The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL CARS ORGANIZATIONS SELECT QUARTERS _ The followin locations of st of the new , public and mosynar ill, cor- Aid hospital dispe hird. office—Baker avenue. McQuaide’s Hospital—94 3 ¢ Hospital for the Insane—Convent Y Hayes and Fill > tion more con ectrical etween rs, 351 Consul—Har ance—Stanyan and Cole Public Wo: —1762 Ellis of artment of electricity—2034 Hospital—Pres idio 1651 Fillmore "l Call Com- tropolitan Life Insurance Cor —Octavia street and Golden ( o headquarters—King Solo- Geary and Fillmore ic Hall, Home—2400 Fillmore street. T and information t rean—Golden Gate Park, opposite onument. ¢ Administrator’s office—1931 more street. { jitor and Treasurer—2511 Sacra- st SNO T ar- mepto set. and County Attorney and Tax tor—2511 § mento street. | istration bureau—1901 Filimore rancisco Labor Council—2754 st street. e Twe — 0 EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED BY SEISMOGRAPH IN JAPAN. LONDON, April 23, —According to a dispatch from Tokio to lheATim'es., the seismograph in the Imperial Uni- versity shows that the San !’ranc(scn carthquake reached Japan in eleven nutes. Two seismographists from .‘Tanan‘ will go to San Francisco forthwith to a study of the earthquake | Red Cross Society of Japan is 12 a hospital ship to the relief of | i 1 ser the sufferers. | Society—Cor- | uncil—113 Bart- | GARS S00 WILL BE RUNNING Restoration of Service Is Engaging the Special Attention of Au- thorities and When Ready to Operate the United Railroads * Will Give People Free Transportation for the Present. NAGAIN When All Danger of Communicating Current Through Dangling Wires to Houses Shall Have Been and Trolleys Removed Can Be Operated With Safety People May Ride Again. The restoration of street car service ng the special attention Mullally of the Rudolph Spreckels, pe Committee on Res- is now e ident irman of toration of Light, and Carey lander of the Committ on Restora- hones. The Ge 1 Com- at the nd Mr. Fried The em con- de of the and particularly the operated can be all wires com lally put the ulted there is still ay be com- blown e whi to restore light, he is of nion that the operation of the should not be resumed until ail condi iarantee perfect of the Gene precaution id fire should report of the committee sustained. CARS TO BE FREE. tatement has Railroz hornwell Mul- nt: has given system to Ma of the people s. Free trans- ished the peo company he to been e of the barns not des 1 r the use of the peopie > of shelter and lodg- - two the prineipal y lines will be rea to oper- nd by means of thes cally ev section of the city can be Fillmore and ing from I down Fi and out ( ordered by the he following lines will be operation today and the t upon the word from > Mayor. TO BE OPERATED SOON. > Mission-street line, from near > ry to the county line. “The line fror Bryant street to Kentuck nd down Kentucky as far as Tw rd. “The line from Twenty-sixth street to San Bruno avenue and Dwight street. “The line from Van Ness avenue and Fillmor to I rht and Stanyan stre Ness to Sixth enue, and Californi street, acramento. “The work of getting the trolley lines ready for operation has been tremendous task considering the ex conditions under wh it had to be accomplished, and it ith sincere pleasure that the Uni Railroads announces that free trans portation over the principal district of the city is now ready to be ten- dered to the people. The most staking care has been exerci in the op Mayor s car transportation 1 throughout p: ical- —all of which is free to the people. “In short, the United Railroads gives all its properties to the service of the people. ‘»'Tllfll:,\'\\']i[.l, MULLALLY, “Assistant to the Pr ient, United Railroads of San Franeisco.” > FOOD IS PLENTIFUL, DISTRIBUTION GOOD, PEOPLE CHEERFUL Ample Supplies Are Now Being Rushed to Stricken City From All Directions. Food is plentiful. to feed everybody who hungers. that is needed is enough help to dis- tribute it. Despite many handicaps the committee reports satisfactory progress in getting the supplies to the people. Fiffy-two food stations, where the hungry may secure their rations, have been established. Supplies are being rushed to the stricken city from all directions and great lines of teams are working day | and night carting necessities to points of distribution. A large number of independent organizations are also attacking the food problem. The commitiee of the whole has all give | There is enough | An| | designated a subcommittee of seven on food. Dr. Voorsanger is