The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1896, Page 4

- the counties and all will put forth their 4 THE' SAN 'FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1896 FRESNO'S DISPLAY OF CITAUS FRUITS Every County of the San Joaquin Will Send ' Exhibits. Friendly Rivalry Assures the Success of the Winter Exposition, Large Pavilion Under Construction Near the City’s Business % Center. FRESNO, Cin, Nov. 25. — The San Joaquin Valley Citrus Fair, which is to be hald in this city next month, promises to be a great success. The arrangementsare well under way and are on a basis which will make the exposition the largest ever held in the vailey. The interest of every county irom San Josquin to the Tehachapi has been enlisted, and fine displays of citrus fruits and products will be made by the borticulturists throughout the valley. A spint of rivalry has been aroused among best efforts in making exhibits. The magnitude of the. fair will draw | many visitors from all parts of the coast | and those from the 1n the State at the time. The horticultur- ists will have an excellent opportunity to | show to great advantage what can be done in the valley in the way of fruit-growing. | The fair will be held during the week\ before Christmas, opening on Monday, | December 14, and closing on Saturday evening, the 19th. Should circumstances warrant it will be continued into the next week. The programme at, present is to keep the exposition open during the one | week only. The purpose of bolding the | fair this early in the season is to show itors that the fruit ripena in the valley in | advance of other distriets 1n the State and | therefore has the advantage of the first | market. The picking will have Eteen just | commenced, and the most creditable dis- | plays can then be made. The importance | of citrus-fruit growing in the San Joaquin | Valley can in this manner be best im- pressed on those whose attention is at- tracted for a business purpose. The exposition will be held iz a tempo- | rary building constructed for the purpose. It will be located on avacant jot on I street, between Tulare and Kern, and very near the business center of thecity. It will be directly opposite the Hughes Hotel. The construction of the building, which will be made of lumber, is already under way, and will te completed within two weeks, The structure will bave a frontage of 160 feet on I street and 140 on Kern, giving it a floor space of 22,400 feet, nearly all of which has already been en- gaged by exhibitors. The interior will be divided into four departments of 35x160 | feet each, bui there will be no partitions. | The walls will be lined in the inside with heavy cloth. The large space which will i be available will insure no cramping of displays, and the exhibitors will be given full opportunity for artistic effects. H. C. B.-Gill has just returned from a tour of the counties of the valley in be- half of the fair. Heexplained the plans and the purposes of the exposition to all | the leading horticulturists, and his recep- tion in all sections was very encouraging. No one did be find not enthusiastically in accord with the movement and desirous of helping it. The citrus-growers of the val- ley believe that their importance in.the | markets is not realized by buyers, and the proposition of holding the fair to call at- tention to the industry in this part of the State is being eagerly taken up as an ex- cellent opportunity to accomplish this purpose. In Kings County the Board of Super- visors made a libgral appropriation for paying the expenses of an exhibit from that county. The Commercial Associ- ation of Stockton is taking an active in- terest in the fair, and is planning to make a tine exhibit. Though a special feature will be made of an exhibition of citrus fruits there will also be displays of other important roducts of the valiey. Every county will given an opportunity to exhibit the products of its chief industries. The Stock- ton business men will make a display of the agricultural products of San Joaquin County, desiring to have a representation | in the valley fair. The raisin-packers promise to make a big display, and the attention of visitors wiil also be called to this great industry | of the valley. All counties will also be in- is- | vited to make exhibits of cereal and dried |- fruit productions in conjunction with their | citrus fruit displ. About $1000 wiil be expended in pre- mumums for exhibits. There will be a county contest, and the one making the best showing will be awarded $100in cash. Great interest is being manifested in this, an eager desire being developed amon, ihe horticulturists to capture the honor and prize for their respective counties. The exposition is being promoted by the local Chamber of Commerce and the Hundred Thousand Ciub. These have each appointed a committee of six, wiich are workirg jointly in the arrangements. The understanding is no small one, but it is in good bands. The joint committee consists of F. K. Prescott, George C. Roed- ing, Mark Webster. 