The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1899, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1899. 19 ?&I// % unit / or Z‘/ZC’ 50/('/ in the Lost Oreasure Ship Seneral Srant. An Expedition Now Being Outfitted in San Francisco to Sail for the Island on Which the Australian Treasure Ship Was Wrecked With Over Half a Million Dollars in Gold Dust. ¥ of enthusfastic present fitting th v to make another at- t for the gold that lies buried of American ship int. A low estimate treasure at halt a mil- ries of shipwreck i that of the Gen- surely one of the was driven into a one of the Auck- of New Zealand water underneath 1 fall of the swell r ma to vern. This with the and then mainmast was driven keel and a flood of n five minutes on hoard f the s d eight sland south h op of the ¢ decks number e sufferings were res. those e shipy The v age which she had hourne was They were ze the doomer 2g to an big wa forwar blackn they wer arore from of sses of rock c a the truth had there by thelr vessel cavern ac n the now cleared The apts boats As the drove inch by inch into the scrape the \vern and im se ind rock commenced selow. Nothing magined n this e blackness over- with the agony of uncer- to A terrified passengers 1er they huddled to 165 which fell with f the vessel. A s time showed that fathams under the 1t in this terrible been madness. 8o e done but patient- eak dvanced the wind and H roke with redoubled & s cate, which caused the te r00f of the it ce. The foretopgal- with a crash, amid t m: of cordage and blocks, came the foretopmast, soon after, ompanied by great bowlde: and sses of rock which became loosened 5 1e crashing down on the deck pars came down the vessel surged r into the cave, and soon the fore- ist came crashing down. daylight was breaking the miz- zallant mast came down, and this the captain to hesitate no longer, order was given to lower the boats. as it was now almost Impossible for any When R HIS BO G1LRow ORDERED THF DISTRACTED MAN BACK INT AT. “IN A FEW MOMENTS THE WAVES WERE BREAKING OVER HER.” e to keep ght ired so long as they re- iled but ing o « all was confusion and g Some leaped madly ov while ers so crowded t > nearly swamp them. Some few sick and dis hea ones refused to leave the ship JI. But if the terror of the situation nd the hope of self-preservation had driven most of the passengers into a panic there wag one brave man who kept ind self-poss. ngers boats from a courage - General Gra two q mes essed, erestim the Teer rende that awful it would be ser d to morning. and his cool- on from overloading by being lost nt hree hoats one long boat during chiefly t /ng boat of M-fect keel was manned by few ed and children The d ficul this boat was soon solved we bigger than its fellows lifted up the on i mast stoick the rock so f at the heel was driv hrough the bottom of the hull nd in a few moments the waves were breaking the deck. The captain and one of the passengers climbed up into the rigging. The long boat glided off the sinking deck into the water, leaving behind it two or three un- fort 1 The boat was pulled rapidly to the mouth of the cave to join the o but before it was a hundred vards from the ship a heavy sea, a swift eddy and’ the great weight of the pas ger ed it to founder, and all its were left aming and fight- n the a waves. Two of and one passenger were picked er, but the rest were drowned. In t endeavor to save these last the peopl Teer's boat came right across the mouth of the cavern just in time to R GRCEE SEORY SORS SIUSE ShCEe SRUEE S SRR SR 2 | | been lowered picking up th ew who were str there was a somillon. The S DA D S S S O D o S Women Smoke Tea Cigarettes. HE flerce crusade against to- bacco cigarettes in Londc has d tea cigarette, which is ¢ ularly patroniz by women. Undoubtedly some of them will soon find their way to feminine Anglomaniacs in | New York. Tea cigarettes are made ¢ a coarse grade of green tea, which has but little dust and is composed of un broken leaf. This is dampened so that the leaves may be stuffed in the paper cylinders, but not sufficient to affect the t paper. T able at first, a sense of opp desire to take ho e e is said to be dis flect on begin sion in the h 1d of something. After a few cigarettes have been smoked the depressed fecling su ceeded by one of ‘Intense exhilaration. Physicians say the effect on the nerves of continuously smoKing tea