The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1906, Page 37

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SUNDAY, - AUGUST 12, 1906 37 Are lssued Warrants for Bankers of Chicago. €n Thf\' warrants were issued yesterday for the men concerned in the failure of : the Milwaukee-avenue State Bank. Conspiracy, larceny and forgery are the charges made against the defendants, one of whom was arrested and later released on $68,000 bonds. ' A bl ARe) STIITART W AT} v e "GOUGH OF THORNS MY BE BRHAN'S. e weeks will and m Men Are Accused of Forgery and JEROME WAL TRY in the Milwaukee-avenue State | Bank case were issued this aft- | ernoon by Judge Kerster in the absence of Judge Smith. | The first two charge conspiracy to cheat and defraud the Milwaukee-ave- | nue State Bank of {ts money, property nd goods. Paul O. Stensland., Henry W. Hering, Theodore Stensland and | ‘divers other persons ag yet unknown” are named in these two warrants. | The next are against Henry W. Her- | d charge perjury in regard to a made and sworn to by him to| te Auditor In January and April, , on the condition of the bank. The SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, Aug. 1l.—Interest in political circles was aroused today by the rumor, which seemed to come from an authoritative source, that District Attorney Jerome had expressed a will- ingness to run for Governor either on an independent ticket or as an Inde- pendent Democratic candidate Indorsed by the Democratic organization. An editorial paragraph In the New York Sun added zest to the gossip. “We understand,” said the Sun, “that Mr. William Travers Jerome is con- sidering the propriety of offering him- be re self as an next two charge larceny of $1000 and| $350 and name Henry W. Hering | ive cases of forgery are then| charged nst Paul O. Ste nd and Henr w. Hering. It is alleged that| oy forged the mame of M. C. Bar-| it to two notes for $2500 each,| e of M. A, Labuy to one note the name of Marcus Kirkby $10,000 and the name| ote for $10,000. Kerster d the amount of ‘s bonds at $68,000. At the con- of the formalities the prisoner taken to the county jail and as- » a cell. today were summoned to keep nd w f umber of e p . 36 ¢ inquest in cause of S e of Frank Kowa teller of the Avenue Bank, who his ing or some of the de- | defunci bank was so teller was cursed in the parlor of his, th on the door of the and its fic men, Serge he Coroner’s turbers into then tioned at the door to prevent any per- not wanted from entering the > W torn down y the angr. detajled at Hence passes to Democrats house. | FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 11.—Paul 5 4, the banker of Chicago, was according to Henry Adams, la he traveled all ew Orleans to this elty with the | g it c b absconding banker without knowing his | enough for them? b had failed. Not until he read the | . ch & conciusion account in a local paper did Adamsz| Bryax k at Stensland was fleeing. nd told Adams he was going to Mexieo on a trip In the mountains | for his health. When asked how his bank was progressing he declared it to be in a most prosperous condition. da Pigott| The police departments of all border id fever “""hi(ownx were notified. r lips that her father | dabent it Wbty : rated fof Bve, years, | Californians In New York. night become reconciled. EW YORK, Aug. 11.—The follow- ing Californians are in New York: expenses and telegraphed that he | From San Francisco—N. J. Gins, at the uld eome to Denver at once. | Cadillac; C. E. Lester, at the Empire; Figott's flight from the Quaker City|J. E. McFadden, at the Cadillac; &, A, h Mre. Walter Garse caused a sen- | Bennett, at the Cosmopolitan; A. B. setion five years ago. The couple came | Bowers, at the Imperial; E. Brammer, to Colorade and were apprehended at|at the Park Avenue; V. G. Hush, at Fori Colline. Mrs. Pigott came to|the Murray HilL Ceclorado and prosecuted her husband.| From Los Angeles—C. B. Bleakmer, He-was sentenced to five months in jail, | at the Hoffman; R. Richert, at the which he served. Then he was fined | Grand Union; F. Trishler, at the Hol- #1000 for bigamy. iland; W, H. Stone, at the Ashland. PIGOTTS MAY BE R ON DAUGHTER'S DYING PLEA | Pigott, one of Philadelphia’s prom- attorneys, sent money for the fu- | ing traced. independent candidate for the Governorship of this State. If Mr, J;rome runs Mr, Jerome wi]l be elect- ed.” It was reported also that within a short time the District Attorney would issue a statement simllar in character to the one which preceded the an- nouncement last fall of his candidacy for the District Attorney nomination on an Independent ticket. The most persistent rumor today was effect that the District Attorney d run independently if the Demo- cratic convention indorsed the candi- |date of the Independence League and | that other vise he would pe nominated by petition, as he was in his campaign last fall, and accept an indersement by the Democratic convention. UNABLE T0 SOLVE MURDER CASE. SANTA MONICA, Aug. 1l.