The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1900 ~?ARK MUSIC PAVILION, MODEL OF CLASSICAL BEAUTY, STANDS READY FOR DEDICATION ON ADMISSION DAY Claus Spreckels’ Gift | to the City of San | Francisco Will | Soon Echo to the Strains of Sweet- est Melody. The Finest Structure of Its Kind in the Whole World Is Ready to Be Turn- ed Over to the © § MuUsSIC STAND - be in readiness for the eptember 9, when, | the new mu- to. the handed authori- 1y park ates, or Europe, | | even, possesses a structure of like char- pres cter—equal to it in beauty or intrinsic value. From all the heights it is visible. The new pavilion is located in the valley where the buildings of the Midwinter Fair once arose. The great court in front has been carefully leveled and planted with hundreds of trees. Seats for 20,000 people have been provided. Along the otewr boundaries of the court the ground has been terraced, allowing paths for pedes- trians, bicycles and driving. Fronting the pavilion there is ample space for 75,000 people, the number that is expected to be nt on dedication day. an augmented band of 100 musl- cians, which can be easily accommodated upon tkh atform of the great central arch, the volume of musie, even of the most delicate shade, will be readily heard as far as the crowd extends. Architecturally the music pavilion con- sists of a main arch and peristyle with a colonnade a# each side. The main arch has a total height of seventy-two feet with an interior fifty feet in height and thirty- five feet wide. The orchestraplatform has an extreme width of forty-five feet and space for a hundred musiclans. The colonnades have an exireme height of thirty-six feet, the height from the floor being thirty-one feet. arch are rooms for library, rehearsal and toilet. The structure rests on a 12-foot foupda- tion of concrete and surmounts the court by three distinct terraces with an aggre- mat gray is California sandstone, bluish in tint, resembling Texas Back of the main | PHOTOBY TABER J & granite, of hard, close-grained texture. The columns of the main arch have Corinthian capitals with carved archi- raves above and broad projected cornice supported on carved medallions with den- til course and bed molding with classical usage. Above is the balustrade of solid masonry with provision for future orna- | —— s It Is Visible From All Points of the Compass and Is a Gem in a Bright Setting of Nature's Green. LU The Structure Is of California Sand- stone of Bluish Grag Tint, and Rests on a Ter- raced Site. e @ mentation or inscription. The columns of the colonnades have Tonic capitals with enriched cornice and open balustrades on tcp. Spandrils on | with subjects, music as the inspiration, | richly sculptured. Messrs. Reed Bros. are | the architects. Ir I AND THE WATER. FRONT verty Petition Circulat- ing at Nome Said to Be a Fake ; it UulL Goldfields Not as Bad as Affairs Reported and Nearly Every- body Has Money. Some to take them the “poverty signed by thousands, heir pockets sign- inder different tic scheme to Fogel yes- | n on the beach g him home, but | ! the advent T to get home with- there are quite a L 1K ‘:' 3 Y. BARK AFGHANISTAN SAILS WITH A VALUABLE CARGO. et L « not & cent. They | & . fr r vessels, leaving thelr T g R jtch- | terday by United States District Judge de nd These men are stary- | consequence everything is as dull as d Haven. “Two actions In_ libel had water. € “There are six hospitals in Nome and| another | in course of construction. | There are 50 women in Nome and every | one of them is a nurse. The St. Bernard | Hospital is a_four-story buflding and is full of patients. Dr. Grigsby, who went north as C. D. Lane’s family physician, is building the seventh hospital, and it is | 10 be a splendid affair. » Nome is to have a regular who went mnorth on the e money to bring them home. | men who have signed six or seven times of the Charles D. Lane thy ] men ccounts and there seems ef until next spring. Judge t. Michael when we left. | ut was expected back every | was to be ad-| the original Sound. He back of Anvil Ci upplies | water in the world and it being piped to the gold fields. Rob- is at the head of the Nome ompany and he says that before one to Norton 2 five men and five pack | the end of August Nome will have a per ! making for a lake some- | goct ply of fresh water. At the pres- re nterfor. 