The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1906, Page 4

4 —_— TH- SAN FRANCISCO CALL = JOHN D. SPRECKELS. JOHN McNAUGHT ~Proprietor . Manager TEMPORARY OFFICE - - 1651-3 FILLMORE STREET, S. F. 1016 BROADWAY OAKLAND 1083 THE CHIMNEY MUDDLE. A v question in San Francisco is developing an ugly phase, ndal, the first since the catastrophe, is looming up. mitz to step in and see that the matter is corrected, He any ng the city’ time in doing it s trial, and re are LOw be used in The Board of is have de the board wi safe own ¢ for u n the will m: sections have to be rate of $1 p paid to ing dy proc the errinpg upon it in ju ittee of the original Citizens’ Committee Board of Pu charter and an th ineys repaired. six blocks about 30 per cent rebui - house ctors the 1200 chim ctors have been employed for this work by the of authority Just of inspecti MAY 13, s shall not he 1506 hes thus far made an e to his own reputation, b d settle the ugly business without delay. San Francisco. 50,000 chimneys The Citizens' Building Cnmmitlee,‘ of Fifty, has | Public Works suddenly appears ction of the Citizens’ Committee and or-|{ inspected at a cost of $1 per house, figuring The 26,000 already inspected by the Citizens’ Board of Public Works at this cost | When the glve him a certificate of fnspection Then a test of six blocks at one are found take up another section of six) to be of the 1afle ground 90 per cent are likewise, of three chimneys, public. The per between the The latter passed by on. used to that 11 not issue such of Underwr e word. It is a with the lic as the f cook the gu It § nce. They kitc s, but if this inexcusable and con- 1 be cooking in the gutte There 1d not us chi oon as he later or this family 1 San soon led al once. fered enou proteeding city gover ent. of San the East to p ew of the pa R ¥ "L R WITH RAPID STRIDE i or official who prevents in some form « high-handed procee n that, it is an ou i insist upon its im The has amazed the del lace at our disposal all the steel struc- d for rebuilding during the next three years. he prediction that uncements of new nt the ground is cool ar Already SAN FRANCISCO SPIRIT. , but we From d by we will buildings n s their design t now We s seem to be these assured, MAY 12 58 64 58 6 i8S ot £ 02 4 59 San Luis Obispo o8 Beattle .._.. 50 Spokane fe Tatoosh 54 Walla Walla 66 Winnemucea .... [ Yums &0 Forecast f For Sacramento geles and vieix and vicinity—Fair Sunda fresh south wind. sh southwest wind. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. ge on the public A mutter- demand an alacrity the rapidity beat ons. who ¢diate correction. public have already suf- e and fire without being afflicted by this arbitrary ation of steel One haven't Sacra- isaster, whilé you peopie world-beating pluck.” which with her ot only clearcd As got it, or «a2nd Fran- AU BULLETIN. 1898, Precipi- Weather. tation. Clear .00 Cloudy .00 Pt. C T Pt. Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Rain Pt. Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clo Pt. Cloudy Pt. Cloudy w Cloudy w Cloudy sSW swW w w sSw .00 .00 00 fresh west wind. For Los An- CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMEN CCNFER WITH METCALF | | | Discuss the Urgent Need of an Addi-| Losc tional Circuit Judge for | This State. WASHINGTON, May 12.—The mem-‘ BERKELREY bers of the California delegation tod. with Secretary Metealf and discussed Chapman, ay Congress urgent need of liberal appropriations ;4.4 whil both for the construction of new Fed-! Drowning. era! buildings in San Francisco and, were rowing when the hoat oves the preper repairing of others: perative. e ——— — Rzre Jewels Stolen. PHILADELPHIA, May after the 2. —Mrs. prominent banker, police of the loss of rare and co:tl)‘{ jewels which were stolen from the|® Weich suburban home at Chestnut|&izeer W. F. MeClure. i est mey of Berkeler: at Dayley, Hill. The yalue of the missing gems| is said te Te in excess of $1G,003, Aj former butler is suspected. : wment 1! Both Chapman \'i.ted Chapman to be a guest of her people vear Santa Cruz. The edy that invelved t h | BEdward Lowber Welch, wife of aja me;e, ending e death of both was earthquake, Miss to the plans for has notified the|ant summer outing. He drew New Sop | CHAPMAN’S EODY RECOVERED FROM SAN LORENZO RIVER:is?ue included 5000 s His Lifs WhilF Trying to Save | Young Woman Friendg From g ELEY, May 12—7J. Leslie Dob- I bins received a telegram yesterday from | street met in conference Santa Cruz stating that the body of L. E. Kane and George G. Reinle for a sum ! the University e Gt stated to be between $25,000 and $30,000, the question of an additional Circuit drowned in the | San Lorenzo ri | Judge for Califernia, as well as the Soturdey, has