The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 1 1903. CROWDED SPECIAL TRAINS ARRIVE WOITH THRONGS OF UISITORS [ s e o AND ANIMATED J_CENEJ DIs ‘TURB;UJ'UAL QUIET OF SABBATH Deterans Reach Their Destination and Are De lighted With - San Francisco. Energetic Committees Direct the Disitors to Places of Residence. OST every hour yesterday | trains bearing members of the | Grand Army of the Republic and their families rolled into the | Oakland pler. Wearled n the cars, but eager n, the veterans rry boets and en- | bay. The weather | tors were charmed | of the city and its | soldiers were laden On their breasts | of honor and printed | what State they the wi view oir first local posts met the » sides of the bay and their hotels and ablding g & committee dey. The visi- nd directed r in Oakland and the Union Depot eyves were comrades met BOATS CROWDED. crowded to FERRY- s w heir man cars a good DELEGATION M IOWA. eted on their poral wards C. J. Smit Veterans of n of ention are ce for com- re unpledged W. Kenney power of th George been very busy looking after his large contingent. Among othere with him are A. M. Camp 4 E ( Wilson quartermaster of of Oth in the ADVERTISEMENTS. Skin Diseases’ of the most stubborn and chrenic kind are promptly relieved and eventually cured by the use of Hydrozone - | | This powerful germicide is ab- solutely harmless. It has cured cases pronounced incurable and will cure you. By killing the germs that cause skin diseases, it allows Nature to restore a health | skin. Used and endorsed by lead- | ing physicians everywhere for the | ast 12 years. Booklet on request. Sold by leading druggists or trial § | tle sent prepaid on receipt of 25 cents. | | Your grocer is glad to return if Schilling’s Best not good-enough for you. your money It isn’t bis money, - party are W. M. Plerce, Hon. J. K. Dar- ling and E. 8. Johnson. VERMONTERS ELATED. The Vermonters are elated over the compliment they recelved from the Pull- —a s at Ogden. The latter said the Vermonters had the finest train that had passed through there so far. Mrs. J. M. Hollister, a lady very promi- nent in Grand Army circles in New Eng- land, is also in the party. More than 100 members of Memorial Post No. 141, Department of Ohio, also ar- rived Another section containing mem- bers of the Ohio delegation reached here late last ght. J. L. Smith is commander of the post The delegation which ar- rived in the afternoon was selected to act the dephrtment commander, but their train was cut in two and they were sent ahead. Commander Smith general passenger agent of the Lake Shore road at Cleveland, Ohio ADMIRE DECORATIONS. For the next twenty-four hours every train that enters this city either at Oak- land or at Third and Townsend streets will contain veterans who are coming to this encampment. The rallroad company the as escorts tc has made every arrangement for ained ten cars, | ®P€ dy transit of the soldlers and it is ex- e than 200 ‘.,\(: pected that every special now on the road came on t will be here not later than this evening. Many favorable comments have been Vermont contin- | heard on the streets from the visitors esented by | Although the decorations in their honor have not been completed they express the opinfon that they have never seen any- thing to equal them. They are awaiting eagerly for the night illumination. thousands of globes glittering in the s light had attracted their attention and they marvel at the number used to illu- minate the streets. - PENSIONS WILL DIMINISH. Commissioner Ware Gives Interest- ing Statistics of His Bureau. United States Commissioner of Pensions E. F. Ware arrived here vesterday from Washington, D. C., and Is registered at the California. He is here to attend the National Encampment and will no doubt be a prominent figure at the many meet- ings. In an interview last evening he gave many interesting statistics of the Pension Bureau. “The United States Pension Bureau han- dled more business last year than any- thing approaching it in the last ten vears,” he sald. ‘““We handled 160,000 old cases and the: are still 304,000 pensions that have to be decided upon. In the Pension Bureau there is a clerical force of 1500, and the field force, that is, doc- tors and others all over the United States, makes 5000 more. “Ten years ago there were 1,000,000 pen- sioners. There are 3000 less now. I think from this time on the pensioners will gradually diminish. The death rate is 42.2 per year to the 1000, The amount now paid annually in pensions and in run- ning the office is $142,000,000. There are | eighteen different agents who distribute subageats throughout the United States. Two agencies in the East alone pay out to 100,000 pensioners. On the Pacific Coast the pension office is located in S8an Fran- cisco, and at the suggestion of Agent Fuller the pensioners of Hawali, the Phil- ippines and Alaska are paid In the San Francisco office. S “We have 9200 pensioners as a result of | the Spanish War and 3662 widows to care for. There were in all 75,000 applications from former soldiers and widows and there are now 3000 cases pending.” —_————— Pope Receives Archbishop Harty. ROME, Aug. 16.