THE MOTWTNG (TRECrONTAN, MONDAY, APRIL 29. 1901.
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PORTLAXD, MONDAY, APRIL 29.
SOURCES OP INDUSTRIAL SUPREM
ACY. From a Portland reader we have re
ceived this letter of inquiry:
Will you very kindly explain what the chief
factors are which go to make It possible for
the American manufacturer to market his
goods not only in countries naturally tributary
to England and Germany, but even In those
countries themselves, when we are told that
the mechanic and laborer are paid better
wages In this country than elsewhere? Will
those same agencies remain In force and ena
ble our foreign trade to .grow In the ruture In
the same ratio that It has In the past decade?
To answer these questions compre
hensively would require a series of
magazine articles and several hooks.
The aim of the reply, therefore, Is not to
attempt a complete exposition of the
topic, but merely to throw out a few
suggestions from which the correspond
ent can make -up a conclusion for him
self. The British think our manufacturing
supremacy is due to the superiority of
our Industrial methods. Their experts
make studies of Continental and Amer
ican competition from time to time,
and their conclusions deal with prac
tical considerations of manufacture.
They say the secret of German excel
lence Is the good work done by the
German schoolmaster and scientist in
perfecting processes and training ap
prentices. They say that we Ameri
cans, on the other hand, excel in en
terprise. Our skijled labor is more effi
cient than the European, and our capi
talists are more courageous In throw
ing away old plants and installing new.
So-called cheap labor is generally the
most costly. The American mechanic
earning $7 a day, with the very latest
machine tools, will underbid in total
cost the European workman at $4 a
day, because he will turn off newer and
better products, and do it at a more
rapid rate. Locomotives and bridges
needed In Europe frequently have to
"be bought in this country, because our
factories will deliver them months ear
lier than they can be furnished by the
European firms.
A powerful element In our manufac
turing eminence, perhaps the most pow
erful of all, Is cheap and plentiful coal
and iron. Iron is the basis of manu
factures and coal is the basis of manu
facture. Cheap coal and iron, other
things being-equal, are simply impreg
nable in the industrial world.
As to the 'tariff, its effect, good or
bad, is probably overestimated In near
ly all current discussion. The steel
trust has protection, and Its wares go
everywhere. But the Standard Oil trust
has no protection, and its wares also
go everywhere. It makes up in dis
criminating, railroad rates what, it
lacks in tariffs. The truth concerning
these vast, Industrial managements
doubtless Is that genius is resourceful,
and, if it cannot help itself in one way,
it will in another. The sugar trust and
tobacco trust, for example, are en
trenched behind high duties; but It
would be rash to predict that if the
duties were struck away, these Im
mense aggregations of brains, money
and muscle would suffer any serious or
long-continued reversal. "We have long
"been accustomed to the mysterious
movements of wool and woolens, which
baffle the controversialist who would ex
plain them in terms of high or low tar
iffs. So it is to be, apparently, -with
other things that we are exporting and
that we used to import Tin-plate, once
accounted a victory for the tariff on tin,
is now known to be an iron proposition
substantially. It is significant that
Germany, with her high tariff wall
against our manufactures, complains
quite as bitterly against our competi
tion as free-trade England does. Here
is the merchant marine, getting on its
feet with just about thesame agility
it would have shown if the subsidy bill
had passed. The Government taxes tea
10 cents a pound and lets coffee in free,
hut after the first setback tea received,
the imports of tea have gone on in
creasing, "while those of coffee have
steadily declined. Our prostration of
1893 was not due to tariffs, real or
threatened, but to iniquitous silver leg
islation. It is probable that our tar
iffs have had but small part in pro
motion of our manufactures. It is cer
tain that if they were now withdrawn
our factories could and would continue
to hold their own, unaffected .by the
withdrawal.
There is therefore no Immediate pros
pect of a cessation of the agencies that
have contributed to our manufacturing
eminence. We are not likely to fall to
the costly conservatism of Europe or J
to lose our cheap coal and Iron, and
such tariff reductions as we make will
be of no great disadvantage. Now,
there are two Important considerations
that should give us advantages not
hitherto possessed. These two are
cheap money and cheaper raw materi
als from abroad. Cheap money is a
great desideratum In any business in
vestment. Interest rates, if they are
high, will discourage shipping and
manufactures, and if they are low they
will promote them. Our accumulations
of wealth are beginning to tell in our
favor in the field of international
finance. Great Britain now offers con
sols at 2 per cent, liable to reduction
to 2 per cent In 1903, at 94, but
United States 2 per cent bonds are sell
ing at 106, and $50,000,000 of the new
British loan has been taken by Ameri
can capital. Not perfectly trustworthy,
but very suggestive, is the growing ex
cess of our exports, thus:
Years. Excess Exports.
1896 ? 102.8S2204
1897 2S0.2C3.144
189S 015,432.070
1S99 029,874.813.
1900 544,541.803
Total $2,078,934,705
Much of this trade balance has been
offset in various ways, but much of It
Is still to our credit and will Insure us
abundant capital for every need at low
rates of Interest Our manufacturers,
moreover, are beginning to clamor for
reduction of duties on raw materials
they buy abroad. Every victory they
win along this line will be a help to
our production.
