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THE MOROTNG OREGONIAtf, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,' 1900.
WHITTIER: CRITICAL STUDY BY PROF. GATES
(Copyright, 1900, oy Seymour Eaton.)
THcOREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED B PROF. SEYMOUR EATON
LITERARY TALKS
AND REMINISCENCES
XIV.
It must at once be conceded that art
istry is not to be Xound in Whlttiers
poems. Even when he is most impressive
and best 'worth reading and often ho
Is very Impressive Indeed and extremely
well worth reading he wins his power
over us in no degree through a curlosa
f elictas of phrase or imagery cr versifica
tion. In the proem to his poems he has
noted, and justly noted, his lack of
"rounded art," and has contrasted his
poetry with what he calls in character
istically conventional words "the old
melodious lays" of such singers as Mar
veil and Sidney and Spenser. Doubtless,
'Whlttler'a verse is now and then finely
vigorous and even musical, and doubt
less his phrasing, particularly in some of
his impassioned moral poems, is often
vital and imaginative. But he has in his
work no certainty of instinct; he is never
af against utter commonplaceness both
of sentiment and of phrase. Triteness of
diction, then obviousness of motif and a
nappy-go-lucky stylethese are the pre
vailing faults of Whlttler's poetry.
Tet when these faults have been ad
mitted in their full proportion, and when,
too, all the cruder melodramatic stories
have been set aside the versified dime
novels like "Mogg Megone" and the irre
deemably "plain tales1' and legends like
"The Bridal of Pennacook," and when
finally the tediously humdrum moralising
has been expurgated we still have a
goodly residuum of Whlttler's poetry that
possesses enduring charm and power.
Perhaps most noteworthy of all the
poems are those that express moral Indig
nation, that protest against oppression
and that plead for freedom. In treating
these themes Whlttler's voice grows
clearer and more resonant, his verse Is
tenser, more vibrant, more subtly alive
to the changes of his moods, and his
words are picturesque, original, search
ingly sincere and impassioned. A stanza
from "The Bendltlon" well represents the
mood in ."which many of these poems
were written:
And as I thought of Liberty
Marched handcuffed down tho eworded street.
The solid earth beneath my feet
Reeled fluid as the eea.
It is not easy as we recall Whlttler's
portrait particularly the portraits of
later years to fancy behind the some
what pale, uncxpresslve and withered
face a spirit fierce enough to flame out
In the words and stanzas of many of the
voices of freedom. But the pathetic,
burning eyes tell the story. Underneath
the quakerlsh plainness of aspect there
was on unquenchable ardor of love for
mankind and of hatred for wrong and
oppression. When Whltticr heard or read
of some deed of cruelty or tyranny the
whole spirit of the m3n became a flame
fanned by the wind, and the true inter
pretation of his worn face in later years
would explain it as a face burned out
and calcined by the heat of moral Indig
nation. Tet an equally essential Ingredient In
Whlttler's nature was a sweet and al
most homely delight in tho common
things of life. Nowhere more surely
than in his verse can those of us who
have children in country towns and vil
lages And revived the old-time childish
delights in Summer and Winter, in the
fields. In the woods, in birds and in
sects and all living creatures whose ways
were o delectably droll and enticing.
The indoor home life, with Its placid,
simple pleasures Whlttier has captured
that, too, and preserved It with exquisite
fidelity and charm. In treating themes
like those he is a Xew England Cowper,
and yet he is closer to fact than Cowper
and has a racier, less literary Idiom.
"Snow-Bound" transports us In a moment
into the magical Winter regions of boy
hood: the poem makes one's breath con
geal In the air as one reads: all the old
Winter feelings exhale from the pages.
In "Amy Wentworth" and "Among the
Hills" Whlttier calls up with delicate
vividness the softer aspects of rustic
New England life; the stanzas carry with
them a delicious russet fragrance. In
these poems and many others Whlttier
excels in spiriting up before us the very
counterfeit presentment of New England
country landscapes their
Old roads wlndinp as old roads will.
