The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1896. _————_ T then the Swiss band of fourteen pieces playing American airs as though to the manner born. Close behind followed Council Flor:da No. and Council Amorda de Patria No. 5. Then one of the prettiest features of the whole parade swung into line. It wasan | immense float representing the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, on board the good ship San Gabriel en route for India. She was manned by some ten swarthy | sons, their headgear and costumes pre- senting a figure at once striking and pie- turesque. The float was driven by four white horses gayly bedecked with yellow trimmings. The Japanese band, Asahi they call it, headed the Japanese society, eighty strong, under the command of S. Yamato. The Japanese, attired in neat-fitting suits of white and carrying great bunches of cherry blossoms, looked decidedly natty. In fact, no part of the procession attracted more general attention than did they. In rear of the regular company came a line of Japanese in uniform pulling an an- cient howitzer, which they fired occasion- ally with much effect. On Van Ness ave- nue this little gun was guiity of all man- ner of queer antics, causing the native small boy to open his eyes in wonder and amazement. For instance, during a halt the gun was trained skyward, and then fired. A deafening crash followeda, and then away up in the air, a thousand feet or more, unturied an American flag. The breezes caught the folds and kept them | open, and while admiring thousands cheered contrary winds caught the na- tion’s emblem and gently wafted it toward the Oakland shore. Later on the gun wasagain turned loose, and this time far up in the blue dome ap- | peared a parachute. A few seconds later | the head of a man was seen, followed al- | most instantly by the entire figure. The crowd gazed in wonder and awe at the gyrations of the ‘““man in the clouds.” Few realized that it was but a fanciful trick of the little men from the island empire. The Ninth Division. The trite saying, “Last but not least,” applied with force to the ninth division. ‘While no great pretense was made at dis- play, it was replete with charming features | and patriotism galore. The officers were: James H. Humnhries, marshal; Charles Bliss, chiefaid ; James Curlettand Dr. C. L. Scharff, aids. The line formed on Second street, and at the proper time fell in with the main proce: n. First came ert’s band of sixteen vieces and then a float, “Protecting the Flag,” drawn by two splendid mastiffs. Then the school children made their pres- ence known. The float, ‘Marriage of | Pocahontas,” portrayed oy pupils of the | James Lick School, proved to be a very | pretty piece. Following this came the South Cosmopolitan School, representing the Army Hospital Corps. It was a pretty | scene, was this floating tavern for the Pretty maids, with dainty head- | dress and neat white aprons, looked per- | fectly the parts they assumed. The lads and lassies on the floats were Sidney Gold- | man, Edward Abenheim, Joe Schoenfeld, | Adolph Reusen, Charlie Reusen, Hertert | Levy, Miss Florence Milne and Miss Annie | More. ‘‘Where are you going, my pretty maid?” | might very well have been said to Miss | Maggie Fitzpatrick, who posed as a dairy | maid for a popular ranch, clad in flowing | red, white and blue, with a wealth of golden hair peeping saueily from under a jaunty Tam o’ Shanter. Miss Fitzpatrick | was a perfect poet’s dream of a dairy maid. | Following this float came carriages bear- | ing City, State and other officials, the whole ending with a long ling of ehter- prising sdvertisers, and socialists bearing banners of very socialistic characters. (R TR LITERARY EXERGISES. BOUT two thousand occupied seats in the Auditorium, corner of Eddy and Jones streets, during the afternoon to enjoy the literary and musical exercises. | Everywhere in streamers, festoons, ban- ’ ners and drapery the red, white and blue in stars and stripes met the sye. On the platiorm sat the Goddess of Liberty and “California,” one of her most glorious offspring. in company with the officers and committee members of the celebra- tion. A medley of national airs comprised the overture, which was rendered with all the high ability at command of the Tivoli or- chestra. Xabbi Voorsanger followed with a prayer, whose appositeness and eloanence evoked the unexpected and unique dis- tinction of applaus Twenty lady soloists sang the *Star Epangled Banner'’ with fine effect under the direction of John W. McKenzie