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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-23
Meeting Open to Public

The real meat of the convention will
be this afternoons meeting in the Audi
torillm annex at o'clock Technical
papers will be read which will develop
ideas new to the most experienced ad-
vertisers. The commercial public is
invited to attend. The speakers wish
TO educate merchants in the science of
advertising. and those attending will
profit greatly.
President Longhurst's subject is,
Should the Advertising Agent Receive
Commissions from Publishers" c. C.
Chapman takes up Cartoons and Catch
Lines Wilmer r. Henning of Spokane
discusses Advertising a Cash Busi-,
ness. Charles II. Larllen tells of the
ins and outs of outdoor Publicity
A. J Hill of Los Angeles follows with
Good Copy" and C. W. Hibberd of the
same city with Advertising Abuses.
Other speakers are Douglas White and
William A. Mears, both of Los Angeles.
Alexander Green of Spokane and Joseph
Blethen
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
PRIEST DYING
AS L[P[R FOR
A|DIN6OTh[RS
Rev. Lambert Louis COnrardy a
Victim of Disease in Coll
ony He Established
Missionary Writes in Despair of
Inability to Fight Battle
With Disease
[ Special Dispatch 10 The Coul

CHICAGO. March 2o.-Rev. Lambert
Louis Conrardy is dying of leprosy
among the lepers near Canton, China.
Even the friends of the priest hardly
viii appreciate. the pathos of this sim
pie announcement, which reached Chi
cago today. They know that Father
Conrardy had no fear of death even
by leprosy. They know that he chose
his task and went away to carry it out.
aware that he would probably die of
the disease. He first went to a leper
colony more than 20 years ago. 1t is
not known when he contracted the
disease.
The tragedy is found in his despair
ing sense of failure with success with
in his grasp. expressed in a letter writ
ten by him a few months ago, when he
felt the malady creeping upon him and
found himself physically unable 10 fight
he harfao baf0-a n
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
MISSION TO FURNISH
SITE FOR NEW ARMORl
Promotion Association Suggests
Several Locations

The final decision as to site for the
erection of the national guard armory
in this city, for which $4,000 was ap-
propriated last year by the state legis-
lature, will be reached tonight by the
armory committee at a meeting at the
rooms of the Mission Promotion asso-
citation. Fourteenth and Valencia
streets.
The armory committee. which is
composed of Governor j. n. GiIIett. Z.
S. Webb and Mayor P. H. Mccarthy.
will receive suggestions for site in
the Mission district by a committee
from the Mission organization.
The amount that was needed for
the purchase of site has now been
assured, and all that is needed Is a
proper location.
street and Van Ness avenue has met
with so much opposition it has been
deemed necessary to secure a more
central location. The Mission Promo
tion association has been boosting for
several sites in the Mission district and
will offer them to the committee to-
night.
1t is now the idea to combine the
armory and auditorium together The
suggestion of the Mission Promotion
committee for more central location
has met with approval from the mill
tia officers. The old site of the southern
Pacific hospital at Fourteenth and Mis-
sim streets is one of those offered.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
COUNCILMAN CONFESSES
BRIBERY AND GRATING
Bankers Will Face Inquiry by
Grand Jurors

PITTSBURG. March 20.-That former
Councilman John Klein, by his confes-
sion of the whole councilmanic bribery
plot which has been simmering since
June. 1908. has caused many uneasy
moments to present and former office
holders was apparent today about the
Fort Pitt hotel. where detectives, the
voters league officials and the assist
ant district attorney are said to have
suites OF rooms in which they have been
ouizzing men about the graft plot in
addition to what has been told by
Klein.
Klein is held incommunicado in a
suite of rooms guarded by two de-
tectiyes Meantime councilmen have
been seen entering the rooms where
the assistant district attorney and a
staff of stenographers is said to be.
Whether these men have made any con-
fessions is not given out.
Detectives from the district attor-
news Office have been rounding up the
so former and present councilnen i'm
plicated in Kiein's exposure. No names
are made public or even permitted to
leag out 1t is said, too, that several
bank officials, some of them banks not
heretofore mentioned in the bribery
scandal. will be summoned before the
grand jury tomorrow
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
CARMEN REFUSE
COMP PANY'S OFFER
Executive Committee Rejects
Proposition to End
Trouble

PHILADELPHIA, March, 20-Repu-
dating the offer of settlement from
the Philadelphia rapid transit company,
through the assistancesof United States
Senator Penrose, the executive com
mittee of the striking carmen late
tonight voted TO continue the strike
against the company until all their de-
mands were granted.
The proposition for their eonsidera-
ton provides for the Immediate rein
statement of as many strikers as pos
sible with the payment by the com
pany to all surplus men of 81 a day
until places are provided for them. a
wage increase to % cents an hour on
June /; an annual increase of half a
cent an hour until the wages reaches
% cents; recognition of a grievance
committee and a reservation by the
company to recognize other grievance
committees; disposition of the cases of
the 173 men whose discharge led to the
strike by a board of arbitration COM
posed of President Kruger of the COM
pany and President Driscoll of the
carmen'S union, with a third to be ap-
pointed by these two in case of disa-
greement.
This proposition differed from the
others. in that, until jobs are pro-
vided for them. the strikers were to
receive 81 instead of s1.50 a day and
that the 173 are to be handled by an
arbitration board instead of as pro-
vided by the act of 1898.
The proposition was first submitted
tonight TO the committee of 10 having
charge of the general strike by the
subcommittee ofrthree, which had been
in consultation with Senator Penrose
yesterday and today. This subcom-
mittee is said TO have advocated the
Endorsement of the proposition, but
other members of the general strike
committee dissented and the question
was submitted to the executive COM
mittee of the carmen.
w. d. Mahon, the national president
of the carmens union who had assist
ed in drawing up the proposed settle
ment, advocated its acceptance but
was outvoted by the local carmen.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
POLICEMAN HELD
UP IN OAKLAND
Patrolman's Revolver Taken by
Highwayman. Broken and
Thrown Over Fence
Especial Gable TO The Call

lSpectoi Cable to he Call
OAKLAND. March 2o.-Policeman A.
B. Smith was held up at the point of a
revolver at the corner of Second and
Washington streets at 10 O'Clock this
evening by two men. who robbed him
of his own revolver. scattered the cart
ridges on the sidewalk and threw the
weapon over fence. Smith was on
duty and in full uniform and Fas about
TO arrest the two suspects when he was
caught unawares and himself made the
victim.
The patrolman first noticed the sus-
poets in a shooting gallery in lower
Washington street He thought their
actions were. peculiar. and for. several
minutes watched them When the men
left the gallerysand started south in
Washington street Smith. who sus-
pected that one was armed. followed TO
arrest the suspects. They permitted
him to draw near until they reached
the corner of Second street Ther
80 AASul lVh 0-eSAiAH > loii SbA get anu walt
ed. When Smith turned into second
street, expecting to see his suspects
ahead. he faced a drawn revolver
He was compelled to throw up >his
hands and his revolver. was taken.-The
pair broke the cylinder and scattered
the shells. threw the revolver over the
fence and fed east in Second street.
The policeman ran to saloon and got
another revolver. When he came out
the holdup men had disappeared and
he sent an alarm to the station. The
robbers did not search Smith for money
nor take his star.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
MIDSHIPMAN QUITS. NAVY
FOR BUSINESS CAREER
Wife'S Mother, Mrs. BIitz Pax
ton. Explains Resignation

The resignation from the United
States navy of Midshipman Lawrence
A. Austin. whose wife was Miss Roma
Paxton, caused much surprise in this
city yesterday when the announcement
was made that he had left the service.
Austin is expected to arrive here on
the first vessel that comes from Co
rinto, where the cruiser Albany was
stationed when he resigned from Uncle
Sans forces
Mrs Blitz Paxton said last night:
Mr. Austin. who is my son in law. has
been very anxious to leave the navv
for some time. as he wanted to go into
mercantile business
My daughter has been with me all
the winter. but on the arrival of her
husband she viii go with him TO the
east, where Mr. Austin has decided TO
go into business"
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
TIMBER CRUISER RESENTS
BEING TAGGED AS DEAD
Appears in Morgue to Deny
Identity of Body

