The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1896. SIVED IT IN THE NINTH, The Charity Game of University Club and Berkeley. the BERKELEY PLAYED THE BALL. In the Last Half of the Last Inning the Club Men Got Inmto the Game. At Central Park yesterday afternoon the nine men of Berkeley had been having fun with the nine men of the University Olub for nine innings, and the score stooa like this: 0290 B 0 107 WY There was just one more chance. The Berkeley people were through—they had done all they could hope to and had nine ruus standing to their credit and a swell- ing ambition not to let the University Club have a ran. The spotless white uniforms of the club- ien were now spotted with white—that is to say, the original white showed through inspots. The wet ground and vain and eager “sliding” had done a terrible work. Still they were cheerful and disposed to hope. Captain Cohen stepped to the plate and the other eight men with one voice said to bim: “We are b: in need of a a run, Mr, Cohen,” and Mr, Cohen, with great judgment and caution hesitated in his place until four balls had been called upon the 1 er, and took his base. That was a fair beginning and the root- ers for the cilubmen cried **Bravo!” Arthur Allen hesitated also fora bit, and Coben made his way to second, plowing into the mud at the bag with entire disre- gard of his white suit. | Then Allen swung his bat and swat the ball. Proctor oui at center saw it coming, but did not realize tnat it was th preme effort of the clubmen. He *d for it to fall into his hands, but 1 too late saw it was sailing far over head for the fence. He ran for it, but as too late. All this time the crowd of university rooters were joyed in such fashion that they would have turned handsprings but for the mud and their kids and light over- coats. As it was they threw their hats in the air and yelled like a riot, for Cohen had come in and the club was saved from rout. But they were not through. Th learned how the thing was done. Allen went all the way round to third on his strike and was as tall as a monument in the estimation of the University Club and all that adhered thereto. The¢club had a run and nobody was out. There were those on the benches who ht the club was now almost certain They had only nine more such s to periorm and the thing was done. Will Magee hit the bail to Elston at second fumbled it. Magee | and Allen came in. had two runs and still The rooters on the were =0 noisy that the people out | on Market street were unhappy because | they had not gone to the ball game. Then Adam struck ont and there were v bad those am most sanguine on the benches who began to see how it might be possivle that the University Club might | vet lose. * Tom Magee reached first on a blow at | the ball. Latham struck out. Chetwood | “#took a base en balls, and Magee was ad- vanced to second, and Will Magee to third—a man on every onme of them. erg struck the ball and Elston, on | nd, reached up and lifted it down out | of the eirand the game was over and the score stood 9 runs to these tardy 2, | ana the tnree men in their soiled white suits stood fortorn upon their three beses. According to tne Bible m!unv:!iun they had “done what they could.” Considering the ~ uncertainty weather the attendance was large. Other- wise it was not so. The game throughout was a lively and interesting one. The ball was kuockea in all directions, once over a neighboring roof, again over the fence at center-field and again—this by Elston—into the grand stand, where it struck a Spartan old lady a glancing blow on the head, who refused to allow the in- cident to interfere with her enjoyment of the game. She simply waved her fan ana kept her place. In the very first inning Captain Johnston of the Berkeiey team met with an accident that put him out of the game. He bad sent a long drive to right field, on which he took third base. Trying to come home on a narrow margin—Mec- Laren’s hit to short stop—he slid, his hand caught in the catcher’s mask and was torn =0 badly that he had to be taken to the Receiving Hospital, were eighteen stitches were found necessary to sew it np. Hart took his place for the balance of the game. The heiding of Berkeley was excellent. Charley Gagus umpired and J. D. McKee kept the books. of the It Is Not Easy to Haul Him Back in Rough Wenther at Sea. Captain Manuel Caton of the Adams fishing schooner Sea Fox, just in from the Georges fishing banks, tells a thrilling story of his adventures in