The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1913, Page 1

» SMALL FLOTILLA Highest Temperature Yesterday, 76; Lowest Thursday Night, 48. For detalls of the Weather contains +the very latest i and general news of the night. The Call’s 6 o’Clock A. M. Edition see page 19. city THE -~ WEB. Falr; moderate in_ The Call are ;teadt{y every day. They bring " results. IRECAST: fi ight north winds. CLASSIFIED ADS increasing That’s the answer. \()II \Il ( \III—-\O 98 INVENTORS WALK MILES AEH[ISS BAY T ALAMEDA Rupert Merkl and Johann Gross, Wearing Water Shoes, Hike With Easy Strides on Smooth Surface of Waters From Hunters Point to East Side Mole FOLLOWS IN WAKE Carrying Poles With Which They Maintain Equilib- rium the Pair Encounter Wavelets Over Which They Step as Lightly as if They Are on Terra Firma Lt on foot. Two vester: y crossed San They covered Francisco hout fatigue in two er. A crowd of com- thetr raflroad officials | It walking on water ert Merkl and Johann to be yester- s boats. Every pedes- his own pilot. 1 a smooth even sur- ; the breeze, and but the wheels of com- e two adventurous Ger- de their dip into the waters. long shoes that ballasted | lker and permitted him to move | Each carried & long pole, held such as a tight rops walker n an exhibition | the longest that has ever | r Merkl or| P new ave- | wonderful as} f the pioneers of avia- OVER SMOOTH SURFACE de from Hunters south of the Unton ross to the * strolled of the bay 1 ey conversed s they walked along ) those in boats wake. et whart shortly passage with | looked on da: is &5 easy as Gross dem The walk ace mpani STROLL e walk was © IDEAL DAY TEST FOR s” paced it off, re effort than eet on ey would | e keeping ed around g. First ald turn ward as This they Once or pace and yards dozen the water. the Alameda mole Another Fog Disaster Ninth Accident in Short Period Happily Results In No Loss of Life and Little Damage to San Francisco Dhomanatae ontuaatssteion —aaeaonoremeus. Bay Steamers age about $1,500 each. for 15 days for “unskillfulness.” capsize. ing $200,000. £1,500. March 5—Steamer F\ Slight damage to both vessels. When the big ferry steamer Encinal rammed the Berkeley in the latter's slip at the ferry bullding yesterday morning, causing the loss of the En cinal's jackstaff and a few feet of her | forward rail, a record of nine collisions on the bay since January 27 was chalked up by the United Stiftes in- spectors of boilers and hulls. These frequent disasters, some of them ocausing considerable property loss, have occurred during the heavy fogs prevalent at this season of the year. That a serious loss of life has not followed the numerous collisions is considered rémarkable, in view of the fact that most of the st€amers have been loaded with passengers at February 3—Ferry honats Pledmont amd Newark ¢ollide. February l14—Steamers Seminole and H. J. Corcoran collide and both Lives of 90 passengers imperiled and damage wrought exceed- - | Collisions on Bay e Collisions ihal havc nccurrcd on the bay since January 27 during dense fogs: January —Ferry bonts Melrose and Bay City in serious collision;! dam- Captaius of both vessels have licenses suspended January S80—Ferry Pledmont and schooner Pasadena bump. Damage slight. Since January 27 } I i Damage slight. March 2—Ferry boat Bay City rams log raft. Damage to vessel about $300. March 5—Steam schooner Redondo hits tug Richmond. Damage about ort Bragg rams barkentine James Tufts. Total dam- age to both vessels estimated at $3000. March 6——Steamers Isleton and Tibaron collide; damage slight. Angel Island and St. Helena narréwly escape ‘eollision at the same time. Mareh T—Southern Pacific ferry boat Encinal rams ferry boat Berkeley. i the times the accidents have pened. Altogether nearly $300,000 damage has been done to. the various Steamers but not a single life has thus far been claimed. : The inspectors have reported that in the majority of cases the collisions were due purely to accident, and that in no way Wwere the captains of ithe in- dividual vessels guilty of neglect. The fog was like pea soup on the bay vesterday morning and the pilot of the Encinal did not discover the Berkeley in the slip until the ships were upon each other. The Encinal had but little headway and for that reason the damage was slight. CARUSO ON STAND WONWAN MAY BE SAY3 BLACK HAND | URGED FOR PLAGE NOTESGARED HIM Tenor Testifies in Effort to Send Second Member of Gang to Sing Sing for 1910 Letters fSpectal Dispatch to The Call) NEW YORK, March 7.