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TIIE SIOItXIXG OREGOX1AX. MONDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1911. JAMES RDLPH IS MAN , JR., OF PEOPLE MAYOR-ELECT OF SAN TRAITCISCO AND EIS FAMILY. 'San Francisco's New Mayor Rises to High Honors From Lowly Start. HELPING HAND EVER'READY All flinrt Love- Brondmlmled, Vn- ' awumlnf Cltlxcn, Wboa Charl tte Many Ilare Kaqrvra lf Haa Great FalUi la "Jim." . SAX FRAVCiiVO. Oct. 1. Pan Fran- cjeco la acclaiming James Rolph, Jr. the moat popular and unanimous Salayo-elect thl cltjr haa ever bad. Put Into tha poaltlon aa f rat rltiien of tha city by an ot.rwhflmliif plurality over V. It McCarthy. Rolph la today ac cepting; congratulation. and food wlehee from neluhbortna state and cities aa wrll a from hla fellow-towns-nn. J James Rolph. Jr haa been a doer of tlnira since boyhood. From an hum hja bertnntnir ha Ja mountod high re ladder of suecees and haa crushed nnna In tha mounting. He haa (on up step by step, smlllnaly. with a strong Hand outstretched to aaalat tha ona be lew. He haa never torn down or de stroyed. Hie own Ufa haa been one of aunahlne. If I home and happlneea are ynonymoua. . I -Tea 4ppaeafa J.eve lllm. tiuch a man Kranrlaco hatla aa lta Fair Mayor. From ona end of the city to tha other ha holds first place In tha hearta of hla home people, and even Uioea who have fallen, rruahed politi cally under tha wrtaht of hla popular ity. wlH for him psnapertly.' peace and progress throughout hla admtnlstra dn. I Kolph will brlnir to the Mayor's chair in experience that e-vnnnt but make for tha betterment rf San Francisco. lie haa known the vicissitudes of Ufa that strengthen one's character, and he haa borne extraordinary burdens ttnfllnrrUnrly. Kolph waa bom August JJ. 1SS. In JTIns street, between Ninth and Tenth atreeta. the section of San Francisco known aa aoulh of tha slot." in 1172 the Kolph family remoTed to a houae In Twenty-nrst street, near Querrero street, where hla father now Urea. The candidate's home Is In 3S Kan Jose avenue, at Twenty-fifth atreet. He la married and haa three children An nette Keld. aged 14 years; Jamea Rolph IL ased 7. and Georgian Hind, seed 6 years. fleylMeed la Hard Ones. . Rolph went to school In tha Mission district, attending tha Valencia School. Twenty-second anal Valencia atreeta: tha Agassis Primary and tha Ilaticht Primary. Ha waa graduated from the Horace Minn School-and passed three years and a half In the Trinity School. In Mission street, between Klevrnth and Twelfth. Purine his Mkq school vacations Rolph worked aa a cash boy for lvane Prof her, an old-time dry goods Arm tn Kearny street, and acted aa office hoy for . B. Wakefield I'tv. brokers. A W. Foster, at present a fellow-director with Janes Kolph. Jr.. of the Fanama-faclna International Expo sition, waa a member of thta ftrrn. Ttolpri carried a route on an afternoon newspaper and attempted to run an amateur paper himself. The youngster turned hla hand to every honest way of earning an honest dime or two. ills parents were poor folk, and the boy was glad to work after school hours and during vacation time for mon y to buy books and clothing. KasBlaye f.lvea Hlas start. On the day he waa graduated from school. May 14. 1. he went to work mm oT ire boy tri the shipping and com ratssiD house of Kittle Co, Cali fornia and Front atreeta. He rose rapidly to the position of cashier. In January. 1". a partnership waa formed by tleorge I. Iliad and Rolph. the two having been echoolmatea at the Trinity rVnuoL They were atarted in businiss t It. It. Hind, father of tha senior member of the Arm. and have continued In the shipping and commission Una since thst time. When the Mission Bank was organ led In 1T. Kolph was madelts presl atenC a position that ha now holds. He Has been president of tha Shipowners' ,o. latlon for three years, trustee of tha t'hamber of Commerce for three years, and he recently ended his tnlrd terra aa president of tha Merchanta' Jixchangs. Ha la president now of the Mission 1'romotlon Association. Since Ha tnceptton he hue been Identified with tha I'ananiA-ra.'lfle International x jvsltlon. He fought for San Fran rtiro In Washington, contributed llber ajly tit the exposition fund, and Is now j. director and ona of tha vUe-presl-.tents of the Mg fair. Hear Still