Harper's Weekly - 26 February 1898

Front Cover, Harper's Weekly Journal of Civilization, New York, Volume XLII, Edition 2149, Saturday, 26 February 1898. GGA Image ID # 19ff3e5cc3

This issue of Harper's Weekly featured articles on Annexing Hawaii By Joint Resolution by Carl Schurz and The Disaster To the Battleship Maine by F.E. Leupp. The Threshold of America by Edwin Emerson, Jr. provided a look at immigration of that time.

Detailed Table of Contents

Articles

1. Editorials
2. Annexing Hawaii By Joint Resolution by Carl Schurz
3. The Disaster To the Battle-ship Maine by F.E. Leupp
4. Music by E. Irenaeus Stevenson
5. This Busy World by E.S. Martin
6. Life and Letters by W.D. Howells
7. Bright Skies In the West by Franklin Matthews
8. The Threshold of America by Edwin Emerson, Jr.
9. Art by Charles H. Caffin
10. Amateur Sport: A Harvard Man At Oxford by John Corbin
11. The French Bull-dog

Short Stories and Serial Novels

1. The Red Axe: XVII by S.R. Crockett
2. How People Come And Go In New York by Richard Barry

Poems & Limericks

1. Storm by Harriet Prescott Spofford

Engravings

1. New Buildings For the Immigrant Station, Ellis Island, New York Harbor by G.W. Peters
2. Quite Familiar With His Subject - political cartoon
3. Officers and men of the Spanish flag-ship hastening to the rescue of the Maine
4. Copper tanks each containing a half-charge
5. Lieutenant Friend W. Jenkins, U.S.N.
6. Engravings with story Red Axe by Frank Richards
7. Engravings with story How People Come And Go In New York by T. Dart Walker and L.A. Shafer
8. Packing-room of a Hutchinson, Kansas salt-works
9. Quite Familiar With His Subject - political cartoon by Wilder

Photographs

1. Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., In His Cabin On the United States Battle-Ship Maine
2. Loss of the United States Battle-Ship Maine in Havana Harbor, February 15, 1898:
3. USS Maine leaving the New York navy-yard
4. USS Maine saluting Spanish flag-ship on arriving in the harbor of Havana
5. USS Maine in dry dock, New York
6. Men in the engine-room of the USS Maine
7. USS Maine's forward torpedo-tube
8. USS Maine just before sailing south
9. Hon. John D. Long
10. Rear-Admiral Segismundo Bermejo Y Merelo
11. Captain William T. Sampson, U.S.N.
12. Lieutenant-Commander Adolph Marix, U.S.N.
13. Captain F.E. Chadwick, U.S.N.
14. Characteristic Views on United States Battle-Ship USS Maine
15. USS Maine Junior officers
16. USS Maine - Members of the Army and Navy union
17. USS Maine - Chief petty officers mess
18. USS Maine - Coal-passers
19. USS Maine - Signal drill
20. USS Maine - Ward-room officers in their mess-room: Lieut. Jenkins, Lieut.-Comm. Holman, Paymaster Whithouse, Lieut.-Comm. Marix With the Cuban Insurgents:
21. President Maso and his military staff on horseback, dog
22. General Vega and his force on horseback
23. Three young insurgents on horseback
24. General Quintin Banderass forces, after crossing the Jucaro-Moron Trocha
25. Priest of insurgent forces
26. Burning gas-well at Iola, Kansas
27. Retorts in a zinc-smelter operated by natural gas at Iola, Kansas
28. English racing-punt and punter
29. Magdales Tower
30. Old lock and mill at Iffley
31. Lily-pads of the upper Char
32. French bull-dog

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