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The Way Out
THE caso of tho Leclanuw Is tho caso of
the Kryo. So far as tho relations of Ger
many and tho United States over this par
ticular victim of BUbmarlno warfaro aro con
cerned, tho Issues Involved seem practically
the samo as before. But thero Is one largo
dlffcronco In fact, which la of considerable
Importanco in connection with tho latest
no to. It Illumines a chango in tho methods
of under-sea attack which promises a way
out for tho two nations.
Goncral comment on tho new noto indicates
that Germany must cither satisfy tho United
SttCtcs by radically changing or practically
abandoning her submarlno tactics, or a dip
lomatic break must come. Not enough atten
tion has been given to tho now view of under-sea
tactics expressed In tho third noto as
compared with tho'ftrst.
Tho first pointed out that tho United
States' objection to tho submarlno campaign
lay
in the practical Impossibility of employing
submarines In the destruction of commerce
without disregarding those rules of fair
ness, reason, Justlco and humanity which
all modern opinion regards as imperative.
On tho other hand, the new note says:
Tho events of the last two months have
clearly indicated that It Is possible and
practicable to conduct such submarlno oper
ations as have characterized tho activity of
the Imperial German Navy within tho so
called war zono In substantial accord with
the accepted practices of regulated warfare.
The whole world has looked with Interest
and increasing satisfaction at the demonstra
tion ot .that possibility by German naval
commanders. It Is manifestly possible,
therefore, to lift tho whole practice of sub
marine attack above the criticism which it
has aroused and remove tho chief causes
of offense.
, Between tho writing of those two para
graphs Germany not only showed a greater
consideration for life on vessels attacked;
she proved that her larger submarines, prac
tically light cruisers or destroyers at the sur
face, could lay a doubtful vesaol under her
guns, send a search officer safely aboard,
examine papers ana cargo, make a reasoned
judgment on contraband and plan to some
extent for the safety of the crow.
If anything is to continue tho friendly re
lations of the two nations in tho faco of Ger
many's determination to attack British ship
ping by submarine. It will bo developments
along tho lines Indicated in tho abovo quota
tion. Tho facts of the attack on the Leo
lanaw show plainly enough the chance which
tho note hints at "to lift tho whole practice
of submarlno attack above the criticism
which it hna aroused and remove tho chief
causes of offense."
Proper reparation must bo made for the
Leelanaw as for tho Pryo; but Its sinking
may servo to show the way out.
Translating Plain English
ONE difficulty In the way of International
correspondence, bo far as a mutual un
derstanding is concerned, may llo In tho In
adequacy of translation. This may apply to
the pcoplo of a nation rather than to their
Government. At any rate, the Kaiser's
translators are said to have almost "sweated
blood" in their attempt to render the third
American note Into tho German language.
Even then they had to employ the device of
quoting nn original phrase or two in paren
theses. Though diplomatic language stands In
n class by itself, with Its own peculiar method
of interpretation, tho translators were chiefly
bothered, one might guess, by too much lit
erary stylo. The Wllsonlan style seems to
havo won considerable admiration among
educated Germans. Tills is all the more re
markable on remembering "Walter Pater's
dictum, "Style Is thought."
The difficulties of translation in the case of
diplomatic correspondence are not to be won
dered at. Cowper said of the Iliad and the
Odyssey In Pope's hands that (hey had "no
more the air of antiquity than If he himself
bad invented them," and Pope himself re
marked that "some of Homer's translations
hae swelled Into fustian, and others sunk
Into flatness." Translations at the best are
poor apologies for the original. Tho very
atmosphere of the original often conveys its
sense. It will be regrettable, therefore, if
(iermany shows that it cannot understand
the English language. At present Germany
seems puzzled over whether the latest Wilson
note is an ultimatum, u penultlmatum or an
nnte-penultlmatum.
Virtue of "Sensational News"
IT 18 the duty of the American citizen to
read sensational news of the kind which
tuts bean coming Tram Chicago in connection
with the Eaatland horror. It Is an important
-jart of hia education. To glanee at the
ht-rtrtllnes and feel the momentary shock of
nuntfled abhorrence and indignation is nt
eneunn The whole ghastly story af the
tragic event whleh outrivals in dlabtUoal
cruelty the Iroquois fire or the glaeum dis
aster demands the serious, thoughtful, tuor-
t jMffta atuwtion of the reader, not merely a
brief emotional response. In part the story
U revolting, but that 1b no excuse for tura-
fjm y
Le the official Investigator jtroMeutt
thtlr work witn vigor and fiiwiinf, fet W
ihp public take vpn Itself aa a duly to con-
l the ftn n tUMX. a they become a. vail -,
.la .;.! tucm an opinion The function of
; , ui..i-d i u think, in tonkin t&i la
no reason for procrastination. That virtue
which wo call open-mindednesa id apt to bo
come a vleo and a danger by our putting oft
till tomorrow tho thinking wo can do to
day. If tho function of tho mind la to think,
ft) tho great civic duty of the public consists
In publlo opinion. It novor ceasea for nn In
stant. Tho news, regarding tho Eastland la
sensational pews In a senso which only odds
to tho obligation of tho publlo to read it and
learn Ha lessons and profit by thoso lessons.
