The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1906, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS....... JOHN McNAUGHT WEST OAKLAND 1083 .MAY 9 GIVE US OUR CHIMNEYS. perpetrate & cheap and ghastly witticlem upon ". the San Francisco chimney is at present that practically every chimney in by the earthquake, and nine-tenths destroyed. Not one was mafe for use. how completely modern life, with its the chimney, and now that we are upor Se sco will be ppled until its chimnevs are repaired, for in € le we can have no fires except in the street £ he, which are indispensable for sanitary hot We will under It the populace become dirty, gerous to the public health may nic water s0on con neith Here is double uncieanness. Nor can which prevents the produetion of thousands of wage-earners out here involved, in addition to health important to the thousands of per- 1 til the chimneys are repaired. S cannot resume business. n of San Francisco after the fire was his chimney " getting repaired. We all thought that all that s nece hire a layer to rebufld the fiue. But the com- s ese and very serious snag, incompre- 1 after the chimney has been replaced it can- householders in the unburned districts that in his stove or furnace until all t has caused general dismay. Accord- mneys replaced and in order today are ntil the last chimney in the city is in proceeding. k into 1y a el perfectly matter without a day's en should not be permitted safe, the public want to and als is hereby called to this apparent ty be rebuilt with all possible dis- » rebuilt let it be used. Any refusal rmore, it is dangerous to the public SKY-SCRAPERS AND EARTHQUAKES. the complete resistance of i As far suffered the slig ge shock. Whatever injury th: ained s 1 demonstrated that the ste scraper during an earthquake. ot only does tter than the low brick or wooden made obvious. The steel sky- It “gives” in every joint under 1 mortar to shake all to pieces. ore deemed the safest structure a wooden mudsill or underpinning to get ure down. ty st sky-scraper with a more con- of the most severe earthquake shocks out of it with fiying colors. GAUSE OR EFFECT? mountain range south of San Fran- r satisfaction that thé ridge has been g away toward the ocean. A con- tly exhibits this tendency. To any geological discussion, has It occurred to the Ave mistaken the effect for the cause and that the earthquake, but that the earthquake MORTUARY CLERK WILL ENFORCE BURIAL LAWS PANAMA RECEIVES WEIRD REPORT OF BIG CALAMITY R. P. Schwerin Tells How Ananias| Great Difficulty is Experienced in Com»‘ Must Have Edited Cables Sent to the Isthmus. | R. P. Schwerin, vice president and e Pacific M Panal plling a Correct List of Vic- tims of Disaster. Mortuary Clerk Percy R. Hennessey enforcing the order requiring that Manager | 16513 FILLMORE STREET, S. . 6 - - - 1016 BROADWAY| e of its humble function comes home to | r can the hundreds of laundries, | replaced and pronounced safe by | s, they ascribe the recent earth- | STATE UNVERSITY [NVENTS " Wit TR FOR | ‘Salaries of Force Are Not to Be | | | _ Decreased. . | oy Milne Spends Life- Yearly Income Is. time in Pursuit of The University of California, moved by the same spirit that is building up [EMBLORS ! 1 income of $150,000 a year, it will,” said | ‘Machine Gives Him Infor- | sands miles from t! ene o travanganza already to suit all for a | o o of iy | hogany desks, soft chairs, rich carpets | London, but the horde of reporters click-clicks of the typewriters of the | Frofessor John Mflne knows more Regents _ Yorke, Taussig, Charles | KNOW. Professor Milne is here regard- and fire as follows: . dinarily cheertully submits himself to| |the amount of $1000; the college of |that he always runs away when a big |destroyed were two vases of great |®arthquakes for breakfast, dinner and i income producers." & selsmlc survey of Japan and married | income at $150,000. In“the Isle of Wight. Here, well out Much Reduced Earthquakes. by Fire. —_— Shake H i Sen Francieo upon it rame wil oo, | SNAKE HoUrs Before on its work, in the words of Presidenc Wheeler, “just as it did before.” NCWS lS Wil’ed. “Although it has suffered a loss in | President Wheeler, “meet the situation bravely. There will be no sudden change; no salaries will be cut and no | l S i l workers thrown out.” | Mmation of All Seismic Incldentally the commencement exer- = {cises will be held fn Berkeley as | Disturba Ges. usual and 500 young men and women | T who have been awaiting this deciston | | will be turned loose upon the world, | Special Dispatch to The Call. diplomas in hand. The customary class | LONDON, May 9.