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The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
PUTS THEATER
ABOVE PULPIT
Rev. j. A. Milburn, Pastor of
Chicago Church, Regards
Stage as Vast Moral Power
AN EXPONENT OF. GOOD
Congregational Minister of
Opinion That 1t viii Rise
TO Be Highest Blessing

CHICAGO. March 27.-From the pull
Pit Of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, the Rev. Joseph A. Milburn,
the pastor, has declared the theater a
greater moral power than the pulpit.
There are, Of course, incidents of
the theater which are not good said
he. The problem play is a thing of
infinite disgust. The neurotic play is
hysteria- 1t is pandering to the taste
for highly seasoned things. But there
is evil incident TO all things-to fiction,
70 music, even to the church.
Certainly the great dramas in
themselves are not bad. And look at
the great men and queenly and superb
women which the theater has given to
the world.
No; if there is anything which is
oebilitating about a theater il is in
us. If our taste be high and beautiful
we see the high and beautiful at the
theater. II is a reflection of our taste
and mind. We get what We look for.
II We criticize the theater, then it is
ourselves we criticize.
The theater will make for universal
amity and peace OF nations. For the
great need for universal amity is to
know one another.
/ believe the stage is a religious in
stitution and as such is growing great
er. The theater VIII, prophesy, one
day rise to become the highest and
most powerful exponent Of good"
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
BOMBS PROVE
HIS UNDOINC
Gessler Rosseau Guilty of
Sending Internal Machine
to the Steamship Umbria
SAYS 1T WAS HARMLESS
Asserts That He Has Sold
His Destructive Devices
and Made Money Thereby

NEW YORK, March %. = GessIer
Russell. also known as Gessler Ros-
seau, was convicted to-day before Re-
corder Goff Of having sent, with ma
hcious intent, an internal machine to
the Cunard steamship Umbria in this
city on May 3, 1903. The prisoner re-
ceived the verdict calmly and without
comment and was remanded to the
Tombs for sentence on Friday. The
maximum penalty for the offense il
hVe years iprisonment.
On the witness stand to-day Rosseau
made the claim that the Internal ma
chine sent to the Cunard docks was
absolutely harmless. In his testimony
RoSseau said:
L have made many Internal ma
chimes during my life. and during the
cuban rebellion / sold number Of
them TO agents for Cuba in this coun-
try. They were for blowing up Span
ish ships. and I gave full instructions
to the agents as TO their use"
He said he always made money at
the work. During the Boer war he
offered Internal machines to the Boer
agents in this country. but his offer
was refused. the Beers saying they did
not care TO fight that way.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
JUDGE To RACE
AGAINST DEATH
Jnrist Expecting the Last
Summons to Start OH Wild
Ride to Wyoming Home
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Los ANGELES, March 27.-Hon.
Jesse Knight, Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Wyoming, thirty
third degree Mason and one of the most
widely known men of the Rocky Noun
tain region, will tomorrow begin a
race with death, his home in cheyenne
being the goal and the acknowledg-
ment and signing of certain important
papers there the stake.
Judge Knight is dying of acute
Bright's disease, and knows it. He
may live for several weeks or the end
may come in a day or two 1t is of
great Importance that he reach his
home in Cheyenne in order to attend to
several matters which require his at
tention.- He has been to San Diego for
nearly a month and started home sew
eral days ago, but upon his arrival
here he. became so much worse that he
had to leave the train. He is being at
tended here by Dr. Reed, surgeon of
the monitor Wyoming, who, with two
trained nurses. will accompany the pa
tient on his journey
A special car has Den placed at the
disposal of Judge Knight. He will leave
Los Angeles on one of the limited
trains.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
BLOWN UPW ARD
THROUGH RIVER
Lab0rer Shot From Tunnel
Into Stream and High in
Air Is but Slightly Hurt
REMARKABLE ESCAPE
At Work on Railroad Tube
Under Water in New York
When an Explosion Occurs

