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The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

ise from many quarters OF the world.
Most OF them were old vessels before
they started on the voyage. They had
been whalers in the north. traders in
the eastern waters, freighters on the
Atlantic. They had been tossed by
the waves of all the seven seas. They
had been through calm and storm for
many years before they took on pas
sengers and came around the Horn to
California Some of them had perilous
voyages-they were not seaworthy, so
long had they been buffeted by the
elements. In the fearful weather that
sometimes prevailed in the vicinity of
Cape Horn they had narrow escapes
from destruction. Some ships went
down with all on board. The greater
part of them. however, fought the ele-
ments. beat against headwinds. lay for
long stretches like a painted ship
upon a painted ocean," and at last
reached the harbor of San Francisco.
which was to be their last port.
Nearly every ship that came in was
deserted by its crew. A few arrived
with the men on board ignorant that
gold had been discovered. But they
soon heard of it, and nothing could
hold them Not only the sailors. but
the officers, left their boats All were
mad with the prospect of a golden
harvest. Some got no farther than the
town, others were off to the mines by
There was gold. much gold, and who
would remain with the tickle sea when
wealth was to be gained by digging
In the mountains-when the very
ground was strewn with the yellow
metal, when the beds of the streams
glittefed with 1T? So the vessels were
deserted. They were at rest, finally,
after many voyagings. They grew
weather beaten. The paint peeled off.
Rust gathered on the ironwork. The
sails rotted on the masts. They dragged
anchors in the high wind and drifted
on the mud flats The very rats
starved on them. And the harbor was
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~ W. n
W Montgomery street" is
w traditional saying in this
city. so few are there alive
today who can remember the time
when what is now the chief CONNER
cial district OF the town was part of
San Francisco bay. There are paintings
and drawings in existence-and maps.
too-which definitely establish the
water line of the early hfties, but
nothing can do it more realistically
than the photograph reproduced on
this page. 1t is a rare photograph. not
only because OF its historical value,
but because it gives an absolutely
tangible presentation of the early as
pect Of the city. Aside from that, 1t is
an interesting example OF photography
OF 60 years ago. We. in our conceit,
with our moving pictures, with our
snapshots. with our panoramic cam
eras. entertain the idea that two gem
erations ago photography was in its
very infancy. barely emerging from
the daguerreotype stage. Yet. as is
demonstrated here. a panoramic pho
tograph OF the city was made with
good results. Five prints fastened end
TO end from the picture. Taken from
Rincon Hill. the picture shows all that
existed of'the city then.
The exact date OF the photograph is
not known, but it is supposed to have
been taken nj 81 or '52. Henry T. VIII
liams. who came here IN February.
1919. has examined the picture and
says that the building that shows so
plainly in the left foreground was not
there when he came. or for a year or
two afterward. AS to the picture be-
ing taken later than '52. that is i'm
possible. FOR IN that year the filling in
OF the bay began. In 80 little hll-
Ing was done in the vicinity OF Cali
fornia and Montgomery streets, but
early in 50 a steam paddy" arrived
from New York and the active filling
In OF the bay began. the surrounding
hills being cut down and dumped iuto
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

entirely unsuited to his purpose. So
secured the right to cut timber on
piece OF land In the vicinity OF sauss
Tito. He sent over a crew OF ms1
the foreman OF whom received s1s
day. while the helpers got $40 eac
They went fully equipped with too
and provisions. They felled tree
hewed out lumber. and in three week
had the barge completed It va
brought back to San Francisco IN toi
OF schooner commanded by Captas
W. A z. Richardson. owner OF tis
tract OF timber that had been utilized
On the barge was a load Of waste ard
surplus materials from the camp. whih
was sold at a good profit. The bare
was put under charge OF ship ca
tain named Johnson. who had the Q
tion OF buying a fourth interest IN III
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
The Famous Water Lots

