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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1903. SUBEQFWINNING Bay City Candidates All Feel Confident. AFTER THE LABOR VOTE Lane Has Secured a Very In fluential Backing, SCHMITZ IS RUNNING WELL Certain of Franchises of Business Element, Crocker Has Pleaded His . Cause Before Respectful and At tentive Audiences of Workers. MAYOKS BJSCE 1876. X. J. Bryant, two terms 1870-1879 I. S. Kalloch 1SS0-1SS1 Maurice C Blake, short term 1882 "Weshlngton Bartlett, two terms 1883-1888 Edward B. Pond, two terms. .1887-1830 George H. Sanderson 1891-1892 Levi R. EUert 1803-1894 Adolpb Sutro 1895-1890 James D. Phelan, one short term 189r-1901 Eugene E. Schmltx 1902- The present Mayor's term expires January, 1904. The salary of the of fice la $0000 a year tor the term of two year. "Washington A. Bartlett was the first Alcalde of San Francisco under Ameri can rule, lie served from July, 1840, to February, 1847. last few weeks in the southern section, j There live the tollers, mighty In San Francisco, as In no other city. That Crocker has accomplished more than was anticipated there Is now agreed. At the lunch hour one might find him stand ing In a wagon addressing the men of the Union Iron "Works, or the sugar refiner ies, the docks or the factories. His audi ences have been respectful and attentive. H. J. McCarthy, of the Building Trades Council, has come out In an open letter for Crocker. He argues that Schmitz has become part of a political machine and has sacrificed the Labor parts for his own ends. The Ruef-Schmitz machine has come in for more harsh criticism and sharp car tooning than any other feature of the campaign. Schmitz, it Is stated, takes his orders from Abe Ruef the same Ruef who was expelled from the United Repub lican League and makes his appointments at the dictation of Ruef. The Labor can didate has been depicted as a bird In a gilded cage and a pet spaniel eager to jump through a hoop or play dead as he Is told to do. Despite all this Schmitz has his fight far better organized, or perhaps it is be- MAD RUSH FOR LIF1 Tenement Dwellers Jam Win dows With Their Bodies. TWENTY-FIVE DIE IN FLAMES Firemen Beat Men Back and Pass Live and Dead Down to Life-Net Below Fire Lasts But Twenty Minutes. NEW YORK, Nov. L Twenty-one men, three women and a 10-months-old baby were burned to death or suffcated In a Are that started early this morning in the House of All Nations, a five-story ... ... AUTHORITY ON EVERY PERIOD" OF HISTORY SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. L (Special.) On the eve of a great election the City of San Francisco, emerging from the tossing of a tempestuous campaign, rests calmly for the moment, awaiting the more violent upheaval which will mark the end of the storm. In the wake of this wave will be scattered bits of po litical wreckage, while swept Into a se cure haven on the topmost crest will be the favored few. And strange as it may seem at this late moment, among those who venture to predict the result no two exactly agree. The last rally has been held, the last speech has been made and Henry J. Crocker, Franklin K. Lane and Eugene E. Schmitz tonight assert each with equal conviction that in himself he beholds the next Mayor of San Francisco. Early In the contest Lane directed his energies toward the accomplishment of two ends, first the annihilation of Schmitz'' following, second the abolition of party lines and the substitution of a personal Issue. His first task Is as far from com pletion as it was the day he assumed it. His second Is fairly well established. Lane's Plan of Campaign. Representing as he does a dissatisfied find squabbling Democratic party, his plan was to draw upon the Union .Labor forces of Schmitz and upon the Republi can camp of Crocker for a following large enough to escort him to the chair now occupied by Schmitz In the City Hall. There is no doubt that he has made some headway In both directions, for, starting without 100 votes which he could call his own, he now has a solid backing that I will reach Into the thousands. This, however, has been drawn to him largely by his efforts In his own party. He has Individually made peace with the warring elements though unable to solidify them. Taking as a basis the figures of the last two campaigns a result remarkably fa vorable to Crocker may be observed. In the Mayoralty election in 1S01 Schmitz was placed In office with a vote of 21,744 out of a total of S3.74G. Tobln, the 'Demo cratic candidate, polled 12,642 votes. "Wells, the Republican, carried In excess of 17.0CX). In 1902 Pardee, the Republican candidate for Governor, received in San Francisco a vote of 24,129, while Lane ran up a total of 33,689. Comparison of Votes. The vote of Schmitz In 1901 was for the most part that of the labor party. The vote of Lane