the last gale and snowstorm. - While the vessel was laboring in the worst part of the gale he ordered the crew to set the mainsail, to work away from dangerous shoals to lee- ward. § ““When the crew had cast off the stops,”’ said the captain, ‘I reached for the down- haul toclear it as they hoisted. The wind just at that moment caught the canvasand with a slat it came to leeward, striking me in the back, and in an instant I was twenty feet away and overboard. I struck the water face down, but fortunately I was to leeward, and as I came up I saw the craft broadside on drifting toward me. One of my men, named Merion, saw me disap- pear, and quick asa flash sent a coil of rope spinning after me. His aim was true, and as I came up the rope lay against my arms and I grabbed it. “I was soon alongside, but in the worst part of my scrape. The Fox was rolling fearfully, while the cross seas threw me around like a ball—one moment I wouid bang against her side and the next be far away. The reef tackle soon swung toward me and I grabbed it, but 1 .didn’t find my new hold any improvement. I wasthrown in all directions, but heid on. I swallowed lots of water and the wrenching 1 got was fast usirg me up. “My men would have had hard work lifting me up with my wet clothes had the v«‘ssi:l’lmen at the wharl, as I weigh more than 200 pounds, and excited as they were it was useless for them to try it there, 1 told them Icouldu’t hold on much longer, and to make fast a rope and launch a dory. After many unsuccessiul attempts they man- aged to get a boat over the rail, but no one came in her. I knew I could not get in alone and shouted for some one to come in her. “They hauled the boat back as near as possible, and, making a daring leap, two brotiers, August and Manuel Louis, reached the dory, which the others rapid- ly let drift down to me. There was still j.ngzr of a capsize, and having three men in ibe water instead of one. but the boys, after a struggle, zot me in, and we were soon on the deck of the Fox.’’—Boston Herald. e et One of the highest peaks in the Andes is Borata, 25,380 feet. The New York Yacht Coronet and the Pilot-Boat Bonita Starting on a Trial of Speed Under Working Canvas From the Golden Gate to the Farallones. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] ALONG THE WATER FRONT The Yacht Coronet Cannot Beat the Smart Pilot-Boat Bonita. THEY HAD A BRUSH YESTERPAY Mate Erricson of the Kodiak Drowned at Sea While on His Way to Alaska. The yacht Coronet and the pilot-boat Bonita had a brush yesterday and the latter showed herself able to hold her own in any kind of weather. When the difference in the size of the vessels is considered the showing made by the piiot-boat is remark- | able. The schooner yacht Coronet is | 152.67 tons net burden, 118 feet 7 inches | long, 27 feet broad and 11 feet 7 inches | deep, while the Bonita is only 75 tons net, | 88 feet long, 23 feet broad and 9 feet 8| inches deep. At the end of a twelve-mile | run there was not a quarter of a mile be- | tween the two scbooners, and on time al- lowance the pilot-boat would easily have | won. After completing all arrangements Millionaire James and the party of scien- tists he is taking to Japan to view the’ eclipse of the sun prepared to sail. It was | decided to go out on the morning tide and | the Pilot Commissioners decided to ac- company them a short distance to sea. The Bonita was got ready and Commo- dore Caduc, Captain Mayo, Miss Caduc, Captain Castle and two or three others went out on her. Captain Castle handled the Bonita and Captain Johnson the Coro- net, Both schooners were in ordinary cruising trim, so there was really no test of speed. ‘The Bonits was the first away, and when the bar was crossed she hove to and awaited the yachi. When both boats were abreast the wind fell light, and for a short time it was a drifting match. Then a good, strong breeze sprang up and the schooners scudded away for the Faraliones. It was nip and tuck all the way and the big yacht could not shake off the pilot- beat. Captain Castle is more than pleased with the showing made by the Bonita, and is wiiling to match her against any yacht of her size on the Pacific Coast. “The Bonita made a splendid showing,” said Commodore Caduc, *‘but then we were | not racing. We simply went out as a | compliment to the owner of the yacht and | his guests. We were under working can- vas and so was the Coronet. The Coronet | beat us a little, but not much, and in con- sequence I think