The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1900, Page 7

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PALACE AND GRAND HOTELS ‘The best evidence of the popularity of these hotels can be found in the continued patronage of those who on some previous occasion have made them thelr head- Quarters when visiting San 0. | { | | | | | Connected by a covered passageway and operated under one management on the plan. American and European Hitchcock School, SAN RAFAEL, CAL.. FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS. Beparate Rooms, Or;:dn Military Drill, CHRISTMAS TERM BEG! UGUST UTH. REV, G mego-o&. Princinal GRAND FLORAL EXHIBIT. | progress as they expected. 2 (Little Shag Rock), Is not vet a thin 5 CROWN OF ARCH ROCK WILL BE DESTROYED IN A FEW DAYS AND BASE WILL GO LATER Soft Stratum Struck and Cylinders Have to Be Used'in Order| cene {0 Put Explosives in Posion to Be Eletive, HE crown of Arch Rock will go in a few days and nobody will be any the wiser until all is over. All the necessary preparations have been made and without any fuss the arch will be blown away. Not so with the foundation, however. That will require months of work, and hard work at that. The rock is porous and in order to get the gun cotton down to the required depth cylinders have Lo be used. In these cylinders a ing machine s used and in consequence progress is slow. The contractors have not made as rapid Shag Rock No. 1 is cleared away, but Shag Rock No. | i 1_ | | l | | PRE OF THE RO( CHRISTMAS TIME. ARATIONS FOR THE BLOWING UP OF ARCH ROCK ARE NOW PROGRESSING RAPIDLY. THE CROWN { WILL BE DESTROYED FIRST AND THE BASE WILL BE BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS ABOUT ] l e~ RAL THOUGHTS ON SHAKESPEARE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. . Charles Darwin was an omnivorous reader of novels, but he liked them to turn out weil, and thought that a law ought to be passed against novels that had a tragic conclusion. Many of the adaptations of *Shakes- peare’s plays in the eighteenth century illustrate the same idea, the most noted being that of “King Lear,” Tate. Instead of representing Lear as bringing in the dead body of Cordelia, the of Cordelia and Edgar. And the great Dr. Johnson approved of this change! And even Mr. Furnivall says: “One can hardly help wishing that Shakespeare had followed the old story told by Laya- mon and other repeaters of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who made Cordelia set her father on the throne again and reign after him for awhile in peace.” Such criticism is often heard among amateur critics. A friend of mine said not long age never | too horrible. Why don’t the poets and | novelists give us pleasing stories? There |18 enough sorrow in the world; they | should take us into a world of sunshine | and joy.” 4 What may be said against such criti- cism of tragedies? Evidently it is'a ques- | tion both of life and of art. The prob- | lem of suffering is as old as the world, | certainly as old as the book of Job: what | is the significance of suffering—doth a { man serve God for naught? The utili | tarian_philosophy of life propounded by ! Job's fr?('nds is very popular, but it is not | the philosophy adopted by’ tragic poets ! who learn in suffering what they ‘teach |in song. The temporary victory of evil { over good is apparent to all who have | ever gone a little way in the study of life. | When looked at from the standpoint of | art the world has had is that which rep- resents suffering, the conflict between by Nahum | play closes’with the trfumphant marriage, care to see ‘Othello’ acted again, for'it is | art it may be claimed that the greatest | ol of the pz Two oinnacles still re their heads in the fairway and the dredger is hard at work on them, but so far with little suc At Arch Rock it looks