The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1903, Page 30

30 . - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1903 WARSHIPS COALED AT SEA AT THE RATE OF ' FORTY TONS AN HOUR. - | A eRoM A AR SR COALING TOLLIER on TR waR SHIP PHOTOGRAPHE SHOWING THE METHOD OF COALING USE OF APPARATUS AT BEA BY THE SHIP ILLINOIS IS NOW EQUIPPED. | - 3 A WARSHIP | WITH WHICH THE BAT- HE matter of ¢ American fleet o coast of Cuba e Spanish-American war, ce as time demonstrated ventions and experiments of the Atlantic cording to H. C is concerned and ship Il y fitted with an apparatus She i1s the first equipped with and her to take coal at sea from any mested vessel. The Imperial Russian battleship. Retvizan is aiso equipped with a simil service. In Britain the apparatus with which experiments werse made consisted of a cebleway fitted on the Muriel collfer. it has had several sea tests and the re- were considered highly successful sllier delivered thirty-five to forty | per hour in a moderate sea a gale of wind to H. M. 8. Tra- ship towing the other ing from eight fo eleven Great sults The 1ons. of ‘e and half falgar, the b @t speeds knots' per ho The- idea’ of -placing all the dppliances for coaling at sea on a warship did not at first find favor in the eves of many Amer- jcan naval officers, who argued that bat- tleships were alfeady overloaded with ma- ihinery and ihat to carry the apparatus on board would-require a number of im- portant -changes in the disposition of ma- terial ‘located } more or less essential places, 2 The -obijéctibns, however, gave way to argument ‘and bnitial expertments with sachusetts and the col- the entire feas- Department selected the Illi- nols for & permanent installation and the equipmen- is béing successfully operated. The obly: machiges reguired for the war- ship weré two special operating winches, bug hesq were’ so designed that . i &+ double purpose hey oaling our v\arsh!(-sg cut no small figure in the | | | | battle: is 1 her equipment | allation, which is giving sat- | { varying strain on the sea anchor. ! long and _and displaced | 1wo. dgok” winches -which were already on | the supetstructure deck ‘of the Illindis now petform all the i ones besides. their and they occupy e bed and employ the bolts as the old ores. "These_ winches work . the.load carriage running between the collier and ‘the war- ship. wincli draws the loaded car- riage fome e Watship, the other winchi drawe thé empty .carriage back.to the vol- APPARATUS EMPLOYED. A single’ wire rope three-eighthé incti-in diameter and 300.feet long ployed. for." this . purpbge. Both wi Turi all the i the #ame direetion z the “ropes ady t4ut, Thé recipro- cating* mgtion €lven to the load caY- rfage by the friction of.one slipping drimm | The Grum of ohe n" rope.. The I'ld‘\lnk out | of the SUpping of the | great point aboyt | rope UhHder 1 friction-hea: this_ méthod of independent “of the, relative o’ ships, When the ships pull apaitf one drum. ships. thus paying out the zobe: when the ships approach cach other.ihe slack given to the rope is wouho' in. Jt 4s:lof course essentlal that the roy d of the winches .be greater .the ships ap- than _lhr €peed. at which the after bridge occupy. 4 Shace of about 1% square feet jeéween fwo ventilators in° the center of | the skip? and if is bere that the operator (stand in full view of the load carriage at afl times in q_p paseage to and from she colifer, The remaihder of ‘the equipmertt on thi lilinois §s to be found just below the steering compartment and beneath the platform deck. Tt consisté of the follow-’ ing items: A reel kusbended Trom the deck carries 2000 feet of'%-inch diameter sea anchor lime “(weight 2640 pounds). There are alsc two -inch digmetser comveyor {large canvas chute, ! coal is as follows: | tance. center of the span and is In its lowest iberating a load carriage | | normal position. | operator | | our war vessels by a very large percent- | 1‘ | | B} | the deck lines (weight each 58 pounds) and two se anchors. Then there are the hauldown block carriage, ioading blocks, etc.. all of which occupy a space just below the deck 16 feet long, 7 feet wide and 413 feet deep. | Several improvements have been made in the marine cableway since the early experiments between the United States » Massachusetts' and the collier | Marcell The sea anchor line is now ven-eighths-inch diameter in place of ree-fourths-inch, as formerly, and it will easily sustain the tension duc to con- | veying one ton of coal. The sea anchors | have not been altered in any way. The cofl spring, weighing 1200 pounds, attached to the mainmast would be completely .