St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 February 1895 — Page 2

- BURIED IN THE SNOW & WHOLE COUNTRY IN THE GRASP OF A BLIZZARD. Storm Extends froim the Rockies to the Atlantic - Gives the South a Chili—Railroads Tied Up—Zero and Below Nearly KEverywhere. Frigid Weather s General, | | T BT e SRt Agﬂ,"\'!‘ ERETIY SIS “n ,’ﬁp.? m&ﬁf}*w %, gk U e 1 e SR T AT o ity il SR We s TR Y SIS = NV ¥ S By : h;;;v’z;'.-: — P < ':; /. »’” N the grip of onc LBT TR IR N & &7 . f,‘; s, of the most severe - WAt Ak and distressing S V7 B e kit - eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains - even unto the big Allegheny chain on the ~east a storm of snow and wind, accom‘panied by the celebrated Dakotan icy temperature, raged with a ferocity that struck terror into the hearts of ail whose misfortune brought them into contact with it. It was, in fact, a regular F'rench revelution of weather, and the sans culottes of the wild Northwest lmwlcdi fn the habitudes of the staid and respect- | ables of the Sonth and INast. It was really a reign of terror that affrighted ~all honest people and paralyzed the motives of the commonplace. Railroads abandoned freight trains and passenger trains were tied vp in huge and impregnable drifts many feet high. One startling feature of the blizzard was the impartiality with which it swept over the coun- I try. It measured out a minus 40 dose for the Dakotas and nearly killed thol Louisianans by breaking the record at an | even zero. Old Point Comfort, the fam- f ous resort, had the novelty of a ll:u‘dj snowstorm and the pan bandle of Texas shivered with the mercury at 5 degrees l below. Omaha was frozen at 18 below ,' and Memphis had an even zero. There | was enough snow on the sugar plantations for sleighing. Water was frozen in the orange belt, and the scarcity of it in the Chicago mains suggested a theory | that Lake Michigan was solid to the bot- l tom. Peach men in Michigan have aban- | doned hopes for their trees. ‘ The storm was general. A blizzard | raged everywhere. It roared like an i ‘Asiatie lion and drove ail human beings { ~ fndoors. where bread and butter did not ’ demand that they labor in the very teeth of the monster. Not for many a year dgonc has the country suffered so generally what it suffered last week from | wind, cold and snow. In the cities street f cars were stalled and walking was }ik:-i taking one’s ears, nose and lips M1 one's i liand, while in the country the wind and | gnow swept the earth with such unbroken ! velocity that in places life was endan- | gered to face the blast. ‘ As recorded by the Weather Buareau at ; Chicaco Friday, the average snowfall : wias eight iaches, with the following | table of temperature: I B . Payl o, 2 48Uincinnati ... 0 | Ia Crosse ... .—l4Buffalo ....... 8] Nt raetak .. o 86MempNa. .. ... O] Milliston ... —HoPort Huron ...— 4 ' Rilas ity o 80 Dth L 0 20 Hisre . b..0-268mnlt . .00 a1 Moorhead .....—3ooGrand Haven,.— 8 £t Vinecent ... .—3ltDes Moines .., .—l2 HMuon o —a2Dovenport . O Pieree . - PBoCHeyenne ;.. .- 12 Omaha 0. ... .—~lßosweso . ~..... O Kansas City .. .—loPittsbrrg .. .... 0 Conecordia .....—l6Albany .......—~ 4 Wichita .......——l2Winnhipeg .....—36 Bt Louis .. ....— 2Medicine Hat .. —22 Sirenl Bay o 1200000 .0 0 0 Peatroit . ..1. = 4Marquette ....—lO | Cleveland .....— 2Alpena ........—lO | Indianapolis ...— 2Dodge City ....—l4 ; : Notes es The Storm, . At Bastrop, La., the mercury fell to | Zero. : : Business was practically ‘suspended at | Towa Falls, la. At Cedar Rapids, la., all freight tr;xi;i.'} was abandoned. g A gorge formed in the Ohio river :Mi Evansviile, Ind. | Fastern trains due at Dubuque, 18 4 were all snow-bound. ! The Northwestern Railroad is blockaded at several points. [ Charles Dewester was frozen to death {n the blizzard at Peoria. \ It snowed continuously for thirty-six hours at Knoxville, Tenn. | Zeoro was marked at Memphis, ";'a:r:x..i the coldest weather in thirty years. | William Douglass, a farmer, was frozen to @eath in his barn near Camden, O. Mexico.. Mo., reporis the worst bliz gird in its history. Stock is suffering badly. : The 'Frisco passenger train stuck in a enowhank twenty miles east of Winfield, Thirteen trains were buried in snowbanks within a radius of fifteen miles of Clinton, la. S+ Josenh, Mo., reports ali trains on the St. .?~-~‘;-;,':\ and Grand Island road abandoned. Roeports from Ashland and other cities in Wisconsin indicate that the traflic sitnation is serious. The whole of the southern section of Virginia is covered with snow to a depth . of eight inches. At Roanoke, Va., the wind blew a hurricane. Sireet cars were tied up and the sirecets abandoned. A Burlington passenger train stuck below Carthage, Mo., all day. But for the food furnished by farmers the passen . gers would have suficred severely. The;

