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i-, t H1TT51EC0NST SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 18. -1905 4 ; ! t HI - l 'l Iw th southea-t balcony of. the Forestry building, lmot in oc clusion, there is n exhibition ot - i ... Indian Hjntoirr.ph. th. Ilk " wh ch exists' Sowh. 1.0n the wM world. lfjrs cxlatene were better known Uj dark- fair ground would be root rre uented by lov.r. of rt-n. J ?he Museum of An1-" " loubt thai ,trertemer8 no ! ' the mammoth, unique Uructure would be nearly aa attractive. , There are perhaps 500 picture In tr-e collection, and a -tiv agaiust the tremendoua log the effect to the lght. ear la th . nnaof afC aa found la ature In the wild west A mlor"Jf ot the pictures are atudlea of heads. There re medicine men long- since, pant three rand tea and representing all tribe ohleftaina in war paint, maidens be. decked with the beads dfTTrtue. mothers . A Navajo who hare led -plbddlnr' Uvea Ttnd hold thela- heads high no longer, proud young bucks peering into the camera aa though aniioua for the return of the warring days of their fathers, and finally pappooses sralltnar-In disregard of their Identification with- a rapidly vanishing race. Then, too. Curds lias Caught many typical . scenes among the tribesmen, backed by landscapes ilal ilia ty-AUUea of Switzerland. ,H Jtaa found hlaWubjecta among the mountain-walled reglona of the far west, , on the plains of the Dakotaa and the deaerta. of "Arizona. He is making a life work of what was' once a hobby. He Js making a serious task, of what used to be pastime. It was about five years ago - that Curtis, whom home Is In Seattle began to photograph the Indians of the north -west, and aomeof his - best work is found "fa - the pictures he made . that long ago. ' He has since, however, trav eled thousands of miles' and made up- - , :- I JJncle Sam VKippecLJapan-- j From tlie New Tork World. N these days of Japanese prowess on the sea it Is a matter of satisfac tion to the people of the United States that it was through her in fluence that the island nation received !!?IO!ji.l-JUU.'JtlMXitllS II HlltlH SlMllI .cation. Furthermore, -though few pco .ple remejnber ltthe United 8tatea Is : the only natlnhThat has ever conquered Japan on the seas- , ' Sam taught the mikado's peopla that his . ships and seamen were something to be . feared was written way back in 1(63, . and its pac are almost hlduen In the - tnaes ot stirring events that were oc curring at that time. For our civil war waa at lta height, and happenings in ....far-off Japan, no matter how Important, were too far away to.atirart general at- tentlon. , , -..he I'nlted States steam frigate Wy eming. Captain liavld Stockton Mclou Ital, wan the ' iHrl, insured In the battle. PbnJiTj Jirrn aunt ta nnrt is tnt ysTarie waters, to keep an eye out for Confederate , commerce destroyers, espe rially'the Alabama, which was pursuing its course of destruction at the time. The Wyoming carried two" 11-inch Iishlgren guns, on pivots atntdshlp. and bad four 12-pounders In the broadside. : Jler complement waa 160 mien. The mikado of Japan issued an edict In li63 expelling ail foreigners from - ils country. The Japanese werervery . '. tiltter against all aliens at that time. . and eager to . -PlungeXue mikado- - into trouble with other powers, thus exhlbit - Ing at that early date their present war like tendency. Thla was notably, the rase with the men In the Choshlu clan, the most belllcoxe of the mik'alo'a ub- The" first move of the Choshlu men - waa t9 erect immense batteries off the traits or Hhlmonoseai. tne western en trapr to tv luiand sea. called the "Ul braltar f the Japanese Medlterraneafl." The atrnita are three rrtlles long and mile, and a half wide, edged with high bluffs, tm these bruffs the Choshlu nen erected- seven batteries,' mounted with XZ. 24-Mhd ll-pounder" guns of' the latest pattern, some of them having been purchased In America and, others In England. - Uesidea. they had .a. navy nt ' thre . hips, flis Iron staamer Lanref teld, the brig lnrl k and, . with, the Irony, of fate, th bark Inltl Webster! These : Ships were armed with 34-pnunders. With their fleet and the batteries, the " Jsuanrse commanded the straits com I-lelely, and. It was a difftcnirf "matter (at t aiii i (aa wiUa fcalwf. aUot fwra of a mil lion print. But he ha stment. for it 'costs' money to photo- ranh Indiana. The secret of this man a success Ilea in hta ability to make him self a Rood fellow among the red-akln. lie buys. their trinketa for cold. pay homage- to