The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1901, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1901. SPECIAL NOTICE! J.0'BRIEN &CO. TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS ceFOR ... Fridayand Saturday Only or-AMade Saits, re. or-Made Stits, reduced from $10.00 to.....$5.00 ....$7.50 duced from $12.00 to. lor-Made Suits, reduced from $20.00 to.. .$12.50 l'ailor-Made Jackets, “Made Jackets, r-Made Jackets, ch Flannel Waists, reduced from $1.50 t0..$1.00 Frer reduced from $5.00 to..$2.00 reduced from $7.50 to..$3.50 reduced from $10.00 to..$6.50 ench Flannel Waists, reduced from $2.00 to..$1.50 “rench Flannel Waists, reduced from $2.50 t0..$1.75 to $2.00. J. e assortment of Silk Waists reduced from $4.00 O’BRIEN & CO., 1146 MARKET STREET. MOROSCO’S C;RAND OPERA HOUSE ™~ SATURDAY AND SU. LAST TH NIGE (HARLES ERlN \ RNER C : EATEST x VING IR ~hcml}:bu\\‘ ous Irish Drama, A -POGUE! O BRIE g © t all mati- MORDSCO SGRANU UPEM HOUSE Speml *TIVOLI* The ENGING MASTER' “Robin Hood." ette's Great Comic Opera, | ORMANCES OF MRS”'FISKE “B[CKY SHARP.” FTURDAY DAY, February 4. MRS, FISKE “TESS OF THE v URBERVILLES” | BELASCO »~o nuu‘s ENTRARSE Phone S Swem cory mass : cfle_snmn cASE Powerful JAMES Rieh Costumes! Irish s 'xm', 10c, 10c, DAY & English Melodrama, “A DAUGHTER 0}4 THE IILLION ” THE SAN FRANCISCO JOCKEY CLUB, TANFORAN PARK-THIRD MEETING. Monday, Jenuary 2 s, to EBaturday, Inclusive. February £1X OR WEEK DAY. Events, Three Hurdle Races and Six Steeplechases. FIRET R CE OF THE DAY AT 2:10 P. M. Trains leave Third and Townserd streets for Tapforan Park at 10:40, 11:30 a. m., 1, 1:30. and 2 p. m. Trains leave Tanforan Park. for San at 4:15 p. , followed after the last race at Intervals of a few minutes by sev- *pecials. Seats In rear cars reserved for | and their escorts. Admission to course, g railroad fare, $1.25. MILTON S. LATHAM, Sccretary. MORFE RACES BACH Six Btake First Production in Amer- | SAN FRANGISCO'S COLUMBIA |EVERY NIGHT, INCLUDING SUNDAY MATINEE SATURDAY. Managers Wagenhals ‘& Kemper present LOUIS JAMES v ‘ Company in a Slupondnu! Scenlo Production of ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream, i PRICES—$1 50, §1 Next Week—First A MIDSUMM T5e, B0c, 35c and 23c. e Nights and Sat. Matinee, NIGHT'S DREAM." SUUSA SEAT SALE BEGINS T0-MORROW, At Sherman. Clay & Co.'s Store. FIRST CONCERT at the Feb. 10. ALHAMBRA, SUNDAY NIGH1, FOY AND } Third and Final Week of — | SAM LOCKHART’S | BABY GELEPHANTS. | Reserved alcony, sna box seats, tinees Wedn esday, 10c; opera chairs | [ Saturday and Sunday. BESHEAR LAST THREE XIGHTS. IATINEE T0-MORROW and SUNDAY, tam Gillette’s Comedy, ALETRE . COMFORTS .. OF HOME! i Next Week—Engagement ‘of JOS. KILGOUR, when will be presented S. Willard's suc: | “JUDAH.” Seats Ready.- Alf Ellinghouse Prop. and Manager P th 770 TO-NIGH! The Laughing Festival—Fast and Furious. Every Evening this week is a jolly CARNI- VAL NIGHT % With Those Funny Fellows. 25— ANT ME_ GIRLS-2. AND MACK company “of 40 Girls and in the very best of musical ex- travaganzas. “SHOOTIN(: THE CHUTES” . 50c and T . Zc, 35c and S0c. Afternoon— Wi, uction, *“THE FORRO“S r jolly Boys—40, l 1 rady’s OF These hotels pos- sess the attributes that tourists and travelers appreciate LEADING THEATRE | ATHRYN KIDDER| | cargoes; were probably worth a million. | president; John H. Bullock, secretary and | most successful on the coast. b HE steamer Guatemala is ex- pected to arrive here from South and Central American ports to- morrow night or early Sunday morning. She is well equipped for freight and passengers and wHI be the pioneer of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and the Compania Sud Amer- icana de Vapores. In all the two con- cerns will operate about thirty steamers on this coast and between here and Fng- land. Among them will be the Colom- bia, Chile, Peru, Areguipa, Santiago, Puno, Serena, Pirarro, Mendoza, Imperial, Mal- | po, Aconcagua, Salena, Loa, Tucapel and Limari, all twin-screw steamers and ranging from 2000 to 3500 tons burden. The San Francisco steamers will con- nect at Panama with the Panama Rail- road Company and 'at Valparaiso with steamers bound for European ports via the Stralts of Magellan. The new line is being handled by Balfour, Guthrie & Co., and W. Zoller, who