Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1927, Page 65

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. AUGUST 7. _19271—-PART 5. Fighting Dreamer Gave Life for Ideal Afte BY CAPT. HERMAN ARCHER, 8 T was just dawn on the curvine, 1 impor duras, mountains yond the Ix purple with the sky vast, irid the tropic h she mor It ne truly it was not looked duck sand ish o hl h fore the Napole all ose wh ht hat rt opened at the throat, ave nd pe » comm s in the conter stoppine with true | "y precisi 1 and loc \ ait his b ird wi aved bl ture of JOAQUIN an Catholic, succinctly, even I m: upon want to avail m portu That done He paus toward the far now gloriously them. The soldi some further word, but when he ar as any one can n it was, as tel 2 like would like a osophy, , then t from that Yome. The man sand. But he w: vast sky, seant peered nd volver against the high, narrow fore- | head and fired * uvs probably, of of fortune—ing est who ever liv the king of filib tale of de in MILLER, THE SIERRAS,” WHO W. WALKER IN ‘NI only to himse! philosopher uncertain hat have been for the good of wondering ey now b jerished the g LN A de the in to America. T ack of the jungle | were still black 1dows, but the sky s the inside of sor Up les of > gold fi fr m bel ng ma hed was 2 tremendous event, and | h came a huddlin little brown suldie their ri ¢ wh ot darkened t ame crucifix thru an w now 1wk londe, h This £ destiny con. Almost his 36 v rished trange, ho die for w He no remay! hat lih s if they though 2d the dawn. » tucked § ht hand he n hat. his wo: toted 1 s, but th e been all 1 and in Spanish mn halted, o alone. Iy n. He ked off threw bac the last formed . poin An ofticer but th He mac farewe! thel “POET OF S WITH RAG AND ATED HIM IN iers with a gen- riy, if somewhat abstracted, v. “The war whic ou was wrong, and I elf of this last op- L vour forgivenes: signed. nd looked wistfully off mountains and the flaming light abovej pecting spoke ers waited, ex he saif in h and m to think my life he word. tiring w brol as alive quad il aring up in at hin put h down stooping. * % % atest, all American s 1, perhaps the gr ed—Willizm usters, Certainly 7 liers of fortune would be| complete without his story. William fcotch ne pful to women and chil- s ot nev father med & minister. in schooled and to he ne He v lible, ve affairs that c charmed him. all Span in his own boyishly | they | His | the office of the San Fr The | the | villag at the rising time, { could of line " he said °n upon the his sur- | . busi- From the | h the The of the son becoming William never objected | aware of his intention, ru n- he e- nd me | in yw | until he hecame of age, and then de de | clared with finality that he intended to be a doctor. It was Scoteh steh, and the boy won his first vic. The father sent him to the . | Edinburgh, and he became. they tell. 2 promising su But havinz conquered the realm bf medicine, to move on, for he was, scemingly, destined to ho u conqueror, He practiced a few months, ek his office, and went to New Orleans. The kingdom of law lured him, and in two years he was | admitted fo the bar. | cticed a | few months, closed his o nd went to California, where the zold rush was at its fever heat. This was in 1852 But it was not gold that lured Walker: ite he | 6l e ht- 1 of | it was the prospect of grandeur and | He drifted into isco | erald. nd at 28 beeame its editor. Havin: thus conquered the newspaper world, A W Walker natu Tooked | around for other kingdoms * ok ok % at | v far place ie| | the border of Mexico the Indians were ravazing| ying upon Americans over the frontier. Walker enlisted 3 venturers to go to their r ue 18 he the Mexican gove would do nothing. They se the Mexican landed tker's co LONG Apache oS, pr Kk | sail for m | and under Wa ime | on the capital of Xonors i | it without trouble, Walker proclaimed e e Republic of NoTi: state where 11. | slavery was to be permitted, accord- | ing to the pronouncement pianned the conquest of an adjacent | | provin Relr Franc acro orcements co, and he be snora. The ercd in force to harass | pany, sickness and | them, supplies ran | Wal worked heroically to keep his men in fighting order, even shooting { with his own hand two mutineers, the company was compelled to turn back. The Mexican general demanded the surrender of Walker as the price of permitting them to pass. But, to | their honor, Walker's men refused to abandon him. He saw at once that, | since the American soldiers would not | invade Mexico on his behalf, he must | resort to Mexic the little com- diseases aided hort, and though trategy - He secretly posted a number of his men behind rocks and tiees along the road to the mountain pass. Then he made a show of fight against the Mexicans and ordered his men to fall hack, as if retreating in great, pan- icky disorder. With a yell, the Mexi- cans followed. They passed the men in ambush, who opened fire and killed or wounded great numbers. The s broke and fled. Walker and s men hurried across the border and surrendered to