The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1911, Page 1

The Call Has the Best | commERrciar, } REAL ESTATE | | | IEATRICAL SPORTING SOCIETY MARINE \ OLUME CX.—NO. 13 THE SAN ' FRANCISCO CALIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1911 THE WEATHER ESTERDAY—Highest temperature, 80; lowest Saturday night, 56. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair, qmte 3 warm in morning, cooler at night, light north _wind changing to moderate west. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TAFT LEAVES WITH HAPPY MEMORIES OF VISIT City Has Expo sition, He, Savs, Because She Knows How: PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND HIS POLICE ESCOR ffi‘i'rfimno THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH YESTERDAY MORNING P 4 TRAINS KILL- SEVEN IN i WRECK Passenger and Freight on Mis- souri Pacific Collide Near Fort Crook THREE ALAMEDANS ARE AMONG THE INJURED Accident Attributed to Misun- derstanding of Orders by Employes DISABLED PASSENGERS t GO TO ARMY HOSPITAL P FRED W. TRING, Nebraska City. § | MRS. ROWTMANN, | WISTERTAN ROWTMANN, Mrs s wter of A. W. SPRAGUE, St. Josept MISS FRANCES LILLIAN KAN- { KA, Kar , brakeman, At- w. ¢ UNIDENTIFIED NEGRESS THE INJURED w. banker and child Kan Fred Rowtmann, wife ! Emma Harvey, negress, Kan- ; i § sas | s T s B e, { W. G Richards, } : H i PEOPLE GRY G00DBY RETURN S00N Chief Executive Sped on Part- ing by Friendly Shouts as | He Makes Automobile Tour LAST DAY OF HIS STAY PROVES MOST PLEASAN Entertainment Includes Lunch- eon at Cliff House and Trip Through Exposition Grounds { WORK NOW BEGINS ON | CELEBRATION FOR CANAL RESIDENT WILLIAM HOW- | ARD TAFT has left San Fran- cisco, but he has with him a picture that will be with. him 4always. throughout the remainder of his cantrywide “swing ’round the | eircle.” It is a mental image, but a perfect one—a picture of the Panama-Pacifi¢ Imternational exposition site. The bay and the ocean form its background, and grouped here and there on the great canvas are‘ smiling -San Fran- cisco faces. Sunshine, gathered along less seriously in- SEA TOSSES SHiP Miss Jean ( Alameda, Kle sprain ds eut. Flo Conw 15.—Seven persons | \a||ors Rescued From Schooner‘ 1AHA, O were ki injured flw)r i of ther in a collision Nottingham After Eight | en Missouri Pacific pas- 2 | se No. 105, northbound, en | ,Days Without Water_ B s city, and a fast freight | | [Specigl Dispatch to The Call] reck, which occurred at Vonl E E : 5 | ASTORIA, Oct 15.—The schooner k miles south of here, at 1n} this morning, is believed 'to | William Nottingham, which left Asto-| { [ ria October 2, bound for Callao, Peru,{ been due to a misunderstanding | ders the part of the freight on with a cargo of 1,000,000 feet of lum- | lhwr. was wrecKed October § and was | A passenger train scheduled to leave is city for the south about the time | t0Wed Into port today by the bar tus the accident was converted into a | Wallula, which picked up the derelict relief train arid sent to the scene of the | 25 miles southwest of the Columbia dent and later returned here with| i .. the crew having been taken off the uninjured and several of those who : i . | by the Britisli schooner David Evans. were slightly injured. Al of these | ont o SR e The Nottingham ran into a south- more seriously injured are being | east gale on October 5 that carried at the army hospital at Fort { away three of the masts, the foremast Work of Governor Gilchrist ernor Gilchrist of Florida, who | assenger on the northbound rescuers in their work of re e dead and alding the in- alone standing. The gale also carried away the deckload and the galley. The vessel sprang a leak and was helpless in sea and unmanageable the heavy that was running. The crew for five days subsisted on vernor was up and dressed | canned vegetables and were without when the collision came and was one | of the first to reach the rear car, in | Water until the thirteenth, when the which the fatalities occurred. For an | Pavid Evins came to the rescue and hour he worked with the trainmen and| the Nottingham was abandoned. . All the hospital corps. Although' he was | the Nottingham's boats were smashed red he refused ald until all the|©F SWept over the side save the long victims were taken from the debris.| P0At and when the David Evans hove to for the purpose of rescue the seas were running like moving mountains and it was impossible for the English captain to launch one to send to the schooner. Captain Sevensen, his officers and men were determined to make an effort { to reach safety on the Evans with the boat that had been spared them. This { was very adroitly ménaged by launch- | ing the long boat to leeward, but be- fore it could be used it capsized, throw- | ing three seamen into the ocean, from which they were saved -only by the swift work of the men on the ship. The boat was righted and bailed out, when it was again turned, and the same. desperate work had to be re- peated. The third time proved the Afterward he submitted to an exami- nation and it was found that his juries were only minor bruises. Passenger train No. 105, out of Kan- sas City, in charge of Conducter F. R. T ers, was running late. Conductor L. P. Green of the freight passed South Omaha at 8:30. He had “signed off,” but evidently did