The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1906, Page 2

President Cables Expression ‘ of Sympatny to Chile’s Ruler Red Cross to Collect Funds for Relief of Refugees. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. ASHINGTON, Aug. pressions of sympathy for suffering Chile have been sent by President Roosevslt through the BState Depart- to Presid Exmo of that coun- he first was sent last night and His Excellency, the President of Chile, Santiage: In the name of the people of the United States 1 offer tribute of sorrow and sympathy to their aficted brethrem of Chile by reason of the awful disaster that has befallen Valparaiso. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. he second was cabled today after had learned mere in de- extent of the disaster. It the President tail the sald Exmo, President of Chile, Santiago: Let me repeat my expression of intense sympathy and express the shocked horror this people feels at the appall- ing disaster that has befallen your great mation. We are following the mews with the most eager and lively concern. Substantial expression of sympathy he American people is expected The Red Cross Soclety has r of urgent requests on of a subscription ke sufferers, many of calling attention to the n which foreign countries of- aid at the time of the dis- Francisco. In consequence of the Red Cross con- th the State Department and ded to issue an appeal to the t 1 for contributions for have by this catas- ived of their homes trophe been der and temporarily of their means of livelihood. It is said that the call will be prepared this evenng. The soclety without definite means of know! ) t condi- tions prevail in the stricken district, or the mar of relief best adapted, but it is i ded to start the move- m and later determine in what r the fund collected shall be dis- has received no di- uake center sterday. A dispatch was re- however, from Secretary Root h said he was leaving ay noon after a reception. He said heard the news of the and that in view of the in Chile he proposed, escence of the Govern- is visit in Chile to a ch he might extend condolence which he cabled from Buenos artment ews from PRAISE FOR THE CHILENOS. Engincer Jones Says They Have Great Regard for This Nation. nes, a mining engineer who Valparaiso, Santiago de places visited by the resides at 634 Ashbury related some interesting € that country and the ve there. Jones has an collection of piotures from America, and the photo of the iago plaza published in yesterday's was obtained from him. Valpars s the most important sald Jones. “When 01-1902, it had a popu- of $0,000, while that of Santiago 000. There is annually ex- m Chile through Valparaiso se amount of niter for fer- poses. The export duty on to $18,500,000 a year and aporfant part of the national The niter flelds extend for about 300 miles along the coast north of Valparaiso. The export of copper is gely done by British firms and amounts to about 28,000 tons a year. Inland, about sevently miles in a direct line from Valparaiso, is Santiago @e Chile, the capital and metropolis of e republic This is one of the ere en: grandest cities I ever saw, and I have visited nearly all the important cities iq("‘ world. It is noted for its beauty d the hospitality of its people, who take extravagant methods at times to show their love for the United States. e American Minister to Chile is looked upon with distinction by the people at Santiago. I became quite v acquainted w Minister Wilson when I was there and it interested me to see the deference shown him. “Minister Wilson had a habit of go- ing away for a vacation of two or three months occasionally. On return- ing from one of these trips he was wel- comed at the railroad depot by a great crowd of enthusiastic citizens. Their enthusiasm was so great that they took | his horses from his carriage and drew it by hand. Finally they abandoned the carriage and carried Wilson on thelr shoulders to the Union Club, where a feast was prepared which cost $40 a plate. They had drawn his carriage and carried him for two miles. “From the Union Club house in San- tiago are directed all the political cam- paigns of the country. There are not many men who have a say in the direc- tion of politics and nearly all of these belong to the Union Club. There are 700 members of the club, and all guests ofsdistinction are entertained by them. “The hospitality of the leading pebple of Santiago is something wonderful. For several months each year they keep open house, and any person bear- ing & certain card can enter their ho at any hour and secure the he land afford [ DUTIES WILL BE LOWERED. hilean Comnsul at New York Issues Statement to Shippers. