The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1895. 7 FALDWIN THEATER. —° svening. CALIFORNTA THEATER CovLummia THEATYR—H MOROECO'S UPFRA-HOUSF TIVOLI OFPFRA-HROUSE OrpREUN—High-Class Va GROVER'S ATCAZAR.—"The T ecretary. e Festival Con- certs in aid of Ci Tuesday pvember 19. \TAN TEMPLE s College of Pharmacy, to- and Ellis streets— AUDITORIUM-Cor it Bacheller, on Song Recitals, giver Saturday aiternoon ot HALT—C r Post and Powell sts. Recital by Otto Bendix, on Thnesday 19, rand Prize Masquerade, olden Banner, on Satur- one block Bay Dist CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Dr. W, W. < Barbary Co There a e will speak this evening on the amy. 1 ten fine boxes for the Chil- WHY DID LARSEN DIE? a1, commencing | Commencement ex- ;| Result of the Inquest Held by Coroner Haw- kins. WILD UTOPIAN SCHEME. Money Sunk in the “World's Christian Co-operative Society.” ;ABREST OF THE ORIGINATOR. | on Complaint of Some Members of the Society He Is Charged With Embezzlement. Two things happened yesterday that 1 were not agreeable to George Washington ‘Wilderman, the originator of the “World’s concerts for sale. won at the Goethe-Schiller fair ed at 120 Sutter street. line Little sang vesterday atterngon seel concert in Golden Gate Hall. t has written Mrs. Ballington Booth dren’s Ho: Many pr remain Miss Ca at the Carr of her work. Vallejo is to have a new_independent paper. 1t will be run by two Native Sons and be called the Vallejo News. _John Goetze is suing to have his marriage to Dora Winter annullea because, he says, he was forced into it. _Beatrice, Bob Tucker, Marionette, Goodwin 11, Little Cripple and J O C wére the winners at the track yesterday. “The Master Plumbers’ Francisco gave a ban t at Golden Gate Com- mandery Hall last evening. Trouble between rival fish-dealersin the Clay- street market has resulted in a suit against Maurizio Batiario for slander. Golden Gate Commandery . 16, Knights Templar, gave a chrysanthemum jinks at the commandery banqueting hall The second grand ball of thie combined Car- penters' and Joiners’ Unions was held last evening in the Turk-street Temple. epublican Executive Council of Cali- is will give areunion and banquet at the 1nkand cafe on Thursday evening. creasing eloudiness and probable showers Association of San 1 ecast Offictal McAdie for to-day. Rich, editor of the Idaho Silver Ham- 1l distourse on the prineiples of Mor- m at Pythian Castle this evening. Julius Koebig delivered a licture on “The ugar Industry in California snd Its Im- tance to the State” at the Mechanics’ Insti- The programme for Tuesday evenihg's con- for the charity fund has been prepared, ts are filled by talented Vincent de Paul is con- stablishment of a free men without work or he Socioty. of g a.plan for tl porary shelter s Mas i n Nolen, the “California Venus," mands 00 for the recent use of her pie- edvertisement for a brand of W. Lockland,who demanded $500,000 from Claus 8 B vill be examined by the sanity to-morrow morning. What is now known as the Sanders bribery | 101 1t will ughly ventilated by the be taken up during the Adjutant-General Barrett says Governoj Mfarkhwin vonsented to the payment of day to the directors.of the Los Angeles Di Agricultural The exective committec fourth ly District on the evening 13 permanent organization Edna Josly was arrested y r [ of the Thi blican Club . and effe hin ® irl 12 years of age, noon by Policem : City Prison for 3irls’ Socil o won from Oakl; & ! P, 1 i match at Cent day. T frernoon San Fr 20 W the Olympics &t 2 o'clock and Oakland at 3 Congressman Loud states that he will use his main efforts during the coming session of Con- grees in advancing the passage of the Nica- ragua cansl bill, and he is confident it will pas Jones, better known as Jennie Lind, s ‘taken to the Re- on: id not know. B m The San Francisco councils of the Junior | Order United Americani Mechanics took part in the dedication of the new hallof Panl Re- vere Council at Berkeley last evening. Itwas = briliiant occasion. TheSouthern Pacific and the Oregon Railway and Improvement Company h begun a pa: senger rate war between this City and Por land. Tickets are selling for $5 second cla and $7 50 for first class. The Southern Pacific, its associated corpora- | tions and_officials and the Crockers, Hunting- tons and Staniord estate paid nearly quarter of a million dollars in taxes at the City Hall yesterday under protest. . One of the jurors in the trial of Frank Kloss says that the verdict of murder in the first degree should have included s life sen- tence, but by mistake it *'d not. Kloss may secure another trial on Lo point. ‘bulldog bit several people on Bush ¢ streets last evening. After driving