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SLos dimes. TUESDAY MOItXIXG. JULY 31, 1917. PART II 4H 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 44 Biographical. Tin- Craft.

To the Fag, the Army, Navy and If, mRIBUTE TO THE "CHIEF" 1 BY VETERAN IN. GAME. Personal Recollections of Gen. Otis OUTSTANDING FACTS IN LIFE OF GENERAL OTIS. Was Farmer Boy, Printer, Soldier and Journalist Promoted Seven Times During the Civil War and Brevetted for Meritorious Conduct in Action in the Philippines.

Held Government Posts of Responsibility. 'v I V. A (skirmish;) South September 14, 1862; Antietam, September 17, 1862 (wounded;) Blue Sulphur Springs, W. September, 186S (skirmish:) Boyer's Ferry. W.

1863 skirmish:) Meadow Bluff. W. December 14, 1868 (picket fight;) Princeton, May, 1864 (skirmish:) Clnyd Mountain. May 186S; New River Bridge May 10. 1864; Quaker Church (Lynchburg June 17-18.

1864; Cabelltown, July 20. 1864; Kernstown, July 24. 1864 (severely wounded.) IN FEDERAL SERVICE. Gen. Otis became owner of a small newspaper and printing plant at Marietta, ln lfctio.

was foreman of the government printing office at Washington, 1869-1870; chief of a division in the United States Patent Office, 1871 to 1876; editor and publisher of the Santa Barbara Press, 1876 to 1880; principal United States Treasury agent ln charge of the Seal Islands of Alaska from 1879 to 1881. In 1882 he was offered by the State Department the appointment of United States Consul for the Sa-moan Islands, and in 1884 a Bimllar appointment at Tlen-taln, China, both of which he declined. OTHER ACTIVITIES. He became a fourth owner ln the Los Angeles Times August 1, 1882, and in October, 1884, Joined ln the organization of the Times-Mirror Company for its continued publication, and was its president and general manager from 1886 to the present. He was also a director of the Times-Mirror Printing and Binding GEX.

HARRISON' GRAT OTIS was a Union soldier and officer throughout the Civil War, brigadier-general and brevet major-general of United States volunteers ln the war against Spain, editor and principal owner of the lxs Angeles Times from 18 S3 to the present. He was born in Washington county, Ohio. February 10, 1837; son of Stephen Otis and Sarah Dyar) Otis. He was the youngest of six teen children In his father's two families. Otis's paronts were pioneer citizens of Southern Ohio, his father having emigrated from East Poult-ney, in 1800, at the age of 16, to th far West, settling in the Ohio Company's Purchase at Marietta; his nu-ther.

who was a n-tlve of Nova Scotia, emigrated with her parents from Boston early ln the century, settling ln the Muskingum Valley, ln Southern Ohio. His grandfather was a soldier In the Revolutionary War and was honorably discharged and pen sioned. Prominent members of the I family were James Otis, famous as a Revolutionary patriot and orator, and the first Harrison Gray Otis, once a United States Senator from Massachusetts. Gen. Otis was reared on a farm, attending the common schools of Southern Ohio for three months ln each winter, until the age of 14 years, when he left home to learn the printing trade.

He attended wetherby's Academy, Lowell, in 1866-67, and subsequently graduated from Granger's Commercial Colleges, Columbus, O. IN CIVIL WAR. He enlisted as a private In the Twelfth Ohio Volunteers June 25, 1861, was promoted to first sergeant March 1, 1S62; second-lieutenant November 12, 1862; first-lieutenant May 80, 1863, and to captain July 1, 1864, on which date he was trans ferred through the consolidation of the two regiments to the Twenty- third Ohio Veteran Volunteers, of and the Early CHARMS THIS not a eulogy it is a ret-- ord. The historian who forgets friendship is not a historian. Xor is he a historian if he lets hia lore get Any the better of his Judg- I men I I wish to make as Just a record as I can, from both angles, of a man for whom I cannot express my love.

