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i 'I 'SAN FRANCISCANS OWE MUCH
J TO THE KHAKI = CLAD REGULARS
i r SAVED LIVES OF THOUSANDS AND MUCH PR9PERTY
History Records No More Heroic Fight Against Desperate Odds Than
That Made by the Soldiers From the Presidio
Under General Funston.
(8 ( lnI Correspondence. )
Rarely has the United States army
be-an called upon to wage war upon Nature -
turo In her wrath , but the San Francisco
carthqualeo disaster offered the finest
lort of spectacle of the army of a great
nation In action. From the hour when
o earliest heavings and qualdngs of
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the earth began on the morning of Aprll
18 until the present ilour Gen. Funston
nd his men have been fighting a winning -
ning fight with the titanic cosmic forces
Df the nether world , followed by patient ,
" , I etormlned campaign against the law-
YI. J . less passions of the human race and
the panic fear of a stampeded populace.
) Earthquake shock and fire ! What ,
posslb111ties of horror and despair the i
thought of these two phenomena contains -
tains ! Let ono hnaglne himself standing -
ing at a vantage point amid the falling
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1i < ing Pompeii or Hcrculaneum. Let him
imagine the tide of refugees , stripped of
nil human attributes but the primal In-
stlnct of self-preservation , madly hurrying -
rying along the avenues of tholr
doomed city , ferociously struggling
I , with each other to malte their way
" through the narrow streets. Then
imagine the jostling mass suddenly cleft
by a column of Ithald-clad troopers ,
blue-shlrted sentinels flung out on
every corner , skirmish lines Intercept-
; 1 Ing with bayonets the human tide to
lwep It from 1I0wing down the most
perilous streets and byways. Think oJ :
the United States army , through Its
signal corps , Its quartermaster department -
. ment and medical service , rushing
the frantic Pompeiians , In tugs ,
launches , ferry-boats , automobiles , es-
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corl wagons , DOllghertys and ambulances -
lances , out from the smother and foul
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gases , away from the tottering walls ,
, the burying ash , Into the green , unde-
vastated fields of the countryside ,
, 'across 'friendly ar1US of the sea , keep-
l 'ing up the Samaritan worle , day and
' ' night , until , after a week of such battle
l , ns even the defenders of Badajos mlrht ;
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' l be proud of , the soldiers , who had never
J . .1I chan ed their clothes , never unlaced
. , their leggings during the whole terrible
time , hardly had snatched one hour's
sleep in 48 or stopped even to wip9 t11e
sweat from their grimy faces , saw old
J Vesuvius stand smoking In sullen ,
malignant but futile wrath , cheated of
, nIl but a few hundred-perhaps a
' thousand-victims , instead of the tens
,
cf t.housands whom the demon of the
earth caverns had hoped to claim.
, ' 1magino not only this , but the American -
, . ican forces , by desperate feats of dy-
.namlting Imperiled palaces a d blowing -
ing down menaced villas , checllng the
( Inward rush of contiagration , and
llnally defeating parent Nature In
'hor worle of destroying her chtldren.
: Let one picture all this to himself ,
I . and then , with a slight change In the
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'Eetting of the scene he wl11 have an
dequato Idea of how the United States
regulars fought to save the people of
San Francisco and the remnant of
'their ' city.
The shocks began to heave the
'foundations of the city at precisely
5 : 13 on the morning of April 18. It
; was 131 years ago that nllht that Paul
nevere starte on his rldo that reused
\ the minute men of Sandy 1\Uddlesex. \
aAngfellow was a prophet when he
wrote :
"In hour ot dllrlmess and perU and need
the people shall wnken , and listen
to hear
The hurrying hoot-bents ot thnt steed ,
and the mldnhht message . ot Paul
Revere. "
Soldiers' Presence / \ . Dlesslng.