It Is sensational In the Benso that it con
cerns human life and tho destruction of hu
man life.
"Public sympathy Is not In doubt. Neither
Is publlo conscience. Both aro strengthened
by exercise. And both aro known by their
works.
Tho Canutes at Hnrrisburg '
THE P. It. T. ia dependent for success on
tho progress and growth of Philadelphia.
Its Interests aro tho city's interests. It can
not hamstring Philadelphia without ham
stringing Itself.
It Is exasperating to good citizens that this
great company should send n representative
to Hnrrlsburg to plead that a .law enacted BO
years ago Is now a comploto barrlor to rapid
transit 'in Philadelphia, a law, incidentally,
which prohibited tho construction of a rail
road on or along Broad street, ns waa
right, but which plainly did not contcmplato
In Its prohibition a railroad under Broad
strcot. Underground railroads wero not then
known. And It must havo been humiliating
to tho P. It. T. to bo attacking tho legality
of a project to which it Itself had agreed In
special conference. For a Broad strcot sub
way was tho most Important featuro of tho
plan which tho P. It. T. officials told Director
Taylor they would accept.
Tho second objection urged by tho P. It.
T., that an act of 1873 Insures tho 13th and
16th street lines against competition on Broad
street, Is equally surprising. No Government
can barter away In perpetuity Inhorcnt rights.
No contract can rotaln Its validity if lt8 ef
fect la to make a country village of a great
city. It Is humiliating that" n progresslvo
corporation should Bcarch tho statute books
for ancient paragraphs In which It struggles
to discover somo technical objection to tho
achlovcment of tho desires of two millions of
people.
Tho third objection of tho P. R. T., re
lating to n supposed 90-day option on tho
right to build necessary lines, Is futile, for It
la a matter of record that tho P. It. T. speci
fically surrendered tho right to construct a
Broad street subway, and thero Is good rea
son to bellevo that it also specifically surren
dered Its option, on tho Frankford clovated.
Certainly, at any rate, tho company cannot
claim nn option on a Broad stroet subway
when.lt is contemporaneously alleging that
tho construction of such n. lino Is legally im
possible. It is wrong in one contention or
tho other and probably In both.
Now York's 633 miles of rapid transit track,
Chicago's 27G and Boston's 36 aro a sufficient
answer as to whether or not subways and
elevated lines are necessary In Philadelphia.
Nor is thero any claim that they aro not nco
cssary. Tho obstructionists havo given up
the fight along thoso lines as hopeless. They
have fastenod their eyes on tho statute books
and on tho technicalities of law, trusting that
In some way thoy may bo ablo to kcop an
Iron collar on Philadelphia's throat, suffo
cate the community and put an absolute
veto on progress. They may bo ablo to do
lay tho beginning of construction for a short
time. But they aro Canutes sweeping back
the sea when they endeavor to stand between
two millions of people and their necessities.
There will be rapfd transit in Philadelphia,
preferably with the assistance of the P. It.
T but rapid transit anyhow.
Peace Prospects Always Bright
THE Kaiser Is again talking of Christmas
dinners ono in "Warsaw and ono in
Calais, as he expects to bo in both places at
that time. The war will end about Christ
mas, he is reported to have said. Tho Eng
lish, according to some of tholr spokesmen,
are Just beginning to fight. Sloanwhilo the
French nre sawing wood and saying nothing.
A diligent student of tho Bible haa figured
It out. from tho Old Testament prophets and
tho Book of Revelations, that tho war will '
end January 1, 1918. Other prognostlcators
have named other dates. All things con
sidered the prospects of peace are bright.
They always are. Thero Is no doubt about
It the war wlU come to an end.
The little yellow car will go rolling right
along.
The Allies at the Dardanelles have put the
"scoot" in Scutari.
The West Fhlladelphla pollco handed one
to the Black Hand. v
The Russians doubtless feel, as snug as a
rug- in a Bug and about as happy.
There la a good deal of difference between
"buy a bale" and "buy a Belgium."
If the Mexicans want to fight why don't
they go to Europe, where the fighting la
good 7
1 i i i i .1
The SoutU'fl cotton oroP. may fall off in
1915; but the guncotton crop will be more
than up to soratch,
Three thousand miles of ocean used to be a
good defense, but that waa in the days when
100 mllea was a. long Jourpey.
i !! wim mai ia pi i hi up
The danger of getting a bad Mayor is not
half so bad aa of getting a bad Councils.
