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The San Francisco call., 1908-07-15
REDWOOD CITY REAL ESTATE

VILLA tract, 40 TT. frontage, $3.50 up; 10 per
cent down, $40 per MONTH no interest; no
taxes macamadized streets, curbs. water and
sewer free TO purchasers; warm climate; ex-
cellent railroad and educational facilities.
G. r. WILCOX & CO.. s37 Golden Gate av.
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san JOSE REAL ESTATE
JOIN the Oakland colony; buy a summer home
in San Jose, just out of city limits; Alum
rock lots 50x145 price $3.50; $40 down.
$40 a month; water free first year; camping
grounds. Inquire of owner, 400 esd ST., Oak
land. Cal.
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what the incident really was, - he said.
f'One drizzly day during the blockade
we stood in toward the harbor and
shelled the shore batteries. 1t WASH It
as exciting as it might have been, for
whether we hit anything or not / know
the Spaniards didn't come near us.
After the Smelling was over a press
boat laid alongside my ship and a
newspaper man asked if we had been
hit. I shouted back: "They didn t
touch us. The Spaniards didn't hit
anything except water, and they
couldn't have hit that if there WASH t
so damned much of it. -
Rear-Admiral Evans is now prepar-
ing a series of twelve naval articles for
a New York magazine. The first one
will appear in October of this year.
He said that some of these articles
dealt with the cruise of the battleship
squadron.
"Do you expect to do much literary
work."
81 intend to write from time to
time," he said, "and l will do more
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-ork ON eThe Sailors, Log. y,

WUI = uH IHt EodIIUIs lug.
Throughout the interview Rear-Ad-
miral Evans was constantly interrupt
ed by persons coming to congratulate
him, and the majority of them brought
birthday gifts. Every child at the
Lake Mohonk Mountain House gave
him some reminder of the day. mostly
things which they themselves had made.
The children look upon him as their
official storyteller and amuser, and not
an evening passes without number Of
them gathering around him and beg
ging for yarns
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His Greatest Achievement.

"In looking back upon the forty
eight years of your naval career, what
do you regard as your greatest achieve
ment?''
81 regard as the best piece of work
I ever did the organization and equip
ment of the battleship feet and taking
that fleet around Cape Horn into the
Pacific Ocean. No other thing in my
career gives me as much satisfaction
as that, nor do 1 consider anything |
did so important.
''The most disagreeable duty l ever
had was when commanded the Iowa
at the blockade of Santiago. 1t was
frightfully hot, and, of course, our
decks were cleared for action all the
time and the matches hattened down.
But then there was the battle finally.
The pleasantest cruise l ever made was
lust before the Japanese-Russian war,
when / was on the China station. The
Japanese people showed me unusual at
tention and courtesy, and | look back
on that time as the pleasantest of my
entire naval career.'
He thought the Naval Academy was
turning out excellent material. In re-
gard to the course at Annapolis, he
made several recommendations to the
Wainwright committee. cit seems to
me, - he said. ''that perhaps a little
too much time is being devoted to me-
chanical drawing. l am not speaking
authoritatively, neither am | criticizing
in anM way. That is simply my i'm
preston, but l do not know enough
about the exact situation to give any
definite opinion upon that question.
There is one thing, however, that
should receive careful attention at the
Academy, and that is the question of
the eyesight of the midshipmen. Ann
apolis is sending out too many men
with impaired eyesight. l have no.
ticet that a large number of the pass
ed midshipmen have to wear glasses.
Something should be done to rectify
this. / do not know whether the fault
lies in the lighting system at Annapolis
or in the mechanical drawing course;
but it is there.
Admiral, is there any truth in the
story that after the battle of Santiago
YOU called out from the bridge of the
Iowa to a captain of another battle
ship: 'tThose Spaniards mt hit a
damned thing except watergo
Admiral Evans laughed heartily 81
will tell you what l really did say and
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WHAT EVERYBODY SAYS MUST
BE TRUE.