Jr, Inciuded in this selected chorus were the following: Mrs. W. A. Margo, Mrs. James Igo, Mrs. G. Muhlner, Mrs. L. Lampe, Mrs. H. Gri- nelle, Mrs. A. Poulson, Mrs. A. Hall, Mre. J. Pettee, Mrs. A. Soremson, Mrs. L. Ewing, Miss V. Greenlaw, Miss B. Con- nell, Miss J. Larsen, Miss V. Rappin, Miss M. V. Bredull, Miss R. Pelton, Miss K. Kelly, Miss H. Frazier, Miss M. Leipsic, Miss T. Rosenbohm. Samuel L. Lent, president of the day, in his brief address thanked the audience for their attendance, the citizens for their lib- erality and patriotism in aiding to make the celebration a success and the various sub-committees for their onerous and faithfully performed labors. In introducing John R. Robinson, an aged and silver-haired gentleman who had evidently passed the Biblical limit of three score and ten, President Lent announced that the reader of the Declaration of Independence was a son of 8 Revolution- ary officer, Noel Robinson, and gave a brief biographical history of the latter, in- cluding his war record. Mr. Robinson’s reading had all the patriotic fervor thbat was t0 be expected from the descendant of one who bad by the prowess of his arm aided to make that famous propsganda of thie colonies the beacon light of freedom- loving people throughout the world for the past 120 years., The poem composed for the occasion by Louis A, Robertson was read with dra- matic effect by Professor E. Knowlton. The president of the day stated that out of 139 poems submitted to the literary com- mittee the one by Louis A. Robertson had been unanimously selected as undoubtedly possessing the most merit. Professor Knowlton's advance to the front of the platform was greeted with ap- plause. “Ladies and gentlemen,”” he said, “as a vreface to the reading of my poem let me state that there is one peculiar fact in con- nection witn the ages of the reader of the Declaration of Independence and of this poem. “These combined azes are’’—(turning toward Johm R. Robinson)—‘‘shall I tell it 2" Receiving an affirmative nod he finished the sentence—**one hundred and forty-two sick. by J. W. McKenzie Jr., from the celebrated ‘“Father of Victory” March and §edicated to the Native Sons, was sung by a cho rus of 200 voices. The song was encored. In introducing the orator of the day President Lent said that an effort had been made to have all the performers of the oc- casion men and women who could easily trace their ancestry back to revolutionary times. In this, he said, they had been highly successful, and especially in the case of Zenas U. Dodge, who could trace his ancestry back to the year 1624 and name many forefathers who took part in the thrilling events succeeding this period. The orator was frequently interrupted in his rhetorical flights by spontaneous out- bursts of applause from his audience, and at its close the audible evidence of their approbation was deafening. The follow- ing were the speaker’s words: This is a day when we entwine the sweert, ever-lingering memories of courage and devo- tion with the clinging, loving folds of our red, white and blue. Friends, we are here this afternoon filled with kindred feelings of piide and love ot country. Asour National anthems were dis- coursed in symphony and song, and as I lis- tened to the reading of that grandest, bravest | and profoundest document ever written and signed by the representatives of a people, the Declaration of Independence, & panorama of events spread out before my mental vision. A panorama that led up step by step, incident by incident, through sufferings, sacrifices and struggles, through carnage and blood, to that | supreme moment when that little band of heroes, knowing well that their act meant a long, terrible and bloody war, yet, with a dash of the pen, gave to the world a home for the oppressed of other nations; gave a birthright 10 liberty, and & sanctuary wherein to worship | God without fear. And as I sat there I became awed at the comprehensiveness of the subject. 