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Hi fUi rd AMY v Ay Ay , VOL; XIX. NO. 37. HARTFORD AND WATERBUR Y, CONN., SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1901. PRICE, 3 CENTS. mm r THE HODEEN MOSES. That Is the Name Given by Many to Theodore Herzl. Pen Picture of the Leader of Zionism, In WHose Vision I Ever Present , the Immortal Ima&e of Israel a, Nation. f A - year ago, while I was drinking ' afternoon, tea in a London drawing room, there entered a tall, lithe man, with coal black hair, beard and mus taches, restless :-visionary, eyes, and a nervous mouth, twitching wilh half sad humor. I did not know him, but he magnetized me immediately. I intuitively divined the intensity of his personal force, the rich radiance of his, character, the passionate idio syncrasy of his soul, says a, writer in the London Star. ' , ' ' . ' - . " ? . At that time Zionism was a mere shibboleth to me, one of the husks that are blown about the social and political highways. But the moment I saw this modern Moses, this prac tical prophet, Zionism became a vivid reality For I recognized in him at once one of those apostles' whowork miracles by the power of their will and the empire of their egotism. At that time Herzl 'could not speak a word of English.' ,s After a few com . monplaces he drifted away again, leav ing me profoundly interested in his " romantic genius. He had done noth ings said nothing; but he had - been himself. Now, the man who can be himself in a drawing-Toom is rare. And this man's self was so bizarre, so disturbing, so strange, ' that I caught myself wondering at its per- . sistence in my mind. . ; ! , , Well, the other day I met Herzl again in another drawing-room the drawing-room of the Hotel Cecil Here it was I who drifted in, and the , first thing that . disentangled itself from the rout of men and women was ; the Old restless visionary gaze that had haunted me before. The Jewish leader . was holding a :, kind of levee, with .lyrical interludes 'in the shape )f songs by his Hungarian, compat- DR. THEODORE HERZL.. riot, Mile. Aurelia Kevyi a young prima donna who has won golden praise with the Carl Rosa Opera com pany and at Covent Garden. I was astonished to find that Herzl had learned to speak English with wonderful fluency. Now and then he falls back; on a charming Latinism (such as "avitate" for avoid), but he expresses himself with surprising lucidity. . The dominant note in his idealism is his confidence. He has faith in his faith. He believes through walls of difficulty. And this imagin ative : prophet has in him a granite ' basis of common sense. He keeps his visions well in leash, and prefers to" talk of the hard, practical side of , his vast scheme for leading the peo ple of Israel back to the promised land.'-' ,. It is a potent force, this new pride tof race which ; Herzl has , rekindled. I was ; struck by , the passionate ? en ergy with which he . and his comrades protested against ;the. injustice . of judging the Jews by their . black eheep. , The core .and heart of 'the Zionist movement is its canonization of the Jew as a Jew, its glorification . tof the Jew's historic heritage, its ,call to the Jew to emerge from his 6Ubterranean hiding places and to - etand before . the world as a racial unity. Zangwill put-this all in a par able. "The Jew in the past," he said, "has acted like the. ostrich. .He has buried his head in the sand, with the natural result that the world has he en tempted to kick the most prom inent part of his anatomy. Some in fluential Jews prefer to continue these tactics. But we think the time has come to stand erect." ! And as Mile. Revy sang some of her . own wild Hungarian folksongs I could not help thinning that there is more jdynamic force in this ' Jewish re nascence than the Gentile imagines. :3Tor the Jews, above all races, are idealists. If this great ideal took fire and blazed through their ranks, who shall say where it would end? But the men who are organizing it are prudent. Herzl deprecates wild and nebulous aims. He prefers to keep Ithe movement on the practical line of an agricultural'and industrial col ony. Yet, in his restless visionary . eyes there is a loftier dream, a more ; eplendid conception, the immortal Image of Israel a nation, and npt the least of the, national of the" earths WILL SUCCEED ALLEN. William H. Hunt to Be Appointed Civil Governor of tlie Island . of Porto Rico. There is no longer any doubt about the retirement of Gov. Allen of Porto Rico, who will be , succeeded by . Wil liam H. Hunt, the present secretary of the island. Gov. Allen will retire on September 1, but he will not re turn to Porto Kico if he can avoid it. He will spend the summer at his home irr Massachusetts. Gov. Allen