The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1899, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 84. PRICE FIVE CENTS, SAN FRANCISCO GIVES SPLENDID WELCOME TO HER NAVAL GUARD OF HON HARBOR OF HOME. Scenes of Unparalleled Excitement Mark the Home-Coming of the State’s Volunteers. Thousands of Men, Women and Children Throng to the Wharves and Hilltops to Greet the Soldiers on Their Return From the Wars. re was p of sufferi more than one x g and of trial; of sadness and of death. harbor the great ship e docks with their cheer- luttering thousands, past the | brilliant in their waving rs and pennants, through the for- of masts to its anchonage in the LN R * ssels, R e S R TR T T 1 to the na- | v was vas er ) the » shore m of a O YK XX XN XN N NN MK MR YO0 X XK XK XK ¥ K O XK YOO X O XX gk ok e ok sk sk Ak ok ok ok e ok ok ke ok ok ok ym the moment the d cene of brilliancy never at tower of the f tuilding y. It was a scene that will live long in the mem of those that saw IL | dents of hysterical excitement, 1 of sounds, its maze of move nd and enthusiasm never color allel in the history of San With something more than | 3 )tism the people of the city had 2 e to the Golden Gate to bring their | = es home. There s in it all the = expression of ties deeper and closer E oo than those of a common nationality. It as a w for nd in the ather: sons and | gay throngs, in sweethearts, che and se hurrahs, there | 1t _| was a undercurrent of sorrow, a k | thought of the graves that some of : California’s he found when they answered their natic m’s call to arms. It was not long before the Sherman travel and storm-beaten, was left | solitary figure in the bay. The multi- | tude of ships deserted her with reluct- rans- showed iceship TRIBUTE FROM | THE CHAPLAIN| | | e | " HAVE connected with the regiment as its chaplain for fifteen 1 nt e had an y of knowing our men perhaps better B »* han & er officer. to them I must say I would never ask to % | »* < 1 with a fi s. They went to the front expecting % | * har ern ot a man was known to complain. * * »s In water waist deep or charging the foe under o % | * or in heavy marching order under a tropical sun, % | * cold ground or lying sick in the hospital * | * omplair * ’ * t their creed, I always found in every man a friend, ready X * way, or to listen to any words of advice I might have to t‘ * g * * all the rejoicing, T cannot help feeling a tinge of | * ess at t n having to part from such a noble lot of fel- | » w * ‘ * * * * | * > * | * *| * * | * * W R Fee R g Pus Fa P P P P PRy P i P M P S e R R MR R Rm Y e e | began to gleam on the great buildings. | They were outlined in dazzling bright- equa er of the world. loomi ance and steamed to the docks to re- lease the throngs that had formed the guard of welcome. Thousands came their stations on the h The thoroughfares of the from dock nd ‘, Confusion reigned San Francisco, and hastily, the people prepared for the As darkness came men and children crowded toward wharves. They thronged the walks and usurped the wagon ways. Vehicles of every description, wagons, carriages, cars carried their human freight to the docks. Men and boys climbed upon the were human hives. in again nervou: night. enthusiasm as they sped toward the water front. Noise-producing instru- ments of every variety were in commis- sion. As night fell over the city lights ness against the blackness of the sky. Beacon fires burned on the hilltops and the murmur of myriad voices. the sounds of whistles and of bells toid the e was the revelry of gladness. Suddenly the great tower of the ferry depot was outlined in flaming lights. The tremendous structure seemed to rise a column of fire from the water's edge. Columns of light danced from wharf to wharf, and in the bay from mast to mast were ribbons of flame stretched, it seemed, on the darkness of the night. Lazlly the tremendous searchlights of the Iowa swept the bay, bringing out of the blackness the flag- adorned ships-at the wharves and the masses of men and women who had gathered to see the night display. Tugs steamed, with their dancing lanterns, around the transport, and now and again gave their shrill blasts of greet- ing. Rockets and colored lights flashed into the air and then a great blaze iit up the bay. The long celebration of the day and night was drawing to a close. The soldiers of the Golden State had been welcomed home, and from their dark station in the harbor they could hear the murmur of the city that meant women the | | tops of moving cars and shoited their | on the transport that in the city | | of the emerging marine TO-DAY, 7 a. m.