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News Letter 10 Final.Pub (Read-Only) The From The Editor…. Binns Family Newsletter What’s New Autumn 2005 B I am delighted to report much valuable data on us know if you find any that the Binns Family the Binns families of Guis- i item to be particularly w e b s i t e a t ley, Yorkshire has been n interesting or have any www.thebinnsfamily.org. added to our data base. comment to make about uk continues to attract a any of the content. You n good deal of attention. With regard to funds, I can be sure to get a reply Since the last Binns am happy to say that we if you write to either me s Connections was distrib- continue to be able to or your co-editor and you uted we have made all print and distribute hard don’t need to include a previous Binns News copies of News Letters. C stamped addressed en- Letters available for Feedback on the contents velope. download from the site. of Binns Connections can o Best wishes to you all. Thanks to the painstak- only be describes as dis- David Binns, Editor ing efforts of Mike Binns, appointing. Please do let n n e We‘d love to hear from you…… please give us feedback c t i o T. David Binns, Alan P. Binns, n 103 Haswell Gardens, 518 Colne Road, North Shields, Reedley, s Tyne & Wear, Burnley, NE30 2DR. BB10 2DL. Inside this issue: Letter from America concludes 2 A Rude Awakening 9 Poetry Corner 4 A Tragic Event 9 Pipe Organ 4 Poor Maud’s Father 10 Jack Robinson Binns ancestry/Impressario Updates 5 Snippets 10 Sporting Binns’ 6/7 Spare Certificates & Who’s Who ? 11 Kangaroo Valley 7 Sir Henry Binns KCMG 12 Australian Roots in Cowling 8 Finally & Don’t Forget the We bsite 12 Number 10 Letter from America concludes………... loaders, some of them monsters, Here is the third and final instalment of a but sadly out of date. Fort Winfield letter written by Arthur William Binns (1858- Scott is situated on the point of 1931) in 1890 from Springfield, Ohio to his land that forms the southern wall parents Wilkinson and Martha Binns, of of the Golden Gate. The entrance to the Bay is about ½ mile wide, so Oakworth, near Keighley, Yorkshire. In the the guns at this place command taken with it myself. letter he describes a visit he made to the passage. The Fort is built of After dinner that evening I met California under the auspices of The Granite and iron. It has three gun Frank Rennie for the last time be- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and platforms and places for light guns fore starting east. We sort of made Engineers. The original letter is now sadly on the roof. On the inside the it up to meet in Chicago in 1892 all lost but this early transcription was made by floors are arched and supported being well. He told me that he Joyce Kidd, to whom the editor is most by big granite pillars. There are would introduce me to a new dish grateful. entrances to the magazines on that would keep our friendship each floor. I think there are about warm. We went to a restaurant After dinner we took the cars to go 100 guns in the place about 8 and he ordered some tamales. He out to visit the Presidio, Fort inches bore muzzle loaders per- explained that they were a Mexi- Winfield Scott and the Golden haps 20 feet long. A modern Iron can dish, and were much es- Gate. The Presidio is the first clad with her 80 ton guns would teemed by some of the people of place on the bay that was settled bring the whole place down in ten Frisco. They came to the table all by the Spaniards. It is about three minutes. It was a famous place hot. They looked like a bunch of miles from the centre of the city, when it was built 30 years ago, but long leaves tied at both ends, and and is about a mile east of the it is only useful for a show place at a string round the middle. The Golden Gate. It is at the present the present day. On the headland leaves are the husks of Indian time a Military Reservation of the above it they are making earth- corn. We took our forks and went U.S. There are large barracks for works and putting big breech load- to work to dissect them. First came different branches of the services. ers in them, so that they will not two or three layers of leaves, then The grounds near the officers need to get in a panic for fear of a inside was a little pudding about quarters are laid out with nice Chinese iron clad coming to bom- the size and shape of a sausage. flower beds and grass plots, but bard San Francisco. At the time of Inside, the pudding was filled with the quarters of the men look the Chinese exclusion act passing hot spices and a piece of chicken, somewhat forlorn. I did not see 1888, the people of Frisco were it tasted first rate, but it nearly many soldiers about, I suppose terrified lest a Chinese fleet should burnt the skin off your mouth. I they were all at work. After looking come over to argue the point. would not doubt that they would do about for a while we started for- They could scarcely sleep. I guess famously for a bad cold. After this ward to Fort Winfield Scott. It was they feel better now. The Union we walked round the streets until one of the longest miles I ever Ironworks Co. of San Francisco midnight, then shook hands and walked across the salt meadows. are now at work building Men-of- went our respective ways, to meet We passed the Lifeboat Station War for Uncle Sam, so they ought again in 92 at the Exposition if and went in and saw the boats and to be able to fix up something to possible. I went back to the Hotel rocket apparatus. Everything was take care of themselves. After gaz- and packed up my traps ready for as clean as paint and elbow ing our fill at the Golden Gate, and the return trip. We were to leave grease could make it. Some time watching several ships go by, we San Francisco at 7 a.m. in the last year, during a fog, a steamer started back for town. I think the morning, to catch the train at Oak- called the City of Chester was run mile from the Fort to the Presidio land for the east. I tumbled into down and sunk, right opposite the was about equal to three ordinary bed and took three or four hours boat house. Some of the people miles. My poor feet suffered terri- sleep, to brace me up for my jour- on her had taken breakfast in bly, but we got over it somehow. I ney. We were up early next morn- Frisco and were back there for was glad when we got back to the ing and ate our breakfast with a their dinner. Others went down in place for street cars. We had a relish, our appetites were not spoilt their cabins and were taken out fine view of the bay as we were by being journey proud. The last I afterwards by divers. The day we going back. It looks splendid with saw of San Francisco was as she were there, it was difficult to imag- its ships and islands with the dis- was swallowed up in the mist that ine that such a calamity could tant mountains for a background. I was hanging round. We arrived in have occurred and leave no trace. think I could have looked at it a Oakland in due time and took our We passed yards where there whole day and not been tired. I am seats in the train. The journey to were scores of cannons and gun not surprised at Californians think- Sacramento was accomplished by carriages. They were old muzzle ing so much of their state. I was 11 a.m. Here wemet ne of the Page 2 BINNS CONNECTIONS Letter from America cont……………. delegates that had started out a big building of the Crystal Pal- the evening before, Wm. Merkle ace style. It was one division of their exhibit look nice, if it is noth- of St. Louis, Mo. We joined the State Fair containing the Arts, ing but shovels and horseshoes. forces and went to dinner. That Manufactures etc. This turned out There was one stall showed noth- was always our first point of in- to be what we had been seeking ing but nails, but they were worked terest, a place to eat. A country in the afternoon. There were fine up into fancy patterns. You looks much better when gazed exhibits of the products of the stopped to look at the designs and at over a full stomach. The Cali- state. In the machinery dept. there you could not help but notice their fornia State Fair was in pro- were steam pumps, windmills, nails, if they had just been set out gress, so we started to take it in. traction engines, threshing ma- in boxes, no one would have We rode out on the street cars chines, reapers and mowers and looked at them. The building was to the fair grounds.
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