The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1896, Page 6

.THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and !:ruurlgtnr. Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carricr..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 3 Cary, six months, by mail. 3.00 CaL1, three months by matl 1.50 y Bunday CaLy, one year, by mall. W XEXLY CaLL, One year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Frauncisco, California. Telephone... . ..... 5 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Telephone...... .. - BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until £:20 o'clock. £29 Hayes street; open until 9:50 0'clook. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W_.corner Sixteenth and Mission streels; open until § o'clock. 2618 Mission street: open until 8 0'clock. 167 Biuib eireet; open until 9 0'cloci. & Market street, open il 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €US Broadway. Main—1874 . EASTERN OFFICE: Fooms 31 and 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. " THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Now for holiday trade. Early purchasers get the first pick, Keep.a lookout for Qalifornia products. Read the advertisements and post your- self on bargaina. Any old thing goes now if youcallit a Christmas novelty. Santa Claus owns the original mare that medé the money go. e Santa Claus mever hesitates to, count on the home market, and what is more—he never gets left. Eastern people who do not like blizzards know very well where to come to get out of the way of them The -funding bill may come up at this sessiofi* of- Congress, but it will not stay ‘up. . The pevple are onto it. The first big store that makes a conspic- uous display of California novelties and delicacies is going to make a 1en-strike. “The lateit novelty in tricycles is a ma- chine jn which you do the Fiding and an- other fellow works the pedals. It is the boss: 3 AR The coming séssion of Corgress prom- ises to bedull,.but we shall have a lively “-session of the Legislature to make up for it. 3 The repart that Cieveland has decided to - make his future home in Princeton en- . courages the hope that he may vet learn something. THEIS T Cleveland’s message in defense of his administration will not be exactly a char- ity, but all the same jit will cover a multi- tude of sins. - There is apparently only one way to pre- vent Brvan from continuing his touref agitatioaand that is to employ Tom Wat- son to head him oft. There is a manifest tendency on the part of many Eastern people to criticize ‘Bry- an’s book before he writes it, and that can hardly be called judicious advertising. Two things for Californians to do in Congress this winter are to fight the fund- ing bill and work for the establishment of a Department of Mines and Mining. Really it does not matter much now whether Cleveland recognizes Cuba or not, as-he will soon be in a position where Cuba will hardly be able to recognize him.: San Luis Obispo will be claiming to have the cream of California’s population within her borders this week simply be- cause shre is to hold a dairymen’s conven- tion. Ohio statesmen evidently figure a long way abead, for some of them are said to be laying plans to defeat Senator Sherman when he comes up for re-election two years from now. Our country beats the world talking of international arbitration and the continu- ance of peace, but as we keep right along improving our coast defenses and enlarg- ing our navy nobody regardsus as a Na- tion of dreamers. ° New York and Wisconsin claim to make all the Limburger cheese that is used in this country, but we see nothing in the claim to be proud of. California can ai- dord to turn up her nose at it. The gold-standard Democratic pavers in the Eastare in a queer state of inde- cision-whetiier to set to work reorganizing their own party or to pass the time advis- ing Republicans not to reform the tariff. According to the London correspondent of the Inter Ocean it is reported in England that ex-President Harrison will be the next United States Embassador to that country, but American news from that source is always more amusing than in- structive. —_— It bas been noted that Colorado gave Bryan a larger plurality than he obtained in the five Southern States of Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida and . Louisiana; but the notice is not to the credit of Colorado. Illingis has a new political organization calling, itself the Christian Citizensbip League, and if it carries out all the re- forms demanded by its platform it will have to sweep the State with a new broom and mop up the spot where Chicago was with hot water. Among the concessions asked of ‘the managers of the Paris Exposition is one . by an American who wishes to put up a glass barrel fifty-two feet long and twenty- seven feet high, with an American bar in- side of it, and it would seem to be a trans- parent money-making scheme. ; One of the th ngs wh will be much . o discussed in California this winter will be road improvement, and it is probable the discussion will bring out the fact that dur- ing the past year there has been much more improvement of the kind made in the State than 1= generally supposed. As soon as'Congress assembles a Repub- liean _caucus will be beld to decide whether any tariff legislation shall be at- tempted at this session; but the problem involves so many factors tue <olution will not be easy, and the chances are that the wholé thing will be left for the next Con- gress to deal