Everybody who has used it says
Chamberlain IS Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy never fails to give re-
lief from pains in the stomach or diar-
rhoea. which is positive proof of its
reliability. For sale by Benson, Smith
& Co., Ltd, agents for the Hawaiian
Islands.
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in in the future would be decided more
on sea than on land?"
Undoubtedly he replied, Sin flu.
ture wars much will depend on sea
fighting. The battle-ground primarily
viii be the sea. Before land fighting
begins sea fighting must have been
pretty well decided, for the navy of
one country or the other viii have to
establish and keep open lines of com
munication for invading armies"
Battleships of the Future.
Admiral Evans sat on a chair in a
little balcony leading out from his
rooms at the Lake Mohonk Mountain
House. The leg which has given him
trouble almost constantly since he was
wounded in leading an assault upon the
Notifications of Fort Fisher, in 1865,
rested on camp stool, and the foot
was wrapped in bandages. He said he
felt better than he had for long time,
and was gaining in weight. His every
movement suggested virility, force, de-
cision. AS a visitor at the hotel put it.:
"Admiral Evans looks today as if he
was fit to command a feet and fight
it to a glorious victory
81 am sixty-two years young today"
said he, smilingly, in response to fire.
quent congratulations and wishes for
"many, many happy returns. Dur
ing his stay at the Mountain House he
has had two operations performed to
remove a chalky substance which has
gathered in his injured foot.
He did not look for any radical
change in the construction or type of
battleships in the near future. st
think" said he, "that they will keep
on building battleships of the Dread
nought type until they get up to build
ing ships of $4,000 tons. I don t think
any larger battleships than that will
be built, because when you build them
larger than that they are too large to
handle dexterously. They become un-
wieldy, and ships of that size can carry
as heavy metal as is now desired"
He thought the same general type
of torpedo boat would still be built.
"Do you think assertions among the
enlisted men in the navy are becoming
and will become more frequent?' he
was asked.
"Figures show said he, ''that de-
sertions in our navy are steadily fall
ing off. There is nothing like as many
assertions now as there used to be.
And there are several reasons for this.
Among them are the facts that the en-
listed men have better quarters, are
better cared for and get more liberty
than they used to.'
He said the navy was steadily get
ting higher class of men and that the |
standard was improving each year. He
did not believe the service would ever |
suffer from inability to get good men. |
GAS matter of fact" said the ad- |
niral, "our requirements are exceed |
ngly severe. If we were to be less
strict, even make our requirements |
slightly easier, we could and would |
easily get more men fer the service |
than are needed or than we could us. |
There need be no uneasiness about |
his.
"Of course when we get midshipmen
fresh from Annapolis they know little
IF nothing about handling men and not
100 much about gunnery. They haven It
line to learn those things; they are too
busy studying. But it is not difficult
natter to lick them into shape, and
most of them can be developed into ex-
,ellent officers -
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ADMIRAL EVANS
TALKS Of JAPAN
Has No Fear of War, but Says
This Country Would
Win.

LAKE MOHoNK, N. Y, August IS.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, T..
S. N, who has just been placed on the
retired list after forty EIGHT years of
active service, said this afternoon with
characteristic emphasis and positive
ness that the Navy of the United
States was superior to that of Japan,
and that in the improbable event of a
war between the two nations the peo-
pie of this country could rest secure in
the knowledge that they have a Navy
fully capable of maintaining their su-
premacy.
That there will be such war seems
absurd and preposterous to Admiral
Evans.
"Why, the people of Japan have too
much common sense to go to war with
us, and we have too much forbearance
to force them into a fight" he ex-
claimed. "Despite what some lurid
newspapers say and despite the harm
they do, there won't be any war be-
tween Japan and ourselves-not for
the present, anyhow.
81 believe,'' said Admiral Evans,
"that at present our Navy could de-
feat that of Japan. The marksman
ship of our gunners is unquestionably
superior to that of the japanese. We
can shoot better than they can, but
the reason for this can be readily seen.
Compare the amount of money this
country can and does expend annually
on giving its sailors target practise
with the amount Japan can and does
expend for the same purpose. You
will see how much more we spend;
consequently, how much more practise
our gunners are able to get. Japan
hasn't got the money to spend on tar
get practise that we have; she can t
afford it. This, then, is one material
reason why we are superior in gun
to the japanese. But what |
fine gunners we have!"
"Admiral, officer to officer, enlisted |
man to enlisted man, don't you con-
slider the personnel of our Navy supe- |
rior to that of Japanl"
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japanese Equal as Fighters.

