El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-14
Professor George 3. HaIstead.

On the Southern Pacific yesterday
there arrived one of the best known
mathematicians of the United States.
He is Professor George b. Halstead OF
the Texas university.
! Prof Halstead is the author of the
famous Halstead's Geometry and Trlg-
onOmetry. These two books are wide
ly known as text books His Geometry
is used as a text book in the public
schools of Great Britain, Germany.
and Russia. His Trigonometry is used
as a text book in the schools of
Great Britain and Russia. Both
books are widely used in the schools of
the United States, and the well known
professor of mathematics at the Uni
versity of Virginia, Prof. Venable,
Notwithstanding he has written books
, On the same subject, has said that
neither of these branches of mathe-
mates was ever made plain to the
world until Halstead's books we're pub
lished."
Professor Halstead was merely
passing through the city yesterday on
his way to Austin, and went out on the
G. 81. To a reporter be said:
Il am Just back from a summer vaca-
ton to the Pacific coast and Japan.
[ left Austin in June as sOon as the uni
versity closed and L came through here
On my way to the Pacific past. At
San Francisco | took a steamer and
vent 10 Seattle and Portland. A
these two points l saw more OF the raw
nugget gold than 1 thought there was
in all the world. [ also had a good
chance to study the miners who we're
bringing in the yellow metal, and
beard many interesting stories of the
klondike.
From Seattle [ went to Vancouver
and then took q coastipg vessel and
went up along the lower Alaskan
coast, crossed over, q landed at
Toxic, Japan.
This was the main point of my
trip, Japan. AS soon as L landed / was
met by my friend the president of the
Imperial university of the empire and
IS [ went there to study the scDool life
[ was fixed, for his majesty the mikado
shonld'me all the attention possible and
gave me special privileges to make re-
searches.
81 stayed 10 the interior of.the island
about three weeks, and the other two
weeks for | was there fve) l spent in
visiting the larger towns.
1.-The Japanese are very progressive
people and are copying after the Am
orleans as much as possible. They
are very anxious for the United States
to hold the Philippines as they don't
"ohO oo w Z ~ " lCdl 1SI ulouy VI
Russia will take the whole lot. They
have been in sympathy with us all
through the war with Spain, and then
whenever there would be a victory for
the American arms they would feel as
joyful as if they themselves had gained
a victory.
"The matter which is interesting his
majesty the mikado now more than
anything else is telephones. The
Japanese have adopted our telephones
and they are so much in favor that in
Toxic the telephone company is far
behind in filing orders for fully three
thousand phones.
The vessel in which l came home
had on board Il good many returning
from Manila and of course | heard q
good deal about the fighting there.
Also on the same boat were three very
Influential Japanese who were being
sent to this country as a special COM
mission to report upon long distance
telephones, as the emperor wants to
have all the leading towns in his en-
pire connected by 'phones."