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The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12
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Struggled Floor Baby

Hurry up! shouted the conductor grossly, his fingers The professor stood aside Agatha enter and then followed the stout, unwieldy female down the aisle, unsuspecting and So far everything enterprise He settled himself and readjusted the baby with air of off-hand that tailed oddly with his persprng anxious face He got out his watch and jack kne Tor paythngs opening the knife aDsent1y and tending It, handle foremost, with slight courteous n clnation toward the small grasping fists Fortunately dropped to the floor and Cousin Agathas babys life
 The jolted block after block making stops and jerking into motion again. It well up before Prof. cunbent on him to converse little with Cousin Agatha Certainly certainly-what had he thinking baby had fallen asleep and the immediate danger of another fit was over-he might look away safely moment.
 rEr-it's pleasant weather" ventured cheer
 It's raining, snapped the lady him. tlting her nose in palpabe
 By all that was mighty-she wasn't cousin Agatha Wnere was cousin Agatha? He searched the with eager eyes-he even looked out the platforms No body was cousin Agatha. And cousin Agathas baby Purred Tn gentle slumber his arms! had left Agathas babys mother behnd-shades mighty Caesar A wild desire to raise the window the seized hm-another wild idea rushing back to the station surged with kindred impulses through brain rWalt-he must reflect. He be would heartsease advise the little woman, the poor "oTahi oW& would she ever trust him again?
 10 see IL through-the baby, anyhow" he little seeplIg ace appealed to him and vain. "Tll get nm lahoe9 ana then I'll set the crer cousin shes landed I'll sail for Europe! TT get em to send me on seenthc expedition to Africa-the north pole-any
 little later he Handed cousin Agatha's baby srtd iS the nall toward Hearseases room he heard Voces-the little woman's, sweet and brisk cIear bfe nntn toIes-and little gurgling keyed
 Hush, baby hush" the cear-cut voice said cbdinqIv
 fiearlsease had company!-was there letup to a
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 You got
 Cousin Agatha's baby-here 1t Mo- you can't lift It. I'll in I've got to face 1t out and the Lord help 
 ''Pomeroy Petngl Lee, you still where you Don't Now tell everythng-Whisper it.p She hovered weakly between him and the door. The them The deposited the drowsy baby fully the floor laid his watch of 1t with propitatory intent Then he faced the little boldly.
 T didn't to away with 1t. thought she Was there, too-hoper-may-de if I didn't think so, little woman But the little chap is safe enough took I'd rather face the cannonS mouth.'
 But Pom-O. Pomeroy Pettngi Lee-but she's it now, this minute. Of course, she's got it!''
 Got what thundered the professor regardless of tion.
 "The baby Cousin Agathas the baby. o. where did get this one? What have you done?' baby, peering little lingering the tiny moist hands It was baby, anyhow, however 1t got there.
 Cousin Agatha's got the baby?-this isn't cousin Agathas baby?" mumbled the professor suptdly Then revivng suddenly hers the black There wasn't any other white baby but this guess can count two! 70, Pom, waitdo wait! You've got 1t all mixed up. You didn't speak to her-you spoke to somebody else. Cousin Agatha waited and waited for and then she Heartsease rocked herself back and forth a wild at tempt unwind the tangle. Suddenly she stopped gazed up at the looming figure sternly.
 Which did it come, Pom-the train? Did 1t from the WeSt?'
 Tit came from the east sammered the professor, hair in anguishhe hadn't thought of that before And cousin Agathas train from the west" the voice of Heartsease saying in his like the voice of fate.
 a they gazed in each others horri- silence Then they laughed. Cousin Agethas baby, the other side of the partition, laughed too dsregarded baby stody, arranging the little clothes with certain proprietary concern
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12
Of the First U. s. Troops Sent 6u Sea to California in 1853.

succeeded in regaining the steamer. Up to this time the water in the ves
 sel had been kept under control, but this sea raised 1t so much that the soldiers almost gave up In despair, and 1t was only with the greatest exertion that the ship was kept ahoat. But in the succeeding days the worst leaks were stopped and the decks patched up with pieces of sail in the effort to save the ship.
 For time there was a prospect of setting the machinery in working order and of reaching port. A temporary steering apparatus was erected and an attempt made to get the ship under control, but after one or two revolu- tions of the wheel it was pronounced hopeless and the most that could be ac- complished was to keep the pumps working.
