The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1900, Page 9

THE FLGUR TRADE OF COST IN CHINA HAS BEEN LOST War Has Brought to a Stop Business That Was Growing Fast. i ey, Manager for Large & House, Tells of Hold- up That Will Mount Into Millions. w ab. that us £ gn trc from their few compar SERGEANT PRICE ASKS FOR A VINDICATION Board of Police the applica- will bable that the pr ble officers a er rice £a hem. The mat- ance to the whole show whether an charges we hout having himself. g BOYS ARRESTED FOR STEALING NEWSPAPERS They Pleaded Guilty Before Judge Mogan and Were Severely Rep- rimanded by Him. s con have been made who live in ealing their iceman C. W paper, as it orstep three came along o of them jumped off He gave chase and, g wagon, captured the xth and Harrison and Otto Gercke tole the paper and on a charge of petty s in_the wagon Eddie McCar- rmick, before Judge Mogan | ~leaded guilty. They wagon and said ¢ for the hire SERIO US CHARGES MADE BY A YOUNG WOMAN Clifton Kellner and Edward Nightin- | gale Are Arrested for Alleged | Criminal Assault. 1 in the em- Edward T . were booked yesterday afternoon Reynolds on a P hat early yesterday e two men took her into Fleish- Market street, locked criminally assaulied her, kil her if she made an o~ men strenuously deny the the detectives say they have prove their guilt. —_——e—————— St. Louis Train Robbers. = men who committed the train St Louls last week has been ing tc a “hanning B. Barnes, who me at San Quentin for robbing at Redlands in January, 18%. Caj ur received from San Quen- his photo hs and sent it yesterd 10 the tef of Police at St He was known as John Nelson ie his escape from the officers in er being shot. The two other of them, es’ brother, arrested, | Work is Easy when you eat | | | | the fascinating Brain Food L R e R S make & good showing in an attractive | ,About three months ago Beftiel g TmEtarm. “g':‘,:: o WPL, R e o at Quariess e | the bartender. He was arrested, but the ON THE ROCKS. STERS and a “southerly | ¥ e en responsible for the | Il )l wreek of two bagks during the last | month. One of Ger- | vessel bound from ancisco to | = other was a San Fran- probabl ad str bara in distress. the German bark J. C. from San Francisco o with a load of wh » while the other the San Francisco owned bark McNear, bound from Honolulu to Island for a load of guano. | ne of the best- traded out of this ars a time last from San Frangisco o 1d ever since has been minning the Hawalian group and Lysaa, carrying provisions to the tter place n » ba to the planta a good servicable bark she had many mirers. An_account of the wreck from Hawali by the mail steamer Coptic says: Strikes on a Rock. “The bark Ceylon, Captain Willer, ar- rived this morning from Lysan Isiand, bringing news of the wreck and total loss | SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1900. 'TWO BARKS ARE VICTIMS OF . VERY DISASTROUS ACCIDENTS s et 2 ek J. C. Pfluger Is Dismasted in a Hurricane Off the Coast. ‘McNear Runs on a Rock Near, Island| Lysan and Is Lost. WRECKED BARK BEING TOWED INTO SANTA BARBARA. of the American bark McNear on Dow- | sett Reef, r Lysan Island, | The Cey brought Captain John the McNear and the shipwrecked crew to | very cheerful mcod. When darkness came Honolu 3 boats that were | on the second night their r The McNear made glad by a light which showed up went on the reef at night time, striking | ahead. It was thought to be some ship, £0 hard that th ¢ hope | and the men rowed like mad in the hope ue. It proved to be the lighthouse n Tsland, whose existence probably i the survivors from a fearful fate. Island there was nothin r & ship to arrive. The have taken a cargo of fer- of saving her ays and a nij | o- | e 0 pieces. for Honolulu, and her men did not occurred at midnight on to stay there lol The addition McNear had made a t population of without the Stores which the iled to land, made g shortage of | nd all were compelled to go as far as imported foods There was any amount of nd good fich at Lysan, however. Brought Crew to Honolulu. k Ceylon, in command of Cap- arr) the boats were crew of the McNear had spent . to work on Ly a month there. Captain Willer men to be car- to carry the back to Hono- san, making thirt | ried in three small boats. “It was 9 o'clock on the morning of the efore the boats were ready and Cap- on gave the order to abandon The captain took one of the lifeboats with three white men and eignt d H. G . the mate, agree lulu. He left on June 24 with forty men on board, including his own, arriving early this morning (July 7). The shipwrecked crew went to the office of the shipping