The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1907, Page 1

When 2 dozes well known men under- take to tell you why they stayed with a 1 down city and why they are glad, s worth hearing. See The Sunday Call VOLUME 26. CTIT—NO. GLAIRVOYANT'S AID ANVOKED BY TAX COLLEGTOR, ' 1 [ INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY WEATHER CONDITIONS | ! o YESTERDAY —Cloudy; southwest wind; masi- | Seeress Of Sutter Street|m momommm oy 4 3 ORECAST FOR TODAY—Cloudy, with »ain; | Reads Nichols’ Stars syt Page 8| as Politician EDITORIAL | Making movey with both hands. ' Page 6 Success of clearing house certificates, Page 6 sbin, « P It OTHERS~ CONSULTED| TSt stiin,, Tage 8| BANK FAILURE rapping of wanr Latin Americans reétoals own's dreams of himself as x South American Page 1 Ex-Deputies Bring Serious| s ving Charges Against For- |crry mer Chief imedtny s tell of cobsultations with Tax Nichols, and ousted deputies will tak i matter up before Mayor Taylor today. Deput Lenab ntimates that his zeal in collecting | 7 se from Chief Deputy Berger cost him ACTIVITY OUSTS HIM g, | - Woman's sbriek still sounds in ears of rea s n who saw ber crushed between bis sbip | 2 1 1 ® e Viking. Page 1/ J‘ }{ Lenahnr‘ TeAls Of SIOtS Churches of city are crowded with worshipers, > 2 who hesr \} by wondre ory of the That PRl NG Litenge. [ e T o s 1| . San Francisco Knights Templar drink Christ- | to the City mas foast at the same moment with their | “ = ok - brothers the world over. Page 5| gee Buffington reports that be was held nd robbed of 4SO Page 12| Gertrude Gentry, who ad- ts she was invoked to peer and pea soup chief dishes at-Cbristmas n futu oy imprisoned ~ bamkers, Scbmitz and | into the future by the tax col- Page 2 and J. Nichols, the Thomas A. Parker. former San run«ww'.‘ whom deputies charge perisbes in Alaskan blizzard. Page 7| Cook finds prospective bride talking to rivall ma- Page 12| and desls latter fatal blow with ax. | SUBURBAN New fire ordinance will be strictly enforced by { | Oskiana police. P-;eu laborers wreck Oakiand house during | ous Christmas celebration apnd 12 are ar 3 by the police. Page 4 | nd Mrs. Charies Tarr of Oakland fea- ut | stren etty babr. Page 4 Bountiful Cbristmas fessts provided for needr | fo1k of cities across the ar Page 4 Workmen attach city of Leland Page 4 |coasT Anto bur; 5 roads pursued by p of robbers’ m Page 3 ax official of Consolidsted Mines, | court to dissolye mipers pierce ean Wingfield, asks federal union as | nuisance. Page 3 | ohn Habn of San Diego i& in Stockton scek sued him for divor: Page 5| traveler ends life wWith pistol ball Y c Page 5 EASTERN | Mysterious Sauts Clags scatters hundreds of | cop of Day's *‘Raid on Prosperity’’ ameng | congressmen and correspondents, Who pass thiem on to vegro elerator bar. Page 1/ ghes may get support of Towa' delegatimn | [owing to a fBght between and Cuw- | { Page 3 shootings mar Christmas holigars in Bus: | essre. Page l’} appoints William Tames | Il the vacancy caused by e | deats of Mallors. Page 5| men. and women of New York px T entertainment for emploses 23d poo Governor of Florida Brrap senmator to de- ndents. Page 4| | New Yorkers spend with unstinted hand 104 sign of stringency is shown in Cbrisimas fes- tivities Page 5| | Philadeiphia man shosts girl and attempts su . leaving letter telling of resolve of Loth ! 10 die for love. Page 3 Tarkington, the Indlana novel is | . errife fgbt with detectives, ko | is »poisy celebratalon of Christ \ mes. Page 1| Seventeen Italians arrested in Piitsburg cellar \den receive work se sentences for possession | { of murderons weap: Page 13 Rear Admiral Brownson. twho resigned as chief of the bureau of navigation of fhe vavy. | feels beary weigh the big stick Page 1| FOREIGN Thousands of American blnejackets spend | Christmas ashore at Port of Spain. Page 3| Whole Duteh cabinet resigns because of defeat | of army estimates Page 8 Canadian minister of labor in interview at | Tekro says Japavese question will be setiled | | satistactorily. Page 3 & = R i - | SPORTS 1 Keene Brothers' Clamor and Red Leaf take City government by clairvoyancy o b frst and second momey fu the Christmas handi and lack of license collection through |cap st Emeryville. Page 9 | Colonel Bob runs six furlongs at Santa Anito in world’s record time of 1:11 3-5 and Old Timer - | duplicates Lisare's mile in 1:47 4.5 Page 9 Sewell is given top weight for the Portland | | bandicap on Saturdar Page 9 Rattlesh Nebraska's foothall team de Nich the elerem from the cruiser Colorado, 39 z S office. | apd army team wins from marine eorps, 