been found. B, S Jewy 8 Chapman per- | e trying fo rescue Miss Mildred A Wholesale tobaceonists, have secured a site . Mc¢Key, his fiancee, from drowning. They 5t 18 Sacramente street and will reopen rturned. | on May 25 in San Francisco, maintsining i and the girl were stu- Insurance litigation will, i is be-idents at the State University, The: lieved, make an additional Judge im-|3t 2 boarding house, 2228 in Berkeley. a pleas- Chapman was an emgineering student, . was- doubled ar gssistant in the office of City En. |, ' { F Thorawell Muilnlly the la His paronts res le? ; 2 i Wales, Australia. i His bedy will be'elipped there for inter- ! WILL EXTEND FIRE LINITS| Committee fil—flecammeml That Ninety Blocks Be Emiiil:ed. Sixty North of Market and | Thirty South Is the Division. The fire limits of the city are to be |extended. This was practically decided upon at pesterday’s meeting of the building laws committee and a com- mittee from the Board of Supervisors. | The propesed cxtension will take in ninety blocks, sixty of which will he nerth ef Market stresf and thircy 13, 1906 : mm"fl!lfll“fli‘;__m YORK HERALD C0J |south of the city’s main thoroughfare. The fire limits as agreed upon at the | S WNRCTURERS. | AECRO ST WL N RS PRICE OF CEMENT line of Hyde street; hence southerly along Hyde street to Montgomery ave- nue; thence along Montgomry avenue | southeast to a point 137 feet ¢ inches southerly from Bay street; thence easterly on a line 137 feet 6 inch=s south from Bay street to Twentleth street; thence southerly along Twen- tieth street to Lombard street; thence BROKERS APPROVE DECISION OF DIRECTORS REALTY Board Decides It Will Not Establish Quarters on Van Ness Avenue, ° Sustaining Directors. There will be no headguarters of the San Francisco Real Estate Board on Van Ness avenue, at least for the’ present. This was finally decided yes- terday at a meeting of the hoard meni- easterly along Lombard street; thence ,San filam:iscn Wi“ BE S“p_ bers in the Calvary Presbyterian some street; thence southerly along Church. The directors recently de- | Sansome streef to Broadway; thence | “ d B i Ml cided to abandon the project of erect- westerly along Broadway to Poweil; p €0 - beiore ing a building on Van Ness avenue to énce, southéfly ‘along Powell to 2 contain the ‘offices of the brokers. point 157 feet 6 inches north of Pine; thence westerly along the line 137 feet 6 inches morth of Pine to a point 137 jfeet § inches w=st of Van Ness; thence Gthers. + 2 S P i coutherly along & line 1‘3\‘7"@;1 © inches 'Sllflfilllfltlil's Ifl BE Bfll‘fl?fl‘ west of Van Ness to Market: thence me B“y‘i“g Up the Stock. riortheasterly along Market to East street; thence northwesterly along East 1) point of beginning. Also, commencing at & point on Pine S |point 137 feet 6 inches south of Howard; | | We will have it inereased to 3000 barrels street 137 feet 6 inches westeriy to Van Ness avenue; thence northerly to Pa- | ¢ific avenue; thenve eusterly along Pu- cific avenue to a point 137 feet 6 inches east of Polk. street; thence southerly |to Pine street; thence westerly to point |of commencement. Also, beginning at Valencia and | Thirteenth streets; thence easterly | along Thirteenth Street to Mdrket, |thence easterly along Market street to | water front; thence southerly aloug water front to Fremont street; thence {purtherly along Fremont street to a ' |thence west to Ninth street; thence along Ninth street 137 feet 6 inches to | Howard street; thence west along Howard street to Thirteenth street; thence northwesterly along Thirteenth street to point of beginning. Also, beginning .at Howard street and Third street, 137 feet § inches east of | Third, running thence south to Towns- jend street; thence west to Eighth street; thence north to Bryant strees; thence east to a point 13/ feet 6 inches west of Fourth; thence north to How- | ard. | A. Ruef and J. D. Galloway were ap- {pointed a committee to draft the lines of the proposed fire limits as a whols, and later offer them for adoption. after The determinatian of cement manufae- product has.bee communicated to the Reconstruetion Committee by William J. Dingee. The following letter addrossed by Dingee to Maygr Schmitz explains the position of the ¢ement manufacturers: “On behalf of'the Standard Portland’ Cement Compafiy“and the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company, 1 desire to state that the ‘present espacity of the Standard Portland Cement Company, at Napa Junetion, is 2000 barrels 2 day. a day by the first of July. The Savta Cruz Popiland Cement Company will have a capadity and will be ready to ship cement by the first of November, 1o doubt, of 6000 barrels a day. We have already ordered the machinery to increese that to 9000. T further desire to state to you that we will do cur utmost to sapply the de- mand, giving the preference to San Fran- ciseo and other stricken eities, at the same price that prevailed before this terrible eatastrophe befell us. ““1 have given instructions to the Western Fuel Compsauy that they shall not sell cement to speculators who will take advantage and sell it at higher fig- tarers mot' $' ilse -the price of their | I have | .