NEW YORK, March q. = Blown
through break in a tunnel under the
East River by an explosion and shot
upward through the water twenty feet
into the air, Richard Creedon. la
borer, was rescued and found to be
only slightly hurt. His escape from
death was almost miraculous Three
Of his companions were rescued in the
tunnel and carried out, all painfully
but not seriously injured.
The men were at work in the forward
compartments of the railroad tunnel
under the East River, between Brook
lyn and the Battery, which is to be
used eventually to connect the Man
haitian lines with the Brooklyn subway
lines. Two tubes, side by side, are in
process ofSconstruction
Twenty-Five men were at work in
the tunnel when the accident happen
ed. Creedon and his three companions
were in the forward compartment,
working under high pressure of air.
In compartment back of them thir
teen other men were at work. This sec
ond compartment was not affected by
thesaccident, as there was a bulkhead
between them.
that the roof of the tunnel was leaking
and that the air was rushing out into
the bottom of the East River, which
was about forty feet above them. With
sandbags he attempted to plug up the
leak, but as he did SO the whole roof
was blown out and the tremendous
force of the compressed air drove Cree
don out through the hole. The upward
rush of air carried him to the surface
of the river in q twinking and he shot
into the air with great force. Bystand-
ers quickly rescued him from the wa
ter. He was considerably bruised and
shaken up, but was not dangerously
hurt.
Those who saw the man shoot to the
surface say that he was blown twenty
feet into the air from the level Of the
water, and his startling appearance Sc
verely frightened several italian labor
ers on a nearby pier and they took
TO flight. His companions were drag
eed back through the tunnel by work
men from the next compartment.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
DOAN's PILLS.
PLENTY OF IT
Lots More Proof Like This, and it Is
All From San Francisco People,

The proof Of the pudding is in the
eating of it. IF any city or town in
the Union has sufficient proof on the
following subject it is San Francisco.
Genuine merit is finding its reward
in the hearty endorsation of local
citizens. When people right here at
home, friends and neighbors of our
readers, give a statement like the
following for publication it is proof
convincing for the most skeptical.
Read this testimony:
F. L. Smith, boxmaker in the Ma
tional Box Factory, residence 74I Fol-
som street, says: eff I was not thor
oughly impressed with the fact that
Doan's Kidney Pills can be depended
upon I would never have gone out of
my way 10 recommend the prepara on
to others suffering from kidney COM
plant. Before I took a course of the
treatment I had tried more than one
standard remedy. but the results as
far as stopping the trouble were lust
as remotely in the distance as when
first noticed that my kidneys were out
of order. A sure indication that in
some way the action of my kidneys
was upset was too frequent action of
the kidney secretions, addedsto the
backaches. particularly if l contracted
q cold. For the last six months there
has not been an indication of either
excited or weakened kidneys"
For ale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo.
~ Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no substitute.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
FIVE MEN DROWNkD
IN MISSOURI RIVER
Attempt to Cross I'm Light Skin, but
Boat Is Swampcd I'm
Nidstream.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-. March 27.-Five
men lost their lives in the Missouri
River here to-day. They were: Will
liam Lewis. Oscar Lewis. Harry Tall
ent. Harry Smith and Howard Hutche-
son.
The men were engaged in dyke build
ing operations on the Kansas side, op-
posite the water-pumping station They
had been brought to the Missouri side
each evening by a small steamboat, bur
on account of heavy wind and rain
storm this evening the boat was de-
layed. Rather than spend the stormy
night in a shack on the Kansas bank
the man determined to cross in a skiff.
About midstream the overloaded skiff
was swamped by the high waves. and
four of the men sank in the muddy
water and were seen no more. Hutche-
son was seen swimming. but sank be-
fore help could reach him. None OF the
bodies has been recovered.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
THREE DAYS BETWEEN
DEATH OF MAN AND WIFE
Yukon Miner Succumbs Before the
Body of His Spouse Is
Laid Away

TACOMA, March 27.-James w.
Young died yesterday in Dawson His
wife was called by death last Thurs
day.
Young was very well known on
Puget Sound, where he had lived many
years before going to Dawson. Mrs.
Young had been an invalid for years
and went to Dawson a year ago, hop
ing the change would benefit her.
She grew better for time, but few
weeks ago there was a turn for the
worse and she passed away Thursday.
Her husband was not in the best of
health and on the day of her death
he took to his bed and in three days
was dead
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
WILL HELP TO ORGANIZE
WOMEN'S TRADE UNIONS
Miss Jane Addams of Hull House
Takes the Lead i'm a New
Movement

NEW YORK, March 27.-Raising
their hands as a sign of fealty to the
cause. 700 women pledged themselves
at a conference of the Women's Trade
Union League to-day to help organize
all the women wage-earners of this
country into trades unions. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. and Miss Jane
Addams Of Hull House. Chicago. ad-
dressed the meeting. Miss Adams
said:
The essence of a trades union is it's prac-
tical side. When you can pool your services
and offer them in hundreds. just as the man
with hundreds of dollars employ reject
the demand. you must have the power of sup
ply and demand.
The meeting was the first of the
kind held here and was voted by the
women 20 have been a success.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
STEEL SHIP BUILDING
SUBSIDY FOR CANADA
Government Will Pay Six Dollars a
Ton TO Encourage the
Industry

