The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1895, Page 1

"VOLUME LXXVIIL—NO. 105. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1895. e 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS. DAVAGES OF THE DREAD CHOLER IN HAWAI, Thirty-nine Cases and| Twenty-nine Deaths Reported. SPREAD OF THE DISEASE. | So Far It Has Been Almost Confined to the Island Natives. ONE WHITE MAN SUCCUMBED. Strict Regulations Adopted at This Port to Shut Out Afflicted Persons. HONOLULU, Hawar, Sept. 5, noon.— Thirty-nine cases of cholera and twenty- nine deaths to 6 A. M. to-day tell the story of the si ion in Honolulu this mornming when the last official bulletin was sent out by the The weather is cloudy, showe ally sultry, in fact just the right sort of weather for the develop- ment of cholera germs. But whether the epidemic is cholera or not is a mooted question. The Govern- nt physicians say yes and the others are non-committal. Those who favor the negative theory rely on the fact that with the exception of the case on the Benning- ton, po white man has yet been attacked n any negro, Chinese, Japanese or Malays. The rainfall for August was over three inches in this city and about twenty at the Pali, four miles up the mountains. This amount has never been exceeded in the twenty years the record has been kept g only L41. The amountof moisture in the air has never equaled what it is now at this time of the year, and has probably a great deal to do with the situation. A peculiarity of the epidemic is that in nearly every case y approximated in three, the aver- I this station, and the laborers are looked after by agents of the board, who stay there during the entire period of quaran- tine. rst week of the quarantine s laborers two deaths oc- curred, both of Chinese, both of which were immediately telephoned to the Board of Health. The matter was kept quiet, but finally leaked out and got into the local papers. made the official statement that one of the men died of dysentery and the other of cholera morbus and that while two others were sick there was absolutely noth- 1ng to indicate that the sickness was due ‘| to cholera or any disease of a contagious nature. A careful diagnosis of each case was made by the board’s physicians, and as a matter of precaution the term of quar- antine was extended. The sick people re- covered in a day or two and it was gener- ally supposed that the two deaths had heen caused by too much green fruit after the sea voyage, friends of those quarantined being permitted to send fruit and delica- cies to the station, and this not unire- quently causes more or less bowel com- plaint. m=On Tuesday, August 20, a special meet- | ing of the Board of Health was called to | consider measures to be taken in conse- quence of the death of a native woman at Iwilei, a district of Honolulu, lying below The Board of Health then | through it and attend to any new cases on the spot. At this date there was no sickness among the quarantined Chinese, but an embargo was placed on the taking of the freight of the Belgic from the custom-house. Most of this had been already passed, however, and distributea not only through the City, but shipped to the other islands by Chi- nese importers here. On Thursday, the 22d, a second special meeting of the Board of Health was held, at which al .the physicians in the city were invited to attend. Twelve of these did so, besides Ministers King and Hatch, several Senators and others. President | Smith said it was desired to definitely as- certain what the disease was. Two new cases had been reported—one a woman at Jwilei and the other a man who had gone from that district to a house on Nuuanu street, where he had been taken sick on Wednesday morning. Adfter a general discussion it was decided to treat the disease as if it was cholera and to use every precaution. The steamship Monowai being due from the colonies the Board of Health made the following official statement to United | States Consul-General Ellis Mills: HoxoLuLy, August 21, 1895. The steamer Belgic arrived at this port 1134 days from Yokohama, having on board for this port 533 Chinese immigrants. She reported three deaths on the voyage, giving as causes of death pneumonia in one cause and heart dis- ease in two. The Chinese were landed in quar- antine, one man being sick with gastgo-intes- tinal disturbance at the time. He died the day after being landed. Two other cases of gastro-intestinal disturbance developed the dey the first man died. Of these one recovered the attack has followed the eating of raw fi This is the usual custom of the natives of the lower classes, and many of them not only eat it raw but alive. At this time of the year there are several wds of fish which make iheir periodical appearance. One of them is the weke or red fish, whose