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Mi1waukee,s rribute to De,ve,.

Milwaukee, Dec. 5.-The judiciary
committee of the common council at
last nights session offered resolutions.
which were passed unanimously, eX-
tending to Admiral Dewey a cordial
and hearty invitation to visit Mil
waukee Immediately following his visit
to Chicago in May next. The resolu-
tions conclude: The citizens of this
city eagerly await with true western
hospitality, the coming of the admiral
whose Yalor and feats at arms can
not be dimmed by the passing days,
months. nor even years"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-12-09

VIRGINIA: In the circuit
court for the county of Acco-
mack, in the Vacation of the
said court, the 9th day of No
vember, A D., 1899.
John T. Andrews. -. Plaintiff.
against
Daisy B. Andrews, Defendant.
In Chancery.
The object of this suit is to
obtain a divorce vinculo mat
rimonii.
Affidavit having been made
before the Jerk of the said court,
that Daisy B. Andrews, the de-
PENDANT in the above entitled
cause, is a nonresident of the
State of Virginia, on motion of
the plaintiff, by his attorneys, it
is ordered that she, the said non
resident defendant, do appear
here within fifteen days after
due publication of this order and
do what is necessary to protect
her interests; and that this or
der be published once a week
for four successive weeks in the
"Peninsula Enterprise q news
paper published at Accomack
=. H., Virginia, and also posted
at the front door Of the court
house of the said county on the
first day of the next term of the
county court Of the said county.
Test: JOHN D. GRANT, G. @.
A Copy
Test: JOHN D. GRANT, G. G.
Wescott & Gunter, p. q.
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Emperor williams Latest Bon Mo

Berlin, Dec. emperor Williams
latest bon mot. it is said, grew out of
the ardent efforts of we'll known
German born American in Berlin to
obtain an audience. The applicant had
pleaded that he was only a German
American member of some American
public body In refusing his request
the kaiser said that Germans born here,
but naturalized in america, became
Americans.
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svndIcate SwIndIer CAPTURED.

Chicago, Dec. SIN telegram re-
ceived here at the local offices of the
Mooney & Boland detective agency the
capture of William F. Miller. accused
of having been connected with the
Franklin syndicate swindle in New
York, was announced as having been
effected at Montreal by the agency's
operatives, who have been in pursuit
of the fugitive since his disappearance
ten DAYS ago.
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Of nnyomhone,s Garrison

Manila, Dec General Conon sur
rendered 800 officers and men with
rifles, some American and 70 Spanish
prisoners, and the garrison at Bay
ombong, province of Neuva, Vizcaya,
to Lieutenant Monroe, with so men
of the Fourth cavalry.
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Mr.. H. E. Swift, the we'll known representative
of ]. N Murdoch. Wholesale Druggist, OF

~ was completely laid up with Cholera Nor
bus. Bought bottle OF kerlnotl E4t. BEN Ia.n
berry and was completely cured with one dose.
Would not be- witbo' It'll tcost me S 90 pot
tie and heartily recommend kermotts ES..
Blackberry as The brst remedy on the marker
for Summer Complaint Diarrhoea; tfI9yG
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AUTUMN MILLINERY

You are invited to call and
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are now prepared to show you
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TO THE PUBLIC.

Having sold my interest in
the agencies of the Hamburg
Bremen Fire Insurance Com
PAW and the United States Fire
insurance Company at Oman.
cock. Y a., 10 Fletcher & Dough-
ty, I desire to thank my former
patrons for their past favors ard
b. speak a continuance Of them
on b. half of The new firm.
Respectfully.
L. w. GRoToN.
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IRON Morders Win Their Strike.

Pittsburg, Dec. 5.-The iron molders
have practically won their strike. At
the headquarters yesterday it was an
nounced that all of the firms in TIE
two cities, with but six exceptions, hid
conceded the terms demanded. 1t is
believed that all will be in line before
the end of the week. The Al foundries
where the advance has been granted
were in operation yesterday.
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omer For ,InryInnd's Canal interest.

