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'V " ' V" ' 'v r 'v ": ,-f .-AvA '"'-II (? ' ft- rf'i.-S) y V" " '"'A r JlV ' I ' ' 'V-'' 5g$' 'rfe ll , XoizizzaiTA. fREBIDENT XROOSEVELT h - penchant for dolnc the unique and ununuaJ, but nothing that 'be tina ttona alnce ntrlna; " the White Houae will be ao wholly without prece denbln the annalaof the prealdency aa hie forthcoming trtp to the lathmua o! Panama. When It waa flrat announced that the atrenuoua chief inaKlatrate ln trtided to visit the lathmua In order to aee Uncle Baro'e1 blr lnterocan,lc canal in the making, a large- portion of the public, iraaped ivlth aafontahment, for there prevailed a general tmpreaalon 'that auch a Jaunt would be contrary to law. I ' . '.However, It la only an unwritten law nd not a legal atitute that our young eat -prealdent la going to ainaan by bla acheme for gaining at flrat hand Infor mation aa to the natlon'a blggeat engi neering undertaking. Moreover, thla la not the flrat time Prealdent Rooaevelt baa disregarded the tradition that Miet Columbta'a beet paid employe muat re main a virtual prisoner within the con- Ilnea of the United Btatea. At the con- clualon of hla aouthern -trip aome months alnce the prealdent came north . from New Orleana on an armored srulaer and thla veeeel waa, during a 'considerable portion of the voyage, out- Bide the three-mile limit that lmagl nary offshore line that ia-auppoaed to constitute the boundary or the -re public's Jurladictlon.' Other president. fct Ktsat couple ot ; them, have disregarded thla three-mile " limit, though to be sure they never ven tured ao far from home a a President . Rooaevelt now proposes to do. In Octo ber,'. 18J, Prealdent Arthur visited Alexandria bay. Thousand islands and - some of bbj political enemies declared that in the enthusiasm of a flahlng trip he -not .only ventured beyond the Yan kee territory, but actually went beyond the inlddla of the fit. Lawrence river into Canadian territory.- Prealdent Cleveland waa similarly criticised when en one of hla hunting and fishing trips to North Carolina the vessel that car ried htm- In rounding Cape HatteraS passed beyond the three-mile limit .fixed by International law. There ia, bowever, one Important fact to be taken into consideration in con- ' section with President Roosevelt's long ocean Journey to the isthmus, and that la that he ,-tn travel on a United States warship. Authorities all agree that the deck of an American naval vessel is United States territory, snd the chief executive- might consistently travel to the farthest end of the earth - so long as he remained on a floating " f ortresarryBig-The" SUrsTind'Htrlpes r Similarly it is decreed that the canal one at Panama, the strip of territory that this government has acquired aa a tight, of way for the canal, is Uncle Sam's soli. and. that .the nation's ruler has a perfect right to reside tempo rarily thereon. Prealdent Rooaevelt will needs have a care, however,, that lie. does not, by any mlsstep.-get over the boundary line into the Republio o. Panama proper, for that would consti tute an entry into foreign territory. Of ourse. the American prealdent will wanno greet T President Amador and the -other leading men ef the world's newest republic, but they will have to either make a Journey into the canal one for such . greeting, or else the great champion of the . canal project -will be compelled to etand on the wdge f United States territory and' shake hands across the border. An incident somewhat aimllar to thla ecurred when the late Prealdent Harrl son visited Texas and walked half way across the International bridge at - Kl Peso to a line beyond which-, waa Mexi can territory. When President Mo Kinley visited this .same point some year a later it was - proposed to have President Dial of Mexico meet the, visitor from Washington Jn. the middle ef the bridge and shake hand acroas the dividing line, but the plan was not carried out, and so much discussion was engendered as to the proprieties of the matter that Prealdent McKlnley did not- evea set foot upon the bridge, but' contented himself with gaslng upon the peaksi of the Sierra Msdre from the American abore. - .,' The ship that will carry Prealdent Roosevelt and his party to Panama will be In every respect worthy of auch an honor and also qualified