The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1907, Page 1

' Impertinent Qu i$n No. 23 Which 1s the Ugliest Buildithg in San Fran- cisco, and Whiy? “Ten Dollars for Cleverest Answers See Page 3, Bottom of Coltumns 1 and 2 Ruflles—ehe of the chic cos- passing through strange ad- What they are is graphically L[’\KE CII —\O 154, SAN FRANCISCO FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1, 1907. KYd 1 BZn/::/ INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S FLURRY FALS T DISTURB NEWS TODAY maximom | I HAUE U;zpcn re, 68; minimum, | FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair; 1 t west wind. Page 11 B 2 o Nsws BY TELEGRAPH 9 3 ) Py ~ EASTERN WithOneException | & ok o N i go and college girl is ar- v-‘- 1 | the Banks Are All Open s of Rarmond Hite eve he has been kidi o | Page 11 | avall themselves of federal r and mas put $30,000,000 wddl eirculation. Page 4 California Safe Deposit Expects fo Resume Soon Gould sails from London to wat Sl iBc and says money to Gaish bank, r Page 1 COAST Financiers Say End Fifty-ninth annual convention of the Baptist | p of California will open at Pe ma next of Stringency Is Fage 12| traction company axhxlng from mination. Page 15 .'Goes to Aid of Wounded| [CRAWLS , who has a ‘Wi believed to have e of Colusa Page u in Sight in the h Marcia Dely EDITORIAL M lection would bring us herd times Pa First Preference Given | fo Meef Wage Payrolls| Pa :e i | post. | The emancipation of Nevada. Page S | AR : 3 An instructive Sght in IHinois. Page 8 | Every banking house in San A delicdte subject. Page S | Prancisco, with the excep-| POLITICAL %iog - of the suspended Cal- A. Knight, thrown into the - 3 | in Ryan's bebelf by the H ifornia safe deposit and trust|chive, sngers great crowd in . A . atta ng La don d defend] company, transacted business |, "% A NS . S 2 Independent republfean club, represeni % S yes‘efday. dCQFAQC 12000 republicans. will conduct a Taylor ny the fact that Governor (‘- ke Anditorium tanight. Page 2| gers without su'bort ¥ - kt‘.‘-’ %2d declared a Jegal L " Gémpers, j.rosident | American of lsbor, to furthe: a0 1 . day Although the governor h.,.s e o ey Ay “Hisses. dfown McGowan's charge that R s tied Langdon's bands with § on fund Page 3 announced another holiday fér|_ today, the banks will open at the wsual time. The gove: night for this hopes to more and Distriet Attorney Langdom Eintrach sddresses n Ifth streets. espectally from wo TNOT r left Eureka last |’ where hie thoroughly ac*- 2 R g % ce to defeat ¢ quant himself with the financial || Page 2 sitgation. Aemsiis ot % ‘ ki B Page ‘Thc thre:tenfd disturbance | GrRafFT failed to materialize, and, al-| roa journed because of public loif ral falling off| 987 anf argue concernipg admi of testimopy Page 18 of a size to ieriion.. Gatl s RAR ' : e *1 Costre street eond control on greased bk brisk. ARy e Smshes Fillmore street ecar and | been entertained | jnjures seven passengers. One may dle. Page 1| t was announced (| . All banks of the city, except the California | lecided to givel| e 4eposit and trust company, do business us | usual and the end of the financial furry con- 1 yight Pngo 1 ns wit will Legal holiday csnses &% postponemer ” 7 kmeg; t#everal important cases in fhe snperin " Tk Page n USuRLL Genersl Funston ieads a successful tidi el th b | of army officr l‘llx— n Several wives CONFIDENCE STRENGTHENED eruelty on jart of their husbands. Page o The - situatic vesterday wss del-| City engiresr osti widedly encouraging. Bankers in every ,‘h SZER000 Tor @D enti 5 street. quarter p: lowing trib; t » P ESang a{buton thie ! pickpockets, burglars, footpads and : #irong common sense of the San ¥rani | thieves ¥ several sections of the S ach Aepositor city Page 16 Lester Steinfeld arrested for burglary hecause be emtered w repairer’s shop snd took his owm property. Page 11 Local merchants will meet today to protest ageuinst the hern Pacific witbholding cars and sbipping them to Oregon. Page 16 | Frank Hanbury, Vallejo capitalist, advertises To strengthen ithe prevailing feeling of confidence it was stated last night that f ncial assistance from eastern money centers had been promised the Calffornia safe/deposit and trust com+ pany. Vice President J. Dalzell Brown [that be gill not be responsible for bills con- @nnounced <hat the bank would re-lfracted by his wife and divorce sult is ex. ope In & few days. Bank lnmm\s-'wv" Page 16 Saloon Keeper Jobn Kenny fights robber until ¥loner Guroutte began an investigation | ‘policeman of the sffairs of the comcern and for alarm. He gement had given cofimission ful that bank would shortly and every depositor would be paid in congress in Washington. Garoutte was assisted In the investi-{ Oskiand underwriters to establish an Inspec gation by former Commissioner Duns- | 108 burean for the purpose of removing causes of preyestable fires. Page 6 