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

THE SAN FRANCISCO 1903. JALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 ) 0 MAY NOW CAB MILES OVER AN AMERICAN OWNED WIRE. LE 8000 b A WH i PRE NG OF NEW PACIFIC CABLE AT MANILA END OF IDENT ROOSEVELT SENT HIS FAM- THE-WORLD MES SAGE. | on July 4 by elt at Oyster or Taft at an enterprise step on the part of the arena of the foreigners knowledge ing. Then it cuts the ey therefor inio people. same t the poc Preside: r ow Governor Taft's reply nine minutes to against several pean-Oriental route. American, show some of the work at the cable. After rec g Governor Taft's reply t message President Roosevelt gave operator a message for Clarence n at his side. This mes- le the world, using the first and longest ocean rater sent it off west- and in twelve min- rom his sounder, com- via Canso and New t of cable and Stone, gen- ociated Press, “The : was the result of ar- ast year. Upon the ador Cambon, M. ster of Foreign est in the work ssoclated Press ser- ed his colleague, in the work, but instructed » Barrere, the French Embassador to Italy, to use his good offices with the Italian Signor Galimberti, the Ital- er of Communications, joined the effort , messages which' formerly to six hours from Rome to now transmitted in much A number of the bul- s condition were Vatican, which is ral telegraph New York in twelve, n minutes. took from fiv New York are Jess than an hour. upon the Po mitted from the over two miles from the ce: to e in Rome rteen and = “This involved transmission by tele- phone from the Vatican to the Assoclated Press office adjoining the central tele- graph bureau in Rome, dispatch by tele- graph to , reley to Brest, and c bling by the French Cable Company to New York, and finally retransmission by short wire from the New York office of the French Cable Company to the main office of the Associated Press in the Western Union building, 1% Broadway. “One bulletin thus transmitted occupied precisely nine minutes from the Vatican. When the condition of the Holy Father became critical, competent men were or- dered to Rome from London, Paris and Vienna to assist the local Italian bureau. Notwithstanding the formalities which must be observed, they were able to put themselves in touch with the authorities it the Vatican in such fashion as to en- able them to present a graphic plcture at all times, including the most minute de- tafl, and the information was forwarded with amazing celerity. * “It is Interesting to note tiot it fre- rmously and at the | initial message | overland to San | ng pictures, reproduced | h of Pope Leo#XIII | telegraphic | and Telegraphs of | | Quently took less time to transmit a bul- | letin from the Vatican than to send one | by wireless telegraphy from Sir Thomas | Lipton’s Erin off Sandy Hook. Finaliy, bulletin announcing the Pope's death was received in New | transmit it to London and deliver it to | the papers of the British capital in ad- vance of the receipt of a like bulletin di- rect from Rome. Mr. Stone sald he had cabled his ap- preclation of the service to the French and Italian Ministers of Forelgn Affairs, as well as to the postal authorities and — York in time to | chief director of the French Cable Com- | | pany. T sending of the first telegraphic minutes. But the time of this dispatch, of course, does not represent the regular working speed of the various cables tra- | versed by it. Says'W. de Fonvielle, in Cosmos (Parts, July 11): “All along this immense line instruc- had been siopped and everywhere the most skillful operators were at their posts with the most perfect apparatus. The speed of transmission was thus very great, but it represents neither the real velocity of electricity nor the speed of commercial | telegraphy. | *‘Consequently the journal Le Temps was desirous of making a much simpler and much more instructive trial. With- | out previous notice it sent from its of- fice in Paris a circular dispatch. This re- turned about six hours after its parture, which took place on July 3 at m This dispatch, reduced to the smallest possible proportions, consisted of two words: ‘“Temps, Paris.” The charges were | altogether 8 francs 30 centimes (§1 66) a word. The system is so perfect that, not- withstanding the extreme brevity of the dispatch, there was no delay otherwise than that due to ordinary stoppage of the line; there were necessary only a few | verbal explanations at the office in the | Rue de Greneile, where the unaccustomed form of the document excited the surprise | of the employes. | ““We must not confound the speed of | transmission of electricity with that of telegraphic messages. The former is com- parable to that of light, but it is not in- ‘dt-y)(‘ndl-nl of the nature of the conduc- | tors over which the current passes. Ac- cording to Tizeau's experiments, made in 11650. it is 180,000 kilometers (111,600 miles) | & second in copper wire and falls to 100,000 (62000) in fron. * * ¢ In transoceanic | cables it is much less and falls to a few | thousand kilometers, more or less, accord- ing to the length and construction of the cables. The transmission in this case is complicated by phenomena of electrostatic | tension like those that occur in a Leyden | jJar. The theory of these effects is very | complicated, but at the same time it has been well worked out. It is one of the most delicate and. most remarkable divi- sions of electrical science. The compari- son of the results obtained on the Pacific cables with those of the Atlantic or the Indian Ocean may carry it to a still higher degree of perfection.” —_—————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, . ————— The South McAlester (Indian Territory) News relates that a negro criminal in the Choctaw Nation was so badly scared by | being_arrested that he turned an ashen nla)' and has never recovered his proper color, de- | ssage around the world took about ten | tions had been given; ordinary messages | | | | | | 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOEND.SPRE@S,PMQPr. ©« «+ece e . .. .Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY........... weveeeer...AUGUST 30, 1903 Public-tion Office . PRESERVATION OF THE FORESTS. HE Water and Forest Association has issued a pamphlet to set forth the need of forest pres- ervation in this State, and in vindication of the policy of the Federal Government in tempo- rarily withdrawing the forests on the public domain while examination is made into the necessity for their preservation. In answering the objections to forest reservations, and espe- cially those made to the proposed reserve in Northern California, the pamphlet submits some statis- tics, statements of fact and disclosures of a proper forest policy which should be widely circulated. They dispel many illusions, which were responsible for the original opposition to scientific forestry, and which still supply what antagonism remains. It was in the beginning assumed that forestry meant the complete sequestration of timber and its withdrawal from economic use. As wood and lumber figiire so largely in the economics of the people, this view of a forest policy was at once antagonized by a majority. The people cannot light a candle or Fave a newspaper without the use of wood. Upon it depends the shelter furnished by their houses, and, to a majority of them, the warmth of their firesides and the means of cooking their food. No wonder, then, that when Luther Harrison and Pinchot and Fernow began their cam- paign for the salvation of American forests they were regarded as-a pernicious sort of cranks who did not know what they were talking about. Now, however, the knowledge is spreading that they want to make permanent the supply of matches, paper pulp ani- shingles, lumber and fire- wood, and, instead of cutting off the supply of these, to make their use always possible by preserv- ing the forests, harvesting them properly when ripe for the ax and guarding the oncoming growth, to the end that the supply may be as permanent as the demand and equal to its progressive increase. This, being understood, has causzd the supposed cranks to be regarded by intelligent people as the conservators of the greatest and most necessary of all the primitive resources provided by nature for the uses of man. Nor has all been said of their work when that much is conceded. Impinged upon that part of their work is something that to us-on this coast, and in all the arid region of the continent, is of more importance than the permanent supply of timber. The Atlantic seaboard gets its supply of moisture from the ocean. The vast interior is watered by evaporation from the great lakes. The Gulf of Mexico extends its moisture over Texas and far north. The waterworks for our arid region are far away. They lie beneath our feet and away bélow our horizon, sotith of the Philippine Islands, where the Japan current starts on its long curvep warmed by the vertical sun of the equator, to evap orate in contact with the colder air thdat covers 9t from the Aleutian archipelago to San Diego. This moisture precipitates mostly along the coagt. The supply grows less the other side of the Sierra Ne- vada and Cascade ranges, and everywhere it requires the protection of the forests that it may be held for the uses of man. Without it the soil has no fertility and bears no fruit, Thierefore these geritlemen are standing uard over the fruitfulness of the earth when they ad- vise the preservation of the forests. The forests are nature’s reservoir, and art cannot replace them, for the reason that to do their-office in saving moisture would require a total expenditure that would exhaust the wealth of the world. * Tt is well tuat all these considerations be frequéntly put before the public® The paniphlet just issued notes the objections to existing and proposed®forest reservations to be: » That they prevent the building of railroads, sawmills and lumber camps in the counties“affected’; they interfere with the grazing of cattle and sheep: they dintinishethe timber supply. Answered in tufn, it is shown that railroads bullt to fake 6ut lumber and strip the motn- tains, instead of developing, destroy the resources of the country, leaving Barrenness and desslation As concerns grazing, the records shexv that last year by permit 1,151,278 afieep.and 459,137 cattle and horses grazed ir the forest reservations. The Government will not perniit overstocking of the mountain range, which causes destruction. of the young timber. Within that limitation grazing is permitted, and not only the timber but the pasturagc is preserved thereby. The reservations do not shut off the supply of timber for economic use.. They stop the destructive lumbering, which, being followed by fire, destroys all young growth: but a system is in tlie coursc o1 developnient by which all ripe timber will be harvested without destroying the oncoming crop, thus giving pérmanency to the forest. Finally the issue between the lumbermen and the foresters is summed ujr in this: “The Gov- ernment has been running a- get-vich-quick department for a considerable number of its citizens, but the day for that sort of work is about over. The enormous fortunes that have beei piled up by taking and stripping the forest lands have been got at the expense of the pecple by destroying one of the great natural resources of the land. \We want no more of it on this coast. There is not lumbe enough in all the Sierras to pay for the destruction of the fertility of the valley land. The people should co-operate with the Government, instead of hindering its work, in preserving.the watersheds that lie above that rich territory.” OUR YACHTINGY VIOTORIES. - EPORTS of interviews with Sir Thomas Lipton are to the effect that he concedes the supe- riority of the Reliance over Shamrock III and is eager to sail the last race of the match and have it over. Furthermore he is said