advent is believed by the natives to bring disaster. This fish made its appearance about a month ago. generally followed by the alalona, a fish righly prized by the natives; but these have not made their appearance yet. There | is also another fish called moi, which | is three or four inches long. and | only comes once in three or four years. | sh came in just before the epidemic | ke out and has been eaten in large ties. To this and the young mullet which fill creek and river running into the sea ibuted by many the present epi- There is quite a large amount of ery among the white residents, but so far it has always yielded to treatment, d is always to be expected at this time )i the year. Many blame the water in the | Nuuanu stream as the cause, and among | these is the doctor of the Bennington. The | bed of the stream runs by the place where | the Bennington was lying. Many claim | that Asiatic cholera never has been a re- specter of persons, and consequently any | disease which attacks natives only cannot | be cholera. Following is the latest official bulletin of the Board of Heglth: Number of cases— | Cases reported to 3 . M. September 4, 33; | new cases to 6 A. M. September 5, 2. Total, | Reported soon after taken sick, 14; | when dying, 12; after death, 9. Living— | It is | | EX-QUEEN LILIUOKALANI, SOON TO BE PARDONED. the jail and about the railroad depot, from sickness which showed symptoms of Asiatic cholera. Dr. Murray, who attended the case, stated that he first saw the woman on Sunday night ana she died early Monday morning. The same day another woman living in the house was taken with the same symptoms. He had called in his partner, Dr. Brodie, for con- sultation. and both ugreed.that the cases should be reported as showing strong symptoms of Asiatic cholera. The Board of Health consists of four physicians, four merchants and the Lunalilo Home.! Kapookalo fl/ktr/(; N Queen St "Mospitsl? o @/r;lwn 7 o Kuhutzaio, DIAGRAM SHOWIN G LOCATION OF CHOLFRA CASES, INDICATED BY BLACK DOTS. | Completely recovered, 1; in hosmtal' 6 a. ., 5. Total, 6. Nationality—Hawaiian born, 34; American, 1. It will be noticed from the above that only one case has recovered, and this was a native, who was promptly reportefl and had sense enough to take the med_)- cine prescribed for him. The mortality is attributed to the refusal of the natives to submit themselves to treatment. The Kahunas, or native sorcerers, are telling the natives that the Government will kill all those who go to the hospital. The steamer Belgic, which arrived here on August 9, brought some 500 Chinese contract laborers, who were, as is always the case, landad at the quarantine station, an island lying about a mile from the city of Honolulu and within a few hundred yards of Naval Row, where the men-of- war anchor, and where the Bennington was lying at the time of the outbreak. The Belgic had a clean bill of health from Hongkong, but_the rule here has always been to keep the laborers in quarantine for eighteen days from the time of leaving Hongkong, after which they are shipped direct to the plantations without coming into the city. Orly physicians and Board of Health officials are permitted to visit | Attorney-General, William 0. Smith, who is ex-officio president of the board by virtue of being the head of the police de- partment. President Smith reported that he had personally visited the premises and had them placed under strict quarantine. ‘While the sickness resembled cholera, the essential features were absent. With re- gard to the Belgic, he said that the vessel came into port with a clean bill of health, though the steerage passengers reported that three deaths had occurred on the voy- age, the sickness being accompanied with symptoms quite similar to the cases at the quarantine station. He had no means of ascertaining the truth of the reports, but they would be investigated on thereturn of the vessel. 1t was finally decided to quarantine the entire Iwilei district, and stop passenger traffic to the other islands until the exact nature and extent of the disease was de- termined. Steamers were allowed to run on usual time and carry freight and mails, but officers and men were not allowed to go on shore at the landings. A strong guard of police was stationed around the infected district, and Dr. Meyers was ap- pointed to make a house to house canvass | the same day, to hear the report of the | city, for which purpose it was divided into and the other, an old man, died of exhaustion four days later. One young Chinamen became sick the third day aiter landing and died the following day. All the cases presented the symptoms of gastro-enteritis and were consid- ered cholera morbus. No other suspicious cases have developed since the last which died August 16. Five cases of cholera