—California Volunteers disembark. 8 a. m.—Volunteers breakfast with relatives in the grand nave of the ferry depot. 10:30 a. m.—March to Presidio. Troops. Second—National Guard of California. Third—First California Volun- teers. Fourth—First Colorado Volunteers. Line of march: Up Market street, to Van Ness avenue, to Lombard street, to campatPresidio. The parade will be reviewed at Bush street and Van Ness avenue by General Shafter and the executive committee. On reaching the Presidio the volunteers will be given a furlough till Saturday morning. 8 p. m.—Grand electrical illumination of Market street. Military parade in this SATURDAY. 11 a. m. till 1 p. m.—Band concerts at Union Square and Columbia Park. 8 p. m.—Grand electrical display and parade. 10:30 p. m.—Grand banquet in the ferry depot. T e e T M P e P v P MR R Em e B P P P PR e M P Rm e lew Pem g Pem Mm Rm P R My R Rm R R :‘I.hhh..hh!.l [ to them the best of wishes and good will. e NAVAL PARADE IN THE HARBOR| Spectacular "Beginning| of the Big Reception. | | Their echoes floated down to the b: Gay Craft Escort the Trans-‘ port Sherman to Her | Anchorage. | CSFIHE prettiest picture in all the wide, | H wide world was presented yesterday [l In the landlocked harbor of San Franclsco. From the city front on one side to the purple shores of Marin on the other Nature had stretched her can- vas. She called the elements to her aid to lay in the background of swelling water, | curling into whitecaps, with a grayis sky above, warming to yellow on the east, where a belated sun was dissipating the mist into a shifting haze. Out to the west | a curtain of fog hung over the Golden Gate. | Upon this canvas, relleved by this back- ground, was to be painted the living pic- | ture of the meeting of California with her | heroes on board the transport Sherman, | new arrived from the wars and even then lying on the swelling ocean beyond the in- | le bar. San Francisco’s was the hand holding the brush. | The entire « moved early from fits | hills to the water front, framing one side | Eleven o'clock | the hour set when the first bit of color would be massed, but long before | that hour the woodwork of the city's side of the frame—the wall of plles and slips | and wharves and sheds, from the baige | office to the Mail dock—was crowded with | humanity. At anchor or moored alongside | was the shipping of the harbor, like pend- | ants to the frame, with every bit of bunt- | ing from every locker fluttering from peak | and masthead and halyard. | Craft without number there were, and of every description. Full-rigged ships, schooners, barks, steamboats, steamships, transports, natty looking launches undJ saucy looking tugs, all flying rainbows of Fifth—League of the Cross Cadets. | taking th | parade began fillling up HEROES AS THEY SAIL THROUGH THE GOLDE @ Yo e o Y e e e P P P P 0 P Py P N P P R P e P e P P e P P g Y e I e e P (@ THE OFFICIAL, PROGRAMME. * order: First—United States P R SR S S S S S e S P o P ey Pem M R N R MR R R M Rw R PN P Pow PR R P P P P ey M Mem Pem prmoMow e e M M P e Pem Pem Mew KR RN PR W P P m Mm P P MmN P M e P e R P Rem e Pem Ry M HOW THE WATER FRONT LOOKED LAST kness of night settled down upon the city and bay until the last skyrocket and pyrotechnic bomb had been touched off the water front The great piers, crowded with humanity, shaft outlined in fire, forming the center of the picture, w were lined with vari-colored lantern h bursting shells and screaming rocke pennants and flags, all gay in full dress alow and aloft. On the wharves, on top of piles, along the stringers, was one long row of people, from Meiggs wharf to Brannan street, as gayly decked as the shipping, is not as well provided with sea room Everything was moving, the people eir cue from the incessant flut- From the city grew terings of the flags | the sound of numberless whistles shriek- ing welcomes to the boys beyond the bar. in a harmonious theme, as'if some master | was touching his heartstrings to sound | the depth of his feelings. Up above the | hills and the tall buildings could be seen | the puffings of steam from the monster calliope, whose discordant tootings were softened by the distance. The launches called back shrill “ answers, the tugs tooted stoutly as If | saying, *“We're little, but oh my!” Steamboats turned on their steam to add | to the volume, while the Inevitable jubi- | lee horn and the occasional bell gave the musical pitch to the whole. It was a wonderful scene, never to be forgotten— the ships, the people, the sound they emitted. the groupings they pr ed. for the the ticket ones and | heir himit. At 11 o'clock