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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-23
DROPPED FROM
THE THIRD STORY
A. j. White Falls to a
Horrible Death on the
Pavement.

The first fatality know to have oc-
Cured was the horrible death of a
wealthy, retired dry goods merchant
named A. ]. White, who had his apart
ments on the fifth floor of the hotel on
the Market street side.
White it was who heroically liberated
the three young women who were
penned in the cupola.
When he sought to make his own es-
cape he founC the egress below the
fifth floor cut off by the flames, and in
last endeavor he sought the life rope
that dangled from the hall win
dows.
He reached the third floor and there,
while he dangled in midair, the thin
rope parted and he fell with a horrid
thud to the sidewalk. He was dead be-
fore the f1remen could pick him up.
The women whose lives White died
to save were Miss G. Johnson and Miss
K. Richardson, For fully half an hour
the women stood on the cornice of the
cupola while the flames and smoke
curled about them.
Just without their reach was the too
short ladder which truck 1 had raised
in the hope of saving them. Their wild
shrieks for help were drowned out by
the noise of the pumping engines, but
their frantic gestures expressed to the
anxious crowd the agony they were
undergoing.
Several times they seemed about to
jump In their frenzy, and at each mo-
ton indicating that they were about to
leap to the ground, firer- and spec
tators would lift their voices in cries Of
warning and promise of help soon to
come.
A rope was finally secured. Brave
Mr.. White volunteered to perform the
dangerous task of rescue and succeed
ed in his attempt, but paid for his brav-
cry with his life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wagner had rooms on
the fifth floor on the Ellis-street side.
When they heard the alarm of fire
they sought to escape by the stairway,
but found their way barred by flames.
They found their way through the
smoke to a window, and from there
were rescued by means of a rope.
Frank Noon, a well-known man
about town, made his way to the sec
ond story and being unable to go far
ther. jumped from a window. He was
seriously bruised but his injuries are
not dangerous.
White was formally employed by
Keane Bros, the old dry goods firm on
Kearny street. He was a trusted head
of a large department and remained
with the firm for a number of years.
He afterward started a business in his
own name opposite the house Of his
former employers. This was in about
1885. He retired from business about
six years ago, and since that time he
has lived in ease, drawing upon the
fortune which his business netted him.
He is characterized as a man who
never felt fear and on one occasion
before performed a service in which he
took his life in his oEn hands. His
disposition was gentle and he pos
sessed all the traits which constitute
the true man. The courage and BRAY
cry displayed this morning is only proof
of his nobility.
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succeede in saving their trunks and
carried them to the doorways on the
opposite side of Market street. where
men, women and children were tempo
wits sufficient. to seek shelter else
where
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-23
Appalling Conflagration in the
Very Heart Of the City.
CAPTAIN A. j. WHITES FEARFUL
DEATH
Many Others Are Believed to Have Per-
iShed Wild Scenes Of
Panic.


