulty. As 3 yesult fatigue comes early, is extreme and jasts long. The demand for nutritive aid is i of the supp To insure eat tissue, bone, nerve a every scle should take from the blood cer- 1 materials and return to it certain It is necessary to prepare the ymach for the work of taking up:fro he food what is necessary to make good, = d. We must go to Nature There were certain the Indians of this the advent of the whites came to the knowledge of ch are now growing sional favor for the cure ach and Jiver troubles. 0 afe and yet cer- invigoratin , liver and mood“.’ Seal root, Queen's ch the settle; wk ater upon the stom Golde root, Stone root, Bloodroot. Mandrake root h is Black errybark. The meaicinal prineiples residing in these e roots when extracted with glyc- solvent make the most reliable ent stomagh. tonic and liver in- when combined in just the proportions. in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Where there i6 bankrupt vitality —such as nervous bad nutrition —and thin perves, biood and all the tissues feel the tavorable effect of this sovereign remedy. Although somc cians have been aware of the high medicinal value of the above mentiou plants, yot few used ie as a solvent pure Iy the d prescriptions called n varying amounts, v able slcobol or barmful habit-fernting drugs. body acquires vigor and the | | stage work, while Hanlon PARXE. | ‘ WILFON AT THE, PAT Wy o 3 ol “ ke SCENES AT YESTERDAY'S GREAT DR! TRANSPORT MEADE. g BASEBALL GA N OF HEROIC FIREMEN WHO LOST THE IR LIVES WHILE TRYING 2 AND BOXING BOUT FOR THE BEN TO SAV EFIT OF THE WIDOWS AND CHIL- LIFE AND PROPERTY ON THE B | | | and City The firemen’s benefit at Recreation Park yesterday afternoon proved the most aue- picious event of its kind that San Fran- cisco has ever known. About 20,000 peo- ple crowded through the gates and half that number were turned away. It was & noble tribute to the memory of brave Dakin and Hennessy, who fearlessly sac- rificed their lives on tne night of the eventful fire nearly two weeks ago. All the dignitaries of the Fire and Po- lice departments, as well as Mayor | Schmitz and other prominent citizens, | were gathered within the park. Star prize fighters and ball players furnished the amusement of the occasion. The crowd began to arrive more than two hours before the appointed time. By 2 o'clock nearly 20,000 people were seated in the grandstand, on the bleachers or scattered about the lot, The order to close the gates was given, and all who came after that time were turned away. It is estimated that at least 10,000 persons were unable to gain admission. The crowd presented an imposing spec- tacle. Ropes were stretched in back of the second base line and all along the field, and the muititude formed a hollow. | square. The throng was so great that | hundreds were forced to mseek refuge on | the top of the fence. E BOXERS MAKE APPEARANCE. | It took several squads of policemen to | keep the crowd in order. It was a good- | | i i | natured crowd, and for this reason a panic or stampede was averted. The or- ders of the bluecoats were generally obeyed. Shortly before 3 o'clock Master ¢f Cere- monies Billy Jordan introduced Mike | (Twin) Sullivan and A. Kaufmann, Amid | great cheers they went to it hammer and { tongs, while Referee Eddie Graney was kept busy breaking them. Next came Zadie Hanlon and Toby Irwin, and last but not least Jimmy Britt and Sam Ber- [ cli pair boxed three rounds. It was slam bang all the time. Knockouts and knockdowns were frequent in the last rouna of each bout. Britt and Berger | got away with a very graceful piece of and Irwin Boxers and Baseball Stars Furnish Excitement While Mayor Officials Turn Out wound up their little set-to by jointly at- tacking, Graney, much to the amusement of the crowd. All menner and class of stars made their abpearance in the ball game be- tween the Gleasons and the Fishers, which was captured by the latter, 8 to 6. Billy Jordan had his hands full present- ing Mike Fisher, Big Bill Lange, Silk O’Loughlip, Jack McCarthy, Jack Sheri- { dan, Jim McDonald, and lastly Mayor Schmitz, who was given the ovation of his life. The Mayor was delegated to toss thg first ball over the plate and he performed the feat with the elegance and ease of a $10,000 beauty of the baseball world who is used to doing this sort of thing all his life. The ball went right over the plate and the game was on. BASEBALL STARS IN EVIDENCE. | It was imposible for the talent to put up a gilt-edged exhibition of the natlonai pastime, so small was the fleld. Any sort of a little pop fly into the crowd was good for two bases, and therefore the game could not be classed as a high grade sam- ple of what