The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1906, Page 14

14 MOTHER'S LIFE — WANT TO BUILD HIS ONLY CARE HOUSES IN STATE John J. Larkin Meets|Easterners Deluging. the Fate Heroically in | Committee With Flames. | Inquiries. Resigns Selfto Fire \VhenfMany See Opportunities He Sees His Parent in the New' San Safe. 1 Francisco. under a.mass of | Thirty thousand letters from home- seekers have been received by the Cal- ifornia Promotion Committee from the about the city and the State and ex- pressing the writers’ intentions of set- tling These | every part of the Unitéd Statés, Can- y of |ada and Europe and are apparently from _the most desirable class of people. A letter from a hardware merchant in Oxford, N. C.. declares that his de- parture from. his old home is hastened here | and winter and look forward to escap- ing another season of the Eastern snow and frost These and similar swered by the committee. Information especially applicable to_ each case is inclosed and the opportunities for ‘in- vestment and enterprise are fully ex- that he to him ged the to quit the yrts toward sav- a short dis- nd piteous er to their letters are an- rder 1o helr | plained. Urging prospective home- gid mot de’ | seekers apnears to be unn sary, for N e Srean. | nearly every writer expresses the.de- termination to come to California | The fifth’ semi-annual meeting of the fast and both | counties committee of the California Atilous posi- Promotion Committee will be held in in perilous Bed | Napa on Saturday, Junme 18. Reports | IF Bt blistering | oh work of development in the various . . - f 1ime she | counties will be received and plans for - N S9€! the ensuing half-year made. In ad- w dition the delegates will visit the towns in Napa Val ot WILL DISCUSS DRAWBACK AND WATER FRONT NEEDS fate they mbed over that he | to die, | Chamber of Commerece Has Toples of Live Interest for Consideration at Spectil Meeting. The subject of a drawback bill Congress to provide for remitting the dut materials to be used in the nstruction of San Francisco will be . al meeting of the er of Commerce in in es on STRUCK DOWN BY FAST-MOVING TRAIN AGED MAN ord Is Severely Injured While Johnm € afternoon. At & the Tracks of the South- of providing ern Pacific. t of the sco will come nt Spear of the g Commissioners A proposition has to increase the State tolls rossing the State property front wo drawback propositions One was introduced Cullom and one by Con- an Gaines. The text of the Cul- lom measure is as follows “Whereas, In view of the fact that there is a shortage in structural steel and other building material in this country to meet the needs of San Fran- and other California cities de- igar stand - S stroyed or .damaged by earthquake E o shocks on April 18 and the conflagra- Pregramme for the Orpheum. tion that followed, and that everything he S Argenanti trio of Italian| (oF be done to facilitate the recon- of ion of the stricken cities; there- enow; renown | co fore ‘Resolved, By the Senate and House afternoon. i chooled and | o¢r Representatives of the United States vk is especially | in Congress assembled, that the duty critics, willl on structural steel and other necessary from “I Pagliaccl”| material intended for use in buildings who had the 1Y | to be constructed in said cities is here- rst visit here two | phy declared to be suspended for the d of one year." The period of one year is declared to be entirely too short. Resolutions will ly be adopted to call for an ex- sion of the time ST T Police Rald Crap Game. policemen caught ten boys who shooting craps on Avery street Five were ay The round-up of the youthful gamblers was ocasioned by their loud use of foul oaths during the course of the game. The profanity the Alhambra, Lon. | S0 Shocked the residents of the streef in new selections. | 0T the past few weeks that 'many the entertaining |Complaints were made to the police and Orpheum mo- After lecturing the young culprits on will complete the pro-|the use of immoral language and ere is a matinee at the lwarmn: them against future gambling he officers let them 80. B Child Killed by a Truck. Edward Harold O'Connell, the three- m every day except Monday. Prepare for Gradusting Exercises. The pupils of t biic schools reet will p iv- by meet | year-oid son of Michael O’'Connell, a a School, Mission | fireman connected with engine 19, was " 1. this morning | run over and killed by a truck yester. . living north of | day afternoon. Young O'Connell was - Pacific _Heights ing on a heavy wagon belonging to ]./ ks r“-'a.'