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PORlLANq. OREGON.
SATURDAY. APRIL- 7, 1CC3.
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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FIRE.
try HE TWO MOST OBVIOUS LESSONS from
I .,; the fire in the Chamber of Commerce building
yt&ir&T M that a fireproof office building in
Portland is an unknown quantity and that the ordinances
providing for fire escapes should be rigidly enforced
without fear or favor. There are on some of the older
buildings so-called fire escapes which are; travesties of
the name. Nevertheless they pass for such, nominally
comply with the terms of the ordinances and will only
demonstrate their. inutility when .there ts tragic need
for them.V There is a good deal of
eler in the American makeup; when the weather is good
there is no occasion to fix the roof and when it rains
the work cannot be done. Until we are awakened by
some terrible holocaust or the frightful imminence of
such, as was witnessed by nervous thousands' yesterday,
we gaze with calm k indifference on the absence of ef
ficient fire esca'pes and take no heed of the fatal conse
quences that may be involved. But when afl 'accident
happens, when the danger is literally broughtliome to
us in a concrete f grm, we are apt to give Jt heed and
take spasmodic action on it In this respectthe fire in
- the eighth -story of the Chamber of Commerce building
' furnished an "object lesson .which the .city' authorities
should heed and in enforcing Which public sentiment
should strenuously uphojd them. There must 'be ade
quate fire escapes on every office building in the city
now unprovided with them and so-called fire escapes
must' be replaced by better ones. There is no excuse
in any event for failing to provide proper means of exit
from all such buildings, but there is less now than ever
- before,- for property has been enhancing so rapidljMn
value that the very least the public can demand is full
- . assurance of its safety while occupying or visiting such
- places. If the fire originating in the Commercial club
had started during the noon hour, any time between 12
J and UO o'clock, there might have teen a score of
' deaths instead of one." There was no-stairway leading
.xto the eighth floor, nothing but the elevator shah. This
means 'of "exit was almost, immediately cut off. There
then remained one little fire escape into an interior
. court of the building and two at opposite corners. Both
these latter were promptly cut off. An average of 250
men and women have Jjeen taking
, club every day. Suppose that 250 people had been scat
tered about the rooms when the fire broke out how
many. of them would have escaped under the precise
circumstances xf yesterday's fire? It is altogether with
in the bounds of probability that a large percentage of
' them would. .have perished, so rapid was the progress oi
the fire and so limited the avenues oi escape. No man
who has ever dined at the Commercial club but is
brought face to face with this frightful possibility. And
it is safe to say that every one Of
be" an active partisan in favor of better fire escapes and
will earnestly uphold' the administration in . whatever
efforts it puts forth to bring about a better condition
than now prevails. The Journal takes this occasion to
urge upon the mayor the 'necessity of immediate and
if need be drastic measures to put the office buildings
of- Portland in safe condition insofar as that Is possible
through the aid of entirely modern and properly-placed
'. fire escapes. ' ', . '7 t . , ' - - - ;
There should also be more care exercised in the con
struction of these big buildings that are now going up.
.Some recent buildings have many, of the characteristics
of fire traps; The building laws should be strictly en
forced, and if they are not now adequate to meet the
demands they should be made so. . .. v,
The firemen rendered very effective
progress of the fire and. succeeded,
admiration of the spectators, in confining the flames to
the upper story. At the same time there rs room for
their more efficient training in scaling and operating
upon the big office buildings. The era of big buildings
is now really on in Portland, and the fighting of fires
will thus become a muchmore serious and scientific
problem than ever before. The need of water tower
apparatus ws made keenly apparent. Through means
of these machines the upper stories of the high build
ings can be efficiently reached with water when it is
impossible to scale the face of the building itself Be
sides, an efficient and highly-trained pompier, corps is
needed. .... ...'..''
Another feature of the fire was the courage, the
gallantry, the unselfishness in an emergency, and the
true heroism of the common people. Of all the crowds
neat enough to see and know what, was going on 'there
.was not one out of ten but would have put his own
life iri jeopardy if thereby he could have saved Cappa,
whom none of them knew at all personally, but whom
they perceived was a , fellow creature in dire danger.
While he perilously hung up there, "with the chances
apparently ten to one that be couldn't be saved, a thou
sand people of all sorts,, irtherewere -any way to do
so, would have risked their very lives to have saved
him, a stranger! And yet there are . pessimists who
LETTERS FROM THE
,-. " . PEOPLE
Bowa With the Barbae bsv.
