The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1906, Page 1

| ‘ji_\: " WEATHER FORECAST. i For San Francisco and vicin- Cloudy Wednesday | what warmer; fresh west wind. 3 some- NO.. ;27 n - I =3 r ke i - ey = | § U — - B e i_ T3 Hil AGENGY evers Connection With Hamburg-Bremen Company. o e ey S Does Not Sanction Meth- ods of Adjusting Losses. Refuses to Sacrifice His Standing in Busi- ness Circles. Rudolph 716!’0](1: one of the old and best known of the Pa Coast fire insurance men, own up his bands in dis- the n Fire Insurance Company. quit Hamburg- !zy he turned in his resig- eral agent to Man berger of New York driven to sever his with the Hamburg- ecause of its his mind, in ad- settling its Herold num actions, d to nd San Pzcific Coast friends by cands and in the thirty- four > s | as spent building s of the Hamburg- on the confidence of ne. Naturally, he expect to adjust the losses after the aliowed aster, just as he er other fires. erold’s surprice the one 2 en sent out C. E. he!l from New York to adjust He superseded Herold pertaining to Ham- en affairs. to deal with the business friends of a lifetime, and to their Herold was complaints of bad adjusting meth- ods he could but turn a help- less ear F {ly Herold sent word to the New York office of the company, asking that he be allowed to ad- just all losses here. His position Convinced that he could do nothing toward aiding his business friends in se- curing settiements and satisfied that in justice to himself he could not continue as agent Herold vesterday presented his resigna- tion to the company. Speaking of his action, Herold said last night: The reeson for my resignation as gen- eral agent is that the company, through the United States managers at New was not sustained. proper under the circumstances, York, and without conferring with me, placed all matters in connection with the San Francisco conflagration losses in the hands of their agency secretary at New York, C. E. Mitchell, who arrived here with full power and, together with his associates, also from the East, estab- lished an adjusting bureau at 1719 Pine street in this city. Under instructions received from the United States mane, gers, | was compelled to refer anything and everything appertaining to these losses to the aforesaid bureal, and the decision there reached to be final. Being thus deprived of dealing with my friends and old-time patrons in the adjustment of their loss claims, which, under the terms of my contract formed part of my duties, and which have al- ways been performed by me in the past. and for the further reason that many complaints were made to me by claim- ants because they were compelled to deal with strangers and because of the methods adopted at the adjusting bureau in the adjustment of their claims, 1 brought the matter to the attention of the New York office, declaring that the differences between Mr. Mitchell and myself were irreconcilable, and request- ing that one of the managers come here for the purpose of a personal investiga- tion, as | cculd not consent to have matters so continue. In response, United States Manager Buchenberger arrived ' views as to the mode of adjustment. THE The Call prints more [ news than any other paper published in San Francisco. WO MEN | (LLFD By | DYNNITE Overturning of Freight ar Caused an Explosion. Accident Occurs on the Sierra Railway Near Angels. Brakemen Die and Con- ductorand Passenger Are Hurt. ANGELS, June 26.—The overturning of a freight car ef a train running on the Sierra Railw near Neelands station, 1y beiween Jamestown and Angels, this afternoon, exploded and a half tons of dynamite and killed Hoaglaad and brakemea on the train. The conductor, named Hawkins, was injured, and a passenger, E. A. Roberts of Sau- s y hurt. Hoagland's and but a few s body were re- The explosicn was caused by the car carrying dynamite jumping the track when coming up out of the great canyon of the Stanis- Brown, salife, was seve bedy was badly m small pieces of Brown covered, so terrible was the shock. laiis River at 2 curve in the road about by the District Attorney’s of-| six miles from this place. The car was turned compietely over and the impact cxploded the dymamite. The car was completely destroyed, and parts of the in a]l probability the case wxl]‘ wheels were thrown a mile and a half then be considered by the | Grand Jury. The prisoner'sa from the scemc and landed on Bear SA N FRANCISCO, WED MUR \ESDAY, JUN E PRICE 1 E FIVE CENTS. DERER THAW, DENIED BAIL, HELD A PRISONER IN THE TOMBS. - . NEW YORK, June 26.