The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .§0.15 Daily and Sundsy CALL, ole year, by mail..... 6.00 | and Sunday CALY, six months, by mail.. 3.00 | v and Sunday CaLz, three montha by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaL, one month, by mall. 65 | Bunday CaLL, oue year, by mal { WXaxiy CaLy, one year, by mall.. | BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephon 2 <veuene Maln—~1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. | Telephone....... reverieeenesen MAID—1874 BRANCH OFFICE: 527 Montromery street, corner Clay; open uatll 9:30 o'clock. ! 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street: open unuil 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open anul 8 o'clock. 8 Mission street: open until § o'clocks Ninth strect; open until 9 o'clock. ben until 8:30 0'clocks 16 1305 Polk street OAKLAND OFFICB: €08 Broadway, EASTERN OFFIC) Rooms S1 and 52, 84 Park Row, New York COity. | DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE FAKE AND THE FACT. —THE FAKH— ‘The Eraminer published for several days at the | top of its title puge the followlog faxe: THE EXAMINER PUELISHED 249,757 Inches Of Ads During 1896. 5964 More | Than were published by any | other San Francisco newspapes. | In the publication of this fake the Eraminer Was probabiy not aware that a careful record was being val amount in inches of its of the & advertsing and that in consequence it could be owing fact. confronted with th —THE FACT— THE EXAMINER PUBLISHED 236,528 Inches Of Ads During 18%6. That is one fact and here is an- other: THE CALL PUBLISHED 239,551 Inches Of Ads During 18%6. 3,023 More Inches were published in THE CALL than in the Examiner during 1896, Tt s to bo remembered tha: daring 1896 ths | Eraminer published apyroximately 800 iucnes of | illegal lottory is, of waich TaE CALL did not and would not pubiish one. The mouarch of the faxars has doubtless suc ceeded in secaring thousands of Inches of adve lsing during the past vear by dupin - and decerv & advertisers through felosand arsogant dsser: tionn of the cnaracter of the foreging fake. 1t would wever, from the facts that the merchants a3 a rule have not been misled by lis Iraudnlent pretenses The Eramincr boasts that its books are open to 5. DUt we suggest that it inspect s own tooks betors it veniures unon the publication of anotner fake, We conzratulate the pubilc 0 the fact that the | exosure of this fake led the Ezaminer 10 drop I, | 1n this the Eraminer was discreet, and If 1t 1s wiss | i will make o more such bold auempia to | Speak out for free Cuba. Cheap as water should be a fact as well | as a proverb. It will be remembered that we predicted Duckworth wouldn’t duck worth a cent. Secretary Morton will go out of office red-hot, having just been newly roasted. The Cretans seem determined to make the crisis acute enough to cut something. ‘With the closing of the payroll episode there shouid be an end to the scandals of the session. It looks as if Dan Stuart had the bulge on Nevada and intended to play it for all it is worth, One of the best features of the commer- cial situation is the fact that the outlook is better than the situation itself. The water-rate investigation promises Lo be long enoush to reach a right conclu- si0n, no matter how far off that is. The time is growing short to zet a men- tion for a Cabinet pluce, and there are lots of statesmen yet to be heard from. The Bradley Martin ball blazed out like a thousand rockets, and now the bills will be coming down like a thousand sticks. The breaking of tue steel-rail pool won'’t burt anything, even if the steel rails should run out and ramify all over the country. It is even betting whether Cleyeland will settle down in Princeton and wr.te his memoirs, or take a fishing trip arouna the world. The great powers believe they can set- tle the Turkish problem by diplomacy, but Greece prefers a warship and several torpego-boats. A'l the great cities of the Union have spoken strongly for the independence of Cuba, and now San Francisco should show | her sympathy with the rest. The dgfeat of the Southern Pacific forces in Congress has encouraged Kentucky to demand the payment of back taxes. The monopoly is now getting it on all sides. The Government ought to provide a way for officiaily notifying 8 man who has been elected President. There might be two William J. McKinleys in this country. A Populist member of the South Da- kota Legislature charges his colleagues with “playing boss’’ in electing & Sen- ator, but from this distance they seem to be playing donkey. | wondered whether he had not yet been paid. They apeculated as to the amount he had re” | they toerefore have a right to expect irofi the daily press a full, fair and impartial re* THE UTILITY OF A LIE In its report of the official investigation of water rates published yesterday morn- ing the Ezaminer saw fit to give space to the following paragraph respecting the edi- tor and publisher of TrE CALL: And all through the talking and the questioning, the baiting of the witness and the chip. ping in of Attorney Kellogg, there sdt on a back bench, his shiny hat in hand, his silvered cane negligently tapping his boot, a carnation in his buttonhole, curled and groomed, & sight for the people, Charles M. Shortridge, editor of THE CALL, which recently has espoused Spring Valley's cause against the people. Men asked why he was there, alone, conspicucus. They