COMMERCIAL
MUSEUM
LAND.
FOR PORT-
Followlng the lead of Philadelphia, a
number of cities In various parts of the
country are making- efforts to estab
lish commercial museums. San Fran
cisco started a movement over a year
ago, but as it was mainly supported
by college professors without practical
business experience It did not com
mend Itself to the commercial inter
ests of the Pacific Coast. Encouraged
by the prestige it will receive from the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and the
prospect of becoming one of the world's
first focal points in industry and the
arts, St. Louis is taking steps for the
establishment of a commercial mu
seum. A like opportunity is In sight in
Portland. Many articles will be brought
here for the exposition of 1905, and
many buildings will be erected for their
proper display. From this great show
some, permanent feature ought to be
evolved. Nothing would be so helpful
to the growing Importance of Portland
in the world's business as a commer
cial museum.
A commercial museum is defined by
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as a "sort
of perpetual industrial exposition ad
justed to the needs of the productive
business man, whether he be "a capi
talist or worker with his hands. It is
a place where the natural and arti
ficial products of the world are exhib
ited by sample, and where business
men may study, from the standpoint
of the known globe, any particular line
of activity." Such Institutions, to ac
complish the greatest amount of good,
should have departments of raw ma
terials and manufactures, together with
a library and reading-room. Manufac
turers, artisans, miners, jobbers and
laboring men, by going to a commer
cial museum, can investigate new fields
for the sale of goods; acquaint them
selves with methods of production in
other countries, and even In other states
of our own country; learn the relative
value of utilities, and In a general way
keep Informed of industrial progress in
all parts of the world. The advantages
of systematic study of industry and
commerce are Illustrated by the disad
vantages under which the Pacific Coast
has labored In the first three years of
trade extension in the Orient. It rushed
headlong Into the Philippines when Ma
nila fell, only to find that Its merchants
did not have the remotest Idea of pack
ing food articles to make them attract
ive to the Oriental. No material loss re
sulted, as the introductory trade was not
conducted on a large scale, but all en
gaged in the enterprise gained the les
son from experience that the goods that
sell must be made Into tasty packages,
and not thrown at the consumer.
Some city on the North Pacific Coast
is destined to be the chief port for com
mercial interchange between the United
States and the Orient The O. R. & N.
Co. has just given a practical demon
stration of its confidence in Portland's
.ability to become that port by estab
lishing a line of steamers between the
Columbia River and Asia, at a cost
which will not be far from $500,000 a
year. There are many ways in which
Portland can' show its appreciation of
this vast 'undertaking and help It to
be successful. One of these Is to start
a commercial museum and attract at
tention to Portland as a mart for Ori
ental and American goods. Much as
sistance in this effort will be given by
the exhibitors who will come to the
1905 fair. As a rule, exhibitors are glad
to find a permanent repository for the
specimens they prepare for a transient
occasion like an exposition. The pro
ducers, manufacturers and exporters of
the Pacific Northwest should not be
compelled to go to San Francisco to
examine into the bearings and details of
Industry, nor to St Louis, nor Phila
delphia. Portland is their center.
IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL PROB
LEMS. A highly significant feature of the
present building season, which Is now
several weeks old. Is the marked de
mand for hardwood interiors. Last
season this demand was greater by 50
per cent than it had ever been before
in our local history, and the indication
is that the demand this year will at
least keep pace with it. "We are im
porting Eastern wood for this purpose
because we are told our architects can
not find anything in the home markets
that will suit their needs. "With the
most magnificent forests of which the
world can boast growing at our very
doors, we must send 2000 miles for oak
with which to build a staircase or fash
ion a lintel. i
Now, this is a very odd state of af
fairs, and one well worth Investigating.
Does the fault He In our forests? No,
rather with the lack of scientific han
dling of our native woods after they
are cut By far the most valuable wood
we have for Interiors and cabinet pur
poses is the Oregon fir. A fortune un
doubtedly awaits the man who can
discover some process for hardening
Its surface, when finished, so that it
will not be so easily marred as now by
physical contact with oyercareless hu
manity. It is an exceedingly beautiful
wood, both In color and in grain, but
peculiar In this respect that in the
same board is to be found a grain as
soft as cork, which is light in color,
alongside a grain quite dark and as
hard as horn. The riddle Is to find a
filler that will act upon the soft grain
to harden it without impairing the
beauty of the wood as a whole. Intel
ligent Portland workers in wood are
now quietly studying this problem, and
when It Is solved there will no longer
be any need to import hard woods from
the Fast.
Apart from this phase of the question
comes another that is even more press
ing in importance. Most of our houses
are being constructed of wood that has
not been properly seasoned. The fault
lies with the contractors and the own
ers rather than with the mlllmen. The
process is hurried through, with the re
sult that the wood Is not left In the
kiln long enough to dry it thoroughly.