as though a wharf had been buill and pile driyers { were at work. Four machines are driv- ing drills all the time @ all the men have to do is to sit by and watch the, work. The tug comes along once a_while to bring provisions, but out of that the men on Arch Rock have noth- ing to do but watch the machines and catch fish, RSl 8, NEW MAIi LINE TO TAHITIL iOceanic Steaniuhip Cohpnny'fi Aus- i | | | | %0, | serving Company | | { 1 | bladed propeller with | street wharf. tralia Will Sail Next Thursday. The sailing of the Australia next | Th ay for Tahiti will inaugurate the new mail line between San Francisco and Papeete. Many passengers will leave for the new Paradise of the Pacific, ameng whom will be: A. N. Drown. H_K. Field, wife and two Wright, Robert Peel, Mrs. John Brown, T. H. Benton, , C. M. Waage, W. J. Adams and | W. H. Radford and wife, F. M. Cartan, les ‘Benjamin, Captain John Leale and Mrs. W. H. Wright and = A. Peter- B. F. Chapman, Miss Poston. M. Houze. hwig and son, J. Winterburn and | Winterburn, Miss A Fry, Miss | Atwater and wife, J. Niebuht. | Chief Little Honored. idest map on the water front tle of the Alameda. morning pany's new craftsmen met to do him honor. v was Chie? Engineer A. D. Lit- He goes East this to bring out the Oceanic Com- flier Sonoma and his fellow he | Marine Engineers’ Assoclation has never been better represented and when E. W. Tucker, D. D. acting as a committee, s and Frank Bragg pinned a there as was all on Chief Little demonstration. coat *‘Archie,” a diamond center | | his | friends call him, is one of the most popu- lar engineers on the Australasian run of all when he sald: | and Dr. J. A. Nelson voiced the opinion “‘He is an American | that knows all the fine points of Amer- ican engineering.” While In the East Little will run agross Harry Tabrett of the Kisdon Iron Works and will also meet nis daughter, studying music in Boston. Sherman Nenrlyfineady. The next transport to leave this port will be the Sherman. being hurried through t for departure on November 1. All the available recruits in camp at the Presidio, numbering about 150, will be sent to Manila on her. The medical department wili send two acting twp nurses and fifty Fospital Corps men. The animal transport Port Stephens wili 1 _to-day for Manila She will carry 475 horses and emplo; of the quarter- master's department. Contract Awarded. The Harbor who s | Repalrs are now have her ready assistant surgeons, | Commissioners yesterday awarded the San Francisco Timber Pre- the contract for pre- serving the piles to be used in Steuart- NEWS OF THE OCEAN. Matters of Interest to Mariners and Shipping Merchants. The Charmer loads coal at Tacoma for Hono- lulu; the Crompton, wheat for Europe, 43s 9d; the Kilmallle, wheat at Tacoma for Europe, 418 6d, prior to arrival. A Cargo for Mexico. The American schooner Lena Sweasey cleared yesterday for Mazatlan with a general cargo, valued at $16,432, including the following: 411 pkgs powder, 2cs fuse, 4 cs caps, 2 cs hardware, 72 bdls shools, 102 kegs nails, 118 cs Pears obtained the only Grand Prize awarded solely for toilet soap at the Paris Exhibition, 1000. This is the kighest award obtainabie for anything. Pears’ Soap has obtdined 21 International.awards. | % | paper, 7 cs electrical supplies, 953 gals wine, 4 | | kegs white lead, 91 cs paint, 200 cs bluestone, | §73 pkgs tank material, 2080 Ibs mineral wool, 20 cs window ton coke, 61 cs whisky, 2 | cs statfon. 4 chests ofl, 400 Ibs millstutfs, 13 olfves, 432 Ibs dried fruit 164,219 feet umber, s, 100 bbls cement. 