THE OMAHA SUNDAY REE: OCTOBKH 17. 1903. i in una i.ii 1 ihhi-V- r r K pt ' ''-)' .I .m . i. T Ajv-u!l!l:!!i''i:!ii!:il.f ' 1 I :,.,il!?r-r-rnv 1 f 1 ' ' ' ' . C ''l U r-, PLAY IN PLACE OF THE ROD New Way o Making Good Boyi and Girls in the Schools. GAMES SUBSTITUTED FOR WHIP ;! of I nrnlr Bora oblord br Baaket Rail Folk Donrrn la Ed. nrntlon Phl-al Trala Insr of Poplls. NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The rod has given plac to trtfl 6nt i:! bat and dreaded ruler to the banket ball In t:ic ;.o.7 York public schools. Compulaorjr play has replaced corporal punishment. When In 1907 the Board of Education re futed to aanctlon the relntroductlon of cor poral punishment the elementary teachers sighed as they turned to what was often an Impossible task, the maintaining of dis cipline among the unruly when no tools of discipline were allowed. But "where there's a will there's a way." Last spring when chaos threatened In an uptown east side school the authorities were struck with a sudden Idea. A group of unruly boys were given over to the care of a basket ball enthusiast from the normal school. Miss Klrtland undertook the swift reformation of the recalcitrant half hun dred. That morning there was noise In the class room. The new teacher was being broken In. Then Miss Kirtland smiled and cheerfully the order rang. "Fall In line," and the class was marched to the gym nasium. "Now play!" came the order.' Basket ball was the game and Miss Kirtland led the game. There was a derisive yell from the boys, bu the spirit of sport soon seized them and the team work which resulted was a new episode In the history of class A. This "was only the beginning. Miss Kirtland di not punish the class with basket ball, but every day good behavior or bad they were marched to the gymnasium for a period of play. After a month had passed the members of the class were distributed to their proper places, for Miss Kirtland, who punished by play, had triumphed. On of Maay Incidents. This Incident Is one of many that are occurring In New York publlo schools under tho stimulus of New York's school depart ment of physical training. Dr. C. Ward Crampton la head of this department, and Dr. Crampton says ther,e won't be, a boy or a girl, young man or young woman n New York who will need reformation when the system la fully developed. Dr. Crampton says: "Give me simply the perilous spare time of the young people, the afternoon and Saturdays of the chil dren and the' evenings and Sundays of our young men and young women, and I will answer for their morals." To begin with, tag and puss In the corner and other young folks' games have won a tegular place In tho school curriculum. In all the primary grades two short periods a day are given over to running games. The result Is seen when geography and rlthmettc some teachers have even said B.-ammar are attacked with leit, and bright eyes and ruddy cheks are now more Ihe rule in elementary schools. One year ago few of the school yards, or none, were systematically used for the mental and physical well being of the children. Today there are 120 school yards lven over to organised, play. Here the boyish energy which taunts the policeman Mid torments the fruit vender and seeks ways to break the law in the streets venta Itself on the chinning bar, In, the broad lump, in pitched battles of shinny and of prisoner's base. The children Just think they are playing, but the school authorities say that In tHese iy times "Nature's own method supple . wuts the artificial class room teaching." Catalogue on Application To THE STANLEY STEAMER, -313 Leavenworth St., Omaha They are Inspired with a world-old Idea which is eternally new. Valae of thr Gomes. This. Idea Is that organized play is more fundamentally educational than the three R's, and that prisoner's base, kick the wicket and all co-operative physical games have a pedagogical value In Inculcating courage, tenacity, fair play, cheerfulness under failure and most of the rules that keep civilisation running smoothly. Or, as Dr. Crampton puts It when summing up the principles underlying all the work of the department of physical training, "play, not discipline, is the true natural disci pline." And to Illustrate this principle. Dr. Crampton says: "For ages the child had no other means of education than play. By organised play the child learns the vltues and the social qualities long before the names of moral qualities are learned or those names can even bo spelled." But to leave the theory and return to the practice. Last year the public sShools turned out 117 all round base ball teams and in banket ball there was even a better record of 125-teams. Such an athletic out put meant dally practice for the boys in the school yards, in the gymnasiums and on the roof playgrounds. And these dally practices meant the voluntary attendance for "jupervislng and coaching