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1 JF srvmnmr I HJ Srfrrf fmsmTwr lWT9rr4yKpi s5T SAX FRANCISCO CHBOyiOLE MONDAY APBIL 17 1899 ltt JP if i inW 10 IMHl Iffi IN Mil MIMWH umi Oil fgt A RIOT AT THE PRESIDIO Recruits Burn a Saloon and Attack the Police NEARLY A THOUSAND MEN IN THE GANG A TOMPAVr OF skgiio iiegixars i SCCCBEDS IX QIELLIXG THE DISTLRB ttCE Three Ilandred Men Cnder Arrest Who Mnt Anairrr to the 3111 ltarr Authorities for Their Work ALL ABOARD 1 F0RTBEM00N A riot started by 200 military recruits vhlch but for the prompt action of the officers of th Presidio and the police oultl have assumed alarming propor tlohsstartleJ the residents in the neigh tmrhood the post shortly after sunset last night At the most vital moment when Woodshed seemed inevitable and vhen everybody vias expecting to see a wholesale slaughter a provost guard of the Twenty fourth Regiment of colored infantry ran Into the mob and quickly became masters of the situation On Saturday night a crowd of half drunlcen men many of them raw recruits who were waiting for transportation to various regiments In Manila enteral the saloon of John Raphael Just at the Greenwich street entrance to the Presidio and after carousing there for an hour got into trouble with the proprietor KaphaWr place has been a constant source of trouble in the neighborhood for the last three months and the man himself has had several personal encounters with volunteers Some of the furniture was broken up in the row on Saturday night and some Third Artillery recruits singling out Charles King one of the ringleaders gave him a severe beating blacking his left eye and Inflicting two small scalp wounds on his head Saturday night King went to the Presidio Hospital and yesterday morning the rumor went round that he was dead Hearing this the same mob that started the disturbance on Saturday night got ot er 100 more casuals together at a little after 6 oclock last night and moved In a body on Raphaels saloon Policemen Phil Herring John McLaughlin and Edward Stanton who were in the neighborhood at once went to the scene of the disturbance and were greeted with howls and threats as soon as they arrived They stood their ground however and Herring seeing that there was likely to be serious trouble went to the nearest telephone and asked for police help Sergeants Anderson and Wolf were at once sent out and on their way they gathered everj available patrolman In the Western Addition 9 Before their arrival the mob brok Into the saloon and began to wreck everything In the place Policeman McLaughlin stood at the door and with his revolver out threatened to kill If they did not desist In answer he was mobbed and struck on the head repeatedly with pieces of macadamized rock Attorney George Cabannls returning from Harbor View fought his way through lh crowd and made an earnest speech to the soldiers telling them of the folly of their course and bogging them to desist before any blood was shed Then together with Stanton and McLaughlin he stood on guard at the door and held his place manfully while missiles of every character were thrown at them Just as the rest of the officers reached the saloon the rioters broke through the three men again and set fire to the Interior of the building In half a dozen places The police Jumped In and attempted to extinguish the flames but were met with such a shower of stones that they had to retire McLaughlin fired eeral shots above the heads of the crowd which by this time had increased to three times its original proportions but the only effect was to Inflame the soldiers who relit the Are in every place where the police had succeeded In stamping It out Seeing that his handful of men were utterly unable to cope with the mob Sergeant Anderson who had been struck on the head with a stone de pairing of getting additional help from the various stations ran into the reservation and up to the quarters of First Lieutenant Harris adjutant of the post and told him of hat was transpiring The adjutant at once turned out the guard of the Twenty fourth Infantry and Company of the same regiment who went on the double quick to the saloon So rapid was the action of the flames that before the provost guard reached It It had been burned to the ground The recruits whose drunken valor could not be quelled by the sight of the policemen cowed like whipped euro in the prwenc of the regulars The colored men lost no time in getting to work They Charged through the mob which made way on every side and then began to malle wholesale arrest corralling everybody they could lay their bands