Kewberg. Or, April 8. To the Editor
, of Tbe Journal The (rafters are around
tain. Tbe poor barbers all over the
: state of Oregon have been paying from
SI to ft ever three months to make
this board of examiners an easy job
end to abuse poor barbers and rob them
of the money that their families ought
to have. This la the worst graft law
that oould ever be gotten up by a few
men. ,
I have .let tern from barbers all over
the state that have worked at the trade
from J to IS years. They as y the
board will not give them a certificate,
' only a permit card to work for three
months at a time, and every card costs
St. Qarbers. Just look where your money
. n going. The law is unconstitutional
There is no law In America that makes
a man quit a trade that mike his
bread and butter for his wife and chil
dren and It will coat but a few dollars
to have the commission taken from this
.board of examiners, and then they will
pro home and work for their money like
the r-t of ua. I hare taken good
oounaet in this matter and tt Is a guar
anteed faot and when all of the barbers
re ready to proceed we will turn the
board out of their Job and We won't
be at any more expense. If this law
protected the barbers it would be a
different thing, but It only does a few
govd while the majority are Injured,
and badly, too, and It only make dogs
out of the boy that want to learn th
trad. This barber law ie only for the
grafters. Just read It.
I want all of the barbers In the atate
thai are opposed to this law to write
to m at once and We will sturt the ball
ruiimg. t have aome money that was
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Tbe Mas Who. Tote 'er traight.
Portland, Or., April 4. .To the Kdltor
of Tho Journal I am glad to see, The
Journal standing by the people In their
efforts toward political purity in our
fair state. Let the good work go on. 1
believe every candidate who dos not ln
dorse statement No. 1 ahould be defeated
at the primaries. , Those who refuse to
sign any statement thereby announce
that they will do as they See-fit They
might as well' put it plainer, and say
"the people be d d." When a candi
date tells .me he has always supported
every nominee of his party, then I know
who not to vote for, for any office. 1
do not believe In any man who will
always vote an absolutely - straight
ticket . There are nearly always one or
more 'objectionable candidates on any
ticket Let those who can explain how
they get there, and tho man .who blindly
always votes bta ticket straight Is vot
ing for his party and not for tho good
of his country. I am glad to know that
Oregon has done itself crellt In times
past by throwing party corruption down
hard, and I am hoping It la now getting
Into position to doit It a final knockout
Let Oregon ieava the local option liq
uor law as It Is for two years more. It has
not had time to be fairly tried yet. It
the liquor element is agalhat It shouldn't
that be taken as proof positive that la
doing goodT Try It a while longer be
fore you change It In the meantime re
member the Jayno bill (amendment),
that tailed in the last. legislature, and
those who voted for It I have preserved-
the list, and I expect to take It
to tbe polls with me. "
A CLOSE OBSERVER.
- The Proposed Kposltioa.
, Llnnton. Or., April S. To the Editor
of the Journal Why not. use the
J OURNAL
7X0. r. OABBQU
The Journal Building, Fifth,1 and Yam
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say that there is no longer real fraternity among man
kind and that a man has no more soul than a steer!
loss which the Commercial club sus
tained was in its works of art, which it has been gradu
ally accumulating and some of which were of, a dis
tinctly high order of merit. Some of these things ne"veir
But the club itself, with a membership
with a big field peculiarly its own to
fill, with every man ready to rally round us Danner,
will -rise from its ashes bigger and better, than ever
before and ready to do a class and character of work
which even its fme record has never heretofore ap
proached. ;.. .- ....
. .V OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS.
THE1L0.S Angeles Examiner, discussing the Hep
: burn railroad'rate bill and particularly Senator
Newlands proposition with . reference thereto,
takes the position that government ownership would not
irive the'ooliticians an arm of men whom theyreoufd
control, but would rather have the opposite effect New
lands insists that the Hepburn bill does not go far
enough, but fears government ownership "would cause
the entrance of over a million men into public patronage"
which, hcassum.es, means corruption and deviltry.
But the Los Angeles paper says that government con
trol of railroads would work just the .other way.v and
would deal a death blow to the spoils system. Its argu
ment follows: . '
"Everybody realizes what a political peril it would
new army of public servants dependent
for their positions upon the pleasure of the party in
power. .The remedy is as obvious as the peril. The
oeoole would demand, as one of the primary conditions
of government ownership, that the employes be placed
under civil service rules. The force of example would
soon cause extension of the same protection to other
kinds of government employes -who . should have it, but
are now denied it. Government ownership, properly
guarded, would take the railroads out of politics, not put
them in, as Senator Newlands apprehends. Does any
body doubt that the railroads are in politics?' .
