Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1898, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1898-24 PAGES. A STREET HEART OF THE ANDES Strange Pictures of Earth and Sky in South America. eg (N THE CITY OF AREQUIPA Up the Mountains Over the Cost- liest Railroad in the World. —~——— THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. (Copsright, 1803, by Frank G. Carpenter.) PUNO, Peru, May 20, 1398. | eae THIS LET- ter in the attic of the South American continent. I am in the heart of the An- des mountains, on what, with the ex- ception of Thibet, is the loftlest table land of the globe. At my feet Is the west- ern shore of Lake Titicaca, the highest water of the earth upon which steam- boats sail, and looking down upon me is the snowy peak of Ilampu, which, next to Aconcagua. in Chile, Is the highest of the Andes. During the past week I have been traveling among the most wonderful ns of South America, and I am 1.ow in a region which has not its counter- Part upon the planet. Here and in other parts of the mountains of Peru are the highest places where people live. During my trip up the Oroya railroad I found a Village of about 200 souls at an altitude cf more than three miles above the sea. There is a mining camp in the Peruvian Andes which is more than 16,000 feet high, and in crossing the desolate plain known as the Pampa De Arrieros I stopped some time at Vincocya, where there is a locomotive round house higher up in the air than the top of Pike's Peak. In coming here I traveled for two days over one of the steepest railroads of the world, and now, at @ distance of more than 300 miles from ‘the Pacific, I am on the great plateau which lies between the two ranges of the Andes, varying In altitude from 12,000 to 13,000 feet above the sea. I am hundreds of miles south of the point where I crossed the great mountains from Lima, and in a region where the Andes are ‘more grand than at any point in the 4,000 miles of their length. Think of a mountain which towers up into the skies so that its ras Ee summit is four miles abov the level of the ocean. Imagine if you can others which ere over 20,00) feet hig Make a wall of cuch mighty hills an paint them in the wonderful colors, shades and tints of the Andean skies and you can get a faint i my surroundings. I ave with m books upon South rica, but I fail to find in them any scriptions of the scenic effects of th mountains. This is the region of all ¢ for the st, and g yet no great artist has attempted to transfer these wonder- ful pictures to canvas. Pictures From the Andes p over the Andes @ continuous ma. Let me give you my notes of s the route as I jotted them way. I begin at Mollendo on an. It is a ragged town on coast of the Peruvian desert. enes a’ down on the scific ¢ ragged lies out in the harbor and the Is in with great force, striking the recks ing its diamond spray fifty feet upward into the air. The harbor is er than that of Jaffa, and my bag is lowered into a bourding boat o te of the steamer. I have to ju boat when it is on the crest of th Waves, and I feel my stomach rise as 1 sink down into the deep. The landing is so bad that men and baggage are often thrown into the water, and I am told that the Insurance companies always charze ne hth of a per cent more on all goods i to Mollendo. I am rowed to the shore by brawny, coffee-colored boatmen throuzh huge rocks. Now we run into a ighter which is bringing out cargo for the steamer and are nearly capsized. Now we ze a great boulder and at the wharf I mp when the boat is on the crest e@ to get a footing on the steps s¥age cannot be landed except by of a crane, and I pay four men two lars to carry my heavy trunks up the 1s to the custom house. A little later on cated in the car on my way to Are- which, though only about 100 mile he coast, is higher up in the air t top of Mt. Washington. n Our train first and then shoots off i © hilis of the desert. not a vestige of gree Fr cent grade, winding “urves. At places we see the track: over which we have passed running paral- lel x but far below us. Now mountain facing the ocean. Pact hazy and smoky, toward the west until {ts fades into that of the sky. A reddish gray sand skirts the foot brown velvet hills, and this is divid- sky-blue water by the silvery urf which is hing its waves shore. The scenery changes at »st_every turn of the wheel. There is ce where nature clothes the earth in al garments as here. At times the © great masses of blue and brown The clouds of the sky, though of a whiteness, paint velvet spots of olors upon the hoary hills, and at times it seems as though all the ink bot- tles of the heavens had been scattered over the mountain: At other times the sun tints the mountains with the most delicate blues, which fade into lighter tints 07 blues in the distance till the whole horizon seems a billowy, waying sea of blue dusted with sil which meets and loses itself in a lue sky. Winding in and out among such hills, we rise to a great desert known as the Pampa de Islay. Here everything is gray and dazaling white. There are hun- dreds of huge mounds of moving sands