The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1906, Page 1

kT | CE SRS IR RS Y TEMPORARY OFFICE OF The San Francisco Call 1651-3 Fillmore St. PHONE: WEST 956. F R R R R R R R The San Francisco Call i : 3 1016 Broadway i i * : * I * i Business Office Phone: Oakland 188 Editorial Rooms, Phone: Oaklard T4 Pl FEEEE b1 VOLUME XCIX—NO. 164, GRAVE PROBLEM I U MORTGAGE (UL Electric Crash PRICE FIVE CENTS Cars ;FATALITIES UN[IFFIBIAL AERTED BY - COPIES IN [MOTORMAN EXISTENGE Reverses Power and Is Valuable Documents Go Racing Away When | Up in Smeke in Impact Occurs. Gity Hail, L g _ Brakes Fall on Sicep Recorder's Office Sy v _Bfug; ~ DI — 5 ———o7 | UplradeWhenthe | Papers Covering = ' ' : Tmlley_&llp_s. Lungflriud. Heavy Passenger Load Search Companies Have Whizzed Down Hayes- | Records From fhe Steeet Hill Early Days. The cool judgment and iron nerve of ! The mertgage beoks that were in the Motorman F. C. Miller of trolley (-flr?San Francis*e County Reecorder’'s office 1 1375 minimized the effect of what other- | were, with { s destroved by wise would have proved a terrible collis- ! fire. The reccrds of :hmls down to 1895 ion on Fillmore street near Fulton yester- | were preserved. Such is the report that day. With several others Miller was has been given eurrency by s badly injured but not one life was lost. | titles in this eity Accerding to this The injured are: i!here is a space of o n years that must F. C. Miller, 1662 Haight street, left | be bridged in arm broken, left leg and foot crushed, | basis' for titles ¢ face and head cut. | ere were John Kendall, 2140 Pierce street, scalp | the records i cut, face lacerated, bome in right foot | porations in this dated up to fractured. { April 18, 1906. The corporations are the Mrs. Mary A. Quick, 2428 Haste street, | Title Insurance & Guaranty Company, of Berkeley, head lacerated. | whieh A. J. Carmary is the manager and O. F. Palmer, 64 Valley street, Oak- |the California Title Insurance and Trust land, face lacerated and finger broken. | Company. If their reeords are aceepted F. Ruter, 189 Chattancoga street, lac- [in eourt it will be possible to duplicate erations and bruises. the public records that were lost at he The accident was due to the fact thet | City Hall. Of eourse there is a question e s Works Board Proceedmg Slowly With § | Chimney Inspection. . | President Maestrettl of the Board of [ be issued. The householder will then | Public Works announces that house- [ take the inspection slip to R. H. Par- i o R T s oy N MODERN HOTELS | TO BE ERECTED | Two Class A Ios;‘elnes Will Be Bu;li Over the Ruins af Once and Other Big Work Is Planned. chers of s would ut: the number | i se of the license! reduce the number of sa- | 00 to 1000 the = -roNrm\p,S Lm;me TRACRE O o LAEORERS BUSY IN SAN FRANCISCO AND GLIMPSE OF THE ._USINESS SECTION OF THE CITY. N IH VAGLT 15 UNDAMAGED Si.nng -Box m the Bank fif' TPt KUNBER OF MEN EMPLOYED BY CITY Retrenchment in All Municipal Depart- ments ls Ordered by the Chief Executive. Schmitz Announces That the Most Rigid Economy Will Be En-_ holders in some sections of San Fran- co. may build fires indoors this Others will be compelled to cook n the strégts for more than a month Lo come, The supply of water and the speed of tha chimngy inspectors are the factors swhich will determine when the whole eity may use its house stoves. The of- ficlals will make every effort to ac- complish their task in the quickest possible space of time. ; ThHe' citizeds’ building committee is still conducting its prellminary inspec- tions and informing the people what is the matter with their chimneys and ker at the corner of Gough street and Golden Gate avenue, and he will issue a formal permit provided that tae water pressure in the particular sec- tion of town is thought strong enough to extinguish fires. The permit must then be attached to the exterior of the house in plain view from the street, and the stove may be moved indoors and the windbreak used for kindling. ‘Where the water pressure is low no indoor fires may be maintdined for the present. The last’ chimney, inspection cannot be made for/ more than =a month. Brick masons’ are. not nu- merous enough te repair or rebuild zil Motorman Mat J. MeDcenald of dar 1354 lost control of his brakes while