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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1896. 2. 200 o ~ O write in detail the life-story of Don Carlos M’ % many months’ work and it would make a book of thousands of ag At present his home in this City is at 1713 Broadway. He is pass- ing his days quietly enough now, but during actual living. This sketch can only briefly outline the principal events in a most exciting career t extended over mnearly a quarter of a y. In that time Don Carlos fought against five differ nations and aided in several expeditions against pirates. He also did his share toward putting dewn a number cctions, rebellions and muti During his years of service very weeks passed without giving him achance to sm powder. Cannon-balis naval warfare than any man unow and bullets by the thousands have passed within 2 w inches of his head and he men killed by bis side that he has lost count of them. :h having a Spanish title Don Arti was not born in Spain, but ave him ies of was His memo dim, it Arti would require | life he has, perhaps, seen more | STtony the young Irish gunner was transferred to the Huascar. When his abilities became known he was given the first position in the turret and the title of Don Carlos | M’Arti. From that day his history and the history of the Huascar are woven to- | gether. The Huascar was scarcely a month old when the first man was killed on her decks. It was a cold-blooded murder on the part of Commodore Salsado, who split the head of a young English lientenant for being absent in Rio Janeiro without leave. Charges were preferred against him, but the commodore made up his mind to wet | out without paying any attention to them. He attempted to pass the forts with both vessels, but they were fired at and struck several times. The Independence turned back. The Huascar, however, did succeed in getting away, but came back, Commo- dore Salsado knowing the Independence would be held. He was acquitted on the | trial, as it was shown that the murdered man was a hard character, who had served in the Confederate navy. Both the Huascar and the Indepen- dence left Rio Janeiro on a Wednesday in May, 1866, and on the following Sunday | Don 'Carlos M’ Art: fired the first gun from | the ironclad’s turret. It was not much of | a fight, but the Peruvians came out of it | with two Spanish ships to show for their trouble. One was sent around the Horn to Callao and the other was sunk because | there was no crew to put on board of her. oF THE CAREER, oF ARLoS M'ART! A A AT in their honor and while the y were absent the Huascar was captured Yy the rebels and sailed out of the harbor. Ata point down the coast the rebel leader, Don Pierola, came aboard and took command. Don Carlos M’ Arti, who was aboard at the time of the capture, was made a prisoner and told that he would either have to work the gunsor be put in irons. He was put inirons ana the Huascar began a career little short of piracy. Merchaut vessels of neutral nations were robbed of cecal and provisions. The Independence was sent after the Huascar, but of course would not fight the ironclad, and the rebels had things all their own way until the English men-of-war, Bhah and Amethyst, got after them to demand an account for depreda- tions against British commerce. The Huascar bad been in the harbor of Ylo for_several days when on the morn- ing of May 22, 1877, the lookout saw the smoke of two vessels out at sea. Thinking it was the Peruvian fleet, the rebel com- mander gave orders to prepare for action. When the three ships met the British cap- tain asked Pierola to surrender, but he, emboldened by his successes, refused by saying that he would fight as long as he had a grain of powder Teft. He did not fight very long, however, as the first shot from the Shah carried away the flag, and in another moment an electric broadside cleared the spar deck of everything mov- able. After firing a number of ineffectual shots the Huascar made an attempt to ram the Shah, but that vessel was handled s0 nicely that she got out of the way, and, turning around, delivered another electric broadside that almost blew the ironclad out of the water. Allof her plates were started, and she ran close in shore to get out of the fight. The Shah was injured but slightly. During the night a fog came next day, when the Chileans gave up. When the Huascar reached Aricag she was almost out of coal. Don Carlos fought in the battle of Anto- fogasta on August 24, 1879. Two Chilean corvettes—the Mageilan and the Abtow— were hidden in the harbor when the Huas- car entered and came from behind some English merchant-ships