commissioner to report, and most of them put up at t ailors’” Home. They lost practically everything they had, but feel t they did well to save their lives, The days and night in the open boats’ said one of them. ‘were enough to make any man feel bad. We had only a little food and water, and nineteen Japs to look after, and if had missed the island there would have been terrible times. The < all behaved well and everything went smooth. There were thirty-three thankful | e in those boats when we saw that light.” “The men who shipped from Honolulu charge of a her lifeboa four white men and eig the dingy were three W There was no la g trade wind was blow began to pull a y It was a dismal f miles aw s 0 little out n only be seen from near by. Followed by Sharks. pr from the men rowed. fol- | on the McNear and are now back are: H. ¢ sharks. which did not Golden. P. Grant. W. Caen, W. McLean, | » the pleasure of the expe- J. Burke. R. Pinching, Mitchley, E. night came they kept up Granite, C. Rofe and §. Richardsen: eir course, and another dawn revealed “W, Caen is one of the men who took sight. The men say they were part In_the rescue of Willlam Adamson 1, off the coast of Hawall, zo. He seems to be having iventure on this trip to Pa- of the Glenes: a short tim his 8hare of cific waters. “The McNear was buflt in Belfast, Me., car that they had missed were lost in the open sea. s would not hold provisions than a few nd night for thi n davs, and the nightfall of the sec | as follows: ed at Lysan on June 10, | found the shipwricked saflors in a nof(in 1872, and was owned principally by J. |in wrec Pedersen of San Francisco. She was of hearts were | 1308 tons gross register.” Pfluger Meets Disaster. The bark J. C. Pfluger left here on the 11th inst. with 11, barrels of flour aboard. Soon after getting off shore she ran into a northwester, and before a sail could be taken off the vessel the damage was done. In the twinkling of an eye the main and mizzen masts went by the board, and a portion of the foremast alone was left standing. Thus crippled the bark made her way inshore and was finally picked up by the steam schooner Green- wood and towed into Santa Barbara. It will be an utter impossibility to make the necessary repairs at Santa Barbara, so the chances are that the vessel will be towed back here for an overhauling. The Santa Barbara account of the disaster is A Most Peculiar Accident. SANTA BARBARA, Cal, July 16— | About 6 o'clock this morning the German bark J. C. Pfluger was towed into this port by a steam schooner in a disabled condition, having lost both her mizzen and main masts. A telegram was sent to San Francisco ordering a tug to have her taken back to that place for repairs. The Pfluger cleared from San Francisco for Queenstown, Ireland, with flour. She had just passed the Farallones when a most peculiar accident happened. About o'clock in the morning, with only a fair breeze blowing, the crew was surprised to see the main mast suddenly torn from the vessel and the mizzen mast snapped off. The wind which caused the damage was scnrfal{ felt on the deck. and the supposition is that it came in the shape of a whirlwind and did not reach the g deck of the ship. With the use of the fore sail only and with the wind in a southerly direction the bark was sailed in toward the coast and early this morning was picked up near Goleta by a steam schooner and tow- ed into this port. It will probably be a day or two before the tug arrives to tow her back north. Aside from the loss of | the masts and rigging the vessel is per- fectly sound. NATIVE SONS RESPOND TO THE INVTATIONS Parlors in the Interior Tell What They Will Do ior the Parade. —_— The two firms that were shut out in the matter of furnishing display flags, as al- already announced in The Call, will file a protest with the decoration committee against Feigenbaum receiving. the con- tract. This protest will be signed by the Cailfornia Notion and Toy Company and Pasquale & Sons. 38 The Pacific Coast Association of Native Sons of the State of Vermont has an- nounced that it will make a fitting dis- play in the parade. 