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THE NAVAL REVIEW— THE DOLPHIN WITH PRESIDENT McKINLEY ON BOARD PASSING DOWN THE LINE
When the last division of the military and civil bodies had passed the reviewing stand President McKinley and other invited guests were escorted to the bank of the river, from which they were taken on board the Dolphin for the purpose of reviewing the fleet. In addition to
other salutes, as the Dolphin, with the President's flag flying at her main, passed down the line, the great warships dipped their colors in honor of the Chief Magistrate.
by Wil iam W. Brady, H-nry W. Knicnt
and William McDonald. Price, Tnit,
Mackeliar, McDonald ana Knight are past
commanders of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Others present included General Koratio
C. Kin.; and his iJau^rhter, President Mc-
Millan an>l Secretar-v Leary of the Park
Board, President Crcftof the Commission
ers of Chsrity; General Horace Porter,
president of the Grant Monument Com
mitree; John Duncan, the architect who
do s gned the monument; John T. Brady,
contractor who built it, and C. M. Can
fieid, who farnisbed the sarcophagus.
THE SARCOPHAGUS.
MANY THOUSANDS IN LINE.
The Main Divisions of the Marching
Column.
In spite of all efforts made by General
Grenville M. Dock-e, grand marshal of the
procession, to limit the size of the march-
I lug column at the dedicatory ceremonies,
1 the main divisions were as follows:
V . FIBST DIVISION.
\Orand Marshal and his staff, regular army.. 2,500 \
i-allorß and marines 1,501)1
second division.
National Guard. New York 13,000
THIRD DIVISION.
■ National Guard, l'e'insyl vauia 4,000
National Guard. Sew Jersey : 4,000
National <>uaril. Connecticut 600
• >at:onal Guard, M:is.a<'h;isetls 500
.Nuiional Guurd. 'Virginia. ■ -700
National Guard, Maryland 900
National Guard, KhO'le Island -iOO
. >»tional Guard. Vermont 600
National GuanJ. Onio 1,100
National Guanl, Disrrirt of Colombia 'JSO
Governor of Illinois and siaff.
FOURTH oivuioar.
■Uniformed, arme<! and equipped cadets..... 4.000
FIFTH DIVISION*.
O. A. R. Veterans 10.000
SIXTH DIVISION.
Civic organizations 10,000
Th«i official programme is a souvenir
memorial of the ceremonies of the dedica
tion. The book contains a series of repro
ductions from portraits of General Grant
from the age of 17 years to his death, also a
series of scenes and incidents from his life,
with portraits of his family and parents,
views of his tomb and sarcophagus, por
traits on-d sketches of the leading mem
bers of the militia and navy and of Gen
eral Horace Porter and Mayor Strong,
witb a review of the executive committee
' and others. The programme also has
reminiscences and memoirs of General
Giant by some who knew him well, and a
complete outline of the ceremonies and
those who participated.
tThe front page is printed in gold, with a
large and true picture ol the tomb sur
rounded with a wreath, and in the upper
left hand corner is a bow of red, v.'hite and
; tJue ribbon. The cover of the programme
1 Vas designed rjy Stanford White.
\ lhe official badge, which is patented, is
\inade of solid gold, the Background being
in white enamei with gold relief, the head
of Grant in gold— a perfect likeness of the
general, and is acknowledged by experts
to be the best impression ever made of |
him. The words "Municipal Grant Mon
ument Committe, April 27, 1897," «re at i
jthe base in a scroll .design. ,_ .......
HISTORIC UTTERANCES.
R:f|e-Shot Sayings of the Hero! of
Appomattox.
In the April number of the Outlook,
General Jarne* Grant Wilson has an arti
cle, in which he says it maybe doubted if
among the six or seven really illustrious
soldiers of the nineteenth century, on
which the curtain is about to drop, any
except Napoleon has left behind well-au
thenticated records of so many rifle-shot
utterances as did General Grant-
When news of the assault on Fort Sum
ter reached the North, hundreds of mildly
INTERIOR OF THE GRANT MONUMENT.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1897.
enthusiastic meetings were held in the
chief cities and towns of the loyal States.
