The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1903, Page 30

30 { THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1903, INVENTOR OBTAINS MARVELOUS RESULTS IN TELEPHOTOGRAPHY —pe DiaGRAM oOF e 2 ATPARATUS / yp | DIAGRAM SHOWING THE GRAPHIC APPARATUS AND SCHEME TWO PICTURES WHIC! THE WONDERFUL RESULTS OBTAINED BY g OF THE NEW TELEPHOTO- SLLUSTRATE ITS U ! VAUTIER - DUFANE, es long been experimenti the telephotographic field dually ults, seems sistance of the Geneva as- Scheer, he has succeeded in g ine instrument = given some marvelous resuits is now engaged in constructing from which still better work is ly expected. a mac or The following description of the instru- ment, with illustrations of telephotic re- sults already o ed, taken from the American, will prove of very general interest The apparatus is 40 centimeters in Jength, the diameter of the objective be- ng 0.10 centimeters and the focal length 1.20 meters. It is hoped to obtaln good instantaneous photographs with e posures ranging between 1-200 and 1-500 second. The same apparatus may be used to take ordinary photographs with an objective 0.25 meters in focal distance. The following advantages are claimed for this ingenious device, as compared with tele-objectives: Greater intensity, better definition, higher magnification and an easler adjustment. As regards the neatness of images, the views presented before the members of the congress were perfectly sharp as far as the edges of the field of view. Twelve-fold magnifica- tions were obtained, without the appara- s ceasing to be portable. The scheme of the apparatus, as con- structed by Messrs. Bolssonnas & Co., (Ltd.), Geneva, Switzerland, is shown in the diagram. The rays emerging from the objective A will strike the plane mir- ror B, by which they are reflected on the second mirror C, to be conveyed after an- other refiection to the photographical plate placed at D. By substituting for the long distance objective an ordinary wne (with a focal distance of 20 or 30 cm.), the apparatus may be made to serve for ordinary photographe. The “Telepi:ot” may, moreover, be, at a moment’s notice, onverted into a terrestrial or astronomi- cal telescope. Our fllustrations show the principle of the apparatus as well as some photo- graphs taken with it. Telephotography in fts new form is likely to prove useful both for scientific and industrial purposes, as well as in The physicist will be able to any phenomenon visible at the extreme horizon, such as mirages, otc., as well as those which he couid not ipproach himself without danger, such s, for instance, volcanic eruptions. The Specialties Advertised by Responsible Firms of S. F. & J. ENSIGN & 00, | oBPHINE Parmerty ot trm of | O [Eigaer Babite Posi- Cnsign & McGutck) | P | tivly sad g OILS| [ 32 Sacramento St. Telephone 850, CLASTIC STOCKINGS Lidomine) Sapporters. Bte. THOE. GINNE Ti8 Market st Focae Howard who ; approaching | aturalist may now safely observe wild and photograph them from a dis- The amateur astronomer will be postion to take splendid views of the pal heavenly bodles. The explorer of Arctic regions will observe, by means the “Telephot,” distant and inacces- sible points. Archaeologists and archi- photographic plate buildings and monu- ments too distant to be taken with an | ordinary apparatus. Military and naval | officers will be able to observe and to { study the movements or the enemy (the | apparatus may in fact be well used as a telescope); finally, all topographical | measurements will highly profit by this |gpgenious apparatus. In addition to the two great canals which are likely to be built on the Amerl- can continent at Panama and between | the Great Lakes and ene Hudson River, there is now under consideration, with | the approval of the British Government, a scheme for bullding a ship canal through cotland, from the Firth of Forth to the Clyde, at an estimated cost of $50,000,000. This is not the first time that the idea has been mooted. The favordble topog- raphy -of the country betweea the two | great estuaries, coupled with the great advantages commercial and military, to Le secured by cutting this water- | way. has maturally attracted the at- {tention ‘both of the British Govern- | ment, which has lcoked at the scugpe | from = the + vlew point of its great | strategic adyantages, and of the capi- 1mun. who gias always been fully alive such a short cut from the North Sea to | the Atlantic as would be provided by a Forth-Clyde canal. The British admiral- | ty is now constructing a great naval base {on the Firth of Forth for the use of the | North Sea fleet, and the cutting of the | canal would at once double the strategic | value of this base, since it would enable the fleet to reach the Atlantic by steam- ing a distance of only forty miles. Com- merclally, the canal would be valuable as opening up a direct route from the North Sea to Canadian and New England ports, { o se te We have heard of many novel uses to which the overhead carrier system has been put, but probably the most ingenious of them all is that of a St. Louls hard- ware merchant, who moved the greater part of his stock from one store to,an- other, which was located on the other side of the street, almost directly oppo- site. A steel ‘cable 1% inches thick and tested for 600 pounds, was thrown across the street from the window of one es- tablishment to the other, a span of eighty-one feet. On this there was strung a steel box and as the goods were taken from the shelves in one establishment they were placed