The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1903, Page 30

30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1963. [ INLAND SHIP DELIVER OCEAN ' LINERS IN SECTIONS BUILDERS SHOWING HOW THE LARGEST O TAKEN TO TIDE WATER IN SIGNER BY A GERMAN I F LAKE BUILT STEAMSHIPS ARB ECTIONS AND A FOOT CYCLE DE- NTOR. HE consiruction of steamships 1 barges in yards on the t Lakes, as is Atlantic trade. to the seaboard an resting engineering a necessary es to allow them 1 the locks »f some of the building Company at s it was impossible to the St. Lawrence sy with the view of ated. One of these a, now in this port Minnewa: e from Clev . Lawrence system. ced in a drydock and rd of her engine-room. illed with a bulwark ber the canals without portion being moved and guided by the tug- section, of course, be- laced in the drydock of ned together. Minnetonka the hull as ribs were planned so viston could be made with com- y little expense, and but a few e required to join the parts of vessel. Owing to the method of con- d hull is as stiff as it had never been cut in two. The accom- ng photographs show the after gec- of the vessel passing through the s and the whole vessel after the two i: were joined together in the Levis During the last year experimente have been tried under the supervision of the Government with the idea of ridding the Southern waterways of the hyacinth. As m the variety known as the r spreads so rapidly and nk growth in Florida and that it has seriouslv inter- tion and In some cases s complet blocked streams which had hitherto been available Zor the use of light-draught steamers, The hyacinth has been - especially troublesome on the St Johns River, | Florida, ere various schemes have been tried to destroy it. One of the plans was to eguip a steamboat with a propeller provided with blades having very sharp edges, with the view of cutting away the growth below the surface. It was be- Jieved that this treatment would cause the plants to die, but the benefit was only temporary. While lanes of open water were made by the action of the rapidly moving propeller, they were soon filled with the hyacinth and this scheme was abandoned. At some of the smaller wharves on the St. Johns River the growth has been so thick that ft has been necessary to go out In boats and cut away with sickle and knife a large area in order to allow & vessel to moor at the dock, while some of the smaller wharves have been zbandoned. as the plant grows so thickly about them that = boat driven by quite powerful engines is ir danger of becoming blocked in the midst of & bed, unable to extricate itself. The method which is now being tried, em has | such | d has recently completed | ded for the American | cept by way of the | manner the steamship | to Levis, Quebec, where the | x4 ) however, seems to have solved the prob- | lem of how to destroy the hyacinth, and | it is believed that if sufficient equipment | ‘ ded eventually all of the Southern | water courses may be cleared of the pest | A chemical has been com- | vhich has such an e upon | that if it comes in contact with tem or blossom these portions soon but the solution is so powerful it works its way down the stem, | the root as well. Some of the in-| | reaients of the chemical are known only to the inventor, but a large quantity of acid is used in its preparation. The of manufacture is very sim- | ple, th oratory” being placed upon a harge provided with two tanks, each of wh.th has a capacity of 500 gallons. | Connected with the tanks is a boller in | which the Ingredients are mixed at a high temperature produced by steam heat. The barge is of such light draught that it can be towed by the spraying boat if desired, but the latter is provided with three res- ervoirs each holding 8500 gallons, which {are filled by pumping from the barge. | Pipes lead from the reservoirs to a steam pump which supplies the spraying appar- atus. This consists of three booms. One extends directly in front of the vessel, being supported by a block and tackle at- tached to the bow deck. 'Life others pro- ject from the sides of the vessel. The sprayers consist of hollow tubes which are perforated at intervals of about a foot and the holes fitted with minfature nozzles. The liquid is forced into the sprayers through lines of hose which are connected to the sprayers by couplings in the usual manner. The arrangement of the sprayers is such that the chemical can be distributed over a space ninety feet in width when the boat is moving. The boat containing the spraying appar- atus is of the type of craft used on Southern rivers, drawing but four or five fect of water. She is provided with very powerful engines in proportion té her size in order to drive her through the masses of hyacinths, and is so modeled as to offer as little resistance to the ob- struction as possible. Her reservoirs carry a sufficlent supply of chemical to cover about 100,000 square yards, and on a portion of the stream where the growth is not too rank the steamer will treat this area of surface in a day. In places