The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1906, Page 1

'THE WEATHER FORECAST. For San Francisco and vicin- ity: light west wind. Fair Saturday; The Call prints more news than any other paper published in San Francisco. SAN 'TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE RELIEF FUND 56,989,602 FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RELIEF FUND FINANCIERING ANNUAL COST OF MANAGING FUND $1,000,000 COMMITTEE QUESTIONS THE SALARY BUDGET AS SUBMITTED The budgets of the Relief Commission and the Health Board for operating expenses for the ensuing year in caring for the homeless total approximafely $1,000,000. ‘The MUSIC OF PATRIOTISM. PUBLIC SCHOOLS LEADING CLASS OF CHILDREN IN PATRIOTIC SONGS. OF mUSIC IN Fully 5000 Youthful Voices WilliBe Heard in Chorus on the EN-”HE TUWN Fourth of July in the Stadium Near the Chain of 1S POISONED- Lakes in Beautihul Goldin Gate Park between the hours of 9 and 10 a. m. -s oo telle Carpenter, musical director ot|2nd 1 and 2 p. m. On Tueeday, July 3, Six Hundred People Sick | ine pubite senoots, the chfidren who sre From Drinking Im- the day of the final grand rehearsal, © be the feature of the Fourth of July pure Water. ogramme & the street car company has agreed to donate the use of twenty cars or as P in the park are rounding many more as may be necessary for S form. The people who at-|the transportation of the children to) v s and from the park. These cars will be e exercises on that day will en- | pjaced at such points throughout the £ = 7 “a treat city as the committee may designate, Carelessness of Corpora- | Yesteraey morning a renearsal was| 50" nat ‘no chila. snail have. 1 aais 3 3 held 1‘_z:_m‘- Haight School at Mission | any great distance. The points now tion \13‘ I{GS‘Ult in wenty-fifth streets. The puplls| ynown where cars will collect the lit- the schools south of Market were attendance. According to the present programme, ly 5000 children will lift up their es on the giorfous Fourth and the of our beloved “America” and patriotic songs will be heard far into the confines of Golden Gate Park. children are enthustastic, This bespeaks much for the success of the venture. The teachers in charge of the chil- dren have plans for a flag drill. In the great stadium near the Chain of Lakes tle passengers are as follows: Broadway and Powell street, Twen- ty-sixth and Mission streets, Twen nintihand Noe streets, Ocean teenth avenue and Kentucy Twenty-fourth street and Hoffman av. nue, Eighteenth and Castro streets, i e- visadero, between Sacramento and Jackson streets; Fillmore, between Broadway and Pacific avenue; Fillmore hill, Jefferson Square, Laguna and Eddy streets, Church and Market streets and foot of Chenery street. All| will leave at 9 o'clock in the morning. Fatalities. TO THE CALL drinking water street, 29.—By placed the city all the Austin, and are in r Company The women soned and men f the peo-|in the prettiest park in the country, and | the holiday throng will see a sight and B - ccurred | hear a programme the like of which TROISES AT THE PARK. es will Was never before given in this city. The spot is ideal On all sides luxur- iant growths of trees, follage and flow- ers flank the stadium. Off to one side lakes; Committee Arranges Programme to Be Held in New Stadium. The Fourth of July committee met | . passeq | the way to the west the vast|last night at the residence of D . ~ at - Pacific rolls, its dull music adding 10| Joy, where the following pro;r::a:é c > :urpentine, sul- the harmony of the daj | Joy, the i ¥ 4, potagsium and other poi. Who could have told fifty years ago r?r the exercises on the Fourth at the s sicals. Before this state of that 5000 school children would stand | Stadium at Golden Gate Park was an- - noticed the entire popula- eaded on the Fourth of July in|?%mged: c t had been stricke the year 1906 in a beautiful park,| park band Paul Sioinjous den Gate Steindorf, director. Literary exercises. 11 a. m.—“The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” Grand chorus of school children under the direction of Miss Estelle Car- penter. Invocation—Archbishop Montgomery. Introductory remarks—Chairman of Literary exercises, Father P. O'Ryan, Reading of Declaration of Independ- ence, Mayor Schmitz. “American Republic,” march (Thiele), where once reigned the sand dune, and ta sert country. swell their voices with patriotic songs? Who could have told a little more than two short months ago that San - Fran- cisco would so have regained her pion- T, - to celebrate the signing of the Declar- H O‘NN TRUSTEE a of Independenca? Joyfully the children yesterday ran ed in the eastern part up the steps