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The Fri9htful Record Of the
Year in Marine Accidents

$50, perishing as the ship plunged
downward to her ocean grave. NEARLY
all of the cabin passengers pFished,
the majority ofthe survivors ybeing
steerage passengers and sailors. The
surviving passengers told astounding
tales Of cruelty. All order for the time
being was lost, and men and crew
fought like wild beasts to secure a
seat or standing room in the lifeboats.
Women and children were thrust aside,
and it was stated some men even COM
mitted murder to escape from the
doomed ship. At any rate, only one
woman out Of two hundred was res
cued, and to substantiate the stories Of
the brutality a large proportion Of the
crew was saved. The bow of the Gro
martyshire was stove in and she was
partly dismantled, and had it not been
for the calm sea she, too, might have
foundered. This, without exception,
resulted in greater loss Of life than any
other disaster of the year for any sin
gle accident or wreck. s3.y
On the 10Th of July severe storm
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On the al q october 3 & severe ,sna huurri-

II on the Cd Of October a severe hurri-
cane ragged in Georgia and along the /
coast of that State and South Carolina.
The next day reports began to come tn
OF the extensive damage done. The
entire sea coast was submerged and
numerous vessels were driven by the
tremendous waves over the shore and
stalled in the marsh back of the sea
line after the storm subsidized. Im
mense damage was done to the rice
crop and dwellings adjoining the sea
coast. -Four vessels were torn from
their moorings in Savannah, the Brit
ish schooner Syanara, bound for ST.
Johns, New Brunswick; American
schooner Millville, to Millville, N. j.;
the Fannie l.. Child, for Boston, and
the Italian bark Franklin, and We're all
more or less severely damaged. The.
Stephen Bennett went ashore off Sandy
Hook, and the Isaac H. Tillyer and the
Wandering Jew sunk in the storm.
The British steamer Lucania was also
partly disabled in this storm on her
trip to Queenstown.
On the 14th Of October the Atlantic
Transport Company's steamer Mohe-
gan, formerly the Cleopatra, Of the
Wilson G Furness .Lehland Line, 1eay-
ing London for New York on the 18th
with fifty passengers and a crew Of $50,
went ashore off The Lizard, between
Manacies and the Lowlands, and 116 of
the ISL persons on board were lost, as
it was next to impossible to rescue
anybody with the heavy sea running.
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world by the unprecedented feat of de-
stroying the entire Spanish fleet and
reducing fortified harbor without the
loss of a single man. By this action
in Manila bay he sunk or captured the
entire Spanish naval force in Pacific
waters, and at one fell swoop destroyed
Spain's naval power in Pacific waters.
This performance was duplicated off
Santiago harbor by Rear Admiral
Schley on the Sd of July, when the
Atlantic squadron, under command of
Admiral Cervera, comprising the Girls
tobal Colon, the Almirante Oquendo,
the Vizcaya, the Infanta Maria Teresa
and the torpedo-boats F'uror and Plu-
ton, were sunk in the short space of
two hours by the American fleet, with
the loss of but one man killed and less
than ten wounded. This engagement
rendered Spain powerless, as it de-
-stroyed at once and forever the only
really powerful naval force remaining
that Spain possessed. .s --
The day following this great victory
while the nation was celebrating the
glorious news, an accident occurred,
which was destined for many people
to change their Joy into mourning and
gloom. While steaming through a
dense fog sixty miles off Sable island
the French Line steamer La Bour-
gogne, from New York to Havre, col
lided with the British ship Cromarty-
shire. The Bourgogne was making IS
or 20 knots an hour, while the British
| vessel was making five, with sails set.
The shock was terrific, and in ten min
utes this superb liner, with the greater
portion of her crew and passengers,
settled and sank. The Cromartyshire,
while almost in sinking condition
herself, at once proceeded to rescue as
many Of the unfortunates as possible,
but only succeeded in rescuing 165 Of
the 725 persons on board, the balance,
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STORY OF a BEGGA Ar.