morbus, with one death, have developed in Iwilei since Sun- day, the 18th. WILLIAM O. SMITH President Board of Health. On the 22d the board published its first notice regarding the epidemic, which, un- fortunately, has been followed by many others. It required citizens generally to put drains, cesspools, privy vaults and other receptacles of refuse in good sani- tary condition; to have all garbage and other decaying refuse promvwtly removed, and all sources of noxious smells dis- infected. { At a subsequent meeting of the board on physicians carrying on experiments to de- termine the character of the disease caus- ing the death of the nativesin Iwilei dis- trict, Doctors Day, Meyers, Herbert and ‘Wood reported they had found the true bacilli of Asiatic cholera. It was dt once decided to thoroughly disinfect the entire ten districts. Ten doctors volunteerea to take charge. and with assistants fur- nished by the board and details of police the work of disinfecting was commenced as rapidly as possible. The sanitary con- dition of every house throughout the city was looked into during the following two days, and, whether good or bad, was dis- infected under the directions of the physicians. Very little cause of complaint was found among the houses inhabited by white people; the quarters occupied by the natives and Japanese were comparatively clean, but everywhere about the dwellings of the Chinese the greatest filth was dis- covered. Especially was this the case with the Chinese restaurants. All the restau- rants and hotels in the city are either owned or run by Chinese. Instances were unearthed where the privy vaults were actually in the kitchens,and where the vacant space under the houses was used to keep chickens and ducks. These were all cleaned out and disinfected, and some forty or fifty Celestials arrested for violat- ing the rules of sanitation. The Govern- ment purchased large quantities of disin- fectants, including every barrel of lime that was for sale, the price of the latter article going up to $5 per barrel. For- tunately the three large drugstores had a heavy stock on hand, and have received three shipments since, so little trouble is apprehended on that score. The Board of Health had 100 men en- gaged in this work, besides a large number of police. Lono, the native taken sick on Nuuanu street, died on Wednesday night, the 21st. The body was thoroughly disinfected and buried soon afterward. There were no further developments on the 23d, and everybody was hopeful that the disease had been checked. The Mon- owai arrived off port at 9 A. m.and an- chored off port. It was not expected that GREAT LOSS OF LIFE, Hundreds Met Death in Honduras During Earthquakes. VOLCANOES IN ACTION. Shocks Lasted Many Hours, While Streams of Lava Poured Down. FLAMES AND ROCKS SENT OUT. At Metapan the Most Damage Was Done, Where Many Buildings Were Destroyed. TEGUCIGALPA, HoxpUras, Sept. 12.— A courier arrived from Metapan yesterday and announced that the most terrible earthquake ever known in that section had occurred. The loss of life and prop- erty was terrible. On Sunday at noon the shocks commenced, lasting all day and night at intervals, causing a light damage, but the greatest fear among the inhabitants of the city and neighborkood. By Mon- day the city was filled by the addition of 3500 people from the mountains and out- lying villages. During Monday night great sheets of flame appeared at different points to the northwest, rising to an immense height. Tuesday morning the shocks ceased, and quiet was restored. The people left town for their homes, but at 9 o’clock that night a heavy rumbling noise was heard, and shortly after this was followed by the reap- ppearance of the flame, which in the mountains shot up several hundred feet. Frightened people again flocked back to town, and at midnight the church tower fell, carrying with it the roofs of three houses, and killing nine and wounding eighteen people. The rumbling, which was like the heaviest cannonading, lasted over an hour and a half, while the people rushed madly through the streets praying and crying. Just before daylight another prolonged shock, which is variously calculated to have lasted from two and a quarter to three minutes, rocked the whole town as if it were a cradle, and many fleeing peo- ple were killed by the rocks which fell in a perfect shower like a hailstorm. Smoke from the mountains to the northwest rose toan enormous height, followed shortly after by the bursting out of flames from the mountain sides and the throwing out of rocks, and shortly after, streams of molten lava, which set fire to ‘« number of houses on the mountainside. Cattle graz- ing near fled, but most of them were killed, being engulfed in lava, which was flowing in heavy streams. she would come up to the wharf, but