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14 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1898 14 L e o o e e (MM SRNEREGENe At e e B e s e s Hay, & native of La Grange, Stanislaus County. > Interment Stockton, July 10, 1838 —In this city, July 7, 153, beloved brother of Fred, ellle, Edward and Hanna Js K. E. Hanson, a native of 5 Friends and i are respect Priends and acquaintances are respect- i nvitea o i1 funeral_this day king reets . Marion, mother | te and H Cleveland, Ia., a native of London, aged 71 years T Friends and acquainta d, s are respect- ral to-morrow. , from her late resi- rect. Interment Cypress , by carriage. City and County Hospital, »seph Lucas, & native of France, ), at 1:30 o 410 Octavia \—In_this_city, . wife of J. W. T | | | | T ingre of Ireland, W im, Ire- o8l oss TAYLOR J De | 1898, | Louis | McAVOY & GALLAGHER, FUNEKAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMER) U RIFTE ST, Opp. Lincola Scaoal. Telephone, South &) S IAs GLISH. T. R. CAREW. CAREW & ENGLISH, UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMER3 | CTOR:! | Marget st. San Estab. South 4. 1855 Tel. CRAIG & COCHRAN CO. Funeral Directors and Emualmers, 22,24 AND 26 MINT AVENUE. Lady sssi of our patr s, Spacious chape. for the use | Rubber tires on our umbuianca | HOTEL ARRIVALS. ND HOTEL. | € \J M Mason, Boston | J B G Masor GaN . Watsonvl .’ Nev W Murray, D Fuetscher, J W Naught . ell. Menl | Brown, Chgo .|C E Andre t Louls O L Barton, w & d, A Appel.” Germany | H A Haenssler, Mo Mrs Haenssler, Mo | HOTEL. W Chapmi |EQa Wolf, {0 ¢ s Capt Dasher, enthoitz, i{ 3 L U J S pa. L Ane v Mexico 8 Chi S Joaquin exjco s rom, By Lee M Davis, S W G Chappell, Menlo| N Ogden alinas EE W_Francis, J Laping & w, Cal P Walker, Haywards F Cottle, L M Portland , S © S Jose Mrs E E Graham, Cal DOMESTIC PORTS. GREENWOOD- for San Francisco. ASPAR—Arrived July—Stmr Maxim, ailed July $—Stmr Alcatraz, hence 3. Bailed July 9—Schr Abble, for San Francisco. —_————— A man who was wanted in two coun- ties of Kansas for grand larceny was arrested in Fort Scott the other day and bound over in the sum of $1500 for his appearance at that place. The au- thorities of the other county provided the bail for the prisoner and took him to St. Paul for trial. The chances are strongly in favor of his being convicted and sent to the penitentiary; and the query has arisen-as to how, in that event, the county would escape pay- wment of the Fort Scott bond. o Great Britain has a longer sea coast line than any other nation in Europe. It measures 27556 miles, with Italy sec- ond, 2472 miles. Russia ranks third and ' | First New York Volunteers Selected | | changes and provide for the e | the service of the general government to | dent McKinley, | July 9, about Santiago have not capitulated, COMMISSION FOR HAWAIL Members Chosen by the President. WILL HASTEN TO ISLANDS MAJOR GENERAL OTIS TO LEAVE SOON WITH TROOPS. as a Garrison Force for the Newly Acquired Territory. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, BROKE ALL HIS PLEDGES Gross Treachery of a Spaniard. y DECEIVED THE FILLIPINOS WHY THE REVOLUTION WAS RESUMED. Natives Shot by Order of the Gov- ernor After a Peace Agree- ment Had Been Eifected. Correspondence of the Associated Press. Copy- right, 1838, by the Associated Press. LONDON, July 2—Oneof Aguinaldo’s Washington, July 9. The President has appointed Senator Cullom of Illinois, Senator Morgan of Alabama, R-nresentative Hitt of Illinois, Sanford Dole, president of the Hawaiian republic, and W. ear of Hawail, to be Commi ers under the provisions of the Hawailan tion resolution. -he | commission will lose no time in proceed- | fng to the islands to institute an inves ) gation. The has about com- nding troops At a conference between the | to-day it was deter- jor General Otls leave on as possible with i estabush a garri- The First New York | left Chicago last night, | rancisco, is slated for il. The department consid- York Regiment the most mined to have N San F i son at Honolulu. Volunteers, whic en route for San duty Hawal ers New the available ce that can be got off in a | hurry, and, although they we sent W under ceed to the Philip- pine tructions will un- | doubted! 1ged. The ¢ master general has secured the ste ania and Romani. vhich w to convoy the New | Yorkers 4 bly one other regiment th of these ships are . and will be fitted up at at once, so to be ready for apon the arrival of the New ! g Regiment. le that General Otis may be United States official to arrive Honolulu, and to run up the Stars and Stripes there. It is generally under- t Captain Wadleigh ~ of the 1t e this honor, an Francisco may beat him to w York will prob- called on the ad- d urged that the be sent to al told him de whether Sixth California later_in the day it ew York Regl- Lant ger xth C Honolt that al C the First N would be se otis would york or —_— - THURSTON SATISFIED WITH THE RESOLUTION CHICAGO, July $.