in boxes and marked. These were loaded in the cage. Gravity carried the load across the street, and the box was brought back by the aid of a hand windlass. The steel box made a round trip every minute and the daily av- erage was 500 per day. The average ioad was 300 pounds. In this manner all the If goods were handled and the opera- tion was performed without the slightest confision, the goods practically going di- rect from their place in the old store to their permanent location 4n the new es- tablishment. —— Townsend's California glace fruits and m““g;: a Ap::md. in ‘.mm‘ c fire- es. ice present for Easte friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg.n: —— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, o ——— Fishermen in and around Gloucester, Mass., are firmly of opinion that Rm:lynrd Kipling has “the evil eye.” He wrote a book about them some years ago, and named twenty fishing boats therein. Ev- ery one of these boats has met with dis- aster, the last two having foundered in a recent gale. to the commercial facllities afforded by | tects will use the apparatus to fix on the | /| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . .. . ... ... .. .Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager 'SUNDAY....... A S e N TS R L R e B U S e R ..@ L ..ma-ndxnketsmm,s.i THE ALAMEDA AGITATION. UT of the application of the Southern Pacific Railroad for franchises. in Alameda there has arisen one of those controversies between municipalities and corporations which in our time are not unexpected and are perhaps inevitable. If the controversy be carried on in the right spirit no harm can come of it, for it is but just that each side should endeavor to make the best terms possible for itself. There is always danger, however, in matters of this kind that demagogues will intervene and a simple business proposition be distorted into_a senseless ‘an- tagonism which will work injury all around. It is thercfore essential at this juncture to remind the parties concerned in the present controversy that each side should dismiss demagoguery and threats and leave the decision of the case to fhe dictates of common sense. Publicotion Office ........ It may be noted in the first place that any declaration on the part of an official of the com- pany that it would refuse to operate a railroad in Alameda unless all its terms are accepted is unwar- ranted and foolish. The franchises are too valuable and the business too important to the company to be abandoned merely for the sake of spite or for the purpose of showing power. The city and the railroad are in need each of the other, and it is as foolish for therailroad to threaten to abandon the city as it would be for the city to threaten to tear up the tracks and force the railroad out. On the other hand, the demand of some of the citizens of Alameda that the Trustees shall not grant a franchise for a term in excess of five years is one of those absurdities which if put into prac- tice will result in a' most serious handicap upon the welfare of the community. It would be tanta- mount to ordering not only the Southern Pacific Company but every other responsible railroad cor- poration out of the city. No board of directors of any kind of corporation would invest the money of their stockholders in an enterprise involving the expenditure of millions of dollars on a franchise that would expire almost as soon as the work was completed. A five years’ franchise is not sufficient to justify any railroad company in supplying the servige which Alameda needs. That much is known to every business man in Alameda and out of it ‘and as a consequence the demand for such restrictions upon the franchise should be set aside summarily. The issue is one which to a greater or less extent affects the whole State. We cannot afford to have any considerable community ift California take action tending to check the investment of cap- ital in the development of the resources of the State or the improvement of its transportation facili- ties. We need more railroads and we are likely to get them in the immediate future if we give fair treatment to the corporations, which alone are capable of supplying them. If we offer inducements to capital, it will come. If we antagonize it, hamper it, handicap it with restrictions which render profits impossible, or at least hazardous, it will let us alone. By imposing such terms we shall de- lay our own advancement and force capital to seek Pacific Coast outlets clsewhere, and so promote our rivals while injuring ourselves. The Trustees of Alameda owe it to themselves and to their city to act like sagacicus men of business in dealing with the issue. They should offer franchises that are worth something. It4s their duty under the law to obtain the best terms they can for the city in granting the franchise, and but little reflection will be needed to show them that a five-year franchise will be so valueless that it can result in no benefit to the city nor to any one else. Moreover, the issue should be settled promptly. Tt is‘a matter of business and should be dealt with not only with business-like sagacity, but with busi- ness-like celerity, > OUR FUTURE CITIES. LECENTLY there were submitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of New York City a number of plans for public buildings in and around City Hall Park whose cost in the aggregate will approximate $50,000,000. It is not the intention of the city authori- ties to expend all that money at once. In fact, the cost of the strnctures