The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1906, Page 9

Insu Ira SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1908. nce -Men Are Actively at Work in Oakland Offices N HURT N SHAHUP “Bob” Mitchell and George W. Phelps Injured in Auto. Serious Accident on the Ingleside Road at Midnight. Chauffeur Heavily Hurled Against Barbed Wire Fence. York Life Insur- any, was seriously injured t the legs and shoulders, and James Scott, who lives at the Break- sustained severe abrasions about r. The injured were ed at the Park Emergency Hos- pital by Drs. Arthur McGinty and Frank Tillman A party of five, including Dr. Boyes and J. A Bruce, a salesman, started or an evening’s ride They went to side and on the return trip while nding the grade to the Ocean vard the chain of the automobile e. Phelps, who was driving the machine, lost control of it and the huge wvehicle skated along the road for fifty yards and then ran into a bank, partly turning oven All but Phelps, who was wedged iu by the steering gear, was thrown out. The machine righted itself, and, turning up the road, ran full tilt into & barbed wire fence. Phelps was rown heavily against the wire. His face and head were badly torn by the rough wire and he lost consclousness. Bruce, who was uninjured, and Scott Hale proceeded quickly to the scene of the wreck with 1wo &utomobiles and rushed the in- Jured men to the hospital Mitchell was found to have two bad- ly bruised and cut legs. He will not be able to walk for some time. Scott was treated for lacerations. Phelps, Who was the worst hurt, was on the operating table for two hours. The surgeons found his malar bone on the left side fractured znd two long, deep Jagged gashes on his face and head, which required forty-two stitches. Phelps also suffered greatly from the shock and pain. He is dangerously bhurt, but the doctors believe that he will recover. He and Mitchell will be confined te their beds for some time. —_——— PRISONER’S GOOD BEHAVIOR EARNS HIM HIS FREEDOM Pardee to Pardon Expert Telegrapher Serving Time for For- gery. SACRAMENTO, May 65—On a Krong recommendation by the board of Btate prison directors Governor Pardee has Gecided to immediately commute the sentence of Donald A. Urquhart, & prisoner in San Quentin, who is serving ten years for forgery committed in Kern County. Urquhart has been an exemplary prisoper and very useful as & telegraph operator during his term. His sentence was a duplicate one, he having been sent up on two charges. —_—— Sanatorium for Clenfuegos. MADRID, May 6.—Premier Moret bes recelved a communication from the Bpanish club at Cienfuegos, Cuba, ennouneing that it 1s the intention of that prganization to erect a sanator- fum st Clenfuegos to commemorate the marriage of King Alfonso. It was edded that the sum of $10,000 had been subscribed for the purpose and the Premier was requested to permit the Bpanish Consul to lay the corner- slone. ; |ible by great heat. . |in the hope that they might be of some ~ OF A SAFE EERKELEY, May 6.—Anxious peo- le who are awaliting news of the fate valuable documents they have stored in safes and bank vaults and who are fearful in some instances that heat may have ®o charred the docu- |ments as to make the work of de- of ciphering them difficult have written to Professor Edmund O'Neill, dean of the college of chemistry at the State | University, about their fears. In reply to these inquiries Professor O'Neill today issued a statement deal- ing with the proper methods to be ob- served in handling safes that are as vet unopened and documents that have been charred and rendered partly lileg- Professor O'Neill's announcement is as follows: “The following Suggestions are made value to persons who find valuable |recoras partially destroyed by fire. “The destruction of organic matter by fire is dependent upon two points: Increase of temperature and the pres- ence of air or oxygen. If excess of air be present on the elevation of tem- perature to igniting point the whole {mass will burn up completely. If the |air be kept out an elevated tempera- ture may be maintained for some time and the paper will be slowly destroyed. ’Vulaule matter is givea off and finally the residus of carbon, more less purs, is left behind. This carbonaceou resi- due is very friable and difficult to {bandle. This temperature of de- :lcr.mposltlon is not very high and varies laccording to the quality of paper. It |begins below 300 degrees Fahrenheit {and becomes more rapld as the tem- perature increases. But & compara- tively low temperature long continued will destroy the paper as effectually as a higher temperature. COOL THE BAFE. | “The safety of paper inclosed in so- |called fireproof safes depends upon the | heat insulation, and the more non-con- |@ucting and the thicker the layer of| | fireproof material the