—There is one man {day extravaganza, however, will be¢ |in England who, though living thou- omitted, There has been enough ex- year to come. | disaster, ran away from the San All this was announced at the meet- Francisco eartbquake. To be strictly ing of the Regents on Tuesday after- | correct, it was not the earthquake noon In the ferry bullding. The|ins: caugea nim to hide himselt in Regents aid not seem to miss the ma- | 8 , | that besieged him in his peaceful home and tinted windows of their old room | ° P in the palatial Mark Hopkins Institute, | 7 the Isle of Wight and bombarded row a heap of ashes. In the barn,\mm with questions concerning the draughty place, resounding with the | C2Use of the catastrophe. temporary raflroad offices, they hud. |#POUt selsmology than any other man dled in an earnest group and expedited | 1 England, or probably in the world, their business. Governor Pardee, his ungss it be some of those wonderful hat down about his ears, a big|JaDanese, who have mot yet caught muffler about his neck, presided. |the Western hubit of telling all they | Wheeler, Foster, Rusk, Budd, Rowell, |©d 88 a species of consulting physician Elllnwood, Waymire, Kirk, Earl and |for diseases of the earth’s crust, from President Wheeler were present, whom information can be obtained President Wheeler gave the losses of | Without payment of fées. He is one the university through the earthquake of the best natured of men, and or- | “The Berkeley buildings were not | the interviewer. But when it comes | damaged and $300 would cover the |tO telling the same thing over and over) | losses there. The Amfliated Colleges in |82In 10 a long procession of Inter- | | San Francisco suffered more, The an- | ViEWers he kicks and sKips until things thropological museum was damaged to |4uiet down- again. Thus it happens | medicine but slightly while it will cost | ®arthquake turrs up. | | $5000 to repair the eastern building. | Professor Milne is an earthquake | The Mark Hopkins Institute is a total |hunter, For nearly twenty years he, loss, with the exception of some 500 | Pursued them in Japan, their native paintings s#ved. Among the articles |!8iF, Where, as he puts it, you have | value, which were to have been do-|!®® It was a fascinating and excit- | nated to the university by Mrs. Hearst, | ("8 Pastime, but it had its disadvan- | The dental laboratory was totally de- 2898, one of which was that it debar- stroyed, as were the Johnson and Sac- |Fed him from getting an insurance pol- | ramento buildings, which were great |ICV on his life. So, after he had made Counting in the loss of revenue due |® dainty littls Japanese woman, he | to the shrinkage of the State tax, invented a macnine for trapping earth- | President Wheeler estimated. the total |uakes and brought it and his wite {diminution of the untversity’s yearly |t0 England and settled down in a de- |lightful rose-ciad, old-fashioned house In presenting the budget for next | year he gave it as his opinion that|Of the danger zone himself, his ma- salaries of the university personnel [Chine gives him a record of every |$hould not be cut. The Regents de-|€arthquake on the globe that amounts | clded to discuss the budget at length |t0 &nything, To matter how distant {at & special meeting, but authorized |the seat of the disturbance may be. the president to announce that no sud- | He has several of these instruments. den changes should be made, | The largest of them fs made from a | Degrees were grantea to a tem- | discarded street lamp post. This rigld BIGGEST LIAR, | NOW OF, IS THXT FELLOW O TOLD ME,LAST NIGH T, A RAREBIT Woull STATU | E OF McKINLEY SAVED FROM THE FLAMES NANY INDUSTRIES Workmen Drag It From Burning Foundry and It Is Now In- stalled at Arcata. Haig Patigan, the sculptor, has re- turned from Arcata, where, a{ter; much vicigsitude, he had the pleasure | ARE THRIVING IN | of witnessing, the installation of a I statue of President Willlam MeKin-| ley, the work of his hands, which had Sugar Refi nery Is d scratchless through the fire. vt s ars Fasen 3w RUNNING Night and Day. commigsioned to design the statue.' He completed his model and after ac-, ceptance it was sent to a Main-street’ foundry to be cast. The finished bronze was completed and was stored awalting shipment when the earth- quake and fire followed that destroyed Railroads Rushing Work in ,Every COSTELLO HAS GREAT FAITH IN SAN FRANCISCO'S FUTURE Merchant Returns From Pleasure Trip and Expresses His Confidence in City’s Future. James M. Costello, president O’Connor, Moffatt & Co., has returned from New York and an extended Ea: ern and European trip with his wifs ard family. Costello lost no time In returning to this eity ag soon as he heard of the disaster. He says that Fastern capi- talists are anxious to