The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1906, Page 7

L 4 Rafirosts. Howard Hayden Com- | DERWRITERS " HOLD MEETING Issign NumbE]Ji Losses in Business Section to Adjusters. eprecate tfia_ Employment of Compromisers by Fire Victims, Adjusting Bureau Oakland, yesterday. The s were jerwr WANT REBATE ~ FOR RENTERS ‘Realty Board Suggests a Plan Favoring the Tenants. {Recommends That Tax on All Mortgages Be Re- scinded. The members of the San Francisco |Real BEstate Board, after a thorough | ! canvass, have approved of two rec- ommendtions before the directors of | | the board which have more than com- | mon Interest at this time. The first| is that landlords shall be requested to| of the representatives nterested in the losses A committee had been to investigate and e damages in the So- ounty town, but thut body had d its work and was unable complete findings yester- report of the commit- used as a basis for ad- > losses in Santa Rosa. of the general or- e Fire Underwriters’ the employment of policy holders to collect operations of profes- rs and adjusters were bureau has taken cog- pression that has at the underwriters are holders retaining er their interests. is declared by the in- Ise one, and T. the Fire Un- that the sed to deal relative to a2 Rosa. rs deprecate the em- y holders of a and compro- E profit off of discounts The bureau adopt- aring that the deal directly settling losses tors who are fears preferred ed In specu ing upon the iders. also decided to co- Commissioner g the names s who may oyed in the fire ng committee the following to Company, 1318-24 u Post street Taylor Company, 656 Bush street. any, 509 Howard Sixth e and Bat- ¢-20 O'Farrell 934-36 908-10 Company, i Lombard Bullwinkel, Inc., Market 524-26 Merket and Tenth street Company. Mission Company, 457-59 Mis- jon street. e, 1716-22 Mis- varfous locations. be- & Co., evenson street, 1 street, east of M rell street. Harbor Commissioners Sansome street. on, 24 Hotel, = Van ..ess avenue Cream Tartar Company, t Dupont_streets n, Foard & Co. 24-26 1384 Market street. Elevator Company, 207- et Company berg 411-15 Com- eckels, Stevenson street, and Fourth ng & Sons Company, 25- ont street Catholic Arch- St. Patrick’s reh Roman Saw Works, 208-12 Mission Foye, Fremont street, near southeast cor- t & Van Arsdale, 8of ner Stockton street and Union Square enve. Scott & & Van Arsdale, 637 Bush street. 300-12 Sutter 47-49 t & Van Arsdale, ited Cigar Stores Company, t street GRAPE-NUTS. Grape - Nuts A food made from elements especially selected for [} Brain Building. “There’s a Reason.” Company, iy and Powell streets. | pay back to tenants, pro rata, accord- | |ing to the time premises were actually | |occupied or for the time that it was | possible to occupy them, rent moneys | | that were pald in advance for the full} | month of April, 1906. The second is |that the committee considering mat- | | ters that should be included in a call [ror a speclal session of the California | Legislature shall be advised that it is the opinion of the real estate houses ©of the board that the mortgage tax on | real estate should be repealed. To ac- icompnlh this it will be necessary to amend the constitution of the State | of California. | President Howell of the Real Hstate | Board explains the reasons that are |back of these recommendations. He |sald yesterday that it was but just,| considering the circumstnces that de- | prived tenants of the full use of prop- | erties that they had pald rent for| | the entire month of April, that there| should be a rebate for that part of the period that has elapsed since the| morning of April 18 on premises that were rendered unsafs by earthquake |or by fire. He hoped, and such was | the wish of the real estate men in the | Real BEstate Board, that the landlords | would adopt this view and that they would refund proportionately. He con- sidered the argument to be all one way in that matter., Regarding the proposition to amend the constitution so that the bank or other lender who accepts a mortgage on real estate in California as secur- ity for coin shall not pay a mortgge| tax Howell advanced the old argu- ment that the borrower really pays the tax on a mortgage because the| money lender puts on in interest| enough to cover the full face of the tax, or about 2 per cent. syste: The present | brought into vogue by the| ution Howell said was, in the| on of the realty brokers, both ac- | ve and associate members of the | San Francisco Real Estate Board, ‘to be cumbersome and of no advantage to business. | The directors as members of the board have approved of the two meas- | ures mentioned so that their action | as a board is considered to be certain of approval on formal vote. PILOT TELLS HOW THE } EARTHQUAKE FELT AT SEA :‘ Soundings Taken On Bar Since Blg Shake Show No Change of Captain bar pilot, was bringing the collier Wellington in from | sea the morning of April 18, and gives a graphic description of how the earthquake | felt at se “We were off Diaglo in about fifty fathoms of water,” he sald yesterday, “when the earthquake shock us up. The | Wellington shivered and shook like a | springless wagon on a corduroy road. The | sensation at first was as if the big steam- | er was jumping from one gravel bank to | another and.it seemed as if she would jar | her insides out. As the shaking gained | in intensity it seemed as If she was blow- ing out boller tubes, an explosion every second. “It was a terrifying experience and | none of the uncanniness was taken off by the fact that the sea was smooth as glass | and showed not a ripple when the shaking was at its worst.” Since the earthquake the pilots have made careful and extensive soundings on the bar and so far have found no change | in Gepths. | —_— WAVES ROLL OVER LEVEES . ON ISLANDS DURING QUAKE Ditches on Reclaimed Lands Send Up Sheets of Water as If Squeezed by Glant Hands. Persons who were on the reclaimed lands on the Sacramento and San Joaquin | rivers at the time of the earthquake say that the levees were not damaged by the | | temblor, though in some places the water |from the rivers washed over them. It is belleved that had the water been | higher, great damage would have been done to levees. At Isleton, on the San Joaquin, Cainese | shacks built on stilts were driven down into the soft peat land, water flying up | | above them. The Chinese all escaped. { Across the tracts of reclalmed land | | there are ditches, and it is sald that when | the quake came the water squirted high | | into the air from these, as if they had| | been squeezed together by giant hands. | | The “fioating” land of the islands | trembled violently. —_—— Memorial Day Observance. | | There was a rpreliminary meeting | | vesterday of representatives of the| various local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic for the purpose of ob- | | taining an expression of opinion as to observing Memorial day. The idea prevailed that exercises of a simple character should be held at the Pre- | | sidio National Cemetery. No definite | l‘ucnon was taken, however, it being! decided to make arrangements to that end at a meeting to be called for next week. | ————e———— intend to Erect Big Steel Structure.| Murray & Ready, employment agents, | are bullding a temporary structure on Market street, next to the St. Nicholas Hotel site. The firm also intends to shortly erect a permanent steel and stone building within three blocks of | Market and Third streets. The latter| | building will contain 800 rooms, five | stores and a large basement. It wil! | be run on the plan of the Mills Work- ingmen’s Hotel in New York, Headless Body in a Cesspool. GRANITE CITY, Iil, May 16.—The headless body of a man was found to- day in a cesspool in the rear of a Madison saloon, not far from where | | John Hickey, an overland traveler to! Oklahoma, was sandbagged and killed last week. The absence of the head, it is believed, indicates that the man was murdered by a blow on the head and that it was removed to prevent identification. No other marks of vio- lence were found on the body. —— Refugees Wed In San Jose. | BAN JOSE, May 16.