Ill-fitting joints, splitting timbers,
warped doors and shrunken window
jambs result The city is full of these,
for it is customary to give much less
time to the seasoning process here
than is commonly given in the older
communities of the East, where the
spirit of haste and slipshod methods
do not so largely prevail.
THE LUCK THAT FAILED.
The Cape Nome mining boom, which
reached high-water mark last year, has
shriveled away to very small propor
tions. The first steamers leaving Puget
Sound this Spring went out with light
passenger lists, and in order to secure
even the few who were taken, a secret
cut in rates was made. Now comes the
announcement of an open cut in rates,
and the opportunities for securing a
fortune in the far north present such
slight allurements that they must be.
supplemented by an insignificant fare
In order to attract travel.
This Is in a manner a repetition of the
Klondike experience of a year or two
ago, and serves to show on what un
certain foundation rests the commercial
edifice bullded on a mining boom. The
circulation of extravagant and mislead
ing tales of great wealth to be secured
with the smallest possible effort at
tracted big crowds to the far north for
a year or two, and the city which se
cured the unenviable reputation of
being the chief promoter and beneficiary
of these falsehoods waxed great for a
time. Luck was with the boomers, and
the Impetus given the business by the
first big discoveries in the Klondike
carried It along for a year or two before
the ebb tide began leaving hundreds of
financial and physical wrecks stranded
along the route. Then came a shifting
of scenes, and the waning interest in the
Klondike, which promised to "beach"
certain Puget Sound cities along with
the other wrecks which they had helped
to bring about, was supplanted by the
Cape Nome craze.
The Nome craze differed but little
from that of the Klondike. The trans
portation companies' press agents were
as active and unscrupulous as they had
ever been, and the conditions for cre
ating a sudden boom were even more
favorable than they were In the Klon
dike. As a result, no such rush to a
mining district has ever been wit
nessed on the Pacific Coast, not even
In the days of '49 or In the Fraser
River excitement. A single season,
however, served to puncture the Cape
Nonie bubble, and the transportation
companies cannot succeed In working
up such a stampede as they turned in
the direction of Alaska in the past
three years.
Unfortunately for those restless spir
its who find the more thickly settled
portions of the United States too
crowded for their comfort, Alaska offers
but few inducements which would
cause a man to locate there after
being disappointed In his quest for gold.
In the California rush, when the yel
low metal eluded the search of the
miner, he could turn his attention to
agricultural pursuits, and It is through
the big immigration attracted by the
gold discoveries that California was set
tled and developed so much earlier than
Oregon and "Washington. The same
conditions prevail in this state and in
"Washington, where there are plenty of
mines as good as are to be found any
where. A cheap fare may attract some travel
to the far north, but the luck which
made a few men rich and thousands
poor has failed, and never again will
Alaska mines attract the attention that
they have commanded in the past.
Meanwhile there is increasing activity
In the mines in this state and in "Wash
ington, and a yearly output greater
than ever came out of the Klondike
and Cape Nome is not at all improb
able within the next few years.
WHOLE HOG OR NONE.
If street signs are to be given up for
advertising purposes, why not go a lit
tle further Into the business and ac
quire revenue? Portland will need
money for the improvement of streets
for years to come. No doubt an ar
rangement can be made with this ad
vertising company to tack soap "ads."
on the trees In the park blocks for, say.
25 cents per tree per year, or maybe 12
cents.
This plan would be In harmony with
the idea of "ads." on street corners, and
ought to pay immensely. Then, too,
the privileges of the City Hall could be
leased for a handsome sum to soap men
and other enterprising manufacturers.
Inside and out, there Is room for a great
deal of business. And there is the Mu
nicipal Court room. Fine place for
liquor "ads." The Fire Department ap
paratus offers a field for Insurance com
panies to exploit themselves, while the
engine-houses are ideal places for the
general advertiser.
Let not the City Park be overlooked.
The largest trees In the best locations
ought to yield at least $1 a tree a year.
Perhaps some scheme can be arranged
between the City Council and the Board
of County Commissioners for letting the
four bridges across the Willamette to
the advertising company.
While the Council is in the humor,
why not lease the sidewalks in the
business district for .posters? Theaters
would be glad to pay for one day's priv
ileges a week. By all means, if the city
Is going into this business, let it put
money in its purse. Local pride be
hanged!
The modest shaft of Oregon granite
that has stood on Taylor street, near
Third, in this city, for the past few
days, and has now been taken to
Champoeg to mark a historic event,
bears names that will recall with sol
emn pride lives of men, lived quietly
and .unostentatiously among us for
years, which are now but a memory.
How many even among the present
generation will recall as this list, given
to granite, Is scanned, the face of W.
H. Gray, with its frost rime of age:
of Joseph Gale, bronzed with many sea
sons of active outdoor life; of Rev. Har
vey Clark, with its scholarly repose; cf
Rev. J. L. Parrish, lined with the earn
estness of the peaceful gospel that he
preached; of Rev. J. S. Griffin, furrowed
deeply by the plowshare of time; of
Amos Cook, placid with the cbntent
born of industry and rectitude; of Fran
cis Fletcher, beaming with hospitality
and friendliness; of Medorem Crawford,
eager with political purpose; of Rev.