feels that his work in Porto Rico has been i accomplished. A civil government and free trade have been put in operation under his regime, and since he was made 'the ex ecutire head of the island he has done much toward rehabilitating it. He is 1 LCtx - I'm. 4TA t . i WILLIAM H. HUNT. SIated to Succeed Mr. Allen as Governor of Porto Rico.) of the opinion that the work of -the future can be left to other hands. When Gov. Allen left Porto Rico he brought .all of his household effects with him; 'William II. Hunt, who has been se lected to succeed Gov. Allen, was born in New Orleans, La., on November 5, 1857, and is the fourth son of the late William Henry ' Hunt, of Louisiana, who was secretary of the navy in the cabinets of Presidents Garfield and Ar thur, and who served as minister to Russia. Judge Hunt received his edu cation at Yale, but onaccount of ill health did not finish his course. In 1896 ;Yale conferred upon him the hon orary degree of master of , arts... " When he was1 27 years of -a'ge Hunt was elected attorney general of the territory of Montana. He subsequent ly removed to Helena, and in'1888 was elected a member of the legislature, wherehe served as chairman of the judiciary committee. He was a mem ber of the constitutional convention in. 1884 which framed the constitution of the siate when it was admitted to the union, and also held important ju diciary positions , in Montana. 1 When Gov. Allen went to Porto Rico Mr. Hunt was' requested by President McKinley to become secretary of the island and to assist Gov. Allen in or ganizing the new civil government. The Heaviest Automobile. A wealthy Australian owns what is said to be the heaviest automobile in the world. It weighs 14 tons, and is run by ' a gasoline motor of 75 horse power. This enormous vehicle, which is capable of a speed when needed of eight, miles an-hour, is employed to carry freight to and frjOm a gold mine situated 372 miles in the interior of the country. - ! : , Copper deposits In Alaska.. t The rich copper deposits of Alaska are beginning to be developed, the, first shipment from the White Horse belt having been recently dispatched to Tacoma. This belt, which tra verses a tributary of the Yukon, is 25 miles long and four miles wide. There is from 25 to 75. per cent, of copper in the ore, and each ton carries from six to ten dollars' worth of gold. Bnlleti 'Canse Aente Fain. Army, surgeons, declare that the ex pression on the 'faces of soldiers killed in battle reveals the 6aues of jleath. Those who have perished, from sword wounds have a look of repose, tvhile there is an expression of, pain on the faces of those slain by bullets. Has a Ten-Foot Bed. Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri giant ess, has erected a house for herself in Govin, a - town in that state. The floors in her home are ten feet high, and the ceilings 15 feet. Her height is eight feet four inches, and she sleeps on a bed ten feet long. Uncle Sam's Penny Colnagre. Last year the United States coined 66,546,243 cents, which sounds big, but it is less than a penny apiece. Italy's Soldiers Get Cigars. Cigars are given to soldiers in the Italian army as part of their daily rations. . Most Intricate Game Known. Japanese chess is the most intricate game in the world. The board has 81 squafes, 20 pieces are used, and the pieces change in grade when they ar rive at a certain position on the board. Field for Young Lawyers. There are 40 counties in Texas which " have to seek legal advice outside their limits, as they have not a single attor ney of- their own.' - - . i : - i 1 - ' 1 ACCUSEE OF SCHLEY. Pen Picture of Edgar S. Maclay. ' Clerk and Historian. Never Was Considered Brilliant by His Newspaper Clinms,' Bat Al-' ways Was a Hard Worker and Close Student. "Who is Edgar Stanton Maclay?" Is a question that is often heard and seldom answered these days. Maclay suddenly ' became a figure of prom inence because of the charges that he has made in his naval history, reflect ing on the conduct of Rear Admiral Schley during the war with Spain--charges that are so serious in their nature and made in such language that the secretary' of the 'navy has for bidden the use of Maclay's , book in the naval academy, while Rear 'Acl miral Schley has for, the same reason secured from Secretary Long an or (fer for an official .investigation df his actions in the war. " . Macfay is the ; son" of a clergyman and is about 39 years old., He is under the average height, but of sturdy build, with broad shoulders, and heavy legs. He. is persistent and stubborn in character and is proud of his Scotch ancestry. While at work on the first volume of his naval history, says the Chicago In ter Ocean, Maclay was a reporter on the