PRI TR ISR SRS AIR TR ST ESRTRRTTR IR Rey | burned fence rails, old ties, ete., to keep warm. Patrick McLaughlin laid down in an ice wagon nt Rockford, 111, to sleep, and was | so badly frozen that he will die. At Ottawa, IXan., the schools were dismissed and two children had their feet frozen. All trains were delayed. Fhe wind blew forty-seven miles an hour at San Antonio, Tex., with tha thermometer at 12 degrees above zero. Reports reached Hastings, Web., thai a whole family in the southeastern part of the county had perished from cold. The mercury dropped 40 degrees at Jacksonville, Ila. Icicies a foot long formed at Tallahassee. Vegetables will be damaged. . A blizzard raged in upper South Carolina. Picdinont Belt is covered with snow and at many points the thermometer is down to zero. The wind blew forty miles an hour at Benton Harbor, Mich., and railway traffic was impeded. I'ears are entertained for the peach buds. Porter Oden, a farmer living ten miles wese of Hennessey, O. T., was found frozen to death on a load of wood that he was hauling to town. G. W. Johnson, an old citizen of Parkersburg, W. Va., became parelyzed with s foﬁj %.: s way home, fell and froze | 1 TR e e S R E e {“cagse a loss to the vege: able | ; | of hundréds or 4“-“5‘513:"; g’n.‘f‘hai give up hope of saving anything. ’ In New England the cold is intense. Fraueconia, N. H., reports 35 below zero. At sea the storm was terrific, and the blinding snow and high wind made the | position of vessels very bad. Two Santa Ife freight engines were ditched in a snowdrift near Red TRock, O. T. Both engines were wrecked in an - attempt to pass through. Engineer Re- | gin and a fireman were badly hurt. ! At IYort Worth, Tex., the weather is ' the coldest known for years, the ther- ! mometer registering 3 degrees below zero. | Tl'rains from the north were delayed several hours. Range eattle are suffering. | IHundreds of cases and barrels of beer, ln;:;:rvgnfing in value thousands of doli lars, have been destroyed by the cold at l Milwaukee within the last few days. Since the cold snap made its appearance ] shipments of beer Lhave almost ceased. i Indianapolis and other natural gas ] towns in Indiana are in a bad way. [ni | Indianapolis the natural gas supply is | weaker than it has been since the i'ns‘!‘ - was piped to the city, and there is a great | | deal of severe suffering. There are but | few homes in which the temperature can - be raised above b 3, THE LION OF LONDON. ! R S | The Once-Despised “Coffee Cooler” the ’ Hero of the Honr, [ The pugilistic hero of the hour in Lon- S don is the colored boxer, IFrank Cruig, | “The Harlem Coffee Cooler,” who poses | as an Indian prince, who is to marry <1 white heiress, it is said, and who pro-| fesses to be anxious to meet Peter Jack- %

