The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1899, Page 2

[+ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. 18985, No more on life's parade sha 1 ry guards, with sol On Fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spr HE muffled drum’s sad roll has.beat the soldler’s last tattoo, 11 meet that brave and fallen few; emn round, the bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe’s advance now dwells upon the wind, mo Their shive Their haughty nd plenteous funeral tea d swords a banner tr iled in d The neighing the The cha - wa Those troop. the d »rthern hurrican Like the fierc yubled thought at midnight—haunts of loved row's strife the warrior's dr n nor screaming fife at dawn shall call to arms. 4 have w 3 And the proud forms by battle gashed are free from anguish now. adful cannonade, the din and shout are pi {ld note, nor glory’s peal, shall thrill with fierce celight breasts that never more may feel the rapture of the fight. ones left behind; am alarms; ed with rust, their plumed heads are bowed; ust is now their martial shroud; shed the red stains from each brow, flashing blade, the bugle’s stirring blast, ast; e that sweeps his high plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain came down the serried foe, Who heard the thunder of the fray break o’er the field beneath Knew well the watchword of that day was “Victory or death! Long has the doubtful conflict raged o'er all that stritken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged the vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, still swelled the gory tide; Not long—our stout old chieftain knew such odds his strength could bide. n that hour his stern command called to a martyr's grave 1 ywer of his beloved land the nation's flag to save; By rivers of th gore his first-born laurels grew, And well he de sons would pour their lives for glory, too. ! many a mother's breath has swept o'er Angostura’s plain, 1 long the pitying sky has wept above the moldering slain; raven’'s stream, or s flight, or shepherd's pensive lay, awa ach sull height that frowned on that dread fray. y grov mothe f th sky ey Honor points the hallowed spc oiceless s s richest spoil—the ashes of her brave. impious footst shall tr shall your glory ind, ve must not slumber there, resound along heedless air; shall be your fitter grave— 1th their parent turf they rest, far from the gory field, bread ast on many a bloody shield. smiles sadly on them here, .s and hearts watch by the soldlers’ sepulcher. sainted dead, dear as the blood ye gave; ead the herbage of your grave; forgot while Fame her record keeps t where valor proudly sleeps. tone in deathless song shall tell, h flown, the story how ye fell; ‘s blight, nor Time’s remorseless doom, ine and over toward 1. Instead of that, he orders es the others lin h forbids whic There r to the trans- offerings of th he & ved, | veen' given | ibject, with- | r of the| ns h e on the the rems happened, neither Jose who to the Sur-| get clos 1 of the bow wa began leaking ned shoreward ast r. she made two feet of was tied up While attempting to throw a package aboard the transport from another. launch at _had broken through the line Dick elch, an elevator boy at the Chronicle building, 1 his balance and fell over-! He is an expert swimmer and was picked up by Some men in a whitehall. Despite these slight jars, which were hardly noticed by the péople keeping their eves aloft on the men on the transport, the progress of the Sherman and the es- corting vachts to the anchorage was a triumph worthy of the occasion, equally 1 by those giving and those receiv- he feelings of the men, strangers homes for many months, cooped the narrow confines of a transport v a score of davs, poorly fed, with the nt of the tropics still in their blood, board. managed to keep his senses until hhe ing, to thelr up fo: ta can better be imagined than described. | Home again, and such a home. where the ements lend themselves to make 7 One has to put himself in the ace, and then you can only half guess the joy they the beating of the heart of the pulse. Into the s they drew long breaths of the air of own country and voted themselves ut exception well rid of the Philip- and the throbbi lun pines, And how they cheered the ladies of the .-k\_h-!!hh-h---llh---hhhlhm.‘ There is not one way in which 4 perhaps, in the behavior of one the line ju The suc was due to the did not try to push through the line the greatest naval parade we have e 3k e sk A e e ook sk gk ok ok ok ok ko ok THE COMMODORE i WAS SATISFIED!: HE success of the naval parade has far excelled my expectations s we reached the transport. careful followed instructions and to the close attention they paid to all signals, There was not a hitch in the arrangements, and among the vessels thai JOHN © Mu P N M R R W P M D M ey R e P N P e M Wom R m Ry e it could have been bettered except, or two of the vessels that crossed manner in which the captains there was not an accident. ever had. D. SPRECKELS, Commodore, It was | L] HHNRN RN LN il 1 y | of the bay from their admiring contem- 1 Red Cross, a number of whom were on the | deck of the City of Puebla, waved care- | fully codified signals, known in each in- | stance only to two hearts, to show the gladness that was in