The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1899, Page 5

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Hancock and Warren and a few more transports like | them been on the Atlantic Coast during the fighting in Cuba there would have been no ‘‘embalmed beef” scan- Later in the day Inspector General Breckinridge of the army also went over the transport, in company with Captains Barneson and Batchelder, and was very much The arrangements the care of the sick were praised by him, and all in all he considers there is nothing lacking in the Hancock, and that she Is a credit to her designers and to the men The soldiers' kitchen is a feature of the Hancock. | been overlooked would tend to turn out the food in the very best order. | Then, there s an isolated hospital, dispensary and dlet | The hospital is covered with a dome skylight, which can be removed, and there is then room to lower the dispensary there is everything required by the hos- staff, while the dlet kitchen is unique. ordered spectally by the doctors will be cooked, and care has been taken in the arrangements that the food shall | All the dishes cooking utensils are nickel-plated and all the furnishings | The troop ship is furnished with an armory, maga- In the armory there is room for the | the magazine can carry | enough ammunition to last a regiment a year. | specle tank. Major Saturday, but yes- | who acted as cice- cold Had the | Barneson, made for The dock yesterday. cooking are to be | the dock. that to-day with the hospital. In General In it food | for the East. and | sippl. The cash | for the troops in the Philippines will be carried in the Besides the other arrangements comfort of the troops there is a crew’'s galley and a ship's galley, lavatories and bath rooms enameled ware, while the officers’ quarters are finished In corresponding style. bilge keels were placed on the Hancock, and now she is the steadiest transport in the fleet. The credit of carrying out the changes on the Han- cock is due to Supervising Engineer J. H. Mathews of the transport service, and it is due to his skill and vigi- lance that she is without a peer, in her class, in the world. When 1t w: survey was appointed as follows: then assistant surgeon general; medical inspector of the transport service; Captain John son, superintendent, vising Engineer of the transport service. Captain Barne- 50N was master of the Hancock when she was the Arizona and his advice was very valuable in the planning of the ship. To Mr. Mathews, however, belongs all the credit of turning out a model transport. transport Warren went on Hunters Point dry- Some repairs have to be made to her steering gear, and it will be ten days before she gets off Other work has to be done on the vessel, and it will be December before she sails for Manila again. The Pathan and City of Sydney will sail for Manila troops, and the Ben Mohr and Senator will get away to-morrow. to-day to coal, and the Flintshire went on the Union Iron Works drydock yesterday. Miles and his family will leave this morning They will travel over the southern route, and the general will stop over at New Orleans for the purpose of inspecting defenses along the lower Missis- After his inspectfon of afternoon he went to Oakland as the guest of Colonel Long and saw all of Alameda County's points of terest, making his longest stop at Pledmont Springs. the Palace last night he lighted with his visit in likely there would soon be more big guns mounted for San~ Franclsco's defenses. KITeHEN. for the finished in While she was on the drydock decided to alter the ship a board of Colonel Greenleaf, Major Raymond, then and J. H. Mathews, super- The Indiana goes in the stream the Hancock yesterday in- At ghly de- it was xpressed himself as hi v way. He also sal +040404040404044604040404040404¢04040404040404040404040404040404040400406040404040404 0+ +040404040404040404040+0+0+0+0+0+040404040404040404 4-04040404040404040404040+0 Tn the Service of Bod [ ON THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH | Rev. Willlam Rader of the Third Con- gregational Church last night delivered a highly interesting sermon on “Macbeth, or the Passion for Power.” His text was: ““What doth it profit a man if he gain the | world and lose his own soul?’'— In part he sald: v of Macbeth teaches the re- f the passion for power. Aspiration ire_for excellence and an ambition Macbeth's ambition contained the of usurpation, strategy and sel- the three qualities which have left e political history of the world, from Guy Fawkes to Boss Tweed. They fired the shots that killed Lincoln and Garfleld, and exploded the bombs of the Chicago anarchists. Macbeth gained his throne but lost the world of courage, peace and power. He lost his life, which is not the least trouble of a great' soul. When a man loses his head the effect of the loss depends upon the en- tire possibilities of his Jifa A man never nole Mo galns anything by selling himself for a throne that does not belong to him. Consclence is more veluable than any throne. The most important thing in the world is one’s own manhood—his own best gelf. God expects a man to save himself and his woi What is ambition? It is a glorious cheal e . CATHOLICS BELIEVE IN THE RAGING FIRES OF HELL Rev. J. C. McCourt, C. 8. P., preached last evening to a large congregation in | St. Mary’s Church. He chose for his text: “Suffer both to grow until the harvest, | and in the time of the harvest I will gay | to the reapers gather up first the cockle and bind It into bundles to burn, but the | wheat gatl ye into my barn."