The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1896, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1896 I5 ONE POST WAS NOT ON PARADE, Memorial Day Observed by Decorating and Oratory. LYON POST WENT ALONE While the Dew Was Yet on the Grass They Visited Their Plat. EXERCISES AT M. E. CHURCH. For the First Time AIll the G. A. R. Men Did Not March Side by Side. OAKLAND OrFicE SAN Fraxcisco CALy,) - 908 Broadway, May 30. | Always ready to respond to patriotic duties, Oakland was given over to-day to the exercises incidental to a general ob- servance of Memorial day. This was the first occasion on which the G. A. R. posts in this city have not acted 1n harmony in the services and exercises at Mountain View Cemeterv. Lyon Post, being under suspension, could not partici- pateasa post, and it would be difficult to say whether the feeling of the post was any less acute than tnat of their com- rades. There was a feeling among all that their ranks were broken, and old soldiers, knowing that their opportunities for marching side by side are decreased each year, did not notice the absence of their comrades of the suspended post without many expressions of regret. The members of Lyon Post took no part in the regular G. A. R. exercises, but they opened the observance of the day by going to the cemetery and periorming their du- ties to the dead as an independent body. Assemblyman Clinton G. Dodge deliv- ered the oration. 3 He said in part: “The scenes we wit- ness to-day mark another event in the his- tory of our country, and, though they are but a repetition of what has annually greeted the eyes of a sympathizing world for over a generation, still wnile patriot- ism lives in our land they will lose none of their solemn impressiveness or their effect as teachers of loyalty and devotion to the causeof humamty. Withuncovered heads before the graves of these, whose names are on the scroll of immortality, we bow and pay that sacred homage due from a grateful people to those who made popular government and universal freedom a liv- ing reality. “Upon the deeds and names of those who consummated the grand result of National unity, oratory has showered with lavish effort its silvered words, and yet human tongue or pen can but inade- quately pay the tribute which these de- serve. Their best monument will be their immortal remembrance by posterity, the unsullied honor of the flag they fought beneath, and the eternal preservation of the results they secured. We love their names. We love the record they impressed upon a Nation’s soil. We love the stain- less flag they handed back to us with every starin its accustomed place, War may desolate the land. but these heroes can never rally to the Nation’s call again. The wild cheer, the onward, sweeping charge, the music of the cannon's blast, and, higii above the surging wmass, the banner that made more than humgn freedom of men, these will not call tolife the patriot dead. Their work is done. The laurel wreath is theirs. Whatever human hand or tongue can do to render justice to their names and work, with overflowing hearts we pledge the ef- fort at these sacred shrines. These graves speak beyond the present. Their echoes roll past the living far down the aisles of futurity. They tell the story of man’s de- votion to country and freedom. Imperish- able may be their lesson and eternal the fruits of their victory.” The rest of the programme was as fol- lows: Distribution of wreaths and strew- ing of flowers; singing of “‘America” by all present; taps by drums. R. J. Adney acted as marshal. Lyon Post then returned from the scene. THE PARADE. All the Military and G. A. R. Organiza- tions but One in the March. OAKLAND, CaL., May 30.—The parade was not as extensive as on many former occasions, but it was very striking' and was watched by $housands of citizens as it wentover the line of march. It was tormed on lower Broadway in the follow- ing oraer: Captain Wilson. Sergeant Hodgkins. “hief Lloyd. Platoon of poli Capiain Fletcher com- manding, and Officers Arnest, Schroeder, Sill, McCarthy, Petersen, Curtis, Murray, Scanlon, Kyte, Henderson, Clark, Green, Kingsbury, Andrews, Cooney and Moore. Grand Marshal W. A, Jacobs, Chief of Staff C. E. Lancaster. Alds—G. H. Coliins, J. P, Abbott. PIRST DIVISION, Captain W. R. Thomas, Commanding. Alds—S8. 8. Pettit, J. L Lyon. Fifth Regiment Band, Second Battalion, Fifth Infantry Regiment, National Guerd of Californis, MajosJ. F. Hayes commanding. iz Compeny A, Captain C. T. Poulter com- manding, fifty men. Compeny F, Ceptain G. H. Wethem com- manding, sixty men. Carriage—Mayor J. L. Davie, Hon. F. V., ‘Wood orator, Rev. James Curry D.D., chaplain, Major E. A. Sherman representaiive Mexican Veterans' Association. Appometiox Post No. 50, N. 8, Douglas com- i thirly men. The Oakland Indedendent Fife and Drum Corps in blue blouses, white trousers and tan Jeggins, broad red sashes and Colonial hats, The players were: Fifes, H. L. Whitehead, O. N. Le Noir; snare drummers, C, E. Gardiner, W. J. Bloomberg; base drummer, Z. G. Wheeler. A derail of three from the United States flag E{up Philadelphia, consisting of G. H. Hitich- liffe and A. M. Clawson, gunner's mates, and W. Anglin, second-class fireman, carried the coiors end guidon of Porter Post. Al 1 D. D. Porter Post No. 169, Colonel John R. Seaptam commanding, 80 men. Colonel E. 1. Baker Post No. 5, Sons of Veterans, Captain L. D. Mauning, 15 strong. SECOND DIVISION. F. W. Cushing commanding. Afd, B. R. Phillips. Second Regiment Band, B. B, C.