1did not feel it within the power of man to worthily voice utterances calculated to do jus- tice to & theme so sanctified by the blood of our fathers; a theme so hallowed in undying memories; a theme clothed in immortality. We shall not legislate this arternoon, nor alr private opinions, nor instruct the next Con- gress or Legislature, nor attempt to correct any of the exisiing abuses of law or of right. All such matters shall be left to those in whom we see fit to repose our confidence at the proper time and in the proper place. To-day any sentiment approaching the present condi- tion of local or even National matters would illy become the spirit of this celebration. Itis to Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Haneock, Franklin, Hamilton and other patriots; it is to the Declaration of Independence and the he- roes who fought and bled to establish, main- tain and perpetuate its principles; itisto the stars and stripes that we give this day over to rejoicing and thanksgiving. Friends, it is a good thing that we are creat- ures of sentiment. I: was sentiment that drove our Pilgrim Fathers to the rock-bound New England shores; it was sentiment that caused the old Liberty Bell to ring out *‘Liberty throughout the land unto ali the inhabitants thereof;” it was sentiment that gave to the | world our immortal Washington; it was sen- timent that arrayed brother against brother and father against son in the late great war of principle; it issentiment that brings us here to-day. This sentiment of independence, springing directly {from nature and nature's God, having its birth in oppression, rearing its head first out of religious intolerance and bigotry, planted the colonies of the New World; threw off the yoke of British oppression and allegiance; defied the power of kings and their ministers; proclaimed that in the people was the fountain head of power; proclaimed every man equsl in right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. It was sentiment that gave usa man whose name time can never eface from the honor roll of our Nation; & man who loved America better than his fortun man who loved liberty better than his life. All honor to the memory of Lafayette. It was thissentiment of independence that sharpened our swords and pointed our bayonets in all our battles | b and thundered to the world our Declaration of Independence, I will tread very lightlyand quickly over the span of 120 yearsof our Nation’s existence. England reluctantly conceded to the United States their independence, won on tbe battle- flelds of the Revolution. Our fathers emerged from their arduous, protracted, desolating revolutionary struggle, poor, indeed, in wordly goods. Habits of industry had been unsettled by the anxieties and uncertainties of war. passion had taken the place of that spirit of free- dom which had characterized the colonists at the commencement of their struggle for inde- pendence. A country without money, without credit; its people writhing under the intol- erable pressure of debt ; with industrial paraly- sis, commercial embarrassment, political dis- order, cried aloud for that calm. commanding, irresistible Washington; and though he had retired to the peaceful and quiet retreat at Mount Vernon, yet he heard the voice of his country and obeyed. That veice was to him as the voice of his God. Through the wisdom, prudence and devotion of Washington and his compeers our Nation was raised out of the darkness of poverty and despair into the bright dawn of one of the most successful eras ever recorded in the his- tory of the nations of the world. Horace Greeley, in speaking of this remarkable epoch of progress, said: % “Our country of to-day owes its unequaled growth and progress, its population, produc- tiveness and wealth, primarily t> the framers of the Federal constitution, by which its de- velopment was rendered possible; but more immediately and palpably to the sagacity and statesmanship of Jefferson, the purchaser of Louisiana; to the genius of Fitch and Fulton, the projector and achiever, respeciively, of steam navigation; to De Witt Clinton, the early, unswerying and successful champion of artificial inland pavigation, and to Henry Clay, the eminent, eloquent and effective champion of the diversification of our Na- tionalindustry through the protection of home manufactures.” Although the War of the Revolution was at &n end, the warclouds had not yet entirely d appesred. The pirates of the Barbary States harassed our shipping. Spein refused us nayv- igation of the Mississippi, and England had not yet condescended to make a treaty of com- merce with us. Congress agreed to assume the debt contracted by the States during the Revo- lution, and to pay the National debt in full. Then it was that that great financier, Hamil- ton, of whom was said, “He smote the rock of National resourees and abundant streams of revenue burst forth; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet,” put for the first time into practice our great principles of protection by levying taxes upon imported goods. The devolopment of the interior resources of our