to be undertaken immediately will not exceed $10,000,000. The object of obtaining plans for the whole series of structures is that of providing for the futurce so that the buildings mow to be undertaken may be used as the beginning of a grand scheme of improvements which when completed will result in a group of architectural masses unsurpassed in the world. The New York Times in describing the plans say “Under the general proposition the City Hall park will be cleared of every building except the Ll(y Hall itself, which will be used by the Mayor alone as an office, the rest of the building to be employed for museum purposes. The park will be extended to Ann street on the south, while across Chambers street on the north it is planned to construct an claborate granite stairway and portico. At the bridge terminal, for the use of city offices, it is proposed to construct a campanile rising forty-five stories in height, and to dwarf such structures as the present Park Row building. Commissioner Lindenthal suggests that the general scheme, if carried out in its entirety, will create a square larger and far more artistic than Trafalgar square, in London; the Place de la Concorde, in Paris; the Schloss platz, in Berlin, or the Rathhaus platz, in Vienna. 7 The presentation of such a pian carefully worked out by a commission appointed by the city and employing the services of able architects and artists is an evidence of the growing esthetic sense of the American people. It is not in New York only that Americans are devising grand schemes and plans for the improvement of their cities, nor is the work left to public authorities. Private en- terprise has been quick to see the advantage of grouping notable structures around some - central square or other point of vantage, and as a result the appearance of our cities is undergoing a rapid change for the better. The New York plan of preparing ahead for future buildings when under- taking any notable work at present is a good one, and is by no means confined to that city. In fact, the whole country is moving forward, and in a time not far distant students of architecture will come to America from Europe, instead of going from here there, to see the best the world has to show in the way of stately edificess IMMIGRATION PROMOTERS. OMPLETE reports of the Immigration Bureau for the fiscal year ending with June show that the total number of immigrants for that period amounted to 921,315, exceeding the immigration of the previous year by upward\of 200,000 and breaking all records of for- mer years. Of the entire number who applied only 8769 were debarred under the law from landing, showiftg thdt the steamship companies have been more careful in excluding undesirable immigrants, or clse that they have found a means of evading the law with more success than for- merly. Students of the immigration problem are convinced that while the prosperity of the United States and the high rate of wages that prevails here are direct inducements to a large immigration, yet they do not by any means account for the whole of it. It is noted that a considerable percentage of the newcomers are from parts of Europe where but little understanding is had of American con-' ditions and where the people are not inclined. to venture upon a hazard of new fortunes of their own motion. Such immigrants come because of urging by outsiders and are not in any sense enter- prising or progressive peopie seeking to better their conditions, but merely discontented and unset- tled persons who are easily persuaded by others to do anything or go anywhere for a change. It is asserted that those who are chiefly responsible for the discontented immigration are ‘the agents of the large steamship companies. One réport says: “A careful investigation of the meth- ods pursued by these companies is now being made, under the direction of Commissioner General Sargent, by special agents of the Immigration Bureau traveling in Europe for that purpose. The re- ports of thes¢ agents show that the sections of Europe mentioned are completely honeycombed with a system of secret agents of the steamship companies. Emigration is induced by flattering descrip- tions of the United States, both printed and oral. The laws of the countries themselves are evaded for this purpose. In many cases priests, preachers, school-teachers and even magistrates and police officers are the paid agents of the transportation companies.” That sort of immigration is by no means desirable, and it is pleasing to learn that the Govern- ment is to make determined efforts to put a stop to it. Tt is all well enough for steamship cox;lpanies to employ enterprising agents to work diligengy to get business and passengers for their lines, but nevertheless we do not wish to be made victims of their zeal. Immigration at the rate of nearly a million people a year may Le flattering to our country, but there are some kinds of flattery we can af- ford to forego for a while. : : Despite the fame of Whistler, it is said*that not a single specimen of his work is to be found in any of the public galleries of London. The fact may be taken as another proof of Whistler's say- ing: “I have reccived every insult the world could offer except that of popularity.” 