The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 15

N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896. Famaly 0 [SCO can boast of hose armorial \ the pride of ough we live sem- th be as t might George 111 ruled over trons boasts a line -five forefathers :’_ : e, while another s w a genealogicdl tree of e Great might be styled our residents is a s of the brother of the I { and a society lady artha Custis as amma. orporated in the a 1e most preten- s several humbler symbolic figures ornament the ces, the Then the rs show owners’ is allied on the Inde- Robert of ntons, . on the d Cal- -Hercules ), in the the e portraits ns adorn s Otis, once ve a coat-of- d John Ad of fire.” cestry of the family and. | : armorial bearings ndants of | Norman -bard, whose lencon. Tsaac Kype i in the New | 57 and erected the same t, in 1688, for his sons, | ricks, under the name of | Iy motto is 1(.~h’gi«t‘ sackward). | b has some rare old | engraved in quaint | rings of her an- | h William of | 1vasion and conquest of :h was the Anglicized | ily, ng to the | in the south fields time which ¢ wme. There were four the lot e, one of n of the Hazen w, e Revolution- was made a re the prop- ded docu- re of whom Frank J. ¥ on which was Moses rs the signatuy amed and occ idem (Word and thought motto on tl Ore et corde by Mr. and their | n ¥ tie New \ Netheriands in 1 { no more interesting i tory than that of James de la Mo \ mily genealogical chart ws Dut ch and Engl coats- | « ie first of the race was Dr. | Johanies de ia Montanya, who was born | Bt .Sa ne , and the last, Mast Jacque ontanya, the four- a Montanya Jr., French armor- bestowed wupon the The De la Mon- led to the Dutch coat-of- be er of tanyas are entit /{. 5 a4 ily of Holland, one of whose earliest ) of | ton, daughter of an entative of this | anarm em- | descendants of the | stors, Rudolph Waldron, angiseo Peo one design, with the ducal coronet won a | of Mrs. Crocker’s (nee lves) family oppo- baronetcy on the plains of Palestine iu | site. 1150, during the Second Crusade. “Justice and Perseverance,” a laudable Nee beneficia immemor mec injuriz was | MOtt0, surmounts the coat-armor quar- the motto of the family which was allied | teTings of the Bouviers, an old French to the De la Montanyas through the mar- | f8mily of whom Alired Bouvier is the riage of Jokn de la Montanya and Anetz | ORIy scion resident in San Francisco. A Waldron of Amsterdam. The Er drms come mto the family archives honors through Michael de Ia Montanya. | 3 of Louis nnes de la Montanya, who was | Haggin shows a dove spreading its wings Dr. Jot distinguished in the fine as well as the camp, and was known as the poet soldier, came to New Amsterdam in 1637 on the ship Seven Stars, with the De Forrests, the Cartwrights, e and Kypes. William James de la Montanya, who re- sides in this City, married Miss Sarah Jane Horn, whose mother was Lydia M. Comp- inglish family resid- Hampton Court. This family d to be entitled to such a crest as is granted to the gentry. The French and Duteh arms appear on the De la Montanya carriages, and the unique designs are Te- peated in their silver, stationery and bed linen. The arms of the family of the late George W. Gibbs consist of an old English design surmounted by three broken tilting spears, ensigned with a wreath. an effective con- ceit, carried out in gold. The Hubbard arms are quartered, with three lions passant, and the crest a boar’s sead couped, collared and ringed, and in its mouth a spear. The insignia was given | by Burke to the ancestral Hubbards of Birchanger, County of Essex, in 1570. The same arms are to be found on the tombstone of one of the family at Copp’s Hill Burial Ground, Boston. Another ancient English design is that of tife Wright family —represented in this City by Mrs. Selden 8. Wright—a chey- ron engrailed between two spearheads, with a crest consisting of a dragon’s kead, couped and ornamental. Two scythes and the motto, Stat nominis umbra, form the crest of the coat-of-arms of the Hungerford family, whose scion in | San Francisco is Austin 8. Hungerford. Mrs. William Alvord uses the family arms of Ler ancestors, the Mackintoshes of Invernesslire, Scotiand, a race of sol- diers, statesmen and scholars. Two coats-of-arms ornament the stained- glass windows in Henry J. Crocker's man- | as well | sion on Washington street, a stag’s head, | family coat-of-arms could possibly do. is { .VAN WYCK jsh | miniature pine tree forms the crest of his and | coat-of-arms. The seal of the family of Louis T. for flight. A miniature demi-lion rampant with the motto Sapere aude marks the note- paper of Kverett