was for years with the Pacific Mail, is handling the freight and passenger business. The trade between San Francisco and all ports in the world should take an un- precedented boom this year. The Kos- mos line is running between here and Hamburg, the Oceanic Steamship Com- pany has built three magnificent steamers for the Australian trade and put a vessel on the run to Tahiti; the American-Ha- wailan Company has built or is building | five 10,000-ton steamers for the New York, | Honolulu and San Francisco trade, Grace & Co. are arranging for a line of steamers 10 run between here and the nitrate ports of South America and now the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and the Com- | pania Sud Americana de Vapores is an | established fact. In view of the opposition the Pacific Mail has withdrawn five of its steamers | and still there are more to follow into re- | | tirement. The City of Sydney, that ar- |rived yesterday, was almost bare of freight and did not have a dozen passen- gers. It is doubtful as to whether she will go out again for some months to | come. The next three months should see at least five new ocean steamers coming and going evel four weeks between San Francisco and Central and South Amer- fcan ports. DISAPPOINTMENT FOR CREW. | There Was Not a C{ga-r in Acapulco | ‘When Steamer Sydney Arrived There. There was a disgusted lot of officers and | men on the Mail Company’s City of Syd- | Hardly a man aboard had . let alone one to offer to When the steamship reached Acapulco it was the intention of all | hands to lay in a supply, but when they got there all the fragrant weeds were | 8one. The battleship Iowa and the crulser Philadelphia had been there and the mer- chants of Acapulco said the officers and men of the warships had laid in a supply of 20,000 cigars, thus cleaning out all the supply on hand. The men on the Sydney say the merchants Acapulco would willingly have purchased cigars from them had they any te sell. There must be some territic smokers on the Iowa and | | the Philadelphia to get away with 250,000 clgars inside of a month. Overdues Abput Given Up. The Portland fleet of overdues will prob- Ialvl_\' be posted as missing within the next week. ‘The vessels have been so long | overdue that gambling on their safety has | ceased ¢ind everybody expects the worst. The Andrada, now out eighty days from | | { ~ | { | Santa- Rosa and the Otto Gilder- melster, seveniv-nine days from Yoko- hama, can get no offers to reinsure, even at 90 per cent. The Bertha, 100 days out from Weihalwei, is selling at 8 per cent. and the Cape Wrath, ninenty days from Callao, at 5 per cent. A few risks have | been taken on the latter vessel. Discouraging reports from along the | coast have caused the Ardnamurchan and the Machrihanish to be added to the over- due. fleet. The former fleet. left the Frazer River on November 2 and the lat- ter on December 31, both bound for Liver- pool. ‘Both carried salmon and quantities of the same brand of goods have . been found on the Oregon beach. In any event the underwriters do not like the looks of “things and are paying the gamblers 45 per cent to reinsure. The cargoes of the Arnamurchan and the Machrihanish alone are valued at $500,000, while the six overdues, without thelr Kimball Peace reigns ence more among the shareholders of the Kimball Steamship Company. At the annual meeting ye terday all differences were settled and the report, of the secretary and treasurer wds received with cheers. . It showed the con- cern to be on a-sound financtal basis and that the prospects for the ensuing year were vel bright. The officers elected: by the shareholders were: Joseph Marsden, president; Robert-J. Tyson, vice treasurer, and George ‘W. Macfarlane, di- rector.. Now that all differences are sete tled the company should prove one of the e R iy ‘Water Front Notes. The £hip Kennebee, now on Puget Bound, has been sold to George Plummer and others for $59,000. She will 'be used in the salmon trade. 