The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 1 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: ¥ CaLL.one week, by carrier. .$0.18 00 Daily and Sunday CALY, one mont] Bunday Cari, one vear, by \»iaXLy Caly, one year, b BUSINESS 710 Mark San Francisco, California. Telephone..... ceeenens. Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Main—-1874 Telephen.... BRANCH OFFICES: mery sireet, corner Clay: open wntll Larkin street: open until o SW. cormer Sixteenth and Mission stre 9 o'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE: $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICI There will be plenty of time given for a and fnll discussion of the tariff bill, no time for obstruction. Champion Corbett, like President Cleve- land, now takes an “ex’ before his title. We are b new deal all round. While Copgress is in session it might as well pass the i ion bill which Cleveland vetoed. The country needs that as well as the t 1d have paid Carson better to It w have hela a mineral exposition. She would have made nearly as much cash and got a great deal more credit. Crown Prince Constantine of Greece has gone to the front with an army headed for Constantinople, and if there is any- thing in a name the town will be his. The readiness of Greece to defy the great powers as well as Turkey cofifirme the belief that she has strong friends to take her part as soon as the war becomes fierce. Judging by the results at Carson.the predic of the sports are no better than those of the weather prophets, and vet the weather-men never bet on their forecasts. This is decidedly an unlucky year for Spain, and the best thing her people can do is to avoid war, diplomacy and specu- Jations and confine themselves strictly to legitimate busines: Now that the work on the boulevard has begun it should be prosecuted vigor- ously to the end. The workingmen of the City meed the employment and the City itself needs the road. Protection to American citizens abroad is one of the demands to be formnlated at the Cuban mass-meeting on Saiurday evening, and every patriotic citizen should be present to approve and indorse it. Asabout 400 bills held over from the last session sre before the Senate it is evident tnat body will not lack fer work while the House is considering the tariff. ate is in great need of a set of hinery for the transection of business, and this would be a good time to adopt it. A proposal hes been madein Massa- chusetts to employ all the male convict labor in the State in cutti a canal across Cape Cod. ot It seems there is na r employment which can b: given them without injury to free labor, and as the canal has long been desired the pro- posal has been very favorably received. The bill protecting litigants from the ger of having ‘their cases tried by ticed Judges hes been passed by the enate and the men who charged that it was s orted by bribery have been re- manded to jail, and so that episode passes from the domain of current news to the satisfaction of everybody of right judg- mént. The ordinance making it a misde- meanor for any oue to spit on the public e corridors of public the streetcars has been ed by the Mayor and has gone effect. Remember, there‘ore, that if u expectorate in any of these places hereafter you cannot expect to rateas a good citizen, When asked in the House of Lords to state the policy of his Government with regard to Crete Lord Saiisbury declared it would support ths policy outlined in the recent speech of nier Meline of he excellence of the evasion of tion was increased by the fact that the speech of the French Premier was itself an evasion. acts have been let for beginning rk of construction of a railroad be- tween Oakdale and Sonora, and the enter- prise is to be pushed vigorously ahead. This is one of the many evidences that vrogress has started again in California. it will not be many vears before we have the State gridironed with smail roads as feeders for the main thoroughfares, Con the we Secretary Sherman bas already been in consultation with the Foreign Reiations Committee of the Senate on the subject of the Nicaragna canal, and as he is known to be favoravle to the conduct of the en- terprise under the direct control of the United States the outlook is encouraging. This administration may vet be noted for starting that great work and carrying it well along to completion. Santa Clara County nas begun ship- ping pickled olives by the barreiful as a starter on a new industry, and there is & chance for it to grow intoa great oue. The Eastern people have not yet been fully educated 10 the use of olives, but that will come in time, and then the olive-grower of Santa Clara wili be as big as the prune-grower and have just as muck money to do his talking for him. An illustration of the difference in the way newspaper enterprise works in giffer- ent sections of the Union was recently given Qy the Boston Journal, which pub- lished on Wednesday a report of an im- portant lecture and announced in the closing paragraph that it would publish a picture of the lecturer on the following Sundsy. This was not speedy, but shows that the Journal evidently knew what the public