The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCIS CO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896 17 Sierra storm; which party the second ers have been not 1N trou was re ere were ade 1; company in the t bse wagons and tle covered two contacts with deaths from exposure and fatigue, of the ¢ when the ortunates took th tal Truckee n the alkalin the mur: and, the nd M parting of re Cutchen heroica to set abead 1 seek r r's Fort. Then James F. R led a young man named Snyder Snyder was the sen er of th 1e man, th. alone into the wintry ut food, without his e was accepted, for there was com eeing to pro- four children, band and her the v hter in n, a of 12 years, heard the verdict of the emi- ce v what the sentence mean She wept, with her motner and her sister and her brothe ng, and her f: the watched in the ca nd at . Sudden ons a litt night i ia Reed with food and e child held g, dejected from the she dared. called as I nd st mor ected. At | ed to meet her amp she More rapidly was saved. There 1s no prettier record of heroism in sll the world than that of this Illinois girl ; end that the wisdom of the child’s heart was r than that which bad pre gr in the t council is shown b; succee 5 Down in the warm, sweet of the Bacramento, General Sut his fo; tress, and that was the haven of the ear. pioneers; the only place of actual res securitv and comfort. Hospitality .was | unbounded there. McCutchen and” Stan- chea the fort in safe but M hen was ill and so Stanton returned to the rescue without him, Sutter provid- ing, without tho of charge,” seven es Jaden with provisions and two ex- i1an guides. This relief expedition that saved the survivors of the y and the romantic Virginia ton and his two Indians found the ¥ about twenty or tw es to the eastward of this loc ¥ and alx brought ba gy by Stanton’s promises e pioneers pressed on to | austed party ui tter’s Fort stward. | : winter of 1846 set.in early, and at close of October six inches of snow rround this side of the Nevada | Sierra summit there was | Still struggling onward, | the covered the line and at the five feet of snow. nearly crazed by hardskip and suffering, eome of the emigrants fought their way | slong where to-day stands the radiant ice | palace; others followed a pass somewhat to the northward. Donner Lake was the end o1 that winter’s expedition, and the closing place of the lives of many in the company One evening it was decided that the only hope of surviving was in starting over the summit on foot, carrying some of the meat | of the catile and mules for food. That | night the Ice King barred the way. A heavy snowfall, beginning then, lasted several days. The cattle perisbed in the | drifts and some were buried out of sight; | the mules were never scen again. i 'he work of constructing cabins was resolutely begun, and here was the pitiful | little first home of the settlers on the Bierras, a hamlet of terror, suffering, des- | titution and distraction. Then came the starting onward of the “Forlorn Hope,” when there was not food | enough for all—a sacrifice of life if neces- sa1y 1or the sake of those who were to re- main in camp. Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Pike (sisters) went with the party on the &nowshoe contrivances that their share of | Dolan? Dolan had_given all his food; now he | yvisions might help to sus- of their ageda mother d Mrs. McCutchen vol- X y and left her infant care of one of the older women at Men gave up the comparative the camp, though the camp was knew that their going ion so much longer ien and children. t their p isted par o camp, and the c the winter ins. ) rela- that he owned would bave afforded Lim food for the e winte: But the wife and chil- dren of the b hed Reed had Iittle to and to these did Dolan gi-e all his of living. Mrs. Reed handed a L M ic emblem to the gen- n at parting, him to give to her husband if the two should t at Sutter's Fort. The souvenirs were t not by that mescenger, for Dolan died in the sno It was a x weeks at Donner Lak that the * 1 Hope” crawlad on, t the end « versed only t encampment was withi the men had Je e the mothers nad left their infants and where the bachelor, Dolan, | | San ; | twelve native sons and daughters. | mighty | had brought the food that was life to the The others had done that only to sustain life enough to accomplish the rescue. Mrs. Reed and Virginia were the strong- est and most resolute persons at the lake during the latter days. At last the brave young daughter, the girl who had stolen away and praved the awful wilderness to foliow on her banished father’s trail with food and the gun, broke down in starva- tion, and oa the