to have declared a conviction that no yacht- builder in Great Britain can rival the American builders who have constructed yachts to defend the cup, and he virtually announces that he will not issue another challenge. The decision to withdraw is not in any sense a proof that he is a “quitter,” in sporting phrase, but that he has sense enough to recognize that he is beaten and to make up his mind not to waste further time, en- ergy and money in the contest. The most careful students of the subject are at a loss to understand the unbroken continuity of victor‘es that have attended our yachts in the contests for the America’s cup. At one time it was believed that the American type of yacht was superior to the British, but there is no longer any difference in the type. It was then suggested that British yachts being constructed for the compara- tively stormy seas around the British i s were at a disadvantage when competing with American vachts in the light breezes and over the quiet seas off 'Sandy Hook. Such a dicadvantage, if it evar existed, does so no longer, for of late y the British challengers have carefully <tudied the Amer: can waters, and are as familiar with the course, the channels, currents and the prevailing winds during the yachting season as are our own builders. Their challenging yachts therefore have been constructed to meet the requirements of the Sandy Hook course, and we have had no advantage over them in that respect. s Sir Thomas Lipton is quoted as saying “the brains of boat building” are on this side of the water, and it is probable we shall have to accept that theory for the lack of a better, but it is by no means satisfactory. Credit is now given to the Herreshoffs, but we were winning yachting races right along before the Herreshoffs began to construct them. Nor is it strictly true that boat-building brains are all on this side of the water. The British shipbuilders are among the best in the world, and they are every year launching, warships, ocean liners, steamships and sailing vessels of all kinds for merchant service that average fully as well as those our own yards turn out. . Thus, after all, the question reverts whether there may not be more in the man than there is in the yacht. There seems every evidence that the American yachting crews handle their boats much more quickly and effectively than the British yachts are handled. Moreover the superiority of the American over any European in all matters requiring an ‘exercise oi skill and dexterity has been proven in nearly all lines of competition, and it is therefore not unreasonable to ask that a match be arranged to test the crews instead of the yachts. The retirement of Sir Thomas Lipton irom the contest does not mean that the cup will re- main in our hands unchallenged. It is announced that the Canadians purpose to enter the lists, and have already raised $100,000 to start the construction of a Canadian challenger. The new venture is rendered the more interesting by the announcement that if, the scheme be carried out the Canadians will man their yacht with a crew of gentlemen yachtsmen. That would put a new issue in the con- test, and would go far toward reviving the old-time interest that has been well nigh exhausted by the one-sidedness of the recent matches. ng That ancient and interesting odd'iy. the family sk:leton, secems to ‘be having its day now in the courts of California. Several will contests, now in prospect or promised, are casting the shadows of salacious developments. If this sort of thing continues a-family skeleton as well as 2 family tree will be necessary as a credential to good breeding. . PP SR R The dispatchss informed us the other day that a highwayman, evidently skilled in the arts of his calling, held up an Oregon stage. There is always an element of satisfacti~n, born of the perver- sity .of lmmat] nature, in the knowledge that an operator, in whatever field he may work, is master of his profession, .Third and Market Streets, S. F. L 1 o = P 5 > | ( | | P ; | | | | | o+ || THE LATE PHIL MAY, FAMOUS ENGL'SH C'RTOONIST, BY WHOSE | | RECENT DEATH THE WORLD LOSES ONE OF ITS CL EREST 1 ARTISTS IN BLACK AND WIIITH. | |- g e 1 ONDON, A:g 20.—The rather sud- | such great num ess there ‘was a 1 den death of Phil May has some- | k ~ nd for t h a8 w Wy S i 5 Sublics | books are yet s ed for autumn pub- what precipitated the publication Haklia’ T e gy e A | res | 'The public forts. begun speare These | sketches out the new volume | and the must popular with the general who knew him intimately | the publication. Some of the chief publishers have now the absence of new books is rather re- markable, is extraordinary. Messrs, Methuen, one of the most powerful and enterprising ‘comparatively more than 200 reprints, including Shape- ical repraguction of each of the four fo- llos of Shakespeare from these reprints would not be published in of the edition de luxe of his work | Thacker had in which. Mr. 5798 | t0 mev Both at poblishers over here are seemi g to manifest once more content with the present state of | the copyright law, and now that the slack season is on sc writers are making art effort to bri they ~all their griev- ance again artist selected a large number ol »f those that will appear in as being his favorites, whi America berore sympat ing members of Parliament with the v such as represented his best ef- short biographical sketch by one will preface | of having the copyright act revised. vint that in its present state the law is all in favor of Americans. It is thought rather unfair ‘that while the American author can secure copyright in England by the mere simultaneous pub- lication from stereos an English author | has to get his book both set up and print- ed in America to secure the copyright to publish autumn lists. So far | while the number of reprints of new houses, announce and a complete set of Dum there. 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