—Acting upon the theory that the young woman found murdered in Temescal Canyon was brought down the beach, ‘officers and deiectlves are carrying their in- vestigation into the vicinity of Cala- basas, a few miles above here. The identity of the woman with Posey Horton when he found the body is be- Horton's ftinerary of the trip down the beach and his return home is also heing tabulated. The laundry marks on the woman's garments have not aided in identifica® tion. A more minute examigation of the remains of the dead woman and of her garments has disclosed the fact that another bullet besides the one that en- tered the head had penetrated her body. She had been shot through the chest, a powder burned hole in the corset cover showing where the ball had entered. A dispatch from the Pingree Shoe Company at Detroit, Mich,, the manu- facturers of the shoes which the wo- man wore, stated that they could not identify the shoes from tne numbers given as having been sold by them. Two houses in Los Angeles handle this brand of shoes. WOULD BUY OLD I Tron Wor yesterduy lull.; t T ftted an i e DISHONEST WALLS CITY'S WEAKNESS, Shoddy, Not Sins, Re- sponsible for Damage, Declares Fitzpatrick FILES HIS REPORT CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, ~ Aug.. 11.— Colonel Francis W. Fitzpatrick, executive of- ficer and secretary of the Internatfonal Society of Bullding Constructors, who was sent to San Francisco last May to report on the situation, has com- pleted his work and submitted his re- port on the bulldings and construe- tion methods in San Franclsco. ‘ This expert says that properly con- structed bufldings in San Pranclsco were not damaged by the earthquake, |and that the total quake damage will not exceed $10,000,000 out of a total |of $300,000,000. He calls particular | attention to the excellent condition in which first-class struetures survived the temblor and fire assaults. Following is Colonel Fitzpatrick's report in full: The nation was appalled at the loss of life and the terrible devastation in the awful catastrophe at San rrancigeo. Some misguided gen- tlemen of the cloth would nave us be- lieve the stricken eity suffered |on acco of the great sinfuiness | those nd gentlemen knew or Imagined was there, but as a matter of fact was not ail the suffering direct- ly attributable to just one very com- mon sin throughout the country, though erha little accentuatad in ban ‘rancisco on account of the natural hazards there—I mean the sin of shod- dy_construction of buildings? The buildings that were well bullt were not shaken down by the quak In fact, the very tallest ones, that h erforce, to be the best buildings, s ered little from the earthguake. Those that were the best bujlt in regard to fire protection suffered least—remem- ber that point well—and wherever in any of those bulldings any one detail was anywhere near perfectiy done, that detall rmed Its special function Had all the bulldings bullt, none would have shaken down; had there been K there would have been no fire following the quake, or had there been less fuel it requires no great effort of imagination to real- ize that there would have been less fir The whole trouble therefors resolves itselt into having glven fire too much to burn. MAJORITY BUILDS POORLY. There has often been editorial and other mention of our country's appal- ling contributions to the fire flend, but, judging by the number of people who have built well, little attertion seems to have been pald to the of those who know how bulldin be d Even In the matter, detall, of fircprocfing the stsel frame and bullding thuc tloors and )urtl;lonu of hollow fireproot tile or ofher more or less flreproof material, there are but little over 3000 buildings so construct- ed in the eatire eountry. In San Frap. cisco there were perhaps thirty, and they are about all that Is left in the burned district, and as far as regards the homes, where we should spend the most time and where we house those most cherished by us and our other treasures, I doubt If there are 300 prop- erly built in ¢ entire country, and there was not one in 8an Francisco. The results of this laxity in building have often been mentioned. It may not be amiss, however, to briefly re- capitulate. We destroy usually about 8000 lives a year by fire. In New York there 16 an average of 8700 fires a yvear, in Chicago 4100." We burn up 3 the- aters, 3 public halis, 12 churches, 10 2 hospitals, ‘eol- schools, 2 asyiums, 2 s " apartment-houses, leges, 3 depart- ment stores, 2 Jalls, 26 hotels, 140 flat bulldings and 1800 homes every normal week of the year, and while doing so directly jeopardize 36,000 lives every day in the year. Normally we are sup- posed to Durn up about $200,000,600 worth of property a year, but the ques- tion is, what i{s a normal year? Nina- teen hundred and four, with its Bai- timore disaster, was termed. abnorma here we are this r with San Fra cisco. The same thing may reasonably happen to New Orieans or any of the other particularly filmsily