cigarettes fa as deleterious as drinking absinthe. The first stop toward a cure is a cup of strong te P —— “How do you fe [ Wild. Yours or 1.” “Up, late. in it. “That's but a cor 1 “Right. Great Ji “The last on Too 0. you call me in that first round “You had me be: “1 had only two “That was enou “I must be getting to the office. “‘Me, too. Comin, “Yes—I guess so. ant thi el after last night?” do you? vake?" don't mention it don’'t know that it pays, after all.” many cigars — nothing At rare intervals all right, ng—n: ckpot. Yes. € ver! hy didn’t at all right small pair.” gh."" g again to-night?” see the last death throes of the Gene: Grant. The hull was entirely under wa- ter and the broken masts were all that remained above. She went down before the eyes of Teer and his companions, who saw the water crawling up the masts quicker and quicker and over the heads of the few luckless beings who screamed for the aid that could not be given. Over the head of the last passen- ger to be seen went the heaving waters and then over the mizzen top where the captain stood. The light was dim, but Teer and his companlons were able to discern a dark figure waving a white handkerchief a last adleu, when the figure sank and the sullen waters of the cavern closed over all, and those in the boat knew that the ad parted forever from their captain and their ship. The two hoats contain n all souls who had succeeded in escapin dangers of the cavern were both w Jacking in necessaries. The people were only scantily clad, and in the panic had omitted bring with them tools or clothes or anything that would be ser- viceable. The occupants of the two craft held a consultation as to what was best to be done, At first the two boats tried to ma Disappointment Island, but failed on ac- count of the ugly weather. They were Leaten and battered about in the break- ers for hours, and then finally made a P S P SN D S DS landing not far from the cave in which their vessel had been wrecked. Thus, thoroughly exhausted with the labors of a night and a day and the want of food and water, fourteen men and one woman, wretched beings. poorly clad and shivering with cold, huddled together on the rock to pass their first night on shore. The air was chilly with mist, with occa- slonal snow, which blew upon their faces d exposed limbs, for shelter there was absolutely none. The history of these poor survivors for the next week is nothing but a record of terrible heartbreaking suffering—wander- ing along the desolate shores by day in search of food and water and huddling together at night in the less exposed part of the rocks for warmth. The temptation a to consume their stock of meat saved from the wreck was terri ut Teer, a born leader. would not hear of it During this week their principal food was some varieties of shellfish and what else they found among the rocks. The days were ge g shorter and the cold more intense, and the mists and snows of the An ame rolling up on them P from the southward soon evident tained life but a t one. thing as a flint to be istar ch was w made creased at unl the There and it was was daily s would be such of the affairs was . no 1 any of found the a 1 Teer PPN S SUUP U SPUP SRS SRR SO 85 S8 S S SR SR Q0000000000000 0000000000TV0OV000000D0VT0O0000000D0D| s France Is Shipping Wines to Her Colonists. o 002000 NCNOCN00C00QJD00000000000D00000000 RANCE has inaugurated the first national marriage bureau. She has become the generous parent of her | young women who want husba and ¢ r young colon Madagascar who want to go home because the find no wives out there. France has her share of the “white man’s burden,” and has to think hard about it. When she put her arms around the island of Madagascar she got what our own Uncle Sam is getting in the Phil- ippines. There is a great country so many miles from home that the settlers must often depend upon themselves and the natives. The natives were not more overj than is usual to have the white man up his burden and tell the black man what to do to be saved. Of course it is a good thing for them, but it takes a white man's army to make them it that way. There is only one real solution of the problem for France, and that is to get people to go there and live, to get interests there and each to look r and help civilize the island. France offered the colonists every inducement to stay, gave them land and protection and offered