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•J.JUS WJSUJUjY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAY 2. 1882.
MEMORIAL DAY-
THE CEREMONIES AT OAKLAND
CEMETERY WEDNESDAY.
The ProoMllon and How It Wu Made Up—The Gale
City Guard and the Knight* Templar-Soeues
*n1 Incidents at tbe Monument—The
Oration by Colonel E. 7. Boge.
Wednesday Atlanta paid another tribute to
the memory ot the confederates who for the
past twenty yean have slumbered in Oakland.
The ladies who have labored so faithfully fcr
the work that W8S done may con
gratulate themselves upon the success witli
which they met.
THE PROCESSION,
The procession formed on Marietta street
witli the right resting on llroad street, and at
the command, as given by Genenfl Young,
the chief marshal, took up their march to the
cemetery at 3:15 o'clock.
The procession was headed by the Chatta
nooga comet hand of eight pieces. Then
came the Gate City Guard, Captaih Burke
commanding. This excellent military
organization presented a magnificent ap|>ear
ance and by their soldierlyjbenring won praises
of all. They were attired in full uniform, and
numbered twenty-six rank and file. Close
behind the guard came the marshal of the
day and his uids. They were fourteen in
number, and were mounted upon tine horses,
ami added no little to the display. Next
came n handsome carriage in which were
Colonel Hoge, the orator, and the Rev. Dr.
McDonald.
THOSE ON HORSEBACK.
Following the carriage con lining the orator
was Cteur tie Leon Commander)- Knights
Templar. They were mounted and rode by
threes, and in the beautiful uniform which
the Kir Knights always wear, attracted gener
al and universal attention. There were 27
Knights in the procession. Eminent Com
mander Howard was in command.
After the Knights Templar came another
handsome carriage, a beautiful new, open af
fair, containing Mrs. Pratt, tiie President of
the Ladies Memorial Association, Mrs. I)r. J.
M. Johnson, ex-president of the association
and two other lady members. The carriage
was well filled witli beautiful wreathes and
crosses, which were scattered upon the graves
of the confederate dead by these ladies, who
so reverence their memory.
Then five carriages containing members of
the memorial association followed. Each
lady was weighted down with a profusion of
(lowers, wrought into every conceivable de
sign which they gently laid upon the graves
of the dead who gave tlicir lives for the lost
cause.
THE SIXTH CARIIIAOE
contained Professor Cady and three other
singers, who aided materially in the success
of the exercises at tiie cemetery.
Rebind Professor Cady’s carriage came thir
teen more carriages, in which members of the
society rode. In these, as well as in those
which went before, was a pile 01 beautiful
(lowers which are now strewn about in tiie
home of the dead.
Major Cummings, in his buggy, preceded
tin* hand and indicated the line of inarch.
At the word forward the column filed into
llroad street, and after passing up llroad to
Alabama, filed left. Passing dowu Alabama
to Whitehall, they again tiled right, hut when
liuntej was reached the procession tiie second
time tiled hit and continued their march to
the cemetery, where the programme was
faultlessly executed.
ltow THE I>AY AITKAREO.
All along the line of march there was every
evidence of a deep feeling of sympathy with
tiie members of the association and tiie cause
they are trying to keepalive. Every window,
balcony mid door alongthc route was crowded
with spectators who could not fail to admire
the -magnificent display of devotion to the
confederate dead. .Soon after noon most of
the stores in the city closed their doors, and
until after tiie cemetery was covered with
flowers business was entirely sus}>cnded.
AT THE CEMETERY.
The procession reached the cemetery at
about half-past four, and very little delay was
experienced in getting everything ready for
the exercises at tiie monument. The proces
sion moved into tiie cemetery by the Hunter
street entrance, and possingnround tiie monu
ment approached from the eastern side. Tiie
. Gate City Guard marched directly toward tiie
monument, while the remainder of the pro
cession lMissed around the grave lots and ap
proached from the northern side. Tiie
scene was impressive in tiie ex
treme as tiie mounted escort, and military
and Knights Templar approached the graves.