Gustavus Hines, strong In the courage
of his severe convictions. Not one name
in the list but will recall to some mind
an honored friend of other days, while
the entire list, set in granite, will tell
to future generations the names by
which our state-builders were known.
Gone to eternal silence are all the men.
save one, whose names appear upon
this list, but they belong to those who,
being dead, yet speak to us.
The chief cause of "flush times" is
that gold is "easy." We have rejected
the folly of debased money, and people
no longer keep gold, but pay it out
freely. This gives confidence in busi
ness affairs. A great deal of gold now
comes into the Treasury in payment of
duties on Imports and other taxes. For
merly all Who had gold or could get it
laid It by, and paid but paper and sil
ver dollars, because sold was the one
form of money which they could trust
to retain Its value. This hampered all
operations; and, moreover, the fear that
the gold basis would be lost produced
general distrust and, paralyzed business.
Anybody can see now what confidence
In the stability of money will do. It is
amazing that so gfea't a proportion of
the American people shbuld have been
so misguided. To those who under
stood the subject, it was amazing at
the time, and well calculated to provoke
indignation and disgust
Here is a very just thing about Agui
naldo, from the Louisville Courier-Journal:
"The grandiloquent but abject address of
the captive Filipino leader," says an Aunty
contemporary, "goes far to confirm the low
opinion of his character hitherto expressed by
his enemies." Already our Aunties are say
ing of the Washington of the Philippines near
ly, If not quite, as hard things as they have
been saying of their own countrymen.
Equally pointed is this, from the Phil
adelphia Record:
Agulnaldo's proclamation, Just Issued,
against further persistence In rebellion should
mark the termination of organized resistance
to Federal authority in the Philippines. It
should validate his oath of allegiance, insure
him against deportation and vastly Increase
his chances for a public career under the new
insular administration. Few professional trad
ers In patriotism have more successfully mar
keted their wares.
"A pioneer of 1845 and a veteran of
the Civil War" Inquires the date of the
official close of the Civil War, and
when the first regular United States
troops arrived in the Territory of Ore
gon. The official date of the close of
the Civil War is August 20, 1866, as
fixed by the second section of the act
of March 2, 1867. The first regular
United States troops Companies L and
M, First Artillery, Major John F. Hath
away commanding arrived in Oregon
May 8, 1849, at which time they entered
the mouth of the Columbia. They ar
rived at Fort Vancouver May 15 of the
same year. Major Theodore J. Ecker
son, United States Army, retired, who
has long been a resident of Portland,
was an officer In this detachment
Ex-Governor Hogg, of Texas, has
"struck He" at Beaumont, In that state.
He has a great "gusher," he has or
ganized a company, and has started in
to build a pipe line and a refinery. But
when Mr. Hogg was Governor, the Leg
islature of Texas, moved thereto by his
opposition to monopolies and trusts,
passed an act that stands In the way of
the great industrial and commercial un
dertaking that he now wants to pro
mote. He therefore asks the Attorney
General of the state if there is not some
way by which he can. "get around" the
restrictions of the law. It is sad to
find a champion of the tolling masses
like Governor Hogg desiring to become
a bloated bondholder and millionaire.
The superintendent of the City &
Suburban Railway tells the Common
Council that the experience on Morri
son street proves that asphalt Is not
satisfactory, though the street was re
paired by the company last year and
the year before. That Is because the
ties were laid on the mud, when a solid
foundation should have been put under
them. Nothing could be more stupid
than to put In a track In this way, and
then pave the street with asphalt. The
ties go down Into the mud, the track Is
always on a "teeter," and the street
will be broken up, of course.
The application for pardon to Gov
ernor Geer of a man convicted of a
criminal assault upon a woman, upon
the ground that he had been "of ex
emplary habits and was industrious,"
Is about on a par with the recent rec
ommendation of the Alabama Advisory
Pardoning Board of a murderer to
mercy because "he is a descendant of
a long line of ancestors, and, so far as
we have been able to learn, after trac
ing his history back to his grandfather,
not one member of his family has ever
shown the slightest tendency to crimi
nality." The names of the streets are not so
much matter, after all, as the numbers
of houses. Nearly all the confusion of
which complaint is made would be ob
viated if the streets running north and
south were numbered consecutively
throughout. When we dropped the
"south" numbers out beyond Jackson
street, we did well, but only half the
job. The only way to keep letters be
longing at 108 North Twelfth from get
ting to 108 Twelfth is to have but one
108 on the street.
The Chinese gamblers do not object
to paying one set of officials for the
privilege of running, but when a second
outfit swoops down on them for another
contribution, their sense of justice is
outraged. What Is needed, evidently, Is
a trust promoter, to gather our various
official establishments Into one grand
"harmonization."
The cable tells us that Americans are
buying up all the good lands in the
Philippines. The charge that the Hoar
amendment to the Spooner bill would
keep our predatory lumbermen out of
the archipelago seems to have been a
base caumny.
The Administration is highly pleased
with the distinguished services of Con
ger and Loomls. It Is Impossible to
doubt it, as we have it from the gen
tlemen themselves.