SEATTLE, March 2O.-An incident
that served TO brighten the somber at
mosphere about the morgue where the
unclaimed bodies of the Wellington
avalanche victims are being held oc-
CURED today when Joseph Binier. a
timber cruiser, walked in and pulled a
tag bearing his name off body No S.
several friends of Binier had iden-
titled the body as his and a lodge of
which he is member had made ar
rangements for his funeral tomorrow.
when the man, alive and well. walked
in and protested against being NUM-
bered among the dead.
The bodies of James Monroe. a pas
senger of Movie, B. c.. and John Beark
and yasili Lutirin. track laborers. were
identified today.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Threaten Reprisal on Speaker
for His Singing Denuncia-
ton of Them as Coward
ly Members OF Congress
MAY MARK BEGINNING OF
NEW BATTLE IN HOUSE
Uncle Joe's Divorce From His
Gavel Is Again Discussed by
Rebel Republicans and
Democratic Allies
REGULAR LEADERS SEE
DANGER IN SITUATION
Taft Hopes End Of Fight
Viii Expedite Legislation

ALBANY. N. Y. March
20.-President Taft read with
interest today the details of the
fight in the house of representa-
tives yesterday when Speaker
Cannon was shorn of his powers
as a member and guiding nAu-
ence of the committee on rules.
His only comment was:
Il see that Mr.. Paync. the
floor leader. expresses the picv
that Legislation undoubtedly nil
be forwarded bp the disposition
of this fight. I hope that this
may prove true.
Taft was informed some time
ago by the insurgents that they
would support the majority of
the measures he had recon-
mended.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Went to Tell Mother

The first thing I did. or in fact the
reason for my going to New York. was
to acquaint my mother of my inten-
tion TO get divorce. I am shocked
that the name of Mr.. Titus should have
been brought into the affairs of my
self and Mr. Havens. He has been his
attorney, and we have all been good
friends. He never bought me dia-
mond ring, as has been stated-in fact
/ have never received any gifts from
him. regret the report very much y
A statement was published to the
effect that Louis r. Titus. former pres
ident of the Peoples water company
and close personal friend of the entire
Havens family, had given Mrs. Havens
a costly diamond ring was vehemently
denied yesterday by Titus, who char
acterized the published statement and
the attendant Inference as contempt
IDLY and maliciously false"
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
IN MENSE HUME ESTATE
Is SOLD FOR S35O,0OO
Historic Rogue River Properties
Bought by Portland Men

PORTLAND. Ore. March 2O.-Fifteen
thousand acres of land in the Rogue
River valley, embracing an estate
which has become historic in Oregon
as the realm of the late r. D. Hume,
Laird of Wedderburn.' yesterday
passed into the hands of Portland men
for a consideration OF s350,000 The
Hume estate includes $4,000 acres of
land. extensive fishing rights, salmon
canneries. water power. part of the
town of Wedderburn. a large tract of
timber land, sawmills, fruit canneries.
farm lands and varied line of indus
tries in the southern Oregon district
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
All Departments Efficient

u remember on one occasion when
an omnibus had knocked over a tree
that within an hours time the head
gardener Of the city had pronounced
that the tree could be saved Their
FIRE department is very efficient. and al
most instantly after the alarm is
sounded the FIRE iaddies. dressed. as
my son says. like brigadier generals.
come TO the door of the burning house.
and. after knocking. inquire if they can
be Of assistance
You have the feeling that you are
y vel taken care Of there. too much so
for some people After all there IS 4
fresh breeze here There is a sort of
good cheer in tie United States There
IS 4 consciousness of the individual
freedom and power which may be the
best thing in the world We may make
our mistakes. but there is an individ-
uaIism about uss'
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21

.VVYASHINGTON, March 20
W The titanic struggle over the
speskership of the house OF
representatives, which reached its eli
max late yesterday in the destruction
of the speakers power in the COM
mittce on rules. yet leaving Cannon
the speakership itself, may have
marked not so much the ending
of three days battle as the begin
ming OF great political war
Cannon Claims Victory
The recognition by all factions OF
this possibility was the principal fea-
ture today in the political situation in
Washington.
Hardly. anybody here thinks the
condition of affairs after the momen-
tous battle represents a satisfactory
conclusion. The speaker and his
friends appear TO interpret the refusal
of the house to depose him as justify
ing them in claiming to have wrested
victory from defeat, Endorsement
from reputation Not a few OF the
insurgents who voted for Cannon's re-
tentioR are wondering today II they
made a political blunder: whether
their anti Cannon constituents will
not indeed hold the retention of Can
non in the speakership to have nuIli-
fed the vote to eliminate him from
the rules COMMITTEES.
Outcome Not Satisfactory
The republican regulars eompIscsntly
claim the insurgents who voted for the
speaker have returned 10 the party fold.
The democrats taunt these insurgents
with having been recreant to the logic
OF their insurgency. Nobody seems en-
tirely happy about the outcome. Even
in the senate the regulars are appre-
hensive lest the insurgent connagra-
tion may spread TO that house. The in
surgent senators are wondering wheth-
er they have made the most of their
opportunities.
Speaker Cannon's defiant speech last
night before the Illinois republican as
denounced the insurgent members of
the house who stood by him in the
final test as "cowardly members OF con-
gress without the courage of their con-
victions.' has cut TO the quick those
men who responded with their votes to
what they say they believed TO be their
duty to the party and to the country
and saved him from utter humiliation
Insurgents Are Bitter
Today the feeling among these in
surKents was one of bitterest resent
ment over the attitude assumed toward
them
@If this is the manner of our treat
ment for saving the republican party"
said one OF them today. who refused TO
allow his name to be used this battla.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Money Spent on Victims

