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8 THE MOBNI27G OREGONIAN, SATUEDA"?, MAY 31, 1902. THE ARMY'S TASK Crisis in Our History Met Successfully. ROOSEVELT AT ' ARLINGTON "War In the Philippine! Carried on iiumnncly Treachery of the Ta- gals Rights of the Pacific Coast. WASHINGTON, May SO. Memorial day was observed here today perhaps more generally than ever before. The an nouncement that President- Roosevelt would deliver the oration at Arlington hrought to hat historic city of the dead a vast concourse of people. The local arrangements were In charge of the De partment of tho Potomac, and Included a parade of all the G. A. R. and other patriotic organisations, the decoration of monuments and graves, and addresses by men prominent In the affairs of the Gov tniment. At Arlington a National salute was flred at 12 o'clock- by the Fourth Bat ierv United States Field Artillery. Mu sic was rendered by the Marino band and by the Memorial choir. Upon arriving at Arlington, the procession marched to the tombs or the unknown. During the deco ration of the tombs by the special com mittee chosen from the G. A. B. organ izations and auxiliary societies, tha Ma rine band played an appropriate selection. I'm procession then brofce up and the decoiation of graves began. A touching feature was the strewing of flowers over the graves of the Confederate dead burled in th? cemetery. Meantime a vast crowd had assembled at the Amphitheater, where the services were conducted. The familiar strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee." by the Ma rine band, marked the beginning of the services. President Roosevelt's arrival was tho signal for an outburst of ap plause. Mr. E. B. Hay read Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Roosevelt's Address. President Roosevelt followed, and as he a-ose he was again greeted with the plaudits of the Immense audience, which stretched far outside the limits of the Amphitheater. During his address he was frequently Interrupted by bursts of cpplause. The President spoke as fol lows: "Mr. Commander, comrades, and yoji, mn and women of the United States, who ewe your being here to what was tfone by the men of the great Civil "War, I greet you and thank you for the honor done me In asking me to be present this day. it Is a good custom of our country to have certain solemn holidays In commem oration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises In our history. There should be but few such holidays. To in crease their number Is to cheapen them. Washington and Lincoln the -man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve It stand head and shoulders above all our other public men, and have by common consent won the right to this pre-eminence. Among the holidays which commemor ate tho turning points In American his tory. Thanksgiving has a significance pe culiarly Its own. On July 4 we celebrate the birth of the Nation; on this day, the tuth of May, wc call to mln,d the deaths of those who died that the Nation might live, who wagered all that life holds dear for the great prize of death In battle, who poured out their blood like water In order that the mighty national structure raised try the far-seeing patriotism of Washing ton, Franklin, Marshall. Hamilton and the other great leaders of the Revolution, great framers of the Constitution, should net crumble Into meaningless ruins. Tou whom I address today and your comrades who wore the blue beside you In the perilous years during which strong, sad, patient Lincoln bore the crushing load of National leadership, performed the one feat the failure to perform which would have meant destruction to every thing which makes the name America a symbol of hope among the nations of mankind. Tou did the greatest and most necessary task which has over fallen to ' the lot of any men on this Western hem isphere. Nearly three centuries have passed since the waters of our coasts Here first furrowed by the keels of the men whose children's children were to inherit this fair land. 0er a century and a half of colonial growth followed the settlement; and now for over a century and a quarter we have been a nation. During our four generations of National life we have had to do many tasks, and some of them of far-reaching Importance: but the only really vital task was the one you did, the task of saving the Union. Thero were other crises In which to have gone wrong would have meant disaster: but this was the one crisis In which to have gone wrong would have meant not merely disaster but annihilation. For failure at any other point atonement could have been made; but had you failed In tho iron days the loss would have been Ir reparable, the defeat Irretrievable. Upon our success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much o" the future of mankind as a whole. You left us a reunited country. You left us the right of brotherhood with the men in gray, who with such courage, and such devotion for what 'they deemed the right, fought against you. But you left us much more even