The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1901, Page 4

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NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT . € CARLTON..... ...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESEN.ATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: Weldorf-Astoria Hotel; HUl Hotel AMUSEMENTS. streets—Specialties. eville every afternoon and le—The Henschels' Recital to-morrow = b (Oskland)—Races. Park—Races —— > MARKED EXPANSION IN EUSINESS- 1 — HE weekly commercial reports last week showed ac ued healthy condition of trade. While severe weather retarded the movement of mer- sections of the North and West, the vhole reported greater activity than dur- ponding week in 1900. This is corrob- ¢ bank cicarings, which increased 6o per mportance exhibiting a gain, some The gain at New York was 72.6 i so on down a long list of twenty of the United States. 1d be desired. The country's nst 168 for the same week last in business is not due to any seems to be well distributed staples. The. continued cold of the Rockies has been of great benefit i retailers carrying large stocks, and s trade is reported in much better and shoes are selling well all The particularly good demand for t building operations during the coming 1sive. The iron and steel industry showa by the large clearings at 1er advances are reported in some y respects this trade is better time since the depression of a year rt trade, however, is slack, and foreign ¢ reported easing off in price. Coffee seTling better. Wool is in a peculiar con- le the volume of sales is steadily increas- kemning, and the demand for woolen not what it ought to be. The sales seem to tive account, based on the feeling that have nearly reached bottom, though this is n and may or may not prove cor- is the cotton industry in any better many mills are restricting opera- ber announce that they will close of March. The Northwestern rail- e contrary, report a very heavy movement street has lagged somewhat during the past few « ncipally owing to the uncertainty regard- ing the final details of the mammoth steel combina- tion, and the tendency has been to short the market. There has been a marked withdrawal of the publiz fro purchasing, and once more the professionals have the market pretty much to themselves. A good feature of the situation, however, is the reduction of the discount rate of the Bank of England from 4% per cent to 4 per cent, showing an easier money mar- ket in London. Thus, taking the country as a whole, if speculation in Wail street and the unsatisfactory on of the catton and woolen trades be excepted, ill.be seen ‘that American business is looking exceptionally well at present. On this corst there is little new to report. General trade in-California is.a8 good as at any time during the past year, and there are no large failures or tight money markets to worry over. Funds continue plen- tifisl and remarkably accessible, and some of the intérior banks are actually overflush with coin. Con- ¢inged rain< are enhancing an already bright outlook for: érops; and the situation, as far as California is roncerned, could hardly be improved upon. Ambitious solons at the State capital have given in- dorsement to a proposed law designed to keep critics out -of places of amusement. If the scope of this measure could be broadened as a law of protection to the community everybody, including the critics, would be kept out of scme places which are for amuse- ment simply by courtesy. ST LT ER An effort is being made at Sacramento to place bling-blocks .in the spectacular progress of the coliectors of bad debts. It is to be hoped that our legislators are not permitting any personal feeling to influence acts which should be performed on a plane absolutely unselfish. A measure has heen introduced in the Legislature making it 2 misdemeinor for employers to pay work- men their wages in saloons. It might not be unwise for_some one to draft a law making it a felony for saloon-keepers to accept workmen's wages after they have been paid, ..30 Tribune Bullding | A. Bretano, 1 Union Square; | 31.2, at Chicago 281, at Philadel- | Louis 63.1, at Pittsburg 81, at San | No better | iby British troops, the invasion of the Soudan, and ! or building material leads to the ex- | al merchandise and farming implements over, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI;, THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA. EPORTS from Washington announce that a majority of the Senate Committee on Relations with Cuba have agreed upon a policy of dealing with the island which it is believed will prove satis- factory to the Senate and the administration, The autline of the plan given in the dispatches includes these propositions: That the United States hall have supervision of all treaties with foreign