The horses were left a short distance from the
monument. ThoGntc City Guard stacked
arms a few feet from the monument, on the
western side. The ladies of tiie association
were seated around the monument, and upon
the speaker’s stand was the band and several
distinguished citizens. When everything
was in readiness the band played very sweet
ly the dirge. “Rest for tiie llrave.”
Major Cummings then announced the or
der of exercises and said that General Yotin;
would make a statement concerning the fail
ure of the orator of the occasion to ar
rive. Dr. McDonald offered a touching and
appropriate prayer after which Mr. C. M.
Cadv and a well trained chorus, accompa
nied hv the hand, sang “Nearer My God
t' Thee.” The song was taken up by those
who stood around tiie monument and the
music swelled into a chorus of perhaps a
hundred voices. At. the conclusion General
Young aiose and said:
l-sdtef and gentlemen—I regret to be compelled
in Infotni you that the distinguished orator selected
for this occasion is not able to lie present on ac
count bfilliHas. tie would have made us a beau-
tliul address. But after all we dd not come here
to hsioii to oratory, but to do honor to our com
nidus and our friends. Wo have selected this morn
ing probably (lie most proper person to till the po
sition for which we had selected Colonel Peyton—a
a gentlcmHii who was one ot the most gallant and
distinguished wldiers and a man who served with
the soldiers who filled these graves. I have the
honor to present Colonel E. F. Hoge, of Atlanta.
Colonel Hoge arose and .stroke as follows:
THE ORATION.
My friends: I have a part in (he disappointment
felt by the non-appearance of the distinguished
orator whom we expected to hear. His spieudid
record as a soldier, iiis high character as a man, hi
grant natural gifts and his varied and extensive
attainments, would have assured for us the grati
fication of our highest expectations had he been
able to be present to day. We may, however, rest
assured of one thing—that nothing short of a
provld- ntial cause could have kept lumaway. He
belonged to that class of soldiers w bleh in thecamti
was never absent without leave, who on thu
march never straggled or foraged, and who ou the
• field never lliuchcd. Now ut the list min
ute 1 have been put in his place
to till th* gap in the rank mute by his absence, if
he were here he would have wor 'surtls. 1 only
hope to bear with no- the consciousness ot having
tried to discharge a duty. It is needless forme
speak to yon by way of imparting itif-nnation
the caus- which brings us together. The murmur
that pass frdm lip to lit. betray it. The plate am
the prvparat on proclaim it, and heart answering t
bean tell unmistakably what brings us here. Thi
is no political demonstration. With the issues <
the present we huv- nothii g to do, and it would be
sail to revive the issues of the i>a-L We meet men 1
ly to lav our yearly ottering upon the altar of her.
ism. to do horasgc to spirits as knightly as ever
struck for the right, and to commemorate the chiv
airy of thoaerwhosc hearts wetc turned toward:
duty, and whore feet did not loiter and whose
hands were not idle. It is an ennobling fact ii
history that the meed of honor has ever been ae
corded to those who displayed a lofty heroism, it
matters not in what cause.