proceed- ing south on the steep grade on Fillmore | street near Hayes. When half way up the hill the trolley on his car slipped off the wire. In an instant his ear started backward. He applied the air brake but without result and the heavy car was soon speeding at a terrific rate down the hill. On the same track and also southward bound was ear 1375 with Miller at the controller. Car 1354 had just started on its backward run when Miller saw it. Instantly reversing the current he started his car baeckward and when the inevit- able collision came it ‘was under good about the acceptance of the title com- | panies books. They are accepted by the | banks and trust companies as the basis of | insuring titles and the banks loan money on the searches based upon them. Marager Carmary of the TRitle Tnsur- {ance and Guaranty Company said yester- day that his eorporation saved all its records hack as far as 1347 and alse 2500 to 3000 maps, which makes it sible to trace titles back for the uses of the banks, individuals and others come cerned, to the Spanish grants. (THOOPS OF SULTAR § d. what repHfirs are necessary. Certifi-|damaged chimneys = simultaneously. |peadway. This fact alone prevented the dlifornia Gpene ope , ) y et sl yows H p y % cates of safety are given in all proper ) These three causes of delay must e |two cars from splintering into bits. fiflshiEl‘ it Is Estimated That Fully 300 Persong ! Cases, but these do not permit the .undermod by the multitude of com | iller stood firmly at his controller . T0 EVAGUATE TABAH Will Losa Pitions or Part ofF househoider fo bulld ‘Indoor fires un- | plainants against the mainenance of until the erash jof the cars burled him Salaries. v [til'a geperal -order is issued by thc |street fires. |4 forward into the mass of broken timbers 5 2T ! 4 The general public is oounseled ty and shattered glass. I the authorities to restrain its impa- Conductor 8. Riga, of ear 1375, did tlence and put up with a little more in- | everything in his power to control his convenience a matter of safety. It | passengers. Those on the forward dum- & all were allowed to build fires indoors | my were hurried to the rear, with the ex- | CAIRO, Egypt, Ma y 12.—The Turkish what is left of the town would prob+ |ception of Mrs. Quick. She beeame. con- | government has agreed to evacuate Tabah aby go up in smoke. | fused and had just arisen from her seat |and all other places in Egyptian terri- Chief Engineer Schussler of the|when the collision oceurred. Some of |tory which have been occupied by the Spring Valley Company informed the |the passcogers jumped and Kendall met | Suitan’s troops. fire department = yesterday that ne | his injury in this manner. He was on the | CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12.—The thought a suffieient supply of water | car that rushed down the hill and when | Turkish government has aceepted the de- to insure safety from fire would be |it neared Fulton street he climbed over | mands of Great Britain conditionally and forthcoming In. less than two weeks, | one of the side guards and leaped to the |it i3 expected that this is enly pulini- It is probable that Filimore and ad-|street. After he struck he rolled some |nary to the complete acceptance of the facent strects and the park distriet wijl | distance and was picked up in an almost E;—;ul]h demands in regard to the Tabah uneonscious condition. | boundary question. be the first to benefit by the indoor The people on_Fillmore ‘strect £or | The chlge oy A 1 blocks saw the collision and rushed to |must have taken place very late last the seene. The injured were carried to m‘m or early todsy for the Graad .