every Continued on Sccond Page. l‘ It is reported that at Metapan seventy- one houses were destroyed and 153 bodies have been recovered there. At Covajuanca thirty-seven houses were destroyed and ninety-five bodies recov- ered. At Cayusca twenty-nine houses were destroyed and 111 bodies recovered. It is impossible yet to give a full account of the disaster, but many small settlements are believed to have been destroyed. The shocks extended over the whole Metapan chain and flames were seen also in the Pacaya Mountains. The shocks have now ceased, but smoke is still discernible at different points in the mountains. A company of soldiers,which left in pur- suit of bandits from Metapan to the coast, are unheard of, and it is feared that they were all killed. The shocks were at first from northeast to southwest. People are still fleeing for their lives. Help for the victims is being asked from the capital. The disaster at Metapan is much worse than first reported. The number of killed in towns and mountains so far counted is 287 and it is believed that more bodies will be found as the search continues. The property loss is calculated at over $600,000. Fissures in the earth divided up much tilled land. The Government is doing all possible for the victims. Slight shocks continue, causing damage to property, though not to life. Two former extinct volcanoes are now throwing lava, though in small quantities. The night shows a lurid flame to an immense height. A stream of lava is now running into the abyss. It is calculated that 1800 cattle were killed. Troops are scouring the country for fugi- tive victims. Of the company of 108 sol- diers which went after bandits only twenty- nine are known to have been saved. Food and clothing have been sent to the suffer- ers. Refugees are returning to Metapan and other towns. DUKE OF ALBA’S TITLES. Many Handles May Be Affixed to the Visitor’s Name. NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 12.—The Duke of Alba is making his American acquaint- ances another visit. He arrived here on Friday on the Lucania, with the intention of attending the yacht races and spending some time in the fashionable suburbs. The Duke is a personal friend of James J. Van Alen, with whom he has gone the rounds of the fashionable American water- ing-places on former occasions, He has such a long name that it is said he cannot remember it all himself. His first name is Don Carlos Maria Stuart Fitz- james Portocarreroy Balafo. Then he is ulso Duke of Berwick, Duke of Alba Tormes, Duke of Lyra, Duke of Oliveres, Duke of Penaranda and Duke of Huescar, in addition to which he is nine times a" grandee of the first class of Spain, twelve times a marquis and fourteen times a count. He is usually called the Duke of Alba but he wishes his intimate friends to call him Carlitos. The Duke has in his veins a confusing mixture of the royal blood of Spain, France and England. He is the nephew of the ex-Empress Eugenie. During the second French empire the Duke was a great favorite with Napoleon I'I. He has also in him the blosd of the Stuarts. The Duke is married, but the Duchess seldom leaves her estate in Spain. ‘When the Duke of Alba travels his house- hold is a iniature court. —_——— The Soo Ship Canal. SAULT STE. MARIE, Micx., Sept. 12.— The public opening of the Canadian Soo ship canal took place this morning, the first boat locking through being the steam barge Uganda, belonging to McBrier, Erie, Pa., down bound. Other boats followed. The locks are operating satisfactorily. The depth of water is twenty-three feet at the lower level. e, DR. BURNETT DYING. He Became Afflicted With Cancer After Treating a Patient. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Dr. Ed- ward W. Burnett is dying from cancer. About eight months ago a woman called on Dr. Burnett and complained of an irri- tation of the tongue. The doctor applied nitrate of silver with his finger. He shaved himself several hours later and scratched his left cheek. He applied powder with his finger, but noticed that the cut stung him longer than usual. His face became swollen and a cancer soon de- veloped. i The woman whom he had treated, it was learned, suffered from cancer and her tongue was afterward cut out. She had been inoculated by using a speaking tube in the house of a man who died from cancer. Dr. Burnett was operated on in March last and the cheek was cut away almost to the left eye. He improved at first, but his condition recently changed to the worse and it is now believed that he has a cancerin his liver. Dr. Roland D. Jones has charge of the case. He said yesterday that it was the first case in the history of medicine in this country in which a complete chain of in- oculation from cancer has been established. It was a point on which the physicians disagreed, and for