The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1906, Page 1

a2 2 Ay 1 ffék\,\ t0 - - _— t showers THE WEATHER light west winds. A. G. McADIE, District —Cloudy, poesibly Forecaster. THE NTS MORE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAP ER PUBLISHED I/ only. MAJESTIC- the Beas! LYE{]C HALL—Pugno recital. Matines ““The Bold Sojer Boy." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. CHUTE! COLUMBIA—"Little GRAND—* Slee; L’nvamf“m Isle of Splee.”” Matinees at All Theaters. Johnny Jones." sing Beanty and Two pass SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1906. THIRTY-FIVE. PERSONS BUR enger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad met i , and in the disaster thirty-five persons were killed and twenty-three injured. The actual collision was hardly felt, but the NED 70 DEATH N TRAIN WRECK NEAR PUEBLO, COLORADO n a head-on collision near Florence, Colorado, shortly after 2 o’clock yesterday morn- wreckage caught fire and the flames, fanned by the raging storm, spread so rapidly that the passengers were caught in the coaches like rats in a trap. FLAMES, FANNED BY STORM, CATCH THE PASSENGERS IN THE COACHES LIKE RATS | - e ek * WARTHY ITALIAN MAY HAVE FLED WITH BABY TOSO ON SAMOA. Johnnie Toso. X | The police of this city believe that the baby taken away on the steamer Samoa yesterday is stolen They have wired to Port Harford to apprehend the child and its abductor. Newly discovered evidence affirms the abduction theory. Lt‘ll (1 to Speedy Semsational Evidence Discovered by the Police Yesterday May Recovery of Abdl/df’d Colma Child. LLAN ON BOARD SAMOA “SELESSION” S THE CRY OF CANADIANS| Few of the Provinces! Are Satisfied With | Government. ’ i WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March $.— | From one end of Canada to the other the | cry for “secession” is aga: ng heard. | ! the resolutions of the various Leg- | 18 es, none of the provinces—with the | exception of Quebec—see: fied. Que- | bec, with its tremendo ing in the | Federal House and its sagacious and | powerful inguence, is dictating Sir Wil- | fred Laurier's policy, and the conditions | are such at the present time that he dare | not refuse thelr commands. | A great constitutional crisis is approach- ing. The provinces joined together by confederation consider they are not being | fairly treated by the Dominion Govern- | ment in regard to subsldies and other| matters. ———————————— i Workmen Boycott Russian Elections. SAMARA, Russia, March 16.—The ma- Jority of the workmen here are boycot- ting the elections. | CEZIRA | i ROSA. TAKLNG BABRE | — | On board the tiny passenger and pro- | duce steamer Samoa, which salled from ilms port yesterday morning, a short, ‘durk Italian man of middle age and his | charge, a fat, dark baby boy of about two years, are hurrying from San Francisco |as fast as the San Pedro-bound craft will | carry them. The police of this city be- i lieve that this man represents the abduc- | tors of Pietro Toso's little boy and that “ms charge is none other than thls same | Johnnie Toso, who disappeared from his father's produce farm at Colma last Sun- | day night. Telegrams have been sent to | the constable at Port Harford, the first stop of the steamer Samoa, directing that | |officer to examine the baby and If its‘de- | scription tallies with that of the Toso | boy, to care for him and arrest the Ital- | tan ‘who has charge of him. | This startling development of the mys- | terious abduction case came to,the notice | of the polica vesterday atternoon, five | hours after the Samoa cleared the port. | It closely fits the other evidence of an | equally startling nature which was also brought to light vesterday and with it weaves a convinelng story. On Sunday evening the baby was stolen from the Pietro Toso ranch at Colma. On | Monday evening an Itallan with a baby avout the age and tallying with. the de= scription .of . Johnnle Toso, boarded the street car at Ocean View and rode into San Franctsco. Conductor E. J. Moelin, - HNOMAN 108 YERR 0LD PLMS TO GIE A BITHONY PHRT UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 16.—The old- est person in Western Penmsylvania is Mrs. Mary McKittrick of Uniontown, who will celebrate her one hundred and eighth birthday tomorrow. She is in better health this winter than at any previous tir-e in the last four yeai nd is to have a birthday party .tomorrow night, at which she expeets to dance with her guests as she did last St. Patrick's day. | CONDUCTOR OF OCEAN VIEW STREET CAR, WHO COLLECTED FARE SUPPOSED ABDUCTOR OF JOHNNIB TOSO AND FOURTEBN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO OVERHEARD STARTLING EVIDENCE OF THE KIDNAPIN( who collected the fare from this Italian, says that the man’s actlons roused his suspiclons because of his attempt to hide the child underneath his heavy coat. Not- withstanding the attempt at concealment Conducter Moslin saw the child distinctly. It was about two years old, very heavy, derk and it had long rather faded hair— the exact description of the missing Toso baby. WOMEN EXPOSE PLOT. On Thursday afternoon Cezira Rosa, the 14-year-old daughter of A. Rosa, one of Toso's partners in