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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1896. THE BIG WRECK ~ NEAR DEL AR Considered Miraculous That Not a Life Was Lost. ! THRILLING INCIDENTS. Flames Licked Up Everything in Their Path and Para- lyzed Passengers. BRAVE CONDUCTOR KINNEY. He Rescued a Young Mother With a Crying Infant in Her Arms. SAN DIEGO, Cav., March 8.—It was in | the nature of a miracle that no one was Xillea by the wreck of the Chicago limited | last night near Del Mar. The relief train, | which left just after midnight, reached the | spot at ), and returned to this city at | 4:30 this morning with the passengers. It | learned that the accident was caused by a broken flange on the rear trucks of the tender. The broken wheel ran all right until a curve was struck a few feet | further on, when the trucks flew the track, | finally dropping completely out from | under the tender and smashing into the | baggage car. The engine and tender ran | ahundred and fiity feet further. The bag- | gage car flew the track to the left and | turned upon its side. | The smoker jumped after it and its| trucks were knocked from under it, leaving | the car hali-way across the track upon its bottom, which saved the lives of scores of | passengers. The day coach, next to the | smoker, flew to the right of tue track and | hung in a balance over a twenty-foot em- bankment. The parlor car following was off the track slightly, but right side up. The Pullman, the last of the train, was all | right, with its trucks off the track. Hardly had the train stopped before the baggage car caught fire from the stove‘i and lamp and rapidly burned. The bag- | gageman, King, was near the stove and | was quite badly injured, but was rescued | by the expressman. Conductor Kinney was thrown against the stove and his arm cut severely and his head bruised. | The expressmen hustled to get out the | treasure-box of Wells, Fargo & Co. and | managed to do so. One or two passengers came forward and looked for their baggage and assisted in geiting out a big trunk. One sack of mail, consisting of papers for National City, was also thrown out. By this time the fire was so hot that the men had to abandon the car, and every- thing was lost—the mail, consisting of fifteen sacks, all the express, vouchers, | papers, books and all the baggage, includ- | ing nineteen bicycles owned by the Stearns | racing team, valued at almost $3000. The | baggage car was smashed almost to | kindling wood and it burned with great | rapidity. The smoker was also baaly | smashed, though it stood upright. Tkere | were only five or six passengers in it and they were uninjured, though some of the | men were so badly scared that they stood | still and yelped like whipped puppies. There was only one woman’s scream heard during the wreck and that was a young motner crying for her baby, which | had been hurled from her arms. The day coach was almost full of people, | and as icturned upon its side the sound of | breaking glass was heard here and there | where passengers made their way out. Conductor Kinney, with great coolness, wounded as he was, hurried to this car, and, breaking open a window, called tothe occupants tolearn if they were all right. | He got a cheery response, and then, as- sisted by others, he lifted the passengers out through the windows., All got out without injury, though many were slightly cut or bruised, as was discovered after the | excitement was over. | Assoon as the passengers were rescued | from theday coach and it was learned that nobody was hurt beyond Baggageman | King and Conductor Kinney, attention was paid to saving the train from burning. It was found that the guard chainsand couplings held the cars fast, and the great weight of the poised day coach tightened | these couplings so that nothing could be done to separate the cars. The smoker began to burn and the flames were attack- | ing the day coach, when Conductor Kin- | ney, alert through it all, made another round of the coaches to see if all the pas- sengers were out. | In the day coach, crouching in one of | the seats, he found a woman tightly clasp- ing her baby to her breast, ana so fright- | ened that she was paralyzed. Calling a | passenger or two the conductor went down and_rescued the woman and her baby, hardly before the flames reached the seat where she was crouching. Another careful search was made of all the cars and a list taken by the conductor, whose notebook became covered with blood from his wounded arm, All the passengers were accounted for. The fire spread rapidly from the day coach to the parlor car. It was hoped at one time to uncouple the coach and let it roll over the embankment, which would save the parlor-car anda Pullman, but this could not be done, and efforts were then directed toward saving the furnishings, as it was apparent that the whole train would burn. The parlor-car was robbed of its chairs and curtains, and the sleeper of its bedding and portieres. The passengers displayed considerable nerve and good humor, and the men were careful to see that the women and children were supplied with blankets. The fire from