The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1900, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, \HONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1900 AIVAL TONGS MAKE READY OB STRIFE Desperate Highbinders Are Awaiting Signal to Com- mence Hostilities [ il Extra Squads of Policemen Patrol | Chinatown in the Hope of Pre- | venting the Impending Battle. factions of the Sam Yups and the two most powerful organi- s of Ch wn, are on the verge of Yesterday Chief of Police received word that hostilities | nt between the two societies, time in sending an extra | emen | Chinatown with | o prev threatened hazards. were issued | icen ese quarter s of both organiza- The ution realiz ber of desperate here in the past erior counties he inevitable h sides power e precautions taken by n and his men. The would have r the inter- p Cof g gambling in Police o open beer most trus waiting for the STEAM WHALER FEARLESS AGAIN RETURNS FROM THE ARCTIC AFTER ABSENCE OF NEARLY TWO YEARS Captain James McKenna Does Better This Season Than for Years. His Friends Now Hope That His Spell of Bad Luck Is Broken. The Fearless Is the Only Vessel Left of His Former Big Fleet o 5 W BRAVE ENGINEER WHITNEY SAVES SCORES OF LIVES Stops Train Just in Time " to Prevent a Fearful - Disaster. Passengers on the Broad Gauge From Alameda Have a Narrow Escape From Death Through an Open Switch. PO il A railroad horror parallel to that of Mayday, 1890, when » Southern Pacific narrow-gauge train ran through the open draw at Alice street bridge’ in Oakland, ‘was averted last night at the new Harri- son street railroad uridge only by the coolness of Engineer W. H. Whitney, in charge of the 6:30 o’clock broadgauge local train from Park strect, Alameda, headed for Oakland pier. His engine, No. 122, hauling three crowded coaches, was de- railed at the brink of the southern ap- proach to the bridge, a misplaced switch causing the accident. As soon as Whitney Zelt the pounding of his locomotive wheels over the ties he realized his danger. (nstead of looking for a place to leap and save himself from the disaster he felt was upon his train, the brave engineer stuck at his post and coolly brougnt his derailed engine to a stanastill. There was just room for a man | to crawl around the pilot without stand- ing on the drawbridgc itself when the | engine was brought to a full stop. One side of the hig locomotive was careencd and within a couple of feet of the de- railed driving wheels was a plunge of twenty feet aown into the waters of the | estuary, where ten vears ago, by an al- most similar accident, thirteen lives were lost in a submerged local train. ! There was one item i Whitney's favor to-night when he made his heroic stand and saved a trainload of passengers from a frightful death. He was moving cau- tiousiy across the approach and the slow | speed enabled him to more easily check | headway when the poundifg over the | roadbed commenced. But even then the | intrepid knight of the throttle had all he ADVERTISEMENTS. terday The Fearle e : - HEN the steam whaler Fear- | coast the Fearless met with nothing but | | legs left here on April 6, 1899, | hard m“ki Off Poiat Burrn: :h}?‘lfis v;v}«;r: | ) o < Jld | @gain and again se=n spouting, i Captain James McKenna (ol | Were always In a hole in the ice and the | | friends and backers that | ieamer was fn another. in a clear sea.| | he would not come back from | with the water as caim as a mill pond, a | | the frozen north until he had captured | whale would spout a mile away, but as| | enough whales to pay ail his debts. | soon as he heard the dip of the oar he| | The Fearless returnea to port early yes- | Would sound, and that would be the last| | morning, but Captain McKenna's (SSRR OTHIR. | ) trained n Aretic| | hopes have not been realized. During her | waters and they know the sound of an| | season the Fearless went well to the |oar in the rowlock as well as an old and not a whale was caught. | sailor. hales that had been caught by the | Then tha Fearless was caugth in some natives were secured for “trade,” how- | heayy seas and lost thres A T . 5 B boats. y cer, 18 y E | o e hat evencd up matters a little. | taken sick, and in spité of everything that then went into winter quar- | could be done for him he died in the CAPTAIN McKENNA'S STEAM g secured four more | spring and was buried at Cape Bathurst. = = secured about 10,000 | Captain McKenna refused to throw the | WHALER FEARLESS AND _which will more than ! body overboard, but went ashore with a SOME OF HER PASSENGERS. but it will not net a great | burying party and saw the remains placed | fcKenna. | under the frozen sod. | - © aad again along the | After leaving Point Hope the Fearless | o stopped off Cape Nome, and then had to run for Unalaska under stress of weather. The Smart Coat of the 20th | for Men As a fitting wind up of one o}' the biggdest years the big Kearny- street house has ever enjoyed we’re going to give yow the smart Twen~- tieth Century Coat,the Radlan,in a beautiful viewna Oxford gray. Just alive with smart bits of tail- oring. Youw know the Raglan is a $20.00 coat. A Raglan as dood as ours can’t be sold for less than $20.00, but we’re doing to sell it for less. If you’re with ws to-day you’ll get this Raglan at $12.00 @ ik deleiele - @ The Frisco Boys want to wish yow one and all a Happy New Year. We're happy be- cause it’s been a prosperous one for us, and we hope that 1901 will usher in happiness and prosperity