H1
1
NEWS"OFfA
Funeral Services in a New York
Home Are Brought to an
Abrupt Termination.
New York, April 21.Lying in her
jeoffin amid masses of flowers, 11-year-
old Veronica McCann, for whom the
parish priest twenty-four hours ago
performed the funeral rites of the
Catholic church, presented so natural
and lifelike an appearance today that
I her parents refused to allow her to
be buried. Neighbors are intensely ex
i cited by the parents' actions and by
weird stories regarding the delay in
placing the supposed dead child in the
grave.
The story spread that the child had
spoken to a visitor and had begged
that her burial be prevented that Mrs.
Pauline Clement had obtained per
mission to remain alone in the room
with the child and soon after enter
ing the death chamber, she was heard
i to call excitedly for those in the ad
coming room to enter.
The story is denied by the father,
who says that the woman was not
alone with the body. Dr. Frazie*? who
was accompanied by Dr. Armstrong,
called at xhe McCann home, and to
gether they made a test whieh resulted
^n leaving the question of the girl's
1 life and death still doubt.
Of the various tests made, they re
garded as most important those known
I as the circulation and the respiration
tests. To each of these the body failed
completely to respond, but, on the other
iiand, there was a complete absence of
the rigor mortis or other indications in
separable in the case of a body nearly
three days after death.
WILL CONTROL ALL
VANDERBILT ROADS
fifice President Brown of New
York Central to Move
to Gotham.
Hew York Herald Special Service.
New York, April 21.William Carlos
Brown, now first vicepresident of the
New York Central and of the Lake
i Shore & Michigan Southern railroads,
will on June 1, remove his office from
Chicago to J^fcw York After his ar
rival here, William Newman, president
of the two roads, will go on a two
month's \aidtioiu During the latter's
absence, Mr Brown will be the acting
bead o the whole Vanderbilt holdings.
It i & probable that Chauntey M. De-
i"thatdpresident,directoiss.isalreadNewmand,
pew is to letire as chairman of the
boar of directors It even reporte
hrs resignation i in the
hands ot the Mr
I now will, in that case, be
come chairman of the board, and Mr.
Brown will become president
When seen at his office in the Grand
Central station, Mr Newman said
"At present Mr Brown is in charge
of the
entireFor
Kow York Herald Special Ser*iof
Paris, April 22.Residents of GaH
fornia now in Paris, find themselves in
a distressing financial condition, as tlie
banks upon which their notes o,f credit
were drawn, are now destroved and the
local banks' agents will not recognize
the drafts.
Men and women of wealth, or who
at least a few days ago were regarded
as very ..wealthy, have lack* of ready
money. In some cases thev' have not
enough to pay their hotel bills and cur
rent daily expenses. All the money
they have and all that some of them
can obtain is what was in their pock
ets when news of the disaster came.
One woman, who is rated as being
worth several hundred thousand dollars
in San Francisco property is unable to
obtain ready cash foi living expenses,
and has been forced to discharge her
servants, close her expensive apart
ment and obtain a room in a cheap
pension.
SHOT WHILE ROBBING WOMAN
San Franeisco, April 21 Despite ter
rific handicaps the situation is being
kept under admirable control. General
Funston is in supreme command, but he
is almost in hourly consultation with
Governor Pardee, Mayor Schmitz and
General Manager E. E. Calvin of the
Southern Pacific. Soldiers are eyery
jvhere'and few persons are allowed to
pass their lines.
Looters. shot down without mercy.
fhis
VMnWttMaMJJM
CHILD'S BURIAL IS:*, SEHflTOR McEILLl If
STOPPED PillfllTS "EKTEIiSi if FIELD
operating department of
the system two years he has been
in Chicago, spending one day a week in
New York. He will act my place
I while I am away.''
SAN FRANCISCANS IN.'
i PARIS WITHOUT CASH
1
With Banks Burned, Tourists'
Letters of Credit Will Not
Be Recognized.
are b&ng
An example occurred today, an aged
woman, tremMinff with fright, stood on
a corner iat the edge of the devastated
territory. Suddenly a man appeared at
her side and attempted to wrest a ring
from her finger. It is doubtful, if the
woman even knew what th'e man was
trying to do until he fell dead at her
feet.
A soldier had shot him down and the
ioople of San Francisco ar6 applauding
merciless meting out of justice '"to
the guilty. They are applauding Fun
ston and his men. They, are applaud
ing, too, the work of the Southern. Pa
I cific, which
isotaking
ma,1
and Indian Territory.
free of charge, all
refugees out San Francisco.