son in the arena.; Ciajg whipped 'l‘cdl Pritchard, tho . lish champion, with surprising ease and is now matched to battle with Frank P. Slavin. According to his late man. ager, Prof. Butler, Creig is the greatost swell in London. Jle hobnobs with the ! nobles and ceuts n great dash on Fleet stroet: every after- ! noon. When laei speanks of Cralg, | Butler waxes elo- | quent. “What I: want to do 1s tol. Warn young mvxx*

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against jumping suddenly into promi- i ‘ nence. It's no good,” he said to a New ; | York reporter the other day. “Just take, y for example, the ‘Cocler’s’ case. He used | to be a modest, well-behaved fellow. Gra- | cious alive, look at him now!"” and Butler, g holding his hands in the air, shook his | head several times. “It’s a sight to see | him. You couldn’t hand bim a ripe peach | on a gold plate now unless you had si:{% pairs of gloves on.” | C'raig is 256 years of age and necarly six | ot talls He is a well-built young ‘.:O-‘ gro, and when he first took to boxing | about five years ago a $5 bill for a vie- i tory suited him down to the ground. As | many hundreds would now be sneered at } by the rising, or risen, young Harlem‘ star. TWO GOVERNORS iN ONE STATE. Tennessce Is Now Able to Compete with Her Neighbor, Alabama. “here are two men in Tennessee who Gov.| - Peter Turney 9 Honnea——awpending a

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contest between himself and Mr. Evans under a law recently enacted by the I.egisiature, and the Hon. H. Clay Ivans has taken the oath 03 ofiice and is demanding possession of the executive guarters at the capitol Turney, who has been governor for one term, was the Democratic | nominee in the last

)! was the Republican candidate. The re‘l.l'l‘lls sont in from the sheriffs of the | various counties showed lEvans’ election | by about 700 votes, but the Democrats \ claimed that the law requiring a poll-tax t receipt as a condition precedent to voting had been disregarded in East Ten- | nessee, and that Turney was clected by a plurality of the legal votes. 'The <:0:1: | stitution provides that the speaker of | the Senate shall publish the returns in | the presence of the joint assembly of the i | Legistature, and that the candidate re--1 | ceiving the highest number of votes cast “shail be governor.” The Legisiature is , | empowered by the constitution $5 enact | a law for gubernatorial contests, but that was never done until the present ¢ | emergency arose, and the law enacted 4 provides that the incumbent governot shall hold ever until the contest is determined. e | The Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia has approved the plan for the forma- - | tion of a national association of manue | facturers, decided upon at the convention - | recently held in Cincinnati, and agreed te v | acguire meémbership iu the new league.