and gave her a broadside. The shore batteries also opened fire, but did little damage. A shell from Don Carlos’ turret struck the mainmast of the Abtow, killing the engi- neer and eighteen sailors. Ilsiring was kept up all day, but toward night the Ohileans went back behind the English merchant-ships and the Huascar withdrew With the loss of two men. On the 8th of Octobar the Huascar went to the port of Anatages, Captain Grau in- tending to destroy the Chilean troopships there. But it happened that the enemy’s fleet was just around the point, aund word Was sent there in time to permit plans to be made. o’clock the next morning, when the Huascar was attempting to leave the harber, intending to steam to Arica, she was surrounded by the Chilean fleet, the commander of which had so distributed his vessels as to make escape impossible. The battle commenced at ten minutes past 9 in the morning, and the first shot was fired by Don Carlos from the turret of the Huascar at the Chilean ironclad Almi- rante Cochrane. It was only a common shell and did little damage, but the Coch- rane returned it at close range and put a shot through the bows of the Huascar. Both the Blanco Encalada and the Coch- rane poured shot and shell on top of the Huascar. The little ironclad returned the fire until her machinery was disabled, and Don Carlos was the only man left alive in the turret, the rest being killed by the ex- plosion of a shell that came in through the porthole. The three vessels had by this time come to close quarters, and when Don Carlos found his gun worthless he went on deck and took partin the hand-to-hand conflict raging there, never ceasing until the lust officer had given up the ship and declared the Huascar beaten. Toward the end of the struggie there wasa Freat deal of bravado on the part of some of the men, but when it came to the pinch they showed cowardice. One man told everybody to jump overboard, as he was goingto fire his pistol into the magazine and blow the vessel up. Many men believed him, but when the enemy searched the vessel after- wards he was concealed in a safe place. It was discovered later that he had not taken any active part in the battle. There were numerous other cases of the same kind, and 1n fact, Don Carlos says, the only men SINKING OF THE CHILEAN CORVETITE ESMERALDA BY THE PERUVIAN [From a painting by a Chilean artist who saw the fight.| IRONCLAD HUASCAR. broken up by his going to sea and his parents coming to America. At the age of 14 Charles, as he was then called, enlisted for ten years as an apprentice in the British frigate Royal George and his vesset at once started for the war then being waged in China. He got plenty of excite- ment on this trip serving in the capacity of “powder monkey.” The Royal George was in several engagements with land forts and junks. There was a great deal of hot fighting and a large number of men killed. party at the taking of Hongkong. Be- fore the Chinese war was over he was | transferred to the Nymphe ana did several months’ service in the Crimea. ‘When the War of the Rebellion broke out in this country Charles was most anx- ious to leave the British service and take up arms for the Union. His parents had sent him money and he had received word that hLis father was in the field. This caused bim to desert his ship, but as he had become an expert gunner diligent search was made which resulted in his be- ing captured and put in irons for a time. Soon atterward his father was killea at the battle of Shiloh and he determined to re- main in the British service until his time was up and make a careful study of gun- nery. It did not take him long to getinto service again after he was honorably dis- charged in 1866. He was offered induce- ments by his officers to re-enlist, but pre- ferred to try his hand in another part o the world, and joined the Peruvian frigate Independence, then being fitted out in Liverpool for the war against Spain. At the same time the ironclad Huascar was beingz constructed at Birkenhead, and when it was finished both ves started on a cruise together. They arrived at Rio Janeiro at the same time, and while there Charles was one of the landing | | _ This was the beginning of the Huascar’s fighting, and before she had passed | through’ the Straits of Magellan Don | Carlos had trained her guns on over a | dozen vessels. Everything hostile was either sunk or captured. There had been | a number of hand-to-hand fights, and the | decks of the Huascar at times literally | ran with blood. When tne latitude of the Horn was | reached the ironclad struck her first gale, and for a time it looked as if she would