The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1906, Page 1

Cloudy Thursday, with For San Francisco and Vicinity ing and evening; Fresh west fog in Get NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL, containing another beautiful col- ored picture of the City Burning. 1906. G reatest Multitude Ever Gathe | Franklin Insurance CHILDREN PLEDGE THEIR FEALTY T0 COUNTRY Lifelong Loyalty to Flag and the Multitude Cheers DAY FULL OF EVENTS Speeches, Music and Athletic Contests Entertain Crowd of People at the Stadium Golden e was e exer- children. to whom LIVING WALL OF PEO \ representa- rnment as by their thearts, fi teacher's e excellent singing to con- om the spec- Rev red Archbishop Mont- the invocation ited tes, upon te ana nation home ang would con- at t prosperity ipon tk of O'Ryan spoke ve recent 4 d the city e invocation He re- ter that haa ud said that as the wor great catas- : e the people avely come b to renew their loyalty to the flag o reassert the independence for their forefathers fought. Jie the gathering proclaimed to that the people of San Fran- of would their manifest rebuilding ¥ by the e Colden Gate so that Amer- imerce and prosperity in the might be preserved ker complimented the Mayor wan. Joy of the committee | ghore of s West e spea | a Chair: | sardless of the prominence of the par- | ties concerned. | prosecuted Company of Philadclphia Apparently Fears PATRIOT], 4 THRONG ;% <>OLDEN— s 3T < 24 CONSPIRACY TO DISGRACE | MRS. HARTZE BoYS POUND DYNAMITE IN TOY CANNON Pitisburg’s District Attorney Sides With the Accused Wife. HAS PROOF OF A PLOT Five Millionaire Who Procured the Negro's Testimony May Be Prosecuted. and Two Fatally Injured. EXPLOSION fiAKES TOWN Desire to Startle Wilkesbarre SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. 4.—Although . this : : e Residents Ends in of Allegheny County | Disaster. two sides of Major Robert tewar h Dis torney, Is preparing for conspiracy accusa- SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 4—Five wih :a';‘.:u_:;10;5::?,:101!::;0;;1connecxed boys were killed- and two fatally - lnal‘ .of“ “Jimmy" injured at Wanamie, a mining town | g 0. Lyman Duk: near here, this evening, by an explo- | Nutt's father when the sion of dynamite and giant powder Duke’s traducing 'his| 4 Western Denmbiivania, With which they were loading a four- up over-a trial, and @Pch Pipe which they had converted into I, as in that, the honor of | a cannon. . . a woman is at stake. The dead: John Salsa, aged 15; Evan The horrible charges filed by Hartje | Long, aged 16; John Szlisinsky, aged t his wife were a shock to the|13, and John and Thomas Rachulfe, When it was realized the man aged 13 and’16. ought a negro into his case| The Injured: Alexander and Frank as co-respondent, although declaring he | Shukowiz, both badly hurt and are not had plenty of other evidence and did| expected to recover. not need that, the indignation against The boys obtained a quantity of giant him grew. When the negro finally powder and dynamite from the mines confessed he had perjured himself on and had been shooting off their improv- Z Roosevelt was pleased to justify his | trusts” he emphasized that in doing his the promise of a reward of $5000, the | ised cannon during the afternoon. This wistrict Attorney of this county took| evening they resolved to give a final a hand in the case. and he has been | discharge which would eclipse any ex- at work on it since. plosion the town had heard during the ROBB WILL PROSECUTE. day oy :‘;‘:dp;*:dz‘rp"n‘:‘h the dyna- o B R . Firs s e were ram- T e paobh, Tirst Assistant Dis-| ming it home with some stones, as they L;l,”‘,‘ OTneN: has Charge of the con-| jnew charges should be tamped. In g e PODSE 10 & query, | their zeal they struck the tamping too e 2 | hard a blow and the-explosion occurred. harhls 1s the most c.gantic conspiracy |~ The force was so great that the town B "t ie evidens BEed ltself Inte|was shaken. Three of the boys were ‘m:"v” e '}‘::rwoxhe most casual | kjjjed outright, while two others died other to this suit has hnoce Sl in, the | in a few minutes and the two who are comepiracy, persury. subore ity of|injured are not expected ‘to live jon, onspiracy. perjury. subornation of The iron plpe Was blown into frag: D AT er host of Other crimes. | ments, which pleréed the bodies of the When er we will take our time, victims, tore off arms and legs The courts of Allegheny County must| crushed skulls. o not be LDesmirched in (his way. Re-| The residents’of the town, startled by | 'the oxplosion, rushed to the scene and be| found the seven lying torn, black and be | pleeding, while not a vestige remained d. informations will made against’ them and they will ited as far as it lies in our| ¢ the pipe poyer to do 80.” o y : | How much powder and dynamite After Clifford Hoey, the negro co-re- | paq used it is imposible to say, u::{ Continued on Page 2, Columa 3. | from the dreadful havoc caused it must Continued om Page 2, Column 1, Lhave been & large quantity. Young Patriots Are Killed| | SCENE SHOWING THE VAST CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE GATHERE. IN 'GOLDEN GATE STERDAY WHILE FORMER MAYOR JAMES D. NDEPENDEXCE DAY 3 PARK ABOUT THE PLATFORM Y PHELAN WAS DELIVERING THE BIG CROWD SEES CRASH OF ENGINES {Head-On 'Colh'.;n “Part of a Fourth of July Cele- bration. BRIGHTON BEACH EVENT Two Locomotives Sent at One Another Under Full Syl SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, July 4+—Forty thousand ORATION. this afternoon to see two steam en- | "“When it becomes mecessary to From Speech of President Roosevelt. | OYSTER BAY, July 4.