evening of the 19th of February Virginia Reed lay dying. Gath- ered at her bedside in the comfortless cabin beneath the snow were several of the women, for Virginia was a favorite in the camp. She had been the life of the camp. There were no hopes. No words were spoken. The next day there would be another body in the snow, and then— A shout! No famished man at the lake could shout like that. Indians? No, those were the shouts of the white men. The ers had come! inia Reed was saved to the State that may well be broud of her; and here i y be mentioned that, marrying at Jose, she became the mother of ‘The reliel expedition sent out by Gen- eral Sutter had arrived at the lake after a attle with the Ice King's forces and prisoners. To-day the merry-makers at the carnival skate thoughtiessly and happily over the places where those pioncers suifered and hoped and died. The creek running there has been made into a pond, 8o that now a portion of the camp site is under water; but rising from the ice is a huge wooden cross to mark the spot at which the Murphy cabin stood. Sutter’s relief party had brought to the lake the food that was considered neces- sary, and the remainder was cached on the other side of the summit. An immediate return with those who could travel was | therefore necessary. The food supplies were quickly exhausted, and when the | that had come was in the flesh of the three | early victims. The two Indians grimly refused to eat that food, but there was no reason why they had to survive. Their wives and children were not among those at the ‘The journey was resumed and when the last of the human food gave out it was de- cided to kill the Indians, but these guides understood the plan and they ran away in the carkness. Witbout the Indians the party had no knowledge of the trail and here was the new terror of bein ost. The Jdeath of a boy in the arms of an older sister, Mrs, the body used Jay Fosdick le: party. A few fooa” was gone, including the meat of all deer that had been killec two Indians wer» overtaken, ex- hausted, after they had been for nine days without food; and at that time the sur- vivors of the emigrant band were only five women and two men. The Indians had sunk down to die when the white men and Toster, who then saw food, and the death of ened the number of the a women passed them. It was a duiv to kill the dying Indians for food and Foster went back and performed it. The Indians did not object, and they were glad that the end i come. he agony of climbing one moun- tamn, only to find another beyond! That days more and agan the | | summit w crossed the party found that wild animals had reached the food stored | away for that trip. Starvation would have | been inevitable but for the arrival of the banished Reed with the second train. So Virginia Reed did not save Ler father's life alone when she slipped from the earlier camp and followed on in the snow., Ihere are too many pathetic features of the long-ago winter to be all related here— the experiences of the Donners in their camp at Prosser Creek, the sufferings of those who could not start from Donner Lake when the first relief party arrived, the guidance of the rescuer by the finding of the dead body of Stanton, the return of Reed for his two children who had been the lake, and the awful journey of ed and the rescued on that final jour- ney toward the Sacramento plain. This | 1ast journey was no less tragic than the dreary attempt of the “Forlorn Hope.” Some died, and all the tortures and ter- rors recorded of the others were experi- enced vy those who journeyed down the mountain with Reed ‘in the ‘“second re- Travelers in this region about the experienc think little s of those who came half a century before. Little remains to mark the site_of the encampments, but pre: ed in McGlashan’s tower are relics that appeal to the sentimems of those who know the history. There are crumbling bits of the cat portions of w is and fragments of household goods. There are ons, I v xand a pistol, and ! many such things as these, SQUEEZING FRUIT M[N.