The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1895. DAVIES OF EAWAL | GETS 1S FREEDON. HE ARRIVES FILLED WITH INDIG- | NATION AT THE WAY HE ‘WAS TREATED. | SAYS HE IS NOT A BAD MAN.| Wi BRING SulT HAWwWAIIAN STAR Captain William Davies arrived on the steamer Arawa from Honolulu yesterday morning. He came filled with wrath and indignation at the treatment he says he has received at the hands of the Honolulu press, and denies emphatically the impu- tations of an article which appeared in the Hawaiian Star of the 7th inst., as follows: Captain “Bill” Davies. who leaves the coun- try to-day for the country’s good, has had quite a career in Hawaii and made a bad record. | He ceme into public notice at ouce on reach- | ing the port as mate of a vessel with immi- | di | the insurgents. | ment of the Provisional Government. fact, until I boughtfa vessel of my own. Thi$ was nearly two years ago. 2 “Now,” continued Captain Davies, “I would like to know if a man could hold all the most important positions on steamers in the islands for fourteen years and at the same time be a hopeless drunkard, a wife- beater and everything else that is bad ?” The captain says that he was never sued for divorce, but that a separation between himself and wife had been sought about two years ago, but that the separation was iscontinued by the court after his having resigned from command of the Claudine. “Tam not hopelessly in debt either, for all T owe down there is something like $700. I could have paid every cent of this amount, but I was in jail, my vessel con- fiscated, and everything else for that mat- ter, so I was in a mighty hard fix.” Thecaptain was honorably commissioned by the late Queen in 1889 for gallant ser- vices rendered in saving crew and passen- gers of the schooner Drew, wrecked off the coast of Hawaii. Among some of the | passengers were Minister Thurston and C. 8. Spaulding. In concluding the captain said that the strong feeling against him at the islands was established on account of his having landed the guns and ammunition to aid He said that he was strongly in favor of the constitution of 1887, and as strongly opposed to the de- throning of the Queen and the establish- He said that the men of the Boston had, alone and unaided, done this thing, and for three months had they by a show of force rrevented the then new Government from eing molested. Captain Davis was arrested on the 10th of January on the charge of treason for having landed at Diamond Head, in the CAPTAIN DAVIES, WHO SAYS HE TESTIFIED IN HONOLULU WHILE UNDER DURESS. [From a photograph taken in the “Call” art gallery yesterday.] grants. Davies haa killed a Japanese or China- man on the voyage. He was tried by a British court on the charge of murder and acquitted. Davies was first in the Inter-Island, then in the Wilder service. He earned the réputation of being a drunkard snd living in a wicked and | immoral fashion, Ina divorce suit his wife | charged that he beat her. He held fine steamer | positions, but was unreliable on account of | drink and a bluffer. | Davies landed guns for the insurgents with | his little steamer Waimanalo. He said he re- | ceived only in cash. His sentence was ten | years and $10,000 fine, and it was suspended | for him to leave the country. He was hope- lessly in debt. Captain Davies said yesterday that he had unavoidably gained an unenviable rep- | utation at the islands for having been | caught supplying the insurgents with rifles and ammunition, but as he had stood trial, | been convicted and then relieved from | punishment, he was of the opinion that | when he was talked about it should be otherwise than with a spirit of libel. “In the first place,” said‘Captain Davies, “I have not a bad record on the islands, I | never was tried for murder and I wasnever | su;d for divorce, nor was I ever a drunk- | ard.” | The captain further stated that he was able to show a tlean record during his many years of active sea life, which would speak for his character better than any- thing else. I sailed from the port of S8an Francisco from 1 to 1881," he said, ““first coming | New York as second mate on the ship Charles H. Marshall, on which boat/I served three years. After this I sailed in European trade as second officer on the | ship Glory of the Seas, and from thisship1 | went with the Harriette H. McGilvery, shipping from Philadelphia and serving as | second officer. Next, I became second | officer of the ship William H. Marcy, car- rying teas from Japan to this port, but after two years I became the chief officer of the