The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1895, Page 6

6 THE SAN‘ FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1895. ONE LONG, LOKG NGHT ON A RAFT AT SEA What One Man Felt and Thought After the Colima Sank. | FACED DEATH FOR HOURS The Mental and Physical Ex~ periences of Charles H. Cushing Jr. DRAWN DOWN WITH THE SHIP. A Welcome Sunrise After a Night of Suspense on the Cabin Rcof in Mid-Ocean. “I went down and down through the | rushing, surging waters till I thought I | would surely find a resting place on the tloor of the ocean. I could hold my breath no longer, and the salt water began rash- ing into my lungs. I was tired and would have liked to reach the bottom so that I| could lie down and rest. I had struggled so hard to rise. But always the swirling debris of the wreck held me down, and the | maelstrom of the sinking hull drew me | down with it. I knew I should never sece | the earth again. I was as certain of that as I am mnow of sitting in this room and telling you all this. I knew I was going to die, and it occurred to me to try to calcu- late how many centuries my- bones might lie at the bottom of the sea before some upheaval of nature should make dry land of my resting-place; I wondered what strata they might find my bones in; I wondered whether they ever would be found. But, above all, I was tired and longed to be free of the struggle with the timbers and_hiss- ing waters that sounded like thunder in my ears.” t was a ver; rather phlegmatic- natured man who sat in a soft plush chair in his parlor at 870 Adeline street, Oak- land, vesterday afternoon, and told these things. He wes Charles H. Cushing Jr., one of the survivors of the wrecked Colima, probably the ounly living man who staid on the ship until she sank and sank with b The story of bi ings strange adventures in brief, what L /| ught during those tre- —every one of was an eternity to him — that from e time the Coiima made st to starboard until the San boat was lowered and he still held a promise for him. r. Cushing fora h an extraordi- nary imag Tndeed, he disclaims the atiribu 1d declares that his sensa- tions were nothing remarkable. 1 had almost forgotten what I thought and felt at that time, aside from the ph cal sensations,” he 'saxd yesterday. “No | one had spoken to me about that P rt of it. | I suppose the sensations were le un- usual, for, of course, the experience is not & common one.” Mr. Cushing said this in about the same tone of voice and same degree of—stolidity was it, or only coolness? Certainly he spoke in a most impersonal manner, as t{:ongh he did not realize the dramatic value of the words he nttered. He is 27 years old, not taller than the average man, but much thicker set. You would judge him to be a good swimmer, and he admits as much. “Nevertheless I had a Kfe-preserver strapped about me before the ship went down,” he said. “I fastened one on my brother George, and he fastened one on me. This was perhaps half an hour before the Colima sank. We ate a good dinner Sunday evening and slept soundlf,' most of the night, though the ship did roll a good deal. sither of ns was afraid in the least. Our cabin was on the port side. In the morning we did not go to break- fast. We were not sick, but we scarcely felt Jike eating. The storm was getting worse and worse, and we concluded we could weather it better on empty stomachs. We slept late and then lay awake in ou} bunks a while listening to the creakin, timbers of the ship and the noise of the wind and rain. Then she listed away over and stayed there for some moments, She listed twice, I think, before she sank, and 1looked out of the transom over our cabin door and could see the waves washing away the starboard cabins. The first thin, I saw through the transom was a streak of blue water. I could hardly believe I had seen aright at first, for Ishould have seen the opposite saloon cabins instead of the streak of blue. “My brother and I said nothing to each other, but we both reached up to the ceil- ing and took down the life-preservers. We could not fasten them on ourselves very well, so { told George to let me fasten his and he could fasten mine. I don’t know what I thcugkt then—Oh, yes; I was thinking, ‘I wonder if we will'get on deck in time?" I wondered, 100, whether every- body else on board had life-preservers. Then I felt a shock and heard a great noise, and I said to my brother: “ ‘She's struck a rock, George. We had betfer be getting out of this.’ . “That must have been her cargo shiit- ing. Theard the noise as plainly as I ever heard anything, and the jar it gave the ship, that sent her still more to the star- board. We were dressed only in our trousers and undershirts. We did not put anything more on for we knew that we were going into the water. Both of us were certain of that. Neither of us spoke much. We crawled on to the deck as quickly as possible and stood there holding fast to the footrail, waiting for her ] clt and ti mendous twenty-four hou which s that life knew 1 You woulid not tak man gifted (or cursed) wi to sink. Ithink we intended to secure a piece of the wreckage and plunge into the sea before she sank; I am not sure about that. We were not excited, but rather dazed. Already the waves were washing pieces of wreckage about. “Suddenly I was struck full in the chest by a huge wave. It knocked meup against the cabin ana blinded me for the moment. That is the last I saw of my brother. The next thing I remember distinctly is escap- ing steam from the stern deck. Then I was being sucked down in the maelstrom of the water, following the Colima. Per- haps I went down a hundred feet—I can’t even guess. At first I struggled desper- ately and used both my hands and feet to force my way up. But the suction of the water was powerful and the water was also thick with whirling timbers and debris from the wreck. And then, when I had about given up the struggle, something forced me to rise. Maybe it was a huge bubble in the water. You know how an empty bottle gives out bubbles when sink- ing in the water. 