1 don’t believe the | eny time everybody is Luying water from | - nim sending out a million. | D. Lane's well at 5 cents the bucket. me he had $130,000 on de- Alaska Commercial Com- see how he could in- There is no money be- f the Nome claims, and in | { Captain B. Cogan, who 1 the bark Alagka in the first sterm of the season, | is doing fairly welli with the steamer John Reilly. He has cleared up a few | thousand Cap- and thay come out even. tain Lew Willlams Jost everything in the | 1 wreck of the Alaska, but s now maki a stake mining. There are pieces of nfi chinery valued at from $5 up to thousand each strewn along the beach from Nome to Sin Rock, a distance of thirty-eight | miles, and nearly all of it is useless. Thos Who attempted o dradge the ocean got | pebbles for their pains. They turned their | attention to Snake River and did not Zet | a color. The dredger Wisconsin went three miles up Snake River and is doing fairly well. Lucky Baldwin is not doing | well. He has the fixtures of the old Bald- Wwin bar in his new sajoon, but as | three miles out of town I guess he is his | | own best customer. He could not get a | Jocation in the heart of the camp for love or money. Captain Warner is still in cor mand of ihe steamer <. D. Lane and Cap. tain Cook, who came ‘o San Francisco to | take her over, I8 now port captain at| Nome of the Lane flect.” Seven Knots Tco Fast in a Fog. Blame for the collision of July 2, 1808, | | between the steamship Golumbia and th | Delicious Dishes made from Grape-Nuts Food Entrees, Puddings, “alads, Pancakes, &c. Please and feed your Fousehold | | | i ! i he is | | schooner J. Eppinger was placed on the Xllumahlp in an opinion handed down yes- - ! hundred feet distant. { in the matter of coaling. and had the lTowa een filed, one by G. W, English and others, owners of the cargo of the Egplnger. and the other action by John F. Colstrup ana others, being the owners, master and crew of the schooner. The court found in favor of the libelants and referred both cases to United States Commissioner George E. Morse to ascertain and report as to the amount of damages. The opinion found that at the time of the collision, which took place sixty-eight miles north of San Francisco and seve miles from shore, the Columbia was trav- eling at a speed of thirteen knots an hour, and that while going at that rate of speed the steamship could not be stopped with- in 1400 feet. A dense fog prevailed and a vessel could not be seen more than a few Authorities were quoted by Judge de Haven to show that even seven miles an hour under similar conditions was not a moderate rate of speed. especially since the Columbia was traveling in the track of coastwise vessels. A Valuable Cargo. The British ship Afghanistan cleared for Liverpool direct vesterday with one of the most valuable cargoes ever taken from this port in a 1,200 cases of ¢ nned i | 55 pounds of bhees- wax, 404 cases y and 100 packages of apricot pulp. All in ail the varfous consignments are valued at over $340.00, which is a pretty good cargo for a wind- jammer. | Slow Work on the Towa. The battleship lowa was supposed to have heen coaled and ready Yor service vesterday, but the chancesg are that it will be Wednesday morning before she can be considered in a conGition to go to sea. Under the old regime the warship would now be ready for service, but the captain of the vessel saw fit to make a change been wanted in @ hurry she would be two days late. German Transport Service. Horses and supplies for the German | | cargo of commisariat supplies, > Government will be rushed from this country to China. The transport Samoa is scheduled to arrive here on September 1, the Alicia on September 15, the Nurn-| berg on September 2 and the Bosni: Seplember 30, These Steamers will be followed by others, so in all about 1500 horses and 15,000 tons of supplies will go from here to China on account of the German Government. Water Front Notes. The transport Belgian King, with a full will t he Frederica and the Rosecrans with the two light batterles will get away next Thursday. The Westminster goes on tha drydock to-day and afterward will load supplies for Manila. T. H. Bellers, who for the last thirteen years has been with Wright, Bonne & Co., Bruce, Bonne & Co, and Madison Eruce & Sellers, is now enjoying a well- earned vacation in the East, J. Daley, the very efficient and popular away for Manila to-day. with horse: chief clerk of the Merchants’ Exchange, | is back from a vacation spent in Suisun, Vacaville and Dixon. “Jerry” was missea by the mercantile community and cap- tains and shippers were glad to see him back in harness yesterday. CALLL STRO WINDOW AND MIRROR POL ISHERS. They are casier to use than about. Dispense with sloppy buckets, soap and sponges for your windows, mirrors and marbles, You ee through glass darkly without Callustro. No store’s stock complete without them, + —— Bernstein Escapes Punishment. 