The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1897 When the last division of the mili other salutes, as the Dolphin, with the President’s flag flying at her main, passed down the line, the great warships dipped their colors in honor of the Chief Magistrate. v and civil bodies had passed the reviewing stand President McKinley and other invited guests were escorted to the bank of the river, from which they were taken on board the Dolphin for the purpose of reviewing the fleet. In addition to W. Knicht | Price, Tait, t are past of the Horace Porter, Grant Monument Com- , the architect who | HISTORIC UTTERANCES. Rifle-Shot Sayings of the Hero} of Appomattox. In the April number of the Outlook, General James Grant Wilson has an arti- cle, in which he says it maybe doubted it among the six or seven really illustrious soldiers of the nineteenth century, on which the curtain is about to drop, any except Napoleon has left behind well-au- thenticated records of so many rifle-shot utterances as did General Grant. When news of the assault on ¥ort Sum- ter resched the North, hundreds of mildly THE SARCOPHAGUS. MANY THOUSANDS IN LINE. The Main Divisions of the Marching | Column. | In spite of all efforts made by General Grenville M. Dodse, grand marshal of the | procession, to limit the size of the march- £ column at the dedicatory ceremonies, | the main divisions were as follows: FIRST DIVISION. Governor of 11 FOURTH D Uniformed, armed and equpped cadets..... 4,000 FIFTH DIVISION. Q. A. R. Veterans = SIXTH DIVISION. Civic organizations : The offici2l programme is & souvenir memorizl of the ceremonies of the dedice- tion. The book contains a series of repro- ductions from portraits of General Grant from the age of 17 years to his death, also & series of scenes and incidents from his life, with portraits of his family and parents, views of his tomband sarcophagus, por- traits and sketches of the leading mem- bers of the militia and navy and of Gen- eral Horace Porter and Mayor Strong, with a review of the executive committee | and others. The programme also has niniscences and memoirs of General Grant by some who knew him well, and a lete outline of the ceremonies and | hose who participated. The front page is printed in gold, with a | ;o and true picture of the tomb sur- | 1ded with a wreath, and in the upper nd corner is a bow of red, white and bon. The cover of the programme | sned vy Stanford White. of solid gold, the background being ename} with gold relief, the head 1 goid—a perfect likeness of the in whi of Grant general, and 1s acknowledged by experts 10 be the best impression ever made of | him. The words “Municipal Grant Moi- | ument Committe, April 27, 1897,” sreat { enthusiastic meetings were neld in the chief cities and towns of the loyal States. Among those one met in Galens, IIL, at which Grant said: *Iam in for the war | and shall stay until this wicked rebellion is crushed at the tannon’s mouth.” In Grant's first battle of the war he said: | “Don’t fire until you see the enemy, and | then take good aim." ‘When the Confederate commander pro- posed an armistice at Fort Donelson Grant wrote: “No terms except an imme- | diate and unconditional surrender can be | accepted. I propose to move immediately | upon your work: This message electri- | fied the North and made Granta central figure in the group of Union generals. | At Shiloh Grant said to Sherman: *“Re- | form your ranks and attack the enemy in | front at break of day. It is always an ad- | vantags to be the attacking party and we must fire the first gun to-morrow morn- ing.”” iz Vicksburg Grant said to Pemberto: “I demand an unconditional surrender. After the glorious victory at Chattanoog; Grant congratulated his troops in these irring words: ‘You dislodged him from his great stronghold st Lookout Moun- tain; drove him from Chattancoga Val- ley; wrested from his determined grasp the possession of Mission Ridge; repelled with heavy loss to him his repeated as- saults upon Knoxville, forcing him to raise the siege there; driving him at all voints, utterly routed and discomfite beyond the limits of the State. In May, 1864, he said to Sherman: ¢Rebel armies ere now the strategic points to strike. In a communication to Meade he wrote: “Lee’s army wili be your ob- jective point. Wherever Lee's army goes you will go also.” At theclose of the first day’s fighting in the Wilderness, with its heavy losses of thousands killed, wounded or captured, a young officer from & distant part of the battietield presented himself, bringing bad news and.a gloomy countenance to the chief; but nothing daunted or dis- heartened the indomitable Grant re- plied: “It'sall right, Wilson. We move forward at 4 in the morning. We are go- g through; there is no doubt about it.” Later on he wrote the letter to Halleck, which contained the now famous sentence *I propose to fizht it out on this line if it takes all summer.” the base in a scroll design. | INTERIOR OF THE GRANT In another message he wrote: “The whole captures since the army started out gunning will not amount to less than 12,000 and fifty pieces of artillery.’” To Lee he said: “Take your horses home, for you will want them for spring plowing.”’ Later on he said to the coun- try, ““Let us have peace.” e MAJOR - GENERAL DODGE. War Record of the Man Who Marshaled the Hosts Yes- terday. Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, the grand marshal of the Grant procession in New York, was a distinguished soldier during the war, and subsequently a mem- ber of Congress from Iowa and chief en- gineer in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. Grant and Sherman had s high respect for Dodge’s ability as a fighter and kis skill ss an engineer. Dodge organized the Fourth lowa In- fantry, one of the historic regiments af the war, and as colonel conducted it to the field of battle. At Pea Ridge he gained a star for gallantry in action. He was subsequently promoted major-general, and piaced in command of the Sixteenth Army Corps. As commander of that corps, in front of Atiants on July 22, 1864, he made a splendid record for bravery and endurance when sssaulted in flank and rear by General Hood. The highest tribute is paid to Dodge in Sherman’s official re- port of this engagement, in which the brave McPherson, commanding the Army of the Tennessee, was slain. ATLANTA’S BANKING PANIC. A Third Concern Forced to the Wall by Cassin's Rascality—Knockout at a Directors’ Meeting. ATLANTA, Ga., April 27.— Another institution, hitherto supposed to be one of the stanchest in the city, has gone to the wall, a third victim to the defalcation of Cashier Cassin. An attorney representing the Washington Loan and Investment Company to-day secured the appointment of receivers for the concern, the manage- ment of which is closely connected with the Georgia Loan and Banking Company and the United States Bond Company. The latter and tne Washington Company conducted a far-reaching instaliment bond business, being the depositories of the savings of families in nearly every city of importance in the United States. The personnel of the board of directors and stockholders included the leading capitalists of this State. At a meeting of the Georgia Company's directors to-day there was a lively row be- | tween President G. V. Gress and Judge R. T. Dorsey, who is Atlanta’s foremost lawyer. Dorsey asserted that he had writ- ten Gress in January asking that he call a meeting of the directors to examine the books. Gress replied that he had just concluded a personal inspection of the bank's affairs and that there was nothing | whatever to warrant the inconvenience of calling a board meeting. High words followed until Dorsey in a rage knocked the president under a table. An amendment has been filed by Mor- gan Gress, son of the president, to his original petition which precipitated the receivership, in which he claims that his latber obtained large sums of money on inadequate securities. He also prefers charges -against other officers for empioy- ing the funds of the defunct institution in private ventures. He implicates some of Atlanta's foremost citizens. ——— To Drain Leadrille’s Downtown Min. LEADVILLE, Coro., April 27.—At a meeting of mine managers last night it was unanimously decided to begin pump- ing the downiown mines immediately, with a view to their operation in June, The resumption will furnish employ men to aboutl 00 men. ——— Must Have Been an Oversight. BOSTON, Mass., April 27.—Former Gov- ernor Boutwell, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Grant, did not receive an invitation to the Grant memorial exer- cises. Boutwell said to-night: *Whether this was caused by negligence or whether they had no place for me I don’t know.” EesR g - Off for North Grorgia’s Gold Fields. CHATTANOOGA, TeSN., April 27.—Ad- 1ai Stevenson and a party of wealthy men interested in gold-mining started 1o-day en route to the gold fields of North Georgia. —_— \ Licutenant (alioun Dead. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 28 —Naval Lieutenant George Calhoun dropped dead on Broadway at midnight or shortly after on his way home from the Union League Treception. FOUR SURVIVE THE DISASTER Terrible Wreck of the Brigantine Vaillant on Icebergs. It Is Believed That Sixty-Nine Fishermen Met a Fearful Death. Four Men Badly Frost-Bitten Picked Up In a Boat—They Had Eaten a Dead Comrade. 8T. JOHNS, N. F., April 27.—The French barkentine Victor Olgene arrived at 8t. Plerre Miquelon bringing survivors of the brigantine Vaillant, Captain Pierre, which struck an iceberg on the Grand Banks on the night of Wednesday, April 14, and sank within twenty minutes. The survivors believe their sixty.nine comrades perished. Their ship was nearly four weeks out from St. Malo, when, with- outan instant’s warning, she struck full speed against a low-lying iceberg. Her stem and bows were split to pieces and the hold was speedily flooded. Many of those aboard were drowned outright by the inrushing waters or crushed by falling timbers as they tried to reach the deck. The ship was cn her way from France to St. Pierre for bait to begin the summer’s codfishing on the banks, and was carrying fifty fishermen to join the St. Pierre fleet. She had altogether seventy-three persons aboard. After the collision those who reached the deck, mostly