The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 18, 1903, Page 30

THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1903 30 'HAMBURG HAS A CRANE } WHICH 1S THE GIANT OF ALL | WEIGHT LIFTERS. — A . | | LATEST CONTRIVANCE FOR RAP- ID AND CONY ENT HAND- LING OF GREAT WEIGHTS. | l l | years 1 for heavy work, and while electric ve been applied in many to be the very | still given to been u ton steam derrick crane wharf of Bl | used v with which g great and from the Sclentific | e in the process n 1 one of the 1 der Gross ot. Speed with te, with 10-ton | This type of cr edvantages o distinet s, with many horizontal " suitable for wharves w tion of | the crane ees is not required, | is, tn co 1 local conditions, or 1moeded in the | even Jocomotive cranes with | large 3ibs may s under the principal | Jeg of the crane without difficulty when they are required for auxilia crane lies | in the fact that it is provided with an adjustable jib, whereby the height of the ship to be served f no ec ms the masts are easlly avoided, pert of the ship between the De reached. The because of the at weight, and the great height of the p Jeys—4.25 meters with the jib drawn in— it possible to reach the highest perts of the ships, even 1f they lie in the dock hen this crane is operated with a load of 150 tons, end at the highest profection ¥ meters, the speed s 1.3 per minute; but with a load of the mame projec- cased to , or double the speed under When the small hook is used th a load of thirty tons, the highest | projection being 32.5 meters, the rate of operation is six meters per minute, and double this speed, or twelve mcters per ATVERTISEMENTS. MAKE JUST ONE MORE TRIAL. No Matter How Many Remedies You Have Tried Here Is One That ‘Will Cure Your Piles. 1f you are suffering from the pain and tor- ture of plles and want to be cured, spend 30 the druggist's for one package of Pile Cure and convince yourself be- that it can be done. 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One S0-cent box of Pile cured me entirely.” Pyramid Pile Cure is for sale by all - m-.arvmheautuponwo_fpflu,’o cents & package, by Pyramid Drug Co., Mar- Write for fres booklet on the Dature, treat- jment snd cure of plles. h | when phosphorescent is practically iden- | v | associated with it.” v service. |new substance possessed the property of 2.6 meters | minute, | to is attained with a load of ten The crane is worked by two double- linder steam engines, one of which | s the gear for lifting, the other itting the power for slewing, and altering the radius of the jib. The energy pr d by slewing is mostly consumed | by a friction clutch buiit into the shaft of the revolving gear, which excludes any ] compression on the frame or the driving | ear. The crane is lighted by an electric | c light mounted on the top of the frame, as will be noted in the illustration, > -9 » That the light given out trar by radium tical with that radiated by the rare gas| helium seems to be proved by recent spec- | troscopic observations of Sir William | Huggins, reported in the London Times. This paper goes on to say: “It will be re- membered that last year Professor Ruth- | erford produced striking evidence for the | view that in the slow break-up of radium that is concomitant with its radio-activity | | the inert gas helium is one of the pro-| | ducts formed. Recently Sir W. Ramsay { | and F. Soddy have succeeded in detecting | | helium by the spectroscope in the gases | extracted from a radium salt. If, as the | present observations indicate, the radium | salt shines spontaneously in the dark | largely*by light belonging to the different | element helium, another important step is | gained in elucidating the nature of the | instability of such chemical elements of | high atomic weight and the radio-activity | Professor Curie has communicated to the French Physical Society still another remarkable property of radium. But a few months ago scientific men shook their heads when it was proclaimed that the maintaining a temperature higher than | that of the surrounding atmosphere. Pro- fessor Curle now announces the amazing fact that the change in the rate of heat! ssion of radium within the compara- rely short distance of absolute zero is | exactly in the opposite direction to what might be expected in view of the effect of low temperatures on ordinary chemical action, for at the temperature of liquid | hydrogen the heat emission of radium, instead of being reduced, is augmented. In simple language, the substance which does not change its heat at all tempera- tures from that of an ordinary room to that of liquid air gives out a greater heat | when subjected to the greatest cold that | sclentists have vet reached. These experiments with liquid hydrogen have led to the curious discovery that freshly prepared salt or solution of ra- dlum has a comparatively feeble power of giving off heat at all temperatures, but the power steadily increases for about a month, when it reaches its maximum ac- | tivity, which it then maintains apparently indefinitely. These remarkable results have failed to throw any light upon the process whereby radium maintains a con- stant emission of heat radio-activity. Edward D. Adams has presented to the New York Natural History Mu- seum a tube of radium of 300,00 power. This was secured through Dr. George F. Kunz, the gem expert of Tiffany’s, where, as well as at the museum, some