BLAINE AND CONKLING.
The Speech. Tlint Lost Blaine tlie
Presidency.
James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling
served in Congress together, and at no
time manifested any love for each other.
The ill feeling culminated in 1S66, In a
brief but ill-natured controversy and
a- testy characterization of the New York
statesman by the gentleman from Maine,
which was never forgiven. The two men
never even pretended to be friends after
that day in the House, and in November,
1884, the Republican vote of Oneida Coun
ty. Conkling's home, fell off more than
enough to defeat Blaine. "With a normal
vote in that county he would have car
ried the State of New York and have
won the Presidency.
On the occasion referred to Mr. Conk
ling was speaking and Mr. Blaine asked
him to yield the floor for a moment.
Conkling replied, hotly: "No, sir; I do
not wish to have anything to do with the
member from Maine, not even as much
as to yield him the floor." With some as
perity of manner Blaine rattled off this
stinging rejoinder:
"As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm,
I hope he will not be too severe. The
contempt of that large-minded gentleman
is so wilting; his haughty disdain, his
grandiloquent swell, his majestic, super
eminent, overpowering, turkey gobbler
strut, has been so crushing to myself and
all the members of this House, that I
know it was an act of the greatest te
merity for me to venture upon a contro
versy with him. But, sir, I know who is
responsible for all this. I know that
within the last five weeks, as members
of the House will recollect, an extra strut
has characterized the gentleman's bear
ing. It is not his fault.' It is the fault
of another. That gifted and satirical
writer, Theodore Tilton, of the New York
Independent, spent some weeks recently
in this city. His letters published In that
paper embraced, with many serious state
ments, a little Jocose satire, a part of
which was the statement that the mantle
of the late Winter Davis had fallen up
on the member from New York. The
gentleman took it seriously, and It has
given his strut an additional pomposity.
The resemblance is great. It is striking.
Hyperion to a stayr, Thersltes to Her
cules, mud to marble, dunghill to a dia
mond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a
whining puppy to a roaring Hon. Shade
of the mighty Davis! Forgive the almost
profanation of that jocose satire!"
Give the Canteen a Fair Show.
Chicago Tribune.
Before the public can be expected to
give much weight to an investigation, it
must be assured that the men who
are conducting it are fair and unpreju
diced. If, for instance, a man should start
to Investigate the subject of vaccination
after publicly expressing his conviction
that vaccination is a curse to mankind,
his conclusions would be discounted be
fore they were announced. The Methodist
minister at the head of a committee ap
pointed to Investigate the results of clos
ing the canteens at the regular Army
posts, says In an Interview his belief Is
that there is a conspiracy on foot to create
public sentiment In favor of the repeal
of the anti-canteen law. "Whether this
conspiracy has been -planned by the men
back of the liquor Interests or by the
Army officers I do not know," he says,
"but It certainly seems to exist." No
investigation which starts out in this way
can accomplish anything. The minister
must admit that at least some of the men
who are In favor of repealing the anti
canteen law are as honest and as earnest
as he is. He will hardly go so far as to
charge that Archbishop Ireland, of St.
Paul, or Bishop Potter, of New York,
Is a member of a conspiracy to increase
drunkenness and crime. His insinuation
that the officers of the United States
Army are banded together in such a con
spiracy does small credit to his good
judgment and less to his Christian char
ity. If the ministers wish to find out
exactly what effect the closing of the
canteens has had on the private soldiers
of the Army they can do It if they will
approach the subject In a fair and ju
dicial way. Let them first get the figures
which will show how many men have been
absent without leave Immediately fol
lowing the pay days pined the canteens
were closed and compare them with simi
lar figures taken during the time the can
teens were open. Let them visit the towns
close to Fort Sheridan and other Army
posts and make a similar comparison of
police court statistics. First of all, let
them make up their minds to face the
facts as they find them and not begin an
investigation with their minds made up
In advance.
Bright Thought on Anarchists.
New York Evening Post.
Another Italian anarchist and would-be
regicide, whose name ends in i! If this
suspected Romagnoll, now In the tolls at
Berlin, had succeeded in his alleged pur
pose of assassinating the Kaiser, the
prophecy of Victor Hugo In his "Crom
well" would have had one more fulfill
ment: "Phllippi, Manclni, Torti, Mazarlnl!
Satan pour Intriguer dolt prendre un nom
en 1!"
And of course the poet's list has won
derfully lengthened since. To say nothing
of Orslnl and his bomb, there Is GolH. who
killed Canovas in 1897, and Brescl, who
slew King Humbert last year all names
of the fatal termination. But then, Ital
ian names in 1 of geniuses and saints come
easily to mind In such numbers as to
confirm the old saying that Italy produces
the best as well as the most vicious men
in the world. Nor are Instances wanting
of assassins whose patronymics are of
right gutteral German or sibilant Russian,
Of no Italian monarch could it have been
written, as a witty lady once wrote from
St, Petersburg at the time of the coro
nation of the Czar: "The Emperor en
tered the church preceded by the assassins
of his grandfather, surrounded by the as
sassins of his father, and followed by his
own."