Baltimore, Dec. 5.-The board of
public works yesterday received 4
sealed bid from the Mercantile Trust
and Deposit company, of this city, OF
100000 for the states interest in The
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Some time
ago Mr. c. R. Lord, supposedly in the
interest of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, offered 100000, agreeing to
maintain the canal for 25 years as 4
waterway but the offer presented yes
terday was silent on this point Gov
ernor Lowndes is in favor of selling
the. property, but opposed to closing
the canal as a waterway.
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EvEW YORK, PHiLA. & NORFOLK R.R

Time Table in Effect Nov. 30, 1897.
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor
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Notions.

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variety sufficient to suit everyone
and our
Oressmaking
Department.
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We believe, by good workmanship
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ed.
B. R BROUGHTON & CO.,
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The extension g. - "-'''il 10 Inter-
national forci-n :,.e'l; =. :.taHsii;li
and the opening of ;.lc ports OF Marking.
Tsing-Tao Cliiao Chao, and 'ra-Lien-Wan
TO foreign trade and settlement will
doubtless afford any enterprise additional
facilities and new fields. of which 1t will
not be slow to take advantage.
renew the recommendation made TO
the speaker of the house OF representa-
tiyes by the secretary of the treasury on
the 18th of June. 1898. for an appropria-
ton for a commission to study the COM
Inercial and industrial conditions IN the
Chinese empire and report as to the OPP
portunities for. and the obstacles to. the
enlargement of markets in China for the
raw products and manufactures of the
United States.
Referring to our exhibits at the Paris
exposition the president says:
am informed by our commissioner
general that we shall have in the Ameri-
can sections at Paris over 1000 exhibitors
from every state in our country. num-
Der ten times as great as those which
were represented at Vienna in 1873, SIX
times as many as those in Paris in 1875
and four times as many as those who eX-
h,bited in Paris in 1859. This statement
does not include the exhibits from either
Cuba. Porto Rico or Hawaii, for which
arrangements have been made.
Our relations with Germany continue
% be most cordial The increasing In
eivnacy Of direct association has been
eaaykeG during the wear by the granting
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

men unused to hill-climbing are so
fatigued by getting to the fires that they
are largely incapacitated for effective
work. The mountain railway was used
TO good advantage In Landing men at
proper elevations fresh and fit.
THE methods employed in fighting for
est and grass fires are very different from
those employed in city fires. IT, for IN
stance, the fire is in a canyon grown up
with trees and underbrush, II is lmpossl-
bic to get within reach of the flames or
to stand the heat if the place were acces-
sible. 1t must be remembered also that
in fighting these fires one is fortunate II
he gets water enough to wet a sack, so
method must be res0rted to which can be
conducted q a distance from the flames
and without water.
in fighting plain grass fires the men
are supplied with wet sacks and shovels.
The advancing flames are attacked from
both fanks and followed toward the tip.
By this method the WOrkmen are kept at
the side Of the fame and can run perpen-
dicularly away from the direction of the
advancing cCnfiagration if the situation
becomes dangerous.
THE flames usually travel in long,
tonguelike shapes. more or less rounded
at the advancing end. as the wind is brisk
Or light. The tongue travels rapidly with
the wind and very slowly on the sides.
If the ground over which the fire is burn
part can be followed and the flames fought
from their rear. If the tongue is adVanC-
Ing up hill back-firing Is the SUreSt way
out of tho difficulty. | was at one time
when near the top of Little Tamapais cut
off entirely by the fire and only escaped
and slowly lodging my own little fire un-
til It had burned place that L could get
into and stand more secure from the great
fire, which, instead of creeping md burn
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

