The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH -8, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier. .0.18 Dally and Sunday CALY, oxe year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Bunduy CALL, six months, oy mail. S.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by matl 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .85 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail = 1.80 W EXLY CALL, One year, by m 1.8 BUSINESS OFFICE: | 710 Market Street, | San Francisco, California, Telephone........... .....Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 513 Clay Street. Telephe: Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: mery street, corner Clay; opem umtll 839 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. i 615 Larkin streat: open until 8:30 o'clock. cormer Sixteen:h and Mission streets; opes 9 o'clock. 18 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. trect; open until 9 o'clock. + open until 8:30 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. | EASTERN OFFICE: | Eooms 31 and 83, 34 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager., | THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ONDEVLN LSS ARCH 8, 1897 | During the week ending yes-| terday THE CALL published | 46815 of advertisements, which is 294 inches more than was published by any other San Francisco newspaper during the same time. inches Help boulevard project. Let us start the new era with good work. The unemployed claim attention and deserve it. After this week comes the extra session and politics will hum again. There is vlenty of work needed in San | Francisco to give employment to all her | industrious people. All that is lackingas | the means to se\ it goi. There will not be 100 much objection to a protective tariff this year. The free- traders mzy growl a little, but they won’t | fight. | There are many warm places within the gift of McKinley, butif any man prefers one redhot he can apply for the Ministry to Spain. The rew Serate will show many changes from the oid, but as nearly ail of them will be improvements the people won't complain, Secretary Gary carries to Washington eight unmarried daughters, and his house is likely to be the grand court of the ad- ministration. | Since that Senator Chandler has discov- enator Butler is an **uncorked e will confer a fuvor by putting | back. | Now that we have an administration | that cares for American labor we shall soon see & marked change from the cond:- tions of Cleveland da 1t Weyler ever gives this administration | occasion to send him a note to stop op- | yressing American citizens i Cuba, he | will obey it without back talk. | The Greeks are bo!d in the conscionsness | that Do mauter what may happen as a result of war, there is bound to be lefta | grease spot in Evrope somewhere. It 1s being frequently stated in reports of musical events in Europe that Patti never sang so well for many years as she | is singing this winter. Look out for an- other fareweil tour, A Missouri legislator bas introduced a | bill making it a misdemeanor for railroad | conductors to flirt with women passen- gers, and his feliow members are in doubt whether it 1s a blow at the conductors or | the ladies. R - | There is actually 2 bill before the New | York Legislature 10 prevent newspapers | from publishing caricatures of ~public | men, but the chances are the men who are pushing the measure only wish to get | their pictures printed. 2 A Chicago man has arisen with a claim | for 600 acres within the limits of Philade!- | phia, but as he does not wish to live in | that city he is willing to compromise. In | the meantime Philadelpt is not dis-| turbed and scornfully warns the Chicago | man that if he continues to make such | claims he may be run into a pork-packing | establishment some day and saited down. | The rapid increase in the size of ocean | steamers between this country and Eng- | land nas already required larger harbor facilities, and both New York and London are preparing to make them. 1f the de- mand for bigger ships grows as rapidly as | it has done in the pasttwenly vears, the | next generation may have to enlarge the | Atlantic or abandon ships altogether and build a bridge. They are having a bigh old municipal campaign in Chicago. One of the candi- dates on an independent ticket announces that if elected he will allow every citizen the personal liberty to gamble if he feels like 1t, while acother declares he will turn all the vacant lots in the city over to the poor for the cultivation of potatoes and beans. The voter has before hima | jackpot and a beanpot and can take his choice. The White Star Steamship Company announces the intention of building a steamer 704 feet in length, o1 twenty-five feet longer than the Great Eastern, and it is predicted that a steamer 1000 feet long will scon be afloat. On such a ship it would be possible toconstruct lawn tennis courts, bicycle tracks and all the acces- sories oi a summer resort, Once on board, a man might cross the ocean Wwithout ever knowing he had left his