purposes of hundreds of teachers, who thus sacrificed their precious after schoM leisure for trie well being of New York's school children, ovlrtar the Girl.. One phase of the athletics for girls, ac cording to enthusiastic tenchirs,-blds fair to revolutionise the 111 renowned dancing academies by a surer method than legis lation. This Is the folk dance, whose many and very beautiful forms are taught dally to New York school girls. The girls who have mastered the Intricate measures of the' Bohemian Starsak and the Hungarian Scardos and have learned to love dancing as a delightful form of physical ezerolse will, according to the folk dance teachers, scorn the present dance halls and demand in their stead airy, spacious halls such as the municipality of Chicago has provided for Its girls. Public school folk dancing Is right now supplanting the children's dancing schools, which, the teachers say, with but few ex ceptions encourages artificiality, love of dress and inappropriate not to say Injur ious relations between boys and girls. And the school law forbidding the use of cos tume In the folk dance exhibits was espe cially designed to discourage the display element In the dance and to lay stress on Its real nature as a delightful form of physical exercise. But really to catch tho spirit of these after school athletics cm a must spend an afternoon on one of tha seven large ath letic fields maintained by the Board of Education. Here on a single field from 600 to 1,000 boys will receive expert training and carry forward every form of athletics from team games to individual track work. Little fellows from the primary grados strive w(n spartan seriousness on the chinning bar and for tha broad jump. he older . boys, who have been getting their base ball and basket ball into trim In the school yards and roof playgrounds, are having their regular teams made up by the athletic supervisors. Whit clad figures are speeding over the running track, vault ers and leaperaHake their turn at the ap paratus and everywhere happy faces and boyish good nature mark an evolution In boy nature since these same boys left their street gang fights for athletio sports. System and Its Eipestt. The New York system has been exten sively copied abroad. ' The department of physical training has given help in the organization of similar systems in eleven of the cities In the United States, as well as In old world India, in Chile and in the Argentine Republic. And In each case It has been able to apply to local needs and conditions the principles gathered In the New York work. And the feature" of this playground and athletic field system most encouraging for its adoption throughout the great cities of the world is the comparatively slight cost GairnillcB uceanrtniceE Are Here Telephone Douglas 1514 for Demonstration, or See Them at 2513 Leavenworth Street. of its upkeep. The total maintenance of athletic fields is 4 cents a year per boy Work in the school yards, the gymnasiums and roof playgrounds costs the city prao tlcally nothing. A chinning bar at 17.50 and a brood jump mat at 12.50 equip a school yard for an Indefinite number of years. The gymnasium and roof "playground equipment comes under the cost of the regular physical training work. ThA In struction and supervision essential to the success of the system are supplied by the volunteer services of the regular school teachers. It Is Impossible fb tell what the loyalty, enthusiasm and unselfishness of these school teachers mean to the children of New York. But In dollars and cents Dr. Crampton estimates that these teach ere do the work of an athletic teaching force whose payroll would cost the city a million a year. But as this system of play and exercise is now developed It can reach only 4S per cent of New York's OOn.OOO school children. In the athletic work at leant it Is the more vlgcrous children that seise the opportunity and the weaker children are turned out on the streets, as are the vast army of children below the school age or already at work, No Lesger Experiment. The work hus passed the experimental S'.age, and has. In the opinion of Its advo cates, proved both In economy and in Im mediate good to those children who came under its Influence the practicality and need of Its further development. The de partment ' of physical training thinks that every child In New York has a right to at least one hour of real play a day. At this very moment the work on the athletic fields Is being crippled for' lack of funds, for the supervisors, the "consult tng biological engineers," as Dr. Crampton laughingly calls them, had to be dismissed thus leaving the expert work of making up the teams and of coaching entirely to the inexperienced school teachers. More than the loss in athletio proficiency, due to the v withdrawal of these athletic teachers, there Is actual danger in allowing 1.000 boys to exercise