The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1896, Page 1

This | the to be taken from Library-***" — S Pape( not H VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 38. OLD GLORY | UNFURLED, Commodore Sloat’s Historic Banner Raised at Monterey. SCENES OF YEARS AGO RE-ENACTED. Streets . of the Quaint Town Threaded by a Brilliant Pageant. TRIBUTE OF MASONS TO THE CONQUEROR, Members of the California Grand Lodge Dedicate the Sloat Monument. MONTEREY, CaL., July 7.—It is thirty- six hours since Monterey has been asleep. The festivities began at daylight yesterday morning, and have continued without in- termission ever since. Never in the his- tory of the old town have’' there been so many people here, nor is there likely to be again for many long years to come—possi- bly not until the next semi-centennial cele- bration. All day yesterday the trains of the Southern Pacific came rolling in at in- termissions of only a few hours, and there were crowds on each—vast crowds. No- body has made an effort to actually count them, but a conservative estimate places tbe number at about 12,000. And what a good-naiured throng it is. Accommodations gave out early in the day and yet the people keptcoming. There were no beds; they_could take cots. Soon there were no cots and a blanket in a cor- ner was acceptable. By 10 o’clock at night even the blanket was not to be had, but nobody grumbled. Why shoula they? T.eie was amusement for all, so they stayed up all night. It was ‘‘on with the dance” until the gray of dawn lightened the eastern horizon. Such a night bas, very likely, never been known in the modern history of Cali- fornia. The sireets were filled with throngs of people, laughing and daneing and partaking of the sclid and liquid re- freshments offered by the BSpaniards. Bright lights burnea in all of the build- ings and music filled the air. Some of the muititude who had no sccommodations attempted to sleep in chairs, but such a thing was not permitted. The merry- maskers awakened them and chided them for getting tired. Who should get tired on such a night, when there was so much happiness on all sides? Plenty of time to sleep when thé celebration was over, Breakfast in Monterey this morning was a memorable one. Fully 5000 people ate in the open air. Barbecued meat was the diet of the multitude. Of course there was coffee, drunk from tin cups, and oh! so0 acceptable after the long night of pleas- ure. It was truly a novel feast. The fires for cooking the meat were lighted iast Sunday morning and have not been out since. With all the hilarity of the night there was not a single disturbance. All was joy and merriment and not until daylight came did the dancers cease, and then only to begin the festivities of the day. The eastern sky this morning was the harbinger of a perfect day.’ Not a clond was in sight and the sun rose over the pine-covered hills with unusual grandeur, Before it was an hour high the air was filled with a gentle warmth that was grate- Hon. Harry A. Green, General Man- ager of the Celebration at Monterey. ful to the throngs of people at the celebra-. tion. It made them feel sure of the suc- cess of the day's celebration. They walked the streets and enjoyed the unusual sights on all sides. Some went to the beach and watched the sun chase the mists of night out over the blue waters of the Pacific. 0Old Sol did his best and never shone brighter. The sky wasat its bluest and the waves dancea aroufid the white sides of the warships as if they, too, were glad to celebrate the day. The first part of the day’s programme was set for 10 o’clock, but long before that hour the streets were a moving mass of humanity. A gentle breeze set the bright- colored bunting decorations to flapping, and this added greatly to the liveiiness of the scene. When the parade formed in line to march to the scene of tiie corner- stone-laying the people went wiid with entusias;n and cheered the different actors in the day's ceremonies lustily. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENT SENATOR JOHN WARWICK DANIEL, WHO WAS CHOSEN TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. The procession of those who were once residents of old Monterey was too much for many of the citizens to observe with- out emotion. There were half a dozen meuw in the line who once mude Monterey their home, but had not been here for over a quarter of a century. caused pleasure to many of the old-timers who haa stayed at home, and numerous were the reunions of friends. But the procession moved on to the top of the hill, where the cornerstone was laid, and all the veople followed. After the ceremonies they came back to town again and saw the big parade move to the | flag-raising at the old Custom-house. They saw the army’s and the navy’s war- riors pass in review, and the pretty Queen’s goddesses standing on glittering floats. They saw the lovely girls who represented the counties of the Golden State and the sweet little fairies who pro- duced the living flag. They saw these things and many more while the flags waved and the bands played. Then up to the Custom-house, where the dramatic flag-raising of half a century ago was repeated. There were addresses S. J. Duckworth, Secretary of the Monterey Celebration Committee. and speeches by men who knew all about the flag-raising, and the crowd moved back to town to see the Mexican games in the streets, the races and the other con- tests, and when darkness came and din- The siznt of them | ner had been eat:n, to take up the dance | 8nd merriment in the pavilion. — - LAYING THE CORNERSTONE, Masons Pay a Tribute to the Memory of Commodcore Sloat. MONTEREY, Cax, July 7.—The cere- monies attending the laying of the corner- stone of the Sloat monument at Fort Hal- leck began promptly at the hour ap- pointed, for it was well understood by every one connected with the celebration that not a minute could be wasted if tae long programme was to be carried out be- fore nightfall. At 9:30 a. M. the soldiers and marines landed. They marched up Alvarado street to where the Grand Lodge of Masons was holding & morning session. A half hour later the procession was formed and moved toward the military reservation south of Mouterey, where the monument is to stand. The parade was quite imposing, though not the equal of the street pageant of the celebration proper. Major Sherman led, on horseback. The position of honor was given to Lieutenant-Commander Royal R. Ingersol of the flagship Philadelphia, “| and he was accompanied by naval officers. The Marine Band was next in line. Marines, in their bine uniforms and white caps, came after the band, and then the sailors of the Philadelphia and Monad- nock. They were dressed in blue, but wore white caps. Monterey Lodge of Masons, to the number of 100, iollowed, wearing blue and white regalia, The Grand Ledge, F. and A. M., of California marched behind, animposing aggregation, with their gold and white insignia and staffs of office. Veterans of the Mexican ‘War were lurgely represented. They wore uniform hats and their honored badges. The remainder of the procession com- prised naval officers and prominent citizens in carriages. s The line of march was along Alvarado street to the old Custom-house, to Decatur street, and thence along Lighthouse road to the reservation. The veterans fell out at the Custom-house, and the sailors and ‘marines halted at the reservation and marched back. Only the Masons and citi- zens continued ou to the monument. The monument site 1s immediately in front of old Fort Halleck, ou top of a hiil overlooking the picturesque bayof Mon- terey. It thus commands a view from all sites, and will form a prominent lan mark of the historic city. About midway between it 4nd the sea is the statue of Padre Junipera Serra, forming still an- other bistorical mark on the landseape. On the granite base that was laid to-day is the inscrintion: *California. July 1846—July 7, 1896, PR ; The llluom of ‘:hn‘l‘é:a'l lodge opened in wo columns, and with heads unco! saluted the Grand Lodge uiflmhdw the crowds pressed in upon the officiating grand Masons, who with some difficul\v gathered arounad the stone. Dr. Washington Ayer of San Francisco, president of the Sloat Monument Associa- tion, stepped into the open and delivered a short address in commencing the cere- monies. He said: We have assembled here to-day, to commemo- rate one of the most important and interesting eventsin the annals of our country, and to honor the memory of onc vho was not only Jacob R. Leese, Grand Marshal of the Anniversary Parade at Monterey Yesterday. brave in battle in the defense of his coun- try and upon the ocean amidst the perilsof storms, but was also brave in his integrity and del;nn&.flon to perform his duty promptly and wel Fifty years ago to-day Commodore John Drake Sloat raised the emblem of freedom=- the ‘“old glory” of his country—mnear the ground we new occupy, which aci led to the achievement of one of the most important conquests recorded in history, und which gave aceful Wom of Californis, Nevada and tah, wilh more than 350,04 o territory to the United States. 