notel. There is danger that New York may lose Madison-square Garden, The build- ing does not pay dividends on the invest- mént, and the stockholders are not willing to keep it up simply for the public benefit. In the ame way London is in danger of losing Crystal Palace. It seems that if we are to huve pleasure buildings so large as to be virtualiy roojed parks, they must be provided by the government like open parks. They are 100 costiy for private ownership, | willful lie, Because A COWARDLY ASSAULT. The Eraminer yesterday added another infamy to the large list of its recent offenses by making a vile and cowardly attack on Senator Morehouse. The animus for the assault is of course to be found in the fact that it was Senator Morehouse who spoke out promptly and bravely in defense of the Legislature from the Eraminer's vile and evidently un- warranted attack upon it, and who de- manded that the author of the defams- tion should be obliged to support its direct charge with equally direct evidence or suffer the consequence of publishing & Senator Morehouse has compelied the attorneys and man- agers of the Examiner to a confession of guilt it turns upon him with the favorite weapon ot a coward and attempts to assassinate his character with an in- nuendo. Senator Morehouse needs no defense from such assaults as this. He is too well accredited to the people of California as one of its foremost citizens and as a gen- tleman whose public career and private character are equally beyond the reach of such assassins of reputation as the Er- aminer is known to be, to suffer from any imputation which this vile libeler may be venomously moved to make. The object of this resentment of the Framiner’s cow- ardly blow at Senator Morehouse is to aavise other citizens of like character and reputation that they too are not safe from equally villainous and unfounded assaults so long as the Eraminer is permitted to play coyote throughout the State of Cali- fornia snapping its dripping jaws at every one who happens to cross its path or in- terfere with its cowardly and criminal vocation. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. It is an unquestioned fact that business is steadily though slowly improving. The effects of the depression caused by the free-trade tariff are still severely felt in all parts of the country, but by degrees in- dustries are reviving, trade increases in activity and public confidence is rapidly re-establishing itself. Ore of the depressing influsnces upon the country is the deficiency in the Na- tional revenues. For the month of Feb- ruary it amounted to $4,206,804, and for the current fiscal year up to the close of February it aggregated $48,121,686. This large and growing deficiency, added to the debt already piled up during the Cleve- land administration, while it does not form a serious menace to a nation S0 wealtiy & source of annoyance to trade and indus- try and interferes materially with the ad- | vancement of all kinds'of enterprises. The fact that an extra session of Con- gress has been cailed for the purpose of providing a tariff which will put an end to the deficiency is in itself a great en- couragement to business activity. The progress of the revival of industry whicn has hitherto been slow may be now ex- pected to advance with more rapid steps. According to the best information ob- tainable there wiil be no prolunged oppo- sition to the new tariff billin the extra session of Congress, which is to assemble next week. An early ciose to the defi- ciency is therefore well assured, and as a | resuit public confidence will soon return to its normal conditions. The business improvement, while it has been slow, has been substantial. There has been no overspeculation in the coun- try for years. Everything is on a sedrock basis, from the price of clothing to the price of land. The trade of the country is on a foundation absolutely solid. It is one on which men can affora to build with courage and enterprise, because it is known to be safe and secure. There is every reason therefore why we should go forwara with confidence, for the outlook | is more promising than has bsen known | ! since the accession of Cleveland to office. From the time when the new tariff biil effect there will be a large import of for- | eign goods. Dealers will take every ad- vantage of the chance to get European articles into the country before the higher duties of protection are imposed. This will to some extent distarb home_indus- , but the disturbance wiil be of short duration. It is expected that the new tariff can be put into operation by the 1st of July, and that date therefore may be set for the commencement of the realiza- tion of much of the prosperity which we expect with the McKinley administra- tion, EXPORT OF FRUIT. In thelatest volume of Consular Reports issued by the Department of State there is reproduced an_article that appeared in the New York Sun last fall, and upon it Eugene Germain, the United States Con- sal at Zurich, makes some comments and gives some suggestions that will be of in- terest to