in 1902, it will be no ticed, was almost exactly equal to the combined vote of Schmitz and Tobln the year before. Lane, It was well known, received the solid Democratic plus tho eolld Union Labor vote. This total was 33,000. x Registrar Walsh figures this year upon a vote slightly In excess of 60,000. This will bring the combined Democratic and Labor vote to about 35,000. This Is the grand total, say the Republican friends of Henry Crocker of the vote which will be cast for Lane and Schmitz. This leaves a vote of 25,000 for tho Republi can nominee, which will elect him. The S5,000 total It Is figured will be divided nearly equally. about 19,000 going to Schmitz and 16,000 to Lane. Allowance must be made for the va garies of the situation, but Crocker ar gues that the petty losses and gains of each candidate will about be offset by those of the others. The business interests, the type of citi zenship which Crocker represents, have stood loyally by him. The cry has been raised "Anything to beat Schmitz, but don't throw your vote away on Lane." A few business men have watched the growing power of Lane, and, believing that he alone can beat Schmitz, have of fered him their support. On the other hand, well-to-do Democrats and tho gold-standard typo of Democrats have thrown their energies Into the fight for Crocker. Fight Among the "Common People." It seems a strange thing, but the real campaign has been fought In the dis trict south of Market street. The west ern addition, the avenues overlooking the bay and lined with handsome resi dences, have been deserted by the poli ticians. The vote there was practically cast the day the nominations were made and the orators knew that no amount of persuasion could take a vote from Crocker. The three candidates have each aver ted, four meetings a night during the T1IB LATE THEODORE MOMMSE5T. Christian Matthias Theodore Mommsen was born at Gardlng, Schles wlg, November 30, 117. He studied at Kiel, and afterwards spent three years traveling in France and Italy for the purpose of studying Roman In scriptions. In the Fall of 1S48 he was appointed to the chair of Jurisprud ence at Leipslc, and four years later to the chair of Roman law at Zurich, later holding the same position at Breslau. In 1S54 he was appointed to the chair of ancient history at Berlin, and there spent many years In editing the monumental "Corpus Inscrlptlonum Latlnarum." He was elected perpetual secretary of the academy In 1873. In 18S2 he was tried on a charge of slandering Bismarck, but was cleared In the lower court and also In the Court of Appeal. Mommsen's brothers, Tycho and, August, have also achieved fame, the former as a poet and the latter as an authority on classical chronology. Dr. Mommsen's work has covered every period of ancient and modern history". "While yet a young man he aided In the still standard edition of the Byzantine Historians, an edition of tremendous erudition, in its two score volumes, bringing up more nice questions, historical and philological, than ten centuries of prior scholarship had been able to answer. This work followed that of NIebuhr and Its outcome was a still deeper study of Greek and Roman history and his own authoritative volumes on "The Roman Republic," and "The Roman Provinces." Besides this Mr "sen's name Is Identified with the prodigious collections of Greek and R- .m in scriptions thivt are still In progress of publication though now amounting to some hundred folios. Another monumental work of Mommsen was his edition of the "German Historians," published under Imperial Imprimatur. In law Dr. Mommsen proved himself a master, his "Saatsrccht" being the great authority on the Institutions of that Jurisprudence which, until 1900, gave Germany most of her laws. In every department of human learning Mommsen was pre-eminent. Unlike most men of high, scholarly attainments he was all his life active politically, a stern upholder of German Institu tions, a broad-minded patriot and a fearless defender of his faith. The 70 volumes of his works represent the result of original Investigation, of his torical reasoning and untiring Industry that has no equal In the annals of any nation. cause of his machine that he has the sit uation so well systematized. A com plete set of books Is kept, a central ledger and Journals for each- district and precinct Daily reports are made at cam paign headquarters, and nearly every voter In San Francisco has been per sonally approached. Liquor Interest Back Labor Men. The Retail Liquor Association has opened campaign headquarters and made a fight for the Labor candidate. One thousand bartenders, the entire union, have pledged him a solid vote. Five hun dred street-sVeepers have given him their word, TpO carmen have signed for him, and so it goes in solid chunks of 500 or 600. While all this is assured him, his