The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1900, Page 9

FRANCRISE TO USE ILLINDIS STREET GIVEN Valley Road Granted Right to Tap Industrial Sections. FESEIP=EN Order Made for Printing After Cer- tain Additional Conditions Are Imposed on the Corpora- BUILDING OF NEW ELECTRI LINES DELYED First and Fifth Street Fran- chises Passed to City Attorney. Supervisor Braunhart Introduces an Ordinance Regulating the Oper- ation of Nickel-in-the-Slot CHARGE THAT DODGE WAS LAX IN COLLECTING District Attorney to Sue Him for Large Sums in Taxes. e et Auditor’s Revised Figures of Assess- ment Roll Show Total Valua- tion of Property to Be tion by Supervisors. Machines. $410,155,304. by Snpy) ,155, . Rt bt Board of Supervisors passed to print | The attempt of the Market-street Rail- providing for a | w of forty-five years to nd San Joaquin Val- ny of a right of way Company to change its lines on First E and Fifth reet into electric sys- | tems was opposed at yesterday’s meeting | of the Board of Supervisors by Acting ree ¢ uct and operate 2| Mayor, Tobin, who held that the wires T g TIllinois street, from the |ghould be placed under ground. r Fourth to the north line o To grant the privilege to erect over- ead wires,” said Mr. Tobin, “is clearly in tion of an existing ordinance. The 1, however, should be referred to City Attorney to determine the issues volved.” A motion to refer to the City Attorney venue sot g The persistent boasting of Assessor Dodge that he has added largely to the assessed valuation of this city is destined to receive a severe setback in a few days when that official will be called upon in the courts to-account for a large amount of taxes which he has failed to collect. George Petty, expert to the Auditor, fin- ished the work of revising the figures of the assessment roll yesterday and made the startling discovery that Dodge has failed to collect on personal property valued at $ the taxes on which amount in round numbers to $90,000. In a = e, et e P Al ng | few days the Auditor will commence suit : . ction 1o the work of reconstruce |through the District Attorney for the re- s the Market-street Railway Com- | cove of the money involved which a r tracks on Battery and F Dodge has failed to collect, The section of - o ‘e;f:;f Fir e ‘!”t‘{_‘x | the California revenue law under which nd th Al et | the Auditor will proceed follows: lution re at the company od faith proceed to use its fran- »ng said streets and that on May aced al along and upon s for the purpose of reconstruc- company dered 1o repave tween its tracks and on each side there- t raterial as the Board of direc of electricity eet raiiroad ance the ne of Fourth to east The ordinance granting the company ® 1y | perm n to operate electric road on - | Bush t, from Battery to Kearny, and he use of the electric wires ¢ will also Inquire into ting the Market-street Compan permission to operate | Within fifteen days after the first Monday In ust of each reful exami n of the assessment books and county and ascertain therefrom nts of all taxes that should have been collected by the Assessor and which have not been collected. He must then state an ac- count to the Assessor and demand from him [ that the amounts so remaining unpaid hail e pai into the county treasury within fif- s from the date of said detnand. It | at the expiration of eaid time the Assessor has rot rettled for and paid sald amounts into the treasury as aforesaid the District Attorney | must st the Assessor and his bondsmen for the v of eaid amounts so\remaining uncol- lected, and upon the trial of such action no defense shall be admissible except that the assessments are illegal, invalid or void. In the report filed with the Auditor by Expert Petty it is shown that the unse- no- | »ended over Bush street ed to print. cured personal property roll shows the ance w passed to print con lue of money and solvent credits to be sut elec- | senting to the abandonment by the Mar- | 38, The total valuation of personal e able | ket-stre way Company of certain |Property unsecured reaches $39,687.950. The | portions of its franchises “follow: On | valuation not collected on by Assessor that the company | Bl Siteotnry . aveatis . frot. Sk to | Dodge is $5, and the valuation col- w t y Gree :"double track and switches at | lected on by the Assessor reaches $34.131 - tion of Montgomery avenue, |42. The taxes on this amount to and M mery stres 3 67 mmencing the cro: street and Montgomery av ontgomery avenue to Ma: street from Powell to Tay- street m Fourth to ack on south side of Jack- n T treet from avenue 10 | (ther personal property secured.. ted street ctric line | Otner personal property unsecured. Kk s on Carl street from Stanyan to I to Ninth avenue, and avenue to H street. s introduced by Super- vhich is intended to reg- struction, manufacture, leasing, keeping, maintain- hiring, } &, use, employment and operation of, nd the mauner of use, employment and of nickel-in-the-slot machines <, instruments, contrivances of a similar_character; pro- ats and frauds