for so grave a responsibility. .The fortunate . ship will be either the U. 8. S. Louisiana or the U. $ S. Connecticut. yThe choice of which tf these twins will be employed res a i with the prealdent, and In all probability a definite selection will not fee made until shortly before the date of departure. However, there can be but little choice between the Louisiana and Connecticut. ' Both are ftrat-claas battleships,, sister craft . and exact du plicates In every particular. One was built in a private shipyard at Newport News. Virginia, whereas the other Is the prHlii-t rf the United States Navy Tara at .Brooklyn-. New York, and the rending uM!! will renrember the spir ited race In the construction of the bulla, contest that waa woa.by the! y:' r a- a? .. . rv L!T private shipyard, but by so small a mar. gin that there waa scant glory in wo victory. ' - .-. - v , ; , The Louisiana and Connecticut are the largest, heaviest and moat powerful fighting ships in -the American navy, and with the exception of tbe new Brit ish battleship Dreadnaugbt, are proba bly the moat formidable seal warriors afloat. Each ship IS 4f feet In length 77 feet In breadth, and. haa a-displace ment of weight of 1M00 tons. ' Engines of 1,80 horsepower give each of the ahipa a speed of more than JO miles per hour, and the coal bunkers have a rapacity of more than 1.100 tons, or suf ficient to permit of the trtp to Pana ma and back at top speed without any replenishment of tbe fuel supply. -Of course It is next to Impossible that any harm should threaten the persdn of the-president of the United States on his peaceful mission . to Panama, but If the unexpected should happen, there ia no ship In Uncle Sam's fleets better qualified to protect theae aboard than a vessel of the Louisiana-Connecticut class. The - hull Is aheathed in ' the heaviest armor a protective coating of steel that in some places is a dosen Inches In thickness and the armament consists of four of the big lt-inch guns and eight l-lnch guns fn turrets, ahd dosen of the T-lnch breechloading rifles In broadside, to say nothing of the 10 quick-firing guna, mostly t-lnch and I ponnder . weapons. - that are acattered over the big fighter In the varloua lo calities whenthey'ean "spesk", most effectively. i In- planning the Interior arrangement of warships no provision Is made for visitors, and - President -. Rooaevelt-and his party will occupy staterooms pro vided for officers of ' the ship, while the wearers of gold braid will "double up" in the matter of sleeping accom modations for the time being. Inas much, however, as this brand of battle ship carries 41 officers, it can.be ap preciated that the living quarters are quite spacious. Incidentally, It may be mentioned that the ahlp's crew numbers 140 enlisted men. .a contingent .numer ous enough to keep everything In ship shape without tolling over hours. For all that, the navy department Is aiglgnlng for use as a presidential con veyance one of the neweat. flneat and presumably one of the as f est of our batleshlps-: It is not proposed to run any chances in the matter, and. accord ingly, the ship that carries the Presi dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, in case the first Isdy of the Isnd carries out her present . Intention to accompany her husband will be acompanled byenoth er up-to-date naval vessel. Thus in the event of any mishap to the vessel car rying the - nation's moat distinguished cltlsen, the escort craft would be ready to stand by and render assistance, or If the circumstances demanded,, tneapresi- dentlal party 'could be transferred to this aubstitute boat. And who will run the government while the prealdent is away la a ques tion which naturally1 suggests Itself. The law of the land prescribes that the president cannot formally delegate his powera to anyone, not even -to-ths. vice- president, but such matters aa may be delegated to a proxy and are likely to require the attention of someone per sonslly present at the national capital win be left in the hands ofSIIon. Ellhd Root,- the secretary of atate, who is very thoroughly conversant with all the pres. Ident's governmental policies. Strictly speaking,, however, no person Is needed to direct . the machinery of state while the, prealdent Is absent from Washington, for the reason that, thanks