—Commissioner Thurs- | ton of Hawall passed through here to-day | on his way to Honolulu, where he will re- | port to government and according to | his own statement, retire from public life outside his own community. seaking of the new situation created the annexation resolution he said: *I tisfied with the resolution and the commission whi s been appointed to t the U es and so far as now all my people are. It has b g, hard fight of more than five years, but we felt this result must come some h St i Since the beginning of the war we been sure of succes: The news will Hawali on Thurs though 1, m . will not a undl a_week | Wednesday. finished my ork and am m | sult. | “T do not know what the commission will do, but we hope for a territorial form | of government, with a delegate in Con- | gress. We realize that we are unf statehood and 1 do not expect to over the re- ted for | e it in t I hope it will come ! of this countr~ casiness on that territorial governm will an- all purposes and be sufficient for our vs are modeled on th: United States, and the commi find but little to do locall Our con- tract labor system, of course, will be | overthrown most of us are glad of it, but otherw: 11 the comm will | nd to do will be to make of the on will the {: nds. “We hope to see Honolulu a great naval station, especlally if the Philippines are | retalned, and fc will be. We h 5 and they are amply local need that m; try is extremely pr believe there is an e men with mon to there. The Americ immense advantag able to handle The coun- sellent chance for | mbark in business | will now have an > Will Soon Organize. WASHINGTON, July 9.—Senator Cul- | lom, after a conference to-day with Presi- | tated thut the Hawalian commission would probably organize here | early next week, so they would probably , sail from San Francisco for Honolulu dur- | ing the following week. He thought the commission would not remain in Hawall more than two months. INDIANA STRUCK BY A BOMB FROM A MORTAK The Missile Went Through the Deck of the Vessel, but No One | ‘Was Hurt. Copyrighted, 1898, by the Associated Press. OFF SANTIAGO, July 8 (per the As- sociated Press dispatch boat Cynthia, | Port Antonio, Jamalca and Kingston, noon).—The shore batteries as is evidenced by the Indiana recelv- | ing a Spanish compliment in the shape | of a bomb from a mortar on the night of July 4 The missile went through the deck of the warship into the ward- room, where it exploded with terrific | force. Luckily, nobody was in the room at the time, and the explosion caused no loss of life. There was no panic, and the officers and crew quietly extinguished the fire which resulted. Transports With Wounded at Tampa TAMPA, Fla., July 5.—The Iroquois and Cherokee, two transports from Santiago, arrived here to-night: The latter ship has a large number of wounded who are being transferred to the awalting hospital trains. The former vessel has only a few wounded on board, having left most of her passengers in Key West. The Hondurian bark Amapala, which was captured some time ago by the block- ading squadron off Havana, was released to-day from quarantine and sailed for Trujillo. R ‘Water Scarce at Carson. CARSON, July 9.—Never before in the history of Carson has there been such a scarcity of water as made itself manifest last night. Should a conflagration have started it would have burned unchecked. This morning the water company pub- lished a notice prohibiting the sprinkling of lawns and gardens for the entire sum- France fourth. | preposterous. | capital or credit. | language, but by last week’'s mall |learned Aguinaldo intends as far as the leaders in the last Philippine revolt is living incognito in London and practi- | cally acting as Aguinaldo’s agent, in receipt of constant telegrams and let- ters from Cavite. Questioned on the Philippine situation by a representative of the Associated Press, he said: “The Philippine independence was proclaimed in October, 1896, and its first President was Andreas Bonifacio. When he died over a year age Aguin- aldo was eiected President and com- mander-in-chief. On the arrival of Captain General Primo de Reviera that officer made a policy of bringing the re- bellion to an end by means of conces- sions, force having failed. Our leaders were approached and the result was the pact of Bianonabatg, so called from the village where it was signed on De- cember 14, 1847, “Senor Sagasta the other day denied | that in the ‘pact’ General