I
B'NAI B'BITH TO MEET.
Montgomery, Ala., April 21.Several
hundred prominent Hebrews have ar
rived in the city to attend tomorrow's
annual grand lodge meeting of the
3?'nai B'rith, their fraternal and char
itable organization. The district is
composed of seven southern states*
Florida, Tennessee, LouisianaArkarifca-
News- Section*
Says He Can Give Wisconsin an
Administration Without
Factional Strife.
Special to The Journal.
Camp Douglas, Wis., April 21.In a
long and interesting address here to-'
night, State Senator J. J. McGillivray
of Black River Falls made his formal
announcement^" as a candidate for the
republican nomination for governor.
The speaker took advanced ground
for the principles of the primary lay?
and the abolishing of all forms of
graft in public and official life. He anj
nounced himself as unqualifiedly for
state control and regulation of. all cor
porations. His platform in other re
spects, he said, was as follows:
A government by the people, not
politicians fair play for all^ labor
a new capitol in keeping with th
state
progress and made by the braine
and muscle and material or the state:
the cutting down of the extravagant
expenses of the state government an
administration free from factional
strife.
Mr. McGillivray gave Senator La
Follette a dig by saying: "Certain pol
iticians may become overbearing and
unmanageable in their desire to control
the affairs of the government. Their
ambition is to rule and manipulate the.
legislature of our state and others, and
even the national congress, and their
efforts this line are becoming one
of the great evils of the day."
Speaking directly of himself, Mr. Mc
Gillivray said: ''I do not stand here
and assert that I am the only man who
can be trusted, for there are thousands,
I am glad to say, who are worthy of
trust in this grand old state of ours
but I do claim that my heart is right
that I have been a factor in establish
ing important principles and that I
stand for them now that I have had
sixteen years' experience in legislative
work: that I belong to no clique or
combination and that I will not be the
tool of any man or set of men. If you
trust me with the nomination and erec
tion, I will do my best to give the
people of the state a fair and impar
tial administration free from factional
spite.''
The meeting was well attended and
the address )was received with much ap
plause. Governor Davidson, who will
be a candidate to succeed himself, will
soon make public his platform. It is
now being translated into the^ Norwe
gian language for use in certain news
papers.
CHICAGO SOCIALISTS
EXPECT 6,0110 VOTES
Estimate at Judicial Primary
Places Cost at More Than
$1 Each.
Journal Special Service.
Chicago, April 21.Socialists held a
judicial primary todav at which it was
estimated votes would be cast at an
expense of more than $1 each, Secre
tary Breckon of the county committee
said he expected between four thou
sand and six thousand votes. The
county will have to pay $10,000 for ex
penses.
Altho the socialists are shouting TOT
a direct primary, with a popular vote
directly on all candidates, not a candi
date's name appeared on the ballot to
day.
The delegates are expected to pick
all nominees for supreme court judge,
circuit judge and circuit court clerk
from a list of names chosen at a party
mass meeting. These names are: Sey
mour Stedman, Charles L. Breckon,
M. H. Taft, Peter Sissman and a Mr.
Koplan.
State Senators Campbell and Parker
are at work in Chicago on $he senate
priinary bill.
IWCKEffEIJUEIt'S HOME
THKEATENED BY FIRE
Forest Blaze Is Controlled a Short Dis
tance from Oil King's Lakewood
Mansion.
Special to The Journal.
Lakewood, N. J., April 21.John D.
Bockefeller 's magnificent home was in
danger of being destroyed by a forest
fire today. Several acres of timber
land, owned by Mr. Bockefller were
swept by the fire, and the house stood
tUrectly in the path of the flames.
The fire started in a piece of woods
owned by a neighbor. The twigs blazed
"up like a flash and spread to another
pile of brush. The flames soon got "be-
yond control and in a few minutes'the
fire had swept to the? timber land
owned by Mr. Bockefeller.
All the neighbors and employees at
the Rockefeller country place .-Joined in
fighting the fire. Three hours' hard
work by the men and changing wind
finally brought the fire under control.
LOG IBIVm WAR MAY
LEAD TO BLOODSHED
Old Trouble at Devils Greek, Mich,
Breaks Out Again and Dam
Threatened.
fc^S**
THINKS SENATE KILL
PISS THE HOUSE BILL
Hopkins Predicts Adoption of
Unamended Dolliver-Hepburn.
