The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1906, Page 2

COIN OF (DAY. APRIL 22, 1906. OR CITY Golden Stores of the Government Unlocked to Meet Situation CALL DISTRIBUTED FREE TO THE PEOPLE FROM AUTOMOBILE Crowds Rush Frantically to Secure Paper Wherever Stops Are Made. RAVAGES OF DEATH ARE ALREADY FRLI I VARIOUS PLACES Forty Bodies United States Mint to Advance Millions to the Banks of Cities out the Bay, MONEY TO BE ABUNDANT Taken. From Wreck of a Building on Fifth Street. ] and Washngton squares | mporary burial places | the astrophe, The | traz T to conse- | when conditions are 1 tion ne- of bodies as | ist of dead and Presidio Hospital up Dead—Jens of Federal | o t Mrs. M. Herlihy — ro, C: Burr, Ferd Klum rt. Marchand, t, Anna Woods, 2 unknown buried #n Ports- L h resulted t earthquake whose g — King, 928 Mission | tified; Harry Chese- | Minna streets; | 'olsom street . Web- | an, 14 William t; John nese 5 Geary street; Wil-| r Ware, 60 Sherman W. Myrke, 4 Stevenson mother child 4 years old, street; George Walker, Louis Hung i the square are: Harry Bush bruises; 7. | roadway, burns; C. S. | Kearny , blood poi- | J. Duge: Robinson, 81 soning. PRARSE L SR MEN SHOOT FIENDS. Continuc . from Page 1, Column 7. began to stone him. He then Kkilled | him with a shotgun. The row appears to have been over the ownership of | the boat. UNIVERSITY CADET WOUNDED. I P. Aiten, a university cadet, was ghot by a regular yesterday while Aiten was cssisting to demolish a sa- Joor in the section between Van Ness evenue and Devisadero street. Aiten received 2 bullet in his thigh. He is &t the Presidio Hospital. He is a sopomore, 22 years old, and his home | Gives Another Million to Needy is at Fowler. . Some complaint has been made that University of California cadets been exceeding their authority. f of Police Dinan has been. in- 4 that they have been holding up | d regular police without the The Berkeley cit been trying to secure the of the student guards for three General Fanston seems reluctant the collegians. orner of Greenwich street Ness avenue late yesterday lavonian who did not un- | s Brdered by the ies to assist’in chop- some trees. -Evidently mi ng the order he started in oppH direction and the soldier, ving he was attempting to escape, shot him through the shoulder. He is ot believec to be dangerously wound- underst | | | ed. CAUGHT IN ACT OF ROBBING. A 9:20 o'clock yesterday morning Special Officers Fred H. Rowe and L. | Jockers turned over to Policeman Charles E. Fennell, at Fourth and Mar- ket streets, :. man who gave the name of Ernest H. Blaser, 243 Tehamn They arrested:him for. looting saloon, opposite the ruins of ace Hotel. Fennell searched him .d found a loaded revolver, three gold | a diamond stud anfl other ar- his pockets. He broke and| and Fennell fired three shots | One of the bullets struck him | the left shoulder and brought him | down. He was taken to the German| Hospital, where his wound was dressn‘ He was turned over, by order of | ef of Police Dinan, to themilitary | ithorities, The man’s name pe= | lieved to be assumed. BOYS CAUGHT DIVIDING GOLD. Two boys about 12 years of age were erson Square by mi- iay while counting gold. hed the youngsters were nd to have $700 in their possession. ould give no satisfactory ac- they were lodged | street. Lace: fthe T is As they nt of t For two nights past a squad of po- has been performing -patrol duty Two lieutenants and eight the tug Sea Rover pre- ~mselves P men aboard vented the departure of several vessels from the harbor last night for the reason th ; carried food. Among them barkentines Eureka and rracouda, bound for Portland stopped were compelled d r in the stream or to re- to the dock, where the food was 2»ded and turned over to the au- , Thursday a similar de- tail = in saving for the unfor- tunate many tons of food that would otherwise have been carried to cities and down the coast. O S UNCLE SAM LIBERAL. of San Francisco, WASHINGTON, April 21.—The House to- y passed a resolution appropriating $1,000, n to the amount heretofore ap- 4 for the San Francisco sufferers. 