Centennial, sailing also from Kobe, Japan, to San Francisco, touching at Ha~ wail. After this I shipped as chief officer of the Anjer Head, engaged in the same | trade as my former ship, the Centennial. ‘It was when in command of the Anjer Head that I met the first trouble of my life, which happened at Honolulu on Christmas day, 1881. In the forenoon of that day we were about to weigh anchor for this port, when I wasmotified by my first | officer that some of the crew were rioting. Actin{: at once, I discovered that serious trouble was brewing on board between the Chinese portion of the crew and the Eng- lishmen, and while endeavoring to pacity | the Chinamen, I was attacked fiy three of | them, and in order to save my life I shot | one man and killed him. “I immediately gave myself up to the British Consul and was tried. It was fully nine months before the end of the trial, when I was acquitted. In this way com: menced my life at the islands, and ‘from a | prison cell T worked my way up to the command of the finest vessels in the island trade. “T was first in the employ of the Inter- | Island Steamship Company as mate of the James McGee. I was one year in com- mand of the steamer C. A. Bishop and one year in command of the Liholiho. From the employ of this company I entered that of the Wilder Steamship Company and took command of the Likelike, then the steamer Lehua, but after one year I was put in command of the finest steamer en- gaged in island trade, the Claudine, which position I held for three years, and, in harbor of Honoluiu, 300 rifles and ammu- nition - for the purpose of aiding the ene- mies of the present Government to effect its overthrow. He was tried and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and to be fined $10,000. All of the sentence was remitted and on the 1st inst. he was released, when he :.\Fplied for a passport, which was dily given to him, and in the passport it is stated that heis to be protected asa citizen of Hawaii and courtesy is invited from other powers. The captain says that heis a citizen of the United States and is very prond of it. He says that he contemplates bringing a suit for libel against Editor Edward Towse of the Hawalian Star. He says that annexation with the United States is in no way practicable, nor is it generally desired. Captain Davies said that concerning the alleged torture which it had been reported he had been subjected to during his im- prisonment, he would say there was no truth in the stories whatever. HELD A STATE PRISONER, LILIUOKALANI CONFINED IN THE EX- ECUTIVE BUILDING. HONOLULU, March 7.—The Military Commission concluded its labors last week and has adjourned over until Monday, the 10th inst., when it will probably be dis- solved. The object of holding it over was simply to allow time to those who had agreed to leave the country for the coun- try’s good, to do so. Should they fail to | keep their agreement they would be re- arrested and tried at once before the com- mission. It is anticipated that by March 15not one of these will be left in Hawaii and that martial law will be at an end. That the end is coming is apparent from the gradual withdrawal of the restrictions heretofore imposed. It is no longer neces- | sary to possess a pass signed by the mar- shal permitting one to be at large on the streets after 9:30 p. M., and the saloons are now allowed to run on full time, that is, from 5:30 A. M. to 11:30 ». M. At 2o’clock on the afternoon of Feb- ruary 27 Major Potter, Major McLeod, Charles B. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson visited the apartment now occupied by Mrs. Liliuokalani Dominis in the executive building for the purpose of reading to her the sentence pronounced by the military commission and approved by President Dole, as the result of her bein§~ found guilty of misprision of treason. The ex- royal lady remained seated during tRe reading of the sentence and manifested comparatively little concern over it. The sentence imposed by the military court and approved by the President was five years’ imprisonment with hard labor and a fine of $5000, being the lowest that could be imposed under %he law. The commander-in-chief remitted that Femon of the sentence imposing hard abor, and for the present she will be treated as a State prisoner and confined in her present quarters in the executive building, under certain regulations to be hereafter formulated, At one time there was considerable talk of sending her to Oahu prison, where she was to be given the position of matron. As there are but two or three female prisoners in the