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WASHINGTON IN CAMP SHINGTON IN CAMP QUAINT OLD MANUSCRIPTS AND ORDERS. First Year of the Continental Avmy— General Washington's First Instruc- ] ] tions to His Oiflicers and Enlisted Men—-Against Waste of Powder,. Record of Daily Life, ’ There are in the possession of David; Prescott liall, of the New York bar, t': series of quaint old manuscript s‘-,l:nm\si which look as if they had seen rich ser4 vice. As they were written in the camyy of the Coutinental army during the \x'::x?; of the American revolution, sometimes of | the knee of the writer, sometimes on § | drumhead; ns they were earried abagt . y . : from place to place, borne off in hasy | refreats or in foreed marches, it must ge | confessed "thai their jooks do not Loge ! them. A\"u\‘m‘;hﬂ;;ximg‘, ‘Ww: : short, StOUl, BUTrdy Lol e 1 % x»..:g;f fair state of preservation and are eas)* | I\‘:.E'E»E 'y save o .nfi‘j.‘ nt f‘.j,w n-‘;‘*;g ! which are in so P 8 druved and worn. When I ndd that these orde books contain the got al erders of YWasl i‘«,"':! to 3 ar it ".:‘ : Qg ;' 1 their interest and Very § These orderhy i are in t : Cin their yi W, 111 g : (121 Y BirULs (d ¢ elm at Cambridge. 'l bound with the most minute « ils of the =situntion, and give us a phot aphiie pichire of toe ariny and its surrounai ail 1 the quaint L loy | peculiar \;ul}j;g; of that byveone tiime. One eannot help smil- | ine at these ot timex, but one hurily knows whether {0 smile or weep &F the {o of our little army, Which e | and nobility of Wiash--4 'S » out " in§ these | 1331 0% Rut he « 7 o 8 -.j\--‘-:.».q-" i1« liis : 1 sometimes to Hig just ine e . e ¢ duct of officers and men, 3 { d it very diflicult and dis- | tastefu! to i to diseipline. { Washinzion's early experienég as o soldier had taught him the absdlute necessity of discipline and obedielce, and he gradually enforced both in @ie little | army of raw wilitia, who had g 6 learn | that bravery is not the only quahfication ! necessary fur a soldier, ! Washington’s First Orger, f “Headquarters, Cambridge, Iy the | od. 1875, g l “Jrarole lookout. ‘ 5 | “Conntersign sharp: Mg 4 | TN T Toffiverfor-th o ANETE HROLTOW, | C(ﬂp‘.‘.x'l Gerry. “‘,3%“ ; “Teld officer of B SN k 4 row, Mater Poor. o .r"‘ o “Adjutant of the NS/ I “(eneral ord o /K gl m (=:‘;}‘. ‘ \'\‘ n.\‘hlli,:hm, <:.sq., g Edorkin: | t (.‘!j}nf oL 11‘.&: forces of the vk s C‘Oloni\'%E s North America. Thaot-thlE Sl ' in -w)h.xrhln.r Il': ~11 Olnhgt‘ ;lh Leolonel or | 5 MlMan noe- ) 01 L ? S g % | wx‘.n..“)_.(._l,\:, C I’LIL i 1?' vgnnent 15‘ - ordered forthwith to malke S 8 - Niarns i | of the number of men in they ey OF M T & respective | regiments, distingnishing the = Lk ; 2 . s afe who arc! | sick, wounded, or absent ot 4y e T | B tite of mike lougn,mul; also the quai rof i . |&l)y th (,n”,l ity ot Bn cach reg- | | iment has. y | 5 )n the next day an extenfg. ' | On the nest dag ehe series of i Or¢:ers wis given, s i | Returns were to be made e ' : . A 1 he proper | }u:‘m ers of ull military and g I_, | T Mg bther stores, | | including “working too}s el Linde 1 | tents and camp kettles i e SEERT) z | dhe wise fathor,of st ountry thus | urged upon his troops the FFoB j'dl“;! > 2 : 3 | all sectional Spiritt e ETEAE Reloe 0 “The Continentas; Cos i : i e now taken all the tPOpS fetshx ‘ff‘“?i! | colonies which Lavibeagt the (Slcull'l,i | which may be hengiter '»}‘isiﬂ’f g o ; : it ‘s-ng,;;-c-rt and defeng of gEEaised 10r hl(;-_, | Ameriea into their gy ap 9““’%‘"“‘-“s‘ B ‘ are now the troop .f by liiel_'t-'l(‘l(‘.l"txl(-:\ | inces of North Arfica, g 8 d/n'll(-(,' I‘l )\}, | that all distincti ?{l‘] it is 'ﬁp"‘ | | laid aside so that/ 2ndf }?mes will be | | may aniaate th h _t - elsa.nc]\ 'bDllﬂ I‘ test be who sha i g the oly con- : b .;'“4 eat and trying | oceasion, e- Ofe . < i i nd PSSt essential ser- | | vice to the gn nd e Ry Sags> on cause in | | which we arqie,” S ! "The r P D i : 1,1: :1(;;0 to »’r%c' day's series | [ e . heir men inl .| good condife re S ) 3 q“ B S g “All of o > - W ¥nd expected | L A

