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Goodw ot Weekly. I
I Vol IX. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 31, 1906. No. 17 I
C.C GOODWIN, - - - -- - -h Editor
J, T. GOODWIN, , Manager.
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The Majesty Of Nature
There are some art treasures In this city which
not many people know very much about. When
tho exploring expedition which went to look up
the wonders in the neighborhood of the Ancient
Cliff-dwellers in southeastern Utah, in the spring
of 1905, returned, they brought many photographs
of scenery in that region. Col. E. F. Holmes was
much struck with the photographs of the three
natural bridges down thoro which a few explor
ers have been telling about for years past, and
gave Mr. H. L. A. Culmer, who was with the
party, a commission to paint them. Mr. Culmer
began the work, soon became Interested and a lit
tle later inspired and exhausted his art upon them.
They would attract instant attention in the most
exclusive gallery in the world; they are veritable
masterpieces. Many of our people hero have seen
them and, so far as we know, there has been but
one opinion of them. This article is not put out
as news here, but merely to emphasize the gen
eral impression that the pictures have created.
In point of fact, all other known natural bridges
shrink into insignificance by comparison. Were
one of these bridges to be transported here, and
B set up between the Temple and the Tabernacle, a
H person standing on West Temple street and look
I ing below tho solemn arch of tho bridge, would
have a full view of the Temple from base to
H above tho statue on the highest pinnacle, for it is
H 2G5 feet from the ground under the bridge to the
bottom of he groundfloor of tho great span, while
the distance between the abutments that support
tho span is 335 feet. In vastness and in solemn
H majesty, there is something awful in tho spec
K tacle Even the lights that play upon, it, as if
jH awed, quickly fall into the shadows around it.
H It is said that the silence of the desert somo-
times becomes so oppressive that the shadow of a
great fear seems brooding so low over it, that
j even bands of cattle are stampeded by it and flee
H before a noiseless terror that seems drawing near.
H In the same way, if one watching this picture,
concentrates his mind enough to drive away
every other thought, then his nerves will bo taxed
H as never before. Under the massivonoss, under
M the lights and shades that clothe the solemn sand
fly stone framework of tho bridge and build fairy
a Castles out of a gieat reef seen in perspective un
der thesolemn arch, thoughts-begin to creep in
of the ages that masterpiece has' been standing
there in that tremendous solitude, of tho races
that in the forgotten past stood awed before it, and
tried to compute the power that upreared it, and
tho purpose intended in tho august creation, until
unconsciously the memory of the ages melts away
and one lives through all the advancing and reced
ing centuries since the first call of the Infinite kin
dled the sunbeams into flame and set the winds
and the waters to perform their work, for tho
bridge was not upreared, but was part of a moun
tain, the less enduring portions of which the
winds, the frosts and the noiseless grind of run
ning waters have eroded away, leaving the immor
tal part on its adamantine abutments poised in
sublimity and silence.
It was the soul of the mountain, concealed un
til what was perishable in the height melted from
around It.
Is it typical? What is- perishable within us is
soon to disintegrate and disappear. Will there be
left something that, out of the dross, will defy de
cay and shine immortal in the softer light of the
Beyond?
Navy Saved The Water Front
The Argonaut has a most catching article from
the pen of Edwin Emerson Jr., who was a war
correspondent in Manchuria during the Japanese
Russian war, portraying the work of tho navy
when the catastrophe smote San Francisco.
It is a shame to make a synopsis of such a
paper; it should be published in full, but we have
space for only a few facts. The article is In full
in the Current Sunset.
Tho ordinary telegraph system was paralyzed,
but the wireless station at Mare Island was un
disturbed. When the news reached Mare Island,
Admiral McCalla, in command there, at once sent
to San Francisco the two fire boats, "Active" and
"Leslie," with all available hose, many thousand
feet long, manned by Lieut. Freeman of the de
stroyer Perry with his crew. At the same time
the Preble, flying the Red Cross flag, was dis
patchd with surgeons, nurses and medical stores,
and reaching San Fiancisco was kept busy carry
ing the injured to the government hospital at
Yerba Buena Island.