19 | % to ©. Page 10 ¢ than| Automobile deslers may open a down twwn those , were | club. Page 11 Attell and Moran work hefore large crowds voiced Lena-| 4t their training quarters Page 11 2 3 | Harrr Baker, the San Francisco hoxer, scoros la on bis first appearance in a bout in New ErES | York eity Page 11 office chie 1 was intent| Stanford Rugbr football team loses to Van. on performing ¢ by collecting | couver, 8 to 0. Page 10 s 80 achine license from Dep { LABOR 2 Collector George Berger in the| The brick larers and tils sefters have a furis- + capacity as joint owher with |dictional question before the building trades the boodling supervisor, fn] o Page 7 S e . | MARINE Golden Gate avenue 4 misconduet will prob. |, OreTdse bark Booguinville arrives in port atter . ez et long vovage from Swanses Page 8 £, attention "f‘SOCIAL : < w:f‘ BoaTd| g vice-folk at Mere' islabd plan: big bell“or deposed deputies [ frst part of new vesr in celebration of squad ovant, | ron's retarn, Page 6 seer-| o 7'4‘”\.“-‘.‘:1Tenemeut Dwellers to e st Rents Down & and T had many M 2 5 .{ "w EPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL R | NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—As the result tenants were constantly at my house.” | : ¢ vaciously explained last|®f @ MOvement which has heen under = A [way for more than a month, 30,000 sty : | families on the lower east side will re- Nichols was not the only one of the | fuse to pay rent tomorrow, and if their of | demands for a reduction ‘are not met| | wholesale evictions will follow. Abe Ruef was her friend the $ ihe The =ocialist party, with headquarters | A Sive eloee|in the second, fourth and efiith assem- | L T Wiy districts, Is directing the revolt after the unseen had her m'rodnfl\fln] |against landlords, claiming (hat pres- to Nichols. The woman magician @id| ;¢ yndustrial condjtions do not war- not say thst bad to pay Ruef a|rant the same rentals that tenants were commission on the fees she might ha\nlam» 1o pay a year ago. from Nichols. The opening gun will be fived tomor- socpren from |row by the 48 families in the double Jerry Dinan. who in the days of graft| jecker tenement at 68 and 70 Stanton was 2 local chief of police, was also a!street, who ask for a reduction of $1 client of Mme. Gentry. |a month, and by the 52 famiues in 216 v ps s \teq | N3 218 Lnerry sireet, who want $3 a “Chief Dinan frequently consulted|,onth Jopped off the montuly rental of with me regarding the whereabouts of |$21 to $25 for the front flats of four and five rooms and $2 from thie ;u ?am for mg rear rooms, Scbomitz-Ru inistration to consult| with this transcendental seeress ter street. arch wonderful was hoodler the she Continuned on Page 2, Column 2 |Frenzied Financier | tral |to deposit their money in his bank. | Moisant plantations at Find has produced marvels. nted and shown in photos in Up” Number of PRICE FIVE CENTS. - g FAILURE ENUS BROWN'S DREAM OF R KINGSHIP .. |Secret of Banker’s Desire t0‘ Be the Consul of Uru- guay Explained EUUNIIS N EARS Atlas’ Captain’ Tells How She Was Crushed i | by Ships CRIES OUT IN AGONY VISIONS IMPERIAL Hope of Safety Snatched! Away by Maniacal 1 Husband Sought Station as Grandee of Latin America MANY PLANTERS LOSE Wreck of Trust Company LETS GO HIS HOLD Rope Slips and Man Follows' Catches Victims of Wife to Death in Wily Manager Collision i The secret of J. Dalzell Brown's| While willing hands were out-| | desire to represent the republic of | stretched to save her from a watery| Uruguay in San Francisco was ex-|8rave: Mrs. Peterson, wife of thel late captain of the 1ll fated Norwe-| plamed: yesteraa L e, e o gian bark Viking, was practically| sociate ofs the banker asserted ‘hati(orn away by her insane husband and | Brown had visions of vast South|crushed to death during a collision| American estates “with himself = as|between his vessel and 'the American| | the greatest grandee of the western|ship Atlas off Cape. Horn on ]nnei hemisphere. In fact, Brown already|6 last. More harrowing details 'of | had made some progress toward the|the sad tragedy of the deep rclatcd[ realization of ifs ‘dream, for he had|in yesterday's Call ully yesterday afterncon persuaded many leaders in the Cen | L. €. Dart of the Atlas. and South American Though he has sailed the secas of many climes for fifty year the | remembrance the June disas-| ter yet brings tears to the eyes of lhc'.;.. were explained | Captain | by countrie: He succeeded in gzining their friend* ship, and among the names of the depositors will be found those of sev- of American ;hip Atlas, which brought