The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1906, Page 45

v | Pages4 5t058) —_— '”Pagcs4 WOMEN LEAP TO SAFETY [(AMESTERS FROM BLAZING AUTO. Mrs. Paul Needham and Miss Olive Morrish escaped in a spectacular manner from a blazing automobile at Berkeley yesterday and were cheered by a throng that had been horror stricken for an instant by the belief that the women Id be burned to death. The machine seemed to become ablaze in an instant. Machine Containin Morrish Takes Fire Suddenly in Berkeley. g Mrs. Paul_Needham and Miss Olive| — f < = QUBRY \ HoTo PULAR VOCALIST OF RERKELEY. G AUTOMORBILE BY JUMPING OVE! WHO, R THE SEATS AND THROUGH THE ENCIR- PAUL NEEDHAM, MADE - WITH MRS ersity ng in hun- ck avenues, ngrega nd Shatty ains leave Berkeley. This - wat accident Ne s T and with faces witnessed two ess w e a su- s from ke cert dies were fied to the crowd for he au- | N 2 garage for Mrs retired policeman successf ran down and captured | attempting to make 3 ad pipe near Golden | Gate avenue and Fillmore street. When overtook the fellow on Fillmore near Turks the fugitive drew a ange seized him by the shoul- 1d disarmed him. The baseball man irned the prisoner over to Detectives ottle and Mitchell. —_————————— Thistle Club Celebration, anpual “tattie and herrin’” sup- per of the San Franclsco Scottish This- tle Club will take place next Saturday evening at Laurel Hall on O'Farrell street. »aseball ck | SIS RALRDAD 5 TRESPASSER Sacramento Attorney Makes Sensational Report Con- cerning Southern Pacific — SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SACRAMENTO, April 14.—After eral sev- weeks' investigation and searching of records by its attorney, the Jobbers' Association of Sacramento today sprang a surprise that the Company has in a report declaring Pacific of valuable water- front privileges and that it has placed many of its tracks where no right to be. Southern usurped a number they have The report has special significance at this time when the West- ern Pacific Raflroad Company is about to ask the city for water-front and other privileges in opposition to the desires of the Southern Pacific. The Jobbers' Association finds from the records that the city still has full control of the water front from L to R streets, save for two small franchises about to ex- pire, and that the Southern Pacific is a trespasser thereon; that the Southern Pa | cific is a trespasser on R street from the western to the castern lUmits of the city, nearly three miles, the franchise for the | track having expired in 1902; that other valuable franchises held by the Southern Pacific are about to expire, and that the Sacramento Transportation Company and the Sacramento Coal Company are:occu- pying wharves to which they have no claim whatever. A committee from the Jobbers’ Asso- ciation, comprising T. B. Hall, :P. C. Drescher, D. A. Lindley, Scott F. Ennis, Dwight H. Miller, Willlam Schaw, C. F. Prentiss, Fred B. Adams and W. A. Cur- tis, will walt on the City Trustees next Monday night and ask for a franchise for a union belt line along the entire city front, which shall be open not only to the Southern Pacific but to all competing roads now seeking admission to the city, or likely to come here in_the future. IS WK WhO SIHED HS LI {Rich Wyoming Resident Employs a Detective to Locate His Rescuer SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. DES MOINES, lowa, April 14—John Brewer, who dived into an airhole in the | fee of the Des Moines River and saved | the life of Bird Bliss in January, 1891, ”ls about to receive his third reward for | his bravery, after having twice pawned for $0 the medal which commemorated his heroism. Brewer received first a watch and then a medal, and now he is to be “put on his feet,” educated and given a new start in life by the man whom he rescued. Bird Bliss last week came to Des Moines from Wyoming to locate Brewer. and yesterday, with the aid of Detective Watt, the young man was found. Brewer was “up against.it.” He was practically penniless, in none too good | health and with no prospect of better times coming. An indication of his lack of prosperity was reflected when he ad- | mitted that the medal which citizens gave him for his bravery was hanging in Mose Levy's pawnshop window. The watch, | which was the gift of Bliss’ grateful | parents, was there too, he sald. ‘When Bliss' plan was outlined to Brew- er he showed his gratitude and said he would accept his opportunity. Arrange- ments are being made to take him to Wyoming, where Bliss is prospering in the lumber