the train took off the chill of the air, and all prepared to stay on the spot until the relief train arrived. Some of the passengers had been rudely routed from bed, and they appeared wrapped in curtains, blankets, towels or whatever they could find. In the excitement the treasure-box was overlooked, and when the relief train ar- rived a search was made for it, and it was found a couple of hundred yards distant, entirely unguarded and open to assault by any thief who cared to take it. The amount in it is not exactly known, but it was over $5000. Agent Keeler estimates the total loss to the company at $50,000. Wells-Fargo's loss cannot be learned to-night. The reg- istered mail is heavy, and thousands of dollars worth’ of baggage is lost. If the train had gone a hundred feet far- ther it would have been hurled over an embankment eighty feet deep, with prob- ably an immense loss of life. Engineer Thomas has been highly praised for his action in applying the emergency brake and reversing the engine, stopping the train in its own length. The engine and tender had been overhauled and prac- tically rebuilt three months ago and were regarded as in the best of condition. The track at the scene of the wreck was torn up for 500 feet, but two wrecking crews were set to work and trains this afternoon ran on time, The wreck as viewed to-day was simpfy a mass of ashes and twisted iron, every vestige of inflammable material being consumed. By dark to-night there was hardly a sign of wreck, the stuff being shoveled over the embankment and buried and the track rebuilt. To-night there are rumors of a score or more of damage suits against the company for loss of baggage. THE GHPSY KING AT REST His Wanderings With the Spar- row Tribe Have Forever Ceased. And the Winds of Ocean Will Sing Until Eternity Requiems Above 3 His Grave. The remains of the gypsy king, William Sparrow, were laid to rest yesterday after- noon on the summit of the highest hillin Qdd Fellows’ Cemetery. His grave looks over & wide stretch of hilis and ocean. The winds will sing, through the fir trees above him requiems without number for his departed soul. A curious crowd of a thousand people or more gatbered about the camp on Folsom street during the ceremony. The officiate ing clergyman was the Rev. W. A. M. Breck, assistant rector of St. John’s Epis- copal Chureh. At the conclusion of the services Mr, Breck stood at the door of the tent and spoke a few eloquent and sympathetic words to the people without. ‘‘No matter where we may wander on this broad earth,” said he, ‘‘we can never stray from the protection and love of the heavenly Father so long as we put our faith in him and believe in and obey his revealed words.” The dark-faced, black-haired men and women gave free vent to their tears. There were eight pallbearers, all rela- tives of the late chief: Abraham Boswell, Bob Smith, William Boswell, A. Whorton, J. Boswell, Nelson Cooper, Nelson Lovell and Henry Morgan. At the grave a crowd of curious women awaited the funeral procession and stood on tombstones and elhowed one another to witness the last rites. The women of the tribe seemed less demonstrative of their grief than the men, and it was only when the clear voice of the clergyman pronounced the words ‘“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” that they bowed their heads with their husbands and brothers to sob and to moan in their SOTTow. *I guess we like each oth er better,” said one of the tribe, “than you veopie who live in_houses do. If you had traveled m San Diego to the farthest part of British Columbia and from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean with a man and had him always treat you fair and help you whén you wanted help and be separated from other people, vou would see how it is. Sparrow was a good man., I never knew a better one.”” ——————— It FETCHES ONE UP VERY SHORT to be seized with Pleurlsy, Pneumonis, or any acute Throat or Lung affecton. Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant proves a handy help in such attacks, and is, be- sides, a good old-fashioned remedy for all Coughs and Colds. e Andrea Ferrara is supposed to have been an Italian well skilled in the art of making ewords; he was brovght over to Scotland about the reign of James V, and his name is to be found on many of the finest blades of that period. QUEEN CITY OF PUGET SOUND. Rapid Growth of Seattle, the Metropolis of the Northwest. IN A VERY RICH REGION. The Resources of a Varied and Almost Inexhaustible Nature. VALUABLE LUMBER AND COAL Manufacturing Interests That Will Boom During the March of Improvement. SEATTLE, Wasn., March 6, 18%6.