longer it will] |take to transmit the heat to the inner | chamber. But If the safe is covered | | With hot or glowing material it s sim- | | chloric acid. Subsequent brushing with IN THE RUINS Professor at University Offers Advice. ‘Chemicals Will Preserve Charrecl Papers. mates. Many methods have been tried in our laboratory to cause the residues to assume a different color from that of the carbonized paper. The best suc- cess we have had is by brushing the paper with a dilute solution of hydro- potassium ferro-cyanide solution has sometimes proved effectual. Other reagents which have given good results in particular cases have been tannic acid and ammonium sulphide. We are about to try the effect of X-rays and Bacquerel rays. They possibly will be successful. The problem is a compli- cated one, and, as the composition of inks is so different and the quality and texture of paper so varying and the temperature and time not always the same, the method of procedure must necessarily vary aoccording to circum- stances. We have been able to bring out the writing very clearly in some cases, while the same method applied to a different document gives negative results, § “The department would be glad to assist any one in solving any difficul- ties, If the documents be seut to the laboratory we will be glad to use our best endeavors to decipher the writ- ing.” VERY POOR AND VERY RICH ARE THE HEAVIEST DRINKERS Use of Intoxicating Liquors Is De- oreasing Among the Middle Classes. CHICAGO, May 5.—The drinking of intoxicants is decreasing among the middle classes of the whole world and is increasing among the very poor and the very rich. Such is the conclu- slon drawn from a forelgn tour by John G. Woolley, once Prohibition candidate for President, who has re- turned to Chicago after a thirteen months” trip abroad. “Taking all the countrles together,” sald Woolley yesterday, “the main| body of the people—the great middle classes who do most of the business {ply & question of time when the heat | |will be transmitted into the inner| chamber and cause the paper to de- | compose. “The sooner the safe can be removed | from its hot bed &nd cooled to normal | temperature the better it is for the| contained papers. The better the safe the more slowly it will cool, and such safes should be left much longer be- | fore opening than the small and poorer | |qualities. If air be sdmitted before | the temperature has sunk below tha| point of ignition the papers will in- | stantly take fire when exposed to a | current of air. The temperature of ig- nition is somewhere in the neighbor- | | hood of 300 degrees Fahrenhelt and it it is not certan that the interior of the safe is cooled below that temperaturs | it will be perilous to open it “The cooling may be hastened by the withdrawal of the safe from its hot| bed. Covering it with sacks or cloth or other porous material and pouring water upon it will also hasten the cool- ing to & great degree. The ignition may also be stopped by preventing the access of alr, but methods for doing this would be cumbersome to carry! out. The steam from the wet sacks would probably be the most efficient way to prevent the of air, When the interior of the safe is cooled below the igniting point there is no danger |in opening and removing the docu- | ments. z “If the papers are charred so that the writing is apparently illegible, the sheets may be removed one by one and laid on a plate of glass. Frequently the writing may be observed by hold- ing the sheets at a certain angle and the reflection of light from the ink surface will be distinct. This is some- times increased by moistening the pa- per with water. Chemioal methods of rendering the writing wvisible may be employed in certain cases. CHEMICALS TO BE USED. “Inks are of two classes: First, where metallic salts are used, and second, where organic coloring matters, mainly aniline bodies, are employed. Inks of and form the backbone of the people— are drinking less liquor today than ever before. I am forced to the op- posite conclusion, however, with ref-| erence to some of the other classes,! the idle classes, both poor and rich.”| i G AR FIND REFUGEE MERCHANT . WANDERING ON DESERT Aged Victim of San Francisco Fire Loses Mind While En Route to the East, SAN BERNARDINO, May 5.