2 Captain Lewls, formerly of the Kenne- bec, is 10 become manager of Boole's ship- yard at Alameda Point. Willilam ArcHer fell three stories through the elevator at 133 Beale street yesterday and escaped with a broken leg. He was treated at the Harbor Hospital. el NEWS OF THE OCEAN. | Matfers of Interest to Mariners and - Shipping Merchants. The steamer Walla Walla sailed yesterday for Victorta with the following cargo, valued and GRAND HOTELS, $San Francisco, —<entral Jocatioa, liberal* manage- ment, modern ap- pointments a n d peffect cuisine American and Eu- ropean plans. VIM, VIGOR, VITALI TY for MEN n MOR“’) BISHOP'S PILLS ave in use over years the leade; o hurch and lh!ll’ 1ol lowers. Positively cures the worst cases In oid and young arising from effects of self- abuse, dissipation, excesses or cigarctte-smoking. Cures Lost g1 ;my;olen Lost t Losses, Insom- Pains in Back. Evil Desires. Lame Book, | Betvtus Debhiity. Fieagache Dnfituss o Mar | £y, Loss of Semen, Varicocele or Con- | stipation, Stops Ne rvous Twitching of Eyelids. Effects S0 o a e Immediate, Impart vigor and potency to every funetion. Don’t get despondent; a cure is at | hand. Restores small, undeveloped organs. | Bumuates the brain and nerve centers; foc a box. 6 for $2 50 by mail. A written guarantes to Sors ot oney refunded with § poxer. Clrculars free. Address BISHOP REMEDY CO. 40 Ellla | at., San Francisco, Cal, GRANT kv co. 23"and 40 Third st. ¥ DWA™T™ POWER, Racing Secretary. CHUTES AND Z0O 5yt BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW! TO-MORROW W AFTERNOON, JUVENILE PERFORMERS’ DAY. TO-MORROW NIGHT, MONSTER CAKEWALK. T hone hr Seats, Park 23, Get What You Ask For! When you ask for Cascarets Candy Cathartic be sure you get them. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. A substitutor is always a cheat and a fraud. Beware! All druggists, 1oc. | rISCHER’S CONCER‘I‘ HOUSE Nero, Frances Hnralrf Fnlmnh Hanlon and Singer, Ida Howell, Waterman Littie Aima’ Wuthrich, Hal Confett, : ‘and Patrick and Hinriche" Tcerveq Seats Zic. Matimee Sunday. W, T. HESS, KOTARY PUBLIJ AND ATTORNEY-AD-LAW, Tenth Fioor, Room 10154 Claus Spreckels ‘Bldg. 7 ;.‘n"m&m ¥ fornia st., below Poweil, at $11,427: | 85 bxs raisins, 71 bxs lemons, 115 bxs oranges, | 6 cs canned goods, 7 bdls 13 bars steel, § cs 1dyugfl, 105 cs paste, 61 pkgs hardware, 670 lbs butter, 2 bbls baking powder, 35 cs boitles, 104 | pkgs groceries and provisions, 24 cx dry goods, | 7 bales hose, 3 c8 ammunition, § sks cocoanuts, | 67,930 Ibs malt, 13 cs marble, 30 cs s¥rup of figx, 1000 Ibs sugar, 10 cs cocom, 5 cs chocolate, 1cs 241 gals wine, 32 pkgs vegetables, 192 pkgs machinery, 1861 1bs coffee, 2 cs typewriters, tins matches, 110 pkgs 5250 1b dried fruit, 3 c# 636 1bs tobacco, 157 es cracker: 900 1bs mill- stuffs, 178 sks olicake meal, 30 ¢s whisky, 15 | bbls Plaster, 240 sks potatoes. —_———— Notice to Mariners. UMATILLA REEF LIGHT VI NO. 67— COAST Of WASHINGTON. *Notice is hereby given that this vessel, which on January 10 1904 broke adrift from her station, about 3% miles SW. % S. from Uma- tilla Reef (Flattery Rocks), m: Cupe Alava, Washington, and a west-southwesterly from the cape, was re- placed on her: station January ). No change bhas been made in the light vessel as 1 char cteristics of lights, fog signal or gen- eral appearance. This notice affects the “List of Lights and ignals, Pacific Coast, 1900, page 32, No. 145 siLis of Beacons and Buoys, Pacific Coast. 64 also the page By order of oy ’Lighthouse Fog W, DAY, Commander, U. 8. N, U‘hflwu!o Inspector. POINT ARGUELLO LIGHT STATION. .Notice is hereby given that om or about February 22, 1901, a fixed white light of the fourti order will be established in the structure recently erected on the extreme outer end of Point Arguello, seagoast of California, about 12 miles to the northward and westward of Bgint Comeption: “The Tight will flluminate the entire horizon; its focal plane will be 91 feet above mean h(‘h waf nd the light may be seen 15% miles in ciéar weather, the observer's eye i feet from a above the “The NEht will be shown rising from ",',f fkflshfi‘nnl ack Ianterg. wooden tower Luilding and surmounted by a The woodwork ‘s painted white with I, colored trimmings. “Fearings and distances of prominent objects 11 0 | Alaska; ship Standard, from the light will be: Richardson Rock, oft Ban_ Miguel Island ! Pledras_ Blancas \x:mhouu. NW! = miles; San Luls Obispo nchmm- * N % w 19‘2 35 miles; Point Sal, N. by W miles, A fog slgnal will be established later, of which due notice will be given. Bearings are megnetic; miles