The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1899, Page 24

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1899. ¢ —_— == R o TR Nl SN A \ N Iy 4 RN \ \ 7 %” == = =) ' mepd. (A number of promifent Cana~ alan gentleme pre: when Mr. HIS LoNEL ; f Wardner ente Mr. Shaughnessey's . 4 S | ofice with a hearty greeting o is ol MEAL £ g’ : > "l | friena, fiy returned, N ‘\\x 3 ‘d\’ [ ce you and . X ¥ TR A \ \\ 5 \ v -" I this really you?" under the heavens ‘ = _ N 111/4/)/ : L om, thanks to your telegram, SN g Y \ 2 T I 2 B Y \ ’ le¢ Jim walk,’ of course I was at \\\ once’ furnished transport. and here m. “onfound those operators!”—with ap- i | “It is 1ge they can | ages through correctly!” telegraph, ‘Don’t let Jim STVDYING valk’ 7" interrupted Wardner. | erta not. My answer was: %J¥§EN | Dor'tt Let Jim waik ¥ S | e FULS.. ; “Have you ever seen a bit of wood | that you couldn’t burn?” said an old | sea captain to'me the other day. “Why, lots,” I replied, ‘“the briar root, for instance—at least, if it's good L —ironwood, too, and one or two | others.” ienfly ;nntain@dl(‘hnliel (t‘ang‘mz(frul s ’?)py\n;t\:]n:tiesr to get a xgn}; aheag oli‘ idont mear: those' he salds “But number were ‘too old to distinguish | the game. canvassing as book | oo "o o e ; from the labels just what particular |agents through mining and . logging | ave YOU Sver seen a p};’;t"‘og‘i‘,’?mfi‘; luxury had come in them. On inquiry |camps, or nching and farming, o tilptin e ” 1 23 v k. S e %> | pulled from his pocket a morsel of what my informant told me that they were | enough earned to buy their outfits | { 10q like white N rwegian deal and gouvenirs of past “spread Some had | for the college r, pay their registra- | ponqeq it to 1 was surprised at the been bought by fellows who had made | tion and laboratory fees and give them | (RS “Sup 5 11 1e pas flame,” he “raises.” Othe had been sent from |a balance with which to provide for|g.iq 4 e o= CLAE'SICS home in a Christmas or New Year's emergencies. | ® 'did so. But beyona a blackening of " / ’ : box. | SRR R SR et | so. B ¥ 2 £ . fv . the surface there wa sno effect. z VH'LE— It is a custom when a box arrives | Mistaken Orders. | “That bit of wood, went on the skip- A HE RESTS) from home to have a spread. The re- | , | per, “was part of the gunwale of one TN ; cipient invites all his friends and the | Jim was “broke.” However, he man-| ‘o oy 0 ™ \Wwe were whaling in the e < night is made merry. The spirit of | aged to reach Vancouver, and, walking | oo +h Seas and harpooned a big, right | good-fellowship that exists among the | Into the headquarters’ offices of the | SOURE P8 BRGNS0 4 "Hope. The money 1s saved, and time is money to | our hard experience in the past makes | students of the camp, working along | Canadian Pacific, said to the manager in| . coture sounded, the rope fouled and these men, many of whom must not |us better fitted to meet the disappoint- | together as they are for a common end, | ‘¢charge: “I am Jim Wardner, and I am | ) "y00¢ was carried down. Probably only keep up in their studies, do their | ments and failures that most graduates | insures a good time. A jest is made of | an old friend of Tom Shaughnessey. | y,s"taken half a mile or more be- own work and economize, but earn the | must go through on leaving college to | their temporary lack of funds, as they | Will you please wire him and tell him |, "4he surface. The whale rose again ; in his end. A genial cli. | M0ne¥ required for their needs. begin life for themselves. | have good reasons to hope that their’| that I am here broke, ‘and want trans-| .3 \ag killed, and a portion of the megna to ?"'}; merenc. fes e e best number for a club.| ‘“Life in the camp,” continued the | condition will be improved on the com- | portation to Montreal boat was recovered from the line which mate and an admirable university man- : and a house- | student, “is not all a hard grind. Much | pletion of their college course. | _The manager, somewhat ‘mpressed with | gti1) hung to it. It was the pressure of agement makes it possible for a stu- | keeper and dishwasher. While they are | comes up to vary the.monatony. Many| As students the camp men are among Wardner's peculiar presence and address, | the water hardened it like that.”—Bal- m«nl D B0 f“;“a ‘fl“‘l e :‘11”.,.