«,m;m«c.d u a load of 20,000 pounds, | strain is all that is re- | d of one ton. As the warship dips and rises in the waves ng will compr nd elongate in ity with the ship's motlon, and this serves to equalize the somewhat This spring as used on the Tllinois Is eight feet heavier than that used on the Massachusetts. OPERATION IS SIMPLE. The ioad carriage works v it contains three wheels and " ar- ranged in a vertical line. The elevating | devices can be stowed v on the war- 1 a collier at sea | in a very short time sheave block is lashed to the foremast and mainmast, and these support the sea anchor line and al- | low it to play freely through them.. Just | below is the tail block, abomt which the | conveying line bends. At a point above | the sea anchor line another lashing is/| made, and two three-fourths-inch wire guy ropes arc there attacdhed and led for- ward to the starboard and port sides of the ship, where they may be attached to the deck at almost any place found con- venient. | Loads can be hoisted from the port deck and then the starboard deck, al- ternately, to the two men at the mast- | head. One of these takes in his hand the loose ring which is attached to the ele- vating hook. When the load carriage reaches the collier's masthead the ring is piaced by hand gver the hook of the carriage, a lever is pulled on the elevating truck and the load is dropped and thus | transferred to the load carriage. This | tion can be accomplished in two sec- | The other man takes off the empty | bags on their return from the warship and sends them down to the deck for refilling. ! In the original experiments on the U. S. S. Massachuseits a pair of shears was erected and guyed for the support of a through which the bags of coal were dropped. All of this bas sipce been dispensed with, the ropes | of the cableway being all pulled down hy | a niggerhead on the quarterdeck winches when it is desired to dump the Joad. The improved method of delivering the The load starts out | from the_collier on a downhill route, con- tinuing o for more than half the dis- When the load is just clear of the | position the man on the quarterdeck of the warship commences to pull down the | hauldown block. By the time the bags | reach the block they will be training on The operation now stops for an instant, the lowering continues for a foot or more, the load is unhooked from the carriage, empty bags are put on and the whole apparatus is then raised to its At the same time the | on the after bridge sends the empty carriage back to the colller for anothet load. The succéss so far atlained in the prac- tical operation of the apparatus, to say nothing of the improvements that are sure.to follow from some inventive brain, | will increase the “radius of action” of age—in fact. more than double it. For | instanee. - they .could stay off a blockaded port for an indefinite time provided thec colliers had free access to them. % ———— e Townsend's Callfornia glage fruits and | candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends,” 715 Market st.. above Cail bidg. * i cordl - Doz o Special information supplied daily to business ‘nouses and public men_ hy the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 20" Cali- fornia street.” Telephone Main Yo ‘JGHfi D. smcms.rmpfiam. . WA THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL. e Adduss Commanicatios to W. 5. LEAKE, lmsa .\bGLqT 2, 1003 DIRECT LEGISLATION. R. GARVIN, the Democratic Governor of Rllodc Island, exploits in the North American Review his ideas in favor of the abolition of represeniative guverament in this country and the substitution therefor of direct government by the initiative, referendum and direct legislation. e proposzs more than this, that the people shall, without reference to any body of representatives, initiate changes in the constitution of any State or of the Federal Govern- ment, and shall thereby change at will the fundamental law. FHe insists that statutes passed by the people directly shall not be subject to repeal or amendment by the legislature, while all legislative statutes shall be subject to both by direct action of the people. On this branch of his subject he stops short of defining the status of the courts in respect to the statutes directly enacted. But the inference is plain that if they are sacred from legislative inter- ference they must be also removed from the risk of judicial review. The proposition then is to ob- sojete the legislative and judicial branches of the Government, substituting for both the action of the people in their primitive capacity, with no rationalizing force to secure consistency, or even equity, in such statutes as they choose to enact in the ballot-box. Among his reasons it is declared