chair- man; J. F. Drum, vice chairman, and Oscar F. Cooper, secretary. headquarters is in the City Hall, Bush and Fillmore streets. Provisions have accumnlated at the Oakland pier to supply the needs of the city for more than a week. Plain food of every de- tion is plentiful and luxuries are ming to arrive. Last night a fam- as threatened, but this rning fresh assignments are being| buted. here an abundance of meat for stewing, though all the finer cuts are being used at the hospitals. Immense cattle trains are rolling northward from the prairies of the south chickens and eggs are coming from the near-by interior towns. The most pressing need is vegetables—prefer- ably potatoes, carrots, onions and the like. The following is the list of stations for the distribut ssociation, Page street, an; Primary School, Pacific r Devisadero; boathouse, Strawb v Hill, Golden Gate Colum square, Seventh and on streets; Noe Valley School, Twenty-fourth and Dougla streets; H. 8. Crocker Home, Washington and ; St. Mar, Cathedral, avenue and ubstation, 43 Mec- Hebrew near Stan street, near ement, O’Farrell Allister teenth ninth statute, street; street; street; and Folsom streets; Twenty- and Church streets; Liberty Corbett road; 3857 Clay Twenty-fifth and Guerrero ; Flood barn, 2131 Vallejo Holly Pa Glenn Park; Fort . foot of Van avenue; Pot- ro, foot of Tenth street; butcher shop, Point Lobos avenue, near Col- street; Catholic Cemetery, Ellis and Broderick streets; Foxhali Mar- ket, Fillmore and California streats; 1387 Seventh avenue, Sunset District; Seventeenth and Castro strects; Ham- ilton square, Gea and Steiner stre: ; Jefferson uare, Eddy and Octavia streets; M China avenue; Ingl mouth street and Holloway avenue; 3'nai B'rith, Hayes and Devisadero streets; Buena Vista and Waller streets; general relief, Page and Stan van streets; Richmond station, 425 Clement Vernal Heights School; School, Pacitic substations, Geary and Presidio Athletic Ground: Broderick streets; Oak and Broder- i Lyon and California streets; Holy Family Convent, Hayes! and Fillmore streets; basement, Douglas School, Nineteenth street, be- tween Collingwood and Diamon Camp Bryant, Seventeenth and Bry streets; Quarry Camp, Twe et | street and Potrero avenue; Protestant Episcopal Old Lailies’ Home, Goiden | Gate avenue, nenr Central; Seventh | and Harrison streefs; ‘Third-street bridge; Railroad avenue, between Fillmore street to t safety | | nth Franeisco: d Tenth streets, South San Mount St. Joseph’s Infant Asylum, Silver avenue, near Seven- teenth; tennis court, Golden Gate Park; United Railroads, Eddy and llmore streets ( en only); St athryn Home, Potrero averue, op- posite Twenty-first st Chinese camp, Hunte amp nd Potrero (Chinese only street (free meat) ———0 CONTINUE THE RELIEF, IS PLEA OF HARRIMAN OGDEN, Utah, April 23.—E. H. Har- riman, head of the Harriman Railroad stem, who is in San Francisco, has sent the following message urging the necessity of continuing relief mea- sures: Wolf, 1224 Fillmore 1818 Eddy sireet. “Having gone over the situation at| San Francisco I am deeply impressed with the necessity of uninterrupted | forwarding of food supplies with which to feed the 200,000 homeless people. The situation is well orga- nized and the United States Quarter- master’s Department is receiving and distributing through its channels and other various local relief associations all supplies as fast as they arrive. But the fact should be made public in all quarters that it will reguire con- tinued effori on the part of.every one| to keep supplies coming. The rail- roads are, of course, handling all such supplies without charge and the peo-| ple must respond to calls for relief. “E. H. HARRIMAN.” - POLICE FROM CHICAGO. Lieutenant John D. Hartford of the Chicago police force with a squad of detéctive sergeants arrived- in San Francisco last night to assist the local officers in keeping order in San Fran- cisco. The squad was sent out by the city of Chicago and will be paid by the Eastern municipality. In the squad are: Grath, Peter Fitzpatrick, Michael Madner, James Fitzgerald, Andrew Nagle, Edward Flaherty, John Craw- ford and Thomas Coogan. cers will watch particularly for East- ern crooks. The | and | ion of free supplies: | police station, Seven- | D. Roth, William O. Mc-| These offi-| 'HARMONY EXISTS " AMONG OFFICIALS | WASHINGTON, April 23.