on Just Inside the Presidio gate In the meantime a troop of regular cavalry had been pent out from their quarters fully armed with rifles and revolver and thev forced a eklrmlah line aHover the Presidio hills The mob at bay and badly demoralised attempted to break through into the pest In every possible manner Many of them unaware of the fact that the cavalry bad been ordered out made for the high ground and tried to tneak back into quarters through the groves of pine trees All ofthem were arrested and taken Into the corral Several tried to get through by boarding the bars that go Into tb reservation laying fiat between Jhe feats bnt every car was stopped at the gate and nobody escaped in that way A great many other took cars going the other way and rpent the evening in town Here again they were blocked for there was a large regular guard on duty all night that arretted every man who entered the boon daries of the Presidio no matter If he had the excuse ot just coming from the city or not When early 300 soldiers had been gathered together It was found greatly to the satisfaction ctthe officers of the pest that practically ftlUwere rawre ernlts The mob was rnadeup almcat entirely cf recruit and many of them were the tame men who have beta afflrwm The Airship Season Has Struck Town Again CHARLES STANLEY AND HIS ALUMINUM BIRD A PRIVATE EXHIBITION IS HELD IJt THE GROVE STREET THEATER Inventor Tries to Assist His Phantom With Balloon Blames Carbon Monoxide for Failure making trouble for many weeks both about tow and at the Presidio After the confusion consequent on the riot had died down It was found that a large pile of broken rock and brick that had been deposited at the Greenwich street gate by the Street Improvement Company had disappeared This pile had been used by the rioters in their attack on the police Thousands of stones must have been thrown during the disturbance The chase oer the hllle by the cavalrymen In the darkness had a good many of the elements of campaigning about It These regulars fired several shots la their hunt for runaways many of whom refused to halt at the first call Three of the recruits ran more than two miles before they were brought to a standstill One cavalryman led in eight of them all marching Indian file in front of his horse and coered by his rifle Corporal Richardson In charge of the Twenty fourth Infantry guard had bii hands full keeping the mob that bad been captured at the gate In order Many of the men went to him and attempted to beg off and several tried to get away under cover of darkner after they had been arrested None of them succeeded however and all were taken into quarters Cool beads were needed to quell the riot and the mob of dangerous and incensed recruits would have made the affair a dark tragedy if the negro regulars had shown the least sign of flinch ing These men howoer fresh from their Cuban campaign went straight at the work and their opponents knew instinctively that they meant business Speaking of the affair afterward th non commissioned officers In charge of the squad stated that If any attempt had been made to rush them the would have met the attack with steady volleys regardless of consequences and that they went to the scene fully equipped to take extreme measures if necessary Their conduct Is commended by everybody particularly by the police many of whose lives they undoubtedly saved by their prompt action Lieutenant Harris of the Fourth Cavalry showed a complete grasp of the situation and lost no time in giving the police ery effective aid He told the sergeants that if they wanted more help than he had sent all they had to do was to ask for it and that every regular In the Presidio was read to respond to an Immediate call The history of the origin of the original saloon fight on Saturday night Is told by Charles King himself He is a natle of Washington but has lived in California for the past three years He came to San Trancisco about four weekn ago and enlisted at the Presidio on March 24th for Company of the Twenty third Infantry now in the Philippines He is 23 ear of age the Third Artillery except a friend of mine a Kansas boy of my company of thr Twenty Third and another friend a New York boy enlisted for the Ninth Infantry The other fellows set on mi for taking my friends part and began to treat me pretty roughly so I ran out seeing that I stood no show When I was a little way from the place a tall fellow overtook me I threw him down but the other fellows came up and kicked me behind the left ear That was what knocked me out Most of us fellows had been drinking and