—Cal- lins O. Baker, 69 years of age, a flour and feed merchant of San Francisco, HOW TO OBTAIN CONTENTS !STRIKERS GIVE [BOYCOTT STILL POLIGE BATIE Four Rioters Shot in Combat at Passaic. —— Number of Blue- coats Receive Injuries. PASSAIC, N. J., May &—In a battle between riotous Itallan strikers and the police today four of the rioters were shot and a number of the police- men injured. One of the men shot may dle. Thirty-two men were made pris- oners by the police. The riot occurred about the new building of the Daily Herald, where a strike of diggers and shovel men was begun a few days ago. About 150 strikers appeared at the building today and tried to induce the concrete workers in the building to Join in the strike. Four policemen who were on guard temporarily were overpowered and re- inforcements were sent from the police station. A battle ensued in which four of the strikers were shot and nearly every policeman engagod was injured. Policeman Gustav Schmidt was struck on the head with bricks and badly hurt, but the rloters were put to flight after 200 shots were fired. Tha police pursued the rioters and routed them out of a stone gquarry, whence they fled into the woods. N —_————— DUPLICATE REPORTS WILL BE GIVEN SUPREME COURT State Llbrary Directors Decide to Place Books at Disposal of the Jurists. ’ SACRAMENTO, May 5.—The State Library directors held .a meeting to- day and decided to make a selection of duplicate California reports for the use of the Supreme Court from the State Law Library, the library of the Supreme Court in San Francisco hav- ing been destroyed by fire. Judge W. C. Van Fleet, one of the directors, said: “We will only take such reports as are duplicated in the State Library. The report that we intended to re- move the law library to San Francisco 18 a canard and cannot be traced to any authentic source.” e WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY WORK ON NEW ELECTRIC ROAD Graders to Commence Construction of Line Between Oroville Junction and Marysville. MARYSVILLE, May &—Orders have been given to begin work on the Northern Electric Railway from Oroville Junction to Marysville. Grading will begin Monday near Biggs. The line will be finished in ninety days. California Midland surveyors are now retracing the route from here to Grass Valley and Auburn to make new maps and replace data destroyed in the San Francisco fire. Both these roads were to have been under con- whose business was destroyed in the recent disaster, was brought to the County Hospital this aftérnoon, hav- ing been found wandering almlessly on the desert near Daggett. Baker had started emst over the Santa Fe for the home of his son, struction two weeks ago, but the dis- aster prevented. BT SR I Churches to Be Rebuilt. CHICAGO, May 5~—A plan for the rebuilding of the Methodist churches in San Francisco was launched at yes- ‘Walter C. Baker, of Providence, R. L, at Barstow, he left the train and walked nearly fifteen miles. When he was found he imagined that he was still in San Franclsco. He later fully recovered and was again placed on the train and started for the east. PRESEAET TR ¥ 7 T Boxing Bouts Are Legal. terday’s session of the board of bish- ,but becoming temporarily demented|qops of the church, in conference at the First Methodist Church of Evanston. A full statement of the damage to church property was read and a pro- ject of asking for contributions of $750,000 was considered. The matter will come up for further discussion. Dr. George B. Smythe, assistant mis- slonary secretary of the Pacific Coast, NEW YORK, May 6~—Boxing bouts | 554 Dr. W. S. Matthew, presiding el- in New York are legal, a8 held by the|ger of the San Francisco district, Twentleth Century Athletic Club on|page the reports of conditions. Thursday night, according to a. de- cision yesterday by Magistrate Pool. As a test the police arrested two local BOSTON, fighters, following the evening’s bouts| Union 97 of B2 SRR Cigarmakers to Strike. May B.—Cigarmakers’ s city last night voted in which the heavywelghts Marvin|t; order a strlke on Monday for an Hart of Louisville and Mike Schreck|increase in wages varying from 50 of Chicago were the leading attrac-|eents to $2 per 1000 cigars. It is ex- that tion. The magistrate declared t| pected that 2500 persons will be idle’ as those that saw the fights were able | yplegs a settlement is reached. to get in only after purchasing cards of membership in the club the law had not been violated, e o RO Declares Another Holiday. _Dies on the Way to Hospital. OAKLAND, May 5—Seized with a hemorrhage, Thomas Diamond of 823 Taylor street, Alameda, fell uncon- SACRAMENTO, May 5.—GOVernoriscicus at the corner of Sixth street a legal holiday. / the first class are usually tannates or | Pardee has declared Monday, May 7,|and Broadway at noon today and died 00d bichro- ‘m of iron or logw: on the way to the Recelving Hospital CAUSING WORRY —\lfifive Add‘rgses of the Agencies. Enorrious Stocks|[=11°€ Protection Is Yet of Goods Yet Unsold. American Traders in China Lose Heavily. WASHINGTON, May b5.