that reason, no matter how it ended, he intended to call together half & dozen prominent physicians when the time arrived to demonstrate the fact that inoculation in this instance was be- yond question. i Dr. Burnett is 50 years old, single and was for many years house surgeon of Belle- vue Hospital. BRAVE ACT OF A WOMAN Mrs. Olstrom Saved the Fast Mail From Destruc- tion. Discovering a Burning Bridge She Ran Down the Track and Flagged the Train. CHEYENNE, Wro., Sept. 12. — Mrs. Olstrom, wife of a section foreman, saved the westbound fast mail on the Union Pacific from a probable frightful wreck at noon to-day, while at the section-house near Wolcott Station. Mrs. Olstrom discovered a wooden bridge spanning a gully crossed by the track to be on trire. The fast mail, nearly one hour late, was approaching at a high rate of speed to make up the lost time. Mrs. Olstrom ran down the track and flagged the train. It was stopped within thirty feet from the burning bridge. The train was made up of two mailcars, a day coach and a Pullman sleeper, and was followed by the westbound overland flyer and a fast freight. .The bridge tim- bers were burned away to such an extent that the train would have carried down the bridge had it run to it. L e GREAT FLOOLS IN KANSAS. Much Damage Caused by the Worst Storm in Years. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 12.—Passen- gers arriving here to-day who were tied up by the washouts in the storm-swept dis- tricts of Kansas report that they neversaw so much water fall at one time as came down there Sunday. It wasa cloudburst, accompanied by wind, and hail that was as large as walnuts, some stones the size of a goose egg strewing the earth. For many miles the fields are a perfect sea of water. Houses are surrounded by water, and the farmers are going about on rafts rudely constructed. The hail did much damage to windows and crops, but the lat- ter is not hurt to any great exient because of their m atured condition. Only the low corn, where the ears are under water, will be injured. FREDONIA, Kaxs., Sept. 12.—A fierce rain, accompanied by a high wind, began here at 6 o’clock last night and continued most of the night, flooding this locality as was never before known. Fall River is ;)S\'S%xflowing the bottoms as on July 23, The passenger trains on the St. Louis and San Francisco and Missouri Pacific railways are water-bound here and the Santa Fe tracks are washed out. The fair grounds and track are from two to four feet under water, and the fair, which was to have begun to-morrow, now has been declared off. The city is without fire protection, the water works at the river being entirely submerged and in twenty-four hours the city may be without water from the reser- voir. The river is still rising and a corps of men are now at work making boats to rescue several families in the river bot- toms. . YATES CENTER, Kans., Sept. 12.—S1x inches of rain fell in this county Sunday night, and is the heaviest ever recorded here. At Piqua, Miss.,, Mary Riley was struck by lightning and killed and five other persons seriously injured. Many bridges were washed away and much hay and grain destroyed. BURLINGTON, Kans., Sept. 12.—The Neosho River hereis bankfull from the terrific storm of last night, when five inches of water fell. Northwest of here houses and barns were blown down and orchords badly damaged. The storm was the worst known in this section for years. WEBB CITY, Mo:, Sept. 12.—The rain- storm of last night was the heaviest ever known here, and the damage caused by it will reach $200.000. LOS ANGELES MURDERS, A Colored Man Plans to Poison a Porter Whose Job He Wants. The Miscarriage of His Scheme Results In a Double Tragedy. He Confesses. LOS ANGELES, CALn., Sept. 12.—A colored man left a bottle at the baggage- room of the Santa Fe depot on Downey avenue last night, with instructions to give it to the colored porter on a sleeping- car. It was supposed to contain wine. The train did not stop, and two men, W. J. Thompson and O. L. Martin, who were working in a quarry, opened the bottleand drank about a quarter of the contents. They weresoon taken with violent cramps, and both died at 10 o’clock last night. Dr. Hancock, who attended one of the men, ‘and Dr. Wing who attended the other, say that it contained strychnine. Morton is a married man, with a family living at Santa Monica. The all-absorbing topic of conversation on the streets to-day was the terrible DEFENDER WON THE THIRD RACE AND CUP. tragedy which occurred at the Downey- avenue station last night. Detective Goodman of the police force was detailed on the case as soon as it was reported to the police headquarters. He succeeded, after a hard chase, in arresting William A. Busby, a_young colored man about 25 years old. He arrested him about 2 o’clock this