2 the Senate met yesterday -Scott pre resolution calling upon the S y asury to prepare for the Se e of the cost of replacing the ruined buildings San Francisco and it The resolution suggests that the estimate should be for steel frames. A resolution presented by Morgan at the t of the Secretary of War, making the appropriated by the resolution passed vesterday for the relief of the San Francisco sufferers available for the purchase of medical supplies, as well as for subsistence and guar- termaster’s supplies, was also passed. in money e A AT A IN COMMAND AT THE PARK. PARK DISTRICT, PARK LODGE CAMP, Order No. 1—Pursuant to instructions from Brigadier General Frederick Funston, United States army, commanding the Depart- California, and Mayor Eugene E S pitz of San the undersigned hereby assumes military command of the dis- included in the limits of Golden Gate It will be known as the Park Dis- headquarters are hereby established the Park Lodge. Captain T. W. N. Draper, late United States volunteers, is hereby detailed as engineer of- i ment Francisco, trict Park. t ficer of the district. A. E. Truby, assistant surgeon, U. s hereby detailed as chief sanitary of- th ficer of district. P. J. Perkins, late U. S. V. Signal is hereby detailed as military surgeon. (Signed) G. W. McIVER, Major Fourth United States - Infantry. RN T R L RELIEF WORK PROGRESSING. OAKLAND, April 21.—Every fraternal or- der in Oskland has established headquarters and large provisions have been made to meet the urgent demands for help. All of the evan- gelical churches will suspend services tomor- row, the cdifices having been comverted into relief stations. Aol 2 O R INSURANCE BILL IS PASSED. ALBANY, N. Y., April 21.—The insurance bill, generally amending the insurance law, recommended by the insurance investigating committee, passed yesterday. Secretary of the Treasury Depart- - San. Francisco., HOMELESS IN JEFFERSON SQUARE CONTENTED LOT All Conditions Except Sanitary Are as Good.as Could = ' Be Expected. Among the homeless hundreds now ' shel- tered in Jefferson Square corditions 2r able as they ances and many tents are in place. as ad- ecould be under the circum- An effort has been made by the military and civil authorities to secure some kind. of an ccurate list of the dead in the neighborhood. | So far they have been greatly handicapped in their work through their inability. 1o get re- | liable people to engage in the work. Among the homeless in the squarc are many | little~ones. Last night there was a-shdrtage | in_the milk supply, but this conditicn was re- lieved 2t an early hour this morning by the arrival of many cans of the precious fluid Early this morning there was great excite- | ment among the refugees over the reported shooting of a looter in the square. Certainly a shot was fired, but by whom and at what neither the military nor civil authorities @bing | duty in the neighborhood have been ablé to ascertain. It is known, however, that no one of the inhabitants of the square was shot. The sanitary condition of the camp in ‘the square is a matter that' mustbe ‘given:im- mediate attention if the health’ of the home- less is to be preserved. This matter-is in the hands of the Engineering Corps of the army and no time will be lost in looking to the sanitation of the whole cif but meanwhile there is great fear that sickness will wipe out the lives of many unfortunates who have been saved from earthquake and fire. 1 pRAS AT L CHINESE RELIEVE GUEST OF HIS EMBARRASSMENT When He Fails Under Table Each Fol- lows Suit to Show Common Brotherhood. Dr. James B. Angell, the president of the University of Michigan, was in- vited to dinner at the Chinese Legation in Washington some years ago. The Doctor sat at tane right hand of the Minister. The floor of the dln!ng“ room was waxed and slippery and there were no rugs. He endeavored to move back his chair. It slipped and the dignified educator slid under the table. He arose much confused, but not a Chinese said a word or gave any sign of having seen the accidept. Ten min- utes later his Chinese host tried to move back his chair and he, too, slid under the table. He got up and re-,' sumed his seat and none of the Chinese made a sign. Then, at regular intervals, every | Chinaman around the table slid out of his chair and under the table. The doc- tor thought they were making game of him and protested. “My dear sir,” said the host, “we are paying you the highest compliment we can. In order that you may not feel .embarrassed over the accident we have each met with the same mishap; so we are all ‘brothers together.”