davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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then 1t was taken to more sheltered
spot and the men were carried to and
from their work in a launch.
Fhe rock was first partly leveled to
the high water mark with chisels and
light charges of explosives and on the
ledge so cut she'll of riveted steel
plates was erected. anchored deep into
the solid rock. AS the plates were set.
course on course, riveted to each other
and to the plates below. the space in
closed was filled with concrete, solid
except for the area reserved for a
pump room and for small circular
stairway winding upward through the
center from well sheltered doorway
at the bottom.
Thus the pier rises to a height of 80
feet above low water, oval in plan.
containing over 10000 cubic feet OF
concrete and as solid as the rock on
which il is built. Above the base
steel / beams and angles form a skel-
eton to which sheets of steel are riv-
eted, inclosing the engine, kitchen, bed
room and watchroom floors. one above
the other with the lantern and gallery
surmounting all.
Within this storm beaten iron shell
three keepers are on duty. All night
long in the watchroom directly below
the light the men in turn hold their
ViSil, and when the fog begins to
creep in from the sea the engines in
the basement are started and these
compress the air which blows the 10
inch fog whistles
The Mile rocks light. which is one
of those known as of the third order,
shines red, the color resulting from
q chimney of ruby glass slipped over
the flame.
Close to the shore, on the bluff at the
point which defines the southern por-
tai of the Golden gate. the Spaniards
built Fort San Joaquin nearly 120
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the top now surmounts the circular
stairway up which armed men former
ly marched to serve the guns; a round
pill box of a fog signal building has
been fitted into the main bastion to
the seward and in the old gun en-
brasures, where cannon formerly stood,
the keeper now raises cabbages and
chickens.
The light on Fort Point is of the
fourth order, having only one twenty
fifth as high candlepower as the light
on the Farallon islands, but it is an
important beacon in entering the har-
Dor because it ranges with the light
on Alcatraz island These two signals
are kept in line. one behind the other
from beyond the lightship, until
Bonita light is seen abeam. Fort Point
flashing alternately red and white and
Alcatraz showing white flashes only.
with longer intervals between.
A mile from Fort Point, across the
white capped strait on rock whose
top has been cut fiat 20 receive them
the snowy walls of Lime Point light
station rise close to the waters edge
In point of fact Lime Point is a fog
signal station, for the light is only
lens lantern displayed on one corner
of the building, while the fog signal
consists of two powerful locomotive
whistles, Il inches in diameter. whose
hoarse bark is a familiar sound along
the water front. Here, too. banked
fires are kept in readiness for a sud-
den fog
Alcatraz. the prison island in San
Francisco bay, has at its summit an
old time lighthouse, among the oldest
on the coast, one of the type which the
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the heads, smooth bore cannon was
fired from the bluff at intervals of half
an hour, and, guided by the explosions,
vessels which otherwise could not have
safely entered came into the harbor at
night as well as during fog in the
day time. The old cannon which rem
dered this signal service long since
disused and gnawed by rust and decay,
still points 'seaWard from the brink.
If Bonita is reminiscent of the past,
Mile Rocks lighthouse stands as an
epitome of the present Built of con-
crete and steel, planned to utilize every
inch of tooth Of rock that projects from
the bottom of the oay and to offer an
impregnable front to the storms which
sweep in from the northwest, it rises
story above story to a height of nearly
100 feet above the water.
The necessity for a signal at this
point was made evident by a tragedy
which occurred in 1901. On February
21 in that year the Rio de Janeiro, two
days overdue from Hongkong, had
taken on its pilot, passed the Faral-
lones and come up to the outer heads.
With passengers and crew it carried
211 persons. The voyage had been un-
usually stormy, and all We're rejoicing
in the nearness to land, when about
noontime, off Bonita point, a heavy fog
settled down, blotting out the nearby
shore. TO avoid any risk the anchors
were let go, and with it's foghorn
blowing constantly TO warn any other
vessels that might approach, the Rio
de Janeiro lay to awaiting the lifting
of the fog.
All the rest of that day and night
the fog banks lay heavy on the water.
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By Charles Cristadoro