The eye that sees nothing but the humau in the
lives of the mattyrs—in their meek, but earnest
devotion to their faith, listens with a tear to the
stories cf our dead heroes, it i“ true and right
enough ih itm-u should acknowledge their obliga
tion to tk.i-.i- to whom thej are indebted, to those
who w. .reed bravely, persistently and resolutely
for humanity—to those whose tireless energy
has forced (lie metals from their hiding place-
mud east them under the breath «>f steam. Art uiay
make the marble almost speak: science and art
may enable the pole* to whit er to each other o
w hat the world is doing, and thu mind staggers a
the achievement, but to-day, at a distance of tw<
IhoUM.nd years, the heart thrills with the Very
mention of tiie name Thertm.pj he Oh, yes: it is
those who - h, d their bio d upon die
'rattle-field who are-remembered with tenderness,
‘iiuov who have hied for the rights of men—they
rise from the level of their fellows and tower up
like mouuiains, and It matters not whether success
or defeat crown their efforts. We hare all seeu
noble men fail and fall—lose everything but prin
ciple. Only let the heart know that a heart has
been weighed In the balances and found
not wanting. has been tempted and
yet has not failed. has been tried
and has not wavered, has passed through the tire
and has not flinched, and all bravv men will do
horn*go. It is needless that I should speak more
particularly of the thousands of those who lie
around us or sleep in other graves Honor has
made for them a spotless record in gilded charac-
acters upon an imperishable page-, and be who
runs may read. To-day. throughout this south
land, woman drops garlands wpven
with her heart and hand upon confederate graves
and sturdy manhood echoes a deep amen. So let It
be with each recurring year, and so it should be,
for woman, with her ready heart and sable grief,
stands to-day and weeps over the graves of tons,
brothers, fathers who marched from their sides to
battle and fellin the conflict. It should be.as long
there is left the spots where rest
those who marched forth and fell
grasping broken swords in the struggle
for liberty. Oh, yes, as long as there should be one
left in whose veins flows the blood of the noble
women of tbe south, who standing in the face of
orphanage and widowhood proudly bade them go.
Go to-day with your teats and strew flowers over
the graves of our dead and let their memory live,
and when the day dawns on which the sword
shall be turned into the plowshare
and he spear into the pruning hook,
when fame shall marshal her heroes for the last
grand review then foremost in the rank will be
found Johnston, and Stuart, and old Stonewall
Jackson and Lee riding along the line. [Ap
plause.] But 1 will detain you uo longer. Go
wreathe your garlands. Meet it is that such wo
rn n should honor such dead.
The address was applauded after which the
hand played a fantasia on gospel hymns.
General Young then announced that the cere
monies would close with the decoration of
the graves. The ladies then proceeded to
place flowers on tiie graves. The crowd slowly
took its departure. Tiie Gate City Guards
marched hack to tiie armory and tiie mounted
escort returned to the city.
Cteur de L : on commandery Knights Temp
lar made a tine appearance. The Knights
escorted the ladies of the association in the
procession. After the exercises they formed
and marched to tiie graves of tiie different
members of the order who had died, and
forming around the graves strewed thereon a
profusion of beautiful flowers, together with
floral crosses, crowns, wreaths, etc. As this
impressive ceremony was observed the mem
bers would recall the position which thedead
knight had occupied in the order, and many
words of affection were spoken.
After paying these tributes to tiie
memory of their dead comrades the
knights remounted and returned to
their asylum, going through various tem-
ilar movements, very much to tiie interest of
xttli spectators and tiie knights.’ In fact, the
knights find the exercise so pleasant that
there is a probability of making Coeur De
Lion a mounted commandery. The following
were the names of the deceased knights that
were visited: Sir W. H. 'fuller, past grand
commander, I.ir W. W. Boyd, past coiuman-
THE RED, RED ROSE
» A PRODUCT OF THE SUNNY
SOUTHERN CLIME.
A Profusion of Bose* of a'.Hundred Different Kind*—
flowering Tree* and Climber*—The Boas
and It* Devotee* in New Orleana—
A Weak Northern Exotic, Etc.
New Orleans Commercial.
The south has been called the land of the
mocking bird and magnolia, and the land of
orange groves. If I might be permitted to re
christen it I should name it the land of roses.
I don’t believe there is any region on earth
where roses grow in such abundance, variety,
Janies Purteii, Sir IJ. Y. Sage. Sir N. D’Al-
vigney. Sir W. L. Cleveland, liev. Sir Lewis
Latvshe, Rev. Sir F. A. Kimball.
During the delivery of the address Major
Cummings was overcome.by heat and had
be brought into the city in his buggy. He
suffered considerably during the evening
but it is lioped that lie will be well thismorn-
The Chattanooga band, which furnished the
music, is composed of the following gentle
men: J. C. Fuller, leader; J. M. Myers, Joe
B. Potter, \V. Burrow, J. B. Alliger, Fred.
Wiles, Ed. Pratchett and R. R. Rudd. Last
night the bund played in the arcade of tiie
Kimball, and later at the strawberry festival,
returning to Chattanooga at 12 last night.