Here to a ferry and there to a mill;
their
Homesteads old, with wide-nun? barns
8wept through and through by swallows;
their
Orchards and planting lands;
end in the distance
The blink of the sea in breeze and sun.
In all these descriptions Whlttler's
words and Images have a first-hand,
fcright Intensity; the landscape shines be
fore ns in authentic "Yankee sunlight;
there is no mystification, no European
Idealisation; there is much happy close
ness to the many-hued and nicely varied
fact
Of course, th jyjgms that Whlttier If
cfterrest remembered by are ballads like
aiaudMuller," "Barbara Frietchle," "The
AngelB of Bueaa Vista," "Skipper Ireson's
Bide" and "The Pipes of X.ucknow." Sev
eral of these have been droned by re
citers out of all semblance of freshpess
and power; but even In themselves they
vary greatly in value. "Maud Muller"
(s at best little moro than a maudlin
aentiment. "The Angels of Buena Vista"
is a cleverly theatrical ballad, rather
cheap in tone and phrasing, and overllb
eral of melodramatic limelight situations.
"Wntttier at T8.
"Skipper Ireson's Side" is an admirably
spirited narrative a fine compound of
humor and pathos, human through and
through, and delightfully grotesque and
picturesque. "Barbara Frietchle" and
"The Pipes of Iueknow" portray genuine
ly dramatic incidents with terseness and
vigor of phrase, sureness of -music and
.forthrlghtness of movement.
But the poems where Whlttier comes
nearest to creating a nameless kind of
novel beauty are the two little-known
poems, "Howard at Atlanta" and tho
"Song of Slaves In the Desert." Both
deal with negro subjects; both are trem
ulously musical in their rhythm; hoth
are poignantly pathetic The former poem
catches and suggests even more marvel
ously than St. Gaudens' memorial to
Robert Shaw the atmosphere of sadness
and strangeness in which, when one looks
at them in certain imaginative moods,
negroes seem WTapt and Involved their
tragic yearning toward "the beautiful
denied them." The "Slave Song" Is sung
by a caravan of captives lashed onward
by Moors through the desert. "Hubee" Is
their -same for God, and the heart-sick
refrain, "Where are we going, Bubee?"
is woven in and out of the poem with
plaintive iteration. The fierce lights, the
dead shadows and the blazing colors of
the desert pervade from first to last a
poem which is strange and mystical be
yond anything else Whlttier wrote; and
as we follow the lamenting train of
slaves through the pathless, wind-swept
tracts of sand toward the ever-vanishing
gray horizon line their sorrowful
progress grows for us almost terribly
symbolic of humanity' wayfaring through
the wastes of time. These are perhaps
the only poems of Whlttler's that carry
the reader beyond the bounds of perfect
ly sane and authentic moral emotion.
Whlttler's "Songs of Labor" are rather
fictitious affairs, sentimentally decorative
In style and treatment. His drover, shoe
maker, fisherman and other heroes coma
perilously near resembling the cheaply
pretty lithographs with which country folk
adorn their parlors. These poems can
hardly hold their own with Mr. Kipling's
fiercely faithful prose and verse lyrics
of toll and tollers. On the other hand,
there remains one group of poems In
which Whlttier is almost at his best
poems in which he utters with Impas
sioned sincerity his personal faith In
God and in the ultimate triumph ol every
Just cause. In this group belong "Invoca
tion," "My Psalm" and "My Triumph."
Every one knows well the tender, buoy
ant, almost boyish courage of "My
WHITTIEH'S H03IE, AMESDURY, MASS. '
Psalm." the sweet youthfulnes3 of lt
unstained and undlmmed faith In eaVly
Ideals. "Invocation" Is specially note
worthy because several of Its stanzas,
describing God's spirit breathing through
chaos, have a vislonarlness and an imagi
native scope and an Intensity and au
dacity of diction that are with Whlttier
very unusual.
