The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1903, Page 30

30 FRANCISCO JALL, NDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1903. 'GERMANY HAs sEarcHuiGHT || THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. . POSSESSING INTENSITY OF ' 316 MILLION CANDLE POWER SEARC HLIGHT OF ALMOST NSTRUCTED IN FLASHLIGHT RECENTLY INS INCONCEIVABLE INTENSITY UREMBERG, GERMANY, AND A TALLED AT HELIGOLAND. < !» allowed. The experiment will be watched with great interest, both on ac- “u.u.r of the bola deviation from the or- y oplan and also on the ground of econ- which is claimed for the new meth- t is stated that on the first night the light was seen at the um, a distance of forty mlles, which in itself seems sufficlent to clear all doubts of the vistbility of a ash of short duration. o ®s t inconcelv- 6,000,000 candle- latest me- hievements. his searchlight tw 8ir Willlam Ramsay, who, in conjunc- n with Lord Rayleigh, discovered the e of argon, and ind xenon, in the atmosphere, a computation of the quantity rypton 1€ made the The calculations show that the alr contains 00014 ver cent of Krypton and 000005 of xenon by welght. To be more explicit 1s one part by welght of krypton pr moment desired, to this ty D00, 0 ipplied 10 mc the iris dia- f alr. Measured by volume as 1t gases of the air, the volume se two elements is more infinitesi- since there is only one part of the mer 20,000,000, and one part of thc latter to 270,000,000 parts of air. * ¢ German sear: uble ¢ con der to into A special commission appointed by the ch Admiralty has been experimenting h a view to obtaining conclusive data eylin slid against one another, o degrees | Sheep were d™=ributed at the posts which as \' has | ver which the big turret guns fire. the discharge the sheep were examined, | and though found to be stunned, were herwise uninjured. It was luded that as men have flashlight me concern at Heligoland ectors used in combined, as shown | in the accompanying views taken from the Sclentific American % | There are three searchlights, ar- anged 120 degrees apart, and another mounted upon the ed auto- motors, omatic in a horizonta stalled by th ouse tow lately been in the lig The = this inst a greater ners | seri gu the turret would experience no harm through the firing of the lower o« @ The problem of plercing a glacier by means of boring has at last been solved, mechanism, ar eition, as is usual with most large sea says the New York Sun, with results of Jights, The intensity of the light is 30,000 | T¢21 sclentific interest in experiments - P g el o s made last August on a glacier near Vent, Tol. At a distance of about one arter miles from the tip of the where its breadth is 2120 feet and ht of its service above sea level ., a boring in the middle reached depth of 500 feet. rements of rate of movement, ng and temperature, the ex- eriment enabled the following conclu- !«hvl!b to be drawn: First, the temperature of the fce iz at the melting point through- out the whole mass on the tongue of the glacier; second, the bed of the glacler is trough-shaped: third, the ice moves more slowly at the bottom than at the surface. The bore holes were filled up with pleces of wood, which will serve for many years to come as indexes of the rate of move- ment and of surface melting. maximum c The light flas! and they rema tenth of a s The three searchlights mounted on the lower revolving platform have mirrors twenty-nin eter and utilize a direct rr 100 amperes. econds m anly one- | in one posi % | rock at with n olutions per applied to the namos of 216 amperes capacity at a pres- | sure of seventy-five voits This new electric beacon is to take the place of the old petroleum light that so long flashed out its danger signals at the mouth of the River Elbe. The new elec- tric light i probably the most powerful at present In operation. Apart from its | enormous power the Heligoland light- house is noteworthy for the fact that a return has been made to the old form of parabolic mirrof, with a powerful light In the focus instead of the usual Fresnel lenses and prisms. The mirrors of the Heligoland light | consist each of a plece of silvered giass. No protection against weather is provided in front of the light and it is asserted that none is needed. Besides the three mirrors mentioned, a fourth mirror and lamp is provided, which will turn three times as rapidly, but which, it is said, will be used only in cases of emergency. The duration of one-tenth of a second for the flash, a characteristic of most French beacon lights, is here adopted for the first time in Germany. It is, how- sver, a question whether these brief dur- ations have not been carried to an ex- treme. Undoubtedly one-tenth of a sec- md is sufficient to make the maximuym mpression on the eye when the light is srilliant. But with a hasy atmosphere ind the light much diminisked it is doubt- ul whether a longer duration should not s das s enra