expected and intended to satisfy it within the week, PROMPT WORK. At the meeting of the Ways and Means | Committee on Wednesday the Republican members proposed that the new tariff bili should bs reported to the House to-day. To this proposition the Democratic mem- bers objected. Their claim was that they desired time‘to study the various sched- ules of the bill, but it seems clear that their real motive was to cause delay and to obs'ruct the passage of the act as long as possible. After a full discussion between the mem- bers of the two parties on the committee, the Xepublicans decided to hold to their proposed course, and if nothing unforeseen | occurs the bill will be submitted to Con- | gress this morning. This will be prompt work, indeed, and will give encourage- ment to the popular hope that the desire of the Republicaus of the committee may be carried out to the end and the new tariff put into operation by May 1. The claim of the Demoerais that they desire time w0 study the bill before dis- cussing it, or voting upon it, has a spe- clous sound but no good basis to rest on. The various schedules of the bill were were adopted, and have been published in all the leading newspapers of the country. +The Democrats in Coagress have had clause of the proposed act, and it would simply be a waste of time 1o now delay consideration of the bill until they had a; additional week or more given them | which to read s measure that has already been read throughout the Union. Tt is clear thatif the Ways and Means | Committee and the Republicansof the | House should wait upon the pleasure of the Democrats in this matter the extra | session would be prolonged until it merged into the regular session in Decem- ber and still the new tariff would not be | enacted. Of this fact the Republican lead- | ers are well aware, and they are not likely | 10 be deceived by the pretense of a desire | for time to study the bill. Under the programme as arranged ample opportunity will be given for the discussion of the new measure after it has been submitted to the Honse, Between !now and the st of April there will be plenty of time for debate on every sched- ule and on every feature of the bill. More time would be merely a concession to cb- structive tactics, and this the Republican leaders are not likely to grant. Up to this time tne work. or the new bill has been prompt. The people have | been gratitiea by the rapidity with which the Republican party has set about the sk of accomplishing a remedy for exist~ They have confidence that the olution will continue to the end. This is go time for delay or for concession to obsiructive minorities. The people need the new tariff. Prompt work is im- perative. OUR COAST DEFENSES. Thg appearance of the recent War De- partment order probibiting civilians from visiting our fortifications has been tne sig- nal for a number of sensational dispatches to the effzct that the oxder has come too late and that plansof our new coast de- fenses are already in the hands of possible enem These accounts arevery misleading, in that they inevitably tend to create in the { mind of the public the idea that the value of our new works has been discounted in advance and that hostile ships, by a knowledge of the numbers and location of guns, will have an easy task in attacking them. When we consider that our coast de- fenses are only about one-tenth completed it1sapparent that the present condition of the works, even if accurately known abroad, would prove.of little value. The great difficulty of preventing the details of permanent works from becoming known has been amply proved abroad, even where the severest penalties are attached to a breach of trusi. Spies in the diszuise of workmen, balloon and long-distance pho- tography are some of the well-known methods of securing such information, i | After all, the location and number of | guns is only one element of harbor de- fense. Torpedoes form another and very important element,” and as these are | planted only at the outbreak of hostilities, | it will be an easy matter to keep tueir ex- act location a secret. The real secrets of harbor defense are the general *‘plan of defenss” —known only to a few high officials—the location of mining galleries, cables, the arrange- ment of all the complicated system of distribution of power and light, of tele- phones, range-finders and the various auxiliaries so necessary to the effectual use of the guns themselves. All these de- tails are not apparent 1o an observer snd may be effectually guarded. These ar- rangements form ‘the nerves, so to speak, of the entire system and enable the com- mander of a harbor to direct the fire of ail the guns so as to secure the best effect. By these means the target can be selected at will and the fire concentrated, scattered | or withheld, as best suits the varying stages of the conflict. {n this way the whole forms a mobile instrument under | the control of one mind. All this is a matter of organization and of continual practice and drill. The secret, if any. lies in the harmonious cg-ordination of all the elements and their smooth working in times of danger and excitement. We may rest assured