—Frankly admitting that he killed Stanford White, the famous architect, and pleading in justification of the deed that White $had ruined the life of his wife, the beautiful former chorus gifl and artit’s model, Florence Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Kendall Thaw of Pittsburg, brother of the Countess of Yarmouth, occupies a cell in the Tombs, awaiting the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of murder. His counsel will offer the defense of insanity. MILLIONAIRE SHACKED TO | A DETECTIVE Slayer of .Stanford White Is Shown No Favoritism. ” Held to _(;rand Jury | After Brief Ex- amination. Alienists Pass Upon | the Sanity of Prisoner. NEW YORK, June 26. Harry Kendall Thaw was examined by eminent alien-| ists, retaired on his behalf and fice. The Coroner’s inquest will be held on Thursday and [ LIFE STORY OF - WHO DIED AT HANDS STANFORD WHITE— Born in New York, November 9, 1853; son of Richard Grant White, distinguished author. | Murdered Jume 25, 1906, by { Harry Kendall Thaw, mem- ber of a millionaire Pitts- burg family and husband of Evelyn Nesbit, the act- | ress Millionaire architect. { Graduate of the University of | New York. Received architectural train- { i | brill and H. H. Richardson. | || Was Richardsen's chief as- It i of Trinity Church in Boston. |l Traveled and studied in Eu- rope, 1878-1880. Since 1881 ‘a member of the firm of McKim, Mcad & White of New York. Decsigned the pedestal of the Lincoin monument in Lin- coln Park, Chicago. Designed pedestais fer the principal statwes by Au- OF HARRY K. THAW | ing with Charles D. Gam- {! sistant in the construction || B She was ccnsiderably younger | very far along in the early "teens oo TMISS NESBIT LEADS A GAY STAGE LIFF Name Connected Long Ago With | White’s. Uncharitable Views’; Expressed by | Rivals. Friendly With Ar-| chiteet While in Her ’Ieens. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. 'NEW YORK, June 26.—Ru- mor, to put it mildly, had been| busy with the acquaintanceship | of Florence Evelyn Nesbit, ac-| tress and artists’ model, with| Stanford White years before Harry Thaw came to her ac- quaintance. She is not old now. then. In fact, she had not got ‘nected in Rialto gossip with Mountain. On two of the five cars' of 4 x the train were two traction engines, be- wife will be l'Cqul'ed to ap- || ing brought here for the Union Construc- pear before that bOdy, she /| tion Company. One of the engines was l’l V‘ b TVPd .tl’l i not badly damagcd, but the other was AYIHE POCh ST b ai blown into pieces and scatiered so it can- subpena today while in con- not be focated. A piece of the engine, a syltation at the offices of her | stringer 8x10 and 14 feet long, was ’ | thrown a distance of half a mile and hUSbénd o couns?l. Every ef— i struck the ground at the Jones mine. fort is now being made by The explosion wrecked the chiorination bhoth sides to expedite the works at the Jones minc; and although B e - 4 the explosion was heard here, no damage legal, prelxmmanes " that the was dome in this town. Werd comes arraignment and trial may | from Milton, twenty-one miles west of 'take place at the earliest pos- Angels, that the shock was felt there and bl | sible date. window glass was broken in the village. L S i s Not since the killing of | i Strange to say, the railroad track was | not badly damaged by the great force of James Fisk j[_ by Edward i the explosion, but the up-passenger train : had not passed the peint at 8 o’clock to- StOkes o the staircase Of the' rand Central Hotel more | night. The report was brought here that pos- [han thirty years ago has the ‘ sibly a second passenger might have been | Married Miss Bessie Smith, || g_ustus St. Gaudens. |} qeiralts pobalir architect; Designed the house now own- I!” Just how old Florence Nesbit ed and occupied by White- [ was when she went on the stage law Reid in New York; also | is a thing perhaps definitely Madison Square Garden, | known only ‘°d helx;self a“d par- the Century and Metropoli | €™t She miade her first ‘ap- . ¥ | pearance in the original “Floro- tan clubs, the University of | 5., iitthny stthe CaBlo b New York, the Washington | tween five and six years ago. Arch and the University of HER FIRST “TURN.” Virginia. | “Appearance” is perhaps a A fellow of the American In- | rather misleading word to apply stitute of Architects, a mems- | ;o till'erh first "!t:xrn" behmld the ber of the Knickerbocker, j|footlights, as she was simply one Union, University, Players, :i:;"m": ::il:::'“::yfii:. t:'l: :::: Lambs, Golf and other ' duction. clubs. | John C. Fisher, manager of Resided in Grammercy Park, | the company, gave her her first New York; had a summer engagement. Beyond that he residence at St. James, L. I. | does not know much about her career on or off the stage while killed in the wreck and search was made for another victim, but railroad men say only the two brakemen were Killed. The wheels of one of the five cars in the freight train were found on the rail- road track half a mile this side of the wreck. The explosion was felt as far away as Stockfon, sixty miles, where it was believed that another earthquake had shaken up the country, but the force of the shock seemed to travel down stream in the deep canyon and did not come over the hill to Angels. here ten days ago. [ protested .nimt‘ the adjustment being continued in the | bands of the bureau and requested that | my position be sustained, but as it was | impossible for me to bring this about, I | felt it due to my friends and patrons of | my office, with whom I have had a busi- | ness relationship for over thirty years, | and but just to myself, to sever my con- | nection with the company, and handed | my resignation to Manager Buchenberg- | er, with the request that it be accepted | at once, and it was accepted. My