—The Chi- hese Government has given notice that it will open certain Manchurian ports and interior citles to the world's trade only after it has completed the prepar- atlons of regulation for the govern- ment of the foreign colonies therein. This is understood here to mean that the opening will be conducted on the agreement by foreigners to accept their holdings on leases and not claim the right to buy their lands outright. The active spirit in this anti-for- eign movement is understood to be Tang Chao Ye, the vice president of the Board of Foreign Affairs, who by reason of his education in America and his graduation from Yale, is thor- oughly acquainted with modern foreign methods. Private advices received here from China relative to the anti-American boycott in China are discouraging and it is even predicted that the worst is to follow; that owing to the accu- mulation of enormous stocks of unsold American goods at the ports of entry the full effect of the boycott will mot be felt till next autumn. SHANGHAI, May 5 — George G. ‘Ward of New York, vice president of the Comtmercfal Pacific Cable Com- Shanghal link, was entertained by the American Assoclaton of China at a banquet at which several distinguished Chinese among those present heartily welcomed the new cable connection with the United States. During the course of the evening the healths of the Dowager Empress of China 4nd of the President of the United States were drunk with enthu- siasm. Ward made a speech, in which he gave a short history of the cable company, eulogizing the late John W. Mackay, He sald the enterprise was due to his American spirit and addea that his plans had been ably carried out by his son, Clarence H. Mackay, ‘Ward said that the new cable would‘ increase the commerce and cement the good relations between the two coun- tries and otherwise be of great advan- tage to both America and China. He expressed the hope that it would fur. nish proof to the 8reat Chinese empire ¢l the desire of the Uniteq States for cloger Intercourse with her people and be accepted by China as an expres- ml)n of good faith, friendship and good wlil —————— SUTTER AND YUBA DRIVING CLUB PLAN RACE MEET Proceeds of Three Days’' Sport Will Relief Fund. MARYSVILLE, May 6—~The Yuba and Sutter Driving Club has arranged & three days’ race meet, commencing May 28, the proceeds of which will be given to the local reliet committee for the benefit of the San Francisco sufferers. Local talent will present a drama next Wednesday evening for the sime purpose. Contributions to belleved the total amount raised here will reach $15,000, Alds Porto Rican Strikers. WASHINGTON, May 5—The ex- ecutive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor has given its indorse- ment to a strike among 3000 agricul- tural laborers in the Arecibo district, Porto Rico. The laborers are contend- ing for an increase of wages, which it is felt by thé executive council should be granted. The men on strike are engaged prineipally in the sugar industry. A cablegram was received yesterday by President Gompers no- tifying him of the situation and it was upon the facts presented that the ex- ecutive council took the course stated. —_—— Mailers’ Union to Hold Meeting. All members of Mailers’ Union No. 118 (San Francisco) are requested to register at the temporary headquarters, 199 Casselll avenue, San Francisco. The union will hold a meeting on Mon- day, May 7, at 2 p. m. in room 3, 452 Eighth street, corner of Broadway, Oakland, Cal pany, who arrived here recently to su-: pervise the completion of the Manila- ! Be Added to the San Francisco ¢ the fund continue liberal ang it is| | Inadequate. Prepare for Work of Adjustment. No meating was held by the Fire Un- derwriters’ Adjusting Bureau in Reed Hall, Oakland, yesterday, but a great amount of work has beern done by the insurance men individually. In order to expedite the settling of losses the managers of all companies Interested are requested to immediately file a list of their adjusters with Secretary E. F. Mohrhardt of the general adjusting committee of fifteen, which is to ap- portion the losses to be passed upon by the various adjusters and boards of adjusters, F. H. Porter, chief water inspector, has made the following report to the Underwrifers' Adjusting Bureau: “College Hill reservoir, Clarendon Hill tank and Pacific Heights tanks are| now in service. Black Point pumps are running and supply the higher por- tions of the Western Addition. Uai- versity Mound reservoirs will be in ser- vice In ten days, it is expected, and With another pump to be installed at Twenty-sixth street will furnish water to sections now without water. The sections yet without water are: North of Union street, the Potrero, above Eighteenth street, north of Nineteenth street, east of Mission strcet, south of Market ‘street, south of Mission Creek except on Fourth street. The fire alarm system is now In ‘working or- der.” The Underwriters’ Adjusting Bureau is to convene tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock in Reed Hall. Insurance clerks of experience are ‘wanted at the offices of G. H. Tyson, 