The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1900. 7 b JURY ASSERTS GRAN‘ THAT DR, NOBLE NEE TO-MORROW, s v | NEW FRA\:ILIiElY‘CobMU;;E;;! WAS NEG“GENT Tt ’r: DANLH}“G EflijPhysician Censured for His Treatment of Paul Stadie. — Autopsy Surgeon Leland Testifles Positively That Death Resulted From Scalding and Not From Poisoning. A RARE BILL OF NOVELTIES! |21 55 i ' bl the ¥ ¢ reard Last Satur- vely BARRERE & ) CLAYTON . Assisted AKER RAPH > taki n entrusted i had been i by him into a tub ent Was ter- WO ™ NIGE THE FOUR COH COLUMBIA LES ing, for imme- moval of the body to ound that two-tidrds led off from the ef- )t water. and Dr‘. Noble admit- me £4DING few F MAN Pr MILLE ad not found rature of the water rdered his as patient, but he did water was too hot. Convenience” 4 the bath under the placed the uncon- ing him there for Both men testified that o) Marfiaga of NRY s 3 minut O+ 0404000000009+ +0DtO+00D 0000000000000+ 04-040-+0-00g + > ? > @ . ¢+ & b d * 2 i . (s 3 “ b ¢ + 4) o : . b 1! . 4 . b¢! . b 4 Q “ b § . . : i & ® . * RS el b¢ . ° * % & * b | o 5 . & @ & * - ol . ol * t! . i ¢+ THE BRITISH SHIP MISTLEY HALL AFTER AN ENCOUNTER WITH A CAPE HORN \; HURRICANE. istants to | not think 1 in the water | . ”»” had plk ed their han “THE LIARS. ng the operation and had not notlced 4 READY it was uncomfortably hot. After- | c s St v lashed Stadic’s naked body with wels and shouted into his ears in to try to awaken him. ry returned a verdict that death fo opium taken with suicidal in- added the fcilowing rider to And the jury expressly disapproves of 1 ce shown the treatment of the hotel before removal to hospital.” DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. | catalogues and Price Lists Malis! | _on Applieation. | ATTORNEY. F. H. MERZBACH, lawyer, COAL, COKR AND P10 1RON, < . 200 ery Stree 2. WILSON DD, Sy seic ] YT A CONTERTED WOMAN DUNNE AND RYLEY’S CAST Sa y. EWS AND coMIC 43 Cal., Clunie Bs. ‘ - o ¢ T = : A gt ECTRICAL. 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WONG WOO, i beadquarters © when' VISIng Han Chinese 1 Herb Sani- 4 Connecte - e ! mnected by a covered passageway 2 4 A e ! and oversted under one manage- % Allgiteased cor nt on the American and European Pians. o1 a | o swollen that i walk. The docto: could not give me any relief | I was persuaded 10 g0 to the | tor, Wong Woo. and | eteiy cured and in ined 25 pounds in | sure in recommend- | e suffering in any way what- | 3 RAUCH, 13% Freelon st., city. il -k outor Rheumatism, ifon the fi B R e edy; then, a single dose is often sufficient. E-FOUGERA & CO., 26.30 N, Willlum St..V. ¥, Mg &8 non-polscnoty zemedy for Gonorriea Gleet, 8 storrhms | Whites apnatursl dis | Giou, arritation or Gicerm BRUSHES FOR BARBERS, BAK- i et } o, honhl‘l;}nckl. bath- -3 ouse iard rueEvans Ciewion Gp, branes. ‘,.,,.m.. bookbinders, candy-makers, c.l:fl:f ourmill dvers, foundries, laundries, hangers, printers, painters, shoe factories, | blemen,” tar-roofers, tanners, tailors, ete. { | BUCHANAN BROS,. ~ | Brush Manufacturers. 609 Sacraments S: ‘CAFE ROYAL W. T. HESS, KUTARY POBLIC AND LTTURNEY-AT-LAW, Sents Fioor, Room 1015, Claus Spreckels Bidg. Telepbone Brown $81. Residence, 521 Califoruia st, below Powell, Bau Francleco. Market, 8. F. Try our Special ' Brew Steam and Lager, 5c. Overcoats and Valises chtcn_d free, 1 \ I i Sorner Fourth ana | )i Le granted to women. {a my | days later was G000 06000000008 4540004000604 006000000000 e00 WS FROM THE OCEAN AND THE WATER FRONT British Ship Mistley Hall Dismasted Off Cape of Storms. Decks Were Swept, Bulwarks Carried Midst the Sulphurous Fumes of the Away and Three of the Crew Were Killed or Drowned During the Gale. BN ST The British ship Mistley Hall, now in Montevideo, had a terrible time of it on June 2 last. She was almost entirely dis- masted, three of the crew were killed or drowned and when the gale blew itself out the vessel was almost & wreck. It is ery to the local shipping men how Captain Logan succeeded in getting his ship back to a port of safety. The Mistley Hall left Liverpool for San Francizco on February 2§, and about ten spoken in latitude 38 north, longitude 12 west. She was not heard from again until the 9th inst., when the news came from London that she had been towed into Montevideo dismasted. vate advices r d by the Mer- chants’ Exchange state that the Mistley | Hall was caught in a terrific storm on June 2 in latitude 58 south, longitude 63 west. The main and mizzen masts went by the board and the foretopmast car- | ried away. Evervthing movable on deck was washed a the bulwarks