where the side sprayers cannot be utilized on account of trees or other obstruction, the chemical is applied to the plants by means of ordinary hose operated by members of the crew. Such is the destructiveness of the solu- tion that within a few hours after it is applied the withering process begins, and microscopic tests prove that the liquid penetrates the growth below the water, killing the roots, as already stated. Por- tions of the dead growth which have been pulled from the bottom of the St. Johns, where the treatment has been applied, show that the effect of the chemical is to rot the fiber and disintegrate it to such an extent that it no longer offers résist- | ance to navigation. The eolution kills the seed as well as the plant, and efforts are made to cover as much space during the seeding season as possible. 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He was present to advise the members of his race on the lines of his well-known philosophy of their needs. He has been heretofore antagonized by negro lawyers and preachers, who assail his ideas of industrial development, and who assume that their race has already, as a body, taken all the steps intermediate between the lowest barbarism and the high- est civilization. This assumption is at variance with the facts, and is intended to cut the ground from under Washington’s plans. He appreciates fully the backward state of the negro, intellectually, morally and industrially. He is much wiser in dealing with the negro than our Government has been in dealing with the Indian. The Government and certain religious bodies have assumed that it is only neces- sary to teach Indians algebra and catechism, and presto! they step from blankets into breeches, and are civilized, when in truth their condition is worse than before. L The regeneration and progress of a race begins with industrial capacity to supply its wants on a constantly increasing scale. As Washington says, the negro must be taught to earn and save until he can afford a better shelter than a house of one room. With more rooms come more wants, taxing his skill to earn what will supply them. As his wants multiply he is advancing in civilization, 4nd has a motive for increasing his skill and earning capacity, and the thrift which economizes what he earns. > It may seem strange to say that energetic and evep violent opposition by negroes to Wash- ington’s ideas is a hopeful sign, but it is. The hardest task among men is to get'them to think. They would better begin thinking wrong than not think at all. It is bester that the negroes should divide into parties upon the issues presented by Washington, for a solution will come sooner by division than by a unity which would permit Booker Washington to do all the thinking for the race, while the rest blindly and submissively followed his lead. Already negroes are in hot discussion over the Boston outbreak. Those who justify it have to do some thinking for reasons to sustain their posi- tion, and those who deprecate it also have to think. As Booker Washington is right by all the known standards, all thinking adds to his followers. It must be a very besotted . negro who would not rather have a house of many rooms than of one. It must be a very low negro who would not rather have comfortable clothes, good food, regular meals, a home of his own and feel the pride of a parent in the better prospects of his childfen, than be a vagabond. 7 If the ideas af Washington are rejected by his race, and it prove unsusceptible of receiving what they offer, then its fate is sealed. It has no higher destiny before it than some form of servitude. As far as its future in this country is concerned in such case, it must be deported or exterminated. This may seem harsh, but it is said in the belief that the race is rightly judged by Booker Wash- ington to be capable of something better. Its most virulent enemy, Senator Tillman, admits this by insisting that the negro shall not have any education, industrial or scholastic. If he be incapable of receiving, assimilating or benefiting by either, there is no need to deny him that which he cannot use. So Tillman admits the possibilities in Washington’s methods. . The Boston negroes and all others who oppose Washington will perhaps observe that they are on Tillman’s side, and that eruptive person will have occasion, later on, to boast that his followers are among the most backward and reactionary of the negroes. We incline to the opinion that Wash- ington and his negroes will finally overcome Tillman and his niggers. THE PRACTICE OF GRAFTING. ERTAIN walking delegates or other agents of labor unions in New York have been con- victed of-betraying the trust of the unions and of obtaining and converting to their own use large sums of money obtained from business men nominally for the purpose of pre- venting or settling strikes. The f;gidence given in court has been somewhat sensational, and naturally has been the subject of a’'godd deal of discussion. District Attorney Jerome, as his contribution to the subject, has said