in_connection and providing for the examin- spection of the same by police o 4 ussion on the meas- » was immediately referred to ice Committee. It provides that it shall be wful to use a card machine —_— or con e in which are attached A R E playing cards, that b less ti fiv AUDITOR RULES ON Eviinders or &pools, that each of the s ghall re olve separately and con- n ten cards, each of a dif- ation. It is made unlawful range the instrument as to pre- indicator from designating any IMPORTANT MATTERS i lations of One-Twelfth Pro- Works Must r number, figure or color. It is 8 » made unlawful to attach any con- uses. iva to_a nickel-in-the-slot machine s means of which any cheat or fraud Is nded or effected. The last section ¢ of Police of this clty and county | authority In writing from time to | wer members of the Police Depart- | s city and county to examine and Public t all “nickel be-slot” machines, in- | here on Saturda nday they saw | f the | ;“m"""" """"’“‘““"“; and devices mentioned | the sights and yestera: the Prince was s The | 1n this ordin: and every person ownink | Jooking for a flat g s s ot g the possession or charge or control e 2 3 F . ‘r»‘;fi‘u any such ‘‘nickel-in.-the-slot” machines | The Prince was sent to imbibe a few s be frozen. It | & demand by a police officer so au. | modern ideas. Apparently this action was e Ir en. t rowered as hereln provided | s, '] Prince has already about needed to | s | needless. The Prince has alrea - works. The | fuch exa ow such bolice officer to make | ;o many modern ideas as are good for Q Auditor him, at any rate he says the brand put | hen up in San Francisco is “the goods,” and 4 Wil ENTERTAINMENT IN he doesn't see the use of going to Roan- the au- | oke, Virginia, with Mr. n Fa Mao, his pervisors in AID OF ST. BRENDAN'’S | chaperon, who is at his wits' end to know day exempt- —— what to do with his troublesome charge. | eration of Successful Affair Given by the Ladies | of the Parish Sodality Society. The Young Ladies’ Sodality of St. Bren- dan’s Chureh gave entertainment and de by the n school- holds that while the money for c Works alone repairs. : Tk to be |dance last evening in St. Brendan’s Hall care 1 not audit | An elaborate programme had been pre- | by the|pared and the entertainment was carried itor's action | through with a vim and dash that insured GENERAL RECAPITULATION. | A money and solvent credits.. | Grand total of assessed valuation..$410,155 ar the Auditor must make | ommence an action in the proper court | EXODUS TO THE CITY'S HALL OF JUSTICE BEGING Sergeant McDonald Moves Police Court Records to New Quarters. | e All the Criminal Departments Will Leave the City Hall Before Another Month Has Passed Away. SR The first definite movement toward oc- cupying the Hall of Justice, which was recently accepted by the city, was made | vesterday when Sergeant Charles H. Mc- Donald, who keeps the records of the Po- lice Courts, commenced to remove his | books and other paraphernalia to the new | butlding. The sergeant was the last to | leave the old hall seven years ago, and | he will be the first to locate in the new | one. While Superintendent of Public Build- ings Barnett has reported to the Board of Public Works that the Hall of Justice is in a filthy condition and that many of the rooms are unfit for immediate occu- pancy, the work of cleaning is being Prosecuted as rapidly as the limited means at his command will permit. Trash of all kinds has accumulated and it will take at least three weeks to clear out the debris. Barnett said yesteraay that he hoped that the apartments set aside for the Police Courts and their accessories would be in shape some time next week. It Is expected that all the criminal de- partments will be installed in the new | structure before another month. There |is corresponding rejomn%( a.mon% the | property owners and shop keepers in the Vicinity as the long delay in finishing the building has beeen exasperating, to say the least. R Expert Cyril Williams of the Board of Supervisors has filed a statement of the expenditures incurred in building the Hall | of Justice. Itshows that the sum of $10.000 remains, which is available to place the | building’ in a perfect condition. After | other claims are satisfied the Board of | Supervisors will ‘appropriate segregated amounts to pay fo ments are considered necessary by architect. —————————— Clerks for Tax Collector. Tax Collector Scott appointed the fol- ! lowing deputies yesterday from the civil | gervice list of eligibles: Gustave Levy, James A. Code, Charles H. Coffey, Otio ¥. Fiessen, H. E. Styles, Edward J. Smitn, | John M. Miller, P. T. O'Brien, A. L. Mor- genstein, Charles H. Messe, Allen FL | Brownie, Allen A. Garner, Frank Ret- tigstein_ Henry F. Dunn, James H. Mur- Frank E. Metcalf, Charles H. | Squires, William J. Riley, George T. Poultney, Francis X. Folz, George Mil- Jer, Edward Boland, John White, Michael Ryan, Percy Hennessy, Joseph I. Two- hig, Albert A. Peterson, Edward C. Haynes, Fred L. Waihel, Andrew J. Fora. r whatever improve- the