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The Consul General of Chile at New York today out the following statement: ow that the proportions of the catastrophe in Valparaiso are known, t i& necessary to inform the merchants n this country that all the consulates of Chile in the United States and pos- sessions will continue, as customary, to vise shipments destined for Val- peraiso, giving the shippers authority to Jand their merchandise at their own option in #alparaiso or in other ports of Chile. It is timely to mention that outside of Valparaiso the other ports of the republic have not suffered by the earthquake and will continue as usual dispatehing cargoes. We can assume that on account of this dis- aster the importation of foreign goods will surely become more active, and probably the custom-house duties on certain necessitles will be lowered. Benefit for the Chileans. BERKELEY, Aug. 20.—Professor Carl Sawvell is to conduct a concert programme which he is now arranging 1. the Greek Theater next Saturday afternoon for the benefit of the Chilean carthGuake sufferers. g R Teo Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine T Druggists refund money if it cure, 'W. Grove's sig. on each 25c.* 20.—Bx- | !Supplies Being Rushed to the City of Valparaiso. Continued from Page 1, Cols. 5 and 6. perienced the San Francisco shock say | it was nothing like this. BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 20.—The fire | at Valparaiso destroyed 5000 houses. | Many buildings were destroyed in San- tiago, and thirty are reported dead at that point. Dispatches from Santiago say firemen have been sent from there to Valparaiso. Supplies are algo being sent. Seven or eight towns are reported to be destroyed. Along the rallway line in the mountain side tracks were de- stroyed and tunnels caved in. Thunder and rain storms which followed the | earthquake and fire added to the panic |and misery in Valparaiso. i Santiago was in darkness last night. The people are panic-stricken and are |camping out. The troops have killed a number of looters. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The greater horror of ine Valparaiso disaster has overshadowed the disaster to the smaller towns along the coast near the city. Many of these places have been wiped off the map. The towns of Vina |del Mar,, Quillota, San Felipe, Losy Andes and Casa Blanca are reported by refugees to have been totally destroyed. CRUSOR’S ISLAND IS THING OF PAST. Most of these small cities are within a few miles of Valparaiso, Casa Blanca, a town of 15,000 being about fifteen miles southeast, and Quillota, contain- ing 50,000 inhabitants, about twenty miles to the east. qua, with 15,000 inhabitants, iz a seacoast town about fifty miles to the north; San Felipe, numbering 35,000 souls, is 100 miles south, while Quirihue is on the sea coast about 250 mules south of Val- paraiso. It contained 45,000 inhab- itants. * - A report reached this city today that the earthquake destroyed the Island of Juan Fernandez, off the Chilean coast. It belonged to Chile and on it were a | penal settlement and a fort. This is the island made famous by Daniel de Foe as the scene of the thrilling ad- ventures of Robinson Crusoe. PARIS, Aug. 20.—A dispatch to & news agency from Valparaiso, undated, was recelved here today by way of Galveston. The correspondent states that 20,000 of the- inhabitants of Vi paralso are without shelter, that the number cf dead cannot be accurately estimated, though It 1s very great; that the,Villa del Plaza has been completely destroyed, and that the property loss is estimated at $260,000,000. The dispatch adds thal the staff of the news agency was forced to flee the city and that it is believed several of its members were Kkilled. THOUSANDS ARE LIVING IN TENTS. | LONDON, ~Aug. 20.—The Tarapaca and Argentina Bank has received the following dispatch from Valparaiso: Every building here is dameged and | many of the principal business prem- ises are completely wrecked or burned. There have been many .casualties. All | trains have stopped running. The rail- | road line has been destroyed in place: “Martial law has been proclaimed. Absclutely no work is being done ow- ing to the continuous small shakes since the two severe shocks of Thurs- a We cannot gat workmen to clear away the debris from the premises. We could start business on Monday, but we are unable to find the other bank managers. Thousands are living in tents and in the squares and parks.” SANTIAGO, Sunday, Aug. 19.