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FAMOUS MAN
OF AMERICA
PASSES AWAY
SAN FRANCISCO, Man-h 5. —
Hubert Howe Rancrott, the 1 air.ous
Ameriean historian died last ni{jht at
Walnut Creek, at the a ire of bd years.
Although one ol the most prolific
writers ol history which America ever
has produced, at the age ol forty, Hu*
Howe Bancroft had never writ
ten a hook. nor. by his own statement,
nade nany years h ter, did he know
how to write even the simplest manu
script. From early manhood he had
hem a bookseller and business man in
Sue Francisco and previous to that,
1 11« i'k in a bookstore at BuiLim, X.
Eatli<r -till, ht was a farmhapd and
i, \ boy ■ 7 wdville, Ohio,
where he was born ft* ay •>. 1S;J2. It
was in the book > to res that lie obtained
his education, his attendance at p ib
lic schools being very limited.
Following his opening of a bcok
1 . hop at San Fiancisco in ISolI, i»an
| cioft conceived the idea of writing a
j comprehensive' hL'ciy ol Caiitoinia
| :ind to that end began collect ng bool s
manuscripts ami luwspapeis. oo uo
orbed dni he become in his search im
material that u ii or twelve yeais la
ter he had collect ‘d thousand* of v>l
umes of books and stacks o. mai
scripts and newspaper tiles. Still he
had written nothing, and could not,
• for he did not know what was ill the
nook." and manuscripts.
Finally in 1 >71, the passion to write
.o consumeu Bancroft that he gave
the conduct of his business over to
others and set himself in earnest to
the task. Long since the p'an to wit'
only of California had enlarged until
it includ'd the Paciiic Coast legions
of the whole North and South Ameri
con continents.
Soon despair seized upon Lkmcrott,
for ho discovered by to*ts that the
mere work of leading, digesting an*’
notating his mate rial unaided would
require at least lour hundred years.
For a ti ne his despondency amounted
almost to insanity. Then ho consid
ered the expedient of employing assis
tants and made many experiments,
failure gene-ally resulting. On one
j occasion he threw into the furnace as
1 worthless twenty-five reams of manu
script, representing the work of six
cr eight men for months. A noted
mediaeval scholar, employed at a high
, wage, was unable to help him.
Persisting, the would-be historian
! finally perfected a system of card-in
dexing which proved successful. There
' after, lie trained and employed hun
1 a reds of assistants, the services of
' some of whom amounted to collahora
| tors. From the vast notes thus accu
mulated. Banc; oft finally approached
CHARLES CRAWFORD
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his real task, he having learned, pain
fully, in the meantime, some of the
art of writing.
More difficulties arose. Bancroft
had selected Peru as the subject of
his first endeavor and had decided
that its history should begin with the
Spanish conquest. Suddenly, when the
work was half iinish'ed, he rejected it,
holding to the theory that all histoiy i
should begin with the beginning of
i things. Starting anew, he delved in
to the myths and legends of the n»ys
1 lerious peoples of the American con
tinents running back into the Middle
Ages, marshaling therefrom the facts
and theories of his ‘ Native Races of
the Pacific States.” This work is five
volumes, was issued in 18<4, it Doing
necessary, at the last, for the aulhoi
to organize a publishing company to
insure its printing.
Bancroft estimated that the work of
writing and research expended upon
“Native Races” represented the work
of one man, toiling every day, Sun-1
lays excepted, for f'fty years.
Following this great effort, Ban
croft. now widely recognized as an
au..unity on history, plunged into
r.notln-r woik, continuing incessantly
at his desk until he had produc'd
thirty-four volumes, comprising the
iiistoi x of the Pacific Coa<t A states
•uid countries fiom Alaska, to Argen
tina. ili-*' life ambition realized, he
Unvoted himself to occasional writing,
producing “Retrospection” after pass
ing his eightieth birthday. In 188.°.,
accompanied by native assistants, he
visited Mexico and. spent months in
searching the ancient archives ol that
country for historical data. The re
suit was a new history of Mexico, re
cently issued. 11 is library, housed in
a specially constructed building con
sists of over sixty thousand volumes.
