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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06
WRECKED ON HAWAII IN 1929.
Remarkable Story of Adventures among the Natives by the
Only Survivor of a Lost Whaler.

projecting above the water. When day
light came the famished, drenched and
terrified men saw that they were with
in sight of land. All that day they
chung to the coral. At sunset dozen
long, canoe-like boats, padded by
naked, yelling savages, came out to
Holden and his companion. The ma
tives had seen the wreck and had come
out to look it over more closely.
The two sailors were taken to one of
the islands of the Hawaiian group
The particular island Holden believes
was Hilo, from the descriptions he has
since read of that island. Thousands
OF the nude natives were on the shore
when the two white men We're landed.
Great excitement prevailed, and the
news that there were two real, live
white men on the island was carried
to the tribes inland. For days Holden
and his companion We're regarded with
intense timidity and curiosity. Great
throngs of native men and women, al
most as nude as on the day they were
born, would feel the flesh of the white
captives, pinch the white skin and
twirl the fine hair in their fingers to
see whether it was all natural. Chill
dren in droves viewed Holden and his
carnpanion from safe distances, and ran
screaming toward their mothers if the
white men moved toward them. The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06
Special to The Sunday Call.

lands across the broad ocean. One DC
tober day in 1928, when he was Is, he
went on his first long voyage, sailing
on the famous old whaler the Mentor
out of the great port Of New Bedford,
Mass.
The crew were all experienced whalers
and had been with the Mentor almost
from pole to pole in pursuit of whale
oil and Whalebone. Now they were
embarked for q two years voyage
around the Horn and up the north Pa
cific Coast. Young Holden eagerly ac-
cepted the chance to see new parts of
the world. This was ten years before
Richard Henry Dana sailed from New
Bedford and made the voyage so ia
nous in his 1.-TWO Years Before the
Mast"
The ship rounded the Horn in Janu-
airy. 1929, and proceeded up the coast
toward the whaling fields in the north
Pacific. The voyage proceeded without
incident until one densely dark night.
May q, 1929, the Mentor, while in a
terrific storm, was tossed upon ledge,
which later was found to be an i'm
mense coral reef. The ship was
wrecked, everything on board was lost
and all the crew but two washed away
and drowned. In some unaccountable
way young Horace Holden and fell
low sailor We're carried to bit of reef
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wheel, both being attached to the same
shaft, They rest on separate concrete
foundations, 16x20 feet, built up from
bedrock.
The generators are of an improved
three-phase type, revolving field, ex-
ternal armature, and each has a ca
pability of 1000 horsepower and gener-
ateS electricity at $50 volts. This is
conveyed to transformers, Of which
there are twelve. In these machines a
wonderful transformation scene takes
place. The current of electricity enters
at $50 volts and comes out at $4,000
volts on line of wire that has no con-
nection with any dynamo. How is this
ACCOMPLISHED? Ask an electrician
All the unscientific observer can say
is that in some mysterious way. in the
step up transformers, as they are
called, q secondary current of cleo
tricity of high voltage is induced in an
entirely separate coil of wire by wind
ing it in close proximity TO coil of
wire of lower voltage. The heat gen
Grated in this transaction is so great
that a cold air blast is kept constantly
turned on the machine.
The electricity is now ready to be
sent on its way to Los Angeles. 1t has
volume sufficient to do 1000 horse
power in work and as a horsepower
is defined as the force required to raise
161a tons one foot in one minute, one
can see lhdC the power 10 edpdple VI
moving many a ton of freight in the
electric cars Of the southern metropolis.
The current also has voltage of 5000.
Voltage is explained as representing in
electricity what pressure does in water.
We know that the ordinary mean
descent system requires 10 volts. so
one would judge the voltage furnished
would light a great many homes in the
Cit of the Angels. OF course the
high PRESSURE has to be changed before
distribution in Los Angeles by step
down transformers, as it was changed
in the power house bv the step up"
process but that is another story.
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Nv electrical, engineering In the
v v United States will be in
working order in Southern
California. 1t is the very largest plant
Of it's kind in the world, and so vast are
the works, so stupendous the undertake
ing, that it seems incemprehensible
how 1t was all accomplished,
To be brief, the turbulent Santa Ana
River has been harnessed Miles Of
tunnels hayesbeen bored through solid
rock, gigantic dams have been built
and tons Of electrical machinery hauled
into position over some of the rough
est mountain trails in the State. Small
towns have sprung into. existence in a
dozen places. The mountain stiffness
of ages has been broken, and now the
Whir Of turning wheels fills the air.
The result of all this work is that
Los Angeles, eighty miles away, will
be lighted with electricity and supplied
with all needed power for street cars
and industries. Incidentally. light and
power will be distributed to all the
towns and cities along the way. The
plant out in the mountains at the head
IF the San Bernardino Valley will de-
reIop about 0,000 horse power, and this
is all to be distributed among the sur
rounding valleys. And after doing all
this work the water then plunges on
:again and irrigates the fertile acres in
the valleys below.
To supply all the electricity neces-
sary for city of over 100000 popula-
ton in these days of electric lighting,
electric travelling and transportation,
and it's almost limitless use in the null
THORN industries of civilized life, is
great undertaking. but that is what the
Southern California Power Company
has set out to do for Los Angeles. This
enterprise was conceived by Mr.. II. II.
Sinclair. manager of the Redlands
about three years ago, and is the di
rect outcome of the success Of that
company in supplying Cotton and Riv-
erside with electric light and power.
While in the quest of more power
for that almost wholly local enterprise
he decided that practicable and profit
able use could be made Of all the flow
of the Santa Ana Canyon at the head
of the San Bernardino Valley, at a
point where it is joined by Bear Creek.
He filed upon the flow of both streams,
which averages about 5000 inches of
water, and made it the basis of this
larger and more important electrical
project. Mr.. Sinclair associated in 1t
Mr. Henry Fisher, the multi-nillion-
aire who made Redlands his home at
about that time, and active steps were
at once taken to determine the practi-
cability of the scheme from an engi-
neering, electrical and business point
of view.
The most serious problem that had
TO be settled, and upon which the bust
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Remarkable

