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Soaring Mercury Beyond 100 Mark Thwarted By General Rains and Prediction Is For More
June Average Circulation
17,782
PAID DAILY
THE ONLY CIRCULATION FIGURES
PRINTED IN SAN ANTONIO.
VOLUME 31, No. 179
MAYOR CAN CUT
THE KEY RATE TO
18 CIS; Will HE’
City Is Now Paying 52c When
Precautions Asked By Com
panies Would Cut It 34c.
THE COST IS NOT
At No Expense City Could Re
duce Rate 20 Cents and Save
Heavy Expense to Insurer.
NO MOVE IS M ADE AS YET
There is one man in San Antonio who
could reduce insurance rates at least 34
cents on the hundred. That is, the key
rate could be forced down from 52
cents to 18 cents carrying with it a re
duction in every specific rate in the
citv.
That man has not lifted a finger to
save the people of this city the thou
sands of dollars that might thus be
saved.
While the people of San Antonio—
the men who pay insurance premiums—
are clawing blindly at their hair, apply
ing abusive terms to the fire insurance
companies, blaming Governor Campbell
and otherwise embittering themselves
against those whom they deem respon
sible for the high insurance rates in
San Antonio they have overlooked the
one best bet.
Mayor Callaghan is in this case the
one best bet.
There is no flub-dubbery or politics
in this statement. It is a plain state
ment of facts borne out by figures.
The fire insurance companies have
devised a system of penalizing com
munities that do not take sufficient
precaution for the prevention or hand
ling of fires and when these deficien
cies are remedied the penalties are re
moved. Then the key rate falls bring
ing about a reduction in every specific
rate.
To bring our key rate down to 18
cents from 52 cents, here is what will
have to be done, and the credit ac
corded for each improvement in fire
fighting and fire prevention:
Fire department add 20 men,
reduction 3 cents
Three hose wagons added, reduc-
tion b cents
One hook and ladder truck added.
reduction 2 cents
Fire alarm system improved, re-
duction 1 eent
Fire marshal added, reduction.. 3 cents
Building law changed, reduction.s cents
Total relief 20 cents
The pumping plant of the San An
tonio water supply company is not suf
ficiently protected. During a fire it
too might catch fire and leave the
city without water pressure. If this is
remedied another 10 cents would be re
moved from the fire insurance rate of
San Antonio. That makes 30 cents off.
Then if the water company would put
in double nozzle hydrants in the busi
ness section of the city the rate would
drop another 4 cents making 34 cents
in all. The key rate would then be 18
cents against 52 cents.
It would cost no money to make the
building laws conform to the require
ments. It could be done any afternoon
with the council in session. A stroke
of the mayor’s pen would create a fire
marshall out of one of the fire captains.
Not a cent of cost to the city for that.
Force the waterworks company to pro
tect its pumping plant—the mayor is
said not to love the waterworks com
pany —and the city is not out of pocket
one cent and 10 cents saved to every
premium payer. Compel the installation
of double hydrants in the downtown
district at no cost to the city and we
have without cost a reduction of 20
cents and a key rate of 32 cents.
To bring about the other reductions
would cost some money but how much?
Twenty less men on Russi’s payrolls and
the fire department would have its
needed twenty men—that's 3 cents off
the premium. Three hose wagons—a
little less money for fixings for the pet
asphalt plant and the three hose wagons
and the hook and ladder truck would
be permanently on hand and the rate
down to 19 cents. The mayor is buy
ing a new fire alarm system for $12,000
that will save the other cent and bring
the rate to 18 cents.
» It will cost the city more to save that
one cent than it will to save the other
33 cents necessary to get the 18-cent
key rate.
Looks funny doesn’t it?
In your opinion don't you believe
that a moderate insurance key rate
is within the power of San Antonio?
Do you believe that any effort has
been made to give it to the people!
A little less boasting about grandilo
quent language and fine rhetorical ef
fect in overdue messages and some
more actual brain work and physical
effort on behalf of the people would
result in a keener appreciation of our
city government and an 18 cent key
rate..
Seemingly the people are not getting
a square deal from the square heads at
Castle Manana.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
GRAND TRUNK
SYSTEM TIED
UP 81 STRIKE
Freight Movement Paralyzed
and But Very Few Passen
ger Trains Are Put Out.
GREAT
M ONTREAL IS HIT HARD
Suburban Service Is Crippled
and There Is Danger of a
Milk Famine In City,
Associated Press.