most in- teresting experiments have been made on precious stones and crystals, including the new Wunzite. Working in experiments together, Dr. Kunz.and Dr. Charles Bas. kerville of the University of North Caro- lina belleve they have made a valuable discovery in connection with a willemite. By mixing radium with natural willemite, pulverized to a powder, the activity or power of the former substance is multi- plied a hundredfold, and probably—for no instrument has been devised for measur- ing the increase of the activity—a thou- sandfold. That at least is the temporary effect of the mixing of the two sub- stances. Time must tell whether one will nullify the other. Willemite is a compar- atively cheap silicate of zinc. It is possi- ble, also, that there is in willemite a sub- stance which Is as yet unrecognized as a distinct element, but which produces the radio-activity that has awakened the en- thusiasm of the two experimenters. But thus far it is taken for granted that the one substance merely stimulates the.ac- tivity of the other. The germ of a very valuable discovery seems to lle here, Mr. Adams has now supplemented- his pre- vious generosity by authorizing Dr. Kunz to secure some radium of not less than 1,800,000 activity, which will probably be placed at the disposal of some of the hespital authorities for experiments on the alleviation or cure of disease. ——— ‘Townsend’s California glace fruits and artistic candies, 60c a pound, in etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * information m houses and v:; zugn:bny’&‘: fornia m"'m mu:"un. o | of value being attached to such enterprises. such publicity as will protect the public from investing in anything that has a false and unnatural meas- | | ure of capital. The public, against all prudence and all warning, has heretofore invested in these enter-| | same, and the great principles of the law need to be constantly invoked to curb their cupidity, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . . . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager SONDAY ... .. .OCTOBER 18, 1903 Publicotion OMIoe L. Jiii iudiaseosvis S s e 3 seceessessesccsss...Third and Market Streets, S. F. EXPANSIVE FORCE OF LAW. LREADY it is apparent that the recent incidents in Wall street, arising in overcapitalization of trusts and the manipulation of their stocks, will cause an expansion of the law to cover and prevent such pseudo financiering. Taking the International Mercantile Marine as an ex- ample, it was capitalized with $60,000,000 of common and $60,000,000 of preferred stock and $75,000,000 of 414 per cent bonds. The squeezing and liquidating process of the last two months has pressed this mass of paper down to its true value. The common stock is selling at 335, the pre- ferred at 14 and the bonds at 30. This means that the whole capital of $195,000,000 is proved to be worth, at market prices, $33,000,000. Those who saw a vision of appalling dimensions in the bloated capital of the trusts did not take into account what was sure to happen in the shrinkage to natural and right measures. ) What is needed is legal restriction that will, in the future, prevent any but the natural measure President Roosevelt has from the beginning insisted upon prises at the valuation fixed by their promoters, as if they were run by wizards, who by some super- natural process could make something out of nothing. As people will continue to follow the illusions of hope, it is proper that the law protect them against the glamour of self-deception. Those who have despaired of the expansive force of the law might have reinforced their foresight by taking a back sight. Every human relation is subject to abuse and misuse. The dearest and most intimate relation is that of the family. But to prevent its abuse the regulation of law was necessary, and we have the law of domestic relations, of husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant. Business was once a | partnership activity, before joint stock companies and corporations, and, to safeguard it, legal principles| { i were expanded in the law of partnership. When the corporation appeared the evils of its physical im- mortality, by reason of its perpetual succession, were regarded as so formidabie as to threaten the over- throw of society. But concurrently with the development of the corporation arose that great body of corporation law, by which: the power of co-operation was preserved for every useful purpose, while its agency for evil was restricted, limited and finally destroyed. ; So it is destined to be with this new system of incorporated corporations, called trusts. If they survive at all it must be under an expansion of the law that restrains them from the beginning of their existence to the last and least of their operations. If, under such protective and restrictive law, they | have a useful office in the busy world, they,will survive and fill it efficiently, as the partnership and the corporation did. If they cannot do this it will only prove that the law, which furnishes a remedy for every wrong, has found their existence to be inconsistent with the interests of mankind. Every great advance in business, and every extension of the vast operations of trade, and every period in which the common prosperity is greatly enhanced carries also a myriad of devices to unduly appropriate to a few the gains of the many. In one period these devices take