The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1895, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895. 13 BY ADELINE KNAPP. A night stars; fragrant with the scent of roses and of ripening Fair land of flowers, land of flame, Of sunborn seas, of sea-born clime, Of clouds low shepherded and tame As white pet sheep at shearing time, Of great, white, generous, high-born rain, Of rainbows builded not in vain— Of rainbows builded for the feet Of love to pass dry-shod and fleet From isle to isle, when smell of musk ’Mid twilight is, and one lone star Sits in the brow of dusk. Oh, Hying, sad-voiced, sea-born maid, And plundered, dying, still sing on. Thy breast against the thorn is laid— Sing on, sing on, sweet dying swan. How pitiful! And so despoiled By those you fed, for whom you toiled! Aloha!l Hail you, and farewell, Far echo of some lost seashell ! Some song that lost Some sea-lost notes its way at sea, of nature, lost, And crying, came to me. Dusk maid, adieu! One seashell less— Sad seashell silenced and forgot. O Rachel in the wil ‘Wail on! Your chi And they who took derness, Idren they are not. them, they who laid Hard hand, shall they not feel afraid ? Shall they who in t he name of God Robbed and enslaved escape his rod ? Give me some after From these hard m Hell must be where The Heights, September, 1895. world afar en, for well I know they are. the eloquent stillness of the slumbrous sea. There was a long swell on—slow, gentle, steady, like the regular respiration of a drowsy gianf. The lengthening, lazy waves Japped alongside the great white rrying her forward, caressingly, as she I in their embrace, her engines nearly stationary. The off-shore breeze scarce served to sway the slender wreath that curled from her smokestack and be- yond the circle of the ship’s lights was lost in the impenetrable blue of the sur- rounding night. Miles to starboard lay a city, its hum of daytime activity hushed to a soft murmur as it, too, slept beneath the stars. Only here and there along the water front the occasional flash from a furnace was visible in the darkness, and the muffled sound of some factory’s engines reverberated on the stillness, the iron heart of commerce throb- bing through the night. Southward and westward journeved the margeless sea. The water glowed in a phosphorescent wake at the ship’s stern, but seaward, from out the black expanse, came no sound nor gleam to indicate that the white cruiser, swineing a mere speck upon the sea, was not the sole traveler over the watery waste. Suddenly from the forward deck of the cruiser n{‘road pathway of fierce white light shotout acrossthe sea. It was the \ ship’s searchlight with which the officers were experimenting. On went the beam, cruiser, | sea and causing a floating school of por- | poises to tumble madly over each other in their flight from its terrifying presence. It sped to the far horizon, lighting up the ast low-lying lanes of the free-running di Then it began to describe a tant sea. | circle. | “Tts nltimate rays brought out a Pacific { liner just disappearing over the horizon, | fifteen miles away. Her tall spars, the | lines of her rigging, the dark mass of her | plainly visible. Swinging southward a | great four-master ranged majestically into view, beating lazily up the light breeze. Further in, coastward, a scow schooner, heavily loaded with bags of grain, shoul- | dered her y over the soft swell, and a belated fishing smack, made snug for the night, fairly leaped with surprise as the white beam struck her lying asleep on the water. So, too. did a "OOY of frightened | boobie: sprin;iving from the water as the light embraced them and fleemng upon | swift wings into the outer darkness. Swiftly the blinding pathway of revela- tion swept the far horizon and the near-by sea and traveled shoreward. ON THE BLUFF. Back of the city on a high bluff a man watched the stars. He moved about rest- lessly, pausing now and then to listen. «“It's time he was here,”” he muttered. “The Dipper's nearly out of sight. It must be nearly midnight. He will never dare stay away!”’ He strained his ears to stacks, the outlines of her deckhouses, the | | deserted chairs on her hurricane deck,were | | him. “Some critter,”” he said atlast. “I'm glad I told him to meet me up here in the open, though. Listeners in the brush | wouldn’t be pleasant now.” He paused at | the edge of a crevasse. Nothing was vis- | ible in the darkness. The stars’ distant | rays served only to make visible the black, yawning mouth. But-he kuew it went down a sheer_fall of over a thousand feet. “How tired I am of that hole,” be mut- tered. “But it was a lucky find for me the day I shot the deer and found the way down there. B-rer-e! Who'd have ever thought I'd have to hide there like a hunted rat for a fortnight. Gad! But I'll be away to-might if Vane brings the cash. Curse him!" Why don’t he come? Along the trail up the bluff a tiny speck oflight came, dodging fo and fro, swingin, and dipping, but steadily moving upward. It caught lge man’s eye. *‘The fool’s got a lantern,’”’ he said, with an cath. “Why didn’t he invite the town to accompany him on his stroll. Gad! what a thinga fool is, anyhow.”” He shrank back in the shadow of a rock as the light advanced beyond the last circle of chaparral, until he made sure the new-comer was the man he had been expecting. ‘‘Hades! Vane!” he cried softly, ‘“douse the glim! How many eyes do you suppose have watched that lantern come up the bluff?” He was shivering with anger and fright, and, seiz- ing tue lantern, dashed it to the ground. The other remonstrated. *“Yon are foolish, Benson,” he said. _‘‘No one has noticed so common a trifle. I could never have found my way without it.” #No, I presame not,”” was the ungracious reply. “You were always a poorfool. It's illuminating the immediate surface of the listen to a sound in the chaparral below not to be expected you could follow tie ,.].h" how about the | | Have you got | “Look here, Bensor | “you're asking too muc | ? said the other, | . T can’t spare | 1t leaves me only | ccuritivs, which I you the fitty thousand. ten thousand and the s | won’t dare to float for ye: ‘\ It leaves you scott fre | | | | i v u fool, and | your precious respectability that you prize | so, while I am branded as a criminal, | packed off, God knows where, out. of reach of the law. Come now, fork over! you haven’t dared not to bring it?’ He spoke so fiercely that the other hastened to say: “I've brought all I can spare, Benson— twenty thou’ in bills and some zoid for | ready use.” The hunted man uttered a c of rage. “You hound!” he gasped, “you offer me twenty thousand out of sixty? By heaven, man, you've got the | fifty thousand in your clothes, and vou'll il{:el]out before you get away from here!”’ X 3 I sprang toward ulder fiercel e I)wd back. *‘Batif I haven't brought he said. “Come, Benson, be reason- | able. It's your only chance of esecape. | You'llbe no better off for accusing me.” | | With an inarticulate howl Benson sprang | | upon him and the two men clinched, Then a fearful struggle raged back and | | forth in the open. At last Benson caught | Vane by the throat and the fight became | one of life and death. . Back and forth they trailed, each seek- ing an :ngvantugn over ihe other. The grip on Vane's throat_tightened, tight- ened. He feit himself yielding. Suddenly the scene was illumined as by | a flame from out the unknown. A broad pathway of light shot upward from the sea and touched the top of the bluff. It showed Vane Benson’s face, livid with rage and with the gleam of murder in his | eyes. It showed him every stone and blade of dry grass beneath their feet and the yawning crevasse over which they both were swaying. With a cry he jerked back. The clutch at his throat loosened. son was dazed by the light. With a last final wrench Vane was free and the other man went crashing into the yawning chasm behind him. ; & The light passed over the bluff. The man who was left saw it stretch in a long bar across the city below. His foot struck some_rattling object. He stooped and | found his lantern.” He tossed it into the crevasse and followed the stars and his nose along the trail down the bluff. II1. THE SHADOW ON THE WALL. In a room of a house on the hills beyond the city a man lay on his bed, opposite an open window. The man was not asleep. He lay very quiet, thinking of one he loved. The nightwasvery still. He could hear the wash of the waves on the beach, two miles below. If heturned his head he could see the far stars shining through his open window. But he lay with his back to the window, thinking of one he loved. All at ence, upon the blank, black wall ane and shook his ' he cried, The other | white light. | relief. | with & silken | beside his bed, appeared a vivid sheet of | i Silhouetted within the space whoich his open window framed on the wall he saw two men struggling. He saw the outline of the bluff’stop. The branches of a dead tree stood out in intense, black He saw one man iree himself from the other’s grasp and thrust his antag- onist backward, out of sight. Then the light disappeared and he saw only the stars shining down through his window. 