to modern Inventions, the nomadle chief magistrate can keep almost momentarily In touch' with our - national affaire, no matter where he may be. If our fore fathers could have anticipated what fast railroad trains,-telephones and tele graphs would accomplish In the way of annihilating dlstaneea, -they need not nave worried themselves over, the possi ble consequences of absence from - the country by fbe prealdent of the United Btatea. '- For some years oast our - erealdenta have been enabled to keep their fingers on ths pulse of governmental .affairs while traveling by rail, even though the Journeys have extended. In some in stances, to the Paclflo coast. . The presi dent's special train haa been constituted a virtual White House on wheels, with secretaries, clerks ahd stenographers at work in this portable bualneas estab lishment Just as they -would ba in the executive offices at 'Washington.- By means of special direct telephone and telegraph wires, reserved exclusively for .the presidential messages, business bss been .carried on at long range al most. If not quite, aa expeditiously as It would be with the chief magistrate seated in hla private office at the na tion's headquarters. Lately the- Invention of wireless teleg raphy has made it possible to extend thee wonderful facilities .to presiden tial voyages on the ocean. -On the occa sion of President Roosevelt's Journey to Panama tbe irarshlp oonvtylng bin -.THE"' OREGON DAILY ' ' JOURNAL" PORTLAND SATOBPAY- EVENING. 'NOVEMBER 5? :A j V1 El SaV Mfe'mriKwr- .aatr a will be provided with a powerful wire less telegraphy equipment, and will be constantly in communication wltrh one or another of the chain of wireless telegraphy stations maintained by the navy department at intervals along the coaat aa far south as Key West. Mes sages received at sny of tbe shore sta tions will be . Immediately transmitted by land lines to thetfelegraph and cipher -bureau at the White' House, and thence distributed ' to the - various government departments or other official destina tions, . . - v - - Ths telephone and telegraph bureau at the White- House .will not only sot as a clearing-house fdV ' the messagea received from the prealdent. , but will also constitute -the- channel through which all official messages destined for the tourist president will be transmtttnd Thus it will ones again Justify Its desig nation as - "tbe president's intelligence orflrt, m order to save time as woll as to-insure secrecy, most of (he men sages to and - from . the president will probably be aent In cipher. One of the president's secretaries will accompany him, while another will remain on duty t tbe White House, so there is lltUe chance of- any hitch lnhandllng the public business. ' Looking after the comfort and welfare fo the prealdent . during his stay In the eanal cone la likely to be father more of a responsibility than ths entertainment of the chief j magistrate under normal conditions In a well-regulated American city, and the officials at Panama will probably be -on pins aad needles until the visit Is safely over. Of courae there will be no difficulty In protecting the preeident from personal molestation, for there will be on guard plenty of blu-- Jackets from ths warships and marines, and the officious nstlve policemen on the Isthmus. In their rrotesaua and fan. tastla eoatumea, eaa be counted, upon U iir . A A'-AA 1111- 111 r JHrtBSMC 'l' I ' j tt. -:x'?-A vyv- - i i 1 1 -1 A 2 v j . 1 TrriCAL BtiTAi " ;-'--., A A' ... , have a hand In an undertaking, that gives such promises of glory. r A different phase of the matter ia presented,; how ever,, by the necessfty of safeguarding the prealdent agatnat at attack of yellow fever.