The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1900, Page 14

EADS HER W VORK SEASDN Bernhardt Breaks Records in the Way of Financial Results. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1900. BRITISH SLOWLY REGAINING GROUND IN CAPE COLONY Colonel de Lisle Defeats Hertzog Near De Aar and Releases Prisoners Taken at Philipstown. B007 WU 5 AT AN EAD Military Court Goes toGover- nors Island fo Prepare Its Report. Start on Her Tour | the Pacific | Coast. | ———— | ispatch to The Call 29.—With to-night's | | at the Garden | rdt and M. Coquelin | | five w * engage- | all previous New | of financial re- | | way of the engagement quality of the au- | s e aem. Flowers and | with French colors ights and the ance curtain calls llowed by de- some words of that the records | any theater F: s’ experi- w alking abont. Garden The. K prices charged with | | ild bring in $32,000 . week of ‘L’Aiglon’ standees. P s week, a | b theaters, was ) lays pre- s0 delighted | that it has| ( one week in begin a two | delphia and | Phi | pany hen make s a Disabled Steamer. « ne st Bristol a Swansea, re- on Bund December 16, in ongitude 26.30, a distressed with another steamer stressed steamer was ow funnel with black ed, had a buff fun- r course thick misty the tim thwe With Homic! McDonr . ide. hav- Mec- Courtne vietim e Harlem d in the right roving. McDon- on of McIntyre A lifornians in New York. ¥ F. N. Brus and wife are Hil Cohen is at the the Holland A BRIGHT CREDIT MAN. Why He Countermanded an Order for a Big Bill of Goods. t s strange ex- n who former- h a large job- 1 play into his of curious ways, and as if providence had di- ve him from s »er a remarkable rst year 1 was in i.a customer in a good- who had been tradin redit man h e w w time and enjoyed the e onfid f the house. One day he paid us a visit and placed 2 n fact, to the ex- it He explained that he was hment, that . in shor T at once afternoon a furnishing store whether Captain he merchant’s name, had he remarked ea that_he had gone: ‘the aced an order with us for a ts of extra heavy underwear s to have them delivered 1 wanted to tell him send North for the goods, d they may be delayed.’ That et me to thinking. There might and perfectly natural and in- nations of the order. vet it ~arried the inference that . our r kS contemplating an early trip to r climate well, I had a strong . ' tever ‘you choose to ¥ mething wrong lurked jn Ak he more 1 thought easy T became. t down an old frierfi sale simply because a handsome . ordered some heavy underwear, T knew T was risking severe censure. my situation itself; but before ntermanded his purchase and by wire that we had decided our credit lines for the summer rry_that we could not oblige He sent back a furtous letter and hi= order with an opposition firm epted him gladly. My bosses black when they heard the they changed their expressio; when the worthy captain disappeared. after _ turning £ he had into cash. Just as I ticipated, he headed for a cooler e. When last heard from he was ating in Manitoba.”—New Orleans -Democrat e The Sexton’s Wit. An Irishman of the full blood cannot t an opportunity for repartee, no er how solemn the oecasion or wha surroundings,” said an English clergy- a visitor in Washington, the other when the conversation turned on the 1 experiences of clergymen connected with the church I was-assisting an old friend of mine, the rector of a church in Ireland, one Sun- day, and before the service we were in the vestry room putting on our robes, with the old sexton, a shriveled up Irish- man of the perfect type, assisting. My friend, who was somewhat old, was a 1it- tle testy that morning and somehow the sleeve of his surplice got mixed up. Not- withstanding the assiduous efforts of the old sexton to direct his arm to the right hole the zr’o would nr‘;% c%nn.(l:a Finally losing patience, my end sald, sharply: ‘Ach, the divil's in the thing.’ “The old sexton brightened up, and, looking over at me with a twinkle in his eve, =ald, as quick as lightning, "Not yit, your riverince.” “It restored the good humor of the sit- uation, and the vestment was properly ad- Washington Pos fied him ow, my boy, you are on oath, Do you understand what that means? Witness—Why—er—I don't jest—er— reckon—. Judge—Do you know what you're ex- pecu to tell? . Witness—Oh, yes; the lawyer that hired e wrote it all down so that T could learn #t by heart.—Philadelphia Press. Superintendent Mills and Command- ant of Cadets Hein Testify on the Closing Day of the Hearing. e 4 WEST POINT, N. Y., Dec. 29.