New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-23
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Grand Army Encampment-
Noah BroOkS'S Death.

San Francisco aug. 21.-The Grand Army en-
camurnent this week was more successful than
the most sanguine had anticipated. Over TWEEN
~ thousand veterans and their wives were
present and other visitors to the city raised the
total number to forty-hve thousand. The
weather was all that could be desired. In the
great parade Of Wednesday 6255 veterans were
in line, California and Nevada furnishing 2,4IO
and New-York contributing 202. The feature OF
this parade was the demonstration of loyalty
and patriotism made by the great crowds Gen
eral Miles received a splendid ovation Inc
electric illumination Of Market-st. is said 10
have surpassed anything ever seen in the West
-Four great white arches were built at the IN
tersection of Market, Kearney and Geary SIS
These were ablaze with thousands OF electric
lamps, and from them streamers of red, white
ane blue lights were draped to buildings on the
four street corners. Midway between the spans
Of the arches was suspended the official Grand
Army badge in colored lights. Strings of cleo
tric lights spanned Market-st at intervals of
about thirty feet from the ferry to the City
Hall.
At ST. Helena in Napa Valley, the winemakers
and grape growers met in convention to devise
means for preventing the manufacture nd sale
OF spurious wines and brandies. Leaders of this
convention expressed the opinion that the pas
sage OF federal laws the only hope OF
checking frauds. The pure food laws on Cali
fornia statute books were called farcical. as
there is no systematic effort made to enforce
them. Even the inspection Of milk has been
abandoned. The damage done to California wine
by swinding dealers is iDcalcuiable; but nothing
can be done to prevent this under the present
laws.
The five escaped convicts from Folsom prison.
who succeeded in eluding their pursuers near
Tnl la
Tahoe resorts, and at last accounts had disap-
peared in Desolation Valley, back of Mount Tai
lac into which tourists seldom penetrate. The
convicts treated tourists with consideration, and
only demanded food. They gave them TO un-
derstand nevertheless, that they would not be
captured alive The remarkable feature of this
case is that 10 professional manhunters have
followed the convicts although there is a re-
ward of $500 for each man dead or alive.
News Of the death of Noah Brooks in Pasa-
dena was received here with much regret by
those who had known the genial author and
newspaper man It was the irony of circum-
stance that Brooks should have been practically
unknown in Pasadena, and that one San Fran
cisco paper should call him "a New-York jour
nalist" The fact is that he first made his repu-
tation on the old san Francisco Alta" and
that he was an associate of Bret fIarte Mark
Twain and Charles Warren Stoddard in the 0Vs
When the epidemic of typhoid ragged at Stan
ford University last April many feared it would
seriously injure the institution. Notwithstand-
ing he freshman class now promises to be the
larg st in the history of Stanford A large num-
Der Of the freshmen come from Eastern States.
Professor George II. Rowe. of the University Of
Colorado has been appointed associate profess
sor of electrical engineering at Stanford He is
one OF the best known men in his speciality in the
West.