He then went to China and took up
his work there. He soon found. how
ever. that he could accomplish nothing
without money. and money he could
not get. He went home to Belgium.
but after two years in activity, at the
age of Sc years; he came to the United
States. determined to raise the neces-
sary money and launch a mission for
the Chinese lepers. In two years he
had raised $4,000 and set out for Can
ton. He spoke several times in Chi
cago.
That was about year ago. He
bought an island in the river so miles
from Canton, transported there 500
lepers and built them shelters. This
took $4,000 of his money and from the
remainder he had an income of $1,000
a YEAR
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
cARpENTER KILLS sRAKEmaN-

City. Mo-, March 20.-Nsfhan r. GILL a
brakeman shot and killed here today
by Jesse Brody. carpenter. in a quarrel
that took place when Gin found Brody in
his home. Brody escaped.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Havens Dreaded Notoriety

THE Havens were anxious that /
should bring my action in the east.
They dreaded the notoriety of the
whole thing, they said, and could not
bear TO have the fair name of the Hav-
ems soiled in the courts. The only god
| the Havens worship is money. All their
optimism is confined to the word
money and they thought that they
could keep me in the east and fight
my battle there forsthe protection of
their reputation as one of the first
families.
Well my family title is as good as
theirs. / have heard so much about
the Havens that / am tired of it, l in
tend TO obtain such a settlement as
BELTS me and will remain here until
do.
There are four or five charges on
which l could get divorce. have not
yet made up my mind which one
shall employ That will be known in
week or So / prefer to remain here
for a while at least and shall bring my
~. ? 49,
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21

RAIWAYEAE FALLS TO DEATH Louis
vile. Ky. March 20-Joseph Rhameslne. 4s
Eears old. claim agent Of the Southern rail-
way. today fell from the ninth floor Of the
Columbia building 10 the street below crash
ing through an iron grating and dying in
stautly.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Volunteers for the Work

He wrote and asked if he could be of
assistance. and on receiving an affirm
ative reply sailed at once for Hawaii.
He was Father Damiens companion for
year. and after the latter's death con-
tinued his work for seven years.
The American occupation and the
support of the colony by the state
made individual sacrifice no longer es-
sential. so he set out for Canton,
China, where he had heard that the
lepeTs were neglected.
He found conditions worse than he
had imagined Thousands of lepers
lived in huts in graveyards on scant
fare and cared for by no one. He de-
cided that knowledge of medicine
would be necessary to carry out the
work, and so returned TO Portland,
Ore, where he took degree after four
years study at medical college.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Anguish Over His Illness

L am not well,.' wrote Father Con-
rardy. but hope that God will give me
few years more to work among the
lepers.
Il have begun well: it would be easy
now TO go ahead-if 1 can live only five
years more.
If l was only 40 years old; then I
feared no one and nothing
Father Conrardy was born in Bel
gium in 1871 and was educated for the
missionary priesthood in Paris. 'being
ordained in 1867. He spent seven years
as missionary in India and then came
to the United States to labor in the
same capacity among the Indian tribes
of the northwest.
In 1855 he heard of the illness of
Father Damien. the young Belgian
.psIest whose life and death IN the leper
colony of Molokai evoked Robert Louis
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
Divorce Easy Here