than your achieve ment, for you left us the memory of how It was achieved. You, who made good by jour valor and patriotism the states manship of Lincoln and the soldiership of GranJ, have set as the standards for our -efforts: In the future both, the w'ay you did your work in war and the way in which when the war was over you turned again to the work of peace. In war and in peace alike your example will stand as the wisest of lessons to us and our chil dren and our children's children. The Army in the Philippines. Just at this moment the Army of tho United States, led by men who served among you In the great war, is carrying to completion a small but peculiarly try ing and difficult war In which is Involved not only the honor of the flag but the tri umph of civilisation over forces, which stand for the black chaos of savagery and barbarism. The task has not been as difficult or as Important as yours, but, oh, my comrades, the men In tho uniform of the United States, who have for the lE6t three years patiently and uncomplain ingly championed the American cause In the Philippine Islands, are your younger brothers, your sons. They have shown themselves not unworthy of you, and they are entitled to the support of ail men who are proud of what you did. These younger comrades of yours have fought under terrible difficulties and have received terrible provocation from a very cruel and very treacherous enemy. Un der the strain of these provocations 1 deeply deplore to say that some among thenrhave so far forgotten themselves as to counsel and commit, in retaliation, acts -of cruelty. The fact that for every guilty act committed by one of our troops a hundred acts of far greater atrocity have been committed by the hos tile natives upon our troops, or upon the peaceable and law-abiding natives who are friendly to us, cannot be held to ex cuse the wtfong-doer on our side. Deter mined and unswerving effort must bo made, and is being made, to find out every instance of barbarity on the part of our troops, to punish those guilty of It, and to take, if possible, even stronger measures than have already been taken to minimize or prevent the occurrence of illl such Instances in the future. Is" it only in the Army of the Philippines that Americans sometimes do acts that cause the rest of America reeret? (Cries of "Oh, no." I From time to time there occur in our i country, to me deep ana lasting snanxe oi our people, lynchlngs carried on under circumstances of inhuman cruoity ann, barbarity a cruelty Infinitely worse than any that has ever been committed by our troops in the Philippines; worse to ihe victims, and far more brutalizing to thosd guilty of It. The men who fall to con demn these lynchlngs, and yet clamor about what has been done In the Philip pines, are indeed guilty of neglecting tho beam In their own eye while taunting their brother about the mote In -his. Un derstands me. These lynchlngs afford us no excuse for failure to stop cruelty In the Philippines. Every effort is being made, and will be made, to minimize the chances o'f cruelty occurring. But keep In mind that these cruelties In the Philippines have been wholly excep tional, and have been shamelessly exag gerated. We deeply and bitterly regret that any silch cruelties should have been committed, no matter how rarely, no mat ter under what provocation, hy American troops. But they afford far less justifica tion for a general condemnation of our Army than these lynchlngs afford for the condemnation of the communities In which they have taken place. In each case It is well to condemn the deed, and it Is well also to refrain from including both guilty and innocent In the same sweep ing condemnation. In every community there are people who commit acts of well-nigh Inconceiv able horror and baseness. If we fix our eyes only upon these individuals and upon their acts, and If we forget the far more numerous citizens of upright and . honest life and bund ourselves to their countless deeds of wisdom and justice and philanthropy. It Is easy enough to con demn the community. There Is not a city In this land which we could not thus condemn If we fixed our eyes purely upon its police record and refused to look at what It had accomplished for decency and justice and charity. Yet. this Is ex actly the attitude which has been taken by too many men with reference to our Army in the Philippines; and It Is an at titude both absurd and cruelly unjust. "War Carried on Hnntnnclr The rules of warfare which have been promulgated by the War Department and accepted as the basis of conduct by our troops in the field are the rules laid down by Abraham Lincoln when jou, my hear ers, were fighting for tho Union. These rules provide, of course, for the just severity necessary In war. The most de structive of all forms of cruelty would be to show weakness where sternness is de manded by iron need. But all cruelty Is forbidden, and all harshness beyond what Is called for by need. Our enemies in the Philippines have not merely violated every rule