the story of the ’ | tragedy of the sea off Cape Horn, and the vessel's master, L. C. ADMIRAL HIT BY THE b6 i Roosevelt Settles i Controversy in Navy Circles Dart, who brought it safely Into port. ;Brownson Is Overruled ‘ by Chief Executive Surgeon General Rixey Explains Position |Hospital Ships Should | Be Officered by Medicos | SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL i WASHINGTON, Dec. 25—“We will have it as it is in the army,” are the words which President Roose- velt is reported to have used when he decided, over the protest of Rear Ad- | miral Brownson, to place the hospi- tal ship Relief under Surgeon Charles F. Stokes, thereby causing Rear Admiral Brownson to & o command of to pleces amid the wreckage | of the two ships as they hattered against each other amid the wild storm of a velentless ocean. According to Captain Dart, all hands save the captain and his wife managed to reach the decks of the Atlas after the collision. The Viking was fast Sinking. and as. Ne Was'about to leave| her a sturdy Scotch sailor caught sight of Mra. Petérson on deck crying pit- eously for somebody to save her, TRIES TO SAVE HER Forgetting his own peril, the brave Scotchman grabbed hold of a line from | the deck of the Atlas; and was about to fasten it to the woman and have ler| The hauled out of harm’s way, when her| . oo husband, driven insane by his awful ex-| perience, hove in sight. - The sailor| tried to reason with the crazy capm«n,z but the latter was obdurate, ecalling| wildly to the hewvens for aid and im- ploring his wife not to leave him. S Grabbing Tiold of both of them. byl . - sheer force the Scottish sailor fa:tcnfld\on tHe the rope around their e {government and J. Dalzell Brown has lost during the past six months the greater part of his immense fortune. | Brown sent alluring notices to all| the representatives of the Central and | South American countries in San Fran- | cisco, apd threugh them had Inofi | many ciients for his bins. Brown, finai- iz coneeived the idea that he could achieve better results™ it he hifselt were duly aceredited as the coneiil for Uruguay at this port. Uruguay is small and not very particular, an Brown got the job. He didn't get it| oon enough lhowever, to put it to us= in irthering his plans for the ;ast empire of which he dreamed. PLANNED A CONGO s | blovk 2ny Brown gained most of his knowledge South and Central America from the comic operas where gracious pro- moters merge a couple of republics, purchase the army, double the capital stock and float the concern in Wall treet. Brown had planned an empire | of the sort that King Leopold of Bel-| of turned roundi waists and gav | gium created in the Congo. He had|the¢” signal for his shipmates on the| The figured it all out—how the rubber, ;1>,Au=- to jhoist. The Insane man, with| /. bananas and timber interests would| yield him a revenue which would make possible a maasion that would make the Lakeport residence look like a por- ter's lodge. Brown showed great interest in the Santa Emilia, and had given some consideration to their purchase. With this as a base he proposed _to extend his holdings until they formed a domain without rival en the globe The banker had visions of ramnbling haciendas with brozd patios, tropical fardens with beautiful fount2ins, rich- 1y carpeted halls, restful zephyrs and beautiful senoritas droning melodi- Ous songs or coaxing tuneful waltzes from tinkling mandolin and guitar. He had mapped out the -whole enterprise|drowned. His bedy, like that of his in his imagination, and as; consul for|helpmate, was also swept away by an the free and independent republic of |angry wave. Jruguay ke could speak with author-| ppwpNTED THROUGH DISASTER ity .to. prospeetive Inyestors. Tt is the belief of Captain Dart and DREAMED OF MILLIONS the members of the rescued crew of In his office Brown kept a number | the 11l fated Viking that Captain Peter- of maps of the tropical ‘countries, and|SON’s reason forsook him forever when these were among the sffects seized by [Be scented danger. Though he tried the corps of detectives who forced his [€Very means known to modern naylga- desk at the hank buflding. « One of|tion to avoid the collision, Captain Dart them was of a Tubber plantation which | asserted that the master of the wrecked has secured a number of stock holders | craft kept steering into his ship till 13 8gn Franclees finally the collision was inevitable. ‘When the large and heayy Atlas struck his wife elutching him as her last hope of safety, suddenly gave a maniacal shriek and at the same time relin- quished his hold