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IN TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE KHVIGHTS TEMPIiAR W1IA SOON MEET AT LOUISVILLE.. Great Preparations Being: Made for the Event City Will Expend ..$50,000 for Decorations. - LOUISVILLE, July 28. Thirty days re main before the opening of the Twenty eighth Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar of the United States, to be held in this city August 27. About 1000 cities and towns In the United States have one or more subordinate comman derles, each with a total membership of 125,000 Sir Knights, and all will be rep resented either through Individual dele gations, or through the grand bodies of tho. respective .states. According to con tracts made for quarters to date, Tem plar visitors will be present from the following states i Alabama. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Dis trict of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Ill inois, Indiana, Iowa, Indian Territory, "Kansas. Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi. Mis souri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp shire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Da kota, Tennessee, Texas. Vermont, Vir ginia, "West Virginia, Wisconsin, Idaho, tsouui Carolina. Louisville has made ample preparations for the reception of the great white plumed army, and the tens of thous ands of other visitors that will be brought with It. A citizens' committee has raised a fund of $100,000 for the entertainment of the city's guests. Proverbial Ken tucky 'hospitality will be dispensed in a manner that will shatter all records, even of the Bluegrass state. Particular attention is to be paid to the subject of the decoration and Illumi nation of the city. The sum of $50,000 will be expended In this manner alone. A quadruple electric arch Is to be the most noteworthy feature. This magnificent structure Is in course of erection at tne intersection of Fourth avenue and Broadway. It will be S2 feet high, will be illuminated by 5000 lG-candle-power electric lamps, and cost $8000. A great cross and crown, one of the most prom inent of the Templar emblems, will sur mount the dome and wlll be kept con stantly revolving by an electric mechan ism. M. J. Domer, a Chicago sculptor, has the contract for the erection of the structure, which was designed by Charles X. Meyer, a Louisville architect, and Is said by artists to surpass In beauty the famous Dewey arch. Conspicuous among the other decora tive features will be Floral Square. This will cover the lawn in front of the Jef ferson County Courthouse and the adja cent streets. Two handsome floral arches will be erected over the street at this point. California Commander-, No 1, of San Francisco, will erect a beautiful Templar arch, 50 feet high, in front of Its headquarters, at a cost of $2300. The week of the conclave will be one of rare atractions. The state's reputa tion for hospitality is to be maintained at the Louisville Custom House, where the grand commandery of Kentucky -will have headquarters. This Is one of the handsomest buildings In the South. The entire second floor will be at the disposal of the grand body of the state Templars, and seven elegant entertainments are scheduled for the week. CTther public buildings that will figure prominently In the exercises that mark the week will be the City Hall, an ele gant building that wiltVbe converted for the time being into an electric palace, and where several of the Important com mandery entertainments will occur; the Jefferson County Courthouse, where a number of commanderles will have head quarters, and the Female High School, where the official sessions of the grand encampment of the Knights Templar will be held. Attractions are continually being added to the week's programme, so that It is Impossible to announce the complete Bchedule at this date. Divine services will ne conducted on Sunday afternoon, Au gust 25, at Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by Rev. J. C. Coxe, D. D., of Washington, La., grand prelate of the grand encampment. An escort committee of 700 Kentucky Sir Knights will be on duty from Saturday until Tuesday morning. All Incoming delega tions will be met at the railway sta tions and escorted by uniformed Tem plars with bands of music to their stop ping places. On Monday evening the Kentucky grand commandery headquarters will be opened. Tuesday mprning the conclave will be Inaugurated with the grand pa rade. Indications point to the appear ance of 30.000 uniformed Knights Tem plar, and 123 bands of music in the pro cession. The route of the parade covers the handsomest and broadest thorough fares in the city. On Tuesday evening a monster lawn fete will be given a the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, a fireworks exhibition accompanying this feature. The same evening a chorus of 200 negro voices, under the direction of Colonel Will S. Hays, author of "Mollie Darling," and other popular songs, will give an entertainment at the Horse how building. The second day of the conclave will be