In the left foreground In the bay is
seen what seems to be wooden pen
The fence incloses what was one of the
famous water lots There was dis
pute over the ownership of these tide
lands. Some of the lots had been sold
under old Spanish grants. others had
been acquired from the state, which
leased them for a period of 90 years
Afterward 1t gave the privilege of ac-
curling them In perpetuity.i All OF this
led to numerous disputes Holders
under the Spanish grants maintained
their claim to the lots. Lessees from
the state claimed them; and some of
the latter, having neglected to take ad-
vantage of the provision which changed
leases into purchases, were superseded
in possession. So these lots were the
source of endless disputes. some OF
which have not been settled to this
day. Lots were Jumped" during tho
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

as shown in the picture-crowded SO
riving with passengers could hardly
find mooring close to shore.
What became of them? The bones of
dozens of them rest under Sansome
street, under Drumm and Front and
East. They were towed to convenient
places. .scuttled, and used to mark
somebody's water lot, or as founda-
tions for buildings. Every now and
then, when excavations for buildings
are made in the commercial district
The remains of some old vessel of so
years ago are found. And who shall
say that 1t was not fitting end for
them2 They brought the pioneers
then their bones became the founda-
tions on which these pioneers builded
with such high hope and courage. In
the stretch of water shown in the pic
ture may be seen a building standing
evidently on a high foundation. 1t
stands upon the Mantle, one of the
first boats to come to San Francisco.
After remaining for some time, DESERT
ed and useless in the bay, the Mantle
was towed to the mud flats, sunk, and
upon her hull the building shown was
erected. It served as storehouse for
a time. Then the filling in process
commenced. and in time the Mantle
formed part of the mainland. The hull
and the superstructure that had been
erected on it were remodeled and made
into hotel that was named after the
ship. 1t stood at Clay and sansome
streets.
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
By w. ]. Weymouth

the shallow water that faced the city
for many blocks. The work was done
rapidly. so that late in 80 the picture
that. is shown here could hardly have
been taken
There is in existence map of the
city. made in AT. which marks out
practically the same water line that
this photograph shows. At that time
the waters of the bay came up to San
some street at Bush, while they came
within a few feet of Montgomery at
California, Howard (now sacramento).
Clay. Washington and Jackson. 1t was
all shallow except at Clarks point. at
about the location of the custom house
at Washington and Sansome streets.
There ships came close to the shore.
The passengers were taken off in small
boats and the freight in lighters There
the California. the first steamship that
came through the Golden gate, landed
on February 2s. 1s4s.
Sand Hills Abounded
AS the picture shows. the whole
water front was hilly. The way along
Montgomery street to Market was very
steep. To get to any of the outlying
parts, OF the peninsula. one had to
climb over high sand hills. 1t was
years after the city was inhabited by
Americans before a plank road was
built out Market street. Meanwhile.
the pioneers confined their lives and ac-
tivities to the small radius shown in
the photograph.
One OF the most interesting things
in the picture is the number of ships
that are shown. They might be taken
to indicate that at that time the COM
merce of the port was extensive The
fact is, though, that nearly all the
ships depicted in this photograph were
idle and abandoned, rotting in the
mud flats for lack OF crews. They
had come to the land of golden prom
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
This Remarkable Photograph Shows the
City Front as Few San Francicans Now
Living Ever Saw 1t: The Filling In of the
Bay Commenced in 1852 and the Whole
Scene Changed With Great Rapidity = =.

W FHEN the water came up to
1 Montgomery street" is a
w traditional saying in this
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
State Supreme Court Passes
on Grain Exchanges.
NOT A VIOLATION OF Law
Have Right to Enforce Uniform
Charge for Service.

Boards of trade are not unlawful
combinations, in the view Of the SUI
preme court of this state.
The decision was handed down in
the case of the state of Minnesota ex
rel, =. T. Young, attorney general,
against the Duluth board of trade,
sustaining the ruling of the district
court of St Louis county in favor of
the defendant.
The court holds that an agreement
to fix the prices of commodities by
free competition is not in violation of
the antitrust laws.
The opinion Is lengthy and the OBJ
servations therein are of interest to
labor organizations, as well as grain
traders, because the decision holds
that an agreement or combination for
the purpose of fixing the value of
wages or other charges for personal
services is not within the prohibition
of the statute. Heretofore employers
have contended that labor unions were
in violation of the antitrust laws and
the unions have either contended that
the laws did not apply to them or
else have asked that laws be passed
exempting them from the antitrust
laws ...
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
CLAPP TALKS ON TARIFF
Says Republican Platform Declared
for Revision Downward.