I but of whom I can express my opln- Ion as a historian and a long-time i Inhabitant of Southern California. Perhaps this will be a better contri button than if 1 tried to write a blog- raphy. For I shall tell the exact truth. and only so much of it as I know. Thirty-three years ago I first met Col.

Harrison Gray Otis under the oaks at San Gabriel at the end of my tramp across the continent. We had become somewhat acquainted by letter beforehand, and, as I trudged my way toward Ood's country, I was sending in weekly letters to The Times, detailing the experiences one might expect to have in such a trip in 1884. And the good letters we had In exchange made this first personal meeting a pretty nice one. and we walked from San Gabriel to town together, and had lunch at 11 at night, on our arrival, at Bob Eck-erl's, and at 10 the next morning 1 was city editor of The Times and interviewing Emma Abbott. From that day to this there has been a certain relationship and loyalty.

I think it is fair to say that probably no one has ever known better the Ins and outs of this wonderful personality who has Just gone away from the community which does not yet realize what It owes him. I think I know his virtues and his faults as well as any living person could possibly do. Our sympathy, starting with the tramp, was a good beginning for he liked initiative and accomplishment But the real foundation of our friendship, which has lasted so long. was before I had been three months City editor and. for that matter, the whole local staff of The Times.

"I CANNOT SELL. OUT. He was a man who, like every other real man. liked power. But of all things that he despised, the thing he mom.

despised was anyone that was afraid of him or of anything else on God's earth. The day I went on The Times It had a circulation of 2700 daily. It had two older and far-richsr rivals In the newspaper Held here. One of them had a man of uncommon talent at Its head. About this time a man of Irreproachable cho-raeter a banker, a good citizen had a notion to run for the United States Senate.

I am telling something that I know all about and that very few people in this community know, except the principals, who have certainly never told about it. They were the back- I I 1 House, president of the board of control of the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company; director in the California-Mexico Land and Cattle Company, and president of the Colorado Kiver Land Company (a Mexican corporation,) associated with the former which corporations together own and operate a large tract of delta lands (once desert) lying along the Rio Colorado of the West, mainly on the Peninsula of Lower California. SPANISH WAR; PHILIPPINES. In 1898 he served ln the Spanish- The last photograph made of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis.

He wag caught by the camera standing under the historic sycamore of "The Outpost" at the barbecue and a) entertainment given by him for the Companions of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States on his Hollywood estate the 11th inst. Gen. Otis was president of the Southern California Association, M. O. L.

L. V. S. At this moment he was presenting a toast to "The Flag of the country, to the Armv and Nnvy, to the government of the United States, to the principles of republican government for which we stand." At his Immediate right is Col. Wilbur T.

ilder, U. S. and at Col. Wilder right is Chaplain William F. Hubbard.

Benefaction. Day "Times. F. LCM.MIS. colonel, we would like to he the support of The Times In his campaign.

We understand that lhnk purohiUfinK CoL So and go's interests In the paper so as to he sole owner. We would like to say to you that we would be (lad to advance on an Indefinite term the molle). ou may neej for Buch pnr- chase of any adverse Interests in The Times If you will support the major ln Col. Otis walked up and down the the little editorial room.) And then he turned and said: "Gentlemen. 1 thank you.

I be- ana wouiu repre- tlemen, while I would like to be the truer of The Times The Times belongs to the public, and I cannot sell it out. I cannot accept your kind offer. If, among the candidates that may come up, MaJ. So and So Is, ln i my Judgment, the best. The Times will support him.

not one cent." THE PRINTERS' STRIKE. A couple of years after I came on The Times, our endless friction with the Typographical Union came to a head. We had become accustomed to being held up. It pained, but did not surprise, us to have someone come ln at 2 o'clock in the morning and remark that unless we would Hiirn nn thA Knot nn to tne 8ame composition rates for the fellow that put one of those old- fashioned patent medicine electrotypes Into the form that we would pay compositors for setting up the 100,000 letters it would mean, they would walk out that night, and there would be no Times in the morning. With a struggling young paper, of course, this was serious.