of the school to their re- ey caught the spirit of the | b and. Original poem. The drill progressed fa- - iss 8 | “My Own United States” (Edw: i t Miss Carpenter nnd‘ Mrs. i ris: Of Sehigl EhBti s ( ards) Mary D. Glade, Miss Angela Moran| “'Gration—James D. Phelan SAUSALITO, June 28—Town Trustee and other teachers, have worked like | “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocesn.” s Hughes dled at his resi- a Trojan to make the chorus a success, | chorus. A sis evening. Mr. Hughes and success will be theirs. The chil-| Benediction—Rt. Rev, Bishop Nichols. Wales elghty vears ago dren have memorized the words of the| ~America,” chorus. B California in 1852. By pro- as a mining engineer. He ome of the prineipal min- in British Columbla, alifornia, Arizona and South | America, as 2 mining expert. Recently Mr, Hughes retired on aceount songs, and the programme will go off | without a hitch. * | Wellman Reaches The United Rallroads, through as-| TROMSOE, No sistant to the president, Mullally, has | Weliman. leader of agreed to furnish the children with| cago Record-Herald 10.000 free tickets, entitling them to | of {ll rides to and from the stadium in the|three French aeronauts and some me- heaith. Mr. Hughes came to Sausalito park. The tickets will be.good for|chanics. The airship material will| ten years ago and was serving his|transfers. Children may ride to re-|reach Tromsoe tomorrow, and all the third term as town trustee. Lbearsal on thelr regular school ticketsparty will go to Spitzbergen next week. | ) 4 2 g arctic expedition. arrived here today. accompanied by LANE REFUSES T0 BACK DOWN Portland’s Mayor Willl Not Recognize Old Committee. {Insists ReliJFund Shall Be Sent to San 1 | ments in the case today was the state- Francisco. | ment published in an afternoon paper | that White, insteed of being wealthy, PORTLAND, June 29. — For nearly |as was generally supposed, in fact two haurs this morning the members of | owed $300,000 to one younz man of a the prorogued finance committee of the | prominent family, as much more to San Francisco general bored with Mayor Lane to induce him | drawn his personal account with the to recede from the stand he took ves. terday committee la- when he discharged the com-|member that he was notified that he mitteemen and ordered them to make|could draw no more and must be con- {an accounting to 1. |" Mayor Lane stood firm tude and insisted that the $49,000 cash N. Fleischner. in his atti- in hand be lorwnrded‘ at once to San Francisco. The Mayor announced that thejonly | finance committee he would now cog- nize is the one he appointed vesterday, consisting besides | Father J. H. Black, W. | Rufus Mallory. Mr. Fieischner of W. Cotton and Mr. Hoge of the dismissed committee made the following statement: “My view is that as these funds were not raised by any tax or voted out of any public funds. we as a committee are responsible only to those who in- trusted into our hands as trustees their own private money Meve sufferers. with which to re- have done this to W, the best of our ability, and apart from allotments made only 48,924.04 re- mains subject to our immediate use. We wish it were more, for we feel the worst Is vet to come. | be glad to turn over our responsibility While we would to any one we do not feel it right to do so. Our judgment is to hold this money and give It out yearly.” SRR S ‘Theatrieal Manager Dies. SEATTLE, Wash, June %9 TFigkey Barnett, a well known local theatrical manager of this city, died here this morning after a short illness. During the peast year h& was almost totally blind. In this city he bhad managed several concert halls and vaudeville houses. He was, in 1903, in the same line of business at Nome and in 1904 and 1905 managed the. Belvedere Con- cert Hall in San Francisco. He wfll‘hol ey | the plea. DF THAW ‘Millionaire Arraigned on the Charge of | Murder Detectives Digging Into the Past Life of White. f ;Wife of Pr_i—s—oner Has'a| | Close Call in Her | Automobile. | | | | | NEW YORK. June 29.