Turn your gaze on the United States senate. How many
of its members owe their seats to -railroad influence
and act as attorneys for their patrons there? The states
are not few in which, the railroads are politically domi
nant. ; Private ownership of the means of transporta
tion and other public utilities is the main source of po
litical corruption throughout the country. ' What the
insurance companies did with their 'yellow dog" fund
public service corporations do everywhere. The most
potent factor in promoting the progress of the govern
ment ownership movement, '.as Senator Newlands per
ceives, is the ceaseless, and unscrupulous opposition of
the railroads to regulation in the public interest , Every
just bill aimed at such regulation which a corporation
controlled congress emasculates, pigeon-holes or kills
is, in effect, a bill passed to hasten the incoming of gov
ernment ownership." -
But does this settle the 'question? , We think not. .By
the very means of the civil service there is bred up an
overshadowing office-holding class whose interests are
identical and,who, when massed for or against any issue,
would be in position to dictate to the politicians and
those who play for public preferment
' Let us earnestly, honestly, sincerely and intelligently
try regulation of railroads before we plunge into federal
ownership.; ' - .' ' - -.- " . .-. '
ANOTHER REASON FOR REGISTERING.
A- MINOR'REASON"for registering If to shew lip
Portland's population fairly to rival cities and
- the rest of the world. Population, some years
after a federal census has been taken, is estimated. in
various ways by the number of school children, the
names in a city directory, the postoffice receipts, and the
number of votes cast in elections. The. latter is not a
for nobody can accurately determine'
what proportion of voters failed to exercise the elective
franchise, yet the number of voters, registered is'con
sidered somewhat of an indication of a city's or county's
population. . '
It was given out last year with some officiality that
Portland's population was only 110,000, and the morning
paper assumed this as correct and repeatedly declared
it to be approximately so, while there were abundant
reasons to believe and assert that- the population of the
city then Was over 130,000. There has undoubtedly been
a steady gain since June, 1905, which should-be indicated
by the registration as well as in other ways. .We had
then a city election, while in 1904 we had a county and
state election in June and a national election in Novem
ber.' Though the new law makes registration a little
more difficult, or disagreeable, perhaps, for some peo
ple let us show Portland's and Multnomah county's
growth in the past year, and two years, by the registra
tion books. This is, of course, not the main purpose or
object to be considered, yet it is worth being considered
in connection with other motives for registration. ..-"."
Let the world know that Portland is growing, and one
way in which to do this is by registering and voting.
Forestry building for the coming expo
sition and as the city owns two acres
of land, build another building of suit
able also and In this way have a .place
for all coming expositions
- U C. PARKER.
Furt of the Middle West
. From the Chicago News; '
. Despite the general opinion that roost
of the wild animals that Inhabited.' the
middle west a century ago have be
come extinct as A .result of tbe tnarcb
of civilisation, tho contrary is true, and
thousands of muskrats, skunks, rac
coons, opossums,- foxes and civet cats,
with occasional mlnka and weasels, are
killed, and 'their' pelts sold for sums
that lit the aggregate would be a great
surprise to the public not in touch with
the trapping' trade. Not In years have
the central Illinois trappers been so
active ss this year. - . .
One firm in Muscatine pays : fl.000
each week for hides. There are many
firms scattered over Illinois which do an
equally large business, and it la proba
bly safe to say that during the. present
season trappers will be paid In Illinois
alone tbe aum of 1100,000, while Iowa.
Indiana and perhaps . several other
statea of ths middle west all expend
equally large sums In this direction.
The majority of the animals trapped
In the middle west are the muskrats,
which have the least attraction for tbe
trapper, as the pelts bring only 11 to 11
cent. While skunks range from to cents
to 11.60, according to slse and condi
tion, raccoon from 0 cents to $1.74,
opossum from 2S to It cents, red foxes
from tl to t(. Civet cats bring only tt
cents.- , i.. ... i.
Whafa His Name?
From the Wall Street Journah
Speaker Cannon says It will "take s
search warrant a hundred years hence to
And but who was vice-president. in the
rear of our Lord 101."
SMALL CHANGE
, Ears and rabbits.
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Never mind about the Easter bat bill
till the first of next month.
Th preaohere will have soma ntee
and ' Very likely instructive things to
aajuuunorrow,
e
To tell the truth spring had already
openea.
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. leasts corns after fasts, and there is
more sincerity and truth In many eases
in the feasting than In the fasting.
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Prayer ts a thought - Mnuttered er
expressed." ,,
It was again shown that Portland has
aa efficient and faithful fire depart
ment - x
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Better real from polltlos a little while
tomorrow and go to church. .