go | to the bottom. The Huascar was the first | vessel of her class to enter the Pacific, and the long, heavy seas swept over her, o that she was handled with great aiffi- culty. The war with Svain lasted many months | and there was fighting nearly every week, so that Don Carlos was almost constantly in the turret working his guns. By the time Callao was reached the Spanish fleet in those waters was wiped out of exist- ence. The crew were paid off and given their first shore liberty in over a year. They were the lionsof the hour and the Peravians could not do enough for them. B{ 1868 the war with Spain was prac- tically over, although there was consider- able trouble for & while on account of in- ternational complications. In 1871 Don Carlos had a rest. The Huascar was laid up in Callao with noth- ing to do. In 1872 a revolution started because of the election of General Balto to the Presidency. That made things very lively for a time. The rebels were con- tinually making attempts to capture the Huascar and a number of bloody fights re- ulted, but the crew were well paid by the | Government and never gave up the ship. In 1877 the Huascar met her first defeat in battle. It seems that another revolu- tion started that year and on some pretext the Huascar was sent to Lima, where she met a grand reception. It turned out to be a revolutionary plot. The first night 1in port the officers attended a dinner given Battle Between the British Man-of-War Shah and the Peruvian Rebel Ironclad Huascar. [From a sketch by an officer present.] up, and Huascar madé ber escape to Iq}? | que, where Pierola surrendered to the Pe- Huascar by saying that he had battled with and sunk the Shah. But when the Shah steamed into port a few hours later her captain was thanked for crippling the Huascar, and by so doing practically end- ing the revolution. A number of men were killea on the Huascar, but the Shah had only one injured. The Amethyst took little part in the ftight. She fired a few shots at first and then withdrew with smoke coming from her hatches. It was said that a hot-shot from the Huascar had set her on fire, but this was denied by the officers of the British vessel. While the Huascar was being repaired, Don Carlos had a chance to rest a few months, and was then called to duty in tbe war over the nitrate beds, with Chile on one side and Peru and Bolivia on the other. There was hard fighting from the start, as the fleets of both sides were con- stantly on tbe lookout for each other and spent their time in cruising from port to port. The first naval battle of that war was be- tween the Huascar and the Chilean cor- vette Esmeralda, near Iquiqune. Don Carlos had his old place in the turret,and accord- ing to his story, the battle was fierce and bloody. At this time the Huascar was in command of Captain Grau. Before open- ing fire, he asked the Esmeralda to surren- der, and for answer got a broadside, which, however, did little damage. After several shots that missed, Don Carlos put one through the Esmeralda’s boilers, render- ing her helpless, so that she drifted on a reef, where she was rammed by the Huas- car and sank in a few minutes. Before the Huascar could back out, Captain Prat and eight men of the Esmeralda jumped aboard and a bloody fight took place on the ironclad’s decks. The sentinel was shot the first thing and the men put their backs to the turret, making a bard fight. Captain Prat was in the act of jumping for Grau’s tower, when his head wascut off by an indian seaman. The eight men were finally killed, and_the work of picking up the survivors of the Esmeralda com- menced. Some of the Chileans refused to be saved by the Peruvians, many of them shooting at their rescuers while struggling in the water. ‘While this conflict was going on the In- dependence had attacked the Chilean gun- boat Covadongo, but that vessel did not stop to fight. She escaped by steaming over a shoal, and when the Independence aitempted to follow she struck a reef and sunk. The Peruvians certainly had the worst of the fight, as they had lost one of their best ships and had only destroyed a tLird-rate one of the enemy’s. The Huascar, in company with the Union and Pilcomayo, went back to Caliao and shipped good crews. Then another cruise along the coast began. When Iqui- que was again reached the Chilean trans. port steamer Martise Quesino was cap- tured by firing one shot from a forty-pound n. She was taken in tow, butin a few minutes had to be abandoned, as the whole Chilean fleet was seen entering the harbor. The Huascar managed to dodge them, and then began a chase that lasted all the | who really did their