—The in- vestigation of the charges of brutal haz- ing arising out of the death of Former Cadet Osear L. Booz, which a court of inquiry appointed by the Secretary of | War has been conducting for the past two weeks, was concluded at the West Ppint Military Academy this afternoon. The military court of imquiry, composed of Generals Brooke, Bates and lous, to- gether with Captain Dean, the recorder of the court, left for Governors Island to- night and on Monday morning at 10 o'clock it will examine the mass of evi- dence which it has listened to during the | several sesslons of the court, and unless | something unforeseen occurs will make a report to the War Department at Wash- | Ington very soon afterward. While the | court of inquiry has been an open. one | since it befa.n taking testimony, Monda session will be exelusive and of no pu interest. Superintendent Mills and Commandant of Cadets Hein were the chief witnesses examined to-day. They produced a lot of extracts from records of the academy as to the efforts made by the autHorities to abolish hazing of every varfety in the in- stitution. Lieutenant Colonel Otto L. Hein, com- mandant at the United States Military Academy, was the first witness called to- day. Colonel Hein produced the superin- tendent’s sick reports, which showed that | Cadet Booz had reported sick only once | while he was at the academy. He was | | | excused on that occasion from drill, as he was suffering from an acute attack of diarrhea. The records made it clear that | Booz had never been absent from a meal while he was a cadet at West Point. An extract from the records was read | by the witness. who sald Cadet Booz had | availed himself of the Saturday evening ADVERTISEMENTS. - DR. LLEWELLYN JORDAN, Medical Examin er United States Treasury Department, CURED BY PERUN A AFTER FIFTEEN MONTHS’ SUFFERING. MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES B. KNOX, WHOSE FORCE IS HARASSING THE COMMANDO OF GENERAL DE- GENBERAL KNOK HAS A ROVING COMMISSION, AND IS ORDERED TO REMAIN IN THE FIELD | UNTIL THE REDOUBTABLE BOER CHIEFTAIN SHALL HAVE BEEN CAPTURED. WET. < 4 ONDON, Dec. 30.—Last night's ca- | ble dispatches from South Africa add little or nothing to the infor- mation concerning the situation, though the general trend of events | seems to show that the British are re- gaining the ground recently lost. A spe- | cial from Naauwpoort, dated December | 28, reports that Colonel de Lisle defeated Hertzog, eighteen miles west of De Aar, capturing a number of wagons ahd releas- ing the prisoners captured at Philipstown. Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell forced back Kritzinger toward Venterstad. Both com- mandos are in a desperate plight and | probably will never recross the Orange | River. A Standerton dispatch, dated December says it is estimated that 2000 Boers | | were engaged in the operations in North | | Natal, hoping to break the British line | of communieation. This plan failed and | the Boers were driven off in each case with more or less loss, their casualties in | the last day or two numbering fifty, while the British casualties were slight. According to a Johannesburg dispatch | of Friday's date General French occupled | Wentersdorp that day without opposition. This place, being a great telegraphic cen- ter, has been much used by the Boers fo the dissemination of information. Th possession of Ventersdorp. Richtenbur and Zeerust gives the British a strong hold upon this part of the country. From Carnarvon under yesterday's date comes a dispatch saying the Boers occu- pled Vosberg on Decéember 27 in force and were reported to be moving on Carnarvon, where martial law has been proclaimed. The loyal field cornets and farmers have assured the authorities that they will re- | main loyal and will suppress disloyal talk. Tt is credibly reported, according to & dispatch from Newcastle, December 20, that Louis Botha has informed Command- ant Spruight that Kruger has sent word that the burghers must lay down their arms or continue fighting on their own ac- count, as no support from Europe can be expected. General Kitchener, teleg;phlng from Pretoria under date of Friday, December 28, sends a summary of the number of at- L o e e e o SUNLIGHT AND THE SEA. Two Great Forces Which Have Not Been Mastered by Man. “The two greatest forces in nature are | the sunlight and the sea,” remarked a | college professor appropos of nothing in particular the other day; “yet, strange to say, we have made little or no progress toward harnessing either of them for in- | Qustrial uses. Of course, the effort has | been made, over and over again, and I | dare say scores of able men are wrestling with the problem at this very moment, but everything thus far suggested has prcven e failure. The idea of utilizing solar energy has generally taken the form of an engine in which the sun does duty as a firebox. A friend mine at Wash- ington tells me that over & hundred pat- ents have been taken.out on appliance: | of that sort. They are all more or le: alike, the essential feature being & mirror | or combination of mirrors which focus the | sun’s rays on a boiler of water. Some | small models have been made that worked | perfectly, but nothing on a practical scale | has ever been devised. | “It goes without saying that a solar en- gine can only make steam.while the sun | shines, and consequently could not be de- { pended upon for steady work, but the | Tecent perfecting of the storage battery | helps to remove that difficulty. When | the engine is working it could, be used to | operate a dynamo and the current bottled | up for future use. -Of be a