_\\tl ter, Chalmers Draying Company, and tomorrow mor 10 o'cloc to | slipped when he attempted to jump ofr. make preparati the graduating | Before the driver could stop the wheels | exercises to be t Golden Gate| had crushed the lad, causing death a Park rday afternoon. short time afterward RUMFORD THE WHOLESOME Baking Powder Best of the High Grade Powders. ]5 cents half vound cz- s FULTON | , Iron Works € IN FULL OPERATION iy Svald pypcachy: For delicious Bouillons, Meat Jellies asd strength- M equals HARBOR VIEW Telephone West1160 Same Clever C.A.Malm & Co. Optical Sorvice As heretofore given by the Trunk Fianufacturers JOF... 220 and 222 BUSH ST. Have opened a temporary business of- ftice at their fsctory, 18th AND FOLSOM tical Co HARRY NORDMAN 2505 CLAY ST. (Temporary). RN b East since April 18 asking. particulars | letters, come from | by the opportunities afforded by the recent readjustment of conditions. He will establish in San Francisco in his old business by the middle of June. Another correspondent from the Middle ie dr: w information and_ explains bloody would rather take chances with epETior: earthquake than droughts.” Others bed bAck | wish to learn the probable condition s |in California during the coming autumn | SHARON ESTATE |Will Erect Beautiful Building on Palace Site. What = Structure Is to Be Not Yet Deter- mined On. - The members of the Sharon estate party, which includes Fred Sharon, Sepator New- lands, the young son of the Earl of Hes- keth, and H. L. Wright, solicitor for Lady Hesketh, spent a busy day.yesterday in go- | ing about the city. looking over the situu- tion and gazing at the ruins of the Palace | and the Grand hotels and their many other properties here. No detinite conclusion ve- garding the rebuildng of ther structures was | arrived at except that om the Palace site a magnificent building will be erected, but ! what the. structure will be they have pot | determined. Whether it will be a hotel, surpassing in gravdeur and beauty the old Palace, or whether it is to be a great busi ness block, they have.as yet no idea. Sen- ator Newlands said: “We have come here to see what is to be dome about rebuilding. Naturally, the Palace site interests us most. This wil | have our first attention, We have alrea decided to put up a<*magnificent building there, but what the structure, will be we cannot say whether it is’ to be a hotel or a s block. -On all sides we hear expressions of the deepest regret at the burning of the old hostelry, which seems to have been greatly endeared to the people of this city. -1t was built thirty-five years ., and of course during that time the bas expanded fo such a vast extent. rally the surroundings of the old hanged. All these changes must red before we can come 10 @ com- clusion as to what we shall crect there. But po matter what it is, 1 can assure you it will be as great an ornament to the city for the future as the oid Palace bas been in_the past. We. baven't commenced to con sider what we will do with the Grand prop- ertv—we want to settle the future of the Palace site first. We .had all read of and thought we had fully prepared ourselves for the terrible losses the city has sustained. but we are more than amazed at the extent of the fire, as it now appears to us after a visit over the city. Everybody here, however, seems to be in unusually good spirits, and all are looking eagerly forward to bringing the city (back to the former great position it held before the country and the world at large. What I particularly noted in coming across the continent were the re s of the peo. ple in the cities s we. passed through, and all these remarks dealt with the wonderful grit and stamina the people of this State were showing, and the manner in which the people of this place were go- ing ahead to build up the new and greater San Francisco. “Mr. Sbaron will be here for some months, and I shall stay here as long as I can. We are very comfortably fixed at San Mateo, where W. S. Tevis has turned over his house to us.” Later yesterday afternoon the Sharon v were the guests of Mr. Kirkpatrick he