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26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1896. THERE IS DARGER | 1N OVERTRATNING. The Too Enthusiastic Young Athlete Often Harms Himself. A Correct Start the Great Thing in the One Hundred Yard Race. Two Days’ Rest Should Be Taken Before a Big Event on the Cin- ders—Baird’s Advice. Our young friend the athlete has com- menced training. One of the things there- fore that I desire to caution him, about is the danger of overdoing the matter at first start. The commonest errors of green athletes is an extravagant spirit of emulation. Understand, I say extravagant; for noth- | ing is more desirable than a judicious | spirit of this nature. For instance, a beginner stepsout-on the track torun. An old rival joinshim. “I'll run & quarter with you,” the rival cries. Now nothing would suit our friend better, s0off they go down the track together. It isa hard race, and our friend runs for dear life, as he does not propose to be beaten y so he runs himself to a stand- still at the finish. What is the result? The enthusiastic, not to say foolish, young man stays in bed the next day, and his mother nurses him for rheumatism. Moral: Begin slowly; pay no attention to those who are doing more harm than good to themselves by chasing around like children playing tag, but go about your training soberly and intelligently, using yonr brain in com'erl‘ with your arms and legs, and you will at- tain two results—you will have very few of those aches ana painy that are such a burden to the average beginner: second, and most important, you will succeed. Unless cautionad the average begmnner | is likely to do some very injudicious | things. For example: I had long been confined within the narrow limits of the | gymnasium ; consequently, when I stepped out on the track I was so delighted at an opportunity to stretch my legs that I| walked violently and became sick at the | stomach. | Once a friend told me that he was going up to the grounds to take some exercise, | A few days after I met him and ca Auvj asked how he felt. ‘‘Ail broke up,” was | the sad reply. *Why, what's the mat- | ter?” I inquired. “I guess it must have | been the exercise I had the other day,” he responded, incorporating & ‘‘swear word”’ into the reply. On plying him with ques- tions I discovered that he had actually be- gun his course of training by a run of five | miles. Isit any wonder that every joint, sinew and muscle in his body was stuff and sore? Thus does nature revenge her- self on her thoughtless children. We will now say for argument that our young friend has decided to bea sprint runner—and, by the way, “sprinting” i means nothing more or less than short- distance running. For the benefit of the beginners we will now have a few rules for starting. Now, starting is the most important part of 100-yara running, and it is positively necessary to master the art if the aspirant hopes for success. One method is as fol- lows, practiced by English professionals: Stand with your left toe to the mark with the foot flat. Let the right foot be from 15 to 18 inches back with the toe turned out and pointing to the scmlch‘ line at an angle of about 45 degrees. The | feet should be far enough apart to balance the body. When the word ‘‘set” is given your whole weight should rest on the back foot, which is braced, and both knees should be slightly bent, with the feet flat on the ground. The position of the arms is also very important. With the body inclined slightly forward the left arm should hang stiffly just outside the left knee, while the right arm should be held rigid and slightly bent, with the hand just off the right hip. When you leave from this position your muscles are strained to their utmost. You rise on the left toe, press the right foot violently to the earth and go off so quickly that it sur- prises even yourself. [Fig.1.] Never aim at long strides in the first thirty yards, but get the motion with the start and fin- ish with as long a stride as convenient. Many a race has been won in the first twenty-five yaras. Another method used by amateurs of ten years ago and highly esteemed as well as successful is as follow: Stand on your mark leisurely with the left toe touching the scratch and pointing slightly to the right and the right foot firmly placed in a shallow hole dug for the purpose, parallel with and about fifteen inches behind the scratch. You should face down the track, resting on the hind foot, and when the word is given to “set” you should slightly bend at the knees and incline the body a little forward at the waist. The rightarm should be raised about two feet from and a foot above the knee. The left hand should be placed in a reverse position behind the body. When the pistol is fired