Has Ideas of of his own upon what constitutes an American education. His royal papa provided him with a highly respect- able Gilbert and Sullivan kind of a pre- ceptor by name Sin Fa Mao and shipped RINCE EUI WAH, second son of p the Emperor of Korea, has ideas cigco. Mr. Sin Fa Mao is second secretary of the Korean Legation at Washington and Charge d’Affaires ad interim. But Prince | Eui Wah cares no more for him than if | he were the new charter. *“What’s the use of being a Prince,” s he, “if you can’t have vour own way Prince Eul Wah told the reporters on his arrival here that he was going to school. Now he says Le's going to rent a flat. That seems quite American, he says, e~ correspondence | fnoo . vi Mr. FEui Wah Sf., Emperor of Korea, -0 between the two boards 1ast | “aoo 1w brosramme was as follows: | a5 been cabled to in order that he may S e D ATy s Ciimestra: vo- | {ssue an imperial mandate for the gov- | Chief Deput or Ginty tried to se- | S8l duet, Sodality, accompanist Miss A. Mc- | ernment of the refractory sprig of cure the consen the Auditor for the | i, o fevesan] and €. Alexander: | TOVAILY. But then it is doubtful whether purchase of a guantity of printing large- | Lns—Miss e eare, M Aiexanter "% | an imperial mandate will be of much use. | I gxess of the monthly allowance. | Brown. Tarabocia_~ and . Bouliet: | Roanoke, Va., sounds lonesome while San | No relief could be afforded. however, | pianos N. McKenna and Francisco, Cal. is_on the map. It is though the Auditor thinks the $24,000 ap- | Flaherty. Recitation, *“The Singer's Alms”; | understood that the Prince may take up a propriated for sta TY insufficient. | vocal solo, Master John Cavanagh. ‘‘Train to | course of English at Berkeley or Stan- Maure” —3tcs. Buttermilk, M . O'Connor; | ford if he cannot be induced to go to JUDGE W. P. LAWLOR WILL nle o), Master "OConnor: Ticke | Roanoke. That spot and Koren are yet B o e g S By to be heard from in regard to the prince- | | Fitopatrich and Simich: faacy faser | 1y escapade, but it is to be supposed that | NATURALIZE APPLICANTS | O mien: faney danc®. | such - an _acouisition as real live royalty | i | ccart fantastios. accom- | Will not be lightly vielded by the Roan- | vocal solo, Matthew R. Penelope, Miss Aunt Mary, Miss A. 0'Connor; Aunt ss M. McCarthy: Dinah, Miss J. horus, ““Colleen Avarra.” Those in charge of the entertainment Prince, Miss O’Connor, Miss , Mrs. Kavanagh, Miss McCarthy s_Sullivan, assisted by the mem- s of the godality. Dr. McGinty of St. s Hospital was stage director. The fnment was for the benefit of the Will Hold Court Until Midnight To- Morrow—Deputies for Precinct Registration Appointed. dge William P. Lawlor will hold court ght and to-morrow night in Depart- No. 11, commencing at 7:30 o’clock, | e of naturalizing men who ympetent to become citizens. for the election in Novem- morrow at midnight. The will also be kept open t that registration may shed immediately after nat- and Mi b entert church. —————— WANTS STATE AID TO SECURE THE FORESTS Sempervirens Club of California Moves to Have the Giant Redwoods Preserved. The Sempervirens Club of California met last night at the Palace Hotel, Pres- ident Charles Wesley Reed in the chair. John P. Brown, secretary of the Indiana Forestry Association, outlined the work of his own club and its application to the local organization. A discussion followed as to whether the Government or the State should be asked to purchase the reservation and the trend of the remarks was in favor ‘'of State aid, with possibly ction Commissioners | d appointed 606 deputies, g the Republican and for the precinct regis- Saturday, September ies d on statistics show that the has over 200,000 miles of than 20,000 miles of good test oke College, and bétween the Emperor, | Mr. Sin Fa Mao, and the Roanoke faculty, Prince Eul Wah may be induced to turn American Education. him to Roanoke, Virginia, via San Fran- | The Prince ani his tutor arrived | GOING TO RENT A FLAT AND STAY RIGHT HERE Second Son of Korea’s Royal House His Own on @+ 0D 4085454040 & T eeee o PRINCE EUI WAH. Q@ *O+O 400 +0+0e0-0@Q eastward. In either event an enterpris- ing comic opera librettist has here a good foundation for a lively plot. Sin Fa Moa, in spite of his somewhat rakish name, is a most proper person to take charge of a Prince. He bases his only hope in the royal mandate. “if that doesn’t have any effect.” he said gloomily last night, “T don't know what will be done. TI've got to get him to Roanoke somehow, but even the royal ele- phants would, unless his mind chang be owerless to make him leave your city. e is —."" If the royal preceptor had not been so highly respectable he would have said “above the limit,” as it was he merely added, “incomprehensible.” The Prince could not be seen at the Oc- cidental last night. Perhaps he was out imbibing American ideas, or maybe—well, Kipling did, why not Eui' Wah? ! O U SRR CES SR S ] THE PURPLE OF THE EYE. A Scientific Germ From Which a Myth Takes Its Origin. Tt is somewhat surprising to find how frequently a scientific myth reappears in the columns of the public prints, and it is equally interesting to note that most myths of this kind at least possess a nu- cleus of truth. There is one statement which makes its appearance here and there almost with the unvarying regularity of the sea serpent chronicles. 