—The situation is becoming clearer. A re- lief committee was organized here to- day and the street raliroad service was resumed. It was feared that Santlago would be plunged in darkness owing to lack of coal to supply the gas works, but the officials of the gas company say they have a. sufficlent supply to last a week. GREAT HEAPS OF RUINS. Carlos Edwards, one of the proprie- | tors of the Mercurio of Valparaiso, has arrived here on horseback from that city. He confirms the reports that the Almendral quarter and the principal avenue of Valparaiso have been trans- formed into heaps of ruins. When he | left the city the inhabitants were wan- dering about looking for relatives and friends. The majority of the Inhabi- | tants, he says, have sought refuge on the hills, in the parks and along the | seashore. The administration building |and the Victoria Theater has dluup-l peared even to their foundations. The merine arsenal was only slightly dam- | 2ged, but none of the private residences | were habitable. In spite of the desolation perfect or- der was maintained by the . troops, which were bivouacked on the Grand avenue and Victoria square. The mill- tary ambulances were gathering up the wounded and the dead. When Edwards left Valparaiso it was impossible to determine the number of persons killed, but according to his estimate the number of lives lost was small, when the extent of the catastrophe was taken into consideration. At one depot he saw fifiy bodies. The main hotel was standing and all the gpests es- caped Injury, but Edwards regards Val- paraiso as being uninhabitable for the present. CAVALRY ON THE WAY. The squadron of cavalry forming .ae Presidential escort has started from here for Valparaiso with instructions to requisition all the cattle met with between this place and Valparaiso, and to drive the herds to the latter city in order to prevent a famine. A large number of people have sought refuge on the various ships at anchor in the bay of Valparaiso. The report that the naval school at Valparaiso escaped the disaster is con- |firmed. A number of families have sought refuge in the school building, where they are being cared for by the naval authorities. PRISONERS SING HYMNS. The Government has advised the provincial governments to spend all money necessary to help the earth- quake sufferers in their districts. When the earthquake first shook this city the | priscners in the penitentiary began |singing hymns. There was no loss of life among them so far as known, but |at Valparaiso the prison walls fell and | crushed 140 prisoners to death. President 0 has received dis- patches from arena, capital of the province of Coquimbo, saying that no damage has begn done ih the north, but | that the majority of the houses in the | Ambagada district collapsed, as did a | hill between Valparaiso and Vina del | Mar, destroying railroad communica- | tion between those two places. | Despite the fact that the stores of | provisions here are intact, a number | of merchants have considerably in- | creased the price of provisions. | MANY KILLED AT MINES. ‘ A great deal of damage has heen !done at the mines in the Noglais and Calona districts. A number of houses | have fallen at Talea. Fifty perso | were killed there and 150 were wound- |ed at Melipilla. It is belleved that all | the houses will have to be pulled down, owing to the severe shaking which they received from the earthquake, and at Salvador and Santa Turnino & number Twenty—five Pillagers Are Shot Down by Soldiers. SANTIAGO, Aug. 20.—The authori- ties are taking severe measures to maintain order. Twenty-five pillagers have been shot. The earthquakes have ceaseéd, the re- sultant fires have been extinguished, and peoplé of the two cities, Valpa- raiso and Santiago, are taking organ- ized steps to relieve suffering, care for the wounded and bury the dead. The period of succor has entered. Dispatches recelved today tend to show that the first estimates of casu- alties and material damage had been greatly exaggerated and the people of Valparaiso are becoming calmer. The fear of further shocks has been re- moved by a statement issued from the observatory, and today it became pos- sible for the first time to organize work and begin a systematic search.of the ruins for the dead. Santiago is coming to the rescue of her suffering sister. Public subscrip- tions have been opened for money, clothing and provisions, and the capi- tal is caring for all refugees from Val- paraiso who make their way &cross tne mountains. The Government is putting down pillage wherever it breaks out with troops. It is'still impossible to reach any correct estimate of the dead and in- injured. The reports are most confiict- ing. A large section of the country, however, was visited by the catastro- phe of last Thursday and cabled esti- mates of