The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1895. 17 . —— TP e Wy EHOW JAGR =S5T HIS Our captain was a Yankee who traced his genealogy to Plymouth Rock and be- hind it to Penzance, a small seaport town in the west of England. He came from a family of sailors and was proud of his grandfather, whom he used to talk about as the boatswain’s mate of the old frigate | Constitution. *To-day is Washington’s birthday,” he said, calling out to the steward, who had picked himself up out of the lee scuppers, where he had been washed by a sea as he was trying to reach the galley; ‘“tell the cook to give 'em a mess of pium duff for- ward, and let 'em b n extra allowance in honor of the daj The gale that had been blowing for sev- eral days seemed to st to us, and the snow and hail that fell upon the yards and shrouds froze solid, making us look like a floating iceberg, and the big green waves that rose away off on the weather bow would curl up into hissing froth as they | PiM BWFF | i | take the whole bloody lot of it and ram it down his bloody throat, I would.” iat's the way to falk it,” exclaimed Yorky. “Blowed if I'm goin’ 0 cheat my stomach by givin’ it ‘plum duff’ as isn’t | plum duf¥.” Come, let's all go.” ‘“Pass it up here. Let me see it.” “Yes, sir; here’s mine, sir,” said Yorky, handing his up. ‘‘And wine, t0o0,” interrurted Dan. “Are youall dissatisfied ?” asked Captain Nickerson, looking at the rest of us, who stood in a group around the booby hatch in our dripping oilskins. & “We speaks for the watch,” cried Dan. “L didn’t ask you, you burgoo-eating hound, you!” roared Nickerson, turning around and grabbing one of the iron be- laying-pins before referred to. ‘“Let the others speak for themselves.” “Yorky and Dan, they speaks for the i(urbonrd watch, sir,” spoke up Liverpool im. “Then let me have your duff, all of you. Call the steward, Mr. Lane. There are plenty of steerage passengers who will be glad fo eat it. Mere, steward, take these men’s dinners from them; good living is a stranger to their stomachs; they’re too well fed anyhow. If this rough weather continues much longer I'll have to put them on short allowance.” |~ “Yes, all you fellows come ton,”” shouted Dan, and being too cowardly to'say no we Zot up and went, carrying our duff with |us. Many were reluctant to go, as we were hungry and our mouths were water- ing for a mess of plum duff, the first that | we had since lea rpool, thirty- three days before. y no meant a broken head, so we joined the procession | to the poop in a blinding storm, with our | duff under our oilskin coats to shelter it | from the whitened spray that drenched the decks. When we got as far as the booby hatch | Mr. Forsyth, the chief mate, demanded to know what we wanted. > “We want to see the cap'n, sir, about Kohler, a German, whose bunk was | under mine, hated to lose his duff—and | many of us sympathized with him, but i Jacked the courage to speak out—said: “Dhan un Yorky dhey shay 'tis nashty, but 'm tam hungry, sir’—biff, and away went plate and duff into the lee scuppers. | Yorky had given it a kick that knocked it | out of his hands, and Jim hit him a | thump in the back of the head that landed { him beside his duff, with a “Take that, | you saurkraut-eating hound " |~ **Put those two mutinous scoundrels in | irons and trice ’em up!” shouted the cap- tain to the mate, “‘and get to — forward | out of here! be —— quick about it the | rest of you!” THE SHIP WAS UNDER A GOOSE - WINGED MAINTOPSAIL. struck us, and piling in over the cathead fill the decks and so tax the scupper-holes that we had to burst the bulwarks to let the water run off. | We were cold, wet and hungry, and when | eight bells struck Liverpool Jim was the first to reach the fo'k’sle and snatching up /the empty wooden kid rushed with it to the galley and returned with a big “‘plum duff” that was smoking hot. There were sixteen of us in the watch, so Jim pitched in and cut it into sixteen pieces, using for the purpose his sheath-knife, the one that he cut his tobacco with and the tarry ropes that he spliced. Ship-owners then didn’t provide sailors with carving nor any other kind of knives and the head carver of the watch usually cleaned his by rubbing it up and déwn the leg of his trousers that were so stiff they would stand alone from tar, grease and dirt. We who were nearest the kid had the first whack at the “‘duff,” and by the time the men at the wheel reached the fo'k’sle the duff,” said Yorky, stepping out from among u “The — you do. What's the matter with it?’ asked the mate, gely. ~What’s the matter with 7it? ’Tis rotten, that’s what ’tis, sir,” cried Dan, he took a position close'to Yorky. “Tis: fit for pigs to eat, so 'taint, and w | come aft to see the captain and ax | look at it.”” Dan was a square-shouldered, dee?