the ranch, was walking down Market street toward her school. As she passed In front of Hale Brothers' store she heard three or four women talk- ing about the Toso child. She listened. '0so has made all the money,” said one, “and he has not treated the other men right. So they have taken his boy to get " Contiuued on Pnge 4, Columa 6. ISURANCE STADIL N PROSPET Late Merger May Call for an In- vestigation. Inflation of Assets by Conservative Life Is Alleged. New York Methods Are Baid to Have Been Used by Los Angeles Concern. Aethods of high finance discloxed in by the New ovestigation e sy fe 1 in a. - It is safdthat re- cent examinations made in the office of the Insurance Commissioner have developed facty which will in all like- 1ihood enuse the Legislature at its next session to order a thorough investiga- tion of the recent merger of the Pacific Mutgal and Conservative Life Insurance comanies. Stories are afloat that rival insurance companies, which were badly disflgured by the New York investigation, prompted inquirfes to be instituted concerning the management of the Conservative of Los Angeles. The result of the inquiry is startling and may impel Governor Pardee to advise Insurance Commissioner Wolfe to take decisive steps. The Call is in possession of a doeument which bears this caption: ‘“‘Condition of the Conservative Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, Dec. 31, 1305, compared with Dec. 91, 1964, as shown by the sworn statements on flle in the office of the Insurance Comugissioner at San Fran- cisco.” It is asserted that the compari- son was made by a policy-holder of the Pacific Mutual for the purpose of ascer- taining the exact truth concerning the Los Angeles corporation. One of the surprising revelations, ac- cording to reports, is that Willlam H. Crocker and Henry T. Scott, whose names and wealth lend prestige to the merged Institution, own only ten shares of stock each. The document which contains the pur- ported comparison states that the man- agement expenses of the Los Angeles company consumed 50 per cent of the total fncome from all sources for the year 1905. HEAVY EXPENSE INCREASE. A paragraph of fhe compariso: follows: “The enormous expense which the new business of the year was secured 1s evidenced by the fact that the issued business In 1905 was $889,000 lesy than that of 1904, but the manage- ment expenses for 1805 exceeded the management expenses of 1004 over $63,000.” Another paragraph presents this com- parison: “In 1904 the company owned a three-fourths Interest in the bullding oc- cupied by their home office iIn Los An- geles and valued such Interest in their assets at $280,743. On this basis the value of the entire property would be $374,324; but in their statement for 1905, they take credit for this property at $459,149, an in- crease in valuation of over 22 per cent for a single year. “This increase s not justified by the in- come on the property for the perlod, as will be seen from the following figures: In 1904, when they owned a three-fourths interest in the above property, the mnet income from their three-fourths interest was $11,444, which represented practically 4 per cent on the value of the property claimed by them. In 1905 when they claim to own the entire property, the net income therefrom is only $15,488, which is only 8 1-3 per cent on the valuation claimed by them in 1905. “Ag there iy no rent ‘due or accrued’ included in their assets, it is very clear that on an income basis this property has been overvalued In 1905 at least $79,000.” WORTHLESS ASSETS, The comparison also contains this state- ment: “The company still has in {ts assets a large amount of reserve liens placed on policies of members of defunct assess- ment organizations reinsured by them and which do not represent any money paid to the company, or, in fact, any tangible or convertible asset in existence, and the only way they can be realized on by the company Is in the event of the death of these members @gainst whose policles they are charged, and in the event of the lapse of such.members they are abso- lutely annihilated and charged off in dls- bursements. “In 1905 over 898,000 of what was claimed as good assets in 1904 was ahb- _ Continued on Page 2, Column 3. AMERICAN WOMEN'S AVERSION TO MOTHERHOOD IS DEPLORED Bishop Moreland Denounces Matrons Who Would Rather Dance Than Bear Children. = | | f— BISHOP MORELAND, WHO 1IN NOUNCES AMERICAN WOME! H HIS JRCH PAPER WHO PREFER SOCIAL AND DECLARES THEIRS 1S “THE GREATEST AMERICAN SI SCATHINGLY DE- LIFE TO MOTHER- In an article on “Christian Marriage as Man Mars It,” by Bishop More- Jand of the Episcopal church, In his paper, the Sacramento Missionary, the divine In plain language deals with American women who would rather dance, din fean Sin” there will be a fearful reckoning. d amuse themselves than raise a family. “The Greatest Amer- calls the destruction of unborn life, and says that some day Spectal Dispatch to The Call SANTA ROSA, March 16.