“ the work of the other two are |of the fellows who live here are prom- | the best in college. They have an ob- | telegraphed Mr. Shaughnesse | timore Herald AL T had was fen LEOT RIS OO o [iDla the Independent student with | inent in college activities, particularly | ject in view and whatever else they | ‘“Man named Jim Wardner, who says he | «Oh. keep quiet. You fellows were |to wm‘,m,;m, the term. This makes it |time in plenty, to spend on their | in debating. Not a few of them find may neglect their studies are not |is an old friend of yours, wants trans-| rhae late Prince Bismarck's barber is oh, keep quiet laat year 1| e b e . Htadant dpes | DOOks. The next week things ‘are re- | time to do work In athlétics as track- | slighted. To get as much knowledge | portation to Montreal. Shall I give It to | ¢4iq to be well on the way to making his auillionatres. s e b ol Imo CSSEb falie o Tanch tlimelfrom! versed and the men of leisure become | men or football players, all of which |as possible during the years which lead | him?” | 2ortune, for he has saved no-less than was dead broke. Didn’t 1:1 € e | Tni Aot ito earn his living, iThe | the house drudg | Boes to show xhavt if their food is plain | up to graduation is their ambition and } Back came the reply: “Don’t let Jim | ejght v'em-g' clippings from his master’'s the world. o the little | average cost for bed and board in camp [ Every fellow does his own washing. 1t is substantial. the end of -all their economy. How | walk. hair. These he is now dividing into small And the 1l upon the e S o aanth He must do it on a certain day whicp | In glancing around thé room a long|so much can be accomplished by them | Wardner at once obtained transporta- | quantities and incasing them in gold group of unive; students who at | “p,w do they do it? | is “his,” for there is only one tub and |Tow of empty cans attracted my atten- | is a marvel to those who do not know | tion,and left on the first train for the |} ooches, scarfpins and lockets, allowing once forgot their disc on of worldly | Easy enough when you know how, | washboard .in the “camp.” It i the | tion. They were fastened to one of the | the men and the strength of their dé- | East. Arriving at Montreal, he called at | three hairs to each ornament, and selling 2 L o 1o the | and /o Boxit have to atarve or be nn-| community ‘property Wof the beams by nails driven through the | termination. | the general offices of the company to see | to the public. The barber states that he d turned their attention and you don e to st f 3 . 5 . sl | comfortable on the $4, either. (.,,e[:md was in all probability purchased | opemed lids. Some had pictures of | A vacation is a thing few camp men | Mr. Shaughnessey, renew his old ac- | had the late Prince’s permission to do tters not worth | lone bachelor in camp actually accom- | when the camp organization was first | OYsters on their face others had evi- éver take. The months of summer are | quaintance, and thank him for the favor | this.” »se money matters 2 . | g > fos £ 7ing on $3 one | effected. The day may soon come whe; z % | plished the feat of living on $3 one | effe he day may hen discussing, anyhow,” said the man who | T/ SiCH 78 S0 nds at the head in | there will be a camp laundryman as 296800 000esd 290000 ® 9 {1 { 1] 0000600089 had arrived dead broke, as he buried | his studies. | there samp baker. i § 5 himself in a well-thumbed volume of | To accomplish such a feat in the| This last ‘named worthy turns out | | ll] 3 f\[) ’\/\”:2 ;\] S Ml S \D l Claco | science of cheap living every man must | bread as white and light and delicious | I v D | . ; e willing to be his o ousekeeper, | ever came from the‘most improved | > hree students e residents of | Pe willing to be his own hou er c < proved | e R The three stud "»:n:\f e tan, | cook and wa ans of the | oven. He makes his batch, divides it | what is known as “the caihp Stan- | customs and tr: ied down | into loave lls it to his confreres | Continued from Page Twenty-Two. ford University, and in one respect|py the pioneers of “the and his | at enough above cost to pay him for | 2 ; b= e Ay d were exact plicas of the scores of | own observatic he soon becomes mas- | his extra time ad .labor. There is known to them, surely ynlur G’l‘l‘"{‘l‘xrfl nl! “:ll Pt efl\;’\fm.