The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1906, Page 6

ALL VPropri;tror Manager | ANCISCO, A SAN FRANCISCO C JOHN D. SPRECKELS JOHN McNAUGHT STRE West 9! "+ ...... 1016 BROADW ...Oakland 1083 TEMPORARY OFFICE . Phone { Phone i | MAY 17, 1806 | OUR OWN CIRCUMLOCUTION OFFICE. cisco at present is suffering from a malignant epidemic - at one time became so bad in English that exposed it as the “Circumlocution so thoroughly that he laughed it out | | 1 ywels, | does work for the Relief Committee, say | hen he has finished he is told to call in | I \ 1is requisition on the Finance Committee so that ges. He calls, obtains his requisition and he has his money. But he is laboring under | 1s nothing of the sort. He has only begun to get | out when he secures them—if he does— | wuch work drawing his pay as he did in | wa ot tha king that juisition is simply a time check and as such should be preser 1 at the disbursing office. It is its own at the work has been performed, and when signed by its That is all that is necessary, and is com- ess procedure. But some official hair-splitting martinet ed otherwise. The workman takes his requisition to the} School building and is there informed by the clerk that sition is useless without a notification from the foreman rocker School, 2 mile or so distant, that the requisition issued. Curious. So back he trudges over the steep hills,i an empty stomach, for the notification. Here he is| his notification has not yet been made out, but that tub will be sent to the Hamilton School “tomorrow.” | need that money sorely. He may want to go into the to work in the harvest fields and orchards, for he has place in the city and is destitute. He may be weak from No matter. He has to wait the pleasure of the circum- locution office. He spends on ts own receipt. st the C has been perhaps on at the next day chasing down that notification. Per- | appropriation FOR BIG SHIP Appropriation for Giant War Vessel Remains in the Naval Bill. Final Action to Be Taken Today on Measure Car- rying $100.000.000. WASHINGTON, May 16.—The naval bill, carrying nearly $100,000,000, was completed today In the House after one of the busiest days of the present Congress. The feature of the day’s debate grew out of the attempt to defeat the ap- propriation’ for the largest battleship of its class in the world, and the tenor of the speeches for the big ship was that the American republic must be abreast of the nations of the world in the strength of her navy. The op- ponents talked for peace, disarmament and arbitration, and insisted that there was no national need of such a large navy. The amendment introduced by Bur- ton of Ohio to strike.out the appro- priation for a rival to the English Dreadnaught was defeated, as was the amendment leaving the construction of the battleship to the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy after the second Hague conference. A final vote on the bill will be taken tomorrow. Williams of Mississippl, the minor- | ity leader, In opposing the battleship appropriation, satirically suggested an | amendment that in view of the Brit- ish having decided to name their .sea monster Dreadnaught, the American sea monster be named “Skeered o' Nothin’” as being typical of the na- tional spirit; that on its completion the captain in command be authorized to challenge the Dreadnaught to a duel l'outrance (to the death), and that the President and his Cabinet, with the exception of the Secretary of Agriculture, who is a non-combat- ant, be invited to places on the quar- terdeck as evidences of the strenuous life; the sea fight to take place at New- port. The amendment was ruled out of Yar h it and o a < ps he gets it and p erh.:ps_hc does not. The chances are he does e Tl WA i our ¥ not. When he finally runs it down (if he has strength enough left | House, had a good deal of fun out nh ” dv H 1 3 H of it. his starved bo y to run it down) he presents it at the Hamilton rves: o Dalitints oReAa School a gives it to the clerk. Here it is registered, docketed, |amendment providing that any »id for leted, inscribed, chronicled, sent back somewhere to be rubber-|ihe construction of any of the vessels forwarded to some other office to be approved, and approved—perhaps. When it is given him (if he is still| present to some paymaster somewhere or other, and if the r's office is not closed for the day, he may: get his money— B I need the money—I am starving!” pleaded a gaunt and at the Hamilton School a day or so ago.: “I wered the