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FOUR CHILDREN DRUNK.
AH Thene Hoy* Were I mler Thirteen
leartt of Age.
Patrolmen Wallace anti Holz, the bicycle
reserve men, were sent yesterday afternoon
to the alley in the rear of New York street
and west of New Jersey, where they found
four boys, under thirteen years old, all of
whom were so drunk that they were unable
to walk. The call came from people who
thought the boys had been poisoned, and
that was the impression at the police sta
tion when th'e boys were carried in. The
boys were Harry Smith, who lives on Court
street just east, of Alabama; John Hyman,
living at 156 c East. Washington street;
Jesse Finley, of l'jt North East street, and
Eouis Payne, who lives in the Church block.
Th'e Payne boy was taken to the hospital
and'the others to their homes. They were
all very sick boys during the night. They
say that u man gave them a bottle of
liquor, which they drank.
COMING CHURCH CONVENTIONS
A III K (lathering in the Autumn— Ep
uorth League in
It is expected that the international con
vention of the Epworth League which is to
convene in Indianapolis in 1891* will bring
between 15,000 and 20,000 strangers to the
city. The contention will not be a dele
gate body but all members of the league
will be invited to come from all parts of
the country. "'here are perhaps 2,000,000
Leaguers in the United States and Canada.
The Epworth League is known in England,
where there are a number ot organizations.
These conventions are held every two years.
In August of this year there is to be held
here a national convention of the Young
People’s Union of the United Presbyterian
Church. The organization is a large one
and six thousand young people will prob
ably be hero from other cities during the
week.
WENT HOME TO SEE HIS WIFE.
Lee Kiser, a Trusty ut the Jail, Dis
appears. but Is Caught.
Lee Kiser, a “trusty” prisoner at the
county Jail, disappeared Saturday night.
He had been allowed great freedom and
he was not missed until yesterday morning.
Deputy Sheriffs Chapman and Ryan found
him yesterday at Greenfield at his home.
He greeted the officers pleasantly and told
them he intended to have returned last
night. He wanted to see his wife, he said,
and seemed really sorry that he had put
the deputies to the trouble of going atter
him. He will probably occupy a cell during
the remainder of his stay with Sheriff Shuf
elton.
LIGHTNING STUNNED HIM.
George Morris Knocked I'neonneiouit
While Walking; on Railroad Tracks.
George Morris was struck by lightning
yesterday afternoon while walking along
the Belt road near South Meridian street,
lie was unconscious when carried into a
neighboring drug store. The Dispensary
sent two physicians and an ambulance and
the man was removed to the City Hospital,
where it was found that his injuries are
slight. He was merely stunned and the fail
hurt his left arm slightly. He complains
that it is numb, as if it were paralyzed, but
this fefcling will puss away in a day or two.
SUMMER .
Iniliunluim Who Arc kin joying Them
mclvci Around Little Traverse Huy.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WEQUETONSING, Mich., July 18.—Some
one has touched the button and set the
complicated machinery of summer resort
life for 1597 in northern Michigan in mo
tion. Travel and transportation center In
Petoskey. From thence streams of summer
visitors pour forth to resorts large or smajl,
quiet or gay, in all parts of the Trav
erse country. There must be a trans
formation scene in the winter, when
the guests have flown, hotels are
closed, cottages ure boarded up, and
the beautiful bay is a sheet of solid
ice. At the present date hotels have thrown
their doors wide open, and are doing an
apparently thriving business. At the Ar
lington, In Petoskey, Mr. Peak says he has
never had so many people In the house
so early in the season. He has now over
one hundred guests—thirty-four more than
at the same date a year ago. Mr. I. B.
Kuhn and wife, of Vincennes, Ind., and Mr.
H. liuiman, jr., of Terre Haute, are reg
istered at the Arlington. Mr. P. K. Bus
kirk, of Bloomington, is at the Cushman.
W. J- Handy and wife, of Indianapolis, are
guests at the Imperial. The chief charm
about Petoskey is that visitors may come
and go at their will, and do exactly us they
please. The facilities for excursions, for
sailing, fishing or sight-seeing are limited
only by the hours in the day.
Mr. John Himes and family, from Indian
apolis, will soon occupy their cottage at
Bear lake. Mr. Himes is the popular
American express man of the queen city
of railroads and has many friends
In this country. Bear lake is beau
tiful and picturesque. It is a favorite
point for an all-day excursion. The lake
furnishes fine opportunities for bathing,
boating and fishing. It is near enough to
Petoskey to be within reach of the world
at any hour. Lite on Bear lake is like
camping out for a long summer with the
more substantial comforts of cottage resi
dence thrown in.
At Bay View everyone is alert and busy
The university is open, and pupils are en
rolled. In the list oi the Bay View faeultv
Pauline Mariott Davies, of Purdue Universi
ty, Lafayette, appears as teacher of French
language and literature. She is no stranger
to Lay View and its methods, but a fast linn
friend of other summers. Mr. John M
Hail, superintendent of the Bay View sys
tem, is authority lor saying that Indiana
s mis a larger proportion of visitors to Bay
View than any Stale, not even excepting
Michigan. One terrace is called “Indiana
avenue," because so many cottage residents
along the line are from that State, Prof.
A. 1. Dotey, Latin instructor in the Indian
apolis High School, will visit Bay View
this summer for rest and recreation. Mrs.
S. J. McElwee. of Indianapolis, has made
her summer home in a cottage on Spring
side avenue, and welcomes as her guest
for the season Miss Eleanor Pye, of Indian
apolis. Mrs. Max Leckner and family have
a suite of rooms in the Darling cottage. Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Carson, of Indianapolis. Mr.
C. A. Carr, Mrs. Pump Garr and Mr. Dick
inson. of Richmond, several people from
Portland, many from Fort Wayne. Muncle
and other points are settled in Bay View.
Mrs. L. M. Neeley, of Munch. is the guest
of her mother. Mrs. William Berkey. Mrs.
Agnes Hanmer and two sons, Mrs. Dr.
Ford, of Wabash, Miss Carrie Lesh. of In
dianapolis, Miss Fannie P. s'mith, of Fort
Wayne, and th<- Misses Prude, ce and Anna
Lewis, of Indianapolis, form a part of Bay
View social life. Miss Austin, from Rich
mond, with a friend, has a room in Evelyn
Hall. These are some of the people. What
they will do must form a later tale.
Many health seekers come to Hay View in
quest of strength and vigor. They do not
tind disappointment.
This locality is the headquarters of the
Hay Fever Association, of which Mrs. R.
B. Pope, of Ohio, is the active and efficient
president. All sufferers from that dire mal
ady are bidden to come thither and be well.
Swinging around the circle of the bay we
reach Wequetonsing—in the Indiana tongue
—"the place upon the little bay." Miss Ida
Andrus, of Indianapolis, tinds her summer
home with family friends in Dr. Dixon's
pleasant "Bide-u-wee” cottage, on the wa
ter front. Miss Andrus will gather perma
nent impressions of plaaes and people with
her kodak this summer. The beauty of
Wequetonsing is found in its home life.