a market for the vanilla and coffee and indigo they grow, but the Frenchmen said, “What is home without a wife?” and would not stay, even though they might be doing well financially. So mother France smiles and says, “I'll give you anything if you will only stay, property after his own cor even a f single | istand for a few ce buy in San F | chief for 25 cents France at least { one can count must earn. Our laundry gir a day ecarn fortunes heside When the Government that it would give a gift of $80, a trousseau worth free transportation to Mad | the prospect of a rich husband, home, ser and_horse and even, it was like offering her a heaven. More than a hundred young women ap- The in f to the di girls who When one c linen handker- took a in to embroider, the girls at 30 cents them made wife.’ girls are ince plenty who tant work n ready hey t day. ancisco a that two days up about ‘what are ts the the nouncement of nd ar, with her own riage plied to the Government and offered to | g0 out to the island. The offer required them to be between 22 and of | age, healthy and of the he cter | and’ industrious. Birth certi , phy- an's certifl es, employers’ certifi s were presented, and then twenty | were chosen. | " After that the shopping began, with an inspector to decide. And $20 will buy an endless variety of things for a very poor | girl in Pari | Be sure that every girl was ready n the time for sailing came, a 1 “au revoir but not good by’ one hoped to return some time and show her friends how she had prospered. There was no definite idea of | should marry whom, but photographs had been exchanged. The planters were all well to do, but they could not get away from the island plantation for any length of time because they employed hundreds 4] L] (4] Q CO0CODO0C0O00000 | of native ho needed w ek Dui ocean trip the girls laughed and j 1 wondered what their hu be 1 When the tim of ey began to he Tied 1 serious A > might be better o roiderir for a_few ts a day n said she ed to go b she had rivilege « chose +Betieke Jo Lo %e Omne of the Mest Curious Wrecks on Record. Of all strange stories of shipwreck that of the General Grant is one of the strangest. In 1866, while on a voyage with returning Australian gold hunters from Melbourne to London, she was driven into a big cave on one of the Auckland Islands. The swell of the tide drove her main mast against the roof and forced the heel of it through the hull. In this dark cavern raining great bowlders on the sinking deck the terrified passengers and crew were forced to take to the boats. Of the eighty-three souls on board only fifteen succeeded in getting out of the cave of darkness on to the island. After undergoing extraordinary hardships for nearly two years the . '0. survivors were rescued. % Several expeditions were at once fitted out to get the big store o of gold known to be on board the wrecked vessel in the cave. But the ;s fate that swallowed up the Grant likewise threatened all these expe- 4 ditions. The British Admiralty even sent a vessel to look over the ':‘ ground with a view to recovering the treasure. And now several of ¢ ¢ the survivors and close friends of the survivors who worked on * :. previous expeditions are here in San Francisco making ready for a :- 4 new trial under a new plan which they are confident will yield them o % the chests of gold known to be in the hold of the wrecked vessel. e 2 2 L e L R R A A A T R R PN VDR EHC IV § Rummaging In one of his pockets he found birds, and now and then sonre caught a small box of wax matches. A quantity in the shallows d at first their of kindling was soon collected and Teer only fo ntly, when they took the first match and rubbed it against a stone. It would not lig] One after another w: same result. until only hs on the island. discovered, and onward goats or hogs were 1 down and trapped wild goats and hogs were from this time t; it was damp. with tried the two rems s Teer had not the courage terrible winter season at length King one, he placed it in iway and the weary survivors B b : i to, Welctme ‘ther conting - smmers d gave the other to the mat Buti o 3 hed booh theln R same. Teer now went inland to see what .4 : aa 2 1 s ame could: be. procured or If ‘any edible - - nd so litlle chance apparently remained ki b ‘1 Eove 1”\ :fi g Of their bein< rescued that they deter- plants couid he discovercd; but his efOTtS minc 1o e mo esprte o