—Not guilty"! ! e plea persorally made by Harry | K. Thaw when arraigned today before Justicé Cowing in the Supreme Court lon the charge of having murdered | Sthnford White. So prompt was the prisoner’s reply to the usual guestion b¥ the court clerk that his counsel, who expected to reply for him, were for a moment startled. Then they im- mediately interposed an amendment of sking permission of the court to withdraw it at any time up to next Tuesday. This permission was grant- ed and the prisoner was led away from thé bar and taken bac. to his cell in the Tombs. These proceedings lasted but a few moments, during which the prisoner appeared to be cool and collected While waiting his turn for a aign- ment, several prisoners preceding him in a the at the bar, Thaw recess chatting charge. After Thaw the Tombs, Assistant Di Nott, in reply to the questi there in this case?” said: “It is simply a question of whether| \ New York has gone down to the level | |of -a mining camp or whether a man| | has got a chance for his 1 | The action of Thaw’s counsel in re- | questing leave to amend the plea of not | guilty is taken as a possible indication | that the final line of defense has not stood with window officer in manded to Attorney What is | | been fully determined, and it is still| ‘con!idered possible that a plea of tem- | | porary insanity will be offered | TO EXPOSE WHITE'S LIFE. That every effort will be made to| isecure the admission of eyvidence bear- | |ing upon the past life of Stanford | | White and upon. his alleged pursuit |of Mrs. Thaw after her marriage is | certain. While the defense is willing |and apparently anxious that the trial | should begin at the earliest possible | moment there is hardly any probabil- | ity that it can take place before Oc- | tober. | One of the most interesting develop- | other persons, and had so greatly over- {firm of architects of which he was a itent with a certain fixed weekly al- | lowance. Mrs. Thaw held a long conference with her husband's attorneys today, during which she {s said to have re- lated at length her whole life history, especially that portion pertaining to her acquaintance with White prior to| her marriage. As a result of this con- ference it was decided that former Governor Frank S. Black would take a leading part in the defense. Mrs. Thaw did not visit her husband in the Tombs today. | The investigation by Thaw's counsel |into the career of Stanford White and the John Doe proceedings instituted by | the District Attorney’s office, designed to probe every possible avenue that may throw light on the motive of the tragedy, promise to result in some startling disclosures of the Bohemian underworld of the metropolis. Scores of detectives are now delving in’ this underworld on behalf of the prosecution and defense, and fresh dis- coveries bearing more or less directly ton the tragedy are of almost hourly occurrance. CALIFORNIA WITNESSES, Amoeng the many witnesses examined at the District Attorney’s office today were Thomas McCable, a Californian, who was\ with the Thaws in the Cafe Martin on the evening of the tragedy, and Truxto. Beale, who was with ‘White and his party in the restaurant at the same time. Assistant District Attorney Garvan stated after McCable's examination nutj McCable had accompanied Mrs. Tha: —_— 7 ce Committee was astonished at the report. Half of the amount is made.up of salaries. The committee has in .sigl}t about $7,000,000, and as the cost of supplies is not oned in the budgets submitted, the situation was regarded so grave that a postponement/was taken for detailed investigation. ESTIMATED OPERATING EXPENSE FOR YEAR ONEFIFTH HILLS WILL RESOUND WITH THE NOT BULT CTHE L OF THE CASH SUPPLY Report Proves Great Surprise to Men Who Are Handling the Coin. Detailed Investigation Is to Be Made of Facts and Figures Presented. McEnerney and Phelan Demand Light on Needs of the Admistration. One million dollars a year is what tht members of the relief com- mission and Dr. Ward of the Board of Health want for the runming ex- penses of the camps, hos Forty-nine thousand dollars a month for salaries and wages of camp commanders, relief com~ missioners and minor employes is requested. .Dr. Ward submitted a neat little total of $42,000 for his force, but later reduced the sum to $33.865. At this’ figure the money contributed for help of the homeless would be melting away at the approximate rate of $100,000 every thirty days. At the last report of the had “amounted to $5,200,404.84. Claims paid and to be paid amount to $2.384,- 00.70. Uncollected contributions total $4,083,490.43. Finance Committee Questions Budgets, The finance committee at its regular meeting yesterday afternoon received a report from Dr. Devine as to the estimates of his depart- ment and that of the Health Board. The committee was dumfounded at the enormous sum which was called for to defray only the expenses of the relief commission and the sanitary inspectors, without providing for a morsel of food or a stitch of clothing. Besides this sum the office force of the findnce committee and special relief committee will have to be taken into consideration The finance committee, upon the suggestion of Garret McEnerney, refused to conmsider the budgets on the ground that they were decidedly ambiguous und failed