1v. THE BANK PRESIDENT. In his private office in one of the city’s busiest streets, the president of a bank sat looking over some sheets of figures. It is not usual for a bank’s president to do this work, but since this bank’s trusted cashier had absconded with a portion of the bank’s assets a fortnight since this president had been exercising special vigilance over the institution’s affa; The president v as looking a little tired and careworn. Devotion was telling upon him. There were dark shadows beneath his eyes, and his throat was bound about handkerchief. The early fogs are trying toa delicate throat, and the oresident was suffering the effects of an incautious exposure to them. He sat regarding the sheets of figures very intently. Then he looked out at the window for a long time. The clerks who glanced at him through the little window of his office-door thought him meditating | upon the bank’s affairs. In reality he was considering the loss of one of a pair of sleeve links that had been a present to him from the bank’s employes. “1f I should have lost it last night,” he murmured, with a sudden catch of the breath. Then he dismissed the thought. “If it should be found on the biuff,”” he said; ‘“that is not in 1tself a suspicious cir- cumstance. But I searched carefully this morning. If it went down the crevasse—"" and he shivered slightly—-there is nothing | to be seen from above and Benson alone knew there is a way down there.” He resumed his study of the figures, frowning slightly as he noted a tendency of the various columns to tot up to one | amount. The amount was sixty thou- | sand, and he knew that result was not obtainable on the columns themselyes. *‘Gentlemen tc see you, sir,” said an ob- sequious clerk. The gentlemen had fol- Jowed close upon the functionary’s heels. There were two of the bank’s directors, a policeman and a short, thick-set man whom the president did not know. The clerk retired and the group stood silent for an instant. No one could speak. The Eresidem felt a strange, aching pressure at is sore throat. Then the short, thick-set man stepped forward and laid two articles on the president’s desk. They were a gold sleeve link and a broken lantern. The president arose first and gazed from one to the other of the company. Then he covered his eyes with his hands and with a sharp, raucous cry fell forward upon ADELINE KNAPP. the floor. LicaTiNG GAs WitHOUT FLAME or ELEC. TRICITY.—A new gas-burner igniter has been patented in England. The ignition of the gas is not effected by electricity, nor by a small jet of gas being left zlight at the side of the burner, nor by any mechanical contrivance, but by the action of the Ens itself on the substance of whicl the ‘‘lighter” 1is com- posed. When the tap is turned on in the ordinary way, the gas lights itself. The burners of a whole house or factory.can be lighted from the meter, no matches, tapers or spirit torches being required. Skkould a tap be inadvertently left turned on, or should a light be blown out, the gas will relight itself. It will save gas where it has been customary to leave a small jet burning. On entering a room the gas can be lighted by simply turning the tap. BATTLES OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND MISSIONARY RIDGE. By HuGH M. BURKE. Thirty-two years ago this fall scenes of great activity n the war for the preserva- tion of the Union were transferred from the Mississippi and Potomac to the Ten- nessee. After the battle of Gettysburg General Lee detached one of hisablest corps (Long- street’s) to join Bragg and crush Rose- crans’ army of the Cumberland. The Con- federates, according to the plan, fell on Rosecrans at Chickamauga, defeated him and drove him into Chattanooga. As General Sherman, in his memoirs, says: “The whole country seemed para- lyzed by this unhappy event, and the authorities in Washington were thor- oughly stampeded.”” Immediately the Eleventh and Twelfth corps consolidatea and, under the com- mand of Hooker, moved at once from the Potomac to the Tennessee. Simultan- eously Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee was ordered from the field of its greatest achievement, Vicksburg, and hastened to the rescue of the Army of the Cumberland. Meanwhile Grant had been placed in command