—The Pope at § o'clock to-day received at a private audience in his apartment Archbishop Harty (who yes- terday was consecrated Archbishop of Manila), with whom he spoke at length about the situation in the Philippines. The Pope said the efforts of the clergy | toward the pacification of the archipelago and the triumph of Catholicism would ways receive the warmest support at Rome. Archbishop Harty then presented to the Pontiff his secretary, Monsignor Fowler, and Father Donohue of Alabama. Though Once Foes, They Now Meet | as Friends. | OHN W. HEATER, sah, | Thirty-first Virginia, Pe- | gram's Brigade, Early's Di- vision, Jackson's Corps, and a good one, sah. Line up| there on the left. Now, what shall it be? | Whisky? Good! Here's to you all, sah.” A gurgling sound, followed by a smack- ing of lips, and then fourteen men in blue, preceded by a stalwart man in gray, | filed out of the liquoring place and reas- | semblied around the veteran of Pegram's | Brigade. | It was an eventful day for John W. Heater, a typleal Southern soldier, dressed | in the Confederate gray, halling from the State of Washington, and eagerly search- ing for some of the men who, in those trying days, when lead poured into the! ranks /of the opposing forces and death reaped an hourly harvest, kept him on the move on the fleld of Gettysburg. Heater has come to San Francisco to witness the reunion of veterans. He has forgotten the prejudices of the past and yesterday he mingled with the men of the Northern armies and received from them | assurance of good will, which he returned | in kind, and over the bar of the Grand Hotel united with his former foes in drinking to the health of a great and | glorious nation. WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE. In his familiar gray uniform, fresh from a tallor's shop, a black siouch hat with gllded tassel and bearing a ribbon upon which is inscribed in gold letters: “3lst Virginia, Pegram's Brigade, Early's DI- | vision, Jackson's Corps, '61-'64,”" the tall figure of Heater was most conspicuous around the gathering places of the Union veterans yesterday, and more so because the latter, recognizing in the visitor a | “Johnnie,” from south of the line, eagerly surrounded him and keot him in tow un- €€ B til the sun had disappeared beyond the horizon. Yes, sah,” remarked the man from the orthwest, in accents pronouncedly Southern, to a Call reporter, “I was on the other side and had a 1ot of fighting to do. I live 'way up in Washington and when I heard that the Grand Army chaps were going to meet here, I quietly said to myself that I'd go down to 'Frisco and see some of the fellbws that were plump- ing lead at us back In the sixties. I put on the gray clothes because 1 wanted to get acquainted, and I knew that when these chaps saw me coming they would be pretty nigh keen enough t6 learn who I was, and we would have a good time making up over our old troubles. OLD SORES HAVE HEALED. “The war's over and we are all broth- ers and sisters again, ain't we, com- rades?'—and a chorus of voices respond- ed with “You bet.” “See that fellow over there?”’ suddenly exclaimed Heater, pointing to a Union veteran wearing a vellow badge of In- diana’s delegation, “I'll be d—d if he ain't one of the fellows who captured me and a lot of our brigade in '6l. It was the First Indiana Cavalry. Say, old man, I spent an hour blazing away at your crowd, and if half of the bullets my gun | belched that day reached the mark I must " added Heater, rather thought- ‘T guess they didn’t. At any rate, I hope they didn't. Wal, sah, on May 20, ‘64, the KEighteenth Pennsylvania In- fantry got me again, and do you know, they came nigh keeping me fo’ good, sah!" —and as Heater's mind reverted to the in- cident of forty years ago he glanced slowly around him, scanning the features of his newly made gray-haired acquaint- ances and added: ‘“‘Well, boys, we're all getting pretty close to the grave. It's too bad we ever fought as flercely as we did, ENCAMPMENT’S FIRST DAY WILL KEEP DETERANS BUSY Morning. Reception of visitors by the several committees; assignments to hotels, boarding-houses and furnishing information as to various headquarters. Opening of all national headquarters and those of State depart- ments. Registration of comrades at va: ous State and post headquarters. Opening of