Tiie attendance was good and tiie order per
fect. It is seldom that such an occasion is so
well managed and so satisfactory every way
Apples at Five Cents.
“Five cents apiece” was the price asked for
apples last night at one of the street fruit
lands, which are so numerous in Atlanta.
“Why are they so high?”
“Because, you see,” said the vender, “ap
ples have risen. I pay seven dollars a barrel
for western apples, and I lose from two to
three peeks in each barrel and many of the
balance are inferior. So I pick out the good
ones and sell t hem at five cents and the poorer
onces at three for ten cents—a man makes one
apple by taking ten cents worth.”
“Your oranges?”
“They are up too. Good ones I will sell at
one for ten cents, and when age begins to
tell against them I let them go at two for ten
cents. I pay $7 a box for them. The cause
of the rise is the cxiiaustion of last year’s
crop.”
“Can you do any hotter in lemons?"
“I can let you have more for tiie money—
two for five cents. I pay $5 a box for them, “
“Now for bananas?”
“I sell them at 50 cents a dozen. There is
a great deal of money in bananas if you can
sell them off rapidly. They spoil very
quickly.”
A glance at the showcase showed a profu
sion of nuts, candic-s, crackers and other little
knicknncks, such as please the children and
drain the grown man's pocket. The vender
said he made from $2 to $2.50 a day, and lie
paid a license tax of $12 a year for ’the privi
lege. At two dollars a day, a man with no
talent, no capital to speak of, and but little
energy can clear in a year $021—agreater sum
than is made by many men in more preten
tious business. There must be scattered
throughout the city about one hundred of
these street stands, all of which do as
well, and many of which do bet
ter than the one here spoken
of. Two of Atlanta’s most prominent busi
ness men made their first money and acquired
their first mercantile training in this way.
Some of these fruit stands are fitted up quite
elegantly, and do a business of respectable
figures. One such establishment in the citv
handled $10,000 last year.
Berries and Baskets.
‘Berry baskets are in great demand in ail
sections of the state,” said a dealer in them to
a Constitution reporter.
“From whom do you receive your principal
orders?”
“From the berry growers of southern and
middle Georgia, but there is a constantly in
creasing demand in tbe upper part of' the
state, where there are a greater number of
producers, who want some ready moans of
transporting small quantities, a quart and
less, of berries. We have baskets of all sizes,
to fit even the smallest order.”
“Yonr basket business, then, is an indica
tion of increased attention to the berry crop?’
“Yes. But a short time since a tin bucket
in the hands of a small boy or a negro sufficed
for the business, but now that people of more
pretensions are engaged in berry culture they
want something neater.”
“Do you sell many to city dealers?”
“Ob, yes, they could not do without them
By their aid the young man can send his
sweetheart a tasty present for 10, 15 or
cents.”
“What about the berrv growers of Atlan
taT’
"Growing in number every day. It looks
like a little business, but there is money in
it as well as pleasure. You see there is'tlie
strawberry, the blackberry, the huckleberry,
the dewberry—”
Here the reporter left.
beauty and sweetness as they do in this (New
Orleans) country. A Mississippi gentleman,
to whom I have been indebted lor informa
tion on various subjects, tells me that there is
growing and in bloom at bis home this mo
ment a Lamarque rose vine 80 feet long. The
stem is eight inches through in the thickest
part. It was planted 17 or 18 years ago. It is
twined around a veranda, and its gorgeous
clusters of cream tinted roses are splendid to
behold.