California fruit-growers. He has | atheory of what method our shippers must adopt to secure a remunerative mar- ket in Europe, and to that theory he has brought an evidence of its correciness by citing the practical results which have lnl-; lowed the pursuit of a similar plan by efti- zens of Switzerland who have made mil- | lions by the method. The pith of tha long article quoted from the New York Sun is that the exportation of California fruits to London has been a Josing game, but nevertheless a number of capitalists persist in the traffic and expect better results in the future, The first sentence in Germain's comrment on this article is to challenge the latter statement with being one of those literal truths which convey a false impression to the reader. These determined capitalists mentioned by the Sun he thinks have no money invested in fruit-growing or fruit- shipping, except so far as their interests in transportation are concerned. They take no risks, and their profits do not necessa- rily go hand in hand with the prosperity of the producers. The transportation | charged and the commissions are guaran- | teed, and when fruit is dumped on a glut- ted market it 1s the consignor and not the consignee, the grower and not the trans. porter, who catches the disaster of the deal, The plan provosed by the Consul is for fruit-growers to combine, appoint some men of their own number who are finan- clally interested in the growing of fruits, and send them to the big European mar- kets as permanent resident agents. These men, as soon as they are advised by cable of the shipments coming, aie to canva: the cities and send sub-agents to the in- land téwns to place the fruits where they are most wanted. These agents will gather information about the crop prospects of other countries and inform their consign- ors what to send and what pay to expect. In practical illustration of the workings of the plan itis pointed out that many magnificent palaces recent!y erected in Switzerland and inhabited by millionairés are the results of this method of merchan- dising. In the town of Zurich alone,which as this, nev-ritheless constitutes | has but 149,000 inhabitants, the tax lists show ninety-one millionaires. This information is a little surprising. for we are prone to think of the Swiss as a frugal people who are content to live on cheese and sublime scenery. dan Fran- cisco, though famed as a city of miflh_)n- aires, is in a condition of deplorable pov- erty when compared with Zurich. To equal that little town we should have some 200 millionaires. It would be worth while to try the Swiss plan and see if we could not obtain the Swiss results. The communication of the Consul is published in full in **Consular Reports No. 197" for February, 1897, and we commend its con- sideration to fruit-shippe: A CHICAGO CANDIDATE. A Chicago lawyer who is described by the press of that city as a disbarred at- torney has anndunced himself as an inde- pendent candidate for the office of Circuit Judge on a platforin so broad and scat- tered that it looks more like a lumber- yard than a platform It professes to be a declaration of the right of men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but in its details it deelares for free gambling, lotteries, saloons, opium-joints and little games on the side. The candidate has issued a manifesto to the people, in which he begins by saying, “All men are by nature free and inds pendent and have certain inherent and inalienable rights,” He then asserts, “Any siatute law which abridges these rights is clear'y and unequivocally in op- position to the constitutions of the State and of the United States,” and declares to the voters: If you elect me to the position of Judge of the Circuit Court I will be enabled to dis- charge at once on & writ of habeas corpus any citizen arrested In this county for violation of cither or all the laws and ordinances axainst lawful gambling, pool-selling, horse-racing. lotteries, etc. After such discharge, from which there {s no appeal by the prosecution, the accused is absolutely free to continue his business. If the authorities or others inter- fere with tte personal rights of any cltizen, and he has 1ot the personal courage or ability to protect himself in the lawlul exercise of such rights, I should feel in duty bound to issue un injunction restraining such officials from all further acts of usurpation and tyranny. That this platform may be more accept- able to the people of Chicago, the candi- date proceeds to argument. ‘‘The masses of the people,” he declares, “should not be deprived of teir inherent rights or the Nation converted into a gigantic kinder- garten because 8 jew weak-minded indi- viduals cannot take care of themselves. Legitimate gambling,” he adds, “if unre- stricted, will fill our deserted office build- ings with paying tenants and put in cir- culation st least $5.000,000 annually. Horse-racing and pool-selling woutd bring to our city and circuiate among the people | at least $10,000.,000 more. Honest lot- teries, if established, would gather into the coffers of Chicago not less than §20,. 