The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-11
THE PRINCESS ANNE
 BURNS ID GROUND Famous Virginia Beach Hotel and Depot Destroyed .HER0ISM OF A VIRGINIAN Carl Baeschen of the Richmond Blues Awakens no Guests and Then
 Falls Exhausted-one
 Guest Missing.
HEROISM OF A VlRGINIAN


 | of the handsomest summer resort hotels along the middle Atlantic seaboard, was destroyed by fire which had it's origin in l the kitchen, supposedly from defective
 nue. In two hours the entire hotel build l ing, together with the Norfolk and South
 ern depot, the bowling alley. hotel laun- l dry, engine house, the office of the Vir l ginia Beach Development company and all the board walk in front of the hotel | had been wiped away. There were 1l0 persons, guests and employees in the
 hotel. All escaped with the exception of Emma Clark, negro chambermaid, and John Eaton. the white steward. There were no fire escapes. That a score or | more of persons were not lost is attributed l to the great heroism of Carl Beeschen. 1 young sergeant of the Richmond Light 1 Artillery Blues, who rushing from room l to room, awakened the sleeping occu- pants, many of whom barely escaped in their night clothes. Beschen finally fell exhausted and had to be borne from the
 building.
 The loss on the building is $1S5,0OO, with l only $s3,OOO insurance. Manager A. c.
 
 suranee The hotels safe in which the | heavy receipts of yesterday and thous- ands of dollars worth of valuables placed therein by guests for safe keeping was not locked, and its entire contents were lost when the building collapsed. large
 number of prominent people from differ ent parts of the country took refuge in l cottages nearby.
 It was said late today that the negro chamber maid, Emma Clark, reported l lost in the fire, had escaped and had | been seen during the day. The unknown l special guest of Manager Mitchell is still
 missing. and is believed to have perished. l leaned. Until Manager Mitchells mental condi-
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 Tokio on May IA, Takahashi sent him
 telegram from Washington as follows
 Depart for Japan instantly and arouse public opinion, as we understood before.
 There is no hope with the Japanese em-
 bassy here"
 Washington June 10-Continuing his
 policy of adding nothing in the way of comment or facts to the discussion of the Japanese-American incidents, Viscount Aoki the Japanese ambassador, today, as
 usual, denied himself to newspaper men and proclaimed against any statement
 emanating from the embassy relative to the reported developments of strength in the opposition party in Japan.
 Ambassador Aod is understood to take the view that there are matters of difference between the United States and Japan which are not capable of adjust ment if allowed to be considered on their merits. It is said to be this view that
 leads him to deprecate the publication in
 this country of the propaganda which is being used in Japan to influence votes in the fall for members of the lower house of the Japanese legislative body. No Developments.
 At the state department it was said there
 were no developments in the situation,
 and in fact, some surprise that any were expected The report of District Attorney Devlin of San Francisco upon the mob ping of the Japanese restaurant and bath house is expected to reach this city with in a day or two.
 It is pointed out also to correct what the officials regard as an erroneous inn pression to the effect that the Japanese have made much more of this San Fran cisco affair than was warranted by the facts that actually the conduct of the Japanese government In the matter has been extremely modest It is true that
 what is regarded as the opposition press 1 in Japan has indulged in some rather ex-
 treme language and has clamored with i out reason for action by their own gov i ernment that would surely lead to grave 1 consequences.
 One result of the extreme newspaper 1 agitation of the friction in San Fran l cisco will, it is believed, be the indefinite l postponement of the plan to initiate nego- | tiations during the summer looking to 1 the conclusion of treaty between Amer I ca and Japan that should definitely regulate the immigration'o 'of Japanese into
 the United States and 1t is suggested by I one of the officials that probably this | result is exactly what was sought to be accomplished by the opposition agitators in Japan and on the Pacific coast. Denut ation Ernrn IInited States