The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1903, Page 33

&7 B A ) Vo pDRRALY SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY ' AUGUST 9, 1903. CAEDITOR BANK | SUES EPPINGERS Institutes Proceedings| to Foreclose on Farming Land. . Plaintiff Holds Real Property | Worth $300,000 as Security. | | | history of the the United »e London, Par mited, v Bernard Meyer of Ep- e the real estate st part of farm- = for $10,500 s 10, 1902 awn thelr ac- » a balance of LARGE INDEBTEDNESS. May 896, i at the request mortgage fore- in Fre actions men- e payment nger & Co. to r Alt- e or th PROPERTY TRANS FERS. int a recital to the bank ows On De- of the capital Warehouse shares of kdale Land and 100 he Bank of X and Sep- | s of the capital Oil Compar nsfers were he indebtedness to | t all the prop- n e and insuf- s f the in- edness wo! more conformity with ant, and the this week s e e niiod HENRY SCHWARTZ IS INJURED BY A FALL Well-Enown Horseman Meets With & Mishap While Alighting From a Car. Schwartz known horse- om a car at Mar- streets last evening d struck the he was e forehead aken to a pear-by examination of his fact that a amall severed. Later he was vate hospital, had his in- and then went to his home. bleeding e DU —— re’'s Wooing. Dame Natu likes to visit her at e year and view her in her early months, when ough her veins she plant and shrub, to fruits of the orchard er months—August, | November—when in tions and the mellow appeals to her true fruits—the _prune, the the grape, in all g fields of corn, | his lap with her | are hushed and the gen- | She invites all to ntifully spread be- | the hills, to fish in lown the deer in his boat and bathe in | offers at this season | tern Raflway supple- | opportunity to take where on this coast | limate so delightful, c0 pictoresque, the | | stance which AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE GO IN DIFFERENT WAYS |“Jack” London and His Better Half Agree to Sepa- rate and She Retains Possession of Children. — PROMIN FROM HIS WIFE AND WHOSE LATEST THAT INCOMPATIBILITY AND Q NT YOUNG CALIFORNIAN AUTHOR WHO HAS SEPARATED i WORK GIVES INKLING | TUARRELS ARE THE CAUSE. kS - B AKLAND, Aug. 5.—“Jack” Lon- | duced by the lingering of tobacco odors In the | don, tramp, saflor, | *Ur | aociiMet snd g WHEN WILLS CLASH. the anonymously| Did “Wace” know of separation soon published “Kempton-Wace Letters” and | to be when he wrote: heralded genius, has found marriage a| ° ° ° There will come moments when wills | . < clash and desires do not chime; these must be fallure. Love and literature don’t min- | moments of sober thought and compromise, | oy > o | when one or the, other sacrifices self on the | slo-—at lea not in the brilllant young | 2100 5%, 0 0 Cont friendship. Upon this Californian’s life. He and his wife of | ability o compromise devends their ‘married | g N " . arated. | happinese. * * @ ¢ If they be incapable of ris- | barely three ears have separal ing to compromise, sacrifice and unselfishness, Agreed are they that love is not for them reason will dictate separation. In such case, together, the talented creator of “The | When they will have become rational once more, | s 5 _ | they will reason the impossibility of a con- Call of the Wild"” and the mother of his | tinued relation and give 't up. two children have cried “quits.” He has| Jack London is 27 years old, At 18 gained the freedom his soul has craved | years of age he had been a newsboy, and both are content. longshoreman, sailor, seal fisher, and She was Miss Elizabeth Maddern, mem- | ber of a family of blood kin to Minnie Maddern Fiske, the gifted actress. The| Madderns’ home tfor yvears has been at | 1667 Broadway. They met because Miss | Maddern was in the literary circle. She | knew books and was by bent and calling | thrown much among those who read and talk and write. Miss Maddern was a | teacher, had puplls whom she assisted in | studies—was in school and college life, and met London when his stories of the Arctic regions gained him vogue In lit- erary life. They were married and two children, Joan and Bess, who have gone with thelr mother, were born. Of late there had been whisperings of domestic infelicities in the family—of dif- ferences which brought discord. Friends of Mrs. London said her successful au- thor-husband had grown beyond her a8- mosphere and was chafing under the yoke of matrimony. However that may be, they have parted and they have agreed that for the present at least there shall be no explanations for the public. WRITINGS PROPHETIC. Mrs. London has retired into quiet re- treat at Berkeley. “Jack” has taken bach- elor quarters at 1216 Telegraph avenue, there to work out books and plans for more storfes that are shortly to be given to the world. More than mere coincidence attaches to the story of ‘The Kempton-Wacé Let- ters,” that only sixty days or so ago were sued from London's publishers. They tell of love, and current talk has it that they disclose the inmost thoughts of the author on that subject of subjects. In- deed, only to the favored few was it krown for a long time that London's brain had evolved the volume that has at- tracted no little comment. Collaborating was Anna