The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1903, Page 26

26 THE SAN' FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1903. s ' CARS IN GOLLISION WILL BE NEXT FORM OF RESORT AMUSEMENT. — e f— IEWS OF THE MODEL AFFORD FLOCK TO THE OF A NEW THRILLING AMI MECHANICAL DEVICE DE- JSEMENT TO THE MULTI- PLEASURE RESORTS. e mechanical g continually taxed aarkable ' chiefly on which it ex- eptional skill ism absolutely a single track ay cars are caused same or opposite car meets another, oof of the oppos- ded rails, gently side upon the The photo- ced were taken trically-driven model, made strictly according to scale. ough they run upon traveling bridges with for the ac- passengers. Over the e of the cars thus con- ted, an arched track is carried, se- ly fastened to the car and serving the purpose of providing a roadbed for the 1 car. This superimposed track is built in accordance with well- understood principles of bridge construc- tion. The outer ends of each superim- posed track are desigred to form with the surface of the roadway an overhead switch provided with specially formed pliots and with a horizontal axis and a | vertical axis. Upon each horizontal axis the respective outer portions of the arched track can swing vertically, and upon the vertical axis the track can swing to & limited extent from side to side. The pilots of the superimposed track are automatic in their operation. When they stgike the car ahead they immediately travel up the inclined super- imposed way of that car, thereby guid- ing the car to which they are themselves attached. After the superimposed car has passed over the car below it, the rear pllot as it descends will be lifted gradually drop by gravity to the ¢d. The permanent roadbed upon the cars nmormally travel and the aposed track on each car are of uges. The wheels of the car ose which were once used on d cable railways, formed as are with a broad middie flange trav- & centrally grooved track, with portions of smaller diameter sus- y flanges which flank the central ve of the traek. P As the illustrations show, the forward ends of the pilots of the superimposed tracks are provided with rollers and skids which are so designed that one car shall e other without shock. The ly ride up the inclined track of the car ahead and sufficlently elevate the rollers of the pilots to permit them to run upon the superimposed narrow gauge track without jar. The car itself follows wita & motion equally as gentle. In actual practice cars of ll_feet € inches in iength will be employed, the extreme length being 43 feet. The passengers will find accommoda- tions in the car bodies arranged along «ach side of the traveling structure, and provided with a removable roof and sides in order to permit ready means of ingress and egress. The top of the rail is only 6 feet above the base rall. In actual pracg tice the cars will be run at a speed about ten to fifteen miles an hour and will be caused to colijde at about eight miles an bour, which will be quite sufficient for working | |% urposes. The inclined tracks ach car is provided form a er cent. The actual power a grade is probably less quired to send many a rail- n around harp curve. The arched e. which sur- each car, w sidered in con- with the per: t track itself, indulatory roadway upon which 1 with a motion very much of a boat riding on a bil- The motorman is to take his 2 the roof of each car at about the which point will have a w of the track ahead and behind ation a central slot which a plow | ake up the current for | nsmission to the motor. The ratls will Book Notes. I am sorry to say that though since his | tliness, a month or two ago, George Mere- dith has made uninterrupted progres being able to take open air exercise— | improvement received a check this week, in consequence of which he is again con- ISUNDAY.. ;... 0c0msessspsescssnceods e iy voson fined to his bed; but I am told that there is no immedlate cause for anxiety, P o A volume of essays on the subject of famous lovers in French history has been | undertaken for publication by Messrs, Chatto. It s by M. Paul Gaulot and has been translated from the French by Dr. | Charles Laroche. e Authors—even well-known authors— | make curious slips sometimes. In one novel just out the author has associated with the villain of the story another vil- {lain, a Hindoo, who he calls Naoroji. It |1s just as if an English author were to {call a North American Indian, Sioux or | Iroquis, by a Mexican cognomen. No | Hindoo that ewer lived has been called | Naoroji, which {$"a purely Parsee name, | well known to Londoners by reason of its being the name of a former member of | Parliament for Central Finsbury, a Parsee | gentleman, who has resided in London for nearly forty years and is widely re- spected. To take it as a label for a par- ticularly abominable, murderous Hindoo man not of Parsee race is rather rough on