are nautical miles. T;lx\’x notice affects the “List of Lights and 4 3 “THE QUEEN iS DEAD.” | Eerwe YELLOW INCE the death of Queen Vic- toria Britisn ships leaving all ports in the world have been displaying on the seas six flags of the International Signal Code for the purpose of announcing to all vessels they meet—many of which have been at for weeks—the demise of the British ruler. The represent the letters U. F. A. and K. O. E,, which read, “The Queen Is Dead.” - l'ax Signals, Pacific Coast, 1900, page 10, No. and the *List ot Beacons and Buoys, Pa- cific Coast, 1901,” page 14. By order of the Lighthouse Board, R. 1S J. HIGGINSON, Rear Admiral, l_ 8. ‘Navy, Chairman. —_— Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Thursday, January 8L Stmr City of Sydney, McLean, 21 days from Panama, ete. < omona. Shea, 18 hours from Eureka. anta fiosa. Alexander, 40 hours trom blmr L.ws), Leland, 24 hours from Monte- “Yimr_Point Arena, Hansen, Point Arena. Schr Western Home, from Coos Bay. 11 hours from Christensen, 5 days Schr_Archie and Fontie, Johannsen, 48 hours from Stewarts Point Schr Rio Rey, Skipper, 24 hours from Ive Beck, 5 hours from Coos CLEARED. Thursday, January 3L lla Walla, Hall, Victoria, etc; Good- Perkins & Co. Stmr Corona, Gielow, San Pedro; Goodall, Perkins' & Co. Nor stmr Titania, Exenes, Nanaimo; John Rosenfeid's Sons. Nor stmr_Hero, Syverston, St Vincent; Ep- pinger & Co. Schr Dora Bluhm, Seymour, Kahulul; Alex- ander & Baldwin. SAILED. Thursday, Eureka, Jessen, Eureka. Aleatraz, Carlson, —. Walla Walla. Hall, Victoria. Newburg, Peterson, Grays Harbor. San Pedro, Jahnsen, Bureka. Greenwood, Fagerlund, Greenwood. Progreso, Monrce, Tacoma. tmr Coquille River, Thompson, Grays Har- or. Nor stmr Titania, Egenes, Nanaimo. Ship Geo Curtis, Calhoun, Honolutu. Ship Indlana, BHolten. Nanaimo. Ship Two Brothers Br ship Port Stanl, Schr Mayflower, T POINT LOBOS, cloudy; wind north, January 3L Stmr Stmr Stmr Stmr Stmr Stmr Stmr = tle. Queenstown. udmansen, (quullle River. EGRAPHIC. Jan 31, 10 p m—Weather velocity 36 miles. SPOK Jan 2, lat 5 lon 23° W—Br ship City of Benares, hence Sept 25, for Queenstown. Jan 11, lat & N, lon 30 W-Br ship Eurasia, from Hamburg, for San Francisco. DOMESTIC PORTS. COQUILLE RIVER—Sailed Jan 30—Stmr Argo, for San Franciseo GRAYS HARBOR—Sailed Jan 30— Stmr Grace Dollar, for San Francisco; schr Chas E Falk, for Homoiulu Arrived Jan 30-Stmr Fulton, hence Jan 2. SEATTLE—Sailed Jan 30—Stmr Victorian, for for San Francisco. Arrived Jan 3i—Br ship Falkland, from Ta- comn NEW LINES OF STEAMSHIPS EAGER TO SECURE CALIFORNIA’S TRADE Inside of Three Months Five Different Companies Will Be Running Vessels Into San Francisco From South * and Central American Ports. - MARSEILLES-»A'rfl\ked Jan 31—Stmr Hes- perian, from N LT L—Sailed Jan 31—Stmr Common- VERPOO! weum, for Boston, via Qucenstown; stmr Do- from minion, for Halifax and Portland, Me. Arrived Jan 31-Stmr Lake Suverior, St _John, N F\ and Halifax; stmr Majestic, from New York. PORTLAND, Me—Sailed Jan 31—Stmr Syr- ian, for Glasgow. ROTTERDAM—Sailed Jan 31—Stmr Pots- dam, for New York. NEW YORK-—Salled Jan 31—Stmr Minneha- for ndon: stmr Gascogne, Yot Havre; stmr Auguste Victorla for Algiers, Genoa,' etc; stmr Weimar, for Bremen GIBRALTAR—Arrived Jan 30—Stmr Colum- bla, from New Yerk, for Genoa, etc. HONGKONG—Arrived Jaa 30—Stmr Ameri- ca M from San Francisco, via Honolulu and_Yokohama. RINCE—Arrived Jan 31-—tmr PORT AU Prinzessin Victorla Luise, from New York, BREMEN—Arrived Jan 81-Stmr Koln, New York. MORORAN—Safled Jan 20—Stmr St Bede, from Portland, Or, for Manila. e s om Steamer Movements. Coquille River. | Coquille River. Coos Bay Humboldt Chiina via § .{Puget Sound Pons |F Seattle & N. Whatcom.| |Seattie and Tacoma....| Guatemala. ay G- W. Elder... | Portland and Astoria. Mattewan acoma ... Fulton.. Grays Harbor South Portland, Roche Harbor. Senta Barbara. Humboldt FEmpire. Ce Ciescent City.../Crescent City. TO SAIL. Dest nation. Steamer. February 1. | 9 am Pier ewport . |China and ‘Japan..| 1 pm/PMsS | Vosberg and | | | sth-st. | Wheeler.... ‘Tillamook Ba 3 pm| Whart | February 2. | Mandalay.... Coquille River . .|Pler 2 Mariposa... . |Honolulu .. pm|Pler 7 Columbia....’ | Astorla & Port 11 amiFler 24 Point Arena.. Point Arena 2 pm|Pler 2 Pomona....... Humboldt . 