Only two days more In wblon to reg
ister. : ...
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Registration and voting is a " eivlo
duty. . :
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Some'wotnen are doomed te be disap
pointed In tbe result of the Juna elec
tion, however It goea as to woman suf
frage, but most -If not all of them will
get over It and continue to be the chief
objects of men's reapeot and love.
Tfo man can foresee or foretell la (he
morning what fate may have la store
for aim that day.
Very few people care much any more
whether our unctuoue and umblllcous
friend Blnger Hermann is tried at all
or not t
Bluebottle flies are - among this Aa-
gusllstle April'g -delights.
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Don't believe eulte everything you
hear In -polities.
April Is rather toe much so. - thus
far, and we expect there will be a kick
coming about her later behavior, but
complaining or criticism does no good.
April 10 la only three days away.
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If running for office, doubtless - the
caar of Ruaala would decline te sub
scribe to "statement No. 1."
.. ve e f '. ,
We suppose that when that great
statesman, and diplomat Henry- White.
settles everything: between Germany and
ranoe ana the other nations, he will
let us know. Or at least It may be
hoped that he will condescend to -do so.
Few bulldlnss an ahaolutalv rir
proof. '-- - - -
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Bs good tomorrow.
e e
The people are learnina to ba thalr
own bosses. -
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This weather haa mtrtA nranM
tlon. saraaoarllla ads. straw hat eiun.
erlea, brooms and book agenta. '
AOne shall be taken and the&sthar
left" '
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Senator bfM'i iuIa, 4a .
Munn, though- the decayed and fading
old peach suggested that he ought to
speU it "lioa"
e e .
You can register yet today, but not
tomorrow. - , .
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Should the people trust the man who
won't trust themT
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Portland will also get around to
higher license after while. -
Progress! ye Baker -City - people - are
talking parks.
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Medford people will probably make
its saloons close entirely on Sundays.
They ought to, since It is the lawi
e e
. Seaside people are beginning to con
slder a local telephone exchange a na.
oesslty.
. Klamath Falls and Klamath eounty,
an Intelligent observer thinks, are en
tering upon - a period of great pros
perity. Undoubtedly the coming two
years will witness the advent probably
of 6,000'people Into that section. .
Now Eugene Is
Pure water next '
prepared te filter.
North Yamhill has a novelty manu
facturing company.
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Public -ownership of lighting system
is the paramount question in Tilla
mook. .. ' , '
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' ' The meetings of Ths Dalles council,
according to the Chronicle, are "as
peaceful aa a prayer meeting."
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Estacada expects to grow a good deal
this summer. i -
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Hubbard correspondence of . Wood-
burn Independent: Mrs. Eberhard cele
brated ber nlnety-nrth birthday last
Sunday. A number of friends and rela
tives were present Although up in
years,, she is very spry and does her
own work.
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There sre 'people who eaa see ' Mt
Hood smoke most any day.
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If Candidate Clarke should get the
state printer's Job the first . thing he
should buy Is a spelling book.
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nSVia .anallv nt tlia, lra nlant at tha
Hotel Estacada wilt be 1,000 pounds at
one freese. .-
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A Hubbsrd firm kshlps from 1,009 to
1,600 dosen eggs a week. -
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Ud In North Yamhill the other day
a great contest occurred between the
people and the ctttsens, but ths Record,
OREGON, SIDELIGHTS j
with rare originality, remarks tnat "tne
election Jassed oil quietly." 1
Better' more good roads and less pol
itic - . -.
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Woodburn Independent; The way Is
being cleared to Portland becoming ths
most prominent manuracturlng city of
tha Paelflo coast It will take time to
realise this, but progressive Oregonlans
In conjunction with new blood, will ac
complish it All Oregon can rejoice at
sucb a prospect for it means a bigger
home' market. It menns more cream
eries and chicken ranches In the Wil
lamette valley, .
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Buy things "mads in Oregon."
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TODY HAMILTON'S
OWN STORY
. From the New York Sun.
It may be asserted without fear e
contradiction that the outpouring of
Tody Hamilton's muse bava been more
widely perused than any other literary
efforts of the age. And his stylet Take
the gem-studded nioreeau -which -oma-
mented the columns of ths Sjun the other
uay ana which aesorioea: -
"Another awful, appalllug aerial auto
mobile somersaulting aot by a young
and fearless French lady; a turning,
twisting, twirling, tossing, tilting trans
position." ,
" There's a style for yout You recog
nise it nowt . Naturally! Tou've been
devouring - Tody . Hamilton's master
pieces for ' years, and they've never
failed to stir -your blood with the one
particular thrill reserved fdr the call
at tha clrftiiB. -- . '-
For more than a quarter of a century
Mr. Hamilton has contributed to . th
gayety of nations in the capacity of
press agent for the Barnum Bailey
show. Every circus pole in the country
has sprouted Imitators Of him, but he
remains the unapprbaohable klnsroln ef
his profession.