Councilman sort of sneak in while nobody
la looking.
Yej. Indeed, the trip of the Junketer
8Uafd$S9n put Philadelphia, on the map. But
a IQB.SK' A&HfWte H'QUW have done a lot more
for the nlty.
It is annwuwarl that Berlin will not send a
rejtfy to Jhe at Amwlean note before
August. A a TOAtttf of foot, the answer
will be what her submarine do or do not do
very day.
TeaJ im, Governor Brumbaugh, ' my the
$.niimut wr(rUts, "what to your honest
opinio f twtee for women " Unfortu
mUeiy, 'Jim" McNknol and BU" Vtue
vi wUl JSOWW. too.
ITALIAN SPORTSMEN
GOING TO THE FRONT
One Club Hns Sont Nearly 300 Mem
bers Success of Popular Sub
scriptions for tho Relief of tho
Soldiers' Families
By ADALBERTO CAPOnALE
IF ANlf moro proofs wero needed to com
plete tho picture of ib6 unanimous enthu
siasm with which tho Italians first demanded
and then greeted tho present war ngninst
their traditional foe, oho of a Very dcoldcd
character wfjuld bo found In tho result of tho
efforts miido by almost every newspaper,
whether largo or small, in Italy, to rnlso
funds with which to help tho families of
thoso who shed their blood for tho redemp
tion of tho "unredeemed." Tho nppcal was
launched to tho Italian peopto In a moment
In which tho Government waB asking tho
Italians to subscribe to tho war loan, running
Into sovcral hundred millions, mid when the
general cconomlo conditions In Italy were, In
conscqucnco of tho European conflict, not at
thajbest.
Howovcr, Whllo tho loans wero completely
subscribed, tho Italians responded cheerfully
nnd generously to tho appeal for tho sol
diers' families. Ono slnglo newspaper, tho
Corrlero della Sera, whtclIs also the most
prosperous unit In tho Italian press, had
raised In less than a month, up to Juno 28,
tho sum of $923,000. And results which aro
not fnr from this flguro havo been attained
also by other large nowspapcrs, Including La
Trlbunn, II Olornalo d'ltalla, L,n Stampa and
others. If tho pcoplo, tho rich and tho
poor alike, contrlbuto ono million dollars In a
month or so to the fund of a slnglo newspa
per for tho aid of tho soldiers' families, It
cannot bo denied that tho wholo nation
favors this war of liberation, tho third war
of Independence, as tho Italians call It.
Sports Clubs Deserted
And, whllo contributing money toward tho
war, tho Italians aro still asking to bo sent
to tho front. Tho sport societies of all tho
big cities aro deserted, for their members
havo gono to tho firing lino or aro Impa
tlontly waiting for their chance. Not a slnglo
man ia to bo found In tho offlcca or on tho
track of tho Milan Auto Club, Among thoso
who left aro Marquis Camlllo dl Soragnn, who
Is In tho navy, and Count Aldo Bonacossa,?
who la a sublieutenant of tho engineers'
corps. Tho club has sent to tho front nearly
300 members, almost all volunteers, and a
largo number of volunteers has been given
also by tho Italian Football Federation. Tho
samo thing can bo said of all tho sport or
ganizations In Italy.
Thus tho moralo of tho Italian pooplo con
tinues to bo tho highest that could bo desired,
and not only among tho fighting soldiers, but
also among thoso who, whllo nursing tho
most patriotic sentiments, aro anxiously
waiting for nows of their rolntlvcs. Prof.
Ettoro Do Tonl, a teacher In tho Foscarlnl
College of Venice, had his son killed lij battle
on tho Austrian front. His colleagues and
friends wrote to him expressing their con
dolcnco for tho death of tho young man, but
tho grieved father replied to them all with a
letter, In which ho nnnounccd that his
younger, son had decided to enlist to tako his
dead brother's place, nnd he, his father, had
raised no objection. Ho added in his letter:
"I regret only one thing, that somo of my
friends havo mado it appear as If I had a
right to sharo my son's heroic action., It is
not so. I havo done nothing, and my genera
tion has dono nothing of what tho old and tho
now nro doing. My ancestors fought against
tho traditional enemy, and now my sons are
fighting tho samo foe. They aro doing what
wo ourselves had to do, wero it not for tho
sako of a pcaco which lately became a state
of slavery. We wanted to savo our own
blood at tho prlco of what la our blood, too."