—Secre- tary Taft’s attention; having been di- rected to the reports that friction ex- isted at San Francisco between Gen- eral Funston and Mayor Schmitz, he | sent a message to General Funston asking for the facts in the case. Gen- eral Funston’s reply was received at the War Department today and reads as follows: “Report of disagreement between Mayor Schmitz and myself must be based on the excited imagination of some overworked newspaper corre- spondent. Mayor Schmitz and myselt have been working together in the | unity of doing a great work, and we | are helping to the extent of cur abil- ity and apparently to the satisfaction | of every friend of the community and | all unfortunate people of the city.” | The department also received today two telegrams from Mayor Schmitz on this subject. The first one, which was dated yesterda; ad as follows: “Reporis of conflict between Gen- eral Funston and myself absolutely without foundation. We are not only without difficulties, but are co-oper- ating in the utmost friendship and harmony. General Funston’s excel- lent work, his good judgment and his zeal in our cause by day and by night, are appreciated by the people of San co in this hour of great dis- The army and nation are to ratulated on the possession of as General Funston.” second dispatch from Mayor Schmitz, which is dated today, em- phe es this, the Mayor expressing his indignation “at the “remarkable malicions and decidedly wuntruthful suggestion” that a conflict exists be- tween General Funston and himself. i i L T R CHEAP STRUCTURES MUST NOT BE BUILT IN BURNT DISTRICT Insurance Men Meet in Oakland and Discuss Types of the Proposed Buildings. be cong such officers The OAKLAND, April 23.—Danger re- sulting from the construction of chean frame buildings in the burned district of San Francisco was considered by the representatives of fire insurance companies, who met at Reed's Hall this morning. The attention of the proper officers will be called to this danger in the hope of preventing the erection of such buildings. The services of all the inspectors of the Board of Underwriters will be offered to the authorities to aid in the inspection of chimneys, with a view to their speedy repair. House- holders are warned against using their damaged chimneys, as such ac- tion will invalidate their insurance policies. Resolutions were adopted today conveying this notice to all in- surance agents, who are directed to send the warning to all householders. A building committee was appointed to act with a similar committee from the Associated Architects and Engi- neers of San Francisco to determine the best types of buildings for con- struction“hereafter and to recommend proper building ordinances. | Insurance men present reported that the conditicn of vaults and safes in which the records of many companies are kept is such that it is impossible to tell when access to the vaults can be had or when the work of readjust- | ing losses can be taken up. Under orders from General Funston no vaults or safes may be opened now. The insurance men today expressed the wish that the managers of all s co-operate at once with the rities, both military and ecivil, n insurance company records as quickly as possible so that read- justment of losses may proceed speed- | ily. The meeting was notified of the death of Fire Chief Sullivan. Resolu- tions testifying to the dead -chief’s worth, both as a man and as the head of the Fire Department of San Fran- cisco, were adopted. A committee of the underwrits and the fire patrol will attend the chief’s- funeral. 'SAYS PESTILENCE . CAN BE AVOIDED Colonel Torney, in charge of the sanitary conditions of the city, says there will be absolutely no pestilence if the people will only do what the sanitary officers tell them to do. Colonel Torney says his forces are well organized and that they have the situation well in hand. He says the people, especiallly those who are obliged to live in tents, should be as careful as possible to live absolutely up to the suggestions of the Red Cross nurses. ¥ SIS RN Representatives of the Spring Val- ley Water Company reported yester- day that they were doing everything possible to repair the mains. The water has been shut off in the burned district wherever it was possible to reach the gates. The officials re- quest that all leaks be reported to streets, or Thirteenth and Church streets, or Thirteenth and. Church streets. They report that there are 11,000,000 gallons per day of a able water in San Francisco. \ The supply is perfect as to purity. There | eral is no connection with sewage nor | surface water. The Health Commis- sion directed that telephone connec- tjon be made with the water com- pany’s office and is sending out in- | spectors with directions to make a house to house canvas and report all | leaks. | Guard and Says Citizen Soldiers Will Remain on Duty in § This City as Long as Their Services Are Regquired. ! | . Who Declares That Criticism | Chief Executitve Acts on Recommendation of General MILITIA IS NOT " T0 BE RECALLED Governor Pardee Waxes Warm in Defense of State National | ! cial from Glendale sa Koster, Is Unjust and Insists That | the Boys in Blue Are Doing Excellent Work. | OAKLAND, April 23.