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. , TIIE RUXPAY OREGONTAX. PORTLAXD. APRIL 21, 1912' ' 13 BON ES OF DEAD AT BOTTOM OF PACIFIC 1 JIlll I IJMIIIB Disasters Gff West Coast Since Vanderbilt's Day Recalled. GREED BRINGS HEAVY LOSS Overloading of Vcwstls Followed by Catastrophe Don Ilotladaj One of Survivors of ISSS Wreck. The close cf the war between the Vnlted State and Mexico In 14 brought about the cession of California, a Ions: and narrow atrip of territory extending from Smith River on tha north to San Diego on the south; and from the range of mountalna known aa the Sierra Nevada on the east to the Pacific on the west. At the next ses sion of Congress a Kentucky lobbyist t Washington worked through a bill authorising him to krp a Una of steamships to carry tha Cnltrd States m-ills from New Tork to Ean Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama. These vessels were to be of not less than 1000 tons burden on the Atlantic side and not less than 1200 tons on the I'aclflo side. Harris had not enough money to hulld a boiler for any 1200-ton ship, let alone the entire ship, but he went on to New Tork and formed two com panies. Th first was called tha At lantic Mall Steamship Company, Its chief Incorporators being George Law and Oliver Charlie-It. shipbuilders, and Marshall O. Roberts. I. W. Raymond and Charles Morgan, merchants. The other concern waa railed the Pacific Mail Company, with Edgar and Samuel Howland. John and William 11. Aspln sll. John L Stephens and Edison Croswel! aa incorporators. The nrst named concern built two small steam ers below the required tonnage, but that was winked at by postal authori ties), railed the Falcon and Osprey. Prevlaleaa et Regarded. The bill had provided that all these vessels should be commanded by Navy Lieutenants having a brevet rank of Lieutenant-Commander, but as there mere then few that bad ever aeen tha pacific waters, that part of the act was abandoned and the Pacific Mall Com pany was allowed to choose its own commanders. It built three- steamers named and commanded as follows: Oreron. Captain R. 1 1. Pearson. California. Captain C. P. Patterson. Panama. Captain D. O. Bailey. James Gordon Bennett made all sorts of fun for naming the Oregon as they did. for the Ashburton treaty had not then passed. The ships on tha Atlantic side were commanded by Naval men up to 180. They were Lieutenants O. V. Fox. James Findley Schenck and Charles 8. Boags. succeeded later by W. I liern- t ion and ft. P. Grifiis. Prominent among steamship owners 'n the earlier 1ay of the California trade was Cornelius Vanderbilt. known In this late era as "the old commodore." Prior to the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill he had taken little or no Interest In ocean matters, contenting himself m-lth two little ferry lines be tween New Tork and Htaten Island and a line of old and well-worn boats run ning between Gotham and New Haven. But on the outbreak of the California fever In December. 1148. Vanderbilt got Into the trade with both feet. Nat urally thrifty, he looked out on all Ides for bargains In the way of second-hand machinery. In the first three years after the opening of the trade he had built the steamer Independence erlth the machinery of an old boat .-ailed the Itochester. that ran to Al bany; the North America, with tha en glne of a boat called the Knicker bocker, and the Brother Jonathan with the engine that bad been saved from the wreck of the palatial Atlantto lost -in Fisher's Island on November 2S. I8. Jaak fibopa laed atari. With these three Junk ahop vessels on the Pacific Coast and two brand new hips called the Prometheus and Dan lei Webster on the Atlantic, be began the opening of what he called the Nic aragua Steamship Line. The steamer landed at San Juan del Norte, railed Ureytown on the English mapa. There the passengers took trnwheel boat tip to San Carlos, at the foot of Lake Nicaragua. Thence across the lake by a fast and commodious stdewbeelcr railed the Ometepee to Virgin Bay, where they took "dead ax" wagons across to San Juan del Sur on the Pe rl ric. Associated with him In this enter prise was Cornelius K. Garrison, a river steamboat owner, of St. Louis. Mo, and Robert J- Vandewater, who had commanded tha steamers Koscius ko and Champlaln on tha Hudson in the early 40s. Garrison removed to Kan Francisco In lf2 and waa "the en tire frontage" of the concern until the line ceased to operate In ISSS. He dis placed Vandewater. an honest nan. bout the first thing. ladegeadrae First Wreck. The first wreck of any note In Pa cific waters wss that of the Inde pendence In the forties on a little rocky island called Santa Margarita, about 300 miles southwest of Pan Diego. Her license called for less than 400 passengers but ehe had about 7&0 and. when she struck, the force of, the Impact threw the hot coals oat of her furnace doors and she was on fire In leas time than It takes to tell it- Of course, she was Insufficiently