The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1903, Page 24

24 THE SAN FRANCISCO COALL, SUNDAY. APRIL 12, 1903. MODERN ENGINEERS SAVE - SPLENDID RUINS ' OF PHILAE TE MPLES. PORTION OF RUINS AT PHILA NEW FOUNDATIONS TO PR WATER RAISED BY THE DAM 4 WHICH WERE SHED WITH T HEAD OF HEN the International Com- mission in 1% recommended the adoption of the pl prepared by Mr. Wilco for the construction of the great reservoir dam acr betweer mber reservoir would be full, submerge the greater part of the ancient half-ruined temples on the historic islan A great outcry was at once archaeologists and Egy; the world. In their complishment of the gr: engineering feat of modern times would not justify what was termed an unwar- rantable act A strong fight was at ¢ augurated in behalf of Philae. Mc atal peti- tions were signed and all manner of rec- ommendations were made for the protec- tion of the beautiful ru: a result of this agitation the plans ere modified so as to lower the level of the water in the reservoir to a plane that would In a measure save the temples But even at this amended level the greater number of the cld temples, with the exception of the temple of Isis, 5 when the reservoir is full, in water v ing from six to twent feet in depth. Yet with it all the precious re| of bygone ages are safer for time to come than they would have been had the great dam never been undertaken The total length of the Assouan dam is one amd one-quarter miles, and the maximugh height from foundation is 13 feet e differe: the level of water abowe’and below feet. It banks the water up for 140 miles and to the extent ©f 1,000,000,000 tons To preserve the buildings against this head of water it was decided to underpin them and thus insure their stability. Ex- | character of the building of the ground Beneath the fractured stone slabs rolled and the nature girders fourteen inches deep by inches wide were laid in pairs with thei ends ¥ girders were surrounded le masonry laid in best mort all well grouted 5o as to remove all pos bility of corroston of the steel by of the water In the case of the wn in the re elabora Bed,” h “Pharaohs accompanying cut, a m scheme was iscovered th Is were in very bad and stantly deteriorating condition. The ound was opened Inside the building, the old foundations unde and then a new foun nry re: mined and supported fon of solid rubble at satura- der the whole struc- ma: A similar p sast colonnade. the case of the n Mammiseum the not to disturb the paved floor. in the Temple of Hathor and colonnade and rooms of the Isis forecourt the ma- was carried as in “Pharaoh’ ble foundation. The and Adelphos were 2 deed, every structure on the whole island & condition as to four before, 0 strengthened. of any importance s been put in better ations than it ever a new and longer le; and of life has been given to these most interesting uable epoch of the Pharaohs. The fuller details of this inter work are given in the Sclentific Amer March 14 with several fllustrations. It is (0 be noted that the great t: successfully completed without accident to a single man or hurt to any of the monu- and remains of | ments OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE ng in seats cut in the counter- was rollowed with gs were made outside the building, k was | ploratory surveys were made ‘ OF THE PACIFIC COAST mine existing conditions of the founda — | tione and the best me of accomplish- | Board Is Named for Examination at | ing the work The results of these explorations showed that the necessary underpinnin, serve the rulns would be very in fact, it was practically demor that nearly the whole island wou 10 be provided with a new foundat some Instances it was found 1 space between the bottom of the foundations of the monments and the solid bedrock was filled up with Nile silt | muddy at the top, but gracually passing | into fine, clear sand as bedrock was ap proached. In other instapces the great #lone slabs on beams resting on count perts, which carried the weight of the structure, were fractured and unstable to @ high degree. On the completion of the survey and re- port thereon to the Egyptian Government a grant of 00 ($110,000) was made, and tie work of restoration and underpinning v begun The principle and method on which the work was done were the same throughout, with slight variation according to the e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SCIENCE SCORES AGAIN. A Preparation That Will Destroy the Dandruff Germ Discovered. Finally the scientific student has discov- ered a certain remedy for dandruff. When it first became known that dandruff is the result of a germ or parasite that digs inio the scalp and saps the vitality of hair at the roois, causing falling hair and bald- ness, biologists set to work to discover some preparation that will kill the germ. After a year's Jabor in one laboratory, the dandruff germ destroyer was discov- ered; and it is now embodied in Newbro's Herpicide. which, besides curing baldness thinning hair. speedily and perma- nently eradicates dandruff. “Destroy the chuse, you remove the effect.” Sold by leading d: .__Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicids Aich. San Francisco of Candidates for West Point. WASHINGTON, April 11.—Postmaster | commissioned: California—Willlam A | Boardman, Lafayetie. Oregon—John R. Casey, Ashland. Washington—James Van Nostern, Cleveland | Fourth-cl postmas‘ers appointed: California—Joseph Gracf, Melrose, Ala- meda County. Washington—G. 0. Hil- Brownsville, Kitsap County; John Dzbson, Chico, Kitsap County; A. R. | Masteron, Florence, Snohomish Count M. E. Johnson, Manette, Kitsap County; | Christ Cook, Provost, San Juan County. | Free delivery service will be established | at Redding, Cal., June 1. | Army orders: Major James §. Pettit, | Inspector general, now on legve at San | Francisco, to this city. | The following board will meet at San Francisco May 1 for examination of can- didates for admission to Military Acad- emy: Major Wiiliam Stephenson, sur- Major Joseph Garrard, Ninth Cav- alry; Major Benjamin H. Raadolph, ar- tillery; Captain Willlam G. Saan, artil- lery; First Lieutenant Henry 8. Green- leaf, assistant surgeon. B soyar e g HAYNE WILL BE BURIED FROM SAN MATEO CHURCH Funeral To-Morrow From Catholic | Edifice to Be Public and In- terment Private. | SAN MATEO, April.—The funeral of | the late Judge Robert Y. Hayne will take place Monday at the Catholic church at San Mateo at 10 o'clock. The funeral at the church will be public, but tge integ- ment itself, in 8t. John's Cemetery, will be strictly private, only the members of the family going to the grave. The pall essign. e Go, Detrvlt.l bearers will be members of the legal pro- 1 SUNDAY .:.0...0fc. &0l aercaes s v ot t SRR DEeHSN o FRESEE JO SR N T SRR e 1 SRR @ +....Third and Market Streets, 8. F. e ) LANE TURNS. T is interesting political news that City Attorney Franklin K. Lane aspires to the Vice Presi- dency, and in the furtherance of his ambition is touring the Southern States. It may have cscal;e(l the notice of the promoters of his boom that he is perhaps constimtiunallyn in‘eligible to the office, not being a native of this country, but an interesting question may arise in con- struction of the constitution on that point. L Section 3, article II, of the constitution says: o person not a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of the constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President.” Section 6 says: “In case of the removal of the President from office, or of ‘lnnis death, resignation, or inability to discharge the duties of his office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President.” Read together, it has always been assumed that these two sections require thfll Flle President and Vice President must have the same qualifications of nativity. ‘But the c:ma%uqtmn provides also that if both have inability to act, Congress shall provide the succession. So it is a doubtful point after all, and no. case has arisen requiring its settlement. When General Arthur succeeded Garfield his ineligibility was alleged, because it was charged that he was born in Canada. Proof was forthcoming that his birthplace was Vermont, and the d.is- cussion ceased. But, going to the custom, and the standing interpretation of the constitution \\"thch all parties have observed from the beginning, Mr. Lane, who was born a subject of Great Britain, is ineligible. The new issue raised would be, in the event of his becoming Vice President a\Td facing the succession, would his ineligibility be held to be merely the “inability” mentioned in section 62 1f so, the succession would pass over the Vice President to the Secretary of State, as now provided by law. Mr. Lane's candidacy, and his nomination by the Democracy, would not set the consti- tional lawyers to searching for a solution of the problem, because his candidacy wouid bring him no nearer succession to the Presidency than does his incumbency of the City Attorneyship of San Francisco, which he fills with signal ability. Probably his Southern tour, and addresses to the Legislatures of Dixie, have quite another purpose, which is aided by permitting himself to be mentioned for second place on the !ickf‘l. He enters the field in competition with Mr. Bryan as a *Jack, the candidate-killer.” His defeat for Goversor of California last year is attributed, by himself and his friends, to the rabid opposition of Hearst and the Examiner. 1In the midst of his campaign Ex-Governor Budd fled the field to help Hearst in the New York tenderloin. As Hearst was fighting Lane here, and “Jim” Budd has nominated "BiH'_‘ for the Presidency, it is easy to see that Mr. Lane has use for his warpaint and tommyhawk, and is in the South to kill the Hearst boom. The owner of the EXaminer- reiies on the ILabor Union party to give his candidacy its first. impetus. But Mr. Lane is something of artist in Labor Union politics himself, and there is probably no man in the United States who can enter that arena on more equal terms with Hearst. So this Southern tour is only another addition to “the sounds of confusion and creature complaint” which arise from the Democratic Golgotha. As far as eligibility is cc vnrr:mc_d the Vl)e_muc- racy might as well nominate any prominent foreigner out of a job, and Don Carlos for Al‘rcs:_\lenl and Prince Krapotkine for Vice President would do as well as any others. Imlc‘cd.» in view of the attacks upon the constitution in the platforms of 1896 and 19oo, it would be in line for thf‘ party to assail the fundamental law in respect to Presidential eligibility by defying it in the nomination. Mr. Hearst will not fail to notice Mr. Lane's will increase the list of 9:1!!‘&19!'}1 Congressmen invited to junket as his guests in the sumptuous special train he is equipping for a visit to this coast. The whole thing is material for opera bouffe and has no higher interest for the country. turn, and HIE revolution in Venezuela progresses and has already overcome the effect of some of Cz tro's recent military successes. There is o reason to anticipate that, if Matos succeed in becoming dictator, ‘the negotiations for settlement of the claims of foreign nations will be There is some evidence that Matos has been encouraged by Germany and interrupted. Great Britain, and on that account, if Castro, who is known in his own country as “El Mono de los Andes,” “the monkey of the Andes,” has so monkeyed the fiscal ‘and robbed the people that in two vears he has accumulated a stolen fortune of ten u'lilliuns. which is deposited in Paris, and will, if defeated, manage to 'ew;»r.]wc and go to spend his fortune in Europe, where Blanco and other thieving dictators have preceded him. for no other reason, he would be anxious for a peaceful settle- Wilen the present issues are settled and existing claims are ;:uELI: it is not probable fl}m 'nn.\- change will come over the habits of the Latin-American despotisms. mistakenly called xtqmbhF The United States has a mission in those countries which it must soon or late execute. We don't want their territory, but we do want it opened to civilization by good and stable government. Our excuse for intervening in Cuba was the misgovernment of Spain. The same reason of misgovernment ex- ists in all but three of the Latin-American countries. Our commerce. is injured, ar‘ul our peaceful relations with Europe are constantly threatened by the ceaseless turmoil and revolution, robbery and outrage, among those people, who have not learned the alphabet of self-government. X Just how we are to teach them it is difficult to say, but we can begin by compellinz them to respect “the rights of our own citizens domiciled among thcl:n for business purposes. It is seen now that Mr. Blaine’s magnificent dream of pan-American politics lacked the necessary foup(lat!on of stable self-government and civil order in the nations with which his revery allied us. _\’\'hllc his spell was upon this country there was 2 distinct abandonment of the policy of protecting our people against spoliation and outrage. I1f we now proceed to cr.fimpel_ them.m' respect ;\mencan_s we may in‘lpf(‘:’i upon them the policy of obeying the law of nations in their mtemanonalArelatu.ms. Ven- ezuela will be a good place to begin this great experiment, for it is the awful example which offers the knotty part of the problem. OUR BOOMING COUNTRY. Y officials of the Bureau of Immigration it is estimated that the number;\of immigrant:a who enter the country this year will approximate 800,000, breaking all previous records, even that of 1882, when 788,092 came in. The figures are too large to be readily appre- ciated. Should all those immigrants settle in one place they would form within the year a city of first-class magfii(ude. Should they settle in any one of the Western States they would come very near to dominating it as soon as the adult males among them acquired the right to vote. " It is an evidence of the magnitude of our country that it can receive and find place and em- ployment for that large army of industrial invasion without s_erious disturbance anywhere. In fact thc'y will be absorbed about as rapidly as they arrive and .withm