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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-25
MASKED MEN
LYNCH NEGRO
Mob of Fifty in Virginia
Takes Him From the Jail
and Beats Him to Death

NORFOLK. Va, Oct. 24.-George
w. Blount, negro proprietor of a
fish and oyster shop in the suburbs
of Berkeley, who had been for many
years Republican leader and at one
time held position in the Norfolk
navy yard, was taken to-day from
the police station where he was con-
fined by a mob of fifty masked men
and lynched. Blount had been arrest
ed Saturday night for striking T. D.
Holloman, a Berkeley policeman, in
the face with a lighted lamp, badly
burning him. The officer had gone
to Blounts place to arrest negro,
but Blount refused him permission to
enter.
The attack on the station was made
when but one officer was on duty and
he was compelled to give up the keys
at the point of a pistol. The mob
seized Blount and carried him into
near bv field. where he was beaten
to death with some blunt instrument
and then shot. The mob dispersed and
the authorities declare they know
none of the participants.
Norfolk companies of the Seventy
first Regiment have been ordered to
Berkeley. The negro population of
the town is excited over the lynch
ing of Blount and serious trouble is
feared.
NORFOLK. Va. Oct. "a (Midnight).
Berkeley, the scene of the lynching
of the negro Blount, is now under
martial law Two encounters occurred
tonight between the troops and ne
groes. One negro refused to obey or
ders to move on and was bayoneted,
but not seriously hurt.
Two militiamen called upon a negro
seen crossing lot to halt. In reply
he opened fire on them and they re-
piled. The negro fired three times and
fell in front of the soldiers fire. AS
they rushed toward him he jumped up
and ran, escaping in the darkness. 1t
is thought he is wounded. There is an
ugly undercurrent of feeling existing
among the negroes of the town.
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SPLENDID DEMONSTRATION
IN HONOR OF MRS. GILBERT
Aged Actress i'm Her Farewell Play
Stirs Audience to Great
Enthusiasm. =.

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-With the au-
dience on its feet cheering Mrs Gill
bert and singing the chorus of "Auld
Lang Syne," the curtain went down at
the Lyceum Theater tonight on the
first performance of Granny" the
new play written for Mrs. Gilbert by
Clyde Fitch. At the end of the per-
Torrance Mrs. Gilbert recited an cpl
lcgue written for her, and this was
the signal for a noisy tribute, the like
of which has been rarely witnessed.
Granny" Is the last play in which
Mrs. Gilbert is to appear. It will run
for three weeks, after which Mrs.
Gilbert. who Is now SO years of age.
will retire. having been in the the
atrical profession for sixty years.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-25
WILD RIDEOFALUNATIC
Drink-Crazed Man Steals Locomotive
and Takes Flying Midnight Trip