Bill and Vote Soon.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington? April 21.Senator Hop
kins of Illinois walked out~of the ex
ecutive offices today and informed a
crowd of waiting newspaper men that,
in his judgment, the senate would
vote on the rate bill within two weeks
and that the senate would pass the
house bill unamended. This opinion
is, entertanod by a good many public
men in Washington.
It is significant that, since the fail
ure of the democratic conference to
agree upon any binding program with
respect to the rate bill, some of the
recognized leaders in both parties of
the so-called conservative and radical
elements, seem convinced that the
Dolliver-Hepburn bill, unamended, will
Easd
is
Special to The Journal.
l^enominee, Mick., April 20.The
old trouble between thfr lumber firm
of S. Crawford & Sons, of Cedar Eiver
*nd the people living near Devils Creek
over the driving of tire ereek by the
former, has again broken otft and a
state of civil war exists on the creek.
Word was brought of one affray to
day. The two dams of the Crawfords
were guarded by armed men when one
night a band of men attempted to blow
up the lower dam with dynamite. The
guards fired at a dark lantern and the
attempt was given up. Next night, the
^guards were reinforced and the assail
ants came again, hiding behind stumps
and crawling upy pelting the guards
with stones and trving to frighten them.
A
bloodbreak
time.1-
Alaba
Texas, Mississippi anrd
fight is expected at amy
A in the dam would tie
up 4,000,000 feet of Crawford logs. One
the senate. This opinion has been
el for several weeks by a number of
well-informed senators, but it has been
flouted somewhat scornfully by the Al
drich following.
It is known that the railroad inter
ests all along have been eager for
congress to pass a law at this session
that would not be drastic, but which at
the same time would stand the test of
the supreme court, their wishes being
to thus calm for as long a period as
possible the popular clamor for federal
legislation dealing with this subject.
Want Law to Stand.
i dam was blown up last year at^ great of mathematics at Tale. The couple
Joss to the CraVfords^m^i, 'separated about two years ago
They have not desired to see put
upon the statutes an enactment that
would be knocked out by the courts,
for the reason that this might only
intensify the determination of the pub
lic to bring interstate transportation
charges under a more rigid form of
federal control and regulation than
that provided in the pending bill.
But as it seems evident that the Al
drich element has lost its fight to give
the rate-making power to the courts
instead of, the commission, the wish
now appears to be growing general
among that element to have the bill
passed just as it came from the house,
for fear that the limited court review
element will win its fight and thus
tighten up the bill in accordance with
the president's views.
Bailey's Plan Out.
Mr. Bailey virtually has abandoned
hope of his no-suspension proposition
securing the required support from the
republican side to assure its success.
His followers are still convinced that
it would received fully two-thirds of
the democratic vote. But the repub
licans of both elements seem dead setj
against the proposal to deny the in
ferior courts the power_ to issue tem
porary injunctions pending appeal, al
tho numbers have come around to the
view th&tTvIr. Bailey's contention of
the authority/of congps-*p do- this is
well founded*
Nor does the Texas senator appear
to be committed unalterably to his
court-review amendment involving the
"just-compensation" principle. While
still? adhering to the conviction that
this is the most limited court-review
amendment thus far proposed, he does
not seem to be wholly averse to the
court-review proposition agreed upon
at the White House conference March
31, and which was introduced by Sen
ator Long of Kansas.
NEVER ANOTHER
SUCH CHINATOWN
Continued From First Page.
IP
There was a great amount of wealth
in San Franciseo before the earthquake,
Moy James says, but* it is all gone now.
Chinatown was a city by itself and the
money taken in by the merchants was
not deposited the American banks.
The Chinaman is usually his own
banker and keeps his money in his
house. Houses, money and all have
been destroyed, and probably the poor
est men in America today aTe the^
Chinese of the ruined city. Any
American, he says, can find refuge in
a stranger's house but Chinamen will
not ask shelter the house of a
stranger and they will depend entirely
on the help of their own countrymen.
Will Pay in Cash.
There are about two hundred Chinese
in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and all
of them are men who are making
money. None is dependent and every
one will contribute. At least $500 will
be raised and possibly a great deal
more. They all have the ready cash
and there will be no red tape of the
promissory note order.
The cousin of Moy James^ was a
wealthy wholesale merchant in China
town, and was one of the largest deal
ers in Chinese goods in this country.
He was wealthy before the catastrophe,
but is probably penniless now, as are
thousands of others. Efforts have been
made by bis cousins here to get mes
sages to him, but they have failed a^d
there is doubt as to his being alive.