that the War De- partment authorities, after spending mil lions on coast defense, have not omitted the ordinary and necessary precautions needed to make them thoroughly effective in time of need. THE NICARAGUA OANAL. Secretary Sherman had a consultation with the Senate Co mmittee on Foreign | Relations on Tuesda y, and discussed with the members of that committee the two important subjects of the arbitration treaty with England and a new treaty with Nicaragua for the construction of an interoceanic canal. It is evident, there- fore, the new Secretary is not wasting his time in office, nor giving the whole ot his attention to office-seekers, but has begun at once to arrange for carrying out great policies of state, The consultation was, of course, a secret one, as befits matter of diplomacy, but it is made known that Secretary Sherman is desirous of arranging a treaty for the construction of the Nicaragna canal ana will take immediate steps to that end. While in the Senate Mr. Sherman took the ground that the canal'should be con- strucied directly by the Government of the United States instead ¢f through the agency of a private corporation, aided and sted by the Government indorsement of its bonds. From what was learned of his conference withthe Senate committee, it appears that he still holds to that view, and if the Senate accords with bim will endeavor to 'arrange a treaty with the Nicaraguan Government for the construc- tion of the canal on that basis. ‘While some of the Senators who favored the Nicaragus canal bill of the last ses- sion may have been induced 1o doso by reason of the advantages it gave to the canal company, there can be no question thai the great majority of them supported announced publicly as rapidly as they | ample time, therefore, to study every | the bill simply because they desired the construction of the canal. These Senators can be counted on to support a treaty which would give us the r zht to construct the work as 8 Government. enterpri e. It is reasonable to infer, therefore, that the policy of the new Secretary of State will be supporied by the Senate, and that he can go forward in arranging the treaty with the assurance of the approval of the body to which the treaty will have to be referred when made, 2% Under these circumstances the outlook for the canal is distinctly encouraging. The one aanger to be zuarded against is the possibility of dissensions. between those who favor the Sherman vpolicy of construction by the Government directly and those who prefer to have the work done by a private corporation. It should be borne in mind that the main object is t0 secure the canal. When the bill advo- cated by the canal company was before the Senate it was supporfed by thos: who would have preferred direct Government control, because they were willing to lay aside differences in matters of detail in orcer to advance the construction of the great work. It is now the turn of those who prefer corporate ownership to lay aside their preferences and support the plan which it seems the new Secretary of State will favor. EFFECTS OF THE TARIFFE The effects of the new tariff, whose en- actment is now assured, are already felt in industrial circles. This was made evident by the dispatches of yesterday -announc- ing that the great Williamsburg Sugar Refinery, after a shutdown of over five montns, has opened with a force of nearly 500 men, The dispatch added that the introduction of the tariff bill with its in- creased duty on sugar is the cause of the resumption of work at the mills. California has more than ordinary in- | terest in the sugar industry. The subject bas been so thoroughly studied in this State that we are able to assert it would be easily possible for California alone to produce all the beet sugar which we now import from foreign lands. Our soil and our climate are so adapted to the growing of the best varieties of beets that no other country could compete with us except in the element of cheap labor. With a cus- toms duiy sufficient to protect the wages of our workingmen we can look forward to the time when the people of the United States will obtain their beet sugar from California instead of from Germany. 1t is gratifying, therefore, to note this speedy revival of industry ata great fac- tory which has long been shut down. If this mueh is accomplished by the mere promise of a new tarifi we may be sure that its realization will resalt in great benefits to American industry. In these days, when every city in the Union is thronged with unemployed men, it is no slight thing to have a factory resume work and give employment to 500 persons. It will be a great thing for America when all the mills now closed shall be reopened and their machinery started again. We have waited long for the accomplishment of this much-desired result, and every item of news which records the revival of in- dustry will be received with more than ordinary gratitication. CIVIL SERVICE HUMBUG In a debate in the Senate on Tuesaay Senator Frye exposed one of the humbugs of civil service reform asimposed upon the country by President Cleveland. Speaking to a resolution calling for copies of all instructions