ne valleys Of the region are burned so
4iten I,ten mat many of the largest specimens
nave trunks that are like a tall coiiimn
covered with feathery growth. Marin
County,s s scenic beauty is due in large
part 10 the seQuofas, and to save these
II LOT no other reason, should her forests
be protected. -0i cots
With the probability of great fire
occurring again at any time the pronertv
owners should organize and sustain an
emergency f1re company which could he
Calleq out on short notice and canabIv
Ilandled. This could be accomplished nv
having each of the townsite. water rail-
ROAD ana construction companies guar-
antee ad TO have a certain number of men
report at their respective depots for
transportation. A fire chief and denuties
Iof each squad of men should be an
pointed IN this way time would be saved
and a PETER apportioning of men oh
tanned than when each tries to save bis
own at the expense or to the neglect Of
others property. W
Persons are not likely to send men to
ald Others when they have no guarantees
that a like turn will be done for them
Dut II an organization were effected the
plan, would be simplifed, the men would
not nave to be engaged so long and the
expense would be divided among those
Tor whose benefit it was incurred
Inc matter of transportation is also
very important. 1t has been found that
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

ing slowly, as they all do at the COM.
lnencement, was rolling along with flames
forty feet high in the ordinary brush and
!eaplng above the highest treetops when
1t came to groves of them Fire travels
up nil with great rapidity because the
current OF hot air generated ascends the
slope of the hill. Thus the same tendency
which leads the fire up one side of
mountain is utilized to intercept its ad-
vance at the top In thick brush if Is
necessary to clear path along parallel
with the ridge and just below its crest on
The side opposite that from which the
nre IS advancing and back-fire from this
II the wind is too strong to risk letting
the main fire burn to its edge Roads are
after all the only way to fight such fires
whether it be regularly Travelled road or
one hacked out of the forest in a hurry
for the purpose
The women of Marin County also are
heroic: In each of the forest fires thar
there have been some of them have done
work that would have quailed many q
manly heart aud they did it too without
nope OF reward or thought of even graft
tude being expressed.
In Larkspur and Corte MADEIRA there are
not many men around during the day
All the morning they drop away to the
busy city. trainload after trainload, until
when the bankers train" departs al 10
o'clock or thereabouts the little towns
are practically deserted. So the women
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

auout not seeing others until the Marin
county authorities wake up to the idea
mat the county is growing and that 1t is
time to give US roads and cut up this
dangerous wilderness that is now of no
use 70 any one and a danger to ALL
.; b Gushing, president of the Null
Ialley and Tamalpais Railroad, said: II
90 not consider that there is any danger
TO lie In any of these fires, and as far
as experience has gone there has been
comparatively little loss on improved
property such as dwellings.
our railroad has had much to do with
increasing the facilities for handling fire.
as 1t enables US TO land men fresh and
ready for work on almost any ridge of
the mountain, where formerly they had
two hours of hard walking to get there.
and were all worn out and unfit to do
anything when they arrived | have now
no trouble in landing men anywhere on
ntteen minutes notice, with ali their tools
ana safe method of escape besides.'
u. h. Baker, superintendent of con-
struction OF the North Pacific Coast Rail-
road, has had many years of experience
IN IN a., ,nghtlng fire all along the line of the
Tallroad from Sausalito to Cazadero. and
70 MN 1t seemed an old story. II never
ieel ie AFRAID; he said, "and have no trou-
m PIE IN extingutshing fire If there are
TI9oddWays or trails through the forest. so
that can get my men to it and handle
them IN body. l usually try to work
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22
lesson to Be Iearne0 from tbe CamoaQpat9 Jtr1
California Is q State of Dense FOrests=-All
Should KNOW the Best Methods for
Fighting Fires That Some Day May
Devastate ALI This Great Country.