Harbor Point, with its elegant cottages and
natural beauties, completes the circuit of
the buy.
The Indiana editors have already made
their visit to Mackinac island. Mrs. P. E.
Studebakor and Mrs. Hickox, of South
Bend, and Mr. J. G. Hall and wife, of In
dianapolis, are island guests.
The new revenue cutter, the Walter Q.
Gresham, is making her initial visit to
Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. On
Sunday the Gresham made a quiet harbor
in Little Traverse bay and on Monday
steamed away to Mackinac island. On
Wednesday she introduced the ceremony of
unveiling the statue of Pere Marquette, at
the city of Marquette, by a sunrise salute
of forty-live guns.
Visitors at W est Baden.
Special to the'lndianapolis Journal.
WEST BADEN, Ind., July IS.—Miss Lil
lian Sinclair, daughter of Hon. L. W. Sin
clair, gave a house party at the Springs
Hotel this week to several of her young
lady friends of Salem, Ind. Those present
were Misses Clara Voyles, Carrie Persise,
Kate Persise, Maggie Gubbert, Eva De
walt and Nora Dewalt.
Jacob J. Kern, ex-state’s attorney of Il
linois, is here.
Miss Ella Barnes, of Evanston, 111., has
arrived for a ten days’ stay.
J. G. Miner, of Indianapolis, is a visitor
at West Baden.
Robert Nicol and wife, R. C. Haskins and
wife, Misses Lillie Fitch and Alice Puffee,
of Chicago, are registered ut the West Ba
den Hotel.
W. Worth Bean, accompanied by his son,
W. Worth Bean, jr., of St. Joseph, Mich.,
are visitors here. Mr. Bean is president
of the St. Joseph & Benton Harbor Street
railway Company.
R. Hall McCormick, of Chicago, accom
panied by his son, R. Hall McCormick, jr.,
a Yale .student, are guests at the West
Baden Springs Hotel.
R. 11. Crouch and Benjamin F. Crawford,
of Brazil, Ind., are at West Baden.
Elmer N. Downs, of Indianapolis, was a
visitor here this week. Mr. Downs is assis
tant superintendent of the Indianapolis
Rubber Company.
J. P. Talifers, of Jacksonville, Fla., is a
visitor at the springs.
D. A. Buckley, of Middletown, 0., is tak
ing a vacation at West Baden.
A. P. Fisher, of Attleboro, Mass., is at
West Baden for a visit of several days.
George Brashears, of Madison, Ind., was
here this week enjoying a short vacation.*
A. R. Monroe, of Indianapolis, was a
visitor at West Baden the first of the week.
T. W. Welsh and wife, of Mitchell. Ind..
were visitors at the springs this week. Mr.
Welsh is trainmaster of the Baltimore <B
- Southwestern Railway.
O. W. Pollard of Dwight, 111., Is here.
Miss Lillie Williams, of Oliver, Ind.. has
been spending a pleasure vacation at West
Baden.
State Senator G. H. Thompson, of War
ren, Ind.,' has returned home after a ten
days’ stay.
W. I>. Richard, of Mantowoc, Wis., was
a West Baden visitor this week.
Guy McJimpsey, of Vincennes, is a vis
itor at the springs.
H. B. Thompson, of Richmond, Ind., has
arrived for a ten days’ stay.
R. N. Allstatter and wife, of Hamilton,
are visitors at West Baden.
W. N. Thompson and wife, of Chicago,
are here on their vacation. Mr. Thomp
son is president of the Chicago Live Stock
Exchange.
11. C. Knobe, of Indianapolis, is among
the guests at the Springs Hotel.
L. D. Griffin, of the law firm of Griffin
& Watson, of Rushville, ind., is here.
Ex-Alderman Charles Holman, of Chi
cago, has arrived for a ten days’ stay.
O. J. Oursler and C. P„ Butler, editor of
the North Vernon Sun, are at West Baden.
Summer Sun.
Great is the sun. and wide he goes
Through empty heaven without repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the Minds we pull
To keep the shady parlor cool.
Yet he will lind a et.ink nr two
To slip his golden lingers through.
The dusty attic, spider-clad.
He. through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hayloft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground.
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among tt-.e ivy’s Inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Hound the bright air with footing true.
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the world, he goes.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
AND THAT FLAG WAS H’ISTED.
Ilovr Kearny Bluffed a British Ad
miral at Honolulu.
New Y'ork Press.
It is true, as has been stated recently,
that in 1*43 there was a cession of the Ha
waiian islands to England, and this is how
the cession became null and void. The
story is from the lips of one of the best
known and most gallant officers on the re
tired list of the United States navy.
As soon as the United States government
learned ’ that Admiral Lord George Paulet
had by his guns compelled the natives of
the islands to cede their territory to Great
Britain. Commodore Lawrence Kearny, an
uncle of "Phil” Kearny, of Chantilly, was
ordered to proceed to the islands in his ship
and see about it. When the Amorican man
of-war came into the harbor of Honolulu
the islanders plucked up courage again and
informed the British admiral that they had
concluded to assert themselves as a nation,
and abrogate the cession of the islands to
Great Britain, which was only provisional
anyway.
After considerable talk on both sides the
King of Hawaii sent word to the British
admiral that at daybreak the next morning
the flag of the Hawaiian kingdom would
be hoisted. Admiral Paulet sent back word
that if ihe flag was hoisted he would fire
on it. Late at night a messenger from
shore came off to inform Commodore
Kearny of Paulet’s threat. The Commodore
was "mad clean through.”
He called away his gig and went on board
the British ship. He was in full uniform
and attenuVd I>> his midshipman. Admiral
Paulet was aroused from his slumbers to
receive the American commander. The
commodore entered th’e cabin of the Brit
ish \ ssi. l with fire in his eye, and, refusing
the invitation of tin* admiral to be seated,
said slowly: "1 und’erstand that you say If
them islanders h ist that Hag to-morrow
morning you will fire on it."
“Yes. replied Lord George, "and I will
do so."
"Well.” said Commodore Kearny. "I just
dropped aboard to tell you that if you tire
on that flag I will blow you out of tie*
water.”
"Do you know to whom you are talking?”
retorted Lord George. "I am Admiral laird
George Paulet of her Majesty's navy.”
“And 1 ant Lawrence K’earny. of the
United States navy, and if you firs on that
flag 1 will blow you out of the water. Mid
shipman! call away niy boat.”
Commodore Kearney went on board his
ship, beat to quarters, shotted his guns
and waited for the dawn. Just us the first
streaks of gold and crimson came through
the mountain passes the British ship was
seen by the growing light making her way
out of the harbor, and as the Hag of Ha
waii arcs’.? on shore it was saluted by the
shotted guns of the ship of Commodore
Lawrence Kearney.
llis Mistake.
New Y'ork Press.
King Chulalongkorn of Siam seems to
have been laboring under tht impression
that foreign folk came to this country not
to see us. hut for us to see them.
Physical strength and eu’ergy contribute
to strength of character, and both may be
had by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1897.
BANNER FOR BLUFFTON
BADGE OF HONOR WON OVER ALL
OTHER B. V. I*. 1. OF AMERICA.