Maybe she would not put you in cold
storage and tell you TO hurry on, little
boy, home to your ma, but don't block
the game. Gwan.'
so 1 thought it over. Itemized
statement of my trip and vouchersi
Well, maybe that meant that ] must
report as to whether the train left on
time and the color of the conductors S
whiskers and the doings in the smok-
ing car and whether the mutton was
tender at dinner and If the waiter girl
was named Hu1da or Gretchen or just
plain Mary Ann and how old was Ann
and few other things. Well [ shut
off on perfectos for quite a while until
/ recovered my financial equilibrium
and forgot the six fifty. l never was
afraid of that treasury bunch anyway,
and l wrote them just what came into
my head and expected to be fired any
day. but they Kept me 15 years, off and
on, on the job and never had to pull
down or order replaced any work that
] once passed. / was pretty careful
before l . KID a contractors bill, so
I held my job in spite of the letters
they got from me which, for some
reason, they never filed with the reg
ular correspondence that came into
the Office. 1 never knew just how to
take and understand that move on the
part of those treasury birds, whether
my letters lacked reverence (there's
no bump of reverence in my head; a
bump feeler once told me that) or
what the matter was l never could find
out, only I learned that they were kept
by themselves and did not go into the
prunes and prisms files. Well / have
my own ideas of polite society and So
ciability. and that's why l prefer to go
TO sheol when I die and he with the
boys I know Will he on hand there
than to go to heaven with the crowd
who say they are going to make the
run down the home stretch and get
place under the wire
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The San Francisco Sunday Cal

lighthouse board adopted soon after its
establishment in 1852. and of which
there are many still dotting the head
lands of both the north Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. This one is soon to dis
appear and will be replaced by a tower
of reinforced concrete high enough to
overlook the new prison buildings
which are being constructed to the
north.
The Alcatraz light is located in a
cupola perched on top of the dwelling.
In order TO reach il one must ascend
by narrow, winding staircase through
almost total darkness TO the lantern a
the top. This lantern" is a circular
room about seven feet in diameter. in
closed with glass around its entire cir
cumference. The lens stands on
pedestal in the center. covered by a cur
tain, which protects it from any chance
particles of dust. When the curtain is
removed an apparatus of sparkling
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is attached. and this produces a pc
culiar high, penetrating sound
Passing the Farallones at night. the
double beacons of the light vessel
spring into view. These shine far up
on the masthead for five seconds. then
disappear for twice that time before
flashing out again.
Now Bonita point can be seen. send
ing forth a steady, white CLEAN. and
across from it shows the red glow of
the light upon Mile rocks.
The station at Bonita point is one
of the oldest on the coast, dating from
1854 though the light tower built then
has since been abandoned and a new
lighthouse constructed on the very
verge of the cliff. At the fog signal
located close beside the light, steam
is always kept ready in the boilers, so
that no matter how swiftly the fog
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How He Was Up Against
the United States Treasury

Coming home. car lively. Things in
smoking car very thick and mixed.
Same conductor previously itemized. A
good mixer. Stopped the train. and
with the help OF brakeman. chased out
two big lumberjacks who fighting
drunk and dtehed them, throwing their
turkeys after them.
Arrived home eventually. safe and
sound and had steak for supper Cook
overdid 1t and seemed not to care much
one way or other Has very little rev.
erence for a government empOye like
me. Maybe she's not to blame.
Please remit can't AFFORD to play - %
banker for Uncle Sam. My Salary does
NOT permit 1t.
y. B.-f there is anything else you
want to know. if l have not complied
with all the rules and regulations let me
know. l have done the best l can.
"And months after l learned from
one of the clerks who was home on
leave that the morning that bill ar
rived a whole bunch OF treasury office
clerks were grouped around as one
read it aloud and they were giving me
the laugh. And just then Manning
came in and seeing the crowd and
hearing the laughter asked his secre-
tary what the cOmmotion was Only a
letter from the old man. Manning said
Bring me his letter at once And as
he read it he roared like the rest and
what did he do but order il tackled up
on the bulletin board that all could
enjoy it. Think of tacking up my pri-
vate accounts for the public and re-
porters of yellow journals to read.
Well. some time after some wise
government guy read in a journal a
write up on itemized bills and this bill
of mine was referred to. and what did
this under or assistant secretary bird
do but tell me / was bringing ridicuIe
on the government Well. wouldn't
that cramp you? And it was the gov
ernment that did the whole thing. for
1t was by Manning's direct order that
my bill was tackled up where all the
world could see and read it. and wasn't
l the one who was piloried and
laughed at. and was l not the one to
do the kicking? But YOU never do
know what one of those official red
tapers will do anyway"
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years ago. When California had
passed to the rule of the United States
a massive quadrangular structure
known as Fort Winfield Scott was
erected nearer to the water
Fort Winfield Scott, built early in the
fifties, was planned to embody all the
niceties of the military science of the
time, its bastions and embrasures were
calculated with mathematical exact
ness. the guns rising tier on tier on
its frowning water front. 1t was con-
structed of hard burned brick and of
granite brought round the Horn by
sailing vessels from New Hampshire.
the whole set with the most beautiful
regularity. But a single shell from a
modern high power gun dropped into
the central court would be sufficient
to tumble the carefully laid masonry
into hopeless ruin, and the fort has
been abandoned to the peaceful pur-
poses of the lighthouse service. A
skeleton steel tower with a light on
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By Arthur c. Anderson