— Matthew xiii:30. In part he said: To believe in hell, to believe that thers 18 a place where men are punished in everlast- ing flames, is old-fashioned and obsolete. The world has rejected it. Protestants ex- plain it away and make those flames, it they exist, a mere agreeabls warmth. Well, Catholics know better than that: we know as an awful fact that God, in His justice, has a place where men suffer forever. whers the worm dies not, where the fire has no kindly blaze, as we know it here, but-black, formless monsters hold In horrid embrace the writhing, struggling s=ouls which are burned forever but not consumed. FEvery sense, every part of the body, receives tor- ment and its own pang, unceasing, unre- mitting, endless. The eyes behold visions of loathing: the ears hear terrible sounds: the feelings are racked and tortured. Those members which have especially sinned on earth recelve punishment becoming thelr evil deeds; the false tongue 1s scarred and drfed; the malignant heart i3 withered and torn, and the feet which have trodden the pathis of sin are ‘burned with stinging fNames. Fire, horrible fire, s everywhere, burning on and on forever; yet, great and awful as are the torments of the senses, they are as nothing with those of the mind, A SERMON ON CHRIST AND | HIS RELATION'TO SOCIETY The Rev. John Hemphill of Calvary Presbyterlan Church delivered a sermon last night on “Christ and His Relation to | Society.” He chose as his text: “This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of-Galilee”—John ii:2, and in part said: “With divine forethought and intention Jesus began his public ministry by accept- Ing an Invitation to a social gathering. Had his precursor, John the Baptist, re- celved an invitation to this wedding feast he would have refused to accept it with lofty scorn. But Jesus accepted it. John shunned soclety. Jesus sought it to show his followers how it is entirely compatible with the claims of the kingdom. “It {s a much easier way to turn your back upon society and declaim against its sins, as John did, tnan to go into soclety and lift up there the white ensi, of holi- ness as Jesus did. It is a Christ-like Chris. tianity, then, that seeks society for thi purpose of fufl%:ng and sweetening and sanctifying it. e religion of Christ is & power In the midst of all these, purifying and sweetening, as the lump of sugar sweetens every drop in the cup. Chris- tianity is not religlous rapture in the sanctuary merely. It is the power of a Christ-like life sweetening every other life | it touches.” Las gt FATAER YORKE RESUMES HIS DUTIES AT THE CATHEDRAL The Rev. Father P. C. Yorke, after a year's absence abroad on a much needed vacation, resumed yesterday his dutles in the diocese. At St. Mary’s Cathedral in the morning he celebrated the 9 o’clock mass, delivering a _short seymon on the Scripture lesson. The remainder of the day he spent in qulet at his home. To-morrow evening at 8:30 o'clock a for- mal banquet will be tendered to Father Yorke at the California Hotel. - THE REY, E. A. W0ODS ON THE RESPONSE TO PRAYER Rev. E. A. Woods, D.D., preached at the Young Men's Christian Assoclation Audi- torium last night. His text was: “What is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit should we have if we pray unto him?"—Job xxi:15. He spoke in part as follows “If there is no God prayer is a delusion and worship an absurdity. If God is sim- ply law or force, if he is inpersonal rayer is foolish. If, as some teach, God Pas declded to save some and elected others to be lost, then surely prayer will avail nothing. But there s a God. He cares for his creatures and he hears their | prayers. Has God given men the instinct of prayer only to mock their upward looks | and pleading voices? Surely man is not mere{y a half hinge, an interrogation point with no answer. God can manage this world and at the same time care for his children. If man can master nature's forces and harness them so they shall do | his bidding, surely God can use them in | the service of his children. If he invites us to pray, has taught us to pray and promised to answer us, he will surely find a way to do it.” REV. FATHER CHIAPPA OF LOS GATOS PREACHES ON “HELL" Father Vincent Chiappa of Los Gatos preached the morning sermon yesterday at the Church of St. Ignatius. It was a doctrinal address on ‘Hell.” brief: “According to the words of the parable, ‘Gather up first the cockle and bind it into bundles to burn, but gather the wheat into my barn, the just and the wicked till doomsday ‘will live on the same earth, They will bé fostered by the same son of justice, Jesus Christ; will receive increase and vigor from the same shower of divine grace, will receive the same sacraments, inhale the same air. Yet, like good and noxlous plants, though growing side by side, the one converts the elements of the soil ‘Into life-glving substance, the other changes them into deadly poison. The one supplies costly furniture for the Mas- ter's house, the other ministers fuel to his fire. The cockle represents the reprobate, tha wheat the just. The former will be gathered by angels’ hands, bound up into bundles and cast Into everlasiing fire. The latter will be gathered to God’'s eternal kingdom.” BEARING OTHER'S BURDENS IS THE HIGHEST USE OF LIFE At St. Luke's Church yesterday morning the rector, Rev. D. C. Garrett, preached on “Burden-bearers” from the text, “Bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ."—Gallatians vi:2. Mr. Garrett said that what St. Paul meant by the law of Christ was the new commandment, “Love one another.” He owed the naturalness of this law. Said e “Christ gave it new motive and new He said in | | | power. but the principle prevaled In part n the religlons of the Old World and was even postulated In the instincts of animal life. There IS not only the survival of the fittest but the self-surrender of the strong to save the weak. This is lllustrated in various ways. The same law holds good in social and organic relations. The joy as well as the duty of bearing others’ burdens is the highest use to be made of e. —— DR. NELANDER PREACHES ON DESTINY OF THE NATION The Rev. Dr. E. Nelander preached a sermon yesterday morning to the congre- gation of the First English Lutheran Church on the manifest destiny of the nation. The stately edifice on Geary street was filled with an interestd con- gregation, who followed the speaker with close attention. Dr. Nelander said in_conclusion: ““The strange record of territorial ex- pansion and the startling development of national power looks like a manifest des- tiny. We may not want Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines, but the question is, Can we avold taking them under our care? God save us as a nation from the pride of conquest, but may He make us willing to assume any responsibility which He may impose upon It has been dis- covered that our wealth is over fifty thousand millions, and that we are the richest nation on ‘earth. We are among the great military nations. our President can stamp his foot and summon an army. On statistical author- ity there are 27,000,000 of religious people in this country. It is for them to lay this mighty country of ours at the feet of Christ.” L geit e DR. YOORSANGER SPEAKS ON COLONIZATION BY FORCE Rabbl Voorsanger spoke at the Turk- street Temple last night, under the ausplces of the Social Democratic party, on the subject of “Colonization.” His n | address was an historical resume of the various migratory movements in man- kind’s march in search of better condi- tions. He said in brief: “No nation’s right to its lands bhas been recognized by superior forces. We have displaced the Indian, and he has conquered. some preceding type. I will draw no conclusion,as to the justice or injustice of conquest, but will conclude by saying that in my opinion no mun has a right to take what belongs to another.” < An animated discussion of the question by the members of the party followed the interesting address. Malt:Natiine fires the stagnant life with ambition and ability to dare and do. It {s made by the Anheuser- Busch Brewing Ass'n, which fact guarantees its merit. e Died From Tuberculosis. The examination had by Dr. Zabala of the body of Mrs. Mary Carr, the wife of Thomas Carr, who is locked up in the City Prison on the charge of manslaugh- ter, revealed tuberculosis of the lungs as the cause of death. There were no marks of violence on the body. —_————— The Mormon’s Little Joke. Tourist (at Salt Lake)—But think of the sin of having seven wives. Mormon—You forget, brother, that I am ruled by my seven wives. Tourist—What has that to do with it? Mormon—A good deal. Don’t you know, brother, a ‘Person under seven is not re- sponsible for what he does?—Chicago | erness in the following epigram, got off ews. with purpose to wound him; there was real point and sting in it: Mere Practice. bh ' few marriages grow out of these sumr}‘x?r attachments,” said the observing an, ™iNo; most trial heats replied the horsey man.—Philadelphia North Ameri- can, | ot | tions of the play or the insight neces Like Pompey. | i Bubsequent to Garrick's day THE NOTED PLAY POPULAR STUDIES Mabie, Dr. Albert S, Cook, Dr. Hiram Corson, and others. IV. KING LEAR. The Play as an Acting Drama. The poet Shelley sald of *King Lear” | that it was “the most perfect specimen | the dramatic art existing in the world.” Another critic has said of it that | it 1s “the greatest single achievement in | poetry of the Teutonic or northern gen-| fus.” ! Though the full measure of these esti-. mates the critical world may not wholly | | consent to, yet the world comes very near | | sketch, to be attractive to actresses who to consenting to them. “King Lear” is universally admitted to be one of the| very finest productions of dramatic art | and dramatic poetry the world has; known. [ And yet, great as “King Lear” is as a | play and as a dramatic poem, its great- | ness s not altogether realizable to the | ordinary reader. i The ordinary reader has rarely the! imagination necessary properly