the chief and. after winning their respect and admiration, selects his subjects from their midst and pays gold to each Individual for the privilege of pointing- the dreaded camera toward them. He haa been known to travel with a group of Indians for hundreds of miles to find the proper backing tns right landscape for a characteristic nil-lure. . i Qirtls Ja a jsrofesslcffal jihotog ranluE equipped with ail the sum requirea in the technical part of, that business; but he Is also an artist, seeing and loving the beautiful-and longing t . produt it. i It was for hia own pleasure, merely, that he began, to photograph the Buck. Copyright by- fl. Curtla- i washes of hia "owtt.hothe; merely" b catce Indian, life la natural and lenda itself to the picturesque. H. mnde opiX the pictures that, appecled to him; and as he continued to make them they ap pealed to him more. a,trftnjtly, -and he saw greater artlatic possibilities In thl line ofwork. ' It dawned on hlra that here wa a newj unwnrked field; here in which lived hundreds of tribes and remnants of tribes, some of them still clinging to their ancient customs and practices. Would It not be a worthy work, from the standpoints of art, science and history, to reproduce them all by photography? The plan would not be remunerative, thought he, but the Jdea overpowered, him and he began. t ' . . Curtis has since visited many tribes, chleny those , or the aouthwest. andi-ea-peclally the"KavaJosJ but he. has not en tirely overlooked ' the -, northern tribes. In fact, he will leave within. a. few.days for Dakota and Montana" to work. among to pieces, for the mikado's men were gooa shots even In those days. The American steamer Pembroke was the first vessel to find this. out On June 2b, ixt3, ahe entered the straits, bound for Xaeasnkl. Phs nnslaai i"''WMrnT- Tmc4wYTia"warnhg for slack water. The account of what happened next Is given In Edgar Stanton Maclay g 'History of the American Navy.' . , Pembroke came to, mi nanici WfMicr moved by and dropped anchor a short distance from her. No suspicions of foul play sem w umn cnienainea ny the cap tain of. the Pembroke, for he had shown his colors. "About an hour after 'midnight the ianiri v enster. without the slightest warning, gpencd fire on the Pembroke, and soon the Lanrlrle-ipproached, her crrar shnutlng. and. anchoring near ih bark, opeped on the steamer. Reallzrng Itnr-WKSSl. the" master of the l'era-T uroae retraced hia con rue and eiuri,f hia asailants. . Complaint waa mnd tn the officials at Toklo, and Indemnity to me urnuuni oi tu,u'm. was demanded ana puirt. A fortnight later the French dispatch doi ivienrnaog was attacked in the same manner, and nearly sunk, while many of her men were killed. A Dutch cruiser, the Medusa, went to the straits to see about the mntter, was attacked by tne batteries and the small Japanese fleet with mch success that four of, the mean. mien were , killed and five wounded, aud 31 'shots tookTeffect ' In her hull, nearly sinking her. - . Next, a French gunboat, the Tanerede, got in range ofthajttrifs and war boffW of the Japs and was sunk; and not long afterwsrd a - Japanese steamer, which the warriors mistook for a for elgner.'was sent to the bottom sfter nine officers and 1 seamen had been killed. It may be Been by .thl that the Choshlu men were having all kinds of fun. and .lt really was a, shame to spoil It. -But raptalp' McDougall and. the Wyoming were In the neighborhood, and In n too-good humor. -and when the r.ews of the liidlgfllty to the Pembroke reached the dnughty American com mander he proceeded to take th mat ter into his own hands, though the Wyoming- wsa all ready1 to salt for home. ' Determining to proceed to the scene of hostilities, -he-dropped anchor, sayi Mr. Maclay. "afth eastern nd of the trails on the evening of July 15. har Ing first lerned thai the lneefield drww no more water than hi own ehlp. Early. - tUe seat ornU) ; the ..Wr.oraUig -ar : ,f rtfj; rounded a point of land, whenrone of the batteries " opened "fire, " the, first shot striking Mve-shlp Just above, the engine room, cutting away some rigging arti pie evidence of tne accurscy of Japanese Ifunners. Making tio reply to mis, tne nrnrnnrt another promontory, when she came within fulLslaht of the town and, within long range of all the batteries and the Japanese warships. - . , . . -iT'. "The shrewd American . commander had noticed a line of stakes driven" Into the mud, evidently marking the edgtf of the main channel. Rightly guessing that the enemy, had long got the precise range of' this