New York Tribune, covering; the board of education. Robert S. Maclay, a relative, was then prominent inkedu cational circles and was at c-ne-time president of the board. , At.thajt time there were nine sons of clergymen on the Tribune, and Maclaj-, like,,-all of. them, was "fond of staying uprin-the mornings after work was done, ,but as he had a life work ahead of .him he decided he would have toy practice economy.' :, , . It ' was hard work for Maclay t.o write. Words came slowly to him, and it w'as difficult for hinj -to, .handle :a pen or pencil..' He wrote a small, cramped, irregular hand the liues be ing so Cldse as to make him unpopular with copy readers. At that time' he had all his data for his first' volume. It was while at Cornell that he con- ceived the idea of writing tory, having come to the a naval his- conclusion : -r EDGAIl STANTON MACLAY. ; .The Young Historian Who Attacked Ad miral Schley.) . that there was none in '' existence woorthy the name. When he left the university' he had a little money, and he went abroad for data. There he made use of what knowledge he had of French and German and searched the libraries. .' r One day afte"r Maclay had learned all he could he found himself in Germany with just enough money to pay his way to New York city on -the steamer. He had three days in which to get the steamer. How to live without eating those three days was a question, and how to get the steamer was another. Somehow he got on board a boat going down the Rhine and on that boat he found bags of unsroasted coffee. ' The bags were of canvas and his knife was sharp enough to cut holes in canvas. He laid in a store of green coffee beans, and he had not starved to death by the time he reached the steamship. Ever after that he liked German cook ing and the Germans. When on the Tribune Maclay would hurry every evening to a little Ger man' restaurant at Third avenue and Tenth street and fill himself with the products of that German kitchen at a moderate expenditure.' Sometimes in the summer he would take a glass of imported German beer instead of coffee, of which he was extremely fond even when cooked. Beer he drank in moderate quantities on Saturday nights, when he usually went to Wil liamsburg, bought a ticket for some ball given by flower-makers or paper box makers, or shop girls. He would dance to his heart's content and then be very careful for the rest of the week. Maclay always believed that writ ing was a low art, and that no matter how. well a man could write he could1 never achieve fame unless he really had something to say. - When he got through writing the first volume of his. naval history he got Ervin Wardman, then copy reader on the Tribune, to: go over it for, him. . Wardman wa a Harvard man, and was considered. an Authority on English language and lit erature. Wardman of ten grew tired. but he "kept at the work of editing the volume, and when it appeared in print it had smoothness to it. In 1894 Maclay left the Tribune and began, writing naval editorials for the New York Sun. When he got ready to write the second volume of his history he obtained an appointment as light housekeeper at Setauket, L. I., and got married. He has children. - Maclay kept plugging along until Assistant Secretary of the Navy Allen was sent td Porto Rico. Maclay wanted to be his successor. He is now a clerk in Ae,Bropkly n n ayy yard . ' WESTERN IRON KING. John W. Gates, of Chicago, One of the , Important Faetors -in American : . z Business Life. '" John W. Gates stands in the .fore most rank of iron and steel manufac turers in the' country. Business asso ciates say that they, have never known him it o be wrong on the iron and steel market, and his ability and judgment have placed him at the head of some of the most important enterprises in that industry in the United Spates. . Mr. Gates was, born in Du Page county; 111., on May 18, 1855, and was educated at the public schools and at Northwestern college, Napierville, JOHN W. GATES. (An Important Factor m Western Business 111., from which he graduated in 1873. He Centered business as , a dealer in tgrnrand then -in- hardware,. While thtih he 'foresaw the possibilities of the - wire business, and finally estab lished the firm of; J. W, Gates & Co. to deal in wire products. He organ ized in 1881 the Southern Wire com pany, and became ' its president Three years later he formed the Bad dock Wire company, of Pittsburgh, and with his associates became, inter ested in the Iowa' Barbed Wire com pany, of Allentown, Pa., the St. Louis wire mill, and the, Baker ' Wire com pany, of Lockport, 111.' ". These com panies were combined in . December, 1892,. into the Consolidated Steel and Wire company, with a capital, of $4,000,000. .