Sending: Patriotic Books to tho Soldiers
Another feature of this Italian war Is that
a committee has been formed at Milan to col
lect books and distribute them among the
soldiers at tho front. Fifty thousand vol
umes have already been collected and sent
to tho front, where they nro being circulated
among the soldiers. Thoy nro mainly books
relating to tho present war. In which tho mo
tives of Italian intervention aro explained,
or novels of a historic and patriotic charac
ter. At tho front, whllo tho King nnd General
Cadorna were rovlewlng a regiment of Bersa
gllcrl, tho commander-ln-chlcf of tho Italian
army caHeo" out of tho ranks a soldier and In
troduced him to tho King, who cordially and
repeatedly shook hands and chatted a whllS
with him. The soldier was a Salestan monk,
who had been until a few days before the
declaration of war tho rector of tho Salestan
Institute of Trieste. He Is the Rev, MIcholo
Rublno. Cadorna had known him for a long
time, as he had met him in ono of his trips
to the Irredenta. A couple of days before the
war was declared the chief of the Italian
General Staff sent the following telegiam
to Father Rublno: "A happy birthday." Tho
telegram had Its meaning for the Saleslan
father, who Immediately left Trlesto, If he
had delayed one day his departure would not
have been possible.
ASSISTING NATURE
From tba Independent. (
Jo Thurber, "bos'n" of the ' United States
revenue cutter the Bear, has discovered how
that very valuable animal, the fur-seal, may bo
conserved. The race hna been Teduced from
millions to a scant 30,000 principally because
of the starvation of the pups left ashore while
the grown-ups, scouring the seas, are speared
and shot by seal-flshers. On board the Bear
were several helpless little seals, thin and
scrawny, now and then ono of them dying,
despite the milk that was fed to them each
day. In playing with a favorite pup, which
gnawed at his hands with Its toothless Euros,
Thurber accidentally snapped a ligament found
across the Jaws of all young seals, A day or
two later he was amazed to find the same little
'pup devouring a ftsh that he had somehow e-
curea. ine discovery causeu no little excite
ment aboard. The ligaments across the mouths
of the others were broken, and where the teeth
had not appeared the growth was hantened by
rubbing the Jaws and farcing baak the flesh
of the gums. These youngsters followed the ex,
ample of the first In eating flfh that vas offered
them,
About a dozen of the seals so "weaned" were
shipped to the Fisheries Bureau. JiWn'bur
bers discovery may save the lives of thousands
every year But the revenue cutter erews will
havo to seek out jwch deserted seal, break the
ligament and help Its teething.
DEMOCRACY AND THE WAR
II. O. WU In the Nw lUpubiic.
It U B use denying that the Central Powers
were not only better prepared for tlua war at
the outset, but that on the whole they have met
the occasion of the war as they have an far
arisen with much more collective intelligence,
will power and energy that any of the Allies,
not even excepting France Tbey have uc
eeeded not merely in meeting enormous mili
tary requirements better, but in keeping the
material side of their national life tedier un.
Oar greater tremsa It la 141 for tale writer
to pretwiii to tbiuk that the United State
would iiutke any better shewing in thia matter
than Oreat Briteln
I in arguwut and aiuliaVi in rnvUiito. but is. i
, ,tl Mii r.vtcuMVUb UA (rfKUl CiCtfllMSl
lias been styrk Indolonf nnd unready In nil
matters of mtlcrmi nrjrnnlwttlnn s It hits mud
dled and wanted national feeling, and it has
been manifestly afraid of tho press nnd over
sensitive to public clamor. It has Shown all
Iho merits nnd failures one might have ex
pected from a bofly of political lawyers, trained
In the arts of making thlnss seem right,- wnfy
nnd prepared io watt and seo vhAt chances the
adversary will give, and as incapable of prad
tleal foresight, ns remote from the business of
making rent things go right, ns Inclosed nuns.
If the prencnt Governments of tirent Britain
nnd the United States are the best sort of gov
ernmefits that diwioerauy con produce, ihen de
moernoy is bourM, If not this tlmo then next
lime df the lime after, to bo completely oVer
como nnd superseded by some form of authori
tative State argAiilrntlbn
7 -
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Russian Soldier Describes Equipment nnd
Lendorship of Czar's Army Chester
Heights Camp Ground.
To tho liditor of tho Evening Ledgert
Sir a la generally ngrccd that IUissIa was
caught unprepared, but bo It known that their
unprepareunoss comes from n amcreni sourco
thnn the general senso of tho word Implies.
Wo, hero In this country, Justly howl at n
etlngy and near-sighted Administration bo
cnuso they rcfuso ua tho necessary cash to
place ourselves on a proper and equal military
nnd naval footing with tho other great Powers.
Such, howovcr, Is not and never has been the
caso in Russia. "Graft," which wo hero have
coma to ldok upon as cssontlally an American
word, Is carried on In the land of tho boar on
n scnlo which makes our own look like petty
larcony, for here, at least, thoro Is never a
whisper of Federal graft. Kumla has spent
enormous sums for tho maintenance of Its
nrmy, second, I would venture to say, only to
Germany. Whore then nnd why does she find
herself at this crisis in her present stato?