Strunsky in this book of mes- sagessthe thoughts of Herbert Wace (London) and Dane Kempton—the story of a man who had made of love a “cold, analytical text.” So In the title page is inscribed: And of naught else than Love would we dis- course. —Dante. With more than prophetical pen does “Wace” write of the lovers after mar- riage: Our lovers discover each other to be mere man and woman, after all. That ethereal sub- he man took for the body of the Joved one becomes flesh and biood, prone to the common weaknesses and ills of flesh and blood. He, on the other hand, betrays little petulancies of disposition, little fauits and pre- dispositions of which she never dreamed in the prenuptial days, and which she now finds emi- nently distasteful. But at first these - things are not openly unpleasant. There are no scenes. One or the other gives in on the In- stant, without self-betrayal, and one or the other retires to have a secret cry of to rumi- nate about it over a cigar—the first faint hints, 1 may slyly @hggest, of the return of rationali- ! ty. They are beginning to think. Ah, these are little things, you say. Pre- cisely; wherefore I lay emphasis on. them. The sum of the innumerable little things. becomes mighty thing to test the human soul. More- over, many a home has been broken because of disagreement as to the uses and abuses of couch , and more than ene divorce in- then turned to sociology and economics. He became a tram» to know the under side of life. Then he read and studied, went to the Oak.and High ool, took a' freshman course at the University of California, but gave up his studies and | went to the Klondike. There he gath- ered much of the material that started him on the road to literary success. In January, 1899, “The Man Op the Trail” appeared, followed by “The White Si- lence,” and rapidly came others—tales of | the Arctic Circle. “The Son of the Wolf” and the “God of His Fathers,” “Daugh- ter of the North” and “The Children of the Frost”—all gave testimony to the bud- bed genius, These and others were in- corporated into a volume, “An Odyssey of the North.” They made a name for the young, erratic genius who had only a few years before been arrested on Oak- land’s streets for public speaking as a socialistic devotee, STATEMENTS REFUSED. He wrote the “Cruise of the Dazzler,” a children’s tale, and then, with Miss Strunsky, put forth “The Kempton-Wace Letters.” A recent trip to London and long search and study in the slums gave him mate- rial for a book, “Children of the Abyss,” now in press. Prolific with pen, London was shy of words to-night ‘when asked about the parting of himself and his wife, All he sald was: At present there is nothing to be said on either side. It is patent to every one that my wife and I are not living together, but as to the cause of the separation I have nothing to say. At this time I cannot suy whether di- vorce proceedings will be instituted. In fact I have nothing at all to say in regard to the matter. My wife and I have separated and we have agreed to say nothing about It for the time being. Mrs. London is the daughter of Mrs. Melissa Maddern, and a sister to Miss Florence Maddern, Miss Minnie Maddern, Henry T. Maddern and Robert T. Mad- dern. The brothers are plumbers on Jef- ferson street, near Fourteenth. At the Maddern residence this evening the fam- ily declined to make any statement about the Londons’ separation. Music at the Park. The following programme will be ren- dered by the Golden Gate Park band this afternoon: Part 1 ‘Star-Spangled Banner'; “Majestic” (Panella); (Offenbach); waltz, (Strauss); solo_for’ trombor performed by Louts Klot; from “'Aida’” (Verdi). Part pa” (Herold); *‘Panamerica’ a) Morceau charadteristic, (Victor- Herbert), (b) Orfental serenade, Star Dreamer,”” by request (Theo, Bendix): comic opera selection, *'King Dodo’ (Luders); fantasia, ‘‘Dream Piotures” (Lumbye); selection from ‘‘Pagliaccl” (Leon- covalio); ‘“‘America.” PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8.—The t strike. which was Inaugurated here six mflulltlh‘: oF the 60,000 strikers decided to- vt ta oot of e 60, strikers dec! to return to on Monday. hes | the result of her Work, and then pulled | to the new City Hall, she became bois- | pearance. | body was examined at the Morgue. | build, light hair and full whiskers of .a HOTEL LODGER DN A AMPAGE Hurls Furniture From a Window and Is Taken Into Custody. —_— Mrs. Dahl, While Temporarily Insane, Creates Scene at the Grand. / s aum— Mrs. Annie/ Dahl, wife of Charles Dahl, a foreman of the United Railroads, whose home is at 438 Madrid street, created con- siderable excitement at the Grand Hotel last evening shortly before 7 o'clock. Three days ago the woman registered at the hotel and was assigned to a room on the second floor, overiooking Stevenson street. Later a trunk, a sewing machine and several other articles belonging to her were received at the hotel and moved to her room, where she remained quietly | until last evening. At the hour mentioned above people standing on New Montgomery street around the entrance of the Palace Hotel were suddenly startled by the sound of | crashing glass, and a second later they | saw various