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like a mortar ball, in the midst of the
fortificatOn.
The President on June 8 granted par
don to Capt. John ID. Hart, of Philadel lphia
formerly of Baltimore, now serving a
sentence of two years for engaging in a
filibuSteTing expedition TO Cuba. The rec
Ommendation of the Attorney General 10
the President was in part as follows:
Capt. IIart'S offense was against the
United States. 1t was the laws of this
Government which he violated. He was
sentenced for disobedience to a Federal
criminal statute, the object of which Is
to enable this country to maintain in good
faith and with efficiency its obligations
of neutrality to friendly powers. SO long
as Spain remained at peace with the
United States she also had right to in
slSt upon a rigorous enforcement OF the
law against such offenders But being
now at war with the United States, Spain
has no further title to consideration. |
think it has been made manifest by this
time that the neutrality laws OF the
United States viii be vigorously and Sc
verely enforced by the Government, and
that the punishment already undergone
by Capt. Hart is adequate under the cir
cumStanceS, to serve as warning and an
example, and that no harm can come to
the administration of Justice by his re-
lease"
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was a soldier in that regiment. Her first
experience as a nurse was caring for the
wounded from Antietam.
When the general field hospital was
established at Windmill Point, Va, she
was made matron. From June IL to July
she marched with the regiment from
Falmouth, Va, to Gettysburg. She was
moving with the ambulance and supply
train, July ], and was within four miles of
Gettysburg when heavy firing was heard.
The train was ordered back, but Mrs.
Spencer loaded her horse with additional
First Corps until under fire at the foot of
Seminary Ridge. She was at Gettysburg
several weeks. At the dedication of the
Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettys-
burg she was personally thanked by
President Lincoln.
Upon the opening of the Wilderness
campaign, she was sent by the medical
purVeyOr with two steamer loads of relief
supplies to Belle Plain, Va, where the
sick and wounded from the front were be-
ing brought by thousands.
On May 25, 1854, the relief base was
transferred to Port Royal to meet the
wounded being brought there. From Port
Royal she went to White House Landing,
May 30, 1854.
June Is, 1864, she went to City Point,
where hospitals had been established, and
resumed her duties as relief agent, which
she followed to the close of the war.
At the City Point explosion she was
struck IN the side by grapeshOt from
the exploding ammunition. The Govern
ment pays her pension of $50 per month.
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by the Department in getting supplies as
readily as required. This deficiency is
due to want of plants capable of manu-
featuring the enormous quantities re-
quired on short notice. Affairs are said to
be improving daily, and with the first
division of the Cuban army Of invasion
on the sea the opportunity for meeting the
demands of troops a all the big camps for
supplies and equipments of all kinds is
presented.
The President has nominated as Major
General of Volunteers j. Warren Keifer of
Ohio, and as BriCadier- General of Eoiun-
teers J. p. 5. Goblin, Of Pennsylvania,
now Commander-in Chief. GAR
Gen. \. ". Greedy. Chief Signal Officer,
has issued a general order to the cable
companies that hereafter no news con
ceTning the movements of American yes
selS or OF American troops would be per
mitted TO be sent 10 foreign countries
The order covers both press Cablegrams
and private messages. Gen. Greedy said
that IN the enforcement of the order no
exceptions would be made. The order ap-
plies to all movements of vessels and
troops, whether the Subiect-matter of the
dispatch offered has been published in
this country or not.
According to the press dispatches, the
negro Regulars, who have been COM
planned of before in the South since the
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I stood on the works when they were advanc-
Our skirmish-pits were filled with Fourth
Corps boys, and they did not leave until the
enemy was within 10 PAGES
We were ordered to reserve orr fire until
the Fourth Corps boys could get in. This,
however, came near losing US the day, as we
could not open on the enemy for fear Of kill
ing our own men, and by the time the Fourth
Corps boys came in over the works the enemy
were at their heels. The Tooth Ohio, of our
brigade, and the 104th Ohio, of the Second
Brigade, were in the works at this time,
with the 9Th Tenn, 10Th and 18th KY, in
reserve The IGith Ohio fell back, causing
the Tooth Ohio to do likevise,- giving the
enemy possession of the works. The 9Th
Tenn, 10Th and 10th Ky. were ordered to
the works We came out over the reserve
shelter, and with the Tooth and 10Th Ohio
started for the works, beating the enemy over
the head with our muskets, compelling them
to drop in the ditch on the outside.
Cur line opened upon the enemy again,
moving down their first line and taking
prisoners. The second line came up, and we
repulsed it, and took more prisoners. The
third line came mp, was repu!s5d, and
prisoners taken. The fourth line fell in the
bitches on the outside, and tried to shove the
headlcgs over on our line of men inside.
The firing ut this part of the line was kept
mp for two hours, clouds of smoke rising
from our line like clouds from a storm. and
the cheers from our officers rang along the
lines. We were told by some of Cheatham's 8
men. in our front, that this was their first
repulse.
While we were fighting on this part of the
line the Fourth Corps, to our right, was
doing some hard fighting, "a the rebs con-
tinued, after being defeated in our front, to
charge on the right, keeping up the firing
some two or three hours after we had ceased
There was but very little artillery in ac-
ton on our side, and, in fact, the most of
the artillery WAS sent over the river early In
the evening. The enemy came up so close
that they stuck rails in the mouths of some
OF our cannon, and one rebel demanding the
surrender of piece OF artillery, the can
nOnneer hit him over the head with the ram
mer. | went out in front of our works about
90 yards after the fight, and could have
stepped from one dead reb 10 another with
out getting on the ground The ditch in
front of our works-eight feet wide by two
feet deep-was filled with dead and wounded
As we would carry in the wounded and re-
turn for others hundreds would cry out:
Take me in first" Our brigade lost
heavily in retaking the works. Consider the
number engaged on our side in the battle of
Franklin, and compare it with some of the
great battles Of the war, and the loss in
killed and wounded at Franklin, for the
time engaged, was one of the greatest
About 22 stands of rebel colors were capt
ured. / was told by some of the prisoners
who fought on our left, and in front of the
Second Brigade of our division, that they
piled their dead comrades up to make pro-
lection from our balls
We went on to Nashville, and it was not
long before Hoods army was broken up.-A.
A. JONES
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LADIES OF THE CIR.
Notes of Interest Regarding Work of the
Order.


