New-York tribune., 1903-02-15
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

/ San Francisco. Feb u (speciaD.-The CALI
4 fornia Promotion Committee II doing admirabis
| work IN making known 70 the East the ad-
vantases OF California. During January ms
| committee received 3.32J inquiries about Cali
| fornia and sent out 1851 letters and 1900 cir
cuIars. The tide Of winter travel has set heavily
I westward this season. and never before were so
! many tourists registered in Southern CaIifornis
| resorts. Los Angeles. with all its new hotels
and lodging houses. is scarcely able % meet ths
great demands it. and all resorts report ths
| heaviest business record The fast trains.
7 which bring tourists from New-Tork in four
| days. have proved dangerous competitors ot tbs
/ Florida excursion lines, as one may come %
4 California with a trife more tine and expeass
| than are required 10 reach Southern resorts
/ One man killed and one badly wounded form
/ the record OF the Hop Sing Highbinders this
week The hatchetmen Of this Chinese society
have been out cunning for members OF the Sgey
| Ying Society. with which they have q blood
| feud. and two men have been shot down. ons
/ through the heart and the other through tbs
body although the doctors give hope Of the lat
ter's recovery The police. usual. arrived on
the scene too late TO get any personal evidence.
and it mas been Impossible 70 find any Chinese
who win admit knowledge Of either crime. Chi
nese merchants are as eager as the police "a
stop this warfare as it Injuries trade. since only
those forced TO go cut will venture the street
during the prevalence OF a blood feud-
William B. FarweH. pioneer. politician and
mining man. is dead at the age Of seventy-foUr-
He came from Marlboro Mass. to California IN
10 with a Boston expedition that chartered its
own ship. FarweI was naval officer OF san
Francisco turing the Civh War, and seized a
schooner loaded with contraband supplies for
the Confederates on the eve CT her sailing After
the war for ten years he held the position OF in
spector OF foreign cOnsaIates-
California redwood has beeen found superior
in resistance TO steel in the construction of the
| big electric tunnels at Niagara Falls The ac-
/ tiou Of water on steel is disastrous, but It IS
/ found that water passing over redwood forms a
surface slime that protects the wood from HARM
The brfckIayers' strike. which has tied up an
building operations here for several weeks, has
been settled. and the men returned TO work on
Thursday. More building is now going on IN
San Francisco than was ever known before. and
the loss entaiIed on the owners BY this strike is
very heavy. Despite the greatly increased price
of materials and the advance in wages new
buildings are being contracted for, and al are
rented as soon as completed
Carlos Ezeta, a Sa1vadoresn exile, IL reported
TO be dying in the City Hospital at Mazatlan-
Ezeta was very well known in San Francisco.
where he was a conspicuous figure for several
wears. especially through litigation and quarrels
with other refugees He always said that he
would have formed powerful union OF al the
Central American States If IT had not been for
the Jealousy OF Guatemala and Honduras. who
! formed an alliance and drove Ezeta from thu
/ control OF Salvador
| Detailed reports Of the loss of life and dam
| age to property BY the hurricane and tidal wave
/ on Pomotu Island OF the Tahitian group have
| not yet been received here but it IS known that
| the storm was the severest the South Pacific
has known in fifty years On several Of these
| pearI Islands nearly all the people lost their
lives. as we'll as large accommodations of eopra
and pearl shells. There was no possibility oc
ESCAPE as the storm came suddenly thaE
/ no preparations could be made to reach places
/ OF safety. Islanders and foreigners were forced
TO climb cocoanut trees TO escape the waves
and the swapping of OF these trees by the fierce
wind resulted in 4 great loss OF life. AbOur
the only book that gives detailed account OF
the Paumotus is "Taurua." BY Emily s. Loud.
which was issued BY The Elder Publishing
Company OF Cincinnati, in 1889. and last year
WAS repubIished by Samson, Low, AIarsten &
Co. OF London. Mrs Loud lived on these
islands for several years and her romance con-
tairs vivid descriptions or native manners and
customs.
DR. and Mrs Russell r Cool who returned +
this week from months vacation In the So
ciety Islands. gave a dinner here in Tahitisn
style. The materials for the feast were brought
from the islands. and included raw fish, crabs
and shrimps curry fruit salad. roast pig. pine
apple, mangoes and custard apples Among the
guests was Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson