The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1903, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1503, w&mwen £ | NEW YORK SUBWAY RAPIDLY NEARING COMPLETED STATE [ 1 R G R o EING BUILT ALONG THE LINE OF THE | SUBWAY OF NEW YORK, NOW RAPIDLY | | | ¥ <pe £ ons are well lighted by overhead side- ts, assisted by a lib ac incandescent electric lights. Th of the walls will b glazed til- = olors being chiefly white, green red nel will contain a single g = atform, in e whole curve of som t sharp he circle statio g on the we a will contain four tracks. An feature of this station is the he strugture cuts in under the » which is over 75 feet in but which has, York when completed will be : n to people as to the possibilities ¢ n engineering work, as well as T . the convenience and perfection of “rapid 2 Park " transit” methods ywded city. ac suburban traffic served from Liver- and Fenchurct stations t nes of th. at Eastern to 110,000000 of people or: Dt eleven miles rough that road has a good “ the part | record for the nu r and punctu; of Reecged e as mentioned | its tr it has been endeavoring for e 5 £t e way | some ti t to accelerate its local ser- ot it tecl framework | Vice, but on account of the great number crec rete roof and brick or terra | of stations on its suburban lines this has ewalks built excavatior been a matter of much difficulty, as on he street above | the line running to Enfleld there are six- dits Another month will see nearly | teen statio 2 distance of ten miles » re in the same condition and | and the to make rapid starts = - wiih the long and heavy suburban trains re three sal sections of the | has prevented the maintaining of a high is -and of these, a double | Fate of speed = - < in| The steady increase for the tew ' = for | ¥ears in tne number of passen, and < P lirty-fourth and | the Weight of the trains showed that to = the tunnel work | COPe With the situation some special type ¥ i is the section | ©f locomotive was necessary, and James | - o ey accldents occurred, | Holden, chief mechanical engineer of the = e of the houses | F22d, has designed and buflt a locomotive | on Park as due to the faulty char- | Which promises to fill the nced. A recent | - ’ | Sclentific American describes its features, A br diverges on the east side from | It 18 not only the most powerful in Great bway at One Hun- | Britain, but, as a matter of fact, has a wd Broadway, 1t | BTeater hauling power than the biggest passenger locomotive built in this coun- the northwest - (e 1o practie. | {T¥: Mot excepting the great engine recent. tich s practi® |1y ‘turned out by the Baldwin Company | for the Chicago and Alton Railway. A fair test of a locomotive is its trac- | tion effort. This, in the case of the Bald- | win engine, is 31600 pounds, and for the | Great Eastern “Decapod” 26,307 pounds, | The best acceleration that has hitherto ! been possible on this suburban service is the attaining of a speed of twenty miles | an hour in thirty seconds from ihe start | with a train of fifteen cars weighing 25 long tons. The *“‘Decapod” is expected to vull a 5 per cent heavier load and attair a speed of thirty miles an hour in thirty | seconds from the start with a train carry- | ing 1200 people, thus saving ten minutes on | the ten-mile journey and thereby allowing 2 more frequent service of trains. | The “Decapod” is carried on ten wheels, | all of which are coupled, the whole welght ge of trains by The question at thie completion of the work at certain where it has been delayed either s ructions or the backward- ntractors, but chiefly by the The first of these breaks en Worth and Canal streets, where for some blocks only the alf of the tunnel has been comy aving the westerly half yet to be done he next serious break was at Astor place, where the work has been held up a year d a half by the obstruction offered by anamaker’s store. The building is now Leing torn down and the work of con- s sl ot trueting & station ‘at this point is being | therefore being available for adhesion, It »d as fast as men can be crowded | has practically no smokestack, as the | upon it | loading gage in England is between one | At Forty-second street and Broadway | and two feet lower than in this countrs | also there is an enormous amount of |and consequently as the center of the | work yet to be done. Excavation is be- | boiler is lifted its top encroaches on the | ing carried down at that point tor a con- | sSmokestack until the latter is nearly all { iderable distance below the subway |Sunk in the smokebox. The boiler has a | i acks, which here pass through the site | tolal heating surface of 2010 square feet. which wiii be occupied by the ziew Times | O about double that of the average Eng- ullding. Any delay in opening the line | lish locomotive of the present day. The | ubtless will be due to the obstruction | Working pressure is 200 pounds to the re and at Astor place, as above men-|square inch and the steam is expanded in ol three high pressure cylinders, two outside THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOKN D. SPRECKELS, Proprletor. Address Communicatlons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY ... IRVING’S “DANTE” | BRINGS A FLO Publication Office.. THAT NEGRO ESCORT. OME members of the opposition in this State, and some of the newspapers which consider it their duty to pick flaws in the conduct of the President, finding nothing else to object to, are outerying because, on one of the ceremeonial occasions of his visit, negro soldiers, of the regular army, appeared in the escort. One answer to this is, That if these