not check the train register as to the whereabouts of No. 105. Collision Near Curve At the poigt of collision the track makes a sharp curve, shutting off the view of the Fort Crook station. It was at this point that Engineer Crawford of the freight caught sight of No. 105, which was coming at high speed. En- gineer Crawford, it is said, had no or- ders in regard to No. 105, but he whis- tled and slackened speed. When the passenger did not answer he concluded that It was & train on the adjoining Burlington tracks. When within & few car lengths of each other both engineers realized the canger and reversed their engines. Contiswed on Page 5, Column 6 in- small craft and pulled for 'the wait- ing Englishman a quarter of a mile to leeward. The schooner William Nottingham was bullt at Ballard, Wash., in 1892, and ifw, home port is. Sfil!tle. It had a gross tonnage of 1,204, net 1,06 length 211.7, beam 42.3, depth 16.5 and comp g mell for a crew of 11. { the gulf of Rapapagayo in. the Pacific | the Costa Rican government have been lucky turn and all hands entered the |- GERMANS T0 BUILD CAVAL T2 PAGIFIG R Panama’s Rlval Will Utilize:the «] Shall Never Be. ; Presidett,” Says Bryan to Farmers_ [Special Dufikfi 1o The Call] S Deep Ravines in Maklu ARAPAHOE, Neb., Oct.-15! 3 # —lor. what is believed, the first.- and Ncaragua | ¢ timein-his career William _J1 o Bryans last .night publicly ac- [Special Dispatch to The Call] knowledged that.he never wo\l}d i NEW. YORK, , Oct. 15.—The World | 3, be .president . of - the UnisedT-,' that German capltalists, presum- |18 Geates. am\ with the syfipatHeti¢ secret back- ing of the Germam government, are planning to dig a cand] in a latitudi- nal line from the course of the Sapoa river ‘in Costa ‘Rica, Céntrdl America, through Salinas bay, which opens on (The statement was made fas. the climax and’ the close of ‘ai political speech Bryan made to; the farmers of this county, say- ing: e 8 *1 shall never be presldem,. ‘but T would rather go to ‘my grave with. the consciousness that I have done right, that T have :done all in my power, to ' give my' country: the best. pos- sible form of, government, to be president.” 5 ocear. The needed capital of $5.000,000° has been = subscribed, Negotiations with smiled upon by President Jiminez. is said no difficulty Nicaragua. Route Is Shorter The new canal will cost an infinitesi- mal part of the sum the United.States has already expended on the Pana canal. It will be a shorter- roufe, more advantageous commercially, - to tramp steamers and sailing yessels and the tolls will be comparatively small. ft will accommodate onfy light draft ships, cruisers and torpedo boat de- stroyers and will be absolutely neutral in case of war, It has been learned from reliable au- thority that the Washington govern- ment last spring. sent a.diplomatic agent to Costa Rica to learn how far negotiations had = advanced . and whether German engineering parties had done any work in the hills back of the Sapoa river. This agent recently returned, made his report and has been sent to the coast to communicate the facts in his' possession~to President Taft. . Original American Plan The plan of the Washington govern- ment, when contemplating the Nicar- agua canal route, was that the water course should begin ‘at San Juan del|. Norte on the Agldantic oceanm, follow the course ‘of the San Juan riverto Lake Nicaragua. ‘and hy canal to Brno on.the Pacific.coast. = - 1t is expected from divert the flow of the Sapoa,river at this poinf by means of a dam. through an abandoned water course and a num- ber of ‘ravines until. eventually, by & short ‘canal, it will empty into Salinar bay opposite Salinas island. Plan Called Feasible A. R Porter tonight Interviewed Miguel Borges of San Jose, Costa Rica, the proprietor of La Informacion, the. government organ there and other in- flucntl:l journals in ‘Costa Rlcl and Nicaragua. When this plan was latd before him and Borges asked 'if it were feasible he Teplied that the Sapoa flve was navigable, and sald: 4 “The clefts and ravines.at the. foot of deep ‘that it is that the' degmn’ |nuue and Costa Rica was very ltrnnx {'made by 1 hu private. t'Soclefy (hrl Will “Try Dut” " ior One Year {Special Dispaich to The Call] “NEWPORT, Oct.. 15.—Harold Sterling Vanderbilt and Miss Eleanor . Sears ‘have entered into a “trfal. engage- menl" to last for a period of one year. This is the confidential announcement Mrs.- Frederick R. Sears of -Boston, mother of the young woman whom society looks, on with animated interest as having ‘won the heart of -|'the younger son of William K. Vander- bt ZLhe .terms.of the “trial engagement,” vs Mrs. Sears’. confidant, will not ex- pire until next summer, so that a pub- ¢ annduncement that /the ‘couple ‘are ‘engaged is not considered likely before tie time is up.. Should.the young pair conclude to call it off it may be there pever will be any public acknowledge- ment that there was an engnsemem, When Miss Sears. was In Newport | this season she was constantly - at: tended by young Vanderbilt, and to- gether they took part in motoring, yachting, tennis playing and other sports.. Miss Sears visited Vanderbilt's mother, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Mar- ble hall. - Vanderbilf's” duties -at the Grand Central station, New