good deal of power lost in the trans- mission from one form into another, but as long as the fuel costs nothing at all, that would be of no special consequenc When the real solar engine is finally | vented, as it must be sooner or later, the world will take some immense industrial strides. It would enormously cheapen all nufactured products. The same thin may be said of any practical method o harnessing the waves. That problem has n wrestled with for centuries, yet on the surface it seems comparatively sim- ple. The device that suggests itself at orice is some sort of buffer to receive the ~ | tacks made by the Boers at various points. The only important incident was an a tack upon a baggage column near Grey- lingstad. A company with a pompom | magde a sortie from . Greylingstad and drove off the Boers. Captains Radciffe and Harvest were wounded, eight men were killed, twenty-seven were wounded | and twenty were reported missing. In view of the prolongation of the war, the London Daily Telegraph has again dispatched Bennett Burleigh, its famous war correspondent, to South Africa. — RELIEF FU S GO ASTRAY. Money Collected in America Fails to Reach the Boers. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Discord has de- | veloped between the refugees of the Boer army whq have reached this city and the local Boer relief committee for the aid of widowseand orphans reported to be suf- fering great hardships in South Africa. General Samuel Pearson, who arrived recently, said tqzday that money collected in this country for Boers and their fami- | lies had not reached South Africa. ““As commissary general of the Boer army, T had charge of the disbursements of money received,” he said. “All bills recelved my signature before being paid, and none of the money collected here w; themeelves. This is not the time in the progress of a war that we shouid be going about asking money for our women. ey are under mil'itary discomforts, but they do not mind them. It would be interest- ing to me to see published an accurate list of gifts from Americans to our wo- men and the disposition of the money." Charles D. Pierce, treasurer of the Boer | Rellef Fund, has an office at 136 Libarty | authority to collect funds. They are signed he saw General Pearson's statement, “1 do not wish to engage in a contro- vel "' he said, “but certain persons are trying to cause trouble. I have creden- tials showing my appointment and full suthority to collect funds. They are signed by the Boer envoys, Abraham Fischer, Cornelius H. Wessels and A. D. W. Wol- marans. They were appointed by Presi- dent Kruger and President Steyn and con- impact of the water and transmit it to machinery. =~ Hundreds, yes, probably thousands of different types have been constructed, but nothing has proven ef- fective. There was always a hitch some- where. ““A variation of the scheme, which has also been tried repeatedly without suc- cess, 1s based on the idea cf a rocking platform. It rests on the surface of the water, and derives its motion from the constant agitation of the tides. Young Edison, son of the great inventor, was one of the iast to riment with that plan. His platform was surrounded by a gtout framewor! rose and fell it rods connected with a machine for com- pressing air, in which form he cxpected to deliver the power. If he had taken the trouble to read up on the subject in ad- vance, he could have ascertained that an elmost identical contrivance was put up by a Savannah inventor before the war, and falled miserably, aftcr swallowmg a small fortune. The Savannah man pro- posed to use his power to ojerats a saw- . but he miscalculated the fcrce of the waves, and, after jolting his machi; ery into wreck and ruin, a storm camc along and swept the whole thing off the facs of the waters. This was some time in the '50's. I haven't learncd the exact fate of the Edison apparatus, and the si-' lence in regard to it is ominous. Another recent device was installed several months ago on the coast near San Diego, Cal. It was built on the plan of a atr&- ing machine at a country fair, and the waves were expected to deliver the blows, which were then passed over gearing to a dynamo. The waves were on hand, and, at the first lick, they knocked the entire E"m( into everlasting smithereens. 1 am »opeful that the right man will turn up eventually, but at present the preblem is 1o nearer a solution than it was 50 years ago."