The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1903, Page 30

30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 190 B el i j { | “NEMESIS OF FROUDE/” THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL- PELEE ADDS TO HEIGHT | Soon to Be Published in London, ‘JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor - . . « . «+. . . . . . . Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager By Pushing Forth From Its Summit IS REPLY TO HISTORIAN. | jsunbay....... il e sl s iSEPEEMBER 13, 1903 HUGE, POLISHED OBELISK. | 5 —— | Public-tion Offics . = .Third and Market Streets, S. . ;"_—_——-——_———_—“’ — LATE HISTORIAN CONTROVERSY, LISHED, WHOSE POSTHU! HAS PROVOKED A REPLY, SOON ENTITLED “THE NEMESIS OF FROUDE.” MOUS VOLUME IN THE CARLYLE | TO BE PUB- || 12—One of the ced literary frauds that can be recalled has just| been perpetrated on.the Lit-| erary World. It was discovered | by the cditor of the Academy | that the article entitled *Dual Personali- ed “A. N.,” which appeared in was taken bodily from so recent an issue of the Academy ruary 14 last. Naturally the editor | Literary World feels very sore at raud perpetrated on him and he says | this week’s matter will be the subjegg of | 4 judicial investigation. | The Literary World, he continues, has | printed in its correspondence col- many bitter complaints about the behavior of the editors, but very little | is ever said of the grievous frauds some- | times perpetrated upon the editors by | contributors. This is & particularly flagrant one. An individual writing from a well-known West End club submitted a number of typewritten articles to the editor, who, suspecting nothing, accepted one of them and promised to consider the others. No sooner, however, had the first appeared than the Academy spotted a barefaced fraud. The editor of the Literary World | betook himself to Scotland Yards, so he , and obtained some interesting infor- sation about the antecedents of the per- petrator. It is premature to say yet what the de- velopments may be, but the article in tion would not have been used so readfly had not the name and the place from which it was sent appeared quite sufficient testimony of good faith. By Some surprise is expressed in literary circles that a certain weekly paper should | have published a protest by Professor | Renier of Turin and Dr. Alexander Luzio, airector of the Royal Archives at Man- tua, against the use made of their writ- ings in Mrs. Ady’s book on Beatrice and | Isabelle d'Este, which have received most congratulatory reviews as being invalu- | able to all those interested in the life and | art of the Italian Renaissance. But the | point in question seems to be how far one author is justified in quoting from others. It i& not as if it were a case of | plagiarism. As the St. James Gazette re- marks, surely an Itallan writer, say on | Charles of England, would be well en- | ONDON, most bar E often titled by literary etiquette to avail him- | self of the writings of an authority such | as Dr. Gardiner and others, provided acknowledgment was made. Now, Mrs. Ady most distinctly acknowl- edges her indebtedness to the gentlemen who protest against what she has done | both in her list of authorities and her foot notes, while in the prefaces of both books she pays explicit and unreserved tribute to them &s the latest and greatest authorities on her subject. Sir James Crichton Browne and Alex- ander Carlyle have finished their reply to Froude's posthumous volume on the Car- lyle controversy. Lane is now printing ““The Nemesis of Froude,” as the reply is entitled. It may be looked for some time in September. It is said to be reso- Jute and frank, as indeed the discussion has been all through. 8 ig I am sorry to record the death after a long illness of Lord Lelghton's sister, Mrs. Sutherland Orr, a close friend of Robert Browning. She complled a most helpful handbook to the works of Robert Browning, which ran through several edi- tions. She also wrote an authoritative blography of that poet, and several years ago she contributed sundry articles on philosophical topics to the Contemporary Review. Mr. Huckel has undertaken to retell— in blank verse modeled upon Tennysonian lines and otherwise reminiscent of the | verse will do as a paraphrase of Wagner | And from the castle came a trumpet blast | clety” has met every Saturdey night for | Mayor Sir Richard Glynn. | “Idylls of the King"—the story of what | he considers Wagner's masterpiece. He | has followed the opera as closely as was | consistent with his epic plan. The legend of the Holy Grail, in which | Parsifal plays his part, took many forms | during the Middle Ages. It was told in| slightly varying ways in the twelfth cen-| tury by the French writers, Robert de | Borron and Chrestien de Troyes, and in| the early thirteenth century by Wolfram von Eschenbach in the strong German | speech of Thuringia. The substance of | these legends was that the preclous cup | used for the wine at the Last Supper | and also used to receive the Savior's| biood at the cross was forever after cher- | ished as the Holy Grail. It was carried from the Holy Land by Joseph of Ari- mathea and taken first to Gaul and later to Spain to a special sanctuary among the | mountains which was named Monsalvat. | Here it was to be cherished and guarded | by a holy band of Knights of the Grall. | The same legend appears in the chron-| icles of Sir Thomas Malory, but Instead | of Gaul early Britain is the place to| which the Grail is taken. Tennyson's “The Holy Grail” in his “Idylls of the King” largely follows Sir Thomas Mal- ory's chronicles. ‘Wagner, on the other hand, followed more closely in the steps of Wolfram von Eschenbach. The present version, there- fore, is Wagnerian in story, though Ten- nysonian in style. It is so painstaking and scholarly a per- formance that one hates to say to Mr. Huckel what Jeffrey said to Wordsworth, | “This will never do.” Perhaps Mr. Huckel | may console himself with the thought that the world has degided that Jeffrey | was Wrong. | From the opening lines of his work the world may judge for itself whether this carefully polished but quite uninspired or an imitation of Tennyson: Within a noble stretch of mountain woods, Primeval forest, deep and dark and grand, | There rose a glorious castle towering nigh, And at Its foot a smiling, shimmering lake Lay in the still p of a verdant glade. "Twas daybreak, and the arrows of the dawn Were shot in golden glory through the trees, To waken life in all the slumbering host— Warriors and yeomen in the castle halls, a .h One announcement which is already cre- ating interest in social as well as jour- nalistic circles is that a book is being | prepared dealing with “Ye Ancient So- clety of Cogers,” which celebrates its 150th year in January next. All these years without a break “Ye Ancient So- debate and other things in a room in Salisbury Square. This record will con- tain unpublished legends of the soclety’s heroes. “Ye Ancient Society” is the sole survivor of the debating socleties of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One of the oldest members was the famous Then Curran, Keogh and O'Brien were among its Irish debaters. Lord Denman, Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Halsbury, Sic Edmund W. Byrne and Sir Edward Clark, K. C., have been or are among its lawyers. In litera- ture the membership roll has contained or contains Charles Dickens, James Han- nay and T. P. O’Connor, and in oratory Father William Burke, Should the citizens 6f Dublin decide to accept Mr. Andrew Carnegle’s offer of £28,000 (§140,000) for a free library it wiil be interesting to watch the experiment of turning Dublin into a reading commu- nity. From the bookseller's point of yiew Dublin for its size is the worst city in the United Kingdom. Leaving out the second- hand bookshops which cling to the streets near the quays, the bookshops in Dublin where good current literature can be ob- tained have to be searched for, so lament- ably few in number are they. The enter- prising managers who push the sale of a certain encyclopedia had to confess in print not long ago that their trip to Dub- lin was practically a failure. Oddly enough, while Dubliners do not buy books they support four morning and three evening papers, besides a host of miscel- laneous weeklies, THE CHURCEH AND THRE STATE, URING the investigation of the case of Miller, the bookbinder. foreman in the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washington, it was discovered that the oath of the labor unions, represented in the Government employ, forswears their allegiance to the constitution of the United States, and that the members regarded their national allegiance as secondary. It was quite remarkable that at first they all determined to stand upon this paramotint allegiance to the unions, and the matter assumed an aspect so serious that an order was issued for them all to take the oath of allegiance to the constitution of the United States, the same as other Government em- ployes. Of course this means that they must abjtre allegiance to their unions if they desire to work for the Govgrnment. But the union oath remains upon the far larger number who are not in Gov- ernment employ, and presents a revolutionary issue that must attract attention. It is not permitted that an American citizen hold any civil obligation higher than that imposed upon him by the con- stitution, in his character as a citizen. The action of the Government seems to have called the at- tention of the Catholic church to the matter and the discovery is made that the same oath of the unions requires priority of obligation and allegiance superior to any religious as well as political authority. It is announced that Bishop Scannell of Omaha and high dignitaries of the church in Mil- waukee and Kansas City have decided to withhold the sacraments from all who have taken such