on the rope. The agonizing screams of the woman, mingled with the insame screechings of her demented spouse, still ring in the ears of Captain Dart and his crew. The woman was the first to fall. As she de-! scended she was caught between the sides of the two ships and literally Smith cerns, The crushed to death. A gallant attempt| was made to save her hody, but it was carried far out to Sea by a heayy wave that swept over the fast sinking Vi- king. Captain Peterson did not meet such ar’awful death as was his wife's Ipt. He fell in another direction and was showe The serve on literature Machinery District Buildings in Mission, Jessie and;fluihor of ““Alice of OId Vin-| First Streefs Burned, Causing Fire destroyed nearty Firset streets shortly after 1 o'clock thie morning. Several factories and were burned amount te more than $200,000. time on his clock. buildings were of tire stocks. danger in fighting the fire. ings were of the temporary type and burned flercely. / ° | the structure collapsed and section of the factory all the property burned over belongs to the Tevis estate. Chancellor Day’s Book (Gift to Congressmen Hundreds of C—opies ‘of “Raid SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL WASHINGTON, Reec. 25.—Each of the 200 newspaper correspondents and the resign and creating the greatest naval .f‘::lmhl:‘t.\::riu]:;l‘linn:;;r;clr:tans‘.h'Am‘i":‘Kl n.;ea()ht;rlhsl!-n old u‘:(.h He s;uu a:.:a} - 8 sensation since the Sampson-Schley known plantation owner of Salvador.|hands of her rescuers bems neerans (K AGIIES SWEEP DIOCK 11| DOO argington ofljconwoverss. who between the Central Aggerican |crushed 4 b5 v sty A ; cretly opposed to, giving commands to Christmas Rampage surgeons and upheld Brownson. but ¥ are too discreet to openly criticise the president or Secrefary Metcalf. That a serious breach gxists between | the bureau of navigatiof and the bu- reau of medicine of the navy, invelving |the question of responsi- I'vility of the latter bureau, Wwas madé appdrent tonmight in a state- menc issned by Surgeon General Pres- ley M. Rixey of the navy, in which he touched upon the circumstances lead- ing up to the probable selection by the president of a medical officer to com- mand the hospital ship Relief over the protest of Rear Admiral W. H. Brown- son, chief of the bureau of navigatiom, who sent his resignation to the presi- | dent yesterday While "disclalming exact knowledge as to the cause of Admiral Brownson's cennes” Arrested Affer. Fight With Officers the : Lossfpf ‘3200, 0_00 SPECIAL UISP‘ATI'H TO TAER CALL INDIANAPOLIS, : Dec.” - #6.—Booth Tarkington, the well known Indiana lauthor, was out with a friend early SLOreS | this motning celebrating the advent of Christmas snd the two were noisy. | Police detectives tried to induce Tark- flames were discovered In the |ington to %o home and threatened to tubber company by a watch-|lock him' up. This threat infuriated ust after he had punched = the | Tarkingfon and he began to abuse the Three alarms were |Men roundly, defying them in qulck succession, the | him. Wood and the sur-| After saying he would mot go peace- | E . S sttt hs e Aammahle ably the detectives tried to put him | resignatl = g e PR tactory occiipied by, Mangrum & |Into a carriage.. He fought like a tiger | Statement leaves little room for doubt orle of the ‘largest pump firms|and Strick the detectives with his fists | that ths controversy he reviews was a Pacific coast, was destroved, and |While he Kicked thefr shins and hurled | Potent factor the Jessie apd | entire bounded by Mission, out . and the loss -will to arrest in as e stock will be a total loss. |anathemas at them.” They clinched | RIXEY'S CONTENTION building housing the stock ot | With him and the three rolled upon the| Surgeon Genmeral Rixey maintains ian Caire & Co.. and the Eccles- |8round. | that hospital ships as a rule have been company, both hardware con- Detective Manning sat .on the|commanded by medical officers, with a author's head and beckoned Detective|sailing master and civillan crew for Samuels ‘to get hold of his feet, but|purposes of navigation. This partle- as the officer approached Tarkington|ular vessel. he says, formerly belonged raised both feet and let fly with terrific| to the army and always was command- force. Both feet struck Samuels|ed by a medical officsr when used as a squarely’ in .the stomach and hurled | hospital ship. In attempting to unify also were destroyed with the en- firemen were forced into extreme The build- Several were on the roof . of :the him backward ten feet into the gutter,| the medical services