of war, but have made of these vio lations their only method of carrying on the war. We would have been justified by Abraham Lincoln's rules of war in infinitely greater severity than has been shown. The fact really Is that our war fare In the Philippines has been carried on with singular humanity. For every act of cruelty by our men there have been innumerable acts of forbearance, mag nanimity and generous kindness. Thesn are the qualities which have characterized the war as a whole. The cruelties have been wholly exceptional on our part. The guilty ara to be punished; but In punishing them, let those who sit at ease at home, who walk delicately and live In the soft places of the earth, remember also to do them common justice. Let not the effortless and the untempted rail over much at strong men who with, blood and sweat face years of toll and days and nighty of acony, and at need Jay down their lives in remote tropic Jungles to bring the light of civilization into the world's dark places. The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civiliza tion atjthe expense of barbarism and sav agery has been for centuries one of the mot potent factors in the progress of ; humanity, let from Its very naturp it has always and everywhere been liable to dark abuses. It behooves us to keep a vigilant watch to prevent these abuses and to punish those who commit them; but If because of them we flinch from finishing the tasK on which we have entered, we show pur selves cravens and weaklings, unworthy of the sires from whose loins we sprang. There were abuses and to spare In the Civil War. Your false friends then called Grant a "butcher' and spoke of you who are listening to me as mercenaries, as "Lincoln's hirelings." Your open foes as in the resolution passed by the Con federate Congress In October, 1SC2 ac cused you, at great length, and with much particularity,. of "contemptuous disregard of the usages of civilized war"; of sub jecting women and children to "banish ment, Imprisonment and death"; of "mur der," of "rapine," of "outrages on wom en," of "lawless cruelty," of "perpetrating atrocities which would be disgraceful to savages"; and Abraham Lincoln was sin gled out fQr especial attack because of his "spirit of barbarous ferocity." Verily, these men who thus foully slandered you have their heirs today In those who tra duce oUr Armies in the Philippines, who fix their eyes on Individual deeds of wrong so keenly that at last they become blind to the great work of peace and freedom that has already been accomplished. Cruelty of Filipinos. Peace and freedom are there two better objects for which a soldier' can -fight? Well, these are precisely tho objects for which our soldiers are fighting In the Philippines. When there 1b talk of the cruelties committed In the Philippines, re member always that by far the greater proportion of these cruelties have been committed by the Insurgents against their own people as well as against our sol diersand that not only the surest but the only effectual way of stopping them la by the progress of American arms. The vic tories of the American Army have been the really effective means of putting & stop to cruelty In the Philippines. Wher ever these victories have been complete- and such is now the case throughout the greater part of the Islands all cruelties have ceased, and the native Is secure in his life, his liberty, and pursuit of happi ness. Where the Insurrection still smol ders there Is always a chance for cruelty to show Itself. Our soldiers conquer; and what Is the object for which they conquer? To estab lish a military government? No. Tho laws we are now endeavoring to enact for the government of the Philippines are to increase tho power and domain of the civil at the exoense'of the military au thorities, and to render even more diffi cult than in the past the chance of op pression. The military power Is used to secure peace. In" order that it may Itself be supplanted by the civil government. The progress of-the American arms meafig the abolition of cruelty, 'the bringing of peace, and the rule of law and order under the civil government. Other nations have conquered to create irresponsible military rule. We conquer to bring Just and re sponsible civil government to the con quered. But our Armies do more than bring peace, do more than bring order, They brlmc freedom. Remember always that the Independence of a tribe or a commu nity may, and often does, have nothing whatever to do with the freedom of the individual in that tribe or community. There are now in Asia and Africa scores of despotic monarchies, each of which is independent, and in no one of which is there the slightest vestige of freedom for the individual man. Scant indeed is tha gain to mankind from tbeV'lndependence" of a blood-stained tyrant who rules over abject and brutalized slaves. But great is the gain to humanity which follows the steady though slow introduction of the orderly liberty, the law-abiding freedom of the individual, which is tho only sum foundation