The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN CISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1898. SEVENTH REGIMENT WILL DEPART TO-DAY People of Los Angeles Will Give the Guardsmen a Rousing Sendofi While Leaving the City. May 5—The depart- iment to-mor- LOS ANGELES charg cte t impromptu demonstrations of the people have Every feature ¥ ill be represented in a parade which is to be formed to escort the comp es of the 2 Regiment to the Southern Pacifi ever s of life in the ci APTAIN C.R.FERNALD. A 17 LIEUT be e up as the police 1g will be the City Merchants and 1 tion, directors of the Commerce and Board of Trade and citizens. Next will come the Jonathan Club, and just be- hind it will march 4 High School stu- HWS: come and a ba Manu dents. Troop D of avalry will come next in the 1 sfon, and the Americus Club of by one of the| G.C.THAXTER | VY 'OFFICERS OF THE The G. A. R. and _an Veteran Reserve | asadena will follow. | Corps, under command of Captain John | Chief Walter S. Moore has ordered out the fire department, and that branch of the city government will as- sist in making the demonstration a suc- | cess. R. H. Herron has been designated as grand marshal, and he has named R. W. Pridham and John C. Cline as his aids. All business in the city will be suspended both in retail and whole- sale departments. between the hours of 9 o’clock and noon. The merchants of the city have vol- untarily taken it on themselves to raise a fund for more completely outfitting the regiment and to secure comforts for members of the various companies. The City Council held a special meet- ing to-day and adopted resolutions complimenting the members of the Seventh Regiment for their prompt re- sponse to the call of duty. The resolu- tions closed with these words: “Resolved, As a response to the patri- otism thus evinced by these noble, self- sacrificing citizens, who thus willingly leave offices, stores and workshops at duty’s call, that we call upon the patri- otic citizens of our city to refrain from their ordinary avocations during the hours from 10 to 12 o'clock to-moITOW morning in order that an undivided ex- pression of farewell may be accorded our local heroes; and be it further “Resolved, That all departments of the city government be closed from 10 to 12 o'clock of said date, and all offi- cials and employers are requested to join in wishing the troops godspeed and a safe return.” The resolutions were adopted by a This evening at 6 o'clock a company ‘5 standing vote. | of the guard from San Diego, Captain Richard M. Dodge commanding, ar- rived. The company marched from the Santa Fe depot to the armory through the main streets of the city. It was en- thusiastically applauded, and on every hand a welcome was extended. izl SPANISH SPIES APPLY THE TORCH BALTIMORE, May can to-morrow will say this city yesterday that The Ameri- News reached an attempt 'R .v. DODGE. SEVENTH REGIMENT position just before the militia. REWV. A.S.CLARK was made to destroy the Government nes at the Indian Head proving on the Potomac River. twen- ty-five miles below Washington. A huge pile of wood, containing thou- sands of cords, located near the maga- zines, were destroyed by fire of an in- cendiary origin last Tuesday night. Several suspicious characters have | been seen about the neighborhood for some time past, and it is believed that a spy in the emplcy of the Spanish Burns, will. be placed in an honorable Government had something to do with applying the torch. STRANGE THEORY OF A SEAMAN Captain Cox Thinks That Dewey’s Fleet Bottled Up. Is . Believes the Vessels Cannot Get Out Without Reducing the Forts at the Entrance. However, No Harm Is Likely to Be- fall the American Sailors in Manila Harbor. Spectal Dispatch to The Call VICTORIA, F C ., TMay Captain ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ Which would you rath- er* have, if you could have your choice, transparent skin or perfect features? All the choose one way; and you world would can have it measurably. If you use Pears’ Soap “and wholesomely otherwise, you will have the best complexion Na- ture has for you. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all sorts of people use it. live ['J. G. Cox of this city, one of the most prominent shipping men on the coast, | has an astounding theory to advance | in regard to the failure of Commodore | Dewey to report the news of his vic- | tory over the Spaniards at Manila. It that the American fleet arrived in the harbor at Manila in the darkness. Get- ting past the formidable batteries on the islands of Meriveles and Caballo, which stand at the mouth of the har- bor, and the fortresses of Telago and San Jose points ¢n the north side and damage, they encountered no subma- cult to lay them there, the channel be- ing about 2400 feet decp and the tide a very swift one. After entering the harbor which, save for about three miles of shoal in front of the city proper, is free from menaces, Dewey undoubtedly steamei Captain Cox said, either engage the squadron or run for shelter beneath the guns in the smaller harbor of Cavite. To judge from the reports received they must have adopted the former plan with the aisastrous results to the Spanish already chronicled. There is always a large flotilla of merchantmen in the harbor and Dewey, of the forts while he repaired and re- turned to the attack. He would be obliged to be ever moving to escape the fire from any land batteries. Captain Cox is of the opinion that Dewey and his fleet’ will be obliged to reduce the forts at the mouth of the barbor ere he can get out, for until the guns there are silenced they would make frightful havoc should the fleet attempt to leave the harbor. This is the reason the news of the victory has not reached Honckong, Captain Cox says, notwithstanding the fact that pcrt is but 650 miles away. for none of the vessels are able to get out with the news. Manila Harbor, Captain Cox says, is very unsafe at this time, as the monsoon season is about beginning. Should storms arise now they would gdd greatly to the peril of the American eet. Describing the various fortifications, Captain Cox says Cavite is a well con- structed fortress and auite imposing in appearance. It mounts a large number of guns, but they are not of a very modern type. . Manila is surrounded by land batteries, which are intended, however, more for land use than for guard from attacks by sea, that work being left to Cavite and the other forts. Meriveles—or Corregidor, as it is some- times called—the island fort two miles from the north shore at the mouth of the harbor, is sixty-two feet high and mounts ten guns, but, as at Cavite, these are not modern. Caballo, a small island near by with a lighthouse, has four gums. The three fortresses on the north shore are well fortified and carry a large number of guns. These, as well will be remembered, Captain Cox says, | Limbones on the south side, without | rine mines, for it would be most diffi- | toward the Spanish fleet, which would, | Captain Cox says, after returning from | the first engagement would undoubted- | ly shelter behind these fromh the shells | as the fort of Limbones Point and the | south | shore to Cavite, could do much damage | batteries extending along the ere silenced. Although Dewey is un- able, in his opinion, to come out .at present, Captain Cox does not think the Americans will meet with disaster, as they will reduce the attempt to leave. 'MEXICO FOR VERY | STRICT NEUTRALITY | | No Freight Will Be Allowed to Leave | Vera Cruz for Any Block- aded Cuban Port. MEXICO CITY, May 5.—The Gov. | ernment has given strict orders that | no freight of any nature shall be allow- ed to leave Vera Cruz for any block- forts ere they“ aded port in Cuba, the order affecting provisions collected by the Spanlards to be sent to their army on that island. Orders have also been issued forbidding meetings in any part of the republic, of either Spaniards or Americans, with the object of raising funds for their home Governments. The strange and hostile attitude of a section of the Liberal papers supposed | to be under Spanish influence excites remark, but El Mundo and El Impar- cial, the Liberal papers of the largest circulation, refrain from mentioning matters objectionable to the Americans. WAR PLANS OF THE PRESIDENT Porto Rico Is to Be the Next Point of At- tack. Sampson ~Will Destroy the - Spanish Fleet if He Meets It. Secretary Alger Is Planning Now to Lay a Cable to the Far- allones. Specfal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, May 5. It can be positively stated that the Navy Department is in compiete ignor- ance of the whereabouts of the Spanish fleet. Various reports have located these vessels at Cadiz, the Canaries, off the Newfoundland coast and in mid- ocean, and it was determined to start Captain Sampson out to look for them. As nearly as can be ascertained the argument made by the naval strategic board was as follows: If it is true that the vessels are heading for this side they must be intercepted before reaching their base of