At New Orleans the Marceltal Neil roses
cause the northerner to stare in speechless
wonder. I saw one ot the plants tnat must
have been 50 feet long. I have seen .vines of
tbe same rose that long in the north, but they
were scraggy aud lean looking, and in the
florists' greenhouses. At New Orleans they
run wild and revel like a mid-summer night’s
dream. The blossoms grow in gorgeous clus
ters of half a dozen or more, and the flowers
are so large that tiiey would more than cover
the top of a large-sized coffee cup. A single
one of the pale gold beauties will fill a room
with perfume. They are as plenty dowu itere
as “white top” in a northern meadow. And
they sell for one dollar a bud up north!
lit Mtn.e of the private citizens’ yards in
New Orleans, there are as many as a hundred
different kinds ot roses all in bloom at once.
They do not require protection from cold at
any time, either. They all stand out-doors
in tiie open ground, anti many varieties
bloom more or less all the winter through.
The rose is a favorite flower at New Orleans.
At the jockey club races we saw dozens
of handsomely dressed ladies with exquisite
bunches of rosebuds at their belts and else
where in their dresses—the sweet, lovely
flower that nature made, none of your abom
inable artificial things.
The rose the French inhabitants, of New Or
leans are fondest of for decoration is called
the “gold of Ophir.” Northern florists have
it, but it is not common. The bud is es
pecially prized for its beauty. It is a smallish
rose, of a very pale pink, shading off toward
the heart in a deep, rieli gold color. Faint
streaks of crimson touch the outer petals. It
is one of tiie loveliest roses I ever saw. An
other favorite itere is the Madame Duprez,
the purest white rose known. It almost
glistens with whiteness, like a lily. It is a
small rose, growing in clusters. Speaking of
lilies reminds me to say that the fragrant
common white lily (lilium candidum) is now
in the glory of full bloom in tiie south. New
Orleans people frequently border the walks
about their grounds with it. The flowers
gleam like long rows of shining white stars.
There seems to be plenty of room in New
Orleans. Tiie houses are mostly two story,
with verandas and wide yards full of flowers.
Everywhere there are trees and flowers, and
New’Orleans needs no beautifying beyond
these. No architectural decorations improve
on them. A large part of the trees are ever
green. The streets are so wide that the horse
ears have an avenue all to themselves. These
aven' es are generally bordered with live oak
trees. There are two kinds of live oaks, and
a,favorite way is to plant alternating trees of
each variety. The trees are very graceful and
pretty, and between these rows of living green
the street car mules trot merrily, day in and
day out.
Still another lovely rose, unfamiliar to
northern eyes, is the climbing Safrano. Like
the Lamarque and the Marechal Niel, it roams
and revels around columns and along porches,
opening its rich salmon liued buds by the
hundred to the warm southern sun.
The Louisiana region is the fortunate land
of tea-roses; but our hardy hybrid perpetuates,
which are the mainstay in the way ot roses in
the north, do not do well itere. Our south
ern brethren can’t have the splendid blood-
red “General Jacqueminot” in its richest per
fection. We have that advantage over them,
anyhow. Then, too, in the south the moss
rose does not flourish. It shortly loses its
moss, tiie beautiful feathery covering tender
nature has thrown around it to keep the cold
out in tiie north. The mossy coat is not
needed in the south, so by tiie law of evolu
tion it disappears.
There are innumerable other varieties of the
rose family in New Orleans which there is not
space to mention. Our stay in the city was so
short that I had not time to find out the
plants and flowers that flourished itere and do
not thrive at the north, even in greenhouses.
1 discovered, however, that our favorite smi-
lax vine, which does such beautiful and ef
fective duty in our Cincinnati winter decora
tions, can scarcely be made to grow at all
down south. It does not do any good,
don’t know why. Neither does the fuchsia.
A fuchsia blossom in New Orleans is the
greatest rarity. We have one or two beaut
t'ul plants they can’t have south. We saw one
merable. The long strings of gray moss at
tached to the forest trees look like a beggar’s
wash hung out to dry. There are the same
profusion and variety of ornamental climbers.