~ ALIEN, Or, Nov. 4.-Horace Hol-
den of this city is one of the
very first Americans who lived
in the Hawaiian Islands. Many
people put him first among all
white men who lived on any of the
Hawaiian group. Captain Cook ante
dated Mr.. Holden forty-one years, but
Captain Cook never spent more than a
few weeks on either of his two visits in
the archipelago. The story Of the life
that Mr. Holden led among his dusky
captors, the manner of his appearance
among the Hawaiians and his final es-
cape from them are as interesting as
a chapter from Robinson Crusoe" or
Swiss Family Robinson"
Horace Holden is to-day a white
haired, feeble old gentleman. He has
lived quietly in Salem for thirty years.
But very few people who have met this
aged quiet, modest man daily for years
on the streets here have had an idea
what extraordinary experiences have
been his.
Mr. Holden was born in little vii
lage in New Hampshire in June, 1870
He is therefore over So years old. He
was a born sailor, and from his earliest
boyhood his dreams and aspirations
were all of the sea and life in strange
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Of electricity, having a working eff
cheney of 1000 horsepower a distance Of
eighty miles, is a matter of vast impor-
tance TO the business and scientific
of only 10 per cent, and If entirely sue
cessful will be the greatest and most
practically important electrical
achievement to date.
The works of the Southern California
Power Company areareached by driving
from Redlands. The power house is
about thirteen miles to the northeast.
Once in the canyon one sees enough to
make him forget the WEAKNESS result
ing from the incessant jolting of the
stage. On every hand is seen the water
developments that are the life of GER
tain portions Of the valley below. Here
runs we'll cemented ditch and there a
hugh wooden pressure pipe line carry
ing water up over high bluff to thirsty
plains beyond High up on the noun
tain side smooth white blazings show
the course of the Bear Valley Canal,
carrying water to far away Alesandro.
Every few hundred feet is passed a
moss grown spring and at one place
there spouts from a solid wall of gran
lite stream of hot mineral water,
which falls into a basin below, in which
the weary traveller would fain take a
plunge AS the mountains become
and the stage crosses and recrosses the
Santa Ana River with the river surg
ing way up above the hubs. About
four miles of this and the power house
is reached. but with only short stop
the Journey Is continued about four
miles farther to the terminus of the
mountain road. Between these two
points are four camps, where material
and tools are kept and where the hun
dreds of men employed on the fumes
and tunnels, far above the mountain
sides, eat and sleep. Some of the camps
contain half a dozen houses and have
the appearance of small villages. Then
at different vantage points are three
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06
Here Is an Elevator in the Claus
>eckels Building That Runs Ninety

