The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: patly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 and Sunday CALIL, one year, by mail... 6.00 six months, by mail 3.00 y Ca and Sund; Cavx, three months, by mail 1.50 Pafly and Sund and Sunday CALL. one month, by mail .50 Funday CALL, one year, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mi . 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone eveseeeessn Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. .Maln—1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 570 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until o'clock. 9 Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. rkin street: open until oclock. §W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ntil © o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pacific States A i e tuilding, Rose and Duane MMER MONTHS. > o v ona vacaton? Tf or us to forward THE CALL to ot let it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier, or left at ness Office, T10 Murket streei, will receive , Rhinelander cets, New York City. AUGUST 7, 1895 WEDNESDAY.... THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. [ ————————— Suppress the opium evil. Let us get rid of the hop heads. The filibuster seems to be a bad case of full o’ bluster. There will never be a free Cuba until Havana leads the way. There is seemingly nothing muddy in the Clear Lake elecirical scheme. If there is such a thing as a science of invention it is high time to teach it. The next Democratic candidate for the Presidency will serve as a National foot- ball. In making a State exhibit as well as in building up the State every county must help. : The new vigor of the police, like the new vigor of the State Department, needs brac- ing up. The golf girl has come as a threatening to the security of the bloomer New York is trying to boom herself as a summer resort by starting the paradox of a vacation school. Sensational reports of the Durrant case have already borne fruit in the production of a murderous crank. As the most picturesque spot in Central California Clear Lake deserves the recog- nition of enterprising capital. ‘When Senator Hill said none but a West- ern man could carry New York, he gave Mr. Whitney a hard one on the neck. Much Has Been Written and Much Has Been Said are two sorry nightmares that haurt the slumbers of unskilled writers. Sensational newspaper reports, filling pages of padded suggestiveness, can be read only by those most susceptible to their evil influence. Sensational newspapers afflicted with fili- busterphobia seem to have overlooked an opportunity which the presence of the Solid Eight suggests. In the State Fair and the Mechanics’ In- stitute Exhibition we will have a double chance to show overselves as we wish others to see us. Itis rather odd that W. K. Vanderbilt should have started a racing stable and begun to ride about Newport in a horse- less carriage at the same time. . There would be more satisfaction in knowing that English money is coming our way if it were not for the knowledge that the interest on it is going their way. Those whom sensational journalism does not transform into cranks are nevertheless afflicted thereby with ailments hardly less deplorable than a murderous inclination. Before we shake hands with a trusted friend it might be wise hereafter to take I cluded corner, hypnotize him an if he is a Hawaiian “fili- intoa discov buster.’ —_— It is said that the Salisbury Ministry will begin its work by trying to find some solution for the labor problems in Eng- land, so we may as well look out fora racket when Parliament meets. In support of the opinion which George K. Fitch, the former editor of THE CaLL, entertains of its present management isthe fact that the old subscribers who swore by him are true to the new regime. It is rather a curious coincidence that amid the sentimental revivals of Napo- leonism in literature, a company has been formed in England to develop the re- sources of the island of 8t. Helena. The first thing the Republican Congress will have to do this winter will be to pro- vide a remedy for the Democratic defeat, so that the Cleveland administration will not be starved out by its own policy. That provision of the New York Penal Code which makes railway companies liable to indictment for carelessly killing their passengers would, if adopted in Cali- fornia, make the trolley realize that itis loaded. That form of newspaper ‘‘enterprise” which finds exercise in the padding of dis- gusting criminal reports to the exclusion of valuable news which costs money, finds its reward in the praise of the ignorant and depraved. ‘What with “filibusters,” ‘‘solid eights,” the dereliction of the Railroad Commission and the gobbling of streets by the Market- street Railway Company it seems that the only hope for a new sensation depends on Mount Shasta’s ability to renew its ancient volcanic activity. The city authorities of New York ap- propriated $24,500 to purchase twelve -.atrol wagons and the necessary horses for the Police Department, but Police Commissioner Grant made the purchases himself, and out of the appropriation saved enough money to provide ten addi- tional wagons, so he is now getting almost as much praise as Roosevelt himself, MR. FITCH'S OPINION. It had been known to THE CALL long be- fore the interview with George K. Fitch which appeared in yesterday’s issue of this paper that this old-time journalist had been free in expressing his good opinion of the plan under