—Homer c‘mg, drum major; E. F. Webb, leader; 16 eces. pSecol\d Regiment, Boys’ Brigade—Colonel E. J.Walker commanding; Captain E. Jones, aid, First Battalion. Major A. W, Taylor. Company 1, ain Waymouth; Company aptain Cords; Company A, Lieutenant rber, all of Alamed: Second Battaion—Mujor N. L. Cobbledick. Hospital Corps—Cuptain W. O, Bird, Lieu- tenant Eiliott, Steward C. A. Hopps, Bugler 8. Androus and eighty men of Alameda, Com- pany D, Captain O. G. Heaton, Oakland; Com- pany H. Captain F. L. Cleaves, Berkel:f. Canton Oskland No, 11, Patriarchs Militant, 1. 0. 0. F., Colonel H. O. Brower commanding. There were present from San Francisco a dele- gation heaaed by Major X, Mefret, Captain A. Duncan and Lieutensnt Walter 8. Pottef. tain and Adjuiant G. 8. Naismith of the ment and Captain F. fi Ogden, Lieutenant F. E. Pierce and Past Colonel J. H. Applegate of the local command marched in the ranks. Clan McDoneld No. 79, Order of Scottish Clans, James Rettray, chief. The line of march was north on Broad- way to Eighth, thence to Washington, thence to Fourteenth, thence to Broad- way, thence to Eighth and then counter- marched to Fifteenth, where the formation was broken and cars taken to the ceme- terv. The pupils of the public schools, to the number of several hundred, congregated on Y¥ourteenth street, between Broadway and Washington, where they reviewed the procession. Most of the children carried bouquets and strewed flowers 1n the way of the veterans as they marched by. AT THE CEMETERY. Hon. Fred V. Wood Delivers the Ad- dress of the Day at Mountain View. OAKLAND, CaL., May 30.—On arriving at the cemetery the procession was re- formed and then marshaled to the plot. Chaplain James Curry opened the exer- cises with a blessing. The saluting the flag was carried out by forty scholars of the Duarant School, who sang ‘‘America.” Captain W. B. Thomas read Lincoln’s address at the dedication of the monu- ment on Cemetery Ridge, Gettysburg, de- livered July 4, 1864. Hon. Fred V. Wood of the Sons of Veterans spoke as follows: ‘Four years ago to-day, on this hallowed spot, it was my solemn task to address you in memory of your heroic dead. Many of the forms that stood here then with uncovered heads bowed in sorrow are resting here in peace- ful sleep under- this green sod. The ob- servance of the same beautiful custom that brought them here then brings you here to-day to strew with flowers tue graves of departed comrades in arms. “As you stand here to-day by these graves in_silent meditation, your minds are carried back, back to the times of a third of a centurv ago. Again you live over the days of '61-'65, the stirring events which were the prime cause of bringing you here to-day to this city of the dead, aithough you come without the pall. In | your minds, fancy again you see the im- mortal Lincoln ciothed in’life and inaugu- rated President. You hear the mutter- ings and the dark forebodings of war. You see the sky at midnight hanging over Fort Sumter illuminated by a flash of light. You hear the echo of the first cannon shot that thundered across the water from Fort Moultrie. That single shot that shivered the mightiest repubhic that the sun of heaven ever shone down upon; that ar- rested the onward march of civilization and changed the history of man; that summoned {0 arms 3,000,000 men; that set State against State, church against church; father against son and brother against brother; that engulfed the land in a sea of blood; thatleft woe and deso- lation in every home and unsettled civi- lization. | “In the observance of this, vour day of | mourning, you not only honor these brave men resting here, but you teach a lesson in patriotism to the rising generation— teach them that nothing is more glorious than that amsn lay down his life for his country; and if this lesson be not taught of what avail are all of your victories? If | this lesson be not learned by the rising | youth of to-day, then must the great | question of loyalty vo our country’s flag be fought out again at the point of the bayonet. Greed and avarice are to-day prompting and encouraging a sentiment in this country that old soldiers have already been paid too much for their services. Such a sentiment would have found no response at the close of that mighty struggle. Avye, well youremember that at the close of that victorious conflict you passed in grand review at the seat of our National Govern- ment as a last martial demonstration. The army of Grant, with its heroes of many a hard-fought battle; the army of Sherman, which victoriously cut a thor- oughfare from Atlanta to the sea; the army of Sheridan,that noble army that was shattered and scattered at Winch' ster, and yet under its dashing leader snatched vic- tory out of the very jaws of defeat; the army of Thomas, which met the forces Judge Fred V. Wood, Orator of {ha Day. under Hood, which drove them back de- feated, broken and scattered to the four winds; the army of Logan, that through thunder and tire swept on to victory at