Wise. history. Youare in danger of find- ing that some one has come to his end on | the gallows. Now, aren’t you?” Mrs, | Cole uses the armorial bearings of her an- | cestors of the time of Catherine of Arragon, the ill-fated consort of Henry VIIIL. suggestive of the time of capricious execu- { tions, its shield bearing designs of the gallows brake or wheel of that time, the isting of a larger one, in relief. The motto is: Virtus in actione consistit (Virtue consists in action). The family of William Ellicott is, by virtue of ancestry, entitled to the arms and crest of the Enghish Washington and their American scion, who won the hon- ored title of Father of his Country. The crest of the Hedzes family is a pomegranate in gold, stalked and leaved in nature’s color. A wolf’s head is the crest of" the Put- nams, who trace their ancestry to the old family of that name resident in Bucks and Bedfordshire, England. Mr. George A. Crux is a scion of a Kent- |ish family, whose crest is a demi-eagle with expanded wings. Mrs. Crux (formerly Miss Cornelia Armistead Lusson) is re- lated on the maternal side to the Ttis | cott, traveled through the woods from Salem to explore and settle Charlestown, where they found only one English house, the palisaded and thatched house of a | smith.” A few years later Simon Hoyt was one of the earliest settlers of Dorchester, Mass. He was one of the first to take the oath of freemen in Massachusetts, May 18, 1631. An unbroken line of descent connects this energetic pioneer with New England men of local note, whose records for integrity and enterprise reflected a luster upon the good old name. Governor Haight’s grand- father was born in Athens, N. Y., in 1778, He was equally distinguished asa lawyer and soldierand was made major-gzeneral of the New York militia at the close of the war of 1812, Baron von Schroeder’s noble lineage is recorded in all German heraldic works, and boasts men of distinction in more than one line of merit. The late Leland Stanford came from a line of Knglish gentry. This is also true of Timothy Hopkins. ‘rhe Babcock family has a line of titled | | progenitors. The name has been modified from Badcock, and the family is of Saxon ASHBURNER never received the approval of his Kine. Originally the Marquis sprang from the peasantry and in consequence had a large family of poor relations, who were ready and anxious to receive wassistance from him. He administered it in the shape of educations, and from this imaginative man sprang one of the most substantial | families 1n the French kingdom. They were educated, intellectual people. Many of them came to this country dur- ing the Revolution, and three of the broth- ers were with the Marquis de La Fayette | in his struggle to assist the Americans. One of them returned to France and was knighted for bravery in the field. second was Kkilled at the battle of the Brandywine and the tbird remained in this country after taking to wife the daughter of a French colonel in Rhode is couple sprang those o the name to-day, owing to intermarriage, has become Robair de la Fontaine. There is in this City at the present time one of the family in the person of General Oliver Roberts, who prefers that rather American cognomen to the French adapta- | tion. General Roberts married the daugh- ter of State Treasurer Tufley of Nevada, but at the present time he is a resident of this City. He has lived the greater part of his life on the Pacific Coast, and instead | of producing fables like his illustrious ancestor he has a fondness for gold- mining, which is both a pleasure and an | He still possesses | occupation for him. some of the characteristics of the earlier MANSFIELD M5 ELLICOTT 1 An imposing heraldic device, a shield on which are quartered ancient arms, sup- ported by sagles and with a demi-eagle ris- ing from an ornate crest, remind Allan St. J. Bowie of the prowess of his sires. Cen- turies ago a clan of the warlike Campbeils left their native Highland fastnesses and crossed the. stormy Frith of Forth on rude rafts-of their own construction. For this theretofore unparalleled feat the neighbor- ing clans gave the venturesome spirits the sooriquet of Buoys, which has been mod- ernized to Bowie and has long been the ac- cepted name of the whilom Campbells. Dr. R. Beverly Coleisa direct descendant of an English progenitor of that name who was a contemporary of Lord Bacon. “My Americanism is of so sturdy a kind that I have not changed my mind even with the motto of the English gentry from which Isprung,” said the veteran physi- cian. “My father adopted, and I have used for my own inspiration and that