the Bonita one of the | smartest boats of her size I ever sailed on. After a twelve-mile run we bade the Cor- onet h'ogd-by and came back to San Fran- cisco.” Commodore C. C. Bruce, the well-known yachtsman, is again to the fore as a life- saver. On at least half a dozen ovcasions he has risked his life to save others, and | last Friday night he added another rescue to his list of brave deeds. A yachtsman named Robertson was returning from his sloop to the landing at Sausalito when his dingy capsized. He could not extricate himself and was nearly drowned when Bruce saw his predicament. He peeled off his outer clothing and in a few seconds was on his way to the overturned boat. He got Robertson out ot his fix and helped him ashore. Half an hour later both men were around Sausalilo as though nothing | had happened. A private letter to Captain Blair reports | the loss overboard of First Mate Erricson | of the schooner Kodiak on March 30 last. The vessel left here nearly two months ago for Kodiak, and rough weather was ex- perieuced from the start. On March 30 a heavy gale was blowing and Erricson was helping with the sails. A heavy sea broke aboard and when it had clearea away the mate was gone. He was well known in San Francisco, and last year made a trip to Alaska as mate of the schooner Geneva. He leaves a widow and | family in Berkeley. Captain R. Quintin, late of the Golden Fleece, went out ad master of the schooner Prosper yesterday. The Prosper has been purchased by some Alaskan miners, but when a few davs out on her way to Cooks Inlet it was discovered that she was leak- ing. She was run back to San Francisco, and now after repairing has made a second start, | Captain Holmes went out yesterday as | master of the steamer Willamette. He is one of the ablest and best-liked captains | on the coast and his friends will be glad to | hear that he is back in harness again. Captain Holmes was for seven years on | the Umatilla, but was taken sick and for a | long tinie his life was despaired of. He is now haie and hearty again and is once | more in command of ‘a vessel. For the first time in years a deep-water ship is loading at” Washington-street wharf. All the other berths were taken and as a vplace had w0 be found for the bark Santiago she was docked at Wash- ington street. She is loading for Hilo, H. L., and will bring back a cargo of sugar., The Spreckels fug Reliance had her trial trip on the bay yesterday. Her new propeller was found to bea great success and in consequence the vessel wiil be | lengthened to meet increased power. Dur- ing yesterday’s run her new propeller was | subjected to the severest kind of tests. | ‘When going at full speed the engines were reversed and the Reliance stopped atmost | in her o#n length. Theextra revolutions obtained will make the Reliance one of the most powerful tugs in the bay and the | chances are that all the Spreckels tugs {A Suit to Test the Terms of | a uniform system of county and township will be fitted out with the new grupeller. A rumor arrived here by the steamer | about 20,000,000 eggs. City of Peking that if trne places Pay- master Henry Clark of the eruiser Detroit in an unenviable light. It is said that he got into trouble with a Mrs. Watson, wife of a Shanghai merchant, and in conse- quence there was a shooting affray. Mrs. Watson was shot three times and Clark was shot in the foot. Both were taken to the hospital and according to the news by the steamer all the particulars were sup- pressed. According to a cable dispatch the Detroit, Boston, Machias and York- town rendezvoused at Shanghai last Fri- day from various points on the Asiatic station, so there is a discrepancy in the story somewhere. CAFFERTY'S PLEDGE. The Man Who Beat His Son so Savagely Promises the Judge to Drink No More. Martin J, Cafferty, who so brutally beat his son Johnnie, a mere boy, on Monday night, appeared in Judge Low’s court yes- terday morning. Mrs, Cafferty and her four young chil- dren were in court and sLe pleaded with the Judge to be lenient with her husband. “Ifhe is sent to jail,” said the little woman, ‘“my children and I will be the sufferers, as we are dependent upon him for a living. He is a model husband and father when sober, and if your Honor would make him take a pledge to abstain from drink I am sure there woula be no more trouble,” The Judge severely lectured Cafferty upon his brutality to his son, but said in view of his wife's plea for mercy he would not send him to jail if he