supplied with lifeboats and with the rush that came to escape from fire, there mere two of the boats swamped. Conse quently, there were many lives lost which might have been saved. Fortunately, on the second day after the accident, along came two whale ships that had been hunting for blub ber In Magdalena Bay and Scammon'a Lagoon. All the survivors were taken on board but there was a scarcity of provisions and the rescued ones were very hungry when the ships sailed Into Sen Dt-go. a week later. Fv lSil the Taclflc Mail Company had amalgamated Its fleet by the build in of two steamers, the Golden Gate and the John L. Stephens, either of which could reduce the time between Panama and San Francisco to II day, while It took the Pacific and Brother Jonathan fully 14 to come from San Juan del Sur, which waa nearly 40 miles further north. The steamers left San Francisco on the first and fifteenth of each moDth and New York on the fifth and twentieth: and in four years the Nicaragua route landed Its passen-p- In New York ahead of the Pacific Mall Just four times iome time ln-lSS2 a new line was projected, coming by way of Panama , and having the steamers United State and Uncle Sam on the Atlantic side, and the Cortes. Repubilo and Wlnfleld Scott In Pacific waters. The writer of thla article worked his passage op from Panama on the last of these three J vessels. She was under command of ' captain Simon r. iJiunu wnose win I was the daughter of Key, who wrote tha "Star Spangled Banner. She waa a very slow ship and barely could make nine mile an hour under the most favorable conditions. On her second trip after the writer had left her at San Diego, sh entered the Santa Bar bara channel Just as the sun went down. It was the custom to take the Inside passage because It was not only a shorter route but smoother water. About 10:80 at night the fog that had prevailed for two hours suddenly be came thicker and la m few minutes tha Scott was square upon a ledge of rocks Just outside a small cove of Anacapa Island, due west of 8an Buenaventura. What ailed her- Instru ments I never know, but she waa all of eight miles out of her course. There was no actual loss of Ufa on the ship, but three or four of her pas sengers died from the shock after they had reached shore. Captain Blunt was not long out of employ, for a big pro peller came out. called the Chesapeake, and the captain left her at San Fran cisco, so Blunt got the ship. Blast la Bad Lurk. He made one trip with her to Hum boldt Bay and on his second trip she ran on a reef near Cape Mendocino, I which to this day Is known as Plant's I reef. The wreck of the Scott can be seen at low tide with the cylinder heads 1 about six Inches out of water. If any one has sufficient curiosity to visit Anacapa Island. In 183 Vanderbilt bought out tha owners of the Cortes and they went out of business. About that time a man named Edward Mills built a very hand some steamer called the Yankee Blade and sent her around the Horn under command of Captain Henry Randall, a man of experience on the Great Lakes, but who had never served a day on the ocesn. The first officer was Charles F. Hewitt, for many years later master of the Southern Pacific's coal ships plylnjr to Nannlmo. The chief engineer was Elijah Mott- The ship left San Francisco at noon with about 60S pas sengers. It was late In November. 1884. and at that time It comes dark shortly after t o'clock. About S A. M.. in a dense fog, she ran on a rock Just below Point Arquello, at the entrance of the Santa Barbara channel, not ZOO yards from where the Santa Rosa waa wrecked, t years later. Quite a num ber of Uvea were lost on this ship but ehtefly through anxiety of passengers to get ashore. Speaking of the affair, many years later. Captain Hewitt said: "There waa no good reason for the loss of a single life. All tbey had to do was to wait for daylight. . . Wrecks la F.laht Yea , For eight years there waa no very serious accident or any which Involved the loss of life nntll. one day In the Summer of 1862. came a story of ship wreck and suffering that made almost every home In California a nouse oi mourning. The Golden Gate was the flagship of the Pacific Mall Company and was in charge of her fifth com mander. William H. Hudson, a son of the famous old tar who commanded the Majara when she laid the first Atlantle cable In 113s. She had on board about 900 passengers of whom at least 200 were prominent people from San Fran cisco. The fire broke out amidships, which cut off all chance of reaching four of the ship's boats; and then the cap tain found th fire was too strong for hi pumps. Hudson concluded to beach the vessel. Had he turned his ship around and backed her In ho mlKht have saved many more of his cabin passengers, a with her going head on the after part of the ship was almost Instantly enveloped In names. Those aboard did not watt to launch boats before the ship struck but wrenched off stateroom doors and Jumped over board