were | members of the crew lost their livi Pacific | stove, decks stra kindiing wood , boats smashed into worst of all, three The go shifted, and in order to straighten d to jet- and » vessel up Captain Logan on 100 tons of frieght. The Mistley Hall is well known in the San Francisco trade. She has been com- | ing here for years and every man on the | again, | | { | mamis, B. C.. —_— FAINLESS DENTISTRY | and supply departm | proprietor | from car | party of thirteen aboard | hill, for $0. Plaintiff alieges that Justic well as he knows the It front knows her a Oakland ferry-boats. will be many a long day before she is seen in the bay however. The work?of repairing her will be a long and expensive affair, as the new masts and vards will have to nt out from England. Then the ves- sel is old, and the question will be sure arise as to whether the expense of ing her seaworthy again would be justified. She is owned by the Globe Ship- ping Company of Liverpool and was built in 1874. She is 1867 tons net burden, 260 feet long, 42 feet 3 inches broad and 23 feet § inches deep. She carries a general cargo, nearly all of which will be more or less damaged. The Wrestler in a Gale. The barkentine Wrestler, owned here, bad a rough voyage of it to Svdney, N. S W. She went from San Francisco to CI and loaded lumber for Aus tralia. A heavy gale was run into, and in order to save the ship part of the deck- load had to be jettisoned. The bulwarks on the starboard side were carried away and the barkentine was otherwige dam- aged, hut she managed to make her port in saf: 3 Mr. Turner Resigns. R. Turner has been one o it Eamton e of the P: Steamship Company for the five years, has resigned h chief of the outfit and supply department, jus He is now about to take a well earned rest, and with his wife and family will visit the Paris Exposition. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Turner was shipmate with Captain (. Miner Goodall on the old Ori- zaba. For fiv ars he was on the steam- ers managed Goodall, Perkins & Co., in the office of the by then he was ten 3 concern, and for the last ten years he has and chief of the outfit nt. Mr. Turner is the the Turner = been claim agent of which has been adopted Govern- the | ment for the transport service and by all the big steamship lines. Water Front Notes. Ship masters who went to Nome are not faring well. Pr the San Juan state that Captain White side. who went north on the Luella, dead; that Captains Green and Cogan of the wrecked bark Alaska were seriously il with typhoid fever, and that Captain Morine of the wrecked barkentine Cather- ine Sudden was in the hospital suffering er of the throat. Norwood was in y night. She had a and broke down Pt Garquinez Straits. She was drifting around helplessly when the steamer Caro- line picked her up and towed her to San Francisco. & The schooner Oceania Vance was pur- chased by Walter Scammell last Wednes- day, and was soid again yesterday to Cap- tain Walters of Port Townsend, The British ship Hiddekel arrived from Sydney. N. S. W.. 3 \ age of sixty-five days, and the Chilean yosemite arrived from Callao in fifty- six days, while the Afon Alaw was 138 days coming from Swansea. Ali three ves- seis safled in. Sly!;i_nutel Were False. Willlam Rayhill has sued Mary Bankow- The gasoline launch trouble last Wednesda sky, Otto tum Suden and Edward W.| Williams, clerk of the Justices’ Court, to restrain the defendants from issuing or causing an_execution to_issue udement rendered by Justice of the fPenm- Kerrigan against the plaintiff, Ray- Kerrigan was misled by the defendan who, he says, presented false minutes of the ‘court proceedings to the Judge, who based his opinion thereon. ———————— Women Who Want to Vote. The Woman's Franchise Association held a meeting yesterday afternoon at 820 Post street. The association has a membership of 250 throughout the State and has as Its object the amendment of the constitution of this State so that the right of voting Strunsky addressed the gathering on “Family Soclology,” and was awarded great applause at the conclusion of her remarks, te advices received by | o vesterday after a pass- | under a ! Miss Anna 1‘ 1 NOBLE SHRINERS T0 JOURNES T BRI SLES ?Pi]grims Will Sail for Hon- | olulu on the Zea- landia. B ey Hilo Crater Novitiates of Ha- waii Will Undergo Mys- tic Initiation. s The pilgrims of Islam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Noble Mystic- Shrine, will make Honolulu their Mecca on October 9. go there on the Zealandia at the ation of the Hawaiian Islamites to establish a new temple and