7 g “Perhaps it was a bubble like this from the hold of the sinking ship that caught me and fairly shot me up. It seemed to part the debris, and I went straightup like a shot without my head touching a solid substance. When my head came above the water I drew a long breath and felt the blood tingling all over me. In an instant 1 lost all §eehng of weariness, and the in- stinct of aell-gmurvation was as keen in meas ever. I wanted to live. I almost believed there was a chance for me to live. ‘I will make an awiul struggte for it,” I thought to myself. ~ 5 “The sea was thick with floating wreck- age and timbers from the deckload, and I easily caught a small piece. .It was not large enough to have sustained. tnywomht£ but I caught it with both hands and i ave me all the s\}pport I needed. I felt then as though I could not sink. The ‘water was extremely buoyant and_seemed to bear me up. But it keep turning and twisting around and getting away from me. The waves were running very high. | At one moment I would be tossed high up on the crest of a wave and the next instant I was hidden way down in the water with high walls of seething, foaming waves all abont me. As fast as one piece of timber was wrenched from my grasp I caught another piece and this without much difficulty. The only thing that troubled me was being continu- | ally banged on the head and body with the | timbers which were blown off from the i crest of the waves and fell anywhere— mostly on me, I thought. I saw many others about me in the same plight, but there was no such thing as speaking to one another or even watching anything but the flying timbers. “The water was pleasantly warm, and though the roar of the storm was some- tking terrifying in itself, one could not help afeeling of exhilaration in the motion of the waves, as they tossed you, first high up and then sent you down and down till it seemed as though the sea had parted and you must strike the bottom of it. I felt hopeful and strong. I had lived through so much already that I hoped to escape in some way, though I had no_possible con- ception 0f how. And the three hours or more I spent tossing about from one piece of wreckage to another did not pass so siowly as one might imagine. There wasso much to 4o all the time I had no chance to think. Yet I do recall that once; when I was on top of a big wave, I looked far off to the horizon and fancied that home was in that direction, and when I thought of home the full sense of my misery came upon me. I knew I should never see it again. It seemed as far away from me as if I had been on another l)lunet. Butas I sank down into the valley between the mountains of water that mental view o home faded with the horizon, 1 felt mis- erable enough then. But I had no time to waste in thoughts. Just then my tenth again. 1 could almost tell you more of Tat 1 did nob think than of what did pass through my brain. Just try to put your- self in my place and ask yourself what you would be tginking all those hundred years. | And then it kept us busy holding on to the | raft all the time. . “Yes; I saw the sunrise in the morning. | I never saw such a sunrise before. I never shall again. [t came up,a greatred ball | of fire, out of what I thought wasa bank | of clouds. But when it got a little higher | we could see that it came from behind mountains. Not even the first sight of the San Juan was more welcome to me than that sunrise after that long, long night. “But the daylight showed us that we were a long way from the land and we had no hope of reaching it. Then we talked a little about the chances of our meeting a ship. We wondered if we were in the track of the coasting vessels and whether any | were due in that vicinity at that time. i . “Then a big wave bore us up high, and like a flash we beheld the hull of a ship. Then down we went again and lost sight of her. Now we wondered what we should | do to attract ber attention. We did what | we could. 1 torethe rag of the shirt off my back and Zangaree stood up and waved it, I kneeling on the raft and grasping his ankles to steady him. Then he grew ex- | hausted and I held up the rag while he steadied me, We kept this up for more than an hour, L should say. Sometimes I thought the vessel saw our signal and was | headu:ig toward us, and then again she showed her stern and we were despairing. At first we thought we should driit down on her, but she changed her course and headed the other way. Sometimes I could see so plainly that I caught a glimpse of a man in the rigging—the lookout. I thought he must see e, and, thank God, he did. By and by the steamer came about and made straignt for our raft. Presently shestoppedand we saw them lower a boat. We knew that boat was for us, and we were wild with joy. ‘We forgot all our past misery, forgot the wounds we had, and the thirst and hunger, we forgot everything, and only feasted our eyes on that approaching boat. We kept on with the signaling until the man in the CHARLES J. CUSHING. [Prom a photograph.] or twelith piece of timber was wrenched away from my hands by a wave that came in crosswise and I had to watch closely for another piece.” The wreckage was gettinfi scattered ‘now and I clenched my teetl hard as I grasped another plank and made up my mind t{mt I would hold on to this pilece in spite of all. ButIcouldn’t. Itwas wrenched away like