There Is one subject though; which
dries up the well of Tody Hamilton's
eloquence. Ask him about himself, "In
vite . him to confide to you and ths
public the story of his life, and a blush
of Ineradicable modesty, mantles his
cheek. - . m ,. i
"I I-Vell, really" he stammers
Tm I'm very ahrinking. That's what
I. am I'm shrinking. , I'll talk 860
words to the minute about anything
sise unoer tne sun. nut whan - it
comes to talktng about myself, I I'm
o tongue-tied that It amounts te lock
1B 1 . . . ..
And it was the truth.: Tllina- tha
irutn is an ungovernable passion with
Tody Hamilton, ayway. Sometimes hs
rolls it in adjectives till It's as big as a
tree ring tent; but there's always a ker
nel o truth inside. - r- -
Mr. Hamilton's connection with , ths
circus goes back more than B0 years.
Thia is not so remarkable as It sounds.
Every man now approaching; (0 was
more or less connected with ths clroua
about that same time. Mr. Hamilton
merely -happened to enjoy unusual ad
vantages. ':.-'.
His father was a newspaper man and
was blissfully prone to the possession
or circus tickets, Anyway, he was la
an office- right across tha street from
Barnum s when It. was down at Broad
way and Ann street:
It la needless to relate that Maatar
Tody Hamilton, then a promising child
or s, wnoae Drow already bulged, with
rudimentary adjectives, lived, moved
and - had hia being at the clroua. In
this, however, he was almply following
the first law of Small-boy nature. He
States that be was not conscious at that
period of an uncontrollable desire to
make the circus his life mission. -
On the contrary, when his father died
and young Tody, a few years later, bad
to leave Fordham college and go . to
work he jumped straight Into Journal
ism. . It was In hla blood. His father
had -died in. that harness. His grand
father had done the same. Fourteen-
year-old Tody put It en aa naturally as
ne wore nia name, '
In the matter of names, by the way.
ne .is tolerably' well supplied.. Some
how hla parents did-not get around to
christening him until he was two years
old, and In the meantime his mother
had given "tho little toad" the nick'
name which has clung to him through
me. , . ..
Later, as a matter of form, he was
equipped with the usual : outfit of
names, the . initials of which are R. F.,
though no man knows or cares what
they stand for. As a mere Item of cu
rious Information Mr. Hamilton recalls
the fact that they -are-derived- from
Richard Francis. But. that la hardly
worth mentioning. -
In Journalism the younr man stayed
until the aquarium was opened In the
building which is now the Herald
Square theatre, when, by request he
transferred hla talenta to the new In
stitution and thereby settled his eareer.
tie vatn t yearning to be a press
aent. Oh" the contrary, he had another
ambition, io own and run a newspaper,
He had started three, which, with dis
couraging lack of variety, had gona
smash one after the other. He elgbs
even now when he tells of it. i
- "We're pretty much all misfits in this
life," he say a "Circumstances put us
into one place and perhaps we make a
fair success there. But we've always
got a yearning eye on some other niche
which we never manage to scramble
Into." .
Circumstances were evidently bent on
putting Tody Hamilton-' Into the circus
1 business, for when he left the aquarium
It was to go with Coop's show for a
year. Then he Joined Barnum'a forces
and the world has had an extra lot of
good laughs coming ever since.
"The prees agent of today," said Mr.
Hamilton, "waa as unknown then as an
automobile; and It's a toss up which
would have made the bigger sensation.
Why at that time press notices of the
circus had to be sent to the dramatio
editor, whose department consisted
solely of little paragraphs of two br
three lines . each formally . announcing
that So-and-so would open a week's en
gagement at Such and such a theatre
or that somebody else was playing at
another house.
"I remember ths consternation in one
office when two notice of the clrous
three lines each Appeared iif the dra
matic column at one and the same timet
That was unheard of; positively revolu
tionary. I had to work three years
before I could get circus news trans
ferred from the dramatio department
with whom we had about as much
oonnectlon as a bull fight has with the
dairy news to the city editor. .
."In those days a press agent's busi
ness had been to keep things out of the
papers. He waa to see that the bloom
on the show's reputation was not dis
turbed By the rude hand of criticism.