1t is quite little story, slight and
thin; SO thin even, SO slight, that /
fear, in fixing it on paper with written
words, to rob it of it's frail grace, it's
light SAVIOR. Why, then, when it was
related to us one evening, in all the
complicated and decorated luxury Of
modern talk, by the charming woman
who was the heroine Of the episode
why did it make such tenacious I'M
preston upon us all that it has become,
in one little corner of Partisan life, one
Of those classic tales, patrimony OF
each group of society, to which allu-
sion is always understood and well
coined? Perhaps because it was clear
gap in the chatter of infidelity, in the
hackneyed gossip of politics and liter
allure. Perhaps because, as an attitude,
gesture at times may suffice to reveal
to us a whole feminine body beneath
its clothing-at times it also needs but
a few sincere words uttered by a
woman to disrobe her soul completely.
We had been talking of mysterious
solicitations, today classed and named
by science, from which so few of us are
exempt, which invincibly compel some
TO add up the flowers of wallpaper,
the volumes of a library, everything
that is additional, under their eyes;
Others to impose upon themselves the
task, walking along the side path of a
street, to reach such gas-jet before
the cab rolling up behind them is
abreast Of them. or public clock has
struck it's last note, and others, again,
each night before going to bed, to prac-
tlce strange habits of disposing of OBJ
jects, visiting cupboards and Golfers.
we discussed all the light diseases of
our contemporary brains, crumbs Of
monOmania and madness transmitted
by inheritance after inheritance, and
finally dispersed throughout the whole
OF our worn humanity. And we all
confessed our weakness, the absurdi-
ties Of our manias, treasured by the
confession of the others, delighted to
find them like ourselves, worse even
than ourselves.
young woman had said nothing.
She listened to us, a touch of surprise
on her peaceful, pretty visage, which
was framed by even, black coils.
Somebody asked her: And you,
madam, are you quite free of our mod
ern manias? Have you not single
little nervous habit to confess? ?"
She appeared to search her memory
in all sincerity. She made a sign with
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duty to give to every beggar / meet.
n will be more generous with the next,