Reviera | promised reforms. Here is an official copy of that ‘pact’ wherein is promised | MURDER CHARGES DENIED the banishment, or at least the dis- banding, of the religious orders; Phil- | ippine representation in the Cortes; the | same administration of justice for the | natives as for the Spaniards; unity of | laws between the Philippines and | Spain; the natives to share the cmeq offices of the Philippine civil adminis- tration; re-arrangement of the prop- erty of the friars and of the taxes in favor of the natiy recognition of the individual rights of the natuves with liberty of public meeting and of the press and a general amnesty. These sum up the native grievances, and are what we will expect the Americans will institute. | For those reforms Aguinaldo and the other leaders promised that if Re- viera carried out the ‘pact’ they would | expatriate themselves for three years and foment no movement against Spanish authority during that time. | Upon the rebels surrendering their | arms, ammunition and forts Aguinaldo | was to receive four hundred thousand | pesetas. This money Aguinaldo de- | posited in the Hongkong and Shanghai | Bank at Hongkong, not for his per- sonal use, but as a fund, the interest of which—in case the Captain General carried out his part of the ‘pact'—was | to be devoted to the education of na- | tives in England. In case the ‘pact’| was not fulfilled by the Spaniards the money was to be used for arms and ammunition for the rebellion. The| Captain General mnever proclaimed a | general amnesty, denied the existence of the ‘pact’ and shot several rebel| leaders who return.d to Manila on the | strength of it. “Since the renewal of the rebellion under the inspiration of Admiral Dew- ey's victory the present Captaln Gen- eral has approached Aguinaldo and his | leaders and promised if they would | make common cause against the Amer- | fcans he would carry out the reforms | stated in the ‘pact.’ As a mark of good faith he createdalegislative coun- cil to which he nominated twenty lead- ing Ministers of the Philippine repub- lic. All overtures were scornfully re- Jected. “The German pretensions are simply The Germans there are practically little more than peddlers. All the large mercantile houses are English, who have in their hands quite three-fourths of the bulk and value of the commerce. The banks, raflways, telegraphs, cable and local steamship lines are English, the only cotton mills belong to the English and the control the sugar and hemp Germans are trying for some of the heavier trade, but have not There is only one | American_house in Manila. There is | only one Russian subject on the island. Up to now Spanish has been the officlal I republic is concerned to substitute Eng- ish. “The root cause of the Philippine re- bellions has always been the steady deprivation of the natives of their rights by the Spaniards. Year ly year security for life and property has diminished, particularly so as to the native friars in the Philippines. The Spanish friars, too, have sent to Spain | all the monastery wealth they could dispose of, particularly that willed to the monasteries by rich natives. Then, too, the persecution of the Free Masons by the friars caused the 3000 Masons | Laing lodged in jail, at the instance of the friars, and loaded with frons. Be- sldes, no promise ever made by the Spanfards to the natives has been kept.” Kept Out of the Army. CARSON, July 9.—Company A of the Nevada National Guard and the Emmett Guard of Virginia City arrived at Camp Sadler this morning. District Attorney Noell of Storey County came with Company A. On the same train came a petition from the people of Storey County, requesting the Governor to com- el Noel to remain at home and attend to {s duties. The Governor complied with the request, and Noel returned this even- ing. His intentions were to appoint a deputy as District Attorney and accept a commission with the National Guard. e Raisin-Growers Must Pool. FRESNO, July 9.—The directors of the California Raisin Growers' Assoclation, at a meeting to-day, completed a contract with packers whereby the packers agree not to handle any raisins which are not pooled in the hssoclation’s combine. The effect will be to force all raisin growers into the association. About 40 per cent have thus far signed the contract to pool the crop. ———— Rev. Dr. Sunderland Coming. ANN HARBOR, Mich., July 9.—Rev. Dr. Sunderland, one of the best-known Uni- tarians in the country, and his wife, a prominent educator and writer, have de- cided to move to California next month for a permanent residence. Dr. Sunder- land has been pastor of the Unitarian church here for twenty years. The Express Company Must Pay. WASHINGTON, July 9.