The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1900, Page 7

AMUSENMENTS. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE Speciat A FEW BOX SEATS| LEFT! PRIGE §5 OR FIVE EXGHANGE TICKETS. "HIS - AFTERNOON At 1:30. Sharp, Doors Open at 12:30. BENEFIT 1D0W AND ORPHANS SWEENEY, . Hero of the Fir: Departm ~—— Given by the — ‘ssociated Theatrical Managers of Sam Francisco THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1900, OPERA HOUSE - Manager JRAN TAIN VENING \E\A‘ July 24, THE NEW FRAWLEY COMPANY gwill's Play, CHILBREN OF THE GHETTO Regular Matines mporium. *TIVOLI* Annther Sensational Success! ses Are Witnessing fhe Revival Gem, HE GEISHA — EVERY EVENING ORI SAT- ! AY MATINEE. POPTYL | | | DUNNE & RYLEY L' STAR CAST tion of Hoyt's Latest COLUMBIA 5 VERY NIGHT rx"t:r" SUNDAY. HEN RY MILLER' AND A SPECIAL COMPANY. nly, Jerome K. Jerome's Comedy, “MISS HOBBS™ Next Wesk—SEATS NOW READY. | HENRY MILLER | 1AL COMPANY in a Magnificent | Production of “THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.” An A BILL BEYOND CRITICISM. THE BEST OF THE SEASON. The Greatest Comedy Quartet in America. The Four COHANS, Presenting “THE GOVERNOR'S SON." TODD FAMILY OF ACROBATS, CARRING- TON, HOLLAND AND GALPIN, | GILBERT AND MUSICAL DALE, § — TE. | Y DEANE, GRAPE- NCE. Reserved seats, end box seats, Matinees Wednesday, BESBZAR LAST THREE NIGHTS. LAST MATINEE SATURDAY. FLORENCE ROBERTS pported by WHITE WHITTLESEY, | SAPHO £EATS NOW READY FOR NEXT WEEK. FLORENCE ROBERTS “CARMEN” | fxtra h@fiy Matimes, | CHUTES AND zoo.'.':’..“.:?""...; The Celebm'ed—i’ilsn Family. | TO-MORROW NIGHT. MONSTER CAKEWALK NEW ARTISTS. Beats by Phone F Park FlSCHER S Loncsn‘r Housz. Last Week of the LA!BARDI orr.lu onu. BR. in Scenes From 25c; 10c: opera chairs Saturday end Sunday. Order SUTRO BATHS OPEN NIGHTS. » Datly From 7 e m. to 11 p.m. AD!‘ frfln 7a Il 1o 10 bRk & Bazhing Weekly Clll. §1 per Year o l : [ e R R e e S S S HE Alaska Commerc Portland—the first steamer Nome—made port vesterday. Much to the surprise of the hotel men, she brought only five passengers, and to the disgust of the people who expected to see miilions in her treasure room, she brought only an ounce of gold. Even that ounce is in the shape of a curlo at the end. of aptain Lundquist's watchchain. Of the e passengers on the steamer some Wwere Russian missionaries and the others were men fal Company's from mer only lay a few hours at Nome, ptain Lundquist’'s i ructi were to get back to San Francisco as quickly as possible. That accounts for the fact t no treasure came down on the amer, but the company expects at least a million on the St. Paul. If the Portland brought neither passen- gers nor gold from the gold she { carried news of lively times at the new 1 Dorado and prospects of bloodshed be- fore matters can be straightened VACATION SHOES e MONEY-SAVING PRICES. FOR THIS WEEK. | LADIES' TAN LACE AND BUTTON SHOES, mostly narrow toes and | . widths ... Rrpserserons B 1] LADIES' !\A\GAR"!O AND CALF (La ber & Co.) SHOES 65 LAk TAN GOLF BHOBS x LA FR KID E: FH")ES—“)\&I re left.. . LADIES' TAN OXFORDE, LXV hee MEN'E TAN HAND-WELT 25 .95 SHOE. volnted toss, mafrow width sizes § 1 i MEN'S CALF BUTTON AND COM GRESS, full plain toe, small sizes, nar- row wi CHRLDREN'S PATENT L‘FATHER and K1) SHOES, odd lot.... Most a1l of sbove small sizes NO MAIL ORDERS FILLED. We will not exchange or return monmey on these goods. See prices in windows and bargain counter. We also have full lines of new Summer Footwear. Popular prices. 75 |B30-832-834 MARKET ST, S. F.| | PAINLESS DENTISTRY | { NO PLATES REQUIRED removable bridge work is beautiful and ‘Warranted 10 years. Our $5.00 Piates fitiike G glovs. Our method for painless extractin fs “patented ond used by no other dentist on the Pa- cific Coast. .Il'rr ,‘llllnsl 850c Mrs. L 'Walsh wiil attend to the children's teeth—painlessly. R, L. WALSH, §1% GEARY ST., between Hyde and Larkin. Office Hours—5 &, m. to 5 p. m.; Sundays, $ to 12 Telephone Polk 1135. BELMONT HOME ' 'For Sale at aBargain Elegant house of 8 rooms, bath and base- ment. hot and coid water throughou expogure, Seven minutes from station; elevated wite fl\—rloflkln‘ the town. Eix acres, orchard, 1 about house; barn lnd h houses: all fenced Excelient water suppl Cost owner $10,000, but compeiled t) remove Fast, bence will sell at sacrifice. Investigate | and make offer. Apply to owner, J. D. ALLAN, Co 2d