Montreal, Can., July 19. —The strike
order issued on the Grand Trunk rail
road last night and instantly obeyed by
3500 conductors and trainmen whose de
mands for a wage increase had not been
met, caused a paralysis of freight move
ment throughout the greater part of the
system today. Few, if any, passenger
trains were put out.
All suburban trains on the Grand
Trunk railway running into Montreal
were caeeled this morning, and thou
sands of business men ami others were
compelled to find other means of reach
ing the city. Milk trains were also can
celed and a large section of the city is
threatened with a milk famine.
When the 1500 employes of the Grand
Trunk shops at Point St. Charles re
ported for work today, they found the
shops surrounded by a cordon of 350 po
licemen and notices posted that the
shops were closed in consequence of the
strike of the conductors and trainmen
which started last night. There was no
disturbance.
The International Limited, the Grand
Trunk’s fast through train to Detrtoit
and Chicago, left at the usual hour, 9
o’clock, this morning.
OFFICIALS DENY TIE-UP.
Admit Loc 1 Trains Are Canceled But
Point x Fact That Passenger
Trains Bun.
Associated Press.
Montreal, July 19.—Shortly before
noon, Grand Trunk officials claimed the
strike of the conductors and trainmen
inaugurated over its lines- last night
had not tied it up. The company offi
cials admitted that local trains had
been canceled and freight traffic had
practically been brought to a standstill,
but insisted all important passenger
and mail trains were moving as usual.
The international limited to Chicago,
the company’s most important day
train, left Bona Venture station here
this morning as usual at 9:30, in charge
of a non-union crew. The company
expects to replace many men who are
on strike by recruits from the shops.
The strike embraces all the company's
lines from Portland, Me., to Chicago,
and involves nearly 5000 trainmen and
conductors. In addition to the action
of the company in closing the various
shops throughout Canada and Michigan
throws probably 10.000 additional
workers out of employment. The strik
ers state they are less concerned in
stopping passenger traffic than in tying
up freight traffic.
FREIGHT IS REFUSED
AT CHICAGO HOUSES
Chicago, July 19.—Local freight
houses of the Grand Trunk railway
were closed to outbound freight today.
’Officials said no freight would be ac
cepted from any source except under
provision it be subject to delay. The
strike has no appreciable effect upon
passenger service, according to local
officials.
TIE UP AT TORONTO
Toronto, July 19.—There has been no
passenger or freight traffic out of this
city bv the Grand Trunk railw.y o
day. Last night's strike order was
promptly obeyed by the 500 employes of
the road in Toronto.
BUIIROADS WILL
SUM ADVANCE
■' ■ "
Washington. July 19.—The adjust
ment of the eastern freight rates situ
ation will probably be made within a
few hours. The settlement, it is said,
will be satisfactory alike to the inter
state commerce commission, the rail
ways and the shippers. The plan in
volves voluntary suspension for several
months by the railroads of advanced
rates.
40 hurtTn wreck.
Railway Accident in Tipperary County.
Ireland, Injures Two Score
People.
Dublin, Ireland, July 19. —Forty pel
sons were injured in an accident on tho
Great Southern railway at Roscrea. in
northwestern Tipperary county, today.
None was killed.
12 PAGES
TED! OF.
DEATH IN EARLY
MORN JOI RIDE
Chauffeur Who Was at the
Steering Wheel Heavily
Fined In the First Case.
TWO OTHERS TO BE TRIED
Elenora Davis, known as Dorothy
Miller, sister of the girl who met death
as a result of the joy ride, appeared
as a witness, dressed in mourning. Her
left arm was still in a sling, her left
collarbone having been shattered when
the touring car went in the ditch. Fred
Barham, whose left arm was broken,
and “Eddie” Lehrmont, a giri who
was painfully bruised about the body,
also testified. Jimmy Johnson also
carried his left arm in a sling. John
M. Cooper, a dairyman, who was the
first outsides to render aid to the vic
tims of the wild auto leap, and J. W.
Collins, examiner of automobile driv
ers, were the principal witnesses for
the prosecution outside of those who
figured in the affair.
“I recognize the fact that the defend
ant has already been punished, but the
court feels it owes a duty to the public
that can not be disregarded.” saie
Judge Buckley in assessing the $lOO
fine.
This remark came after W. A. Mor
riss, attorney for the defendant, asked
for a nominal fine, referring to the in
ability of the boy to meet a heavy fine
because of his circumstances. Mr. Mor
riss said that as a plea of guilty had
been entered and the further fact that
the boy had been badly hurt, thereby
being punished, he did not feel a heavy
fine should be lodged against him. He
said the Mitchell street tragedy was
“one of those unfortunate affairs that
could never be anticipated and was lia
ble to happen to the best of people.”
