The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1906, Page 1

PHONE: WEST 956. TEMPORARY OFFICE ; THE SAN FRANCISGO CALL 'I 1051-53 FILLMORE ST. : { | CHINDLER | DESCARES NTERVIEW Tells of His Talk With + the President on the | Rate Bill. Statement Given Out by Senator Tillman With | His_BuEem. Says Mr. Roosevelt De- nounced Knox, Spoon- | er and Foraker. ces the t made prior to d sig by Mr. Chandler. d he would give & por- at stateme relating to the! f Mr. Chandler with the March 31—which had b&-i matter of dispute—but he remainder for use | er parts of his statement e Senate on Saturday should be| lowing is the portion of Mr. statement given out by Mr. urday, March 81, 1806, a e came into my office and e White House conference in which an understanding ter court review had been Senator Long and others, that the President inte communication with and would shortly ask d see him. While he was talking a messenger boy arrived! etter to me from Mr. Loebd, as he White Houss, Washington, | @darch 31, 1006—My Dear Senator Chandler: The President requesth me go say that he would be glad to have u came to the White House to see im at 6:30 o'clock tonight. Will you plesse let the bearer know whether can come? Very tn yours, ILLIAM ¥. LOEB, JR. ““Hon, W, E. Chandler, 1421 I street. v CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT. | “I told the messenger I would be! there. At the time and place appointed the President said to me that he wished through me to get into communication Mr, Tiiman, Mr. Bailey and oth-| aocratic Senators. He stated his | e slowly and carefully, and in exact substance his statement was this: he had reached the conclusion’ ation was to expressly grant a review, put to distinctly limit it %0 two points; first, an inquiry whether [ the Interstate Commerce Commission | 2ad exceeded its authority, and, sec-| , &n inquiry whether the constitu- rights of the carrier had been“ . He said that he had been, oubled by the advocacy of an review by some law-/ - ete, naming Senators| er and Foraker, as trying t the bill by ingenious | arguments, but that he a complete disagreement He made this point em-| repetition, and said that he| s far and no farther, and ion would be unaiterable. ICIII Senate among the friends! ers ) that it could be surely !proper wearing urious amendments, | Edoff spoke to the ) us Republican Sen- | cBmwm pastor of the First Congregational aought, were true clargyman made announcement of the but said that it|fact to the congregation. In twenty-four all_the Democratshours 169 nightrobes 5 e S P n members of Continued on Page 2, Column 4. sent to Fort Mason =R OAKLAND OFFICE THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL 1016 BROADWAY. I Business Office Phone: Oakland 1083. Editorial Rooms Phone: Oakland 7466. PRICE FIVE CENTS NORMAL SUPPLY OF WATER IS RES FOR THE UNBURNED DISTRICT. Broken Pipes Show Ho == ORED REVEALS | THE FATE OF GAPON w Earthquake Left City to Doom it s, e, MILITARY FORGES ARE CONGENTRATING THE FIRE. REFUGEES Ing Together Horde of Former San Franciscans. | Army Officers Commence Work of Bring- | Nearly 18,000 Persons Are Being Cared For by the Oakland Rellef Committee. Rations to Supply This Number for | Seven Days Now in Hands of ibutors. D! OAKLAND, M 13.—Concentra- ; tion of the refugees in this city under direction of mzrded by Major e geex ley to a camp of their countrymen at| the west ‘T'he Willows, a day. on Lake Merritt. Army being applied firml discretion. Refugees |tors who are posing as deserving ones are being weeded out at the rate of 200 ] It Er The to wi tary forces com- win, U..S. A, has camp at Beulah Adams Point, . the and the Chinese refu- 11 be transferred In camp and in private homes the total toldlay of persons are 18,963, according to’ reports from Msnjor Erwin's assistants. There is food enough Ir sight for seven days’| rations for this number. - Of the $114,000 by the Oakland in money received relief committee | 350,000 came frqm San Franéisco. As high as 40,000 persons dally have been fed by the rellef committee here. This does not cover the quantity of other supplies handled for the benefit of the refugees. The rellef committee will continue itg organization as long as funds and The executive work has been largely concentrated in the hands of an executitve committee composed of J. P..Bdoff. A..J. Snyder, Eo! Kahn and James P. Taylor. R e ek ik i supplies hold out. GREAT-HEARTED WOMEN SEND ROBES TO MATERNITY HOSPITAL for Garments Quickly Answeréd by Malds and Matrons of Congrega- tional Church. OAKLAND, May 13.