eni Erewran. PALACE HOTEL standard of excellence raln- - and Ifll—.d " these hotels ted by a discriminating and fas- nuo- dunuh who regularly make them juarters when in ogic By TSt per, RS 4 shopping use- ::mu with the fus adva ot street cars to all polnts of plan. Furcpean plan. GRAND HOTEL CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. OUR GOLD DREDGING PUMPS KROGH 3 e T3 who wintered at Dutch Harbor. The | out. | Southern | B R R S O R SR Sy STEAMSHIP PORTLAND RS | oo B S o There are at least half a dozen claimants for every location on the beach, and every estaurant, millinery store, wash- d lodging house has been let and il one knows where he ren the Portland sailed the or- had arrived and were as- sertifg their clalms. Free fights were of d.n._*' occurrence. Women and children had been thrown “on the beach” without a cent. Men who had pai last cent had been house sublet v stands. Wt iginal owne: to get a start and found they fooled 3 polishing up ng about th a Lundquist Port _Hosecrans. -Jormerly the nospita ship Missouri, was on the mud flats sixty miles south n( Nome when we started for home. The vessel was in no danger un- |lese a gale came up, and then I think the crew would have been in_no danger. “The steamer Charles Nelson had hard time of it in the ice, and finally ha to put back to Dutch Harbor. The ve: was not damaged, but while she was t a d 1 ing to find an opening through the ice her provisions gave out and she had to | put back. It was she that reported the Rosecrans on the mud flats. “The Charles Nelson got back to Un- | alaska on June 15 and the chances are that she is now at Cape Nome. “There was only a small supply of coal at Dutch Harl coal vessels be no shortage. “All that was left of the bark Alaska when we left Nome was her port bow. e expected, so there will 'BLOODSHED MAY FOLLOW CLAIM-JUMPING AT NOME 'Original Owners Were Out in the Cold and State of An- archy Reigned When the Portland Left Goldfields on the Eighteenth of June. D400 040400040000 06+0+0+T+0+0+0+00000+0 -nd inside of twenty- + | was at | scene and there are ‘razors in + land over all t @+ 600+ 0+ -+ 9o etg | ¢ SHIP THAT CAME FROM NOME AND ONE OF THE PASSENGERS. [ R O e O o O O o O e s S = four hours broke up. me of the cargo and nearly all-of the prl\ ate effects of the passengers were saved. The barkentine Catherine Sudden Nome. She was di 5 | oot Adoman all cihe, T sk sevesns | cutter Corwin towed her in and the cap- }uln was claiming both vessel and cargo as salvage. Owners Robbed by Agents. “What a man gets hold of up there he keeps, and in many instances Keeps it at | the point of a gun. Restaurants, lodging- | housés, saloons, stores. barber-shops and | in fact all kinds of businesses were left in the hands of agents last fall while the owners went to San Francisco for the winter. These agents have sold the places and cleared out with the money. Now the original owners are appearing on the the air.’ “On the trip from San Francisco to Nome we had a passenger named Morton. He owned a fine restaurant and lodging- house at Anvil City when he left for home Jast Septembers but when he got back there 2 cnu‘ple of weeks ago he wasn't sure where he came off. The Curley sis- ters were running his restaurant, t Havden girls had a millinery establish- ment in the ugsm(rs portion of the house ere was a manager with a | IRST PASSENGERS shotgun. Morton was still arguing the tter when we left. On the beach it was just €0 per rent worse than uptown. In the town, as a general rule, there was only about one claimant to other men's property In each case, but on the beach there was never less than six. Wherever a claim had been staked out and the owner had left the district he invariably found six men to contest_his rights on his return. Bogus agents sold things right and left and in consequence there will be endless litiga- tion before things are straightened out. No wonder all the big claim owners took up lawyers with them.” Mrs. Winter's Perilous Trip. About the only interesting thing among the cargo of the Portland was an Esqui- mau dog. This animal was brought all the way Wrom the Mackenzie River. A Mrs. Winter and her husband had been | wintering at Hersei®l Island among the r and Unalaska, but many | alers when the new: Nome strike reached that of the earth.” They ¥trade''—the Esguimaux deslgnation of goods—from the whalers and with the “trade’” purchased dogs