omes to rescue. sald | SUBURBAN said |’ ggitor of student megazine says Berkeley the | roeds have formed a smoking club and threatens the | o publish names of members. P that| Oukland will send a delegation of 25 - pent citizens to attend tbe rivers and % Page 16 he saw no that the m assurance resume fmoor. Quiet vr'\a”"fi at the main| “preyent David Starr Jordan of Stanford and office of the California safe deposit| Mrs. Jordan éntertain 300 guests at *The Play- company and at its four |bouse Page 11 : | Opening of the seventh anmmal convention of | | the women's elubs of the Alameda ais- | fhe situation was so bright vester-| trict Page 6 ride lett to walt at altar by Rowland‘R. bins succumbs to nervogs shock when message lleged illuess comes. Page 16 SPORTS Two Rughy matches will be played this week, | the lust before the Stauford-California varsity | day that neither the directors of the Stlearing house nor the state bankers' | ‘an_omanon helé & meeting | “There was no “cxpliined Homer & the clearing house need for a meeting,” King, president of | game. Page 10! ¢ R o || San Francisco and Portland defeat Oaslmnd | NDIS BE! 5 . SNRSTIR! ‘" BY A“ ‘v““‘ { 504 Lok Angeles at baseball. Page m‘ No appeal for additional holidays was| Some fast workouts recorded by the “clockers™ | made to the governor from San Fran- |6t tae Oskland racetrack. Page 10 | %cisco, but the chief executive of the| | 7K Jobuson's backers expect him io wiop | | Flyon in 20 rounds. Page 10| state believed that a prolongation nli 'ABOR the holiday would strengthen the situa- | state t7d the same story of sound | 1/-|| bnumllhl union iu the largest in the finenclal institutions undisturbed by | tnternational Surisdietion. Page 9 the flurry. No banks took advantage | MARINE of the holiday, but all opened their| Harbur commissioners favor copstruction of @oors and transacted business as be. | levetrd sidewalk from foot of Market strect P | t4 upper floor of ferry depot. ! Page 11 ¥ §n san Francisco the MINING holiday ties up mining stock market. conservative | dcy inaugurated early in the week | '\":.Wlfk?r! decline to adjourn over until holi- Swils carried ouf. Cash payments were] frs end. Page 15 de on small checks. Drafts and CIAL cks from other banks were laken usicale and tea given by Miss Fanny Dan- — i . my»n in Broadway bome is a most interesilug |»‘m event, | i Continued on Page 4, Column 1 Page 8 ‘;Cmillnd on Page 7, Middle Column 7 e SEVEN HURT IN GAR CRASH ON GREASED TRACK Castro Coach Dashes Down Hill to Wreck One of Fillmore Line POLICEMAN IS HERO| When Seriously Hurt by Flying Glass | IN, WINDOW Cries and Groans of the Victims Call Him to Afd Them . PRICE FIVE C(ENTS. Campaign Wrecked by Knight's Fool Speech of City Do Busmess as Usual and the Situation Brightens| s 4 Gou Seven persons were injured and| !some of them probably will die| | through the criminal act of the fiend| | who greased the tracks on Castro hnll' | 1ast night and sent a Castro car hun— | ling at terriffic speed into a Fillmore| street trolley coach at Church and| Market streets, in which were 40 peo-| ple, unconscious of all danger until| amid screams and in a hail of flying/| glass and splinters they were piled| in a heap by the awful impact of (he; Castro car, whose brakes refused to‘ hold on the slippery rails. \ One’; of the injured, Raymond - Woods of 1457 Valencia strect, wxll‘ suffer the amputation of both legs and| it is. thought that he will die from | the shock. i Others injured are: ‘ Mrs. A. C. Lawyer or 4166 Twenty- | fourth strest, internal injuries; Mrs. H. | £ humacher of 3841 Twenty-fourth suffering from shock, bruises an¢ rossible internal injuries; Otto Thompson of 742 Fourteenth street, | shock, bruises and cuts: E. W. Powell | of 432A Fourteenth street, serludu! jacerations, and Policeman Willlam | | 1sascs, who,” though ent and bruised himself, managed to pull the other in- | jured persons out of 'IIP wrecked Fill-| more street car. 1 At Church and Market streets, where | the accident occurred, is a steep grade | down which the Castro street car comes | | on the inbound trip. Car No. 1644¥had | arrived at the top of the hill when without warning the air brakes failed | work. The to the time and the heavy welght carried it over the brow of tho grade. As the trolley reached the descent the pace became faster and faster, while the frightened people crowded to the front and rear doors. Long before the car came to the foot of the hill the specd was ter- rific. Frantically the passengers ap- pealed to the motorman to stop the car and he tried every means in his power. The brakes, however, refused to work and the speed was so great that he was afraid to reverse his motor. Cowering, the passengers awaited the crash, as they had no chance to jump. In the meantime the Fillmore street car had come to a stop on the north side of the crossing at the foot of