The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1904, Page 13

THE SAN most promi- i nearest the g with t ng the Pa ed Indus N ntages of 300 e. The Govern- e Government Fish- in the left of eries ng are seen v s eseemEs OUTSIDE MINING. MINES AND METALLURGY ODEL STREET the the which :nx.dq near the norti Grand Basin. The surrounding: plaza form the “central picture” of the expositic The Festival Hall, which s 200 feet in diam 20¢ high, with at- tendant colonnades on eithe de, and the beautiful restaurant pavilions ter- minating them, closes the on the southwest Upon the siopes between VOKEN@ THE — A ML s th AT “divinity that continues now a ed In the conflict wagir Christian Russia and pegar )¢ Of all Nirvana's celestial host none are ore overworked these days ap- pere than the seveh Gods of Good Fort ned in some form or other in Japanese househoid. Thet the grim old gods of war, Shoki are not turning a deaf rs of t faithful late seem to substant!- “Religion of modern Japan,” once said a Tokio professor, “hasg degener- ated | r sentiment. There is no religious faith or belief save among the very cc on people.” Hov this may be, 's advice, ever apparently Cromwe ust in God, but keep the powder dry,” is the shibboleth of new Japan, for the time that old Ja- pan was wont to give to the worship of bragen idols before confronting the en- Japan spends behind the of Japan's gods, as did its arning, cdme originally from it would to-day make its emy new guns arts a the Ch own na came largely through the same Korea Russia would possess. Tk r deities to-day are the Sev »ds of Good Fortune, which 5 s r appendage to However dead religious faith of modern ry art collector, every child 1o's kingdom recognizes at ;ods of Good For- e houses or gar- > dedicated more of the mystic seven. wrines, half hidden in a d of the road, contain ft of wood, stone or th some poetic =en- Lamps are kept and the votive ial cereals or er. of the atellers iests of the tem- bted for the preser- f the gods it worships, four of 1k merely as familiar demi- The familiarity they have bred popular following are attrib- ir large admixture of hu- with the divine essence. In they have assumed soma aknesses, and through this and their fellow feeling with posed to cast no man’s pardonable These worl: and would morta are glances be, fought for, but there is lit in the aff on _the populace them. The er three gods retain their separate forms the panoply of th church, and thus keep a hold upon tk veneration of the people. e Japs themselves have no clear significance, the 4 SSOTY power of their * ‘household gods.” Ther i# no getting at the beginning or end of their idols. Not one out of a thousand of the tives can give any information that would be of value to the student of comporative religions Nevertheless, few are the children of Japan that have not been soothed to sleep by a lullaby that announces the rowing into port of the treasure boat with the seven gods on New Year's eve—the season when idea of th the 4, MANUFACTURES GERMANY PALACE OF ART. FESTIVAL HALL. CASCADES. EDUCATION. BIRD'S-EYE GRAND BASIN. FRANCISCO SUNDAY CAL PHILIPPINES. STATE BUILDINGS. LOUISIANA PURCHASE MONUMENT. PLAZA OF ST. LOUIS. THE CLOSURE. VARIED INDUSTRIES. THE PIKE. VIEW OF WORLD’S FAIR. ‘ST. LOUIS. U. S. A. mnades and 1 Hall are seen lings, representing over a million dol- the displays of fine in a total of 1 gal- ibits will constitute play ever shown. on the west side of wuis are the Palace of V Industrie whic is near the obeerver, and tk tricity. The Plaza § west of these buildings. cover- of Palace of Transportatic fte and the P \‘;v c covering tw Lcres, South ¢ ace of \m culture is he P ulture. Westward - o = TFA . T A RN TR TR LTBALN K.:Ji_'\.fi_—jl\l NDE&RS V@U WELL SEE AT ’EHE FORESTAY, FISH AND GAME. PLACE OF NATIONS. ADMINISTRATION. TRANSPORTATION. HALL OF CONGRESSES. BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS. PHYSICAL CULTURE. JEFFERSON GUARDS. ANTHROPOLOGY. At " GREA’E ST LOUES AER the ¢ oacres, at home: om the Palace of Agriculture is ppine reservation of fc where 1000 Filipinos will b during the exposition. The foreign section is geen beyond the Palac nsportation. Amoug the fine those of Belgium, Br: ritain, France, taly, China, Austria, Nica- ragua, Cuba, Mex Ceylon and Can- ada. The ition building, Ith- nology building, Hall of International congresses and; Woman's_buiiding are near together @i tha high