ceived. They laughed at the figure he was cutting, and mourned the loss of THE CALL from the ranks of the people’s champions. But he sat it out, wincing when Schussler winced, and smiling when Schussler smiled. For he is now part of the company’s “operating expenses.” The reporter who willingly penned this statement and the editor who permitted 1t space in the Ezaminer each knew that the only grain of truth in it was the informa- tion that the editor of Tne CALL attended the public and official meeting of the Board of Supervisors for the consideration of water rates. As to the rest, whoever is respon- sible for its publication knew then and knows now that it was and is a cowardly lze, which the cur who penned and publighed it has neither the courage nor the vmlnhond to utter to the face of the editor of THE CALL. The session of the Board of Supervisors Leld on last Wednesday to consider water rates was an open meeting, which it was not only the privilege but the duty of citi- zens interested in the subject to attend. Ii was especially important ard fitting that the editors and publishers of newspapers should be present at that meeting in order that the scope and plan of the investigation might be considered, and that it might also be observed how honestly and intelligently the public servants were performing their duty in the important matter before them. The great mass of the people can- not attend such meetings however much they may be interested in tneir result, and vort of the proceedings thereat. It was solely in order that the reading public should be assured such a report that the editor of TEE CALL went in person to the meeting of the board. A compsrison of the report of that meeting as published in the Eraminer with that contained in Twe CarL will show clearly the advantage of the personal pres- ence there of the editor of this newspaper. The Eraminer report was manifestly a garbled, partisan, one-sided and unfair presentation of the subject. It was special pleading of the grossest sort. It was evidently intended to excite prejudice rather than to relate facts. On the other hand, Tne CALL report was a full ana fair and ab- solutely impartial reflex of what occurred at the meeting of the board, and such shall be its every report of this important public proceeding. We have culled from the Ezaminer its false and cowardly allusion to the editor of TrE CALL for the purpose of illustrating the despicable methods of the herd of irre- sponsibles who are at present in control of the Eraminer, and not with the inten- n of bandying personalities with them. The editor of this newspaper has earnestly endeavored in its management and publication to adopt the wisdom of Polonius’ advice to Lacrtes, “Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.”” In deference to this counsel he has time and again remained silent under the repeated assaults and fou! and false aspersions of the irresponsible character-assassins of the Ezaminer upon himself and bis friends, belieying that the public would estimate at their exact want of worth emanations from such a source. Whenever Tne Cary has been reluctantly oblized to administer the rod to the Eraminer for its offenses against truth and decency the castigation has been as vigorous as necessary and as brief as possible. In the present instance we would not have deemed the malicious personal assault of this Ishmaelite in journalism worthy of notice except to point a moral to the public mind. The people of San Franclsco need not expect that the water-rate investigation will be fairly, honestly or truthfully reported in the Ezaminer when they fina it uttering such defenseless falsehoods as the above regarding an editor and a citizen who was sufficiently public spirited to attend that investigation for the purpose of knowing and publishing the truth. On the other hand the people may be fully assured that there will appear in TiE CALL an exact, complete and true report of every step in the pending investigation regarding Water rates; that every cfficial who is honest, every witness who is of good repute and every person making an earnest and intelligent effort to bring forward the essential facts for a proper regulation of water rates shall receive in the columnsof Tue CALL notonly praise, but also protection from the assaults of & newspaper which has long since ceased pretending to be either honest in its estimate of character or truthful in its treatment of news. THE TRADE OUTLOOK. While there is no pronounced activity CARMERS' INSTITUTES. The address delivered by Professor Hil- S L The renewed demands of the Kaiser for an increase of the army show that he will never be satisfied untu every German is a soldier and the whole empire is an armed camp. gard at the Farmers’ institute in this City on Wednesday evening was a con- vincing argument in favor of such meet- ings and a compiete demonstration of their value to all who are engaged in | rural industry, and incidentally to the | State at large. | The profe ssor pointed out that the rural | industries of California are in urgent need | of the instruction which can be given by | men of science and the advantages which | resul: from the maintenance of experi- | mental farms under the supervision of men of scientific attainments. In the older States and in Europe, as he said, agricultore has been practiced for a long time, and as a result the farmersthere | have found out fairly well by