I ha ent a very clear Idea about how the trouble started So persistent had been the report of Kings death that several officers be Iieed it to be a fact Elaborate preparations were made for his funeral by his superiors in command of the recruits Captain Hardin had called at the hospital in the forenoon and made formal demand for the body saying that he had already drawn up a list of the dead soldiers effects and wished to bury him In the aftel noon He said also that he had secured the band and an escort and meantto do the thing up in style During the remainder of the day Captain Hardins premature funeral was a subject of many Jests a mongf hospital men who learned the facts Hut one soldier was put In the guard hruse as a direct remlfWthe Saturday night fracas His name Is Clark and he is a recruit It was charged that Clark went back into the saloon after King was kicked Intolnserisibllity and eelng man resting his elbow on the King lay on a cot In the United States bar and his cheek on his hand stepped General Hospital His lert eye was blackened and his had was sore but he as not suffering In the least I went down town last night as fai as Hyde street said King and got back to Raphaels saloon about 9 30 oclock There were a dozen or fifteen men In the place at the time A chum of mine had Just been throw out but he tame in again and I took his part Most of the fellows were recruits for up to ms side anu dealt him a heavy blow in the rye with brass knuckles Clark denies this The proGt guard was en duty until 10 oclock and up to that time had apprehended 223 soldiers practically all recruits It is said that the penalty will be severe for the guilty if the real culprits can be discoered Their fate will be Imprisonment at Alcatraz IEH flHff MM 10 MViTE I iflllMTro I EMM There Is a brand new airship in town and the Inventor with that spirit of prophecy and undying hope that most airship designers possess claims that It has come to stay This will probably turn out to be true At any rate the flying machine Is hardly yet In condition to move from the spot where It has been set up This latest bidder for the admiration of telescope lenses Is none of your backyardbackyard scrap iron productions It is a perfect aluminum model and dispels all doubt of Its pow ers by Its ability to blow the hat of any scoffer ten feet from his head This hat blowing performance Is the Inventors strong point He says and ith a great deal of reason as any sensible person must acknowledge If this little model will blow your hat ten feet away then how many feet away could It blow your hat If It were twenty times as big Hlowr me its enormous The airship at present rests on two trestles on the stage of the Grove street Theater which place has been rented by the promoters partly because it is out of the way of prying eyes and through long continued disuse has ac quired that musty smell of mystery and partly for the reason that the big audi torium 111 be large enough to show the powers of the machine when it begins to fly Charles Stanley the inventor has been wrestling with aerial problems for many years but on account of lack of funds he has been unable to make any headway with his plans of higher locomotion Now however two promi nent business men are helping him along and both believe that in the near future they will be cavorting gaily In me neignDornooo of Mount 1 a ma 1 Dais and circling about the statue on top of tne city Hall dome with Skipper Stan ley at the helm of a real live airship Both of these Dromotors however uiu ly saving themselves for a fall ask that tneir names be omitted until evervthlnir Is all right All hands were busy yesterday at the theater where a big silk balloon was slowly filling with gas from the pipes connected with the footlights of the stage Facing the balloon was the air ship It is the same hollow cvllnderwlth the same rudders wheel and nMi joints as usual Inside the cylinder Is a compressed air motor which works the propellers and blows your hat off me lop or your neaav A common garden hose Joins the balloon and the airship and when the cylinder Is filled with gas It rises When Stanley was asked if it would be necessary to keep a stationary gas balloon about before his air ship would fly he explained the thing by saying that when a model was built Mg enough the whole balloon would be accommodated in the cylinder i ne promoters look on Stanley as a superior Deing wnen you get to know him better said one ot them you ill find him a wonderful man We have never been able to stump him on anything yet He has an answer to every objection By way