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TO EUROPE BY TROLLEY
In Thk Call of July 19, 1896. appeared
an article describing a submarine tube to
be used as a means of communication be
tween places separated by bodies of w.iter,
the manner ot operation being to force a
carriage through the tube by air pressure.
Considerable interest was awakened by the
proposition and its merits were widely dis
cussed, the opinion of competent engi
neers being that while the scheme was not
wholly impracticable, yet the difficulties
to be encountered were of too great magni
tude to warrant the construction of s-uch a
viaduct at the present time; the necessi
ties of transportation not being now be
yond the ability ol modern sariace carriage
to supply.
Modern genius is, however, never satis
fied with existing appliances, and it is con
tinually inventing and devising new ways
and methods, with appropriate machi
nery, to accomplish in less time and at less
cost and hazard what is now being done
with present appurtenances. Certainly
there would seem to be abundant room for
improvement in the matter of marine
transportation. For the high class
traveler, the cabin passenger, able and
willing to pay a couple of hundred dollars
for his passage across the Atlantic, there
is little more to be uesired in the accom
modations furnished him on the best of
the huge "greyhounds of the sea."
But for the one who does not
possess the plethoric pocketbook of his
more fortunate fellow, and so is compelled
to take passage in the steerage, there is
yet a great deal to be sighed for. But the
passenger traffic, while large, is only a
small portion of the traffic which passes
and repasscs on the seas and oceans. The
desires of man compel the services of im
mrnse flotillas to supply his wants. The
interchange of commodities which make
up what is called commerce is a part and
parcel of civilization, and that it will in
crease is patent to all. The land side of
commerce traffic is fairly well to do.
Celerity, certainty and safety are now ad
mirably combined in the railroad trans
portation ot to-day : but in marine trans
portation the man h of improvement has
not proceeded with Kjual speed. This is
measurably due to the fact that carriage
by water is confined to the surface of the
water, where it has to continnally contend
with adverse winds and currents, to say
nothing of waves which, forming an un
equal and ever-changing surface, add
very greatly to the resistance to be over
come by the vessel. It is also menaced at
all times by delay and wreckage resulting
from stormy and unfavorable weather.
Steam is gradually substituting the sail
on the main routes of ocean travel, but
for very many years the Hailing vessel
will maintain her place over those routes
less freqrented and will continue to make
her services appreciated in all cases where
celerity is not a factor.
There is one feature of ocean travel
which is common to both sail and steam
vessels, a feature which in the case of
many people amounts to prohibition
against seagoing. It is the motion of the
vessel. Large as may be buiided the
] colossal passenger steamer, there are
I waves in plenty to toss her to and fro,
: liner, thither, with as great ease as it
she were the smallest of the fleet. The
Great Eastern, the largest vessel ever
bnilt, so large, in fact, that she had to be
broken up because her immense size ren
dered her unwieldy, was pitclied and
THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1897.
tossed so terribly that her passengers on
one eventful trip were unable to stand
upon their feet, and a Cow was thrown
bodily through the skylight of the main
cabin into a group of wretched passengers
who were clinging to each other lor sup
port against the awful wrenching, toeing
motion.
The effect of wave motion does not ex
tend to very great depth. The extreme
height of the waves of the ocean at a dis
tance from land sufficiently great to be
freed from any influence of it upon their
culmination is about twenty feet. Such
waves may be a quarter of a mile between
crests, but their influence does not reach
very deep. The water is practically un
disturbed at a depth ot fifty feet. Even
the ocean currents, which are everywhere
found, are mostly at the surface; some ex
:end to depths of a thousand feet in
narrow channels like mat of the entrance
to the Mediterranean and the channel of
Mozambique, but the depths of the ocean
are always at rest.
It is now proposed to avoid the draw
backs and di comforts of ocean travel on
the surface and heieafter use the strata of
water betow all disturbance of wind and
wave as the new route. A modern genius
offers a plan utilizing the trolley to ac
complish the navigation of submarine
depths. His plan is a simple one, and
when the engineering works that the last
tew years have witnessed are considered
the scheme here described does not ap
pear impracticable.