{ | Peculiar Business Methods of Chicago Commission Merchants. HOW RENTS AFFECT RETURNS. Rejection of Consignments En Route Upon a Falling Market Is a Common Trick. Y¥rom a recent Chicago dispatch it is larned that the California® fruit grower and shipper, owing to their system of con- signments, are paying the rent of the| Scuth Water-street commission man of that city to an extent that is as unwar- rantable as it is startling. Quoting one of the most prominent com- mission merchants in the street the dis- patch says: It is a fact too well known to be denied, many commission houses do not give exact returns to shippers. The last two years have been es- Ily tryving to the street’s honesty. While the commissions asked atpresentare lower than ever before, business is dull; competition for trade never before was so so sharp, and rents are being exacted more rigorously than at any previous time. Instead of a reduction commensurate with the scale of business, landlords in South Water treet are continually putting on the jack- ws. he complaint against the rents has become s0 serious that a mass-meeting of Soutn Wate street commission merchants is called for ne Saturday afternoon at the Produce Exchange. A secret meeting was held (here yesterday alternoon and representatives of nearly every prominent house in the street were present A committee of twelve was appointed to dev pluns for cither moving or securing a reduc- tion of rents. The names of the committee- men were kept secret. This is truly an honest confession that ought to_be good for the souls of these ! apparently but not really dishonest com- mission men. Because the rents are gk in South Water street, Chicago, to quoteliterally the words of another peaitent in the same dispatch, *‘the market does not give the grower the best of the deal.” The “jackscrews” which the landlords | put on tue merchant in the East squeezes, by these peculiar business methods, the grower in the West. | For some time the fruit men of this State have been complaining bitterly of unsatis- factory Chicago returns, especially from orange consignments. An unreasonable number of cars have been revorted in bad condition; false reports of selling prices are made, and the owner is called upon for expenses sometimes exceeding the ue of the consignment »mplaints the comm n man an “tis due entirely to bigh rents ex South Water-street propert “As well migiit the Chicago man use | the excuse t the price of ink vanced, or that he has been obl DONNER LAKE, IN THE HIGH SIERR life, haa abandoned his hope of Such weather conditions as then existed would imprison the Truckee of to-dav, but every morning the “F n Hope'’ 'suffered a little distance onward. The pioneers wio pe that erand und ing deserve a monument as en- during as the granite crags among which thev toiled. Stanton was the first blinded on the t i fiith morning when sumed he said, in respon He rly in 0 a call, “Yes, Iam coming soon,” but though still reso- lute he could not 2o and his companions had to leave him there to die. 1t of literary ability and from an England family, had proven hi going back with provisions fc panions after he had hoped-for valley. That day supply was used, for with the weaker ones at Donner Lake, nearly all the supplies had been left. One member of the party. a man named Eddy, found an unexpected little bit of relief for ‘the ition when the food was gone. 1f pound of meat that had been secreted by Mrs. Eddy in her husband’s outlit, and attached to it was a *“From Your Own Dear Eleanor, Another fierce storm came on. the The members of the party were starving, A council was held. What was there to d Only one thing; to become cannibals. or two days the party was without food, and the allowance before that had been one ounce for each meal. The thought of cannibalism was horrid—horrid bevond orainary comprehension, but to most of those in the council life was the first duty, for the sake of the women and children in the cabins beyond the summit. Lots were cast. And who was chosen for death in that awful game? Who could have been, in the tragic irony of all that | Patrick | winter fate, but the generous had to eive his life. And Dolan'was will- ing to die. But nobody would perform the duty yet remaining, and in silent hor- ror at the situation the women and men picked up their burdens and staggered away. At night, during a storm campiire was kindled, and the starving veople fell to sleep in the warmth of it What invention of an Inguisition couid bave been more ghastly, more cruel. than the torture that came then? The camp, unknown to the sufferers, was on a frozen body of water, and when the huge fire had melted the ice the blazing logs all sank from sight. Franklin W. Graves and a Mexican named Antoine died that night and before the sun had set again Patrick Dolan had found his executioner in starvation. This was at Christmas time and the food of sicet, a big the the last of the meager fooa | strip. of paper with the words, | AS, WHERE TilE PIONEERS OF BY THE SNOW. [Sketched by a “Call” staff artist.] THE WINTER OF 1846 WERE IMPRISONED | was the experience for many a day. Feet that had been frozen must st:ll cling to | the wornout shoeshoes. At last a little trail was found. a mountain home of Indians. Ana, oh, the