with them. One of those who escaped was Ben Holladay. who was Journeying east with bis partner, E. P. Flint. One night In 1885, at Holla day's home. East Third and Stark streets, conversation reverted to that catastrophe and Holladay said: "'Flint and I Jumped overboard al most together. I learned to swim when a boy by letting my body rest on the end of a plank with my legs down In the water. So I knew that a state room door would hold me up for hours. After I bad been In the water nearly an hour. I looked around for Flint, but could see nothing of him." "What do you suppose became of him?" I asked. "Don't know." replied the pioneer railroad builder. "It took me all my time to look out for tha Interests of Ben HoIladay.'v Captain Foresaw Disaster. It was three years later that the next great marine catastrophe came, aome time In July, 1I6S the loss of the Brother Jonathan. She was then over If year old and had come near going down In the open sea during tha Fra ser River mining days. Nothing but the splendid seamanship of old "Cap tain Bob" Haley saved her. When the California Steam Navigation Company got bold of her they virtually rebuilt her. at a cost of approximately 1165. 000. so she was supposed to be safe. Her master waa Samuel J. De Wolfe, who had been first officer of her under Haley. On the day she waa to leave FIRST TO SECOND ON YAMHILL PORTLAND'S BIGGEST STORE QUITTING BUSINESS CLOSING OUT EVERYTHING AT SACRIFICE PRICES TO THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER VISITED OUR STORE, we have a sug gestion. Perhaps you have not visited our Women's Department, for the rea son that yon believed that we did not handle a line of wearing apparel that would suit you. On the contrary, we had you and every woman in mind when we ordered the pres ent line. We had intended makinp; a good profit on these goods, but, alon g comes an untateful land lord, and we have to sac rifice every piece. Call ai,d see what we have. Women of Portland- Attention SEE THESE WAISTS CHUTON WAISTS, in blacks, blues, grays and lavenders, over white net. - A line that we had in- QC tended to sell tor $12.00, Reduced by necessity to ouly . rr"' FEY WAISTS, in battenberg Persians of newest designs. Midnight bines, silks and satins. Our origi CO QJj rial price was low at $750. Present price only WHITE LINGERIE WAISTS, an odd lot, with allover embroideries, some trimmed with the latest lace I QO and insertions. Worth easily $4.50. Reduced now to .? J SPECIAL LOT OF LINGERIE WAISTS, values up to $2.00, now 9S FEATHERS Regular French "black and white plumes. Reduced as follows : $12.00 18-inch plumes for $5.98;" 18-, inch $7.50 plumes for $4.98; 16-inch $5.00 plumes for $2.50; up to $3, for $100 KIMONOS These eome in crepe ma terials and we have them in all kinds, colors and a variety of sizef that will suit any woman. See whai we have before buying elsewhere. $2 values POCKET BOOKS This is the pl-ce to buy Pocket Books, for you will have something left to put in them. $1.50 values reduced to 75;.$2.00 values for S5 and the balance at 1.45 UMBRELLAS Regular $2.00, long wooden-handled Umbrellas reduced down to only 98J; lno wood handles, fancy tips, regularly sold up to $3.00, reduced to only. .Sl'.39 UNDERWEAR Corset covers, all over embroideries, 75c values for 39c; Drawers, trimmed with deep embroid ered flounce, goods that we would or dinarily sell for 85c, reduced now to HOUSE DRESSES We have the newest Spring styles, many of which will attract you at once. High waists, in neat patterns and offered now for the first time at great reductions.... $ 95 UP SPRING SUITS, WAISTS AND COATS ARE HERE in this stock. There are patterns, cloths and lines that all women are raving over this year. Our stock is just as up-to'date as any you can find in the city. The only practical dif ference between buying here and elsewhere is that you get the same goods here for a great deal less money. Surely, that is an inducement that is -veil worth your careful consideration. W e have always preached that this is the house of economy.. PETTICOATS An excellent assort ment for your selection. These have a deep embroidered flounce and regu larly sell for $2.00. SPECIAL FOR 98c; $2.00 combination suits at only.. $ 39 NECKWEAR We are closing out our entire stock, consisting of jabot, side frills and linen collars. This in. eludes everything we have in our store. All values np to 50c now only DfTic ii ii ii" I ti if FIRST TO SECOND ON YAMHILL GOWNS See our line. We have them in low necks and short sleeves, trimmed with embroidery and lace. These have been .reduced more than half and are exceptional values. Reg ular $2.00 for.., GLOVES Our entire stock of $1.25 gloves has been sacrificed to a price that represents just about cost. We show them in black, tan, gray and bice for only, the pair.... SKIRTS We have one lot of Skirts that will sat isfy your longing desire to get something service able, pretty and well-fitted. These are the black