of all the troops concentrating at Chattanooga, and was daily urged by dispatches from Halleck to push operations in his imme- diate front in order to relieve General Burnside at Knoxville, in East Tennessee. President Lincoln was greatly perplexed for fear East Tennessee would be wrested from Burnside, and his fears were con- stantly communicated to Grant. How- ever, Grant bad resolved to fight the enemy in his front at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain as soon as Sherman arrived, butmot to attack before the ar- rival of troops fresh from the victories of Vicksburg. Rainy weather, heavy roads and the continued harassment of Confederate cavalry delayed Sherman’s column. Meanwhile the Confederates had drawn their lines close to Chattanoogo. Lookout Mountain, with its Confederate tlags and batteries, stood out boldly. Sherman in his Memoirs makes this allusion to the situation when he arrived: “All along Missionary Ridge were the tents of the rebel beleaguering force; the lines of trench from Lookout up toward the Chickomauga were piainly visible; the rebel sentinels in a continuous chain were walking their posts in_plain view, not a thousand yards off. ‘Why,’ said I, ‘Gen- eral Grant, you are besieged,’ and he soia, ‘It is too true.” Up to that moment 1 had no idea things were so bad. The rebel lines actually extended from the river be- low the town to the river above, and the Army of the Cumberland_ was closely held to the town and its immediate defenses.” Sherman, with three divisions of his army corps, succeeded in crossing the river below and again above Chattanooga and getting in position in front of the enemy’s extreme right on the north end of Mission- ary Ridge. The First Division, under Gen- eral Osterhaus, was left below the town of Chattanooga because of the breaking of the pontoon bridge across the Tennessee, and was placed therefore unaer Hooker at the base of Lookout Mountain. On November 24, 1863, Grant was thor- oughly prepared to open_ the great battle. Sherman was in position. On the extreme left were threeaivisions of the Fifteenth Corps and some other troops’ General Thomas commanded the Army of the Cumberland in the center, and Hooker faced Lookout Mountain with Osterhaus division of the Fifteenth Army Cor{:s and two divisions of the corps from the Po- tomac. 1 belonged to the Fourth Iowa Infantry of Williamson’s Iowa Brigade of the First Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, and there- fore served under Hooker. We had been in line of march for three daysand three nights previous to November 23. That night we received orders to “'march and fight” at 6 o’clock on the morrow. We slept ten or twelye hours on the field. In fact we cared for nothing but sleep, so great had been the exhaustion of the march to get there.” We were Western troops and had been ‘‘jollied” a good deal about winning our victories on the Missis- sippi with gunboats. Lookout Mountain, looming loftily, was pointed out to us with the remark, *You will have to fight there without gunboats to back you.” Sure enongh we went into line early on the morning of the 24th. It was a new sen- sation to fight along with the Army of the Potomacsoldiers. They were better clothed and equipped than the Western troops, and had corps badges and caps. We advanced in line until we found the Confederates in force behind a railroad track running along Lookout Creek, near where the creefi; emp- ties into the Tennessee. We threw out skirmishers and began to exchange the compliments of the season the same as we did at Vicksburg. Further up the val- ley some of our troops had crossed the creek and gained a good position on the side of the mountain. Presently we were ordered to charge across the creek and cap- ture the railroad track. This oraer was executed in good style. Weremained quite hile waiting for orders. Meanwhile the firing was growing heavier up the moun- tain. Presently General Geary, for whom Geary street in this City is named, came along and said he had an order for the Iowa Brigade. General Williamson pointed :9 the brigade, and Geary said to follow him. We went up the mountain and relieved Carlin’s brigade. The musketry firing as we advanced became very heavy. A misty rain had set in and the smoke held close to the bushes and rocks. Darkness seemed to come early and by the flashes of fire we could easily distinguish the Confederate line above us and to our left front. The bullets flew very high and not many men were