waterway, McDougal ordered his -pilots to take his ship toward the northern -shore, close under -the batterica-on-that side. The DanUI Webster was . anchored - close to the town,-the anrlck about -ywrdsl'be-yond, and 'a length ahead and near her was the Lancetteld. AH these vessels were rigged wlthlltadgo. tannpors and gra4plln--aixhrs at - -tltelr yardarmwr ready to close on the, Wyoming and carry, her by boardlmt. Their decks were'coveced. with men, shouting and defying the Americans tf romMin, - "Making directly tor ' tnese vessels, MrDougal shHk out his colors but re served his flre. Intending to attack the vessels first and give hls"attanttn to the butteries -afterward. The sight "of the American ; flags seemed to have acted like oil on the fire, for now the iifttinese opened." from other batteries with savse ferocity. -Mc.DouasI s shift from.' the rtfJtln channel somewhat dls aonoerted their -plane, a- seen by the fact that roost of their sho took effect on the Wyoming's rigging.. Observing a aood opportunity tovdellver a few blows, McDougal opened with his pivots and starboard guns, and witn sucn er feet that one battery was -torn topleces nd silenced at the first, broadside. -Keenlna ai.a.iiiv on for the ships. tha Wyo-alog -wlin: nearly, bteail- i lit 7 - j .- 4, - - . X V ..af - ' .:... . . tiff. , M.X ,.. we' t y. Navajo Medicine Man. Louye Se So T Sa, a Navajo GtrL" the squadron waa fired upon by the Daniel Webster, by which -two - men, William Clark and George Watson, were killed", the latter by a chain shot. About the same time a shot from one of the batteries killed a marine. TJ-ejynexb rOJfrnC wf f "liow ' fl rjn g from every gun In the ehlp, aTwi with splendid effect, aa was. shown by the clouds of eath an broken-gun mounting that . were hurled mtfljne air."' . - - : : "Aided by the strong tide, the 'Wyom ing swiftly passed, down the straits,; so that the Japanese gunner tin the ships, although firing with admirable rapidity, could dlacharKe no more- than three broadsides. One of their sheHs killed all the crew of the forward 8 2 -pounder except. three, meiuu '.'".,., : . The Wyoming had now passed the ships, -which she reunoert -4 with the Intention ot making a target of them; but at this critical Juncture she ran aground where ' six butteries and the iuad!-rn rimid concentrate thel flri) upon her, and for a .moment it looked very -much like defeat. The Lancefleld was now observed to slip her cable and steam over to the northern shore, prob ably with a view of garnering headway for ramming the ' helpless- America if. Realizing the danger, McDougal directed all his sttention to the steamer, hoplrt to disable her before she eould do thi threatened mischief. . , .' , "Meantime the ' Wyoming's engines had been reveraed, and after a power ful effort 'she was backed clear of the mud and Into deep water. Maneuvering as-well ra" the five- not, current .and sunken rocks would admit of,. McDougal got il two pl.vot gone Into play on the Lancefleld, fnd soon 11-Inch shells were doing their awful work tin the hull of the steamer. The second carefully aimed shell from the forward pivot gun crashed through .the sl1 of the Lance fleld: one -toot , above . tna - water-line, pierced the boUr td, c,ana.jut pa JJ Copyright by R Bw Curtla. Copyright-by E. 8.Curtia. other side,. tearing a, great hole in the hull. Aa If not satisfied with the work, the. shell speeded over tne water and txploded In - the, town, a quarter of a mile away. " . Ijji n- veloped m a mass of steam, amoks, flame and cinders. Scores of men threw themselves . Into the sea.. . Two . more shells were then sent into the Lance fleld to Insure her - destruction. The uivot jgiina were l.ien turned on thi DanlelSvebster; which shjp'had been keeping up a destructive nre. " A iew well-directed shells settled her fate, and he followed the Lancefleld to the bot tom. McDougal was now able to de vote his entire attention to the shore batteries." He deliberately retraced his1 course through' the straits, keeping up a most effective flre, so much so that, al though greatly exposed, his vessel was scarcely injured. j-After"T"llf "Thff'lasf" battery "and getting beyond the reach of the Jap anese guns,- the Wyoming came to, and ttm men had time to eount their losses. The action had lasted Just 1 hour and 10 minutes, in which time the Wyoming had been struck more than 20 times, 10 shot having pierced, her hull. The ship had fired 65 "rounds,1 or nearly on for every minute of the action. Six men were killed and four -wounded. "Four days