headquarters of Woman’s Relief Corps and Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Registration of ‘members. Afternoon and Evening. Grand Army, the Woman’s Relief Receptions at national and State department headquarters of the Corps, the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Army Nurses of the Civil War, Union Ex- Prisoners of War, Association of Army Musicians, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Veterans of the Spanish-American War, Mexican Veterans, Naval Veterans and Sons of Veterans. Evening receptions by Lincoln George H. Thomas Post No. 2z at No. 34 at Alcazar building. Post No. 1 at Pioneer Hall; Steinway Hall, and Garfield Post Electrical illuminations of Market, street, public buildings and Gothic arches at Third and Market streets. 5 Wy * = SCENES INCIDENT TO AR- RIVAL OF CITY'S WELCOME GUESTS. & @ A mighty good lot of chaps died on those rough fields of battle. God bless them all, and may we here thank God that we're good friends again.” HERO OF THE DAY. “Amen,” solemnly shouted a veteran from Maryland, and the hero of Jack- son’s Corps again marshalled his forces before the bar for another drink. On every side Heater was the recipient of cordial greetings and frequently he would meet an old soldier who would re- call some incident of the war that would precipitate an argument as to the merits of the ppposing armies, but it was a good- natured controversy and invariably ended in what will undoubtedly prove undying friendship between John Heater and the man with whom he engaged In counter talk of the war long passed. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, while Heater, standing In the midst of a gath- ering of old soldiers on New Montgomery street, was describing some of the inci- dents of the battle of Gettysburg, and was telling of his capture, he was sud- denly grabbed by two Union men, who shouted, “Throw down your gun, Johnnie, you're taken!"—dnd they rushed the tall man from Washington out Into the street. One of the captors was R. M. Green of this city, formerly of the Eighty-fifth Ohlo, the other Dr. R. M. Stewart of the Fifty-fiftth Ohlo, a resident of Kansas City. “Well, by gosh! If this don't beat the drum. It was the boys of the Eighty- fifth and the Fifty-fifth that peppered us 80 hard just before Gettysburg. Golly! but I'm pleased to meet you,” and again the Heater brigade was deployed along the bar. John Heater was the hero of the day. —————— FIND THAT CHEWING GUM SOOTHES INSANE PATIENTS Minnesota Asylum Contracts for Large Supply for Use in State Institutions. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 16.—The con- tracts awarded by the State board of con- trol for supplies for the ensuing quarter include a considerable quantity of chew- ing gum to pacify the patients of the in- sane asylums and the State hospitals. The observation of the board is that chewing gum often has an excellent ef- fect on the patients and that it enables the inmates to concentrate their minds on varfous forms of work and soothes them during violent spells. _On being given gum some of the violent patients have been known to collect their wits and diligently pursue a task. Doorkeeper at the White House Is Here. SRR S MONG the arrivals to the Grand Army Encampment is Captain Charles D. A. Loeffler, U. 8. A, retired. He is a national charac- ter, known from one end of the continent to the other, as for the last thirty-four years he has held the respon- sible position of door keeper for the Presi- dent of the United States at the White House at Washington. Captain Loeffler was appointed as door Kkeeper at the White House in March, 1363, a few days his oath of office. ago Captain Loeffler reached the age of sixty-four vears and was forced to retire from the active army list, and a special act was passed in Congress to make pro- vision for the captain and his office as door keeper, and a provision reads that he shall hold office until relieved by the President. In discussing his position yesterday at the Occidental, Captain Loeffler said that he had charge of all callers at the White House and that it was his duty to see that they recelve proper attention. He re- marked that once in a while a religious crank or a man with imaginary wrongs would call at the White House and ask to see the President, but that they came few and far between and were of little bother. In answer to the question as to which of the Presidents he liked best, the cap- tain said that he had no preference. He spoke cordially of all the Presidents and said that they had all treated him with kindness. Captain Loeffler entered the army three years before the Civil War. He was at- tached to the Second Cavalry Regiment and first saw service In Texas. At the