""I. tackled the proposition from the
other end. It became my aim In life to
keep the show before tho people; to
have something Interesting to tell them
and to tell it
."Do you know what I think Is the big
gest achievement of the tt years I
have been lrt the show buslnessT It
was when I carried American, methods
Into Europe and made tho newspapers
over there not only sit up and take no
tice, nut sit up and take ua at our own
valuation.
"We were going to winter-in Paris, so
I had gone on ahead for the purpose of
breaking into French Journalism. Every
body I knew over there was handing
out pity with both hands. They soothed
and encouraged me by telling me that
I might as well try to writs an adver
tisement scross the heavens aa to get
anything into ths French papers with
out paying good and well for it '
;. '.'You know French papers are about
as large as a lady's pocket handkerchief,
anyway. And tha owners would rather
have three of their pages blank than
print anything free for which they
could possibly get money.
, "Also, they have a habit which Is
calculated to wring profanity, from a
glngsrbread man. ; They don't announce
mings in advance. They just tell you
about a thing when it's all over, and
you can t possibly go to. It
. "Oh, there a no denying that I had
my work cut out for me. But I went
to the editor of Le Petit Journal which,
I suppose, has tha largeet circulation
in tne world, and I said to him
' "Monsieur , you can't afford io
have us come to Paris, rent th biggest
building In the world, f.b CUlerle des
Machines, and spend thousand of
francs getting it ready, without your
letttnryour readerr hear 'about IfYou
pretend to give them th news. This Is
news. And If you don't gly ft, you're
mims; money under .raise pretenses.'
"Rather brutal. I know, but It scored.
And when I had oonvlneed that one edW
tor I had them all Battled. It was the
same in th other European cities.
"In Budapest I went to see the editor
of th Pester-Lloyd. U had adver
tised that they would publish several
feullletons, that 1 i Bhort stories rmv
ntng across th foot of a newspaper
page. a - ;.
" I'll give you something better than
your feullletons,' I said. 'You go on
ringing th changes on th . same old
them of love. I'll give you something
that will stir more Interest and curiosity
in your readers than forty of your old
stones.
. ".'Go ahead I' he said.
"So- I wrote an account of what do
you think? Of our business office! It
waa translated and printed In his pa
per,' and he. told me afterward that for
the. first time la years, he had received
lettera from hla readers apropos of a
reullletonV ,
While be was abroad with th clroua,
as an offset to his achievement In tam
ing- the foreign press, Tody Hamilton
waa overtaken by a mania for collect
ing. You'd never guess what he col
lected. He 1a, be it understood; a tall
and hearty man, wbo can sit up after t
p. m. without the slightest inconven
ience. - Make the company good enough
and he'll Be, t a. m. go by, too, and
never blink. That's the kind of man
he la.- ,
Welt be collected he really did col
lect toy silver. That's alL No aword
canes, or armor, or pipes,' or beer mUgs,
or antique furniture. Just toy silver.
He has about 69 miniature all ver ar
ticles, each on representing a piece Of
household furniture. If got every.
thing that belongs In a well-regulated
house sxcept a clock and a bed.. He
did see a clock, but be declined to awe
th dealer's price for It -
He's sorry now that he balked, but
nothing can ravish him of the joy of
possessing an eight-Inch silver arm
chair, a lady's footstool of correspond
ing dimensions, and a tray about as
big as a silver dollar and furnished
with six cups and saucers and lacking
only a siphon and a few extras.
Just why he took to these little mas
terpieces he doesn't pretend to explain.
Incidentally, he owns up to a longing
for paintings, statues and ivory carv
ings. But the toy sliver is the only fad
that has made him succumb utterly.
Th summer of 1S0S 1b to b a moat
extraordinary on In tho career of Mr.
Hamilton. He Is going to hare a vaca
tion. . , -
The last one he1 had waa in 1S81.
That tims ' he seised the opportunity
to start th original Sunday afternoon
newspaper. "
He bad been laboring under the con
victlon that the world waa 111 at ease
for want of that very thing. The
world set his mind at rest on. th sub
ject Th newspaper went the way of
the three othera with which he had
tried to satisfy his one ambition. -
He eame back to Mr. Barnum a fold.
chastened of every thing ' but fhls "gift
of expression. It is expected that when
unkind Fate does remove Mr. Hamil
ton from tbe apher he ornaments a
new species will be added to the vege
table kingdom. It Is .reasonably cer
tain that flowers of speech will spring
from" his grave. -
la the meantime Mr. Hamilton will
take hla second vacation thib summer.
