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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
AGENTS COME FROM
MASSACHUSETTS.

The Massachusetts relief contribu-
ton of s549,9S0, collected for San
Francisco's sufferers in April, has not
been held back because of lack of
confidence in the local committee that
was spending the funds sent in from.
the outside. 1t has been withheld be-
cause the people who contributed it,
saw that San Francisco would have
better use for the money this winter
than she had during the months inn
mediately following the disaster This
money is on deposit with a Boston bank
and will be turned over to the Red
Cross and Relief Fund Corporation as
soon as we make report to the Mas
sachusetts Relief Association. That
will not take US long"
This statement was made by Jacob
Furth and Colonel w. d. Sohier who
are here representing the Massachu-
setts contributors to the San Francisco
relief fund.
Jacob Furth and Colonel Sohier are
in San Francisco to satisfy Massachu-
setts that the relief money will be
properly used when sent to San Fran
cisco. They desire to know that it will
be distributed as the contributors in
tended it should be. They do not in
tend to remain in the city and super
wise its expenditure, but they want to
be done in the most practicable man
ner to secure relief.
1T was on my suggestion that Mas
sachusetts held back her money! said
Jacob Furth last night at the Hotel st.
Francis. II was in San Farnctsco inn
mediately after the fire. l saw then
that provisions sufficient for present
needs were pouring in from every side.
l knew that the final perplexing prob
lem would be the housing of the home
less during the winter months. | noti-
fed Massachusetts to hold back her
contribution until later on. Then the
committee would have learned by ex-
perience what is best to be done, and
would have a large sum of money at
hand with which to carry out relief
measures. We have never distrusted
the local relief committee nor any of
its members.
Jacob Furth is from Seattle, but was
requested by Massachusetts to advise
her as to conditions in San Francisco.
Colonel Soher is member of the Mas
sachusetts relief committee.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
Orders Issued for
Army Officers.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 20
Army orders: The following
changes in stations and duties
of commissaries are ordered:
Captain Morton ]. Henry is re-
ieved from duty as assistant
comrnissary general and will
proceed to San Francisco, to
sail about November S for Ma
Mia and report to the cor1-
nanding general of the Philip
pines for duty in the subsist-
ence department.
Captain Jacob E Bloom is
relieved from duty in the Phil
ippines division. to take effect
about January /, and will pro-
ceed to Boston, and upon the
expiration of leave of absence
granted him relieve Captain
Salmon F. Dutton as purchas-
ing commissary.
By direction of the President
Lieutenant Lucius c. Bennett.
Twenty-hrst Infantry, is select
ed and detailed as captain of
the Nineteenth Company, Phil
ippine Scouts.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
NEW VESSELS FOR
VALLEJO RUN.
Monticello Company Enters
Into Contract for Two
More Passenger Steamers
ELECTRIC EXTENSIONS

VALLEJO. Sept. 20.-Arrangements
have been made between the Monticello
Steamship Company and the new Solano
County Interurban Electric Railroad.
which latter will build an electric road
between this city and Benieia and
which will have the same in operation
within six months, and later a line
eighty miles long through the county,
whereby the steamship company will
carry the passengers OF the road be-
tween Vallejo and San Francisco. For
this purpose and to handle the increas-
ed business that is expected with the
completion early next spring of the
Napa Valley Electric road to ST. Helena,
the steamship company has let the con-
tract with Puget Sound shipbuilders
for two new fast passenger steamers,
built on the lines of the Arrow, which
is now on the local run and which is
one of the fastest crafts on the bay.
The business of the Monticello Com
pany has increased to such an extent
that the company has been endeavor-
ing to purchase from the Vallejo Ferry
Company Georgia street wharf. which
is the best located wharf property in
Vallejo and is used as the landing for
the Southern Pacific steamers and the
Mare Island ferry. So far the Ferry
Company has refused to sell.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
RECTAL LARGELY ATTENDED.

large audience assembled in
Calvary Presbyterian Church at FIJI
more and Jackson streets last night for
the organ recital given by Marshall w.
Giselman. An excellent programme was
rendered. The numbers were as fol-
lows: Fantasia and fugue in G minor
tBach); Andante Cantabile. op IL
tTschaikowsky); prelude to "Parsifal'
tWagner) recitative and aria. Death
of Moses" Ode Lange1: Reginald
Keene; (a) Chant Sans Paroles" (b)
Bercuse in d Oemare); 'Hosannah, .
chorus magnus (Dubois)
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
WAGES At MARE ISLAND.