aeter were in vain, and he returned in the even- o, i in; W ed € tv-hande disheart- DE oAty cxiptyshanaed. and. dleheft. country—New: Zedlwnd the hoats et s the and in a state .5 overhauled as well 3 e would permit, and deck The mate’s match had strick St A o “Anc he is the fire?" asked Teer, £y r 1 e ] t“] e nethe fn asked TeeT, 419 sajicloth and pro s “placed on gic a heart A Boara It seems that in the excitement of the "Oard o vestion e O e ot S of'who was o g0 and Low:many wers o ahe ,:‘. . while burning the lghter's Undertake the vovage. It was se that R 258 S BRLEI'S rour would be enough. and these we fingers. At any s o selected "l Gt Jhit Tirobi ine intab oft here as now only one ch between v Ak N X . ,There wis now only cne match hetween ficer, asserted his right to take his place e e D ctulis 3t ceomea In theboat, and #t only remained to sslect tHor 2 tore them up into Sience the lo darawn, and William L . Seotl "Andew M n and Peter Me- o sl v e dtilich el n drew the marked shells from the 3 o aiffareri On Jan . these four brave The fifteen survivors, men from different ’“" e parts of the earth, all knelt down on the [CIOWS, With mnasnEn sand and praved fervently fo the Al- STUMERt _sailed away with the m 0 bless the ast hope. Then $esper: o a 1ores ET r 4 }vl las 1;]1«»]\1 in r,'”c h'«‘:vrl“ of New Z 400 miles away to the - e eent mmmst nOTtEWaTa 1t the fate of these heroes D 4 ; s was we never knew, only that they were have been an imagine, for Teer, e St rong man as he was, could scarcely by ”',]‘_‘r_ IeEn. 8 AL o the utmost effart of his will suppress the _The summer passeq and _cams T trembli f his fingers. But the 282l e alldts ol e g O oas & 1,' P aregns o eloady mate and scarcity of food began to tell g g T s e S i pon t th of the party August, rub on a dry stone. a splutter of flame MPon the b o D and then a thin blue streak of smoke y.nq gied the following month. The e NhE ’I:” 4 umber was now reduced to n Then Heienib ot RCTION 1 tenq. ECUTVY bezan to manifest itself and Teer ire t t was watched and tend- : o s ; : had to resort to the most vigorous meas ed carefully day and night, each member 1l 1o resort 10 f 3 Qkeeniig inaction, using brute force of a Whip to e : keep them on the move I gE On Novembe 1 was sighted a considerat it to sea and the u als were made, but in SRS passed on erly direction. On the 2lst of month anothe ing straight proved to be the Bluff on a wh been long ¢ ture vessels which had b ed up and the fate it determined termined to searc ea before one o for the survi can readily im- agine ement among the cast- away mherst neared the and. Teer, with three other off in their only remaining boat lled madly for the brig. When C v saw these strange beings clo 1 s and eight- een months’ hair upon faces, no wonder stron tered his mind that thes be mutineers or madm toward the beach he b dancing a franctic their fire, which de m allow Teer nd his comr s on bhoard. Poor Teer begged d expostu- lated, but Gilroy was not be moved. At last Teer obtained perr to go alone on board and tell his story to the captain. This he did, but so great was the poor fellow’s excitement that he could not give a coherent account of himself or his friends. Gilroy, believing that his st picions were not without the distressed man back into h refused to hear another word At this moment an old negro was com- ing up on deck and heard Teer's last words and the captain’s order. Looking toward Teer he uttered an exclamation of surprise, for there stood one whom he at once regognized as an old fellow sailor. The old negro explained matters everything was to the captain and Soc settled all right. The next morning Captain sent his boats to bring off the remaining sur- vivors. They had been eighteen months on the island Gilro; PZTHEN ATHIN BLUE | Captain Gilroy and crew :;nl hed >/ { at i 0! viv and were AMOKE-, every attention on a v RICEASRO) willing to abandon their whaling expe- dition to take them back to Australia, ing f £ 2 n but they would not hear of this and in- haunting fear of the fire going out. ¢ ] ; is and | Rarely sufficient food was found during sisted on the whaling cruise being con- the winter to keep life within the half- tinued, saying that as they had waited frozen bodies of the fifteen unfortunates. eighteen months they could surely walt A few seals were killed occasionally on @& few months more he Am hen the shores of the crecks, when there was headed for the sout s a royal feast and the skins were kept When the Ambher sailed x:\ij\d. .