supplies at Porto Rico, and therefore a naval engage- ment on the high seas would follow; but if by the time Sampson reaches Porto Rico it appears that the Spanish fleet is yet anchored off the coast of Spain the batteries of Porto Rico will be bombarded, and the enemy’s only naval base on this side of the Atlantic destroyed or occupied by our vessels. The work of reducing the batteries will not require all of Captain Sampson’s vessels, and it is believed that he has orders to dispatch two or more of them to the south to capture the cruiser and | war transport, Alfonso XIII, now at | Barbadoes. If Spain’s fleet is now in midocean, | as currently reported to-day, and head- ing for Porto Rico, a battle royal on the high seas will be the result; but if the vessels are yet on the other side of the Atlantic news will be received in a few days that Captain Sampson is bombarding Porto Rican batteri so that, in any event, before the weel | Is out, or at latest, by Sunday or Mon- day, thrilling news may be expected from that part of the Aflantic. Senator Burrows called at the White | House to-day to present some friends | to the President. As he left he said: “Everything is moving along smoothly and well. What we want now is Porto Ric ‘We ought to have that to-mor- ro ‘Will it be as soon as that?” “Yes,” was the reply. ‘“Probably in | a day or two.” While refraining from saying what took place during his brief interview | with the President, his statement that | the seizure of Porto Rico is expected | to be effected in a day or two was | thought by his hearers to be signifi- cant, having been made immediately after the Senatcr left the President. In addition to the war signal balloon recently shipped to Staten Island from Fort Logan, the department will pur- chase two other balloons to send with Shafter’s men to Cuba. These will be | used at the seized Cuban port. They | will be attached to a windlass and may | be readily elevated or lowered. By | means of strong field glasses a view | of the surrounding ccuntry for a.dis- | tance of fifteen or twenty miles may be taken, so that our soldiers will be given early notice of the enemy’s ap- proach. General Greely, chief signal officer of the War Department, has | just completed a fine system of tele- igraphln and telephonic communication for the Atlantic séaboard as far south | as Fort Caswell, in addition to a tele- | phone system for the field, so that the | various corps and divislons may com- municate easily with each other. He will now turn his attention to the Pa- cific, and if, as reported in the dis- | patches from San Francisco, a cable can be laid from that city to the Far- allon Islands, twenty-eight miles from | the Golden Gate, for $35,000, this work may be undertaker without awaiting a special appropriation of Congress, as there is a balance available out of the amount set aside by Secretary Alger for the signal service. Jessie Ackerman relates some of her most wonderful experiences in dotting the great globe with W. C. T. U. missions in next Surday’s Call. to Take SEATTLE, May 5.—Colonel 1homas M. Anderson, Fourteenth Infantry, United States army, and Companies A and F of the same command, now sta- tioned at Skaguay, have been ordered back to the States and will in all prob- ability be sent to Vancouver Barracks, there to receive orders as to thelr ulti- mate destination. Colonel Anderson was on Wednesday appointed by the President to be brigadier general of volunteers. It is presumed that he will be ordered into active service, to take regulars and volunteer soldiers. Com- | panies B and H of the Fourteenth will | remain at Dyea for some time vet, al though It is stated by army officers re- cently returned from there that there is practically no use for the troops at expedition over ‘the Dalton trail to men have been ordered to join their comrades at Dyea. Four companies of the Fourteenth In fantry were ordered from Vancouver Barracks last February to Dyea an Skaguay, where the Federal authorities were apparently unable to cope with the lawless element that infested both trails from Skaguay and Dyea over the mountains to the lakes. Colonel derson went in command and has been stationed at Dyea ever since. almost definitely settied that at least two organizations of the National Guard of California in this city will be called into active service as volunteers within a day or two. Troop B, cavalry will go prepared to be transferred into a battery of heavy artiller: The volun- teers for the heavy battery from this city this afternoon established camp at | Sutter's Fort preparatory to being | mustered into the volunteer service. Captain John Cook superintended the putting up of the tents and other neces- sary details. The camp Wiu (fln_nl.ue until the men are regularly mustered | in. - S' 4 5. — Regimental | STOCKTON, 2% sixtn Regiment, | headquarters of the Six N. G. C., having been transferred to 108 THE CUBANS Important War Measure Is Passed by the Senate. | Authoriziig Army Officers to Furnish Aid to the In- surgents. | Besides Giving Food to the Starving, Troops on the Island May Distribute Munitions of War. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, May 5. Just before adjournment the Senate | passed an important war measure au- | thorizing the President and general of- | ficers of the army to supply the Cuban insurgents with arms and munitions of | war and empowering officers of the | army serving in Cuba to supply needy | inhabitants of the island with medi- | cines and subsistence. The text of the bill follows: | _Section 1—That while serving in Cuba ‘ grmy of the United States exercising sep- | arate commands may, by special order, | cause subsistence, medical and quarter- master’s supplies to be issued to and e Read the exceedingly interesting 'story of Neptune’s visit to the big | battle-ship Oregon when she crossed | the line lately, written by one of the officers, in next Sunday’s Call. COMMANDER J. J. BRICE, U. 8. N., the New Capfiln of the Yard at Mare Island. Navy Yard in VALLEJO, May &—The States cruiser Charleston was placed in commission this morning at the navy- yard by Captain J. J. Brice, U. 8. N, who has just been assigned as captain of the yard. As soon as the ship was turned over to Captain Henry Glass, U. 8. N, the commander of the ship. the Independence band, as the flags were unfurled, played ‘“Hail Colum- bia” and other patriotic airs. Then cheer upon cheer was given for the flag, the Charleston, and lastly for the commanding officer, Captain Henry Glass. The sight was stirring and had never before been witnessed at Mare Island. The officers, as well as the entire erew and many civilians assembled on the wharf, joined in the loud huzzas. The band furnished more music, the flags waved to the breeze, and soon the crew, to the number of 280, were as- signed to watches and divisions, and life aboard ship at once began. It will be but a very short time before the Charleston is loaded with coal, pro- visions, medical stores, ammunition and all the appurtenances that go to make up a great fighting machine that will have no peer in Asiatic waters. The officers who have so far been se- lected for the ship are well versed and trained in the art of modern warfare, and either in maneuvering a ship or training a gun are equal to any emer- gency that might arise. The crew has been selected with great The cruiser care. has during the past six |W. CHARLESTON IS IN COMMISSION AT MARE ISLAND An Interesting Ceremony at the Which Sailors Are dJoined by Civilians. United weeks been almost entirely remodeled and has all the up to_date appliances in electrical works and mode of work- ing her batteries. She is now lying at the wharf in the dark gray color with smoke issuing from the stacks, as the engines are being turned and the elec- tric lights burned. The other night the great searchlights were turned on long after 10 o'clock and lit up the buildings in Vallejo like ghostly ap- paritions. WASHINGTON, May 5.—Captain H. Glass has been detached from the navy- yard at Mare Island, where he was in command of the Pensacola, and as- signed to command “immediatel-" the Charleston. This cruiser is expected to convoy the relief expedition to Commo- dore Dewey at Manila. The following officers were ordered to report immediately on board the Charleston for duty: Assistant Surgeon A. Faren- holt, from the naval hospital at Mare Island; Surgeon F. Rogers; Lieutenant Commander Blocklinrr, from Mare Island: Lieutenant W. S. Brauners- reuther, from Mare Island yard: Ideu- tenant P. M. Bostwick, from Mare Island yard; Naval Cadet C. L. Lelper, from the ank!ln: Acting Carpenter J. P. Gili, 1) Mare Island yard; Na- val Cadet J. O. Bissell, from the Ver- mont; Lieutenant C. R. Slocum, from the Patterson; Chief Engineer R. W. Galt, from the Mare Island yard; Lieu- tenant R. E. Contz, from the Patter- son; Assistant Engineer J. E. McKenn, from the Albatross; Cadet A. Marshall, from the Vermont command of a brigade of mixed troops, | either Skaguay or Dyea. The Eldridge | Belleisle has been abandoned and the | An- | SACRAMENTO, May 5.