VALLEJO Sept. 2o.3In order to Sc
laborers in San Francisco the helpers
and laborers employed on the Mare
Island Navy Yard held an extended
meeting in Labor Bureau Hall this
evening. The navy yard pays the best
wages. but since the revival in San
Francisco has been unable to secure a
full complement of men.
The wages for the next year will
soon be fixed by a board that will con-
vene at Mare Island. and the meetins
this evening was for the purpose OF
selecting committees to gather data tc
be presented to this board.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21

The mysterious death of George An
derson. secretary of the Blacksmith
Helpers Union, is at last being care
fully investigated by the police. The
fact that the circumstances surround
ing his death were mysterious in some
way escaped the attention of the police,
although il, has since been learned that
from the outset Anderson asserted that
he had been assaulted
Detectives Graham and Harrison are
now engaged in going carefully over
the ground traversed by Anderson just
before his death. The excavation into
which he fell has been slightly changed
by the bricklayers at work there, but
its approach remains the same with the
exception that the brick and mortar
pieces between which he must have
passed have been shifted.
The most sensational evidence thus
far unearthed comes from Nat Went
worth, one Of the performers at the
Mission Theater. Wentworth was on
his way home after the performance
when he heard the groans of the dying
man. Without waiting for the police
he went 10 give assistance. Anderson
was almost unconscious at the time,
but he revived long enough TO answer
Wentworth's questions. Asked how he
had fallen into the pit. he declared.
I was knocked down by unknown
men
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21

-
Registrar. Next Monday FIVE su5ordi-
nate offices will be opened and will re-
main open three days Monday and
Tuesday the hours will be from 10 a. m.
to p. m. On Wednesday the places
will remain open until midnight
The hours this week at the main
Office. Eighteenth and Dolores streets,
are from $3.50 q. m. to p. m. and from
80 p. m. to $50 D. M Beginning
next Monday. the main office will be
open from $50 a. m until midnight
COMPARATIVE LISTS.
One of the sub-stations to be opened
next Monday will be at 1892 Fillmore
street Fifteen clerks have been as
signed ito duty at this station, as the
Registrar expects a rush.
Other sub-stations viii be located st
the following places: Booth at Twenty
second and Mission streets, Symposium
Hall. 2614 Mission, near Second; store
53s9 Mission street near Thirtieth'
store at .southeastz,. corner. of Ninth
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21

Francisco at the time of the Friede
robbery. but denies that he knows any
thing of it otherwise than what he has
read Chief Stanford has had picture
taken of West and has forwarded cir
culars all over the state. as he believes
that West is also wanted at numerous
other places.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
DEATH OF LUMBER MERCHANT.

SANTA ROSA. Sept 20-Marion
cross, well-todo lumber merchant of
this city, was found dead in bed this
morning by his son-in-law, Fred Johns
ton. at the family home on Sonoma ave-
nue.. Mr.. Cross was a native of New
York. nearly So years old, and came
here about seven months ago from
Kansas with his wife for his health.
He had been affiicted with heart trouble
for some time.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21

avenue and Fl street: store. Leland
avenue, corner Of San Bruno
The total registration up to Wednes-
day night of this. week was 3S.o34
Comparison with registration to that
date in 1902 and by districts is thus
given: 60.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21

part of the administration ticket at
the sacrifice of its other part. He
firmly believes that had he been willing
to sell out his associates at such a
price a way was opened for him to do
so weeks ago"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21

CAUSES LOTTERY AGENTS ARREST
Alameda, Sept. 2o-E. J. Jarratt. mail car
rier. caused the arrest OF Ah Wong a Chi
nese. last night for selling lottery tickets
Wong was fined Si5.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
Detectives Get to Work on
Murder of George Anderson.