During the evening of lus life, Dan
croft lived quietly at his home near
xin Francisco.
whaTthtwar
! MEANS TO ALL
OF Tilt PEOPLE
Curtis Morion! was the four min
ute speaker at the Seattle theatre
last Sunday and he made many most
interesting remarks. M*\ MorfO'd
■ ^>aid:
“Thoimis Gradgrind, a retired mer
chant in Dicken’s “Hard Times,” is a
man of facts. He says, ‘Now, what 1
want is facts.’
“Some of the things wc want and
need in connection with the war in
which the United States is now en
1 gaged, are facts. Surgeon General
Gorgas, of the United States army
gives some of these facts. Jn the Civ
! il War our mortality was something
' over live per cent for four years. The
! French armies suffered almost the
:ame death loss during the first five
months of this war, but the Allies
were unprepared in every way. Jn
I DIG the French had reduced theiv
mortality t-o about two per cent for
twelve months. That is a rate of only
20 per 1000. Even in civil life a iaie
• of 13 to 15 is usual. In other wars
j ( oath from disease and wounds was
the greater menace. In tills great
struggle these condith ns have been
reversed. Many command •-s repo t
that their soldiers are in octl* v !i aith
even in the trenches, than ou* ci\- on
population is here at nome.
“In the Spanish-American war we
I lost more men from typhoid fever
! than from bullets and bayonets. Jit
i . ...
1 the Boer war, the British, m an army
of about 300,000 men, had almost GO,
000 cases, with over 8.000 deaths.
“In the first three years of the pres
i ent war, with over .‘>,000,000 men and
in a country much more productive of
typhoid infection, they had only 202
tenths! About one to every 10,000
• men. Thousands of our soldiers, in
stead of dying of disease, will come
I out of the army better men physically
than they were when they entered it.
(t is safe to say that more lives will
be saved by preventitive medicine and
modern sanitation than will be lost in
actual fighting. People at home should
know this.
“There has been great progress in
surgery in the last fifty years, and
there is no liner surgery in the world
today than that which is being done
for our soldiers.
“In the Civil War if a man had a
badly injured arm, they cut it oil. If
he had a serious knee wound or a
shattered bone in the leg, they chop
ped off lus leg. Jf lie had a bad head
wound, they could not very well de
capitate him, so ho generally died;
not necessarily from the injury itself
but from the septic poisoning which
followed it.
“Antiseptic methods are tne foun
dation on which the entire fabric of
modern surgery rests. Early care ol
the wounded is the first thought of
our surgeons. Save every life pos
?ible is the watchword. Expert sar
I gical attention is brought as close to
| the lighting line as possible, and every
soldier has his first-aid Kit, and ii not
loo badly wounded he can paint the
skin around the wound and apply sim
ple antiseptic dressings.
“In the early stages of the war
many men on the western fiont died
: of tetanus (lockjaw) following a
| wound. The soil of France was full
of tetanus germs. An anti-tetanus
serum was developed, and now every
! wounded man in Fiance is inoculated
with this 'serum as a precautionary
measure, and the danger of tetanus
lias practically disappeared.
•‘There is another field in which we
arc avoiding some of the most dis
tressing by-products of war. We are
trying to keep out of the fighting
ranks the men who are mentally unfit
! to be there. It is worse than useless
to send men to the trenches who are
mentally unfit to be there. It is worse
man useless to send men to the tren
ches who will probably go insane if
placed there. W'e have had many
trained experts weeding out these men
f’-om the recruits. This is a precau
tion which has never before been tak
en, and is one of the most humane
features in the mobilization of our
forces.
“Before the war there were only
452 medical officers in our army. Six
months later there were about 17,000,
and several thousand more under com
mission.
“Enemy propagandists have spreao
abroad the report that the French*
troops are ravaged by tuberculins.
The truth is that there is less tuber
culosis in the French army than there
was among the French people before
the war.
“When the French soldiers were
nobilizec! in 1PM. they had been sleep
ing, as was the custom in Franco,
with closed windows, working in dos
ed shops and offices, where i’rcah air
was a thing to be afraid of. They
never took outdoor exercise. The re
sult was that some of them were tu
bercular. Life in the open, plenty of
exercise, regularity in eating, and
wholesome food have improved tlici•
health in this respect, as in others.
“We may feel confident that in this
war our soldiers will have belter care,
and if wounded, better treatment than
has ever before been accorded to men
called to defend their countly and
I give their lives if necessary to uphold
righteousness and justice.”
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Present Incumbent
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Former U. S. Marshal
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