The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1906, Page 1

i b i | brisk north winds. WEATHER FORECA! For San Francisco and vic ty: Fair Wednesday; warmer; PRESIDENT APPROVES ACCEPTANCE, OF CITY'S BONDS BY RU Men Who Planned S~ T T S S — e 2 2 SN = S 1 w—— AN 0 e 3 o WNSAN \ Gz N -y —a e N FINEST OF HOTELS 5 70 BF ERECTED N CITY OF CHIGARD Seven Million Dellars Will Be Expended on Palatial Car- avansary. SPECIAL DISPATCH 70 THE ne 12 CALL result of ew it will gan avenue, d Peak courts. e structure, plans for which . drawn, will mark a new e Chicago * hotel world. Nothing w existing in this city will compare | with it for elegance. It is said that| the furnishings will cost nearly| $4,000,000. The bullding will have & frontage of 400 feet on Michigan avenue and | will occupy an entire block on that ughfare, extending back to the 11l be twelve stories high 1200 rooms. The deco- be art itself. The best rations 1 painters in America and Europe will contribute. The woodwork will be| eolid mahogany i Two floors of the building will be used exclusively for banquet = halls. Theee suites will include a great room | which will excel Sherry’'s in New| Yorik. The hotel also will contain a baliroom more olegant than anything o e kind elsewhere in the country. SH CONSTRU OF HUMBOLDT BANK Not Disheartened by the Fire. CTION Splendid Structure { | clearing-house. tee of San Francisco citizens, cisco who are now homeless. This proposition was laid before SRy 64 DL S o o 750 ’0Q‘ | | | SIS g OSSO A NN S P2 SN x Il PSS e 23 2t a2 G S P S D MODERN BUILDING THAT ¥E ERECTED ON MARKET SPLENDI WILL 2 EAR FOURTH. e work of excavating for the Hum- | B3 building is now nearly d there are carloads of ding material on the way for its construction. The work for a little over two week Th but t ners never for an instant contemplated abandoning the splendid project. They will strive for the honor of having erected the first skyscraper E e the fire, and they will probably | eed. The architects, Meyer & O'Brien, have rected a temporay office on stilts just of the building site, where can watch over the minutest de- Is of its construction, They will see it that not an ounce of defective material goes into the structure and | that their plans arc followed out to the| The hotel is to be conducted by the mana, New nt of the St. Regis Hotel in | York { ® —— BRITISH BULLETS DROP THE I!L:ACKS FROM TREES Africans Killed While in t(he Branches of the Forest Like Birds. DURBAN, Natal, June 12.—Colonel | MacKenzie's column yesterday attacked the rebel natives, who had sought shel- ter in the bush. The natives climbed trees, whence they hurled assagais on the troops, but bullets dropped them out of the branches. Over forty were thys killed and altogether 160 natives were slain. Darkness ended the opera- tions of the troops, but the rout of the | District Court of Nevada at this place | doned her about May 1, 1905. houses of Congress. not commit himself to its support. which has come to| !\Vashingtnn to secure the aid of the National Gov- | | ernment in rebuilding the city, that Congress shall velt by the committee today and it appeared to impress the President as one which he might be inclined to econsider if indorsemeat of the schetw1 ‘ecould be secured from the leading members of bothf SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. : the consideration President Roose- e There is not be- 13, 1906. cwW aper published in San n p . Francisco. 3¥s | 1 | | PRICE FIVE CENTS. The President has approved the plan to have the clty bonds of San Fran- |cisco accepted as security for Government deposits, There is strong opposition /in Congress to the proposed loan of $10,000,000, either to the Red Cross or the| Proposed Ten - Million - Dollar Loan Meets Strong Opposition in Congress. | RELIEF PLAN FORMALLY PRESENTED Committee to Be Given a Hearing, When Scheme Will Be Fully Explained. JUDGE MORROW ACTS AS SPOKESMAN CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASH-|Francisco Clearing-house Association, or to a se-! INGTON, June 12.