which are traveling slowly but surely ever the plain. There are tons of bleaching bones of animals which have died in trying to cross the desert waste, and the only ap- parently living things ure the mirages, which now and then deceive the traveler with the idea that they are cool lakes, { verted cities or oases of vegetation near at hand. At the ttle town of Vitor, a mile abcve the ocean, We reach the end of the Pampa and again begin to ascend. We are again in ragged hills and soon are travel- ing among the clouds. We pass through Geep cuttings in the mountains and end the first day's travel at Arequipa, 7,500 feet above the sea. ‘The Most Expensive Railroad. ‘This road ts said to have greater excava- tons than any other line of similar length. It is one of the most expensive roads ever built, having cost $44,000,000 for a line of There Is c We climb up bout in hors IN AREQUIPA. ititude of 14,666 feet 5 to th plateau of Lake where it ends the al- in crossizg tne Titicaca, and ere titude is higher than the top of Fujiyama, the sacred snow-capped peak of Japan. Ii s a branch line cf 122 miles going over plateau to within two days of Cuzco, famed capital of the Incas. This rail- as bulit when Peru was rich and she was squandering fortun23 on such It is the work of the American en- , Meiggs, and is one of the great en- gineering feats of the world. There is talk of =xtending it into Bolivia, and it may sometime be a part of a transcontinentai line reaching to Paraguay and the Arg2n- tine. At present it belongs to the Peruvian corporation, the English syndicate which took Peru’s railroads in consideration of re- lizving the country of its foreign debt, but it is managed by an American, Mr. Victor H. McCord, who keeps it in almost as good condition as any road you will find in the United States. All of the rolling stock is American in pattern, though of late the cars and engines have been made by Peru- vians in th> company’s shops at Arequipa. Arequipa is the half-way station on the road to Lake Titicaca, and it is there that the general offices of the road are situated. I visited the railroad shops and found 400 Peruvians engaged in all kinds of car con- HARVARD OBSERVATORY AT AREQUIPA, peints in Colorado and California and then | sent an expédition to South America. This expedition first established a station 6,600 feet above the sea in the Andes back of Lima on what is now called Mi. Harvard. In 1890 they changed the station to Are- quipa and have since made this one of the great scieatific centers of the world. Are- quipa is 7,550 feet above the sea and it has more clear days and nights, it is said, than any other place on earth. There are about nine months of the year there when the sky {s perfectly clear. You people who pride yourselves on beautiful skies and glorious sunsets will not know what the words mean until you have visited South America. These are especially fine at Are- quipa, which has in addition the «advan- tage of being south of the equator at one of the best points for viewing the south- ern heavens. There is, you Know, nothing duplicated in the sky, and there are here wonderful stars and ‘constellations which we never see. The milky ‘way is far more brilliant than it is in our heavens, and thre are many other stars with different move- tents. They have four great telescopes at Arequipa, which night after night through the nine clear months of the year are pointea at the stars. Connected with each of these te’escopes is « photographic appi ratus which records the movements of such stars as the scientists’wish to study. and which by fine machinery move along with the stars until their images and those of their suroundings are registered on the | photographic plate. The Bruce telescope, j for instance, is, I believe, the largest of its kind in the world, though I am not sure of this. It has a lens 24 Inches in diame- ter and gives, photographs on plates 14 by inches in ‘size. T took a look through the Bruce telescope during my visit to the j observatory. The tube of the instrument must weigh more than a ton, but it is so delicately hung that a child could move it. It runs by a clock and a heavy weight. The chief part of the work done at the ob- color, and its seeds arg eaten as mush and taste not unlike gatmedl. I saw some dan- @elicns and a 1gt of ‘green plants which ‘looked like scruBby of evergresn, but which nowhere Were more than a few inches high. Aftel crogsing the coast range, which {s, you ktow,”'the highest of the Andes, th> e greener, and for miles ‘we traveled thrqueh what seemed to be a rich bed of thoss.