the tugs selecte with wolders. There were no tardy they were soon crowded to Gay parties gathered on each, and any number of bands of music, which soon be- gan to make thelr presence felt and heard with the latest in music and—a few of the earliest, ‘Home, Sweet Home” and “When Johnny Comes Marching Home." No time was lost in getting out the tugs and assembling the lines of the naval parade which was to form the grouping of the plcture, in the foreground of which was to be the Sherman with its precious freight for lifornia. No i the full it of guests hed on any sel than the signal was given to t_off 4 the holiday craft with it holida crowd puffed out into the bay to pick up the yacht assigned to it and take its place in_the line. T The yachts assigned to the two div of the parade were rendezvousing oft tion 3 of the seawall and Meiggs whar While the tugs were still moored to their wharves the dainty pleasure craft, trim and clean in their dress of white as any summer girl, carried ribbons that would have tried the complexion if not the temper of that -greatly pictured young woman. Every flag provided for in the lode and many that would distance two or three codes was flying_from every available stick and rope. ~Yachtsmen In | being and illuminated with electrie lights, | br duck and a plentiful sprinkling of guests PR R AORS FIRE PAGEANT ON THE BAY DURING THE NIGHT. oo oo oo st cfnfocfnfoefofonfoctnd X RO GATE Gayly Adorned Ships Move in Parade and Escort the Sherman to Her Anchorage. A Day of Unexampled Enthusiasm in the History of the City Closes Brilliantly at Night With a Unique Pyrotechnic Display on the Bay. were early on board, full of the spirit of the occaslon and ready to be off and away to join the greatest naval parade ever attempted in the harbor. Tug .after tug steamed (nto the yacht anchorage, the line was passed and aw they steamed and towed, two and two, | to take their place In the line that was | ly and majestically g < formed off Melggs wharf. Cheer | "All the figures and the properties for the after cheer followed tugs and yachts as | living plcture were at 1l but the they passed along the city front to get | principal, the transport into formation, the crowds on one wharf | then steaming in to meet t | ot relatives and friends. The tugs, with their tows, % | getting Into place off the b: when the timeball dropy fog, curtain ri against a deep purple, out below a fleecy bank A r to the east the battleship Iowa was clear- of cloud. lerman, even e floating city were busy | e office, and | at _noon the | parade was formed in two columr The Fearless headed the right. S the flagship of the fleet, and, | game ' her ‘dignity, was 'first "to take her place in’line, with the yacht Lur- line towing behind. Her consort was the Monarch, with the pilot boat Gracis S. The Monarch had as orders to keep | abreast of the flagship, and the two lines | dressed on their leaders h the Fear- less was George Knight's naphtha launch | Athlete, detailed to act as aid. With the | Monarch was Frank Moffit's Augusta, Which acted in a similar capacity for the | lett column | ,,One long blast, then a short one, the whistle of the Fearless and the nava parade was in motion toward the Head | Everything else unanchored on the bay suit, and two lines originally designed to string out a thousand yards | became four, a mile long, with craft of every description, flying all sorts of dec- | oration, strung out to both sides as far | as_one’ could see. To the right of the | first division slowly steamed the army | transports City of Puebla and Columbia. Riding still farther to the north were the | ferry_steamers Ukiah, Newark, Pride of the River, Caroline, Captain Weber, T. C. Walker, Piedmont and Grace Barton, | all laden with excursionists. To the left was the Monticello with the members of the citizens’ executive committee and | their guests aboard, a number of launches, unattached tugs and whitehalls darting between her and the shore. Every eye on every vessel was stral toward the Gate for th + Sight of th transport. The moments had flown as from naval swiftly as the tugs were steaming, and it | was nearing 1 o'clock as the head of the parade drew past the Presidio, where the rows of white tents were sown, like the armed men. teeth of Cadmus, to yield Every ear was strained for whereabouts unknown, pr y traz, maybe Fort Point, announcin, entrance into the harbor of the looked-for transport. Boats here and there provided with can- | non exasperated the watchers by tou ing oft their ordnance to furnish false alarms of the desired fact, but no sight of the Sherman had been had