took an oath to abstain from liguor. Cafferty expressed his willingness not to touch a drop of liquor for ten years and took an oath to that effect in open court. The Judge then suspenaed sentence for thirty days, and Cafferty left the court- room with his wife and family. The Judge had seen Gray Bros., Caffer- | ty’s employers, and they said they would willingly take him back, as he was an in- dustrious workman, and this was the first time they ever knew of him getting into trouble. HE FOURYENR LA, Municipal Office- Holders. Election Commissioners to Be Enjoined From Purchasing Ballot Paper. A complaint to test the application of the county government act to this City was filed yesterday, and upon the decision | rendered in the case will rest the question whether the present municipal officets will hold over for two years more or if there must be an election as usual next Novem- ber. The plaintiff is Julius Kahn, representea by W. H. L. Barzes, W. W. Foote and T, C. Coogan, and the defendants are the mem- bers of the Election Commission. The suit is to restrain the Commissioners from pur- chasing any ballot-paper or expending any money in preparation for an election to be held next November. On April 20 last the Election Commis- sioners passed a resolution directing the purchase of ballot-paper or giving notice of an intention to purchase it, and author- izing other expenses in preparation for the coming election. Kahn brings suit under the act of the Legislature approved March 24, 1895, and entitled “An act to establish governments.” He alleges the act pro- vides that *‘all elective county and town- ship officers, exeegg otherwise provided for in this act, shall elected at the general election to be held in November, 1594, and every four years thereafter, unless other- wise herein provided.”' * * * * Under tho general classification, the plaintiff alleges, San Francisco is a county of the first class, and so tie act must apply here. The resolution adopted by the EFac_ tion Commissioners is declured to be con- trary to law, in that the recent act pro- vides for a term of four R'eau and the officers now in power are only in two years, Unless restrained, it is claimed, much money will be wasted, as the expenses will amount to not less than $20,000. The com- plaint concludes with the following prayer: Wherefore, plaintiff prays judgment that the defendants be perpetually enjoined and re- strained from appropriating money from the funds of the City and County of San Francisco for the purpose of procuring and holding an election in_the month of November, 1896, to fill the offices hereinabove referred to, or from hoWling any election for the offices pro- vided by law for the said City and County of San Francisco other than is provided and di- rected in and by the act of the Legislature hereinabove referred to, and known as an act 10 establish a uniform system of county and township governments, approved March 24, L 18054 that said defendants befrestrainiadsby or- der of this court from doing any or either of said acts during the pendency of this action, and for such other and further relief as may be meet and e“umme and the nature of the case may require. And that the plaintiff may have and recover of the defendants the cust of prosecuting this action. Such a suit has been in contemplation for a long time. It is an action in the same category as the fee-bill suits, in that it involves the application of general county laws to S8an Francisco, which is a city and county. A judgment will be ren- dered without delay in the Superior Court, and it will come betore the Supreme Court during the July term, if not sooner. | tendent’s quesiion. HE FORGOT HIS ROUTE. How a Strange Driver of a One- Horse “Bobtail” Was Lost in Town, GRANT AVENUE TO THE DUMPS Diove the Car That Holds a Franchise, but Went Wrong on Various Tangents. Straggling all over the business part of | San Francisco, permeating the streets without any apparent end in view, ure miles of abandoned tracks of the South- ern Pacific streetcar hundred and one sys- tems. Where tbese rusting rails begin or where they end is a mystery of itself, as they may be found in every conceivable place downtown, and are united by switches scattered at somebody’s sweet will by sun- dry corners. So that a streetcar—one of the ancient patterns drawn by horses— might meander along the main thorough- fares and keep going without fear of reach- ing the end. The abandoned line on Grant avenue, which finds