Win Lwty. Though ha haa fought hla way to fortune, and placed himself In a po alUon to chovss his aasoclatea from among the wealthy only. Rolph' horn and heart have always remained In tha Mmlon district, among hla boyhood frlrnda. He haa been ready to give his Beonry and energy to aiding tha dis trict, snd he has not done so with the attitude of one condescending to peo ple tn a lower social circle, but as ona netshoor to another. Klph knows no lines of position or power. He has no pride of place, ex cept an Intense pride In being an hon est, hard-working American, and a na- . tlve. son of California. His pride In the state centera chiefly In San Fran cisco, his birthplace. Many limes t llolph has given hla raonev and tune freeiy to the needs of San Franclsi-o. When tha worhlngmen living aiotig Mtsleon roaL south of On iniUt avenue, a.ked that a aewer be constructed there so that the health fulness and desirability of tha neigh borhood might be Improved, It was answered that before tha work could be done a remnant of the bond Issue of must be sold. Money wa tight at the time and the bonCa went begging until Kolph purchased them to make possible the Improvement of the work Ins mens district. i Wife's Faith laaallelt. The same condltiona obtained when Iha business men of the Mission con templated Mtumtnlxtng Mission street, between Twentieth and Army atreeta. ij;ph provided the money br buying the necessary s'loa of city bonds. Mrs. James linlph. Jr, who shares the honors thrust upon her husband. Is a home-loving woman and takes tha great victory of rVr mate with perfect ralmneaa. "Whatever Jim will da will b right." waa her on!y comment when a.ked how her husband would act In Lbe Mayor's chair. I I i aw j t .... ; J I I I I"."..- " mm ..-.jni-" ' - kt. .' , e, 1 jr-.ee' v--1 1 I . - - - - . ' ' JV--" I '"' ' .' '. . ' . i V 1 ' I i - "-' t ' ' " - - x ! i Ml 1 .;:.ii3 v..'.; v . . ; f-.-..i. ............ " ' C. . ' v. . ... . - i . S -x . A - $ T ::r, ;. -;; . . - ' ;: . ; . 1 - LEFT TO RIGHT. AXVpTTK RRID, SIR". ROLPH, JAMES ROLPH, JR-. JAMES ROLPH III, GEORGINIA HIND. TOWN IE EI T Ruin Wrought by Flood and Fire Revealed in Austin. BODIES BURIED JN DEBRIS State Constabulary Patrols Disman tled Streets, Patting' Chock on Looting Rrave) Telephone Girl Is Anong Llvinf. "sr'ntit yr"m P1rt Te- Hi... Th. nr A u little plsce of comfortable frame houses and mora substantial business buildings along the main street, which ran from side to strip, serosa the "ravine. The principal Business nuiiaings in cluded the brick structure occupied Jointly by the Austin bank and tha roatofflce. A. 8. Rusk's department store, tha Goodyear Hotel, tha Commer cial Hotel and numerous stores. Ftra mlsutes after tha dam burst, the stag ha been swept oft Its set- !(.. linn, the foofhllla were thrown shattered houses. At either end of Main krloV Kitlldlnea acted aa buffera aa tha Ji-foot wall of water rushed townward with lta mass or aeons. Wreck i Dasa Casapleta. e.A tvrwkln. of tha dam was aa ..i.ia it vsi sudden. Two Im mense sections from top to bottom. ISO feet wide, were tnrown out ooauy. use the Immense gatea of a canal lock. Tha outward awing was more than 60 feet n .itha, aM. the r.m.lnlnr atruo- ture began gradually to crumble away. Repalra last spring ma a patch of cement IS feat square. Ona of the severed section yesterday be gan at that patch. The cause of tha break is a matter which the District Attorney or tne county will lnvestlgae. The Baylesa dam was examined by experts more aw.. - 1- avd and recommendations were made looking to Its safety. Tha . a . W . Dlatiict Attorney nas secure.. names of experts who submitted tha report and will summon them to testify at an Inquest to begin this week. Relief work had not been systemati cally organised tonight, but it is hoped that by morning tha chaotic condition will have been relieved somewhat. Relief Trala Arrives. ., . . . . i rt.. w this morn rinoruy .er Ing the first relief train arrived ovsr tha Pennsylvania .railroad with four carloads of food and medical supplies from tha atata arsenal at llarrlsburg. At Sunbury. Ta.. tl man of troop C of the state constabulary, all tha avail able men at hand, were taken aboard, and a delay of an hour was caused by ths loading of tha troop horses. . .hown that there la need of m. strong