yut of the box-office at the Cali- L eaught by Officer Jerry Dinan and killed in ¥ near by, Heary Peterson, champion oarsman of Cali- fornia, returned from the internationel regatta at Austin, Tex., yesterday. He speaks well of the Englithmen, who gave the Americans a high character for fairness and sportsmanlike conduct. . #Beovich committed suicide off Howard- street wharf - yesterdey morping. He leit a note stating he died from hunger, but his friends assert that he was crazy. Beovich has & wealthy brother in Vienna and another who 15 a priest of the Catholic church. Inthe North Beach scandals case vesterday Leon Meyer was held for trial in bonds of $20,- 000, Eugene Pardini, a shoemaker on Wash- inglon Mreet, was arrested, and it was deter- mined that 'an indignation mass-meeting of women should be held in Metropolitan Temple to-day. Mis. Olivia MeMurphy is suing Frederick W. McMurphy for a divoree upon the ground of A vicious u Her priucipal allegation is that he banged her head against the wall nntil a hair- was driveu throngh her scalp, and then he ulled her through a looking glass, all the time using foul language. The British bark Sharpshooter is again_ in irouble. After being dismantled and towed to &an Franciseo there is a row over the insurance money. The Fireman’s Fund wants the towage bill paid by the shipand Captain Watis objects, In the megntime Grace & Co. will not pay any freight until the matter is settled. George Brugger, who claims to be a partner of Gustay Walter in the Orpheum, has brought suit_sgainst Walter for an accounting of the profits of the place. He charges that Walter has kept him excluded from any knowledge of the workings of the partuership, and: that he has made away with the profits himself. The Salyation Army is establishing a shelter for women where a bed in respectable quarters and & breakfast may be secured for & nickel. The plan was suggested by Mrs. Ballington Booth during her recent visit to_this City and has the epproval of local philanghropists. About #! is needed to carry out the enter- prise. The collateral heirs to the estate of James Kelly are suing to set aside the probate of his will on the ground of undueinfiuence. Before lifs death Kelly deeded to Cetherine B. Russell, otherwise known as Sister Mary Baptiste, two eces of preperty, one on Fourijstreet worth 5,000 and one on Tenth street worth $20,- 000, each for $1. Possession was given by the will, and pow the heirs want to break it. . At the Coroner’s inquest m§a yesterday on ¥red Larsen, who committed suicide at 279 Jessie streel, Tuesday morniug, by cutting his throat with e razor, the jury returned a verdict blaming the * World’s Christian Co- operative Society.” Larsen had sunk $350 in , aud this, it was -testified, had made him insane. The president of the society, G. W. Wilderman, was arrested last night on & en~rze of embezzlewent. Juentin expressing ardent apprecia- | ¥ night; cooler.” is the prognostication | ‘Chrislnin Co-operative Society,”” with a | capital stock of $50,000,000. One was the {result of the inquest held by Coroner | Hawkinson the body of Frederick Larsen, | the other was a warrant issued by Police | Judge Campbell for Wilderman’s arrest. On Tuesday morning Larsen’s body was ! found in his little back bedroom at 279 | Jessie street with the throat cut from ear | to ear.. The head had been almost severed by a razor Larsen had used. It was neces- sary for Policeman Phillip E. Freher to break in the door to make this discovery. | Among the dead man’s effects were a | receipt from Attorney W. W. Allen for | two bank accounts with the People's | Home Savings Bank amounting to a total | deposit of about $600, and there was also a | certificate of deposit for $120 on Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Bank Investigation developedithat Larsen had | put $350—about all his loose money—into a communistic scheme known as the | “World’s Christian Co-operative Society,” | of which G. W. Wilderman bad been the | originator and was until about three weeks ago the president. Wilderman's home is at 1041 Mission street, with people of the same religious faith. Heisan old | man, with a face that resembles somewhat | that of George Washington Both Wilderman and Secretary Donald McRae of the society were at the inquest | yesterday and closely questioned by Coro- | ner Hawkins. Their testimony was in | effect that Larsen had put the money into } the society to supply it with ready cash, | paying the cash subscriptions of himself | and Directors Knutsen and Spencer and | half of another member’s subscription, | amounting to $350 in all, and that the fear | of never getting his money back drove him to insanity and