with. THE HOLIDAY TRADE. There can be no doubt that the spirit o1 confidence in returning prosperity which followed the election.of McKinley wiil show itself to a marked degree in the holi- day trade of all parts of the United States. We may look forward, therefore, to livelier and better bpsiness this season than we bave krown for several years past. ‘When workingmen are employed they make good trade for merchants of all de- scriptions. In the aggregate the trade of what is knowh as the working class is worth more to every ceyjumunity than the trade of millionaires, When labor is fully before the new law went into effect over 450,000 pounds of olecmargarine and - butterine were sold in the State, entailing a loss to the dairy industry of about $100,000, The benefits of the law have so much encouraged the dairymen that they propose to ask for further legislation in the same direction, “The industry there- fore seems to be in a fair way of improve- ment, and, no doubt, the coming institute at San Luis Obispo will do much to pro- mote it in many ways. CALIFORNIA MINES, The Redding Free Press gives a carefuily considered review of the mining outlook empioyed and well paid a general pros- perity infuses itceif into every line of business, and there are profits for all. Jtis true that we cannot expect a res- toration to a degree of prosperity equal to that of 1892 all at once. Nevertheless we have made a good beginning. Mills and factories have opened up in all paris of the country, and bundreds of thousands of men are now receiving good wages and have the prospect before them of steady employment who at this time last year were either out of work or were living in fear of losing their jobs. In California we have additional rea- sons for expecting a lively holiday trade. Not only has the election assured usof a speedy return to a system oi protection, but ail our rural industries have had a season of more than ordinary prosperity. Crops have been fairly large, priees ‘have an upward tendency, and, while it is true the greater portion of the grain crop was out of the hands of farmers bgfore the rise came, even in this case there has been a considerable gain to the producer over the conditions of last year. The growers of fruits, nuts, grapes, raisins and the producers of wine are con- siderably better off than in late years. While in several of these industries the output wds not so large as it would have been bad the spring season been more fa- vorable, the loss in quantity was largely made up by the increased price, and, asa whole, the income to the State from these industries will be satisfactory. The out- look for the orange crop is exceptionaHy gocd, both as regards the quantity of the crop and the price, so that in the orange- growing districts the era of prosperity may be said to bave begun. All of these things will tend to increase the trade of the holidays and to put money into circulation. With improved trade there will come more cheerful and sanguine feeling among merchants, and this, in turn, will lead to enlarzed orders from manufacturers. The trade of the coming month, thereiore, is likely to prove beneficial in mcre ways than one, It will give a stimulus to industry and en- terprise, and help on the coming of better times for all. PROGRESSIVE MERCHANTS. The activity of merchants on some of the leading thoroughfares. of the City gives promise of a vast improvement in our streets as regards both lighting and paving. Progressive men have succeeded in arousing their neighbors to the impor- tance of improving the streets on which they do business in order that the busi- ness itself may be improved, and such is the ardor with which the new movement has been undertaken that there is good reason for believing we shall see impor- tant results attained-in this work 1n all quarters of the City. The success achieved by the business men. aud property-owners in advancing the tradeof several streets by improved lighting has not been lost upon the mer- chants and property - owners' of other localities. What has been effected in one place can undotbtedly be effected in others by the same means, and as a con- sequence the'new plan has been taken up elsewhere and is being vigorously pushed forward. : There cen be no question but that a large.number of the principal thorough fares of the City are in great need of im- vrovement. The condition'of our streets is in fact one of the greatest defects of our municipal life. We bave hardly a good street in the City. Scarcely a single thor- oughfare of business is either paved or lighted in a way to make it comfortable to residents or attractive to visitors. Any movement, therefore, which tends to im- provement in these respects is one which deserves the commendation of popular opinion and the support of public spirit. San Francisco will not fail to give due credit to her progressive merchants and property-owners who are now doing so much to advance the streets in which they are interested. They have set an example which sooner or later wili be fol- lowed even by men who up to this time have hesitated to spend a dollar for the improvement of their property. More- over, the influence of the example set in this way will have its effect apon the mu- nicipal government and the people at large, so that within the near future we may look to see 3 new era in street.work begun which will result in providing San Francisco with streets and highways com- mensurate with her position among the cities of the United States. THE DAIRY .INDUSTRY. During