The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1903, Page 2

OXL. & Continued from Page 1 , Column 7. THEY FIGHT FOR LIFE. For nearly twenty . buffeted he waves, angry end of their sufferings. ing down int balf-of the littie band cast loose from-the rapidly shuking hours the four sur- their des dropping off one by one, dying ure and exhaustion and welcom- All that long night the rough waters | lives, catching and pull- the green depths more than First to succumb me we were off Umpqua River. When I went below I made my own reckonings and determined we were between Umpqua River and Cape Blanco. | "“I was in my berth asleep when I felt a jar. It did not feel as if we had struck, but more as if the engines had stopped suddenly. I jumped to my feet and looked at my watch. It was 4:%. I got on deck as quickly as I could and met the first mate on the bridge. He told me we were on a reef. The captain came on deck and ordered the lifeboats manned. T took charge of lowering the starboard boat and the captain took the port boat. no excitement or draught was. thirteen feet forward and sixteen and a half feet aft. This is a foot less than she drew on the last outbound trjp. I inspected the véssel and her cargo was carefully stowed. There was not the least bit of a list either to starboard or port, and the cargo could not possibly have shifted so that the vessel was down at the bow when she sank. Brown & McCabe, the stevedoring firm which loaded the South Portland, are em- phatic in declaring that the cargo was properly stowed and could not possibly have shifted unless the vessel got into hard collision with some other craft, “The story that she was overloaded is see a star all night and any moment we expected to be pitched on the rocks. Just at the break of day we saw two Islands €nd we felt confident that the shore was not far mway. Had it mot-been for the captain and chief officer not one of us ‘would have been saved, as they were cool and deliberate throughout it all..”” The tug Columbia has returned here after being outside thirty-six hours in a thick fog and rough sea, searching for the life raft from the steamer South Port- land. Captain James Magee said that he had all he could do to look after his own vessel in this weather among the rocks where the South Portland sank. The life- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY,. OCTOBER 22, 1903. Y FOUR OUT OF TWELDE ON MISSING ' RAFT LIVE TO TELL OF TERRIBLE TRIP | ADVERTISEMENTS. A PROMINENT CHURCH WORKER SAYS SHE OWES HER LIFE TO PE-RU-NA. HER GREAT FORTUNE. A Woman Ssvo-d_i?rom Life-Long Misery and Made Happy and Useful. A woman confined to the house f& several years with a chronic female de- rangement had finally given up hope of | being cured. She had tried physiclan after physician, Abe H ox. & waiter, who stood | There was absolutely o 3 1 L Soe hours of the buffeting, and dled | Qisorder among the crew or Dessengess: | foofish,* Eaid MeCabe, The Lloyd rating | Saving crew is outside at Cape Arago, but and femedy 'after remedy, without any » his cold fingers clasping the edge of | ‘“Four-people piled into the boat I was | of the vessel at 58 tons net carrying ca- | Uneble to reach ‘the wreck .in the foggy permanent improvement. e .hatch. His boly was tossed Sver- | launching and it capsized, throwing them | pacity is, according to all who know the | Weather. The telephone line went down Her treatment had cost her husband, the raft into the water. All of them were drowned. | ship, an error. to Port Orford, eutting off communication who was a poor man, hundreds of dollars. s One of tHe davit ropes broke and the| “The lost vessel was a big carrier and | With that point at 4:50 this afternoon. They had been obliged to deny them- ugh the salt and spray washing ove: Andther passenger, who may hav: » Paul Rainmuth g hand of death. er the messboy, Manuel | was discovered dead, and | followed the beck- | Géorge Jackson, boat drifted away. The captain got into he captain, regained their places. ‘The captain and those in the boat rowed away from the ship, leaving us all behind. had a capacity almost equal to that of than 1200 tons of cargo. All of the cargo carried by the steamer was shipped from this port and the aggregate tonnage was Communication will probably be opened in 'ONCE WAS HELD AS FILIBUSTER || selves many comforts of life in order to of the | the Columbla of the Oregon Railroad and | the morning. - was consigned to the waves. | the port boat with about twelve iy - get money enough to pay the physicians. e e e Uaaged 0| crew and some passengers. This aiso| Navigation fleet.” said one prominent T, | e s nad beceme Weak: nervous B e D Tway Bis life | capsized, but they succeeded in Tighting | stevedore, and he added that the South | SOUTH PORTLAND | and wretched, and scarcely able to keep it and seven of the occupants, including | Portland seldom left this port with less e L Tt Dilbite were | growing up neglected and ragged, be- cause of a went of a mother's care. Her husband was becoming discouraged and e e , { 1086.