and a guide from the Esquimaux. Over the ice and_snow, following the trail made by Mate Tilton, when he brought out the news from the frozen-in whalers, they made their way to Nome and were right in the thick of the excitement when the Portland sailed. Mre. Winter sent the pick of her team to San Franecisco. is one of the hand- somest Esqui er brought out | of the frozen , not barring’ even | those which Lord Lonsdale brought back | after his famous trip. The Portland will only remain a few | days in port. Just as soon as her out- ward cargo can be put aboard she will of the Cape “uttermost part ih' was driven ashore durlng a hurr!rane‘tall again for Nome and York. H@-o—o—«@a—o.wg—o— e M+¢»0-0++~ at once purchased | NEWS FROM THE OCEAN AND THE WATER FRONT Toyo Kisen Kaisha's Steam- er Nippon Maru Arrives From the Orient. A SN PR Overdue Schooner Americana Reached Honolulu Short of Provisions and Water on the 14th Inst. P A pon Maru arrived from the Orient. yester- day via Honolulu. run from Yokohama to San Francisco and reached port a day ahead of time. The cabin passengers on the mail boat were the following named: F. L. Amiage, Master F. Amiage, E. Bernheim and wife d Mrs. G. A. Bidkne] Burger, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. J. wife and ‘child; A a wife, r ki, Lies ® | Sinane Capeain Hinise. Mins L. Henningham, | Hughson, Dr. T. ' Kochibe, Konomi, ) Paul Merling, Miss San Lee, Mre. Yuen Mo, | Nakimura, 0. Rowe, J. A. L. Ross, Miss | S. Sharpe, H. H. Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, Princess B, Duléep Singh and mald, T. Strauss, Mrs. San Lee, Miss Fong Soo, wite, B. V. H. Vingno, John Warnker. Y. Wat- | | anabe, Miss M. P. W. Whitney Roberts, Mrs. { Roberts. | Complaint was filed with the Collector | of the port yesterday by Surveyor | Spear's office against the Japane: | steamer Nippon Maru for an alleged vio- lation of the shipping laws being the transportation of Mr. and Mrs, . Roberts from Honolulu to this city. ‘ll is averred in the complaint that ths | steamer violated the act of Congress de- | claring Hawali a port of the United | States by taking passengers from one | port of the U'nited States to another port | of the same country. Schooner Americana Safe. The Nippon Maru brings thé news that She started TYor San Francisco nearly four months ago and the local owners and insurance people were \er\ much worried over her long trip. safe at Honolulu. now_ learned that owing to light vnmh and calms’ the vessel could not | make any headway for this port. Finally when the provisibns_and water began to et short Captain Perry squared away for Honolulu, where he arrived June Jd. By that time the men were for want of water. Two days later, when a full supply had been got aboard, an- other start was m de for San Francisco. # Among the in: men_there w 000" on the, Bt on the freight and $44.0 on the cargo. (it is no wonder there was a =Igl\ of Nhs'f when the news of the arrival of the vessel at Honolulu reached here. | Cslifornian on Trial. |, The largest merchant steamer ever bullt_in this State. the Californian, had her trial” on the bay yester- day. = flying light, so there | was no chance tc rer speed, but the | machinery proved to be in perfect order and gives promise of doing everything the | butlders have promised for it. There is some question as to where the Californian will g0 on her maiden trip. She was originally intended to load here for New York wvia Honolulu, but John Rosenfeld's Sons want her to make a few trips for them on the coast, and the Go ernment wants her K few to efther Manila, Honolu where the big Steamer will g doubt, but one thing does not enter the Government service she | will make a_few trips on the coast for Rosenfeld’s Sons. Steamers Change Hands. The well-known coasting steamer Point 1d by the Mendocino Lamber Company to Beadie Br She will continue running under the new flag to_Point Arena and Mendocino City. The steamer Farallone has been Seattie parties. The purchasers have been trying to buy from Captains Thayer, deérson and Gray for some months p and a decision was reached vesterda Water Front Notes. H. Levi & Co. filed a libel in the T States District Court yesterday az | the British ship Merechal Souchet to re- cover $1669 20 for failure to deliver in good order certain merchandise shipped from Liverpool to San Francisco. It is alleged in the complaint that the merchandise was