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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1906. PASTOR DENOUNCES | BREAKERS OF LAW Alameda Minister Men He Says Sell Pools and Cigarettes. OIL BARON DENOUNCED Names From Pulpit BY' JURIST Supreme Court Justice Gay- nor of New York Declares Man That Dodges Process || Servers Is Contemptible |1 ——— | IFLAYS ROCKEFELLER IN PUBLIC LECTURE |Says No Amount of Sunday- | School Teaching Can Make | Such a Character as His Decent or Respectable AR Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 4.—Supreme Court | Justice Willlam J. Gaynor of Brooklyn, | speaking tonight on ‘“Corporate Abuses’ | scathingly denounced the man who hides | away rather than go to court to testify. Although the Judge mentioned no names, there were many In the audience who construed his language as referring to John D, Rockefeller, for whom many | process servers have been hunting vainly for weeks. | Judge Gaynor, after speaking of the bribery of legislators and Government of- ficlals by exploiters of public franchises and of their contempt and disrespect for | governments and courts, sald: 1 What would,a decent man here in this com- munity do if he heard an officer was looking | for him to subpena him to court to testify? | Would he hide in his house and have his wire | and children and servants lie and say they | 414 not know where he was? Would he hurry | into some other State, or go aboard his yacht, | 1f he had cne, and put to sea and escape ser- | at the People’s Forum in New Rochelle, | — Thcrarr ANE, <= = | <> 1 WHO HAS E OF LAW BY ’ : | | | with the sam rey the a SHOWS PACKAGE OF CIGARETTES. 1 re the packaige of 1t like v and marked with kage, exactly great pleasure \garette law, urettes at in that otz er 1 stated that on Friday ced on the horse Blagg to the rollowing day. ~You Brag is & good dog.’” | Biagg is & good horse, | tleman who placed the bet on he entered the blace of n with the words, st Mr. Rew then , the horse bein: d in such things) am -lo-one_shot. That is, bet against him at the odds of seven | With one of those baif-dollars two burchased trom Mr. Rew at a ch, and the remainder of the aced In a epeciel pocket and envelope, which I now six half-dollars, that which you hear jing- he evidence 1 offer to you | enacted by the sovereign community for the protection e deliberately and repectedly r the eyes of the police without molestation frofn them. | These are the facts. What of it? I have not given you all the evidence I have. The a Who have been running wide open impunity will smile at the small it, but it is enough to prove a voint eds’ to be made y . 1 believe he duly const presentatives ‘Alamede._enacted ordinance | persons from selling pools | bets or wagers on horse races they | v | tormed he book BET MADE AT ZINGG sd: & s W ns_of this con horse race gambling. t when they declared no minor nt when such 2 transaction took desired to protect the boys of y fre e corrupting influences of such belleve t:at when they made it wart ordinance that mno_ person should lease or rent or allow to be occu- used any bullding, structure, room, . place or any premises whatever for voses specified that they meant to bent upon the property owner to ¥ vere not €0 used. Yet here a man a building in which it is sidely known fact that such bets are being nd this man s & member of the Board Trustees of the city of Alameda. ASKS IF BOEHMER KNOWS. was placed The money initials_en- | book which dum , but which Mr. | - r? 1, Does City Trustee Boehmer know that Wil- ce it is illegal to rent & bulld- |y, Zingg is making a handbook on the races? - the question ariscs: | ¢, "what sort of a City Trusteo Is he? 1f - 3 and does the land: | . ‘4cee not know what everybody else around s going on_ there T aes s | Him knows, what sort of a City Trustes is he? 1s this corruption, or is it incompetence? I do not know. 1 leave that to the people of Ala- | meda to snswer, | 1 believe that when the people of Alameda | pay a Police Department thousands of dollars 2 year they expect that Police Department to | | enforce the lawe and protect homes. Do you think it is possible that the Poiice Depart- | | ment knew this gambling wes going on, and 2id mot stop 1t? Or do you think that it went | on and is going on under their noses week after week and month after month, and that they 40 not kpow it? If that is so, what do you think of our police? If they did and do know it, are they corrupt? If they do not know it, sfe they utterly incompetent? Which do you prefer to think? 1 find little satisfaction in either reflection myself. 1 have confidence in the integrity and good !intent of the City Trustees, taken as @ whole. 