--OF this, 500 t hy O o e Thit B oowisor| - (TWINS. RSN K Shus 1. tous batiey. This was the broken down with overwork. sit uprigh ‘he raft and the four sur-| “The first mate took command sal gave cargo the South Portland has EW YORK, Oct. 21.—Known as the Plecdkh:: ::“:n:npn:::no:ah’giyc-or;’emr‘::?; re toc ch ex e - o E i 0 I 3 x n e vors were too much exhausted to sup-| orders to start the engines, hoping jed for a long time. On the trip prior Caroline Miller, the steamer f;e news that Dr. Hartman would treat As € four on the heads. the v had no_water. st off the body of the dead ch man died his| were rescued they were raft without the water hours of their helpless | When they | f the satlors found in the pocket able to beach the ship, which was sinking from the ecrew and passengers to ocom- struct a raft to hold those who would be unable to embark on the life raft. We tore down two strongbacks and nailed hatches across these. I had intended to nall hatches on both sides of the strong- backs, which would have made a much to the one when she went on the rocks - ASTOWAWAY ORTLAND, Or., Oct. 21.—Although the South Portland was licensed to carry only twelve passengers she P South Portland, just wrecked on contrabrand, consisting of munitions of by Joaquin Crespo. Venezuela insisted that Francisco Gon- zales, as agent for Crespo, shipped the war materials, but the Government had to recede from its position, and in April, war for insurgents in Venezuela, headed | The Minister from | - such cases free of charge by letter. She the waves in order | fast. I measured the water in the bilge ) the vessel had a cargo of 1120 tons. éan f :‘»: emn Oxrmi and found four feet right after the crash. | - the Paclfic Coast, was seized eleven years immediately wrote the doctor describing night the survivors stood | We tried for fifteen minutes to get the ag0 by the Federal authorities in this her case, and giving him all her symip- thelr waists, As each | ship under way, but were unmuccesstul WILSON IS5 SAI. port on suspicion of being a filibuster. L toms. o & Sttas AT Bov peared over the side the | The first mate started to launch the life She, was. boarded on the.strength of & e She soon received a letter telllng he in the water and when | raft while I got what assistance I could TO HAUVE BEEN statement that the cargo she carried whs e exactly what to do, and what mgdi- : cines and appliances to get. She began | the treatment (the principal remedy be- | ing Peruna) at once, and in a few weeks she was well and strong agalin, able to do her own work. This offer of free home treatment to women is still open to ail who may need the _services of this eminent physiclan. f his ja Lmd three apples. These were: more seaworthy raft, but the first m’x':a had fourteen on board her at the time of | oo, gt e B gy fendered selged divided as evenly as possible and | called to me from the water where he | the wreck. San Francisco advices state ¥ 1 tment will agerly . devor - inst th All letters applying for treatme: ;vd(x!; Iy devoured 'by the four famished | was ‘;,’ hur‘ry ?n: embark as the ship| ip.¢ she carried elghteen, but this is ::‘:Mnm‘ t;e(::fi:d States for illegally be promptly answered and be held T long night, uniit by a single star| Tograbout 10 slRk ched the raft the | }tively denied by Gemeral Agent P. F.| Captain John O'Brien, known as “Dy- strictly confidential. = or yay of light, came to an end at lm{ carpenter, steward and a seaman were | Dufion. namite,” who achieved considerable fame rhrt’!{ss Annile cmmfl' :’o!s‘tdl’;:; e(g;: and dawn broke. The gaunt wayfarers| inrown into the sea by its capsizing. 