—Showing no sign of the injury to his leg received in a stage fall in “La Tosca” a few days ago Enrico Caruso, famous opera tenor, went to the county court, Brook- to testify against Antomio attempting to 1yn, Cincotta today accused of | blackmail the singer. three years ago. Antonjo Nissiani, for his part in the blackmailing scheme, is serving a long term in Sing Sing. A blg crowd accompanied the singer to court Beside him was his brother, Glovanni, behind him was his valet. Then came a squad of central office men and dfter them 30 or 40 friends and followers, Caruso testified that he “wasn’t ex- actly tickled” when he received two letters in March, 1910, demanding that he place $15,000 in an envelope and leave it at midnight under the stoop of a Brooklyn house. ple appeared over the bay, the water walk- | the one would over | ed thelr des | lightest fatigue. | ventor of these water | fident his device will be | en and hunters, who‘ abled to go into any “hiked” over | are collapsible and may in a suitcase of a o shoes FARMERS’ QUARREL ENDS IN DEATH BY SHOTGUN Karl Brandt of Napa Kills Willlam | Hammett as Result of Dis- pute Over Springs (Special Dispatch to The Call) NAPA, Cal,, Marc 7.~William | t er res! in Pope tern part of this « his after-| x gh Srandt’s | ¥ le between | ing Ham-| 1t 1ot gun. E ir after. | ed on adjoin- | spute over a| from which both were| Both men were married. | ted GOULD HEIRESS ANOTHER Born to Daughter in Law of mr.5 and Mrs. George J. , March 7.—Mr. and Mrs. Gould have another grand- She is the second daughter . and Mrs. Jay Gould and arrived ay at -thcir home, 1082 Fifth Through her mother, who was Miss Anne Douglas Graham, the young- est Miss Gould is related to the royal family of Hawall ~ Baby Caruso told how he prepared a decoy envelope, placed in it a wad of paper with a dollar bill on the outside and gave it to his valet to put under the identified it as the ome tried to take stoop. He cotta and Nissianl aw: . “What do you do for a living?” asked Cincotta’s lawyer. “Oh, I sing a little at tim tenor replied naively. HOME LIFE DISAGREEABLE Milwaukee Woman Requests and Re- ceives Workhouse Sentence MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 7.—Pre- ferring life in the house of correction to that of a well to do home, Mrs. Mary Gass, who recently was taken in by a well to do young waoman of this city, who became interested in her, asked District Judgs Celon today to be sent to the workhouse. She was given 60 days, SHIP SINKS 200 DROWNED British Steamer Founders in Sea of Marmora Storm’ CONSTANTINOPLE, March 7.—Two hundred parsengers and the members of the crew of the small British steamer Calvados were drowned last Saturday when the steamer foundered in the sea of Marmora in a storm. The ves- " the | se1 was ownea by the Patriotic Steam- suip company of London. INDIANS CALL ON LANE Aggregate Wealth of Representative Aborigines Totals $300,000,000 WASHINGTON, March 7.—Seventy Indians, representative of all the tribes in the country and including 27 chiefs, called on Becretary Lane at the interior department today to pay their respects. In the party were many of the wealth- test tribesmen, and it is said their ag- gregate wealth would total $300,000,000. ON POLICE BOARD Movement Under Way to Select Candidate Whose Name Will Be Pre- sented to Mayor Members of the Women's Political league are behind a movement to urge Mayor Rolph to appoint a woman to fill the vacancy on the police com- mission caused by the resignation of James Woods. The league will hold a meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Pacific building, when they will Eelect a candidate for the place. At the meeting a committes will be named to present the league's cholce to Mayor Rolph. Should this faul to get the recognlition tht league hopes it is likely a petition directed to the mayor will be circulated among the men and women voters of the city asking that the women be given a representation on the commission. Two names have been mentioned in connection with the movement—Miss Mary Fairbrother and Miss Claribells David. The latter is an attorney, while Miss Fairbrother is prominent in club circles in this city. Neither has made any statement as to whether she is in a receptive mood. The argument advanced by the women identified with the movement is that one-third of the voting population of San Franclsco is made up of women. They ‘assert that the women are enti- tled to be recognized In respect to ap- pointive offices and that & woman could do a world of good on the police com- mission, The vacancy made by the resigna- tlon of James Woods last month has not been filled. Mayor Rolph stated last night that there would be no like- lihood of an appointment being made for a week or more. He sald that he had not given the matter much atten- tion since Mr. Woods refused to recon- sider his resignation, as he has been rushed with other matters. —_— SHERIFF MANSFIELD OF SAN MATEO PERPLEXED Women on Jury Bother Him Sorely in Light of Many Cases on Court Calendar REDWOOD CITY, March 7.