~ My one other farbor, it is said.
~ san Francisco in the beauty of
its setting-the bay of Naples.
with Vesuvius and Capri to offset Tam
alpais and the many rocky islands that
dot the surface of our western waters.
But the sun in Italy does not veil
its morning face so frequently as here,
and from the Mediterranean the gray
sea fogs do not roll Iandward as often
as from the sterner Pacific at certain
seasons.
That the navigator along our rugged
coast may be safe under all conditions,
each projecting head, dangerous rock
or submerged shoal has been marked
by p lighthouse. buoy or beacon. and
the whole comprises a system Of warn
inss which is being made more and
more complete with each succeeding
year
High on rock that lifts alb
rupuy out of the sea the FaralIon
island lighthouse stands. Thirty
miles beyond the heads that bull
wark san Francisco bay its rays
give the first intimation TO the
home bound vessel that port is at hand.
TO the landward of the Farallones. and
about midway TO shore, the san Fran
cisco light vessel is moored. each
masthead surrounded by a cluster of
brilliant electric lights. AT the ex-
treme end Of Bonita point, the long
finger which points seaward on the
northern side OF the harbor, another
powerful beacon stands, and from here
q chain Of lights encircIes the bay and
extends even to the narrow sloughs
which run UP into the interior valleys.
The Farallon island light is properly
included with those OF san Francisco
harbor for it is the land falT or dis
tinguishing beacon which shows the
mariner that this is the bay Of san
Francisco he is approaching. on each
prominent head along the coast one Of
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ing apparatus refused to work For
the remainder of the night. and until
the fog lifted next day the keeper
stood beside the bell, striking it with
a heavy hammer at the appointed in
terval For this service the president
of the United States personally wrote
her letter of commendat ton
The waters of San Francisco bay are
infested with two submarine pests. the
teredo and the limnOria. both destruc-
tive TO timber under water The teredo.
a brother to the clam and other BIZ
valves, at the stage when ready TO
fasten upon woodwork, resembles a
slender white worm. and carries two
minute shells upon his head. Drifting
against wooden pile. he bores hole
about the diameter of a pinhead. and
enters. Thereafter his ways are dark
and devious, leading him backward and
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may sweep in from the sea the sirens
are prepared to greet it with their
shrieks of warning. At Bonita, in COM
mon with many of the inaccessible sta
tions of the coast, there is difficulty
in obtaining a supply of fuel to feed
the boilers. Here the trouble has been
overcome by piping fuel oil from tanks
over a quarter of mile distant. Oil
in barrels is brought by vessel to the
station, carried near to shore in small
boats and landed by the aid of derrick
on wharf which overhangs the bluff.
From here a steam hoist carries it to
the pumping station, where it is
pumped to the 5000 gallon storage tank
to feed by gravity to the fog signal
half way down the bluff.
The signal at Bonita has not always
been siren. In the early days of the
station, when many a brisk ship from
Panama, loaded with adventurers in
quest of gold came sailing in through
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hanna, may be Swede. may be German.
Don Know, and felt delicate about ask
ing her. Can wire to the hotel proprie-
TOR II that is necessary TO pass this bill.
s She was poor looking bit. anyway. and
ihe clerks. IL they saw her. would not
pe interested. Red hair. freckles,
square shoulders and set up like Brit
lsn Srenadier Wore No. IL shoe.
bow DO ! know? Because she walked
an over my feet when she came for my
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order. Ns
Cigar ..
1t may seem steep. but / figured that
the government owed me $3.50 ON INV
last trip. and any man working for
Uncle Sam who has to hold himself down
to hard boiled eggs and crackers TO
avoid the risk of bacteria and microcci
and the rest OF the tribe of germs de-
10 apologies for the extravaganza.
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$50 1t wasn't long before I was
asked to inspect another building off
somewhere on the railroad. / was fore
warned this time and 1 started making
UP my itemized bill all right. all right
Here's how it went as nearly as /
can remember. 1t was in Dan Man
ning's time, when Cleveland was king,
ana that's so long ago that most people
only remember it when they are help
ing their children at their school work
and hearing their history lessons.
The Honorable Secretary of the U. S. Treasury,
Itemized BIN
With ali the items can remember.
Railroad ticket from to -
faq foT wSieh TSiehn voac6er is nciosed Biz crowd 90
OF excurslonsts In the depot Sunday
school proposition. Hook and Eye Bap-
tlsts. some one told me. Don't know for
certain. Babies squalling.
Cot through the gate and took seat in
smoker. Big crowd Of lumberjacks going
quart ask in his % turkeT. s" The rferfnag mag Of
sweden Norway and Denmark on most
the distance on account of the way the
alcohol was eyaporated from their TASKS.
Conductor tall, squints ip one eye.
bushy whiskers. guess good mixer
and may be a chance to mix before those
skandihoovians leave the train for the
German in front of me eating a lin
burger sandwich. Such things should be
stopped by act of congress, but then that
would be called class legislation and the
German ambassador would butt in.
Country rolling; we'll covered with
farms in a healthy looking condition.
Train stopped. Platform of depot
needs repairing, but this is the rail
roads business
Station an old shack and a disgrace
TO the railroad and the country at
large. 1t being noon, walked to a hotel;
bus a quarter. and l saw trouble
ahead of me If / tried to get a voucher
out of that big Swede driver. So the
government is quarter in.
Hotel unworthy OF the name: shack
is better. Paid for my dinner in ad.
vance; hotel proprietor said government
or no government employe. ! must put
up before go in. ,......... 20
Got a view of kitchen and smell as
well through the swinging doors. and or
dered hard boiied eggs and soda crack
ers, the only safe things to eat in that
hotel. The waiter girls name was Jo
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-08
NEARLY READY TO REPORT.
Grand Jury Inquiries Into Under
valuations of Importations.