band to guard tha town. Pll- lagsr had been at wort uutmiu. night following the rumor that the vaults of tha Austin Bank and tha safes of several stores had been wrecked. Tha rumor waa not true. tv. a-ama.n and volunteers did ef fective work In keeping off would-be plunderers. In several cases the guard lane had hand-to-hand aonfllcta with marauders. at. The survivors of tha flood had sot re covered from the horror of tha altua tion this morning and for hours none but strangers visited the ruins. ' As ths dsy progressed, small " of survivors met and dlscus.sd tha disaster. Televheu Girl Heretse. Credl for the quick spresdlng of tha alarm was given to Lena Biekey. a rilepon. "perstor. Vpo racelpt of a meaTag" from tha Cliff House thst tha d"am had Vrok.n. sh. V button connecting with the Bra de partment and engineer. offle ih Ooodyear Lumber mill below tha town. n. M(r tied hi. whistle down. Md the fire bell In town was eouoded continuously, "he then rushed to the street screaming the warning cry. -The dam has broken. was reported last night she had lost her life but she was not even hurt. Girl Tells of easatloaa. "From where I stood," she aald to day, "tha wall of water aeemed 50 feet high. Above It rose a cloud of spray. Houses were turning, spinning and bumping aa they fell to pieces or were swept out of my sight. The noise wss appalling. "When 1 ran there were scores be hind me. many of them children. They did not seem to appreciate their danger. 'Some turned Into stores aa if to make a purchase. While 1 was looking down upon them helpless to give further warning the cloud of mist that seemed to precede the flood hid them from view, and a moment later the green water burled the house, from my sight." Chief of Tollce Baker took an In formal caucus today and from his list calculated that at least 300 were un accounted for. Bark Shjebert, chair man of the clttxens committee, and Burgcj-s Michael Murrin. pointed out that this reckoning necessarily Is In accurate because many of those who escaped the flood are wandering about trying to house themselves and those dependent upon them. Death l ist May shrink. Burgess Murrin said that In his opinion not more than 150 lives were lost. "it Is possible that this figure will cover the loes,, he said, "and It Is pos sible that there will not be mure than 100 dead." The Burgess and the Rev. P. W. O'Brien, who has been pastor of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church at Austin for many years, and who are familiar with bualness condltiona es timate the property dsmaga at about 11.000.000. Three hundred houses were destroyed. It Is thought that when the wreckage la cleared away It will ba found that a large number of the dead are children. , Coetello la Waraed. "The people of Costello," said B. C Borchard, of that place, "received am ple warning from Austin that tha dam had broken and, although 40 or 60 houses were demolished, only three fa talities occurred." The annihilation of Austin came on a beautiful Autumn afternoon. The fine weather had attracted many of the younger element to a ball game in a nearby town, and thus they es caped. Women were about the streets for their Saturday shopping, and these and the merchants who were .elllna; them goods were caught by the flood. Small crowds also were amusing themselves at moving picture theaters which were swept sway by tha water. Women rocking their babies at home and others prepsring their Sunday meal, were hurled Into eternity before they could realise the danger. Little Plllaglag Dose. Eighty mounted men of tha .tats squad petroled the acene. There was little pillaging. In the 'course of tha forenoon Chief of Police Baker dis covered a man and a woman removing a watch from a man's pocket, but the attempt to arrest them wss u.ele.a and the pslr got away after some rough handling by the crowd. In the wreckage of three .tore, ha fonnd that the cash register, had been looted. One man with three watches waa locked up in a freight car. A primary election was In progress In the town hall when the flood broke. A hatless man dashed by. yelling to the crowd about the booth something about the dyim bursting, and the elec tion Inspectora and votera dashed out and took to the hills, leaving their ballot, unmarked. Some escaped, but many were too late and