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. e “California Wild Flowers” and “Poppy"’ Calendars 60 cents each. These are the best calendars for Pastern friends. San- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market St. s built on piles, and as it | tuated a series of piston | R ARSI ] firmed by the Volksraads of the two States. In the absence of President Kru- ger, they are practically the highest au- thority “to-day on Boer affairs. They are at The Hague and I make my reports | and send the funds to them. They see | that the funds are transmitted to minis- | ters of the gospel fn the Transvaal. It does not pass through the hands of gen- erals of the army. “There is greater need of money for the relief of widows and orphans now | than ever before, and there is a large increase of sympathy and offers of ald | in this country. I should say that since the British troops had begun to drive | women and children from their homes, | burn farm dwellimgs, destroy crops and food supplies, American contributions | have increased 75 per cent.” Mr. Pierce said he did not think it ad- ! visable to make public the list of donors or amounts collected and forwarded. He { exhibited letters recently received from The Hague urging the increased need of | help for widows and orphagps left to starve | through enforcement of "Lord Rpherts' order. | —_—— | KIMBERLEY ALMOST IMLATED.T e | Provisions at Famine Prices in the} Garrison Town. | CRADDOCK, Cape Colony, Dec. 28— Kimberley is almost isolated hy Boer | raiders. No mails have reached ihere | from December 19 to December 2. Pro- viglons are at famine prices. The mili- | tary took charge of all the foodstuffs on Tecember 22. The TLeinsrer Regiment, | commanded by Major Barry, had a_skir- | mish lasting four hours wifh the Boers at Dreifontein on December 27, suffering | slight losses. The Boers at Getuuk cap- | tured a convoy of twenty-five wagons on | Christmas _eve. | BLOEMFONTEIN, Dec. 28—The British | have reoccupled Ficksburg, which has for | ;’nmn time been in the hands of the oers. ER G ““Bobs” Sails From Gibraltar. , GIBRALTAR, Dec. 20.—The steamship Canada, with General Lord Roberts on board, which arrived here from South Africa yesterday, sailed for home thisy afternoon. SHIP MAGNETIZED. A Thunderbolt Renders Steamship’s | Compasses Useless. Captain W. H. Luckham of the British tank steamship Tancerville from London is now in Philadelphia for the first time since the.loss of the tank steamship §t. Helens, which he commanded when she foundered a year ago on Bombay reef. Captain Luckham tells an extraordinary story to accont for the disaster to the St. Helens, In July, 1899, the St. Helens met a ty- Phoon In the China seas and was struck | by lightning. Little damage was done, and the vessel proceeded on her voyage. | But it was found very difficult to main tain a straight course by any compass on the ship. and after having missed port several times by 100 miles or more Captain Luckham decided that the compasses had been influenced by the lightning, and pro- vided new ones. There was no improvement in the situ- ation. The man in charge of the wheel was kept busy dodging reefs, which would hob up in defiance of charts indicating clear water, and th~ officers were almost distracted. Finally ihe ship crashed on Bombay reef. A lengthy investigailon is said to have shown that the lighining stroke magne. tized the St. Helens on the port side only, and to an extent that deviated the co; pasges at least five degrees to that side g: nxhe ship.—Philadelphia North h‘AmerI-' “The first thing that struck me when T arrived in Congress,” said Representative Husker, * wvas the useless extravagance displayéd. “"To what point do you refer?"” “This practice of sendfng bou?uetl to Benators and Representatives. It ought to be stopped. Here I've got to pass uj a lot of money to a florist for roses an carnations or else hang around and i:n“ nobodv lwedume."-—Wumn?\‘:: | to stamp out calling out of privileges of going anywhere within the reservation on Saturday, August 6, the day of the Booz-Keller fight. Booz re- ported his going away at 1:38 p. m. and his returning at 3:15 p. m. In repiv to General Clous, the witness said that in the summer of 1869, through an anony mous letter, the brutal hazing of Cadets MacArthur 'and Haskell came to the knowledge of the academy officials. An investigation was lmm»dfa!olv ordered, but no information as to the facts eould be elecited from any of those examined in(rr;;’mg Whom were MacArthur and Has- ell. provided punishment for hazers and hazed alike. Tn telling of the agreement made by the fourth class men in 1899, among whom were Cadets MacArthur and Grant, not o submit to hazing, Colonel Hein sald: 1 called the class together (it was a large one) and explained to them the rules and regulations prohibiting hazing. I told them | they would agree not to submit to hazing and promise not to haze any one themselves the: would rid the academy of a foul hiot on it reputation. - 8oon afterward they appealed t me to be released from this agreement, hut I refused. 1 also heard that candidates prepar- ing at Highland Falls werc heing hazed and I made an investigation, the outcome of which Was the severe punishing of the gullty cadets. The remainder of the commandant's tes. timony was mainly an explanation of the actions of the authorities and the meas. ures taken by them to suppress hazing at the academy. The punishments were in- creased, and the number of cadets found guilty of violations of the regulations in 1899 was greatly in excess of that of the previous vear. Speaking gefierally of haz- ing Colonel Hein said: Hazing is traditional, and I am sorry to say is_thought by persons inside as well as out- side of the acadefny tb be commendable, and a long as students hear it spoken of in this way it will he impossible for the authorities to stamp it out What methods do you think could be used fourth class men and subsequent fistic encounters? A.