suicide. | . He was a frugal man, had been a ranch laborer, and paid only $1 a week for his | room. For weeks he had been em- | ploved as a dishwasher at the society’s res- | taurant at 917 Mission street, just for his board, and after that, upon his demand for wages, he had been allowed a compensa- tion of §3 a week. He had to work from 4 | A. 3. t0 9 P. M. From the evidence given by Mr. McRae it was learned that what most worried Lar- | sen and conduced_to his insanity was his ! thinking over Wilderman's big land scheme in Lawer California, by which men had been induced to join the society. The organization was based upon two ideas, | one being of a religious nature and the | Gther apparently practical in its way. | Lach member was 1o havea positive belief in the divinity of Christ, and each was to put up $100 cash. According to Wilder- man’s representations he and Willlam Mc- | Crindle of Oakland had secured title from the Mexican Government to about 50,000 acres of iand in Lower California, near En- senada, and 20,000 acres of this they had | donated to the society. { Larsen had taken the trouble to consult | Attorney Allen after sinking his money, | and Mr. Allen had informed him that the | title of Wilderman was not valid, and that | the society did not own a foot of the 20,000 acres of land supposed to have been do- | nated to.it. McRae and others say that the title of Wilderman and McCrindie was based upon no more solid foundatien than the statements of a spiritualist medium. Wilderman, McCrindle and a man named M. E. A. Lassley began their vropa- ganda for the *World's Christian Co-oper- ative Society” last spring. Its first char- | ter was granted June 4, but the members | of the society, becoming dissatisfied, a re- organization was effected and a reincor- oration, the date of the second charter eing August 16. Mr. McRae stated that 210 was all the money paid in up to July ¥ and debts amounting to $20090 had been contracted for propaganda work and | Mr. Wilderman’s private bills. Before the reorganization Wilderman claimed to have 285 members. The society | elected eleven of 1ts members to reincor- | porate on_July 17, as follows: G. W. Wil- | derman, D. McRae, Louis W. Spencer, | Mrs. R. Kincaid, H. D. Deerbaum, J. D. | Moreland, C. K. Welch, J. Knutsen, Mrs. A. Anderson, N. Anderson and T. J. | Weaver. These eleven became the new directors, Wilderman being chosen presi- dent, McRae secretary and Weaver treas- urer. The old secretary, Lassley, disap- | peared, and is charged by Wilderman with carrying off §8 of the society’s funds. Wil- derman remained president until about | three weeks ago, when he was removed | and Weaver elected in his place, { __There has been a constant fight between | Wilderman and the other ten directors, | Mr. McRae leading the opposition to him. McRae did not have any confidence in him, so he states, and strenuously objected to the society taking his donation of land .instead of the $100 cash sabscription. Mec-1 Rae thinks he ought to have paid. The eyes of the members of the society | were opened when Rev. Jonas Bushnell, a | Baptist minister of Port Angeles, Wash., | came here last July to lecture for the so- | ciety and began to investigate. Rev. Mr, Bushnell -openly accused Wilderman of unreliability at a stormy meeting and withdrew entirely from the society, chang- ing his programme from Wilderman’s | propaganda to temperance work. Since that time there has not been a meeting of | the directors at which there has not been | one or more turbulent scenes. Eventually the plans of the society were modified. The original scheme of Wilder- man was to Lave a colony in Lower Cali- fornia engaged in the manufacture of graham flour by means of a crade mill, | which was a centrifugal gold-ore crusher [that he and a millwright named Crosby had adapted, as they thought, to a milling purpose. Altogether $1100 was paid into the society. and it tried successively a | laundry on Valencia street and the Mission- | street restaurant it now runs. Larsen began showing symptoms of in- sanity about two weeks ago. Before then he asked Attorney Allen to proceed against the society and Wilderman for his.money. McRae got together $196 50 and paid it to him. Out of this Larsen paid Mr. Allen $50 fees and a doctor’s bill and deposited the balance with Wells, Fargo Co.’s Bank. The verdict of the Coroner’s jury was that the death of Larsen was due to the sinking of his money in the society and the insanity it caused. B Wilderman was arrested for embezzle- ment last evemn;r, on Secretary McRae's complaint and Ju({e Campbell's warrant. A meeting of the directors of the society was in seseion last evening at Golden Rule Hall, at 946 