clerk. “I have my orders and cannot And’ the man walked out of the office with de- ce. responsible for all this absurd red tape? What in his dense skull? What is his name? Who Where is he? Is he in San Francisco, or is he ma with dreamy eyes contemplating the universe from fty peak in the Himalayas? What does he mean by all this hat is h locution Office red tape is an abomination. More, e men have worked hard piling bricks, hauling away buting supplies from wagons and tents, and are en- ir money when their work is done. It is unintelligent to make a man work a week chasing down his wages eding week, with a fair chance of fainting in his tracks re he gets his money. REDUCING CITY EXPENDITURES. The public will not be apt to find fault with the Board of Public or cutting down its expense estimates some $1,500,000 dur- e coming year. Retrenchment and economy are the rule now i will be for months to come. Private corporations and business houses have been obliged to reduce expenses in all possible ways, and there is no reason why the municipality should be exempt from the general rule. Those city employes who will be laid off, temporarily least, will naturally find their new lines less agreeable and re- munerative, but there are thousands of others in the same situation. In fact, it is the exception to find any person in San Francisco who has not suffered in some form or other by the catastrophe. It will all work out right in the end. THE CALL'S MARKET REPORTS. In answer to inquiries from different parts of the State regard- ing the publication of the regular daily market reports i The Call we may state that all quotations made in this market every day are published by The Call. Thus far not many lines of trade have been resumed, but as fast as they are their prices will reappear, as before the fire. The same careful attention will be given them as before and the commercial superiority of The Call over all competitors will be maintained. Within the next fortnight all branches formerly quoted will probably be re-established. FAVORS BILL PROVIDING FREE OF DUTY BUILDING FOR AIDS TO NAVIGAT!ON! MATERIAL DEMANDED Such a Concession, 8ay Property Own- ers, Would Be Remarkable Stim- House Committee on Interstate Com- merce Indorses Measure Carrying Appropriation of $1,300,000. ulus Toward Reconstruction. WASHINGTON, May 16, — The| Deputy Customs Collector N. S. Far- House committee on mterstate and|ley said yesterday that a downtown forelgn commerce today authorized a | Property owner had called on him for . 'y A | information respecting an article in favorable report on an omnibus bill | OTEEUCR, FESPECing an article in | i upon the Pacific Coast shall have a differential of 4 per cent in its favor, which shall be considered by the Sec- retary of the Navy in awarding con- tracts for the construction of such vessels, and it was adopted, ayes 78, noes 76. Rixey of Virginla presented an amendment limiting the cost of armor plate to $380 a ton. The amendment was defeated, 58 to 118. BELIEVES MUNICIPALITY SHOULD BUY THE PRESIDIO David B. James Suggests the Bullding of a Model Industrial SCity on the Military Reservation. Editor Call: I do not think this is the time for vislonary suggestions of beau- tifying the ‘“‘Greater San Francisco” to be. What we need is practical ideas and action now. I belleve our total loss will approximate a billlon. Many losses have not been considered. There is the realty that may not be rebullt upon for a long time that will be taxed to the owner without the taxes are rescinded until bulldings are erected and ready for oc- cupancy. For the last three years gam- bling in real estate has been a craze. It reached the limit of inflation. Specu- lative profits were reinvested and more money borrowed from the banks. The question is, have they protected their de- positors? Store rents have been so ex- cessive that but few in business made more than their expenses, while some had to eat their stock to keep.up. The cost of buillding material doubled, wages increased and a building boom was on while 15,000 houses and stores were va- cant. It was unwarranted, but it created a fickle era of prosperity. The Inevit- able crash was in sight when it was an- ticipated by our crushing calamity. That the man with the hoe will have to pay for it all to the last cent is irrefutable, but he will live, If the city could buy the Presidio military reservation from the Govern- ment and make a model industrial city and lease lots only to occupants at $25 per year, and have co-operative stores and other trades established, it would release our industrial class from the slavery of house rents. The time is ap- proaching when the fight for existence will have to follow the most economlc lines to win out. I could suggest many things that would be of great benefit to this city, but this article is already too long. DAVID B. JAMES. San Frinclsco, May 16. s FORMER WEALTHY MAN SEEKS SHELTER OF THE POORHOUSE Allows His Property to Slip Through His Hands While Working on Revision of the Bible. CHICAGO, May 16.