couutry, the building up of its industries, the establishment of its credit; the demand and due recognition of respect, brought about principally by the War of 1812, placed the United States in a position to put inw opera- tion the great principles of independence they had so hardly won, and which were subse- quently crystallized in the Mouroe doctrine, the most momentous document which had been offered since that of the Declaration of Independence. While the Declaration of In. dependence made us & Nation, the Monroe doctrine, as has been said, sets our compass and points & course which we arc to steer through the ocean of time opening before us, and while Europe is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should be to make our hemisphere that of Freedom. The Declaration of Independence is our God - dess of Liberty—under her munificent shield we are the happiest among the peoples of the earth; while the Monroe doctrine, assuming form under her majestic protecting wings out- stretched over the Western Hemisphere, is the embodiment of the cherished sentiments of the citizens of the United Staies for the liberty and happiness of their fellow-men, and em- phasizes the motto, “‘America for Americans.” - To-day we are listening to a still small knocking at the door of the sisterhood of re- publics. One hundred and twenty years ago the souls of our {athers were tried as are those, who, to-day, are struggling for liberty on that little Isle of Cuba. When the battle clouds !l away may their flag of freedom kiss that breeze which unfurls our banner to the air. years,”” At the conclusion of the reading the house shook with cheers and other manifestations of applause. Tue “Flag of Liverty,” a song arranged Although we now honor freedom’s natal day and the beroes of that time, I proclaim that we have heroes to-day who would will- ingly place themselves on the altar of their country., We have mothers, wives and sisters Selfish | HYMN TO FREEDOM. Blood-bought, d yet the price was freely paid, As many a crimsoned battlefield conld tell; And thunder tread of war, and clash of blade, And the glad clanging birthsong of a bell; Then one bright torch that blazed above the gloom, As Liberty leaped forth and sealed Oppression’s doom. The grit and grandeur of the men who poured Their blood to buy this priceless heritage; They, whose quick hands ne’er trifled with the sword, Nor trembled when they signed the chartered page, Sleep in the soil they saved, and yet they rise And look on us to-day with stern, demanding eyes. What were it worth, this birthright of the free, If we, as careless keepers of the trust, The byword of a world, at last, should be? Ye glib-tongued sophists! shalf our sabers rust? Beware, ye Babel builaers, lest these towers That climb to kiss the stars should fall when treason glowers, ‘What can we claim, when in the scales of God ‘We throw the patriot prestige of the past? Our fathers’ blood, long silent in the sod, Begins to mourn: Yea, though this day we cast The light that saves. Into the balance every deathless name That lights our sacred scroll, what glory can we claim If we, as watchers of a Nation’s fate, ‘While all our skies above are rainbow-spanned, Forget the stealthy foe within our gate, And the broad, rugged creed our fathers planned; ‘What were it worth, this liberty we boast, If rank corruption’s growth should spread from coast to coast? Buch fears are vain; the silent hero clay That stood our buiwark oft against the foe, Would rise to save 1ts country from decay, Did such a deadly upas o’er it grow; But never shall its poisoned branches spread Their blasting shade above the soil that holds such dead. What time a deadlier devastating blight Than this, or any country ever knew, Dared lift its ghastly features to the light, A million blades "round Freedom’s banner drew; And now, should treason come with all ita hordes, The insensate grass we tread would glisten into swords, Bo. slumber on, ve brave, and have no fear; We stand beside our wetchfires, and our eyes, Fixed on God’s changeless stars, see shining clear Yea, we shall realize The faith-framed fabric of your morning dream, And clasp the captured grail, to guide us with its gleam. For, as our fathers did, we trust in Thee, Great God of nations! and we rest secure. Our eyes behold across Time'’s troublous sea A Pharos flaming high above the roar Of baffling tempest and of changing tide, Triumpbat type that tells of wrecking storms defied. —Louts A. ROBERTSON. | | | | pro to-day who would rather their loved ones fill nameless graves if such a sacrifice could tect our country’s homor. The homor of the women of the Revolution is a tribute due, who buckled the sword upon their heroes and bade them fight for home and country; who watched, and suffered, and toiled, ana prayed for our deliverance. Glory to the women of our Revolution. 