nard expe- rience what crops are best fitted for their localities and what are the best means of cultivating them. It is different in Cali- fornia. In this State we have new condi- tions. It is not yet known in many sec- tions, even o the most observant, what rural industries are most profitable or how best to conduct them, and therefore with us scientific study and experiment are ne- cessities. A further illustration. of the need of farmers' institutes and agricultural ex- per.ment_stations under control of the university is shown in the fact that the value of the work done by science for | our rural industry is not yet understood by the people. The professor points out that of all the farmers’ sons at the State University, not a singie one takes the agricultural course, even as special stu- dents. The boys, as he says, have been brought up to believe that farm work is menial drudgery, and do not yet under- stand that agriculture requires the intel- fect as well as the muscle. There are few industries where science can be more profitably emvloyed than in the tilling of the soil and the growing of grains, trees and vines, and California will not attain her full prosperity until this fact is under- stood by her people. By conducting farmers' institutes in various sections of the State the univer- sity brings itself into close relation with the farmers, and is enabled thereby to in- fuse amozg them something of the true spirit of scientific agriculture. Through these institutes it is made clear to the people that many important benefits are conferred upon rural industry by the sci- entific experiments made at the various university stations. Farmers are saved from the loss which wouid be entailed | upon them by making experiments them- selves, and the State is profited by the demonstration under scientific supervision that vast areas of land, hitherto consid- ered useless, can be utilized with rich profits. The statement of Professor Hilgard that not a single student at the univer- sity from the rural districts takes the ag- ricultural course even as a special study shows how undervalued is the science of agriculture in California, where our farmers and orchardists are the best edn- cated in the world. The very neglect of the course emphasizes the need of it in the State. If people do not aunderstand the valueof science in rural industry they must be taught. The report that the extra session of Con- gress will consider nothing but the tariff raises the guestion what the Senate will be doing while the House is preparing the bill and what the House will be domng while the Senate is' wrangling over it. If tue tariff only can be discussed there will be a great deal of slack time in both houses. The demand for good roads 1s heard in all partsof the Union, and if there is any virtue in demanding a thine we shall get them. The Iron Ore Associstion has dwindied down (0 a combination of Carnegie and Rockefeller, but it is still helty. in trade, there are signs of improvement. Wool. for instance, is feeling the benefi- cial effects of the anticipated protective tarifl, and, as has already been noted in THE CALL'S commercial columns, the in- dustry is looking up. The sales through- out the United States for the past three weeks have averaged 12,000,000 pounds per week, and all over New England large and small factories which have been idle are starting up, giving employment to | many thousand men and women. The hide market, which has been de- pressed for a long time, is showing a firmer tone, and reports from Chicago tell of an advancing market there. Grain bags are rising in anticipation of abundant crops. Beef and mutton have been in active demand at higher prices for some time, and now hogs are advancing. Money is very plentiful, and soivent com. mercial borrowers find no difficulty in ob- taining accommedation at normal rates of interest, though the banks are disposed to confine their loans to commercial ac- count. Failures are neither large nor nu- merous, and collections are up to the average, and Cabfornia is said to be on as good financial footing as any other State, and far better than many of them. The only drawback is the siow decline in wheat, which, however, excites no ad- verse comment, as it generally goes down during the spring months. 'The most pessimistic operator does not beheve that wheat will get below a point where it will yield a good profit, and nobody expects it to fall as low as it has been. So, on the whole, the prospects for 1897 are very favorable. —_— STEEL RAIL POOL. Public gratification in the rupture of the steel rail pool which was announced at | Pittsburg on Wednesday will be increased by the reports of the causes which led to | it. These make it evident that the col- lapse 15 due not to a loss of business, but to an increased demand so active aud promising that the various organizations belonging to the pool see their way to a better business separately than in combi. nation. It is stated on what seems to be good au- thority that just after representatives of the various mills in the pool had agreed upon rates governing businessin a partic- ular section of the country, some large contracts came into the market and say- eral of the concernsinterested were offer-d profitable business at lower rates than those fixed by the pool. The temptation, it seems, was too strong to be resisted and the contracts were taken, with the result that the pool went