The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1896. 11 f SEACH O /LA ISLAD { Remantic Story of How a Lost Chart Was Recovered. Sent to Boston by .a Delirious ‘Sea Captain and For- o gotten. chyge E. Martin Comes Here to Get S 'Capita‘, to S:arch—Expeditions : That Failed. "The mystery of the fabulously rich guano islana off the coasst of Central ‘America, for which many expeditions have searched in vain, bids fair to be -cleared up at last and in a most romantic manner. On Monday last a quiet-looking young fellow, about years old, registered at an uptown hotel as George E. Martin from and after inquiring the address of of men prominent in maritime . circles,_ ¢ rted to look for them. The same evening he paid his bill and left, stating that he was going to Oakland to stop for a few days. From a gentleman with whom Martin became acquainted while on the journey from Boston to this City it was learuned that Martin is a nephew of Captain Mar- tin, the original discoverer of the isiand, and that he is bent on making a voyage to it. Martin said that his uncle while on his way from Apia to this City many years ago in command of a schooner was blown out, of his course by a gale, and while getting back to it sighted a low isiand. ie first supposed thatit was Clipperton 1sland, which is not so much out of the line of vessels plving between Samoa and 1 cisco, soon saw thai he was aken. ne high point of rock that distin- ishes Clipperton was missing, and to tisfy his curiosity Captain Martin sailed n to the island. He soon discovered he islana was an atol, and that it rmously rich in the phosphates ing such rich remuneration to those can land them in sufficient quantities American soil. Provisions and water were running short i Captain Martin continued on his voy- e after tak observations to show the n of the 1siand, intending to return ake his fortune out of the valuable Boston anu formation was conveyed to his Boston n a letter which ac- d a bulky package of papers he old marinerasked them to keep e shouid send for them. The pa- were cacefully put away, as he re- d, and eventunally forgotten, as was ever heard of him 2gain. It upposed he had gone in search of the signd and had been iost at sea. Martin was taken sick with typhoid iter reach San Francisco, as the t-of the pri be had endured, as sent to the hospital, where he re- 1 for seve months. When he fina!ly able to get about his mind was and he was totally unable to re- bad become of his priv d though he called om every e City and jinquired if g with them the docu- ed up. Martin triea faithfully to get invest in a ship to search for aud, the location of which he was he could find, but people took no par- uiar notice of his talk, thinking him ted. He died broken-hearted at T le to search for his lost island. ars afterward & Captain Burns, who owned a schooner called the Vine, came ifito possession of an old chart that Cap- 1in Martin had drawn from memory, and aking stock in the story relating to the nd, fitted out his vessel and started on a voyage of exploration. Burns cruised about for several months but found noth- ing and finally gave up in despair. he map tnat Burns relied on located island about 400 miles southwest of lipperton Island, which has already pro- ed & fortune in phosphates, July last another band of adven- ous -sailors, after looking the matter Iy over, concluded that they could island if it was still above water light of J. A. Magee and others, who con- stitute the Oceanic Phospuate Company. Captain Spencer headed the party and after taking aboard provisions for several months and a cargo for Altata, Mexico, she sailed in search of fortunme. From Altata the schooner headed for the sup- posed location of the atol, but though the search was kept up for a month, beating backward and forward across the trackless waste, nothing more than the pinnacle of Clipperton broke the monotony of the trip. Provisions were looked over on the for- tieth day out and, concludine that it was useless to risk starvation, the party re- luctantly turned the vessel’s prow toward fan Francisco and. reached here in Octo- ber, disheartened and out of time and pocket. The chart on which this party relied is supposed to be the same one that sent Captain Burns on his long and fruit- less voyage. Now comes the strangest part of the story, where it is taken up by the man who arrived here on Monday. Long accounts of the Moonlight {rip were published in the San Francisco pa- pers and the Eastern press copied the tale. A New York paper fell into the hands of Martin and brought to his mind abundle of old, musty papers, charts, etc., that he bad been examining a few years_before. Thev had struck him as curious, but he had regarded them as valueless and hac contémplated destroying them. He instituted inquiry