cevotea to the competitive drills. Five magnificent sterling silver trophies, val ued at $5JX& are to be awarded in prizes. .Not jsmce the triennial of 1883, at San Francisco, have the Knights Templar held a similar contest There will be two divisions Irr the drills, one for in fantry corps and one for mounted troops. Nine of the -crack drill teams of the country are entered as follows: Infan try division Columbia, No. 2, Washing ton, D. C; Alleghany, Pa., Np. 35; Cal vary. No. 3, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Han selmann. No. 16, Cincinnati; St. Bernard, No. 35, Chicago; Colorado. No. X. Denver Golden Gate, No. 16, San Francisco; -Mounted division ML Vernon, No. 1, Columbus,s Ohio, and California, No. 1,' San Francisco. In connection with the drills, 27 Kentucky belles will appear as sponsors for the Sir Knights entered in the contests. The conclave ball will take place Thurs day evening at Confederate Hall, a great building that -will accommodate 15,000 dancers at one time. This function bids fair to surpass- in brilliancy any social event ever given in the South. A horse show, with Kentucky thor oughbreds, trotters and pacers on exhi bition, will be one of the features of the week. It will be held at Churchhill .Downs,, the famous race-course, where .the. Kentucky derby is run. Every af ternoon and evening excursions will be given for the benefit of the Templar visitors and their friends. Railroad side trips are to be run to Mammoth Cave, Chlckamauga battlefield, and other points of interest during the period the Sir Knights are on the conclave pilgrimage. Quarters for the week have been se cured to date by about 20.000 visitors. In spite of the fact that so many contracts for accommodations have been closed, there is still abundant room for all strangers in the hotels, boarding-houses, or private residences. August weather In Louisville has proved an Interesting topic to prospec tive visitors from Northern and Eastern states. A special bulletin prepared by Major H. B. Hersey, the local official weather forecaster, shows that the last week of August the time of the con claveIs always considerably cooler than the preceding portions of the month. It is a -noteworthy fact that during the re cent Tieated spell the number of prostra tions reported by the Louisville Health Department is the smallest of any of the larger cities, while not one fatal sun stroke has occurred in the city during the Summer. Shingle Manufacturers Alarmed. OLTMPIA," Wash., July 28. The shingle manufacturers of this section are consid erably alarmed over the prospective ad vance In rates on the product of the local mills over the railway lines leading to the Eastern markets. Such an advance Is promised by the leading roads, and the shingle men are making a vigorous pro test against it, alleging that it would be disastrous at this time. COLONIAL COST AND TRADE Benefits of Expansion Not All In Dol lars and Cents. The report that Adjutant-General Cor bln has arranged with General Chaffee for a reduction of the Army In the Philip pines and that it is estimated that ex penses for this branch of the service may be decreased CO per cent suggests a re view of the cost of our war with Spain, which Indicates that we had better stick to its humanitarian import and ignore it as a cash transaction. Before the war began the maintenance of our Army came to about $50,000,000 an nually, that of the Navy to about $35, 000,000. The total for a period of four ?nr:.tleCJCn,n?cior0in the flscal year entl" ing with June, 1898, to the fiscal year just closed, would be $200,000,000 In the one case and $1-10,000,000 in the other. But the ac- THREE OF THE KENTUCKY SPONSORS WHO WILL BE AT THE ,Q ' ivzi. -,vi. or-yy T&aU Miss Mary Lewell Wntklns, Orrenaboro. tual cost of the Army during that period has been $600,110,636, and of the Navy, $240, 196.984. The excess on the first account is $400,110,636, on the second, $100,196,954. Add ing the $20,000,000 dven to Snaln the cash investment comes to more than $520,000,000, and it has been taken from the whole American people by taxation. . Of course, the Islands we have captured and purchased are worth a great deal more money than that, but what we have acquired is sovereignty, not property. The same people inhabit them as of old, and their property rights remain as of old. If we wish to make a point of material gains we shall have to turn to the question of trade and commerce, and even then no man can tell what the commercial gain might have been without sovereignty, since there is rto absolute ratio affecting politics and commerce. We exported as much or- nearly as much to Cuba in the year ending with June, 1893, as we did dur ing the last fiscal year, when the island was under our control. Looking, however, to the places that have been reduced to permanent posses sions we discover that there has been an Increase of American exports to them which may properly be attributed to a politically stimulated market for Ameri can commodities. The figures for the year Just closed, which are much larger than those for the