an outlet west- ward through devious ways and then con- tinues toward the dumps with charac- teristic lack of direction, is included in the general scheme, or want of scheme of streetcar systems. With the advent of the cable and elec- tricity those old lines gradually fell into oblivion, until at last people forgot whither the rails tended. The Grant-avenue and dumps system faded away with the pass- ing of the horsecar. owever, it is still there, on the pave- ment, and the Market-street Company stanas guard over it from day to day. The company does net wish to lose the fran- chise. It runs a one-horse bobtail car over the line once a day, and this fills the bill—for the corporutiog. People on the street notice the relic moy- ing past in a dreamy jog trot. But nobody has "been found who can tell whence 1t comes or whither it goes. Only it passes, and is gone for another day. For the soli- tary car_makes but one diurnal appear- ance and one disappearance. The task of driving this car over the rails included in the franchise was en- trusted to a new employe, a stranger to the City’s streets. “Do I know my business?” he asked rather indignantly in reply to the superin-. “You just leave that to me and I'll corve the tracks.” And the superintendent, convinced by the fellow’s positive manner, let him go.” All the new driver asked was the names of the streets through which he should drive. “That’s enough; I know my business; get up there!” 5 The old horse ambled off with the *bob- tail” and green. driver. All went well until the driver got into Market street from somewhere else. Then there was a crush., He stopped cable-cars, and inci- dentally forgot his route. He thereupon determined that if he kept on the track the end would soon be reached. It would be an easy matter to return. Somehow the rails did not seem to ve the right sort, for they would insist on crossing and re- crossing Market street, and somewhere about Grant avenue and Post street the tracks went in two directions. The hope- lessly puzzled driver got into Post_street, stopped cable-cars, switched into Kearny | or Montgomery street, and soon found himself in difficulties between two Union streetcars on Montgomery avenue, Once out of this tangle he headed for the ferries, but went wn}ngz ona curve at a corner downtown. This led to Sansome or Battery street into California and the lost car was in the way of trucks where a Lorsecar bad not been seen for years be- fore. From the wholesale district the be- wildered driver beat his way to Rincon Hill, blocked cable and electric lines on the route, and at last found peace in the en- vironment of the Potrero at night. “He would be going yet,” remarked a railroad man, “only his fortune changed when a switch on the homeward journey put him on tracks to Fourth and Towns- end streets.”’ CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS. Annual Meeting, Banquet and Election of Officers Last Night. The members of the SBociety of California Volunteers held their annual meeting, elected officers and had a banquet last night at the Occidental Hotel. On April 25, 1861, General Sumpter took command, and it was with the object of commemo- rating that event that the Society of Cali- fornia Volunteers was formed. It is com- plosed of the soldiers who served at that time. There were about twenty members pres- ent last night. L. Wlshybnm. the X}’l‘efl- dent, occupied the chair during the even- ing. These officers were eleeted for the ensuing year: President‘Wmhm McCabe; first viae-‘};resident, Sol_Cohen; second .vice-president, James Dabison; corre- sponding secretarsr, J. L. Homer; treas- urer, C. W. Gordon; recording secretary, J. C. Innes. Some business was transacted besides his, but it was of a routine character. After the dinner C. Mason Kinne read a paper, giving reminiscences of his experi- ence with Sheridan’s cavalry. There were also some informal speeches. ————— Each salmon, it is estimated, produces | witnin the 118 square miles of London. One thousand tons of oot settle montl;ly SCHMIDT WAS « LICKED" Fickle Miss Lenamie Gets Her Admirers Into the Police Court. POLICEMAN PETERS’ ARSON CASE The Stranded Sailor’s Pathetic Story. Telling Troubles to the Police. Hugo Schmidt, a pastry cook, came tearfully into the City Hall and told his troubles to the police. The general and gratuitous admonition “to go tell your troubles to the police’’ is not without rhyme or season, for there is no place where human woes poured out from a