Are They Protected?
New York Tribune.
There have been unpleasant reports of
late of cheating at cards In the smoking
rooms of ocean steamships, and well
known detectives who are responsible for
their utterances say frankly that certain
professional gamblers make a practice
of voyaging back and forth over the At
lantic for the express purpose of" fleec
ing simple-minded passengers. Are the
great corporations which control the ferry
lines between Europe and America blame
less concerning these freebooters of the
marine roadways? Are they not as clear
ly bound to protect their passengers from
such depredations as the great trunk
lines of railroad are to keep shellgame
swindlers and the three-card monte
thieves out of their trains? The steam
ship lines, by taking reasonable precau
tions, can make It Impossible for profes
sional gamblers to plunder their patrons,
and It Is not easy to excuse their laxity
in this matter.
Appropriate Title.
Dalles Times-Mountaineer.
Oregon's "world fair to be held in Port
land in 1905 has been named at last, and
a very appropriate name It Is. The title
will be: "Where Rolls the Oregon. The
Lewis and Clark Centennial and Ameri
can Pacific Exposition." This name was
selected at a meeting of the Oregon and
Washington commissioners, at a dinner
glvpn by Hon. H. W. Corbett last Wed
nesday. The name Is all right, and now
let all Oregonlans and Washlngtonlans
combine to make It the biggest and best
world's fair ever held.
Vnrlnhle ns the Shade.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Speaking of Agulnaldo's expressions of
good faith since taking the oath of alle
giance, a Manila correspondent telegraphs
that "those who have been his constant
companions since his capture say that he
Is sincere." It is very easy for people of
Agulnaldo's race to be entirely sincere
One way today and just as sincere some
other way tomorrow.
AMUSEMENTS.
If all the plays in the repertoire of the
Belasco & Thall Company prove as ac
ceptable to the audiences at Cordray's
as did "Sapho," which was given as the
opening bill last night, the success of
the two weeks' engagement Is assured.
The fame or perhaps notoriety Is the
word gained by the play In the East
served to attract even a larger crowd
than the usual Sunday night house, and
whatever might have been the opinions
of the spectators as to the morality or
immorality of the drama, they certainly
appeared to find it entertaining.
The dramatization of Daudet's novel
eliminates much that is better eliminated,
but as the plot turns on the struggles of
an unfortunate woman to lead an honest
life, the play certainly cannot be placed
in the "Old Homestead" and "Shore
Acres" class. Opening at a Paris ball.
where Fanny Le Grand (Sapho) meets
and falls in love with Jean Gaussln, the
first frank and honest man (as she be
lieves) she has ever known, the story
tells of her efforts to become part of his
life, of her life with him In the cottage
where they retreat from the world, and of
the wreck of his prospects and fortunes
because he listened to fter plea to take
her from her former career. The devo
tion of Flamont, the girl's former lover,
who goes to prison because of a forgery
commltted to save her, and when she Is
deserted by Jean, returns to her with
an offer to make her his wife, assists in
covering her scarlet mantle with a cloak
of sympathy, and her choice, in the end,
of Flamont sends her out into the world
in possession of the name she has so
long striven for. that of "wife." The
play while a trifle rambling holds the
Interest to the end. and furnishes many
situations which are really dramatic.
As Fanny Le Grand, Miss Florence
Roberts, who heads the company, had an
opportunity to prove herself an excellent
emotional actress, which she did not
fail to improve. In the later acts she
was particularly effective, throwing a
feeling into her part that could not fall
to compel sympathy. Her acting Is nat
ural, free from affectation and at all
times In perfect control. The part Is
One which might easily be made coarse
and thereby instantly lose its hold on the
audience, and the fact that Miss Roberts
never failed to elicit the sympathy she
sought for the character is a sufficient
compliment to the manner in which she
portrayed it.
Lucius Henderson as Jean made a good
foil to Miss Roberts, and while at times
he became rather too violent, the fault
was one which was difficult to avoid, in
asmuch as he was expected to storm and
rage a good deal. Carlyle Moore had lit
tle to do In the character of Flamont, but
that little he did well. George Webster
as Uncle Cesalre was easy and natural,
and his comedy was provocative of much
good humor. Miss Marie Howe was funny
as Madam Hettema; Miss Lillian Armsby
was a pleasing Franclne,' and little Ollle
Cooper, a rather clever youngster, was
an amusing Joseph.
The scenery and costumes are the most
elaborate seen at Cordray's this season.
The first act, a ballroom scene, was espe
cially good, and created a sensation when
the curtain rose on it. The audience
seemed thoroughly appreciative, applaud
ing through each act. while curtain calls
were numerous.
"Sapho" will be the bill until Friday
night.
"The Evil Eye."
"The Evil Eye" proved so acceptable
on its last visit to this city to the patrons
of the Marquam Grand that it will re
ceive the same hearty approval next
Tuesday and Wednesday nights. April 30
and May 1, with a bargain matinee Wed
nesday afternoon at 2:15. Everything new
is what Charles H. Yale promises this
season. It is a fantastic spectacle into
which mechanical devices are Introduced
in quantity. There are disappearing
rooms, irdrawbridge, which is also a cat
apult, and other odd examples of trick
scenery. Electricity Is a factor In many
of Its effects. In one dance each dancer
Is aglow with electric bulbs of all colors.