Cloning- Meetings of the Epworth
League Convention tit Toronto
Attentled liy Thousands.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLUFFTON, Ind.. July IS.—The Baptist
Young People's Union of the local church
is highly elated over the news from the
Chattanooga convention. Last evening a
telegram stated that the local society was
awarded the “international banner" for re
ceiving he highest grade of any society in
tlie United States and Canada in the "con
quest missionary course.” One of the prin
cipal features of the young people's work
in the Baptist denomination is the work
in the Christian culture course. Once a
week the young people meet and study one
of tht* three courses laid out by their de
nominational paper, the Baptist Union of
Chicago. “The Sacred Literature,” "The
Conquest Missionary" and "The Bible
Readers." The end of each official year.
May 1, all societies in the United States
and Canada are required to take an exam
ination. The local society put forth an ex
tra effort the past year and under the
leadership of Rev. W. W. Hicks, assisted
by William Barr, Ed Reynolds, Frank
Bachelor, Carroll Snyder and Miss Edith
Sark, the local society has come off vic
torious. Bluffton is rejoicing over receiving
this badge of honor.
FIVE EPWORTH RALLIES.
Monster Meetings Clone the Great
Convention at Toronto.
TORONTO, July 18.—Five monster fare
well rallies to-night closed the greatest
convention the Epworth League has ever
held. All five meetings were marked by
great outbursts of religious fervor, and the
delegates with many solemn
vows to remain steadfast and devote their
lives to the service of Christ. At Massey
Music Hall the greatest meeting was held,
the building being crowded with over 5,000.
Addresses were delivered by Dr. John D.
Piekls, of Boston, Rev. G. I’. Rose, of Mon
treal, and Rev. J. H. Hollingsworth, of
Greencastle, Ind.
At the Metropolitan Church the speakers
were G. M. Campbell, of Charlottetown, P.
E. 1., Rev. E. B. Ramsilay. of! Memphis,
Tenn., Rev. Manly Suex, of Kingstown. Pa.
At Cook's Church Rev. George Brown of
North Adams, Mass., and Rev. W. E. Ham
ner, of Memphis, Tenn., were the speakers.
At the Pavilion the speakers were Rev.
Edwin H. Hughes, of Malden, Mass., Rev.
W. E. Pineer, of Bowling Green, Ky., and
Rev. M. S. Wagner, of Cincinnati.
At Broadway Tabernacle Rev. C. T. Scott,
of St. Thomas, Ont., Rev. J. M. Thoburn,
of Detroit, and Rev. A. H. Ralton, of Kala
mazoo. Mich., made addresses.
Am Epworth Delegate Drowned,
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ July 19.—John
L. Brown, twenty-five years old, a mer
chant and assistant postmaster of Sweet
water, Tenn., was drowned at the Cave of
the Winds last Friday afternoon. Mr.
Brown came here last Friday morning with
a large party of Epworth Leaguers. His
father, Joseph K. Brown, was with him.
Brown, in company with a party, visited
the Cave of the Winds. He put on a rub
ber suit, and declining the services of a
guide, started alone. That was the last
scon of him. It Is supposed that he missed
his footing and was swallowed up by the
cataract. Those knowing of Brown's dis
appearance kept the matter secret, hoping
he woull turn up.
Sunday Exercises.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 18.—Early
morning devotional services were held in
all the churches of the city to-day in con
nection w-ith the convention of the Baptist
Y'oung People's Union of America. At 11
o’clock the pulpits of the city were filled
by the visiting ministers. At the First
Church, the leading Baptist church of the
city, Rev. J. W. Conley, of St. Paul,
preached an eloquent sermon to a very
large audience, his text being Acts xvil; 11,
12. Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson, of Baltimore,
assisted in the singing. John H. Chapman,
of Chicago, president of the B. Y. P. U. A.,
delivered a discourse at the First Congre
gational Church, colored. Other ministers
were assigned as follows: Central Baptist,
Rev. W. W. Weeks, Ontario; Second Bap
tist, Rev. W. L. Van Horn, North Dakota;
Beoch-Mreet Baptist, Rev. S. J. Miner,
Kansas; Hill City Bap.ist, Rev. W. T.
Hundley, Florida; First Methodist, Rev. J.
W. Ford, Troy, N. Y'.; Centenary M. E.
Church South, Rev. D. D. McLaurin, De
troit; First Presbyterian, Rev. W. H. Ueis
weit, Illinois; Second Presbyterian, Rev. A.
E. Waffle, Alburn, N. Y.
This afternoon at the First Baptist
Church Rev. R F. Y" Pierce, of Philadel
phia, the famous "chalk talk” artist, gave
an impressive demonstration of his work
which has become world famous. With
chalk upon a pad of paper he illustrated
the plainest, simplest lessons of religion and
morality by homely pictures. He was ac
companied by his wife, who assisted in the
work.
Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, the distinguished
Baptist divine of Nashville, preached the
convention sermon at the Auditorium this
afternoon to five thousand people. His sub
ject was “The Ideal Christian Man," his
text being taken from Prov. iv, 18.
The evening was given up to a dedication
service of unusual interest The meeting
opened with a general devotional and praise
service in which the vast congregation
joined the choir in singing hymns. The
service was followed by a consecration ad
dress delivered by Rev. C. E. Woltln, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. The consecration service
lasted from 8 to 10 o’clock and was con
ducted by General Secretary E. E. Chivers,
of Chicago. A roll of the States was called
and the representatives of the union there
upon arose and formally consecrated the
union of his State to the service and work
as outlined by this convention. The scene
was an inspiring one and never before can
old Baptists remember of seeing so much
general spirit of devotion to the cause ex
hibited at any convention of delegates. All
sectional lines were completely wiped, the
North, the South, the East and the West
vying with each other as to which should
show the most ardent devotion to the com
mon cause. Six hundred dollars was sub
scribed and paid at to-night’s consecration
meeting to send Dr. Frank Harper, of De
troit, who on Friday at Ihe praise services
on Lookout mountain volunteered to de
vote himself to foreign mission work
abroad to some of tin; church’s mission
fields. Resolutions were adopted expressing
grateful thanks that the debt of Mm; 090 of
the American Baptist Foreign Mission So
ciety had been raised and expressing the
gratification of all Baptists that the de
nomination in the United States was united
through the Y’oung People’s Union. To
night's services closes ’he regular conven
tion proceedings, thou, a several rallies will
be held to-morrow a. a service will tie
held at Snodgrass hill in the National Park
at which patriotic addresses and songs will
be mingled with the religious exercises.
SUBSTANCES AT HIGH HEAT.
Remarkable Experi ineiitu—Diamonds
and Pearls Produced.
Chicago Post.
Some of the most important experiments
ever made relating to the behavior of
substances at high temperatures are those
performed within the last f<-w years by
Henri Molssan, of France, and described
by him in a recently published book called
"Tin Electric Furnace." Though the elec
tric arc has been used before by experi
in< nters, no one has ever made use of it
for work noon such a large scale as M.