the stars can do If it comes to a showdown. But there was plenty of excitement and fun, all of which pleased the multitude. But eight innings were played. The score sec-sawed and changed about, being tied most of the time. But in the last | spasm the Gleasons took on a burst of | speed out of respect to the new baseball manager and pulled the game out of the hole by Janding upon Spider Baum for a fiock of three runs accompanied by four resounding hits. While the game and the boxing bouts were in progress fair maids mingled tiarough the crowd and sold programmes and candy. They realized a handsome sum from this little venture, as every- body in the place seemed to bring with him an open purse and was willing and ready to buy up everything in sight to help the good cause along, It tcok nearly half an hour to clear the grounds after the game. All the gates werc thrown open, but the jam was so great that but few could reach the exits at a time. Here the policemen were again celled into service, and after much diffi- culty the crowd managed to find its way in Force. ‘ out once more and scattered in all direc- | tions, ! MANY SPECTATORS HURT. Several cases of minor character were | treated bv Dr. Pinkham at the Central Emergency Hospital, growing out of the crowded condition of the grounds, as well | as of a desire for outsiGe youngsters to gteal within the inclosure to see the game. The most serjous of the cases treated was that of Johnny Elliott, a boy | aged elght years, son of William Eiliott, 4 carpenter residing at 428 Clementina | street, wno had a deep lacerated wound urder the right eye dressed, which it was stated by witnesses he had received by being struck with a ball coming from the bat. The others were Dan Kirwin of 9 Sun- shine court, whose left shoulder was thrown out of place by his falling off the ferce. BE. R. Cummings of 1509 Sacra- mento street tumbled off a fence in an opposite direction with the result of dis- locating his left shoulder. Clifford Mitch- ell of 210 Stanyan street had both bones of his right forearm broken by tumbling | off a seat on a bench. ) The grand total of the ‘benefit was $12,350. Miss Alice Kilday, a pretty young girl, raised nearly a hundred doi- lars of this. She wandered through the crowd with programmes and made the men buy them. Mrs. Michael Fisher was second with $60 60. —_—— INDIAN COMMITS SUICIDE BY LETTING TRAIN HIT HIM Redskin Stands Erect and Waves His | Arms at the Approaching Locomotive. CODY, Wyo., Feb. 11.—A half-breed Indian, sometimes’known as Running ! Bear, committed suicide on the Talueca- Cody branch of the Burlington yester- | day standing in front of a rapidly mov- ing passenger train. The engineer whistled a warning to the redskin, but he deliberately stood still and waved his arms at the approaching train. Just as the engine was about to strike him the Indian was seen to brace himself for the epd. His body was cut to! pleces, His reason for committing sui- ! cide is not known. o) PERSONATES SILER AND GAINS RICHES ! for action. 1t names the Pennsylvania | | Man Talken for Noted Referee teturns From Africa Wealthy. Special Dispatch o The Call. CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. Il.—Leaving’ home ninetecn nonths ago with 40 cents rand returning with $15,000 is the good | fortune of a New Yorker named Rosens- hard. He will arrive in the metropolis to-morrow morning, through Cleveland. Rosenshard left New York as a stow- on a Cunard liner with 40 cents in s pocket. He worked his way around England and France and finally salled for South Africa. There he was taken for George Siler, ‘the fight referee, and officiated at numerous fights. From this work, together with promot- ing other sporting events, he cleared $15,000, which he sent to his mother in New York. clsco, having passed wearing a sweater, he was ar- irested for vagrancy, but he gained his | release by telling of his experiences and showing evidence of money to his mother. having sent his When he landed in San Fran- | HS PISITION Declares That the Miners Have No Right to Request Another Wage Inerease DENOUNCES MITCHELL Discredited __Labor Leader Makes an Attempt to Jus- tify His Recent PITTSBURG, Feb. 11.