—J. P. Edoff of the hurch of this city. Hospital, n Hospil Oakiand Relief Committee In conversa- tion with surgeons at the Fort Mason Maternity learned that there were eighty-five moth- there who were San Franciseo, unprovided with apparel ' for~"the “night. Rev. Charles R. rom hig pulpit the been madc. church, and shore of regulations are but with much or rather impos- dependent upon rellef surplies for food is 19,000 | in round numbers. | Pilarcitos main. The_exact-figures IN FRONT OF THE HEADQUARTERS THE CALL ESTABL ISHED ON FILLMORE STREET. Body Said to Be That of Missing Priest Discovered. pound in Lonely Villa in Summer Suburb of Finiand, Men Who Rented House Gannot Be Located by the Police. ST. PETERSBURG, May 13.—The | mystes the fate of Father Gapom apparently was cleared up today by the | aiscovery of a corpse which. has almost v been Identified as that of the er priest, hapging In the upper chamber of a lonely villa in the summer’ | suburb of Ozerki, Finland. The villa | wa pril $ and a deposit pald by an | unknown man from St. Petersburg. who, after vi suse several times in company with New York man. xing the key tor of the villa, appearance of the » police, who entered down a doer, they iy in a long coat teet touching on of” the face atfon difficult, but ed those of Gapom corresponded with missing labor leader. ms of strangulation appeared A | { at the | tenant, notified t Break' onfronted the made pos | the u and the that worn As the usual symp | wete ‘ubent, it s conjectured that theh | man .was killed elsewhere and his body | brought to the villa on the night of April |10 This would agree with the date of the execution of Gapon given in infor- | mation of the secret police and with the | death sentence of the former priest as |announced In recent dispatces from Ber- | lin. —_— RIS e DR. J. E. GARDNER SUFFERS LOSS OF VALUABLE LIBRARY [ His Collection of Chinese Books and Manuscript Goes Up In Smoke After the Earthquake. Dr. J. E. Gardner of the Chinese immi- | gration burean was a heavy loser in the recent conflagration. His home was des Stroyed by the flames, but his deepest ». o " 5 grief is over the loss of his library, the most complete of its kind in the world. Before the fire Dr. Gardner owned about | 4000 volumes some in English, many i the whole eonstituting & ri information for the student of UNEXPECTED WISIT & s Professor Freyer of the Uni California_bas _a valuable Chinese - ry, but the Freyer collection was far from being as complete as the Gardner 3 library, which was famous throughout the world among sgovernment ‘Absconding Ticket Agent of the Union|and students interested in the Ristory and literature of the Chinese. UG IR P N Sim 0t all ‘his treasures the only ome Dr. Francisco. - Gardner saved was the manuscript 3Mains and Reservoirs in Ruthless Track of Greai Fault That Runs Through the San Mateo Range of Hills. = : Spring Valley Water Company took a structing it fourteen years ago,, rhade of engineers, 5 newspaper men over his fhains and; Chief Engineer Schussler of ,the to the fact that Schussler, when con- of the earth .east of .the, fault. had and |t fexible, with slip joints, having xhe!block weést of the fault had slipped’ ‘After an absence of two years, the . 4 He has by i8¢ G, “The 1986 quaxe &d mo‘e"f,f"",’" and accurate !urv;n !haivme absconding ticket agent of the this time reorganized the system, and e 3 e prov LW e made, that it will. be found ty “ foy Netornd from the Orlent @ by today the supply of the city will be |strong for tha (R PRENIOF IR AN SORh Jea | fumal BRI S i was get- |repaired with a swivel joint, which, there was a slip of eight feet, however, . proportion to that it ting before April 18. That the water company. was put out e"‘;:l "’C 'b“l:l""s“;"" 3 . Bt sins bl stk sthe Al s of business.for a few. dayd ix: 16 lokker | e Crys! prings main was next : the opinien « ~the was. between | ¥ is afral was r a fi ql‘ge ‘sv"y enr{;‘-’ iine it Nekr.-Bagen the . 4i-itich’) the sedjmentacy, A_nd.nygdutona rm_m‘_‘ness circles, suddenly disappeared, and ! |jner Manchuria, 's d he a quake, evidently bent upon the destruc- pipe passed on a trestle over a marsh. | tlons. which. lle 'against each other for tion of the city, hit stralght from the|The trestle was completely shattered | miles along the hills, The ! at a score of piaces and the pipe ripped great fault which splits for miles the!open. The slip joints, however, saved | the sum taken was double that amount. 