He pleaded for the leniency of the
court also on the ground that the young
man had never before been in any
trouble.
Prosecutor Eldridge, in behalf of the
city, asked that a heavy sentence be
inflicted, that the case was an aggra
vated one and that the punishment of
the defendant was not of the court’s
making.
(Continued on Page
RESENT TYRANNY
WITH WALKOUT
London, July 19. —A strike that
threatens to reach serious dimensions
has broken out among the employes of
the Northeastern railroad. Traffic is
disorganized.
No notice of intention to strike ap
pears to have been given by the men,
who declared the strike in “protest
against generally tyrannical methods of
the officials. ” The trouble started in
the Newcastle district, where 3000 em
ployes of various grades walked out
at 10 o’clock last night. This morning
the dissatisfaction spread to Sunder
land, Hartlepool. Blythe and other
points, where many ceased work.
REWARD OFFERED FOR
CAPTURE OF CRIPPEN
Associated Press.
London, July 19. —The rumor circu
lator in the United States that Dr. Chip
pen had been captured at Canterbury,
England, is groundless. Today the au
thorities offered a reward of $1250 for
information leading to the arrest of Dr.
Crippen. There is still hope that the
fugitive pair may be found aboard the
Red Star liner Kroonland, which sailed
from Dover on the night following the
disappearance of the doctor and which
is due in New York tonight.
Elenora Davis, Sister of the
Girl Killed Under Machine,
Appears as a Witness.
A COURTROOM OF INJURED
Jimmy A. Johnson, chauffeur,
who was at the steering wheel of
the automobile that figured in tho
tragedy on the Mitchell street
bridge at 3:30 o’clock on tlie morn
ing of July 6. when Cassie Davis
of Houston was instantly killed and
five others more or less seriously
injured, on a plea of guilty was
fined the sum of $lOO by Judge
Buckley in the police court today
on a charge of recklessly operating
an automobile. The two other
charges pending against him were
continued until August 1.
Asked for Nominal Fine.
John M. Cooper, the dairyman, who
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, TUESDAY. JULY 19, 1910.
INDIGNANT
AT INJUSTICE
DONE TO CITY
Death Rate From Tuberculosis
Not the Highest In State,
Says Health Officers.
PATIENTS ARE STRANGERS
Many Ccme Here In the Last
Stages of the Disease and
WILL ISSUE A BIG PROTEST
Health Officials to Meet and Is
sue Facts Shown By Reports
to the City Health Office.
San Antonio has been done an
injustice in the publication of the
June bulletin just issued by the
state board of health, concerning
the death rate of this city relating
to tuberculosis, declare the local
health authorities in no uncertain
terms. According to this report
San Antonio is made to appear as
having the highest death rate re
sulting from tuberculosis in the
state, and much greater than many
of the cities of the entire United
States.
Local health officials are indignant
as a result of this erroneous i.port sent
broadcast throughout the country and
will, in a meeting to be held by the
board of health this week, condemn the
bulletin so issued and issue a statement
showing the exact record of tubercular
deaths in San Antonio. The report is
sued, they say, is incorrect in every
detail, is based on unofficial figures
anil none of the statements presented
is true.
Dr. H. D. Barnitz, president of the
loeal board of health, and Dr. S. Burg,
city physician, are both incensed over
the issuance of such a report by the
state department and do not hesitate to
say that San Antonio has been done a
gross injustice. The death rate, based
on March, April and May statistics, by
the state board of health, gives San
(Continued on Tage 12 —Fourth Column)
BOTH HOUSES
HE QUORUM
Hi ORGANIZE
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., July 19. —With the noon
train bringing enough senators to Aus
tin to make a quorum in that body the
both houses of the legislature organized
for business shortly after the noon
hour today and proceeded to considera
tion of the governor’s message.
During the morning the house had a
quorum of ninety-eight members, but
only eight senators were on the ground
until noon, when fourteen more ar
rived.
—First Column)
The governor this morning said
“ There is nothing to the message ex
cept a recommendation that the present
fire rating board law be repealed and a
better one substituted. That is all that,
will break out for several days,” indi
cating there will be intcesting develop
ments later.
There was much speculation whether
the governor will call a constitutional
convention to put through a prohibition
amendment.
HANDSOME BOOKLET
ISSUED HOT SPRINGS CO.