which the present management of the paper conducts its policy. Mr. Fitch had been saying very kind things. It was some of these that a CaLL interviewer pre- sented in yesterday’s issue. The substance of Mr. Fitch's remarks is that at first he had trembled for the pros- perity of the paper whose policy for so many years he had controlled, and that, much to his gratification, it has passed into worthy hands and ‘“‘has elevated and built itself up until it is the best paper in the City.” After saying that while he directed THE CALL he tried to make it “a public trust, a servant and guardian of the people and their rights,” he declared that itis now what he tried to make it. Mr. Fitch is too modest there. It is known to all who have an opinion worthy of consideration that TrE CALy, before it passed under its pres- ent direction, was the expression and ex- ponent of clean, pure, dignified and alto- gether independent journalism. Although the staunchest of Republican journals, it never faltered in calling to account the recreant and derelict members of its party in office. In all its course, in every observation of the ethical relations existing between it and a public which depended upon its integrity and wisdom, it was never found wanting. This does not mean to say that we are un- familiar with base stories regarding its supposed defection on this or that occa- sion. Knowing the source fully as well as the substance of the accounts it gives us a large pleasure to say that no corrupt in- fluence ever swayed the old CaLL or re- mains to cast a shadow upon the name of George K. Fitch. In his interview Mr. Fitch, with becom- ing dignity, has paid no attention to those matters. He is simply pleased with the new CALL, and the new CArL could receive no higher compliment than that. What interests him particularly is the new CaLL’s policy with regard to the interests of Cali- fornia. He thinks that the attention which THE CALL is giving to the development of California, without charging for its efforts, ‘‘is one of its grandest works.’” He is watching it day by day to “‘see that it is true to its nativity,” and heis glad to see that THE CALL is at present, as it was in the past, conducted as a public trust. Following the exposure of the lottery swindles and the open running of illicit | poolrooms, THE CALL hasnow made known | something of the extent to which opium is unlawfully used in this City. Neither of these exposures has been made in a sensa- tional way. Nothing has been exaggerated. No descriptions calculated fo excite a de- praved curiosity has been given. In ev case the accounts were stated in the sim- plest narrative of facts, for the object of | each exposure was only to make plain | and clear to the people some of the evils of the City that can be remedied, in order that a public opinion would help the police in enforcing the law and suppressing the nefarious practices. In seeking to avoid any form of sensa- | tionalism, and to spare the homes of the City from a description of things vile and | disgusting, THE CALL has had to exercize | great care in reporting the facts of the | opium dens. In the practice of this vice | humanity is seen in its most depraved, | most wretched and most debased aspects. | The use of the drug leads to a condition of mind and body that may be described as the sum of all vices. Amongthose who practice the habit of using opium may be found the most complete wrecks of body, brain and soul that the darkest under- depths of human life afford. and it isno slight task to describe the miserable dens | of the users and the wretched creatures in them without shocking the sensibilities of the refined and the pure. Low as are the forms of vice and sensu- ality which are inseparably associated with opium joints, it is nevertheless necessary that the intelligent and moral classes of the City should take note of them. Here is one of the pitfalls of moral ruin into which the youth of the City may fall, as many men and women have already fallen, if the warning is not given and every vigi- lance is not exercised by the police o pre- vent. To make gnown the extent of the evil and to locate some of the more noto- rious “joints” where it is carried on ought to be but the first step in the direction of suppressing them. This step THE CaLn has taken. It remains for the police to carry out the law, and as far as po le put an end to this hideous moral disease which healthy California has caught from her contact with the foulness of China. It is too much to expect that we can save those who are already victims of the arug, but we can at least do much to remove the insidious temptation from the way of others. THE INVENTIVE FACULTY. One of the most notable magazine ar- ticles of the month is a paper in the Engineering Magazine by W. H. Smyth of this City, in which the question, “Is the Inventive Faculty a Myth?” is discussed and answered in the affirmative with con- siderable force of argument. Mr. Smyth maintains that the so-called “inventive faculty” is nothing more than a combina- tion of the faculties of observation, memory and reason which every intelligent human being possesses, Invention, therefore, is not the creative act of some wizard among men, but an art which may be acquired by almost any one. The establishment of the new theory, as pointed out by Mr. 8myth, would have practical results in the domain of patent laws and of mechanical education. At the present time the word invention, as it occurs in our laws, is construed by the courts to