The San Francisco call., 1896-10-20
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ON ENGLAND.
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Are Now Manufactured in This
Country.

Hon. G. A. Boutelle, the distinguished
member of Congress from Maine, will adj
dress the people this evening in Wood
wards Garden Pavilion on Valencia street.
Congressman Boutelle has made bril-
liant record during his seven terms in
Congress, and his constituency has Just
reelected him for the eighth time. He
has taken leading part in the National
councils and has been the most prominent
in the upbullding of the American navy.
Congressman Boutelie arrived in this
City yesterday morning from Los Angeles
and took rooms at the Palace Hotel. He
is accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Grace H. Boutelle, an accomplished and
charming young woman. Mrs. III. G.
Loring OF this City is an aunt OF the Con-
gresham, and Miss Anna Boutel.e is his
sister. William Boutelle of the Oakland
street railway system is a brother, and he
and Mrs. Loring and Miss Anna Boutelle
spent the afternoon with him yesterday.
An immense crowd is expected in the
pavilion tonight to hear him. He is al
most as well known and popular here as
he is at home, and is noted as graceful
and vigorous speaker and a sound
logician. Republicans, Democrats and
Populists who have not been out much to
political meetings will be amply repaid
should they attend this one, for Mr..
Boutelle will be received by the masses of
the people, and the meeting promises to
be one of the greatest and the most i'm
portant held this year. This will be the
oaiy occasion on which the people of San
Francisco will have an opportunity of
hearing him speak, because he will leave
for Sacramento tomorrow on his way
East.
One of the most remarkable facts con-
nected with his political career is that, al
though nom minated for Congress nine
times, he has never had vote cast against
him either in caucus or convention.
''This whole story" said the Congress
man to CALL reporter yesterday, sin the
matter of the reported success OF Bryan's
campaign is made up by the newspapers.
When Mr.. Bryan came down to Maine
after the election he spoke in the city in
which Mr.. Sewall resides, and in county
that had given phenomenal Republican
majorities-treble and quadruple the num-
ber of votes that had been cast before
and considerable people went to see and
hear him, most of them from curiosity.
The Associated Press has engaged Mr..
Bryan's private secretary to report all the
Bryan meetings. and those reports have
been so one-sided that Editor Rosewater
of the Omaha Bee recently made a strong
protest against it.
''Mr. Sewau said that the Bryan meet
ing was the largest ever held in Maine,
~ hat ;rJ
the size of meetings held in years gone by,
when Mr.. Blaine and other distinguished
men spoke"
Since Mr.. Boutelle first became men,
ber of Congress his principal work was on
the Naval Committee. the matters ham
died by that committee being familiar to
him because his early life was passed in
the merchant marine service. About the
beginning of the war he returned from a
foreign voyage for the purpose of joining
the United States navy, in which branch
of the War Department he served as
volunteer officer during the whole of the
Civil War. In 1864 he was promoted for
gallant conduct in an engagement in
North Carolina Sounds with the rebel
ironclad Albemare. At that time he was
the navigating officer of the Sassachu, g
light-draught sidewheel wooden gun boat,
and finding that her shots failed to do
any damage to the Albemarle, he ran
the Sassachu into her at full speed in
the attempt to sink her. The Sassachu
came very near sinking her, but did not
quite succeed.
She disabled the rebel craft, however,
by tearing the muzzle off one of her guns,
but shot from the Albemarie went
through her boilers, exploding them and
killing and wounding several men.
His last service was with the Gulf squad
ron, when he took part in the capture of
Mobile, in command of a small vessel
called the Nyanza, which went up the
Tom bigbee River and received the surren-
der of the rebel feet.
At the close of the war he resigned from
the service and went north, where he COM
manded passens er vessels on the Atlantic
coast. and shortly afterward he went into
tine shipping and commission business in