Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-29

planted the flag over Fortress Derne in 1905.
the first time the stars and stripes ever waved
above an old world fortress.
The ship Ann Of Boston, Capt Daniel Saw
yer. carried the first American nag into Smyrna
in 1897.
In 1877 small schooner, the name Of which
has been forgotten, was launched on Lake
Erie, the frs vessel to invade the great lake
chain under the American flag.
In $500 the George Washington, Capt.
William cambridge, anchored under the walls
OF Constantinople and flung out the star
spsngled banner. The nationality OF the vessel
was reported to the authorities and they re-
Piled that their government had never heard
OF the United States of America as nation.
Matters were explained and when the sultan
learned that the ship came from the "New
World OF Columbus he sent on board n lamp
and q bouquet Of flowers as tokens of amity
and welcome.
IN THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE.
In 1889 the Flying Fish Of the United States
exploring expedition, boat hardly as large as
some Of the whales she encountered carried
the stars and stripes farther south and pene-
| trated the antarctic circle farther than any
other nation had ever explored In 1910 Wilkes
planted the flag on the antarctic continent and
in the same year the United States schooner
Shark carried the American flag on its first trip
through the Straits Of Magellan.
The flag was first carried to China round the
Cape of Good Hope in 1874 on the schooner
Madras, from New York. Capt. VIM. Poor.
The flag first made its appearance in the
West Indies in 1916 on the ship Edith of Bos-
ton, Capt. George Lewis.
The first man to raise the stars and
| stripes in California was Capt James P.
Arther, native Of Holland and res
ident Of Plymouth. Mass. Preble says of
| this incident: capt Arther up and
down the coast of California early as 1925,
hIrt fIrA 1n.t ahD,, ra1 60
performed in 1929. when Mr.. Arther was en-
ployed as mate of the ship Brookline. Mr..
Arther and his little party were sent ashore at
San Diego to cure hides. They had barn.
like structure of wood, provided by the ships
carpenter, which answered the purposes of
store house. curing shop and residence. The
life was lonesome enough. Upon the wide
expanse Of the Pacific they occasionally discerned
distant ship. Sometimes vessel sailed near the
lower ofhing 1t was thus that the idea of pre-
pairing and raising flag for the purpose Of
attracting attention occurred to them. The
flag was manufactured from some shirts, and
Capt Arther writes, with the just accuracy of a
historian, that Mr.. Greene's calico shirt fur
nished the blue. while he furnished the red and
white 1t was completed and raised on Sum-
day, on the occasion of tho arrival of the
schooner Washington, Capt. Thompson. Of the
Sandwich Islands, but sailing under the Ameri-
can flag. 1t was in the latter part of the year
1929 writes Capt Arther.
An incident of the flag raising in California,
like unto that in Hawaii, but one that has been
infrequent in American history, il related by
MIR. Preble. He says: I'm 1912 Commodore
Jones OF the United States navy, under the
impression that the United States we're at war
with Mexico. took forcible possession of Mon
terey, hoisted the stars and stripes and pro-
claimed California a territory of the United
States. Discerning his mistake the following
day he hauled down the flag and made such
apology as the circumstances would admit"
Gen. John G. Fremont, "the pathfinder, was
the first to carry the flag across the continent
in 1S45 46.and planted it over his headquarters
when he and his followers proclaimed the inde-
pendence OF California on July 4, 1886. and de-
clared war against Mexico. Three DAYS later
the stars and stripes were raised above the gov
ernor's palace in Monterey and on the 9Th Of
July on the flagstaff in the plaza in San Fran
cisco, hitherto sacred to the red and yellow flag
of Spain.
In 1S4S Lieut.. Lynch explored the region Of
the River Jordan and Dead sea- carrying with
him two small boats. the Fanny Mason and the
Fanny Skinner. to launch upon the water, upon
which the natives declared it was certain death
to venture. He writes:
Friday, March 81, 1Sis-Hoisted out the
two Fannies and landed our effects Pitched
our tents for the first time upon the beach
without the walls of Haifa. = For the
first time, perhaps. without the consular pre-
Palestine"
About the LIST of April the party reached Ii
berias, on the shore of the blue Gallilee. Lieut..
Lynch writes:
"April 8, 1S4s.-Took oil hands up the noun
tains to bring the boats down. Many times we
thought that, like the herd Of swine they would
rush precipitately into the sea With
flags flying We carried them triumphantly be-
yond the walls uninjured, and amid crowd of
spectators. launched them upon the blue waters
Of the Sea Of Gallilee, the Arabs singing. clap
ping their hands to the time and CRYING for
backshish, but neither shouted nor cheered;
from Christian lips it would have sounded like
PROCLAMATION. look upon that lake ever
brought to remembrance the words, Peace! be
STILL
''Buoyantiy foated the two Fannes, bearing
the stars and stripes. the noblest flag OF freedom
now waving. Since the times Of Josephus and
the Romans no vessel of any size has sailed upon
this sea-"
ON THE DEAD SEA.
On the 18th Of April the Fannie Skinner en-
tered the Dead sea, and for the first time the
emblem Of freedom fioated above these waveiess
waters. On the 28th that flag hung sadly at
half-mast when the news reached the party of
the death of ex-President John Quincy Adams
and over the echoless sea the dull boom of the
national AUTHORIZATIONS Numbered
the last tribute of respect in that far country to
tue HltnOTN VI now nation nOnOred dead.
A few days later the stars and stripes were car
ried defiantly and undsturbed into the streets
Of Damascus, though surrounded by bowling
mob. little later the flag was unfurled for
the first time cover agains: the hills that en-
compass the city of jerusalem" and entered
into Jaffa, the JOppa of the ancients
The American flag was planted on the walls
of Chaputepec for the first time on September
13, 1S47. 1t was the flag Of the Voltigeurs of
Baltimore, and tattered and battle rent it rests
today in the possession of the state of Ken
lucky. The first American standard raised in
the City OF Mexico was presented to the South
Carolina volunteers by the city of Charleston,
December "a. 1916. The banner was of blue
silk bearing the coat of arms Of the state on
one side and tho United States arms and q
palmetto tree on the other with an appropriate
inscription. At the battle of Churubusco the
color bearer was killed. A report of the SEN
ate committee fully detailed the hosting of
this flag above the palace in the City OF Mexico
The flag came gloriously back to Charleston
and was burned in the state house on February
II, 1865.
In April of1S4S, on the 18th day Lieut. Stone
OF the United States army assembled to the crater
Of mighty Popocatapetl, the second highest
mountain in North America, and there planted
the American flag nearly Is, 900 feet above sea
level.
In May a party of adventurous army and
navy officers assembled Mount Orizaba, which
is nearly, II not quite az high, as Popocatapetl
They constructed a flag before ascending and
at that immense height left it fiying to mark
the before unequalled feat. This flag was a