—i. has been | uring the existing war officers of the | e RALLY OF THE VOLUNTEERS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE ' Regulars and Guardsmen on the Coast Ready and Anxious the Field. Stockton this afterncon a carload of tents, poles, iron frames for snhoqegge targets and other military necessities arrived from Fresno on the Southern Pacific and were moved into a vacant place under the armory. There_ are two styles of silhouette targets. They are of the shape and size of a man 2iming a gun standing up, and also kneeling, and are designed to perfect marksmen in shooting at real men in battle. PALO ALTO, May 5.—Captain Jack Brunton of the track team has an- nounced intention of enlisting and will | leave the uni ty to-morrow to join Company K, First Regiment, N. G. C.| Brunton has had the war spirit for | some time, but has delayed enlisting n the hope of making a cavalry troop, being an expert horseman. The depar- ture of student volunteers to-day has- and persuaded composed large- | 4 ;n—ned Brunton’s d | him to join a com 1y of fellow collegian | "SAN DIEGO, May 5.—Company B, | Seventh Regiment, N. G. C., Captain | Dodge, left at 1:45 p. m. for Los .An- les to join the regiment en route for San Francisco, eighty-nine men being sjasm was mani- ~orted to the de- fested. d Confederate pot by the G | veterans and school ¢ en. | REDLANDS, Ma —The greatest | enthusiasm prevails at Redlands this | evening, preparatory to the departure | of volunt formerly Company C. | The city profusely decorated and anvils and cannon ound throughout | the city. The soldier leave at 8 o’clock to-morrow me Elaborate | preparations have b made to see em off. Of the 1 ng physical examination eighty-four passed. . All are voung and spirited and filled with | Captain Biggin is Yo n n patriotic e will command company. BAKERSFIELD. 5.—Company G is ready and awai jers. Or- ders are expected in the next twenty- four hours. Captain Cook has n tendered the comn n of lieutenant in the heavy art of California. He has refused the offer, preferring to re- main commander of Company G, 2 po- | sition he has occupied for the past sie | years. abitants of nd of Cuba who > destitute and in immediate danger of perishing un- less they receive the same Section 2—That the Presi eral offi commandin | are herel proper o such arms, a military stores equire to re rmy as allie T a and of C preters, g | The bill w: 'TERRIBLE STORY | OF CANNIBALISM., | Fourteen Escaped Prisoners Attack a | Village, Killed and Eat Eighteen | Men. | BRISBANE, Queensland. May | terrible story of cannibalism is reported from New Guinea. Fourteen escaped prisoners from Mana attacked a friendly village, killing and eating eigthteen men. =S | El Liberal’s Prediction. MADRID May 5—FEl Liberal, in a glocmy article, which states that ‘“the | subterraneous rumblings preceding so- { cial upheaval,” are heard, declares | that “the fate of the country cannot | remain longer with the weak hands| and worn-out intellec f the men now | governing the country SAVED | That word “saved” we all revere. We | thank with true feeling all those who! | either protect or relieve u\ from trouble. ! | What is there that bothers you to-day? Nervousness. What brought it about? Folly! That is the truth, and it does you no good to conceal it. Unable to perform any of the serious duties which men - have to accomplish, you are ashamed of yourself at least half of the time. That makes you nervous. Would it not be a pleasant surprise to you to find yourself changed FROM BEING a weakling to feeling full of power—to wake up a man—not to know that you are a weakling? You have overworked your brain; you have put on some of your functions too severe work. It may be mental excess, and it may be other kinds of folly. But no matter what it is, “Hudyan” makes up for all the loss. It has re-created 20,000 men. Is that good news for you? You are not asked to believe that statement without proof. If you will send a postal card and ask, free circulars and testimonials will be sent you which will prove how great “Hudyan" is. Why be SMALL Blood taint is cured swiftly and sure< Iy by “30 day blood cure.” All stages of the disease give way before it. It is a permanent cure, too. Circulars about it are as free as “Hudyan” testimony. Medical advice is quite free, too. Call at the Institute if you can. If you can- not, write. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, STOCKTON, ELLIS AND MARKET STS., San Francisco, Cal. ! |