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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1908)
THE SUAUAf OREGOMAX, .PORTLAND. -TUNIS 28, 1UU8. A FAVORITE game of mine In Lon don was to walk until I became tired or lost or both, and then take a cab back home. Oftenest, the bright beckoning or Pic cadilly allured me, and I strolled along that Primrose Path from Park Lane to Piccadilly Circus, my mind laid open like a fresh blotting-book, to receive whatever impress London might carelessly leave upon it. Such delightful people as I would sec! l-adies, tricked out in pink filminess of raiment, ever striving to clutch one more handful of their frou-frou, as it waggishly duped their grasp, and dawdled along the pavement behirld them. Vet, strange to say, the flapping, f rill i rtess rarely becomes muddily bedraggled, . as It would on a New York street; it merely achieves that palpable grayness which marks everything in Ijmdon, from lis palaces to its laundry work. The headgear of these bamc ladies can be called nothing less than alarming. During the Summer of which 1 write, it was the whim to wear huge shapes of the mushroom or buttcr-bowl variety. These shapes, instead of being decorated with flowers or feathers, bore skilfully contrived fruits, that looked bo like real ones I was often tempted to pluck them. Cherries and grapes were not so entirely novel, but peaches, pears, and In one in stance a banana, seemed, at least, mildly ludicrous. I was rejoiced to learn that these frultsT' being stuffed with cotton wool, were not so weighty as they ap peared: but they were indeed bulky, and crowded on to the hat in such quantities that it seemed more sensible to Turn the butter-bowl the other side up to hold them. Owen Seaman calls the Knglish "the misunderstood people." but how can one understand those who put fly-nets on the tops of their cahs instead of on their horses, and wear peaches on their heads? A difficult to understand as their own handwriting land more than that cannot be said!), after the solution is puzzled out the. Lnndoncj s . are the most delightful people in the world. But you must accept the solution, and take them at their own valuation; for titey are unadaptable, and very sure of themselves. Now. riceadilly is not like this. Jt is smiling, affable, charming, and very yielding and adaptable. t will respond to any of your moods and will give you an atmosphere of any sort you desire. On one side, as you walk along, are hous.s. more or less lately ducal, hut all of a greatly worth-while air. Citified, in Story of Chamberlain's Success Adroit Political Management, Coupled With Dissen sion in Ranks of the Majority Party, Accounts for It (On the day following the June election in Oregon t lie Boston Transcript tele graphed to the editor of The OreRonian re questing bis views or the campaign and especially the causes that led to the choice iinvernor Chamberlain for l.'nited Slates Senator. Mr. Si-ott'e reply is published in tue Transcript of June 17 as follows:) TO explain the position of George F.. Chamberlain in the politics of Ore gon and his remarkable success daring the past six years would require a review of the political affairs of the stale, extending over a long period. His own character has been a considerable element, for he Is a natural politician, of Southern birth, proceeding from an an cestry that has had the genius of politics for generations; and he has cultivated the arts and methods through which political success or advancement is so often at tained. Mr. Chamberlain is a man of no striking ability or unusual Intellectual power, but exceedingly adroit as a poli tician; he does not set up for a thinker or pose as a leader, but endeavors, and with great success, to bit the average level of sentiment and purpose about him. He is only an ordinary speaker, yet a phasing one, and is absolutely without any kind of pretension to appear other than ha is. These traits and habits are the ground of Lis personal popularity. The rest he owes wholly to the fortune of opportunity and to the skill with which he lias taken advantage of the situation and conditions that have existed many years in Oregon. For such a man the situation could not have been better, if made under his own direction; nor indeed so good. Dissension among Republicans lias been his opportunity. Through his skill and personal popularity he has been able to make the most of one opportunity after another. Republican factions have been "slashing" each other and "getting even" with each other, and he has been the beneficiary. It must be admitted that he has had the tact and the temperament lilted to this work, sucli as no other man in Oregon has possessed; and he is wrell entitled to all credit these qualities have brought him. In his early manhood he came from Mississippi to Oregon. This was 32 years ' ago. During a long period he made little progiess, though he became widely known through the geniality of his nature and his ready- power of adaptation to coiull tiiiiis as he found them here. As he grew Into the acquaintance of the people he readily made friends; a firm Democrat, of t lie Southern type, he was not an offen sive partisan; yet he never