countries made by the republic of Cuba. That Cuba shall not undertake to pay the debt in- curred by Spain in her war with Cuba prior t or after the Intervention of the United States. That Cuba shall agree either to lease or sell to the United States such coaling and naval stations as in the opinion of the President of the United States may be necessary to the protection of the interests of this | country. | That the United States shall have sufficlent super- | vision of the laws of Cuba relating to sanitation to pro- tect this country from epidemics llable to originate | there. It will be perceived that while propositions of that kind spell “protectorat.” they mean “sovereignty.” A country that cannot make a treaty without the con- sent of another power, that cannot determine for itself | what debts-it shall pay or leave unpaid, that is com- ipd}ed to lease to another power whatever points of its territory that other power may desire for naval or coaling stations, and that has not control over its own domestic sanitation laws, is not a free country. The constitution of Cuba may proclaim it an independent nation, but if the United States asserts those powers over it no nation in the world will recognize its inde- pendence. Cuba is so close to our shores and holds such aa | important strategic position in relation to the North | Atiantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean | Sea that the United States must necessarily take a keen interest in the island. and in all that affects the | political condition of its people. It was upon those | grounds we iustly interfered to put an end to Spanish misrule in the island, and upon the same grounds we | must always be ready to prevent any foreign aggres- | sion upon the island or any such anarchy as has be- | fallen the people of Santo Domingo. When all those things have been conceded there | remain grave objections to the plan of settlement proposed by the Senate committee. Ample experi- ence has proven that “protectorates” are fruitful sources of wars. The United States, in combination with Great Britain and Germany, tried that form of ’sup:r\'ising the affairs of Samoa, and the complica- tions that arose even in a group of islands so far off | and so comparatively unimportant came near to caus- | ing war between the allies. In the end they resulted | in 3 partition of the islands between the United States and Germany, and that partition was in violation of | the most solemn treaties made by the three powers | with the Samoans. | Great Britain tried the experiment of a protectorate | over the Transvaal on lines very much like those pro- posed for us to exercise over Cuba. In both cases the iprotecting power claimed the right of supervising protected country and a foreign nation. war. Great Britain made another experiment in the | way of a protectorate in Egypt. The result there was | war, the occupation of the whole Egyptian territory { now the whole Nile region is virtually a portion of j the British empire. | History does not always repeat itself. The failures | of the protectorates in Samoa, South Africa and | Egypt do not necessarily imply a failure of any pro- tectorate we may establish over Cuba, but they are full of warning. . The defect that is inherent in the very nature of a | protectorate is that it places absolute sovereignty no-" | where and thus leads to confusion. On points where the Cubans desire complete independence our super- vision will fret them. On points where ‘we desira’ control their independence will fret us. In the end there are sure to be misconceptions, friction and strife. Of course, by following always the dictates of justice and applying its principles with political saga- city and. high statesmanship we may carry a protec- torate over Cuba without bad results; but if we do we will have achieved something never before achieved either by ourselves or any other nation on.the globe since the dawn of history. ENATOR HOAR'S address before the General Court of Massachusetts on Lincoln’s birthday ties of the time, closing with an expression of san- guine faith in the final redemption of the country SENATOR HOAR'S SERMON. S appears to have been a sermon on the depravi- irom all the evils that threaten it. He referred not to 4 | political evils only, but to those in the business world and in social life, and presented a picture so somber that had he not given utterance to a wholesome op- | timism in the end he would have been in danger of being denounced as a calamity howler. The vigor of the address may be estimated from some of the salient passages. Speaking of corruption jin politics he said: “The whipping-post, the brand- | ing on the forehead, the cropping of the ears, the scourging at the cart’s tail, are light punishments for the rich man who would, debauch a State, whether it be an old