Parsees. It puts one in mind of a rather famous writer of a serial appear- ing in one of the {llustrated weeklies, who made a man with a Mohammedan name swear by Brahma. . . . Miss Helen Keller says in “The Story of My Life” that she very early made up her mind to go to Harvard. She is be- ginning her last year in Radcliffe, which is the woman’'s annex of the university in Cambridge. A story that has just come to light may account for Miss Kel- ler's early interest fn Harvard. Years ago, when a little girl, she re- celved a doll from the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard. The students were at that time much interested In a certain actress and many of them knew her well, The actress heard from some of the boys the story of Helen Keller, which was just beginning to be known. They club- bed together and bought a doll, and the actress dressed it herself in the costume of one of her own characters. The let- ter which the secretary of the Pudding Club wrote to Miss Keller has been lost but she has the doll still. : ————— Natives at El Campo. Members of Golden Gate Parlor No. 29, Native Sons of the Golden West, will celebrate Admission day by an euting at El Campo next Wednesday. There will be a programme of games, dancing and literary numbers in commemoration of the ploneers of the State, —_——— Townsend's California glace fruits ana candles, 50c & pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —,— e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telen! Main 1042 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . ... ... .. .Address Communications to W.S. LEAKE, Manager .................... SEPTEMBER 6, 1903 Public-tion Office Third and Market Streets, S. F. HAYS PANAMA LETTER. HEN the Colombian Senate refused ratification of the canal treaty it was given out from Bogota that the high hidalgos had been angered by the threatening nature of the notes of Secretary Hay. Every one who knows the diplomatic temper and habit of our Secretary of State knew this to be merely apretext. But admitting that his notes had been unguarded, what other people entitled to a place in the family of nations would let an issue of punctilio defeat an enterprise of so much importance to their country and the world? Americans desirous of the construction of the canal did not believe that Colonel Hay had done other than wisely in handling the question for his country. Hes not a man who threatens. 1f a course of action required it, he would be found advising his own Government in the application of force; but he is too strong in diplomacy to threaten it in advance, for that is a sign of weakness, and he is strong and has the world’s strongest country at Jis back. i The fact is that the petty ba)ldits who govern Colombia had a motive, and a low motive, for defeating the American canal. "Somebody’s money was bribing them in the matter, and they earned it by rejecting the treaty. For the last two months Bogota has been full of agents and lob- byists against the tréaty. They were not there to use arguments; for Central American politicians are proof against reason. They have no proper patriotism, and are subject only to corrupt infln- ences. The astute enemies of the canal wasted no time in talk, and when their purpose was accom- plished, and the treaty was killed so near the time limit fixed for the exchange of r\atifications that it was impossible to reconsider the vote in the hope of a different result, it was necessary to give a reason. It suited the corrupted legislators and the enemies of the canal who had paid their price, to put the blame on Secretary Hay. This would handicap him in future negotiations, whether with Colombia or Nicaragua and Costa Rica. At last the rumor about Colonel Hay's note has been vindicated by its publication, and what is it? Through our Minister at Bogota, Mr. Beaupre, Colonel Hay informed the Colombian Gov- ernment that in the event of failure of the treaty “‘the United States may be forced to take action which would be a source of regret to all true friends of Colombia.” The obvious and plain mean- ing of that is that, in' view of the alternative provided by our Congress, the United States will be compelled to take action looking to the construction of the canal by the Nicaragua route, and Co- lombia would therefore lose the canal, to the regret of her friends, if the robber-ridden country have any. Nothing else was meant and honest men could torture no other meaning out of the note Colombia has placed herself in a position now that endangers her own sovereignty over the canal territory. It lies in the State of Panama. The people of that State have had contact with civ- ilization. Commerce has passed over the Panama Railroad, foreign merchants are located at each terminus of that thoroughfare. American warships visit the coasts of the State of Panama, and that part of the Colombian people have had