given to engineer officers in charge of public works relative to the application of civil service rules to the engineer department, the Senator said : The civil service rules have been extended | by the President over the employment of all manner of servants through the engineer de- partment of the Government, so that if an officer way up the Columbia River wants to hire a laborer for a piece of work the laborer must have a certificate from the Civil Service Commission, aud 5o on in the casc of a sur- veyor who may be wanted for two or three days. It is interfering with all tbe improve- ments of river and harbors, and is absolutely absurd and stupid. It is scarcely necessary to say that the resolution was agreed to by the Senate. The absurdity of the rules imposed by Mr. Cleveland is well understood by ail who have any dealings with their operation. Senator Frye has simply made known to the country a condition of affairs with which the engineering department of the Government is familiar, Mr. Cleveland was a bungler in every- thing. He could not even do theright things in the right way. Itistime that there shonld be a thorough overhauling of all his executive orders. This Is particu- larly 50 in the case to which Senator Frye called attention, but there are many others of hardly less imvortance. We Lave got rid of Cleveland, and we must now get rid of the redtape which his stu- pidity and dogmatism nas imposed upon the public service of the country. MEN AND, v OMEN Louise Michel has written and arranged for the publication in Paris of a history of the in- surrection ot 1871, A sensation has been created in Vienna by a | young Bohemian physician, Dr. Eukula, who cures shorisightedness by means of a simple ovperation. Verne is still busy writing two romances a year, though he publishes only one. He goes 10 bed ut 9, is up at 4, and from that hour ull noon he s at work. Intimate frierds of the late Alexander Dumas have resolved to keep the remem- brance of the dramatist alive in their minds by a special dinner every three months in Paris. Mrs. Rebecea Mitchell of Idaho Falls, presi- | dentof the Idaho Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, has been elected chaplain of the State Legislature, an unusual honor for a woman. She was largely instrumental in se- curing woman suffrage for Iaaho. Mme. Adam was driven into journalism by the unhappiness of her first married life. Her parents married her while she was a girlof 15 to a notary in a provincial town. She left her husband and, aided by George Sand, wrote herseif into fame in Paris. ‘The assertion that Frank R. Stockton “some- times waits an hour for & word” nas called i forth the following interesting piece of infor- mation: “Alphonse Daudet has long periods of mental inertis in which he is willing to work, but feels unable to frame a sentence.” When Rev. J. J. Arnaud, the recently elected department chaplain of the Grand Army of the Republic in New York, entered the army he was but 15 years old. He went outas & drummer boy end studied for the ministry when his term of service was ended. CALIFORNIA glace fruit. Townsend’s, Palace, g e U EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, busiuess houses and public men by the Pre: Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. —————a— “They say the Rev. Dr. Fourthly has been leading a double life,” “Yes, he confessed to the trustees that he reads the Sunday papers before going to serv- ice.”—Chicago Journal. ——— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TroCHES” will quickly relleve Bronchitls, Asthma, Catarrh and Throat Diseases. Sold only in boxes. e Ir your bairis harsh, dry and wiry, you will find Ayer's Hair Vigor of essential service in ren. dering i soft, pliant and glogsy, MUSIC AND The Parisian critics are clamoring for an- other American prima donna. This time it is Miss Margaret Reid, a young giri, whose sing- ing has created such a furor on the Riviera that Paris is curious to hear her. Miss Reid is possessed of a dramatic soprano voice of ex- quisite quality, and is said to be as fine an actress as she is a singer. Slortly before his death the late Sir Augustus Barris heard her, and was so impressed with her talent that he was anxious to star her during the Covent Garden opera season. Harris’ death put en end to this plan, and for some months noth- ing more was heard of Miss Reid. She has made such & success on the Riviers, however, that sbe will doubtless soon be starring in Paris. “His Majesty,” the title of a bright operetta by two local composers, has been taken for the new Burnaud-Lehmann-Mackenzie comic op- era, which is running in London. Thereis absolutely no connection between the two works, except in title. Mackenzie has com- MUSICIANS. of volce’ is always aliudea to in French opers parience as the ‘“Falcon” of the troue. ‘The committee which is busy organizing the fetes at Bergamo in honor of Donizetti’s cen- tenary is collecting quite & museum of sou- venirs of his life and work. “Shamus O'Brien,” Stanfora’s Irish romantic opera, has repeated ils London and New York success in Chicago. \ Mlle. Trebelil has accepted the words of & song written by