Winifred T. Dennison. assistant at
torney general Of the Department Of Jus
tice. is on his way to New Orleans for
consultation with District Attorney
Charlton r. Beatty, who has charge of
the inquiry being made there by the fed
eral grand jury into the alleged under
valuation of mosquito bar netting from
Nottingham and ST. Gall. Information al
the Department OF Justice is that the
grand jury will make report in a short
time
For some time past in accordance with
the announced policy of Secretary Mac
Veagh of making an inquiry into condi-
lions at various ports. especially regard
ing sugar importations, the Treasury has
had agents at WORK in New Orleans Ii
had been alleged that there We're frauds
in the underweighins of sugar at that
port such as were discovered at New
York Secretary MacVeagh said today,
however that so far as he was aware no
irregularities OF that kind had been re-
vealed there.
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PAID BY CHECK
wrpcuANT MARINE LEAGUE
PROVIDES FOR LECTURES.
Explanation by James 7. McCleary
Before Committee Investigating
Ship Subsidy Scandal.

lanes r. McCleary OF Minnesota, Tor
NOR member of Congress. and former
.econd assistant postmaster general, tes-
tifying yesterday before the oieot' Sc
,.ct committee which is investigating the
ship subsidy scandal. declared that ne
had received in checks from $500 to $l,Guo
from the Merchant Marine League OF the
I-pited States to cover expenses In speech
making trips. and that he had never re-
ceiyed a dollar in cash.
Interested individuals Present.
Hesides the special committee. there
was an array of individuals interested in
tho legislation, including Chairman
cr.ena Of the House merchant marine
committee. Representative Humphrey OF
wsshinsto the Trainer OF the snip SUD-
s,dv bill reported from the merchant ma
rirs COMMITTEES; Representative Steener-
.on of Minnesota, who demanded the IN
,,a.t,estion OF the charges he said the
,...ue had made against him; Repre-
a,ot,ve Kustermann of Wisconsin, men,
.,...a in much the same way as was
s.,ar.on. John A. Penton. secretary
-. ~. ,..u,e. whose testimony was de-
ea.raJ until today, In order to permit
~. fcounsei. former District Attorney
WWorthineton of this city. te famiiiarfze
h;n,.eif with the case, and Representa-
tive Nye of Minnesota. VINO may appear
as Steenerson's counsel. :
Mr.. McCleary was given permission to
correct the record of his previous testi-
mopy, saying that instead OF the amounts
he had received from the league. mot
equalinE the expenses" he wished to say
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AIN 0 7 @ Err |FAGLlyRE
From $. F. Bulletin, May l. 'os,

From 8. F. Bulletin. May L. 'oS)
Among many late letters announcing favorable
results there are a number from physicians, all
OF whom have cases recovering and one from
Hot Springs. Ark. telling Of the recovery OF
two physicians.
The same We, week a physician of this city re.
Compound at the last moment in an extreme
case Of Brights Disease and that he had no
expired a few days thereafter that II confirmed
his opinion. The secret Of the several successes
nrst referred to lays in the fact that the ply