casualties refer in some in- stances to particular localities, notably Valparaiso, and in others evidently to the entire district which suffered from the shock. The number of dead dn Valpara{so doubtless wiil run into tue hundreds, and for the entire countr probably into thousands. The property damage is estimated at from $200,000,- 000 to $300,000,000. The Government has authorized the provincial Governors to spend all money necessary for the rellef of the needy in their districts. The funds subscribed in Iguique to celebrate the election of Pedro Montt to the Presi- dency will be expended to relieve the suffering. Public rellef subscriptions have been opened in Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Government will pass an| appropriation to the same end. Chile will ask its Congress for money for the reconstruction of Valparaiso. The remoter districts have not yet been heard from and efforts are being made to establish communication, either by wire or courler, with the provinces. It i reported that at several points the coast has been lifted above former level. A commercial crisis is feared and| very little business is being done. The| English firms located at Valparaiso do not appear to have sustained hea loss, and it does not appear that any foreigners were killed. Santiago suffered much less than Valparaiso. The number of dead in Santiago is reporied at twenty. A lo- cal relief committee has been organ- | ized, the street cars have resumed run- ning and the normal aspect of the city is rapidly returning. Refugees of Val- | paraiso are coming in in greater num- | ber each hour. The railroads are not yet in operation. ANXIO! FOR NEW™ Family of Astronomer in Charge of Chilean Observatory at Mount Hamilton. SAN JOSE, Aug. 20.—Definite infor- mation concerning the recent earth- quake in Chile is anxiously awaited at the Lick Observatory. D. O. Mills Ob- servatory, established three years ago as an adjunct to the Lick Observatory, is located on the summit of San Chris- tobal, overlooking Santiago. the capital of Chile, and the astronomers now at work there have beén members of the staff on the Mount Hamilton Observa- tory. Dr. Heber T. Curtis is the as- tronomer in charge. His wife, three children, mother and sister are residing | at Mount Hamilton. Professor C. D. Perrine, astronomer in charge at Lick Observatory, today said: “The reports of disastrous earth- quekes at Valparaiso have an unusual interest for the Lick Obsérvatory on account of its affiliation with the D. O. Mills Observatory at Santiago. News is anxiously awaited from Dr. Curtis, who is in charge of the Chilean station. FORETOLD BY ASTRONOMERS. Sclentists Predict Disaster to Southern Republics. LONDON, Aug. 20.—In a dispatch from Santiago the correspondent of the Daily Mail says: “It is a curious fact that the earthquake of August 16 was foretold by astronomers, who based their predictions on the conjunction of Jupiter, the earth and the moon. Auditor of Customs Cope Dies Suddenly SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 20.—George W. Cope, auditor of the United States cus- toms service in San Francisco, died yesterday at Brookdale, where he had been spending the summer with his family. He was stricken with apo- plexy in the morning and passed away in the afternoon. Much sorrow was expressed In the Cust. house yesterday over the an- nouncément of the death of Mr. Cope. He suffered a nervous breakdown shortly after the great fire, caused by too close application to his duties and was obliged to go to his country home in the mountalns for rest and recupera- tion. He was born in Kentucky in 1848 and came to California when a lad of seven. He was a prominent stock bro- ker in this city for many years. In 1803 Mr. Cope was appointed auditor of cus- toms by Collector John H. Wise. Mr. Cope had intended to return to Oakland yesterday to have ‘his eyes treated, so that he could veport for duty | on September 1. He was a son of the late W. W. Cope, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California.” He leaves a wife and five children, Mrs. Grace Lolor of Toronto, Canada; Mrs. Hazel Hartley and Georgle, Vera and Warner Cope of Oakland. S e e r Quo Vadis Leads Motor Boats. OSTEND, Belgium, Aug. 20.—In the Dover-Ostend motor boat race today the Quo Vadis finished first and the Napier Major second. e e of public buildings will razed. At Laillai venty houses fell. A nvmber of small villages in the Terre- e RS have to be mote district were totally destroyed.’ At Terremote the populace tried to pillagé the business houses of Rose- Innis, which had remained standing, but the employes of the firm success- fully defended the place. 