The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1906, Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST. For San Francisco and vicin- ity: Fair Friday; fresh west wind. VOLUME C.—NO 15. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1906. The Call prints more news than any other paper published in San Francisco. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THIRTY-TWO STANCH COMPANIES ARE TAKING THE PRELIMINARY STEPS TOWARD PAYMENT Thirty-two insurance companies that expect to pay their San Francisco losses in full met in Reed Hall, Oakland, yesterday and appoint.ed a committee to prepare a plan under which they may procef:d to settle with the victims of the conflagration who had been their clients. This committee will report especially regarding the 1100 loss committees that have been named. In the meantime the solid companies are rapidly paying their losses. “DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR Appoint Body at an Executive Session to Prepare a Plan of Procedure. Report Expected to Deal Especially With Loss Committees Named by Bureau. Delay in Receiving Data From These Pre- vents Improvement in Situation. ““*dollar for doll com- ves today in Reed Hall and he 1100 loss committees adjusting committee of the s represented at the meeting ton. Louis o1 St nusetts. d Mercantile 1 London and Globe ce, London MUTUAL PROTECTION. rty-two ‘‘dollar for dellar’’ companies have formed an to act independently of the eighty-five ‘‘six-bit’’ eom- ted with the adjusting bureau in the payment of their n Francisco fire losses. The appointment of the loss committees was commenced ngarly months ago, but thus far the secretary of the bureau has re- d that only twenty-five of the committees have submitted find- s for the companies interested to act upon, and upon none of ve the firms concerned met and arrived at a method of set- tlement and payment It was the unsatisfactory operating of the loss committees and atent plan of many companies to proceed in a business-like st the risks and pay policy-holders what is due them used the ““dollar for dollar’’ companies to come together for r own mutual protection and welfare and devise some method ild prevent recaleitrant and weak companies from further g a settlement of the San Francisco fire claims. REPORTS ARE DELAYED. As the general adjusting committee of the Fire Underwriters’ adjusting burean has already assigned 1100 losses to adjusting com- mittees it was recognized by the dollar for dollar companies at meeting today that it would not be altogether wise to break .y from the bureau and thereby be deprived of the reports of the loss committees. Such a course would mean that the thirty-two companies that are ready and willing to pay their losses in risks where more than six companies are interested wonld have to in- n ¢ York aw gugurate an adjusting plan of their own and do much of the work | that Has already been accomplished by the existing loss committees | over again. Said one manager today: ‘‘It is not the reports of the adjust- ing committees that the ready-to-pay companies take objection to, but the delay in receiving these reports. It has been nearly two months since the adjusting committee began the work of naming loss com- mittees and it is only today that I received a report of any big loss | in which my company was concerned, and our losses were nearly $2.000,000. 1 have examined the reports and find that the loss on our risk was total, and we will pay in full and without any further question. ALL BOUND TO SECRECY. ““Now, if these reports would only come in fast enongh and in & business-like manner the insurance conditions in San Franeisco would be speedily improved. Honest insura.nge companies would not suffer through the faults of other companies and the tone of the entire insurance situation woulg be bettered.”’ B ON PAGE 3, COLUMS 3 AND & "INSURANCE MEN TO STA ND.TOGETHER FOR FAIR PLAY STIANS JEW N BATTLE i | | i y stanch and honest insgrance‘AnarchiSts ACt Leads to. "RaceWarin a Rus- sian City. _Bomb Thrown at a Reli- gious Procession in Bialystock. 'Massacre o{_fiebrews Fol- lows the Work of an Assassin. BIALYSTOK, Russia, June 14. — A Jewish anarchist threw a bomb at the Corpus Christi procession which was in progress here today and. killed and wounded many persone. In consequence the Christians attacked and massacred |the Jews and demolished their shops. Hundreds of persons were killed or | wounded. The bomb was thrown from the bal- cony of a house in Alexandrov street. A Russian clergyman was among those killed. | Immediately after the explosion Jews began to fire from the windows of the house. Soldiers surrounded it and fired two volleys. Meanwhile the enraged Christians at- tacked the Jewish stores in Alexandrov |and Suraz streets, demolishing the fix- | tures and windows, throwing the goods | Into the gutters and beating and mur- | dering the Jews. Many Jews fled to the raiiroad station, pursued by the mob, which killed several there. Three Jews were thrown from second-story win- dows of buildings. 4 The Jews are fleeing fropn Bialystok to the neighboring forests, and mobs are pursuing them. Detachments of dragoons have been sent out to protect the Jews. Jews arriving here on every train have been dragged out of the cars, and many of them have been murdered. | Troops have cleared the railway sta- tion. At 4 o'clock this afternoon the dis- | turbances continued. | | STORM IN LOWER HOUSE. Rejection of Appeal for Cessation. of Executions Rouses Radieals. ; ST. PETERSBURG, June 14.