1 believe that they will be shocked as you are and as I was at the disclosures that hive been made, asd thet they will Jeave no stone u turned to see that the cases in whé:h co pleints will be filed tomorrow will be prose. cuted with vigor, and that the Police Depa: ment of the city of Alameds will receive sucl an overhsuling &s will result in its enforcing | the ordinances against gambling and book- making. In the mesntime nearly every saloon and cigar store in Alameda has siot machines, which are nothing but gambling devices. Thers is a tacit understanding that machipes which pay money will not be used, but Whether they ray. cash-or cigars they are gambling machines under the State law, and -District Attorney J. 3. Allen will be given a chance to see Whether e will put them out or mot. WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW. Some will say to me, “This condition has gone on for & long time. Can we better 1t?" We will see if we can. I am willing that the je of Alameda should have this sort of thing if they want it, but I am determined that they shall know that they have got it now. Nearly four years ago I was told that ne style )-PHONE has fuil carload ot are without in every Talking the mar- e from $10 to $50 Talking Machine is £ usehold ne ny other ny , for not Lies in a Talking don’s fail to see the Taper Arm TALK-O- It combines all the are toda the re- modern American re actual neces interested of CLARK WISE ® CO. gambling was carried on here freely. L-have 126 GEARY STREET fied to get various parties to take up the EVERETT PIANO DEALERS. matter, but without avail. Now, with the arsistance of & few gentlemen, I have taken 1 have uttered nothing here it up myselfl | cent man and say | the people of | made slaves of them for the king. | vice? Or would he come forward like a de- “1 am here And if he lied or sneaked away, would he not be condemned by the community as dis- honest, «lishonorable and disrespectabie? Would any one give him his hand on his return? And if a man with an overgrown fortune made out of abuse of public franchises does that thing, is he a decent member of soclety? Is he fit to mingle with honest people? No; be_is all the more contemptible and gulity. No amount of church or Sunday school teaching can make such a character decent respectable. He is no better than Hamil- insurance lobbyist, who ran tigating committee. :ng out ‘“‘anarchist’ and the like against decent people, but I say | unto you that they are the anarchists and wi destroy our eystem of government if they are not checked in their careers. There is no prejudice against honestly ac- | It is against quired wealth in this country. fa- wealth acquired by trick and device, by | veritism of laws, by the misuse of public fran- chises which is under the ban of honest people. YOUNG ROCKEFELLER POUTING. Absents Himself From Bible Class Be- cause of Criticism. NEW YORK, March 4—John D. Rocke- feller Jr. absented himself today from his Sunday school class and did not even follow the usual custom of sending word that he would not be present. Members of the class who are in Rockefeller's con- fidence said that he was incensed by a re- mark made by Dr. Charles P. Fagnani of the Unlon Theological Seminary a few nights ago at the monthly dinner of the Baptist Socfal Union. Dr. Fagnan! harked back to the sermon | delivered to his class by Rockefeller when the latter lauded Joseph to the skies and commended him for his historic first ‘corner’” in corn. Dr. Fagani branded Joseph a “king’s jackal” and sald he should be held up to the obloquy of all men. He said Joseph not only robbed Egypt of their corn, but Young Rockefeller read this sermon in the newspapers and confided to several members of his class his opinion of it He thought that Dr. Fagnani had gone out of his way to ridicule him. Accord- |ing to some of his friends in the Bible class, this was his reason for not attend- ing the class today. In absence of Rockefeller, the class was led by Rev. W. S. Richardson, assistant pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. The class was larger than it had been in many months, for it was ex- pected that Rockefeller would be on hand to reply to Dr. Fagnani. J. M. Treadwell, president of the class, was asked as to when Rockefeller would resume the leadership. “That I cannot tell,” he replied. One of the pioneers of the class said it was “a plain case of a man pouting be- cause some one had disagreed with him." “But he'll get over the sulks one of these days and come back to us,” he added. RO e s T HI§ DEATH EXPECTED BY EX-GOVERNOR HOGG Ashks That Trees