Among ihose one met in Galena, 111., at
which Grant said: "lam in for the war
and shall stay until this wicked rebellion
is crushed at the cannon's mouth."
In Grant's lirst battle of the war he said :
''Don't lire until you see the enemy, and
then take good aim."
When the Confederate commander pro
posed an armistice at Fort Donelson
Grant wrote: "No terms except an imme
diate and unconditional surrender can be
accepted. I propose to move immediately
upon your works." This message electri
fied the North and made Grant a central
tigure in the group of Union generals.
At Shiloh Grant said to Sherman: "Re
form your ranks and attack the enemy in
front at break of day. It is always an ad
vantage to be the attacking party and we
must fire tne first gun to-morrow morn
ing."
At Vicksburg Grant said to Femberton:
"I demand an unconditional surrender."
Alter the glorious victory at Chattanooga
Grant congratulated bis troops in these
stirring words: "You dislodged him from
Ms great stronghold at Lookout Moun
tain; drove him from Chattanooga Val
ley; wrested from his determined grasp
the possession of Mission Ridge; repelled
with heavy loss to him his repeated as
saults upon Knoxvillo, forcing him to
raise the siege there; driving him at all
points, utterly routed and discomfited,
beyond the limits of the State.
In May, 1861, he said to Sherman:
"Rebel armies are now the strategic po.nts
to strike. In a communication to Meade
he wrote: ''Lee's army wih be your ob
jective point. Wherever Lee's army goes
you will so also."
At the close of the first day's fighting in
the Wilderness, with its heavy losses of
thousands killed, wounded or captured, a
young officer from a distant part of the
hattlelield presented himself, bringing
bad news and. a gloomy countenance to
the chief; but nothinar daunted or dis
heartened the indomitable Grant re
plied: "It's all right, Wilson. We move
forward at 4in the morning. We are go
ing through; there is no doubt about iL"
Later on he wrote the letter to Halleck,
which contained the now famous sentence:
"I propose to ficht it out on this line if it
takes all summer."
In another message he wrote: "The
whole captures since the army started
out sunning will not amount to less than
12,000 and fifty pieces of artillery."
To Lee he said: "Take your horses
home, for you will want them for spring
plowing." Later on he said to the coun
try, "Let us have peace."
MAJOR - GENERAL DODGE.
War Record of the Man Who
Marshaled the Hosts Yes
terday.
Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, the
grand marshal of the Grant procession in
New York, was a distinguished soldier
daring the war, and subsequently a mem
ber of Congress from lowa and chief en
gineer in the construction of the Union
Pacific Railroad. Grant and Sherman bad
a high respect for Dodge's ability as a
tighter and his skill as an engineer.
Dodge organized the Fourth iowa In
fantry, one of the historic regimeuu of
the war, and as colonel conducted it to
the field of battle. At Pea Ridge he gained
a star for gallantry in action. He was
subsequently promoted major-general,
and placed in command of the Sixteenth
Army Corps. As commander of that corps,
in front of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, be
made a splendid record for bravery and
endurance when assaulted in dank and
rear by General Hood. The highest tribute
is paid to Dodge in Sherman's official re
port of this engagement, in which the
brave Mcl'herson, commanding the Army
of the Tennessee, was slain.
ATLANTA'S BANKING PANIC.
A Third Concern Forced to the Wall by
Cassm's Rascality — Knockout at a
Directors' Meeting.
ATLANTA, Ga., April 27. — Another
institution, hitherto supposed to be one of
the stancbest in the city, has gone to the
wall, a third victim to the defalcation of
Cashier Cassin. An attorney representing
the Washington Loan and Investment
Company to-day secured tbe appointment
of receivers for the concern, the manage
ment of which is clo?ely connected with
the Georgia Loan and Banking Company
and the United States Bond Company.
Tne latter and the Washington Company
conducted a far-reaching installment
bond business, being the depositories of
the sayings of families in nearly every
city of importance in the United States.
The personnel of the board of directors
and stockholders included the leading
capitalists of this State.
