The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED. D. AY, JULY 13, 1898. Y 13, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS....... ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE <ssees...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... «....RiIgge Houee C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. THICAGO OFFICE.. ..Marquette Bufldlng C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. i505 Polk strect, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. MENTS. » Chutes. Thursday, July 14, 2ddy sireets, Speclaliles. boating, fishing, every Sunday. to-day. AUCTION SALES —This day, Jury 13, Horses, eto., at 827 hursday, July 14, Groceries t 10 0'clock. mend the Board of Harbor Opportunities is a pleasure. exactly the contrary so frequent, that the chance is appreciated. The Southern Pacific, with that swinish proclivity which only recognizes the existence of the public when there is a new way developed for imposing on 3t ca rtook to keep people out of the depot, 1 part of the structure, as the corpora- tion, in its characteristically arrogant style, desired for its own convenience not to have them enter. | Without consulting anything but their own selfish in- : | | or out of s terests the officials of the company caused iron bar- riers to be erected at certain doors. Of course they t to do this, and of course they did not er they had or not. With equal propriety | ruct a barb-wire fence across the reet. They would do this without they had a reason for wishing to divert had no r might t | ed to have its way. Its ntion, its cheek aroused indig- | the Harbor Commissioners had the im- | ents removed. It is worthy of note that this ne before the Southern Pacific had been asked for permission. In days gone by nothing so radical could have occurred. The company would have been humbly petitioned to undo its work, would have haughtily refused and the incident been regarded as closed a new Pa snouting era. Cor e they have taken. gusto. missio in the co company will remain right at the trough, but it may not have all four feet inside all the time, THE LACK OF SHIPS. ISPATCHES from Washington, published D_- E , in giving an account of arrange- ments made for a proposed descent upon Porto Rico stated that there will be a delay occasioned by a lack of transports. The dispatches say: “As yet iment has had poor success in chartering or buying vessels on the Atlantic coast. If, how- ever, it is fou le to obtain vessels from the various steamship companies Government to use some of the naval vessels for the purpose of transporting the army.” We have thus another illustration added to the many already given during the war of the heavy handicap under which we are struggling in our ef- forts to get at the Spanish foe. We have battle-ships enough to destroy their fleets, but, having done so, we lack the transports required to carry the army to points where they can reap the benefits of the naval victories. Even at Santiago our troops have been hampered by a want of supplies and of siege guns, and as a consequence the capture of that city has been the work of weeks instead of days. All the proceedings of the war have shown that commercial supremacy is an important factor in naval supremacy. We need an extensive merchant marine as well as a fleet of fighting vessels. The war drags along because of a lack of transports. In an attempt to supply the deficiency the Government has been compelled to grant American registry to a number of foreign ships employed for transports, and it ap- pears that even the resort to that expedient has not been sufficient to the needs of the war in the West Indies. Another feature of the problem is worth noting. Tt is estimated that the people of the United States pay annually $300,000,000 to foreign ship-owners for carrying our commerce across the ocean. That sum is about one-half what it will cost us to carry on the war for a year. If we could save the money now paid to foreign ships we would thereby largely make up for the expense of the conflict with Spain. Two advantages in war would result from the adoption of a policy calculated to promote and expand our mef- chant marine: we’ would be better provided for transporting troops promptly wherever they were needed and we would be better able financially to support war. Even from a military view it will be seen, therefore, that protection to American ship- building is a thing to be desired and demanded of Congress at its next session. Russia’s attitude toward the Philippines is being discussed. At this writing Russia has no business to have an attitude toward them. She is understood to have affairs of her own to attend to, anyhow. There is not help for it We will be Yankee pigs so long as liquid Spanish, garlic flavored, shall charm the ear, and urge the nose to exile. S d Tf Spain is really anxious for peace there is a way to obtain it | | | 1 SHUT THE DOORS ON COOLIES. T is to be regretted that the Pacific Coast Sena- tors, who were such earnest supporters of the an- nexation of Hawaii, and whose votes coined the