—The Commis- sloner of Internal Revenue has a decis- fon in preparation in which it will be held that the stamp representing the tax on express matter must be affixed to the bill of lading by the express company and not by the individual shipper. This also applies to the Government when sending express matter under its contracts. —_——— | places. FOUGHT ONLY IN ONE BOAT Story of La Bourgogne Seamen. FRENCH CONSUL GENERAL’S REXORT. Says the Passengers Were Panic- Stricken, but the Crew Did Its Best to Prevent Loss of Life. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 9.—Consul General Bruwaert, representing the French Gov- ernment in this city, to-day told the history of the wreck of La Bourgogne as he got it from the crew of the ship in thelr depositions. Mr. Bruwaert's story is as follows: “When the collision occurred Captain Deloncle, who was on the bridge, im- mediately ordered the twelve life boats to be manned by the crews assigned to them. The crews responded quickly to the order and remained at their posts. After this, the captain signaled from the bridge to the officers below decks to ascertain the extent of the injuries below. He recel ed no response to the| signal. About eight minutes after the captain had signaled down below and received no answer Fourth Engineer Laise rushed up to the captain and told him the side of the ship was cut open and water was pouring into the ma- chinery compartment. Captain De- loncle ordered the boats to be lowered. “The ship was stopped about this time. Passengers from all parts of the | ship came rushing upon the deck and | ran about in a panic. They got in the | way of the sailors and pushed them | away from the boats as they were | loosening them. Before the boats could | be got from tlie davits and ready to| launch the ship suddenly listed to star- board, throwing some of the passengers overboard. The slant of the deck was 80 steep that passengers could not stand on it. The passengers of the first-class had rushed out of their rooms to the port side of the ship and | against the protests of the sailors | clambered into the six boats there. _‘\;’ list to starboard made the big boat | swing on the inward and turned the| davits back against the sides of the cabins. ““The sailors implored the passengers to leave the boats, and in cases tried to shove them out so that the boats could be lifted over the side of the ship. A crowd appeared ready to take their The sailors heaved away at them, but could not budge them. They gave up at last and were engaged in cutting the boats fr when the big vessel pitched stern downward and sank, carrying the port boats with it. “*On the starboard side three boats were smashed by the Cromartyshire in the collision. Boat No. 7 was filled with women and other passengers and had been launched successfully when the big funnel fell, crushing the boat and killing most of those in it. “Twenty Austrian sailors from the steerage seized boat 11. There was room for fifty in the boat, but passen- gers and crew were fought off by the men in it. Passengers in the water tried to get aboard, but were pushed off. Boat 9, filled with passengers, was got off successfully. It had some fifty- three aboard, including its crew. The only boat on the port side, whither the first-class passengers had rushed after trying the starboard side, was No. 3. The 8ailors around it succeeded in get- ting it Jaunched, leaped into it as the ship went down and picked up passen- gers enough from the water to fill it. Passengers were also rescued from the water by the only raft saved. Boats frem the Cromartyshire came up as the ship sank. Two good boats and the part of the smashed boat to which some were clinging were taken to the salling-ship. The boats manned by the crew of the Bourgogne and the English ship circled around about where the big ship had sunk, picking up survivers.” The Consul says that he made the in- vestigation carefully, and that the stories of the men agree and were told frankly. The sailors said that the life- preservers were furnished by the crew to the passengers, but they were in a state of panic and threw them away in many instances. Consul Bruwaert inquired particular- ly as to the fighting among the crew or passengers. All the stories of the wrecked men agree that neither the men from La Bourgogne's crew nor the passengers did any fighting, except the Austrians and the Ttalians. Most of this was done by the Austrians in the single boat. Among the callers at the steamship company’s ofiice to-day was Brother Romaine, a survivor. He sald that his own experience would not bear out the criticism of the Bourgogne's crew. He said the officers of the ship were in thelr places doing everything they could to restraln the panic amoug the passengers. A saflor came to him and asked him If he could swim. He told him that he could. The ship’s man pointed out something floating in the water. told him the best thing he could do would be to swim for it. The ship was fust about to sink and the sallor took Brother Romaine in his arms and threw him as far away from the ship as he could. He managed to swim away fast enough to avoid being caught in the whirlpool caused by the ship and was rescued by a raft. RETURNS OF ELECTION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA The Government Will Have Probably Not More Than a Majority of Two in the House. VANCOUVER, B. C., July 9.