1 am pleased here to quote a few lines fron: a speech of one of the most patriotic and elo- quent men of America living to-day. Irefer to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. While we may not agree with Colonel Ingersoll upon matters of religion, ktill I know we all agree with him when he says: “All who stand beneath our banner are free. Ours is the only flag which has in reality | written upon it ‘Liberty, fraternity, equal- | ity'—the three grandest words in all the | 1anguages of man. | “Liberty—Give to every man the fruit of his | own labor, the fruits of his hands and of his ain. l“}‘rlwmlty—flvery man in the right is my brother; “Equalfty—The rights of all are equal: Jus- | tice, poised and talanced in eternal claim, shall shake from the golden scales in which | are weighed the acts of men the very dustof prejudice and caste: no race, no color, 1o pre- vious condition gan change the rights of man.” In these few words Colonel Ingersoll has touched the very heartstrings of the prinei- ples which underlie our political government; | they are the conditions which cause every American’s heart to throb in response to the trust of citizenship. Our Star-Spangled Banner, our beautiful emblem of liberty, we consecrate ourseives to thee this day. Our pride at home, our protec- tion abroad; undaunted at perils by land or by sea, tender and merciful in thy all-con- | quering force; the hope of our living, the | winding-sheet of our dead. Thou goddess of freedom, thou empress of 70,000,000 souls who would pour out their life’s-blood to-day upon thy pyre, if to quench the flame that woald tarnish thy luster or defame thy fair name! Thy subjects are we all. O thou flag of ours! Thou who hast been through victory and defeat; thou who hast witnessed untold sufferings at the hearthstone and on the battleground; thou who has stood sponsor to unsweryving devotion; thou upon whom fell the last dying gaze of our Boys in Blue; thou for whom the pulses of millions quicken to-day and whose praises sound from millions of throats! O thou flag of ours! Hadst thou a tongue to-day what couldst thou speak? Haast thou tears to-day wouldst thou not weep in joy? This is an hour with God and with our coun- try. Thisisan hour when, temporal matters laid aside, we weave and weave again memory’s eternal garlands. Tenderly and lov- ingly we place them on the brows of our mar- tyred fathers. In silence and in tears, with greater love for the flag and for the country they gave us, we kiss their scars, humbly and reverently, and turn our faces toward another sun, whose rays shall warm and lighten a N tion made greater and nobler for this day’ communion with the dead, yet ever-living, aye,immortal, past. Then the curtain dropped, closing those on the stage from the view of the andience. It was known that the next item on the programme was to be a patriotic tablean, and the audience waited with keen expect- ancy. The curtain rose amid such silence that one could almost hear a pin drop. | . There in the center of the stage stood the father of his country robed in martial array, while around him stood his staff attired in the same garb. Over to the left of the stage stood the radiant Goddess of Liberty with her right hand steadying the pole from which floated the emblem of the Union. On the left was stacked an array of muskets, symbolic of the stormy Hevolu- tionary period. As the red light glared up brightly and threw the scene into prominence, then softened to a mellower tint and cast shadows flickering hither and thither, the audience could no longer restrain its en- thusiasm, but rent the air with thunderous bursts of appiause. Just at this period the American flag, so large that it could have been used as a stage curtain, was slowly let down behind the group, and at sight of its broad red and white bands and forty-five golden stars in a blue field, that vast assemblage simply shouted itself hoarse. When the enthusiasm of the house was somewhat subdued by the falling of the curtain, all united in singing ‘‘America,” and the assemblage was dismissed by Rabbi Voorsanger pronouncing the bene- diction. FIREWORKS IN A DENSE FOG. HE magnificent display of the day T was fittingly ended by the