Pursuant to a call issued by Flora NJ.
Davey, National President of the Ladies
of the GAR, a State Department was
organized at Carthage, Mo-, on May IS
and 20. The present list of Circles is as
follows: Samuel C.. Shaw Circle, /, st.
l. uis; Mother Mckinley, g. Hannibal; !;
Noule, A, U. S. Grant, 5, and Abraham Lin
coin, 8, all of st. Louis; o. p Morton, 7,
Joplin The representatives from Mother
Mckinley Circle failed to apear, althOu h
crede tials were forwarded from all these
Circles.
Mrs Flora NJ. Davey was the presiding
officer. Permanent organization was
effected by eIcctin@-F'reS., Mrs. Hettie
b. knelenberg, st. Louis; >. V. p. Mrs.
Fannie Coon, Joplin; j. V.P., Miss Bertha
Kruer. ST. Louis; Sec, Mrs. Mary Stark.
81. Louis; Treas, Mrs. Freely Seward
Joplin; Chap, Mrs. Louise Stunkel, St.
Louis: Counselor, Mrs. l.. j. Saunier, ST.
Louis. Council of Adnli sstrat on, Mrs. j..
Alice Hamlin, ST. Louis; Mrs. Mary
Dodson, Joplin; and Miss Margaret T..
Stewart, St. Louis. Miss Stewart was also
a. pointed Department Press Correspond
eat. Delegates TO next Convention: Dele
gate at-Larye Mrs. Title j. Fore; Dee
gate Mr.. Nellie Nj. Misher.-Aiargafe T..
Stewart, department. f-ress Correspondent,
st. Louis MOI
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How a Woman Paid Her Debts.

I am out of debt, and thanks to the Dish
Washer business for it. In the past five
weeks have made over $500. and l am so
thankful that l feel like telling everybody,
so that they can be benefited by my expert
ence. Anybody can sell Dish Washers, be-
cause everybody wants one, especially when
it can be got so cheap. You can wash and
dry the dishes in two minutes | believe
that in two years from now every family will
have one. You can get full particulars and
hundreds of testimonials by addressing the
Iron City Dish Washer Co., AS : Highland
Ave, Station A, Pittsburg, Pa, and you
can't help but make money in the business
[ believe that | can clear over s.. coo the
coming year, and I am not going to let such
an opportunity pass without Improvements.
We can't expect to succeed without trying.
Mrs e
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Santiago de Cuba.