—President | stewardsgip in a review of the year for | the benefit of his neighbors today. He spoke in the open air and nearly all of | his important utterances were delivered | during a heavy downpour of rain. ‘When he had finished both himself and | his thousand or more auditors were drenched. None deserted the celebra- {tion. The rain came suddenly and | there was no shelter in sight. When |1y: “I am sorry for Yyou, ladles, but afraid you will melt.” There was no doudt that the Pres- ident enjoyed the downpour. When the | first shower came he allowed himself | to be covered with a rubber cape, but | just as he had thrown it off it poured again, and this time ue took the wet- ting. Tk 5 To -emphasize that his acts as Pres- ijdent had been free from malice he begged ' pardon of the dominies and took a “text,” {llustrating his point text ran through the entire LINCOLN’S WORDS FORM PRESIDENT’S TEXT. Gurb’ Trusts but Eliminate Malice '\ Toward Individual, He Pleads. I will do my best to help you do 1t. anger or hatred to the men who own or control that corperation.,”— the President paused while umbrellas | | were raised he remarked good-natured- | | ashamed of you mel because you .ro’ from Lincoln. “The sentiment of this speech, and glites in a head-on collision when run- {ning at about forty miles an hour on the Brighton Beach track. The engines were smashed into a mass of twisted iron, and. thousands of persons joined |in a rush, at times amounting almost to a panic, through water and mire to get pieces of the wreckage as souv- enirs. - Through the center of the race track, across bog and mire, a raflroad track nearly a half mile in length was bullt. The two engines were of eighty tons each, but of an old type. In their new paint they looked fit to draw a modern express as they puffed and panted back and forth across the track many times during the afternoon, to keep up In- terest. They Were built for a New Jersey rallway and for several years had been used im the freight yards. With the tracks thickly sanded so that the wheels would not slip, the en- curb a great corporatiom, curb it. But I will do it in no spirit of - | the rallroad. Roy Matthews and Ed- ward K. Dwitter, who have been in two similar collisions in the West, were the drivers. Throwing wi the throttles and whistles, they startdd the engines, and, after they had gone fifty feet, to- gether with the firemen they jumped from their cabs. They landed in the mud and were unhurt. < Gaining speed at every second, th engines leaped toward each other and the great crowd arose to its feet: There was a roar when the engines met; each reared half its length in the air and there was a shower of sparks, followed by a rush of stéeam that in a second enveloped the wreck. __Almost before the engines had turned over in ruins came the rush of men and ‘women from the race traek and grand- stands to the scene of the wreck. The engines have Dbeen transformed into scrap iron and will be blown to pieces with dynamite. S — Wellman Going to Spltzbergen. TROMSOE, Norway, July 4.—The ‘Wellman Arctic expedition will sail from here tomorrow morning for its Continued on’ Page 3, Column &' headqgarters in Spitabergen. i when he said he would urb the | duty he would act without favor or | malice. He spoke for nearly an hour. | He was cheered on by the waving of | wet flags and cries of approval. Oyster Bay made {ts graceful holiday bow to the President und combined its welcome home for the.summer by a _celebration of the Fourth. * No incident marred the festivities which, were held in Locust Grove, a natural amphitheater in the outskirts ofgthe village. Mrs. Roosevelt and the children were pres- jent at the ceremonies. Mr. Roosevelt spoke in part as follows: “Mr. Chairman and you, my old | triends and neighbors, you with whom ;1 was brought up and with whom I | have lived for so many vears, it is a ireal and great pléasure to have the chance of being with you today to say a few. words of greeting to you and in to give you an account of my hip. I say ‘in a sense,’ friends, after all the stewardship really give an account of itself. If a has to man needs to explaln overmuch what v 4 9 he Day’s Celebration the Light of Publicity iyer!onl ‘walted impatiently three hours gines were started from either end of | KELLOGG WANTS .10 REMAIN IN THE DARK, iRefuses to Give Information as to What Concern Will Do for Its Policy-Holders :COURTES—Y—IS SCANT | Ungenial Representative Says His Corporation Does Not Care About Public’'sRights OAKLAND, July 4—In a class by it- self is the Franklin Insurance Com- pany of Philadelphta. This corporation, with