that legislative bodies have become hopelessly corrupt. Yet they are elected by the same people for whose benefit he proposes to obsolete two of the three co-ordi- nate branches of government. His argument is, therefore, that the peaple, proven incapable of cre- | ating pure legislatures in the ballot-box, by that failure have proved their capacity to create pure laws in the same ballot-bo> He puts especial weight upon the demand that this process begin by direct creation of the fundamental law. He says that the labor unions demand this, to the end that their rights may be en- trenched in the constitution; and he intimates that their strength is sufficient, by direct action, to make constitutions to suit themselves. This is a clear declaration that the fundamental law is to be made in the interest of a class, that has classified itself, and gone out to be a separate and distinct part of the community, using the power of organization to effect an extension of its own rights, re- gardless of the limitation imposed by the rights of others. The men who made the constitution of the United States were of many professions and call- ings and occupations. They sought to create a fundamental law in which the common rights of all men were entrenched and protected and defended. In the eye of that great law all rights are equal. It is the majestic flower of the common law, that code developed out of the contacts of men and their interests in a state of civilization. In it the great writs of liberty and the judicial processes for their enforcement are protected and under it there is only such limitation of the rights of man as are neces- sary to perfect equality. To change such a constitution and replace it by one made by a class and for a class is to ob- solete republican government. It has been said that a community made up of Isaac Newtons would become a mob in trying to administer governments by the methods proposed by Governor Garvin. With no rationalizing force in its system and with the power to constantly change its fundamental law, it would be subject in its very foundations to the erratic changes and impulsive passions of the popular majority. Men accustomed briefly to a constitutional definition &f their rights would find those rights changed or abolished in a day by a shifting of the popular passions, and finally all sub- jected to that system would discover that they had no government at all, and the outcome of the ex- periment would realize the dream of the anarchists. Governor Garvin calls attenticn to the favor in which these ideas are held in New England. That is true, but the stock of New England people has been so changed by an overgrowth of foreign immigration that no one should make the mistake of assuming that these novelties in government are the sober conciusions of that New Fngland sent'ment which aided in founding our present system of government. The change lusted for by Governor Garvin is one that would be wrought by the men _ who have sought this country as an asylum from systems under which men are governed too much and who have not loyally sought to study our system, but who condemn it because all restraint of the law chafes their untamed will. LAST CRY OF THE FINNS. { ENERAL BOBRIKOFF, who in the name of the Czar exercises dominion and authority in Finland, has found to his surprise that while the ancient liberties of the people have been suppressed so far as customs and forms of government are concerned, they still linger and live in the hearts of the people. Finland indeed is crushed, but the Finns remain, and while they are not strong enough to grapple in fight with the power of the Czar, they are yet capable of spez ns; boldly against the oppressor. Ior the purpose of suppressing speech and stifling cries that disturb his peace the general has issued a decree condemning to exile any one whom he finds guilty of such offenses. The sternness and severity with which those decrees are being carried out have roused a new clamor, and it is probable we are now hearing the last cry for constitutional liberty that will ever come from Finland or her people while the Russian empire lasts. In a circular letter addressed by representative Finlanders as an appeal to mankind against the wrongs inflicted there is given an claborate review of the situation as it exists and of the tyran- n-es comnntted under the forms of law. The letter closes by saying: “Some of the most prominent | citizens of Finland have in these days heen deprived of a right particularly sacred to the inhabitants of every civilized country, and, according to Finnish law, not forfeitable under any circumstances— the right of living in their native land. None