were whirled Into the debris which formed a dam of Itself Just below Main street. Tha Jam of debris a thla point at leaat was 75 feet high and three or four block, long. Oae Body Reeovered. In thla maaa the bodle. of the ma jority of victim, are believed tonight to He, mangled and burned. Five hun dred men are at work in the ruins. Only one body that of an unidentified woman wa. recovered today. The work of clearing up the debris i. under the direction of State Senator A. T. Baldwin, who lost hi. fsther, mother and wife and home In the flood, and wbi himself was painfully hurt In es caping the dissster. During the night food supplies were scarce and the res cuers, many of whom were unused to uch heavy work, tolled without .o much aa asking anything to eat. Sev eral of them collapsed today. Governor Dlx telephoned from Al bany thla morning that tha State of New Tork was prepared to send any thing tha sufferer, might need as soon ss Pennsylvania would signify what would be-acceptable. There waa na luck of willing hands. Country women from miles around drove to the scene and, between com forting the bereaved Austin women and getrlng lunchVons for ths survivors, they were busy sll dsy and Into tha merit. Meanwhile men fought their 01 VICTIMS FEAR D. F. McGee, of Portland, Tells of Flooded Towns. STRUCTURE KNOWN WEAK Hx-Pennaylvanla Resident Says Big Retaining Wall Almost . Gave) . Way Two Years Afro--Brother May Be Drowned. Hugh McGee. a brother of D. F. Me Oee. of Portland, chief engineer of the Pacific Power & Light Company, re siding at 501 East Fifteenth street North, 1. among those living near the huge dam, wh,Ich bunt in Pennsyl vania Saturday, wiping out the towns of Austin and Costello, and killing hundreds of persons. Mr. McGee has been anxiously trying to get word from the stricken district ever since news of tha disaster reached Portland, a. he fear, his brother may be among those who perished. 'His brother owned a large ranch of from 800 to 400 acres, directly In the path of the flood, between the dam and the town of Austin. He conducted a large wholesale supply house there, doing business principally with the many lumbering and logging camps thereabouta, and he used the ranch chiefly for pasturing stock. Dam Discovered Weak. Mr. McOee, of this city, was born in Pennsylvania and passed a large part of his life there, and is familiar with the country. Last December he vis ited his brother, near Austin, and while on his visit. Inspected the dam. Yesterday he gave a graphic descrip tion of the dam and of th. surround ing country. According to Mr. McGee, the catas trophe of Saturday was narrowly averted when the dam was first filled with water upon completion two years ago. "At that time." said Mr. McGee. "It wss discovered to be weak, and would have given way had not a man, in deeperatlon, rushed to a 36-Inch pipe at the bottom of the das, designed to serve a. aa outlet for the water, and blown the cap off with a charge of dynamite. The pipe wa. placed there for Just such emergencies, but wa. bolted shut. Instead of being closed with a gate that could quickly be opened. Resldeats Flee 'to Hllla. "Great excitement prevailed In the town at tha time, and th. people were all fleeing to the hills. The daring act of the man in breaking open the pipes and thus saving the town was much lauded. "After this occurrence the dam waa closed for strengthening, and Satur day was the first time it was complete ly filled since being reopened. It was 630 feet long and 50 feet high and closed a narrow defile In the Alle gheny Mountains, extending back for many miles. The dam held the water of Freeman Run, which, during tha Winter is of rather large volume, but during the Summer run. very low. The sldss of the' dam were embedded in tha rock of the mountain sides. One of the defects at the time when It was first opened waa that the sides did not join with solid rock, but this was supposed to have been overcome at the time the dam was reinforced by pump ing cement under Its foundations. It waa set in the mountain sides in a step-like formation. "The dam wa. .lightly more than a mile above the town of Austin, which is about three miles above Costello, the other town affected. The 'country is very mountainous thereabouts and both town, are in a continuation of the canyon, down