Through thy clear spaces. Lord of olJ;
Formless and void the dead earth rolled;
Deaf to thy hcaYen's sweet music, blind
To tho great lights which o'er it shlncd;
No sound, no ray, no warmth, no breath
A dumb despair, a wandering death.
To that dark, weltering horror came
Thy Bplrlt, like a subtle flame
A breath of life electrical.
Awakening and transforming all,
Till beat and thrilled In every part
The pulres of a living heart.
Then knew their bounds the land and sea;
Then smiled the bloom of mead and tree;
From flower to moth, from beast to man.
The quick creatix'e Impulse ran;
And earth, with life from thoe renewed,
"Was in thy holy eyesight good.
Finally, In "My Triumph," a poem much
later than "My Psalm," there sounds
the same note of fresh and joyous confi
dence as In the earlier poem. Its clos
ing lines are good lines to leave ringing
in one's memory as one parts from Whlt
tier; they are essentially of his simple,
cheerful, tender-hearted manliness:
Parcel and part of all,
I keep the festival.
Fore-reach the good to be,
And share tho victory.
I feel the earth move sunward,
I Join the great march onward.
And take, by fa'.th. while living.
My freehold of thanksgiving.
Harvard University.
THE GOOD OF CHURCHES.
A Correspondent "Who Thinks They
Can Be Dispensed "With.
PORTLAND, Sept 13. To the Editor.)
In answer to Dr. Edgar P. Hill's 10
mlnute talk on fraternal orders in your
Issue of September 10, allow me to state
as follows:
Dr. Hill tells some truth and facts,
when he says that fraternal orders arc
not a new thing. They have indeed exist
ed from time immemorial, in all climes
and countries. Orders were called Into
life then as now for mutual protection
and preservation. Let me here state that
the grandest order ever organized in
America was the "Sons of Liberty" (what
a beautiful name), and the men compos
ing the same were worthy of It. They
were the men who freed this country
from tho foreign yoke, who gave such
men as Dr. Hill free speech and press.
Tho Doctor, however, It seems, has not
posted himself thoroughly on the subject
in question. He talks about fraternal or
ders reaching their heights in the Middle
Ages in the shape of guilds. The guilds
were at first merely religious societies,
and gradually evolved Into peace, fire In
surance, merchant, craft and beneficiary
corporations. The latter three were the
strongest in the 18th century. The" writer,
even as shortly as S5 years ago, remem
bers m his native home Germany) very
powerful organizations, called "gllden"
(plural). None of them, however, attained
the same enormous proportions as the
fraternities of the present day, covering
whole continents nay, the whole globe.
The guilds were more of a distinct local
character, embracing only a small area
of country, outside of which they had no
fraternal ties. Any one in sound bodily
health and willing to abide by the rules
of the fraternal "glide" could become a
member and receive In case of sickness
or death certain stipulated emoluments,
just like in our present-day fraternal or
ders. Dr. Hill's definition of guild as being
derived from the German word, "geld,"
which he says means payment. Is not ex
actly right. Geld means money. Guild Is
derived from the old Celtic word "gield"
or "glldl," which means sacrifice; traced
back to old heathen drinking festivals,
where such sacrificial offerings were made
In the shape of roasted oxen a kind of
barbecue.
In reference to the Middle Ages, let me
say that people (especially the weaker)
and producing classes banded themselves
together Into societies for the protection
of their life,, limb and property to oppose
tho then prevailing "first right" and "rob
bing knlghtdom." which held sway. Al
though first right is not now recognized,
nor do the robber barons come to a vil
lage and by force pack off all valuables
of the farmer and townsman, yet the ne
cessity of organization Is paramount, so
that Farmers' Alliances, Granges and
the countless trades and labor unions are
called Into life for the protection of the
producing classes, to stem the tide of the
greedy money power, even If government
by Injunction tries to strangle fair free
dom by the throat. To tell' the truth, lit
tle difference exists between now and the
Middle Ages. The ways and means are
different, but tho results are the same.