As soon as traffic is opened several of
the Chinese there will come to the twin
cities, where they will be cared for
until they start in business again, either
in San Franeisco or some of the inland
cities.
WIFE CHARGES HUSBAND
WITH KIDNAPPING SON
Three Men in Automobile Seize Infant
Child of Mrs. Rosie H. Richards and
Outdistance Pursuer in Chicago.
Journal Special Servioe.
Chicago, April 21.Three? en in an
automobile, believed to the Yale
alumni and classmates of the child's
father, yesterday afternoon kidnapped
3-year-old Anson Head Richards from
in front of the home of his mother,
Mrs. Rosie H. Richards, and escaped
after a* chase which lasted for more
than a mile. The last of the pursuers,
a boy on horseback, was compelled to
give up the chase when the fugitives
threatened to turn the big touring car
on him and run him down.
According to*Mrs. Richards, the child
was kidnapped at the instance of his
father. Dr. William Richards, who is a
son of Eugene L. Richards, professor
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textreme
THE- talNNE^ttSLIS JOURNAL. Sunder,*
PLANS II NEW FBISCQ
ALONG LINES DFJIBISi
Chicago Architect's Specifications,
Approved' YeVrs Ago, ifcajr
C*$ Be~mffi&edNoW.'*SR'
gpeeial to Tae Journal W
Chicago, April 21.-Wheft "work be
gins next, week on the rebuilding of
San Francisco, the drawing* and sug
gestions submitted a/_f e_w ,%tnth ago
by D. H. Burnham, ~& Chicago archi
tect, may be used as the ground work
for the new city. Nearly two years
ago an association .was formed in San
Francisco for the purpose of devising
ways and means of improving the city
from a practical as well as an artistic
pointy of view.
This association, of which former
Mayor James D. Phelan is president,
is known as the Association for the
Improvement and Adornment of San
Francisco, and it invited Mr. Burnham
to make a general plan of the city. Mr.
Burnham erected a studio on the slope
of Twin Peaks and for sixteen montns
he .and his assistants studied the possi
bilities of the city and made sugges
tions for its adornment and improve
ment.
Plans Boulevard Chain.
These plans, which cost $17,000,
were submitted to the city "council of
San Francisco last September and were
accepted by Mayor Schmitz, who
pledged his support to carry out such
suggestions as were practicable and de
sirable.
When Mr. Burnham "was asked to
draw plans for a city beautiful it was
represented to him that San Francisco
had suffered in the past from the lack
of a comprehensive plan for the lay
ing out or parks aifd boulevards in and
around the city, making the hills and
suburbs easy of access.
Mr. Burnham's idea Is to have a
chain of boulevards encircling the city
and diagonal streets cut thru from the
business center wherever practicable,
to relieve congestion on Market street.
"To open all the diagonal streets
proposed in the plan, said he, "would
be the work of a generation, as was
the case in Paris, but once the outer
encircling drive-nay is established,
these diagonals will follow, affording
direct and satisfactory access to it
from the various centers.
Follow Lines of Paris.
While the sketches prepared by Mr.
Burnham were prepared with a view
to, utilizing as many of the streets
tfien existing ap possible, the recent dis
aster has eliminated that feature from
consideration, as the business center
which it was intended principally to
improve has been wiped out.
The main sketch vgu&gested by Mr?
Burnham for a new city followed ie
lines of Paiiev 'Berlin, Vienna and ln
don, and consists of a number of con-
cen%r|*1rin |ep^.*irJ}r l^e,yards.
ThS *mll*" lie Wi*M looses -the
civifefWiteT, tW^fbWtion of, the. eity
which plays the 5hDst important part
in civic life and which should be situ
ated near the geogjwiphieal center.
From the inner circuit boulevard
run diagonal arteries to everyn,soctipn
of fiie city and fir into the stirrouna
ing country.
HE FASTED 40 DAYS
ANi LOST 60 POUNDS
Veteran of Civil War Believes That
Long Abstinence Has Worked Cure
Which, Specialists Could Not Effect.
Lancaster, April 21.Benjamin F.
Esbenshade, 65 years old, a veteran of
the civil war, has concluded a forty-day
fast, and, altho emaciated, believes he
has cured himself of a chronic stomach
disorder.
Speaking of his trying ordeal, the
aged veteran said:
"I have spent hundreds of dollars
trying to cure the disease, and -have
consulted many doctors, but all to no
avail. At last I resorted to this meas
ure and I have faith that in a few
months I will be restored to my good
state of health."