EUREKA. Oct. PA young man
giving the name of Roy Ray caused a
great deal of excitement this morning
at an early hour by stealing a loco
motive out Of the carhouse at Arcata
and running her full speed to Salmon
Creek, a distance of twenty miles. AS
he approached the crossings he
whistled and rang a bell of warning.
AT Salmon Creek the station agent, J.
D. Adams, heard the locomotive go by
and he started to investigate. On go
ing out he found that the engine had
died" short distance away. In the
cab was Ray, who said he was waiting
for her to cool down. She had very
little water in the boiler and only sixty
pounds Of steam up. The engine is
ruined.
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BOSTON. Oct. 24.-Hetty Green re-
fuses to pose as a female Carnegie.
The people of the town Of Wendell.
Mass, Hetty's former home town, had
hopes that she would give them a
library, or at least would contribute to
a fund for the dissemination of liter
allure.
In a curt letter Mrs. Green nips in
the bud all such cherished hopes and
warns them that, furthermore, she will
invoke the aid of the law TO cut down
her tax bill from SIS to so so.
The Green house is the most dilap-
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Of Agriculture, speaking in Stirling
tonight, said il would be we'll if
explanations were not sought for this
extraordinary incident" until the
country had some authentic informa-
ton. The whole affair, he said, seemed
so unaccountable that one could not
help feeling sure there would be an ex-
PLANTATION of what must have been a
gigantic blunder. Earl Onslow added
that the country might rely upon one
thing, namely. that the Emperor OF
Russia, who is known throughout the
world for his feelings of humanity.
could not fail TO be depressed by such
an incident"
ONLY ONE BOAT SUNK.
The actual casualties during the one
sided bombardment off Dogger Bank
can be correctly stated since the arri-
val at London this evening of the car
rying ship Swift reporting the safety
of the missing trawlers. The Swift
left the fleet at 10 a. m. on October %.
Her captain says:
The Russians gave not the slightest
warning prior to the commencement of
the firing. The admiral of the fishing
fleet sent up rocket of warning and
then the firing commenced. He again
sent UP four green rockets, but this
only seemed to increase the ferocity of
l44t Inc DOOT IQdIkS-
manship of the Russian gunners was
the only thing that saved the entire
fleet within range of the searchlights
and guns
At the inquest at Hull to-day it was
stated that one vessel, the Crane, was
sunk and that four or five were more
or less damaged. In the statement of
the Coroner to the jury that official
said il was a question of very grave
and nncCfh1xy int
but it would be their duty to find who
were the murderers of the dead men.
After the Identification of the bodies
the inquest adjourned to November q
SLAVS NEED A GUARDIAN.
The Pail Mall Gazette said editorial
ly this afternoon:
The phenomenon of a sudden panic espe-
cially at night. Is well known II is a tenn
porary insanity which may seize even vet
eran soldiers and sailors in peaceful transit
treated such. The British Government
however. cannot run the risk of the repetition
OF an outrage which might send a big liner
full Of men. women and children to the bot
tom OF the sea. II Is possible for the British
Government to give orders that for the rest
OF It's voyage the Russian squadron shall be
accompanied and shepherded by British war
ships, whose duty IL will be to steady the
tmation that the first shot fired at British
vessel will be regarded as an act OF war
Not only must Russia make an humble apology,
but England must employ the material force
OF her sea power to provide that there be no
repetition of this intolerable offense
The Russian squadron, moreover. is not
manned by seasoned officers and men, for the
flower Of the Russian navy is or was In the
Far last A scratch pack Of more or less In
competent people are navigating a still more
incompetent squadron 20 almost certain de-
struction, and they know t.
The attack on the trawlers. the Pail
Mall Gazette says, affords proof pos
tive that the Russian squadron is a
dangerous lunatic and terror to all In
its vicinity"
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sHIPBUILDING TRUST
PROPERTY AT AUCTION
Purchased by Only Bidder. G. r Shell
don of the Reorganization
Committee.

NEWARK, N. j.. Oct A.-James
Smith Jr., receiver Of the United States
Shipbuilding Company. sold at public
auctionsto-day all that portion of the
property of the United States Ship
building Company which had been adj
judged to be mortgaged to the Mercan-
tile Trust Company and the New York
Security and Trust Company. The sale
included everything owned by the COM
Dany outside of the stock and plant
There was only one bidder, George r..
Sheldon. who represented the Sheldon
reorganization committee
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and his assistant. They brought him
into town, where he was placed under
arrest and charged with placing an
obstruction on the track. Had the
engine not died" as it did it would
have met the incoming freight near
the Table Bluff tunnel and a head-on
collision would have resulted.
An old acquaintance of Ray this
afternoon claimed that his right name
is Lester, and that he is one of the
convicts who escaped from Folsom
some months ago.
Ray has been at work the last few
weeks on the new city hall building in
this city. He is a heavy drinker and
1T is thought that he has become
crazed from the excessive use of spirits.
He was placed under $4,000 bail, in de-
fault Of which he is now in the County
Jail
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-25
ELOPERS FROM EAST
IN LOS ANGELES.
Detroit Pair Traced to Coast
by Secret Order.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Los ANGELES,
scandazed the
western end of the continent he is said
taken steps to pe him. 1t is said through the Masons
Yesterday Commons Mrs Bell The
Joseph Bell and prominent Windsor She has daughter
and
a
The
he dnt keep
his wfss
n
follow he cart inecess to do so.
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idated in the town. though it stands
on most conspicuous site, next in
prominence to that of the village
church. Last winter the roof fell in:
the floors had given way long ago and
the house has been WfndowIess for
years
Mrs. Green refuses to pay for repairs
and she also refuses to allow the town
to remodel the house for a library.
At present IL Is but an unpleasant re-
minder Of the days when Hetty lived
there with her husband and two chill
dren.
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CHAGRIN IN RUSSIA.
North Sea AFFAIR Regarded as a Ma
tiOnal Dfshonor