invest here, but he belleves as does Joseph D. Grant that there is enough local public spirit and sufficient home capital to rebuild the city at once. “Nature has given San Francisco Oone of the flnest harbors in the world,” sald Costeilo yesterday. “The climate and resources of this city are unsurpassed and our recent experience *all burial certificates be made out in| ned of the San Fran- calam- . pleased when the other day and te of affairs by person; “The Bchwerin fir t we recelved,” said :proper form.' Since the days of the | disaster the confusion has been great and bodies have been disposed of | without the necessary process of law. | Clerk Hennessy, in consequence of | this condition, has had much difficulty | in keeping lis records straight for the| Board of Health. Since the morning was that 8an| e 4ye earthquake he has recetved 21| records of only 102 deaths, and it will A yeen lost. t was bad enough, but a later cable In response to frantic appeals for particulars carried less comfort. In substance the second cable was as follows: ‘San Francisco destroyed by earthguake; 0 lives lost; busi- nese portion of city swept by tidal wave and remainder of residence part being destroyed by flames; Chicago in sshes; New Orleans has disappeared beneath the waters of the Mississippi river.” —_— ALL ANIMALS ARE SAFE FROM POUND EXCEPT DOGS | require six weeks’ time to make out a | full list of the dead. | Yesterday several of the cemetery | associations turned in a list of per- | sons buried on their property and to- | day a list of nearly 200 burials will |eome from Laurel Hill Cemetery. The | military and the Morgue authorities |are giving every assistance, but as | their records are incomplete the task | | will be & heavy one. i B | | More Comfortable in the Country. Then why keep the family in the city this summer in the discomfort and dust of rebuilding? The Southern Pa- cific I8 making low, long-time excur- jon rates to summer resorts from San Francisco and bay points. Ask the agent. . —————e—— SENATOR GORMAN CRITICALLY ILL AT WASHINGTON HOME ' Supervisors Adopt Ordinance Sus pending Seizure of Horses and Cattle for Thirty Days. The Board of Supervisor§ abuyes- terday’s meeting at Mowry's all passed 1o print and adopted an’' ordi nance preventing the impounding of stray animals, with the exception of dogs, for a period of thirty days. This is done to permit owners of horses and cattle to stake their animals on the avallable stretches of grass with- out interference from the poundmen.| It was resolved that City Attorney Burke be requested to detall Assist- ant Attorney J. T. Williams to attend in an advisory capacity each session| gy sickdess began uvcr‘l 'months of the board. ago with an attack of the grip, with At a meeting of the street commil-| gyery jndieation that it would eul- tee, headed by Supervisor Rea, 8 COM-| mingte in pneumonta, but this 'was munication was sent to the Mayor and | gyerted and it is now learned that he Board of Works asking who is giving|yq gutfering from a eomplication of ail- permission for the railroads to lay|ments which give no p tse of his tracks in the eity’s streets. The com- Maryland Statesman Is From Complication of Ailments and Recovery is Doubtful. WASHINGTON, May 9.—Senator Arthur Puo Gorman of Maryland is critically {ll at his home in this city. He has not been in the Senate for many months. Within the last few days he had a severe sinking spell and his life was despaired of. recovery. mittee maintains that the privileges should be accorded through the proper} , RUEF, Law Offioes, 2394 Pine st. Bear Fillmore, . ehannel pillar of iron is built into a block of | porary lst presented by the president, | B e —— | |FIVE SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE REPORTED MISSING | Superintendent Roncovieri Seeks ln-; | formation of Pedagogues Wha | Have Failed to Register. School Superintendent Roncovieri | requests information of the !ollowlng“ pamed teachers, who failed to report| last Monday: ‘ Those who have not been heard| from at the office of the Board of Edu- cation since the fire are Miss Emma G. Barron, Bernal Grammar School, | former residence 501 Franklin street; | Miss Mary F. Fitzgerald, Harrison- | street Primary, residence 839 Golden | Gate avenue; Miss Queenie McCon- nell, Harrison-street Primary, resi-| 3 | H and he had the satisfaction of seeing dGence 1194 O'Farrell street; Miss mitted through the earth'sinterior, and /; Mary L. Sabin, Washington Evening th!s message travels at the rate, of It i1 Imposing position, despite the|public was kept in ignorance of con- School, residence 1814 Mason street,| {¢0 Mles a second. The second is on DAITOW escape from destruction in