The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1897 : conferred upon her by the Queen’s university .. TULY 6, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUL, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily snd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALY, one vear, by mall.... 6.00 d Sunday CALL, s1x months, by mafl.. 5.00 Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall... . 1.50 W KEKLY CALL, One year, by mail, 1.80 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Fan Francisco, Californis. Telephons... & +eeer.Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Eures : Telephone oun reecereees MAIR=1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open untl 9180 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. @15 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Stxteenth and Mission 3ireets, open ontil 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission strest, open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o’clock. n until 8:80 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Beoms $1 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Cltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. s THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS, Areyou going to the country on a*vacatfon * It #0, it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to vour address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve promp: sttention. NO EXTHA CHARGE. Fifty centa per monib for summer months. Celebrate the Fourth. This is Liberty’'s day in Liberty's land. It is America’s answer to the British jubilee. Yesterday we rested and to-day we whoop it up. Christian or sinner, we are all one band of loyal Americans. B8an Francisco should be a convention center every summ There may be some peopie out of town just now, but they are not missed. “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” and don’t forget to “‘Rally Round the Flag.” Calamity-howiing jars like a discord, but patriotic oratory fills the land with harmony. Great credit is due to our merchants and others for the excellence of their street decorations. From the Atlantic to the Pacific the whole atmosphere is radiant with star- spangled banners. 3 Let us have no pessimism in the oratory | of the celebration. Whut's the matter | with America? She’sall right! Tt is still called the treasury reserve, but nevertheless it is big enough money now to talk with contidence and challenge all comers. Give voice to your patriotism and join the cheering of the crowds. Silence is good at times, butdon’t be a clam on In dependence day. Crops are good, money is good, the new tariff will be good, opportunities for in- dustry are good, and what more do we need for good times? The Ohio Democrats neglected to name acandidate for the Senate. Many wish the place, but nome is willing to buck | against Mr. Hanna 1n an open field. There are said to be 30.000 vacant flats | and dwelling-houses in Chicago and it looks as if the Two Million Club had bet- ter get to work and bring in some people. The recent derisive reference of Davia Bennett Hill to what he called “political women without husbands” was risky. David is a political man without a wife, and one of those women may catch him. Americans returning from foreign tours will hereafter have to pay a dutv on the value of all clothing in excess of $100, and now the way the chappies will underrate their London garments will be aston- ishing. New York, it seems, has decided after 2ll not to accept the dancing Bacchante, and there is now talk of sending the statue to Chicago. Our turn will come next, and we might as well begin to pre- pare for the shock. 1t is 2 pity New Hampshire is not one of the leading States of the Union. Her revenues exceeded her expenditures during the last fiscal year by about $150,000 and that would have been a profitable leadership to follow. There is said to be a strong undercurrent of sentiment against Bryan among the silver men of the East, and it is predicted that a movement to deprive him of leader- ship will be visible before long. His prospect of getting the Presidential nom- ination in 1900 is very far from being a sure thing. San Francisco people can abuse one an- other roundly at times, but they never zet as much meanness in their meaning as Boston folks do when they setin to de- nounce a neighbor. Here is the Boston Herald, for exawmple, spreading a report that Senator Hoar has begun taking les- sons in Greek at Washington from a Turkish tutor. —_— A St. Louis man proposes to combine the airship idea with the trolley system, and claims to be able to construct a means of transportation by which passengers can be carried from St. Louis to Chicago in two hours and thirty minutes. We are not fully posted on the details of the scheme, but 1t seems open to the objec-. tion that if the airship should slip the trolley the passengers who started for ALL HAIL, INDEPENDENCE DAY. forth from holy belfries rang the gladsome peals with eager clang, and north A LL HAIL, Columbia’s natal day, bright as of old, neath freedom’s ray, when and south, on pinions flest, sped onward still the tidings sweet, till tyranny waxed pale with dread before the new-born giant's tread, To-day once more each patriot son, whose sires of yore our freedom won—and those whom freedom’s charms have called cast off each dull and carking care and freely breathe in freedom’s air. from climes by thralldom’s fetters galled— Let one and all, the grave, the gay, greet fair Columbia's natal day. And let the bunting top the trees—fling every banner to the breeze! Let shine the stars our fathers won, peerless in storm, undimmed jn sun. shell rend the tomb, and tell the patriots shall