{ig pay diligent attention to keep their TR NSI and clean, to visit their men |often at their quarters * * * they | are particularly to see that they have Ritraw to lie on if to be had and to make it X (if they are destitute of this arf“"* %‘ke tenth shows that smallpex, }f"ﬁlf%ose days, before the discovery of vaceination, was a terrible seourge, ‘ﬂﬂ’?‘{nﬁi far distant: | “No person whatever is to be allowed |to go to Freshwater a fishing or on any ,ﬁtm oceasion, as there may be danger of | introducing the smallpox into the army.” P Scarcity of Powder, . The searcity of powder was one of the most distressing wants of the little army, and we find it ordered in this first Fourth of July of our rational struggle “that there be uo pieces of cannon or small arms fired from any of the lines or olse. where, except in the ease of necessary defense or special order given for that purpose.” Our men could not afford to waste a single round of shot or poswder, and this order had to be repéntes ; [aiNoewithatanding il Wishingtonia cailEtions, hdaverver, it wad foiund a lttle later Pehat the powder was almost exhansted. t The conmunittes of supplies had made a iz«‘:rnngt« mistake, They had made a rei tarm ot all the powder colleeted by the | fprovinee, thore thap three hundred bar- | L rele, bait had forgotien to gay how mueh | iof It Lind already been used up. ’i'h«*l‘cl P was only enough to furuish nine cart P Fiizes to cach man. , PO the 4th of Aungust Washington | tavrate to the President of Conrresa, h-‘!-‘ Ling them of this distressing state nf% ;ﬂlizsui %, 804 on the same day he i | this order: b “Tt is with indignation and shame that | f the Génersl observes, notwithstanding { i the reocated orders which have ‘.m':;, § given to prevent the firing of guns in and | ga!mniv the camp, that it is daily and |} phourly practiced contrary io all ords .E Pthat strageling soldiers practice to pass| P the guards and fire ot a distance, when ! there is not the least | rebability of hart- | ing their enemies, and by which no othér fend is answered than to waste their amgin‘dh’,t?:n and keep their own cempanies {in pregnant and centinual alarms, to the L hurt and detriment of every good soldier., } ‘whéa-h is thereby disturbing his naturall ’ro:-'r. and at length will never be able to | ‘distinf.{nisﬁ; between a real and f:’.ia--: { alarm.” After forbidding all persons to | | pass the out guards without proper au. | i thorization, and declaring that any one | 'Offr’m!ing in this way will be 1233.:‘5'.2"1%'!}% y 88 a common enemy, to be fired upon as | i such, the order continues thus: *The col-t B i R b e 5 il e

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onels of reghments and commanders of corps are ovdered to see to it that the rolls of every company be called twice a day and every man’s ammunition examined at evening roll call, and such as are found to be deficient are to be confined.” In other words, some of the soldiers of ihe centinental army needed to have their stock of powder examined, just as a boy’s pockets need a nightly overhauling by his mother. “To Respect Private Property. Two days after he attained command, Washington issued the following order: “The General most earnestly recommends and requires of all the officers that they be exceedingly diligent and strict in ipreven‘.ing all invasions and capture of private property in their quarters or elsewiere. lic hopes and indeed flatters himself that every private soldier will abhor and detest such practices when he considers that it is for the preservation of his own rights, liberty and property and those of his feliotw couhtrymen: that heo