push from the right foot and quickly draw the left hand back and around. This at once gets you into run- ning form. [Fig. 2.] The method practiced by many ama- teurs of the present day is the following: Plant the left foot 1o the scratch line, pointing directly down the track, the knee considerably bent, the right foot is placed in a small hole dug for the purpose about eighteen inches directly to the rear, the knee somewhat bent. The hands are planted on each side of the left foot, the joints of the two first fingers and the thumb resting on the line. This will bring the athlete in a stooping posture, the back al- most horizontal. A friend to fire the pis- tol and continual practice must do the rest. The position of the Limbs, by the ‘way, may be reversed if convenient. (Fig. 3.] There is still another method, but I have known it to be practiced by only one person, but that man won many cham- vionships of this coast. He would stand with his feet in precisely the position I have mentioned, but his body would not be inclined as much forward, his right arm would be extended forward as far as pos- sible, his left drawn back, elbow bent, fore- arm and hand pointing to the left heel. At the pistol shot he would simply re- verse the position of all his limbs. Theoret- ically it was the simplest thing I ever saw. [Fig. 4.] I am told, however, that thu runuer came to use the “crouch start’’ last. The best practice is to run thirty yards t several times at a furious pace—that is, after you have had a little practice. A rest and a run of 150 yards will be next in order. Start slowly and finish the last eighty vards at top speed. This, however, may not agree with some, certainly if not accustomed to it. There is where the watchfulness and judgment of the individ- nal must be made useful. Do not run too many match races in practice, or many full *‘hundreds” at top speed. The position of the body is also important. It should be very much in- clined forward, and should be so practiced that you can bend as to almost fall for- ward at the start, and maintain a good in- clination to the finish. I have seen many aman as he approached the tape throw back his head and body almost to break- ing. This impedes the man and he crosses the finishing iine at a much slower pace, and although he may have been a yard in advance three yards from home he is beaten in. Keep bent forward until near the tape and then fairly dive at it. Another method is the following: Be- ginning with the shortest race —100 yards —it will be seen that quickness is the ob- ject. To attain thisitis not desirable to run any considerable distance every day, but rather to practice short, sharp bursts of from forty to sixty yards at topmost | speed. On alternate evenings the runner | may finish with a sprint for the full di tance; but if this be done too frequently it will tend to diminish rather than increase his speed. To get quickly off the mark and into full speed at once should be prac- ticed every evening, as the attainment of this art is always a difficulty with ama- | teurs, and the want of it means losing the race at this short distance. | Never practice alone if possible to geta | companion. Do not stand around after exercise, especially toward evening, as the air robs the half-clad body of its strength and stiffens the muscles and joints. If you 1eel a kink in 8 muscle stop and you may avoid astrain. Concerning the latter point it might be well to make a few remarks. Let it be borne in mind that when out of condition or unaccustomed to violent exercise the muscles are quite stiff in some cases, and when an extraordinary strain is imposed upon them there is likely to be trouble. Many a high-class sprinter has been lost | by rashly imposing a severe straln on ews and muscles that had been unused to it or lain dormant for a time. Suppose a man can get to the practice grounds “four times a week, he should spend the first week running slow lap. raising the knees very high and throwing | the foreleg as far out as possible. When | tired stop and then try again. Stand at the head of the straight and, starting slowly, increase the rapidity and length | of stride, running tne last fifty yards ata | merely strong pace. The object of this striding is to stretch and strengthen the muscles on the under side of the thigh, which are never exerted in ordinary work. In a few weeks yod can strip, get on your | mark and run 100 yards without the slightest danger. | I have alluded to the fact that a man | should take two days’rest before a race. | Experience has proved that such a course Fig. 3. The Crouch Start. All Style Amateur. DIFFERENT METHODS OF STARTING FOR THE 100-YARD RACE. Fig. 2. Fig. 1. Professional. Fig. 4. Fore and Aft Start. 