Graft. From the highest to tho lowest official
Kraft haB prevailed. As nn Instance! , Bach nnd
every soldlor of tho rnnk and file ls supposed
to Include in his equipment thrco ''uniforms.
It lo a rnro oxceptlon, Indeed, that I havo over
known ono to own over two. I served my four
years In tho Russian army with ono, and I was
by no means nn exception. Tho fow real de
voted statesmen that Russia can boast of never
went further into Inspection of Russian armB
than to watch from n platform tho various
nrmy manouverff, generally of tho Cossacks,
who, of all tho branches of tho Russian nrmy,
alono wero maintained on the propor footing,
and now, with the present conduct of war, tho
most usoless branch of tho service Whon tho
war broko out doubtless tho Czar nnd his staff
thought themselves ready, bo to speak, "to go."
Their books showed so many tone of cowdcr
nt Ivangorod and so many at this nnd that
fort. But wero they thero? No. Let It bo re
membered that an honest man in Russia was
rnro and not appreciated, and ao unpopular as
,aro all exceptions In any endeavor In any coun
try. '
Hers Is tho worst equipped and tho worst led
nrmy In tho world. Her officers aro nil of the
"noble" class, a hard drinking, evil-minded,
women-mad clique, who Ertudlcd and obtained
their military knowledge In tho cafes of Paris
and Berlin. Any private In tho German Bcrvlco
known moro thnn, CO per cant, of tho Russian
ofllccrs. In Bngland, too, they mako class' dis
tinction In their bfllcers. But here tho army
officers mako a profession of nnd tako a pride In
their work, whoro, at least, thoy earn tho re
spect nnd confldcnco of tho men In tho ranks.
But can you expect a private who has seen his
oniccr drunk, whenever ho has seen him at nil;
who has abused and bullied him, follow that
Bamo officer with any degree of confidence into
battle? Under tho pretext of capturo Russian
soldiers nro deserting by tho hundreds of thou
sands. Ill-led, 111-cqulpped, fighting for they
know not what, tho fate of tho Russian nrmy Is
Bealed. Russian authorities mado a great mls
tako wh.on they took from tflo Boldler his vodka.
For, having no other incontlvo, it Is only tho
vodka-Inspired soldlor who will fight for Rus
sian glory. K. IC PINKUS.
Philadelphia, July 24.
j
CHESTER HEIGHTS CAMP-MEETING
To tho Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir An artlclo appearing in sovcral dally
and weekly papers cither written by some one
not acquainted with the fact or with tho pur
pose of Injuring tho place, stated that on ac
count of tho chestnut trco blight and the sale
of n part of tbo Jand, Chester Heights Camp--mcitlng
prottnds would probably soon bo a
thing of tho past. Here are the facts. Tho
ground sold was waste land not In uso by tho
CamP Ground and was sold at a very good
figure, yielding enough to wipe out tho debt that
had been hanging over tho place for years. Tho
chestnut trees, cut out on account of blight,
represent a very small proportion of the trees
In this beautiful grove. Hickory, oak, poplar,
walnut and birch aro still there In great num
bers, so that the chestnuts nro not missed. In
stead of going backward, Chester Heights has
greatly advanced this year, having installed a
magnificent electric-lighting system, so that all
avenues and buildings are brightly lighted. A
substantial Btonowalk has been built along the
main drlvo Into tho woods to replaco the old
boardwalk Tho auditorium has been Improved,
and a new piano purchased for same. Two
thousand pcoplo can easily find room In this
large building, nnd over 00 can sit on tho plat
form. Tho drainage of tho grounds haB been
Improved; cdncreto steps havo been built to re
place wooden ones; new cottages havo been
built and old ones repaired' and painted. The
building formerly used as a restaurant Is to
be turned over to tho young people as a recre
ation centre. Tho camp Is better attended thus
far than last year, and several special days are
expected to bring big crowds from a distance.
After the camp the Cottagers' Association will
hold n big carnival for three nights, using the
proceeds for repairing walks and drives.
O. S. ZANIS,
Chairman Grounds Committee,
Chester Heights, Pa., July 2G.
"BILLIONS FOR BELQIUM"
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger;
Sir Are you independent enough to print this
letter I am sending you or aro you being paid
by the Money Trust and afraid? If not, cannot
you see the Bublimo silliness, the ridiculous
egotism, the desire for notoriety and free ad
vertisement, the Indifference' to the poor and
unemployed, tho rights of the working man Aho
need the "Billions for Belgium."
Do not tho articles In your paper on "Aid
Asked for Miners," "Two Are Killed In Bayopne
Riot" contrast with "Billions for Belgium?"