them at the nearing | of actual meeting. For the gentlemen of executive committee who steamed alongside on the gayly decorated Monti- | cello, they raised cheer upon cheer, appre- | clating what they had already done and anticipating what they had planned to do to honor the Californians that had formed | the vanguard to fight the foe in the , they went past the ferry whistles tooting, bands laying, nnon booming from every dock, until neared the anchorage, when the Jowa hed forth her salute of twenty-one s. The tugs blew a fanfare on their mbled whistles, the signal to disperse given and the Sherman’s anchor in rattled through the hawse pipe. She | swung slowly around and came to a Stop. ;rm- voyage was ended. The boys were | home. e tugs got the signal from the flaf- ship to disperse, and away they flew agaln {up the front acht anchorage ounds to drop their tows and their of- | ficial full dr ready after the night {mu ant to become once more the busy »ees of commerce, who on occasion can | grace a trfumph such as this. Out from the front darted innumerable small craft, laden with yellow badged humanity, parents and relatives of the on board, all headed for the Sherman a sight of and a shout from some loved one. Boxes of fruit in many in- stances formed part of their cargo and | for several hours after the transport was actually as well as officially at home, the volunteer: vere kept Dbusy answering and asking questions and consuming fruit with which they were bombarded. Skippers of the boats that took part in the navali parade and their crews were NATIVE THRE DAUGHTERS GOING ToO 7 SONS ANDNATIVE PARADE. SNAPSHOTS OF THE SHERMAN AND THE ESCORTING CRAFT. the recipients of congratulations on all hands for the magnificent and intelligent | manner in which they ran to instructions At no time there a hitch in the a rangements of the parade and at no time was this more noticeable than in the apparent confusion of craft the meeting with the man_did his duty and titled to the praise wh during and after the para PANORAMA OF THE INCOMING | as bestowed | | All San Francisco that was not on the[ bay yesterday afternoon was gathered on the heights and shores overlooking that | beautiful expanse of water, bent upon sating its appetite with the grand spec- | tacle of welcome to the returning Cali- fornia volunteers. “There she comes! She’s coming in!” The warning injunctions, delivered in excited tones by hundreds of watchful | lookouts armed with marine glasses and telescopes, suddenly recalled the pa- tiently waiting thousands thronging the | heights and hills overlooking the waters | | | See her masts!"“ plation of the maneuvering steamers and yachts composing the reception fleet, and directed their gaze once more toward the | Golden Gate. A slight haze hung over Il the harbor entrance, somewhat obscuring the view, and a sigh of disappointment arose, which was suddenly checked as the were again heard shouting vo- Then the transport were made ou tinctly through the mist { 1 into the harbor from behind old | Fort Winfield Seott, The half-uttered sigh changed the instant to a tremen- fous shout of gratified anticipation and A moment later the transport poked her white nose past Fort Polnt, and the hills shook with the cheers that arose sponta- neously from more than 30,000 throats. The mist again enveloped the steamer as ared the point and headed over | toward Angel Island, but only for a mo- and when the haze lifted the cheer- renewed with redoubled vigor and m. a spectacular standpoint the crowds on the shore had by far the best opportunity for vlewlni the grand pageant, and those who had been pre- vented from going out on the water to ;fvr«m( the returning California volunteers elt amply satisfied with the fate that decreed remain on shore. Never in the history of San Francisco has there been such a_grand outpouring of people as that which gathered on the points of vantage all along the bn?' front vesterday afternoon to feast their eyes on the “grand spectacular welcome in honor of the returning soldier boys and add their shouts of greeting to the din of noise that was wafted out to the brave lads on the transport as she slowly made that they should i THeYRE oFF THE PARAD THE ESCORT | to obtain the recognition which their dis- .| rush for the | their everyday residents. oRLYACHTS her way majestically up the bay. Thousands upon thousands of spectators lined the crests of Rincon, Telegraph and Russian_hills, while other unestimated thousands crowded the terraced slopes of the heights, occupying every point of vantage from the loftiest height along the shore down to the water's edge, and stretching from Folsom street to the Clff House. S Every vacant plat of ground that af- forded a view of the bay was pre-empted hours before the transport left her an- chorage outside the Heads, the housetops alone being reserved for the favored few. The embankment surrounding the Sprin Valley reservoir on Hyde street furnishe an especially desirable view point, and every foot of space thereon was uitlized, until the guards in charge were nearly driven frantic with anxiety lest some of the thousand or more congregated there- on, venturesome to the verge of foolhardi- ness, should slip down the precipitous in- cline into the deep water at the bottom