*,We went by beauti- ful lakes and rogé over plains dotted here and there with thé mud huts of the Indians and with large ffocks of lamas, alpacas Fc An Arequipn Belle. and sh2ep. Each flock was watched by a wcman who wore 2 black or blue dress and shawl ard a queerly shaped hat, much like that of a priest. Each shepherdess had a spinning spool in her hand and kept this go- ing as long as we were in sight. At the stations we saw many Indian men and women. The men wore bright-colored shawls, and wide pantaivons slit up as far servatory 1s photographing the heavens. |as the knee at the back. Every one of Five photographic instruments are kept {them had on a knit cap much like a night going, and about fifty plates are made | cap, with flaps coming down over the ears, every night. Last year more than five thousand plates were exyfosed and develop- ed. The negatives are shipped at once to the University of Harvard at Cambridge and are there used for study and scientific werk. They are kept on file there and form a wonderful astronomical library of the southern heavens. Through this ob- servatory Harvard College has the best advantages of th> world for astronomical research. The Highest Observatory Station of the World. Within the last few years the Arequipa astronomers here have established a sta- tion on the top of Mount Misti. This moun- tain is one of the highest of the Andes. It and on the top of this a little hat which seemed to be more for ornament than for warmth. Nearly all, both men and women, were in tpeir bare feet, although the air was bitter cold, and as we crossed the pampas, the hail came down in tor- rents, whitening the ground. These peo- ple were chiefly of the Aymara tribe of In- dians, who to a large extent form the pepulation of this part of Peru and of Belivia. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ge ART AND ARTISTS. The structure rising on the old rink site on New York avenue between 13th and 11th streets has puzzled not a few of the many passers by, and as ft is now rapidly nearing completion a statement of the general features of the scheme will not be out of place. The edifice is merely an outer shell irclosing accurate reproductions of the halls of the antients, which are to show forth the art, acchitecture, manners and fe of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, Roman, Byzantine, Saracenic and East In- dian peoples. Mr. Franklin W. Smith, who is best known by bis reproduction of Pom- pelian architecture in the copy of the house of Pansa which he built at Saratoga, is the promoter of this new enterprise, and his main aim in constructing these halls of the ancients is to arouse public interest in the development of the project on the grand- er seale and in.«h@ more perfect manner which he has fad Ie mind from the frst. Hight years ago Re Qgncelved the idea of erecting a syste edgronn of reconstruc- tions which shoul ha¥e a permanent edu- cational and arckaeol building now in 8 of erection is in- tended to give a’parti§l idea of some feat- “al value, and the struction. They maks engines as good as any used in our country, and have some which are especially adapted to the heavy grades of the Andes. The shops are in charge of an American, a Mr. Beaumont of New J2rsey, but all of the men are Peru- vians. Mr. Beaumont told me that of the 1,000 hands employed in one capacity or another on the road there were not more than ten foreigners. It may interest our railroad m2n to know the wages which their kind receive down here. I give them in American gold vaiues and not in the sil- ver in which they are paid. Trackmen re- ceive 75 cents a day, and brak:men a simi- lar amount. Engineers get $100 a month, and conductors are paid from 330 to $65 4 month, according to position and jengtn of service. Men employed in the shops get from 75 cents and upwards per day. There ar2 no trades unions and the men never strike. They work nine hours a day, and with those who are out on the road tne day lasts without extra pay until the cars come in. A City of Vaults and Iron Bars. Arequipa is the second city of Peru. It has about 35,000 people, and is still lighted by coal oil, thovgh an electric lMghting plant is now beirg put in. The town lies in the little valley of the Chile river, which makes an oasis of green in the midst of the desert, and gives Arequipa about fifty odd square miles of irrigable land. Arequipa is the commercial capital ef the south- ern part of the country, and a great part of the trade of Bolivia passes through it. Mest of the business is done by the Ger- mans and English, and there is not an American house in the city. It is the neat- est, prettiest and brightest town I have yet seen in South America. It is 400 odd yesrs oid, and 1s battered and knocked up by the eorthquakes of the past, but as you go through it you get the impression that the town is almost brand new. It looks a3 theugh it had come from a band box. The houses are mostly one-story stone boxes, but their walls are painted in the most del- icate tints of blue, pink, cream, green and gold. 1 posted my letters in a post office tinted In ashes of roses. I bought the fruit 1 ate for breakfast in a sky-blue fruit store, and cashed a draft on London in a bank which had outer walls the color of gold. Another peculiarity of Arequipa is that most of its rooms are made in the shape of vaults. The stores are vaults ten to fifteen feet wide and from ten to thirty feet deep, with doors looking out upon the streets. In many cases there is no way out at the back, and the only light, except that from the door, comes in through holes in the roof. I ate my