—Returns received from to-day’s provincial election up to midnight give the following result: Government 15; opposition 17; doubtful 6. The following seats have gone Govern- ment: Comox, Cowichan, Esquimalt (2), Kootenay East North Riding, Lilloot, West, Nanaimo North, New Westminster City, Victoria South, Victoria City (3), Victoria North, Westminster, Dewdney, Yale and East Riding. The following seats have gone to the opposition: Alberni, Cariboo (2), Koote- nay, Revelstoke, Kootenay, Slocan, Koo- tenay, Nelson, Kootenay, Rossland, Nan- aimo City, Nanaimo South, Vancouver City (4), Westminter, Chilliwack, West- minster, Delta, Westminster, Richmond, Yale West. The following seats are undecided: Vic: toria City (1), North Yale, East Koote- nay, South Riding end Lillooet East. Cascirs two seats will be contested later. Premier Turner was defeated in Chiill- wack, but will be returned from Victoria City. V’iCTORIA. B. C., July 9.—Victoria re- turns all four Government candidates. Go&'cmment loses three seats on the isl- an: Kamloops, previously a Government stronghold, has gone opposition. The lat- est returns Indicate not more than a Gov- mer. The street-sprinkl] carts i been taken o&. ey ok Advances made on furniture and planos, with oF without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Misston. ernment majority of two in #+~ Wouse which congists of 38 members. COLON'S PART N THE FIGHT Report Submitted by Her Captain. LAST TO BE VANQUISHED BEACHED TO PREVENT TUSE- LESS LOSS OF LIFE. Cervera Made no Signals While at Sea, all Orders Having Been Given Before the Stdrt. Copyrighted, 18%, by the Assoclated Press. GUANTANAMO, Jul~ § (via the As- sociated Press dispatch boat Cynthia), | via Port Antonic and Kingston, Ja- maica. July $9.—Lieutenant Adolphus Kentros, the executive officer of the| Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, has| written to Spain an official account of the movement of Admiral Cervera's squadron in the fight. The Colon came out last at full s~eed, | and tried to escape the Brooklyn andl Oregon, but was compelled to beach | sixty miles west of Santiago at 1:15| and not at 2 o’clock, as stated in Ad- | miral Sampson’s report. The transla- tion of the letter by Executive Officer Kentros is as follows: ‘““About 9 o’clock the squadron got un- der way, the ships one cable’s length distant from each other. At 9:30 o’clock | the Infanta Maria Teresa cleared the entrance to the harbor without receiv- ing any fire until she had passed Kl | Morro. The Vizcaya felt the fire when | at the head of the entrance, as well as | the Cristobal Colon, and it is certain that the Almirante Oquendo opened fire while within the channel. ““When clear of the entrance the Cris- tobal Colon went ahead at her maxi- mum speed. The Infanta Maria Teresa, at 9:30 a. m., when hardly clear of the entrance, was seen to be on fire in her after part and a few minutes after- ward was headed for the beach. “An hour later the Almirante Oquen- do was seen to be on fire, and she, too, | was headed for the beach at the same | point. | “The Vizcaya and the Cristobal Colon continued the fight. The former, about 10 o'clock, seeing herself overhauled by | the Brooklyn, maneuvered as if to ram and without doubt at that moment must have received the projectile that | started the fire on her and she was| seen to head for the beach in order to strand herself. “The Cristobal Colon alone remained, | staying the fire of the Brooklyn, the| only ship within range, but a few mo- ments later she observed the Oregon | closing up and later the same with the other ships. ‘“The projectiles of the Oregon began reaching us at 1 p. m., and that, | together with the fact that it was im- | possible to fight with the after guns on account of the Colon’s lack of large caliber pleces and the certainty of be- ing overhauled by the whole American squadron in a few hours, left no other remedy than to run ashore in order to avoid useless sacrifice of life. “The admiral made no