damaged owing to the ship being un- seaworthy, overloaded and negligently | handled, and to the freight bhaving been jmproperly packed. X. n de Castelle. proprietor of the llodglng ouse &t 80 Moktgomery street, attempted to cut his throat early yester- day morning. He had been drinking heavily. Dr. von der Leith attended him | at the Harbor Hospital and thinks he will recover. SPENT SIX YEARS IN WESTERN CH|NA on Their Way to Their Homes in the East. Rev. Daniel T. Ekrall and wife, who | have spent six years in Western China | | as missionaries for the Baptist church, arrived at the Occidental yesterday on their way back to their old home in the | Bast. They have aiready been | months on their journey. It | months of hard travel to come from their station to the coast, where they could catch the steamer. The journey was | made for the greater part of the dis- t in house boa floating down the | rivers. miles were covered afoot, and only occasionally was it pos- | sible to get a lift from ox-carts. The \<la jon at which the Ekralls have been | preaching and teaching is one of the S m‘:fuo;-fl"' for ® Days: o | frontier points. Mr. Ekrail said yester- 1 aa; e 00 | “The Boxer movement did mot affect 1.00 | our locality at all: in fact. we did not $1°65 | hear of it until we reached the coast. We were not molested in any way on our Journey except in a few localities where a prejudice seemed to exist against for- eigners. I do not think that Western China will be affected by the Boxer | moyement."” An interesting party of Japanese rived on the steamer Nippon Maru yester- 1 day and are at the Occldental. M. Ya- mata, leader of the party, has been a iresident of France for fourteen years |and now holds the position of Japanese Consul at Lyons. He is accompanied by his wife, a French lady of excellent fam- HI) whom he met on the occasicn of his first visit to France. proved a very happy one. is said to speak the purest French of the many Af his fellow countrymen who have learned the I uage. He is pow on his way to his statior is ompanied by three secreiaries who have been trained in the consular service. Dr. T. Kochibe, another member of the | party, is a director of the Imperial | logical Survey of Japan and s on his| | way to Washington on a tour of re- | search and study, having been specially ‘commissioned by !trip. He is accompanied by a secretary | | and servants. | The third distingulssed member of the | i party is Dr. Y. Watenabe, an architect | of the Imperial Navy Department of the | \ Japanese Government, who ‘has been de- | talled to make a tour of this country gnd | Europe to make a special study of naval | construction. His position is-equivalent | o that of naval constructor in the American navy. —_———— Doherty’s Hand Was Mangled. James Doherty, a boy aged 13 years, vm.twm;l:‘:wmrmm | s, o e i s gt the member as b.fly The was con’ the County Hospital, Wi h‘ dressed, after which he was bis home at 1824 York street. Geo- | his Government for the | | is at the Palace. | dozen Chinese found sneaking across the | four | took two | FOE OF ARIZONA CHINESE SLAVE DEALERS| Baptist Missionaries Reach This City | \ Marshal Seibreith of Arizona Is Here to Deport Human Chattels. Tnited States Marshal George L. Sei- breith of the Southern District of Arizona | He is here to deport a Mexican berffer. and dozen either. For it is not his first years Marshal Sei- breith has been the sworn enemy of tha | Chinesg and has devoted much of his time to putting a stop to the work of smuggling | them across the line. It is said that he has arrested and deported more Chinese who were seeking to get into the country illegally than any other United States official. Aside from his crusade against | the Chinese Marshal Seibreith is knowa all over the Territory as a terror to ev doers. Since boyhood he has been dealin: with the roughest kind of characters and has, since he attained his majority, al- ways been an officer, eitier for the Ter- ritory or for the United States. He has now reached middle-age. A dead shot ard | absolutely fearless fighter, he has made | his presence felt all along the Mexican border and his name is feared and re- | spected. Personally. Marshal ‘Seibreith 13 ar- | The union has | Mr. Yamata | a pleasant gentleman to meet anywhere, a gocd story-teller and an equally good | ll]s'enel'. He has many friends in th's city. ! R ‘Will Fot Be Evicted. G. R. Inglis, an