It was a Godsend to the IJeople of
S:111 Fr.anQISco that 4,000 soldiers were
quartered at the Presidio , so near ut
, hand. No human police force , of any
city , no matter how brave and elli-
cleut its personnel , how splendid Its
dlsc1 , llne an organization , could have
coped alone with such a situation. 'fhe
worle of ghouls and looters had to be
nntlclpated and reclmned with. Be-
I lore Ule day of disaster had grown
,
1tnrdly three hour6 older plunderers
atnd dospollors of the dead met sud-
( fen death at the hands of the soldiers ,
No questions were asleed , no chance
tor an explanation were given. Judg-
xnent was grim and summary. It W/UJ /
" only by 'resolute sternness that lessOr
Or lite could be curtailed. People
ld rush Into the very core of 111'0 II ]
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the Impossible att mpt to rescue be-
longings. 'Examplo Is contagious , nnd
It wns necessarr : to keep 11re-n1l111 folic
out of the aren of destrucl1on. It wus
not proper or possible to leave It
to tholr option whether or not to put
their lives In jeopardy. ' 1'he cashlm
of a banle attempted to enter the tottering -
tering , smouldering ruins of his institution -
tution to secure some papors. 'l'he
sentinel halted him and forbade him
to pass. He refused to obe ' , ran by
the sentry , and was shot. It seems
cruel , bllt such Incidents restrained
others-perhaps many-and thereby
prevented loss of life. Hence It was
humanity. In a short time the panic
stricl\Cn learned that martial law was
In1iexlblo , but 1lnd ; that the hand of
federal authority was stretched out to
seethe and relieve , not to smite ; that
above aB one must halt when the man
with the rltio on his shoulder ! laid
"Halt ! "
Within a few minutes of the time
that the troop of cavalry deployed In
front of the Palace hotel several companies -
panies of regular Infantry , armed willi
u.'les , for service ns pioneers , arrIved
in the business district. The presence
of these grIm , In1iexlblo regulars was
to the affrighted populace 1I1ee a cool
hand upon the brow of a fever patient.
It helped calm the panle of the people -
ple to see the soldiers facing the 111'0
as If It were n. human foe , directing the
movementfwf the refugees and bringing
order out of chaos. What does not
San Francisco and the United States
ewe to the army for Its worle during
the fire ? Had there been no trained
bOdy of fighting men , disciplined to
obey orders Implicitly , yet discrim-
Inatlnglyand with commonsense , to put
duty before everything , oven before
life Itself , there would have been a
There has been unlltnlted criticism
of the national guardsmen amI they
have been compared unfavorably with
their regultu' comrades. This Is not
altogether fair. ' 1'ho Callforllia national -
tional gunrdsmen have the mnltlns of
splendid soldiers. They nro not veterans -
erans now , and It would tale a long
campaign to male them so. ' 1'hoy were
gathered up from the farm , the worle-
shop , mill , office nnd university , and
pushed Into the smolo and confusion
under conditions moro tr 'lng than battle -
tle , and told to bo as steady nnl ( show
as rlpo judgment as the regulars. LlIeo
) 'oung recruits on outpost In a lonely
land , UlCre were times when the tomp-
tatlon to hear the sound of tholr own
rilles was greater than they could
withstand. Most of the storlO6 of
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wanton shooting on the part of any of
the troops proved , however , on being
run down , to have orlglnatel1 In the
superheated Imngination of sOl-nobody
unused to the soverlty of ml1ltnry
regime. It is / \ . shock to / \ . free , se1f-
governing American city to suddenly
see aB law , aB government , concentrated -
trated In the person of a young man
with a magazine rille , paelnr ; across
the street , stopping vehicles , pedt.s- :
trlans , civil officials , and aB , and directing -
recting the coming and going oC all i
classes with hr nrtlalitJ' It gives
the n.verago cltlzon a peculiar aud perhaps -
haps not altogether an agreeable sensation -
sation to have this ) 'oung man shout
"Fall In there , you , with the working
squad , " and be made to contribute his
services for half a day or more to
the general good , unremunerated. A
banle president's son does not 1I1eo to
be directed by a mllI hand with n.
GUn to take a broom and clean up a
furlong or so of sidewalle or remove
the debris of a brick bulldln/ / ; with a
coa.l shovel.
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One of the Refugee Camps.
story of horror from San Francisco
such as would have appalled the ages.
Ciyll law would have been Impotent ,
crime unchecked. l. < Joting would have
become an Industry , ravishing and
mur er pastimes. No hand but the
strong 11and of the army could have
held the bestial passions of the crimInal -
Inal element In checle.
Pmiso for Men of the N/\.vy.
In praising the regulars It must
not be fOt'gotten that the term applies -
plies generical1y to the men at the
navy as well as the army , and
that navy includes marine corl'S.
'fo CaJt. McBride , of the navy , and
the men from 1\Iaro \ Island navy yard
is due credit for the worle of wrocle-
ing the eastern sille of Van Ness avenue -
nue , the grewsome work of "blazing
a trail" which stopped the lIame ! ! Ilt
that thoroughfare. These men , veterans -
erans In the handling of high eXlllo-
slves , experts at destruction , worled
throughout Thursday night , April 19 ,
torlledoing a1i1ce the palaces of mllllon-
aires , aristocratic apartment hotels ,
business bloeles and churches. ' 1'he
destruction or these buildings , which
would have been a crime of colossal
magnitude In ordinary times , proved
to be the surrltico that saved the plcas-
lint residence district of Pacific Heights
and the western addition , the beautiful -
ful regions around Golden Gate park ,
fwm being obliterated , and with them
the last trace of the once proud city
of San Francisco.