clad in nizht robes, realizing the ship was soon to sink, wildly began to launch the dories. The boats, being insufficient for all, a brutal scramble for places in them ensued. The rescued dory was one of the first to clear the snip. The survivors are ignorantof how many others got away, but fear very few, be- cause the ship sank within twenty min- utes, and the screams which accompanied her disappearance proved only too clearly Low many were carried down to death. The rescued dory had seven men aboard when she left the ship. Only one, Gren- ville, the boatswain, was fully dressed, and the party pushed off in such haste that they neglected sails, oars, provisions or water. For four days they were adrift in this frail craft, every sea sweeping over them, drenching them to the skin ana forcing them to continuous bailing, until they wers too feeble to throw out any more water, and careless whether they perished or not they packed them- selves closely along the boat’s bottom for warmth., But the keen frost and the sur- rounding iceberzs and floes rendered warmth impossible, and hunger soon added its terrors. Reath cut short the sufferings of two of them on the second day. A few hours later they sighted the captain’s boat, also without oars, drifting with half a dozen occupants. She re- ported that one of the party was already dead, and as none of the rest had since been heard of it is believed ail wers lost. The boats soon drifted apart. The next day Grenvllle's boat lost a third man by death. Tnat night the famished survi- vors ate the flesh from the corpse. The next evening when the party was rescued the body was almost balf eaten. 8o rav- enous had they become that Captain Eve and crew of the Victor Olgene, which res- cued them a week ago yesterday, were horrified at the sight and sank the boay and boat at once. The four living men were all bereft of reason and so exhausted that they had to be hoisted over the ship's side swathed blankets, their bodies being masses of frost-bitten flesh. When found they were all lying unconscious in the bottom with six inches of water surrounding them and couid not stand or speak for days. When they reached St. Pierre to-night they had to be carried ashore on stretchers. Their limbs are useless, and amputation is necessary unon every one. This work was begun by the doctors to-night. Itisan- nounced that three may recover, but' the fourth cannot live. Even if the others pull through it will be legless and arm- less. The rescuers could lean few details from the survivors. The Victor Olgene cruised about two days looking for the other boats, bat failed to see any sign of them, and it is believed they were crushed by the ice or swamped by heavy storms which frequently raged since the day of the disaster. All hope has been virtually abandoned of other rescues, though nego- tiations have been opened for a sealing steamer from here to proceed to the sec- tion of the banks where the ship sank. AFTER THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. Kentucky's Attorney-General Opens - His Suit Against the Big Corporation at Frankfort. FRANKFORT, K¥., April 27.—The case of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against the Southern Pacific Railroad was called in the Franklin Circuit Court this even- ing before Judge Cantrell by Attorney- General Taylor. General Taylor stated that the case was one involving $136,000 against the Southern Pacific for failure to report, and damages and penalties; that the corporation had detied the State au- thorities and had refused to comply with the law; that the statute in the case against therm was plain; that the attorney for the Southern Pacific had requested that it be postponed until Friday, as they bad expected to settle by that time; that they had made the same promise before and had failed to do s0; that their delays were based upon the advice of some big official who was quartered away from the home office on a technicality; that the road had repeatedly shirked in this man- ner before and he would inform the court as to its methods; that he would agree to the delay to Friday, but no longer; that they were a foreign corporation, baving their existence from the Kentucky Legis- lature, and were subject to the laws of the State as other such corporations in the State and were liable to a franchise tax as other like corporations, in addition to the 1ax on real property; thatthe Southern Pacific was one of the ‘most wealthy cor- porations in the United States; that no estimate could be placed on their fran- by reason of the fact that the com- pany had failed and refused to report, but that its property couid be estimated from statistics gathered in the various standard guides or ‘statisticians,”’ and that he would not argue the case further than this brief statement, The road will demur to his petition and argument will be made on the demurrer. —_— » THE KORESHANITY TROUBLE. Racy Developments i the Case of Editor Hoyt Against the Alleged Hypno- tizer o fHis Wife. HAVERHILL, Mass., April 27. —The famous case of Editor Hoyt of the Bulletin against Mrs. Dr. Vienna Parsons—mors popularly known as the ‘Koreshanity Scandal”’—was