- - - - -. . - - . . Uncle Sam's sanitary experts, under the direction; of Colonel W. C.Oora of ths United States army famous for his work In Havana' after the Spanlsh-Amer-fcan .war have - performed wonders -in the way of cleaning up the lathmus and have made It as henlthy as sny tropical country ran be under the beet circum stances, but for all that there Is still some danger of yellow fever, and the medical officials don't propose to have President Roosevelt -become one of the rare victims if they can help it. All buildings where he is entertained -will be -carefully screened to keep out-the deadly mosquitoes who do all the mis chief, but If by any ill luck the president is bitten by one of the Insects carrying the fever perm the physicians at ' hand will Immediately employ heroic measureg to eradicate all trace of the Infection. However, the proverbial Roosevelt luck snd the president's splendid physique are counted upon to cons tl tuts -the best pre ventives. ... - Easily one of the most - Interesting features of President Roosevelt's visit to Panama wlll.be the trip over 'the Panama railroad, a Una about 47 miles In length, extending from the port of Colon, on the Atlantic, to the harbor of Panama,- on the Pacific. This rail Jour-1 ney win oe roaae in - ina special oar which haa been provided for the uee of the mem here of the Panama canal oom- mission In making their inspection tours. ana. whereas It la somewhat In contrast to the palaces on wheels In which the president Is wont to travel In -the United Btatea, it Is comfortable and altogether adequate. . " . r . . Ths trip over the rutM railroad will s ail ts-v. ei' a r r 7- ti asu., .- Sj i,. . J I At V J' JP V "- : ' i . '.. IfousEziou? ( v ;1 not only give the president an idea of the present status of the various en gineering works embraced in tbe big project, but will also afford him an in sight. In to the llfs on the Isthmus, with Its cosmopolitan population of natives, Jamaica negroes, Chinese and whites of half a dosen different nationalities. Our energetic president Is going to Panama In order to get. a clear and exact knowl edge of the present oondltlon as well as the future, needs and prospects of the big - undertaking, for the prosecution of which he Is charged with, the duty of spending so many millions of the peof pie's money, snd he has mads It clear to his guides and couriers that hs wants to get a peep at every phaae of the enter prise. To that end he will not oontent himself , with a mere Inspection of the excavations where the dirt Is flying, but will also havs a look at the homes which have been provided ,for the American employee -of the canal commission; at the hospitals, where the sick ars cared for, and at the arfiuaements which ars being supplied as an antidote for home sickness. - '.'" The hospitals, by the way, are some of the American creations at the isth mus that ars bound to provs a source of genuine pride to President Roosevelt and his patrlotlo fellow-travelera. More than 100 patients ean be accommodated Ire the two principal hospitals, one lo cated at Colon and ths other at Ancon, at pleasant and healthful place where most of the prominent officials engaged in canal construction have their homes. In addition fo these institutions there are scattered along the line of the canal half a dosen emergency hospitals, each fitted with 10 beda and, furthermore, a screened hospital car makes ths round trtp dally over the Panama railroad In order to pick up and hustle to a base hospital -any. laborer who show signs , --frta. , f;v - , Tl-v .:;- ' :'V ,-,:.-:s.:vU A '.; ; -----y .1 ". v.-'- -..;' -i :,:''.;MVvVi;-!!, -'r , a: A A -V :tw!- ' Si.:.tj! '&JS , ' .'A-KA't'j;-'.- V&f.V V' ; a-- H. r. -?" -1 COLEXJZA Cut A. ' r JZtmWA CdlfAT of Illness. The necessity for this elab orate hospital equipment has decreased greatly In the face of tbe sanitary cam paign that .has been pushed so vigor ously, but it Is an Immense satisfaction to know that such utilities are on hand In -asVof need, s . . y -. Prealdent -Roosevelt enjoys seeing big things done In a big way. He has been eager to have the "dirt fly" en the lathmus. Given these conditions, it is a safe prediction tlat one of the' chief delights, of his forthcoming excursion will be found in watching ths .monster 5-ton steam shovels at .work mechan ically furrowing the big ditch after a fashion that would have. -made the French contractors of former days open their eyes in sstonlshment. The canal commission - has . provided scores of thess gigantic machines, and the -ceaseless, tireless manner In which they pur sue the task of eating away the earth and Took-la inspiring -and -thoroughly emblematic of Yankee determination to dig. the canal. - HISTORIC CHAIRS - Chair are sometimes (like th rare and beautiful old specimens of Sheraton and Chippendale)-, celebrated for' the beauty of their workmanship. The fol lowing chairs owe their Interest