\L'::\hf“z—l*‘l]m‘;‘l‘l“‘l‘:; Fun. ‘i‘x’:'}':-‘ “}:g("r\‘\lhh'lhl mmnflve the torpedo-heads were charged. nfie}; others who have their being inside the | ter of a system of economy that would | some talk at f nt that there may Soen. AT L Ty it e Bitts Fan o\ Tlown thac kol 8 4 Horjido Tott fa pocen, b little city of whitewashed shac! lo- pulv to s 1_1\-“11111_;”:“()(:: es of.the most | soon be an opposition bakery. - B “Je suls n'sieu,” he said, “that at least you feel that I have 5 ‘z’z..r;.ry we had been in the boat many minutes one—two—three ominous- ated just without the floral-bordered |SaVIng New England hou v | It was noontime when the “camp hon For .1 know you are a great Eng ooking fins made their appearance close at hand, and had we not gained < e e e He learns the nutritive value was visited. Some of the students | P admiral looked surprised—‘and will judge the case our point of vantage just in time it would have gone hard with us, with- grounds of the big institution ‘]’ earn- | gerent meats, and it does not te < were preparing meals; others were on its own merits,” and he bowed ceremoniously, and went away 3'3.}3?"‘::'. The admiral, am;‘({ugn devoutly grateful for our providential ing. The camp is one of the most|course in personal hygiene to teach him | eating their midday repast. Beans, n. : | $eal o N e it oo Yepy.enviable state of mind. v y o1 vho Wi a sappearedd v e ha 2 o bi )SS- strate eve 0 or we coulc inly 2 0 ou and within its precincts some of the |to be eschewed by poor men who Wish | staple articles of diet. In some huts, T lorfl ‘me Mke that? One would think he wanted us witnesses destination at the’ Proper time 1n u Hiy: cooves rowine poat. = best students there have their homes. | fo 8et a supply af energy at the t| however, a’' greater variety was af- at his court-martial. He knows me, too! Must have seen my portrait WVe must be a good fifteen miles away,” he cried. *I can’t get to the st fhoum 'the dsir the: gates wWeve | PUTSIIESChEE . NotNIIE grocs 10 3 | forded. somewhere, 1 suppose.” 2 __ fleet in time! We don’t even know the course to steer! If only we had g Almost from the day gates | everything being converted into In speaking to one of the members of We were very soon to know why he was so anxious fo set himselt compass’’ thrown open the camp been a'part | thing or other. Such adepts in t ; the Owl Club, which organization right with us. In ‘m(. P},glfi( d..rr \I\;]H_\ll{;‘)‘lloi\\g(-‘tl‘N?‘:Nnu‘l:l&h hue:n:‘st‘\ilmg h!s(l'“fi"]?]hi?::lr T’,"'i"‘x q\'fl{h@ar!ng dhlm, sald something in a whisper to of the university life. At ‘first there | of saving are these students that probably gets its name from the habits x hii“c}]?‘s‘:i‘e;“_“ ton the deed he was about:to commit. What i 1, Ty Tapeianaged o catch the word ‘‘compass P were only a few tents, then a couple of | they could be induced to turn "‘f'ik: of its members, who are supposed to houses. . Then the buildings Increased | hands to cooking they would be "l‘””" sit up all hours of the night over their in number until the spot became like | their weight in gold to the proprietors| books, burning vast quantities of ®lof a logging camp or lumber mill Wha.| mignight oil, a good idea of how the rd, near to the conning-tower, and almost “Bill "er any us jumped at the opportune chance. Rather! Hand it over, my man, and let me have a look at 1t!"” . Sez 'e's got a compass on a watch-chain, sir, i that'd We were standing forws under the break of the fo'c’'sle, leaning against the davits of a Berthon eollapsible boat, of which the tarpedo-boat carried two, one forward, the Other aft. None of the Turkish crew were on deck; probably they were a little cf It was thousght that the | 5o compelied to reduce the wages of | mon themselves regard their life was ali turned in below; and near us stood all our men, Conversing in respect- _ He dived {nto his jumper pocket, and from a miscellaneous collection limit of the number of students in camp | their men to even up the waste of the | ohiqined. fully Jowered tones.s . e on deck ‘agaln, and’ walked along gdm:;cgm.".1»:;?‘6\1;\1-". lap_pipes, quids of ancient tobacco, gnd half jias xeached ithse ysarsiastsg e Cuoliiicher. “ ites” haven't SeiAEr etvits. . s crountitofamTer but as ;’;’fé.f‘:;"e funnel casings, where he halted and for a moment curiously compass attached. oS JIhey walel Ceibawiihiw tivagocket following years showed a marked fall-| Now, these “campites” haven’t any |phases of camp life, the young man who Tegarded us. ‘‘Au revoir, messieurs,” he said. ‘“‘Remember that I have “Thank goodness!” said the .admiral, for toy thcugh it was, it would ing off. But this year the number is | different ideas on dm”nmn 'tr}lw m’::le‘ has spent two years in his present done all 1 was bound to do, and have brought you through the Darda- xive“ps O“tr tl;]s\:lrimrt. Now, men, out oars and. pull!” o v nearly double what it ever was before, | Prosperous one in collegs ney quarters continued: “You see, it is like nelles.” & s e 8ot the course, and put the boat’s head NW. by N. Tired after o . o] ive organs, and there | this, The fellows do not pretend to live. e admiral looked Inquiringly at me. “What on earth does he mean a slecpless night, hungry, sore, wet through to the sKin, these trély Bri a fact for which it would be difficult | have good diges ! to account. | is not a single nut fiend content to | ywe merely exist while we are here. At “Are there any rooms to be had in | breakfast on peanuts, lunch on almonds | most it is only four years. Few fellows, camp?” I asked a bright, athletic young | and dine on walnuts and butternuts, or | however, are compelled to live in the Tman who was hanging out a freshly |a vegetarian among them. In short, they | caplp throughout their college course. by au revoir?’ he said. ‘Does he intend—" ish_sons_of Neptune had A Tehaltut short by a pistol-shot, followed by a loud deep report liké and they set to with such good will that Soon we were bowling along a thigdersciap. The deck In front seemed to rise bodily at us, followed by at four knots an hour. Luckily there was ro wind, and the water was a great column of water, and we were thrown headlong into the sea, as calm as a mill-pond. For a good hour we held on, and then on the hoBuiessly entangled, it seemed to me, with the hoat against whose davits Ekv-line astern we caught sight of a long, low streak of black, out of we had just been leaning. The Turk, having kept his faith as far as he which gradually grew the masts and. hull of some small war-vessel. owed to get their admiral to his fleet Jaunderec e eshly | en't any new theories on HiVIng to| A raise usually comes along in some . h “Rooms?” he. S establish. Their menus would be vastly | form or another. One gets a lift from Tea poch Yedyired to, had now determined: to Tevenge himsel for the =~ We decided to'signal her. and hoisted one of the meh's fianneis on the took a couple fent if cold mecessity was not sit- | home: another secures & good paying HiiTont we had put upon him, and at'the cost of the lives of all on board loom of an car to attract thelr attention. his mouth. . “I should say-net.” ting at thelir elbow when the day’s bill | job doing something about college; a hw’r?:?l?fli%ix:ht%rg’er%etd?h?g;fogfén for an instant stunned me, but the smoke, followed by & shavp rport. (old i’ thet She AR seen oa, b “But surely there are some accom. | of fare is made out. 5 third may be given some student body plunge restored my scattered wits, and I struck out with the ease of a “Great Scot! She's a British gunboat, sir!” I cried, recognizing the modations here?” 1 said, persistently, | Visitors to Palo Alto all zee the| position as business manager or editor- rachiced swimmer—what naval officer is not?—and found to my joy that Dryad in the now rapidly approaching vessel. “Oh, y we can find you g | “camp.” They are sh":"““ lhcb place | jn-chief of one of the college publica- was uninjured. e e et i datiow AR it BnflA({’fm‘qh";w’r”'fldnS:'** ml"n\'od to be, and no sooner had we got aboard " ; iy Sy r students live, because s. The water, so calm an , was v xplained mattetrs t! v 2 a > i my, iuformant re-|;Where the Doory ans T e Splinters, and the torpedo-boat itself was rapidly sinking. deserted us, after all. = . founaihall futina P ot ioeiien plied. ‘““But don’t come aroumnd here | it is a queer settlement be found in “When this happens then prepara- ssking for special accommodations, for | a big college. But the tors do not | tions are made for a move, and when shere are none. There hasn’t a | know how great the sacrifices are that | the next semester opens the fortunate vacant room in camp this year and I|are made daily. If you told them that | individual s found esconsed in a com- TR oken In the center as it were, and both bows and stern were _ For she was the hearer of new and fmportant orders to Admiral Stan- It had broken ) ‘this I moted in an instant, but could see no sign of a hope. and It was indeed most fortunate that chance had prevented our Sia Turkish saflor—they must have gone down to their death in thelr gaining the fleet before. The news she brousht was the now historical Single ons while near me was the old admiral, wildly plunging and pant- departure of Prince George of Greece for Crete, with his flotilla of tor- am not certain either whether there is | the bright-faced and wide-awake fel- | fortable room in Encina Hall with ing and splashing almost at his last gasp. pedo-boats, in_congequence of which the British Government had hastiiy seven room for a bunk or not. ch of | low who had just been entertaining | money enough in his pocket to eat at A'nrxewl sftrokaels é};céll:(gg}&tarrg'e"t:,elp: 's}l’ee.fl“t e Rih s T reknhaty it ;‘;gfl;gl;\n:;nfl;d