The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1906, Page 1

W, nu]d you like to know how the 1m~uer1mc women of Santa Clara ave refugee children the outing of h( ir lives? See next Sunday’s Call. Do you know that beasts, birds and bug: right here in San Francisco? s actually grow on plants See next Sunday’s Call. THE MANGHURIN ASHORE NEAR HAWAI Pacific Mail's_g’ig Steamship May Prove to Be a Total Loss on a Rocky Reef ALL P ASSENGERS SAFELY LANDED/’ Vessel Strikes in t‘he Early Morming, but the People Aboard Remain Orderly her predicament mistook- another Makapuu Point. He head shortly before eversed the en- it was too late The alarm was though the blackness led, the passengers for part were orderly. There was afmong the Asiatics, who rushed ident for the boats, whith was quickly < by the ship’s officers. assisted | senera es F. Smith, Vice Gov- e Philippines on ‘the Manch who was a the passengers d danger, and as 1d be transferred to the s they were taken ashore. Gen- S h was one of the last to leave The Pacific Mail Stea P of the Manchuria. g u agents, arranged e f sengers. It was not £ them aill to Honolulu, most of them were taken to Wa nale b ew open their homes. GOVERNOR RENDERS AID. and hundreds of Honolulu hastened nor Carter of in car- tomobiles to the scene of he Governor put the en- of the island at fhe the ship's officers and the Every attention has been of the engers care passengers. of cases nervous aground feet along the oadside to the main- | drawing 25 feet for- aft. Soundings show of water forward to be 20 aft. The vessel is on her from main 1% feet emptying her tanks me, and at 910 a. m. she was the tug without res Other steam- laced lines abox , but 'a united t the big steamer tailed. could be readily fioated, but the ¥'s work has demonstrated that only ry efforts can save the ves- traoodin LOCATION MISTAKEN. huria is far inside the reef ng heavily. The vessel,| ng high out of the water, forms uresque spectacle. The steamer s now seven feet farther inland than| when she struck. The tug Fearless, revenue cutter Manning and -the teamers Kinau and Maui have lines ard tonight and are holding her \ going farther on the reef. One of the officers tonight said: We land, which we supposed Makapuu Point, at 3:45 o'clock, i at 4 the course of the ship was red sowh by half a point east. At land op- the port bow. 1e engines were immediately reversed and full speed astern signaled, but at 10 the vessel took the ground. well was sounded and it was found that e ship was tight, ready and took soundings d the steamer. We found that the ship was in five and ahalf fathoms of water aft, four and a quarter amid- ips and three and 2 quarter forward. At 5:36 a boat was sent ashore to com- saw be we saw yats municate with the agents of the Plclflcl Mail line. “At first the Manchuria swung -————————————————————— | in England, will s Crutinued on Page 3, Column 3 | League. iere the plantation managers | began an attempt to pull her | first thought that the Man- | The | but we got all} ([ womxorme ) | SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S | ;__._J NEWS TODAY TUESDA Weather Conditions YESTERDAY—Clear; wind, west; maximum temperature, 6S: minimum temperature, 54. FORECAST FOR TUESDAY—Cloudy; fresh west wind. TEMPORARY S6. TELEPHONE CITY. Bienuial convention of the California branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America Supervisors order the Spring VaMey Company ct its mains with underground clsterns to afford the city better protection e Page.14 isors are asked to cut down the grade et het. Fifteenth and Waller. Page 5 Hebbard refuses to grant a divorce on grounds. Page 2 testifies that Jacob Steinman, on trial was eager to slay Pere 5 refugees will be removed to onme camp and no more uncooked food will be ed by the Relief Corporation. Page 5 Pacific plans fast train ‘service be- 2 Francisco and San Jose. Page 8 t mine proves to be a good paring Paze 3 rs will erect a modern building on the e burned structure. Page 2 Tragic muse brings discord but not divorce to Page 4 persistent that H. T. Scott will Lie presidency of the Pacific States nd Telegraph Company and that Glass will resign. Page 14 Judge Wilfiey of the United States Federal Shenghai arrives on the Korea. Page 14 murdered in his store by the State TUniversity Page 6 brutal attack at Page 6 victim of a PACIFIC COAST. gold strikes made in the Tonopah dis- Page 12 Naval officers demand Inquiry into Marion charges. Page 4 New WASHINGTON. Government wants 2.')