The fire boats pulled into Pier slip No. 8, and
for three days and nights their crows and pumps
worked incessantly. At one time they had to run
5,000 feet of hose up Telegraph Hill, 1,000 feet of
which was lost through heat. At the same time
they supplied the city fire engines with fresh
water brought by the Soto Komo from Yerba
Buena.
On that same earthquake day, Admiral Goodrich
was on his flagship Chicago. That ship and the
Marblohead were lazily cruising about in the open
sea, some twenty miles off San Diego. But a
wireless found the Chicago and reported tho de
struction of San Francisco.
It was as though an enemy had hove in sight.
" -Tho ships were headed north, the forced draft
put on, in a few minutes both ships were making
twenty-one knots and reached San Francisco on
the evening of the nextday. They anchored off
Fort Mason, their shlpsbattalions ready to land.
Then came the fighting of the fiie and the trans
fer of stranded people and needed supplies. After
consulting with Funston and tho city authorities, H
Admiral Goodrich agreed to take charge of the H
city front. Tho Chicago went alongside Pier 24, H
the Marblehead to Pier 16, the Boston to Pier 8, H
the Paul Jones, to Pier 17 -and the Princeton to fl
Pier 7. By Sunday the whole waterfront, more H
than three miles long, was patrolled by blue jack- H
ets from the Pacific Mail Dock to Fort Mason. JH
They served as a police, as a relief corps to carry H
water to the famishing, as transportation agents H
in transferring the stranded to points across the H
bay and all the time gave tho people object les- H
sons of what perfect discipline, pluck, endurance, ,'
masterful executive ability and devotion to duty '
can accomplish. H
They found a city shattered under tho assaults H
of earthquake and fire; they went to work, one H
division fighting with dynamite, and never faltered lM
until the fire was subdued, the stricken people 'M
cared for, and all the time they worked like in- M
telligent machines on well-matured plans, so that 'M
every effort counted for good. They won and 'M
carried away as many honors as they could have M
carried from a hard-fought battlefield.
Government Ownership JB
- Mr. John Morley is a very great man, but ho H
has many of the eccentricities of genius. He JM
has recently made a speech on India which has
received much attention in England. In the course 'H
of the speech ho dovotes some space to public S
ownership in India and explains that the state .9
not only owns and operates tho railroads, but it fl
conducts irrigation operations; constructs railways !
and canals and conserves forests.
At first the state railways were conducted at a
loss and continued to lose monoy for eight or ten
years, but some seven years ago they began to
pay. In 1904-5 they cleared 2,000,000 and last
year and tho first half of this have cleared
1,000,000. This profit was mado with an average
charge of less than half a cent per mile for each
passenger.
That simple statement will bo road by many
unthinking persons who will exclaim "How our rail
roads rob tho people." But in point of fact that
charge is relatively higher than on the first-class
roads In our own country. In tho first place
tho roads of India are 30 and 39 inch
guage, with light rails and Indifferent
coaches. Then tho average) wage of
India is not one-eighth that of this country;
the average per capita of monoy in India is not
one-seventh of that of tho United States, probably
not one-tenth. Then tho people out-number ours
probably three to one. Tho fare on tho great New
York Central is 2 cents per mile. If that is five
times greater than In India, still comparing tho 1
coBt of labor and tho volume of money in the
two countries, it is oasy to see that ours is much
tho cheaper service. If our railway employees
were receiving only ?G per month and farm hands
only ?i per month, we can easily seo that if they
rode en railroads at all they would have to econo-
mlze to rido at even one-half cent per mile
This is one great fault with those who make com
parisons between other countries and our own.
A certain class of men and newspapers are con- , i
tinually telling tho poor workingman how he is be-
Ing abused In this country, because of tho tariff
and the grafting of the, tru.sU, But such men and