the American soldiers. He was taken to San Franc tried on charges of violating American neu- | trality and acquitted. Back he went to the San Francisco Herald, giving up his sword to the editorial pen. EE only the beginning for this soldier who craved kinzdoms and the rewards of war. Nights in his office he ranged over maps of the world, seeking some likely place where he could go with a hope of con- quering. At last he wa tracted to Nicaragua, Central 4 dispatches told of a_revolution and a war in which the Democrats and Legitimists were fighting for con- trol. A fine country, rich and well populated, it controlled the shortest route from the Eastern world to the gold-offering California. Walker set himself to thinking, and finally sent a representative to the chief of the Democrats, saying that he would sup- ply them with 800 American colonists, “liable to military service, if they would agree to provide land for them.” n. Costillon signed Walker's agree- ment for the Democrats. A few davs later the steamship Vesta, secretly loaded with rifles and ammunition and ng 57 adventurers, sailed from an Francisco. Walker was on his{ way to victory and—death. | Landing at Realjo, Walker organ-| ized his men into the “American Pha- lanx,” and was named a colonel. Now, the route across gua m the Atlantic to the Pacific was| ontrolled by a certain steamship com- vned Dby the first Cornelius bilt and other New York capi- It followed up a river, across miles long, and then over- 12 miles away. About a year passed over it. The Legitimists, friendly toward the American company. had troops sta- tioned_at various points, th force being at the key cit nada. With his 57 Californi were adventurers who had been drawn to the Golden State by lure of gold} from all over the United States—and | native troops, Walker attacked Rivas, another route town, which was by several hundred’ men. De- fighting, he was b ck In short order. Six of his ed and many wounded. Without thought of giving up. Walker reformed his men and let it known that we would again attack He put his men on boats one afternoon and set out. The enemy hed 1,200 UT this was h d, is 0y to 10 a men | er WILLIAM WALKER. SON OF A SCOTCH PRESBYTERIAN BANKER OF ASHV 1LLE. TE WH( ) DREAMED AND FOUGHT FOR A UNITED STATES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. Lot vyl from * Filibus « aud Financiers, by W. 0. Suiggs) ainst | | University of Tennessee and later to| | | | | oV “AT NIGHT, IN HIS N OF] . i X / % f, an N /) N = (/4 // (7 N //1// // / |81 als s HIT L A A wa nu th as control of the ter fight roceeded to gain route, winning fight great odds. His own courage ding. Finally, with the t route in hand, William Walker fo nt and made a man named Rivas|po nal president. In turn, Rivi made Walker commander-in-chiet the army. Later Walker himself wi ’ duly elected President. P agua was one of | st remarkable in the world. | It was a day when guns and revolvers as common in the hands of Americans as automobiles are today. Into Walker's companies drifted men | who had fought all over the world, | by his magnetic personali | arawn Among them, for instance, of FICE. WALKER R 'ERMAPS OF THE WORLD, ING NEW FIELDS OF CON- L. men turn It town tivel. force they Whi men Nonethel ness, Walker | then a_mere youth: Granada. [end Ward, Gen. Charles F and the | Henningsen and other adventurers ra- | whose names will never die. s JFor two vears Walker ruled N » was outnumbered five to one.|ragua with great good se with him at theit head |say the country never enjoyed ju sed and took the town.|sounder, more prosperous administra- heid Granada, reinforce- | tion. It w if this man had truly «d from States, and'lecen born rule. But his shadow to Riva ed about and was just 1 1 had been y small garr| { | | uc e dawn, t with a comp on, thouzh Walke surpu he arri le ts Gua B PARTLE: B 0w too tew irmed s pped thoug fon wi m. Fi simultaneously agu er 21,000 3,000 Americans, whom finest fighting u men In the ur cou wer. that would hav % 7 e ey SN /3 77 | culty, demanded S5t <) | gene! | stopped | ragua, | way | swirled about William Walker, King of Filibusters, Was One of the Great Soldiers of Fortune and Attracted Many Other Adventurers to His Standard—Son of Nashville Business Man, He Was Trained in Medicine and Law, After Rcfusfing to Enter Ministry. Won Way to Presidency. but Conqucred by His OWn Country. The capitalists became angry. all ships touching at Nica- thus cutting W er and his army off from the United States, their source not only of ammunition but of medicinal supplfes and other essen tials. They organized a filibustering force in Costa Rica, sent soldiers of fortune into the countries Walker had been fighting and lavishly supplied tham with money. Walker's once endid arn helpless. At last he was with a few hundred men in one was wnered An American of & to hold. under command opped anchor in th friends always ch capital, through brought that Dbattleship him. In any event, Capt. -eing that Walker's men we 11 worts of disease and diffi 1 that