have a meaning extremely vague and metaphysical. One of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States is quoted as saying: “The truth is, the word cannot be defined in such a manner as to afford any substantial aid in determining whether a particular device involves an exercise of the inventive faculty or not.” Mr. Smyth claims that by putting an end to this idea of invention the construction of the law would be simplified and the courts, instead of having to determine the ever-recurring question whether a given device involves that undefinable some- thing which the law says is the indis- pensable requisite to patentability, would restrict the whole scope of the inquiry to the comparatively simple questions of novelty and atility. More important than the change in the law would be the change which the new theory would bring about in the domain of education by the inauguration of a science of invention which could be, taught like any other science in our schools and col- leges. Mr.Smyth says that while we call this “the age of invention,” it is really an age of pure empiricism in mechanics and bears to the future and real age of inven- tion much the same relation that the last century bears to this in respect to theoret- ical and applied science. The portions of the essay relating to the possible establishment of a course of in- struction in the science of invention are worked out with considerable detail, and give examples of how such instruction could be made practicable. It would seem that these suggestions might be adopted with profit by all schools of technology and manual training. In spite of Mr. Smyth’s argument, there may be such a thing as an inventive faculty, but even in that case it would be worth while to de- velop it by education. OLEAR LAKE POWER. The residents of the Clear Lake region have been lately exercised over some prop- osition to utilize the water-power of the lake in a manner which they haveassumed to mean a lowering of the level of the lake and the consequent exposure of vast areas of swamps and mud banks. The news- papers published at Lakeport have been admirably energetic in their protests against the inauguration of sucha scheme. Clearly they are right. All the invest- ments fronting on the lake have been made on a basis of the present level of the water sheet. Any one who may have the hardihood to interfere with that level would be an unsafe risk with a responsible life insurance company. For, excepting Lake Tahoe, which really by reason of its greater remoteness is less desirable for villa sites, Clear Lake is the most beauti- ful, picturesque and inviting lake in the State. It does not appear, however, that the plan to utilize the power of the waste water wouid in any way lower the level of the lake. Many of its shore lots were bought long ago, in the hope and belief that at some time they would be made reasonably ac- cessible by the construction of a railroad to the basin. There was every reason to believe that such a line would be built. Big Valley and Scott Valley, large and wonderfully productive areas, were a suffi- eient ground for this belief, but in addi- tion to them were the beauties of the lake itself, its superb fishing, yachting and sail- ing attractions, and the numerous valu- able mineral springs contributory to the section, including Bartlett Springs, High- land Springs, Soda Springs, Saratoga Springs and numerous others, to say noth- ing of the picturesque beauties of the Blue Lakes, the noble grandeur of Uncle Sam Mountain, the splendid game-stocked mountains reaching indetinitely to the northward, the charming rivers there- about, the gruesome marvels of Borax Lake and the Sulphur Bank, the whole- some elevation of 1300 to 1500 feet above the level of the sea, the splendid vineyards producing rich and heady wines, and the TEEMAN WHO KILLED THE LOTTERY Professor 8. H. Woodbridge of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, to whom per- haps more than to any other one person the lottery business owes its death blow, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on December 26, 1848. He is a descendant of the Rev. John Woodbridge, a Puritan preacher, who came to this country in 1630 and became the first min- ister in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massa- chusetts. At Williams College, where he re- ceived his academic education, Professor Wood- bridge exhibited traits of leadership and an ability for organization and an aggressive effort which made him a young man of mark. He was identified throughout his student life with all the religious and moral activities of the college, at one time being chiefly instru- mental in quelling a rebellion among the undergraduates, and st another raising from the alumni enough money to build & parson- age for the resident minister in the noted White Oaks missionary parish. On leaving college it was Professor Wood- bridge’s purpose to become 2 general teacher of physies, butan accident turned his atten- tion to the subjects of heating and ventilation, and his reputation as an expert presently won for him a chair in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an instructor in these Dbranches. Failing ill and and losing for a sea- PROFESSOR §. H. WOODBRIDU=. son the use of his eyes he became deeply in- terested in what friends read to him of the struggle in Louisiana to rid that State of the lottery curse. He co-operated with the man- agers of the original anti-lottery campaign; but when that was ended by the exclusion