- chested, powerfully built man of about 25 | years of age. He had a massive jaw and very ugly looking. There wasn’t a air on his face. He wouldn’t allow any to grow on it. Instead of shaving he pulled it all out with his fingers, and he i kept the hair that grew on his head cut close to the sealp. He had an idea that his strength went into his hair. H body, he used to say, furnished 'nouri: ment for the hair the same a the earth nourished wild weeds, and as he wanted muscles instead of hair he had pulled the latter out by the roots. His muscles were very large and hard. I've seen them when he was “Don’t budge, shipmates!” yelled Dan always spoiling for_a fight of some kind, “we ain’t done nothing that he should put us in irous for.” “You ish to plaim, you fool, for what you be no satistied mid the schmall piece,’ cried the now exasperated German, who ined his feet; but Dan's hard and 2d fist soon silenced him, seeing which the captain jumped from the poop and buried his big iron. belayimz.pin in Dan's head, cutting it open and felling him to the slippery deck. Yorky with a blow from his fist ser ain sprawling into the scuppers, kicked him in the face and was in the act of pushing him ovi board through a hole in the bulwarks, when the second mate, upon hearing the row, rushed on deck and struck him with a neaver, breaking his arm below the elboy and cutting a gash in the side of his face that reached from the roots of his hair to the end of his chin. Dan and Yorky, after their wounds were roughly dressed by the be ain, were thrown down into the lazarette; some ! of us were sent aloft in the blinding snow \ \ \ W SHOWING THE PLUM DUFF TO THE SKIPPER. all had been supplied but themselves. Looking into the kid and seeing both heels—or end pieces—they growled and cursed the duff, the plums, the kid and the day. Both were fighters, and as such were the “bullies”” of the watch. In theslang of the time they were known as “bucco sailors,” or the “bloody fortys.” There re many other hard cases in our watch yet, strange to say, these two fellows had us all cowed. p 5 “I'm not one as is goin’ to put ug' with any of this bulldozing,” said orky, scowling at the piece of duff that he held in his hand, and asked, “Did the skipper send his spyglass with the duff? T can't see any of them blasted plums with me | naked eye.” 2 “No,”” said his chum, Wexford Dan, “I don’t s’pose he did,” and with an oath he continued: “Look you here, Yorky, I can only see two plums in this piece and they are so far apart that bloody old slave- driver ought ter send us a donkey to carry me from one plum to t'other. I'd like to taking an extra pull on some heavy ropes stand out upon his arns. in big lamyps that | wereas hard asa cobblestone and about | the same color. | He was without doubt the toughest | piece of human flesh to be found any- | where. As for his chum Yorky—he was a | lanky, laqtern-?'chd fellow, with a nose | that was in a blaze of red from its tip to the roots, and it took all his wages to keep upits color. These men could read a little, knew no fear, and were daredevils enough to head a mutiny or scuttle a ship. Both were good sailors. They could turnin a deadeye, clap on a throat-seizing, fit a cringle, decorate 2 man rope or serve a stay | as good as any sailor that I ever met. | “What's the matter there, Mr.§f For- | sythe?” callea out the captain, who had | just come up out of the cabin throngh the after companignway and stood close to the | pin rail on tHe mizzen mast, within easy reach of a couple of iron belaying-pins upon which no ropes were coiled. “They’re growling about the duff, sir, and they’ve brought it aft to show it to you.” | with slush pots to grease down the masts, | and we not anly lost our “plum duff” din. | ner, but our watch below. There were four hundred and fifty emi- | grants—young men and women stowed | away in the 'tween decks beneath battered- down hatches, unmindful of the fact that {on the wave-syept decks above them a | bloody encounter had taken place that | might have brought about the destruction | of the Connecticut and turned her into a coffin and the combers which curled up around us into burial shrouds for her liy- ing freight. Dexis KEARNEY. NO OLEWS WERE DISOLOSED. The Inquest on Cornelius Stagg Reveals No New Facts. The inquest upon the remains of Cor- nelius Stagg, proprietor of the Ingleside, who was murdered on the 16th inst., was held in the Coroner’s office yesterday. Nothing of & sensational