critics don't like negro soldiers in the regular army, they can remove the necessity for having them by enlisting themselves. The colored troops have fought well whenever called into action, and have conducted themselves in an orderly way in barracks, and as far as is known have brought no disgrace upon the flag they carry. The objection to colored troops is odd, coming from a Democrat or a Democratic paper, or from a Southern sympathizer. When General Jackson was marching to New Orleans in the War of 1812, at Mobile he issued a proclamation calling on the negroes of New Orleans to enlist in defense of the land against the British. Immediately a black battalion enlisted under Savary, a negro offi- cer, who had learned tactics in Hayti. These black soldiers, under. Jackson's command, fought in the actions preceding the battle of New Orleans®and in that final struggle acquitted themselves with such conspicuous courage that Jackson thanked them in a general order. Thereaiter, on the anniversary of the battle, these black soldiers every year paraded with the Louisiana Legion. Do the Democrats propose to cut *“Jackson Day” out of their calendar because Old Hickory asked the negroes to help him whip the British and thanked them for their service? If these events were recent and San Francisco instead of New Orleans their scene, and Jackson were here instead of Roosevelt, would these Demo- crats and newspapers raise an outcry if negro soldiers appeared in his military escort? But Jackson's enlistment of negroes did not end such employment of black soldiers. At the beginning of the Civil War the sons and grandsons of the negroes who fought under Jackson organ- ized a regiment in New Orleans and offered themselves to fight for the Confedera In a meeting attended by two thousand negroes this resolution was passed : “Resolved, That the population to which we belong, as soon as a call is made on them by the Governor of the State, will be ready to take up arms and form themselves into companies for the de- fense of their homes, together with the other inhabitants gf the city, against the enemy who may seek to disturb its tranquillity.” When Governor Moore made the call eight companies of negroes, called “The Native Guards of Louisiana,” organized, were accepted by thes Governor and their negro officers were commissioned by him, and were sworn into the Confederate service as part of the First Divisjon of the Louisiana Volunteers. These negro soldiers appeared in the great military parade in New Orleans in 1862, when they were part of the 25,000 soldiers in line. The militia law of the State, which took effect in February, 1862, by limiting the militia to the whites, disbanded the negro regiment, but in less than a month later Governor Moore issued this order : “The Governor and Commander-in-Chief, relying implicitly upon the loyalty of the free col- ored people of this city and State, for the protection of their homes, and believing that the military organization which existed prior to February 13, 1861, should exist for and during the war, calls upon them to maintain their organization and be prepared for such orders as may be transmitted to them.” To this order the negroes responded at once. It is history that when the condition of the Confederacy became desperate President Davis rming of the black slaves, to fight against the Union, and offering them ied because by depriving the plantations of and his Cabinet favored the their freedom as a reward. labor it would have cut off the food supply. It seems then that the first negroes called to arms among the forces of national defense were called by Jackson and thanked by him for their fighting quality. The next black troops were sworn into the Confederate service long prior t5 the employiment of negro soldiers in the Union army. Yet the Democratic press is excited bec. wwere are some black regiments in our regu- ntial escort! A MUNICIPAL EXPOSITION. This plan was not car out N exposition that ought to be of interest to American cities is to be opened next Wednesday at Dresden. It is an outcome of the Paris Exposition of six years ago. It appears that when the Germans were making preparations their display at the French capital, it was sug- gested that an elaborate showing be made of what the Germans have done in recent years in ies, but the plan at that time had to be abandoned. It was re- the way of improving and beautifying ¢ solved, however, to make such an exhibit at some German city in the near future. By unanimous con- sent the honer of holding the exposition was accorded to Dresden because her burgomaster was the author of the suggestion, and accordingly that.city now invites all students of municipal problems to come and see what German cities have done in the way of solving them. The exposition is the more important because there has been throughout Germany of late an enormous amount of study and experiment in the way of advancing municipal government and life to a higher level than ever before attained. The exhibit is to display the best that has been accom- plished for either a utilitarian or an esthetic purpose. Out of 136 cifies in the empire having a popu- lation in excess of 25,000, no less than 128 are to participate. The exhibit is to be.divided into two divisions. In the first there will be a display of the condition of municipal life in Germany at the beginning of this century. while the second will show the improvements made since that time. The very fact that a good exhibit is expected to be made of work achieved in the last three years is itself a .