their ambition roused, and desire to emerge from the preda- tory and bombastic atmosphere of the country and take on enterprise and put themselves in the way of sharing the world’s progress. So they threaten to secede from the Bogota government, set i for thenselves and negotiate for the canal, which they desire as much as do our own people. The%nited States cannot promote such secession. But individual Americans will delight in help- ing it along, and our Government will not hesitate to give the de facto government belligerent rights, nor to recogaize it as a nation as soon as it has given the inland lowdalgos a good thrashing. Wherever there is a gleam of intelligence in any State of Latin America it is the business of American citizens io encourage it. If it takes the form of a revolution it is our right to direct re- sults toward the establishment of decent principles of government and to the creation of States in which the rights of person and property will be respected. This duty will become also a pleasure in the case of Panama, and there will be no regret in this country if that revolution starts promptly and even soon heads in conditions that will compel our interference as we interfered in Cuba. The besotted government at Bogota may study the Cuban incident with profit, remembering that we are great people for following precedents. OUR SLEEPLESS LIFE. HILE as a people we Americans would be quick to resent any imputation that we are a race of weaklings, it is unquestionably true that there is something about us which keeps medical experts continually busy trying to diagnose the national disease. Some say we are a race of dyspeptics and others say we are a nervous, high strung breed of gamblers who are going mad. There are various other primary theories as to what is the matter with us, and then there are secondary theories put forth to sustain the originals. The latest doctrine is that as a people we do not sleep enough. It is even intimated that in most of our cities a large number of persons do not get any genuine sleep at all, for the rattle and bang, the jar and the whirr, going on day and night, reach the bedrooms of the masses and by dis- turbing the nerves prevent thorough restfulness even when sleep is soundest. It is alleged that the increase of insanity and of various kinds of mania is due mainly to the lack of good and sufficient sleep. One authority asserts that unless we can in some way put a stop to the increasing noisiness of our cities we shall eventually become a nation of lunatics, or at least approximate it to such an extent that our lunatic asylums will become the most important of our state structures, and prudent legislators will be liberal in appropriations for them because each .will perceive that lic himself may be ere long removed from the capitol to the asylum amid the applause of taxpayers. It is strange that any well educated race of people should have to be advised to sleep more. One would suppose that every man and woman of culture would understahd the benefits of late sleep- ing and practice it to the fullest extent possible. The experts who are crying out against us for our lack of sleep say we are living an unnatural life, and it may be so. Still the average American will hesi- tate to believe that his fellow-countrymen are as sleepless and insane a lot as the experts declare. We live longer than our fathers. Infant mortality has diminished greatly in the last fifty years. Many diseases have been well nigh eradicated or rendered comparatively harmless. Our noisy cities are healthier than were the quieter cities of old, and if we do not sleep quite enough it would seem that our ancestors must have slept altogether too much, for we have improved upon their condi- tions. When all is said, however, it will do no one any harm to follow the advice of the new teach- ers and sleep as much as one can; for there are many men who are better citizens when asleep than at any other time. COST OF PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. HE proponents of public owne}ship of public utilities make no answer to the facts proved in the case of purely business enterprises already carried on by the Government. The cities of California are asked to tax all of their citizens to provide capital for investment in commer- cial enterprises. If it will pay to embark in those enterprises they are able to provide their own capital. If it will not pay it is tyranny to compel the taxpayer to provide capital for a non=pay- ing investment. This State has on its hands a commercial enterprise in the State Printing Offige. Not lon;; ago a comparison was made between the cost of work in the State office and in private printing offices. It was found that the same wark cost in the State office from 150 to 962 per cent more than in private establishments. The taxpayers of California are compelled by law to provide