jail, the position would have been a sinecure, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roal Baking Powder and would have enabled the ex-royal lady to do about as she Iplessn,d except going outside the walls. If this idea was ever seriously contemplated by the Government, and the CALL correspondent is advised to the contrary, it has been abandoned. Mrs. Dominis has every comfort she can wish for, but is only allowed one attend- ant, Mrs. Clarke, and only permitted to see her agent, Charles B. Wilson, and her physician, Dr. D. McLennan. These are allowed to visit her at any time without any restrictions whatever. . a spirit of sarcasm. Captain Davies had nozp been under arrest m}Z)re than half an hour when he sent word to the Hawaiian authorities that he desired to_make a full and free statement of all the facts that he knew in connection with the landing of the weapons. He wanted to confess, and no wonder, because he was caught in the act. He gave his testimony before the military commission without any promise whatever as to immunity from punish- ment. He was sentenced to ten years’ im- prisonment, but on account of the services VOLUNTARY STATEMENT MADE BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAVIES " YESTERDAY. EDITOR "CALL"--Dear Sir: The report published in your paper some time ago tell- ing of how I was coerced into giving evi- dence against the so-called Honolulu contained some mistakes. rebels in I will give the facts briefly. ; I was arrested at 4 o'clock in the morn- ing and was handcuffed by two soldiers and Luther Wilcox. I was put in solitary con- finement and was threatened with death by W. 0. Smith, Attorney- give testimony rebels. under duress. against the I gave the testimony as requested General, if I did not so-called It was not true that I was triced up by the thumbs or tortured, otherwise than by solitary confinement. With that exception your account of how I was induced to tes- tify against the so-called rebels is cor- rect. On the 5th of the present month, about 8 o'clock in the morning, I was arrested under martial law and taken to the Mar- shal's office, when a letter to the "Call" disputing your former article, as repub- lished in the Honol presented to me and it. I did so of course. ulu Advertiser, was I was asked to sign I had no choice. The article was a little too strong, but I was under martial law and I had to sign It The Government helped me out of the country by lending me money. o= Respectfully, G —actuated by business jealousies—of which I know nothing at the present time. WORKED HARD TO CONVICT. AsHFORD TELLs ABoUT HAWAIIAN REVOLUTIONISTS. Among the exiles from Hawaii who ar- rived in this city by the steamer Arawa yes- terday was C. W. Ashford, a leading at- torney of Honolulu, an ex~Attomey-G_en- eral and an ardent constitutional royalist. He is at present a guest at the Lick House. According to Mr. Ashford, who related his experiences during an interview last night, the Provisional Government of Hawaii re- sorted to some rather queer practices in its prosecution of revolutionists, suspects and sympathizers after the attempted insurrec- tion of January 6. 5 “I will relate some facts that will sound almost incredible.” said Mr. Ashford. ‘‘For instance, Charles E. Dunwell, a British subject, who came from Jamaica to Hawaii about three years ago, was arrested on sus- picion of being a sympathizer with the ex- Queen’s cause and of knowing something about alleged plots and intrigues to restore her to power. ~ There wasno specific charge brought against him. Dunwell wasthrown into a dark cell, was stripped of all his clothing and was kept there for fourteen hours without food. I was also in prison at the time, having been arrested on the pretext of suspicion. “When Dunwell was first arrested he was asked to testify against me. He re- plied that he knew nothing whatever against me as regarded the Government or otherwise. The Marshal and Mr. Kinney, the judge-advocate, then told him to try and remember something the next day after he had spent the night naked in the dark cell. After fourteen hours Dunwell was called upon to state whether or not he had recalled anything which he could give as testimony against me on the charge of misprision of treason. He replied that he had not. He was then placed in an ordi- nary cell where he was kept for several weeks, but was finally discharged. ‘*Alexander Smith, a halfcaste and a non- combatant, was arrested on mere suspicion. He was very sick when taken into custody. Shortly after being arrested he was con- fronted with a charge of treason. He de- nied the charge. He was then stripped of all his clothing and placed in a tank of cold water to make him confess. When taken out of the tank Smith fainted and fell, striking the back of his head on the edge of an iron bucket, thereby sustaining a serious wound. His subsequent ill treat- ment and sickness completely broke his spirit. He was subdued and finally pleaded guilty of misprision of treason. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5000. e is now in prison serving his sentence. “‘An Englishman, whose name I am not now at liberty to tell, was arrested without any specific charge 'being made against him. While in jail he was visited by a military officer, who was a member of the commission. This officer took the Eng- lishman up on the roof of the jail and there offered him $1000 and his liberty if he would give evidence that would convict my brother, V. V. Ashford. He declined, was Kept in’ jail another month and then released. “There was another British subject, Mr. Rickards, who fell under the ban of the Proceeding to the Oahn jail the officers | had John A. Cummins and Captain Davies brought before them and read the sen- tences imposed. The sentence passed by the commission on Mr. Cummins was five years’ imprisonment at hard labor and $5000 fine, but the President saw fit to re- | mit the imprisonment portion. Mr. Cum- mins paid his fine on the following morn- ing and was at once released from confine- | ment. He speaks in the highest terms of the treatment he received during his incar- ceration. His son has presented Jailor Lowe of the Oahu prison with a valuable horse as a token of his appreciation of the treatment accorded to his father. The Hawaiian Annexation League i:a‘ new organization, composed entirely of natives, to work in connection with the\ American League to secure the annexation of these islands to the United States. Charles B. Wilson, ex-Marshal under the old regime and the present confidential agent of the ex-Queen,and Samuel Parker, ex-Cabinet Minister, are the leading spirits of the society. One feature of the pro- | perpetual exile. he had rendered to the Government by his confession the sentence was commuted to I think that he got off very easy, all things considered, because Jublic feeling against him ran up to fover eat.” When asked about the ex-Queen Mr. Kinney said: “She is as comfortable as any one can be in duress. She has an elégant suite of rooms in the palace, and is supplied with everything that she may reasonably desire. Of course, she 1is closely guarded, and will remain & prisoner. for five years, but her prison is a place of comfort and luxury. She is held in duress not as a measure of punishment, but to prevent intrigues an Plots for further revolutionary out! ks.” WILL NOT REMAIN IN EXILE, CaMAaRINOS, RECENTLY DEPORTED, Says HE WILL RETURN. Peter G. Camarinos, a brother of D. G, AMARINOS JUEN VON WORTHERN THE FOUR EXILES SHOWN IN THE ACCOMPANYING CUT ARE P. M. ROONEY, FX-MANAGER OF SPRECKELSVILLE; PETER G. CAMARINOS, A WELL-ENOWN MERCHANT; H. VON WERTHERN, EX-EDITOR OF THE TAIN OF POLICE UNDER THE ‘“ LIBERAL,” AND HARRY JUEN, EX-CAP- REPUBLIC. [From photographs.] gramme is to send a monster petition to Washington signed by natives only and headed by Liliuokalani herself, to the United States Congress, asking for imme- diate annexation. THE JUDGE ADVOCATE TALKS. SAys EX-QUEEN LILIUOKALANI Is IN A COMFORTABLE PRISON. W. A. Kinney, a Honolulu attorney, who was Judge Advocate of the military commission that tried the charges of treason against the insurrectionists of Hawaii, was one of the passengers who arrived on the Arawa yesterday. Mr. Kinney has come for the purpose of securing evidence in relation to the schooner Wahlberg, which delivered arms to the revolutionists off the coast of Oahu on the night of January 3 last, and was afterward seized by the United States au- thorities at San Diego for violating the neutrality laws and aiding insurrection in a foreign country. The Wahlberg was registered from San Francisco in the name of Captain Martin, who commanded the vessel and navigated her to Hawaii. Inaninterview at the Oc- cidental Hotel yesterday Mr. Kinney sai “I have with me two witnesses, George Townsend and Charlie Warren, besides a frent deal of documentary evidence which shall turn _over to the United States authorities. I will take no part in the evroeecution of the case. Townsend and arren were employed on board of the ‘Waimanalo, the steamer which brought the arms from the Wahlberg to the shore, and which was commanded by Captain