to initiate several new members. At a meeting held on Wednesday nightin Golden Gate Hall the Mystics discussed the question of the excursion and decided unanimously in favor of it. Potentate Hurlbut was authorized to appoint com- mittees to contribute toward the succes ful carrying out of the proposed excur- sfon. John D. Spreckels is a prominent member of Islam Temple and will accom- | brethren on their trip. | pany his My The Zealandia will convey the Nobles to their goal, and as a measure of prepara- | tion for the trip she has been placed on | the dry dock to undergo a thorough over- hauling. The steamship company has graciously granted the excursionists privilege to sail on a regular steamer October 3, provided return trip is made on the Zealandia, and > permission to remain at the isl- return on regular boat without | extra charge. The inducements for Shriners to make this trip, aside from the general and well- known attractions in the Hawailan grou, is the welcome wnich will be extends them by the resident nobility, who have generously subscribed to 000 fund ex- clusively Tor entertainment purposes. The | Honoluiu Nobles will give the glad hand to all siting Nobles and their ladies, and will treat them to a series of bew! dering delights, the memory of which will | abide with them forever. The Zealandia will go to” Honolulu via Hilo, where the excursioni: will disem- bark for an ascent to the Volcano House, thirty miles distant from the coast, where they will -abide two days. crater of the volcano the initiation of a large number of candidates will be in or- | der. The d made by a mechanical slide extending some six hundred feet into the cavernous depths of the mountain, where the sands | are blisteringly hot. While these ceremo- nies are on the ladies of the party will be suitably entertained in the capacious parlors of the Voleano House, far re- moved from the sulphurous fumes of the | mountain, which at one time in the ves terday of the world was all aflame. | At the close of the rites and ceremo- nies at thig point the steamer will sail and will in due season introduce the Shriners to the delights of Honolulu. urther particulars of this may be obtained of the potentate, tturibut, 528 Parrott building. THE ILMER RTORY IS Loss, Half a Million—Fully Insured — Will Re- build at Once R TR The five at Binghamton, N. Y., which de- stroyed the immense Swamp Root medi, {cine plant of Dr. Kilmer & Co., July 1, | was the most disastrous which bas ever | occurred in that city. However, the Kil- mers resumed business next morning, though not at the old stand, which is a | heap of smoldered ashes. While the fire- | men were yet pouring water on the burn- | ing Chenango street establishment the | Kilmers were arrauging to do business | somewhere else. | “Phat this great industry might not be crippled for a moment, through the cour- | tesy of other prominent firms and citizens ! the large factory and adjoining buildings on South street were vacated for the ben- efit of the Swamp Root people, and pos. | session was taken immedlately,' and here, July 8, this new, temporary | factory was turning out Swamp Roof, | the great Kidney Remedy, in quantities of about §0.600 bottles per dav, and In two | or three wecks' time the full capacity of | more than four times that amount wiil be groduced, The immense demand for wamp Root will thus in no way be in- terfered with. On the old site, with adjoining rty which has just been purchased, will be erccted immediately an absolutely fire- roof six-story structure, plans for which ave been nearly completed, ————— Note Was Not Fraudulent. The allegation that the note upon which Giovanni Ferrea sued Stephen Cassinelli | to recover 3400 was faise and forged fell flat in Judfe Bahrs' court yesterday and { the plaintiff was given judgment as rayed. When the case was called the gefenn gave up the fight and judgment | was entered. P patent bunk, | While at the | ent into the crater will be | excursion | PACIFIC POSTAL ~ LOSES IN BOgUS ~ DISPATCH SUIT i Judge Morrow Holds the ! Company Liable for | ' a Forgery. il ik Must Make Good the Losses Sus- | tained on Account of the Wrong- | doing of a Trusted | Employe. | | A SN | United States Circuit Judge Morrow de- cided yesterday that a telegraph com- pany must make good the money pald by a k on a forged telegram sent by one of the company's employes. The case was that of the Bank of Palo Alto against the | Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Company to recover $840 paid on a forged telegram, $2834 expenses, §250 attorney fees and $1000 punitive damages. Judge Morrow award- ed all the sums asked except the $1000 punitive damages. The facts are these: On December 27, | 1898, the Bank of Palo Alto received a dis- patch dated from Los Angeles, the body of which read as follows: Please pay Harry L. Cato $40. Waive iden- tification. We remit to-day. FARMERS AND MERCHANTS' BANK. The money was paid by the bank to Cator, who was a confederate of Lee D, | Minkler, an operator in the San Francisco | ofiice of the defendant. Minkler was proved to be the author of the forged tele- | ram sent to the bank. In rendering his decision Judge Morrow said that the first question to be deter- mined was whether under the facts of the | case the telegraph company was respon- | sible for the wrongful act of its employe | in sending the false telegram. After re- citing the facts in the case the decision goes on to state: | ~ Plaintif contends that the defendant is | responsible for these acts of Minkler under the law as contained in article 2338 of the Civil | Code of California. This section provides that | unless required by or under the authority of law to employ that particular agent, a princl- | pal is responsible to third persons for the negli- | gence of his agent in the transactlon of the business of the agency, including wrongful acts | committed by such agent in and as a part of | the transaction of such business. | Judge Morrow then cited several similar | cases in which telegraph companies were | held responsible, using the following lan- | guage: Where the business with which the agent is | Intrustea involves a duty owed by the master ! to the public or third persons, if the agent, | while - employed, by his own wrongful act occastons a violation of that duty or an Injurs to the person interested in its faithful per- | formgnee by or on behalf of the master, the master is lable for the breach of it, whether it be founded In contract or be a common law duty growing out of the relations of the par- ties. 'And it iz immaterial In such case that the wrongful act of the servant is in jtself will- ful, maliclous or fraudulent. & ¢ ¢ Viewing the facts of the case at bar in the | Hght of the Aoctrines above ciated, it is apparent that. although the act of Minkier in feality exceeded the scope of his employment | as contemplated by his employer, it was an act | | which would have been lawful if it had been honest: it was committed while he was en- gaged In and about the business assigned to him, and it was by reason of such assignment and’ the charater of the duties he was re- quired to perform that he was enabled with the assistance of a confederate to commit the fraud u. the plaintif. | “Under such circumstances as these, if the | { principal could secure immunity from the | fraudulent acts of its agent, the confidence and | security necassarily reposed in the operations of felegraph ecompanies would be utteriy | Stroyed and their services in transactions of | importance rendered worthless, as public cor- | | porations of that character would serve as a | too ready means of subterfuge for the weak and | eriminal minded. | The court refused to award punitive damages in the sum of $1000, as prayed for, for the reason that the emplove is personally punishable for the crime of sending the forged telegram, and the com- pany should not be punished for that of which it is not guilty CHINESE. DENIED LANDING, STRANGLES HIMSELF Yes Tong Look, an Immigrant, Be comes Despondent and Com- mits Suicide in Jail. Yee Tong Look, a Chinaman who had | been denied a landing by Customs Col- lector Jackson, committed suicide last Wednesday night by hanging himself to the wicket of his cell In the County Jail on Broadway. The discovery was madei by three Chinese prisoners who occupied | the same cell with him. Their outcries attracted the attention of the jail officials. Who, upon examining the body, found that | | the man had been dead for several hours, | Look's attorney had procured a_writ of habeas corpus on his behalf on June 27, aileging that the Chinaman was a native i fornia. The Chinaman was thonght | to be mentaily deranged, for he had at- tempted suicide once before by jumping | into_the bay from the steamer alongside the Mail dock- —ee————— Mrs. Lung Gets Alimony. Judge Murasky made an order yester- day directing that $160 on deposit with the court, as trustee of the alimony account | | | between Dr. Geurge Al Lun%. surgeon of he cruiser Philadelphia, and his f Wit SMys, Blizabeth Lung. be pald to George D. Collins, to be paid -by him to Mrs, Lung in consideration “of four months’ alimony. Collins was given the money and later placed the same In the hands of .his clien Nellie Raymond Sentenced. Nellie Raymond, who stole Amy Silvey's i gold eyeglasses from 451 Jessie street and | was detected by Viola Foster, the colored Amazon, appeal before Judge Conla o ancs yesterday. The Judxe. suid there was no excuse for —Nellle, and sentenced her to serve four months in County Jail. ; the 100 YEARS' ADV ANCE IN COMMUNICATION. Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. e COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF TWO CENTURIZS. The early years of the century gave no hint, save to the most prophetic, of the mechanical prodigies soon to transform the world. The mariper, who waited on | tides and winds and took reckless chanc in the lottery of storms, was still the most progressive and venturesome of men. In America the more alert of the few news- papers of 1800 were enabled through co- operation of the fleetest packets to an- nounce as special features the publication of European news “only sixty days old.” There was not a steamship or a mile of steam railway or electric telegraph in the world. Eight cents was the postage on a letter hundred years ago, and it has been estimated that during the first few years of the century each adult in Ameri- ca sent on an average only one letter a | year. Everything in America was in a primi- tive state. New York w far from Washington then in poi time as of t Washington now is from San Francisco. Communities had more of a distinctive character than now, for they were less often invaded by strangers, and when these strangers came they were looked upon with wonder, and their tales of other lands, and even other cities not now re- mote, were listened to with surprise. The character of men's thoughts 1 methods of doing mu in an age not equipped with time-saving conveniences, | business . . . @ L4 . . . ® . . P ® . . ® ’SA.\‘IL'EL FINLEY BREESE MORSE @+ eo 456 ebesbeie@® have been necessarily slow. Men must now do in an instant and by instinct, al- most, what in 1500 they did only as the re- sult of long reflection. Embassadors at foreign courts carried | on negotiations from one to six months behind the progress of events at home, or, when confronted by emergency, proceeded without authority and trusted to their Governments to ratify their acts. Had there been cable communication between France and America in 1503 the anti-ex- pansionists of that day might have thwarted the purchase of Louisiana. The commissioners Jefferson sent to Paris were authorized to offer $2,000,000 for an outlet to the gulf. The First Consul daz zled the envoys by offering them the whole of Louisiana fcr 80,000,000 francs. They were not empowered to make this pur- chase, and they could not communicate with Washington, but with characteristic American daring they closed the bargain with the great Corsican. If the great At- lantic cable had then bound the continents together that vast domain west of the Mississippi, from which so many rich States have been builded, would wet be a French province, or, possibly, indeed, an- other British empire. When nations were at war armies at the front continued to battle long after statesmen at home or diplomats abroad had signed conventions of peace. The treaty of Ghent was concluded on Christ- mas eve, 1514, but forty-nine days were to pass before the good news could reach the American capital. In the meantime the war continued, and New Year's day. 1815, found Jackson's army knee deep in the bayous of Missi pi, fighting the triumphant battle of New Orleans—a vic- tory that cleared a path for Jackson to the White House. Then news that Madi- son had been chosen President did not reach the citizens in Kentucky until three months after his election. | s The people of New England, who had vowed that if the Potomac site for the federal capital were chosen their repre- sentatives would resign rather than un- dertake the perilous journey through wilderness and morass to the seat of gov- ernment, opposed all the building of canals and turnpikes to connect the East and West. Too many people had already passed beyond the Alleghanies, they said; | the Eastern seaboard would become de populated: the exodus to Western fron tiers threatened the stability of the re- public. Even Jefferson believed that the country would be divided into the Atlantic and Mississippl confederations. Few peo- ple believed that representatives from the @ * 000000090000+ 9@ £ i + : . : & 3 b @ > . . 5 T - . ! & y 4 . ® ) . . & | - . 