of tesUng this wonderful power he was asked how are you going to steer the thing when you get It in the air Oh thatll be all right Dont you worry about that said Stanley How are you coin to raJe it lower it Thatll be fixed when the time comes You see a man has got to understand the science of natural philosophy to realize these things The balloon wobbled about on the stage for some hours and then the inventor came to the conclusion that the gas company had been imposing an Inferior product on him If I had pure hydrogen instead of city gas in this thing Id mow you something that wouid make ycur head swim he said in order to make the general effect of the private exhibition more realistic somebody with an eye to scenic effects had let down a drop at the back of the stage depleting a race track with several million faces turned up In eager expectation all looking straight at thv airship Stanley anticipates that in thirty days from the time he gets his model In successful operation he HI have the nece sary 12 000 to enable him to build a thirty foot machine After that progress will le easy and the little band of believers will stand full In the glare of the envious eyes of Standard Oil magnates and other purse proud prince The stock broks will be opened soon and the populace is advised to get In early and avoid the rush I ascribe the temporary failure today said the Inventor to the large proportion of carbon monoxide in this alleged gas Another crime that the deadly carbon monoxide has to answer for Costly Frolic of Door About 1 oclock yesterday afternoon according to the story told by Lleshman the occupant of the house a dog upset a lighted coal oil stove In the basement of 353 Hill street and the flames quickly spread to the ad lmn lolnragoodwork An alarm ip tgraed In from box an at 441 ocka ft the nrenen were oaawe to mere man the adJoiater house The bulMtasT lose story frame dweaingowned by Oeorg4 Katx was a total loss But Httla runmae waa saved Lelshman claiaa nta kws wiU exceed 11360 on which there was he thinks 400 insurance As the policy wan Durneo ne wasmnabla to stats wncuier tne insurance had expired eisnman who is a molder waa Injured at the Ualua Iron Works some years ago DEATH OF A PIOXXER li Hirrlnia of kiort Passes Atrny at the LltkHPi Harriman a wealth mining man of Sonoro Tuolumne county died at the Lick House yesterday afternoon from an attack ot pneumonia He came down from Sonora two weeks ago and affwys after his arrival was stricken with the Illness which terminated fatally Dr Washington Dodge attended him up to the time of his death as did his wife and daughter who have been constantly at his bedside since he was taken ill The deceased was a native of Maine and died at the advanced age of 79 years He was one or the early pioneers or canior nla having come here in 1849 Since ISO he was a resident ot Tuolumne county and for many years was one of the most successful and most enterprising residents of that section He was one of the owners of the Bonanza mine in the town of Sonora which brought him a considerableconsiderable fortune and was largely Interested In the water system in that mining section He was a member 01 tne Mascmio fraternity and leave a wife and daurhter as his only surviving relatives His remains will be taken to Sonora to day for interment ODD FELLOWS PERFORM THE FUNERAL RITES Joanna Rlnea the Veteran Letter Carrier Bar led In Cypress Lawn Cemetery Tea terday The funeral services of Joshua Rlnes the veteran letter carrier were held at Odd FeUows Hall yesterday afternoon and the remains Interred in Cypress Lawn Cemetery Marching In the procession from ms late residence ai Mission street to the hall were lTSlettei carriers who acted as escort and delir ered the body to Apollo Lodge 0f or which nines was a memoer a mas of beautiful floral offerings nearly covered the bier several pieces having been furnished by Rlnes fellow employes la the Postofitce department For thirty years Rlnea was officially known as letter carrier No 10 the number he received when anoolnted and dur ing that time he remained In the district to wiucn ne was nrst assignea tnougn its extent was curtailed with the growth of business When he first enteredtbe service his territory was bounded by Second street the bay and Sacramento street while at the present time eleven carriers are required No complaints were ever filed against him and his bold on the friendship of the merchant with whom he was thrown In dally contact was strong BIG CROWDS AT THE PARK Many Gifts to Maitsn the Week Dnrlaa There was a large crowd at Golden Gate Park