later the French frigate flemlram Is und gunboat Tanerede en tered the 'straits - and. alter landing a detachment of J60 men, raptured .the batteries. . . "Bpeaking of th ,' brflllant action, arlffls say: - To the Choshlu t clans, men, brave and capable as they them selves were. It Seetneo as tnougn mo Don sal - possessed more than- human nerva tn thua running hi vessel tnte the flerce flre which they had prepared" for him. Long afterward iney anon r p9ti4U ot Uia ,'yuneficaa jJaWia' the Sioux. His purpose1 there will be aa heretofoi-e't to picture the Indian as he was In primitive times unposed, un artlnclal. living bis dally life. - Among the many splendid tributes paid Curtis by American writers is -"that of Oeorge Bird - Orlnnell, In Scrlbner'a for fast March. The edition was sold out on account of the illustrations accompany ing -the" articles, and there, remanled thousands of orders tor the publication which could not be filled. Bald Mr. Orlnnell at that time: ."I speak of Curtla' work as photog raphy and of his pictures aa photo graphs;' but these terms art misleading to any6iftrwho, in thinking of a photo graph, forma a mental picture only of the photographs that he. 4iaa seen. These photographs are not like those which any one has seen.-The result which Cur tla gets with his camera stir one as one ia stirred Jby a great painting; and when we are thus moved by a picture, and Hopl Mother share the thought and feeling that th artist had when he made the picture, we may recognise It as a work of art. - "Th?e picture show jiot what an ordl-, nary photographer would have obtained for Curtis is an artist. In hi picture are found that Indescribable -Quality which we term feeling, and which moves us: though how or why we may not be able to explain. .' "While Curtla ia first of 11 an artist, tie does not think solely of hi art. - HI mind I broad enough to see th human ity of his subjects, and rthe importance of learning about them all that can be learned. He realize the work scien tific value, and. no content with mak ing those beautiful and faithful records of the old-time life, with all it -varied rounds of travel - and social Intercourse and ceremonial, he feel that picture alone are not. enough. They ten tne story of that life In part, but they re qulre some explanation, and as each -Setting" Tpe MONO th most interesting con v ular reporta received by the bureau of commerce and tabor ' latelv was on from United H-n.ni T li fi I I I I' y, In. which end, fhel , following Interesting- article on etting i type i by telegraph: " '' -c ' ' a ifiLmiinr discussion took place at a meeting of the Institution of Eleo- trlcai: Engineer when Donald Murray read a paper on the Murray automatic high-speed page-printing telhgraph- aya tem. The apparatus, which employ the shortest telegraph alphabet, and there fore the quickest, was seen In operation during the evening, andjwlll again be exhibited - at the - conversaziona f -the Royal Institution Tonight. V "The Murray aystem of . printing 1y telegraphy I a great advance on other mtjTQdandU-haaiMnttaed-Jitha British postofflce with-great advantage. Th Qermn postofflc ha been giving it a prolonged trial and the Russian postofflce haa just given an order for the apparatus. -. ' "By mean of th Murray apparatua telegram ar printed at th receiving station, and, wheY necessary, the ap paratus can be attached to a llftotyp machln andJiet up type without human . j - . . .h.-anma time one great ad- P" vantage -of thla typeaettlng y- I A A ft . Aa.aah (Uha 4 AV afft V tern t ' tnai tne i-uii"ai.. mak correction aa tha typ7l "being et up. . ' --- - The Murray telegraph printer was originally designed, not for telegraphy, but for automatic typesetting in the or dinary sense ofthe. word, th idea. In. spired by, newspaper experience, having been to operste a linotype automatically by means of a perforated tape pro duced by a typewriter keyboard. Sev eral machine of this kind are In suc cessful operation, but ot theaa Inven tion th Murray t the only on that haa been, dealgned on lines permitting of successful telegraphic- development In fact, in th cae of the Murray ap paratua the , teJegrttphloTdevelopment has been so successful that it ha quit overshadowed the original typesetting idea. . - - :" 'Thre year ago.' says Mr. Murray, 'th Linotype company 1n New York of fered to carry out the experimental work Involved in 'applying the Murray key-selecting mechanism to the lino type, and want of time alorftv owing; to telegraphic developments, prevented m accepting that offer.' It Is obvious that It Is Jtiat as easy to operate a linotype keyboard automatically by telegraph as to, yperat U k..of, lb Jvpew.ritaf picture represents some state or soma action, the reason . and . cause far what the cloture shows would ha eanlained ' a nd reported.. Therefore, besides making; ., his -pictures, Curtla la gathering from each tribe that he visits all that ha can which relates . to Us customs, bellefa and ceremonials, and is thus accumu. lallng great value In itself, but of atlll greater value as a supplement to hia ' pictures.