one form, and in an- other they appear in different shape. But no matter how protean their character, their object is the which is their permanent object never lost sight of through all the forms in which they appear. So far the world | has been protected against them by invoking the law, and the better condition of the mass of the people | in nearly all of the modern nations, the rise of each generation of the common man to common use as comforts of those things which were the luxuries of the few in generations past, testify to the expansive and protective capacities of the law in so high a degree as to inspire all men with profound respect for that science of human life, which progressively protects every man in the enjoyment of his own. EROTIC MURDERS OF WOMEN. ITHIN the last six months there have been thirty murders of women by rejected and importunate suitors. Two have occurred in this city. In all of these cases the reports say that the man has pressed his distasteful and unwelcome suit by threats to kill, if he be rejected. The Call has often called attention to the unprotected condition of women in such trying circumstances. The erotic lunatic cannot be proved insane.’ If arrested and bound over to keep the peace his bond is no restraint. treated with unbecoming lightness and levity, but the slaughter goes on. recently murdered in this city had only understood that the frequent threats made by the men who pur- sued and annoyed them meant that they were in real peril of their lives, and had male relatives with the right to protect them, such relatives should have been confided in. The appearance in such an affair of a man with authority to protect the imperiled woman should mean always that he will punish to the death, if need be, the cowardly fool who threatens a woman in that way. The law has an office in the matter, for which it should be equipped by legislation. The threat to kill a woman for rejecting a man’s suit should be made a felony and should be punished with a long term of imprisonment. in the jailyard. It is a high demand of civilization that the women of a coungry be protected. Next to lynching, these murders of women by lust-crazed fools is the greatest of evils now apparent in this coun- try. It is a crime that seems to respond to the incitement furnished by the yellow press in its lickerish e);ploitation of erotic sensations. It is yearly on the increase and is a real evil that decent men should thoughtfully recognize and seek to remedy and prevent by law. Unless this is done, the only recourse will be in the hands of such male relatives as can be ap- pealed to, and if they go to extremes they must trust to the common sense of juries for vindication. This is a state of things that should be avoided if possible, and the only way to avoid it is by the severi- ties of the law. THE WISDOM OF ETHIOPIA. HE missionary societies may learp something from Menelik, King of Abyssinia and Emperor of Ethiopia. A German missionary has just returned to Berlin from that country and has re- ported to the society that sent him. He was taken before Menelik, who asked why he had jour- neyed from Berlin to Gondar. The missionary answered that he had come to convert the Jews of Abyssir-fia. “Are there no Jews in your country?” asked the King. The missionary admitted that there were many. “‘And in the countries that you passed, through did you find no Jews nor heathen?” asked the Socratic monarch. The missionary confessed that Jews and heathen were fairly abundant all the way. Turning to his guards, the Ethiopian Solomon said: “Carry this good man beyond the fron- tier, and let him not return until he has converted all the Jews and heathen which lie between his coun- try and mine.” The missionary does not expect to soon see Gondar again. Perhaps the world would be better off if the rule of Menelik were applied generally and no country sent missionaries abroad until all the needed work is done at home. r I The decision of the Supreme Court, suspending final decrees in divorce until a year after inter- locutory decrees have been obtained, has reduced, overmarried couples to an ambiguous condition where they cannot tell if they are married or single, or neither. While this is all unquestionably very distress- ing to those concerned, it will have the effect of lifting a very heavy burden from the divorce courts, whose daily grist is shame and scandal. By S o There are some signs, not particularly encouraging, that the bantam republics of Central America intend to make an effort to reduce themselves to a condition of peace among themselves with- perhaps an exhibition of common decency to those who have relations with them. The accomplishment of this purpose would be perhaps the greatest revolution which the world would be called upon to record in Central America. » —— e e 1 An investigation, designed to interrupt and if possible suspend the Oriental slave trade, is*now in progress under Federal direction in Honolulu. This terrible traffic has reached such proportions and is so firmly established at this port that the Government probably considers that an inquiry certainly could shed no light the public has not seen on the subject and probably could not effect any remedy. SR The Federal &ourts have decided that in an attempt to smuggle there is no offense against the laws. This decision is of a parity with that of the State courts which make the carrying of knockout drops no crime. The only criminality involved in either affair is in being caught. Accidents not mo- tives therefore determine offenders against our peace, < Juries say it is no crime to court a woman and the subject is | Ii the young women who were | Perhaps it would be well to precede the imprisonment with a public whipping| — RIVAL BIOGRAPHIES . : OF SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN * SOON TO APPEAR. & | | bd 11 | ONDON, Oct. 17.