4 Bald Hill range in San Mateo passes a large part. The plpe for 1200 fect, ! South of the San Andreas reservoir | Bhdey tete i straight through the chains of reser-|although thrown ‘cleanoff' the- trestle . With an exactitude that is al-}and Iying on the road, was unbroken, | miles. It was along the eastern edge) gisaster, decided to revisit his former|gn.""h.t" has not even been offered to follows the great|and this gave Schussiér a valuable nu- n The main looks like cleus for the repairs. . The trestle is It is flattened out like'a burst|now rebuilt, the pipe agin Intdct upon | on.rete supports and knocked it back Was more sensational from the fact| S IWLRA CCCCRIS (hat his loss mignt wondered. at. telescoped, and in! The party then drove up on the Bald . Sy z | the furniture and disposed of the fam- ble jewelry. 'Frawley Gulch the’ trestle tipon which Hill ridge, which runs rorth and south! fi:i;fiv“‘,f,’“,’;’d‘;‘f.,c,?;;:',,,sfi:'}f,‘ ;fi‘:fi“uy‘s household goods. ab- thrown down the 'through San Matéo County. Along the g put'the dam itself does not show bursued by Vice In his looting were| ., . "y pixley has written a musioal creek a full twenty feet, as if by a backbone Of this ridge the company has j crack, a tribute to Pngineer Schuss- Peculiar, his position enabling him 10| omeqy based on his experiences playful cuff of some gigantic being. At Baden the San And The Crystal | passing over a marsh'on a. ntic dor latter fand cuts: through the lakes and exX-|ggreq fn the city reservoirs, and that Seen in Boston in company with 5s- | tends north aloag .the backbone of the ! b “the fire its and Fleischman, who robbed the Los An-|,, £ Ton Thecn Baid I rige, Nk a sisantic. furrow. | Tan ooy O A e Y Gy With. | geles banks two years ago. La Sorclerce” WIll Be Put on for the will comel . The fault was followed for eignt miles!in sixteen hours, -however, Schussler breaks have beeh repa The Pilapeitos ' n abandoned, : but- the wat into the oity through afotber main. PIPES ARE TORN AW The party met at Badén. T. It con- | Straight line that pays no attention 10| pajred the San Andreas pipeé at Baden. four sisted of Engineer Schussier, Professor | hill or dale or any of the topography.|Through this the College Hill reservoir, | The pnpe:tivuownér- on Polk and Lar- | tions of notab.e character at Ye Liberty | engineering At times It Is narrow as one furrow | gypplying the SouthiMission, was filled. | kin streets Frank Soule, dean of civi b ia; Pro- |Plowed up by giants. At other places | The Lake Honda reservolr, which had) ernoon at 1 o'elock at the corner of Turk : morrow evening will be La at the University of Call fessor 8. B. Christy, dean of the Col- | It is almost 500 feet wide, the ground lege of Mining Engineering at the same | between the .extremities.. being all{while and filled. as a / C. B. Wi 45 structural engineerxg !nlf J. B. Lippincott, &nj engineer of the United States fcal Survey, and Engineer Adams, the water system expert. The break at Baden was flrst exam- log- | gles. It stops I ined. There the big 44-inch main from the San Andreas reservolr passed over | most conclusive sij a marsh on a small trestle. 3 is. pipe had been torn apart at one point.| breaks in the pi That it was not worse injured is- The big | pened, and due | the party decl Chinese-English kdkufonar, upon 'h{:-h kes Advantage of the Recent Disaster | he has been working for many years. i "ga R"ur:'(°°m. Scene of Hlis cluded in the works destroyed were many ancient and valuable manuseripts which bt never can be replaced. But like ever yother loser in the re- § tly €h In A nce | cent holocanst, Dr. Gardner has 3 I B PP rance | his loss philosophically and in the warmth of his gratitude at the saving of hiS | Gictionary his sorrow over the destrués tion of his library is evaporating. Wk . and Shows the Wear of Travel In Foreign Climes. slipped south for efght feef, or that a 1 3 2 | £ * s ¢ AFRAID THE BIG FIRE lesson of the eartaquake of 1868 mfexht feét to the north; It is only by | formerly familiar face of “Billy™ Vice, DESTROYED MANUSCRIPT but ‘the’ pipe is mow | which of the two things occurred. That| terday in- this city. - Two years ago Seek Papers He Left at the Schussler says, will withstand a ‘shock | {s an established fact. Schussler, who | Vice, who was wéll. known throaghout] St. Francis Hotsi. 