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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1903)
THE ILLUSTRATED DEE. Spptember 27, 1905. . .-. ! .'' j REV. CHARLES COrrENB. S. J.. OP THE FACULTY OP CREIGHTON UNI VERS1TY, WHO CELEBRATED HIS GOLDEN JUBILEE IN THE PRIESTHOOD LAST MONDAY. Recalls Chicago's Infancy ill iN RESPONSE to an Invitation of Chlejgo's ccn'.enuial Jubilee com mittee Mr. W. W.GJrdon, yr. nd datightcr of John Kinxlc, the llrst settler In Chlcug, arrived .u thu city lat Kr.day. Mm, Gordon was Eleanor Kinsie, daugh ter of John 11. Klnxle, and la the wife of General Willi in V. Oordcn of Havana .h, Ga., who tuw service In the war of the rebellion and the Spanlsh-Ameilcau war. General Gulde n accompanies hla wtf o.i her trip norta. Although Mrs. Oordou comes of a family so closely MontifleJ with Cnieago's tail history, most of her life nun been panned lit the east and aouth. While a Jciioolgirl at Miss Ely's iicudemy In Ntw Haven, Conn , ahe met "Wll le" Gordon of Savannah, t'aen a udent at Yale col ego. There the curt ahlp began, to be continued later In Chicago, where MI'S El anor lvinzi wa-t a bel.e. The widllng took pi ire In Chicago, and the newly married couplo went to Savan.iuh to live. Mr. Gordon was engaged In in; cotton export trade, which he ncersanly gave up when the civ I war broke out. He entered the confederate service and rose to the rank of brig idler general. During the Spanish-American war President McKinley Kave him the name rank in th Unit d States volunteers, and he was one of the Last "Terra Incognita" (Continued frwfn Page Four.) Ms friends, "la nothing when compared With that wldeh remains undiscovered In those regions. They are un inexhaustible mine for the botanist, the soolotfist and the anthropologist." The great republic of Brazil, with Its area of nearly 3,3o.0u0 of square miles almost aa big aa that of the United States is largely unexplored. Its very boundary line la In dispute with most of the ten conter minous republics and colonies. The vaul valley of the Amaxon and ltd affluents, us well as those of many other great Brazilian rivers, are practically un known. In the Royal Geographical so ciety's rooms In London thoro is a scries Of outline maps showing the unexplored and explored parts of the world. The for mer are black and Hie latter white. These mapa represent the rentral part of South America aa the least known section of any continent. A big black blotch Indicates the mason river baalu. Narrow, white linea commissioners who lecelved the nurrender of the Island of Porto Rico. . , Mrs. Gordon hus bten a lender In south ern society and has taken a promt ent part in the ar.'ulrs of thj Daughters cl the Amer ican R . volution. . fch gave convincing evi dence of her iwitiict sm in the Spanish war, aa the Soldiers of the One Hundred and Filly-seventh Indiana legiment can test fy. When a sick train of tali regiment passed through Savannah on its way no.'.h the granddaughter of John Kindle chuiKed to enter one of the cars. Struck by the lack of doctors, medicines und com lor Li, she immediately appl..led herself nurse to the he picas invalids and accompanied them on tlielr Journey. Ico, fresh food and other necessities were Si cured through Mis. Url-n's eff.rt., and the body of one fr.e: di ss lad whw died on the train was sent to her own home for burial. Later In the war she extemporized a hospital on her husband's farm, w.iere eighty-nix sick soldiers were nursed back to health. Mrs. Gordon's last visit to Chicago waa made during the World s fair, whon ha tame as a gueet of the exposition. She has many relatives there. Mrs. Gordon rc'ulns clear recoil ctlons of early Chicago events. run through It here and there, showing where explorers huvo Journeyed up the rivers. They have not been able to pene trate overland to any considerable dis tance and discover the mysteries of over l.OOu.Ouo square miles of Jungle and moun tain. Who can tell what secrets the untrodden forests hold? There Is room In them for half a doxen Inca empires. There may be new beasts, like the okapl recently dis covered by Sir Harry Johnstone In Central Africa, and the great sloth found by Mr. He.xketh Prlehard In Tlerra del Fuego the other day. Certainly there Is boundless wealth In minerals and forest products when once the country Is opened up and developed. This Is proved by the experiences of one of the best and bravest of all South Amer ican explorers the Colombian general, Don Rafael Reyes. Spe.iklng to an assembly of South American geographers In the City of Mexico recently, he aald: "In the extended forejsts In which can ntbal aavasea were wandering when ray brothers and I made our explorations, only : "..it i n. I v ...... HON. CinjRCH HOWE IN ITTS OFFICE AT SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND HH HAS RECENTLY BEEN CHANGED TO BE CONSUL. GENERAL AT ANTWERP. f i":A I' .' ' - . II V " ' ,-.