grow self-reliant and learn. TO deaI W1sn TN
tramDs stray cows and various CDLAPlICA-
tions that visit suburban villas ,-o,-
In the Warner Canyon, WheIe IIe ne a. .
lest burning took place, the ilouse &c n[1
only saved by the indefaugable e&ertl0 l
of all engaged, and Miss warner and ner
sister, assisted by the two bliss - - -. .
bachs and Miss Car!nelita Boyle, KepL tIle
water running 70 wet the SACKS "LII
which the fire was beaten. cooked mag -aI5
for the worn-Out men and kept Watcn @ anu
ward to see that the only means OF escape
down the CANYON should not be cut OF by
a retrOgrade movement Of the Hre.
Miss Boyle would not admit tnal sne %
her companion girl hre-hghterS hdd uoIIS
anything unusual, and she seemed 70
think that going into winding canyon
with burning trees falling on ali slQeS
was one Of the most ordinary things that
could happen any day. went IN aDoIl aD3I
o'clock Tuesday morning, she Sdld,
land did not come out until the HTe was
nearly over At one time, while my
brother Hugh was in one Of the SInaler
CANYONS on the south side Of the Warner
house, trying to stop the fire from getting
down through the thick redwoods some
one set a back fire below him and he came
nearly being imprisoned in there, except
for my seeing it and sending man up
on the hill to give him warning Even
then he had to fight his way down
through the trail. that is none too wide
to walk through even when the brush
that lines it is not on fire.
Back fires may be useful in some
places" said Hugh Boyle himself; but
I have seen little use for them, and the
hardest work that [ had during the two
from setting back fires and in escaping
from them and putting them out after
'',The only fire that reached our place
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

fore for the flames were in impregnable
brush and the fierce gale which was
blowing with stunning force was veering
around so as to drive the fire on the
towns. Darkness and impossible brush
forbade a repetition of the work of the
day. on drove the fire and there was
nothing to be done to save the town
from destruction. Acre after acre of
timber was being turned to barren waste
every minute and no help for 1t, when a
phenomenon occurred such as ! nave
never before witnessed, rain began to fall
as 1t appeared out of an almost clear sky
but after our first surprise was over we
examined the sky more carefully and
discovered a long. thin gauze-li6e cloud,
so thin that the stars could be seen
through it, yet the rain continued. Now
more and darker clouds began to
raise and lend their aid to our first friend
the filmy cloud that had thinned almost
to imperceptibility. The rain as it in
creased in volume gained over the fire,
and soon all that was left of two miles of
raging furnace was here and there a
deep red glow that looked like a blowhole
in the lava of a crater.
Yes, l am glad it's out, but I have
seen two before. The great fire of 1880
which cleared every green leaf west of
the top of Tamalpais, and the Larkspur
fire of ten years since that burned half of
the Baltimore Canyon and most of Corte
MADEIRA. And I will never feel safe
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

on the fire entirely by f1anking That is
the fire generally advances with the wind
or up a grade with a more or less uni
form line. such as ranks of troops would
take. Now I do not believe in going at
it bullheaded from the front, but keep al
ways attacking it from the ends and
gradually cut into it that way, advanc-
Ing men from each end. Shovels are the
main tools to be used, as the leaves and
grass can be removed from the path of
the fire and earth can be thrown on the
burning embers."
Charles Taylor, who came near being
roasted alive Tuesday night, has rather
strong opinions. He said: E''The damage
done by this fire was small compared
with what it would have been had we
not checked it as it crossed the ridge of
Little Tamalpais,' but the property de-
stroyed was sufficient in value to impress
upon residents Of the Tamalpais slope the
great necessity Of taking steps to pre-
vent a repetition of such destructive
fires. The past history of this part of
Marin County shows that a large area
Is burned over every few years, and the
groves of majestic redwoods which adorn
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22
The Men
Who
Have Been
Through
Many
Forest Fires
Tell
How the
Grim Enemy
May Be
Conquered.

CTOBER has been a month
q of most serious forest fires
for California. With the ex-