000,000 per annum, making a total of $35,000,000 which should now be circulat- ing in Cook County.” It will be interesting to see how many votes Chicago polls for a candidate on that platiorm. It wil no doubt be entic- ing to those who desire to see a larger Chicago, for it promises to let down the bars and run the city wide open. The can- didate claims to have obtained over 10,000 names to his petition fora place on the of- ficial ballot within a few days after he began his canvass, and says he will have 125,000 before the time comes for filing it. There is just one candidate of the kind in the country, and it is not surprising that Chicago bas bim. COAST EX(HANGES The, Stockton Mail has entered upon its eighteenth year. The paper occupies a high place amoug the jousnals of the State, and ap- pears to be ¢njoying the fruits of brainy enter- Drise. There is another mound in the newspaper graveyard of Northern Culifornia. The Ukiah Herald has yielded up the ghost after fifteen months of vain endeavor to create & place for itself in Mendocino County. William Allspaugh is now associated with | is reported to Congress until it goes into | W- M- Deniz in the publication of Denig’s Pony Express at Stockton. Mr. Allspaugh pur- chased the interest of W. L. Howell, who, it is | said, contemplates starting a new Democratic paper in Stogkton. The Grass Valley Telegraph looks brighter and iresher than ever, haviug just donned a new dress of type, with all the latest frilis ana fancies of the printer's art to-adornit. A newspaper, in order to afford such stylish at- tire, must be enjoying & considerable degree of prosperity. Salt Lake City has a new journal, the Onyz Illustrated Saturday Night, the objects of which are to prove the value of & nsw method of illustration by means of specially prepared onyx plates, and to serve the people of the metropolis of Utah with an up-to-date illus- trated weekly newspaper, The Weatern National, the latest addition to the list of Berkeley’s ncwspapers, is a neatly got up and cleverly edited weekly of six- teen pages. Itisrather distinctively e family journal, containing many literary and fireside amusement features, us well as current news and timely comment on passing events. . C. Overman is the editor and Anthony P. Morris | the manager. | Salinas is going ahead rapidly in the way of | industrial progress. Not only is she going to | have an jmmense sugar factory, buta shoe | factory bas just been started there, and the Salinas Owl reports that big cooperage works | will s00n be established in the town. beer- kegs will be the chiefoutpui, as the timter hite 0ak) required in their manufacture is undant an the Monterey coast, | The Adin Argus says that it is astonishing how many business men can be tmiked into taking space in a chart, or frame, or register, or some other thing that has no excuse for ex- istence. ‘A schemer will get more for his worthless card than a country publisher witn a good circulation would accept for a whole mopth’s insertion. It is people thus duped who complain that advertising does not pa: San Jose surpassed all rival fiestas a year ago with its rose carnival. The Campbll Visitor, printedin one of the suburbs of the Garden City, suggests that a fruit carnival be held this year in preference. Every cilizen of Santa Clara County is- interested either directiy or imdirectly in the {rujl industry, and the Visitor ig convinced that such an affair would meet with popular favor and be & magnificent suc- Cess. The Bodie Miner-Index gives the mining world & pointer that may be said to verge on the sensational. It is this: “A well-known Bodeite, who worked {or two-thirds of a gener- ation on the Comstock, confidently asserts that to nis certain personal knowledge there is a considerabie body of ore in the Belcher mine which has begn systematically covered up and conceslea for more than fifteen yoars. He says he worked in it and saw it,and knows whereof he speaks.” The Johannesburg News, published in one of the thriving towns of California’s desert min- ing region, declares that stories which have appeared in exchauges from distant parts of the country, describing the Rand as an abso- lutely barren district, ate far {rom true. The News proceeds to enlighten the outside world as follows: “A eareful study of the elements composing its surface soil, together with a knowledge of the conditions necessyry toa prolific tarming country, leads one to take quite an opposite view of the situation, “The first element necessary to a good crop is moisture, This most important festure we have. Six and twenty-five hundredths inches of rain and snow bave already fallen hero this season with prospects for at least two inches more, making a total of 825 inches, thus as- suring abundant irrigation for rye, barley ana cther cerepls not requiring. moisture during the entire course of maturing. “The heavy growth of bunch grass, shrabs and other bushes after the recent rains proves the richness of the soil and the lact that it contains all the life-giving