the grade. The motorman falled to see the car was crowded at Say That College Girl Stole U. S. Secrets CHICAGO, operatives some official Attorney General Bonaparte and Dis- trict Attorney Edwin S. Sims, contain- ing government secrets relating to the | case of John R. Walsh, formerly presi- dent of the Chicago national bank, pow defunct, awalting trial in connaction with the fallure of the bank, had “been | stolen from the flles in the federal building. Miss Etta L. McLean, who has been employed in District Attorney Sims’ office for three months, ar- rested in company with O. B. Gordee, charged with “conspiracy to steal gov- ernment resords.” Miss McLean and Gordee were taken before the United States commissioner and the hearing of the case was contin- Nov. l.—Secret service vesterday reported that| correspondence between | 52 2 T Let JuStice- Be Done—Up.””—McGowan CPAR IR 1L R L ST | Kronprinzessin Cecille to take personal | charge of his large interests and par- ued until Friday. - | Gould Comes to Watch| Western Pacific LONDON, Oct. 31.—George Jay Gould safled for America yvesterday on the ticularly the important construction work on the Western Pacific. Talking with Willlam J. English of Chicago Just before he sailed Gould sald he re- garded the fundamental business situa- tion in America sound and expected the financial difficulties to pass without much delay. He believed the ultimate effect would be thoroughly good. “I inquired especially about the Western Pacific,” said English today, “because of its immense importance to| California and hence to the Sutro prop- | erty in San Francisco, in which wife and I are interested. Mr. GOJXd ISTRICT ATTORNEY WILLIAM H. Francis J. Hency and Special Counsel Hiram W. Johnson will participate in five great Langdon meetings today. Each will speak at an open air meeting at noon, which will be followed by two great meetings tonight. ' Langdon will speak at noon at the Fulton iron works, Johnson at the Union iron works and Heney at Third and Berry sreets. : i The evening meetings will be held at Maennerbund hall, street and Potrero avenue, and at the South San Francisco opera house. and Heney will speak at both meetings. meeting at Maennerbund hall and Joseph Dwyer will preside at South San Fran- | cisco. Heney and Langdon will speak at both meetings, so that those who attend either will have an opportunity to hear the story of the graft prosecution told by the three men who have conducted it. Langdon, Heney and Johnson will discuss the graft prosecution from its incep- - tion,"and explain as no others can explain the necessity™of completing their great Champions of the Graft Prosecution Will Speak at Langdon Meetings LANG sDON, Hiram W. Johnson will preside over the Specnl Prosecutor - | | | | Langdon work, which can be completed: only by the re-election on Tuesday of District Attor- _ney Langdon. Twenty-fourth || sald that the Western Pacific would not be affected in any way by the financial situation and declared that all the money necessarv for the work| was In the banks before the present excitement arose. or to the im- people of the far west. “For my own part,” 1lsh, “I believe whatever the country may have undergone in the way of scarce money and impaired business will be a small price to pay for the riddance from reckless and dishonest methods and financial mantpulation.” Election Prancisco? Fifty Thirty Twenty Taylor McGarthy Ryan } Name He said it would not | | be necessary to lay off any men any extent curteil or restrict | provements which mean so much to the added Mr. Eng- | One Hundred Dollars for NO PREDICTION WILL BE CONSIDERED THAT mu THIS OFFICE LATER THAN | HERRIN AN DENOUNGES LANGOON Knight Stirs Up an Auditorium Crowd Enrages Big Audience by Defending Calhoun Brings a Storm of Protest Ryan Attempfs fo Undo Rough Work of Orafor By George A. Van Smith The cards stacked by the {Herrin machine were cast on the tables faces up last night when George A. Knight, |thrown into the municipal Daniel A. ‘Ryan standing as a republi- the graft | prasecution and the men who |hall made it possible, and en- {campaign to give |can, denounced {tered a feeling plea for Patrick | Calhoun. The mat which Knight's plea for Calhoun was | received by big™ crowd drawn to the itorium ‘last. night was of pronouncéd hostility that Ryan was com- {pelled to enter a feeble defense of Langdon in { set himself right | no longer ente the an which was to ha *zplg0sz- Hearst-Dargie-Calhoun-McCarthy com- bination behind Ryan, resulted in a | headon collision on the Southern Pa- cifies’ right of way. The bright. par- ticular star got his whistle blasts mixed, ran past a closed semaphore and Continued on Page 3, Columm 1 Guesses OW do YOU figure out the result of the coming election in San ‘Whom do YOU forecast as the people’s choice for mayor? 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