1| Duflon says twelve passengers paid fare | 28 2 blockade runner in Cuban waters, s’ Brugthy O erites from 12 Eighth with death kept their haggard eyes| {hrew them a bench and a hatch and the | from Portland and none were taken on at commanded the Miller. avenue, New York: sirgined to the horizon, despairingly | carpenter and steward wers still floating | Astoria. In addition to the twelve regu- —_—— “Three moénths ago 1 was troubled u.,-‘r;.y for a flutter of Canvas OF & | ywhen we drifted away. We were caught | lar passengers Mrs. Fletcher Bent and LEJ'LIE F. BflKER; ith backach and troublesome puff of smoke to apprise them .that ‘on | ¢n the fog and soon lost sight of the ship | her son made the trip as the guests of o = i oo~ e; h ‘tmmh Slee: that broad expanse of restless Water|ang the other raft. 1 think the vessel | Captain McIntyre. = WHO IS RESCUED heaviness ahout ihé s k=S~ ere were ships and men and SUCCOr 0T | muet have gone down soon after we left | Willlam L. Wilson, reported as being ), brought me no rest, for it was a restless thelr misery. They had no means of | her as she was filling ‘est. We left no- | among the survivors, is not known to the sleep. The doctor sald my nervous sys- tem was out of order, but his preserip- kr wing their location nor how far they from the beaten track body on board. agent and is believed to have been a IS OF ALAMEDA tions didn’t seem to relleve me. I was might have drifted £ going commerce. The sun showed the fog at first and then, “The fog was so dense that we coculd | stowaway. see nothing about us and night came down | on a hopeless band. There were no rock- | P .oooe Mrs. Hattle La Fountain, Treas. Protected Home Circle and Cathollc Ladiés of Ohio, writes from Galion, O., as follows: told that Peruna was good for building up the nervous system. After using it for two months I know now that it is. LAMEDA, Oct. 21.—Leslie F. Baker, who reached shore safely in the 4 dispel head of the menaced mari- ng the tortures of CASTAWAYS SEE A SHIP. d about gained the zenith watchers made out about a westward the spars of some of ment i suspense t e shipwrecked n the raft. To the north the weary f Second Mate Ravens saw another ! sy With mute lips and staring the ched while a boat, with first officer of the g the oars, appeared he sea and headed was only a few min- castaways were aboard crest tion re It eat and rink and & warm, dry ence in s the keen eye of Captain J. C something on the ocean t contalning men. ff shore and fifteen neo. Eariier in the sed a i, and these gave him the of disaster. From that officer on the bridge kept a ssible survivors, and € did everything in his stricken men who had ntly with geath and won. ked at 6:15 last y wharf his n the appear- ance of the rescued mate and saflors, who showed little traces of thelr terrible experience A BRAVE MAN’S STORY. Second Mate Ravens is an_intelligent seaman and he told a plamn, straightfor- ward and convincing story of the wreck and the incidents before and after the catastrop He said: “We entful voyage from Por to the time we struck off Cape Blanco, Monday morning the fog was thick, but we proceed on our way sual rate of speed was on the ’élock in the afterncon, when relieved by the first mate. The in came deck &nd took the log ook below. When he returned he told ng the mist, beat their excructating and four pair of | in | e and were given dry clothing, | which to forget their harrowing | the sleep of utter exhaus- n command of the Bpokane, that stward that looked as if | This hatch and a ets nor guns on board of the South Port- Jand with!'which we could notify those on shore, or on passing craft, of our dan- gerous situation and we had little expec- tation of being picked up in the darkncss. Ome of the walters dled from exposure after we had been afloat sbout two hours. | 8oon after another on the raft succumbed. Before morning five had gone overboard, four wretched castaways g0t | dead, there being no attempt made to '.AN and shouted “until their | keep their bodles because the raft was ed them. e ship passed on | terribly overweighted. and then was seen to stand HELP COMES AT LAST. “Time and again the raft capsized and urned over on us, byt we four managed to regain our frail hold on it each time. I think the raft turned turtle at least | twenty times during the night. There was not a heavy sea running or we should | all have been washed away. “When mornihg broke the fog WHfted | slowly and we kept a sharp logkout. Short- | 1y before noon we saw the spars of two hips to the west. We shouted until our | voices gave out and then we saw first one and then the other stand by. We ascer- tained afterward that they were the James Dollar and the Spokane. After a 1éng wait. ‘as it seemed to us, we saw a boat coming toward us and maybe you think we weren't glad. We were able to walk up the ladder of the Spokane with- out assistance. Captain Eagles treated us the best he could and gave us every- | thing we