—Sherift J. H. Mansfield is puzzling his brain to figure how he's going to manage a mixed jury of men and women. Superior Judge George H. Buck, in drawing the venire today for his trial jury, picked from the box the names of 20 men and five women. In due course of time there is a strong probability that some of these women will be ac- cepted for jury service. The jury room is small. There are no rules to prohibit smoking. Smoking and sopetimes vigorous argument are the strong forte of juries. Then there are prolonged sessions during which they are locked up, sometimes for days, and the law provides that the “jury shall not be separated.’ So Sherift Mansfield Is perplexed, And it happens the first cases on the calendar are of 2 vicious nature. The women on- the venfte are Cora Boland, Julla Sturla, Violet L. Fine, Alma A. Munroe and Ellen Magee, | excessive and decl . SAY MERGHANT Chicago Employers Try to Convince Investigators Women Can Live on $8 a Week QUESTIONS PUT TO CITY’S DEMIMONDE Many Girls in Stores Found to Be Working for But $4 a;Week “The employers ave mothing to do with immorality afhong women. The women * who mvé fallen think low wages have everything to do with it.” That was the way a member of the CHICAGO, March 7. think low wages - state senate vice investigation commit- tee summed up the confiicting testi- mony given L!.tha committee hearing today. Arrayed on the one side were Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roe- buck & Co.; James Simpson, vice pre: dent of Marshall Field & Co.; B, F. Mandel, president of Mandel Brothers, and Roy Shayne, president of John T. Shayne & Co. Their employ many thousands of girls and women. firms On the other side were a half dozen denizens of the “tenderloin,” brought before the committee on “Jane Doe” warrants. DECLARE LAW IMPOSSIBLE The committee explained to the em- ployers that It wished information bearing on a bill now pending in the legislature establishing a minimum wage scale of §12 & week for women. The employers held this figure to be ed the law.an im- possibility. It developed thatipractically all the women employed 11 .the retall stores live at home. Mugh time was con- sumed in discussink’ a“prover wage scale for those so situated. The employers ook the position that they are under no obligation to pay errand girls &hd unskilled help classed as “fuveniles” a living wage, as such empioyes are assumed to be en- titled to a Mving wage at the expense of their parents. FAMILY WOULD SUFFER Senator Nels Juul of the committee insisted that the other members of & working girl's family earn no more than enough to support themselves, and that it any member of such a family earns less than a living .wage the family suffers. Mandel and Rosenwald expressed the opinion that a girl's character and her environment shape her life. -Wages have little to do with it, they sald. They laid stress on environment. “But doesn’t a living wage or a wage under that have much to do with environment?” querled Lieutenant Gov- ernor O'Hara, chairman of the commit- tee. This was £dmitted. “If a girl can not live on her in- come, don't you think that with the pitfalls which surround a young woman an immoral life offers the easi- est way out?" Mandel was asked. CHANCE AS “DOMESTIC” “Not if she is the right kind of girl; if"she is starving and immorality 1= repugnant to her, as it should be, she can go into domestic service.” “What!" exclaimed Senator. Junl, “do you think: there are enough places for domestics to take care of all the un- derpatd girls and women working in stores and factories?” Mandel expressed the opinfon that $8 1s & living wage for a girl depend- ent upon herself alone. Juul asked him to show how this should be spent to provide the neces- sities of life. After Mandel had enumerated $1 for clothes, 25 'cents for laundry, $4 for boara and room, 60 cents for sickness, 70 cents for lunches, 60 cents for car fare and 10 cents for the collection box in church, Juul declared that these ftems included only about half the girl's necessary expenses. Mr. Simpson presented figures which showed that the Marshall Field retail | stores employ 4222 females, whase average wage is $10.76. SHORT HOUR EMPLOYES Of these 440 are short hour em- ployes who work during the rush hours and while the regular clerks are at lunch. It developed that the short hour employes are paid on a basis of $3 a week, so that & clerk working but four hours a day Would