Cosmos Club. Zvery building belonging to the Sharen estate was destroyed by the fire. Every topic relating to the restora. tion of the Palace Hotel is of absorb- ing interest to the people of San Fran- cisco. Reports te the effect that it is intended to reduce the ground area of the new structure and diminish the size of the court produce a feeling of general regret. The regret will be world-wide in expression, as the fame of the hos- teiry extended to every quarter of the civitized globe. Many ‘a tourist quotes | the lines of Shenstone: Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er bis fortunes may bave been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. The people of San Francisco would not deplore the announcement that the City Hall as it existed before the fire would not be restored, but the.senti- ment touching the Palace is different. Memories of the ample court with its palms and foliage, the grills and ban- quet halls, the spacious dining-rooms, the wide corridors and the many feat- | ures which the lofty hotels of the mod- |ern type have excluded, strongly ap- {peal to the old-timers and the new- mers. The original cost of the Palace ructure and the land approximated $5.000,000. It is probable that at least $1,000,000 was expended in remodeling the interior. The hotel paid a good in- terest on the investment of $6,000,000. At Bohemian Club headquarters yes- terday a throng of citizens commented on the report ihat the new hotel would not be like the Palace of old. Surprise was expressed that the managers of the Sharon estate should deprive the hotel of ground Space to make way for a commercial or office bullding vhen the fact is obvious that many steel structures of the class A type will be erected in the center of the business district. The accommodations for offices, stores and the uses of com- ‘merce in general promise to be ample. it is predicted that a hotel of the Palace type .would be .a much greater producer of income than a steel struct- ure could be under conditions now ex- isting and likely to prevail. Regret is expressed that sentiment | must give way to business considera- tions and many are the hopes that Col- | onel John C. Kirkpatrick, . . Herrin and Frank G. Newlands will be able | to convince the absent representatives of the Sharon estate that the Palace | Hotel reconstructed on lines closely ad- hering to the original edifice which W. C. Ralston and William Sharon | erected would be more profitable to the owners than any other form of ! building. | B :BIG PLANT 1IN DAVISVILLE { IS CONSUMED BY FLAMES pa at | | Fire Supposed to Have Been Started ; by a Tramp Causes a Loss of $25,000. . WOODLAND, May 30.—The factory of Walton G. Read of Davisville, which contained a large supply of agricul- tural machinery in various stages of | construction, was _destroyed by fire | Monday night. The watchman d:s- |covered the fire and summoned aid. |A crowd soon gathered but nothing |could be done. The loss is about 1$25,000 with insurance of $12,000. A |tramp caught leaving the building in | his bare feet was locked up on sus- picion but he claimed to know noth- ing of the fire’s origin. It is sup- | posed he started the fire by carelessly |throwing away a lighted cigarette. L Buys Urdeveloped Oil Lands. LOS ANGELES, May 30.—The Union Oi1 Company, through the incorporation of the New Love Oil -Company, the latter company capitalized at $1,500,000, has secured from individuals in Santa Barbara County more than 3300 acres of undeveloped oil lands, located in the heart of the Santa Maria field. The consideration In the transfer of the property is given as $1,250,000. The es- timated minimum yield of the territory is 50,000,000 barrels of crude oil,” run- ning about 30 degrees gravity. —_— ‘Wrecked Steamer Is Salved. VICTORIA, B, C,, May 30.—The Ger- man steamer Mariechen, wrecked at Falls Bay last January, and salved by the steamer Salvor of the British Co- ig.:gl:“s;’l‘};:e Compan: z.Awhvol took the e uni $37,500 on the "s:t cure :;’l’ i was towed ‘to Esquimalt Tuesday by 21’3“ v{,recklln‘dat‘oun;: E’l ne Mariechen e placed in t! ui for repairs. ! ‘i‘pml.'.‘ 408K . Train Dernfled end Engineer Killed. SAN BERNARDINO, May 30.