engineer, lives with his family at 316 Turk sfreet. The landlady, | Mrs. Carrie Harding, wants to get rid of | them, but they refuse to move. Yester- day morning Mrs. Harding got possession of the rpoms occupied by the Inglis family and locked herself in. She refused to ai- low Inglis to enter and he chnpged down the door with an ax and with the assist- ance of his family dragged Mrs. Hardin out. She hurried to the City Hall an secured a warrant for Inglis’ arrest on the charge of malicious mischief. He was ar- rested and released on cash bafl. C e————— Ex-Soldier Gohring Missing. Mrs. S. Ruttger, who resides on the eor- ner of Powell and Filbert streets, reported at the Morgue yesterday the disap Gohring, f(tl:r. saw ance of John M. ng, an %89 who lodged. in her house.” She him on the 13th of this month. | heen drinking for some time % revious and | ehe feared that an accident had befallen Lim. He is about 42 vears old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighs about 100 pounds. e LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE ARRIVED, Thursday, June 2, sthr Alcatraz, Carlson, 54 hours from Port Parc'nr“t»m Vance, Hardwick, 15 days from Sehr Tmpossible, Low, § hours from Point Schr CASPAR — X’?flvear.;c Pofl Stmr Cleone, A une hence June 2. OCEAN STEAMERS. LIZARD—] June 29—Stmr La Cham- from New York, for Havre. ved uguste He had 'Was Conveyed 10 | Vicoria. from New' Tork for Hambure. and proceeded. iARCHBISHO—P RIORDAN | IS NOW ON THE OCEAN | He Will Be Met When He Arrives at New York by Rev. Father McQuaid. | on his way to New York. He sailed from Liverpool Wednesday last. The ngws was | brought jn a letter that was received in this city vesterday. The name of the steamer on which he embarked wa$ not mentioned, but it is supposed to be the Oceanic. Advices received yesterday make it probable that the Archbishop may not_arrive in this ci before the | 18th of July, which is so days later | than expected. When he arrives at New York he will be met by Rev. Father Jo- seph McQuaid of this city, who was sent to the P alplnPs about two yvears ago. | Father McQuaid was at Negros witk a battalion of the First California Volun- teers for a time. He also performed hos- | pital duty in the Philippine: He then | went to Rome, and is in New York on his Fay home, but waiting for ~the Arch- | bishop. —_—————— { Clerk and Draughtsmen Wanted. The United States Civil Service Com- | missfon announceg that on July 10, 11, 12, 113 and 14 examinations will be held for | the following positions: Structural steel draughtsman in the New York Navy Yard at l‘mlary of $4 per diem; draughts- man in 'naval architecture, lighthouse service, at a salary of $5 per diem; clerk, subsistence department at large, San Francisco, salary not stated. | " Persons’ who desire to compete should | apply at once to the United States Civil (Be ce Commission at “Washington, D. for application forms, which should | | be pmperly executed and returned at once to the commission. ————— Decision of a Wise Judge. L. Rosenberg, a furniture dealer on | Larkin street, was the complainant ‘and | 3. F. Beck, 1143% Folsom street, the de- | fendant in a search-warrant case in Judge | Fritz's court yesterday. Rosenberg lost | a Forester's badge and Beck found it. berg only offered 50 cents. Beck declined to give uj | warrant. d, but that it should go to the 'weeney relief fund. Both were agree- able, but Rosenberg wanted his name used in the subseription list. Th&ludge ruled against him and Beck's namd will appear. sy st i Tricked Qut of His Money. * John Coggeshall, an old man living at 702 California street, swore to a complaint in Judge Fritz's court yesterday after- noon for the arrest of ‘John Doe, seller of lottery tickets, on the charge og obtaining money by false pretenses. Tne ticket seller call him yesterday morning and made him glad by the an- noummegt ":::1 dh% h‘ult won a ng ixe $1200, bnl sw ave to pay ore | get Coggeshall that he & nvu the man §15. AS he ta id not return he made ii and fo\md that he had been told a fairy tale. Sha it Dismissed. Anastasia Nunan Shaughnessy has dis- | POTt -fi: hflrm-u‘amemnotumk the order of dismissal. The Toyo Kisen Kalsha's steamer Nip- | Bhe made a very fast | Duerr, William | R. Tjadede and | the offense | the long-overdue schooner Amefjcana ig Archbishop Riordan is on the Atlantie, | Beck wanted a reward of $1, but Rosen- | the. badge, hence