Henry 8, Kirk ofOakland. The plece will be set to music by Mattel. THE END IS APPROACHING New York Sun. The course of many 1ibraries, reading-rooms and clubs in rigorousiy excluding the World and Journal newspapers is sure to be pursued by decent institutions of the same kind gen~ erslly. Itisa movement whose natural im- MISS MARGARET REID; the New American Prima Donna. i iR posed the music of the London work, and the libretto is s good-natured skit on Emperor William. The librettists would, no doubt, be willing to lay their hands ou their bearts and avow that they never in their lives had heard of such a person as the Kaiser Wilhelm II, but the untutored public recognizes his picture in Ferdinand V,.King of Vignolia.. No sooner had this young prince ascended the throme and ordered the castie gates to be shut 50 that no one was allowed to enter or leave, than he “T'm master, and I'm bound He1s now & dabbler in the arts, artoons historic, with & meaning allegoric,” he has written a novel and an epic poem, he commands by sea and land. He has composed a three-act opers and acted it himseif, and “It's woe to the wretch who hints dissent when Ferdinand Rex is preach- ing.” He hss also invented a bullet-proot { umbrells, very dificult to open, and & new pattern pieycle, which he cangot ride, but he prides himseli mainly upon. his skill 8s a painter. Itis true that even his subjects will not visit the royal exhibitions ot art, and that & declaration of war follows the ignominious refusal by a neighboring monarch of the pres- ent of a battle plece, which is the royal chel d'ceavre. King Ferdinana, however, comforts himself with the reflection: *“Ican seta host in motion, send a fleet across the ocesn; I'm a lexicon of learning with omniscience im- bued.” The new Mayor of Marseilles is & socialist and on the ground of “the greatest amount of comfort for the greatest numoar” he has been the means of passing an ordinance to suppress the theater hat. Apropos of this de- cree S8arah Bernhardt has been expressing her opinion of big hats at theaters and opera- houses. *First of all they are hideous,” said Mme. Bernhardt. ‘lcannotimagine how any woman of taste can wear one. I have tried to suppress theater hats at the Renaissance, but without success, for the women would not give them up. Hatsaunoy the spectators and make the theater look ugly. Whenever I go to Eng: 1and I am charmed with the appeatance of the theater; all the women are bareheaded, with flowers in their hair and the house looks like a basket of flowers,a beautiful garden par- terre. The women look pretly whether they arc 60 or not. Ah! if our Parisiennes only realized how mueh handsomer they would look witnout hats they would neyer wear those hideous constructions.” Chicago has supported the Metropolitan Opera Troupe so little that it was believed the season would be cut short to prevent further financial loss. Grau indignantly de- nied this report the othet day and declared that he would contiriue to the bitter end, and to silence the peovle who complained ot the old hackneyed operss he has given “The Cid” and promises “Siegfried” for to-night. The regu- lar season closes on Saturday, and the finan- cial loss will no doubt make a heayy drain,on the surplus made in New York. According to the annual reportof the Vag- ner Society the numbor of members' is gradu- ally decreasing. This does not mesn at il that the fame of the master is dying cut, but simply that tne society has fulfilled its mission, and there is no longer any' need for speaking in trumpet tongues concerning Wag- mer. Donzsit, Rossint and Bellini are more in need of societics now to keep their operas T belng forgotien by the present generse tion. 1t is & singular fact that Hebrew composers seem to find as much inspiration for music 1n the New Testament as in the Oid. Men- delssolin’s “St. Paul” is a case in point. E. H. Cowen has lately come to the front as the composer of sacred cantatas, snd he too has gone to the New Testament for themes. Cow- en’s latest work, “The Transfiguration,” which was recently performed for the first time in Manchester, is spoken of us & pic- turesque and earnestiy written work. Colonel Henry Mapleson has settled down in Parls for the time being, whers h has just been elected presiaent of the International Society of Music. The soclety was only started recently, but it has already esiablished agencies at London, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and New York. Wagner opera is being given so_persistently in Italy that popular opposition to the music of the Beyreuth master's more advanced works is beginning to subside ' somewhat. “Tristan and Isolde” has just been periormed at the Royal Theater of Turin, and has proved quite a drawing attraction, “La Greve des Forgerons,” s comic opera in ‘one act, by Max Joseph Beor, has just been performed for the first time at Augsbourg snd has made quite a furor. Max Joseph Beer is s Viennese and the libretto of hisopers is founded on & poem by Francois Coppee. Mme. Falcon, the once illustrious singer, hasdied in Paris, aged 88 years. She was a dramatic soprano of such renown in her day tbat s prims donns