Discussing the pending tariff bill in
the national senate Mr. Clapp of
Minnesota declared the promise of
the Republican party was that the
tariff should be revised downward
and he asserted that this promise had
been made in response to a positive
demand. He said that the position on
the part of the protective interests
was that eve should let well enough
alone and on the part of the con-
suhers that the tariff should be re-
vised.'
IF this promise" he said, "was for
a revision that would mean the main
tenance of the Dingley rates then we
are confronted by the righteousness
of the chief executive calling congress
together to revise something that
should stand unchanged until the end
of time. When the people made the
demand for a tariff revision DOWN
ward there was no suggestion that
these industries were not sufficiently
protected. If the demand for revision
did not mean changing the duties
downward it did not mean anything
and we are indulging in farce now
Declaring that if congress should
fail now to lower the tariff rates the
Democratic party would be put IN
position to so revise it two years
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
LOST ON THE GREAT LAKES
Steamer Adele Shores Believed to
Have Gone Down.

Cleveland, May Sit is believed
here that the fourteen members of the
crew of the steamer Adele Shores
have persisted and that the boat lies
at the bottom of Lake Superior, off
Whitefish point. The Shores, which
is owned by the Manx Transit COM
pany of Cleveland, passed the 500,
upbound, over a week ago. Since then
nothing has been heard from her by
the owners except the information
conveyed in the newspaper dispatches
reporting the finding of wreckage
identified as being part of the
Shores.
The Shores was in charge of Cap
tain Selvert Holmes of Milwaukee.
She was wooden vessel of 734 tons
and was built in 1894 Formerly she
was owned by the Neff Transports
ton company of Milwaukee:
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
SCORE KILLED BY DYNAMITE
Terrific Explosion in Stone Quarry
Near Albany, NJ. Y.

1GFTlTlC CNplCSlOh III OtOHS ~Naift
Near Albany, N. Y.
Albany, N Y, May 13.-At least
twenty men were killed by prema-
ture blast of dynamite in a stone
quarry operated by the Callahan Road
improvement company near South
Bethlehem, eleven miles southwest
of Albany.
One thousand pounds of dynamite
exploded, and the bodies of the vic
tins were hurled hundreds of feet by
the conclusion and so badly mutilat-
ed as to be almost beyond recogni-
ton
The Callahan Road Improvement
company furnishes crushed stone for
road building. The preparations for
the blast had been going on for six
weeks. Thirteen holes, seventy-fiye
feet deep, had been drilled at points
about twenty feet back of the face of
the big quarry and the explosion of
the dynamite with which they were
to 70 loaded was expected TO displace
400 } tons of rock
The workmen had placed 500-pOund
charges in six of the holes and were
working on the seventh when per-
cussion cap was prematurely dis
charged. A terrific explosion fol-
lowed which hurled tons of rock into
the air and scattered bodies of the
victims in all directions.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
POSTAL employees STRIKE
Paris Resembles City in State Of
Siege.

=
Paris. May 12.-Paris resembles
city in state of siege. During the
night troops took possession Of the
central post and telegraph stations
and at daylight squads of infantry
men were picketed around every
branch office to protect postal en-
ployes who are willing to work. The
streets are being patrolled by the
mounted republican guards, all ex-
posed telegraph lines are being care
fully watched and soldiers have been
introduced even into the sewers OF
the city to prevent the cutting OF
wires.
Furthermore 500 military teleg-
raphers and several hundred automo-
biles have been hastily modified and
nlassed in the Gallerie des Machines
ready for instant service. General
Dalstei, the military governor of Paris,
has $4,000 troops in reserve. The
walls Of Paris are covered with
posters announcing that the strike
will continue until the employees
grievances are redressed.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
STOPS RED KEROSENE SALE
Attorney General Renders Opinion on
Law Recently Passed.

There will be no more red kero-
sene sold in the state after this, ac-
cording to ruling made by the at
torney general in reply to a query
from b. ]. Lynch, state oil Inspector
The new law, which goes into eff
feet July 2 and provides for gravity
test for all kerosene and gasoline,
has paragraph which says that THE
sale OF adIlaterated Illuminating oils
or gasoline is hereby prohibited and
any oils that present a yellowish or
dark color or dirty appearance to the
eye may be rejected and disapproved
for illuminating purposes by the chief
inspector without further test.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
oyercroWded Boat Lost In Ohio
River Near Pittsburg,
TWENTY len ARE DROWNED
Only Ten of the Passengers
Known to Have Escaped.