could be known in politics other than as a Demo crat. Twenty years ago his political ca reer began, ill a quiet and unostentatious way. As a member of the Legislature, in: did nothing notable, but his party needing a candidate for the office of At torney General of the state, he took the nomination, and his good fellowship among Republicans gave him the election over an unpopular opponent, who was handicapped by the usual dissensions in his party. Herein has been the real secret of his success throughout. He has won every time through his tact In tak ing advantage of situations caused by quarrels among the Republicans of the state. These quarrels date back many years. The business of the main fac tions Into which the Republican party of Oregon is divided has been to "knife" each other alternately, as one or the other could find or make the opportunity; and Mr. Chamberlain has been sueeess v f ul every time he has won, by obtaln- deed, with a wealthy width of stone pave ment, and a noble height of stone front age. On the other side Is Green Park, with its shining, softly-waving trees, its birds, and its grass. But, passing the Hotel Ritz, both sides suddenly give way to shops and restau rants which rank among the most pre tentious in all the world. Many of the tradesmen are "purveyors to the King," which magic phrase adds a charm to the humblest sorts of wares. The book shops and the fruiterers' shops are, to me, most enticing of all. It is a delight to make inquiries concerning a book that is, perhaps, not very well known, and. instead of the blank ignor ance or the substitutive impulse often found in American bookshop clerks, to receive an intelligent opinion, quickly backed, if necessary, by intelligent refer ence to tabulated facts. The unostentatious, yet almost Invari ably trustworthy, knowledge of I-ondon booksellers is a thing to be sighed for in our own country. Not even in Boston (outside of the Athenaeum) is one sure of receiving bookish information when de sired. But in London the bookseller takes a personal interest in your wants, and feels a personal pride in being able to gratify them. And the heaps' of second-hand books are mines of joy. Among them you may find, as I did, real treasures at the price of trash. I chanced upon an early edition of By ron's poems four little volumes, bound in soft, shiny green, with exquisite hand tooling, and containing steel engraved bookplates of old, scrolled design, which bore the name of somebody Gordon, whom I chose to imagine a near and dear relative of the late George Noel. Also. I found a paper-covered copy of an Indian edition of Kipling's early tales, and many such pleasant wares. The fruit shops, too. have treasures both new and second-hand. This seemed strange to me, at first, and I learned of it by hearing a fellow-customer ask to hire a few pines. After her departure I inquired of the shopman the meaning of it all. He obligingly told me that many of his finest specimens of pineapples, canta loupes. Hamburg grapes, and other spec tacular fruits, could be rented out for banquets night after night, but with slight wear and tear on their beauty and bloom. One enormous bunch of black grapes, as perfect as the color studies of fruit that used to appear as supplements of the Art Amateur, he caressed fondly. ment of the votes of one or other of the I Republican factions that have alternately j elected hint in order to beat the candi dates who had gained their own party nominations. It is not probable that fac- ! tional fury has been carried to such ! lengths anywhere else as among the Re- j publicans of Oregon. How it began is an old story, scarcely worth telling now; but a short sketch may be well enough, j to throw light at this time on the causes j of Mr. Chamberlain's continuous success. , The original of this most rancorous and I persistent party feud dates to the first election of John H. Mitchell to the Sen ate In 1872, followed by the revelations of his former life in Pennsylvania, his abandonment of his family there, his j settlement in Oregon and election to the I Senate under an assumed name, and the I discredit thrown on him by the disclos j ures., Yet he had a remarkable power of i I attaching to himself men who "followed I politics for what was in the business." These political methods he pursued with a skill that was marvellous, and, more over, restrained by no scruples. The breach started in the party by revela tions of his imposture was rapidly deep ened by natural opposition to his course in office and to his methods of party management. Devotion to him on the one hand and opposition to him on the other kept the Republican party in continual turmoil down to the end of his life; re peatedly caused its defeat, and left all possible conditions of new troubles to harass it after he had passed away. Most of the time for 30 years the state has had Democratic governors as a conse quence of it. The senators, since 18S4. have been saved to the Republicans through the Legislature, which both fac tions have assisted in carrying, through a hope on either side of being able to control It. The members of the House have been little involved in these dis putes, and latterly the Republicans