Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-31
An Oid-Timer's Story.

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Andrew Jackson" has dropped almost
completely out of sight, and is only
second in rarity to the shaky old Gus.
toner who sits in q corner and does
nothing all day long except remember
the Yorktown surrender. A Times re.
porter recently received hint that one
of the heroes of New Orleans was en-.
gagged as an engineer in charge of the
stationary engine under the Vandalia
office on Fourth street. He went down
into the basementand had Mr.. William
Haynes pointed out to him as the hero
for whom he was searching-a pleasant
appearing and sociable old gentleman.
who, IN spite Of his white hair and
beard, did not seem more than seventy.
but whose "reminiscences (which are
here repeated as his reminiscences)
were hazy with the mists of antiquity.
extending back into the Homeric era of
the republic, when the men were not
such as live in these mode rn times and
degenerate days. He gave the reporter
chair, worked valve on his engine
which let off q couple of pounds of
steam, and being solicited for his story,
gave some portions of it, which are
here set forth: He was born, he said, in
what is now White county, on Christ
mas day, 1888. where he lived until
jackson began raising troops. He
shouldered his rife and went. laying it
aside at New Orleans to roll cotton
bales, behind one of which he took his
stand and shot over it at the whites of
British eyes when they advanced in
range. Like the majority of men who
have been in great battle. he remem-
bers very little beyond yells and the
crack of rifles and noise of cannon.
The English aim was bad, and he has
no scars to tell of his achievement.
After the army was disbanded he
shipped as second mate on the French
steamer Grampus, which ran between
New Orleans and the west coast of
Africa as q SLAYER, holding his berth for
three years, during which time the YES.
sci brought over three thousand ne.
groes for the slave pens of New Or
leans. The captain was Frenchman,
who, with more than Yankee shrewd-
ness, worked both ports of entry for
all they were worth. He kidnapped
negroes in Africa, or had them kid
mapped for him, and in New Orleans
he induced white girls, by offers of
large wages, to accompany him as
chambermaids. These girls would
mysteriously disappear from the Gram.
pus as she lay in some African inlet
no one except the captain and one or
two of his confidential friends knowing
what became of them. Their disap-
pearance formed q standard topic Of
conversation among the men, who for.
mulated the theory that they were
sold to the African chieftains for
wives.
This went on for three years, until
On the last trip the Grampus, outward
bound from New Orleans, carried 81
chambermaid q young girl who bad
left respectable connections and "gone
to the bad" using q phrase which is
trite but euphonious. She had been
picked up on the street by the SLAYER,
who never dreamed that any fuss would
be made about her. When the return
to New Orleans had been made, the
girls relatives had traced her to the
Grampus. They demanded her, and
in the face of the stories of the men. the
captains story was not credited, and,
the city becoming hot for him, he left
it for good, Haynes remaining, and
shipping as second engineer on Q little
side wheel steamer, the Don Juan,
which was about to attempt the feat OF
bringing cargo Of sugar and coffee to
st. Louis. The trip up the river oc-
cupied twenty -four days, and the boats
crew were obliged to cut their own wood
and to kill their own game. Mr.. Haynes
is positive that the Don Juan is the
first steamboat which ever reached ST.
Louis. and says the second was the
little Cheyenne, which Was built up the
Ohio river somewhere. After the Don
Juan ran on q snag and sank in Dog.
tooth Bend, he got another berth Is
engineer, running the river in that ca
pacity for many years on the Walk in
the Water, the Felice Annie, the John
Perry, the Belle of Orleans and other
boats, whose very names are now hardly
in memory.
During the war the federal authori.
ties sent to st. Louis for q man " no
knew how to run q low.pressure engine,
and Mr.. Haynes, answering the condi.
tions, took charge Of the engine of the
Sumter and witnessed the engagement
between that boat and the Essex against
the confederate ram Arkansas, when the
latter was blown up near Baton Rouge.
He has, since the war, given up both
river and locomotive engineering, and
has settled down to stationary engines.
His time is spent almost entirely in the
basement under the Vandalia offices,
from which he does not often go ont,
devoting his time to inventions for the
saving Of fuel in stationary engines, by
which he has succeeded in reducing
the expenditure of coal for his engine
from l 200 to 500 bushels per month
| ST. Louis Times.
Swiss MOUNTAIN G1RLs.-In these
beautiful health. giving mountains one
would expect to find the most Beautiful
looking OF all girls. Where only pure
air is to be breathed, inspiring scenes
to be witnessed, women should be as
fair as daughters Of the gods. But not
so. The women in Switzerland have q
prematurely worn and aged look; if at
twenty they we're robust and possessed
of that attraction which good health
bestows-at thirty they are faded and