an oath. The revelation is as singular as it is interesting. It exhibits the extent to which leaders, am- bitious for power, have gathered to themselves, by the binding force of an oath, a jurisdiction that usurps the flace of both civil and spiritual fealty. It goes without saying that such control of any con- siderable body of our people separates them from their fellow-citizens, both morally and politically,and prepares them for use against the authority and supremacy of the state. The matter becomes exceed- ingly serious, in view of the enormous foreign immigration which immediately recruits the ranks of union labor and is taught that there is in this country an allegiance superior to that to the Govern- ment itself. When this idea is reinforced by personal violence, unpunished, by compelling men to resign from the National Guard, and by other acts that, going unrebuked and unhindered, convince foreigners that a power superior to the Government is actually here, the effect is a matter of the gravest concern. All thinking men and genuine friends of labor feel that even the great displays of Labor day are impressed by the use of a power that dilutes individuality and citizenship, since every member must march under penalty of a fine, and every one must refrain from work under penalty of a fine of $25, no matter what may be the necessities of his family. The sight of the marching hosts would teach a higher lesson if it were known that every man in the ranks was there voluntarily to testify his allegiance to a great.sentiment. Force belongs to the Government, and not to individuals or or- ganizations not recognized by the law. When sucli orgarizations claim the right of sovereignty and also the right to absolve men from all religious and civil obligations, it is time tor the well-dis- posed to examine the effect upon our citizenship. Foreign immigration, to be saie and desirable, must be as rapidly as possible assimilated by our institutions. Otherwise it remains an undigested increment and element of danger. To introduce it into the country under the supposed protection of an oath and an obligation higher than that to the Government is to separate it immediately from our institutions and assimilate it with a power paramount and inimical to them. Every good Amer- ican citizen in any union should see the enormous gravity of such a situation and agitate reforms that put them in line with their country and its constitutignal purposes. Archbishop Ireland and Cardinal Gibbons have already called attention to the denial of a non- union laborer’s right to work as an offense against society. Such denial is the assertion of power that the Government itself cannot exercise, for Government cannot deny to any free man the right of private contract for the disposal of his labor. Justice Brewer wrote the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Debs case, and therein said, “If a State, with its recognized power of sovereignty, is impotent to obstruct interstate commerce, can it be that any mere voluntary association of individuals within the limits of that State has a power which the State itself does not possess ?” The questjon answers itself and the court so held. Applying the principle to denial of the right to labor under private contract this seli-answering question may be asked: “If a State, with its rec- ognized power of sovereignty, is impotent to prevent any man laboring under a private contract, can it be that any mere voluntary association of individuals within the limits of thay State has a power which the State itself does not possess?” It will be seen that the idea of an allegiance to a power superior to the State is necessary to effect the purposes of the union oath, to which first the State and now the church objects. . SOCIALISTS AND THE RAILROADS. the rebuilding of its ferry-house and bettermgents of its service in Alameda it has become necessary for the Southern Pacific railroad to make large expenditures and to secure its fran- chise for the use of the property. We know of no valid objections to the character of its ser- vice. The facilities it has furnished have enabled the settlement in Alameda of four thousand commuters, who do business in San Francisco. If we were selfishly seeking to further the interests of San Francisco we would advocate such antagonism to the railroad in Afameda as would force these four thousand commuters, and their families, to come back to San Francisco, where their busi- ness is. They would make an appreciable addition to the consuming power of this city, where they earn their living. But they pr&er to livgin Alameda, and their preference is supported by the facili- ties furnished by the railroad, which has two lines running through that city, which is only about a mile wide. The cost of running the local trains to supply that service, leaving out the ferry-boats, interest on capital and deterioration, approximates $100,000 a year. In regard to the