soul surcharged with grief will find a fuller hearing. The tenor of Hugo's plaint was that John Gerrish, a bottle-washer, under the drive of & mighty wrath (and inspiration of the probable fact that Mary Lenamie, a domestic, would be the prize to the victor), had “licked”” him. The term “licked,” which the pastry cook had used to char- acterize the manner of his overthrow, is nota happy one; neither was he him- self a happy one subsequent to the opera- tioa. The joint affection of Hugo and Mary will be the theme of amatory odes around Bryant and Ritch streets for years to come. They loved, alleges the complaint, until the bottle-washer flung himself, frog-like, into the pool of tkeir love-life, and the ripples of his plunge broke its placidity forever. Mary—hence her lover's tears— Mary didn’t rebuke the presumptuous at- tentions of the bold intruder, but, alas, started in to keep her two beaus on what is commonly known as ‘“‘a string.” Her wayward heart—ah! Mary—fluttered to the bottle-washer when Schmidt was fab- ricating pies. Hugo expostulated, Mary prevaricated, and the bottle-man congregated around the fickle mald until the inevitable fighting came on. It was at Bryani and Ritch streets the three met, and Mary saw her Sohmidt “licked,” as he himself expressed it when he told his troubles to the police. After the pastry-man had sworn out the complaint and brought his victor rival within the menace of the law, he did some thinking. He recollected then that Mary had witnessed his overthrow with some- thing akin to satisfaction, at least without any perceptible grief. Following this, came reminiscences of Mary's other heartless acts in relation to himself. Then he dried his tears. Had he remembered this in time he would not have chosen the stern arbitra- ment of war. Then he wanted to with- draw the complaint, because he had no animosity toward the man who had done so much to awaken him to the ("Iesr con- clusion that she was “‘no good.’! But he was unable to quash proceedings and was told that the State of California was not personally concerning itself with Mary’s loves, but the assault and battery on him- self. Schmidt left the City Hall with the ob- servation that there were better fish in the sea than Mary. Policeman Peters went to the warrant clerk after authority to haul an abusive resident of his beat into the shadow of the City Prison. He informed the clerk that he desired to bring the offender inon a charge of drunkenness, disturbing the peace, obstructing the sidewalk, inciting a riot, making threats to do great bodily in- jury, and using language caiculated to cast doubts upon the respectability of the policeman’s profession and parentage, Po- liceman Peters also charged this very bad citizen with having made threats to com- mit arson. When asked for aetails regarding this crowning crime Policeman Peters stated that the fellow said he (Peters) was a something that can only be expressed in print by dashes and that he (the citizen) had a blank blank big pull with the Police Commissioners and would hafe Peters roasted if not fired bodily from the force. Mr. McDermott, who resides in a nice, modernly built house of his own away down on Ninth street, had Mr. Rickstein arrested on a charge of obstructing the sidewalk. Mr. Rickstein not only keeps a junk- store which occasions Mr. McDermott’s unbounded scorn, but he has a way of making unfavorable remarks about Mr. McDermott’s nationality. He is well edu- cated and can “bla’guard,” as Mr. Mc- Dermott terms it, the neighbors in many tongues. Mr. McDermott, it may be said en passant, spoke one only, but the pho- netic quality of his yoice and the innum- erable quantity ~of his words more than balanced Mr. Rickstein’s polyglot powers. They had often conversed over the back- vard fence, referring in uncomplimentary terms to each other's race characteristics and cesting reflections upon the social standing of their maternal ancestors. A few days ago McDermott found a box of “old c¢lo’’* in front of Mr. Rickstein’s shop and swore out the charge of obstructing the sidewalk. Their eluguem debate was continued in the Police Court. “Didn’t 1 tell ye that zer d—old trash was an affinse to the block ?” “Didn’t you tell me to come around the corner for three minutes and let you smash my bones?”’ “Didn't I tell you if you left anf crates of bottles” ferninst my gate I" the law on ye?” “Didn't you tell me you'd lay me away with my forefathers?" “Didn’t ye air yer junk on me back fince, and—?"" “Didn’t you have all the policemen on the beat poking around after microbes among my—?" “Didn’t ye—?"’ “Didn’t you—?"' Then the court interposed itself between them and shut off further debate. Andrew Johnson sat in a Police Court “‘bird-cage” yesterday morning all alone and awaited his fate. Out before the bar the lawyers were fighting over another case, the crowd tr{ing it in their own minds, and he was for the time being for- gotten. His fellows in bad luck had passed on before, and solitary he sat with his sore heart and sorer head, wishing. Andrew had wished before. He wasa sailor, and a week previous, when his ship was fighxing her way to Kort through a fierce southwester, he wished she was in and safe from the wind-torn waves. Now he wished she was out again_and he was out in her again. Andrew Johnson was no stranger to those desires, for he had been in the same predicament before. He had occupied a cell in every port in which he bad repented his water-front indiscre- ons. fll‘i‘: always landed to drink liquids that made him disturb the peace of shore- going folks, and the police in_turn landed bhim in the “‘birdcage’ to wish ne wasat sea again. Presently the court took cognizance of the stranded mariner. The pathos of his helplessness appealed to the judicial mind. His Honor thought of the storm, the deys and nights of ceaseless and super- human struggle for a life that was not worth the eifort over the yawning deep. The miserable object in the ““cage” was more d put only a waif tossed and lost at sea. This was the prisoner’s case,.nis plea, and it uitted him. he doors were opened and_Andrew Johnson was told to go and sin no more, which adyice he wilfpmbably forget in the next port. THE YASHIMA. A First-Class Battle-Ship Bullt for the Japanese, The Yashima, a first-class battle-ship, built by the English Armstrongs for the Japanese Government, has been success- fully launched at Elswick. The Yashima was designed by G. C. Mackrow and is the largest ironclad ever constructed by English shipwrights for a foreign na- tion. Her sister-ship, the Feujiyama, is being built by the Thames Iron Works. The dimensions are: Length on water line, 387 feet; breadth, 73 feet; draught, with stores, 29 feet 3 inches; displacement in tons, 13,150, with triple-expansion en- gines by Humphrey & Tennant of 14,000 indicated horsepower, Both ships will carry five searchlights and steam 18 knots. The armor belt is 226 feet long, 18 inches thick and the armor deck 214 inches thick and terminates in a powerful ram. There are two military masts with double tops ana hydraulic der- ricks for lifting the boats, thirteen 1n number, and two 56-foot vidette torpedo- boats. Each ship carries 3000 tons of Harveyized plates, contracted for by Messrs. Cammel & Co. and Me Vickers of Sheffield. Each ship will cost!£780,000. The armament will consist of tour 12-inch 49-ton guns, ten 6-inch quick-firing guns, fourteen 3-pounder quick-firing guns and ten 234- pounder quick-firing guns. The guns will be manufactured at Els- wick, as also the torpedo tubes. The Jap- anese Government has lodged orders with the same constructors for two other battle- ships of the size of the British warship Renown, and a swiit cruiser of 5000 tons with Messrs, J. & G. Thompson of the Clyde. They have opened a torpedo manufac- tory at Yokosoka Navy-yard, where they are at present constructing a 2l-knot cruiser of 3700 tons and 10,000 indicated borsepower engines, the latter being in progress of manufacture by J. Penn & Sons, Greenw R A Natural Well of Ink. — Dawson’s ink well is no fake. Hundreds of people in that part of the county have carried away bottles of the wonderful fluid discovered by J. H. Hicks while digging a cistern. The ink flows freely from the pen, dries rapidly and is as indelible as the best manufactured writing fluid. It is to be analyzed, and will be put upon the market. The supply is inexhaustible, to nul appearances.—Louisville Courier-Jour- nal. NEW TO-DAY. 77 Is No Better Than Dr. Humphreys’ Homeopathic Specifics for other diseases. No. 1 Cures Fever. No. 2 * Worms. No. 3 Infants’ Diseases. NO Ay <8 Diarrhoea. N T8 Coughs. No, 8 Cures Neuraligla. NoOL- 295 ise Headache. No.10 ** Dyspepsia. No. 11 . Delayed Perlods. No. 12 “ Leucorrhoea. 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LOOK AT THESE PRICES : Glass Sets, 4 pleces, neat pattern, 2 styles, per set. 25¢ 7-plece Berry Sets, Imitation cut glass, new design, per set...... 80¢c Imitation Cut Glass Vases, 8 Inch high.. .16¢ Imitation Cut Glass Vases, 9 Inch high 20c¢ Very Pretty Glass Sugar Bowls, new shape .15, Individual Glass Cream Pitchers 5c Sauce Plates for Berries or Ice- cream, set of 6....... 