of the great tank. Fortunately no serious accident occurred to cast a gloom over the pleasure of the occasion. The soldiers doing guard duty at Fort Mason had a trying time of it keeping the crowds from invading the sacred precinct wherein are located the officers’ quarters ana the soldiers’ barracks and the main fortifications. In spite of their utmost vigilance a’'few would slip past them oc- casionally, only to be brought to a sudden stop by the stentorian command, ‘‘Halt! Come back and go the other way.” The Presidio reservation swarmed with citizens, and this condition prevailed along the beach to the Cliff House and beyond. Those at the Cliff Houseé were the first (Deget a view of the transport as she headed in through the Golden Gate, but they missed the brilliant pageant of the inner harbor, none of the reception fleet - going outside the Heads, and the crowd were left alone by themselves and the temporarily neglected seals. It was a patient multitude and its pa- tience was rewarded when, after hours of expectant gazing, the big tran!rort finally entered the bay and was received by the myriads of gayly bedecked yachts and steamers of the reception fleet. The bn{ craft, accompanied by a few ocean- golng steamers as a sort of chaperons, steamed out nearly to Fort Point in double column formation. As the Bher- man ente the lane thus opened invit- ingly for her the saluting whistles and guns began their discordant but exhil- arating greetings. Then was witnessed one of the prettiest sights of the duf' as the parallel lines o tugs, with their tows, slowly circled around the transport in opposite direc- tions, with flags and streamers flying from every mast and spar and guns boom- ing incessantly. The sirens on land re- doubled their blasts in a seeming effort tance from the scene practically denied them. Cheer after cheer arose from the vast throngs on the helghts as the reception fleet once more headed up the bay, proud- ly escorting the soldier voyagers of whom going steamers as a sort of chaperons, all California is so justly proud, and the cheering did not cease until the anchors of the Sherman rattled from her bow as she came abreast of Folsom-street —dock. Then the crowds made a simultaneous s, and within an hour the heights were again deserted, except for It was a great day for the landlubbers of San Francisco, as well as for those who like to sniff the salt sea breezes from the deck of a steamer or yacht, and the foymer had the advantage of position in this instance. from the shore the bay parade was a grand, unqualified success. - OFFICIAL VISIT TO COL. DUBOCE had found De Young Shortly after the Sherman an anchorage Messrs. Martin | and Lawrence of the executive com- [ mittee and Mayor Phelan went out on the | | Monticello 1 paid an official visit to Colonel Duboce and the officers of his staff. They were received by the colonel himself at the gang plank and escorted | to the upper deck where a ten-minute levee was held. The visit was essentially formal and no business save the question of disembarka- tion was discussed. The time was given up to a friendly exchange of courtesies. e menibers of the committee, the Mayor, Colonel Suliivan and the others of' the party were all personally acquainted with the colonel and wit most of his officers, and the reception was a royal one and enjoyed keenly by all_concerned. Concerning _business, Colonel Duboce sald he would dock and begin the work of getting ashore at 7:30 this morning, but beyvond that he could not programme un(}ll he had had time to study his official orders. Down on the lower deck the men of the ranks gathered, and as a member of the committee, or the Mayor came in sight above them, they cheered heartily and announced that they were home and glad of it. An ovation was tendered the of- ficiais when they descended on the way to thelr beat, and much time was consumed | in handshaking with old friends or old employes ‘who had given up everything | else to go afighting. Over 180 discharged | men were taken ashore on the Monticello | when she put back to the Mission-street FROM THE HEIGHTS THE PARADE THE BOYS’ HE California Volunteers had left | Yokohama. Day by day the course of the vessel bearing them home to | the fond hearts waiting to recel them was pricked off on a thousand charts and the city had figured almost to a cer- tainty the time they would arrive. It was to be Thursday forenoen. But if San Francisco’s populace had pro- | posed, it lay with the winds and the waves to dispose, and the elements willed it oth- erwise. ‘The boys had come in from their different afternoon details and were sit- ting at their various desks in the local room engaged on the composition of their | stories, when a telephone in the editor's sanctum rang. He bent down to catch the message it had to deliver, and the next minute, jumping from his seat, gave | the signal and The Call’s cannon boomed out the joyful news that the Sherman had been sighted and had upset all calcula- tlans by appearing on the evening horizon | Jjust as it was growing dim to mark the | close of Wednesda August 23, 1809. In a minute all w commotion. Report- ers were thrown out of the office as though shot from a catapult and thread- ing their way through the dense crowds that were already