last!"” And let the martial cannon boom in thunders that of the past “While earth exists your fame Empires shall fade and crowns shall fall, and dust at last claim kings and all; but while the sun gives forth its light their na man his noblest fight. mes shall live forever bright who won for The deeds they wrought are writ in gold, on Fame's immortal page enrolled, grand as the heroic tales of old in Homer’s mighty epic told. To-day, far Excelsior State to California’s Golden borne & lesson to mankind that man, crel from Hampshire's northern slopes to Alabama’s brilliant past, the future’s hopes are luys and themes that fit the time. sunny clime, the And from the Gate the praise is sung, and on the wind is ated to be free, should ne’er to tyrant bend his knee, but think as our brave fathers thought, and fight as all the patriots fought, and conquer, or, among the slain still, still be free from gyve or chain. One bundred vears and more have flown since Patrick Henry’s thunder tone, around our land from sea to sea, proclaimed the doom of tyranny. The warrior’s blood, the patriot's fire, live in the son as in the sire, ana *Liberty or death” is still our cry from city, plain and hill. This day that saw our Nation rise free and unshackled ’neath the skies shall be forever a day of joy which recreants never ier grow and blessings on mankind bestow shall destroy. 8till shall Columbia might- ; and when each year are heard again the glorious names of those brave men who signed with an heroic pen the charter of our rights, and then, with sword chivalric, smote the foe, and rampant tyranny laid low, still shall the mention of them be the safegnard of our liberty, ana souls of honor still survive to keep the sacred flame alive. May war afflict our land no more; but Pezce sit smiling on our shore, and Happi- ness, to Peace allied, with Honor, nestle by her side; while, fond Protectress of the Free, Columbia guards her own from sea t. 0 sea. SAN FRANOIZ00'S ATTRACTIONS. The multitude of Christian Endeavor visitors who will be introduced to the City by the Golden Gate for the first time, at this delightful season, will discover, to their gratification, that San Francisco, unlike any cther great city of the world, combines the advantages of a metropolis with all the essential elements of a seaside resort. Travelers who have voyaged round the world freely declare that the beauty of Port Jackson in the Antipodes, of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and of the placid bay of Naples, in the thadow of Vesuvius, fade when brought into comparison with the noble sheet of water—sixty-five miles in length—to which the Golden Gate admits them from the mighty Pacific beyond, and across a picturesque portion of which the Endeavorers will be ferried from the Oak- land mole. Trom the broad breastof the bay rise the three islands, Yerbs Buena, Angeland Al- catraz, all Government reserves. The two latter are fortified military posts. west of the City and south of tne Golden Gate lies the famous Presidio, the grounds of which are considered the handsomest of all the United States garrisons, and nearer to us stands Point San Jose, its dark guns pointing erimly toward the pathway of the ships, Here the view of the ba; is charming, steamers and sailing craft of all grades, trom the stately square-rigger to the whitehall boat, are to be seen glid- ing baci and forth in endless procession, seemin.ly only a stone’s throw distant from the feet of the gagzer. The bay pre- v a glorious panorama of shift- at ocean washes the sands of the City on the west. The San Franciscan may enjoy a bath in the salt sea wave without stepping bevond the corporate limits. There we have the Cliff House, of which everybody nas heard. Here the ocean spray is often dashed agamnst the piazzas, from which the ungainly s-a- ons are to be seen disporting themselves on the rocks off shore. Golden Gate Park is the pride and boast of our people. It lies, in its wonderful beauty, between the City proper and the ocean. Artistically adorned, it is essen- tially a breathing place and health resort for rich and poor. In the music court one may listen to the rare concert strainsof a splendid organization of skilled musi- cians. There are a musenm of historical | relics, antiques and curios, a zoological | gerden, aviary, boating pond, chilj'lrun’s playground and any number of additional attractions. Its floral beauties must be seen to be appreciated. The summit of Mount Tamalpais, where an eye-compelling view of ocean and bay, cities, farms, vineyards, orchards, will glad the vision, is reached by s scenic railway less than an hour’s journey trom the City. Beautiful suburbs are to be seen north, east and south of us. Over to east rises Mount Diablo, from whose peak the pros- pect is sublime. In Pine Canyon, near by, are castle-like rocks forty feet high. On the north side of that canyon, sil- houetted against the horizon, are tower- ing palisades which have received poetic appeliations from the themes and subjects they suggest. To speak of all the charms of the bay and country would require volumes. The climate, above all, is comfortable in sum- mer and winter alike. The Endeavorers, we may remark in conclusion, will find here not only a convention City that will command their admiration, but a veritable ceaside resort where nmew pleasures in endless train will help fill their cup of pleasure during their visit to San Fran- cisco. A PROSPEROUS PEOPLE. While Mr. Bryan is going about the country painting a picture of adversity and intimating that the American people are practically in the slough of desvond, it may be well to throw the searchlight of truth into the matter and discover the facts. Recent statistics