he surrender “in the name of humanit Walker laid down his arms and was brought to this country as a prisoner. No miore remarkable incident ever urred in America which New. York Ci the famous soldiers of fortune. was_decked with f: William d been a retur American Al Walker went to Washing. demanded that he be returned to presidency. and that his adopted country be given reparation because arranted interference by Capt. Davis. But Washington simply is- nored the filibusterer. They did not even attempt to keep him under ar- Capt harbor. e that an political influency agair Dayvi accorded Broad- crowds s if he b | rest. | ’l‘l {ERE followed the |in il }mm | il i | Il concerned. But him—one that he well—a war with 2 have Lenefited nuther war f didn’t understand s Costa Ric londuras because Wa them all te tes of Centr favorite dream put all the advantages which! ht would ensue from such a | th g 1t 4 men and enthu nally, the four little republ declared wae @ a. The war wa Walker, “the gringo long ether America, ind n<hip Co. had 12 $10,000 profits each | Vanderbilt i 10 per ce * in return for a monopoly of the ving trade. Walker declared they never kad made the pay s. The| | company rep that they had pald | the £10,000 yearly, by that therej never had heen any profits, Walker | Iy sent men to New York, and | ac 4 that investigation | showed the company had been tre- endously prosperous. He demanded a settlement of $250.000. The New Yorkers laughed at him. He seized the wharves, warehouses j and @ aced a tof men with his s army of But they were 3,000 | Henningsen called the t in the world. ! end Walker had whipped the untries. They were in his| He could have dictated terms | united them f r WALKER LED OUT AND SHOT BY A HO | so ok ok % angest ¢ ter in all this strange and remark- able story. The presidency of Nica- vagua became an obsession with Walker. That country while he was the United States chose another executive, but Walker refused to ac- knowledge this as valid. Within six weeks he had raised money and re- cruited a force of 150 Amer Sailing from New Orleans. and this company dropped _into the harbor of' San Juan del Norte one night, captured the route town of Costello V ships of the company. His old sol- diers began to rally ahout him, he hegan to plan another capture of the pital, when suddenly, as if by acci dent, another American warship ap- peared off the coast. It was the U. S. 8. Wabash, under Comdr. Hiram Pawlding. The ship trained her guns on Walker's camp. and Pawlding again demanded that he surrender on the ground that he had violated American neutrality. For the third time Walker sur- rendered to his own countrymen. He was brought to New York. and again the Government refused to accept him as a prisoner. President Buchanan even rebuked Pawlding, but he for- bade Walker in a public proclamation from interfering in Central American affairs again. But the next week or Walker and a new force of ad- venturers again slipped out of Mo- bile, Ala.. bound for Nicaragua. ejo and four one the less, when Walker reached | Central America this time British and American warships were patrolling the coast of Nicaragua. Walker | changed his plans, and with his 150 veterans who had gathered about him for this last foray landed suddenly on an island off the coast of Honduras. Next night he led his men in an at- tack on the port of Truxillo and cap- tured ft. With all his old energy, he DURAN FIRING SQUAD AT TRU! [ his no eithe the tells i ) wou they him: are | tean ik win cas broi kn' out arches. the At the foot of the hilltop on which taken the journey of the stairs is already felt.” The house is surrounded by trees, one large beech tree at the tupmost step of the stairway extending arms in welcome, There is a |a ty of shrubbery, too. {1 The air ting on the hill | TI and within moments, being rested from the climb, one turns his | gnze to the interior of the loggia. | There are ten heams of cypress hel Jlidity, while a strong contrast with the floor of delicate Welsh tile, cut and placed in charming design hy Mr. Sigeins, makes so attractive nd that fan arcade that you are loath to leave it But the visitor is eager to see each rcom of the castle and his thought : big house on the | s turned to the quarters on the first . the hilltop itself | floor at the rear of the loggia. w people under- | Vigiting the house a few years ago, . that those who | one” would have been greeted by story get it as be k, the faithful watchdog. He, erably from Mr. Sizgins | too, probably looked forward to the modesty @nd Trish Wit | time when his master's castle would with a charming per-{he completed, but the joh of watching and walting grew too long, and one day his master found him asleep, {0 build his | soundly asleep, and no voice could hilitop in | awaken him. No dog has taken his Put there were no funds | piace, “The little stream down at | “perhaps the reader never heard of foot of the hill flowed gayly o lany one who could boast of erossing in wink to those who |, marble threshold every time he