600D ADVICE TO THE HORSE-BUYER, |Miss Russell Tells How to Detect the Worthless Animal. Don’t Rush the Horse That Is Fed on a Hay Diet Ex- clusively. Coughs and Colds Due to Bad Stable Management—Phosphorus a Good Remedy. “Sound in wind and limb" is a guaranty that horse-dealers rattle off easily enough, but it is seldom so easy for amateurs to satisfy themselyes of the truth of the guaranty. To be sure defective wind is usually more readily detected than are de- | fective limbs, but there are certain signs that should be familiar to all who have to do with horses. Those that are apparent ““A Sharp Drive Uphill Will Reveal the Whistler,” Says Miss Russell in Her Advice to Those Who Buy Horses. “The Difficulty Is Caused by a Contraction of the Windpipe and There Is No Remedy for It.” is positively necessary. There are but few exceptions to this rule. If circumstances have prevented you from taking your reg- ular exercise two or three days previous to the contest and you feel that you must do something the day before, go out and make about four ‘starts,” no more, and run fifty vards two or three times at sim- ply an exercising pace—not a racing pace. Of course you will think this all nonsense when you have finished and vote the writer of this a fool, You will feel that you have not taken as much exercise as if Playing croquet. Never mina; do as I have suggested and pay no attention to your feelings—they are not only deceptive but treacherous. Another important point: It will some- times happen that after you have put in three or four weeks’ hard training you will find that you are getting slower instead of faster for your pains. Now if this occurs a week before the race there isonly one thing to be done—only one, mind you! Lay off until the race. Violate this rule at your peril; for it is a precept that is conscientiously regarded by every great athlete living. Your trouble is what is known in the fraternity as “goingstale.” It means that you haveiovertrained, you have drawn too heavily upon the nervous resources—which areeverything in short-distance running— and that to recover you must have rest. Above all things do not worry yourself by thinking that you will be a faiiure in the supreme test of the contest; rely on my word and experience, you will run faster than ever; only you must be careful of your diet and sleep, or I will not vouch for a good performance. A very important matter I wish to im- press upon the ambitious sprint runner— never under any circumstances give up a race because a fast man comes up to your shoulder. There are two reasons for this caution. It isa bad habitto “quit.” Once get accustomed to doing it and you will sometimes stop without the slightest rea- son—simply because you have fallen into the way of doing so. Second, the man Wwa0 is running you down may not provs as strong a finisher as yoursell, and you may actually outrun bim whatever ~his reputation may be, and astonish your friends and yourself. Permit me to say in conclusion that I am indebted for many of the thoughts in this_Jetter to L. Cortis (deceased), F. P. Prial, Edward P. Baird and others whose names are unknown to me. Their ideas have been occasionally incorporated with my own, but not in such a form as to make quotation necessary. I have not hesitated to give the readers of TuE CALL the benefit of their valued experience, and take this method of giving credit where it is due. GEeorGe D. BarrD. to the eye have to do with the conforma- tion of the animal. The nostrils should be large and well opened, prominent and sensitive. It used to be a custom in the dark ages, when *‘cropped”’ ears and ‘‘docked” tails were | considered to add to equine beauty, to slit the nostrils of horses, the idea being that have outgrown this particular bit of brutal ignorance, and in time we may learn the absurdity of the hideous short tail. Buta horse for fast work should have large, well opened nostrils. Slitting them when they are too small does no good and ren- ders them hideous, so if the animal does not meet with this requirement pass him by. He should have a deep and fairly broad chest. Breadth is not an essential thing. If the chest is too broad the horse will not be speedy, but depth and fullness are absolutely necessary to good wind. He should have a good girth mn proportion to his height and weight and be “well ribbed up.” These points may be noted by a glance, but a horse may have these and yet be defective in wind. A cough of any kind in a horse should attract immediate attention. It may be accidental, and a mere trifle, but it con- stitutes unsoundness while it lasts. The cough of a broken-winded horse is charac- teristic. It is short and hollow. In this process improved their wind. We | broken wind there is difficult expiration of the breath, Inspiration is steady