The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-08

senger and freight steamers by the gov
ernment, their earnings being used to Sc
of boats is the result Of a patriotic move
msnt curing. the Turko- Russian war,
when Russia's inferiority on the sea be-
ing noted. a fund was raised and three
ocean liners purchased and presented 10
the government.
Day Allen Wiley has an article on
American soft coal with especial refer
ences 70 the growing demand for. it
among European nations The future of
modern urban TRANSFORMATION is discussed
by Alton d. Adams. who Believes that
vehicles &C the automobile type will ulti-
mately suPplant the trolley car. His rea-
sons Ior thus prophesying are that indie
pendent vehicles, by being able to use
any az street and ana TO pas, one another, viii
handle crowds during the rush hours and,
according to the writer's figures, can be
operated at half the original cost and half
the annual expense entailed by an equally
efficient trolley line. British Iocomo tiVeS
are dissected by &. J. Bowen Cooke and
the hdndicaps of low tunnels and close
TRACKS under which the English engine
builders labor are explained Part II of
Iranscontinental Railways describes the
Sante Fs, the Great Northern and the
canadian Pacific James B. Alliott has
an article on British trade supremacy in
which he charges adverse legislation and
trades unions with retarding the growth
OF Engiand's commerce. .'Hoisting En-
gines are discussed by Joseph E3orner:
the electric motor receives attention from
DR. :. ). Wheeler, and James Gaylev
company, whose picture serves as the
tronuspiece TO the number, is given a
brief biography.
\ number of the good railroad studies
published in McClure's Magazine have
form under the title Of The e Railroad p0pA
All OF the tales are readable and all
snow technical knowledge that is salts
IZlng; The splendid familiar figure Of
Bucks" the superintendent of the noun
tain division in Conductor Pat Francis"
IS OF itself hne enough 10 carry a larger
volume of mediocre matter and none of
these stories rs mediocre.
Bucks Is as thoroughly trypical of
the western r3ilrOader as Lin Mclean is
or the cowboy or as Bridger was OF the
lrontiersman- 1t would be hard to find
a more entertaining volume than this
compilation of prose Vignettes.
The Nineteenth Century. a Review of
Progress. is the title of a most valuable
volume just issued by G. P Putnam
q Sons. Under eight general divisions
the whole range of human activity for the
pas hundred years is recorded succintly
and thoroughly. Beginning with Law
ahc Governments and concluding with
the Science of War" each department
All reviewed by competent authorities
Naturally, the discussion is limited. to
ths really significant facts: but the re
views are remarkably complete. History,
sociology, literature. education applied
science, transportation-all are cornprc-
henoed In the range of subjects. and the
volume as q whole is invaluable to the
student or general reader as a work OF
A. r, Derge & Co are the salt Lake
distributors.
Life and Sport on the Pacific Slope.
ny Hora q Annesley VacheIl. (Dodd,
Mr.. vachell by his own report. is an
Ems imam who spent some years on a
ranch in California and his volume isl
record OF personal observations. In
1t contains many, many hu-
IlOfouS anecdotes familiar to the men who
lived in California. say twenty years ago.
rms pehchant for ancient witticisms ami
the obtrusion of the authors political
views, however annoying, cannot obscure
the genuine worth of the work. 1t is not
literature. but 1t seems to perpetuate the
memory OF "A great period in the Golden
states development-the boom davs in
California. The philosophizing
ana moralizing on American. or Califor-
man, peculdrtfeS, is inter6 sting as afford
ing a new point of view. The DESCRIPTIONS
OF social customs, business methods and
local life are done well and very fairly.
Ihe chapter devoted to the Anglo Fra nco-
9 alfornians gives a curious glimpse of
lie in San Francisco coteria Of rich
people whose like IS known nowhere
efse In Amertca-fortunately for America
Ihat part OF the volume dedicated to
sport on the coast already reads ike q
tale OF another century. No such sport a.
he describes Is found in California now
though II was common enough twenty
years, even ten years, since. His de-
scrlption OF quail hunt is splendid as
are many of the passages where the au-
thor enthusiasm lets him forget politics
and the necessity for humorous touches