the search | 'he Judge decided that $1 should od Copyright, 1900, L At the beginning of this century educa- tion was well established in the hearts and convictions of the American people. There were twenty-four colleges in the | country—five Congregational, two Presby- terian, three Episcopalian, one Baptist. one Catholic and twelve non-sectarian. The most Western was the State insti- | tution at Nashville. In nearly all the European colleges State systems were de- | veloped, but State supetvision where it had been tried had generally been a fall- ure and city supervision was unknown | The monitorial system of Bell and Lan- caster was attracting attention; higher education for women did not exist, and inarfes of a very primitive and inadequate type. The question of training teachers was almost as little known as were phy- ‘slcal training and school hygiene. The textbooks of the perlod were few and ‘rPadlng for children was meager and | mainly religious. There were practically | no assoctations for teachers. |v\ork was feebly represented by the local ar private academies. The country dis- s trict school represented for the great body of the populkition our educational tem Generally taught in the winter by men, and in the summer, when the older chil- dren were needed at home, by women, was attended by children and youth up to the age of 2. The work was ungrided and all done by one teacher. The studies began with the alphabet and primer and included sometimes even astironom; surveying. Grammar was taught u by pareing standard works of poetr: | English literature, like ~Paradise Lost’ | Pope's “Essa Declamation and Sometimes debates, especially In evening spelling schools, were very prominent. | Evening lessons on the consfellations, col- lection and analysis of plants, elementary anatomy and physiology, struction in Latin were occa: in the district school. Most of those who sought a higher education were on the way to the ministry. The ideals which | sustained and animated education were chiefly those of good citizenship. Sund: school work was largely catechetical for the younger and Biblical for the older classes. In_turning from this general condition of things a century ago to the present the changes are bewildering. Perhaps the first of all is the growth in numbers, size and material equipment. Now there are 409,000 teachers and 15,000,000 pupils, and the school expenditure has grown M l 00, - 000, Sghool bulidings have prov Sspecially within the years there has been a great rena in high school buildings. In many places these ample and tasteful structures are the best and most costly buildings town. Attendance for a compulsory period is enforced in mdst communities by truant laws and in some by truant officers. All this growth in bigness and numbers ap- peals powerfully to the average American mind. Along with this the sentiment on which education s has strengthened and deepened. Perh: on no great tople is there such a univ Faal conschsgs 2e 1 the belief in the public school system. and at the close of the century this conviction shows no sign of weakening | One of the earliest movéments which marked the advent of the century vre development of centralizing ten cies w den. the dangers of which had been well in the constitutional debates. the Public School Society of New York was formed, but not until two or three decades lates advancement in supervision. only every State and cit inténdent, but in ma Now "not has_its super- rts of the coun- try the smailer to are grouped for this parpose. Ammuzh still in many | places a political office. th® benefits of supervision cating teach methods, securing co-operation between ome and the schooi, etc. Already there e been incalculable in edu- office more and more a profession with all that that term implie At the beginning of the cent ers were isolated, but under the influence of Horace Mann, in the forties and fifties, associations, State and municipal, and finally national, have arisen. which bring teachers together for exchange of ideas, give them an esprit de corps, enable them to listen to the best and latest facts and suggesti healthful and needed ri ?e regretted that a few es, while drawing gre gsigns of m chine men wh reation. It is to and even the national association, numbers of teachers, show ipulation by educational ma- hich makes them less attrac- tive to academic leaders and does not ex- | clude