The herald., 1898-12-10
A HISTORIC HANDSHAkf
AND BURNS AND sPRECK ARE
RECoNCILED
DE YOUNG IN THE COLD
Momentous Meeting in Palace Court
yard-Tom Williams Pacificator.
A Senatorial Sensation

II begins to look as if the members of the
legislature might, after all, be permitted tc
elect a United States senator without the
dictation OF Editors Spreckes and DE Young
or the aid OF Southern Pacific Attorney Her
rim. The war in San Francisco now is con-
fined to Mr.. DE Young, who has served no.
tice on the Southern Pacific that he intends
to make the company responsible for his
being buncoed by Mr. Herrin, and follows
up his threats with a hot-oven editorial on
the proposed Central Pacific bonds that Mr..
Huntington wishes to place.
On the other hand, Mr.. Spreckels has
stopped attacking Colonel Burns and con-
fines himself to extracts from other papers
OH the colonel. 1t looks now as if Mr.. Her
rim and Colonel Burns had pacitied Mr..
Spreckels and that the only insurgent is
General DE Young.
The colonel and Mr.. Spreckels met on
Wednesday, and apparently became recon-
ciled, in light OF the fact that since the re-
contre no attack on the colonel has appeared
In the Call. The Examiner gives the fol-
lowing account of the meeting:
''The court yard of the Palace hotel was
the scene of the reconciliation. Tom Will
Jams, the horseman, was the cause of the
happy event. He was standing at the door
of the grill room, facing the court, chatting
with Mr.. Spreckels, when Colonel Burns ap-
preached from the arcade. Behind the col
umns Of the arcade were Conoel John
Lynch, Colonel Parker and few other
honorable members of the federal brigade.
"As Burns advanced toward Spreckels, the
colonels in ambush rubbernecked around
the gilded pillars to witness the encounter.
Would it be blood or skittes?
Burns marched with that martial tread
that he learned when stationed with the
army at San Pedro in '64. His trusty cigar
was cooked up carelessly, and he bore him
self with the abandon of Bergerac rush
ing on certain danger.
"Sprcckes shifted his folded overcoat
from his right arm to his left, took side
step away from Williams, so as to give his
arm full swing, and waited.
"A hush fell over the court yard, dis
turbed only by the chug chug of the exhaust
steampipe in General De Young's building
and the plat, plat of the colonel's feet on the
marble pavement The ambushed detach-
ment from the federal brigade held their
breath with both hands. They trembed
with excitement
At last the moment came. The colonel
and the commodore were face to face and
only foot apart.
"Spreckels led out gracefully with his
right, but quick as he was the colonel was
with him. Their hands met their fingers
turned around one another.
Hello, colonel!' said the commodore.
How are you, John?' responded the
colonel.
Break away!' shouted Williams
The two statesmen broke away, bowed
gracefully, and Spreckels disappeared into
the grill room. Burns and Williams saun
tered back to the arcade.
Soon the news spread. Colonel Paris
kilburn rushed in to see if the Burns coat
tails were yet in place. Some one wired the
happy tidings to Major Mclaughlin, and
Guy Barham whistled his piccolo solo with
greater fervor. All in all, it was a happy
afternoon. Amid the general rejoicing, the |
cable gang merrier song as it clattered in |
the slot.
But has General DE Young been buncoed
again! Has John ID. Spreckels given him the
overlook after week of consolation. and re. |
turned to his partner of the Estee cam.
paign! What does this gland-hand business
portend?
1T was only yesterday-or was it the dav
6efore-that Mr.. Spreckels called Colonel
Burns political blackleg and various
other things that make not for friendship.
yet here are the colonel and the commodore
shaking hands in a public place and greet.
ing each other like old companions.in.a rms