THE
bending their Nat Wentworth
found the Anderson declared that assaulted him.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
PoLICE NoT INFoRNIEp.

lnls statement is in keeping with
the assertion made just before he died.
TO the hospital authorities he declared
that he had been robbed and assaulted.
The fact that no report was made of
this statement is causing the police
some annoyance. They claim that If
II had been known that Anderson was
assaulted they would have undertaken
10 secure e description of his assail-
ants and z. dying statement that could
case now stands they have only the
SIncorroborared statements of third
parties. which would be inadmissible
z the trial Of the mans assailants.
Among hls friends Anderson was
known as q man Of unusual physical
courage. He often boasted that if foot
pads should attack him he would give
them q battle If it cost him his life.
That is why they are so certain that he
was murdered. The basement , into
which he fell is about 100 feet from
the corner Of Twenty second street The
corner is z transfer point and is usual
ly. crowded Between the corner AMI
the excavation. however, there are
many brick piles which cut eff the
view.
II is the generally accepted theory
that Anderson was led from the corner
10 a place behind the brick piles by his
assailants- He refused to hand over
his money and met the. demand with
resistance Then he was set upou and
beaten A chance blow on the mouth
might have caused him TO lose his bal
ance
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
FACTS POINT TO CRIME.


II is unlikely that the assailants
8 ing the body after 1t had fallen into
the excavation. They were proba blv
afraid that the scuff1e had been over
heard and ran away without waiting to
take his money.
Anderson fell a distance of about
eight feet He struck upon a bed of
soft clay. There was nothing upon
which he could have lacerated his face.
The broken leg might have been caused
by the impact, but there is no way to
account for the gaping wound in the
chin and lip. He declared that he was
struck with a blunt instrument, pos
sibly q blackjack or an iron pipe, and
the nature of the wound corroborates
his statement,
Every circumstance of Anderson's s
death points to another foul crime, as
bloodthirsty and brutal as those which
ended the life of Friede and Pftzner.
II the investigation of the police had
been begun in time the assailants of
the man might now be behind the bars
The offhand deduction of the patrolhnen
that he had fallen to his death seems
10 have been unwarranted. as his only
explanation. at that time and after
ward. was that he had been assaulted.
The victim told Wentworth so while
he was still lying at the bottom of the
pit and he repeated that statepa aent
while in the hospital. The only report
made to the police was a brief MARIA
tive of the fact that Anderson had
been found at the bottom OF the ex-
cavstion and had been carried from
there 10 the City and County Hospital.
ACCIDENT THEORY UNTENAiBLE.
No mention was made in the report
of the dying mans statement to Went
worth nor of the 'possibilitythatfa a crime
had been committed. Anderson was
carted of to the hospital and left alone
TO die. while the men who killed him
were allowed to walk the streets in
search Of other victims
The theory that Anderson walked
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
Light Registration in City
For November Election.

Continued from Page ?, Column :.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
Suits Are Fall Styles

Here is what have done-taken great number
OF suits from regular $40 and so lines and marked
them $1485.
We did this for two reasons: First, wanted to
give you the best value ln for the money Second
wanted the value to be strong enough induce your
purchasing here preference other establishment
The suits single and double breasted styles in
fancy worsteds and chevots "a A. every gar
the latest Fall style.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22
GREAT WASTE OF PRODUCTIVE
POWER.

The large number Of railroad acct
dents reported in the Accident Bulle-
tin issued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, enables us to measure
how destructive to life railroad opera
tion in the United States is. For the
last three months of 1905. the casual
ties amounted to Is, 227, including /, 100
killed and II, persons injured. OF
the killed 1,0O8 persons we're employees,
and of the injured IA, 2C0 persons. The
damage done to cars, engines and rail-
way property by these accidents
amounted to s2,817. 294. For the year
ending June 30, 1904, railway casual
ties totaled 94.2O1, of which 1O,O46 were
fatal and "a, 125 non-fatal. Of these
fatalities AL were OF passengers, and
gill passengers were injured, so that
by far the greater loss occurred to
those on duty as employees.
This is largely sheer waste of pro-
ductive strength, and some way should
be found to make railway operating
less of a continuous calamity than
civil war Wall Street Journal
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22
rhe Ben areet woodland rlayers.