buflt cities next year or, indeed, in the remaining half of this. 8o far, including San Francisco, our loss for the year is bound to be $800,000,000. Besides that we pay out pretty nearly $300,000,000 Pore s xasr for firs departments, wa- ter and the other incidentals of alleged fire protection. Ah, we are great on trying to cure evils, but astonishingly slow in inaugurating anything that looks to their prevention—and to cap the climax we pay the enterprising gentlemen who are willing to gamble with us that our flimsy bulldings will not burn, the insurance can‘.g)unhl, a sum that has reached $1,610,683,442 In ten years' time, TALL BUILDINGS HERE. At the very highest possiblc estimate we will bulld in this year of boundl?n glcmg' 3nd unprecedented prosperity 760,000,000 worth of bulldings. That is a magnificent showing: granted. But at think you of a people that will build so that five-sevenths of its total product can be utterly consumed, wiped out of existence—a prodigality that ex- ceeds that exercised in our worse taan criminal devastation of our forests and our other great natural resources and that can spell but one thing—ultimate n San ancisco’s tall bulldings two things had been well done—the found tions were particuiarly good, and th assembling of the steel frames made especially rigid and with extraordi- nary care. In all else even those tall buiidings were bullt no better, in fact not nearly as well, as we bulld in the The brick and stone work was no more rigidly tled to the steel frames, the fireproofing tile protection or the difterent systems of concrete substl- tuted therefor would ot even equal the ordlnary Eastern construction; wood and other inflammable materiais were in tho finish with lavish hand, and there, where conflagration possi- bility was imminent and the evu}- uake hazard certainly not remote, little if anything was done to guard against | the dire results of either or both even- | tualitles. Vet decorative carving, ex- used most c?nly of elaborations were ap- plied with lavinsh hand to those bufld- s. 5% MERITS OF MATERIALS, Fortunately, and it has occurred in no other great fire, in some one or other of the buildings that{ were the least injured by the quake and con- flagration (Incidentally it is well to ob- serve that of the total damage of over 300,000,000 wrought in the destroyed istrict $10,000,000 would have been more than sufficient to rapair all the quake damage) there had been done some one or Yerhnpl two details of the work particularly well, Thinking peo- ple must necessarily have observed that wherever this excellence of work, | this intelligence ad been used it resulted in a very great benefit to the particular bullding in which it did duty. They must have seen that brick and well made terra cotta suffered far Jess damage than stone or granite or marble; that where the fireproofing thoroughly incased the steelwork the latter was absolutely uninjured: that where the freproofing wie of well made and well set hollow tile or even some of the best systems of concrete it diq its work well and suffered little damage; that wherever stuery; and elevator wells were properly inclosed fire did not travel from story to story internally; that where any spaces were inclosed in flriprnonn: partitions and rotected openings fire did not pene- inf.e those or, belng in one, was con- ined to that where the interior trim, the dogrs and other finish of a buildin f metal or other non-inflamma- erial it conarlbuled largely to the prevention of fire t ling Xrnm ope room to another f d gain In- to_the bulld'pg. 1‘ that, in n: SR TR LT ruc 2 was in- d with a good brick w’u and H: Elazed wi ‘d con close the window openings were pensive marble, dainty mosaics and the | Pioneer Furniture House Reopens in a wHomeonCalifornia,Near Van Ness. Ne i i Ihiratii r THIS HANDSOME EDIFICE HAS BEEN ERE 18 BUILT ON THE SITi Oc Lk N NESS AVENUE AND POLK STREET. - TeL TO HOUSE THE ROSIS CLUB, DESTROYED BY 1AE fiwr, UN PIONEER FURNITU (£ FIRM OF CHARLE CALIFORNIA STRE NE of the attractive bulldings in the new retail district Is| that of Charles M. Plum & Co. | on California street, be- tween Van Ness avenue and Polk street. This new location, by the way, is the old site of the Sorosis Club and is very aceessible to two car lines—the | | style, with coment front. Polk-street and the California-street. The building is in the old Mission It measures 70x137:6 feet—praetically a floor space of 10,000 square feet. A wide balcony around the inside adds considerably more floor space. Huge skylights flood the interior with natural light. A very desirable feature is a drive- | way reserved at the side of the struc- ture, which allows the shipping to be done in the rear and not upon the sidewalk. This bullding was erected at a cost of $15,000 for the exclusive use of Charles M. Plum & Co.. who have been dealing in furniture, carpets and rugs sinee 1850 In this eity. FLIES MENACING [TV HEALTH, HE typhold fever cases in| this city are mild cases, but | if they are not checked you | (13 will get the real thing. The | epidemlic fs a fly epidemle. The rem- | edy is to kil off the files, The time | may come when you will have to have | 100,000 sulphur candles that each tent may be treated dally; when you will have to have 30,000 night palls. I was | going to say that an epidemic of typhold would cost the city half a milllon dollars, but I will not attempt | to say the enormous total of expense that such an epidemic would entall.” Thus spoke Dr. M. C. Hassler at the | conference held yesterday between representatives of the Board of Health, |a committee from the Grand Jury, Rudolph Spreckels, head of the depart- ment of camps of the Rellef Corpora- tion, and a number of physicians. The situation was recognized by all to be sorious. That the threatened epldemic can be avoided if effective preventive mothods be employed was agreed. The method of prevention was admitted to be the enforcement of adequate =ani- tary measures. But the conference split as to how the necessary sanita- tion should be enforced. Spreckels held that the same meth- | ods should be employed as obtain with |the householder, namely, that the | Board of Health should discover the | danger places and that those respon- sible for them should be compelled to make correction. Dr. Ward of the Board of Health held that an emergency confronts -the city, that emergency methods should prevell, and that it is as much the duty of the Rellef Corporation to bear the burden of preventing epidemic as of any other of the functions it exer- cises. Dr. Ward acted as spokesman for the Board of Health, and stated that it is necessary to district the city, thor- oughly inspect {t and proceed with proper disinfecting. To do this labor is necessary. Those In charge of the work must be above the grade of or- dinary laborers, the inspectors some- thing more than inspectors. “Why cannot the Relief Corporation,” said the doctor, “be content to remain in the background, furnish the Board of Health the funds necessary in this emergency and let it meet conditions?” To this Spreckels replied that the work was being systematized as rap- idly as possible, that the Relief Cor- poration is reapogsible for the fund as well as the work, that it is not pro- posed to pay out of the rellef fund money for work which should be done by the eity. “It 1s no more the power of the members of this corporation,” replied Dr. Ward warmly, “to husband the fund given for the sanitation of thi; eity than they have to lock it in the United States Mint. Give us the power to do the work and hold us respon- sible.” Dr. Martin Regensberger, president of the State Board of Health, took oc- caslon to observe: “It is possible to carry business principles too far. This thing has been going on for a week. ! There has been too much dllly dally- ing and red tape. As soon as we get hot” weather there'll be hundreds of cases of typheid.” Proposed plaus to make waekly | budgets for the worl or daily budgets, if necessary, were rejected as imprac- ticable. It was decided that a second conferenee between Spreckels and the | medical men should be held Monday. The Board of Health claims that $43,000 is necessary for the proper 15cs 5} -4 i v largely to the | S8eYa R ar iR Diilainie cthey thus | eftectively guarde Witness tne post- office, the appraisers’ warehouse and the Mint, for instance. LESSON FOR THE PROPLE. Men versed in the proper construc. | tion of buildings, boards of underwrit- ers and fire prevention societies have reached assiduously along these lines, gut people presumably have deemed | such things theories. Preaching is never | husi as omective as a tangible demon- | stration, an actuality, §o to speak. | Here, then, is the greaiest fire that has ever been witnessed by men in our time, uifi here they can clearly ue:‘hn supposed theories of experts actually c.miu out. rue, no one building was complete -nddrertecl, but these various [ that A ni 1s a :)l:flr -v:vvr.l:. 80 well are i ost d?nbfln‘ ng t even lt‘ho o ¥hdmu s can n1 ‘Wwhat they hayve done with his own eyes. Is it t reasonable to assume that an Intelligent people be impressed by this at 1'”!0! and will demonstrate their intelligence and ptabili assemblin| lhll various det: ether and mal % rd of a ‘p-r ec! n wired glass in metallic frames, and, |proof; that will be being attacked by fire only froi against loss; that will be outside, el(kltom{thlt attack n.m Qtu';’ gg‘ u.'g community v at work at g;\iflelpu an ?mon economy, a 411 uilding that will be fireproof in de- hat | sign well as in construction, a Poiar cm tt?“f "chon'!