—It is proposed by the commit- | curities company to be backed by that organiza- tion, and by them loaned out to the small borrow- ers for the rebuilding of homes, the sum to be paid back to the Government in ten years with interest. The President was struck with the practical char-| | authorize a loan of $10,000,000 to the San Fran-|acter of this proposition and suggested that it be | | cisco Clearing-house Association, the money to be {used for building homes for the people in San Fran-| him in a day or two, when he would submit it to put in detailed and proper form and presented to of his advisers. He further sug- ]geted that the committee should sound the leaders in Congress and find out what they thought of the House committee on a’ppropriations has | grantéd a héaring to the visiting committee to bei The President, however, did | held on next Thursday morning, when Judge Mor- | row and others will submit their views on the ques- lieved to be much reason for strong hope that Con-|tion and urge the favorable action of Congress. gress will look favorably on the gestion that the Government lend the National Red Cross $10,000,000 to be expended in rehabi]itat'mg;the approval of the House committee and of} | the city did not strike the President as prarticnl;speaker Cannon, the necessary legislation might be {and he indicated his opposition to it in such'a Way | secured, but there is apparently strong opposition that it will not further be proposed by the com-|in hoth the Senate and House to an mittee. It is probable that arrangements will be made|gnce to San Franeiseo. v for the acceptance | [of the bonds of the ecity of San Francisco as se-| by the Secretary of the Treasur; plan. The sug- QPPOSITION IN CONGRESS. If the propgosition for national aid should meet| y Congressional | action authorizing the proposed Government assist- | S 1t was pointed out/by sev- eral members of the House today that it would be etting a very bad precedent for Congress to come | curity for the deposit of Government money in the |t the aid of afflicted citizens, no matter how dire | banks of that city. This meets with the hearty ap-|their need. proval of the President. Judge Morrow read a statement pass a bill authorizing such action. body visited the White House, where it was cor- dially received by President Roosevelt. PLAN APPEALS TO PRESIDENT. setting forth existing conditions in San Francisco and the acceptance of $13,000,000 of city bonds as security for deposits of Government money. Morrow proposed that the Secretary of the Treas- | and Lane and Bartnett are working on the drafting ury issue an order authorizing the latter measure of the proposition which they will submit to Presi- to be taken and the President heartily favored this| dent Roosevelt contemplating the Government loan action, but the proposed Red Cross loan, it was plainly seen, did not meet with his approval and Senator Flint then proposed that the money, to the amount of $10,000,000, be loaned to the San If it were to be done in the case of | San Francisco, they declare, the farmers of the to the President| The desire of Judge | later in the week. | | imuch opposition ing of surprise th The committee, consisting of Judge W. W. Mor-| country would appeal to Congress for a national row, Dr. Devine, Thomas Magee, W. J. Bartnett||oan on their real estate in case of failure of erops. and Franklin K. Lane, with Maxwell Evarts, repre- | senting E. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific.,friendly sentiment in the Senate, the committee met the members of the California delegation this| and the California delegaton in the House have, | morning and after a brief consultation the entire | thus far, received very little encouragement in their inquiries among Congressmen, but they hope to make a more favorable impression upon the ap- propriations committee at the coming hearing. While the California Senators have found some | Secretary Taft to be heard by the House appropriations committee on Thursday and suggesting the loan to the National Red Cross ‘ morning on another matter may cause the hearing | of the San Francisco committee to be deferred until In the meantime Judge Morrow to the San Francisco Clearing-house Association. Representative Needham and other members of the he expressed the opinion that Congress would not;California delegation are encountering not only among members of the House to the proposed Congressional action, but also a feel- at it should I\)e seriously urged. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE COMPANIES MAKE A SECRET PAGT FIRE VICTIMS TO SUFFER All Adjusted Losses to Be Cut 25 Per Cent Before Payments Are Made. Sixty companies agreed through their agents at a meeting in Oakland yesterday to slash all policies twenty-five per cent. Thirty companies refused to enter the agreement. Twenty companies are yet undecided. Ten were not present. The names of those signing the agreement are being kept secret. OAKLAND. June 12.