The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO Hivessesssssssssss.SEPTEMBER '7, 1904 JOHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATION OFFICE. WEDNESDAY JAPAN’S GREAT BATTLE. HE full statement of casualties in the battle of Liaoyang is T not yet at hand, but from the partial reports made for the sev- days of the continued action it is evident that in killed alone the number will exceed the total casualties in any action at arms since the invention of gunpowder. g The greatest modern battles were fought in our Civil War. In those actions it was pluck against pluek and grit against grit. The largest number engaged in one action was at Fredericksburg, where the Union army had 113.000 men and the Confederate 78,513, a total of 191,513. The Confederate loss was 1284 killed, 9606 wounded and 1769 missing; the Union loss 608 killed, 4116 wounded, and 653 missing, making a grand total of casualties of 18036. The next great battle, measured by the number of men in collision and the casualties, was Gettysburg, the decisive battle of the war. There the Union army numbered 97,361 and the Confederate 75,268, a total of 172629. Though the number of men in action was less than at Fredericksburg, the casualties were much greater. The Federal army lost 3072 killed, 14,407 wounded, 5434 missing ; the Confederate army loss was 2502 killed, 12,709 wounded and 5150 missing. This was a grand total of 45,354, of which the killed in both armies numbered §664. It was a great and stubbornly fought action, in which every form of offense was used, artillery, rifle, bayonet charge and cavalry charge, and desperate courage was displayed by both sides. Yet looking back upon it the number killed on the field was surprisingly | small. Since then, however, there has been great improvement in arms. The army rifle has a larger range, and the fired ammunition and ex- plosives are all different. Not only in small arms has there been a substitution of more efficient weapons, but the artillery is of greater range and more rapid fire. These things alone account somewhat for the greater destruction in the battles fought in the current war in Eastern Asia In the a tion at Liaoyang it is believed that a half million of men have faced each pther. The Russians have labored under the disadvantage of having no reserves. Kuropatkin’s policy of choosing his ground for a stand and gathering upon it his entire force, has brought his entire army under Japanese fire, so that there could be | no reserve maintained, out of danger, to come into action and re- lieve the troops jaded by long fighting. The Japanese generals in this respect outclassed him. They repeat Napoleonic tactics, by hav- ing immense reserves, rested and fresh, ready for duty, while the jaded recruit. These tactics permit that incessant assault which gives the enemy no rest. The outside world will have to wait for the reports of the sc\'—: eral commanders, before knowing just what has happened in that awful tle. Both armies exclude war correspondents from any close view of the fighting. On the Japanese side the newspaper men o snufi the battle afar off, at the comfortable dis- It is evident that none got any nearer the le, so that reports from that source are mostly the re- magination. It is the first modern were perr miles. succeec d in compliet In the ely muzzling the war correspondents. He sat alone with the Czar nd was able to write vividly, as an observer in Now the newspaper men, except for what local they get, can write up the war just as well at their home desks. l'he Japanese officers have been very soldier-like in their re- ports, which are believed to be accurate, and lack the dramatic ele- ment entirely. The Russians are the same, though they employ a vardonable euphemism when they call a retreat “a change of po- ion the right of way in both armies. field tent h with events. will equal all the casualties of Fredericksburg and Get- ysburg combined, or a number but little short of the whole Con- ederate force at Gettysburg: While no man can foresee the effect upon the world’s political and commercial geography. re to underestimate the effect of Gettysburg or Sedan that one may predict that the battle of Liaoyang will have the greatest per- | effect arathon or Tours. Some of the Continental military critics try to minimize the ictory at Liaoyang because Kuropatkin's army was not captu ut Lee’s army was not captured at Getty sbu’rg. It re- treated into Virginia, but the forces of Meade were left in possession of the field, and the battle was decisive of the war. A supplying the London Daily News with reports of the fight- ; *ing in the Far East, recently contributed an article to that journal which reveals in searching style the chief cause of Russia's disastrous conduct of the war on land. As we have