elements necessary for the successtul growth of cereals, vege- tables, etc. The only remaining element nec- essary is the hand of man to guide the plow 2nd cultivator and the combination is com- Plete. This last element s wanting, aad it is sggressively apparent to even 8 casual ob- server that, witn the advent of the practical farmer, this district will become, in addition to the richest gold camp jn_America to-day, & flourishing farming community.” The Tribune of San Diego says that tobacco raised within the limits of that city is being made into cigars and sold to smokers. “This tobacco was planted less than & year ago. The cigars made from it sre liked by some and disiiked by others. Certain it is that the home-made and. home-grown product is sur- Pprisingly good considering the newness of the soil and the necessarily experimental methods in curing the leaf. Pipe tobacco from El Cajon ranch finds considerable favor, These actual productions of fairly satisfactory to- bacco in this county are promising for a con- siderable increase of a most valuable in- dustry.” NEWS UF FOREIGN NAVIES. The first keeiplate of the Ocesn, armor-clad of 12,950 tons and 13,500 horsepower, was 1aid at Davenport dockyard February 15. She 15 the first battle-ship e ver given to that yard. An epidemic of mumps has broken out on the British battleship Prince George and the ship has been placed in quarantine. There are also cases on the Blake the patients of which bave been sent to the hospital. Spain has made a contract with Stephenson & Co. on the Tyne for the construction of a floating dock to be located at Olongapo, Phil- ippine Islands. The dogk will be 450 feet in length, 117 feetextreme width, 38 feet 6 inches in heigbt and will have a lifting capacity of 12,000 tons. It can accommodate Vessels 500 feet in length. The Norwegian armor-clad Harald Haarfager was launched January 5 from the Armstrong vard at Walker-on-Tyne. She is of 3500 tons displacement and carries two S-inch, four 7-inch, six 12-pound and six 1¢-pourd quick- firing guns. The armor beit varies from 7 1nches to 4 inches in thickness, The christen- ing ceremony was periormed by Mme. Stang, ® descendant of Harald Haarisger, the rirst King of Norway. The lack of men for the British navy, which is frequently made a topic of discussion in and out of Parliament, appears 1o be not well founded, and the fact is that the navy can al- ways have as many as it wants and have its pick of the best. Twice during the past year the standard of admission was raised, and in spite of this 40 per centof those serviceable could not be aamitted. It is the personnel of areserve navy that is wanted rather than blue-jackets and mechanics for the regular navy. At the Vulcan shipyard, near Stettin, Prus- sia, three protected cruisers are being built for the Chinese navy. They are each of 2950 tons displacement, 328 feet in leagth, 41 feet beam and 16 feet 6 inches meen draught. They are to have engines of 8000 horsepower to drive the ship 192 knots. Their armament consists of three 6-ingh and eight 4-inch quick-firing guns of the Krupp pattern, and also six 134- inch Hotchkiss snd six Maxim guns. The torpedo-tubes—three—are all above water. [n the same yard two cruisers of 5630 and 5900 tons are belng buils for the German navy. Asa protection against torpedo attacks a Dr. Jones proposes to fit vessels with steel shields made in the form of the hull, which in ordinary circumstances will rest against the vessel itself. The shields are to be fastened to theship at the top with hinges, and are loose at the bottom, and capable of being pro- jected outward for a distance of twenty feet. The notion of the learned doctor is that these shields and the cushion of water between them and the ship wiil protect the latter from material injury should a torpedo be exploded against the guard. The project, however, is not seriously considered by naval men, who see the insurmountable obstacles in earrying out the idea into practice. As torpedo booms and nets have been abandoned, the only and best means of protection lies in the quick- firing guns, of which now a greater number than ever is carried, mainly with the object of disabling or destroying hostile torpedo-boats, PER:ONAL J. Weil of Sanger is at the Grand. John M. Stone, a druggist of Los Gatos, 18 at the Grana. W. A. Gett, u lawyer of Sacramento, is visit- ing st the Lick. A. C. Snyder, a Santa Cruz druggist, s regis- tered at the Lick. . Turner, a farmer of Red Bluff, is a late arrival at the Russ. R. L. Peterson, & merchant of Milton, isa guest at the Grand. C. Schuler, a business man of-Santa Rosa, is at the Cosmovolitan, Miss M. McLangton of Sacramento is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Joseph Billlen, & St. Johns merchant, staying at the Grand, - | J.J. Williams, a merchant of Sacramento, is aguestat the California. C. H. Livingston and wite of Stockton are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. B. Gordon, & Los Angeles tailor, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. George Smith and wife