— Among the youthful cities of the North- west of prospective greatness, three or four stand dut with brighter hopes than the others; but none, perhaps, with better prospects than Seattle. The Queen City was first settled by whites in the year 1852, and since that time her growth has been rapid and substantial. The steady in- crease in her population during the last sixteen vears is shown by the following figures: In 1880 her population was, ac- cording to the United States census, 3533; in 1885, 9683; in 1889, 26,740; in 1890, United States eensus, 42,837; in June, 1892, State census, 57,542; her present popula- tion is upward of 65,000, the directory esti- mate for 1896 placing 1t at 67,000. Asa commercial center Seattle’s situa- tion is unequaled on the Pacific Coast; she has every natural facility for the mak- ing of a great city, and her friends expect within a few years, to see herranking with Detroit, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Toledo and the other cities of commercial importance around the Great Lakes. Her citizens re- alize that her future largely depends upon her own exertions and her natural advan- tages. Seattle has already realizied this, and her citizens are turning their attention to manufacturing. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce is alert to the need of manu- facturing, and all applicants for locations find ready and earnest co-operation from that energetic boay. Like most Western cities Seattle must depend largely upon outside capital to de- velop her natural resources. Too little is generally known of the advantages which the Puget Sound country offers to Eastern capital. This, however. seems likely to be remedied within the next few years. East- | ern people who have wintered in Southern California are returning to their homes in great numbers by the northern routes for the express Eurpose of Inokinz ‘over the situation in this fertile and rich section of the country. All visitors seemed surprised to find Seattle the well-built city she is. The great fire of 1889 destroyed all the business portion of the city, causing damage to the extent of $15,000,000. Her citizens, how- ever, have rebuilt the city with modern, well-equipped buildings, making her the best built_city of her size in the United States.. No sooner had Seattle been re- built than the panic came and retarded her growth somewhat. These vicissitudes, however, have called out the energies of the people, and forced them to turn their attention to manufacturingand legitimate commercial business. ‘Within the last few years Seattle’s manu- factures have made satisfactory progress. The chief products of Puget Sound, of which Seattle is the largest and most im- portant city and natural distributing point, are lumber, shingles, coal, marble, hops, fruit, potatoes, fiefil roots, dairy products, cattle, hogs, Cruum—y, orchard “and small* fruits, and edible fish of a numerous var- iety. None of these productsare developed to their full extent, and they present a large field for the capitalist. Considering, however, the natural advantages whicfix the country bas over. the Eastern sections of America, and considering the extent of the rowth of the East, the West may bope some day to outstrip the East. All that is wanted is capital. It has been truly said that had the Pacific seaboard been first discovered, the bleak hills of New England would have to this day remained uninbabited. mmbering and coal mining are the chief industries of this section. The amount of coal shipped from Seattle dur- ing the year 1394 was 270,000 tons, and the output for 1895 much greater. The lumber manufacturing is a prom- inent industry. The number of acres of timber land in King County is about 879,000. The average number of teet of standing timber per acre isabout 23,000. The average stumpage per 1000 feet is 70 cents. The number of feet of standing timber, 20,230,800,000. Stumpage value, $14,161,560. Many other counties on Puget Sound are equally rich in timber. Lying in the Snoqualmie Pass, near the summit of the Cascade Mountains, is a rich deposit of magnetic iron ore. This deposit 1s well-nigh inexhaustible, and its great value is shown by the tollowing average analysis of ore: Metallic iron, 68.31; silica, 2.48; phospho- rus, .034 ; sulphur, .023. Overlying this ore is a large quantity of white marble, and adjoining the iron ore claims are rich veins of copper and silver. Rich gold and silver deposits are being discovered in the Cascade Mountains. The fisheries of ‘Seattle have during the last genr done a thriving business, having run day and night. New canneries are starting up at several pointsfon the Sound and the industry is eddealy on the in- crease. The fishing industry includes seal catching, salmon canning, shipping fresh fish to the East and fish drying. Halibut are extensively handled; also herring, cod and other varieties. Oysters, clams, crabs and shrimps abound in the sound and are already a great feature of the fishing trade and one destined to increase indefinitely in the future. Lobsters have been planted of late years and are expected to multiply and thrive. There is no reason to suppose that the Pacific fisheries will not in time equal those of the Atlantic and when they do Beattle will become the great fishing center of the coast. The city has railroad facilities which are unequaled on the Pacific Coast, having direct communication with tbhe East by four great transcontinental lines, the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, Canadlan Pacific and Union Pacific, all of which terminate at Seattle. Italso has 600 miles of local lines. It is the center of the water traffic of Puget Sound. Freight, touring and pas- senger steamers mnnmerable make Seat- tie their headquarters. It has several lines of steamers and sailing vessels ply- ing between Seattle, San Francisco and the California coast, three to Alaska, one to South America, several to British Co- lumbia, and local lines reaching every nook and corner of the 1800 miles of shore of Puget Sound. 