40 bales jute w valued at $1200. Wheat Shipment. | The French bark Anjou cleared yesterday for Queenstown for orders with 60,082 ctls wheat, | valued at $60,000 and 24,000 feet lumber dun- nage, valued at $360. Total value, $60,360. | Shipping Intelligence. canned goods, 57 pkge machiner: 2 bdls hose, ARRIVED. Wednesday, October 24. mr Crescent City, Stockfleth, 33 hours from cent_City. mr ¥O, st cr 13 hours from Fort ~ Johnson, TREE. Stmr City of Puebla, Jepsen, 6 hours from Victoria_and Puget Sound ports. Ship ar of France, Fisher, 67 days from Newecastle, NSW. Br shlp Fannie Kerr, Gibbons, 63 days from Newcastle, Aus. Schr Newark, Beck, 14 hours from Bowens Lgnding Schr Corinthian, Korth, 18 hours from Bowens | Lanaing. | CLEARED. Wednesday, October 2. Stmr Columbla, Doran, Astoria; O R & N Co. Bark Albert, Griffith, Honolulu; Willlams, Dimond & C: :_.: iir Lena Sweasey, Johnson, Mazatlan; Wm | Olsen. | SAILED. Wednesday, October 24. Stmr Geo Loomis, Bridkett, V Stmr National City, Dettmers, | with Pitcairn in tow. | “Stmr Santa Rosa, Alexander, San Diego. | Ship Roanoke, Amsbury, Liverpool. | ntura. Fort Brass, Bark Albert, Griffith, Honolulu, Brig Pitcairn, Thompson, Bragg. Schr Lena Sweasey, Johnson, Mazatlan. Schr Nettie Sundborg, Larsen, Fort Ross. Schr Defender, Marsters, —. Schr Mary Etta, Anderson, —. Schr J Eppinger, Bkipper, Stewarts Point. Schr Monterey, Beck, Bowens Landing. SPOKEN. Sept 13, lat 2636 N, lon 24 22 W—Ger ship Osorno, from Hamburg, for Santa Rosalia. from Oregon, for Queenstown. Oct 22, lat 49 N, lon 8 W—Br ship Bandaneira, from Chemainus, for Cardiff. Oct 12, lat 36 50 N, lon & 17 W—Br ship El- ginshire, from Tacoma, for Queenstown. MISCELLANEOUS, | LONDON, Oct 23—Fr bark Santa Maria, from | Cardiff Oct &, for Santa Rosalia, put into Ma- defra with loss of foretopgallant mast | TELEGRAPHIC, | POINT LOBOS, Oct 24, 10 p m—Weather hazy; wind NW, velocity 30 miles. | DOMESTIC PORTS. | _CcOOS BAY—_Arrived Oct 24—Schr Dalsy Rowe, bence Oct 16; schr Maxim, from Santa | Barbara; schr Western Home, hence Oct 9. Barbound Oct 24—24—Stmr Empire. EUREKA—Arrived Oct 24—Stmr Eureka, hne Oct 23; stmr Brunswick, hence Oct 22, Salled Oct 24—Schr Fortuna and stmr West- port, for San Francisco. SBOUTH BEND-Arrived Oct 24—-Schr Web- foot, hence Oct 10. CAPE NOME—In port Oct 12-Stmr Robert | Dollar, for_ Seattle. SEATTLE—Arrived Oct 24—Stmr Willamette, hence Oct 20; ship Orlental, hence Oct 6. Salled Oct 23—Stmr Excelsior, for San Fran- clgco. POINT REYES—Passed Oct 2—Br ship Springbank, from Newcastle, NSW, for San Fprmcllno, ip Isaac Reed, from Seattle, for San Francisco. PORT TOWNSEND-Arrived Oct 24—Stmr Ean Pedro, from Cape Nome. Soiled Oct 23—Bark Gen Fairchild, for Syd- ney. Ship Charmer has not arrived, as reported. Passed up Oct 24—Stmr Cottage City, from Dy for Seattle. Arrived Oct 24-Jap stmr Kinchu Maru, from Yokohama. SAN DIEGO—Sailed Oct 2—Stmr South Coast, for San Francisco. Oct 23—Stmr Iaqua, for 8an Francisco. PORT BLAKELEY—Satled Oct 24—Ship John Ena, for Delagoa Bay; schr Commerce, for Hongkonz, FORT BRAGG—Salled Oct 24—Stmr Sequoia, for San Franeisco. BOWENS LANDING—Safled Oct 2—Schr Bender Bros, for San Franc 3 CLALLAM—In port Oect 23—Ship Jabez Howes, from Tacoma, for Honolulu. FOREIGN PORTS. TNAGASAKI—-BIHQG Oct 24—Stmr Argyll, for aku. KOBE—Arrived Oct 21—Br stmr Port Albert, trom Seattle, for Manila. }Nfilm"uf Oct’ 22—Stmr San Mateo, 0 s Angeles. rrived Oct 23—Br stmr Robert Adamson, from San Diego. AUCKLAND — Arrived Oct 24— Br stmr Moana, hence Oct 4. 7 CALLAO—Arrived—Br ship Eaton Hall, hence JUTH—Arrived Oct 23—Russ ship Syl- N. for A June 21, and sailed Oct § for 10, trom ‘Oregon; Ger sbip Mabel Rickmers, Ellzl.ll. from mm B . ALE—Passed Oct 23—Br ship Nile, hne May 23, for Queenstown. JAVA PORT—Salled Sept 21—Ital ship Dora, on. MONTEVIDEO—Salled Oct 8—Ger stmr Aby- Go’l‘. for Hambu: ORORAN- Salled Oct 7—Br stmr Osk :‘a"zu.a' Oct 23—Br ship Allerton, for Sunder- land. YOKOHAMA—Arrived Oct 22—Br simr Bm- k‘:‘ from Vancouver. Oct 23—Stmr ress of_Indi alr of Rio h‘gl Janeiro, hence Oct 2. ACA ‘Oct 2-Stmr Acapuleo, 3 for San Francisco. "fi-'-_g" B4 Bk 5y Loute o soutnamy- for Fr bark Anjou, Crenver, Queenstown; Eppin- | & © Mazatian, via Fort | * June'ss, lat 22 8, lon 125 W—Br ship Aspice, | from San Francisco, via Honolulu, for Syd- ney, NSW. REMEN—Arrived Oct 2¢—-Stmr Kaiserin | Maria Theresa, from New York, via Southamp- | ton. QUEENSTOWN — Arrived Oect Montefcrt. from Motreal, for Liverpool. SOUTHAMPTON—Salled Oct 2+—Stmr Lahn, from New York, via Cherbourg. s Steamer Movements. 