Pittsburg, May 12.-Twenty men
are known to have been drowned
when a gasoline launch sank In the
middle of the Ohio river near Schoen-
vile, four miles below Pittsburg. OF
the thirty occupants of the boat only
ten escaped
All the men were employees of tn
Pressed Steel company at the McKees
Rocks plant. The men had been
working overtime and left the works
to cross the river in the launch. The
boat is said to have been intended
for not more than twenty persons and
it is said it was dangerous to at
tempt to carry as many as twenty
five. But thirty men crowded in and
when the boat reached the middle OF
the stream, where the water is twenty
feet deep, it suddenly sank.
There was no explosion, no leak
was sprung, but the boat simply sank
beneath the weight AS it sank it
caused suction which took many OF
the men down with it. Others at
tempted to swim ashore, but were
chilled by the cold water and became
exhausted.
John Deer, who lives on the bank
of the river and heard cries for help,
went out in a skiff and saved nine
lives. Part of that number Of men
he put into his boat, while others
held to the side of it and were rowed
ashore. One man swan to the bank
and was saved
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
FACES Term IN PRISON
Captain Hams Found Guilty Of
:. MansIaughter.

Flushing, N. Y, May 12.-Captain
Peter C. Hams. Jr., U. S. A., faces a
prison term of from one to twenty
years. Despite testimony submitted
by the defense as tending to show in
sanity, he was convicted of man
slaughter in the first degree for kill
ing William E. Annis at the Bayside
Yacht club last August.
The conviction, after the jury had
been out less than three hours, came
as a general surprise. It had been
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, May 12.-Wheat-May,
$1.27; July, s1.13A; Sept, $1.05A:
Dec, $1.O4ss. Corn-May, 725sc;
July, 6s7s @6sc; Sept, 67A @67ac;
Dec, 6s1ac. Oats-May, 5SAc; July,
SIC; Sept, 441sc; Dec, 44s @44Ac'
Pork-May, S1S.0s1s; July. $500,
Sept, $1S.15. Butter-Creameries, %
@25kc; diaries, 19@24c. Eggs-196
21c. Poultry-Turkeys, tic; chickens,
15kc; springs, 15c,
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
HOTEL DESTROYED BF FIRE
Blaze at Breckenridge Causes Lcss Of
100000.

One of the fiercest fires Brecken-
ridge has ever witnessed started in
the basement of the Bobson hotel
block, a three-story brick building. A
strong wind from the south soon
whipped the blaze into a roaring fur
mace and the f1remen were unable to
check the flames. Streams of water
were then turned on the surrounding
buildings in an effort to keep the fire
from spreading, but this had to be
abandoned and dynamite was resorted
to in order to save the homes and
other buildings in the block. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
WILL RETURN TO MINNESOTA
Special Assistant Attorney General
Kellogg to Retire.

Frank B. Kellogg, the special as
sistant attorney general in charge
of trust prosecutions, was in Wash
ington and informed President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham
that he would close his relations with
the government when he has COM
pleted the work he now has In hand
in connection with the effort to have
the Standard Oil company declared a
combination in restraint of trade and
the fight to have the Hartman lines
declared a combination of competing
roads in violation of law. 1t probably
will be year or more, however, be-
fore these two important cases can be
closed up. Mr.. Kellogg said he was
anxious to return to Minnesota to de-
vote himself to his personal law prac-
tice
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
CHICAGO Union stock Yards.

Chicago, May observation-disclosures,
$50O@7.2O; Texas steers, $4.60@6.10;
Western steers, $4.7O@6.O0; stockers
and feeders, s3.6O@5.6O: cows and
heifers, s2.50@6.20; calves, $1,000
7.25. Hogs-Light, $6.75@7.2o; mixed,
$6.S5@7.30; heavy, $695@7.35; rough,
$695@7.35; good to choice heavy.
$705@7.35; pigs, s5.75@6.60. Sheep
Native, $4.00@6.60; yearlings. $3.50
07.60; lambs, $6.25@9.10.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
Rev. Father Vaughan Dead.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, May 11.-Word has
been received here that Rev. Father
Laurence j. Vaughan, the noted Cath
clic divine. Shakespearean lecturer
and playwright, died in Dubuque
Ua) hospital.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
BY TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES
Steamer Mauretania Beats All Previ-
GUS Eastward Records.

Queenstown, May 10.-The Cunard
Mne steamer Mauretania arrived off
Daunts Rocks at 10:4S a. M, having
beaten her own previous and all other
eastward records by twenty-four min
utes. She would have done still bet
ter had she not been delayed by fog
of Fastnet.
The liners time from the Ambrose
iightship to ,Daunts Rock was 4 days
1e hours and IL minutes.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
Ends Life in Bathroom.