of indications of fine quicksilver deposits, ob- servable not only in the profitable working | of the Sulphur Bank mine, but also in ver- | milion croppings all the way from Uncle | Sam through Long Valley to Bartlett | Springs. These are some of the treasures | and attractions that are familiar to those | acquainted with the Clear Lake region. For years the property-owners of that | | section have been tantalized with the hope that they would have a railroad. The Donahue line, extending to Ukiah, made surveys, one particularly by way of High- land Springs and Kelseyville, at which latter place, in Biz Valley, near the shore of the lake, there is a, wonderful spring which spouts combustible gas and mineral water in wasteful profusion. The Donahue people did not build the line. Meanwhile the Southern Pacific, which runs to Calistoga on one side and Rumsey on the other, had acquired the rights of the Rutherford survey, which would have taken the line past the beautiful ranches that Freddy Gebbard and Mrs. Langtry bought adjoining when they were good friends. But the Southern Pacific never built that road. Then the Southern Pa- cific created a mild sensation by investi- gating the Cache Creek route irom Rumsey. That was years ago, and the line has never been built, and the matcklessly charming shores of Clear Lake have no picturesque villas, except those built by Mr. Bucking- ham, Captain Floyd (the now dead presi- dent of the Lick trust), Judge Hastingsand | the Hammond brothers. Thus one of the most splendid scenic | opportunities of Central California has | gone to waste. Although it lies just with- out the doors of S8an Francisco, and by rail | would be as easily and quickly accessible as the Hotel del Monte, and incomparably more varied and beautiful, the door has been kept locked by the two railroad com- panies which hold the keys. A new company steps into the field. It proposes to take the waters of Cache Creek, which is a virile stream and the only outlet of Clear Lake, and impound them five miles below the outlet of the lake for the purpose of transforming their energy into electricity for commercial use in San Francisco, Benicia, Mare Island, Vallejo, Santa Rosa, Oakland and all the intervening region. This is a very large subject. Evidently it does not mean that the level of Clear Lake isto be lowered, for the distance of five miles below the lake outlet leaves that matter out of con- sideration. As the scheme, besiaes fur- nishing electric power for all the area in- dicated, will fulfill its promise of running an electric road up Cache Creek Canyon to Clear Lake, it will prove one of the largest and most beneficial ever undertaken in California. VACATION'S GREATEST PLEASURE, “I hope you’re pleased with us, sir,” said the proprietor of the resort to the departing guest. “Perfectly, perfectly,” heartily responded the wuest; “delightful walks and drives, magnifi- cent views, best bathing I ever had, cool, airy rooms, a table equal to the best in the city, and charges reasonable. Why, I never enjoyed a vacation half s much!” “Thank you, sir, thank you!” said the beam- ing host. “I'trust you will come again next summer.” “No, sir,” said the guest, emphatically; “not much!” ““Why—why not?”’ asked the astonished host. “What's the use,” demanded the guest, “of spending your summer at a resort, if you can’t complain all winter of the discomforts you've endured, and tell how much better off you'd have been if you'd stayed at home?”"—Alex R., in Truth. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Anton Lipp of Miskoltz, Hungary, who died recently, was the last survivor of the battle of Leipzig. A new volume of verse by Frederick Ten- nyson, Lord Tennyson’s eldest brother, is to be published in the autumn. Dr, Buggraene, professor of medicine in the University of Ghent, 1s only 99, but feels pretty well. He drinks and smokes. William Peplow, aged 102, recently sang sev- eral songs in & concert in Wellington, England, besides conducting a chorus and playing s piano. Dean Allen, aged 94, of St. David’s Cathdral, England, is in vigorous health, superintends all the business of the cathedral and conducts the daily service. Mr. Navroji, the Radical Hindoo, has been defeated for Parliament in Finsbury, but Manchergee Merwangee Bhowneggree, a Con- servative Parsee from Bombay, has been elected in Bethnal Green. John C. Hancock of Hancock, Md., who has only his left arm to shoot with. the right hav- ing been lost in & carriage accident, has xilled this season with his shotgun 209 squirrels, 125 rabbits, 217 partridges, 62 pheasants, 28 wild turkeys and 35 woodcock. Of wild ducks he has shot 23 mallards and 7 redheads. | one determined and tireless agitator. all lottery matter from the mails he discovered that it would be necessary to close other ave- nues of advertisement end correspondence also. Accordingly in the early days of 1894 he organized the movement which ended only at five minutes before noon on the 4th of last March. It was a fine example of what can be accomplished in the face of appalling odds by Profes- sor Woodbridge trusted nothing to other hands which his own could do; and the last night of the last session of the Fifty-third Congress he passed in the Senate gallery, encouraging by his presence the twelve hours’ siege which Senator Hoar, in spite of {1l health and exhaustion irom overwork, was conducting on the floor. After the close of the session Professor Wood- bridge was called in to examine the defective ventilating appliances in the halls of Congress and to report plans for their permanent im- provement. He is still engaged in this work.