B South San Francisco Masons. On the occasion of the last held meeting of South San Francisco Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons In its lodge room, corner of Fourteenth and Raflroad ave- nues, there was one of the largest gath- erings of fraters that has ever been in that lodge room. After the conferring of the Master Mason degree upon Jacob Bahrs in a most impressive manner the lodge was closed in due form and there was an adjournment to the banquet bhall, where 150 partook of an excellent supper. E. C. Hare, the popular secretary of the Masonic Board of Rellef, was the toast- master, and he called on a number of the best speakers to respond to several senti- ments. Duripg the repast there was ®h programme of musical and literary num. bers of high order, which served to add to the pleasure of the evening. ——— Townsend's California glace frults and candles. §0c 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 fornia street. Telephone Main e Taken along | | | i | | i | i which has been so long fol- | ler | subsequently | two last elements present in the | results of his experiments and | and one part of xenon in 40,- | b e of disper- | @8 1o what would be the effect on a bat- | 5 of e raaith be varied at | tleship when the guns in the fore turret tus the | Were fired. The battleship Henrl IV was can be | Selected for the purposes of these tests. tion would be occupied by the mem- | s of the crew serving the smaller guns | After | therefore | power of resistance than sheep, the gun- | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Clll-l . Address Communialwns to W. S. LEAKE, Manager MRS. KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN RECEIVES EXPRESSION OF JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor - « - - -+ . . . . ......‘..‘.SEPTE\IBER 20. 1903 | A SCOTCHMAN’'S GRATITUDE L TH . FAILING TRUSTS. IME was, and not long ago, when the rapid organization of trusts, capitalized into the bil- lions, was viewed with alarm and held up as evidence that the country was going to the bow- wows. Every article of use or beauty was apparently going into trusts, from toothpicks to beef, oil, water and wine; all were bound to become monopolized. Trust stocks were put on \Vall street to be taken by the public, and investors leap-frogged each other-to get at them. For this the anti-trust shriekers were mostly to blame. They laudly insisted that every trust was a get- rich-quick scheme that was sure to succeed and gild itself on both sides by robbing the people, and the people who wanted some of that bought the stock. Sure enough the people are rohbed, but only that part of them that tried to get in and rob others, for the great majority of the trusts organized two and three years ago have failed, and it is estimated that four-fifths of them are in the hands of receivers to be wound up. When the wreck is (omplete it will be found that a very few combinations of capital have survived, and these because there is some natural or valid commercial reason why they should. Those that fail go down be- cavse they were not legitimate, but were mere over-capitalizations of unprofitable properties, put un- der the management of unskilled men and destined to fail. The only profit had out of them was ob- tained by the promoter, provided there was actual money enough in the till to pay his commission. The loss goes to the fools who bought these stocks. It is a great and gratifying evidence of the solidity of the business of the country that the tumbling of four-fifths of these champignon castles has made no evil impression upon the financial situation. By a natural metastasis some slight transfer of the disease has been carried over to legiti- mate stocks, which have suffered a decline for which there was no inherent reason. But this will soon pass away. It is interesting that the enemies of President Roosevelt charge the fall of these air-founded combinations to hxm and to the vigor with which he has enforced the anti-trust laws. While it is apparent that they collapsed of their own weakness, no o e would bleme the President if hLe lelpel the matter on by some vigorous kicks. The sort of deal represented by those water-logge | combi- nations is the most vicio 15 form of speculation. It exists only in good times, when the public is in a buoyant and optimistic temper, and appears as a disease of surfeit, like farcy in a horse. “If they succeed in floating until a panic comes upon the country they prolong the pains of liquidation and the period of starvation, so that it is just as well that they are collapsing now. As for the President, his friends the people will take care of him. The trust organs, the New York Sun and Harpers’, are saying that every man who has lost in the fall of these fog houses will fight Roosevelt. Very well, then every man who wants no more such mushroom sauce served up on the country’s business will stand by the President, and as