‘1' coolies for the canal zome. Page 3 FOREIGN. Sixteen Russian mutineers executed. Page 3 The first battle of the Cuban revolution was ity Page 14 s of the Milwaukee Mechanics’ In- deciine to accept proposed Page 5 teachers will recelve no pay during | Page 14 Page 9 fought yesterday ou the ranch of am American. | One lieutenant of Rurales was killed and sev- eral men injured Page 3 | VALPARAISO. Chillean sdvices indicate that the- firit Teports of joss of life were greatly exaggerated. Cable messages Teceired last night say that the loss | of life in Valparsiso will not exceed five hun- Gréd. The loss of life i other towns affécted by the quake 1 mot known, though it s said | to be large. Page 1 POLITICS. Hearst / launches localls his Independénce Pardee confers with friends here and 338 votes on the first ballot Page 4 | Tiinois Republicans will indorse Speaker Can- | non for the Presidency and the Democrats will declare for Bryan Page 3 President Roosevelt, in a letter to Congress. man Watson of Indiapa, treats of the day's po- 1i problems. Page 1 SPORTS. Miles Brothers deposit forfeit with The Call to bind moving plcture contract for big fight. Page 7 | Gans again assures the public that he will fight on the square when he meets the Dane. | Page 7 Automgbile Club plans an endurance: run to el President Commends Congress | | Del Monte next month. Page 7| LABOR. | vavor 2 Page 9 | MaRINE. | Liner Manchuria fast ashore mear Hawail. | Page 1 Steamship Korea arrives from Oriental ports. Page 12| GOLUSAN THINKS HE AN STENSLAND. COLUSA, Aug. 20.—'“ is suspected: that ~ Paul O. Stensland, defaulting president of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicage, was in Colusa | yesterday and traveling under the alias “P.-Smith.” Sunday afternoon a’ well- dressed stranger appeared at the Hotel | | endeavor as the present Congress has done. Riverside, engaging one of the best | rooms. Later in the evening John Har- | tog, mapager of the Colusa County | Ciamber of Commerce and formerly of Chicago, who had a passing acquaint- ance with Stensland, came into the ho- tel Hartog , noticed a familiar look |abcut the stranger, who had also | servtinized Hartog carefully. Shortly | efter this meeting the stranger left and \n.,x not been seen since. Hartog could not forget the incident, and he called on P. Polrier, the hotel rroprietor,” this morning and . asked some information about the stranger. Poirler was unable to give any other than that the person had registered as P. Smith and did not occupy the room | he took. Hartog says the stranger re- | sembles Stensland very much, except | that he is smooth shaven, and Stens- land while in Chicago had a beard. — TWO AMERICANS KILLED BY THUGS AT SANTO DOMINGO Collectors in Customs-House Are Slain While Resisting Attack | by Burglars. ST. THOMAS, Aug. 20.—A report has | reached here from Santo Domingo that Milbourn and Fhurston, American citi- | zens employ€éd as collectors jn the Do- minican Custom-house, have been killed in Tierra Nueva. Their death is said !to have been accomplished in a mur- | derous attack by burglars, whom they attempted to resist. \ Leave Eugland for Home. LONDON, Aug. 20.—The King and Queen of Spain, who have been visiting t on their home- ward trip today. 1906. P / PRICE FIVE CENTS. s * 3= - and Urges fis Reclection EW YORK, Aug. 20.+A letter writtén by President Roosevelt to Con- gressman James E. Watson of Rushville, Ind., reviewing and approving of the work of the preséent Cnngreés and declaring “to change the lead- ership and organization of ' thé House at this time means to bring| confusion upon those who have.successfully engaged in the steady working| out of a great and compréhénsive scheme for the betterment of our civil and social conditions,” was made publc today through the Republican Congressional committee. The: letter in part is as follows: MORE THAN PARTISAN ISSUES INVOLVED IN CAMPAIGN. “My Dear Mr. Watson: I hear through Speaker Cannon and Representative Sherman that you have volunteered to give your services to the Congressional committee for the entire campaign, without regard to the effect it may have upon your canvass in your own district, and I feel like writing you a word of congratulation and earnest hope for the success of your efforts. If there were only partisan issues involved in this contest I should hesitate to say anything publicly in reference theréto. But I don't feel that such is the case. On the other hand, I feel all good citizens who have the welfare of America at heart should appreciate the immense amount that has been accomplished by the present Congress, organized as it is, and the urgent need of keeping this organization in power. PHENOMENAL WORK ACCOMPLISHED 'BY CONGRESS. “With Cannon as Speaker, the House has accomplished a literally phe- nomenal amount of good work. It has. shown a .courage, good sense and patriotism such that it 'would be a real and serious misfortune for the country to fail to recognize it. To change the leaderhsip and organization of the House at this time means to bring -confusion-on those who have been suc- cessfully engaged in the steady working out of a-great and comprehensive scheme for the betterment of our social, industrial and civic conditions. For such a change will be substituted a purposeless confusion, a violent, a hurtful, oscillation between the positions of the extreme radical and the extreme