to pieces. Rumor has it that the prices fixed by the pool were on a basis of $20 a ton for a cer- tain quality of rails, anc that the concerns which dropped out have fixed prices on a basis of §17. This reduction means a considerable advantage to the pur- chasers of steel rails, and even if prices through competition should go no lower, there will be a benefit to railroad builders and to all districts of the country where new raiiroads are needed. The notable feature in the situation is the fact that such large orders for steel rails are in the market. This confirms the frequent reports of a renewed activity in railroad building and seems to give an assurance that the depression in that in- dustry is about over. It is reported that a single milling company in Iilinois Lias recently taken orders for the delivery of 50,000 tons of steel rails during the present year. It is also said that large orders have been placed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road for use in im- proving the Atlantic and Pacific branch ofthe system. Renewed activity in the construction of railroads is almost tantamount to renewed activity in all lines of industry. Itis bard to set limits to the trades which are more or less directly affecied by railroads. When they begin anew the work of im- proving existing lines and constructing rew ones they set into operation forces which not only revive milis for rolling rails but also those for the construction of cars and locomotives. They give employ- ment to men along the line of road and carry prosperity through wide regions of country and to almost every business along their routes, One feature of the sftuation should not be overlooked. The organization of the steel rail pool was forced upon the various Xn!-mlnufl('(uring companies by the pro- longed depression in the business. As s00n as industry revives the pool zoes to pieces. Lis is another evidence that Lrusts are a resuit of hard times. A del- icit free-trade tariff compels American manufacturers to organize trusts in order to save themselves from ruin. A high protective tanff means good business for all, and under its operations the trusts and pools go to pieces and free competi- tion is restorea. PERSUNAL L. A. Elliott of Visalia is in the City. W. E. Jarte of Yountviiteis at the Russ. John D. Gray of Fresnols on & visit here. . M. Bradbury of Los Angeles is in the City, Ernest W. Brooks of London is at tho Palace. W. J. Jones of Valley Ford is on a visit to the City. H. C. Owendon of Maui, Hawaii, is in the city. George H. Jackson of Woodland is at the Lick. H. G. Spalding hes arrived here from New York, A. C. Emmons, an attorney of Portland, is in town. Sherwood Gillespy of Seattle arrived here vesterday. A. Mursell of Sydney, New South Wales, has arrived here, Mark Chamberlain, Assessor of Yolo County* is1n the C: E. M. McGettigan, the contractor, of Vallejo, isat the Russ. Senator Eugene J. de Sabla of Nevada City is on a visit here. Arthur W. Jones and Mrs, Jones of New York are at the Palace, Raleigh Barcar, the attorney and newspaper owner,of Vacaville, is in tow: W.S. Kinner, the salmon packer and busi- ness man, of Astoria, is registered here, R. H. Collier was one of the arrivals by the Alameda yesterday. He is at the Palace. Dr. Walter R. Gillette ana Jahn C. Elliottof New York are among the late arrivals at the Palace. Henry M. Kingman, a prominent shoe manu- facturer of Brockton, Mass., is at the Occi- dental, Mrs. George H. Paris, wife of Editor Paris of Honoiulu, arrived on the Alameds yesterday aud is at the Occidental. 5. T. Porter, editor and proprietor of the Del orte Record at Crescent City, is makinga visit here and will probably stay for several days. He is at the Graud. D. N. Murphy, the well-known general mer- chant of the Needles, who hes been there many. years and long filied the position of Postmaster, as well as other official places, is in the City on a business trip. . H. Umbsen, the real estate man, and Mrs. P. Umbsen roturned on the Alameda yesterday from Honolulu, where they have been spend- ing a vacation. They were welcomed by s host of iriends as soon as the big steamer docked. Charles Nelson, formerly owner of the Ha- waalin steamer Kahului, was a passenger by the Alameda. According to him business is vers dull in the Hawaaiin Islands, and it wil be many months before Honoluiu will begin to liven up. E. Mansfield, the well-known mining man from Wanpganui, N. Z, and a!so editor of the weekly pubiication Al arrived on the Alameda. He will make a tour of the United States, and later on will go to Europe and thea back to Austraiia. Louis Dean of Reno, the rich cattleman, whose ranges throughout Nevada have made him widely talked about, and who has been in the cattle business for over twenty vears, is at the Russ. He is down on a trip combining business and pleasure. Clarence McFetridge, who is largely inter- ested in Kern County lands, is in town, hay- ing come down yesterday from Yolo County. Mr. McFetridge states that Owing 1o the pre- vailing wet season the 1897 wheat crop of Yolo County will be appreciably smaller than that of 1896. Robert C. Lund of St. George and E. D. Wooley of Salt Lake, Commissioners from Utah 10 go 10 Arizona and confer with a like commission from that Territory regard- ing the line of the borders, are at the Palace. Mr. Lund was once a member of the Terri- torial Board of Equalization. Elijah Smith of New York, president of the Oregon Rullway and Navigation Company, is here on a business and pleasure trip. Mr. Smith formerly lived in Portland, and man. aged the road and vessels of the company from that point. He says there is nothing particularly new to say about his company. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK. N. Y., Feb. 11.—At the St. Cloud, J. C. Collins; Hoffman, A. Adelsdorfer; Cosmopolitan, G. H. Bartlet.; Imperial, F, E. Mayhew; Holland, E. A. Bruyn. BEFORE AN» AFIER With a wardrobe that is jaunty and a traveling bag brand new. He is smiling in the statlon as he grants an inter- His manner's very knowing and his every glance implies Thal his ship has just been sighted: that his star is ou ihe r.se. He Instructs you in the management of Govern- ment affairs, And you feel (hat he is worthy of an office and its cares. You wonder wha: exalted post 'twill be hls lot to gain, Be is ou bis way to Canton and he’s waiting for the trai A few days later he appears. He looksa little dazed, The tras ling bag seems smaller thao it was when last you gazed When you sirive for conversation he has little more L0 say. Than, *'Young man, beware of politics. It really doesn't pay.” He's not at all bis jovial self when stoutly he declares, UMy time must be devoted to my personal affairs.’ Thueéro is someihing in his manner that provokes a wnril of pain— This man who went to Canton and has just got home again. —Washington star. MR GAGE ANu 1HE NEW YORK BANKERS. ‘Washington Post. About all the disagresabie and unkind things that could be said about a man have been said by New York bankers in recently published interviews concerning the selection by President-elect McKinley of Lyman J. Gage t0 be his Secretary of the Treasury. One of the Illinois members of Congress;yesterday offered a little story as & reasonable explana- tion of all this ill feeling. “The New York bankers were nicely tricked by Mr. Gage during the panic of 1873, and because he found and made use of away to beat them at theirgame they have neither for- gotten nor forgiven it,” said the Illinois man. *It was at the very beginning of the money stringency,” he continued, “and Chicago banks had something lik: $25,000,000 in gold on deposit with the New York bsuks, whica they were making use of in the ordinary couTse of busi: ess. When the panie became exteusive the Chicago men wanted to get their money again into tieir own hands and drew on the New York banks forit. Thelatter were quite naturally very much adverse to parting With 50 much_good, hard coiu, and paid the drafts in New York Clearing-house certificates, which were worth in Chicago something less than Confederate currency. ‘‘Ihere was consternation among the Chi- ¢2go ba:kers when the saw that the New orkers proposed to keep their goid. But Mr. age solved the ridd.e and got the coin in a roundabout way, to be sure, but nevertheless hegot it The Chicago banks, scting upon Mr. Gage's advice, proceeded to buy $25,000,000 in gold in London, and paid for the same in New York dratts.’ These had to bemet or go © the wall and cleering-house certificaies dido’t go in Loudon, The dra(ts were paid, but with poor grece, and when it was learned that Mr, Gage was the originator of the scheme he was chalked down in their memory.” ILLUMINATE YOUR OWN HOME For difficulties ‘o be overcome and dangers to be faced the life of the wrecker is more pre- carlous than that of any other follower of the more tedious. ses, be he fisherman or marine, and infinitely Now these conditions are about to be completely changed and the dangers to be braved lessened till they shall almost disappear; the success of the enterprise positively assured, and the tediousness entirely obviated. The work will now be performed as expedi- tiously as the launching of & racing yacht. How 1s it gofng to be done? It you peruse THE CALL next Sunday you will fnd out ail about the new idea for raising wrecks from the floor of the vasty deep. Do you own a windmill? Have you & penchant for mechanics? Do you possess the ability to mvent? 1f you rejoice in any of these blessings it will be of transcendental advantage to 50U to read THE SUNDAY CALL. You can save a heap of money by the aid of the windmill. You will learn In THE CALL just how a man of moderate means (a lawyer of an inventive turn of mind), with the wind as a fundamental factor, operates a private light plant, forces water all over his estate, runs farm machiuery, cuts wood, turns lathes and fills storage bat- teries for use in horseless carriages. Soclety’s latest deligntful fad will be duly expatiated upon. It isa most unique affair, and San Francisco's smart set will soon be en- Joying its delights. The littie ones will have a literary feast after their own sweet hearts. It will be appropriate to the day which is celebrated in honor of St. Valentine. The literary pages will be full of desirable information on the books of the week. The newest fashions will be discussed by M: arcella; the editorials will be timely and able, aud the local and telegraphic news will be as bright, accurate and complete as ever in next Sunday’s CALL In short, THE SUNDAY CALL will e, as ever, on the Pacific Coast. the brightest, the most instructive newspaper THE NAMES OF THE NEW MEN-OF-WAR. The new gunboats named by the Secretary of the Navy are No. 10, building at Elizabeth- port, N. J., Nos. 11 and 12 at the Bath Iron Works, No. 13 at Dialogue's. Camden, and 14 aud 15 