- . : '. - .-. , . . "It is easy to conceive that if Curtla shall have his- health and ahall live for 10 years he will then have accumulated material for. the greatest artiatle and historical worlf In .American 'ethnology that haa - aver, been conceived of . The -work so well begun ahould be carried on to completion. The pictures, speak for thevmelveand the artist who has made, them Is devoted to his work. '. To ac complish. It he hi exchanged ease, com fort, home life,, for the hardest kind ef work; frequent and long-continued sep- and Child. ; , ' Copyright by E. 8. Curtis. aratlon from -hi family; the wearing toil of travel through difficult regions. 1 and finally the" heart-breajjlng struggle of winning- over to hia purpose primi tive men. to whom ambition, time and mdney mean' nothing; but to whcN a dream, or a cloud in the sky, or m bird flying acrosa the trail from th wrong; direction means much." ' In the group loaned by Mr. Curtl for reproduction In Th Journal ar some of hi most noted head. On of them shows a proud young Navajo, with a half-defiant expression en hi facef another, a Navajo medicine man, the line In whose Ace Indicate that ha Is paat 90; a third la of a Hopl mother nd child the Hopl women being, per haps, th most masculine of all Indian females.' And the fifth picture Is th head of a woman. "Louye-8e-8u-T-8a," which might easily be mistaken for a Swedish or even an English typ among th lowly. ty Telegrapk used in the Murray printing telegraph b system. . No doubt this will be 'don In j time, but th labor-saving will not bL rriV I n fit Tin r I ill llllllllij ii ml T limn of newa-matter-laroughlyr-about Is ,d (81 eents)." The automatic iiieeh- i; anlsm would double the speed, but a j an attendant would atlll be needed, there j would only be a saving of labor of ' about 1 (d (48 cents) per column, or a saving of only IS or 20 (.6B to 14.17) per night -aven for large newspapers. Thla would hardly be sufficient to Induce newspapers to start automatic typesetting by telegraph, but the pos sible saving of time ia a mora import ant feature, Th- saving Of few. mln- ute -la-vltal 'to newpaperat-ertaiit hour, and this may ultimately lead to automatlo typesetting by telegraph, but there are many obstacles In the way. One la the necessity for pree message tremgnrevtBwl."-punctuated; corrected-and often cut down befora being et up In -type. Th Murray ! th only automatlo apparatua making provision for thl , difficulty by allowing the editorial cor rection to be carried out by the com posltor whll the typ 1 being auto matlcallyaet j - "When a message arrive, at; th re ceiving station It-1 Represented by a number, Of 'holes punched in th tap, which operate special keya on th type . writer, pulling the typewriter carriage back when necessary and working it aa If by human, hand. lnthe same way a linotype machine I worked. A prsa message is sent off In th usual way, and by means of th Murray apparatua It la Immediately set up In typ at th Other end. - . "'Any - person,' - ay Mr,-Murray, 'who ha had occasion to examine the record of patent connected iwllh tel egraphy must have been astonished at the -number of printing- telegraph In vented during t ehlaat 60 years. In th ' United State alone over 400 printing telegraph patent have been Issued since th Invention of th electrlo telegraph. -J In hardly any other field of human en deavor haa so much labor resulted In o't; little return.' v "There ar many reasons for thl want of success, but they are all baaad on the extreme complexity oi the con dition to be fulfilled and the a nuance of any -technical literature explaining what these cnndltons'ar. With on or two exceptions, telegraph nglneers, realising th difficulties of th subject, have left It alone, and printing telegraph Inventors have In most oases been out- . elders. The complexities culmlnnte In -the priming telegraph, becsuse In that case, the problem 1 to set fJT' at a .dlstanc..", , L. aa i a ' i , t .". .J- ,,t - . y -j r, i t : ' :