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The record-union., 1896-01-24
ANTI FUNDING CONVENTION.
How a Fen ''InefectualS' Represented
''The People,"
Advice of a Southern California Paper
to Uncle Sam" on Busi-
(Fron tbe San Bernardino Sum
ness.

(FTO10 IQe Oan SUM-
Notwithstanding the lavish use OF
printers ink in advertising and BOOM
ing it through the columns of leading
metropolitan journals, there was a slim
attendance ait the Anti-Funding Bill
Convention in San Francisco last Sat
urday AS a rule the leading spirits of
the occasion were disappointed and
scured politicians who have seen fit to
attribute their failure to railroad in
fluence" rather than to their lack or
loss of popularity. Although, as they
Invariably claim, an overwhelming
majority of the people" are with them,
they slip up as candidates for Office when
it comes to the counting of ballots.
Mr. Estee was there, the darling of
1.-The people," who was defeated for Gov
ernor when his party polled plurality
of 25,000 votes over that of his success
full competitor Mr. Caminetti was
there, an Intellectual candidate for re-
election to Congress from the Second
District Ben Morgan was there, an
Observation-Disclosures and pitiably
Observation-Disclosures for Congress
from the Third District. Colonel Thos.
F. Barry was there, whom the people"
frantically favored, IF course, but who
failed of nomination for Congress from
Maguire's district. James H. Barry
was there, an Intellectual aspirant for
the Superintendency of the San Fran
cisco Mint And SO on, and so on.
BUT the attendance was small; so
small as to incite the fiery animadver-
sions of the chronic orators who were
thus compelled to shoot off their elo-
quence at each other, with so few be-
side themselves to be electrified So
fiery were they that one rural member
put in a piteous plea that their bitter
acknowledgment of the paucity of the
attendance be not published. He didn't
want "the people" informed as to how
little interest they had taken in the oc-
casion.
But the gratifying information was
sent out that the convention had "ac-
complished it's purpose" They passed
set of resolutions. one of these warns
our Senators and Congressman Ito
pursue the course indicated by these
resolutions, representing the wish and
demand of ninety nine out of a hundred
of all the inhabitants of the State of
California and Of the Pacific Coast. So
small an assemblage couldn't have
made it much broader, or with less ap-
parent authority to speak for others
than themselves. Another resolution
provided for a committee of five, of
which Mr.. Estee was made Chairman,
with John T. Doyle, Henry E. Highton.
Mayor Davie and Judge Gibson Of Oak
land as his associates. And of course
so far as Mr.. Estee and his associates
were concerned the convention accom-
plished its purpose"
But this is a business proposition
not one of prejudice, froth or sentiment
concerning which the expected one In
a hundred inhabitants" might-per-
haps not without effrontery or sacrilege
claim right to an opinion at variance
with that ef these professional biovia-
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LIFE-sAvING STATIONS.
How They Are Arranged and the
Duties of the Keepers.

How They Are Arranged and the
Duties of the Keepers.
The station itself is a two-story house
built securely and solidly upon some
good site along the beach; it is comfort
able and roomy, and has the boatroom
and kitchen on the lower floor; a large
bedroom for the keeper, another for the
surfmen and a storeroom occupy the
second story.
The boatroom is large, and opens by
great double doors upon the beach. Tt
contains the nfeboat and all the life
saving apparatus-always in perfect
order and readiness.
The crew consists of a keeper and six
surfmen, though some stations number
seven surfmen: these men are graduates
from no naval college, but have served
their apprenticeship with Old Ocean as
their master; they must be able to han
die a boat in the toughest weather and
to face all the dangers of the deep.
Each man must undergo strict ex-
The record-union., 1896-01-24
THE HAMMOND CASE.

President Krueger of the Boer Gov
ernment in Transvaal replies to an in
quiry of a San Francisco paper con-
cerning the arrest of San franciscan
for alleged infraction of laws Of the
Transvaal, by plotting and rising
against the Government, that Mr.. Ham
mond is in custody and will be given
perfectly fair trial according to the
laws of the place and that justice will
be done in his case, as in all others,
regardless of nationality
No one wishes Mr.. Hammond to be
punished by death or lingering confine-
ment Everybody wants him to have
a fair and impartial trial But Ameri-
can sense Of justice commands us to
form judgment in his case precisely as
If the Transvaal territory was the
United States of America, as If Mr..
Hammond was a Boer citizen, and had
engaged in an insurrectionary move
ment to overthrow this Government
and subvert its laws, and being ar
rested by our officers had been charged
with the crime and awaited trial. What
in such case, would we reply to Pres
ident Krueger on his application to
have a Hammond released?
The simple truth is that all we can
possibly ask or be expected to ask is
that every right of Mr.. Hammond shall
be preserved; that he shall be fairly tried
and afforded all opportunity under the
law to make a defense. If then he is
convicted, we may ask that mercy be
shown to him. Indeed, we may well
petition for his pardon. But there is
nothing thus far known to justify this
Government going into the realm OF
threat and demand in the Hammond
case
Nor is the Boer Government at all
likely to anltagonize us and ALLEVIATE
the United States from it by dealing
unfairly with Hammond and his fell
low American prisoners. Self-interest
will incline the Beers to be just and
merciful. But we must confess that
Krueger's position is precisely that we
should expect the President of the
United States to take if the tables were
reversed.
The record-union., 1896-01-24