—James McGowan {and Edith McKarnish, S8an Francisco ref- ugees, were married today by Justice of the Peace Benson. They proceeded to Los Angeles, where they will reside, | out NARRATE HOW |ARE YOU STRONG? TILDEN DIED Witnesses Tell of Shots Fired at Red Cross Auto- mobile. Examination of Defendants Commenced Before Po- lice Judge. Interest in the fatal shooting of Major Heoer C. Tilden the morning of April 22 last was revived Tuesday by the pre- liminary examination before Police Judge Shortall of George W. Simmons, Malcolm T. Vance and K. S. Boynton, charged with murder. Among the witnesses who estified were the Rev. Father O. Crow- ley, Hugo Altschel, Dr. Albert Berger and Russell G. Seaman. Assistant District Attorney Ward represented the people and Attorneys Henderson and Saffold the defense. Father Crowley having testified that he saw the dead bedy of Major Tilden shortly after the shooting, Hugo Altschel, coachman for 1. W. Hellman, swore that he was in the automobile with the de- ceased and Russell G. Seaman when the shot was fired. They had come from the Fourteen-Mile House, and the automobile had Red Cross insignia onspicuously dis- played, It was about 12:30 o'clock &. m. when they arrived at Twenty-second and Guerrero ‘streets and were crossing that intersection when a number of shots were fired In quick succession. The auto was sharply stopped, and Major Tilden, who was seated In front of the witness and Seaman, jumped out, staggered to th sidewalk and dropped dead. A few moments later a physician ar- rived and made an examination of the remains, finding a bullet wound near the heart. The witness heard no order to halt before the shots were fired. —When police officers arrived they arrested the three defendants, and he heard ap ar- gument between the latter as to’ which of them owned a certain gun. He also heard either Boynton or Vance, he could not positively say which of them, say that he had fired Into the air. Dr. Albert Bergere testified that he heard the shots and found the deceased lying upon the sidewalk. Examination of the body disclosed a gunshot wdund under the collarbone, where the bullet emerged. He did not examine furthér to {).rd where ne¢ missile had entered the ody. Russell G. Seaman, student, residing at 502 Guerrero street, swore he was for- merly a member of the United States Signal Corps, and during the fire he vol- unteored to special duty. At the time of the shooting he was returning from Palo Alto with Major Tilden, and at the point described by Altschul six men, three on either side of the street, were standing when the auto approached. Just as a matter of courtesy, and not because the vebicle was halled, the witness calle® “Red Cross!” There was no reply from any of the men. When the ma- chine was about ten feet past the cross- ing of the streets the man farthest away fired into the air, and then about ten hots were Immediately ceased. Drawing his revolver, the wit- ness fired five shots at that man, aiming at the flash, and then he (witness) was struck In the back by a bullet, which did not penetrate his body, its force having been spent by its ’F:.ssuge through the rear of the auto. e Red Cross signs on the auto, which had four lamps burn- |ing at the time, could have been seen by any one. keeper of the Four- testified that Tilden was at his place the day of the shooting end that he saw the Red Cross signs on the auto. Norman Peart testified he was a chauf- feur employed by the Moblils Company on Golden Gate avenue; that the auto was In good condition when taken from the garage, but when brought back he thought it was out of orrder; that he saw the Re! Cross sign on it and the bullet-holes in the machine, Livingston Jenks. attorney at law, tes- tified that he recefved a Red Cross ban- ner that was taken off the auto and that he afterward gave it to Police Officer Williams. John B. McCue, who alded In the arrest of the defendants, swore that Simmons admitted having shot at the auto and that Vane and Boynton made similar ad- mission. till House, The hearing was then continued tomorrow morning. PIXLEY FINDS MANUSCRIPT AND HIS WIFE'S JEWELS Frank Pixley’s manuscript of the play he left in the St. Francis Hotel safe passed through the flames in good condition and in the course of time may follow the Burgomaster, King Dodo and the Prince of Plisen in public favor. Mr. and Mrs. Pixley, who arrived