character was | is promis brought out and nearly all the facts in the testimony have already been published. The half-dozen witnesses who were exam- ined simply corroborated each other and the verdict of the jury was in consequence that “Cornelius Stagg came to his death by bullets fired by an unknown man on the evening of March 16,” Robert Lee, who was in the room with Stagg when the robber entered, testified as follows: ‘I was sitting in the dining- room with Stagg. I heard a peculiar noise as _though some one was trying to get quietly into the room. . About half a min- ute later a tall man with a mask on walked by me. He ordered Mr. Stagg into the barroom and pulled a gun. Stagg looked at him_in surprise and asked, ‘Is this‘a ase of bluff?’ The robber did not speak but struck him twice over the head with the butt of the revolver. Tran outof the room and a few minutes later I heard two shots. 1could not recognize the man as he was masked.”’ Lee said in answer to a question that he did not know whether Stagg had had any trouble with any one during the day. Charles Owttrim, the barkeeper, and Howard Jones, who were shaking dice at the time of the shooting, described the men as being 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 1 inch high respectively. They were masked, wore rubber shoes and linen dusters. The 1l'in doubt as to who the rob- police are bers are. MILITARY NOTES. The Third Regiment to Have a New Armory—Entertainments to Be Given Next Month. The Third Infantry is at last to have the new armory which has been talked of so long. Last Wednesday evening the board of officers signed the lease for the fifty-vara lot on which the building is to be erected. The location selected is the south side of Fulton street, betwen Polk and Van Ness avenue. Work on the plans for the build- ing will begin early in the week, and as soon as they are approved the actual con- struction of the armory will be commenced. It will be hurried through to completion as fast as possible. The members of Company A of the Third Infantry are making arrangements for a smoker and high jinks, to be given in the company room at the armory on the 6th prox. There is considerable talent in the company and an excellent programme The committee of arrange- ments which has the matter in hand in- cludes Lieutenant Ballinger, Sergeant Sul- livan and Privates Thogode, Donahue and Davidson. The members of the First Infantry Regi- ment will give an exhibition drill and in- spection and a grand ball at the Pavilion on the 19th prox. The companies are drill- ing regularly in preparation for the event. '%he following members of the Second Artillery have been promoted: Corporal G. W. Tverson of Battery F, to be ser- geant; Privates A. Wolff, A. W. Ahlborn and H. Lemeteyer of Battery C, to be cor- porals; Private W. P. Maher of Battery H, to be corporal. The sentence of dishonorable discharge imposed by a court-martial on two mem- bers of Battery E_for_conduct prejudicial to good order and_military discipline has been confirmed. The men discharged were Privates Maurice Kirby and F. M. Ames. Neither of them filed an answer to the charges. Among the members of the Second Ar- tillery who have been discharged for vari- ous reasons are three first sergeants—J. F. Siebe of Battery C, S. O'Conner of Battery G and W. E. Darby of Battery B. Of these Siebe has served in the Guard for twelve years and O’Conne; nce 1886, GRADING THE NEW TRACK FIRST WORK OF CONSTRUCTING THE OCEAN VIEW RACECOURSE BEGINS. EVERYTHING WiILL BE IN READI- ss FOR RACING TO BEGIN NEXT NOVEMBER. A large force of workmen will begin to- morrow morning to grade the Ingleside Tract for the new racetrack that is to sur- pass all others west of Chicago. They will have no time to lose, for before half the ground is graded building will be com- menced. The various contracts call for extensive operations and require all work to be fin- ished before next September, so during the summer the grounds will daily present a busy spectacles. On November 1 next the new track will be formally opened and racing for the winter season be commenced. In all, it has been estimated that before the track is completed an outlay of $400,- 000 will be represented in the enterprise. The ground alone, which has an area of 127 acres, lying south of the Ocean House road, behind the Ingleside cottage, cost $200,000. Grading will cost $30,000 and buildings about $120,000. Ed. Corrigan, A. B. Spreckels, Henry J. Crocker and Joseph Ullman are the principal men in’ the company, and have many well-known Eastern horsemen asso- ciated with them. They will at once erect stalls for 1400 horses, ‘and