opponents say: "Yes, this, but no more." The coming administration will be en trusted with the expenditure of the $18,000, 000 bond Issue Just voted by the city. This, declare Crocker's adherents," makes a "business Mayor" Imperative. They fear to trust It to the appointees of Ruef and the word "graft" has been worked over time by the campaign orator. The Rival Banners. The contest has not been without some diverting Incidents. The banners of Schmitz erected about the city at a cost of nearly $50,000 (the Mayor's salary Is $6000 and Schmitz was a musician at the Columbia Theater before his election) bear the motto: "Tried and True." Rival placards have appeared bearing the leg end: "Tired and Through." In Its efforts to show that business Interests were de serting Crocker, an evening paper the other evening published a list of wealthy Republicans, who. It Is asserted, would vote for Lane. A morning paper on tho day follow ing called the attention of the evening publication to the fact that if the owner of a certain name on the list voted at all It would be in San Mateo County. The man referred to had been dead seven months and Is burled In the San Mateo cemetery- -H0MMSEN. PASSES AWAY. Noted Historian's End Is Very Peace ful Condolences Tendered." BERLIN, Nov. L Professor Theodore Mommsen, the historian, died at Charlot tenburg, at 8:45 o'clock this morning. ,He passed away without regaining conscious ness, the change from life to death was observed only by his attending physician, who watched all night long -with the fam ily. , United States Ambassador Tower and other foreign Ambassadors here, as well as a number of Cabinet Ministers, called at the Mommsen residence this morning to Inquire how the sick man was, and were informed that he was dead. Emperor William and various of the lesser German sovereigns have sent their condolences to 'the Mommsen family. Hill's Rheumatic Pills have cured rbenma .tlem for 100 years. Only 25c All druggists. tenement-house at 426 Eleventh avenue, and which, the police and Coroner bellevo to have been of incendiary origin. Some of the peculiar features of the dis aster, in addition to the startling loss of life, arc that the fire was practically ex tinguished In 20 minutes; that the police could learn of but one person Injured, other than those who lost thelr-llves, and that tho property loss was only $7000. The dead are mostly Italians. They are: Giuseppe Rossi, Antonio Rossi, Justlno Roisl, Nicholas Kogai. Pletre Dressl, Antonio Brosera, Nuceletta Vlnslguerro, Doresl and baby, An tonio Vlllxno, Frances VlUmo. Sarah O'Toole, Antonio D'Angelo, Pasqualo Maretto, Frank M vnlo. Mattio Vendrano, Jose Mustrim, I'li-.o Donykl, Joseph Zorowlta, Frank Del monto, Antonio Bcrlolcb, Antonio UclUlnl, Giuseppe CappelU, three unidentified Italian laborers. The only person injured, as far as can be learned.ls Mary Jane Quinn, who was burned about the face and hands and se verely bruised by leaping from a second floor fire escape to the ground. Guests at Halloween Parties. In several apartments In the tenement Halloween parties were In progress and the guests at these added greatly to the number of persons In the house and made the crush and Jam to escape more than it ordinarily would have been. Although plentifully provided with fire-escapes, front and rear, escape here was cut off a few minutes after the fire started, by the bodies of the dead becoming wedged in the opening leading to the ladders. The fire had been burning for some min utes before it was discovered. It had started in the basement and, rushing up ward, had attacked the stairway lead ing to the apartments. In a short space of time the flames had so enveloped the stairway that egress from the building became almost Impossible. The house from the third to the fifth floor was en tirely destroyed. Desperate Struggle to Escape. At the windows, front and rear, bodies of men and women were Jammed, showing that a desperate struggle to get free had resulted in the complete choking of these exits to the fire-escape and had been the cause of a number of the Inmates being suffocated. Lying on a bed along side a window at the rear of the fourth floor, the firemen found the bodies of five men. Each had clutch'ed the one next to him In an endeavor to push him away Jn order to get to the fire-escape outside. The features of the men were distorted, some with rage, others with' agony and In two Instances the men had gripped each other so hard that blood had been drawn and lad run over their hands. On the third floor were found the bodies of Nuculeta Vlngiguerro Doresl and her baby. The mother had crawled to the front window and had succeeded In grasp ing the sill when she was suffocated. In her arms lay the body of her child. Left Mother to Perish. On the third floor. In an apartment where a Halloween party