00 square miles of ‘e are here to lay the cornerstone upon TSI s el oh Aoty gratitude of the rican le for the pa | his” count terests of t- y and 7 he displayed to i dhs ot whot B oS forward 1o the monument base. There ! voice beyond the sea,and in_that supreme mo- seemed to be no care for arrangements, so | mentof danger when the English ect, com- manded by AJmiral Seymour on the Collin- wood, was within sound of the cannon upon the American warship Savannah, then safely anchored in the bay of Monterey. Then the spirit of American freedom hovered over this fair land of fruits, vines and flowers in- perennial bloom and revealed the future destiny of California to the world, which is now the brightest star in the galaxy of States, with mines of untold wealth, naving already produced more than §1,600,000,000 of gold, and with forests of the giani sequoia, the grandest waterfalls in the world, the most sublime and charming mountain scenery, salubrions climate, orange groves and or- chards laden with every variety of fruit, and vineyard« whose vintace is found throughou, the civilized world, and tne voice of thriit is heard through the valleys where the sunset’s afterglow cheers the hours of departing day. These are all the inheritance, bequests and biessings secured by the act of a brave man, whose name posterity, through succeedin generations, will hold in sacred esteem, an no cowardly snd unscrupulous historian will dare ever attempt to peach his integrity. The assas<ination of true history and the malicious libels upon the life and character of cummodm\)smn by a ppuedo historian of California should give his voluminous labors ® prominent place in obseuruiw ‘The events of tnat period of 1846, so full of imminent danger to the acquisition of this favored land, gave birth to a new and higher civilization along the whole of the Pacific Coast, and well may our country feel proud of the achicvemeni and well can it afford to build monuments to the memory of its heroes aead—monuments which shall ‘stand as the repositories.of that spirit of patriotism and gratitude which animates the hearts of a free and inteitigent people. To keep alive and perpetuate the memory of those euriy stirring t:mes of Calijornia during the brief struggles for its acquisition and scpa- ration from its parent Government, the 7th of July should be made for the future a Nacional lega! holiday—2>qual in importance to the 17th ot “June—tha: the hearts of our youth may be filled with patriotism, while they sing their hymans of rejoicing, and then we should realize more than we have yet done the great beneflts secured by the conquest of thissunset land; where now the voice of the murmuring ocean is the lullaby of the midnight slumbers of the Nation, Here no longer the vigliant eye grows weary with its long vigils—the heart- throbs of patriotic doubt and fear are now lulied into serene rupose, and there is no Tonger fear that & hostile invading army will attempt to wrest our grasp the coveted prize of fifty years .,0—1 prize then made an eternal bequest to freedom by the immortal spirit of Commodore John Drake Sloat, whose eulogy will be fiitingly pronounced by the orator of the day. '.l:ihun addressing the grand master, he said: gt % Most worshipful grand master of the Grand ge of Free and Accepied Masons of the tate of California: Believing you to be eq in operative as you are in speculative masonry—in accordance with an ancient and time-honored castom, the Sloat lonument Association invited you to be pres- ent to-day to lay the cornerstone of the monu- mumt:mmemm-afln of the heroic deeds of a brave and loyal officer of the navy; and I now present you with this trowel, which will assist m: to perform -your labor. You will see that stone 1s level—you will see that it is plumb and that it is square—that future gen- Continued on Eighth Page. GOLD DEMOCK ATS DEFEATED, Senator Hill Is Not Given a Chance to Preside Even Temporarily. SILVER CHAMPIONS WIN THE FIRST SKIRMISH. - Daniel of Virginia Sent to the Chair by a Big Vote in the Convention. WHITE OF CALIFORNIA WILL BE THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Under the Lash of Majority Lose No. Governor Altgeld the Time in Carrying Out the Behests of the New Party’s Boss. HrApQuARTERS UNITED PRESS, HeraLp BurLpr } Curcaco, IIl., July 7. The silver men won the first duy’s fight in the National Democratic Convention. They routed their opponents by a major- ity of 207, seated Senator Daniel in the chair over Senator Hill, the nominee of the National Committee, and broke two records. They upset a practice which has always heretofore prevailed in Democratic conventions (though it has been some- tires ignored in Republican conventions), and they hela the longest first day’s ses- sion of any great National Convéntion within recent memory. The vote of 905 