The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1896, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1896 19 WHERE WILD GOATS ABOUND Llake Ghelan Is the Paradise for Hunters John C. Da n, & noted hunter of big game of all the buffalo and musk-ox to the elk and bear, is amongthe arrivals hern e Chelan, Washine- ton, where he say: plentiful as to al efy the hunters. Mr. Darvi been in the goat country for over a2 month past. Lake ngularly clear body of water les long, crooked like an ting from a point only six from the Columbia, and nto the Cascage mountains f the Stehakin River. mouth of this river, in the er of the conniry, where many of the 5 feet high. Davidson and several friends wen came, and every | excursions into tock a bear. As for fish, they were ex- experience while hunting on the moun- tainside. I had seen a fine goat that stood up 8s big as a two-year-old steer in a green mead grazing about.- The grass plat was on theedge of a precipice. I was too far| away to get a shot at him, and so circled | to reach him. | “In doing so the cliff came between me | and the animal, and I climbed sround quietly, gradually working up on the plateau. As I finally neared tae edgel was enabled to see not one, but six goats, and I selected the one I wanted and blazed | away. AsTsnota piece of stoae gave way { under me, and I feli headiong. Islidand | fell faily a hundred feet, the gun failing | after me. | “The gunstock broke against a rock and | Ilanded in a little patch of brush on the | edge of a precipice 200 feet down. Had T fallen five feet further I would have gonme | over and it would have been ail day with | me, for I certainly wou!d have been killed. | As it was I was very much bruised and | bleeding in the face and hands, baving | been cut by the stones. “I could not get up again tosee if I had kilied the goat, but Billy Burton, who was making a detour not far from me, got up and there found the goat Iying dead. I| WHY THE HILL PEOPLE HAD TO WALK FOR TWO WEEKS Story of a S.teel. Shaft That Was Broken for Years While Swinging Miles of Gable and Growded Gars It is expected that to-day the big wheels | the Powell-street power-house tbat| have been still for two weeks will begin to | revolve again, and the procession of yei- low and green cars that have been missed | from the thoroughfares during that time | ceedingly numerous, both in the fresh- water lake and in the ams fall The fipest and m are 10 be had by simp “1 bave seen many door sport,” said Mr. Davidson, have never seen anything to indeed, to equal, this exqui fulend lonely section of the Cascades. There ittle town aown at the foot of thelake that has a store and a sawmillin it.. It sprang up at the time of 2 boom a few years ago, but ce the boom isoff everything I there, though a few people remain. “I went up in the httle steamer Chelan, which has been ng on the lake for some time. ““A dozen or fifteen mi you make a turn al and foliow the lake s up the lake t at right angles you make the tu be little bamlet and the mountains east of the Columbia River are completely shut out and ail around you are the high moauntains of the Cas- cade Range proper, which rise from the edge of the lake in most places like frown- ing w: “To the right as we proceeded into the heart of the mountains was an enormous ridge. I supposeit musthave been twenty long. It was very bigh, and on this we presently begzan to see the wild animals whose quest we sought. ““At first they seemed like faint specks on the ridge. They were so faint that they were first discovered by a field-glass. However, we advanced they grew plainer, uniil we could very well make them out by the naked eye. As we pushed along stili further we be- gan to see the white goats, as we could see sheeps few hundred yards away. They were big, fine fellows, as large as a good chunk of a cow and with so much white wool on them that their backs looked square, like big Cotswold sheep. “But they were nothing lLike sheep In The; were the airiest, most sto be imagined. They scaled the cliffs as though they had wings. Oftentimes they went Straizht up a height that seemed as inaccessible as the side of s house.- They didn’t go zigzag and they had as much ginger in their movements and were as easy and siry as though they were eagles. “The white wild goats went m bands of from twenty to ¥ each. As we got near we fired into them and managed to kill s couple of them. They came tum- bling down almost to the edge of the water. The rest ran away and disappeared entirely from view. We found tk we bad killed were very fat. was very good in the m water from the melting soft. There was a faint meat when it was cut up that mautton, “Bat,as I was going to ssy, we haa only proceeded past a point of rocks a few hundred rods away till more of the goats loomed ep. It was this way for aimost the entire distance to the mouth of tae Stebakin. On several occasions we tried bu to shoot