there are more sensible men than fools in the country the President will not suffer. The country has probably seen the last of actual organiza- tion of that kind of trusts, though they will long survive in the perfervid oratory of Lentz and Tomjohnson and in the illuminated pages of those organs of sweetness and light which get their inspiration and their fodder from Mr. William Randolph Hearst. AUSTRALIAN ENERGY. SPITE the ill results of the prolonged drouth that affected nearly the whole country, de- spite the disturbed conditions of labor and capital, despite the increasing rate of taxation and the slow progress of industry, the people of Australia are going ahead as boldly as if there were no defect in their social organism and no obstacle ahead in the path of their development. While the conservatives of the world have been waiting to hear of a collapse of their enterprises and a bankruptcy of some of their States, they are making preparations for new ventures and for the settlement of new areas of their unoccupied land. The most important undertaking now under consideration by the Australians is that of the construction of a railway which, with lines now in operation, will connect the Indian Ocean with the South Pacific. The road will approximate 1200 miles in length and is estimated to cost about $30,000,000. Unlike most of the railway building in Australia the new road is not to be constructed directly by the government, but by syndicate to which the government will give a grant of about 90,000,000 acres. The plan appears to be similar to that long ago adopted in this country for the promotion of railway building across wide distances of unsettled territories. a A recent review of the enterprise in describing the country to be traversed by the projected line says: ‘“At the present time this vast area is undeveloped and almost without population. There are not more than 5000 persons and these are mostly Asiatics. But much of the land is said to be ex- cellent. In a pamphlet issued by the government the scheme is declared to be ‘a magnificent oppor- tunity for the capitalist to embark in one of the few truly great undertakings with a golden future in prospect vet left to the world to be achieved.” It is said to contair. some of the best pastoral land in the country, a large proportion of which is admirably adapted to tropical agriculture. * * * Be- sides the land itself the concession carries to the contractors the right to all the gold and other metals and minerals that may be discovered in the principality made over to them.” In seeking to bring about the construction of the road by a svndicate of cdpitalists instead of by the government itself, the Australians give evidence of having profited by their experience with governmental ownership and operation of railroads. Tt seems they have had enough of that sort of thing and are not eager for more. Many advantages are expected to result from the opening of a line across the island, and the people are willing to pay a big price for it, but it seems they prefer to pay the price in an extraordinary land grant rather than to borfow money and go into a new socialistic experiment on so vast a scale. The supposition that the grant to a syndicate is prompted by a revulsion from the policy of governmental construction of railways is rendered the more probable because the finances of Aus- tralia are by no means so bad as have been reported, and it would not be difficult for the common- wealth to obtain the money required for the work if the government desired. Mr. Wise, Attorney General for New South Wales, was recently in London, and while there gave a very reassuring ac- count of Australian finances, saying among other things: “It is wholly misleading and indeed un- true to say that any Australian State has been unable to meet its interest obligations without fresh borrowing. That there should be any serious discussion about the solvency of the Australian States seems like a fantastic dream to any one who knows Australia. The State of New South Wales, with which T am more immediately connected, pays annually in interest £2,793.,000. The money has been borrowed for public works which return a net revenue of £1,792,000. That leaves £1,000,000 a year unprovided for by returns from public works. The public works have heen used for developing land, a great deal of which belongs to the State. As the crown lands give a net revenue of £1,200,000, there is a clear £200,000 of profit from the loan expenditure over and above the interest charge.” As Mr. Wise was in London as an agent of an Australian State it may be that his statement is much more favorable to Australian finance than the facts justify, but when every allowance is made for the partiality offa politician there remains a good assurance that financially Australia is sound, and consequently her resort to American methods of railroad building can mean nothing more than