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2 TITE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 23, xvua. ldcn gate: THAT FAT WOMAN FROM SAM DESCRIBES THE FIRST SECTSOH Of Ttf wqpf PFOTI G rTHE CLOTH is JjIFTED INTO THE TAUT . ThU I the nrt of m erie of let ter by the wife of a wealthy and prominent htiine man of Nan f-'ran-rUr-o. nbo ha Marled to rlnom aavlirite the glb. An foreshadowed Uy the1 Initial n of her trip, thn letter will he neither conventional, nor dull, nor purely Informutlve and deorriptlve. "1. J. K." travels with her ee vtide open and area the humorous a well a the eriouj wide of life. r:V . T. K. 4(f -'N'T make your nose red. you I M sdly. Haven't you a ticket from San Kranckieo around the world to San Francisco in your pocket, and al though leaving home, aren't you starling for home this minute?" It was the riKlit moment for a loving arm to Jerk one out of the blue?, for the big rolling doors of the Pacific Mall freight house had slammed shut, closing fr.mi view a particularly interesting bunch of faces and waving hands. Th fin Oriental liner was headed for the Orient, and the cheerful voice of my fri-nd was saying "Brace up and come see t fi bout-load of jolly guys wlio are fol lwlry us to the Golden Gate." They were on a tup. wig-wagging prl vai signals to the Vice-Corn modore of the San Francisco Yacht Club, a distin guished member of our party. And they sang, with great cheerfulness and dandy good voice. "Money, boy, we hate to see you leaving." A ft r passing the Golden Gate there was the pilot to put over our ship's side, and t: snap h;rn with a kodak as he lit In his jancir; little boat. The Farralom-s came next, sticking up through the ocean like a rocky backbone, and then we set southwest for the long drive to Honolulu. ' Nobody sick. The Pacific a calm a a bay. and the water ae blue as the Indigo rinse for the best napkins. Seventy-two hours off San Francisco, and still on good terms with one's stom ach is a delightful surprise to a few of ii who admit experiences with nial do ?n r. m ' Goodness, but li s comfortable to roll up narmly in one's steamer chair and sr NEW YORK THEATRICAL MAN EXPERIMENTS WITH AERO PLANE 5t . : XBW YORK. Nov. 25. (Special.) V. Willt.ints is a theatrical man who lixvs nt-jr New York and who has spent a gi.at pnrt rf the Inst Summer e P'Thtiti ti Mg w liii an aeroplane. Re cently he was to hae tried It out at Mnrrts I'arK. but the meet, held by tho Aei on ut tc;t Sen-lei y. was a fixxle, and th motor which was to hs-e been sup plied him w:is not the-re. Mr. Wtlltamn lias d-srguii jn aeriplane which dif fers niatTiatlv from tho Wrtirht and the French models. In the first place, he be I ie t-s in t-ropnir.g t iie Freneh tal I a nort of box kite hanging at the rear of tli. a-'ro;.l;ir,e bet'au.-e he beliees it will c.tuse the head of the areoplane to drop and th- m;icim;e To rush to the icround tn cse It it- s -ended from a considerable height. He does not think It necess-arv t balance the machine. Then he ha.- provided that the center 4i t grarlty shall he below the planes. Me thinks thst if F-imian had hung his weight and that of his machinery be low t he planes ins lead of hi-1 ween them, ho would have insured the ta bility of his machine. Finally he does not believe in the superposed p'anes. His machine has a series of four sMs of wines or dcoMe planes set tundern. Mr. WilH.ims has flown a model bm.t on tbejte lines, but he has not heii off the r-round yt with his fulf-sized machine He has now suspended his xpr.nienti for the Winter. r the sHpphire waves break off their -white tops and to watch for the fragment of rainbow the sun flashes upon the spray as it falls. And goodne. again, but its fine to sit at a beautiful table with an exem plary young captain at the head and a few of the eartti's best alongside. But there Isn't anything, really, the matter with having a clean, attentive, trained Chinese waiter behind one's chair, who looks fitted in his pastel blue robe and cap to match. When he brings you an extra dry martini and a plate with an overcoat button on It, you sit up and take notice that the button is made of a two-inch round of toast with caviar on top, you then smile with justifiable amia bility at the goodIooking American across the table, who is captain of the battleship ' Vermont, which he Isjoining in Maniltf. When the Ah Bows, and the Ah Bahs lean the mnu cards, nicely, aslant, against the Jans of chutney, everybody takes on a "glud-I'm-here" expression, and everybody's teeth get juicy in antici pation of the delicious entrees of curried rice with omelettes, or rabbit or chicken, besides which one takes broiled squab or chicken, or braised snipe, or fried East ern oysters, or deviled crab, or marrow bones on toast or ragout of goose or frog lctrs. If you dandle at table long enough, you will see the waiters get the crumby off the cloth In an entirely new way that takes about half a jiffy. Two of them lift the 5-yard long cloth, with the usual amount of crumb, nut shells and raisin-stems upon it, to which is added one dessert plate. The cloth is Hfted from the table into the aisle, holding it taut. The little plate slides of its own weight to the center of the slightly sagging cloth, and rests there while the crumbs, by a magic manipula tion, run down and get nicely into the plate. One edge of the cloth Is then p w u Vifz close to the carpet, and the crumb laden plate elides gently on the floor. The captain, noting my interest, ad vised me to try my hand, but the crumbs must have heard I was coming. They didn't behave well. They dashed down my end of the cloth and hit the plate V .