breaking out of the war he was detailed at headquarters at Wasbington and with the rank of captain his duty was the bearing | of important dispatches from the front to | Washington. The work was irksome and dangerous and he asked his regimental commander to allow him to return to his regiment and fight at the front. The request was refused, however, as Adjutant General John Seth stated that he was too valuable a man and could not be relleved. Captain Loeffler Is accompanied by his wife and daughter. This is their first trip to California and they are delighted with the State. Yesterday afternoon they paid a visit to Goiden Gate Park and the | Cuft House. WEARS AN HONOR MEDAL. First Volunteer of Civil War Is Here. Among the advance guard of the Army | of the Potomac contingent, which arrived early yesterday from Washington, was a no less notabley person than Charles F. | Rand, who proudly bears the distinction, | fully attested by Congressional inquiry, | of being the first man to enlist in the War | of the Rebellion. It was on the afternoon of April 15, 161, | that young Rand, then an 18-year-old | clerk, serving at Batavia, N. Y., attended a meeting at the old Eagle Tavern, where | there was a heated discussion in progress over the possibilities of war. In the midst of the debate a townsman suddenly | rushed into the tavern waving a telegram | over his head and shouting: “The Presi- dent has called for 75,000 men to go for- | ward and fight!” Henry 1. Glowacki, who was presiding at the meeting, took the message, and hurriedly reading it, exclaimed to his anxious fellow-citizens: *“We have to raise our quota to fill this call. Who will be the first man to enlist?” “I will,” came a volce from the center of the tavern, and, turning their heads, the assembled people saw young Rand rise from his seat and proceed toward the speaker’s chair, On a quickly improvised roll Rand hur- riedly affixed his signature and with the scratching of his pen he gave to the Twelfth New York Volunteers their first recruit and to New York State the dis- tinction of furnishing the first yolunteer for the Civil War. Batavia was not slow in raising its quota, and not long after Rand was n the midst of battle. Later, for a daring act, Congress awarded him a medal of honor, the first ever presented by Con- gress for distinguished gallantry on the battlefield. In the National Cemetery at Arlington there is a burial plat presented to Rand by the Government, and although it will probably not be occupied for several years at least, it will eventually mark the last resting place of a man who, by his readi- ness to serve his country in time of trou- ble, lent inspiration to a cause that must ever remain illustrious in human history. e NOTICE Holders of G. A R. Tickets. ‘Before returning home you will be interested in seeing Sausalito, Mill Valley or San Rafael, the beautiful suburban home district: 14 trains daily via North Shore R. R. (Sausaiito ferry). Yare, round trip, 25¢ to Svc. Mount Tamalpais (scenie rajlway_trip), $1 90. Ticket office, 626 Market vtm!. S. F. (Phone Private Exc. 166.)* —_—e————— All the blood in a man's body passes through his heart once in every two min- utes. after President Grant took | Two years and a half | Ali Headquarters to Open This . Morning. Will Dispense Good Cheer to Disitors. P S HIS morning the various national and State department headquar- ters of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman's Rellef Corps, the Ladies of the Republic and affillated bodles will open and during the entire encampment the doors will not be closed. Receptions will be given daily, after- noon and evening and all visitors will be welcomed. The ladies of the local organ- izations have decorated the various head- quarters and many of the headquarters will dispense good cheer and baskets of California fruits and flowers. ‘With but a few exceptions, the follow- ing is the complete list of the head- quarters: NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. Grand Army of the Republic.....Palace Hotel Woman's Rellet Corps............Palace Hotel Ladies of the G. A. R............Palace Hotel Army Nurses of the Clvil War.Golden Gats Hall Union ex-Prisoners of War " ..B. B. Hall, 121 Eddy st. Assoclation of Army Musicians e {4onvadsshnsicaniin Armory, 815 Ellls st. Military Order of the Loyal Legion SR sets 5 Occidental Hotel Soclety of California Volunteers. ...320 Post st. Veterans of the Spanish War. . .-.Armory, 815 Elifs st. Mexican Veterans. . ..City Hall NAVEl VEterans. ...........seenns B. B. Hall Sons of Veterans Lick House DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS. Alabama . 