morning at his father’s house on Amie street. He endeavored fo escape, but the officer was too sharp for him. He was very defiant when first arrested and denied the charge, but early this afternoon he broke down and confessed the crime at the police-station and later made a full statement at the Coroner’s inquest. In substance, Busby stated that he pur- chased 25 cents worth of strychnine at a drugstore on Washington street of a man named Gip. He bought the wine at a saloon beyond the car barns. He took the wine to the drug clerk and asked him to place the strychnine in it. After getting the poisoned wine Busby gave it to the Eccles boy with the direful results above mentioned. Busby said that the motive of his crime was to kill Gardner, the sleep- ing-car porter, so that he could get his job. oroner Campbell held an inquest this afternoon, and, after hearing the evidence of the boy Eccles, the doctors who at- tended the poisoned men and the confes- sion of Busby, returned a verdict that “W. J. Thompson and O. L. Martin came to their deaths by strychnia poison drunk from a bottle of sherry wine that was de- livered to Thompson by one William A. Busby to be delivered to one James Gard- ner for the purpose of poisoning the said Gardner.” SANTA ANA HORSES FIGHT Silkwood Attacked in His Stall by His Five-Year-Old Son. The Latter So Terribly Bruised and Mangled That He Can Hardly Keep His Feet. SANTA ANA, CaL., Sept 12.—Yesterday afternoon, while J. Willits, owner of the stallion Silkwood, 2:07, was away from home, Wawasa, the five-year-old son of the great side-wheeler, escaped from his stall | to thecorral, went to the door of Silkwood’s stall, the upper half ot which was open, and engaged in a fierce fight with him. The lower half of the door was soon bat- tered down and the two stallions had the corral to themselves. A terrible conflict ensued, 1n which Wawasa, thcugh much the larger horse, was badly worsted. When Willits re- turned he found them stsnding in opposite corners of the corral, Silkwood being ap- parently uninjured except for a slight cut upon the breast, and gazing with a look of deep disdain upon his vanquished son, who could scarcely stand he was so terribly bruised and mangled. The corral contains a number of jagged cypress trees, and after so fierce a conflict it is a miracle Silkwood should have escaped so lightly. He isin training for the free-for-all pacing contest here next month with W.%ood, Diablo, Waldo J and Lucy M, and is_just recovering from a severely sprained leg. Injury to him at this time means much to the owner and to the Fair Association. FOUND CAPSIZED AT SEA, Startling News Received at San Diego Regarding the Alcalde. Seen Bottom Up Between Redondo and Catalina Island—Her Crew Missing. SAN DIEGO, CAL., Sept. 12.—Private ad- vices received to-day gave news of the finding of the schooner Alcalde. Captain Al Holbrook, some days ago at sea, be- tween Redondo and Catalina Island. The vessel was bottom side up, and from ail that could be learned it appeared that Captain Holbrook and J. M. Rohm of this city had been drowned. 'he Alcaide left this port two or three months ago to make trips_between Re- dondo Ang Catalina, and Rohm accom- panied Cnptain Holbrook as assistant. ohm was a printer by trade. Captain Holbrook was one of the best known sailors along the water front here, and those who know him are disinclined to credit the story that the vessel was lost through any carelessness or lack of skill on his part. No particulars could be learned to-night and it may be the men reached shore. e WILL FILED AT SANTA ROSA. It Disposes of the $50,000 Estate Left by John B. Hyatt. SANTA ROSA, CaL., Sept. 12.—The will of John B. Hyatt, who recently died near Cloverdale, and a petition for letters testa- mentary regarding the estate were filed to- day with the County Clerk. The estate is vl{ued at $50,000 and is left to his wife, two sisters and a hali-sister, all of whom live in San Francisco. Mrs. Emily Preston of Prestonville and J. L. Patterson of St. Charles, Miss., also receive small bequests. St g She Wedding at Santa Rosa. SANTA ROSA, CAL., Sept. 12.—A nota- ble wedding took place Wednesday morn- ing at the palatial residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Marshall on Second street. The contracting parties were James Gil- bert Marshall, manager of the Marshall interests at Marshalls, Marin County, and Miss Susan Mitchell. The Rev. William Martin of the First Congregational Church erformed the ceremony. An elegant Punch was served at the close, to which only the intimate friends of both parties were invited. The presents were costly and numerous. The happy couple left on the afternoon train for their Marin County residence. ———— Passed Bogus Checks. PETALUMA, CAL., Sept. 12.