Arrangements have now been COM
pleted for the presentation of As
You Like It" and "a Midsummer
Nights Dream = by the Ben Greet
Company on the grounds Of the Kent
Place School, Summit, N. j., on Satlir-
day Of next week, May n. The grounds
Of Kent Place furnish a charming
background for out-of-door presenta-
tion Of these beautiful pastoral plays.
The land slopes in such way as to
furnish a natural stage and natural
auditorium; while the planting Of the
grounds which, la point of intelligence
and taste was years in advance Of the
time when the trees were set out, win
beautifully frame the stage pictures.
Those who have seen the out-of-doors
performances which Mr. Greet gives
know how carefully he preserves the
out-of-door quality, and how entirely
he rids the presentations Of everything
theatrical and artificial. AS You
Like 1t = will be presented on Satur-
day afternoon promptly at fifteen min,
IuteS after three O'Clock, and : A Mid
simmer Nights Dream = on Saturday
evening promptly at eight fifteen. Re
served seats, $3.50; on sale az Smitn's
drug store. Kent Place possesses II
Its gymnasium small hall which viii
lserve as shelter in case Of unpleasant
weather.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22
PRACTICAL REFORM AND PUBLIC
GAIN.

Last year the Essex County Collec-
tor received in fees from the Surro-
gates Office a total Of S45 ,23O.88, from
the Register 1888, 466. Is and from the
Clerk S23, 1881. 90. The Sheriff's Office
turned in $65415 in fines and costs.
Payments were made by the county to
the Sheriff amounting to more than
sis, 900, besides the fees turned direct
ly into the Sheriff s Office. There was
paid to the Surrogate, Register and
County Clerk on account of salaries
and expenses a total Of S57, 96l So, leav-
ing a balance of nearly $4,000 for the
county treasury.
The Sheriff's office is the most lucra-
tive of the county offices in it's emolu-
ments. Under the administration Of
Sheriff Sommer all the fees are paya-
able into the county treasury, the Of
fee being now salaried like the rest of
the county offices. The Collectors re-
port, covering the time that has
elapsed since Sheriff Sommer was in,
!
Quoted into office, will show large
net income that will be basis of cal
culation of the annual revenue from
that office hereafter The county gov
eminent can look for about $685. 900
year in net income from the county
offices that formerly paid little or
nothing to the support of county gov
eminent,
This revenue is entirely product Of
Republican legislation, which has now
abolished the fee system in all the
counties, as well as in the State offices,
that formerly enriched their incum-
bents. The Supreme Court and Chan
Gerry Clerks paid 800, 9S2. 70 of fees into
the State treasury last year, and the
value OF the legislative act this year,
abolishlng the fee system in all coun-
ties, will give nearly a quarter of a
million dollars to the various county
treasures benefited. Republican leg
islation and administration mean prac-
tical and substantial reform and pub
lie gain, as results show. Newark
Advertiser
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22

From the full and fair report of the
Colby meeting held at Dover last Tues
day night, as given in another column,
it will be seen that there was nothing
especially new presented to Morris
county voters The principles pre-
sented were practically the same as
those given in the platform of the
last Republican State convention
with the exception of electing U. S.
Senators by direct vote, while the ma
tional constitution provides otherwise
and which were enacted into laws
by the last Legislature The main
cause Of grievance seems to be that
Mr. Colby and his associates were not
given the prominence that they should
have had in the enactment of these
laws In this respect it issufficient
to say that all these measures were
worked out in open session and were
none Of them caucus measures. Solong
as the promised reforms and improve
ments were brought about the average
citizen cares very little who has the
glory of it. In fact no man or set OF
men can claim the credit for the en-,
actment Of these laws, except so far as
by his ability he led others, as is con.
coded in the case of Mr.. Hillery, and nc
man is satisfied and believes that all
or any of them are perfect All great
principles are perfected by experience
and it is far safer to trust their devel
opment to the men who have shown
the practical ability to formulate
them rather than to impractical theo
rists who want to do the impossible.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22

PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM.

1t would be an act of practical pat
riotism on the part of our wealthy
Americans who have planned to spend
che summer in Europe, if they would
now change their plans and make the
trip to California.
By so doing they would help Califor-
mia in the best possible way, they
would keep millions of dollars at home
in time when we need the money,
and they would enrich their minds
and broaden their knowledge of their
own country so as to better fit them
for success in their business and pro-
fessions.-W Wall Street Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22
THE GALLANT 18Th N. ]. V,
Its Record for Casualties is in the
Foremost Place.