dinner at the hotel in Arequipa in a vault, I was shaved in a vault and my sleeping room had a vaulted roof. I went out on the roof once or :wice to look over the city. These vaulted roofs gave it the appearance of a Chinese grave- yard rather than that of an American town. The streets are narrow and paved with cobbles. Down one side of each streei there is a rushing stream of mountain wa- ter, which carries off the sewerage, and which, as it gurgles through the streets at night, makes you dream of rain and go to the window as soon as you awake to see if it really is clear or not. It rains only a part of the year in Arequipa, but whea it does rain it sometimes pours. At such times the streets are flooded, and the wa- ter from the roofs is carried out by litle Un pipes, as big around as a broomstfek, to just over the middle of the sidewalk, where it goes down the backs of the necks of the unwary passers-by. - in walking turough Arequipa you might get the idea that the city was full of bur- glars. ‘y house faces the sidewalk and every window is covered with iron bars. The houses themselves look like fortresses and the locks on the doors are of mammoth size. The barred windows and locked doors are not for the burglars. They are not to keep thieves out, but to cage the girls in. The windows havo seats behind the bars, but no Peruvian beau stops to chat at these with his ledy love. The bars of iron are as thick as your fn- ger and so clogze together that the most ardent lips could not meet between them. This seclusion of the women by the Span- ish peopis is probably a relic of their ad- mixture with the Moors centuries ago. The wrapping up of the heads in black clothes was originally so done that only one eye showed out. It was worse than the vells of Egypt or Constantinople. N. the whole face {s display2d and many of the better class girls wear hats. A Peruv- fan parent, however, never lets his girls go out alone upon the strect. There are no moonlight drives and walks with lov- ers here and when you call upon your sweetheart you have to entertain the whole fumily, and if you go with your girl to the bull fight you take mamma, papa, auntie and old maid sieter with you. Harvard Men Watch the Stars. The most Interesting thing in Arequipa, however, is the Harvard College observa- tory. Just about twenty years ago Uriah H. Borden died and left §200,000 to Har- vard College with the understanding that the money was to be used: to estabiish an observatory at the ver: could be found in the wie paper study of the stars and meteorological c:n- Gittons. The college ‘authorities first tried ures of the plan.~'The halls of the ancients will not be entiey) finished before the Na- tional Educational Association meets here in July, but five of the halis will be thrown open at that time, ‘ashey are to be filled with the educational exhibits of various publishing houses. ,Thg front of the edifice is in Egyptian style, with openings for light in the form of the claustra of Egyp- tian temples, and a section of the hypostyle hall of Karnak rises majestically as a co- ossal entrance portal. The columns are re- produced in full, size, being seventy feet high and twelve teet‘in diameter, and in their decoration the colors and’ designs upon the originals, are to be faithfully copied. On enterifig the visitor will find the first hall buflt,and decorated to repre- sent the interior of an Egyptian throne room with twelve columns * twenty-nine feet bigh and five feet in diameter, and this room is to contain paintings illustrat- ing the life of the people, one of these pic- tures being a copy of Long’s “Egyptian Feast.” Above this hall of the kings is a hall of arts and crafts, illustrating the me- chanical and other practical employments of the race, and adjoining it is an Assyrian throne room walled with casts from the slabs of Nimroud, and having copies of the human-headed bulls to guard the entrance. The other halls on the second and third floors are the lecture hali, containing an immense painting, fifty feet by seven feet in size, which depicts the grandeur of Rome in the time of Constantine; the hall of the model, the picture gallery, which is to contain an exhibit of 100 engravings by Pinelli, and the Saracenie rooms, which are to be decorated with casts from the Al- hambra and from the hall of Benzaquin in Tangiers. The greater part of the lower floor of the building is to be occupied with a perfect reconstruction of a Roman house. ‘The details are to be modeled closely after those in the house of Vettlus, which was discovered about two years ago, and {s con- sidered the most beautiful structure that has been exhumed in Pompeil. * Mes just back of Arequipa, standing out against the horizon almost alone in its grandeur, its top kissing the sky at an alti- tude of 19.200 feet above the sea. It is some thousands of feet higher than any point in America, and is a full mile higher than our observatory on Pike’s Peak. It is by more than 3,500 feet loftier than any other scientific station of the world. The site of the station is on the edge of a huge crater, which now and