—(Saturday Bvening Post. g e CITY BOARD OF HEALTH NEEDS SANITARY CORFS Five Hundred Physicians Are Invited to Volunteer for Service as Inspectors. The Board of Health has issued a call for 500 physicians to serve as sanitary inspectors. Already 200 have reported. Four physicians have been detailed to investigate rumors con- i contagions diseases. Maternity be established at nine central office of the Board of Health Laguna and Grove streets. The points. is established -at Soldiers have been detailed to have trenches dug for the deposit of rubbish at the different camps. + NO MORE EARTHQUAKES DECLARES A SCIENTIST Repetition -of Temblor Not Likely in the Opinion of Professor Larkins, Professor E.. L. Larkins, a scientist of emi- nence, who is now. in charge of the Mount Lowe Observatory, has isent word to the re- lief committee that as a result of his inves- tigations he feels justified .in announcing that there is no danger that the recent seismic dis- turbances will be" repeated. Professor Lar- kins has made a special study ‘of carthquake | conditions and his opinion carries great w ;More than $5,000,000 will be advanced immediately by ‘Superintendent Frank A: Leach of the United States Mint to the San Francisco and Alameda canrity banks, under instruction by Secretary Shita % Shaw of _he Treasury Departinerit, T gold in the tosmore tha ?IOO rr‘m! 8 to be paid out now w the banks haying;deposits in New York dn:i ‘other Bastern money centers, There will be abundant money at once, SO % vesterday. “Secretary Shaw to the situation, as} Mint ‘in this city amounts 1 go ‘o 1 for recommendations. anticipated the desirability of mental assistance cent disasters. Government wil} aid. lief money provided appropriation is also different orders.” Measures for the relief of the fin cal Institutlons of' Sar Francisco will be di cussed and action will be taken at a meeting of the Bankers' Associa- tion in San Francisco tomorrow at t home of Mrs. Eleanor Martin, frabil govern- in view of the re- available on three an The State Bankers' Association \'\‘l!l; meet for the same purpose in Oaklan e akland next Tuesday. The place and time will be announced later. gr:unls to members of the associat residing at interior points have been ‘Tgmv giving notification of the meet- 2. : The Bankers’ ation of Cakland efér action regarding b to be pursued by them until he results of the meetings of the 8an Francisco and the State Bankers' A sociations are known. The San Francisco clearin, 5 members will meet on Mnndayino}::‘ll:; at the Chief Wharfinger's office to dis- :uss the sitvation. The State Banking Commission met yes: dicate Bank bui!d?’n i Byn affairs did not resu any definite plan. ed - that banks of the State " now closed as a result of the Governor's proclamation should remain closed un- til definite relief measures have bee agreed upon. % Bankers of San Francisco an - land consulteq vesterday in re‘fieroe-:l((ve to plans for resuming. One proposition was to organize a clearing-house with headquarters in the Mint building, and to have business transacted in that way for ‘the present. Superintendent Leach says that the Mint can supply accommodations if they are - desired. Assistant Uniteq States Treasurer Ja-- cobs has teen instructed to make the Mint his headquarters for the present. An_immense sum in total will come into San Francisco as relief mon> from many places in the United States in a few days, which will improve the situation financially. It was announceq yesterday at-. a meeting of bankers of the city that they had found $100,000,000 intact and that all the vaults were perfectly safe. One result of the discussicn of re- llef measures among financiers has be.n the suggestion that Congress he asked to authorize the issuance . of bonds in the sum of $2,000,000, w0 bear 2 per cent interest, payable in ten years, The bonds would be sold by popular subscription, to be “San Francisco relief bonds, by first mortgage on real estate of San Francisco. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds would be placed in the ‘hands of a commission, to loan to own- has decidleq td-q the policy n ers of San Francisco real estate. Pres- ent mortgzgees would take second mortgage: giving the Government, which practically would guarantee the bond issue, first lien on the real estate. MANY PLUMBERS NEEDED. Board of Health Makes a Call for Skilled Mecaenics, - Dr. Regensburger, president of the State Board of Health, wishes to make it known througbout California that plumbers are need- ed at once in San Francisco. They must bring their own tools. Their tools will be sufficient credentials to sccure for them free transportation on ‘any railroad. They are re- questéd to report at the headquarters of the State Board of Health, at Laguna and Grove streets. IR Thter) G WASHINGTON SOLDIERS COMING. PORTLAND, April 21.—General Constant Williams, commandant at Vangouver Bar- racks, Wash., last night sent fen companies a slight shoek was felt here. The seismograph to Sam Francisco with regular field equipment and ten days’ rations. The detachment is composed, of 700 men. H Moscow Visited by Temblor. MOSCOW, April 21.—Practically simul- taneously with the San Francisco earthquake a'silght shock was felt here. The seismograph in the Moscow University, registerd the dis- turbances almost to the hour of its occurrence. {Wanted—Office desks at once. Cormer store, 11th and Franklin sts, Oakland, H. Schellbaas. s n $300,000,000. The $5,600,. | sald Superintendent TLeagch | : is alive | He wired to me and | He had | politan The result is that the | Some of the re- | by Congress by ! 1| various sorts, deposited their belongings upon €. The discussion of | It in the adoption of | | delivering oil to”the stations of the Spring | Valley Water Company throughout the city 1d of CARUSO SECOND BEST _IN A BRIEF BATTLE [Given Terrific Blow Upon the | Eye by Irate Emigrant on | Ferry Boat. the world-famous isco with the Metro- Causo, San Enrico tenor, who was in Fran, Opera Company at the time of the earthquake, was one of the first persons to | get across the bay to Oakland. It cost him dear, however. Caruso is said to have ex- pended $700 in having his seven trunks car- ried from his hotel to the street and then carted to tite ferry and taken across. On the ferry boat Caruso met with a ‘sec- ond disaster. - Heihad a very bulky supply of hand baggage, which he deposited at the foot of the rear stairway on the boat. Caruso, his calmness regained, stood by his baggage and | | from the Tear of the departing boat gazed upon the scene of destruction lighted by the fires which had broken forth a few minutes | | before. . As Caruso gazel a squad of emigrants, less clean of face than himself and with baggage of | the valises of the famous tenor. When Caruso observed how his grips were hidden under besmeared carpet bags he kicked the latter away with his fogt. Insfantly the owner of I the parcels thus roughly freated smote Caruso | a terrific blow upon the right eye. The singer | drew up for battle, but soon saw that he was | hopelessly outnumbered and removed his own | belongings to the other side of the boat. R i e e FUEL OIL FOR DELIVERY. The Associated Oil Company, through its general manager, W. S. Porter, has announced that its il tanks at Second and Berry streets, Point Richmond and Alameda Point are in condition to deliver fuel oil. Mr. Porter has issued an prder to men in charge to deliver oil to all the shipping in the harbor applying thesefore, From the Berry-street station be is for pumping purposes ani is prepared to ac- commodate all commers in need of fuel oil to the extent of the capacity of the tanks at that point, some 10,000 barrels. The company will not, ask compensation at present. SR T T Vessel Meets With Mishap. VALETTA, Malta, April 21.—A ter- rible accident has occurred on board the British battleship Prince of Wales, The cylinder of the port engine burst, killing two of the crew and weéunding five Other men of the crew. The ship is expected to land here the bodies of the men who were killed. The Prince of Wales was undergo- ing her speed trials when the con- necting-rod bolts on the high-pressure engine and the top cylinder cover were fractured. The Prince of Wales belongs t- the Formidable class. R T SR i, MONDAY AND TUESDAY HOLIDAYS. SACRAMENTO, April 21.—Governor Par- dee this afternoon issued the following procla- mation declaring two more legal holidays: © “In the interests of the public welfare, I, George C. Pardee, Governor of the State of California, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of this State, do hereby appoint, designate and declare Monday, April 23, 1906, and Tues- day, April 24, 1906, as public legal holidays.” PO R S EARTHQUAKES IN TUSCANY. ROME, April 21.