Mission street, waiting to hear if he obtained bonds. He had not pro- cured bail at a late hour. The amount specified in the complaint of embezzlement is only $80, but 1t is expected that other charges will be made. A DOG ON THE RAMPAGE. Killed for Taking Possession of the California Theater Box- Office. There was great excitement on Bush and Kearny streets last night, caused by the loud reports of three pistol shots in the little alley below the engine-house. Many supposed that another murder had taken place, and while hundreds gathered near the engine-house no oneentered the alley. A minute later Officer Jerry Dinan emerged from the alley and said, *‘He is dead.” A thrill of horror ran through the crowd, but it changed to disgust when it was learned that the policeman had only killed a dog. The animal was a large, vicious creature of the bull-terrier breed and it had caused a vast amount of trouble before its life was ended by Dinan’s bullets. it started on the warpath in a saloon near by and bit the calves of several men before it was kicked into thestreet. Prompted nodoubt by terror and viciousness it started to run- a-muck. Several fled for safety and went into dark doorways to pin up more or less damaged garments. At last the dog bolted into the California Theater, and with a sort of Sheriff’s in- stinct entered the box-office. Al Morgenstern and A. Pincus were nearly knocked off their perches by the beast, which at once took possession of the premises. Morgenstern escaped and slammed the door, but Pincus, it is said, got stuck while trying to crawl out through the ticket window. Then it was that Officer Dinan appeared upon the scene and lassoed the savage brute with a balerope. He dragged the dog down into the alley and fired tnree shots from his revolver into its vitals. ATRIBUTE TO SPRECKELS, Dr. Koebig Says California Needs More Men Like the Sugar King. Future of Beet Sugar Industry in Cali- fornia Depends Upon Tariff Legislation. “Beet-sugar Industry and Its Import- ance to California” was the subject of a scientific lecture by Dr. Julius Koebig at the Mechanics’ Institute last evening. “Germany,the cradle of the industry. still stands against the world in the produc- tion of beet sugar,” said the speaker. “It was 150 years since Margrave delivered his famous lecture before the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, in which he claimed that the product of the beet might become | a successful competitor with that of cane. How true these claims are is shown by the success of the beet-sugar industry to-day.” Dr. Koebig gave a detailed description of the operation of the extraction of sugar by means of the ordinary process of the diffusion of liquids, and gave a clear expo- sition of the subject from a chemist’s point of view. The speaker continuea: I want to deny a statement as erroneous as it is frequently repeated. That is that the sugar extracted from the beet is inferior to cane sugar. The juice of the beet is, it is true, not so pleasant to the taste as is that of the cane, but properly cured beet sugar is in no par- ticular inferior to the product of the cane. *Can the industry of beet sugar manu- facture be made an extensive one? The answer depends upon the consideration of two others. 1s it possible to raise the amount of beets necessary to carry on the ? This has been answered by ac- i It has been shown by that a tonnage of twelve within the possibilities. “‘Another is as to the practicability of its manufacture. 1 believe out representa- tives 1n Washington will see to it. It can- | | not be denied that the inducements of- | fered for its manufacture at present are in- | adequate. Proper legislation would make it possible to successfully compete with the European sugar trade. *“Wherever the beet-sugar industry has | been started it has drawn a larger popula- tion about the scene of its activity. Wat- sonville is an example of this. More such energy and knowledge as Claus Spreciels, the pioneer in the enterprise on this coast, has shown in so admirable a degree and more favorable tariff legislation, would make California a peeress in the industry. “It is true we have in California a climate unexcelled, fruit and flowers un- surpassed, but we have few such men as Claus Spreckels.” HE MISTOOK THEVERDICT What Juror Leipsic Says That He Did in the Kloss Case. He Thought He Was Voting for a Life Sentence, but. Now Realizes His Error. It may be that Frank Kloss, convicted of the murder of William Deady, may not be so near the gallows as the verdict would indicate. In fact, it is claimed that the verdict is not a proper one, but was ren- dered under the belief that it included a life sentence as an extreme penalty. The