5 - WED DING PRESENTS CHOSEN BY WRITERS FOR ANTHONY HOPE POPULAR AUTHOR WHOSE RE! FOR THE PRESENTATIC OF i HIS LITERARY FRIENDS. T MARRIAGE OME UNUSUAL GIFTS BY SOME OF ) WAS THE OCCASION Publishers have finished taking stock of thetr business, which they have been do- ing during the last month. The results are both interesting and instructive. The fluctudtions of the preceding month were followed by a period of persistent | slackness, which proved very trying and | they are complaining very much of the limited sales effected. Only a few re- deéming features have lieved the tedium. One was the issuanée of the new | lotters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, which book was very much in request. This was followed by the late J. .\:‘ Froude's “My Relations with Carlyle both editions of which were very quickly | exhausted. The new volumes in six shilling fiction wére by no means numerous. The two productions which did the best were “In the Guardianship of God” and “A Pitcher in_Paradise.” The death of Max O'Rell also created an incressed demand mnot only latest work, “Rambles in Womanland,” but fer his earlier books. With these cxceotions the publishers | and booksellers seem to have been doing | very poor business. 5 1 * e Some interesting statistics of, the book trade are published by the Author, show- ing imports and exports during the last five years. From these it seems that more than half of the exports in books have been to the United States, Germany coming sec- ond, and, strange to say, Japan is third. e s s T am told that George Gissing's new | novel will be published in the late au- tumn. It is entitled “Will Warburton,” and is, I belleve a domestic story in the lighter vein of that author’s work. I am | sorry to say, however, that Mr. Gissing'§ | health is causing a little anxiety among his friends. He had consented to deliver two lectures on Dickens beforc the Royal Institution, but has been constrained to give up the engagement, owing to. the state of his health. % . Two rival publishers, who have under- taken and advertised new and complete editions of the work of Charles Lamb, | will be rather chagrined when they dis- cover that their ‘“complete” editions, | though comprising much hitherto unpub- lished matter, are not by any means com- plete. John Hollingshead, who, perhaps, knows more about Lamb than anybody else, has had a long time in his possession some irteresting letters, which tell the story of the most interesting period of | Lamb’ lffe. 3 It is, in fact, quite a romance. Of course, nearly everybody knows Lamb had a disappointment in love and never married. The lady to whom he offered marriage was Frances Kelly, a distin- guished actress. At the time, says Mr. Hollingshead, they were near neighbérs, Lamb living with his sister at 20 Russell street, Covent Garden, and Miss Kelly living opposite. Lamb’s offer of marriage, which Mr, Hollingshead possesses, covers a long letter, which, according to Mr. Hol- lingshead, was the noblest and most dig- pified letter he ever wrote. A firm but kind and delicate refusal was returned, to which Lamb replied in a short letter showing that he had antici- pated the disappointment, but felt it deep- ly. These letters are to be printed in fac- simile in a magazine shortly. Thus another romance, hidden away for so many years, will be*laid bare. American Book Notes Jacob A. Rils, who has been called by President Roosevelt “New York's most useful citizen,” is very busy just now in getting together material for his book. *“Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen,” which is to be brought out by the Outlook Com- pany. To a friend who recently asked for his|, ONDON, July 2.—It is interest-] for information concerning : ing to note what literary peo-{ Rils wrote: “What can I s o ple give literary people in the ";‘;;“:"'hl o i 1 way of wedding presents. H 3|23 a friend from the standpoint of ar# some of the gifts showered | rrionge 1 am busy g S (A spater upon Anthony Hope the other | now, but it is not ea Pecume of the day when hé& wedded his American | people I wont to reach being scattered | bride, Miss Elizabeth Sheldon: Edmund ! here and there. However. I shall get what Gosse, a liqueur set; Mrs. Humphry [T want. It will be my summer work. I Ward, a set of Matthew Arnold’s poems; | “1all do nothing else except keep up the s P . =+ | war to reform the House of Refuge | Mr. and Mrs. 'J. M. Barrie, an antique| charles H. Haswell, auther of the fa- cabinet; Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Courtney, “Mechanics’ book,"” who was a coal box, and the Authors’ Society, a described “a Hvely bov £ silver punch bowl. now the idest living member of i Department of New ¥, hich he joined in 1838, Even go far back as that he was old enough to follow the business of a professional accountant. He is still employed by the city of New York as a consulting engi- neer. He makes frecuent visits to his publishers, the Harvers, who have re- cently issued the sixty-ninth edition of his ‘““Pocketbook.” Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, author of “A Scarlet Poppy and Other Stories™ and of many contributions to the Har- per and other periodicals, is in London, where she expects to remain throughout the season. Mrs. Spofford is a relative of Prescott, the historian. Her own work | has been confined almost entirely to fic- tion and poetry. —_————— Large deposits of stone suitable for lith- ographic purposes have been discovered and opened in Thessaly. Greek experts report that this stone is far superior in quality to the best lithographic stone heretofore known in Europe. ADVERTISEMENTS. SOLID OAK EXTENSION TABLE 42-inch top: polished top: 6 feet. Regular ue $8.50. 56.50 Special price this week. 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