the others by what was, for me, the last big wave of that storm. I seemed to be drifting away from the storm belt, and presently, when I had caught hold of the only piece of wreckage within sight, it grew decidedly calmer and I had not much difficulty in holding on_to this piece. I was nearly naked all this time, you know, for when I came up from the vortex of waves over the sinking Colima my life preserver and all but a shred of my undershirt had been completely torn off my body. ““When the sea was 2 bit some distance from me, a rait and what I thought was the figure of a man onit. I ioun§ 1 was drifting toward it,and I swam 2 little to catch up to it. When I got with- in a yard or two I let go my bit of wreck- age and swam for the raft. There was a man lying on it—Zangaree, the man-of- warsman. We said nothing to each other for a long time. I caught hold of the raft with both hands and floated along that way for half an hour or so. Then 1 asked him if it would bear us both. £ * “Yes, and halfa_dozen more,’ he said. ‘Better come aboard.’ “I climbed on and sat down beside him. The raft sank a little deeper in the water then—we were about eighteen inches under water all the time. The raft wasa piece of the deck cabin roof, about 8x10 feet in area, I should think. It was very stout and held together well. I-sat there, hold- ing fast with both hands to the rafters— the roof was turned upside down in the water, you see. “I had been sitting there about an hour or more, I suppose, when we saw_another man floating near by onaraft. It wasa smaller raft than ours, and we told him to leave it and come with us. But when he joined us he said he was sorry he did so, ecause his own raft was better than ours. ‘We had both—that is, Zangaree and I— occasion afterward to wish the third man had staid on his own raft. He was a sea- man of the Colima—the one who broke open the keg of wine we found and drank 50 much that he became intoxicated. I don’t like to go over that story again. He assaulted me, and we had to throw him overboard. We fished him out again, and he let us alone, but he was wild with the wine, and presently swam off against our utmost efforts. I suppose he was drowned. ‘We never saw him again. And in the afternoon, while Zangaree was sleeping, I threw the wine away, fearing the tempta- tion for both of us. “What did we do on the rait all night? Great heavens, I can’t tell yoa that. It Was a century in length. Did we sleep? I never closed my eyes, nor did Zangaree, after dark. We did not talk: much, Once or twice we spoke of the possibility of reaching land. Early in the evening we resolved to watch for floating timbers, hoping to find a piece that would serve as an oar or paddle and help us to make the shore. At first we thought we could see the land and had a strong hope that the tide might take us in. But asit grew dark we lost even the direction in which we sup- posed the land to lay and not a stick or bii of driftwood could” be seen on the water. ‘We had absolutely nothing. “Yes; that was the ni; h% of a lifetime, A man couldn’t live through many of them. 1 had not much hope. Sometimes 1 thought of my brother, and wondered if he had saved himseli. Sometimes 1 thought of home—yes, often, oiten 1 thought about home. Once in the night I remember the f.honiht occurred to me whether the cable- cars had stopped running on Market street et. Then Irecalled that the last ferry- t left San Francisco for Oakland before the last car left the foot of Market street, It was queer how those kind of thoughts would come into a man’s head at suci a time; but then, you know, a man can think a whole lof in a hundred years. L thon.%hc how foolish it was to ‘measure time by hours and minutes, and I decided that the 01:]]6 way to measure time was by what one suffered or experienced. I thought of my things I had lost in the ship. I wondered if I should ever wear clothes guiet I saw, at bow of the small boat called out to us and wayed his hand. Then we sat down and waited. Perhaps we waited five minutes— | but it seemed a week to us. I forget what | happened next. Whether I got into the | boat first or Zangaree, or both of us leaped in together. I only remember that part of {itin a dim, hazy sort of way. But I re- member how glad I was. No one can ever | know how glad I was when I felt the deck of the San Juan under my feet.” SENTENCES OF CONVICTS Edward McGreavy Given Ten Years in San Quentin ; for Robbery. Several Other Criminals Recelve the Penalty of Their Mis- deeds. | A number of convicted criminals were yesterday awarded the penalty of their at- tacks upon society. Judge Bahrs sentenced Edward Mc- Greavy to ten years’ imprisonment in San Quentin. McGreavy was formerly in the United States navy, and last February, having been robbed of all his money on the Barbary Coast, retaliated by robbing an old man named Fitzgerald of a check for convicted of robbery. Several prior convictions stood against him, and the prospect when he appeared for sentence yesterday was that he ;would be given a term of twenty years'in the State Prison. Assistant District Attorney Hosmer, however, obtained the withdrawal of the “priors,” and Judge Bahrs made an order of the sbeve-named sentence. James Hanley, convicted of burglary, and Gus Anderson, found guilty of the same offense, were each sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in San Quentin. ' Judge Belcher sentenced William M. Harris, convicted of burglary in the second degree, to four years’ imprisonment in San Quentin, after delivering a severe lecture to the prisoner. Charles Upperhouse and James Roe, each charged with assault with a deadly weapon, were given four months in the County Jail by the