previous year, are some $5,000,000 greater for Porto Rico than fhey were before the war. and not quite $4,000, 000 greater for the Philippines. But there are two things to note in this connection for the special bearing which they have on the meaning of the figures. Part of the gain In the Philippines is chargeable as an expense to the American people as a whole, since they paid for-supplies sent to the islands for the maintenance of their army, and, more important still, th rain in Porto Rico was distinctly a gain from tariff concessions. Trade follows low tariffs. But continued large expenditures on military account would far more than offset all possible gains, even if tariffs were abolished and it were permissible to balance a government debit with a trade credit. For the ratio of military cost to exports Is now about as 9 to 1. and the latter cannot have any very great expansion because the Importing people are not a people of highly culti vated wants. Our principal satisfaction from our course must lie In the fact that we have freed these people from oppression, and it will be the more convincing when a costly Army establishment Is no longer needed among them. Mischievous Broadway Mouse. When an up-town Broadway fruit store moved out to make way for a railway ticket office, one of the few things left behind was a mouse, says a New York paper. It has become quite a pet with the railroad men because of Its intelli gence and general air of good-fellowship. The office boys take turns in buying milk for its dinner. When the office closes at night the mouse has the run of the place, much to the chagrin of a .fine cat owned by the janitor pf the building, for the mouse knows very well that the great plate glass window is an Impenetrable barrier ior its nereauary foe and neighbor. So it takes a wicked delight in promenading j to the removal of the county seat of gov ln full sight of the tantalized and hapless ernment from what was the Courthouse puss. I An electric light on the corner mnVna the window as bright as day, showing Muffins, as the mouse has been named, with the utmost distinctness to his per sistent hunter. The cat will sit on the pavement for hours at a time, closely observing even move of Muffins, fol lowing him back and forth alo'ng the i Window, or sitting with switching -tail and quivering whiskers while the Impu dent youngster sits up to make faces at him. .every mue wmie tne cat makes a i jump ror the mouse, banging up against the plate glass window every time. When ever this happens the mouse beats a hurried retreat, as though not absolutely certain of the protection afforded by the transparent barrier. But it never runs " aim ao ouuu aa jjussy s CIUWS i stop scratching across the pane, back j comes the mouse and begins its antics once more. Puss may forget from one Jumping time to the next, or she may not understand the nature of the obstruction at all, thinking perhaps that it will become in tangible as well as invisible. However that may be, she repeats her fruitless leaps for the mouse many times a night, and night after night, until her owner at length steps up and leads the dis comfited hunter within doors, at the same time telling the crowd which al ways stands watching that "the show's over for the night.'' Muffins watches the disappearance of his crestfallen foe with triumphant glee gives a last mischievous switch with his tall, and hies himself away to sleep the sleep of the Innocent and to cogitate upon new methods of making puss's evenings unpleasant. A .Massachusetts fanner claims to have found an apple that was outwardly perfect, but the Inside of which was entirely consumed- by a worm that evidently crawled in through the Bteio. THE MORNING NOLET-UPINTHEFISHRUN DAILY PAYROLL AT ASTORIA ABOUT $100,000. IS Canneries Arc Still Compelled to Limit the Boats Price Cnt One Cent Per Ponnd. ASTORIA, Or., July 28. For the past 10 days there has been a payroll, as a result of the run of fish, of at least $100 -000 per day in and around Astoria. Th'o run had been small up to July 19 when the present large run commenced.' Since then every class of gear could catch more fish than could be handled, and many tons have spoiled. Tons of this class of fish have been thrown overboard. The can neries and cold-storage plants have paid for help prices before unheard of to keep their men at work, and labor, both Mon golian and wmte. has been Imported ' whenever possible. Clerks, after work- lr.g aii aay in stores, have earned $5 for losing a night's sleep and decorating their hands with blisters by laboring In Miss Gertrude Vogrt, Louisville. the canneries. While the present run started out as a phenomenal one, It was expected to follow the usual course and last only two or three days, but today from every Indication there are more sal mon in the river than ever. The fish are not matured for spawning, and have not gone above Puget Island, except the few of the regular July run, which are mixed up with the others. The feature of today's fishing was the drop in the price by the cannerymen from 6 cents to 5 