Let me return to my original string of
C. 2L
thought. If all men would belong to ono
or two fraternal orders and become thor
oughly Imbued with the tenor and spirit
of the same In alleviating the distress
and suffering of their fellow meri I can
assure the Doctor that churches and
preachers would soon become a drug on
the market.
The writer believes that under the pres
ent social system fraternal orders are a
painful necessity. He also believes that
churches are necessary for the "multi
tudes" of sinners, whose Ill-gotten share
ot wealth burdens their guilty con
sciences. Some day, however, this earth
will be able to dispense with both
churches and fraternal societies, when the
social conditions will be so molded that
no one need suffer. The old and decrepit
will not eat alms at the hands of others.
The sick will be looked after and suc
cored. The weeping widow and children
will not be thrown on a cold world, after
her husband's demise. The Doctor seems
to fear that designing men will use the
orders for political or mercenary motives.
I will answer this question like tho Yan
kee by asking: "Are the churches ever
used by men of this stripe for a similar
purpose?"
The Doctor's fenr that the fraternities
might take the place of the church may
bo just, but Christ himself, the greatest
frater who ever lived, made a church out
of any placo. He preached brotherly love,
fed the hungry and healed the sick un-,
dor the open heavens, and states that the
prayers of the mother In her poverty
stricken attire shall be heard as quick as
those of the rich, who are able to buy
silken-cushioned pews in the front rows
of the foremost churches. It is a well
known fact, however, that a $2000 policy
In a fraternal order is a pretty safe In
vestment; prayers, to say the least, are
an uncertain quantity, a poor diet for a
hungry widow and children.
I admire the untiring efforts of tho Sal
vation Army for suffering and erring hu
manity, an example worth imitation by
all preachers. And If they as a class
would do likewise instead of drawing fat
salaries and preaching in palatial
churches, where hypocrisy holds forth to
a great extent, more and lasting good
would be accomplished. As long as we
must contend with present social condi
tions I trust that every man will rather
join a fraternal society Instead of the
church, and thus contrlflute his mite to
those In need, and let the preacher tak'o
care of himself.
DR. PAUL J. A. SEMLER,
POPE LEO AT HOME.
Hots- the Asred Priest Spends the Hot
Summer Days.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pio Centra is the factotum of his
holiness, Leo XIII, and a very im
portant personage In the Vatican. He Is
a short, wiry man, well up in the fifties,
olive complexioned, close-shaven, with
piercing eyes and a benevolent smile.
He comes from Carplneto, the native
town of the pope, where Centra lived
and sold straw hats next door to the
Peccl palace until Gloachimo Peccl be
came Leo XIII, called him to the Vati
can and installed him as confidential
valet.
In time Centra became a great fa
vorite. The old pope likes to gossip
with his faithful townsman in the Car
plneto vernacular, a link perhaps the
only link of the old home on the hills,
and Centra Improved his opportunities,
and Is now more of a "fidus Achates'"
than of an upper servant. He Is grow
ing rich, too, and was lately knighted,
so that he Is now the Cavallere Pio
Centra of the papal order of San Gre
gorlo. He Is the first man the pope
sees In the morning and the last to bid
the holy father good night as he helps
him to bed.
An Influential man is the Cavallere Pio
Centra, probably well posted In Vatican
state secrets, which would be worth
money were he Inclined to blab, which
he is not. This minor star of the pontifi
cal court has much to say about the
grand old man, his master.