| cenditions. Gereral Greeley’s only eri ., They lived ?be “hapel street | 2 When the Univerxipz; closed, McKay in. at the home I. | Test | with which they will be presented to the |“Trer * . : g & v ed’ lear | | Board of Supervisors to be finally acted I have tried'to make AlIb-maticr clea v I | sfoond A and agsure you that you-tan depend on | | B rein.’? : James Gillden appeared before the el e O Sttt committee with the plan of a hydraulic | soES TO MAZATLAN WITH ¢ water wall, composed of stationary water towers, to be utilized for whole- BRIDE AFTER EARTHQUAKE |sale drenching in case of a large con- | flagration. He was referred to Gen- |eral Smith of Chicago, who has bean |sitting with the commiitee, and who {will report as to its practicability. Roderiguez Magorga, Nicaragican Con- sul Here, Returns From His Hur- ried Flight to MexicB, Rodrerighez Mayorga, eonsul for Nicar- ‘legua at this port, was the star passenger jen the liner City of Sydney which ar-| 1ived late Thursday from Panama and ! Consul Mayorga’s elaim to distinetion was thet he was 2 sarvivor | of the San Francisco earthquake and fire. | | | | i | GENERAL GREELY VISITS | OAKLAND RELIEF BUREAU | way ports. Finds That San Francisco Refugces { Are Being Well Tiken Care of He joiued the Sydney at Mazatlan: _by Authorities. | $ix montks ago Mayorga's marriage to OAELAND, May 12—Major General | the deaughter of George E. Douglas of | {Greeley was in conference in this city | Mazatlan was a great social event in the ! | yesterday with Major Erwin and Lieu- locl Latin colony. The Mayorgas were | tenant Pendleton as to the relief supply |living here April 18 and ‘like everybody | ¢ r |else got a terrible shaking about 8:131 cism of the wozl'in Oskland was that the (2. m. of that date. \Their home was bad- |care of the refugees nad beer ofi such a {1y wrecked and Mrs. Méyorga’s health | bounteous seale that the military authori- | demanded her instant' removal from the | ties would find difficulty in inaugurating { scene of the disaster. A | the harsher methods which must shortly | From here they hurried to Los Angeles be applied to conserve the food supply. ' {ard from th Guaymas wheve the Your carloads of potatoes arrived and e b e o e e foiatons : ;E‘;;k steamer for Mazatlan. Mrs. h o four carloads of general sup- | Mayo: is re r e t her | plies on the way, two from Los Angelze ikl b 2Ly Ry | {father’s Lome. Consul Mayorga, after | yand two from the north, sent by the a brief stay at the Mexiean port, took | Massachusetts Relief Society. Blankets passage on the City of Sydney and all ‘and eots are in demand. Today’s food the way from Mazatlan to San Francisco | 1 !’a(es of bread and he found hearers for his tale of that jother necessities of life in proportion. . |never-to-be-forgotten morning when the | flames bursed the heart out of the eity Property Brings Good Price. by the Golden Gate. . OAKLAND, May 12.—A real estate! | transaction of some importance was con- | summated yesterday in the sale of 35 feet lon Tel Nplllli avenue near Seventeenth ellie Orpheum Reopens Next Sunday. Everything is in readiness for the !reopening of the Orpheum at the L. Edwards to J. M. Mec- ' Chutes Theater next Sunday after- noon, May 20. Herr Bdmund Rosner -and his original Hungarian orchestra will strilze. up the introduetory over: ture. President Morris ..goqwmm.w of the Orpheum Ch mpany has | not been letting the fl- srow under. his feet during the and the wires between ti the Eastern office, Wil Reopen in the City. OAKLAND, May 12.—Horn & Co., the [ temperary offices at 370 Ninth street in tiis eity where their usual busincss will been kept busy a R o o 2 mmbn: 'h“'umg i -, g’ A exce] ly % Causes Landlord’s Arrest. 0 e May 12—Mrs. C. Schafer, | _ Park Concerts to Continue. caused the ar-| When the q e yfivmm 2 room be- | was under discussion. yesterday 0. ‘professlor obl‘A.