A battalion of youthful sa60rs from
the training station at Goat illland was
among the first regulars sent to the
relief of the burning city. Fresh from
the drill ground , they appeared In all
the ship-shape smartness of now leggings -
gings , white ducle trousers , natty blue
jackets and soft slmll-caps. They
were so trim and neat appearing that
it did not eeem at times as if the ) '
could b6 the real thing , but they were.
With them came the far-famed "handy
man , " th6 "jolly , " "soldier and sailor ,
I too , " the United States ma.rlno , with
laurels from Guantanamo , Tientsin
and Samar , to which bo added the
I cmit which long sustained and trying
duty under distressful conditions de-
I servos , Ilnd to him , us well IlS to his
I sohUor and sllllor brethren mil the
I people of the New San Franclfno some
I day dedicate a modument.
Requisitioned for Work.
A salesman traveling out of San
Francisco returned Imme lately upon
hearln of the catastrophe , to succor
his aged parent.s. He found their
home destroyed , the family vanished.
l rantlcally he searched the crowds
packed in the paris and vacant lots.
Suddenly a soldier In one of the streets
barred his way.
"Fight fire ! "
"I can't. I am searching for my
aged parents. ' 1'hoy have ulsap-
peared. "
"F'lght fire ! " wa.s the still sterner
mandate. Again the searcher plead-
od. The sentry ! owored his gun anl
the breech-bolt snigged monaclngly.
"Fight tire ! "
" 0 , yes , I'll fight lIre , willingly I "
exclaimed the exhausted man , and for
411 hours he worleel1 with the firemen ,
volunteers and "In volunteers , " if ono
may coin the word , snatching a mo-
ment's repose beneath the trucles when
I the work lagged. After two days , with
a crowd of follow worl\Crs , he was re-
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leooed. Somebody who lanow of his
mission suggested that his folles might
have been talten to Qnlland by the
auUlOrlties. lie ! ! tarted to the ferry.
B ) ' the time the Oaldand mole was
neared ho fought hi way to the bow
of the boat. 'rho Illotant before llie
I gate was raised he loolted lJesftle him.
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There In the press nt his elbo\v stood
I his a ed father and mother , hand In
hand. The soldier who stopped him
to fight fire had been the menns of his
l1ndlng his parents. :
ALDICE GOULD EAMES.
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Gay nnd jaded Paris has / \ . now sen- ,
sation.
Woarlod of great crimes nnd tangled -
gled political plots , the gossips of thQ :
French capital are busy WIUl the mystery -
tery concerning the hlenUty of the
Man In the Masle.
Hnndsomo and apparently wOllth : ) ' ,
Ute natural Inference Is to sot him
down as a notorloty seolter , but thl9
Is not enough for Paris.
Who Is he , and wh ' docs ho fear the
recognition of the world ?
No ono has ) 'et boon able to satisfY
the Pnrlslans on olther of these points.
His First Apponrnnco.
The Man In the 1\Iask \ appeared l1rst
about two months ago. Tall , slender
and graceful , garbed In the most modIsh -
Ish of ovonlng clothes , 110 appeared
in the 1'nshl nablo Malson Doreo , , In
the Doulovard dOs Itallens. At l1rst
glance there soeruod nothing strange
In his appoarance' , but on closer In-
Ipectlon It was seen that drnwn tightly -
ly II.cross the upper part of his face ,
and fitting the shnpo of his features ,
The Man in the Mask.
revcallng , yet concealing thom , was n
IlIIeen or eel sltln mask.
From the ncar-by tablcs it could be
Been that ho was disguised , but from
wy greater distance the mask was not
notlceablo.
Some smiled , thlnltlng ho had
dropped In on his way to a maslecd
ball , and but little attention was paid
10 him. A detective who noticed him
gave him a 1Itt10 thought , then tUs-
missed any suspicions ho might have
nad.
nad.Tho
The man lned weB , handed Ute
walter a lIberal fee , strolled out 1nte.
the boulovarl1 , and walked /\.way.
The next appearance of the masle
was at the Comodlo , where ho was In
one of the premlore loges. The fact
that ho was masl\Cd attracted conslder-
able comment among these near
eno gh to detect t.ho half transparent
plgmont drawn across the handsome
face. It attracted so much attention
that ono of the house detectives approached -
preached his seat and spolee to him.