joy of it! Far to the eastward the Indian habitations had been avoided, but there was no thought of danger after the | weeks of starvation in the snow Strength and hope was rebora, and 1he <hing women and men even ran to the rancheria. The Indians were startled ut the apparition, but soon understanding | the situation, they gave shelter and such | food as they had, and it has been said that the Indian women cried in sympathy. The worst of the journey was over and the Indians aided and carried the men and women down the mountzins for | days until Johnson’s ranch was reached, | after sufferings that seemed light only by comparison with those that had previousl been endured. A relief train was hastil | organized and sent back from Suiter's Fort when the message was brought in, and this train was re-enforced at John- | son’s ranch, thirteen hardy men, with abundant provi , climbing into the | hardships of the trail toward Donner Lake | | and the snow-bound emigrants. Reed, having long before that reached Sutter's Fort, attempted, in company with | McCutchen, to return toward Donner Lake with provisions that Sutter supplied, but the attempt was a failure and Reed went to Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) to consult Commodore Hull. Another ex- pedition was then started, the San Fran- | cisco citizens contributing $1300. Going by water to the Sacramento Valley that | relief party followed General Sutter’s train into the mountains. During all this time the Ice King's prisoners near the place where the Truckee carnival is now in progress suf- fered like the people that had toiled over the summit; but their sufferings were drawn out intoymonths, When the meat | was gone children were fed on hid Bones became food. The last of the flour was reserved for the infant of the camp, the child of Mrs. Pike—one of the mem- bers of the *Forlorn Hope.” On Chrisimas the Reed children alone had enough to eat, while beyond the sum- mit the man whoihad left the beef to them was dead and was being eaten. Even the Reed family had been on asmall allow- ance, and in the duty of sharing their food with those who had none starvation soon was near. The shelter of the cabins and tents was inadequate, and sometimes the beds were covered with snow at morning. The stump of a tree, where the men stood on the snow to cut firewood, was in later years found to be twenty-two feet high. Asin the strug- gle of the “Forlorn Hope,” the women best endured the hardships. The eating of the human bodies was not resorted to by the people in this camp. 1t led to | A piece of a mirror and the sole of a baby’s shoe are spoken of by all who gaze at the collection; and when the relics have been viewed the " visitors hasten back to the pleasures of the ice and snow, and re- joice and are happy in the conditions that brought terror and death to the pilgrims of forty-ni 5 THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. So Obvious Lessons to Be Learned From It. The great siege of Gibraltar, which, com- mencing in July, 1779, lasted till March, | 1783, holds for us one or two obvious lessons, The extraordinary efforts to reduce the place and the Jarge force brought against it (there were over 30,000 French and Spanish troops before it in September, 1782, besides a large combined fleet and several hundred cannon) stand ont in re- markable contrast with the small garri- son, which at no time much exceeded 7000 men. We ask ourselves whether this stubborn, lengthy and successful defense wasdue entirely to the natural and artificial strength of the place, and we are at once convinced that such is not the case. Gib- raltar strong, indeed, but she chould not have s'ood out for three and a half years had England not been mistress of the seas, capable of pouring provisions, munitions and re-enforcements into the fortre: Few events are more striking than the relief of the place by Howe in | October. 1782, when the convoy in his charge drove past the place into the Medi- terranean, and was followed by the enemy’s fleet from the bay, which thus laced itself between the rock and the re- ieving fleet, but nevertheless completely failed to prevent the relief. “On the 19th,” says Mahan, “the Eng- lish fleet reparsed the straits with an ens%- erly wind, having within a we-k's time fulfilled its mission and made Gibraitar safe for another year.” Thus the power which would preserve its naval bases outside its home shores-—how- ever individually strong these bases may be—must command the sea. ‘The Spaniards and French undoubtedly made a mistake when they spent so much time and money, €0 many efforts and men, upon the reduction of Gibraltar. They would have been more likely to ac- complish their purpose, as Mahan points out, haa they sought to cavture Gibraltar on the shores of Englani—had they watched our home portsand prevented the outgoing of our fleets. Asit was, Gibral- tar, although a burden fo usin the great struggl_e, played a very important part in absorbing so much energy and such num- bers of the enemy for so considerable a time.