The plan embraces the stretching of a
I continuous trolley condnit across the
ocean. The line is not exactly a "line,"
but is a sp.it tube of bronze or other metal
not oxidized by sea via er, made continu
ous by its sections being hinged in such
manner as to form an uninterrupted tube,
one side of which is open for the traverse
of the vessel's trolley. This tube is to be
held in position by nnchors. placed at
proper distances, and -it la held in suspen
i sion at the proper depth by metal floats
attached to the anchor chains. Perhaps
a better idea will be had by reference to
the accompanying drawing. Of course it
may appear at first thought that the mag
nitude of such an enterprise would be
fatal to its accomplishment, but nowadays
the size of the job does not deter modern
engineering from attempting it. The ves
sels engaged in transportation will be
buiit like hu<:e cigar-shaped spindles,
so as to make higu speed. They wil
SOME EARLY REMINISCENCES OF ADOLPH SUTRO
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, when
I first met ex- Mayor Adolpii Suiro, he
looked very mucli like the picture that is
reproduced herewith. The other day
when this engraving was «hown him he
said to me: "Yes — yes; to be sure. I re
membar that picture very well. It was
put on a lot of Butro*tunnel bonds thtt
were never issued. Some of my friend*
said it was intended as my portrait as I
looked in my working clothes with a pick
in my hands breaking ground for begin
ning the Sutro tunnel. Really, i never
felt very much flattered by tbe picture. I
thought it made me look too bald, and 1
imagined I was rather better looking.
Didn't you?"
Of course I could not refuse to acquiesce
in that opinion, for as a matter of fact
Mr. Sutro was quite dashins in appear
ance at the time lie was in the flush of hii
power, pushing work on the famous Sutro
tunnel, on the Conmock lode, editing the
Virginia City l>.ulv Independent, and
running for tbe United States Senate at
Carson, in opposition to William Sharon
first and afterward to John P. Jonev
At tbe same period he was traveling;
through tbe State of Nevada with a magic
lantern, giving illustrated lectures on tbe
doings ol the big mining company manip
ulators.
Journalism leemed to bare had a genu
ine fascination for Mr. Sutro at the time
be was conducting the Daily Independent.
He took a lively interest in every part of
tbe paper, ana had a high appreciation
of tbe importance of the local news col
umns. As may naturally be supposed, be
assumed personal supervision of tbe edi
torial columns, that did not deal so much
with expietives as with lopic.il arguments
and wily Insinuations against the rule of
William Sharon, the then acknowledged
king of the Comstock, with a sway more
absolute than was ever wielded by the
late Frank McManus in the Potrero, and
against Mackey and Fair, who were be
ginning to make themselves felt in politi
be propelled by electricity and it is
thougnt will be able to achieve at
least fiuy miles per hour, so that the trip
across the Atlantic may be made in sixty
hours. Recent discoveries in the rehabili
tation of the oxygen in air that has be*»n
vitiated by breathing removes all diffi
culty in the providing of pure air for tue
use of the occupants of the vessel. On
the under side of the trolley tube will be (
a submarine electric cable provided at
designated points with attachment de
vices, so that, if necessary, a vessel u=ing
the trolley will be able at any of these
points to establish electrical telegraphic
communication with tne shore. It is not
contemplated to use the trolley tube as
an electric force conductor to carry a cur
rent for the use of vessels. Each vessel
will be in itself independent, being
equipped with a new and improved form
of storage battery. By means of adjust
able tanks the vessel will be so balanced
as to have a slight excess of buoyancy, so
that if by any means connection with the
trolley tube should be broken the vessel
will rIM to the surface and would then
complete her voyape at the srrface.
Between the United States and England
the bottom of the ocean is of very even
surface. So level is it that it has received
the name of the "telegraphic plateau." It
is most admirably adapted to a mode of
service such as is here outlined.
The first (ew trips of the submarine ves
sels may not De successful from a linancial
point of Tiew. People are timid and will
hesitate. Ail the dangers, real aud im
aginary, will be greatly exaggerated at
first, but as the operation is continued the
traveling public will soon learn to preler
the swift, smooth trip through the haunts
of the wonderful denizens of the vasty
deep to the body and sou 1 , racking torture
of a siorm- tossed journey al the surface.
F. M. Close, D.Sc.
" There Is a Peace That Gometh
After SorroW."