---? -ti.- V (0i Kendall Young-. Tane Youns. FOUNDERS OF THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AT WEBSTER CITY. Ia. a few ytats ago, there e.'.Lt tody an im portant commerce of tome; Una of millions of dollar's und towns of thousands of in habitants hive been tstabll hot." Reyes has never been a spectacular ex plorer. Ho has worked for the good of hLs country and Bclence, not for fame. HU explorations extended over a long period of years and were made in conjunc'.ljn with his brothers, Don Nestor and Don Henry Reyes. They covered the Immense territories which are watered by t he Ama son and the Parana and their tributaries. The thr'JC brothers succeeded in their main enterprise to discover a waterway navigable for steam, rs from Co ombia to the Amazon and th y ul. o found many un known tribes of Indians. But they paid "dearly for their heroism. Don Henry died of maligr.ant fever whll? exploring the Yabarl rlvtr. Don Nestor, lost in the for est of Putuniayo, was captured and de voured by cannibals. Don Rafael ep.nt his fortune Biid ruined his h.-alth. lw ex plorers have suffered more than he; few have given a liner example of long-sustained courage 'and devotion to his task; yet he is unknown rave to a small circ'.e of South Am rican geographers, who hold hira in tho highest honor. Don Rafael met President Roo evclt In Washington recently and the latter raid to him, speaking of Central South America: "That region is a new world, destined for the progress and the we! faro of hu nanlty." There is much to be done before the country is even properly explored, to say nothing of its being commercially devel oped. The proposed inter-continental rail way, which is to unite all the existing sys tems on the American ccntluent, wlil dou t less have a powerful civilizing t.'nd.ncy. Already the surveyors for that r ad are throwing light on many dark cnnrs of South America and when their work is finished and every branch of the lino is In working order the unexplored section of the country will be much circam cr.bed. ( : : T 1 s I Reviving River Boating If the brethren keep pushing and faint not. the Mississippi river tralhc of the old days is bound to be restored. It is now gaining every day. Tho entry of St. I'aul, the largest steamer ever run on the upper Mississippi, Into service last week la followed this week by St. Louis, the Hist steamboat to carry passengers through from St. Louis to New Orleans In yeirs. When these experimental voyages prove sueesstul not many months will pass be fore new and larger boats will be built and tilted up to carry a class of travelers who MAJOR JERAULD A. OLMSTEAD. U. S A. (RETIRED), WHO WILL INSTRUCT THE IOWA NATIONAL GUARD. demand luxurious accommodations. These boats must, however, guarantee sircty. One burning or sinking of a river boat is a disaster that will overcome all tiie good missionary work of a year. Theie are too many rickety old boats on the river. They will have to be superseded by new and safe vesels which will make passenger traffic as secure as It Is on the lakes, and there is too much changing of names of boats with bad repututions. St. Louis Globe-Demo-cra t. The Causes of Death J. K. Gore presented tables to tin re cent congress of actuaries showing that since 1871 deaths from heart disease have lncreasfd from 7.96 per 10.100 In the citiea of America to 12.73, apoplexy has risen from 3.41 per 10,000 to 6.82; liver troubles have decreased from 314 per 10.OI to 2 61; paralysis has slightly decreased, while can cer has increased from 3 44 per 10,000 to 5.56. Suicides have Increased from .91 per 1,000 deaths to 1.70 in 1900. Deaths from bronchitis are about stationary, as com pared with 1871; typhoid fever has been reduced from 4.50 per 10.000 to 2 80. and phthisis from 32.49 to 19.1ti. Deaths from pneumonia have shown tne heaviest Increase-?.!.., as compared with 14.W thLty years ago. Public Opinion.