1. J. Guggenhime, Henry Gundelfinger, Emii F. Bernhard, Jobn McMaullin, C. F. Wyer, F. M. Chit- tenden, W. . Uridge, Fulton G. Berry and John Nourse. These are highly representative business men of this city, and all are extensively interested in fruit- growing. The Board of Supervisors of this county has appropriated $500 for the use of the committee, and the trustees of the city $150. About $1500 has already been sub- scribed to the fund among the local busi- ness men, and the financial part of the iair, the most important to the committee, is on an excellent footing. The Southern Paeifiic Railroad Com- pany has agreed to make a one and one- third fare from all parts of the State dur- ing the fair week. The Valley road is not yet in a position to say what it will do, bata similar reduction, at least, is ex- pected from it. Many of the exhibits at the fair will be turned over to the State Board of Trade to be sent to the Hamburg exposition. The fruit-growers of the valley are also taking an active interestin this exhibition. The arrangements for the valley fair are being cnrrieg out on an elaborate basis, As an evidence of this the fact that the committee will engage the services of se: eral outside musicians in aadition to -t local to make up a band of twenty pieces 10 play afternoons and evenings may be citea. The citrus-fruit growers of this county alone had a fair Jast year, and their efforts were rewarded with the ungualified suc- cess of the undertaking. ith all the counties of the valley joining hands there is no reason why this year's exposition should not be as successful as any fair ever held in the State. Derailed by a Washout. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Nov. 25.—Owing 10 the continued heavy rain last night there were two ~washouts on the Los Angeles division of the Southern Pacific. One was in the yards at San Pedro and tbe other a mile west of Redlands Junc- tion. The latter was the cause of the early morning east-bound local freight train leaving the track. The derailment oc- casioned the transferring of passengers this morning from one passenger train to anotter, but fortunatgly no, accident to the freight crew. Frisgd &0 SACRAMENTO'S GRAND JURY. Reforms Advocated in the Final Report of the County’s Investigating Body. SACRAMENTO, Can, Nov. 25.—The final revort of the Grand Jury of Sacra- mento County was filed to-day in Judge Johnson’s department of the Superior Court. The report states that the jury has had fourteen regular meetings, has in- vestigated fourteen cases and examined sixty-one witnesses. Indictments have been found against nine and the charges | against five ignored. A motion was carried by a majority vote declaring it the sense of the jury that the present license for retailing liquors in this county be raised to $50 per.quarter from $30, as at present charged. There are 267 places in the county licensed to sell liquor by the giass, or one to every thirty-seven voters. The report says: We wou]d recommend that the Legislature, at 1ts coming session, materialiy reduce the officlal salaries and fees of county officers. Real estate, rents and nearly all the staple products of agriculture have shrunk nearly one-haif and the profits on all kindsof busi- ness have been greatly reduced. This undesirable condition of the country renders it a very difficult problem for the peo- Dle to pay the faxes that are levied from year to vear; and if there is no remedy to be had many of our most worthy and enterprising citizens will become ere long hopelessly bank- Fupt, X Gollar. now has neerly double tho pur- chasing power for gil the necessaries of life it had when the present salaries were fixed by the Legislature. As & matter of justice we see no good reason why the reduction asked for should not be made. The jury recommends that “the Legis- lature, at its coming session this winter, Jast who are visiting TSubmit an amendment to the constitu- tion, to be voted upon at the rext general election, changing article I, section 7, so that three-fourths of a jury may find a verdict in criminal the same as in civil actions.” el e s WRECKED AT ENSENADA. The Notorious Junk Peking and Schooner Minnehaha Driven Ashore by a Gale. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Nov. 25.—Dispatches from Ensenada state that the junk Pe- king, which becamne notorious in con- nection with the landing of Garratt, the gold - bar thief, and later was cap- tured by Mexican customs officers at Rosalia Bay while engaged in illicit guano traffic, was wrecked on the beach av Enseneda this morning at 10 o’clock, having been driven ashore during the gale last night. A Mexican official, the only person aboard, escaped in & small boat. The schooner Minnehaha, held at En- senada for a small irregularity in papers, was also driven ashore and wrecked at the same time, Captain Wright and his two sailors escaping. The schooner Ellen, also in custody of the authorities for illegal guano poaching, and the pleasure yacht of Manager Crewe- Read of the English company at Ensenada narrowly escaped destruction after drag- ging their anchor. ~The steamer Carlos Pacheco, en route from Ensenada, experienced the roughest trip in its history Tuesday night, seas continually breaking over the deck and the stateroom of Mrs. Henry Mauer, a passenger, being entered by a wave, which ruined evervthing in the room. The steamer lay in the lee of Coronado Island during part of the storm, arriving here three hours late this morning. e i FRESNO MURDEK TRIAL. Indian Medicine Nan Arraigned for Killing a Child. FRESNO, Can., Nov. 25.