upon which, national independ ence can he built. Wherever In the Phil ippines the Insurrection has been definitely and finally put down, there the individual Filipino already enjoys .such freedom, such personal liberty, under our rule, as he could never even Jream of under tho Chamberlain's Motto.: Jl rule of an "Independent" Agulnaldlan oligarchy. The slowly-learned and difficult art o self-government, an art which our people have taught themselves by the labor of a thousand years, cannot be grasped In a day by a people only just emerging from conditions of life which our ancestors left behind them in the dim- years before his tory dawned. We believe that we can rapidly teach the people of the Philippine Islands not only how to enjoy but how to make good use of their freedom; and with their growing "knowledgo their growth In self-government shall Keep steady pace. . When they have thus shown their capacity for real freedom by their power of self government, then, and not till then, will It be possible to decide whether )hty are to exist Independently of us or be knit to us by ties of common friendship and interest. When that day will come It Is not In hu man wisdom now to foretell. All that we can say with certainty Is that It would be put back an Immeasurable distance if we should yield to the counsels of un manly weakness and turn loose the Is lands, to see our victorious foes butcher wth revolting, cruelty our betrayed friends, and shed the blood of the most hu mane, the most enlightened, the most peaceful, the wisest and the best of their own number for these are the classes who have already learned to welcome our rule. Interests of the Pacific Coast. Vqt, while fully acknowledging our du ties to others, need we forget our duty to our own country. The Pacific seaboard is as much to us as the Atlantic: as we grow In power and prosperity so our Interests will grow in that farthest West which is the Immemorial East The shadow of our destiny has already reached to the shores of Asia. The might of our people already looms large against the world horizon; and it will loom ever larger as the years go by. No statesman has a right to neglect the interests of our people In the Pacinc, Interests which are Impor tant to all our people, but which arc of niost importance to those of our people who have built populous and thriving states on the western slope of our conti- Thls should no more he a party question I Si '- ft- i ' w " ' st ' . J ' - .!, "' r. 1 - Km frct. m ' i ft iEf iSf V v WLW2WK ".-sgBHIMHiB JMf . ,,(r ' -, P$ Mil :: k &' O . 9-C & tSan the war for the Union should 4ave I ,;"";,"," f"'f xTmtr .,, ,. ,,.i & m,l l.1115"01 to the last day at Mount Mc the man In highest office In tho Philip pine Islands, is the Vice-Governor, General Luke Wright, of Tennessee, who gallant ly wore the gray in the Civil War and who Is now working hand In hand with the head of our Army In the Philippines, fc-w u WU J UUUViWtit .fc fc4 lUVUIVii ,Adna Chaffee, who in the Civil War gal lantly wore the hlue. Those two, and the men under them, from the North and from the South, In chil life andln mill tan life, as teachers, ss administrators, as soldiers, are laboring mightily for us who live at home. Here and there black sheep are to be found among them; but taken as a whole, they represent as high a standard of public service as this coun try has ever seen. They are doing a great work for civilization, a great work for the honor and the Interest of this Nation, and above all, for the welfare of the in habitants of the Philippine Islands. All honor to them; and shame, thrice shame, to us if we fall to uphold their hands! The applauso accorded the President as he concluded was, loud and continuous, and a? he took his seat, some one In the crowd cried, out: "Three cheers for our brave President"; whereupon a .mighty shout went up from the throats of the thousands crowded Into every available space to hear him. General Eli Torrence, Chief Commander of the G. A. R,, followed with a few re marks, and then the services were brought to a close with tho playing of "America" by the band, the choir and assembly joining, and benediction, by Henry S. Stevens, department chaplain. Immediately after the memorial exer cises at tho Amphitheater, .be monument erected to the memory of Colonel Edgar O'Connor, of the Second Wisconsin Regi ment, wn tlnveiled In the presence of a number of his coxnrades. At Sojdlers' vHcme, at Battles-Ground Cemetery, near the site of Old Fort'Stev- ens, ana at E. Elizabeth's where lie countless numbers of veterans who lost their reason as a result of military sen' Icot and who were buried In the asylum grounds, and at other cemeteries, appro priate services were held. Secretary Shaw delivered the oration at Battle-Ground Cemetery. J7rjmjred to Lincoln's Oration. LONDON, May 3L President Roose velt's speech at Arlington yesterday re ceives little comment in the morning papers. The Standard compares It to Lincoln's historic oration at Gettysburg, and describes it as very remarkable, in stinct with the spirit of that uncompro mising honesty and courage which the President has exhibited upon several oc casions already. The Dally Chronicle re fers to the speech In a like manner. We never saw a man-eating shark, but we have seen more than one man eating chad.