1060 Broadway, Oakland. ‘The following is an official list of fira insurance agencies established on the Oakland side, as issued by the Fire In- surance Adjusting Bureau: J. H. Ankele, North German of New York, Security of Baltimore, 1811 Cen- tral avenue, Alameda. James D. Balley, Insurance Company North America, Alliance of Phlladel- phia, 538 San Pablo avenue. C. Bertheau, Aachen and Munich, Hanover, northeast corner of Eleventh and Clay streets. Boardman & Spencer, Ninth street. ‘W. H. Breeding, Germania, 901 Broad- way. L. L. Bromwell, Milwaukee Mechan- {es’, Macdonough building. George W. Brooks, California, 906 Broadway. Edward Brown & Sons, Agricultural, Spring Garden, Delaware, Globe and Rutgers, Ameri¢an Philadelphla, Svea, 1008 Broadway. Catton, Bell & Co., Law Unlon and | Crown, Unlon Assurance Soclety, Vie- | toria, 810 Thirteenth street. | Christensen, Edwards & Goodwin, ;Mercantlle. American Central, St. Paul, { Telegraph avenue and Twentieth street. T. J. Conroy, Caledonian, Rochester German, Scotch Underwriters, 2104 Bush street, San Francisco. J. D. F. Curtis, Providence Washing- ton, —, : “F. J. Devlin, Manchester, Atlas, | Kings County, 647 Eighteenth street Dickson & Thieme, Royal Exchange, Austrian Phoenlx, Concordia, 1060 Broadway. Geor D. Dornin, Springfield, Na- tlonal, 1112 Broadway. V. C. Driffield, Transatlantic, Feder- al, Harmonie Hall, Alameda. Duncan & Rahfisch, German of Peo- ria, 1116 Washington street, room 4. ‘W. J. Dutton, Fireman’s Fund, Equi- jtable, Odd Fellows’ building, Eleventh and Franklin streets. Clinton Folger, New Zealand, Tenth street. L. F. Freudenfeldt, Queen City, 372 Twelfth street. Gordon & Frazer, Traders, American of New York, Canning biock, south- west corner of Broadway and Thir- teenth street. 3 G. F. Grant, Franklin, 219 Bacon building. T. C. Grant, North British and Mer- cantile, Laymance Real Estate and Im- provement Company, Eighth street, be- tween Broadway and Washington. Gutte & Frank, Fire Association, Aetna, 458 Tribune bullding, 45 Ninth street. C. A. Henry & Co., Sun, Michigan, 1018 Broadway. R. Herold, Hamburg, Bremén, Ninth street and Broadway. F. L. Hunter and J. C. Corbett, Northern, 45-46 Macdonough building. W. W. Hutchinson, Northwestern National, 1018 Washington, room 1. ‘W. Irving, Phoenix of London, Peii- can, 1069 Broadway. S. Ives, Home Fire and Marine, 508 Ninth street. George E. Kline, Continental, Delger block, Broadway and Fourteenth street. ‘W. J. Landers, London and Niagara, 467 Tenth street. Theo. W. Letton, Prussian National, 1056 Washington street. W. H. Lowden, Norwich Union and Indemnity, Bacon building, room §S. Mann & Wilson, New York Under- writers’ and Teufonia, 464 Tenth street. William Macdonald, London and Lancashire, English-American Under- writers’, Orient and State, 654 Four- teenth street. McNear & Wayman, Pacific Under- writers’ and Colonial Underwriters’, | 406 Thirteenth street. W. L. W. Miller, British America, British American and Western of To- ronto, 1003 1-2 Broadway, room 3. C. F. Mullins, Commercial Union of London, Commercial Union of New York, Alliance Assurance of London and Palatine, 511 Fourteenth street. A. G. Nason & Co., National Union and Eagle, Delger block, Fourteenth street and Broadway. A. C. Olds, Phenix of Brooklyn, 95 | Broadway. R. W. Osborn, Pennsylvania and Union of Philadelphia, 578 San Pablo avenue. Falache & Hewitt, Hartford, Citizens" and Home of Utah, First National Bank, Berkeley. E. E. Potter, Glens Falls, Willlams- burg City, Westchester, Security of New Haven and Camden, Bacon bulld- ing. H. L. Roff, Home of New York, 483 Ninth street. B. J. Smith, Connecticut, §36 Thir- teenth street. ‘Walter Speyer, North German of Hamburg, 2121 Jackson street, San Francisco. C. J. Stovel, Buffalo German, Amer- ican of Boston, Dutchess, Girard, New York of New York, North River, New Brunswick, Nassau of Brooklyn, Bacon block. Syz & Co., Rhine and Mosells, 306 Franklin street, San Francisco. T. J. A. Tiedemann, Scottish Unicn and National, 468 Eleventh street. George H. Tyson, German-American, German Alliance, Phoenix of Hartford, New Hampshire and Protector Under writers’, 1060 Broadway. C. H. Ward, Western Underwriters, German of Freeport and German Na- tional, $01 Broadway. ‘Watson, Taylor & Sperry, Calumet and Atlanta-Birmingham, 460 Tenth street. Broker McReynolds Indicted. CHICAGO, May 5.—Six indictments charging George S. McReynolds with unlawfully removing grain from a warehouse without the consent of the holders of the warehouse were returned by the Grand day. McReynolds, who did an exten- sive grain commission business, failed last fall, Frank Philadelphia Underwriters, United Fire- | 640 all told. men, 1253 Broadway. C. D. Haven, Liverpool and London i=nd Globe, Eighth. street, opposite A. RUEF, Law Offices, 2322 Pine PR Al M S