Evening star., 1933-06-18

remonStrances of his commander remained
with a party Of Mormons, after the company
had left, accompanied them to Salt Lake and,
with others, guled and stripped by the Saints
and taken on a new and short route to Cali
fornie to perish. .
July Fort Laramie was reached and Capt.
Goldsborough, with an escort Of four men,
visited Fort Hull, on Snake River. Col. Andrew
Porter then being in command. They rejoined
the company on the headwaters of Mary'S
River (Humboldt), and following that stream
down to the bend, struck over q desert track to
the Sierra Nevada Mountains, crossing at the
Lawson Pass, and down the western slope to
near the Sacramento Valley. 1t being then about
the middle of September. Capt. Bruff sent the
company on from there and remained to take
notes; being at an elevation of about $500 feet,
he stayed too long and was caught in an un-
precedented snowstorm and was buried in it
at a depth of six or eight feet. Early in the
Spring of 1850, having passed terrible VIM
ter, when the snow was sufficiently gone the
march was resumed, and after six days and
nights, going through great parties OF wolves,
panthers, hostile Indians bears, ETC., and Sleep
ing on beds which would be whitened by frost
In the morning, LosSins ranch, in the northern
part of Sacramento Valley, was reached.
In the Summer of so Capt. Bruf went out
with an adventurous party and travelled a dis
trict through Nevada where q white man had
Indians and returned to the settlement jaded
and ragged. He next visited Sacramento and
San Francisco and finally sailed in q steamer
up the coast to Trinidad and proceeded thence
overland to Gold Bluffs. In the latter part of
June, 81, he left for home, proceeding down
the coast to Aspinwall, and after three days
spent there proceeded across the isthmus by
mule and barge to Chicago. He then went to
Jamaica, thence to New York, and finally re-
turned to washington. Capt. Bruf, who is a
member Of the Oldest Inhabitants Society is
more active and vigorous than many men 20
years his Junior and delights to talk of his
travels"
Capt. Bruf was born October 2, 1905, in one
of the six Buildings" located on Pennsylvania
avenue between Twenty first and Twenty-se
ond streets northwest. In early life he sailed
before the mast, was cadet at the West Point
Military Academy, a clerk and draughtsman in
the Federal service and was designer of con-
siderable ability. For many years prior to his
death he was an officer of the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants and Is represented in that
organization today by grandson, George B.
jackson, who has inherited the artistic temper
ament of his sire.
In 1911 Pease's Summer garden was on the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, and from
this point-Said to have been "7l0 degrees
west mile and three-eighthS from the
Capitol''-the eclipse of September II of that
year was observed
D ECENTLY the writer was loaned by w. Hen
N messy Smith a group picture of the en-
ployes of the Capital taken about 1884. when
that Sunday paper was published at 1920
Pennsylvania avenue in the block referred to.
Mr. Smith was then foreman Of the Capital,
and is still identified with the cart preserva-
ton" by serving as secretary-treasurer Of the
Association of Veteran Union Printers Mr..
Smith identified those in the picture as being,
beside himself: T. Leonard Wade the book
keeper; George r. Clarke then a clerk now
residing at the John Dickson Home; DR.. Frank
r Howe, the editor, and who for number of
years afterward rendered faithful service as
dramatic critic of The Star. Miss Kate E.
Thomas, Georgetown lady was writer on
the paper and she also, it is said later went
with The Star.
In the same building was published the