measure, had not sufficient influence to secure the appointment of a Pacific Coast representative on the commission which is to frame a government for the islands. This coast, and especially California, has a greater interest in what is done in Hawaii than all the rest of the country. It is true that the annexation resolution, which cleared the constitution at one jump, says that there shall be no more Chinese immigration to Hawaii, by virtue of anything therein contained, which is a mere shuffle and evasion, a pretense at prohibition which prohibits nothing. ~ The full objection of California is to Asiatic coolies, whether Chinese, Japanese, Bur- mese or East Indians. The East India coolie has been domesticated in the American tropics and proved the same sort of pest as the Chinese here. So, grant- ing that the doughy and deceptive phrase grafted out of the treaty into the resolution does exclude Chi- nese coolies, it by no means excludes all Asiatic cool- ies and coolie wages. The interests of labor in Cal- ifornia require that the form of government framed for Hawaii shall exclude all coolie labor and coolie wages; that it shall put employes here and there on | | | | so rare, and the necessity for doing | generation. kthe War Department by coolie labor. an exact equality. This is a necessity for California. Our laboring people here have felt keenly, and re- sented with spirit, the manufacture of uniforms for If labor is touched in its dinner pail by the employment of a hundred coolies in such competition, is it not far more interested in the competition of 40,000 coolies under our flag in Hawaii? The overthrow of slavery in this country came »ville and Canuon, the 613-pound Man. | when it was understood by free white labor that black e labor competition was unfair to it, and when the Northern employer felt himself handicapped by the Southern slaveholder’s chattel ownership of labor. It presented unequal conditions for both labor and capital under a government founded upon equality, and the interests of all were found to require the maintenance of equality. It was a profound im- pression of this necessity that made Lincoln declare: “A house divided against itself cannor stand. The republic must be all free or all slave.” The issue involved then was labor, nothing else. In the annexation of Hawaii that issue is presented again, as forcibly as to Lincoln and the men of his We cannot have one law and servile labor for an Hawaiian planter and another law and white labor at white wages for a California rancher, both under the same flag. A house divided against itself cannot stand now any more than in Lincoln’s time. At least one of the Hawaiian commissioners should have been from this coast. But we are ignored. With one exception the Western Senators helped an- nexation, when they could have beaten it, and labor finds that they have committed its interests to an old slaveholder from Alabama and two men from Illinois! It is the old story. The West beats the bush; the East and South get the game. What means are left for protecting white labor should be used at once. Our interests require that all Asiatic coolies and blackbirds now in Hawaii be immediately deported, and that our present labor laws, the eight-hour day and all be at once extended to the islands. To this no reasonable objections can be made. We live and thrive under these laws here and thrift that cannot be under them has no right to be at all. GERMANY @AND THE PHILIPPINES. ESPITE the official denials of any intention on D Perhaps this little episode marks the beginning of | pos the part of Germany to interfere with the sibility of such interference continue. The fact A fond hope arises that the Southern | that nearly the whole German fleet in the Orient has ¢ hog is to have a ring in its nose, so that its | been assembled at Manila, avowedly to protect Ger- the public trough will be done with less | man interests there, tends to confirm the rumors. ners are to be congratulated | Moreover, the speech of Embassador White at the Without doubt the | Fourth of July banquet at Leipsic inclines the same way. Evidently our Embassador at the court of Ber- lin would not have made such an address if he did not fear the possibility of some misconception on the part of the German people and Government concerning the position the United States has assumed and will maintain with respect to foreign intervention. An explanation of the apparent contradiction be- | tween the facts of the situation and the official denial | of any intention to interfere has been recently given by the Washington correspondent of the New York Sun, which seems plausible. According to this state- ment the German Government will not object to the assumption of complete control over the Philippines by the United States, nor will it oppose the selection and maintenance by this country of a coaling station if it is not located at Manila. What appears to con- cern Germany most is an assumption by the United States of the right to dispose of the islands to other nations or to the insurgents, retaining only