24 — Stmr TO ARRIVE. Steamer. Victoria Iaqua Clegne North Fork Point Arena . Empire Arcata Eureka . Corona. Gaelic Mackinaw Portland Nanaimo. |Grays Harbor . Adamson Coquille River. |, Santa Rosa.....(San Diego. | Acapulco .......|New York | Willamette ... |Seattle.. Crescent Cit; |Crescent City. | ! TO SAIL. | Steamer. | Destination. | Columbta Coos Bay. | | Newburg .|Grays Harbor, | Eureka Humboldt. Oct. | Corona ian Diego.....|Oct | City Puebla!Victoria.. Oct. | North Fork| Humbold! Oct. | Colon ......|New York.....|0c Pt. Arena..|Point Arena.. SEEBNBBEESNNREERY =3 | Czarina .. |Seattle.........|Oct. 31, | W. Kruger. |Grays Harbor|Oct. 31, Santa Rosa/San Diego.....|Nov. 1, 11 am|Pler 11 Sun, Moon and Tide. ; United States Coast and Geodetic Survey— Times and Heights of ‘High and Low ! | Waters at Fort Point, entrance to San | | Francisco Bay. Published by official thority of the Superintendent. NOTE-—The high and low waters occur at the | city front (Misslon-street wharf) about twenty- | five minutes later than at Fort Point; the | height of tide is the same at both places. au- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. Sun rises Sun sets . Moon sets NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides | the early morning tides are given in the left hand column and the successive tides of the day In the order of occurrence as to time of | day, the third time column the third tide and | the ‘last or right hand column gives the last tide of the day, except when there are b\ll‘ three tides, as sometimes occurs. The heights siven are In addition to the sounding on the United States Coast Survey charts, except when & minus sign (—) precedes the height, and then the number given is subtracted from the | s. The plane of refer- | he lower depth given by the cha ence 18 the mean of t] low waters. If you are interested in trunks, good trunks at reasonhable prices, call and see gur stock. If undecided ask for our cata- ogue and compare our prices with those ot“(‘:ther trunk dealers. We buy trunks bg the carload at such prices that we are able to sell at bedrock figures. Sanborn, Vail & 41 . Co. Market st. Played a Percentage Game. ‘William Weinberg, 1044 Folsom ot, charged with being the keeper of a pbker game and six others charged with play- B e s T tz yesterday on . n the evidence showed they were pla.ym a per- game. were orde to ap- pear for sentence t ‘morning. e The Justice’s bench of San Francisco will recelve a most satisfactory addition by the election of Jouge T. O'Connor to the office of Justice of the Pe - 'eace. Estate of H. L. Simon. The inventory and appraisement of the estate of the late H. L. Simon was filed yesterday. The estate is valued at $370,- 449 50. i weak human nature and Inexorable fate | or destiny. | sence of tragedy is conflict and Dowden { and touched by “the shadow of some of | does not know these plays. Decedent’s interest in the firm of | like Ten Brink says that the es- that it is struggle between good and evil. Students of Shakespeare’s plays know | that about 1500 his art began to take on a new phase; having attained complete success in comedy and the historical drama, he began about that time to write his remarkable series of tragedies. But this change in style and subject matter was not arbitrary; in the development of - THIRTY SHAKESPEARE