that the practices of the convicted labor men are not dissimilar to those of the average politician, or the average business man; and has thereby not only given occa- sion for more talk, but has infused the controversy with a good deal of heat. In the course of his statement the District Attorney said: “Everybody who has studied public life has been appalled at its corruption. There is a general belief that every State Legislature and the national Legislature are given to ‘grafting.” It'is felt that they are actuated by other than pure motives. Why should public life be so debauched?.I have come to the conclusion that it is only a reflection of private life. There is ‘grafting’ everywhere. I know a man who said he would furnish ail the lubricating oil used on the railroad systems of the country, and warrant that it should be up to the standard, and pay a lump sum of $50,000 for the contract, charging only 75 per cent of what the roads now pay. This sort of thing runs through everything, high and low.” Within certain limits Mr. Jerome’s statement must be accepted as true. The walking delegates who extracted, or perhaps extorted, large sums of money from business men under threat of calling out their employes were engaged in a practice not dissimilar to that of the high Postoffice officials of whose offenses we have been hearing so much of late; and the postal officials can doubtless defend their conduct by citing a host of not dissimilar practices among business men. Still when all that has been conceded there will remain ample ground for disputing the assertion that “grafting prevails everywhere.” Byron has told‘us that doctots and lawyers see only the worst side of life; and Jerome, as District Attorney of New York, has seen a particularly bad side of it. The grafter bears about the same relation to politics and to business that a parasite bears to the animal it preys upon. A vig- orous life like that of the United States doubtless sustains many grafters, but they are not numerous enough, nor capacious enough, to seriously. hurt any important part of the social organism. In labor unions, in politics and in business the grafter is an exception to the rule of American life. Should it ever become otherwise, this country will become as one of the republics of South America. TEHOMAS PAINES RELIGION. QUITE interesting historical discussion has arisen concerning the religious views and prac- tices of the patriot Thomas Paine. In his own day he was stigmatized as an infidel, and that tradition has become so firmly established that his works are not in common circulation, and if found in a library their presence is apt to be the subject of excuses. Paine’s father was a Quaker; his mother was an independent Methodist. The original Quakers held theological views that conform closely to what is now known as the modern Unitarian view, which was held also by Jefferson. s Paine’s “Age of Reason” confirms the fact that his opinions were formed on those of his father, though there is some evidence that while in independent business in England, as a master stay-maker, he had some associations with his mother’s people, the Methodists. Even this would ~ hardly relieve him of the charge of infidelity, since the Methodists of that day were held to be heterodox to the verge of infidelity by the Calvinistic sentiment of the orthodox world. It is certain that after his return to this country from France his associations were with the Quakers. But this did not relieve him of the charge of infidelity, since the Quakers had been perse- cuted for that offense. He was made to feel his outlawry by the theological sentiment of the time. Being over in New Jersey on business he was identified and refused the right to buy passage on a public coach and had to make the journey back to North River on foot. In his last 'days he lived with a Quaker family, who supplied evidence of the falsity of the death-bed - scene which mistaken piety invented, and he was buried in the Quaker graveyard at New Rochelle, which could not have been had he not been fellowshipped by those people. It would be well to recognize the surpassing service of Paine to the cause gf American lib- erty and the rights of man, and leave his religious views and practices to a higher judgment whose ways are unknown to man. - Twice within a very short time San Francisco has seen rewarded a policeman who risked his own life that he might save those of others. These acts of bravery and their subsequent acknowl- edgment passed almost without notice, and it is well to think that this heroic officer, doing his " duty as it calls him, is not an exception in the Police Department, but only one who accepted an op- portunity as hundreds of his fellows would have done. ‘ The writing experts, who thrive by ready wit and convenient analyses in our courts, have now discovered that penmanship reveals to their searching brains mental, moral and physical charac- teristics of the penman. The strangest part of the revelation is that these experts are posing as un- conscious humorists. B