the goats on the mountain: they were so far away that our shot: short. In other cases our bullets siruck the rocks sbout them. i found that when a band of gzoats were grazing there was always & big goat tha acted as a sentinel and was ready to give the alarm to the others. If we were so near as to cause danger they all took to Bight. Some of the animals were of a slizhtly bluish color, but most wers clear white, especially the larger ones. “We killed numerous other goats as we advanced, but none directly from the steamer. To get them we landed ana made detours, climbing quietly up the sides of the mountains, and with gun in band, so ss to be sble to shoot at once when we saw them. “In two days we had killed twenty-two of thie goats, and if we had continzed to bunt we could have kifled any number we desired. However, though I had done my part in killing the pretty animals, i nevertheless ruthless sport. The go: ought to be left as a distinguishing feat- ure of the country and rot be sacrificed as the buffaloes were. “QOnly the younger goats are good for food. Their meat is sweet and nutritious, bat with the old ones the meat is strong and inclined to be tough, and no man wants to tackle it more than once. So there is really no need of killinz them except for their tkius. The wool on them is from five to eight inches long. They make a magnificent ruz or robe if prop- erly cured and tanned. “The skins are so easily taken that they bring only $2each. John Hail, who lives at the only house on the way up the lake, has been making a business of shooting the goats and selling the skins. Thisis all he gets for them. Nearly ¢very tourist who goes up the lake gets some of them. Care must be taken in curing them or tte fine hair and fur will come out rather easily, but if they sre cured as they should be, and as the experts there know how, the fur will stay on as firmiy as the hair o= a buffalo robe. The skins make a beantifol ornament and are very useful in many ways. “I nad a strange and quite dangerous and friends were | | HUNTER DAVIDSON BAGGING WILD QOARTS ON LARE CHELNA| haa shot him through the heart, but I would not care to bave the experience over again for a great deal of money. | “We saw 2 few bears, and succeeded in getting three of them. They were brown bears, one of them being big and the others small. There are grizzlies in these wild mountains, but we did not see any.” Mr. Davidson says there is no finer place Cascades. The country is remote, and consequently it is not much invaded by nimrods. 1t is {herefore full of game. A QUEER DEMAND HE Chinese conception of the func- tions of a municipal officer is nothing if not original, and many a good laugh demands made on them. A few days ago word was received at the Health Office from the Sanford Company, a Chinese firm at 104 Dupont street, thata nuisancs existed at their place of business. The eircamstance of Chinese reporting a nuisance was so unusual that it was imag- inea the matter must be of pressing im- portance, and Inspector Fay at once hurried to the place. He was met at the door by a bland Celestisl, who led him to the rear of the store and pointed ou: two crates of eggs standing there. *Him nuisance, velly bad,” he re- marked; “all same lotten; buy him Fiont for real hunting than in that part of the | the City servants have over the queer | 1 will resume their daily and nightly marches. The noise of the cable in the slot will sound like musie to the people | who bava been climbing the bills on foot | for two weeks. i The Market-stfeet Railway Company bas been having an expensive experience | during this period of two weeks. Not only | has the entire Powell-street system, per- | baps the most profitable that is owned by | the company, been off duty, but ihe Fol- | som and Bryant streets lines have been stopped during most of the time. The inconvenience resulting fo the| people in the Mission, while very great, | | bas still been inconsiderable ascompared to the thousands of residents of the hilt | districts reached from Powell street, who bave found s means of climbing the beights only by going far out of their way. |1a many instances the substitute lef | them with other heizhts to climb. To them the rumble of the cable in the slo to-day—1f the expectations of the engi- | neers are realized and it begins to rumble to-dsy—witl come as the sound of glad tidings. The accident in the Powell-street power- | house bas been pending for years—indeed, | ever since the shaft began to turn. It | was cracked wnen putin, and the breach | bas been widening ever since. The break | ioccurted between the big 13-ton cogged | gear wheel and the other big wheel at- | | tached to it, around which the cable runs, | | and which is called “the winder.” These | {and the winder. | shaft, 1215 | posed of a g system, with its hundreds of passengers, was left dead in the streets. The employes in the power-bouse knew instantly what