—The fird insurance situation has reached a eritical point. Sixty companies today voted through their managers at Reed Hall to establish a horizontal cut of 25 per cent on all adjusted losses. Thirty odd companies refused flatly to abide by this vote. About ten companies were not represented at the meeting of the adjusting bureau, while nearly twenty companies were excused from going on record at this time as to their attis | tude toward the payment of policies ‘While the vote which was taken today is not binding upon any of the companties, it places on record more than one-half of the corperations carrys ing fire risks in San Francisco as in favor of a slash in the payments of adjusted losses. This action is the result of an agitation which has been in progress for several weeks among the insurance companies. It reflects decisions which have been reached in many of the Eastern and some of the foreign home offices with relation to payment of the San Francisco losses. It places flatly on record those companies which have finally decided to refuse to meet im full the face of losses after adjustment. It incidentally paves the way for action by State Insurance Commissioner Wolt along the lines of publicity I which hé has declared he will give to the “good” and the “bad” companies. In short, the test was made in the bureau. which has been threatened as to a segregation of companies which will pay in full and those which will not. Efforts of the representatives of companies which will pay in full te }l’orce & publication of the roll call by which the corporations went om record failed. SEEK TO HIDE IDENTITY FROM THE PUBLIC. The majority of the companies voting to cut was strong enough to pre= vent the light of publicity being thrown upon their action so far as identity of the corporations was concerned. They voted not to make public the lis@ just as they had voted to establish the 25 per cent slash. Managers of many companies represented at today’'s meeting when pressed for information concerning their action blocked every query by declaring that the proceedings were secret and those present were bound by word of honos not to discuss anything which there occurred T. C. Coogan, the attorney for the bureau, and E. F. Mohrhardt, secretary of the bureau, were positive in their declinations to furnish informatiom. There is: no question that the vote was regarded as one of the most serious moves which the insurance companies have taken, and its effect upon tha general conditions is awaited with no little concern by the managers. Today’'s session was prolonged and stormy. The minority of thirty stubs bornly fought every move which tended to place the bureau on record in the matter of payment of lo . They realized that a strong organization im favor of a sweeping cut had been formed and that there was evidently a fight on hand to force everybody into line. Propositions looking toward a compro= mise were made without result. A plan to adopt a sliding seale of discounts instead of a flat slash of 25 per cent was voted down by those who favored the horizontal hacking in the policies. Arguments for and against the cuf were heatedly presented. Managers who had been instructed to stand only for the greater reduction were compelled to hold to the theory that the earthe quake had caused a 25 per cent loss so0 far as policies were concerned beforq the fire swept the city. And it all led very soon to the call for a vote. ARE NEARLY EQUALLY DIVIDED ON POLICY. Analysis of the result shows that a few more companies than a mqhflq of those which carried risks in San Francisco have banded together appare ently to stand firmly on the proposition to scale down all of their loss pay< ments one-quarter on the face of the adjusted claims. But there are nearly sixty companies which do not stand as yet for such a cut. Of this big minority nearly thirty have not gone on record at all. These include the absentees at this morning's session and those which were excused froms voting. This leaves a few more than thirty in round numbers which will pay in full all of their adjusted losses and will therefore continue the poliey they adopted from the outset in respect to the conflagration. Managers of such companies put emphasis upon the fact that they are not bound by the majority vote which was taken today. One of them explained: “It is ridiculous for us to be bound by this vote. We have been instructed’ to pay adjusted losses in full. No vote in the bureau could force us to change that attitude, and therefore, so far as we are concerned, the vote is of no avail.” | ABSOLUTE DECAEE OF DIVORCE WANTED BY MAS. W, E.COREY Wile of Steel Magnate of Pits- burg Files Suit in Reno. RENO, June 12.—Mrs. William Ellis Corey, wife of the president of the United States Steel Corporation, this morning filed a petition in the Second for an absolute decree of divorce. The petition of Mrs. Corey is brief, reciting that she was married to Corey on December 1, 1883, and that he aba She asks for a decree upon the ground of deser- tion and also requests that the custody of their minor son be given to her. The petitioner has retained three at- torneys of Reno to prosecute her case, | and Corey will be represented by Pitts- burg and Nevada counsel. Sardis Sum- merfield, representing Corey, stated this morning that he did not know whether his client would‘oppose the petition or not. It is currently reported that nego- tiations are in progress which will re- rebels is practically complete. I sult in Corey glving his consent to the |and pays no social visi | if the Countess would return with him | that he did not know what her plans | were. GEORGE GOULD AND WIFE START FOR OLD WORLD Intend te Make Ten-.housand-Mile Automobile Journey by Easy Stages in Europe. NEW YORK, June 12.