such terri- tory as the Washington Government may see fit. It is believed that if the United States retains Manila and a small portion of adjacent territory as a coaling station Germany will find grounds for protest in the fact that in holding Manila, the port having the bulk of the Philippine trade, and not assuming control over the rest of the island of Luzon and the group; this country leaves the islands without a settled form of government, thus leaving the way clear for con- tinual disturbances, which might result in interference by the great powers and perhaps bring on a war in- volving most of Europe. This explanation has at least the merit of accord- ing with all the known facts of the problem. It offers a reason for the assembling of the German fleet at Manila, and also of the German denial of any inten- tion of interfering so long as our fleet is there. If the United States desires the islands Germany will have nothing to say. If we abandon the islands, then Germany will be prepared to act at once to protect her interests. The late British Consul to Havana seems to possess some peculiar ideas. According to his notion af- fairs in that city are not particularly serious, but he adds that hundreds are dying of starvation. Per- haps if the gentleman had missed a meal or two his mind would be in a condition to caich the somber aspect of events. Volunteer troops of New York, Massachusetts and Michigan have been building roads in Cuba. Such work as this, it will be remembered, was too laborious and unmilitary for the haughty Cubans. For this reason many people think less of the Cubans than they did. “If we make peace now we deserve to bz shot in the face,” exclaims one excited editor in Madrid. And if you don’t make peaze you are mighty likely to get shot somewhere, probably, however, not in the face. Possibly the President desired that his Hawaiian commissioners should go to the scene of their labors unhampered by any knowledge of the situation. Cervera is receiving a more cordial welcome in this country than he will ever get in his own. United States in the Philippines, rumors of the | B THE STATE FAIR Y the speed programme adopted by the Board of Agriculture, for the coming State Fair at Sacramento, promise is given of one of the best racing meetings ever held in California. As arranged the programme will probably be found more satisfactory than any previous one, both to the people generally and to horsemen, and will no doubt prove cne of the successes of the year. The most noted innovation in the programme is the adoption of the single dash system of racing in- stead of the old form of heats. On cach day there will be five events, one of which will be a mile and repeat race, thus providing sport lively enough to satisfy the most exacting seeker after excitement and sparing the public the tedious waits between heats. The new system will also be of advantage to racing men, as horses can be raced under it every day with- out suffering the ill effects of overwork. Another advantage will be gained by holding the running and trotting contests on alternate days, thus keeping both classes of horses at the fair until the meeting is over. The excellence of the speed programme adopted gives promise of an equal excellence in all other ar- rangements to be made for the fair. This promise there is reason to believe will be fulfilled in every respect. The conditions of the year prompt to the holding of a great exhibit of our agricultural re- sources. The drought of the winter and spring and the hot northers that came with the early summer have given rise to reports that our rural production this season will be extremely small. These reports have been more or less injurious to the State, and every effort will be made by enterprising men to show at the State Fair that a drought cannot dry up all California, nor a hot wind blast all her crops. The very adverseness of the season will rouse us to make a State Fair better and finer than any other of the season in the Union. The present Board of Agriculture s composed of men whose interest in the welfare of our rural in- dustries is undoubted, and from their management much good may be expected. There should be a thorough co-operation among all the counties of every part of the State to make the fair an excep- tionally comprehensive one. We shall soon be called upon to prepare our exhibits for the world’s great exposition at Paris, and this is a good year to have a full dress; rehearsal of the State display at Sacra- mento. THE SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL. OR the time being the San Jose High School [: occupies in our educational system a position more conspicuous than that ot any other insti- tution. It has become the storm center around which rages the fight of honorable educators and good citizens against the boss rule of politicians who seek to make our schools a part of the spoils of poli- tics, and to use the positions and salaries of teachers as rewards for the henchmen who do their service. The San Jose gang, desiring to give place and sal- ary tc some