of them were informed of the offense laid to their charge. It seems that the selection of victims has been determined chiefly by personal rancor on the part of the Russian officials, or based upon unconfirmed accusations made by irresponsible spies. It has even occurred that the space reserved for the name of the exiled in the order of expulsion had not been filled up when the document was presented to him. The receivers of these orders have, moreover, been subject to domiciliary visits, connected with brutal violence and destruction of prop- erty, the police, in the absence of the cwner, forcing their way into offices, warehouses and indus- trial establishments. We are no such optimists as to believe that this tide of evil deeds from which Finland is suffering at present could be stemmed by any expression of opinion in the press. But we feel a desire to Jay our case before all those who have hitherto taken a sympathetic interest in our coun- try and to acquaint them with the Jatest and most glaring display of a regime which aims- at the crImp]el(’ destruction of our existence as a nation. In the name of civilization we protest against this barbarous attempt to devastate a field of western culture and to demolish a structure of law and jus- tice built up by the exertions of centuries.” The demand of Finland for the continuance of her liberties, solemnly guaranteed by the oath of the Czar himself, has been denied. Her appeal for protection against a lawless despotism has been treated as a crime, and her last cry for justice is to be stifled in her throat. The inevitable result will | follow. Russia will make a desert and call it peace, and for a time silence will prevail; but in the end there will come the cry of the savage beasts that dwell in deserts and Russia will hear out of the i dark places of that once well ordered land the hoarse voices of men, degraded and maddened by her ! tyranny, growling with similar voices throughout the empire, of insurrection and assassination, of revolc and anarchy. R R S b s ~ 1 A gentleman of leisure in the Fast, being skepticalof the common saying that the average man uses only 2000 words, while Shakespearc’s vocabulary included 15,000, set to work to make a calcula- tion of his own on the subject and after what appeared to have been fair tests, reached the conclusion that the average well educated American knows the meaning of at least 50,000 words and uses about 20,000. It will be seen then that Shakespearc is not in it with us in the matter of vocabulary, but the fact remains indisputable that he could swing his words in a way that makes the talk of an ordi- nary man look mighty small. e There are two explamfions offefed for the announced intention of Addicks to retire from Delaware politics; one is that the leaders of the party are weary of fighting his battle and intend to eliminate his fortunes from future campaigns; the other is that Addicks is weary of paying the ex- | 1t frees him from the limits bounding a |is paying nature penses of a lot of politicians who get office while he gets nothing, and intends to climinate them from his payroll. Either explanation is sufficient and perhaps both are true. SRR, 5l The latest little Balkan scare is the rumor of a story to bring about the union of Servia and Bulgaria by assassinating the Bulgarian ruler and placing Peter Karageorgevich on the throne in the same easy way that he was placed on the throne of Servia. It is asserted that the projectors of the scheme behe\c that if it were carried out Macedonia would soon join the new kingdom'and thus make a power capable of settling the Balkan question without troubling the rest of Europe. ot e R e ' . Judge Parker’s visit to Georgia to address the Bar Association has resulted in anything rather than a boom to his political aspirations, for the Georgians it seems sized him up as a lawyer of ability who doesn’t know beans about politics, and they are now whooping it up for Gorman LOVES NATURE YET RAILS SOMETIMES IN ' SAVAGE PESSIMISM | et — E3 LR — | A CALIFORNIA POET, AN AVOWED DISCIPLE OF POE AND OF | BIERCE, WHOSE FIRST VOLUME OF VERSE, “OF BOTH WORLDS,” | HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED. | | ) o+ NEW poet has arisen in Oakland | minor chord in its higher strain is rest to snatch fhe freshly rejuvenated | ful. It tells of the mfluences of time laurels from oft the snowy brow |and change on the happiness of life in a of Joaquin Miller’ If anything | Manner which is consoling. He says: good can come out of Nazareth, | 4148 for the good doomed to perish. Herman Scheffaur, with his lately pub-|Alas that on earth rish e 1 lished volume of verse, claim thereunto. To those