have been able to elect them by very heavy majorities. The combined majorities- for the two members now exceed 30.000; yet on the popular vote the majority for Sen ator Chamberlain is about 1600. Since the passing of Mitchell the dis sension in the party has been continued by the change In the method of electing Senators; or rather fh the methods lead ing up to their election. To stop con tests In the Legislature a primary law was adopted, by which the parties were to nominate candidates for the Senate and submit the names to the popular vote. It was provided also that candi dates for the Legislature might pledge themselves to vote for and elect to the Senate the candidate who had received the highest popular vote. This would virtually take the election out of the hands of the Legislature, whose only function In the election would be to ratify the so-called popular choice. Thus va Republican Legislature might be called on to elect a Democrat to the Senate. One faction of the Republican party has insisted on the innovation: the other has vehemently opposed it. This new source of division decided the recent election In favor of Chamberlain. H. M. Cake was the Republican candidate. He had pledged to the new method. But the other Re publican faction took the opposite posi tion. It was unwilling to tie up the mem bers of the Legislature with such pledges and wished for continuance of oppor tunity for opyn contest In the Legisla ture: Mr. Chamberlain skillfully led his party into the Republican breach. He i 'Piccadilly as he told me it had been rented out for the last nine nights, and was yet good for another week's work. 1 then remembered the architectural tri umphs of fruits that had graced many of the dinner tables I had smiled at. and I marveled afresh at the Knglish thrift. All shops, streets, theaters, and traffic merge and congest in a perfect orgy of noise, motion, and color at Piccadilly Cir cus. The first humorous story I heard in London was of the man who. returning from a festal function, inquired of the policeman, "Is this. Piccadilly Circus, or is it Tuesday?" That story seems to me the epitome of London humor, and also a completo description of Piccadilly Cir cus. The first few times I visited it I found it bewildering, but after I had learned to look upon it as a local habitation and a jiame, I learned to love it. . By day or by night, it is a great, crazy, beautiful whirl. Kverybody in it is try ing to get out of it, and everybody out is trying to get in. This causes a merry game of odds, and the elegant policemen was just the man to do it effectively. Making his own campaign for the pledge he widened the Republican split; and at th same time brought himself into such position that Republicans who opposed the pledge would vote for him to defeat Cake, with intent to pass the election up to the Legislature, which was sure to have a heavy Republican majority, and which they did not and do not believe TRIBUTE OF SONG AND SENTIMENT BROUGHT TO OUR COUNTRY'S FEET Ringing Words of Poets and Patriots, Orators of Pulpit and Forum, Recalled by Next Sat urday's 132d Birthday of the United States. Upon this land a thousand, thousand blessings Shakespeare Flap: of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valor given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, ; And all thy hues were born in heaven! Rodman Drake. America! half brother of the world Bailey Independence now and independence forever Webster One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation, evermore! . ' - Holmes. Our Federal Union, it must be preserved Jackson Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable Webster Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise. The queen of the world and the child of the skies! x Dwight. I know- no North, no South, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance Henry Clay Our country, to be-cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands Robert Winthrop And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves. Paine. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong Decatur With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right '. Lincoln 'Tis the star-soangled banner, Oh ! long may it wave, O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave. Francis Scott Key Let it rise, let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild' it and the parting day linger and play on its summit , Webster The American idea demands a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; a government of the priticiole of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God Theodore Parker Thy spirit, Tndenendence, let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, 1 Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Xor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Smallct. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery f Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death Patrick Henry Let our object be our country, onr whole country, and nothing but- our country. And, by the blessing of God,'may that country itself become a vast and : ilendid monument, not of op pression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever Webster Here the free spirit of mankind at length Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength. Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? W. C. Bryant He serves his party best who serves his country best R. B. Hayes Let us have peace U. S. Grant OzroiitS xzc its send glances of mild reproof after the newsboys who hurtle through the crowd, yelling "Dily Mile!" The rush of traffic here Is considered a sure road to battle, murder, or sudden death, and the Londoner who crosses Pic cadilly Circus rarely expects to get through alive. But to me London traffic seems child's play compared to ours in New York. I sauntered safely through Piccadilly Cir cus, without one-tentn part of the trepi dation that always seizes me when I try to scurry across Broadway. The lumber ing 'buses have no such desire to run over people, as that which burns in the hearts of our trolley cars. The pedes trians are too deliberate of speed, and the traffic too gentle of motion, to inspire fear of jostlement. Dawdling along, I paused to look in at Swan & Kdgar's windows. Rather, I at tempted to look in; for, .with a peculiar sort of short-sightedness, these drapers choose to beplaster their window panes with large posters which comment favor ably upon the wares that are presumably behind them, but which cannot be seen will elect Chamberlain when the test shall .come. In this they probably will find themselves mistaken. A majority of the menibers chosen to the legislature counting Republicans and Democrats to getherhave taken the pledge. It is my opinion the Legislature will elect Cham berlaiu. Many Republicans, however, do not think so. Of IK) members of both (Houses. 77 were elected as Republicans. by peeping through the small spaces left between the posters. Then across to the Criterion for tea. All of the great restaurants present a gay scene at tea hour, and the Criterion, with its "decorative painting by eminent art ists." and Its crowds of guests both emi nent and decorative is among the gayest. But It Is a gayety of correct and sub dued tone. The ladies. In their flashing finery of raiment, are of a cool, reserved deportment, and the men drink their tea and munch sweet cakes with a gravity born of the seriousness of the occasion. Jf one notices any conspicuous action or effect in a London restaurant, one may be sure it is perpetrated by a stranger probably a visiting American. I recently saw in one of our finest Fifth avenue restaurants a most attractive young woman, who came in accompanied by a well-set-up, and moreover an ex ceedingly sensible looking, young man. With absolute savoir faire, and no trace of self-consciousness, the girl carried in her arm a large brown "Teddy bear." The couple sat at a table and ordered some luncheon, and the bear was also Of these 77, ,SS are said to have taken the pledge which would commit them to Chamberlain. Of course, the 13 Demo crats In the two Houses are all for him. Governor Chamberlain, though popular, is not so popular as was Governor Pen noyer. his predecessor as Democratic leader in the state and beneficiary of the Republican feud in Oregon. Pennoyer was twice elected Governor, by much given a seat, a napkin was tucked about his neck, and a plate placed before him. The girl's face was sweet and refined; the man's face was intelligent and dignified, and the bear's face was coy and alluring. There was no attempt to attract atten tion, and, luncheon over, the young wom an, who was at least 20 years old, tucked her pet under her arm, and they walked calmly out. But such things are not done in London restaurants. And yet, these also have their peculiarities. At one small, but very desirable, restaurant in Old Compton street, It is the custom to steal the salt spoons as souvenirs. Not to possess one or more of these tiny pewter affairs, which are shaped like coal-shovels. Is to be benighted, indeed. So I stole one. After my tea, I would, perhaps, trail along Trafalgar Square, by way of Re gent street and Pall Mall. After a long look at the black and white grayness of the National Gallery, I would slowly mount Its steps, and from there take a long look at the wonderful facade of St. Martln's-in-the-Field. Trafalgar Square is full of out-of-door dellghte, but If the mood served I would go into the National Gallery, and walk delicately, like A gag, among the pictures. I went always alone, for I did not care to look at certain pic tures which I owned (by 'right of adoption of them into my London), in danger of hearing a companion say, "Note the deli cate precision of the flesh tones," or, "Observe the gradations of aerial per spective." Nor did I want a "Hand book," that would assert, ""Without a prolonged examination of this picture it is impossible to form an Idea of the art witli which it has been executed." Unhampered by mortal suggestion. I paused before the pictures that belonged to me, prolonging my examination or not, as I chose, and for my own reasons. Some pictures I should have loved, but for an Ineradicable memory of their nar . rowly blaefc-framed reproductions that crowd the wall spaces of friends at home, who "just love Art." Other pictures I might have appropri ated, but that a prolonged