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March "a.
II was announced to-day that the Can
adam Government had agreed TO grant
q bounty Of Sc per ton to encourage
steel ship building in this country.
The city OF Halifax and other munich
pal authorities some time ago offered
joint cash subsidy of $500, 900 TO any
company that would establish a steel
ship building plant at Halifax. The
Government tonnage bounty is regard
ed as a further step in the same direc-
ton. The bounty is applicable to the
whole Of Canada and its adoption was
supported by delegates from Canadian
rate ports, British Columbia and Nova
Scotia.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
NO EXCUSE FOR MOTHERS
NOT ATTENDING CHURCH
Council Bluffs Pastor Provides a
Creche for the Care OF
Infants.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March
27.-'I cannot attend church, as I
have to say at home TO mind the
baby is an excuse which henceforth
will not stand good at the Broadway
Methodist Church. Rev. James O'May,
the pastor, has arranged to maintain
a creche at the church during the
morning services.
The creche will be installed in the
basement parlors of the church and
will be in charge of a corps of volun-
teer nurses. 1t will partake of the na-
ture Of kindergarten, in addition to
the cradles, and articles of instructive
amusement will be supplied the little
cnes. 1t will be exclusively for chill
dren whose mothers attend the morn
ing services.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
PRICE OF BANK STOCK
INCREASES AFTER "RUN''
Investors Not Frightened by the
Troubles of a Cincinnati
Concern

CINCINNATI. March 27.-The run
on the Union Savings and Trust Com
pany, which began more than two
weeks ago and on Saturday blocked
all other business about the bank
building, had exhausted itself early
this Afternoon and only a normal
amount of business was transacted.
The police, who had been ordered out
TO preserve order, exceeded in number
the withdrawing depositors.
On change twenty shares were sold
At SO, the highest price ever paid for
the stock. There were other bids, but
no offers.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
CAPTAIN STAYS ABOARD
A WATER-LOGGED BARK
He and One Seaman Refuse to Leave
When Balance of Crew Is
Rescued.

NEW YORK, March 27.-The Mari
time Exchange of this city has re-
ceived dispatch from London report
ing the arrival there Of a steamship
bringing sixteen members Of the crew
of the Norwegian bark Norman. which
they abandoned in mid-Ocean on March
Is. The steamship reported that Cap
tain Erickson and one of the crew Of
the Norman had refused to abandon
her and were supposed to be still on
board. The bark was partly filled with
water~vhen the crew left her. She was
bound from Las Palmas to Appledore-
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
NEWSPAPER CHARGES
WILL LEAD TO ARREST
Nebraska Senatorial Committee Finds
Grounds for Doodle
Accusation.

LINCOLN, March PA commit
tee Of the Senate, which is investigat-
ing the charge made by an Omaha
newspaper that a $4,000 Doodle fund
had been raised by county officers in
the State to help insure the passage
by the Legislature of a bill which
would enable the present county Off
GERS to hold their places two wears
longer, has asked for power to make
arrests. This means, it is said. that
an Official of Omaha is to be arrested.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
CITIZENS OF FAIRBANKS
RECEIVE CHEERING NEWS
Notified of Shipment From Washing
ton of Large Assortment OF Seeds
for Distribution.

TACOMA, March 27.-The citizens
of Fairbanks, Alaska, have been made
happy by the news that a shipment of
200 packages of assorted seeds has
been sent them by the Secretary of
Agriculture at Washington. These
seeds will be a present from Uncle
Sam and will be distributed free of
charge. The shipment should reach
Fairbanks at the end of this month
in tiEle for early spring planting.
The idea of making Fairbanks the
garden spot of the north originated
with City Attorney Spring, who wired
Secretary Wilson asking for an assort-
ment of seeds to distribute among the
people of the town.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
RUTH McENERY STUART
AT SIDE OF DYING son
No Hope for Young Man Who Frac-
tured His Spine I'm Eau
Prom Veranda

NEW YORK. March 27.-Sterhng
Stuart. the injured son of Mrs Ruth
McEnery Stuart, the author, is now
being anxiously watched over by his
mother and her sister, as his life slow
ly ebbs in the Flushing Hospital. The
surgeons do not dare to operate lest
the young man, whose spinal cord was
fractured by a twenty -five-foot fall on
Friday morning from the veranda OF
his mothers home. should die under
the knife. They say that despite his
return TO consciousness there is but lit
tie hope for his recovery.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
DEATH CALLS DIVINE.
Aged Retired Minister Answers Last
Summons

FRESNO, March 27.-Rev. John
Calvin Hyden, aged 7s years. one of
the oldest and best known ministers of
the San Joaquin Valley, died this
morning at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. r. N. Cartwright. Rev. Mr.. Hy-
den for many years was presiding
elder of the South Methodist church
in this district and was pastor of ST.
Paul's Church of this city until he re-
tired a few years ago on account Of
old age.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
Caterpillars Kill oaks.