—Willlam Hedrick, a pioneer citizen of Madison County and once the largest land owner in the State, was yesterday admitted to the friendly shelter of the poorhouse. Years ago, when Hedrick was rich, he got the idea that the Bible had been purposely made mysterious, and he set about to revise it. This work absorbed him completely, and for years his busi- ness was neglected and his property slipped through his hands. He had set- |tled his sons on fine farms, and they | offered to care for him In his old age, but he refused, saying that it would be no imposition on the country if he went | to the poorhouse, since he had once been |its heaviest taxpayer. —_— YANKEES GIVE THEIR AID | TO A BRITISH VICE CONSUL | carrying between twenty and twenty-|ing a movement té have Congress re- | five pr t ids to navigation,”|bate the duty on steel, concrete and | gan Diegans Petition for Release St s apprepriation of | Other bulldin;: materials to be imported | > P il B R s s excess of $1300.000,| OF the rebuilding of San Francisco, | it z xcess -#00.000- | santa Rosa and other cities. He told at Ensena he provisions are: | Farley that if such a rebate should be SAN DIEGO, May 16.—Regarding n at Makapuu Point, | allowed he would at once start in to| the imprisonment of J. H. Packard at of Oaku, Territory of Hawaii, | Pulld a2 permanent building of the A|Bnsenada a large number of business class instead of a temporary one, | which he had planned for two years. Other property owners came in during the day and expresed similar opin- lons. One said that if such a rebate were in effect he could save $50,000 on a permanent building which he intend- ed to construct. He added that the adoption of such t station and range lights $40,000; fog sig- to harvor at Humboldt lightkeepers’ dwell- Cal., $5500; iy station near Point Cabrillo, . 00; light vessel for use of the mouth of Columbia River, at Honc Oregon, $130,000; lightkeepers’ dwell- | a rebate would be a remarkable stim- ing at Robinson Point, State of Wash- | ulus toward the rebuilding of the| ington, $5000; fog signal at Edizhook | burned district. But he feared that| Light station, State of Washington, | the oppositicn of the steel trust would | $10,000; new tender rfor inspection |defeat the measure. service in the Thirteenth Lighthouse g or — district, $110,000, in addition to the un- expended balance of $40,000 for the repair of the tender Manzanilla to be applied on the new tender It’s as easy for most women to be good good as it is for some men to be no fo | men of this city sent the following | telegram to the British Consul General | in Mexico City today: | “We, the undersigned, business men | of San Diego, regardless of nationality, respectfully petition for your best ef- forts in securing the immediate release from confinement or admission to ball, which can be furnished in any amount, of British Vice Consul J. H. Packard | of Ensenada. Papers cannot reach Mexico for several days. Packard’s case purely technical. This enforced confinement is working gross injustice upon Packard.” PR R A Townsend’s California. Glace Fruit r sale at his residence, 1220 ‘Valencia| street. * THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1906. HOUSE VOTES | o SHINES RE S VIR enpaeaiT. 1535, BY THE MEW YOI EVERisd TELERRAN G55 GIVES FULL TRUTH OF THE SITUATION IN AN FRANCISCO Statement Compiled for Distribution by the Califor: Promotion Committee. Many Thousands of Copies /ill Be Sent Broadcast by the City’s Business Men. The following statement giving the exact conditions in San Francisco, and compiled by the Califorria Promotion Committee, will be distributed so as to reach the largest number of persons outside of San Francisco. The commit- tee has ordered to be printed thou- sands of copies of this statement, which will be furnished to business men, who will senid coples with their regular mail to all corretpondents: On April 18, 1906, San Francisco ex- perienced an earthquake, followed by a disastrous fire