—Why, 1 consider that a form of hazing, and as long as the cadets do not live up to the agreement not to submit to hazing and the upper class do not cease interfering with them, it will be tm- possible to sunpress it . Former Cadet Smith of Carbondale, TIL., testified that one night seven of the wit- ness’ class. including Booz, were called to ex-Cadet Harlee's tent to be exercised. Witness did not remember any one hav- ing fainted. He himself was very much f‘aflgued, but not to the point of exhaus- tion. The regulations prohibiting hazing | — SURY DEPARTMENT, GRADUATE OF COLT ARS AT WEST POINT. D U. B. TREA DAN 18 A THREE YE. R. LLEWELLYN JORDAN IS THE MEDICAL EX.\M!;SE R OF THE WASHINGTON, D. DR. JOR- TMBIA COLLEGE AND SERVED Examiner of the U. 8. Treasury partment, Washington, D. C uate of Columbia College, and who served three years at West Point, has the fol- lowing to say of Peruna: The Peruna Medicine Co., De- Columbus, O. Gentlemen—Allow me to ex- press my gratitude to you for the benefit derved from your wonder- ful remedy. One short month has brought forth a vast change | and I now consider myself a well man after fifteen months of suffer- ing. Fellow sufferers, Feruna will cure you.—Llewellyn Jordan. .,,D. Smyth, Angel's Camp, Cala., “Chronic catarrh in the head, nose says: | and throat has heen a source of trouble | and great annoyance to me for more than Q.—Did Cadet Booz ever complain to you? | A.No, sir; he never complained of his treat- ment. Cadet Truman W. Carrithers of Tllinofe, the next witness, said he -was called out for disobeying upper class men and ‘gen- eral freshness.” His opponent was Mr. Shannon of the present second class. Q.—What was the result? A'—I had an abra sion ~n the forehead, my jaW was broken an I went to the hospital for two weeks. Colonel Mills, superintendent of Military Academy, was then Speaking of ‘“bracing” he said: I do not consider “bracing’’ as hazinj it amounts to it when carried to ex: causes physical pain. For the protection of the fourth class men the witness said he h; the respohsibilities of the first clase cad the sworn. but and in order to obtain this end. He feit that | bounds that no injury would result these men, on the verge of graduation, | been unremitting in my endeavors in t would use their utm. abolish hazing meth: The superintendent tald of his having obtained the oath of a soclety known as the “hod carriers.” which existed among endeavors to candldates for admission to this academy. | who were at a preparatory school af Highland Falls, ahout two miles from West Point. It was a society composed of and formed for hazing candidates. Wit. ness sald it was of such a vile nature tha+ he knew he had a good weapon in his hands. He submittec it to body with the result that when they saw what hhzing entailed the graduating class of 1000 declared that tney would aholish hazing. Colonel Mills read some letters which he had written to tlie War Department in ten years. “‘I have used all such medicines as came under my notice as a catarrh cure without any help to me except at times by s only a temporary relief, but no cure physician, to whom I apptied, did not do v better. My troubles became worse and my suf- ferings increased instead improving. Loss of appetite, sleep and flesh, be: continual coughtng and pal his efforts to abolish hazing at the acad- emy contalning such suggestive words as “brutal treatment of cadets’” and ‘‘secre’ referring (o the encampment Colonel Mills cited cases where | cadets had been dismissed from the West Point Academy for hazing lower class men. He said they nvariably had gon to Washington, where they brought a great deal of influence to bear on th thorities to bring about their au- | =aid, he was ably supported by the War Department and the dismissal was rati- | fled by the officials there. In reply to | extreme measures should bhe adopted the cader | l General Bates witness said 1 don't think that hazing stamped out as long as humar aw it is. Even in colleges and business centers it is carried on the initiation of a member of a st ie marked by rough usage of the But I think by the vigilance of the auth at this academy and the co-operation cadets themselves cure the assfetance of the cadets to t and 1 fee! that my efforts have been = ful to a large extent As to the abholition of fighting ar cadets Colonel Milla said that where ther were 80 many voung men living togethe under the same roof it was natural that fights should occur. He suggested treat ing the first case with severe punishr and if that dld not act as a deterre as to make it clear to the enti that such violations would not doned or tolerated. Referring to the case of Mr. Booz he said: The first intimation that 1 had of the case was in. a letter I received from the editor of the Intelligencer of Dovlestown. 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