the and A. C. Kinne, Lincoln Evenlng‘i School, residence 120 Fourth street. e O i 5 | CONGRESS MAY PROVIDE MORE MONEY FOR CALIFORNIA House Committes Authorizes Favor- able Report on Bill Which Will Place $900,000 in Treasury. | WASHINGTON, May 9—Senator | right masonry, which. in turn, rests on a deep substratum of chalk. Near the base of the lamp post, projecting at angles from it, is a weighted steel boom, from the end of which de- pends a need o that writes without | ceasing on an eternally revolving eyl inder covered with a sheet of paper blackened over a lamp. When the old earth is bebaving itself properly the lines the needls traces on the smoked paper are steady and straight. But when there is an earthquake cutting up didos anywhere the needle makes jagged marks and the greater the des viations from the straight line the more violent is the earthquake. i The seisometer, to give the recording ' the earthquakes its scien- tific name, makes, in fact three sap- arate dlagrams of each earthquake. The first records the vibrations trans- angel of | | a large scale and records the slower, moving vibrations which have tray-! eled round the surfate of the globe in the most direct route, and the third [those which have been transmitted | {round the earth in the other direction | by the longer route. The clock which {keeps the cylinder revolving also reg-] |isters the time upon it. | | By the ald »f this and calculations based on the varying rates of sp relative to the failure of the water supply will result in measures to pre. vent a recurrence of a conflagration | Congresg should be willing to admic 85 t, een resumed . would be & fruitless search in the Business activity has b steel free of duty, as such a course ruins of the Main-street shop for the ORce &gain in the Potrero Dhtrlct.‘.wou:u_naaten reconstruction work and treasure. He sought among the de- Though the earthquake did comsider- :;‘( ?‘f :‘l:]l-'d&hl::lsble“benefln to San i‘rgh bris and, strangely enough, the hunt ghle damage to a portion of the resi-| = ° e State. an Wb Section. the bnilding in which the sculptor's work had been standing. | -Patigan began what he Dbelleved —— was rewarded. Lying in the street demce district there the manufactur-| heneath bricks and a mass of rubbish ing section was practically unln.hlredl Patfgan unearthed the statue. It had and such concerns as the great sugar been dragged out of the building early refinery and the Koster barrel factory during the day and left unguarded and are running full blast, with all the | unprotected. The sculptor, upon re- working men they can’ find and all' covering the statue, found, after ex- the material required In sight, S amination, that it was practicaly in- It was at first feared that the big| Off for Tahiti. This is a good time to send one's family on a vacation, especially de- lightful for the children. The S. S. MARIPOSA will sail - for Tahiti TUESDAY, May 22, and the round-trip rate for this voyage is $125.00. BOOK- ING OFFICE, 1008 Broadway, or Pler tact. Such external treatment as it|factories in the Potrero were badly > 100t Pacific st,San Francisco. * required was given and in 1 few days|shaken and crippled by the shock and | SRR < T v g the work of art was ready for deliv-|that operations would have to be sus- | suffer in the slightest way from the ery. pended for some months at least.| With joyous heart Patigan arranged | News from this section of the town| for shipment of the statue to Arcata,|qiqd not travel with the rapidit§ that| prevailed jn other sections and the| ditions for several days, though hllll~t ness was progressing in the meantime. The big Spreckels sugar refinery OBTAIN WATER FROM escaped without a blemish. The huge PARK AND CHUTES | ninestory brick bullding, one of the prineipal structures belonging to the1 ' great plant, stands today just as lt: Get Partial Relief When Spring did a month ago. A thorough inspec-| Valley Supply Fails. tion fafled to reveal a cent's worth Residents of the Richmond District | of damage there and the buflding was | are grateful to Superintendent John |immediately pronounced ready for oc- calamity of April 18. Residents of the Richmond District earthquake. All have large forces of men at work, while the restaurants and boarding houses in the imme- diate vieinity are doing a business that is umparalleled in the manufac- turing distriet. ’ Street work is being rapidly rushed between the Potrero and the Mission. A large gang of men, together with a big traction engine, are laboring to tear away the big Armystreet hill which divides the Potrero and the Mis- sion. The tracks of the Ocean Shore and Southern Pacific railroads are laid in | the Mission districts and