Molssan. Isis sources of electricity, his
crucibles, the amounts of the substances
acted upon are greater than any ever used
before. It is almost impossible for the lay
man to form any just conception of the in
tense heat that this Frenchman has been
able to generate and successfully handle,
but it will help one to realize it when it
is recalled that though steel melts at about
1.400 degrees centigrade and platinum at
2,O<X) degrees centigrade. M. Molssan has
worked continually with substances at a
heat of 3.000 degrees centigrade, and upon
special occations lias produced a tempera
ture some degrees beyond that point. At
this almost Inconceivably high temnnature
lime, a refractory substance is easily vola
tilized in thick white clouds which may be
condensed again or, cold objects.
Heavy-spar, which was always supposed
to be able to resist heat, is decomposed
like limestone in a lime kiln; alumina is
directly reduced by carbon, and many of
the rarer metals can be prepared directly
from their ores. The two most striking dis
coveries. however, were the preparation of
real rubles ant] diamonds. In both cases
the crystals were so small as to be only
visible under the microscope, but they
nevertheless possessed all the properties of
the jewels as they occur in nature. The
process used for making diamonds is as fol
lows; M. Moissan. having concluded that
diamonds are produced in the earth by
great beat and under enormous pressure,
he decided to imitate the natural condi
tions as well as he could. Accordingly he
melted iron and carbon together—or, more
properly, dissolved the carbon in the cast
iron—at a temperature of 3.000 degrees cen
tigrade, and while at that high heat
plunged the crucible into cold water.
The outside of the metal was thus im
mediately solidified, while the Interior,
which was still at the temperature of 3,-o'Xl
degrees, was subjected to enormous press
ing as It began to chill, because cast iron
contracts on cooling. When the mass of
iron had become cold it was examined
under the microscope and diamonds were
found in it. It is remarkable that a ves
sel at a temperature of 3,000 degrees centi
grade could be thrust into cold water with
out having a serious explosion, take place,
yet the experiment was perfornjed over 300
times without accident. Since lime, which
had formerly been used for crucibles when
working at high temperatures, proved to
volatilize readily at 3.000 degrees centri
grade, it was necessary to find some other
more refractory material for holding the
substances to be experimented upon. M.
Moissan devised a crucible made of alter
nate layers of magnesia and graphite which
was found to work admirably.
PEARY ARCTIC VENTURE
THE HOPE SAILED EARLY THIS
MORNING FROM BOSTON.
♦
Some of the Scientists on Hoard anil
NVhat They Exieet to Accomplish
During the Summer.
BOSTON, July 18.—The work of loading
the rest of the Hope’s cargo for the Arctic
trip was resumed this morning, and Lieu
tenant I’eary will sail Monday morning, as
early as the job is complete and the water
will allow. All members of the party are
now on board and are eager to bo off on
their long journey. The ship was open to
visitors all day, and hundreds swarmed over
her sides and about the deck. In the even
ing and far into the night they stood in
groups on the wharf, looking at the boat
and making comments.
The expedition to the north on which
Lieutenant Peary now starts is merely pre
liminary to the protracted sojourn which
he proposes to make ip the Arctic regions,
for which he will not start until July of
next year. He will be absent less than
three months, and expects to reach Boston
on his return about the 25th of September
next. The primary object of this trip, which
will extend as fur north as Whale bay, is
to enable Lieutenant Peary to meet a num
ber of Eskimo families and arrange with
them for th'e settlement of a colony at a
point farther north than any village that
now exists. This village, he hopes, will be
established at about 82 degrees north lati
tude, and will serve as a base of supplies
for operations next year and later. #There,
also, the steamer Hope will be left while
th'e explorer tries to reach the north pole
with dogs and sledges.
The steamer Hope goes direct from Bos
ton to Sydney, which part of the voyage
will occupy about three days. There the
Hope will take on coal for the cruise to
Greenland. Lieutenant Peary will be ac
companied by several scientific parties, who
go with him to study the glaciology, bot
any and ethnology of the northern regions.
There parties will be landed l>y the Hope
on t/he coast of Labrador, Baffin Land, and
Greenland, and will be picked up by Lieut.
Peary on his way home from Whale sound
in September.
The Baffin Land party, which is the most
important, is under the direction of Prof.
Russell W. Porter, of the Boston Institute
of Technology. This party includes seven
or eight men, among them Mr. Alfred V.
Shaw, of Newton, Mass., a graduate of the
Institute of Technology of last year; Dr.
Delano Fitzgerald, a Baltimore physician,
and his son, Charles G. Fitzgerald, a Har
vard student in the class of 190 u; W. A.
Liowal, of Chicago, also a Harvard student;
F. G. Goodrich, of New Y'ork, a graduate
this year of Harvard, and J. Neilson Car
penter, of New Brunswick, N. J., who grad
uated at Rutgers College thjs year. All of
these will return with Lieutenant Peary in
September, except Professor Porter and
Mr. Shaw, who. will .remain at the Ameri
can whaling station' at the northern en
trance of Frobisher bay, all winter. They
will spend the time mainly in studying the
Eskimo of Baffin Land, and in collecting
materials for ethnological and zoological
museums in the United States. Next sum
mer they will push to the northward, ex
ploring the country as they go, and in the
fall of 1898 will travel to the Scotch whaling
station in Cumberland sound, from which
point they will sail for Aberdeen, the great
whaling port of Scotland, on a Scotch
whaler.
GOLD IN ALASKA.
Philosopher Dooley Diseonrse* of Golil
Mines in General.
F. P. Dunne, in Chicago Post.
“Well, sir," said Mr. Hennessy, "that
Alaska’s th’ gr-reat place. 1 thought ’twas
nawthin’ but an iceberg with a few seals
roostin’ on it an’ wan or two hundhred Ohio
politicians that can’t bo killed on account
iv th’ threaty iv Pawris. But here they
tell me ’tis fairly smothered In goold. A
man stubs his too on th’ ground an’ lifts th’
top oft! iv a goold mine. Ye go to bed at
night an’ wake up with goold fillin’ In ye’er
teeth.”
"Yes,” said Mr. Dooley; “Clancy’s son
was in here this mornin’, an’ he says a
frind iv hia wint to sleep out In th’ open
wan night, an’ whin he got up his pants
assayed four ounces iv goold to th’ pound,
an’ his whiskers panned out as much as
S3O net."
"If I was a young man an’ not tied down
here,” said Mr. Hennessy, "I'd go there; I
wud so.”
"I wud not,” said Mr. Dooley. "Whin I
was a young man in th’ ol’ counthry we
heerd th’ same story about all America.
We used to set be th’ tur-rf lire o’ nights
kickin’ our hare legs on th’ llure an’ wishin’
we was in New Y’ork, where all ye had to
do was to hold ye’er hat an’ th’ goold guin
eas’d dhrop into it. An’ whin I got to be a
man I come over here with a ham an’ a
bag iv oatmeal, as sufe that I’d return in
a year with money enough to dhrive me
own ca-ar as 1 was that me name was Mar
tin Dooley. An' that was a cinch.