2 Its water and land facilities for handling all kinds of business have made Seattle the principal wholesale and jobbing point in the State, and have given her all of the following named institutions, as weil as the travel and trade incident thereto, viz.: The State University, Circuit and District Courts, United Btates Land Office, Custom- house, Local Inspectors Hulls and Boilers, Weather Bureau and Signal Service, Geological Survey, United States Engin- neers’ Office, ete. The city is in the midst of the graatest lumber, coal, iron and mineral belts in the world. The native wealth of this immedi- ate section is too great for the human mind to comprehend. All sorts of indus- tries are found there, such as sash and door factories, furniture factories, iron works, car shops, flouring-mills, boiler shops, ship and boat building, narine- ways, foundries, elevators, breweries,ware- houses, etz. The city is the county seat of King County, the greatest hop-producing county in the West. It isthe principal produce market of the State, and ships great quan- tities to California, Hawaiian Islands, China, Japan, South America, Africa and England. It is also the principal supply point for logging camps, mills, etc. Seattle is a substantial and growing city, the metropolis of the Northwest, and her trade and business are in exact ratio to her population, The city is situated on the east shore of Puget Sound, on a strip of hilly land which lies between Elliots or Seattle Bay and Lake Washington. Lake Washington is a fine, fresh-water lake of great depth, about twenty-five miles long, with a superficial area of about thirty- nine square miles, lying parallel to the Sound about two miles distant. Seattle lacks but two things to round up her commercial facilities: The one is level land on which to build up her manu- factories and to transact her other heavy business adjacent _to deep-water wharfage, and the other is a fresh-water bharbor where vessels and wharves would be rotected from the ravages of the teredo. he area of low, level land adjacent to the | harbor is very limited and lies at the base of the bluff on which the residence part of the city is built. So narrow is this strip that the business part of the city has Eensive wharves, which are annually or iennially destroyed by the teredo. The city is thus hampered. Her business must be done on this mere strip or on wharves or raised to the hills, which is impractica- ble. More room on level ground is a posi- tive necessity. The remedy is at hand. There extends from the city, south, a large tract ot level land, called tide flats, overflowed' with each coming in of the tide. If thisareaof tide flats had been dry land, Iying asit does contiguous to the heart of the city, the business center of Seattle would now be on this land. This land is now being filled in and re- claimed, and at the same time provision is being made for one of the finest harbors in the world. It will be pierced with two main ship waterways, each 1000 feet wide, connected with the Duwamish River by means of two canals, each”300 feet wide. These level lands will be connected with Lake Washington by a ship canal through the highlands two miles long, and this canal will be connected with the main waterways by a canal waterway one mile | long. g The material dredged and dug from these waterways and canals is being used to fill in the tide lands. Seawalls and retaining walls of the most substantial character will be constructed. The contracts were let by the State to the Seattle and Lake ‘Washineton Waterway Company and by that company to the Bowers Dredging Company of Chicago, and they are now moving 250,000 cubic yards of earth monthly. The estimated cost of the com- plete work is from six to seven million dollars. This reclaimed land must neces- sarily become very valuable. The great and rapidly growing business of this me- tropolis of the Northwest must go there, be- cause there is no other place for it to go. The total area to be filled in is 1525 acres, The length of the hill section of the canal is 10,225 feet and the deepest cut 308 feet. The time allowed by the State for the com+ pletion of the work is six years. The present improvers on the districts now being filled number among them some of the best known and largest con- cerns of Seattle. The values of the lands a8 set by the Board of Tide Lands Ap- praisers vary from $1000 per acre to $100 per acre. The higher priced lands are those directly adjoining the present busi- ness dportion of the city, and the lower priced those at the extreme end of the fill. The district at present being filled com- prises about forty-six and a half acres of the most valuable tide lands, and the fill- ing has been in progress since August 1, 1895, altbough certain