81 do not,' he answered. GAS a
fighting people | consider the Japa-
nese unexcelled by any people in the
world. They have magnificent cour-
age. They fight intelligently and die
without fear in their hearts. No, If
man for man our sailors equal those of
Japan they will do all that can be ask
ed of them, for in fearlessness and
courage the japanese is unexcelled.
You may sink their ships-you' IL have
to, to win, for they never surrender.
Before a Japanese will haul down his
flag his ship will be lying fathoms
deep under water, and he-dead.
The admiral further said that ia
pan s attitude toward China was great
ly misunderstood in this country; that
it was not her desire to colonize China,
but that she merely wanted to have
a hand in directing her policies. He
said the only interest the United
States should have in China was to
maintain the ''open door. +" Further
than that the United States could not
expect to gain anything, he declared.
The United States is in duty. bound
to maintain a large navy, he declared.
He had always held that the best guar
antee of perpetual peace was to be so
strong that other nations would be
afraid to attack.
"We should have twenty-four bat
tleships in both the Pacific and the At
Iantic oceans" said the admiral.
"Sixteen of these should be in COM
mission in each ocean all the time,
with eight held in reserve. "
Admiral Evans thought for few
moments, gazing out into space, APP
parently lost in meditation. "Of
course he began abruptly, 81 am
talking of the two navies as they are
now Whether our navy could defeat
the Mikado's ten years from now
don't know and won make any pre-
dictions. 1t depends entirely upon the
naval programs of the two nations. "
Then the question of speed in con-
work suggested itself, and
Rear Admiral Evans said;
''The Japanese seem to have a won
derful facility for building battleships
rapidly. They build much more quickly
than we do. Why, it was not long ago
that one of their cruisers was COM
pleted within a year of the laying of
her keel But / think if there was any
necessity for it we could build our
ships more rapidly than we do now"
When asked if he thought there was
a possibility that this country might
become engaged in another war within
the near future, Admiral Evans said
there was nothing to indicate any such
happening.
"There are no war clouds on the
horizon now," he said. 'War is
serious thing, and no class of men
recognize its seriousness better than
do naval offieers.''
els it your opinion that any wars
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The Washington times., 1908-06-21
Methods at Sea Breeze.

The methods used IN the conduct Of
sea Breeze are interesting. At firsf
a resident physician vas employed
bIt Jhis plan was abandoned for fire.
cUenr visits Of the attending physi-
can and the attending surgeon. Only
the minO- operations have been per
formed at The hospital. For the major
case the children were transferred
20 the hospitals OF Manhattan and
Brooklyn. and then returned TO Sea
Breeze. a dentist visits the hospital
regularly and the highest skill in all
branches Of the medical profession
has been A. the disposal Of the little
sufferers To avoid any possible mis-
take in ola guosis TWO more surgeons
as well as the attending physicians
pass on each applicant for admission
The medical staff has control of the
admission and DISCHARGE or the chill
dren. no patient is admitted without
their consent. The age limits are two
20 fourteen years. As 20 the trea tment
other than diet and fresh air. there IS
little tG say. Plaster is used Ia pref
q. ence 70 braces. In tuberculosis Of
the spine the Bradford frame IS used
first. then the "Calot" jacket; In hip
joints. the 'Lorenz" spica. r. knee
diseases. after the acute stages, plas-
ter OF paris IS also used
The medical authorities Of the world
maintain the following;
L THE seashore IS the best place
for treating children with tuberculosis
odenitis. Whether there IS anything
specific about the sea air, OF whether
the children simply thrive better. and
50 overcome more quickly the disease,
IL not fully determined Those with
sdenolds and enlarged tonsils should
be operated on in the beginning
?. THE seashore Is the best place
for children with JuberculoUs joints.
II they can have the same skilled care
as elsewhere. The disease runs
somewhat mildsr and probably a short
CT course, and the functional results
are better than those elsewhere
3. The results at Ssa Breeze have
been largely due to the careful attsn-
ton Qnclut ing feeding and nursing),
which has Oeen given the children.
4. The results amply Justify push
ing the word on a much larger scale, a
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Educating the Parents.