Panamas, in serges "and voiles. They are skirts that you would readily expect to pay $9.00 for. Priced at S3.S5 We also have Fey mix tures in grays, tans and browns, up to $10.00, for the low price of $4.95 FIRST TO SECOND ON YAMHILL San Francisco Cs.pts.ln De Wolfe called up Mr. Jessup. the vice-president of the company, by a messenger boy and asked blm to cow down to the dock. On Inquiring; what was wanted Captain De Wolfe aald: "Mr. Jessup, we will have to refuse any more freight. The ship Is now drawing over 15 feet and there Is a string- of SO drays between here and the head of the dock." "Well, what of Itr asked Jessup. "Simply this." replied De Wolfe, with 1 feet she is absolutely helpless and cannot make eight miles an hour. It Is all you can do to keep her head to a heavy sea drawing; 16 feet. Load her down to anything over that and she is liable to broach to with you." "Captain De Wolfe, that freight has got to go and In this ship. If you don t want to take it, I can find somebody else that will." retorted Jessup. "I have a wife and family." said the captain, "and I can't refuse." Million Slaka With Ship. Ordinarily that ship could make Humboldt Bay In tt hours and Crescent City In 40. She reached the latter port In just 7 hours and left there about :30 the next morning. A man named John Jackson, living about half way between Crescent City, sat on his front porah smoking a pipe as the ship reared the ledge known as St. George's reefs. His wife was washing on the back porch Of tha bouse. He called her to come out and see the steamer go by. As aha did not come, he went to the bark porch and called her again. By the time they got out there to gether the ship was nowhere to be seen. Everybody said she had struck a rock, but. aa she had aboard nearly 11.800.000. the greater part of which was for pay ing off tha troops in the Northwest, diligent search has been made with divine, bells and all other appliances for 80 years. The wreck has nevei been located nor baa any rock ever been found. Among those lost on that ship were General George Wright, commanding the Department of the Pacinc. with blB wife and bis chief of staff. Captain E. D. Waltt; E. N. Eddy, paymaster of the United States Army: Joseph A. Lord, Wells Fargo messenger, and the oldest employe In that branch of their service, and Victor Smith. Collector of Customs for Puget Bound. J. A. Ben ton, purser of the ship, was among the lost. Samuel D. Holmes was freight clerk of the ship, but hearing of the illness of his uncle. Samuel J. Hins ley, to whom he owed his position, he remained ashore and his successor went down with Benton. Elijah Mott was chief engineer of the ship. The seeond officer, put off In charge of a boat containing 42 passengers and four of thei crew, and that is all that were saved from the Ill-fated Brother Jon athan. Other Wrecks Later. Various other wrecks came In later years. The magnificent City of Tokio was wrecked at Aberdeen, Just outside of Hongkong. The City of Ban Fran cisco, the . most costly vessel of her size aver built In an American yard op to that time, went ashore In the night at Cape Lazars, lees than a mile from where the charred timbers of the Golden Gate were engulfed. There were several other wrecks of less Importance when In November. 1175. came the most terrible catastrophe In Paclflo Coast history, tha loss of the steamer Pa cific. Captain Jeff Howell. the left Victoria, B. C. at 1:45 P. M. with S7I persons on board, and by 10 o'clock that night there were but Ave of this number alive, three of whom perished from cold and exhaustion on the fol- ATTRACTIVE PARISH BOUSE UNDER WAY. f ,t . .!iV?-w..4 'i-iVi ; -T '-lf55Vrt?'A-v"-C I -f i ; i!-r irSSSt' ,T7 h. T i v M W f v--f ?u vw.a-j?. f4 -l fr? a Tf , I ... - 1 7 y- i 1 flr , ITstCTl'RB Bl'ILT BY FIRST PBKSBVTEH1AJI CHl'HCH. The atractlv three-story parish house of the. First Presbyterian Church, rising at the southeast : corn-r of Thirteenth and Alder streets, will be complete arly in Juno. The structure has an exterior of brick and stona. It will be occupied by various departments of tha church. Including pastor's study, Sunday-school room, missionary room and committee rooms. The coi of the building' ba 170,000. s lowing day. The Quartermaster, off watch at the time, was named Neil O'Hankpy. Let me repeat his story: "There was niver a braver man nor the captain. When the ship wint down. I grabbed hold of a part of the upper deck; and whin I had climbed up on it there was the second mate and a young girl In her nightgown. A minute later up came the captain and we helped blm aboord, too. The sea was not very rough that night but we all suffered from the cold. The next morning the sea began to wash over the raft and the poor girl was too weak to hold on. and Ivery time she got washed off the captain and the second mate would Jump off and put her aboard again. This happened three times and on the fourth time that it happened, the howl three of 'em went down