for yow all. | under way. | 1896 they were still in the frozen north, At the latter place she remained ten days and took in a good supply of coal. Heavy weather and light winds alternated ail the way down, and tne provisions soon be- gan to give out. When the whaler was off Coos Bay there was nothing left but ‘“‘salt horse” and coffes, and no water with which to make the latter. Each man’s al- lowance was cut to the lowest peg, and, sooner than make them suffer, the captain declded to put into Coos Bay. No sooner was the whaler alongside the wharf than the carpenter, two firemen, pine saflors and the cabin'and steerage boys deserted. This left Captain McKen- na with three boat-steerers, one sailor and the steward outside his officers with which to bring the p to San Franeisco. Nothing daunted he made the attempt and landed the Feariess in port yesterday morning. The Fearless brought down an involun- tary passenger. Dick. an Eskimo, board- ed the vessel at Point Barrow and asked for a passage to Point fiope. He was re- fused and bundled ashore. Watching his opportunity he stowed himself away and | came on deck when the Fearless was well At Point Hope there was an | unusual quantity of ice for that time of | the year, and besides it was blowing a gale and icicles were in the air. There was nothing for it but to bring Dick to San | Francisco, and he 1s now aboard the steam | whaler. Captain McKenna will care for | him until next spring and will then take | him back to the Arctic. It is seldom that bad luck pursues a man as it has Captain McKenna. He has | striven against ill luck since 1891 and ill | luck has won. In the begmnh;g of that year he sent out the brig W. H. Meyer, the bark Northern Light, bark Hunter, bark Sea Breeze, bark James Allen, | schooner Bonanza and bark John P,West. | Not one of the fleet made an unusual | catch and some of them came home *clean.” In 1892 the Sea Breeze came back with a fair catch, as did also the James Allen. The John P. West was burned at Hono- lulu, and the Northern Light came in | “clean.” The Hunter made a splendid cateh, but the W. H. Meyer was ‘clean,” ;nd the Bonanza had only 5000 pounds of one. In 1893 the Sea Breeze and W. H. Meyer were lost, and the rest of the fleet about paid expenses. In 1884 McKenna only sent out the barks Reindeer and James Allen. When they were gone he started for Europe and purchased the Fearless. The James Allen and Reindeer were both lost, and in 1895 Captain McKenna is found wintering in the Arctic_with the Fearless and bark Northern Light. In | but in 1897 the Northern Light came home without having made expenses. In 1868 the Fearless came home ‘clean.” The steamer was taken by the creditors and sold by the United States Marshal. Cap- tain McKenna's friends came to his res- cue and'bought the vessel in. They ad- vanced the money to fit her out, and again the plucky wariner sought fortune in the frozen north. This year he has done fairly well, and it is to be hoped that the back of his bad luck is broken. @il cieivellnlodeds deerleleimlule ool @ THILE TRIGED! OVER CARD GAME Not Being Permitted to Play, United States Marshal Begins to Shoot. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., Dec. 30.—Sherift Kennedy of this county, Willlam Kile of Massachusetts, who has been superin- tending the building of a cotton mill here, and Captain Dansby, a United States Marshal, are dead, the result of a shoot- lng over a game of cards. leveral persons were playing cards :Efi night when Dansby threw 32 on the and said, “I play for this.” The men at the table refu to let Dan:br into the e and an altercation ens Dansby nally drew a pistol and shot Kile in the stomach. He then backed out of the room, declaring he would shoot any one who attempted to stop him. He was fol- lowed by two policemen, but held them at bay until Sheriff Kennedy and a num- ber of ci } ed. v Dansby fl the house of his father- in-law, where Kennedy called to to surrender. y came out and, with the remark, ‘“We will all go to hell to-| gether,” commenced firing. Dansby was shot twice in the leg and once in the h nal ’t:fi erift was struck near the n 5 heart Dansby walks steps and was reloading his pistol ed when he was hot again dying Sheriff. Dansb B O o ieh by o Ty X of each other. If You Are an Ale Drinker | ahead by hand. As soon as I got that | the blocking of travel. { ning upon the bridge, where surely, the | trainmen belfeve, it must have ended in | the toppling over of the locomotive intu | the brink and carry wich it the cars that | were trailing behind. | Three tracks meet at the point where !trali marsh. From the west comes the curved | | combination narrow " and broad gauge | | tracks from Alameda mole. 