possessed of her quaiity pulse is the disgust and indignation which have been increasing in all ‘quarters against the licentiousness, the vulgarity and the crim- inal spirit exhibited by those shamel with an effrontery almost without e the nistory of journalism. The public are not unressonably distrusiful of the motives often influencing the assauits of newspapers upon eson other, looking upon them &s obviously provoked by rivalry; butin the cases of these 1wo notorious journais there is no suspicion of any such animus in the de- nunciations which proceed from the newspaper worid generally, and tliere is no ground for any. These publications occupy a fleld by themselves, into which no competition except the competition between themselves enters or can euter. They have gone down 80 low, their wallowing in filth is so complete, that it is ! impossible to get down any lower. The in- genuity of man can devise 1o baser methods S Apour by s ¢ d t ccordingly these two papers stand apart ands are recognized by the public as peculiar in their depravity. It isnot merely their in- decency which is offensive, but even more their vulgarity. They proceed ou the theory that the Jiterary and artistic taste of the peo- ple i low and vile, and ean be even furitier ebased until the great popular demand shall be satisfied by the coarseness and rottenness of which they are the exciusive purveyors. Their assumption s that as it is easier for hu- man nature to fall than to rise they will have no diflicuily in_overcoming the moral und re- liglous influences exerted for its elevation. 1f the low tastes of peopls are gratified, they think, their higher impuises will be stifled, so that only the base will suit the public appe- tite which they are trying to create. The indecency and vulgarity of these papers are not so pernicious as their rivalry in & tempts to get a sale for their sheets by stimi lating and appealing to the spirit of envy, & content, sedition and all the meanest pa possibly engondered in the breast of m ‘hey are both run by men boasting of the pos- session of very great private fortunes, who in their greed for more money are striving to corrupt the puplic mind and inflame public anger against_property, law and order, consti- tutea authority and ail that gives sirength, security and moral stability to socfety. Their theory of the corruptibility of the public, however,will not work. The unanimity ‘with which decent associations are excinaing them is only the first step toward their down- fall. The revulsion of the members of these institutions against their vileness and devil- ishness is a symptom of the pub] which always sooner or later 1a; nals low. RONDEAU. Through painted panes a glory flows, And over aisle snd altar throws Soft floods of crimson, biue and gold, Till silent forms in sculpture stoled, Seem waking from a long repose. AB1 how the tinted marb'e glows, For every cheek now wears a rose, And each white face seems aureoled, & ‘Through painted panes. These weird word weavcrs who disclose Strange things to us in rhyms and prose, ‘Who conjure up the dead and cold, O iite’s great varied page uafold, ‘Their art is bus & light that shows ‘Inrough pain ted panes LovIs A. KOBRRTSON. San Francisco, March 16. WITH YOUR (OFFEE Miss Summers—That was an awfullyold joke your friend got off a little while ago. I can remember hearing it when I was a girl, Mr. Winters—Oh, it can’t be as old as thatl— Yonkers Statesman. < Watts—I don’t believe in the anti-high hat legislation. The nvisance can be settied with- out passing any ordinance. Pouts—I know it can, but somehow a man hatesto hit a Woman with an ax.—Indisnapolis Journal. Small woy—Mister, I wants a bottle of vase- iine. Drug Clerk—Do you want scented or um- scented? Smali Bog—No, I'll fetch it wid me.—Judge. Hoax—Why did you call your whist partner “Gabriel?” Josx—Because whenever I heve s sure trick he always wants to trump it.—Philadelphia Record. After 8 woman has tried happiness with a man for some time she begins to talk more about the happiness to be found in heaven.— Atchison Globe. Ciara—I suppose the brightest moment in your iife was when Jack proposed ? Cora—Brightest? There wasn’t a particle of 1light in the room.—Bellast News. Colby—I see stovepipe hats first came into’ ‘use just 100 years ago. Dewlap—Ah! Colby—What are you staring at my tile so for 2—New York Press. “Have I done snything to offend you, dar- Ung?’ he asked, brokealy. “To-day you passed me Wilhout bowing sud mow yousit 7 there with such an airof hauteur and pride that—" “George.” interrupted the girl, with sn un- bending air, but in her voice & cadence sweeter than music at night, “I have & stiff neck. Boston Globe. PER ONAL. C. R. Gilchrist of London is in town. - A. G. White of London is in the City. W. H. Austin ot Nevada is in the City. W. W. Weed of Alaska s at the Palace. George Hager of Colusa is at the Palace. P. Carroll, & merchant of Petalums, is here. J. McKenna of Petaluma is a late arrival here. 3 . The Rey. C. B. Summer of Honolulu s in the City. Judge John F. Davis of Amador County, is in the City. Deputy Shezift J. J. Hinters of Sacramento 1 at the Grand. E. J. Cahill, a