of most serious forest fires
for California. With the ex-
ceptionally hot weather experienced
all over the State-so warm that even
San Francisco was reduced to the
melting point-fres seemed to burst
forth in the wooded localities as if
from spontaneous combustion.
In the far-distant mountains, with
only the stra ggling sheepheAler's hut
or the lone rancher's farm in jeop-
ardy, the king of destroyers seems
not so all-powerful, but when he
comes to the forests and glades
wherein nestle the habitations of
thousands and where not only thou
sands of dollars of valuable homes
seem destined to go up in smoke, but
the probable loss of many lives is
imminent-then is his terrible power
realized
Most forcibIy was this brought
home to us by the narrow escape of
Marin County barely a few days ago.
The experience of the Sutro forest
fire on the outskirts of San Francisco
itself could hardly be classed under
the head of the rsal forest fire, but
that across the bay was entirely diff
ferent There was no opportunity for
hook and ladder or hose and engine
or the use of trained men-forest fires
do not run upon that plan-and with
a good start upon the part of grim
old King Fire there was abundant
fuel in sight to have lasted for
months and run the loss into millions
of dollars and many lives,
1t certainly seemed that divine
Providence took a hand in sending
the rain which checked the flames,
and it is also interesting to consider
the fact that many prayers were be
ing offered up at that very time for
just that very thing to occur.
Even the rain would have availed
little, however, had it not been for
the determined efforts of the men
under the direction of a few master
minds trained by the experiences of
former fires. for almost impossible as
it may seem this most awful of all
scourges can be controlled and ouell-
ed by comparatively small number
of men if thsy work with understand
ing and system.
The men who acted as leaders and
saved the day tell the story of how
it was done and explain the only
methods by which the grim monster
may be conquered. Living in a State
so thiclzly wooded as California, and
apt at any time during the warm
summer months to be visited by a
fire of a most devastating character,
it is we'll for all to read and learn the
scientific and most efficient ways Of
fighting forest fires.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-22

scatter the hundreds of burning brands to
start the leaves in every direction.
when I arrived at Corte MADEIRA Tues
day afternoon every one there said that
there was no danger. and two people who
had just been over to Mil Valley said the
fire was out, or nearly so, and that it
could not again get beyond control 1t
was not more than two hours after this
when the fire had not only got beyond
control, but had burned its way from
nearly sea level to the top of Little Ia
malpais, 1000 feet in height. Up we had
to 60 on the run. packing our tools and
breaking our way through thick brush un-
I'll we came to an open grass slope. This
was burning furiOusly. but was quickly
eXunguished with redwood limbs, with
Whlcn we beat II out. From the edge Of
the grass we followed the fire into the
brush, but the unburned part was so thick
as 10 be solid barrier, SO we were COM
PeIied 70 follow in on the part where the
hre had already burned and walk over the
smoking embers. This was hot work but
while we blistered our feet and burned our
hands and faces, there was not the danger
OF roasting alive that there would have
been had we become entangled in the un-
burned brush.
with our shovels we pulled down the
burning brush, beat Il out and covered
loose earth over the burning leaves. Often
when we had extinguished a long line Of
ire, the flames in front would work down
hill more rapidly and get away from US,
then work slowly around below the un-
burned brush and come rushing up the hill
at US. OF course ii would stop when II
reached the burned part, but il would also
commence to run slowly along the hill
horizontally. Then we would have to rush
down through the smoking stubs of
branches and follow back up the line
again.
There was probably not more than one
quarter Of a mile of front left to the fire
when Il was determined to make a bold
effort by cutting through the brush below
TO stop the whole thing at once, so we be-
them to work in some order. Paths were
cut in front of the fire line, over a hun
dred willing hands aiding at the work, and
soon chain Of such clearings was made,
ana as the roaring of the flames neared
US, back fires were started from the paths
and went rushing up the sides of the hill
and met the down coming conhagration.
flames shot and leaped and jumped at
each other like fire giants in a tussel of
death. And death it was, for neither fire
could cross the other, each having burned
OFF all OF the combustible material, leav-
ing the ground clean. Then the villages
seemed safe.
"EXcitable persons who had removed
their belongings commenced to gather
them in. But forest fires are often in
their most dangerous stage when they
look the most harmless. Those who had
fought fire all day had scarcely finished
their suppers when darkness came on and
with II ruddy glare Of light ref1ecfinp
unseen core Of fire behind the Little Ta
malpais range. The light grew and finally
the flames again came over the ridge
striking terror TO the hearts of those who
had imagined themselves secure.
ut seemed worse this time than be-