—The trial of Indian Jake for the murder of his two- year-old stepson at the Big Sandy ranch- eria in the mountains fifty miles eastef this city was begun before a jury in Judge Churen’s court to-day. The defendant claims that he was play- ing with the child and was poking him with the muzzle of the gun when it was sccidentally discharged. The prosecution has another theory. 1t is said that Jake, who is about 60 years of age, is a ““medicine man,” and has for years wielded a despotic power over the tribe. It is believed that he had a dislike for his stepson, and thought he could do away with him without being called to account, because a ‘‘medicine man” is not accountable for anything. One of the stepfather’s reasons for his dis- like of the boy is said to have been the fact that the little fellow was a half-breed. vy ety Port Angeles Thugs in Jail. rPORT ANGELES, Wasn., Nov. 25 — Martin Waite and Ken Coolidge, sons of prominent men here, are in jail for at- tempting to rob two Chinamen yesterday. The boys had been working with minesof Eastern Washington and were on their way home, when they reached a Chinese garden here. Waite, with a pistol in oue band and a club in the other, ordered the Celestials to give up their money. The latter grappled with Waite and succeeded in tying him with ropes, but the robber fired and shot one in the hip. e e Portland Shaken by a Temblor. PORTLAND, Or.,, Nov. 25 — Seismic disturbances, lasting for over ten minutes, were felt in Portland last midnight. The quakings of intervals of from a half min- ute to a minute, and on the east side of the windows of nouses and dishes in closets were rattled, Several persons were awakened by the tremblings. S e San Rafael Hunting Accident. SAN RAFAEL, CaL, Nov. 25.—Fred Shaer, proprietor of the San Rafael Park, was hunting near here to-day with his nephew, a lad from Los Angeles. Shaer was aiming his gun ata squirrel when it was accidentally discharged, the ball lodging in the boy’s leg above the knee, — ' Wanted in Stockton. NAPA, Car., Nov. 25.—A Stockton man here recently recognizeu in “Jack” Lane a member of the County Jail gang, one ‘William McComb, who is wanted in Stock- ton for obtaining money under false pre- tenses. An officer arrived from Stockton to-day and took McComb in charge, e St Wedded at >anta Crus. SANTA CRUZ, Car., Nov. 25.—Oscar L. Bowman of New Castie, Indians, and Miss Jennie Pond of Hollister, were married here to-day, at the residence of Mrs. Charles Bixby. They leit on the 2 ». M. train for San Francisco, en-route to Indiana. SN R Rainfall at Tulare. TULARE, CaLn., Nov. 25.—The rain in this vicinity has been gemeral and con- tinous. Last night.55 of an inch fell,making 1.26 for the storm. Farmers and stockmen are not compleining. —-— Vancouver Deserter Captured. LOS ANGELES, Car, Nov. 25.—Roy McClure, ‘a United States army deserter from Vancouver barracks, was arrested here yesterday. He had eloped with a miner’s wife. . = T —— Arrives at San Diego, ' SAN DIEGO, Can, Nov. 25.—The schooner Lizzie Belle, which left Ep- ‘'senada on Tuesday noon and was in a storm, arrived to-night after a hard ex- .| perience. < —_———— THE King of Pills is Beecham’s—BEECHAMW'S. _Wwealth, at which DELUGE DESCENDS UPON SAN PEDRO The Southern Seaport Town Almost Destroyed by ; a Cloudburst. T&rrents of Water Rush Down the Hills and Invade the Dwellings. Buildings Are Removed From Their Foundations and Basements F ooded. LOS ANGELES, Car.. Nov. 25.—The beauriful seaport town of San Pedro had a remarkable experience last night which almost caused its complete destruction. San Pedro is built on a sidehill gulch facing the ocean. The location has given it excelient drain- age, but it came near being the town’s everlasting ruin. A cloudburst above San Pedro last night produced such a flow of water down the hillside as to almost sweep the place out of existence. Buildings were removed from their foundations and many a resident foand his house upon his neigh- bor’s lot this morping. This moving of dwellings and other buildings caused intense excitement and great consternation for a short time, but, strange 1o say, no person was drowned. Some of the principal streets were washed out toa depth of twenty feet and were veritable creeks this mornine. The dam- age will amount to about $50,000, and in some respects is irreparable. . Basements were all flooded and much perishable property was destroved. Tele- graph, telephone and electric light wires were borne down in évery direction, anda long