fireworks in the evening ont mear the end of the Haight-street line. Cable-cars have been crowded before our country's glory is not to man alone. To | this time, but it is safe to assertthat never in the history of the City were so many human beings crammed into a car as they were last evening. The proverbial sardine simile would be a poor comparison. Men and women clung to the seats, the railings, to each other and anything eise on which they could lay hold. Boys crowded in between their elders’ feet ana hune on like monkeys. Even the roofs of the cars were made to do service as seats for these youthful Americans. They dropped bunches of firecrackers all along the track and many kept discharging re- volvers loaded with blank cartridees. At the scene of the fireworks much of the brilliancy of the spectacle was ob- scured by a thick fog. So dense was it that at a short distance the electric lights g{elmed like stars, the poles being invisi- e, 8till, the spectacle was full of grandeur. As the fiery rockets wormed their sinuous way into the air, the bombs rose to a height and burst to pieces, the great pin- wheels pirouetted and cast off myriads of sparks and the Roman candles. cast their vari-colored glove! flame_ hither and thither, the vast "!%a: assemblage would rend the air with ¢} on cheer, The fog d:dmpensd everything but the people's ardor. The most excellent features of the evening were the representation upon wire frames of the faces of revolutionary patriots, the liberty bell and stirring bis- toric American scenes. About half-past 9 o’clock the Haight- street cable snapped and rendered it use- less till very late. Everybody was obli; to walk a good distance to catch other lines and get back to town. Thus ended the celebration of the natal day of the Nation. The old-timers unani- mously admit that it was the liveliest they have seen in many years, 3 INJURED ~ CELEBRATERS, Quite a Number of Men and Boys Treated for Burns. The Lively Firecracker Claimed Some Victims From the Noise- Makers. The doctors at the Receiving Hozpital were, as usual, kept busy all day yester- day attending to meh and boys who had been injured through the careless use of firecrackers, Fortunately none of the cases were serious. The firsc to arrive was F. Griffin, 31 Oak street, a few minutes before 10 o’clock. He had powder burns on his face, caused by the premature explosion of a cracker. William McNamee, 1 Fifth street, had powder burns in his eyes from a similar cause. Robert Miller, a boy, living at 225 Tehama street, was using a toy pistol and i‘tefflodefl too soon and wounded his lett an In the afternoon Laser Blum, a boy living at 8 Grove street, held a firecracker too long in his left hand, which was burned. Harry McGlauflin, 609 Minna street, had his eyes and face filled with burned powder through the premature explosion of a ‘redhead,” and Fred Smith, a boy ltving at 1427 Mission street, was iu a similar Yndiclnunt. Last night Willie Brown, a boy living at 613 Mission street, was loading a cannon when it exploded and burned bis hands, face and legs. George Connors, a boy liv- ing at 1410 Kearny street, s;lcked ‘:r a bomb from the street and it exploded, burning both his bands. John McDon- ald, a boy living at 508 Noe street, had both of nis eyes burned by the premature explosion of & firec . Ephraim ‘Wade, a boy living at 414 Turk street, was burned about the face and eyes by the premature explosion of a toy cannon. W. Murphy, & lad living at 759 Clemen- tina street, was sent to the Receiving Hos- pitai suffering from a badly burned arm, caused by the premature explosion of a toy cannon. % a youngster living at 1016 Folsom street, while examining a I firecracker to seeif it was lighted suddenly discovered that it was. The boy was sent to the hospital for treatment for badly powder-burned face and eyes. —_————— Ancient Tombs. Five intact tombsof the second and third centuries before Christ have been discov- ered at Camarina, in Eastern Sicily, by Dr, Orst, thoueh the greater part of the burial places had been piu; inancient times. Noto Vecchio he has found three prehistoric cemeteries, a Jewish and three small Christian catacombs. He will end the season with excavations in the forum of Syracuse. Thne Bsquimatx bave a queer custom in regard to doctors. At each visit the doc- tor is paid. If the patient recovers the physician keeps the mun:x; if the patient dies the money is returned to the family of the deceased. 