1t is very difficult to find the entrancs
10 the harbor OF Santiago Approachin.
1t from the sea, nothing is seen but loft,
mountains. When quite near two mount
ans seem to suddenly part, and chan
mel only 1S0 yards wide, but OF good depth
is revealed
Santiago was founded by Veiasoues in
l5lA, and, after Barracoa, is the oldest
town IN Cuba. II was for many wears the
capital of the island, but was unhealthy
and remote from the more populous por-
tions.
The country around Santiago is exceed
Incly rich IN mineral wealth, but the
Spa1lards have never encouraged mininp
| II Cobre, II miles from the city. is one oI
the finest copper mines in the world.
The cathedral of Santiago. finished in
1919, IS the largest in Cuba.
MORO Castle the largest and most
picturesque of the three of the name. was
built about 1870, and is a fine specimen oI
the feudal "donion keep" with battle
mcnted walls, moats, drawbridge port
culbS, and all the other paraphcrnalia OF
the days of romance
The castle on the opposite side of the
entIance-tastie La Socapa. or Batferia
dc la EstreiIa-is of the same cbaracfer
though smaller
East OF the harbor entrance several
miles IS a splendid iron pier. costing 5000
600, and built by an American COMPANY
- h"IlClt tlle Tlcn iron ores OF .JIriIuJIa
There IS another fine pier a few miles
further east still, built by the Spanish
American Iron Company. whose mines
are at D1lqulrl. These piers are Droba blv
where the troops landed
The streets Of Santiago are verv had
many OF them rugged and steep. and All
intolerably filthy. They are lined bv
one-walied houses.
The city Is supplied with very bad
water by an aqueduct
The harbor il naturally one of tbe
finest in the world but il has not henn
taken care OF, the engineers and officials
stealing the money that they manaped In
get appropriated for its improvement
one OF the best features OF the city is
the Alameda, q road hall-a-inile long er-
tending along the water front. and shaded
by palms >nd other picturesque trees
Its condition, as well as that OF all tl,cr
good things about the place. is due ia the
foreign residents, without whom Sant;.co
would have been ruined long ago. The
SpanlardS only care to fill their own
pockets, and get what enjoyments thev
can for the day
There Is not hotel in the CITY that an
American tramp would SOP at if he could
find decent fence-corner.
They had q fine band in the citv until
most OF its members Joined the INSURGENTS
In December, 1873, So of the VirGiniuc
crew were shot at the slaughterhouses OF
Santiago.
The population of the city is about
| 40 600, of whom less than 10 900 are whites
Santiago IS Spanish for St James who
rs the special patron saint OF Spain. on
] account OF Il myth that he once made 2
journey to that country
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PUZZLES AND QUERIES.
Some Problems Which are Really
Worth While Working Out.
Questions (Third Series.)

AZ. Why does the sun shine upon the
north side of buildings at this season OF
the year June II in the morning and even
ing, and not at noon ?-Reader.
IS What was the Eoccne
10. What is the regulation ration IN the
United States Army?
30. What is the principle upon which
the ordinary telegraph sounder " works
Answers. (Third series)
G. In bearings the surface appears
smooth, but is not. The oil fills up the va
cancies AMI makes Il perfect or, at least,
better surface, thereby preventing Fiction
j. W. Adams.
BY virtue of capillarity oil will wet
metallic surfaces. In the bearing there
fore. each metallic surface is covered by Il
finn OF OIL or, what is the same thing, a
film OF oil separates the bearing surfaces.
The friction of an oiled bearing is conse-
cucntIy metal against oil instead of metal
aga inst metal.-XenOtime.
T. The old style injector was a force
pump with a power greater than the pres
sure OF the steam in the boiler. Giffard'S IS
injector, now in general use, receives steam
from the boiler in vertical pipe outside,
carries it down to near the bottom of boiler
where the steam pipe ends in Il cone sur
rounded by a larger cone supplying the
cold water. These two cones have small
| end down and the water cone reaches
lowest anu clluS Iuol ciDoNC IL -"dlcI
cone connected with it inside of boiler near
| the bottom. The last cone is small end up
| and it is much smailerthan the cones above.
| Although the pressing steam is almost
instantly condensed, the pressure it exerts
| in the larger cone forces the smaller stream
below into the bo. ler.l No diagram; hard to
IexpIain.-Asa W. .gtSIaSton.
| 8. For 100 years after Newton's time
light was said TO be PARTICLES or atoms
given off from all luminous bodies and
moving in space $4,000 miles per second.
| The next 50 years hight was thought to be
| only a wave motion in an ether filling all
space. Now peopleb are trying to think
| light is some form Of electrical or magnetic
oscillatiOn.-AsabW.c SlaytOn.
8. Hashish is che oriental name for the
tops and green sh3uts of Indian hemp.
BY boiling the tops and flowers in water
with a little oil or butter and then evapo-
rating, the hashsh, or maiOon, is obtained.
This is used little as medicine, but more
as an intoxcant, producing a happy go
drunk -forgetfulness much like Opium-only
more so.-Asa ". lSlayton.
1t is a very powerful narcotic. 1t is used
quite extensively among the people of warm
climates, and is IL terribly exciting poison.
H. T. Matthews.
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Admiral Camara has command of the
SRaniSh feet now at CadiZ and about
whose future movements there is SO much
uncertainty He is reported to be brave
and efficient officer. His feet WAS in
spected the other day by the Minister of
Marine, and this, with testing of the bat
teries, and other dongs about the feet.
have once more given rise to runIors that
she will move with troops whether for
the Philippines this part of the world
being doubtful. The feet is said to CON
sist of the battieship Peiayo cruiser
Carlos V, cruiser Alfonso Kill, auxiliary
cruisers Rapido and Patricia, three tor
pedobo destroyers and five armed YES
Sels fitted as transports. They are de
clared by correspondents not TO be in
prime condition. The men are said To he
welI-iTained, but half hearted. There is
reported TO be much dissatisfaction anlonp
the people because the feet does not sail
Official information received by the naval
authorities is that the departure IF the
feet from Cadiz, under the commend of
Carmara, may be expected soon.
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Ho-or for a BattleHag.