then sends clouds of yellow sulphurous vapor a thousand feet. into the air. Mount Mist! is an extinct vol- cano, but it is not dead, and it may at any time break out into eruption. At this great altitude, nearly four miles above the sea, the Harvard men have now the finest of scientific instruments for registering the conditions of the atmosphere, the velocity of the winds, the pressure of the barometer and other conditions. The instruments are of course automatic, running for three months without being touched. No one could live at such an altitude, and the sci- entists go up only periodically to get the records and rewind the instruments. As it is the trip is a very hard one. Some of the men get soroche or mountain sickness, and many men cannot make the trip at all. ‘The observatory has other stations on the sea near Mollendo, on the high plateau where I now am, and at Cuzco, the famed capital of the Incas, which fs a little more than 100 miles from Lake Titicaca. The founding of this wonderful work was done by Prof. W. H. Pickering and Solon I. Bailey of Harvard, the most of the sta- tions being established by the latter. Prof. Bailey has just returned to the United States, and the observatory and its sta- tions are now in charge of Mr. W. B. Cly- mer of Ohio and Mr. De Lisle Stewart of Minnesota. These young astronomers have contracts to- remain here for five years. The position is not a bad one by any means. The observatory is situated 500 feet above the city of Arequipa, overlooking the irri- gated valley of the Chile river, which pro- duces the richest of crops the year round. The home of the observatory is most com- fortable, one of its chief attractions being Mrs. Stewart's little blue-eyed baby a few months old, born in Peru, which is as pret- ty and as healthy as any baby you will find north of the equator. Across the Pampas of the Andes. There are three mountains back of Are- quipa which are higher than any point in the United States outside of Alaska. Mount Charcani is higher than Mount Misti, and as you leave the desert and ascend to the lofty plateau you get a glimpse of Coru- puno, which is 22,800 feet abova the sea. Mount Misti’s snowy summit fs in sight for hours, and I watched the fleecy clouds fly- ing about and below it, sitting in my over- coat on the reir platform of the car. We left Arequipe in the early morning, and at Mr. Trentanove has been In the west for several weeks, having gone to Marquette, Mich., to be present at the unveiling of his bust of Peter White, which was presented by the citizens to the free brary founded by that public-spirited gentleman. The bust was unveiled with appropriate cere- menies on the 24th of May, and the sculp- tor has since been the recipient of many congratulations from the admirers of his latest achievement in marble. Though re- turning during the summers to his Italfan studio, Mr. Trentanove has put himself into such close touch with American life during the years that he has lived in this country that few will be surprised to learn that he {5 now a full-fledged citizen of the United States, having taken the oath of allegiance In Milwaukee two weeks ago. * * ‘The season for exhtbitions has practically closed at all of the local galleries, but small groups of pictures are still placed on view every now and then. At Fischer’s three new canvases were exhibited recently, a figure composition by Benjamin West and landscapes by Corot and Inness. The pic- ture by West represents Christ healing the sick, and, while not remarkable in arrange- ment or in the drawing of the figures, pos- sesses undeniably good qualities of color. In the two lands¢apes: there 1s an interest- ing contrast betweenthe silvery gray of the placid scene by Corot and the rich, luminous warmth of the small picture by Inness. he latter work, though a pleasing impression of supset color, hardly shows the great Ameritan Yandscape painter at his best, but it is nevertheless executed in the stylc which inarked his greatest pro- ductions. The scene b; nt Corot is a thorough- representative’ example of the master’s art, bearing in e¥ery part the stamp of his jJast and best mjanmef, and, though it is perhaps unfair to toinpare the two land- scapes in a direct way, their exhibition to- gether gives oppdttunity for an interesting study and compdsiso8, ‘of styles. 30 ye tik Mr. James Hi Moser hi ing a good share“of fis time on a number of views of Washington, some painted from old memoranda gnd others from brand-new impressions. The city as it appears from Arlington has furnished him with several slightly differing motives, one of the very best of these being a view in which the last rays of sunset illumine the buildings and throw them into sharp relief against the distant line of purple Pills. Another glimpse of the city which he has now in his studio is a crisply treated study seen from the heights: which le .beyond the Eastern branch et the point where it Is spanned by the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge. More ar- tistic than any of these water colors is his recently completed picture showing the dome of the Capitol as it appears from Indians of the Pampas. 