2 pm|Pler 9§ | February 3. | | Arcata. ......./Coos Bay 0 am|Pler 13 | | Alance |Portland & Coos B.| 9 am(s.w. 1 Santa Rosa... 8an Dicgo . 2| 9 am |Pier 11 | February 4. China and Japan. Carligle Ctty. North Fork... Humboldt 2 Czarina. Seattle & 8 : . |Coquille River. H 3 pm Pler ‘ebrunry .|Seattle & Tacoma.| 5 pm|Pier 9 am|Pler 2| 3 pm|Pler .o (SW 1 am|Pler 5 pm|Pler 13 9 am Pier 13 9 amimter | 10 am|Pler 13 |9 am|Pier 11 Sun, Moon and Tide. United States Coast and Geodetle Survey— | Times Heights of FHigh and Low | Waters at _Fort Point, entrance to San | Francisco Bay. Published by official au- thority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at the city front (Misslon-street wharf) about twenty- five thinutes later than at Fort Point; the helght of tide Is the same at both places. FlllDl\\’ FI‘HRLr\HY 1 [ Time| || Pt B \\{ NOTE—In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides ara given in the left | hand column and the successive tides of the day In the order of occurren as to time of day, the third time column gives the last tide | of the day, cept when there are but. three | tides, as sometimes occurs.. The heights given are In addition to the xmundlng! on the United | States Coast Survey charts, except when a minus sign (—) precedes the helght, and then | the number given is subtracted from the depth given by the charts. The plane of reference is the mean of the lower low waters. Time Ball. Branch HydrnsupNe Office, N. chants’ Exchange, San ancl!( Tfinnunl’)'bl‘lulwl rai e time on the toyer of the new Fe building was dropped at exactly noon o-day.. i. e., -at noon of the 120th meridian, or at 8% o'clock p. m., Greenwich time. CALKINS, G Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N., in charge. Mer- e COLLECTION DAY IS ONCE MORE IN PERIL Board of 'l'rada Diractors Prepare to Recommend That It Shall Be Abolished. Collection day In San Francisco will again be on trial before the annual meet- ing of the San Francisco Board of Trade | next Monday. The board of directors will recommend that the members of the | board, so far as they are concerned, shall dispense with further observance of this day. The assembled ‘'mefchants will de- cide whether or not they have further Y i ident of th L AL ns, president o of ‘Trade, favors doing away with coflee: tion day. Sanford Bennett, who has drawn a resolution to give up eollection | day, also is opposed to continuing the old practice. He said last evening that he had been requested to draw up.a resolu- tion and he had dore so. There was no substitute proposed for collection day. POINT REYES—Passed Jan 31, Stmr Robert Dollar, from Seattle, for San Francisc PORT TOW) \D——Sau—d Jan 31-Ship Kennebec, for Sy ot 108, ANGILES—Salled Jan $1—Stmr for San Francisco —Arrived Jan 31-Stmr W H Kru- hence Jan 29: stmr Lakme, hence Jan 30. ed Jan 31-stmr Samoa, for San Fran- at 3'p m— itesboro, clsco: schr J G Wall, for San Fran, ASTORIA—Sailed Jan 31—Br ship Lucn-r-. for quco’nr'm\n Arrived Jan 31—-Stmr Signal, hence Jan 2%. FORT BRAGG*SnHed Jan 31—-Stmr National Gity, for San Pedro; stmr Novo, for San Fran- 508 BAY—Sailed Jan 3i—Sehr Ivy, for T San Francisco; stmr South Coast, for San Fran- cisco. EASTERN PORTS. NEW YORK—Arrived Jan 30—Stmr Advance, trom Colon. o™ CO% POREIGN PORTS. ACAPULCO—Sailed Jan 2%-Stmr Newport, for Panama: stmr Barracouta, for Panama. NEWCASTLE, NSW—Arrived Jan Marion Chileot. for Adslaide, 3 MAZATLAN--Sailed Jan 25—Br stmr Guate- mala, for San Funclnm CALETA BUENA—Salled Jan 30—Schr Bric, for Honoluly. Dec 2-Br bark Port Carlisle, for DEBLIN—In port Jan 15—Br ship Manydown, or San cisco, via Swansea. O OLON . Batled Jan' 25-Stme~ Advance, for New York. EHIE!;.DS-SAIIIB: Jan 20—Ger bark Lisbeth, N GRONGATrived prior to Jan fl—Ja strar America Maru, hence Dec 2. - OCEAN STEAMERS, All that there was to the movement was to give San Francisco the same general business system as Eastern citles. The present mllecnon day is the ‘“steamer day’" of " £ el AGED SEA CAPTAIN SETS OUT ON FINAL VOYAGH Gerard Debney, Lats Mnter of ths Corona, Passes to the Myste- rious Realm. With the passing of Captain Gerard Debney, who died on Tuesday, the coast loses one of its best known and most esteemed. mariners and the Goodall-PerKins corporation a captain in whom they reposed every confidence. For some time the death of the captain, who was more than 63 years old, had been expected, but this will not- lessen the poignancy of the grief all who knew him Wwill feel at his taking off. For the last wo trips the steamer Corona. which was is htnt command, has known another n his at the helm, and he was compel ed at the same time to retire from active life. Captain Debney leaves survivi: in thl: city a widow and a sister in England, which was his birthplace. The Close of the Century him Ssex, S TOWN-—Sailed J: 31- - m’i‘]c‘.