— Harpers’ Weekl DEFENDER'S UP-TO-DATE STEER- ING GEAR. The steering gear of the Defender which be- came disabled on Tuesday during the run with the New York Yacht Club fleet from Hunting- ton, L. I.,to New London, is & new device which was recently invented by Nat Herres- hoff and is in use on no other boat, says the New York Sun. The main object of the inventor is to secure such speed of movements as isfound in a tiller, while at the same time to obtain power enough to steer the boat easily should she beatall hard headea atany time. The object has ap- parently been accomplished, as it is stated that three-quarters of a turn of the wheel will throw the rudder hard up or hard down. The main feature of the device by which this is ac- complished is & palr of back gear wheels, such | as are used on power lathes. The sccompanying diagram shows the ar- rangement of the back gears. The force ex- erted by the wheel W at ether end is transmit- locked the entire apparatus, even making it impossible to throw out the gears and steer by direct power. PERSONAL. E.E. Bush, a Hanford capitalist, is at the Lick. H. Steele, a Pescadero mining man, is at the Russ. T. C. Lusk, a Chico lawyer, is a guest at the Palace. Rev. W. H. Story of Marysville is at the Occi- dental. Sol Lazar, a Madera merchant, is at the Lick House. D. T. Elmore, & mining man of Amador, is at the Grand. A.L. Hart, an attorney from Sacramento, is at the Grand. A.P.Johnson, a Riverside capitalist, is & guest at the Palace. E. Ergnace, one of the merchants of Half- moon Bay {s at the Lick. 8. A. Knapp, a borax king of Hawthorne, Nev., is at the Occidental. T. McRae, 2 railroad contractor from Han- ford, is at the Lick House. George Rowland Jr., son of the Los Angeles politician, is at the Palace. 0. E. Wood and Newton E.Wood, U. S. A., are guests at the Occidental. Judge J. H. Craddock of Marysville isin the City and at the Grand Hotel. Dr. George B. Little, a physician of Burling- ton, Iows, is at the Grand Hotel. M. A. Delano, a mining man from French Guich, is at the California Hotel. R. M. Green, a druggist and mining man of Oroyille, is stopping at the Grand. D. R. Cammeron of Hanford {s housed at the Lick. Mr. Cammeron is a capitalist. 0. T. Johnson, owner of the Westminster Hotel, Los Angeles, is stopping at the Palace. Horace A, and Maurice D. Crary, prominent coal-mine owners from Sheflield, Pa., are at the California Hotel. Mrs. T. Berringer, wife of the wine merchant of St. Helena, Napa County, isat the Lick. She is accompanied by her daughter. H. D. McDonald, at one time a prominent candidate for Governor of Texas, but &t present & lawyer of Paris, Tex.,is at the Palace Hotel. R. Kahler, & wine man of Merced, is at the Grand Hotel with his bride. The couple are spending their honeymoon in S8an Franeisco. J. N. E. Wilson, ex-District Attorney of San Francisco, but now a resident of Mexico, where he is engaged in mining, is in the Cityona visii. Rev. John Krantz, pastor of Trinity M. E. Church of Jersey City, N.J.,1is at the Grand Hotel. The reverend gentleman will visit Yosemite Valley while on this coast. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. New York, N. Y., Aug. 6.—Arrivals at hotels to-day were: San Francisco—M. Seligman, F. H. Ames, Hoffman; A.H. Crocker, Belvidere; P. Greenberg, Broadway Central; C. Haile J. Watson, New Amsterdam; Mr. and Mrs. I. N, Norman, Grand Union; L. M. Pearham, Cole- man; L. 0. Peck, Gerlach; J. O. Whitney, Gil- sey; M. R.Engel, St. Cloud. Los Angeles—J. Marschutsz, Warwick. Oakland—A. Jones, Belvidere. OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Auburn, Cal., Aug. 6.—More people have left town this season than in any previous season for the higher altitudes in Upper Placer. Amongthose away are: Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Lubeck, at Sunny Sides, on Lake Tahoe; Dr. Kooney, at Echo Lake; Aumm(’wmm, E. C. Gavlord, Dan Botto, Mr. and Mrs, E. O. Smith, Mrs. Graham, Misses Norton, Dickson and Skinner, Donner; E. R. Gifford and family, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Coates, Soda Judge Prewett and party returned from Yosemite. Hon. J. H. Neft leaves this week for Boston to attend the Knights Templar conclave. Attorney Tabor returned last week from a business trip to New York, Great Sachem O. F. Seavey, F. Babler, F. Hohman, A. K. Robinson and J. C. Safford are attending the Great Council of Red Men at Redwood City. Capitols, Cal., Aug. 6.—The arrivals &t the Hotel Capitola were: C.S. Ligurd and 8. R. Flemming, San Jose; Dr. A. H. Bailey Santa Cruz; C. L. Adams and Mrs. Dr. Winsor and family, San Jose; John J. Maloney and J. M. Kennedy, Sacramento; Ansel Smith, wife and child, Stockton; Miss Cope, Oakland} Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Enright, San Jose; Mr. and M W. T. Cope and Mrs. D. Seamster, Sante Cruz; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Giliespie, T. K. Ledyard and J. 8. Layndor, 8an Jose; M. C. Harris, Dr. R, Mc- Carglon, E. Burgingnon and F. E. Burgingnon, Saa Francisco. Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. 6.—Vergie Moore, who has been to Alaska, returned to Santa Rosa to- day, and is visiting his father, Judge A.P. Moore. Mrs. H. H. Thompson and Miss Brey- man of Salem, Or., who have been the guests of Misses O’Meara, left to-day for their home. Dan P. Carter of San Francisco, but still claimed as a Santa_ Rosan, spent one day here this week, Mrs. Peter Rickliff has returned from a visit to Boston. Professor F.L. Burk has returned from a visit to Capitola. R.M. Sims,vice-principal of the Scnoma High School, D ~ W == M b, = IR = = *H M—DMaln shatt with bearings W at each end for the attachment of the steering wheels. 