—Two blogra- phers are busy on the lifs of Sir Arthur Sullivan, both by sanction of or under the direction of the | Sullivan family. One blography | which ought to be interesting is being | prepared under the direction of Sir Ar- thur Sullivan’s son Bertle, who is super- | vising the selection of suitable matter | | from the dead composer’s private letters | and diarfes, which are full of references | {to both the British and German royal | families. The other blography, which will be pub- | lished in a few weeks, comes in the na- | ture of a surprise. It is from the pen | of Sir Arthur Sullivan's cousin, B. W. | Findon, better known as a dramatic critic | than as an author. It will deal with Sul- livan's works as well as with his life. Mrs. Lee Hamilton, known to readers | | as Annie E. Holdsworth, authoress of the | | very successful books ‘“Joanna Trall, | Spinster,” ana “The Gods Arrive,” has| | another work ready, which, I believe, will | be published serially before it receives book form. It is to be called “The Tri-| umph of Love.” P | It may be Interesting to know that the authoress was born in Jamaica, educated in Lopdon and introduced to the public through the medium of Sir John Leng's | popular weekly, the People’s Friend. But | it was not till her father died that she took up literature seriously. Her hus- | band is Engene Lee Hamilton, whose | poems appeared recently in the Canter- bury series, and who has written that | remarkable historical novel, “The Lord of the Dark Red Star.” Mr. and §frs. Lee Hamilton live at Florence. In a charming old villa on the slopes of Flesole. Automobiles have become so popular that it is surprising they have not been utilized by authors as prominent features in their stories more than has been the case up to the present. There is one automobile novel coming out. It is called “The Motor Pirate,” and is written by G. Sidney Paternoster and published by Messrs. Chatto & Windus. Those who wondered At the long delay and frequent postponements of the pub- lication' 6f John Morley’s “Life of Glad- stone” will cease to wonder now, when they learn of the tremendous labor the | author had with his three volume work. | To begin with, Mr. Morley had about | 50,000 documents, more or less of historic | value in Mr. Gladstone’s collection at Ha- warden to draw upon. Then, in addition to these, people sent from all parts of the world a mass of correspondence in answer to the adver- | tisements asking for assistance from those who, at one time or another, had recelved letters from the great statesman. These amounted to something like 150,000, every one of which had to be examined | by Mr. Morley himself. Whenever he found something essential he marked it | } -l; - FAMOUS COMPOSER WHOSE LIFE STORY IS BEING WRIT- TEN BY RELATIVES - - and handed it to his assistants to copy. It was not that Mr. Morley at any time during the compilation of the work took any rest. From beginning to end he never relaxed his work, even when the book was in the hands of the printers, for much new light was thrown on cer- tain phases of Mr. Gladstone's career by matter which came to hand late. Consequently the proofs underwent con- siderable revision. These revised proofs, in turn, were subjected to further altera- tion at the suggestion of certafn relativas and friends of Mr. Gladstone, who read the chapters before they were finally passed for the press. In order to carry out the work under the most favorable conditions, Mr. Morley rented the “Red House,” at Hawarden, on several occasions. @ im0 RELIEF SOCIETY GIVES DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT Ladies of a Danish Club Creats Laughter in Cleverly Writ- ten Play. The Danish Ladies’ Rellef Soclety gave a dramatic entertainment last evening In Turn Verein Hall on Turk street. The programme consisted of a mono- logue by by Miss Ellen Bentzru, cornet solo by Nick Brown and a play, entitled “Af Asken Og I Ilden,” enacted by F. C. Hamemrich, Mrs. P. Paulsen, Miss Ellen Bentzru, J. E. Boggild, Carl Dahl- gren and W. C. Hansen. The play was written for the occasion by one of the ladies of the soclety and was full of wit and humor. The entertainment was well attended and the proceeds are to be added to the relief society’s fund. A dance was given after the dramatie part of the evening and light refresh- ments were served. —_— e Thomas Lowry of Merriam, Kansas, claims the medal for shucking 158 bushels of corn in nine hours. He is also the champlon apple picker of that section. ADVERTISEJENTS. The Perfect Piano Player THE WORLD’S - BEST COMPOSITIONS always at your command. Music, not the mere rendering of sound, but music in the fullest sense of the term All the delicacy of touch possible to_the greatest virtuoso. Eas fect control. iest to pump. Per- Built to last a lifetime. Combine one witha Behr Bros. or Baumeister Piano and your home will be complete. Call and be convinced. ACCOMMODATING TERMS IF YOU WISH.