to th sssociations connected with them rather than to any particular merit of their own. "Two-of them are connected with the fortunes of th unlucky Stuart kings of England. Her Is the story of a high-backed old oak chair. The night preceding the 'fatal battle of Naaeby waa spent by -the unfortunate Charles-1 st Lubenham, a village two miles from the Market HarboroughJ, He endeavored to anatch a few houra' rest at the manor house, th ruins of which ar still to bs seen, but waa awakened -at -I la the nrorritngto--Joln-th main army at-Mar- ket Harborough. . In the church of Lubenham Is pre served ths chair" used by Charles I dur ing his hurried visit to the village, and this Is most highly prised In historical circles. The table at which the royalist oavallers were carousing ths nigh be fore the battle Is still preserved by th British Museum t of History. " Another chair which shows so plainly Its ancient manufacture is a rello asso ciated with the romantlcr career of the younger Stuart prince, known as "Bon nie Prinew- Charlie." During the wan derings of this unlucky prince through th Island of Sky ha took refuge In a cave. . A farmer called Samuel Martin owend the land thereabouts, and a son of this Martin was tending his father's cows, when by chance or design hs approached the prince's lurk ing place. Charles, knowing thef Idellty of the Scotsmen, showed himself, and ths boy led hlra to the farm, where he was fed well on oatcakes and cream; and sat 1n this special-chair. It-'la now, the property of Martin's - descendants In Olaagow. ' , - . , - In the Mayer Free library at Cheater, England, atands the chair In which Rob ert. Burns, ths great, poet, sat when he wrote "The Cotter's Saturday Night" The chair was presented to the library by Joseph Mayer, F. 8. A., who founded the library at Chester, one of th finest in England. ':'.' ' ' , . STRAY BIRDS AT SE; Nothing la on ths face of, It more cu rious than th fact that tiny blrda of comparatively feeble power -of flight often light on th decks or In ths rig ging of ships hundreds of miles out from the shore In the heart of the stormy ItJnnMe or Paclflo. - ) "Why, 'they are migrants, of course," many will no doubt say. But this sup position will not at all aootmnt for many such Instancea. Birds ar often picked up quit off. th lines of migra tion. . They generally appear on at a time and In unsettled westher. Four teen have been seen on a ship. In on day, representing five different speclee. An extraordinary fact An notices is that these blrda seem, when no cat or dog la aboard, absolutely fearless. I have myself picked up in my hand t email bird of ths warbler tribe on" the deoh of a steamer when 100 mil from j(ra, r.taey--) nr1.:" -Jt . t c ft. ..im Jin. These raaohinea are the most power ful steam shovels aver built, as they must needs be, for naught but the most stanchly built -"mechanical digger oould make headway against the tough. Indurated clay of the Culebra out. Each shovel Is mounted upon an all steel car . 10 feet in length, and Its huge sooop or ' dipper is .capable of picking up five . cubic yards of earth or rock at each operation and transferring It to wait ing mil road cars. A shove of thla type has been operated at ths rats of IIS , yards of material handled per hour. - and 4 in a -week of stz-consecuttvw days of -1 Hours each, though subjected to delay of several hours dally owing to short age of cars, haa actually excavated and . loaded tl.000 yards of material. No wonder the man who can stand 01 th hill at Empire and look out over a vistaTT of miles of these shovels at work haa an abiding confidence that the eanal - will be put through. - At -the Culebra out, above mentioned. President Roosevelt will have an oppor tunity to see - the most speetaoular phases of canal digging. Her th ra-" paclous . steam shovels have been massed most closely, and her th greatest army of laborers Is at work. , Culebra - cut . oonstltute - th- highest -point on th Una of th eanal. and her lie th great problem of the many- ' sided . task. - Most of th president's Bights on shore will probably be spent ' at th dwellings which have been erect ed for th chief engineer and hla staff . ' at Empire, overlooking th big out.. Her th nights are cool aad there 1 uaually v-refreehlng breess -during th day.