The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1899, Page 29

20600060060 TR U TR TR s R AR S0 T A THE SUNDAY CALL. =% A MAN OF FIRE AND SBEEL s . /f it rons of lce Thundered Into the Sea Beneatn. . v The and cool diss waver and give R > NN Kalser Wilhe n b Jection which ca others to give the credit at Sedan to the Prince de B brigade, was charge; the Prince de s claimed he took command and led the charge; the Marquis de allifet Ay that he received his comm al the night before the that he assumed command upc death of General Marguer cial records sustain De Galiifet. General de Gallifet is over 70 years old, and usually has the gay, dandified appearance of a voung offi who has just left a ladies’ bouc —that when he Is not on duty. When on dut. he looks every inch the soldier. He is a strict disciplinarian, rigorous to an extreme degree. He {8 uncompromis- A SOLDIER, NOT A POLITICIAN. ‘S pay no attention to J am devoted to freyara’ politics. my profession. it as my duty lo obey my S can best serve France by not superior officers. interfering with kerlegally constiiuted Sovernment.’’ A FRIEND OF HIGH @ND LOW upon attention his coquettishly ¢ still black. His voice is told in v was perplexed re than once as to how to moderate him. He entered the army when only 18 and was eighteen years in reaching 'GENERAL DE GALLIFET. PATRIER e PARIS - the rank of colonel. This promotion he finally won in Mexico after he had re- ceived a terrific wound in the abdomen from a shell. A fragment tore away a portion of his body, The skillful su geons with the expedition fashioned a plate to cover the inte: , and over this the. skin was stretched and allowed to grow together. For a long time his life was despaired ly yvered and is now as His wound does not hown since that ie and the usual ell as any one. nGuadalupe, the old a, transformed into a received the horrible tated such skillful Jeon's army _surgeons. rench had attacked 1 surmounted by the old church 1 ad as .stubborn hold. Owing to the the French artiller- d great difficulty in s into- position vigorous : bother him and he h: wound that n work defended the st elev position, of the Me nding several king force without do- mage, when toward the French having the escarp- carried it, one t pieces sent.a shell right nk of the attacking ile burst within a foot he. saddle and a portion of t's abdomen. nch were terrified at what d the death of an idolized officer. agossa, in command of the Mexicans, noticed the momentary inde- nd as the sudden tropical night cision « nt forward his reserves. car- t French back to their original m at the foof of the hill. All that s troops had fought for on sultry day was lost in a mo- force was recalled by General Foret aimed the battle of 1lupe. The Frénch gath- ered courage with ev favorable bul- letin from De Gal bedside. They carried nearly every action and soon after made their triumphal entry into the Mexican capital and drove Juarez into the m tain fastnesses. To-day General de Gallifet is France's Minister of War. Woe to the officer who imagines he may conduct himself . as under the previous military adminis- tration. He will quickly come to a PERILOUS ADVENTURES OF A STANFORD STUDENT IN ALASKA ¥ all the tales of almost miraculous escape from Instant death that have come from Alaska this vear the experiences of Arthur Pillsbury are the most thrilling. Pflilsbury is the Stanford student who went on & photographing tour through un- known parts of the new gold region last year and brought back & large number of Wonderful views. This year young Plils- bury returned to Alaska and was appoint- ed by the United States Government to make a series of panoramic views of the coast and the banks of the Yukon. Pills- bury has only been on this work & few weeks, but has already had & number of adventures. He was caught in a blizzard while erossing Whites Pass on his bicycle, an avalanche of snow covered him out of sight, the side of a glacler broke off while he was standing on it, the end of his boat was orushed between the walls of two fcebergs, wild animals got after him more than once and many other thrilling things happened. “T suffered more on the White Pass than I did at any other time during all my stay in Alaska,” Student Pilisbury writes to his brother, Dr. Pillsbury of this city. “I had to get mto the Atlin country to get some views before the snow was all gone and the bicycle was the only way to make the trip. "f maz’ie the trip over tne pass and got my views all right, but it was when I started back that I got into trouble. I left the sett!ament at the foot of the pass early in the morning and from all indi- cation the weather was going to be fine. The air was clear and bracing and not too cold. But you can’t tell what is going to happen in Alaska. ‘Eisfore 1 was half way up the pass there was & sudden change and I came near making up my hind to go back. The air got cold and a light fog came in from the sea. My better