among his rela- tives and learned the story of. how they fiad reached Boston and at once conciuded ihat he had found bhis uncle’s originzl pa- pers.. Their presence in the Boston home accounted for on the idea that when Martin first fell sick he concluded ) valuable papers had better be in * the safe keeping of his relatives ana that he could send for them when he recov- -ered, if that was to be his fortune, ‘When recovery came his mind was gone & far as the papers were concerned, and thiey had remained unnoticed for many vears, . Young Martin decided that he would make an attempt to find the isiand, and is here to see whether he can find some one to take the matter in band and put in the necedsary capital. tegarding his charts Martin has very little to say, except that he has positive evidence that they are the originals; ana that if the fruitless expeditions went in tthe airection reported they were wrong. He says that they were hundreds of miles off the right track, bat reiuses to say in which direstion. A captain-owner in Oakland is investi- pating the story told by Martin, and if convinced of its worth will soon take his Vessel to the south seas, Strong Mayor or Big Couneil. Thére will be acharter session held at the Leland Stanford University next Tuesday efternoon, the 8th inst., for the purpose of dis- cussing the problem of municipal governmens in general and of San Francisco in particular. Dr. Stallard of Menlo Park will read & paper te | chartered the little schooner Moon- | advocating the English plan of a munieipal council. At the special request of Professor Edward A. Ross of Stanford University, J. Richerd Freud, secretary of the Merchants’ Association, will speak in defense of the American plan of concentrating power in the hands of the chief executive of a muuicipal government. The debate will begin at 2 o'clock, and those desirous of attending should take the train leaving San Francisco at 11:30 AN, ————————— HAMEL LOSES. Margaret Buckmnster's ‘‘Love and Af- fection’” Deed Is Ordered Canceled. Judge Seawell has given judgment for the plaintiff in the case of Jonn C. Buck- master against Joseph Hamel. The suit was to recover possession of real estate on Eighteenth street, near Mission, that was deeded to Hamel by the late Margaret Buckmaster, the consideration meniioned being “love and affection.” The complaint alleged that Hamel ex- ercised undue infiuence over the mind of Miss Buckmaster and made her believe that her relatives had no regard for her. Hamel’s answer was that he and Miss Buckmaster had agreed to reside togeth er as brother and sister and that they had borne that relationship for several years in an bonorable way, the agreement being that each should deed to the other the property which they owned, the survivor to take 1t all. The court while not finding adversely to this statement decided that the circum- stances were not sufficient to justify the transfer of property rights in this way, es- pecially when relatives were altogether ignored. A stay of execution has been granted at the request of defendant Hamel. ROASTED THE EXAMINER Captain Ransome Complains of Unfair Treatment of But- terworth. Both Varsity Teams Dined by the University Club Last Night—New Baseball Trophy. The Varsity football players of Stanford ana California were dined last night by the University Club in the club’s building on Setter street. The victors of the great Thanksgiving game were indistinguishable from the vanquished, as zll in fuil evening aress sat promiscuously about the banquet board and forgot their rivalry and resent- ment and remembered only that they were fellow university students among neutral iriends, whose own happy college days were but memories of the past. At the conclusion of an elaborate menu of many courses speeches were made by the two captains and by several of the hosts. Big Captain - Fickert of the Stanford team in the course of a brief little speech thanked the University Club for bringing about such a pleasant union of the two s. n Ransome of California spoke more at length. He took the opportunity to make a defense of Coach Butterworth and remarked that he is all right. Then he went vigorously into a roast of the Ex- aminer for what he styled its unfair treat- | ment of Butterworth after his departure | for the East. He nad, he “asserted, gone to the Exain- inerin an attempt to have that paper do the fair thing and square the derogatory and unwarrantable impression created in the public mind by articles seriously re- flecting upon the coach and his relations with Ransome, but to no purpose. The paper would have none of it. ‘Gowng further into the attitude of the press, Ransome declared that noneof the pub- lished newspaper explanations for Cali- fornia’s defeat bad emanated from any one of the players. They