The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1906, Page 9

SAN FRANCISCO. TUESDAY, MAY 1. 1906. Red Cross F War Department to Expend Federal Appropriation. reely Reports Periect Order in San Francisco. 7 ppropriated the to the revival of busir of the Bancroft Library Comes Through Unscathed. /olumes to Be Re- moved to the University. KELEY, April 20.—Through the created by the events of the last s and their effect upon the ¥ of Calffornid comes a ray of in the announcemeént that the reat Bancroft library, purchased by - university last year, was unharmed the fire that swept San Francisco Il its rich, manifold treasures are ed - to the university and the It was stated at President Wheel- s office today that the work of re- moving the Bancroft library from the building at Twenty-sixth and Valencia treets In San Francisco to the cam- in Berkeley is to be commenced at The books will be housed, for st part, in the upper story of fornia Hall. Arrangements have nadz for the reception of the nes in that building, which is now ninistration bullding of the uni- The task of classifying the and aking them available fer reference a gigantic one and it is t likely to be completed before the v mer months are ended. | The Bancroft library was bought by |the university for §150,000 upon the rec- ommendation of Professor Reuben G. ri- |Thwaites of the University of Wiscon- sin, an eminent historian, who made a of e jonCe ed |been “'"' the a for mging to rations, the 3 : ; |caretul mination of the Bancroft - { cont nd declared it of almost ar Sig “orps, the mone) | value to the State and to the - e latter being for the pur- |UTiversity of California. The library. x f toring teleplome ‘and - jembraces records, books -and docu- . etc |ments that could mnot be duplicate 4 el Jorting to the War |the loss of which by fire would have Srebart )ns in San Fran- |Peen_a hard to the university. cisc der is being well [The stopped short of the i iitire - [library building’s location in San Fran- gent to restrictio on. liquor | isco. seding; water conditions are improv- | BT e R gng, 1 public health” is ex- More Helpars Needed. cellent and electric raflways are g | The clothing repository at ..e Lin- yenewing a_limited .service, i 61 in Oakland will be closed ¢ H ,000 eral public on Wednesday, ne of the Navy as this day has been reserved Disnrin are nd and for ng special orders coming from the post t o ns. the ez land people not belonging to tions who have special cases of need which have come to their ob- 1 please report the same c when it convened 1 of | Eleventh street. k appropriating $2. 5 = B repository still needs more &itional for the California earthquake |crs—men, women, girls and b &nd fire sufferers. The wording of the lution is as follows: e Chargs Looter With Burglary. Italian, at the Secretary of War be and | he is hereby authorized and directed to | Pietro Buffa, an was seen procure in the open market or other- g a safe on Pacific street, between wise additic upplies for the relief {Pewell and Mason, yesterday morning of the destitute persons and sufferers by A. Lew 699 Brockhurst street, from the re hquake and fire in |Ockland, who notified a policeman. the State of Ca and to was arrested and brought to po- same to such persons as are in needy jlice headquarters. Chief Dinan ordered < a result of the earth- [him sent to the Stanyan-street police ate of California, v ite shall | 000 to be | MILLION IS AVAILABLE und at Committee’s Disposal ‘uAthNn | 1 [Plan Is New Under Way for Big Whari Projsct. | Will Fill in Space South of Key Routs ier. - | Vessels in Two Months. OAKLAND, April 30.—Plans have practically been completed = by ' Wty Syndicate and its -allied cor- oration, the San Franc Oakland |ana San Jose Railway, which owns and |cperates the Key Route fercy line, to | construct a great system o wharves |and warehouses for the aceammodation lof Geep-sea and other shipping. ~Tite immense project includes the buildi..z of a long trestle that will parallel the ! present trestle of the Key Route and which will be used by freight trains ia | reaching a great dock for ocean-going veegels to be erected near the Koy Route pler depot. The mammoth improvement scheme |also embraces the reclamation of 500 |acres of tide lands lying between the Key Route trestle and tne Oakland mole. This area i3 to ba raised above the water level with material dredged from the bay. Work on the gigantic undertaking is to begin at once and the contracts call for the completion of the greater part |of the project within two months. The | first work is to be done on the trestle lthat is to parallel the Key Route pier. {This is to be constructed In a sub- stantial manner. Simultaneously pile- drivers will commence to put down a bulkhead from the Key Route trestle to the Oakland mole and behind this dredgers will pump the slickens to re- claim the 500-acre site for warehouses. Imperative orders have been issued te the engineers in charge of the vast project that they must be ready to ac- mmodate commerce inside of sixty cays. ———— | BUCKET BRIGADE WORKS HARD TO SAVE GREAT MANSIONS Volunteer Force, Under Danny Miller, Fights to Keep Van Ness Ave nue Residences From Flames. Long before the