judgment told me to g0 back, but the thought that my jour- ney would be ended If I got over on the other side urged me on. ““‘When near the summit it commenced to snow, and the wind blew a hurricane. Then 1 wished 1 had gone back, but -it was now out of the question. All I could do was to find a place somewhat sheltered from the wind and crawl into it. “When 1 was as comfortable as could be expected under . the circumstances which was not very comfortable, I put my hand in my pocket for my lunch. But it Wi ot there. I suppose it must have a out on the road when I was buck- g against the bllzzard. “Then my sufferings commenced. “I tucked the blankets as tightly around me as pessible, but could not keép out the snow. I got as cold as fce and got up and ran about in the effort to keep warm But It was all no use. 8o I crawied back into the blankets and shivered. All nignt lay there almost numb with cold. The wind blew harder and harder and the darkness was intense. I hezan to wonder f T would ever see San ncisco again and the sufferings of hunger almost drove me crazy. But the longest night always comes to an end even if it ‘did seem to some of us llke an eternity. Toward morning the wind weM down and when the sun rose the air was clear and cold With_difculty I arose and stood on my feet o stiff 1 could scarcely move. d i fort to get onmy wheel took a e tumble. But it did me good by <ing me un and got me in condition to The road was fine and all down hill, and it didn't take me long to strike a place where I got warm and something to eat. Then T was ready for another tussle with the elements. “My experience on the glacler was most terrifying and irishtt’nf‘d me considerably, but otherwise did no harm. “I had been working on’a point that to all appearances was as folid as a Tock. And so it was for the time being. I got my picture done &nd had my camera over my shoulder, ready to go down to the boat, that was tied up a few hundred feet below. “Suddenly I felt a tremble in the glacler and instinctively stepped back from the edge. The tremble became more and more violent, and 1 went on a run for a big rough snot that looked solid. But I was too late. Just as I was about to ste on it the ice under me gave way. clutched at anything I could reach and soon found m%lall hanging {n the air with one hand tight on a projecting plece of ice. ‘“Beneath me tons and tons of ice went thundering into tire sea several hundred feet below. Then the portlon of the gla- cler to which I was hanging shifted ite position and turned so that I could climb up to a safe place; but it was a narrow escape. “The next day I was working in the eame neighborhood and had occasion to row through a canal between two loe- bergs. 1 had rowed through the same place before and never thought of dan- er. On this occasion, when [ was about alf way through, I was horrified to the two walls of ice. slowly comin gether, My Indlan helper got Qreadrully excited and it was all that I could do to make him sit In the boat and pull at the oa As we worked along, each second seeming like a year, the icy walls got closer and closer together. Soon the wall were S0 near we could not use our oa and had to take them out of the rowlocks end use them as paddles. “It was not more than a hundred feet to open water, but it looked to us like miles as we struggled madly =at the paddles. Now it was fifty feet, and the two walls were so close tcgether we could not even paddle, but forced our boat along by push- ing on the walls of ice. “When the entrance was only ten feet off the ice walls touched against the sides of the boat and behind us the way was blocked. “With one good shove we sent the boat fiylng ahead, but not quite fast enough, for the end was caught between the two icebergs and crushed to splinters, L0t course, my Indian helper and my- self both jumped into the icy water and had a long swim to find & place where we could climb out. “I took a skiff and returned to the t the next day, and found, to my surprise, that although the boat was a total wreck my camera had not been injured.” realization that De helm. Again the Marquis has shown the broad liberality of his i mopolitanism of his friendships. training with th and with the Socialists, his cool judgment will act as a balance to their crack-brained theories, an iron hand upon the friend or foe who interferes necessary, The rance’s Wlinister of War =— —== A Soldier for Fifty Years W) MAY bTH./1862 Foar SAN GUADELUPE PUEB{AWXKO_ =1l with the “legally stituted Govern- ment of France.” With Ge al de Gal- life ppointment to the war portfolio, Jew-baiting in the army sees its death- blow. - With De Gallifet as Minister of War the Paris mob remembers how he treated the Commun , and there wilil be no rioting in the e tal. All hail the gentleman of Provence! PIERRE N. POERINGER. Gallifet is at the nd and the cos- He is of Gambetta and as usual foll, we , an vill desc Boat Crushed to Splinters Between Icebergs.