signals while at sea, instructions for forcing the blockade having been ~‘ven the cap- tains at a meeting which took place on the morning of the previous day.” THE ROUNDER. “One morning Gus, Charley, Otto and I| landed in Williamsburg,” sald the round- er as he shook his half empty beer glass into foam preparatory to drinking it. “Tt was about 3 o'clock. That was the night the Italian hot corn vender sold us his entire stock for 35 cents under the mis- taken impression that there were only | seven ears in the boller. In reality there | were about forty-seven, and we regaled all the trolley men at the ferry, much to their surprise and satisfaction. Then we traveled along a slde street that I could not find now, and ran across a bakery in full working operation. The smell of the baking bread roused the pangs of hunger again and we' went down the steps into the cellar where the men were working. They glanced up at us as we came in| without the sll%htest surprise on their floury faces and kapt on_ working. One man, however, who seemed to be the pro- prietor, came somewhere from the back- ground of chirping crickets and asked us what we wished. We didn't quite know and told him so, after a cursory examina- tion of all the doughy masses around us. “Gus suggested that probably there| was cake or something upstairs in the store that would strike our fancy. We went up with some difficulty. The baker it a gas jet and we gazed vacantly at the mottled cake In the showcases and the stale bread on the counter. The baker looked at us_inquiringly and we looked back with all the expressions that men can develop after paying the steady at- tention to the business in hand that we had. Thus we all stood for fully three minutes without saving a word. Then the man glided softly from behind the coun- ter and, in the most matter-of-fact man- ner imaginable, opened the door and bowed obsequiously. We stared at him and he bowed again, holding the door open with his left hand. Then Otto marched out, tr¥lng to hold his head erect, and we fell in behind in Indian file. The man closed the door just as softly, and we heard the patter of his slippers as he turned out the gas and went back work. ‘O"g‘rl'se stood outside for awhile and then moved away mechanically. Nobody said a word unflr the next drink, and that was three blocks off. had forgotten the Whote thing until now, but it seems to me | it would have appeared very funny to an | outsider’—New York Sun. The depth to which a diver can go 1s nothmor: than 100 teet. Below this the pressure of the water is too great. To | lower him to this depth he must wear fron shoes that weigh fourteen pounds, | and must have eighty pounds of lead strapped round his walst. When lifted off the lugger, feet first, he weighs 300 pounds. His first sensation on entering | the water Is a frightful pain in the ea's, and in all exposed parts of the body where | the alr-suit cannot keep pressure Bwn)\‘. or where the air becomes unevenly dis- tributed. He sinks rapidly, but once upon the bed of the ocean he is ready for work. | In the case of pearl divers the shells look | 50 enormous to him that he is sure he: cannot lift more than one at a time, and the novice will give the life-line a tugi and be lifted to the surface, only to fll’ld‘,i f the magnifying powers ol x:kée:‘va‘t,::. tohat he had a small sheil in his hand. danger in diving is that men will m;l;.hl:eepn lie wheel going that é)umps ar to the pipe that supplies the diver witn alr—that the boat may sail over some submarine obstruction in which the life- line will get entangled. An old anchor with the rope drifting from it serfously endangered the life of one diver. The dangers below are poisonous fish that will bite a man's feet or fingers, or sharks that nip them off at a bite. A polsonous stone fish secretes itself behind the pearl oyster shell and gives the diver serlous injury if stung. ivers become deaf from the pressurc upon the ear drum. They also run greal risks of paralysis from disturbance of the circulation of the blood. The heart suf- fers from the same cause, and the lungs. if weak, rupture at the first descent. It takes the greatest hardiness, and any ill- ness of the body, from a weak joint to a sneezing cold, lays a diver up until he has entirely recovered. READY FOR THE ANILA TRADE The Puebla to Go on the Route After the War. SHIP TACOMA IS CHARTERED TO TAKE HORSES AND STORES TO THE PHILIPPINES. Government Undecided Whether to Send the Bennington or Phila- delphia to the Hawaiian Islands. The transports City of Puebla and Peru are now ready to receive troops. Both vessels have been fitted out in first-class style, and the soldiers who go on them will be very comfortable. The Puebla has been fixed up in a very thorough man- ner, and the chances are that she wiil not | be taken off the Manila run in a hurry. 