section of the Southern Pacific track was washed out or completely covered with debris and sand. A steady rain had fallen all day Tues- day, increasing in the night. At about 11 o'clock there was a cloudburst directly over the city. Tremendous torrents poured through the streets and forced entrance to dwellings, driving the panic- stricken peovle to places of safetv. Until morning pandemonium reigned in the town. To-day the people have been occupied in taking an invoice of the damage and replacing their buildings. Many of these remained intact and in consequence suf- fered little damage. Others were de- molished and swept away in bits and pieces. The waters were largely confined to the main streets, which have in many in- aw;lces been rendered absolutely impas- sible. An eyewitness describes the scene dur- ing the rush of water as a most imposing and awe-inspiring one. The roar could be heard for miles around. PLATES FOR THE KENTUCKT. Thirteen Carlouds on the Way From Homestead 1o San Francisco. PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 25, —Thirteen Harveyized nickel steel armor - plates, which wiil be used in ths construc- tien of the barbette for the battle- ship Kentucky were shipped to San Francisco from Homestead to-day on thirteen cars especially comstructed for the purpose. Each ear contains onearmor plate, which is seventeen inches thick, ten feet high and fourteen feet long, each weighing forty-five tons. The barbette is the largest and heaviest ever constructed and the plates were com- pleted 1n a shorter time than was ever before accomplished. The thirteen cars will be rushed through to San Francisco by a special train and are to be placed 1n the new battle-ship at the earliest time possible under instructions from the Secretary of the Navy. PRI i Collapse of the Strike Is Expected. LONDON, Exa., Nov. 25.—According to a dispatch from Hamburg to the Central News work is being carried on upon only thirty-five vessels out of 214 now in port there. The employers of the dock laborers de- clare thst the strike must necessarily col- lapse in a short time, as no assistance in the shape of funds or support of the strikers is being ' received from outside sources. Bremen and Lubeck officials de- clare that the strike at those ports is al- ready collapsing. THEY CALL US “ YANKEES” Derivation of the Epithet as Told by Washington Irving. Every one is aware that the word “Yan- kee” is applied abroad indiscriminately to all citizens of the United States, but it is used generally as a “nickname,” and not always in a complim ntary spirit. Our Spanish friends just at present are doubt- less inciined to employ it in a snecring and derogatory sense, but, however it may be used by them or other Europeans, it has long since ceased to carry witn it the slightest sting of latent satire. From a term of reproach or ridicule it has be- come to the citizen of the United States a verbal badge of honor, and is now synony- mous the world over with shrewdness, entervorise, pluck and achievement. Its origin is uncertain. According to one authority *'yankees” is a variation of ‘‘venkees,’” or ““yengees,” or “vaunhhees,” ‘‘a name said to have been given by the Massachusetts Indians to the English col- onists, being, it is supposed, an Indian corruption of the word English or of the French Anglais.” Wausnington Irving, in his history of New York, explains the de- rivation somewhat differently. The first settlers of New England, he says, came to America ‘‘to enjoy unmolested the ines- timable ri ht of talking. And, in fact, no sooner did they land upon the shore of this free-spoken country than they all lifted up theiwvoices and made such a clamor of tongnes that we are told they frigihtened every bird and beast out of the neighborhood, ‘and. struck such mute terror into certain fish that they have been called dumb fish ever since. “The simple aborigines of the land for a while contemplated these strange. folk in utter astonishment, but discovering that they wielded harmless though noisy weapons and were a lively, ingenious, good-humored race of men, they became very friendlv and sociable and gave them the name Yanokies, which in the Mais- Tchusacg (or Massachusetts) language signifies silent men—a waggish appella- tion, since shortened into the familiar epi- thet of yankees.” 1t had gained great currency as descrip- tive of the colonists in 1755, when Dr. Schuckburgh, British surgeon. is said to have composed the words of Yankee Doodle” in derision of the Colonial mili- tia, but the tune to which it was set is de- clared by some authorities to have been vopular in England during the Common- i its doggerel wotds, it is alleged, lfio existed and were applled to Cromwell. ¥ Whatever its ancestry and original sig- nification, it has come in the_ light of his- tory and accomplishment to be a desiz- nation of which the people of this country have no reason to be ashamed. - They have no objection to being called by a nick- name which is so associated with daring, f skill, energy and triumph that even when used in derision or anger it the mind of the very railer or scoffer a secret feeling of envy. "The Englishman, French- man, German, Russian, Spaniard and the rest will have to content themselves with their narrow national appellations, except on special occasions of merit, when they show themselves worthy of being deco- rated with the Yankee cross of honor and being complimented with the title of Eng- lisk, or French, or Spanish Yankees. The suggestion as to the selection of some other nickname than ‘*yanzee” may be wise, but it is not practicable. Nobody would ever adopt it here or abroad. _ us be content with the designation as it is. Wecan stand it if our Spanish cousins can.