of four days' duration, which swept over four square miles of densely populated area. The earthquake did some damage to modern building of the higher type is not affected by seismic disturbance. The disastrous effects of the fire were appalling, the loss running into the hun- ance of possibly two hundred millions, All of these millions and more will seek reinvestment. Fortunately the water front was not seriously damaged and the vast shipping through the finest harbor in the world was but little disturbed. Many manufac- turing plants and a large section of the residencee district of the city remained intact. Within a few days after the catastro- phe street cars were running on several streets and on Market street as far as the ferry. This trafic was extended day by day untll now it is fast approaching normal conditions. At 8 o'clock on the afternoon of April 18 a citizens’ committee was organized for relief and for the regular business of the city. This provisional government by committees worked in admirable har- mony with the Mayor and Federal au- thorities and at once developed an or- derly and wonderfully efficlent plan of operation, The health conditions remained won- derfully good. At no time was an epi- demio threatened. The loss of life was comparatively small, many a minor ca- tastrophe in receent history «having re- sulted much more disastrously in this respect. Business confidence remained unshak- en after the disaster, and the banks all demonstrated thelr solidity. At no time was a panic threatened. Before the ashes cooled wholesale and retail trade was resumed in original places where the bulldings remained and In temporary structures -in cases where the buildings had been burned. The people of San Franclsco, million- aires and wage earners, refugees and | householders, showed a spirit of forti- tude and optimism probably unequaled In the history of the world. 8an Francisco is now in course of re- construction; the debris is rapidly being removed and the hum of Industry has isupplanted the roar of the flames. Th ablding results of the fire will be wider streets, more imposing edifices, larger parks and a complete fire-fighting sys- tem which will utilize the waters of the ocean. The real estate market weather- ed the storm and shows great actlvity. San Francisco is the city of opportu- nity. The vast fertile country back of it promises the yleld of an exceptionally good year's crop. The chance for busi- ness investment is magnificent; Eastern and local money will be poured In freely while the rebuilding progresses. ‘The history of all such events as that which has just transpired proves that the ulti- mate result is a general improvement in conditions and a vast increase in com- munity wealth. poorly constructed bulldings, but it was ! demonstrated beyond & doubt that the! dreds of millions of dollars, with insur- | ‘dtower. STOREKEEPERS GET NEW JOBS Collector Stratton Looks After Men Burned Out of Positions. Finds Them Other Work Until Warehouses Are Rebuilt. Owing to the destruction of many United States bonded warehouses by of employment, and Customs Collector Stratton at once took steps to retain the men in the Customs service wher- ever he could find an opening. The six were George H. Fletcher, A. H. Meussdorffer, W. L. Courtwright, Charles J.c Comyns, M. Lipowitz and J. W. Stapleton. Fletcher was offered {and accepted a minor position paying 1$1200 per annum-—$200 less than storekeeper’s salary—formerly held iby T. M. Belton, deceased. Messrs. Comyns and Lipowitz accepted posi- tions as messengers at $1100 per an- num. Stapleton haughtily and in- dignantly rejected with scorn a like { offer. He called the Collector's 'attention to the quantity and quality of the “influence” which had been massed in his behalf when he first became an applicant for a Custom-house job. The Collector remembered, but was not at all dismayed, and despite the vast influence at Stapleton's beck and call declined to discharge some $1400 or $1500 man to give that influential personage a job. The others have not yet been heard from. Colector Stratton said yesterday that it was his intention to reinstate the storekeepers as soon as ware- houses are built and in operation. He expects that one will be ready inside of two weeks. Don R. Jacks, night inspector, was appointed yesterday to the position of port of San Luis Obispo and Port Harford, and departed at once to as- sume his duties there. Collector Stratton reports the cash receipts for duties since the earth- quake and fire to be as large as at any other equal time during the year, the volume and value of the import business not having decreased by rea- son of the calamity. The value of checks recelved for duty was $240,000, all of which have been converted into gold coin. A cargo of oplum arrived on the Manchuria a few days ago, and the duty on the drug has been estimated in round numbers at $250,000. —_— e — OREGON NOBLY RESPONDS TO THE APPEAL FOR AID Webfoot State Has Sent to San Fran- clsco $261,032 In Cash Since April 18. PORTLAND, May 16.