9 HARDY 1S KING OF THE COURT, Tennis Championship of the Pacific Coast Decided. WHITNEY GIVES BATTLE Valiant But Ineffectual Effort to Defeat the Oakland Boy. YOUTE AND BEAUTY APPLAUD. Fashion’s Votaries Assemble at San Rafael to Witness the Tournament. Sam Hardy is the champion tennis player of the Pacific Coast. The plueky young player achieved this honor yester- day afternoon on the courts of Hotel Rafael, and when the ball bad ended the journey across the net that decided the crowded into every available shady nook. A flutter of excitement was caused when the heroes of the racquet crossed the court on their way to the dressing-room, and their appearance was the signal for most reckless gambling. One charming enthusiast announced triumphantly to a party of her young lady friends that she was willing to ‘bet a box of candy against a Queen Charlotte. Her offer was hesitatingly taken up by a_com- panion, and then they set about picking their men. Four times they swapped champions, odds always remaining the same, and then the challenger, because the man she thought the pest looking was not the one she thought would win, de- clared the bet off: She-explained that she knew it was wrong to bet, game so much more exciting. At the outset of the final it looked as if Whitne{vw-a goinli to stampede Hardy. George Whitney, like his brother Rob, has a wicked way of driving the balls, hard and swift, gllst over the top of the set, ana even as adroit a player as Sam Hardy doesn’t fancy that sort of thing. For a while Whitney’s drives were very effective, but he couldn’t hold himself to- gether properly. Hardy apparently sized him up afier the first two or three games, and_ he Whitney was soon in_ distress, and before the first set was over he was tired and dis- couraged. He made a game fight, how- ever, and showec conclusively that when for any player. Toward the last of the match he made a suited. recision, nowever, always stood him well in band in a rally, and by one of the cleverest strokes in the tournament he won the final game and became the | champion. George Whitney, the ‘‘runner-up,” re- ceived a handsome cut glass pitcher valued at $50, as the reward for being second in the tournament. Hardy received | a Columbia bicycle. Most of the guests stayed at the hotel last evening and participated at it made th ® | triends would be elected to the vacancies, commenced playing rapidly. | | | experience has taught him to keep his | nerves steady he wiil be a dangerous rival | final stand and some brilliant plaving re- | Hardy's remarkable nerve and | in a grand | Junta General Committee, voting and in- fluencing others in the interest of Daggett and Rainey. A chance to remove this strong element from the organization seems to have ap- peared, and war to that end has been de- clared. Itis proposed, for one thing, to have the campaign committee demand the resignation of Federal employes. An- other weapon will be the threat that if these men do not resign and keep out of factional fights and ufi: working for polit- icai bosses they will complained of to the Civil Service Commission and their jobs put in jeopardy. If these removals are accomplished the voting strength of the Rainey-Daggett faction will not be changed much, because in districts where that faction is in control but what would be accomplished would be the weakeniog of the Rainey-Daggett side by the removal from the committee of in- fluential men who are directly controlled and who directly exercise their influence. Among the Federal employes in tbhe General Committee are many friends of the anti-Rainey element, but the great majority are Rainey-Daggett workers and twenty-three have jobs in the Mint. The following is a nearly complete list of Fed- eral employes in the Junta General Com- mittee who will go into the classified ser- vice under Cleveland’s recent order: Twenty-eightn district—Thomas P. Cusick, John Welch, internal revenue; Fred Murphy, Samuel Hayes, Mint. Twenty-ninth—John Brown, meat inspector; John Coakley, Custom-house Thirtieth—John Fitzpatr Mint. , Thomas Healey, Joseph McArdle, van, Mint; George Love, Custom. house; D. Q. Troy, Postoffice. Thirty-secoud—William Toner, Mint. hird—Thomas Sweeney, Isaac Nor- st—C. 8. Arms, Thirty ton, Mint. Thirty-fourth—J. F. Kirby, J. K. Bell, Mint; J. J. Borden, meat inspect Thirty-fifth—H. J. Brown, Sub-tressury; A. P. Rhoades, Custom-house. lhirty-sixth—Jobn Collins, Charles Gagus, Mint. Thirty-seventh—J. H. Zemansky, internal revenue; M. H. Mead, Timotky Nunao, Mint; Joseph Curtin, Shipping Commissioner’s office. Thirty-eighth—Eugene McFadden, Mint. fam Hardy, Who