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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
By WILLIAM MORRIS HoUGHToN.

OW many Of us know that IL IS
IL spring now IN California? That
II u for the most part throughout
the length and breadth OF the whole
Great state west Of the Sierras the
Young wheat IS clothing with fuzzy
Green mantle miles upon miles OF
rlouehcd valley and upland? A new
hay crop is IN It's infancy on her hill
sides. Pop,ars along the road arc IN
bud. Almond trees are blossoming
Wild flowers are appearing. Her swoi-
len creeks. like pumping arteries arc
giving their voluble testimony too
chat natures heart IS warming 90 the
yearly burden Of pregnancy.
one might suppose, If one didn't
know better. that this region lay some
where in the antipodes, in the Areen-
tine. perhaps, or in Australia-some-
where that IS. where the seasons are
reversed and our fall IS their spring
our winter their summer Instead II
lies like an artificial garden Of peren-
NAL blooms along the border. OF our
own national nclosure. as much par
Of our Inheritance as the sIeet beaten
East
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

belt completely surrounds the great in,
land valleys Of the San Joaquin and
Sacramento, lying along the foot
hills of the Sierras the gold mining
country Of Mark Twain and Of Bret
Harte- and along those Of the Coast
Range.
Then comes that broad belt OF prac-
tically perpetual summer stretching
from Redding, 200 miles northeast Of
San Francisco, down through the two
famously fertile interior valleys 10 the
1ehachapi Range. which cuts the state
in two just north Of Santa Barbara.
On the other side of this mountain
range it is continued down the shore TO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
THERMAL BELTS RUNNING NORTH
AND SOUTH.

In the latter can be found every de-
gree of temperature above freezing
A climatic chart Of the state shows
the ranges of mean temperature IN
thermal belts running, strangely
enough. north and south for the most
part, instead Of east and west. That
is. the same range Of mean tempera-
lures enioyed by the famous coast re-
gion Of Southern California belongs
also 20 those two vast interior valleys
lying between the Sierras and the
Coast Range, the valleys Of the San
Joaquin and the Sacramento. These
valleys, which run into one another
stretch far north Of San Francisco
and oranges grown in their citrus
districts ripen even earlier than about
Los Angeles. And yet short motor
drive directly east Of them in almost
every case the snow measured, at last
accounts, from % to 80 inches on the
level.
But before we take up the question
Of temperatures let us get the latitude
Of this state fixed in our minds.
How many persons in the East here
realize that San Francisco is a South
ern city? This seems TO me to be one
OF those tricks geography Is all the
time playing on us. We Of the Middle
Atlantic states have thought Of San
Francisco. have we not, as situated
somewhere i'm our own latitude? A
more careful glance at the contour Of
Uncle Sans countenance will show
that San Francisco is on practically
the same latitudinal meridian as Rich
mond. Va; that Sacramento. the state
capital. is on a level with Washington,
and that only the northern rim of the
state where Oregon joins it can be
considered in the latitude Of New York
City.
IF, then, one should cut out a pattern
Of the State Of California, turn it over
and superimpose it between the proper
meridians Of latitude on the Atlantic
seaboard it would be found to stretch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

the Pacific, the mean temperatures
range from So to ~ degrees, which
ought to prove warm enough for any
enc. even an Arab.
But we need not concern ourselves
particularly with either extreme OF
California winter climate, although it
Iaay be interesting TO note that Mount
Whitney, the highest peak in the
Sierras for that matter, in the
United States-is easily dlscernible
from Death Valley, since the two lie
side by side, although in the matter of
winter temperature one represents the
arctic and the other the tropics
The fastener who sees California in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

the Mexican boundary. In this belt the
mean temperatures range from 60 to 60
degrees, but il is only fair to say that
the further north it stretches the
greater becomes the difference in
winter between the nights low and the
days high, though the average for the
twenty-four hours remains compare
lively constant.
There is n still warmer belt in Cali
fornia, if one is after thorough bak
ing, and that lies in the southeast Of
the state, where the Colorado Desert
creeps over the border. Here, in such
regions as Death Valley and Imperial
Valley, which lie below the level Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

il not better 20 buy a child little eX-
ira food and thus accelerate the eGu-
cational process rather than to hold TO
high ideals as to propriety. starve the
child. retard its education and then
ask ourselves the question why it is
that there are so many backward chill
dren in our public schools?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

gramme: Misses Ada Becker, Pauline
Rosenblum. Yvonne koeniger, Fannie
Goldstein and Morris Wolfson. The
programme was most ambitious. con
sisting of Beethoven's Sonata Z fiat
major, the Fugue by Bach, List in A
minor, Fantasia by hopin, Beethoven
Sonata in D minor and the Rubin
stein Concerto in D minor. Their per-
formances showed the effect of excel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