When Esbenshade started on his long
fast he weighed 160 pounds and at the
termination he tipped the scales at 100.
His step has become slow on account of
weakness. During the entire
forty days he ate nothing at all, but
drank about a 'pint of water each day.
His first food on Saturday was an or
ange and an apple.
HIDDOOK RULING STOPS
COREY DIVORCE PLANS
Wife of Steel Trust President Com
pelled to Abandon Her Nevada Pro
ject for Decree.
Journal Special 8errice.
Pittsburg, April, 21.William Ellis
Corey, president of the United States
Steel corporation, can thank or blame,
according to his point of view, the
supreme court of the United States for
"a longer lease of marital felicity.
Mrs. Corey, who took umbrage at
her husband's acquaintance with Miss
Mabelle Oilman, sought a divorce. She
is now in Nevada, where she expected
to shortly acquire a legal residence.
The Haddock decision, however^ has
changed all her plans.
Corey is now a legal resident of New
York state. Therefore a Nevada
divorce would not free him in the
empire state and his wife would cease
to be Mrs. Corey only in Nevada, ac
cording to the Haddock ruling.
FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH
i ^?gn FOTJK BUILDINGS
-/"VajwA*.
Catholic Institutions Near Delhi, Ohio,
Swept Away by Flames, Causing
$300,000 Logs'.
h,*i*'~. ^'^7T,
Cincinnati, A
tectory, a Cat!
CONTINENT BROOGHTlBYsTH E NIGHPTEIGRAPH*.^1906lAfri
1^81.The boys' pro
lie institution under
the care of the *Order of St. Francis,
near Delhi, 'west* Of thift city, burned
this afternoon causing a'loss pf $3Q0r
000. About 200-boys were^ cared for
in the institution^ -Jt
Five buildings,*ruBicludingJ*the
school,
church, drawingsft^nd, dairy,, were de
stroyed. The loss'was fully covered by
insurance. &&&&
Boston, April 2|^At a mass meeting
at Faneuil jralr today, a motion by
Bishop W. F.iMjfjlalieu, that an effort
be,mB4e- to, fl&siHhe gur of $3,000.
0W in*M*8aseTusstts for relief of Cali
fornia suflfefets w&3 ftdon|ed by^ Si'rising
LA FOLLETTE NEAR ENO
OF RADICAL SPEECH
Wisconsin Senator Will Finish
His Long- Bate Argument^
-S
Tomorrow,t
mis
~Bp sfa? W.' Jermane.
Washington, April 81.Senator La
Folletto will conclude his speecb on the
rate question in the senate on Monday.
That will be his third, day. Such parts
of the speech as have already been de
livered have not yet appeared the
congressional record, and it is under
stood that this omission has been at La
Follette *s request, ho desiring to have
the speech appear as a whole a single
issue of the record.
It will be by far the longest speech*,
delivered in the senate since Senator
Nelson of Minnesota, several years ago,
a speech of three or four days, re
viewed the political, legislative and eco
nomic history of Arizona and New Mex
ico, and outlinea in detail the climatic
and crop conditions of those territories.
This speech became famous. It is the
text book on the statehood question,
and no member of congress, on either
side of the statehood controversy, has
since its delivery, ever thought of go
ing to the original sources of informa
tion for data regarding the statehood
question.
La Follette a Radical.
The La Follette speech has stamped.,
that gentleman as an ultra-radical pn*
the rate question. He goes further
than Tillman, and has sadly distanced
the president and all the administration
senators. The kind of a rate bill that
La Follette wants would go even fur
then than any yet demanded by E. P.
Bacon of Milwaukee and his associated
business interests.
It would include all the provisions,
such as control over differentials, etc%,
that the president and his friends
think it unwise even to consider at this
time, and it could not by any possibil
ity be enacted into law, at this session,
or at any other in the near future.
The extreme ground which La Fol
lette occupies is probably familiar to
his friends in Wisconsin, but it is some
thing of a novelty in Washington. It
has left him in a crowd all by himself.
There not a single other senator who
will indorse his position as a whole.
CHILDRENS' TRAGEDY
STILL DEEP MYSTERY
Girl, of Two Stabbed in Office,
Unconscious, and Boy
Charges Burglars.
Special to The Journal.
New Yorkj April 21.Thie strange
double, stabbing in the office of Meyro
witz Br,os3 diamond dealers of. Maiden
Lane, Friday, remains a mystery, Belle
Hechte, the 15-year-old girl victim, is
still unconscious and in a condition
that may result fatally. Jacob Meyro
witz, the 16-year-old boy, will recover.