An important factor is the educa-
ti0nal work done among the parents
When the parent comes to associate
a crooked spine. a blotchy skin,
sore hip. with consumption. ne learns
to take precautions. Practically none
of the parents -ealIy knew what all
ed their little ones until they were
told at Sea Breeze. II an adult mem
Der OF the family is consumptive,
there are, Of cou. Sc, germs in tho air
4 child gets a fall. a knock. or a
bruise. and the germ settles there
Soon after the little one has a sore
knee OF a sore wrist" nobody real
iZing that he IS started on the road
to death when he is put IN braces
or q plaster cast. Perhaps he is saw
ed TO be a cripple the rest of his
days. They cannot do better. even
in the hospitals But generally he
is kent at home where he cannot get
air. rest, OF food that viii effect
cure
Sea Breeze. however. has other
functions than the treatment Of non
pulmonary tuberculosis. II has
building for stay-partles for school
children, mothers and babies. and a
large pavilion where days outings
arc given 10 women and children, and
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me1ts OF New York. OF disease
witch Is perfectly prcventabIe and
durable
'If ou"-t>nth had been said about
this whole ale slaughter Of children iu
he big cities that has been said about
the slaughter Of rabbits and rats bv
vivisecton, the people would have
stopped Il altogether. I'm sorry FOR
any animal that has to suffer. but I'm
sorrier for the children"
Thirty years ago Europe began 70
act and today alone supports 2.000
children afflicted with the disease at
the seaside besides other thousands
supported by private charity. England
has such hospitals. so have all other
enlightened countries, even Spain.
When the hospital opened on June
g. 1904. it consisted OF ten tents. with
q capacity Of fifty patients. In the
fall the patients were removed into
the permanent buildings On the beach
at Seagate. ana there they have
since been quartz ed. When the hos
pital was moved the number Of
patients was reduced from fifty to
thirty. but later 1t was increased to
f0rty-fve
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School Children Are Weak.

The scIool board estimates that
more than 200.O0J pupils iE the schools
are from one TO three years behind
iu their studies The board experts
say IL costs 50 a year 90 educate eacn
normal child ia their charge. Two
hundred thousand children at S8s
apiece makes d total OF $4,000
wasted each year Tor children that
Eave 20 take the last years work
over. Add TO these the thousands of
children who must so back TWO and
three years. and the great total or
SIG.100g0 wasted for education or
children In the public schools OF
Greater New York proves a reason
able estimate.
Much of this money could be saved
IL the municipality would provide a
sea beach park FOR the children as a
summer playground. Here they could
build up their health In order 70 do
better work during the following
school year"
During the past ST." 0oer Tiers were
1a-253 persons give outing at
Sea Breeze. The stay parties included
9o babies suffering from every mag
Unable disease from mumps and pneu-
mOnia to meningitis. There were,
however, only two deaths. and one or
these children was permitted to go TO
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Dying in New York Tenements.
MOjaVe Desert FaScinateS TrampS

sands and among the rocks-some vic
Tins Of thirst, others OF the thieving
tramp in quest Of provisions. The des-
ert tramp is more desperate than ms
brother Of civilization. The fierce eli
mate has brought out his brutal ma
ture and his hand is against any one
he meets in this desolate country.
where everything in nature is at war.
even the elements
Turns the Brain.
According to the experience of mining
prOspectOTs who have traversed the
worst part of Death Valley. the desert
has a peculiar influence upon its dwell
ers. II turns the brain of many. and
those who have once iCurneyed across
1t become fascinated and return 1t
seems To exert an influence that never
can be overcome.
The prospector is another desert TYNE
half mining prospector and half tramp.
He shuns civilization until his grub
stake" is exhausted, when ne returns
for another supply These grub stake
eaters are a curious study i'm human
nature: more so than the ordin. nv
desert tramp for they are shrewd, POS
SeSS some business capacity and talk
inteligently or peTsua siVely
Inc prosDector expects TO uneartb a
hope
Unless ne finds a mine his only, RI
ward is bacon. -four. beans. and coffee
MS grub stake His home is on rhc
deSert-WhCre night OVertakes him
When he. visits civilization it is to ger
another barReT-a grub stake or pro
visions sufficient to last him two ar
three months. and perbaDs anot her
oufr". RMS costs about S50-Exchange
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PIED PIPER'S SUCCESSOR IN CAPITAL