civil englneer ot San Mateo, is st the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jardner of London arrived here yesterday. John Souter, a mining man of French Gulch, has arrived here. §. W. Caffman of Watsonville is staying at the Cosmopolitan. C. M. Root, a mining man of Placerville, is here on 8 brief visit. R. B. Oulianan, the well-known resident of Stockton, is in the City. A. B. Jackson, the banker, of Salinas, is among the visitors here. H. Jackson and wife of San Jose are regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. S. A. Elliott, a business man of Santa Clara, is stayiug at the Cosmopolitan. George H, Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence, of Cambridge, Mass., are in town. Rey. G. S. Gale, a missionary of China, ar- rived here on the Peru yesterday. Michael Mull, & wea'thy resident of Sammit County, Ohio, is at the Occidental. Dr. D. N. Grose and Mrs. Grose were pas- sengers here from Hawaii yesterday. R. C. Sergeant, the big land-owner of Stock- ton, is among the arrivals at the Russ. | Thomas N. Chub and F. M. Chub, of New- | ton Highlands, Mass., are at the Palace. Simon Blum, the mlllionaire grain-buyer and land-owner of Martinez. is oa & visit here, Alexander Suliivan, a ,coffee-grower and merchant of Nicarsgus, arrived here yester- day. J. A: Istael, a well-to-do resident of Denver, Mrs. Isracl and Maggle R. Israel are at the Grand. F. Bowen and D. Stocking of Dos Palos, Cal., are among the recent arrivals at the Cosmo- politan. James Sellar of Singavore, in the Straits Settlement, was among the arrivals by yester- day’s steamer. Colonel L. §. Babbitt of the United States army, Miss M. L. Minns and M. Babbitt are at the Oceidental. Baron von Seidlitz of the German army ar- rived here yesterdsy on the Peru. Heison his way to Berlin. 3 The Rev. N. 8, Gottwaltz of Cambridge, Eng- land, has errived here. He is on his way home from the Orient. 0. E. Smith, Alexander Campbell and A. R. Ten Brook, of Marshfield, Or., arrived here yesterday &nd are at the Lick. Mrs. J. F. Moody and child, and Miss Edna L. Moody, the latter a daughter of ex-Governor Moody of Oregon, are in the City. G. F. Shepherd and Mrs. Shepherd, mission- arles of Japan, arrived here on yesterday's steamer and are at the Occidental. The Count de Kilgorlay, who is interested in mines in Trinity County snd in Oregon, arrived here yesterday, after several weeks in Honolulu. He is at the Palace. J. Churchill, the early settler of Yrek banker, large land-owner and extenstve ca! tle-grower, arrived here yesterday for a stay of & week or two. He is at the Graud. A. J, Howell, the banker, ot Visalis, and partner in Nevada of Mr. Sparks, the cattle- grower, is inthe City. 3fr. Howell is possessed of large interests in addition to these. W. Greer Harrison, accompanied by Mrs, Harrison and Miss Harrison, left for New York on Tuesday night. Mr. Harrison goes as far as New York, whence the ladies leave fora two years' tour of Europe. CAL!FORN:ANs IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 17.—At theSt. Cloud—J. Cleverly, Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Netherland—F. Greenbaum. Cosmopolitan— T, Powers. _Sinclair—P. Fishgu. Grand Union —J. Bell. Newton L.Thorp aud Dr. Clarence Heiler left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Havel for Bremen. A 801 STRUCK B A 01 Emil Bazzini Seriously Injured at Powell and Greenwich Streets. Hs Was Playing on the Track and ‘While Running Off Slipped ond Fel <Emil Bazzini, & boy 3} years olq, living with his parents at 1828 Powell street, was seriously injured by an electric car at Powell and Greenwich streets yesterday morning. H The boy was playing on the track be- tween 9 and 10 o’clock, when car 1108 came down the grade. The motorman | rang the ‘bell and the little fellow siarted to run off the track. In doing so he slipped and fell across the rail. The car struck him and threw him off the rail, and then went on some yards before it was stopped. When picked up the boy was uncon- sclous. He was placed in hack and driven to the Receiving Hospital, where Drs. Weil and Rinne found that he had sustained serious injuries. His right coliarbons was broken, there was a con- tusion over his leit eye and an abrasion on his head. [t was also tho>ht that his | skull was fractured and he had sustained internal injuries. Dr. Weil said that the boy was also su’- fering greatly irom the shock to his sys. tem and there was a possibility that he nl:hltll:ot nqo?r. = t the point where the accident curred the electric cars run down a x:';'i on their way to the wharf. The car was running at its usual speed, and 1f the boy bad not slipped and fallen he would have got cl-ar of the track before the car could reach him. 10 SEEK THEIR NATIVE ELEMENT The Gunboats Wheeling and Marietta to Be Launched This Morning. To Be Sent Into the Water at the Same Moment From \ D fferent Slips. Ladies From the Respcctive Citles for Which the Fighters Are Named Will Christen Th'm. The gurboats Wheeling and Marietta are to be slipped into the water this morning at the Union Iron Works, at 6 minutes to 11 The occasion will no doubt attract & large crowd. The christening will be done by ladies representing the respec- tive cities aiter which the fighting-boats are named. 