The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1897, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1897. A MEDAL FOR A HERO'S BREAST Fool of Fortue™ to- Engineer Michael J. Dolan Presented With the | TREATER—“The Twelvs Tempta- The Candy Fifth. he First Bora” and 1 Tivets Orxa Hovss. - -Pagiioot” Scannell Badge. FETM - Hich-Class Vandey THEATER —*Men and Women,” For Braving Death Amidst Flames He Receives the | i Golden Insignia, i tam Mountford. ¥ri- and Performances. ES FREE THEATER.— . every afterncon und ox—Mechanics' Fair now AUCTION SALE: Mo Mayor Phelan Delivers a Presentation Speech in Behalf of the | Commissioners. | i i Davis, BELAT SW For his bheroism in saving human life at the risk of hiz own, Michael J. Dolan, engineer of the sixth distri was yester- day rewarded by the Fire Commissioners He was presen ed with the Scannell medal | by the Commissioners, who sat in special se-sion for the sole purpose of placing in | | bis bands the insignia of honor. The medal 1s the second to be won by an act of bravery, the first being presented to District Engineer Joun Wiils, whe bravely rescued two women from a fallen building on Fifth street over a year ago. Mayor Phelan presented the fireman with the medal. Prior to the presenta- | tion, George T. Bohen, president of the Fire Commissioners, addressed the large | | gathering of the brave man’s associates | | wko convened in the rooms of the Fire Commissioners in the new City Hall to | witness the conferring of the honor upon | their comrade. At the conclusion of his f Osca M. Welburn for embezzle- for October 4. y for tne ar- mean at a cigar- | vard Eden 20,050 aar closing argu- | oo o p . gt josipg ersl- Lremarks ne introduced Msyor Phelan, as was roundly | Who made the presentation speech. In | part the Mayor sai **We have been called from our various | occnpations to-day to confer an honor | upon a man who during the last year has proved himseif the bravest of the great number of brave firemen who within the the narrow limits of this City daily | face dangers grave as those which con- | front the soldier on the field of battle. charged with victed by ed to appear ruck on the im vention edjourned day #ter instailine isitors will go | rived at the scene of tne he could the thanks he owed Dolan for rescuing him from death in the flames. The action on the part of Dolan that won for him the medal occurred on the eveninu of April 2. A fire broke outin a notion-store at 307 Buchanan street, and in a few minutes communicated to the barn of John H. Ruffs, in the rear of the store. Ruffs was enjoying his din- ner, when the bright glare of the fire at- tracted bim, and he rushed to his stable to rescae his horses. Accompanied by a nephew, he entered the burning bui:ding, but, finding they could do nothing, bLoth men turned to escape. The nephew was able to do this, but the old man became confused by the dense smoke ard neat, and finaily sank helpless upon the floor in tl.e midst of the flame At this juncture ineer Dolan ar- fire and above the cries of the burning horses heard the s und of a human vcice reis«d in arony. Dolan wittout hesitation p unced through the narrow lane of flames, lifted the al- The Medal of Honor. most suffocated man in his arms and started with his burden for the stable c¢oor. Several times he was almost over- come, but finally reached the canrtyard and sank bliscered and exhausted to the ground. Foreman William Keneally of engine 14 then dragged the rescuer and rescued to a place of safety. Dolan, after a short rest, though suffering from the injuries ne had received, continuei in bis work of extinguishing the fHames. Ruffs was taken to the German Hospiral, where he lay almost at death’s door for two weeks, but he ally recovered. Dolan, although he appreciates the ac- in ht, for the Aid Asso- ures of the 500 Sam se of free lec Major e objections mede | ) " o] the First Medal of Honor. andin! of real-estate | 7z 5 |DISTRICT ENGINEER JOHN WILLS, Who Rescued Two | Women From a Fallen Building and Was Presented With Michael J. Dolan is the man whose mer-y itorious conduct has won for him the esteem of his associates, the admiration of all who admire beroic act | long obligation of Joha H. R £ | life was saved by bim on the night o April 27 . ! Mayor Phelan then dwelt at length on | the life of the hero of the year, andin concluston turned and presented the badge to the brave engineer. Dolan steppe ward, endeavored to answer the remar of the Mayor, but his emotion overcame him. Hi" voice faitered, and the Mayor .