at will on an athletic field. At the beginning of each season, it is declared, every boy should be examined and tested and the amount and quality of the work for each be determined, "fcareful surveillance is then necessary to prevent strain and overwork. ' Physical training teachers are greatly needed In the high schools, as well as a uniform gymnasium equipment. For now that applicants for the teachers, training schools are marked on physical training uniform teaching in the high schools Is essential. The. department of physical training hope soon to make graduation from each grade as dependent on success ful tests in physical training and hygiene aa It ia now dependent on good standing in geography and spelling. Toward this end the department ia ask ing for more teachers and adequate gym nasium and apparatus equipment in the elementary schools. At present the regular classroom teachers who teach the physical training are not visited often enough by the supervising physical training teachers to benefit by tha advice, training and en thusiasm of these experts. Also in many of the elementary schools children are forced to take their , exercises in their schoolrooms and the lessons are thus de prived of the free play space and apparatus that endears the gymnasium to every child. Ploy for too Cripples. In only one of the seven schools for crippled children' are the pupils allowed to romp and play. For with these children, for some of whom exercise means cure and for others sure death, only a' teacher trained in orthopedic methods can be en trusted. And the regular teaehers In these schools feel themselves hampered In their work by the lack of physical training in the schools. The deaf mute schools are also entirely without physical training teachers.' Doc tors lay great stress on the need of breath ing exercises and an abundance of all arund health giving exercise for deaf mutes. li DEATH RUN OF THE SALMON Fisherman's Busy Time n the Pa v cifio Coast. INDUSTRY EXTERMINATES THEM om Tblrty.Pomr Million Flak t'ssstd Thla deoaon anal Mmny More Marketed la Varloaa Other Ware. SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 12. The salmon season of 1009 Is rapidly approaching Its end. The run has been fairly profitable. Although fishing is carried on from the Nushagak river In Bering sea to Mon terey, the headquarters of the vari ous operating companies are found a! most exclusively In San Francisco, Port land and Astoria, Ore.; Vancouver, British Columbia, and' this city. Few persons outside of those directly Interested in the Industry realise its Immense economic Importance. During the season now closing af least S5.000 persons were employed directly In It in some rapacity, either on shore or afloat, and they received over (8,000.000 In wages. ..Materials (tin plate, solder, boxes, etc) to the value of 000,000 were used In making the pack. Several million dollars worth of fishery apparatus was used In making the catch, while a fleet of 4,000 or 5,000 vessels, steamers, launches and fish ing boats were used In handling the catchJ The,catch Is prepared In various ways, the most Important being fresh, frosen, salted, smoked, mild cured and canned. The last is by far the leading method. This year the pack of canned salmon was as follows: Alaska, 2,800.000 cases of forty eight one pound cans; Puget Sound, 800,000 cases; Columbia river, SSO.000 cases; other rivers on the coasts of Washington and Oregon, 160,000 cases; Fraser river! British Columbia, 420,000 cases, and othVr rivers of British Columbia, 205,000 cases; a grand total of 4.226,000 cases, or 202,700,000 single pound cans. ; If these" were placed end to end in single file they would extend 14,396 miles, more than half the circumference of the globe. To fill these cans over 33.800,000 salmon were required, while nearly as many more were prepared and make ted in other ways. This product has become on of the ataples and can be found in all quarters of the globe and among all classes. Salmoo Are Disappearing. The tremendous demand has had its nat ural affect, .and in places where twenty years ago aalmon ran In countless num bers few are seen today." This is especially true of the Sacramento river, in California and the Columbia river, while in the waters of Washington and southern British Col- umDia, especially me fraser river, a good run is had only every fourth year. Thla is one of tha remarkable features of the sal mon run of this coast, and la probably due to tha fact that years ago a big epidemic occurred among the salmon and lasted three seasons and caused the death of the greater part of the runs of those years be fore they had an opportunity to spawn. If a complete history of the industry could be written It would record adven tures, successes, failures and vicissitudes seldom equaled In commercial enterprises. Fortunes have been made and loat In a single