bad taken place. They knew that the Worry over breaking ropes that had been afflicting them for weeks before was now dwarfed by an aceident | that meant the calling in of all the cars for an indefinite pertod. And then it was not an accident that had happened— it was the expected, aithough it had been expected for so long a time that it bhad al- most ceased to be expected. Certainly no provision had been made to meet the emergency. When the out of their iz wheels had been swung aces ana the two parts of | the broken shaft were taken out the re- | markable discovery was made that what bad broken was not more than a diameser of three inches of steel. The entire Powell-street system, includ- ing, besides the Powell-strees line.the Jack- son and the Sacramento street lines, had | been driven over this siim holding, braced | by the ciamps that had been placed to keep together and steady the gear wheel To be sure the entire bes in diameter, was broken off as sharply as though it had been a lead- pencil. But it had been cracked at the beginning, and the break for the most part had been the slow work of years, the orizinal crack spreading by degrees, until | at last, as Mr. Vining said, “‘the time came when it must snap off.” “Had the shaft broken at some other | place than between these two big wheels that heid it in place,” continued Mr. Vin- ing, ‘it would have done muchdamage. As it was, however, the parting at that place simply relieved the gear wheel of its load and took from the winder the motive power, while the gear wheel continued to revolve easily than before the winder stopped. No, we made no pro- vision to meet tais contingency although it has been so long imminent. The fact is that the Market-street system, com- namber of companies and ystems, as it with a great deal of old machinery, has grown with a rapigity that has kept beyond our ability to pro- vide equipment. “Besides the stances is oid care to dup. to do in order machinery in many in- fashioned, and we ao not it, as would be necessary 0 provide against suck ac- cidents as that at the Mission-strees elec- tric power-] , and which caused the stoppage of the Folsom and Bryant street cars. It is the purpose of the company to duplicate tie machinery where possible. With regard to Powell street, it is in con- templation to transmit electric power there and run the cable machinery by it. For that reason the duplication of the en- gines or motive power will not be at- tempted.” The work of repairing the break of tbe big shaft hasat least keot the people in the vicinity of the power-house interested. Horses in battalions—biz draft horses— bave been marshaled about the place; pulleys, levers and cranes, on gigantic cales, have been emvloyed lifting the wheels and shaft out of place and drag- ing the big wheel down the hill and then up again. First 8 new shaft was forged by the Pacific Rolling Miils and carried to tbe Union Iron Works, where it was put iato proper form. The big wheels were taken to the Union Iron Works, where they were drilled out to exactly fit the shaft. Then shaft and wheels, obe at a time, on trucks, the wheels of which were two feet wide, constructed of iron, were hauled back again and with careful manipula- tion by experienced rizgers swung from the truck back into the power-house and o LA L A %l PLACING THE BIQ THIRTEEN-TON GEAR WHEEL AND WINDER ON THE NEW STEEL SHAFT IN THE POWELL-STREET POWER-HOUSE. stleet. You make nim tske back, give money bacg. Me all same native son. Board Health boss of this. Tiow kim in bay; get money back.” The inspector used some language that was more forcivle than elegant, and the Chinese seemed hurt when be left with- out takine any action in the matter. The amount of suiphurous acid im fown air in heavy weather is ten to twenty times that in bright, clear weather, and in fog the proportion is still greater. Freshly falen raia collected in Man- | two wheels, of an equal diameter, revolve | on the same steel shaft. They are beavily clamped together; the one with its heavy cogs, fitting to the cogs of the smaller gear whee!, is the lever—does the lifting, =0 to speak—and transmits its force to “the winder.”” 1t was in the brief space between the gear wheel aod the winder that the big | shaitat 9:41 o'clock Monday morning, two weeks ago, snapped in two. The big winder, with fourteen miles of cable, streetcars hanging to it over the entire distanee like a string of beads, was left chester showed as much as 70 parts per million of suiphurous acid. without propelling power and graduaily bat quickly slowed down, and the great there placed in position, the shaft first and then the wheels on the shaft. The progress through the streets was marked by erushed iron coverings of the man- holes over which the heavy wheels chanced to pass. The shaft itself weighed 6660 pounds solia steel, while the largest of the wheels. the gear wheel, as stated, ‘weighs between thirteen