—A spe- cial to the Sun from ..eedles says that a local freight train was derailed four miles from Needles, the engine and twelve cars luving the track. e _en- gine turned over, killing Engineer Pete Killyilea. The dead engineer was 45 ears old and resided in N«filu. He! eaves a widow and three children. —_—— s Brasaet o Tell You s ‘“WY ne &ng"‘ y Cures a'.i 3 -RL,_‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1906. TE FIRE DESTROYS PEOPLE BUSY, GRAIN ELEVATOR One Million Bushels of Corn,Wheatand Oats Are Burned. Flames Attack Property " of Armour & Company in Chicago. CHICAGO, May 30.—Fire early today destroyed Armour & Co.'s elevator “D,” standing along a slip extending from the south branch of the river at Pisk street. With the elevator were de- stroyed 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, corn and oats. Four men employed in the elevator were hurt, one fatally, soon after the fire started, when a series of explosions, caused by ignition of the dust, spread the flames throughout the building. The loss was estimated roughly at from $500,000 to more than $1,000,000. In addition fifteen cars, filled yestery day with grain, were on the tracks by the elevator, and these were de- stroyed. Switch engines were hurried to the switch track and 150 cars were hauled out of danger. Within half an hour after the sound- ing of the first alarm five special calls had been sent in, and sixty engines came from as far north as Lake View, together with thae fireboats Queen, Yo- | semite and Illinois, summoned to the scene. The firemen were obliged to | get” nearly all their water from the snr. no water plugs being within avail- able distance. The building destroved. was 500 feet long, 200 feet wide and three stories in height, built of brick. It was not near any otner building, but the fire was of such extent that plants two blocks away were endangered. Among these were the gas tanks of the Peo- ple’s Gas, Light and Coke Company. between Twenty-second and Twenty- third’ streets, at Center avenue. Fire- men were stationed to pour water on these, when the embers were carried in that direction thickly, and the gas company was notified. It responded that it would withdraw. the gas from the tanks at once. The men hurt in the elevator were watchmen, and were standing near one of the chutes leadin~ to the water front, when one of the explosions blew them entirely out of the buiMing. PRI, o) L A CALIFORNIAN RECEIVES AWARD AT FRENCH SALON Albert Launsburgh Recelves Gold Medal for His Design Exhibited in Paris. Word has been received here that G. Albert Lansburgh has been. awarded a gold medal at this year's salon held by the Society of French Artists in Paris | for his design of a temple. Lansburgh is a native of California and a graduate of the- University of California. -This is the first gold ~ndal awarded a Californian at this ¢ ati- | tion. He- is also a graduate National School of Fine Arts of krance, and received the Government diploma as an architect last year. — SUMMER ILLS COUNTERACTED By the Proper Use of Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. Hot weather brings a long list of ills to us poor mortals unless our s; |tems are in a condition to withstand them. Diarrhea, cholera morbus, stom- ach ache, heart failure, fainting, weak stomach, malaria, chil fevers, pros- | tration, and many others, all have vic- |tims during the summer months. Ev- ery one should use the utmeost care to guard, against these, espccially as this can be most easily done by keeping the system in_proper condition. | _Dufty’'s Pure Malt Whiskey is an ab- #olutely pure tonic-stimulant and is much used by physicians in all weak- ening, wasting rundown conditions of | body. brain, nerve and muscles. A tea- spoonful in every glass of water you |drink will be of much value. It cools |the blood, regulates the system, | strengthens and builds up the tissues {and thus reduces to a minimum one's | chances of being affected by disease. —_0 Rakde & Co., At 1813 Devisadero st., jewelers and | silversmiths, are tully equipped to do your watch repairing, diamond setting, and fill your orders appertaining to the jewelers' craft. * 0 PUMICE STONE COVERS SEA BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE Evidence of a Subterrzmean Outbreak Seen in the Vieinity of Laysan Island. ‘HONOLULU, May 30.