demonstrate that, notwithstanding the American people are not as prosperous as they might have been and would have been if a Democratic ad- ministration and free-trade experiment had not temporarily checked them in their progressive career, they have shown a steadily growing spirit of thrift, and even during the late seasonof financial distress they piled up savings to an as- tonishing amount. Calamity - howling cannot divert the popular attention from evident truth. The American people are growing more healthy, in a financial sense, day by day, and, under the standard of protection, they are moving forward to Chicago might find themselves landed in Halifax. S S The New York Zimes is authority for this peculiar story. A new species of plant lice made its appearance among the gardens along the Hudson this spring and estroyed most of the flowers. Srraying with Paris green, hellebore and other poisons was tried in vain; nothing would kill the lice or check their voracity. Sud- denly when hope was lost and people had given up their gardens in despair there came a strange, new bird, never seen be- fore, which preyed upon the pests and ex- terminated them. The lice 1t seems have now disappeared, but it is to be hoped the bird remains. There ought to be some- thing in the neighborhood to verify the tale, an era of unexampled prosperity. In 1840 the average savings deposited in savings banks was less than $1 foreach man, woman and child in the United States, while in 1895, it was $25 83. For 1895-96 the «avings banks of this country showed deposits to the amount of $1,907,- 56,277, and depositors to the number of 5,065,494, an average of $376 50 for each depositor. One out ofevery fourteen of all the 70,000,000 of men, women and children in this country has a balance in some savings institution. Bank deposits and the number of denositors have practically doubled since 1832, and the per capita average of savings quoted above shows that the increase in thrift cannot be as- cribed wholly to increase of population, Even in the panic season of 189395 the dsposits in savings banks increased §908,- On the | 000,000, a sum seven times as large as the total amount of such deposits in 1840. But the greatest growth in any single decade was between 1880 ard 1890, a prosperous veriod, when deposits increased trom $820,000,000 to $1,425,000,000. We cannot be termed an oppressed peo- ple in good times or bad. No evidence of ruin is shown in the fact that the building and loan associations of the United States, | composed of 1,745,725 shareholders, repre- sent assets aggregating $450,667,594, nor in te.e fact that 9,000,000 of our people hold life insurance policies, industrial and otherwice, to the amount of $5,800,000,000, all now in force, while 4,000,000 are mem- bers of assessment companies and orders representing insurance to the amount of $7,700,000,000. Tne census of 1890 showed that 6,066,417 families out of a total of 12,690,152 families were the owners of houses and tarms, and of this number of owners of homes and farms 4,369,527 held their property free of incumbrance. WE ARE GETTING THERE. The improvement noted for the past few weeks continnes, True, business is not brisk, but there is a fair movement of merchandise, nevertheless. But beiter still, confidence is surely returning. Oae | hears less abecut hard times and more | about the possibilities of the future. i There is a better feeling in the air. Good times are nothing more nor less | than confidence. Trade is built up on | confidence. Buoyancy in business is | simply confidence. Activity in specula- | tion is simply confidence. During all the nard times of the past four years there has never beer. any real dearth of money. There was relatively as much money on | hand when the banks were breaking all over the country in 1893 as there is to-aay. But confidence had disapreared and the money had been withdrawn from circula- tion. That was all. Hence ths scarcity of money was apparent, not real, Nay, more: there is never any actual scarciiy of money. The mints keep on coining it | right along, whether the times are easy or bard. What is called a scarcity of money | is its withdrawal from circulation. | For four years, thanks to the low tariff of the Democratic party, we have been | undergoing this apparent scarcity of money. In other words, there has been | no conndence, no speculation, no desire to invest funds, no activity in trade. But with the return of the Republicau party to power and the accompanying tariff for which the country has been languishing for several years, confidence is rapidly re- turning, money is again flowing outward instead of inward, and business 1is once more on the up grade, There is no denying this fact. men perceive it clearly. Many lines re- port constantly increasing orders for goods.* All over the countrv merchants, who for several years Lave been purchas- ing from hand to mouth and running along on limited stocks, are showing a dis- position to carry larger lines and more varied assortments. This is a most grati- fying indication of returning prosperity, for itindicates a larger buying capacity on the part of the public. An amusing and at the same time in- structing feature of the present recovery | is the stubborn refusal of prices to keep down. All the persistent hammering of the bears cannot beat wheat down below its present level. If they do succeed in beating it down for a moment it immedia- ately rises again, like a cork under water. This is a new experieace for wheat, Dur- ing the past few years it has been the other way—tha bullscould not keep it up. But now the tables are turned. It is the same with other lines, such as provi- sions, fruits, wool and pork. Tney will notstay