of the army and Wooden-Littell implement company| ¥here he sat down with an intensely | navy. he says, a joint army and mavy and barely had beeh warned off when tired expression on his countenance and | board of medical officers, which was a moan upon his lips. | convened by executive order more than As soon’as the detective got his wind|a vear ago, recommended that hespital back he struck the author and the two|ships should be commanded by medical detectives hurled him. into the carriage | officers and that that recommendation and ordered the driver to %o to the | was approved by both the secretary of police station. On reaching there TATK-| wa. and the secretary of tha navy im ington was booked for resisting offi-| 3 Shisne: it A8 w0 cers, but no other chiarge was placed | S¢neral orders. Sinc . . against him and when he promised to|says, all hospital ships and medical go home e was released on his own| recognizance. . ' sefit a r of sparks skyward. rain and the arrival of the re- engines probably saved a ‘large| disty Nearly Continued qu Page 3, Column 3 Impertinent Question No. 31 What Are You Going to Swear Off—and Why ? For the most original or wittiest answer to this ques- tion—and the briefer the better—The Call will pay FIVE DOLLARS. For the next five answers Prosperity”’ Passed on to Negro Elevator Boy Some of Brown's dealt ’ : 3 1 it sudat plente toba el s ol Ane ReaADEE RIORC sflarely Ml s e e S ey e The Call will pay ONE DOLLAR each. Prize what the enterprise Brown was always | the latter sank rapidly. from \ some: unknown® Santa Claus a Captain Peterson was jssuing insane orders to his men from the bridge. In- stead of trying to keep out of the way of the other ship, his men told the crew of the Atlas that he Kept steering right for her all the time, apparently believ- ing that she was in danger and that it s his duty to render any ‘assistance ithin his power. When the Vlkin: had aunk Captain Dart discovered that his boat was fast {filling with water, He ordered all hands to the pumps, and for a2 hours‘[ the men fought herolcanv flnnlly sav- Ving the ship. Twen!y-nine ‘days later Captain Dart yut into Rio de Janeiro, where the vessel was temporarily Te- gomery street between Sutter and Bush |paired and starte® on her voyage to for the Washington trust company.|this city again, arriving here Tuesday The plans for this enterprise are now evening many days overdue and with in abeyance, pending the adjustment|10 par cent reinsurance quoted. . of the affairs of the Citizens' ’ltl nmq & 4 2 The troubles of the Aflu, even with sure, as was Colofiel Sellers, were “millions in it." . that there RAGLAND'S PLANS LARGE Depositors Find Lease for Branch Bank in Montgomery Street J. Dalzell Brown was not the only banker whose plans for spectacular finance were cut short by a sudden exhaustion of .the treasury. R. E. Ragland of Citizens' state hank fame had made preparations to open a new bank in Montgomery street when the financial flurry brought his own bank down about his ears. He had leased a part of the Wilson bullding in M’ont. heart perity. An for pi mas copy of Chancellor Day’'s book, Raid on Prosperity.” “Let us,” one said. “make glad the of the negro elevator boy.” Accordingly the boy the man with a bright idea a nicely wrapped book with the compliments of the season. fuse thanks, unwrapped it and ‘found it to be a copy of “"The Raid on Pros- ing over the ‘pages in a vain search elevator and handed” him a nicely vuppad up book and a "uerry Christ- copy ét‘-msh Raid on Prosperity.” “They kept coming at half hour in- tervals all the rest of the day. - This | evening the hoy said to one of the n-nm-n “Dese yere -ponmu winning answers will be printed next Wednesday and’ checks mailed to the winners at once Make your answer short and address it to ¢ IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, { THE CALL - Winning Answers to “Why Is the Fleet Coming?” $5 prize to George N. Lowe. 2004 Shattuck avenue, Berkeles. For very 'honorable reasons. Thank you. Yes. '$1 prize to S. T. Brown, 1600 Grove strest, city. Lest some forget. . $1 prize to D. W. Park, Halfmoon bay. - To play in Uncle Sam’s front yard. $1 prize to Harry Cowell, 2517 Castro street, city. Mayhap « The Jap! '$1 prize to Ella M. Freeman, 1120D Golden Gate avemue, city. * To bring husbands for our debutantes. $1 wbll’,l..(.. Harris, 5303 Telegraph avenue, Oakland. 's way of squnng himself vmh us on the Japanese “The received - from He accepted it with pro- Banzai! hn\{r hter, _while he was turn- | ctn{r&t, another man entered the * The boy opened it and found a