yesterday but the stiff breese kept pleasure seekers from visiting the CHI and the ocean beach Fully 6000 person ilm ECSJKi oM tadc stw white bristle constantly being added to by contributions from individuals all over the country During the past week the Museum re liow old broken bank notes from WD win celved the followtns specimens Tackaberry of Boston Masi From two MMCJHXAJiae SSKr CO New Yerlrstoto Matte aut bc 4ce4 ho waste ta rfa Jjysfatt i6oaace 35c DeHcecy of flavor to the juaraaty of ptofty farbzeaa maple ay rep Same reasoa scH Sierra Madre olive off Eyerard beer la made from boas plats 155 quarts 35 SPf AL5AVINGi5Lr Monday TuesdajrWednesday 32C I2C Butter fresh table rcgulartinsc square Our regular kind of course EggS fresh 20C Whiskey fllJfcBroyeri ir regMyfi 5 6ga Jj 4CO ls name ind our guarantieof punty Sllt rw Corn Peas regularly isc tin Young corn from Maine Little peas from Maryland Alkethrepta regiyw 20c a homeopathic preparation of chocolate very nice Cherries In maraschino 62j4 regularly 70c bottlea sweet meat Serve as a side dish a tidbit Babyplmolas reglyzoc jbojoc Olives stuffed with sweet red peppers A delightful relish DateS black lbs rc What ricer is to Asia dates areata Africa tbtpd 01ives PornJaJ 2OC regly 2 quart light ripe Some folks serve them tike dishes of strawberries Boulliort capsules AwJ 25c regly 30c box often A nerve and body strengthener Mustard horseradish 2 bottles 2C A good combination both are appetizing and pungent Brazil nuts i2c First of the season An edible nut from South America Coffee Crescent blend 2QC regly S5C lb pure 5 lbs 90C Advices Indicate coffee may soon be higher Srflair brushes regiy 50c 40c The best ever saw brush for the slow of Santa Clara a Confederate bond for J1000 and one for 1100 from Anderson of San Francisco an old Swedish Bible dated 16 a Swedish almanac of 1807 an old Swedish pistol a Swedish hair brush a century old an antique snuff box from Sweden and two ancient stone Implements from Sweden from Mrs John Suss ot San Francisco a large quarts crystal from Tulare county from Miss LllUan Steedman of Lorln an Alaskan Indian pouch made of bird skin ornamented with feathers from Lewellen of Ban Francisco a Wellington halt penny copper token from England from Miss Jane Hunt of Newport I two engravings and a curious paper knife made by the Indians of North Carolina fronvMIlton 8 Ray of San Francisco Ave rare birds nests from Jens Madsen of Montana fifty four marine shells from A Griffith of San Francisco giant chiton from the coast of Southern California from a Scales of Lakeoort a specimen of polished marble from Lake county from Dr Ortndley Of San Francisco the loan of four choice pieces of Mexican pottery from Sonnenfeld of San Francisco a Mexican opal Vlneent de PaIn Conference The Quarterly reunion of the St Vincent de Pauls Conferences was held yesterday In Sacred Heart Parish Church In the morning at 8 oclock members assembled in numbers and received holy communion in wvv The ehotr sane a number of elections durlnc mass and Rev James Flood made an address Tn the afternoon the business session as held In the hall adjoining the church The president Burnett occupied the chair Rev Prendergut the Vlcar Oeneral was present to lead the devotions and the secretary Thomas read the reports of the charity work accomplished by the different conferences During the past three months 2S0 families were relieved The receipts were IUJ7 75 expenditures 1108 25 Death of Emanuel Emanuel a pioneer of the city and proprietor of the West Coast Furniture Company died at his residence 191C Post street yesterday morning at 3 oclock after a lingering Illness He was CS years of age and a native ot London England but had resided tn this State fer Qfry vears For thirty years he was engaged in the furniture business with the late Lewis Emanuel his brother who died two years ago He was unmarried He was a member of a number of charitable organisations and fraternal societies and at the time of his death was past master and treasurer of Fidelity Lodge Free and Accepted Masons Preaches at St Johns At 8t Johns Episcopal Church yesterday morning the assistant rector Rev A Breck preached a sermon on the text No Man Can Serve Two Masters The preacher drew several Illustrations from military Ufe In expounding the text Rev Spalding the rector occupied the pulpit In the evening Sallr Was Moaned Nearly 10000 people gazed at the remains of Sally in the Chutes Zoo yesterday afternoon and evening Joe Storms Jr and Congo were chief mourners and the little 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