Herein Is food for thought. The miners In
Ohio, the Btrlkers In Bayonne and children of
our Union. Shall we starvo and beat them
whllo we feed the Belgians? &
Does John Wanamaker consider the cotton
farmer of the South, with his family of small
children eating raw sweet potatoes because
"Daddy can't get credit at the Btore he can't
eell his cotton?"
We are not a colony of Great Britain! let
Mr. Wanamaker put some of his "Billions for
Belgium" and his wonderful executive ability
to dividing the millions Schwab and Morgan are
piling up Into a Just division of capital nnd
labor Into model tenements for the poor with
yards and breathing space for the poor little
babies of America,
Philadelphia. July 8. SARAH HOPE.
THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER
Light, In ballast, n thousand ships
Come streaming through our harbor gate
Then, laden down at busy slips, '
Go out again with stores of freight
Bound over sea to the buyer great.
Who always calls for more and more.
Whose (greed not Rll the wom .
The ultimate eonaumer War.
Ship that eome trout the Seven Su
Some that move with stately gait;
Some that loiter in any breeze.
Lured by Wartime's double rate.
Mocking ail at the hand of fate.
Seeking share in the wondrous store.
They eorne to serve, let who berate.
The ultimata consumer War.
Battered bulks once forced aside
By veaeels of a later date,
Proud and scornful or wind and tide
And teas that under the ocean wait.
Again tbey pass, but sans the state
That marked their going in day at yore'
Servants now of the king of bate '
The uitlmate ci.numtr War
L'KnvoL
Captain, the rUk of the trip Is neat.
Aul none may teli when a gun will mar;
But you are serving despite Ute atrait
The ulUuuta consumer War
THE PORT OF MISSING SHIPS
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Was Onco Thought to Be the Sargasso Sea, But Now We Know
Better-r-Famous Wrecks That Preceded the Overturn
of the Eastland at Her Pier
By A. WELLESLEY BACtJP
THE Chicago River la not the sea, but It
Is ns treaeherods ns tho great deep. Tho
Ha8lland would havo capsized no moro
qulefeiy on tho Atlnhtio than near tho Clark
Rlrect bridge, If tli-i capsizing' conditions
Wero present.
It Is tittsy to say that tho boat was un
seaworthy perhaps It was but other boats
supposed to bo constructed to weather nil
storms havo sailed into that crowded port
of missing ships which Is not connected
by telegraph or mnll with any other city
Tho great mystery of tho seas, whether
Inland or bounded by tho continents, . ro
mnlhs uhsolvod, though perhaps tho East
land caso may provide a clu,o. Shifting car
goes havo without any doubt been respon
sible 'for many n, missing ship. Tho cargo
of tlio Kastlnnd shitted, and tho rest Is a
grcnt horror, from tho shock of which tho
nntlon Is still suffering and Will Buffer till
tho next tragedy causes n now sensation.
If tho UnBtland had succeeded In getting
Into tho lako with Us precious freight tho
tragedy might havo bceil greater. A pass
ing steamer would havo drawn tho curious
excursionists to ono sldo of tho vessel and
tho boat would havo careened In deep water,
fnr from land, whero tho lifeboats would
havo been tho only means at hand to saVo
tho passengers. '
When Ship3x Break Their Back
Tho tragedy of tho Great Lakes is as great
In proportion to their slzo ns tho tragedy
of tho salt seas. Jinny 'a vessel has sailed
from port to bo heard of no more. A fleet
of cargo steamers was built somo years ngo
on tho theory that thero was too much wnsto
spaco In tho hold. Tho boats wero not prop
erly strengthened to stand a storm and ono
at leant of them went to tho bottom leaving
no traco. Tho critics of the system of con
struction used insisted that tho strain of
tho heavy seas broko tho back of tho boat
by forcing tho steel plates to net ns shears,
cutting tho rlvots clear through nnd letting
tho vessel go to tho bottom. No ono will
over know whether this theory Is sound or
not. ,
Thero used to bo n tradition that tho Sar
gasso Sen wan filled with tho sodden hulks
of tho wrecks of centuries, but n llttlo ex
ploration exploded that myth as It earlier
proved that men could cross tho equator
without being burned to death by tho per
pendicular rays of tho sun, nnd that thero
wero no flro breathing monsters of tho. deep
whosobreath would scorch tho llfo out of
tho venturesome mnrlnor. 'fvTillo tho popu
larly accepted nature of tho mysteries of
tho deep has changed, tho mystery rerqalns.
Tho Invention of stenm did not lessen It,
but wireless telegraphy has decreased tho
number of tragedies thnt must forever re
main unexplained. If It had not been for
that most wonderful application of tho mys
terious force of electricity tho fato of tho
Titanic would havo still been a mystery. Wo"
should hnvo known that tho boat had gono
down with all on board, but how it happened
would have been explained no moro fully
thnn Tyrone Power's noto in a bottlo ex
plained tho fato of tho President, tho 'first
great steamship to go down in tho Atlantic.