surmised from admissiorls on the part of Russian high officials, the Czar’s cohorts in Manchuria were not ready for The reason of their unpre- paredness Hales details unspar “It is known in St. Petersh 2 year before the war commenced,” says Hales, “that when a mil- lion’s worth of supp were supposed to be sent to certain troops, not a quarter of the amount ever reached the men and officers on whom the empire was depending for great deeds in dangerous times. The soldiers were robbed. They were kept short of nearly everything that a soldier requires.” ¢ The correspondent specifically points out how at the hands of the upon the world’s fut e history of any action since A TWICE TOLD TALE. G. HALES, the veteran war correspondent who has been army of jobbers the men in the ranks had boots of cardboard and | eatcoats of shoddy doled out to them grudgingly, how the artil- lery was, in many instances, hardly up to the grade of fair scrap- iron, how ammunition existed largely in the written reports, that on hand being often too old or too obsolete to be served in the guns. The army Kuropatkin found when he went to fight the Japanese in Manchuria was, according to Russian admissions, merely a make- shift, designed to do yeoman's work until the military arm at home could gather itself together from the surprise of japan's sudden attack. In the light of these disclosures the fight that Kuropatkin and Stoessel’s armies have been putting up shows an element of the heroic. Outpointed in equipment, in morale, in the fundamentals of fighting effectiveness, the Russians in Manchuria are not outdone in bravery as the details of their desperate resistance attest. One of our local benedicts recently was granted freedom from the bonds of matrimony because his wife had on one occasion hurled a home-made lemon pie at his head. The court took no cognizance of testimony entered by the complainant to prove that the pie was a deadly weapon, thereby undoubtedly laying itself open-to the possi- bility of a reversal of its decree by a higher tribunal. R R o James Jeffries, fondly styled “the human pile-driver” by an admiring coterie, has determined upon turning his lights in the di- rection of the stage. Let all dramatic critics proceed to brush up on the argot of the ring; they should know when the hero begins to “bore in” from center stage. S St Lo The other day a member of the Cabinet, a Governor and a United States Senator—all fellow-townsmen—foregathered in their native city across the bay. And yet some say Oakland is a slow town. . A lady in the East recently coughed up a cent which she had been secreting in her internal economy for four years. Can Uncle Russell Sage show any greater record of frugality? A New Jersey comqunity has expended $500 in fruitless war against the mosquito. Thigk how much pennyroyal that would buy! > war, modern in the | e rise of the newspaper, in which the belligerents have | usso-Turkish war Forbes, the great English war correspondent, | roms the reports given out by both sides it is evident that the it is with no | PRI S S S el AL S MG S READY TO RETIRE 'LADEN WITH HONORS, 1 | | | | { | | | | 1| 11 SENATE SEAT \____ [sTo VEN | | Girls, Here's a Secret About a Pretty Waist “Where did you get that exquisite | organdy waist?"" asked a girl the other day of a friend who wore a dainty creation that buttoned up the back | with tiny lace buttons. “I'll let you into the secret,” said the friend. *It is not a particularly | fine organdy, or swiss rather, for it is wiss, gandy—but it looks so because I wear (it over the thinnest kind of a white ! wash silk blouse, which is made plain- ly, but along the same lines. This gives the swiss a cloudy, fllmy and kind of billowy effect that makes it i look like chiffon. It ‘throws up' each little thread of the lace trimming, so | that it appears like something costly instead of the ordinary wash valen- | ciennes, which it is. And it gives a soft effect to the skin. “The lining, too, saves the swiss, so | that by washing it out in the wash . bowl and vressing it when nearly dry the waist itself can be worn two or ! three times without doing up. Be- ‘ sides all this, instead of having to lay the whole thing away this fall I in- tend to wear it with the lining" all | winter. Try it yourself,” added the girl generously, ‘“but be sure and get the softest and lightest silk possible, as a more expensive quality will not mix so artistically with the waist fab- ric and look so much like a part of it.”