duty to give to every beggar / meet.
I will be more generous with the next.
that is all. { .8; III in
IN. But all my arguments did not sue
coed in convincing me, and my Inward
discomfort increased Wv became sort OF
anguish SO that ten times I felt wish.
to turn back to the spot where we had
met that man. Will you believe st? It
was false sentiment Of human re.
spect that withheld me from doing so
in the presence Of my little daughter.
We are really worth nothing more the
moment we act in view of the judg-I
ment of Others. ~ 535
We had nearly come to the end OF
our walk and were going to turn the
corner Of the Rue Laf1tte when Suzop
pulled gently at my dress to stop me.
: Mammal she cried.
What do you want, darling?'
She fixed her great blue eyes on me
and said, gravely: @z.,z
r." Mamma, why did you give nothing
to that poor man in the Champs Ely
sees?' et.% q. 5i +. j. ,s 4 ss
Like me, she had thought of moth
Ing else since our meeting with that
man; her heart was oppressed like
mine: only better than her mother, or
more sincere, she confessed quite SIM
ply her uneasiness. ~
Il did not hesitate an instant. You
are right, dearest I said to her H.
We had walked more quickly than
usual, under the obsession CT our fixed
idea: twenty minutes or so still re-
manned before the class hour. called
cab, jumped into it with Suzon, and
the driver went up the Champs Ely
sees at quick pace under promise of
generous tip. '
"Suzon and I held each others hand,
and beg you to believe that we were
tar from treasured. If the beggar
should have gone away? Suppose we
could not find him again.? Arrived at
the Rond-Point, we jumped to the
ground; we examined the avenue, there
was no beggar. questioned one of the
chair hirers. She remembered having
seen him: he was not, she said, one of
the habitual beggars of the Rond
Point; she did not know what side he
had taken. We were pressed for time,
we were going away quite distressed,
when all at once Suzon perceived the
man sitting on his heels behind tree;
he was sleeping in the shade, with his
hat between his knees.
"Suzon went up to him on the tip OF
her toes and slipped a piece of gold
into the empty hat, and then we went
back to the Rue Lafitte. 1t was abb
surd, I know quite we'll, but we en-
braced one another as if we had just
escaped from great danger
The young woman stopped in full
silence, blushing rose all over to have
spoken at such length about herself
AS for us, we had listened to her re-
ligiously. We seemed to have breathed
a very pure air and to have drunk a
very cool water at the source ITSELF
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On the 18th the barge Electra, with
1900 tons of coal, sprang leak off
Montauk Point, and went to the bot
tom like a ball of lead
On the 18th heavy storm was re-
ported off the New England and Cen
trail States coast, and number Of
fishing schooners foundered, most Of
the crews escaping in boats.
In Asiatic waters on the Esd of June
a Chinese war vessel was wrecked at
Port Arthur, and 100 of her crew
drowned, and at the same time the
Chinese junks and fishing craft suf-
fered severely, and on the 26th of Oc-
tober so Japanese were drowned as a
result Of a collision between two
steamers
Another storm swept the Atlantic
coast on the 18th of November, and as
result the newly raised Maria Tere-
sa, which was proceeding to Newport
News, had to be abandoned, the crew
believing her to be in a sinking con-
dition. The vessel did not sink, how
ever, but stranded on Cat Island, where
she rapidly went to pieces During
this storm the Westmeath was aban-
doned.
On the 18th of November the Brit
ish steamship Londonian sailed from
Boston for London with a large gen
eral cargo and $50 head of cattle on
deck. On the 23d, in violent gale the
ship shifted the greater part of her
cargo and also capsized. For two days
the men were in danger of drowning,
and then the Vedamore hove in sight
and rescued forty-five of the crew by
three days of hard work, during which
time several men of the Vedamore
were nearly drowned from the huge
waves breaking two Of their lifehoats
while attempting to rescue the i'm
periled sailors. On the third night the
ships parted company, and the Veda-
more believed the Londonian had
swamped and the captain and twenty
two men on board had been drowned.
A week later, however, the steam
ship Maria Rickmers discovered the
derelict, with eight additional sur
| viyors, including the captain, half
starved to death, hoping against hope
that they would be rescued, and sues
1 ceeded in saving them but a few mo-
ments before the doomed ship sank.
| It seems another boat load had tried
| to get to the Vedamore. and all but
seven were dashed to pieces or
1 drowned by their boat being crushed
like an egg shell against the side Of
4 the Londonian.
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her head: mo, no." We felt that she
spoke the truth, so much did all that
we saw and knew of her, her restful
bearing, her renoWn as an unblemished
wife, lift her above the fashionable
dolls who had just been confessing the
unsettled state of their systems
Doubtless her modesty feared the
boast of so complete an indemnity
when everyone around her had ac-
She corrected herself:
Good heavens! I can't say that I
habitually add up the cab numbers, or
that I make an inventory of all my
dresses before going to bed. Still, the
other day I experienced something
that sufficiently resembles what you
have been describing. If 1 have under
stood you quite-a kind of interior i'm
pulsion, force which compels you to
accomplish an Indifferent act on the
spot, as if it were a matter of life or
DEATH
We insisted on hearing the story,
and she told it most graciously, with
the air of begging pardon for the claim
on the attention of others by so slight
an adventure.
''In two words, this is what happened
to me. Five or six days ago had gone
out with my little girl, Suzon-you
know her, she is 81 was taking her
to her class, for this big girl already
follows classes. AS it was very fine
we had decided on going on foot by
the Champs Elysees and the boule-
wards from my home to the Rue La
fitte. And so we were walking along
quite gay, chattering together, when at
the top Of the Rond Point lame man,
rather young, limped up to us holding
out his hand without saying anything.
I carried my parasol in my right hand;
with my left hand 1 held up my skirts;
confess had not the patience to stop
and hunt for my purse. I went on and
gave nothing to the beggar.
''Suzon and I continued to walk
along the Champs Elysees. The little
one had suddenly ceased to talk and
also, without quite knowing why, nc
longer felt any wish to talk. We were
at the Place de la Concorde, and vel
we had neither Of us opened our lips
since we had passed the beggar. An(
little by little felt stir and increase {
kind Of inward disquietude, and uneasi
ness. the feeling Of having accom-
plished an irreparable action, Of being
threatened, for that very reason, Will
vague peril in the future In general,
strive to see clearly within myself, al
far as possible. And thus, all in walk
ing, ! began to examine my I. con
science.
Let us see,' I said to myself, 'hav,
I sinned very grievously against char
ity in giving nothing to that beggar
never pretend to regard 1t as nj
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His DisabiiItv.