-. Mr. .Gates resigned as president of the Consolidated Steel and Wire com pany in 1895, and in that year he be came president of the Illinois Steel company. He held that position until September, 1898, when the company was taken into the Federal Steel com pany. , In the ' meantime the Consoli dated Steel and Wire company con tinued to grow, and in April, 1898, it was combined with other companies into the American Steel and Wire company, and Mr. Gates was elected chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Gates remained in that office for some time after the absorption of the company by the United States Steel corporation this year. Y - Mr. Gates is traveling abroad now, but has large business interests in Chicago. He and his friends bought the control of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company recently at' an average price of about 50 for the stock. He is largely interested in' Port Arthur, Tex. Killing; Rats with Gas. ' . Some interesting experiments have taken place at the London docks to show the effect of a new system for the extermination of rats on board ships." The vessel is charged with sul phur dioxide gas,, which apparently has the effect of attracting the rats from their hiding places, and as soon as they breathe the fumes they be come suffocated. In the experiments on the steamer Gourkha several hun dred rats were destroyed in "a few minutes by means of the gas, which has no injurious effect upon the dec orations of the saloon. Chance for Medical Men. A queer organization in New York is the National Locomotor Ataxia league, which offers $10,000 for the discovery of a cure for the disease. City Tax on Hen Coops. New Haven's board of health has toted that hen coops kept in the city must pay a license. The rooster that wows at 3:30 a. m. is responsible. Cork Put Her Eye Out. . A careless waiter, while opening a bottle of cider in a Paris restaurant, so held the bottle that the cork struck Mile. Andree in the eye, causing the loss of sight in that organ.;. She sued. and the restaurant fined 5,000 franc proprietor. .wa MAN OF EXPERIENCE. Capt. Lcmly, Judge Advocate oi Schley Court of Inquiry. Has Had More to Do with the Prose ention of Naval Law Cases Than Any Other Officer in the , Service. Capt. Lemly is particularly well fitted for the, exacting duties ; of judge . advocate. He is now serving his third term as judge advocate general. ? He is a civil as well as ; a maritime lawyer. So far as known he has never expressed an opinion as to the merits of either Rear Admiral -Sampson or Rear Admiral Schleyi. He served with Schley in the Essex on the South . Atlantic station," and "was a watch officer oh .board, the Thetis, commanded ,by Capt. Schley, which, with the Bear, formed ' the Greely relief expedition. : ; Capt. Lemly says he would feel hurt to have it intimated that he has any personal feeling whatever in the controversy. In all the time he has been at the head of the legal depart ment of the navy, his service, dating back to 1892, he has, fortunately, never had occasion to-pass upon any ques tion that involved either Sampson or Schley: in any personal aspect. .He has known both Schley better than Sampson, perhaps. He . was one of Schleys. , personal friends when he (Lemly) was "in active line service Indeed, " he " accompanied Schley, on the famous Greely relief expedition, and he rendered valuable service to Schley on that occasion, which tha senior officer ,! recognized. On th other hand, Capt. Lemly has known Sampson officially in the navy de partment when the : admiral was at the , head of the ordnance . bureau, and they were thus thrown into close contact in a "business point of view at least for several years. - Capt Lemly had already arranged to depart from Washington on his annual leave on a trip through Cana da some time in August. He will ar range to leave on a later 'date now, order to be able to study up this iv CAPT. SAMUEL, C. LEMLY. " (Judge Advocate of the Sampson-Schley Court of Inquiry.) celebrated case before the court meets September 12. Meanwhile the clerical force of the judge advocate's department can prepare the mass of documentary evidence necessary for use before the points may be gathered ready for the opening. It should be noted that un der the ordinary rules of practicethe judge advocate general of the navy is called upon, to review the j proceed ings of court-martials and courts of inquiry. Secretary Long has prom ised Capt, Lemly that he will be ex empted from the duty of reviewing the proceedings of the Schley court. Capt. Lemly has. probably had more experience in the prosecution of naval law oases than, any other of ficer in the navy, and is generally re garded as one of the best equipped