At a meeting of the Georgia Company's
directors to-day th* re was a lively row be
tween President G. V. Gress and Judge
R. T. Dorsey, who is Atlanta's foremost
lawyer. Dorsey asserted that he had writ
ten Gress in January asking that he call
a meeting of the directors to examine the
books. Gress replied that he nad just
concluded a personal inspection of tri
bank's affairs and that there was nothing
whatever to warrant the inconvenience
of calling a board meeting. High words
followed until Dorsey in a rage knocked
the president under a table.
An amendment has been filed by Mor
gan Gress, son of the president, to his
original petition which precipitated the
receivership, in which he claims that his
lather obtained large sums of money on
inadequate securities. He also prefers
charges against other officers for employ
ing the funds of the defunct institution
in private ventures. He implicates some
of Atlanta's foremost citizens.
To Drain I.na<trill*'s Uo%*>ntou>n Mine*.
LEADVILLE, Colo., April 27.— At a
meeting of mine managers last night it
was unanimously decided to bepin pump
ing tbe downtown mines immediately,
with a view to their operation in June!
The resumption will furnish employment
to abouil 00 men.
Alttit //>!•■<• Heen an Overnight.
BOSTON, Mass., April 27.— Former Gov
ernor Boutwell, who was Secretary of the
Treasury under Grant, did not receive an
invitation to the Grant memorial exer
cises. .Boutwell said to-night: ''Whether
this was caused by negligence or whether
they had no place for me I don't know."
Off for Morth Ororrjia'n Gold J i*!d<.
CHAT TANOOGA, Term., April 27.—Ad
lai Stevenson and a party of wealthy man
interested in gold-mining started to-day
««n route to the gold fields of North
Georgia.
JLiruti-nant < ntiioun Dend.
NEW YORK, N. V.. April 28— Naval
Lieutenant George Caihonn dropped dead
on Broadway at midnight or shortly after
on his way home from the Union League
reception.
FOUR SURVIVE
THE DISASTER
Terrible Wreck of the
Brigantine Vaillant
on Icebergs.
It Is Believed That Sixty-Nine
Fishermen Met a Fearful
Death.
Four Man Badly Frost- Bitten Picked
Up In a Boat— They Had Eaten
a Dead Comrade.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 27.— The
French barkentine Victor Olgene arrived
at St. Pierre Miquelon bringing survivors
of the brigantine Vaillant, Captain Pierre,
which struck an iceberg on the Grand
Banks on the night of Wednesday, April
14. and sank within twenty minutes.
The survivors believe their sixty-nine
comrades perished. Their ship was nearly
four weeks out from St. Malo, when, -with
out an instant's warning, she struck full
speed against a low-lying iceberg. Her
stem and bows were split to pieces and
tbe hold was speedily flooded. Many of
those aboard were drowned outright by
the inrushing waters or crushed by falling
timbers as they tried to reach the deck.
The ship wa9 en her way from France
to St. Pierre for bait to begin the summer's
codtishing on the banks, and was carrying
fifty fishermen to join the St. Pierre fleet
She had altogether seventy-three persons
aboard. After the collision those who
reached the deck, mostly clad in ni.-ht
robe?, realizing the ship was soon to sink,
wildly began to launch tbe dories. The
boats, being insufficient for all, a brutal
scramble for places in them ensued. The
rescued dory was one of the first to clear
tbe snip.
The survivors are ignorant of now many
others got away, but fear very few, be
cause the ship sank within twenty min
utes, and the screams which accompanied
tier disappearance proved only too clearly
how many were carried down to death.
The rescued dory had seven men aboard
when she left the ship. Only one, Gren
ville, the boatswain, was fully dressed,
and the party pushed off in such haste
that they neglected sails, oars, provisions
or water. For four days they were adrift
in this frail craft, every sea sweeping
over them, drenching them to the skin
ana forcing them to continuous bailing,
until they were too feeble to throw out
any more water, and careless whether
they perished or not they packed them
selves closely along the boat's bottom for
warmth. But the keen frost and the sur
rounding icebergs and floes rendered
warmth impossible, and hunger soon
added its terrors. Qeath cut short tbe
sufferings of two of them on the second
day. A few hours later they sighted the
captain's boat, also without oars, drifting
with half a dozen occupants. She re
ported that one of the party was already
dead, and as none of the rest bad since
been heard of it is believed ail were lost.