same Judge. The case against Thomas Bowe, accused of assault with a deadly weapon, was or- dered dismissed, he having been com- mitted to the asylum at Uki as insane. —————— Doctors and Doctors. A certain lieutenant in one of the Queen’s regiments stationed at Quebec was the unfortunate possessor of a habit of sprinkling his conversation with a unique variety and an appalling quaatity of strong words. At a garden party in the “Ancient Capital’’ he was ?resenud by his hostess to a “‘Dr. Wright,” from an up- per townships. Thelieutenant, beingsome- what bo: by the affair, opened the con- versation with his new acquaintance with a remark to the effect that en teas were ‘“‘the — —— bores that a fellow had to put ur with.” The doctor aliowed that possibly they were. The lieutenant, en- couraged by “the other’s concurrence, went on to recount a recent experience of his at a similar gathering, and had but ex- hausted one-half his startling vocabulary, when the doctor, excusing himself with "a ained expression, hurried away. The ieutenant hunted up an acquaintance and said: “I_say, old chap, who the — was that medical fellow 1 was talking to?” ‘““That,” was the comforting reply, “was the Rev. Dr. Wright, from —" ° But the lieutenant had flown.—Life. As compared with the populations of Western nations, the Chinese are more sparing in the use of nhonfiidrinh. They have no wine, spirits have little attraction for them and tar-asum, the beer of China, issold in large quantities. Asa beverage, u: l:m' the use of tea has superseded every | otber, 1 $100, $1in coin and a gold watch. He was. BRUTALITY ON THE SEA Charges by the San Juan’s Passengers Almost Pass Belief. ATFIDAVITS TELL THE STORY. It All Seems Incredible and Yet the Proof Is Absolute—The Sur- geon’s Side. The steerage passengers who recently arrived on the Pacific Mail steamer San Juan from New York and way ports are complaining bitterly of the treatment they received at the hands of the ship company. The charge is made that the food served was unfit to eat, and that for several days they were obliged to subsist on corned beef in a partial state of decomposition. Dozens of them bear witness to this state- ment. Dr. Robertson comes in for a good deal of censure for what the passengers assert was gross neglect of two sick men—one a survivor of the Colima and the other a passenger on the San Juan from San Jose de Guatemala bound for San Francisco. This man was Thompson, who died soon after the arrival of the San Juan at this port. Gustave Rowan was the other man who claims that he was neglected by Dr. Robertson. In corroboration of his claim he has the statements of several passengers and the affidavit of one—Louis Roetticher —who took care of him on the way up. Dr. Robertson calls Rowan a ‘“crazy fiddler” and says that he was well treated. Replying to Rowan’s statement, pub- lished in the CALL of Saturday, Dr. Robert- son said yesterday: “In regard to the treatment that Rowan received after coming aboard the San Juan, it could not have been better bad he been a cabin passenger. Just after his rescue he was brought on board by means of a rope, which was fastened around his body, and I met him at the gangway with a bottle of brandy. I immedmbef_v offered him a drink of this, which he refused to take, saying that he had never taken a drink in his life and didn’t propose to start at that time. 1 insisted upon it, and he finally drank it. After that we removed him to the men’s steerage, as the women’s steerage was already completely filled with the rescued. “I had a competent man cut his hair from his scalp oyer the location of the wound on his head, and told him I would return in a few minutes to attend to his injuries. After sewing up the wounds of three or four patients I returned to Mr. Rowan and asked him to sit up. He placed himself on a bench in the steerage, which had been used for other patients, and I made a thorough examination of his injuries. I then stated that he would have fo have this scalp wound attended to. He asked me if there would be any pain connected with it. I told him that I thought if he took a good drink of brand: he would suffer no pain worth speaking of. He answered that if there were any pain at all of he would not have the opera- tion performed. “Itold him that my time was limited and that I had a great many patients to attend to—not only the shipwrecked men, but our own passengers and crew, an that he would have to make up his' mind right away. “He absolutely refused to have the operation performed, after I Liad used every him up. The sailor was so drunk thathe could searcely stand. Rowan said: ““Go away; you are drunk. Ido notwant you to fool arotnd my head.” s Aiter no one attempted to do anything for him in & medical or surgical way. 1 did what I could for him. He asked for & cup of milk and was refused, on the plea that there was no milk. A monkey belonging to one of the ship’s crew got milk frequently aiter Rowan was refused, and I know of my own knowledge that there was milk in plénty at the command of the doctor. Rowan arrived in San Francisco without having his wounds examined or attended to in any way, save for what I did for him in cut- ting the hair about the laceration of his !cll{!. He got no extra food or care, and was forced to subsist on steerage fare, which was not fit for a dog. For three days we had nothing in the shape of meat but rotten corned beef, which was tasted by only a few. The smell of it was enough to take most of us sick. I have been to sea eight years and have never seen such food put up for men to eat before. Lou1s ROETTICHER. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of June, A.D. 1895. James M. ELL1S, Notary Public in and for the City and Connty of Ban Francisco, State of California, _The swern statement of C. A. Bertram, given as follows, corroborates the charges of eriminal neglect and brutality on board the San Juan, fiying the American flag: q;:x. Bertram, being duly sworn, deposes and Was a passenger on the Pacific Mail steam- ship San Juan on her last trip up the coast, having taken steerage passage at San Jose, Guatemala, for San Francisco, Cal. At the port of Ban Jose & man named 01mpson took a steerage passage on the San Juan, also bound for San Francisco. Seven days out from San Jose he was taken sick. We thought that it was Mexican fever. No one came to offer to do anything for him. One day he dropped on the deck in’a spasm,and we told him to see the doctor. He started for the doctor’s office and fell down in another spasm at the door. ‘The doctor saw him, and sents man to bathe his face in ammonia, This did not seem to help him, and he was left alone stretched out on the deck with his hat for a pillow. After a time he came to and crawled back to the steer- age, where he lay for four days without medi- calattendance or other care, with the excep- tion of that bestowed by myself. He was per- fectly helpless, and I took hima cup of tea twice a day. This was all that he could keep on his stomach. His condition became so serious that myself and two other passengers wentto the captain. We told him that the man had black vomito, and asked to have him removed. The captain said that he had no place to put him, but that he would see what conld be done with the doctor. Soon after Dr. Robertson came into the steerage. He weas sober on this occasion, which was a subject of remark emong the passengers. I have seen him under the in- fluence of liquor on many previous occasions and sometimes very drunk. He said that the man could not snd should nQt be removed. I answered that the man was dying and should be taken to the hospital. I said to him that, although steerage passengers, Wwe were human beings and demnngerl human treatment from the officers of the ship. The same night the sick man was removed to the hospital and died a short time after the ship arrived in San Francisco. During his iliness he got no extra food or medical attendance of any kind or description. In common with other steerage passengers, he was entitled to the rotten beef with ngch the rest of us were served, but he could eat nothing. Complaints were frequently made by the passengers to the chief cook, Who slways promised to give us more wholesome food. Ihave crossed the Atlantic seven times, but I have never seen before on land or sea. such rotten food set before humean beings as was served to the steerage passengers on the San Juan during her last trip ‘ép the coast. . A. BERTRAM. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of June, A. D. 1895, JAMES M. ELLIS, Notary Public'in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California. Samuel Cohen’s affidavit confirms these devositions. It is given as follows: nEunm:l Cohen, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 1yvas a passenger on the San Juan on her last trip to San Francisco. I took passage at New York in the steerage. During the trip I got. acquainted with & man named Thompson, who was ill. He received no medieal ‘attendance {from the doctor of the ship. ‘We Were fed on otten beef such as was notfit for & dog. 1 often saw Dr. Robertson drunk. SAM COHEN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of June, 1895, JAMES M. ELLIS, Notary Public in and for the City and County of Ban Francisco, State of California. TO AID THE SURVIVORS. argument to show him- the benefit that would be derived from it. I then left him, and possibly a few hours afterward returned to see if he had changed his mind, He again refused, and I gave it up. ‘‘In regard to his asking for milk, I can only say that we carry no milk on -board, and that I neyer made the remark that we had no milk for steerage passengers. -The statement that cabin passengers got milk is utterly untrue. ““Three or four days after the rescue Mr. Rowan requested to be fed from the cabin. Istated to him that other steerage pas- sengers were taking steerage fare, and that Ididn’t see why he should expect more than his comrades. He certainly received every consideration in the world and all the treatment that I could give him. . “The charge that I was intoxicated dur- ing any part of the trip is utterly false, and my statement can be verified, not oniy by the odtficers, but by all of the passengers on ard. _Gustaye Rowan, who is one of the sur- vivors of the Colima, went before a notary public yesterday and made an affidavit, as follows: Gustave Rowan being duly sworn deposes and says: On the afternoon of May 28 I was picked up off the Mexican coast by a boat from the Pacific Mail steamer San Juan end taken on board that vessel. Ihad been twenty-nine hours on & piece of wreckage from the Colima and was nearly dead. My ribs were injured, I hada big gash on top of my head and was bleeding from many wounds on my body. Iwas putdownin the steerage instead of the hospital. Iwasso weak that I could not take & single step to save my life, or even sit up. After four hours Dr. Robertson came to see me. He looked at my head, which was covered with clotted blood, but did not look at my other wounds. He went away and senta sailor to stitch up my scalp. This man had a rusty needle, so 1would not let him operate on me. Thedoctor did not offer to do u.nything for me after this, though I told him that needed food that would give me strength, and bandages for my bruised body. The next day I was worse end they put me in the hospital, but the doctor did