Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-28

Adutua ENUfEis company, started tho
construction aud provisioning of a large
raft, while some Of the passengers aud
those OF the crow who remained worked
at the pumps and fired signal guns.
The boat had been lowered Co Assist In
building the raft. and Captain Luce aud
some Of tho male passenger. were holp.
ing keep 'ho crowd back when pauic
Hoizcd those ON deck and they rushed
over the bulwarl;s onto tho raft. ut tho
same timc almost sinking tho boat. I'm
this emergency Dorian cut the boat
loose, and he aud those assisting him
hurried Il away from tho raft. Tho
noble man behaved throughout with
great presence Of mind and lahorcd with
heroic energy. When the panic started
he criodi "For Colo sake, captain. cloai
tho raft so that we can work! 1 won't
desert the spp while there's II timbei'
above wuterv
Thus much precious time was lost.
The people did not believe that those
who were trying to assist them were
sincere, and prevented them from pro.
yiding means Of escape.
INV NuItaAhs Nll'N NlaNA ~ ltNNOt
stated that the fate Of ,ho ship should bo
his and his little sons.
Muster Collins. a son Of tho proprietor
Of tho vessel, WHOM offered q lie pro
server refused 60, saying no would not
take 1t while any woman ou board WA
without one. He persisted with his
moihorand sister,
AunttQr faithful nun n,1 on, ,,.tes,
quiet hcroism shouc out brighter as tho
prospect became darker. was Young
man named Stewart Holland. lie was
uu engineer under Instructions and but
twenty-five years old. Whom most N
his companions Ia the engine room tool,
10 the boats and deserted, no remained
and did all he could to help save those
left in tho ship. just before the ship
went down ho was helping fire the sig.
nal guns. Dorian called TO him TO get
into tho boat with linn, but ho refused;
and just "a the waters curlcd over the
ships side us sho went down his last gun
doomed over the sea and lac tlnl; with
tho moro than two hundred others still
on tho ship, most Of them to rise 40
more, aud among whom were all the
women and children.
There was something So romantic and
heroic in tho self snuriilco of ono 70
young as Stewart Holland that his story
caused sensation. Iio wns Washing
ton boy and hel at ono time been en-.
pllycd In the navy yard hero. Tho poo
pie Of Washington folt proud of him,
aud In response TO "a general domand u
subscription was started 90 erect u moa.
wncnt to his memory. \ litsograph
was published depicting him Ia the act
Of firing his last gun, copies Of which
picture arc no doubt still Ia possession
OF some Of the Older residents of Wash.
ington. Tho monument enterprise failed
because the design wus too elaborate Tor
the funds and interest Jagged from tho
long delay.
In 1853 thoso having the matter IN
charge were still trying too keep up In
forest in it, and some hundreds Of dol.
L. had boon collected, but the banl. in
which the money had boon deposited
failed and this money was lost. a cir.
culnr issued IN lsjS states that one If
the last Official acts Of President Pierce
was 10 de .gna'0 tho open space on
Pennsylvania avenue between Thir.
teenth and Fourteenth streets IA q suit
ahlo site FOR the proposed monument.
II is greatly 60 he regretted that So
deserving an enterprise should havo
been 70 unsuccessful. Washington city
Is full Of monuments to national char!
Hctcrs but in tho whole District Of Co.
lumbin there is only ono monument to u
local hero, and that Is the monument 10
Grccnup, tho fireman, Ia Glonwood
cemetery.
1t should 10 . cause OF prilo TO tho
people Of the District Of Columbia that
ono Of their young men should have
shown such Spartan courage and should
have died 80 nobly, when all IN, scenes
he had been witnessing for five hours
were enough TO mmeyo and brighten
Older men. Aud how sublime the
thought that hc know tho last gun he
iird could bring no help for himself.
but might bring 1t for others! As local
poet Of the time said;
"Ho died like man at tho post NJ
denihnud tosaye was his latest thought"
His father, l.alo Holland. was door.
keeper OF one Of the houses Of congress.
and doubtless there arc gentlemen now
in public life who remember tho genial
old man, whose last days were saddoncd
by the loss Of his manly and handsome
son.-Robcrl II. Hardness In Washing.
ton Star.