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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
or INTEREST TO The COAST.
John d. Spreckeis Takes q Drive Win
The PresioeHt-Se Senator Perkins and
General Hart at Work.

WASHINGTON, D. e., Nav 5.-By in
vltatlon of the President John D. Spreckels
OF San francisco took long drive with
| the President this afternoon. They dis
cussed some OF the Federal appointments
that are to be made in the near future.
DR.. Jordan and William G. Jordan of
San Francisco are among to-day's arrivals.
L. 6. Cummings of Los Angeles is at the
National Hotel and A. D. Cutter and son
OF San francisco are at Wizards.
Senator Perkins, after speaking at con-
side rable length in the Senate to-day.
finally succeeded in securing the passage
of an amendment to the sundry civil ap.
preparation bill providing for four addi-
tional United States Commissioners and
four additional Mars5as for the District
OF Alaska. They are intended to serve in
the Yukon Valley or mining interior of
Alaska.
General w. Fl. H. Hart is interesting
himself actively in an endeavor to have
James II. HUMPHREYS reinstated In the
ouartermaster's Office at San Francisco.
He was dismissed for accepting EN- ploy.
ment in addition TO his military duties in
connection with the sewerage work in
L
also in tercede with the War Department
and will come down from New York for
that purpose. General Hart was given to
understand by Secretary Alger that Mr..
Humphries would probably be reinstated.
Mr.. Hart W ill see the Secretary again to-
morrow.
The following changes in stations and
duties OF officers of the Corps of Engin GERS
are ordered by the Secretary of War:
First Lieutenant Mason NJ. Patrick will be
relieved from duty at Cincinnati, Ohio, by
Major William H. Heuer, Corps of En-
gineers, at such time as will enable him
TO proceed, not later than May Is. to
Memphis, Tenn, at which place he will
then take station and report by letter to
the president of the Mississippi River Com.
mission for assign ment to the charge of
certain districts under the commission.
By the direction of the Assistant Secre-
tary Of War Sergeant James R. Pickett,
Company G. First Infantry, now at the
Preside of San Francisco, will be dis
charged without honor from the service of
the United States, with forfeiture of re-
tanned pay.
Pensions-California: Original - Will
liam NJ. Moulton, San Francisco; Sumner
B. West. Soldiers Home, Los Angeles.
Original widows. etc.-Mary Ann Marks
Los Angeles; Almira Armstrong, Los
Angeles; Hattie S. McComb, Los Angeles.
Washington: Original--Peter Mills, New
Whatcom. Increase-Thomas F. Pearl.
Seattle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
BODIES PILED IN HEAPS.
Eye-WitnesseS Describe the Fire
and the Frantic Rush for
Exits

NEW YORK, n. Y, May 5.-The Her.
AIDS special says in describing the scenes
after the fire:
The Rue Jean Gouion was almost i'm
passable. OF the bazaar building, in
which only few hours before every thing
had been gay and beautiful, there re-
NAMED only few charred poles. Inside
the wrecked building there was nothing
but pieces of rags, wood and human re-
mans.
The fremen were digging among the
debris In search of the bodies. There were
not enough ambulances, and the bodies
had TO be placed in wraps. Then came
soldiers, police and tiremen TO carry away
the dead, and they all worked in silence
and with will.
The soldiers carried sheets in which to
wrap up and transport the bodies con-
venientiy. There were women nurses
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
DRUNK FOR TWENTY YEARS.

correspondent writes: "I was drunk on
and off for over twenty years-drunk when
had money, sober when / had none. Many
dear friends Host. and mum bers gave me good
advice to no purpose but. Thank God, an angel
hand came at last in the form OF my poor wife,
who administered your marvellous remedy,
'AntiJag,' 10 me without my knowledge or
consent. / nm now saved and completely
transformed from worthless fellow to sober
and respected citizen"
If "Anti-Jag" cannot be had at your drug
gist il will be mailed in plain wrapper with
full directions how to give secretly, on receipt
OF One Dollar. by the Renova Chemical Co.,
Go Broadway, New York. or they will gladly
mail full particulars free
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
INCLINED 10 RE SARCASTIC.