receive but $4. The last witnesses of the day, the women of the tenderloin, talked In whispers. All sald that they had been unable to make & living at reputable callings. ¢ “A. R” was & woman of 38. She worked in a laundry at $4.50 a week after her husband dled and left her with two children. “You couldn’t support a famfly on that, could you?” inquired O'Hara. “No; T found out that I couldn’t even support myself on it, so I went wrong." “Where are the children now?” she was asked. “Well, you may be -m- my are not. in Chicago.” ‘AW IMPOSSIBLE, Res ons1b1e for Twms Miss May Pakmx. daughter of Senator Perkins and one of the “heavenly * whose board bill mlui be paid by Mrs. Madge G. Perkins. Execution Against Property of -Defendants in Favor of Eastern Attorney Ordered The board bill which Gale Perkins and Miss May Perkins, daughter of Senator Perkins, who were dubbed by the, former’s mother the “Heavenly Twins,” contracted at the Hotel C: ton in New York in 1906, must be paid by Mrs. Madge G. Perkins. This' was the decision of Judge Van Nostrand yesterday In the suit of William B. Mc- Niece, .a New York attorney,’ to re- cover $562.71 on a promissory note. The amount of the hotel bill was originally $1,000. A part was.paid and Mrs. Perkins, mother of Gale Perkins, signea a promissory note payable to the Cariton hotel. YOUNG ASTOR T0 VISIT CONST AND MOTOR EASTIWARD, Wealthiest Unmarried Ma? Will See Canal Zone, Then Come Here NEW YORK, March 7.—Vincent As- tor, the Wealthiest young men in the world, plans to leave his palatial yacht Naomi at the entrance to the Panama capal, 8o over the canal zone and at Panama join ‘a party of California friends with whom the young millfon- aire will travel on the steamer Alaméda to San Trancisco. From the Golden Gate clty young Astor will start with a chosen group of motoring enthusiasts, these including’ several well known Pacific coast people. They will cross the continent in fast touring cars, partly for pleasurs, but, so far as the millionaire is concerned, more particularly to study in person ocean to ocean rallway needs as part of his chosen lite's work, the scientific developing of American agriculture. The Alameda has been chartered to take to the canal zone a large party of “ influential California - people,’ re- turning from Panama about April 5. In this party are & number of the young millionaire’s personal friends. He will join them at Panama after he has looked over the canal and will arrive in San Francisco, the Naom! return- ing to her berth here to awalt further orders. LUCY DREXEL DAHLGREN GETS DIVORCE DECREE Daughter of Wealthy Family Separated From Son of Civil War Officer of Distinction. NEW YORK, March 72-Mrs. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren was today granted a decree of divorce from' Eric B. Dahl- gren, son of Rear Agmfinl John A. Dahlgren, civil war commander and in. ventor of the Dahlgren gun. Mrs. Dahlgren is a member of the Drexel family of Phlhd‘lphh and in- herited a quarter of the $20,000,000 tate when her mother dled two ‘years ago. Supreme Court Justice Bijur granted the decree on testimony which was not made pudlic. An appesl wil lwmlgn houses and. 250 business buildings were at once. it _grandmother. of Gale Perkins, since . people subsequently gave the note to PRICE FIVE CENTS. McNiece alleged he indorsed the note upon the assurance of Mrs. Hurley, dead, that it would he paild. The hotel McNlece 'in ‘partlal payment for his services. MecNiece alieged that Mrs. Hurley told bhim that she would be sponsor for Mrs. Madge Perkins when her San Francisco property, depreciated by the fire of 1906, had regained Its value. The defendants resisted payment, al- leging that MeNiece voluntarily in- dorsed the instrument, An exécution, agalnst the property of the gefendants was ordered. SN RAFAEL BOCIOR 13 ANNOYED BY CONOUCT OF WIFE OF BUTCHER Physician Who Figured in Divorce Asks for Pro- tection SAN RAFAEL, March 7.—Dr. Wald J. Stone, superintendent of the San Ra- fael sanatorium, who recently was de- fendant in a divorce action in which the pame of Edna Loftus was men- tioned, has complained to Sheriff J. J. Keating that Mrs. Agatha Streckfuss Is so persistent in her attentions he believes her to be of unsound mind. He told thé sherift today that he thought Mrs, Streckfuss should be placed in a detention ward. Giulio Lambrefto, an employe of the Northwestern hotel, also complains of being continually annoved by Mrs. Streckfuss. He sought out Judge Wil- lam F. Magee today and asked for re- Hef. Mrs. Streckfuss brought sult for ai- vorce three days ago against George Streckfuss, a well known bufcher of this community, on the ground of cru- elty. —— e NOTORIOUS SWINDLER BREAKS OUT OF JAIL Jllll!lkL- MeNicholas, Aceused of Caus- ‘lng Investors to Lose Nearly * $1,000,000, Makes Escape CLEVELAND, O, March S$.