BERKELEY. March 27.-The uni
versity authorities are preparing to
fight a horde of caterpilIars which
have appeared on the campus and are
now threatening the destruction of
the magnificent oaks on the grounds.
A large quantity of paris green has
been ordered and will be used to spray
the foliage.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
DAUGHTER OF A DIVINITY
SCHOOL DEAN ENDS LIFE
Miss Clara Hubert of Chicago Com
mits Suicide Because OF
Il-HcaIth

CHICAGO, March 27.-Miss Clara
Hubert. aged 80 years, daughter of
Fri B. Hubert, dean of the divinity
school of the University of Chicago,
committed suicide by inhaling illumi-
mating gas at the home of J. l.. Reich
cit, 1926 Kimbark avenue. to-day. She
had been in ill-health for long time
and had despaired of ever being well
again.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
TELLS COURT HOW WATER
WAS TAKEN FROM CREEK
Engineer Gives Important Testimony
in Suit Brought Against the
Bay Counties Company.

SAN JOSE, March 27.-Some inn
portant testimony relating to the work
being done by the Bay Counties Water
Company at Coyote Station was given
to-day in the suit brought by the
orchardists against that corporation.
Carl Talbot, who had been employed
as an engineer by the company. testi-
fed that when he was there a caisson
sixteen feet in diameter had been sunk
seventy-six feet and tunnels were run
east and west from it. The eastern
tunnel was 223 feet long and the vest
ern one a little longer.
These tunnels crossed the channel of
Coyote Creek. For while last sum-
mer, the witness said 100000 gall
Ions of water was pumped daily.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
FEAR OF. HIS FATHER
DRIVES BOY FROM HOME,
Lad Hides Under House and Subsist,
for Three Days on Scraps
Thrown to Dog.

COTTAGE GROVE. Or, March AZ.
Henry, the 12-year-old son of ]. M.
Hanson, disappeared three days ago
after being severely beaten by his
father and was not found until this
evening. He had crawled under the
house and was discovered by a neigh
Dor boy while he was in the act of
taking scraps from the table thrown
out to the family dog He was with
out coat, shoes or stockings.
Hanson Sr. was arrested Immediate.
ly after he numerically beat his son
for trif1ing offense and was fined
$40 in the Justice Court.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
MARINE HOSPITAL
BUILDING BURNED
Structure in New Mexico Destroyed,
but All the Inmates Are
Rescued.

SANTA FE, N. M, March 27.-
News has been received here of the
destruction by fire of the large hospi-
tai building at the sanitarium for
consumptives of the marine service at
Fort Stanton, Lincoln County, entail
were rescued. An employe fell through
the burning roof and was injured.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
HILLS NEW FREIGHTER
BEGINS TRIP TO COAST
Big Steamship Dakota to Make Voy-
age Around the Horn
to Seattle

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, March 81
The steamship Dakota, the 25,O00-ton
freighter built for the Great Northern
Steamship Company, sailed for New
York to-day on the first stage of her
voyage around Cape Horn to Seattle,
Wash. The Dakota is expected to re-
main az New York for several days
before going to Newport News to enter
a drydock.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
FALLS TO HIS DEATH
FROM A NARROW TRAIL
Employe of Edison Electric Company
Meets With Fatal Accident
Near Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, March

BAKERSFIELD, March 27.-Word
was received this afternoon from
Camp No. of the Edison Electric
Company's works in the canyon of the
Kern River of the death of an en-
ploye. whose name was not given. The
man was walking on the trail that
leads along the side of the canyon,
when he missed his footing and fell to
the rocks $50 feet below.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
MURDERS HER BABES
TO PLEASE A SUITOR
Kentucky Woman Takes Three Lives
i'm Order to Gain
Husband.

PADUCAH, KY. March 27.-Mrs.
Mary Brockwell, whose three children,
aged 3, and years, died from
poisoning under suspicious circum-
stances last Saturday, to-day con-
fessed that she killed them by giving
them morphine and coal oil. She said
that George Alberton promised to
marry her if she would get rid of the
children. Alberton was arrested as an
accessory.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
JUDGE JAMES HARGIS HELD
FOR COMPLETELY IN MURDER
Kentuckian's Nephew and the Sheriff
of Breathitt County Also
Accused.