1{ Steve Bunner, president of the Vol- unteer Veteran Iireman's Association, and the committee of that organization that called on Grand Marshal Costello Carbolic Acid. vesteraay are successful there will be a = Frank Gerrick, an ex-soldler, commit- | great gaihering of old-time firemen in the ted suicide yesterday morning by swal- parade. The association hamed has seit | lowing a dose of carbolic acid at his room, out invitationseto volunteer fire organiza- | so0 Grant avenue. He was taken to the Ve in in the ;\‘:rn:.a:l g f‘;::rlggfi B‘!:::nlgg"owul make Rec?lvmxhrlonplm and dled on the op- erating table. arrangements to suitably entertain all visitors who run with the machine. Gerrick was 28 years of age. He had Reports from many parlors of the Na- | been living with the divorced wite of Al tive Sons in response to invitations are ' ywhite, the saloon-keeper om Dupont Dae: easTed At the Twies OIS - | atreet. for some months and she had Napa Pnrlnr, which will join Vailejo threatened to leave im. She packed up Parior in the parade, will am’)eu i neat | her clothes Sunday night and went out. a As she did not return Gerrick bought a uniforms and have a band. In this clty e of carbolic acid and swallowed the Before he lost consclousness : 1 :r::‘:lrmsknfllfbele::ul;um" st T flee:?e';;t. c‘::’llmgflnut tfh“ Ee amted Mrs. . | White to kiss him before he dled. Solano Parlor announces that it will | ut three months ago Gerrick and | marshal that it has already procured 200 uniforms for that number of {ts 33 mem- bers. This parlor will arrange special | features in addition to a float. The drfl] corps of Alcalde Parlor of this | city has given notice that it will appear in 1ts natty new uniforms of dark mate- rial with white trimmings. Grand Orator McNoble will be in the | city during celebration week and will de- | iver an oration. aptain N. T. James, commanding the Naval Militia, N. G. C., stated yesterday that at least 200 men of that organization would take part in the parade. The divi- elons at this port will be increased by | men from the divisions at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Eureka. During their stay here they will be quar- tered on the Marfon. In addition to the | batteries the militia men will have a fine | marine float. | The finance committee, with President | Newhall, will to-day visit the local banks !to solicft contributions for the celebr: | tion. During the week the numerous subcommittees of the finance committee will start out on a collecting tour. The unused $22.000 contributed to the so- called plague fund, which it was thought | might be turned over to the celebration | fund, will not be obtained, it having been decided to return it pro rata to each con- tributor. —_—————————— PREFERRED DEATH TO UNREQUITED LOVE | | | | | Frank Gerrick, ex-Soldier, Commits Suicide by Swallowing Dose of ‘Woodland Parlor expects to have from 100 to 125 uniformed men in the parade and will have its own band. . W. McComas of Palo Alto Parlor, J. M. Shilne of Observatory Parlor and Ho- mer Prindle of San Jose Parlor have been named as aids to the grand marshal These three parlors, all located in San Jose, have adopted a uniform consisting of a light blue coat and pantaloons, white hat and white overshoes. This contin- bering about 150, will be pre- Ceded by its own band. Brooklyn Parlor of East Oakland ex- case was not prosecuted. Had Her Wealth With Fer. | Mrs. Mary M. Colvin, divorced wife of Hugh Colvin, a fire department pensioner, was arrested yesterday and locked up in a cell In the insane ward in the Recelving Hospital. She was arrested at 1116 Fil- Pert lu&reeté nwaenuua.r;:ho‘:i she had $13) e e e e o e that she had $39% on deposit there. | tamily troubles, endin, jof 1 é‘(fivln and his wife were divorced about five years ago. ——————— A Bankrupt Merchant. x Joseph Albert!, a merchant of San Ra- fael, filed & poflt::nam insolvency yester- 83 aoiliuca"are st 'el; 208 e nas’me pects to turn out sixty uniformed men. Argonaut Parlor is considering a unique aaliSom and announces that it will be on hand with the rest of the Native Sons. Visalla Parlor has adopted a distinctive uniform for the sixty mem! le. Visalia Parlor of the Native ughters will join with the parior in the procession. Stockton Parlor has notified the grand TRIES T0 END HER LIFE IN A WATERY GRAVE Policemen’s Prompt Action Saves an Aged Woman From Death. Mrs. Angella Unus, an aged Mexican woman, residing at 132% Dupont street, sought to drown herself in the waters of the bay on Sunday night, She was pre- vented from doing so by Policemen J. H. Pearl and James Ward of the California- street police station, who caught her as she was about to jump from Meiggs wharf. The story of the causes which led up to the woman's attempt to destroy her own life is pathetic and involves a long tale of with the serious iliness of an only daughter. ‘Within the last few years all the mem- bers of Mrs. Unus’ family have died with the exception of one child. This child is a daughter, now 13 years of age, who was ber mother's sole companion and comfort. Two months ago the gigl was taken sick. Physiclans