43 soon as Uncle Sam is in possession she will be the first of a line of enger steamers that will ply between San Fran- cisco, Hawall, Ladrones and Philippines. Since her overhauling the Puebla is emi- nently fitted for service in the tropics. Her system of ventilation is perfect, a first-class refrigerafing plant has been put in, a bath fer sailors has been fixed up in the forecastle, one for the oilers and fire men and another for the engineers have been put In aft, while in all twenty-four shower-baths have been fixed up in var- | ious parts of the ship for passengers. A gerfect system of cooking by steam has een put in, so that a meal for a thousand men can be prepared In a little over half an hour. The promenade deck has beeen 50 arranged that it can be covered with an awning from stem to stern, and in very hot weather the passengers will be able to sling their hammocks on deck and enjoy the cool night winds. All in all, the Puebla will be the best fitted out trans- port that will carry troops to Manila. Captain Harry Goodall of the Columbia has been transferred to the City of Pu- ebla, and will go out in command of her when' she sails for Manila. This will en- tafl a number of changes arhong other masters of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. Captain Greeen of the State of California will take the Columbia and Captaln Cousins of the Umatilla will take the State of Californfa. Captain Thomas will take the Umatilla. The next fieet of transports to be got ready will probably consist of the steam- ers St. Paul, Wal Walla, Pennsylvani and City of Rio de Jaulero, the s coma and the collier Titanla. The was looked over by Major Long and Cap- | tain Howard, but they finally came to the conclusion that the steamer is too small. With the horses that are to go down the Government wants to send four months’ supplies of hay and grain. It is reckoned that a horse will eat seven bales of hay during the voyage to Manila, besides his usual allowance of oats, so_that 700 bales would have to be carried for the horses alone. This would take up more space than the Czarina could spare, and at the same time leave room for other supplies, so the Government decided to take the | ship Tacoma, The Tacoma was discharging at the gas works, but yesterday a tug was sent for her, and during the afternoon she docked | at Main-street wharf. To-morrow morn- ing the work of fitting up quarters for the | horses will begin, and the ship will be ready to sall before the week is out. The City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pennsylvania will both be discharged in a few days, and the work of getting them ready will begin at once. Accommoda- tions for 600 men are all ready to slut into the Pennsylvania, so that she will prob- ably be the first of the next fleet to be ready to sail. The Walla Walla will ar- rive from Puget Sound ports to-morrow, and she will be discharged and ready for the carpenters by Wednesday, while the St. Paul, sister ship to the Senator, will be fixed up as soon as she charges her Klondike freight and passengers. Just which warship will go to Honolulu with the transports Peru and ity of Puebla seems to be In doubt. The gun- boat Bennington is now in the stream, and the Philadelphia is expected down from the navy-yard to-morro Some people who think they know say the Ben- nington will go to Honolulu with the Com- missioners who will raise the stars and stripes over Hawalil, while the Philadel- phia will remain on the coast. Others, again—and among them are the men on the Bennington—say that the gunboat is going north to keep a watchful eye on the treasure ships that are coming from St. Michael. A«smh‘ul Miller's flag still flies from the Albatross, and until it is decided where the cruiser and gunboat are going no change will be made. All of yesterda, the Bennlngton was_taking stores aboard, and she will be ready for sea to-morrow. f she goes to Honolulu it will be a great disappointment to her crew, as they have t returned from the islands, and now want to go to Manila. Kid is not the only material from which gloves are made, although the name is long associated with them. Tron gaunt- lets were used in the Middle Ages, later embroidered leather and jewel-set gloves, gloves of hair, linen, velvet, satin and {affeta. Asbestos gloves, that can be cleaned merely by throwing them into the fire, are for fire laddies. Waxed, glazed and perfumed gloves were worn a cens tury ago, when the rage for extravagant dress was at its height. — Many sailors believe that the frigate bird can