Republicans Sag Amended idriU
BIZ Cannot PAYS the House.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 5.-Some
OF the Republican mem bers Of the House
are very sarcastic in reference to the tariff
bill to be reported to the Senate.
Grosvenor of Ohio, member OF the
Ways and Means COMMITTEES, and quite
generally regarded as a spokesman OF the
administration, says the bill as at present
framed can never pass the House. But
Grosvenor may be mistaken.
1t was learned to-day that the Repub-
lican Senators have already outlined the
plan they will follow in passing the bill.
Their plan is to keep the bill before the
Senate constantly after 1t IS called up for
consideration on the 18th, and by egln-
ming daily sessions at an early hour and
continuing them at night to complete the
consideration OF the bill if possible before
the end OF the fiscal year.
The bill will then be sent to the House,
| and ii a conference committee Is asked
| the Senate will decline to appoint and
the House will thus be forced to the neces-
| sity of accepting the Senate bill or pro-
| longing the contest Indefinitely, with a
prospect of having no bill at all.
This is not intended to antagonize the
| House, but simply to adopt plan Of
passing the bill without reference TO a
conference committee as the only practi-
! cal method of disposing OF it and avoid
ing the intermInable discussion which
would result if any other course were
! followed.
In explanation of their action in strik.
ing out the entire reciprocity clause the
| Republicans claim that this clause wi
be brought I'D in the Senate in the shape
| of general amendment covering the
general question of reciprocity, and thai
undoubtedly some reci procity provision
will be adopted.
Aldrich, author of tine reciprocity clause
in the Mckinley tariff bill in 1890. will
Undoubtedly bring forward provisions
based ou the lines of that law, but prob
ably more general in their application.
1t is apparently the opinion OF the ma
jority of the Republican Senators that an
amendment will be adopted continuing
the Hawaiian treaty. II is explained fur
! Their that in striking out of the bill the
clause declaring that the treaty shall moi
be abrogated, the Republican Senator:
are actuated only by a desire that the
! question shall come up on its merits in
stead of somewhat inappropriate amend
ment to the sugar schedule.
| The Democrats are still sweeping IN
| their denunciation OF the bill, but are moi
| yet prepared 10 oppose it in all particulars
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
Roster of the Killed and Injured the Paris Bazaar Disaster
The bodies of the following have been recovered:

Ths bodies of the following have been recove
THE DUCHESS D'ALENCON.
MILE. HENSIETTA HINTHSDAL
BARONNE ELS ,BETH ST. MARTIN.
yICoMTESSE MARIE BoNNEvAL.
SISTER GUINoUR, Superior of the Sisters of the
of st. Vincent de Paul at Rainey.
MILE GRANCY.
COMTESSE ST. PIERRE.
BARONNE ST. DIDIER.
NINE. LAURENT COSSELIN.
MILE. l.. CHIyGNY.
NINE. FLOREZ. wife of the Spanish Consul,
COMTESSE MIRAMEL.
COMrESSE BRO DEKVILLE.
VICTOR COSSELIN.
SISTER LEONE GUILLAUME.
NINE. HAUSSMANN
NINE. SLHLUMBERGEK.
COMrEs>E HUMOLSTEIN.
MA QUISE DE MASON.
NINE. vENTLMESNIL.
NINE. BoCKIEEA wife of the well known Rus
sian banker.
NINE. POIIEVIN.
NINE. JACQUES HAUSsMANN.
The da ghters of NJ. ShevIly.
NINE. MANDAT GRANCY.
NINE, LANERIE.
NINE. DE IOSSARD.
NINE. DIES PIERRES.
MILE. DE BE UvAIS.
MILE ELONIE vAUBERvIETTE.
MILE. LOUISE GERONDAU.
MILE. MARIE SIMON.
MILE. ZIE GOSSE.
THE DUCHESS DE ST. DIDIER.
BARON CARUEL DE ST. MARTIN.
BARON DE LAUMONT.
BARON DE MACkOU.
COMTESSE NUN.
COMTE>SE DE sERRURIER
C0MTESSE GEFFULHE.
COMTESSE DE LA BLETTERC.
COMTESSE DE VALLIN.
COMTESSE DE SUBERSAC.
COMTESSE CARAYON La TOUR.
VICOMTESSE DE MALESIEUX
NINE aIoREAU, SON AND FOUR DAUGHTERS.
NINE. DE SATANIC.
NINE. LOWAL.
NINE. BERGES.
NINE. DE GRANDMASON.
NINE. BERNARD.
NINE. DUFRESSEU.
NINE. DE MARAUVAL.
NINE. GERMAN DE MAZIESs.
NINE. NICOL.
NINE. DE vATISMENIL.
NINE. MONTH.
NINE PIERRE DE LONE.
NINE. CUVILLIE.
NINE. CHAQUIS.
NINE. GOSSELIN.
NINE. CHONIPE.
NINE. MOSTIERS.
NINE. POURGES.
NINE. BRAvIER DE THINY.
NINE. DERMAIN
MIME. sUoUET
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
We Do NOT CARE
To ARBITRATE
Olney'S Pet Scheme Gets
Its Death Blow in
the Senate.
Too Many Advantages on the
Side of Her Britannia
Majesty.
Mills Of Texas Points Out One of
the Grave Possibilities Of
Ratification.