and quiet, but the aninal lets out his breath in asort of double puff. The flanks rise, hesitate an _instant, then continue the ex- piratory effort with a sort of jerk. Not much can be done for the cure of a broken- winded horse, but his condition can be materially relieved by care in feeding and watering. As a matter of fact carelezsness in these regards is very largely the cause of this unpleasant difficulty. Overfeeding, articularly overfeeding with hay orstraw, eeding too near the time of putting the horse to work, and allowing the animal to drink excessively before starting to work are some of the errors by which our heavy draft horses are made to suffer. A horse just off pasture and a horse fed only hay should never be rushed, particu- larly on hill roads. I have seen a magnifi- cent horse ruined by a five minutes of quick driving on a slight grade, just after he had been given a big feed of hay. Broken wind can be told from the puffing | of a **blown” horse by the jerking expirs- tion. The horse that is “winded’ or | “blown,” temporarily, from _exertion breathes quickly and loudly, but inspira- tion and expiration are both steady though labored, but the two short puffs during ex- piration in broken wind are unmistakable, particularly if you hear as well the short, holiow cough. 'In buyinga horse you will, of course, insist upon trying him at speed or sharp exertion, and you should pay par- ticular attention to his breathing after- ward. Particular attention should be osid to his stable, which shounld be well ventilated, and he should never be put to work imme- diately after eating. He should not be given straw or large quantities of hay. and 1 he eats his bedding, as he will be likely to do, he should be muzzled at night. In broken wind the animal should be fed very largely on grains. Oats are better for him than barley, and carrots are excellent for | bim if they are in good condition. What- | ever he isfed should be nourishing and | concentrated, so as not to make much bulk in the digestive tracl. Heaves is anotner name for broken wind. Roaring, wheezing and whistling are un- pleasant and serious ailments of the wind |in horses. Curiously enough they are | often confounded even by experienced horsemen, although they areall distinct and characteristic in symptoms and effect. Roaring is a loud, ringing respiration after exertion. It is caused by contrac- tion or other deformity of the windpipe and is generally incurable, aithough there are one or two cases on record of success- ful operation therefor in rac ehorses. Whistling is also caused by contraction of the windpipe, but the sound lacks the sonorous quality that characierizes the breathing of a roarer upon rapid exertion. It shows itself most markedly whan the horse is zoing uphill. There is very littie that can be done for the whistler, except ¢o keep him well within the limits of ex- ertion that does not excite his difficulty of respiration. Wheezing differs from whistling in that the labored, noisy breathing is continu- ous, whether there is extra exertion or not. It is a difficulty in the bronchial tubes, and is susceptible of treatment at the hands of a veterinary. Phosphorus is one of the best remedies in most cases of wheezing respiration. Coughs and colds in horses are almost | invariably due to bad stable management. Fresh air is an absolute necessity to the horse. He is an animal of fastidious habit | and large lung capacity. Our insane no- tions regarding checks and overdraws have produced in him a tendency to disease in the air-passages, and he is less fitted to thrive in a dirty or iil-ventilated stable than even a human being. Every stable should have provision, above, for the escape of the warm, impure and ex- low, for the entrance of the cooler, purer air, which, if it cannot get in below will enter by the upper ventilators, and cause down-draughts. ‘The lower ventilators should be so arranged that they admit no drauchts upon the horses’ legs. The{ should be as near the floor ae pos- sible. bu do, admit the fresh air under the mangers. Nor should bedding be, as it frequently is, thrust under the manger during the day, theammoniacal gases arising therefrom are the respiratory passages and a horse who breathes them is very apt to have a cough, which more often than not is merely the precursor of serious difficulty. Musty, dirty or mow-burnt hay will cause irritation in the air passages and no hay should ever be left in the mangers, as it is sure to sour and make trouble, Horses that are “‘soft,” that is that have been for some time on green feed, or are only fed hay, should never be given fast work. The animal just off pasture usually feels fresh and liveiy and is anxious to go when put to wor{, but his ambition should be held in check