He sticks'to his story that he and the
girl were stabbed by two' burglars.
Coroner Auritelli has placed apolice
man as guard over the boy. He wajB
able to learn from the girLbef ore she be
came unconscious, that she was stabbed
by a "boy who' looked like Jakey.''
The police believe young Meyrowitz
stabbed, ^ie girl and then, to avert sus
picion, inflicted ten slight flesh ,Wounds
on himself.
Coroner Acritelli is inclined to be
lieve that in the dazed condition fol
lowing the pain and shock of tho scab
bing and the subsequent operation, the
girl was unable to tell all she knew.
She has seven severe wounds, one of
whieh pierced the wall of the abdomen,
while two others close to it are very
deep.
The story of the girl as given out
Friday was that she was attacked by
the boy, arid that after a desperate
struggle she wrested the knife from him
and stabbed him in defending herself.
Walter Scott, a bookkeeper, said to
day:
I ran in and found, the boy lying,
on tbe floor with a big jackknife-beside
him covered with blood. I stepped over'
his outstretched legs to pick it up, but
he grabbed it first and slashed at my
legs. He said something about it being
none of my business. The girl was^in
another part of the office badly" done
up." STEVENS WANTS MEDALS
FOR LATE WAR VETERANS
Would Reward Volunteers Who Served
Beyond Terms of EnlistmentIn
dudes Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa Men.
By W. W. Jermane. \Z
Washington, April 21.Representa-'
tiye Stevens today appeared before the
military committee of the house and
urged the passage of a bill authoriz
ing the secretary of war to issue medals
of honor to' men who served in the
Philippines in the Spanish war and who
stayed beyond their terms of enlist
ment to help suppress the Philippine
insurrection. The passage of this- bill
will give medals to nearly every mem
ber of the Thirteenth Minnesota, First
South Dakota, First North Dakota and
Fifty-first Iowa volunteers, who re
mained in the Philippines after peace
with Spain was declared.
President McKinley, in hiq annual
message to congress in 1899, recom
mended legislation authorizing, the is
sue of medals, of honor to these volun
teers, and renewed'it aga&jiraH0(Oi,No
action was taken at today's session,'but(
the bill will be considered again si the
next meeting of the committee* It is
strongly indorsed by" Secretary/ Taft
and high officers of the army.
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tfgff$$& BY MARI.OWB
Will Star in Drama Translated
by Minnesota Girl. ,lr
Brainerd, Mrnn\,,'
Upril Sl^The
translation of "The Fires of St/John"
by Miss Grace Polk of this city, which
was published by a Minneapolis firm
and received a column of commendatory
review-in The Minneapolis JournaE has
been "accepted '^"JuW'MarTol&r and
the noted
actres.s
will star
in- that.
play
next~TBeason.
Miss Polk is a graduate of the, Uni
versity of Minnesota and her^ork is
considered almost nerfect by eritics.
The royalty .paid by Miss Marlowe wilt
net "the author a neat sum.
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MOURN FOR DEAD AND
CHEER VALIANT LIVING
Californians Gather in New York
and Are Electrified by
Mark Twain.
New York Herald Speeial fierrice.
New York, April 21.Crowding the
Casino theater from stage to entrance
hundreds of Calif ornians gathered^ this
afternoon to discuss plans for aiding
their stricken friends and relatives in
San Francisco and neighboring towns.
Mark Twain was in the chair, and un
der his guidance the business in hand
progressed rapidly.
The outcome of the meeting was the
announcement of a benefit performance
in the Casino a week from tomorrow
night, a benefit Euchre party of the
California cltrb at the Waldorf-Astoria,
on April 27, and the appointment of a
committee with Blanche Bates as chair
man to visit the mayor and ask him
for the right to take charge of ordering
necessary supplies of clothing to be
bought out of the great funds already
raised and to be sent at once to San
Francisco.
Prominent Folk Assist.
The meeting was held under the aus
pices of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. At
the euchre party, for which the tickets
will be sold ,at $1 each, they will serve
oh the committee with Mrs. Collis P.
Huntington, Mrs. D. O. Mills and Mrs.
Edward H. Harriman.
When the curtain went up on the
assemblage of speakers, there was a
great burst of applause as Mark Twain
arose in the center. I take it for
grantedf
you all know me said he,
i you don't now you surely will
before I get thru. I 'm here on a mis
sion and I'm most always known as
S. It. Clemens, which may be hard to
spell."