State with an honorable history or a young and pure State in the beginning of its his- tory.” Referring to crimes against society and the infrequency of punishment, he said: “To-day crimes against human life and against female chastity are committed with impunity by men of the purest Puri- tan blood, in rural communities, and they go unde- tected and unpunished.” Passing to a consideration of the growth of dis- honesty and of excessive speculation in the business world, he went on to say: “The spirit of gambling which prevails everywhere, not only among the prac- ticed gamblers on the stock exchange, bt through brokers is carried on by widows with their little for- tunes, tempts the trustee and the treasurer and the | bank officer with his humble salary, so that embez- zlement, in many cases followed by no disgrace or public censure, is growing and increasing fearfuliy throughout Massachusetts.” In addition to these crimes of a private nature the Senator found much to condemn in the action of the nation toward the negro and the Filipino. Talking of the various problems of race that confront us he said: “ I believe the zolution of this difficulty is to be- found in the golden rule and in the great Declaration | which is but the application of the golden rule to gh; conduct of states. If the white man will take these for his_ guides when he deals with the negro and the Indian, if America will take these for her rule of action in dealing with weak foreign nations, the diffi- culties that beset us will disappear. If we do not, as sure as God liveth, however the weaker races may suf- and, if deemed best, forbidding any treaty between thz | The result is | MONDAY, Hoar. He has come down to us from the critical times of the Civil War, when politics was a matter of moral conviction. He represents more nearly, pei- ha_ps. than any other living statesman the spirit of Lincoln, and consequently while we may rejoice in the optimism of his closing words we should not over- look the solemnity of the warning itself. ———— LOOTED THE WRONG MAN. UT of the hubbub of the Chinese imbroglio O there comes an unexpected sound. Risifig high and loud over the wailirigs of the Chinese amid their ruined homes and looted palaces and stores there is suddenly heard the roar of a lion's voice. Sir Robert Hart, Chief of the Chinese Im- perial Customs, but none the less a British subject, has risen in wrath to declare that the allies have looted his property, and to demand immediate and ample redress. 3o It appears from the statement of Sir Robert that when the powers began ta seize property for the pur- pose of increasing the size of the legation grounds in 5 Peking they were not at all careful of whose town lots | they took. The officers in charge of the duty of pre- | paring rooms for the mansions, offices and gardens of the various legations considered that they had a | right to seize whatever they wished and, with a dis- criminating eye, they took the best—and they taok a whole lot of it. In doing so, Sir Robert says, they | took some property belonging to him. | If the statement of the irate Chief of the Imperial Customs be true the affair will be regretted, by the powers as an extremely unfortunate incident. It is conceded ¢hat while it is right to loot a Chinaman it is not right to loot a Christian. Moreover, Sir Robert is not the kind of man who sits down and waits for somebody to come along and loot him with impunity. | He is a kicker and a fighter. His demand for redress lis going to continue roaring through the camps and the courts of the allies until he gets justice. When, however, the allies undertake to grant him sort of tribunal to assess damages. When the tribunal begins its hearings what is to prevent a Chinaman oz | two from appearing before it with a claim for dam- | ages done by looters?. If redress is to be granted to one, why not to another? public by Sir Robert's demand, while unexpected, is | not unnatural. When men in large masses once begin to loot they soon lose good judgment. 1n the hurry to seize spoil it is not always remembered that the looter before looting should carefully inquire who owns the property. Consequently it was inevitable that, in the general frolic of grabbing, a good many Christian | residents and merchants in China should suffer a little. | When the grand pacification has been duly performed | jand all is over there will doubtless appear at the | Chinese legations of all the great powers a stream | of good but sorry Christians, alleging that their prop- erty was made a part of the spoils of war along with | that of the heathen, and asking for damages. To all good Christians who have been despoiled by the allies the mishap that occurred in the looting of | Sir Robert Hart will appear as something like a | | special providence. Men of little rank, wealth or