business. Brewer also will be given all the ad- vantages within Bliss' reach, it is said, and one of the first considerations will be an education, probably in engineer- ing. Brewer is well known to the police as “Cub.” Drink has kept him in the gutter, but his one act of heroism has always obtained leniency for him. —————————— Filipino Laborers for Hawail. HONOLULU,, April 14—The Planters' Assdciation 1s arranging to' send an agent to the Philippines for the pur- pose of securing Filipino or Japanese laborers to work in the Hawallan Isl- ands. The agent will be instructed to secure laborers in Porto Rico also. | | | | — HELPED BY — DEFT HAND = #e Valuable Evidence Against “Crapshooters” Arrested in Resort of Ned Lannigan Has Been Tampered With DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS VERY INDIGNANT Says His Orders That Chalk Figures and Squares on Bil- liard Table Covers Remain Intact Were Not Obeyed P The strained relations existing be- tween District Attorney Langdon and the police have been Intensified by u discovery made by Langdon on Friday afternoon. It was in connectlon with the raid last Monday night on the gambling-house of Ned Lannigan, 145% Powell street. The District Attorney, accompanied by Al McCabe, his secre- tary, and Assistant District Attorney Harrigon, visite the place about 3 o'clock in the morning, after the rald, and took note of the fact that on the green balze of the billlard tables the squares and figures used in crap games were plainly discernible. The figures “$"” and “6' werc more roticeable than the others. The District Attorney called the at- tention of Serge: Cills and two policemen to the chalk marks and figures, and also that of two policemen who ‘were detalled to bleckade the place. He instructed the police to se= that the chalk marks on the green baize were not obliterated, as they would form a strong point in the evi- dence against the gamblers. LAYOUT WIPED OFF. On Thursday Langdon sent word to Chief Dinan that he wanted the two billiard tables brought to the Hall of Justice. On IFriday he was told by Sergeant Williams that the tables had been taken apart by an cxpert and that the green covers had been brought to the Hall of Jusiice. When the District Attorrey examined the covers there was not a sign of the squares or figures, but instead several irregular lipes had been drawn on them with coarse chalk. Langdon at once communicated with the peilce, and yesterday mornihg the men who were present at the raid and those who had been on the blockade since were brought before him in Cap- tain Duke's offices They all denied having seen any figures on the covers, except two, and Duke said these two would testify to that effect. Langdon Gid not hide his indignation, and wanted to know why the evidence had been obliterated and by whom, but he could not get a satisfactory answer. In the afternoon Langdon .had four of the gamblers and the colored stew- ard of the place brought. before him, also their attorney, John J. Greeley. After a long interview they sald®they would admit that the figures were there at the time of the raid, but denied CITY WELCOMES SMITH ~ " AS HERO IN IT3 FORUM Military Pomp Be- fore the Making of Speeches. General Smith, after his rather in- formal entry of Friday afternoon, made a forma§ re-entry of the eity of his | birth last night. From the ferry bulld- ing, ablaze with lights, to the City Hall, its dome one luminous ball. he ¥ tunda Resounds With Eloquent Praise of California’s Famous Son. T P S SR S S SR AP CRRE B — GOVERNOR GENERAL JAMES F THUSIASTIC WORDS OF WELCOME SCENE IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE NEW e CITY HALL LAST NIGHT WHEN ' SMITH WAS RESPONDING TO THE FROM MAYOR SCHMITZ AND OTHERS. I $ — knowing anything about how they had become obliterated. ORDERS NOT OBEYED. In speaking of the matter the Dis- trict Attorney said: “I dor’t care fo thelr admission, as I have seven wit- nesses to prove that the squares and figures were there when the raid was made. What angers me is that my crders have not been obeyved by the police and valuable evidence bhas been tampered with. The irregular marks on the covers prove conclusively that the squares and figures were intention- ally obliterated, and it is my purpose to find out by whom. We knew that when the raid was made an attempt would be made to obliterate the chalk marks. and when we got admission the men were, as we expected, playing bil- liards. But when a fine chalk mark is rubbed out the lines are left, and thers was no difileulty in discerning the squares and