EVENINGS. —_— God waters to the stars that give no man light, over a world full of death and life without resting place or guidance. It there is one scene more tragic than the last it is the tempest scene where Lear speaks to the heavens and the gods. We seem to be listening to the “torture shriek [ of suffering humanity.” In the words of | the fool, Gloster, Edgar, Kent and Lear, | e hear “a chorus of passionate, jeering. wildly ing and desperately wailin, volces. Nature and the gods have joinec | hands with man to bring in the reign of ’f"h:ms. In the words of George Meredith, Humaml{ looks like an ironic procession with the laughter of the gods in the background.’ What causes tragedy? It is not well al- ways to reduce a play to one abstract principle, as the German critics used to do, but it is Interesting to try to account for the sad end of the tragic figures, Why do Romeo and Juliet meet such a death? And so with all other sufferers. Evidently not because they have committed some sin, as philosophers like the friends of Job would have us belleve. 1 suggest two ways of looking at such problems. The tragedy may come as the result of what Hamlet calls “the dram of eale” In one's | nature, not the result of certain sins, but the result of certain limitations, certain defects that under certain conditions will lead to fatal results; the too great ten- dency In Hamlet to think and not to act; the excessive emotional nature of Romeo or Juliet: the lack of penetration into men's treachery in Lear and Othello; the excessive pride of Coriolanus, ete. On the other hand one may find the source of tragedy in the environment; as the world is constituted goodness and highminded- ness do not stand much chance. The lives of Romeo and Jullet g0 out because they ossed lo and their great mes in contact with an equally great and more powerful hate; it is not Hamlet's fault, but the fault of his time, that he cannot find opportunity for the exercise of his splendid powers; Lear is opposed by men and gods and he seems but their prey. Around these two theo- ries of tragedy has gathered much litera- | ture: the truth in all such disputes Is fre- | quentiy with both sides, and it is when we consider i the tragedies from both y they are so true to life. As man is constituted he has limitations that prevent the full exercise of his powers; with all his noble faculties he Is yet de- ficient in many things, hampered by the limitations of his nature; and this is the pathos of all great men. On the other hand, the world itself is responsible for many tragedies. “Why is alf around us here as if some lesser god had made the THE GRAVE SCENE IN “HAMLET.” his own life he had realized something of the tragedy of life, something of what Wordsworth called “‘the burden of the mystery of all this unintelligible world.” Whether the sornets give us the clew to this change In his temperament or not, it is certain that he had been reached the deep mysteries of human existence.” “Somehow a relation between his soul and the dark and terrible forces of the world was established, and to escape from a thorough investigation and sounding of the depths of 'ife was no longer possible.” From the depths of a profound experience and an_all but supernatural observation of life he gave to the world the dramas extending from ‘‘Hamlet” in 1603 to “Timon of Athens in 1608—a show of tragic figures like the kings who passed before Macbeth. No one can hope to un- derstand the significance of life or to ap- preciate the full beauty of tragic art who To Shakespeare the problem of evil was not a metaphysical problem, as it has been to many men in this century; it was | a fact to which he did not hope to give a | solution. Knowing the world and human | nature as he did, ke realized that no shal- low optimism could fathom the mysteries of human suffering and the triumph of | evil. The optimism of Pope or of Addison | goes down in the midst of such scenes and | passages as the great dramatist gives us. | It would be well for the reader to run through the tragedies with this idea in mind, leaving aside all other considera- tions, such as plot, characterization, ete. Every crime and every passion of human | g nature is ruthlessly and yet truly present- ed—murder, lust, hypocrisy, ambition, envy, selfishness, Ingratitude, “‘the motive hunting of a motiveless malignity”—all e lnc-lm.ted ‘ln Hvl;xxt fihn;lclednglo%?