The man made a slight gesture of annoyance -
noyance and dissent , and continued to
watch the performance.
Sworn Never to Unmask.
The little scene was witnessed by
llcores , and the next day the mystery
of the man In Ule masle began to tal ( !
shape. Ho nppearel1 that day wallt-
Ing on the Doulovard Pols80nnlero late
In the evening , and later he appeared
In the Cafe do Paris , bohlnd the
opera.
ReaBy , It was there that ho became
! I. mystery. A crowd of merrymakers ,
noticing the masle , caBed to him , anrl
without hesitation ho joined them ,
Bentlng hlmsolf at the table with them
ILIld drinking wlna. His speech and
manner Indicated hIgh broedlng and
refined mannors. If ho knew any of
the party , he concealed the fact , anll
when they , after some time , spolm jestInglY -
InglY of the masle , ho appeared slightly -
ly annoyed.
" 'I'alte It off , lut us see your face , "
romarlted one.
"I have SWorn novel' ngaln to unmask -
mask , " ho replied , quietly.
That remarle , the only one so far as
Is Itnown that 1e ever has condescended -
ed to maIm concerning the masle , ma o
him In a moment ono of the most In-
lerestlng features of Paris. 'fho re-
marle was repeated everywhere , awl
one of the journals printed somothlng
about him.
AU Pari a Talks of mm.
From that evening he was' famous.
Everyone In Paris , that Is , aB who
frequent the boulevards , the theaters ,
music halls , or rOitaurants , tnlleell 01
'JIm and wondered who ho was and
why ho were the mask. lIe wen I
everywhere openly and without seele-
Ing anything In particular. He evl.
dently loves art , for frequently hlf
afternon stroBs aN through UlO gal.
lerles. Always he Is plenteously BUP'
plied with money-yet no ono ever haf
'Ieen him In a ban Ie.
EITort after effort was made by cu.
rlous ones to trace him to his place 01
resldonce. The ver ) ' freedom wit ! :
which he entered apartment buildings
notels , and oUler public places protect ,
ed him from the shadows. Apparentl )
totally unconscious of the fllct thai
he was being foBowed , he III ways dls ,
appeared sUddenly from the view 01
the person who was striving to trace
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hlm-nnd Was Boon no moro until the .
next day ,
There wa.'J just ono clew which for I
a time promlsod to 1'ovoal to the curious -
rious ones somothlng lunglblo rogard-
Inr ; hltn-that was the fact that ho generally -
orally appeared to the IJllblio gaze
looming from the Hue do I'Bcholle Into
UIO Hue do lUvolI , 1\ short distance
from UlO 1)nlal8 Itoyal and the ' 1'ull-
orlos. Once ho was seen to turn from
the Hue Saint Honore Into the Hue
do l'l cheBo-n short half blocle from
the plnco ho uSllaBy appears In the
lUvoU. Dut beyond that ho never has
been traced.
Some declare tlmt ho slips on UlO
masle whllo walltlng nlong the street ,
and Umt , when he wnnts to dlsnppoar
and elude lJllrsuera , aB ho has to do i
Is to taleo ort the masle nnd walle past
them unconcernedly. i
They deelnro their belief Ulnt his
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statement thnt ho novel' would remove -
move the mask was a mere pretense.
Greater Mystery Thnn Ever.
A short tlmo ngo three ) 'oung men ,
sitting with n lmrty of actresses In a
boulevard enfo , drlnllng wino , saW
the 1\Ian \ I.n the Mfisk stroll out anll
they pledged themselvcs In a cup of
wino to foBow him and unmasle him.
Ho walleod down the Doulovard
Demunarchnls , closely followed by the
trio of ) 'oung mono lIe turned to Ule
left Into the Rue St. Claude , with the
mon pressing clooo behind him. The
man seemed absolutely Ignorant oJ : Ute
fact that he was bolng shndowodnd
walled lelsuroly , playing with 1\ glove
that ho carried In his hnnd.
About that tlmo : \ sergeant of pOllct' ,
In cltlzcn's clothes , observed the odd
procession , and , noticing the suspl ( ) us
actions of tllO three ) 'oung men , 1011
Into the shndowlng game to see what
Was happenln .