Its Record for Casualties is in the
Foremost Place.
In the volume so well-known to SOL
ders, Regimental Losses in the Civil
War" by Lit. Col. William F. Fox, a
volume which gives the number of
killed and wounded Of every regiment
in the Union army, and in the Con-
fedefate army also, as far as the re-
cords have been preserved, the Fiji
tenth New Jersey of the First Diyi-
sion of the Sixth (Sedgwick's) Corps
is given a foremost place as a regiment
on which came the brunt of hard
fighting.
There were killed of the regiment at
Spottsylvania, ll6 at Salem Heights
near Fredericksburg, Al; at Cedar
Creek, 27 at Cold Haibor Is, and from
one to ten in each Of many other bat
ties. OF the original enrolment OF
947 there were killed 100, the very large
proportion Of 20 per cent. By recruits,
the enrolment was swelled to l ,702, Of
whom 240 or IA per cent. were killed,
this smaller percentage being owing
to the fact that many of these recruits
did not join the regiment till the win
ter of 1864-65 when the most of the
fighting was over. The foregoing fig
ures have seldom been paralleled in
military history.
In Grants campaign in the spring
of 1864 the regiment crossed the Rapi-
dan with fifteen officers and 429 men
available flor action. In two weeks
the command was reduced to six Off.
GERS and 1876 men. At SpOttSylVania
nearly three hundred were killed and
wounded. The number (l16) killed
and mortally wounded of the Fifteenth
at SpOttSylyania was the largest Of
that in any infantry regiment in a
single battle during the war except
the 5th New York atlManaSSaS, which
lost lit, but this was a larger regi
ment. The percentage Of killed of the
Fifteenth at SpOttSylvania was ovel
twenty-Six, the largest percentage o.
any regiment in one battle of the wal
except the 1st Minnesota at GettyS
burg. The Light Brigade at Bala
clava Of which Tennyson wrote lost 3
per cent. The heaviest percentage O
! loss in killedsand wounded of any Ger
man regiment in single battle in thu
co-German war was 40 per cent
The loss of the Fifteenth at Spottsyl
vania in killed, wounded and missing
W as 50 per cent. Honor the brave
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-05-22

AFTER a long and in some respects a
sensational contest the railroad rate
bill passed the Senate last Friday
The vote in the Senate seems to be
contradiction of the popular notion
that the United States Senators are
under the influence of railroad senti-
ment. The measure was passed by a
vote of II to 3. One of the three noes
was a Republican, Senator Foraker,
of Ohio. The others. Senators Morgan
and Pettis, voted in opposition because
they think the bill is not in conson-
ance with the doctrine of State rights.
The bill goes to the House, and
while it is not known what that body
viii do with the amendments added
by the Senate, there is no reason to
believe that it will be antagonistic, so
that the bill in It's present form will
probably become the railroad rate law
The breadth and precision of most
of the amendments secured which it
is alleged on the best authority are
likely to stand the conference test-are
wholly admirable. They will bring
within the scope Of tie commission
and Of its specific authority under the
bill express and sleeping car companies;
pipe lines for oil transportation Spe
cial freight and terminal car compan-
les, including all tracks, switches and
ssidings involved in the operation of
these. Water lines. when sharing in
through rates, are equally responsible
to the commission. The provisions
against determinations and rebates
are more sharply searching in reaching
ambushed methods. Common carriers
may not compete with other shippers
insthe production of the same articles
which make part of their transpor-
tation business. The amended bill re-
stores the Imprisonment clause of the
Interstate commerce act repealed by
the Elkins anti-rebate act, and exacts
forfeiture of triple the value Of rebate
where such is asked for from railroad.
Bach day of violation Of the commits
sions orders is made separate offense.
the penalty of which is $4,000. The
fullest publicity Of books, papers and
accounts is exacted at the option Of
the commission.
The bill will make governmental
control of the railroads reasonably ef-
fectiYe. 1t is not nearly so drastic as
SenatorsTillman and Lafollette sought
TO make it, but it is a good, conserva-
tive step in the direction Of compelling
transportation companies to desist
from determinations and special
faYors.