n:; m;df‘rs fi]\'pn the ,\r}\rm» dor, nrnd dr]i(!r‘? }n act with = i o G et Do e is e " i aur SRA “The infern: y t 3 3 vers, for the time being, at all events. Instead’ of forcin the rooms has four beds and it's pretis | them was able to reduce his expenses to | the inn. Scores of fellows have struck e Toatitp out of solts! il R R e B e LT close quarters, in fact it's crowding |$1 per week they would not believe you. | it lucky and after a few semesters of things, but perhaps we cam find room | The camp men themselves would not be | hard work and privation have been for one more. Are you going to batch | likely to enlighten them, for they are | able to better their mode of living. It O e mear us I moticed the canvas boat—still collapsed—and several 1o the Piracus in case of a blockade being decided on there. If the admiral ot SUte R making for it. If we could get to it and open it we were had got back In time. and opened fire oy the Turkish flag, we should O U he Tpresent, If only the explosion had left it intact. I struck have found ourselves In A very awkward predicament. it or feed at the joss house?” Joth to.dwell on the question of|doesn’t seem to make much difference out wtudly, for the‘sudflen tth?;:‘ght ofia terr]b;‘e tdl}lf\g(e; emeregeng“:)eram Ilzin?; the flpg carried out the new orders, and (}_\"Hh what result, the e 58 se,” i vas | a b if a low d, for a moment, almost nerved me: what ere wel ‘worl nows. ut wh all say what might not have resulted b Th oss house,” it was explained, | finances. at Stanford fello has worth 'ntl:e ke whioh abound in the Aegean around us? But the next instant the admiral's mham'm?n;}‘v?\l say w gl ut for is the Chinese restaurant within the| A favored plan among the five score | whether he has money or not. If he has precincts of the camp. This, however, | of hopeful, piucky and determined stu- | the ability the student body will give is patronized more by outsiders, mil- | dents who are fighting .this battle to | him a position to fill, thus enabling 1 was myself again, alongside the boat, working tooth and nall to get oIt was related 5 ot T a8 Instructor, R. N ] oo oy ™*Y¢ “was still entangled In the.davit-falla, but by dint Of MY serving In the Cronol ey, M ALl ok oIy survivor Of & party frantic exertions and those of two of our men who had managed to reach concerned in the explosion on board her 3 s d 0 men ajesty’s ship Nile, at Bourdroum, in lionaires, the campites call them, who | raise themselves to a higher plane is| him to get along. it, we eventually got it clear, set it afloat, and clambered in. the Levant, in June, 1892, when a gun-cotton charge éxploded through carelessness think- nothing of paying 10 cents for a | the formation of small clubs. This “Graduation comes as a relief to The oars and a boat-hook were stowed away inside it, and we picked in fitting a'detonator, that he was only three or four feet away when the accident meal. The camp bachelors get their | scheme is found advantageous by rea- | many of us. We do not dread the ‘cold up the other three men and Allen, who was supporting himself on a occurred. and that hé suffered no In beyond being knocked down the ladder | y on which he was standing by the air concussion—but, then, he was in an open air tragment of the torpedo-boat's wreck. e e Godl fervently ejaculatéd the admiral, when wé were in Space. while the two men who lost their lives were in a confined space, and thus felt safety. ‘‘We are all here, are we not? Is any one hurt?” the full explosive force of the charge. The weaker portions of the ship at that i oint were comparatively D hut the heavy armored door and the bulkhead- A’fapld examination proved that we had escaped unharmed, save for ot Ners comparatively uninjured, but the hoayy ermorad Coof M B GUINCAL a fow scratches and bruises, which, miraculous as it may seem to some, mgst St o fama, t the is easily accounted for when one bears in mind the invariable effect of n:s“‘:: x‘:‘:ut“.x;?e KI!GCIE‘;;: fie‘z‘u\z‘:“nd!' ey v B ] - 2 - i e e s for about 3 cents each. son of the division of labor that can be | world’ as do many of the students who Not in all the world can the camp | made, as well as by the reduction of the | have had fat allowances during their of Stanford University be duplicated. | expense in the economy of rooms, fuel | college days. The greater number of The poor student who has to “work|and oil. By taking turns at the work | us have worked all our lives. We know his way through gcollege” here finds| and clubbing together time as well as | men in general better than they do, and ® ® 2