down, and are slowly but steadily advancing. The present recovery in trade, like all other previous ievivals, is gradual, No particular line leads the upward march, The renewed activity isa leaven which permeates the whole commercial system. There will probably be no boom, nor is any wanted. Itiy better asit is. We are returning to prosperity with that calmness which is born of permanence. And if the new tariff is given a chance to work out its logical results there is no reason why the United States should not continue in fine commercial condition for many years. The latest commercial reports from the East show an encourgaging demand for all textile goods, increased railroad earn- ings, and better still a remarkable demand for commercial loans. A significant fact in this connection is that though it is the midsummer season, when business is al- most always dull, there 1s no step back- ward in the improvement. THE HOKSELESS VEHICLE. Reports of experiments made with horseless vehicles in France have been so favorable to the inventon as to lead to the conclusion that such machines are practicable for common use wherever the roads and highways are sufficiently smooth and firm for their wheels. Itis therefore a matter of some surprise to learn that in England no good results have been obtained from them, and that competent experts declare that a useful machine of the kind has not yet been in- vented. The English experiments were made under the direction of a technical maga- zine, the Engineer, which offered large prizes, one of them amounting to a thou- sana guimeas, for a compegiilye test of Business motor carriages. Sir Frederick Bramwell, Mr, Aspinwall and Dr. Hopkins, three of the most distinguished engineers in Eng- land, were appointed as judges, and seventy'- two entries were made. The judges decided that nohe of the machines deserved the prize, inasmuch as none of them was reaily a practicable vebicle. The Engineer, in speaking of the test and the result, says: The end o1 it all is very dissatisfying and disheartening, * * * but it has cleared the alr. It has placed the world in possession of facts concerning the motor-car industry in this country. There is at present no such in- dustry. There is no such thing asa thoroughly satisfactory self-propelied venicle, 1f a motor- car of the kind had existed it would haye been submitted for compe tition. This report from England will cast some doubt upon the accuracy of the sanguine reports from Krance. French roads are no better than those ot England, and it is not likely their inventors have been so far superior to the English as to make a complete success where the Eng- lish have failed utterly. In the British competition there were exhibited motors run by electricity, and by steam with various kinds of fuel. The motors driven by electric storage batteries were best, but none of them would do the work required of them. The horseless vehicle, therefore, like the airship, is something to be waited for a littls whi'e longer. THE NAVY OF AMERIOA. We have heard so much of late about the British navy, and particularly about the magnificent Channel fleet of 165 fight- ing ships with 900 heavy guns and 45,000 sailors and marines; we have heard so many tributes to ‘‘the unchallengeable mistress of the seas,’” that we have tem- porarily lost sight of the fact that the American navy is not one to be ashamed of. Wedo not pretend 1o dispute with Britannia the queenship of the waves; ‘we do not pretend to make any comparison us between our navy and the Queen’ but we make bold to say that in any oo flict on the sea we are able to teach some valuable lessons to any assailant. A London newspaper recently an- nounced that for all our navy could do the Hawaiian Islands “would lis at the mercy of any Spanish warships appearing at Honoluly,” while “Jdpan’s sea power is so immeasurably superior to that of the United States” that our National admin- istration might well tremble at the thought of trouble with the Mikado's Government. The wishb may have been father to the thought, but the thought would not com- mend the writer who bore the wish for responsible or veracious authority. Lieutenant-Commander J. D. Jerrold ; Kelley’s excellent description of our fleet | in a recent number of Harper's Weekly shows that our navy is to-day fifth in the list of naval powers, Great Britain, France, Ruvsia and Italy alone surpassing her, while rating by “value in terms of stand- | ard,” meaning armored vessels of the 1896 type, neither Spain nor Japan receives a valuation equal to even one-half of ours. Commander Kelley states that our fleet, exclusive of torpedo-boats, consists of eighty-seven vessels, of which twenty are still under construction, with the remain- der either in service or being prepared for sea, Of these vessels thirty-three belong to the armored and fifty-four to the un- armored classes, ' while of the former eleven are sea-goinz battle-ships, twenty cre coast-defense vessels and two are armored cruisers. Add the nineteen tor- pedo-boats, and we get a total of 106 modern vessels of all classes. But in addi- | tion we have iwenty-two ships older in type and twelv: tugs ‘‘possessing battle qualities,’” so that our total is “'140 ser- viceable war vessels.” 