- ther Trade in Japan, preference | S21d: “I find i1hat Mr. Doian is 2 man of s ©IeTEnCe ] deeds, not of words.” Dolan pinned the | medal on his breast and stepped back Coal as a Deadly Weapon, | | among his friends. | Following the presentation the gather- | | then, 709 v e s : o A oD pureel, W8S | ing was addressed by Chief Sullivan, As- B & GonUs e 5 Thg | Sistant Chiefs Dohertv and Wils. | : <ia Patrick O'Buien, cont. | ,J°hn H. Ruff., whose life was saved by | : it 6n August 16 Mee | Dolon, an old man over 50 years of age, | > Kearne coal. | then stepped to the platform and reque: , one of h ed the Mayor to express for him as best | Murthen was izance by Judge tion of the Fire Commissioners in pre- senting him with the Scannell medal, bears his laurels modestly and declares that any other man in his position would have acted as he cid Fow on Brady S.re t. Christian Markle, a pisno polisher, was arrested lust night on Brady sireet for assault th & deadly weapon, and his wife, Margaret, Fulton, a teamster, and Neliie Victor were arrested for disturbing the peace. Nellie, it appears, gave Fulton three rings to deliver to Mrs. Marklc, but one was not ac- counted for. The result was a row, and Markle drew s knife, threatening to kili the other three. e Turned Loose. M. C. Holmes, the young stationer, and Jewel Lillard. the 15-year-old girl from Santa Rosa, arrested Friday night, were turned loose last night. The girl’s mother came from Santa Rosa ard agreed to take her home, so Holmes will have to postpone his wedding for some time yet. e e—— The Tartars take a fan by the ears to nvite him to eat or drink with them. EW TO-DAY. A TRUE VITALIZER. “DR. PIERCE’S ELECTRIC BILT.” N APPLIANCE THAT GIVES SPAKRKS OF 4'\ fe into your nerves, Sparss that you feel. its power is feit upon the surface of the body in o . It permeates every viial fuuc:ion. rer on the pubic platform, every note, every scl ntific work that vou tells you ithat “E.eciricity Is Lite.” kvery ment of your being gives den.ons ration of the 1 of this assertion. It is a fact. Noone doub:s | vour nerves and biocd charged wiih “his electric force there is 10 chance for disease. no place 10r weakness. it is the fundamental princk- | Wh re thout drugging | L Dr P.erce's Pat- | is ¢ se cannot be. it cur ve 1t u tr ante ! to be superior to all oth- | o5 E PRICES Buy send for Fiich BOOK. Address DR RCE & SON. 704 ~acramenio st.. cor Kearny, U Market st., beiow Kearny, San Irancisco. iis as follows: Hoden brug Co, Stocku EASO. é’ i~ Gogicgs, acramenco, ana . G.'Morehead, a0 Tose, £F For RUPIURE use “DF. PIERCE'S Manetic Elsstic Truss DISTRICT ENGINE:R M. J. DOLAN, Waose Bravery on the N.2ht" of April 2Won From Hm the Sccoad Scannel Medal GHINESE COME BY THE HUNDRED The Gaelic Brings Three Hundred Celestials and a Big Cargo. Copper River Will Be Explored by Still Another Late Expedition. Material for the Alaska Commsrcial Company's New Yukon Steamer Starts Northward, The Occidental and Oriental steamer Gaelic arrived in tkis port at 5 A. M yesterday after an uneventtul trip of 28 days and 5 hours f:om Hongkong, 17 days and 8 hours fiom Yokohama and 6 days and 10 bours from Honolulu. She brought a full cargo and 43 cab.n passengers, the list of whom is as follows: Yokohama—Martin Burchard, Dr. and D. Brooks, Lieutenan: O. H. Bonham Jonn Edouard de Grofe and perial Russian Nav: well, Cotonel ant N T. W. Markiey, M AW From Farcell; Licutenants H. von' Bonsdorf, Im- r. and Mrs. J. B. Hart- Carnicff, ors, ey, Mrs L. Oxley, R. N.: Miss Pierce, G.I Kev. J. Rosst, Williem Roth, Judge C. Saunders, A. A. Thomas, Dr. R. Vogel, Windt, W. H. Whiti From Honolulu Charles Hart Smith, T. 5. Waterhouse, 8. Cotton, U. 8. M Jr., H.F. 'Atlen, W. Mrs. Farber, Int' e Gaelic’s steerage came 323 Chinese and 38 Japanese. The cargo incinded 184% bales of raw silk, 6813 pounds of rice and 4000 pounds of sugar. The steamer re- turned by way of Honolulu on account of the Rio Janeiro Leing forced to abandon her schedule trip from Hongkong. She was in the drydock at that port receiving a new rudder post, made necessary by an accident in her outward trip. The Gaelic brought 300 Japanese coolies from Yoko- hama to Honoluiu, and they were ianded without trouble. Another prospecting expedition to the Copper River, on the coast of Alaska, is heing made ready. The schocner W. . Phelps is being htted out for the trip at Mission wharf2and is expected to leave about the 15 h inst. Hach passenger will pay $200 for passage and a year's provi- sions, and the schooner will land the party on the river with boats and a steam launch, to help explore the vaguely famous Copper River country, which may have gold in it for all anybody knows. The steamer Lamke got away for St. Michael vesterday, taking as her main cargo the machinery and other materials for the Alaska Commercial Company's fine new river boat Leah, which is to be ready for the Yukon trade in the spring. Material for three new barges also went along. The only passengers carried were the mechanics who will put the boats to- gether on St. Michael Island during the winter. After repeated survey cided that the Brit ship Toxteth, which ran ashore twice in Pareta bay, near Panama, will have to go on the dry- dock again for extensive repairs. It has been foand that the ship was more badiy strained than had been supposed. The