franchise a misunderstanding has arisen which is taken advantage of by the socialist element, and in the public discussions we read the spokesmen of that part of the popula- tion. to the effect that it will be an excellent thing to drive the railroad out of Alameda entirely, for then the city will supply its own system of transportation and live happy ever after. The Call is not celebrated at home or abroad for its excessive love of the Southern Pacific, and is as ready to oppose unjust pretensions of that corporation as it is to advise the people of Ala- meda that the day has gone by, if indeed it ever was, when a city can advance its interests by driv- ing out transportation facilities. That pleasant city exists at all because of its very abundant -local railroad-and ferry facilities. It has two lines of local road, while Oakland and Berkeley have only one each, and it has, by these lines, the choice of three ferry systems, the Alameda, Oakland and creek routes. The supplying of these abundant advantages involves a very large investment. Under the law, at the termination of a franchise the terminal facilities may be alienated by public sale to .a competitor, and under such circumstances it is natural that a franchise should be sought of a tenure sufficiently long to justify the large investment necessary for its use. Of course the primary purpose of the railroad is to make a profit. But the secondary purpose of the franchise is to continue to Alameda her present facilities and to enlarge them as may be necessary. The railroad hopes that the number of its commuters will increase and its profits also, but that means the attraction of more people to Alameda by the facilities it supplies. Under these cir- cumstances to refuse a franchise, or to put it under unbusiness-like limitations, appears like inflicting more harm upon Alameda than upon the railroad. To do this in furtherance of the socialistic theory seems an amazing proposition. To anticipate that Alameda will create a railroad and ferry system of her own, under socialistic conditions, and that to do so she will immediately oust, end and destroy her present facilities, is fantastic. The immediate effect would be a large decrease in her population, the vacation of property now occupied by commuters, a decline in her local trade and a general disturb- ance of her existing prosperous conditions. g No oity, ambitious of its future, strives to keep out transportation facilities, and so far social- ism has nowhere efficiently supplied those conveniences which are constructed by private capital in the hope of gain. The issue in Alameda has reached the mass-meeting,. denunciation and injunction stage, and charges against the Town Trustees are freely bandied about the streets, which no sober-minded citi- zen believes. It would seem in order to cool off, look at the matter with common business sense, and do those things which will keep the pleasant.town in marching order on the progressive road it has so far traveled. 5 2 The King of Portugal has been made an admiral of the British navy. English statesmen evidently believe that in times of peace it is not wise to prepare for war, . TIHE NEW MAGNET TEAN | 7 |+ || Two viEws OF MONT PELEE ILLUSTRATING ITS REMARKABLE | INCREASE IN HEIGHT, AND A MODEL OF A LATE INVENTION, A | MAGNETICALLY SUSPENDED TRAIN. | } B3 S — e ———— | HE strangest event connected with the recent activity of Mont Pelee, not even except- ing its sensational annihilation of the city of St. Plerre, is doubtless that which is now taking place—the pushing forth from its ! summit of an enormous obelisk of pol- | ished rock as a cork is pushed from a soda water bottle by the expanding gas within. This wonder is thus described in Science (August 7) by Professor Angelo Hellprin. He says: extraordinary conditions that have been associated with the recent eruptions of the Martinique volcano is the extrusion obelisk, which to-day dominates the moun- tain, and which has given to it an added height of $00 to 900 feet. Pelee is no longer 4200 or 4428 feet in elevation, which | it had been prior to the eruption of May | of rock, the nature of which was first | properly made known by Professor La- and purposes vertically, from the summit of the new cone of the volcano (of what- ever precise nature this cone may be) which has been built up in the ancient crateral-basin (the Etang Sec) to a height | of 1600 feet or more, and virtually plugs { it. Where it is implanted it has a thick- ness of some 30 to 350 feet. From certain tain for most of its height (300 plus other points it shows a rapidly tapering surface, with a termination in a needle | summit, a true aiguille. It is gently curved or arched toward the southwest, or in the direction of St. Plerre, and on this face it is cavernous-or openly slaggy, showing where successive and repeated explosions had carried away portions of the substance. On the opposite side, or toward the east-northeast, the