5¢ pellets—fit the vest sent prepaid upon pt Nos. 28and 32 are Humphreys' Medicine Co., ew Yorl o R All country orders promptly filled. Send for Catalogue. WHTinak 818-820 MARKET ST. WEAK MEN CURED AS IF BY MAGIC. Victims of Lost Manhood should send at = once for a book ¥ that explains how manly vigor is easily, quickly and permanently restored. No man suffering from ‘weakness can af- ford to ignore this timely advice. Book tells how 1 gy lt\lll strength, de- Yelopment, and tone are imparted o every portion of the body. Sent with sitive proofs (sealed) free toany man on ap) tion. ERIS MEDIGAL GO., BUFFALO,N.Y DR.WOXGW00 Chinese Drugs and Tea and Herb Sanitarium, 776 CLAY STREET, Bet. Kearny and Dupont, I, th dnnlc"eeg: have , the unders a: been cured fmfi Kidne troubls trom which T suffered for over 10 years, by Dr. Wong Woo. Office hours: 9:30 to 1. 4 x; 1t03, Tto9r. x. NOLAN BROS SHOE CO. LATEST STYLE FINE TAN SHOES. We Are the Only House That Has All the Very Latest Tan Shoes. No Old Styles in Our Store. Nothing but the Very Latest And All Right Up To the llinute. So When You Want Tan Shoes Come or Send Direct To Qur Store And Buy Thcm at Wholesale Prices. We Are Making a Specialty of Tan Shoes And Can Suit Every One. All Styles That Are Made in Black Shoes We Have in Tan. This Week We Will Sell Ladies’ Finest Quality Tan Chrome Kid Button, hand-turn soles, pointed toes and tips, at. ST .......82 50 per paly Ladies' Fine Tan Gxfords, French heels, hand- turn soles, pointed toes and tips, at.52 per paix Ladles’ ¥ine Tan Kid, Brown Cloth Top Ox- fords, or Southern’ Ties, hand-turn_soles, pointed or square toes, at. #1 50 per pah Ladies’ Fine Russet Oxford urn soles, pointed or square toes, at -$1 per pahy Ladies’ White Canvas Oxford Ties, turn soles, pointed toes, at.. ..$1 50 per pal1 Children’s and Misses’ Tan Button Shoes. Spring heel, square toé and tip. Sizes 5 to Sizes 814 to 11.. Sizes 1154 to 2. finm' $1 25 Men’s Tan Shoes From $2.00 Up. We have all the Very Latest Styles and Shades in MEN’S TAN SHOES, GIVEN AWAY! A Rubber Ball or Base Ball With Every Purchase. Send us your address and we will mall yous Catalogue. WE HAVE NO BRANCH STORE ON MARKET STREET. Mail orders receive prompt attention. NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. 812814 MARKET STREET 9 and 11 O'Farrell §t., PHELAN BUILDING. Long Distance Telephone 5527, PROBATE SALE, Under authority of sale given to me by the will of Anna M. Hathaway, de- ceased, I will sell, subject to confirma- tion by Probate Court, the lot of land and building on the northerly line of O'Farrell street, 27 6-12 feet east of Powell. east 27 6-12x77 6-12 feet. Purchasers will apply at room 11 on tenth floor of Mills building. Immedi- ate sale will be made. JAMES A. WHITE, Executor of the will of ANNA M. HATHAWAY, Deceased. 'PRIVATE DISPENSARY. ECIALTY—DISEASES OF MEX, INCLUD- ST ait fort of Biosd, Skin and Nervous Dis: eases. Over 20 years' experience. Book sent free. Patients cured at Ho me} 'I;_r.ms re@:&v'l;ubl;;ml:T Hours, 9 to 3 daily: 6: to 8:30 evenings. d . 012, Consultation free und sacredly confiden- . Call, or address P. ROSCOE McNULTY. M. D., 201 Kearny Street, $an Francisco, Cal. Baja California Damiana Bitters Is a powerful aphrodisiac and specific tonic for m: sexual and urinary orgaas of both sexes, and great remedy for disenses of the kidnoys and bl der. A great Restorasive, Invigorator an Selis "o its own Merits—no. long.winded tests monials necessary. i NABLR, ALFS & BRUNE, Agents, 323 Market St d"tor Circular.) These tiny Capsules are super to Balsam of Copaiba, Cubebsor!njectionsand CURE IN 48 HOURS the same diseases with inconvenience, Sold by all druggists, Dr. Hall’s Reinvigorator stops all losses in 24 hours. Restores Mannood, Enl Small ~ Organs, cures Emissions, Impotency, Varico- cele, Gleet, Fits, Strictures’ and all wasting effects of Seif-Abuse or Ex- cesses. Sent sealed, $2 per bottle THREE BOTTLES, 85; gusranteed 10 cure any case. DR. HALL'S MEDICA L INSTITUTE, 855 Broadway, Oakiand, Cal. Al private diseases quickly cured. Send for book, NOTARY PUBLIC. HARLES H. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY-AT- law and N blic, 638 Market st., oppo- site Palace Hotel. 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