the coming week there 1s to be held in San Luis Obispo an institufe for the consideration of the industries of farming and dairying,which has attracted considerable attention from the peopie of that section and promises to be of no little benefit to them. From the programme arranged for the | meeting, as published by the San Luis Obispo Breeze, it seems the principal in- terest in the institute will be that of dairy- ing. The ‘chief papers to be read at the meeting will deal with some phase of that industry and are to be read by men who are thoroughly competent to deal with -it. There can be no question of the impor- tance of developing this industry to a much greater extent than it hasat present in California. Tle report of the Siate Dairy Bureau, just issued, says there has been imported into our market from the East for the year ending October 1, 1896, ,200 pounds of butter, and during the same time 639,840 pounds of cheese. It is certainly strange’ thatin a State so well adapted to the dairy industry as ours, such a large importation of dairy products should be needed to supply the demands of the people. £ 1 Even in its present condition, however, California dairying is a considerable source of wealth, and occupies an im- portant position amone the industries of the State. The Dairy Bureau reports that the value of the products of our dairies for the year ending October 1 was in the ag- gregate $12,331,000. The industry is car- ried on mainly in the counties of Marin, Humboldt, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Monterey, Banta Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Los Angeles, the three last- named counties being°the largest manu- facturers of cheese. #? Itis noted in the report of the State Bureau that the operation of the law against the sale of oleomargarine and butterine as butter has proven very ef- fective in promoting the welfare of the industry, Ina period ot fourteen months for Shasta County, which in its main lines will apply equally well to almost all the aining districts of the State. It not only shows the brightening prospects of the miners, but gives the reasons why the new prosperity is coming. After referring to some mines in Shasta, which heretofore have been considered of small value, it goes on to say: These same properties are now being worked to a profit, simply because the work is being done on business lines and es legitimate busi- ness enterprises. New and improved ma- chinery aud methods are being employed, and success is,now the rule where formerly failure and financial disaster were the com- mon results of mismanagement and wildcat speculation. The sensible business methods adopted and the solid work done in explora- tion have fully demonstrated the permanency and great extent of our mineral deposits. The same reasons which are bringing the mines of Shasta to the favorable con- sideration of capitalists are operating throughout all the mining counties of California. The new era in mining is to be an era of legitimate business aided and augmented by improved processes, better machinery and larger capital. These forces working together cannot fail to produce great results, and not in Shasta only, but throughout the State, can there be found many mines which were form- erly considered of small value, but are now either yielding good profits to the workers or else revealing evidences of ore which will largely repay the capitalists who furnish the machinery and the skill to develop them. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Sir William Armstrong’s company at Els. wick qbtained a contract October 17, through their resident agent in China, J. J. Bucheister, for the building of two cruisers for the Chi- nese navy. The total number of torpedo-boat destroyers in the British navy built, building or ordered is ninety and it is expected that orders for ten more, of five knots greater speed than the fastest yet built, will be ordered given the end of the fiscal year, making 100 eltogether. Sir Edward Reed, ex-chiel constructor of the British navy, has been engaged by the Chilean Government to superintend thé construction of & battle-ship of 8500 tons and & cruiser of 4500 tons, the Iatter to.havea speed of twenty- three knots. Both vessels are being built at Elswick. Drydock 15 in the Pembroke dockyard has been practically completed and water let into it. Incase of emergency the dock is ready for “use, but as no ship is likely to want it the work of finishing will not be hurried. England is steadily adding to hér docking facilities in the dockyards, a policy which has been partly followed in this country, ‘with this notable difference, that docks have been built here where there are no repairing facilities and where vessels con only enter when the moou is full. There is corsiderable activity 1 navy build- ing in Russia. An 8800-ton battle-ship of the Rotislaw type is to be laid dogwn at Nikolaieff. The gun vessel Gilyab of 900 tons will be launched during this month from the new Adwmiralty yard to make room for the Pallada, a cruiser of the British Diana type, to be built. At the Baltic yard an enlarged Russia of 14,000 tons has been begun and several tor- pado-boats are under construction. The bat- tle-ships Oslabga and Peresriet are to be launehed next spring. At St. Petersburg a coast defence armorclad of the General Ad- miral type is also o be laid down. The Loire, a French steam transport of 1200 .tons built in 1855, and for many years iaid up at Saigon as a hulk, was recently sold to