Yesterday Earned the Title of Champion Tennis-Player of the Pacific States; George F. Whitney, Winner of the Runner-up Prize, and R. N. Whitney, President of the Pacific States Lawn Tennis Association. REVIEW BY PRESIDENT WHITNEY. The tournament is over and the result was hardly ever in doubt, Mr. Sam Hardy, the new champion, winning the set without losinga set. This isin itself a remark- ble performance. The standard of play marked improvement and the tendency game. as evinced in this tournament shows a seems to be to return toward a back-court Many new, promising players appeared in this tournament, which augurs well for the game in the future. much eredit cannot be given the runner-up, Taken as whole the tournament was a decided success. Too , Mr. George Whitney, for his determined stand against great odds in the final match and his performance brands him asa player of thefirst class. President of the R. N. Warrsey, Pacific States’ Lawn Tennis Asssociation. Oakland youth a winner, 300 fair summer maidens applauded with ali the vigor pos- sible to white-gloved hands, and as many gorgeously arrayed young men made knowing comments about the game and joined in the demonstration so far as they considered consistent with their efforts to be fashionably biase. It was a great day for tennis, especially the forenoon. Then the sun shone just warm enough to make pleasure-seekers rejoice that they were not suffering from the limitations of four walls, and there was not too much heat for the comfort of players or spectators at the game. As anticipated, the crowd was not so large at the courts in the forenoon as that which came later. The events of the morn- ing were but semi-finals. The grand con- test of the meet was to be the all-comers’ final of the afternoon. In spite of other attractions the seats of the grand stand were well filled. A num- ber of people who had come down the night before or early vesterday morning patronized the forenoon sport, and they were well repaid. Among them was V. Artzimovich, the Russian Consul, who occupied a seat in the grand-stand. Arthur Ailen, a con- testant of former years, explained to a bevy of fair damsels the fine points of the game. John F. Sheehan Jr. and Willam H. Harrelson, who were once quite promi- nent on the courts at Stanford, but still better known as baseball players, watched the play with interest. Other prominent spectators were: Ernest C. Peixotto, Mrs. Folger of Oakland, George T. Cameron, J, Hubert Mee, the Misses Hush, Mr. and Mrs. William Magee, Miss Romie Wal- lace, John F. Archibald, Senator Frank C. De Long, Frank McLennan, George H. Gardner of East Oakland, Osakland, W. H. Hynes of Oakland, W. G. Cooke, J. M. Anginano, W. G. Morrow and wife and Gustavus R. Madden. The first match of the day was between George Whitney and T. A. Driscoll. Whit- n:{ uad little difficulty in winning. Dris- coll, as was expected, showed poor form, and in the second tet came very ne: being shut out without a game. As it w: the score stood 6—3, 6—1. The second mateh of the forenoon was in some respects the contest of the tourna- ment. R. N. Whitney was up against Sam Hardy and a hard fight was expected. The first set seemed to indicate a miscal- culation. Hardy managed to be every- where at once, and the ease with which he stopped Whitney's hard drives rather dis- couraged his opponent. The harder Whit- pey drove them the cooler Hardy got, and his well-placed returns were marvels. The set ended six love, Hardy leading. ‘When Whitney entered the courts for the second set he had undergone a great change. He commenced sending his wicked drives at his opponent with a force and precision that perturbed even the non-excitable Hardy. Before the youn, man from Oakland had quite collec himself the scorer was singing ‘‘Four- love, Whitney leading,” which to the in- itiate_means four games for Whitney to none for Hardy. Then Hardy commenced to play tennis as only he can play. Hedidn't succeed in rattling Whitney again, but he did suc- ceed in putting up a winning game. It was necessary to play two additional games to decide the set, Hardy finally winning by & score of §—-6. Those two matches were the only semi- finals to be decided and the results left George Whitney and S8am Hardy to con- test for the first prize of the tournament, a Columbia bicycle, and b;the default of the present chmglon, umner Hardy, who is in Alaska, the championship of the Pacific States. ¥ It was 2:45 when the final match was called. 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