duty were the Ameri- ) ero | cans and Englishmen who were in ‘the ruvians, explaining the condition of the | crew. All the officers of the Huascar except one were killed in the engagement, the first being Captain Grau, who was cut in two by a shell in the conning tower. As fast as an officer took the place he was killed until the small space was piled deep with mangled bodies. At this time pan- demonium reigned and the two Chilean vessels continued to pour shot and shell into the Huascar until her colors were shot away. In all fifty-four men were killed. This number would have been much less had not a big shell exploded in the cabin where the surgeon was at work, killing him and twenty wounded men. When the Chilean flag had been run up on the Huascar she was towed to Valpa- raiso, where she was repaired and in two months was ready to fight again. Don Carlos M’Arti lost everything he bad in the world when the Huascar was captured by the Chileans. He did not have a cent of money and there was no prospect of getting any work. After great hardships he managed to reach Pan- ama, where a frtendiy captain gave him passage to San Francisco. He has made a few voyages since coming here, one bein to tie Arctic in the Rush, but never di any fighting since that awful day on the Huascar. In spite of the many baltles he has been through Don Carlos has never received a wound except a slight burn on the back of his hands. "He bas not a single scar to show for all his fighting, but it has told on him by making him look about fifteen years older than he is. WHY SOME MEN WILL NOT BE INTERVIEWED BY W. C. MORROW. The newspaper interview, by the grace of a perfectly natural desire on the part of most people to be interviewed and the wish of all to read interviews, has become a marked feature of the Qaily news. On this account there is much interest in the phase of the subject presented by Cor- nelius Vanderbilt in his persistent refusal tobe interviewed. No question of etiquette is involved in his case. No reporter would think of seeking an interview with the President of the United Statesora crowned personage of Europe. Even the Prince of ‘Wales may not be interviewed, although he isone of the most democratic and genial of gentlemen and could grant an interview without any fear of disagreeable conse- quences on the score of misrepresentation. But etiquette forbids bis being interviewed. Mr. Vanderbilt’s assigned reason for refusing to be interviewed is that his father was once incorrectly made to damn the public 1n that hearty way that became him so well. It isbitterly and persistently denied that he ever gave vent to that ob- jurgation. These denials do little credit totue old gentleman's independence of character. He may never have said it, but everybody will think he did, for every intelligent person of any character and force feels like saying it at times. Not to say it, is merely to have some tact. It behooves millionaires in business to be tactful. Moreover, those who think that the elder Vanderbilt's remark was so dreadful a thing to say overlook the fact that it never could have done the ola gentleman the least harm, and that, on the contrary, it raised him in the estimation of the thousands of brainy world-builders who want to say it and areafraid, and who acquire an added respect for the man who, in a moment of petulance, blurts it out. Vicarious swearing is more satisfying than vicarious praying. Cornelius Vanderbilt avoids interviewers professedly 1or the reason that they may misrepresent him as they did his father, and that hence his ability for making money out of the masses may be curtailed by the operation of a resentful feeling. No other reason has been given, and we must take that as all. It would be far more agreeable to assume that as a man ‘“‘worth’’ $100,000.000 (note the significant meaning which this decent word has come to acquire in recent times)isa hundred million times as worthy as a man “worth’’ $1, it would not be becoming to his supe- rior position to place himself on a level with men of smaller worth who are will- ing to be interviewed. That need not be regarded as superciliousness; we may call it a self-appreciation. This in its proper aspects is an admirable thing, for it it is not vanity it is pride, and that is one of the best things in the world. It is differ- ent from self-consciousness, which belongs to girls of the adolescent age and to peo- ple who remain adolescent all their lives, never maturing. We are not even permitted to believe that Mr. Vanderbilt bas a lack of confi- dence in his own intelligence and tact which makes him avoid the dread inquisi- tor of the press. For ability to meet an interviewer with perfect self-command, a fine wit and a shrewd tongue is possessed only by persons of uncommon intelligence. The man who can lie glibly in a burst of confidence is an artist. The impressive person with a large and imposing manner who overwhelms a reporter with his mag- nificent weight is a genius. The ability to be interviewed is a fortune to its pos- sessor. It comprises brains, tact, a wise assumption of becoming modesty and a certain kindness of heart. 