—New York Mail and Express. — i s NO USE FOR LIFE. Two Old Men to Whom Thanksgiving Held Out No Pleasant Thoughts. OAKLAND, Can, Nov. 2.—Two old men to whom life offered no attraction and who certainly did not look forward to Thanksgiving with any of the feeling that should actuate the human heart, passed away last night, one by his own hand, the other, according to common-law praseol- ogy, “'by the hand of God.” Adolph Tuthe, an inmate of the County Infirmary, died early this morning irom laudanum poisoning. He was old and poor and the thought of living on charity caused him to be very despondent. Early yesterday morning Tuthe swallowed about two ounces of laudanum, but not until 2 o'clock this morning was his work com- plete. The inmates of his ward were dis- turbed about midnight by his heavy breathing. They aroused the physician, who tried to save the old masn’s life, but without success. Thedeceased must have got the poison from the outside, as it was not possible for him to get it from the dis- pensary in the infirmary. Tuthe was & German by birth, 71 years of age, and had lived at the county’s ex- pense for five years. Some time last night another old man sat down on a bench near the Fruitvale station. No one noticed him and this morning when he was seen still sitting there with his cane by his side and his hat tipped forward it was thought he was sleeping. » C. A. Luna when passing noticed that the old man did not breatbe. So with the help of others he laid the body on theside- walk and tried vo revive life. Their efforts | were wasted as the man had been dead some hours. Nothing was in his pockets which might disclose his identity. His clothes were weil worn, his hair was gray, and he was about 55 years of age. The remains are now at the Morgue waiting to be identified. ———————— BANNISTER FAILS The Partner of the Late A. D. ¥iles an Insolvency Petition. OAKLAND, CaL, XNov. 25 — Alfred Bannister, commission merchant of San Francisco, residing at Berkeley, filed a Starr petition in insolvency late this afternoon. It shows that his debts amount to $23,628 04. Aifred Bannister was best known as a partner of the late A. D. Starr in the Starr Milling Company and he figured for many montns in litigation connected with the firm in the courts of this county. The only assets which appear are house- hold furniture and personal effects in Berkeley valued at $500 and which are de- clared to be exempt from execution. The San Francisco Savings Unionisa creditor for two notes, one of $10,500 and aunother of $400, secured by a trust deed to tiftg-three lots in Berkeley. The insolvent owes G. W. Bannister of ‘Warren Point, Ireland, $240); G. Gardiner of London, England, $5885, and J. Feason ot San Francisco $1200. There are many other creditors, but none of their obliga- tions exceed $1000. The suspension of Alfred Bannister did not come altogether as a surprise, as for several months it was known that his commission-house was strugeling .against adverse circumstances, e ———— The Living Poster Show. OAKLAND, CavL., Nov, 25.—The ladies of 8t. Paul's Episcopal Church gave a very successful living poster show to-night at the rooms of the Ebel Society. 1t was largely attended and the living posters were very artistic triumphs. —mpt gec SUAE R Father Yorke Honored. The following communication explanatory: HALLOFST. MARY'S BRANCH N0. 437,C. K. OF A. SAN FrRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 24, 1896, On motion of Brother A.J. McMahon, the fol- lowing resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That in apureciation of the great battle thut Rev. P. C. Yorke has fought and won with his volce and _pen—a victory unequaled in this coun- try—and for the services rendered by him to the Carholic Knights of America, 8 vote of thanks be tendered tu Hev. P. C. Yorke, and we recommend that the Monitor he 50 ably edits b> aeclared the official organ of the Catholic Knights of America in Califoraia. % J. NICHOLAS, President. JAMES V. KANE, Recording secretary. OURED THE MULE. A Remedy for Balking That Worked Like a Charm, I was riding along a mountain road in Eastern Kentucky a few weeksago,” re- marked a traveling salesman to a Wash- ington Star reporter, “when I saw a mule running toward me with a single-tree dangling at his heels. With greas diffi- culty I succeeded in turning out of his way, and he continued to go down the mountain at a hvely pace. ‘‘About a mile further on I saw two frout wheels of a spring wagon, and a short distance away the other wheels and a wagon box. 1 looked around to seeif the driver bad been Lurt, but, finding no one, drove or. *“In a few minutes I met a man walking down the road rather hastily. ‘Stranger,’ he qx‘x;rie,d, ‘did yo' see a mewldown thar?’ es. « is self- “‘Did he hev a rag over 'is year?’ “ ‘I didn’t see any.’ * *‘Waal, it's all right, I reckon ’e’ll stop when he ;iu flustered out, an’ I reckon 'e’s cured. ‘* ‘What is he cured of? I asked. “ ‘Balkin’. Yo' see, I bad heerd theta grasshopper put in th’ year o’ a hoss or mewl ‘d, cure 'im from balkin’, s I tied a rag over th’ critter's year so it couldn’t git out, cotched a grasshopper, put 'im in an’, stranger, it's the best remedy I ever seed. Th’ mewl didn’t giv me time to gitin th’ wagon. I never did see a mewl so sprightly. I reckon th’ hopper’s got out now, an’ I'll go on an’ coteli th’§ mewl.’ —————— Bicycling Not a *€raze.” Itisan error to call bicycling a *‘craze.” It is something very differen: from that. The simple fact is that the human race has discovered a new power for its own use. From the earliest dawn of civiliza- tion man has been experimenting with the wheel, which he invented to increase his powers of locomotion. Finally he Las hit upon a device which makes his own body the source of power. He has placed wheels upon his feet and as a result finds his powersof locomotion multiplied by five and even ten. Instead of walking fiveor ten miles with more or less effort and fatigue, he finds himself traveling ten, twenty, filty, and even a hundred miles, accordin, 1o his physical vigor and experience, witl little perceptible fatigue and with & most delightful sense of animation. He has be- come master of his new power—th ost valuable he has acquired since he learned to walk—and i enceforth & part of his equipment for his strauggle with life. Itis probable that having once become pos- sessor of a power like this the human race is going to'abandon it? As well might we expect it to abandon railways, ana gas, and electricity.—The Forum. e e Between the systems of Willis, in 1602, and Pitman, 1837, there were 201 systems of shorthand publisbed, and since that at.n‘gztm have been 281, making a total of § redik Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. THE SEA HOLDS FAST ITS- DEAD Futile Search for Bodies of the San Benito Victims. Survivors Are En Route to San Francisco on the Point Arena. Ranchers and Townspecple Busily Engaged in Carrying Away’ Wreckage. POINT ARENA, Can., Nov. 25.—The steamer Point Arena, from Mendocino for San Francisco, put in here at 12:30 o’clock this afternoon, three hours and a half abead of her usual time. She has on board the thirty-seven survivors, includ- ing Captain Smith, of the wrecked steamer San Benito and left for San Francisco at 2:30 o’clock. When the steamer tied up a dozen firemen, coal-passers and seamen marched the mile up the hill from the wharf to the town to see the six survivors at the hotel here. They carried at the head of their little procession the rem- nants of the flag of the S8an Benito, which fluttered as cheerfully as it could under the circamstances. Only about half of the flag remained. The other half haa been blown away before it was rescued. Itis a white flag with the name of the steamer in big, red letters, but the name on the flag is cut in two amidship, as the steamer was. All the letters that remain are “‘San B.” There was a hearty handshake between those brawny men when they met at the hotel. They did not say much; the grip of the hand expressed much more than they spoke. A small party from town went out to the wreck at an early hour this morning tolook along the shore for bodies. None were found. The vessel lies between the mouths of Brush and Alder creeks, and they went up as far as the latter—about two miles. The current in the bite sets that way, and it is thought that when the sea becomes calm the bodies will be found near the mouth of Alder Creek. The sun was shining to-day, but a stiff northward gale was blowing outside, the wind being very cold. The vessel still stands as she broke in iwo, with mighty seas rushing over her. Both pieces are firmly embedded in tke sand and do not roll a particle. It 1s considered a wonder | thet the wreck has held upso well against the onslaught of the heavy seas. Small parties alony the shore are carrying away the wreckage that is thrown on the beach. When the sea moderates there will be a rush of small boats, loaded with rancners and townspeople, for the wreck for the large quantities of hams, bacon, canned meats and other provisions and | things known to be on board. JUST BEFORE THE COLLISION. | The Thoughts That Flash Through the Engine Man’s Brain, There is something attractive about rait- road life to the man who once enters it. The railroad companies rarely give up a reliable, faithful man. He may become maimed and unfit for the most remunera- tive positions and be