reactionary, for the”present orderly progress along the lines of a carefully thought-out policy. NO OTHER CONGRESS IN OUR TIME HAS DONE SO WELL. A “The interests of this nation are as varied as they are vast. Congress must take account, not of one national need, but of many and widely different national needs; and I speak with historic accuracy when I say that mot in our time has any other Congress done; so well in so many different fields of No Congress can do everything. Still less can it in every session meet every need. At its first session the ead Is Record ISaster at Valparaiso, present Congress, in addition to the many tasks it actually completed, under- took several tasks which I firmly believe it will bring to completion in its second session next winter. POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE CORPORATIONS. “Among these, I hope and believe that the bills to profiibit political con- tributions by corporations and to lower the duties on imports from the Phil- ippine Islands, each of which has been passed by one house, will be enacted into law. I hope, and I have reason to believe, that favorable action will be taken upon the bill limiting the number of hours of employment of railway employes. These and one or two other measures, the enactment of which I have reason to hope for, are important. But far more important are the measures which have actually been passed, and as to these measures I wish to reiterate that they are not important in a merely partisan sense, but are important because they subserve the welfare of our people as a whole or of our nation as an entirety. They are important because those who enacted them into law thereby showed themselves to be fit and representatives of all good Americans. PANAMA CANAL A MONUMENT TO CONGRESS. “In affairs outside of our own country our great work has been beginning to dig the Panama canal. The acquisition of the canal strip was due to the initiative of Congress; and the fact that the work thereon Is now being done in the most thorough and satisfactory fashion is due to the action of the present Congress at the session just closed. Only this action rendered the work possible, and the heartiest acknowledgments are due-to the far-seeing patriotism of those who made it possible. The digging of the Panama canal is the colossal engineering feat of all ages. No task as_great of the kind has ever been undertaken by any other nation. The intere§ts banded together to oppose it and are, numerous and bitter, and molt of them with a peruliarly sinistér basis for their opposition. SINISTER O] ITION ORGANIZED AGAINST THE OAIIA.L “This sinister opposition rarely, indeed, ‘ventures openly to announce its antagonism to canal as such. Sometimes it takes the form of baseless accusation against the management or a demand for an investigation under circumstancy would mean indefinite delay. Sometimes it takes the form of determini ’Qyolmon to the adoption of plans which will enable tha work to be done, not merely in the best, but in the quickest possible way. Had Congress been elther timid or eorruyt. and had not the leaders of cqnnnu = Reports From Other Cmes Tell-of Many Fatalities. SPECIAL 'mswflm TO 'THE CALL. ALPARAISO Aug.. 20—A strange fact in con- nection- with the earthquake: which: laid this city in ruins . was - that the daily papers here published a prognostication’ of the catastrophe several hours in ad- vance ofthe first shocks. ! The:first shock came in the midst of a terrific rainstorm'at:7:50 o’clock*Thursday even- ing. A few minutes later a second shock of almost equal violence completed the work ofdestruction. the panic-stricken people fled throughthe streets which were choked with heaps of debris. It is evident that Valparaiso was-the center of the seismic disturbance, most of:the destruction among the smaller cities having occurred within a hundred miles of this place. While the destruction was considerable at the capital city of Santiago, seventy-five miles to the south, that city suffered far less than Valparaiso. All Valparaiso Theaters Are in Ruins. — The greatest force of the shock seemed' to center around the commerciat“districts. where the-banks are situ- ated. Most of the buildings there were either demolished or badly damaged. Practically the whole of the eastern two-thirds of the city also was destroyed. = All the theaters are in ruins. A strong wind which came up from the south on Saturday spread the fires which were raging through- out the eastern parts of the city, completing the destruc- tion of this residence district. While the number of dead is unknown it will probably exceed 200. The opportune | arrival of the Chilean fleet, which steamed into the Val- paraiso harbor to welcome Secretary Root, helped to save the situation. g As in San Francisco, the sailors from the warshxps were landed and placed in charge of ‘the. cny pending the arrival of the Government troops. Lawlessncss Is Quickly Suppressed. The situation is -now well in hand. The authorities | were very energetic in suppressing lawlessness and sup- plying food and camp comforts‘to the homeless population which is encamped on the outlying hills. 