"But, faith, whin I’d been here a week
I seen that there was nawthin’ but mud
undher th’ pavement—l larned that be
means iv a pickax at tin shillin's th’ day—
an’ that though there was plenty iv goold
thim that had it were froze to it; an’ I
come west, still lookin’ f’r mines. Th’ on’y
mine 1 sthruck at Pittsburg was a hole f'r
sewer pipe; I made it. Siven shillin’s th’
day. Smaller thin New Y'ork. but th’ livin’
was cheaper, with Mon’gahela rye at five
a throw, put ye’i r hand around th’ glass.
"I was still detainin' goold an’ I wint
down to Saint Louey. Th' nearest I come
to a fortune there was iindin’ a quarter on
th’ sthreet as l leaned over th’ dashboard
iv a car to whack th' off mule. When I
got to Chicago I looked around f’r th’
goold mine. They was Injuns here thin,
an’ Fernando Jones, but they wasn’t anny
mines I cud see. They was mud to be
shoveled an’ dhrays to be dhruv an’ beats
to be walked. I choose th’ dhray. f’r I
was niver cut out f’r a copper, an’ I’d had
me fill iv excavatin’. An’ I dhruv th’
dhray till I w int into business.
“Me experience with goold minin’ is it’s
always in th’ nex’ county. If 1 was to go
to Alaska they’d tell me iv th’ finds in
Feeberya. So I think I’ll stay here. I'm a
silver man annyhow, an’ I’m contint if I
can see goold wanst a year, whin some
prominent citizen smiles over his news
paper. I’m thinkin’ that ivory man has a
goold mine undher his own durestep or in
his neighbor’s pocket at th’ farthest.”
"Well, annyhow,” said Mr. Hennessy.
“I’d like to kick up th’ sod an’ find a ton
iv goold undher me fut.”
"What wud ye do if ye found it?” de
mand'd Mr. Dooley.
“I—l dinnaw,” said Mr. Hennessy, whose
dreaming had rot gone this far. Then re
covering himsclt he exclaimed with great
enthusiasm: "l’(. throw up me job at th’
gashouse an’ —an' live like a prince."
"I tell ye what ye’d do,’ said Mr. Dooley.
"Ye’d come back here an’ sthrut rp an’
down th’ sthreei with ye’er thumbs In your
armpits; an’ ye’d dhrink too much an' ride
In sthreet cars. 'Thin ye’d buy foldin' beds
an’ pianos an’ start a reel estate office. Ye’d
be fooled a good deal an Rise a lot iv ye’er
money an’ thin ye’d tighten up. YV’d be in
a, cold fear night an - day that ye’d lose ye’er
fortune. Ye’d wake up in the middle iv th’
night dhreamin’ that ye was hack at th’ gas
house with ye’er money gone. Ye'd be
prisidint iv a charitable society. YVd have
to wear ye'er shoes in th' house an’ ye'er
wife'd have ye around to rayciptions an’
dances. Y'e’d move to Michigan avnoo an
ye’d hire a coachman that’ll laugh at ye.
Ye’er boys’d be Joods an’ ashamed iv ve,
an’ ye’d support ye’er daughters’ husbands.
Y'e’d rackrint ye’er tfnants an’ lie about
ye’er taxes. Y'e’d go back to Ireland on a
visit an’ pat on airs with ye’er cousin
Mike. Ye’ed be a mane, close-fisted, ou
serupulous ol’ i urmudgeon. an’ whin ye’d
die it’d take half ye’er fortune f’r ruy
queerns to put ye r-righl. I don’t want ve
iver to speak to me whin ye get rich, Hih
nissy.”
"I won’t," said Mr. Hennessy.
THE CROCKER MILLIONS
*
SMALL WAY IV WHICH THEIR AC
CIMILATIOS WAS COMMENCED.
Only Equaled ly Rockefeller's Leap
to Wealth—Relations with Stan
ford, Huntington and Hopkins.
*
Philadelphia Tdograph.
The rise of the Crocker fortune Is one of
the extraordinary incidents even in Califor
nia—the land that has brought forth full
blossomed twenty-millionaires in a single
decade. Nothing equal to it was ever seen
in the East, except the sudden leap to vast
fortune of Rockefeller and the other men
who struck oil and manipulated pipe lines
until they controlled vast territories and
rolled up wealth by the tens of millions.
Charles Crocker, the father of Col. Charles
F. Crocker, like Huntington, Stanford and
Hopkins, had made a modest competence
of $50,000 or thereabouts just before the out
break of the rebellion. He was carrying
on a small retail dry goods store in Sacra
mento, then, as now, the capital of Cali
fornia. It was the outfitting point for
miners and a general trading resort for
ranchmen, who came in from a radius of
a hundred miles; but it was a dull place,
very provincial in its ideas; blazing hot in
the long summer, with little choice of drink
between the river water, which was yellow
er than that of tho Missouri, and the whis
ky, which rasped even the tough throat of
pioneer.
Near Crocker’s store were the general
grocery store of Leland Stanford, then
well-known as a politician, and the hard
ware establishment of Huntington & Hop
kins. All these men, except Hopkins, came
from New York State; all except Stanford
wore bred in extreme poverty; not one re
ceived any aid on starting out in life, and
only one—Stanford—had the advantage of
a legal training. They all, however, had
the commercial instinct strongly developed,
and Mark Hopkins was a genius in practi
cal finance, whose devotion to book-keep
ing and cutting down expenses reduced his
life by twenty years.
About the time that John Brown's body
began mouldering in the grave the com
bined wealth of these four neighbors in
Sacramento could not have exceeded $200,-
000; yet, with this small sum as a basis,
they entered on the project of building a
transcontinental railroad which should span
the almost impassable Sierras and connect
with the Union Pacific Railroad, then just
venturing out from Omaha on its westward
march over the prairies. The project orig
inated with Stanford, and so strongly was
he impressed with its feasibility that he
persuaded cautious men like Hopkins to
embark their small fortune in -what seemed
to the general public like a visionary
scheme doomed to early failure.
SECURING ASSISTANCE.
Stanford’s scheme was to receive state
and national aid for the work, so that when
their own private means and credit were
exhausted they could fall back on this na
tional bulwark and push the enterprise to
success. So Huntington was sent to Wash
ington to secure national aid, Stanford
worked the State for assistance, Crocker
was assigned the task of building the road,
and Hopkins kept a sharp eye on the ex
penditures. Stanford received liberal con
cessions from the State and from the coun
ties through which the railroad was to be
built, while Huntington engineered the
scheme so well at \\ ashington that he got
through a bill granting the Central Pacific
Railroad every alternate section of land
for twenty miles on each side of the road,
as well as $20,000 for every mile of road
actually constructed.
From this time on success was assured.
Immense difficulties were met in the build
ing of the road over the summit of the
snow-capped Sierras. Even greater diffi
culties were overcome in securing funds
when the bonds of the government were so
depreciated that SIOO only realized sfo in
gold in the "money markets of the world.