Be Planted at His Grave to Take Place of Monument, AUSTIN, Tex., March 4—The body of ex-(overnor Hogg arrived here this af- ternoon from Houston and was met at the depot by thousands, who acted as honorary escorts to the State house, where the body will He in state until tomorrow. Today it was learned that the Gov- ernor expected death. On the evening before his death, he talked at length as to the kind of monument he wished when he should die. “f want no monument of stone,” he said, “but let my children plant at the head of my grave a pecan tree and at the foot of my grave a walnut tree, and when these trees shall bear let the pecans and the walnuts be given out among the plain people of Texas, so | that they may plant them and make Texas 2 land of trees.” —_————— Elderly Woman Is Missing. SAN DIEGO, March 4—Mrs. E. M. Aeuff, an elderly woman residing with her daughter in Fifth street, has been missing since Saturday afternoon. At that time she left her home, saying she was going to make a call on an ac- quaintance. She did not make the call and nothing has been seen of her since. tonight but what I can prove and I will be- gin to prove it w. One person has recently seen fit to criticise me throush a local paper over an snonymous name because of the things I preach about. Well, all right; 1 have criticised others and 1 am willing to grant others the same right and privilege. over my own name. I say these things: I stand Dbefore the community as responsible for the judgments of this puipit, poor as they may bs. I am sorry that my critic did not have the courage to sign his name or to name he preacher he was talking about. He ad. t vised me to hold up Christ. ~Yes, thanic I am trying to do that. nuul:u,“:lnr" it. to to oft 1o} Will Hold Session Prior to the Joint Convention at the Middle of the Month —_— TROUBLE OVER DOLAN —_— Mitchell Takes Steps to Pre- vent His Receiving Any Salary From the Miners —_—— PITTSBURG, March 4.—Another meet- ing of the independent coal operators of the bituminous coal fields will in all like- lihood be held in Pittsburg prior to going to Indianapolls for the meeting on March 19. George A. Magoon, representing the Pittsburg and Westmoreland Coal Com- pany, and F. L. Robbins, chairman of | the Pittsburg Coal Company, who is rep- resenting the bituminous operators, met in this city on Saturday, and the latter agreed to call another meeting of the op- erators before March 19. The meeting probably will be held the latter part of the week or early next week. Willlam Dodds, secretary treasurer of District No. 9, United Mine Workers of America, has received a letter from Pres- ident Mitchell informing the district sec- | retary that he will be held responsible for the payment of all money out of the | aistrict treasury. The national leader as- | serts that President Dolan should not re- ceive any more fmoney from the miners of this district. Dolan says that he is | still the district president and he de- | mands that $110 be turned over to him | each month as his salary. Dolan holds a | $4000 bond iurnished by Dodds, providing | for a *‘faithful performance of duty” on | the part of the district secretary. Dodds |pald Dolan’s salary for the month of | February on the ground that a portion | of the month had elapsed before action | was taken against the district president. | LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 4—It is un- | derstood that District 23 of Western Ken- | tucky of the United Mine Workers of | America, which will hold its annual con- | vention here next Wednesday, will ask | for an advance In wages. The district has about 7000 union miners. SCRANTON, Pa., March 4—Twenty- one independent anthracite coal opera- tors met here Saturday in the office of W. L. Connell. The meeting was quietly | conducted and it is understood those | present were pledged to secrecy as to | what transpired. Immediately after the | meeting Connell went to Philadelphia supposedly to confer with President Baer | of the Reading Company. | ————————— Springfield Race Riot at an End. SPRINGFIELD, Ohlo. March 4.—The militia now on duty here will return home tomorrow. The city has been quiet all day. The body of the dead brakeman, Davis, was taken to the home of his parents at Columbus today. Evidence has been secured against 300 persons, including many mere boys. An Investigation shows that the recent mobs were made up almost wholly of young men from 16 to 21 years of age. ————————— s Boosted. CLEVELAND, March 4.