~x'rilung evidence of the rapidity with which municipal improvements are being carried on by the cities of the empire. The scope of the display is to be large enough to include almost everything that tends to better the conditions of urban life and facilitate the performance of municipal work. The subdivisions are arranged to group the exhibits so as to display first, street work of all kinds from grading to lighting ; second, the expansion of cities, under which head are included transportation between the city and its suburhs and the construetion of dwellings; third, public art; fourth, public health and safety; fifth, education ; sixth, charities; seventh, public finance and the operation of public utilities; and eighth, municipal work, including methods of regulating public employment. While the exhibits of working methods and of appliances for the performance of public work will doubtless afford much instruction of value to municipal officials, the esthetic features of the dis- play will prove most attractive to the general public; and so far has that side of municipal life been developed in some of the cities that the display of models illustrating it will constitute a very large part of the whole exposition. It is that which renders the display of special interest to Americans. In the way of appliances for work, fighting fires, and other matters of the kind, we can doubtless teach Germany more than she can teach us; but when it comes to the adornment of cities, we have much to learn, and there age no cities in the world that can teach us more effectively than those of Germany. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the exposition will not be neglected by our people. The aspiratiox{ for municipal adornment is growing among us, and it is timely’ to give heed to the teaching ot the best models. An illustration of American readiness to help a fellow in distress was shown in New York the other day. A small boy was going along Chestnut street with a bag containing 3500 pennies for the Tradesman’s National Bank. A rip in the bag caused a scattering of the coins and the boy set up-a wail of distress. Thereupon everybody passing that way started in to help him out. Pennies rained on him for a while and he took all that came until his sack was full. Then he went on his way to the bank, and when the lot was counted it was found that after delivering all the bank had a right to, there remained 168 for himself. The reported plowing of a field in Ohio by the use of an automobile as motive power seems after all to have been nothing more than a freak of a couple of rich men, one of whom ran the machine while the other held the plow. It is a safe bet that the furrows were crooked and the field only half plowed, so that the farmer will have to do it all over again and sweara good deal while .Third and Market Streets, S. F. OF DANTE OD BOOKS diz | | | ’ i I | | i B | | | i 1a ! | | | | . | [ | 13 | | | |1 | | . | l 1 | ‘ l I | I ‘ | i1 H ' I 4 [ ‘ | i { | | | | [ | | ‘ | 1 | | ) i1 } ] 11 I8 — z - —ale | GREAT ACTOR WHOSE PRODUCTION OF “DANTE"™ HAS CAUSED A ’ FLOOD OF I.ITERAT.L'RE RELATING TO THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE ITALIAN POET. tion. poetry; ONDON, May 16.—8ir Henry Irv-| g's production of “Dante” at| wrot But Mangan wrote much pr indeed, some be Drury Lane Theater is| thirty poems which are among th bringing out quite a flood of | Peautiful things in the E languag » | It is impossibl > d such a poem as | Dante literature. Dr. Moore. | “paric Rosalee NSRS Basars | whose labors In this direction | without recognizing that he {are well known and who has done so| communicable power of great verse. It is to revive the interest now feit in | further worthy of notice that Mr. Quill country in the great Italian poet, has | "\"u”’_ hafih placed some of Mangan's in hand a third volume of “Studies on | ¥oree,,!? his “Oxford Book of English | Dante,” which will be issued by the Ox- & | ford Press. By the way,'Dr. Moore Was | “Francis or William?" is the airy titls appointed quite recently a canon of Can- | terbury Cathedral Mes: ssell are also preparing a very fine art edition of Dante’s “Divine Com- ! ! edy,” which will be illustrated by five of the original drawings by Gustave Dore. The demand for the book has, I believe, been so great that the publishers have had to increase the first edition. | Hall Caine, who has been taking a holl- | ing by the gro day at Biarritz, contributes a preface to | con literature a book which Heineman is to publish in | lantie. a couple of weeks' time. It is a post- humous novel by by W. E. Tirebuck, of | { whom he speaks as one of his oldest and | anchest friends. They were friends at/ verpool long age, and now Hall Caine| Nas donme muc pays a simple and kindly tribute to Tire- | edge of the s buck’s worth, alike as a writer and as a | means the ast man. | 15 the chemic self a convine I believe, has ject in an im gether a bos who seriously con. They mu: Spectros: The spectrose | | | e . | The new edition which Murray | has had 2 Yule's | COMPosed. anc long in preparation of Sir Henry | some of the d will appear very soon. For years this work has now throughout the world as | “Marco Polo’ more than thir been recognize substances are a classic. No edition has appeared since | go * the second, published twenty-elght years s:;;im::‘t:;‘: ago. Copies of the book have grown | poPe PECeme scarce and valuable. Sir Henry Yule had for many years been collecting materials with a view to a new edition, and since further valuable information me available. sensitive photo ment, the tained, by me; are permanent of the astroph: After the Keelhauling of the dramatie| . = “2C | critic comes the keelhauling of the book | reviewer. Egerton Castle has been writ- | ing to the Morning Post complaining of | the review of “The Star Dreamer” pub- lished in that paper. After setting forth his grievance Mr. Castle says: “The ques- tion of 1 £ importance t s ing among us it is time to make a stand against the reckless, spiteful or weary reviewer.” Commenting upon this, the 'Academy Guite agrees with Mr. Castle that by all means a stand should be made against the | reckless and spiteful eriticism. It sarcasti- Preas Clipping fornia street. g s " S Moved from P; Cheiro, the ¢ purchased the them, far more cannot be found on our planet. spectrograph, lished in Paris. of the next book we are promised on t} Shakespeare-Bacon controvers H. N. Bathgate, who describes it as “the quest of the national bard.” It is by Though him- ed Baconian, Mr. Bathgat tried to approach the sub- al spirit. He brings to- evidence helpful to thoss st be wth of the on both sides o —_———— icopical Astronomy. "ope is an ir t which h to ir un and the stars ronomer tells exact al composition of rease our stial | bodies, of what metals or gases they ars 1 even as s that n istant stars some of brilliant than our own— burning, the like of which With the ¢ photography the spectro- more and more valual the spectroseope and graphic plate a new inst has been ans of which star-spectra Iy recorded for the study ysicist the ob- —_———— ‘al. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* —————— Special Information business houses and public men by the supplied daily to Bureau (Allen’s Telephone Main Call- e ———— Townsend's California glace. fruit and . 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched A nice present for Eastern friends. alace Hotel building to 715 Market st., two doors above Call building® —_———— elebrated palmist, has just American Register, pub- The Register was made cally adds that the weary reviewer, unfor- | famous by the late Dr. Evans, when it tunately, must always remain with us, | was the only English paper in the French | but his weariness, unhapplly. is usua”_v.‘ capital. of indifferent fiction | Wy This year has vet to see quite a number of literary centenaries. Perhaps the most | notable in the minds of mosi readers in ihe English speaking world are those of Emerson and Bulwer-Lytton. Much will ! be heard about Emerson during the next few months. As for Lytton, if the pub- lishers’ ledgers could be examined there ic no doubt it would be found that the sales of his novels were for some years something colossal. Even to-day publish- ers are vying with one another in the re- stories, no fewer than three | editions of “The Last Days of Pompeii” having come out' ml‘lte :ecenzly, | induced by what he has read in the way 1 { i | ANG Alove S Clement Shorter, however, writing in . PUBLICATIONS. AN IMMEDIATE SUCCESS. HARRIET BARTNETT'S CHARMING LOVE STORY, the romance of music. THE MUSICIAN. ELO tory of to-day, full of illustyations are here given (from the : ific American) of the two most im- ortant subway stations on the whole line, amely the“Loop station,” situated below Hall Park and just in front bof the City Hall, and what is known as the Co- lumbus Circle station at Sixtieth street. They are representative of two differ- ent types of construction; the City Hall Park station being formed of arched con- crete construction, while the roof of the Columbus Circle statfon’ §s carried on steel columns and girders. with concrete oofing turned in between the zirders, In both cases it will be seen that the sta- the frames and one between on the center line of the engine. Each cylinder is lsu.l inches in diameter by 4l-inch stroke, The ten driving wheels, all coupled, are | 4 fect 6 inches in diameter, and the rigid wheel-base, which is equally divided, measures 19 feet 8 inches. The length of the engine over all is 37 feet 9 inches and it weighs 87’ tons. This new departure in | locomotive practice will be watched with | great Interest by engineers on both sides of the water. § ¢ I —— e e 1t is sdid that Texas alone markets $50, 000.000 worth of eattle aunually, doing it. In response to a friend who wrote are now wondering whether that answer means yes : “Are you now considering, or would you consider, mak- ing the race for the Presidency next year on the Democratic ticket > Mr. Cleveland wrote: “I can say no more than assure you that at no time since the close of my last administration have I been desi- rous of carrying the Democratic banner for a fourth time in a Presidential contest,” and Bryanites or no. The Russian bear seems resolved to challenge the nations to take a shot at him in Manchu- ria. but for some reason none of them care to play the hunter. Each of them is busy climbing a tree. the Sphere, asserts that the most interest- ing literary centeénary, if people want to commemorate one af a real genfus, will | be that of James Clarence Mangan. Who | was Mangan? Few readers of the present day have heard of him, but his biography may be contained in a nutshell. He was born in Dublin May 1, 1308, and died in that city June 20, 1340. His life was one long succession of misfortunes. He was born into abject poverty and brought up under similar circumstances. His whole temperament was a negation of anything in the way of “getting on.” Opium and al-' eohol in siccession comple.ed biy gestrves | | | i ; issue of hi: | | | 1 Frontispiece in Photogravure. Fine laid paper. Deecratéd eover. Gilt top. Priee $1.25. AT ALL BOOK-SELLERS’ GODFREY A. S. WIENERS. At the Sign of the Lark. New York.