The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1906, Page 3

TONS OF FOOD ON LOS ANGELES IS SENDING E. H. HARRIMAN Mammoth Mess Train Rushing North. | to‘ SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY APRIL 23, 1906 COMES IN HIS SPECIAL TRAIN |S Equpped { OAKLAND, April 22.—E. H. Harri-| Feed 2 o,o oo | man, pre sident; of the Southern Pacific | Company, accompanied by J. C. a Day_ Stubbs, traffic director of the Harri- man lines, ived in Oakland this z afternoon in a special train, to which Car|Oad of Baby‘“;m attached two carloads of pro-| ! visions from the people of Mass:\» Food Is Also . At the Oakland pier a short confer- C°m|ng' ence was held with Charies H. Spear, president of the Board of Harbor Commissioners of San Francisco, and e ANGI 22—AMONE | pivision Superintendent Scott of the reds of carloads of assorted|Southern Pacific. Afterward Harri- are being sent out from | man conferred with Governor Pardee at ancisco suf-| g¢ 1o steps to be taken for the gen- " arlots of lemons | eral relief of the situation. Manager Woodford of by ared he had no defi- California Fruit Exchange has is-| njte plans and would formulate none appeal to fruit growers t0 y;ij) he had consulted with his sub-| hipments of both lemons | o ginates and the Governor. once. The lemons “In a few words we came to be on red for use in San | yo oround and do everything in our th the water 10 . ,wor for the stricken city,” he said. 1any |« can say little more until I have i ”",‘ ¥ gone over the ground and consulted ¢ S pethaps e 1 :""“ with others . ‘":“ “While the earthquake and fire were ™™ Pl wiul calamities San Framcisco will This huge taurant | r to the ry refu- chusetts and Salt Lake City. rise again, a grander and more beau- 3 , | tiful eity. And the wonderful grit ancisco, is the Shattuck D. I D eas and spirit of the people was remarked I mess” train ou en- G : A .| all along our route from Philadelphia, € a guaranteed capacity of where iay local relief com- th caravansa It was made all kitch- double- 5 :, morning I immediately tele- . com. | Sraphed Mr. Calvin and Mr. Herrin to Xpec an import- | cO-operate with the au'horities and| " part in the do everything they <ould toward giv- | il ing relief, using the wkole Southern | A~ carloa - the | Pacific’s organization for that pur- .d by ! pose, and the following = dispatches i < and dispatched | Were sent on subsequent dates: milk, * ‘Philadelphia, Pa., April 19. v for etc ‘Alex. Millar, secretary Union Pacifi Railroad Company, 120 Broadw ew York: ASKS PEOPLE disaster reached me. “We were in a more advantageous condition than others ww.o would have been willing to render assistance, hav- officers cn the spot. the news on Wednes- ing responsible ‘On hearing ‘Wire San Francisce office to use| 000 if need money for any purpose, 'I‘O ECONOMIZE pending my arrival. Please acknowl-| edge. E. H. HARRIMAN. “The answer to the above was: WITH WATER ‘New York, April 19. ‘‘E. H. Harriman, car Arden, train P. R. R, Harrisburg, Pa.: aste no water!” is the impera- Your message No. 1, Philadelphia, | or of the Relief Committee | received and immediately repeated to fifty representative citizens. This | Calvin, instructing use of money. especially addressed to all occu- ‘ALEX. MILLAR.”” s of houses in the Western Ad- ““Chicago, April 20. m and Mission District. The sub-| “‘E. E. Calvin, San Francisco: ughly discussed at the| 'ommunicate and co-operate freely | ng of the committee yes- | with Messrs. Mohler, Bancroft and iy, when Mayor Schmiiz received | O’Brien. They have instructions to orts from the various subcommit-; forward special trains with provisions, | that working night and day | tents and clothing. Act:quick. Keep tore a systematic order of af-!me advised. fairs. The purpose of special econ- “E. H. HARRIMAN. omy for forty-eight hours in the use| *“ The above mentionéd are—A. L. of water is to enable the Spring Val-| Mohler, vice president and general Water Company to increase the| manager Union Pacific Railroad Com- servoir pressure needed to speedily | pany; W. H. Bancroft, vice president due flames should other fires oc-| and general manager Oregon Short! cur ;Ime J. P. O’'Brien, vice president Citizens are specially warned by and general manager Oregon Railroad uthorities to