1 o Blln‘. MlllfiPrn di tehing, g, truding ) d mi it Bt Bluggld oIS a0 its | | that DINORCE APPLIGANT FAOWNED UPON. Judge Heb?);rd Refuses to Issue Decree For Trifling Differences REBUKES WOMAN “If 1 granted a divorce for the rea- sons set forth, three-fourths of the married people of San Francisco would have a right to come into my court and demand the same thing. Divorce de- nied.” Tt was Judge Hebbard who spoke and he referred to the case of Hannah Keller vs. Michael Keller. Mrs. Keller - charged her husband with eruelty, but she failed to produce sufficlent evidence. She said that he would go for long stretches without talking to her and that he would often take the baby out’ without taking his wife. It appeared to be more a case of temporary differences than serious trouble, although an effort on the part of the Judge to effect a reconciliation was without avall. “Healthy, but always intoxicated,” was the way Mrs. Alice Sophie Wilson spoke of James J. Wilson to Judge Graham yesterday. She asked for and secured ‘a divorce on the ground of intemperance and willful neglect. Judge Hebbard-granted Robert Lich- tenfels a divorce from Kinsceay Lich- tenfels on statutory grounds. Suits for diyorces were filed yester- day in the office of the Count¥ Clerk as follows: Harry Hansen vs. Olga C. Hansen, desertion; George C. Rouse vs. Louise A. Rouse, desertion; Elizabeth Feno vs. John F. Feno, cruelty; Olivia L. Barry vs. George Barry, desertion; Dena Johnson vs. Gustaf Johnson, cruelty; Frances G. Stevenson vs. Ed- win J. Stevenson, desertion. AOSS SCANAL I THE IR NORTH SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—An amaz- ing condition of affairs, one that reeks of scandal, is disclosed in a report made to Secretary Hitchecock of the In- terior Department by Special Agent Frank C. Churchill concerning the man- agement of the schools and reindeer in Alaska by the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, the Commissioner of Education for that Territory and author of the scheme to make the natives of Alaska self-sup- porting by the introduction of reindeer into their country. The report om the face of it shows the Government imported 2085 head of reindeer at a cost of approxi- mately which have multiplied and increased to about 10,000 kead; of which the Government owns, unincum- bered, less than 2000 head, the rest hav- | ing been “loaned” or given to the mis- sions of the American Missionary So- clety, which, according to the report, has been selling the yvoung to the Gov- ernment for about 525 a head. Also,’it appears that Dr. Jackson has reported having spent thousands upon a scheol which, when the agent visited the site upon which it.is supposed to have heen, evected, congisfed of a -pife of lumber. 7 . SANDSPIT. MANSION ON And the 'most aStounding statements ade by the agent pertain to the school at Point Barrow, the farthest north educational institution in the world. In a community where there are 200 people living on a sandspit there 15 a Government school ereciéd at a cost of $6571, althougn the allotment of money made for it by the Secretary of the Interior was only $4000. A dwell- ing erccted in the name of the Presby- terian boa horae raissions, after funds had been contributed by thb Government, is occupied by the Rev. R. Springs and wife., He is the lecal superintendent of the reindeer, and is supposed to teach the school, for which he has been paid $1500 a year. The report says: “Besides Mr. and Mrs, Springs I found at Point Barrow the Rev. John H. Kilbuck. and wife. 1 was told that Dr. Kilbuck has drawn a salary at the rate of ,.500 a year and that he, not Mr. Springs, has taught the school during the last year. Mr. Kilbuck was north to open a school at Wainwright last year, but the build- ing, like the one at Point Barrow, has only just been erected.” JACKSON’. PULL TOO STRONG. Reports of the alaska school® ex- travagances have been .n the hands of Secretary. Hitchcock for months, ‘but, so far as can be learned, he has done nothing in addition to what he has heretofore attempted to do to Dr. Jack- son. He has tried to get rid of the doctor on many occasions, but his hold upon the religious bodies of the coun- try has been too strong for the Secre- tary to overcoma. Agent Churchill fn his report plainly intimates that with .the doctor the church interests In the schools and reindeer business was first and the Government only a secondary condi- tion. He still draws $500 a year from the Mission Board in New York. His Government salary is $2500. San Francisco Sends $10,000 Continued from Page 1, Column 7. ¥ much money, and J. Dalzell Brown, backed by the verbal promise of the others present, furnished the $10.000, and he, by their authority, wired it to the sufferers at 5:30 o'clock. The first check presented to the committee of seven was by A. Ruef for the amount of his subscription, $100. Following is a list of those who sub- scribed to the fund while at the meot- ing yesterday afternoon and the re- spective amounts contribued by each: E. E. Selmits .. ! F. W. McDooald 1. Daizell Brown . J. D. Phelan ., M. Manson Ttalinn A F. C. E. J. 3. B Reinsteln . 