ground west of the foreign Buildings. South of the ation | building the large structure is the Palace of I~ur:~slr Fish and Game. The Aeronautic Concour whers the airship conte for the $200,000 in prizes offered by the exposition will take place, is in the western pdrt of the grounds. ‘The Physical Cultute building and :ld, with seating arrango 000 peo- grandparen nd Fukurok s zods of g« all evi d des with shou the entrance to many of the f Japan are disfigured with Showers of beans or spit distasteful a salutation to a 1s dre of hc ter Roman Catholic ot isu is reputed the only Japanese god. )f the godlike race of which the cendant. In pic- c art of modern Japan ted in Japane: hold- hand a red tai (fish) and a in the other. Popular him a laughing counte- ile he watches the struggles e tai at the end of his line. Then, with fi ng appliances laid aside, he is represented as rejoicing with his companions over a Jepanese Olympian banquet of which tai is tk ‘rowning course, Ebisu and hoon companions, Daikoku and uroku-jin, are the special spivitual gue New Y celebratior old = holds position quite inferior to that of Daikoku, the pat . as it were, of the mlHl wry cle i or, 5 T nl veo- tive offerings are piled upon - his shrines. livery Japanese soldier, be he of land or sea serv to Dai- koku for succe: image be seen Japanzse bar- He hos nlaca of honor on battieships. iz the talisman every Japanese where under hig Daikoku is re pl(‘sf‘nlvd in modern art as a sturdy figure weari dress of a well-to-do Chinese hu:':;hs'!‘. a short coat, girded at the waist, oo breeches and a pair ¢f huge boots that ies some- ple, are al in the western section. The resérv n of thirty acr for the Government Indian exhibit and another reservation of six acres for a map of the United ates in living plants are west of the Palace of For- o Fish and Game. ear the Palace of Agriculture is the floral clock, 112 feet ameter, and the lake in which the United States life-saving corps will give dally exhibi- tion In the N foregrouhd is seen the “Pike,” the amussment street of the exposition. it beging in ~the ern part of the grounds with the Tyrolean A) which cover ten acic « more, and winds round the w end of the Transpor- i ond M xhnerw palaces to a point near the Art B ending with the rem'-)dluu: n of the city of Jerusalem, which covers eleven acres. In th 5 dis- tance of nearly two miles will be seen the novel c¢ntertainments that inge wiren have been able to dev them is an international Irish exhibition, showing the of Irela with Pa Blarney stle and other notable 5. animal show is a very large will give many interesting 23 of Orie village and the € furnish ve interest stern customs. Creation is a w derful ill Under and Over the Sea will furnish unusual exp nees. Galves flood will show how a g city de ed by a tidal wave. exhibition will show a y in actual warfare The fire-fight modern fire comp: with the flames, using all of the most modern anpnaratus. New York to the North Pole a magnificent feature, re- plete with interest. Jerusalem will be the objectve noint of the Bible stu- dents fr T An rilway, having fourteen m ack, will carry th visitor to the v interesting points within the grounds The position is fortunate in ha v site which DS OF WAR IN THE | ry and shad tion and pleasuze will be n fine pro- portions and the days at the exposition will fly all teo quickly. Th ta of the exposition is 1240 aer nated cost of the eat ent d at $50,000,- 000, exclusive of e value of the ex- h ated that the ex- its in t machi palace alone worth $8,000,000. st for Satur- tion will December and the months, to son with the largest for- mer on, the Columbian Wor Fair at Chicago in 1803, the wo! fair at St. Louis occupies near- mount of land exhibit space yosition show elev complete engzulf his lower limbs. The crewn of his low cap projects over his brow. He his right hand a w s the recl nds upon weil filled rice bale In deference to Buddhistic t his face is zometimes biackened, & is always bro: his whole pers: the expre prosperi sh ways fi He quently spoken of as the god of the cereals. But the god par exceilence of the common pecple is Hotcl. He is the least dignified of the seven. HMe h place. in the tr y acknowled most theologiar He is d ell as T in our country selecticn as one of the gods of good for- tune is due to his merry loo! is to the military tha power to tell fui much sought by the paople. biance He ha and is The fifth of the gods, Tanim nd mart ociated with milita in China or Japa cognized im Ten viftly the nt goc .