heard before Judge Cars penter to-day. Startling revelations re- garding this mystericus religion were made. Mr. Hoyt charges Mrs. Parsons with hypnotizing his wife and securing goods on his credit. Mrs. Parsons re- talitates by charging him with improper relations with a woman not his wite. Ac- tion for mahcious prosecution is now threatened, as the devotee of Koreshanity was discharged after making ressitution of the goods in question. Mrs. Parsons is one of the victims of the big Koreshanity fiasco in Florida. She met Teed of Chicago, the originator and leader of the new relizion, at Mrs. Hoyvs house, and claims to have given him $2000, her entire fortune. She then went to Florida and joined the deluded colony. Now she has returned penniless, like lots of other women, all of whom were more or less wealthy. Koreshanity is noihing more nor less than Dr. Teed. He is head of the church and took all of the money. Singularly enough, all of his flock were women. He compelled them to take awful vows of submission and implicit obedience to bfm, vows of perpetual poverty, and to actoally worship him in ways which would not bear publicity. Having se- cured all of their money, the worshipful Teed departed forever, leaving the pov- erty-stricken converts to beg their way back to their homes as best they could. It is said that Teed landed in Boston, the home of countless other isms and creeds, and is still working on the cred- ulity of some of the wealtLy blue-stock- inged women of the modern Athens. Mr. Hoyt proposes to investigate further and bring about an official expose of the re- ligion in the courts, if possible. ———— Special Treasury -igents Discharged. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.—Nine special employes of the Treasury Depart- ment stationed in various parts of the country were droppea from the rolls to- day and their positions discontinued. The | explanation is that a smaller force of special agents can perform the duties of that branch of the service satistactorily. Par W inboa “CWNEY” BUBS UP AGAIN. The Famous Mailcar Dog Is Not Dead, as Reported, but on the Retired List at St. Louis. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2 ney,” the famous postal dog, is not aead, as reported, but in St. Louis at the home of J. Melvin, a postal clerk, who will keep the dog until hedfes. Owney has been a subject of official correspondence be- tween the Postoffice Department and some of its officials. When Captain White, gen- eral superintendent of the railway mail service, read that the dogz had been killed bya policeman in Cleveland for attempt- ing to bite a man he wrote Superintendent Pepper in Cleveland requesting 2n official report and asking whether the skin could be mounted for the postal museum here. Pepper's response, which was received to-day, says that the dog mentioned was not Owney, and that the poiiceman killed an ordinary cur. The last heard of Owney was that he had gone to Cincinnati to meet the new superintendent, from which point he was “‘routed” to the exposition at Nashville, Postal Clerk Melvin saw the story about Owney’s death a few days aco and to-day Captain White received from him a letter saying that the dog had been in Melvin's possession for three weeks. He joined Melvin while returning from the 'ostal Clerks’ Convention at San Fran- cisco, Owney was suffering from a severe attack of mange and Melvin determined to hold him until cured. The cure has been accomplished, but Owney has de- veloped uely traits, due to his advanced years. He tries to bite everybody he doesn’t know. Melvin, in his letter, said he would like to keep the dog for the bal- ance of his days. Captain White has written an official communication grante ing the request. e WILL HE 60 TO PRISONY Sugar Trust Chapman’s Fate With the District Attorney. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.—Na action has yet been taken by District Ate torney Davis toward enforcing the sen« tence passed upon Elverton Chapman, the contumacious Sugar Trust witness who was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to be imprisoned for thirty days. The Dis- trict Attorney has not yet had an oppor- tunity to read the decision of the Supreme Court denying the petition for release, as the opinion bas not been released by the court. It is thought that Davis will en- force the sentence and then bring the re- maining defendants—Havemeyer, Sey- mour, Searles, McCartney, Schriver and Edwards—to trial. Counsel for these claim that their cases cannot be brought within the terms of the Supreme Court decision,. but the Chapman case has all along been held to be a test one, and it is believed that the President will not grant an application for pardon. —— Another Missing Bank President. CHICAGO, Iri., April 27.—John S. Sheldon, president of the Sheldon Bank at Lods, Iil., has been missing since last Friday, and it is thought that he com- mitted’ suicide by jumping into Lake Michigan. Eests NEW TO-DAY. There is room for other extra fine food products be- sides Sroply Baking Powder. Those who like “Trophy” will still more appreciate Gl # Spices and Flavor- ing Extracts. ur Tillmenn & Bendel, Mfrs