flame of the great fire reached Van Ness avenue show- ers of sparks fell on the western side | |and the Blanding residence began to | smoke. % Hastily organizing a hucket, brigade Danny Miller, the horseman: John Kane of the Union Iron Works and Sergeant Walton of the Thirty-eighth Coast Artillery mounted -to the roofs of the Stetson and Blanding homes and worked frantically to subdue the jets of flame that sprang up on all sides. Miller, Kane, Jones of 2176 Fulton, street and an unknown soldfer also worked like demons to save the Spreckels home and were driven off only when dynamiting and flames reached the avenue. —————— PREPARING TO PUBLISH c. C. New Volume Will Cover All Change in 8an Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. The Relief Business = Directory tory to cover change of addrezsses of { San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and | Berkeley business men caused by the fire. H. W. Beecher and R. D. Pike, publishers, and Harry Davis, manager, formerly of the Crocker-Langley di- rectories, have established offices at 462 Thirteenth street, Oakland. There file there and a free information bu- jreau has heen opened. Further ~ SHIPPING Docks to Be Ready for of the thoroughfare. . The stable of Claus Spreckels home burst into! flame, The handsome Stetson home NEW BUSINESS DIRECTORY | is; preparing to publish ‘at once a alrec- | SLAV BIRL - EXPLANS HER Tells of Killing a | Cruel Russian Official. Mile. . Makes Compiete i Statement. {Asserts the Acts of Man Meriied Dsath. ST. PETERSBURG, {following is the jdistification made by Mile. Spiridonova, the girl who mur- dered Luzhenoffski, chief of the gen- dermerie at Tamboff, to the court- martial that sentenced her to be hanged. The story, which is in every respect remarkable, follows: “Yes, I murdered Luzhenoffski and I desire to explain my deed. I am a member of the' Social Revelutionary party. The discontent of ‘the people with the existing ‘regime turned into revolution armediresistance “to the auvthorities, attacks on officials and open collisions with the troops in the streets. Instead of meeting: the needs of the people the Government used guns, bayonets and bullets, but it did not sueceed. Then it invented the mani- festo of liberty. But at the same time it also invented alleged popular demon- strations by the organization of the Black Hundred outrages. The mani- festo was only a piece of strategy and nothing else. As soon . as bureaucracy realzeéd that the mani- festo could be overthrown it planned tits campaign and returned to the tra- ditional method of suppressing the people which was so dear to its heart, namely repression. “The horrors of the, reaction were worse than anything ihich had pre- ceded. Over 200 men were murdered under the guise of executions, the ‘in- telligenza’ were crammed into prisons, every association which opposed the Government was closed, the press was gagged, the armed uprisings were sup- pressed with machine guns and the po- lice spies everywhere informed upon gullty and innocent alike in their ef- forts to paralyze the liberation move- ment. The bureaucracy deliberately created conditions which made it im- pessible for the people’s indiwnation to reach the supreme power and the of- ficial reports were filled with ‘tranquil- lity, happiness and peace.’ i “In the suppression of the ‘disorders’ 1the work of the bureaucracy was espe- cially splendid. It should be written in history in golden letters. T won't speak !about the ‘pacificatlon’ of the peasants iin many of the provinces. “I won't even speak of the whole of the province of Tambofi, but will con- fine myself to the bloody work of Luz- henoffski. Villages ‘which he visited {he left looking lke Bulgarian villages lafter Turkish rajds. In the village of |Paviodar ten men were killed by his {ovders; Sheherbakoff. three af the fom- ily of Zeitzeff; Ostrovitinoff, Dubro- vin and others. April | self-sacrifices of his family, had re- leeived a good education. He was an 'honest, clean, enthusiastic young man. | He used to say. ‘All of my learning and knowledge I will hring back to my village for disiribution among my brothers.” He and his riend. Ostrovitinoff. when Luzhenofski jarrived. went to him ns the {delegates of the peasants and Luzhenoffski revlied to their re- quests with a volley from his Cossacks. 1 For four days Zeitzeff and Ostrovitin- off were tortured—tortured until they died. “LyzhenoTski's msthod of procedure Iwhvzn he arrived in a viliage was to ‘order the peasants to be assembled and lundressed and then he would go to his dinner and leave the poor devils shiv- ering on their knees in the snow. Pre- viously while at .ne head of the town 10 Borisgolebsk he had made a splen- {did exhibition of his power. He made are 3500 business house addresses on’Searches. destroved Rouses. threatened | d2nth every one with and boasted of jan after dinmer sneech that he hna Spiridonova the | “Young David Zeitzeff. through the | BiG PLOT 10 START ~ REBELLION ‘French Poiice Make Raid on 1 Labor Leaders in Various Sections of Paris. thorities Assert They Hav Been Intriquing With Auarchists. Great Number of Arrests Causes ! Galin in the Strike Genter. 4 20.—The !} PARIS, April 30.