-' Philadelphia Bulletin. ' " Get the votes; honestly, H11T itht n nw iwm AT THE TOMB OF GRANT ADDRESS BY JUDGK JOXES, A CON FEDERATE yETERAN, Decoration Bay Ceremonies In the Cities of the East Flornl Offer lugs Sent to Canton. NEW YORK, May 30. Most impressive ceremonies were held -at Grant's tomb, In ( Riverside Park; today, the most unusual feature of whlcn was an address hy a Confederate veteran, who served with the Southern army In the fipht aAppomat-i tox. This oratftr was Jtge 6 G. Jone of Montgomery, Ala. Judge jonea said in part: "This hour Is one of Indescribable moral grandeur. When Tntt a beardless youth, I drank of the cup of defeat at Appo mattox, and was one of those 'allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by the United States authorities, so long as they obacrved their parole and the laws- in force where they resided.' From that day to this there has never been an hour when I would willingly omit any opportunity to do honor to the memory of (he immortal who forebodo to add to the burden of our eorrows then. "No true soldier can deny to the illus trious man whose mortal remains lie here the possession of all the qualities of a great commander. The man who died at Mount McGregor was never envious of the captains who .won battles? for him, and he sustained them loyally in the field. No. Ignoble emotions came to him in the hours of triumph. He did not take time, after the collapse at the little Vir ginia; village, to pass through Richmond, the prize for which armies had so long contended, but hurried direct to Washing ton to begin the disbandment of the Army. Ho was called to the highest civic rank on earth. The gaze oi the world beat in upon him there and found no stain. "From the hour he turned from Appo- Gregor, the desire uppermost In the thoughts of the victorious soldier was to soothe and better the condition of his de feated countrymen. He lost no oppor tunity to speak In terms of admiration of tho Confederate soldier, and after the power of speech was gone he wrote: I feel that we are on the eve of a new era and there Is to be great harmony between the Federals and Confederates. I cannot stay to be a living witness of the correct ness of this prophecy, but I feel it with in me that It is to be so.' " WHO IS BEHIND INMAN? fftie keepers of brothels in "the North End have raised a fund to defeat Georse H. "Williams in his candidacy for tho "Mayoralty. Their business de mands his defeat. They live upon the wrecks of human Ihes, and do not want an executive ofljeer whose char acter and- position have placed hint out of the reach of party bosses, and who cannot bo Influenced to disregard hla Suty. W'lH the reapectable people of Portland help these keepers of dens of ilce In their efforts to defeat so good a. man? A.T M'KINLEY'S TOMB. Many Beautiful Floral Offerings Sent to Cnnton. CANTON, O., May 20. Many beautiful offerings to be placed on the tomb of tho late President McKlnley were received here laBt night and today, Including a large crate of choice flowers from the White House at Washinzton. Mrs. Mc- Klhley took the flowers to Woodlawn and I t had them arranged about the tomb. The o'clock under the direction of the G. A. -R. The Spanish-American war veterans placed a special design on the tomb. The G. A. JR. placed at his tomb the flag of the order and "a cluster of flowers taken at random from the supply provided for all their dead comrades, making- no dis tinction in favor of the late President. BHst ot McKlnley Unveiled. PHILADELPHIA. May SO The feature of the Decoration day exercises In this i city was the unveiling of the memorial . hronzo bust and pedestal erected in the I Postoffice building In memory of Presi dent McKlnley by the letter-carriers and i Postoffice employes. Postmaster Clayton McMichael received the gift from James . O'Sulllvan. chairman of tha local carriers' McKlnley Memorial .Association. Ex-Postmaster-General Smith delivered the ora- tlon at the conclusion of which the letter- mIb tll Wt- tW - " I if . practicable; but - . Clk carriers' chorus of 60 voices sang, "Lead, Kindly Light." A band of 40 pieces, com posed entirely of Postoffice employes, closed the exercises with "The Star-Spangled Banner." The bronze bust and pedestal cost over $20,000, and stands on the first floor of the south corridor of tho Postoffice buildng. Kansas City Unveiled Monvraent. KANSAS CITY, May 20. The principal feature of tho Decoration day exercises here was the unveUHng at Forest Hill cemetery of an Imposing shaft erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy of this city to the Confederate soldiers who died at the battle of Westport, a suburb of Kansas City. Mrs. Hugh Miller, president of tho local chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, presided, making a brief ad dress. Thirteen little Daughters of the Confederacy drew aside the veil, and the S ration was delivered by JamesB. Gantt, udgo of the Missouri Supreme Court. 