The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1906, Page 9

_SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 1 3, 1906, GASLIGHTS CHEER THE STRE ETS IN UN URN ED SECTION FOR FIRST TIME SINCE THE DISASTER DARKNESS N CITY 1S SPELLED Restoration of Supply Is Finally Accom- p@ed. Service Pipes Will Be Provided Wherever Nesfis_ary. Inconvenience of Gook- ing in Open Being Overcome, ed on at the meters as rapidly as pos- rned aistrict of the city throughout. The Dl ndreds of g hous: connections are found men re ms are npot in good pes will be run into with gas stoves, ove the dizcom- housewives who in the open. The g2s would bs e ity was con- has commenced d feels justified in ts on the streets, as ed the gas ective only tions were found that is aut the exper etre , and »d O o re- N chairman of e committee oa lighting and elec- win ““SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 1506. n Lighting and Electricity—Dear I beg to say that gas is now on roughout the ent're eity (unburned). - d in sapplying consumers oon at 3 o'clock. have been given to et gas lamps Saturday eve The pumber of lamps r rmed in the unburned district is approximately 2300 f it is the de: e to have any special ¢ prefcrence, as for instan g, the ci h Is, etc, I shall be pleased to give them immediate attention. Very yours. J. C. JONE! “ ‘Chief Engineer Gas Department —_—— CALL TO SAN FRANCISCO MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE truly Are Requested to Meet in the Harbor Commissioner’s Office on Monday. The chairmen of the Senate and Assembly delegations yesterday sued the following call to the mem-| bers of the Legislature from San Franciseo for a meeting to be held | on Monday: “To the members of the Legislature from San Francisco: *“You are hereby requested to as- is-| ks in mains was | connectlons. | 0od order permission to burn | of the first | H. Leahy, Chairman Commit- | of your com- | HEALTH BOARD ~ NEEDS MONEY ‘Dr. Ward Demands a Large Sum for Urgent Work of Sanifation. GOLD T0 BRING TS FACE VAL Discolored Coins Will Be Accepted by Mint Officials. | | H “ CARING FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE FIRE, AND A HOME OF THE BLUECOATS. STRTIN ZN (el APORWMOU SOLDIER MAD CHLD HRE BADLY MHIUAED N SERIDUS MISHAPS Privats Carl Stoker ls Dragged by His Horse and Barely Es- 2 ! capes Death. t Little Irving McKnight Is Thrown From Buggy and Receives Several” | Cuts About Face. Both Patients Are Taken to the Gen- eral Hospital at the Presidio for Treatment. Two accidents, both of which might i i A sub-committee of the finance com- | mittee, composed of James D. Phelan and Allan Pollok, carefully . investi- gated yesterday the demands for aid made by Dr. Ward, president of the Board of Health. Dr. Ward asked on Friday that $86,000 be appropriated from the relief fund immediately for sanitary work. In making the demand he said that he could not be responsible for the consequences if*the appro- | ion was not made. sler, chief of the sanitary de- , went over each item on the budget presented by Dr. Ward. Phe- an and Pollok will report on the mat- | ter at the meeting of the entire finance commitiee tomorrow. Though they |were given full power to act by the {committee they decided to obtain the |consent of the entire body before mak- ling their decision. | committee also took up the | proposition of R. Schmidt and R. E. | Wills, two Berkeley contractors, who {offered to dispose of garbage for 171-2 jcents a cubic yard. This is now cost- ing 35 cents a yard and is not being {satisfactorily handled. The committee had full power to act In this matter also, but as it was assured that the {garbage crematory would be in opera- {tion within a week it deferred action. In speaking of the necessity of the appropr on asked, Dr. Ward said: | “If something is not done immediately {1 will be compelled to resign my com- | mission. I cannot accept the respon- | sibility without the money and I must ih:.\'e some authority and power to go head. Most of the work is being done { by volunteers, but they are beginning |to drop away. We must have money jor 1 cannot answer for the conse- | quences. Conditions will be terrible if this work has to be ebandoned.” e DRAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION WILL NOT RAISE RATES Current Prices for Teaming in Effect Before the Great Fire Will Still Prevail, The Draymen’s Association has unanimously agreed that the current rates for draying before the recent semble In the Harbor Commissioner’s | fire to and from different parts of San office in the Union ferry building at| the foot of Market street, this city, on Monday, May 14, at 2 o'clock p. m. *“RICHARD J. WELCH, “Chairman Senate Delegation. “GEORGE A. McGOWAN, “Chalrman Assembly Delegation.” Francisco shall not now in any case | be raised. The association feels that the con- ditions prevailing as the result of the great catastrophe do not warrant a raise in the price to be charged for teaming, Hundreds of safes owned by commer- cial houses in the city that have been opened since the fire have yielded up quantities of gold and silver coin in- jured by the flerce heat to which the safes were subjected. Thousonds of gold coins have been abracded. Sums ranging in total in the hundreds ot thousands of dollars in gold and silver have been more or less damaged. ‘What to do with these colns has puz- zled the owners. Superiiitendent Leach of the United States Mint says that gold coins, generally speaking, will be taken at thelr face value at the United States Sub-Treasury, instructions 1o that effect Laving been received. If the gold coln is abraded deduction must be made. The melted and otherwise mutilated silver coins that went through