light no fires in|and Navigation Company; E. E. Cal- eir chimneys. In some instances| vin, vice president and general man- chitects have made inspection and|ager Southern Pacific Company (Pa-| Broadway, where the offices of the|tion of them. A systematic search reported that it would be safe to light | ; cific system). fires for cooking in several houses, but | “‘Chicago, April 20. the committee on the advice of ex-|“‘W. H. Bancroft, Salt Lake City, s-and the Fire Commissioners| Utah: issued positive insrructions“ “‘Communicate and cc operate free- pst using the chimneys. | meeting of the Relief Com-| mittee A. Ruef &ubml!le'l‘ 1 extended account of an interview just concluded with Chief En-| Schussler of the water com- 1 the vesterday he had gineer |y with Mr. Calvin. Ar;ange to for- ward special trains, with provisions, tents and clothing. Aci quick. An- swer. at once. E. H. HARRIMAN. YThe answer to the aliove was: I was when the news of the y “Mr. Mohler’s answer rollows: “‘Omaha, April 20. 2. H. Harriman, on special: “‘Message received. Have already; | communicated with Mr, Calvin, Met | Omaha committee at 12 o'clock yes-| terday. They are loadiag supplies to-‘[ day and will forward by passenger { train this afternoon. Arranged with Governor yesterday to forward tents! Dennis T. Sullivan, chief of the San | and clothing which will be loaded to Francla(‘u Fire Department, who was] | day. Have notified Denver, Cheyenne, .‘ injured in his home on Bush street on | pEansas Oty FTopeks, - Nerth Llatiy; ( the morning of the earthquake by fall-| Grand Island, Council Bluffs and other debris from the California Hotel, points of necessity and everything pos- | D€ sible has been done. | died yesterday morning at the Presidio | «‘A, L. MOHLER. |Hospital. His death had been ex- “‘Chicago, I11., April 20. .pected for two days, and has cast the .-J P. O'Brien, Portland, Or.: ‘flre department into mourning. ‘‘Communicate and co-operate free-| On Wednesday morning while the |1y with Mr. Calvin. Arrange to for- | fire chicf and his wife were asleep in ward special trains, with provisions, |their apartments on the upper fl°°l‘1 tents and clothing. Act quick. An- of the engine house on Bush street, swer. E. H. HARRIMAN. |a tall chimney on .the Cnhform_a' Hotel “The answer to the above was: | was shaken from its lofty position by “Porttana, April 20. .[he heavy temblor and toppling over ‘B, H. Harriman, on special: '“. crashed through the roof of Athe en- * ‘Message received. Will carry (;l( gine house, completely wrgckmg th‘e\ 5 s " N latter. The unfortunate chief and his instructions fully. We are doing| "/ ! H | everything possible in tne way of for- wife \\‘er.o buried under Lhe: debris ol’ | warding supplies, provisions; etc., both | the building, but were hurriedly extrl»h Ho: Government and individuals. cated by -mGRtAeEs Of the dire Hayarty ‘| “:J. P. O'BRIEN. {ment and conveyed to the Southern| | Pacific hospital. Later, when it was 720 ronte. et o‘t:.(‘,hlcago, realized that the hospital lay in the| “‘A. L. Mohler; Union P;:Zli:: Ray. | Path of the rapidly spreading confla- P i s 2 | gration, they were taken to the Presi- road Company, Omaha, Nefi.: __idio hospital, where Mrs. Sullivan is| “‘Forward quickly the following ;) oonfined, although she is reported | message to Mr. Calvin, sending copy | {to be rapidly improving. The chief to Messrs. Bancroft and -O'Brien, | was unconscious for a time and died | | namely: |ignorant of the fact that people of | “‘1 am asked to join in subscrip-|ggn prancisco had missed his services tion by various cities on our lines,! during the most trying period in the | | and have answered that I am concen- | pistory of the State. 