—Chicagé Tribune. Tears at a Chinese Wedding. A Chinese marriage is a solemn cere- ! mony—no talk, no levity and much cry- ing. A feast is spread updn a table, to which the blushing bride is led by five of her friends. They are seated at the , table, but no one eats. Deep silence prevails. When finally the mother | starts crying the maids follow and the bride joins in the chorus. Then all the | bridesmaids leave the table and the | disconsolate mother takes a seat beside | the chair of state, where the bride sits. The bridegroom now enters with four | of his men friends, who carry the bride | round the room, while the guests throw | rice over the happy pair. | These are a delicious appetite sharp- | ener. For each person take one tea- i-poontul of lemon juice, two drops of { Tabasco sauce, half a ‘teaspoonful of | srated horseradish, one teaspoonful of tomato catsup and a saltspoonful of salt. Mix together and add one egg beaten to a foam. It is served in a tall glass with a long spoon. >, Festooned flounces adorn most of the . dinner dresses and evening gowns. 7/'/"“ i /A W b which washes better tham or- | 2 % i % = 2 i * NO EARL FOR HER, SAYS MISS | DAISY LEITER % SISTER _OF LADY WHO DENIES ENGAGE- TO EARL OF SUFFOLK. e | CURZON, NENT ISS DAISY, LEITER, denying the truth of her reported en- gagement te the Earl of Suf- folk, in a formal statement sald: “There is absolutely no truth in the report of my engagement to the Earl of Suffolk. Further than that I can say nothing.” % ¥ ik Miss Leiter, her mother and her sister, Miss' Nannie Leiter, arrived in COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL AND THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. | P 1 Wearfng of Low Shoes A Dangerous Practice Perhaps the giris are more prone to resent interference when presented on the score of health than on any other ground. If the cause for this impa- tience remains inscrutable, it no less certainly is a fact. Yet it may be sug- gested, with all due deference to possi- ble prejudice, that there is certain and great danger in the common habit of wearing low shoes regardless of weather. These older and sadly wise women who have bought their know!l- edge with a heavy price see their younger sisters tripping about on cold. stormy days In French-heeled ‘ties,” and shake their heads sadly, remem- bering how they, too, learned by expe- rience that high heels and damp feet were sure to work mischief to that marvelously delicate organism with which femininity is endowed. They are aware that the ankles are peculiarly susceptible to chill. They recall—one ROSTAND WRITES A NEW PLAY AND IT IS ALL ABOUT BIRDS | .Y Staff Correspondence of The Call. . PARIS, Aug. 20.—In theatrical circles here the one topic of discussion is the | odd theme which Edmond Rostand, the long-silent author of “Cyrane” and | “L’Aiglon,” has chosen for his new | play. “Chanteclair"—the French epic | word for rooster—is a highly appro- priate name for this piece, in which all the characters are birds. Now it is announced that the cock who figures prominently in the fantasy will be rep- resented by Coquelin. This barnyard fowl, it seems, has a secret—is it he who causes the sun to rise?—regarding which he is continually chaffed by a thrush, whose social position gives him a place on the first branch of trees. A nightingale acts as the god from the machine gnd brings to an end this queer drama, for which Paris is wait- ing eagerly. It has not yet been de- | cided where “Chanteclair” will be { given. { Probably Shakespeare would “spell ruin” no longer if his plays could be produced everywhere as Beerbohm Tree presents them in London. The London actor-manager has given Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Twelfth Night” and “Julius Caesar” with set- ting such as neither Irving nor Augus- tin Daly ever approached, but his com- ing revival of “The Tempest” promises to'be the most elaborate thing he has done yet. Among the big scenes will be ‘the opening of the first act. In this a ship, measuring over forty feet in length, will sail through the storm, her crew crowded on deck, and should make a fine spectacle. Another will be the sandy shore of the isiand, from | which pretty girls will arise to dance on the waves. A feature is to be made, too, of Prospero’s magic, and to this end some clever illusions are now be- ing arranged by the ingenious Mr. Mas- kelyne of the Egyptian Hall. Sir Ar- thur Sullivap’s incidental music will be used as well as some additicnal num- bers which have been written by Ray- mond Roze. It isn’t often that one playwright turns |over an original idea to another, but | this happened in the case of a new play which Seymour Hicks is produ- | cing at the Vaudeville. “The Catch of the Season,” “described as a sort of modern version of “Cinderella,” has THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL LAUGH { An Ariful One. | “I am very much bothered. a rich widow whom I don't I do | marry | love, or a poor girl that | What shall I do?” | one you love.” “You are right, my friend. marry the girl.” “Then can you give me the widow’s address ?"