WARRINGTON, ID. C., May 5.-Atter
more than three months wrang ing the
Senate to-day by vote of 43 to 26-nine
votes short of the necessary two-thirds-
rejected the general treaty OF arbitration
with Great Britain. Debate on the treaty
was bsgun on February 2, and the process
OF amendment has continued at inter
walls until vote was taken this afternoon.
Before the vote Mills of Texas made a
strong speech against ratification, his
principal objection being to the eighth
article of the treaty, which defines terri.
torial claims that might be made. He
cited as an instance the possible purchase
OF Cuba by Great Britain, which would be
in direct con travention to the Monroe
doctrine, yet under the terms of the
treaty We would be com PEELED to submit
this or any other question regarding
acquisition of territory to arbitration.
The suggestion that further amendme1
might be offered was met by the objection
that the amendment stage had passed.
Hoar urged ratification, and was fol-
lowed by Carter OF Montana in opposi-
ton.
Chandler closed the debate with an APP
peal for ratification. At a o'clock, accord
ing to a previous agreement, vote was
taken. It occupied more than the usual
time owing to the difficulties of pairin g
one Senator in oppo ition against two
who favored ratification.
The vote was not made public, but as
near as can be ascertained those who
voted in the negative are: Allen. Bacon,
Berry. Butler, Carter. Chiffon. Cockrell,
Daniel. Hansbrough, Harris of Kansas.
Harris of Tennessee, Heitfeld. Jones Of
Arkansas, Kyle, Mason, Mills, Morgan,
Penrose, Pettigrew. Pettus. Prilchard,
Quay. Roach, Shoup, Stewart and
Walthall.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
or T,inisv,s Celebration.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May 5.-Rev. DR..
Rainsford, rector of st. Georges Church,
was the preacher at the third days cele-
bration of Trinity's Dicentennial. The
service. which took place at noon, was
largely attended, and the preacher devoted
himself to history of the DEVELOPMENT of
the church.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
Queen Lil Plen.ea Wtth Waahtnnton

WASHINGTON. D. c.. May Sex
Queen Liliuokalani seems to like Wash.
ington, and it would not surprise her
friends if she should decide to make this
city her permanent residence. She will
give reception at the Cairo tomorrow
afternoon from 8 10 5 o'clock. 1t will be
in honor of Mrs. William Lee of Boston,
who is cousin By marriage of the Queen
Hawaiian music will be provided by the
Madrid Quartet.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06


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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
D.p... Refu~ra the German Mts.ton.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May Sit Is stated
on authority to-day that the German
mission was recently rendered to DR..
Depew by the President. Depew promptly
dec ined. This was some time after his
unsuccessful effort to secure the mission
10 ENGLAND
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
Ne,, Pre,tdsuttaI Nominations.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 5. - The
following Presidential nominations were
made to-day: Stanford Newell OF Mime
sofa, Minister to the Netherlands; Henry
A. Castle of Minnesota, Auditor of the
Postoffice Department; Harvey s. Clark,
Postmaster al Lodl, Cal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
THE DUCHESS L'ALENCON,
Her Death viii Sand Most of the
R5yat n Us of Europe
Into Mourning.

The horrible death of the Duchess
q Al@rcon will Cause nearly every court
In EUROPE 10 20 into mourning. Princess
Sophie Charlotte Augustine was the sew
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06

dalous conduct and making false report is
dismissal. The court may also have added
imprisonment, but this is not ascertaina-
bic, as the sentence has been referred to
the President for review.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06

Hats undergo from twenty to thirty diff
ferent processes, according to quality, be-
fore completion. In the early stages they
resem bic simply conical bag of wool.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
and May BE Imprtsonsd.