season. At present peace prevails among the salmon fishers along tha greater part of the coaat, but such baa not always been tha case, many having been the affrays between rival crews over tha possession of choloe fishing grounds, some of which terminated fatally. Tha salmon season .ia abort, and In order to complete the pack tha canners and fishermen practically work night and day. This is especially true in Bering Sea, where the season rarely lasu longer than six weeks. During thla time over 1,000,000 cases are packed, and many of tha canneries at the height of the- run work at least twenty hours a day. Flab. That Are Conned Five species of salmon enter the rfvers along this coast each year for tha purpose of spawning: The king, spring or qulnnat salmon; the sockeye, red or blueback. which is the principal species canned; the coho or silver; tbe humpback or pink. and the dog or chum. Some steelhead trout, which are larger than many of the salmon, are also canned. The first three species frequent rivers which have thelr rise In lakes, while the last two are com monly found in small creeks and streams, ascending these only a comparatively short distance. Tha king aalmon enter the atream for tha purpose of spawning in May and June; the reds in June, July and August; tha pinks In July and August; the cohoa In August and September, and the dogs in July, August and September. To one who has never witnessed the sight It is Impossible to convey an ade quate idea of the conditions which prevail when the annual run of salmon is on and tho fish are striving to get up to the head waters of the various rivers and creeks. Streams which can almost be Jumped across by an active person will be an almost solid mass of struggling salmon, this though the water may be so shallow that their backs show above the surface. Harvest For Bears and Doss. AH are so Intent upon their mad rush up the atream that they pay alight atten tion to things on the bank, and it is at this time that the bears and dogs reap their harvest. The former are exceed ingly expert at reaching down from the bank and flipping fish out with their paws, while a native dog will rush in, and grasp ing a fish in Its mouth give it a shake and then deposit its dead prise on the bank, only to return for more. After reaching brackish water the sal mon cease to eat, depending upon their accumulated tUsue to carry them through to tha end. They struggle gamely on vp the atrtam, the male salmon fighting fiercely one with another, their terrible hooked Jaw i .Inflicting severe wounds, while many are cut and torn by being knocked against rocks in aacendlng rapids and falls. Those which run up the large river salmon have been known to ascend the Yukon for over twenty-five hundred miles are in bad shape at the end. their snouts, fins and taila in many Instances being entirely worn off. while all are covered with the peculiar while blotches which seom to be Incident to the spawning fish, On arriving at the spawning beds the male salmon battle more fiercely than ever. After the law of the survival of tha fittest bas given on af thera undla putted possession of a female aalmon the two proceed to dig a hole in tha sand and gravel, and hero the eggs are de posited and then they die. Of the mill ion which fight their way up the streams each season hardly one evs. returns to Its deep sea homo. The reason for this Is ono of the mysteries of natural history, novices For Catch I a a; Many and varied are the methods used In catching tha salmon, wheels, traps, seines and gill nets being the more Im portant forms. The wheel Is used almost exclusively on the Columbia river. It Is .generally from five to fifteen feet in width and from ten to thirty feet in diameter and Is usually located on, abutments In a nar row runway which has been constructed in the upper reaches of the river. To Its blades are attached dip nets made of jtal vanlsed Iron netting, and as the wheel Is placed In the force of the current It revolves continually night and lay ac cording to the force of the water. Every time it revolves it scoops up from one to a dosen of the salmon that are trying to get up Ihe river and are forced Into the runway by the dam-run out to the side. As the wheel turns It dumps Its load automatically into chutea on either side arranged so that the fish will slide by their own weight into flat boats waiting foi them. Some of these wheel have paid enormously In the value of salmon taken. Trap Nets Take Thousands. The trap nets catch more than any other fixed form of apparatus. They are formed by means of stakes driven Into the bottom and hung with netting. A lead of a single row of stakes Is run out Into the water, usually at right angles to the shore, a V-shaped line of stakes hung with netting with the open end toward the shore and beginning at a short distance Inshore of the outer end of the lead and