PRI PR TR TR SR e JOHN COLEMAN'S LIFE OF ; CHARLES READE ’ WILL SOON APPEAR WELL KNOWN NOVELIST, THE SUBJECT OF A NEW BIOGRAPHY CONTAINING MANY REMINISCENCES OF BOOKS ARE STILL WIDELY READ IN THIS COUNTRY. ’ A WRITER WHOSE B g DJHN COLEMAN has written a biography of Charles Reade, whom he knew Intimately. For that rea- and many reminiscences of novelist. _His books still sell well, but of the man himself the younger gen- hane are to oublish, will be illustrated. any officlal announcements as to forthcoming lists of autumn publishing, but the following notes will be found interesting: William Le Queux has a story on hand for early publication, entitled “The Twickencote Treasure.” Messrs. Newnes are to publish it withifi a month’s time. Mr. Murray has.a number of interest- ing books forthcoming. The “Personal Reminiscences of the Duke of Welling- edited by his daughter, the Countess of Stafford, include unpublished memoranda. Mr. Murray has also in hand “Leaves from the Diary of a Soldier and Sports man,” during a varied course of service, from 1865 to 1885. This is by Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Gerard. Messrs. Longman have in hand an inter- esting book by Julian 8. Corbett, entitled “England in the Mediterranean,” which several papers have already on. It is definitely settled that this book will see the light during the autumn pub- lishing. The same firm will also publish this autumn “The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies in Secret History,” by An- drew Lang, and “A Queen of Tears—Caro- line Matilda,” by W. H. Wilkins, in which the short life of the younger sister of George III will be examined. son it will have a personal touch | Tale of the Ptolemies.” the | fesses to be a volum eration has perhaps little knnwlcdge.l | Mr. Coleman’s book, which Messrs. Tre- | ton,” by Francis, first Earl of Ellesmere, | speculated | | tence, carryt Publishers are very chary of making | thelr | A romance of Alexandria in its early days will be published in the autumn by Fisher Unwin. The title Is “Tychiades, a The book pro- e out of the famous Alexandrian Library, preserved through the vicissitudes of time down to the pres- ent day. The hero is a young Asiatic reek, who makes a journey to Heliopolis in the hope of solving the riddle of exis- with him a chest contain- ing manuscripts. On setting foot in Alex- andria he provokes excitement in the breasts of many citizens, for it is believed he is In possession of priceless manu- scripts of Aristotle. Attempts are made to waylay him. He reaches Heliopolis in circumstances very different from those which he had dreamed. Interwoven with the story is a mass of historical informa- tion. There is not a little wonder expressed in many quarters at the high price of £1000 ($5000) which has been paid by the Burns Monument and Cottages Trustees for the copy in the best state known of the Kii- marnock Burns. The Lamb copy. which was sold in 1897 for £372 (§2860), was hith- erto the highest price. This copy. bought from G. 8. Veitch of Paisley, has the label on the back and is in every way faultless. Mr. Veitch pur- chased it for £10 ($50). It appears a copy could be had in the early fifties for shilling. That the price paid James Stillle for one purchased at a = at Leith. William Pickering pald £5 ( for a copy. One was catalogued in 1870 for eighteen guineas ($94 50). As July draws to a close the general activity of the publishing firms decr: Only a few occasional novels are pas sing be interesting to learn of one of the leadin: that the bes George Lorimer’s “Letters from made Merchant to His Son.” THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE: “ “The Lions of the Lord’ is an im- mensely impressive story. Without af. fectation, without strain, without cari. cature, it affords a picture of the fiight into the wilderness, and of the men who converted that flight into a purposeful and ultimately triumphant conquest, which has not hitherto been equaled.™ THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT: “‘Heretofore no novel has dealt so vi- tally with the history, the scenes and the characters of Mormonism, and no predecessor has so clearly struck the lmmoriuwm.aynnnnm fearsome tragedy. Joel Rae, the hero, hmmwlfl“hfmlfll.': 8y HARRY LEON WILSON AUTHOR OF ““THE SPENDERS” S QOO ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC: “The reader who begins ‘The Lions of the Lord® will certainly finish it. There's a tragedy at the elose, the inexorable tragedy of Joel Rae’s life, but there's also one of the prettiest of love-story happy endings. in which a dashing cow- boy plays Young Lochinvar in a way to make you want.to jump up and whoop hurrahs for him. The plot is admira- bly constructed, and there is real vital- ity i the people.”” PHILA. PUBLICLEDGER: *Certainly much has been written re- garding the Mormons, but mo writer has before turned out a book which so cleverly combines historical record with ‘well-written fiction.” Postpaid, ll.lo. -_— LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, BOSTON