‘;m ‘tI; , th-”lm te C.lélgl of con! - ”: and th t | Last | granted. HE Board of Health and the Tdn-nmen of camps of the Rellef Corporati are con= fronted by the serious problem of proper sanitatien of the eity, which {s admitted by both to be bad. The tweo departments agree that correetion should be made, but eannot agree as to method. Further consideration will be given the matter Monday. | | oy 5 sanitation of the city during August. | month $43,000 was originally for, of ‘'which $27.000 was Of thie $2500 remains un- expended. l asked poration Was Unjus “If you want facts regarding relief | work don't go to heads of departments | tor 1t.” | Thus spoke James V. Chase, until| recently head of the subsecription de- partment of the Relief Corporation. | Chase has been discharged. His super- | fors say for insubordination and neg- | lect. Chase says to make place for a | favorite of Anson Herrick, auditor of the Relief Corporation. Chass stat. that he is preparing to sue the cor-| poration for the unn’ld balanee of his| August salary, $85 7 He also alleges that the corporation's office is not run | on business principles, Inasmuch as there has not been falr service for good pay, and that there has been a deal of unnecessary high salaried help. “The head of every department un-| der Herrick.” sald Chase, “is a Herrlck | man. Herrick and Herrick; a firm of accountants of which Anson Herrick is a member, receives 3200 a month for | its service, and the men whom Her- | rick has named, about $160 each. Be cause of poor bookkeeping a $8116 dis- crepancy appeared in the subscription department.” ! “Chase,” said Chairman Phelan of the executive committee, “was dismissed for insubordination and neglect. He has no contract with the Rellef Cor-| poration. He was dismlssed by Her- | rick, who is responsible for his staff, If there be any mistakes in the sub- | scription or any other department, I| should be given an opportunity to cor-| rect them.” HUNGRY I THE STREETS. Aged Refugee Denled Rations Falls Into Kindly Hands. | Jemima Webster, a woman 72/ old, was found on the streets| yesterday in a starving cqfdition. She| was taken to the relief headquarters at | | the corporation must secure men to r | move the debris and restore the streets | for trafic at once, or summary MUST PUTSTREETS IN CONDITION, The Board of Public Works yester- | day ordered that a peremptory notice | be sent to the United Railroads that It must at once take steps to put Sutter, Sacramento, Hay Haight and other streets upon which reconstruction work has been done in good eondition. The streets named have been almost impassable for weeks, and since the strike of the repairers nothing has been done to improve conditions. Presi- dent M trett! of the board sald that pro- ceedings will be instituted by the board to compel it to do so. The board also sent notices to own- | ers of teams used for tne removal of debris that they must adopt means to prevent the sand and debris from fall- iog from the vehicies while they are passing through the streets. An ordi- nanee provides that such wagons must be “sand tight,” and unless they are It | is impossible to keep the thoroush- fares clean. The board will cause the arrest of all drivers of teams violating the provisions of the ordinance. The board submitted to the Board of Supervisors an amendment to the buflding ordinance to regulate the numbering of houses, with particular reference to Market street. The amendment provides tnat the numbers on both sides of the streets shall con- form as nearly as possible sa as to avoid the confusion that has heretofore existed. One number shall be allowed for each one-fiftieth of the frontage of each block, except in blocks having a length of less than 400 feet, when the allowance shall be one number to every eight feet ‘The board recommended that the width of sidewalxs on Howard stre from East street to its southerly te mination, be fixed at fifteen feet. e - at San Jose avenue and Valencia street, but claims that Thursday they were de- nied her. She had a little food, but that was soon exhausted. Her rent for the place on Capp street was overdue and she took to the streets. Fortunately she fell into kindly hands, who took her direct ‘to Rudolph Spreckels ‘and Lieutenant Scott of the department of camps. There, provision was made for the payment of her rent and to supply her regularly with foed. Dr. Guon Is in Charge. Geary and Gough streets and her wants | . Dr. Herbert Gunn has been appoint- given attention. | ed superintendent of the recently or- Before the fire Mrs. Webster was in| ganized department of the Relief Cor- comfortable circumstances. Her home | poration known as the Bureau of Spe- was at 1000 Eddy street. The fire' clal Relief. This bureau will have to swept away everything, but she man- | do with all the relfef outside the camps, aged to rent a room at Twenty-third | such as the distribution of food, cloth- and Capp streets. She got her rnflonl} Ing, etc. Property Titles in Danger 3 of Being Attacked by Frauds Title Editor of The Call: I have property, or a mortgage on property, located as follows Name Address San Francisco, Cal., ROPERTY-OWNERS of San Francisco, wherever situated, are com- ing to a reauzation of the necessity of keeping informed on sults that are brought In the Superlor Court under the title restoration act. 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