at the Union Iron Works. They now o8, bear the names of Annapolis, Marietta, New- port, Princeton, Vicksburg and Wheeling in their numerical order. The Marietia, Princeton and Vicksburg were once more or less familiar names of vessels in the navy; the Marietta of the civil war being The first Alabama on the stocks. When she was launched her mame was changed to New Hampshire. an ironclad, single turreted monitor of 479 tons, built April, 1866, ata cost of $235,040 and sold seven years later for $16.000. The old Princeton was built at Philadel- phia in 1843 and was the first pro- peller built for the United States navy, and also the first naval vessel in which John Ericsson introduced his invention of screw propulsion. The vessel proved & decided suc- cess, marred only by the catastrophe on Feb- ruary 28,1844, when at a gun trial in the presence of many prominent officials the gun burst and killed Secretary of State Up- shur, Secretary of the Navy Gilmer, Captain Beverley Kenison and three others, besides wounding several of the crew. In 1849 the hull being badly decayed the ship was broken up end another Princeton, somewhat larger, was built in Boston in 1851. She did mot prove so successtul as the first owing to faulty boilers, and she was eventually transformed into a sailing vessel, and aiter an uneventfnl career as a storeship was finally sold in 1866. There was a Vicksburg pnrchased in 1863 at a cost of $125,000 and sold September 12, 1865, for $50,400, being used during the war as a {ransport. The names given to the new bat:le-ships. Cramps’, Union Iron works and Newport News was a line-of-battle ship of seventy Kittery, N. H., the keelof which was laid in 1820, and launched January 23, 1864, when her name was changed to New Hampshire. During the war, and until within about & dozen years ngo, the New Hampshire served as a storeship, later as & training-ship for boys and has lately been loaned to the Naval Militin of New York, the vessel being classified in the navy register as ‘‘unserviceable.” A side- wheel steamer of 1264 tons bearing the name of Alabams was purchased in 1861 for $93,338 and sold in 1865 for $28,000, while another smaller namesake, also purchased, bad her name changed to Fox and was sold i 1865. The Confederate States,it may be remem- bered, bad a cruiser by the name of Alabama, built at the yard of Luird Bros., Birkenhead, opposite Liverpool. During the war this crafi destroyed ships and property amounting to miliions, which was subsequently partially repaid by Great Britain. In 1853 a sc was broken up on the stocks in 187 ©0f $414,638, went to the scrap pile. Nos. 7. 8 and 9, being built in the order given, at are Alabama, Illinois ana Wisconsin. There four guns in the old navy called the Alabama, built at e e The battle-ship Alabama, now being built by the Cramps. W s100p-of-war of 2490 tons, which was to be known as_the Iilinols, was bepun and partiully completed at Kittery navy-yard. She was never lanr.ched, however, apd and her engines and boilers, constructed at an expense No vessel built for nayy purposes or purchased for use of the navy has had the name of Wisconsin. and the two new ships to be known henceforth as Illinois and Wisconsin can make a record for themselves unalded or unhampered by the doings of rior namesakes. Asto the Alnbama it is a rather remarkaole coincidencs to note that her shipyard number at Cramp's will be the same as Lier Confederate namesake bore in Laird’s vard at Birkenhead. Letters From the People. THE BAKER MONUMENT. A4 Plea for a Memorial to the Distin- awished Potriot and dtatesman. | To the Editor of The Call: If the bill now be- | fore the Legisiature for an appropriation of £15,000 for the erection of & monument in Goiden Gate Park to the memory of that gal- lant patriot, soldier and citizen, Colonel E. D. Baker, who lost his life at the battle of Balls Bluff in the late Civil War, becomes a law, which is hoped for by all patriotic citizens, it will add another attractive feature to that beautiful breathing spot, in which everybody takes pride. To Colonel E. D. Baker California owes more than to any other cause for having been kept in this Union during the late unpleasantness. It 1s hopea that the patriotic sentiment of the people will be sufficiently aroused to cause the Legislature to pass this appropriate mens- ure whereby the honor due the one it is o be bestowed upon may be rightiully and properly carried out. The movement in this matter was begun in 1891 by Colonel E. D. Baker Camp of Sons of | Veterans of Oakland by the adoption of reso- 1utious favoring the same, which were in turn indorsed by the following Stats Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held at Santa Cruz. From the start here given it the Colonel E. D. Baker Monument Association was formed in this City, in which many of the | rominent citizens were enlisied in the cause, | W. W. Montague was elecied as the president | of the nssociation and committees were ap- | pointed to collect subseriptions thereto and | were succeeding fairly well until the hard | times of the prst Iwo years set in, which | caused a temporary suspension in the matter. | The amount colleeted fs safely deposited to | the credit of the association and will be added | 10 the sum that Is asked for of" the Legisia. ure | should it successfuliy pass thatbody. With | the introduction of the bill interest has been | revived in the matier and assistance is com- | ing to aid. Resolutions in avor of the meas- i ure have recentiy been adopied by the follow- | ing organizations and forwsidea to Sacra- mento: Colonel E. D. Baker Camp of Sous of Veterans, the Army and Navy Republican League of Oxkland, and by several posts of the G. A. R., as well as'the recent Repubiican city | convention of Oakland. The matter is also | before the Loyal Legion for action. J. L. PEREAU, 268 Ninth street, Osklaad. - A PATHETIC SCENE. Elderly Men in Large Number iecking Employment. 