 Then death was encountered in a new form. A very large portion of the ships steerage had been filled with cargo, military stores and provisions, and 1t had been expected that the sol dlers would sleep in the berths on deck. When the storms were encoun- tered this arrangement was impracti- cable and they were driven below into confined and unhealthy quarters. While the vessel was abundantly provisioned 1t was almost impossible to prepare it by cooking; to add to the distress near ly all of the medicines were washed overheard or destroyed. A disease broke out in the form of Asiatic cholera, com mencing with diarrhoea and terminat- ing in death in few hours For sev- eral days the mortality averaged ten a day and men, women and children fell indiscriminately The losses on the San Francisco and on the rescuing yes sels by deaths from disease are esti- mated at about one hundred.
 On the 18th the bark Kilby of Boston was spoken. Her captain signaled that he would stand by the distressed steamer. but it was not until the even- ing of the following day that the storm so moderated that transfers could be made of the passengers. The Kilby l took on 10S persons that evening, and | intended to resume the work of rescue
 the next morning, but during the night
 the vessels were separated and after a fruitless search for two days for the
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Kind resolute, martyrike possible points of bance to her idea of "Cordeias husband" "She said he'd meet at the depot"
 Certainly, certainly, aSSented the big br1Sky, thinking cousin Agatha familiar with pet No but Hearsease called him Pom-he did notice the changed consonant But what did 1t natter It was the the broad shoulder and growing like bantam His grtmy little fists pommeing the professors cheekbones with impartial thumpsthe baby was quite
 Here goesl bag am-that's right. fake 1t in other hand Now, then we'll have to step a bit lively"
 And they presently crossing the great room and making excellent headway toward the o'clock up Prof Pomeroy Pettngl Lee conscious of feeling modest degree of pride at his handness, with the crumpled, squirmng little budget his armit enough if shut and plunged in How proud Hearsease would be! In his minds eye he her pale Heartsease saying Splendid, Pom! You're doing 1t like a hero!'
 the wsfuness in her face that crpt in always at the little chldren-and in the dear boys arms!
 Cousin Agatha's baby plunged wildly and was caught with trick that presented itself for the emergency out of the of old baseball days The danger time Julius did all babies St Vitus dance, 1t an affiction monopoiZed by there be time get the before the next 
 group of the professors students up undis- guised the little procession by them, and of them collapsed weakly into the of the
 Hold me! Save mel! he gasped ''The old chaps picked somebody's kid in an absent-minded fit and Is making off with t!'
 Half way down the long station the babys mother made discovery that filled her with dismay Land mercy, I've left my little handbag she cried but in the professor did 'I have left 1t where was sitting-In hurry back-its got the baby's best bonnet il. won't be gone a mnute' the swallowed up rusty figure On the outside the station the starting the professor and cousin Agatha's baby hailed it wildly
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enough for the mainmast of 1000-ton ship.
 A passenger in describing the scene afterward wrote: "The fury of the tenn pest was such that I could not stand before 1t 8 moment; but 1 seized the iron brace connecting the king bolts and surveyed the scene for an instant. Then I threw myself on my hands and knees and made for the nearest hatch to get below I reached the main deck. Here a scene of confusion indescrib- able and confounding presented itself. The livestock, of which there was con- siderable, had escaped from their pens on the same deck, and soldiers, bull locks, calves, pigs, sheep and poultry were all mingled together"
 The steamers guards had been car ried away some time previously, and the sea washed over the deck with every roll of the ship. The lights were ex- tinguished, and during the night the darkness was almost total. It was on this terrible night that an accident oc- cured to the machinery that rendered the engine useless; the vessel was en- tirely at the mercy of the wind and the waves.
 As the chief officer reported: "The ship is now making considerable water Steam pumps kept running and hand pumps manned, but the water is gaining. The troops are organized in bailing gangs 10 pass up water tHrouSH the engine room."
 At o'clock on the morning of the 24th a heavy sea struck the vessel amidship, which stripped the starboard paddle box and carried away both smokestacks and all the upper saloon and staved in all the quarterback.
 At that one fell swoop nearly 150 hu- man beings were swept into eternity. The majority were private soldiers One company lost all but ten of it's mem bers. Four officers went with them Colonel Washington, sWho had distin- guished himself in the war with Mexico at Buena Vista and on other hard fought fields; Major George Taylor and his wife; Captain H. B. Field and Lieu | tenant R. H. Smith.