influ- | ence; if left to themselves, could hardly have gained a hearing. Their chances of gbtaining redress would therefore have been small. Their prospects of redress | have therefore been greatly brightened by the unfortu- nate slip of the powers in looting Sir Robert. That | victim of a mistake is sufficiently powerful to compel | !a hearing. For many a year past the British people | have been proud to the extent of a national vanity Tover the fact that their Government protects its citi- | zens in all parts of the globe. In the face of that | pride the British Ministry will be forced to make a | show at least of demanding redress for the wrong | done to this eminent representative of its citizens in China, and out of the proceedings that will follow | there may come something of justice not only for him but for many other sufferers. Consequently, as this is a contrary world, the looting of the wrong man | may prove the means of righting a good -many | wrongs. . { STATE DIVISION QUESTIONS, { QUESTIONS affecting the division of -States rarely become practical issues in American | politics. In the early days of the republic an | issue of the kind was brought up by the struggle of the | people of Maine to separate from Massachusetts, arid during the war Virginia was divided and the State of | West Virginia created. Since then there have been no | changes. It was long thought that the people of | Texas would seek to obtain more power in the Senate by dividing their immense territory into several com- | monwealths, but a State patriotism has held them | together. In California there-has been much talk | from time to time of State division, but nothing has | | ever come of it. Here, as in Texas, there is a local pride in the magnitude of the State, and few except politicians would be willing to destroy the unity of | California for the sake of getting two additional mem- | bers of the United States Senate. i From unexpected sources there have come two | movements for the divisions of States which have gone far enough to amount to something like issues of practical politics, and it is not improbable they | may come before Congress in the near future. One of these is the transfer of a large portion of West Florida to Alabama. The people, not only of the section in question but of both States, appear to be favorable to | the plan. State conferences have been held, and it is likely an agreement for the separation will soon be | reached and submitted to Congress for ratification. The other movement under consideration is that of dividing Kentucky so as to give the people of the mountains a State government of their own. inhabitants of the two sections of the State have never lived in harmony. When the rich blue-grass section followed Henry Clay and the Whig party the moun- | taineers were Democrats, but when the blue-grass | country became Democratic the mountains became | Republican. The intense partisan differences betwesa | the two sections disturb the State government and | materially interfere with the administration of justice. | So the project for division finds a geod deal of sup- | port. . 1t is recalled that at the time Kentucky was admit- ted to the Union it was expected a separation of the ! State would eventually take place. In fact, there was | an agitation for it at the time the Territory was ad- mitted to statehood, and it was then suggested that the mountain district be known as Transylvania. Something of the same difference of development | has occurred between the people of Eastern and West- | ern North Carolina, of Eastern and Western Tennes- see, and before the war there was an almost equal FEBRUARY 25, 1Ivu1. COPYR! LAWRENCE COR- THELL. II.—ELMER (This eeries, which is under the direction of president ‘Andrew N. Draper of the Universi- ty of Illinols, will close with “A Study of America’s Opportunity, F. Hoar of Massachusetf There is not an engineer engaged in | studylng or combating the obstacles | which nature offers to man in all parts of | the world who does not know and esteem |the name and achlevements of Elmer ! Lawrence Corthell.. Beginning in poverty | and frail health he long since won a fore- | most place among the world's engineers, {and yet there are few living great men i who are less known by the contemporary | public. He is not rich in money, but the | reason lies midway between his lofty per- | sonal- character and the noble quality of ! his_works. ! ““The achievement of my profession, the | success of science as I understand it, is {more to me than money. In a certain | sense I am satisfied to work for the glory | of a great profession- and what little re-| | flected glory there may be for me.” This PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. ——— Engineering Marvels Inspired and Prcduced by Elmer Lawrence Corthell, the Cele- ; brated American. By John H Raftery. by Senator George | ) FEBRUARY @5, tov. 'PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS,| 1GHT, 1901 P | K | ment fully recognizes the importanc | the ceal pile, without which a mod terialized the United States will | total of thirty-four coaling | was his answer to a friend who urged | him to ask greater fees for his wofk and | | advice. The habit of his mind, the | nervous energy of his body and his en-| | thusiasm have enabled him to accomplish | jan amount of work that would have ex-| | | mainder fairly et | Hawall, | | Cuba, Porto Rico and other West the redress he asks it will be necessary to set up soms | The new development in the Chinese situation made The | fer, the penalty will fall upon us.” division between the mountaineers ‘of North Georgia After so much of warning the Senator added: “I | and the slaveholders in the central and southern por- have an abiding conviction that all these clouds which | tions of the State. Those old differences appear to !mver over us will disappear.” Such faith is gratify- | have been healed everywhere except in Kentucky. The ing, but it will be of no avail unless the people take | Florida case is almost certain to be soon brought be- to heart the lesson of the growing evils and strive | fore the country, and when it arises the force of ex- to put an end to them. No man in the nation is bet- ' ample may encotirage the Kentucky agitators to make L ter fitted to speak on such subjects than Senator | a move for separation there. hausted or destroyed stronger men, and it was the combination of these qualitles. | that founded and built up his success. i For thirty years it has been his habit to keep a notebook under his pillow, so that, | waking in the night under stress of some | new thought, he could jot it down. He said te an assoclate one day: “I believe | I'll have my stenographer sleep in the ! daytime and sit up all night. I have my | best thoughts in the night and I'm too | busy to dictate during the day."” Some Characteristic Incidents. His daughter was a student at Welles- ley College, when her slghl began to fail {and she was compelled to leave. Mr. | Corthell, grieving over her affiiction, vet !saw in it a chanee to help some ome and i with her aid selected a poor, ambitious | girl whom he sent to fill the place at col- | ! lege made vacant by the departure of his own child. The number of aspiring, un- | friended young surveyors and engineers whom he helped to start in the profession | of which he was master will never known, but it is said that more railroad contractors, surveyors and rising masters of bridge constructlon owe thelr success to Elmer L. Corthell than to any other i single influence. His son, Howard L. | Corthell, now with the Illinois Central ! Rullroad Company, following his father’s | profession, is one his youngest proteges. t is a singular coincidence that h! | then a student at Brown Universi ! father's alma mater—enlisted as a private in the First Rhode Island Infantry for service in the late Spanish war, even as the elder Corthell had left the same col- lege thirty-five years before to serve with A few years ago a malignant disease attacked Mr. Corthell. He went to | Switzerland to consult an eminent special- ist, and in the presence of an interested | gallery of surgeons and one of his own riends was informed that the only way to save his life was to remove one of his eyes. ““All right, doctor,” quietly replied the patient; “I am ready whenever you are.” A student of Immense courage, one { whose business since boyhood has denied i him for much of the time the delights of his home, a man of rare gentlenes | has yet successtully lived at variance with ;all his weaker, natural traits. Forever plotting and fighting against the hostility of seas, rivers and mountains, exiled by lflrelin commissfons that kept him for menths at a time in strange lands, he has lived a life of self-denial that is not ex- .pressed In his good-humored face and cheerful smile, Although he has spent o much time in places where fish and wild animals | abound, it is said by his friends that he | never owned or used a fishing-rod or fowling-plece, never wantonly killed a | creature of forest or stream. Horseback ‘riding is his favorite recreation. | _In April, 1900, he was married at Berne, | Switzerland, to Miss Marle Kuchler of | that city, going thence to Buenos Ayres (in South America, where he expects to | remain till the end of 1901. To survey an.d l.control the flerce currents of the Kio de |la Plata, if Mr. Corthell adheres to hls | present resolve, will be the final engin- ! eering work of his remarkable career, for he promises his friends to return to New | York within a year and settle down at last to his home, his books and the writ- ‘ingl which the scientific world expects as his legacy