Sweet-scented honeysuckles wander at will
in full bloom. At thousands of pretty homes
the columns and fronts of verandas are dense
ly covered with the jessamine vine, bearing
thousands of flowers. This beautiful jessa
mine thrives like a northern morning-glory
in June. It covers fences and archways and
crything else the human fancy may con
trive for it to grow on. There are several
varieties of it, both climbers and shrubs—the
rarely perfumed cape jessamine we know in
tiie north, then the star, the spiral, the yellow,
and doubtless others still.
The snowy scarlet abutilon grows to a size
and in a profusion unknown with us. So do
the hibiscus and the amaryllis. In a word,
nearly every rare plant we admire most and
treasure and pet in our greenhouses is found
itere out-doors, and in a size and abundance
that looks like luxuriance gone crazy. So far
as I could discover only a few plants, such as
the heliotrope, ever need protection from
frost. A florist showed me in a greenhouse
hat he said was the largest stephanotis vine
in the United States. It was trained along
just under the roof of glass. It bears a small,
star-like white blossom of enchanting fra-
nce. It is tbe flower which the lovers in
uida’s novels are always giving each other—
gran
Onti . _
the people who are in love with each other
and have no business to be. In the language
of flowers the meaning is “dangerous love.’’
Here is a properly romantic hint 1
These radiant southern flowers I have been
telling you about are nearly all fragrant. There
is a penetrating sweetness about them that
fills the whole region with perfume. Bare,
fine, faintly aromatic odors from magnolia,
jessamine, rose, and orange mingle all about
on till you fancy tbe airs of Araby the blest
are enfolding you.
We saw sunflowers in bloom in New Or
leans. But the people there are not esthetic.
They prefer roses and pomegranate blossoms.
Our common northern summer flowers—as
ters, dahlias, pinks, sweet peas, phlox, etc.,—
were in the fullness of midsummer bloom. ]
never saw such blazing beds of verbenas any
where its in New Orleans. The gladiolus, too,
had already shot up -its long, brilliant spikes
to tiie life-bringing sun.
THE FLORIDA HORROR.
for laying “Good Ere»Inc.**
"'tunsOTOS, Del., April 23.—A dispatch from
Miliord, Del., sajs: “Saturday night James Depu
ty. a young man. left Milf ,rd in a carriage, accom-
panied by two friends. When a short disiauce from
town the party saw, sitting by thu fence, a man
named r'. P. Slallutt and a young woman. Deputy,
thinking the woman was-his cousin, said “Good
evening!” Hallett made a surly reply, and on
Di purr's making some laughing .answer he drew
revolver and fired, the ball entering Deputy's
righ: sole and Inflicting a wound from which fie
die t to day. Ilailett was arrested and taken -o
Georgetown jail. Hallett has a bad reputado ,
having some \ ears ago killed a colored boy for re
fusing to help load a wagon. For this ho wes ten- ,„ v
tunced to one year's imprisonment, but was par- I „ n t
doued after serving six mouths. He has recentl- '
pis
apple tree, cherished by a family from the
north, in remembrance * of tbeir old Giro
home. But the jioor thing was a home sick
exile in a strange land. Apples won't grow
in Louisiana. It reminded you of Heine’s
palm tree sighing for the transplanted pine
"in Ute north on a barten height.”
We had only time for a fleeting glance at
this glory of roses in the south. Then we
gave another glance, equally short and sweet,
at the flowering trees and climbers, and that
was all. The maguoiia trees were just com
ing into bloom. It is worth a journey to the
south to see them. With us a little magnolia
a few feet high and having one or two blos
soms is a treasure and rarity. In New Orleans
tiie great, sliiny-leaved trees are everywhere.
They are sometimes planted in avenues, alter
nating with the live oaks. Only twice in my
life, before this southern trip, I had seen
magnolia blossoms. It was, therefore, a sight
to be remembered to see whole trees full of
the splendid things, pale, creamy and glisten
ing. In full bloom some of the flowers are
nearly a foot in diameter.