7o the Editor of the Cali: A little “ad” in THE | CALL of yesterday produced one of those scenes in the life of the observant man that is the re- verse of the pleasant. “An elderly man” was wanted. At the hour designated twenty-eight men from “elderly” to olderly wereat the num- ber indicated. Some were reason ably well-dress- ed, others not so fortunate; some seemed refi- ea'and of approved manners and habi ts; others appeared as a ‘“harvest of error’ unduly ripened. The heads of all showed the march of time. Even. the Grand Army badge was present. All but one to be denied an engage. ment, too. Attend a garden, feed horses and milk’ cows at “§6 per month and board.” Truly, the saddest sight is to see an old man hunting work.” E. THAYER INGLE, 402 Mason street. RUSSIA’> GREAT RAILWAY. Philadelphia North American. The announcement comes from St. Peters- burg that the directors of the great Chinese Raiiroad have been aunounced, and that orders have been given for the construction of this gigantic undertaking to be begun at once. The directors of the road are men who occupy the highest positions in Russian offi- clal and commercial life, and a Chinese mau- darin, as yet unnamed, will act 8s chairman on the board. Under their direction work on the road may be expdeted to be pushed for- ward with all possible haste. Irdeed thelr sppointment alone practicaily marks the suc- cessiul consummation of this great scheme of Russia for a trans-Asiatic roed, with 8t, Petors. burg as the starting point and Port Arihur, on the Pacific Coast,as the terminus. It is an undertaking of inestimable importance to the Whole civilized world, and its progress toward completion will be closely watched and anx- ANS Los ANGELES SCHOOL— City. There is, in the city of Los Angeles, an evening school in which pupils ot all grades up to the high school are admitted. ERS TO (ORRESPONDENTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY- A. B. City. A knowledge of chemistry is not one of the pre- requisites for admission to the Coliege of Pharmacy of the University of Californs. That is one of the branches taught. CONCEALED WEAPONS—R. B. W., Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, Cal. There is no State law prohibiting the carrying of weapons concealed, except the one which prohiblts the carrying of weapons with intent to assault another. LADIES' PRIVILEGE IN LEAP YEAR—K. L., City. According to the London Illustrated Almenac for 1865 the leap yesr privilege took its orign in the following manner: By an anclent act of the Scottish Parliament, passed about the year 1228, it was “ordonit that during the reign of her maist blessit malestie. Margaret, ilka maiden, adee of baith high and low estait, shali hae libertie to speak ye man she likes. GIf be refuses 1o ak hir to bee his WY1, he schal be malct in the sum of ane hundridiy pundis,or less, as his estait may bee, excep: any arwais. gif can make it appeare that he is b lrothic to anither woman, then he schal bes ror . THE CRUISER SAN FRANCISCO—W. ., Cily- The cruiser San Francisco is a second-class protecied vessel. Authority to build her was given March 3, 1887; work was commenced on her at the Unjon Iron Works October 26 of the same year and she was placed in commis. sion November 15, 1890. The cost of the ves. sel was $1,609,74571: armament, $183. 471 70; output under steam_engineering, con- struction and_equipment, $120 233 81: pro. m.ums paid, $100,000; total, $2,013,451 22, Since her construction about $35,000 has beer cxpended for repairs. She is built of stos has twin screws, 1% bark rigged, her indioated horsepower is 10,400, speed 19 knots and her coal caj acity In buukers is 850 tons. Her die. placement is 4083 tons, length 310 feot, ox. treme breadth 49.13;, mean draft 18.10, DivoRCE—S. P., Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Cal. If & man had been a resident of the Staa | of Towa for a long time and then moves to the State of Oregon with {ntent to commence an | action to obtain a divorce from his wife he cannot commence such action until he hag been a resident of Oregon one year. The time of residence varies in different States. Previ- ous residence required in North Oklahoma is ninety days; Arisons; {aure, Mo breska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakots, Texas and Wyoming, six monthe; Alabasny’ Arkansas, Calilornia, Colorado, I1lnols. Joma’ Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, biccis. sivpi, Minnesota,” Missouri, Montana, New Hamnpshire. New York, Ohio, Oregon, Penn. sylvania, Rhode Isiand, Utab, Vermont, Vir. ginia, West Virginia, Washington and Wis. consin, one year; Florida, Indiana, Marylang North Carolina’ and Tennessec, two years Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts (it when married both parties were rociden:s; otherwise five years), three years; Delaware. Georgia and Louisiana, no siatutory provision. IRON—J. N, City. Iron may be carburized or decarburized by cementation, which 1s a metallurgical process in which two substances are heated in contact for the purpose of effect- ing some important chemical change in one of them. Iron imbedded in charcoal powder and exposed to s temperature over redness is gradually converted into steel, and in this way steel was formerly made in large quanti. ties. This is carburization by umnntallon.’ Again if cast irou be imbeaded in the powder of hematite and kent for some tme at ared heat it is decarburized. This method is used for producing what is known as maileabla iron. Malleable iron is also convertea into steel by keeping it in moiten slg iron. Thisis & very ancieut process and is a kind of cementation. Ironisput on the market in three iorms which differ essentiaily in their properties—cast iron, which is hara, compara- tively brittle and readiiy iusible and caunot be forged or welded; wrought iron, which is Ccomparatively soft, malleable, ductile, welda- ble and fuaible at w very high temperature; steel, which is also maileable and weldable, but fusible and, what is of great mportance, capable of acquiring, by being tempered, a very high degree of hardness,so that it cate wrought iron with ease. The groducgm the blast furnace, of which wrought ir. n ana sieel iously swaited by busi e 7 Dusiness men in all parts of are made,is called pig iron, but its qualities are not sensibly changed by simple remelting and casting. Sieel, formerly produced.exclusivoly wrought iron by cementatic, is now fropely mado by the Bessemer prowss. This process has in & measure obliteratel the dis- tinction between wrought iron and Seel. The most striking feature of the chemica comp.. sitlon of the differeat grades of oD ind s eel is the difference in the amount of €8Tion they contain., Pig iron coutains the mut and wrought iron the least. —_— MUCH IN A NAME FOR OSHKOSH. The citizens of Oshkosh, Wis., have decided to erect a monument to Chief Osbkosh iy Northside Park. Oshkosh was the last of tho Menominee sachems snd played a prom.nent part in the ploneer history of the NoTthyes:. The settlement at the mouth of the Upper Fox River, planted in 1836, had been ciileq Saukeer Point and Stanleys Tavern, bu 1840 the settlers named it Oshkosh in honor of the chief. “The result proved,” says the Milwaukee Sentinel, “‘that Shakespe laboring under a m sapprehension W propounded his famous interrogatory, ‘Wha in & name?’ There has been a greal deai in one for Oshkosh, which is known all over (1 English-spesking world on account of i name. With some, especially ignorant fc eigners, its reality is doubted, and it is there. fore placed in the category along with Utopig and Brobdignag. Among inteliigent peop: however, it stands for a real, thriity andeu. terprising city. PARAGRsPaS ABLUT PEOPLE It fs said that Victoria has sixty pianos at Osborne, Windsor and Buckingham, William C. Hill is a colored sculptor of Washington, who, in good weather, works streel-paving. In the British Isles during the present cen. tury seven instances have been recorde which the bride has married the best man b mistake. In Florida the Judges of the Supreme Court draw straws for the position of Chief Justice, the constitution of the State providing that the official shall be chosen by lot. The estate of the late Abigail Dodge, b known as Gail Hamilton, has been invento, as valued at $£31,029, of which amount £3250 is in real estate in Beverly and Ha Mass. When a man has a very active mind he is obliged to do something with it, and Mr. Gladstone is now hard at work on his “0 pian Religions” as if the destiny of em; depended on it. The sailors of the battle-ship Massachuset(s had & dence last Friday night in Now York, There wes & company of 600 ssilors and t “best girls.” Cuptains Rodgersof the chusegts, Glass of the Texas, Casey of the Ve mont end Higginson of the nay there in full-dress uniforms, and Captain asd Mrs. Rodgers led the march, Alexander Freeman, who died at Sailory Snug Harbor, Staten Island, on Friday, was 109 years old, having been born on Deceisber 22,1787, in New York. He was a seamau to mearly his seventieth year, in 1857, w he entered the harbor, and remained there, in good health, up to a week ago. Freeman both chewed and smoked tobacco. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Oh, mamma,” cried the little chimpanzee, scrambling through the jungle in great excite- ment, “‘come quick! I am sure Professor Gar- ner has come back; there are some men out there in the clearing playing with sticks, and they are talking monkey talk!” “No, my son,” replied the mother fondly, “Isaw them yesterday. They are ouly some prospectors playing golf.”—New York Press. “Who is that bloodthirsty-looking gentle- man standing by the theater?” asked the suest. “Colonei Gore, from Kentucky,” the clerk snswered. “But you shouldn’t by his looks. Itis not thirst for. Oh, no. judge & man lood the colonel has a Indianapolis Journal, Young Writer (to editor of Monthly Re- view)—If you think my article so good, why don’t you let me put my name to it? Editor—Because nobody would read it if I did. Young Writer—But you had an article by the Duke of Ditcawater in your last number and yon put his name to it. Editor—Exactly; but nobody would have read it if I hadn’t.—Pick-Me-Up. “Git,” said the duck viciously, as the pea- cock strutted by, “git on to his royal eyeness, will you? 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