ot Haverhill, M: are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. . P. Chipman of Red Bluff registered yester- day at the Palace with his wife. Walter J. Green of Utics, N. Y,, arrived at the Palage last night with his bride. Alfred Kutner, a large merchant of Fresno County, is at the Palace with hia wife. Dr. C.T. Poore of New York arrived at the Palace yesterday accompanied by his wife. D. C. Demarest, a mining superintendent of Angels Camp, is making & short siay at the Lick. J. M. Wilmans and J. C. Wilmans, merchants | of Newman, Stanislaus County, are guests at the Lick. H. M. La Rue, the Ratlroad Comm{ssioner, is down from Sacramento and {8 sL0PPIng at the Occidental. E. Witliams and A. L. Hatheway, of Vallejo, are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. Arthur Peterson of Philadelphia arrived here last night on his homeymoon trip and took apartments at the Palace. is age i going Among yesterday’s arrivals at the California The Vice-President’s Gavel. Vice-President Hobart will use in his office as presidentof the United States Senate a beau. vel which cost $500, and which was recently presented to him by the officersof the tional Bank and of the Paterson Savings Institution of Paterson, N.J. The presenta- tiful First N tion Was made at a pleasant little dipner, figure, The gayel is made of wood 1aken {rom place of birth atLong Braneh, It is prettily carved, and its mountings are in gold and were made by Tiffany, On the head is & plate bearing the following inscriptios Hobart, twenty-fourth Vice-President of the bearing the inscription are engraved an eagle, handle is decorated with a liberty capof gold. Mr. Hobart received the gavel with & neat #peech by the presidentof the First Nstional Bank, and i turn made e pretty and appro- Ppriate response. were: C. Douglas Fox and J. M. Gooch, two large ranchers from Bakersfletd. Lieutenant B. A. Tishe, U.8.N., arrived at the Palace yesterday accompanied by Mrs, Tishe and Miss Tishe. He is on his way to Mare Island. Evan Stephens and W. Christopherson of Salt Lake City, representatives of the big Mor- mon Tabernacle choir that appeared here several months ago, arrived here last night to look over the field in hope of securing another engagement. They are at the Grand, NEWSPAPtR PLEASANIRY Landlady—I congratulate you, sir! A boy or agirl? Oldboarder—A little of both, thank youl— Puck. Office Boy—Mr. Gaybird is out to lunch, sir. Caller—Ah, and will he be gone long? Office Boy—Oh, no, sir. He went with his wife.~Truth. ““ATe you the new girl?” asked Mr. Wheeler, coming down to breakfast. “Yes, sir,” Teplied the maid. “Wnat make wheel do you ride?’—Yonkers Statesman. Johnny—Mrs. Jawkins, ma wants to know will you trust her with the loan of & cup 0" sugar. Mrs. Jawkins—You tell your ma that I don't believe in the sugar trust.—New York Com- merciar Advertiser. Mr. Esplanade—I miss one topic from the programme of the mothers’ congress which I fully expected to see discussed, Mr. Monterey—What is that? Mr. Esplanade—"How to Manage a Hus- band,” by Miss Boanso.—Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. Customer—I don’t sce how anybody csn han- die s big stock of glass like this without doing alotof breaking. Persuasive falesman—They can’t, ma’am. Two firms broke all to pieces trying to handle thislot. That's why we can sell 1t 50 cheap.— Chicago Tribune. THE PEACE OF LUROPE. “Ihey are gathering round the They’re besleging littie Crete They have tons of guns and powder On the vessels of caca fleet: They could biow the isle o atoms— Yes, and smile, 00, s they blew it— For they’il keep the peace of Europe 11 it 1akes a fight 10 do it nd, They are growling at each other Like a lot of anary curs; Each 1s jealous and su-p.cious 11 another bullaog stirs; Each would like to crush the others, Yet each knows that he would rue ft— And they'll keepthe peace of kurope, 1f 1t takes & fight 1o do Lt Cleveland Plain Dealer. PARAGRAPHS AsOUL PEOPLE. Chief Kennedy, after more than fifty yoa service in the New Haven (Conn.) Fire Depart- ment, is soon to retire Henry Heitfeld,the new United States Sena- tor from Idaho, was & farmband in Nehama County, Kansas, up to 1882. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller is es devoted to hospitals where her charities are concerned as herhusband 1s to universities. Carlotts, Maximilian of Mexico's widow, whose physical heaith during her long insan- ity has been good, i said to be now rapidly declining. Professor Warren Holden of Girard College, after forty-five years of service as professor of mathematics, has been retired with a yearly salary of $2500. The Populist Governor of Kansas hasap- poluted the wife of ex-Governor Jobn P. St. John, the Prohibitionist, to a place on the Board of Regents of the State Agricultaral College. John Siddons of Snareston, near Burton-on- Trent, England, is tne oldest chorister on record. Hs has just celebrated his ninetieth birthday. Stddons joined tne Parish choir in 1814 and still sings in it. He has been parish clerk for over ffty years, succeeding his father, who