verdict rendered is simply one of murder in the first degree, and the court must sen- tence the prisoner to death. Isaac Leipsic of 2335 Washington street, one of the jurors, is responsible for the story which has just come into the case. He says that when the jury went out he and two others were in favor of a verdict of murder in the second degree, while the remainder of the jurors were for murder in the first degree. Then one of the three went over to the other side, and after a deadlock for some time it was agrecd, Leipsic said, to return a verdict of murder in the first degree with life im- prisonment as the extreme penalty. Leipsic says this verdict was written down, or at least one which the foreman of the jury said: carried with it a life sen- tence, and each of the jurors signed it. In court afterward the proceedings did not inform the erring juror of what kind of a THE DEATH GF G W, GIBES, Sudden End of a Successful and Eminently Useful Ca- reer. WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS. Prominent in Church Work and a Generous Benefactor of Worthy Charities. George W. Gibbs, one of the most promi- nent of San Francisco’s merchants, and well known in social and religious circles, passed away at hisbeautiful new residence, 2622 Jackson street, late Friday night. Mr. Gibbs had been unwell for nearly two years, He was troubled with fainting spells, and his physician had predicted his sudden demise. : Last January his ailment became so serious that he decided to lead a less.active life than had been his custom. Accord- ingly he ceased the personal management of his extensive importing business and resigned the presidency of the Young Men’s Christian Association, the position of senior warden of the Grace Episcopal Church and director of the Home for Fecble Minded, at Glen Ellen. Since that time his principal occupation was directing the progress of the beautiful mansion which has just been completed. Thursday Mr. Gibbs was at the office of George W. Gibbs & Co., of which firm he still retained the presidency. Friday he remained about home, directing the pre- paration of his grounds. He took consid- erable exercise, but was not apparently suffering from the results until shortly after 8 o'clock. Then he dropped into a chair and complained of faintness. Un- consciousness followed and efforts to re- vive him proved futile. Dr. Hirschfeld was sumumoned, but bis skill did not avail, and with his faithful wife and his two brothers, Charles and Cornelius Gibbs, by bis side, he breathed his last. George W. Gibbs was born in Albany, N.Y., March 24, 1824. His father, Wil- liam Channing Gibbs, was for severa! terms Governor of Rhode Island, and traced his descent back tu the Pilgrim fathers. The subject of this sketch was sent very early to school at Pittsfield, Mass., and afterward to the famous Bart- lett Academy in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Upon leaving the Bartlett Academy he entered the great commercial shipping house of Barnard, Adams & Co., Commer- cial wharf, Boston. Here he received the first lessons in practical business by which he so well profited. . After serving one year with this estab- lishment he became connected with the w York house of the East india estab- lishment of S. T. Nicholl & Co. Here he remained for four years, at the expiration of which he went into the tea business for himself. 5 After four years as an independent mer- chant he determined to seek new fields. In January, 1849, he formed one of a com- pany that set sail for California. After a rather eventful voyage the travelers reached San Francisco April 24, 1849. It took just two days to cure Mr. Gibbs of the gold fever, and then he be- gan looking about for a suitable business enterprise, On Junel, 1849, he formed a partnership with Charles B. Loomis, and they opened up a general merchandise business on Washington street, between Kearny and Montgomery. This firm re- mained intact for three years, during which time their place’ of business was thrice destroyed by fire. £ Aiter dissolving the partnership Mr. Gibbs entered the firm of George C. yohnson & Co. as junior partner. In 1876 he bought out the entire interest in the firm and re- organized it as George W. Gibbs & Co. Of this firm he was president at the date of Lis death. “ He had been married twice, but neither union was blessed with children. He leaves a widow, three brothers, Charles bbs, Cornelius V. Gibbs and Major T. K. Gibbs, U. 8. A., and a_sister, Mrs, Sarah T. Thompson of New York City. Mr. Gibbs was prominently identified with many of the leading charities of the City, to which he contributed bountifully. He was one of the main supports of the Y. M. C. A., of which