10,000 Graves Decorated. ST. LOUIS, May 30. The 'graves of 16. soldlers were decorated today, despite the threatening weather. The principal ex ercises were held In the National ceme ?;t;BgifldeofV$fl 2;:,b. D,wg?clSm tee tery at Jefferson Barracks. The Com modore Foote Association of Naval Vet eterans boarded the steamer H1U City at the foot of Locust street, and on the way to Jefferson Barracks cast adrift floral nodels of the steamers Cairo and Louis ville, In memory of tho sailors who lost their lives In the Oivll War. The St. PnnI Parade. ST. PAUL, May 30. Two Interesting fig ures In the Memorial day parade were cx-Govcrnor Alexander Ramsay, the only living "War Governors" and the one who tendered President Lincoln the first troops at the outbreak of the Rebellion, and Col konel Colville, who led the First Minnesota Regiment on Its famous charge at Gettys burg. Tho morning was devoted to serv ices at cemeteries and the decoration of graves. At Chattanooga. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May SO. The graves of U.000 soldiers In the National cemetery here were decorated today, in cluding about 200 veterans of the Spanish-American War. The G. A. R. and the Spanish-American War veterans con ducted the ceremonies. At Chicago. CHICAGO. May 30. A parade, partici pated in by veterans of the Civil and Spanish Wars, was tho feature of the Memorial day demonstrations In this city. Services were held in many churches. Owing to the perfection of the weather, thousands vlslttfd the cemeteries. Schley Delivers an Address. BANGOR, Me., May SO. Rear-Admiral Schley delivered the Memorial day ad dress here today. The address, though brief, was a graceful tribute to the de- ! fenders of the Nation In the Civil and Spanish-American wars. Wreaths on La Fayette's Tomb. PARIS. May SO. A number of Ameri cans made the usual pilgrimage to PJcpus cemetery this afternoon and placed wreaths on tho tomb of La Fayette. Wreaths "were also placed on the statues of Washington and La Fayette. At Cave Hill Cemetery. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May .30. Flowers Were strewn on the graves of the Federal sailors and Spanish War veterans at Cava Hill cemetery this afternoon- The serv ices were under the auspices of the G. A. R. Wreck of Maine Decorated. HAVANA, May SO. The officers and crew of the United States gunboat Eagle decorated the wreck of the United States battleship Maine today. President Palma and the Society of Veterans sent wreaths. At Atlanta. ATLANTA. Ga.. May 30. A special train today carried the Atlanta posts of the j Ga., where the graves In the National . cemetery were ureuiai, Parade at Mllvraalcee. MILWAUKEE, May 30. The feature of Memorial day was a monster parade in the afternoon. The fdrenoon was given over to the decoration of 2200 soldiers' graves In the cemeteries. At Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, May SO. Memorial day was observed here by a general suspen sion of business, a parade and the deco ration of graves In the different cemeter ies. Monnt Gregor Cottage Deeerated. SARATOGA, N. Y., May 30.-Mount Gregory cottage, whero General Grant died, was decorated by members of tha G, A. B. THEORIES OF ERUPTION rFRESCH ADMIRAL ACCEPTS PRO- FESSok HILL'S VIEWS. Incandescent Blatter Florringr Over the Rim of Mount Pclec'a Crater Coninxnudcr nicLcun Reports. FORT DE FRANCE. Martinique, May 30. 3 P. M.--Mount Pclee has" been very quiet today. The United States cruiser Cincinnati haBleft here for Castries, St. Lucia. George Kennan and his party are doing good Work at the"north end of the island, and all are safe and well. Professor Angelo Hellprln, prdsldent of the Philadelphia Geographical Society, who is here under the auspices of the National Geographical Society, la now conducting his investigations among "the northeast craters. Last night Admiral Servan Invited Pro fessor Robert T. HM. the United States Government geologist, on board the French cruiser Tage, and he had an In terview with him upon his recent expe dition to Mount Pelee. United States Consul Aymc acted as Interpreter at the Interview, which lasted three hours. Ad miral Servan was deeply Interested In what Professor Hill had to say. as he has personal theories concerning the re- Professor Hill With Tndnv observations I made by the French naval officers Unuer lum, and highly complimented Professor Hill and the National Geographical So ciety upon their explorations. The commander of the French crurser IVAssas was presented, to Admiral Servan In the course of the latter's Interview with Prof.sor Hill. The- commander of the D'Assas had just returned from a tour of Inspection, and reported that at.10 o'clock last night he saw Incandescent matter slowly flowing over tho rim of the crater at the summit. This report has not yet been confirmed. Admiral Servan