with an open space of about twelve feet between It and the lead on both sides is called the outer heart. The far end of this leads into what la known as the Inner heart, which la shaped and arranged the same as the outer heart, but Is smaller. The pointed end of the inner heart leads through a narrow tunnel Into the pot, which Is a square com partment placed at right angles to the lead. The apiller is located alongside the pot, from which the salmon pass into It by means of another tunnel. The fish are taken from the spiller, the front wall of which Is lowered to the water's edge, and the fish dipped out and into the scq,ws by means of a brailer or large dip net. As many as 90,000 salmon have been taken out of a single trap In one ltft, Not Touched By Hand. In canning so far as possible the hand ling of fish by hand Is prevented. The scows are run alongside the wharf and the fish pitched on an endless conveyer which carries them up and delivers 'them on the floor of the butchering shed. Here they are fed one by one Into an "Iron chink," a wonderful machine which cuts off the head, tall and fins and splits the fish down the belly and removes tha vis cera, all In one revolution of the machine. The fish are then placed In pockets on a revolving drum and carried around to a series of rapidly moving circular knives. which divide them into cuts of Just the size required to fill tha cans. The outs roll down a chute and are fed Jnto the filling machine. In this tho cuts go down one opening, the empty can come down another and when they are opposite each other a plunger forces the fish Into the can. Tha filled can Is then dropped out on a table. From here it la taken by means of an endless belt through the steam box, which cleans the outside of the can, past a couple of workmen who place little dlska of tin on top of tho meat this Is done so that later when the tops of the cana are punctured after the first cook ing to allow the steam and gas to escape the fish will not clog up tho hole and on to the topper. Solderlngr by Machinery. ' Here the open cans are aelsed and car ried around horizontally, and at the same time the tops, which have been carried Into the machine from the opposite side, are accurately placed on them. From the topping machine tha cana are discharged upon a moving bolt that carries them through an iron device which tips them over on their sides, and aa they roll in between two steel disks the top la slightly crimped to the body of each can. . Next a chain conveyer rolls them through a pan where Just tho edge of the can top Is moistened with muriatic acid and then through a soldering machine, kept hot by gas Jets below, where the top is securely soldered down. A rubber belt conveys tho cana under a Jet of cold water which gives tha solder a set, past tho counting machlno and then to the end, where men lift them off onto Iron crates. Hera tha small vent hole In the top of Ihe can Is soldered up by hand and the crate lowered into a vat of hot water to test for leaky cans. Tho crates are then loaded upon low iron cars and run into steam boxes, where they are steamed for thirty minutes at a pressure of lVs pounds. The cans ai-e then taken out and punctured to let vapor and excess air eacapo after which they are immediately soldered up again.' Tha cratea are now run into iron retorts and exposed for one hour to a ateam heat of 140 degrees Fahrenheit, which thor oughly cooks the salmon and softens tha bone. After being taken from the retorts the crates of cans are run through two vats of hot water. In which they are thoroughly scrubbed, after which they are placed upon the floor of the warehouse to season for some days. Later the cans are run through a var nishing machine, after which they are labelled and then packed in boxes holding forty-eight one pound cans each. Character of Labor Employed. Nearly all the canning work Is per formed by orientals, the Japanese predomi nating. For many years the bulk of this work was most efficiently done by Chinese, but tho rigid exclusion laws have prevented the bringing in of any new hands, while the old ones are gradullly dying off. Owing to their quarrelsomenebs the Japanese are not very popular In can nery work. Many Filipinos and a few Porto Ricans are employed. While men, many of them Italians, Swedes and Norwegians, do moot of the fishing, although in some sections Japunebe are engaged In I hid branch alsu. In Alaska many Indians are employed both in the canneries and in fishing, and they make most efficient help when the desire to work is upon them. Fishing, especially in Aalaska, Is haxard ous at times, owing to th fact that much of tho fishing is carried on in upen bays in which storms are frequent. Kivht fishermen lost their lives in the Nushagak bay during this season alone. Each year the Indians of this coast. 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