In the north, too, we think we have some
tiling worth seeing witen we are able to real
a flowering pomegranate shrub a few feet
high. But we must protect it carefully from
the touch of the chilling frost. One breath
front tiie ice king and it shrivels and turns
black, and that is the end of it. In winter
must be put into the teller, or somewhere,
Think now how it would look to see our small
shrub expand into a good-sized tree, 15 to
feet higit, bloom and growing out doors t
year around. The flowers, too, are much
handsomer than with us. The finest variety
is of a brilliant, burning red color and much
larger than we commonly see them. The
flowers sell in bonnets in the French market,
and are as plentitui as balsams in the North
in midsummer.
You will remember, too, the little coral
plant, with itsqualnt dusky-red, poke-bonnet
shaped flowers. This favorite little shrub,
likewise becomes a tree in the south. It
found in nearly all the yards and grounds
common as lilacs around pretty, old-fashion
ed northern homes. Here, too. is that mar
velous showerer of perfumes, the rare, sweet,
fragrant olive, growing large and luxuriant.
Detail* of the Burning of the Steamer Sanford.
From the Jacksonville Times.
Between 3:30 and -1 o’clock yesterday morn
ing, there occurred one of the most shocking
catastrophes that has ever liap|>encd on tiie
St. Johns river. The steamer City of- San
ford, of the Independent line, while on her
way dowu the river, full laden with passen
gers and freight, was burned to the water’s
edge, with a loss of at least nine lives, and
probably more.
THE SCENE OF THE DISASTER.
As the passenger leaves Jacksonville by
steamer to go up the St. Johns river,he passes,
immediately opposite the city, a long grassy
peninsular, commonly known as Reed’s
point. Beyond this tiie river makes a mag
nificent detour inwards, forming a deep cove
or bay. four miles in length. At its deepest
tart, 'the very center of its grand sweep, is
filla Alexandria, the famed winter home
of Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee;
at its further end is Point La Vista, or Phil
lip’s ' point, that stretches far
out into the St. Johns and is
supplemented by a long and well con
structed wharf. Point La Vista wharf is, by
actual survey, just five miles from this city
and in full view of tiie Everett Hotel. Back
of the wharf the land rises suddenly into a
grand bluff, covered by a magnificent growth
of oaks and white woods. It is a beautiful
spot. Just under this bluff, which at higit
tide reaches the water, the terrible tragedy of
yesterday morning was enacted. The charred
wreck lies in the reeds within sixty feet of
the high bank, and about an eight of a mile
this side of Point La Vista wharf.
•rtlK OKKilN OF THE FIRE
will never be exactly known. It is supposed
to have originated in the wood bunkers from
a spark from the furnace or from a lantern.
The alarm was instantly given, but the flames
gained such fearfully rapid headway that
Captain Roberts saw there was no hope but
to put the steamer’s head to the bank, which'
he accordingly did. He ran her aground in
three feet of water. The boat burned like
tinder. It was with difficulty that the pas
sengers were waked and got out upon the
gang-way aft. The captain directed them to
leap overboard, us the water was shallow, and
it was there only chance of escape. The la
dies timid and horror-stricken, shrank back,
but one young lady. Miss Ireland, more dar
ing than the rest, t'ook the leap. She lost her
footing, and was being dragged under the
wheel, when the heroic captain leaped after
her, caught her and carried her ashore.
rUKSER STEAD'S STORY.
John A. Stead, the purser of the unfortu
nate steamer, is a tall, heavily-built and
handsome man, with small, black moustache
and black hair and eyes. He is a native of
New York, and has been purser of the San
ford about four months. He is a modest,
manly fellow, and tells Ills story plainly and
quietly, though with evident feeling. He
said:
“ I was asleep in my room, which was on
the saloon deck, forward of the saloon and
immediately under the pilot house. I was
first alarmed by some one jumping from the
hurricane deck in front of my* room, shout
ing fire! fire! ! 1 sprang out and ran part
way down the companion stairs, which are
in front, or near my room, and standing just
above the main deck, saw fire coming out of
tiie fire room.
“To make this a little plainer,” interrupted
the reporter, “explain the position of the
boiler and furnace.”
