New-York tribune., 1899-06-16
THE PASSING THRONG.

| r. u. .. ~,
OF the famous commander OF the Kearsarge is at
the Abemare. and yesterday he told Tribune re-
| porter a new story about Admiral
GOOD George Dewey.
| STORY I'm May 1875, Admiral Dewey
| ABOUT was commander Of the old Maria
| DEWEY. gansett." said Lieutenant Wnslow.
"and he detailed TO surveying
| the Gulf of California and the shores OF the coast
OF the peninsula. II was not long after the Vir-
ginus affair at Santiago and the feeling toward
| Mexicans and Cubans too cordial. The
| Narragansett reached La Paz. the southern
! end OF the peninsula. and sooner got ashore
| than We heard that an American mining engineer
| and some Englishmen who owned the mine were
prisoners In their mining shanties. forty miles back
| OF La Paz In the mountains. The American had
| resented an insult. quarrel followed, and the
| American killed two Mexlcans. The friends of the
| latter swore they'd kill the Yankee and the eng
| lishmen: too. and the latter were soon obngeu ~
barrlcade themselves. This siege had been on for
| several days when dropped anchor.
AS soon as commander Dewey heard OF II ne wa was
yy % m ne next in Gay T e Pas sem who had
garrison OF COO soldiers there asking him what ne
| he was shot
"'Oh, he got into the trouble-let him get out
| Commander Dewey didn't like this reply, and the
more he thought about It the angrier he got The
| telling him that American citizens life was In
danger and that the man was entitled & to h1I taIr
Just twentyfour hours TO rescue the American ana
| protect the Englishmen If the end or tnat time
| relief was not on its way TO the little mining party
he would lombard La Paz and burn IT, ..o.o
| When We heard what Dewey had done we were
all frightened
Does he mean it?' asked one another
meant every word Of it. ' was GS in command Of the
guns We had only two old howltzers on the Mar
porsy at 'nf the lfsf Msfe ISLAM Island " Navy Yerd
Get those howitzers ready for tomorrow morn
ton said Dewey to me. Then he called the men
to quarters and estimated that OF crew of about
s;ermins sVS force We drlisd the men ali that after
noon and far into the night That night on Com ON
| mander Deweys order steamed TO point COM
mandng the principal streets Of La Paz and trained
| the howitzers on the town BY next morning W. We
Mexico. o." ''"O' ~ ''''''
| At daybreak Mexican corporal came on board
with a message from his colonel saying that the
Narragansett's commander's request would be com
Rd With Ey na 9ns s"dars start we m the
ing. camp and We kept the old howitzers trained e,
can engineer. When Dewey reported to Washing
ton on the matter he minimized the importance OF
| Lieutenants Harris and Wright were the Mar
ragansett then. and Harris, at least was with the
fleet at Manila. 1t is somewhat singular that at at
that time. when we were expecting ecaration
Of war against Spain on account OF the Virglni19s
TO sail the Narragansett to Manila"
THE most novel ride experienced" said
Count Cassini. Russian Ambassador to the United
| States at the Waldorf Astoria last night was
Journey OF about twenty-five hun
COUNT dred miles through Mongolia, In
CASSINTS October and November. 1897 just
NOVEL after I closed my term as Ambas-
RIDE sador to Peking | had decided 10
travel overland through China and
Russia to St. Petersburg. distance of eight thou
sand or ten thousand miles. Two thousand five
hundred miles Of this was through Mongolia and
the Chinese officials planned my journey They
provided sixty changes of horses, ana at eacn
Changing point they had sixty horses. making in all
3Co0 for my personal use. At the end OF eacn por-
for my entertainment The roads Of Mongolia are
excellent. and made remarkably quick time to
in crossing the River Oby one OF the great rivers
Sa6W Soea znIo ana be r8ep as @ of floating
l shudder yet at the thought Of that river trip l
I should die with the cold afterward learned
that October and November were the worst
months Of the year to make such trip.
Isaac F. Chapman OF the Merritt & Chapman
Derrick and Wrecklng Company. says he fears the
Paris. fast the Manacles on the English
coast. will again be seen in
LITTLE this port. From newspaper ac-
HOPE OF counts" said he, Il believe she
THE PARIS will never be foated again and she
will no doubt keep company with
the Mohegan. Several years ago my firm succeeded
in floating the olinda off Fishers Island but she
OF the mud and sand when she went ashore l on
Z e FabrTary 1886 but her Condition was never
so serious as that OF the Paris.
J. j. Richardson. publisher OF The Davenport
Democrat" OF Davenport. Iowa, is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. He Is TO sail tomorrow on the
Campania for short trip to the
GIVING Up other side. He eight years
FREE member Of the Democratic Ma
SILVER. tional Committee.
The free-silver Democrats of
Iowa are Just beginning to loosen their grip on the
free-silver fad said he last night. The State
Committee has appointed Cato Sells. moderate
Democrat with no free-siver record. as temporary
chairman OF the next State convention There is
feeling among the Democrats OF the state that
ndorses the Chicago platform
w G. Busk OF Coleman. Tex, an English ranch
man Is AT the Fifth Avenue. THE farmers Of
Texas are doing well this year" said he. Early
in the year there was a drouth. and
TEXAS the wheat crop was nearly ruined
FARMERS Some OF It was repanted Then
DOING WELL. came a succession OF heavy rains.
and the crops. general thing.
are in good shape The biggest cattle ranch in
Texas is owned by Mr.. Farwell and his Chicago
friends It is known as The capitol & syndleate ;n ate
extreme western end of the State. next 10 the New
Mexican line Farwel organized syndicate which
built the State Capitol Building for which this big
CAPITOL Syndicate This ranch is small, however,
compared win tnat OF wbo pd 5TaDds 5ra0 Is @ calves
year The great aim Of the ranchmsn in Texas now
Is to mprSe the grade o cattle dhe ,h DGyons aa
have the call The latter stand the climatic
changes and do better on Texas grass than any
other breed
uERRIMENT or THE STROLLERS.
The strollers had their sixth annual 'Royster"
last evening at Weber & Felds's Music Hail. which
was filled with the members of the club and their