—Fligende Blaetter. » ‘Willie. Dashaway—You say your sister will be down in a minute, Willie. That's good news. I thought perhaps she wanted to be excused, as she did the other day. Willie—Not this time. trick on her. | Dashaway—What did you do? { Willie—I said you were another fel- ! low!—London Tit-Bits. I played a | Soldierly Discretion. | Just after the Russian Admiral | Alexieff departed from Port Arthur a i member of Congress met Admiral | Dewey and discussed the situation. | “What made Alexieff quit in | haste?” inquired the statesman. ! “I will answer that by relating an { anecdote of our Civil War,” | Admiral Dewey. “When General Hood left Nashville on one side of the city ! just as the Federal troops were enter- ing upon the other his colored servant was captured. When asked why his | master quit in such a hurry the old darky answered: [ “‘Well, boss, 'spect Massa Hood ;don' think he kin do hiss'f justice in { this yere town." "—New York Times. 1 Kentucky's Powerful Parson. | Senator “Joe” Blackburn of Ken- jtucky tells of a good old Methodist minister in his State in the pioneer | days who was a considerable scrapper. “One day,” says the Senator, “after | the parson had found it necessary to La minister fistic punishment to several | young toughs who persisted in | turbing the meeting at one of tae “Al I can | love. | “Listen to your, heart and marry the | I shall | such | replied ! ais- | been written by Cosmo Hamilton, but the plot of it was evolved by Captain | Marshall, author of “His Excellency, the Governor.” The captain, however, | had so much werk arranged for that there was no telling when he could | get around to elaborating the “Cinder- ella” idea, so Charles Frohman—who thought it a particularly good one—in- duced him to turn it over to Cosmo | Hamilton, probably not just for love, however. “The Catch of the Season™ is expected to reopen the Vaudeville about September 1. Meanwhile, Cap- tain Marshall's comedy, “The Duke of Killiecrankie,” in which John Drew is to be seem at home, continues to please at the Criterion, where it has run for over six months. 3 If only Oscar Asche gets something like adequate support from the public, his coming essay at management may have rather important results. Asche | has only been seen once in the United | States, this being when he went over to play “Maldonado,” the financier in Pinero’s “Iris.” A graduate of the Ben- son Shakespeare repertoire companies, he and his pretty and clever wife have | been with Beerbohm Tree for some time, but Asche is now starting in on his own hook with his life partner, Lily Brayton, as leading woman. He will occupy the Adelphi and there will produce on September 16 a poetical tragedy called “The FPrayer of the Swerd,” by a young playwright whe, | like $tephen Phillips, was also a mem- ber of the Benson companies. After- ward Asche will give Shakespeare's “Taming of the Shrew,” to be followed by a fantastic comedy, the rights of | which he has acquired, and this, in turn, will give place to more Shakes- peare. It is an ambitious programme and one whose success seems rather doubtful with the public daft over musical comedy. Asche, however, evi- dently means to have a fair tyy for favor, having engaged a strong com- pany and most of its members for a solid year. He says, by the way, that he will have nothing to do with the star system. “We want good plays,” he declared yesterday. “Our choice will not depend at all on whether there are important parts particularly suitable to myself. We shall adapt our cast to the play. We do not want plays made to fit the cast.” e e el ' THE EXCELSIOR | OF KUROPATKIN | The shades of night were falling fa | When through Manchuria there passed A general with flashing eye, | Who bore this banner proudly high: “Eatemupski.” A few days passed, again he strode With flerce demeanor up the road; Another banner now he bore, Changed somewhat from the one before: “Waitabitski.” The.weeks rolled on, again he came And bore a banner much the samse, On which was written this design, Before his awesome battle line: “NotyetskL"” - More weeks elapsed, and on the tr | He rode, now forward and now back; A waiting world watched eagerly, But this was all that they could see: | “Afterawhilskl.” . More months elapsed, but still no sign Of battle from that dreadful line; And now before his army vast This banner he nailed proudly fast: “Tomorrowski.” A year had gone, no battle yet, The world came almost to forget The doughty general, but he | Changed signs with regularity: “Nextweekski.” But every day before his fine And awe-inspiring battle line He rode, with saber in his hand, | And valiantly gave this commands ! “Backupski.” At last this grim and dreadful man Grew busy, and a message ran To the home folks, who freely whed Their bitter tears, the while they read: “Gonebumpski.” —J. W. Foley, in