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 24.-Rep-
resentative Russians regard the attack
of the Baltic feet on helpless fisher
men off the English coast as a national
dishonor. They admit that IL reveals
their countrymen as lacking in keen
ness Of wit. self-control and courage.
No serious complication with Great
Britain is expected, for the Govern
ment will make prompt and ample
reparation; but hope is practically de-
stroyed that the fleet Will accomplish
great deeds in the Far East 1t is
believed that Rojestvensky himself is
blameless, since he accompanied the
first squadron. which sailed past the
feet Of trawlers. leaving them un-
molested-
No official or unofficial Russian ex-
PLANTATION of the unfortunate affair is
forthcoming up TO this time, and. the
world must wait until tomorrow to
hear Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's YER
sion of the firing upon the British fish,
ermen. Rojestvensky has commune
Gated direct to the Emperor. but at
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Nephew of Seward Webb Killed.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24.-Major G.
N. Nolan of this city tonight received
a telegram from j. w. Bonnie of the
Shannon Copper Company at Clifton.
Ariz., announcing the accidental
death of c. d. Webb while hunting.
c. d. Webb, it is said, was nephew
of DIR. Seward Webb of New York
and a brother of Major Walter d.
Webb of West Point Military Acad-
envy. c. d. Webb was an employe of
q mining company at Clifton.
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Mnh in | nndnn Attacks the ambassador
IvIUU Ill LUIIuUIl Of the Russian Emperor


Ct m found TO- an
been 6db Hnder amuahn done bdy
h B 81 men Logged Jp anume North Scam Incident
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RUSSIA MUST
: MAKE PROMPT
PREPARATION
Fleets BLunder Unexplained

COPENHAGEN breake Ermak has
y the wi lei tern tube damages
n. F. CONNIE
England
m In naval ccIesh
PARIS, 24The
Monday during
Admiral
in
in
fire
OF the ships
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-25
ANOTHER BUILDING FAVORED
FOR YARD AT MARE ISLAND
Rear Admiral Manney Recommends
Construction of Quarters for
Bureau of Equipment.
Oct. 2

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Rear Ad-
miral Manney, chief of the bureau of
equipment, in his annual report rec
ommends an appropriation of $685.
600 for bureau of equipment build
ing at Mare Island, Cal.
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NEW HAVEN. Conn. Oct. 24.-The
$4,000 worth Of Jewels left on a seat
at the Grand Central station. New
York, BY Mrs. f. P. Gavit of Albany
have been recovered They were
picked up with other bundles by mis-
take by a railroad enploye.
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Sir Charles bikes wife Dead.

LONDON. Oct. 24.-Lady Dixie,
wife of Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie.
died suddenly to-day at her residence
in Working as the result of a rupture
of a blood vessel She was born Sep
tember e. 1910.
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TROY. o.. Oct. "a A fire. which
started to-day in the livery stable Of
w. H. Willis, in the heart of the bus
mess district, destroyed q dozen or
more business houses and residences
Loss $4,000.
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Brazil to Build warships.

RIO DE JANIERO, Oct. 24.-The
Chamber of Deputies has adopted a
bill authorizing the Government to
place contracts abroad for the build
ing of twenty-eight warships.
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Another Train Robber Dead

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24.-The fifth IA
tally as result of the battle last
Friday between detectives and sus-
poets occurred tonight when William
Morris, alias c. c.. Blair, a confessed
train robber. died at the City Hospi-
tai.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-25
MINER FROM DEATH VALLEY
INTERESTS NEW WORKERS
Walter Scott Makes Trip to the
Metropolis to Have His Dig
gings Financed.