for many years he was president. He was an active member of the Grace Episcopal Church, of which he was senior warden until recently. Although a Republican in politics he hasnever figured as a prominent lgnrtisnn. the directorship of the Home for Feeble Minded being the only public office he ever held. He had hosts of friends in every avenue of life in which he trod, and his demise is uni- versally mourned. The funeral will take place from the Grace EpiscoPal Church,Monday, at 11 A. a. The funeral services will be held to-mor- row morning at 110'clock in Grace Church, California and Stockton streets. The in- terment will be private. TO DISTRIBUTE TURKEY. The Mission of the Good Samaritan Will Gladden Many Hearts, Under ordinary circumstances there would be many turkeyless homes south of Market street this Thanksgiving. The Mission of the Good Samaritan at 249 Sec- ond street has brought the rich Episco- palians of the City into closer touch with the unfortunates of that quarter, and as a consequence there will be much more cause for thanksgiving than there would otherwise have been. ~ The mission has its men’'s club and its boys’ club. There are many social bene- fits that bring the people of its vicinity to the rooms for evenings of pure and inno- cent amusement. It has also brought to light the wants of those who, though poor, would be too proud to ask for any assist- ance. / These people are the ones the mission designs to help this year. Many turkeys have already been promised, with other dainties, and the laaies of the mission wiil be on hand all Wednesday afternoon, the day befors Thanksgiving, and on Thursday morning to receive contributions. A list of those to be helped will be sent to the other charities in order that no {gmilies will be visited by two organiza- ions. . GEROME'S PERSONALITY. An Affable Man With a Military Man- ner and a Distinguished Air. In person M. Gerome is a wiry, me- dium-sized man; with a fine presence, and verdict had really been entered, but the| morninglpnpers did, and now Leipsic is busy explaining why it is that the verdict was wrong. e “The man was crazy from drink,’”’ he said, “and I would not have voted to hang him if we had stayed out all night. They wanted me to come over to the other side, but I would not, and the verdict that was rendered I thought .was one which in- cluded a life imprisonment.” Under the circumstances it is probable that when a motion for a new trial is made the statement of Leipsic_and the juror who stood out with him will be taken and made a part of the motion ana that it will prevail. Kloss will come up for sentence xxt Friday and the motion will be heard en. Young Deady, the man who was killed, was a fine young man who st well in the commun:ty. His friends will object to any leniency to Kloss, and cite the cases of the Hegper murderers to show that a new trial will probably not be granted. very soldier-like in his erect carriage. His face 15 strong and full of character, his snapping eyes are searching and stern, and his fine head of gray hair and military mustache give him quite the appearance of a cavalry officer. Courteons manners, great affability and a most distinguished air make him an ideal type of gentleman. At an absurdly early hour,when only milk- men, bakers and laborers are stirring, he may be seen in_the Boisde Boulogne or on the Champ; Elysees, astride of a hand- some horse, taking his morning exercise; but long before the gay world of Paris is idling over its morning cup of coffee the artist has returned, and 1s busily engaged Isenln-e his easel, or with his ‘modeling tools. < 3 Twice each week he gives his forenoon to his pupils at the Government School of Fine Arts on the Rue Bonaparte. His Ee"n“ is eagerly awaited and his arrival the signal for absolute silence. On his entrance, and after his hat and cout have been taken by one of the scholars, without loss of time Ka at once goes at the work of | criticism, in which he is a model of brevity and conciseness. Hisunerringeye at once detects the faults and wrong tendencies of each student, and nothing whatsoever escapes him. A pupil may deceive him- self, but not the master. Kindly advice to the serious, stinging rebukes to triflers, pleasant encouragement to hard workers, and useful -counsel to progressive men— such are the results of his visits. He is very liberal in his ideas and gladly wel- comes-any style of work, so long as it is healthy, honest and sincere. He takes great pride in the efforts of the pupils under him and does not hesitate to climb many pairs of steirs to the most humble | little studio to correct and advise some poor, struggling chap at work ona picture, and Gerome will sit and chat with him and give himn the benefit of his years of experi- ence. His kindness and consideration to Americans in his stuaio are proverbial.