“f’fé‘m verpool, for New FopeT 0o EILARD passed 1 Jaf Sl—Stmr LiAquitatne, from Portland. sa Fan o Stmr Me. vonun.cwwl presents the wonderful spectacle of 119,441 cases G. H. MUMM'S EXTRA DRY im- | the centuries had its rise there. | of mankind, | tributary to the Pacific. ported in 1900, or 79,203 more than any oth- er brand. The quality now coming to uu. market is remarkably fine. gl s % e R, ‘I men were like clocks they could all go on tick. 2 HOME STUDY CIRCLE FOR CALL READERS A Lesson in the Geography of Asia, the Most Venerable of All the Continents. Copyright, 1801, by Seymour Eaton. XV. Asia is the most venerable of the comn- tinents. Its name suggests assoctations and calls forth emotions such as the men- tion of no other continent can inspire. According to common tradition and the most credible deductions of science it was the cradle of the human race. From this ancestral home by varlous pathways in prehisteric times the different races of the human family marched to populate the other divisions of the globe. It'was the cradle of civilization. Here man first emerged from barbarism. The earliest and mest primitive civilization, of which we huve any account, was its product. Hence as from a fountain that civilization was diffused to those other countries which it was to emulate and stimulate, while retaining for centuries something of its original type. It was the cradle of government and law. In it were seated the oldest and most powerful empires. Egypt 1s the only country which in antiquity, in develop- ment of the arts of life and in political at- talnments could vie with those Oriental monarchies. But Egypt was itself more modern. Moreover, Egypt was always Asfatic rather than African. Always it turned its back upon the continent of which geographically it was the north- eastern part and all its interests and con- nections were linked with the East. Asla was the cradle of religion. Every great religion which has endured and re- tained its millions of adherents through Nor is this true merely of the falths whose ori- gin Is lost in legend and mythology. It is | equally true of those more vigorous and | more tenacious, like Christianity and Jsb lam, which have appeared long after the dawn of autheatic history. So, at the very mention of Asia Is | evoked the consciousness of an unap- proachable pre-eminence. The birthplace of civilization, of govern- ment and law and of religion, in compar- 1soh what could the other continents cre- ate and bequeath? These priceless bequests were to be re- celved, applied and carried further by Eu- rope. By her they were in‘turn to be be- stowed upon the Americas, Australia and Africa. Even in the strange evolution of time they were by her to be brought back . their source. And vet, when we seek thé beginnings of what is imperisha- ble and most precious in human achieve- ment, Asia is the mother of us all Asia far surpasses the other continents in size. It includes more than two-sev- | enths, almost one-third, of the land sur- face of the globe. Its area of 15,000,000 square miles- is four times larger than that of Europe, nearly equal to that of Europe and Africa and exceeds that of North ahd Sotith America. Upon the map ©of the edstern hemisphere it impresses not only with the ideia of vastness, but of | positiondl superiority. It seems to thrust Europe out from it toward the west as its broadest and most &i- gantic cape, and to suspend Af- rica from it as its most gigantic penin- sula. Both are attached to it as depend- encles, while it exists independent of them. 