were called} but her ailment baffled medical skill and she rapidly be- came worse, until she was finally removed to the Children’s Hospital, where she now lies hovering between life and death. The condition of her daughter caused Mrs. Unus much worry, and of late she has been acting strangely. Sunday night she left her home, dressed in black, and started for North Beach. When she reached Meiggs wharf she seated herself near the edge cf the pier and gazed into the waters for some time. She remained in the same position for nearly two hours, weeping most of the time. er peculiar actions lexcgto‘d the eurla-lty of a number , but no one o8 D Canse oF her trounie. - {0 ascer .Policemen Pearl and Ward suspected th woman meant to do harm to herself -nfl they watc®d her closely. Finally Mrs. Unus arose pulled off ~her shoes and ;hrrwin? her hat and cape away prepared 0 leap fre about to jump the policemen caugh For a time she !o\u'gg a..,,.r.my.‘.&u" 1':: tent upon taking her life. She was at length subdued and taken to her home, ‘where friends are caring for her. Refused to Prosecute. Leona Delmar, allas Jacobs, who mar- ried John Gedge, carriage painter, of ‘Watsonville, and left him three days aft- erward, appeared befo: i-t«d’qonamrx-otpu ih f ewu‘evu:flo stealing el the Judge dismissed the case. 5| | om the wharf. Just as she was NEWS FRON ThE OUEAN AND THE WATER FROIT Mail Steamer Coptic Arrives From the Orieni—Hob- son Sick. IR Nome Goldfields a Failure—Charles D. Lane Arrives From the Frozen North With More Tales of Woe. g ie s The Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company's Coptic arrived from the Orient early yesterday morning. The cabin pa China on her were: Commander Seth Ackley, U Licutenant Commander C. J. Raoush, U. S. Miss A. Boone, R. L. Elllott, H. Giil, Mrs. George Dodsey, N. Hanbury, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Black, U. 8. N., Master Louis Jeffrey: Father Le Jeftreys, Kap- Rev. R, Lie S. athe Revellhae, Master C. Woodbridge, ige, Dr. R. Zeyss, Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Evans, Liettenant Fritz Beyersdorf, Mrs. 3. O. P. Bland, Rev. and Mrs. Robert Colt- man, A. G. Elliott, Mrs. J. 8. Fearon, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Gunn, Mrs, F. Hellyer, W. L. Ire- land, Miss C. Jeffrey, W. Kisin, Lieuten: Commander W. Kilburn, U. §. N., M. Lev Lieutenant Commander D. H. Mahan, U. 8 N., Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morrison, Rev. and Mrs. L. B. Quick, F. Ringer, A. Rehlinz, Mrs. Wong See, P. Wagstaff, Rev. S. Wood: bridge, Master S. Woodbridge, Miss Grace Woodbridge, Master G. Woodbridge, Tong Yin and A. L. Youn The passengers were landed early in the morning, but the vessel was held in quar- antine and will not dock until to-day. Lieutenant Hobs steamer at Hongkong but stopped off at Yo treatment. He is afflicted with Oriental ophthalmia, and will go from Yokohama to Tokio to consult a Japanese specialist. Nome Steamer Arrives. The Charles D. Lane arrived last night from the northern gold fields after a good run of eleven days. She only brought six and two of these went north el, while a third says he was shanghaied from Nome. The Lane left the frozen nqrth two days after the Sai Jose, so she brings little news that ha not already b published in The Call The smallpox epidemic at Nome is spread- ing, while typhoid has been checked, but romises to break out with great viru- ence in a month or so. Among those who came back on the steamer were H. M. Speyer and wife of 2412 Washington street. Mr. Speyer went north on the Mary D. Hume and assisted king the Laurada at the Seal Isl- ands. His wife went north on the Noyo, but left the camp as soon as the Lane Iamw{d and took up her abode on that vessel. Speyer arrived at Nome the latter part lof M s claims. Later, in behalf of a syndicate, he purchased the literage business of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company for $20.- 000. While entertaining some friends ashore M Spever was induced to go sengers who came from Hongkong and | A Hoppen, Mrs. H. 8 Jeftreys and mald, Miss | . Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. DISCOVERERS AND P XPLORERS OF NORTH AMERICA. 5 lin o shallop on his search for gold or The earlier explorers had had thelr day, | Eleanor Dare and her friends or the Wh Cabits lod h " Sea passage. They went as far as £ g ago had relur}nid home the present site of chmond, made rom the pre-Columbian excursion to the | friend ; riends with the Indians and returned continent of orth America. The plous within a week to find that the settlement Hawkins had won for a coat of arms the | had been fttacked by 20 savages. New- impious picture of a captive negro bound ‘1,'”” completed the about_ the fast with a cord. Drage had “singed the | 1075, Save the colonists some good advice King of Spain's beard” and carried the it a cargo of ciap- Queen’s flag to the far Pacific. Frobisher. 