-The making of th ditch through - LCulehrm pass will not. of oouraa, neces- ' sltats 'as pruch sxcavatlon as waa an- , tlclpated when It was expected that a sea-level eanal would be constructed, " but for all that It Involves th removal of millions ot cubio yard of earth, and ' Inssmuch as a oublo yard Is roughly estimated to, weigh a too. It eaa readily' be appreciated that It la proving - no. Blight chore. President Roosevelt's Journey to, Pan ama Is to have a verr en lovable social side. All th leading officials, of th . canal organisation will be on hand to ' as to It that he has aa opportunity t -view everything likely to prove of In-' , tereet, and th prominent families of ' -Panama have planned -many hospital!- ' ties for fh American executive. Preel dent and Mrs. Reoeevelt will find an ' old friend In th person ef Seaor Dob J. Domingo d Obaldla, recently, ehoaen vloe-prealdent of th republio ef Pan ama. Senor Obaldla has been stationed at Washington 'for several years -past as th representative ef th - new re publio, and he and his very attractive young wife mad innumerable friends In official circles at the American capi tal. President Roosevelt Is also per sonally acquainted - with most of - th leading officials of th republl at th Isthmus, many or theae statesmen hav ing visited this' country during th past rw year; . WALDON FAWCHTT. th aoast of Newfoundland. Aad It 1 not that they ar tired out Most of th birds that oom aboard ar fairly fresh and oan fly wall, yet of their own ao cord they will stay about a ship till In sight of land. Then suddenly their old timidity assails them -and they beoome 'as wild as vr. . . -,', Altogether th matter ha been Very . pussllng to naturalists, and It I only lately that 'anything Ilk a satisfactory explanation haa been offered. W all know that aom of th lower ereatur . possess senses which wa human beings ' ha v not IT is suggested that In birds, th sens of th instinct of direction, which Is what snables them to And their J, way during migration, Is so Intimately associated with that of self-preservation that when th former la lost th ' latter goee also. - - . Now, thee birds that find the onto ths ships far out at sea have, no aouot. tost tneir sens of direction. Up In th higher regions of the atmosphere fierce currents of air constantly stream along, and our little migrants must have flown too high and been caught In these and carried on and on, exerting Just sufficient strength to keep themselves up. ' This sxplains thslr sudden appear anc so-far from shore, and Is th only seemingly' possible suggestion to ex plain their -remarkable' - tarn en ess: Darwin found birds on ths Galapajog Island which were, extraordinarily tame, but it seems more likely that theae were tame from absolute Ignorance of nd untamiliarlty with human beings. Not ' only ar small birds seen out at sea,, but Insect even com aboard, and this particularly ' in warm latitudes. These must certainly be earrTed out by the wind, for.thelr own feeble powers of flight could never serve unaided. Th whole subject Is a very Interesting one, and ths further research which Is now going on Into the curious air currents In the higher regions of th atmos phere will, , doubtless, tend to throw more light on this long-standing- puxile to naturalists. . Oa Secret She Kept, v ' ',.--" . 'From th Kansaa City Journal Miss Mary a Anthony, th Sister tit th famous Susan B. Anthony, was talk- " lng about ths old. old accusation against woman that ah' cannot keep a secret. "A woman." said Miss Anthony,, "can ' ksep an Important secret aa, well aa man. The secrets she reveal ar alight and harmless ones, such aa any man would reveal. Where la the woman who ever tell a secret that reflects on her , husband or her own children T "I know a man who one day refused . to tell his wife th outcome of a bust- ' ness transaction in which, naturally, she ' took a deep Interest. "'No,' hs sneered, 'I won't tdit-you; If I did, you'd repeat It, Ton women can never keep a secret' - ... 'John,' said ths woman qulstly, Tiav I vr told the secret about the solltatr engagement ring you gave m eighteen ' ' years ago being paetT" ' '', ' " Wasted Labor. " From the Toprka Capital. ' ' 'Don'l yo think Vou'd- be a better bOylf you-prayed every dayf.' -wnat the oseT I v got about 40 relatives prayln' for me bowI A