of my family the motto, Aut nunquam tentes aut perfice (Never begin what you cannot perfect). It suits my purpose quite as the forgotten one on the the crest of the armorial bearings of his | Besides,”’ continued Dr. Cole, “this is erms through the Waldrons, a noble | English ancestry, being the central figura ' serious business, going back too far in the | Armistead family of Virginia, one of whose members, Colonel George Armis- | tead, was commander of Fort McHenry. | over which floated the flag that inspired | Francis Scott Key to write “The Star- | spangled Banner.” She can also trace her | descent irom John Wright Stanley, Judge |of Admiralty of North Carolina. By | intermarriage her family is also connected with the Newtons, who, generation after generation, have dwelt in Norfolk, Va., since 1652, The surviving relatives of Governor English as well as German coats of arms. as the fourteenth century. There is a fam- ily tradition of previous Teutonic origin, however, and in the Heralds’ College of London an authority on German her- of the Westphalian family of Von Hoyte, which was modified to Haight. Simon Hoyt was the first man who enjoyed the of the family. He came to Salem, Mass., in 1628. The archives of pioneer Charles- town, Mass., contain the record that *‘the family of one Simon Hoyt, with the ap- proval of his Excellency, Governor Endi- . Henry Huntley Haight have claims to | The English line can be traced back as far | aldry has been found that cites the arms | distinction of being the emigrant-in-chief | | at that point before the Norman conquest. | made a marquis to compensate him in origin, the home of the direct ancestors | being in Essex County, England. Among the representatives of the Hu- | guenot families, which early found a home | in this country, are the Merrills. Peter | Merrill escaped from France during the | reign of Queen Elizabeth, and served the | Virgin Queen with such heroism in the field that she rewarded him by bestowing | 2 knighthood upon him. He emigrated to | America and settled at Newberry, Mass., | whence the San Francisco branch of the family come. The Wingfield family, of which the Bishop is the head, is of ancient origin. The village of Wingfield, in Suffolk County, | England, is the ancestral seat. It derived its name from the possession of the castle It is not generally known thntADe la | Fontaine, whose fables are a classic, was endowed with the distinction of being part for the pleasure he gave the people of his mother country by his literary produc- tions. The acquisition of a coat-of-arms and frequent association with other noble- men made no material change in his gen- eral habits, and he continued to write fables and stories just as though he had French people. and is 6 feet in height, with dark, curly hair, a massive head and brown, impressive eyes. A MEOHANIOAL FIGURER. The Best Calculating Machine Invented by a Frenchman. A voung Frenchman, Leon Bollee, has succeeded in completing a most wonderful calculating machine of his own invention, which outclasses anything in the way of comptometers, adders and registering ma- chines shown before. The new machine does all the figuring automatically, and no matter whether itis a question of addition, subtraction, multiplication, divi<ion, equa- tion, extraction of roots, reduction or dif- ferentiation, the result is arrived at with rapidity hard to believe, and is invariably correct. At a recent meeting of the Insti- tute of Krance, Mr. Bollee showed and | demonstrated his new machine, and the en- thusiasm created by the exhibition was so spontaneous that the members of the in- stitute present immediately addressed a petition to the Minister of the Interior to confer upon the young inventor the cross of the Legion of Honor. As to its work it | is simply perfection itself. Examples were given by several mathematicians present, and they figured out some of the results, to test Bollee’s new machine, without finding a single error. One lightning calculator tried to beatthe machine with the aid of a so- called comptometer, but when Bollee gave theresult, thelightning calculator had only The | ily who still live in America,where | just begun to put down the first row of figures. It is almostimpossible to explain in writing how the machine works; one example may suffice: It took Bollee a trifle less than three seconds to get correct results of the following multiplication: R 224, which is in 5, or, Writ- ten out, fifty-five quintillions, three huns dred and four quadrillions, seven hundred and ninety-one trillions, seven hundred and twenty-three billions, eight: x mile lions, nine