—The lower house of Parliament was rocked and swayed this afterncon by success- ive waves of passion, evoked by a se- ries of Government communications, including Military Procurator Pavioff's rejection of the appeal of the House for a cessation of the executions in the Baltic provinces, and the cool request of the Procurator of the District Court that the House expel M. Ulianof, who has been indicted, although a member of Parliament, in order that he may be arrested pending his trial for past of- fenses. So fierce was the storm that Presidgnt Mouromtseff announced that he would be compelled to adjourn the session if the demonstration was con- tinued. The District Procurator’s letter in- formed the House that the trial. of Ulianoff was set for June 27, but that he was protected from arrest by the constitutional privilege of the House, and that, according to a proviso of the statute, the right of expulsion was asked for. This was read after a num- ber of speeches assailing the court's action as being the most barefaced ef- | frontery . Kokosinies' resolution “that the House sees no reason to utilize the right of expulsion, and proceeds with the order of the day,” was adopted. Procurator Pavloff then ascended the rostrum in the face of the already en- raged House and read his promised communication arding the death sentences. He declared-that until the military laws were changed the courts- | martial had no option but to impose death sentences for such offenses as those committed at Riga and Sebasto- pol. The right of revision, he explained, rested solely with the governor gen- erals, who could reject appeals or con- firm sentences. The Minister of War could not interfere and could not de- cide whether culprits should be judged by military or clvil courts. Procurator Pavleff, after reading his communication in a hurried, agitated voice, immediately left the hall, but none too soon to escape cries of “mur- derer,” “assassin” and “dog” from the Radicals, who had posted themselves in all parts of the hall. At this point the President threat- ened to suspend the session unless or- der were restored. He recognized Pro- fessor Kusin-Karavieff, who flatly gave Pavloff the lle. He cited case after case with which he was ar, from his former connection with the Academy of Military Law, in which the Minister of B A RN IR e RS e SR Centizued oa Page 3, Columa % TSI Y LEA With San Francisco COI\OCI‘IIS. Municipal Boids to Be Held in- Washington as Security. | Congress A;;ar_s Opposed to Any Other Form of Assistance. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, June 14.—The Secre- tary of the Treasury may depasit $10,- 009,000 "to $1! 0,009 in the national banks of 8an’Franclsco, with the mu- nicipal bonds of that city as security, if the condition and the plans of the Treasury Department will permit him to do so. : Whether Congress will authorizé a loan of §10,000,000 to those banks, the 18 yet to be determined. There is strong opposition in Congress to the adoption’ .of any scheme for national ald to San Francisco, but the proposition made to- day to the House appropriations com- mittee on behalf of the San Francisco relief committee, looking to Govern- ment assistance to the city, was re- celved with less disfavor than any yet suggested. At the hearing today, which took | place in the appropriations committee room of the House, Judge Morrow and | Mr. Bartnett presented arguments in Ihvor of action by Congress which would authorize the loan of $10,000,000 of Governmeni funds to the national banks of San Francisco. The banks would then lend this money to a new association or bank, to be organized by the officers of the national banks of the city, taking the bonds of the new concern as security. This new organ- isation would be authorized to loan these funds to small borrowers on the security of real estate mortgages. JUDGE MORROW’S APPEAL. set aside as impracticable, in view the seri ‘objections raised. n: them by President Roosevelt and lead- ing members 0f both houses of Con- |4 A S S 10 BANKG Likely to —vfiepositv Gold| money to be used in rebuilding the Cfl)'.‘ { i { i | tance, g after careful consideration, had beem QUARTERS FOR LARGE FIRMS ON THE EAST SIDE OF VAN NESS. IMPOSING TEMPORARYSTRUCTURES ERECTED {Hastings Clothing Company to Locate on the City's New Business Street 'D. Samuels Lace House Will Install Its Old Stock in New Home. “Two lmpodu:wnrym have been erected on Van Ness avenue, where two of the oldest business firms in the @ity will make their headquar- ters, pending the erection of permanent One, at the southeast corner Clothing Company 60-foot front by 100 deep. The newn building will be occupied e The firm takes pride in being the first clothing house o renew business. interior of the Structure is neatly fln- ished and contains a great floor area for display. The building is lighted with arc lights. The Lace House is not yet completed, but is expected to be finished week. It covers a lot 50x70. OF AN AIRSHIP OVER GAPITAL OF NATION — ‘WASHINGTON, June 14.—An airship, under complete contrel, flying over ‘Washington, was the spectacle wit- nessed here today. Theusands turned out to see the novel sight and cheered the navigator as he skillfully directed the craft. B The ship started from a point three ile 7 \gton, on the Virginia :a‘:." '&’:':.' m’fi-mummm = -a. distance of 400 i | T SIE I GOl SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, June 14—May Yohe led a beautiful Aberdeen terrier down the i (g i -i i