forced to accept some humbler place with a smaller salary at- tached to 1t, but it is an unwritten law with most of the great railroad corpora- tions that the man who is injured in their service shall be placed in some position where he may obtain his livelihood. ‘Thus it may happen that when you fall in conversation with the man who occu- pies a humble switch house or a tlagman’s shanty, you are talking with one who has had nis share of excitement, and been through experiences that would make the hair of the average man stand upon end. A reporier mel a switchman the other | day, the pathos of whose life was ex- pressed in the wooden leg which he nsed, { and as the Empire dashed by he looked up and said : “Yes, I like railroading. I have been in the business all my lile, and expect to svend the rest of my days over the rails, but I am quite content to remain here in | my little cottage and tend to my flaggiag | rather than have the position of the man who noids the throttle on that big engine which just whizzed by here. You may think it a snap to sit there and ride over the country at the rate of a mile a minute, but [ tell you that man carries a load of responsibiiity on his shoulders which 1 | average man knows v-ry little about. I know something of it, for I was fireman some years 220 on one of the fast engines, and lost myleg in an accident between ! here and Aivany. Butif I had come out | of that accident as you are I never shou!d have been able to Lold my nerve for any more fast trips. That finished me for that work." *Then if a man has been hurt in a rail- road ccident it makes him scary of that kind of work, does it?” asked the re- rter. *“You bet it does,” answered the switch- man with emphasis, “and don’t let any one fool you that it don’t. The man who Wwas running that enfime the day I was hurt escaped with hardly a scratch, but he never could keep his time up the way he dia before thai, and finally was puton a freight engine where the running was a great deal slower. *Ishail never forget the way he looked the afierncon the smash-up occurred. Just before the crash came 1 looked at him. We were rounding a curve down by Schenectady. Hjs long gray bair was flowing in the breeze, his fuce set and his eyes fixed on the track ahead. “All at once he jumped to his feet and reversed the lever and exclaimed in a stariuled tone, ‘My God, we are caught!’ It was probably not more than half a min- ute after when I was lying beneath the en- gine with my leg crashed, ut'erly uncon- scious of the fact that a wreck had oc- curred, but every movement and occu! rence of that bhalf minute is as vividly im- pressed upon my mind as if it had taken weeks of time to impress 1t there. **As he spoke 1 looked through the cab window ahead of us, and there, within twenty robs, was a freight engine coming straight at us, and there was no possible chance to escape a crash. The engineer was dcing his duty. I knew that. He was reversing his lever, applying the brakes and doing his best to avert what he knew was inevitable, but I had nothing to do, und it seemed as if everything in my life was before me in those few seconds. I felt absolutely sure I was going to die. Btrange as it may seem, the thought did not seem horrible to me. A whole lot of the slang sayings, suc . as ‘You are learn- ing to fire here in this world, so as to be prepared for the next’and ‘You won’t mind a hot job over there,’ and a number of those staie things which a fireman has to take, came into my head, and even in that awful position it occurred to me in a sort of humorous way that I had made a good start here below, or here above, as | might say. The next moment I was thinking of my wife and children, y and o mother, too, who had been dead a of his mother at such a time. But Idon’t think I had a particle ot fear of death. The last thing that was on my niind was the question, Who was to blame for the accident? and that is the last I remember. 'When I came to my senses I wasina hospital and was minus'a leg. Since then I have been constantly employed one way and another by the railroad company; but I never see one of the fast trains go by without thinking of that wreck. The en- gineer miraculously escaped with scarcely & bruise, but it finished him for that kind of work. He was always seeing engines ahead of him after that, and I have heard that more than once he had slowea up his train in order not to collide with an imag- inary engine, which I have no doubt was asreal to him as it was on the afternoon the wreck I speak of occurred. As I said before, he was transferred to a freight en- gme. but even there he was timid, and nally left the road altogether. “You can put it down as a pretty sure thing that when an engineer has been in an accident once he is minus a good share of the nerve which it takes to make his runs on time to the tick, and if he isn’t on time he has got to go, sooner or later.’’ — Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. —_——— KOW FOR LUMINOUS GOWNS. 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