One of the cable dispatches concern
ing the death of Prince Henry of Bat
tenburg, relates-as if it were some
thing immensely surprising-that when
Henry and his wife, the daughter o.
Queen Victoria, parted as he left for
the journey that proved his death, they
acted as if they were really in love, and
the scene was very affecting" Is 1t i'm
possible that Prince and a Princess
shall love? How do they differ from
other mortals? Are they not subject to
the same passions, emotions, loves and
hates? Why then say they acted As
if they were really in love? 1t has been
known from the time these two blue
bloods met as youths that they were
true lovers, and it was because 1t was q
love match and not a political. one. that
the English aristocracy was so bitterly
opposed to it. The married life or
Henry and Beatrice has always been
understood to be one of peace, love and
domestic content. It is as incumbent
upon us to be fair to the titled as to any
other human beings, and nothing in the
life of Princess Beatrice or Prince
Henry, both conceded to be people OF
high character and gentle dispositions,
dutiful children and affectionate
parents, faithful in marriage, justifies
the sneer of surprise they "acred as if
really in love-"
The record-union., 1896-01-24
Muslin Wear.

Odds and ends in Muslin Wear, such
as Baby Slips and Dresses, worth Toe.
Ladies' Fine Embroidered Drawers,
worth ST. Infants Fine Long Skirts at
S5c. CLEARANCE PRICE SOC EACH.
Infants Slips and Short Dresses;
Ladies Drawers ana Gowns, either
Lace or Embroidery Trimmed. Not a
garment worth less than 81 % and
some are 81 so. CLEARANCE PRICE,
75c EACH
Infants Slips and Short Dresses; In
fants' Finely Embroidered Long Skirts ;
also, Ladies' Finely Embroidered
Drawers and Gowns. Worth 81 20 and
81 each. CLEARANCE PRICE, 81
EACH.
Infants Slips, Long Skirts and Short
Dresses, worth 50 so and So So and
Ladies' Very Fine Embroidered Gowns,
worth SO. CLEARANCE PRICE, 81 80
EACH
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Dress Trimmings.

One lot of Mohair Serpentine Braids
in black. All widths. Worth from 6M
to 10c a yard. CLEARANCE PRICE
&c YARD.
All our Colored Mohair Florence
Braids, worth from 1917 to 25c a yard.
CLEARANCE PRICE 10c YARD.
Black Silk Van Dyke Trimmings,
worth from 81 % to 81 so yard.
CLEARANCE PRICE 75c YARD.
Black and Colored Dress Trimmings.
Our best 25c styles. CLEARANCE
PRICE, 15c YARD.
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Toue1 Neus.

Bleached Damask Towels, pure linen
with knotted fringe good size; worth
81 so dozen. CLEARANCE PRICE
15c EACH.
Turkish Towels, both Bleached and
Unbleached, good size and soft close fin
ish. CLEARANCE PRICE, 81 10 PER
DOZEN.
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Cotton Dress Goods.

Fancy Dress Prints in medium and
dark shades that retail regular at &c
yard CLEARANCE PRICE sc
YARD.
Cardinal Ground Dress Prints, with
fancy colored figures, regular &c quail
ity CLEARANCE PRICE &c YARD.
Light, Medium and Dark Shades in
Standard Flannelettes. CLEARANCE
PRICE 41ac YARD.
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ladies Shoes.

Ladies' Kid Foxed Spring Heel But
ton Shoes, kid or cloth tops and patent
tips. Regular 81 90 grade. CLEAR
ANCE PRICE 81 45 PAIR.
Ladies' Fine Kid Foxed Lace Shoes,
cloth tops, warm flannel lined. Extra
good ST 90 value. CLEARANCE
PRICE 81 PAIR.
q mixed lot Of Ladies Kid Foxed,
Ladies Cork Sole Cloth Top, Button
Shoes, and a line OF Cloth Top Lace
Shoes, all are hand -tiikned and worth
81 and S4 90. CLEARANCE PRICE
80 75 PAIR.
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Fancy Dress Goods.