Atlanta—all of these passed in grand re- view before the President and Cabinet. The heavens resounded with the acclama- tions of tLe multitude and the air was filled with bouquets of flowers that were rained and showered upon the bronzed and noble veterans, “Ladies of the Grand Army of the Re- public and of the Women’s Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans, your allies in this sacred cause shall live on after you. Here shall they strew your graves with flowers, extol your memories and invoke people to ob-erve the day with sad remembrance. These men resting here have gone on be- fore you into the great unknown, where the sound of battles shall never be heard. Their trials and tribulations are at an end. Their bodies rest on in peace forevermore. “They are gone, grief si:s on each noble brow and pervades every heart. Their noble forms lie low and have been com- mitted to their kindred dust. The halo of their deeds and the brilliancy of their achievements may almost be said to il- luminate the graves in which their bodies lie. They are gone from your sight but not from your hearts and your memories, There shall their names Iive on embalmed with your love and garlanded with your affections, growing brighter and brighter as time rolis on. Their memories shall go down to future generations emblazoned upon the pages of history pregnant with the lesson of wholesome emulation, who in the future do battles, not alone in this country but throughout the length and breadth of the civilized world.” [Ap- plause.] AT THE M. E, CHURCH. Memorial Exercises That Were Attended by a Vast Concourse of People. OAKLAND, Can, May 30.—The First M. E. Church was crowded to-night. A memorial programme was presented and H. D. Talcott delivered the oration. Hé said: «“To-day this Nation pays a beautiful, graceful and grateful tribute to the mem- ory of her dead. She crowns with floral glories the graves of those who have de- served well of the Republic, and, by this fragrant, bright and -cheerful gift of flowers on each soldier's grave, records her gratitude and preserves their fame. A mem rial day, it is also the apotheosis or courage and patriotism. We recall the eicht years of patient warfare which gave ns a free and independent country; the three years of persevering warfare, by land and sea, which gave us a free ocean and a navy honored throughout the world; the two years of sharp, incisive contest which gave us our grand Pacific Slope, room in which we and our posterity muy dwell, and make our land tbe highway for the nations in all the lines of imperial commerce; the four years of solemn, ear- nest and conseientious warfare that fin- ished what_ibe soldiers of the Revolution commenced ; that broke the shackles from the limbs of slaves, from the souls of mas- ters, from the Northern brain; that kept PP VW e 9 ~ MEMORIAL DAY AT MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETEXQY, OAKLAND, CAL. our country on the map of the world and our flag in heaven; that rolled the stone from toe sepulcher of progress, and dis- covered therein two angels clad in shining garments—Nationality and Liberty; that gav- to us not warring States, but an un- | broken Unicn—a Nation sovereign, grand and free, and made tyranny the world over as insecure as snow upon the lips of volcanoes. “It must.be left to another occasion to dwell further upon the memory of days and men of the earlier Republic, whose names and deeds, fame and glory, influ- ence and attainments, are fresh and lov- ing to-day in every American's heart. Then North and South togetber laid the foundations of the Temple of Liberty, broad and strong and deep, and reared upon them enduring walls, and in the future they will, side by side, complete and beautify the work. “In the future there must be no thought of North, South, East or West—only the wish to have one great Union under one common flag, alike by all, and both dear to, as they are the hope of, every freeman, the forlorn exile and the oppressed of the worl Then this country, with its vast resources and power growing rapidly into colossal proportions, must exert an influence as | yet immeasurable upon the political in- stitutions and the material progress of the globe and become a guiding star to lead the struggling nations dry shod through the sea of revolntion and in safety thiough the wilderness of anarchy to the promised land of constitutional liberty. “But while this day we all honor our beloved dead, and at their graves learn the value of our liberties and the great cost of our free institutions; while their ashes tell us, oh so eloquently, that neither | foreign assault or domestic treason will be able 1o break up this Unionand tear down our starry flag, let us not forget the living. A poor, false and empty show is this cere- mony over the dead il we do not remem- ber ‘by works as well as words those thousands in our midst who rallied with the flag when it had fallen back in defeat, and went with it whenit bad mounted above the clouds in victory. Stretch out vour hauds to help these heroes with empty sleeves, those poised on crutches. Be generous and just to those who threw their all upon the altar of their country. Before those soldiers with maimed and scarred visages, let the world uncover, for their scars are badges of our legion of honor. “Let us, then, have our battle-fields suitably marked, our devoted patriots properly remembered by monumental stones, our living cared for, our children carefully educated to their duties as citi- zens, and at no distant day we shall find no grounds can arise for sectional contro- versies, no troubles threaten us from witkin, and we shall have from ocean to ocean a great people, ready to protect their country's interests at every hazard and willing to offer life itself to preserve her liberty and union and maintain the con- stitution our fathers left us firm and in- violate.” THE DAY AT HAYWARDS. Celebration Is Marred by a Serious Accident. HAYWARDS, CaAn, May 30.