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VOLUME LXXX.-NO. 83.
FESTIVITIES ON
ADMISSION DAY,
Preparations for the Great
Celebration at
Stockton.
THE MAGNIFICENT ARCH
Parades on Land and Water
That Will Be Things to
Wonder At
DECORATIONS ON THE BANKS.
How the Vast Throngs at the Mill
Cty on September 9 Are to
Be Fed.
STOCKTON, Cal., Aug. 21.— The gen
eral committee of the Native Sons held an
important meeting to-night, at which Otto
Grunsky of the entertainment committee
presided.
Chairman Gus G. Grant of the carnival
-ommittee reported that the principal
floats are now in course of construction.
A large storeroom has been secured in the
Yosemite Theater building and here the
materials to be used in the construction of
the barges and floats has been placed.
A line of lanterns will extend about Mc-
Leod's Lake for nearly a mile to the end
of the warehouse. Here a lightship, or
lighthouse will be stationed, and the pro
ces-ion on the water will turn at this
place. It will start in the lake, then move
west to the channel and down that to the
lightship. Along the banks lanterns will
be suspended every three feet, and eleven
large arc lights, with reflectors, and a
number of calcium lights will make the
water scene as bright as day. The largest
floats are now in process of construction
and the smaller ones will be completed
within a few days.
At intervals along the bank stations will
be placed, where, at a given signal, red
fire will be burned. The plans of the car
nival committee were approved to-night,
and it was tola to go ahead with itß work
on the lines mapped out.
Grand Marshal Nutter announced that
California Parlor would lead one of the
divisions and that W. D. Shea would De
the marshal in charge. Yosemite Parlor
will lead another division and George W.
Conway will be the marshal in charge.
Additional members were added to the
press committee to assist Chairman Henry
E. Adams, wno has thus far been very suc
cessful in the arrangements he has been
making for the newspaper men. Through
his efforts, George West <fc Co. of £l Pinal
vineyard, donated fifty cases of wine for
the represensatives of the press and has
besides promised, with others, a bountiiul
supply of vineyard products for the scribes
who will come here on Admission day.
The additional members of the committee
are: George Becker, J. J. Nunan, J. L.
Phelps, Irving Martin and R. B. Cullahan.
•The splendid arch across Hunter square
is rapidly assuming form, and its impos
ing appearance will add much to the deco
rations. Under it the Native Sons and
Daughters will pass in the parade, and
from its highest point the National colors
and the Bear flag will float, to be saluted
by the thousands who march in the great
parade.
On the south side of the arch stands the
figure of California in heroic size, holding
in one hand the furled colors and in the
other the wreath. The passageways are to
tbe right ana left ol the statue, and are
broad enough to allow fifteen men to walK
abreast. The height of the passageways
is forty feet, allowing ample room for the
floats.
The grand arch across Hunter Square, Stockton, as it will appear when completed. The view of the arch is taken
from the south side. The small picture in the upper right-hand corner, shows the bandstand on the north
side of the arch, which is under a monster shell to protect the musicians from the sun.
[Sepr educed from the drawing made by the architect.)
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
The Last of the American Clipper Ship Willie Rosenfeld. "When 400 Miles Off the Coast of Brazil She Went Down Stern First in a Gale, and Fourteen of He?
Crew Are Missing. Shipping Men Think the Rosenfeld Sprang a Leak Off the Horn and That Captain Dunphy Was on His. Way Back , to. Rio de. Janeiro for
Repairs When the Catastrophe Happened* The Willie Rosenfeld Was Named After the Youngest Son of John Rosenfeld, the Park Commissioner of This City.
The Young Man Died a Few Days Before the Vessel Was Launched. In J894 the Ship Nearly Foundered When Rounding the Horn, and the Above Picture
Is From a Sketch Made at the Time.
