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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
NOTED ACTRESS TO
Be GREEK HEROINE
Accepts Offer to Portray Prin-
cipaI Character OF, "Antigone"
at Greek Theater
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

lSpecIdi DiSpotch TO he Gall
BERKELEY, Feb. 23.-Margaret An
glin, the actress, will appear at the
Greek theater in Sophocles' "Antigone'
in the role of the heroine of the Greek
tragedy, July 5. This announcement
was made today by Prof william DaI-
lam Armes. chairman of the musical
and dramatic committee
Except for the natural atmosphere
of the theater the play will be char
acterized by little scenic effort. The
lines viii be in English blank verse.
The arrangement of the stage and the
scenic details have been placed in the
hands OF an archaeological expert and
special provisions have been made also
for the Incidental music.
In replying to the invitation of the
university committee TO take the lead
ing role Miss Anglin wrote:
Il accept with great appreciation
and pleasure the honor of appearing at
the Greek theater at the University of
California next July in production of
Sophocles' "Antigone.~ Please con-
vey my grateful thanks to the musical
and dramatic committee
While no definite arrangements have
been made for the appearance of Maud
Adams. Professor Armes Stated today
that the management of the Adams
company has so far considered the
sary costumes and begin rehearsals for
the production of "As You Like It.
The expectations are that Maud Adams
viii play in the Greek theater June 10.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
ETHEL BARRYMORE HAS
ATTACK OF LARYNGITIS
Actress Too III to Appear at the
Empire Theater
[SpeeiaI Dispateh o ~ CaILl

Especial Dispatch TO The Call
NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-The Empire
theater was closed tonight because of
the serious illness of Miss Ethel Barry
more. who has been playing the lead
ing part in Mid Channel there.
Miss Barrymore was at her home in
East Thirty-fourth street. suffering
from a severe attack of laryngitis. It
was rumored that she was threatened
with pneumonia.
Miss Barrymore caught a severe
cold Sunday" said her physician, "and
Monday she was very hoarse and
coughed great deal I was called to
her home and found she had an acute
attack of laryngitis and was in a high
fever. Tonight she is better and her
temperature has been reduced to
1O1 Is. but she has a hard. dry cough
and if she will take my advice she viii
not appear again until she has COM
pletely recovered"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
FORMER POSTOFFICE
CLERK PLEADS GUILTY
Casper Cohen to Be Sentenced
Next Saturday

Casper Cohen. captured in Paris after
eluding the secret service men for over
two years. pleaded guilty before Judge
Van Fleet in the United States district
court yesterday to the charge of loot
ing the mails while registry clerk in
the local postoff1ce.
Cohen was caught in the act of OPEN
ing a package by Postal Inspector
James O'ConneI1, who placed a list of
over 100 stolen articles in the hands
of Ben Mckinley. assistant United
States attorney.
The prisoners father and relatives
are well to do and intended to finance
contest; but this was abandoned on
the advice of the defendants counsel.
Sentence will be passed next Saturday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
CUPID SAVES WIDOW
FROM CHARITY HOME
Claimed as Bride After Love at
First Sight Romance

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 23.-Mrs. Mayme
Morrison. widow SO years old, who
applied to the juvenile court to find
her home yesterday, is not going to
be an object of charity.
Dan Cupid has stepped in and is to
provide her home. After tomorrow
the woman will be known as Mrs
George Linn. The man who is to be
her husband is so years old and is able
to provide a comfortable home.
Linn read the story of Mrs. Morri-
sons plight in newspaper today. He
hurried down 10 the detention home,
determined that. If the widow suited
him. he would offer himself.
Then he whispered to the widow.
They took walk. Returning in a
short time, Linn announced that he had
won
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Especial Dispatch to The Call