In this age of musical enthusiasm,
when people love to hear good music,
others have a better incentive to per-
feet themselves in the art of real sing
ing. Mario Salvini, OF ia West SOth
ST., is an excellent teacher OF the voice,
and a tenor of the old classic Italian
bel canto school, who has sung at all
leading opera houses. He has studied
for period of years the anatomy of
the larynx and of the other vocal or
gans. Signor Salvini not only exam
ines the vocal organs from the medical
standpoint, but he gives his subject q
competent decision as to his ability TO
become a singer. Like the sculptor who
creates from the uncut marble human
like statue, he inspires it with the
highest principles of the art of singing.
Signor Salvini's one ideal is that the
most essential principle of singing IS
"the singing" itself. o,gnor Salvini is
great lover of beauty and charm in
every realm of art and song. He is re-
garded by many as an authority in the
field.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
MISSION m SAN MIGUEL -
CALIFORNIAN

he winter time is more interested in
the region lying within those thermal
belts comprising the medium climate Of
the state. This empire possesses ample
accommodations to suit all Of the ultra
fastidious. and enough variety in eli
mate and scenery and in type Of resort
10 meet every kind Of demand.
One Of the beauties about California
for the visitor and tourist is that 1t
does not exist for him alone by any
manner of means; that while he may
find there every degree of outlay Tor
his comfort, he may also find great
cosmopolitan cities TO interest and fas-
cinate him, with their own problems
and peculiar flavor, not to mention the
vast agricultural empire of such ideal
productivity which surrounds and sup
ports them. California represents
distinct variety of human society, as
we'll as of climate, and for that reason
alone is we'll worth the journey to
those of US that know only the East
and the Western interior.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

lent training. These young artists ~
looking hopefully forward to success
full futures in the field OF song.
Bernard Steinberg will give 'o1'
recital of Schumann's song teyeh
"Frauen Liebe und Lieben." with 'i'
pupil, Mera Machines, this afterno9nn, >
$3.50 o'clock in MS studio, o. h"'
96th ST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

from a line near Kingston, n. Y, TO
Charleston, S. c., the great bulk OF II
living below Mason and DiXon's line.
This would seem TO insure the state
comparativelv mild climate, even if the
Japan Current did not set in toward
her shores. But if the effect Of the
japan Current be added TO that OF
latitude, il can readily be seen that an
ideal condition results. If Great Brit
ain, in the latitude of Labrador can be
rendered into a garden spot through
the influence of the Gulf Stream. then
California, in the latitude of Dixie
should. with the Japan Current, caress-
ing her shores, be semi-tropical, as
she most assuredly is. And, like all
lands partially or completely under the
spell of the tropics, she offers the
widest choice of temperature within a
very small radius, the thermometer MS
ing or falling in inverse proportion TO
the altitude.
Proximity TO the ocean has a cooling
effect. too, despite the Japan Current,
though a much less pronounced one
than altitude. Thus, we find the lowest
range of mean temperatures, from 80
to A degrees, along the line OF the
Sierras, running north and south for
500 miles, and also along the line Of
the Coast Range, in the extreme north
OF the state for 200 miles. The next
higher range of mean temperatures,
from "a TO 50 degrees, occurs along the
Coast Range, to the south of San Fran
cisco, as far as Santa Barbara, and on
either slope of the Serras. A still
higher average temperature, ranging
from 90 10 60 degrees, prevails along
the Pacific shore, from the Oregon
boundary TO within few miles Of
Santa Barbara, including. of course, the
country about San Francisco Bay and
Monterey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10

most progressive method Of teaching
violin playing.
The music library of the late Gerrlt
Smith has been presented by Mrs. smith
to DR.. William c. Carl for the Gull
mant Organ School. The collection is
re of the largest in this country. 1t
contains many valuable works for the
organ. In the list, in addition to scores
and works on theoretical subjects are
manuscripts from a great number Of
the worlds leading composers. DR..
Smith was a vice president and lecturer
of the Guilmant Organ School.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
MAKING THE CIRCUIT OF LAKE
TAHOE IN SUMNER.