the capital for the State Printing Office, and are compelled to pay for every line it prints, and the cost to them is so excessively above what it would be in private establishments that it seems like flattery to call it grand larceny. ; 3 The United States is in the printing and bookbinding business in the public printing office in Washington. The developments in the case of Foreman Miller, who was first turned out of the bookbinders’ union and then out of Government employ, and was reinstated by President Roose- velt, show that he proved that the Government was paying in its own shop 40 cents for work that in private establishments costs only 8 cents. Being an honest man Mr. Miller was appalled at this. The Government was paying 400 per cent more for work in its own shop than it could have had the same work for in a private shop. Miller sought to reform this condition and was expelled from the union for his zeal. The unions were making the 400 per cent out of the taxpayers, and regarded it as treason to their constitution to *make them supply the taxpayers as cheaply as private shops would do it. The facts may be profitably read by the taxpayers, alongside of the Labor Union party plat- form and in connection with the bonding propositions to compel the taxpayers of this city and Oak- land to furnish capital for commercial efterprises under municipal ownership, i ¥ OLD EDINBURGH PUBLISHERS ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF AN AWAKENING. | +f Tar rarace & BrLGRADE FORMER QUEEN NATHALIE OF SERVIA, WHOSE U ENTERS INTO A NOVEL WRITTE AND SOON TO BE PUBLISHED IN LONDON. - NHAPPY LIFE ES GERARD, | N BY MISS FRANC —— - city manager of ly finishe Belgrade. of Bavari story. thing of Draga, mance.” The hit a picturesque old house in High | ciated with the name of John Miss Frances strange and che hinson are to publish. will be entitled ONDON, Sept. 5.—If things remain | bister are to issue in the autumn very dull in the publishing world of London, plenty of activity in Edinburgh. there seems to be here has been of late quite a revival at the headquarters of the old publishing firms of Blackwood, Chambers & Nelson, this being supplemented by the establishment in the northern capital of | several new publishing houses. of D. Ha; lished in One—tha y—has now become well esta . Sands, the London publisher, s completed arrangements for begin- | ning business in the central part of the | while George Morton, long business | with Blackwood, has opened lpremises just a few doors away from the famous office with which he has so long been connected. . erard has written the Servia in a book which Messrs. She had near- d it before the tragedy which wiped out Milan's dynasty took place at | Miss Gerard is already kmown for a book dealing with King Ludwig II a, whose life was also a curious The present volume, which has much to say of Queen Natalie and some- | and Queen | King Alexander “A King’s Ro- . which Mr. Jack London's dog story made will increase the interest in another book by him that Messrs, Is- kered history of King | -3 Some time ago he walked into their office and explained that he had been living for three months in the East End of London to study life there. Then he took from his pocket a crumpled manuscript of his coming book, “People of the Abyss.” “All my works,” said Goethe, “are con- slons.” So might Joseph Conrad say f his. In one way or another they ar They émbody c life, personal or vi When a young boy, just after he had taken up the life of a sailor, he shipped on a rattletrap of a boat run- ning between London and Australian ports. Out of the incidents of that voy- ge, awd glamor of romance which hls ithful hunger for experience threw over all the dirty work and pertl and | hardship, grew the story “Youth” In | the Eastern seas he worked for many years on both sailing and steam vessels, and it was during that time he met with the type of man whom he made into the hero of “The End of the Tether,” tfe teadfast, faithful captain of the steamer Sofal The experiencés which crystai- lized Into the weird and powerful story of the African jungle, “The Heart of Darkness,” he deliberately went out to |seek. In 1891 he went to the Belgian | Congo, ostensibly to command a river steamer, but in reality prompted by his curiosity to see what life actually was in that ‘“Heart of Darkness.” He returned stricken with fever, the first day’s {llness since he was a boy of 1. How vivid an impression he brought back only those who have read “The Heart of Darkness™ can imagine. ) ? o /4 ADVERTISEMENTS. Columbia Extra Loud, High Speed, ) X Mosle::d ; RECORDS---The Stand- ard 50c Record. for Graphoxhone or Phon- ograph. Suitable J selection of \( P several thonsa.nd new {Jy pieces. Don’t fail to take advantage of the oppor- \/ tunity. 2 e 25 pt.‘ioe; D) ENO M I Just, half the —_— regular price , S & C MAUVAILS USIC CO. 7 6 S MARKET ST