York, keep him fully oceupied. . ——— CANADIAN -PACIFIC - STEAMER lS ASHORE aug rs of the Princess ke:&‘:lu Are Transferred WALLA ‘WALLA, Wash.,: Oct. 15— Acmrdln‘ to a wireless message picked up here: tonight by Frank Moore, . amateur w olm operator, the C. steamer Princess Beatrice is nhm on Noble island oft’ the Canadia; will probably be otal loss. -to: have been lu‘nnkedu hyn re on " Ry e | “Heap likee talk squaw big ‘hat.” llu’rold —Vandefbilt' and: Boston| | ing a fishnet. an |- *[the ocean beach, through Lincoln park and along the Presidio boule- vards, suffuses the whole. The colors are laid on with lavish touch —sheen of sunlight an_ the waters, bright hues of flowers, strik- ing tones reflected from the military display at the army reservation. Friendly Shout “Come Back” “*And’in his ears linger the friendly shotit§ of his hosts, who gave the pic- ture” to him: “Goodby, Bill. Come again soon!! “The president is on his way to Los Angeles after a three days' visi here, and his last day as the guest of San Francisco was the brightest. It smacked more of an outing, most df it,” than of official reception, and the tired guest was more “smiling Bill Taft” than on any other day of hié brief call And today San Franciscans, having sped their parting guest, will take off their silk hats and get out some thon- sand replicas, in wood ‘or iron, of the silver spade with which the first work of the world's exposition was done Yesterday was a holiday; today th whistle blows for three years of wor Tour Through Park Through Golden - Gate park, - pasi where he started exposition construcs tion Saturday, Taft was taken in § big touring car, while behind him fol lowed a retinue of machines carrying the world’s fair directorate. Along the exposition site to the cliff he went and then back and through Lincoly park, where his machine halted on the heights while he“took in the horizon bounded panorama of ocean, bay, city roofs and distant hills. Following the exposition plan, the machines next passed through the Presidio and out along Harbor View, ending at the water front along East street. And, to complete the picture, Taft last of all left the land and was taken to the California, lying out in the stream, where the fleets of the nations @ill swing in the magic year 1915. Tribute to San Francisco “The exposition is in San Fran- cisco,? the president said with convit- tion, “because she knows how.” 3 The Sabbath day was started with divine service at the First Unitarian ~|ISHI LOSES HEART T0“BLOND SQUAW Wild Man Regrets Inability. to " Talk to Fair, Visitor at Reception Ishi, the aborigine of the_ wild Deer creek country of ‘Shasta county, held an. “at Home” yesterday In the an- thropological museum of the Affiliated Colleges under the_social direction. of the UAlversity of California. = True; Ishi‘didn’t serve pink tea and ‘wafers to his 800 guests during the afternoon, but lie did glive a practical demonstra tion of the primitive methods of weav- It was rather a long day for: Ishi. He occasionally. complained of being tired. " However, he stuck to his tdsk fairly well and by 5 o'clock the meshes numbered enough at least to catch a Deer creek minnow. At times Ishi seeimed to be embarrassed by the con- stant and inquisitive-gaze of the many pretty. women. - He séemed to find re- lief by hanging his towseled head and scrafching’ . one foot with the ~big bronze, toe of «the other, and, turning nis back, quietly pursue his fishnet knitting. During the afternoon but few grunts were oxchanged between Ishi and Sam Batwee, who officially interprets South Yana into English. Finally Ishl's 1ong face Nt up. A few more grunts were exchanged and then Sam Batwee sent for W. G. Waterman of the department of anthropology, who was receiving the guests for the host. -Instfuctor Waterman came in a hurry. He had ‘tlimbed three flights of stairs and was out of breath. It was worth while, for Ishi, for the first time since being in captivity, had ex- 2reued interest in the fairer sex. Or, as it only her hal that Ishi had ad- tall blond was leaning over ng of the box stall in which Ishi was confined. Others eager to see the wild man from Shasta county had been compelled to fall back so as to make room for the blond woman's hat. It seemed as if it were some feet in ‘| dlameter. Ish: phlegmatic soul was moved. ' Turning tg Sam ‘Batwee, he grunte: . There was. true regret, if_ not a note of sadness, In his tone. He realized his handicap. There .was . the one The plan. of the Berlin syndicate. is 7 said to be to take advantage vot h\g original waterway to | aid then use the «course of the Sapoa.| " river to a point where the latit line which runs through Salinas i woman he admired, but he might as well. have been removed by seas. He couldn’t .talk English. By the time Instructor Waterman had learned from Sam Batwee what Ishi wanted, the tall blond, discerning ‘was the nnnur .0f " Ishi's -dnluh 2 hurried retreat. Wit mmwmu ut the big 5» down church, where the president went aftet a bfil ull at the Young Men's Chris® tian *Association building. Then he placed ~himself in the hands of his fosts, and the day ended only at Q in the evening, when he boarded his special train at Third and Townsend ,| strects ‘and started the next jump to. Lot Angeles. He had bcenhn 533