to go into detail asencay The amount of money that will nced be expended for salaries must necessarily be large, it was admitted by the committemen, but such items as $100 a month for night watchmen and scavengers was regarded as out of bounds. The relief conwni ners %ere advised to secure the services of the members of the régular police force who are relieved from duty because of reduced allowance to the department from the city, rather than expend $3300 a month for special men, McEnerney Cross-Examines Dr. Devine. Dr. Devine in making his report was closely questioned by Garret McEnerney as to every detail. “Dr. Devine,” queried the lawyer, “can you give us offhand an estimate of the number of people now receiving relief supplies?” “I believe I can,” stated the represemtative of the Red Cross, are at the present time some thirty thousand people camps.” and warehouses. +al tals finance committee the collections “there ded in all of the incl And from your estimates you show that salaries alone are to reach approximately $100,000 a month. That is figuring about $1.50 a head just to deliver the goods to-the needy. Does that not strike you as rather exorbitant?” Dr. Devine in reply said: “It is large, but we expenses. Qur figures show that the money expe through the finance committee and the army for the present month, is considerably in excess of the amount we ask. The tion camps.is increasing, as refugees are returning from interior towns.” ve not increased the d by the Red Cross, popu | Phelan Appoints Special Relief Committee. Chairman Phelan at this point wanted to know if the commission would economize if their amount was granted “We would most certainly do thi answered Dr. Devine, “and if you had not suggested this point that would have been our policy anyway.” McEnerney then moved that the budget be referred to the next meet- ing of the committee, a week from yesterday, more detailed account of the funds required can be submitted. He included in his mo- tion the requirement that the entire pay roll be made out and copies sent to the members of the finance committee prior to the date set for the meeting. This motion was carried unanimousi’ The portions of the document which the relief commission submitted at the last session of the finance committee as its policy in dealing wifh special relief work was given into the hands of a committee of seven. This committee is to have charge of relief other than clothing and pro- visions. Its object-is rehabilitation. Chairman J. ¢D. Phelan appointed the following seven prominent citizens to act on this body chbiskop Riordan, Bishop Nichols, Rabbi Voorsanger, O. K. Cushing, F. W. Dohr- mann, Dr. Gallwey and Dr. Devine. Dr. Devine to act chair- man; as he is fully acquainted with the work to be performed. He am- nounced that at present he had $20,000 of the appropriated $25000 on hand, but the expenditures were rapidly increasing. As the committee would not meet for a week, he suggested that another appropriation be made. when a is as Mayor Schmitz Recommends Committee. M. H. de Young made a motion to the effect that $75.000 should be immediately turned over to this work, making a total of $100,000. The purpose of this committee is to give or loan the money in reasomable sums to refugees to enable them to re-establish themselves in business. Concerning this committee and its object, Mayor E. E. Schmitz sent the “following letter to Dr. Devine, the chairman of the relief commission: “Dr. Edward F. Devine, Chairman Relief Commission—Dear Sir: As your commission will have many. requests from sectarian organizations and others to supply upon their réecommendation memey for rehabilita- , and also for food and clothing, I recommend that in order to have g:‘recommendation from men known to be interested in San Fran- .cisco's welfare . and to provide for those recommended from the dif- ferent religious organizations and others the appointment of a committee of five, composed of Archbishop Riordan, or representative; Fishop Nichols, or representative; Rabbi Voorsanger, or representative; F. W_ Dohrmann and John F. Merrill, to be known as the rehabilitation com- mittee, whose recommeéndations shall be made to your commission and acted upon by you without further investigation, with the understanding, of course, that all propositions involving the expenditure of money shall receive the authorization of the finance committee of the relief and Red Cross funds. : “As this work is of vital importance in order that all of our destitute people. may be given the proper attention, I recommend the immediate ap- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 4 _ © — o 4