“,; for clothing. These, with some stray bourne thousands of people lined th wharves er was presented by his fel- o0 ®—4-®¢ Jow survivors with a handsome diamond \ g ring, and the New Zealand Government, All More or Less Actors. highly did they appreciate his noble services, offered to reimburse re all more or less actors, and Services, offered to imi e governed by @ reputation: for all the treasure which he which has been given us justly or This vklxndl\‘\unli|""u.x]:‘:o:v‘.i:\n . Teer unfisky.AIoriihatatces a girl {s: e lad oMy Cone b AT SR brusque. Some kind friend character- ;"‘_’”'"L o e P izes this brusquemess ag frankness or they must also do it for the BEh honesty. The girl is pleased with the they had no distinction between th ¥ 3 5 X 2 Se al effo A ¢ )y differe o | name which has been given her, her S veral n‘\\: ..~[L o w(‘v”w“v\’:p'\r by ueness under the guise of frankness ;‘r“: ;\‘]'r: I o *‘” e ";; 8 increases and she finally becomes a terror ~freasure Jost Ui FOC CERERR rRlt to her friends unknowingly. 5 Ak e et Then some one remarks: ‘How sweet With them, but S0 severe were the gales Ethel is! She.has the loveliest character ©Of wind in the locality that all attempts d s a7 5 : sre abandoned. and sweetest disposition of any girl I Were ? 3 R e Kb, ELie) maust ive: np to! hedisepu- . [ all of these expeditions Teer was a ominent figure, and in one actually vis- tation for sweetness until this very sweet- Prominent figure, and e actually v SprTege of SR LS | or Sweet, 1 ited the scene of all his past sufferings. [ the wharf the twenty bridegrooms hoard- | "eoe DCCOMeS apnoving. = He would never reveal at that time the had c so far and left so much, trusting | anthroj S vi N C BNErous - x o1 ¢y lost ar i the matural honor af men CFher wers | than he would naturally be, as he must One expedition was entlrely lost and rough, toil-hardened men, many of them | live up to the good name he has received. never heard of again. soldiers whe time of Service had ex-| S0 how much is Teal in our lives and Even so recently as the year 1889, pired and w had taken the ch of | how much assumed we hardly know twenty-two years after the catastrophe, success in a wild country rather than re- | OUr’ s. Teer prepared for another great effo e e e e, | - Algorriort thoughtiie: waa. on theifres 1iojald all his plang carefully dnd every the Government, which 1 At the houte of the revenue officer thing seemed to favor the attempt. But | charge, and a dinner ich followed | whose falr daughter had welcomed him on the eve of the expedition, when the in the town hall matter led and | s0_many times befo final preparations were being made and isbands and wives ¢ he next| But on this occasion two watchdogs when it seemed that the gold in the ill- day there were twenty marriages, not one | met him at the foot of the steps and fated General Grant was at last within damsel backing out of the bargain. | thought it their duty to levy a tear-off. reach, James Teer was found dead in his It may be lonely for them for a time, That was why he custom. : s e but every one keeps house' and you may | Ah. ves! Life is full of such horrors! hakel in Melbourne—a dramatic end to a be sure that women who have the pl | Chicago Tribun dramatic lifes to make such a journey under such ci P e — The treasure still remain where it went cumstances will not be at a loss for a| Boatswain (to newly joined cadet)— down. The writer of this narrative was means of getting about nd finding | Come, my little man U mustn't ery on the navigating officer of an English man something to make life pleasant even in | 6ne of her Majesty's ships of war. Did of war that was sent from Auckiand in Madagascar. vour mother cry when you left? 1867 to investigate the wreck. who | the grocer, $6 4 Molly—Suppose vour father owed to the butcher, $1 the coal merchant and $3 76 to the man milk ; how much would he pay altogether? othing.” I'm afraid vou don't know addition,” “And you don't know father.”—Life. CAPTAIN GEORGE E. JACKSON. ————— Cadet—Yes, “Silly old woman! And did your sister " Husband—There is no hurry, dear. I've little thing! And did your just telephoned, and they our train T is_four hours late. Wife—Good! I've just got time to fix rted old beggar!"—Punch. my hair over again.