tents On the compound before they ee IN es.
for the failure 10 obvious.
Let " nlastrsts: rate, We are told that there Is
Of Gardner who has never had failure in =
case Of typhoid fever. We don't know what his
method Is but viii !. say that when his fame
ment after the attending physicians have de-.
eared the sass HOPELESS s that his failure. will
cases tina; sent for him while there was some.
thing work ON.
ease In extrems have been rescued but there
is no certainty when the treatment is withheld
Compound is administered in time {, ms nesa
little whether the case be chronic not nearly
text books to the
men casts and dropsy in the chronic stage tbs
are supposed to make no an incurable ease OF
Bright's Disease is now no bar TO recovery pro
yiding there H. hesrt and vitality 10 work on
II is Obvious that II the treatment il wIthbeid
until there IL no .recuDerative power there will
also be failures.
In view OF the declared futiiry Of everything
known M the development of Fuiton's Renal
Compound ask In the name of eopscIencs
how there be any question In the mind of
any human being AZ TO what ought 10 be given
in such eases and why there should be any de
lay in giving the only thing in the world that
offers hope.
Fulton's Renal Compound can be had in your
city OF Henry Evans. 1908 st. NV.
ering : John J. Fulton COMPANY GAS Battery
street, San Francisco, Cal. Literature mailed
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attack of Bright's disease Mccarthy
had been member of the police forca
Tor about ten years. He had served IN
the third and first precincts. and about
three years ago was transferred to the
command of Capt. Byrnes.
Policeman Mccarthy was particularly
Well known along Pennsylvania avenue
where he had done duty many months
and he was regarded as one of the most
emcient members of the sixth precinct
squad. He leaves wife and three chill
dren.
The funeral will take place from the
Church of the Holy Comforter, 14th and
East Capitol streets /,
- Ill
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ANACOSTIA.

The Junior Daughters Of the King will
meet tonight in the parish hall of EN-
manuel Church. The BOYS Club will also
meet. j. c. Winterwerp has charge of
the boys.
Harry Green and Herbert Taylor. fust-
tves from St. Eliza beths, were captured
yesterday by the Anacostia police
A special program has been arranged
for the regular meeting Wednesday even
ing, April 20. OF the Mems Social Club
Of Emmanuel Church
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CRESCENT CITY'S APPEAL.
Mass Meeting Asks Congress for
Canal Exposition.

NEW ORLEANS, April Sat mass
Congress should be asked to hold the
exposition to celebrate the completion OF
the Panama canal in New Orleans.
A general committee of Ave hundred
was created. which will meet tomorrow
to take out a charter and form per-
manent exposition company. 1t was the
sense of the meeting that $1,000 600
should be raised by subscription and
S5 tE)O. 600 by a special exposition tax
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
was subscribed as a preliminary fund to
carry on at once the work of organiza-
ton and publicity.