Davies. These men will be able to identif; Captain Martin and his crew, and their evidence, I think, will be conclusive.” ‘When asked concerning the reported tor- ture of Captain Davies by the Provisional Government in order to obtain his confes- sion, Mr. Kinney told a story which is whnily at variance with the statements made by Captain Davies himself. Mr. Kinney said: *‘That report must have been started in Camarinos of this city, arrived on the Arawa yesterday morning as an exile from Honolulu and all Hawaii. But Mr. Camarinos says he is going back to the islands before long, whether the Dole Gov- ernment grants him permission or not. He is full of pluck and determination, and does not feel at all cast down by his recent ill luck. When asked why he was deported, what the charges were against him and what defense he made, if any, Mr. Camarinos said: “There you’ve got me in a puzzle. I have not the siightest knowledge what the charges against me were, if there were any at all. beyond a mere suspicion that I might be in sympathy with the royalists. There was no statement of any charges made to me. I was simply arrested and forced to sign an agreement to leave the country for an indefinite length of time. I was given no opportunity whatever to de- fend myself. ““Of course, it is a severe hardship on me. I have an extensive mercantile and com- mission business in_Honolulu, besides two large fruit orchards, that need constant and careful attention. Ibave several trust- worthy employes there, but still that is not the same as a man attending to his busi- ness in person,” ‘What steps, if any, will you take to escape from the hardships of exile?” was asked. “I shall look to the Government of Greece, whose subject I am,”’ Mr. Cama- Tinos answered, *for such diplomatic inter- ference as will restore to me my rights as a peaceful and law-abiding property-owner of Hawaii. I have already communicated with the Greek Consul-General in New York, and he has laid the matter before the Greek Foreign Office. If this does not secure for me permission to return and re- sume my property rights, I shall go back to Hawali anvhow. I shall return without permission if permission is refused. Ihave never, even in the slightest degree, taken any interest or hand in politics, and I can- not understand - why - the Government should have picked me out for a victim of itsire. There may be personal influences C. W. Ashford. Government. He has a wife and is the father of no less than seventeen children. He had been tried and found guilty of trea- son, and was sentenced to serve thirty-five years in prison and pay a fine of $10,000. It was arranged that the sentence should beread to Rickards on a certain Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. After the time for the sentence had been agreed upon, Judge- Advocate Kinney sent a messenger to me to induce me to leave the country. I was then a prisoner, but refused to leave of my own free will. The messenger reported the failure to Kinney, who was eight miles from the city at the time. This was about 6 P. M. on the Friday referred to. Kinney immediately telephoned the authorities to postpone Rickards’ sentence until he (Kinney) returned to the city, as some important matter intervened. At 9 o’'clock that night Kinney and the Mar- shal took Rickards into the jailor’s private office and labored with him until midnight in_an endeavor to persuade him to give evidence against me. As a persuader they held up to him his duty to try to procure his freedom, and reminded him of the de- plorable condition of his wife and seventeen children, should he decline the proposi- tion. Kinney said to him: ‘I am the judge advocate, and whatever I recommend to the commission will bedone.” Well, Rick- ards refused. Next morning at 9:30 o’clock he was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison and to pay a fine of $10,000. I sub- sequently secured this information in a full statement made by Rickards and sworn to by him. This statement hasbeen sent to the British Foreign Office. “On the day following the sentence of Rickards, Kinney went to another pris- oner, a woman named Mrs. Kaae, one of the most intelligent half-castes in the islands, and tried to secure from her testi- mony against me. But she was plucky enough to refuse and scorned all progosx- tions of liberty and other rewards. ‘Ve: well,’ said _Kinney, ‘if you will not testify against Ashford your sentence will be the same as that given to the Queen, five years in prison and $5000 fine.’ But Mrs. Kaae refused. She was subsequently released as nothing could be brought against her. ‘‘After it was generally known that the Military Commission had decided to pass sentence_of death on C. F. Gulick, Major Seward, W. H. Rickards, T. B. Walkerand R. W. Wilcox a petition bearing the sig- natures of several hundred men, women and children, all members of the Central Congregational Church, was presented to the commission. The petition asked that the sentences of death be carried out and that no commutations be made in favor of any of the men. +‘On the other hand the American League adopted seyeral resolutions asking leniency for the prisoners. It was not until the American Congress had been heard from that the sentences of death were changed to imprisonmentand fines. As to R. W. ‘Wilcox, who has been styled the leader of the attempted revolution, that is all a mis- take. Wilcox went into it. not as a leader, but because he could not sit idly by and see his countrymen fighting for what they believed to be their rights.” ‘When asked if he expected ever to return to Hawaii Mr. Ashford said: “Go back? Yes, of course I shall go back; and I'll not ask Mr. Dole’s permis- sion, either. We are all %oing back—all of us exiles—and the time of our going is not very far off.” Great Plate Sale. FIVE CENTS EACH FOR PURE WHITE DINNER PLATES, They won't last long at this price. GREAT AMERICAN IMP. TEA CO.'S STORES. Other lines of Crockery equally as cheap. Richard Burton, the Hartford poet, says that dogs like Wagner’s music. SroNGE Fiber Goy. Blotting is best absorbent known. {Mysell & Rollins, 521 Clay, sole agents.* .| forsake the old FRON SAN JOSE 10 SAN FRANCISGO. PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A MAGNIFICENT BOULEVARD FIFTY MILES LONG. A MACADAMIZED DRIVEWAY. SaN MATEO COUNTY DEEPLY INTER- ESTED IN THE GREAT PROJECT. Its INCEPTION. A project that in scope, interest and importance is second only to the new val- ley railroad is just taking life in that rich and promising stretch of foothills and plains that lie between San Francisco and | San Jose. It is proposed to build a magnificent macadamized boulevard between the two | it Would do more for San M cities. This project is as striking and taking a one as has been formed in the line of pub- lic improvements for many a day. The | tise the whole region, best thing about the idea is its magnifi- | 2nd in many ways be worth far more cence and progressiveness. The next best thing about it is the fact that the feeling in its favor and the proba- [ pr 1t myself. inaccessible, but which must at some per- haps not distant day contain the most at- tractive suburban residences south of the city. The plan is not all artistic. There are hard business arguments advanced in favor of the scheme. It is said that the whole suburban region south of the cour line is now accessible only by a tr. service that leaves much to be desi People rarely d from the city tc south, whereas it is the one natural r for coaching parties, carriage drives bicycle runs. " In nearly all | | cities there are attr | ing directly out of the ecit | interest. Here if one does not cross bay he must go south to get out of the city limits. Itisargued that a boulevard of this sort would do much to stimulate set. ise the number of » the population, One of those interest, A. L. Fulton of the F Diojpce s Company of San Matec umber I think the plan will be carried ont least in San Mateo County he sy ¢ i 3 terday. The San Jose rc highway of the county, anc have observed the sentiment d almost unanimous in_favor of fourths of the population of S S]ucalt!:lll between the footh main e carried as a county am heartily in favo Next to the new railroad 20 Co than anything else. It would popula that ragion fo: Janbrthen. reidence o multiply many times the number of v tors that would come. It vould adver mulate Jocal pr 0 its costtous. In my opinion there is no grander opportunity on the Pacific Coast for a magnificent and_popular driveway.” Attorney Harold Wheeler, secretary of THE PROPOSED SAN JOSE BOULEVARD. [Sketched by Willis Polk, the architect.] bilities of its realization are so strong that | the Burlingame Club, i it seems at its inception to have already passed the stage of possibility and become a probability, if not a certainty of the near future. The birth of the scheme is unrecorded. It has sprung up somewhere in that in comparable fifty -mile stretch of God’s green earth between the Golden Gate and San Jose which smilingly keeps the gentle waters of the bay from rippling against the picturesque foothills. The project has been the natural result of the stimulant