hit. Finally we got in position and began to bang away at our foes. There was more or less confusion during the night. The ‘*‘rebs” kept shouting, *You are firing into your own men,” and our troops would slacken the fire, fearing a mistake had been made. About 2 o’clock in the morning there seemed to be great excitement in the Confederate line. There was shouting, add orders were cried, “Everybody that is going to support the Georgia Brigade fall in.” Subsequently we learned from prisoners that this was a ruse to cover_their retreat. The Georgia Brigade got in, however, and made us believe that a general charge was on. Hooker and Geary, who put our division in to relieve others, never thought to re- lieve us, so_we remained in line all night and at the first flush of dawn began climb- ing to the summit of the mountain, to find that the Confederates had vanished. Qur troops on the crest of the noble mountain waved the old flag in the sun- light, and soon the cheering below was carried across the valley to the Army of the Cumberland in front of Missionas Ridge, and miles further on to Sherman’s column at Tunnel Hill. On the morning of the 25th we moved forward, and, joining the Army of the Cumberland on their right, facing Mission- ary Ridge, were ready to participate in the renowned charge which ‘broke the Confed- erate left and center. P On the 25th Sherman’s three divisions on the north end of Missionary Ridge bore the brunt of the heaviest fighting, and sus- tained the greatest losses of the campaign. The Confederates sent in division after di- vision from their left and center to crush Sherman, and for a time it seemed that he would pe overwhelmed. Grant had promised him that Thomas would move against the enemy’s center early in the day, but so much time was consumed in effecting a junction between Thomas’ and Hooker’s . troops from Look- out that the promised assault did not take place until 3 o’clock. The divisions of the Army of the Cumberland and Oster- haus’ division of the Fifteenth Army Corps constituted the assaulting column. - When the troops carried the first line of rifle-pits orders were given to check them, but the valor of the soldiers could not be restrained. There was an inspiration of victory in the r,and the column swept forward, carry- ing everything on the ridge. Fifty pieces of artillery and 5000 prisoners were cap- tured in this memorable assault. The Con- federates were utterly routed and pursued to Ringgold, where they turned Novem- ber 27 and gave such battle to their pursu- ers at Ringgold Gap that the pursuit was not continved. San Francisco, September, 1895, AFTER TWO EREAT ILS, The Civic Federation at Last Acts on the Sunnyside Franchise. Its Two Ordinances Relating to the Lotterles—Supreme Court’s Posltion. The Civic Federation has at last deter« mined to act vigorously, if it can find a good, solid foundation of law to stand upon, in the Sunnyside franchise matter. Owing to President Truman's time and attention being all taken up with the Dur- rant trial as a juror, it did not have a good opportunity until yesterday of settling upon some definite plan of action, but yes- terday presented the opportunity sought, when it was found that Mr. Truman could attend a meeting, the Durrant trial having been adjourned over the day. ‘What the federation, as soon as it wag properly organized at the meeting, con< cluded to do was to instruct its attorneys, Messrs. Morris Williams and Charles Wes- ley Reed, to report at next Saturday’s meeting as to what legal proceedings could be taken to test the validity of the act of the Solid Eight by which the franchise was | awarded to the Market-street Railway Company. It may be, says Mr. Reed, that a writ of certiorari will be applied for. Mr. Truman was re-elected president and Mr. Case secretary. The lottery question was also taken up. The two ordinances, which have already been published in THE CaLr, will at once be sent to the Board of Supervisors, with some modifications, in view of the recent Supreme Court decision. The State Supreme Court has declared the Los Angeles lottery ordinance uncon- stitutional. This crdinance was virtually a copy of the San Francisco ordinance re- specting the having of lottery tickets in ossession. The decision was rendered by udge Harrison on September 4 in the habeas corpus case of Wong Hane, Judges Garoutte, McFarland, Henshaw, Fan Fleet and Temple concurring. . The particular words in the Los Angeles ordinance to which the court