The boats soon drifted apart. The next
day Grenvllle's boat lost a third man by
death. Tntit night the famished survi
vors ate the flesh Irom the corpse. 'I he
next evening when the party was rescued
the body was almost half eaten. So rav
enous had they become that Captain Eve
and crew of the Victor Olgene, which res
cued them a week ago yesterday, were
horrified at the sight and sank the body
and boat at once.
The four living men were all bereft of
reason and so exhausted that they had to
be hoisted over the snip's side swathed in
blanket-, their bodies being masses of
frott-bitten flesh. When found they were
all lying unconscious in the bottom with
six inches of water surrounding them and
could not stand or speak for days. When
tney reached St. Pierre to-night they had
to be carried ashore on stretchers. Their
limbs are useless, and amputation is
necessary unon every one. This work was
begun by the doctors to-night. It is an
nounced that three may recover, but the
lourth cannot live. Even if the others
pull through it will be legless and arm
less.
The rescuers could lea»n few details
from the survivors. The Victor Olgene
cruised about two days looking for the
other boats, but failed to see any sign of
them, and it is believed they were crushed
by the ice or swamped by heavy storms
which frequently raced since the day of
the disaster. All hope has been virtually
abandoned of other rescues, though nego
tiations have been opened for a sealing
steamer from here to proceed to the sec
tion of the banks where the ship sank.
AFTER THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Kentucky's Attorney- General Opens His
Suit Against the Big Corporation
at Frankfort.
FRANKFORT, Kt., April 27.— The case
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against
the Southern Pacific Railroad was called
in the Franklin Circuit Court this even
ing before Judge Cantrell by Attorney-
General Taylor. General Taylor stated
that the case was one involving $136,000
against the Southern Pacific for failure to
report, and damages and penalties; that
the corporation had defied the State au
thorities and had refused to comply with
the law; that the statute in the case
against them was plain; that the attorney
for the Southern Pacific had requested
that it be postponed until Friday, as the?
bad expected to settle by that time; that
they bad made the same promise before
and had failed to do so; that their delays
were based upon the advice of some big
official who was quartered away from the
borne office on a technicality; that the
road had repeatedly shirked in this man
ner before and lie would inform tne court
as to its methods; that he would agree to
the delay to Friday, but no longer; that
they were a foreign corporation, having
their existence from the Kentucky Legis
lature, and were subject to the laws of the
State as other such corporations in the
State and were liable to a franchise tax as
other lite corporations, in addition to the
tax on real property; that the Southern
Pacific was one of the most wealthy cor
porations in the United States; that no
estimate could be placed on their fran
chise by reason of the fact that the com
pany had failed and refused to report, but
that its property couid be estimated from
statistics gathered in the various standard
guides or "statistician-," and that he
would not argue the case further than
this brief statement.
The road will demur to his petition and
argument will be made on the demurrer.
THE KOhESHANITY TROUBLE.
Racy Developments in the Case of Editor
Hoyt Against the Alleged Hypr.o
tizer o fHis Wife.
HAVERHILL. Mass., April 27. — The
famous case of £ditor Hoyt of the Bulletin
against Mrs. Dr. Vienna Parsons — mor*
popularly known as the "Koreshanity
Scandal" — was heard before Judge Car'
penter to-day. Startling revelations re
garding this mysterious religion were
made. Mr. Hoyt charges Mrs. Parsons
with hypnotizing his wife and securing
goods on his credit. Mrs. Parsons re
talitates by charging him with improper
relations with a woman noc his wile. Ac
tion for malicious prosecution is now
threatened, as the devotee of Koresnanity
was discharged after making restitution of
the goods in question.