examination of them was impassible by reason of the massing In front of them of people who go out by the day sight-seeing. And so I took my own where I found it. and happily wandered by A Man with Fair Hair or Clouds at Twilight in a very bliss of art ignorance. Then out-of-door Iondon would call me again, and back I would go to Trafalgar Square, one of the lightest, brightest-colored bits of all Kngland. From the as phalt to the wVlkin, from the Column to larger majorities than Chamberlain has ever received; and ho would have re ceived the popular vote for Senator had the new movement and method existed in his time. Pennoyer, also, was twice elect ed Mayor of Portland through Republican dissensions; though the city, on a straight issuc or contest between parties, has al ways been -heavily. Republican. The great body of the Republicans who marked their ballots for Mr. Chamberlain in the vote for Senator are opponents of the new system and of the pledge it at tempts to enforce. They did not like the use that Mr. Cake had made of the pledge, and wished to give him and those who had directed his campaign "their dose of it," and send the question to the legislature to be threshed out there. Thus they hoped to get a result more sat isfactory to them than the election of either Cake or Chamberlain. It is tile rule of the Republican faction aries to strike at the representative man of the opposite faction; contenting them selves witli the single victim, yet voting War Vessels Attract Lightning Old Ocean Humbler Telia How Butt lesliips Druw Bolts. THK coming of the battleship fleet was under discussion by a party of gentlemen in the lobby of the Lankcrshim, one of whom was Captain Richard Seeleye, of Bangor, en route to San Francisco to arrange for a coal supply when the fleet arrives, says the Los Angeles Times. The several chances of-trouble to the fleet were discussed, among them that of being struck by lightning, which 1s known to be heavy and almost incessant in southerly latitudes in the Summer sea son, which com sponds with the Winter season in the Northern latitudes. Jocu lar allusion was made to the recent In cident of Speaker Cannon's barn being struck by a bolt of lightning, and that his boom, although exposed, escaped, which led Capt In Seeleye to the fol lowing reminiscence: "In 182 I was in command of the bark J. B. Simpson and look a load of dimension pine from Savannah, Ga., to Colon, or Aspinwall, as Americans call the place, for use in building docks. The mail company was rushed with freight, and we got a charter to take 400 casks of California wine to New York. It made fine ballast, and I ex pected to make a good passage. It was in August, when the rainy season is at its greatest fall, and rain and lightning in that latitude arc almost synonymous things. ' We had the customary catspaw breezes and intermittent squalls till we were heading in for the north point of Hayti, to pass through the Turk's Island passage. The lightning had been constant and remarkably vivid that day and got heavier as we approached the land. Among tile crew was a Sal vador fisherman, who was the most gifted man in the use of profanity 1 have ever known, and that is much to say, for seamen are universally strong in that line. This man was at the wheel in the last dog watch, and was quietly cursing everything aboard and in sight for the trouble he had in keep ing Ills course. I would note a spe cially heavy flash and hear the thun derous, splitting roar simultaneously, and then hear the oaths of the man as lie condemned everything and every body In one general anathema. I no ticed the glass was very low, at 29.80. and went on deck and directed the mate to shorten sail. Wet gear and canvas are difficult to handle, and I took the wheel, telling the man to lend a hand to shorten sail. The act was out of the ordinary, and it brought a. volume of profanity ftom him as he went forward such as startled me. "He hardly got below the line of the afterdeck till a blinding flash came, ap parently from everywhere, and when I came to consciousness I was on the floor of the cabin, and the mate and steward were working over me to save my life. The current took the wire on the main topgallant masthead, and coming down the backstays, forked, one bolt striking the cirofane s&ajnan. in the Church, from the National Gallery te Morley's Hotel, are the most beautiful blues, and greens, and whites, and reds, and grays that can be supplied by the combined efforts of Nature, Time, and modern pigments. A sudden impulse, perhaps, would make me think that I had Immediate need of the Elgin Marbles, and, with a farewell nod to the northeast lion .