3 Taking into cousideration our revenue cuuters, lignthouse-tenders, fishing and coast-survey boats and other Government craft not classiied above Commander Kelley draws the conciusion that our Government ‘‘can put aflat at very short notice 200 vessels, 60 per cent of which would be modern in character.” Then we have about twoscore of fast merchant steamers under sub idy, and reserve bat- teries are now being yprepared for such | service. Even bere our resources do not end, for it was shown a week ago in the | New York Sun, from one of the navy re- ports, that we have many tugs, yechts | and other vessels that could be fitted up as torpedo-boats or turned into gunboats, transports, colliers and repair ships, manned by those who are accustomed to a seafaring life in the fishing fleets and coastwive and lake trades. Our nine first-class armored battle-ships and our splendid armored cruisers will hold their own with any vessels of their class that sail the sea. And this Govern- ment will continue to build up the navy of the Republic, and we may continue to move up on the list of naval powers. We have lLittle to fear from Spain; little to fear from Japan. If we were prone to jingoism we might declare the perfect ability of our navy to wollup Spain and Japan together, with another small power | or 8o thrown in, but we prefer to let the facts speak for themselves. 00AST EXOHANGES. The Watsonville Kustler has ceased to exist. It rustied vigorously jor ten long yearsand then had to give up the struggle. The Woodland Democrat has made a discov- ery, for it announces that the veriscope has placed the prizefizht within the reach of eyery family in the land, no matter haw humble. It 1s the height of foily, says the Colton News, to dispense with the services of 50 essen- tial functionary as a Herticuitural Commis- sioner, upon whose vigilance such vital inter- ests depend. A bug commission is an absolute necessity in a horticuliural community. Politics in Yuma, Ariz., must have taken on a real, old-time flavor during the past week, judging by the {ojlowing from the Sun: Cali- 10rnia has been having some genuine old-fash- ioned earthquakes, and we think the atmos- pheric disturbances must have reached Yuma, judging by the fightsduring the week. According to the Riverside Press, nickel-in- the-slot machines will soon be in trouble in the orange center. A petition to bave them banished has been circulated, and the best people in town were signers. This petition will be presented to the Board of Trustees and the chances are that it wiil be acted upon. The Placer Herald has got tired of accept- ing certain things that it does not want in ex- change for advertising, and has at last taken a firm stand against the practice. A perusal of the following paragraph may edify: “A business coliege wants to trade us a certificate of scholarship in exchange for advertising. 1f the certificate can be fixed up 50 We can eat it we will make the swap.” The people of Santa Monica place a very high velue on dogs. According to the Hueneme Herald the res:dents of the pretty little city by the ses are offering a reward o! $100 for the conviction of dog-poisoners, who have been diminishing the canine population of “that section. In many parts of tne State dog- poisoners would be looked upon as public. spirited coliaborators with the local pound- master. 4 The Contra Costa News has just issued its long-telked-of special edition, and it must be said that it 1s fully up to the highest hopes raised by its anticipation, The publishers de- serve great praise for the way in which they bave set forth the resources of the county. There is a great deal said, and it is said in the most concise manner so that it will be easily read and understood. Every page of l | rectors of the joint firm of Vickers & Co. the paper is illustrated with fine half-tone cuts and line drAwings, and the printing is in the highest style of the art [preservative. The paper used is of the finestqnality, and alto- gether the result is most pleasing. According to thé Los Angeles Times the fruit-growers of Riverside County have almost entirely abandoned the spraying of their trees to kill inseets, and have taken to fumigating them. The tents used for this purpose can be had much cheaper than formerly and all the cost of emoking them is greatly reduced. so that spraying is lixely to become & thing of the vast. The Inyo Independent is authority for the statement that Charles D. Lane, the wealthy mine-owner, is st Buckeye, Nev., where he will arrange plans for constructing an aque- duct from Alpine County to the famous Pine- nut mines, that are said to contain fabulous amounts of goid. The cost of constructing the aqueduct will be in the neighborhood of & million dollars. Times will certainly be good in that section for some days to come. The following story from the Trinity Journal 18 convincing proot that there is a pressing need for shotguns up that way: “Ed Monta- gue had quite a time with coyotes over by the old Todd pasture field Tuesday. He was rid- ing along the ridge on the Browns Creek side, when three coyotes jumped him and fol- lowed him abouta mile. They were about the size of shepherd dogs and were very sav- age. They kept leaping up, snapping a and trying to drag him from the saddle. He was unarmed snd had to ride with his feet drawn up to the horn of the saddle to keep outof the way. Here isa chance for some of our local nimrods.” The Stockton Mail and the Fresno Republi- can are both imminently contiguous to the proverbial nailhead when they bring down their editorial hammers on the patesof the prison officials at Folsom for tricing up by the thumbs a prisoner who refuses to divulge the whereabouts of hidden arms. The convict is put to this torture twice a day, though it is by nomeans certain that he possesses the infor- mation the Warden destires to extort by this inhuman method. Itis true that many crimi- nals are like wild beasts, but even wild beasts are not allowed to be tortured by their keep- ers. There 18 a way of subduing these men -without resorting to the brutal methods of bygone ages. Besides, as the Mail points out, the Warden fis violating the constitution, which plainly