 The sea was covered with drowning men. The roar of the tempest smothere6 the "bubbling cry of strong swimmers In their agony" In a few moments they sank to rise no more. Two only
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TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE

T HE steamer San Francisco, own
 ed by the Pacific Mail Steamship
 company, and newly built by
 J William H. Aspinwall at a cost of
 $550,0O0, left New York on De- cember 21, 1853. for San Francisco, by way or the Straits of Magellan
 She had on board Companies A, B, D, G, II, l, K and L of the Third Regi- ment or United States Artillery. These companies with the on-commissioned stan and regimental band, constituted Iorce Of over 500 men. Colonel Will liam Gates was the commander, and 1eutenant-C Colonel John M. Washing ton the second in authority. With the passengers and crew added the steamer carried out about 800 persons, though the exact number has never been as- certained.
 The vessel sailed at an inopportune time For month the shipping on the Atlantic side had suffered most severe " oy hurricanes and storms of unusual violence, and there had been no moder- atlon- The marine reports in New York record that at the end of Decem- Der about sixty vessels had gone ashore in the neighborhood of Cape Cod and the adjacent coast. The Boston clipper Staffordshire struck on Seal Island on the morning of the 31st, and TIT human beings met a watery grave.
 The San Francisco sailed at time to encounter the full shock of the storms, and two days after she left New York the fury of the eloments gave presage of the awful disaster that was to fol- low.
 On the night of the 23d the vessel suddenly encountered a gale. and at Il o'clock the scene on deck was terrific The sea was complete mass of foam boilin- and swelling like caldron The steamer broached to twice and be- came unmanageable. The whole crew strenuousiy but vainly endeavored tt | take in the sails, but they were blowr | to ribbons. The foremast was twisted like a sapling. though 1t was largs
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mans misery anywhere? . ,,on,,,
 But opened and the little woman came SLOWLY painfully toward him. ,., .,hoa. ,n ,+
 In the dusk of the little hail baby escaped instant notice. =. .,,.+ ,o+ 70, Pom, she's comeshe took carriage ana Just got ''Who's come? Not cousin Agatha? Tell me qulccK!
 Yes of courSe-couSn Agatha Ilu you lolsee 0i0 'S coming us?" ,., ,,A The gentle reproachfu voice tried hard to De stern ao cutting did 1t in the least He was push ing by her. holding out limp bundle at arms length,
 saints be thankedl he ejacuating neartiiy; 'Iet pass, little I've got her baDy-lts all
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steamer the bark sailed for port. Much or the cargo of the Kilby was thrown overheard to make room for the pas- sengerS. She was not provisioned for so great number and there was great suffering and many deaths before the port was reached. Had it not been that portion of her cargo consisted of corn and that rain fell in abundance many more of those she rescued would have perished. AS it was the mortal. ity from the cholera was frightful.
 On the 31st the San Francisco en- countered renewal of the storm, and all available hands were employed in throwing overheard the coal and other heavy portions of her cargo, and in working at the pumps. During the night distress guns were fired
 At o'clock the next morning the ship Three Bells of Glasgow was spoken and she laid to with the steamer until the Sd, when she was able to ef- feet transfer of more of the people. She rescued 23O-all that 1t was possi- ble to be accommodated
 At o'clock the following morning another sail was sighted and the colors of the San Francisco were hoisted un- ion down. The stranger shortened sail and proved to be the ship Antarctic, bound for Liverpool. She took off 225 persons-all that remained-and the
 
 fate that she must have met a few hours afterward.
 The news of this disaster was a shock to the nation, though it is now of al- most forgotten history Congress im- mediately directed the President to pro- cure valuable gold medals with suita- | ble inscriptions, to be presented to the captains of the three vessels that had aided the shipwrecked soldiers and pas | sengers of the fated San Francisco. as testimonial of national gratitude for their gallant conduct and for a ser vice to humanity that they had per formed at the risk of their lives and at a sacrifice of their property.
 Congress also immediately appropri- ated $100000 to be distributed as the President might deem proper to the of hcers and crews of the vessels French army discipline does not countenance any monkey shines, as an engineer stationed near Toulouse re- gently learned to his sorrow The off, cer in question became convinced that one of his men had stolen, and as the soldier would not confess the lieutenant ordered him to be shot The victim was put through all the forms of a mill itary execution. save that the firing platoon used blank cartridges. The 1 lieutenant has been court -martialed and sentenced to an imprisonment of two months.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-02-09

Schedule in effect Nov. IA, 1897.