ship-breakers. Lee Sing Yee, s Hongkong Chinese, bought her for $9025 and will tow her to Hongkong. This will cost $4000. but still the purchase is & very profitable one, as the copper in her hull is worth over $12,000, her osk frames and planking may bring $12,000 and the fittings $6000. Ola-time snips of the navy or merchant service:are vastly more valuable than metal ships of the past twen.y years, the material of which all goes in the scrap heap and brings but a beg- garly amount after a heavy expense in break- ing up the ship, The armored cruiser Carlo Alberto, a sister ship to the Vetta Pizani, was launched at Spezzia on September 23 in the presence of.the King of Italy. The ship is of 6500 tons dis- placement—about 2000° smaller than our New York—but much has been nccomplished on this small displacement. She has an all- around belt with additional plating in wake of the battery, the: maximum thickness of steel being 6 inches. The battery is case- mated; the’ guns are separated by bulkheads, protected overhead by. 2-inch steel, and the armored deck underneath is 1.4 inches in thickness. The main battery consists of twelve 5.9-inch quick firers, of whioh eight are on broadside and four in the corners of the casemate. She carries also six 4.7-inch, ten 2.2-incn, elght 1.4-inch quick “firers and has five torpedo-tubes. The machinery is triple expapsion, calculated to develop 13,000 horsepower and give a speed of twenty knots. The coal supply will bz 1000 tons and the ship will also have arrangements for carrying liquid fuel. Her complement will nuniber 460 officers @ men. The New York of the United States navy displaces with 1300 tons of coal on board about 8740 tpns, at which her sea speed may reach 20 knots. Her belt, 4 inches thick, extends along amidships for about 160 feet, but there is no further protec- tion to her battery than of the six S-inch rifles in turrets, while the twelve 4-inch rapid- firers have only the usual shield protection. Her secondary batlery consists of eight 6-pounders, four l-pounders and four gat- lings. The New York is capable of attacking armorclads with mouerate protection, but the Carlo Alberto is more competent to deal with cruisers. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. In one room of the Maine Central Railroad general offices are employed a son of Joseph M. Manley, a nephew of Acthur Sewall and a nephew of Thomas B. Reed. The richest man in Germany'sdiplomatic ser- vice is young Baron von Cramer-Klett, who is an attache of tne Bavarian Legation at Rome. He is the son of & manufacturer who died in 1884 and left 80,000,000 murks, Dr. Dawson Tucker has discovered that the Roentgen rays exist in nature—namely, the ordinary glow womm, whose light penetrates thin sheets of aluminum and other substances. The Belgian Captain Lothaire, who lorded it over the Congo region for four years, with power of life and. death, has been comvelled by a prosaic eivil court in Belgium 10 pay the cost of & wedding trousseau ordered by his jllted sweetheart. The extreme of luxury has perhaps been reachea by the Sultan of Morocco. He has a narrow-gauge reilway running through all the rooms of his palace and travels about ona sort of sleigh propelled by a little motor. The “line'” ends at his bedroom. Loochoo, China, is excited over the recent appearance on her strects of a awerf who ap- pears to be about 50 years old, but is only twenty inches in height. He has a long gray beard, which almost reaches the ground, and talks several Chinese dialects quite fluently. He says that he is from the “kingdom of the dwarfs by the Western Ocean,” but further than that 0o one knows snytling sbout him. said he. A YOUTHFUL HERO OF THE SEA. The British steamecr Marino, which recently arrived at the Azores, reported 8 week pre- vious to reaching port a marvelous escape from destruction. The story included! an ac- count of the heroic conduct of a boy of 14, Horace Comer—conduct which stamps him as a real hero. During the prevalence of a storm, while the ship was laboring heavily, a noise was heard far above the roaringof the gale and an immense volume of flame shot up from the main deck. It was found that & number of iron drums of chemicals had been forced 8drift and the contents ignited. Dense vol- umes of suffocating smoke rose and drove the men from their posts of duty. At this eritical moment every man left the engine-room ex- cept the chief engineerand his four assistants, who stuck manfully to the engines, and throughout™ the whole time carricd out the Horace Comer, the Boy Whose Con- duct Averted a Great Disaster. orders telegraphed to them below by the cap- tain. The man at the wheel was driven from his post,-but in an instant Oavtain Murrey took his place. The Msarino was put before the wind, s task which required great skill in such terrific weather. At this juncture a number of the crew as- sempled on the poop. They had come to the conclusion that the vessel was doomed and that nothing they could do conld saye her, and having provided themseives with life. belts they awaited their fate. At this moment a little figure was seen approaching, and ung Comer, bareheaded and with his trons- ucked under his arm, stood before them. What's the use of going on like that, men 2 “It we have to die, 's die like men id Englishmen?” These were brave words, and at such an awfui moment braver words were never spoken. The men looked at each other and seemed to understand keenly the complete abjeciness of their position, and fired by the little hero’s words they returned