declares that there shail.not be inflicied upon any person any cruel or un- usual punishment, The Stockton Independent stops scratching its puzzled head, and breathes & sigh of relief at the move made by Alameda County to test the new State road law, which it calls “that riddle.” The gist of its gratified comment on Alameda’s action floweth in the spirit here following: “While the universities of the country are complaining of defective teaching of the English language it would appear from the turgid phrasing of legislative acts all over the country that law colleges must be more negligent than are other schools. Those col- leges should require applicants for admission to show thelr ability to drait legislative bills in such clear language that it would be uu- necessary 0 resort to expensive suits to geta judicie) explanation of their meaning. It is just possible that the Supreme Court may de- cide the whole law to be void for ambiguity and absurdity, as it seems to be & measure that requires ‘bricks without straw.’ " NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. One cruiser, two torpedo-cruisers and seventy-five torpeao-boats are in course of construction at the present time in French shipyards for the Russion Government. Spanisn residents in Argentina and Uruguay have opened subscriptions for building & cruiser for the Spanish navy. Bhe is to be boilt in France and is to be named the Rio de la Plata. Two vessels for the British navy were launchea May 15 from the Howden yard— Palmer’s, on the Tyne. One, the Pyremus, is a third-class cruiser of 2135 tons, 7000 horse- power and 20 knots speed, and is the second vessel of that class built by Palmer's. The other 1aunch was the Flirt, the last of elght torpedo- boat destroyers contracted for from that firm. She is 215 feet in length, 20 feet 9 inches | beam and about 300 tovs displscement. The builders guaranteed a speed o1 30 knots,which has been reacied in all the boats. James Dunn, the sentor chief consiructor at the British Admiralty, has resigned his posi- tion and sccepted & seat on the board of di- armor-plate makers, and the Naval Construc- ion and Armament Company. His duties will be mostiy in conmection with the latter firm. As Mr. Dunn’s salary end allowances while in the service of the Government were $5000, and not less than $3500 as a pension upon retirement, he must have received a far higher cffer—said to be $10,000 annually—to relinquish his high position in the Ad- mitaity. The principal suxiliary naval crulsers of Great Britain are the Lucania, Campania, Australia, Himalaya, Teutonic, Majestic and the Empress of Iudia, Empress of China and Empress of Japan. The first two will receive this year subsidies to the amount of $37,500 each, the Australia and Himalaya each $16,875, the Teutonic and Majestic $36,325 each, and the last three named, which are of the Canedian Pacific line, share $36,565. In addition the companies agree to hola at the disposal of the Government thirteenlsrgeand fast steamers. The armament, consisting of breech-loading riflas and Nordenfeidt guns, 1s in readiness to be put on board atshort notice. A remarkable torpedo has been invented and tried in Australia which, if it works as well under actusl service conditions, will supersede all other torpedoes. The tri by a npaval lieutenant. The torpedo was leunched from a pontoon and f{: first ran along the western side of the dock, then sud- denly described a circle, dived and rose again, darted off in & direct line, only to swing around and describe the figure eight. At this instant the lieutenant in charge desired that itshould chase s punt swinging in the dock, upon which the torpedo made a half circle, darted forward and struck the object in the stern. The inventor, W.T. Carter, claims for his electrical controllable torpedo that it c: execute every movement of a fisn in the water. The Barracouta, cruiser of the third class, has been up to & recent date one of the most ignominious failures in the British;navy. She is of 1580 tons displacement, was laid down in July, 1888, and placed in commission in July, 1891. The speed was intended to he 16.5 knots with 3000 horsepower, but never reached over 14.8 knots with 1920 horse- power. She had upward of a dozen tnal trips, on one of which her boiler eollapsed, killing one and seriously scalding nine men. Her service in commission has only been three years and nine months, and extensive repairs and alterations have been made to the hull ana machinery. As alastatiempt to redeem the ship the old box boflers were taken out and supplanted with water-tube poilers, under which the trizl on June 15 gave satisfactory results, developing 1750 horsepower under natural draught and a sveed of 15.25 knots. PERSONAL. A. J. Chandler of Salt Lake is here. J. Geoghegan of Balt Lake is in town, C. A. Duncan of Yuba {s on a visit here. C. C. Bean ot Pheenix, Ariz., is in town, Dr. Irwin Mott of Cincinnati, Ohio, is on a visit bere. Mrs. E. J. Roberts of Portland, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan. B. Gracey, a business man of Merced, is at the Oceidental. E. Wood and wife of Chicago are at the Cos- ‘mopolitan Hotel. Fred J. Ketsel, a wealthy wine-dealer of Og- den, is in the City. Charles E. Thomas of Washington, D, C., s s 1ate arrival here. N. F. Laughlin, a general merchant of Moss Laading, i§ io the City. J. J. Sheridan and James E. Harvey of Silver City, N. Mex., are at the Occidental. The Misses Baldwin-Harvey and Baldwin of Btockton are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. A. Pryor, druggist of Shasts, is in town foratow dsys ou business and pleasure, ac- They will remain fed by his family. ?::E‘::k'l vilymnq relatives and friends. , wife of Deputy