All trains Illuminated with Pintsoh
Light.
Express trains.
TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON, DEL.
AWARE AVENUE STATION, FOR
NEW YORK. week days. 'slS sss.
slOA a. M; 'l21s '2.3, Ass. s5.2l, 7A
'1l.oO D.. m. Sundays, ss1s 's.ss, .n.A a.
M; $3.50, b.2l. '7.41. '11.oo p. m.
PHILADELPHIA. week days. 's.l3, $50.
SO, '716. 1888, 1895. 900, ss.ss, 1924, Hos
Z. M; 'l2.H. l.2o. '2,s4, .3.ss. 40. '6H, $50.
VA. sb. '1Loo p. m. Sundays. '31s, Is6.
$50. 1888. '11A a. m.; $50. A1e, s6N, $50.
'7.4l. sl5. '11.oO p. m.
CHESTER week days, 'sls. $50. $40.
sa15. 2s5. 1875. 900, o. 80. 1904, l1.0s a. M:
i.2o '2.S4. 40. '5.21. $50 '7A. slb. s11.oO p.
MA a. M; 1858. 40. '62l. $50. IA, 9l5
su.W p. m.
ATLANTIC CITY, week days. '7.i5 q.
m; I2.le. 1884 p. m. Sundays, 1855 a. IN.
CAPE MAY. week days. SD a. m; '2.a
p. m.
BALTIMORE AND WARRINGTON,
week days, H1s. ITO. 1885. sll.O1 a. M:
'R.67 200. s.o4, 400. '457 1918. 1904. Ell
p. m. Sundays. 4ls. ITO. 1886 q. M;
sR.57. '2.o9. 304 '4.57. 1904, '9.11 p. m.
BALTIMORE AND WAY STATIONS.
40 a. m; s.A p. m. daily.
NEWARK, week days, 'A1s, TO- SIS.
sn.ol a. M; 'l2.57. so4. "o4. %67. 'S.ls.
1882. oil. 1865 p. IN. Sundays. '4.l8, ITO,
'S.s6 a. M; 'l2.67. so4. '4.57. 7s2. '9.1l .. m.
PITTsBURG. week days. 1875 .. m;
S.ls p m. Sundays. 'S.35 q. M: '4.57 p. m.
CHICAGO. daily. 's.s5 a. m: '47 p. m.
CHICAGO via. CINCINNATI and IN
DIANAPOLIS, s835 q. m, daily.
CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS. 'sas a.
M. sl2 81 and % II n m daIIv
TOLEDO AND DETROIT. '9.n p. m.
daily to Toledo and daily except Sunday
to Detroit.
NEW ORLEANS AND MEMPHIS via.
BRISTOL AND CHATTANOOGA. '6.ls
p. m. week days. '4.57 .. m. Sundays.
Through sleepers to Memphis and New
Orleans.
SINCERITY ACCOMMODATION. week
days. ITO a. m: sea. 7.32. 1855 p. m. Sum
days. 40 a. M: s.o4, 7.a2 p. IN.
LANpENBERG ACCOMMODATION.
week days. ITO. 1900 a. M: 304. at p. m.
Sundays. 1000 q, H.: at .. m.
LEAVE MARKET STREET STATION
for
PHILADELPHIA. week days. $50 p. m.
BALTIMORE. week days. e.A q. m;
LANpENBBR9. week days. sS. s.w
.. m; 2.65. $40 p. m. Sundays. SIS a. M;
$40 p. IN.
LEAVE PHIL 1DELPHIA FOR WILL
MINGTON. week days. 1876. e.lo. ITO. $500 |
900. 1925, 11.30 a. M. 'i22O '1.37. zoo. $3.50,
4.2o. 43O, '5.l5. '5.42. 500. $780, "7.So. 's.35,
1000, t135 p. m. Sundays. 1885. 800. 600.
n.3O a. NJ; 1920. 'l.37. 200. '4Ia. blb. $50.
'7.sO. 1885. 1890 p. IN.
Telephone No. l93
Rates to western points lower than via
any other line
w. M. GREENE. d. B. MARTIN,
Gen. Manager. Man. of Pass. Traffic.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-02-09
CHAPTER ~.

Very much such q disturbance as
might have been produced by the alight-
ing Of bird of paradise in burnyard
full Of plain domestic fowls resulted
from Miss Bascom' 8 arrival at the plan
tatiou.