cast was one less than the tptal vote, by reason of the fact that Senator Hill re- frained from voting, but this loss, in calcu- lation of relative strength, was offset by his opponent, Senator Daniel, chivalrously voting against his party and himself. The result to-day showed the silver men to be forty-eight votes snort of a two- thirds majority, taking it as a test vote, But in many respects it was not so. There were eight votes.of South Dakota cast for Hill, which, on & square issue of free coin- age, will go for silver. Three votes in West Virginia thrown against the silver candidate will be counted for the silver platform. The Territories, which on the preliminary roll were given six seats but only two votes each, will probably be awarded six votes in the permanent organi- zation, except Aluska and the District of Columbia, which will remain at their present rating. Alaska, admitted for the tirst time to a Democratic National convention, sent six gold delegates to a silver body, and it is expected will be punished for its ‘‘fresh- ness” by having its representation cut down to two. This will give the Territories thirty-two votes instead of twelve as cast to-day, and all but three of these votes (Alaska two and District of Columbia one) are counted for silver. The Nebraska sixtzen votes will undoubtedly be turned over to the silver men by the credentials committee. Florida’s vote, which was 4 to 4 on or- ganization, will be given 5 for silver and 3 for gold hereafter, and Maryland, which voted 12 gold and 4 silver on organiza- tion, it is said, will scatter in the propor- tion of 11 silver to 5 gold when it comes to voting for the different silver candidates, though it will remain as now on the ques- tion of platform. These changes and ac- -«cessions, it is claimed, will come very near giving the silver men the two-thirds ma- jority they seek and which will enable them to carry evervthing their own way. If they should still lack a few votes they have Michigan to fall back upon. A de- cision 1n favor of silver men in one or two contested districtsin that State will con- vert under the unit rule the twenty-eight gold votes of Michigan into twenty-eight silver votes and give them a sure two tbirds majority for silver. The gathering of to-day was a wonder- fully interesting assomblage in the | Coliseum—wonderful in point of num- { bers, and interesiing with regard to |the men who made up the usseme blage. The giants of the party were there. | There was Jones of Arkansas, dignified to & degree, portly of appearance, but quick in movement; Harris of Tennessee, older and not so erect as his Senatorial colleague, sizing up the convention with the keen eye of the practiced presiding officer; Till- man, leading the South Carolina delega- tion, hardly less noticeable than his oider” feliow Senators, and Culberson, the young Governor of Texas, who also came in for his share of attention. William. C. Whitney sauntered into the great hall almost unobserved. He took his seat wit: the New York delegation near by to Bissell of Buffalo, who had been President Cleveland’s law partner and i Postmaster-General, and looked quizzi- cally sbout at the sea of faces. Hurrying along through the converging crowds of arriving delegates came Russell, the boye ish - looking ex - Governor of Massa« chusetts, and ' with him the other Rus- | -sell from the old Bay State, who had been unsuccessful in his endeavor to reach the ‘execntive office vacated by his name- sake. Gray of Delaware and Vilas of Wis- consin, Mr. Cleveland’s most ardent sup- porters on the floor of the Senate. Bradley 8malley of Vermont and others of the gold leaders, entered unobserved and took their places quietly. When David B. Hill entered with tha New York delegation many of those who afterward voted to keep him from the | temporary chairmanship forgot family | quarrels and cheered as heartily as the | rest. Again and again the enthusiasm broke forth, and Hill sank modestly into hischair and locked as though he wished to be out of sight. It was nearly 1 o’clock instead of noon when the convention was called to order | and for an hour and a half prior to the time when Chairman Harrity of the National Committee tapped his gavel the floor had been one moving, converging, diverging mass of humanity, principally male, but with a sufficient leavening of women to make it marked. DONE IN THE CONVENTION Hill Was Compelled to Yield the Chair to Daniel. CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, 1., July 7.—At 11 A. M. the crowds from the city were assembled in constantly increas- - i A Miss Gutts, Who Represented the Navy in the Parade at Monterey,