—The schoener Lavinia, which has arrived from Lay- san Island, reports that the ocean in that vicinity is covered for many miles with a heavy coating of pumice stone. At Laysan Island and on the French Frigate Shoals theére were piles of pumice prior to the San Francisco earthquake. ~ It is believed that there Was some subterranean outbreak, prob- ably in connection with the Formosa earthquake. Captain Schlemmer of the Lavinia reports that the overseer at Laysan said that the shock of April 18 was felt on the island. ot R 7 i B e LSS FATHER LOSES HIS LIFE WHILE SAVING DAUGHTER Recelves Fatal Burns While Rescuing Her From Dwelling Which Ae- cidentally Caught Fire. LOS ANGELES, May 30.—As the re- sult of a heroic attempt to save his daughter, whom he thought was meet- ing death in the flames of his burn- ing home, Charles M. Gould of La Fa- bra Valley was burned to death .Tues- day night. Gould and his family was living tem- porarly in the upper part of a barn on | their ranch, six miles from Whittier, | while a new home was being built. The other members of the family escaped uninjured. T . Bank Teller Is Placed Under Arrest. . PORTLAND, Or, May 30.—Arthur Reinke, formerly receiving teller of the Marshall & Ilsey Nauonal Bank of Mil- waukee, Wis., was arrested here Tues- day on a telegraphic warrant charging |'him with the embezzlement of $14,000. Reinke expresses a willingness: to re- turn to Milwaukee without legal pro- cess, 7 —o Highwaymen Held Up a Saloon. TACOMA, Wash., Mav 30.—A special to the News from Kennewick, Wash., says: Four highwaymen entered a sa- loon here last night and held up a gang of railroad men, securing $1300: Four suspects have been arrested. ————o Body Found in Stockton Channel. STOCKTON, May 30.—The body of an unknown man was found in Stockton Channpel this morninw. Whether the suicide is a matter.of conjecture. lane, New York Wwhat he may to*help at this time ‘Those who have diamonds or any. to him, for coin, at the full values. persons now to sell at their cost.- Diamonds, )cious stones” and 'p' the owner’s selling price. Mr. Grinberg refers 5 man fell in, was murdered or committed | PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS. Mr. Adolf J. Grinberg-of Adolf J. Grinberg & 'Son, No. 1. Maiden has come to San Francisco with the intention of d by .fi THe constant advance in diamond SEAMAN OF MANE oINS ST WHEN " HELP REAGES Launclm Race to the Rescue, - but Are a_Moment ; Too Late. Strong Tide Erries a Good " Swimmer to Death in Hudson. NEW YORK, May 30.—While the rain was falling in torrents on Monday afternoon there was a desperate race on the Hudson River by a steam launch from the battleship Maine, the flagship of the North Atlantic fleet, and anotker from her sister ship, the Mis- gouri, to save the life of Arthur Reese of Colorado, a seaman of Admiral Ev- ans’' flagship. Reese disappeared be- neath the waves when the launch from the Maine was.within twenty feet of him. Details of the attempted rescue were made public yesterday. Unnoticed- Reese fell from the Ja- cob's ladder while going aboard the Maine. When first seen he was strug- gling in the water about eighty yards from the ship. Midshipman Drake, the officer of the deck, saw the seaman in the water and shouted to the coxswain and for the men in the launch to cast off and go to the rescue. Reese was an expert swimmer, but the tide was running at least three miles an hour and he was carried rap- idly down stream. The launch from the Maine had on every pound of steam. Her coxswain shouted to Reese to keep up his courage, as the réscue was only a question of time. The swiftly ebbing tide made It pos- sible for the launch to gain rapidly on the seaman, who was being swept to- ward the anchorage of the Missouri. Reese was sixty yards south of the Maine and the launch was going at full speed about fifty yards astern. when a launch from the Missouri, which was coming from the shore. sighted the racing craft. - The coxswain imme- diately turned his boat up - stream, where Reese, now aimost exhausted, was struggling to keep above water. The little engine on the Missourl's launch puffed with a will, but it was a hard job to buck the tide and she could make little headway. The launch from the Maine, assisted by the ebbing tide, fairly skimmed over the waves and had almost reached Reese. The coxswain was leaning far overboard with boat- hook in hand, when suddenly, just as the men who lined