‘. f he flight wea as he like mod- the al- Ten petitioners 1t ingdom. equals that of the last of Juro, the genlus of y e woman ods of good for the god w worshiped, place among Benten. She it. Benten finds LowS We offspring, and is cred the mother of fificen generally rep- HERE is a Russian problem in the United States, and the Amer- can Jew is thoroughly alive to his resporsibilities, for he is working in various wavs to solve it. It is a mistake to think that many American Jews are inviting immigration here, for few of them share the views of the en- thusiastic editor of the Jewish Ency- clopedia, who advocated a tax of a dollar a week to be paid by each of one hundred thousand prosperous families, thus producing $5,200,000 a year with which the suffering Russian and Rou- manian Jew might be taken away in special stemmers to North and South America, or other parts of the world. They are satisfied to take the prob- lem here as it is forced upon them, and try to better the condition of the thou- sands that find their way here by edu- cating the children and scattering the people as much as possible. The educational work has been so often mentioned that it need not be gone into here. Every one knows of the great institutions for teaching im- migrant children, for instructing boys and girls in the trades, and these are doing a tremendous amount of good, but there are other and more compli- cated problems which must be dealt with. It has long been felt that if the Jew could be taken back to the soil many of the economic difficulties con- nected with the large immigration would be overccme and a way would be pointed out along which progress was possible. So long ago as 1882 some colonies were started in _the southern, part of New Jersey, “but, cither from a poor selection of the men sent out or from injudicious choice of land, has been slow and only last few years, under new been injected into the colo: The feeling that it was necessary to relieve the overcrowded trades of clothing and cap making and at the same time relieve the tenement dis tricts of their teeming hordes, was widespread. How to do it was a mat- ter which it has required years of painstaking labor and thousands of dollars to show. The trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund early engaged in the solution of the problem and during the thirteen or fourteen years that it has been at work it has cleared the way for stea progress by showing not only what was to beg done, but what was not to be done as well. ‘With the millions which Baron de Hirsch had placed at their disposal it would have been easy to waste much in doling out money to all who seemed to need it, but it was clearly decided by the trustees of this fund that every dollar expended must be spent in helping the immigrants to help them- selves. The trustees of this fund now are Meyer 8. Isaacs, Jacob H. Schiff, progress the within Eugene 8. Denjamin, Emanusl Leh- man, Henry Rice, Nathan Bijur, A. Abraham, Mayer Suizberger und W. B. Hackenburg. These gentlemen started the work, of distributing the immigrants by estab- lishing employment bureaus which were in correzpondence tories all over the Unit ch thou- sands of still beixs cther step towa of Israel” and feunde d are jade an- they colony a2t Wocdbine, This was an been worth all What was a 2 thriving aunity Town Coun- nd Health Board chinery of an American town, thriving betier than any of its neighbors. Factories have been opened there and are successful, although the people employed work only eight or nine hours a day and draw on an aver- age higher wages ali the year round than are paid in the rest of the United States. The jpoor, oppressed immigrant has become a truck farmer or a dairy farm- er and feels independent, for he owns his farm of thirty acres, or is grad- ually ‘buying it from the profits of his labor. The system tried at Woodbine was to purchase farms, implements, stock, ete., and sell them to the settlers jcult Ther Schoo! eil, and all the ms: Mayor, eagy payments, at a low et. Tt 15 estir ed that of a farm afid family h $10 a month, which includes interest, taxes, etc. 1i is therefore made ea for the settlers (o own their homes, and in the course of the last few years they ve dene so. rate of the cost about The erable all the members of the family in the