1 Mullaily T ornwel M 82505 The Call has received-a check for $5 from Dr. S. 1. Harrison of 3053 Califor- nia street, which sum the doctor wishes applied for the relief of the Chilean quake and fire sufferers. —_——— ALLEGED All%m rille, Aug. . —] burning the -’egv of ) Savramento and TUESDAY, AUGUST .21 1906 Wise and Resolute in Action, Undismayed by Clamor. Continued From Page'1, Cols. 3 and 4. shown themselves farsighted in the matter, the work of building the canal would never have been begum, or, if begyn, would have halted. I'ne opposi- tlon to the treaty by which our right to build the canal was secured; a part at least of the opposition ‘even now being made to the ratification of the Santo Domingo treaty, which is one more step in the effort to make peace- ful and secure the waters through which the route of the canal leads; the constant effort to delay on one pretext and another the actual work on the canal—all prove how essential it Is that if the American people desire the Panama canal to be built .n speedy and efficient fashion they should uphold the hands of those who in the present Con- gress have so effectively championed this work. UPBUILDING THE NAVY. !No less praiseworthy has been the attitude of this Congress in continu- ing to build and maintain on a high plane of efliclency the United States navy. The country is irrevocably com- mitted to the maintenance of the Mon- roe doetrine. It is irrevocably com- mitted to the principle of defending and policing the canal route. But its championship of the Monroe doctrine and its amnouncement of its intentions as to the canal route would both he absurd on their face if the nation failed to do its duty in maintaining a thoroughly efficient navy at as high a point in perfection as can possibly be attained. CONTROL OF CORPORATE WEALTH. “Our external affairs are important, but our internal affairs are even more important, and no ether Congress for many a long year has, as regards the betterment of our internal affairs, done 8o much and has such excellent work to its credit. The tremendous social and industrial changes in our nation have rendered evident the need of a larger exercise by the national Gov- ernment of its power to deal with the business use of wealth, and especially of corporate wealth in interstate busi- ness. It is not too much to say that the course of Congress within the last few years and the hearty agreement between the executive and legislative departments of the nation in taking the needeq action, each within its own | sphere, have resulted in the nation,| for the first time, definitely entering| upon the career of the proper perform- | ance of duty in these matters. | THE MIDDLE COURSE. crash. But it Is not easy to do as the pregent Congress and the immediate predecessors have done: that is, sternly to disregard alike the self-interest of those who have profited by the present evils and the wild clamor of these who care less to do away with them than tc make a reputation with the un- thinking of standing extreme oppo- sition to them. But is 1s preecisely what the present Congress has done. | The previous Congress, by the enact- ment of the Elkins law and by tha creation of the Department of Com- m and Labor, including the Bureau of Carperations, has enabled us to make t strides in advance along the path of thus bringing the use of wealth in business under the -supervision and regulation of the national Gevernment —for In actual practice it has proved a sham and pretense to say that the sev- eral States can thus supervise and reg- ulate it.”” President Roosevelt reviews and ap- proves the measures taken to secure certaln rights to wageworkers, includ- | ing the employers’ liability law and the eight-hour law. REVISION IN GOOD TIME. Of the tariff, Mr. Roosevelt says: “We stand unquivocally for a pro-| tective tariff and we feel that the phe- nomenal industrial prosperity which we are now enjoving is not lightly to be jeopardized, for it would be to the last degree foolish to secure here and there a small benefit at the cost of general business depression. But whenever a given rate or schedule be- comes evidently disadvantageous to the nation because of the changes which