anaheim-gazette 1907-04-18

MR. COMPERE'S GREAT WORK Travels in China, India and Polynesia in Search of Beneficial Insects-In Danger of Attack The ceaseless journeyings of George Compere in his search for beneficial parasites preying upon scale pests form quite as interesting a study of his character as do his labors in behalf of the California horticulturist. These latter have made his name a household word in this state and have crowned him as probably the greatest living entomologist. His life's achievements are of peculiarly romantic interest. Traveling many times around the world, he does not follow the beaten path of the tourist, but penetrates forbidden and out-of-the-way places of the earth, among strange people and alien tongues. Yet he manages to keep in touch with the world and declares that now distances have so shrunken by reason of a familiarity with routes and places, that it seems no more of an undertaking to travel from continent to continent than it formerly did to travel from state to state in his native land. His itinerary of 1906 certainly contains conditions to satisfy the most exacting sensation seeker. But Compere is not that kind of a person. He seeks but few sensations, excepting the excitement created in his breast by the discovery of a new bug. In January and February, 1906, he spent a few weeks in San Francisco. Then he went to New York; from New York he sailed for France and from France he went to Spain and Algiers—of course in search of parasites. Then he traveled from Algiers to Italy and reached Naples right in the morning, fifteen minutes after steamer had tied up at her Han Kow was a big river she the fire spread with terrific The great majority of the Chinese, and they were all the fire occurred. Thus Compere, escaping plague, suddenly found him midst of death and destruction by the elements, and beginning as to what fate had sown for him. But he did not swerve for arranged route, and proceed Hongkong to the West river of China, where he found in a state of extreme exertion account of the incursion of bold and bloody Chinese people a number of people had been the outlaws, while cases and kidnapping were common condition of affairs made those out-of-the-way place proposition, especially for er. The Chinese pirates are and employ many sharp the accomplishment of their enormous device among them is to sail on a foreign vessel of passengers, and as if the total strangers to each other 'Then, when the vessel has out of communication with and at a secret signal, rise to a man, surprise and the officers and men of the well as any passengers will fit to resist, and then take in charge, loot it and seize passengers adrift. The river districts were ed with banditti, and it was that Compere made one voyage of discovery. That was made in the regular City or house boats; but any proper regard for his help along his own supply of drinking water. It might be possible for her to put up with Chinese drink the water to be had in and villages of the district extremely dangerous to her inhabitants live with alms. His itinerary of 1906 certainly contains conditions to satisfy the most exacting sensation seeker. But Compere is not that kind of a person. He seeks but few sensations, excepting the excitement created in his breast by the discovery of a new bug. In January and February, 1906, he spent a few weeks in San Francisco. Then he went to New York; from New York he sailed for France and from France he went to Spain and Algiers—of course in search of parasites. Then he traveled from Algiers to Italy and reached Naples right in the midst of the terrific eruption of Vesuvius. He experienced a good portion of that volcanic disturbance and traveled about when all the heavens were darkened by an overhanging cloud of smoke, dust and cinders. There was an almost constant shower of cinders from the upper air, and any one going out of doors was soon powdered over, and even his shoes filled with the fine sifting material. Here he received instructions from the government authorities of West Australia to return to that country, and he accordingly took steamer for the trip. As he proceeded out of the harbor of Naples the deck of the steamship upon which he sailed was covered several inches deep with material from the crater of Vesuvius. Having finished his business in West Australia, he again sailed for China via Sydney and Queensland ports. Fron China he went to Ceylon and thence to India. In India he ran up against the bubonic plague and in such sections as Poona the natives were dying off by the thousand; in fact, the death rate for the district was ranging between 1000 and 2000 per day. The towns were virtually deserted, the inhabitants fleeing to the open country and pitching their tents upon the plains in hopes of escaping the ravages of the terrible pestilence then raging. The plague was confined almost exclusively to natives; but now and then there was a case among the few Europeans living in the section, and everybody who could was leaving the country. Compere had been up against the Asiatic plague before and was somewhat familiar with its nature; but he had seen nothing like the pestilence that was rapidly depopulating the Poona district and lost no time in quitting the country. At Colombo he was obliged to remain in quarantine for two weeks, very much against his inclinations. From India he returned to Ceylon, and from Ceylon he went to China, landing at Hongkong just after the great typhoon of October 18th, and after looking over the devastated sections he congratulated himself upon... Asiatic plague before and was somewhat familiar with its nature; but he had seen nothing like the pestilence that was rapidly depopulating the Poona district and lost no time in quitting the country. At Colombo he was obliged to remain in quarantine for two weeks, very much against his inclinations. From India he returned to Ceylon, and from Ceylon he went to China, landing at Hongkong just after the great typhoon of October 18th, and after looking over the devastated sections he congratulated himself upon having remained so ling in plague-stricken India, escaping thereby the terrible effects of the typhoon. He says that the harbor of Hongkong looked as if it had been attacked by dynamite. The shores were strewn with wreckage, and there were wrecked vessels on the rocks and sand bars. The number of lives lost in Hongkong by this terrible visitation will never be known, but the extreme estimate is placed at 10,000. The people of Hongkong were in the midst of relief work for the benefit of the destitute during his stay. Right on the heels of this general disaster came the burning of the steamer Han Kow at her dock in Hongkong. This was accompanied by a terrible loss of life, the number burned numbering up in the hundreds. 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The president was for peace, but he reiterated his "big stick" and the Philippines policy of expansion and armed for justice first. When Elihu Root put a cold blanket on hopes of many of the most arrogant peacemakers by telling them that he was folly to hope for disarmament as result of the coming congress at The Queue. He declared that an educated international public opinion alone had bring about peace, and that this situation would take time. Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard University administered the chief task of the evening session when he assured that conscription was not needed upon in Germany. Now Germany has been the great "horrible ex-eee" for peacemakers ever since the movement started and the delegates were agast at the heresy. Andrew Carnegie, presiding officer of the congress, before the German professor was through bowing, characterized it as a most astonishing statement, and said he would like to have Professor Munsterberg ask any of the thousands of Germans at work in the Pittsburg mills why they had left Germany. The answer would be "conscription." Until somebody really finds the north pole, this discussion about who owns it, must be regarded as a matter of purely academic interest. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, In the matter of widening Broadway street, Anaheim, between Lemon and Palm streets. The undersigned, commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees in the above matter, hereby notify all persons interested that said commissioners will meet at City Hall, Anaheim, on the 22d day of April, 1907, at 10 o'clock a.m., at which meeting said commissioners will consider any testimony that may be presented in said matter. J. J. SCHNEIDER, M. NEBELUNG. FRED A. BACKS, Jr., Commissioners. Dated April 18th, 1907.