5 ......Palace Hotsl Arizona Washington Hall, 320 Post st Arkansas veeee-ve..Grand Hotel California and Nevada Palace Hotel Colorado and Wyoming. .. Windsor Connecticut e Palace Hotel Florida reevien..Palace Hotel Georgia New Western Hotel Idaho Grand Hotel Illinols .. Palace Hotel Indiana _Palace Hotel | lowa ... .. Palace Hotel Kansas . 'Palace Hotel Maine Palace Hotel Maryland e Savoy Massachusetts Palace Michigan Grand Minnesota .. Lick Grand ..Lick House Palace Hotel Palace Hotel | Palace Hotel Palace Hotel North Dakota Palace Hotel CRI® }.zs Palace Hotel | Oklahoma Langham Hotel Oregon _.Occidental Hotel Pennsylvania Palace Hotel Potomac % Palace Hotel Rhode Island . St. Nicholas Hotel South Dakota. Palace Hotel Tennessee . Palace Hotel | Texas Grand Hotei Utah Grand Hotel Vermont siss Palace Hotel Washington and Alaska ..Grana Hotel West Virginia Palace Hotel Wisconsin ..Grand Hotel s VARIOUS HEADQUARTERS. Executive Committes Grand Hotsl Reception Committee ace Hotel Press Committee 4 Grand Hotel Registration and Information, G. A. R.. Postoffice and Medical Department 3 19 New Montgomery st. W. R. C.. Dept. of Californla....Palace Hotel Ladies of the G. A. R., Dept. of California Palace Hotel Palace Hotsl Grand Hotel R W. R. C., Dept. of Massachusetts. Ransom Post, Dept. of Missouri Northern California Brigade, Halleck Post No. 19, 96, J. F. Miller Post No. 110, y Post No. 184, E. F. Winslow Post Ne 9, Corinth Post No. 80. Lick House Sacramento Association, G. A. R.—Belmont Post No. 101, Sumner Post No. 3, Warren Post No. 54, Colonel E. D. Baker Post No. 71, Placerville Post No. 108.0ccidental Hotel Southern California G A. R.—Bartlett Lo gan Post No. 6, Stanton Post 5 Sedgwick Post No. 17, Riverside Post No. SR i s California Hotel Lincoin Post ) Atlanta Post 95 Ploneer Hall Garfleld Post N 34 Aloazar butlding George H. Thomas Post No. 2..Steinway Hall Fifth New York Cavalry Assoctation 320 Pioneer Hall Post st. Berdan's Sharpshooters. 5. Alblon Hall, Alcazar building First Missouri Artillery.... byl Alblon Hall, Alcazar butiding Second United States Artille: Alblon Hall, Alcazar building Ninth Ohio Cavalry Y. M. C. A. Hall United States Matmed Soldiers Temple Hall, 117 Turk st. B. B. Hall, 121 Eddy st. —_——— ' Comrades Meet After Many Years. A pathetic incident occurred yesterday when Colonel J. C. Currier met for the first time, after thirty-nine years, the man who carried him off the battlefleld of Poplar Spring Church near Petersburg, Va.' Colonel Currier sauntered into the headquarters ‘of the department of New Hampshire, Palace Hotel. A visiting vet- eran was seated, registering his name. While registering he asked the comrades near him whether any of them knew Cap- tain Currfer of the Eleventh New Hamp- shire Volunteers, as he had been trying to locate him At that moment Colonel crossing the room toward the speaker and heard him say: “I was with Cap- tain Currier at the battle of Poplar Spring Church, September 30, 1364, when he was shot, the bullet going through his face. I saw him fall and carried him off the battlefleld.” Colonel Currier promptly made himself known and the meeting that followed was very pathetic. The visitor who was looking for Colonel Currier is G. T. Ordway of Redlands, California, where he owns an orange grove and is one of the leading citizens of his com- munity. Currier was —_— FALL OF WATER IN KANSAS RIVER IS EXPECTED SOON KANSAS CITY, Auk. 16.—Notwithstand- ing the fact that the Kansas River at this point had risen a foot in the twen: four hours up to 2 o’clock this afternoo: when it became stationary, and that a further rise is expected to-morrow mno great damage is likely to result. West of here, at Lawrence and Topeka, the Kan- sas .River has risen slightly since last night and at Salina and Junction City its tributaries, the Smoky Hill and Republii- can rivers, are rising at a steady rate and sending their water this way. Most of this water will reach Kansas City within another twenty-four hours, but while a further two-foot rise is predicted, a fall from that time on is looked for. Traffic between the two Kansas Citys is still suspended, as the temporary pile | bridges are unsafe. A sand scow broke away to-day, striking the James-street bridge, the principal outlet between the two cities, knocking several piles loose and rendering that structure unsafe for street cars or vehicles. At the Belt Line bridge the current was so swift that it became necessary to remove a section of the bridge to let the great mass of drift- wood through. Fearing a temporary abandonment of some of the railroad yards in the lower part of the bottom: the Swift Packing Company moved eral tons of provisions to this side of ti river to-day. The water must reach teen feet before it can reach the plant or the business houses, however, and this is not at all likely.