until the disten- sion of stomach and digestive tract by large quantities of green grass is remedied and the lungs have room to move in and the muscles have been hardened and toned up by a fewdays of gnin-hedini. Miss RusseLL. an active agent in setting up irritation in | hausted air, that rises, naturally, and, be- | t should not,as they frequently | BUILT THE HIRST SEA-GOING VESSEL Captain William G. Dana, Who Owned the Ni- pomo Ranchero. Was One of the Original Gran- tees Under the Old Mexican Government. He Entertained General John C. Free- | mont in the Salad Days of Alta California. of Alta California. In Fremont's reports and those of other army officers and trav- elers, who had enjoyed his hospitality at Nipomo, where he resided, frequent men- tion has been made of Captain Dana. In Bryant’s work he is described as ‘‘a native of Massachusetts and a gentleman whose unbounded hospitality and liberality were known throughout California.” That was about the time when the land of gold was receiving much attention and pioneers became awakened to its resources. Much dissatisfaction was expressed with the existing Government, by new residents and a hope was entertained that there might be intervention on the part of the United States.and the Government take possession of the country. In 1835 Captain Dana, having become a naturalized citizen of the Mexican Republic and entitled to hold land, applied for and obtained a grant of the Nipomo rancho, comprising 37,887.91 acres. This grant was one of the earliest on record, and, as he bad his | choice in a very extended arez of country | as lovely as the sun ever shone upon, he made a selection which exhibited a pro- found judgment. This rich tract of land is now included in the southern part of San Luis Obispo County, extending from near the shore of the Pacific to the base of the Santa Lucia Mountains. The name is derived from an expression of the Indians formerly located in that vicinity, who made use of the word “‘ne- po-mah,”” which in their guttural language meant ‘‘foot of the hill.”’ These Indians sounded only slightly the first two sylla bles, and from this the grant was desie- nated as the Nipomo. In the summer of 1839 Captain and Mrs. Dana removéd from Santa Barbara to Nipomo, and upon his property the captain erected a large adobe house, which was the abode of his family. The old’ **Casa de Dana” occupied a con- spicuous elevation, commanding an ex- tepsive view of a larze-area of the grant, and it was a monument in the history of the county second only to the old mis- sions. During the ranchero days, when the great land-holders were the lords of the country, the Nipomo rancho was a charming resort for Americans journeying through the country, for there the hospi- tality was unbounded, and the guests en- tertained were numerous. Among them were General John C. Fremont, General Henry W. Halleck and many other army officers. In 1846, when the United States steam- | ship Edith went ashore between Point Arguello and Point Saland, all the officers | and crew were taken by Captain Dana to his home, where they were kindly cared for until he could perfect arrangements to transport them to Monterey,”wkich he did by providing horses and saddles and sending men to guide them on their way and return with the animals. Such was “I suppose that there are not many peo- | ple in this State to-day who can tell who it | the hospitality of the early Californian and travelers were not only gratuitously entertained, but in some cases, when it CAPTAIN JOHN TAYLOR McKENZIE, W ho Now Commands the Sausalito. He Is One of the Pionecr Shipmasters and Has Had a Long and Eventful Career, in Which He Has Seen Much Important Service on Land and Water. [Drawn by a “Call” artist from a photograph by Taber.) was that built the first sea-going vessei in California,” said Colonel A. S. Hubbaid, secretary of the California Historical Soci- ciety, yesterday. ‘“Well, I'll tell who it was, or rather who, it is claimed, built the first one. The individual was William G. Dana of Boston, Mass.,, who located at Santa Barbara in 1825, the father of the late Captain Dana, whose death in the lower part of the State was noticed at length in THE CaLr a few months ago. I have just received from General Charles W. Darling of Utica, N. Y., a nephew of the old pioneer, an iuteresting sketch of the Americah who, it is said, launched the first sea-going vessel ever constructed by a native of the United States on the Pacific Coast.” The sketch alluded to by the sec- retary is as follows: Captain William G. Dana built and launched the schooner three years after he located at Santa Barbara. He married at Santa Barbara on the 20tn of August, 1828, Maria Josefa Carillo, the eldest daughter of Don Carlos Antonio