home offices in the City of Broth- erly Love, has taken, through its repre- sentative, W. D. Kellogs. the position before the general public that made Commodore Vanderbilt famous, namely, that the public might for all of him be consigned to perdition. This atti- tude, reflected by the ungenial Manager Kellogg, has caused the formation of a third segregation of insurance com- panies, which are paying or not paying their losses honestly on the San Fran- cisco fire. To date, with not an exception, the in- surance representatives, whether in the | 75-cent class or wherever they might be, have freely offered some sort of ex- planation to the public, where expla- nation was required in the public In- terests. The Franklin Insurance Com- pany, headed by the Hollingshead in- terests of Philadelphia, appears not to be at all concerned as to the public in- terest, nor are the capitalists repre- sented in the Franklin Insurance Com- pany of Philadelphia at all agitated over any possible suspicion tkat the people of the United States would be glad to know what the company pro- poses to do with its California policy- holders. So far as ‘W. D. Kellogg, who hast- ened from Philadelphia to take charge of the company's affajrs, is conaerned, Commodore Vanderbilt's mottd is good enough for him. Whether the Franklin Insurance Company of Philadelphia will pay 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 cents on the dollar; whether the policy-holders are to expect fair treatment, homorable | dealing and prompt settlement of ap- proved claims, are not far the public to know through the channels of the pub- lic press, according .to Manager W. D. Kellogg. . The Franklin Insurance Company is a small' corporation. Its total resources, capital and surplus, are estimated at a total of $1,400,000 in round numbers. Its losses in San Francisco are figured at $100,000 less than the combined capital and surplus. - If the company concludes to settle its losses on an honmest basis—that is to say, dollar for dollar—there will not be much left of the Franklin Insurance Company. But insurance men say the Hollingshead Interests are eminently respectable components of the Key- stone State’s metropolis, and there may be balm in this for tne policy-holders. But if that be true, it is not for the public to kmow, for W. D. Kellogg. manager of the Franklin Insurance | Company for fire insurance loss settle- | ment purposes, calmly and coldly de- | clares: “I do not consider the business of | the company the concern of the publie |or the press. I refuse to say whether the Franklin is paying its losses or | ot Kellogg takes the place of G. D. Grant, the local representative, for set- tlement purposes. TO FIGHT “QUAKE” CLAUSE. Polfcy-Holders of the Willlamsburgh to Meet on Saturday. An association may be formed of policy-holders who were patrons of the fourteen so-called “earthquake com- | panies” that were doing business In | this city before April 18 and since. The decisive move in this direction will be started by the organized policy- holders of San Francisco. The state- ments attributed to Mr. - Colson, ad- juster for the Willlamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company, are the im- mediate cause of the proposed move. | Old insurance men are among the in- sured that trusted their money to the “earthquake” organizations. How many of the fourteen will follow the lead of the Willlamsburgh Company is un- certain. The advice of the foreign re- insurance companies to them to ignore all losses that could be attributed di- rectly or indirectly to the earthquake has already been published. The first meeting of the Williams- burgh policy-holders is set for next Saturday afternoon at 911 Laguna street for,the purpose of forming & corporation. Later all -“earthquake” holders of insurance contracts wili be summoned to meet and act. A circular letter was issued yester- day' by the organized policy-holders, in | which the Williamsburgh City claim- ants were asked to stand firm and to pull together to secure their rights. Adjuster Colson.” read the letter, informed the policy-holders’ commit- tee that was appointed to investigate and prepare a report and recommenda- tions for the policy-holders that the company has not pald and did not | intend to pay one dollar on any policy | which contained the earthquake clause. | This means that you and each of your fellow holders of Willlamsburgh poli« tes must go to law if you would re- ceive ome cent of your insurance.” | "The same communication also sug- | gested that an incorporation of tl | policy-holders should be formed, each | policy-holder to take stock in propor- {tion to the amount of his policy. ¢ | SEEKING SAFE COMPANIES. | ALAMEDA, July 4—The City Trus- | tees are to cancel all insurance car- |rled on muniMpal property that is’ written by companies that are scaling |and welching on their San Francisco ! fire losses. The standing of the com- | panies in whcih the city insurance is lpllc&d is now being investigated and as 1_as the defaulting companies and w firms are ascertained the business they derive from the city will be withdrawn.