\L | ¢suse she could = meeting called by president of the U the subject. After | ¢ ot jout have been assisted. |the teachers’ salaries for the balance of Some brokers wished to go ahead nevertheless and took steps to have| the general meeting of yesterday. President Howell made an explana- tion of the reasons that actuated the directors, when instead of proceeding to close a contract for comstruction| 1 of Disease. they threw up the lease of the land| and coneluded that the original plan| was not feasible. R His principal point was that there was no certainty when the building, which was to cover & large area, could be completed. The cost origin- inlly in view would have b‘gn exceed- {ed. About the amcunt to be finally paid there was also uncertainty. When the directors took all the facts | was unwise to proceed further. _After this statement a vote was taken. No dissenting votes were re- corded on the proposition of approv- ing the acts of the directors. FRATERNAL SOCIETIES AID MANY FIRE VICTIMS Rendsr Timely Assistance to Those Made Homeless by the Re- cent Conflagration. The Modern Woodmen, at its burean of relfef at 1317 Scott street, announces that sbout ore-fourth of the member- ship of the local camps have not y reported ~themselves. The office, charge 6f Herbert V. Rees and W. Elliott, has already aided many mem- bers and is still helping others. But one member was reported as injured and no deaths have yet been note Additional contributions are on t way. At the office of the Order of Pend 2 puinber of members who were burned About one- third of the local membership were in the burned district. The Independent Order of Odd Fel: lows has been doing grand work, hav. ing since the disaster assisted 2500 persons daily at the Hamilton Hail station and about 200 at the Twenty- ! in isecond and Howard street station. The contribution of clothing from varioas sources has been very large, and this is being distributed by the Rebekahs. The contributiors in cash to the order tu date amount to $100,000, and the in- dications are that $150,000 will reach this city within three weeks. The véult of Grand Secretary Shaw in the ruins of the Odd Feillows' bullding was opened on Wednesday, and the con- tents were fourd to be in fair condi- tion. That of Grand Scribe Barnes was found to contain a mass of ruined matter, while the contents of the safe of the grand secretary of the Rebekahs were found to be intact. Court Southern Heights, the largast of the Independent Order of Foresters. has secured quarters in the vestry of Olivet CRurch on the Potrero. This order has secured transportation for number of members who received offor of work' out of the city. In Court Sunflower of the American Foresters 112 of its 127 members lived ! in the district that was burned. Tn Court Live Oak but three of its mem- bers were burned cut. The Natlve Daughters have receivel many contributions of wearing & parel, and the greater portion of it hi ‘heen distributed. g% G itaiy— Money’ for School Teachers. State Superintendent of Instruction Kirk held a consultation yesterduy s | with the Auditor, Treasurer and Super- intendent Roncovieri over the State’s share of the school fund, It was found that there is $265,000 in this city now that had not been forwarded t» Sacramento last December. Out of this sum $225,000 will be applied to pay scal year. MARY LITTLE ONES WILL S004 BE I NEED OF SHELTER Wants of Ten Thousand Per- . sons Receive Prompi Attention. iood Work of the Medical | Men Prevenis Spread SEATTLE ASKED TO DONATE FLAG POLE FOR NEW CITY Citizens of That Place Gave the First Liberty Pols Put Up Under American Rule. I July 7 will be the sixtitth anniver- sary of the raising of the American !fiag on Portsmouth square by a de- {tachment sent from the United States |sloop of war- Portsmouth, them in the Iharbor of Yerba Buena. Shortly after | that event the people of Seattle sent to the then town of Yerba Buena a flag- pole 140 feet long from which to flouc ser the emblem of liberty, and it ed standing for = long time up- morning, the anniversary of St. k’s' day. it was cut down b cau me one had run an effigy of the | saint up to the masthead. The pol, curtailed in length, was put up again, and did good service thereafter. |+ Since the recent fire President Sher- | man of the Mexican Veterans has wrii- | teen a letter to the Mayor and Com- | for - F -] f the city of Seattle, in into account they concluded that it! ;mon Counc! h he suggested that, as Seattis A jgave early San Francisco such a mag The State Board of Examiners is nificent flagpole when it was Amc'v |¥ery anxious regarding the disposal of icanized, the citizens of that place ! 