1 allude to the idea that the eve of a murdered person can retain the image of the murderer, presumably as the Jast reflection of the outer world the eye received. Yet there is a scientific germ from which such a notion may have taken its origin. In the retina, or nervous network of the eye, exists a substance called “hodopsin,” “yisual purple.” This coloring matter bleaches in the light, but is rapidly replaced in the dark On this_eve-purple, light, of course, has a epecific effect, and an experiment of Kuhne serves to demonstrate the nature of the interaction between the color and privats contributions. After this, {f hecessary, Congress might be asked to complete the purchase. Interesting ad- dresses were made by John E. mrgw.rdu of San Jose, Professor Montgomery of Santa’ Clara College, J. 8. Bunnell,” Mr. Colby, secretary of Sierra Club, and’ Mrs. Emma Shafter Howard. The following were appointed a com- mittee to attend the two State conven- No Cooking!! Just a little hot water or mitk, a little sugar Port Clarence, Alaska, and uge locomotives and ready arrived at Seat- Nome an rafls and narrow freight cars have tle. *old by ail grocers light waves. laking a dark chamber of wood a hoie was bored and covered with a movable curtain. Through this hole the light pen- etrated into another chamber containing a pane of ground glass, separated from the hole by a considerable interval. Over the pane & chrome yellow paper was placed. Then the eye of an albino rabbit which, - Hlons and securc 2, platorm deglaration | LWL & Beth"Riled, was kept 1y tng Fichards, ‘George C. Ross'ana’ William | aTk, Sas cRTelUlY [omOves, SRt A1 3 ; G RA PE= NUTS T. Setec,, The clup adjourned to meet | nirgfe” color, was placed against the' dia- . Angust - pl:l!-agm ll‘)' the tlia‘rk chnak T, = e yellow curtain was en away, an ‘ are meady A raflway 1= to be bullt between Cape | tho syb: atter being exposed for Ave rain: utes. wis removed, and examined ean'%rder o see if any Image was develop, ere- in. After sundry trials Kuhrne, by fixing the purple, saw the divisions of a window representing the image that h: e c(-'}\"‘ed by ‘l e eye. A8 Doen iy e purple color, however, h: fixed, as photographers say, hy"m? 2 dition to it of a solution of ‘alum. Physiologists tell us that the eye purple Is not esscntial for sight, for we really see most clearly with the part of the reé‘l_rm where nnlp‘lixrple exists. e must conclude that a Jind of background far vision i Ty rather than an essential condition Of vis fon. But the fleeting images which the purple of the eye may form of things Seen, it is evident, can bear no relation to the wondrous tales which the modern de- tective story, calling to its aid the results gr “(e;.“mf trh"eflr(‘:‘ld founds on the pho- ograph o e murdered person’s eye,— London Express. p b ———————— Eccentric or Crazy? “‘Your Uncle Ezekiel is crazy, isn’ 24 ns‘k‘s‘th%sdllfkhof Tenlsvot. vhet “Not at all; he's onl t Tomet &1 b 20l ceepaiics sopiea came to pass in process of ti Uncle Ezekler died and was obun:'t;. ‘:;3 (Fhosdlck ren:gflt(ed to Tenspot, “I see bly e pepers that your eccentri his entire fortune to/charity. | oc left “‘Eccentric?” repeated Tenspot disgust- sdldy. “He was as crazy as a loon."— udge. —————— Fable. Once upon a time th - ance Advocate wh: wnesr ea: :\‘I'n; ?l'neflpt.ilte People would have better Health if they abstained from Alcoholic Beverages. “Vote Prohibition,” he exclaimed in_this conneciion, “and your drug stores wiil all e 2b1e ieaches how extremely T remel heo- retical is the Average neformer.—yDatr%‘:t Journal. P O R S Among the clocks to be seen at the Par- is Exposition is one of the year 1580, whl‘crh belonged to; Henry IIL ONE-TWELFTH ACT VIOLATED BY THE BOARD Certain Appropriations Are Exempted From Charter Provizions. Invitation Accepted to Attend King Humbert Memorial Exercises. New License Order for Concert Halls. s When the ordinance exempting certain municipal funds from the provisions of the one-twelfth clause in the charter came | up for final passage at yesterday's meet- | ing of the Board of Supervisors it was opposed by Brandenstein, who took the stand that it was an illegal measure, in that it violated a specific requirement of the charter. “We have absolutely no right to do this,” said Brandenstein, “‘and I move as an amendment that the ordinance be sub- mitted to the City Attorney for his opin- fon as to its validity.” | The motion was lost, however, only the | mover and Braunh#rt voting in favor of it. The measure was finally passed, Brandenstein and Braunhart dissenting. The appropriations which will not be sub- jected to the one-twelfth provision are: Clerks Board of Equalization, municipal re- ports, Auditor's extra clerks for computing