Trie owners of all the newspapers In Los An- eles got together and agreed to resist any further encroachments of which the aforesaid is only a small type. Hut Col. Otis was the only one that stuck it out. The others fell down within a week. Hut The Times never fell down.

It Is the only newspaper in the Southwest that never did fall down. It Is the only one that never missed a pay day. It pays the best wages, and has for thirty- three years. of any papier In this community, And all that Is Gen. Otis.

Of all the Injustices that were ever done, I know of none more rldlcu Iu or more Infamous than calling ot's "enemy or la nor. lie an enemy or organir.eo labor, but of the scrub organizers wn nnv 'ea 'D(lr ln" unen the strikers, the wrist-breakers, the assassins, the dynamiters, Gen. Otis was as stanch a friend as labor ever had. it was one of his unvarying qualities that he Btood by his people. He had that lmmor-I till quality of loyalty, and never threw them down because some In-! fluential advertiser found fault with them.

He had to be very seriously convinced that they were traitors before he would give them their good-i bys. This Is one of the secrets of the success of The Times. So far as I am aware, it Is the moat Important First Pago.) him to lie down about 4 o'clock. He went to sleep at ones and slept about sn hour. He then dressed and with his grandson, Norman Chandler, went out to dine with some friends.

Oen. Otis leaves two daughters, Mrs. Franklin Booth and Mrs. Harry Chandler, and thirteen grandchildren. Miss Frances Chandler, Mrs, Roger Goodan (was Miss Mae Chandler,) Norman Chandler, Miss Constance Chandler, Miss Ruth Chandler, Harrison Gray Chandler, Philip Chandler, Helen Chandler, Otis Booth, Miss Eleanor Booth, Nell Booth, Miss Marian MeFherron.

Miss Arnle McPherron (daughters of Lilian Oils MeFherron, who died in 1905.) SIGHTLY ART GALLERIES NOTABLE PUBLIC GIFT. A MONUMENT TO BUILDER. Prophetic Message Regarding -Tins Times" by its Chief Owner. Among the recent writings of Gen. Otis, a personal message, appears the following prophetic paragraph: "I am proad of The Times, not alone because the property is a great and profitable one, but, primarily because The Times Is very close to my heart, the apple of my eye, the realization of one of the foremost ambitions of my life; and also because It Is an established public Institution a bulwark of liberty and law which, In other bands, now with me and to come after me, will stand long beyond the time when I shall have gone before." 4-4-MH-i HI'HHfU'fl 1 1 was relieved of his command, at Malolos, at his own request, and returned to the United States, where he was honorably discharged from the military service July 2, 1899.

He was subsequently brevetted major-general "for meritorious conduct in action at Caloocan. March' 25, 1899." IN POLITICS. Gen. Otis was a stalwart Independent Republican In politics, a steady opponent of political insurgency, and was Identified with the old Republican guard. He was official reporter of the Ohio House of Representatives at the session of 1866-67; waa a delegate from Kentucky to the National Republican Convention at Chicago which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860, and also a delegate from the District of Columbia to the Soldiers' and Sailors' National Convention at Chicago, In 1868, which first nominated Gen.

U. S. Grant for the Presidency. He was a member of the American Academy of Sciences, Associated Press and American Newspaper Publishers' Association; also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Society of the Army of the Potomac, Military Order of Foreign Wars, United Spanish War Veterans, National Society of the Army of the Philippines, Veteran Army of the Philippines, Order of Sons of the TiO AncplpS. -mv -im -w- 4Fv 1TT United States! tt as "a Christmas gift to all the people of the county." One of the conditions imposed by Gen.

Otis ln making the gift was that of an extension to the main building, a condition which is about to be carried out by the county, having been appropriated for the purpose. The plans, which are suing prepared by P. O. Wright, head draftsman of the mechanical department of the county, will bs ready ln about three weeks. These plans were suasvltted to Gen.