John P. Bernik of st. Cloud,
this state, ex-sheriff of Stearns
county, shot and killed himself in the
bathrooms of the Deebach Bros bar
Der shop at st. Paul. No cause has
neen assigned for the suicide. Mr.
Bernik was forty-fivs years Of age.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
Shooting ARRAY in Mill City.

]. l.. Keller, a Canadian Northern
railroad conductor, returned to his
home in Minneapolis Unexpectedly
and, it is alleged, found H. C. Good
win in company with Mrs. Keller.
He opened fire at once and Good.
win is now in the hospital probably
fatally wounded.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
MILL CITY BROKER QUITS
Well Known Grain Man Retires From
Business. N

WSI NVOWH ATdIT mdn nGItFSSI FFONl
Business. e8
George H. Daggett, grain broker of
Minneapolis, has withdrawn from bust
ness and assigned his trade to Hallet
& Co. of that city. The reasons of
the assignment are variously set AS
poor health, lack of business and
Office expenses.
Upon the heels of the announce
ment came the information that the
demands of the creditors, which were
said not to be heavy, would be paid
in full. Mr., Daggett has had Offices
in the. Chamber CT Commerce for
twenty years and was one of the best
known grain brokers of the North
west.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
SUCCEEDS MILTON D. PURDY
Charles A. Willard Named for Federal
JudgesF1ip.

The Minnesota federal judgeship
controversy has been settled by the
nomination. of Charles A. Willard of
Minneapolis, now senior associate JUS
tice of the supreme court in the Phil
ippines, to succeed Milton D. Purdy.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
White House Clerk Ends Life.

Washington, May Il. - Physical
breakdown, due, it is believed, to over
work while employed as clerk at
the White House, caused Thomas H.
Netherland. forty-six years old, to
commit suicide at his home here by
shooting himself in the head. He
was formerly of Alexandria, Va, and
had prominent family connections.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
HAMLlNE BANKER is GUILTY
Convicted of Accepting Deposits for
InsoIvent Institution.

Arthur T. Drew, former owner of
the defunct Bank of Hamline, was
found guilty of having received a de-
post when he knew the bank was in
solvent by jury in the Ramsey
county district court after six hours
deliberations The announcement of
the verdict was a shock to Mr.. Drew,
but he received it with much courage
Following the verdict of guilty Mr..
Drew, who was out on bonded bail,
was taken to the county Jail pending
decision on a motion for a new trial
and the continuance of bail
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15

who resigned because he feared the
senate would refuse to confirm his
nomination.
The Willard appointment was made
personally by the president, his name
not being among those suggested for
the place by the Minnesota senator
interested.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
Torch in Bakers Strike.

New York, May PA fire, which,
1t is believed, had its origin in trouble
growing out of the strike in the East
Side bakeries, destroyed the plant OF
the Star Baking company, Brooklyn
The loss will reach 100000
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, May -Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, $1.271s; No.
/ Northern, s126; No 2 Northern,
1924; May, $1:24As July, 1924; Sept,
s1.077s. Flax-Te arrive and on track
s169As; May, $1.6S1s; July, s1.6Ss;
Sept, $1.45; Oct: s1.99B. .
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, May 2.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, s5OO@6.5O; fair to good,
$45065OO; good to choice cows and
heifers, $40O@5.OO; veals, $5.OO@5,75.
Hogs-ss7067O5. Sheep Wethers,
s550@5.90; yearffngs, $6.25@6.5O;
lambs. S7.5Om7.9O. ~
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, May 12.-Wheat-May,
s1.26: July, s1.24as; Sept, $1.07k.
On track-No. 1 hard, s1285s @129B;
No. 1 Northern, s1.27% @1.2S1s; No. 2
Northern, s1.255s @1.26b: No. 8
Northern, S123M @1251h.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15

expected that the jurors would de-
liberate much longer and that YER
dict of acquittal ON the ground of in.
sanity or a disagreement would re-
suit
No one was more surprised than Dis
trict Attorney Dewitt, who had said
all he could hope was a disagreement.
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15

hence Mr.. Clapp said he did not wish
to use threats, but merely to tell the
truth
Morris tribune., 1909-05-15

As free as bird in the air. we
say. Now, of all the birds of the air
the eagle is king and. therefore, of all
birds he is the freest This fact, cou-
pied with the eagles independence.
self reliance and unconquerable cour-
age, caused it to be chosen as the EN-
blem Of our republic.