Sunday from Japan, have left for Los Angeles where they will remain for a few weeks before going home. In the St. Francis Hotel safe with the libretto of his unplayed musical comedy, Pixley left his rallroad tickets and Mrs. Pixley's jewelry. The jewelry was all right and the railroad tickets unharmcl | but in connection with the tickets Pixley tells of one of the curious freaks of the big fire. “The tickets,” said Pixley yesterday, “were in an envelope in a leather case. The leather case was In a cardboard box. The cardboard box was unharmed by the fire. When I touched the leather case it fell to pleces and I was ready to hid goo:i- by to my tickets. The leather was little more than ash and the envelone inside | was charred black. To my surprise, how- ever, the tickets were In perfect condi- tion, nothing about their appearance indi- cating that they had been subjected to any unusual heat. I don't know the scientific answer but I do know that I was glad to find those tickets intact.” Five trunks filled with Pixley wardrobs stored in the St. Francls basement when the Pixleys went to Japan, were de- stroved by the fire. Earthquake Ends Vacation. Captain Bennett of Bennett & Goodall, has returned from Europe. Bennett left here on one of the Kosmos liners for Hamburg, Intending to take a year's vacation, which he proposed to spend in a liesurely tour of Europe with his wife. He was in Hamburg when the earth- | quake and the accompanying fire opened the carnival of destruction in this city. ilaving large interests here Captain Ben- nett abandoned his vacation, crossed the Atlantic on the first steamer and is here again ready to give the ald of his broad shoulders to the work of boosting San Francisco back to her old position on the map. ————— Mrs. Schiller Is Restralned. Presiding Judge Graham thas fs- sued an order restraining Mrs. Lilllan Schiller, wife of Otto Schiller, who {s suing her for a divorce, from disposing of any of the community properly belong- ing to the warring coupie. Judge Gra- ham recently rescinded his order rastrain- ing Schiller from drawing his money out of the bank. e g o e Transcontinental Exchange Secrip Bureau Is located in Ferry building, San Fran- cisco; entrance through waiting-room of Tiburon ferry. . TONOPAH, May 16.—John H. Hen- nessey, accused of the murder of Frank Ganahl in Clifford last January and who has been on trial in the Dis- trict Court here for the last three days, was today found guilty of man- slaughter. The jury was out three hours. The defense made a strong case out of the fact that Hennessey had been threatened repeatedly. THE SAN PRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1908 CALL subscribers recefv- fng their paper by mail are respectfully requested to for- Ward portion of any one \wrapper recently received showing name and address to THE CALL, care of Circe lation Department, No. 1016 Broadway, Oakland. This is necessary in order to fnsare prompt dispatch of paper. If impossible to send wrap- per, sead last recefpt. woizis o METROPOLITAN LIFE F HOUSEKEEPING OUTFITS, CPOTHING, TOOLS OR FINANGIAL ASSISTANCE, cal’ at 1810 Sutter | street, San Francisco, AT ONCE. The ' L O. F. has relisved the Red Cross So- clety of the care of all Members of the , Order and is now prepared to :pply \ use- needy Members with complete keeping outfits, free. i Let Us Hear From All Members Not Registered. Polioyholders whe resided in the . burned districts, as well as those who have moved since the fire, will please send their present addresses to us at ence, if they have not already done so. We are now ready to furnish duplicate policies in place of those destroyed. ‘North British and Mercantile Insur- ance Company OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Combined Assets Over Eighty-Soven Miilion, To the Public and Our Patrons: The North British will pay all fire losses just as soon as adjusted. Our office for handling all loss clalms is located in the Tribune building, nerth- wast éorner of Eighth and Franklin streets, Oakland. Our office for gen- eral fire business is at 2027 Sutter street, San Francisco. LAYMANCE REAL ESTATE CO., : 460 Eighth 8t. - - Oakland Agents e TEMPORARY OFFICES OF Claus Spreckels Rudolph Spreckels And Real Property Investment Corporation ARE NOW LOCATED AT 2413 Washington Street, San Francisco All tenants who formerly oceupied property contrelled by the above and who desire to mske arraugements for temporary or per- manent quariers st their old location will please rt to the above address prior to May 7th. Pailure to so repert be construed as indicating no desire on part of tenants to go back te the old quarters and we shall feel at liberty to close for renting or leasing of same to other parties. KEROSENE “Aurora Brand” FINEST TRY IT UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO SIXTEENTH AND ILLINOIS STREETS. Pacific Coast Head Office 925 Golden Gate Avenue SAN FRANCISCO Asbestos Fire-Resisting Roofing And Sidings for temporary and per- manent buildings. Affords greater fire protection” and is more easily and quickly handled and will LAST LONGER than galvanized iron. Abso- lutely waterproof. Guaranteed. Deltveries made immediately upon receipt of order. H. W. Johns-Manville Co. 1301 Golden Gate Ave., cor. Fillmors, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 'N. W.HALSEY ¢ G0., Bankers, NewEngland Mutual Life Insurance Co. TEMPORARY OFFICE 717 Paru Street, Alameda Policy Holders, please send address to HENRY K. FIELD, General Agent. G. B. BURLING General Insurance My Records Have Been Saved .. Temporary Office at 2424 SUTTER STREET Clients Please Report Losses to Above Address. Providence Washington Insurance Company Incorporated 1799. Dealers in Ronds, : FRANKLINAND O’FARRELL STS., SAN PRANCISCO. NEW YORK - - - 49 Wall street PHILADELPHIA. - - - . . : = = - Real Estate Trust Bidg. CHICAGO - « = 1353 Moaree strest Policy-holders are invited to present their claims promptly at our ADJUSTMENT OFFICE 1905!2 Devisadero Street, 8AN FRANCISCO. J. F. D. CURTIS, Manager. FRANK C. STURTEVANT, General Adjuster. Moore & Scott IRON WORKS ARE NOW RUNNING AT 412 Maln St., San Francisco Stevedore Hoisting Engines and Boilers kept in stock. Send in your orders. Remington Building and Loan Associations sociations ' | T ypewriters Now 2270 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Or 1521 Golden Gate Ave., 8. F. E. B. CLARK, Secretary. F. W. BRAUN C0. Are open for business at 2513 Twen- ty-fourth street, San Francisco, oppo- site carhouse. Orders will have prompt attention. v REMOVAL NOTICE DAN O’CALLAGHAN Real Estate and Insurance, Lundstrom Hats... A Full Stock at Our New Store, 530 HAIGHT ST. ‘Wil rebuild the grandest Hat Store in all America by July 1st. Our mail order list is destroyed and we ask our country friends to send us their addresses. Are in Stock for Immediate Delivery. We are now occupying the feur-stery building st . 1015 Golden Gate Avenue Between Buchanan and Lagwne Sts. l As & Permanent Hemee. REMINGTON TYPEWRITER COMPANY 1018 GOLDEN GATE AVE. Ouideand Branch, 1212 Broadway. Telsphene 317 Ouidend San Francisco - Call NOTICE. OUR PACIFIC COAST AGENTS 2 Now at 928 FILLMORE ST., near McAlllster. position to flll all orders promptly for Ingersoll-Rand Machinery, Compressors, Drills and Pneumatic Tools of All Sizes and all duplicate paris. To Pronorty Owners Orders will be filled at once from their Los Angeles house or from Salt We have applicationis from respon- | Lake City. Have several carloads Ing ersoll-Rand machinery en route, and sible personsg desiring leases on all Orders shall recelve prompt attention. 11 BROADWAY, e g'TT':'“FL:NNT:“°""" INGERSOLL'RAND C » NEW YORK The Continental Insurance Co. UNION IRON WORKS CALL ON U BACIGALUPI & STEVENS, 1113-1118 Fillmore Strest. OF NEW YORK POTRERO Is ADJUSTING and PAYING all fire claims . as rlpidl, as PRESENTED. Make up IN FULL OPERATION. n The San Francisco claims DETAIL and present . National Bank Sa40 BACIFIC ANE.. Iempoiary ofibe IMMEDIATELY. New business accepted. San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. ARTHUR G. NASON & CO., Metropolitan Managers, Delger Building, Oakland, Cal ”‘lmmm.mmm Office and Warehouse 167 Townsend Street DINAN S. R. HALL Millinery clsco. Now located at 346 14th st, near Clay, Oakland, Touraine block. “SHANNON The Real Estate Man”