"It hasn't been forty-eight hours,"
said Mr. Clemens, "since I threatened
myself with never again appearing be
fore an audience. Well, I haven't, for
you paid nothing for coming here, but
you'll pay before you go out. I mean
that I want everyone to resolve to buy
tickets for the benefit performance.
You''11 pay mentally before you leave
here, I reel certain."
He characterized the earthquake and
fires as "the greatest calamity of an
cient or modern times." Beferring to
ways of helping the city he said':
Turn to Living Now.
"Let us turn from the dead to the
living. The dead are at peace. But
consider that there are 300,000 home
less persons there now. They are many
of them starving, half clothed^ de
prived of their means of livelihood.
We must help them at once, and we
will."
In speaking of the subscription lists
for the sufferers, he said:
"The poor are always ready to give
money. The poor man, out of his 'pov
erty, gives one-half or one-fourth of
what* he has. The rich'man gives one
tenth of one per eent of hifr fortune.
The pennies and ther
dimes and the
quarters are what "will make the present
fund the size we need.""
Cheers for Doctors.
He then paid a tribute to the Salva
tion army and said it should be repre
sented on all committees working in
the area of destruction.
One of these speakers referred to the
work of the doctors at San Francisco.
At this Mark Twain jumped up, waved
his arms and asked that a cheer be
given for the doctors. He said that
whenever a calamity comes the physi
cians and surgeons are always there in
the role of heroes.
I don't like to see a doctor come to
the house," he said, *an more than
y.Pi1
4P*
believe that in a time
bu
like this we ought to give even that
sort of satan his due."
The doctors got three cheers and so
did the soldiers, the sailors and the
police, who have taken part in the San
Francisco catastrophe.
MINNESOTA ROYS TO
GET ANNAPOLIS CHANCE
Representative Steenerson Arranges
for Examination for Oadetship Can
didates at Crookston, May 31.
Washington, April 21.Representa-
tive Steenerson-has arranged for a com
petitive examination to be held at
Crookston,, May 31, of candidates for
cadetship at Annapolis, where there is
a vacancy at his disposal. The ap
pointment will go to the caudate who
receives the highest mark, and he
must report at Annapolis June 19 for
physical examination. The three 'can
didates next highest in order will be
chosen alternates, to fill the vacancy
case of the failure of the principal
to report. Professor E. E. Mclntyre
of Crookston will be chairman of the
board that will .conduct the preliminary
examinations.
CUMMINS MAXES MORE
/GAINS OVER PERKINS
Caucuses in Eight More Counties' Give
Iowa Governor an Increase
Over 1901.
Special to The Journal.
Sioux City, Iowa, April 21.As a re
sult qf the caucuses yesterday and to
day in eight counties, Governor Cum
mins hae gained 26% votes over 1901,
when he had his first eontest for the
governorship.
In twenty-eight counties that have
acted today, Cummins-has 256 dele
gates to 93 for Perkins.^ In these same
counties in 1901, he had 246^ votes to
#9% for the opposition. So that in spite
of his loss of- Woodbury's thirty-nine
votes -to Perkins his lead is now six
teen votes bigger than five "years ago.
WASHINGTON NOTES
BepteMotatfre Burke got off a train (pom
the west today just as his colleague. Mr. Martin,
boarded one with hi* lamUy to go to South
Dakota. Burke is telling members of the house
that the organization has the Gamble forces
beaten.
"I didnH-do a thing to them whUe I was id
the state," said Burke. "They are shot foil
of holes and we hare them skinned to death."
BepresentatiTe Marshall of North Dakota has
recommended Andrew O. Scott for postmaster
at Hurd, formerly Sams. Bottineau countyj
E. Ingram at Truro, Bottineau county H.
Michaels at Judson, Morton county, end Robert
Dancy at Wade, Morton county
Mr and Mrs. Charles M. filming hare left
Washington foe-^Rochester, N. Y where- -they
will remain some little-time, arrlT(ng in Min
neapolis about May 10 Mr. Jxrlng' health
has bean greatly ijnproYed as the result of his
winter ^Florida, and be feels quite himself
again.
FEAR TIDAL WAVE ASl
DESTROYER OF NOME
Alaskans in Washington Alarmed
Over Possible Follower
of Quake.