| Mayor. ment in 2ll municipal de-| Perniission to build fires immediataly N otient . { parts ler. The con-|{ forth, s given 'to hospitals, bakeries, laun- drics and to private individuals when there is gl in the city’s working forces |are ghou the next thirty days. Mayor|2at present. E Approximately 28,000 chimneys have, beeh Yinspeeted by the building com- mittee, fThe Board of Works is hasten- om -whereby the most Trigid|mg to engage ihspectors, who will ls- may be enforced. It is esti-} Sue permits to private houses. Rach about 200 city empla applicant {s examined as'to his qual- 1l lose their positions or suf- |{fications by President Maestretti, ‘and aterial reduction in salaries, | then has to pass through a similar or- . After th ured and n. fires permits. The waler pressure is »d into fifte=n |light in the Potrero and Mission dis- the order that has gone nd there will be a great re- tess in the house. Thera 0 such permits in existence to have been in- gold coins had the floor of the | the trays that contained ey were as good as new. ——— Central Trust Vault Opened. le the announcement this g that plans already are under | "i" A EALERS IR ' as opened on Friday VH {- y to be all right. ESmtirsgicr s i o0 v sl deal before the undervriter full force of 150 m ted it will be di Strike Delays Funerals. is | NEW YORK, May 12—Funerals in|8tru nr Actna Comvzny Opens Safe. | New York teday were subjected to|S%Guads of ten men each. The city will ftricts. AL -l fi'_k a Tnsurance Compans’s safs | serious delay and cakets T many| Ve dlstricted.ana oach squod wil ta- | President Maestrettl, Glifer Inspestor (ReSThY stores and thelr wounds harried: '; e A g’e(,i"n":‘_‘t‘-";;":"““‘; mm. opencd and its'contents . are !@pect every chimney in its jurisdiction. | Porter afd Mayor Schmitz are all firm ey o e | cases were carried to graves in plain| ) i -summoned and all were removed to hos- ).‘ mlh' had no immediate result except Tlo building committee estimatas [on the proposition that no man, woman pitals. the fact that the “"‘w f black wagons or even on trucks, ow- Iy { 60 per cent of all briek chimneys |or child shall be allowed to buid a fire {1ng 1o the contlnuance of the funcral \in’ granding in San . Fraucisco. wt|indoors antll every prefsutign assie: fe;l;h;::,"é,:;fi 'jfi;‘;’;’:},‘ b iferted ?‘MT.“__""T;". ErTage & SpRIN Ot lden Gate Park bana, | rivers' strile. Many mourners were|jave. tgjbe either repuired or rebullt, | another confiagration shall Have been | Turk street car house, where they are now | were u tad as. weve thoes m cership of Pasl Stein- | forced to ride on street cars to thejat Jpresent people are having a great |taken. being repaired. An examination of the mo Mi & B 20 concerts in Gola- | cemeter] deal of aifficuity in securing the serv- s shattered condition of the ears only in- 1"."‘” nfll&r“!meiol- again pointed afternoon, hor,m-f ices of brick masons, which fuxmer im- University Bank Revived. creased the wonder that a se.re were not | oyt the futility of suggesting modifica- selected@ pro- | Woman Dies on Overland. k. 2 killed when the impaet came. = tions of the British demands whieh con= 4 pleces will be SACRAMENTO, May 12.—Mra! R. H. Porier, chief inspector of the| The Bank Comfhisslmen have is- o o Mary Dalton, an elderly woman, dxea‘flre undfi.rwrfi&rs will ‘have general | sued a license to lhe Unlmsity Bank To Hold Annual Election, TES LY *on the overland train this afternoon! Charge of the inspection conducted hy | of Los Angeles, which has a capital| The annual eleetion of San Franeisco |has not yet received advices pair Hotel Vendome. | between this city and Davisville; Yolo|th¢ Board of Works. Tho fire and in-|of §100,000. The charter was. issued | Typographieal Union, No. 21, will be held | Porte has definitely acceded to the Brit- %, May 12—The directors| gounty, presumably of heart disease,| SUFance ofiemis will pass upon the'in 1887, bgt in 1898 thnuhank liquidat- |at 425 Fifteenth street, Oakland, Cal, |ish' demands, but the latest offielal dis- dorie, after thoroush-| She resided at 64 Lloyd street, San| :; : MD;: ko cl""esident Mass- | o jig “W“’ and bas since been dor o2 erdn;ldsTy,;!le‘w, lfib‘mfi‘ m o Constautinople indieathd that 12} ¢ the building, have de- prancisco, and with her dallght!r, w‘:m “:;y;‘h:inday lnt :;;tw‘::el:e f’n mant. J. M. Carpenter is the presl- on for llld pmofi: mP’onl 1 was b 10d 1o repair it as soom as POs-| Mrs. Mary Gordon, was on | ‘her way | seetion: t’ne city where chimneys 103t John W Kemp, mry, and |19 M. to 7 p. m. u.n be nothing . and resume business. From| iy visit another daughter, Mrs. S. J. ;3“ Iy repaired or have E- W. Derbler, cashier. The bank will GEORGE A. TRACY, m 2 as 3 quaks thers 370,000 to $80,000 will be we& ‘Hollarhan. of Chica. ‘fa..?;.i m\ma a certifinasa win . be open for W-\‘ofi-«w 1 H. L. WHITE, Seerctary-Treasurer. | Britain are the irreducible minimam.