needed.” In answer to a question concerning Cap- tain MclIntyre, Ravens refused to be | drawn into a discussion regarding his superior oficer. He would say nothing further than that McIntyre left his ship before the Passengers or crew were pro- vided for and rowed away Into the fog. Ravens was the last man to leave the doomed vessel and he thinks that about an hour elapsed between the time the ship struck and the moment when the last raft was cut adrift. The three seamen rescued with Ravens told the same story as the mate. They were very happy at being saved after having lost all hope. They said that none of them could have survived the waves and exposure for more than a few hours longer. 3 | SHIPPERS SAY SOUTH PORTLAND ORTLAND, Or, Oct. 2L-W. H. Patterson, a Columbia River pllot, Astoria, said this morning: “The talk of the vessel being overload- NOT OUERLOADED p who took the South Portland to ed is all nonsense. When she left her 1l | ber to cut a big gash in my face. GIVES CAPTAIN GREAT CREDIT FOR COOLNESS ARSHFIELD, Or.,, Oct. 21.—The following is a statement made by W. L. Wilson Jr. of Balti- more, a passenger on the wrecked steam- er South Portland: | “At 4:30 p. m. on Monday I was getting shaved in my stateroom when I heard an | awful crash and jar which caused the bar- The chief officer then came and ordered every one on deck as they were about to lower the lifeboats. The captain and chief offi- cer then went below to see what damage had been done and found about four feet of water in the hold and the ship was filling very fast. “During that time I was in the captain's room trying to pacify two ladies who were very much perturbed. I returned to my | stateroom and procured three life preserv- ers for the ladies and one for myself, but weé had not the time to put them on. 'We got into lifeboat No. 1 with the captain in command. Just as the boat reached | the water she was capsized by a heavy | sea and in a moment we were all strug- gling in the water and had drifted a con- siderable distance from the ship on ac- count of the undercurrent. One of the ladies had her arms around my neck and together we sank twice. When we came to the surface the second time an oar hit me a terrible blow on the head. I man- aged to get hold of it and I also put the lady’s arm around it, but at this time she was about exhausted, as She was un- able to keep her mouth closed and swal- lowed considerable water. “The lifeboat then being righted, the cap- tain, a satlor and the chief cook and one other passenger were in it. I called to the captain that I had a lady with me and that I had an oar, and-he made an earnest effort to come to our rescue by using the rudder as a paddle. We were then about fifty yards from the lifeboat. ‘When I was about fifteen yards away the sailor threw me a rope and I pulled up into the boat. It was just before the rope was thrown to me that the lady sank. “The boat was filled with water and the captain made us all sit in the bottom so that we would keep it steady. The water was up to our mouths. Just then Leslle Baker and a 12-year-old boy named Guy Dent came floating over.to us on a mast that had been lost out of the lifeboat. We had an oar and the sailor made another of the mast and with the assistance of the oar I had saved we managed, after four- teen hours, to reach shore just half a mile south of Port' Orford. We could not POSTUM CEREAL. Nervous? Use POS . Cut off your ~offee '8 entirely Coffee . - and quickly get well. ; “There’s A Reason. Then you ‘ can do things. boat with the captain and others from the wrecked steamer, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Baker of 1207 Grand street, Alameda. He was on his way home from the Northwest, where he had spent three months with two companions on horse ranges in Oregon, Washington and Britlsh Columbia. Baker graduated with the June class of this year from the Alameda High School. While attend- ing that institution he was active in ath- letic affairs and was an expert baseball and football player and bicycle rider. His | parents believe that the outdoor life he lived while on the ranges well fitted him | to withstand the hardships that the sur- vivors of the lost vessel suffered. Young ker wrote to his mother from Portland Saturday, informing her of his intention to leave Sunday morning by the South Portland for San Francisco. Mrs. Baker received the communication yester- day afternoon and shortly thereafter was apprised by telephone of the disaster to the ship. It was not until late last even- ing that the members of the family ob- tained definite news of the safety of Les- | lle. To-day the young man telegraphed his parents that he would make his way | to Roseburg, Or.,, and from that point | start for home by rall. | St i COLLIDE IN THE HARBOR. Steamer Regulator Runs Into the Steamship Elba at Portland. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 2L.—While enter- ing the harbor last night, about 9 o'clock, the steamer Regulator ran into the steamship Elba, which was moored at the Oceanic docks. As a consequence t! Regulator is laid up for repairs. The ratling on her starboard side was broken, a bitt op ths hurricane deck was ofushed into- kindling wood, her roof was badly Gamaged and she susiained several other minor injuries. There were about sixty passengers on the steamer and had any of them been on deck they probably would have been Kkilled. A_heavy fog overhung the river last night and the steamer got out of her course. For an hour previous to the acel- dent she was creeping along at A snail's pace, feeling her way. This is one reason that the collision did not result more seriously. Had she been going at her ordinary pace her entire starboard side would have been carried away, and many of the passengers undoubtedly would ‘have Leen precipitated into the river, The damages will amount to about $500. - —— SECURES POWER SITE ON THE TULE RIVER San Joaquin. Electric Company Re- ceives Valuable Concession !‘x;om Government. FRESNO, Oct. 21.—A. G. Wishon, man- ager of the San Joaquin Electric Com- pany, of which H. E. Huntington is the head, received a telegram to-day inform- ing him that the application of the com- pany for a power site on Tule River had been approved by the Secretary of the Interior at Washington. The location is on Government land, hence it was neces- sary to obtain the permit. This news Is jmportant to the company, as it has had several applications befora the depart- ment for power sités in the mountains within the reserves, and this is the first one that has been granted. The others have not been rejected, but have not yet been acted upon. The company will begin at once the building of a power-house on this site, which s twenty miles east of Porterville, on_the forks of Middle Tule and East Tule rivers.. This is the highest head that has ever been undertaken, the pres- sure being 2258 feet, nearly half a mile. The first 2900 feet of the pipe line from the power-house will have a fail of 1500 perpendicular feet. The conduits will con- sist mostly of ditches, and will have three or four tunnels. The total length will be about 4000 feet, The plant will give about 6000 net horsepower, which/will be turned into the Hanford end of the plant to sup- ‘plement the present power, and will also cover. all of Tulare County, wherever there is demand for power, a part of Kings County and the southern end of Frespo County. ‘Wishon stated to-day that work would begin' on this mammoth project as soon as plans can be made and bids received. It is expected to<have it completed within a year. ————————— Large Yield of Citrus Fruit. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2L.—According to the best information obtainable on the subjeci, the citrus fruit crop, which will begin to flow eastward next month, will be thé largest ever grown in Southern California by 10,000 carloads. Tt is esti- mated that the entire crop will approxi- mate 35,000 carloads, and may exceed even that. —_——————— It is safer to vevisit the scene of crime than to hark back to the haunts of . < | short distance away. done for her when she suffered with i advised my friends to uset.”’ Secretary Woman's State Federa tion Says: “Pe-ru-na Does More Than Is Claimed for It.” Mrs. Julla M. Brown, secretary of the ‘Woman's State Federation of Californta, writes from 131% Fifth street, Los An- geles, Cal., as follows: “I have never knowh of any patent midicine which did what it professed to do except Peruna., — This remedy does much more than it claims, and while I have never advocated amny medicine, I "_lflur my first child was born | suffered for several months with bearing down pains, accompanied by dreadful headaches. | was afraid my health was rumned for /ife and felt very downcast about it. One day when a friend was wisiting me she told me of Peruna and what it had band procured a bottle the same evening and | began to take rt daily ac- cording to directions. Before the first bottle was used | was entirely well, and you certainly have one grateful woman’s blessing. 