Directly In front of the Church of St. :
Denis du Saint Sacroment , In the Hue i
do Turenne , the three men sprang forward -
ward and grnpplod with the 1\Ian \ In
the Masle. Two pinioned hla arms be-
death of the first officer under whooe
command steam vessel over croBsl ( }
the Atlnntlc ocean. Undauntell braVery \
ory exhlbltod In the nuppresslon oi
the olavo traffio In tllO African scns (
character uncqualed for entorprlsc
amI consummate Bklllin nIl the detail'
of his profession , recommended tOI
nrduous service , Lleut. Rlchnrd Rob <
erts , R. N. In accomplishing It ho SUI'
11a.'Jsell not only the warmest nntlol.
paUons of the present , gave to science !
triumphs she had not dnred to hope ,
and createll an epooh forever momol'
nble In the history of his country and
navlgntlon.
"Tho thousfinds that shall follow In
his trncle must not forget who It WI\8
that first tuught the world to traverse
with such marvelous ralJlcllty that
hlghwny of the ocean , anll who , In
thus connecting by / \ . voynge of a few
da 's the eastern nnd western hemls-
phercs bas forever IInlell his name
with tire greatest achlovements of nnvJ
Igatlon since Columbus first rO\"clled
Europe lul America to each other.
'God having pormlttod him this hlgl
dostlnatlon , wns pleasel1 to decree that
the leader of this grcat onterprtso
should nlso bo Its ml'Lrtyr. Lieut. Roberta -
orta perished with all on boaI'll his
ship , the Proshlont , who'll on her voyage
ago from Amorlcto England. She
was lost In the month of 1\laroh \ , 1840.
As the gallnnt soamnll under whol'lo '
guldanco was accomplished an under-
tuldng the rCS\lltR \ or which centurlcd
w1l1 not exhaust , It Is for his country ,
for tIle worll1 , to remember him.
"Ills widow , who e1'ccts thin melnn-
chly memorial , may bo forglvon , It
to her oven three claims nre lost In
the recollection of that devotedness of
attachment , that uprlghtnoso and
Itlndllness , of spirit , which , for alnst
but tl1I' O brief years , formed the light
and joy of her existence.
" ( Vessels ) : British Qucen , D1acl
JoIce , Sirius , President. "
IIoneyed Rebuke.
Robblo was In the habit of running
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hind him whllo the oUlCr , with a qulcle :
motion , reached for the mask to tear
It from the man's faco. 'fwlco his
Hngers clutched at the masle , then , just
ns the sergeant ! lprang forward , the
man feU hacle as If frlghtoned , and
stood staring In astonishment at th , )
masltcd ono.
The man In the mask smiled slightly.
'rho other assallanta , when the
sergeant grabbed them , rolcased the
man and an three of the young roisterers -
sterers wore placed under n.rrest.
Seems to Decome Invisible.
As usual , the victim of the assault
was requcsted to accompany the arresting -
resting olUcer and enter complaint
against his assallLmts. 1I0 bowed his
acqulescenco to the officer , and an Instant -
stant Inter had disappeared as If ocr
the earth-leaving the officer an the
three prisoners standing dumb with
astonlshmont.
The rolaterers were released on payment -
ment of a nominal fine , and then the
one who attempted to tear the masle
from the face of the mystery told to
his frlonds of the cafes and concert
halls the strangest thing of nil. He do-
c1ared that the mask was no masle-
but part of the facEl of the man. Ho
vowed that either some thin material
hnd been pasted to the skin , or that
the masle was a strip of slt1n Itself , colored -
ored with some plgmont.
Effort after effort has been made
I slnco then to solve the mystery , but
with no succcss. The mystery of the
Man in the 1\Iask \ continues to stir
I the jaded sensations of Paris.
INTERESTING INSCRIPTION.
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County Cork Monument Doors Tribute -
ute to First Steamship Navigator -
gator of Atlantic Ocean. .
The following Is n copy of an In-
. crlptlon made from n monument
erected In the churchyard of his nathe
pnrlah the marriage and premnture
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FeU Dack as If Frightened.
errands for nn old gentleman next dool
who nOV2r paid him except in offu-
slvo thanks. Ho had just returned from
the third errand ono morning , and tha
old gentleman , patting him on the
head , said :
"Uobble , I am very much obliged to
you. You're a fine little fonow. Thank
YOII , my boy , thanle you. "
Uobblo looked up In his face wistfully -
fully , and apologetically replied :
"Mr. Jones , you don't Imow hoW
I wish I could thanle you for some-
thlng.-I1arpor's Magazine.
Safe. ,
Stella-Is she legally divorced In
every state ?
Delio-Certainly ; 6ho got one l
each.-f'l. Y. Sun.
Must De.
"Whnt do you know about Sanskrit ? "
"I don't Imow a thing ; they must 00
a new family in the nelghborhood.-
Houston Post.