In summer it takes a swift twin
screw steamer the better part OF a Gay
to make the circuit OF this huge lake
And oven I'M summer the mountain
peaks which frame 10 on all SIDES are
csrDed with snow. As they range from
o 900 10 over / / 600 feet above sea level
ono can well imagine the Arctic splen-
dor of this inland sea, itself l,OOO leeI
bl,ber than Denver. in the VlSe-llke
orip of winter But one can well mag
inc also how mach more enJoEaoIe -
the sight of this frozen paradlse ana
the feel Of the keen wind when the NiS-
itor realizes that directly behlnd MN
10 the west there lies land OF per
pctual spring TO which he may retire
forthwith the moment the snow ana
chill lose the charm Of their novelty
That is the greatest comfort OF TINS
frostbound mountainous wilderness
that one may taste of il when the mood
is upon him. and retire gracefully, when
the mood passes, to warm sunshine, 10
Mains. TO orange groves, 10 flowers and
gentle airs.
am not supposing the Fastener
who goes 10 California for the winter
osneciallv cares 10 seek out this Sierra
strip 10 experience the climatic condl-
tions from which ne is fleeing. The
description Of Californian winter,
however, without some reference TO
these frost-bitten attitudes would be
incomplete and would fail 10 throw
into proper relief the summer land
which stretches from the Sierran foot
hills TO the Pacific.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
State Of the Golden Gate Draws from
Far and Near the Numerous Pix
erir77s Who Flee from the RiSors
OF Winter i'm North and East.

bloom, with flowers the year around At
Truckec every year, around CHRISTMAS
time. there is held carnival OF winter
sports. And since this Is frontier
town, with only q few second rate
hotels for the accommodation OF these
pleasure seekers. the railroad sac
tracks It's Pul.mans there and ietS
those passengers who wish 70 lodge III
them while the fun lasts.
At Lake Tahoe there IS at least one
inn. of the scores on its borders "hlCh
will accommodate winter visitors ahN-
ious TO rejoice IN the Alaskan peauUes
81 the landscape al such a time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
THE GOLD MINING COUNTRY OF
MARK TWAIN AND BRET HARTE.

This belt turns inland just above
Santa Barbara and follows the hills be-
hind the coast country of Southern
California down into Mexico A similar
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
THE E|TEL FREDERICK
MAY LEAVE NORFOLK
WAY CLEARED BY ORDERS
ISSUED TO PILOTS BY
GOVERNMENT
COMMANDERS SILENT
win Give No Intimatfon or In
formation As to Enten-
tions.
COMMANDERS SILENT

NEWPORT NEWS. April G.-Just
before midnight tonight everything
appeared to he in readiness for the
German cruiser Prfnz Eitel Friedrich
to leave the shipyard here. Collec-
tor of Customs Hamilton, who had
visited the ship early in the evening
was given farewell by the officers. The
first officer invited him to remain.
"go with u.s." 1t was learned that
ICommapder Thierichens bade fare
weil to government officials when he
visited the battleship Alabama today:
NEWPORT NEWS. April ga way
for the German merchant raider, Prins
Eitel Friedrich to leave neutral waters
was cleared today by the United
States government Pilots were given
orders not to take a merchant ship of
any belligerent enemy of Germany
out of Newport News, Norfolk, untll
further notice. The order which be-
came effective about noon today, fol-
lowed directions last night by British
authorities to British merchantmen
not TO clear their ships after noon
OF any day.
It developed today that the holding
upYtJe clearance of British ships last
Fri6ay for twenty-four hours, thus
giving the first period OF liberty TO
the Eitel Friedrich, which had not
been done by the United States, but
by orders OF the British government
through consuls hero. Commander
Thierichens would not say whether
he would take advantage OF the III
berty Rayiod given by the United
States. Tonight his ship is apparently
ready to sail, she was painted today
that tie Eitel h had been @ / intsrned, int m a but
the presence OF the Alab1.na patrol
| ing Hampton Reads seems to indicate
that the reports are unfonnded.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
ITALY MAY DECIDE
NOT TO ENTER WAR
STILL HOPE OF SAT.SFAC-
TORY TERMS WITH
AUSTRIA
is 4s;TiE4 II PREPARING
Military Activities Are Being Push
ed With Increased
vigor.

