Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-03
BENNINGTON TO
Be REMEMBERED
SAN DIEGO CITIZENS RAISE
MEMORIAL FUND
FAVOR HOME OR CLUB HOUSE
only Four Of the Forty-Nlne Cases
Now In Hospital Considered
As Being At All
Serious
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2.--The two ses-
sons day of the court Of Inquiry In
to the cause of the disaster on board
the Bennington continue, but what Is
being done on the inside of the court
room is not being divuged.
Captain ]. f. Drake left this morn
ing to return to his home at Mare
Island. He stated that he did not
doubt that the United States govern
ment would provide and erect a mon
ument to the Bennington dead at the
military cemetery at the top of Point
Iona. This action of the government
need not stop any effort that the peo-
pie OF San Diego are making toward
raising a fund for monument or me-
mortal building.
The board of control of the Benning-
ton Memorial association met yester-
day at the chamber of commerce rooms
and elected the followin officers;
President, Col. r. v. Dodge; vice
president, Roscoe Howard; secretary,
]. Clyde Hizar; treasurer L, j. Wilde.
subscriptions are coming in and the
sentiment of the subscribers seems to
be for a memorial home or sailors
club house rather than monument.
Band Plays Daily
All the Bennington injured are now
in the improvised hospital at the old
army barracks. Only four of the for
ty-nine cases are at all bad and some
at least of the four will pull through.
Admiral Goodrich has the band from
the flagship come ashore each after
noon and play on the wide porches of
the barrack buildings for the sick and
suffering. The appeal for literature
for the couvalescents has resulted in
many tons of it being sent in, SO that
the boys have more than they can
read and as much as they can give
away.
The body of Harry Hallett, the
young sailor who was No. 65 on the roll
of the dead, was sent north yesterday
to Bakersfield, where the funeral took
place yesterday afternoon from st.
Paurs Episcopal church. 1t was a
military funeral and company G of
the Sixth regiment, N. G. c., gave the
three full vollies.
+ The funeral of Lieutenant N K. Per-
ry, whose body was sent to Stock
bridge Mass, is to take place there
on Friday.
u. S. Grant, jr,, who has just re-
turned from an extended northern trip,
states that he is not particularly well
pleased with the plans as adopted by
the National Securities company for
the Grant hotel on the site Of the Hor-
ton house. New plans will be drawn.
Building permits last month
amounted to $1300OO, making a total
for the year of close to 100000.
George James, who is the owner of
large iron works at Seattle, has been
here for several days looking over the
foundry, and possibly blast furnace,
on the water front He is well pleased
with the looks of the Lower California
iron ore and declares that the success
full making of pig iron on the coast
means the bringing here of manufac-
turers almost without number.
At the meeting of the board of har-
Dor commissioners yesterday wharf
franchises for twenty years were
granted to the Pacific Coast Steam
ship company, the Santa Fe Spreckels
Bros Commercial company Jorres &
Son, the San Diego Lumber company
the Russ Lumber and Mill company
and the Coronado Beach company.
A force of track layers this morning
commenced the work of double track
ing the Electric companys lines on
Logan avenue, from Twenty-second
street to the corner Of Twenty sixth
and National avenue.
The regular meeting of the San Diego
realty board took place last night, and
after a banquet business session wa 5
held, at which C. L. Warfield was
elected president, vice M. r. Ramey,
resigned.
"Hotel del Coronado" is better than ever.
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