preliminary work, such as pile-driving, etc., was started May 23, 1895. Notwithstanding a number of extended out over the water upon ex- | = serious delays, due to storms and acci- dents, the Bowers Dredging Company has filled in and raised to two feet above high tide about twelve acres, and inside of three months sixteen acres additional will have been filled. The depth of the fill in some places is as great as twenty- two feet, but on an average the depth of the fill is sixteen to eighteen feet. The fill is protected from ‘the action of the Sound by a brush and pile bulkhead. The filled land is capable of sustaining buildings of any dimensions and weight. Too great importance cannot be attached to this great work, and the benefits that the city will derive from it need no com- ment. The citizens of Seattle contributed $500,- 000 to the work, but Bt. Louis capitalists are mainly financiering the enterprise. There are no obstacles, either physical or financial, in the way of a satisfactory com- gletion of the work, and when completed eattle will have one of the finest, if not the finest harbor in the world. Seattle is without doubt the most ad- vantageously located city on the Pacific Coast to feel and profit by the opening up of Alaskan resources. Her trade with that country is rapidly increasing, and the Chamber of Commerce is using its best efforts to develop Alaskan trade. Several shipping, express and transportation companies have recently been organized in Seattle, all in the hands of experienced and substantial men. Two regular lines of steamers run from Seattle to Alaska, besides « number of sail- ing vessels doing a good business 1n carry- ing passengers and freight to and from the north, There can be no doubt but that as trade opens up both at home and abroad and in the Orient, Seattle will steg to the front rank and will eventually be one of the greatest shipping and commercial cities on the Pacific Coast. Assistant Secretary Seattle Chamber of Commerce. A SUNDAY SONG SERVICE, Sankey and Stebbins Attract Large Congregations to the Y. M. C. A. Rev. H. C. Minton Draws a lelling Lesson From the Parable of the Prodigal Son. “Come, now, this is congregational sing- ing,” said Ira D. Sankey, as he announced the opening hymn at the song service for men at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium yester- day afternoon. “I want you all to sing now. After while Mr. Stebbins and I wall sing for you, but it is your turn now.” And then everybody sang. The audito- rium was packed to its fullest extent and the big audience responded, but it didn’t suit Mr. Sankey. He divided and subdi- vided the audience, He had them sing in rounds and line at a time uutil the spirit of competition apparently inspired every man in the congregation and the volume of song swelled notably. “Now we will have a good meeting,”” de- clared the great master of sacred song. And the events of the afternoon made good his word. It was essentially an afternoon ot -music. Mr. and Mrs, Stebbins sang “Though My Sins Be as Scarlet”” in a manner well calcu- lated to bring tears to the eyes. It is Mr. Stebbins’ aim to express by his singing the sentiment of the words wore than to produce the greatest amount of gmlgdy, though he succeeds admirably in oth. “Don’t listen to the singing; try and understand the beautiful truth conveyed in the sentiment of the song,” he said before singing, to music which he has recently written, the old hymn, “I ‘Was Wandering S8ad and Weary.” The air which he has composed is soft and plaintive, admirably suited to the tender pathos of the song, and the hymn prom- 1ses to become in its new arrangement one of the popular Sunday-school songs of the day. gf all Sankey’s songs probably none has attained the popularity of *‘The Ninety and Nine,” and when the great song- writer announced that he would accede to numerous requests and sing it there was a flutter of anticipation. Before tak- ing his seat at the organ he explained the circumstances under which he wrote the now famous hymn. It was written in the highlands of Scotland when he felt perplexed for a song that would reach the hearts of the shepherds of that region. From the first it met with remarkable favor and is now sung wherever the Christian religion and English language prevail. Mr. Sankey’s rendition of the hymn was a revelation to those who have hitherto heard it sung only by untrained congrega- tions. Rev. H. C. Minton made a brief aadress of welcome to the visiting evangelists and of admonition to the young men. The varable of the prodigal son, which he pro- nounced as one of the most striking pic- tures in the Bible, was his theme. “I believe,” he said, *‘there is just enough of the Bohemian in each of usto have con- siderable sympathy with the younger prother, and there is enough meanness in most of us to give us some feilow-feeling for the elder brother.” In telling phrase he applied the trials and characteristics of the younger son to the enterprising but foolish young man of ‘ the present day, who, having reached the cigarette stage, disdains the wisdom and the religion of his father. Mr. Sankey sang in conclusion “My Ain Countree.” In the evening the Y. M. C. A. audito- rium was again crowded to the doors. On this occasion the service was for both men and women, and in addition to the singing Mr. Sankey made an address. THE NEWS FROM MARE [SLAND. The Monitor Monadnock Is Preparing for Her Departure. A CREDIT TO THE YARD. Encouraging Expressions From the Secretary of the Navy. MAY BUILD MORE WARSHIPS. Work Still Slack on Account of Want of Funds—Miscellaneous Nates. VALLEJO, Car., March 8.—The monitor Monadnock was hauled out from the guay- wall Saturday afternoon and is now lying in the stream attached to one of the buoys, and the first of the week her powder will be sent aboard. The inspection board still have her in their charge. For the last few days lighters have been alongside, from which quantities of coal have been trans- ferred to the bunkers. Stores of all kinds are snugly stowed in the various rcoms set apart for tneirreception. The day has not yet been set for her departure from the navy-yard, where for so many years she has proved a boon to tbe mechanics;. and, while she is virtually out of their hands, they look with pride upon the culmination of their handiwork. Supervisor McGettigan has just returned from Washington, and in a conversation with the Secretary of the Navy, he was in- formed by that official that the yard hav- ing gained such a well-earned reputation for completeness of work intrusted to his representatives and the men employed, he will da all in his power to further its interests, and that while the yard has had much work in the past few years the out- look is good for an increased amount of labor. It is understood that a committee will be sent on to Washington instructed to assist our representatives and the Secre- tary in furthering the proposition of get- ting a cruiser or a battleship to build. If this cannot be accomplished then a gun- boat will be desirable. Anything, how- ever, will be welcome to keep a force of men employed. The ordering of all the boats, spars, canvas outfits end furniture of the two gunboats now under construc- tion at the Union Iron Works atSan Fran- cisco will help along as this means an ex- penditure of upwards of sixty thousand dollars in labor and material. The boilers of the Swatara have been re- moved and hauled uband ranged in posi- tion near the red barn, not far from the steam engineering building where as soon as funds are available they will be over- hauled and painted and afterwards, when the time arrives for ber repair will be placed in the Mohican, the boilers in her having been condemned as no longer fit for service. Work is getting very slack in that de- partment, owing to lack of funds, and ru- mors are in the air that unless something unforeseen occurs a discharge of some magnitude, not only in that butin the con- struction department, will take place in the near future. At the marine barracks the guard for the battle-ship Oregon is being selected. Cap- tain O. C. Berryman, U. 8. M. C., will have command of the marine guard on board. This is the only officer that seems to be settled upon as likely to go to her. She will carry about sixty men in the guard. A fine little wherry for the Monadnock is under construction; the Mohican’s barge has been fitted for the naval reserves, and all of the fine boats for the Co- manche have been sent to her. The moni- tor is nearly ready to be sent to San Fran- cisco for the reserves. She has been thor- oughly cleaned, and at arecent visit to her by some of the officers of this auxiliary branch of the navy they expressed them- selves as pleased with her appearance. Three general service men have been de- tailed to her to serve while under charge of the reserves. When the Monadnock reaches the City of San Francisco and sounds her foghorn, the good people need not be affrighted and imagine that half a dozen of the water- front steam crafts are letting off steam for fear of their boilers going up in air. The Baltimore still remains high and dry on the stocks in the granite dock. Vis- itors look with wonderment at her large proportions, but in comparison with the Oregon she cannot be compared in the same breath; there is said to be such a vast difference in their size. No attempt has yet been made to enlarge the entra nce to the dock, therefore, until this work has been accomplished, when the Oregon Te- quires -docking—which by the rules of the | made therefor. department is every six months. bave to be done at the Hunter’s Point dry- dock. The expense of the same will reach a good round sum to the Government, and if the enlarging is to be aone at.all it should be commenced without delay. Ifa new dock is constructed there will be no need of enlarging the present one, as out- side of the Oregon and Texas the entrance is large enough for the rest of the ships in the navy. All of the flags at the yard and on board the warships will have the unions altered to correspond with the design approved by the Secretary of the Navy, caused by the admittance of Utah in the constellation of States. Although there are many flags at the yard to be changed, it will not require the services of additional