anonymunculus of their stripe recently dismissed from the High School its most eminent and one of its most esteemed professors. The rea- sons assigned by the gang for dismissing him are peculiar. It was alleged first that he s a traitor, in- asmuch as he once said that President Grant should have settled the Cuban question at the time of the Virginius affair; and, second, that he lacks religion, being, according to the gang, “an infidel.” These charges were abundantly refuted by the pupils of his schcol who heard his lectures. The gang then abandoned all attempts at justifying their course and fell back upon the old question, ‘“What are you going to do about it?” The students of the High School, their parents and all the host of citizens who believe that our school system should be freed from the corrupting domination of political bosses have undertaken to do a good deal about it. The students will not at- tend the High School under the anonymunculus who, from his very acceptance of Professor Smith’s place, can be nothing more in San Jose than a servile crea- ture of the gang, no matter what he may have been elsewhere. The parents support the students and all the advocates of a pure school system support the parents. The gang has possession of the school, the salary and the creature they have chosen to degrade the one and draw the other. The friends of the school system have on their side the student body, public opinion and justice. The fight is on, and through- out the State the attention of all persons who are interested in our public schools is directed to the conflict. It is a bitter contest now, and the prospects are it will be fought to the end without compromise. If it should so result, then the San Jose High School will in a short time be ranked ecither as one of the educational institutions of which California has most right to be proud—as a school in which the purity of education is unstained by the corruption of low politics—or as a feeding place for the gang, and not more respectable than any other place where the bosses resort and henchmen get their pay. R that subscriptions to the $200,000,000 bond is- sue, which will close on Thursday, have been received in such numbers and are coming in with such rapidity that it is now evident the amount asked will be subscribed several times over. This will necessitate a discrimination in issuing the bonds, and in accordance with the plan announced the smaller bidders will be preferred over those who subscribed for larger amounts. It is expected that when the allotment is made the bonds will be dis- tributed among upward of 200,000 persons, thus mak- ing the average subscription about $1000. This report is in the highest degree gratifying. The subscription to the loan made by such a con- siderable number of citizens not only attests the wide- spread patriotism of the people, but shows that a general prosperity prevails in the country. It is no slight evidence of good times to find that more than 200,000 people have money on hand which they are able to lend at so low a rate of interest as that of- fered for the war loan. It is also pleasing that the loan is in this way to be taken throughout the Union and that the annual interest upon it will be paid in all sections, and not to holders in the great money centers only. The success of the popular loan will impress the financiers of Europe as forcibly as the victories at Manila and Santiago have impressed their naval authorities. It is another demonstration of the vast strength of the United States and of the ability of our people to maintain any war that may come upon us. Clearly, we have the right to sing the jingo chorus, “We have the ships, we have the men and we have the money, too,” and in our singing there is no vain boasting. The fact will be recorded in the digni- fied prose of the historian, as emphatically as in the song itself. The nation is all right. Uncle Sam has money enough to meet every emergency of peace or war, TAKEN BY THE PEOPLE. EPORTS from Washington are to the effect AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 8. T. Moore of Gilroy is stopping at the Lick. Charles Jacobs of Colony Hall is at the Grand. Dr. C. Rowell of Fresno is stopping at the Grand. Frank A. Miller of Riverside i{s at the Palace. Thomas E. Johnson of San Jose is at the Lick. David Starr Jordan is registered at the Occldental. Captain W. M. Gray of Merced is stay- ing at the Grand. ‘Willlam Mullaney of Sacramento is stop- ping at the Grand. D. C. Davis and P. A. Cahill of Guate- mala are registered at the Palace. F. Garcia and Albert Orive of Guate- mala are stopping at the Palace. John W. Mitchell, a prominent politi- cian of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. DR ALY GY The Vanderbilt o { office on Mont- & HOW ANDREWS 5 gomery street | J! has become a | FOUND bl quast clubroom, g HIS BED. § where the rail- 3 road men congre- E3=F=3-F-3-F-3 - 3-3 - T bRt away the heavy hours when business is slack or the accounts of the day rounded |up. W. J. Andrews, the Pacific Coast ; agent for a number of large