to future students. The Struggle for an Education. He was born at South Abingdon, Mas | midway_between Bunker Hill and Ply | mouth Rock, on September 30, 1340. His | earliest American ancestor was Rober: | Corthell, a native of Scotland, who set- | tled at in the early days | of New England. His father was James | Lawrence Corthell, the son of a revolu- | tionary soldier. Elmer was a bookworm at 9 years and so absorbed was he In study that his father's favorite method of g\mlshlng him was to take away his | books and compel him to play or sit idle. { An early fondness for constructing: com | plicated” mechanical toys Indicated the | bent of his talents. While going to the | little district schaol of South Abingdo: he helped support his family and earncd money to pay for his clothing. By hard work and pinching economy he was able to enter and maintain himself at Phillips | Academy. In 1559 he entered Brown Uni- Versity, where for two years he studied and paid his way by coaching younger men and working in the engine rooms of the buflding. Here the scientific tenden- cles of his mind were gratified by the study of hydraulics and engineering, ana with all_of his mental energy aroused he began the prepgration. for what he had | decided should be his life’s business. Then the civil war came. Just 21, grown | tall and strong with work and college sports, he was eager to enlist. He became a private in the First Rhode Island. Light Artillery, and won his shoulder straps at the first battle of Buli Run. During four ! years and three months he saw service in the campaigns in Virginia and North Carolina. At the close of the war he was mustered out a_captain. | A man of 2 now, he went back to Brown University ‘to resume his_studles | with all the ardor of a boy. He now plunged into the study of theology, de- termined to qualify for the Baptist minis- try. He was a npatural orator and dur- ing his year of work in the divinity school i he preached with marked success in vari- | ous pulpits. But his health, undermined | by exposure and hardship in the army, | now gave way under the strain of ‘his confinement and study. His docto~ | Warned him against a sedentary life and | urged him to choose a career that would keep him always at outdoor work. H's natural bent and his first cholce of a pro- | fession led him to civil engineering, and so he put away his theological studies jand returned to sclence. He was grad- he | i the work of his profession in the | bfiea of Samuel B. Cushing. civil engi- | neer. In Providence. Tn 1853 he went to | Missouri as assistant engincer in _the building of the Hannibal & Naples Rall- road. In 1869 he entered the employ of the | Hannibal & Central Missouri’ Rallroad. br::ln -over the Mississipp! River at Han- nibal. Trying to Tame the Mississippi. It was while directing the construction | of this bridge that Mr. Corthell first be. | came thoroughly acauainted with that t river. He never rested from study. | greal | ing its currents. {t¢ sloughs and bavous | | jts sandbars islands. the geolomy of | jts deposits. Long before the national | Government wou'd listen to arguments &fnr the construction of ietties at the gu't AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season ix now on at full tide. American and Europsan plans. Best of everything, including the char- acter of entertalnment. Apply 4 New Montg m- ery st city, for special ticket. be | the Rhode Island Artillery in the Civil | War, | Elmer Lawrence Corthell. ke : - recognized as an anthority on that and kindred subjects. From 1871 to 1574 ne planned and con- structed the famous Sny Carte levee in | the lllinois bottoms above St. Louis. The remarkable influence of this work upon | the channel of the river attracted the at-y A - tention of many famous engineers. Among ' respect the United States these was James B. Eads, and from the time of his meeting with Mr. Corthell an ardent friendship began, which terminat- ed only with the former's death. M Cortheil’s next great work was the co struction of the Chicago and Alton bflg}le | across the Mississippi at Louisiana, Mo. Here again he-achieved celebsity, for the Span of hie bridge, 444 feet. was then the largest in the world and the structure as a whole was recognized as marking an | e advance in railway bridge building. La in 1574, in company with Mr. Eads, he vi jted the delta of the Mississippi for th purpose of preparing a report outiining | for the national Government the advisa- | bility and feasibility of constructing jet- ties. The volume which Mr. Corthell wrote on this subject is recognized the world over-as a standard authority. When the contract inthe SouthPass was award- ed to Mr. Eads he placed Mr. Corthell in charge of the engineering and construc tion work. It was the success of this fa- mous undertaking which produced a caan- nel of