Mr. Spreckels and Mr. Corrigan will have their racers housed there as soon as the stables are ready. Before the racing season opens there will be many of the best Eastern strings at Ocean View. A novelty in the treatment of horses will then be introduced on a large scale. The track is but a short distance from the ocean beach, and horses will be taken there daily and given salt- water baths to strengthen” and harden the sinews of their legs to a degree that cannot be reached with fresh-water bathing. Great care will be taken to have the track prop- erly drained and so arranged with layers of coarse rock, broken stones and sand that it will absorb rain water rapidly and keep hard and firm during the winter. So far as the buildings are concerned they will be a copy of the celebrated Haw- thorne track at Chicago, h all the latest improvements added. There will be a handsome clubhouse, a grand stand ana betting-ring, and many conveniences that will be new in San Francisco. Besides, the grounds are to be set out in ornamental shrubs, and a grove of eucalyptus and cy- press will be pianted immediately to form a break against the winds = e JUDGE CAMPBELL MANDAMUSED, A Liquor-Dealer Does Not Like the Election Pledges. Albert Baldetta, now on trial in Judge Campbell’s Pclice Court for selling liquor without a license, has secured a writ of mandamus from the Superior Court com- pelling Judge Campbell to transfer his case to another court. The writ is issued in pursuance of one of the contentions which have been going on in the Police courts over the election In his application vledges of the Judges. n aldetta sets forth that in the Republican platform, which Camupbell indorsed, was a plank which pledged all candidates, if elected, to nse their best endeavors to re- strict and suppress just such places of busi- ness as he is carrying on. For that reason he alleges pre;iuqxce, and wants his case transferred. This was refused, and Bal- detta now has his writ, which will be heard before Judge Sanderson next Friday. et et % + Hunting Unstamped Opium. The customs authorities have again turned their attention to Chinatown. It is thought that large quantities of unstamped opium are concealed there, and Surveyor Eng- lish seems determined to unesarth it if he can. A couple of inspectors have been quistly at work under his instructions, and a number of small seizures have been ma Yesterday ten cans of the unstamped drug were found at 22 Spofford alley, and on Thursday a complete cooking outfit was found in one of the gne— ments on Cum Cook alley, | ™M The United States has received many valuable citizens from Germany, but few have come here from that country in re- cent years who have brought with them an already acquired European reputation. | Franz -Sigel, who landed in New York in May, 1852, was known thronghout Europe | in consequence of his distingnished service in the German revolutionary army in 1848 and 1849; and Carl Schurz, who came her in 1852, had won a wide celebrity by his rescue of Gottfried Kinkel from a Prussian dungeon, but aside from these two I can at the moment call to mind no others who have, since 1850, come to this country her- alded by a European fame. The single act by which Carl Schurz became celebrated throughout Europe is not much known here, and if it were it was of so heroic a character that it would be worthy of repe- tition for the benefit of the generation that has been born since it made Carl Schurz famous. Gottfried Kinkel was an illustrious poet, philosopher and patriot, who occupied high rank in the literature of Germany, and held the position of professor of | rhetoric in the famous University of Bonn, in Rhenish Prussia. When the revolution of 1848 broke out his strong democratic §ymgathies led him to take an active part in the struggle against despotism. He set on foot a iiberal newspaper, and in the spring of 1949 headed an insurrection of the students at Bonn, which, failing, he fled to the Palatinate, where he entered the revolutionary army, and took part in the defense of Rastadt, a strong town and ~— quadrilles to the great delight of a_bat- talion of police, just the men whose bus ness it was to_arrest and lead him out to execution. He left this dangerous society early on the following morning, but not until he had discovered that Kinkel was confined in the fortress of Spandau, one of the strongest in Prussia, only eight miles from Berlin and the key to'the_de- fenses of the capital. It wasmanned by nearly 4000 men, and Kinkel was in the personal custody of the governor of the fortress. Then Schurz went out of the hand-organ business, and set about