When tho President Disappeared
Tho President sailed from New York oh
March 11, 1841, with 300 persons on board,
nnd wns novor seen again. When It failed
to reach Liverpool on tho scheduled dnto
no ono was alarmed, for steam navigation
was still In Its Infancy and delays wero ex
pected. But days passed and, grew Into
weeks. Thero wns no ocean cable, so It was
Imposslblo to commurilcato quickly with
America, or for Americans to learn whether
their friends had arrived safely lu England.
It was thought that tho ship might have had
to put fhto a remote port for repairs. Then
n letter wns received by the relatives of one of
tho passengers announcing that tho boat had
THE BELL IN PORTLAND
How tho People of tho West Read tho
Lesson It Teaches.
From the Portland (Ore.) Journal.
It Is not tho metal In the bell that draws the
crowds. It is not tho clapper that used to
swing back and forth that the multitudes gather
to see. It Is not tho outlines and physical con
tour of the mass of ancient alloy In the bell
that Interest all theso people and call forth all
thlv-pomp and ceremony and concerned pro
tection. Tho bell is a plain old affair, and It was never
a very good one. It cannot even be rung be
cause St tho great rift In its side.
The old muss of metal Is loved for what It
symbolizes. It rang out tidings of great joy to
mankind. The notes from Its throat were muslo
to men of old In that they declared the doctrine
that all men are free and equal and that gov
ernments derive their Just powers from the con
sent of the governed. It was so tremendous a
message, a messago so new to mankind, that
the old metal vibrates yet
All over the world the Liberty Bell is ringing'
still. Its echoes roll on from Maine to the Phil
ippines and from Oregon to Africa and the
inlands of the sea. They will sweep on and on
with the song of liberty until a tlmo when the
dwellers In heathen lands will catch the Inspira
tion and rise Into the full stature and hopes and
purposes of manhood.
Back of the bell that Portland gazed on today
Is a great body of principles and free institu
tions and citizens of whom overy one Is a sov
ereign, yliack of It Is n ballot box, and a Consti
tution and a tree people, whose allegiance Is not
to a throne, but to themselves and their chil
dren and their children's children. Back of It is
a flag that floats ever armies only of defense
nnd freedom, a flag unblemished by' conquest
nnd untainted by aggression. '
I'or 138 years theithlngs back of the bell have
been the subject of dreams and air castles and
longings by the oppressed In every country in
the world. The Irishman sings of them In "The
Wearing of the Green" and the Polish peasant
muses of them as he mourns over the loss of his
own national life. The Finnish Immigrant sets
westward with his slender store to reach a
shore where he has heard that the yoke is
easier nnd the burden lighter.
The migrations of people all these years to
ward the setting eun have been the etfofi of
human beluga to get away from tMroparad. nnd
narrowed Ufe into a fuller and bl&jger Mttenee
in the land where, every citizen wa- a, flrwn
and every individual le a king
Nor did the thing behind tbe old bell ever
mean more than they mean today. Tb experi
ment In free government never stood so fully
vindicated by events. Our ttabU and meadows
are unseamed by battle trench e and are green
and yellow with grains and grasses for the
bsubandman. Our streams m unertmsoned with
the blood of our Kins, but cool and cryetal
gurgle and murmur the melodise of peace. Our
orchards are unthattered by war shells, but
groan under the fruitage welting for the bar
veet Our home are untorn by the recruiting
jUcers and our stalwart boys are among us, and
with u end by us in the sweet walk tbrougn
the grejn meadows and by the m water of
hpptiit and wat
These thleaa un the kind of II'. th ..i.i tu.ii
proclaimed for u aud thei are delightful thing i
ia cuuu.ni vjiili in nldcuuj nappantnge in poor
stopped at Madeira, because her engines and
rudder needed attention. Tho walling friends
took heart of hope nnd wero cheerful for
n while. Then nn Irish packet arrived, re
porting that a largo steamer wns waiting,'
outsldo for high water to como In to the
Liverpool docks. Every ono was sure that
this was tho President nnd crowds gathered
by tho riverside, flags wero hoisted nnd prep,
nrntlons wero mado to welcome tho lost ship.
But It was not tho President.
Tho letter from Madeira was discovered
to bo fraudulent nnd for years tho mystery
remained. Finally, somo ono picked up a
bottlo in tho sen containing n noto purport
ing to bo written by Tyrone Power, a dis
tinguished comedian of his time, who had
been n passenger on tho vessel, announcing
thnt ns ho wroto tho boat was sinking. The
noto has boon nccoptcd ns genuine, but that,
too, may havo been n hoax.