applied its decision were: ‘“Unless it be shown that such possession is innocent or for a lawful purpose.” Judge Harrison said: The effect of this ordinance is to make proof of the mere possession of & lettery ticket & mis- demeanor and to place upon the defendant the burden of showing that his possession was lawful or innocent. * * * The Penal Code of this State does not make the purchase of a lottery ticket an offense—the provisions of that code being directed. against the selling of such tickets. By the very terms of the ordinance under consideration it is assumed that the possession of the ticket may be lawful or inno- cent, and that in such case the possessor is not guilty of a violation of the ordinance. The ordinance, however, throws upon the de- fendant the burden of proving his innocence, and by its terms, unless he shows that his pos- session is lawful or innocent, his mere pos- session of the ticket renders him liable to pun- ishment. If there are any circumstances under which the possession of a lottery ticket may be lawiul or innogent, & defendant who is charged with the offefse of having such ticket in h1s possession is entitled to the presump- tion of innocence, and cannot be compelled to establish his innocence by affirmative proof. To the extent that the defendant is required to establish his innocence the provisions of the ordinance violate his constitutional rights. The remainder of the decision is to show that the objectionable clause being uncon- stitutional the contest is also. This com- pletely obliterates the ordinance, and it is the opinion of the Federation’s legal ad- visers that the decision carries with it all of San Francisco’s ordinances on the sub- ject too. For this reason any such objec- tionable clause has been carefully omitted from the two ordinances proposed. One ordinance relates to advertising and the other to possession. In a letter ac- companying them to the board the Feder- ation writes: The owners and managers of the various lot- tery companies in San Francisco have become rich, and some of them are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars gotten out of this illicit business. Most of the lottery companies exist on paper only, and the sale of their lottery. tickets is & most shameful robbery of the poor, who buy most of the tickets. It can also be said that the poorer classes of San Franeisco areaddicted to the lottery habit; many x]mn away a dollar or two each month to buy lottery tickets till the aggregate sum invested in this criminal traflic amounts to over £100,000 a month, most of which is taken out of San Francisco and lost to the community. The winning numbers of these lotteries are advertised in some daily newspaper, and the lottery people are so pros- perous that they pay extremely high rates for ihese notices. The frugal and industrious habits of our peo- ple are undermined by the presence of this evil, their moral ideas are perverted, and their trust in the slow and steady returns of legiti- mate business is impaired. The laws as_at present framed are inade- quate. The advertisements that awaken the interest of the ople are the talesof past drawings and the namesof the lucky indi- Viduals who have leaped from poverty to wealth in a single day. Itis only aiding and abetting future drawings that at present are unlawful. The two proposed laws that the Civic Federa- tion lays before you prohibit the aiding of lot- teries by singing the praises of past drawings as well as of those yet to come. One is directed particularly at the Chinese lotteries, whose agents cover the City weekly. The letters and books of these lotteries are unintelligible to the police. Userur OLp Horsecars.—Every day the cast-off horsecar is assuming a new form of usefulness. A railway company in Connecticut is now running an old horse- car into the country districts for the col- lection of the peach.crop. The farmers bring down their fruit to the track and the car is loaded and run into Hartford and sold to the merchants. At Asbury Park an old car has been turned into a central station where storage batteries are re- charged for electric launches, domestic lighting, sewing machines, phonographs, etc., and the proprietor has reaped a hand- some return on his investment. Guatemala and -Louisiana have nearly the same area, 48,000 square miles, SMOKE LaBelle Greole CIGARS, 3 for 25¢--10c Straight--2 for 25¢ ASK DEALERS FOR THEM. RINALDO BROS. & CO., Pacific Coast Agents, 300-302 BATTERY ST, S. F,