A large, handsome flag, for which a
great honor is believed to be destined, was
recently presented to Secretary Alger by a
delegation Of veterans from L. NJ. X. Lee
Post. OF Merchantviile, N. j.
The flag was bought originally by the
Corn Exchange Of Philadelphia, in 1861
when reg. men. af soldiers was enlisted
under it Alter the war was over this flag
was given to Alexander Catell, personal
friend Of Gen. Grant. Subsequently the
flag was purchased by George w. Algoer,
of Merchantville, ard was presented at
the lattcr's suggestion To tic Secretary as
gift from the citizens 81 that place.
The presentation speech Was made by
Past Department Commander II. l..
Hartshorn, who asked tIlt he direct that
the flag lie the first to be unfurled at
Havana on MORO Castles flagstaff VIXEN
Cuba comes in possession Of the United
States Government.
Secretary Al@er made feeling response
to the address, and in conclusion said Il
thank YOU for the dag, and will direct that
it be raised over Moro Castle when it is in
our possession
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Regulars at Jonesboro.

John BnFgoyne, Co. K, 14th Mich, Bridge
port, Mich, writes: - l have just read the
reply of Charles I. Brown Co. q, 18th Reg.
ulars, to Henry Snyder, Co. +, 74th Ind.
and | would like TO tell what know of that
affair at Jonesboro. L do not know where
the 14th were that day, but / do know where
the Regulars were for a little while at least
They had position on the left of my regiment
and they broke and ran to the rear. but were
rallied by their officers and advanced a shor,
way; then they broke again. We never saw
them again. On account Of the retreat OF
the Regulars our regiment had to halt in an
exposed position, until the 18th n. Y. could
be moved from our rear. The Colonel of the
lHh and good many men were killed, but
they took the works with rush.,
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Song or the Rapid-FIres.
baltimore Ne,cs.l

baltimore Ne,cs
You may take the thirteen-inchers,
And the eights and six and fourS;
You may take the heavy battery,
And the rain 9f SHELLS it pours;
You may take the g:im proiectile
And the mighty solid shot,
But we, the Epid firers,
Are the guns tlafs make things hot.
Oh, it's swift theSturrets swing us,
And with sfeady, ready ken
We reach the decks and sweep them
With their living walls of menl
It's ping, and sping and sputter.
And it's beautiful to be
The tenors in the chorus
That is sung across the seal
Swing your broadside into action,
Let the forward turrets play,
Harll the thunder of the cannon
As they dance in deaths chaSse!
Sweep the courses with the squadron,
Let them give and take again
Send the foe the thunder challenge
But it's we that take the men!
Oh, ii s terrible to hear us
And it's lively when we sing,
As across the heavng pillows
To the foemen's deck we spring.
We are tenorS of the chorus,
But on starboard or on lee,
We are heard above the thunder
That is sung4across the sea!
We are flame and fire and terror,
We are twenty to their one;
We are mp again and at them
Ere they charge the heavy gun;
And our lips are red with battle,
And our throats are hoarse with smoke,
When we land upon their quarter
And they feel our lightning stroke.
Oh, it's rapid, rapid, rapid,
Jolly rapid-fireS are we,
Singing round the ranging turet
And across the surging sea.
We are brothers 10 the heavies,
And we strike where they hav'
missed
And there's doom upon the quarter
Where our twenty bolts have kissed
Swing the FOUNDERS into action,
We shall beat the batteries yet;
From the furnace to the funnel,
Where the naked seamen sweat,
We are heard amid the chorus,
And they know our surCing shout,
AS we sing across the waters
From our triple-steel redoubt.
Oh, it's rip and roar and rumble
When the thirteens sink the foe,
And it's death upon the billows
When the solid Founders go;
But it's swift the tuTretS swing us
And with steady, ready ken
We search the decks and sweep them
With their living walls of menl