cents, with a tendency to go still lower on account of the action of some of the fishermen. All glllnetters controlled by canners are ymited in the amount 0f their catch, and this fixed amount is paid for at the rate of 5 cents per pound. Many fishermen .deliver this amount, and then sell the remainder of their catch to Seufert, of The Dalles, who has opened a station here, for 3 cents per pound- This has demoralized prices until fish may be bought at any figure if the different interests desire to conflict with one another. Tonight 60 tons of fish were shipped to the canneries of Warren. Mc- Gowan and Seufert at The Dalles, and It is expected that at least this amount will be shipped every day while the run continues. One noticeable fact about the past two weeks, in connection (With the fishing In dustry, Is the absence of loss of life or accidents. One fisherman fell from his boat -while intoxicated and. was drowned and a Chinaman was killed by the explo sion of an old retort, but beyond this no accidents of any kind have been reported. It was expected that the limits placed on boats would be removed today, but it was found impossible to do so, although the limit may be reduced by tomorrow. One of the largest canneries here is at least 12 hours behind with its work. The arrival of extra help from the outside' has increased the capacity of the can neries, and the daily pack Is now larger than It has been. Glllnetters formerly delivered their fish to receiving stations at different points along the river, and from there they were taken to the can neries, but this system has been done away with, at least temporarily, and the glllnetters must deliver their catches to J the canneries, as It Is Impossible to tell more than a few hours ahead how many fish can be received and handled. Frank M. Warren, who Is the ruling spirit In the cold-storage plant of Trescott & Co., made his employes happy last night by raising the salaries of all $10 per month, and thoso who had been working for the company since the opening of the season had their advance date from that time. Qullayute Cannery to Be Enlarged. The steamer Sue H. Elmore will leave out tomorrow morning with a plledriver in tow for Qullayute River, Clallam County, Washington. M. J. Kinney, the veteran canneryman, began last season packing salmon on this river, and It proved so successful that he will enlarge his plant and at least double his pack there this season. HAS NO LEGAL COURTHOUSE. Thurston County Court Fails to So Designate Temporary Quarters. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Julv. 28. ConspmiAnt to the McKenny bulldlnsr. a knottv leeal question has arisen. When the removal was made during the past week, the Com missioners neglected to name the Mc Kenny building as the temporary Court-, house, and now from a legal standpoint the county is without a Courthouse. Sher iff Mills yesterday attempted to make a sale oi some property on a judgment. ana, in maKing tne sale, offered it to the highest bidder from the main entrance of the old Courthouse, now the Capitol. The attorney for the judgment debtor was present, and at once objected to the sale proceeding, on the ground that it was not being made from the Courthouse, as was announced in the printed notice. In or der to be on the safe side, the Sheriff not only made the sale from the old Court house, but Immediately afterwards re peated It from the main entrance of th MCK.enny building. An attorney, who has a similar sale to be made In the near ruture, has gone to the extreme of not only naming the McKenny building in the notice, but also describes It by metes and bounds. HAS REVOLUTIONIZED FARMING. Logan Cheese Factory a Good Thins for Stockholders and Community. OREGON CITY. Or., July 28. The Logan cheese factory, which has been' in operation a little over a year, has revo lutionized farming conditions In that sec tion. The cheese factory Is a co-operative concern, and during the month of May 30 stockholders delivered about 76,000 pounds of milk to the factory. .The milk was converted into 7S00 pounds of full cream cheese. The factory is on a paying basis, and the stockholders are well sat isfied. In fact, some of them say It Is the best Investment ever made In the community. B. Fallert, one of the most enthusiastic stockholders In the factory, has erected a large barn that required 40.000 feet of lumber In ita construction T'' , -rV OREGONIAN, MONDAY, This season he has put up a silo contain ing 60 tons of green clover hay, also 50 tons of dry hay. John C. Sprague and Frank Wilson have also put up silos. The farmers in the vicinity of the cheese fac tory are fast increasing their herds. FISH RUN IS IMPROVING. Good Catches Being: Made at Rivers Inlet and on the Skeena. VICTORIA. B. C. July 28. The steam er Princess Louise brings news that the salmon run is improving In the north. On Rivers Inlet, the fishermen are taking 150 to the boat, and about 50 to the boat on the Skeena. About three miles from Victoria, monster schools of salmon were passed going up the Straits from the Pacific. The water was thick