11 o'clock stopped at the station of Punta de Arrisros for breakfast. This station is more than two and a half miles above the sea. It consists of a few stone huts thatch- ed with straw and a onestory wooden building made of pine which I doubt not was shipped here from Oregon. There was @ bar at on2 end of thé dining room, pre- sided over by @ fat Peruvian girl, and at the other end -were the breakfast tables. The meal cost about 50 cents of our money, and it was as good as any fifty-cent meal ycu can get in the Rocki3s. First there was chicken soup with rice, then codfish balls well browned, then boiled beef and green peas, beefsteak spiced with a sauce of enions and rad pepper, a sweet omelet and @ cup of very good tea After the meal I bought four clingstone peaches of an In- dian girl-for two cents and three oranges for a nickel. These eatables, however, all cam3 ‘from the irrigated valleys or the low- lands. On the high plateau over which we There was not @ tree, and only here and there, about a lit- tle mud hut, a patch or so of potatoes, berley—which is been spend- grown only for forage, as | Rast reet™ against” it will not at this altitude—and also aang A ‘cviliane sky ie the Pine many little fields of quinua, a plant which-feution of this subject Mr.” Moser has lost looks lke 2 cross between a red dock weed and a mullon stock. It is planted in acd is-culttvated. It ‘ts of « yellow or sight of all the little details, seeking to grasp only the big features of the scene, and in the unusual arrangement of light and dark it is one of the most original as well as the most striking things that have come from his brush. * e** = Miss S. W. Kelly has recently finished and placed on view at Veerhoff's » three- qvarter-length portrait of Cardinel Satolli, which is a highly satisfactory tikeness. Miss Kelly had many difficulties to over- come, not the least of which was the prob: lem of how to give the flesh tints their proper warmth and color when placed in contrast to the intense rei which is the dcminant color note in the costume. She however, surmounted all these ob- acles with a very fair measure of stftcess, and, while one might wish for stronger drawing in the hands and in some minor deiails, the general effect is decidelly gova. The expression of the face is well rendered and the portrait contains good bits of cos- tume painting. * * * Among the other new canvases at Veer- hoff’s are two large marines by George Bunn, which show a radical departure from his old manner and a departure that scme may not think is for the better. In these marines he has worked very largely with the palette knife, and while he has gained by this means an added sense of movement in his skies, a certain crudeness goes hand in hand with the new force that his work acquires. A well-painted head of a young girl by William Sartain and the strong head of an old man by L. C. Earle complete the number of new pic- tures. The head by Earle is painted after the manner of the Munich school, and is cerried forward to the farthest ‘possible point of finish. * * * Mr. Emil H. Meyer has now in his studio, at 916 F street, a portrait of Mr. B. H. Warner, which lacks only the final touches. It is quite a characteristic likeness, and the urtist has lavished upon it the great- est care for even the smailest details. He has allowed nothing that goes to make up the expression to escape him, and the pertrait bears the mark of careful study throughout, though it may not please lovers of breadth and freedom as much as some of Mr. Meyer's other canvases. He expects to commence before long a large portrait of br. Charles E. Monroe, presi- dent of the American Chemical Society, and professor of chemistry at Columbian University. * * x During the height of the rose season Mr. Paul Putzki has been endeavoring to add to his collection of flower studies new sketches of his favorite blossoms, and he has jusi finished two very attractive stud- ies In water color. The petals are drawn with a sympathetic delicacy, and his color- ing has a subtle charm as evasive as the very perfume of the flowers. Mr. Putzki has done very little in the decoration of china lately, and has only completed one piece of any importance—a tall tankard aderned with an artistic design of grape clusters. * * * As a race the colored people have made so little progress in the direction of art that few people give a thought to the part they may in future play in the artistic world. However, of the many significant echoes from the Paris Salons this year there are few more full of ieaning than those which concern the work of the young American negro, Mr. Tanner. His father, who was a colored minister, was anxious that his son should follow in his footsteps, but the young man felt himself best fitted for a painter's career, and told his father that he would do as much for Christianity with his brush as he ever could preaching the Gospel. Up to the present time his subjects have always been religious, the Annunciation being the theme of his latest Salcn picture. This work has received