concocting a pian to effect the liberation of illustrious compatriot. Inall the history of recent events I know of nothing so bold in con- ception, so daring in execution, as the plan of this young man to release a closely guarded prisoner from the custody of nearly 4000 jailers, ioned almost with- in hearing ‘of the central authority of Prussia. . Spandau in 1850 contained, aside from its garrison, a population of about 2 accustomed, like most Germans, to re to their beds before midnight. Into this quiet place there drove one night, not long after Carl Schurz had pla at organ grinding for the party of soldiers, a pos! chaise, escorted by a party of four It rambled through the de- s and halted before the prison when an officer in the uniform of a col nel of the Royal Guard alighted from the vehicle. He was soon closeted with the commandant of the prison, to whom he £i a letter bearing the offici, al of the Minister of the Interior at Berlin. The THE RESCUE. fortress in Baden. At the fall of that | fortress he was among the prisoners, and being speedily tried for high treason he | was condemned to a long imprisonment at hard labor. In 1846 Carl Schurz, at the age of seven- teen, entered the Unive of Bonn and came at once under the influence of the renowned professor. A close and affec- tionate intimacy sprang up between them | and when Kinkel established his liberal | newspaper Schurz_became, at the age of | nineteen, his principal assistant, and soon for a time the' sole conductor of the jour- | nal. He was involved with Kinkel in the | insurrection of the students and, fleeing | with him to Rastadt, was captured at the surrender of the fortres tried by court-martial a: y cently past his twentieth birthday—was sentenced to be shot. However, before the few days allotted him to live had ex- pired he managed to escape from his.jail- ers and to get safely across the frontier into Switzerland. The illustrious Kinkel was arrayed in convict garb, immured in a common prison, and was set at work in company with the lowest criminals in the manufac- ture of shoes. All Germany, still trem- bling with the recent revolutionary up- heaval, heard with indignation of the out- | rages inflicted upon the eminent man, and numerous petitions were forwarded to the | Prussian Government praying for the | amelioration of his condition; but the authorities turned a deaf ear to all such solicitations, and it was not long before the | etitions ceased, and Kinkel seemed to ave entered upon aliving death, forgotten alike by his friends and by the German world which had so recently delighted to do him honor. It was as if our own Long- fellow, in the very zenith of his fame, had been suddenly clapped into prison, and so effectually hidden away from_the sight of men that the very name of him had been erased from the public memory. But Kinkel was not altogether forgotten. | By Carl Schurz, now just entering upon his twenty-first year, he was still affection- ately remembered. He was ignorant of | Kinkel’s condition and even of his place of | confinement, but he determined to learn, and if possible to concert some plan for his liberation. In the face of instant death, in case of detection, he entered Prussia clad in rags and carrying a heavy organ upon his shoulders. By day he gathered a few coppers_in playing his organ from the assers-by on the highways; at night he flzid his m('gan aside and sought out the friends of German liberty to ascertain the fate of Kinkel and reawaken an interest in the imprisoned patriot. In this way he journeyed on foot more than 300 leagues and through numerous towns and villages, sleeping at night in barns or under way- side hedges. He had several narrow es- capes and it is a marvel that he was not discovered, for he was then, as he is now, a man of striking personal appearance. B On one occasion as he was m‘ffing along the high road he was accosted by several Prussian soldiers, who inquired where he was going. 5 “To the next town,” was his answer. “Would vou like to earna handful of plennings?” i “0Of course I should,” replied Schurz, with decided promptness. “Then come with us to our barracks. We are to have a dance there this evening and your organ would suit us exactly.” 