"There is a peace that cometh after sorrow,"
Of hope surrendered, not of hope iuifiiled;
A ] race that looketh not upon to-morrow,
iiut calmly ou a tempest that is stilled.
A peace which lives not now in joy's excesses,
Nor in the hnppy life of love secure;
But In the unerring strength tiie ntart pos
sesses
Of conflicts won while learning to endure.
A peace there is, in sacrifice secluded;
A life subdued, from will and pussion free;
"Tis not the peace which over Kden brooded,
But that which triumphed in Gethsemsne.
— Jessie Rose Gates in the April Century.
A Painful Meeting.
A dramatic story was told at the Ham
ilton College alumni dinner in New York
the other evening. General Schuyler
Hamilton gave some interesting incidents
irom the life of his grandlather and de
scribed a raeeuii,' between Aaron Burr
and Mrs. Hamilton, daughter-in-law of
Alexander Hamilton and the mother of
tiie speaker, in 18.'S0. "As Colonel Burr
entered the room," he said, "my mother,
in extreme agitation, seemed about to faint.
Colonel Burr, noticing this, but not know
ing her, immediately went to the s.de
board, poured out a glass of water and
advanced to hand it to her. It was all
done most naturally, graceiully and
courteously. My mother shook her head
and murmured: '1 am the daughter of
Alexander Hamilton.' Without a word,
Colonel Burr placed the gl«s* of water on
the sideboard, bowed in silence to the
Misses Nathan and quietly retired. It
was to him, as to my mother, evidently a
very painful meeting. Colonel Burr
deported himself like a dignified gentle
man. 1 was a little boy about 8 year- oid.
Then I learned for the first time to
impress the fact upon my memory that
Colonel Burr had killed my grand
,'ather." — New York Letter.
The elephant is a wise beast, but there
are some who will areue that he has a dt
praved ta»te. He la lond of gin, it is said,
but will not touch champagne.
cal matters as well as in mining manipu
lation*.
Recent years have developed in Mr.
Sutro an aptitude for superlatives that be
avoided wnile he graced the editorial tri
pod in Virginia City. He purposely
escaewed that style of wild and woolly
Western journalism that has been mtide
familiar to the world through the lucu
brations of the Arizona Kicker and tbe
Nevada Self-Locker.
A favorite form of attack on the big
corporations that were attempting to
throttle the Suiro tunnel was to keep he
tore the people a realization of the com
bination that had been made for the
absorption of every item of protit that
could possibly accrue from the operation
of the great Comutock mines. Accord
ingly Mr. Sutro's paper frequently pub
lished extracts from the test ran.iy of
James C. Flood in the suit of George W. !
Kinney against the Consolidated Virginia j
Mining Company, Flood. Mackay, Fair, |
O'Brien, Solomon Heydenfeldt ana others.
Here is a saair>le:
Question— At what mill has the ore of the
Consolidated Virginia mine been crushed
within the past year ? Answer— At the mills of
the Pacific Mill and Mining Company.
Q.— Who are the owners of the Pacific Mill
and Mining Company? A.— lt is an incorpora
tion; Muckay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien are the
principal stockholders.
Q. — Where does the company procure wood
for the purposes of its mine? a. -Sometimes
from the Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume
Company, and sometimes from Yerington
&Co.
Q.— Who are the owners of the Pacific Wood,
Lumber and Flume Company? A. — It is an
incorporation; Mackay, Fair, Flood and
O'Brien are the principal stockholder*.
Q.— From what source does the company
procure water? A.— From the Virginia and
Gold Hill Water Company.
Q —Who are the owners of the Virginia and
Gold Hill Water ComuanyT A.— lt is an incor
poration. Th« principal stockholders are W.
S. llobart, John Skae, Mackay, Fair, Flood,
O'Brien and others. I forget the others.
Q.— Who are the trdsteei of the Pacific Mill
ALRED PARSONS, A.R.A.
No artistic event in the last ten years
has giyen rise to as much discussion in
London as the recent academy election,
by which John Sargent was chosen for the
full honors and Alfred Parsons and J. J.