“Tiie furnace end of the boiler is toward
the stern of the steamer. The companion
way was slighly astern of the furnace. As it
looked to me, the flame was coming from the
wood-bunkers or the hold and lapping around
the edge of the deck. It was not immediate
ly against the boiler nor against the furnace.”
* “What, in your opinion, did it catch from?”
“Oli. 1 could not tell—I don’t know. No
one knows. It could not have been from a
lantern. A spark snapped from the furnace
is the most probable. I did not stop there a
second, hardly. I ran back up the steps and
nto the saloon and met Captain Roberts run
ning toward the pilot house. He told me to
look after the passengers and lie would beach
tiie boat. I ran the length of the saloon wak
ing the passengers and broke in two of the
doors in- doing so. I told them the boat was
a fire, and not to get excited, but to get oat
immediately. I then ran forward again and
tried to save tiie contents of my office. I got
out a cash book and ledger, but before I could
get to iny money the floor burned throngli
and filled with smoke. I tried to go through
tiie saloon, but it was then a furnace of
flatties. Tne passengers had gone aft. There
was no one forward but the pilot and myself
—lie was in the pilot-house.”
“Had there been much screaming from the
passengers?”
“No; I had heard none. Everything was
surprisingly quiet. I made one more attempt
to save my'money and failed, and then ran to
the bow and let myself into the water. It was
very shallow; not'more than three feet deep.
I waded around to the stem of the boat and
found the captain and chief engineer getting
a lady out. I asked the captain if he had
seen Mrs. Keep. He replied, but I did not
understand him. I heard people out in the
river calling for help. A big darkey had cap
tured the steamer’s life-raft and was floating
on it in four feet of water. I tumbled him
off and took the raft, but seeing a floating
gang-plank, I turned the raft over to a colored
man who was helping bravely and took the
insensible when they pulled him into tbe
boat.”
“What occurred after that?”
“Nothing, except that we got our passen
gers and otlte's aboard the Bird, picked up
everything we found adrift, etc. The steam
er had been beached about a quarter of a mile,
or perhaps a little less, below Point La Vista
wharf, that is, this side of it. The channel
runs very near tiie end of tiie wharf. I float
ed up to pretty near the end of tiie wharf be
fore I was picked up.”
“How long was it from the time you started
with tiie gang plank till the boat brought you
back?”
“Oh, I couldn’t tell. It seemed like three
weeks, but I suppose it was not much over
ten minutes. When I got back to the San
ford, she was in a mass of flame. The Bird
had gone in and made the Point La Vista
dock, and was taking our people aboard.”
“What other incidents do you recall, Mr.
Stead?”
“The chief engineer. Mr. Smith, ran up to
tiie hurricane deck to get a life boat off, as I
suppose. The fire shut him in on both sides.
He got terribly burned, and as his only chance
ran to the stem and jumped straight down
between the wheels and the bar that connects
the two rudders. His feet stuck deep in the
mud and saved him from being carried tinder
tbe wheel. He then pulled his feet out and
crawled out, when he began at once to assist
tbe passengers. His escape looks like a mira
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Lyman, was the last man to leave the boat.
I saw hint in the saloon throwing out life
preservers. The deck hand who was drowned
was a new man. This was his first trip and I
cannot recall his name.
THE CAPTAIN SAID'
“She was well supplied with life saving ap
paratus. The watchman went on the upper
deck with me and got some water buckets.
The fire was along the boiler when I first saw
it. We had green cabbage palmetto buds
stowed along the boilers. The most, of the
freight was vegetables, the water was about
three feet deep where she struck. I kept the
engine working to hold her to the bank. The
fore part of the boat was afire before site
struck the shore. She was head on at first
but the wind sheered her around. We had
two boats; they were cut down but not used as
the boat had already grounded. We had ten
or eleven passengers and twenty-one crew;
we lost seven passengers and two of the crew.
The accident occurred about one half a mile
this side of Point Lavista. From the time
of the alarm till she burned to the water’s
edge was about thirty minutes. The pump
was about five feet from the origin of the fire,
do not know whether the pumps were
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