of progressiveness a ened inaregion that needed good high- | ways more than anything else. The vailey road down the western side of the bay is the next thing to a certainty, and with it a fine boulevard that will draw stili more the wealth and population destined to enrich those slopes prung up with \'igor in a very natural w. - Many people living or owning proper down that side of the bay are taking a v. orous interest in the scheme, and the pa- pers published in Redwood City, San Ma- tao, San Jose and other towns on the route are discussing it approvingly. The Bur- lingame Club is especially interested, and so are many wcu\my San Franciscans whose residences are down that way. The dwellers along the route are enthusiastic- ally in favor of it. Thefpmjcct would in- volye the expenditure of perhaps $250,000 and the issuance of bonds by the counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara, but so far no voices have been raised against it. In a general way the plan which is fathered by many progressive residents of San Mateo County, is to have a fine road- way, attractive every furlong of its length, extending from Market street in the city clear to San Jose. The only highway now leading down(the picturesque and inviting stretch of plain south o? San Francisco is the San Jose road. A coach, a carriage, a buggy or a bicycle must now travel some miles of cob- blestones and_dusty streets to fairly reach the country highway. From the cemeteries south the San Jose road now affords an exceedingly attra drive during certain seasons of the year. ‘When it rains much the San Jose road is muddy except for some short_stretches in Santa” Clara County where it is macada- mized. Insummer itis very dusty, except for the short stretches in the same enter- B ing county, where the road is sprinkled aily. The sections which are macada- mized and sprinkled present at all times one of the best Ari\‘cs the world affords. The agitation of the enterprise has been commenced in San Mateo County and has been taken up in Santa Clara.” The San ® Mateo idea is to macadamize the San Jose | road the whole length of the county ac- cording to the latest and most scien methofis of road building. Residents of San Mateoand members of the Burlingame Club have projected a new connection be- tween that old highway and the boulevard & of the city. It is proposed to build a new road from Colma west to about the junction of the county line and the ocean shore, where the highway would connect with the ocean boulevard being built by the Park Com- missioners. This would ‘afford a_contin- uous hard driveway over easy grades from Market street out Golden Gate avenue to the park, ocean and the stretch of country to the south. There are other routes by which an im- vroved highway through the city might connect with a macadamized boulevard in San Mateo County. At present one must drive for miles out Mission or Valencia streets and the Mission road to reach a roadway where riding may at any time be called pleasant. San Jose County has displayed far more enterprise in roadmaking than any county in the State, having built the magnificent road to Mount Hamilton, which affords one of the notable drives of the world. The continuation of the boulevard from the San Mateo County line to San Jose is therefore regarded as an easy project. There is not in California a grander op- portunity for a boulevard of that length and description than through the region that skirts the bay on the west. In winter or in summer one quickly leaves and for- gets the possible harshness or chill ot the winds and fogs of San_Francisco and en- ters a veritable Arcadia. Sunshine is no- where more soft, airs more exquisitely tempered or rich plains ‘more securely and invitingly sheltered by mountain ranges that inspire by their ‘beauty and pictur- esqueness. Then for forty miles orchards, vineyards, vast groves of aged liveoaks an villas surrounded by lawns blazing with color dehght the eye. BSuch a ooulevard as is planned would acquire world-wide fame. So far the project has been to improve the present San Jose road by macadamiz- ing it and planting its sides with palms and other trees. Some who have artistic ideals like those of Willis Polk, which take small note of figures, would like to see an entirely new hi%hwa laid out that should an Jose road entirely and ‘wind along the still more picturesque foot- hill region, which is now comparatively | | | ! | one of the most | enthusiastic backers of the project. ‘It would make San Mateo County ac- cessible as a suburban region instead of being