and extending taxes, etci, and working on assess- ment roll, Fourth of July celebration, cbserv- ance of Memorial day, urgent necesiities. li- cense tags and blanks, Assessor’s extra depu- tles, Tax Collector's extra clerks, publishing delihquent tax list, printing transcripts on ap- peal, Grand Jury expenses, examination of public utilities, " improvement _of _Trocadero Gulch, providing quarters for hospital nurses, abstracts of title in Panhandle district, emer- gency appropriation for smallpox _hospital, election expenses, appraisers of the Pannandle | district, specific appropriation in the park fund. The following invitation from the ex- ecutive committee for the commemoration of King Humbert's death was received executive committee for the commemoration of King Humbert's death has the honor of in- viting you to be present at the ceremony, which will take place at Metropolitan Temple August 9, at 1 p. m. We confidently awalt a favorable srswer, assuring you that your ac- | ceptance will be highly appreciated by the Italian colony. Respectfully yours, for committee, F. CAVAGNARO, President. G. ALMAGIN, Secretary. | .. The resolution ordering the reconstruc- tion of the wharf or plank roadway on that portion of Spear-street wharf be- between Bryant and Harrison streets at an estimated cost of $6180 was referred to the City Attorney to determine the liabil- ity, if ‘any, of the city to the State in case of damage done the State wharf in the event of the work being carried out. The ordinance imposing a license of $15 and accepted: | To the Honorable Board of Supervisors: The | the | per quarter on runners and solicitors and charging the sum of $150 for their badges | was finally adopted. An ordinance was passed to print im- | posing a graduated license on proprietors, | managers or owners of any place whers | spirituous, malt or fermented liquors or | wines are furnished to be drunk on the premises in quantities of one quart or more and imposing a penalty for its vio- lation. The ordinance is intended to especfally apply to concert halls where liquors are sold. For those whose gross receipts do not exceed $5000 per quarter the license shall be $5 per quarter, and exceeding $5000, $10 per quarter. Each | license issued under the provisions of th: ordinance shall be known as a “regulation | liquor dealer's license” and shall be good | for a period of three months. | A resolution was adopted whereby the printed forms for the various city de- | artments the bids for which were re- | ected pending injunction proceedings | shall hereafter be purchased in open mar- ket. The board in making the purchases | shall be guided as to the prices to be paid therefor by the rates heretofore | listed in the original bids submitted. An ordinance was passed to print em- powering the Board of Public Works to issue permits to persons and corporations to use the public streets while erecting | temporary structures, stringing wires for | the purpose of illumination and making | decorations during the semi-centennial | celebration of California’s admission to | the Union. Miscellaneous Business. | The resolution approving the action of the Printing Committee in rejecting bids from printers who are not entitled to use the label of_the Allied Printing Trades Council was in- définitely postponed. | “The cidinance imposing license taxes on all firms and corporations engaged in the | of loaning money at interest, receiv- ing deposits, discounting notes and warrants | and w s especially aimed at moncy and | pawnbrokers, was indeflnitely postp: The ordinance providing for the maintenance of waste paper and litter boxes at convenient | locations upon public streets and public places | was indefinitely postponed. | The ordinance imposing a license of $3 per | year for each chair used in bootblack stands | Upon the public streets and sidewalks, and re. quiring vermits to be obtained from the Board of Public Works, was passed to print. The balance remaining in the Bernal Park | fund, amounting to $244l, was ordered carried to the general fund to beé used for che further improvement of the park. 5 The ordinance fixing grades in the University Mound_ district passed to print. An ordinance was passed empowering the | Board of Health to abate a nuisance uc:i<loned | by the dumping of sewage in the d'sirict bounded by San Bruno avenue, Bryaal, Twen- ty-sixth and Army streets. A resolution was adopted reciting taat it be | the s:msc of the board that an ordinance regu- | lating the granting of permits for special privileges. and conforming where practicable and permissible to the provision of the char- ter and the orders and ordinances at present In force be prepared by the Clark and sut- mitted to the board for its approval. After the reading of the report of mittee on Public Utilitles regarding its in- Vestigation into plans for a munieipal light- ing plant, Chairman Reed infosn:1 the boarl that the committee will meet this evening for | the purpose of determining which plan wili be | submitted to the people at the next