—The Paris police today arrested M. Griffuels, secretary ‘of the General Confederation of Labor, |declared that rather than do any more | the responsible organizer of the pro- josed May day demonstration; M. Bi- berte, a newspaper man, and Major | Feuillant, a Bonapartist, formerly of /the Imperial Guards. In addition, | Count Duran de Beauregard was taken into custody at Nice. Arrests were 'also made ‘at other places and warrants were issued for the arrest of M. Levy, sSecretary of the Confederation of La- bor, and M.-Fromentla,-a. wealthy an- archist, both of whom were found to have fled from this city. All the pris- oners are charged with complicity n organizing a rebellion and with in- ,triguing with anarchists. The arrests began early in the morn- | ing, the charges blong based on papers | seized during the recent police search- |es. Judge Audre Summoned the Police Commissioners from the central dis- tricts and directed each of them to pro- ceed with a squad of police and make !the arrests in varlous sections of the e¢ity. At the same time telegraphic or- ders were sent to proceed with arrests at Nice, Breslau and other points. 1. Griffuels, who is the principal labor |leader, was found at his house and was taken into custody, but his associate, |Levy, was not located. Count de Beauregard is the head of ithe supposed plot recently unearthed. Henri Biberte s editor of L'Autorite, a Bonapartist organ. Two edditional warrants have been issued, but the names of the persons to be arrested will be withheld until they are in the hands of the police. The men at the labor headquarters here are stunned by the arrests, especially as the managers of tomorrrow's pro- {posed demonstration have withdrawn {from further activity, which is causing general discouragement in labor circles. The Government officials declare that ithe arrests will break the backbone of the violent element. The strike centers outside of Parls are calm. | M. Lepine, the Preect of Police, con- {ferrred during the day with command- ers of the troops and gave final in- ,ltructions for the military occupation {of main points in Paris beginning early Tuesday. P The troops will receive two packages of cartridges and two days’ rations. EETEA S L S Small Coin Found. There was found on Union street square, near the corner of Post and Stockton streets, a considerable sum {in small coin, evidently part of the contents of a trunk that was entirely consumed by fire." It may be identi- |fled by photos, and by several unusual lcoins. Apply to guard at Western National Bank, corner of Market and | Powell streets. ————— Chauffeur’s Skull Fractured. Robert Lindsay, a chauffeur, was perhaps fatally injured Saturday night lb_v the explosion of an acetelyn gas ilamp on his machine. Lindsay was re- pairing hisz lamp when the apparatus blew up.- He was taken to the Park Wmergency Hos . and later trans- ferred to St. Thomis' Hospital, where the surgeons trephined 'his skuli for o frecture. He may dle. 1 Social Revolutionary party of Tambosr fhe wzg the incarnation of evil, of tgranay and of viblations. He was ad- vancing in-his earcer and had before him, th recpect of a powerful {dictatorship, a pillar of the system !\\‘Mch is suffocatinz the Russian peo- HARRIMAN GIVES HIS ULTIMATUM Will Refuse to Build Line Into Seattls Unless He Obtains Cer- tain Privileges. “Satisfactory Franochise or No Exten- sion” Is the Declaration of the Southern Pacific Magnate. Will Not Consider the Alternatives Offered by Merchants of the Northern City. SEATTLE, April 30.—E. H. Harri- man today declared that his road In entering Seatt'e would demand the same concessions that have been granted other lines and ithat unless he got them he would defer bullding. With an ex- penditure here already of between 38,- 1000,000 ang $10,000,000 Mr. Harriman sail | his plans in Seattle represented a total expenditure that would mean an an- nual interest charge of $600,000. But unless he gets a franchise satisfactory to the road he will hold his real estate and refuse to extend. Incidentally Mr. Harriman denounced the real estate speculators on the ground who had held up his road and business which gave speculators a chance to hold up the line he would wait ten years for legitimate property valuations. |passenger depot over Fourth avenye, | which would involve a slight curve to ireach the property. City officlals have |been trying to keep rallroads off this | street suggested two other ther- toughfemas. ‘Doublc -and sharp curves, |involving aifficult operating problems, would ensue. ; . M. Harriman declares positively that ‘he will not consider these alterna- !tives. The Harriman system will niot commence building until all franchise matters are settled in Tacoma and Se- attle. Within a year after these grants are secured Mr. Harriman says he will have his lines completed. 2 —— e OAKLAND COURTS TO REMAIN CLOSED DURING HOLIDAYS Work Is Piling Up, but No Room for Question Is to Be Left Open. OAKLAND, April 30.