the decks of the Maine and the Missouri were getting ready to cheer, the young seaman sank. He was not seen again. “We tiid everything we could to save him,” said Captain Niles, “but luck, in the shape of an unusually strong tide and the heavy rain, was against us.” _% Japanese Stabs a Cavalryman. On the arrival of the ferry-boat Berkeley from Oakland shortly after midnight yesterday morning Special licemen Jenkins and Maloney three Japanese who had quarreled with Wil- liam Roush, a cavalryman, and one of them had stabbed him on the head and back with a knife. Katsendi Fatewa was pointed out as the one who had used the knife and he was charged with assault to murder. His two com- panions, Masudi Hayashi and Matoso- huri Alto, were charged with disturb- ing the peace. Roush was taken to the Harbor Emergency Hospital. e i = Robbed on Electrie Car. C. Reis, a resident of Oakland, re- ported at police headquarters yester- day that he had been robbed of a purse containing $90 on a Fillmore- street car. He said he had transferred at Sixteenth street from a Mission- street car and was standing on the| {dummy when a: man roughly jostled | against him. Reis had his purse in his | hip pocket and a few minutes later discovered that it was missing. He is| satisfied that the man who jostled against him was the thief. He saild it washiflll the money he possessed in the world. | e e 1 Looters Make Their Escape. Policeman W. T. Hooper saw two men looting the ruins of the Nordhoft Apartment House on Bush street, near Taylor, on Tuesday afternoon. 'They | fled and Hooper chased them, but was | unable to overtake them. He rturned and took possession of their loot, which consisted of a large quantity of brass. It was taken to the property clerk's office at the Lowell Higu School. Will Revise Immigration Laws. VICTORIA, B. C., May 30.—<Revised immigration laws are being planned by the Japanese Foreign Office, among other changes being the removal of the representative of Japanese immigration companies from Hawaii. The Yomiuri Shimbun says that the removal of rep- resentatives will stop immigration, as the Japanese law forbids immigretion to places where no representatives otl immigration companies are located. Bucket-Sfiop Sharks What ie speculating? What | fs margin? What is bucket- | shopping? How can-you tell | a bucket-shop thief from a le- | gitimate banker and broker? | Everybody's for June gives you a clear and true view of legitimate speculation with | its unspeakable counterfeit— bucket-shopping. Everybody should read Teague’s series of fact-stories exposing -the ‘Bucket-shop Sharks.” Officer T. A. Brown handed over to Po- | — GoldenGate&Pacifi CLOAK andSUIT HOUSE 532-534-536-538 McAllister St., Near Van Ness ave. The Largest Exclusive Cloak House in California NOW OPEN AGAIN WITH A LARGE STOCK OF NEWEST STYLES Tailor Suits, Coats, Jackets, Skirts and Waists SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to come to our new stere, the first ready in New San Francisco. ¢ Suits $15.00 ETON SUITS Long Coats Gray, Tan and Large Plaids. Newest Special, $10.00 | 51" ‘Soecial $17.50 ETON SUITS $7.50, $8.50 and $10.00 Special, $12.50 $22.50 BLACK PANAMA ETON SUITS Special, $15.00 $30.00 NOVELTY SUITS Special, $20.00 Waist Special WHITE LAWN WAISTS---Embroidered 75¢ Values. Special, 35¢ Skirt Special $6.00 GRAY SKIRT Special, $3.50 Arrived Yesterday: 500 High-Class Skirts, Plaid, Panama and Etamine. $5.00 to $25.00 'STORE OPEN SATURDAY EVENING HE THOMPSON-STARRETT COMPANY, whose Main Office is at No. 51 Wall street, New York City, builders of fireproof buildings, announce that they have opened offices at No. 2053 Sutter street, San Francisco, where Mr. Frank J. Kilpatrick, Pacifi Coast representative, and Mr. B. C. Dickinson, m ager, may be consulted. Those contemplating the erection of fireproof buildings and wishing te have their work dome with the unexampled rapidity whiech has made this com- pany famous, will be interested in this announce- ment. We call attention to the personnel of our organ- ization, consisting as it does of such noted experts in building construetion as Mr. Theodere Starrett, Mr. Ralph Starrett, Mr. Goldwin Starrett; Mr. George Simpson, chief engineer; Mr. H. D. Babbitt, electrical engineer; Mr. James H. 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