The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-20
LEWIS MORRISON OF
FAUST FAME DEAD
BEGAN HIS THEATRICAL CAREER
IN NEW ORLEANs-SERVED IN
UNION ARMY DURING THE CIVIL
WAR.

New York, August 1e.-Lewis Morrison,
an actor, whose work as Mephisto in
"Faust' gained him fame, died suddenly
of shock on Saturday afternoon, in st.
Johns hospital Yonkers, after undergo
ing an operation for a disease of the
stomach. He was 81 years old
Lewis Morrison was born of an English
parentage in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1s45.
He came to this country at an early age
and enlisted on the Union side in the
civil war.
He entered the thea trical profession as
an actor in the old varieties theatre New
Orleans. making his first appearance with
Lawrence Barrett in 1865. He was after
ward associated with Edwin Booth, Ed
win Forrest. Tomaso Salvini, Adelaide
Nelson, Charlotte Cushman, Janauschek,
Rose Coghlan and Agnes Booth.
land Islands, both for mail and for the
cargo of wool. They coal at Montevideo,
Rio Janeiro and in the Madeiras.
1.-THE Bay of Valparaiso Is a discourag-
ing one. 1t is surprising that such an
extensive commerce can be handled with
such poor facilities. The shipping approx
imates 100000 tons yearly. The engineer
ing difficulties in the way of creating
real harbor are well understood, though
not easily overcome. The rains wash the
hills down into the sea. but the detritus
or silt does not fill IN what seems to be
the bottomless bed of the ocean, so pro-
found is 1t. There is no breakwater
Has a Dangerous Bay.
"At the beginning of every winter sea-
son the question is raised-what will be
the harvest of disaster? 1t seems incredi-
BILE that vessels of 5000 tons could be lost
in this bay, but that Is what has hap
pened In May, 1903. when voyaging down
the coast in the Tucapel, we were told
that the Arequipa of 5000 tons burden was
the next ship following us She arrived
two or three days later, and took on car
go and passengers for the return trip. One
night a savage tempest arose. many of
the smaller vessels were wrecked, and
the Areouipa foundered and went down
with the loss of 100 lives. Two weeks later
from my hotel window I watched the wild
bay and waited three days for chance
to get off on the Oropesa, one OF the big
ships that run between Calparaiso and
Liverpool The immense floating docks
tossed about as If they were eggshells;
the buoys bobbed like dancing waterspir-
its: the shooners plunged their noses into
the angry breakers until the mastheads
dipped. In the period from 1923 to 1893 the
shipping satisfies show a loss of S7s wa
ter craft in the Bay of Valparaiso, OF
which 100 were rowing and sailing vessels.
The money loss was incalculabe
Huge Harbor Works.
'~rhe Chilean government. after many
Announcements. accepted the plans of
Jacob Kraus, the Holland engineer, for
conuuering the difficulties which nature
had placed in the way of making VAL
naraiso hospitable instead of hostile to
the ships that bear the commerce OF
MANY seas The estimated cost OF the
harbor Improvement Is S5,WOoOo gold,
although the Anitial provision was for SILL
ooo noo THE scheme contemplates the con-
struction of a series of sea walls in the
bav The water is so deep that 1t Is
considered impracticable to build sin
gle breakwater across the mouth OF the
harbor. II is believed that the several
sea walls constructed in the manner pro-
posed will protect the vessels ana tne
merchandise from the terrific seas which
drive in during the storms of the winter
months A dry dock is included in the
proposition"
Port Well Fortified.
The port is well fortified with heavy
land batteries. and the bay is sheltered
on three sides by ranges OF hills rising
from 1900 to 100 feet in height On their
slopes considerable portion OF the city
itself including the residence section. is
built On the south side of the bay are
the spacious suburbs of Nuevo La Male
con, and Gran Avenida, out of which
leads the finest thoroughfare of Val
paraiso-the Avenida de las Delcias. The
lower central section of the city is called
the Almendral. 1t has regular and at
tractive streets, and contains the prin-
cipal business houses, the park, the
Plaza Victoria and the national theatre.
To the northwest of this section is that
quarter known as the puerto or port,
| in which are situated most of the public
buildings and cne warehouses whict line
| the docks and quays. Mary of the st-ee.s
| in this part are narrow and crooked,
| hut the newer sc IONS lave an a.trac-
| live. modern l1rccrtn's ,he business
| blocks being massively built
THE CITY has various academic and col
| Iepiate institutions, a naval school, a
| school for marines, a museum of natural
| history, a photographic bureau. etc. It's
| Industrial establishments include foun-
dries railroad and machine shops, sugar
refineries, breweries, distilleries. boiling
works and factories of all kinds. The
y .f bo offx fe copuarfQd with