TOCKTON, Feb. 23-Bravely
staying at his post until the last,
- Albert Phipps, a Southern Pacific
engineer, gave his life in order TO
protect the lives of his passengers in
headon collision which occurred at
French Camp. five miles out OF Stock
ton, shortly after o'clock this after
noon. The rest OF the members of
the train crew saved their lives by
jumping. A score or more passen-
gers were more or less injured, though
none was fatally hurt.
Train 81, which leaves Stockton at
o'clock, westbound. and train 12+
due here at 4:20 O'Clock, were Sched-
uled to pass at French Camp. No.
81 had the right of way and was en-
titled to the main line. The east
bound train, No. 124, failed to take
the siding as per instructions, and
crashed into the San Francisco bound
passenger.
F. NJ Chandler, the engineer of No
124, explains the accident as follows:
Il had my orders and knew that
was to take the siding, ard as ap-
preached The switch / applied the
brakes to slow down. The brakes
failed to hold, and as | felt the wheels
slipping and saw | would be carried
past the switch l whistled for the
engineer of the other train to back up.
stayed with my engine until saw
that all was hopeless; then l
jumped
Engineer Phipps received the sig
nal and reversed his engine. His
train had just started to back up when
the crash came He was caught be-
tween the cab and the tender and his
body was badly n1angled. Phipps
leaves a family in Oakland.
H. r. Lange, fireman of No. 81,
escaped by jumping W. J. Cuddy,
the conductor, was uninjured. Several
passengers of the Stockton train were
thrown from their seats by the violent
impact and injured A number of
women had their teeth knocked out
by being thrown against the backs of
the seats in front Very few of the
passengers on No 124 were hurt
Superintendent Dameron Of the
county hospital. which is located in
French Camp, Immediately placed the
institution at the disposal Of the in
iured, and Head Nurse Hale and
dozen nurses hastened to the scene
to relieve the sufferings of the
wounded. Both trains wefe~crowded
and wild confusion resulted, many
women growing hysterical.
A stub was sent ont from Stockton,
and the coaches OF No. 81 were re-
turned to this city with their pas
sengers. A wrecker was summoned
from Tracy and tAe line was soon
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
SAUNDERS FACES JURY
ON CHARGE OF ARSON
Alleged to Have Set Fire to ST.
Luke's Hospital

The trial was begun yesterday in
Judge Cabaniss court of Thomas Ell
liot Saunders. accused of attempting to
burn ST. Luke's hospital November IS
last. Witnesses testified that they had
seen Saunders hanging about the hos
pital in a drunken condition. Three
saloonmen also said that Saunders had
been drinking heavily. He was held fof
trial by Police Judge Deasy. The fire
alleged to have been started by Saun-
ders gained considerable headway be-
fore 1t was extinguished. The lives of
all the patients in the large hospital
were endangered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
CHLOROFORM HOGS
BEFORE STEALING THEM
Swine Thieves in Illinois Make
Use of Anesthetic
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

Especial Dispatch 10 he Call
AURORA, H., Feb. 23.-Chloroform-
ing hogs is the unusual occupation fol-
lowed by Frank Baxter and Eugene
Raymer, who. with Frank Licher and
Earl and Archie Rankle, were given a
preliminary hearing before a justice
today. The former two were charged
with larceny and the latter three with
conspiracy.
The chloroform put the hogs to sleep
and they were then hauled away while
under the ahesthetic.
Hogs usually squeal when you chase
them and for that reason we decided to
chloroform them" Raymer testified. II
caught the hogs and while Baxter held
them / put the chloroform to their
snouts''
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Engineer Remains at His Post
When HeadOn Collision OF
Passenger Trains Is
Inevitable
MEETS DEATH In ORDER
TO PROTECT THRONGS
Many People Are Injured When
Airbreak on Engine Fails
to Work and Smash
Follows
WILD CONFUSION REIGNS
IN COACHES AFTER CRASH
DEAD

ALBERT PHIPPS, engineer.
Twelfth and Magnolia streets,
Oakland
Injured
j. W. Phillips, baggageman, 9O2
Delaware street, West Berkeley;
hip badly bruised. leg twisted.
Fred LanGdOn, brakeman.
Berkeley; slight abrasions on leg.
l.. SOuffraine, news agent, Oak
land; abrasiOns and bruises on
head
Carl Cbirn of Castle Switch;
abrasiOns on head.
Mrs. p Mcmahon, S707 Laguna
street. San Francisco; mouth
bruised.
Mrs. Peyser, sOS2 Haight street,
San Francisco; teeth knocked out
Mrs. DIvischang, 21S Park
street, Alameda. bruised.
Mrs. ID. =. sutton. Lathrop;
badly bruised. leg wrenched.
Mrs. DerwOOd Graves. LathrOp;
suffering from severe shock.
Mrs. j. :. SOuthweII, Lathrop;
bruised.
Mrs. W. McGee, Smelling. Mer-
ced county; arm bruised.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
FIFTY PERISH IN
PERUVIAN THEATER PANIC
Disaster Due to Fire in Moving
Picture Apparatus