1t "was going directly into the lion’s den; but Schurz could not have declined without exciting suspicion, so, with pro- fuse expressions of gratitude, he went along with the soldiers, and during the jentire night ground out’ waltzes and commandant received the letter with all due respect and read from it as follow “A deep-laid plot has been organized at Berlin, the object of which is to effect the forcible release of the convict, Kinkel, from the hands of the anthorities. We are now watching the movements of the con- spirators and are preparing to arrest them. In order, however, to prevent the possibil- ity of a surprise, the Enarvr of the present letter, Colonel is commanded to take charge of your prisoner, whom he will im- mediately conduct to the citadel of Magde- bourg, and there place him in the hands of the Governor of that fortyess.” The commandang had the unfortunate Kinkel aroused, heavily ironed and placed in the postchaise, which set off at once at a rapid ‘pnce, guarded hy the colonel and the four dragoons, with drawn sabers, on the road to Magdebourg. They rode all night at high speed, taking relays of horses, the uniform of the colonel and the magical words, “On the King’s service,” being suf- ficient to secure the highest expedition. They rode all night. but the morning came at last—a gray winter’'s morning— and they stopped, and the colonel himself opened the carriage door and bade the isoner alight, as their journey was ended. nkel obeyed, and found himself not at Magdebourg but on the seashore, a boat drawn up a few feet from where he stood, and in the offing a ship with the British flag flying. *Don’t you know me, my dear master?” cried the counterfeit colonel, tearing off his false mustachio. “I am Carl Sehurz. Come, let us embrace once more on German soil, and then away for England.” Kinkel could not speak. He could only burst into tears. Ina few moments they were in the boat and rowing toward the ship in the offing. As they ascended the vessel’'s side Kinkel put his arm about Schurz, saying: “My wife, my children, where are they ?”’ He said no more, for in another moment Mme. Kinkel was in his arms, and his children were clinging to his knees. The reward which Carl Schurz received for this her®ic deed was the enthusiastic applause of all Europe. The subsequent life of Kinkel of more than thirty years was a peaceful one, He landed at Edinburgh, where he was most cordially received by the cultivated society of that capital. He soon afterward went to London, snpgor!ing himself by a series of lectures on German literature. In 1852 he came to this country with Carl Schurz, but after a while he réturned to England, where he was appointed professor of Ger- man_literature and lecturer on the fine artsin the University of London. He held this position until his death on November 13, 1882, lecturing occasionally in Paris on Christian art, but he never again set foot in his beloved fatherland. JaxEs R. GILMORE, Copyright, 1895, by S. 8. McClure, Limited. i How to Treat Servants. A discussion of the servant question, now being conducted by a New X(;ork journal, has brought to light a mistress of much intelligence. Her name is Mrs. W. H. Schieffelin, and her treatment of servants is a model which other troubled mistresses should try to copy. Mrs. Schieffelin begins by insisting, whenever she engages serv- ants, that they shall agree to do what- ever they are asked, that they shall never say that this, that or the other is not their work. Having induced them to make this agreement, she does not abuse the right. She feels at liberty to ask the upstairs girls to help in the dining-room, but does not often request this service. She is not afraid to praise her servants, but gives them an encourag- ing word now and then. She makes their lives as comfortable as she can. They have plenty of good food and have a hot dinner every day of the year. Bach of them has a room_ to herself. Mrs. Schieffelin has provided a large sitting-room for them, a arge front basement-room which is car- peted and supplied with tables prettily covered, easy chairs, book shelves and good readable books. Here they can receive their friends. No work except ironing ig done in this room, and the ironing-board is out of sight when not in use. The servants go to the theater once or twice during the winter, and always have a Christmas dinner served in courses, to which they invite two or three friends. When the family goes to Europe the serv- ants are not discharged. Mrs. Schieffelin has found this a satisfactory ngement. When she last arrived from rope she found that the servants had put the house in perfect order and had placed every ornament where it belonged. Some of her servants take an interest in woman’s suf- frage and in politics and read the news- papers regularly.—Mi Sentinel. Thousands On the Street! Close observers have noticed that during the past year there has been a marked im- provement in the character of the footwear seen here on the street. 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