On the north side of the arch is the band
stand, under a monster shell to protect the
musicians from the sun. On pedestals to
the side are three figures of California
grizzlies, with raised forepaws. As the
work now stands, it is but the skeleton of
what will be a great structure representing
mountain crags, dashing waterfalls, the
sheathed grain of the valleys and nuggets
of gold from the mountains. The main
structure alone stands over 100 feet from
the foundation and 150 feet in breadth.
The artist will find ample room on the
vast surface to fashion all the representa
tions of California wealth and types he
may desire.
All of the boathouses on McLeods Lake
and the channel were visited to-day by a
committee to see how many rowboats
were available for the night of the water
carnival. Last 3*ear there was difficulty
in engaging sufficient boats by those who
THE COMING FETE AT STOCKTON, CAL.
SAN FRANCISCO, S\TURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1896.
ANOTHER AMERICAN VESSEL FOUNDERED AT SEA.
wished to view the carnival from the
water, but this year all this will be ob
viated, as hundreds of new boats have
been built since then and will be ready to
accommodate visitors on the night of the
water parade* Four extra barges have
been ordered for the singers and bands
that will take part in the water carnival.
All along the line of the parade on the
water? of the lake and channel the chor
uses of male singers will render the songa
they are now rehearsing. There will be
fully fifty bands here on Admission day to
take part in the parade, and all of these
will take position in the procession on the
water and lend their efforts to make the
affair the great success it now promises
to be.
It was suggested to-night that as Stock
ton had been advertised far and wide as
the coming railroad center on account of
being the terminal of the Valley road and
also of the road that connects this city
with the coal mine at Corral Hollow,
it would be well to see that both of these
roads, and more especially the Valley
road, assist in keeping up this idea by hav
ing a number of engines and trains on
hand during the celebration. It was sug
gested that as* the Valley road is to be so
great a factor in the future progress of
Stockton it have eight or more of its
locomotives steamed up and in running
order while che Natives are here, in order
that they may have some ocular demon
stration of the work done thus far'by the
Vallpy road officials. A committee con
sisting of Gus G. Grant, M. D. Eaton and
E. C. Wagner was appointed to see that
the representatives of both roads were in
terviewed on this subject.
The question of providing food for the
thousands who will be here was also dis
cussed. The committee on accommoda
tions reported that the churches of Stock
ton had promised to assist in feeding the
crowd of natives who will come here for
the festivities. The Central Methodist
Church has agreed to feed 500 visiting na
tives ior one day, the First Baptist Church
will provide for 100, the Congregational
church for 200, and St. John's Episcopal
Church 200 — making a thousand in all who
will be fed gratis by the churches.
To-morrow Gus G. Grant of the carni
val committee and Secretary Willy of the
general committee will visit San Fran
cisco for the purpose of conferring with
the general committee in San Francisco.
EMPLOYES ARE DETERMINED.
Unless Grievances Are Adjusted the Adams
Express Strike Will Extend Through
out the Country.
NEW YORK; N. V., Aug. 21.— A com
mittee representing the striking em
ployes of the 'Adams Express Company
has issued a statement regarding their
difficulties with the company. In it they
say the men are not striking for more
wages or less hours, but for a recognition
of their order, and to stop the indiscrimi
nate discharge of the employes of the
company without apparent reason. The
company, the statement goes on to say,
previous to the strike, discharged old
hand* as soon as the new ones were made
familiar with the work, paying them $50
per month, or $25 less than the amount
paid the old hands. The statement fur
ther says the president of the company
will again be requested by the strikers to
make tbe concession asked for, and if he
refuses, a general strike of Adams Ex
press employes throughout the country
will be ordered.
LOSS OF A. WOODEN SHIP.
The Governor Goodwin Goes Athore on
Princva Island.
BATA VIA, Java, Aug. 21.— The Ameri
can ship Governor Goodwin, Captain
Oakes, from New York April 29 for Chefoo,
is ashore on Princes Island, and is a total
wreck. The crew were all saved. The
Governor Goodwin was a wooden ship of
1459 tons, built in Boston, Mass., in 1877,
and owned by Foster & Pray oi Boston.