hundrea and seyenty-five thous- and and four hundred and fifty-six. The machine is not v an arith- metical wonder, but it 1s equally interest- ing from the standpoint of mechanical ingenuity. It contains no less than 3000 different parts of steel or copper. is divided into two distinct and independent sections—the ‘‘receive and the ‘‘cals culator.”” The “receive; consists of a | rectangular frame, supported at the ends by two vertical posts; this row illed in with two rows of twenty number- wheels each, every one of th wheels being fitted with a pinion and numbered from 0 to 9 on the rim. There is but one figure on each wneel visible from the outside through aslot on the cover of the frame. Between every two wheels of each row there are three thin steel rods, one before the other; they are provided with cogs and shide up and down vertically between grooved rails. Each of these rods en- gages and turns a different figure wheel. | There are as many groups of these rods as | there are figure-wheels; that is twenty | times three in each row, or 120 in all. The | ““calculator” part of the ma of metallic case, which has on its upper | surface ten grooves, each of which is pro vided with ten notches, numbered from 0 to 9, in which the buttons of ten so-called caleulating plaques, glid- |ing on the flat bottom inside of the | calculator, may catch. By means of a | manipulator the entire calculator is moved | along on two horizontal steel rods, which | are themselves turning ten times as fast | as the small vertical-cogged rods spoken | of above. The advancement from one | wheel to the next is therefore determined by a complete turn of the m | Each of the inner plaques is a re ive of a part of the multiplication table. | The present state of the machine permits the figuring of all the problems likely to | occur, since a figure containing more than twenty ciphers is but seldom required; and all the work on this machine is done in less than one-thirtieth part of the time necessary for a rapid caleulator. Leon Bollee is only 25 years old, but has an enviable record as an inventor. He is the son of a wealthy bell-founder and manufacturer of steam. lent trainir in life. culating machine just descri at the age of 18, and has accomplished much success in other directions, as there are no less than thirty-seven practical inventions of his now patented. Most of these are improvements and independent novel- ties referring to the propulsion of boats, bicycles, automobile carriages, printing machinery, measuring apparatus, tim keeping apparatus for factories and many other useful objects. Among his admir- ers he has been nicknamed the “‘French Edison,” and with his youth and his rec- ord up to date there is no telling where he may bring up yet.—New York Times. Dl B AR T HE SPARED THE TREE. A Curious Way of Saving an Old Land- mark in a New Jersey Town. It was announced a week ago that one of the most notable trees in this country was doomed by the march of improve- | ment. Itisahugeand ancient sycamore, or buttonball, standing in the middle of the sidewalk in Stephen street, Belleville. | Records show this tree to be at least 250 years old, and in that time it has grown | to a diameter of seven feet at the butt. The sycamore is invariably a most pictur- esque tree, and this is one of the most | picturesque of sycamores. | Contractor McCann, w is | upon the task of wideningand stra | ing Stephen street, decided that the tree must be cut down, and 1t really looked as if the monarch would be overthrown, for | there is little of that sort of sentiment | in Belleville which would move to save a | tree when there is plenty to talk abcut in | the political field. | There was one man who loved the 1troe enough to go to the contractor | with the familiar hines, “Woodman, ! spare,”” etc. It was Christian Or- | tholf, the barber, whose shop 13 {on the corner of William and Stephen | streets, and is overshadowed by the big | tree. He is a good singer and he rendered | the old poem so well that tears came into | Contractor McCann’s eyes and he prom- | ised to *‘touch not a single bough,” but | said that he would have to do something | to the old trunk, and finally decided to cut {an arched passage through it. This will | amuse the children and satisfy their eld- ers, as it will probably save the old tree for | years to come. When the electric-light- | ing plant is completed an incandescent light will be put over the arch on each side | of the tree.—Newark (N. Y.) Sunday Call, ————— Hammerfest, Norway, is the northern<' most town, and Punta Arenas, Chile, is the most southerly town in the world, arts_early