is now called into service; that it is unmanly and sullies the dignity of the great cause in which we are all engaged te violate that peoperty he is called to protect, and especially that it is most cruel and inconsistent to thus add to the distress of those of their countrymen who‘ are sufferivg under the iron hand of oppression.” Thus, with an eye for detail which reminds us of Napoleon, did Washington day after day inspect, exhort, chide and praise his little army, until the feeble crescent of his forces grew to be a cirelet of steel about the British army as it lay in Boston Town, foreing the proud Gen- | eral Flowe to a precipitate retreat. | Early in March Washington seized np—l on and fortified Dorchester Heights (now ‘ South Boston), riding among his troups,l animating and encouraging them, and reminding them that it was March s—the anuniversary of the Boston massacre. The forts poured a heavy cannonade against our breastworks, but in vain. We were masters of the situation, the wwer of the British received a severe Y ashington took possession of Doston " Lo On the birthday 07 Yne 1t country it becomes us all to look back to *ihnw times of early strugegles, poverty, and patriotism, and to remember thai ! ours 18 the work to keep the path of pro- | gress still the path of patriotism.—Flor- | ence Marion Howe Hall. 1 e e 5 IN WASHINGTON'S DAY, !.\ Linner at Which o Toast Mct with i NO ‘\;l3!‘.‘.l‘.\‘('.

?N Philadelphia, | which was the seat of the Con'.inemall . Congress and of * Washington's ad-l ' ministration, manyi . anecdotes are pre- - served of the men‘ and manners of those earlier days | which have neveri

found their way into print. A venerable i physician has described a dramatie incident in which his father had taken part. The first blood of the I’.‘.m'olutiuni had been shed at Lexington; each colony | ! bad voted to raise its poor quota of men, and in the Coleonial Congress, George | Washington, a young member from Vir- ; zinia, had been appoinied to lead them to the field. ’ Ot the evening of the same day he was invited, with Thomas Jefferson, John Adains, Charles Thompson (surnamed Truth by the Indians, and probably the last white man whom they would have s

Rt S e S e e e e e | named), and one or two others to join & fz dinner party, given in a “House of Call” ot Gary’s Ferry, a picturesque suburb of | the town. | The dinner. was discussed with gusto and merriment until the host called upon | his guests to rise, and proposed ‘“the | health of General George Washington, I Commander-in-Chief of the Continental '+ Armies.” Instead of applause there was a sudden death-like silence. The Continental Armies were a handful of undisci- | plined, unarmed men; opposed to them was the most powerful naticn on earth. | 1t was the first time that Washington’s | position and the desperate venture on which they had entered had been formu- | lated into words. Washington, who had | risen smiling, siood silent and pale; one | by one the glasses which had been raised | were set down untouched. Not one of | the startled men, who held at that mo- | ment the destinies of the continent in their hands, remembered to drink the | faast —Philadelphia Times. .