went nd v. as Mr. Sig-|into his furnace room. Mr. Siggins ed into face, clear ' (an, and not only that, he belfeves in al, he veflection of ng marble thresholds at all of his hilltop there on the hill [ qoors:eps, and has ‘em, too. And A a mia . its red tile | whole stairs of marble. glistening in . As he | One would no more guess, from look- ed nearer to heite his v t the house, thit its existence | isappeared, and it n dates back irs than one would tiem whispered o secr s that Mr. Sigging is more than 4 > of Italian mar cars old. in the re “dream-eome BY ANNABEL P! UILDING in in” | th vhich most ith creative has enjoyed. ver, huilt nia--and it to do it. There's tumbling down, cast A wstie on a hill him 21 year: chance of its r. stands st m all who ory of W n of M on which hou to nge in: d stream langt d know enn—pr self, wh comb, 1 the H | in midsum- | ne years ins dec he chose g il nd | saw but v 0 bsolutely modern. In room there’s the latest | tus and pipe | s dern laundry v coal bin with a cleverly ar- ed trap door. 1t helps to get the il out of the bin on a frosty morn- . Adjoining is a room which might used for various purposes. And it has a tloor of cut tile—tiny pieces ar- tistically placed together to form pat- terns, and this piece of work is done in four colors. The marble stairs take one to the second tloor if one wishes to go there !from the interior. There is also an entrance stairway from the loggia to the great door at the entrance of an unusually | the reception hall. In a hallway, to one of those i the right, is the whitest of white < such as every regular [kitchens, with a tile floor similar to i the steps are low and |the one below, an attractive border that almost before one [in tile being an additional feature. va It he i< in the logeia, Looking | There Is a good-sized porch beyond fromn any one of the eight Roman [ the kitchen, with stairs that lead to rew ird for having under- | the walk in the rear of the house. | the rurnace 4| word in heat vip- | system. There Product Of Tl ins Who U mstruction Moments r M Ivery Day, Rock Used In A4 In The Neces- Were Hauied ind Winch.” house, which M v calls the “cabin,” « Sl ney And Phat A1 ‘m b has, 1d, 80 finds walls are 180 ding to the living r dining room adjoins thls On the other si jacious reception hall. o 1l the n The dc ception hall from interesting feature, the doors, made by lights in the upy ade on one panel on the house is m nding of a nail in Mr. “hunting for a needle in use 1y Is (must go. This house is rustproof, to, | one |4l the trimming being put on with e | br: crews, nickel screws and es- are | cutcheon pin: of the hally i oor of both tile and ouk ieled in redwood, @ columns under the arc There is eplace in »m, adjoining. | ception ha one which bears oom. |above it the ingcription quoted. There of the re-|Is another real fireplace in the den, for is_an | toe, between the kitchen and the re It is. as are all of | ception hall. A granite hearth at this hand and has 66 fireplace adds to its attractivenes half. The door is|and above it is a huge mantel of id has but | white marble dust and white door in | cement. This room is also paneled manner. | with redwood, the he The are th to find in a the re- »or at the entranc the exte a one would expect o that would not be found elsewhere. Magic windows, for instance. Into the living room, ad- reception hall, the plate- which have beveled L haystack what he terms “hide ‘em | i strips of wood glued | joining he nails simply | glass the windows, zes in each light, reflect the delicate of pastel shades through their prisms. Mr. Slggins, when a little boy, paid the great sum of 25 cents to look through a prism. when on a trip to Niagara Falls. So impressed was he with the wonder of it that he made up his mind then and there that if he ever built a house he was going to have prisms at all of the windows, and he has, in every 41 of them. The third floor consists of five bed- rooms, two bathrooms. a hall and sleeping porch. alcove. Each fixture in the bathrooms is “tiled in” the wall. square corners in the tiling; rounded ones are easier to clean. The window stools are of tile and there is tile casing_for the baths. The d room is tiled throughout. “CASTLE” BUILT BY SAh& SIGGINS DURING THE PAST 21 YEARS, of !hv-x | coast” towns, which he was desper-| n the recep- | important | Each bedroom has an | There are nol '3 Ruling Nicaragua hegan planning a new Invasion of | Nicaragua, using Truxillo as a base. And again a warship dropped into tho harbor—the Dritish ship Icarus, under Capt. Salmon. This officer de- clared that Walker was interfering with Rritish rights in the town, and demanded that the fillbusterer leave within 24 hours. Otherwise, he said, he would bombard the town. Late that day Henduran troops began to "nvfls outside the town, obviously anning to win back Truxillo. Here alker and his men were caught be- {tween the prongs of military pincers. | But he was not dismayed. That night | he and his adventurers slipped out of \ker's luck was gone. He thad only courage. The little company dragged along the Honduran coast, through jungles and over mountains for d Fevers attacked them, thel 1.