Mrs. Z. Rapheije of Frelgz!mopcu“u. Sheriff Raphelje, is at the The Rev. T. H. Randolph and ll’d-“-“ i dolph of the Presidio are at the Occidental. Timothy Guy Phelps snd his niece, of San Martin, are at the Alaska. James Warren and fami among the recent arrive tan Rotel. L. N. Breed of Los Angeles, who is largely engaged in the bsking business, s & lato arrival here. E. E. Biggs of Biggs Station, in banking and who isalarge that szction, is at the Grand. John B. Reeves of the Daily Pharos of Logansport, Ind., arrived last evening to at- tend the Christi Endeavor cnnvenlion: = William F. Hunt, & business man of Guate- mala, who is also interested in coffee-growing in the southern republic, is at tne Grand. Dr. M. Herzstein, who has been traveling in Europe during the past six months, arrived in New York City yesterdsy and 1s en route home. : Percy L. Shuman, who owns mining interests in this State,and who was formerly in the office of the S:cretary of State of Illinois, 1s at the Palace. Daniel Mahany of New York arrived in the City yesterday and registered st the Palace Hotel. Mr, Mahany is president of the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Company. J. C. Hanna, general manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, is in the City, after a trip to Chile and other countries to the south. He is here to inspect the various offices of the coast. Wiliam Cline, the well-known grocer of this City, will sail to-day for Los Angeles, where he has established a large business. Mr. Cline will be accompanied by his wife. His depart- ure from the City wiil be regretted by a large number of friends. First Lieutenant Sidney A. Cloman, Fif- teenth Infantry, U. 8. A., arrived in the City yesterday from Fort Bayara, N. Mex. The Eecretary of War recently assigned Mr. Clo- man to duty as military instructor at the University of California. Mr. Cloman’sduties at Berkeley will begin August 14. He ought tobe able to satisfy the regents, faculty and students, as he is an officer of d.stinction and & man who understands men. Vice-President J. C. Stubbs of the Soutnern Pacific left last night for Portland in company with C. H. Markham, the new assistant pas- senger and freight egent, who is to have his headquarters at Portland. Mr. Stubbs went along to initiate Mr. Markham into the busi- ness. Mr. Markham has for some time been district passenger and freight agent at Fresno. The promotion is a conspicuous compliment. It was made by Mr. Stubbs, 1y of Salem, Or., are is at the Cosmopoli- who is engaged landholder of CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 4.—Dan Cole will leave for San Francisco after spending a few days in New York. He wanis to be coiner at the Mint. L. S. McClure of San Diego is in Washington. Mrs. H. A. Braum and E. L. Morrison are at the Shoreham. MACHINE TO LOCATE FIRES, In Vienna a fire watch is maintained in the tower of 8t. Stephen’s Cathedral, 500 feet high. There is a telescope with graduated circles, The Viennese Toposcope. called a toposcope, which works <o accurately ber were oiten given (o the central ty the watchman on the tower, while the nex fire- alarm box, being at a distance of three or four blocks, could not have given the exact loca- tion of the fire and this would have de'ayed the arrival of the depertment accordingly. HUCKINS AT THE HELM. Our boat by boisterous breez:s borne rocked on 1ife’s ocean wave; The salls were gove or rent and torn Anc no one nexr Lo save, The Captalo and the crew on deck 10 led manfuily and swore To patch the rifts and save the wreck Before It washed ashore. The rigging creased wit doleful sound, Tosswd ou the briny deep, It seemed that we must run aground, For Hucking was asieep. Our Sunday clothes were drenched with spray, Our hopes were beaten flat: We couldn’t do a thing but pray, Nor make much doing that. ‘We strove to face the awful doom That stared us into grief Of going to & wav'ry torab Or stranding on a reer. But suddenly the ship arose As if our fears to wheim, And there, in trusty pilot pose, Stood Huckius at the heim. He jerked the rudder galley west And mude the mainmast groan; He sent the sailors down 1o rest And ran the ship a.one. The sturdy Captain wept for joy Of briny tears a lot; He said Huck was & “bully boy” And “Johnny on the spot.” He also mentioned that the boat Was safe for any realm, Where anything on earih can float. Wiin Huckins at the helm. Bo happiness is ours to-day Amidst tue toll and strife; The oid boat hounds along the way As naturai a: The crew is stii! alive, on deck, Each fellow feeling fine, And what was once a total wreck, ‘I'he swiftest of the iine. ‘Ihough angry Lempesis may appear, That twist ibe sturdy elm, We baven’. one darned thing to fear Wiih Huckins at the helm. —Nation’s Anchor, WITH YOUR COFFEE. London must have a pretty good idea by this time what & «Chicago crowd is like.— Chicago Record. “Father, why do they have the weather prophet up in such a high building?’ “Because, Johnny, you know they say that ‘false prophets shall arise in the land ' "—New York Journal. “How much water do you think your ship will draw, it she ever comes in?”’ asked the one homeless wanderer. ‘‘She won’t draw no water at all,” said the other, who had been building air-castles, *She’ll draw beer. Right ouiof the wood.”— Cincinnati Enquirer. Eprockett—I was sorry not to keep my ap- pointent with you; but, you see, my wheel broke down. Hudson—Why didn’t you come in on the train? Spreckett—Heavens! And ride with those miserable non-bikers? Never!—Philadelphia North American. Little Harry—Yon didn’t preach last Sun- day, did you? The Minister—No; Iwasill and omitted my sermon. Little Harry—I thought they was something havppened, for when pa got home he saia he wouldn’t mind goin’ to church every Sunday if they always had that kina of service.