LEXINGTON, March 27.-Judge
James Hargis, his nephew, Elbert
Hargis, and Ed Callahan. Sheriff of
Breathitt County, were to-day held
without bonds on charges of COM
plicity in the feud murder of James
Cockrell in Jackson, KY. three years
ago, while Senator Alexander Hargis,
arrested In the same connection, was
released on 5000 bail.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
G. A. r. surgeon Dead.

JANESVILLE, Wis, March 27.-Dr.
J. B. Whiting, surgeon general Of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Is dead.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28

CHICAGO March 27.-The Appellate Court
to-day upheld ruling OF a lower court up
holding the validity of an ordinance OF the
city Of Chicago prohibiting the giving away
of cigarette papers with tobacco.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28

Try the United States Laundry l0oA
Market street. Telephone South 43o.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN" 4

BENJAMIN Franklin was born at Bos-
ton and was the son Of a candemaker.
When he was ten years old his schcoI
days were over. and for awhile he made
wicks. nodded candles. tended shop ana
talked OF going to sea. But the father
opposed this. and bound Ben tamin an
apprentice to nh elder brother, under
whom he learned to set type. and did !
his share In printing tho second news
paper In America. When seventeen he
left his brother and made his way to-
New York In search Of work. Finding
none, he crossed to the Jersey shore and /
walked to the Delaware River. where he
boarded boat and rowed to Philadel-t
pt,ia. There In time he opened a print
ftg house OF his own, published one OF the
best newspaper in all the colonies. is- /
sued every year a very famous little
book, known in all the colonies as Poor
Richards Almanac and took an active
part in everything that benefited his
felIow-citizens. He founded a library
and an academy, which has grown to q (
great university. He proved that light
ming In the clouds and electricity BY
which, We ring bells are one and the
same, and invented the lightning rod
and a stove still known BY his name a;s.
During the Revolutionary War the coll.
o1,ies had agents In London and Benia <
min Franki1n was one VI tAeil.I : ~
king appointed him deputy postmaster
if,,r the Northern colonies, and his fe IL.
5low- citizens elected him TO the Legtsla-
tire, ana when somebody was needed EIDE g
20 plead the cause Of Pennsylvania = IN ~.
London the Legislature sent Fra nk,n *
to do It. I.
colonies franklin now appeared before
Inc minister and did all he could. " t q
prevent thu passage Of the stamp act
but IN vain. Depend upon Tiny sood
netshbor,"he wrote honao,"1 took every
step In my power to prevent the passage
OF the stamp act. But the tide was too
strong against us. We might as J D. wen eAi I
have hindered the SUMS tting. a3a I'hat t
Va could not do. But sure tbs down, y: my ;,
friend and 1t may be long before ~
rises again. Let us mako as GOOD v :; q 1 !:
nirht Of 1t as we can. We may stu !
light candles" AS YOU know. the people
were not willing TO accept darkness :, IS ana I
LINT candles, we will pass it&$ over vel
When tho treaty OF peace was signed e ~. s.lt
paris BENJAMIN Franklin was one o. ttles y
MOI, who represented u.s..
= = 49, ANNIE DAVIS,
Ea 5n7 s.. Belvderc8 Street, CITY
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16
THE GLASS BLOWERS.

While I was in st. Louis visited
the glass blowers OH the pike
Tho first thing we saw was lady
making yellow-heAded pins She took
pin without any head and dipped It
the molten glass, twirled 1t around In
the flame. then took It out Of the flame
and twirled It again. This formed a yell
low ball on the end OF a pin.
Next we saw man making vases.
He took glass tube. heated 1t at one
end and then blew 1t, This formed a
hollow sphere At one end Of the tube.
Then he dropped milk white glass on the
sphere in dots; then heated and twirled
again, s ga XII
The spots OF glass made white streaks
on the clear glass vase, and then by a
little more heating. blowing and twlrlins
he had pretty little vase which We
bought az 4 souvenir ..
: We then say Il platform, with five or
six wax figures on II all dressed In
dresses made from spun glass,
Next we saw some people making
little boats and different figures Of glass
I'd When we were coming out Of tho
building there was a man out IN front
blowing a glass tube so large that It
burst In ono OF the windows out In
front We're belts. pins, necktles and other
different things made OF glass.
SARA D, sTARKE,
5l4 w, Grace ST., Richmond, Va.