Shannon for associate membership. All
three are practically Americans, that is to
say, ihey are, in the English acceptation of
the term. 1 here should be a word in the lan
guage to express that a man was not born
in the country to which he owes his alle
giance, either by the right of descent, by
the accident of birth, or by choice after
arriving at manhood. An artist is, as a
rule, a man who has become a citizen of
the world — who is at home in Tunis or
Japan, in London or Rome, on a Califor
nia ranch or in a Dutch village. The days
when an artiat was supposed to live on
air, and as little as possible of that, to be
distinguished chiefly by a colossal igno
rance of any subject but his own and a
superb superiority to such trivial matters
as his appearance, his food and his debts,
this golden age of simplicity has left not
a trace behind. Any eccentricity of any
kind is avoided with a care that becomes
almost as absurd as the ancient desire to
mark the professional by his long, un-
ALFRED PARSONS, A. R. A.
Kempt hair, his wildly rolling eye?, his re
markable clothes and 1m complete self
absorption.
The three new members of the academy
are natives of Cosmopilis, for Sargent
was born in Florence, the son of a Boston
puysician, and was educated partly in
America, but principally abroad; Shan
non, of Irish descent, was born and lived
in America until his fifteenth year, and
Parsons was born in Somersetshire, in
Alerrie England, but curiously enough he
aione of the three lived in America, -was
educated tnere, and only returned to
Kurope to study after he had reached the
a^e of 21. English artists speak of the
election with a mixture of admiration,
cordiality and regret that is not guiltiest
of a fine and somewhat horror-struck con
sciousness of their own generosity.
"Weil." said a Scotchman in a recent
rather heated discussion, "we did it; we
are a marvel of the highest sense of jus
tice. We do r.ot care whether a man be a
native of China or the Sandwich Islands ;
and Mining Company? A. — Tne trnstees are
bfacKay, Fair, Flood, O'Brien and Wallace.
Q. — Who are the trustees ©f the Pacific Wood,
Lumber and Flume Company? A. — Mackay',
Fair, Flood. O'Brien and Follis.
Q. — Who are the trustees of the Virginia and
God Hill Water Company? A.— Flood, O'Brien,
Mackay, Fair, Hobart, Skae and Wells.
Q— Is tiiere any other corporation from
which the company draws supplies of any
character of which Flood, Mackny, Fair and
O'krien are not the irusttes an<s principal
stockholders ? A.— l don't know of any.
Q.— ls the California company's ore aiso re
duced iv the mill ol ;lie Pacific Mill and Min
ing company ? Do they procure their timber
also from the Pac.fie Wood, Lumber and Flume
Company, and is ideir water supplied from
tbe Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company ?
A.— Yes.
One day John I. Ginn, who was nun- !
aging editor of the Ind- pendent, invited :
me to drive witii him from Virginia Uity I
to the town of Sutro, as it was neiesary !
for him to consult with Mr. Sutro on a
question ol importanci concerning next i
moning's i«sne of the paper. After the
most urgent mission bad been disposed of
Mr. Sutro wheeled around in his chair and
exclaimed: "Ginn. d:d you ever see a
played-out, broken-down mining-camp?"
Mr. Ginn said that he had visited sev
eral of hose scenes of disaster.
"Well," continued Mr. Sutro, "that's
the kind of a place these big mine-owners
are going to make out of tbe Comstock
lode. T:.ey are just gouging out the heart
of the ore, instead of mining scientifically,
and the camp is bound to suffer. I would
like to have you assume the cbarcter of a
prophet and write a description of bow
tbe Comstock will look twenty-five years
hence."
Mr. Ginn did so. He pretended to give
a vision of t lie great mining district a
quarter of a century from that time. He
said ibat nothing could stop the woeful
waste of opportunities then going on, and
in view of tbis fact represented the bo
nanzas and ore bodies exhausted, the
thunders of the stampmills silenced for
if he be a gentleman and an artist, he is
voted for. I have been prond of my vote
ever since. I forgot that they were not
subjects of the Queen, but I have felt up
lifted, noble, above reproach, ever since I
have discovered that we have been a gen
erous example to the world. It makes a
man fesl like a monument."
There are a few voices, however, which
are hardly allowed to be heard and they
murmur: "What about the protection to
home industry! Here we are, hundreds
strong, knocking at the big cates. They
open up but once a year, and only three
men can enter; can you blame us if we
think it rather bard that the strangers in
the land have the preference and we must
wait the next opportunity I"
As a whole, however, the election was
received with acclamation, the sincerest
delight. The models who wait in the
conrtyard to bring the news :o the fortu
nate had a hard fight to earn their guinea.