36-inch Two-Tone Fancy Weave Wool
Suitings, comes in nine choice colorings.
Former price 35c yard. CLEARANCE
PRICE 15c YARD.
36-inch Ali-Wool Fancy Weave Mo
hair Suitings, in two-tone and change
able effects, Is patterns. Formerly SOC
yard. CLEARANCE PRICE 29c YARD.
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Table linens.

B1eached Table Napkins, 5s size,
worth 90c dozen. CLEARANCE
PRICE SOC DOZEN.
Bleached Napkins in pretty Damask
patterns, 5s size, worth 81 70 a dozen.
CLEARANCE PRICE 81 20 DOZEN.
Cream Bleached Table Damask, 90
inches wide, pure flax, pretty patterns
CLEARANCE PRICE 24c YARD.
Extra Heavy Cream Bleached Dam
ask, go inches wide, pure linen, hand
some patterns. actual value 65c yard
CLEARANCE PRICE 44c YARD.
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ladies Wrappers.

Ladies' Fine House Wrappers made of
good mapped back haDnelette and zig
gag stripes and pretty Persian effects.
Same with vatican back and ruffied
over shoulders; others Mother Hubbard
style with fancy yoke. Not one worth
under 81 90. CLEARANCE PRICE
95c EACH.
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Silk and Wool SuitinQ.

Two-tone Silk and Wool Fancy Mixed
Suitings, Roucles, Armures, Home
spuns and Cheviots, 3S to 45 inches
wide, about 80 patterns to select from.
Former prices 75c, 90c, 81 yard.
CLEARANCE PRICE SOC YARD.
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Black Dress Goods.

44-inch Fine Quality Black, Silk-Fin-
ished Henriettas. Value 81 % yard.
CLEARANCE PRICE 79c YARD.
41-inch All-Wool Heavy Quality
Black Surah Twill Serges and Drap de
Alrnas. Regular ST values. CLEAR
ANCE PRICE, 69c YARD.
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r COST THAN YOU EVER BEFORE KNEW.
Windom Shades.

Opoque Shades, Z feet long and 80
inches wide, with heavy knotted fringe;
cclors-light tan, mode and light olive;
actual value, soc each. CLEARANCE
PRICE SOC EACH.
The record-union., 1896-01-24

In the country districts, both of Eng
land and Germany, there is an idea that
if the bees swarm upon a rotten tree
there will be death in the family own
ing or living on the property before the
expiration of a twelvemonth.
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Rugs.

Handsome Reversible Smyrna Rugs,
size 26x50 inches, from So to 81 20 each.
Wilton Brussels, size 27x60 inches,
rich colors. Cut from $3 80 to 81 15
each.
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Black Silks.

20-inch Black Satin Duchesse, in firm
weave, excellent finish. Price, 81. RE-
DUCED TO SOC A YARD.
24-inch Black Suran Silk; firm weave,
heavy quality. Regular price, 81 %
REDUCED TO 79c A YARD.
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Boys 0Vercoats.

Boys, Heavyweight Dark Dress Over
coats, with velvet collars, for ages IA to
10 years. CLEARANCE PRICES
From SO to So 80; from $S and 81 90
to So; from So to So 90.
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TLese publications are sent either py
Mail or Express to agents OF sinsle III pos3-
ecribers with charges prepaid. All Post-
masters are agents. 49,
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast
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THE WEEKLY UNION

Is the cheapest and most desirable Home.
News and Literary Journal pubnsneo on
the Pacific Coast.
The Weekly Union, per year........S1 o0
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Boys Suits.

Boys Dress Suits Qong pants) made
from nobby suitings in the latest cut
styles. So and $14 values. CUT TO
81 SUIT.
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Book Neuls.

A very large lot of paper bound books.
Best novels by best authors. All good
titles. These are copyrighted works and
sell at stationery stores for 25c each
CLEARANCE PRICE s 1-3c EACH
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Table Covers.