—Thirteen earth shocks were' felt in succession fhis morning in the province of Siena, Tuscany. Several buildings were damaged, including the City Hall at Poggibonsi, nineteen miles south of Florence. The inhabitants of Poggibonsi were panic- stricken. It is not yet known whether Siena was damaged. R S S S CONFISCATE AUTOMOBILES. The automobiles have rendered splendid ser- vice. Many of them have been confiscated by the military and civil authorities and the drivers impressed into service. Working day and night since the hour of the earthquake, some of the operators have been without sleep or rest during the enitre period. As a result several of the chauffeurs last night fell in utter collapse in front of the headquarters. oo R R e T VOLUNTEER ENGINEERS WANTED. Volunteer engineers for repair work are re- quested to report at the office’ of the Cos- tra Costa Water Company, Oakland, or to the temporary headquarters Filbert street, near Bush. C. L. Cory, George L. Gillman, A. M. Hunt, Wynn Merdick and W. H. Allen. LRI R T May Tax Transfer Shares. ALBANY, April 21.—The Court of Appeals, by a unanimous decision handed down today, upholds the con- stitutionality of the law of this State taxing the transfer of shares of capital stock. PSR YL S, i Many Nations Represented. OTTAWA, April 21.—British, French and Japanese squadrons, after visiting New York, are to engage in a naval display at Quebec, Throughout all of San Francisroileave wherever human habitations stand a | bricks, running the chance SWift touring car flew yesterday morn- ing carrying The Call to thousands of eager, anxious people, hungry for news of loved ones and further details of the disaster wrought by earthquake and fire. No charge was made for the papers. As from the first day after the temblor, The Call was distributed | free in keeping with the general scheme of succor that is bringing the stricken multitude into hope and cheer again. : As fast as the automobile sped it left in its wake groups of interested people devouring every line of its re- port of the day's events, the best pub- lished by any newspaper. Though several thousand papers were distrib- uted, there were not enough of them to give each of the still many more thousands of persons one, and they had to be passed from hand to hand. Sometimes one of a group would read aloud and the others would stand close, devouring every line of the informa- tion imparted, every word of the graphic description of occurrences that the pages bore. The Calls left Oakland, where they were published, at an early hour, but not so early that the masses of the people were not bestirring themselves. One of the fastest launches on the bay had been convoyed to take them to the San Franeisco side. The little vessel sped its way across and skirted the stretch of tumbled docks and charred warehouses,' landing at the foot of Hyde street. FAST AUTO IN WAITING. There stood in waiting one of the swiftest touring cars in San Francis- co—a car that had been wont to chug through happier scenes than the auto- mobiles. view today as they fly fran tically about on errands of asistance. Into this car the bundles of Calls were delivered and witaout delay the chauf- feur started on the run to the portions of the city in which population was left—population densest in public squares, where not a house stood. All the streets in the Western Ad- dition were covered by the flying auto. Stops were made at all the parks, in- cluding the queen of them all, Golden Gate, now giving shelter to the people stricken as she nad given joyf8l hours to the people happy. Fort Mason and the Presidio were visited, and out into the Richmond District the free Calls were distributed. The scenes attendant upon the pass- ing out cf the Calls were among the notable features of the week in San Francisco. Whenever the auto drew up to a crowd there was a wild rush for it and a clamor for copies of th« paper. The looting of a grocery could not have excited a madder rush. “Free Calls here,” shouted loudly as tn machine dashed up to some chose spot of distribution, was the signal for a descent of surging hundreds upon the auto, and the stretching of hands to- ward the bundle of papers which would have been swallowed up like oats in