—The local G. A. R. veterans decorated the graves of their dead comrades at Lone Tree Ceme- tery to-day. Rev. G. W. Lyons and Rev. R. E. Wenke both spoke. There are about a dozen old soldiers buried here and each year services are held and flowers strewn over their last resting place. The day was marred by two accidents. Wilhe Thorndyke, the 8-year-old son of Theodore Thorndyke of this city, fel. from a tree and broke a rib and fractured his skull. His condition is serious, al- though it is believed he will recover. A team belonging to Mrs. Hatch ran away and demolished the buggy, but no one was injured. ——————— EVENTS OF A DAY, Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 908 Broadway, May 30. f Meeting of the Oakland Local Suffr Soclety, 0dd Fellows’ Hall, Eleventh and Franklin, Monday, 2:30 p. a. Memorial services will be held under the auspices of the Bethel Lyceum Sunday evening at the Fifteenthestreet A. M. E. Church. The members of the Alphia Dramatie Club will give their second performance at Elite Hall on Wednesdey evening next, the plav to be presented being “The Mountain Wild Flowers.” A report was circulated to-day that a railroad employe named Jack Hennessey had attempted to commit suicide by taking morphine, but no foundation could be discovered for the story. The First Methodist choir will assist at the 5 o'elock service at the First Congregational Churehjto-morrow evening. Solos will be given by Mrs."A. A. Dewing, Miss Esther Needham, J_M. Robinson, Miss Gertrude Hibbard aud William B. King. B Chaplain W. E. Edmondson of the United States flagship Philadelphia will address tue men’s meeting of the Young Men's Curi Association Sunday at 3:30 o'clock. His sub- jectis “Enthusiasm.” Miss Pearl Noble will play a cornetsolo. A live song service pre- cedes the address. All men are fnvned. During the year 1895 there were ex- ported from Sicily 347,113 tons of sulphur, of which 99,084 tons went to the United States. During the preceding year 435~ 417 tons were exported, of which 105,024 tons went to the United'States. ———— In 1876 the first deaf-mute clergyman was ordained. He was an Episco] n and the ordination took place in g’nu:— delphia. preserved and defended | JEFFERSON IS PRESIDENT' The Professor Selected to Take Charge of the Berkeley Seminary. A Mcmory of a “Speak-Easy”—Gradu- ating Exercises at the Local Gymnasium. BERKELEY, Carn.,, May 30.—Professor 8. M. Jefferson of Bethany College, West.| Virginia, has been selected as president of the Berkeley Bible Seminary, which will open in August, and his selection has just been approved by the board of con- trol. 3 During the last three years Professor Jefferson bas filled the chair of Biblical literature and doctrine in Bethany Col- lege, Bethany, W. Va. Professor H. D. McAneny, the recently elected financial agent of the seminary, has secured pledges in excess of $65,000, and the $100,000 mark is considereu an early possibility. The object of the seminary, as stated in | a recent issue of THE CALy, is to teach the Bible to young men and women and to prepare them for the various‘lines of Christian work. Berg’s Recdnt Troubles. BERKELEY, CaL, May 30.— Robert Bele, an ex-employe of O. Berg, one of the former keepers of the ‘speak -easies,” levied an attachment on the remaming liguor of Berg, which is now stored at the town hall,.1n a suit for wages alleged to bedue. Some time ago, when Marshal Lioyd made uis raid on the blind dram- siiops of the town, hecaptured a quantity of liquor from Berg’s hotel, but by a flaw in the city ordinance under which the raid was made the liquors were ordered returned, Berg took a quantity, but left some remaining. It is on the stuff which he left that Bell has levied an attachment, Graduates of the “Gym.” BERKELEY, CAL., May 30.—The grad- uating exercises of the erkele{ Gym- nasium were held yesterday morning, = H. Cornish delivered the valedictory and Rev. E. B. Payne spoke as to the duties of the graduates after they have gone out into the world of activity. Diplomas were granted to the following students: H. S(Luires. Redlands; H. Cor- nish, S8an Jose; E. Grundelfinzer, Fresno; E. Mehlere, San Francisco; S. Madero, Mexico; A. Donnelly, San Francisco. Musicale at Miss Blanchard’s. BERKELEY, CAL., May 30.—The pupils of Miss L, R. Blanchard gave a musicale yesterday afternoon at the residence of their teacher, on Channing way. The programme, consisting of piano solos and duets, with a few recitations, was well rendered by the Misses Kannedg. Arm- strong, Eastman, Hiigins, Cnmgvell, and the Messrs. Estey, Kastman, hitham and Hofmann. REV. MR. WELLS’ DEATH. His Life Was Closely Identified With the Early History of Oakland. OAKLAND, Cin, May 80.