Nevertheless the road moved on to com
pletion, and finally the last spike was driven
on May 10, 1860. The driving of that spike
was the signal for the influx of wealth upon
the projectors of the great enterprise, such
as they had never dreamed of. They had
all worked hard, in the face of great dis
couragement. To Crocker had been as
signed the actual supervision of the railroad
building. He was a man of immense en
ergy, whose tastes lay in the direction of
the supervision of large bodies of men. He
lived in the railroad camps for years, sel
dom coming to the city except on pressing
business. He fared no better than his men;
he dressed in a flannel shirt and overalls;
he seldom drank, but he generally went to
bed with his boots on; in a word, he lived
the roughest kind of life, cut off from so
ciety, domestic life and all the pleasures
which wealth could bring him in the young
Western metropolis by the Golden Gate.
He seemed to have one consuming ambition
—to beat the Union Pacific and to demon
strate that snow-covered mountains offered
no obstacle to modern engineering science.
He was the boss of an army of contrac
tors and their men. He often guided the
operations of 20,000 Chinese, scattered along
over miles of rough mountain country.
Only a man of immense physique could
have endured this great strain without rest
or recreation. But Crocker had a constitu
tion of iron; no nerves; no Sybaritic tastes.
He liked the rough companionship of the
railroad camp. Where Huntington or
Stanford would have failed he scored a
success, but in the diplomatic life in Wash
ington he would have been ill at ease and
a failure, and he could never have carried
through the ne*gotiations which Stanford
managed with so much art. In line, the
combination of these four railroad kings
was as perfect as their plans; each did
his appointed task; there was no friction,
no waste; everything moved with the ease
of a great Corliss engine, but this central
power was immense and far-reaching, and
it revolutionized tho Western country in a
single generation.
Croker came out of the seven years’
hard work in better physical condition than
when he began, and until within the last
three or four years of his life.—he died in
August. 1888, as the result of being thrown
from his carriage more than two years be
fore —he retained this splendid vigor that
was the envy of all who saw him. A cor
respondent writing of him a year before his
death, said:
“I remember about six years ago seeing
him early one morning in the scantiest of
bathing costume at Monterey, ready for a
plunge in one of the huge salt water tanks.
His shoulders loked like those of Slugger
Sullivan and the muscles stood out on his
back in great ridges. As he walked with a
light step to the edge of the tank and took
a plunge the bilious-looking attendant of
the bathing house remarked, with a sigh:
•I’d rather be put up like him to-day than
to have his millions.’ ”
CROCKER’S LATER LIFE.
So, although Crocker was well on in years
when the construction of the Southern Pa
cific began, he supervised personally the
work on that road also, and it was rushed
through Southern California, Arizona and
New Mexico at a pace which would have
annoyed the builders of a decade before.
Meanwhile Charles Crocker managed to
get a good deal of satisfaction out of this
life. When wealth began to pour in on him
by the hundreds of thousands he left Sacra
mento with Stanford and Hopkins, and
took up his abode in San Francisco, where
the main offices of the Central Pacific were
located. Like his two partners, he had a
strong desire for a fine home. So the three
bought contiguous property on the summit
of Californla-street hill, and began the
erection of splendid homes. Stanford spent
nearly s2,uoo,(XX) on the decorations, furni
ture and pictures of Ills place; Mark Hop
kins lavished about $1,250,000 on his Norman
castle, while Crocker built a great roomy
house, of no special architectural beauty
and finished it in such imperial style that it
is estimated that he spent altogether
$1,500,U00 on this home hobby. When these
palaces were built Kearney, the sund-lot
dealer, dubbed this part of town ‘ Knob
hill'’ and the name has clung to it ever
since. These palaces are of wood, but they
look as massive as though built of stone,
and with their beautiful grounds, high stone,
walls, noble gates and marble* staircases,
they constitute one of the great shows for
the Eastern tourist who comes to San
Francisco.
’l he irony of all this was that old Charles
Crocker cared nothing for outside show.
His tastes were all simple. He never kept
a Frenc h chef, because he like l plain New
England cooking. He wore plain broad
cloth, and In hts later years looked very
much like a prosperous Episcopal clergy
man in his black suit and white tie. lie
cared very little for horses, but had a fine
stable, and his family turnout was notable,
even in San Francisco, where much money
has always l>een lavished on thoroughbred
stock and costly carriages. He seldom
drove his fast trotters, as Stanford was so
fond of doing. He cared nothing for pic
tures or books, yet he had one of tho best
galleries of modern American and foreign
in the country, and his large li
brary wOs evidently selected by an expert,
and was bound in the best style. He was
lost in general society, the conversation of
the drawing room boring him; but for the
sake of his family he was forced to give
the regulation number of receptions and
parties and to act the role of host. Per
sonally he preferred the society of half a
dozen of his old masculine friends, with
whom he could enjoy a joke and a cocktail.
In his later years, the figure of the old rail
road builder was a familiar one in the
streets of San Francisco, as he seldom
drove from his office to his house, but
could be seen almost daily in the demo
cratic street car, resting his large chin on
his broad gold-headed cane, and staring
straight before him, lost in a brown study.
His circle of intimates was small, but his
friends declared that he was generous to
a fault to those who had helped him in the
past, or in whose welfare, for any reason,
he took an interest.
JUBILEE OF MOH MONISM.
A Great Celebration to De Held at
Salt Lake City This Week..
Salt Lake Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
The new State of Utah begins well, with
the golden jubilee celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the arrival of the Church
of the Latter Day Saints in the Promised
Land.
So far as material prosperity goes no
community in the far West has so much
cause for satisfaction as Utah. Its found
ers began right—with irrigation. It took
other sections of arid America twenty, thir
ty or forty years to learn that rain is a
poor substitute for ditch water; in some
places the lesson is not yet learned. Utah
has lived by irrigation from the first.
It is seventy years since the Book of
Mormon, engraved on thin metal plates,
held together at one end by three rings,
was. according to the legend implieity be
lieved by the church, placed in Joseph
Smith’s hands by the Lord’s angel. The
plates were engraved in an unknown
tongue. No ono professes to have seen
them within the last sixty years. Anti-
Mormons claim that there never were any
plates; that the Book was really a romance,
written by a preacher named Spaulding,
who died in 1816. Certain it is that when
Smith translated the Book he sat behind
a blanket hung across the room to hide
the plates from prying eyes, his secretary
taking down the words outside the screen.
Tho Book of Mormon thus produced does
not claim to take the place of the Bible.
It is received as an additional revelation,
being in that respect like the Koran.
The parallel the Mormons are able to
draw between their experiences and those
of the Israelites in their wanderings is cer
tainly curious. They suffered In Egyptian
bondage, as they termed the abuse and
inobbings they met in the East. They were
driven from Manchester, N. H., to Kirtland,
0., in 1831; to Missouri in the same year,
whither those remaining in Kirtland fol
lowed in 1837; to Illinois in 1838; and after
Smith’s death and the election of Brigham
Y'oung to succeed him, to lowa in 1846, and
to Utah in 1547, Brigham Young and the
main body of the colonists reaching their
haven on July 24. Thus ended their long
wandering in the wilderness.
But the parallel continued. The Great
Sait lake was likened to the Dead sea,
Utah lake to the Lake of Tiberias, and the
stream connecting them to the Jordan.