officers in the navy for the important duties which will devolve upon him as judge advocate of the court se lected to pass upon controversial points resulting from the conduct of the naval campaign in the West In dies. : , - Prior tp his assumption of his du ties as judge advocate general of the navy, in June, 1892, he was prom inently identified with several of the most important trials and investiga tions in the recent annals of the navy. As judge advocate and record-r er of various courts he traversed nearly all points of the world visited by United States warships, going as far as China and Japan in the prose-: cution of such work. He was judge advocate of the court- martial convened in China as a re sult of the loss of the United States steamship Ashuelot, and was also judge advocate in the court-martial case of Paymaster Watkins, which sat at' Yokohama. He was also judge advocate , in the court-martial cases appointed for the trial of ex-Surgeon General Wales and ex-Paymaster General Smith. Probably his most important work of this kind, low ever, was as judge advocate of the court of inquiry which investigated the loss of the Jeannette in the Arc tic. That investigation was con ducted in 'Washington and was marked by almost as much acrimony and .. controversy Nas. the pending Sampson-Schley case. .Nava officers in speaking- of the - " "ft " I M flan f if fairness of Secretary Long in select ing the court of inquiry point to. the fact that Admiral Kimberly was Schley's commander back in the 70's Suffrage Laws In Belgium. Under the Belgian law unmarried men over 25 - have one vote, married men and widowers with families have two votes, and priests and other per sons of position and education have three rotes.; Severe penalties are im posed on those who fail to vote. y EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE. ' fhe Onlr Recreation in' TVhieh.thav Lesser Napoleon's Widow In dulges Is Yachting. . One of the most familiar figures inv European waters-in recent yachting" seasons.is Eugenie, the ex-empre&s of France. . She is now cruising in the Mediterranean. Her yacht, the This tle, was once the property of the late duke of Hamilton. To meet the re quirements of her majesty the, vessel was considerably enlarged. . As al ways, Eugenie is attended by anumer ou's and stately retinue, for she still Ei-EMPRESS EUGENIE. (Napoleon's Widow Now Is a Devotea . r . Yachtswoman.) enjoys the traditions of a great oour.S following, though1 her personal attire in these untoward days follows the simplest lines of the tailor's art. One of the best friends of this woman of former majesty is the captain of the Thistle, who, thoughant Englishman, invariably escorts heri from-the ''ya.cii tthe" train at the end: of -a bruise. o.fahL at leave-taking, bends fiver worthy. oi the days of louii " XIV. Though Eugenie is always treated in England with the greatest considera tion, , her life - hai toeen sadly embit tered -by ; the long exile from France Her nearest friends declare .that her passion for 'yachting, has been the means of preserving her life through the 7 trying vicissitudes that have fol lowed her tlirough nearly three deo ades. She . still retains traces of the rich Spanish beauty that made her fa- v mous in Paris half a century ago, when an emperor sought her hand.- f THOUSANDS OR VIPERS. ilaln Every- Year bf a Peculiar Od cial Employed in the. Prefee- ';--,tnre of Haute, France.. ' . In the prefecture of Haute, Loire Erance accdrding'to La liature, they have an official viper killer. ' The pres- COURTOL, VIPER KILLER. (On an Average He Destroy 1,500 Venom- ous Snakes Per Year.) i ' ...... .v --'- ; - ; - " ' ent incumbent of , this important office is a gentleman by the name of M. CourtoL who, judging from the , statement that he kills an average of 1,500 vipers a year, and one year killed 2,502, must be pretty expert in the business. He receives five "centa a head for all he destroys and makes a tolerably comf ortable living out of his employment. '7 M. Courtol says the viper when at rest is not easily seen, according to the Philadelphia Times, as it assumes the color of the ground or 'rocks of the locality, becoming bluish black upon basaltic rocks and reddish upon volcanic scoriae. In addition to this, according to him, the viper chooses Its bed ' before retiring by seeking ground of the same color as its skin. M. Courtol has utilized 1,800 skins of these snakes in making himself two suits of clothes. One of them, which he is seen wearing in the .pic ture, consists of a pointed cap, jack et, waistcoat and trousers; the other is in the style of Louis "XV. v A "Western City Sport. ' . Three " bears - were-: killed . recently within the city limits of Seattle, Wash - 4