New York Times. ANSWERS ' TO QUERIES STRENGTH OF ICE—Subscriber, | City. It is stated that ice tem inches | thick will sustain a pressure of 1000 | pounds to the square inch. EDUCATED FLEAS—E. 8, City. A | number of years ago, between fifteen does — especial .instances when most | churches which he served, one of his | and twenty, there was an exhibition of direful illness has followed such rash | flock, noted as being something of a | educated fleas in San Francisco. exposure. girl lay on a bed—not of pain alone, but of torture—through her long-antici- pated summer vacation, bemoaning when so much too late the deaf ear iand said: | ‘It is the solemn duty of this here | congregationto stand by Parson John- !scn. He does not seek trouble but he This A certain beautiful young hard hitter himself, got up in meeting | was on Market street, between Fourth and Fifth. | LADIES' PEACE-D. F., City. What |is known in history as the “ladies’ turned to warnings which, the doctor | Will not show the white feather when | Peace” is the treaty of peace agreed on sternly informed her, might have ward- ed off disease. It was only ‘“getting ! trcuble is forced in his way. | that, unrestrained ‘by I believe divine grace, ]n Cambria in 1529 between Francis' I | of France and Charles V of Germany, her feet wet,” only a sudden chill. But | Parson Johnson can whip any man in | Which closed the second war between the consequences were serious.—Har- per's Bazar. A New Salad. Curl up white heart leaves of lettuce that have been well washed and crisped on the ice, to simulate little hollow nests. Place in each of these five tiny speckled eggs, made of cream cheese, rolled into shape, then sprink- led with fine chopped-parsley. Hide the French dressing under the leaves of the dainty nests; eat with salitines. — % Chicago a few days ago and are at their residence, 101 Rush street. i Kentucky. us pray. The Lord is with him. Let —Washington Times. . ’ ' Three of a Kind. Representative Rodenburg accom- ! panied one of his distinguished con- | stituents. Judge ‘Charles W. Thomas | of Relleville, Ill., to the marble room | recently, where the two were joined | by Senators Dolliver, Hopkins and i Cullom. | “This meeting,” declared Mr. Dol- ! liver, “reminds me very forcibly of a | visit T made to Belleville not many months ago. I was the guest of Judge Thomas} and passed the night in his fine old_colonial mansion. | eral hours of refreshing sleep I at- After sev- | The family is having a reunion in i tired myself and descended, filled with Chicago. It is not complete, of course, thoughts éf the splendid entertain- for Lady Curzon is in England with | Ment given me. All at once there her husband. But Mrs. Leiter and | W&$ a hoarse voice from an adjoining | those monarchs. It was called “La éPnlx des Dames”—ladies’ peace—be- | cause it was negotiated by Margaret of { Austria, the aunt of Charles, and Louise of Savoy, the mother of Fran- cis. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR—M. W. T. and others, City and = Oakland, Cal. The Knights Templar as a branch oé | Free Masonry dates back to August 25 1 1769, when the degree was can!erred‘ in the city of Boston. That was seve eral years before the degree was con- ferred in England. What is known las !)}e commandery branch of the fra- | ternity includes the eleventh, tweifth and thirteenth degrees of the York rite, also known as Red Cross Knight, Knight Templar and Knight of Majta, In order to obtain these degrees ar; applicant must be in good standing and her two unmarried daughters went on | from Washington to confer with the new head of the family, Joseph Leiter, who, by the terms of his father’s will, has been placed in the seat of author- ity and came up from his nocnded} coal mine at Zeigler, IlL, to sit in it. Under his presidency there will be a meeting of the Leiter heirs and of Lady Curzon's representative and many important questions with regard to the estate will be decided. ‘White is “it” for dress wear. room, which said, in a contemptible tone: ‘Where the dickens did you come from “I felt rather cheap at being spoken to in such a way, and was looking about for_the_person_who_had_thus addressed ‘me. ~ It didn’t take me long to discover that this first sign of in- hospitality I ebserved in the mansion came from the Judge's parrot. He was as wicked a bird as it was ever my fortune "to encounter.”—Denver Times. have received the following de; 3 Entered Apprentice, !'ollo: C!n"t:; man, Master Mason of the blue lodge, | Mark Master, Past Master, Most Ex. | cellent Master and Royal Arch Mason of the chapter, and Roval Master, Select Master and Super Execellent Master of the couneil. —————— Townsend's Calif artistic fire-etched ::: m‘. ——— 1 Special information supplied in e and public men |.= Telorote i 338 cai- 1