6 * “ & + £ ps 4 THE ORIGINAL SGRAPHIC ) e INSTRUMED : Q@+ sed e beo e @ distant “‘Stony Mountains” of Louisiana would ever take their seats in the capitol at Washington. And yet there came a time when, at the darkest hour In all our history, the building of transcontinental railroads was advocated as a means of binding the East to the West; and we of this day have witnessed the rriage of these great sections by the strong bonds of steel, which span_the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Early in the century, amid the clamor- ing for better highways, there were the demonstrations and prophecies of a few men of genius who had dabbied in steam and felt the throb of the power that was to harness the world's traflic to elemental forces, overthrow the customs of cen- turles and bring men and nations closer together. f this were an account of the develop- ment of transportation, rather than a gen- eral review of the growth of means and methods of communication, more par- ticular attention might be paid to the achlevements of Oliver Evans, who de- | voted a lifetime of unappreciated effort to the proposition that steam might be made to furnish motive power to boats and wagons; to John Fiteh, who propelled his steam craft on the Delaware: to Robert Fulton and to Stephenson: but only inci- dental mention can be made of the build- ing of raflways and steamships, although they are perhaps the most important ele- ment in the system of communication. There were serious doubts in many minds even at the beginning of the pres- ent generation that the barriers 5f moun- tains, swamps and rivers could be over- | come. Daniel Webster, despite his pow- | ers of prophecy. vigorously opposed the | absorption of Washington Territory into | the Union. contending that the term of a | representative from that remote region | WO expire before he could reach the | national capital. $ } The building of railroads progressed | rapidly in the United States, in 1828 Charles Carroll, last surviving signer of | the Declaration of Independence, laid the | first rail of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- way. In 1830 there were twenty-threc miles of rafiroad. Tc-day, seventy years later, there are enough miles of railroad | in_the republic. counting terminals and | | our own | “What hath God wrought,” | the demand b ed up ina tman rnesses clous of m in th direetion and so have people of the United States her. Their primary influenc mmu i other thr nd they k excha oh, by let stal oSt n conce to provid than to make f g. There are post- offices in the United serv- ice has more than €S it har br tely ).000 000 pieces of mail matter every vear, oty which 3,000, 000,000 are lette This vast business has ) witnessed a marv 2: x reflec on of the no less 1 opment of the United States. The figures abov iven are incomprehensible and to be believed when comparis e” with the postal service a_ hu Years ago. “When Timot Pick served as Post, in ington’s administ ter General Smi expenditures and receipts for a guarter of a year showed an aggregate $63,000, which is the expenditure of every six hours now In thiy day we do not wait for the slow stage coach of our ancestors, carrying the aster General atiof say . “his balance Pos fortnightly mails, but even in the ru districts there are daily deliveries of le ters at the very door, and { citles there are hourly deliveries. Fast mail trains have succeeded the old coach, which lumbered over corduroy roads, or was de- layed long s in the mire. and if to- | aay the ry service, rapid as it is is not sufficiently swift we are permitte the convenience of special deliveries, b which, upon the payment of a small fee, little affairs receive particular care by the Government. But, marvel as we may at the complete- ness and efficiency of the present postal stem. compared with that of the early ays, there are still greater wonders. Prior to 130 a few sclentists in !']v:rflfl* and America had caught scattering sparks of the power that was in the twinkling of an eye to flash human thought around the world. Le Sage in Geneva and Betan- court in Spain had sent fluttering me: sages over wires with power furnished by a battery of Leyden jars. Then, in 1809, followed Volta. who won the plaudits Napoleon and 00 crowns by demonstrat- ing the use of his galvanic pile. From this famous scientist of Pavia to Samuel Morse the history of electrical Inventic mprovements and discoveries is bri with illustrious names, many of w! like Ohm, Ampere, Oersted, Faraday Henr; have been incorporated technical language that has grown about the battery and the dynamo. Among all