Mrs. Parsons is one of the victims of the
big Koreshauity fiasco in Florida. She
met Dr. Teed of Chicago, the originator
and leader of the new religion, at Mrs.
Hoyt's house, and claims to have given
him $2000, her entire fortune. She then
went to Florida and joined the deluded
colony. Now she has returned penniless,
like lots of other women, all of whom
were more or less wealthy.
Koreshanity ia nothing more nor less
than Dr. Teed. He is head of the church
and took all of the money. Singularly
enough, all of bis flock were women.
He compelled them to take awful vows
o: submission and implicit obedience to
hfm, vows of perpetual poverty, and to
actually worship h:m in ways which
would not bear publicity. Having se
cured all of their money, the worshipful
Teed departed forever, leaving the pov
erty-stricsen converts to beg their way
back to their homes as best they could.
It is said that Teed landed in Boston,
the home of countless other i-ms and
creeds, and is still working on the cred
ulity of some of the wealthy blue-stock
inged women of the modern Athens. Mr.
Hoyt propones to investigate further and
bring about an official expose of the re
ligion in the courts, if possible.
Special Treasury Agenta Discharged.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 27— Nine
special employes of the Treasury Depart
ment stationed in various parts of tne
country were dropped from tbe rolls to
day and their positions discontinued. The
explanation is that a smaller force of
special agents can pei form the duties of
that branch of the service satisfactorily.
"OWNEY" BOBS UP AGAIN.
The Famous Mai/car Dog /s Not Dead, as
Reported, but on the Ret /red List
at St. Louis.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 27.— "0w.
ney, " the famous postal dog, is not dead,
as reported, but in St. Louis at the uonie
of J. Melvin, a postal clerk, who will keep
the dog until he dies. Owney has been
a subject of official correspondence be
tween the Postoffice Department and some
of its officials. When Captain White, gen
eral superintendent of the railway mail
service, read that the doc had been killed
by a policeman in Cleveland for attempt
ing to bite a man he wrote Superintendent
Pepper in Cleveland requesting j>n official
report and asking whether the skin could
be mounted for the postal museum here.
Pepper's response, which was received
to-day, says that the dog mentioned was
not Owney, and that the poiicem,:in killed
an ordinary car. The last heard of Owney
rvas that he had gone to Cincinnati to
meet the new superintendent, from which
point he was "routed" to the exposition
at Nashville.
Postal Clerk Melvin saw the story
about Owney's death a few days a^o and
to-day Captain White received from him.
a letter saying that the dog had been m
Melvin's possession for three weeks. Ha
joined Melvin while returning from the
Postal Clerks' Convention at San Fran
cisco. Owney was suffering from a severe
attack of mange and Melyiri determined,
to bold him until cured. The cure baa
been accomplished, but Owney has de
veloped uely traits, due to his advanced
year.-*. He tries to bite everybody ha
doesn't know. Melvin, in his letter, said,
he would like to Keep the dog for the bal
ance of his days. Captain White has
written an official communication grant*
ing the request.
WILJj MB GO TO JPMSOXt
Sugar Trust Chapman* .Fate Xestt
With the District Attorney.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 27.— N0
action has yet been taken by District At
torney Davis toward enforcing the sen
tence passed upon Elverton Chapman, the
contumacious Sugar Trust witness who
was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to
be imprisoned for thirty days. The Dis
trict Attorney has not yet had an oppor
tunity to read the decision of the Supreme
Court denying the petition for release, as
the opinion has not been released by the
court. It is thought that Davis will en
force the sentence and then bring the re
maining defendants — Havemeyer, Sey
mour, Searles, McCartney, Schriver and
Ed wards — to trial. Counsel for these
claim that their cases cannot, be brought
within the terms of the Supreme Court
decision, but the Chapman case has all
along been held to be a teat one, and it is
believed that the President will not grant
an application for pardon.
Another Misting Sank. President.
CHICAGO. 111., April 27.— John S.
Sheldon, president of the Sheldon Bank
at L.'iia, 111., has been missing since last
Friday, and it is thought that he com
mitted suicide by jumping into Laka
Midi -pan.
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