a few days a.fte_r they have dispersed they will be indistinguishable in the mass of the pnpulatxor{. Most of them it is expected will settle in cities where there is already a large foreign-born population; and as a consequence no note will be taken of them except at the ports where they are registered as immigrants. To give employment to these people there must be ready fo'r use an amount of cf\pit_al suffi- cient to supply them with tools and to provide them with wages until the product of their industry can be sold and converted into money. The fact that we will be able to furnish the work, the tools and the wages is an evidence that our wealth is commensurate with‘our ma..gr'litude, As a large proportion of the immigrants are from Southern Europe it is to be regretted that they cannot be turned into the Southern States, where there is a need of their skilled labor in fac- torv or farm work. It would be much better for all concerned to estahlifi;fim there than to have them congested in the already overcrowded tentment districts of the h.g»,c_i_ : (_30 where they will, however, they will add much to the wealth of the country, and it is certain that in a few years some among them will be noted as rising men in t‘he community \vherg they settle. That h3§ been th_e rule with the immigration of each succeeding year, and that is why Uncle Sam still keeps his door open. The Dewey incident has blown over all right and the Germans are returning to their usual friendliness. It appears to be the opinion of the Kaisgr that Dewey having been an old salt for so many years is trying to be a little fresh in his. old age. . e i L Y Some one has started a report that more university students were injured last year from over- study than from football playing, and naw there is a call for proof to satisfy an incredulous world. Sam Small, once noted as a journalist and then as a revivalist, seems to have made a total fall fron. grace, for it is reported that he is to take charge of a tourist hotel in Texas. LENDS CHARM TO BRILLIANT LETTERS. | gmmm; APRIL 12, 1903 + —— e oo WOMAN P 5 OF THE L WHOSE SALON THE OL ATTRACTED THE I ND WHOSE LETTERS TURE OF PASSION. D REC ITE MONG the group of brilliant | salons charmed | ys of the old regime nee and have left a memory of grace, which is still revered by all who can | lue of tr both from the vz of a mere attract! appre: a society tellect e rudenes ire than that of Mile. who counted among her mbert Turgot, the Chevalier Lo- Archbishop nd. in the litera- theology of the | career was In many respects ro- c. She was the natural daughter of | |a woman of rank, whose mother did not | | wnose s i panion for the mo: | came dare to acknowledge her. During her youth she was brought up in the house of her half-sister, where she was treated as little better than a servant. The natural | vivacity of her mind, however, showed it- | self even in that situation, and when | she was 2 ears old she attracted the at- tention of Mme. du Deffand, then in her old age and in need of a companion. Taken to Paris by her patron, she be- came a bright particular star in the circle that gathered around that famous dame, on was then the center of all that brilliant and charming in Paris. The relations between the two lasted for ten years, but Mme. du Deffand was every year growing older and I p tractive as a hostess, while Mile. » Les- pina: was steadily advancing in pres- tige as a conversationist and a com- intellectual men of the time. It was inevitable that a break should occur, and when it did the younger woman found herself suddenly famous, but almost without resourc Her friends to her rescue. They provided for her a home where she could hold her alon and from that time on her recep- jons every evening from 5 to 9 o'clock were the resort of the best society in the French capital. | Her energies were employed in re- celving her friends and in directing the inner politics of the Academie Francaise. | It is said that more than one of the mem- bers of that body owed his election to her | influence as much as to his merits. Her literary work was confined to letter writ. | ing, which in those days was practiced | ag a fine art, and In that department she teok high rank. Her fame as a writer, however, would have been but -short lived . had it not been that when about 40 years of age she fell in love with a cer- | tain M. de Guibert and wrote to him a | series of letters that have been treasured | { ever since as among the masterpleces Otj the literature of passion. “The intensity of the letters is due to the | fact that at the time Mlle. de Lespinasse | wet De Guibert she was In love with a | son Of the Duke de Mora, at that time | Spinish Embassador at Paris. it ap- pears that her