flagmakers, as was hoped for by a number of deserving widows and others desirous of securing employment at the yard. While the art of flag-making is a simple one to master, it is a strange ruling made by the Secre- tary of the Navy, as well as the Board of Labor, that, although they carry the rat- ing of seamstress on the list of eligible employes for labor, no person that has registered as such can ever be empioyed as flagmaker, unless they have had expe- rience as such, and the consequence isthat they are debarred, even if there was work of this class to perform. Outside of the few flagmakers now employed, there are eight or ten ladies registered as flagmak- ers, and an equal number of seamstresses, and who will never be cailed for by the board, therefore it is unwise for any others to spend their time and money to come to the yard and register their names in hopes they will be employed to sew additional stars in the flags now on hand at Mare Island. MAXWELL'S ULTIMATUM. Junta Troubles in the Forty-Fourth Reach a Crisis. The efforts of Chairman W. P. Sullivan and Gavin McNab of the Democratic Junta to preserve the highest degree of harmony and to avoid any specific reveliations of the strength and attitude of the Rainey- Daggett faction have not so far been par- ticularly successful. The most important row attending the recent election of a new general committee has been the one in the Forty-fourth Dis- trict, where George Maxwell is at the head of the Rainey forces which control the district. Last week it was stated at Junta headquarters that Maxwell had surren- dered to Chairman Suliivan’s ultimatum that Maxwell” could name but twelve of the twenty-five delegates, 1egardless of his majority, This Maxwell denied, and ata meeting of the Democratic Club of the dis- trict Saturday evening the Rainey forces stood by their guns and gave Chairman Sullivan an ultimatum expressed in the iolilowing resolution: Resolved, That we, the Democrats of the Forty-fourth Assembly District, in meeting as- sembled, in order to restore harmony in the ranks of the Democratic party, make the fole iowing proposition : That ail nominations and elections heretes +fore held in said district for the office of gen- eral committeemen, be by this club and the primary committee ot the general commit- tee of the party declared off, and that a meet- ing of this club be held on Monday evening, March 9, 1896, and that new nominations be And that each of the two fac- tions in said district appoint two officers of election avd that an_ election be held on Wednesday evening, March 11, 1896, at 8 o'clock, at 1527 Stockton street, and thatevery enrolled voter in said club, and no others, be allowed to vote, that their ballots be received and counted at said place, and that the results of said election be then and there announced at the close of the count, and that the twenty- five persons receiving the highest vote at said election be declared elected, and that the club declare the results of the same, end this shall be final: be it further Resolved, That an acceptance or rejection of the above proposition be sent to this ‘glub on or before Monday evening, March 9\ at 8 o’clock, by "Colonel Willidm P. Sulliv;nthe chairman of the general committee, in wyiting; and if not received on or before said tijhe the former action of this club will be confidered as final, At this meeting 125 members of the club were present. Should a new open election be held in the manner described the Rainey forces would have no trouble in carrying the election.. Further efforts at compro- mise will be made to-asy. AT ALAMEDA POINT. Good Shooting Done by Members of the Empire Gun Club. The first regular shoot of this year of the Empire Gun Club took place at Ala- meda Point yesterday afternooc. The weather was not perfect, but yet not bad enough to materially interfere with shoot- ing. Nearly thirty members were present and the scores all averagea fairly high. Mr. Winning had the first shot of the main match for twenty-five birds at un- known angles. He missed his shot, but eventuatly piled up a score of 18. Pringle and Trombone made the highest scores, killing twenty-one birds each. Following is the score of all over 16: Pringle 21, Trombone 21, Daniels 19, Burgans 19, Joknson 19, Andrews 19, Winning 18, Grass 17, Quinton 16, Ingalls 16. The second event was a scrub match of twenty birds at unknown angles. The highest scores made in this were by Bur- finns and Zeiner, who got each sixteen irds. Varney, Billington and Allen each made scores of fifteen, and Fisher, Trom- bone, Quinlan and Johnson each killed fourteen. There were eighteen shooters in this match, the scores of the others running very low. The best shooting of the da; in the second scrub match i;r twenty birds. There were six shooters. Allen, Trombone, Burgans and Smith each got seventeen birds, and Taylor and Fredericks each got fifteen. Tne last event of the day was a match for six pair of doubles. Zeiner made the best score, getting ten out of a possible twelve. Allen made nine, Trombone and Burgans eight each, Taylor six and Fred- ericks five. was dons GENERAIL, VIEW OF THE CITY i 3 i