5"The new boarder has not said
word about the meals vet" said the
boarding mistress. NO; be-
.lieve he's a very religious man. re-
piled one Of the victims. Y onkers
Statesman. Il.
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The Number of Wrecks at Sea Last Year
Was Unprecedented The Loss Of Life
II Some Of the Larger Was Ap>
palling ragic Fate Of the
Bourgogne,
Bo:lI.l1l:rg::ogt1le';,

they may be included among the losses
for the year. HI :
Immediately upon the declaration OF
the war Commodore (now AdmiraD
Dewey was ordered to proceed at once
to Manila and reduce the Spanish forti-
fieations at that point and destroy the
Spanish fleet in those waters. On the
list day Of May, his squadron, with the
Olympia as his flagship, startled the
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It's better to accept some state
,nents than to bother hunting up the
proofs. d
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Ling uist.
Guyer- Poor Downtrod. Quizzer
why poor? Csyer--H His wife's a lin. 3
gust, New York Journs!..
Evening star., 1899-03-08

Nebraska case settled, the republicans are
assured of at least fifty-one votes in the
next Senate, the democrats are certain Of
twenty-five. the populists or other indie
pendents of nine, while five seats are in
doubt. counting that of the retiring Florida
senator. This seat can safely be accorded
to the democrats, giving them twenty-six
out of eighty-six. If the legislatures of
Uteh, California, Pennsylvania and Della
ware choose senators according to the pre-
pcnderance of the party votes the republi-
can strength will rise to fifty-four and the
democratic to twenty-seven, thus giving the
combined opposition to the administration
a total of thirty-six votes, or a majority
for the republicans of eighteen, larger than
has been given to any party for some
years. This does not take into account the
vote of Senator Kyle, who is virtually in
all large matters a republican. 1t places
the republicans within reaching distance of
the two-thirds line. Curiously enough, the
republican strength is very evenly divided
between the three classes of senators. OF
the fifty-one now assured seventeen will
retire in 1901, sixteen in 1903 and eighteen
in 1905. OF the democrats now chosen
eleven will retire in 1901, eight in 1903 and
six in 1903, thus giving the republicans
proportionately a better chance to retain
the majority two years hence.
Evening star., 1899-03-08

plans are drawn and contracts are let, ii
should be voted by Congress to amend the
present law restricting the armor price, 1t
would be necessary to readjust the entire
scheme Of weights and construction, thus
greatly delaying the completion of the YES
sells and perhaps preventing that harmony
of structure which appears to such perfec-
ton in the Oregon. 1t Is, of course desfra-
BILE that Congress should keep watchful
eye upon the expense accounts Of the naval
service But the mere suspicion that undue
profits have been made on naval armor in
the past does not warrant radical cuts in
the scale against the judgment of the naval
authorities. If those authorities are not to
be trusted 1t is high time for other kinds
OF reform. We're the ships of war to be
relied upon solely for offensive operations
this armor problem might well be relegated
to the rear. But the ideal battle ship is that
which can securely take blows while de-
iiverfng them upon the enemy. The mo-
ment the armor principle Is weakened 1t
were better abandoned and the vessel placed
In the class of cruisers, where it can be
given high speeds and great cruising en-
durance If 1t is to be kept in the battle
snip class it must be made as nearly i'm
,pregnable as modern science will allow.
Evening star., 1899-03-08
Prevailing Belief About Mckinley