3 Probably not more than 20 per cent of the buildings in the city have been spared from the effects of the fire and emhqnalte shocks. Several persons here who ex- 5 - Aoommo'uc-amm: e : 3 In darkness | SN FRANGISCO aENDS 510,000 10 CHILE. Mayors Call for Aid for | Stricken Republic Meets With Generous Response ' COMMITTEE. ACTS WITH PROMPTNESS {More Than $2000 Raised in Less Than Quarter of an Hour by a Few Citizens AN FRANCISCO, though still suf« fering from the effects of earth< | quake and fire, was the first city, as far as can be learned, to send financial aid to her sister city in dis- |tress, Valparaiso. Twenty-five mem- | bers of the original committee of forty |called by the Mayor on the morning of | April 18 met at the Mayor's office a |little after 4 o'clock yesterday after- noon aad determined to send financial |aid immediately to the sufferers. Promptly at 3:30 o'clock $10,000 was sent by telegraph from the Canadian Bank of Commerce to the President of the republic of Chile for use in ime mediate relief work. No time was wasted In idle discus- sion by the committee before getting down. to practical work. It was just | ifteen minutes from the time the ;Mayor called the members to order that a general plan of action had been adopted and a committee of seven had | been appointed to direct the work of collecting funds for Chile. As. soon been appointed and sald he had a subscription blank prepared and wanted a few minutes to pass 8 around among those present. In four- teen minutes from the time he started every man had signed up for a greater or less amount, making a total of $2505. The gommittee of seven appointed by the Mayor consists of the following: J. D. Phelan, A. Sbarbore, J. Dalzell Brown, 1. W. Héllman, Willlam Bab- cotk_and W. J. Bartneétt. This coms mittee. met after the general meséting had closed and named committees from various classes of business and pro= fessional men to ald in securing sube scriptions. | Upen. suggestion’ from_several mems | bers of tha, compittrae @i Mayor ap« 4 | point#® three architects to send sug- | sestions. for_the rebullding of the de- stra¥ed citles, based upon experiences obtained in San Francisco. This com- mittee consists of Marsden Manson, | James W. Reid and Willlam Curlett. | Mayor Schmitz sent out requests yes« terday morning for all of the members of the original committee of forty to meet at his office, and of that number twenty-five responded. In opening the meeting the Mayor said: “First of all I want to thank you Jor being present as requested. I call you together to see if some means cannot be taken to send immediate aid to the sufferers in Chile. Now that oyr own emergency is passed we can realize the needs of those having a similar ex- perience and we can sympathize with them in their distress. I think San Francisco should be the first of all to respond to the needs of Chile. I would like to hear from Mr. Phelan.” “I think It would be wise for the Mayor to appoint a committes from this committee to collect money for the | relief of the people in Chile. Almost all the relief funds of San Francisco have come from various parts of the United States, but Chile is such a small country that it must depend largely ' upon aid from foreign places. Charity is not a sentiment limited to geograph- ica llines, but is a common sympathy from humanity at large for those who syfter.” As Phelan paused for a moment Mayor Schmitz asked him if he thought it would be proper to send money from the San Francisco relief fund, and he repled: = “No. It would not be right to send money to another place when it has been sent here to aid our people. Then, too, you know, it would not be coming’ from the people of San Franmcisco. It would not be a proper thing to.do. ¥ have in mind a number of merchants who did not subscribe to.our relief fund simply because they were not | asked to do so. I am sure from thesa men could be secured a comfortable sum for aiding the Chilean people. No- body can expect us to send much money to Chile under the present eir- cumstances, but our donatien will show iour good will and will be appreciated. by ‘the rest of the world.” It was upon the suggestion of P. By Hale that the Mayor appointed the committee of seven from the bankers belonging to the committee of forty. This committee and all the sub-com- mittees will hold a general meeting this morning at the rooms of the Cali- fornia Promotion Committee, and the, work of collecting money will then be( planned and subdivided. It was the sentiment of all preseng; | that something should be donme at once. Mayor Schmitz suggested that $10,000 should be sent immediately after the . | meeting. Those present agreed to be. 'robqflblc for the collection of cu P e VAR L Continued on Page 3, Columa 4 3% e