{ tions or . bu lesh and guimmetions ox ey bt gon st hearts of fond parents, families are in hostility, social Ylfa is corrupt, litical honor s lost, friend betrays friend, a vil- lain entraps the noblest of men and the urest of women. It is all there in the iving hues of art. it — thinks of the conclusions ‘of the trag e gets an overwhelming sense of the tragedy: of the world—Hamlet and Ophelia cut off in the very prime of life, a Brutus unable to resist the onw sweep m) ,_the c of S in it ghes. ang Shove 2 the scene In which the broken-hearted Lear comes on the stage, with his dear Cordelia in his arms, uttering the sad- dest of.all walls: And my poor fool is hang’d! No, no, no life! “f should a dog. & horse, a rat, have life, thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more. ) Never, never, never, mever, never! bt that | world breaks upon | Paracelsus, Constance and Norl | dred and | of life are realized. | characters find no such comfort in | queenly fl world and had not power to make it as he would?” Times are out of joint and evil is triumphant. Does Shakespeare suggest a- 7 solution of the problem of evil and any alleviation of pain? The answer to this best be seen by comparing him with n- | ing, the most Shakespearean of all mod- ern poets. He, too, felt the ruma of evil in the world: the creater of Guido and Otima and a score of other char | acters was no shallow optimist: he saw | life _steadlly and saw it whole. And yet Browning’s death scenes are hig mot triumphant ones: the light of another the sufferi an world. Pomafi: and rt, Mil- ertoun all die with words of faith and hope on their lips. There is, as it were, a fifth act where all evil is overcome and the withheld completions Two things ing seems to offer as a solution to such tragedies as he and Shakespears have reprelemed—‘xhe God of love and the im- mortality of the soul. Shake: s the hour of death, nor is the reader given least basis for such an interpretation. It is tragedy In its sternest aspect—the tragedy of earthly love and passion. Ha is as unconcerned about the solution of any problems of life as life itself; the sun of his genius shines on the just and the unjust, and no clew is given to the my- tery of life. There are two things that may mately {nferred from the t akespeare. Ome of them has. expressed by Jam: “Reign of Law": the privilege of great natures. ra- tion in any form ulwn_;h implies the en- durance of suffering. e great sufferers are our brothers, and they win our sym- pathy as thosé who have not been through the fire never can. To many Prometheus bound is a sublimer . than letheus unbound. Lear, let, Othello, Ophelia, Cordella mean far more to the world than if they had gon: peacefully to the end of their da: In the suffering and conflict the nobg and finer elements of human nature are re- vealed. tis joy and strength to know that human resolve can laugh at terrors, E human love is stro failures of this martyr’s shrine or in the cross. Another thing that Shakespears to belleve in is goodness; not the ness that has its reward, but virtue that is its own reward. King Lear has oft been compared to a tempest; in the mids of the storm and chaos a ray of moon- light breaks through the throws its 'u"'é re of Cordeila