You should not miss this opportunity, as
it will be the only visit to this city thl3
season.
Pretty girls, catchy music, intricate
mechanical effects, the electrical ballet,
the great Phasey troupe, Mayme Mayo,
and Charles A. Loder are among the fea
tures of the ever-welcome "Evil Eye."
The sale of seats opened Saturday morn
ing and crowded houses will prevail for
the entire engagement.
Chicago's Great Publisher.
Chicago Record-Herald.
By the death of General A. C. McClurg
at St. Augustine Chicago loses not only
one of its moat admirable citizens, but a
man who achieved unique distinction In
both military and civil life. Looking at
General McClurg a3 he has appeared to
his fellow citizens any time during the
past 20 years a man of slight frame,
rather under the average American stat
ure, with delicate features and almost ul-tra-reflned
manners It seemed difficult to
realize that he was practically the first
man to scale Missionary Ridge and
had a glorious record with Sherman
In that spectacular sweep to the sea.
But as his career In the Army, and
subsequently In organizing the First Reg
iment of the Illinois National Guard,
proved, his was another instance of the
born leader of men In the mold of a boy.
A boy In elze he went into the war; a
General by brevet for distinguished serv
ices he came out of It.
A boy, too, forbidden by poor health to
pursue the arduous study of the law, he
entered as a clerk in the book business
in Chicago, which as a man he was to
develop into one of the great publishing
houses of America. His career as a
soldier Intervened but did not stop his
success In hie chosen vocation. He be
gan as a bookseller, and It was as the
organizer of the greatest retail and
wholesale book store on the continent that
he achieved his most remarkable success.
To his wonderful talent for direction and
supervision Chicago owes the fact that the
book store of A. C. McClurg & Co. Is
today without a peer In the country and
without the semblance of a rival In this
city. His success as soldier and citizen
came from knowing tho value of disci
pline. He had an amazing capacity for
details, for which undoubtedly he paid
the penalty In the overwork that came
from refusing to delegate authority over
the minutiae of business to his lieuten
ants. In all relations of life General
McClurg was a citizen who reflected honor
upon Chicago.
A "Slipper?- Cuss."
Washington Star.
As for Agulnaldo, he Is In good, safe
hands, and It would be best to keep a key
turned on him for a little longer. Hi3
oath of allegiance was a trifle prompt,
and his address to his countrymen I3
rather smooth. If he lived In Arkansas
he would be described as a "slippery
cuss."
Dnrlcness and Sawn.
Robert W. Butters in Chambers's Journal.
As seamen from a distant land
Lean silent on a vessel's side.
Shading their eyes with sunburnt hand
As slowly drifting with the tide,
Turn soft-eyed as they dimly trace .
The smoke rise from the roofs of home;
Whilst sheer across the ocean waste
The sinking sun lit up the foam;
r
"When dropped the dark, uprose the breeze,
And they their fitful duties plied;
When morning dawned, the curling seas
Had rolled them to the harbor side;
So. oft in life a vision falls.
Dream-born athwart the ways of men.
Of Summer lands and golden halls
Trans:endant In their beauty then
Falls down the dark of mind dlstrest;
Yet vaguely trust they in the hope
That, through the doom ot darkness blest.
They with their omens ill may cope;
When morrow's dawning comes, they find
AH golden is the land around.
Darkness had fallen; but night's wind
Wafted them to their Dreamlaifi's ground.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Hon. Charles A. Towne i3 now at the
head of a trust of his own. and he looks
at things differently.
The report that certain Eastern rail
roads want to get into Tacoma is a pretty
severe reflection on their Intelligence.
There Is one good thing about Minister
Wu. As he was born in China, he can
never be President of the United States.
There Is a lull in burglary. Probably
the gentleman who operated In town last
night got all the money he needed for a
week or two.
Coffins are now being made of paper.
The Idea ot constructing them of asbes
tos will probably be developed by some
Inventor of the next century.
They will deal lightly In Chicago with
that man who has 50 wives. Such a pro
moter of population cannot fall to be a
hero In that progressive city.
In a few weeks people who are not large
enough to tell their enemies what they
think of them, will derive much satisfac
tion from "sasslng" the umpires.
It is hardly to be credited that King
Edward Is waiting for the end of the Boer
war before pulling off his coronation. His
majesty has some very accurate knowl
edge of the long wait business which he
got at first hands.
And after the rain, when with never a stixln
The pavilion of Heaven la bare.
And you start to go out for a walk round
about.
To Inhale a few breaths of pure air.
The flying rain clouds come thronglnsr In
crowds.
And you look for the blue sky In vain.
And breathing a terse but appropriate curse.
You hasten back homeward again.