— St. Nicholas. SEVEN NEW SMALL BOATS The Navy Department Becomes Generous to the Naval Battalion. It Orders a Big Addition to the Equip- ment of the Reserves of This State. Before two weeks more have passed the divisions of the Naval Battalion in this City expect to have five boats in their boat- house instead of the one that rests there now. The boats have been ordered, not alone for this City, but for the divisions in San Diego and Santa Cruz, and as. the promise comes from the Navy Depart- ment it is reasonably certain that the boats will soon be in service. The following letter has been sent to battalion headquarters in thiscity: NAVY DEPARTMENT, ‘ 'WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 1895. Sir: In reply to your request for certain boats for the use of the naval militia, said boats being at the navy-yard, Mare Island, the de- partment begs leave to inform you.that the estimated cost of making the boats serviceable is something over $& The department hag directed that the sum of 500 expended upon the boats to prevent their further doteri- oration. When this has been done the department will direct that certain of these boats beloaned to the State of California for the use of the naval militia, as requested by you. Any rep- resentative you may accredit {5 at liberty to consult with the commandant of the navy- yard, Mare Island. and with the Naval Con- structor at that yard, as to which boats are most desirable. Very respectfully, D. McADpoo, Assistant Secretary. His Excellency the Governor of California, Sacramento. : In pursuance of this permission the fol- lowing boats have been selected by the officers of the battalion. One 10-oared cutter for San Francisco; one 14-oared saling launch from the old Monad- nock for 8an_Diego; one 12-oared cutter from the Marion for San Francisco; one 12-oared whaleboat trom the Bennington for San Fran- cisco; one d-oared whaleboat from the Alba- tross for San Francisco; one 10-oared gig for San Diego, and ome 12-oared cutter from the Philade phia for Santa Cruz. The second divisions in San Francisco have now a 16-oared barge from the old frigate California, and this, with the other boats will make quite a fleet. - The output, $5,000, represents the money necessary to. put the boats in a condition as good as new, so an expenditure of $500 means more than a mere comparison would sug- gest. The 12-oared whaleboat which will come here is a double-bank boat, light enough to be pulled at any time with six men single banked. The small whale- boat is a single-banker, and the two cut- ters and the big barge now in possession | of the battalion, are all double-bank boats. FROM COLON TO PANAMA, A Glimpse of the Isthmus and Passing Impressions of Its Decadence. WORK OF FEVER AND CLIMATE. Still, It Is the Opinion of Officials That the Great Canal Will Be Finished. J.C. Fellman, a New York newspaper man who has just arrived from the isth- mus, where he was the guest of the local officials of the Panama Railroad Campany,:| gave yesterday some interesting facts con- | cerning the canal and the ruin whicli now:; marks the French quarter of Colon. “Now, if you wish to know all' about the | condition of affairs on the -isthmus. of | Panama,” said Mr. Fellman, ‘I think that | Iam capable of giving you information.:| I came down from New York on:the Pan- | ama Railroad . Company’s steamer -Alli- anca and one of my fellow-travelers was J. C. Warren, who is second -in command to Colonel Rives on the Panama Railroad. On arriving at- Colon Iwas entertained at | the headquarters of the officials of the rail- road, and, thanks to the courtesy of Mr. ‘Warren, I made the trip of. forty-seven miles from Colon to Panama in the su- perintendent’s special engine.. Mr. War- | ren accompanied me and pointed.out'the | various points of interest along the line. “In the first place, Uolon consists of three:| different quarters. Washington Colon is'| directly at the eastern end of thetown, | and is almost entirely given up to the | buildings and oftices of the railroad com- pany and to the residences of its officials | and employes. The system adopted. by the company is a most excellent one. - Be- leving that the health and usefniness: of its employes must be carefully looked after’| in a climate so pregnant with fever, the company has sought to keep the residents:| of its own colony separated from not-oniy | the natural but the moral atmosphereof:| the native quarter of the town. With that | end in view it has established a club:for | employes, and this has been made as-at: tractive as