~ ERE in washington the Legend
II airy Pied Piper of HamliH has
a successor But instead Of the
magic flute that charmed the
rats Of the ancient German
town this Pied Piper makes war on
the army Of rodents that infests the
Capital with a company Of ferrets
and a number Of highly trained ter
riers. Among the many businesses
and occupations in Washington there
is none more unusual than that OF
o.. Barclay. the Ferret Man, who has
a thriving business in his peculiar
line at 213 Tenth street.
Without the ferret the washington
Pied Piper could not carry on rs
business. This ferocious little animal
is a native of North Africa and has
been known from time immemriaL
Though smaller than the cat has
longer body and is more hardy
and active. It resembles the squirrei
more than any other animal and is
one OF the most bl0Odnirsty and
determined creatures. T'ere are two
kinds, the white and the brown.
Both are absolutely fe,rless, and no
rat however large has any chance
in a fight with a feret. Were it as
large the ferret cclld easily whip a
wildcat. It has salag red eyes. that
glare with murdeous malignity when
in action.
The rat probam is a serious one
in many buHengs In the city De,
nartment stres. provision dealers.
and all merchants VINO handle perish
able goods or supplies suffer loss
from the Expectations OF the rodents.
The pusirss OF rat catching is car
ried on oily I'm the largest cities OF
the county. Ia washington the Fer
ret Man s busy ut an times of the
year II Riding business houses and
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CamiIIe's Recovery.

Camille. another popular little pa
tient. was brought to the hospitaI
when two years Of age unable TO
walk She was placed on a Brad
ford" frame. on which she remained
MANY weary months. Her recovery
is considered wonderful. At four she
is piui.-cheeked, active youngste~
ENJOYING life ON the beach TO the full
although her little body is stH en-
cased in q "CaIot" jacket of the
French model.
Master Harry was brought from
Chicago. He is i'm the graduation
class having successfully come from
the Bradford" frame, "Calot" Jacket
and braces TO the full enjoyment Of
"a healthy boys life at seven.
Mary J. is another little tot in Ca
miles class. Paralysis. as result
Of spinal tuberculosis, was the dag
nosis ia her case three years ago She
has now discarded the frame and is
running around ia a "Cal0t'' Jacket.
Johnny Grant, after suffering two
and a half years. has graduated. ana
IS preparing for his homeward Jour
ney. He spends his time. when not
eating or sleeping, with ..Frenchy"
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THE ACT OF DYING.

The mere ultimate process OF dying
may be a relatively easy matter. Any
person who has been long HI probably
suffers more on aay given day Of Irrs>llfe
than he will suffer Ia the act IF dspaTtN
ing from his body It is probable that
q broken bone a deIirious fever. a dis
ordered VITAL crggH may cause more
anguish than 81 raai struggle. / have
au5ts whether the last pang is as
bad as it seems We are told by sur
Se0ns that chior1formed patients may
give apparent evidence OF acute agonies
which they do not fee: death itself is
often an anaesthetic so meTciful that
what people call living trouble" Is OBJ
Viously a worse matter.
Z for instance. who have never faint
ed and never been anaesthetized in my
life. have twice become from serious
causes unconscious FOR a short time.
au0 I have often wished that I could
make over 10 some recoiling soul whose
name has been heard ringing upon the
last roll-call, the unspsakabie comfort
which that brief experience has given
me, There was no pang-no terror-no
time. no chance for either. One seemed
10 slide gently and swiftly down a
warm abyss. hcweT scented, grass
grown. safe and benehcent. into unutter-
able content. One melted into peace
One drifted into ecstasy beside which
the deepest joys OF consciousness are
poor. pale things. T one IN truth should
evade the body IN such a moment. death
would stand chosen Gs the supreTns de-
light OF living. --Harper's Bazaar
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weeks what unaided medical skill could
never have done.
Bess. the Little Sunshine 81 the
institution, is a typical child OF the
Ghetto tenements. or at least she
was. Her mother died OF pulmonary
tuberculosis. her father disappeared.
She has tuberculosis Of the knee and
most of her time is spent in her crib
either on the porch or IN the ward.
The crib is raised at the foot TO an
angle of fOrty-five degrees and the af-
fected limb is tied down with ropes
running over pulleys TO which weights
are attached. " hen Bess was admitted
eight months aso she was pale. puny
and more dead than alive Today she
is the picture Of health. fat. and rosy
checked; always smiling. and on the
rapid road TO recovery.