election. | ‘An ordinance was passed to print authorizing | the Board of Public Works to enter into a | contract for the repalring of public streets paved with bituminous rock or asphalt as per specifications prepared and approved by said board; also to expend a sum not to exceed 15,000 for the performance of certain street work. Referred to Committees. The following communications and petitions were referred to committees: Tederation of Mission Improvement _Clubs, etating that the assoclation favors the grant- ing of the franchise to the San Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad on Illinois street, if the company_will put a drawbridge over Islais Creek; also requesting that the pound limits Dbe extended to the county line; also request- ing the repeal of the house-moving ordinance and the license fee of $i0 for conducting such business. Official Communications. Communications from city departments and officials were as follows: Board of Public Works, recommending that the width of the sidewalk on Boyleston street, northward from Silver avenue, be cl from thirteen to ten feet; from the Board of Healtlr, reporting In favor of an ordinance prohibiting papering or tinting walls of rooms without first removing the old paper or tinting there- from; from Board of Public Works, transmit- ting an ordinance regulating the use of pub- lic streets and recommending its passage: from the Auditor, requesting immediate presentation of the remaining last fiscal year's demands. Street Work Recommended. The Board of Public Works recommended street work as follows: That the crossing of Thirtieth and Dolores streets be paved with bituminous rock; that the crossing of Thirtleth and Chenery streets be similarly paved; that artificlal stone sidewaiks De laid on the southeast and northwest corners of Buchanan and Filbert streets; that Thirtieth Street, between Dolores and Chenery, be paved with bitumen, and that granite curbs be laid; that Central avenue, between Page and Haight and the crossing of Page street and Central avenue, be paved with bitumen, and that gran- ite curbs be laid. H e —e—— The Mexican census, recently taken, whose results are just coming out, shows a_population of 12,491.573, over -two-thirds of whom cannot read or write. Over 0 r cent of the population is of mixed and ndian races. Sixty-three languages are spoken among the people. } e Com- B L R R e e B L e i S o o ] | ing problem | hither for the solitary purpose of dis- | flization to pleces under the hard hoofs Deatioel conquest, who worked the soft | | ish colonization was in col EARLY SPANISH DISCOVERERS AND‘EXPLORERS. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS OF AMERICA. VIIL In temperament and training the Span-| ish people seemed suited to the task of | exploration. For many years they had been at war with the Moors, and in the | school of war bad learned to take blows | as well as to give them. Inured to the hardships of campaigning, they were ready to bear their full share of the trials | of the pioneer. Their love of adventure was now at its full and the strain of bo- | hemianism in their blood was now most | evident and most imperative. To leave | home and kindred and country made few demands upon their feelings. Most of them could set sail without a pang and with none of the anticipatory dread of the | homesickness which under the modern | name of nostalgia did great damage to our soldiers in Cuba and the Philippines. Fierce adventurers that fell on kingdoms for their prey, the Spaniards seemed of all the European peoples to be just the men to open up the new world to settle- ment. But they were never good colonizers. With them colonization was always, in the words of Swinburne, “a hideous and Boeotian jest.”” Where other nations achieved at least a moderate success the Spaniards never lost a chance to make | an arrant failure. Not one of their ex- periments, viewed in the larger light of history, could by any warrant of imag- ination "be ealled a real success. Not only | did the Matives whom they found suffer grievously, but the mother country al-| L e e e L o g FERNANDO [ e e o ot ok o o ways in the long run paid to the utter- most the hard penalty of the witless and | vicious policy she allowed her colonizers to initiate and to follow, to her and their | undoing. From the very moment the | lonely followers of De Soto sunk his| weighted remains in the midnight dark: | ness to the bottom of the Mississippi River the lines Professor W. P. Trent wrote in 1898 have been veraciously accurate: Thine hour is come, a stronger race Succeeds and thou must fall, Thy pride but adding to thy sad disgrace As wormwood unto gall And yet thou hast but reaped what thou hast sown, For in thy pride of strength Theu didst the kingdom of the mind disown And so art sunk at length. The Spaniards used not merely poor judgment in the solution of their coloniz- they used no judgment at sent out foolish. weak and | all. They | graceless men to deal with concerns that Tequired men wise and strong and true, and they gave