Carillo, Governor THE SMALL ARMY OF “CALL” DISTRiBUTORS AT STOCKTON. C. A. Barlels, THE CALL agent at Stockton, and his staff of city distributors and ussid.n'-s, as they were caught by a snap-shot camera man the other Sunday at a picnic on the strawberry patch of Mr. Daggett. The party was conveyed up the San Joaquin River by the Viola, under the leadership of Captain Acker, the King of McLeod’s Lake. There were refreshments of all sorts (the camera was snapped just before lquchefln), and a most enjoyable time was had. i was thought money was needed, gold was freely offered. The only places on the road between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara were Ni- pomo, twenty-four miles from San Luis, thence twenty-one miles to Santa Ynez Mission, thence to Refugio and thence to Santa Barbara. These distances were the regular ‘‘journadas” between the stopping- places named. The Indians of the Tulare Valley occa- sionally made raids upon the great stock ranches of the coast, and often from ‘‘Casa de Dana’ they could be seen gathering the horses and cattle in the valley or upon the neighboring hills. Then it was neces- sary to arm and mount all the men of the place and speed to the attack of the ma- rauders. Some fierce conflicts occurred and constant vigilance was required to protect the stock, In tne political controversies of the country Captain Dana took but little part, although, as Chief Alcalde, he was in favor with the party of the south, supporting his father-in-law, General Carillo, for Gov- ernor, when legally appointed by the Pres- ident of Mexico, as against the revolution- ists, Alvarado and Castro, of the mnorih. That he was favorable to the American cause is shown by his warm friendship for General Fremont and many other promi- nent United States officers. Captain Dana died at Nipomo February 12, 1858, and his remains were interred in the cemetery at San Luis Obispo. His widow died at the same place February 12, 1883. _Sevenl children of these parents are still living in the southern part of California. Palmer Could Not Remember It. Oglesby and Senator Palmer are ac- counted to be the best story tellers of the old school of story tellers in [llinois. On one occasion when these two popular fa- vorites were swapping yarns Oglesby re- vived an interesting series of reminiscences of some notably hard drinkers. “John,” said he, “‘do you remember how Bevendge could drink? He could drink and drink, and the more he drank the whiter he got, While you and I, John, it we drank a thimblem{ our faces would grow as red as the setting sun.” ‘‘Yes,” said John, “‘reflectively, ““I re- member well. But say, Dick, when did We everdrink a thimbleful?”’—Pittsburg Dispatcn, THE TALE OF SN MER 1§ ONE BOKT Attempt to Murder Passed Midshipman William Gibson, U. S. N. Captain John Taylor McKenzie's Part in the Capture of the Mutineers. Eventful Career of a Pioneer Shipe master Who Put the First Buoys in San Francisco Harbor. Among the pioneer shipmasters of San Francisco Bay perhaps none has seen more important or more eventful service than Captain John Taylor McKenzie of the ferry-boat Sausalito, plying between this City and the town whence the vessel derives her name. Captain McKenzie is a hale, hearty man, who, except for his hoary head, looks as voung at the age of 73 as many a man does at50. Since early boyhood his home has been on the wave, and since his nineteenth year he has been a shipmaster. In 1842 he plied in Long Island Sound and along the Atlantic Coast down to Virginia. In 1844 heranup the M sippi with the steamer McKim, the first propeller that ever stirred the foam of the Father of Waters. Four years later he was in Philadelphia, when one of the ship-owners read aloud in his presence a letter from California, telling about the woaderful gold strike. Young McKenzie told the news to friends in his old home, Newport, R. I., and immediately a craze took possession of the community. As a result a company of seventy young men, not one of them over 30 years old, was formed; a vessel, the Audley Clark, was fitted out, stocked with three years’ provi- ¢ions and started for the new El Dorado. The Audley Clark reached this porton the last day of August, 1849. The ship had been anchored here only a few days when Coldnel Jonathan D. Stevenson proposed to the new arrivals to go tg his ranch-at New York Landing, near the mouth of the San Joaquin River, where he had con- cluded to establishacity. Colonel Steven- son’s offer of three lots of land was ac- cepted, and the seventy Rhode Islanders were so0on in camp at New York Landing. When the Audley Clark left Newport there was an incumbrance of $2000 on her. This debt was raised sooner than was expected by even the most sanguine of the young argonauts. And just here