and iourteen tons. The engineer in charge vesterday stated that everything would be in order tc start the wheels going by this afterncon unless there was scme unlooked-ior trouble in wheels, Superintendent Vining, speaking about the break just before his departure East, said: *“The machinery at the Powell-street power-house was built origmally to run only the Powell-sireet and the Jackson- street ime. Of course, some margin was sllowed on this, but at the time of the Midwinter Fair the Sacramente-street line was thrown on this machinery, which has certainly used up its reserve foree. Stillit is impossible to increase the power there for the very lack of room.” There are #ive cables operated over the winder of the Powell-street house. One runs from the power-house to Market street, at the foot of Powell, another from the power-house to the ferry, anotner io North Beach 3t the corner of Bay and Taylor streets, another out Jackson street to Central avenue and znother out Sacra- mento street to Walnut; in all fourteen miles. Tue drawback to the general pleasure that will be occasionea by the starting of the cars is the fact that the same oid rope will be used that for weeks before the general breakdown caused a daily inter- ruption of travel by breaxing—sometimes two and three times auring the day. *Don’t speak about the rope; that is s delicate subject in these parts,’’ said an employe st the power-house yesterday. “Great Scott! what a time we have with it. Oh yes, we have a new rope over there in the corner, but the company don’t want to use it yet. Of course, that’s natural enough. This rope costs money. Itisnot but they try to force it to serve as long as possible. How does it act in the power- house when it breaks? Well, we know about it too quick. “There is a weight of about two tons on a moving truck, back of the engines, that takes up the slack rope sna keeps it steady in the siot. When a loaded car starts down a hill, for instance, it throws alot | in the wheels of the slot and embarrass the cars ahead if there was not some pro- vision for taking it up and keeping it taut. This sliding weight here, over which the cable passes. takes it up imme- diately. Well, when the rope breaks the weight, of course, arops instantly; you can hear it for blocks arcund here. and everybody knows that the rope is broken again. together and tie them. When the knot the engine is stopped again and the rope | That will always be an incident of cable | railroading. A breaking shaft need mot | be—not often anybow.” | The work that remained to be done yes- | company’s engineer, the labor of tne rig- ger having been completed, the wheels | Iast evening being in their place on the | of rope forward, which woald get tangled ) “The engines are stopped instantly, so | that the two ends do not get far apart, and | men are immediately sent to bring them | comes over the winder in the power-house | properly repaired, if it is found necessary. | terday was within the province of the | HAS TURNED | | “It’s beeause I'm soured on society that | I'm living in this cave.”” He laid a pecul- | iar emphasis on “society.” | Hisname is Edward Lynn, and he lives | | in & very strange hole in tbe rocks on the | ocean beach, just below Land’s End sta- | tion. When the tide is atits flood this | rather picturesque character can sit in the | cave and knock the ashes from his pipe | | overboard. This is convenient and saves | lots of sweeping. i He is rather & sparely built man, about | 50 years of age, with light bair and violet | blue eyes. His cheeks have a roseate hue | that is due to the sun and the wind, and | | bis chin beard is of the color of his hair | His gard is in no way attractive. It | Deither fashionable nor in tatters. Itis| just ordinary, comfortable and clean. I His home fronts on a little stretch of | | beach backed by high, brush-covered sand | dunes and inclosed by tall, precipitous | cliffs on each side, while in the foreground | | there are a numoer of jutting rocks | against which the rolling billows break into beautiful spray, and beyond them the | broad Pacific. This ittle stretch of terri- | | tory which is at the foot of the slope of | ground on which is what is known as “Land’s End” station, the true extreme { western limit of the United States, mid- way between Bakers Beach and Point | Lobos, the solitary inhabitant bas named | | “Lynn’s Beach,” and to reach it he has | cut a path along the grade to the railroad | siation for the benefit of those who may | wish to view his habitation or picnicon | the sands. | { This habitation carved out by nature is l in the eastern eciiff, a little above high- | | water mark, and is a triangular-shaped opening in the rock about forty feetin depth, twenty or more feet high at the opening and descending to 2 point at the back; one of those curious freaks, the | formation of which is unaccountsble. Lynn has bailt a bulkbead across the | front