Otis a short time ago, and met with his entire approval. The addition will be built this fall. "The Bivouac" lends Itself readily and handsomely to the proposed improvement. The addition will be more than thirty feet wjde and sixty feet deep, and will afford space for the construction of two more fine artrooms or a single fine art gallery. Outside and beyond this extension It was stipulated that the south and east fronts should remain undisturbed and architecturally unchanged during the lifetime of the donor.

The Times Memorial Building, standing conspicuously on the east front, Is to remain intact. The original "Bivouac" property has been expanded from time to time, until it now has a front of 160 feet on Wilshlre boulevard by 267 feet along Park View avenue. It faces Westlake Park and Includes "The Bivouac" building proper and three other well-built structures, all in good condition. The Improvements cost In excess of $60,000, and the property has been conservatively valued at In making the gift Gen. Otis had in mind the encouragement, in an unobtrusive way, of the following branches of fine arts, as well as collateral forms of higher education and culture: (1.) Mualo, painting and sculpture.

(2.) The legitimate drama, grand opera and histrionic art, (8.) Schools for the study of the sciences, history, advanced literature and the languages. (4.) Popular lectures on high current tonics. Including city. State and national problems. (5.) Song, elocution, readings, recitals and classic dancing.

(6.) The work of collecting modern artistic prints ln black, sepia and tints, and also rare old steel engravings. (7.) Keramies, or the plastic arts. (8.) Expert Instruction ln colored photography, photoengraving and rotogravure; besides, possibly, practical training in Illuminated printing and art binding. Baffling. BIYSTERY DEEPENS.

Consln of Missing Calexlco Man Is Unable to Identify Body Found on Terminal Island Sunday. Mariner TTnder Arrest Talks More Freely. The mystery surrounding the body supposed to be that of Roy George Stull ef Calexlco, which was found on the beach at Terminal Island Sunday, deepened yesterday, when M. A. Stull, whose address la 425 Lissner Building, failed to Identify the body aa that of his cousin.

Mr. Stun admitted, however, that it might be that of the Calexlco man, whom be had not seen for seven yearn. Decomposition had set ln and the features were distorted. A sister of the missing man, Mrs. Charles Keff of Burlington, Iowa, baa also been notified.

Detectives Holmes, Bow and Taylor are working on the case. Dave Adamson, former mate on the steamer Stanwood, who was taken In custody by the police Sunday at his home at Harbor City, talked freely yesterday, saying he registered with Stull at a harbor hotel a week ago, and later went with him to the Harvard rooming. house, but knowe nothing of Stull's your 7 itiiuti with ftr'ntr Statu At the tlitor a amt wvt, and mctt.tk -rth ai a m. ftmty to Hrt you ihW Marty rcriiai tuvstrt. in sour fcitii era of this banker.

They knew of newspaper property in the Lnlted Col. Otls's financial straits. Two of i States, and I feel sure that the rea-them among the foremost business son Is the personality which Imposed men in town came to Col. Otis and on it a staff loyalty which Is unique said: "Colonel, you think, don't yon, at least in the West. I never knew that Maj, So and So would be good a newspnper on which many employ-representative of this section in Con- ees didn't know how It could be run gress?" better, but I never.

knew a newspaper "Yes. he Is a good man probably to which every man and woman era-the bent ln sight." ployed was more devoted. In Ills Bed. Upright Sword. (Continued from First Pag-n.) pictures and nature.

The fields, the hills, the sea, the flowers, and the flocks of the folds were always a deep source of delight to him, But, after all. I am sure that the two great passions of his life were the flag of his country, and Los Angeles, the city of his adoption. These two he loved as a strong man loves anything, with a constancy and fervor beyond all words to tell. When now they shall wrap the flag around his lifeless clay, its stars and bars will never have enfolded a truer lover. He shed his blood for It ln very gladness, and he would have died for it as gladly.

The flag will not forget, nor will the city of his love forget him In the years thnt are to be when his voice Is hushed and his tireless hands forever are folded. Whether or no his fellow-citizens shall build granite shafts to commemorate him. whether or no tablets of bronze shall be emblazoned with his name, it will not maUer. The city. Itself, Is his monument.