8—Sleeve traveling either upon or with main shaft, according as the power is indirect or direct, and carrying pinions A and P, A—Pinion on sleeve S. Band C—Pinion and gear wheel on back or power gear. D—Gear wheel on main shat. P—Pinion on sleeve S. engagingiwith the quadrant gear wheel of the rudder. H—Where the shaft expanded and choked the sleeve. ted along the shaft M to the geared wheel D; this transmits it to the pinion C, which travels several times as fast as D, according to the ratio of the number of gears on each. From C the force is transmitted to B, which travels at the same rate; and from B it passesto A, where there is still another increase in speed. A communicates directly with P by means of the sleeve 8,and P isin gear with the quadrant ‘wheel of the rudder. When direct steering is desired a clutch not shown in the drawing moves the sleeve S on the shaft M so as to disengage the pinion A from its geer wheel B, and so to throw out the back gears Band C. At the same time another cluteh disengages the pinion P from the sleeve 8 and engages it with the main shaft M. The poweris then transmitted directly from the shaft M to the rudder by means of the pin- ion P. It will be seen by any one familiar with ma- chinery that the back gears C and B are not geared as in a power lathe, but in reverse man- ner. Thereis, therefore, no gain of power; but, on the contrary, a considerable loss of it, as the power exerted at the steering wheels is largely converted by the gearing into speed. This gives the steering wheels an extraordin- ary delicacy, as a very slight turn of them causes several revolutions of the pinion P, which is directly geared to the rudder quad- rant, In addition to this the resistance of the rudder, which passes through the gearingin the opposite direction, is increased to a con- sidersble extent. On this account a steering wheel is placed at each end of the shaftin order that double the ordinary force may be exerted if necessary by placing two or four men at each wheel. For the same reason the arrangement for throwing out the gears is pro- vided, so that the new device could bedis- pensed with if it became unmanageable. The weak part of the arrangement is obvi- ously the sleeve S. Not only does it travel faster than any other portion of the device, thus being most liable to generate a dangerous amount of heat by friction, but it also hasa very large surface exposed to friction. In the run on Tuesday the heavy sea and the high speed of the Defender caused a heavy strain on the steering gear, and these two por- tions were in constant motion. They became heated by the friction, and the shatt expanded and filled the sleeve. This prevented any motion between the two and effectually has gone to that city after a month spent here. Mrs. Julius Bizzini is at Lytton Spfln%fl. L. L. Locke, a San Francisco broker, and wife, were here yesterday on a visit to_ Colonel W.H. Bilngton at the Occidental, Hon. J. C. Sims, ‘who has been at Santa Cruz for two weeks, has returned. El Paso de Robles, Cal., Aug. 5.—C. A. Buck- ley, wife and child, and Mrs. W. Harrison of Livermore, will spend a few weeks at Paso Robles. Sig Greenebaum and L. 8. Greene- baum will spend afew weeks at Paso Robles. Kelseyville, Lake County, Aug. 4.— Mrs. Charles Vocke, Miss Minnie Vocke and Ray- mond Vocke, who have beon visiting Mrs. D. 3. Lynch of Kelseyville, Lake County, have re- turned to the City. SAID IN REPARTEE. Manager—Have you a phenomenal range? Prima Donna—I am the only singer who will appear before any kind of seats, from 75 cents to $5.—Puck. ! Lea—Great heavens! old man, I have suffered three days and nights of sleepless agony from this raging toothache! Perrins—Why don’t you get it pulled? Lea—I would, but I'm afraid it would hurt!— Puck. S Magistrate—Prisoner, what do you do for a living? Bunko man (from Boston)—Your Honor will pardon me if I take undue liberties, but your Honor’s grammar is much at fault. “What” can never be & synonym for ‘“whom.,”—FPhila- delphia Record. S “As there will be nothing to conceal after we are married, dearest, I may as well tell you that Ismoke cigarettes, play poker, drink, and am rarely home before 1 o’clock in the morning.” “I am glad to hear you say so. I was afraid ‘we wouldn’t be perfect companions.”—Life. First Tramp—~What woula you do if you had $100,000? Second Tramp—In that case I think I'd feel it absolutely necessary to go §p work to make it a million.—Roxbury Gazet! Husband—I really think you might have had that ball dress made a little bit higher in the neck—to say nothing of the back. Wife—I'll have it changed if you wish, but this stuff costs £2 a yard. Husband—Um—well, never mind.—London Tit-Bita, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Rounsevelle Wildman, ex-Consul-General to India, ex-Consul to Germany, ex-Commissioner to the World’s Fair, ex-agent from the Smith- sonian Institute to Borneo and Siam, ex-dele- gate to Congress from Idaho, ex-editor of tl!e Tdaho Statesman, member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and present editor of the Overland Monthly, has decided to tell the American people why the Sultan of Johore refused to come to the United Statesand take advantage ROUNSEVELLE WILDMAN TALKS OF THE SULTAN OF JOHORE. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] of the grand Johore day that the Commiseion- ers were preparing for his Majesty. “It happened,” said Mr. Wildman in the Palace Hotel yesteraay morning, ‘‘that I was commissioned to g the Sultan to London from Vienna and thence to Chicago, where the World’s Fair was in progre He was to be accompanied by his suite and $10,000,000 worth of diamonds, the second best collection in the world.” “Who has the first?”’ inquired a listener. “Queen Victoria. Well, to continue. When we came to London Victoria tendered the Sultan a reception, and a theater party was made up as & conclusion to the state dinner. Now, this is the peint in the story where the Sultan got his back up and decided that the Caucasian people were without honor and without standing. “When he reached the theater hie aid-de- cantp, an Englishman, invited a woman into the box to meet his Highness. On the follow- ing day she informed him that if he did not put up §50,000 she would sue him for breach of promise. The Sultan, being an old-time sport, told her to get in and start the row as soon as possible; that he wouldn’t put up o cent on such a proposition. She then threat- ened to drag him into the newspapers, and to this he agreed a! Finally the case was taken to the Home Secretary, Henry Asquith, who decided that the sultanate, which by the way had been in dispute for 100 years, was inde- pendent, having its own armies by land and its own vessels by sea, and that the Sultan was equal to the Czar in the matter of doing as he pleased. The result was that the Sultan, al- though the decision was for him, put his foot down on going any further west and de- nounced the white people as blackmailers and uncivilized bandits. He forthwith gathered his people and his diamonds to his bosom and returned to India, refusing to take the advice of his Prime Minister, who wished him to marry the English girl and ship her back to Johore, where she would be the one hundred and fifty-first wife, and consequencely of little importance.” — e LAKEPORT IS ALARMED. The Lakeport Bee in its issue of the 2d inst. has this to say of the project to utilize the ‘waters of Clear Lake: “The most important topic that coneerns the people of Lake County, or should concern them, is the proposition of the San Francisco corpo- ration that contemplates lowering the lake eight feet below its present level. “Their avowed object is to use the water to generate clectricity, but their true object, so we are informed, is to use the water to irrigate their land in Capay Valley, which would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to them ana which would ruin our lake. “Without Clear Lake Lake County would lose its greatest actraction, and anything that would mar its beauty or turn it into a slough should not be tolerated. It is of inestimable value to our people, as it is our greatest heritage. “Wednesday C. M. Hammond took a party of interested people out in his launch and took soundings every thirty seconds. The starting point was Atherton’s wharf and the course straight out from the shore. The water is 5 feet 3 inches deep at the boathouse, and the last measurement, which was over a mile from shore, was 14 feet 6 inches. The lake is now three feet above Captain Floyd’s low-water mark, and the City of Lakeport cannot turn around, but has to back out on her outward tripand plow her way through the mud to come in. “If this corporation lowers the lake eight feet below the present level it means that boats drawing four feet of water must anchor a mile from the present shore line; that the land between here and the new shore line would bea swamp, breeding malaria, and an eyesore 1o the people. The upper part of the lake would be overgrown with tules and it would ruin the Collier, Hammond and Ed- mand places, which are among the handsomest in the county, “The time of the year when this corporation would want the water is the very time when we need it most. They would not want the surplus waterin the winter season, but in the dry season after the surplus had run off; for their purpose, as we have said before, 18 to irri- gate Capay Valley. “Now, if they want to dam up Cache Creek in several places and catch the surplus water, nobody has any objections, but the people of Lake County canuot allow them to draw off 8s much water as they want at that season of the year.” —_— OFINIONS OF EDITORS. The Eastern papers are getting afraid that San Francisco will get the next National con- vention. When the Eastern cities commence to q:h: it it shows that our prospects are good, for if they were not, they would ignore us.— Independent Calistogian. b The little town of Tracy is ambitious to be- come the county seat of a new county proposed to be formed from portions of San Joaquin, Alameda and Stanislaus counties. The new councty would include the Corral Hollow coal mines and the towns of Tracy, Newman and Altamont.—Kern City Standard. Why don’t the “sound money” people take their good dollars to Mexico, where they can get two for one, and buy up everything the Mexicons have. That's what they tell us Mexico and other countries will do to us if we open our mints to the free coinage of silver— just come in and buy eyerything we have and carry it off. —Phcenix (Ariz.) Republican. This point, made by the San Francisco CALL, is well taken: “He is a hardy citizen who is willing to brave the prevalent spirit of indiffer- ence and make a fight for a people careless of its own interests.”