which is sufficiently high to keep out the high springtides and thereisa| step of rock and plank to reach the top of | «R~— HIS FACE TOWARD THE SAD, SAD SEA Soured on Society and Dwells Alone in a Gave on Lands End Beach, Where He Has No Rent to Pay. money and did not need the assistance of any one, even to the extent of a dime, there was not one of those who knew me but'would do anything to assist; butin the days of my adversity, whea their as- sistance wouald have been welcome, they not only turned from me, but when they saw me on one side of the street they would cross to the other to avoid me. “It was then that the insincerity of so- ciety appeared to me with all its force and that all its weleomes and pleasures were nothing more than a sham as fragile as the spray that breaks on the rocks before us. So, twelve years ago, when this was all a wilderness, I came out in this section, | baving bid farewell to society, and fora time lived in a Iittle cabin that belongea to Mr. Sutro and for which I paid him $1 a month rent. It was not much, still it was rent. Then I came down hereand settled, and pay no rent. “How do I live? Well, I gather mussels and sell them, and once in a while I geta job on the road. Then there are a great many people who come down here and have lunch, and as many bring more than they can eat they hand me what is lefs over, and in that way I manage to get along. I do not seek the society of those who come here, nor the society of any one elise, but if people address me I answer them with all the civility at my com- mand, but no more society for me—I have soured on society.” And with that the hermit of Lyon Beach retired behind tne red blanket por- tieres. THEY WANT MEAT. HE opening of so many cheap restau- Tnnts. where meals are dispensed for adime and in some instances even for 5 cents, in that portion of Clay and Sacra- mento streets where formerly solid busi- ness houses held their sway, has given the coronic beggars who abound on the water front a new scheme by which they can ob- THE HERI“[ITAS CRVE OF EDWARD LYNN ON THE OCEAN BEACH AT LANDS END new shaft. The keys of the wheels locking them to the shaft were to be adjusted, and that done they would be ready to go ahead again. It was thought that would be ac- complished to-day. HERE is a little hole in the wall on Market street, in which an enter- prising individual has a Roentgen X Ray exhibition, and for a small consid- eration gives the visitor an opportunity to put one of his hands under the rays of light and see the formation of the bones in that member. “You just plsce your hand in this posi- tion,”” said the manager of the ray to a showman and his friends theother evening. in 2 moment the hand of the showman, which is as large as that of one of those prehistoric giants we read about, was piaced in the cesired position and it cast a shadow over the entire apparatus. “Now look through this screen,” said the manager, and the showman looked, saw, and was convinced, that the bones of his fingers might at some time be used for wharf piles. The friend looked anda exclaimed, «What's that, a thigh bone?"’ Then the friend’s turn came, and as he approached the apparatus, he extended his arm and made s movement as if to re- move the glove that covered the hand. “Never mind that,” said the msnager observing the movement, “a little thing like a glove does not interfere with the experiment; it oniy serves to heighten 1it. Now, place yoar band as your friend did and look.” The instructions were followed, but the viewer declared that he was unabie to see any bones in his hand. The showman looked and said that it was strange that he could not see any bones. *‘Perhaps,” suggested the young man, “I had better remove the glove.” 7 The manager would not permit it,but took 2 squint, and remarked “I'll be switched.” He examined the apparatus, adjusted some attachment and took another look, but withdrew with the exclamation, “That beats she deck.” With a puzzled expres- sion he looked around and fben lifted the young man’s band to alter the position in which it was, and as soon as he did he as1if he had been struck by elec- tricity, and as the color rose 30 his cheeks be asked in a tone tinged with anger, as a man naturally does when feeling that he was made a fool of, “What in Jericho is the matter with that band 2" “Nothing,” was the reply, to which was added, “It’s artificial, and I guess that’s ‘why you coulda’t see any bones init.” The two friends gave a quiet horse laugh and retired before the manager gave ventto his feelings. this built of floated in. Just inside the line of this | breakwater there is a rude stove, witha | tail pipe, and on this Lynn cooks his | meals. He was preparing a stew of beef | | and onions. | ©I bave my kitchen on the outside,”” he | said, “as they bave in the French rotis- series, so that the odor of the cooking witl | not permeate the dining-room.” | Behind this there