was being held. John O'Toole one of the occupants started to go to the street. He was met by a vol ume of smoke as he opened the door. He ran to the fire-escape, followed by all those In the flat, with the exception of his mother, whose charred body later was found lying at the entrance to the apart ment. O'Toole and the others escaped. When -the firemen reached the scene there was a mass of flames bursting through the middle of the roof, while the f air was lined with heart-rending screams of the women and tht curses of the men. Many daring rescues were made by the firemen who at times had to use . vio lence In their attempts to disentangle the mass of writhing human beings strug gling In vain efforts to reach safety from the' crowded fire-escapes. Firemen Rescue Many. One fireman climbed to the fourth floor where a window was filled with the mass of people. Jammed In and fight ing to get out. He struck the heads of all the men he could see with his fist and they fell back. He then handed down to ine uremen on Jaaaers Deiow three women and a baby. Another firemen per formed similar feat and rescued two girls from the fourth floor. ' Life nets played a prominent part in women and a baby. Another fireman per men and women, dead and alive, from one floor to another and finally the men standing on ladders on the first floor let them fall Into the nets held by police men and firemen in the street. The building was known as the "House of All Nations," because of the different nationalities of its tenants. As a precaution against burglars most of the windows were guarded with stout Iron bars. On that account many lives were lost that might have been saved, as the terror-stricken Inmates were unable to escape through the grated windows. All of the bodies were inky black and with one or two exceptions were not even scorched. They had met death by suf focation and mangled limbs and torn night clothing marked a fearful struggle for life In a vain attempt to escape from the stifling smoke. The cause of the fire Is said to have been a lamp explosion. FIRE RAGES AT CONEY ISLAND. Five Hundred Are Homeless, and a Million Dollars' Damage Is Done. NEW XORK, Nov. 1. In a blaze today that baffled the firemen for seven hours the Bowery at Coney Island was again laid In ashes. Two lives so far are re ported to be lost: one man fatallv in jured, a score of others hurt, 300 bulld- ings destroyed, 500 persons made home less and more than $1,000,000 damage done. How many more are In the ruins Is not known tonight. The casualty list includes: LIZZIE STEIX. 0 years old. UNIDENTIFIED NEGRO. Albert Reuben Is dying In Kings Coun ty Hospital. The most severely injured include six men and five women. It was a Are marked by rescue not alone by the police but by citizens. Be fore It had been an hour under way the police could do nothing more than try to keep the 50.000 siirht-seers out of dan ger. Reserves from all the precincts within 10 miles were brouelit- Th tiro engines found it impossible to get Into action ror nearly four hours. The alarm came from the Hippodrome, a low frame bulldinc used in Summer fnr a merry-go-round. The firemen thought it woum an be over In a moment, but the blaze had gained headway. With the lack of water the fire had the forest of wooden structures at Its mercy, and all that could be done was to save life if possible and furniture. Surf avenue for blocks was Impassable because of the barriers of household goods, weeping women and children and men. The burned area extended a distance of seven blocks. In all this territory but two buildings were standing tonight un touched. F. F. Henderson's music hall, erected two years ago of steel and brick and costing $250,000. and Louis Staueh's pavil ion, valued at a like sum, are among the buildings destroyed. The Bowery is a narrow, board-walked alley thoroughfare, dedicated to cheap dancehalls and sideshows. The roofs of these flimsy structures were In most In stances of tarred nater. Caueht hv th rapldly-runnlng fire. In quick succession. tney ignited, liared at p. height and then collapsed. Two men, Frank Conley, a salesman, and Peter A. Skelley, a bartender, are under arrest, suspected of knowing the cause of the fire. TO END LAND EVIL. (Continued from First Page.) 9 tttet(ceteitAt ,. -"?; THIS MONDAY Q IMPORTANT SALES Q ARE IN PROGRESS Each One in Itself Sufficient to Occasion Extraordinary Interest TlieNine Important 5ales Ares " A Wholly Unequaled Offering of Great Bargains in Muslin Underwear. Big Sale of All Kinds of Window and Sash Curtaining Annual Thanksgiving Linen Sale Sale of $20.00 Louis XIV Tailor-Made Suits at $14.50 " 4000 Men's 25c Pure Linen Handkerchiefs at 14c Sale of Quadruple-Plated Tea Sets , Sale of Black and Colored Dress Goods Sale of Feather Dusters and Hose Supporters Sale of Sheet Music si?i 't. ' tec WE