1have also irregular menstruation. My hus- MRS. HATTIE LA FOUNTAIN. B oo feel that it is but justice to speak a good weord for it, because I have found it to be such a rare exception, “l bhave known several women who were little better than physical wrecks, mothers who dragged out a miserable, painful existence, but were made well and strong through the use of Peruna. T have known of cases of chronic catarrh which were cured in a short time, when a dozen different remedies had been ex- perimented with and without good sults. ous ‘and worn ways found that the resuits were most satisfactor: JULIA M. BROWN. I want to say that it made a new woman of me. The torturing symptoms have all disappeared and I feel myself again. Peruna did me more good than all the other medicines I have taken.’ ANNIE HOBAN. Miss Mamie Powell, Lake Charles, Louisiana, writes: “] sincerely believe that Peruna is woman’s best friend, for it has certain been that to me. I had had headach backaches and other aches every mon i for a long time, but shortly affer I be- gan taking Peruna this was a thing of and 1 have good reason to be grateful. 1 take a_ bottle every spring and fall now, and that keeps my healtn pertect, and I certainly am more robust now than I have been before and am welghlng more. I do not think any one will be disappointed in the results obtained from the use of Peruna.” MISS MAMIE POWELL. It you do not derive prompt and satis- factory resuits from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratls. ¥ aadress Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarfum, Columbus, O. CORONER’S JURY Continued from Page 1, Column 6. boat to leave the ship. I do not know what the captain was doing at the time of the lowering of the boats. The first I saw of him was when I saw him in the small boat. I saw another boat adrift a ‘When we were in the davits there were five passengers in our boat. Our boat turned over when we struck the water, and when I came up I got into the boat again. The way the boat happened to get loose from the | steamer was by one rope which ran| through the tackle becoming loose on the other davit. I did not see any one with a life preserver on. I went to get one for 2 lady and could not find any.” ONE OF CREW i SAYS CAPTAIN LEFT HIS SHIP OHN M'KEOWN, one of the oilers, was In bed when the ship struck. He got down into the engine-room ten minutes later. He sald: “I was rescued on a raft. I do mnot know who was in command of the ship when I came on deck. The boats had left the ship, and we went to work get- ting rafts ready and overboard. The mate told the hands to hurry and get, the rafts ready, for the ship would go down in a few moments. One raft would not hold ali the people, so we had to make an- ¢ other. The steamer did not blow any whistle after she struck. The captain could not have stayed on board long after she struck, as he had gone when I came up out of the engine-room. The mate had the ship started and tried to run for the beach. FIRST OFFICER SENDS CAPTAIN INTO THE BOAT RST OFFICER BRUCE, in his evi- dence, after stating that the ship struck at 4:40 p. m., went on: “I was on the bridge at the time. I stopped the ship, and Captain MclIntyre came on the bridge right after and called all hands on deck to lower boats in case it was recessary. The captain, at my re- quest, took charge of the first boat leav- ing. I think he did all in his power to save the passengers and crew.” —— e ——— SISKIYOU COUNTY MINER ° MAKES A RICH DISCOVERY REDDING, Oct. 2L.—After digging and || seraping ‘around in the gulches and hills of the Happy Camp district in Siskiyou County for many years and with little success, an old miner named Howard has at last discovered a claim thart Le believes ‘will bring him a fortune. He has already taien out a very substantial nest egg. Howard on last Saturday was digging || away in his accustomed manner. He had about given up hopes of finding a color a . was preparing to go te his cabin for the night. He decided to 'y once more and in less than two miautes he had plcked out an almost solid gold nugger, valued at $3060. Howard did not ileep'glel( night for excitement and he is now laying off and celebrating the evert. The Happy Camp distriet has a number of rich placer mines and is onr of Siski- you County’s best producing sections. The findiag of the large nugget has caused a de;l of ex‘:ldument in the district and it is_expeci that another rich .fl&a will soon be made. ————— A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, or & Piles. Your Will refund mflummu e Mayor Objects to Prize-Fighting. FRESNO, Oct. 21.