who have kept a close eye on is ready to lay mes ; In hopes and in visic . autiful altered Are the good and To the world and the waste that it the verse columns of our contemporane- e E But from this exalted mel ous Western periodicals, the name of the | | ' (O (USSRl T newly heralded poet his no strange sound. | which-ill comports with But those of us who can only snatch a|of nature. Himself a small morsel of our Shakespeare between work- | ture’s grand scheme, S ing hours deem this collection of the writ. | &sainst ;‘n»' inevitable In man's ot witfe = vigor which may wear off as h age In- } 985 5¢ ten years yinething, mew creases. In “The Night Bells of Noel! It is difficult to take the gauge of the bard whose first book still smells of the presses. The reader balks at the first in- troduction through the very nature of things. He is unwilling to admit the new petitioner into the circle of his literary lares and penates. It seems boorish for a strange songster to attempt to break into the charmed circle of the gods en- shrined. But Herman Scheffaur has boldly mapped out his campaign for popularity by providing a striking array af poetical wares for the suspiclous and grudging pub- lic to choose from. In “Of Both Worlds™ —the typical Browning title of poetical ambiguity which names his verse book, | he launches forth thus: Heéar the bellé in-all the steepl: and their peoples r yearly falsehood, pen’ es no rebelliog e teiling on carth— holpes like manner the new misanthropist | at Czar Nicholas for his dream of | a world's disarmament, pillories his own country as a betrayer of sacred freedom | and casts a grim joke at “The Man With | the Hoe.” Not all of this raw wine is Scheffaur’s verse. In a group of poems which he ° gracefully dedicates as a chaplet on the I of he et soars < the Oakland bard offers philosophy, mys. | brow Of Foe. the poet soars inta the ticism, misanthropy, sarcasm. You take | earrs Of . isciple of the Sreat mystie. your cholce. The volume is dedicated to Ambrose Blerce. It smacks of Ambrose Bierce from cover to cover, save where Edgar Allen Poe is given his hallowed niche. It is Blerce plus something else; that 2 something is Herman Scheffaur. Bierce 2l 4 e swmt Sane Sary it 15 which dictates the pessimism which | Tnto nether caverns drop. too often clouds the beauty of the| One great mistake Scheffaur has made. thought. When Herman Scheffaur speaks | In his new found genius he has- taken it per se he says some good things. upon himself to sit in judgment upon a The poet prefaces his velume by the | fellow craftsman, whose value expert broad assertion that he writes for nature | Critics have not vet fathomed. . In lines and for art. This gives him a broad field. | addressed to Rudyard Kipling, the Oak- land poet says: False to the poe | Craves he admitta: | Juggler and jongleur, whose vulgarian muse Roars from her narrow heart her rank sbuse? ‘Who never beauty knew and never wit, Who beats the drums of truth while beating it. Renown shall with sponge erase his name 3 ‘Where on her walls he chatked it to their shame. ! Did the poet from across the bay drop this' verse over Mr. Kipling's back' yard ferce on St. Valentine's da ol raimiap ety £ There are at the present moment ‘in France 200,000 houses which have no win- dows, because—incredible as it may scem —there Is still a French window and door tax, With the true Poe rhyme scheme and a brilliant copy of the rlotous imagination of the dreamer, his master, Scheffaur carries his reader to moon mountains, there to listen— poet with a purpose. He can sing of any- thing from unrequited love to a dead dog on the City Hall steps and feel that he and art their ddes. Sometimes he sings; again he sighs: oe- casionally he vituperates with a whole- some vigor. Pure song are his verses to “The Ban- ners of Shasta,” “The Yosemite” and | “The Earth Volices.” With a verse form which insures melody, Scheffaur draws some very pleasing rhyme pictures. They dre clean cut, compelling. The tenor of melancholy, sometimes poetic, often positively spiteful. pervades the bulk of the poems in the volume. HI urpose high, in-vain to théir golden fane— ADVERTISEMENTS. IN PREPARATION FOR MANY YEARS. NEW EDITION. “We possess no life of the great Pope that can compare with this one.”= Archbishop Keane, Dubuque, lowa. The Authorized and Official LIFE OF LEO XII By Monsignor Bernard O'Reilly, D. D.; Lit. D. Tomstic Frefate and Private Secretary to His Holiness, and Prothonotary Apasialic With an Introduction by Cardinal Gibbons. THIS POPULAR LIFE OF LEO XIII, including his personal memoirs, is also the only authorized “‘Life” of the Pope. 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