nothing to make me better. I was burned up inside from the sea water and begged him. x%r a glass of milk, but he would not give me any. He got milk and gave much to first-class o who were -Tot picked up. irom. the Colme and who did not need it. Iwas injured inter- nelly and_suffered greatly. I also asked the doctor to do something for me, but he refused to make any examination or to taxe any notice of my condition. Others were treated in the same way if they dared to tell of it, but that is not m{ business, Ihave only tolook out for myself, Iknow that I was treated in a brutal way and thatI shall ‘be many months in get- ting well. Dr. Robertéon was drunk when he came to see me first and_the man he sent to stitch up my head was also drunk. The food that was given the steerage passengers was rotten. The meat was not fit to eat, but I was allowed only steerage fare during my illness. GUETAVE ROWAN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of June, A. D, 1895. o o e o T Rantprar e and County of San - cisco, State of Cnflmmh. % Louis Roetticher made an_affidavit in which there are charges which for cruelty and inhuman conduct almost pass be- lief. He swears to the facts in Rowan’s affidavit, and although his language is couched in cold legfi style it carries a sting. The deposition is as follows: Louis Roetticher, being duly sworn, deposes uld:ifi':. passenge: the San Juan during r on her 1ast trip up the const from Panamn, having taken e at the latter port for San Fran- cisco. 1was one of the volunteers who manned the boat t! up Gustave Rowan. We Captain Pitts was on bridge. A man nln?ed Long called for volun- an 'ue boat, an ree k to the San Juan, thrown over the side, which was bou his body and he was hoisted ‘When I !ot about I went and found Rowan there. He was O b atee Hoa :n 8 bm cut about Rowan’s wounds on tHe head. - I did so. In about tour or five hann‘z: returned. Dur- ing this timeI went after him several times to come and attend to Rowan. The next thing I saw was a sailor, who was very druuk, stand- ing over Rowan with a needle in his hand. Rowan asked him what he was going to do, and he saswered that he had been SeAl 10 S6W A Serles of Benefits for Those Who Are Left of the Colima’s * Crew. The following letter was received by the CaLL yesterday : June 8, 1895. Ar. C. M. Shortridge, Editor_and Proprietor San Francisco Call-DEAR S1k: We have to-day made arrangements whereby the resoned men from the wrecked steamer Colima are to re- ceive a series of benefits at the Circus Royal. Reproductions of the scenes from the wreck are to be produced upon the water and the rescued men are to appear in the tableaux. As the benefits are really chantable affairs they should receive the support of our citizens, for many of them *go down to the sea in ships.” Resfiftlull)‘. CLIFF PHILLIPS, Pro- prietor Circus Royal, corner Mason and Eddy streets. This is the first step taken toward re- lieving the survivors of the Colima who lost all their worldly possessions when the steamer sank beneath the waves. By the benefits the survivors of the crew will re- ceive 25 per cent of each night's entertain- ment during the coming week. That the affair may be more successful, seven of the shipwrecked mariners have been engaged to ;f)ammpnte in a series of scenes of %he awful wreck. The arrangements will be under the direction of the surviving sea- men, and they will go through the awful scenes which were enacted on the ocean. The seamen will also take part in the tableaux which will make up the general entertainment. The survivors who will participate are Third Officer O. Hansen and Seamen Albert Carpenter, Raymon Avilas, Thomas Fries, Jose Morel, Bruno Ceslo and Juan Antonio Ramez. The first performance will be to-morrow night. sttt YAV, HIS WIFE WAS WAITING. Which Was Better Than a Temperance Lecture. A drunken man is an object of terror to most women, and I don’t wonder at it, says a woman writer in the New York Recorder. My lot has never been cast in the vicinity of one and I am glad of it, for I don’t think my stock of patience would hold out very iong. One of the wretched creatures was occu- pying a seat—in fact several seats—in an “L” train the other day near mine and every time he Iyawned or stretched out his feet or hands I' made myself as small as I could, for he was all over the place. He fell asleep at last and his hat went into the aisle. The gunard picked it up, rammed it on the slumberer’s head and then shook him s0 hard that I expected to see his teeth drop out. But there was no response. Then the guard gave the poor wretch !ergtml sharp slaps in the face, at which I es| L. “I gotter wake him up, ain’t 1?7’ de- manded the official surlily. ‘“An’ I dunno ‘where he gets off.” So the shaking and slapping were re- newed until the sleeping one arose in awful wrath, squared off at his tormentor and gave vent to a string of profanity that was awful to hear. E “What d@’ye think you're a doin’?’ he screamed. ‘-Say, you stop swearin’ an’ tell'us where you gd off,” reBhed the official. “I get off at Chamham square, and me wife’s waitin’ for me there. you wanter fight come outside.” ut the anud thonal: better of it and the inebriate resumed his seat, leering and mnmringfi At Chatham square he had to be assisted out of the car, strizing wildly right and left and getting blows in return. - On the platform stood a white-faced, poorly dressed woman, scanning each car eagerly. a{ pale cheeks him, took A Scene As she saw the drunkard her became crimson. She rushed to and gosticulating: 1o S siairwny. with o and gesticy 3 e ay, with an gprgenion on her face that I Efllnaur Tk ‘alk about your temperance lectures! —————— One of the most curious k of cards ever seen was made by a convict out of the beef bones collected from the convict's up and gplit to a delicate thinness. THE OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT Large Shipments of the Cheap Oregon Product Going to Texas. AN UNAUTHENTIC RUMOR’ The Sperry Company Needs Its Wheat and Has None for Im- mediate Shipment. Unusual interest was caused in wheat and commission circles yesterday by the rumor which gained currency to the effect that a large quantity of the syndicate wheat had been sold to Texas millers and was already being loaded. A supplemental report was circulated that the deal with the Texas millers had been made by the Sperry Milling Com- pany, which purchased between eight and ten thousand tons of the Fair wheat. There are several reasons why such a re- port should be productive of more than ordinary speculation. The immense hold- ing of wheat by the Fair estate has had a pronounced influence on the market for some time past, and such a deal as that indicated with the Texas millers, if bona fide, must be a decidedly new departure, as Texas has always received her wheat from the Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City markets, and from commission deal- ers in the Middle States. A thorough investigation as to the au- thenticity of the report was made yester- day, with the result that it was found to be without foundation in fact, but is attribu- table to a shipment which is now being made of Oregon and Washington wheat to Texas and some of the Territories. The principal wheat-dealers who were con- sulted about the rumored sale of syndicate wheat in Texas and the effect on the mar- ket of the shipment of the Oregon wheat South expressed much satisfaction that such a large quantity of cheap wheat should be taken out of competition with the California wheat. Said a representative of Sperry & Co.: “The report of our shipping any wheat to Texas millers is incorrect. Iu the first place we bought only about 10,000 tons of the syndicate wheat and we have use for it in our business. Secondly, it is too good a quality of wheat for us to think of shipping any portion of it away, even though our present demand was not equal to its immediate consumption. Asto the general and direet effect of the sale of the syndicate wheat I do not think there is anything undesirable to be apprehended.” he largest buyers of the Fair wheat were seen: George W. McNear, 60,050 | tons; Balfour, Guthrie & Co., 50,050; Ep- pinger & Co., 57,450; Blum, Baldwin & Girvin, 12,060, and they asserted their ignor- ance of any deal with the millers in the Lone Star State. *‘I have heard the rumor,”” said Mr. Mc- Near, “but I think it must be dge to the| shipment. bg' rail of a large quantity of the Oregon and Washington wheat to Texas, If there had been any such transaction | certainly would have heard of it, and would the other dealers with whom you have talked. The destruction of the com: Pgtmon of this cheap O ngton wheat, however, ficial effect on the C. | A member of the firm of Blam, Baldwin | & Girvin : “There has been no dea: in California or syndicate wheat with | Texas millers to our knowledge. The| statements which have appeared to the | purport that the sale and shipment of this | immense quantity of wheat will have an injurious effect,on the local wheat market, ' are exaggerated. No bad results are to be' apprehended. The outlook is good for the | coming crop.” | Balfour, Guthrie & Co. knew of no dea with Texas millers and the members of the firm spoke encouragingly of the prospect for a comfortable market. “The talk of storing this wheat instead of etting it out | of the country to make room for the com- ing crop is idle. There will be room for | the new crop and the market abroad will | not be more than temporarily eifected by the unloading of the syndicate wheat.” ENGLISH VINEYARDS. ‘Wine-Making a Lost Art About the City | of London. Though the practice of wine-making has ceased in England for more than a century the remans and records of the old English vineyards are abuzdant and suggestive, says the Spectator. East Smithfield was converted into a vineyard and held by four successive constables of the tower in the reigns of Rufus, Henry and Stephen. In the reign of Richard II the little park at Windsor was taken fora vineyard to supply the castle, and it was asserted of the Vale of Gloucester that “there is no province in England that hath so many or such good vineyards as this country, either for fertility or sweetness of the grape; the wine thereof carrieth no unpleasant tart- ness, beinw’x,mt much inferior to the French that on the site of one of the old vineyards, in s park near Berkeley cas- tle, tendrils of vines are still found spring- ing up yearly among the grass. Some cut- tings from these were planted and grew | into good vines. Apparently most of the southern castles and abbeys had their home vineyard, just asthey have in France, Italy, Germany and Hungary. The name still clings to the fields, though the vine- yards are gone. Ingmns of Devonshire the name of ‘‘vineyard” is given to land al- lotted to the poor under the inclosure act. ‘Whatever the ol;xfin of this curious use of the words, the cultivation of the vineyards and the makx‘ng of good wine were in’some cases continued to such a recent date that the land which still bearsthe name may be said to have only temporarily passed out of cultivation. 