with the fish for over a mile. News was brought of the death of J. H, Alexander, Collector of Customs, at Port Simpson. The steamer Queen City, from the West Coast of Vancouver Island brought $2500 in gold from Wreck Bay mines. MORE WORK AND MORE ORE. Never Was the Outlook So Bright In the Blue River Mining; District. LUCKY BOY, Or., July 28. More devel- TEMPLARS' TRIENNIAL vf 'Qi Miss Bessie Gray Dnnlap, Danville. opment work is being done In this district than ever before. More pay ore is p.lso in sight than at any time in the history of the district. Fifteen men are at work for Messrs. Brewbaker and Yerlngton on the Uncle Sam mine, over on the west side of Gold Hill, and the necessary ma chinery for a new sawmill for that com pany is on the road. The mill will be'eot up as soon a3 It arrives, and commence cutting timbers for a five-stamp mill, which it Is intended to complete before snow files. The Lucky Boy mill Is busy day and night, crushing 30 tons of ore dally. A new concentrating table is on the ground ready to be put in the mill. The latest new strike in this district Is by J. E. McCauley in the Morning mine, where he has found a ledge about 30 feet wide, carrying free gold In large quanti ties. The Morning is on the north side of Gold Hill. A new wagon road is about to be built by C. H. Park to the Treasure mine, con necting' with the Lucky Boy road at the hitter's sawmill. TRANSPORT FROM MANILA. Brought .Many Soldiers and Body of First Woman From Islands. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28. The trans port Meade arrived today from Manila in the record-breaking time of 21 days. The Meade brought 135 meof the Eighth Field Battery; 21 Hospital Corps men, cas uals; 35 insane, 369 convalescent sol diers, one time-expired prisoner, 202 dis charged soldiers from Manila, and 103 bodies, including that of Helen D. Coch rane, a contract nurse, who died in Mar nlla of acute nephritis. It Is the first body of a woman to be brought from the Philippines. There were about 100 pas. sengers, Including Brigadier-General R. R, Hall, Colonel C. R. Greenleaf, Colonel Moale, and a number of, other Army offi cers. Doctors Humphreys and Cnert. of the United States solar eclipse expedition, were also on board. Four deaths occurred during the voy agethose of Lieutenant E. J. Hlnchen, Forty-fourth Infantry; F. A. Bradley, Sec ond Cavalry; John Blue, Third Cavalry, and John Murphy, Fifteenth Infantry. Information was brought by the Meade that the transport Sheridan will arrive here about August 9, bringing General MacArthur and party and the men of the Fourteenth Infantry, United States'Army. Three Youngr People Drowned. TACOMA. July 28. Earl Jenkins nf R. kattle; Miss Florence Nevlns and Miss Anolla Cole, of Puyallup, were drowned this afternoon by the collapsing of a row boat on Spanaway Lake. David Han shaw, of South Tacoma, was with the party, but managed to retain hold of the boat until rescued. The bodies of the three young people were recovered sev eral hours after the accident. Held Up andRobbed. VALE, Or., July 28. George Sears and T. L. Arnold, of Beulah, were held'-up and robbed Friday at 11 o'clock on the summit of Bender Mountain, some dis tance this side of Agency Valley. The robber secured $75 in coin and checks and a. gold watch, besides other articles. Sears and Arnold came to Vale late Fri day night and informed Sheriff Law rence. Northwest Postal Orders. - WASHINGTON, July 24. The postof fice at Emery, Crook County, 'Or., has been discontinued. Mail messenger service to supply the office of Fort Flagler, Wash., has been authorized by the Postoffice Department. The postoffice at Ophir, Curry County, Or., will be discontinued July -31, mail going to Wedderburn. Marooned Japanese Found Helpless. VANCOUVER, B. C, July 28. A Jap aneese fisherman, who is alleged to havn been marooned by white fishermen last Monday, was found yesterday in a help less condition near Klnson Lighthouse. He was In a small shanty and had not had any food or water for five days. There Is no clew to the men mixed up in the alleged marooning. Mrs. Mary E. Callow. OLTMPIA. July 28. Mrs. Mary E. Cal low, wife of County Auditor A. L. Cal low, died at her home In this city yes terday, after a short Illness. The cause of her death was peritonitis. Deceased was well known In this and Skagit Counties, and was a prominent lodge and society woman. Record From Dawson Broken. VICTORIA, B. C. July 23. The -steamer Islander, which arrived from Skagway today, had passengers who came from Dawson here in less than six days, break ing past records. She brought $70,000 In gold. Brotherhood of St. Andrew. DETROIT, July 28. The final session of the convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew was held tonight, the bishop of Vermont, Right Rev. Arthur C. A. Holl, D. D.. presiding. s JULY 23, 1901. HILL'S BIG STEAMSHIPS EACH OF THEM TWO AND A HALF BLOCKS LONG. - Will Be the Largest Freight-Carriers Afloat Two Years Re quired to Finish Them. lnhun, Jt normo ships now be H!t for the Great Northern Railroad 2?VP7 afe, turned over to that