The model who brings the news has, from
time immemorial, had that special claim,
and it is to be presumed that neither Mr.
Parsons nor Mr. Shannon was less gen
eral than his British conlreres.
Alfred Parsons lives in a little street on
Campden Hill, lice a country lane, in a
little square, squat, pray house, with a
bit of pardon, gay at present with spring
flower*. Tee trees are just touched with
a mist of green, but the wild plum, with
its little sharp distinct branches ami its
wave of brilliant blossom--, looks as though
It had posed for Mr. Parsons or for the
Japanese artists ne a-lmi.-es so genuine ly
and frequently reminds me of. The pray
stone pathway ltading to the bouse is full
of delicate leaves, and a straigut row ol
daffodils leads to the very door. The
studio is behind the house and is reached
by a long wooden passage, on the walls ol
which there is a running frieze of sketches
that just refuse to present themselves in
an accommodating spirit. They all lend
to Rome, or to Mr. Parsons' studio, where
a fire burns in the big, open grate, and
where there is much licht and a juggc
tion of bright things — poii^hed woods and
bronzes, light frames and water colors and
flowers everywhere. Everything is ciean,
clear in color and rather delicate, as the
ever, owis roosting in the Con. Virginia
hoisting- works, C street filled with coyotes
and wild goats ai:d the International Ho
tel, the Sawdust Corner and the Delta sa
loon turned over to the use of rattiesn&ks
and rats. That prognostication created a
sensation, and there was talk of lynching
the author, for it was not generally be
lieved that »nch a condition of affairs could
possibly come to pass.
The last time I visited Virginia City Mr.
Ginu's vision was gr.mly recalled to ray
memory.
The buildings represented in the ac
companying engraving were planned for
the use of the tunnel company, but more
unpretentious structures w?ra provided,
with the excep'ion of the superintendent's
residence that si ill stands on the sloping
hillside, commani'.ii'ir - view of the town
of Sutro and Carson River Valley to the
southward.
Popularity diJ not at that time seem io
be the goal of Mr. Sutro's ambition, and
he got rather more than his share of news
paper abuse, yet nis lectures were always
well attended and hisopponentsconfessed
that hi* campaigns cost them more money
than they cared :o lose.
In a recen- conTersation Mr. Sutro ex
pressed gratification at having laid down
the cares and burdens of public office,
which he thought did not yield sufficient
compensation In the way of benefiting
the community to tempt thoughtful citi
zens from the comforts of private life.
Speaking of the condition of his invert
men is in San Francisco realty Mr. Sutro
said: "1 have to thank D?nis Kearney for
the greater part of the acres I own on this
p-ninsula. You see, I was just telling out
my interests in Nevada and particularly
in the Sutro-iunnel enterprise, when
Denis Kearney began his crusade that
knocked the values out of real estate in
this City. I was looking around for a
chance to ?>lace my available capital to
advantage and mad • up my mind that my
best chance was in the sand dunes of San
surroundings are of a rather fastidious
taste. • -,". ■
Tnis big room leads into another,
seems practically out of doors, the ligh'.
seems to flood the place, it is everywhere.
- Evidently in real life as in his work Mr.
Parsons lias no use for the, dark— no
mystery. of the "dim religious light" ap
peals to him. Personally, as he stands in
his own studio, he seems entirely in th*
right. He is yin light colored clothes,
although it is very early spring; his hair,
wbtn it is not prematurely silver, is
blonde; his eyes, of grayish blue, have an
expression of whimsical gayety, and with
the sunburned, hard freshness of his com
plexion, lie has that look of unquenchable
youth that so frequently accompanies a
man who spends most of the" time in the
open air, till the end of his days.
Mr. Parsons' work is as well known at
home as abroad ; wno has not seen tho~e
exquisite drawings that illustrate, with
Edwin Abbey's, Hernck's # and the Old
English Ballads, She Stoops to Conquer,
and many others? A Harper's Monthly
without a Parsons drawing has been a rare
number for the last ten years, or longer.