DESIRE TO CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO A BIG SHIPMENT OF LATEST STYLES IN BURGESSER HATS 9 ft) a e e 9 9 0 O o o o o o o o o o 9 In general, the Secretary of the Interior should be given discretionary powers In exceptional cases," says Commissioner Richards. A bill to this effect was be fore the last Congress, but failed to pass. It will undoubtedly come up again in the Fifty-eighth Congress. Preservation of Game and Fish. Under existing laws, all forest officers and employes are required to aid In the enforcement of the local laws for the protection of game and fish In their re spective reserves. If there could be a unity of action between the Federal and state authorities, great good could be ac complished In game protection. A Federal statute which would tend to harmonize state legislation upon this subject, without creating a divided Jurisdiction over for est reserves, and which Tvould not en croach upon the proprietary rights of the states to control the game and fish with in their respective boundaries, would do much toward accomplishing the purpose. Another matter which Commissioner Richards suggests be called to the atten tion of Congress, Is the need for legisla tion authorizing forest officials to make arrests for the isolation of the laws and regulations relating to forest reserves. A bill "for this purpose passed the last Sen ate, but died on the House calendar. For Change in Control of Reserves. Commissioner Richards closes his chap ter on forest reserves with the following sentence: "I recommend that all business in the General Land Office pertaining to forest reserves, except lieu land selections and other matters pertaining to or affecting titles, be transferred to the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agricul ture." In support of this recommendation he says: ' "The dangers to which the reserves are exposed from fires, timber depredations and other sources make the establishment of an efficient protective force a matter of great importance. Following closely upon that, however, must come "the appli cation of scientific methods In dealing with the many and varied forest prob lems In connection with the various in dustries affected thereby. "The magnitude of the Interests af-J fected and the Intricacies of the prob lems Involved, make it evident that the ucti.iujiiui.iik vl luiuau; Jll liiC UU1LCU I States In connection with our Federal for est reserves, calls for the application of a system of scientific forestry upon a scale in proportion to the work to be performed. Elementary efforts need to give way In the course of development of such a system. It would sejem, therefore, that the stage has been reached when the work should be committed to the care of men who have had the scientific and prac tical training needed to fit them to cope with work Involving such far-reaching issues. The Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture is properly organized and equipped to carry on this branch of work. , "The administrative features of forest reserves also are, at present. In a very unsatisfactory condition. In the creation of a new reserve three separate bureaus must act before a definite recommendation Is made the Bureau of Forestry, the Geo logical Survey and this office. Such a divi sion of Jurisdiction and responsibility is not conducive to the best results. I think it would be very much better to have the matter of the location and control of for est reserves all In one bureau." Frauds Less Apparent. Commissioner Richards says In the past year there was a large decrease In the number of supposedly fraudulent land en tries over the preceding year. He attrib utes their decrease largely to an order of the Secretary of the Interior, dated November 12, 1902. directing the Investiga tion of all entries made In the States of California, Oregon and Washington. Un der this order alone 10,000 entries have been suspended and there are now 15 special agents of the Land Office in that region engaged in ferreting out the fraud ulent entries Commissioner 'Richards also states that during the year there were reported 125 unlawful lnclosures of public land cover fng an area of 2,605,200 acres, 79 of these lnclosures having been removed and pro ceedings are pending to compel the re moval of the remaining number. He says, however, that the total number here men tioned Is only a fraction of the lnclosures maintained In violation of the law, the special agents having found It Impossible to. give attention to many others because of the Qrder for a special Investigation of the entries under the timber and stone act! Commissioners Parties to Frauds. Complaint Is made of the operation of the act of March 11, 1902, to facilitate en tries. Referring to this law the Com missioner says: "The privileges gained by the act have been