He Is the one man, above all others, who led it up the pathways of lusty growth to World-challenging success. Ceaselessly he wrought for its political health and sanity. Like ft sleepless sentinel, with bared saber, he guarded Its good name. Often he stood alone, with his back against the wall. Rut he feared no man, high or low, nnd he struck nt every foe thnt came, no matter In what guise.

And now, nil that Is paed snrt gone. He Journeys to that other country bevond the stars. In the existence of which and of an all-wise God he had full and unwavering belief. Tt Is a journey he never feared to take. Life and light he loved, but the darkness had no terrors for him.

He will stand at salute before the Jasper gates, Serena and unafraid. err; MGirrnra msTKicr, Agricultural land was excluded from the Homeward-avenue lighting district by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. A large delegation of cit izens attended the meeting. In re forming the boundaries, eighty acres were excluded and the election was called for August 18. CALL OF DEATH COMES QUIETLY TO GEN.

OTIS. j. "i I unnr; aaacT villi the Co3TAa-Ci-ta, Uhht iwon jmt TJvutory lor rijjhti, -a 1 Cw wrimmmt rmfrta th tyranny mujuWtd agitator. ttUriy iut tittt ftarltn advetMf of tht rtyti of all anA th nUntltii ttndmutUn of dtmaaouei fcy tW art idfl of the fatt that th majority it tho uintr mm and employer or IaVr Itavt tome from the rank or th common people, inhrlttnej nothing iav love of ttuntry and williRgAett and rapacity for word. A Vtt telie that tr.t r.ttm of thl country dcttnii not only nje frtt ithooii and a rm pw.

tut Alio rmiom of -action eUr tfct law. Ch ambitious youth it not. ihall not. dwarfed in in deiirt or opportunity, or hindered in Hi effort to reach the goal of iduum, whether in the workshop, the field! of comment or along th dighvayi of profeiiional lift5 we' demand rr our fellewi and fr otnelvt. the individual freedm that tttamt our heritage upon tho'tfUpuMie' WrU.

WC congratulate thi City or Coi and tin $Mti California, that through you the yriactplct of tttrmal truth and jmtitt are yrttcwtci daily in the heme tf California the columni of tie Get Jf ntjtlit "Cimctt Urittm at Cjj JfacUt tT Juat A MONO the notable benefactions of the late Gen. Harrison Gray Otis to the public was his gift to the county of Los Angeles (Including the city) of his magnificent home at Wilshlre boulevard and Park View avenue known as "The Bivouac." This gift, which was by him dedicated to "the interests of art, artists," art-lftvlng, people and other devotees of their higher alms and causes which specially appertain to the finer side of life," was formally made December 22, 19H, to the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles county and accepted for the board by It. W. Prldham, chairman. The first intimation of Gen.

Otis's purpose to present this Splendid property to the people was given on November 25, 1916, when the plan was tentatively outlined in The Times. When this announcement was made it was stated that the management, direction and control of this valuable property would be placed In the hands of an incorporated association of responsible citizens with a high-class, well-qualified, sympathetic board of directors, who would conduct the enterprise ln such a manner as to insure the widest benefits to the general public. One of the objects set forth was to make "The Bivouac" an adjunct to the Museum of History, Science and Art, now established at Exposition Park, which Gen. Otis at the time described as "having already expanded Into one of the noblest institutions of Its kind." The fprmal presentation was made In a letter dated December 23, 1916. The following board of directors was indicated by Gen.

Otis: O. F. Brant, Harry Chandler, Gen. M. H.

Sherman, Henry W. O'Melveny, William M. Bowen and W. Prldham. Chairman Pridham acoepted the gift on behalf of the Board of Supervisors and the people of the coun ty and city, and ln doing so paid a tribute to the generosity of spirit and high purpose of Gen.

Otis ln presenting to the county such a mag nificent property to be devoted to such lofty purposes. He closed by formally accepting "The Bivouac" a home lor the fine arte. The W0 by the county and construction work (Continued from who had been his secretary for elgl.t years, accomplished a great deal of work: at home and personally directed the development of his MII-flores ranch, where he employed many men. One day last week Mrs. ThUenlos carried his mall and proofs to him.