to all the “Christian scoun- drels” they sent out carte blanche to go where they pleased and do as they liked. The -Jamestown settlers were overeager for gold, but there was a John Smith ready at the proper moment to reduce the chaos to some order. The Dutch were cniefly interested in the economic value of the new America, but they were not averse to work or to trade for their re- ward. The pilgrim fathers, in the well-| known playful words, first fell upon their knees and then upon the aborigines, but this was just a fleck upon the fair fame of the settlers of New England. The Spanish _explorers had no redeeming traits. Cruel, lazy, greedy, they came | covering gold, and the gilding of their greed with plous professions of devotion to the cross made it the more nauseating. Never caring to make a home or to found | a nation, they were impatient to despoil | the land of all its gold and then sail back | to Spain to be flattered and envied by a people always overfond of the tinsel and | the glitter of this life of ours. The men | who sacked Mexico and Peru, who tram- pled the best development of Indian civ- jacent islands to | em by black men a, were just | And Span- | quence fore- | doomed to failure. | Columbug was the wonhh:;thof all 'hi n that Spain sent out, and he was not | ;ngpatm:rd.p\'asco Nunez de_Balboa, call- | ed inaccurately Balboa by English writ- ers, is the most attractive of all the un- attractive Spaniards whe came hither. A} bankrupt and a rebel, he crossed the ocean in 1501 to repair his fortune by good luck. To escape imprisonment for debt | in Haiti he took passage concealed in a | cask in an outbound vessel, and when the | vessel was wrecked off Darien he led a | revolt against the captain, Encisco, who | had spared his life. deposed Encisco and | made himeelf by the force of an unscrupu- | lous character commander of the com-| pany. One day while on a foraging ex- | pedition not far from the present town of | Colon, an Indian chief, observing the | greed of the Spaniards,’told them of a vast ocean to the westward where gold was as plentiful as pebbles on the shore. Here was at last the chance for Vasco Nunez to repair his wasted fortune, re- trieve his ruined reputation and atone for | his great treason. September, 1513, he left Darien with nearly 200 men, blood- hounds and Indian guides. He fought his way with needless cruelty through tribes of hostile Indians, “hewing them in pieces as the butchers do flesh in the shambles™ or giving them over to the dogs, which tore them limb from limb *“as if they were wild bores or Hartes.” On September 25 he found himself on the crest of the Cor- dilleras, not far from the line of the pre- sent Panama railroad, while at the base littered for many a mile a waste of un- gnown waters whiclr Vasco Nunez, albeit he fell upon his knees in awe, could not have dreamed was the largest ocean on the globe. Wading out into the water to his walist he took possession of it in the name of Spain and called it Mar del Sur, or South Sea, to distinguish it from the Mar_del Norte, as the Spaniards termed the Caribbean. Vasco Nunez made several voyages along the Pacific coast and fell a vietim to the fears and jealousies of a rival, the Governor of Darien, who had him beheaded in 1517. Around the name of Juan Ponce de Leon there is the halo of a rich romance. Of noble pedigree, a companion of Columbus on his second vo: . & rather famous soldler of fortune 2lready past the hey- day of_his youth and growing old and blase, Ponce de Leon added to Spanish love for gold an insatiate desire to be young enough to extract from gold its full delight. In his earlier days he had ! inhabitants of the adj death and replaced th captured in the wilds of Afric gold hunters, nothing more. | hamas the aged | the country, | and firearmed S — heard, of course, fountain wh the Oriental stories of a the oldest might renew his youth. Possibly he had read the sp rious letter of old Prester John, wh vowed he could commend the fountain because he had tried _it once himself. When word came to Ponce de Leon in Porto Rico that the long-sought fountain was now at last located, that fans said it could be found in an island called Bimini, northward of Hispaniola, he could scarcely wait the coming of King Ferdi nand's consent for him to hasten off t have his bath. Wealthy enough to bea the whole expense, he set sail on his pa thetic voyage with three caravels i March, 1513, and mbarking at the Ba- cavalier and his com- panions tried every lake, stream, rivulet and spring, and then in disappointment hastened\on their way to make their real landfall, not E r morning, as some hi torians ‘say, but six days later, April near the site of St. Augustine. He tar- ried long enough to name the country Flerida, to find the story of the fountain all a myth, to cruise a while among the neighboring islands, and then at last to return to Porto Rico. still white-hai and wrinkled and a little older. In 1 he came out once again to found a o g “:g disputed by th: eceived a wound in th from an