gings Financed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-Walter Scott
of Death Valley, Cal, is at the Herald
Square Hotel. where he is the center
of interest He is gold miner who
came to New York with view to get
ting his diggings properly financed.
He wore a blue flannel shirt and a
red necktie. His sole anxiety was that
the New Workers might think he was
a bad man from the gulch and run
away when he appeared in a cafe or
a barber shop.
Gentlemen" he said reassuringly,
'T never carry anything more danger
Gus than a bag of gold dust and some
nuggets. Death Valley is very peace
full sort of place and If miners out
there gamble and stake their lives
they only do it for fun"
Scott will leave here tonight for
Chicago en- route home.
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DAWSON. Oct. 24.-steam naviga-
ton the full length of the Yukon is
practically closed The river Is full
of ice The output for the KIondike
this season Is s9,5o0,ooo.
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COPENHAGEN. Oct. 24.-The Russian Err
rived in with damaged
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THE THEArERs.

ALCAZAR-''The Wilderness"
cALIFoRNIA-''Fritz and Snitz."
CENTRAL-''PauI Kauvar."
COLUMBIA-"San Toy"
CHUTES-vaudevfI1
GRAND-''Arizona-''
LYRIC HALL-Dramatic Reading.
MAJESTIC-''When We Were Twenty
One"
ORPHEUM-vaudev
T1VOLI-''Der Rastelbinder"
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g vy taNeN. TfCI0
the Library
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23
WHO WILL BUILD
THE NEXT SUBWAY :?

One Of the most interesting questions in
connection with the future development Of
New York's subway system Is: Who is
likeliest to get the job OF building and
operating the next onef On the decision
Of this question tho character OF the future
system largely depends, Alexander E.
Orr, president OF the Rapid Transit Com
mission, talked about this a week or 80
ago.
Does tho fact that the Belmont interests
have already built and will operate one
subway give the marlborough. Mr.. Bel
mont's company. any advantage IN bidding
for = seconda' Mr. Orr was asked.
Perhaps Mr.. Belmont and his friends
would have an advantage In bidding for
an actual extension Of their present line
In either direction he replied. But in
laying out future subways, It is the hten-
ton Of the comm iseion DO to plan them
that they can be built as an independent
system, and this would prevent the present
tenant from having an unfair advantage
Tho position Of the Rapid Transit Com
mission % to future subwsys Is, In fact,
understood to be that 1t will welcome COM
petition from any interests able to build
and finance them, and will give the prize
to the corporation. or Individual even, that
win pay the most In cash to the city, and
advantages to passengers, for II.
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haitian and The Bronx would be given free
to passengers in tho subway, and vice
versa, thus enabling every resident OF either
borough TO ride from his home to his office
for one fare, or In other words providin e
transit all over town on this side Of the
East River for a nickel.
When the committees plan came out,
Mr.. Ryan unhesitatingly accepted it and
announced that the transfer offer would
apply to this plan, too, II the Metropolitan
Belmont, on his part, has offered free trans
fers to the Inteborough subway and its
Brooklyn extension. Before a route and
plan are settled on It is quite probable that
some features Of the present plan may be
changed. and even II changes are made
the Lexington avenue part Of the plan will
be adhered to.
Meantime the compr extensive system OF
subways thus brought into view has been
added to by other proposals from public
corporations to build tunnels on their own
account and by one other city enterprise.
To relieve the congestion at the Brooklyn
Bridge, and to bring the williamsburg
Bridge into closer touch with the business
districts OF Manhattan. Chief Engineer
Parsons has proposed another subway be-
tween the approaches on the Manhattan
side, with a loop extending across town.
But this proposal will wait q decision on
the other plan.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Is already at
work on q series Of tunnels across town
under Thirty-hrst. Thirty and
Thirty-third streets, with a big station
between Seventh and Ninth avenues
The New York and Jersey Railroad has
dug one tunnel under the North River
to Jersey, coming in on this side under the
Christopher street ferryhouse and Is at
work on another. It will have station at
Christopher street and Ninth avenue. but
now proposes to continue its line across
town to a loop at Aston place or under
Sixth avenue 10 Thirty-fourth street.
Substantially the came interests which
operate In this company have planned
another tunnel from Jersey City to the foot
Of Cortlandt street, coming to terminal In
the block on the east side Of Greenwich
street and connecting by passage with the
subway under lower Broadway.
There are more such plans for tunnels
and subways, by the dozen almost, all rather
airy and vague at present. but some Of them
sure to mature. The facts certain about
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the whole matter are that Manhattan Island
will soon be pierced by large system Of
underground railroads and that beginning
will be made upon these sooner than many
persons expect.
Az to the proposed extensions OF elevated
railroads and trolley lines their number
is legion. rtwould take page Of THE Sun
to tell about them all. Some Of these in
Brooklyn and Queens are shown in the ao-
companying map. New York. In fact. is
getting a hustle on in dealing with its trans
portation problem 1t may soon even, be-
gin to catch up with the demand for f,ore
facilities.
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TEMPERANCE IN HIS WILL
None Of James Callahan's Millions - 00ta
Users Of Nauara or Druea.