Tapestry Table Covers. Ga size, in
fancy colors and knotted fringe. Re-
ductions-S1 so to 81; 81 to 81 35; 50x
so inches, 81 to 69c.
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Diego Supervisors will also adopt it
Where four out of five counties whose
boundaries adjoin agree to adopt the
ordinance, and the fifth stands out on
such proposition, it will deserve to be
dubbed the dog in the manger, which
will neither eat hay nor permit the OK
to eat it. broad-tire ordinance in the
five counties named, if enforced, will
save the taxpayers in five years, not less
than $4,000 in road repairs alone and
will save as much more to the users of
wagons and horses.
The Bakersfield Californian" wants
the fool-killer to come to Sacramento,
because one minister exercised his clear
right TO preach against the theaterS
The Californian" should reflect that
this is not Bakersfield. Because we do
not all agree as to matters and things,
we do not necessarily need the fool
killer to leave his occupation in Kern
County.
If any man wants to give anything in
charity, or to help on a good cause. in
the name of goodness take it and the
aid nor stop to ask if the man himself
is all he should be, or where he got the
money Charity is not exactly blind.
but she ought to keep her palm open
and accept the coin that drops from the
hand willing to let go its grip on the
money We fancy the priest asking
whence the nickels' that he finds in
the poor box at the church door.
The Oroville Mercury" says: 1.-The
Populist party will play the side show
to the Republican circus, and hold their
convention at ST Louis The Demoe-
racy can whip the two just as easy as
one." The Republican party objects to
the classification and wants the job
single handed of wiping the earth with
the Democracy.
When the Supreme Court gets through
with reviews of the acts of the late Leg
isIature what will be left?
On Saturday last the Plumas "Inde-
pendent" issued an extra containing
storm news from various points in that
section of the State. Considerable dam
age was done to roads and bridges in
the neighb0rhOo3
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ladies Union Suits.

All our Topaz Union Suits, worth
81 80 each, and all the line of gray wool
Union Suits. worth 81 each. CLEAR
ANCE PRICE 81 EACH.
Gray Wool Union Suits that are worth
So, and the Black Wool Suits, worth
So 80 each CLEARANCE PRICE, 81.
The record-union., 1896-01-24
Mems Half Hose.

Mems Fine Cashmere Half-Hose, in
black and natural gray; a medium
weight; worth 25c a pair CLEARANCE
PRICE 1Sc PAIR.
The record-union., 1896-01-24

Blobbs-How does Wigwag's wife
keep him so well under control? Slobbs
BY threatening to publish the poems
he wrote her before they were married.
-Philadelphia Record.
The record-union., 1896-01-24
Hats.

Mems and Boys Fur Crush Hats, in
blue and brown, worth 75c each.
CLEARANCE PRICE 3Sc.
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Mems Clothing.

Mems and Youths Square-Cut Fancy
Checked and Striped Suits, sizes "a to
3S. CLOSING PRICE, SO A SUIT.
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Fancy Silks.

19-inch Two-tone Fancy Weave Taf-
feta Silks, II choice patterns to choose
from. worth 75c yard. CLEARANCE
PRICE SOC YARD.
The record-union., 1896-01-24
ladies Hosiery.

Ladies' Black Cotton Hose, double
heel and sole, and fast brilliant black,
worth 25c a pair. CLEARANCE
PRICE 15c PAIR.
The record-union., 1896-01-24
DAILY RECORD-UNION
THE DAILY REcORD.UNION

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teen Cents per week. In all interior cities
and towns the paper can be had OF the
principal periodical Dealers newsmen ana
agents
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Entered at the PostofFice at Sacramento
as eecond~clasS matter.
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Mems Underuear.

One lot Mems A1l-Wool Undershirts
and Drawers, in natural gray, heavy
weight and good value at 81 so each.
CLEARANCE PRICE 95c EACH.
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playinq Cards.

One lot of we'll finished Playing Cards.
A regular 10c value CLEARANCE
PRICE s 1-3c PACK.
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NOTE AND COMMENT.

Just the other day the Los Angeles
Express was rapping it to Sacra-
mento hard and fast because of muddy
streets, evidently ignorant of the fact
that we have been getting out of the
mud rapidly in recent years, and will
presently have none of it, since some of
our streets are bituminized, some are
macadanlized and nearly all others are
graveled-even though poorly so. But
the Express cooed and rubbed its
hands gleefully, as it spoke of Los An
geles' streets, clean, sweet and free
from mud. Here now comes the Los
Angeles Herald with a front page car
toon of Los Angeles citizens stuck in the
mud. and it opens up a column leader
red hot on the subject. with these words,
which sound strangely, indeed, after the
rasping of the Express: The recent
rain has undoubtedly been a golden
shower to the people of Southern Cali
fornia, and has certainly filled with
hopefulness the hearts of the men who
plow, plant and harvest. But to the
people who are compelled to Pedestrian
ize in Los Angeles the physical, hy-
gienic and sanitary effects of the pre-
cipitation are obscured by the discom-
fort and even dangers of locomotion, or
more properly speaking, navigation,
around the city away from few of the
best business and residence blocks. and
this is owing to the deplorable condition
of the major portion of our streets and
the paucity of crosswa1ks.'
The San Diego Union" says: "It
appears now that the matter of the
southern counties of the State adopting
a uniform broad-tire ordinance depends
upon the action of the San Diego Super
visors. The Los Angeles Supervisors
say that they viii join San Bernardino,
Orange and Riverside Counties in en-
acting the measure. providing the San
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FufS.