—President Pat- rick Dolan of the local district United Mine Workets of America, whose resig- nation was ‘demanded last week at the convention of delegates from the local | with the operators at Indianapolis maintain the present wage scale, to-night issued a statement in which he gives his reasons for so voting. In the statement President Dolan say: Let us be honest about these things. Our wages have been increased more than 100 per cent and our hours of labor have been de- creased from ten to eight hours since 1897. Is it right under this Iiyan resolution to jeopar- ¢ize all ‘these things? Ana let me tell you, the miners of the country hayé never won a prominert woft eval strike under the direction of President Mitchell. Mark Hanna settied the first anthracite strike for us, and President Rooseve.t scttlad the sccond. ody has set- tled our big soft coal strikes, because we have lost them. President Mitchell's big soft com. strike was in the Southwest. It lasted eighteen months and énded in utter failure. Hundreds of good men were vietimized. The second soft | ccal strike was in M and, where our people tite State were utterly deteated. His astrous soft ccal strike was in Ken- tucky, whers our paGpie were beaten In" ‘Colorado, w the organization more than $500,000, our union was wiped off the face'of the earth; in West Virginia, tral District, we were defeated: In the Cabin Creek District, In West Virginla, where the organization spent $305,(00, we iost; in the | Meyerdale District we spent $400,000 and were | defeated At the present time miners fn Alabama, w nineteen. months. They 10 per cent reduction. have a strike of SC60 h has been on for e atriking against a Under the Ryan resolu- tion, which says all districts must get 12% per ‘cent_advanee over the present scale, the Alabama’cperators will have to withdraw their demand for a 10 per cent reduction and give the 121; per cent advance, or tal difference of 221 per cent. befor the country can settie brought ‘about? The Pittsburg district has been criticised be- cause .it _has not more.than 28,00 members. Mitchell is as much at fault as any n. refuses to help us. He came t any othsr district in How is this to be n Irwin District at the very height o bis popularity and widely adverti«-1 two mectings. ~ At one he had fiiteen men and at the other we adjourned because there was not | anybody there. When Mitchell can't get a | meeting, what can a fellow ltke me do? 1 have been in the trades unfon movement { for thirty-five years in Scotland and America and I have sat at the feet of the greatest labor leaders the world has ever kncwn, includin the great Alexander McDonald. From boyhood I learned that it is a leacer's duty to tell his people not what they would like to hear, but what they should know. They must be told when they are in the wrong as_well as ap- plauded . when they are in the right. This is my platform and I am willing to 1ise and fall | with it before the miners and the public of this country. I O SR BAER ISSUES STATEMENT. Says Prosperity of Rending Is Not Due to Coal. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1L—George F. Baer, president of the Reading Com- pany, has issued a statement in rela- tion to the actlon of the House of Rep- | resentatives of Pennsylvania last Fri- | day in adopting a resolution instructing | the Attorney General to bring court 1 proceedings against the anthracite coal- | carrying roads'if on inquiry he finds they are viglating the constitution of | the State. The resolution, which was | introduced by Representative Creasey | of Columbia County, a Democrat, will come before the State Senate to-morrow Railroad, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway *Company and the Delaware, | | Lackawanna and Western Railroad : Company. In his statement President Baer says that the Reading Company's right to {own the stock of coal companies as se- | cured under charter was granted be- | fore the adoption of the mew constitu- i tion. These are vested rights, he says, and the constitution' explicitly declares them valid. | Relative to the statement in the reso- | lution that “it is alleged that the price | of anthracite coal has been raised since }the last anthracite strike $1 25 per ton, yet the so-called operators are.refusing | ‘to allow the miners ad increase in | wages, thus another strike is threat- ened,” President Baer cites figures to | prove that wages and materials have . increased to such an extent that the | company’s Increased profits per ton in {the past ‘seven years have been 10.3 cents, labor having galned 51.7 cents in | the same time. Baer says that the present prosperity | of the Reading system is not due to | profits on coal mining and carrying, but | to-the heavy increase of miscellaneous freight, passenger and bituminous coal | traffic. Stand | unfon in the district because he voted ! to | spent | T0 BE STUDIE American Commission Will Visit Great Britain te Observe Its Operations WILL RENDER REPORT iBoard Will Be Composed of Men Both Favorable and Adverse to the heme IESEAST SN NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Milo R. Malt- ble, one of the expert members of the public ownership