an admission that State construction is inexpedient. If that lesson he thoroughly learned, some- thing like a new era will open for the country, and the prosperity of the future will be far greater than that of the past. % The public schools of Los Angeles are overcrowded to such an extent that the city authori- ties are deeply concerned to discover a remedy and provide adequate means of atcommodation for the overflow. It is not strange that our progressive southern city has not hit upon our expedient of shacks and sheds and unhealthy cellars in which to educate her children. We can suggest to her in her predicament nothing that is good in our example. S G AR, The press agents who are fighting the war of the Bulgarian and Macedonian Christians against the Turks have neglected to supply themselves with a vitally important adjunct to their sen- sational trade. They seem to have no census reports of the districts that are being depopulated in out- rage and murder, and before they know it they will have killed off enough people to populate the en- tire Balkans when the pen murders have ceased. The alacrity with which the authorities of Nevada have begun an investigation of the outrages perpetrated upon Chinese at Tonopah argues well for their fairness and their spirit of justice. Simply because we knowingly are msplred by a prejudice, we should strive to be scrupulously just to those against whom that prejudice is directed. NOVELIST WHOSE NEW STORY WILL BE PUBLISHED THIS MONTH AND WHOSE KINDLY APPRECIATION OF SCOTTISH LIFE IN LOPE'S EXPERIENCES” HAS WON GRATITUDE OF SCOTS KATE DOUGLAS WIG- | mention, and amon whose new story, “Re- ca of Sunnybrook Farm,” is announced for publication this menth by Messrs. Houghton, Miffin & Co. of Boston, recently received a letter from a clergyman in Glasgow ex- | pressing his thankfulness as a Scotchman | for her most kindly appreciation of Scot- ! tish life in *“Panelope’s Experiences.” “In i he | writes, *‘there were so many admirable | | opportunities for taking us off that only one who thought very kindly of us could ave given a picture so one-sided—shall I | y?—in its generous overlooking of the noble features. Let me thank you neartily for the service you ha thus rendered In drawing your country | and my country nearer to one another. | Statesmen may draw up treaties and dip- i lomats concoct schemes, but it is such | who came ¢ 1066 by the long since | efforts as vours which really effect the abandoned St. V d Pevensey route. union of hearts on which external amity S | must rest.” g the an of forthcoming books ch taches to a volume whicl fag logical rather than a literary chara This book, which is entitled “The Bloc Royal of Britain,” 1is announced Messrs. Jack of Edinburgh and L It contalns the names of nearly 12,00 sons now living who are saild to be scended from Edward IV and Henry V | of England and James III of Scotland. No fewer than )00 lines of descent are given. The edit the Marquis de and his vclume is a folio n the subjects you chose for treatment,” Ruvigny, viewer that, guments put fo tury some yea drop of English most certainly | the Conqueror very descended fr: nd many of the Normans Henry Frowde has just acquired a se- | IR ries of drawings yodemade by George | A new volume in the “Highways and 1r\1lk~ha"k nearly fifty years ago to fllus. ! Bywa Macmillan Com- m’'s Progr * These draw- pany 3 ley. who wrote ished. and the volume ln the ries on “The t | Lake Distr nvm~ an's plece, The tions are made from pen | which s to be issued from the Oxford and 1 by Frederick L. <:r'KK“ University pr > autumn. Some of Some Vi scene ed | the drawings were on wood unde and pictured in s book, and some ex- | artist's own d , and others are now tremely intere 3 nds and s ies | being similarly § ared Each is to be | and romances historical incidents are | printed from a se ate plate on Japanese { related. Most of its interest for Ameri- | paper. cans, however, lies not in its references | For upward of thirty years these draw- to Lady Hester Stanhope, to Sheliey or | ings have been in the possession of a to Lady C! otte Guest and the printing | well-known collector, who was a friend of the abinogion,” but in its full ac- | of Crutkshank, and they are sald to be | count of the le: part of the British Isles knowu outside of them. . thoroughly characteristic of the artist's genlus. i .l & i | 'LONDON, Seot. 18.—Never was there a Riiot Stock will publish “The Greater | s interesting from the bookmak- | Exodus, y Dr. Fitzgerald Lee, who publ shers’ point of vicw than the | sets forth to pro Ameri to be the Among the few works that ‘. ght scarcely one calls for one just past have seen the human rac flowed thence eastward. cradle of the stream of life Guaranteed superior in construetion, sim- pleity, durability, ease of operation and capacity for musical expression to any piano player made. 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