5 Hon. J. R. Butts, Mayor of Wheeling, has delegated Miss Lucie 8. Brown to christen the Wheeiing. Miss Brown is a native of Wheeling and is now visiting in California. Mrs. H. Clifford More of Naples, Cal., formerly of Marietta, Onio, will christen the Marietta. She is the daughter of Brigadier-General T. C. H. Smish. The gunbosts, which are to be launched together, telong to a group of 8ix author- ized by the act making appropriation for the naval service for ihe fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. X These s)x gunboats are designated as light-dranght com posite gunboats of about 1000 tons displacement. Provision was made that not more than two would be built in one yard or by one contracting party. 2 Four of these gunboats were fitted with single screws and rigged <0 as 10 carry & considerable spread of canvas. The Whee.- ing and Marietta were 10 be fitted with twin screws and havea very small amount of canvas. The trials of these two vessels, each baving boilers representing a distinct type, on the merits of which many heated discussions have been going on lately in engineering circles, will give & splendid opportunity to establish the efficiency of the two types of boilers and the two different methods of applying forced draught, The result of the trials of these two vessels will be looked forward to with great interest by leading engineers en- gn_fed in marine engineering. hey are required to develop a speec of 12 knots on their trials, and 1t 18 antici- pated that they will very materially ex- ceed the speed required by the contract. These vessels, considering their small dispiacement, are being fitted up in the most elavorate manner. Nothing that finds place in a first-class war vessel will be omitted. Their composite character—that is, the steel framing and plating, being covered to above the water line with four-inch planking, partly of pine and parily of teak, with an outside sheathing of cop- per—will enabie these vessels to remain at sea or occupy a foreign station for a long perioa of time without the necessity of docking. The complement will consist of ten wardroom officers, 125 men and a marine guard of ten men. They are fitted with electriclight plants in auplicate. They will nave a coal ca- pacity of 200 tons and will carry on their trials weights in addition to the weight of the completed hull and machinery and spare parts which will represent a dis- placement of 1000 tons. The engines for these vessels are built from designs by the Union Iron Works and approved by the Navy Depariment, and are of the triple expansion, vertica’, direct-acting type. High-pressure cylin- der, 12inches; intermediate-pressure cylin- aer, 181 incues; low-pressure cylinder, 2inche:; the stroke of all pistons being 18 inches. At full power the engines are in- tended to make about 200 revolutions per minute, with a sieam pressure of 180 pounds in the boilers. Tte engine frames are entirely of bronze, inciuding the condensers, and are very compact. It 1s expected that these vessels will be ready in about sixty days after launching, as a large portion of the machinery is ai- ready in place, and the boilers being on board and fitted in each of the vessels. The fact of both of these vessels being launched Irom different slips at exactly the same time will be a matier of consld- erable interest to technical men who are interested in these matters, as there is no record of two vessels being launched irom the same yard at the same instant of ime from different ways, and it will be a mat- ter of considerable speculation among those present as to which of the two, re- leased at the same time, will reach their element first. Their behavior on reaching the water will no doubt be taken as an in- dication of how they are to behave them- selves after they get there. The entertainment committee has re- ceived an_invitation from the officers of the Upion lron Works to has the visiting delegates of the Raile way Mail Service Mutual Benefit As- sociation and their ladies witness the launch. They will take the Third-street electric-car (green car) at the corner of Market street, not later than 10 A. &, and transfer at Third and Townsend sireets to the Potrero ears for the Union Iron Works. Their badges will admit them to the works. Through the courtesy of Captain H. L. Howison of the United States steamship Orezon an opportunity to visitand in- spect the battle-ship this_afternoon has been afforded. They will assemble at2 P. M. at Howard-street wharf No. 3, where the tug Vigilant—very kindly furnishea for the purpose by the firm of John D. Spreckels & Bros.—will convey them to and from the Oregon. A “‘recent visitor to the drawing-rooms of royalty and the English aristocracy” reports that the book_most to be seeu there is Mrs, Ela Wheeler Wilcox's poe: ——————————————— IMPARTIAL -BANKRUPTOY. George A. Tilton, a Kail Spreads His D.bts ;h;::g. s George A. Tilton, who records himselt as being 1n the railroading business, has filed a petition in insolvency. 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