articles of fufniture flying | out of a window of a room in the Grand, which proved to be that occupled by Mrs. Dahl. Chairs, mattresses, bedclothes, wearing apparel, toilet articles and even jewelry followed each other in rapid suc- | cession from the open window, much to the amazement of a large crowd in the | street below, and finally the form of a woman appeared at the window. She stood there but a moment, as if scanning the sash down and disappeared. Meanwhile some one had notified the clerk of the Grand of the affair, and a porter had hurried up to Mrs. Dahl's room, to which, however, he was denied an entrance. The porter then entered an adjoining room, and by climbing out of a window was able to reach Mrs. Dahl's | apartment and promptly gained an entrance. The woman was found quietly standing in the middle of her room, and with smiling face she remarked as the porter entered that she “had been clean- ing up.” Mrs. Dahl for a time appeared to be perfectly rational, but later, when taken terous and had to be locked in a cell, where she will remain until to-morrow under observation. She is about 35 years of age and a woman of attractive ap- ————— AGED MAN FOUND WITH BULLET IN HIS BRAIN Stow Lake Gives Up the Body of a Suicide as Yet Uniden- tified. The body of an aged man with a bullet wound between the eyebrows was found in Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park, yester- day morning by Frank Woods of 1011 Cal. ifornia street and Wakefield Baker of 2701 Pacific avenue. The young men were row- ing on the lake and when near the rus- bridge they saw a dark mass in the bot- tom that looked like a human body. They notified Richard Cleary, a park employe, who recovered the corpse and took it ashore. The bullet had split on entering the forehead, and two small pieces of lead were takert out of the' wound when the The corpse is that of a German or Scan- | dinavian between 60 and 70 years of age. It is five feet eight inches tall, of heavy reddish gray color. The complexion ‘is fair, with gray eyves and broad nose. The clothing is black striped ceat, pants and ! vest, brogan shoes and gray woolen un- | derwear. A black derby hat that fits the head of the dead man was found floating in the lake last Thursday. —_———— JAPANESE CITIZENS WILL SUPPORT NORTH Claim to ' Have Direct Evidence Against Fellow Countryman Ac- cused of Bartering Women. More than 100 of the most prominent Japanese residents of this city signed a memorial yesterday expressing gratitude to Immigration Commissioner North for the stand he has taken in regard to Yaso- hel Yokota, the Japanese merchant who is being held pending an investigation charging him with bringing Japanese women to this country for immoral pur- poses. The committee circulating the petition s headed by H. Soejima and K. Kukawal of the New World and Kikou Kiyose of the Japanese American. They claim that they have positive evidence against the accused merchant, that he has been bring- ing women into the country for immoral purposes for some time past and that the business which he conducts on Post street is merely a cloak to hide his nefarious practices. —_——— ASSIGNEE BRINGS SUIT ON PROMISSORY NOTES Alleges That the Royal Packing and Drying Company Owes Him $9615, With Interest. Herbert Rogers, to whom the London and San Francisco Bank, Limited, as- signed three promissory notes for $5000 each made by the Royal Packing and Drying Company within the last two years, yesterday filed a suit against the stockholders of the company for $915, the amount he alleges the company still owes on the notes. He also asks for 6 per cent interest on that amount. The defendant stockholders in the actlon are F. Bepler, H. B. Chase, G. de Latour, G. Pouchon, F. daAgostine, H. B. de Marville, C. Roemer, Paul Serre and R. de Boysson. —_————— Tyndall Will Lecture. The subject of Dr. Alex J. McIvor-Tyn- dall’'s popular psychological lecture at Steinway Hall this evening will be “The Power of Persuasion: Personal Influ- ence.” The lecture will deal with the subtle power of magnetism and the vari- ous phases of it. Dr. McIvor-Tyndall is without doubt the best known exponent of these subtle forces of the mind, and his views and theories of how to cultivate the success-compelling influence of per- sonal persuasfon—magnetism—will un- doubtedly attract a large number of hear- ers. Some experiments in the marvels of the mind will follow the lecture. —_———— Improvement Club Gives % Smoker. The West of Castro Street Improvement Club held its semi-annual smoker last night at Twenty-fourth and Douglass streets. All the members of the club and many Invited guests were present, and the evening was pleasantly spent. —_——————— Koe: n's Red Salve cures all complaints with marvelous rapidity, | steps. the thinned ranks, all tell us that those ELOQUENT. WORDS FOR SURVIVORS; TRIBUTES OF LOVE FOR HEROIC DEAD California’s Governor, San Francisco’s Mayor, General Shafter and Others Extend an Earnest Welcome to Veterans and Visitors. HE Thirty-seventh National En- campment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in San | Francisco during the week be- ginning August 7. Preparations for | the entertalnment of the and thelr companions are well ad-| vanced. Views touching . the sig- nificance of the patriotic event are ex- pressed by George C. Pardee, Governor of California; Eugene E. Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco; Major General Willlam R. Shafter, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Califor- nia, and Adjutant General George Stone, chairman of the general committee of management. THE GOVERNOR'S GREETING. The sentiments of welcome are thus ex- pressed by Governor Pardee: Once agaln_the State of California and the city of §an Francisco have the pleasure and the honor to_hospitably welcome the veterans of the Clvil War. Our pleasure Is great when We open wide our arms and give them the kiss of welcome. And we feel honored that the men who survived the shock of battle, | that lald low so many of our friends and their | comrades, have again chosen California and San Francisco for their gathering place. But, with our smiles of welcome, with the pleas- | ure and the honor that they have conferred upon us, there is mingled a sorrow, and with | our smiles there springs tears to our eyes as | we look upon the fast thinning ranks of those who bravely fought for us in 61 and '65. The gray hairs, the stooped shoulders, the halting whom the nation has always loved:tb honor will not, in obedlence to the inexorable law of nature, long be with us. And when they, llke their comrades who have gone before, sleep the eternal sleep that knows no waking, when, on every Memorial day, our nation pauses from iis usual vocations to bestrew with flowers the narrow cells in which they wait the revellle of the resurrection morn. thelr deeds then will still be recounted and rehearsed in song and poetry and oratory, and the hearts of their weeping countrymen will swell with pride and gratitude for what they did when, but for them, our nation would have split in twain, But let us not, in anticipation of a sad future, forget the pleasures of a happy pres- ent, Let us rather rejolce that time has dealt gently as it has with those of them who still_are with us. Let us deck with flowers and blossoms and our country's glorious colors the living heroes who are with us sti us cheer them as they march our street! show them that our gratitude has not departed from us nor our ardor cooled from the heat and fervor that fllled all our breasts when Sumter fell and all our eyes were turned toward Appomattox. In common with all patriotic Amerlcans, I would that I could call these gray-haired rades.”” That pleasure and honor “friends," n the name and of all our ef! “‘saviors of our common Country. THE MAYOR'S SUGGESTIONS. Eugene E. Schmitz, Mayor of San Fran- cisco, offers these suggestions: The great gathefing of the G. A. R. which is scheduled for this month is 'more repleta with sentiment than any similar reunion of recent years. Patriotlsm, loyalty, gratitude and respect combine to illuminate the pathway of. the illustrious defenders of ouf country and our flag, whose ranks are year by year becom- ing thinner and less numerous, but whose up- lifted arms and voices are r raised for the honor and glory of the Unlon which thelr valor has preserved for all posterity. ‘Some_thirty-eight vears have now rolled by since the last of their opponents laid down their arms in sorrow, in anger and in hatred, before the trilumphant standards of the Union generals. Time and the manly efforts of the he intervention of a war against our natfon’s foe, have assuaged these feelings, and to-day those who wore the blue and those who were garbed in gray are a reunited brother- hood, jointly true to American principles and Jjointiy loyal to the nation's flag. Qur whole people, therefore, await with friendly impatience and devotion the coming of thege grizzied heroes, and San Francisco with open hands prepares for them a warm and loving welcome, & Wi which, for our elder cftizens, 1s a recalling of events important. tra- gic, terrible, and for our younger peopie an nspiration_to duty and patriotism. To this State and to this .city much of ma- terial advantage will acerue from the visit of these soldierly thousands. 'y represent the best judgment and - intelligefice of vast com- munities, and their reports of our golden land, ts resources, ence aracter here have always induced westward f;:mur:{lnn. and many of our visitors, their families and their friends, are likely to be- come a permanent and most desirable factor of our population. ex) The pal-m which hag come to these visi- tors in war .and in tl ng goars, nas siven them a standing and a posi- the soclal and financial lives of their 'etc-mm-.”vm lend weight to opinion s undoubtedly ‘veterans |- CUPY- POSITIONS OF PROMINENCE ON VARIOUS COMMITTEES WHICH ARE STRIVING TO MAKE UM PRECEDENTED SUCCESS OF COMING ENCAMPMENT. greater and more consequential than that of y like aggregation of Americans who might ake a similar trip to our coast. Incidentaily, having accumulated more or less of .this world's goods and having that knowl- | edge of the world which has shown to them that it is as blessed to give as to receive, our merchants, our.business men, our artisans and | wage earners generaily will feel the benefit of | their