com fhtL Pssess e two largest satf ttCa?P',n,s, ateao,sh!n8 now aflat. fa nM?it ?ro0? EaSle- Each of them Ifi- 5 J l and a ha!f bIocks lns. If fhllt Jn t,he averase city street one of !m uS S,hlps wouId flli " so that there wmiL ,?relyJ5e room ror men t0 Pa" by. while the officers on the bridge of the snip would be able to look Into th stvt, or seventh-story windows of a skyscraper ,1 wlIi Probably be two years before either of the two ships will approach com pletion, and It is likely to be two vears and a half before they can be launched, -tignt hundred men are working in the yards of the Eastern Shipbuilding Com pany, opposite New London. Conn., and practically the whole force Is being con centrated on the work of building the two big freighters. The keels have already been laid and some of the center frames have been placed In nnsltlnn t ,. initiated there Is little to indicate that tWO Van ohlnn , Vt i m .. .. preliminary scaffolding looks like that used in building a house. Nearly as much freight as could be stored In three big city warehouses can go In the holds of each of these two big ships. The actual dimensions of the ves sels are: 630 feet long. 73 feet wide and 56feet deep. Each will have a displace ment of 33,000 tons. The biggest passenger steamship now afloat is the Oceanic of the White Star line. The dimensions of the Oceanic are: Length, 704 feet; width 6S feet; depth, 49 feet; displacement. 28.500 tns- Forn these figures It can be seen .that while the Oceanic Is longer than Z 11. ine two mammoth freighters building at New London, the Great North ern's boats have, nevertheless, a greater displacement. The displacement of a freight steamship la, as a rule, a reliable indication of the ship's cargo-carrying capacity, and the new boats, therefore, will each have a greater carrying space than the Oceanic, even if that vessel weie fitted for transporting freight instead of passengers. There will be no place for fripperies on the new ships. Each will be about as handsome as a mud scow, but as useful as a. pin. There will be no accommodation for passengers, if the original plans are carried out, although it is possible that, later, asfis the case with many of the big English freighters, enough cabins will be built to accommodate a dozen or so seiect travelers. The ships of the Glen line, for Instance, are nominally cargo boats, but they have excellent passenger Hccommoaations beside and are able to obtain higher prices for passage to China than even the regular passenger steam ships. Each of the Great Northern' freight ers will have four masts, but these masts will carry powerful derricks Instead of sails. There. will be some sails carried aboard these ships, as there are on the trans-Atlantic steamships, but it is very seldom nowadays that a big steamship has to hoist a sail. If there is an utter breakdown of all the engines' the acci dent usually occurs In one of the regu lar steamship lanes, which are as well traveled as a -country street. A broken down steamship, therefore, will have its choice of tows or of wasting time with sails. Usually It will take a tow. Ships' mastst in these days, are used as derricks, as signal 'posts and for the, display of lights at night; in fact, for everything except sails. It Is the Intention of he Grt North ern .Railroad Company to make these two big freight steamships not only the larg est, but the swiftest, cargo-carriers in the world. They will be furnished with twin screws and will have triple-expansion engines almost as powerful and swift as those vessels designed entirely for speed. The engines of the Deutschland, of the North German Lloyd Company, yield" 35,640 horsepower, and it Is prob able that the engines to be built for the Great Northern's boats will be al most as powerful. The speed of these passenger ships is a shade better than 22 knots an hour, and it is the hope of the designers of the new big freighters to approach the speed of the trans-Atlantic steamships as nearly as the differences of construction will allow. The demand at present is for freight steamships of great carrying capacity and of high speed. The freight rates charged by the swift passenger steamships which cross the Atlantic and Pacific are very high, but the prices are gladly paid by merchants who want their goods in a hurry. The company which Is building these big ships Is making no experiment. It is merely meeting what it considers to be a well-marked demand for bigger boats and higher speed. Speed, in fact, is to be the keynote of the plan of the Great Northern's freight steamships. Electricity will be aplled to every service for handling the cargo, as far as possible. In fact, wher ever the quicker power can be used it will be employed in preference to steam. Instead of handling cargo by means of the slow, cumbersome and clumsy steam winches, electrical machines will be used. These electric derricks are operated by a switch so Ingenious that Its movements exactly resemble those of a human hand. When the operator wishes to lift a piece of freight from the hold of a ship and place it on