had noexplana- tion; they were fairly outplayed. Professor Bacon of Berkeley made the | humorous speech of the evening. Trusiee Taylor of Stanford University made some happy verbal hits himselfin a speech laudatery of football as a manly game. The following were seated at table: From Stanford there were Captain Fickert, Cottov, Fisher, Searight, Carle, Jack Rice, Ray Smith, Football Manager Dave Brown, Pro- iessor Campbell and Professor Allerdice, From Berkeley—Captain Ransome, Hall, Snerman, Kennedy, Carr, Simpson, Ludiow, McNutt, Arkley, Jimmie Hopper, Instructor and Assistant Coach Nott, Professor Bacon, Professor Edwards, Professor Clapp and Pro- fessor Haskell. The University Club has decided to of- fer a fine silver trophy cup to be competed for by the Varsity baseball teams. Am- ple funds for the cup have already been subscribed. It will be competed for by Stanford and California and will become the property of whichever baseball team shall win two of the three annual Varsity games Lwo years in succession. ————————— Better Lighting Is at Hand. The Merchants’ Association has received so much encouragement from the property- owners and tenants in its efforts for the better lighting of the City that orders have already been given for erecting arc lights of 2000 candle-power along Kearny street, from Market | to Californis, snd on Post. Geary, Sutter and Bush streets, between Grant avenue and Kesrny. It 1s expected that in the course of a few days the lights will be in operation and all these blocks highly illuminated. The asso- ciation is also co-operating with the merchants and property-owners on Filimore and Thizd, Fourth ang Sixth streets for electric iights upon these thoroughfares. —_—e————— Last Night’s Alarms. An alarm was sounded from box 146 at 5:45 o’'elock last evening for a blaze in the rear of J. H. Boyson's drugstore, Twenty-first and Va encia streets. The fire, which was caused by the careless handling of matches, damaged the building to the extent of §50. The alarm from box 532 at 8:30 p. M. was for a fire in a cooper-shop conneeted with the South San Francisco Packing Company’s build- ing, Sixth avenue and M street. The damage wilf smount to about §100. ————————— Bob at the Chutes. To-day at 4 o'clock in the and again at 9 o'clock in the evening Filzsimmons will give exnibitions at the Chutes. His two sparring partners, Dan Hickey and Jack Stenzler, will spar with nim, ana tiie knock-out blow that finished Sharkey will be iltpstrated. e Dornate Was Arrested. Joseph Dornate was arrested on Friday for cruelty to a horse by Officer McCurrie of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. Dornate was beating his horse with the butt end of a whip because the animal would not pull a heavy load to his satisfection. -—— Reflections of a Bachelor. A woman Knows a good thing when she doesn’t see it. The homeliest girl in the world will be- lieve you when you tell her that she has fine eyes. As soon as a girl has been to Europe she stops talking about Indian summer and calls it “Italian weather.” A woman likes to put her arm around a man because it seems as though she was protecting bim from something. If every young man could be madeto put up one stove with his girl to boss the job there would be :ots more bachelors. 1f a man was struck by lightning in his own house on a clear day his wife would say it was just because bhe didn’t take care of himself.—New York Free Psess. e Cat a common radish in two, hollow the interior sizhtly, then rub it gently upon a dinner plate. In a moment you can lift up the radish by the tail and the plate with it, for the plate will adhere as tightly as if the two objects were pasted together. This is known as the ‘‘Hercules radish” afternoon | tatek. A MERRY WAR AMONG THE ELKS Lodge Number Three Re- sents Slurs Against a High Officer. A ‘Suit by Golden Gate Lodge Stirs Up Some Unfrater- nal Feelings. James P. Dunne and Others Speak in Def.nse of Grand Exalted Rulerg Detweiler. The legal contest between Golden Gate Lodge No.#6, B. P. 0. Elks, ana its succes- sor, San Francisco Lodge No: 3, promises to be waged with great bitterness in the courts and to result in the development of feelings quite unfraternal. The members of the new order feel very bad because Grand Exalted Ruler Meade D. Detweiler of Harrisburg, Pa., who came here to settle mattersphas not been treated with the delicacy and consideration he deserves by those who s!ill insist that Golden Gate Lodge No. 6 is the only and original order. All the above came out because of the suit of the members of the old lodge against James P, Dunne and others to recover $4388 49, which was turned over to the new lodge by the officers of the old, Grand Exalted Ruler Detweiler having revoked the charter of the old lodge and received the