3 ¥ ¥ {might at this time feel like presenting children of widows and widowers when |, "1 0 10 10 be a St aiil-she {tiie era of free i-eding in the ecity all | magnificent San Franeisco 2 new pole {have passed. Secvetary Pillsbury to take the place of the oid one. The terday gave out the following Le- |letter suggests that eommaunications on ment regarding the affairs of the or- | 'he subject be addressed to Mayor | phanage. lSchmau of this city. “When the era of free feeding of | b BT OTR R, 5 | iSn.n Francisco people shall end and the | FIRE IN RICHMOND DISTRICT | concentration camps shall close i Is CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT {more than likely that many widows, 3 ,‘F’rughtemd Residents Nearly Create a Ex‘.nd not a %y widowers also, wil {need to be helped to take care of; Panic in Frantic Effort to Se- cure Assistance. { their children untii the strain of A small blaze in a stable on Call- {cxampled adversity can be Fri¢ iover and the fam fortunes in sor fornia street, near Fourteenth avenue, ! measure be retrieved. | Friday night, threw the Richmond Dis- | “To meet this requirement the or- | trict into an uproar. Recent events | phanages throughout California Wwill have so wrought the nerves of the Le taxed to their fullest cupaeity. | people that an incident, which would "Thh'“ are now. In the forty-fowr| have passed almost unnoticed befors orrhanages of the State, in round > | numbers, 1000 children who arc bu:h]u-!,e o e fan o ! | citement. free and fit to be placed i1 homes to !he reared as own children, or to puil | S 500D as the fire was diseovered [ their own weight by rendering somo | ¢ People rushed from their homes | proper form of useful s sulted to | 30d every one that owned or could e placin ! borrow a revolver began to rend the of these children in howes will make | Meavens with bullets. Believing that reom for a thousand refugee children | @ Small battle was raging soldiers and to be cared for until their surviving | bolice hurried to the sceme and on psrents can get them again under | finding the cause turned in an alar their own roofs. lo! fire. A bucket brigade hurried 3 {* “What Letter service can any we.l- | the task, however, and before the first jto-do California family perform than |engine arrived the fire had been em {to take ore of these orphanage tinguished. ]I;;:\: into the home to be fitted ¢ o The blaze was caused by a defectivg ? | chimney. “It 1s not and should not be so mu —_——e—— a question of what the child so taken SEEKS INFORMATION ABOUT {into the family can do for the fam THE UNBURNED BUILDINGS las what the family can d@ for jchild. The motive may well be the {of a thank offering for one’s own pro iperity. Rt all events, look well to ¢t ! motive that ‘prompts the applicatl | thelr strangth and years. t Committee on Statistics Wants Prop- erty-Holllers to Give a List of Their Possessions. Property holders in the unburned dis- ifor a child. If Its basis be selfishn rict and agents for them are request- !don’t apply; but if the reader finds it in | °F to Al in the accompanying blaak the heart to do a good deei from go wl \'snd return it by mail to tae chairman | motives what better thank offering can |°f the committee on statistics, corner one make a kind Providence than to | Sutter and Frankin streets: Location ‘rear u good, working, seif-respecting|9f Duilding, material of which com= American citizen? “ibe orphanage management may question closely and rvequire the best of references. It is obligatory upon such management to do so. They can- not give children to all who may ask, merely because they ask. Let the reader who is sure of his motive and able to furnish unquestioned refer- ences aprly to the orphannge mearest him, and, if unsuccessful, make known |his desires to (his office, tha® .ddi- tional effort may be maude to supply the demand. “STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS. “By A. J. Pilisbury, S:cretary.” ————a—— the rush. e { of shadow SECOMING A WOTHER of fi ;{fii}lg nndidnnge: in store for her, a ant anticipations of the comi t, casts of bonwhl::hmnotbeshd?ze.n s s ‘have found that the use of Mother’s Friend during confinement of all pain and danger, and insures 2nd child. This scientific liniment structed, number of stories, number of Tooms, value, damage inflicted by carthguake to walls, foundation, chim- ’ne_"s‘ windows, furulture, cost o* re- pairing. direction of walls most dam- aged, north and south or east and west; direction of fall of chimmey, north, fouth, east or west; such general in~ formation or facts as may have besr observed. ——— I Cars to Run-on Third Street. k4 ! The United Railroads put a gang of i men at weork yesterday on Third stree( | clearing the tracks of debris and ob *muctim and also placing the over kead troliey wires. These necessary g 1 The brave and fearless man man-! TuPiovements will be finished tomor ages to get there early and thus avoids, oW, when cars will run to the Third sand Townsend streets depot. e Is an ordeal which all women approach with mdqcnb.ble fear, for nodnng compares with tb_mpnn and horror of child-birth, The thought robs the expectant mother of women 'y robs safety to ki R 2 “Mother’s its use perils