cond-rate, rammes. | far enough to work great harm with such teachers as frequent thase meetings. Professiopal training has grown stead- ily. { riod, just | tury. Mgqre recently ments in colleges and universities have contributed to raise the professional standing of the teacher's work. instruction gravitates by an iron law to- ward formalism and excessive method- olo, but for those who study tenden- cies in a large way these dangers are | trivial and temporary. Even those who insist most strongly upon the necessit of radical reforms in normal work not for a moment guestion the great value of these institutions. even at their worst. We can hardly doubt that the ciose of another centu: tion a profession which will rank as high as any in the quality and amount of spe- f raining required. The public senii- vhich doubted fifty years ago that increased eficiency could be thus-Secured, has now practically vanished. The matter of education has changed. The three R's are reduced to very modest | dimensions during the first \'efirs. and a bewildering multiplicity of other topics, if they have not already entered the schoolmom, are knocking at the doer. even through the college and, university, this is still mere { the case. The general feature of this change is the growth of science. Rudimentary physics in the form of natural philosophy was taught at the be- ginning of the century, but chemistry Dblology, geology, meteorology and botany are essentially creations of the present century and invoive radical changes net only of matter but of method. Owleg t this marvelous expansion of the fil | education, _the elective system. whlrh Thomas Jefferson had incorporated in the University of Virginia early in the cen- tury, has been modified and amplified so that now the elective system in college, high and occasionally grammar school is npfidh’ breaking down all trace of the old- fashioned courses. In their piace we find | manifold groups and curricula. and nearly | two-score new academic degrees in which | Latin and Greek are not requir In place of the old uniformity we find a di- ! yversity that fits every individual need, taste and capaeity, thus making the school a life and career-saving station for many a boy whose special gifts were not only undiscovered but suppressed hy the ol@ procrustean method. This has necessarily involved more care- ful scruting of different tastes and gifts and the dest individual diversity has been found. Those who excel in one kind of work are usually defldem in others. hence grading cannot be uniform and edu- cation must give more and more nlace to individual methods as befits a repuhlic. This again has lad to the study of inter- ich “are the first manifestation of ! talent, and «all these tendencies lead to land culminate in child study. which in- ! sists upon a definite survey of health and | aptitudes. 'rno greater ‘the talent the earlier it a ."and it 1 well that the elective sem alowly working its way downwas and necessi- tating more lndlvldln psychol Tech- tMca! and industrial eduecation ‘mainly the product of the last two ar ke dec. ldeu of the last century. The active pow- ers are enlisted and muscle work Is rec- | ognized as never before: even athletic | excesses are tolerated. because It is feit | that thus certain insidious temptations of lvouth are best arded. and the best e hysical basis he later stages of men- l al develo) “are given. Practical traini n{ brings the school into closer rap- th m--utchn trade and com- rses in nedll pchooln are to prépare for al- most_every tion involving either skill or Reading lm- chfldren wpn very Umited commonplace pro- dagogical depart- girls whose schoolink extended Into the | "teens attended private schools and sem- ! High school | it | was there any great | . bringing uniformity into | manifest tendencies toward making | besides providing | of our State bod- | perfecting their organizations and | But this danger can never go | especially since the normal school pe- | before the middle of the cen- Normal | ;v will see educa- | EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE IN 100 YEARS. by Seymour Eaton. COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF TWO CENTURIES. and chiefly religious 100 years ago. and now child libraries and courses of read- ng abound everywhere. On the whole the | quality of these works is improving Most | of the great literary classics of the world from