5 : of the settlement feeling for a northwestern passage, had wing spring New- all but touched the Arctic circle. Gilbert with ome squpiies. had mortgaged his estate and lost his life e to get to China. Hakluyt, beforehand a companion. ht yellow earth at there was gold in n, there to find to with his maps and colonizing fervor, was playing with conspicuous success the role of herald to every would-be voyager. o Raleigh's little colony on Roanoke had | no more in Distory. perished of neglect, and its brilliant found- rture of their leader er, historian and publicist, as well as col- Soke ous N onizer, was languishing, not ic in the b - sghy e Tower on a false charge of treason. Old things were passing—not so swiftly, to be sure, as books make out, but pass- ing. The new tignes were coming on apace, James I, pedantic, self-conscious, was no fighter. The wars Elizabeth had waged with Spain and in the Netherlands were at ing of the gentle with subordinates and n consequence. Rateliffe, him, was a brawler and a id worse than nothing for the Peril and adversity, as usual, strongest char- mith gradu- an end. Soldiers, good. bad and indiff lly took his proper piac head of th ent, were hurrying back to England, rest- | secilement. Mo was a born leader and less. discontented and adventurous. The | was besides well seasoned. A belated Ra- d into the seventeenth g of the romance and Elizabethan days. Time rcroft died, when Henry Deane, Justin Winsor ed about to emasculate soldier of fortune was still the beau ideal | of common folk, but he was not so inter- esting as the earlier type pictured in the dramatic and admittedly veracious pages of Kingsley’s “Westward Ho." The craze for gold ran ltke wildfire through the land. Men were eager to be | the story aptain_John Smith of its off betimes to the new world, which | dramatic elements and reduce him to the seemed to hold out dazzling hopes of easel ranks of the prosaic thousands who bear Rt e e e ] just after Ba Charles *$ @ and secured a number of valuable | aboard the Lane and the next mornina | he was at sea, bound for San Francisco. He will remain in this city until the steamer sails again. On Mrs. Spever will remain at home. Mrs., Frame and her daughter were two more passengers who came home on_ the Charles D. Lane. They came from New York on the steamer, and expected to be- come millionaires at Nom ¢ landed all their effects on the beach and then, ed with the outlook, left d them and fled back to Francisco in the clothes in which they stood. They say Nome is overcrowded and unproductive; that no gold is being | taken out, and that death on a white horse stalks through the ca E The men who were working the beach sand did not | make expenses, while those who were | dredging the gold up from below high- water mark were making money. ‘Nome, York and Golovin Bay, for this season in any event, are dead failures,” says Mrs. Frame. News From the Transports. The Sumner did not get away at noon resterday, as the troops had not arrived. he Californian_was to have gonme out, but a trial will be had of her machine: first. She will leave the wharf at o'clock this morning, and after her com- passes have been adjusted and her ma. chinery thoroughly tested she will go t | becoming disgus | everything behin | ea. | Work on the Mead is being rushed, the Hancock will be docked at once. this occasion | il and and luxury. Some could not walit, and The | some in consequence found out to their {il leava discomfiture that the settlement of a hem- | D S e S o I 2 > . ® CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH B S S 3 | his name In swift succession to oblivien. But, thanks to John Fiske and the newer writers who count it no crime to be in- | chances are that both vessels wi for ‘the Orient on August 1, while the isphere demands large plans well thought | teresting, the reaction has begun. We Warren will go out under rush orders| out and put into practice by many minds | know" for ceftain that some of the sto- robably a week later. The big whale- and many hands in concert. In 1506 some | ries of John Smith are true. He had his Eack Universe has been chartered, and | persons on whom Raleigh's magnificent faults. He was Inordinately vain, as she will be Fut in commlssl{n as soon as | schemes had made a profound impression | Channing