held the office for twenty-nine years before tle son . Vice-President Hobart has been besieged by begging lotters every day since election. One young woman is said to have writien to him from New Orleans requesting $10,000 with which to complete her musical education, and asked Mr. Hobart (o telegraph wnen the money would arrive. Another woman asked for §8 for & set of false teeth, saying that her chances of gotting a husband would be vasily increased thereby. o INDUSTRIAL INVASION OF ENG- LANT. Philadelphia Press, The industrial revolution involved in the appearunce of American sieel in England has created & sensation out of all proportion greater there than here. English newspapers seoin it tho ultimate suyremacy of our steel trade the world over. English steel masters face on one side the cheap labor and technical skill of Germany and Belgium, and on the other the dear labor and Cheap materials of this country. Euglish coke costs over $2 a ton, where Connelisville is %125 to $150. Yer'our best {urnaces use only 1600 pounds of coke 10 the ton of steel, when English furnaces use 2000 pounds. English newspapers ure asking if (he invasion is to be permanert. As it is based on a cheaper cost-sneet it has cer- tainly come to stay. No country in the worid can compete with $20 steel rails or billets at $15 or $16. A TROLL:Y 10 TRE PYRAMIDS. New York Tribune. A new danger conironts the Pyramids of Egypt, and it is a matter of doubt whether they will continue to maintain thatcompos- ure for which they have become famous throngh Governor Leedy's brilliant epigram abont iheir indifference to the barking of the E:ytian dogs. They will be trolley-vietim No. 147 365. In & word, this wicked capitalistic torun a' trolley through the Nile Valley to the Pyramids. When the first irol- ley-car's warning goug rings on the Egsptian plaing we venture to say that the furty cen- turies which have been engaged for some little time past in looking down upon us from the | Pyramids will gether up their belongings and, shricking, flee to some more secluded spot. Baltimore fun. Itis not practicable nor desirable to make our naval captains aud lientenants out of actual *‘old tars'’ taken from before the masr, | because book learning and technical knowl- edge of navigation as a seience and engineer- ing and mechanics are of roal and, indoed, essential value. Butitis both practicable and desirable to put our navai cadets through such & practical course of open sea training as to make them ail “old tars’’ to the same extent a8 the officers of the ocean liners. in which the Viee-President was the central & 1arge aple tree that grew near Mr, Hobart's “‘Garret Augustus United States of America,”” Below the plate & shield and olive braneh. The tip of the FOR CONSUL AT HONGKONG, James McWilliams Is Be- lieved to Have the In- side Track. D.fferent Petitions in Circulation in Coast Towns for His : Appointment. The Oregon and Washinzton Delega- tions Siid to B: for Him—Has L d a Busy Li‘e. James McWilliams, who was with Rals- ton in the palmy days o! his many enter- prises, and who has been president of the San Francisco Produce Exchange, and who has at one tims and another filied many important places, especially in a business way, is a candidate for the posi- tion of United States Consul at Hongkong. after be captain of Company A, First In- fantry. e The next field day at tbe Presidio will be held on the 17th inst., whben the con- testants will take part in the following events: Four hundred and forty yard bieycle race 220-yard dashi; tent pitehing, relay’ race, re turning snarpshooters; foot troops, 880-yaris go-as-you-please, hasty intrenching, biank cariridge race, bayomet race, wall scaling in two forms, shelter tent and obstable race; mounted roops, mounted gymnastics, mount- ed wresiling. vaulting and hurdle contesi, dead-body rescue and broad-sword contest; cavalry, mouuted skirmish coniest; iight ar- tillery, gun detachment contest. A great deal of interest is be'ng taken by the officers and men at the various poste in the military tournament that will be held in April. % Captain Richard C. Parker, retired, has been relieved as secreiary and treasurer of the Soidiers Home in Washington, D. C., by First Licutenant E. D. Ladd, Ninth Cavairy. Lieutenant John B. McDonald, Tenth Cavairy, has been detailed as professor of military science and tactics at the South Carolina Military Academy, the appoint- ment to teke effect on the 5th of next May, and on that day he will relieve First Lieutenant J. M. Jenkins of the Fifth Cavalry. The foliowing is a copy of a bill that re- cently passed the Senate of the United States and is of interest to ail who may desire to go on the retirred list. That an act approved September 30, 1890, be amended so as to read as follows: '“That when an enlisted man has served thirty years in the United States army OF Mmarine coris, or as an enlisied man or appointed petty ofcer in the United States navy, he shail, by making application to the President, be placed on ths retired list with 75 per centum of his pay and