—The donations of the Oregon general relief fund for the ald of the San Francisco fire sufferers now aggregeate $251,032, all paid in. :Since April 18 Portland has shipped 184 carloads of supplies to San Francisco, and the Southern Pacific Company has carried over its Oregon lines free of charge 457 cars of relief goods. e New Weather Station. | SAN JOSE, May 16.—Local Weather ' Observer O'Connell 'has been author- ized by the bureau at Washington to re-establish the local station in the postoffice bullding as soon as the lat- ter is repaired. He will occupy the fire six storekeepers were thrown out} al Deputy Collector for the new sub- of o MARSELEENO IR | IN FINDING PLACES FOR WORKING WOMEN EETS DIFFIOLT | | | | Every Effort on Behalf of Unemployed Females. of Town to Fill Positions Offered. is having some difficulty in placing the' women who have been thrown out of | work, It has been found necessary| to send many of them out of town in order to find them positions. A party of women left for Angeles last evening. The men’s Parliament of Southern Cali-| fornia has arrawged to receive them | and care for them until they are placed in private families. One of the workers from the association has been | sent to hunt up country positions. It/ is hoped that many women may find employment working in the fruit or-| ! chards or in the country homes. Many | ! women have registered for hotel work. { The bureau is prepared to fill orders for | summer resorts or hotels. | The sewing machines and a stock of dry goods have been delivered at the Hearst School, Fillmore and Hermann | streets. A number of organizations | have offered help in the work of mak- | Los Wo- | | { ing clothing for those who were burned | out. | Fourteen rooms in.the Hearst School have been assigned to different socle- ties. The members of these organiza- tions have been eager to help and seem delighted to find this opportunity to aid the many destitute people whom they find in the various camps. When all these women get to work this sew- ing center will be about the busiest | place in the city. LAST HOPE OF CHICAGO TRACTION INTERESTS GONE Supreme Court’s Denlal of a Rehearing Makes the Victory of the City | the petition of the Chicago traction com- panies for a rehearing of the case SO sweepingly decided against them last March, yesterday destroyed the last hope of the street-railway interests in the lite igation over the ninety-nine year fran- chises. Immediately both the efty and the trac- tion officials began to plan for the new conditions. The news was hardly an hour old before conferences had been arranged and calculations begun based cn the possibility of making new arrange- ments, under final and definite relations, between the companies and ‘the eity. Further action rests with Judge Gross- cvp, who will shape the final decree and rule on minor points. pam i hudr S T ISERET EFFORT TO RUN THE RAPIDS ARSELERNG L0 Red Cro:- Employment Bureau Using Many of Them Are Being Sent Out| The Red Cross Employment Bureau | | The latter exp SES RICHES THROUGH WAR fmfldw Consular Service in P Detained at Ellis Island as He Is Without Any Means. NEW YORK, May 16.—Don Em- manuel Contravas y Crooke, for more than thirty years, a member of the | Spanish consular service, holding ap- pointments at Athens, Peking. Glas- | gow, Amoy and Alglers, is detained |at Ellis Island. He has relatives in | the vicinity of New York, but Immi- gration Commissioner Watchorn got a letter from some ope saying thac the old man was a pauper and would probably become a public charge If permitted to land. He arrived here last Friday om the Buenos Ayres from Cadiz and toid the immigration authegities that his sister-in-law lived in Jegsey City ar-l that he had come to pay her a visi . After that he wanted to go to Peking. where his daughter llves. He was not told that the letter sa: - ing he was poor had been receive i at Ellis Island. No one had the hear: to do that, so Don Emmanuel remai there