—Right Rev. Willlam Hall Moreland, Bishop of the missionary dlocese of Sacramento and editor of the Sacramento Missionary, in the March number of that paper, which has just been issued, has a very plain and startling article on “Christian Marriage as Man Mars It” which fol- lows one last month on “Christian Mar- riage as God Made It.” After dwell- ing on the evil caused by the desires of mothers and sometimes the daugh- ters that marry for social position and money, the Bishop goes into the sub- ject of motherhood. In scathing terms he denounces practices which prevent the birth of little ones and declares that some day there will be a fearful ! reckoning. His article follows: “Ihere is another way, a terrible way, in which marriage is marred and its chief purpose defeated. from the strongest sense of duty that 1 can bring myself to speak of it. It is the destruction of unboran Ilife. The rearing of a family Is the first object of marriage. All else is secondary and incidental. The highest glory that ean come to a woman s maternity; the highest happiness possible to a wedded palr is parenthood. But marriage in America today does not mean a family. Were it not for our foreign population the birth rate would not equal the death rate. whotherhood is going out of fasbion among soclety people. Wealthy women ecannot have children—they have to dance. Dinners must be given and whist must be played, though God be defied and pature’s laws defeated. Silence ceases to be a virtue upon this “You think with horror of Herod, who slaughtered the innocent babes. Look at your own hands and see if they are stained with blood. “The American sin’—that is what they eall it in Eu- rope. Our women are getting am in- famous reputation as experts in avoid- ing motherhood. Our physicians tell us that the guilty are mnot the lower classes, but women who are dressed in the latest fashions and are looked upon as leaders in social and religious move- ments. It is my duty to speak plainly in God’s mame. Destruction of human life is known to Ged by but one name, and that an awful name—murder! “The pretexts by which women soothe and deaden thelr consciences will not serve him. He does not . understand your hair-spliting distinctions. Life is the gift of God at whatever age—a hours, a few weeks, a K few months makes no difference in his sight. You know what the punishment of murder is—the death penalty. Death eter- nal will be the panishment of her who destroys unborn human life, and of him who 1s - accessory to the crime. Too often American families as s0on as they reach wealth and power and are in a position to strengthen the natiom be- gin to decay and die out. Séme ‘day there will be a fearful reckoning.” ——— Twenty Hurt by an Explosion. PARIS, March 16.—Twenty persons were Injured tonight by an explosion in a chem- ical factory in the Rue Veille du Temple. The damage to property is-§20,000. / PRICE FIVE CENTS. N A TRAP Twenty-Three Names on the List of the Injured. Six in a Single Family Perish in the Disaster. Bones of the Victims Are Gathered in Boxes. One Man Begs Others to Kill Him as Act of Mercy. RAILROAD COMPANY i | TREATS DISASTER 1 AS TRIVIAL AFFAIR The appaliing disaster near Florence—a tragedy of the rails that has cast sorrow and gloom over many happy homes und blotted out the lives of more than a seore of travelers ~=a harrowing disaster that appealy to the sympathy of all eitizens, viewed from the stand- point of the rallroad official is but an incident, a trivial affalr to be glossed over and treated lightly. Life is nothing to the corporation In Iits scramble for | saim. What matters it that helpless childrea are left fath- erlesy or motherless through the neglect of a rallroad em- ploye or that the babe is torn by death from the arms of Its loving parents? Time is too precious and valuable in the raliroad world to waste on such a petty affair. Keep the trains moving and withhold the facts from the public. To such a heartless policy is due the fol- lowing remarkable telegram received here yesterday by the local agent of the Demver and Rio Grande from the corpora- tion’s office in Demver: DENVER, March 16. Shotwell, 625 Market San Framecisco: w., J PUEBLO, March 16—A wreck accom- panied with horrors exceeded only by the Eden disaster, which occurred on August 7, 1904, on the line of the same railroad, resulted from a head-end collision of two passenger trains on the Denver Grande Railroad four miles east ence, Colo., at an early hour t! ing. . Thirty-five persons wege killed twenty-three injured. The the Utah-California Express No. 3. bound, from Denver and the Colorado- New Mexico Express No. 15, eastbound, from Leddville and Grand Junction. met on a sharp curve and wers less two hundred yards apart when the gineers discovered that a coilision imminent. The wreck {g attributed to faflure of an employs of the road to liver an order which changed the meeting place of the two trains. It is known that the engineer of the westbound train put forth every possible effort to bring his train to a standstill, but his efforts were fruitless, and al- though he succeeded in checking the speed of hig train the crash that tollowed was beyond his power to prevent and he went to his death with his hand on the throttle, faithful to his charge. This } much is vouched for by his fireman, ‘who, of remaining in the saved £ H feis R ¥