The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1902, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL. D bl ] environed in a Lorin, pretty Alameda fon nts of dded a als of State leader the exciting inci- e of . nor Li ( I was n e he “I went New York . to purchase s r f Stag and while vis!i- e - “Why i cou ’ with you, The: named Rathbone in Wa , who is at the head of t - 20 to the eapital I know he w d to see you.” e me a ter of intro- and when it was a just the man we Rathbone declared athbone n are He rth Auditor’s office and at sence for the bal- entered a carriage offices of a num- leaders in the an hour or so we n who were n In ] 1 upper room of a house in y vard and I was given the threc srees Such is Major Stratr n's simple narra- tive. A certificate of membership issued | over thirty ycars ago hangs in his bed- 1 AN room, but the handwriting thereon has faded into indecipherable lines of yellow nd vanished, as the dat during record, how made of the ir 1 historian tells us tha Stratman, a resident of Califor- nia, be n a visit 3 and while in the cit 1gton, Dis- lumbia, acquainted H. Rathboue, the founder of of Knights of Pythias. Under- g that Mr. aitman was soon to return to the Paci ast, Brother Rath- bone d him to join the order. To this end the grand chanceilor of the Dis- trict Columb Willlam Westwood, with Clarenc Barton, grand scribe, tend of tr secured the and the record, : of some members, Gr nd Lodge show that on July 13, 1868, Jo! Stratman Esq. of Francisco, Cal., was admitted by dispensation, at Liberty lodgeroom and deputy or of the oo T'ST off the rocky and of Pacific Grove the wa terey Bay a now und culiar and intcresting agitation. is caused by ng to cover of the diatoms, microscapic and myriads al life that make their home the waves, They are all afraid of. their 1 -nce, in the persons of the cosmopoli- students of the Hopkins Seaside Lab- of the biole ers of Mon- sc the sea to the aqu: Nothing, from the minutest bit of ma algae or seaweed, is safe from the Inve tors of the prob- lems and . methods of research in biologi- cal lines. About eighty or these investigators from all parts of the world will for the next six weeks occupy the two two:story struc- iow, bluff imme- | tures that stand on a 1894 1895 1596 Great Pregrgss of Pythians in Qalifornia. Year. Lodge. Members. 1869, .. 47 1.211 1870 19 1,428 1871 vee 20 1,303 1872 . 20 1.240 1873 24 1,228 1874 ce. 268 1,708 1875 34 2.048 2,288 5,789 7,489 9,066 10,190 0,848 10,012 10,170 10,280 10,237 10,276 10,603 10.650 o7 STRATMNA HOME AT LORIN CAL . e : State of st California. Returning to the set heels motion, but owing to the long time requisite for mail communication with the Pythian author- ities in the East many delays and disap- pointments ensued. Again Brother Stra visited Washington, para phernalia and returned home, only to find that he had been cc he the in man secured supplanted and one George H. Chard made the deput Nothing daunted, he co-operated with Chard, and on April 8, 186 Califorma Lodge 1, Knights of Pythias, was or- ganized in the city of San Francisco. Th was followed In quick suceession by Da mon 2, Golden Gate D Laurel No. 4, *Our’ No. 5,.Germania No. 6, all of San Francisco; Washington Lodge No. 7 at 0, and Allemania No. 8 at San Fran- Then followed the Grand Lodge of California, which was organized by Su- preme Chancellor Read, September 2, cisco. FROIM O PEIOTOGRA MAIJOR ) /8 — The Advance of the Order Since the Last Supreme Lodge Session Will Not Be Made Known Until the Report of the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal Is Given at the Coming Session of the Ruling Body. MAJOR STRATMAN TAKEN LAST FIONT &) N3 the earller lodges here does not agree with the record in a number of instances, but momentous happenings came so rap- 1dly then that confusion may be well explained. He did not become a lodge member until Laurel No. 4 was organized by himselt at old Tucker’s Hall, Sut- ter and Mentgomery streets. He was the lodge's first changelior commander. Py- thian then came fast upon him. T preme Lodge at Richmond, Va., shortly after his initlation created him a past grand chancellor of Califor- nia, with power - to create four past grand chancellors. He assisted in the formation of the first Grand Lodge of California, and was elected grand repre- sentative to the convention at Philadel- phia. In 1883 he went to Seattle and organized Queen City No. 10, the lodge then and now containing many of the greatest men nors S “FJACK " el 4 Wonderful Growth of the Order n United States. Year. Lodge. Members. 1864 .. 3 78 1865 .. 1 52z 1866 .. 4 379 1867 .. 41 6,847 1868 .. 104 34,624 1869 .. 465 54,289 1870 .. 643 60,022 1871 .. . 886 79,615 1872—No trustworthhy statistics. 1873 .. 1228 95,602 101,453 99,628 02,209 83,802 84,505 89.568 96,263 110,903 126,261 132,380 157,138 168,494 188,707 208,949 230,325 263,847 308,200 357,924 413,944 443,615 456,994 464,539 469,291 468,269 470,798 492,508 S oAV T « Queen City Lodge, and was made a life member of the latter subordinate. To those who know John Stratman in- timately his failure to join the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias, or to be in any way whatever directly connected with it, will appear strange, because he has been all through his career a mill- tary man. “How Is it, major, he was asked, “that “Because of a vow made In the ,early seventies,” he answered. ‘“One of the best friends I ever had was Willlam C.