commission of the | National Civic Federation, which was organized to examine into the relative merits of municipal and private owner- ship of quasi-public utilities in this | country and abroad, sailed for London | yesterday on the steamship Minn !apolis to make arrangements for the ! visit of the entire commission to Eng- |land in May. The commission has completed all of its plans and has actively begun the work of investiga~ tion in this country. | As the commission is composed of | men representing different views on the | subject of municipal ownership and cperation, two sets of engineers, ac- countants and other experts have been ecrdered, one of which is inclined toward public ownership and operation and the other toward private control. In that way only, it was thought, could all the facts for and against municipal owner- ship and operation be brought out and | a report secured that would have ap- preciable value Expert accountants this week will begin work on the accounts of the municipal gas plant of Wheeling, W. Va., and the municipal electric light works of Alleg Pa. A Fore- stall of New York City and L. L. Merri- | field of Toronto will investigate the gas works of Wh g Dabney Maurice of Peoria, I, will begin a study of the Chicago water works, and Professor John H. Gray of Northwestern University will begin a study of the soeial and political condi- tions in connection with the quasi-pub- lic undertakings in Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and othes large cities. Speaking of mission in Great Britain, sailing ymmission has selected Eng- as the country in which to begin the work of the com- Maltbie said land | the work of investigation abroad, for | the reason that conditions there are more like those in the United States than in any other foreign country. The | purpose of the investigation is merely to find in what respects each system | has been satisfactory and to leave the decision for or agafhst municipalization to the people directly concerned.” | ———————— | RELIGIOUS SERVICES HELD | BY WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS naa Shaw Presides and Mrs. Maud Ballingten Booth Delivers n Address. BALTIMORE, Feb. 11.—After listen- ing to a sacred concert this afternoon | delegates to the Women's National Suf- frage Assoclation attended religious services in Lyric Hall, which were pre- sided over by Rev. Anna H. Shaw. There were seyeral brief addresses ap- | propriate to the occasion; hymms were | sung by Rev. Olympia Brown and An- toinette Brown Blackwell offered a prayer; Miss Etta H. Maddox of Balti- more sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth delivered an address, after which thers was an offering for the benefit of “The Door of Hope” of the American Volun~ teers. The convention will continue in set fon two days longer, when it will ad- ourn to reassemble in Washington, where the final meeting will be held on Wednesday next. —_——————— We have a big line—good s.nbo:n. Valentine's day. for brother, sister and sweetheart. Vail & Co. ————————— | Flemming to Ald Jerome. ! NEW YORK, Feb, 11.—Matthew C. | Flemming, who was assoclated with Charles E. Hughes as counsel in the legislative life insurance investigation, has been retained by District Attorney Jerome to assist him in the preparation of the cases against the life insurane company officials, whom, it is said, the | District Attorney will prosecute. \ putshicic Shotartamioniint | ATTACK _A CHINESE.—Five cked Quong Wong. a Chinese laun- Twenty-sixth and Valencia streets The cries YOUTHS youths dryman a: about 2 o'clock yesterday morning. of the Chinese were heard by Policeman T. J. Connell, who captured one of the assaflants He showed fight and Connell had to use his club to subdue him. After being taken to the City and County Hospital he was booked on a charge of battery. He gave the name of Daniel Casey. but his true name is Duniel The other four escaped. Opening Redyction Offer Pacific Coast. CHARLES LYONS London Tailor Opens His New Store 715 Market Street | sdumion TO-DAY Largest Merchant Tailoring Establishment on the Ground floor area 12,500 square feet 20%—Openmg\ Reduction Offer To introduce our new mammoth store-to the public a reduction of 20% will be allowed on all orders taken during the week beginning to-day, Feb. 12. and will continuz to be the unbroken custom of this establishment to mark all prices in plain figures. reduction offer is bona fide, as an inspection of cur im- ported and domestic woolens will show. suits are from $18 up, irousers $5 up. The new store is situated a few doors below the old store, which we occupied for fifteen years 20% Offer 20% It has been This Our prices for