WASHINGTON, D. G., May 5.-The
sentence of the court-martial before which
Paymaster John Coru inc pleaded guilty TO
charges of EN- bezzement, desertion, scan
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-06
GOULDS NO. WORRYING.
Are Confid emit That the Countess of
Caste.lane Was Not in the
Zaar.

NEW YORK, N. Y, May 5.-The repor,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-12

application for space. Kiralfy was here
the other day looking over the ground. He
would like 10 get up a spectacular eX-
t~raVaganZa, and use in connection with ii
the wonderful electrical forces which We
have here. He thinks he could surpass the
Black Crook America or any other thing
OF the kind which has ever been produced.
Buffalo Bill has applied for quarters for
his Wild West show and we have one man
who wants a place to exhibit "a series of
of life and death on the rail. This will be
composed of railroad wrecks, train rob-
berries: collisions and all the comedies and
tragedies of the rail"
How about the Ferris wheel?" asked.
we have been offered the Ferris wheel.
but 1 do not think we want it," replied Mr..
Hill. The Ferris wheel is an old thing
now, II the w~atchword of this exposition
VIII be the word new. We want nothing
that IS not decidedly novel. We may have
the Sherman umbrella. This has been in
vented by a Chicago man. He plans to lift
cars of people attached to the ribs of a
great umbrella. up in the air a distance of
80 feet above the ground. When they
have risen to that point the umbrella be-
gins TO Whlrl and they are carried about
with, a velocity which is frightful, to say
the least. These things are but incidents
of the exposition. What we expect to do is
TO snow the progress of this hemisphere
along all the great lines. and We will nave
a wonderful exhibition of industry and art.
1t is not, You know. a worlds fair. and II
is International only in that it is to be
confined to this hemisphere. We think it
Will not only benefit US as to- trade mat
tiers. but that it will also bring about a bet
ter feeling between the different countries"
Monroe Doctrine and the Congress.
TT will be a kind of an education along
the line of the Monroe doctrine. will If
not?"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-12
where BISMARCK Numbered.
as He Had Wished-Thought He
Had Solved the Polish Question.

Nine years ago. according to the Pail
Mall Gazette. Prince Bismarck secured the
passage through the Prussian chambers Of
a law providing for the establishment of a
fund of 100. N .o0 marks for the purchase
CT Polish estates. The great chancellor
believed that he had by this measure solved
tho Polish question. thinking that the no.
bles. the owners of the largest estates.
would part with their lands and emigrate,
A report. however. has now been published.
showing how that large fund has been
applied, and every one IS astonished at
the results. They are practically nil. Ic
had not occurred to the naive supporters
of the fund that there was nothing 10 pre-
vent Russian Poles from purchasing estates
from Germans. That, at any rate. Is what
they have done The Prussiau govern-
ment bought from a Polish noble his heav.
lily mortgaged estate and disposed of 1t to
a German colonist. but the Polish noble
nan. with the money obtained from the
German government, proceeded to acquire
a German estate and gather around him
Il number of Polish laborers. The only
effect of the fund. therefore. has been to
improve the financial position of heavily
embarrassed Polish landed proprietorS in
the province of posen.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-12
N "a 4
RI E. Fl