8. Bernstein, the youth who “fiim- flammed” Henry Wolff, manufacturing jeweler, out of four gold watch cases Sat- urday, had his case dismissed by Judge Fritz yesterday. It was shown by Wolff's admission that he knew Bernstein was to attempt to swindle him, and therefore it was not obtaining goods by false pre- tenses. A warrant was at once sworn out for Bernstein's arrest on the charge of embezzlement, but he nad left the pre- cincts of the courtroom before it could he served. The cigar men whom he swin- dled are also after him. | VAN BERGIN'S ] FORMER WIFE SUES ESTATE She Demands Perpetuation of Alimony Judgment Against Him. e The novel point as to whether the estate of a decedent whose inhuman conduct in | life compelled his wife to seek and secure a divérce is llable for the payment of ali- mony under a judgment rendered against the deceased is soon to be decided by Judge Bahrs. Mrs. Aleece Van Bergin, former wife of the late William Van Ber- in, through her attorney, W. H. 4. arnes, bas petitioned the Superior Court | acter EXPLORERS OF THE MIDDLE WEST. : Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. Discoverers and Explorers of North America. X By the middle of the eighteenth century the French had made extensive explora- tions into the interior of the continent. For a hundred years and more the pio- neers of New France—adventurers, sol- diers, restless fur traders, brave and pa- tient priests—had been making their way through the Mississippl Valley. As early | as 1634 Nicollet was in Wisconsin and Iili-+ nois. Soon after this Marquette taught his faith to the Indians at the Falls of St. | Mary, and passed on even to the farther end of Lake Superfor. In 1673 Joliet and Marquette paddled their birechen canoes | up the Fox River amd by way of the Wis- | consin came out on the broad bosom of the Mississippl. In 1682 La Salle, the great- est traveler and most adventurous spir- it of them all, flcated down the Mississippi to its mouth and took formal possession of the great valley in the name of the grand monarch of France. Before 1770 | daring explorers had traversed the north- ern plains and had entered the foothills | of the Rocky Mountains. Various settle- | ments were made at convenient points— Detroit, St. Louls and New Orleans were founded. Basing his claims on explora- tion and settlement, the King of France claimed the heart of the continent. The Englishmen in building up strong and self-reliant colonies along the Atlantic coast had done nothing in the way of ex- loring the vast interior wilderness, Early n the eighteenth century Governor Spots- wood of Virginia had caused no little stir | thickets or following Indian trails or the well-beaten roads made by the buffalo. The most famous of all the earl ploneers of the great West was Boone, “the first hunter of Kentucky. Standing out against the dreary back- ground of the wilderness we sea in this rugged ploneer a_man of rare sweetness of character, an Indian slayer who was neither cruel nor revengeful; a bold, fear- less, intrepid soul who was yet gentle, kind and thoughtful. He was a tall man sinewy and strong, & sure shot, learned in the lore of the forests and rejoietr in dangers and hardships that would have broken a I vigorous constitution. He had the typical temperament of the W - ern backwoodsman. He was self-reliant patient, simple, resolute and gifted with unlimited powers of endurance. He moverd out into the Kentucky forests in obed ence to an inner impulse, tless crav- ing for adventure which of keep qui nature. . self-restrained in Pennsylvania yhood on the b rth ' A but spent his be Yadkin, in N date hunt. in pa There ennessee beech tree lowing inscription on tree in the vear In 1769 with four companions he made a long expedition into the w T re- he can_be D. Boon cilled a signed my domestic happines: he said, ‘and left my fami able habitation on th 3 < “arolina £ Y [ wa words attributed t first historian of K 1€ be sure that the simpl Boone k-3 DANIEL BOONE. ® either side of the orchestral arch are filled | n his province by leading expeditions into | the Shenandoah Valley; that such a feat s heralded abroad and made much of | sharply to our attention the essen- tially conservative and businesslike ch of English colonization. By 1730 however, the English were preparing to move across the mountains. The “back | country”” along the eastern slopes of the Alleghenies was peopled with a hardy folk who did not shrink from danger and were accustomed to privations In the uplands | of Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Caro- linas lived the western pioneers of that time. They were in some respects differ- | ent from the settlers along the cos many of them were Scotch-Irish, a self- reliant, sturdy stock, fit instruments ‘‘for well undertaking this wilderness work,” suited to the ta of taking possess the interior region, the attractive y then almost uninhabited save by the red men, but claimed in all its length and breadth by the sovereign of France. They were féarless men of action who seemed to court danger and to love peril. | In considering the work of exploration | and discovery In the Middle West it is | | well first to remember_ that almost noth- | ing was done by the English settlers of | the coast until there was the beginning of what we might call economic demand. The very first travelers who passed ugh the region of Kentucky and Ten © were, so to speak. blazing the wa actual settlement. It is also well to notice that the eastern half of the Mis- sissippi Valley is divided into two not un- equal parts by the Ohio. The northern portion contained French settlements at an early day, but it received no English | settlers during the colonial period of our | history, the first regular settlement being | made ‘at Marietta in 1783, the vear of the adoption of the Fedpral constitution. The old Northwest, as we now call it, was es- for an order setting aside in the hands of a recelver sufficient securities belong- ing to decedent’s estate to assure the per- manent payment to her of a month during her natural life, the sum named | being in accordance with the alimony judgment rendered against the deceased when Mrs. Van Bergin secured her di- vorce. Mrs. Van Bergin married the late Wil- | liam Van Bergin, a son of the late Nlch-l olas Van Bergin, the wealthy liquor deal- | er, on November 29, 18%. Immediately af- | ter their marriage, as she alleged in her | complaint for divorce, he began a course | of brutal treatment. In addition to hu-| miliating_ her before her friends, she | charged him with having beaten her and on one occasion applied a lighted cigar to | her bare flesh, causing not only a painful | but serious wound. Among the methods pursued by the deceased to humiliate his wife was one that was certainly original. When her friends called he immediately proceeded to post signs about the room, each containing more than a hint that the presence of the caller was objection- able. These signs read: “For God's sake pack your trunk and go.” “Pack your trunk and get. “Git out of here.” “For God’'s sake, o home.” The purprse of the signs was usually accomplished, the complaint recited. After her former husband’s death Mrs. n Bergin applied to John W. Van Ber- | &in, agdministrator of decedent's estate, | which is valued at $60,000, for payment of | her judgment. The administrator refused to pay the same on the ground that the death of Willlam Van Bergin the | | judgment ceased to operate. Heirs of the | deceased contest Mrs. Van Bergin's effort | | to make the judgment permanent against | the estate. General Barnes argued before | | Judge Bahrs yesterday that not alone in | | common law ‘but under the statutes of | | this State his client was entitled to judg- | | ment as prayed. Judge Bahrs took the | case under advisement. —_——— BEST SEASON | OF THE YEAR | At Lake Tahoe—Remember Next Sat- urday’s Excursion. The climatic conditions—and, indeecd, all other conditions—are so exceptionally fa- vorable at Lake Tahoe just now that the Southern Pacific has decided to give the public the advantage of another ten- dollar excursion, so tickets will be placed on sale at the usual place, 613 Market street, San Francisco, for next Saturday night, Segtamher 1. | Remember this is a popular excursion, | at a popular price, to a popular_place and | under_very popular auspices. No loss of | time from business, sleeping car expenses all paid, always in good companr. and think what you see. To go is quite the annlnr thing. The rate Wwill never be lower. sentially public domain and the pioneer | was more or less effectually protected in the ecarly days 1 do not mean to s occasional Indian forays against the se tlements north of the Ohio, but the coun- | try was soon won by armies for the | peaceful occupation of the emigrants | from the old States. So ; was this | region peopled when once the proeess | was begun that Ohio was ready for ad- mission into the Union in 1%3, only fif- teen vears after Marietta was founded. South of the Ohio explorations were made | and little settlements were planted be- fore the outbreak of the revolution. There were only a few Indians in Ken- | tucky and those lived along tife banks of the Mississippl. Kentucky was “the dark | and bloody ground,” a belt of territory lying between the Algonquins of the North and the Cherokees and Creeks of the South. This was doubtless some ad- | vantage to the whites that first settled there, but as it was all exploration in the country south of the Ohio was under- taken in the face of great danger from the Indians. Indeed, it fs this fact that | adds the romance and charm to the lives of the brave men like Boone and Robert- son and Sevier, at once pioneer settle: and explorers, leading on the van of Eng- lish civilization and driving slowly back- | ward the most cruel foe, the most dan- gerous savage enemy that has resisted the encroachment of the European any- where in the world. Une is often at a loss to account for the brave, untiring energy with which these men went on and on, winning new homes from_the wilderness. Every settlement in Ken- tucky and Tennessee had its tale of hor- ror, its story of unspeakable atrocities but in spite of disaster clearing was ad ed to clearing. blockhouse and palisade were pushed firther into the West, little communitis wang into existence in the midst of th- nely primeval forest. For over a thivu century the vigerous, rugged men were engaged in almost con- tinual warfare. By the middle of the eighteenth century, as I have said. the peo along the mountain confines of the English colonies were on the verge of passing over _the | barrier. The colonial authorities were anxious to gain a hold upon this territory before it was fully garrisoned and de- fended by the French. A few enterprising men had already begun to look to this western_country as fit ground for coloni- zation. 