iigures.” The cases will be called in the police courts tomorrow for argument on the demurrers filed on Friday by the defen- dants’ attorney, when somecthing may be said about the destruction of the cvidence. . ———— Baby Drinks Wood Alcohol. Thelma Harris, an 18 months old baby, drank the contents of a bottle of j wood alcohol which she found in the yrear of her home, 141 Larkin ‘street, | yesterday. The baby's mother, attracted I by the little one's cries, picked her upi } and rushed her to the Central Emer- ;sency Hospital, where Dr. Herzog { promptly applied antidotes. The baby | is not much the worse for the experi- Ience, but had the place been distant from the hospital the poison might have i killed her before remedies could be ap- ‘ ! plied. —_——————— Says He Was Assaulted. A. L. Howell, who is employed in an artificial limb factory at 738 Mission street, appeared at the Central Emergency Hospital yesterday with a badly bat- tered face. He sald that he had been assaulted bya printer named Marshall, who has an office in the same building. He declared that Marshall had lain in wait for him and caught him unawares, The battered one was treated by Dr. McGinty. i FURNITURE TO BE SOLD.—Sherift 0'Nei1 B o s e, & olasks Mot : T with s Superior. Court order. The sale is the resuit of & judgment obtalned by A. B. Smith againrt o T emarat for ¥5¥00.14, i rode along the city’s greatest street lné the midst of military pomp. Bands played, soldiers marched, bugles called, horses pranced and the clicking of arms and accouterments must have called him back to the time when, eight years ago, he went down the same street at the head of his volunteers on the way to the troopship that was to take them to the Philippines. The parade formed at the foot of Market street, and it was 8 o'clock be- fore it started. On both sides of the roped street throngs watched it pass with enthusiasm. It was headed by a squadron of mounted policemen. Fol- lowing came the band of the Third Ar- tillery and then eight companies of Coast Artillery in battalion fqrmation, under Captain I. A. Haynes. e Gov- ernor General rode in a red-wheeled victoria drawn by four prancing bays. To his left sat Mayor Schmitz,'and op- posite him Governor Pardee. The cheers from the sldewalk kept his hat off dur- ing the whole route, and his amiable smile never left his lips. In front of the City Hall the police- men and the regulars formed in a hedge, arms at the carry, and the offi- clal carriage rolled between. The re- ception took place in the rotunda of the City Hall. It was ablaze with lights, festooned with evergreens, and panoplied with flags. A platform had been built op the western side. and upon this General Smith took his place. To his left, in the following order, sat Mayor Schmitz, Captain Peter Reilley, | Governor Pardee, Colonel T. F. O'Neil and Father McQualde, and behind rep- resentatives of the army. the National Guard, the Governor’s staff and city and county officers. PRAISES RANK AND FILE. Speeches of welcome were made by Mayor Schmitz, Judge Graham, Gover- nor Pardee, Professor Bernard Moses, professor of economics at the Univer- sity of California and ex-member of the Philippine Commission; Rev. Jo- seph P. McQualde, chaplain of the First California Regiment when Smith was colonel; Jayme-Araneta, a young Fili- pina student of the University of Cali- fornia, and S. M. Shortridge. General Smith spoke last, in response. His speech was in happy vein. He decried his own services to praise those of the rank and file, and his final tribute to friendship called forth a thunder of ap- F._;;"M,._ he said, “it is very pleas- 1 e ant to be In this place, things said about me. Even if unmerited it is nevertheless pleasant. But I wish you to remember this: If there had not been true and loyal and brave men with- out shollder straps in the First Califor- nia Regiment of Volunteers there would have been no General Smith; there would 1 have been no Commissioner Smith; there would have been no Governor General Smith. It would be still Colonel Smith, and may be just plain Smith.” He then paid tribute to the work of Professor Bernard Moses, who had pre- ced=d him on the Philippine cémmission, saying that his own success had been but built upon the work done by his prede- cessor as Commissioner of Education. “Even when it comes to my so-called success in the island of Negros,” he con- tinued, “I cannot claim that to myself. Fer. when 1 went there as a stranger the people of Negros received me and took me upon trust and received my as- surances and made me