shut out from the city except by train,” he said in discussing it yesterday. { “Why, way back in the 30's it used to be the thing to drive down to Gamble's resort at San Mateo and go out spearing fish. It was a rough trip—rougher than it is now—but people don’t go that way now on pleasure drives. Everybody seems to be in favor of the scheme and the only question about it is the t will place on the county. But it would be no burden. It has been roughly estimated that the boulevard could be’ built r through San Mateo County, past Colma and by to a new route county line for the ocean at the 000. That would not cost the county as much, counting interest and the amounts necessary for a fund for twenty yea s costs no keep up bad rouds. r San Mateo County spent §62,000 in keeping up its ,and the amount was mainly spent on the county road, which is no better now than it was last To bond the ificent boulevard st about §15,000 a year for twenty That is about one-fourth of what he county now spends on its roads. The bicycle organizations will quickly take up the enterprise when they are approached, and in fact all classes of people will favor it. Nothing else would bring so many peo- ple into the count, What a magnificent opportunity for | coaching such a boulevard would afford! Henry J. Crocker, president of the Horse Show Association, w He says that ever buggy or rides a bicycle want it. “Such a boulevard would stimulate coaching here at once,” he said, *‘but the udes’ would not be the only ones to ex- y it. Everybody who could take a buggy ride would glory in it and it would keep a stream of visitors going into the country to the south, besides stinrulating residence there. I think the three counties ought to unite at once in constructing the boule oIt would be like a streetcar line, Not every- body would ride the whole I th, but plenty of people would be constantly en- Joying every portion of it. Out of Chicago, New York and many other Eastern cities there are fine driveways, but we have none here.” Willis Polk has for some years had his eye on the artistic possibilities of the region in question and he would have a boulevard to-morrow if he could. His idea is that it should run through the footh *It is exactly what I have had in mind years,” he said yesterday. It v a matter of the greatest incon- so many desirable country places are entirely dependent upon a single railroad, which, skirting tidewater as it does, leaves the prettiest and healthiest villa sites too remote to be occupied except as farms and ranches. “A boulevard constructed on the plan of the celebrated turnpikes of Kentucky, it laid out from two to three miles west of the railroad, would at magnificent pl ) n residences. This form of living is rapidly coming into vogue on this coast. Indeed, no other section of this country is so well adapted to country life, and no other form of living so pleasant. “The celebrated ‘colonial’ homesof Ken- tucky, Virginia and New England are more than likely to be idealized here, with all the pleasant surroundings that rendered :ih“u S0 enticing to the dames of early ays. ‘*Already Burlingame is assuming pro- portions that absolutely demand t struction of a boulevard. Redwood, ) and Palo Alto would complete the connec- ly who drives a tion between the city and San Jose. The proposition could not receive en h en- couragement, and as a financial investment the increase in real estate values would pay for it many times over.” : The future ~of the boulevard mainly awaits the pushing enterprise of San Mateo County. A Schooner Captain It is reported by the steamsh arrived yesterday from Honolulu, that Captain Nordberg of the schooner Anna was drowned at Kahului. He was bosrding his vessel at nightina small boat and fell overboard. A heavy sea was running and all aitempts to save nim failed, and he was sWept 8way 1o dis- appear in the He Wants His Back Pay, A few years ago John M. McDonald was em- ployed as clerk by the United States Distriet Attorney of Helena, Mont., at a salary of $1500 @ year. When the sum of $1237 50 was due him he applied for his money, but the Govern- ment wouid not pay. He brought suit against the United States in_the Circuit Court of Mon- tana and won. Uncle Sam still refuses to pay and has carried the case to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. ip Arawa, which A Mission Blaze. A frame dwelling at 131 Twenty-fifth street, owned by C. Hellwig and oceupied by D. Van. drade, wes badly damaged by fire last m‘;m. The alarm was sent in irom ‘box 236 at 10:40 P, a0, The origin of the fire is unknown,