'Two companies were organized— the Ohio company and the Loyal Land company—having for_ their object the oe- cupation of the courtry near the Upper | Ohio and Southwestern Virginia and Ken- tucky. Dr. Thomas Walker, a Virginian was engaged by the Loyal Land Company “to go to the westward in order to dis- cover a proper place for settlement.” He was the first to make an extensive ex- pedition -through_the forest region south of the Ohio. Tn March. 1750, he, with five | others, began a diffieult and perilous jour- ney, passing over the mountains into Ken- tucky and spending four months in the laborious task of threading the thick forests, pushing his way through laurel | B | Rooneshorough and Boon: | stockade. | He was taken to the old Indian town such dantic and _stiited languas: Through the whole of that summer the next autumn the tireless adventu wandered through the Kentucky forest shooting the deer, the bear, the elk ar the bison and other game with which the country abounded. In December _the troublés began. Boone and one of h companions were taken prisoners by the Indians. Within a few days they but on their return to their old ca; y found it abandoned by their friends. They were then joined by two other hunters, one of them Squire Boone, who had come n_the long journey to find his brot had succeeded In doing so in some mysterious way known only to those who have within them instinctive knowledge of nature and know the secrets of th forest. Again the party was attacked by the Indians. The brothers escaped, bur ohe of their companions was shot and killed, “the first of the thousands of hu- man beings with whose lifeblood Ken- tucky was bought.” Their remaining companion now went back to North Ca lina, and the.two brothers spent the win- ter together in the wilderness. I ¥ i was decided that Squire should return through the trackless woods to the Yad- kin settlements, hundreds of miles away for supplies. Daniel was left for four months all alone in the dreary forest, without bread, salt or sugar, and w only his own trusty rifle for a co panion. “I confess,” he says, never before was under greater nec sity of exercising philosophy and f: tude.” During a large portion of the tii he was in danger from the Indians the middle of the summer his brother re- ol a me In turned. Fearing that the savag would discover them, they went over into the valley of the Cumberland, and in the spring of 1771 returned :|r\m0 Boone had spent two years in the wilderness, no small part of the time alope and over half of the time accompanied only by his brother. Two years later Boone sold his farm in North Carolina and with his family and a band of forty men started for the West. His love of nat zeal for adventure were too st fer him to remain | North Carolina. All but on entering the ¢ tains they were attacked by Indians killed s Boone's eldest son. This defeat di aged the emigrants and they returned the Clinch River, some forty miles from the place of disaster. But disaster ha.l no effect upon the intrepid Boone. who in a short time led a company of survey- ors over the mountains down to tne falis of the Ohio. His next v taking wa with the aid of thirty men, to mark o and clear a trail for packhorses from th eastern _settlements to the River. s bridie-path w famous “‘wildern: the coming years immigr the western country. It re striking testimony of Boone instinet_for direc and s craft. in the of Boone’s was built at a pl hi vere killed ward known . with ineredib! resolution, returned to the settlements to lead back his family in the lonely ex posed clearing in tha great dreary wil- derness of the interior. A small compa of men and three women besides hi wife were in_the party soon came. cabins were bu Other settlera t. blockhouses and palisades were erected and the brave little band prepared hold Kentuek against the red men. No words can exas- gerate the difficulty and the dangers ¢ the task. The sav: , who were now In league With the British and bitterly hos- tile to the American intruder. attacked them in numbers or prowled about an. shot men at their work. or fell upon them when hunting, or carried off captive any one who wandered to far from rhe Boone's daughter and two other girls were captured by the Indians. this Boone himself, t even of his men, was captured twenty- Chillicothe, Ohlo, and held there in cay tivity. Brave. patient, tactful. unco plaining, he wen the attachment of red men, who finally adopted him into their tribe. At length he escaned, start- ed straight through the untracked forest for Boonesborough, 150 miles away, and reached his home in four days, during which he ate only one meal. Note—This study by Professor A. C. McLaughlin of the University of M gan will be gon next. Coins bearing the names of Emperors who existed over 2000 years ago are still in daily circulation in China.