1 trating on San Francisco. During his lucid moments he talked | “‘In order to give immediate re-|of fire department matters with Bd- lief you are authorized to expend two gie (;rnne;‘ who was constantly at his hundred thousand ($200,000) dolla bedside, and dwelt at some length on a FIRE CHIEF SUCCUMBS as in your judgment seems best, calt water system for the city and the | drawing for help on =rr. Mohler, Mr. value it would be in the event of a Bancroft and Mr. O'Brien. They will | hig conflagration. Strangely the forward provisions as may be directed‘ | by you from points from which they can be shipped the quickest.” ‘ | “‘E.”H. HARRIMAN.” | | o“A large part of the amount auAE thorized has already .been ("qmm]edf; lyh was evidently unnecessary for me| to send any urgent messages to our | ness was held by Assistant Chief Dou»! | officers, and T am much gratified A\t;:?wrty, who will him. No man has gained greater distine- chief’s mind was working out the very problem his assistants were struggling | with only a few blocks beyond his death couch. will be made today. | the efficient manner in which they—| { especially Mr. Calvin, Mr. Herrin and | | their assistants—have handled the fa-| tion as a fireman than did Dennis T. | cilifies of the Southern Pacific Com- | Sullivan in San Francisco. An athlete | pany which were under their control, |from youth, he was physically cap- | and were thus able to act quickly and | able of enduring hardships, a | secure and move into the city the first| | that frequently demonstrated erhe{ supplies. | during his arduous duties as a fire | “As I have said, T shall confer with |¢dlef. His rise in the local depart- Governor Pardee as soon as possible | ment Y e rapid one and regarded as < well merited. He was first an extra | and afterward the future plans of the | z 2 ‘Southem Pacific will be formulated. :‘max.x-wlth 13 ‘engine and. from that We have faith in San Francisco and | Dosition he rose to hydrant man and | California, and that faith has'been‘[hen to d’sf"ct engineer. .At the | strengthened by the bravery and .for- death of Chief Scannell, Sullivan was | € made chief engineer of the depart- ment. For years he had carefully titude of the people in this trying ordeal. | % 4 | studied various problems that he pre- dicted might some day confront the “It is unfortunate that Juiins Kri utt-‘ schnitt, third vice president of the; fact | itself | FRUIT l press Lawn until further notice. Fifteen marines: ot the cruiser Chi-| cago were Kkilled Saturday night by the falling of the ruins in the sub- Treasury building. They were on guard duty at the time. None of them have been recovered. The ruins of the Valencia Hotel have not been thoroughly searched as yet and it is believed that over 100 people | perished when the building went down. Today -the Coroner will exhume all the bodies buried in Portsmouth square. It is likely that they will| be cremated. Of the numwer twenty- three have been identified. Fifteen Morgue wagons have been in constant | use since the day of the earthquake. They remain in different parts of town | and each is in charge of a deputy and a messenger. The temporary offices of the Coroner are at Laguna and Grove streets. A PITIFUL TRAGEDY. Thomas A. Davis, a traveling man of New York, was killed by falling debris while entering the Paldce Hotel on Wednesday morning. | rived in San Francisco on Monday and on Tuesday night | evening last, was married to Miss Virginia Ship- pley, head stenographer of the Cali- !orn.ia Electrical Company. They were married quite unexpectedly and the bride of the day before became a widow in the morning. Lewis Engen, a special police officer, dropped dead of heart failure at Me- | Allister street and Van Ness avenue vesterday. His body was removed to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Dr. Taggart of Los Angeles was in- stantly killed by a bullet \'esterda)i morning. A magazine revolver | dropped from his pocket and was dis- | charged. The Red Cross Society took | charge of the remains. Bartlett Doe, the remaining partner of: the pioneer lumber firm of B. & J. S. Doe and owner of the St. Nicho- | las Hotel, died on Wednesday shortly after the earthquake. The body of Arthur Mason, once a jockey, who was killed Wednesday, | has been recovered and is in charge | Arrangements for the chief’s funeral | of Percy W. Treat, secretary of the| His position as | California Jockey Club. Efforts to find head of the department during his ill- | Mason's relatives have so far failed.