—Despite the fact that the citizens’ committee of ;one hundred is reported to have ;adopled resolutions requesting Gov- iernor Pardee to withdraw the State | militia from San Francisco, the Na- | tional Guard of California will con- | tinue to police its district in the strick- | en city. The militiamen will not be ijwilhdyawn until their services are no ‘longer required to protect lives and { property across the bay.. That is the | decision of the Governor. | No official information was received ;at.the Governor’s headquarters today }regarding the alleged request, but | General Koster, when he heard of the | action of the citizens” committee, hur- ried to Oakland to make a report and la recommendation that the guard be not withdrawn. General Koster made |a heated report to the Chief Execu- | tive. Governor Pardee was angry and {he did not hesitate to say that the | charges against the militia were ab- | surd and cowardly. | Regarding the killing of a Major | Tilden in San Francisco, which is sup- | posed to have caused the action of the | citizens’ committee, Governor Pardee | said he had received no official infor- | Ematkm on the subject, but stated that | | he did not know Tilden and that he 1 Was not a member of the Governor’s ;statf. General Koster’s report to the | jGovernor this afternoon, when he came to Oakland for that purpose, fol- lows: “Immediately after the earthquake ‘Lhe National Guard troops were called |out for patrol duty and to render | every assistance in their power. In! | the absence of well-defined organiza- | [tion of all the military and police fforces each force took upon itself the performance of such duty as occurred ’to it as being the most important at | | that time. Since then, however, the | city has been redistricted, one district | being assigned to the regular army, | one to the National Guard and one to| { the San Francisco Police Department. | | Since this redistricting the greatest | latitude has been given to the general | public and only the most necessary | precautionary measures have been | taken. In addition to the performance | |of regnlar patrol duty the National 1 Guard organization has established | | throughiout the district relief stations | | for the purpose of providing both food | and shelter to the many refugees | quartered in the public squares and ilots throughout the district. This, in a measure, has reduced the force that might otherwise be available for mere patrol duty. | “Since taking command of the dis- | trict assigned to it no disturbance of {any kind has occurred in the National | | Guard district, but a great deal of an- noyance has been caused to the troops i by the many special deputies, some of whom, no doubt, have been regularly commissioned, but it is believed that many others are self-constituted. The presence of these deputies has, in many instances, given rise to compli- cations and in some instances un-| pleasantness, all of which has been | laid to the National Guard troops. We certainly think that this is doing the State forces a great injustice. In the | face of all this a committee of one| hundred citizens was called together | today to discuss the situation in gen»i eral and a resqlution was passed to| the, effect that in view of the fact that | a large number of regular troops are available for patrol duty it was deem- | ed advisable to request the Governor | to withdraw the National Guard or- ganizations. The resolutions are com- mendatory in tone, but nevertheless the officers and members of the Na- tional Guard feel that it was a slur upon the service, coming as it does in the face of the many complaints which have been made against the or- ganization. “In the interest:of the comfort and lives of the many destitute people de- pending upon them and the protection of property, the National Guard should not be withdrawn.” _ Mayor Schmitz, in accordance with a resolution adopted without dissent by the General Commitiee of fifty representative citizens, has requested Governor Pardee to recall all the mi- litia forces now on duty in