—Rev. 8. T. Welis, whose death was announced in the dispatches from Ventura this morning, was closely identified with the early civil and religious history of Oakland. He came here in the early fifties, and was always very active in religious work. The same activity he carried into business pur- suits. He was the first superintenaent ot Mountain View Cemetery, and served from 1864 to 1870. In 1874 he went south and purchased a ranch, which was greatly enhanced 1n value by the new coast road’s completion. His widow and four children survive him. The oidest son, Samuel T. Wells, edits a Philadelphia paper, and his youngest son, Moses T. Wells, is in busis ness in Saticoy. Mrs. Cooper of Haywards and Mrs. Ferris of San Francisco are the surviving daughters. The remains have been shipped here, and the funeral will be held Tuesday at 11 o'clock from Brown’s undertaking parlors, Rev. R. F. Coyle, D.D., officiating. ——————— MERRITT-P-IRSOL. Wedding of Popular Young People ~ This Evening, OAKLAND, Can, May 30.—The resi- dence of City Attorney J. K. Peirsol, 804 Madison street, was the scene of a pretty wedding this evening. It was also the an- niversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs, Peirsol. Their daughter, Miss May Alice Peirsol, was married to Harry W. Merritt by Rev. E. R. Dille, D.D., formerly pastor of the First Methodist Church, but now of the Central Methodist Church of San Francisco. After the ceremony an_in- formal reception was held. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt left for Lake County, where they will visit the groom’s mother. On their return _the young people will reside with Mr. Peirsol. T. Merritt is connected with the firm of D. L. Stanley & Co., and has been a resident of this city for two years. Mrs. Merritt has had charge of her father’s home since the death of her mother. Both have many friends who will wish them much happiness in their vew relations. ENCINAL YACHTS. First Race of the Season Held Off Alameda—Seven Boats Were Entered. ALAMEDA, CaL., May 30.—Adyantage was taken by the Encinal Yacht Club on Decoration day to bold the first race of the season among its members, The commo- dore of the club, Joseph A. Leonard, offered four prizes worth §55 for contest, and besides, according to the programme, it was the annual challenge pennant re- gatta, open to all craft of the club. Seven yachts prepared for the starting gun ut 3:35 p. M.: The commodore’s El Sueno, C. L. Tisdale’s Caprice, Fred Mi- chael’s Lapwing, 8. E. Plummer's ¥lor- ence, James Tyson's Fawn and R. H. Swayne’s Vixen. The Caprice did not finish as her gaff topsail parted and hung helpless. The time allowances could not be obtained as the secretary had them away with him in the country so the winners could not be declared. ~ The EIl Sueno finished first under mainsail, the Fawn passing the home post next under double watersails and spinnakers and the Dulce last. 1t was a most enjoyable day. There was a fine tresh breeze and quite 8 number of mem- bers and their friends participated in the sport. l"The yachts were divided into four classes, according to their measurements. The following is a summary: [3 =2 ] 2 E B £ H e Yacmrs. bt : & = H g : 5 H H 2 : i - First class— El Sueno........... C price. Fourth cl Dulce. 5:81:15 C. W. Callahan took the time and James C. Hanley acted as referee. WAS IT DUNHAM? A Stranger Drops Into Coneord, Buys a Rig and Quietly Slips Away. OAKLAND, Can, May 30.—Sheriff ‘White received word this morning from Concord, in Contra Costa County, that a mysterious stranger dropped into that town about 1 o'clock yesterday and at once started negotiations for a horse and buggy. . He seemed to be under consider~ able suppressed excitement and answered the description of Dunham. His little finger on his left hand was stiff. He did not haggle over the price, but closed the bargain at once and set out in the direction of Livermore. When the officers decidea to interview him he was gone. ————————— At the Macdonough. OAKLAND, Cirn, May 30.—Next Mon- day evening Eddie Foy in “The Strange Adventuores of Miss Brown’ will be seen at the Macdonough. Ada Rehan and the Daly company’s resentation of “School for Scandal” }l"ne@dny evening, June 9, will attract the banner house of the season. The order sheet closed last night contains the names of most of the prominent society people of Qakland, Alameda and Berkeley. 1:50:50 . A Good-Sized Florida Fish. At Steve Melton’s tish market yesterday morning was exhibited a fish that made minnows of the biggest bass and drum that were on sale. The fish was a rock groupher, weighed 700 pounds, and it was si?ht feet long. It was struck in the channel opposite May- port on Tuesday morning by the Comanche going out, and came to the surface “gill- ing”’ for air. ohn Arnau, a Mayport fisherman, saw the monster and set out in a boat with a negro to capture it. He ran a rope through the gills and made it fast, but just at that time the stunned fish recovereq is usual energy and made things hum. He plunged (ownward and set the lit boat spinning like a cockleshell in & whirl- d. ind. P Finally the fish made seaward for more room and deeper water. He set a pace thut made the boat fairly skim the water. T'wo miles below the bar, or at Burnside, he was conquered and landed. It took a mule to pull him out of the water. The fist has a mouth bigenough to hold the head of 8 man.