He' will not start a paper this time
Instead he will visit Coney Island. Ht
says he has never had a chance to go
there, being always engaged In west
ward ho-lng during th summer.
He is going to drift around theveast
thia time, fishing a bit here and there
and getting acquainted with his sum
mer wife. This sounds rather ,Mor
monistic but It Is Quite nrooer. Clr
eue men, as a rule, have to take their
families pretty much on faith In ths
summer, when the show Is on tour.
The Hamlltons might go to the Pa
elflo coast, where Mr. Hamilton garners
th treasures of th deep at th rate
of 600 pounds of flashing, floundering,
fugaolous fish per afternoon. But be
rHas aTToxrieffier'and a little Chihuairm
dog not much bigger than some of ths
toy silver above described. With the
kindly smile which has made him ths
friend of something like a million hu
man beings of all races, colors and pre
vious cpndltlona of servitude, hs said;
"Yousee, we couldn t leave th dogs
long eftough to go to the coast."
"Have you got any enemies r ne
asked? ' " . ' - -
'Enemies?" tbe nig man aaid In his
slow, gentle voice. "Enemies? -Just
one In the world; and I don't know that
he's an enemy. We Just don't apeak.
That's all. Enemies? Why, what does
anybody want with enemies?"
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Cape Horn, Washington."
April. 7 Ths weather having . been
fair and pleasant, we had dried a suffi
cient quantity of meat to serve us as
far as the Chopunnlsh, with occasional
supplies, if we can procure them, ot
roots, dogs and horses. In the eourss
of the day several partlea of Shahalas,
from a village eight miles above us,
came to visit us, and behaved them
selves very properly,, except that we
were obliged to turn one of them from
the camp for stealing a piece of lead.
Everything waa now ready for our de
parture. T " : - i. ....,.-C--..v ,-, r
- : ; - -- A. New Pest - -
From th Corvallls Times.
As to caterpillars, her Is a true story
on the subject A Corvallls lady who
worked with her fruit trees on a fine
day recently, discovered ridge around
the branches and trunk In many place.
The color was almost the same as the
bark. She thought the phenomenon
queer and concluded after extended in?
vestigatlon .that it was a new pest not
before reported. She succeeded by con
siderable effort In dislodging a number
of the rings from the branches .and put
them away In the house. - A day or
two ago she told a friend of the Incident
and went to get the rings to show ths
guest the new pest Her consternation
was lifted to a high pitch when to her
dismay she found that what she had
thought to. be solid rings waa In reality
caterpillar eggs, and further that the
warm air of tha room had hurried the
hatohlng process and that little cater-'
pillars were crawling about th place.
From the Incident those who have fruit
trees may find a way to destroy the
caterpillars by the wholesale by at
tacking them while they are yet un
batched, .
CHINA AND THE
AMERIC ANS
Correspondent Barry In New York Bun.
There was a queer Jlttl Incident of
th boycott in Canton. The viceroy
there is a conservative and a' natural
baler of tbe foreigners.-. Personally he
would, like nothing- better than to have
the- whoU foreign lmntcleanr-eut-by
the mob. The real ruler of China .
in theae times is Yuen Hal K'ai. viceroy
of the five northern provinces. He sent
down orders . of such tenor that th
viceroy of Canton could read between
the lines his sudden finish If any for
signers were klUed In the - boyeott
Among other things, thee orders com
manded th viceroy of Canton to- Issue
a proclamation forbidding-, th . anti
American demonstration. There waa a
wartonr-Tew days, and nothing was',
dona Then our consul went to th
viceroy and asked him 11 h proposed
to issue an edict The vloeroy posted
a proclamation which read about Ilk
this: .. ,,.
; "Any man Inciting a riot or making
any physical demonstration against th
Americans will b beheaded." ;
The Chinese got th point of that
Th Chines mind work In It own way. -They
Interpreted th order to mean that ,
they had license to do anything they
pleased against the Americans so loni J
aa they used no physical fore which
la Just what the viceroy Intended It to
mean. ' That very day the boycott the
posting of cartoons and the circulation
of lampoons were renewed. It Is even--said
that the guilds passed out the word
that any Chinaman caught buying Amer- .
lean .goods, would lose his head..
The day after th American consul
heard this, the United States monitor
Monadnock dropped Into th harbor of
Canton and anchored off th bund. - Be
fore the consul wss up that morning a) "
messenger from th viceroy .cam, to
him and said;
"What doea thia mean? : la the gun
boat going to bombard the town?" No ,
the consul knew as well as that, captain
of the Monadnock that she waa ther
only incidentally, on a practice cruise.