3 4 _| Frank Pixley, the playwright, whe re- knows that. country ithoroughly, is of the city in social, financial and busi-| Frask FUCEwn 08 BEETEL S on the i frerer by the big fire of April 18. Mrs. the Union Pacific officials nnnounccdlgxle! wgm = SN that he had.robbed the company of|in the Far East, 's also worrying about more than $6000. It is believed that|what the fire might have done to the FURROW RUNS MANY MILES. | Jewelry and clothes she left at the St. Pixley left in the St. Francis’ safe the ithe fault could be followed.for many | .Vice, taking advantage of the recent manuscript of a new musical comedy. iof the‘lakes most of the time, 'but cut b it home. any one vet. He is afraid this child of ' through them inpldces. Tt'struck the ’ his 1 ‘as cremated and Mrs. Pixley n Andreas earth dam at one of the | Vice's disappearance and exposure |l ux‘\’;?ngse:oulh to add to her husband’s in it and made flexible With swivel Joints, geyan or eight feet, as It with a blow that It occurred the day after RI8 | oenaps be the public gain. at a score of .places it has been 'and. yesterday the water was running. idnuxhler‘s wedding. Not only did he Mrs. Pixl s troubles of her owm. jerked longitudinally il the-open ends: through it. stralghl trom the, ShoulQi, tHe; reat bty o e s gape at each other eight feet apart; at| points it is mulct his employers, but he forged his| however. for she left at the St e L wife’s name to a chattel mortgage on ! five well filled trunks and a lotjot FAULT TRAVERSES LAKES. . jfault makes right for the immense con- -l The Pixicys have beem fn the fThe methods| ThS T onths. During his i a series of lake reservoirs, the principal |epr's constructive ability. | rob emigrants and poor péople of their | japan. When where or by whom it a8 main was 0f which are the San Andreas and| £ the ti f the -eafthquake the|return ticket to foreign parts and ell- |be produced Pixley does pot Tings main, | Crystal Springs, and which extend|soting Valley reservelrs were pouring | Ing them to others desiring to leave on a trestle, was north and south for some twenty miles. | 36 60,000 gallons a day' into the city.| the country. thrown clean off it for ‘1300 feet and The earthquake fault is right along& The earthquake stopped every quart of | Vicé first fled to Honduras, but word lay upon the road -iil nameol(hecomedyhuw.h ed. his chai t skirts the eastern shore: ived it had en | B HARDT WILL APPEAR 5 chidln STt Ak stern shores, ynae Eighty millon gallons were Was later received that he bee: N FOUR PRESENTATIONS i~ Vice has changed greatly in appear- ° Openina Pm":-;:n :‘: Yo |north of the San Andreas reservoir. It pad 7,000,000 gallons flowing in from | ance, having lost considerable weight. -, "-'E"';.. R runs almost north and south, in a{pake Merced, Kollowing that he re-: e e B 2 OAKLAND. ¥y Madame hardt, the greatest of Property-Owners to Meet. Pt vl “‘E:" in l hold a mieeting this aft- | Theater this week. The ognn’ play to- ean Larkin streets, when proposed im- | (“The Sorceress”). ome sderve !m"; the | Provements along ' those thorcughfares | sul tudies in dramatic rendition. been -destroyed, . was. perb s ‘uesday even professor ~°g:p!ow‘ed up, but -there -belnfg no open |fire department. & -d'wll-l_fe'dld:u:! s PeLa T:l:: Wednesday i on : ¥ 3 S - 3 roduc = Camille,” and tantor Unl- Lclefl:: On' the fop of dne.of the Tlages| Yeaterday the water wis -Statt Alameda County are intact; minor re- Bicam— perfe on_Wednesday even- t the fault, having|and by evening: the University Mound 3 range to the noted woman's been broken by It and when It starte|reservoir was flled. . A pumplng. sta. finished, and this will add to the sup- Wife R85, 0 O L0 R W 'y -six again on the other side of the fault|tion is being bullt at R P e oL o blic. it is elght feet farther north: than ”'l n -c‘;eqtn, and this will supply At present 75,000,000 gallons are low- geats oan still be r?:wl by where it stopped. This was one of the m;::o gallons a day to the upper ing into the city daily, about one-half :lm l'?m: et 2 ding v > signs of what had hap- | Western fi:"%m&m of what was flowing before the nnh-. 'fl G A Bisnop "%o‘:’ uthe):om Lake Merced water. The|in the inhabited area, the situation "l‘."fi’fi"wm“" e Vo R RS SR ,:f AR e “ » fging |8 fence crossed,the fault at right an-fagain downthe" Grystal-Springs main pairs at their extremities will be soon mg will be “‘Sapho. The selection E 1