hegh praise from many quarters, and one critic has gone so far as to say that in the whole of the two Saloas only one pie- ture came nearer to the greatest in art. Mr. Tanner has already had the signal honor of seeing one of his pictures placed in the Luxembourg. Surely there is food for thought in his success, and it tends to confirm the prediction of ‘one of the best know local artists, who believes that the colored people are by temperament un- usually well endowed for artistic work, and prophesies that it will only be a question of time and education before they step into an important place. ——S Machines With Horse Sense. From the New York Times. From our early youth we have been ac- customed to see obstinate draught animuis beaten for the purpose of making them per- form their work properly, but how few of us have seen inanimate objects, ke ma- chinery, for instance, subjected to this kind of treatment? And yet this is done quite often, as may be observed by any one who will watch the operations of a steam drill where rock excavations are being made. The best place to see this is up in the Bronx district, where so many building op- erations are in progress. These big steam engine drills occasionally stick, and either work slowly and irregularly or refuse to work at all, whereupon the attendant pro- ceeds to belabor them with a big sledge hammer. Sometimes one or two well-deliv- tred blows on the drill will start it to work- ing regularly, and then again the drill will make only a few strokes and stop, necessi- tating another beating. This latter process is very similar to the beating sometimes ad- ministered to a balking horse, which will only go a few steps at a time, and it makes the observer feel that, after all, machinery has some kind of sense, and it may be horse sense. a The Dearest Girl—“It seems strange that man will go to war for mere sentiment.” The Savage Bachelor—Worse than that. They even get married for ih> same rea- son.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. = (Copyright, 1898, Life Publishing Company.) ~LoS “I must get a sample of that.” tHE NEW DIVISION F HELP FOR WOUNDED How the espital Corpa is Preparing for the Field. WITH THE ARMY EN ROUTE 70 CUBA eee SSS The Camp at Tampa Has Been a Busy- Place. Sigs CLEANLINESS AND SYSTEM —_+— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. TAMPA, June 11, 198. Ever since the first army tents were pitched in Tampa, the Hospital Corps of the regular army has been actively at work. Surgeon Benjamin F. Pope, who has just been promoted to the rank of lisutenant colonel of volunteers, is the surg+on-in- chief of the army stationéd here. Upon hima falls the responsibility of preparing the medical department for the Cuban cam- paign. Th2 Hospital Corps, Mke every other branch of the service, has been on a peace footing for the past thirty years. Stores and equipments were needed as well as re- eruits, and nowhere so badly as at Tampa, with the army of invasion. The surgeons who were stationed at the various regimen- tal posts and barracks came to Tampa when the troops which they served cali- ed there. Since then Dr. Pope has ex- amined and contracted with a number of men who are to go to Cuba in the capacity of assistant surgeons and acting assistant surgeons. Many of these are Cubans and immunes who have made a_ particular study of yellow fever. The army surgeons are prepared for most anything in the way of up-to-date surgery, but few of then nave had any practical experience in the dreaded Cuban disease; this makes the ex- pert addition to their corps very welcome. As soon as each regiment camped in the location selected for it here by the com- manding officer, the hospital and dispensary tents were pitched and the corps of meu with the red cross on their arms fell into the daily routine ot camp duty as easily as the soldiers of the line. A number of re- crults from the nursing forces of Bellevue and other hospitals, who had enlisted, were sent down and had to be broken in. They were used to all kinds of nursing, but the ambulance end stretcher drills and “first INTERIOR OF aid to the wounded” were something decid- edly new, and they found that private nurs- ing in a great city was very different from camp nursing, where every one of them was obliged to be expert in lifting and car- rying the wounded from the field. It is warm work for Tampa and will be found warm in Cuba, too. Surgeons in Camp. The surgeons live like the officers of the line, but the assistants, composed of stew- ards, assistant stewards and privates, lodge in small shelter tents near the hospital and sleep two in a tent. The regular army ra- tions are given out to them as well as to the hospital patients; but as the patients | can seldom eat the army fare, the sur- geon in charge sells the rations which he does not use and uses the money to buy the delicacies which are more suited to their condition. This is called the “hospital fund.” In time of peace the corps usually trains its own nurses, bui at the present juncture the surgeon-in-chief is very glad to get hold of men who have had both