| The dead during the past twenty-! probably gucceed | four hours at the Presidio and Gen-| eral Hospital are: Dennis T. Sullivan, Jules Zalizki, Amelia, avenue, Alameda; M. A. Hustel, John Fauth, Nansen. PSSR A INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE STANCH Fire insurance companies will pay their fire losses dollar dolllar. That is, they will pay the actual loss by fire to the property insured. for Davis ar-| OUTDOOR i I - { The fire has demoralized the reign of sport this district. The de-| ‘votees of various outdoor pastimes in saved their favorite implemenfs of i the chase, but will hardly have op- portunity to use them soon. The | angler’s first thought apparently was | of his favorite rod 2nd tackle. The | tennis enthusiast first made sure of | his racket; the gunmen bethought | | themselves of rifles and shotguns with which they have laid low many |a lordly stag or brought down the ‘camuback the mallard, the teal and | )lhe fast flying California quail. H | For the present their thoughts are| !no! of the field and the stream, so the { game birds and the trout are free from molestation. The catastrophe | which laid low the city will work a | great benefit to the trout, which will not be disturbed in any marked degree ’ for some time to come. | The best known spor:s of the town | are widely scattered. Harry Corbett was at The Cabin near San Bruno when the earthquake shock came and narrowly escaped death in the wreck of his establishmen:. He came at once to this city, where he found his home ‘on .O'Farrell stréet but| slightly damaged. With his daughter | and Colonel Martin Brady, the wit of | | the Tenderloin, he went to his broth-| | er- in-law’s, Jack Boyd, at San Carlos. ! THE BRITTS NOT SHOT. Reports of ‘the shooting of various | men by the soldiers wrere prevalent. | Among others both Willie Britt and| his brother Jimmie were reported as having been targets “or e guardians | of the peace. Neither suffered, how- | ever, in any particular. Out in \nw Valley across tie stree: Irom the | school bearing that name Eddie Han-| lon, the well-known boxer, and his| family are safely housed. The inimi-| table Spider Kelly is with his mother | and sisters at 515 Jersey “street, near} where the Hanlons have taken up their abode. | HEINE RAFAEL IS WITH HIM. Over in Oakland there is quite a! colony of the boxing fraternity. Frankie Neil, Johnnie Frayne, Tim | | McGrath, Sammie Loftus, “the sing-| ling kid”; “Billie Roche,” “the Mayor‘ | Patrick Dockery, ! Bernard Shay,, 310 Cvpress‘ | Greenwich and Taylor streets ;smle two blankets. SPORTS - DEMORALIZED. Great Fire Demon- strates Usefulness of Automobile. arated points and also performed deeds of mercy in carrying the wounded to the hospitals, where they could receive much needed surgical attention. . The men in charge of the machines showed marked skill in driv- ing them at such high speed and amid such a tangle of wires and debris. Considering the number in use it was marvelous that there were no acei- dents of any consequence. The lowly bicycle %fas atso come into its own. The majority of the | men living in the dgistriet which was net reached by the iire brought out their machines which have been idle for_some years and have beem flit- ting up and down the streets at a merry pace. This style of locomotion they find superior to waxing, and the utility of the Wieycle is again brought out in bold relief. Coursing has been given a finishing blow from which it will not recover for some time. With the seareity of provisions the greyhounds have been put on short rations, which do net tend to racing condition. It is pes- sible the least valuabie of the pew formers will be destroyed, as their earning capacity has ended. MANY BULLETS WARN THIEVES, CHECK CRIME Many shootings of the last few days have served as strong warning to thieves and looters who lurk on the borders of the ruined distriet. Rumors of shootings are frequently heard and have caused the people so much alarm that few are seen on the streets after 9 o'clock. In spite of the stringent measures adopted by the guards several lootings are reported. Two soldiers entered a tent at last night, where a boy was sleeping, and They compelled the boy to accompany them to a resi | dence at Lombard and Jones streets, where they filled the blankets with silverware, jewelry and oiher valu ablés. The soldiers then took the loot | road, could not be here to assist in | the arrangements, bur ne is now in | Mexico, and could not be reached. “You may say that the policy of the Southern Pacific Company is to do i all in its power for the people of San Francisco.” | President