Eelip.ie of the Sun.
LONDON, Eng., Aug. 21.— Norman
Lockyer, the well-known astronomer and
editor of Nature, has written a letter to
the Times, in which he says the most ex
cellent observations of the recent total
eclipse of the sun we re obtained by Mr.
Shackelton. an astronomer who was con
veyed on Sir General Baden-Powell's
yacht, the Otaria, to Nova Zernbla. He
obtained a number of photographs whica
will go far to neutralize the failure of the
astronomical expeditions to Norway and
Japan.
Fatal Error of Judgment.
LONDON, Esq., Aug. 21.— The Field, in
its issue to-morrow will criticize what it
terms the hurried and inadequate inquest
into the death of Baron yon Zedwitz,
owner of the yacht Isolde, who was killed
on Tuesday "in a collision between that
boat and the German Emperor's yacht,
the Meteor. The paper ascribes the dis
aster to an error of judgment on the part
of those handling the Meteor.
ONE CAMPAIGN
YARN REFUTED,
McKinley 's Strength in Ohio
Can No Longer Be
Doubted.
LIES TOLD IN A LETTER
Membership in a Silver Club at
Canton Is Peculiarly
Magnified.
FALSE REPORTS SCATTERED.
But Facts and Figures Show the
Popularity of the Repub lean
Standard-Bearer.
CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 21.— A dispatch
is being widely circulated in the Western,
Central and Southern States which con
tains an alleged letter from Canton, pur
porting to have been written in answer to
soru one who asks if it is true that Can.
ton Democrats have formed a large Bryan
silver club which contains many Repub
lican members. The letter in question
says:
•'lt is true we have in Canton a central
silver club with a membership of over
600, and three ward siiver clubs with a
large membership, blit just what it is I
am unable to say; and also in tne other
wards there will be organized silver
clubs. The central club has just been or
ganized ; it has an eminent Republican
for president and four vice-presidents, one
a Democrat, one a Republican, one a Pop
ulist and one a Prohibitionist, and the
club includes a large element of Repub
licans. Unless the tide turns McKinley
will not carry his ward, nor his city, nor
his Congressional district, and even there
is great probability of McKinley losing
the State."
This letter, which has been given wide
currency, has caused more than 200 letters
to be sent to the Republican committee
here, asking if the statements made in it
are tru9. Some of these letters have come
to Major McKinley. To-night one of the
leading Republicans of the county, Hon.
Hiram Doll, made a statement which is
officially approved and indorsed Dy the
chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee. Mr. Doll says:
"The silver club in Canton is composed
Continued on Second fage.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SHE WENT DOWN
IN A HURRICANE.
The American Ship Willie
Rosenfeld Founders
at Sea.
FOURTEEN MEN MISSING
They Escaped in Two Boats, but
Have Not Been Heard
From Since.
THE HULL AND CARGO INSURED
Captain Dunphy Was Probably on His
Way Back to Rio When the
Ship Went Down.
Another marine disaster has to be re
corded. The American ship Willie Rosen*
feld foundered at sea some time this
month and fourteen of her crew are miss*
ing. The following telegrams announced
the news in this City:
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 21.— The American
ship Willie Rosenfeld, from Mew York for Saa
Francisco, is reported as having foundered 400
miles off Santa Catharina. Fourteen people
are missing.
LONDON, E.vo., Aug. 21.— A cablegram from
Santa Catbarina says that the American ship
Willie Rosenfeld, from New York for San Fran*
Cisco, foundered 400 miles off the coast. Part
of the crew was saved and landed. Two boats,
containing fourteen persons, are missing.
The first news of the loss of the ship
was received here by Williams, Dimond <fc
Co., to whom the vessel was consigned.