But he saw the point and graspsd tha
opportunity. He eald:
"Tell the viceroy that the thing whioTi -
will settle the etatua of this province In
the minds of the Americans la an edict
forbidding any kind of a demons tra
tlon."--. .
The- viceroy sent back word that be
couldn't think of doing it Hie people
would murder him. Th consul, who
knew very well what th orders from
Peking were, stood firm. The viceroy .
yielded a little every day; and on the
fourth, "just when the Monadnock waa
getting- ready to move anyway, he Issued
the edict - ' .
That brings up one point touching .on, .
their relations with us. They think the
Americans are easy. 1 la aom quarters.
the mamanlmoua act of John Hay la
returning part of our share of the In
deronlty Is regarded as a weakness. For
signers living in China feel perfectly
sure that If two or three arunnoats nai.
sailed. Just incidentally, up the Yang- .
tse-Klana- river Just after the boycott
broke out there would have been no
trouble. - y
it would take too long to more than .
summarise the reasons which? make ob
servers of Chinese affairs believe that .
war will be eventually inevitable. In
the first plac. there Is the Russian
pressure to the north.- The peace, aa I .
have said, was only a truce. The Rus
sians regard It as a setback, nothing
more. - They hadn't .unlimbered their -guns
In Manchuria before they were r
nwtng thoiv pressor at court- Th
status of Sakhallon t a danger. Th-
Russlans are piqued because they baa
to alve ut half of it and th Japanese.
because they couldn't get Jt alt At th
south ther Is th oerman pressure.
Hhe Germans hold Klao-Chou without
the slightest shadow of International
authority they have less business ther
than the Russians ever hsd on the Llao- .,
tung peninsula, and they are pushing
their- lines out 'In all directions. The
English lire everywhere a widespread
and subtle Influence. With the Ger
mans, they are most active In fighting . .
for trade.' In that w are elmply not In -it
partly because we have not etudled
the question of foreign trade and do not
do It intelligently, and. partly because .
our traders have government support V
Flnally, the Japanese have their own.
axes to grind. ..,......-...
Then there are twe movements away .
from peace In the Chinese people them
selves. The first Is ths antl-dynaatlo
movement. The second Is a general and
intelligent anti-foreign feeling. Thin
differs from the old idea that foreign
er are devile and have horns under
feeling of resentment that tbe foreign- '
ere are exploiting and using China. -Ths
feeling Is etrongest against the
Americans for the reasons that I have
riven and many more, but It extends to
all' the foreigners.
The one-man power In China today is
Yuon Hal K'ai. He Is the vloeroy of the
richest province In China. He rules th ', "
empress by fear; and he Is responsible
for the liberal measures - which have
been passed of late, for be ie a man of '
great ability and. of far sight Ha holds
bis position through his popularity with
the people, through hla understanding
of the foreigner and through his pos- '
session of th army, the most effective .
part of It Most Americans, I think, do -not
understand that there never has -bean
a regular Chinese army. Every -viceroy
and each mandarin almost I '
should say, each corner policeman
has his army, great or small. Hs is
supposed to devote it In feudal allegl
ance to the emperor, but It is a matter ':.
of his own election if he Is strong
enough, and of the feejlng of the aol- .
dlers. - Now. Yuen has made his army
the most effective that China has ever
had. ' ;V ' :
Until two or three years ago it wa -
drilled by Oerman officers: then they
began to take up with the Japanese. ,
This wasn't a matter of affiliation-
there is no love lost between the Chi
nese and th Jap but simply a matter
of economy, A Jap soldier -will work
for half the wages of a German. Th
Japanes turned out, . however, to be '
wonderful drill masters foe th Chinese.
Last October they held their maneuvers .
in Peking. I had gone on at th time. ."
mt I heard of them afterward from of-
fleer who were there. The Chinese as
tonished the foreign observers. They
turned out (0.000 men, equipped and
drilled up to the European standard, .
nd, -moat marvelous or an, they -ware
efficiently officered by Chinese. That .,
has been ths flaw in ths Chlness army.
They have been made very effective1 un
der foreign officers, hut never before ,
have the Chlness developed officers who ...
knew their business. The Japanese
havs done that
' In Their Sleeves.
From the Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Camegt says, that millionaires
rarely smile.
Is It not possible that some of them
laugh In their eleevee? . ( , '.' i
A Cause for. Revolt
From the St Louts Globe-Democrat.
The house originates a good deal of
legislation, but la frequently unable te
recognise It when rsturnsd from the
snats' , - '
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