—No legal busi- ness will be transacted in the courts hcere until after the legal holidays pro- cialmed by Governor Pardee eome to an end. This was decided upon at & con- ference of the Superior Judges today, when ‘after an examination of the au- thorities it was agreed that a eloud would be placed upon any judicial busi- ness that might be transacted. In the meantime the work is piling up and there are 125 cases on the probate cal- endar for the first day. Everything haS been at a standstil for two weeks and a congestion has resulted that will take many weeks to clear away. County Clerk John P. Cook has been looking up the law in the matter to see If it is not ‘possible for him to go on with his regular duties. Up to the present time he has refused to file any papers, although he has kept his of- fice open for the convenience of the public to secure marriage licenses and record insane cases. The Board of Supervisors met this morning in regular session, but ad- Journed until next Wednesday upon the ‘advice of District Attorney Allen to allow him time to look up the law to see if there 1 any reason why they should not transact the usual county business to come up before them. It is generally believed that the board can legally carry on fits business and if this is the case a meeting will be held on Wednesday. ————————— Relief Ships Reach Port. The Canadian Pacific Raflroad Com- pany's steameér Amur has arrived from YVancouver, B. C, with 500 tous of rellef supplies contributed by the people of British Columhbia. Among the passengers were Mayor Bunscombe of Victoria, B. C., and Captain Troupe, superintendent at Vancouver for the Canadian Pacific. . The Amur's cargo was admitted free of duty. The army. transport Burnside arrived Saturday from Seattle with 18,000 pounds of fresh beef and 500 tous ot other supplies for reller distribution. —————— Gets Cash for the Needy. OAKLAND, April 30.—Fifty thou- sand dollars has been placed at the dis- posai of the Rev. E. E. Baker, chair- man of the relief committee, by the Japanese Consul to be turned over Harriman wants an entrance to his INSURANGE MEN SEND ENGIER Expert Will Make Re- port to the Big Companies. Acted in Similar Ca- ' pacity After Balti- , more | Fire. Will lllus;rate His Views With Photo- graphs. | @ARLAND, April 30.—8. Albert Reed, :n:nxlne-.-r for the National B«nfd of Un~ | derwriters, has arrived from New York. He will make ‘& Feport to the commit- tee of twenty of the natiomal board on the recent fire from the .technieal standpeint, concerning questions of water supply, Fire Department organi- zation and equipment and bullding construction, such questions being of | important Interest in thetr appHcation to the fire hazard of every large city fu the United States. Mr.. Reed was engaged Im simdlar | work on the Raltimore conflagration. | His report will be largely illastrated | photographieally. Mr. Reed has con- ferred since his arrival with General | Funston, €hiet Engineer Hood of the Southern Pacific, Chief Engineer Sehussler of ihe Spr. 13 Vallev Water Company, Chief Inspector Porter of the Board of Underwriters and Chief Dougherty of tne Fire Department, all of whom have furnished him with valuable data. The National Board consists of 135 fire insurance companies, its president being John H. Washburn, former pres- ident of the Home Insurance Company of New -York; the chalrman of the committee of twenty being Henry Evans, président of the Continental Insurance Company of New York, and |1ts vice chairman, C. F. Shalleross, | United States manager of the Royal Tusurance Company of Liverpeol, Eng- land. The Continental Fire Insurance Com- pany of New York has commenced to Day cff claims against losses in San Francisco at its Qakland office, 473 Fourteenth street. | | The Colonel’s Long Watch. Colonel Thomas Burgoyne, the well known veteran of the etvil war, who for Years has been attached to the chief Wwharfinger’s office, has been on duty since the morning of the earthquake. Such rest as he has had has been on the office floor. The colonel is on the staff of the commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. The events of the last week or so brought back to his mind very vividly some of the scenes of the civil war. The colonel was a youngster then and only a non-com- missioned officer, but Corporal Bur- goyne, young and lusty, did no more for his country than did Colonel Bur- goyne, the white haired veteran, for the State prorerty he helped to save from the flarqes. e ————— Water Front Notes. Lansing R. Robinson, formerly agent |here of the Pacific Mall Steamship Company, who left San Francisco seven months ago, returned to this efty as general agent in charge of the freight and passenger agents of the Wabash Railroad Company the day be- fore the fire. He has jurisdiction over ! the territory from Bakersfleld and San- ta Barbara north to Puget Sound and has established temporary headquar- ters at 350 Frederick street. Missfon-street whart is again in com- mission. The debris of the shed, which was shaken down by the earthquake, to Governor Pardes and used In pro- | has been removed and the wharf has vid.ny for the needy In this city. fresumed its former Dusy appearalos. ation and a charge of burglary made changes will be published in a suppte- KI'd si~ ncasants with his own ho-=q Ple. He wes an anpraseos of the peo- gainst him. / - et o erized Saat went o be’ lssued tWo Moath haies: the eyes of (he commiitea of the \ble =31 he merfed 1 |