1t is as easy to refuse an interview as it is to insult a beggar or strike a woman. We are not permitted to believe even that Mr. Van- derbilg’s refusal to be interviewed is a modest and gentlemanly confession of inability to talk intelligently without in- juring his money-earning power. On the contrary, we are forced to accept the bald and naked explanation that, as his father had once been misrepresented, he also might be, and that his large inter- ests do not permit him to take risks with misrepresentations which may affect his revenues. That is the explanation given by Chauncey M. Depew, who in giving it seems to furnish evidence of a spirit strangely out of harmony with his usual aspect of kindliness. It means simply to say that Mr, Vanderbilt, being of necessity sordid, prefers a fearful to a tactful sordid- ness. In other words, as men oi brains, culture and kindliness regard the inter- viewer as an exceedingly useful imple- ment for advancing their worldly inter- ests, Mr. Vanderbilt must forego that ad- vantage by reason apparently of a fear that in spite of the fact that the benefits of an interview immeasurably offset its dangers, Mr. Vanderbilt cannot turn that circumstance to account in his pursuit of money. If I were his nearest friend I should be ashamed to make that confes- sion concerning him. Many persons coming into conspicuous positions blunder under the interview out of sheer ignorance of the world and its ways. They are unable at first to realize that eminence, whether temporary and adventitious or worthy and lasting, is de- structive of perfect privacy, and that the newspaper is the commonly accepted bureau of publicity and promotion. It helps infinitely more than it hurts, and he who is not aware of that fact has his first useful lesson of the world to learn. The tyro in the experience of being inter- viewed may resent newspaper inquiry as an impertinent intrusion upon an exclu- siveness which no one has a right to pene- trate, or a ruinous interference with pri- vate matters with which the world can have no concern. Resentment of the in- Scene in the Turret of the Huascar at the Battle With the Chilean Fleet. (From descriptions by Don Carlos M’ Arti.) terview under such circumstances is merely a confession of vanity without wisdom in the one case and a lack of adroitness in the other. It is impossible for such persons to un- derstand that the newspaper above all things else is the one perfect expression of all the complex qualities of our civiliza- tion. If interviews seemingly of a cruelly inquisitive nature, withouta worthy mo- tive for their seeking, were not eagerly read and thus demanded even by those who denounce the practice of “prying into private matters,” they would never be pub- lished. The demand of the age is that each person shall know what his neighbor is doing. He who would run counter to this spirit places himseif at a grievous dis- advantage, because the world is hard and jeering and will not place a charitable con- struction on any endeavor to conceal what it desires to know. The position of re- fusal is so out of joint with the rule which moves the race as to make the one who occupies it signally. eonsgicugm! by reason of his nonconformity. He is more than conspicuous—he is grotesque. % ‘This suggests the shrewdness with which some distinguished persons have appar- ently sought to make themselves oddly conspicuous by avoiding interviewers. It would be cruel, and perhaps unjust, to ex- lain the persistent silence of Edwin th and Ellen Terry on that ground. Booth was a sensitive, moody, morbid, ab- normal man, between whom and the roar- ing world that bellowed praises at his feet was raised a wall that no human feet could scale. Unhappiness was written on every line of his seamed face and sat deep and imperishable in his wonderful eyes. Following the assassination of President Lincoln by Wilkes Booth, Edwin traveled for many a dark day in abject wretched- ness and complete isolation. Even that sorrow aside, the man was so stranee, so shy, so unamenable to rules governing the conduct of ordinary men, tnat sufficient reason is