to that part of the skip which they had so hur- ried quitted a short time before. At 3:30 o'clock mext morning Captain Murray and the brave fellows who had so manfully helped him saw the reward of their labor—the fire extinguished and their ship brought out of danger. AN AERIAL ELOPEMENT. Come fly with me, my seroplane 1s tugging at its anchor chain: We'll slip our cable, mount, and feel The old world drop below our Keel. Come fly with me, my airship walts With wings a-flutter at your gates; While deep in night this pianet gropes We'll climb the upper stellar slopes. Come fly with me, beneath the arch 01 swelling blue we'll join the murch— Tue stately constellations’ dance, Down through the heavens' wide expanse, Come fly with me, sweet (o our ears Will come the music of the spheres When youder solar system jars In the aria of the stars, Come fly with me, my love, we'll stray Along the misty Milky-Waz; We'll speed ar und ¢he cycle track Where wheels the whir ing zodisc. Come fly with me, we’ll chase the Bear And Ursa Mivor tohis lar; We'll arag bull Taurus from his pen And beard oid Leo in his den. Come fly with me o'er starry seas, We'll sail among the Pleiades, ‘We'll tempt the satral zales that blow Loud in old Saturn’s beard Of snow. Come fly with me, we'll soar and sail Up whiere the comet whisks his tail; We'll take In Venus as we move Along, and meet the Queen of Love. Come fly with me, away we'll bound Where distant Nepiune goes his round, Where Jupiter fa glory turns, Where Mars, the ruddy war-star, burns. " Come fly with me, out in the volds ‘We'll chase the fleets of asteroids; In atry race away we'll skip With Argo Navis—skyey ship. Come fly with me, we'll take a ran Around some mighty central sun, And orb among the rolling spheres Throughout the long sidereal years. Come fly with me, my aeroplane With wings a-spead tugs at her chain. We'll siip our lines, spr.ug np and feel _ The old werld drop below our keel. TOM GREGORY. San Francisco, November 29. PER-ONAL. W. H. Brown of Napa 1sat the Russ with his wife. C. L. Miller of San Juan is visiting at the Lick. L. Gerlach of Stockton arrived last nightat the Grand. H. Z. Osbqrne, the Los Angeles editor, is at the California. Dave Hirshield, a Bakersfield merchant, is a guest at the Lick, 8. Hartman, a Merced merchant, is regis- tered at the Grand. A.L Peterson of Vinton, the creamery man, is & guest at the Russ. George Mainhart, a mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Grand. James Seadler,a Sacramento lumber dealer, is on & visit at the Grand. John F. Ellison, an attorney of Red Blaff, is registered at the Grand. Miss H. V. Jemison of Fort Bragg s a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. * D. R. Oliver, 2 mining man of Sonora, ar- rived at the Lick yesterday. J. B, Barnett, the Ukiah stage-line man, ar- rived at the Russ last night. W. B. Ambrose, a merchant of Lockeford, is among the gues t the Grand. G. D. McLean, a mining man of Grass Valley, registered at the Lick last night. W. L. Norris, 2 commereial man of Cinein- nati, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. % A. W.Simpson, the Stockton lumber dealer, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. Dr.J. R. Curnon of San Jose is at the Lick w'hh 0. A. Hale, his feliow townsman. Dan P. Donahoe, Sheriff of Yuba County, ie at the Grand with his son, Dan P. Donahoe Jr. Dr. Dresbach Smith of the Napa Insane Asylum registerea last night at the Califor- nia. J. F. Burch, a merchant of Talare, arrived at the Lick yesterday on & visit to purchase holi- day goods. Lieutenant W. P. Day, U. 8 N., arrived here yesterday in the Doric from ihe Orient and is staying at the Occidental. . Carl L. Clemans, o journalist of Washington and Stauford’s old football hero, arrived atthe Lick last night with his bride. R. Guggenneim of New York, a heavy im- porter of Japanese goods, returned from the Orient yesterday on the Doric. C. Hampton, a bardware and mining imple- ment dealer of Marysville, registered at the Occidental lust night with his wife. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- » tan Hotel are: I. H. Barron and wife of Ophir, pioneers who crossed the plains in 1851. J. F. Burch of Tulare, who is in the land department of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, is making a short visit at the Lick. Among the arrivals at the Russ last night were John Bray and R. M. C. Hill of Worton and A. J. Meyers of Price’s Valley, three stock- raisers. Professor Daniel W. Loring, for whom the Loring Singing Club of the City was named, returned yesterday from Honoinlu with his wife and Miss Loring and went to his home in Berkeley, 8. A. Belinge ana wife arrived in the City yesterday on a pleasure tour of the Pacific Coast. Tney are registered at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. Della Fox and theatrical company returned yesterday to the Baldwin after completing their California engagement. They have can- celed the Portland engagement, and will rest here until Wednesday before starting for Og- den and Salt Lake City, after a successful tour of the larger show cities of this State. 'NEWSPAPER FLEASANTRY. First Westerner—Pete is down with lung trouble again. Second Westerner—What's the matter with his lungs? First Westerner—He's got & bullet in one of *em.—Puck, Bobby—2Ma, you eaid that [ wasn’t to eat that piece of cake in the pantry, because it would meke me sick. Mother—Yes, Bobby. Bobby (convineingly, — But, ma, it hasn’t made me sick.