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Show THE BEE !5 DANGERS OF SEA FIGHTING. It makos a timid hoart quail ovon to road of tho dangers of a modern naval battle. Tho mothors who, laat wook, .wont nightly boeauso their boys at to bod heavy-hearteCamp Kent wero touting out in bad weather, d EVANGELINE S. POKERS, EDITOR. Address ull communication. for the Womuu'h IjMirtimnt to Mr. Powers, 1. accidents of the last week have appalled everyone. To say the distressed relatives havo the sorrowing, heartfelt sympathy of every father and mother in town, in no way expresses it. Almost a feeling of terror as to what a da not only may but seems likely to bring forth for some of us, soizes ono. Yet in the very midst of this lot us remember the uncomfortablo, the man unhappy position of the street-ca- r put ourselves in his placo for a moment, stand at the crank of the car that has done the cruel damage. As a rule our street-ca- r officials and employees, especially when tried by tho true test of heart, good-wiland kindliness, are gentlemen. Many of them, too, are fathers, and if your own kind heart stands still simply to read or to hear of such accidents as have been witnessed in Salt Lake this week, think what it would be to be connected ever so innocently and helplessly with their cause. Anyone who watches closely can see that the motormans duties are trying ones, and that his carefulness stands nearly every day of his life between some home and trouble. He appreciates the danger more than any one else, and children either through faulty teaching or no teaching at all, generally appear to appreciate it scarcely at all. It is easy to speak of this at this time for the two late accidents did not occur in the blamable class. These two children did not belong to those who dare the street cars, scamper across the track at the latest possible minute, or stand so close beside the rails as to scare the motorman into stopping the car. However, all we wanted to say is that before wholesale, indiscriminate blame be attached to any member of a painstaking class of employees let the public await details and evidence. Tlio street-ca- r l, '"JYHERE is to be a monument erected ir memory of the soldiers and sailors killed in the explosion of the Maine. General Nelson A. Miles is chairman of the committee. A canvass of the 20,000,00C school children has been decided upon, and it is suggested that their names be placed in the vault of the monument. Privately, doesnt it seem a very empty honor to have ones name written among a string oi others a string of 20,000,000 say and then have it buried? It makes something to do, thats all, O. Box lit havo occasion to rojoico that Utah sends her contribution to tho land forcos. Mr. Benjamin, in tho Independent, gives tho following vivid picture of tho terrific exposure faced by tho marines: Now thehugo shells will bogin to como r on board from tho guns when tlit) contending vessels are nearly throo miles apart. Tho largost guns, twelve and thirteen-inccalibre, can bo loaded and fired almost once every three minutes. At a littlo less than two miles distance the rapid-tirfive and guns will begin to pour in their projectiles, and these weapons can bo loaded and fired at tho rate of from seven to fifteen aimod shots per minuto. Then comes tho guns, tho shots per minute, delivering forty a shot per minute, tho throwing machine two hundred shots per minute, and so on up to tho Gatlings, fed automatically by electric motors and projecting bullets at the rate of per minute. A man might brave a storm of grapo and bullets with a chance of escape; but the battle of the Yalu River showed that under the quick tiro hail of the Japanese ships tho slaughter on tho Chinese ships was so frightful that 1 10 Chinese with all their stolid contempt for deatii could hardly be kopt at their posts. So tiereo was tho storm of steel around tho attacked vessels that the sea was literally lashed into foam by it. Of courso there is no placo on board a warship in action which is ever reasonably safo. Tho marines stationed in tho military tops aro likely to ho quickly s swept out by down quick-tirhail, and tho In tlio bunkers or the engineers in tho tangle of steam machinery aro in as imminent danger of death through injury to tho boilers and tho scalding of escaping steam. Of all on board, tho man who stands in the greatest poril is the captain, In tlio battleships and cruisers his position is in a cylindrical box of steel, placed just under tho bridge, wTell forward, which is called Tho armor of it is tho conning-tower- . thick enough ordinarily to resist the penehigh-powo- is invited to tin bird essay printed in this number. It is gPECIAL attention unchanged, exactly as tho little writer handed it in, and it seems to tho critics of Tin-- Bee as if it would be difficult to change it very much for tho bettor, it is so nearly perfect as it is. If Salt Lake City schools can turn out many essay writers equal to Miss Carrie Craddock, aged 11, they need : little further recommendation. This essay was sent to Tin: Bee in rein that line six-inc- h le o six-pound- er s, ouo-pounder- one-pounder- sponse to an offer from this department some time ago to print tho best plea for tho birds sent us, and also give tin writer's picture. Tho article would have appeared earlier had it not been hindered bv delay connected with tho picture. un-avoidab- h s (Maxim-Norden-foldt- ), 1 in this issue of STEIHL Tiie Bee tho aims and position of "JITRS. re-state- the council of cities now have places can they fluence as here, s city clubs. Many large such councils, but in few wield tho power and inas in few places do tho women vote. coal-passer- o 'J'HE latest club is the Complexion club. Tho members of this society must have strong lungs, and be free from neuralgic tendencies. Upon rainy days, in mackintoshes and gum-bootbut without umbrellas, such complexion artists meet and sally forth, and when the wind and rain have sufficiently battered and freshened one cheek they turn the other. The mouth must be kept closed, too, so that altogether the complexion club seems worthy of encouragement. s, awoke one morning to find himself famous; Edward Bellamy to find himself a political economist. Looking Backward, it is said, was written with no thought of conveying a new economic gospel, but simply asaromantic fantasy. The role of prophet was unexpectedly thrust upon Mr. Bellamy, who, however, accejded it gracefully, and worked and wrote thereafter to maintain with as much dignity and sincerity as possible, the unsolicited honor. gYRON rJpHE horseless carriage has achieved so cial success in France. The latest candidate for a license to run an car is the Duchess dUzes. The Duchess had to pass the usual tests of skill in advancing, backing and stopping. She is said to be quite an adept, having taken an interest in auto-carfrom the first. -- auto-mobil- e s tration of heavy projectiles. It contains tho speaking tubes and electric wires whereby he communicates with the guns, engines and helm, and sometimes apparatus whereby ho is enabled to fire tho guns himself after they are laid upon tho enemy. His field of vision is limited to what he can see through a little horizontal slit on about the level of his eye. In point of frightful responsibility, no situation in the world can compare with that which is occupied by the man who stands in that tower and directs the movement of his ship. After the conflict once begins the din around him will bo something infernal. Upon him tho fire of tho enemy will bo concentrated, and on the oxterior of that steel drum in which he is shut up there will bo a continuous hail of iron and steel. Shells will burst that babel everywhere around it, and to force-blasts will be added the roar of the under tho engines, the tremendous reports of the heavy guns, and the din of the quick-firand machine guns in chorus. In such circumstances as this, aided by such knowledge as he can get by looking out through in front of him as well tho little peep-hols the smoke will let him, the captain must control the tremendous forces under his command and his decisions are matters of e e |