Gray Astrachan Fur Trimmings,
worth SOC a yard also, our entire line
of Silk Beaver Fur, worth zoe to 50c a
yard CLEARANCE PRICE 10c
YARD.
The record-union., 1896-01-24

1914 White Wool and Cotton Blan-
kets, good weight, soft as sall wool.
Worth 81 80 a pair CLEARANCE
PRICE, ST. 80 Al PAIR
Full-Size White Cotton Blankets.
Regular value, 81 %. CLEARANCE
PRICE, Soc A PAIR
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SEMI-HNNUHh CLEARANCE SALE.
THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS"

When thought given the fact that these we now place at the service service
the epHrg
should speedily advantage
weeks come To-
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Shirtinqs.

Heavy Cheviot Shirtings, a good
standard make, worth 10c a yard.
CLEARANCE PRICE Is YDS FOR 81.
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Weather Forecast.
For Northern California-Fair; northwest
erly winds.
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Blankets.

Fine All-Wool California Blankets.
This seasons product and all full
double-bed family size. CLEARANCE
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Record Union IelepnoHe'
r-s,.ou,., poo,os Fed 49,
E6IssoLaaa 6sissS,ass of9ica Black 131.
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When the Supreme Court gets through
with reviews of the acts of the late Leg
islature what will be left?
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22

trusted to their own good arms, when sails
were of no avail, in the race for deep-sea
craft.
1.-THE FaralIones are thirty miles distant
from the City. The round trip would be
sixty miles. | may say, with certainty,
years, made one trip day to the Far
allones and back in my Whitehall
Sixty miles day, 300 days in the year,
for six years! The total distance covered
was 108 900 miles, over four times the dis
tance around the world, in six years!
"Of course continued Mr.. Fitzgerald,
nowadays we get information of ships
from the observatories outside of the
Golden Gate. We now travel from ten to
forty miles day, according to the facility
with which the big vessels travel in the
bay. For 300 days in the year twenty
miles day would be q fair average for the
fourteen years that have held the post Of
reporter Of ships for the Merchants Ex-
change"
Twenty miles day, 300 days in the
year, for fourteen years! That makes a
total distance travelled in that time OF
$4,000 miles. And in the twenty years Of
Mr.. Fitzgerald's experience he would
have travelled over a grand total OF 49,, 900
.miles-over 72a times the length of band
stretched around the terrestrial sphere.
'.When winds are fair" explained Mr..
f!tzgeralQ, we run up sallS, DuC Wnen
wind and tide are against you it means
strong. hard rowing. You see, my duties
are to board all incoming vessels in the in
terest of the exchange and procure the ear
liest reports of their voyage, the ships
spoken. deaths at sea and copies of mani
tests of cargo. Our doors never close-it
is day and night business with US, and
it's all the same, sun or shade, fair or foul,
blow high, blow low, the lookout never
ceases. In thick. foggy weather, when
harbor, the Whitehall boat is doubly well
come for the reinsurance that it brings. In
all my boating career I have been upset
only once-that was alongside the i'll
| fated ship Elizabeth when she went down
in southeast gale off the north heads
about five years ago. For fifteen minutes
] clung to the upturned boat before assist
snce came. have saved twenty-five lives
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22

mighty deep, with the rapidi.y of bird
on the wing. Man has tanned the ocean
to great extent. Of old it'was remark
able thing for a ship to cross the sea; now
little pleasure yachts cross and recross
between America and Europe; and re-
Gently two bold navigators have planned
to row from New York to Queenstown in a
Whitehall boat.
Think of it! A couple of Yankees scull-
ing over the briny waste that the fear-in-
spired crew of Colum bus deemed without
end. If this is done, why may we not
foresee the circumnavigation OF the world
in rowboat? How absurd the idea ap-
pears at first. Around the great waist of
the rotund earth in a mite of a row.
boat! A microbe battling against a
mountainous wave. Puny arms pulling a
puny boat over oceans for nearly $4,000
miles! But why not?
Here is the picture of a Whitehall boat
man of San Francisco Bay who has in
twenty years trayersed distance that