liberal and sensible expenditure. | And_their presence here, the entertainments and fetes organized in their behalf will bring vast multitudes to our city from surrounding citles, for pleasure and for participation. = All these will tarry here for the benefit of ou trade and the enjoyment of our people. The holding of this Grand Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, even from the most material standpoint, means much to San Francisco. I have mo doubt that sev- | eral million dollars will be left here as one of | the results of their visit. The people of San Francisco ows it to them- | selves, as well as to the men of the great | war, to extend the open handed hospitality for which we are famous, even beyond the meas ures of previous occasions of this character and to support and assist the earnest and hard .working local committees in charge, financially as well as morally. GENERAL SHAFTER SPEAKS. Major General William R. Shafter, U. 8. A., retired, who served wijh distinguished gallantry in the Civil War, subsequently gained renown for enterprise and success in several campaigns against hostile In- dians, and who added luster to the achlevements of the American army by his masterly management of the Santiago campaign of the Spanish-American war, is now commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of California and Nevada. Concerning the national en- campment he has this to say: Only a few. days hence and_ San Francisco will_have within its gates, as honored guests, the Grand Army of the Republic. It is honor that we may justly feel proud of to have the veterans, the savers and preservers of the Unlon, choose for their national reunion, twice in .the past seventeen years, the city which lies farthest from the center of population; that these old and brave warriors should de- sire to return to the very end of the continent | because of the cordial reception tendered and the hospitality lavished upon them seventeen years ago. They have evidently not forgotten California’s “genercus hospitality, typical of the true Western host. While these vetsrans come to us of their own choice they have been Invited to visit us and share with us, | with thefr wives, their children, and their friends, for a time at least, the delightful cli- mate of California. We sent a delegation to he National Encampment, clothed with authority- from the people by the Governor of California, the Mayor of San Francisco and of all the large communities of the State, asking the veterans to come to us, promising them a more cordial welcome, more generous hospi- tality, than any other city in the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific They accepted our invitation, turned their backs upon all com- petitors and chose San Francisco, thousands of ‘miles from their homes, . In prefersnce. While it is true that those of them who were our guests seventeen years ago did not need urging to come again, they should be accorded as cordial a reception upon their second visit when they return to us with locks whitened and made venerable with vears. They have sung the praises of California abroad In the land during all tfese years and chanted the gospel of its hospitality among their comrades at every encampment. The host of others, those who come among us for the first time, lured by the tales of our generosity, by the promises made through our delegation, they shall not, must not, be disappointed. Those brave hearts must be accorded a_welcome by the whole people of California befitting the | occasion. The men Who nearly forty years ago answered the nation's call to arms, who for the time forsook hearth and home, family and all else and rallied around their country's flag to save and preserve this glorious Unlon, will come among us our guests. They have journeyed thousands of miles across the con- tinent to again be united within our gates. They will parade our streets, bearing aloft their tattered emblems of the loftiest freedom known to the nations of the earth, their path lighted by a halo of glory, unequaled in his- San Francisco has planned a reception to the veterans worthy of their visitors, Its plans bave been heralded all over the East. has had so much publicity throughout the country as approaching encampment. No event since 1886 has been locked forward to by the Grand Army of the Republic with so much pleasurable anticipation. The committee has worked {faithfully for months to carry out the vlans outlined to make this the most brilliant encampment in the annals of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic. The veterans residing in Callfornia have given of their time. means and to the visitors with the most hearty greeting and pay them every possible attention. San Francisco will certainly on this acca- sion make every effort to sustain the fair fame of California and San Francisco for hospital- ity, whick has become world-famous. San will surely not lag in patriotism on occasion; nor will' its le be less generous In showing apvreciation of tha hanar | as Post, G tain the work of the committee and give the vetérans and their families such a rousing wel- come that it shall linger ia the memory of these brave and noble