found for bis exclusiveness. He who can be easily interviewed is wrestling in a mighty struggle with the world. That ‘was impossible to Booth. Iven in Miss Terry’s case a generous reason might possibly be found. She entered upon greatness in the height of the time when actresses exercised the special function now so generously em- ployed by prize-figchters—that of talking volubly through the pre: Perhaps Miss Terry, instead of emploving abselute re- serve as a uniqne method of securing valuable advertising by reason of assum- ing a startlingly distinctive attitude, laid her course as a protest against the vulgar- ity of her sister artists. It would be very wmuch pleasanter, however, to contemplate her in the role of a woman sufficiently gifted to understand the art of adminis- tering a kinder rebuke. With a wise exer- cise of the eraciousness and sweetness that distinguished Modjeska, the most widely loved woman on the stage, Miss Terry, like her, might have set an example to all women of what 8 woman' might do when approached by an interviewer. Perhaps, after all, Mr. Vanderbilt is not 80 timid and sordid as his friends would have us believe. The published portraits of him reveal a fine upward curl of the lip that distinguishes the true American aris- tocrat from the proletarian fellow-country- men and from the aristocrats of Europe. Perhaps he bas the genuine courage, in spite of the rueful explanation made by his friends, to announce by his silence that the time has come for a proclamation of class distinction in the United States. It is clear that to be accessible to the press is destructive of exclusiveness, which is the essence of class. As a matter of fact, class distinction is as p:ignant and overshadowing in the Unit. States as anywhere else in the world. That must be so on a basis of dif- ferences in taste and occupation alone, without reference_to differences on the score of wealth. Even a rich American cannot be an aristocrat unless he observes a large set of rules governing conduct and accepted as proper in saristocrats. It is just as much to be expected that wealthy persons of refinement should flock to- gether and constitute a class by reason of a community of interests and opportuni- ties as that artists and writers should form themselves into clubs and artisans into trades unions. The question of the great power which wealthy persons mignt exer- cise under this natural operation of com- munity interests does not concern this dis- cussion. The fact that classes must exist and that a considerable groportion of rich people must be exvected to constitute a class by themselvesis sufficient here. That being assumed, and it being a mat- ter of common knowlege and evident necessity that wealth is a conspicuous and directing force, in social as well as finan- cial matters, wiat would be more natural than that an able and courageous pioneer— Mr. Vanderbilt, for instance—should step forth and say with his silence what his father said with his tongue? The daily newspaper is the busy engine of democ- racy, the typical proletariat, the great lev- eler of the age. It records the adventures of Swipes, thexmkpocket, with the same minuteness and fidelity that it gives to an account of Mr. Vanderbilt’s most gorgeous ‘‘social function.” Can we expect it to be altogether pleasant to a man ‘“worth” $100,000,000 to see his interview published alongside that of Blinker Murphy? That 1s not exclusiveness, messieurs and mes- dames. The l'ne must be drawn some- where. Mr. Vanderbilt, if thisis the ex- planation of his position, is a pioneer only in the sense of his advanced position. A beautiful and accomplished woman who writes for one of our newspapers published an incident some time ago which goes to show that the spirit which may be urging Mr. Vanderbilt to lofty soaring has been already working insidiously on lower levels. This woman, whom any man would be honored to imow. consented to be introduced at a fashionable country ho- tel to a young man eminent in fashionable circles, but when e was approached by the well-meaning intermediary he declined the introduction, remarking that he did not care to know newspaper people! If a newspaper is the body and essence of a proletarian spirit why should not those who produce it be of a class correspondin; and therefore inferior, or at least apart Perhaps, it Mr. Vanderbilt has not been misrepresented by his friends in their efforts to prevent his being misrepre- sented by the newspapers, he 1s aware that a powerful though ‘silent sympathy is Furflkmg with him all over this republican land. And yet there are some satirical week! papers in New York ridiculing the “lwa{l set’’ for being 8o eager to see accouuts of their “functions” (another decent word E‘or}e astray) published in the daily press. 