- Ralston, president 'of the Bank of Cail- fornia, and numbered among the great- est men San Francisco produced, The in- dependent military organization bearing my name was part of the escort at the funeral of Mr. Ralston, following his tragic death. When we returned to our 1869, at San Francisco.” of the Northwest. Major Stratman trans. you never became identifled with the Uni- - armory and I doffed the military attire I The major's version of the formation of ferred his membership from Laurel to form Rank?” said, ‘I shall never wear & giiform agatn. rforfeefenforfonionl e B e L e i i o e 0 ° WORR AT THE HOCKINS SERSIDE LARCRATCRY. diately facing the sea. There is no more favorable spot on the coast for the study of the arimal life and botany of the sea, for here the two faunas of the north and south come together, and there is per- haps a greater variety of animal life in the exceptionally fine collecting grounds the immediafe vicinity of the labora- tory than any other place in the world. h'I'hlS is the only biological station on t except the one established last mmer at San Pedro by tha University ‘alifornia. The laboratory possesges a fair supply of collecting apparatus and but no launch of its own. How- ver, a_hired launch comes to the near- t landing every day armed with a big windlass, plankton net, dredge, trawl and tow net, also a tangle and grappler. Then do the students and the wise professors g0 down to the sea in boats. The stern of the boat is covered with a large woden tray, upon which the haul is dumped when the nets are drawn in. Maps of the Coast and Geodetic Burvey are used and each day a new crt is made, showing where collections have been mad amples of water are secured at the surface and bottom for tests as to salinity. Besides the trawl, the dredge is provided with a scraper that stirs up the mud on the bottom of the ocean, un- earthing the living creatures there. Nets are cast out from the stern of the launch, ro; being given out to let the weights cars them down to the desired depth. Then' the launch moves forward slowly, say for one or two miles, and when ihe time comes for hauling in the net the boat is brought to a standstill and the rope reeled on the windlass. Much of the work being done at the laboratory is in the study of the develop- ment of vertebrates, also in_plant cytol- ogy and microtechhique. The students have to get their material to work on In all the different stages, from the egg up to the object itself. Then, with the aid of laboratory instruction I cen In the interesting principles an g;tex?ads of killing, fixing, imbedding, cut- ting into sections and staining to bring out the nerves of the fishes or animals selected for cytological study. With the ald of a mmcroscope parts one-eighth of an inch long can be reconstructed one the microtome, thousand times larger. Another im- portant work is classifying the adifferent species. There are seventeen private rooms at the laboratory for research work and ex- periments with _different animals. Pro- or Garey of Cooper is now doing e interesting work at the laboratory in the way of developing the eggs of iish without the male element. In the case of the eggs of sea urchins, star fish, etc., he has succeeded in carrying them to the gastula stage, where the alimentary canal is formed. This he has done by means of salt solutions. These experi- ments are of purely scientific value, but versity. may be regarded as something more than a start in the direction sought. Another branch of study for which the lccation_ of the laboratdry is excellent is the study of sea birds and their habits. In the two buildings there are rour gen- eral laboratories, one lecture-room and a dark room for photography. Iteis an in- teresting sight when all the individual aquaria are filled with squirming sea ten- ants, for the students usually nave the animals they are working on alive and keep number in the aguaria to show the various forms. Of these aquarium tanks there are a great number in the busy summer season, and they are sup- plied with running salt water from ¢ 2, 00-gallon tank. During this summer courses will be of- fered in general zoology, elementary bot- any, seaweed study, embryology, general ornithology, plant cytology and ichthy- ology. Among_ the ructors ure Pro- fessors Oliver P. Jenkins, G e C. Price and Edwin C. Starks, assisted by An- struther A. Lawson, Joseph Grinnell and Milo H. Spaulding, all of Stanford Uni- ALFRED DEZENDORF. In the troublous days of the outbreak of the Clvil War John Stratman came quickly to the front to help California keep her promise to be true to the Union. In a little room back of General Sherman’s office he met with Fire Chief Dave Scannell and others to organize a regiment. Two gentlemen whose names have faded into obscurity offered to com- tribute 310,000 each to defray expenses. Stratman opened a recruiting office In his stationery stors on Washington street and as quickly as men were enrolled he quartered them at a neighboring hotel. The expense of maintaining these re- crults was borne personally by Stratman, and he paid out several thousand dollars. He was never reimbursed. When President Lincoln was notifled of the assembling of the regiment for Hast- ern operations he telegraphed “Keep your fighting men in California. Thers may be danger there, too.” It was In ploneer days that Major Strat. man came to the West. From Pennsyl- vanta, his native State, he drifted south to New Orleans, from which place in July, 1849, he started for San Francisco, via Cape Horn. He reached this city Janu- ary 10, 1850, and became active in com- mercial life. When the National Guard of California came Into being Stratman assoclated himself with it,.and in 1361 was elected major of the Third Regiment, un- der Colonel John McKenzie. Later, while captain of Company B, in the same regi- ment, his command, by legislative action, was consolidated Into the First Artillery Regiment. The major then organized what was later the most famous Inde- pendent military organization of San Francisco, the Stratman Zouaves. Their dress was patterned after the gay trap- pings of the French soldier of that pe- riod, and the stalwart, handsome young men made a dashing appearance in the fanciful uniform, so strikingly different from the simple, sober garb of the en- listed men of the twentieth century. Stratman was proud of this company, and the pride gleams in his eyes to-day as he tells of Its triumphs and popularity. of India being The toes of the T are fantastic, adorned, when in silver rings. Heavy wern. Toe ris exclusive privilege of bart were in vcgue in Paris a century ago under the directoire. also s 2