thirty feet deotn at the mouth of the Mississippi and made New Orleans a great seaport. | Then with his friend Eads he began the famous surveys of the mouth of the Coat- zacoalcos river and of the Pacific Coast harbors, which offered feasible termint for the pronosed inieroceanic ship ra.l- way across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Interested in Many Great Works. For_some years Mr. Corthell was main- ly interested ‘n building great railroad bridges in the United States, chief of which are the mighty structure across the Ohio River at Cairo and the Me: chants’ bridge across the, Miss!ssippi Riv- er at St. Louis. The former. which is the property of the Illinois Central Railroad, | { i= not only the longest steel bridge in werld, but is regarded as thie most | fect example of rallroad Lridge builéing. In 1839 he conducted the examinations and surveys of the mouih and harbor, of the Panuco River at Tampico, Mexico, | | and his reports to tha Mexican Govern- | ment were so lucid and practical that he was commissioned to fmprove the harbor with two paralel jetties. His plans for is vast undertaking were formulated | only after ha bad visited and surveyed twenty-six European harbors in search of | suggestions. The complete triumph of his work was evident six months after its | | installation at Tar:pico, when the chan- nel for ships cntering the harbor had | deepened from eight to twenty-six feet | over the sea bar. In 13% he examined the | weter route between Quebec ard the American lake cities. In 1891 he spent six | months in the leading universities and | technical schools of Europe studying their | methods with a view to establishing a | school of ¢ngineering in the University of | Chicago. JIn 1892, while in charge of the Natlonal Rallroad of Tehuantepee, Mex- | | | tslands a total of eight. | i WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS twelve vessels namely, the battleship St. Louls cruisers -Guichen, D'Estrees and Inf four gunboats and four sea-golng pedo-boats. 2 The British battleship Hannibal, whifs alongside the quaywall at Portsmouth dockyard on January 1# last, took in & tons of coal in a little over elght hours The means employed were four Tem leys, one crane and one derrick in barge. a The ordnance works of Krupp at Es were established In 1847, and their ou up to the end of last year were pleces of artillery of calibers va from 1.45 inches up to 17.5 inches and ¢ bracing guns for ships, coast defense and land artillery. One of the first naval orders & command of King Edward VII was :o make a change in the uniforms of flug officers. The alterations are conflz g the gold embroidery on collars and and five years will be allowed before alterations become compulsory. Seeretary Long has named the two b tleships and two armored cruisers vot for in the House of Representatives ( necticut, Louisiana, Tennessee and De ware. As the Senate, powever, has out the entire lgt there ls some tainty as to the materlalization of prematurely christened vessels. England has 271 coaling !l('zlx‘cni In parts of the world, and our Navy Dey ship-of-war is helpless. When the gramme formulated shall have bee: at home a Itng the wes as follows: each; ¥ which eighteen are the globe, Guam, one tion of three, Japan and Samoa one eac | Complaint is made In the Brit | that pulmonary diseases are o | crease, and that the modern steel are responsible for this unsa state of health of officers and « tendency of late years has bee | pense with wood as much as pos the fittings of living quarters furniture is even made of met others in the minimum use ¢ there is no indication In the ports that disemses of the respi gans are on the increase. T inference s, therefore, that ships-of-war are superior to the in comfort and sanitation. The new wire-wound made by Vickers Sons & Maxim at p! respects to be $-inch gun. Vi T length, the shot weighing pou: which, with & charge of fifty pounds o cordite, attains a muzzle veloeity of | foot second foot tons. mechanism is 1. shield and mov of fire is six ro | American $-in | welghs 18 pounds, wi ge of 110 pounds of smokeless powder, promises a muzzie | veloefty of 280 feet and a muzzle energy | of 13,602 foot seconds. Its firing capacity | 1s -calculated at four rounds per minute, | which gives an advantage to the Britsn gun. | . | Whenever the appropriation for the crease of the navy is under discussion Congress the naval officers stationed in ‘Washington become very active in t | efforts to get more ships, But ‘their ze | frequently makes them' give out seac ments which are at valance with facts and palpably extravagant. As an induce- ment to appropriate money for more ships it was recently given out that the Kaiser would complete within the next six years the naval programme originally intended to cover a period of sixteen years. A