within a Flint today introduced a joint resolu- |the selemic waves travel, the professor tion making an additional appropria- is able to locate approximately the ton of $500,000 for the purchase Of|gpnse where the earthquake broke loose. - commissary stores for the destitute at | t b San Francisco. | When the needle begins to make jag- |lands today authoriged a favorable re- | by v 3 R E port on a bill which will result in ' © Story of some great convulsioh. It Suffering | PIacing about $900,000 in the State Tung him up when the San Franclsco ervoirs and supplied the Richmond rin; | treasury of California from the Fed- | earthquake occurred hours eral Treasury if it becomes a law. The 4Ny tidings of it reached the | bill grants the State 5 per cent of the |PeWspaper offices. | proceeds of the sale of the public| There is nothing of the scientific re- |lands of the State from the begin- cluse about Professor Milne. He has | ning of the State Government, and in |a rugged, open-air face, with a big, | that respect puts California on the broad forehead and plercing blue eyes. same basls as other States. 'He roughed it in many parts of the | R T PNR T 7 5 TR I ‘,worlfl before he took to earthquake | GREAT FLOOD IN CHINA {hunting. His Japanese wite Iis &y CAUSES BIG LOSS OF LIFE bright, winsome little .Jady. She has surrounded his sclentific workshop with quaint and picturesque Eastern |relics and burns incense before the! | ghiet of them—an impassive, majestic Buddha—whenever she wants some dream of hers “to come true.” ———— To Cure a Cold in One Day betore London ' P | American Consul in Hankau Reports | Disaster in the Province of Hunan. WASHINGTON, May 9.—The State Department yesterday received the | following cablegram from the Amer- | fcan Consul at Hankau, China: “Im- Take LAXATIVE R uinine mense flood in Hunan province. Great Jets, T M “mzflonne, it it s loss of life and property. All foreign- 1 to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is | ers sate” aach box. e L) MecLaren of Golden Gate Park and to|cupancy. the owners of the Chutes for supply-| The sugar refinery has been run- ing them with water during the time|ning right along. The force of work-! the Spring Valley Water Company was | ing men was added to as the days unable to provide it. rolled by and yesterday it was an-| McLaren mahaged to pump 750 gal-| nounced that every man was back at| lous of water a day into the park res-| his post. The refinery is running day and night, turning out more sugar District by means of a hose attached |than is the custom at this time of the from a fire pipe at the museum to|year. The cars of the raflroad com- the fire pipe at Ninth avenue and Ful-| pany are kept busy hauling away the ton street. . - . H sugar and bringing in the material The people of the Chutes pumped |apd - sevéral ‘bosts 'at the whart are water from their cisterns by nleans of ftaxed to their utmost: capaeity - in an ‘and’ also housed the lfet-|handling the o it of sugar tha tenant and ten men of engine 10 of the [being turned out dafly. - FireiDepariment. . . . The same condition of affairs pre- % S G valls at the > cooperage works jealdsbur Smal ' fot the Koster company. Here the em- Y g May 9.-~Thé pedple I ployes are kept busy day and night. ealdsburg are much disturbed /This plant, Jfke. the sugar. : over an error in a dispatch from|escaped with little or-no damage. The ealdsburg which stated that the|orders are fast rushing in to the com- ::mm‘lim ‘the earthquake in that!pany, hence the large force of men at town would amount to $10,000,000. | work. The amount should have read $100,000, but inadvertenily.extra ciphers were added. : are also doing business at the same old stands. Nome of these seemed to i The many tanneriés In the district few days the entire ciremit will be completed and ‘the work of removing the debris from the burned section of the town commenced in real earmesc. The workmen yesterday flnished the ballasting of the tracks on Fourth street and work is now being rushed on the varfous spyr lines and switches that will be operated along all the streets In the center of town. <Third street is fast regaining its oid time look. The saving of the South- ern Pacific depot resulted in the re- sumption of trade in the southern end t 13| of town. From Market street to Town- send there is a continual string ‘of teams and wagoms of every kind and dedeription all day long. : The freight handlers at the sheds complain that the teams cannot handle the large shipments that are arriving avery hour, but this s due to the fact thas the streets leading to the depot are so congested that traffic is seriously 'mpeded. ————— e bought. W. J. Iesthal, 950 Plerce st. -~