until the | Ragship had slowed down under the lea | of " the Marin shore. The ade was ahead of the meeting time, or rather the | Sherman was behind. The parade had come to a halt, and tak- ing advantage of this the excursion boats of all descriptions hurried up to the front, keeping for the most part, with commend- able decency, without the lines selected | for the parade maneuvers. The portion of | the bay from the Presidio to Lime F was fairly alive with ga the ong- sels. Bands began playing, whistl toot | ed and shrieked and coughed, small can- ron popped like rackers; but although everybody waited anxiously for the ap- pearance of the Sherman or the boom of the gun that announced her approach it seemed as if it would never come. Tha excitement was at fever heat, but there was nothing to do but wait and make as much noise as was necessary for the ex- haust of the pent-up feeling. All of a sudden, “Boom!” There w staking that gun. It sounded wit e of authori: s no o volume of the vo A big puff of blue smoke puffing out from of the pa Point into the center showed whence it came. “There she is! T ere he is line, : | ed “all along the enough, was the Sherma | bay, having skirted point and opened view, well up t tee on n k almost national that jts efforts booming of the guns in the fort. @K NN N AN XN XX Y XN RN YN Y XX X XN XN N X XX X kA ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok Ak ok ok XK 6 XK | | " The signal to go ahead was fairly screeched from the Peerless, and the fla | ship led the way out to the hark trance. In and in passed the ® itor. her boys cheering as 1 | a | lungs would warrz ir | sho | their v the parad. | 'Then began the most hn'\uh";l! of San Francisco filling the sky overhead figure in the entire display. The Fear taking up the cheer before those on the | from the right, the docks passed had ceased. Answering yells | Jeft. The flagship circled and waving of flags from the people | around the stern of the aboard were constant and hearty. araft in that column of the p. rom the tugs the scene was superb. | ing, a hundred vards apart 1 the left such ly packed crowds of | the boats in the column headed by Monarch circled to the right people ever before ed on the water front of San Francisco there is neither | passing and exchar record nor recollection of them. The eye | the world like a grand-ri of the most keen sighted sailor could not | quadrille. 1 never be for- They | The sight is one that w X itnessed it and reach tr ift of the gatherings. e e ISt Lt &) | gotten by anybody that covered the wharf space and crowded the streets leading to it. T | would not have been missed for a great as shingles on every p shed deal by those fortunate enough to be crowned the ridges of the far participants. From every vessel in sight hills and they were like ants on the sides | numberless flags were being waved, whis- of the nearest. No. point from naval pageant could Telegraph Hill p | tles tooted, bombs exploded, clouds . !ing above and sunshine suddenly breal whi ¥ | for the blue and brown coated b spot. Thousands upon thous aboard the big white transport. They h: ple capped i | all crowded on the decks and all we earth. Hundreds indreds of others | shouting themselves hoarse, peerir ved its declivities, perched on jutting s into the conft one or two or three beloved s sped to a_manly breast e yvachtd and the tugs t tacle were no less Interesting | were still passing around the s s time had managed to lend | forming the maneuvers without v ing to the alr, which quickly | although at times it s d as if dissipated in the teeth of ‘a twenty-knot | be impossible to res breeze, that served, however, to lift the | an apparent confu s of rock and gazed down on the pas ing craft, unmindful of the jagged rocks at_the bottom of the declivity. The oth des of the rapidly WISH to say for the comfort of relatives here at home that the I ment returns in an excellent state of health. The only sick men among us were a few convalescents, who have been steadily improving ever since we left, until now there is not really a sick man in the entire comn The food has been excellent and well prepared. The sanitary conditions have been press g In as- carefully attended to, and I wish to take this opportunity to publi my appreciation to the officers of the Sherman, who have done evel thelr power to help me in carrying jut the detalls of my department. Th sistance they have rendered has been invaluable and bas much to do with the excellent physical condition of the men. Major and Surgeon. T P e e e e M Mm P P PR P P R P M Pm R R MM 54444444‘4‘444444;;44“ B oo o o0 o s sl