the fire and have been taken from the safes will be received at the United States Mint at their bullion value only, to be remelted and recoined. —_—————— UNDERTAKERS ADD MORE NAMES TO DEATH LIST Further Casualities Due to Earthquake and Fire Are Made Known to the Coroner. At the time of the earthquake a large number of bodies were taken from the ruins and were buried by undertakers before amy record of them was made by the Morgue v:m~K clals. An effort is being made to lo-{rapidly drawn. The new structure will | cate all such cases, that the Coroner|DPe reared in the same block, but on its | may compile a complete list of the dead. Friday the following names were furnished by undertakers: Mrs. Martha Fay, who was killed by a falling wall on Shipley street; Cecil A. O'Toole, crushed to death at 5381 Ninth street; Johanna Resche of 47 Chepultepec street, who died of heart disease immediately after the ed Dr. R. B. Smith at the so-called over the figures of last year. shock; Caroline Simpson, who died of exposure in a lot behind the City and County Hospital. The latter woman was f{ll and her husband took her to the hospital after their home had been rediiced to ashes. There was no room for her in the in- stitution and he carried her to the lot on which she died. Annie L. Conway of 882 Valencia street was killed by a falling wall and William H. Beck met the same fate in the Valencia Hotel. Mrs. Mary McCarthy was injured and dled sHort- ly afterward at the Red Cross Hos- | Board of Public Works, the fathers of have proved serious, occurred near the Presidio Wednesday, and as a conse- quence Private Carl Stoker of the First Field Battery and Irving MecKnight, the five-year-old son of Mrs. M. H. McKnight of 3829 Clay street, are in the General Hospital at the Presidio undergoing treatment for numerous cuts and bruises about their heads and faces. | Private Stoker, who was acting as | mounted orderly, was in the act of mount- ing his horse near the Union-street car terminus when the animal reared, throw- ing the soldier to the ground. The rider’s | foot slipped tarough the stirrup. The| norse, badly frightened, rushed down the | LABORERS BEGIN RAZING OF SAINT DOMINIC’S CHURCH) ¢ from the Acting under a permit ! St. Dominic’s Church have begun the work qf razing the edifice at th2 corner of Bush and Steiner streets. A large force of laborers has been em- ployed for the purpose. The Board of Works on the previous day had adopted a resolution ordering the razing of the building because it was deemed to be dangerous to the lives of passersby and to adjacent property. The auctual work of the demolition of the sacred edifice was commenced under the direction of the Rev. Father Pius Murphy, rector of the chunch. The tall spires, which were stripped of brick and cement work by the earth- quake, were the first portion of the building to be pulled down and the moved from the site in a short time. It is the intention of Father Murphy ner of Bush and Pierce streets, and plans for the new bullding are being eastern extremity. A temporary building for the Hous- ing of the fathers of the church will be erected, and it is hoped that wor- /ship in the new church will take place within a month or two. ——————— Nurse Hurls Can Accurately. Miss Kate Smith, a nurse, bombard- rest of the damaged church will be re- | 1o erect another structure at the cor- ' road dragging the soldier with his head | down, for several hundred yards. The horse was finally stopped by sev- eral soldiers who rushed out and caught { him by the bridle. The soldier was taken to the General Hospital where it was| fonnd that he was suffering from several -large lacerated wounds of his head and | | face with possible internal injuries. | | = Little Irving McKnight was playing in | front of his home on Clay street when he conceived the idea of going for a bug- gy ride. Untying a horse which was hitched to a buggy mear by, he climbed 'in the buggy and started down the street. { The horse had not gone far, however, : before it became frightened and after !a run of a few blocks ran into a tele- graph pole, completely demolishing the buggy and throwing the child to the i ground. Dr. Manning, who happened to | be passing in an automobile at the time, | picked the child up and rushed him to | the General Hospital where it was found the child was suffering from several lacerated wounds about the head. ——————————— Alameda’s Population. | ALAMEDA, May 12.—School Cen- i sus Marshal J. C. Hanley’s report, | just completed, shows the population | |t this city to be 19,844, an increase jof 1611 over the population a. year !nzo. The number of children be- | tween the ages of 5 and 17 is shown | to be 4463, an increase of eighty-one ‘The “First Regiment Emergency Hospital’| number of children in Alameda'under Friday with a can of condensed milk. 17 years is 5702. There are 3275 chil- The lady evidently aimed at some- dren attending the public schools, 340 body else, for the can caught lh}auending private schools and 828 chil- medico under the eye and drew blood dren of census age who are not at- copiously. Luckily none of the cou-;tending any school. densed milk was spilled. The hospital | is located In the basement of St.. Paulus Lutheran Church at Gough| I Cruelty Charged in Divorce suit. OAKLAND, May 12.—Suit, for di- because she showed kindness t0,ground of cruelty. pected of insanity. pital. |the hospital discontinued. | treatment of her. and Eddy streets. Miss Smith says: vorce was begun yesterday by Freda|W. Deitz, who is not quite 20 years of Dr. Smith laid violent hands on her | Becker against Phillip Becker on the |age and who was married in Oakland REQUESTS " SUFFERERS TOASSIST Mayor Issues Proclama- fion fo These Whe Are Homeless. Directs Tl;l;fl—l o Move fo Camps Provided by M_iljtary. ~|These Who Refuse Work JULU WITGH DOGTORS SACRIFICE CHILOREN Will Not Be Given Any Relief. 