defenders of the na- tion's honor for all time, for this will be the last National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic by the Golden Gate. A WORKER'S WORDS. George Stone, adjutant general of Call- fornia and a comrade of George H> Thom- A. R.. San Francisco, when elected to the position of chairman of the, general committee of management was asked to perform the most important duty devolving upon any individual in connection with encampment prepara- tions. He was assigned to the arduous task on account of his well-known energy nd executive capacity. Many things have happened since the organization of the executive committee and the sub-commit. tees to test the power of his endurance and the limit of human patience. From the outset he has worked manfully and cheerfully to accomplish success for the encampment enterprise. He speaks in this matther of the great reunion: The circumstances and conditions attending the Thirty-seventh National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republfe in San Franciseo ought to form Interesting matter for reflection for all of the people of California. Most of our grown-up people still remember the first national Grand Army gathering at the Goldem Gate, seventeen years ago. That was not a long time ago in the experience of the elders, yet it has marked radical differences in the po- iftical and economic evolution of the country which have not failed to set their impress upon every part of it, and particularly upon our own section. Of one change, botl local and general in character, no thinking man can be uncon- scious, and that is the new Impetus given to the sentiment of patriotism and veneration of our flag and pride in the strength and pawer of the repubiic which, in the intervening years, has arisen from the condition of & political community, in a measure isolated from other great nations, who were indifferent to our am- bitions and progress, to that of a first-class world-power, whose wishes and interests must be counted with and whose friendship must be zealously cultivated by every civilized govern- ment of the world. Since the Grand Army visited us before many great things have happened—so many that it puzzles one to recall them from personal mem- ory, but, in the present conmection easily the first thought that occurs-is the sad one that nearly all of the grand old commanders in the War of the Rebeilion on the Union side who were here, and with us drank from the same loving cup, seventeen years ago, have been re- lieved from earthly command and duty with the colors and comrades here, and await the re- assembling of the corps in the Great Beyond. When the old soldiers were here in 1896, the assassination of Comrade Garfleld was still & fresh and bitter memory. Fresher,” and stiil more bitter to-day, s the recollection that the | brave, good and noble comrade, Willlam Kinley, who led the American people through the war with Spain and out of the bondage of provincialism into the glory of their present natural and international pesition, only a little while ago died by the hand of a murderer. It should be a matter for self-gratulation and pride among Californians that San Fran- cisco twice has been chosen as the meeting place for national encampments. When it is remembered that fully three-fourths of 'the membership of the Grand Army. on an average, reside 2500 miles away from the Golden Gate, it is, 1 am sure, a deserved compliment to our city ‘and its people that the members of the or- ganization should face the discomforts and ex- pense of a transcontinental journey in order to be our zuests. It is pleasant to know that the second visit is the direct result of the pleasure and interest derived from the first by the thousands of com- rades and friends who came hither in 1886. Our people then arose to the occasion, and the good time which marked that motable national en- campment was the camp- talk of every Grand Army post in the country for years aft- erward. More should be the direct consequence of the.present one. The old veterans who have been here before will bring the children, who bave in the meantime grown up, and a new generation will carry back stories of the soil, climate, productions, commerce and the hospi- tality of our favored section, which will spread over the face of the territory from to Florida and from Minnesota to the Gulf. The occasion will also produce a fresh crop of tourist visitors, who everywhere will add to the story of our advantages and prosperity—a prosperity based upon a development hardly be- gun in comparison with our resources and pos- sibil‘ties. From this viewpoint the coming encampment is likely to be remerabered as one of the most fruitful promotion enterprises of the times. It ‘will prove. also, a valuable object-lesson to the rising generation in our midst. To children of a few vears of age seventeen years ago, DOW grown to men and women. the sight and socfety of the survivors of the gizantic national strug- gle which took place before they were borm, should have the effect of increasing their love make of them better y for opportunit: the children of to-day, for it is improbable that Continued on Page 38, Column 4