5 The terraced vineyard of Beaulieu abbe was used for wine-making till the middle of the'last century by John, duke of Mon- ufi“;' and the “house of the wine press,’”* built in the reign of Henry 1II, was kept in repair after other buildings had gone to ruin. At Arundel Castle, where the steep hillside forms an ideal exposure for wine- groyvmfi, the manufacture did not cease until the second half of the eighteenth cencuri, “excellent wine of the Burgundy type” having continued to be made there in the ancient vineyard. The last place in Which good wine was commonly made from vineyard grapes on a large scale was, strange to'say, in what is now West Lon. don. "The wonderfully fertile soil which now grows fruit and’vegetables for Covent Garden then grew grapes for wine-making. ——————— The Setting Hen in the Buggy. An incident showing the strength of the maternal instinet in hens ocenrred in front of the Imperial restaurant, on Lawrence street, about 3:30 Saturday afternoon. A woman who lives on a ranch eight miles east of Denver hitched a horse attached to an open buggy outside the restaurant, while she made some purchases next door. After doing the shopping she went into the restaurant after refreshments, leaving the store employes to stow her purchases away under the seat of the buggy. The bundle was made up and the store man placed it under the seat. As he did so out flew a big speckled hen, cluttering and flapping her wings, in seeming alarm, The surprised store employe jumped away and then called into the restaurant: “You're hen is gone, ma’am.” ‘The ranchwoman knew of no hen bein in her buggy, but when she went out ans saw the cause of the storeman’s exclama- tion running wildly around the street, she at once recognized her “speckle,” After an exciting chase the hen was captured and replaced under the buggy seat. The cause of her presence there was then discovered, Snussged waramly together in a blanket were six of “‘speckle’s” eggs, She had laid them thére from time to time, and as the huggy had not been used very recently before the tn[bv to Denver that morning she had not been disturbed in her hatching-out operations until the man from the store flunfi his bundle in upon her. Even the hitching u of t‘he buggx yesterday morning did not drive “‘speckle away from her embryo offspring, and only for the bundle the ranchwoman might have driven back home without knowing that she had a hen for a companion trave eler.—Denver Republican. THE INQUISITIVE OLERK. He Finds a Customer Who Is Too Much for Him. The inquisitive clerk is everywhere gnd everybody has had an experience with him, N Lonis Post-Dis?ntch. One of the genus was “called down” in a remark- ably funny manner in a west end drug- store this week. A tall, solemn-looking man came in and asked for a half dozen six-ounce hottles. “Bottles?” asked the clerk. “Yes, bottles,” responded the man. “With or without corks?”’ asked he. “With corks,” was the response. “Want 'em empty ? “Certainly.” ““And ne “Do you suppose I want bottles you've been keeping strychnine in?” The clerk said such an idea never entered his mind, and then asked: *What do you want them for?”’ “To break,” responded the impatient customer, prumpfl_\’. “What?' The customer beckoned him to lean over the counter, and caught hold of the lapel of the clerk’s coat and whispered : I wouldn’t want the neighbors to get onto it, but I rather like to hear 'em crack. Just a whim of mine. It's better than breakinF windows, and gives me just as much pleasure, but my sufnly has given out and I want a few to hold me over untit the next carload arrives.” The clerk looked at the customer doubt- fully. “Oh, well, of course, it’s nothing to me,”” he said. -“Then what made you ask about it?” The clerk made no rep but got the bottles. As he was mak the change, however, the spirit moved him to ask: ““What do you do with the corks?” “Chew ’em,” was the reply. ‘It’s good for the digestion. Try it some time.””’ Then the customer walked ovt and the clerk shook his head and tapped his fore- head, but he asked no more questions. ISR T A e In 1462 English ladies and gentlemen wore the points of their shoes a yard long, and fastened to the garter with golden chains, ornamented with bells. The custom was prohibited under pain of being cursed by the clergy, but, as it showed no abating, a fine_of 20 shillings was as for every public appearance in such shoes. NEW TO-D. GENERAL DEBILITY, When a person is suffering from general debility, sald the chief consulting pbysician of the Hudson Medical Institute, he Is likely to belleve that tha liver, the heart, the lung is attacked, and, feeling this, he will wish to be treated forlung disease, isease, liver disease, or for the disease he es he is afflicted with. Now this Is abso~ ue; for take the case of Miss Lizzie Gal« Iagher, who lived in Anstin, Nev., and who is now stopping at 1235 Sutter street, San Francisco. When she called on the physicians of the Hudson Medical ute she was suffering from general tigne had caused her t0 lose much force and energy that was needed for the perfect running of the human machine, and she was so0 aebilitated that she was of the belie? that ber case was a serious one. r & caretal diagnosis of her case remedies were prepared for .ber, and she is mow completely cured. Sze, writes “of ber own Volition: “I can cheerfully recommend the physicians of e Hudson Medical Institute, as they have bene. ed me, and 1 am now cured,” H. G. Mulky of Corvallis, Or., writes: Hudson Medical Institute, M Son Francisco — GENTLEME sbout the horrible, distressing and I m torturing feelings of a person aflicted with a nervous disorder such asynine was than I can tell you. After taking your treatment for a short tima i galned twelve (12) pounds in weight and was in- varlably benefited. I have re ng in the mountains and sm perfectly I shall always speak well of the Hudson Medical Instie tute. Yours respectfuily MULKY. C. C. 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