—Answers. A good cricket story is told of the late Bishop of Rockester. He was batting in a loeal cricket mateh when the bowler sent & ball very wide of the wicket. “Keep the bail in the parish?” cried the irascible Bishop. The next ball knocked nis Lordship’s middle stump out. The yokel shouted: I think that's somewhere about the diocese, my Lud?”"—Tit-Bits. ““Do you think,” said the young man who had gone into politics, “that & man in my position can afford to be indifferent to public opinion?” “I don't know,” said Senator Sorghum, thoughtfully. “How much is your private in- come?’'—Washington Star. "‘}'hu age of chivalry is entirely past,” she said. “Idon’t know about that,” the young man answered. ‘“Men can’t engage in duels to settle affairs of tho heart.”” “No; but they cen join rival football teams.” Washington Star. REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. Dun’s Revlew. The gain in volume of business continues entirely without precedent. More than 390 establishments have started work since the election which were idle, and at least 300 have Increased working force, making 630 concerns which are known to have added largely to the number of hands at work, and these are only part qf the whole number. Every day thus adds thousands to the number of those who are able 10 Luy a week’s supplies and o make up gracually for many mouths of enforced economy. Already this brings great increase in' the volume of business, and the | clearing-house exchanges, for the first time in severai years, not only exceed those of last year by 10 per cent. but also exceed those of the same week in 1892 by 9 per cent. Busi- ness men are all anxious to prevent anything like the fictitious excitement of last summer, and in nearly all pranches an excessive rise in prices is prevented. But with more hanas at work there is inevitably a greater demand for supplies, materials and products. LADY’S BELTED BLOUSE A belted blouse of unusual attractiveness is shown here. In this particular instance it was a waist of fancy silk, to be worn with separate skirts, but the same model is seen in costumes of one fabric. Adress of wool In blue, with a white figure, had an edge of narrow Valenciernes lace on every rufile, with bands to match it length- wise on the bodice. Noveity goods with a violet and green silk lining, had the ruffles lined with tiny pleat. ings of the silk. These pleatings appeared again on the waist, being set on lengthwise, two inches apart, two on either side, and one directly In the center, at the oveming. The pleating is the finest made, and is an inch and an eighth wide when finished. The waist has a fitted iining; the rufle is cut circular and slightly ruffid. CALIFORNIA glace frult pudaing. Townsend's.® ——————— EPECTAL information daily to manufastursrs, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —— gy Mistress—What a fearful smell of gas! T sup- pose, Bridget, it is all right in the dining- room? Bridget—Oh, yes, mum. Iblew it out a long London Fun. to Chicago, The Atlantic and Pecific Rallroad, Santa Fe route, will coatinue to run daly through from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourist slecping-cars, leaving every afiernoon. Lowest through rates to all points in the United States,'Canads, Mexico or Europe. Kxcursions through Boston leave every meek: San Francisco tioket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle bullding. Telephone main 1531 Oakland, 1118 Broadway, 5 — Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Hailwas Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Mag- #ger and por:ers accompany thess excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodationy and forther Information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kock Island Raliway, 80 Mont- gomery sireet, *an Franciseo. e e e Through Oar to St. Faul and Minneapolls An elegantly upholstered tourist-car leaves Oak- Iand every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock for all polnis in Mon:ena, North Dakota and Minnesots. No change of cars. Dining-carson all trains. Come and get otr rates if you expec: to mekes trip to any Eastern poin:. 1. K. S ateler, General Agent Northern Paclfic Ry. Co., 658 Market street, . F. ———— “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fity years by miilions of mothers for their chiidren white Teething with per- fect success. it £00i hes the child, soitens hegnms, allays Paiv. cures Wind Colic, rezulates - he Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhcss, whether aris- ing irom tee.hing or other causes. *or sule by drug glsts in every part of the world. Bo sure and ask 1or Mre. Wins.ow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & botule. ———————— Coroxapo.L-Atmosphere is perfactly dry, sof and mild, belng eutirely free from the mista com- mon further north. Round-trip t:ckets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board at ihe otel Jei Coronado, $65: longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Mon(gomery st., San Francisco. —————————— DoxN'T let your child strangle with whooping cough, when a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral can be bad for s dollar. e e Colonel Fred Follia Il Colonel Fred Follis, son of Richard Follis and brother of Mrs. P. de Vecchi, has been seriously ill for the past few days. He was op- erated on yesterday morning for appendicitis at his residence, ashington street. Dr. Morse performed the operatioa and was assisted by Drs. de Vecchi and MacMonagel. ‘The dnc!mz afterward fiononnud the condi- tion of their patient to be most