San Fran- gmi:; There have been constant cor-| cts between the guardsmen and tkhe regulars. It is the judgment :x: Gen- | ston, U. S. A, and the Mayor that the clashes are mainly dus to the inexperience and recklessness of young men in the service of the mi- litia. In order to bring about order and grogr!u, without sacrifice of lite, the State troops are to be sent home. The number of United States troops | at the immediate command of Genenli | rifles. | G. W. Simmons 2 Funston is ample to patrol every dis- trict of San Francisco. i MANY GET WE IN LARGE PARK The condition of the five thousand or more people camped in Jefférson Square Park is terrible. Not more! than 5 per cent have even an army tent, and the makeshifts constructed of carpets, bed sheets and every im- aginery substance were inadequate to keep out the heavy rain which fell yesterday. The 400 soldiers of the Fifth and Sixth California National Guard are requisitioning every house in the neighborhood for shelter, but in the meantime the homeless are in a mis- erable plight. IMPULSIVE SOLDIER KILLS MAJOR TILDEN Prominent Member of Relief Committee Loses His Life on Errand of Mercy. Major H. C. Tilden of the General Relief Committee was shot and in- stantly killed in his own automobile a | few minutes after 12 co’clock Sunday night on Guerrero street, near Twen- | ty-second. The official had taken his children to Menlo Park and was returning for his wife when the fatal incident oc- curred.- As the auto car raced passed I'wenty-second street a party of vigi- lantes commenced shooting with A balf-dozen bullets struck the car before Tilden was slain. R. C. Seaman, a National Guards- man, who accompanied Tilden, was hit in the back by a bullet which passed through the body of the car. His injury is slight. Tilden's body was carried in the automebile to Elks’ headquarters, opposite the police station on Bush street. E. S. Boynton, d M. T. Vance were arrested in connection with the brutal sheoting, and are configed at Fort Mason. Yesterday Deputy Coroners and as- sistants of the Board of Health found fourteen bodies additional to those re- ported Sunday. Most of the bodies could not be identified. The remains of a man found at the corner of Third and Perry were cre- mated in the street by a police officer. The list of dead, other than those ac- counted for at the Presidio General Hospital and its adjuncts, is as fol- low: Mary Donovan, aged 55 years, 915% Natoma street; Children’s Hos- pital, Emily Curran, age 6, 4339 Twen- | ty-third street; Semperance Sperry, 1444 Valencia; Mary McCarthy, Red Cross Hospital; Henrietta Welch, 452 Lyon; Anna L. Conway, Eighteenth and Valencia; Carcline Simpson, near City and County Hospital; Johan Reiche, 47 Chapultepec; Mrs. O Toole, Bernal Heights; Julia Ward, 120 Langion street; B. Knutsen, St Luke’s; Rafese Ciro, Bernal Heights; James Pulos, Seventeenth-street po- lice station; Katherine Gibbons, 660 Post street; George W. Thomas, 3802! Mississippi street; Henry Schmitkerv.[ 575 Castro street; Susan smusan, | 3010 Twenty-fourth street; Kirvin M. | Ganon, 350 Sanchez street; Lennon Malichi, Eighteenth and Tennessee | streets; Frank Bodwell, East street; Henry A. R. Hanson, East street; Paul | Szinki, Violet Dunning, 437 Edinburgh | street; Henry Manders, 535 Andover| street; Mr. Bach and son, killed in| Valencia Hotel; W. Ebbinghauser, Erie and Howard streets; Sarah Bar- ren, 641 Twenty-second street. An insane Chinaman at the Presidio | Hospital was killed yesterday by a| delirious Federal patient. The Ort-| ental’s skull was crushed by an iron| bar in the hands of his crazy aggres-| sor. e REFUGEE SEEKS DEATH. | BERKELEY, April 23—E. F. Ap-| dre, a refugee quartered on the base-| ball field on the university campus, tried to commit suicide Iast night at midnight by slashing his throat with a razor. Those around him interfered, whom he awakened with his mut-| terings. Attendants removed him at once to the Roosevelt Hospital. He is supposed to have become insane as the result of experiences In the fire | and earthquake. Nothing is known of his history. —_—————— OAKLAND PROVIDES FREE PARK FOR MANUFACTURERS., 0. , April 23.—The City Council today placed West Oakland | Park at the disposal of manufacturers | and merchants of San Francisco who| may desire to erect temporary build-| ings there. The grounds will be rent free. There are ten acres in the park. TEMBLOR SHAKES OREGON CITIES ¢ ril 23.—A slight ke shock was clock this morm- done. April 23.—An felt here a few this morning. pril 23.