together. God knows, I sometimes wish I had gone down wld 'em." The other survivor was a Can adian named Henry F. Jelly, but he told many conflicting stories about It. I lost 70 acquaintances on that ship and have never forgotten that honest Irishman's story. Greed Caasea Disaster. This casualty was caused by the greed dt Captain Sawyer, of the ship Orpheus, engaged in the coal traffic be tween San Francisco and Nanalrao. He wanted to And out whether any one of three ships which left San Francisco on the same day he did had reached their destination. To do this he was bound to speak the Pacinc, and in do ing so he changed the course of his vessel three times inside of five min utes and finally struck the steamer forward of her paddles, which caused her to sink in less than 20 minutes. Then he headed about, after leaving 273 people in the water and crying out for help, and two hours later ran his own ship on the, rocks at Cape Beale having mistaken the light for that of Flattery. Yet this cold-blooded snake had no difficulty In getting command of another ship in lees than six months from the time that he had sent nearly 300 souls into eternity. Next we come to the wreck of tha Collma on the Mexican coast In 1885. This was simply one of those cases that are bound to occur where steamships are. run by railway rules. The ship had to take 350,000 feet of lumber to eome port In Central America, and R. P. Schworln, vice-president, ordered it carried on the upper deck, despite the protest of Captwln Taylor that, as the ship's coal was burnt away and the weight in her hold decreased, she was liable to capsize if she encountered any heavy weather. .. Loss Follows Folly. Pchwerin retorted that Taylor need not go out In the ship if he did not want to obey orders. Taylor went and went to the bottom with his ship. Con sidering that he was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Schwer in's standing in the class on naviga tion must have been very near zero, judged by this one incident alone. ast we come to the loss of the City of Rio Janeiro on Mile Rock, Just in side the heads of San Francisco harbor. This was due to the cadet system which was Inaugurated by the Pacific Mail who wanted to catch the early train for Washington. Old seadogs like Captain Ned Wake man or Dick Whiting, of pioneer days, would have simply told him to wait. THOS. B. MERRY. Portland, April 18, 1912. ELKS TO START BIG ARCH "Welcome" Sign Will Span Sixth Street and Face Depot. Construction of a mammoth and at tractive "welcome" arch across the foot ' of Sixth street and facing the union Company some 20 years ago, of taking : pasenger station will begin next week youne men as cadets, or apprentices, i under tne direction of the Portland and working them up by degrees to a captaincy. Ward, captain of the Rio de Janeiro, was one of these cadets, and, while he a most charming gentleman, he was not to be ranked for a moment with Morse, Seabury, Howard, Shackford or Frell, his prede- 1 Lodge of Elks. It whl remain in place until after the Elks' National conven tion in Portland. July 8 to 13. It will be built of fireproof material, but will not be of a permanent nature, as was at first Intended. The contractors agree to have the cessors In that line. To please one man who wanted to get Into San Francisco to catch an early train for Washington. Captain Ward ran his ship Into the harbor in a dense fog. with the result of a loss of 122 lives, including Roncevllle Wildman, arch completed by May 15, so that It will serve as an advertisement for tne convention to all visitors entering the city between that date and the open ing of the convention. It will be used also as a part of a general decorating scheme for the Rose Festival. Trusses Like These Are A Crime Honest Advice to Consumptives eomihov there exists a vast amount of ekeptlclam as to the possibility of curing Consumption. We state none but facts, and are sincere In what we assert. . If ourselves afflicted with Tuberculosis, we should do precisely whet we ssk otbsrs to do take Eckman's Alterative promptly and faithfully. The reason we should do this sad warrant we have for asking all Consumptives to take it la tbat we hare the reports of many cures, one ef which follows: 1619 Susquehanna Ave., Phil a.. Pa. Gentlemen: For two years I was afflict ed with hemorrhages of the lungs, the num ber totaled nearly one hundred. Our family physician advised another climate, as to re main would probably be fatal; however, I remained and In February of I0ui, I was taken with a severe attack of pneumonia. When I recovered sufficiently to walk about the house I was lett with a frightful hack ing coush. which no medicine I had taken could alleviate. I was asaln advised to go to another part of the country. It was at this time. March 1602, that I learned of Eckman e Alterative. In a short time my court) was gone and I was pronounced well or -cured." 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