—Mayor Stevens has started a crusade against the promoters and principals in “he Sotomon-Sharkey prize fight of last Monday night. The Mayor has laid the matter before* District Attorney Jones and that offictal is look- ing- up the law to see whether prosecu- tion is possible. The Mayor says that in his opinion the contest was not a boxing match by any means, but a prize fight. Racing Results at Walla Walla. WALLA WALLA, Oct. 22.—Results at ths Walla Walla County Fair: Three and a half _furiongs—Billy Mahon won, Queen T second, B, C. Green third. Time, " Five furlongs--Old Man won, EI ond, Allesandro third. Time, 1:02° Seven furlongs—Vaseale won, Fondo second, Burdock third. Time, 1:31. 2:12 pace—Rota H won, Harry Hurst sec- ond, Francisco third. Time, 2:11% 2:27 trot—Belle Storm won, Helen Norte second, Hellen third. Time, 2:16. s Glen sec- Several articles of this series tone is pleasant, and attention ing of children.” competent ‘musicians have gained who will conscientiously “Each step is explained with further advanced in music, whose manual facility. fore abused. course of instruction reduced to a tertaining to the pupil. “Every poss planation is given in each branch Music is as easily taught in this ing, physical culture he series will known authotities in .music. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY CALL THE CALL’S NEW FEATURE. Homc Musical Education for Children. 70 APPEAR IN WEDNESDAY'S CALL EACH WEEK. 1500 to 2000 words, once a week, illustrated. The writer is ANICE TERHUNE, r rector of music in the College of St. John the Baptist, New York. to what music a child should hear. “How the child’s voice should be trained so as to strengthen it instead of straining it is also taken up in practical detail. “There can be no question as to the practicality of these lessons: ough knowledge of the subject, as are hints in cooking, or dressmaking.” be rounded out with articles by some widely 8Y Anice TERMUNE song writer, formerly di- were submitted to F. H. Griswold, the “musical sharp” of the Chicago Record-Herald, who expressed himself concerning them as follows: % “It seems to me these articles would find many readers, as their is called to things which might otherwise escape the notice of parents who wish their children to study music. The comparative newness of the plan would probably tend to make many anxious to know how it is applied to the teach: Mrs. Terhune says: “The course is designed to enable parents to give home musical education to their i plained in such a way that any mother, even though she herself may not be a musician, may impart the lessons to her child. The prac- tical results will at once be apparent. “I have not given a theoretical disquisition on music, but have explained each detail simply and completely, as though I were a mu- sic teacher delivering the lesson to a pupil. “Although these lessons have never before been printed, many children. Each step is ex- their entire knowledge by the course I have set down, and I can guarantee success to any ome follow it. a simplicity that brings it within the reach of the least precocious child. “Many people do not Wnderstand the necessity of getting the muscles of the hands and arms into perfect condition for playing be- fore attempting to use them at the piano. ture I have fully explained, and the course begins with some light ex- ercises for fingers and arms given in such a way as to make them interesting and entertaining to both pupil and teacher. “These first exercises wiilalso be of This all-important fea- great value to persoms progress is impeded by lack of “In connection with this I teach the pupil how to practice. Prac- ticing is in itself an art, and much time may be saved and mental strain be avoided if the student understands exactly how to work. “How to acquire a sweet, ringing tone and to gain control over the technicalities of the piano come next. “After this we take up reading music (and here I explain every- thing that the pupil is likely to find in ordinary music, from the sim- plest musical sign to the most complex), memoriz phrasing, duet playing, accompaniments, etc. how to listen to music and how to interpret it. The management of the pedal is another important item, often misunderstood and there- ing, sight reading, The pupil is taught “The scales, too, though frequently made a bugbear, are in this system at once interesting and en- ible aid to the student in the way of example and ex- of the subject; and also advice as way, by any one possessing a thor- house! AND ITS NEW SERIES OF