carriage fac- | tories, dropped in the other day and was immediately elected a member of the club. The Initiatory rites were dispensed | with, and Mr. Andrews was let down for a round of cocktails. It was then incum- | bent upon him to tell a story which would | reflect upon his own dignity and show to | his fellows that he was of the earth and | mortal. This {s the way it went: “I have just returned from San Jose, gen- tlemen, and there went through a trying experience. Many years ago I was a resident in that most beautiful city of flowers and pure politics, and T left it Jjust as the population began to move out- ward and inhabit the suburbs. Of course, since that time the city has grown. Well, in my present visit I found some old ac- quaintances, and they showed me several new places with mirrors and beautiful electric lights, such as the old town did not boast of. I forgot just how many such gilded and handsome establishments I was introduced to, but when the hour for retiring came I did not exactly re- member the location of my hotel. My friends said good night and left me. There I was In a large and comparatively strange city, with a bed walting for me, and I could not recollect its place upon the map. I wandered and wandered, and after several hours of fruitless tramping —I reached Santa Clara, as I afterward discovered—I heard a great noise as of a fire engine and other such vehicles, rush- ing to a fire. I shouted, ‘Where's the fire? and the answer came back, ‘Second Fernando.” ‘'m saved,’ I cried; ‘that’s where I and I chased that engine clean into San Jose. I found my bed.” Mrs. Frank McLaughlin and Miss Agnes McLaughlin have returned from Santa Cruz. J. B. Hays of Salvador and E. de la Torre of Milano are staying at the Occl- dental. J. C. Steele, Pescadero, House. W. F. Price, Deputy Collector of Rev- enue, arrived from Santa Rosa last night and is staying at the Russ. Mrs. W. F. Swanton, ‘wife of William F. Swanton, the superintendent of the elec- trical railroad at Santa Cruz, is staying at the Palace. George M. Reed, a coffee planter; Louis B. Monzon and H. E. Sayers, of Guate- mala, arrived in this city yesterday and are stopping at the Occidental. Dr. W. P. Matthews, State Librarian, and Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton arrived in this city last evening to attend the meeting of the State Board of Health. a capitallst, residing at is registered at the Russ OO I LT Soldlers, when o i engaged In the |& WHO TOOK g pleasing occupa- & THE tion of taking in the town, are not g WHISKY? XX o100 0% Dlaster PR g=2c22=2 00251 saints. Even the American boy in | blue, well behaved as he usually is, some- times lapses from the strict path of recti- tude, as many a saloon-keeper can testify. When a whole company of men file into a saloon and absorb an unlimited quantity of steam beer, it is not always easy to ascertain who s responsible for the finan- clal end of the transaction, and soldiers have such an aggravating way of sticking together that the bartender finds it dangerous to vent his wrath on any one individual. True, he can ring for the po- lice patrol,-but this course does not help him much, as a saloon-keeper on Sutter street found out last night. The place, which is noted for the ex- cellent quality of its beer and the liber- ality with which sausage and sauerkraut are dispensed to all comers, is kept by an irascible little German. Mine host’s face simply beamed when a large party of soldlers marched into his saloon and lined up with military precision at the bar. But ten minutes later there was no German swear word huge enough to ex- press his indignation, as he tried to ex- plain matters to a couple of policemen who had answered his hurried call. “Dey comes into my bar,” he sald, “mit ein little fellow at the head. And he says, “Halt, boys,’ and they halted. ‘Eyes front, face de bar, name your liquors. I vas much pleased, and says, ‘Gentlemens, vat vill you hafs? “Mein Gott! Some dey takes beers and some viskey. I puts down der viskey bot- tle, so dat dey may helps demselves, and it vas a voll bottle, too. Den another man says, sudden like, ‘I guess I'll take claret.’ I turns round to get der claret, and ven I comes back mit it, lleber Gott, der vas no viskey!"” Here was a problem for the perplexed officers of the law to solve. The whisky had vanished from sight as mysteriously as your watch does when you lend it to a conjuror. It was vain to inquire who took the whisky. The soldiers would not and the saloon-keeper could not point out the man. The bottle was gone, and that was all about it. As it was obviously im- possible to arrest the whole company, the policemen gave up the job and adjudicat- ed on the bill for liquors actually con- sumed. When this had been settled the soldiers left, byt as soon as the officers’ backs were turned they lined up on the sidewalk, gave three cheers for the saloon-keeper, and drank his health in his own booze. L ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, July 12—T. J. Stack of San Francisco is at the Normandie. Col- onel Philo Hersey, President and Manager of the Santa Clara County Frult Ex- change, has returned from & trip to the Eastern markets, and expects to leave for home to-morrow, stopping at impor- tant points between here and the coast en route. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHARLEY ROSS—S., City. Charley Ross was kidnaped in one of the streets of Germantown, Pa., July 1, 187L TWO DATES—Supscriber, City. The 16th of July, 1868, fell on a Thursday, and the 26th of the same month on a Sunday. THE SULTANA-—Soldier, City. The steamer Sultana exploded on the Mis- sissippl River April 28, 1865. She had 2106 persons on board. Of this number 1320, monlr returning Union soldiers, lost their live FRENCH BELL METAL—W., Oak- land, Cal. What is known as French bell metal is made of copper fifty-five to sixty parts, tin thirty to forty parts and zinc ten to fifteen parts. THE WALLA WALLA—E. H. P., City. The steamer Walla Walla of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company made her first trip from San Francisco, as a passenger steamer, on the 16th of November, 1883. SOLDIER'S CLOTHING—R. H., Berke- ley, Cal. For information about work on soldier’s clothing apply at the Quarter- master's Department, United ~ States army, this city, New Montgomery street, near Mission. BONDS—C. A. M., Alameda, Cal. Gas, water, rallroad and other bonds are is-| sued with coupons attached, but not nlli classes of bonds are registered. Such bonds can be delivered from one party to | another without being registered, as are | United States coupon bonds. FLAGSHIP BURFORD—F. W., Be- renda, Cal. For information as to why the name Burford was given to the flag- ship of Admiral Vernon of the Royal Navy in 1740 you will have to write to the Naval Department, Whitehall, London. REV. FATHER DOHERTY—G. H. D., City. The Rev. Father F. B. Doherty, who recently left on the Newport with General Merritt for Manila, i{s not the| Father Doherty who was in the fleld dur- | ing the Civil War. He is a native of Bos- ton, Mass., about 36 years of age. FOUR-MILE RACE—Subscriber, City. The four-mile race between Thad Stev- | ens, True Blue and Joe Danfels for $20,000 | D was run over the Ocean View track, No- vember 15, 1873. The time was: First | heat, won by Joe Danlels, 7:45; second, by | True Blue, 8:08; third, by Thad Stevens, 7:57, and the fourth by Thad Stevens, $120%. TO THE TURQUOISE MINES—A. W.| B., Dixon, Cal. A person wishing to go to the turquoise mines which were re. cently described in The Call, can go by rail as far as Manvel, and from there by | light wagon if desired. From Manvel feed for the horses must be carried, and water must be taken on at a point twelve miles | from the mines. The best time to make | the trip is in the fall or spring. —_— THE ORDERED AWAY. At the end of each street a banner we | meet; . The people all march in a mass; | But quickly aside they step back with | pride To let the brave companies pass. The streets are well filled, but the laugh- ter is still'd; The crowd is all going one way; Their cheeks are bleached white, still | they smile with delight, While lifting their hats to the Ordered | Away. | They smile while a dart deeply plerces | each heart, But each eye flashes back glance | As they watch the trim flle march up | with a smile { *Neath their flag with their musket and lance. The cannon's loud roar is heard on the shore, But the people are quiet to-day, As, startled, they see how fearless and its war free 3 5 March the soldiers—the Ordered Away. Not a quiver or gleam of fear can beseen, Tho’ they go to meet death in disguise; For l;lh‘:l hot air is filled with polson dis- tille 'Neath the rays of Manila's fair skies. Hul]‘_k(f the bugle and fife awake to new ife The soldiers who ‘‘can’t get away,” An(“l wish as they wave their hats to the brave That they were the—Ordered Away. As our parting grows near let us drive back the tear— Let our smiles shine as bright as of | ore; Let us stand with the mass—salute as | they pass, | And weep when we see them no more. Let no tear drop bedim the sunlight of our eye, | Or sigh fall from lips this brave day, | While waving a hand to the brave little | band— “Good-by” to the—Ordered Away. | Let them go in God’'s name in the search for their fame— Face death, where the fierce cannons roar; Let them honor and save the land of the brave; | Plant freedom’s bright flag on the shore; | Let them go while we weep and lone vigils keep. We will bless them and fervently pray To the God whom we trust for our cause | which is just, | And our loved ones—the Ordered Away. | ‘When fierce battles rage we will rise up each morn, | Teach our young sons the saber to| wield; Should their brave fathers die we will arm them to fly And fill up the gap in the field. Then, fathers and brothers, fond hus- bands and lovers, March! march bravely on. We will stay | Alone in our sorrow to pray on each mOrrow ved ones—the Ordered Away. For our love = R —_———————— WOREK OF THE NAVAL AUXIL- IARY BOARD. The naval auxillary board was dissolved on June 30, its officers detailed to other duties and no more vessels