favorable. STORY OF THE ELECTION. Comparison Btween the States Which Foted for McKinley and for Bryan. Providence Journal. Here is the story of the election as figures from the last United States census tell it. In round numbers twenty-five States with apopu- lation of 45,500,000 voted for Mc Kl.lfley, and twenty States with a-population of 25,000,000 voted for Bryan. In other words, almost two- thirds of the population are in States that repudiate iree silver. The total )nguslrln wealth of those twenty-five McKinley States is $47,384,717,976, while the twenty Bryan States have but $16,650,384,984, or about one- third s mucn, an average of §834,019,249 to the McKinley States’ average of $1,895,388,- 719, more than twice as much. But when educationa! statistics are taken, then 1s the contest best shown, perhaps. Just 22 per cent of the silver States’ popn!ll!on 18 illiterate (unable to read or write), while but 7.5 per cent of the sound-money States’ popu- lation is thus deficient. Brieily, there are three times as many illiterates in the silver States us in sound-money States. Figured out, though the McKinley States are mnearly twice as populons, they contain but 3,406,975 ilit- erates to 5,455,215 in the Bryan States. One or two ol the McKinley States may yet be transferred 10 the Bryan column. I so, it would only serve to make the contrast greater. STATES FOR M'KINLEY. Per cent of illiter- 1Popnlation. Wealth. ates. fn."fflrn:l o4 );;’58%)3 & 8 g ounectic X it Pk wartis 179..00 175,618,795 14 Tllinots.. 4,500,000 508,751,719 5 indiana 55, 6 owa. 000’ R Kentu 22 Malne 5 Maryland. 18 g:fs;‘l‘l setts g Miunesota.. 1,691,851.927 6 Mo prelee. | tes 14siaeiie o N “rsey 167294 445,285, o York. 8,576 701,991 5 837,008,506 L] 84 5 i 7 10 3 7 14 7 3 25 1,817,053 1,895,388,719 7.5 1,014 praTEs Tom avAN. i 3 -Per cent t . ofililter- Topuiation, Wealth’ ates. . 1,€00.00 $622,773,505 é% X 28 .¥52.409,440 30 107.986,501 5 1,799.313507 4 495,301,697 46 452,242,688 50 2597.902,945 9 453135299 6 1,275,685.514 3 180,523,668 13 | 584,148,999 38 L 400,911.:03 45 BH7.956,148 27 2.106,576.766 . .20 349411234 Vg 8623181070 3) 415,000 760, 69 4 Totals...... 24,932,795 $16,880,384,984 RECAPITULATIO 5 States............. 20 Averege popuiation 1,246,638 Average wealth. . -'8834,019.249 . Average per cent illizerac 23 ‘Average wealih per capil 8668 WHAT IY CaNNOT DO. The Republican landslide can restore confi- dence, but unfortunately in cannot prevent the Treasury deficit from growing right slong under & Democratic administration.—Kansas City Journal. . HIS FiRST HIT. Bryan's friends will be gratified to learn that he has shot s deer. It is the first hit he has made since the Chicago convention.—St. Louis Globe-Democra! A NEW SACRED EDIFICE. St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church ‘Was Dedicated by Bishop Nichols . Yesterday. The nandsome new St. Paul’s Protestant Episeopal church, at the corner of Cali- fornia and Fillmore sireets, was dedicated yesterday by the Right Reverend Bishop Nichols. : The building, which 1s an imposing structure of English Gothic architecture, siands on the site of the old wooden church, which' was removed to make way ior a more commodious place of worship. It was commenced just 120 days ago, and hurried forward to completion that it might be dedicated on the first Sunday in Advent, the beginning of the new year in the Protestant Episcopal church. The Bishop in the dedicafory services was assisted by the Rev. W. M. Rielly, the Rector of St. Paul’s, Rev. R. C. Foute of Grace Episcopal Chureh, Rev. W.' H.' Moreland of St. Luke’s, Rev. J. A. Emery of the Church of the Advent, Rev. Hobart Chetwood of St. James’ Mission, Rev. W, L Kip of the chapel of the Good Samari- tan and Rev. Mr. Mynard. The music was rendered by a full sur- liced choir of young gentlemen and adies, the Iatter in white gowns and black mortar-boards, and a qdartet, con- sisting of: Miss Mabel Love, soprano; Mrs. Homer Henley, contralto; J. Des- mond, tenor, and Harry Melvin, basso. The entire force of twenty-four voices was under the direction of Professor F. Katzen- bach, the organist. An offertory solo was grandly sung by Homer Henley. The beautiful anthem, *‘I Waited for the Lord,"” was rendered by Mrs. Homer Hen- ley and Miss Mabel Love. i {)nrinz the services addresses were made by sBishop Nichols and Rev. Mr. Foute, in which they spoke of the difficulties that beset the builders of the splendic edifice at the beginning of their labors. Bat so energetic and rapid had been their work that only 120 days elapsed while the structore was built from foundation to steeple. The building cost $15,000, of which $5000 has not been raised. The friends of the church have been liberal in their dona- tions, and the present indebtedness will doubtless soon be cleared off. : The heating apparatus was provided gratuilfin:ly by J. B. Stetson and the elec- tric light system by John I Sabin. The church will be consecrated when free of debt. Throughout the interior the woodwork is of solid oak. The main front of the building is in light red sandsione with a handsome finish. ——————— ST. ANDREW'S DAY. Lessons Drawn by Rsv. Dr. Spalding ¥rom the Life of the Saint. 