- '. . ' ' , ' .- -.. ; ? - - Jjjt ' - WM it i in i i i 9m ruLLi or chiwese -AMERICAN SliVSK. COJKIS UNCLE SAM'S VALUABLE LIBRARY N the State. War and Navy building. t Washington, U. C. are three of the oldest and most complete libraries anywhere. They afford interest in a hundred and one different ways other than the. mere fact that they contain books. They are the archives of the State. War and Navy Departments. Best known of these Is the library of the State Department, on the third floor, wherein the original draft ana the original slgneu copy of the Declar ation of Independence, the Constitution of the I nlted States, and the Articles of Confederation. lire kept. This library was found fd by Thomas Jefferson in 179. and consists of 65.100 volumes and :."( pamphlets. nd-now is a part of the division of rolls and library. The division might well be called the successor to the committee on foreign correspondence established prior to the definitive treaty of peace of 1782 and the adoption of the Constitution of the Cnlted States, for until recently it was the custodian of the papers and jour nals of th Continental Congress, the papers of Washington, Jefferson. Madi son and others, which have been trans ferred by executive order to the library of Congress. In the library of the State Depart ment are kept all orginal acts of Con gress, all treaties to which the United States Is a signatory power, all proc lamation? and executive orders, all paper? relating to the various claims, commissions, arbitrations and boun dary surveys. Th original draft of the Declaration of Independence is on exhibition to visitors, but the original signed copy of that document and the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation are not. Corrections made by Franklin and Adams can be seen tn the original , . m a draft, which is In Jefferson's handwrit ing. It is in a perfect state of preser vation, and rests in an open safe with rn engraving of Jefferson and his plan of his tomb beside it. Tn the same locked safe with the Deolaratlon is the Constitution of the United States. This famous document Is in a perfect state of preservation, in spite of the fact that it Is only thirteen years younger than the Declaration of Independence. With It Is kept the or iginal journal of the constitutional convention of 17S7. Other papers In the same safe are Madison's debates and the original drafts of the various amendments to the Constitution and the ratification thereof by the states. Washington's finest collection of rare old engravings and naval records is kept in the archives of the library of the Navy Department as part of the naval war records. Thousands of val uable engravings, paintings and photo graphs are on file in this library. Most of them Include portraits of prominent naval commanders in the history of the United States, pictures of vessels that have fjown the Stars and Stripes and Ci-il War photographs. This col lection is equipped almost to complete ness, and will be invaluable In time to come. Every craft that ever flew the Stars and Stripes as a unit of Uncle Sams navy has Its picture in this gal lery of naval history. It Includes a photograph of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor, taken on the afternoon of the day of the explosion. One rare old engraving made October, 1693, shows the Dutch fleet under Tromp in its victory over the Spanish and Port uguese fleets under Ocquendo. Another engraving made in shows a de lineation of the naval war of the Venetians against the Turks at the Dardanelles. In addition to the 5000 engravings and J SHE HOPif;D WHILE SUn i pictures In the Navy Department Library is a collection of 40,000 books, which In eludes some of the rarest volumes In Washington. John Paul Jones own per sonal men.oirs. in French, dated li8, are on The same shelf with a naval history of .Portugal. 1n Latin, printed in the days of Queen Kllzabeth of Kn gland. X text book used in the British navy more than years ago. known as "Sea Dialogues," printed in Indnn In 16S8. tells of the early methods of tiogging and keelhauling in the king's navy. Every flag known to navies and rommerce Is pictured and de scribed in a book printed In Dutch in 1886 as a reference book In the Dutch navy when that nation was one of the foremost seafaring nations of the globe. A minature volume much treasured by Librarian Stewart is a nlstory of H. M. S. Royal George, bound In wood from the remains of that ship, which sank In the harbor of Splthead. England, while being painted in 1772. Dozens of old books on naval warfare grace the shelves of Mr. Stewart's office. Anyone interested in ancient but crude naval manners could spend weeks looking over such volumes as "Manvaletto de BombesU," printed in Venice in 385o as a history of ordnance. Volumes on buccaneers are as numerous as they are Interesting. Other tomes in this collection are official gazettes of Madrid. Manila. Havana and Porto Rico in almost complete series for the last 30 years of the Nineteenth cen tury, and 23 orderly books of the Ameri can Revolution, besides a large number of printed rosters and office reports in connection with the early American wars. There is also a 'set of albums of the Spanish-American war prepared by the "War Department, which are the only original ones outside of four private sets. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Recent geologists have confirmed the statement of Louis Agassis that the whole of New England was once covered with an Ice ap a. mile thick. r, 7 ' i ; 1 INTO THE CTfiUNK. CONT - TNU - ED TiETiSSRCH: with a bang and started uphill on Ah Bow's side. I got them Into the plate all right, but they wouldn't stay put I resigned my position in the work ing part of the diningioom. There are three of us in one state room. I have the lounge. The two charming gray-haired ladies with me have confessed that they intended mak ing themselves so disagreeable to the "fat woman from San Francisco" that she would move. Nevertheless the day the chance came for me to move they begged me to stay, fearing "the devil they didn't know" might be worse. The first morning out I was awak ened by a heavy soft body caroming off the pant of me that lapped over the edge of the berth. A few moments later a Baedecker and a Jinricksha tour through Japan whacked me on the legs. I Hfted my head and saw the little lady from the top bunk looking for something In her steamer trunk. She had taken the tray out and the trunk and tray covered all the .floor space so she stood with both feet in the tray while she searched the bottom of her trunk, then she hopped Into the trunk part while she continued her search in the tray. I laughed. She was very much disturbed and hoped she hadn't waked me, and begged pardon for forgetting I wasn't a lounge as she removed her library. I said: "I'll get even with you for calling me 'that fat woman from San Francisco'; you ; CARUSO REAPS A GOLDEN V 1 ' V 5-'v "" NEW YORK. Nov. 2S. (Special.) This is the famous fWOO-a-night tenor Enrico Caruso, who returned to sing at tho Metropolitan. Opera-House this season and to crowd that auditorium with a rapt raLherinr of men and women every time he appears. The "golden notes" of Caruso pass, current In the operatic world like the golden nuggets of the Klondike in the world of finance. Tenors come and go, but no rival of the sreat Italian has ever ap peared In the last live years, and lie commands whatever txorbitant price he wants to demand for his singing. It is said lie receives 40.000 a year as royalty on the "records" which he makes for the phonograph. He earns altogether $250,000 a year. Much of this he puts away, though he has not the saving disposition of the tenor of the American Opera Company, who cooked his ir.eals over an olX stove and washed his linen in his hotel room. will be sorrs when I go to the captain and show him the blue marks you've made on my shins." To laugh over inconveniences that cannot be helped is a safer way to travel than to scold. . . . 1 Being prisoners on the boat. It Is in teresting and natural to visit the parts available, and the afterdeek is a lively place, where the Chinese passengers, numbering 200, have a dozen gambling games in progress. They spread their mats upon the deck and sit upon them; they shuffle and deal dominos with red and white spots on them and they rattle a bowl full of American and Chinese silver coins in true speiler fashion. It is perfectly easy to lose money on all their games. It Is quite startling to notice, sudden ly, that one Is leaning against a pile of Chinese coffins stacked up six or seven high. All the hopelessly sick Chinamen start for home hoping to get there, alive, with their bones which must be buried in China to Insure their spirits rest. Three poor fellows have already giv en up, and their embalmed bodies are In three of those coffins, one cannot , guess which three. To look down upon the ship and se from the elevated compass stand is a joy never forgotten. There is the round world of sky and water meeting at the horizon, and in the very middle of everything Is the splendid ship thirty thousand tons of pulsating steel plowing through four hundred miles of water every day. Three hundred busy officers and men working and watching faithfully. Naked stokers, glistening with sweat, 250 tons of coal during the 2 U hours. Happy, careless first-class passengers chat and sing and promenade, watching? the flyingfish by day and the phos phorus by night. This morning at 7 we are close to the Hawaiian Group and the sun throws deep sITadows in the gulleys, bringing out strongly the unevenness of tho rocky pile. Hope and the Job eeker. Detroit Free Press. Tea, sir. I'm living in hope, banking on promises made, Hoping by night and by day that a plum on my piate win be laia; I went to the front like r man. T can- vassed my ward, end to end. There are hundreds of xnn I can name I persuaded to vote for my friend. And, now he has something to give, 1 am haunting his office all day. I want a political job and I 1 nig for po litical pay Next year I'll have money to burn, at" east I am honing I will. In the heat of the flsht I was there, I argued while others stood still. His cards I was proud to give out, his pictures I nailed on the walls. And I stood In the rear to applaud when ever he entered our halls: It was valiant service I gave, now h ought to throw something my way. I want a political Job and I long for po litical pay. J don't say for sure that I'll land, hut I'm hoping I will, and perhaps My name he will put on the list when dividing political snaps; I'm hoping he'll send for me sion, I am hoping he'll say unto mo, "I want to do something for you, what job -would you like It to be?" I'm dogging his footsteps by night and my friends have gone to him to say: I w&nt a political job and I long for po litical pay. .4-. I HARVEST EVERY YEAR
