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There is no other book in existence that presents all the sciences from the modern point of view in familiar language," says the BOOKMAN of The OUTLINE of SCIENCE Professor J. Arthur Thomson's great work At All Booksellers SANTA ROSA, CALIF The Outlook NOW MAX MARSTON HOLDS IT EW golf champions seem N much an annual necessity as a change in the style of clothing. The competition is now so keen and the field of first-class players so large that the chances that a champion may come through with successive victories is very slim indeed. In this year's amateur championship, both the open champion of the present year, Robert Jones, and last year's amateur champion, Jesse Sweetser; fell before the onslaught of Max Marston. Jones was eliminated in the second round of the tournament, and Sweetser at the end of two extra holes in the finals. Marston has been a competitor for the championship for eleven years; a fact which doubtless puts him in the aged veteran class in comparison with such collegiate champions as Sweetser and Jones. The shifting balance between age and youth ought to bring forth a new group of theories as to the relative value of experience and youthful enthusiasm not that the theories will be worth anything, but they will help to keep golfers out of mischief during the months when the frost is on the putting green. ON THE SHORE OF A THE terrible and strange scenes of the earthquake in Japan have been described first by the cable despatches and later and more vividly by private letters which have reached America. The Outlook has received such a letter from Dr. T. D. A. Cock Underwood MAX R. MARSTON, AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPION OF THE UNITED STATES erell, Professor of Zoology in the University of Colorado. Dr. Cockerell was on board the steamship Empress of Australia, having just returned from a scientific expedition to Siberia, and was on his way to Vancouver. He thus describes the farewells on the ship and the scenes that followed: "It is a charming Japanese custom, when a boat sails, to bring rolls of ribbon-like colored paper, which, being unwound, form streamers connecting the departing passengers with their friends on the wharf. As the ship moves away, these paper lines are extended as far as they will go, the ends falling in the sea as they finally break. It was nearly noon, the colored streamers were all out, the last visitors had left the ship, hats and handkerchiefs were waving, and in a moment we expected to be off. "Then, all of a sudden, the great. vessel was violently shaken by some unseen force. At first simply bewildered, we realized what had happened when some one said, 'Earthquake.' Looking toward the city, we saw clouds of dust; looking downward, the wharf had collapsed at either end, fortunately remaining in the middle, so that very few people were thrown into the water. The crowd below us did not seem at first to realize the magnitude of the disaster, but went on cheering and waving for a few moments, and then scattered, to make their way with difficulty along the half-submerged railings to the shore. The Empress made no attempt to leave; in fact, the propeller had got tangled up in the anchor chain of a merchant vessel just behind, and she was disabled. Soon fires were seen, and the wind, blowing from the shore, became exceedingly violent, so that be fore long the whole town was ablaze. We learned later that nearly every building had collapsed with the first quake, the most notable exception being the Russo-Asiatic Bank, newly built of reinforced concrete. The large hotels and the Yokohama Club had especially been death-traps, and it will be some time before we can learn who perished in them. But whatever the earthquake may have spared the fire swept, so that within a few hours the destruction was complete. On the ship we were exposed to the heat, smoke, and sparks, but the hoses were out and water was played on the decks to prevent ignition. The numerous barges in the harbor had no such means of protection, and were floating about blazing, and had to be dealt with by streams of water as they drifted alongside from time to time. The wooden warehouses on the wharf caught fire, and we stood away, a little to avoid that danger. The quakes continued at intervals, but there was no so-called tidal wave. "After a time refugees began to come on board, and eventually we had, I believe, more than two thousand. Many were seriously injured, and all were dirty and exhausted. One of the first whom we took into our cabin was a well-known Yokohama business man who had stood for hours in the water at the foot of the Bund, ducking his head frequently as the heat became too intense. Some of the younger and more vigorous, including a woman, escaped by swimming to the ship. The ship's boats were out all night, picking people up here and there. Many described narrow escapes, and many had lost sight of relatives and hardly expected to see them again. Residents of Yokohama had lost all they possessed, and most of them also the means of making a living. In the midst of all this misery, now and again came cheerful news of wives finding husbands supposed to be lost, parents discovering their children. Since people had been taken on to various steamers in the harbor, it was at first difficult to ascertain who had been saved, but gradually lists were made up and exchanged. "On the following morning the city was still furiously burning, especially along the water front, where there were large warehouses stored with combustibles. Those on the Empress congratulated themselves on being in safety, but prematurely. A very large tank or barge containing oil was in front of the Standard Oil Building, nd this caught fire, emitting huge GENERAL FRANK R. McCOY, APPOINTED DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF AMERICAN RELIEF IN JAPAN flames and a great cloud of black smoke. At first we attached no particular significance to this, but presently it was noticed that the burning oil, floating on the water, was rapidly spreading and drifting toward the ship. It seemed to be coming as fast (C) Underwood WALTER W. HEAD, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION as a man could walk. The Empress was partly disabled, and it was only with difficulty that she was slowly swung around and out of the way. For about twenty minutes it appeared likely enough that we might all be roasted alive, for although the crew made all the people go to the other side of the ship, and deluged the side toward the oil with water, nothing could have withstood that blazing furnace. As we passed out by the breakwater, we could see the oil just where we had recently been. Even in this peril there was absolutely no panic. The refugees, almost without exception, behaved splendidly, and took losses and discomfort with the utmost fortitude. The crews of the various 5 vessels worked valiantly and unceasingly, while the passengers who had saved their baggage shared their clothes with the refugees and comforted them as best they could. As in all such crises, some ugly rumors were afloat, most of them probably with little foundation." Such personal impressions as these from Dr. Cockerell, even though they present only special phases and points of view of the disaster, bring home the reality of the occurrence far better than statistics or elaborate theories of the causes of the calamity. On other pages of this issue will be found pictures presenting scenes T photographed immediately after the earthquake. BANKERS IN ASSEMBLY S EVERAL thousand bankers met at Atlantic City last week for the N annual Convention of the American Bankers Association. These annual meetings, by their large attendance, by the weight of their utterances, and by the strong personality of their individual members, impress the country with the importance of the banking profession-for it is really a profession as well as a business. The Convention opened with a bang, so to speak. The address by Mr. Cromwell, President of the New York Exchange, was a challenge to those who have attacked the methods and conduct of the Exchange. Some of these methods, if Mr. Cromwell's statements are exact, are nothing more than intimidation and blackmail. Quite rightly, the Stock Exchange, through Mr. Cromwell, announces its intention to expose by name any one who engages hereafter in such practices as were described in this address. One out of several instances adduced was this: "Another office-holder, who has |