says. He had the izabethan her cargo of coal is out. She will carry | organized a double-headed company for | facility. too often fatal to veracity, of provisions to Hongkong. Water-Front Notes. ‘The Kosm¢ Hamburg, via South and Central Ameri- can ports. She brought a la discharged most of it at San arrived from the Diego on the way. She has been char- tered by the Government, and will load freight for Manila or China. The schooner Reliance anchored on the cable yesterday and lost both anchor and chain in an attempt to get clear. EXCURSION TO LAKE TAHOE Ten Dollars for the Trip, Berth and AlL Lake Tahoe excursion travel is receiv- ing unusu way of reduced rates. In addition to the regular season ticket of §1650 the South- ern Pacific has just fixed upon a ten-day rate from San Francisco, Oakland, Ala- | meda and Berkeley of $13 30, which affords the usual rail transportation to the lake, steamer trip around the lake and certain Stop-over privileges at the resorts. ‘A Saturday-Monday excursion has also been arranged for next Saturday on the train leaving San Francisco at 6 p. m., the cost of ticket to be only $10, berth in sleeper included. e return tiip, how- ever, must be on the train reaching this city about noon of the following Monday. All day Sunday may be spent on and around the lake. stance of rates, but with the cost of transportation cut down to such amaz- | ingly Jow figures it would scem that | everybody might go and enjoy its grand- | eurs. —_———— Wanted to Kill His Wife. Peter Harkins, a billposter, who threat- | ened to kill his young wife because she | refused to support him, was convicted by | Judge Conlan yesterday and ordered into custody till to-morrow, when his bonds to keep the Eeace will be fixed, Harkins got his arm broken about a year ago and is wife had to work to support the fam- {1ly. He has since his arm got better re- | fused to work and compelled his wife to keep him in food, clothes and pocket | money. —_————————— His Hand Badly Cut. E. Plerson, 406 Minna street, who is em- ployed in a planing mill at Fifth and Bry- ant streets, had his right hand caught in @ saw yesterday morning. It was badly We buy trunks by the carload. That's why we sell good trunks at reasonable leather goods department. Sanborn, Vi & Co., 741 Market street. N Bitten by a Dog. James Hughes, 751 Stevenson street, was playing with a dog at Grove and Polk streets yesterday morning when the us at -him and bit him on the cheek. wrried to the Recet Hos- pital and had the wound caut, cut, but the doctors at the Receiving Hospital think they can save it. : — e rices. = Suit cases, valises, traveling gn?. ‘coin purses and pocketbooks in ou;’ ail liner Abydos arrived from Gates, took for their name the London e cargo, but | Plymouth and other southwestern parts of Say north. iego on the England called themselves the Plymouth ‘The Belgian King of the Santa Fe line | {OmP rient, stopping at San | blessi | 1 | al impetus this season in the | companies hurried off thelr colonists, the | Lake Tahoe is regarded as a worid at- - traction, quite independent of the circum. | | command, was possibly the best known | salls of the Susan Constant, the Gods | man that brought in_the great Span unrestrained expression and bore perhaps the new settling the hither fringe of world“ The London branch of th com‘i 'en;::;"l:l::e R‘I)l(l ‘f'l;l‘l“lmr‘:n'ot BE‘l.ltu.b.h.t“.hn pany, including Hakluyt, Somers an | hot. as Deane and. A . | rant liar. He was boastful and t, | but so, too, for that matter were Joseph of Hebrew fame. Napoleon Bonaparte and many another strong and stalwart man of history. (They do his memory an irre- trievable hurt who*pronounce him a Fal- staff or a Joe Sedley fleeing from Brus- sels at the first booming of Napoleon's cannon and then in later years daring to name himself “Waterioo oy Aflow as largely as you like for any swashbuck- ling tendency discernible in his character have left ‘h Company, while the members hailing from King James, his mental vision dreams of gold, gave them his ng, and along with it a patent to the greater share of all the land that now lies between Maine and Florida, and was then, thanks to Raleigh, known by the name o Virginia. The London Company had the zone_which lies between Cape Fear and the Potomac, extending 100 miles inland, presumably to the Pacific; the Plymouth Company the zone between Long Island and Nova Scotia, back 100 miles toward the Pacific. The condition that neither company was to make a settlement within 100 miles of any colony established by the other company actually gave the inter- vening region in advance to the more an- ticipatory and erergetic of the companies, At once, in 1607, the very year that Hud- son sought a northwest "passage. both d by and you will still shifty, daring, ready witted, cle wholly practical ploneer, th long line of pioneers who ha: frontier line by successive stages west- ward until, according to a late report of the Indian Commissioner, it disap- cific. peared into the vast Smith did more things of moment than save the colony which would else have perished in the two years wherein he was the actual as well as the nominal leader. ing into the Chesaj e Bay, map, still preserved in London, and :m'cgn therfii!r'e.