training and experience. e of the young men from Bellevue said that they were getting used to rough- ing it and that they were never better in their lives. He said that whereas they had previotsly in their nursing capacity been autocrats, all that was changed now, and he was looking about him in fear and trembling for the sight of an army officer whom he had nursed the year before. “If he finds me here, he won't do a thing to me!” the young fellow concluded, ruefully. A Field Hospital. LD HOSPITAL AT TAMPA, and all the patients who are {ll enough to Out of the but be in bed, are quartered there. thousands of troops re there afe thirty of these patients. They are brow; up to the hospital in ambulanc in a while are taken in on a strete One of the sergeants comes forward, os- | signs a cot to the man, and reports his | arrival to the doctor in’ charge, who im- mediately makes an examination and pre- scribes for him, giving the prescription to the steward on duty, who puts tt up in the dispersary tent and administers it accord- ing to directions. As the field hospital now in operation in Tampa is the one which will immediately be set up in Cuba on the landing of the troops, an idea of its construction is rather interesting. The surgeon-in-charge, Major A. H. Affel. and his staff, appointed by Dr. Pope, will serve in the same capac- ities throughout the campaign. Major Affel has two assistants, and one of these, Dr. W. E. Parker of New Orleans, is the only surgeon appointed from civil life to the Lospiial service. Their quarters are to the left of the hospital tents and consist of a tent apiece—with a “fly” or awning in frcnt—and a mess tent. The sheiler cents of the assistants stretch in a long row in frent of the hospital. alled beyond. The horses are cor- For the hospital itself seven tents are now in use, and there are six more in re- | serve. They are pitched in the form of a T; the main ward being the upright, the dispensary, operating room and negro ward, the cross pleces. The patients are ploced on light, portable cots, which face each other at either side just as in an ordi- nary hospital. The smell of antisepsics is in the air, and the stewards and privates pass back and forth among the prostrated soldiers, taking temperatures and giving their doses and diet. Others are at work tidying the operating room or comnpound- ing medicines in the dispensary. Apart by itself is the tent reserved for Infectious diseases. It is some twenty-five feet from the main ward, but at present it shelters nothing more’ dangerous than measles. Measures are being taken to iso- late also the two or three typhoid fever pa- tients, who, It is needless to say, will not take part in the Cuban campaign. Every- where is order, cleanliness and system. Within the ‘precincts of the fleld hospital is the tent_or office of Col. Pope. Here is performed most of the executive and cler- ical work of the corps in Tampa—and it is infinite. As the volunteers arrive, they must be supplied as well as the regulars. Their half-organized departments must be fully organized and got into working trim at, the earliest possible moment, Their equipments do not equa! those of the regu- lar corps. While they are all supplied witn “first aid” knapsacks, they are not, as a rule, provided with field medicine chests. Getting tn Trim. Orderligs are continually riding up with dispatches, and requisitions are brought in for approval. Everything given out or taken in must be recorded. Nearly all of this work, in addition to the correspondence DISPENSARY TENT. in regard to supplies and reports, falls to the stewards, who are very efficient men. The surgeons have made up their minds to expect hard work when the army gets to Cuba. They feel that they are merely get- ting in trim now. They remember such battles in the civil war as Chickamauga and Gettysburg, where the surgeons work- ed forty-eight hours without a pause, unui they reeled as they stood. They believe that the limbs of many men which would have been amputated at the time or the late War will be saved now, because of the wonderful advance in the knowledge of antiseptics. They claim that Uncle Sai wiil send a wonderfully well equipped corps in this.respect to the field, and that every- thing that can be done in the way of ficld surgery will be done. —___ Base Ball in Biblical Times. From the Carton Commercial Advertiser, A member of the Canton Theological School, who is interested in the great na- tional game, has written a thesis on “base bell among th> ancients. From this are gieared the following interesting points which help to establish his contention: The devil wes When Isaac met Rebecca at the well she sa a @ pitcher. mson out @ great many times when he beat the Philistines. Moses made tis first run when he slow the Egyptian. Cain made a base hit when he killed Abel. Abrabam made a sacrifice. prodigal son made a home run. was a great long-distanco thrower. shut out ths Egyptians at the Red ——_~e-____—. Too Much to Rear. the Chicago Reccrd. didn’t see the widow at the fanerai.” is Atted so badiy that she her grief.” iF ap? 3 gown restrain