The pope, he says, Is spending these
hot Summer days in the Caslna Delia
Torre, a one-storied cottago overshad
owed by trees in the further end of the
Vatican gardens. In the morning, when
nothing extraordinary detains him In the
apostolic palace, and after seeing the
cardinal secretary of state and one or
two other prelates, Leo drives to" this
quiet chalet to spend the day In the
country, as he says, when In a jocular
mood. Centra follows, after seeing that
the papal bedchamber in the Vatican
has been made tidy, and after conferring
with the cook about his holiness' din
ner. The repast is sent at noon from
the palace In a hamper provided with a
heating apparatus, and Centra lays the
table, and he pope looking on and In
specting the dishes extracted from the
basket.
Generally the first course consists of
boiled paste, a dish to which Leo, like
most of the Italians, is very partial. The
paste is prepared by tne nuns of Santa
Martha, and consists of flour kneaded
with new-laid eggs and rolled Into tiny
vermicelli, which, after having been
slightly boiled,- are seasoned with but
ter and a soupcon of grated Parmesan
cheese.
Fried chicken is generally the next
dish, and then fruit, preferably a pear,
sometimes two, and a glass of wine. A
cup of strpng coffee without sugar and a
chat with Centra winds up the frugal re
past, after which a siesta on an easy
chair Is indulged in. Centra takes caro
that no noise disturbs the postprandial
nap of the old pope. He and De Castro,
another attendant the only two who
wait on his holiness in this sylvan re
treatspeak in whispers, and the silence
is supreme, only qualified by the
gurgling of a distant fountain and by
the .crickets on the surrounding trees.
At 3 o'clock Centra wakes the pontiff,
who spends the afternoon In reading and
writing, and as the shades of evening
gather he strolls under the trees until
the carriage, escorted by mounted
guardsmen, comes to take him to his
Vatican home, when Cardinal Rampolla
is in attendance with a report on the
events of the day.
Fortnnc for a Dressmaker.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Just after a
City Marshal had served Miss Georglana
Slmonson, a dressmaker of this city, with
dispossess proceedings, an attorney who
had been seeking her for several days
called on her and notified her that she
was heir to $25,000. Tho money was be
queathed to Miss Slmonson by Frank Ste
vens, an American wno died a few
months ago In St. Petersburg. He left
It in appreciation of her former kindness
to his wife, who was the victim of, a run
away accident In this city, and who died
a few months before Mr. Stevens,
HAS SEEN BEST DAYS
BOOM OP PACIFIC COAST SAIiMON
BUSINESS PAST.
It Is Becoming a Settled Industry
The Season's Shortage and
Losses at the North.
Salmon-packers express the belief that
the red fish Industry has passed its me
ridian; that Is, the supply has reached
top notch, as a spontaneous offering ot
nature, and will decline with considera
ble rapidity unless measures be taken to
preserve, protect and defend it from
man's rapacity. The history of the Co
lumbia River salmon Industry is being
repeated at Puget Sound, on Fraser
River, in Northern British Columbia, and
in Alaska. The greedy fishers take the
fish as fast as they come and find the
supply at length dwindles. Then they
set about artifioial propagation to repair
the unnatural waste they have wrought
and restrict the catch. The Industry be
comes organized on economic lines, ana
bonanza fishing is done. The ocean be
comes a range for the output of the
hatcheries, which in due season is round
ed up and sent to market in a tin can
or on a chunk of ice.
No official figures of this year's salmon
pack are available. Estimates of the
catches of the various localities have
been made as usual, showing a shortage
that Is somewhat alarming. The figures
fun all the way from 000,000 to 1,000.000
cases as the extent of the deficiency.
This, of course, is a considerable factor
in the market. Indeed, so large a fac
tor Is It that some suspect that the
shortage Is greatly overestimated In or
der to influence the market. The fact
that all of this season's pack is already
sold, that there are not flsh enough to
fill the advance orders, Is pointed to on
the one hand as destructive of the mo.
tlve for bulling the market; but, on the
other, hand, It Is cited that other sea
sons are coming, and belief in a scarclty
of fish will help prices for the future.