When New York Mourned
Tho sinking of tho Arctic off Capo Race
on October 27, 1854, hns boon explained, In
splto of tho denso fog nnd snowstorm in
WhIchSho received her denth blow. Sho was
In a collision with tho French steamer
Vcstn. Tho captain of tho Arctic thought
tho other vessel wns seriously damaged nnd
thnt his own ship wns unhurt, and ho put
off with somo of his crow In lifeboats to offer
assistance only to discover soon nfter thatv
his own ship was sinking. Somo of tho pair
sengers were saved, but 439 lives were lost
As most of tho dead had lived In Now York
that city was deeply moved by tho tragedy.
Tho preachers took it as n text for their
sermons nnd tho school renders of a gen
oration or two ago contained ox tracts from
ono of tho most famous of theso sermons,
In which tho horror of tho wreck was de
scribed with nil tho skill of a modern nows
paper writer.
Tho City of Boston, howovcr, which left
Now York on January 25, 1870, stopped at
Halifax thrco days later nnd then went out
Into tho unknown, whllo nil Its nearly 200
passengers took that great voyago under
taken by thoso who go to tho bottom of the
sea. Another passenger ship that met the
Bamo fato wns tho Colombo, that sailed from
Boston sovon years later and vanished as
completely ns though It had never existed.
To pass from passenger to freight steam
ers, tho enso of tho Naronic, of tho Whits
Star Lino, Is ono of tho most Interesting.
This ship wns ono of tho biggest of her
class, wns nlmost new nnd wns in tho best
condition. Sho wns so stanch that It was
thought sho could weather tho worst storm
that over raged over the restless waves.
But sho never reached tho port of living
ships, nnd tho only traco of-.h.er that was
over found was ono of her boats, picked up
In mldoccap somo weeks after sho sdlled.
This silent, Inanlmato survivor of tho wreck
contained not n traco of evidence which
wonld explain what had become of tho great
freighter. It may havo been blown up by a
boiler explosion, or it may havo been cap
sized byi shifting cargo, or any ono of tho
thousand and ono causes which bring dis
aster on tho deep may havo been responsible
for Its disappearance. It has doubtless rusted
nway In tho bottom of tho sea, for tho mod
ern steel vessel Is so built that It can no
longer bo said that Its bones aro bleaching
qn tho sands of the ocean's bod. And they
nover did bleach there, nnywny.
Tho science of navigation has not profited
by tho lesson of tho missing Bhlps, for no
ono has over come back to read that lesson
to the marlno constructors. Tho skilled ship
builders havo thereby escaped much amateur
advice, such ns wns lavished by nn out
raged nnd indignant public at tho time of
the Titanlo disaster, when every man who
could uso a pen wns tolling tho rest of us
how to prevent n repetition of similar dls
asters'. Tho lesson of tho Eastland, however,
is apparently so clear that it teaches itself.
sister nations. Our country is a country with
a croat human heart, and It Is because it has
that heart and stands for love and peace and
Justlco and humanism that the thousands out
poured today to see the old bell, whose bronzed
throat first proclaimed the coming of our own
United States.
COST OF A STOP
From the Independent
What does It cost to stop a train? Accord
I?6,,',0 JLha lnveatlRatlons of General Manager
F. W. Green, of the Louisiana and Arkansas
,nl.lwa. U l" V- centH- ot course, the stopping
of light suburban trains costs much less and
that of great, heavy expresses two or three
times as much, but on the average 61 cents
will cover the bill, The amount Is Itemized as
follows: Thlrty-ono cents Is expended In coal
used by the engine to get the train under way
again. 10 cents measures the time lost by the
train crew owing to the stop, nnd the remain
ing 20 cents Is wear and tear.
LIFE AT ATLANTIC CITY
From the Atlantlo City Ilevlew.
Wanted 1 A sunburn lotion that lotions,
THE NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
Conviction of sin is the ordinary prelude to
repentance and It Is to be hoped It will prove
(uch In the case of tho financial agent of
the Progrekslve party.-Salt Lake City Herald
Itepubllcan. The saloon Is a luxury, and those well-to-do
economists who believe m it as an institution
(for other people) ought to be made to take It
into their own neighborhoods and support H
out of their own pockets KansttB City Times
The United States Government might well
follow the example of the Germans in limited
degree and thereby Insure Itg own security
without inviting any reasonable charge of adopt
ing a militaristic policy Colorado Springs
uazette,
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One Important result of the creation of an
advisory board composed of distinguished civil
ians will be growth of understanding of ttie
nnvjr's needs and qf the action that houid be
taken at Washington to meet. Us requirements -Bochegter
Post Express.
The revival of Industry, the assurance ot
easy monetary onndltJops and continued brilliant
crop nrosBeote are the foupdatlona of the con
fident feeling in business circles today, com
pletely neutralizing the effects of a serious
situation In international politics -Plttaburgn
QaxeUa Times. '
AMUSEMENTS
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