arrow, which sent him t there to die a death of prolonged suffering. A yet more formidable and if possible more disastrous attempt to take . sion of the countr s made in Panphilo de Narvs Appointed to suc- ceed Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, he th landed the coast of Florida in spring of 1528, and fired by Pineda’s m tion of gold ornaments on the Mississippt > eoere@ PEPOIEPPOIOPCEPOIOEPOEIIPIGIOeReiedederede DE SOTO. e e e et ebererede® Indians, he hurried inland as fast ad he could go to find an Indian town as full of gold and precious stones as those which welcomed Pizarro in Peru. With the characteristic stupidity of his infamous he relied upon the sword country which might have been secured by kindness. The first batch of Indian captives was flung to blood- hounds, though upon the chief the kinder torment was_inflicted of an amputated nose. The Indian arrows, the dismal swamps, the tangled forests, the smother- ing heat, the fever-breeding climate, the scarcity of food, turned them back at last, and the survivors reached the gulf near the mouth of the Miss most of them to perish in the ree “northers,” still a menace to the sailors on the mighty gulf. Fernando de to had been with Cor- dova at N ragua_and had had a hand in the conquest of Peru. Made Governor of Cuba in 1537, he offered at his own ex- ense to sem the unkept promise Narvaez and was authorized by his sov- ereign conquer and occupy the land embraced within the patent of his pre- decessor. In May of 1339 he anchored at Tampa, within sight of the spot where eleven years before Narvaez had set out on his ill-starred expedition. Though De Soto had roundly blamed Pizarro for his horrid treatment of the Inca, and though he knew full weil the baneful conse- quence of the foolish, faithless policy Narvaez toward the natives De Soto proved just as silly and as cruel No indignity was too fiendish for him to try upon hapless men and women who feil into his_clutches, and in consequence he had to fight his way inch by igch ac through the hostile Creeks, no mean antagonists even for the armored niards. Before relent- less hostility the Spaniards slowly melted away, and after a desperate fight in_the autumn_ of 1541, near the site of Mobile, where De Soto lost 170 of his men, the end seemed near, even to the most sanguine and m sanguinary. On to the Missis- §ippl they pushed. barely escaping anni- hilation in a furlous engagement with the Chickasaws. The El Dorado of their fancy still eluded them, though they must have penetrated far beyond the Missis- ppi. Wounded in batile. weakened by ering and disease, disheartened by his faflure to find gold and his inability to found a colony, De Soto at last orders the building of two brigantines, in which his party may float down the Mississippi ana ‘from its mouth make back to Cub. The work was hardly under way whe the commander i of fever May 21, 1542, and was buried in the Mississippi, lest the Indians should wantonly desecrate the grave. A year later the few survivors of a_cause forever and deservedly lost made their way to the Mexican coast and sent the doleful news of their undoing to Ha- vana. After this the colonizing of the New World languished for a while. The Spa fards had nothing to show for all their ains except the lasting pain of mortif: ng_faflure. Instead of gold they had nothing but experience, by which neither then nor In the recent government of Cuba have they ever profited. For the lifa of them they could see no good reasan for holding Florida, and when in the au- tumn of 1561 Philip II announced that he would encourage no further attempts to colonize the country every one was glad to have an end of unsuccessful efforts to find gold where there was no gold and to deal with natives who could give a good account of themselves. AN P. POWELL. Philadelphia. sy CHILD LIFE IN LIBERIA. “When a child is born in Liberia soms member of the family is sent at once to the devil doctor to inquire who it is and what its name shall be,” says Miss Agnes MecAllister, who has had charge of the Garraway Mission in Liberia for twelve years. ““He goes to the top of the house, taking with him a horn, which he blows to call the devil, because it is he who is supposed to tell who it is that has returned to tho world. The Liberians believe that every baby is some deceased member of the family come back to live among them. “A young mother is never allowed to care for her own child. but is compelled to give it to an older woman to be cared for. These nurses may be seen cut of doors any morning. siting on upright sticks of wood, rubbing the inside of the babies’ throats with pepper until the poor in_ants are half strangled and altogether miserable with nausea. After this hesoic treatment they are laid to sleep on a floor mat by the fire and the ‘fittest’ survive. A Liberian woman can command the services of her sons-in-law for certamn du- ties, and whatever their obligations may be'lhey (;nulsi obey her. Girl babies are welcomed, in consequence, among these veoole.”"—Exchange. o