go on from year to y in qur conditions, and where it is sible to change this rate or schedule without toe much dislocation of the system,| it will be dome, while a. general- re- vision of the rates and schedules will be undertaken whenever it shall ap- pear tg the sober business sense of our people that, on the whole, the benefits to be derived from making such changes will outwelgh the disadvant- ages; that is, when the revision will| do more good than harm. TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS. “Let me add onme word of caution. however. The question of revising the| tariff stands who)ly apart from the| question of dealing with the so-called ‘trusts'—that is, with the control of monopolies and with the supérvision of | great wealth in business, especially ln} corporate form. The only way In which it is possible to deal with those trusts and monopolies and this great “It is a very easy thing to play lhei demagogue in this matter, to confine | one's sclf merely to denouncing the evils of wealth and to advocate, often in vague langnage, measures so sweep- ing that, while they would entirely fail | to correct the evils aimed at, they "brobably will succeed in bringing down the prosperity of the nation with a | i corporate wealth is by action along the line of the laws enacted by the present Congress and its immedliate predeces- sors. The cry that the problem can be met by any changes in the tariff represents, whether censciously or un- consciously, an effort to divert the | public attention from the only method of taking effective action.” { NEW BUILDING FOR FORTY-NINERS. At a meeting of the Soclety of Call- fornia Pioneers, held in Hamilton Hall yesterday afternoon, the members of that organization authorized its board of directors to expend $150,000 n erecting a new and up-to-date head- | quarters building on the site of the |eld building at Fourth and Jessie streets, and to expend $25,000 additional for a new Ploneers’ Home to be erected lin the rear of the same site. The mbers of-the soclety were enthusi- ctlc over the prospegt of a new build- ing, and the directors expressed their intention of beginning operations at | once and arrange for a building of which the society may be proud. Plans havé already been submitted by O. B. | Stmpson, a junior member of the so- | clety, but these have not yet heen con- | stderea. | The meeting was well attended, there being about 100 members present, who unanimously axpressed themselves as being well satisfied with the work of the .board of directors, Indorsed the relief expenditures of the board and empowered it to expend as much money us might be necessary in further relief work in excess of a constitutional limit of $2000. The directors were alse em- powered to use their discretion in leas- ing or building on the property of the society at Montgomery and Gold streets. In speaking of the present financial condition of the society and its abllity to build a new home, President W. W | Hobart said that the appralsed value | af the soctaty’s possessions on April 17 was $700,000, and that two weeks | agc the pioneers had $565,000. In ad- | aitton to, this between $125,000 and §140,000 insurance money will be cal- Jected. At the present time the so- clety has $250,000 in money and avall- able securities. In the face of ex- penses aggregating $20,000 a year Ho- burt safd he thought that, from a financial standpdint at least, the society | ratzht well be considered healthy. | The present board of directors con- 'sists of W. W. Hobart, -president; H. Li Byrne, §. M. Collins, A. R. Cotton, J. M. Burnett, Titus Hale, J. Lueh- singer, H. Phelps, Gibbs and R. Ru —_— OFFERS ITS SYMPATHY. Board of Supervisors Promises Aid to Stricken - Chilean Cities. The Board of Supervisors yesterday adopted the following resolution: “WWhereas, The Chilean cities of Val- paraiso and Santiago have been dev- astated by earthquake and fire, re- sulting in enormous loss of life and property; therefore be it “Resolved, That on behalf of the peo- ple of the City and County of Sen Fran- cisco, who have recently experienced a similar_ disaster, the Board of Super- visors hereby offers its deepest sym- pathy to the people of these afflicted cities in thefr hour of distress and peril and hold ourselves In readiness to respond to the extent of our ability to furnish assistance to relleve the suf- ferers by this great calamity.” SHIPPING MYSTERY BAFFLES POLICE ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 20.