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, April 21.The delegates
from Alaska who have been here all
winter looking after legislation for that
territory have heard the news of the
earthquake at San Francisco with pe
culiar apprehension, and this is par*
ticularly true of Bichard S. Byan, dele
gate from Nome. They have every mo
ment since the appalling event been liv
ing in anticipation of a great tidal wave
in the Pacific, well knowing that if one
came the city of Nome would be oblit
erated.
"When we first went to Nome," said
Mr. Byan today, I found unmistaka-.
ble evidence that Nome is subject to
destruction by tidal waves, and that in
fact one had swept the site of the town
within a few years.
Nome, as you know, is located upon
a sandy beach. Off the town the water
grows deeper very gradually, so that
a wave would sweep up from the sea
with nothing to*-check its progress, and
engulf the town.
"The evidence I found of a previous
tidal wave consisted of a line of gigan
tic tree trunks lying along the base of
the foothills about four miles back of
Nome. These logs were too large to
have come from anywhere but the sea,
having probably been swept down the
Yukon during a time of flood, as there
is no timber to speak of in the Nome
district.
"The line along which they lay very
plainly marked the crest of a tidal
wave, and a huge one, too, as they were
at least 400 feet higher than the level of
the ocean. The condition in which the
logs were found showed that they could
have been there only a few years, thus
disposing of the theory that thev
marked the line of an old beach, which
we were at first disposed to regard as
accounting for their presence.
"We have always lived in the fear
that some of the frequent earthiuakes
in Japan would send another wave to
us which would put an end to Nome, as
a city. I have no doubt that the citi
zens of Nome, who have a cable com
munication with Seattle, have been liv
ing in hourly dread of a wave from the
San Francisco earthquake."
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HOMES IN PITTSBURG
FOR FRISCO REFUGEES
Plan on Foot to Provide Trans
portation and Bent Free to
1,000 Families.
Special to The Journal.
Pittsburg, April 21.One thousand
of the destitute families of San Fran
cisco will be given transportation to
Pittsburg and house rent for one year
free, while the head of the household
will be given all the work he can do at
good wages, so that he may recover his
financial feet. This unique proposition
was set on foot here, today and appears
to have been taken well by men of
means.
John Murphy, a wealthy banker, real
estate owner and philanthropist, started
matters by donating ten houses for one
year, rent free, to ten families, fleeing
from the stricken city, and also wifl
furnish transportation for these fam
ilies. Mr, Murphy said:
"We want to take care of 1,000 fam
ilies from San Francisco in this way.
There is $20,000,000 worth of building
work alone in Pittsburg this coming
summer and 1,000 men from the coast
can find all the work they can perform
and as many of them, no doubt, intend
to get as far from, the land of earth
quakes as possible, we will give them
the chance.
I will grant rent free for one year,
and ten of my houses to the head of ten
San Francisco families who have lost
their homes there, and
willanalso dAil
give
employment to them many
I have the assurance from manv
other business men that they will work
with me and this offer will bring 1,000
families to this city, giving them per
manent work and a new home."
Pittsburg's contributions to the re
lief of the destitute today reached over
$2,000,000. The largest contribution
was for $20,000, which case from the
Carnegie Steel company. The Nation
al Tube company, which donated $2,500
today increased the donation to $15,000.
BADGER GIRL PROVES
A STAR IN GRAND OPERA
Miss Anna Hickisch and Her Company
Are in Africa While Traveling Bound
the World.
Special to Zre Journal.
La Crosse, Wis.,April 21.Miss Anns
Hickisch, La Crosse's talented grand
opera singer, is touring South Africa.
Miss Hickisch was born and reared in
La Crosse, and at an early age showed
great talent tor opera singing and de
veloped a wonderful voice. She studied
in the conservatory at Boston and later
spent several years at Paris.
When she returned she first started
as understudy of Miss Alice Nielsen,
the prima donna. Upon her vial) to
ona of the large cities, Miss Nielsen
was taken ill and was unable to appear.^.
Miss Hickisch was called upon to take***
the leading part of the opera, and sov
well did she carry the role that nurny
in the audience did not know that *hV.
was not Miss Nielsen. i
Later Miss Hickisch became a star
and appeared in New York and some^
of the large cities of this country, af
ter which she made a tour of Europe,
remaining several years. She is now
starring a company that is traveling
around the world. She expects to re
main in Africa until Septembers
MTODEBEB MUST HANG *v
Chicago, April 21.Richard CL
Ivens, convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Bessie Rollister, was today denied
new trial by Judge Smith and sen
tenced to hang June 22. The defend
ant showed no concern when sentene*
was pronounced.
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