are likely to be purchased for the use of the navy. This board was appointed at the outbreak of the present war and to it was intrusted the responsibility of the purchase or charter of merchant vessels to be used as auxiliary naval vessels. The few ex- ceptional cases savoring of sharp prac- tice, unpreventable In emergencies such as existed three months ago, were not with the approval of the auxiliary board, and the matter will probably be ventilat- ed when Congress is furnished with the itemized expenditures incurred in behalf of the navy. Since April 8 eighty-nine merchant vessels, embracing thirty-two steamships and yvachts, thirty-two colliers and special service vessels and twenty-five tugs, have been purchased, and the four large steamers of the American Steam- ship line, namely the St. Louis, St. Paul, Paris and New York, have been char- tered, making a total auxiliary fleet of ninety-three steam vessels of all descrip- tions. The cost of this fleet can only be approximated, but will probably not ex- ceed $12,000000, in which, however, the enormous charter money, which aggre- gates $20,000 a day for the four liners, is not included. To officer and man this fleet the regu- lar force of the navy personnel was en- tirely inadequate, and 693 volunteer offi- cers of all grades have been appointed up to July 1. Of these 348 are licutenants, junior lieutenants and ensigns, forty-eight assistant surgeons, thirty-eight assistant paymasters, 225 in the engineer corps and thirty-four in other grades. The withdrawal from shore duty of so many officers of the line and staff to duty at sea has necessitated the temporary assignment of 152 officers from the retired list and the complement of the fifteen revenue cutters, four lighthouse tenders and two Fish Commission vessels. The total number of officers of all grades in the regular navy, volunteers and revenue marine available for sea duty is about 2250, of which a little more than one- half are actually at sea in 168 vessels. As compared with the navy material and personnel of 1861 and 1865, the present 1s Insignificant as to number of ships and officers, but the efficiency of the ships is far greater now, and the personnel com- pares favorably with that of thirty odd years ago. The regular navy in 1861, im- mediately after the capture of the Nor- folk navy yard, was reduced to seventy- nine vessels, of which only thirty sailing ships and twenty-five steamers were ser- viceable. During the following four years this number was augmented by 178 ves- sels-of-war, built in the navy and private yards at a cost of $64,000,000, and 439 mer- chant vessels were purchased at an ag- gregate cost of $19,674,000, besides fifty- eight prize vessels. In 1865 there were 687 vessels on the navy list; three years later the number had dwindled down to 232, and the reduction continued until 1887, since which time the navy has in-l | Honorably dischargad | medical and pay cor] | abroad to_d: creased in number as well as in efficiency. The personnel of the navy was in simi- lar bad condition. On January 1, 1861, there were 1271 sea-going officers of all grades, but resignations and dismissals to the number of 380 left the navy list in a crippled condition. To make it still more embarrassing many of the officers who remained were found unfit for active ser- vice, and th> large numbers of volunteer officers which offered their services were gladly accepted. There is no official in- formation as to the number of volunteer officers which entered the navy; the Navy Department, in its report of 1366, gives it at “about 7500 of these gallant and gen- erous spirits,” and a carefully compliled resume of those who were discharged, re- signed, dled, etc., makes the total rather more. The largest number of volunteers were on the Register January 1, 1865, and numbered 1989 of the line, 2424 staff and %47 warrant officers. The following table | shows what became of these 5260 officers, and how the members of the several corps severed their connection with the navy: VOLUN IN THE NAVY, TEER OFFICERS 1861-T4. | | | War-| Lett the service by: | Line. Staff.| rant. [Total. Resignations Mustered out and dis A Charged = ppointme Dismissed . s ishonora 5 charged . Dropped . % Deserted 37 Died Missing Total Only 52 volunteer officers are recorded s having been k...ed in battle, died from wounds, accidentally killed or drowned, leaving 203 deaths to natural causes not incident to the service. It appears that 1106, or one-seventh of the total number, were found unsuited or undesirable and disposed of, and that £, or ome out of e %, took “French 1 » But the record is as a whole every creditable to a lot of men drawn from the merchant ser- without any but hazy ideas of naval discipline and military duty. * Quite a number were absorbed by the regular navy, such as nearly all the ex-navy offi- cers who had volunteered. Three hun- dred and seven volunteers entered the several corps in the regular army, namely § in the line, 133 in the staff corps and 41 as warrant officers. 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