is a long bench on| | which are a washtub, tin psns and odds and ends, and immediately back of this is | stretched across the mouth of -the cave a black striped blanke:, which shuts out | from view the interior. Pulling thisto | oane side Lynn said, “*This is my home by the sad sea waves,” and as he said this he disclosea the interior, which is fitted up with a barrel, upon the head of which he | takes his meals, and this he calls his “round table”; there are benches and shelves, the latter filled with empty bot- tles and cans, boxes and old clothing, | while at the end there is a division | created by a hanging piece of what once | was white cloth that separates the din- ing-room from the bedroom. That room isin the natural color of the rock. From | one wall to the other are laid planks side by side, wedged 2t each end to keep them in place, and on these is s well-worn mat- tress and s bianket which serve as a coueh for the hermit of Lynn Beach. The | only companions that he has are a tor- toise-shell cat and an old black ben. **As I told you,” said Lynn, after show- ing what there is to be seen in bis home, “1 took up this place because I soured on society. In the language of Zimmermann I was not impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste for the idle pleasures of the world, a rational | contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and for its insinuating and destructive gaye- ties,” and to use my own language, ‘the in- gratitude of man and his selfishness.” For seventeen years I worked as a machinist in the Fuiton Iron Works, and while thers I made some successful ventures in stocks | which induced me to speculate until the | dsy of reverses came, and it all went; then, in the endeavor fo recoup, my home went, and a sadness seized my soul and I became aimost desperate, and do not know | what [ would have done had it pot been | for the courage of my wife, who, despite my misfortunes, with the instinet of a true woman, who, like the ivy, clings cioser the greater the ruin, helped me by ber advice and held out the hope of a brighter day. “Bat before that brighter day came she was taker from me and I was left with two children. In the days of my pros- perity I wa: passionately fond of society. I was classed as an athlete and was woat you mught call a lover of atkbletic sports. In those days, when I had plenty of stray planks -that have ) tain the necessary nickel to pay for large and satisfying “steams.” The old plaint of living in Oakland and wanting to get home to a sick wife and anxious family that served so long to in- veizle the coin of the philanthropic is about played out, but this new ‘“‘graft,” as the beggars call it, is yet fresh and pro- ductive. The “striker” approaches s prospective victim and begs for food for bis family, a plea that generally gets him an audience, and -then he continues: “Look here, my friend, I’m ro bam nor beggar. All I want is food, and not for myself but for a starving family. I ain’t asking you for money because you might think I wanted it for beer and refuse to give it to me. [ want some meat for my wife. She ain’t strong and the doctor says she must have nourishing food. *“‘There is a butcher-shop right scross the street where I can zet plenty for a quarter. Won’t you heip me that much?: You needn’t give me the money if you don’t want to. You are going right past—bay it yourself.” The natural kind-heartedness of the average man usually comes to the fromt about this time, and he follows the striker to the butcher-shop, gives him 2 quarter, sees the meat purchesed, and after receiv- ing the begger’s profuse thanks goes on his way rejoicing at having done a good deed. Once the deluded one is out of sight the ciever mendicant makes s bee lins for the first cheap hashery, where his two bits’ worth of round steak is readily purchased for 2 dime, and he revels in a couple of schooners, or, if he has a thirsty friend, as he generally has, stands treat. Then be repairs again to the vicinity of the ferry to wait for the next incoming boat from the east side of the bay. THE dTY STREETS | TRE fact is somewbat remarkable that no person in San Francisco can core rectly give the total mileage of streets within the boundaries of the City and County. Severalinquiries have been made at the new City Hall and the snswers that bave been received convey the idea that the total is at least 600 miles, which- is, roughly soveaking, about the distance from San Francisco to San Diego. One reason for the existing uncertainty is that there are miles of streets still under water in the northern and southern portions of the City and County, which are subject to navigation only and not to pedestrian- ism. Then there are many miles of streets on suburban hills, over which herds of cattle roam freely, and of course none of ihese are accepted. In fact, thers are less than 200 miles of accepted streets alto- gether in San Francisco.