2y ARG o eR L ‘ s . Limps Into Port Eight Days Overdue. T i 7 MOVING MASS OF ICE. Yet Proceeds Under Her Own Steam. Her Machinery Disabled, but Al on Board Are Safe—Piston Rod Brcaks Twice on the Way Ovcer, and Severe Storms Hinder Repairs-Lying for Hours Perfectiy Helpless in Howling Gales—Anxiety for Her Passengers Gives Way to Wild Rejoicing, La Gascogne, the cight-day-overdne French steamsghip, limped into port under her own steam at New York Monday, with thiree red lights hanging from her mizzen mast as a signal that she waz disabled. The vessel was a moving mountain of ice. Her passenszers were all on deck, some of thes singing and mosy of | them cheering as persons are wont to do | when their minds are suddenly reliesed r« :‘n-.‘ [ T-+ \.\ Z | MO of @ vovase lasiing | SlXteen daysoies plind been dizabled, | one of her main |st om L Vil g hroken ou her thicd day ont froin W EGLE sixtcen Lours on that fatefnl third c the vessel was hove to while the break 4 was being repaired. It was comparativeIy good weather when thae break occurred, - but the stramer was doomed to run into some of the nastiest of her voyage. When the break had been repaired the steamer proceeded on her way, but under greatly rednced speed. When near the banks of Newfoundland, La Gascogne ran into a gale that increased to Lurricane force, Machinery Breaks Again, While off Sable Isgland the machinery broke down again, and the steamer was hove to again, this time for forty-one hours. During all this period the engines did not make a single revolution. 'When 'thc second repairs had been made the steamer started ahead once more under still further reduced power, and headed toward the Long Island coast. It is a remarkable fact that during the entire voyage acrcss the Atlantic La Gascogne did not sight a steamer until she passed oue bound for Philadelphia late Sunday. Late Monday afternoon the French steamer siznaled Fire Island and then proceeded toward Sandy Hool lightship. No Panic Among the Passengers. While the passengers were considerably { worried on account of the delay, there ! was never a panic aipong them. They | knew their ship was stanch, and tliey had i every confidence in their captain. And, | besides, they knew that the shiv was not totally disabled. But they were nervous { jJoy. They cheered tlie eaptain ang they | cheered the erew and they checred the | tugs that canie out to meect them. = The fact that La Gascogne was safe was cstablished by the fact that about 5 oclock Monday rnoon ii was obscrved from the e Island light-honse and at the time was abreast of the Shinnecock bight, eastward from Fire Island. Tl 10T W procecding siowly, bat { had 3 for assistance displayed. Ali that y k vnn was that it showed i iiree red 1 ¢, denoting vhat its machinery w: isabled, bat it could proceed without cutside aid. The faet that two wers were uear the ineoming Frenchman gave r y the report that La G ne was heine tow 1 into port and as this story possed from mouth 10 mouth the condition of the delayed steam- . vine greatly cegerated until it e neraii ved Lia Gascorne was al t a toral and helpless wreei.. Tater advices, however, dispelled all these suppositions. Forget lad Givea It Up. Ilven as late as }Monday afternocn the Frerneh line agent, Mr. forget, 1;» his intimmate friends had given up the last ves- | tire of hope he had concerning La Gasi cogne, I‘..': three hours later there came a rift in the black ¢lend of despair, and | the brief message that La Gaseogne was sighted off Fire Isiand sent g thrill of joy | thirough every heart in New York. "The buileiins toid the story with L‘Z\';i.‘i’;'!i".":l(in_‘: i briefness and lack of detail. But it was | the fact of safetly alone that the people | craved, and this made ail rejoice. Agent | Forget for a moement was, rendered ¢ speechless, which evidenced how anxiars Lhe had been for the safety of La keogne. i hew-he regained hf.ruself,,m i became. wildly . Lilasious.. -He shout \ ran here and there, grasping thehand“% this one and that one, and fairly jumped i up and down over the flsor in the ex.itei ment of the moent. Then he pat on his { cont and started for the French line pier | at the foot of Morton st reet, where a tug had been in readiness for days to take him to meet La Gascogne should it be | The story of the captains of the two steamers that had overhauled La Gas!t togne off the Long Island coast added | nothing to the 1 of knowle 7;_'_'!“ of the L awful vovage of the Freachman The f Washington is a tank steamer of the { Rotterdam Tank Line. The EFrenchman, tthe Captain says, was moving at about eight knofs an bour. The Washington, itself a slow Steamsor. me opposite La .‘ ‘ zne, 1 as no sicnals were disL having no wledge that it Was N O ;‘. 1 .» ;:: i 'ljv' . ‘ \:—.:“_ ¢ in such weather and after such \ anle ] rs later up came the Bolivia of the Anchor line frcm Gibraltar, ; 22, iteelf with a long and tedicus Sikda eth it croditl anm oil gave a critical cve to the slow-geing express steamer. Then La Gascogne was near cnough to ire Island to make itself knewn, and Lad up its fiag numbers and { three red balls as well. The DBolivia’s | captain saw at a glance his services were | not needed. The signal was to tell the E observer at IMire Island that the machin- { ery was disabled, but that the steamer nceded vo assistance.