Mormon maps have often been published
showing the Jordan and Dead sea side by
side with Great Salt lake and its tributary,
the remarkable likeness between them ex
aggerated to an almost exact resemblance.
Asa matter of fact the Great Salt lake
Is a larger body of water than the Dead
sea, while the connecting river is shorter
in proportion, wider and more irregular in
form. It is probable that Brigham Young,
in selecting the Utah site, was Influenced
almost as much by these accidental re
semblances? as by the abundance of water
obtainable for irrigation.
Utah is perhaps the most uniformly pros
perous community in the world. The city
itself Is a splendid example of what can
be done by a central intelligence working
upon a willing people. The wide, clean
streets, the streamlets of running water,
the shade trees, the absence of drunken
ness, or the graver forms of vice or pov
erty, the total lack of slums, are all pecul
iarities to which the Mormons will refer
with pride during the anniversary week,
and that never fails to impress the visitor
from other civilizations.
Compared with Nevada and other dry
States, the growth of Utah has been re
markable. The present population is esti
mated at 300,000. It was 207,000 in 18:10, 1*3,000
in 1880. In 1870 it was 88,000, and already
more than enough to have secured Utah’s
admission as a State, but for polygamy.
This, it is said, has now practically disap
peared, yielding in part to the desire for
statehood, but quite as much to the inevit
able growth of discontent with a “creed
outworn’’ among tne most It.tci'lgcnt Mor
mons.
One secret of the material prosperity of
the saints is co-operation. Their great trad
ing establishment gets the best of goods
in great quantities at low wholesale rates,
and distribution is cheap where there is
no competition. The canals and ditches
■which have made the desert blossom as the
rose are communal property, built and
operated without waste, greed or litigation.
The great Mormon temple, with its
myriads of turrets and pinnacles, all built
of the most enduring stone, in a region
where so much of the usual construction
is flimsy, is one of the most remarkable
buildings in the world, as the old Taber
nacle with its great oval dome was one of
the most unique; and its building was a
great achievement for a not very numer
ous pastoral people.
The old “democrat wagon” in w’hlch
Young crossed the plains will have the
place of honor in the week’s parades. Most
of the settlers, however, used the prairie
schooner, a type of wagon which has come
down almost unchanged from quite remote
times and is still used in the Orient. Some
of these wagons are still In existence—
though rather like the old knife with new
haft and handle—and there are men to
drive them who can remember the terrible
march across tho plains, the sufferings, the
privations, the frozen rivers and the forced
removals, the fear of Indians and the re
joicing when the goal was reached. These
men and these wagons in the ‘‘pioneers’
procession" will be the co ££ of the cele
bration. There will be day and evening
parades, illuminations, sports, decorations,
hospitalities and honors; but the sight that
is most calculated to touch the imagination
will be the long string of canvas-covered
wagons, the plainly-clad \omen and chil
dren within, the few hou s*ho Id goods, and
the sturdy men in long boots and slouch
hats stalking along by thfc rear wheels—
the modern types of that colonizing genius
that has won the admiration of all who
have seen the Mormons in their own home.
TORONTO’S STREET RAILWAYS.
How Ilie Canadian City Solved the
Transportation Problem.
Chicago Record.
The method of dealing with street-railway
problems in Toronto is entirely different
from that followed in Chicago. The funda
mental difference is that in Toronto the mu
nicipality dictates the terms on which fran
chises shall be granted, while in Chicago
the street-railway corporations control the
municipality, and do the bargaining for
both sides.
In 1891 the franchise for the opeVation of
the street railway of Toronto expired, just
as the most Important franchise grants In
Chicago will expire in 1903. The street
railway corporations of Chicago went to the
Legislature of Illinois six years before the
time for the expiration of franchises and
secured from that body authority to apply
to the City Council at once for renewal of
franchises under conditions that could not
but operate favorably to the companies and
unfavorably to the interests of the munici
pality. The Provincial Parliament of Onta
rio, however, shortly before the time for
the expiration of the franchise in Toronto,
passed a law authorizing the city to buy
the street-railway plant at an appraised
valuation, which was done. Having got ab
solute control of the plant the city adver
tised for bids from any persons who might
desire to take the system and operate if.
Certain conditions were laid down with
which every bidder must comply. He must
agree to pay for tho plant the price at
which it had been taken by the city. The
purchaser must not float bonds for a' longer
period than the life of the franchise, which
was thirty years, and must satisfy the pub
lic authorities that provision was made for
meeting obligations at maturity. The city
was to have the right to take back the
plant at an appraised valuation at the ex
piration of the franchise. The successful
bidder must agree o extend tracks and
street-car service upon the recommendation
of the city engineer, approved by a two
thirds vote of the City Coun
cil. The right to operate all such exten
sions ceases with the expiration of the
main franchise. AM such lines must be con
structed in a manner satisfactory to the
city engineer. The speed and service was to
be subject to the determination of the city
engineer, as approved by the Council. Cars
were to be run at such intervals as the en
gineer and Council might sp< city. Tickets
must be sold at the rate of six for 25 cents,
or twenty-five for sl. Ano'her class of
tickets must be sold at the rate of eight
for 25 cents, good before 8 o’clock in the
morning find between 5 and 6:30 o’clock in
the evening. School children must be sold
tickets at the rate of ten for 25 cents, good
between 8 a. in. and 5 p. m., and not on
Saturdays. Policemen and firemen in uni
form must bo carried tree. There was a
provision that cars must be of approved
design for service and comfort and must
not be overcrowded. Persons employed by
the company must not be compelled to
work more than ten hours a day or more
than sixty hours a week, and no adult per
son should be paid less than 15 cents an
hour. The successful bidder must agree to
pay the city sßuo a year per mile of single
track, or $1,60u per mile of double truck,
as rental for the use of the streets. In ad
dition to all this, which must form a part
of the bid. the franchise was to be granted
to the responsible bidder who would offer
the largest percentage of gross receipts to
the city. The company that secured the
franchise Is under ooilgatlon to pay into the
treasury the following percentages of gross
receipts:
tin all receipts up to $1,000,000 a year, 8
per cent.: between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, 10
per cent.; between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, 12
per cent.; between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. J 5
per cent.; on all gross receipts over $3,000,-
000. 20 per cent.
Last year Toronto received from track
rentals $60.000 and from percentages on
gross receipts $78,921.67, which Is $724.91
more than the revenue from this source for
the preceding year.
When Mr. Yerkes was before the Illinois
Legislature he laid stress on the fact that
fi person could ride much farther In Chl
fcago for 5 cents than was formerly pos
sible. Ift some cases a passenger could ride
ten., twelvo and even fifteen miles for 5
cents 1 . Mr. Yerkes thought that in consid
eration; for this long ride the companies
ought not to be asked to carry passengers
for less than 5 cents. In Toronto passen
gers not only get reduced fares, but the
longer ride as well. A person can ride
twelve miles in Toronto for one fare, which
at certain hours Is only 3 cents. More than
that, a person can go from any one part
of the city to any other part for a single
fare. It is not necessary to take this long
ride in a direction where not one person
in five hundred desires to go.