—The Nineteenth Century, raise the salary of bis typewrite prominent Frait kxe 3 “When it becomes apparent that a cer- tain number of real estate owners shall | dictate to the South Water street cc sion man the expenses at which t | shall make his returns to the 'y not the time arrived when the Califor- | rower and shipper should unite, call balt, and have a little something 10 say as to the terms on which his goods shall be | marketed ? Hew long is the producer to shut his eyes to the fact that he anding i | | the door, and that through his own insira- mentaiity he is making the South Water street commission man rich, while he is ot only raying the.r rent, but is often | led on for expenses, sometimes exceed- | ing the value of the consiznment, while he | himeelf is often glad if he can get enough out of his last year’s crop to insure the cultivation of the next year’s crop in the | ! vain hope of better times—which will nev | arrive until there is a radical change in bis | manner of doing business. | ““There must certainly be a remedy for tiris state of affairs, and the very first step | | to be taken in tiis direction is for the grower 1o meet the shipper and endeavor to combine for cach other’s interest, for the grower needs the shipper, who is a man of commercial experience, which can- not always be said of the grower; just as much as the shinper needs the practical grower, which cannot be clai the shippers. Let them clasp i trust each other in Californi: y one stop, and stop at once, the pernicious ystem of promiscuous consignments, and | the California producer and shipper will | be able to show a reasonable balance on the right side of his ger. It is no longer a question of how long the California grower is going to submit to the extortion of the South Water street commission | man; it is a self-evident fact that unless he takes the means at hand and combines with the shipper at once, and centers all the fruit int in a direction to tne end that Californians shall benefit to a reason- able exteni with the stern buyer, his orchards will be plastered to such an ex- tent that foreclosure and ruin will foliow.” “The California fruit man indeed gets the worst of the Jeal.” said Secretary T. . Taylor of the San change yvesterda “Often a big consign- ment will be sent East, contracted for by sample, and before the carloads have got vond the Missouri River they will be re- j y the Chicago man. Not even an excuse will be made; the goods will sim- | ply be rejected. That is a Chicago way of handling consignments when the market has dropped a little or the rent bas been raised *‘What can the shipper do? His fruit is rolling on to its destination, and when it gets there it is 3000 miles away from him, | So the South Water street man selis it and suits himseif about the returns. ! “The San Francisco Fruit Exchanze was organized two years ago to protect all the fruit men of this State against just sucii extortion, and to establish an understand- ing between buyer and seller that will pro- tect both. Look at the Alaska Packing Association and its business method. The salmon is purchased here and the buver abides by the terms of the contract, | and there are no rejected carloads of fish | when the consignment reaches its destina- | tion. “I'he ¥Fruit Exchange proposes to have sales made ‘F. 0. B. common shipping point, ‘free on board,’ and not cash on | arrival after inspection at destination, whereby goods may be rejectea on a fall- ing market. Inspectors will be provided | at the principal shipping points under bonds and authorized to inspect and certify as to condition and grade of the consignment. Bills of lading will ve for- warded with inspector’s certiticate at- | tached, and it will soon dawn upon the consignees that payment will be expected upon receipt of these documents. The arbitration committee oi the exchance | will take care of ali disputed questions | regarding quality of fruits shipped, and | there will be no more haphazard way of | doing the commission business between California and the Eastern market. Then | the fruit-grower on the Pacific Coast will | not be in the hands of the rapacious land- lords of South Water street, Chicago.” & | Renan’s Biblical Library. 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