Announcing that she had returned to
California to secure a divorce because
of the comparative ease with which a
decree could be obtained, Mrs Havens
made mo secret of the fact that the
monetary settlement had formed the
basis of wide divergence of opinion
between the family of her husband and
herself. She made clear that her ideas
OF what should be the income of the
divorced wife of the son Of the Havens
family had not met with approval. and
made just as apparent the fact that she
intended TO yield nothing.
Il came back to san Francisco for
several reasons" she said yesterday.
First, it is easier to get divorce in
California than in New York, the cir
cumstances OF the whole thing in the
eastern state being too nasty and dis
agreeab Bile
Secondly. / thought that by being
personally on the ground 1 could OBJ
tain better monetary settlement. Be
fore left for the east a settlement was
offered me. bu. II wss not enough to
keep roof oeer NY head / could
not live in New York on what was Of
fered.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-21
HOME A BURDEN
DECLARES MRS.
HAROLD nAVENS
Came West, She Says, to Fight
For BETTING Monetary
Settlement
Wife of MilIi0naire's Son AS
serts 'Only God Havens
Worship Is Money"

Defining divorce as necessary un-
pleasantness which should not be at
tended by the necessary disagreeable
the beautiful Hope Cheney was wooed
and won by the scion of one of Califor-
MAS first families, yesterday inn
periously threw down the gage of
battle to the house of Havens, declared
that the name itself had become a bur-
ing monetary settlement betting her
station in life and scornfully denied a
Published inference that she had been
the recipient of valuable presents from
friend of her husband
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-27
THE REAL ISSUE

The Telegraph this morning saws
that the real issue of this campaigl
is the settlement of the saloon dues
ton TO the satisfaction of the ma
joriy OF the people Granting this. nj.
though we can think of several other
issues, there is really no issue before
the voters beyond the veracity of the
men who compose the two tickets and
whose votes would affect such legis-
lation, since, both parties are com
mitted to practically the same plat
form in this respect.
Then il the submission of the PRO
hibition amendment be the will of the
majority of both parties and such
seems TO be the case to Judge by
their platforms and the pledges OF
their candidates, the real issue must
be the candidates s-wheth
er or not il elected they will carry
out this same will. The Telegraph
says that Baker and Hawley are dry
and they have said as much them.
selves in a printed statement. but in
view of fact that they were on both
sides OF the question on former oc
casions, and the further fact that
Baker totally ignored the will of the
majority and his party pledges when
MS vote would have resulted in the
SUBMISSION of the amendment, both
their printed statement and their or.
al promises are to be taken cum
grano sails. On the other hand the
Democratic legislative candidates
have said they were dry, and no one
can arise to say that their words from
their past careers are to be doubted
Moreover. their party platform ex
plicitly commits them to this policy
VI course Mr. Baker has explained
why he has been both wet and dry
but the voter should consider that he
might take it into his head to "ex.
plain again should the occasion
arise
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-10-27
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY PLATFORM


To refresh the memory of the vo.
ters of Mercer county, the Democratic
platform adopted at Princeton July ..
Is reprinted below:
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE DEM.
OCRATIC PARTY OF MERCER
COUNTY, IN MASS CONVENTION
ASSEMBLED:
FIRST: We declare our allegiance
to the principles of good clean gov
eminent, Justly and economically ad.
ministered for the benefit OF all the
people without regard to party. race
or conditions. We stand for that time
honored Democratic doctrine of Ecu
al rights for all, special privileges
for none" and We demand that ON.
ly men who are capable. honest and
above suspicion or reproach. and who
viii represent and carry out the will
OF the people be elected 10 office
We direct attention 10 the record of
insincerity, sham and hyprocisy Of
the Republican party in this State
upon practically every question Of i'm.
portance to the peopl which has arts.
en- in the past ten years, and declare
that a party so completely controlled
and dominated by unscrupulous poll
tcans who make politics a business
for private gain is menace to the
welfare Of our country and can not
be- trusted.
. SECOND: The Dawson taxlaws. 50
loudly proclaimed by those who ad
yocated the system, as being a great
reform for the relief Of the tax.pay
'rs have proven 90 be but a subter
iuge Of asture politicians to deceiv,
and not 70 relieve the people.
Time has demonstrated that IN,
purpose Of tampering with the IA,
Jaw was 20 obtain more money which
has been cxtravaganuy squandere,
with the natural result that the bur
dens Of taxation have been great,
Increased.
We favor such a revision Of the IA,
laws as viii Tighten the taxes Of m,