—James L McNicholas of Portland, Ore., and | Cleveland, held in’ thie ‘county Jail in default of $20,000, bond under Indict- ment for using the mails to defraud, broke jafl shortly after midnight and | escaped. After ‘a_countrywide search of five months, MeNicholas was caught in Boston, three weeks ago. It is sald he had causéd northern Ohio investors to lose nearly $1,000,000 through investments in worthless western mining stocks. i e e e YOKOHAMA FIRE IS COSTLY Damage to Business Section Estimated at Seven and a Half Millio YOKOHAMA, March 7.—The fire here vesterday caused damage of $7,500,000 in the business quarter. The exchange, .| tontent, number of silk factories and ware- destroyed. DYNAMITE BLOWS UP STEAMSHIP 40 TOSOMEN PERISH Terrible Toll Levied on Lives and Enormous Damage Done to Property When 300 Tons of High Explo- sive Explode in Hold of Alum Chine at Baltimore OTHER VESSELS ARE DESTROYED Loading Scow Alongside Il Fated Tramp Annihilated —Rescue Tug Sunk—U. S. Collier Jason Raked to Deck—Cities and Towns . Miles Away Feel Shock BALTIMORE, March 7.—Thres hun- dred tons of dynamite belng loaded in the British tramp steamer Alum Chine In the lower harbor off Fort Carroll exploded about 10:30 o’clock this morn- ing, instantly killlng from 40 to 50 men, wounding and three some of whom may die, $500,000 matming scors more, and dealing 'destruction to worth of property. The Alum Chine and a loading scow alongside it were completely annihi- lated; the tug Atlantle, which twice went to the rescue of imperiled sea- men, was set on fire and later sank: the United States collier Jasom, just completed and ready for trial, was raked to her deck and her plates rid- dled, and buildings in Baltimore and citles and towns many miles away were rocked by the force of the ter- rific explosion. GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING The cause of the disaster is unknown but federal authorities have instituted a thorough investigation to place the blame. Excited survivors told conflicting stories, some insisting that a negro stevedore caused the explo- sion by Jamming a pike into a case of dynamite. This is denfed by eye wit- nesses, who declare that smoke was seen pouring from the Alum Chine's hold several minutes before the explo- sion occurred. At a late hour tonight the bodies of 20 dead had been brought to the morgues in this city and 60 injured were in the hospitals. The estimates of the dead Included 30 stevedores and checkers of the Joseph R: Foard com- pany employed in transferring dyna- mite from a barge to the Alum Chine, which was bound for Panama; eight mémbers of the crew of the Alum Chine; six men on the Collier and the captain and several members of the crew of the tug Atlantic. Many bodles, it is believed, never will be recovered from the icy waters. Of the injured a score are {rightfully maimed. At least 15 are expected to de. Seamen in scores of small craft and Captain Van Dyke of the Atlantic saw smoke coming from the dynamite laden Alum Chine a few minutes before tha explosion, and the launch Jocom, which was alongside the ship, rescued many members of the crew and rushed them to safety. JUMPS FROM THE WATER The witnesses say that when the ex- plosion came the steamer jumped from the water as If a torpedo had struck her from below, and theny fell to fras- ments in which were mingled the torn bodies of the dead. THe transport company's scow had been tightly tied to the big steamer, and the concussion from the ship's hold caused a second explosion of the tons of dynamite still aboard the barge that increased the destruction. Several small craft in the harbor are belleved to have been blown to pieces. The tug Atlantic, which gwice had rushed In to the rescus Defore the crash, was racing away when it was caught in the rain of charred wood and red hot steel that fell in a shower for a quarter of a mile around, killing some of the crew outright and setting fire to the vessel. TUG ATLANTIC SINKS Coming up the river at the time was the tug Britannia, which rushed to the aid of the Atlantic, picking up many of the wounded who had leaped into the water. Some of them are sald to Jason, Builders, Attention GRAND BUILDING PROP®- SITION On Geary street near Jordan Park: 1,247 teet of street frontage; 500 sq. feet. Entire stree! frontage on both sides of the street for one block. Price, $62,500, $15,000 BUSH STREET Between Larkin and Hyde streets. Grand building lot. 53:6 x 137:6. Harrigan, Weidenmuller Co. 345 Montgomery St., S. F.