—A few days ago a man named Smith passed a bogas caeck on P. Sweed, a merchant here, and to-day it was discovered that a second had been passed on Hale Bros. & Co. The checks purported to have been signed by George W. McNear, the San Francisco wheat broker, and were for $16 each. aa s Dredging Petaluma Creek. PETALUMA, Cav., Sept. 12—The Gov- ernment dredger began work on Petaluma Creek a few days ago and is creeping slow- ly up the creek. B To Celebrate Swiss Independence. PETALUMA, CAL, Sept. 12.—Swiss in- dependence will be celebrated at Olema on September 20 with a picnic and grand ball. For additional Pacific Coast news see Pages b and b. An Unhappy Close of the International Yacht Race. VALKYRIE WITHDRAWN. Lord Dunraven Refused to Contest Under Existing Conditions. SAID THAT HE WAS INSULTED, But Those Connected With the Victorious Craft. Retorted That He Did the Insulting. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 12.—The great international yacht race is over. The end was almost unhappy. On Tues- day Lord Dunraven advised the regatta committee that he would not race agan unless the course was changed or the ex- cursion obstructions removed. He made a similar protest two years ago, but its terms were not so emphatic as his letter of Tues- day. In forwarding the letter to the commit- tee he requested that it be not read until after their decision as to the Defender’s protest. It appears that the committee overlooked or neglected to consider Lord Dunraven’s protest, and to-day theValkyrie crossed the line without a topsail witk the Defender, and having thus constituted a race for the Defender, the Valkyrie sig- naled her tender and withdrew from the race. There isno doubt that the crowding of excursion steamers, large steam yachts and other crafts did interfere with the race on Saturday and Tuesday. There isa gen- eral regret, and people are puzzled astoa proper judgment. The Defender having finished within the six hours, of course, took the race. In well-informed circles it is believed that this is the last international race for the cup. Feeling is very strong, both as to the decision rendered by the committee and in reference to Lord Dunraven’s with- drawal. Most American yachtsmen with whom I have discussed the affair sup- port Lord Dunraven’s position. ‘WiLLiayM GrEER HARRISON. PSR ENDED IN A FIASCO. Why the Valkyrie Was Withdrawn Imme= diately After the Start. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 12.—The America cup races ended in a fiasco. Lord Dunraven withdrew the Valkyrie immedi- ately after the start and the De- fender sailed over the course alone. The America cup committee notified C. O. Iselin that three races and the cup were awarded the gallant Defender, and the crowds afloat and ashore cheered the ship that sustained Uncle Sam’s supremacy on the seas and the skipper and crew that sailed her. For at least another year the international trophy is ours, and in all probability it will be many years before a British yacht again challenges for the cup. The mishap of last Tuesday and the rather remarkable action of Lord Dunra- ven to-day will not further the interest of international sport. Americans have com- plained of not being given fair play when racing in English waters, and both in 1893 and this year extra pains bave been taken to prevent his Lordship from having cause to complain of unfairness here. In with- drawing he does not charge any special unfairness to his boat, but bases his action upon the interference with both yachts caused by the large excursion fleet. This trouble was not caused to-day, for the course was clear at the start when the British boat withdrew. The objections raised by the owner of the Valkyrie were made before the boats reached the line and were based upon the conduct of the attendant fleet on Saturday and Tuesday. Lord Dunraven sent the America cup committee a strongly worded letter com- plaining about the action of the stake- boats and tugs, and stating that he was not willing to continue racing the Valky- rie unless a clear course was provided. He added that in his opinion the course should be distant from any large city. Up to the time for the start for to-day’s race, Lord Dunraven had rcceived no reply to his communication. After his with- drawal from the race, he said it was his intention to start if he received a reply, but none coming to hand, he merely went down and crossed the line to give the other boat a chance to make the race. That he had no intention of racing to- day was evident, for he put up no topsail atall. His decision not to race must have been arrived at last night, for yesterday he had the Valkyrie drydocked, the bottom rubbed down, and when she was floated a quantity of pig lead, estimated at four tons, was taken from her hold. 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