He looked over the work to be done and said, "Can It be that Is all we have to do? It Is extraordinary not to have more work." Last Saturday he dictated several letters, edited with scrupulous care long editorial nnd read advance sheets of Bunday's Times. He i lead a great denl of the matter aloud and became somewhat fatigued. Mrs. Thilenius persuaded Si y'ff. fa xi mpmnw'al -frnm fitiTPna nf 20, 1903, In token of their appreciation of his notable services to Los Amrelea and Southern California.

If Tnnminntpjl Presented by them to Gen. Otis June which Rutherford B. Hayes was colonel and William McKlnley a captain, and later brevet major of United States volunteers. He took part In many actions with Ota Armv rt Wrtct Virginia Armv of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah; was wounded at Antietam, September 17. 1862, and again at Kernstown, July 24, 1864.

In the winter of 1864-66 he was assigned, aa the senior captain present lor duty, to tne commanu ui regiment at Cumberland, and led It up the Shenandoah Valley to Harrlsburg, where he was provost marshal up to the close of the war. At that time he was breveted major ll.nt.n.ntnlnnAl "for Valiant and meritorious services during the war," and honorably discharged AugUBt 1, 1865. SEVEN TIMES PROMOTED. Va fnrtvn1ne months ln the army, in the field and camp; participated in ntteen engagements, was twice wounded ln battles, and reoelved seven promotions, lnolud- wn ImvAtfl. Tn th ftiiriif nf his military service In the Civil War he made battle record emDracing the following actions, ln which he was a participant: Scarey Creek, W.

July 17, 1861; Carnifex Ferry. September 10, 1861; Bull Run ferlrtge, August J7, 1861; Frederkk, lid-, September lJ, 1881 4e 31LwiLv2 American War. and In 1899 In the war to suppress the Filipino Insurrection, as brigadier-general of volunteers, having been appointed by President McKlnley May, 1898, and assigned first to the independent division, Philippine Islands expeditionary forces, at Camp Merritt, California; later to the command of the second section of the fourth sea expedition to the Philippines, and subsequently to the Eighth Army Corps at Manila, where he commanded the First Brigade of the First Division, and later the First Brigade of the Second Division, holding the left of the American line on the northerly front at Manila. He was present, in command of his brigade, at the Filipino outbreak on the night of February 4, 1899, and participated, with his command, constantly on the advance line, in all the subsequent actions up to and including the capture of Malolos, March 21, 1899. His brigade constituted the principal force engaged ln the assault upon and the capture of Caloocan on Feburary 10, 1890.

On March 25, 1899, he was ordered, with his brigade, to "pierce the enemy's center" in the first advance from La Loma Church northward to Malolos, the temporary Filipino capital. This order he successfully executed at the head of his brigade. On April 1, 1808, OUs American Revolution, and of several local clubs and societies. In September, 1910, he was appointed by the President a commissioner on the part of the United States to attend the centennial of Mexican Independence, and discharged that function acceptably to his government. On his return to Los Angeles on October 1, 1910, he found that the building of his newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, had been criminally dynamited that morning, blown tip and destroyed by fire, sacrificing the lives of twenty of his loyal workmen.

In May, 1911, he represented the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles at the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (seventeenth annual session.) In June, 1911, he was a member of an oflicial conference called by the Secretary of the Interior, under the approval of the President, to consider the situation, on the Rio Colorado of the West ln Its lower reaches. The conference, mainly composed of engl- peers, made a unanimousreporttjk the President, which was approJ; by him. a Gen. Otis married in fS September 11. 1859.

Miss Eliza iCtontlnoeiS ua js -lu jfri" "Bivouac Art gift of Gen. Otis to the public. His beautiful residence at Wilshlre boulevard nd Park View Gen. Otis Indicate the spot where the proposed exteosioa vUl ft auuU, The recently presented to the county as none Jr hji few fceea appropriated will start la the Wi, subsequent movements;.