A booklet, handsomely illustrated
and containing full information in well
written form of the Mexico Mineral
Hot Springs, situated in the municipal'
ity of Ojinaga. district of Iturbide
and state of Chihuahua. Mex., is being
distributed bv the Mexico Mineral Hot
Springs company.
To assist the company in advertising
these wonderful hot springs the pas
senger department of the Southern Pa
cific will distribute many of the book
lets and also prepare some of its own
advertising matter. San Antonio will
come into some advertising as it will
be mentioned as being the largest city
nearest the hot springs.
The company owning the springs pro
pose to make the greatest natural
health resort the world has ever known.
It is situated thirty miles southwest
of Marfa, just across the Rio Grande
from Candelaria, Tex.
Succumb to It Finally.
Health Officers Irritated.
Her Wedding Gown Her
Shroud With Death Miss
Bartsch's Bridegroom
Romance of Young Girl About to Be Cul
minated When the Joy Note in Her Laugh
ter is Hushed and the End Comes.
Her wedding gown. soft, as white as j
the folded hands, graceful and of un- |
lienal beauty in its lace and shimmering ;
lines, is the shroud of Frieda Bartsch. ■
Fingers guided by love and the dreams i
of a girl heart held the needle in its
sewing and it was the last of the bridal •
trousseau to be completed; the labor of j
love had been drawn out to last as long :
as the drcams of the golden future.
.It was ready to be donned with tho
veil, the long white gloves, the sparkl
ing gems, the gift ef the groom, the lit
tle white slippers—all these symbols of
purity, innocence, youth, personified in
the radiant young bride—when the joy- I
note in her laughter was suddenly I
hushed and Death became the bride
groom. Today the church bells rang, I
but not for the wedding.
It is a tragic little story, one in
which sorrow is the chief note. Miss
Barstch, 21 years old. was to have been
led to the altar by George Haugdr. This
afternoon she was buried, at her own re
quest, in the gown in which she was to
have been married.
One year ago Miss Bartsch was strick
en with pneumonia and the sickness af
fected her lungs to such an extent she
became a victim to tuberculosis. Previ
ous to her illness the announcement was
made of her engagement to George
Hanger of this city. Following her
convalescence Miss Bartsch, feeling she
would recover entirely, had her wedding
gown made, helping in its .sewing, and
preparations went on for the greatest
event in her young lifo, when two
hearts were to be made one and when
she and the man she loved would take
the vow which would make them hus
band and wife. The continued illness
of Miss Bartsch, however, changed all
plans, as her condition grew worse. Her
parents and friends hoped against hope
she would get well. Encouraging
words of comfort were spoken by her
many friends and the young lady was
of the belief she would eventually re
cover. Ten hours before the end, Miss
Bartsch, realizing death was near, made
final preparations for the summons.
Calling her parents to her bedside Sun
day night, she told them she knew she
was going to die and expressed the wish
that her most intimate friends whom
she had known in life act as her pall
bearers. While she lay back almost in
the shadows on her pillow with the
mark of death already on her pallid
IS FROZEN TO DEATH WITH
TEMPERATURE AROUND 90
New Jerseyite, Overcome By Heat, Is Packed In Ice By His
Friends and When Physician Is Called Later the Vic
tim Is Found Dead.
JULYCOTTON
BREAKS W
PER BALE
I i
Sensational Decline Is $6.50 ai
Bale From the High Point
of Yesterday.
OTHER MONTHS ARE WEAK
New York, July 19.—The sensational j
| advance in July cotton culminating at
| 16.55 Yesterday, was followed by almost
lan equally sensational break during to
i day's trading. Between recent urgent
buying contracts and heavy shipments
|of cotton into this port from Liver |
pool and the south it looked as if July
shorts had secured cover and when some 1
cotton was offered today the price suf
j fered severely.
After selling at 16.41 early July broke j
| to 15.65 a single bale, while only a few,
thousand bales changed hands during
the entire morning. This represented a
loss from the closing quotations yester
day of over $4 per bale and a decline I
of about $6.50 a bale from the high |
point yesterday. Other positions were i
weak also. August sold at a net loss
of 39 points and the new crop months |
broke anywhere from 20 to 22 points
during the middle of the day.
It is estimated between 50,000 and
75,000 bales of cotton will be received
here between now and August 1.
12 PAGES
MISS FRIEDA BARTSCH.
She was buried today in the gown in
which she was to have been married.
features, the girl named six young wo
men and a similar number of young
men who were to carry her the
grave. The names selected were Misses
Della Fischers, Mary Miller, Olga Hers
leb, Alice Jambers, Martha Nitsch and
Adellite Zoeller. The young men
chosen were Robert Ward. Henry Ward.