Until recently street cars were not oper
ated on Sunday In Toronto. A few weeks
ago the people voted to have Sunday cars.
In order to get this concession the com
pany agreed to sell seven tickets for 25
cents for use on Sunday.
As might be expected, a city which is
able to deal intelligently and honestly with
its franchises is In other ways delightful.
Every street in the city is paved and all
are kept clean.
NAVIES OF SPAIN AND JAPAN.
Their Strength ns Compared with
that of the United States.
New York Press.
That Embassador Porter, skilled alike in
war and diplomacy, would make such a
statement as is paraphrased in this cable
ts not credited bv any one in this country.
General Porter, it is argued, would not
make a foreign news agency his confidant
in a matter of such gravity, nor would he,
out of respect to the high position he holds,
venture, for publication or otherwise, any
conclusion which he might reach even aca
demically. It is more than probable that
the English news agency has been imposed
upon and that some practical joker has
got hold of Its correspondent. Either
that, or the stuff is of Manchester make—a
yard wide and all cotton.
But, while the statement undoubtedly
never was made, it would excite no alarm
in this country should events cause such a
culmination as an offensive and defensive
alliance between Spain and Japan. The one
nation is living on the reputation of a past,
glorious but dead. The other is awakening
front the luxurious indolence of Oriental
ism. It Is looking toward progress and not
conquest, save such conquest as is neces
sary for its existence. It Is more eager to
learn than to fight—to barter than to
quarrel.
Spain as a naval power Is not great. It
has many ships, but not powerful ones, and
their guns are not, except It: a few in
stances, of modern make. She has five
armored central battery ships, the Almi
rante Oquendo, the Cardenal Cisneros, the
Princess Da Asturial, the Infanta Maria
Theresa and the Cataluna; two armored
cruisers, the Cristobal Colon and the Pedro
d - Aragon: one broadside ship, the Pelayo;
six ordinary cruisers—the Alfonso XII,
Alfonso XIII, Aragon, Castilia, Don An
tonio de Ulloa, Comde de Venadito and Don
Juan de Austna.
Because of the demands made upon it by
the rebellions In Cuba and in the Philippine
islands, Spain’s budget last year did call
for the rapid construction of many ships,
but the progress made upon them was slow
and, when launched, they will be a half
dozen years behind the progress which sci
ence is making. Even of the ships they
have the Cardenal Cisneros is scarce com
pleted, the Prlncessa d’Asturias was in
jured at her launching, the Almirante
Oquendo, though off the stocks in 1891, had
only completed her trials in 1896. The P
layo and Vlttorla are being fitted with new
armament and boilers, and the Cristobal
Colon, while a mammoth ship, is a cast-off
from the Italian navy.
Japan is ambitious rather than powerful
in her navy. She lias tremendous contracts
made for the contructiun of ships, but the
time for the earliest fulfillment of them
will not be until 1902. At that date fifty
four ships of an aggregate displacement
of 45,890 tons are to be completed, and la
1906 there must be delivered sixty-three ves
sels of a total displacement of 69,895 tons.
Her present navy consists of the bar
bettes Yashlma, Fuji and Chln-Yuert-Go.
the armored cruiser Chiyoda, the central
battery ship Fu So and the cruisers Aka
shi, AkltsUshlinn, Hashidate, Itsukushlma,
Miyaka. Napiwa, Surria, Takao, Takacnlbo,
T.*-ukushl, Yayevma, Yamato and Yoshino,
All those vessels have better guns than the
Spanish vessels. The guns are In the main
Krupps and Armstrongs.
So far as this country is concerned, its
navy is so superior in the number and
build of Its vessels and their armament
that comparisons would seem exaggera
tions. There are eleven battle ships, or
ships of the line, to-wit: The Indiana, 10,288
tons; lowa. 11,410 tons; Maine, 6,682 tons;
Massachusetts, 10,288 tons: Oregon, 10,288
tons; Texas, 6,315 tons; Kearsarge, 11,525
tons; Kentucky, 11.525 tons, and the Ala
bama, Illinois and Wisconsin, of 11,000 tons
each. In armored cruisers tht*re are the
New York of 8,200 tons and the Brooklyn,
of 9,271.
In unarmoi'ed steel vessels there are th*
Atlanta, 3,000 tons; the Baltimore, 4.413; the
Boston, 3,000; the Charlestown, 3,730; the
Chicago, 4.500; the Cincinnati. 3,213; the Co
lumbia. 7.375; the Detroit, 2,089; the Marble
head, 2,089; the Montgomery, 2,08*;; the Min
neapolis, 7,375; the Newark, 4,098; the
Olympia, 5,870; the Philadelphia, 4,324; the
Raleigh. 3.213. and the San Francisco. 4.099.
Then there is the ram Katahdin of 2,155
tons, and tho double-turret monitors de
signed as coast defenders, the Amphltrite,
the Miantonomnh, the Monadnock. the
Monterey, the Puritan and the Terror. Be
sides there are fifteen gunboats each aver
aging more than 1,200 tons and thirteen sin
gle-t rret besides torpedo cruis
ers and submarine torpedo boats.
The American Forests.
John Muir, in August Atlantic.
The forests of America, however slighted
by man. must have been a great delignt. to
God, for they were the best He ever plant
ed. The whole continent was a garden,
and it seemed to bv favored from the be
ginning above nil the other wild parks and
gardens of the globe. To prepare the
ground. It. was rolled and sifted In seas
with infinite‘ loving deliberation and fore
thought. lifted into the light, submerged
and warmed over and over again, pressed
and crumpled Into folds and ridges, moun
tains and hills, subsoiled with heaving vol
canic fires, plowed and ground and sculp
turvd into scenery and soil with glaciers
and rivers every feature growing and
changing from beauty to beauty, higher
and higher. And in the fullness of time
it was planted In groves and belts, and the
largvst, most varied, most fruitful and most
broad, exuberant, mantling forests, with
beautiful trees in the world. Bright seas
made its border with wave embroidery
and icebergs; magnificent deserts were out
spread in the middle of it, mossy tun
dras on the north, savanna* on the south,
and blooming prairies and plains, while
lakes and rivers shone through all the vast
forests and openings alike, .and happy
birds and beasts gave delightful anima
tion. Everywhere, everywhere over all the
blessed continent, there was beauty, and
melody, and kindly, wholesome, foodful
abundance.
Henry's Constituents,
Washington Post.
Representative Henry, of Indiana, enjoy*
the distinction of having a larger number
of voters in his district than any other
congressman outside of woman suffrage lo
cumies ..nd entire States except Congress
man Young, of Philadelphia. The exact
numl er of ballots cast at the last election
was 57,458.
“But you cannot come In personal contact
with 57,000 people?” asked a Post rej>orter.
"Not to meet each one personally,” re
plied Mr. Henry, “hut I give them all an
opportunity to see me. In the last cam
paign I held meetings twice a day, and the
attendance was large enough to satisfy me
that nearly, if not quite, all the voters were
present.”
Mr. Henry is also fortunate or unfortunate
in having 1 rro less than twenty-one presi
dential nostortices In his district. He says
that he"believes this exceeds the number
controlled by any other congressman.
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