Up and down, up
and down. All day
and part Of the
night. at the speed
of express trains
go the elevators OF
the Claus Spreck-
els building.
To see these
small cars of or
namental bronze
flying between the
floors OF the build
ing gives but a
faint idea of the
speed at which
they travel. How
ever, careful tab
is kept on the cars
so that every trip
is accounted for
and it is known to
an inch how much
each car travels in
a day. a week or a
month.
After all these
figures are aver
aged up it is shown
that a car travels
about 80 miles a
day. That is in
both directions.
Forty-fve miles up
and 45 miles down
just like travelling
in a circle. If all
this were stretched
out straight it
would be enough
to carry a passen-
ger. as far as
Stockton or Santa
Cruz.
But there are a
good many other
interesting and as
tonishing f a c t 8
about these eleva-
tors. The number
of trips made is as
tonishing.
Durin & [ b q
month of August
car No. 1 made
$3.50 trips; car No.
2. 1902 trips; car
No. 3. 1885 trips.
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ness success of the enterprise depend
ed, was the reduction of the loss in
transmission to a minimum
The water, in order to secure the re-
Quisite fall must necessarily be carried
through mountains of solid granite
for distance of four miles. The trial
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Car No. I Travelled
1887 miles: car No.
2 Travelled 12e4.3
miles: car No. 8
travelled 1928 miles.
total miles trav-
eled. 2755.S.
D ally average
car miles OF travel.
including nights
and Sundays serv-
ice, $3.50.
In daily service
of busy hours from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m,
No. 1 elevator
makes 3o.7 trips
per hour; No. 2
makes 2S.4 trips
per hour; No. 8
makes 30.5 trips
per hour, thereby
giving an elevator
service to every
floor an average OF
40 seconds. No. 1
elevator in service
from 5:45 a N. to
$50 p. M; No. 2
elevator in service
from Gas a. m I'M
til night service is
over; No. 3 eleva-
tor in service from
F::45 a. m. until 6:45
p. M: Sunday
service. one eleva-
tor from 5:45 a. m.
until night service
is over.
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with their beauty, but they bespeak OF
strength and permanence and the very
air seems to breathe of power.
To the right as you enter are three
small dynamos, called exciters, which
induce a current of electricity in the
magnets of the big dynamos, the first
step necessary to the generation OF
electricity. The regular dynanos, four
in number, are set to the rear on the
opposite side. The machinery was
made after special designs prepared by
o. H. Ensign, by the General Electric
Company and the Pelton Water Wheel
Company. Each complement of ma
chimes is complete in itself, as each
dynamo is driven by it's own water
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Continued on Page Twenty-slx.
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Rivers of San Bernar- w
dino Being Harnessed to
Control One Of the Largest
Electric Plants in the Country.
POWER CARRIED EIGHTY MILES,
POWER CARRIED EIGHTY MILES.

THIN the next two weeks
one of the greatest pieces of
electrical. engineering IN the
United States will be In
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

OverOw From the Wires In n Com
dsEhed Form.
Julius Schulhoff, for about fifty years
noted as a piano %virtuoso of the bril-
liant school and composer of salon
music. is just dead.
The decree prohibiting Iona Barri-
son from performing OH the stage has
been extended so III to include all
Prussia. The two younger Barrison
sisters are also now prohibited from
performing.
The municipal election at cleveland.
Ohio. resulted in Il republican victory.
ii. q. Sargent. the Republican candi-
date for school director. is reelected
by about 10000 majority over Charles
+. Salem. democrat.
1t is annni:nced at Akron. Ohio. that
a deal is Nearly completed for the
consolidation Of all the art tile works
in the country, about Il dozen in num-
Der. The largest are at Trenton, \.
j.. GAINESVILLE. Ohio, and Barberton, a
! suburb of this city.
At the National Sporting club in
London a twenty-rOund contest for
300 pounds and the bantam champion
ship of the world was pulled off in
which Ben Jordan of England beat
Eddie Curry of New York city, win
ming in the seventeenth round. Curry
proved game but was much punished.
.Adolph Stecker has beaten the
worlds record IN single targets ut San
Francisco by making SCI rings in
twcc;y shots. Stecker beat his own
recc:d by 8 points. having made on a
former occasion 552 points. Stecker's
fine work did not end ut this record,
for lie scored II out of &c possible
bullSeveS.
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TIE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centres.

Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centres.
st. raul, April 6. - Wheat - No. 1
Northesrn. 81 a 99c; No. 2 North
ern. 336Y95c. Corn No. 3 yellow,
2S@28 1-2c; No. ), ~ 1-2@r.8c. Oats
No. 3 white, 27@27 1-2c; no. 3. 25 1-2@
26 3-4c. Barley and Rye-Sample bar.
ley. 32@3Sc; No. 2 rye, 47@4Sc; No. 3
rye. 45@46c. Seeds-No. 1 fax, SLID
@1.20; timothy, $1@1.3O: red clover, s.
@3.6O.
Chicago, April 6. - Wheat - No.
2 red winter, $1.O3; No. 3 red, 90@97c;
No. 2 spring, 95c; No. 3 spring, $50
Csc; No. 2 hard, $4,000; No. 3 hard,
S3QiS5c; No. 1 Northern spring, $1.O3.
Corn = No. 2, &c 3-4c; No. 3, 20 lao
20 1-2c. Oats-No. 2, 25 3-4M26c; No. 3,
25 1-2c.
Duluth, April 6.-Wheat-Cash, No.
1 hard, $1.OO IA; No. 1 Northern,
80 1-4c; to arrive, No. / hard, $1.O1 34;
No. 1 Northern. $1.OO 3-4; May, No. 1
hard. $1.O0 81; No. 1 Northern, 80 3-4c;
July. No. 1 hard, 90 5-8c; No. 1 North
ern. 95 5-Sc; September, No. 1 hard,
70 1-2c; No. 1 Northern, u 1-2c; oats,
Is 1-2@27c; rye, to arrive, 493-4c;
barley, 81 1-2c; flax, cash, $1.22 IL;
May. $1.23; corn, % 3-4c.
Milwaukee, April 6. Flour steady.
Wheat higher; No. l Northern, 99c;
No. 2 Northern, 97c; May, 81; July.
81 5-Sc. Oats higher; No. 2 white,
% 1-2c. Rye firm; No. l., Sic. Barley
steady; No. 2, 43c; sample, 81 100
AZ 1-2c.
Minneapolis, April 6.--Wheat = May
opened at 96c~-and closed at 90 lac:
July opened at 81 3-4c and closed at
95c. On track--No. 1 hard, 80 3-4c; No.
/ Northern, 81 SAC; No. 2 Northern,
"a 3-4c.
Chicago, April 6. - Hogs - Light,
$3.75@4.O5; mixed, $3.S5@4.O5; heavy,
$3.8O@4.1O; rough, $3.8003.85. Cattle
= Beeves, $3.9O@5.5O; COWS and heif-
ers, $2.25@4.6O; Texas steers, $500
OATS; stockers and feeders, $1,000
4.75. S~heep-Natives, $3.35G4.75; Wes-
terms, So. 1850 20; lambs, $4.5O@5.7O.
South st. Paul, April 6. - Hogs =
$3.47 1-2@3.8O. Cattle-Cows, $2.4O@
4; steers, $4@4.4O; h%eifcrs, Sa3.30t@3.6O;
bulls, $3.25@3.4O {.
Sioux City, Iowa, April 6.--Hogs -
So. 7O03.SO. Cattle = Gamers, $40;
cows, $3.50; heifers, $3.75@4; bulls,
$3@3.9O; stockers, $4@4.5O; calves,
$4.75@4. 95. Sheep, 3.5O@4.25.
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Early risers-breakfast rolls.
AN OPEN LErTER TO MoTHt

AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.
We are asserting in the courts our right to the
exclusive use OF the word "CASTORIA. !" and
I, Dr.. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massa-
chusetts, was the originator Of PITCHERS
CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does
now bear the fac-simile signature of CHAS. II.
FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is The
original PITCHERS CAsToR1A" which has
been used in the homes of The mothers Of
America for over thirty years. Look carefully
at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you
have always bought" and has the signature Of
CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No
one has authority from me to use my name ex-
cept The Centaur Company. Of which Chas b.
Fletcher is President.
March 8. 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, M. D.
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WOMAN AND THE WHEEL
From the Gazette. Delauare. Obfo.

0oVuWUTo, OHtVs
The h%ealthfulness of bicycle riding for
women is still a disputed question between
eminent physicians and health reformers.
Used in moderation it surely creates for
women a mea Of outdoor exercise. the
benefit of which all physicians concede.i
Used to excess, like any other pastime, its
effect is likely to be dangerous.
The experience of Miss Bertha Reed. the
seventeen-year-old daughter Of Mr.. j. R..
Reed, 3s5 Lake ST., Delaware, Ohio, may
point q moral for parents who, like Mr.. and
Mrs: Reed, have experienced some concern
for their daughters who ere fond of Wheel
ing. In the fall of 90 Misc Bertha who had
ridden a great deal. bega1.to fail in an
alarming manner. She gre: y steadily paler
and thinner, and it appeared she was going
into consumption. Rest and duiet did her
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BREAD, POTATOES and MILK.
A D%yspeptics daily diet.