The origin of the word "budget." mean
ing an estimate of government revenues
and expenses, Is thus explained: Almost
from time Immemorial It was the custom
In England to put the estimates of re
ceipts and expenditures presented to Par
liament in a leather bag, the word bud
get being thus borrowed from the old
Norman word bougette, which signifies a
leather purse. Curiously enough, the
word has passed back again into Franca
from England.
The project of a "National Rough Rider
Military Encampment" In Colorado, of
which something was said last year, now
takes shape as a school for riding In a
track in the heart of the Big Horn Basin,
In Wyoming, 35 miles from the Yellow
stone Park, with Colonel William F. Cody
as president; Colonel Schuyler V. Crosby,
of New York, former Governor of Mon
tana, who served on Sheridan's staff, a3
first vice-president, and another Incorpora
tor, Brigadier-General E. V. Summer, U.
S. A., (retired) commanding general and
treasurer.
An Eastern man who has Just returned
from Cuba, was Impressed by two things
during hl3 stay in Havana the strength
of the coffee that Is served and the vast
quantities of soda biscuits of American
manufacture consumed by the natives.
"It took me some time to get accustomed
to the coffee' he said. "At first I used
to water it, but gradually I fell into the
Cubans way of drinking it. and learned
to like the strong, aromatic flavor. Our
own coffee now tastes weak and Insipid
to me. The poorer class of Cubans will
make a meal of coffee and soda biscuits.
I learned that more of these biscuits are
sold In Havana than In any of even ti9
largest American cities. Key West, al
though comparatively a small communi
ty, comes next In the consumption of tho
biscuits."
A dapper little English waiter, Edward
Lederer by name, who Is suing Sherry
the noted New York caterer, for $2000
worth of tips at the rate, of 5100 a week,
sat all day In the City Court recenty
for a chance to tell a jury how he was
deprived of his Income after Sherry's
dumbwaiter fell on his head. Lederer was
very angry because tho secret of his tip
getting had got into print. "It is awful,"
said he, mournfully. "It will just ruin
the business." Then Lederer'3 profes
sion pride conquered and he admitted
that for seven months in the year from
September to April a smart waiter could
make $100 a week In tips at the Waldorf
Astoria, Sherry's, or any flrst-cla33 places.
The regular wages paid waiters not em
ployed on the tip basis are: Waldorf-Astoria.
$32 a month; Sherry's. $30; Savarin,
$2S; Delmonlco's, $25. Sometimes the wait
ers make $20 a day extra.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Realism Lacking. "Is Dauber a realist In
his work?" "No. Indeed. Ha devotes hla en
tire time to portraits of women." Harper's
Bazar.
More Up-to-Date. "Mazl has a graceful
carriage, hasn't Bhe?" "Yes; but better still,
her beau has a splendid automobile." Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin. ""
No Telling. Miss PrettyglrJ Ferdy lssuch' a
fool I simply can't bear him! TlfV should tell
him to stay away why. he Is such a fool I'm
afraid he might. Judge.
Ambition's Frail Fabric "Jack, did your
new art magazine do as well as you expect
ed?" "Oh, yes; we got out one number be
fore wo went Into the receiver's hands." Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Low-Down Meanness. Casey Thot was a
menn thrlck th' boss played on th boys I Cas-
slday Phwat was thot? Casey Whin they
sthruck he raised their pay before they even
hod toime to go out and get a dhrlnk. Puck.
Evils of Economy. "Overdid? I suppose so.
I was saving up for. my Spring clothes, and I
made six far-aoart calls yesterday afternoon
and went on foot to save cab-hire, and now I
spoil it all by having a doctor, and I sha'n't
have anything fit to wear." Life.
City and Suburban. Miss Tooting Beck (Sub
urban) Oh. Mr. Dash, what horse Is that they
are all looking at? Mr. Dash (city) That's the
favorite. Miss Beck. Miss Tooting Beck Real
ly! What a wonderful creature! It seems to
have run In every race I've heard of! Punch.
I'
The Old Familiar Phraae.
London Chronicle.
The old familiar phrases are to go,
(So rumor says) it is the worst of cases
For Journalese will lose the charms we know
And minor poetry its saving graces.
Alack! they'll "come to an untimely end,"
(So will that phrase) and leave naught life to
sweeten.
There soon shall be no "trafllc" to "suspend"
And no "certificate" that Is "unbeaten."
Soon shall "retiring Into private life"
Forbidden be as "with the truth to palter,"
And Chloe shall be made her Strophon's wife,
Not "led unto the hymeneal altar."
'Twill cease "transpiring" In a little while.
And no "performance" we shall nnd "com
mences," No malefactors "He In durance vile"
And nowhere rise "commodious residences."
"Considerable altitude" shall be
A term whose use tho purists put a tax on.
And "the Immediate vicinity"
Be superseded oy the curtest Saxon.
"Money" shall ne'er "be easy" woe la met
Nor markets have "a healthier tone prevail
ing." And "powers ot limited extent" shall be
Among the powers that we class as failing.
Last we shall lose, and losing, I'll give praise,
(This I, as drapers say. should have com
menced with)
"Declined with thanks, for this familiar
phrase
And alt Its synonyms may be "dispensed
wHb."