And during that time Mr. Parsons has
been frequently in America, in New York,
in the Carolines, in Southern California,
in San Francisco on his way to and from
Japan. l-_-X'
His sketchbooks are characteristic— full
of exquisite drawings, as careful as those
of a botanist, 01 any strange flower, leaf,
Btirnb or tree that came under his notice.
Impressionism never drew Mr. Parsons
into the vortex; he never splashed in
paint, simply for tue fun of dashing it
about, like an unruly boy in the surf. Its
dangers and its pleasures had no fascina
tion lor him — clear, honest, finely drawn
sketches done lor the sharp characterisa
tion of the object under his immediate at
tention. A Cherokee rose, with its beau
tiful buds turning back to the stem; an
orchid cr a meadow daisy, drawn as a
Japanese artist would do them, freely,
sharply and with grace.
In landscape he has no equals in his
own field — not, it must be confessed, a
very wide one. The one painted years ago
and bought by the terms of the Cbantrey
bequest. "When Nature Painted Ail
Things Gay," is painted with an exuber
ance, an enjoyment, a richness of color
that acts upon the observer lika a burst of
sunlight. It is music out of doors, and
for once Mr. Parsons uses the whole key
board. No meager illustration can doit
justice, for it is full of the very odor and
exhilarations of spring. It has not the
depth of a Courbet, but far more spon
taneous feeling lor the crisp, sharp cbange
of light on blossoms and tree.' and sheep
and water and the earth that flies an em
erald nag, and is brilliant with trans
parent shadows that drop from the shin
ing clouds over the trees— that are
bouquets of bloom— to the earth, that La
at once tight and solid.
The work of later years has been all
played "in the treble," so to speak, and
the landscapes in oil have been a little
thin, a little like water colors, while the
water coiori have had the solidity usually
connected with oils.
The water colors strike a finer and
truer note; their occasional hardness oniy
accentuates their tirmness, their delicate
and finished brilliance.
The calm and the patience that Mr.
Parjons puts into thrse little landscapes.
They are hardly more than a foot square,
but you f _*el almost as though <ach rlawer
had made a particular appeal for special
attention, and yet they are neither minute
nor do they Jo^e their concentrated flash
and Dime of color at a distance.
. Mr. Parsons has sketches of the swnnips
of the South, and of the alfalfa in Santa
Barbara, ablaz? on the hills; Japanese
vegetable gardens and loius fields; but he
i« only really ai home in a corner of an
Emiish garden, where there is perhaps a
decrepit fountain, green with age, with a
bit of siivei water and every variety of
young "flowerhood" pushing iorwurd to
catch his delighted attention.
Van Dyck Brown.
London, March 24. 181*7.
Francisco. I put in all the money I could
raise and waiied for the reaction. It
lookod a littie gloomy for a while, Dut at
last it came out all right.
"It was very gratifying to me, you may
be sr.re, to find that my judgment in re
gard to the investment was not at fault.
Of course the possession of the substantial
proo! of my forethought did not diminish
my satisfaction, bat I think my greatest
pleasure was derived from th? realisation
of the fact that 1 was not lacking in busi
ness sagacity in this venture. Then I had
the additional pleasure of witnessing the
growth and development of this beautiful
city."
Mr. Sutro for a moment fell into a medi
tative mood, but be aroused himself and
with an eloquent motion of the hand in
dealing the wide sweep of the bay added :
"But what I have done is nothing to
what may b9 accomplished by others who
are buying real estate in San Francisco.
"Just look at that h..rbor — the most
magnificent on the lace of tbe globe! Just
look at the generous site whicb this
peninsula affords for the accommodation
of a great city — :he most picturesque
nnder the sun.
"Just think of the climatic conditions
and all the varie i advantagee offered to
the people of this City, and you must agree
with me that the future of San Francisco
must inevitably bs greater and grander
than any dwellers by the Golden Gate iiare
yet dared to dream. Tbe advancement in
twenty years it startling, but it is nothing
to * hat the future holds in store."'
In that word "future" there seemed to
be a tinge of regret for tho venerable
financier, for though by the »ye of pre
science he was able to Dierce the veil of
time and in imagination view the grand
eurß of a city that will arise on the ruins
of our best at present, yet in the natural
course of events he could not expect to
witness in the flesh the accomplishment
of those promised marvels.
Wells Deobt.