CALLAo. Peru. Feb. 2s.-Fifty per-
sons are reported to have been killed
in panic following fire in the mu-
nicipal theater at Trujillo. town of
northern Peru. The fire started among
the apparatus used In connection with
q moving picture show,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Will Not Yield

Late today the Rapid Transit com
pany issued statement in which it is
claimed that the strikers can not and
will not win" In part, the statement
follows:
There is no possibility of this com
pany dealing on any basis with the
men who have engineered the events
OF the last three days.
THE inen who have stood by us and
the new men who come to us may be
sure that we shall stand by them.
There viii be no settlement which
includes taking back the men who
have led and encouraged mob violence. -
The heavy hand of the law pressed
hard today on some Of the men and
bovs who have been arrested for riot
snp Elwood Carr, alleged to have
been ringleader in a riot in the
Kensington district. was sentenced to
six wears in the county prison. John
Kline was given two years. and Ellis
Atkins q similar sentence. A II year
old boy was sent TO the Huntington
reforfna tory for 13 months for throw
ing missiles at a car, and other boys
and men were sentenced to two or
three months each. While the evidence
against most of the defendants was
strong. there was an apparent vein of
s,,mpathy among the jurors.
COURT DEFINES ISSUE
The judge in addressing the jurors
said:
.-rhis is not an issue between the
Rapid Transit company and its strik-
ing employees. but between law and law
tegsness. and rioting must be sternly
suppressed"
Leading clergymen OF the city held
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Mutually Brings Clash

The incident had been preefpitated
by MullaIlys statement that these peo-
pie here are obstructionists; they rep
resent certain interests that cause trou-
BILE and are the curse of this city,.
Only few moments before E. P. E.
Troy had been called liar by William
NJ Abbott of the United Railroads.
Troy had risen to speak. There were
Kisses from the rear.
Mr. Chairman" demanded Troy. "are
you going to allow these men of the
United Railroads to hiss?'
IF Mr.. Troy says 1 hissed, he lies,
retorted Abbott. There was no invita-
tion to battle, however.
The meeting appears to have been
Interpreted as a call to arms. Attorney
Oscar Cooper, alone among the speak
ers, accepted the notion that the issues
could be decided by peaceful means.
A. ]. Pom of the Fillmore street i'm
provement association brought nearly
every supervisor to his feet when he
proceeded to argue that the members
had been elected upon their pledges to
grant the desired street railway fran
chises. He had letters, he said, to
prove it. These were the communica-
tions sent to the improvement clubs
before the last election. 1t appeared.
however, that many OF the members
had qualified their promises by pledg-
ing assistance sin so far as the inter
ests of the city will permit
FIR RANCHIsE ACTION POSTPONED
The meeting was called to consider
the Cough street franchise. the lower
Market street permit and the Geary
street line After much argument and
debate action on the two franchises
was postponed. A resolution was
adopted calling for the sale of part of
the Geary street bonds and requesting
Dillon & Hubbard for an opinion on
the legality of the issue.
Supervisor Pugh occupied the chair.
The full committee was present. includ-
ing Hooks, Loughery, Walsh and Her
get. Supervisors Bancroft. Cutten,
HAYDEN, Kelly and Harris were also in
attendance. There was a large repre-
sentation from the Improvement clubs
and from the public ownership associa-
tion.
The Cough street franchise was first
taken under consideration. 1t devel-
oped that A ]. Pom had bid for the
United Railroads The merchants and
property owners along Fillmore street
have promised to subscribe for $4,000
worth of bonds and the United Rail-
roads will construct and operate the
line.
DUMMY FOR CORPORATION
C. w. Eastin, speaking for the pub
lie ownership association, opposed the
grant on the ground that Pom was
merely a dummy for the corporation
.Jt is like the previous attempt to
get a franchise in the name of the COM
pany's secretary" he said 1T will
rrofsunoI K CoIuu.u
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF
SMUGGLING CHINESE
immigration Officer JaiIs Al
legged Law Breaker