—Florida Times-Union. ————————— He Raised Him. Judge Bell of Colorado had the tables tumagon him in 1894 in a way that he de- spised, ana which came near reducing 12,000 majority to a minus quantity. The Populists'in renominating him d red in favor of a $50 per capita of circulating me- dium. The Republicans nominated as his opponent ex-United States Senator Tom Bowen, the best poker-player and most in- corrigible wag in all the Mcuntain region. Bowen simply Bell at his own game and declared in favor of $60 per capita, and thereby came near lmun{omo Judge out of a seat in Congress.—St. Louis Republic. LEFT HIS MONEY T0 BUY CANDY. An Old Oaklander’s Love for Los Gatos School Children. WERE HAPPY ALL DAY. For a Quarter of a Century They Have Regularly Wreathed His Grave. A PIONEER OF TWO CITIES. Every Alternate Decoration Day the Story of Hs Life Is Told. OAKLAND OrrIcE SAN FrAxcIsco CALL,) : 908 Broadway, May 30. | One of the very earliest settlers of Oak- land was George W. Teascale, and on account of the peculiar nature of his will, made many years ago, the school children of Los Gatos were enab ed to-day to enjoy a unique Memorial day. He bhad not been very long a resident of this city before he moved to Los Gatos, and hardly anyboay here now remembers Mr. Teasdale, He was a pioneer of the Santa Clara County town and being some- what eccentric he left a peculiar will when he died twenty-three years ago. At his death he bequeatied all the wealth he possessed, the sum of $900, to the school children of Los Gatos, to be vlaced inabank in San Jose and the in- terest to be drawn annually for the pur- chase of candy, to be distributed equally among all the boys and giris of the schools of the town. When “Uncle George,” as the children called him, died there was only one school —a small affair—in the town and the Teasdale funa allowed quite a large box of candy for each scholar, providing guite a feast. Now, after a period stretching over a score of years, there have been many changes in the place, and those little ones who knew and loved Mr. Teasdale have now grown to manhood and woman- hood or are no longer among the living, and those children who now receive the candy only know of theirdead friend from what is told them by their parents and teachers. In 1873 the school was composed of jnst twelve scholars. Now the village school has been rebuilt as a strietly modern in- stitution, to meet the requirements of the rapidly increasing population. The ‘I'casdale money has been trans- ferred to tbhe Los Gatos Bank, under the management of the only two remaining trustees, who are Messrs. Watkins and Tranthan, both prominent business men of Los Gatos. For the first few years after Mr. Teas- dale’s death the exact terms of the strange will were fait fully carried out, but of late vears the scholarship of the school has be- come so large that the money was found to be inadequate for the purchase of suffi- cient candy forsuch a host of youngsters, The situation was perplexing until Mrs. Emma E. Cole, the head teacher in the school, proposed that the distribution only take place every alternate Decoration day, and her proposition heartily met the approval of the trustees. To-day was the day that the children received a box of candy and the principal and teachers impressed upon their minds the history of the gift. The children were told how poor Uncle George in hisdying hours gave his earnings of a lifetime to make all children of Los Gatos remember him in death as the litile ones of tke village knew him in life. The only request of any kind made in connection with the gitt was that his little friends would see that his grave was never neglected or destroyed. On every Memo- rial day it is a beautiful sight to see the children decorating his grave with vhe choicest flowers that the beauuful gardens of Los Gatos produce. Mr. Teasdale took up his residence in Los Gatos in a spot that afterwards be- came the town-site. His cabin was the first buiiding erected there, and he never married, living all alone in his cozy little home. Unlike the proverbial cranky old bachelor, he loved children, so adopted all the babies of the village as his children. To them he was a veritable all-the-year-around Santa Claus, for, whenever he walked out, the pockets of his great overcoat in cold weather, and linen duster in saommer, fairly bulged out with sweetmeats for his little folks. When he aied, his place in gfie dhenrt of the town folks was never ed. ME OF THE INCREASE No Diminution in Force or Num- ber of Tornadoes for Six Years. A Theory That Accounts for Abnor. mal Seismic and Atmospheric Disturbances. OAKLAND OrricE 8AN FRANCISCO Cu.r..