love for De Mora had its foundation in her respect and esteem for bis genuine nobleness of character and | Ligh intellectual attainments, but it was not sufficient to keep her from becoming the victim of a blind passion for De Gui- bert, who was but a showy hero of the | time. Her remorse over her conduct to- | ward De Mora kept her mind and heart in’ continual agitation, and the letters she | wrole to the object of her passion have therefore the fervor that never relaxed | during the whole of three years the cor. | 25 respondence lasted. The letters have been translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley and puty. lished with notes on her life anq charac- ter by D’Alembert, Marmonte] and De Guibert and an introduction giving 5 critical estimate of her life and lave, by Sainte Beuve. It constitutes a volume of genuine literature of remarkable beauty, Tevealing a true romance fully equa) tg the best ever written by the masters of style and hot l‘u:man Ppassion. Under the title “British p, traits” the Outlook c»xnp.n';m:f.',l f,“‘;: | Hare le | for which Mr. ! of Historic | those great subjeets and no lishe a me of short sketches of I sh statesmen by Justin Carthy. The men dealt with are Ar- thur James Balfour, Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, Joseph Chamberlain, Henry Labouchere, John Morley, Lord Aber- dee John Burns, Sir Michael Hicks Eeach, John Redmond, Sir Willlam t, James F > ell-Bannerman The essays are critical rather than bio- graphical and furnish no mere than a and Sir Henry | brief outline of the career of each of the with author. atesmen, m the a commentary thereon It is a style of work McCarthy is well suited be found easy and agreeable ading for people who wish a fair con- ception of the prominent British states- men of the day without the trouble of makirg any extensive study. The reader, swever, will have to bring to the book a considerable knowledge of British poli- cs in order to understand many of the allusions. Naturally enough Mr. Mec- Carthy treats the varfous statesmen mainly from the standpoint of their rela- tions to the Irish question. Very rarely {0Ges he touch upon any other feature of their political careers. The book is handsomely printed and ound and is illustrated with photographs of the men of whose political services it sives account. Horace Greeley played so large a part in the development of American journal- ism and in the politics of his time that generation will pass before the can people will have forgotten him or ceased to feel a sufficient interest in his career to render it worth while for bockmakers to compile biographies of him. The latest venture of that kind is the recent publication in Appleton's series Lives of a memoir of Greeley Willlam A. Linn, who was for man years editor of the New York Evening Post. The work is by no means that of an admirer or even that of a sympathetle friend. {t appears to have been writte to order by a man who would Just as s0on have written something else. The book gives a rapid review of the early struggles of Greeley and then treats of his relations with Thurlow Weed and William H. Seward in the managemen of New York politics, the founding and upbuilding of the New York Tribune, the anti-slavery contest, the Civil War and the Presidential campaign in which Gree- ley was the condidate of the Liberal Re- publicans and the Democrats. Compara tively little space Is given to efther new_light s played with thrown on the part Greeley respect to them. Y The work has the advant P age of giving Ort space the cutlines of the hif of one of the most remarkable of Amer cans and presenting a general history of !.hf‘ politics of the country from the time Greeley entered into political partnership w|Fh Weed down to the Presidential cam- paign of 1872. Very little effort is made depict the man as distinguished from the 8reat editor who founded what was in his time the most influential newspaper ir Am_erit:L The editor, however, is inter- esting enough, and there are no dul Pages In this brief account of his work and his success in Journalism and his failure as a Dolitician. “Lettars of Mile. de Lesphtasse,” transiate by Katharine Prescott Wormele; b Hardy, Pratt & Co.. Boston:. . | U oisned British_Political Portraits, S by Justin M ar Published by the Outlook Compan: 257 Fourth avenue, New York. Price. $1 m";:*flrzc- Greeley.” by William A. Liun. Puo- 1 1 ':‘bv D. Appleton & Co., New York. Pric:, — —————— Easter eggs, at Townsend's, o Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in i ot l.u‘-le-. A nlc.!yrne( for l-n-l’l:e;:::'::’*- “oved from Palace Hotel bullding to 71 arket st.. two doors above Call b ng.* Spectal information supplied daily g’n- b W) sy "": e A el ]