wondering if the letter he wro > to his sister-in-law went astray. A courtly man is Don Emmanu-l | and once he was wealthy. But he says his country's struggle against the United States caused him to lcse h s fortune, and when he reached New York he had only $40 In his posses- sion. But that was sufficient, Lo ! thought, to meet his modest needs. At first he was placed in one of tha pens along with a crowd of negro s i from the West Indies, Russians s ' pected of being anarchists and others from Europe whose police records a-e such that they will have to go bari to lands from which they came. Bit Commissioner Watchorn caused the white-haired old man to be removcd to a separate room, and there he s''s awaiting he knows not what. In his pockets Don Emmanuel car- ries letters that he prizes highly. One is an invitation from the King of Spain asking his company at dinner. Another is a letter from Queen Victo | ria, and a third is from former Pres! | dent Loubet of the French republie The Spanish Consul General has in | terested himself in the case of Don Emmanuel and will endeavor to raise sufficient money to send him to Pekihg to his daughter. —a——— TELLS BAY STATE PE_PLE OF CALIFORNIA'S GRATITUDE Western Representative of Massachu- setts Association Guest of Honor at Boston Banguet. BOSTON, May 16.—Jacob Furth of Seattle, who has been representing the Massachusetts Association for the relief of California in San Francisco, was the guest of honor at a banquet given by the association at the New Algonquii Club last night. There 1 150 persons present. | Giuld and Mayor John Fitzge Mr. Furth were the Lieutenant E. S. Draper presid Governor Guild and Mayor Fi ald emphasized the association’s ap- preclation of the work done by Furth. ed his gratitude on behalf of the stricken Californians fco the work done by Massachusetts. He said that there was pressing need for more money to care for the sick and poor and to feed the unemployed ple for a period of about six mont In conclusion Furth said: “The spirit of progress and energy - which has always been man.fested b the people of San Franclsco has not waned during this terrible disate:. They are facing to the front and ben ing every energy to rebuild, their ¢ and make it a finer and better metro olis than ever before. And I know \ will all do everything in our power io encourage them and aid them in the'r work."” TEEEE | FIFTY THOUSAND JAPANESE TROOPS MARCH IN REVIEW/ Trophies of the War With Russa Placed on Exhibition in Palace at Tokio. VICTORIA, May 16.—The steamship Tango brought news that the day prior to her departure from Yokohama military review, in which 50.000 troops teok part, was held at Tokio. All the | 8uns, swords, flags and other trophics of the war with Russta were on exhi- bitlon before the imperial palace. The review was one of the greatest held in Japan and was followed with a ban- quet, to which 6000 were Invited by the Emperor. The Japanese Govern- ment has decided to erect a tourist ho- P e . a Supreme| [¢] COSHINg $1.500.000 at Tokio as a na- A 3 ay 5.—" Court of the United States, by denying| LoBal venture for the encouragement of tourist travel. Similar national ho- tels will follow at other cities. *x Bread Lines Diminishing. WASHINGTON, May 16.—Dr. Ed- ward T. Devine, Red Cress representa- tive in San Francisco, reports that requisitions for supplies have been re- duced to 164,000 a day. Restaurants are serving 15-cent meals throughout the city. Aid for the cfi‘hn Advocate. FATAL TO BIG STEAMSHIP Coast Christian St e asheiie | Selkirk, In Charge of Noted Northern Spokane Firm Gets Contract. Navigator, Strikes Rock In Danger- ous Passage. SEATTLE, May 16.—The steamship Selkirk, on her way from Wenatchee and in charge of Captain C. C. Griggs, the noted river navigator, was wrecked In an attempt to run the Rock Island rapids at 7 o'clock this morning. The officers, ]asw and the few passengers escaped ; Without great difficulty, save in making la lyanding in the vessel's boats. The vessel was lande@® high on a rock, and steps will probably be taken to save her. ————ee Swedish Ministers Resign. STOCKHOLM, May 16.—Foreign Minister Trolle and War Minister Tingsten have resigned. More Comfortable in the Country. Then why keep the family in the city this summer in the discomfort and dust of rebuilding? The Southern -Pacific is making low, long-time lon rates to summer resorts from San and bay points. Ask the agent. - 2ol Cupid’s Right-Hand Man le Dead. HAMILTON, Ohlo, 18. SnLsSLien couples died here today.