the deck he has only to move his hand In exactly-the same way as he would If he were himself lifting a small box, In order to have the electrical derrick duplicate the action. When the controlling switch Is grasped, every move ment of the hand and wrist Is closely fol lowed by the powerful derricks. A down ward turn of the hand depresses the der rick hook; an upward turn raises it. Movements to the right and left, with either a downward or an upward slant, are made in the same way. It has been found by experience on the ships of the North German Lloyd Company In which electrical derricks are use"d that cargo can be unloaded by these electrical machines In one-third the time needed when work ing with steam winches. In the construction of the freighters the usual materials and methods will be em ployed, although the electricity and com pressed air are being largely used. Each vessel will be divided into three great water-tight boxes. The middle "box" will contain the engines. The other two are for cargo. Except for such obstructions as are formed by the necessary bulk heads, there will be nothing but cargo space In the fore and aft compartments. The freeboard will be cut away at each end of the boat, so that the bulwarks can be temporarily removed during the handling of heavy freight. This construc tion, originally peculiar to English freighters, has been adopted by Ameri can shipbuilders as the best for cargo boats. , When the big ships are put into com mission they will be used almost at once in the China trade. Their first cargo will probably be American. . xoal, which will be transported to Hong Kong or Shang hai by the same route which the battle ship Oregon took when she came around the Horn. After unloading the biggest cargo of coal that has ever been sent across the, Pacific, the ships will take aboard a cargo of Oriental merchandise and return to the United States across the Pacific to either San Francisco or a more northern port It Is likely that one boat will make its home port at San Francisco. At present it is the Intention to use both of the ships In Pacific waters, but this is quite likely to be modified. The man who planned the big freighters Is J. J. HIIU president of the Great Northern Railroad.. Mr. Hill wants to control tho China trade, In which he sees a great future, and these two boats are Mellin's Food Babies We have a.book filled with their pictures. The book contains some infor mation about Mellin's Food. If it does not tell you what you want to know, write to us. We will write you. a special per sonal letter, answering any questions about the use of Mellin's Food. Mellin's Food is peculiarly adapted to the requirements of infants In hot weather. When baby h suffering from the heat and perhaps Is a little feeble in his digestive powers, it is to hU "wdMon?"7 thC ChUd 8h0UW haVC " f0d that " "Si,y d'Be3tcd "nd adPted MELLIN'S FOOD COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. the first-move in his flnt for trade su premacy in the Pacific. If the two boats are as successful as they are expected t? be, they will be followed by five more steamships of the same dimensions and capacity. Other railroad maenntP .-. watching Mr. Hill's work very cloesly and already several competing lines have been planned. .ere Is supposed to be a war between the Morgan and Hill In terests, but the developments of the last few weeks make It seem likely that the two will comblhe their interests so as to control the hipping situation. There seems to be a very general idea among that class of moneyed men who seldom make mistakes, that a situation is im pending in China which will open the whole of that country to American enter prise and commerce. When that time comes If It ever does the men who are now either building or designing rail roads and steamship line to the Orient mean to be in a position to profit by It. The war has 'done a great deal toward opening the eyes of American financiers to the trade possibilities of China, but many of them seem to forget to take into consldoratlon that the effect of the intervention of the powers did not raise in the Chinese heart any overwhelming feeling of affection toward the white man. Any trade that is done with China for the next 10 years is likely. In the opinion of such men as Sir Robert Hart, to be carried on almost by force. Noth ing but the fear of retaliatory conse quences will, he thinks, prevent the Chi naman from declaring a strict boycott on all foreign goods. In any event, he thinks it likely that the conditions of trade In China will be more difficult than before the war. It hardly seems likely that Mr. Hill and the men who have supported him in employing $15,000,000 for the development of a swift .freight-carrying line of steam ships, have made any mistakes about the Chinese situation. It, is believed by those who are in a position to know something of the facts that much of the freight which will be carried to the Chinese 6&at by the big ships will go info the interior of Asia by way of the Trana- falberian Railroad. Then, too. the con sumption of American