greatly abused, particularly by United States Commossloners, who have often been parties to wholesale frauds In connection with the entries. Affidavits and entry papers have been prepared in the names of fictitious persons and a num ber of other ways have been devised to assist parties to evade compliance with the requirements of the law." The report makes a strong plea for a larger force of special agents, saying: More Agents Are Needed. "Complaints come to this office from every section of the country of flagrant violation of the various laws relating to the public lands. Thousands of entries are being made for speculative purposes with scarcely any attempt at compliance with the legal requirements, vast areas are un lawfully inclosed to the exclusion of actual settlers and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of public timber Is be ing taken unlawfully. "To put a stop to these practices, and so to preserve the remaining public lands for the home builder, a large field force Is absolutely necessary. It will be re membered that the public domain covers .about one-half of the entire country. The appropriation for the past year allowed the employment of only about 50 agents, and their duties consisted in not only In vestigating and reporting on alleged fraudulent entries, timber depredations and unlawful lnclosures but in doing a large, part of the supplementary work necessary to establish violations of law discovered by them." Great Increase in Business. The report notes a marked Increase In the business over 1902, the total receipts being $11.12-M23, an increase of J1.732.S16. This Increase over 1S02 Is geatcr, it is stated, than the total receipts for the year 1S99. The total area of public lands appreciated during the year was 221.S2I.299 acres, an Increase of 3,335,764 acres over the preceding year. About half this area entered was entered under the homestead law. The office is about 12 months behind with If it's Anything for the Office We Have It We make a specialty of Office Conveniences Copying Presses Check Protectors Letter Files Letter Baskets Office Shears Pigeon-Hole Cases Copying Books Desk Blotting Pads Letter Scales Memorandum Calender Pads Note and Collection Wallets Waste Paper Baskets Tin Boxes of All Sorts We solicit the patronage of large consumers of stationery. We will not be undersold. At the same time, we appreciate the smallest order. Our Typewriter Ribbon Sale Is still on. First class $1.00 Typewriter Ribbons 50 cents THIRD AND ALDER MEN WE ARE RELIABLE "W"e believe the best advertisement we can use Is to cure our patients. In fact, most of our cases come from unsolicited commendation, of ono patient to another. "We have been In Portland over three years, and we point with pride to the fact that our practice has gradually grown until now we are busy every hour of the day, and often after our regular office hours. What has made us successful? "Why, nothing more or less than an effort to relieve and cure sufTerers. and skillful treatment will do it. TVe claim to have the skill, and no man need suffer from, dis order If he uses common sense in treating the troubles that men are afflicted with. "Why not call and talk the matter over with us? We will charge yon nothing ior our advice, and we may be the means of making you happy for life, we are devot ing our entire attention to the damages done by Ignorant men In trying to cure themselves of all forms of weakness and contracted disorders. What you want isva cure, and if we cannot guarantee you a cure yeu need not pay us. so you run no risk. We treat a great many by mail, and If you cannot call, write for our blank diagnosis sheet, and tell us in your own language what Is the matter, and we will frankly and confidentially write you what we can do for you. We make a specialty of all forms of contracted disorders and Irreg ular SEXUAL LIFE. We do not tax the stomach with drugs, but have a method of lecal treatment, known only to us, that cures after everything else has failed. No minerals or poisonous drugs used, and our local treat ment Is perfectly painless. Consultation free. Office hours, 10 to 5 and 7 to S evenings. Dr. Talcott fc Co., 250 Alder street, Portland, Or., and San Francisco. IR. TAI.COTT, if. D. Its work and the Commissioner recom mends an Increase In the force. He also says: "The large Increase In the last two years in original homesteads and the great act ivity In all kinds of land matters through out the West, as Indicated by the reports of the various land offices, show that there will probably be a larger amount of work coming to this office than the force can handle." Tess Tea, he called to see me last night, and Of all the clumsy men Jess Oh l I know him. Isn't he a bird? Tess No, na Isn't, but he seemed to think he was last night. He sat on my hat. Philadelphia Press.