Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

time of the natives was Just about
equ llly divided between religious oh
seryances and bull fights. Here the
shipmatcS spent their last money for
provisions. which consisted OF very
mcagre supply of pilot bread and salt
pork, with Il pint of water each per
day. After trip Of l64 days from
Boston, they llnded ut San Francisco
in October, going ashore i'll row boat
to a mushroom city of adobe houses,
sh mites and tents. Walking up the
beach with only a tcn-cent bit in his
pocket and an '.aching void where his
breakfast ought to be, he Was accosted
with, Halo, Stran ger. Do you want
Il job?n "What do You pay" "A dollar
an honr." You bet" His job was
Juggling boards and planks on his back.
He worked so hud TO earn pay and
was sounused to toll that the next day
he was Ill worn out and felt like an
older brother OF Mtthuselah. Remain
inc four months as bookkceper at II
hotel, he pushed ont for the southern
mines. following the wheel track on
foot, with Il kit OF miners tools on his
back. through region blooming with
beautiful wild flowers and the air laden
with their perfume. A California black
bird roasted over brush fire, IN
plucked and undreSsed, together witha
salad OF hunger sauce, formed a deli
cious feast. He found his old ship
mates at Mormon Gulch. staked ont II
al, l,,- in HI, tools took
per, went out and broke off Il piece of
gold, workc on the jump until pitch
dark, camped. took Il severe cold,
fever set in, and he took the next
wagon train back to Frisco The
lucky man that got his claim took out
$1,000 in few days. On June H.
1890, he came very near being a We
tim of the great fire that swept over
San Francisco. which started in the
hotel whele he was clerk "A blessing
in Disguise for it cleared the ground
Tor better buildings. With singed
head, bliStered face and bruised limbs,
penniless and hungry, Hall
spent the night wrapped ina borrowed
blanket, was given Il breakfast bla
Nermonter and good job rs purser on
a Columbia steamboat, Lot Whltcomb,
by another. The keel ofthis good boat,
2 NJ feet long, was made from an Ore
gon pitch fir, so feet long. Hall soon
became pilot on the Lot WhltcomD,
was the first to take the soundings ana
was the first commissioned pilot on the
Columbia and Willamette rivers. lie
was a pilot for four years,
In 1886. he returned to Vermont ana
Sarah A. Foster. They have
had two children. S. Ada Hall, wife oil
j. b. Bacon, and H. f. X. Hall, Who,
was killed in 1881 by the accidental
discharge of a gun in his own hands,
and for whom Hall Camp, Sons OF Vet
Grams, was named.
Returning to Oregon, Mr. Hall was
made captain of the Iris, a fast boat on
the Columbia river line, and later on
the steamboat Fashion.
Returning to Warren on a visit IN
1861, fired by the spirit of '76, he raised
A company of men at Warren, lolneeu
the Sixth Vermont us captain of Go; IT,
crossed and recrossed the bullet-bolllh9
canldron of Warwick creek, was taken
sick with a fever and was discharged
for physical disability after year Oh
service. He again returned to the ~
rltic coast as steamer captain ana re-
manned until 1866, when he went TO the
oil regions of PENNSYLVANIA to ASSIST
his brother in the prosecution OF laW-
suit involving $500 600, and they won
The suit As a result of this, Capt
Hall assumed the management OF Two
farms in the Pit Hole oil section, leaseu
md sold land and operated wells d'l
ng the time that the oil fever was ~
It's height His family moved theIe
md he remained until 1874, witnessing
he tremendous panic of 73, Wnlcn
Dricked the bubble of inflated prices
md caused the distress and crllne
which followed. The tremendous Paoo
which he had set in business was Wea,
NO on his strong constitution, ana !"
1871 he bought his present fine lolne-
stead of IS acres in Chelsea ylIla5u'
stocked it with fine Jerseys, ana Ill ll't
ARE of his place and stock ana su hn
public positions as he has accepted. Nv
S passing the autumnal days OIL i Ie