wheat and cotton in China and Japan is already so large that It has reached a point where the volume of business Is only limited by the transportation facilities to the Orient. Even with China left out, Japan and Eastern Russia are sufficiently large cus tomers to make the transportation of goods profitable. The railroad lines of the West and Northwest have appreci ated thia situation, and Mr. Hill, for the Great Northern Railroad, has been the first in the field to make a bid for the business with his big, swift steam ships. HERROlf AND WILSON. some xjount a to Scriptural Baals 6f Their Views. San Francisco Bulletin. We suppose that theologians will never agree upon what Christianity is. The sim ple view of it as a life to be lived, and not a dogma to crack heads and cut throats about, Is not generally accepted, perhaps because It is simple. But one is at a loss to find In what little the New Testament teaches any authority for de nouncing private ownership of property as sinful and antl-Chrlstlah. The brief passage which describes the forlorn fra ternity of the Disciples and accents their trials by saying that "they had all things in common" cannot be taken as authority for the overthrow of an industrial system that has developed out of the frictions, the ambitions and the energies of man! The competitive system Is as old as the nrsx amDiuon to De better than his fellows that stirred one man to work more or ao Detter work in order to that he might have more and live better. No one has yet shown how the civilization we have could have grown on the foundation advocated by Herron and Wilson. With all the resources of the universe in public ownership, what stimulus would there have been to the ambition and the Inventive genius of man? Would a government have Invented and perfected the steam-engine? Would it have invented the telegraph and tele phone, the turbine wheel, electric light and the appliances of electric power? Governments do not invent or Improve anything. Government cannot even de fend itself without the help of the in vldual who, under the much abused com petitive system, has felt moved and spurred on by the necessity that he excel In order that he may live better and In more agreeable circumstances. The evidence appears to be on the side of the declaration that if the conditions for which Herron and Wilson declaim had existed and been maintained among men to this day we' would have neither science, nor art, nor civilization. If this be so, to Introduce those conditions now may mean the loss of science, art and civ ilization by processes as gradual as those by which these have been gained by man. ifeTv ITae for Megaphones. New York Times. All ready for that next column!" Passers-by on Liberty street, between Nassau and William, on a recent after noon, were much mystified by this cry. It seemed to come from somewhere away up in the clouds, and was uttered in a deep, unnatural tone that caused every body to stop. Its origin was not far to seek, however. In the street a gang of men were busy passing iron chains around a huge Iron column, making It ready for hoisting. Up on the fourteenth .floor of the new annex tq the Mutual Life build ing stood a man with a megaphone. These Instruments are constantly in Use on the big buildings now going up In the down-town section. When structures were only seven or eight stories high a man with a good voice had no difficulty in making himself heard from the roof, but nowadays the ironworkers at the top of a 20-story skyscraper do not try to over come the noises of tho street. The fore- man up aloft and the one at the curb both have megaphones, and can talk things over whenever they feel like It. AT. THC HOTELS. THE PORTLAJCD. w?. 5Ker"' Chicago C E Creary & wf. Hot Sherman SL wlfe.i "VVaxhlngton -irSltIakc e,t" lMrs R J Youns. Pa MP Burton. Seattle ,'l O Young. Pa J Steel. do ID H Barnes & wf. James Stokes & valet, j Thlla r. . GM Parks & wf. Mass C E Curry, city D M Dlllen & wf. do F L Grcenough, Aston Mrs A G Dlnsmore & . Icf; jHU- Mass $ -Jr kJcCoU0. N Y Mrs E M Bicker. A,MaS.,e,r N Y Washington. D C i,n .UJJCT,& wt Mtos M Sawor. do MU,d..F,,er 1 n MockrlUse & w G Bishop. Monmthj Xewark C W Narqulst. Mont0 A Mockrldgo & wf Mrs J G A Gray, Newark PcsIo,.nesJ fM,sa Schcnck. 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Astoria Mrs McAllister, do J Stewart. S F G L McAllister, do Mrs J Stewart. S-.F Mrs G L McAllister. doJMlss F Stewart, S F C E Harroond. Gr Pass Hotel Brunnvrlct, Seattle. European: first-class. Rates. 75e an , One block from depot. Restaurant next door. Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma. 3 American plan. Rates, J3 and up. Donnelly Hotel. Tacoma. European plan. Kates. 50c and tip. " ; Fairbanks for "Monks. -- INDIANAPOLIS, July 23. The Sentinel says: "It Is reported that Senator Fairbanks will recommend Chief Justice J. L. Mo'n&s of the Indiana Suprtme Court, to 'suc ceed Judge Woods, deceased, as Judge of the United States Circuit' Court for the district composed of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin." - - -