—The Ameri- | can Window-Glass Company, it was an- nounced here today, has decided upon ansther raise of § per eent in the price of window-glass, effective tomorrow. Several small manufacturers have taken similar actlon, COAL OPERATORS |DECISION GOES |NEW YORK CAR 0 NET ACAIN ACAINST TAFT. BARNS BURNED pute Between Secretary and Philippine Official CLASH OF AUTHORITY Commissioner Forbes Takes Case to Washington and Is Sustained by Roosevelt —_—— i Special Dispatch to The Call, BOSTON, March 4.—Open war between Philippine Commissfoner W. Cameron Forbes of Boston and Secretary of War Taft, with President Roosevelt, as arbiter, deciding In favor of Forbes, is the spec- tacle presented in inner offictal circles at ‘Washington. Nows of the clash has hitherto been kept from the public, but it came out today from sources that are un- questioned. The differences arose over the finances of the archipelago, which are in the espe- clal charge of Commissioner Forbes. Ac- cording to the story that comes from per- sons near to the administration, Forbes, belfeved that he had the power to reform the system of accounting and expendi- tures of the Philippines and immediately gave orders to that effect when he found many leaks. The auditor In immediate charge of this work continued issuing his own orders and was sustained by Secre- tary Taft. Forbes sailed for home, deter- mined to put his case before Mr. Roose- velt. The latter sustained him and force- ful action is being taken to stop leaks and the wasteful extravagances of the colonial government. Ofticlaldom is talking under its breath of the rupture between Taft and Forbes and the latter’s victory. —_——— ARCHBISHOP SEVERELY CRITICISES THEATERS Says Stage Makes Feature of Depict- ing Men’s Depravity and Women's Shamelessness. E: ST. LOUIS, March 4—In a sermon de- livered today by Archbishop Glennen he severely criticised theaters and de- plored the tendency of people to pa- tronize them. He sald in part: To go night after night to the theater is a mark of decadence. You avold the cancer hos— pital and the pesthouse, while night by night you rush madly to enjoy the sad procession of moral lepers, exposed amid the plaudits of the multitude; the cancerous growths, the Geadly vices that destroy the souls of men. Roue and demi-mondaine are depicted with startling realism, and men's depravity and women's shamelessness are held forth as the expressions of genius and fit means for enter- taining a Christian people. You say even still there is genius back of it all. Yes, perhaps. But it is only genius that glids the tomb; the phosphorus that accompa- nies the last stages of putrification. —_——————— Volunteer Students Adjourn. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 4.—The great quadrennial convention of the Volunteer Students, which has been jn session in Nashville for the last five days, closed tonight with the benedic- tion pronounced by Dr. James Dodson of Fdinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Carl Fries of Stockholm, Sweden, delivered the fgrewell message to the convention tonight and cable messages from co- workbrs in various parts of the world were read. Accredited delegates num- bered 4188. Thousand Dollars Damage and the Loss of a Life IS A SPECTACULAR BLAZE AL RIS Rush From a Threatened Ex- plosion Ends in Panic and Several Persons Are Hurt NEW YORK, March 4.—The Forty-sec- ond street car barns of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, extending from 61 West Forty-second street to the Hud- son River, were destroyed by fire tonight. One man, said to have been an employe of the company, lost his life and several persons were injured, a fireman seriously. Between thirty and forty cars were de- stroyed. The total damage is estimated at more than $200,000. ‘The fire was an exceptionally spectacu- lar one, and at its height the flames were leaping several hundred feet in the air. Several immense gas tanks of the Con- solidated Gas Company, located directly across the street, were threatened by the fire, and a report that they were about to explode sent several thousand spectators in a wild flight for safety. In the rush many persons were hurt. The uptown ferry station of the West Shore Ralflroad, at the foot of Forty-second street, was also threatened. ‘When the fire in the car barns was practically under control a party of train passengers being escorted from the ferry station by a squad of policemen narrowly escaped imjury from flylng bricks when one of the long walls of the burned struc- ture gaye way and came down with a crash. The fire originated in one of the cars, which had been run into the barn for storage during the night. It is supposed | to have started from a short circuit. BOY SWALLOWS BRIDE'S RING AT A WEDDING Too Pollie to Remove It From His Mouth When He Gets It in Plece of Cake. COLUMBUS, Ohio. March 4.