There Is little doubt that the Colum
bia River Spring pack ths year' ex
ceeded that of the Spring of 1S&). Nomi
nally, It stands this year at 262,00!)
cases canned and the equivalent of 60,
000 cases packed in cold storage, and
last year 278,000, cases canned and about
40,000 cases frozen. Last year It was
found that the estimates fell only 2000
cases short of the official returns, but
candid salmon men express the convic
tion that tHls year's estimate will be
found to be much below the actual fig
ures of the official report. The Oregon
Fish Commissioner will have sworn
statements of tho Columbia River pack,
or enough of It to insure substantial ac
curacy to the figures for the river some
time In November. .
In tho northern waters it was ex
pected that the season's catch would be
below the average, on the theory that
every fourth year the salmon run is
light, but the slump that Is reported Is a
surprise. The Alaska pack does not 'cut
much of a figure in the market, It being
an inferior fish and sold at a cheap
price. The sockeyes of Puget Sound and
British Columbia rank next to the royal
Chinook of the Columbia River, which
has no equal. The steelhead of tho Co
lumbia is a very desirable flsh for cold
storage, and Its price has been run to
high figures. Last year the price for
this fish was so great that the dog
salmon of Puget Sound began to be used
to supply the demand for steelhead, and
cut the market to pieces. So the cold
storage men managed to run up the price
of the dog salmon until it was 50 cents
apiece, whereas It had been but 5 cents
or less. This protected the steelhead
market. But It is said -the cold storage
men have enough of these fancy prices,
and, having gotten , rid of their load,
thoy will let prices for raw flt.h take
care Of themselves In future. The flsh
now figuring In the market are the 262,
000 cases of Columbia River salmon, the
SOSiOOO Puget Sound sockeyes (against
4&7.CC0 last year), and the 333,000 British
Columbia sockeyes (against 725,983 last
year).
Hon. George T. Myers, who Is an ex
tensive packer of Puget Sound, In Bpeak
lng of the situation there, said:
"I am fully in accord with the senti
ments expressed in the various, reports
from all parts of the Northwest coast
in the matter of the salmon crop of
1900, admitting that tho Fall pack will
come up to last year, which was a very
good pack. The total pack of salmon on
tho Northwest coast will be 800,000 to 1,
000,000 cases, short of 1S99. The shortage
comes mostly from Frazer River ana
Puget Sound. These two places have
been so overworked that In future, as on
the Columbia River, these two places
will be limited factors compared with
what they have been In former years.
The total of losses at ,both of these
places from sockeyes not coming this
year will exceed all tho profits since the
large Chicago syndicate and newcomers
to Puget Sound made their advent there.
The fact is. there are too many opera
tors for the territory. Besides, so many
operators break up the schools and more
salmon than usual escape up the river,
and what Is caught is divided to such
an extent that each get at great expense
a limited number.
"The time is past for anybody to make
anything packing salmon on Puget
Sodnd. What Puget Sound and Fraser
River need to perpetuate the industry
are laws that will condemn the whole
territory for the use of any kind of nets,
seines and devices for catching salmon,
otherwise than hook and line, for three
or four years. After that time we may
have an industry that may be perpetuat
ed. As it Is, millionaire syndicates will
swarm with moistened stock until the
rivers and bays are depleted of a pro
duct that has brought into Oregon and
Washington millions of dollars."
Philip L. Kelly, of Seattle, who Is one
of the largest Individual handlers of
sockeye salmon In the world, was In
New York the other day, and gave the
Commercial the following statement of
the conditions of the fishing business on
Puget Sound:
"The cost of canning salmon on Puget
Sound Is such an uncertain problem that
it cannot be safely computed until the
season Is over and the pack completed.
To prepare for a pack on Puget Sound
the necessary supplies of tlnplate, block
tin, pig lead, boxes, laqucr, labels and
a thousand and one things which enter
Into the make-up of a pack,- as a matter
of course, must be provided for In ad
vance. Thus far the problem Is easy.