possible. There are reading- rooms, cardrooms, and even a cafe con- | nected therewith, and 1n the dining-room substantial meals are served at a moderate monthly tax on every employe. The of- ficials of the company—that 1s to say, | Colonel Rives, Mr. Warren and J. S. Gil- bert, the auditor of the road—occupy a three-story . villa overlooking the harbor, and maintain an establishment on a some- | what elaborate scale, each having his own servants and apartments, and dining to- ether in ‘a salon on the ground floor. q‘here are some very delightful people in the American colony, and take it alto- ether life at Washington Colon is far rom intolerable. “Christopher Colon, the old French quarter of canal times, is in sad contrastto the American end of the town. The mag- uiticent three-story villa, which was built for the occupation of Ferdinand de Lesseps during his f visits to the isthmus;is going to ruin. Already the penetrating! dampness of the tropical climate bas had its effect upon the deserted palace and has | begun to rot the woodwork of the interior. as well as exterior of the building. The smaller and less pretentious villas which-| were the residences of the lesser officials of | the canal are also rapidly falling into | decay. It is only in its natural. beauty | that Christopher Colon has not deterior- ated. The climate, which has proven so |- destructive to its artificial features, has rather served to adyance its natural claim. The rows of palm trees which were set out on both sides of the avenues of the colony have atiained growth and perfection of beauty without the aid of the landscape gardener, and the vines and flowers in the little gardens of the villas bave grown in such exuberance as to do much in places to hide beneath them the ruin and blemish which time has made upon the houses themselves. “It would be utterly absurd to talk at any length about the isthmus,” continued the speaker, ‘‘without mentioning the fever. Although the subject is made light of by the residents of the isthmus, never- theless the Chagres fever—so named after the river from the marshes of which it emanates—is an ever present and menac- ing terror to the dwellers in Colon. Even in the literature of the isthmus the fever is an ever fertile theme. Mr. Gilbert, the auditor of the railroad, who is a poet de- serving of more than local recognition, in a volume just published, continually barps on the scourge, and closes one very power- ful poem on the subject with the words: Behird the Chagres (Fever) River All paths lead straight to hell. 2 “The line of the Panama railroad from Colon to the Pacific side of the isthmus mainly follows the line of the canal, and is through a jungle of such tropical dense- ness that one is instantly impressed by the fact” tbat the completion of the Panama canal must be a fierce struggle between man and nature.. Not only must its com- pletion be a very difficult matter, but even holding:from month to month the ground alriz\dy gained will in itself be an arduous task. “Slowly-but surely the almost irresistible advance-of .the tropical jungle is obliter- ating the progress made by the workmen in.the canal trenches, and nature is claim- ing back the: territory wrenched from her for a time by:the ingenuity of man.” Along the railroad -one sees everywhere the ruined vestiges of the millions of France. On the'side tracks constructed for the con- |:veyance of material and paraphernalia to the ‘canal ‘ditches are hundreds of cars filed - with: tools and_machinery almost |hidden from: view, as it were, by rust and moss, while the tracks and parts of the cars have sunk into the soft earth of the marshes of the river Chagres. In the main trench are the huge dredgers, inert and de- serted; their ironwork covered with rust, the woodwork rotten and soft, the stru ures”themselves gradually sinking downe ward:i1ito.the soft, rich bottorm. ‘And amid all this ruin—this represen- tation-of an outlay of hundreds of millions —there is absolutely no sign of man. Not alaborer occupies a .place on the dredges, and the trenches are as deserted as if the beasts of the jungle had never had toshare their territory with any living mortal. Near the Pacilic entrance to the canal some 700°0r'800 men are at work, but these are merely striving to hold from the encroach- ment of nature the work already done. It is-the opinion of the Panama Rail- road officials, Colonel Rives and Mr. War- ren, that the eanal will ultimately be fin- ished, but not by the French. It will re- quire the unyielding substantial grit of an Anglo-Saxon-race to push through an en- terprise filled with such colossal obstacles.” ACTIVE REPUBLICANS. 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