a hopper had they not been held high un- til the number to be left among the people at that particular spot had been handed out. It was explained to the eager throng at each place that every- body could not be given a paper, as there would not be enough to g9 around, but that those into whose hands they were placed were expected to pass them along until all had had a chance to get their contents, EVEN “BREAD LINES” BREAK. A glance back as the auto left the successive stopping places showed that each person who had been given & paper was surrounded as closely as th2 auto had been, every one being deter- mined to get a glance at the paper. In the common brotherhood that prevails among the people who are suffering, every one did get to read a Call. There was no other occupatiom that would keep the people from The Call auto. Those preparing meals would their stoves of of their morsel of food being burned. Whole lines of people that had stood patiently waiting for bread would be broken up at the sLout of “Free Calls,” the hungry f-r bread being hungrier still for the complete news of the fire and its sequel, and of the people who were injured, missing. dead or saved. The lists of names of those who had regis tered at the park and of those who had been taken to hospitals were scanned in the greediest manner. There were expressions of praise for The Call, not only its free delivery of papers, but for the superior news it contained. giving the most complete information of the disaster. ‘Wherever the auto dashed along the people scrambled up the road to inter- cept it, and some ran after it for blocks. improvised ones e e g RAILROADS FTLP. No commercial freight is being sent to or received for San Francisco. The Southern Pacific is giving preference to the relief freight, which is being de- livered to the Folsom-street and Fourth and Kentucky street depots. The local freight office in Oakland and the new up-town general freight office will be in position Monday to give more advice about the dispesition of. commercial freight on the road for San Francisco, and diversion orders will be received. e SAN RAFAEL ORGANIZES. SAN RAFAEL, April 21.—Citizeas have organized a genera) relief com- mittee to aid refugees from San Fran- ¢isco. A camp has been provided near Hotel Rafael, S, M. Augustine is chair= man of the {inance commitee. T A AR e Witnesses Human Misery. LOS ANGELES, April 21.—E. Call Brown, mining engineer and geologist of San Francisco, arrived in Los An- geles on the Owl today. From the windows of his room in the Argyle Ho- tel on McAllister street, San Francisco, he had seen strange and horrible sights and more distress through the hours which followed the awful catastrophe. He saw much of human misery and despair and much ‘o° human devotion and courage. “The most terrible thing I saw,” said Mr. Brown, ° s the futile struggle of a policeman and others to rescue a m.... who was pinned down in bur 3 - »qckage. It was a race with the fire and a losing race. The helpless man watched it in silence till the fire began burning his feet. 5 A A i RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS. The California Branch of the American Red Cross Seciety has established headquarters at 2510 Washington street. All trained nurses are requested to enroll by W. W. Morrow, president, and Mrs. J. F. Merrill, vice presi- dent of the society. Mrs. Hugh McCrum has donated $5000 to the Red Cross Association. Horace Davis and Captain Curier have requested that automo- biles, carriages, drugs and money be domated to the association. They are in need of doc- tors also. i L AR CALIFORNIANS ON WAY HOME. EL PASO, Tex., April 21.—Members of the California Press Association, who have been making a tour in Mexico, arrived here on a special train from the City of Mexico today and left at once over the Santa.Fe for Cali- fornia. They expect to reach Oakland Mon day afternoon. Since the disaster at San Francisco excursionists have been unabel to get any messages from home. PSR e Gowdy’s Daughter Weds. RUSHVILLE, Ind, April 21.—Miss Fannie Gowdy, daughter of Colonel John K. Gowdy, former United States Consul General at Faris, was married here recently to Robert E. Mansfleld, United States Consul General at Val- paraiso, Chile. y Temporary Headquarters GEO. H. 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