which Freeman Run flows. .They are hemmed in by moun tains on all sides, and there was ab solutely no escape for the residents, except fleeing to ths higher mountains. Big Mil la to Cisyss. "The water of the dam is used In tha plant of the Bayless Pulp A Paper Company, located at Austin, one of the largest papermills in the world. This, and a large sawmill, are the main in dustry at Austin. At Costello there is s large tannery, owned by the Cnlted 6tats Leather Company, which is also one of the largest plants in the coun try. The water inclosed by the dam wa. an extremely large body. a. it had I STOMACH SUFFERERS SQUANDER MILLIONS In Search of Relief The world is full of disordered stom aoba and SO per cent of the money spent upon physicians and drugs goes in an attempt to core the stomach. People are made to believe that in order to gain health they must doctor their stomachs and use cathartics. So the doctor gets hi. fee for the stom ach treatment and ' the druggist for the physic until the savings of a life time are exhausted and yet no cure. Let's be ressonable. The sick stomach 1. in every case the result of over-eating, hurried mas tication and improper choice of foods. The mucous lining all the way down the food tract loses Its sensitiveness, snd when food Is forced down the muscles fall to respond. They do not churn the food as they should. The glands no longer give out gastric Juioa to dissolve the food and render It eapable of assimilation. The man has become a dyspeptic There s one sure way and only one to bring positive relief. Put into that stomach of yours the very elements that it lacks to get that food into liquid form. It takes pepsin, diastase, golden seal and other ferments to ac complish this. The healtny stomacn contains these elements. The dyspep tic stomach lacks part or all of them. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet is made up of just what the dyspeptic stomach lacks Nature's digestives. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet, are not a mediolne. not a drug, not a cathartic. They do not cure anybody of anything but Dyspepsia and Indigestion and such ailments as arise from poorly digested food. While they digest tha food the stom ach recuperates. The mucous membrane Is coming put of its stupor, the gastric juice is coming to the surface, the muscles are regaining their power. Every organ of the body takes on new life, the skin gains color, and the eyes are no longer tinged with yellow. You live. Why doctor and why drug yourself? Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will take care of your food while Nature cures you. Try a box at your druggist's, 60 cents. Or, if yon prefer a free trial package before buying, send your name and address today. F. A. Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Bldg., Marshall.-Mich. filled the defile for several miles back before it finally reached' the top of the dam. A little more than half way across the dam was a spillway, to carry the overflow away, when the water became too high. The pipe, which was bolted when the dam was first opened, was fitted with a gate. "Both of the towns are on the Buf falo & Susquehanna Railroad, a branch line, leaving the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on the Buffalo Pittsburg division, at Keating Sum mit, and running as far as Elmira, N. Y. Austin Is about 100 miles from Buffalo, N. Y. The scene of the dis aster is in Potter County, Pennsylvania." 3 ARE MURDERED IN BEDS Church Caretaker, Wile and Daugh ter Found Dead, Skulls Crushed. ' MONMOUTH, III., Oct. 1. William E. Dawson, his wife and one daughter were found dead in their, beds today, the skull of each crushed in. Dawson was the caretaker of .the First Pres byterian Church and when he failed to open the building for services today, four men went to. hi. home and found the bodies. There were no evidences of a strug gle and the murderer is believed to have killed each one with a single blow. The police have no clew. Fall Into Manhole Fatal. VANCOUVER, WashJ, Oct. 1. (Spe cial.) When going to his home after visiting his brother at 63 North Fourth street, Portland, Gensaku Hori, a Jap anese railroad yard employe, fell into a manhole at Eighth and Franklin streets and was killed. 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