The uncertainty commences when the
canner starts to procure his help, which
Is usually composed of Chinese, con
trolled by some of the large companies
located at Seattle and Portland.
"To secure a sufficient and experienced
force the canner must arrange in ad
vance with the Chinese contractors for
so many men at a certain price per
case, whatever the ruling price may be.
and guarantee the packing of so many
thousand cases Irrespective of the run of
fish. This guarantee Is usually figured
according to the number of men required
to put up such a pack, and which the
packer Is compelled to pay under any
conditions.
"The crew are there at all times await
ing a run, and are not dependent upon
the run of flsh for their wages. I have
known canners to pay as high' as $15,000
to cover a Chinese guarantee for the
lack of fls'h, and I think this year some
of the canners will pay much more than
this sum to satisfy their unfulfilled con
tracts. "An even greater uncertainty of cost
must now enter the packers' calculations,
as the flsh are caught In what are known
aa 'traps.' The word conveys no1 ade
quate idea of Its extent, the trap being
a net contrivance set on a string of
piling, running. about 2000 feet in length
off shore into deep water, at the end of
which is a system ot leads that end in
what is known as a 'pot,' all of which
is covered with webbing, and cost com-
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"No up-to-date cannery can sifely op
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to operate this number of traps each
cannery must be equipped with a marine
department of from three to eight flsn.
lng steamers, one to five pile drivers,
20 to 40 fishing scows, webbing, piles,
anchors, chains; in short, a complete
ship chandlery must be maintained, for
the handling of which hundreds of men
must be employed and supplied with
food and other necessaries.
"Some of the steamers employed cost
from $10,000 to $CO,000 each, the operating
expenses running as high as $100 per
day for the larger boats. Pile-drivers
equipped with electric dynamos and
steam hammers are also employed, rang
Ine In cost from $4000 to $5000, and all
this expense must be provided before a
cannery is in condition to operate, and a
great deal of this expense is borne an
nually. "In no part of the world do the ex
penses of canning compare with that of
Puget Sound. The expenses on the. Sac
ramento, Columbia, Fraser and In Alaska
waters are comparatively light when Pu
get Sound cost is taken Into considera
tion. The packers of Puget Sound are
In a class by themselves, and their
course in selling their product cannot,
therefore, be compared with other sec
tions." Population of Cities.
With the announcement of the popula
tion of Detroit, the Census Bureau has
completed the count of the 30 largest cities
in the land, showing a total of 13,243,515.
Already over 30,000,000 have been counted,
and it is estimated that the' census for
1900 will show a population of over 75,000,
000. The list of the 30 largest cities and
their population is as follows:
Greater New York ....'. 3,437,202
Chicago 1,G0J,575
Philadelphia 1,203,697
St. Louis 075.2JS
Boston 560,892
Baltimore .C0S.057
Cleveland 381,708
Buffalo 332.21S
Hon Francisco 342.7S.
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Cincinnati 325,002
Pittsburg 321.C1U
New Orleans 287,104
Detroit 285,701
Milwaukee 283,318
Washington 27S.718
Newark 240,070
Jersey City 200,43,1
Louisville 20-1.731
Minneapolis 202.718
rrovklehce 175,597
Indianapolis 1G0.104
Kansas City 103,752
St. Paul 1C3.032
Rochester 1C2.4.J5
Denver 133,859
Toldo 131,822
Allegheny 120.39C
Columbus 125,500
Omaha 102,555
Total 13.243,513
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DELAWARE, O., Sept. 14. Excitement
over the race troubles still continues.
Threats are freely made on both sides,
and numerous negroes have been, order
ed out of town. The mob lacks a leader,
which has prevented serious trouble.
Print-Clotu Basis.
FALIi RIVER, Mass., Sept. 14. The
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Mr. Hall Caine,
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