—At the wedding supper of Willlam Steube- naugh and Cordelia Stone on Friday night, one guest got a piece of the bride’'s cake containing a thimble and another a shilling, but no one produced the bride’s ring. The mystery was solved when ChHarles Hoppler, the 12- year-old halfbrother of the bridegroom, announcyd that he had swallowed it. “I thcught it was a hard piece of dough,” he said. *“I did not want to take it out of my mouth at the table, so 1 swallowed it. I know it was the ring because it was of that shape.” He consulted a physician and was in- formed that he probably would suffer no inconvenience. ———————— Hangs Himself? in His Room. SANTA ROSA, March 4.—Karl Schur- er, a German, committed suicide In his | room at 713 Second street some time today. He hanged himself in a clothes closet by fastening one end of a rope around his neck, tying the other end to a hook and lifting his feet off the ground. Schurer was between 35 and 40 years of age. Nothing is known of his relatives. Several letters writ- ten in German were found in his room. NURDERER O *OF SHEETNENTS President Arbiter in a Dis-|Fire Canses Two Hundred|His Craving for Candy Wins the ympathy of Wo- men of a Wiseonsin Town GIFTS FROM FAIR SEX Weak-Brained Admirers of Criminal Keep His Cell Stored With Confections Special Dispatch to The Call. APPLETON, Wis., March 4—A grue- some story will be recited in Circuit Court here in a few days when Wenzel E. Kabat will be arraigned before a jury on the charge of having murdered Michael McCarty, a farmer living near Kaukauna, and cremated the body. Kabat says he has never uttered a pro- fane word and has never used tobacco, but he is passionately fond of sweets. On entering jail he asked the Sheriff to in- clude in his bill of fare at least one ple a day and a pound of candy. The Sheriff refused, but, when Kabat's passion for candy became known, women began to send him sweets. At Christmas time he received seven boxes of candy and some of the women have kept him supplied ever sinee. McCarty was a bachelor and lived alone on his farm three miles from Kaukauna. | His only employe was Julius Heimke, a | boy of M, and the latter was the last i person except the murderer known to | have seen McCarty alive. Helmke report- ed at the barn one morning. and, accord- ing to the story he will teil at the trial, | found Kabat In possession. Kabat told him he had bought the farm and that Mc- Carty would never return. An hour after this Hefmke found that his new employer had started a huge .onfire in a secluded spot about a mile away from the house. The next day Kabat sold most of the personal property on the farm. Later hu- man bones were found near the bonfire and Kabat was arrested on a charge of murder. _————————— BLUE CROSS OF RUSSIA REPRESENTED IN AMERICA Agent of the Philanthrople Soclety Comes to the United States. NEW YORK, March 4.—Boris Kleba- noft, recently named as the representa- tive in America of the Russian Blue Cross, has arrived here and will make his headquarters in this city. Owing to recent events in Russia, which have left many thousands victims of war and riot, the Russian Blue Cross, a | philanthropic organization under the patrorage of the Grand Duchess Eliza- beth Mavrikievna, has extended the scope of its work and is sending repre- sentatives abroad. The Blue Cross is in no sense a rival of the Red Cross. It maintains refugees’ asylums, training schools, work farms, hospitals and kindergartens. Founded in 1882, it has grown rapidly and has | an endowment fund of $500,000 and re- ceives such support from all classes that it is practically the national charity. —_——————— PORTSMOUTH, Va., March 4 —The general office building of the Seaboard Alr Line Rail- Way here was damaged $75.000 by fire this | morning. Many valuable records, as well 2s official papers of President Barr, wers burned. In every detail the leading establishment west of Chicago. 740 Market Sueet. Two Large Stores. Market, Powell & Elfis. measure Our self 2 s system sent upon request. A perfect fit Suits like these made-to - '3 Mighty few tailors equal our tailors do, price. and those that )} - demand twice our An exhibition of reliable woolens from the best American mills em- bracing every pretty pattern that is popular and correct. Building a high grade garment to your measure for which others have $15.00, a suit for to charge $25.00, _is no small undertaking—it is only made possible by our buying woolens in tremendous quantities direct from the mills—by our operating our own large tailor shops and with a very small by our being satisfied profit.