funds. “Detweiler is not atramp or a hungry walking delegate, who was swayed in his julgment by a good meal,” said Mr. Dunne yesterday, *‘but be is an honorable man who stands well in his State and who acted fairly.”” Joseph Howell, one of the officers of the old order who abandoned 1t for the new, was equally indignant. Speaking of the matter, he said: *“‘Detweiler is a man of means and standing, is District Attor- ney of Harrisbure, and wh:n he came here to adjust matters he acted equi- tably.” The whole question is whether Det- weiler had anthority to suspend the old lodge, call in iis charter and take its junds, even with the consent of its officers. The nght now on in the courts is whether the fifteen or eizhteen members of the old order can hold out against the ruling and establish their claim in the courts. Nearly eli of ths membegs of Golden Gate Lodge | No. 6—about 100 in all—went into the new lodge, No. 3, but those who held out promise to wage & merry war for the funds. All agree, however, that Exalted Ruler Detweiler has been put in a false light. . The Suit. Golden Gate Lodge No. 6 of the Benevo- ] their attorney, has sued James P. Dunme, Charles W. Nevin, Alfrea Perrier, J. R. Howell and Charles S. Hoffman for $4888 49 on account of moneys and prop- erty belonging to said lodge which the de- fendants are accused of converting to thewr own use on the 19th of last August, The complaint alleges that the lodge bhad on deposit certain sums of money, and that the same was unlawfully with- drawn by the defendants and converted to their own use. It also chargea that Mr, Dunne and his co-defendants have taken possession of and illezally hold certain books, records, paraphernalia, papers, pic- tures, documents, chattels and other mis- cellaneous personal property belonging to the lodge and used it for carrying on its business, the same being worth $1000, and that though the members of the lodge en- titled to possession of the property have been diligently seeking for it during the past thirty days they cannot get hold ofit. The complaint is sworn to by Harry Newhoff, exalted ruler of the lodge. —_— Two Kriendly Suits. A week ago mention was made of a suit brought by Mrs. Lydia Krull against several of her children for property in the Mission. Also that the Krull family had been sued by A. J. Wohlander and O. Groenberg for a lot on Howard street upon which & church, known as Our Savior Scandinavian Evangelical Luth- eran Church, is located. The first action was a friendly suit, pimply to quiet the title to Mrs. Krull’s property, to which the children lay no claim., The second action also is a friendly suit brought for & similar purpose. The late E. G. Krull was a trustee of the church, which is not incorporated, and the widow lays no claim to the lot. Both actions have been decided to the satisfaction of all parties. Sl The Swedish Giants. Aug W.Johnson and Hjalmar Lundin, cham- pion heavy weight lifters of the world, held an exhibition at 0dd Fellows’ Hall, Saturday, November 29, before an audience of nearly 2000 persons. The programme consisted of heavy-weight lifting, athletic exhibition and musical ~exercises. These gentlemen are claiming to be the strongest men in the world and have chalienged Sandow, Jefferson, Sam- son and others, none having accepted their challenge. Last Saturday, at their exhibition, Mr. Johnson announced their usual chailenge for heavy weight lifting. The contest, which is for 8500 and the gate reccipts, will take place at Turn Verein Hall, Turk street, Satur- day evening, December 12, and will be quite interesting. The Ewedish giants will then leave for Honolulu and the Orient. —————— Hollister vs. Alerts. The Hollister team arrived yesterday and went at onde to Central Park to have some practice on the grounds before going into the game with the Alerts of Alam-da. Mnn}' Hol- lister people will be present to “pull for” their team and Alameda will not be unrepresented among the spectators of a great game that romises to be full of excitement. Following s the lineup: Holllsters. Position. Alerts. J. Hammond -. Coughlin Hodges .. Tearing Down P« sters. The cases against Rev. Father Brennan, C. H. Henderson (School Director) and Thomas F. Lowney (clerk), charged with violating the health oridinance by tearing down diphtueria posters, were called in Judge Campbe:l’s court vesterday. By consent they were continued for a-week. —e———— Festival Services. This evening being the first Sunday in the month, the usual monthly festival services wiil be rendered at Grace Episcopal Church, lent and Protective Order of Elks, bv‘ and Organist W, H. Holt has prepared & service of more than usual attractiveness. (LA [RY YOUR FUTURE FORETOLD By the Princess of Prophets, MRS. DR. F. 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