} 908 Broadway, May 29. Dr. F. M. Close, ex-president of the Tacoma Academy of BSciences, and in- ventor of the famous torpedo that created much interest a few weeks ago, has been investigating the recent tornadoes and their causes. He has gathered data that throw much light on their origin, and he predicts that there will be an increase in their number during the next six years' when they will again decrease. He said: That tornadoes are a sort of fin-de-siecle &Mncz is a statewent lull)e!pllbla of proof. [any people are of the belief that tornadoes are not more prevalent now than in the past, say fifty years ago, but_that the exteusion of news facilies—the telegraph and the dally paper—now make generally known an im- mense amount of jnformation heretofore un- recorded. Such argument may be comforting, but it is not borne out by investigation. Meteorological dbservations estabiish the un- pleasant fact that tornadoes are increasing both in numbers and violence. What are they? What causes them? In a general sense a storm is a moyement of the atmosphere caused by changes of tempera. ture between two places. Air expands by heat and becomes lighter. When the temperature of a locality increases the air over it rises and flows away as an upper current, and the cooler air the surrounding region flows inasa ndcurrent, Now l';fll}ll’lflyd{)fl happen n tropical and semi-tropical climates that the heat of the day becomes so intense as to cause very powerful air movements, amounting te hur: storms. The presence of moisturo Suction Sales GEO. F. LAMSON, AUCTIONEER. Office—410 Kearny Street. TO-MORROW, ........... . June 1, 1896, at 11 o'clock A. M., IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE on the premises. 1115 Folsom St., Corner Langton, of a GRAND STOCK of fresh Staple Groceries, Wines and Liquors. By order of C. Tiedemann, [ will sell his entire first- class stock of seasonable Groceries, comprising Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Oils. Rice, assorced Can Goods, Soap, Bacon, Hams. Spices. Sardines, Break- fast Gems, Candles, Jellies, Jams, Lard, Starch; a!s0 Wines and Liquors in giass. Syrups, Cordlais, Crockery, Glassware, Wooaenware, Ironware, etc. Also contents of Bar, Bar Furniture, e(c.. with grand_Coffee MIll The above:choice stock will be offered as a whole at commencement of sale, and 11 not so sold will be retailed out in 10ts to sult buy= ers. Open for inspeciion from 8 o'clock mormng of sale. Monday.. GEO. F. LAMSON, Auctioneer. . ORIENTAL CURIOS. Antique and Modern High Art. 419 KEEARNY ST. TO-MORROW, ..June 1, 1896, More than 100 cases of new goods ex S. S. China, opened and now on sale, consisting of every kind of Japanese and Ordental goods, including Rugs of every size, Antique Bronzes, Kagu Satsuma, Awata, Cloisonne, Bishue, Kochl, etc., etc. Two elezant presents givea (o the ladies daily attending the sale at 2 p. A Chairs for the ladies. F. T. KEELAR. Auctioneer. L. 1. BURD, AUCTIONEER, Office and Warchouse, 211 Larkin St. WILL SELL TO-MORROW Monday... b .June 1, 1896 AT 11 A 823 O'FARRELL STREET, The Fine Furniture of Private Residence of 8 rooms, consisting of Odd Pieces Parlor Furniture Oak, Walout and Cherry Bedroom Sets, Fine Car- pets,Bed-lounges, ~ofas, Curtains. Oak Dining Table and Chairs, Chiffonier and Kiichen Furniture. “This Is a fine loi 0f goods and on account of im- mediate departure I am instructed to sell without 1imit or reserve. L. BURD. Auctioneer. heavily charging the air by evaporation from WAIm seas aiso adds greatly to the general dis- turbance of the atmospneric equilibrium by the rapid expansion and condensation,so that we may find abundant causes, easily under- stood, for the presence of the Cyclone of the tropical elime. - These factors are generally wanting or are Lut feebly manifest in the tornado, like those that latterly nave become to be recognized as the steady company of the North American Continent. ;L The word “cyclone” for storms like that which played such ewful havoc in Northern Texas is a misnomer. Such storms are in no sense eyclonic. All great storms are cyclonie= that is, the winds blow along the line of & great circle hundreds and thousands 6f miles in diameter, in the center pf which is a calm region, tbe whole storm, spinuing like a gigantic plate, moving across the continent from west to east. The tornado nearly always moves along a di- rect—that is, straight—line, and is generally confined within a narrow limit. Itskips from point to peint with a skimming motion like that of a flat stone skipping over the surface of & pond when thrown by a skillful thrower. The expansive area of the cyclone is wanting. The Texas tornado was but 100 yards in width, but it made up in energy what it lacked in breadth. Certain peculiarities of the tornado are totally absent in oiher storms. Tie tornado evidences tremendous force. An iron safe weighing five tons was picked up and hurled through the air over a house and driven through & stone well thirty-four inches thick eighty-seven yardsdistant. The same tornado lifted a huge freight locomotive from the track and deposited it forty feet up the side of 8 steep embankment. The doors, windows, shatters and boards of houses passed over by the tornado are always blown outward, never inward. The berk of trees is not stripped off on one side, as by attrition, but the tree is di- vested of its bark on all sides, s if some power- ful explosion had occurred within the tree, bursting the bark outward. Electrical phenomena of great intensity accompanies the tornado. It is well known that the passage of & cnr- rent of