Harriman was undecided !cisco this evening or delay his visit until tomorrow. The general offices of the Southern Pacific will be opened tomorrow in the Union Savings Bank building on general manager, passenger traffic manager, freight traf~c manager, gen- | eral purchasing agent, citer engineer, superintendent of transportation and telegraph department will be located. partment clerks will we iocated at Eighteenth street and Telegraph ave- | whether he would go to San Fran-| Tne general freight and passenger de- | Rolla V. Watt, manager of the Royal Insurance Company, says that losses will be adjusted on a basis fair to the insured. It will be necessary to segregate the loss occasioned by the earthquake and that wrought by the fire. The companies are pre- pared, however, to meet all obliga- tions. The managers of the different companies will meet today in Oakland, when the situation will be thoroughly discussed. Owing to the great amount of loss it is probable that payments will be made jn installments after thirty, sixty, ninety and 120 days. This is due to the fact that it will be lmpos sible for the companies to realize upon their securities sufficiently fast to set- tle up at once the losses, which are estimated from a conservative stand- point to be about $200,000,000. At the big meeting to be held today the local and foreign companies will | fire department, among them a con- flagration which the city has just suf- fered, and his friends, while not at- tempting to discredit the work of Act- ing Chief Dougherty, believe that if Sullivan had led the departments through its recent ordeal, his studies jof conditions might have served to | greatly lessen the dangers to which San Francisco was subjected. DISPOSING OF THE DEAD. Coroner Walsh and his corps of dep- uties spent a busy day yesterday col- lecting the bodies of victims of: the earthquake and making final disposi- | was instituted in alt portions of the city and the Department of Health is co-operating with the Coroner. The | city was apportioned off and squads 1ot‘ searchers dug 'among the ruins throughout the burned district. Thus far over 300 bodies have been disposed of by the authorities. Near- 1 all | { of Colma,” and others are discussing|to a lot and buried it. The boy noti- | the sad blow which the boxing gamefr fied the police, a parroiman went to | has sustained. All the Los Angeles | the lot and the valuables were recov- | fights, which promised to create such ered. Brigadier General Funston is | a sensation, have been indefinitely | investigating the case. | postponed, as there will be plenty of| Made desperate by the sight of iwork for the strong arms and 'wming{ three starving children a homeless | hands of the well-trained boxern.[ woman yesterdaxk in Golden Gate Park ‘ Frankie Neil was to have left for Los | attempted to steal some supplies from Angeles on the night of the earth« a near-by tent. It was reported that quake. He had trained faithfully for the woman was seen by one of the some weeks and was In grand condi-| guards, who fired upon her, killing tion. After the earthquake he came | her instantly. It was then discovered | to the city, intent upon saving some | that she had three children who, it is of his possessions. Ive ran from thef said, were taken care aof by the people ferry building some-three miles to his' from whom their desperate and um- room and saved $240 he had in his | fortunate mother attempted to steal. trunk, and some valuable jewelry. | A civilian was shot by a private of SAVES FISHING RODS. [the Federal army on Saturday night J.-B. Kenniff, the noted angler and | in the Western Addition as the re- flycaster, saved his favorite rods.lsult of an attack on a woman. The which he has used on the streams and | civilian, whose name has not been in competition. He also saved his|learned, accosted the woman near valuable collection of flies and med-| the corner of Pierce and Golden Gate You can draw frém Salt Lake | hue and the legal department will be ly 200 came from the Potrero Dis- trict. Most of these victims perished in the flames and their charred re- at 1172 Broadway. No commercial freight is being sent unquestionably all act in conjunction regarding both adjustments and pay- ment of losses. Everything that is possible is ing:done to restore the normal sup- water to the mains of the city. ““‘Salt Lake, April 20. ‘E. H. Harriman, on special: ““Your message received. I am in reservoirs in the distant| telegraphic communication with Mr. contain an ample volume of Calvin and stand ready to co-operate sufficient to supply 25,000,000 with him in every way to re}iéve lons-a day for 600 days, but the | present distressing situation. chief difficulty now is to bring in a| “‘W. H. BANCROFT.’ volume sufficient to fill the city res-| “*Chicage, April 20. irs and afford pressure to quench|“‘A, L. Mohler, Omaha,! Neb.: The Mayor hopes that the peo- “‘Communicate and coinpemte with any. be ly of The great fire. ple will heed the advice to be careful | Mr. Calvin freely, arradging to for- | ward special trains, with provisions, _— tents and clothing at once to San It |~ one of the jokes of history| Francisco. Answer. You: can at once | that the conmservative Democrats are|draw on Denver, CheytmlI and other ini the use of water. to or received from San Francisco, preference being given to relief freight. The train service from Oak- land pier is now normal, except that | there are irregular connections at San Jose for points on the coast division. B e S e To Spring Valley Employes. The Spring Valley Water Company has notified all its employes to meet at the _southwest corner of Waller and Webster streets to be instructed as to the work they are to be assigned |to do. All leaks of consequence should be reported at once at head* mains were picked from the ruins. | None could be recognized. A small | percentage were found in the streets. The bodies were interred yesterday and each grave was numbered. ' Cor- oner Walsh believes that the loss of life in the Potrero was greater than in any other district. Up to the noon hour reports had been made by the health inspectors and the Morgue d€p- uties to the effect that twenty-three bodies had been found in the various parts of the city since sunrise. Few of them could be identified. They were buried in different cemeteries. Commander of State Troops. Some went to the Presidio Cemetery, COLONEL F. k. LYNCH, The insurance companies have noti- fied the Mayor that if any attempt is made to build fires in any of the houses in San Francisco except the bakeries already authorized all insur- ance will be invalidated. e AT S R S TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. _All ex-soldiers and sailors, also reg- ular army officers, report at once to the National Brewing Company, Ful- ton and Webster streets. By order of GENERAL JOHN A. KOSTER, pow turning to Bryan, because he lsj near-by places. Act quick. vative as against Hearst. “‘E. H. HARRIMAN. conse quarters, 501 Hermann street, corner Church. but the majority rest in Laurel Hill.I;Dommnder of California Garrison Free burials will be permitted at Cy- No. 101. als. ‘, The automobile has made a stride in public favor since last Wednesday morning which it could hardly have gained in years under ordinary gon- ditions. Army officials and others are a unit in declaring that the au- tomobile has expediieqd the handling of work brought on =y the destruc- tion of this city in a marvelous d&l gree. The machines have traveled at sensational speed and have stood the | strain in a manner which is a credit to their makers. ' Horse flesh could mever have with- stood the high pressure and could not have covered the immense distances encompassed by the mo-or-driven ma- chines. They carried tue couriers of i the army and of the Fire Department with important orders for widely sep- avenue. He seized her and a scuffle ensued, The cries of the woman brought cadets of the University of California to the rescue, and they im- mediately seized the miscreant. They held him and called a patrolman of the regular army. The regular held a brief inquiry and upon the positive evidence of two university eadets de- claied the man guilty and sheot him through the heart. Policeman Thomas Larkin was wounded in the leg in a fight with two thugs near Baker and Lyom streets. Three houses were looted in this vi- cinity. Special Officer Fred H. Rowe found four men breaking open the safe of the McCloud River Lumber Company in the ruins at Fifth and Brannan streets. They were turned over to the guard.