The colonel's assiduous attentions,
marked by an evident desire to appear
very much at his ease, when, in point
Of fact, he was very i'll at ease; the half
wondering, wholly obsequious services
rendered by the very small girl, con-
spicuously new to her duties as lady's
maid; Oscars nervous solicitude that
everything at table should be entirely
to her liking; tho smiling readiness Of
the extravagantly large retinue of yard
servants to do her slightest bidding-all
gave Jessica the uncomfortable sensa-
tion Of being elevated upon pedestal
out of reach OF that warm human COM
partnership for which she had longed
ardently all her life and as ardently
hoped to find under hor fathers roof.
The quiet beauty of her new home,
the balmy flower laden atmosphere that
infolded her, tho absence Of all friction
in the veil ordered household that knev
bat one hcaf and tho manly vigor a:.:
hi.r& wa '"'nsiaent Of her father'sis .
s;#ssIna own fully develop,
--s$ rf to a.~.-.lbis. strongly.
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"Welll" said Miss Melanie Potts,
with that indescribable information
which indicates surcharged mind.
The family waited for her to unbur-
den herself. She was breathless at that
particular juncture from rapid climbing
Of the three flights of terrace steps which
led up from the street to the Potts
house.
The Typographical peculiarities of the
soil constituting Apologize county gave
every house builder his choice of gullies
or terraces. The more elaborate and ex-
pensive alternative of grading was sell.
dom resorted to.
The three high terraces of the Potts
property, each with its own steep flight
of steps, really looked pretentious, in
view Of the squat style Of architecture
and the modest proportions Of the house
browning them, but there was nothing
pretentious about little Potts, his sister
or his daughters or anything that was
his.
His little white house was SQUAT be-
cause his father had built it that way
before he was born. Its shutters were
green and Its walls were white because
at the time Of its erection no other col.
ors were ever thought Of in connection
with house decoration.
No native Of Cloverdell would have
thought Of questioning ancestral tastes
or views, and if Mr.. Lester Potts had
come into ownership Of the tubbed OLE
anders, with which he had been familiar
oil his lifetime, growing upside down,
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"Why haze Ue ncrer heard of this young
lady befo1e9"
cation or had friends to visit them,
tried to keep buster than ever. But all
these years, father, have been ques-
tioning and nobody has been answering
Ny why's have accumulated tremen.
dously."
She smiled wistfully into the trou-
bled, attentive face above her and went
on impetuously:
II want to know why, father, in all
these years you never came on to see me
or let me visit you here. Iwant to know
why was left to the exclusive guardian
ship Of hard, common woman--yes,
vulgar, I might call herewith no
knowledge that better things were my
lawful heritage. did not grieve when
she died. did not shed a single tear
and when that lawyer came to the
school and told them was to be sent
south supposed was coming here to
take up another chapter of Shorter ex-
istence. Then did grieve."
The colonel took refuge in rapid bit
Of special pleading.
ayes, but bless me, my dear girl,
there is something TO be said on the
other side. Just see how I live-one
white soul OH plantation working
nearly 100 slaves. It is no place for
lonely educated female, and if it had
not been for the inevitability of this &C.
cursed war never would have consent
ed to your coming here to live"
"Other educated women do live on
these lonely places"
"None Of them as companionless as
you. Here we are eight miles from any
other white family. Here I live from
one years end to another, surrounded
by darkies, dogs and frogs. I thought I
was doing the best thing for you. Don't
reproach me, .Jessica; don't, child. You
will never know how many anxious
hours I've spent over that problem"
what problsm?"
"You."
poor papa! Did-my-mother OK.
press any wish about me before shs
died?"
"Your--your--motbcr Why, bles,
me, yes yes; Of conrsc yes! But ins
ccnfcunded treacherous memory neye:
could hold on to anything more than
moment at o time
II should think that would act dis.
astrously in your business
Business? Oh, no!' said the colont'
cheertully. my commission merchar |
and my overseer manage between th, |
to take pretty good care Of me fnan
cially.'
But to come back to my mother"
Why-why-of course, my dea,
girl, she wanted you to be reared and
educated like lady"
Jessica's lip curled slightly, and she
transferred her gaze from tho colonels
face to tho fire. Then she said:
IT presume that would have come
about without any expressed wish On
The subject, although ! cant say re-