surface appears solid, is smoothed and even pol- ished in part, and shows longitudinal par- | allel grooves and striae, very much like | glacial markings. On this side it shows plainly the marks of bard attrition, the effect of rubbing upon the encasing rock —the mold, in fact, that determined a por- tion of the exit channel. “The constitution of this extruded ‘cork’ is undeniably lava—a lava whose viscosity or rapid solidification did not permit it to flow over, but which under’ the giant stress of the volcano simply moved upward, solid from base to sum- mit, and receiving aceretions to its mass only from below. The most cursory ex- amination of the' relations existing would immediately point to this form of growth and development, but the carefully con- ducted angle measurements and observa- tions of contour made by the represent- atives at two stations of the French Sci- entific Commission leave no possibility of doubt in the matter, and they further furnish us with data touching the rate of growth. Thus, in eight days preceding June 7 this growth was, as we are in- formed by M. Giraud, ten meters (thir- ty-three feet); and in the four days preceding June 15 (a period within the time of my recent visit to the volcano) it measured six meters (twenty feet). The consideration of the depth to which this giant monument descends solid into the volcano would be interesting were there any way of reaching the problem, but for the present there would seem to be none such. - “On June 13 last, in company with M. Guinoiseau—one of the observers of the French commission—I made the ascent of Pelee, and from the immediate crater rim took a series of photographs of Pelee's singular process, probably the most im- pressive piece of nature that I had ever seen. The volcano, by comparison with what it had been before, had ‘slumbered down to peace,’ but yet it was too ac- tive to permit us te descend into the cra- geral hollow, 300 to 350 feet in depth, that i “Not the least remarkable of the many of the giant tower of rock, a veritable | | 8, 1902, but upward of 5000 feet. This tower | | croix, issues directly, and to all intents | points of view the obelisk seems to main- | | feet) a fairly uniform thickness; from | still surrounded the new cone. Steam and sulphur puffs were issuing everywhere, and avalanches of rock were repeatedly being disengaged from the obelisk. Pelee was still ‘ugly,’ and the night before the southwest base of its crown or plug was glowing with fire—with the liquid lava that was rising in rift passages. Tw days later I noted a feeble line of stean issuing from the absolute apex of th ! summit, suggesting a continuous passage or channel extending from base to sum mit. On March 26 a discharge of Ir candescent balls was observed also t take place from the same position. “Geologists will naturally make a com parison between the Pelee structure and that which was observed to rise | Georgois, in Santorin, in 1867; but tr dome of the latter is probably nearer t the cone of Pelee, and suggests little the obelisk and of its method of forma tion.” There is at the present time on view at Cable Butlding. New York, says Th: Sphere, a model of a magnetically sus pended train which has reached approxi | mately the terrific speed of three hun- dred miles an hour. The invention is at- tracting considerable attention among railway engineers, and capitalists arec i even now endeavoring to secure right of way for a practical line of this ki The invention is the work of Dr. A. C Albertson, a prominent member of the Royal University of Copenhagen. The model of this novel railway train consists of some eighteen feet of traci and a small car which runs backward or forward magnetically suspended, and with an ease that is remarkable. Briefly the whole invention is the solving of the problem of subtracting weight by the aid | of powerful magnets. To understand how | this' is accomplished let us suppose that | a train weighs twenty tons. Then, if we use magnets possessing an attraction suf- ficiently powerful to raise eighteen t the weight of the train will be re: to two tons. as may be | i } turned on, the train would slide along the rails with a friction equal to one- tenth of the original weight of the train At first glance it might seem that whatever is gained by the reduction of locomotive power must be applied to the | establishment. of magnets strong enough to lift a given weight. But this is not so. Five hundred amperes, for example will lift at least sixty tons, the moving of which ordinarily requires a steam lo comotive, but which, suspended, can be drawn by a few horse-power. The cur- rent for the purpose could be picked up from a wire along the track or from storage batterles placed in the cars, e Toflv;;un&l California glace fruits and ca . a artis Siched boxes. ‘A Bice present for Sastacn friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * e . 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