'On the northeast, along the line of the Arctic_circle, it projects a narrow arm to within less than forty miles’ dis- tance of the western extremity of Alaska. On the north it is bounded by the ymt\r Sea. Its farthest point is the Tal Peninsula, half way between the Ari tie circle and the pole. Oniy one explorer has been able to circumnavigate this frozen promontory. The Swede Nordens- kiold in the famous vessel Vega rounded it in 1579. On the south it is bounded by the Indian Ocean. Toward the southeast it sends off its long, attenuated peninsula of Malacca, which terminates in Cape Roumania, about ninety miles from the equator. On the west it is bounded by a continuous chain of straits and seas, all Nowhere does what may be strictly called the Pacific Ocean touch the shores of continental Asia. From Kamchatka to Borneo a reef of islands, of which the Japanese isiends and the Philippines are the most impor- tant, interposes and shuts off that ocean from its western and inland waters. The sinuous line, which hems Asia on the west, hds been the line of its influence and of its real contact with the world. Europe, the Mediterranean with its branches and the Black Sea furnish its western boundaries. Its geheral outline is far less broken than that of Europe, while less uniform than that of Africa’ For every 5238 square miles of territory it has but one mile of. coast line. This proportion is much more like that of Africa than of | Europe. But the broad rivers, seldom obstructed by sand bars at their mouths or by falls and rapids in the lower portion of their course in some degree counter- balance this disadvantage. Yet on the other hand, the great northern streams, the Obi, the Yernesel and the Lena, which on the map look o favorable to naviga- tion, in flowing northward pass from a warmer to a colder latitude and are blo¢ked by ice a large portion of the year. The greatest monotony of surface and contour will be--found in the extreme north. That, however, concerns us very little. On the edge of those dreary Si- berfan marshes, which the polar summer is hardly long enough to thaw, it is doubt- ful if man ever will succeed in overcom- ing the obstacles which glacial nature throws in his way. As we proceed down the eastern coast the diversity of outline fnereases. South of the forty-first paral- lel we encounter the peninsulas of Korea and Siam-Annam. Along the coast are splendid and capacious harbors, many of which human skill has as yet done little to improve. On the south we meet the peninsulas of the Deccan or India and of Arabla, almost continental in their im- mensnr. The shores are forced to recede far inland by the Bay of Ben,al. the Arablan Sea and the Persian Gulf. The farther we journey westward, the richer the opportunities for intercourse and communication which the shores pre- sent. At last we reach Asia Minor, but- tressed at its base against the Armentan plateau, and except for that base an island surrounded by European seas. Be- cause of its geographic position it seems stretching out to proffer all that Asia can preduce and to accept all that the west can bestow. Toward the southeast countless islands, great 4nd small; succeed each other for thousahds of miles in indescribable confu- sion. Geographers contend as to whera the Asiatic insular system ends and the Australian system begi Toward the direct south in the Indian Ocean the isi- ands are few In number and generally smail. Ceylon looms as an_exception op- site the mainland { India. But (he editerranean plants Cyprus in the angle formed by its Immense gulf, between Sy- ria and Asia Minor, und the Aegean Sea is a magze of islands, which resemble step- ping stones across an enormous brool From the creation as far as natural causes ,could determine, it was fixed that the future history of Asia_ should be wrought out and its main influence exert- ed in the direction of ‘he southwest and west. ‘When its superfluous population should be ready to swarm they would find the Pacific Ocean too broad and the Jands beyond too indefinite for them to lunge toward the unknown. The natural aw of emigration would prevent their pushing southward over the countless jsi. ands of the southeast toward the equator. An indiyidual, for the sake of some real agined profit, mav remove far to the !cu h or north. But a horae or multitude of men set in motion without a definite and well-known end almost Invariably roceeds toward the cast or