electricity through the atmosphere communicates & powerful disruptive effect to the particles of airalong the line of its path- way. Itisa well-known fact that the highest known temperature is produced by the electric are. It is well known that air is & non-con- ductor of electricity and that moisture and metals are conductors. The textbooks of scierce are undergoin, rapid revision. What yesterday was accepte: as law is to-day set aside in the light of recent discovery. Astronomers, great in authority in their day—and they wereSincere according to their means of knowledge—heid that the sun was a huge ball of blazing hydrogen gas, and in this hypothesis they found allexplanation for the sun’s heat and light. The thinking world is rapidly arriving at the conclusion that the motive power of the universe is elec- tricity—that heat, light, gravitation, attrac- tion and repulsion are all and each simply dif- ferent manifestations of what, for want of a better name, we term electricity. The sayant of to-day sees in the sun a huge dynamo, whose rapid revolution is generatiLg electric and magnetic currents which sway and control the solar system. As between magnetism and elec- tricity there can be no separation. One pro- duces the other. One cannot exist without the other. When the power sleeps we call it mag- netism, and when it & vakens into action we callit electricity. Our crude knowledge of physics has taught us that if we cause a cur- rent of eleetricity to encircle a body we shall rrodnce magnetism in that body, evidenced at ts poles. As, were we to run a knitting needle through an orange, and then by a wire wrapped around the orange at right angles to the knitting needle cause an electric current to pass over the wire, magnetism would oceur at each point of the orange where the needle enters 1t. Science calls such an arrangement an “glectro-magnet.” The earth, as well as every other body of the solar system, is an_electro-magnes, constantly winding upon itself, by its diurnal revolution, the stream of electrical energy coming from the sun, and which we term sunshine. Every planet does the same. Now, magnets possess those peculiar manifested forces which we term “attraction” and ‘‘repulsion,” according es to the position of their polar inclination, and this force is exercised by one magnet upon the other. The earth is & very long way from being & finished affair. Changes in her formation are constantly going on. We know but very little, from actual observation, of the geology of the earth, scarce as much as the thickness of an eggahell. Most physicists believe that the in- terior of the earth is fluid, at a high tempera- ture—molten, so to speak. A man must be in possession of the plans of the Creator to be able to say that the formative processes of coal, of rocks and of metallic ores has ceased. As a matter of fact these processesare continu- ally proceediug. Iron and tin, silver and oid, and all the metals known and many un- nown are being constantly manufactured in the earth’s crust by the occult forces hidden ere. The tornado points to the formation of met- alliferous deposits. When, bx reason of some law, not at present understood (Professor Lang- ley of the Smithsonian is searching for it)a current of electricity of more than ordinary in. tensity reaches the earth irom the sun it seeks to find its equilibrium by 8 pesssge to the earth’s center along the line of greatest con- ductivity, and that line will be found along the strata of metalliferous ores. Every feature of the tornado points with un« erring finger to electricity as its producing cause. The tornado is a vacuum, produced by the passage through the air of a current of en- ormous.y high tensioned electricity. It isthe outrushing air from the building which forces the doors and windows outward. It is the pas- sage of the powerful current of electricity rnto the earth through the conducting sap of the tree, conv;g‘i:: 4 thle l:’p ‘Ihntobflelm by the enormous veloped, that bursts o l.h(e: bul'k from tben\raa? 5 hisrsidera oming generations will find the atest metallic wealth in those regions now vlfl‘&d by e be abl all we be able to predict the tornado? Itis doubtful. When we shall have learned more apout the sun, the central dynamo of our system, we may gnxhapa be able to understand something of what now appearsas vagaries. But present indications are not favorable to a very speedy solution of the problem. It may be possible that each planet, as a magnet, Dot only exerts an influence upon its .neighboring member, but also upon the sun itself. Such an opinion is by no means visionary. A curious thing is that tornadoes have no well-defined season, but when they do occur we find the newspapers recording the occur- Tence of earthquakes and fl . Last year the writer collected the record of twelve torna= does, nine floods, eleven nnhqu-kesb three Yolcanic eruptions and two extraordinary brilliant meteors, all reported in the columns of the San Francisco newspapers between A&rfl 17 and 22, his year the reports of thetawful tornado in Texas and the scarcely lesser ones in Kansas, Nobruh.lmlmnofva.!monflfind elsewhere - are accompanied with reports ofearthquakesin Central America, Italy and Austria, with great floods in Messachusetts and Connecticut.