(which is my favorite of the four), I would Jump into a hansom and jog over to the British Museum. But often the approach was so clogged by pompous and overbearing pigeons that I would make no attempt to enter. Instead. I would find another hansom, and take a long ride over to the Tate Gallery. As I bounced happily along, I would note many landmarks of historic interest. Some of these were real, and others made up by myself on the spur of the moment, to fit a passing thought. For, if I saw an old building of pictur esque interest. I could make myself mors decently emotional toward the antiquity of it by assuring myself that there was where Sterne died, or where I'epys "made mighty merry." And, after all, facts are of little impor tance compared with "those things which really are the eternal inner world of the imagination." It was from the outlook of a hansom cab that I could get some of the best views of my London. Kvery turn would bring new sorts of motion, sound and color. And, blrdseyed thus, it was all so beautiful that I wondered what Shelley meant by saying "Hell is a city very much like London," if, indeed, he did say it. Once In the Tate Gallery, I would fall afresh under the spell of the lonely wist fulness of G. F. Watts' Minotaur. Then I would go to gaze long on Whis tler's wonderful notion of Battersea Bridge on a blue night, and then betake myself to the Turner collection. Here I could spend hours, floundering In unintelligent delight among the pic tures, sensitive to each apotheosis of color and beauty, and not caring whether its title might be Waves Breaking on a Flat Beach, or River Scene with Cattle. But too much Turner was apt to go to my head, and Just in time I would tear myself away, hop into a. hansom, and make for the Wallace Collection to be brought back to a sense of human reality by a short interview with the Laughing Cavalier. What a city it Is. where cabs and picture-galleries are within the reach of all ' who desire them! the entire remainder of the party ticket. This accounts for the phenomenon In a state whose Republican vote is 80 to 70 per cent of the whole, of the election of Democrats to the leading offices, yet throwing tremendous majorities for all other Republican candidates. "They take It out" of the candidate for Governor, and the candidate for Mayor of Portland; and now out of the candidate (before the people) for United States Senator. In this business neither of the Republican factions now is worse nor better than the other. But in the Presidential election the fac tions will probably unite. If they do, at least 60 per cent of the vote of the state will be cast for the Republican electors. Of course, it will be understood that this feud is now merely a struggle in the Re publican party for ascendency in It, or control of it. It persists because it has become an inveterate habit. In a party that has a majority so large as to lie a continual temptation to factious leader ship, and to ambitions large and small. stantly killing him, while the other fork jumped to the spanker-topping lift and struck the great steel screws over the rudder head and went down the rudder-well overboard. The explo sion and blows from the flying wood of the cover over the screws drove me against the binnacle and stunned me. "1 was not seriously hurt, and when we got around to an examination we found the bolt took the wire at Its point, some 12 inches above the truck, and followed the wire to the fourth falrleader, which, being wet, allowed the current to fork, and no part of it went over the side where we expected it would go, and that experience fixed me in the belief that lightning rods are not reliable. The dead seaman had received the bolt at the base of his skull, and it passed through his body, literally burn ing a course through his vitals and coining out at the heel of his left shoe, where It took one of the Iron stan chions of the rail and was grounded over the side. "In the matter of the battleships, as they may be affected by lightning, I believe they are more liable to stroke than an ordinary merchantman. They are wholly of steel, and all are rigged or fitted with the wireless appaiatus, even to the torpedo destroyers. Night and day waves of electric force are constantly to come from them, and es pecially when the tremendous white squalls so common off the Rio de la Plata shall come down on them. These great ships are so full of attraction that it is a trouble to keep steering compasses in reliable condition, and just how the ships would be affected by the heavy lightnings in the South ern Hemisphere is a matter of moment. "It is true that ail naval ships arc fitted witli the very latest devices for conducting stray lightning over the side to the water, and there is no rec ord of any ship having been blown up by lightning, but If anyeliip ever offered a large atti action to draw lightning, the battleship is the one. "From the time the ships leave Trin idad till they pass through the Strait? of Magellan they will be in the path ol almost continuous lightning storms and with their wireless apparatus bf exposed to stroke. The voyage of the battleships will take them through ail possible kinds of weather, beginning with a Winter gale off Hatteras anc Summer squally weather from Cape St Roque to the Falkland Islands, includ ing the heaviest seas, and give the of ficers and men a trying test in sea fighting. "The new plan of fitting battleship with boats, called the Wainwrighl method, will doubtless be tried on this cruise, which strips the ships of boats of all kinds but sufficient to make pas. sage to and from the shore, on th ground that In action the boats catch the shot and shell from rapid-fire gunr and their splinters are more deadl thin the fire itself.