these there is no greater name tfan that of Morse. On May 27, 1844, the first intel- ligible communication sent over a consid- erable distance was flashed from t! American capital to Baltimore. The dots and dashes of the mysterious system that spelled the famous message, Fhat hath God wrought?” have become the univer- sal alphabet of mankind. Still greater wonders were to follow than the estab- lishment of the electrical telegraph as a means of communication between distant points of land. In 1543 Morse suggested the possibi of connecting Europe and America by cable. The work of Cyrus Fleld In accomplishing this stupendous achievement i= within the memory of most of us. That first cable message between the old world and the new will ring for- ever in the ears of mankind—*“Glory be to God in the highest. and on earth peace and good will toward men.” The most impious evnic of this century has been so thrilled by the thought of human mes- sage flashing to and fro where the “shell- burred eables ereep” that he has written: Hush! Men talk to-day o'er the waste of the ultimate slime, And a v runs between, whispering Without t able and the telegraph the daily paper, such a marked fes modern life, would not be poss telegraph and withstanding both o ssity remained at a high rate >r a number of years. the press ear! : »on this wonderful means of cation. For_a time cable tolls between London New York were fixed t $100 for a age of twenty rds or under, wh meant th t no message between Engl and the United States could be sent for less than $100. To an intelligible mes- may. by the u >f words. ba ween England en to individy > newspaper detail rat i f overations ¢ s now an important part of the daily paper. ' It to note that the first news Europe to a New York paper and it is further of interest ti dispatch from rid a political sp e prize fight When Lir d the emancipation proclamati pondent ington was at getting a preliminary outl! gan his message to his N with four »f the hymn be- ginning * ing are dwelling fn'a grand and awful tim Fe received an intimation that if he found it neces- sary to Grop into poetrs ter to wire simply the r page, as the home office h f its own. The pres lay for t ches annually into ew stop to realiz ity with which bu by the electric telegraph and these days of marvels. Within a few min- S eKer in Chicago by cable ord sell a « of wheat in Lo ress the chanmel cong ser « to Havre by way of New Yor f ‘s delay. On the New ¢ from > ‘maximum time > to_London and a re exhibition thirty-word message was st ver, t! ntie to Y cfore cne oOpeé conding the telegram another Bcross the room began to receive London. Some time ago he Il. London, connee ble in Teheran, where with a second line of the Indo-Eur Telegraph Company. returning to Lo by the same roate. The lines were clear and ales pre the instru- 1o simultanecus click of the that the message had been 1 back. > improveme wo mes: . Type- produced by tele- and. wonder of wonders, sei ultaneou ten pages are now seized upen the circumam air, cithout the aid of wires man is abie to communricate long distances If Edison’s prediction be true that the twentleth centu shall eclipse the tri- umphs of the nineteenth more signally than this century has eclipsed any pre ge. wireless telegraphy will be only one instance where man sh have con- quered the mysterious elemental forcew and harnessed them to his purpose. [t is easy to believe, with Edison. that “we are only at the cockcrow of civilization.” but it is also fitting to say, in the words of those reverent messages of the telegraph and cable, bringing man closer unto man, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will toward men.” FRANK A. VANDERLIP. Treasury Dep: . Wa —_————————— Wants Old Claim Renewed. \The Pacific Lumber Company filed & tition yesterday asking the Board of gfxpervlsors to pass an ordinance to revive an old claim for $192 41 for lumber fur- nished to the park lodge last March. It is alleged that the Auditor refused to sign ecause it was not filed with- in thirty days after the Park Commis- sioners had passed wpon_ it. The Board of Public Works has submit- ted to the Supervisors plans and specifica- tions for an electric elevator in the main corridor of the City Hall. The elevator is sidings. to build a track from this planet | to be of the most approved pattern, the to the moon, with 6000 miles left over. It | grill work to be of oxidized copper. with is difficult to realize what this enormous | marble sides, and the interior 0 be fin~ mileage of railroads means. It has open- l ished in maple,