\11])]4(( dwindled, and at last they were forced to camp on a little river, with the idea of waiting for rein: forcements and new supplies. Into | the mouth of the river came the Ica- rus, which had followed Walker along the coast, like some great bird of prey. Azain Salmon demanded that Walker render in the name of humanity. ker surrendered at last to the ish flag. His friends declare that he stipulated before he laid down his wrms that he was not to be turned over to the Hondurans, and that Sal- mon agreed. Nevertheless, the fearus took Walker and his men to Truxillo and turned them over to the Honduran soldiers. Salmon then interceded for all the prisoners but Walker, and got them released. To Walker he said: “If you will appeal to me as an can citizen, I will save you with | | the res | He knew and Walker knew that 1¢ { he (Walker) pleaded as an American, | he weould be denying his pledge of | allegiance to Nicaragua when he be- | came T'resiaent, and quite probably { would lose forever all chance of be- coming again President of Nicaragua. { Walker knew, too, that in all proba- | bility the Hondurans would put him e @ firing squad. But he an- ed: _“The President of Nicaragua s a izen of Nicaragua. ven to save his life William Walker could not give up his dream. He had one of the world’s greatest possessions—a matchless courage. The Hondurans, who looked upon Walker as an alien tyrant from the court-martialed him that very and condemned him to death. He fed at dawn. (Covvrizht. 1927, Arabian N 1ghts—Birds. ADERS of the “Thousand and One Nights” wiill remember the ands of Wak-Wak,” and the mar- lous adventures of Hassan of Bassora and the princess with the dress of feathers. It has been suggested that the islands were real and that they can be identified with the Aru Islands, the home of the great bird of paradise. The name “Wak-Wak.” it Is thought, may be amimitation of the call of the | birds, the story of Hassan's visit to the Islands of Wak-Wak may be based on actual adventures of some traveler who discovered the haunts of the bird of paradise. Eiffel Towean-nges. HE slender structure of the Eiffel ‘Tower makes it very susceptible to changes of temperature and ac- cordingly it undergoes changes in height. Experiments recently made record an increase of three-eighths of an inch in a height of about 380 feet during the course of a Summer day. The experiments indicate that the cooling effect of a shower on a warm day or the outburst of the sun’s rays | through a cloudy sky are felt by the tower. | | | Castle Near Washirigton Built by One-Man Force | If one raises one of the windows ‘ih" will do so by means of hand- covered lifts, nickel lifts covered with | black leather by Mr. Siggins. It took | 1,000 pounds of lead to make the weights for the windows In this house. Mr. Siggins made them, and they differ from ordinary weights in that they are square. Some castles have attics and some {do not, but this castle has one, and the time one reaches there, he feels as though it should have a goodly store of trunks filled with gowns of heav taffeta, hoop-skirts, powered igs and all that sort of thing. On {the other hand, when the clothes feloset door in one of the bedrooms i(lu\\' airs was opened, just a few | moments before, to look at the artistry fof its cedar lining, an electric light flashed on by means of a little button in the hinge of the door and flashed off again with the closing of the door. This i3 a modern castle and there are no_trunks. Mr. Siggins not only built a castle, but he made many of the tools with which to build it. A huge tool box contains a varlety of wonderful tools. An interesting machine is his hand tile cutter. Mr. Siggins tells a story of his two experiences in hiring labor whi working on his house. One day he declded that he would need some as sistance the following Sunday, so ar ranged to have a colored man come for the day. At the time the worker was expected to appear he came 8o “dressed up” that it was with diffi- culty that Mr. Si recognized him. he asked. “Well, sah,” was the reply, “I'se done been to a revival, and I'se got de power and cain't work no mo’ on Sun- d: u drink rain water, you'll Uve " So heard Mr. Siggins, on He decided to have a cistern dug right in the middle of his garden. What could be more fit- ting for a castle than a well where the young could maintain their youth forever and the old renew their youth? A charming idea, thought Mr. Siggins, and he thereupon set a man to work to dig the magic pool during spare hours. He dug and dug, and at the end of a month no better magic pool could be found than the one right there in that garden. Just when the fairy was about to appear with her wand to put the spell upon the pool, Mr. Siggins decided that he was too practical for any such ideas, and the workman spent another month refill- ing what had almost becoms a magic 3 foreve good authority.