ROME, April 6. There has been
no outward chang In the situation re-
gardlng the lnaintepance OF Italian
neutrality. but military preparations
are being pushed with ever increas-
ing ylgof Information Obtained from
reliable sonrees is that negotiations
reyRrting s territorial concessions from
Austria are heing continued; that
there Is yes hopo OF reAcising sat-
ssfactofy uiideeHta landing So that war
may De avoided.
INCREASED activity on the part OF
the Italian fleet may be pre- aged by
incidents reported at sariona ports
which, while not impoffant In them
selves arr regAf led here as signifi-i
cant. Bktsle flags recently were pre-
scented 70 NO battleships with patrio-
tic aein6ies fatiohs attending.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
EXHIBITS FOR FIELD
DAY BEING PLACED
SPLENDID SPECIMENS OF
WORK BY SCHOOL CHILL
DREN
M A NY VISIT ORs
VIII Be in Anderson Friday Pro-
vided Weather Conditions
Favorable.
M A NY VISIT ORS

Final detaiic for School Fair and
Field Day exercises to be held in An
derson next Friday by the schools OF
Anderson county are being worked
out this week by Miss Maggie NJ.
Darlington. county supervisor of
rural schools. and those who are
assisting here in tile preparations.
Weather conditions being favorable.
Friday will probably see the largest
number of pupils and school patrons
in Anderson that have ever congre-
gated at one place in county of
this State. Special trains will be
operated toand from the city while
the third railroad will carry extra
equipment on It's regular trains for
the accommodation of the visitors.
The placing of exhibits from the
various schools at Anderson College
is occupying the principal part OF the
committees time just now. The ex-
hibits are being brought to the office
OF Miss Darlington and from tbpre
are transferred to the college, whore
they are placed in position.
Judging from exhibits that heye
been brought In SO far, there will be
many surprise in store for those
who visit the exhibit hall the col.
lege on Fair and Field day.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
ALLIED ARMIES AWAIT
RESULT RUSSIAN PLANS
GERMANS ARE RUSHING RE-
IMPROVEMENTS TO
HUNGARY
EXCHANGE NOTES
Between, Bulgaria and servia
May Settle Recent Border
I Incidents.
EXCHANGE NOTES

LONDON, April 6.-Though the
French are conducting sustained Of
lensive between the rivers Meuse and
Mosellcl In an effort to dislodge the
Germans from st. Michel, the allied
armies as a whole appear to be await
ing the outcome of Russian gigantic
plan to force the Carpathian bar
rier.
The Germans are believed to be
pouring troops into Hungary even TO
the extent OF weakening their own
forcos in Flanders.
Vienna tonight notes the presence
OF and recounts the success OF Ger
man-Austriau troops in Aboroza Val
ley.
There is less talk in England of a
spring advance in France and Bel
glum, and an increasing appreciation
of the task Russia is attempting.
This leads tc the belief In some quar-
ters that the allies in the west, rec
koning the. heavy cost OF smashing
the German lines, may seek only TO
hold ground in the belief that the
Russians will invade Hungary, ul-
timately to join hands with the allied
forces working northward through
Serbia. Meanwhile 1t Is argued that
the bombardment OF the Dardanelles
may be contiued as the shortest, IL
most costly method of crushing Tur-
key. Lack of news from the Darda-
.nelles is taken to mean that important
operations are in progress.
Excluding active military opera
tions. questions OF munitions aid al
cohol dominate public mind IN Eng
land. Lord Kitchener, was secretary.
tonight named o committee to round
up labor sufficient to produce muni-
tions commensurate with tremendous
demands. What the government pro-
boses to do with the. liquor problem
won't be disclosed until parliament re-
assemblies April fourteenth, but the
idea OF general prohibition is not
taken seriously.
Authorities seem to hope that the
desired results will follow voluntary
abstinance and restrictions on sa-
looms. ~
Bulgaria and Serbia have ,exchang-
cd notes. which appear to have ended
recent border incidents, but officials
of the Serbian government insist that
the latest outbreak was engineered
from Bulgaria aud that Austrlans and
Turks were found among the dead
raiders.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
.GERDAA NOTE ON
SINKING OF >FALABA
CLAIM ARMED TRADERS
CONSTITUTE WAR YES
SELS
COMPLICATED CASE
Involves Right of Neutrals to
Travel on BelIigerent
Ships.
CASE