'his appears incongruous1if the satirical papers are right. Shall we say that be- cause the newspaper is the spirit of the commonalty it may not be used as the mounl:‘piece of the exclusives, and yet that it shall serve as the bulletin of their social festivities? Here is the headaching prob- lem. Possibly the solution lies in the assumption that the policy of exclusive- ness has not yet been highly developed. It would seem that even Mr. Vanderbilt mxiht with wisdom regard the newspaper as being useful in the sense of a caterer. If we_accept the proposition that pub- lished accounts of the artistic and very beautiful festivities of the rich cannot have an unwholesome effect, but on the contrary serve as an incentive to the poor to acquire wealth and with it to enjoy the good and elevating things of life, what are we to do with the proposition that as exclusives we may not talk through the press? Well, life js hard enough without per- mitting the heart to be cracked over matters like that. Out of the present seeming chaos segregation may come in time. No one thing in this mad world stands alone, and no one thing springs spontaneously into existence, but is the Pproduct of innumerable other things ob- served and overlooked. It is easier to criticize Mr. Vanderbilt than it would be to suffer the hardship which he has placed on himself. In these garrulous times a gag is more irksome than a prison; | t isas painful as that sort of bond which the necessity for concealment lays upon the tongue. It is very much pleasanter to re_fle’ct that whatever may be Mr. Vanderbilt’s per- sonal foibles he is a man of great wealth, whicn he might be induced to employ in part in doing good for California and its ople. That a trivial incident of his life E‘:s been here em]l)loyed for ulterior pur- poses might safely ‘be regarded as that tribute to his eminence which notice of any peculiarity in his conduct may be taken to indicate. CALIGRNIS RESDURCES General Chipman’s Sixth An- nual Report to the Board of Trade. Remarkable Increase in Exports of Nuts, Fruits, Vegetables, Wine and Brandy. Some very interesting statements are to be found in the sixth annual report of General N. P. Chipman to the Board of Trade. The repott deals vrincipally with the exportation of California nuts, vegeta- bles, fruits, wines and brandies. General Chipman, who is chzirman of the commit- tee on the industrial resources of the State, gives much statistical data of value to the producer and exporter. During the year 1895, he says, 48,8711 ten-ton carloads of the products named were shipped out of the State, being a gain over the pre- ceding year of 5346.4 carloads. Continu- ing, General Chipman says: In 1890 I undertook to show that the value of our fruit exports was greater than the value of our wheat exports. The figures were a surprise to every one whothadjgnot carefully studied the situation. Fruit then brought prices nearly double the prices of 1895. Wheat was figured at 70 cents a bushel. Our fruit then exceeded in value our wheat by half a million dollars. Since then the wheat has fallen off in value and also in yield. Fruit has fallen in value, but has more than doubled in yield. I fully believe that the limits of profitable fruit-growing in California have not by any means been reached, nor do I think they ara likely to be. The reasons for this belief I have many times stated in these reports and else- where, and I need not repeat them. The reasons are as sound to-day as they were five years or three years ago. They rest upon unchangeable laws of nature; upon conditions surrounding us and surrounding the regions where our markets are that cannot change. California, in my judgment, must remain the orchard of America. Periods of depression may diminish profits; acecidental good fruit crops in the Eastern Siates may occasionally shorten our market and lessen prices, but. as a ermanent and generallv profitable industry, ruit-growing in California will continue to be the great attraction and the chief industry re- iating to the soil. But the conditions existing here that make this true will also make this the great field for a perfectly diversified agri- culture and for intensive farming. e Pacific Yacht Club. A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast. The following-named gentlemen composing the board of directors of the Pacific Yacht Club, John H. Dickinson, John T. Dare, J. D. Maxwell, Hugo D. 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