is where a bit of history comes in, which, except to Cap- tain McKenzie and such of his compan- ions of the Audley Clark as still survive, seems to have been entirely lost. Itis the story of the arrest of the men who, on the night of September 11, 1849, attempted to murder Past M idshipman William Gibson, U. 8. N,, who was then attached to the revenue cutter Ewing, ly in San Francisco harbor. Rev. Albert liams, who was one of the clergymen called to give spiritual consolation to the cul- prits, gives an account of the crime in his book entitled, ‘‘Pioneer Pastorate and Times,” but he hardly touches on the par- ticulars of the arrest, which one might he led to suppose was effected by the Ewing’s crew. Gibson commanded a boat’s crew of five men, which, on the nignt in question, rowed ashore with a party of persons who bad been visiting the Ewing. Now, all five of the men under Gibson had shipped on the cutter at Valparaiso, on her voyage around to San Francisco, with the inten- tion of desertingjat this point and going to the mines. The boat had started back to the Ewing, and was well out In the stream, when the men sprang upon the officer and threw him overboard. Gibson dragged one of his assailants over with him, but the man was rescued by his confederates, who repelled every attempt on the part of the officer to regain the boat, and pulled awayin haste in the direction of the upper bay, with_the object of escaping to the gold diggings., Gibson floated with the tide, and had it not been for an accidental discovery by a watchman on the deck of a ship, who observed the body in the -phos- phorescent light of the waters and had a boat lowered with speed, the officer would never have opened his eyes in this life again. Doctors worked on him all night before he was restored to consciousness. The fugitives were pursued in all direc- tions. A boat from the Ewing pulled up to the tvles at the mouth of the San Joa- quin, near ColonebSlevenson's settlement, and the story of fhe attempted assassina- tion spread all around. I got up unusually early one morning shortly after we arrived at New York Landing,” said Captain McKenzie yester- day, *‘and hearing voices in the distance I looked up in the direction of Mount Diablo, and saw a namber of men making their way down toward us. When they came u I noticed that they were all pretty mucg exhausted, and about the first question asked was to know where they could get a bite to eat. Meantime a crowd of the Audley Clark boys had come out and gatnered fround the strangers. Suddenly one of the latter observed a familiar-look- ing boat half hidden in the tules. “What boat is that?” he asked, hur- riedly. “That’s one of the Ewing’s boats,” blurted out a green youth from Newport. ““‘Good God, I told you it was Bill,’ cried the youngest of the newcomers, and with that he broke down and cried. No further evidence was needed. Upon delivering the prisoners he and Oy Clark found that they were enti- tled to the full reward of $500 for each man, or $2500. That big sum of money was paid over shortly aiterward to Captain McKenzie and his comrades, who were thus enabled to settle up that Rhode Island claim of $2000 on_their vessel and have a surplus fund in addition. The five men were all sentenged to be hanged, but one hour before the time set for the execution, October 23, 1849, two of them, one an Englishman, aged 28, who gave the name of John Black, and the other a Scotchman, only 19 years old, who called himself Peter Black, confessed their guilt, took all the blame for the deed, and secured a commutation of sentence for the other three. John was hanged to a yard- arm of the Savannah; Peter to a yardarm of the Ohio. The week lollowin§ the capture of the mutineers, Captain McKenzie went to the mines only to turn around and come back. He has been running boats on the bay since the end of Séptemger, 1849, It was Captain McKenzie who put out the first_buoys in San Francisco harbor for the United States Government. Between 1850 and 1859 he found all the rocks and buoyed them as well as the bar. He ac- quired possession of the steamer Alex- ander and the sloops Rhode lsland and Dorinda, and in the early ’50's plied be- tween Stocl_{toq and Sacramento, and then between this City and Alviso. In 1854 he ovened up the Oakland and Alameda ferries with the steamer Clinton and the San Quentin ferry with the steamer Peta- luma. Since then he has been running steadily on the bay never losing a_day, ever genial and smiling, and liked by everybody who happened within his sphere of attraction. Since 1849 he has averaged at least 100 miles 2 day on the water. In fact, Captain McKenzie has covered a distance equal to sixty-eight circumnavigations of the globe since he ;ogsn Tunning a boat on San Krancisco ay.