their friend. The fact is that I do not merit all this. There are times when words fail to give ex- pression to the feelings of the human heart, and this is one,of them. Provi- dence has been good to me. It has given me good friends. My oniy prayer is that when it take away the honers, the ae- cident, the chance that make the bubble, that, at any rate, it will leave to me my friends, my friends of Caufornia.” FILIPINO YOUTH SPEAKS. The most pleasing part of the affair perhaps was the speech made by Jayme Araneta. His father is a wealthy ha- cendado and the leading man in the island hearing nice of Negros. When General Smith, at m.,! head of the California regiment, was sent to Negros to pacify it,*he met Juan Araneta and won him t6 the cause of the ‘Americans. The two men became fast friends and it is said that several tiwacs Smith owed his life to the vigilancs and love of the Filipino planter. Last night Jayme Araneta, his son, a student at ihe University of California, was called upon to make an address of welcome. The slender, swarthy-skinned lad spoke with a feeling and a grace that won the crowd. - “'In asking me to before you to- night,” he said, u do me a great honor. You know, of course, that I am only a student, and as such I was never before honored with an iavitation to speak at a public gathering. But, though feeling unequal to the occasion, my ad- miration for a great man, onme of Cali- —_— . Contigued on Page 47, Columa 5. - DOUBLE EVENT 5 CELEBRTED Boehemian (lub Anniversary and That of Unele George Bromley Gaily Observed FEET o) SHEUE The thirty-fourth anniversary of the Bo- hemian Club and the eighty-ninth birth- day of Uncle George T. Bromley were jointly commemorated last evening at a banquet in the red room of the club ten- | dered by Raphael Weill. The table deco- rations, abounding in apple blossoms, were devised in simple but beautiful fash- fon by the Misses Worn. The honor of presiding was accorded to John Landers of the “old guard.” Many interesting messages from absent Bohemians were read to the assembled company. Clay M. Greene and Frank L. Unger ecabled congratulations te Uncle George from Gibraltar. The M. P. grand commander, Terrace Encampment, O. D. Ones wired a meesage of good cheer to Bromley from Norwich, the “Rose of New England.” From Los Angeles came a mes- sage by wire signed by Thomas Rickard. Theodore Wores, H. M. Gillig. R. Hay Chapman, L. F. Vetter, H. J. Breuer and others. From New York Sig Steinhart wired his best wishes. and from Tonopah Alonzo Tripp telegraphed regrets of his inability to attend the feast Letters came from Unitcd States Senator George C. Perkins, Washington, D. C.: Andrew McFarland Davis, Cambridge. Mass.; Jen- nings 8. Cox, New York: G. Muecke, Ore- gon; George H. Wheaton and Willard T. Barton, Oakland. Charming little gifts to Uncle George were bestowed by Geog- gla“C. Scott and James M. Hamilton. Frederick Warde wired from Portland. United States Marshal Reed came down from Portland to participate in the event- ful celebration. Charles Bundschu sent beautiful verses of his own composition. Mr. Welll presented to his guests a menu bearing at the bottom the words, “Old Guard Club, founded 1872," and “Uncle George, born April M, 1817 \ At the round table werd Fred W. Hall, president of the club; George T. Bromley, J. C. Wilson, Jasper McDenald, F. W. Henshaw. N. J. Brittan, George I Ives, A. M. Robertson, R. H. Fletcher. Peter Robertson, Louls Sloss, L. H. Foote, Hugh M. Burke, Fremont Older, Ben- jamin R. Swan, John McNaught, J. H. N. Irwin, 8. D. Mayer, Alex Warner, T. S. Wilson. General A. W. Greely, Major Henry Hill, Warren R. Payne, Henry K. Fiéld, J. B. Landfield, George H. Malter, George Sage, Benjamin Clark, F. K. Ains- i worth, Alex G. Hawes, General W. E. ‘ Dougherty, C. J. Reed, Louis Rosenthal. H. R. Bloomer, James M. Walker, H. A. Metvin, Charles J. Dickman, R. B. Wal- lace, General James Biddle, David Bush, 1 C. M. St. John, John Landers, S. D. Bras- ! tow and Raphael Weill. a speaker and singer. His accomplish- ments as an orator and a soloist will | Englanders. _ Accompanied by ‘Welll and 8. D. Brastow he will leave San Francisco next Wednesday for Norwich, Conn., the piace of his birth. On the way to the scenes of his childhood he will tarry in New York and Washington to receive the congratulations of old friends who have cordially requested him to “stop over” a few days. Eighteen of the old guard of Bohemia were present at the celebration last night. Benjamin Clark sang “Noel” to the de~ - light of the assembled company.