west. The aw of emigration is ihat tendency which impels the emigrant to follow parallela of latitude, or, expressed with greater accuracy, isothermal lines. An onrushins mass of humanity, when channn: its habitatidn under ' the spell of dominant impulse, clired to avold warmer or colder which it is accustonied. This inclina- tion operated still more strongly in primi- tive times, when ma: had made little r ess in resisting the forcés of nature was -&Nlll fl:nfllbjec! of cuhmnlc O~ s. evertheless. tho W i .'6'51 exists and has its shate i im ling the waves le:raflvn dlreeuy a that : | plains and through the across the ocean to the United States, preventing any markea deflection to re- sions farther south. While the general direction of subse- quent Asiatic emigration was thus deter- mined, it was to find road over the ture had traced the wa in the search for lars move from the overcr their birth turns and keeps on where Individuals may be from obstacles progress is easiest ne climbers, b ever a migratory people. Such a people es advantage of cvery slope and dry ver-bed and shailow ford. It may as- cend streams, but only because théy are narrower and less difficult of passage far- ther up. Its strategy s always a balan ing of difficulties, with the decision favor of the lea: ‘When the habitats of mankind became overpacked with human beings one of two courses was sure to be pursued. The In- habitants might stluggishiy adapt them- selves to new conditions and remain in the same spot., enduring the [ncreasin discomforts which arose from want o room, or the entire papulation, or only the more vigorous and energetic in their number, might desert their accustomed haunts ‘aAd wander forth in search of some more generous and less exhausted region. So they would set out on an un- certain march, perhaps at last to estab= lish enduring kingdoms, perhaps to perish and leave their bones along the way. Re- mote Asiatic history affords many exam- ples of both courses, of the slothful lin- gering on in the midst of diminishing plenty and of the starting forth to ulti- mate power or to graves in the wilder- ness. Sometimes the supplies of both water and food were exhausted. Then no choice was left the survivors but to depart. This has been the case more than once Wi the people of Central Asia. As the pas- ture grounds withered the famished no- mads and their™ perishing herds were forced to fly. Ravenous and merciless as wolve: they hurled themselves upon whatever group of men was nearest, not fmpelled so much by lust for booty as lashed on by devouring hunger. How far this ‘motive has been at the base of the Hunnic and Mongolian invasion it is even yet imposssible to say. But we must turn our eyes farther back than to the histories or still more shad- owy days when prolific Asia was to rouse her su?erflunus children and send them forth from their first habitation. The trend of the rivers determines the physi- cal conditions of primitive man and shapes the manner of early history. The rivers are themselves the offspring of the moun- tains, which from a myriad sources afford their’ supply and indicate the channels wherein they are to flow. In her moun- tain system is discovered the key of what Asia has been from the beginning unmtil now. On those skylgler\-lm: ranges, piled loftier than the peaks of any other com- tinent, the story of Asia is written. They have shaped the character and decided the career of the human beings who have clung along their sides and clustered at their base. By thelr qbedient agents, ths rivers, which they have tossed throush the ravines and down their flanks, they have produced the broad alluvial plalnw whereon mankind in hoary antiquity first passed from brutish ignorance to incipi- ent civilization. They and their minor chains through the ages have marked in every directiopn the boundaries of long- established dominions. The mountains of Europe and America have Jikewise had their share in the shaping of human des- tiny. But their part has been small and insignificant in comparison with the part which the mountains of the vastest ana most venerable of the continents have ex- erted. Herodotus declared of Egypt, “It is the gift of the Nile.” Asia is the gift of her mountains. 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