They received the information from Dear*
born £ Co. of New York*, and at once no
tified the underwriters. The loss on ves
sel and cargo will probably amount to
$750,000, and the insurance is in the neigh
borhood of $500,000. The Willie Rosenfeid
was a home ship, and nearly all the risks
on her were held in San Francisco. This
makes the fifth Al vessel that insurance
has been paid on within the past five
weeks. The City of Philadelphia was lost
when rounding the Horn; the Colombia
went ashore at Pigeon Point and the St.
Paul at Point Pinos; a British ship with a
cargo for San Francisco is posted at Lloyds
as missing, and now comes the foundering
of the Willie Rosenfeld. In the short
space of time mentioned the insurancs
companies must have lost over a million
and a half.
The Willie Rosenfeld was well known in
San Francisco. She was named after the
youngest son of John Rosenfeld, but the
young man died before the vessel was
launched. Captain William H. Dunphy,
who was in command of her, is the father
in-law of Henry Rosenfeld, and during
her eleven years of Jife the vessel has al
most always traded between New York
and San Francisco, She left here last
year and made a quick run to New York,
but there was considerable delay in get
ting away again, as the sailors had the
captain and officers arrested for cruelty on
the high seas. Dunphy was exonerated,
but the mates were held to answer.
This delayed the sailing, and it was not
until April 23 last that the vessel got
away. John Rosenfeld was at that time
in New York, and he went all over the
ship. He reports that she was well found
and as sound as the day she was launched.
The opinion of seafaring men is that the
Rosenfeld made a fast run to the Horn and
there was caught in a hurricane, rier
sails were blown from the bolt ropes, top
masts went by the board, the bowsprit
snapped off short and the hull began to
leak. Finding that the water was gaining
in the hold Captain Dunphy probably put
about and ran back for Rio de Janeiro.
Another storm must have caught tha ill
fated ship and, her seams opening up, she
went down stern first.
"Captain Dunphy must have been on
his way back to Rio," said Captain James
F. Chapman yesterday. "If he had been
making for the Horn he would have been
much closer inshore, but if he was run
ning for a port in which to repair he was
on his course when the vessel foundered.
Judging from the meager details she was
in latitude 37.30 south, longitude 48.30
west, an 1 would therefore be between
Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. At the
former place there is not good anchorage
for a vessel the size of the Rosenfeld, and
at the latter there are facilities for repairs
of all kind. Of course no one can tell
how the thing happened, but when full
particulars arrive I think you will find
that the Willie Rosenfeld was on her way
to Rio in distress."
This is not the first occasion on which
the ship in question was in distress. She
left here on December 25, 1894, and very
nearly foundered off the Horn. On .that
occasion she lost nearly a suit of sails and
the vessel was practically a wreck. Two
of the crew were killed and eight were in
jured while attemptine to clear away the
wreckage. Captain Dunphy had his leg
broken and the first mate was injured.
On that occasion she nearly went down
stern first, and the accompanying cut is
reproduced from a sketch made by one of
the sailors. Twice was the Willie Rosen
feld in jeopardy at the Horn and on both
occasions she settled aft. The third time
was fatal and she went down stern first.
The Willie Rosenfeld was built in Bath,
Me., in 1885, and was one of the stoutest
ships ever turned out by Arthur Sewall <fc
Co. She was 2455 tons gross burden, 268
feet 5 inches long, 44 feet 8 inches broad
and 19 feet 1 inch deep. Captain Dunphy
had been in command of her from the
time she went into commission.
As to the missing members of the crew
no one seems to know anything. The
supposition is that Captain Dunphy and
tourteen or fifteen men have got ashore at
Santa Catbarina in a lifeboat, and that the
other boats with seven men in each made
a landing farther south. Very few of the
men were from San Francisco, as nearly
all who joined her here left her in New
YorK. The Rosenfeld was known as a
"bard ship," and sailors as a rule are hot
sorry that she is gone so long as they art
satisfied no lives were lost.