beginning to gather, hurried off to the different posts to which they had been assigned. As I had once been a member of the California Regiment myself and had many friends in the ranks, I was detailed to the tug Alert, with orders to get on board the Sherman at all hazard. | Just as we arrived on the tug we saw launches bearing the representatives of other papers heading down the bay, bound full tilt for the Golden Gate. In a minute the tug's moorings were cast off and away we went after them. The engineer | had orders to feed the furnaces with sides of bacon, put a Filipino on the safety valve and open her up. He did. Grad- ually galning headway, the tug’s speed increased until she seemed to fairly skip | over the waters, touching only the tops of the white-capped waves as she fiew on her way. Wharf after wharf flew past with a rapidity that made the piles look like telegraph poles as seen from the windows of a passing express train. Black Point | was reached, and there we caught up with the launches that had preceded us just as they were turning around to go back | over their course. They had discovered | for them. Not so with the Alert. Continuing boldly on her course she met the first big roller that came tumbling in through the Gate, and with a mighty plunge that sent the white spray in sheets over her deck and house broke her way through it. Sea after sea was met and conquered as the boat surged onward, looking for the boys to whom she was bringing the first message | of greeting they were to receive from that country on which they have cast such luster by the glory of their achievements. At last some few lights were seen twinkling in the darkness that had now settled upon the ocean, and the tug's course was headed toward them. Finally | the outlines of a huge vessel were dis- cerned, and there, in the mists that wrap themselves about the lightship, & big transport lay, gently rolling. Kiding at anchor, she rose and fell, responsive to | the blue ocean billows that threw their | greetings to her as they surged past to- ward the Golden Gate. Aboard of her a thousand men were lining the rails and | darkening the portholes with eager faces | that peered anxiously out into the night trying to discern the coast outlines, | watching the dull glow that tinged the somber heavens with a ruddy promise of the bright homes that were waiting to | enfold them just behind those dark lumps | of sandhills that, raising from the water's edge, were dimly outlined in the pale | light of the rising moon. | The men abog the vessel were not clothed iIn the swell apparel of aristo- cratic tourists. Their clothes were torn and frayed, soiled and spotted; but Solo- mon in all his glory never made as beau- | tiful an appearance as did these boys in | their old army clothes to the few who had gone to greet them. Every rent in their garments told of privation borne uncom- glalnlngl , every spot was a decoration hat told more eloguently of the glory | that was theirs than could the most costly fabrications of the jeweler's art. The men were California’s own herolc sons re- turned from a glorious and victorious war, walting to receive the _tribute of honor and affection that their natlve gountry was waiting to proffer them. At last after months of weary waliting the boys had come back to their own. don’t know what the people in the city were doing, but I con imagine. Great as thelr satisfaction was it was fully equaled by the delight of the lads themselves. As soon as the tug approached within hail- ing distance the firing line along the rails opened on it with volley after volley of questions and happy messages. The bable of voices became so great that it was impossible to distinguish anything save the one word “Home” in the great symphony of joyous salutation. A boat | was lowered from the tug and three of ' 4 *x . OF HIS e p— est pleasure in getting home to-day. myself and the regiment. It was an “I have always had an interest Mayor. “There are great opportunities but investment is a matter for the in a very unsettled state. Spanish methods.” e Tk e ke ok ke ke ok ke ok ok ek ke ek ok ke ok ok ok ok Ak pier. . TO SEe - O e @ Wu [ M P R P Pew e BY CORPORAL F. A. | plight by leaving me hanging to the ro| that the waters outside were too rough | b . DUBOCE TALKS OLONEL Duboce said yesterday after the parade: the regiment in splendid physical condition. a very few exceptions, are in an excellent state of health, con- sidering the hardships they have undergone. when I try to express my appreciation of the magnificent water parade I can only say I thank every person who took part, both for my friends. I do not know what I would do if offered the nomination for It would be a great honor, but would require time for thought. I feel much complimented at the assignment as major of one of the pew regiments, but I do not yét know if I will accept. established, stable government, and then, with their great richness, they will offer splendid opportunities for business enterprise. The inhabitants are used to the dilatory HOW A “PRISONER” SAW HOMECOMING HEALY. us went alongside. We were told that we could not board, and had no intention of doing Tope ladder was hanging down t "of the vessel, and on this we mo s to converse with those who rowed us over e Swede d us as rope & of AC e ship's 2d 0 th asked some One are 3 We replied we were from The Call. That was enough. In a minute a hundred pairs of hands were stretched out to our coat collars, and in a minute we were hauled aboard. Some of us went over the rail. Some were yanked through the portholes. The boys were crazy for news and landed us among themselves despite our resistance. Once aboard we were fairly over- whelmed. ‘“Have you seen mother?” “Where's Jack?’ “is Billy waiting for ’ “Lord, but I'll bet the old man will he send any mes- o fast that it in a d to see me. Did The questions flew impossible to answer except eneral way. Here and there some poor ellow would draw one of us quietly aside and, with tears starting from his eye ask for some loved one whose car e will never receive until he journeys across that fathomless ocean that separates time from eternity, I have seen many a sad thing in my life, but 1 know of nothing that was more touching than the sight of these poor fellows who, amid the general rejoicing, returned only to re- ceive the news of the ¢ a parent or relative whose welcome had been the center piece around which had clustered their every vision of home; whose longed for caress had been the one great reward > months ath As I could be discovered a me senge approached and wanted on the quarterdeck. and was promptly put under ar r violating the quarantine law. I toid the officer to.seek out ond apprehend the guilty Swede who was the cause of my 1 we ladder. poor one self a I was told that the excuse wa and that I was to consider my= er confined within the limits of the ship. As the tug had already left and as I could not swim to the CLft Couse, that fact was as apparent to me as it was to my two companions, Honig and Britt, who had al€o been placed under the ban. So I went forward among the boys of the regiment, there to receive a greeting that would have made imp! onment in far worse quarters than those of the Sherman a welcome detail indeed. Again I was overwhelmed with questions. They came at me from all sides, and in self-defense I had to ask a few myself. After the first burst of excitement had passed things began to quiet down a bit, and little by little the news of their trip across the Pacific was obtained. As (hat has already been published in the columns of this paper it is not necessary to say anything further on the subject save that the weather was beautiful, the sea calm and_everything had been as pleasant as good weather, good health and the pros- pect of home at the end of the journey cculd make it. The boys joked, danced, played cards. sang and hung over the rail until far into the night, watching the lights twinklir on the shore and speculating on the splen- did welcome that awalted them there. Some time after The Call boat had re- turned to the ghore with the news other newspaper hoats commenced to arrive. heir passengers exhausted every device in the endeavor to get on board, but each attempt was w failure, and at last they were obliged to desist and retire amid the ood-natured, laughing badlinage of the \undreds of veterans who hung over the ship’s sides and joshed them as they re- treated. advising them to read The Call in tic morning and get the news. Finally the last boat departed and the ship was left in solitude. Then the boys e up into little groups and sat around ssing the momentous events which passed since they had last seen tha s guarding the harbor entrance of Francisco E Many a wild tale told and many a desperate deed re- but during the entire evening ~did not hear one man speak who made his own prowess the subject of his narra- tive. When praise was bestowed it wa always upon Some absent comrade, gen- erally upon one who will never return. They are brave men, these California Volunteers, and like all brave men they had lignt. ¢ 1 are modest. Well let them be so; their dceds speak for them The hour: on and on. One by one the boys drifted below and retired to their well earned rest. Finally the last straggler had left the deck and the si- choed to the measured footfall of pacing out his last guard also retired, going to the bunk Adjutant Curzons, my old lieuten- ant, had kindly given up to me—there to pass a night of troubled dreams in which customs officers, prison bars, dungeons, clanking cHains and other horried things were mingled up in one great hair-raising Jumble Reveille is supposed to be for the pur- pose of awakening the slumbering soldier. There was no need of it vesterday morn- ing. Long before the gray light of early dawn had its first rays over ine Berkeley hills the entire régiment was awake and on deck, eagerly straining for the first glimpse of their beloved shore. Even before the day had reached the: The Call was there to supply the boy with fruit and papers. How the boys it upon them. They fairly tore each other apart in their endeavor to get at @ M R s P N N M e P e R P R Pew T N e e P e Pm P Ry Mm@ WELCOME “My great- 1s the satisfaction of bringing back The men, with but Words fail me honor that touched me most deeply. in politics; not for myself, but for in the Philippines for speculation, future. First, the islands need an Things are now FOH NN NN N KON RN X O XX ¥ X * T ey Py P P M P P e R R Em R s Ry @ > = = O T s AT SRR BTomN