Harry Spahn. William Hanger, James
Byington and Nad Zoeller.
The funeral will be held front the
Bartsch home. 902 Dawson street, this
afternoon at 5 o'clock and interment
will be made in the Lutheran cemetery.
Rev. O. Hartman of St. John's Lutheran
church will conduct the services at the
home and grave.
Associated Press.
Newark, N. J., July 19. —Frozen to
death in mid-July, with the tempera-
Hire around 90, was the fate yesterday
of Paul Sorrente, an employe of an iron
foundry at Florence, N. J. Sorrente
wa,s overcome by the intense heat of
his work and a physician advised plac
ing ice about his head.
Eager friends took the advice too lit
orally and placed large cakes about his
head, neck and limbs. Becoming alarm
ed a few hours later the young man’s
family called the physician, who dis
covered that his patient had been dead
some time. Examination showed that
too much ice had actually frozen the
man.
NEGRO GEIS
EEDERAE JOB
Washington, D. C., July 19. —Whit-
field McKinley, a negro real estata
agent of this city, has been appointed
। ollector of customs here, the technical
designation of the office being the port
of Georgetown, D. C. It is stated the
appointment signifies the recognition of
negroes in important federal positions.
McKinley came to Washington from
. harleston, 8. C.. in ISB4, and has taken
in active part in polities.
PRISON THREATENED
Joliet Penitentiary Scene of Fire Which
Destroys Shirt Factory With
$25,000 Loss.
Joliet. HI.. July 19.—A lire which at
'ne time threatened serious damage to
the state prison hero destroyed the
diirt factory nearby last evening, caus
ing a loss of $25,000. A guard of trus ,
ties led by Tucker Ballard, a gigantic I
□egro who has served 27 years, put 1
jut the fire.
LAST EDITION
4 o'Clock
_ Wgr »
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
HEAT WAVE
BROKEN BY
GOOD RAINS
Twenty-three Towns In Texas
Yesterday Registered 100
Degrees or More.
SHOWERS AT MANY POINTS
Nearly Half an Inch Fell In San
Antonio During the Early
Morning Hours.
MORE RAIN IS PREDICTED
Just Sufficient Precipitation to
Benefit Crops—Conditions
Promise Cool Weather.
The hot wave, which has been
scorching Texas for several days
past, was put to rout by showers
during the early hours this morn
ing, and Major Allen Buell of the
United States weather bureau, says
the indications are that the cool
spell is to last a day or two at
least.
Moderate rains are reported from
points all over Texas, causing a con
siderable drop in temperature, especial
ly in North and East Texas. In San
Antonio .42 of an inch of rainfall was
| recorded between 3 and 7 o’clock this
morning. The indications are for show
ers during the day and probably to
night. The first sign of the storm was
noticed about 8:30 o'clock last night
I when the skies suddenly became eloud
[ed and a frisky wind blew in from
the north, sending the dust elouds in
I all directions. There are many, many
i streets in San Antonio that are never
traversed by the sprinkling wagons and
the residents along these suffered from
the flying dust.
For a half hour previous to the
breaking of the storm the humidity
was intense, just the kind of condi
tion that generally precedes a cyclone.
All yesterday the temperature and
humidity were above the normal, tho
(Continued on page two, sixth column.)
STRIKE TO
BE SETTLED
Danger of a Walkout on the
Pennsylvania Road Thought
Passed Pending Conference.
MEETING TO BE HELD TODAY
Associated Press.
Philadelphia. Pa.. July 19.—Unless
something unforeseen arises, the dan
ger of striking among employes of ths
Pennsylvania Railroad company has
passed and a settlement of the wago
dispute between the company and
trainmen and conductors east of Pitts
burg. Buffalo and Erie will probably he
effected at a conference to be held to
day in this city between sub-committee
men aud the division superintendents
of the road.
EXPECT SETTLEMENT
Pittsburg. Pa., July 19. A confer
ence between Pennsylvania railroad of
ficials and the general committee of its
trainmen's union aud kindred organi
zations which will meet this after
noon is expected to result in complete
harmony and a settlement of the differ
ences iu dispute.
The possibility of a strike on the
lines west is now regarded as remote.
Forecast till 7 P m " -dnesday:
C For San Antonio and vicinity:
H Thunderstorms tonight or Wed.
nesda..
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the 21 h.-urs ending st * "
this morning was IjW degree and
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