antiquity down are now popularized for children and occasionally introduced in supplementary courses. While excess here is |is always more or less monst tendency. too, is essentially good. At the bottom of the educ tem the kindergarten has lacely present itself and in some places has been incor- of the public school anderstood and carried | out it is a most valuable addition, but the better tendency now Is to keep it waiting until it has been rescued from meta- physics and made, first. more healthful, and. second. more natural. One of the most important move which this century has witnessed development of ‘higher education women. Formerly excluded from all the colleges, re now admitted in_most colleges and universities of the world as a late woman's “Minerv: ows. Col- leges exclustvely for women of a grade of | work equal to those for men have been | established at various points. and no am- bitious girl can compiain that her educa- tional ivr‘,vflepu are not, now essentially as good as those for men. Just what the result of higher education for women is to be the future must determine. W hether collegiate work is especially to train teachers and the unmarried minority who desire to earn their own livelihood, or whether such training is to be mainly for mothers and wives. IS not_yet apparent In place of the (X nty-four colleges of 180 we now ha nearly 40, including thos | ranks which claim the name or t The most tmportant | &ro »{ these new Institutions are the State the best of which are the institutions already powerful rivals of ] t endowed. Tnlus\ institutions flo iy in territory not settled owned by the Government a century ago. The distinctively university moveme: which seek: add a higher story aducational system the last twent more centers W for chief university degree of Ph.D, is given there are two institutions which even 4 el with all dergra work. lture of non-profess rish This « specialization or the home training of pro- fessors is a movement that strongly to the national pride. which does not wish to see the apex of our education- al system in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, and to the personal pride of tha professor who wishes it underst at he can guide graduate as well as under- graduate work. University stude have for several y s co-operated nual meetings appeals very as rBPYQ&nv- ta- seen the first association of tives of American Finally fversities. training has been profession a Most noteworthy are ine. represented now y o 8 stitutions, not more than three or four of which have mueh endowment. Law schools. most of which still lJabor under very great disadvantages and are struggling with poverty, have nevertheles improved and prolonged their eours. Theological schools. which are the oldest. have, nevertheless -‘vx\\rd- ed their curriculum and_inecreased their efficiency, especially in the study an- tiquities' and sociology On the whole, probably no aspect of our national life can present a record of prog- ress greater or more impressive than that of education. More important than anv of the individual changes enumerated is | the growing desire everywhere to securs and to wield the power of knowledge. Children are sent to school earlier; youth linger later in postgraduate courses; ail work harder than ever. aSd perhaps the one chief -source of solicitude as we sur- vey the progress of the century Is the suggestion. What would be the resuit if so much sedentary book work, such strain upon eyes, brain and hands under artifi- cial conditions, which bring vauth during | all the years of its immaturity into condi- tions so radically different from any | which the race has known before, shou'd gradually work toward the deterioration of national life? What if we are laying the foundations not for the dark ages again, but for a new sickly age of the race? Yet here again the new attention to hygiens and all the different forms of, motor edu- cation bid us hope. G. STANLEY HALL, ity. Clark Unive In Aid of Building Fund. An elaborate entertainment for St Church building was given at dence of Chief Coroner's Dep mack at 322 Twenty-ninth street last even- ing. The ladles in whose charge affair was are: Mrs. McCormack, Mrs Shepston, Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. McFar- During the evening a handsom tailor-made gown was raffled off for the benefit of the fund. 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