to con- | celve the greatness of the characteriza- properly to perceive the depth and mean- ing of its ethical lessons. | It thus follows that for a perfect appre- | s ’;/ clatlon of the power and beauty of this | great play one must see it acted. But here, again, another difficulty | arises. Great as the play “King Lear” is, it deals with situations so improbabie, | it supposes charactér and conduct £0 un- | usual, it calls for the impersonation of | intellectual qualities so closely bordering upon the fantastic and grotesque, that | unless acted with consummate skill the | play ceases to be of the realm of serfous | drama and becomes absurd melodrama. | Only the greatest actors should play in | “King Lear.” Only the greatest actors | really can play in it. | This difficuity was realized early In the history of the play. Wa have no evi- dence indeed that “King Lear” was ever | { popular in the form in which Shakes- | peare wrote it until within comparatively | recent times. | In 1681, three-quarters of a century af- | ter the play was first written, there was | made a version of the play, long known, | from the name of the person who made | it, as “Tate’s version,” and this “King | Lear” is the only “King Lear” that for | nearly a hundred and fifty years was ever heard of. The principal differences’ between the | amended version and the real version were two. In Tate’s “King Lear” the play ended happil ‘otherwise,” says the author, “I must have incumbered the stage with dead bodies, which conduct makes many tragedies conclude with un- seasonable jests.” In the amended ver- slon, also, the part of the Fool—one of | the most delicately pathetic but difficult- ly realizable parts in the whole Shakes- pearean repertoire—was omitted. ‘When, then, we read of “King Lear,” or of actors playing *“King Lear” in the| whole of the eighteenth century or in the first two decades of the nineteenth cen- tury, we must remember that it is not Shakespeare's “King Lear” that is meant, but Tate’s or some other version of the play. Shakespeare’'s great creation was | as yet but impertectly understood. Though Betterton, Barton Booth and Quin all played “King Lear,” there does not seem to have been any really great “King Lear” till Garrick's time. Then there were two—Garrick himself and Gar- rick's great rival, Spranger Barry. In the vear 1756 Barry began to play “King Lear” in Covent Garden. Garrick, with whom from tHe first the part had been one of his very best, considered this a challenge, and at once responded by re- viving “King Lear” in Drury Lane. Lon- don, and indeed all intellectual England, became divided into two camps—the be- Hevers In Garrick's art and the believers | in Barry's. Here s one of the epigrams of the day: The town has found out different ways To praise the differerit Lears, To Barry they give loud huzzas; To Garrick—only tea: Here {s another: A King—nay, “every inch a king,* Such Barry doth appear. But Garrick's quite another thing— He's “every inch King Lear.” These jeux d’esprit of course were fa- vorable to Garrick; and, indeed, if their point be founded on fact, and there is little doubt but that it is, they concede to Garrick a place in his art the very highest. But not all the wits of the town were with Garrick. It was said that Garrick ‘was jealous of his younger rival, and so much so that there was more than clev- Critics, attend and judge the rival Lears, Whilst each commands applause and each your tears. Then own the truth—well he performs his part ‘Who touches, even Garrick, top:ha heart, : wm‘ %) EDWIN FORREST AS KING LEAR. | great actors played the part RS OF KING LEAR. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. IN SHAKESPEARE. Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. Willlam J. Rolfe, Dr. Hamilton W. Dr. Isaac N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. Scudder Lear” for many years does not seem to have met with great success. Once (In 1788) the ‘“tragic muse,” Mrs. Siddons, chose the play for her benefit night and played Cordelia, while her brother, John Kemble, renowned for his power in the “curse part,” played the King. But Mrs. Siddons did not much affect the play, nor indeed has any other great actress, al- though critics universally agree in esti- mating Cordelia as one of the very no- blest of all the Shakespearean heroines, But the part is too slight, too merely a have a reputation to make, or, indeed, to sustain. The first great Lear, in the true Shake- spearean conception of the character, was Edmund Kean. Kean's first appearance in the part was in Drury Lane in 1820. But although by general consent Kean is ranked the greatest impersonator of Shakespearean character the world has known, still his Lear was not in all its parts a complete success. Indeed Hazlitt, who was an intense admirer of Kean, thought that in some respects it was ine ferior to Kembl We said that the first great Lear, in the true Shakespearean conception of the part, was Edmund Kean; but e 1 Kean did not introduce into his version of i | the play Shakes- peare’s Fool. This was done by Mac- ready January 25, 1838. Macready thus has the honor of having been the ans who first presented to the world tl plag of “King Lear’ as Shakespeare wrote it. But even Macready was very nervous about the matter. On January 4 he wrote: *“My opinion of the intro- duction of the Fool is that, like many terrible contrasts in poetry and painting, in acting representa- tion it will fail to effect. It will either weary of distract the spectator.” Next day he wrote that he had mentioned his apprehension to some ds ok described ! e says, “‘the sort of fragile, hectie, beautiful- faced boy that he should be, and stated my belief that it never could be acted. Bartley (a friend) observed that a woman should play it. I caught at the idea and instantly _ex- claimed, ‘siss Hor- ton is the very per- son! vas de- lighted at the thought.” part of Lear's Fool, Macready's e, has been al- most always played by a wom. Lear Macready’s wasone of his great- est parts. But, like most _actors ~ who have tried the part, he was not equally good at all points of it. He especially ex- celled in lines calling for tenderness,pathos and the expr of yearning and sym- pathy. The storm and stress of Lear's moments of passion were scarcel his. And yet Bulwer Lytton, who was no mean judge, spoke of ‘“‘the Titanic grandeur” of Macready's Lear. “King Lear held a conspicuous place in those great Shakespearean revivals that in the middle of the century Charles Kean made at the Princess’ and Samuel Phelps made at Sadler’s Wells. These of Lear themselves, but, like their predecessor Macready, they were each greater in the milder and more pathetic aspects of Lear’s highly composite character than in the larger and more powerfully im- pressive aspects of it. In America the two great Lears have been Edwin Forrest and Edwin Booth. Lear was one of Forrest's greatest parts. But Forrest had plaved too much and too long In the way of ‘“‘tickling the | ears of the groundlings” ever to become a perfect Lear. He lacked the stateli- ness, the grandeur, the dignified vener- ableness of him who was “every inch a King.” And yet Lear was a part in which Forrest constantly kept overcom- ing the rough and obtrustive individu- ality of his youth, and in hich, there- fore, he constantly grew_mellower and nobler and_ greater. Booth's Lear, though a noble one, was, of course, out- shone by nis Richelieu and his lL.amlet. Note—The stud King Lear will be concluded next Thursday. STEAM SPEEDS AT SEA. Power Required for Increased Speed. Outlook for the Future. As to the speed of the future, I remem- ber reading an article on mechanical im- possibilities _written about twenty-five vears ago. It was well written, and pos- sibly it was generally correct, but one operation, which was cited as impossible of accomplishment, was that of propelling a steamer at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour across the ocean. At that time the Atlantic had never been crossed by a screw steamer at so high a rate as fifteen miles an hour, the Scotia being the fastest liner in those days, she having crossed tne | Atiantic at an average rate of fourteen and one-third knots. Steaming across uue ocean at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour might, therefore, well have been looked upon at that date as impossible, but to-day there are steamers which have reached that speed, and there are others in course of construction which may prob- ably exceed that rate across the Atlantic. Although, roughly speaking, the powsr required to propel a steamer varies with the cube of the speed, yet before a third of the next century expires another in- crease of at least 50 per cent in ocean gpeed may safely be prophesied. How this is to be accomplished it would be too hazardous to attempt to surmiSe; but I may point out how I think it will not be done, and that is by carrying and hand- ling 5000 tons of bunker coals in a hull drawing nearly fifty feet of water. The model of the ocean mail steamer of the next century will probably be that of a very much enlarged ‘‘destroyer’” of great breadth and length and small draught of water forward. Lighter and stronger materials will compose the structure, which may be moved by multiple propellers, possibly ‘working in a tunnel, so that a number of wheels could be worked by separate shafts, actuated by rotary motors, as the sizes on screw shafts and engines and now under construction are perilously large; v the motive power may be pro- duced by compressed air or gas. Then, the form of least resistance probably be- ing discovered, the hull, broad and light in comparison with the augmented di- mensions,. will rise on top of the waves rather than pass through them. The rol- ing and pitching may be more severe than at present, but with improved cabins and a shortened voyage, the difference may not be noticed. The construction of a steamer of 65,000 tons will probably not troutle the constructors of the future nearly as much as did the building of the Great Eastern those of the past. There will be infinitely less labor, both mental and physical, than was required for tha construction of a great ship in those days. —Cassler's Magazine. Fortune. “Young man, didn’'t I hear my daughter in the parlor a ago?” “No, you Kkissing few minutes ma'am. You heard your daughter “King | kissing me."—Chicago Tribune.