Navy Department official who recently visited European dockyards is credited with stating that Germany would experi- ence no difficuity In completing its pro- gramme in six years, for Krupp’s yard at Kiel employed 3,000 men, besides which there were several other yards. The fact is that Krupp's yard three months ago employed less than 3500 men, and that the combired working capacity of all the shipyards for naval work does not exceed 5,00 workmen. Furthermore, as the German naval programme involves a to- tal expenditure of $343,367,500 for ships, armor and armament, besides the cost of an increase of 35351 officers and men, “hi to found the Lo e e which proved one | it 18 highly improbable that the Relchstag of ths successtul features of the World's | would Consent to the [iratind o€ about | Columbian Exposition and laid the basis o X | uated in 1867, married & month later and rving as division engineer. and in 1870-73 | goe conn‘Eelved and carried out plans for a | delta of the big river Mr. Corthell Ry | | and architects. He speat 1897 and 1568 in | Europe studying harbor works, railroad terminals, port facilities. mountain rail- roads, ship canzls and plans for the pro- tection of sandy coasts. He was a dele- gate of the United States Government to | the seventh international congress of nav- igation at Brussels in July, 1888, | "Besides the great works already men- | tioned in this sketch Mr. Corthell planned | and constructed the system of jetties at the mouth of the Brazos River. on the Texas coast; formulated plans for open- ing a continuous waterway from St. Au- | gustine, Fla., to Biscayne Bay: perfected | specifications and designs for a belt rafi- | Toad. a union station and a bridge across the Mississippl River at New Orleans, and contributed suggestions or supplementary plans to nearly every notable engineering | roject begun within the last fifteen years Pr%he United States. 1e is now consult. | ing engineer of tke Argentine republic, | and for several months has been actively | engaged In vast works at Buenos Ayres. He is the president of the Inter- natlonal Navigation Congress, conguiting engineer of th» Buffalo Union Station | Railway Company, chief engineer of the Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal Company, consulting engineer of the Iili- nois Central Raflroad Company, member of the American Soclety of Civil En- gineers and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, fellow of the American Asso- clatlon for the Advancement of Science | and honorary member of many learned | organizations of Great Britain, Germany, | France, Mexico, Canada and South Amer- | ica. In 1884 he was made doctor of science | by Brown University. JOHN H. RAFTERY. | PERSONAL MENTION. W. H. Perry, a Los Angeles lumberman, is at the Lick. L. Grothwell, a real estate dealer of | Stockton, is staying at the California. Mr. ana Mrs. Bruce Bonny. who have, | just returned from a pleasure trip to Hon- olulu, are at the California. W. J. Halloran and daughter, of Salt Lake City, arrived from Honolulu yester- | day, and registered at the Lick. Samuel Tyack, a mining engineer who has been in ‘Mazatlan inspécting mining | properties, returned yesterday and took quarters at the Lick. Mrs. Charles Dowdall, whose husband | met his death on the {ll-fated City of Rio, | came up from Santa Barbara yesterday, | and is at the California. 21 ik Henry Newell, a mining man of Salt ! Lake City, who has been In Honolulu for | his health, arrived on the Alameda yes- | terday, with his wife and son, and en- gaged apartments at the Lick. Mrs. T. R. Harker arrived from Madl- | | son Barracks, New York. yesterday. and | registered at the California. Mrs. Harker !1s on her way to Manila to join her hus- | band, who is a lleutenant in the army. | E. Dickinson, general manager of the | Union Pacific, with headquarters at | Omaha, is at the Palace with his wife. Mr. Dickinson =ays he is here solely for pleasure, and his visit has no special sig- nificance in raflroad affairs. jof an international socicty of engineers | ¥ —_————— The New World Way. The new world way must be bewilder- iag to the little potentates who have been upder the impression that they alone were capabie of gigantic moves. The other night two American bysiness men lit a joint cigar and talked a ‘while. The result was a business combination which might well have st ed any overnment. The consolidation of the nion Pacific and the Southern Facific railways by the purchase of 1200000 shares of the latter's stock, for which $70,000,000 was paid, became a fact. The properties. thus brought together were: Capital Mile- New York Central. Lake Shore Northweste: Tnion Pacific Southern Pacific Southern Pacific steamer [ines. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 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