'The three | meet. within twenty feet of the junction of the southern apprcach embankment and the bridge. At that point an inter- locking automatic “pomnt’’ switch, oper- | ated from the bridge signal station, is lo- cated. This switcn controls the tracks and is utilized for either broad or narrow gauge service from the west. At 6:30 last | night, shortly before the train that was | derailed came along from Alameda, a nar- nyw-%auze freight train bound for Four- teenth and Webster streets Oakland, passed over the switch safely and ran on to its destination. That switch, accord ing to the telltale evidence at the &nt of derailment, was not thrown k, cither from carelessness of the operator | or because it falled {o work. Whitney ran { down the mile of straight track to a sig- { nal post a hundred yards from the draw, where he stopped. ““The signal was set against me,” he ex- plained last night, “and I had to stand there for five minutes. Tuen I received a | bhand signal from the bridge to come | | ahead. The towerman for Some reason had ordered his assistant down to flag me signal I started up. As soon as I struck tha switch I felt a sudden lunge and ounding of the engine. Realizing that 4 was off the track I shut dovn as quick- ly as possible. The engine ran down to the| edge_of the approach before we sloxped. ‘We were derailed by running on the \narrow-gauge track, the switch be- ing dpen. | could do to prevent the engine from run- | | the derailment occurred. One is the long, | t_line from Alameda across the | “Of course I do not know why the switch was open. The hand signal from | the bridge should not have been given un- less the towerman knew that the switch was closed. But I don’t know anything about that. All I do know is that the signal to go ahead was given and ahead I went, Both the hand signal and a set signal on the north side of the bridge gave | me the right to go ahead.” | ‘Whitney modestly disclaimed any hero- ism in his act. Fireman John Barnes thought the engineer was a hero, rating | Al. Barnes was making ready to take a | flying leap for mrc% when the crash on | the ties occurred. onductor Alexander Buchanan steadled the ;assangm, who were startled by the sudden stop of the train at the bridge end. They were sub- sequently transferred to a train that | backed down to Alameda mole. The ex- planation made )g’ Asaistant Division Su- i perintendent W. S. Palmer, who was early at the scene, follows: “Until a full and complete Investigation | can be held I am unprepared to place the | responsibility for this. accident. Th2 throwing of the broadgauge engine by an open switch upon the narrow-gauge tracks naturally derailed the locomotive. But | the speed under which the local was run ning prevented anything serious. The ten- der wheels did not leave the track nor did any of the passenger coach trucks. The most serious feature of this affalr is There being only a single track here everything must be held up until we can get this train out of the way."” CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF THFIR EMANCIPATION George W. Dennis Jr. Delivers Ad- dress at Exercises Held in A. M. E. Zion Church. The celebration of the thirty-seventh anniversary of the emanclpation procla- mation was held at the First A. M. E. Zion Church last night. Rev. T. Brown, pastor of the church, presided, and the address of the evening was delivered by George W. Dennis Jr. Mr. Dennis_spoke of the wonderful growth of the United States during the past century, and told of the great possibllities of the next. He then outlined what had been accomplished the negro during the thirty-seven years of his freedom. “The negro race,” sald Mr. Dennis, “has demonstrated its fitness for civilization and that it is worthy of the progress and prosperity which has visited our glorious country. The negro has sat in the Senate, in Congress, has held judicial positions, and has taken a front rank in the busy marts of commerce, and on the battle- field he has not been found wanting. Hs has shown that he has aims and ambli- tions that are as honorable and compara- ble with those of other men whose skin is_lighter in color.” Mr. Dennis then exhorted his hearers to equip themselves for the battle of life, and to be honorable in their dealings with their fellow men. During the evening Miss Pauline Bryant read the emancipation grochmnlon' sy Vivian Simmons recited “Lift the Black Man's Burden,” Professor J. H. Willlam- son sang ‘‘Praise Ye the Lord,” and the choir sang several seiections, —— e — TWO BURGLARS WANTED IN WASHINGTON, D. C. g & Captain Seymour received a dispatch from the police authorities in Washington, D. C., yesterday morning, that there was fwo b mmdmot.l:ler jewell In the dispatch it wa3 8 that (%uhu Lowell and Eugt the two Ilastern Wi L] crooks ht by Detect- or into Ford, 1716 Baker sted Thur=d: ;ore me-tgfl - n¥ of Mrs. 1t to to find out merits SPhvans: Mt ada Seous, Brewery bottied S b glent oo der e mruf killed any one, but many have died from the want o?n. L —————— ‘Trapper's Ofl cures rheumatism and neuralgia. Druggists, 50c flask. Richards & Co., 406 Clay. SPECIAL SALLIDS .} ! During the entire month of JANUARY we will offer Extraordinarp Values in all our departments in order to close out our stock of Fall and Winter Goods, and commencing MONDAY, December 3ist, we will have on sale in.our Black and Colored Dress Goods Departments the following: GENUINE BANNOCKBURN TWEEDS, full 58 inches wide, an ail-wool fancy mixed suiting in very stplish colorings, imported to sell for $1.25 yard. Sale Price G0G Yard, |- GENUINE FRENCH TAILOR SUITINGS, smooth finish, mixed color effects in dark tones, full 44 Inches wide. $1.50 and $2 yard. This 1ine of Suitings imported to sell at Sale Price 750 Yard, EN(';L!SH SILK MOHAIR BLACK CRE'PONS. in very handsome designs; small, medium and large pat- terns. and $2 pard. The regular value of these Crepons $1.75 Sale Price $1.00 Yard. BLACK FRENCH PIEROLAS, CREPONS, POPLINETTES, SATIN VENETIANS and FRENCH CORDS, in dress patterns and skirt lengths, about 200 lengths in all, marked at less than half price. We ask our customers In the interior to write for samples of above goods promptly. 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