allowances of the rank or rate upon which he was rotired; provided that ail active service in the United States army, DAVY OF marine corps JAMES McWILLIAMS of This City, States Consul =~ Who May Be Made Unitea at Hongkong. It waslearned that he had already received tbe indorsement of many prominent per- sons, and seemed in a fair way to get the place. Itis not known that there are any other aspirants. It is stated that a dozen different peti- tions are in circulation in different towns on the coast, including Bacramento, Los Angeles and Stockton, asking for his ap- pointment, It is also said that a large petition has been circalated here and signed by a great many prominent politi- cians and business men, and that this has gone on to Washington. Besides this Mr. McWilliams is under- stood to have the blckinvl the Congres- sional delezations from Washington and Oregon. Mr. M¢Williams is a California pioneer 0f 1850, and has been-in many different business enterprises in this City, among them several milling companies. He has for some time had trading interests in China and Japan. At one time he was, as is recalied, manager of the Star Milling Company. Iuis believed he has an inside show to get. the post at Hongkong, as he began in time, and has secured many powerful Iriends, 0UR FORTIFICATIONS, The War Department Will No Longer Allow Civilians to Iaspect Them. A Field Day at the Presidio on the 17:h — Of Interest to Those Who Want to Retire. The new casemates for the twelve-inch disappearing gun that is to be placed in | position at the fortification at Fort Point has been completed, and the work of placing the mouster gun in place will scon be commenced. | Another of the ten-inch-riflad pleces is | being placed in position near the one that | was tested a few days since. This work is | accomplished very much as is the lnunch- | ing of a ship, but on the inverse principle. Long and very strong ways are built from the ground to the elevation on the car- riage on which the gun is to be placed, and the piece, instead of being slid down the ways as is & ship,is hauled up.the ‘ways by slow stages. Considerable armament that will be used in completing the fortifications at the point were delivered last week and will soon be ready to place in position. The War department is becoming quite jealous of its fortifications of late, for it appears that an important order has been prepared relating to the inspection of coast and defenses by civilians. It pro- vides that hereaiter civilians cannot visit fortifications except upon written passes signed by the proper authority, and that such permission will not be eranted ex- cept for military reasons, It is said that the reason of this order is that at many places the country’s points of aefense are nearly completed, and that a description of the character of such defense and ex- tent thereof would prove of great value to foreign Guvernments. Lieutenant John W, Hinckley Jr., Third Artillery, of the Presidic has been nvlgn:d to Battery I, Fort Hamilton, New ork. & First Lieutenant J. Franklin Bell, Sev- enth Cavalry, aid to General Farsytn, has been sont to Washington under verbel i Li 3 st Lientenant J. F. Reynolds Landis, Fiist Cavalry, aid to General Forsyth ‘-I headquarters, was during the past week before the examining ‘board at the Presi- dio jor examination for promotion. Among those who have passed a suc- cessful examination recently are First during time of war, insurrection or rebellion shall be computed as double time in_comput- ing the thirty years necessary to entitle the applicant 1o be retired; provided further that all_honomble service in the United States army, navy and marine corps shall be come puted as within the period necessary to entitio the applicant to retire under the provisions of this act.” ————— Improved Order of iied Men, Samoset ‘Itibe of Vallejo fs making arrange- ments to replace 1ts pre.est wigwam with & fine brick structur: Modee Tr! had an adoption las' Friday, Frank J. Fuller, P. ~. has been appointed deputy grand sachem over wa, Althamos snd ‘Awnshic Tribes. Comancne Tribe of £imhurst bas made arran ge- fnams Iln erect a vuiuding in that place i which to cate Its wizwam. H. M. Hall of Moqui Tribe of Arizona was in the City 1ast week. B TOWNSEND's Cal. glace fruit. Palace Hotel bldg.* NEW designs in fire-etched boxes. Townsend’s ————————— EPECTAL information daily to manufacture-y, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ———— Lam oniy human—" “Of course, “T thought Johnson Was wrong when he in- sisted that you wese an ass. Journal. - “The Overland Limited." Commencing Sunday, March 7, the Union Pa- cific will carry both first and seconl class passen- gers on the “Overiasd Limited,” leaving San Francisco every day in the week at 6 ». a., through to Chicago withoui change, and ail Eastern citles vis Nisgara Fails. Pittsbure, Washington and Philadeipbia, 1o twelve Lours quicker time than any other line from California. Tickets and sleeper reservations st 1 Montgomery street. D, W. 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