—George J. Gould and Mrs. Gould, with their daughters, Marjorie and Helen, left to- day on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse for Cherbourg. They will be away un- til September. ' “I am going abroad for a vacation,” said Gould, “and, shall not allow busi- ness matters to occupy any of my at- tention if I can help it. When we reach Cherbourg we shall start at once on an automobile trip through France, Ger- many and Switzerland. 1 hope to cover nearly 10,000 miles, though we at a very moderate pace and a day or two at various places. Gould said he did not care to discuss the affairs of his sister, the Countess de Castellane, and added that he would not act as any intermediary in the marital difficulties which have arisen between her and Count Boni. Asked to this country in the fall, he declared ————— divoree and his settlement upon his wife of an independent fortune. -The attorneys declined to discuss this phase of the matter. 3 Mrs. Corey is attended while in Repo by the mother and sister of the defend- | ant. She declines to see ;ewiupn- men v N2 THOUSANDS THRONG GHRISTIAN SCIENGE CHURGH 14 BOSTON {Two Large Business Meetings Are Held in the Great Edifice. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. BOSTON, June 12.—So great a crowd had assembled before the new audi- torium of the Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, for the annual meeting of the believers in the Chris- tian Science faith today that president of the church, presided. About 20,000 Christian Scientists to- day visited the new extension of the Mother Church, dedicated on Sunday, and while no official programme had been arranged the church was crowd- ed from early morning by believers anxious to inspect the new edifice. Many of the visiting Christian Scien- tists today went to Lynn to view the house in which Mrs. Eddy wrote “Sci- business two meetings, one a duplicate of the other, were arranged. - Hermann S. Herring, But the action does serve an important use to the policy-holders, in tha§ it will give them a basis upon which to figure where they are standing im the matter of loss payments. It goes further, and demonstrates beyond all question apparently that the fire insurance companies have split into pieces so far as a general and uniform plan of settlement of losses is concerned. SITUATION RAPIDLY APPROACHING A CRISIS, The situation is rapidly nearing the point where the “paying” companies will take the matter of adjustments into their own hands. will settle their own losses and let the other companies travel alone the road they have select the road of 25 per cent discount. Another side of the argument is that made by managers who favored & uniform 25 per cent cut. This figure, they maintain, was selected in order te prevent even a greater slashing in the settlement. It is well known now that there are not a few companies which are attempting to settle with their clients on a basis of as high as a 40 per cent cut in the adjusted claim. The bureau refused today to amend its rule touching the work on “ justments. A meeting of the American companies has been called for this at Reéed Hall. It is said the question of reinsurance will bé discussed. . It is noteworthy that only a few of the British companies have made & move toward payment or even adjustment of losses. Their silence is giving risq to much uneasiness. < ence and Health” in 1866. A number den, Mrs, M. A. Swenson, Mrs. of others spent the day visiting points | Thompson, Mrs. E. V. Le Blond, lr‘; of interest about the city. Ida Gates. Mrs. Caroline Paton. Among the persons in the San Fran- Other persons of exceptional promi= cisco delegation are the following: nence are Lecturer Clarence C. Miss Sue Ella Bradshaw (lecturer), of California Judge John Frank Gale, Miss Mary BEider. Miss Works of Los Angeles. Elsie Stevens, John R. Culbertson, it Charles F. Paine, Miss Clara Rice. C.| yarshal of the Nobility Murdered. S. Rogers, David Putnam, Miss Har- e riet E. Vincent, Mr. and Mrs. H. de C. KUTAIS, Russia. June 12.—M. Sharp~ Richards, Harry P. Reynolds, Mrs. Lida Preston, Mrs. D. Frank Pierce, |waylaid and murdered by Mrs. Walter Fields, Mrs. H. Rosegar- ists yesterdag. 4 » kovsky, a marshal of the nobiilty, was