WASHINGTON. April 6.-Govern-
ment officials took under considera-
tion today a statement from the Ger
man embassy quoting an official meg
sage from the Berlin foreign office
disclaiming responsibility for the loss
of any neutral lives aboard the Britt
ish steamer Falaba, sunk recently by
"a German submarine. Germany
claims that the Falaba, as well as
other British merchantmen are arm
ed; that military necessity made lit
impossible for the submarine to give
any longer time than was allowed
passengers to escape. State depart
mont officials say the death of Leon
Z. Thresher. the American citizen.
who was lost with the Falaba, con-
stitutes complicated case. If the
German view that all merchantmen
being armed are warships is accepted,
the rights of neutrals to travel on
belligerent craft OF any kind would be
circumscribed.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
ANDERSON COLLEGE
ON ACCREDITED LIST
STATE BOARD EDUCATION
GIVES RECOGNITION TO
LOCAL INSTITUTION
TWO ELECTIONS
superintendsnts For Berlley and
Newberry Counties Were
Chosen by Board.
Special to The Intellircncer.

Special to The IntelIirencer.
COLUMBIA, April 6.--The State
board OF education, in session here
today, elected l.. G. C. Porter superin-
tendent of education for Berkeley
County. and S. j. Derrick. professor
OF history in Newberry College. sup
erintendent OF education for Newberry
County. Friday May was set as the
Gate for. holding the spring examine
tions for teachers at all the conn.y
courthouses
The legislation affecting education
passed by the recent session of the
Legislature was considered and the
board endorsed local option compul-
sorry education law, az mcst de-
sirable beginning" and expressed the
hope that as many school districts as,
possible will avail themselves of the
law for the new scholastic year.
The~bo will now be able TO Is
sue State teachers certificates. Grad
yates OF accredited colleges in this
STATE will get State teachers certi-
ficates only whe they teach in come
ocher State and graduate OF accredit-
cd schools in osher States which re-
ciprocate with South Carolina will be
given State teachers certificates when
teaching in this State. Credit Will
be allowed by the board for-the sum-
mer school work in 1914.
The list OF high schools was goni
over and the money appropriated ..
the State as aid 20 these schools will
be Dai1 out in May.
The boards of education OF the va
rious counties were appointed for tho
term beginning April 1915.
The committee on scholarships of
the board submitted the following re-
port: Columbia, S. c.. April 6, 1aI5.
Hon j e. Swearingen. Secretary
State Board of Education, Columbia,
s.. c.. Dear Sir:
"The undersigned committee. ap-
pointed to investigate the ssandiug OF
scholarships students at State jnAtiiu-
tions beg leave to make the following
recommendations.
| Thst no scholarship shall extend
beyoad period of 4 years G
That State adopted text books
should be basis for question for
scholarship examination
That the examination questions
should cover o. least three years high
school work ",
"A That members CT one family
should no; be the recipient OF several
scholarahiPs IL there are other elf.
gible. ~ q, ~ 49, s n 3 81
\ : That schp!arships should be
awarded for merltoriHs work rather
than on competitive examination
The board named a committee to!
consider the revision OF the syatefi
OF examination and certiiication OF
teachers with the view OF securing q
more flexible and effective system
Anderson College was added to the
list OF accredited colleges. g
The board recognized the liberal
policy cf the legislature ia making IN :
creased approximations for the schools
and expressed the hope that they viii
sae The day when tho per capits ex.
pendltnre VIII be az sAst as much as
92s per white pnpsi Al Dresent II is
4 iissie oNsr sl4 per capita y!
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-04-07
WILL .A w lkITING ON
AEs1IL. .ERY TR AIN

BFsoWNsvftlIsE. Texas. April s.
Except for sn exchange OF rifle shots
.between Villa Outpoats and carfanza
forces sent TO reinforce the Masa-
naoross eagtir- ~ quiet prevailed on
The Mexican side Of the nios Granae
near here Tod y
Tie Cntfe1ea tommsnder reported
that his fainfcfc fcefnents got tlifousli
the Nisssp iines nntf1ured. THE villa
artillefg train. which ie awaited be-
13re = sanefai 8 nttscl begins Was 4e.
poflea lazy q ne sawax.