DIES MONIES, Oct. 22.-James Callshaa,
who paid more taxes than any other ~
Iowa men, disposed OF 100000 In bis VIII
In such way that no user Of liquor, NOR
phine or any other drug can benefit IRON
his wealth In any way Mr. CallAhAn
preached the evils Of lntemperance Tor
three. score years and ten. and he
preached them In his will also.
In addition to direct bequests for ~
cause Of temperance, Mr.. Callahan disposed
of them New workers.. In such q way that
none Of them who uses liquor can touch
a cent of it,
He made a bequest OF $50 900 tn found .
home for drunkards' wives and to provide
for the families of drunkards, but he pro-
vided especially that not one cent OF the
money should be used to benefit the usery
OF liquor or the drunken husbands. 4
$50 600 bequest for the Home for the Aged
was protected against drunkards tn Tie
MY idea is" said Mr.. Callahan In his
will that if person will spend his money
In the use Of such filthy and useless druGs
80 that he has not enough feft to suppoH
him IN his old age he must suffer the oon-
sequences"
The heauest is made on the further oon-
dltion that the Home for tho Aged shall
pass within six months an amendment 70
the articles of incorporation not to know
inglv admit any person to the home who
for the Jnst ten Years prior to the time Of
his application for admission has been or
l. in the habit OF using morphine or any
other drug or drinking habitually or to
excess any intoxicating liquor OF drinks.
and on the further condition never to allow
such persons within the institution
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THE STATIONS ON
OUR NEWEST RAILROAD

Lots Of folks Of course will want to know
just where the stations are on the oity's
newest railroad. There are forty-nine OF
them altogether, thirty -seven In the sub
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tinn above
re has been
! picturesque
the station
J impressive
b which the
be third rxn
Dine Of them
J home 6 .
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IN stairwHys
krble The
kings Ere q
eri0 wood
the building
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BIZ sucoeed
Of the city
BIC In com
] dpwutown
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/ span, pass
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the dninhed
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way and twelve on the viaduct, which
carries the road into The Bronx and they
are divided into two classes-express sta
tons and locals.
The express stations, Of which there
are five, are all on the four-track road,
which extends to Ninety-sixth street. Ex-
press trains below Ninety street will
stop at these five stations only. Above
Ninety -sixth street the road divides into
East and West Side branches, with two and
three tracks respectively, and all trains
stop at all stations.
The five express stations are Brooklyn
Bridge, Fourteenth street, Grand Central,
Seventy-second street and Ninety-sixth
street. Here is list OF all the stations:
MAIN LINZ.
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eoo0o an.
ok signal
a closed
& with q
benclature
up by q
bling box,
b q valve
hg the air
"a clearing
preceding
the con-
terweight
beans that
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y trip F.
lin With
p ts down
afety de-
cut of
current.
L. a box
knals. By
ry signal
nger and
ped-
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hin might
!, there L.
Pep trains
e oIzrrunt
I'D. On
t- When
arc fully
20 - to
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bon a tbs
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bther still
J signal 1t
|" caution.
o.
C,ia1 er1M-
an power
ION Of tho
that SEQ
lnet seller,
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ed for Gro
. subway
he glass OF
side. The
breakers
'Iitting on
and stop
station In
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or which
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,e how Q
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or course, rs was announced several
weeks ago. the West Side branch will be open
on Thursday as far as i45th street only
Beyond that the line Is still Incomplete
The East Side branch may not be thrown
open for several weeks yet. and how far
along it travel will extend at first is prob
lematical.