whole business life of thirty-four years has been spent in the service of | the company, and for the last twenty-| three years I have been its general agent | for the Pacific Coast department. During | all of this time all losses were either ad- | justed by or through me, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Naturally, I regret the severance of a business con- | nection which bas lasted so long and which in other respects has been most | pleasant. I regret, moreover, the throw- | ing away of my life work, but most of | all, I regret that the Hamburg-Bremen | should have conluded not to adopt my | i metropolis been shocked by so startling and dramatic a|| tragedy as that which was| enacted last night in the view 'of an audience of more than| 1000 _persons in the roof theater of Madison Square Garden. Not the least dram- atic feature of the tragedy is the fact that White met his death in the structure which, perhaps, is the most con- spicuous memorial of his archi- tectural genius. IN PATROL WAGON. Rarely has the case against any prisoner moved with more rapidity than did the proceedings today which ended in Thaw's formal com- mitment to the Tombs. Save /in this unusual and almost frenzied haste, the routine followed and the treatment accorded to Thaw differed in no respect from that meted out to any prisonér charged Continued on Page 2, Columna 1. who survives him, with a | son, Lawrence. LEDERER SAYS ~ HARRY THAW IS A DEGENERATE Theatrical Man Defends the Name of Stan- { ford White. Relations of Architect With Actress Always Proper. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. CHICAGO, June 26.— George W. Lederer, manager of the Colonial Theater and one of the best known was intimately acquainted with Har- ry Kendall Thaw, his wife and Stan- ford White, tonight gave out an in- terview in which he declared that the slayer of White was a moral degen- ereta, a morphine and cigarette fiend, and, owing to his mental condition, Lederer was the man who “‘discov- ered”’ the pretty young artist’s mod- el and placed her in the cast of the “ Florodora’’ company, which was then playing in New York. Lederer i/it has been said, did not stand ‘|was with Lederer in the ‘Wild theatrical men in the country, who | she was in his company. In “Florodora” Evelyn Nesbit, out. When she met George Lederer, though, it was another story. One woman who knows the profession as well as the next gave a hint of this. She said: “Now, whenever we hear of anything of that sort we tear up their cards—they are off our| books. We have to do this out of deference to the decent girls of the chorus. For ten toone of them are decent, and the one | that goes wrong is the only one that is heard of. “But it was when Miss Nesbit Rose,’ the production that Irene Bentley starred in—I think she was Miss Bentley’s understudy— it was then we began to hear Mr. White’s name mentioned in how it was. The Casino did not have the best reputation with all From this time on, if the Rialto recol- lection and the Rialto habit of putting Continued on Page 2, Column 3, - Continued on Page 2. Column 2 3 EVELYN NESBIT, THE BEAU- TIFUL CHORUS GIRL WHOSE FRIENDSHIP FOR STANFORD WHITE, THE FAMOUS MRS. HARRY KENDALL THAW, FORMERLY FLORENCE ARCHITECT, COST THE LATTER.HIS LIFE. MILLIONAIRE 15 HUNOREDS SEEK UNDER ARREST - BOLD IN TANNNA SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. OROVILLE, June 26.—James' ~ TACOMA, June 26—A Dawson H. Leggett, dredging king andisPec_ia' says the rush for.Tmana millionaire, was arrested thisicomlmfes' Every vessel this year, morning upon complaint oflavmgmie:"e e,:'ery fivde b vy the City Superintendent off::;elr? a“dtof:e?glit.mr ;:,I,I;h ?:,: Streets acting under instruc- puget Sound are now at Dawson tions of the Board of Trustees, |awaiting the next vessels. All ac- upon a technical charge of!cu;nulated freight from White Horse obstructing the highway. The | for Fairbanks, as well as Dawson, ; . i+ has gone forward and there will be essence of the charge is that'no further blockade this summer, Leggett, Who is operating 2| The steamer Monarch, which arrived dredge within the corporate| yesterday from Fairbanks, brought limits of the city, has €N- | reports that the drought at that croached upon the very streets| camp is greatly curtailing the wash= of the city. ‘ |ing of gold and may seriously affect Oroville was incorporated | the summer output. during the early part of the! “‘“':'d.’ "‘; ”:‘,’"’:i" ":" hoen year, largely to save it from 2t wer u e Fondie or two s - |weeks. He has done nothing ma- the dredges, which thwate"edéterially to aid hydraulic mining, and you|the city with destruction. the camp is greatly in need of water., Since incorporation some t has been raining several times a dredges have been allowed 1o yeek in the Klondike, but the rain- work, but only under iron- fall has not been continuous enough, bound contracts to level their! Governor Melnnes’ campaign to rockpiles, cover them with cleanse the city of bad women has dirt and leave the ground in|resulted in thirty being ordered from as good condition as when town, They must go before the they commenced _their work. | end of the week.