securing of a temyorary injunction restraining tne Harbor Commissioners H. Misses Hartwell, C. Mott Smitk, Miss Mott andless, G. R Dennett, G. Dillinglinm, Captain C. L. W. Hough, A. F. Judi T. Morse, Mrs. Camyboll, it has been de- the 8. E. Slade Lumber Company wiil keep the merry war over the lucrative lumber and other harbor contracts going for some time. The writ of prohibition granted by the Superior Court day before yesterday is returnable on the 17th inst., and the proceeding shows that the Pacitic Pine Lumber Company,which has filed the suit, is out for blood in its war with its com- petitors. The board is about tobuld a new wharf at Green street, and the con- | tracts for lumber, piles, etc., which will b+ fat ones, are partly the cause of the action. The Pacific Pine Lumber Com- pany aversin its complamt thattne Har- por Commissioners are about 1o construct the wharf at an expense of many thou- sand do lars without advertising for con- tracts, and the temporary writ is also di- rected against this. In fact the board has advertised for proposals for fur- nishing the lumber and material for this whaif to be opened next Tussday. As the piles will costin the neighborhood of $5000, there is much rivalry for the busi- ness. The board has not indicated what it proposes to do about getting the piles, which must be of unusual length and be creosoted. The bark Levi G. Burgess, which is car- rying coal from Tacoma to this port, is Iying off Meig¢gs wharf trying to gst a i crew together with the aid of the Ship- owners’ Association, and two or three coasting schooners are in the same fix. Seamen are scarce and the war witn the Cozst Seamen’s Union over the §5 cut in wages made by ihe Ship-owners’ As<ocia- tion is siill on. Hence non-bnion crews are sought and the water front is beirg seraped for men who can be pressed into seryice. The schooner Prosper arrived yesterday morning with 1600 barrels of salmon for the Alaska Packers’ Association. The Pacific Mail steamer Aziec sailed vesterday for Yokohama and Hongkong with a cargo valued at $200 000, including 31,000 barrels of flour. GOT KLONDIKE GOLD. Cyeclist Fox Sends Home a Bag of N gets to Pay Debts He Skipped From. A pleasing story of Klondike fortune is told by United States District Attorney Flint of Los Angeles, now on a visit here. It deals with the good luck of Louis W. Fox of Los Augeles, a young cvclist, who two years ago defeated Walter Foster for the coast championship, and was known to wheeimen in this City. Fox leit the State over a year ago under a financial cloud, figuratively on his up- pers, and bound for oblivion. No one knew his destination, not even a woman who thought that she was destined to be- come Mrs. Fox. He bad been agent for a bicycle factory, was successfui for awhile, but finaily ran into debt to the firm to the extent, it is said, of something like $600). He left other annoying reminders of expensive purchases unpaid for. Previous to bis disappearance he gave Attorney Flint his note to satisfy an ap- veal for seitlements requested by several creditors and got off before the paper was found to be vaiuable only as a souvenir. Fox went tc Aleska and reached the Klondike with the earlier prospectdrs. Two weeks ago Mr. Flint rec-ived from him a package of nuggets valued at §6200, together with wr:tten instructions to pay the cyclist’s debts to the itm and the in- terest. He also wrote for a list of his o'her creditors. He :aid he hsd struck it rich and was worth abcuta quarter of a million. ————————— VISITORS to the city should not fail to inspect £ & G. Gump's gallery of paintings and different departments of art goods, pictures, crockery and glasswar. . Mudi ’s circulating library has three m ilion books constantly in circulation, and em) loys 178 people. from paving the July and August bills of | THE EMPORIUM. THE EMPORIUM, SEPTEMBER 12, 1897. ® The Emporium. BIG RAILWAY PROJICT A Company Incorporating to Build Up the Copper River. Surveyors of the Route Say This Avenue to the Yukon Is Feasible, An enterprise is projected in this City | which, if carried out, will be of vast im- portance to the development of Alaska | and tue development of the Pacific Coast. | A company is organizing and is to be in- corporated under the laws of the Territory of Arizona within the next three days, | which has lor its pu:po-e the construc- tion of a narrow-gauge railroad from tide- water on Prince William Sound up the valley of the much-talked-of Copper River, and thence across the civide to a point on the Yukou River near the boundary line. | The name of the company will be the Alaska Central Rallway Company and | its capital stock $3,000,000. | The promoter of the enterprise is Colonel | John Underwood of this City, and a former ex ensive railroad contractor in | & the new States in the Northwest. Aszo- ciated with him, according to Underwood, are Elijah Smith of New York, the con- | § trolling spirit in the Oregon Improvement | Company, and John W. Cudahy and P. | B. Armour, the Cbicago packers, and one | or two local capitahsts. Improvement Company practically owns | the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, | it is believed that the big steamship com- pany is much interested in the success of | the enterprise. It is said that Senator Perkins and Captain Charles | Goodall look on the project with a favora- | ble view, and may iake a seat in the board of directors. Albert W. Lyser, an attorney in the Mills building, may also be a director. The length of the proposed road will be about 332 miies. Underwood says that the surveys were completed two years ago by a prominent railroad engineer wno laid out the mountainous sections of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, and who has pronounced the route practicabie and one over which a railway could be con- structed with much less difficulty and labor than in the mountainous districts of Washingion, Montana or ldaho. “I left Juneau three years ago,” said Underwood, “‘with a party of two engi- neers, two miners, seventeen Lapps from Manitoba and fourteen Indian puckers for Crrcle City. Our route was up the Stickeen River. Arriving at our destination I gave orders for a survey from Boundary Butie across the divide to the Copper River country. Two routes were sought, one with a terminus on Prince William Sound, the other to terminate on Cooks Inlet. The report of the engineer in charge of the first party shows that he proceeded up Seventy - mile Creek for a distance of twenty-eight miles, wherea fork of Forty- mile Creek was reached. The grades were easy and gold quartz was found at every point tested by the experienced prospec- ior who accompanied the party. The route was then up Forty-mile Creek, a distance of about fifiy miles, to Lake Munsfield. Here the country was swampy and low and many indications of coal were found. “From that point across the divide to Copper River i< about forty-five miles. It may be surprising to the public that grass was found in tuis region seven ana eight feet tall and that the report of theen- ineer aeclared it a good stock region. sk and fir were found in abundance, and deer, moose, cariboo and musk ox were plentiful. A fork of the Tanana w:is crossed on the way, from which point the Indians declared a distance of twenty-five miles southeast there were vast quantities KEW TO-DAY. $2000° Any baking powder will! lighten your cake, if that's all you want. Some are stronger; than others, some more whole- | some: Schilling’s Best is both and | more too. { A Schilli L ou | As the Oiegon | 8 both | § of 0il. The grass would average from four | to six fons per acre.” | Mr. Underwood says that his company will begin construction from boih ends of the line in the spring. Work ou a dock | on Prince William Sound be; March 1. and he declares 200 miles of ihe road will be constructed the coming sum- mer. He says that the western terminus of the line will buiid up a big city within ayear. Ultimately, he declares, the road will be erxtenaed northward to Cape | Hope, where are situated the great coal | fields, The proposed railroad w wholly within American territo an will be the shortest route to the Klondike region by 300 miles. e Cudahy Denies it. CHICAGO, Iy, Sept. 10 —Jolin Cudahy was seen at his residence to-night by a Cavr representative and ask:d if he had #n interest in the Alaska Central Railway | Company which was being organized by | John W. Underwood of San Franci-co. | ahy. see him to make certain.” *No, I haven't any interest whatsoever in the projected enterprise,”’ said Mr. Cud- *I think there are some Boston peo- ple who are interested in it, and they came to me and endeavored to induce me 10 take some stock in the company, butit was one of the wildest schemes I ever neard of, and I would have nothing what- ever todo withit. You say itis reported in San Francisco tnat Mr. Armour has some connection with the company? I | don’t believe it; however, you had better ine CALL m thereupon proceeded to | Mr. Armour’s home, but the big packer had gone out for the evening. Philip D. Armonr Jr., however, was in and said: “Tell THE CALL that the Armours are not interested in the company you mention.” ——— The hichest death rate of any town in the civilized world is said to be that of the City of Mex: forty per thousand. The city is 700 icet above sea level, but in spite of this fact its defective drainage o s the mortality very great. NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL'S GIFT TO ITS PATRONS, _The Pair of Thoroughbred Shet- land Ponies, LEO and I.IOIN, AND HANDSOME PCNY CARRIAGE. THE SWELLEST OUTFIT IN SAN FRANCISCO. ) TO BE GIVEN AWAY OCTOBER 13, 1897. The Sale Commences TO-HORROW, Monday, THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER. A Coupon Given With Every 25¢ Purchase. DON’T FORGET TO BRING THE CHILDREN TO SEE THE PONIES AND CARRIAGE. THE OWL DRUG CO. 1128 MARKET STREET.