WILLIAMS. Ariz.. Feb. 2S.-Immigra-
tion Officer Thies has arrested at Ash
Fork and brought here John Oliver,
who is alleged to be smuggler of
Chinese and concerned with the dis
covery in Los Angeles of IA Chinese
in a boxcar bound from Ell Paso to
San Francisco. The United States mar
shall at Los Angeles will come after
him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
CALIFORNIA VETERANS
PENSIONS RESTORED
Seventy-five Mountaineers to
Receive Back Pay.
[SpeeiaI Dispatch 10 The Call

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S.-The IS vet
Grams of the First battalion of Noun
taineers, California volunteers, who
have been restored TO the pension rolls,
will receive back pay for all the time
since they were stricken from the rolls
1t is necessary that they should get
into communication with the pension
Office at once.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
One Man Wounded

The shopping district in Market
street was again the scene Of almost
continuous disturbance, especially at
the noon hour. No one was seriously
injured.
Baldwin's locomotive works were the
scene Of disturbance at noon. One
employe was shot in the foot and about
so shots were fred at laborers who
sought refuge on the upper floors Of
the buildings and hurled bolts and
nuts at policemen guarding cars.
Every time a head appeared at a
window it was a target for a bullet
from policemen's revolvers. On one
occasion a whistle. signaling the ex-
piration Of the lunch hour. brought hos
tilities TO close. The city high schools.
attended by pupils from all sections Of
the city, are located near these indus
trial plants that have been lombard
ing the cars with bolts. Not TO en-
danger the lives Of children who would
be forced TO ride on the cars the board
Of education today decided not to
open the two schools for girls this
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
The Presidents Address
In part President Taft said:


When I accepted the invitation to
come here 1 learned that was to have
the pleasure of being a fellow guest
with my friend, Senator Lodge, and
that he was to take up the question of
high prices, a question that has occu-
pied the attention of all the people and
has invited the investigation into it's
cause by the congress of the United
States and by some of the state legis-
latures. For my part of the evening 1
should likt to direct your attention TO a
more prosy subject-to the question of
government expenses and government
revenues and the possible economies.
and what expenditures are essential at
whatever burden Of taxation.
In the first place it should be said
that we have been so far from exhaust
ing the resources of national taxation
and federal revenues have been collect
ed so easily and in such an amount that
we have failed in the past to adopt a
budget system, which is practiced in
every other civilized country. BY a
budget system / mean a reference of
proposed expenditures and receipts to
some one authority or tribunal. which,
after determining what the revenues
will be, must also determine what the
expenditures can be and make a budget
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Police Unable to Cope With the
MObs That Run Riot
Through City
Both Company and Striking Car
men Defiant and Determined
TO Continue Fight
Car Containing Women Fired
Upon, but the Passengers
Escape Bullets

DHILADELPFIA, Feb. 2S.-Police
officials of this city today virtually
acknowledged their inability to
cope with the strike situation when a
request was made of John c. Grooms,
superintendent of the state police, that
the 200 members of his command be
brought TO this city for police duty
This request was made notwith-
standing that serious rioting was less
frequent today than on any other day
since the strike of the street car men
began last Saturday. The state police
are expected 10 reach here tomorrow
morning and viii doubtless be sent into
the Kensington district, where the state
fencibles had such an unpleasant ex-
psrience yesterday.
Efforts of the police tomorrow, as
they were today. will be concentrated
IN clearing the Kensington district Of
mobs that have centered in it since the
beginning OF the strike.
Company Runs Cars
For the hrst time the Rapid transit
company succeeded in running its cars
until 8 o'clock on the Frankford line,
which p,-netrates this unruly territory.
AT that hour cars on all lines were re
turned 10 the barns.
Four policemen guarded each car.
and detectives patrolled the route all
day in automobiles. Whenever group
of men formed detectives rushed them
and even followed the ringleaders into
houses until they captured them. In
spite Of the vigilance Of the police
many car windows were broken. and
the company was finally obliged TO
use sheet iron windows in place of
glass panes.
While the police were busy keeping
tracks clear for the lines in Kensing-
ton lines in other parts of the city
were run on much reduced schedules.
and on several Of the West Philadel-
phia and downtown lines no attempt
was made TO run cars all day, although
these sections were comparatively
-rrFcr
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Government Economy