line which will be a revelation to every
one. Nikola Telsa. who. you know, made
of Niagara falls: has promised to devote
a great deal of his time to the electricity
features of the exposition. He will not
take charge. Of course. but he will give US
his best work in the way of suggestions
and plans. All of his own wonderful dis
coveries will be shown. Edison has also
promised to help us. and We shall show the
wonders of this age of electricity as they
have never been shown before.
A Look at the Main Building.
Here. for instance. is a picture of the
main building" said Mr.. Hill, as he picked
up a large photograph, representing an
enormous building. with steps leading up
out of the water onto an esplanade. orna-
mented by statuary. The top of the build
ing terminated at the center in 4 great
dome. and this in a tower. upon which was
an enormous globe, from all sides of which
electric rays seemed to dart forth. You
see that globe" said he; that will contain
the most powerful electric light ever
made by man. That is an electrical tower,
the ground. The globe will be fifty feet in
diameter, SO big that you could not put it
inside the walls of the average house:
When the light is turned on that great ball
will blaze with a dazzling fire. You will be
able to see it for fifty miles. and it will be
a beacon light for the ships on Lake Erie
and Lake Ontario. Niagara falls will run
it. and the grounds of the exhibition will
be flooded with its illumination. Thu tow
er will be big enough for an elevator. but
that will not be the means by which visit
ors Will be carried to the top. No, they
will be taken up around and around the
tower in an electric car. which will run on
a trolley. and which will, within a. few min
utes, lift 4 crowd from the ground to a
point more than three-fifths the height of
the Washington monument.
The building below this will be devoted
largely to industries and inventions. AT
the right and left will be great halls given
up to art and education. and at the back
there will be other buildings of large size.
Altogether L think we will nave about ten
great buildings covering more than fifty
acres of floor space. The present idea is
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-12

Yes. it will replied the secretary of the
exposition. 1T will show what there is in
America for Americans, and why Ameri-
cans should hang together. I see that the
Pan-American congress has been an
nounced to meet in Washington in 1890.
This, l believe, will be changed and the
meeting will be held in 1899. at the time of
our exposition. This was the idea that the
PaI-Amerlcan delegates had when we con-
fcrred here about the exposition last year.
| believe President Mckinley has this idea.
When he was here at the Grand Army re-
members of the party went out to the ISL
and and drove the stake which marked
the beginning of the real work of the expo
sition. He then said that he hoped that the
next Pan-American congress would be held
at this time. l hope that the date of 1900
will be changed to 1899"
A Grent Polar Display.
The conversation here turned to other
features of the exposition. Mr.. Hill said
that he believed they would be able to
bring explorers nearer the North pole than
had ever bean done before. The exposition
authorities are in correspondence with
Peary and others. They expect to have
Nansen's ship here and Peary's dogs. Gen.
eral Greedy will probably be asked to
bring the relics Of his expedition. The
different expeditions to the North pole will
be properly represented. n life in the
Arctic seas at both ends of the world will
be shown. Mr.. Hill tells me that he has
already had an application from a wealthy
syndicate to put up such an exhibit. This
syndicate is interested in furs, and they
offered to. make the show at no expense
to the exposition except the right to sell
furs in connection with it. Along this same
line the Hudson Bay Company will nave it
large amount of space. They will show ali
TEXTURES of the lone fur land of Northern
Canada, and will also show the different
features OF life in these COmD3 r1 tiyply nm
known regions of this continent.
Buffalo and the Crowds.
I asked Mr.. Hill If he thought Buffalo
could a care of the crowd that might
to the exposition. He said:
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-12
AN ECCENTRIC COUNT.
He Annually Hired n Room and
Stayed in Bed for Three
Months,


There has just passed away at Paris a
very old and eccentric gentleman, named
Count Bertrand. son of the general of that
name. who. with his wife and children,
accompanied the first Emperor Napoleon
to the Island of ST. Helena, and remained
with him in exile until he died, bearing
witt all the eccentricities of temper and
OF manner of the fallen monarch, and
serving him with a fidelity and devotion
that evoked the admiration of all the Eng
lish on the island: The only pleasure which
N y; ? con S S;,fIa to to find was in playing
Bertrand, and he used to amuse himself
by drilling the little fellow, who was his
1t is the latter who has just died as a
his longevity to the fact that he made a
a room at a quiet hotel and then taking
his bed for three months. During the
whole of this time no one was allowed to
call upon him or to visit him. Indeed. no
one save his servant was permitted to
enter his room. Food was brought to him
only once a day and the man was under
to his master the whole time.
He was engaged in this queer process of
during the F~ranco-German war. His SER
want, obedient to orders, did not inform
him that the metropolis was ~beleaguered,
AND the count might have never known it
had not the bread one day been of such
e~Necrable quality that he lost his temper.
wtereupon. of course. the man was forced
to inform him that the city was encircled
momentarily stupetied. He, got up. and
for sine time wandered about the hotel.
s siGaa5, to Tbh himself osrbt Paris a Hdrtra bes'eE &c doe.
After having reflected for some moments,
he answered his own query with the words;
Why ,a he )! ought hs td to go , to b so Ia d,d will
slept out the entire siege.