4 Yesterday being St. Andrew’s day the Rev. Dr. Spaiding of St. John’s Episcopal Church took for his text the words of the Lord, “What seek ye?” spoken to that apostle when, with a fellow-disciple, he first sought him. He first gave an outline of St. Andrew’s life, of Low he was converted by the teaching of St. Jobn the Baptist and im- mediately sought the Lord and, baving found him, was not satisfied until he brought his brother to him aiso. From this life Dr, Spalding drew several beautiful lessons, first that of repent- ance—bow every one must seek the Savior through the experience of renent- ance, which does not mean simply being sorry for wrongsdone, but also a thorough giving-up of seli and living lives® for Christ. The next lesson was that of the viter unselfishness of St. Andrew's life. He did not ask for position or wealth. He stmply wanted Jesus, and when he found him he wanted to work for him aud wanted others to share in the happiness which he found in that work. His death, as his life, teaches the beautiful lesson of unseltishness. A MINING BUREAU FOR THE PARK A Proposition to Have It Maintained Where Peo- ple Can See It. A Test to be Made With a Vapor Lamp {or Park Illumination. The Park Force of Laborers to be Reduced by Forty To-day—Attrac. tions at B:ach and Chutes, Parties who desire to advertise the in- dustry to the fullest will at the next ses. sion of the Legislature endeavor to have that body pass an act authorizing the ap- propriation of a sum sufficient to estap. lish the State Miniag Bureau in Golden Gate Park, and if possible to enlarge its scope. It is also proposed to have located within the same grounds an institution to be maintained at the expense of the State in which shall be exhibited pro- ducfs from all parts of California, in order to show its resources, something after the exhibit’ of the State Board of Trade, and make it also a bureau of-in- formation. President Austin of the Park Commis- sion, when asked if the commissioners had any knowledge of these propositions, sai “I am of the opinion that they would be extremely -useful exhibits and if they could be seen by thousands of people who visit the park they would prove the great- est kind of an advertiserrent for the State. Everybody in the City and every stranger, whether from the interior of the State. or from abroad, comes out here, and they would be great attractions which they would not miss seeing. ““If the State will authorize such ex- *hibits in the park we will give all the room required. Where could they be es- tablished ? Well, they will be put up near the museum. The three, in close prox- imity to one anotiher, would form interest- ing'educational exhibits.” g To-day between forty and fifty of the laborers in Golden Gate Park will' be dis- missed. The reason for this,” said Su- perintendent McLaren, “is that nearly all the work that was laid .out has been al- most finished, and what remains to be done can be accomplished with a much smaller force than we have had. At this season, for instance, there \is no need for men to water the grounds.” > On the subject of lights with which to illuminate the park Superintendeat Mc- Laren stated he had received some re- plies to his questions sent to park officials in the East. From these it appears that in 8t. Lows the parks are not lighted all night; in New York arc lights and vapor lights are used; in Fairmount Park, Phila- delphia, gas is the illuminator; in Cleve- land, Ohio, vapor lights are used, and Chicago, which has been using electricity; is’substituting the vapor lights. One of the lamps, such as are used in Cleveland, has been received by the Com- missioners, who will put it in’ operation to compare it with an arc light. It is very similar to the lamps used by the gas com= pany ofthis City, but in one corner there is a small tank which contains a special liquid that runs into an arrangementat the bottom of the lamp, where it is con- verted into an inflammable gas, said to be equal in illuminating power to electricity, and but one-third fhe cost. The grading of the grand court has been completed except at the southern end, where the bandstand will be located. The contract for the stand wili not be let this winter. Reuben H. Lloyd has douated to the ark museum two pieces of tappa from the Seuth Sea islands. Tappa was the substitute of the ancient natives for blan- kets and is extremely rare, as none is made now, The most attractive feature presented to the audience in the Sutro Baths yesterday was the swim of J. C. Saxton under the surface. He swam from one .end of the long tank to within a few feet of the other end, breaking the world’s record of 248 feet. Arrangements are nearly completed for the international tug-of-war, which will commence December 13 and close Decem- ber 20. There will be twelve teams, repre- senting America, Ireland, Scotland, Ger- many, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy,. England, Canada, Slavonia and Portugal. The Chutes were crowded all the after- noon, and toward evening C. W. Vosmer made a very fine ascent with- his balloon rising higher than any aeronaut who ever left the grounds. After remainin: up nine minutes he cut loose and came down with his parachute near Laguna Honda, the time of his descent being three minutes and a hall. Usually the moment a para- chute is cut loose the balloon turns, col- Izpses and reaches the ground before the aeronaut, but vesterday the sphere re- mained stationary for four minutes after Vosmer cut away before it turned. An exciting event at the grounds was a potato race for boys with toy wheelbar. rows. There were six entries and three prizes, $3, $2 and $1. ‘The winners in order were: George Simmons, Ed White and Joe S mmons. NEW TO-DAY. It takes more time and care to make —yet some am- monia: and. starch baking powders cost just as much. - Tillmann & Bendel, Mita