accepted Profecsor Hill's present theory of the eruption and praised his caution in not arriving at a hypothesis until he had studied the data he has- collected. Pro fessor Hill told the Admiral that his study of data has been finished on the spot. He said Mount Pelee might erupt for a j ear oi more, but the area of devas tation would remain unchanged. As all the people had tied from the vicinity of the volcano, no. great loss of life would occur. Professor Hill eaid Fort de France Is perfectly safe. Admiral Servan reports that one of the submarine cables was broken May 3 at an unknown distance north of Martinique. This break was followed by the first erup tion of ashes. The second cable was broken May 5 at a point 10 miles west of St. Pierre, m 150 fathoms of water, and when It was dredged up it was found tQ be tangled and twisted. The night of May 5 there occurred the eruption of mud which pverwhelmed the Guerln factory. Admiral Servan considers that these facts indicate the possibility of this theory, but said the-eruptions on the British Island of St. Vincent still remained a problom. All the exploring parties now in the field are expected to return to Fort de France tomorrow. COMMAKDER M'LBAX REPORTS. Eruption of the Volcano Continue, bnt Do No Serious Damage. WASHINGTON, May SO.-Sccrotary Moody received a number of dispatches today concerning conditions at Marti nique, Commander Thomas C. McLean, commanding the Cincinnati, cables from Fort de France, under date of the 23th, as follows: "Eruptions of volcano continue. Occa sional great outbursts at Intervals of few diys. Mostly columns and masses of clouds and steam, smoke and ashes shooting up quickly to great heights. These alarm the people, but no serious damage Is being done outside of the dis trict where the first devastations oc curred. Plenty of supplies here. French Admiral, with three ships, arrived. Two more expected daily. Cordial, grateful and say able to manage everything now without assistance. The Cincinnati goes to Casley morning of 30th." Ip another dispatch, Commander Mc Lean says that George Kennan, the lec turer and writer, la safe, and was heard from on the 29th, traveling up tho coun try. Commander Eerr, commanding the Dixie, cables from St. Lucia today that he is going to Martinique unless other wise ordered, thence to New York. Passed Through Storm of Ashes. NEW ORLEANS, May 30. The British steamer Loulslan, of the West Indian Line, has arrived here from Trinidad and Colon. Captain Edwards reports that the vessel passed through the storm of ashes precipitated by Mount Pelee, the Loulsian being covered several Inches deep by them. They were first observed on the afternoon of May 7, when the ves sel was between Barbadoes and Trinidad. The sky began to darken by degrees and at a distance a big black pall was seen slowly mounting Into the heavens, and this forbidding, gloomy bank of far away cloud was rent and illumined! by constant and vivid flashes of lightning. The storm gained rapidly on the ship. At 4 P. M. the atmosphere was so thick with clouds and a 'strange haze that It seemed as- If night had set in. Captain Edwards took an observation of latitude and longitude, and found that" he was about 107 mles from Martinique. Effects Felt in Hawaii. HONOLULU, May 24, via San Francisco. May 30. The effects of the volcanic eruption at SU Pierre are supposed to have been felt here, In unusual conditions of the upper atmosphere. The phenomenon observed here was a deep-red glow, which continued west long after the usual sunset glare should die out, and In the morning began before the rising sun usually shows color in the East. Professor C. J. Lyons, who has for many years- been the government meteorologist here, says tho phenomenon Is similar to that observed after the tremendous vol canic explosion at Krakatoa, In 1SS3. The effects of the Martinique disaster, how eve Jf such they are, are up to this time not 'nearly, aa great as those following the Krakatoa eruption. Fumes From. Mount Trabochette. LONDON. May 31. 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It became known today that Antonio Torres Ace vodo, not Ramon Trooche Cadeno (one of the five murderers condemned to be gar roted for crimes committed October 1, 189S)f Is the man whose sentence has been commuted by Governor Hunt to life Im prisonment, owing to the fact that Ace vedo was only 19 years of .age at the time of the occurrences which led to his con demnation to death. The other four men will be garroted at Ponce tomorrow or Monday. Colombian Rebels Fled. PANAMA, May 30. General Victor Sa- lazar, the Governor of the Department of Panama, has received news that the rev olutionists fled on the approach of gov ernment troops, leaving many valuable war munitions at the Punta PInas camp. The whole of the Chlrlqui Grande and Bocas del Toro districts. It 13 added, are now clear of revo'utionists, hence the bus iness of the American banana companies will not be Interfered with. 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