Dyspepsia is one of the most. prevalent of
diseases. Thousands of people suffer from
it in a more or less aggravated form. Few
diseases are more painful to the individual
or more far reaching in theiv effects on
human life and happiness: What the dys-
pcptic needs is not local Treatment, not
mere temporary stimulus. The real need
is the toning up of the entire system. For
tify the system and it will do its own fight
ing, and promptly eject any Etruding
disease. The success of DR.. Ayers Sarsa-
parilla in curing indigestion and dyspep-
STA is due to just this quality which it
possesses, of renewing the vital forces,
repairing the waste and loss of the body.
The ordinary treatment brings the food
down to the level of the weak stomach
DR.. Ayers Sarsaparilla puts strength into
the stomach, and brings it up to the level of
the strong food fit for men. 1t does this
by strengthening the entire system. The
stomach cannot stay weak when ali the
other organs are gaining strength. What
DR., Ayers Sarsaparilla will do for dyspep-
STA is best illustrated in cases like that Of
NJ s. Shields, Meridian, Miss. Mr.. Shields
had got down to the last level of dyspepsia.
But let him tell his w story =
"For years, I was afflicted with dyspep-
STA which gradually grew worse until I
could eat nothing but bread and potatoes
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seasoned with a little salt, and drink only
a little milk. ] became so bad that a trife
too much of even these caused terrible
suffering i'll the regions Of the stomach:
dartiug pains back OF ths eyes. attended
with dizziness aud partial loss Of sight.
The only way l could gctrcliefw was by vom-
iting. Finally l had srch q severe attack
that the %entiie. left side Of my body felt
numb and partially paralyzcd, and in this
condition. / was taken 10 my room uncon-
scious. The physicians tailed to help me
and none Of the many remedies I took did
me any good. AT last a friend presented.
me with a bottle of DR.. Ayers S~arssparilla
and before l had used half of it. l could see
a decided change for the better: ! used
three bottles and was so completely cuIco
that for four yearsl have not been troubled
with the old complaint. but am rugged ana
hearty and able to cat anything that can
be eaten. 1t would be impossible to say
too much in praise of DIR. Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla. and ! would not give one bottle OF It
for a dozen of any other kind."-M. S.
SHIELDS, Meridian. Miss.
Try DR.. Ayers sarsapari!la if you are
dyspeptic. IL you want more testimony to
the value of the medicine, get DR.. Ayers
Curcbook. 1t is sent free on request by
the I. c. Aver Co., Lowell.
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AUXILIARY NAVY.

Orders Are G;vc1. for the Purchase
of 'EtR New Ves.>1s.
Washington, April 6.-";She navy de
partment has sent teleacaphic orders
to the auxiliary cruiser card at New
York to purchase imme:,i :'ciy ten YES
sells for the auxiliary navy. These
boats are to be between 1000 and TO-
600 tons burden, and the board is di-
rected to conclude the purchase as
soon as possible. These vessels are
much larger than the majority of the
ships purchased up to date, it being
the desire of the department to secure
vessels large enough for use at sea in
any CAPACITY. Pr
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Ridaewa.. ILL.,. April 6. - Shawnee
town, t1ood-swept Sunday night, is now
threatened with total destruction. In
Vulnerable m"~l lives may be lost be-
fore another day has passed. Hun
dredse of people have not yet been res
cued from the homes in which they
were imprisoned yesterday, others are
still in the treetops ard still others are
af1oat on the waste of :!:e torrent. Lat
est reports say the entire levee will he
destroyed by morning aud that every
frame house in town is certain to be
dashed to pieces.
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ENGLAND GETS wEI-HAI-wEI
Ar.anRen ents Made With the APP
prevail of Japan.

Ar nRen ents Mndc With the APP
prevail of Japan.
London, April ct was semi-oM'
cially announced that Great Britain
has made arrangements with China
to take over the port of Wei Hal Wei
on the Shantung peninsula when the
Chinese government has paid the war
indemnity due to Japan and the Jap
anese troops have evacuated the place.
The arrangement, it is added. was
made with the knowledge and approx
al Of Japan. with which country an
understanding had previously been ar
rived at. The latter fact was kept Sc
cdet until China had actually agreed
to the lease and the British fleet had
assembled in the vicinity. 1t is said
on good authority that neither Russia
nor Germany is pleased with the ar
rangement.