—The local officials are puzzled over the re- markable case that developed here last night. Official attention was directed to the matter when the Chief of Police was called at 10 o'clock to go to the schooner Fearless, which was lying in the stream. The Chief found William Gohl, agent of the Sailors' Union, and several other persons aboard the vessel, but there was no trace of three watch- men who had been left aboard by Cap- tain Liljiquist. - The captain had gone ashore early in the evening to be with his wife, who is ill, and what transpired after he departed has not been learned. At all events the vessel received a noc-| turnal visit from ghe sailors’ agent and | some men who aré charged with hav- | ing searched the schooner and thrown overboard all the guns and ammuni- | tion found. | When morning came it was given | out that one of the three watchmen | left aboard had been drowned. He is/| boat and was overturned hen a| hawser from a near by vessel struck its mast, N | The whole dffair is shrouded in mys- | tery. The Fearless, before leaving this | port for Mexico in June, was attacked by a party of armed union sallors, who sought to take off a member of the crew. A regular battle ensued. Just what object the sailors could have had in their second attack is not known to the authorities, who are trying to solve the mystery. The story of the manner in which the watchman was drowned does not ap- pear reasonable, although a man em- ployed as watchman on a near by dock vouches for it. The Call correspond- ent was assured that after the Fear- 1 had taken a berth at Lindstrom's yards preparatory to going. on the ways several rifles were carried ashore, which seems to discredit the other story. Evidently the truth of the midnight = seid to have started ashore-ip a small | BRUGUIERE AGAIN A BENEDIC. Weds at Reno Daughter of Towhsend, the San Francisco Candy Man PLANS LONG TOUR SPECIAL DISPATCE TO THE CALL. RENO, Nev, Aug. 20.—Dr. Pedar & Brugulere, who was recently granted & divorce from his wife by the Districti Court of Reno, was married this even-| ing by a Justice of the Peace to Miss Nana Price-King, stepdaughter of W. S. Townsend, the glace fruit merchant of San Francisco. Only the mother of the bride and a few Intimate friends were present. The couple left this evening for Lake Tahoe, whence they will go to Monterey, after which they PR— will visit different Fastern cities, stay- ing for a while at Newport, where th bridegroom’s mother resides. returning to the coast they will a tour of Europe. Brugulere says that after his raturn' from Europe he proposes to put $800,« 000 in the glace frult trust. He will abandon the praétice of -medicine and engage In business with W. S. Towns- | end, his father-in In this com= nection he will exploit the products of California’s orchards, throughout the European countries and the East. SRR A No I rance in Chile. HARTFORD, Conn. Aug. 0.—Fire insurance companies having their home | offices in this State are not losers by the earthquakes in Chile, as none has written risks there. Officials of Connecticut companies say that most of the British companies carrying risks in South America ha clauses in their policies relating di- rectly to loss by earthquake, total exe emption being the rule. —_— Shocks at Martinique. FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Marti~ nique, Aug. 20.—Earthquake shocks of more or less severity wera felt in the Island of Martinique at 1:15 p. m. yes- terday and at 3:47 a. m., 4 a. m. and 8:37 a. m. today. No damagé was done. i el DREOWNED AT PETALUMA.—Petaluma, Auge 20.—Jobn Jordan Jr. fell in the river here last night unnoticed and was drowned. His found this mornin; Glothes. Quality What makes the dif- ference between the price of one suit and ther? ALITY. conslsts "AILORING. Talloring consists of CORREC MODEL- ING—that is, draping of the figure so as to sbow both the suit and figufe off to ad- proper finishing. takes skill—it experience. It is the artistie part of taflor- 1 ov- Time will prove its merits. See me _about that sult NOW. 503 Van Ness Ave., at MoAllister st Gents’ Gold Filled, Richly Engraved Hunting Case. Guaranteed 20 years. 15 Jeweled Elgin Movement. 22-K and 13-K Wedding Rings a specialty. LUNDY T. 744 Market St., near Grant Ave. visit of sailors has not been told and in some quarters it is declared that the watchman was not drowned, as his body cannot be found. ——— - CABLES “ALL ARE WELL.” A cable dated August 19 received by Balfour, Guthrie & Co. from their Val- paraiso house, Willlaiason, Balfour & Co., says: alparaiso had earthquake, fires me as your Confusion indeserib- able. We are all well.” Sul in Oakland. QAKLAND, Aug. 20.—Mayor Frank K. Mott is to start bscription to rdise funds to aid the sufferers from the earthquake and fire in Chile. 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