—Tacoma (Wash.) Union, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, TrE UNIVERSITY—H. de 8., City. The follow- ing is the rule regulating admission into the university at Berkeley without taking the en- tranee examination: Upon the request of any public or private school in California, whose course of study em kind and extent the subjects required for sion to any college of the university at Berkeley, o committee of the academic senaiewill visit such School and Teport upon the quality of instruction there given. 12 the report of such committee he favorable, a graduate of the school, upon the por- sonal recommendation of the principal, accom- panied by his certificate that the graduate hag Fatistactorily completed the studies of the course preparatory to the college such student wishes 1o enter, may at the discretion of the faculty of such college be admitted without examination. ‘ALl applications made in accordance with this rule must be in the hands of the recorder of the faculties at Berkeley on or before the 21st of March of each year. Recommended graduates of accredited schools and other ap- Plicants not taking the entrance examination Fhould file applications and eredentials with the recorder at the time of the Augustexam- inations. THE Trpes—Constant Reader, City. The tide. tables published in THE CALL show the time shen it is high and low water in the bay of San Francisco and immediate vicinity. There are four tides every twenty-four hours—high tide ana higher high tide, and low tide and lower low tide. In the table printed, “Hign water large, small,” and “Low water large, small,” are distinguished the diffcrent tides. When in the table appears “High water large 1:02 A.; small 2:44 p.,” that means that it will be high water on the higher high tide at 1:02 o'clock in the morning and high water on the lower high tide at 2:44 in the afternoon; so with low water large and small. As soon as a tide has reached its maximum height, as indi- cated by the table, it turns and falls until it reaches the low-water mark, the time of which s given. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN — *“Incog.,” City. As beauty, when women are in question, is some= thing that but few can agree upon, it is somewhat difficult to answer the question, “Which is the most beautiful woman in Shake- speare’s works?” Some who have criticized the works of the Bard of Avon are of the opinion that Ophelia was the most beautiful, and there are others who believe that Rosalind in “As You Like It"” was. BurrerrLies—W. B. H., City. The Query Column has not the space to devote to giving processes of mounting butterflies and bugs. You can find works that will give you informa- tion on these subjects 1n the Free Public Library of this City SULLIVAN-KILRAIN—F. W., San Jose, Cal. The fight between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kils rain at Richburg, Miss,, July 8, 1889, was fought according to the latest rules of the Lone don prize ring. :The two men fought 75 rounds before Kilrain threw up the sponge. SACRED HEART COLLEGE—G. 8., City. Pupils were first received in the Sacred Heart College at its present locatiou, corner of Eddy and Larkin streets, in the first week of January, 1874. EacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay straaz. * e e— Laundried Shirt Waists Silk Waists, elegant styles Fine Cloth Capes, all colors. Black Cloth Capes, fine..... £3 00 and $6 00 Kelly & Liebes’ Cloak-House, 120 Kearny st. * 75¢ and £1 00 ————————— “So this is Heliopolis, is it? Well, of all the backwoods places I ever—" “Stranger, stop right thar. Five y'ar ago ter day all this kentry was kivered with virgin forest. Now, look at the improvement. Su- mac, jimpson weed and pizen ivy’s fur’s ye kin seel Stranger, thet's civilization.”—New York Recorder. e Hoov's Sarsaparilla acts upon the blood. It en- ricles, vitalizes and purifies, and thereby gives Bealth, strength and vitality in place of nervous- ness, weakness and misery, e oA “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wing Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether 2rising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Ee sure and ask for Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. e —— Waiter—The landlord of the Lion sends you his compliments, and begs to inquire if you are thinking of stepping across this evening? Student—What does he want to know thab for? ‘Waiter—Because, if youdon’t, it will scarcely ‘be worth while tapping a fresh barrel to-day.— Unsere Gesellschaft. The Difference. The inside bottom of a shoe,— just where the foot comes. One-half was Goodyear Welt, the other machine-sewed. Goodyear Welt part is smooth, clean, free from nails; machine- sewed part is full of tacks, nails, waxed threads,—is hard and stiff : that’s the difference,— part of it. In some machine-sewed shoes the tacks, nails, and waxed threads are covered with strip of leather 0 you can’t see them; but they are there just the same. Ask your shoe dealer about it! (33 * CHARLES WARREN STODDARD POET OF THE SOUTH SEAS, Has Written a Delicious Description of "GOLDEN GATE PARK - REVISITED.” THE SUNDAY CALL ‘Will publish this charming production om Sunday, August 11. Into this work Mr., Stoddard has thrown all the sweetness of his soul. Itisa theme to inspire a poet. Such magnificent word-painting is seldom to be enjoyed. Illustrations by Joe Strong, THE CALL devotes a great deal of attens tion to excellent articles on Western themes by Western men and Western women,