se m of ro fagm work. Whila it was fearved th ternalism would have at the system of pa- a bad effect, that zoon passed aw. d now the citi- zens 0of Woodbine are as independent as those of any other town in New Jersey, and they zre starting industries of their own initiative and with their own capital, The latest enternrises opened there have been a slaughter-house on modern lines, a hat factory and & cizar factory. The future of ihis colony seems as- sured, and the influences which wiil spread from it are difficult to over- estimate, for a splendid agricultural school for both sexes has been opened here and the sons and dau: “ters of the Vinelanders are being trained under the wise supervision of Mr. Sabsovich along the most approved lines. They are learning all about dairying, truck farming, the raising of fruits and vegetabls so that they will not only be expert farmers themselves, but will, when needed, be ready to lead in the formation of other farm colonies. The value of this settlement is. therefore, n is the best su which can be nt and continued es have been made, but even have been valuable, showiry to aveid 'n similar settlements hereafter. has been expensive, be- cause the land was not weil chosen, nor we ettlers selected with the best foresig lars have be avoidance of the: has been cniy. lowed by de H but thousands of dol- work Is edu- cation: gricultural. The educational woi was begun come thirteen years age, when classes for the children of the latest immi- grants were opened in different sec- tions of the East Side of New York. These are now housed in the great Educational Alliance Building, nd through them hundreds of children are prepared for the public ools. In this building other societies are at work, with classes of ail kinds, enter- tainments, gymnasium work, etc., for the better development of the immi- grants and their children. The influ- ence of this building is elevating and widespread. It helps to solve the question of the uplifting of the op- pressed Hebrews in New York, but does not touch the larger problem of their distribution. resented with a stringed instrument, nd is the emblem—as femininity shouid be—of harmony. If pictorial art is to be credit other gods of good fortune rarely go off on a lark without Benten. There is close con- nection in the popular mind between Benten and snakes, due gely to the tradition that she first came to J.pan on “snake day.” In deference to Be ten snakes to this day held sa ed in many parts of Japan. The most ardent prayers addressed at her shrine are for the modern open sesame— wealth, To no graven image, but to the living God—the velation- the scldier of t of all the ians lift his heart guidance and protec- tion before doing Dbattle h the enemy. In keeping with the Roman Catholic belief in “the communion of saints,” he implores the intercession of St. Nicholas, if he be a middy. and that of St. George, if he is of the land forees. Unlike the Roman, the Greek church does not courftenance plastic art as a medium of devotion. The Russian ikon, or image, is a painted representation of the saint venerated. There are. no statues of saints in the Greek churches, nor do their amulets of devotion take the form of graven images. Fear of confounding the graven symbol with the real God in the minds of the people is the Greek church’s reason for rejecting the plastic art in the representation of its saints. Every Russian soldier, however negli- gent he may be of the practical duties imposed by the chureh, ra ed rourd his neck under his uni a small gold cross and medal ded to the mother of God. Rare Is the dier that ventures forth to battle wit out a picture of St. Nicholas or s heart. roughout Russia nre- holy pictures bearing of bullets that thus miracu- the wearer. Some of have irs by the surviv- ully attributed escape e fleld to their faith in the intercessor whos: picture they venerated. Many of these pictorial wit- nesses of divine intercession in answer to the prayers of the faithful date from the Crir-an wars. Every Russian battleship has an ad- justable altar, where the sacrifice the 10ass is offered not only on Sun- days, but on the eve of every confliet. After the custom of Roman Cathelic countries, no new Russian battleship is launched or flag hoisted until both have been blessed in accordance with the prescribed religious ceremony of the Greek church. does for theqe partially burned pictures been left as