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
The President has thus far most mirac-
ulously escaped the personal share of ac-
countably usually allotted the official head
of party organization. Everybody-for
the abuse of Johnson end the plants of
Mason hardly count-applauds him. There
is a prevailing belief that he is an honest
and prudent man, who has grown apace
in the White House and has done his duty
The story of the war with Spain is tri-
umph for William Mckinley. His journey
west was attended by evidences of a con-
sequent popularity that could not be
doubted. His visit to Boston confirmed the
reception he encountered in Chicago and
Omaha. But his trip south was a ten
strike. His speeches, everywhere good,
were in Alabama and Georgia little less
than inspired and it is neither safe nor
easy, to criticise still harder to assaiI a
man so well-intentioned and so eloquent
The people of the south in particular are
an impressionable, an emotional people
They have long wanted union and peace.
Mr.. Mckinley has had the supreme oppor-
tunity to give it them through the commits
sions he issued to Wheeler and Lee and to
reinforce his acts by words that recall hoth
the majesty and the magnanimity of Lin
coin. The south can never be made to feel
other than sentiments of respect and good
VIII for such President and such a man.
Evening star., 1899-03-08
Handicapping the New Navy.

1t is not. pleasant to contemplate the en-
largement of the splendid navy which has
Just won such high honors in the war with
Spain by the addition of several battle ships
provided with inferior armor. Yet this Is
the reluctant anticipation. apparently, of
the naval authorities. Congress saw fit in
the face of the most deliberate official ad-
vice. to reduce the price to be paid by the
government for armor to a point which is
said to be practically prohibitive of the best
defensive betting for the great craft. 1t is
the pride of the American people today that
the navy which SO handily whipped the
Spanish ships is equal 10 the task of tack
ling the naval forces of any other nation,
ship for ship. The remarkable perform
ances of the Oregon. the Texas, the Brook
lyn. the New York and others of the great
feet engaged in Cuban waters aroused the
people to a high pitch of enthusiastic ap-
probation of the economy of a -frst-class
naval equipment. Ii was confidently sup
posed that this demonstration Of the value
of thorough efficiency would prevent any
undue Congressional cheese-paring when
the time came to provide the additions to
the navy which the war had shown to be
imperative. Yet not only did the Senate
seek to reduce the number of the new ships
reducing the armor price to the point that
leads 10 the belief that the new battle ships
will be below the standard which has awak-
ened the world to new naval ideals Tn
fortunately this is not a matter which can
easily be adjusted at the next session of
Congress, for it is imperative that the plans
OF the new ships should be based upon GER
tain armGr weights. which must be in
creased in proportion as the efficiency of
the armor is reduced. Ii later after these
Evening star., 1899-03-08
The Task in Cuba.

The situation in Cuba, while far from
satisfactory. need not cause any particular
disquet. No friend of the Cuban people,
in the island or out of it, need throw up
his hands in despair. 1t is trite but very
true saying that human nature is much the
same the world over. When there are Of
fees to be filed in this country there are
hundreds of applicants. and after the Sc
Iections have been made the disappointed
are loud of complaint. When large numbers
of men are thrown out of employment there
is uproar. and riots sometimes follow
Our own leaders have their differences over
public policies, and ordinations and re-
examinations are at times very bitter. What
we see at home. therefore, and what leads
TO no permanent trouble. need not alarm US
when il appears in Cuba.
This governments task in Cuba cannot be
executed in day. or in a hurry. To pac1fy
the island demands consideration for all
the interests of the island. Foundations for
good government cannot be laid in the shift
ing sands of agitation and mere discon-
tent. any more than stable structure can
be reared on the rOttenness of the old
Spanish customs. The common soldier who
rode behind Gomez or Garcia is not fitted
for high and responsible office, but neither
is the Shrewd and unscrupuious Spaniard
who feathered his nest while Spanish rule
and corruption 1ourished and now poses
as a citizen of character and substance.
The putting of the one to the fore would
end in failure and chaos; the putting of
the other to the fore would result in a de-
bauched customs service and judiciary and
general spreading again of vileness over
the island.
The United States, which has no thought
of going to extremes, should, and probably
will, avoid employing extremes as agents.
The question is that of establishing gov
ernment for all who are willing to obey the
laws and promote peace. The conservative
CubanS and the conservative Spaniards
should get together They are sufficiently
numerous and sufficiently capable to give
the island a government strong enough to
protect everybody in interest, and liberal
enough TO invite both capital and immigra-
ton. This the United States should in
good reason, insist upon, and should see
accomplished before retiring from the
scene.