15 K WAR MERSURE | ... oo e . o Angint Warriors With a “Medicine™ " Cdncocted From the Bodiss of Victims. Claim It Wil| Render Them Immune From the Bullets of the British Troops. Thousands of Natives Marching Join the Force of the Rebel Chief Bambaata. to DURBAN, Natal, May 12.—Thou- samds of Zulus from Chief Kula’s kraal are reported to be on their way to join the rebel chief Bambaata and colonial troops are being hurried forward to prevent their junction. Chief Kulua, who is suspected of disaffection and was recently arrested, was placed in jail at Pletermaritzburg this morning. It is presumed that it was the arrest of this chief that led to the rising of his followers. . Natives captured by the colonial forces report that the witch doctors are sac- rificing their children to render the rebels immune from British bullets. Before a battle they kill a girl and concoct “medicine” from her body, with which the witch doctors anoint the warriors under the pretense that it renders them invulnerabls to white men’s arms. —_————— | RAILROADS CEASE GRANTING O+ FREE TRANSPORTATION Also Abandon Depot Relief Stations Provided for California Refugees, { CHICAGO, May 12.—The railroads ceased granting free transportation to San Francisco refugees Thursday, the privilege expiring by limitation that night. All refugees hereafter will be dealt with individually by the Chicago Relief and Aid Soclety. Since the earth- quake the refugee committee of the Chicago Commercial Association has | cared for 2151 persons from San Fran- cisco. A majorily of these have been provided with clothing, meals and transportation to other points. : The | giving of free meals at the railway | stations is also ended. Hereafter each individual case will be nvestigated. ——————— Pays Indemnity to Missions. HONGKONG, May 12~The Viceroy of Canton has paid to the American Consul at Canton, Julius C. Lay, the sum of $60,000 as indemnity for the, mission buildings, the personal prop- erty of the missionaries and the claims of converts as a result of the destruction of property during the rioting at Lienchow in Oectober last. The money will be transferred to the Presbyterian mission settlement at Lienchow. I L ST S Married Under Age. Frank E. Deitz, the father of Edwin lowing proclamation to the fire suf- férers who are homeless and Uving In tentss “The United States army under the direction of Major General Greely Is endeavoring in every way possible to previde proper accommodations for the |housing and feeding of those who ars destitute. General Greely has there- fore directed that In order to secure greater efficlency in this work that those who are homeless be congregated in as few camps as possible. There are many of our homeless campad on vacant lots, on hillsides and other places, separated from the large camps ‘which are supervised by an officer of the Unifed States army. The sanftary conditlon of these small camps is not. and cannot be, properly cared for. As can be readily understood, the Ilarge camps, such as Golden Gate Park, Presidio reservation and those at the foot of Van Ness avenue and at the Potrero, have the best of sanitary conditions and are arranged im such a manner as tc give the best nossible results. Therefore, all those ifving In tents separated from the large camps are requested and directed to imme- diately move when ordered to de so either by the mllitary authoritles og the police and to take up their living quarters In one of these large camps supervised by the proper military an- thoritles. “It has been decided that the Dest way of doing charity Is to help peeaple to help themselves, and, therefore, any able-bodied men who can securs werk and refuse to do so will not be housed and fed at the expense of the commu- nity. There will, undoubtedly, be werk enough for all those wanting some, and preference will be given to those ‘who lived in San Francisco before the fire. “7i'he attention of the public is called to the fact that in a very short time the supplies on hand will be exhaust- ed. These suppiles were and are in- tended for thoss in absolute distress only. Unfortunately, it has been re- ported that there are men and women mean enough to take supplies intended for the destitute when they have plenty of their own, and, worse still, to stand in line for their supplles and to keep repeating this act in order that they may collect large quantities of same for their own gain. I have directed the Police Department to keep a careful watch for those committing this dastardly crime and, when detect- ed in the act, to have them prosecuted for obtalning goods under false pre- tenses. Those receiving supplles, as well as others, are hereby requested to kindly inform the Police Department of any breach of the law in this regard that comes to their notice. “Again I say to those In need, kesp up your spirits and determination to help the authorities Iin helping you. and let us upon all occasions extend 10 our brother man the same kind feel- ing and assistance that we would ex- given, be declared null and void. pect under like conditions to bde e They were mar-|on May 7, filed a suit in the Superior (. jeq to us. Adolph Neustadt, an aged man sni-;rled in Berkeley in June, 1904, and|Court Friday asking that the bonds Rev. G. A. Bern-; she says that her life almost from |of matrimony between his son and Jo- thal, pastor of the church, will have] the first was made miserable by his|sephine Deitz, as the bride’s name i3 E. E. SCHMITZ, Mayor.” —————— One can usually tell what a womaa aims at by what she misses