—A spe- s that an earth- there at 1:13 MEDFORD, Or., A but distinct earthqu felt here at about ing. Neo damage wa GRANTS PASS, C earthquake shock wa minutes past 1 o’cloe PORTLAND, Or, e quake shock was fel o'clock th orning. The shock was sufficiently severe te rock buildings and rattle china in the closets. A dispatch to the Telegram from Belmont, Cal., states that Reid's Pre- paratory School, one of the largest institutions of its kind on the coast, was badly damaged outside and inside by the earthquake. The students es caped uninjured. —_—0— | TELEPHONE FRANCHISE IS FINALLY GRANTED At a meeting of the Board of Super- visors, hel afternoon at Mowry's Hall, the official headquarters of the board. Bids for a telephome franchise was opened. There was but one bid, that of the Home Tele- 1} phone Company, which bid $25000. Supervisor Boxton moved to indefi- nitely postpone actiom, but Coleman moved to accept the bid on the ground that due p icity had been given. Rea advocated a postponement for thirty da; declaring that the frams chise was weorth no ss than $250,000. Mr. Frick, representing the Home Company, said an arm f men would be put to work at The word would then go out to the world that the city had already begun to de busi- ness and that this would reassure foy- eign capital. A motion to reject the bid was lost, 5 ayes, 9 noes. Notice to reconsider !at the next meeting s given by Kelly. ‘A motion to accept the bid was carried, 8 ay 6 noes Ayes—Coff: Coleman, Furey, Gal- lagher, Harrigan, Lonergan, Mamioek, Phillips. Noes—Boxton, Kelly, MeGushin, Rea, Waish. Coin to the amount of $25.000 was then substituted for the certified check ‘reasurer Bantell to the Mint for safety. . appointed to draw ence with the community and and taken United States A committee up resolutions of com people of this st to express confidence that the cour- age, enterprise and industry of the people would soon rebuild the heawtt ful city and pledging the full assist- ance of the Board of Supervisors in all efforts for the relief of the destitute. The election Commissioners were authorized to ‘ction beoths for housing ho :ople. A resolu- tion offered by Boxton, declaring that, while the efforts of the military to restore order were appréciated, it was hoped that drastic measures would not be taken in any case unless abso- hitely necessary was adopted. Myrtile Cerf, expert accountant for® ~ the city, urged immediate action establishing a uniform system of bookkeeping in all of the city depart- ments and a committee was appointed to act with him on his suggestion. MANY BIG WORKS IN PROGRESS. Governor Pardee has received the following statement concerning condl- 4 tions existing up to midnight of Apeih | 22, as reported by the Mayer's md } missioner, Dr. Lahey, Fire Dougherty and General Funstom: = / The repair of street sewers will he completed and all in working order by Tuesday night. There are 800 men employed in this work by the Beard of Public Work The big water main on Valenela street has been repaired and is now being operated under pressure in Of der to get water to Pacific Heights, There are several thousand men working on the $pring Valley mains. The ocean shore steam line will be extended and operated down Market street to the ferry, and the Southerm Paciic will operate a steam line om Third and Kearny streets. Temporary passenger service electric line will be operated de Mission street. Under orders of Chief Dougherty fires will be permitted until the is in every main, which the chief timates will take about a week. AR CRERREF RS rLw: FUNSTON DECLARES THAT : IMPRESSMENT MUST STOP Headquarters Department of Call, fornia, Fort Mason, California, Aprik 23, 1906. To all District Commanders: Reports are continually coming to these headquarters that citizens are being stopped, impressed and made work upon the streets, and that vehicles are being impressed. department commander is at a to understand why you ecannot such instructions to your men this abuse of authority shall stopped at once and for all time, and he directs that you take such mease ure that no more complaints of this kind come to these headquarters the military districts, and he hold you respousible that there are more such complaints. This is b ing a nuisance and it is a very se: matter. No trifling in the maiter be tolerated any longer. your officers and men a By command of Brigidier Funstoa. o Dunning, Military Secretary. A A e b ‘WASHINGTON, April 23-Thd Government will admit free of supplies from China and Vaneow tendered for the relief of San co Chinese.