“‘m)xlle:n A aflwl injury vy the accidental e: on powder gn!l&nd tg“w“l.rd the one to success far south on the James River, the other to disastrous failure on the Kennebec. It was New Year's day of 1607 that the first makers of America after some delay set sail from the Downs. took him back to They were a me! motley company of | close of 1609, and Virginia never saw 105 souls, catalogued by a member ofithe ( more. He spent the rest of his days in party as “poor gentlemen, tradesmen, | exploring the North American coast to Lerving men and libertines.” The judg- | which he gave the mame New England, ment of John Smith, the worthl and of which he made a map, and in pro- all, is the judgment of history moting American colonization by his writ- Gréd mood workmen were better than a | ings and his words. Most ly the thousand such gallants. ;‘(‘o;:u{ -‘:ip%r‘l’rn‘l“:f i\n";nie: sland wae b; Bartholomew Gosnold, the second in | 3% 165" place was found formun ™ the choir of St. Sepuichre’s Church. A witty and not wholl: unjust judgment was offerea of Nim In his lifetim quatnt and pious Thomas Fuller e o words: “Such his perils, preservations, d h aciiverances they seem to most en S yond beiief. to some beyond truth. Yet We have two witnesses to attest them, the rose and the pletures, both in his own gflnk: and it soundeth much to the dimi- nution of his deeds that he alome is tl herald to publish and proclaim them. * s * However, moderaté men must al- low Captain Smith to have been very in- strumental in settling the plantation in Governor, as also spirit in the company. He had alread: made a reputation for himself to whic he never added by this voyage to an un- known grave in Jamestown. A while be- fore he had been the talk of London. He had shared in Ralelgh's unsuccessful ven- ture. In 1602 he had salled—contrary to all precedent and prejudice—directly across the Atlantic, entered Massachu- setts Bay, named Cape Cod, discovered No Man’s Land and called it Martha's Vineyard and planted a colony at Cutty- hunk, now in the townskip of Gosnold, Massachusetts. To be sure, the settiers would_not be left behind whe! nol was about to return to England, and he had in consequence nothing to show for all his trouble. But he was not to be dis- mayed by disappointment. More eager than ever to plant a colony in Virginia, he talked the matter out in London: oth- ers canght the contagion of kLis optimism, and it was his enthuslasm that filled the = Philadelphia. KNOCKED SENSELESS BY A RUNAWAY TEAM and the Discovery and sent them 28 merflll -Jvuy ‘;n Na‘w m“:' la.y of to set! amestown in the early summer. h“' commander of !h: fl:e(‘ < Hlto;lixer Harry Smith, a Boy Bicyclist, Re- N ¢ rt, was a com) ent and conspicu- N Piocr of the English navy. Fourtesn ceives Injuries That May Vears before he had won renown in a raid on the Spanish main. He was the verz Harry Smith, a boy about 18 years of ish | ,ge living at 236 Fourth street, was prob- ably fatally injured by a runaway team attached to an empty coal wagon at No wonder the Lon- carrack for Raleigh. him such don company ex of - feats as are achieved only in the enchant- ¢d pages of the “Arabian Nights.” No wonder the unpractical fireside planners of u hemisphere gave Newport such silly instructions as called out m the doughty Smith the judgment that the London company was made up of fools. had to find either the way to 1d or one of White's tsts or dlse. he would better never show his face again in Eng- land. It was a less task, but he set about it like a man and won the confi- best man in the party. A passed after the se- to Gosnold's judgment, e mal spot on which at once | e “"Ne-pfvn W n':ifm wen- . May 21, twen- . started Gp the river as possibl driver of the wagon saw team apg:oathm‘ him and drew to side of t boy was right rud'-‘. The in front of the frightened knocked senseless. et 5o dro The youth's face and m were ., as were also left leg He 'had sustained other injuries nmnu-nu:z there was an ugly It was t| 1 t