start at daybreak with the trade winds from the coast of Africa and roost the same night upon the American shore. Whether this is a fact or not has vet to be determined: but it is certaln that the bird is the swiftest of winged creatures, and is able to fly, under favorable condi- tions, 200 miles an hour. ————— Dutch omnibuses are fitted with let- ter boxes. [PRESARI0 GONE ASTRAY Frank Greene Skips and Charity Funds Fly. ;EMPLOYED FEMALE SPIELERS BENEFITS FOR INSTITUTIONS HIS SPECIALTY. Patronesses of the Men’s Home and Miss Hill of the Eureka Valley Kindergarten Left to Mourn His Loss. | An impresario has gone astray, and the patronesses of the Men's Home and M India Hill of the Eureka Valley dergarten are left to bitterly mourn h untimely loss and incidentally to straight- en out his affair ; Frank M. Greene, who posed for & time as a local Grau, came from St. Louls with letters to the best people, and at once made known his spec successful arrangement of benefit entertainments for deserving and worthy charities. His benefits were sure things for the charities. Greene handled the funds, took entire charge of the programm hiring of halls and disposing of tickets, promising the beneficiary a stated sum, and rendering accou no one. All hig | business was conducted in a strictly legal manner, and the society to be benefited affixed its signature to a contract, agree- | ing to these terms. X rity concerts with most s actory resuits were given by Greene, and then he approached the president of the Men's Home, Mrs. Hale Rix, and “its treasurer, Mrs. Hattie Ro tson, offering them splendid inducements for a benefit in aid of their charity to be held at the Maple Hall of the Palace Hotel on the evening of June 23. The ladies were to take no active part | in the affair. They were simply to lend the name of the home and in return | Greene was to swell the charity’s coffers by $50. A week previous to the affair the impresario disappeared, and as it has since transpired, after disposing of 100 tickets at 51 apiece. 3 Greene also had another little game on for the same evening and the same place in ape of a concert for the benefit the sh M Eureka Valley though his was charming, his address of course affable, and hls speech glib, he sold no tickets, but disposed of his ‘wares by means of female spielers, The young women anvassed the tow and received a 10 per cent bonus on every ticket they disposed of. Everything was worked by schedule, Spielers were given a certain number of streets to work, with a rough estimate of the results each district would yield. The following is Greene's estimate of the charitable inclination of the various streets and public buildings: Pine 25, Bush Sutter 10, Post S, Geary §, O'Farrell §, Fili- more 10, Polk 10. Buildings—Meyer 15, Mills 10, Crocker 10, Call 15, Examiner 10, Chronicle 16, Bulletin 10, City Hall 10, Union Trust 10, Wells Fargo | 19, Parrott building 10, Spreckeis 5; Southern Pacific Company 10, Safe Deposit 5. Breweries. Physicians. ber merchants. dealers. Butchers. The patronesses of the Men's Home and Miss Mill mean to make good the tickets bought by the charitably inclined, and will each give a concert, at which the tickets sold by Greene will be hon- ored. The ladies have called off Greene's | spielers and are selling their tickets them- es, with the assistance of a bevy of society bud The Men's Home concert will take place on the evening of the 2ist at Maple Hall, Palace Hotel. Miss Hill has not yet made any definite plans in regard to the Kin- dergarten concert. A SOLDIER'S BABY STARVES. The little babe two months old, of Edward Linskey, private, Seventh Regiment, L. , died at its mother's breast of starvation. Privat: Linskey is at Camp Tanier with his regiment, which has been muster-d into the ser- vice of the United States. Private Linskey went to the front with his regiment with the consent of his wi and because he could not get work in Chicago. Although a capable workman for Gormully & Jeffrey, the discharge of a large number of men left him idle for two months. He could not find work. His regiment was ordered out. He said to his wife: “I will go, and the money I get for being a soldier I will send to you."” % But his babe died of starvation yes- terday morning in a bare room at 240 Orleans street above a grocery store, which is fi with things to eat. The Coroner came, and he said after care- ful examination that the mother had been so long without proper nourish- ment that her milk would not support the littie one, and it died of an empty stom:ch in sight of a dozen churches and close to well organized charitable {nstitutions—Chicago Times-Herald. 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