Taft took for his theme the subject
of governmental economy and said he
shared the hope that the commission
which is to be appointed t. revise the
business methods of the big depart
ments at Washington may effect a saw
ing of s10O,OO0,OoO year.
The president spoke at great length
of the Panama canal, its cost and the
necessity of keeping the standard of
the navy to a high degree of efficiency
in anticipation of the completion of the
canal.
He announced that the great naval
base in the Pacific would be at Pearl
harbor, Hawaii, and not in the Phil
ippines.
The president spoke in enthusiastic
terms of the operation thus far of the
new tariff.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
Governor Fort of New Jersey and the
president were the principal speakers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
TAFT AIMS TO
KEEP DOWN COST
OF GOVERNMENT
President Discusses National
Expenditures and Possible
ties OF Prudent Economy
Panama Canal, When Finished,
Will Represent an Outlay
of Fully .$373,O00,0OO

n IEWARK, n. j., Feb. 23.-Presi-
address Before the Newark board
of trade tonight with a passionate
statement of his feelings, after being a
year in the White House, which brought
the audience to its feet with cheers.
He took occasion to pay his respects to
the newspapers, saying he was going
home to Washington to avoid them.
Former Governor Franklin Murphy,
in introducing Taft, predicted that the
president would make good, and he also
took a fling at the newspapers.
Wanted to Make Good
Il had not intended to say anything
on the subject of my first year in the
White House." said the president, but
after what Governor Murphy has so
graciously said 1 can not refrain from
a personal word or two.
1T is true 1 told him 1 wanted to
make good a year ago. 1 am not GER
tain of doing it now. He said some
newspapers are prone to criticism and
sometimes unite in hammering your
administration. treating it sometimes
with contemptuous disdain and some
times with patronizlng friendship, it is
hard to overcome the feeling that per-
haps you ought TO begin all over
again.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Surplus in Past Years

It has so happened that in many
years of the past the revenues have in
creased more rapidly than the expendi-
lures and there has been a surplus. In
the life of the Dingley bill, which car
ried us from 1896 to 1908. the revenues
exceeded the expenditures by about
s250.o00.0o0, but the surplus took place
in the early years. so that in 1908 we
had a deficit and in 1909 we had a
deficit.
The calculations of the secretary of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
Crack at Newspapers

(TdCk dt Newspapers
In view of all that, to have re-
ceived the welcome which l did today
give a little hope that, perhaps, the
newspapers don't carry in their pockets
all of public opinion. and that. per-
haps. the American people are able
to see through something of hypercriti-
cism. something of hysteria and some
thing of hypocrisy and to have real
sympathy with the man who under
considerable responsibility is doing the
best he can.
They say sometimes demonstrations
are misleading, but l am going to be-
lieve. as | have said, that your recep-
tion today and tonight is sincere, and
L am going to take that fiattering
JUNCTION TO my soul as l go back to
Washington and avoid the newspapers
You see, therefore, that, when
came here today, I was in a frame of
mind which made your welcome as
balm to my soul, and L carry away
sense of gratitude that will never de-
part from my memory"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24
DUMMY FOR CORPORATION

c. w. Eastin, speaking for the pub
lie ownership association, opposed the
grant on the ground that Pom was
merely dummy for the corporation.
ut is like the previous attempt to
get a franchise in the name of the COM
pany's secretary" he said. 1T will
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-24

n There is Cooking School for blue
u Jackets in San Francisco bay. An
interesting article concerning it nil dp-
pear IN The Sunday Call.
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HmADELPFIA. Feb. 2S.-Police
officials of this city today virtually
Acknowledged fheir inability to