—Cleve- land Leader. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Here's an item which says: “In & railway collision in North Caro. lina a four-year-old chiid at an open car win- dow was thrown out of the window by the shock and escaped injury.” Mr. Crimsonbeak—How in the world do yon suppose they ever managed to get the window open?—Yonkers Statesman, — MEN AND WOMEN. The Countess of Aberdeen is constantly in demand, wmaking addresses before women’s organizations. Especially has this been the case since the degree of doctor of laws was Grand on their way to |. | know,’ retorted ber | that even at night the exact house and num- | at Kingston. She was the first womaan in . Cansda to receive the honor. Ex-Secrotary John G, Carlisle, 1n practicing law in New. York, will devote himself to pledding eases iu court instead of confining himself to office work. Z Miss Helen Hay, who as the daughter of the American Embassador to the Court of St James nas already won distinguished social success, has now made her debut as & poet in “Two Sonnets,” which appear in Harper's Magazine for July. . Elder John Davis of Princeton, N. J.,1s 1o his eighty-third year and has lived in ten or twelve States. He is a member of the Chris - tian church and preached in that church for fifty-three years and until he was 100 infirm for the active duties of a preacher. Ex-Senator Dubois of Idaho, whowalked out of the St. Louis convention when the gold platiorm entered it, has gone into cattle- raising on a ranch in Idaho. All his caulg bear this brand: *16- Mr. Dubois’ four- footed possessions are walking advertisements. © of his devotion to the cause of silver coinage. Boston’s big new notel, the Touraine, can’ have no bar, because a corner of it is within 400 feet of a schoolhouse. J. Reed Whipple, the proprietor, has taken a wholesaler's license, which permits him to sell wines and liquors only in bottles and not all on Sundays. Quartier Latin waiters are now wearing tho dress coats in which the late M. Le Royer pre- sided over the French Senate. The late Presi: dent’s wararobe, according to the Freuch custom, was sold at auction, with his other effects, and three dress coals as good as new were bought for $2 20 by a speculative walter. Three young women in Germany have been recently commended for their thorough work in pharmacy, and Fraulein Eva Bosse, & daughter of the German Minister of Public Worship, has been pronounced by Dr. Frau- lich, president of the Imperial German Phar- maceutical Sociaty. to be one of the most-ex- cellent and gifted scholars he has ever met. Mrs. John F. Reese of Cleveland, Ohlo, ance had the honor of entertaining Queen Victoria in her own home, Mrs. Reese was Mrs. Jobn McLean, her husband being a msjor fu the English army in chargeof FortMoikton, in Hampshire, and when the Queen made & visit to the fort she took acup of tes with Mrs. McLean, although the latter did not at the time know whom she was entertaining. THE MAN AT THE FOOT OF THE STAFF. Chicago Times-Herald. “The man is still at the foot of the fi In Honolulu,” says a citizen of Hawail now temporarily residing in this city. “What I meen by this can be bast illustrated by a story from history. “Some years ago the French attempted to collect a claim sgainst the Hawaiian Govern- ment by a show of force. Matters “finally reached a point where the commander of -the French vessel in the barbor proposed to sheil the town. Before doing so he called on the commander of the British cruiser stationéd there and suggested that arrangements.be made to protect the lives of British subjects. ‘It I were in your place I wouldn't shéll the city,’ said the Britisher. 5 “<But I think I will do it, id the Frenchman. ‘Wait tii1 I tell you something you do not lajesty’s officer, ‘and then you may think better of it. At the foot - of the flagstaff in front of the King's palace stands aman. Heis there all the time. .He has in_his pocket an American flag. -The King’s Ministers have prepared a deed of ces- sion, transierring the Hawatian Islands to the United States. The moment you fire on the town or give notice thut you are about to do s0 that deed of cession will be signed by the King. Thestars and etripes will be ettached 1o the halyards and sent flying at the top of the pole. Then you are weicome to fire upon the American flag, if you wish to do so.’ *The Frenchman thought better of his just the same,’ | scheme, and Honolulu was not shelied.” REAGAN ON SLAVERY. Philade!phia Inquirer. Ex-Senator Reagau of Texas delivered an address Tuesday to an assembiage of former Confederate soldiers at Nashville, Tenu., in the cours2 of which ne said: *‘Whatever may have been said in the past in defense of the in- stitution of slavery, and whatever may now be thoughi of the raeaus by which 1t Was abol ished in this conntry, the spirit of the present age is against it, and I suppose no one wishes its restoration. Certainly [ would not restore it if I had the power. I tnink it better for the blinck race that they are free, and I am sure it is better for the white race that there are no siaves.”’ This utterance, coming irom one who was a member of the Cabinet in the Government of the onfederacy, whose cornerstone was de- clared by one of its highest officials to be slavery, may fairly be construed as a remark. able indorsement of the course them pursued - by the National Government. OBEERVATIONS OF A PESSIMIST, Cleveland Leader. They say that crying is necessary to the de~ velopment of a baby’slungs. The parents of some modern politiclans must have been sorely tried. Actions may speak louder than words, but the person who neglects an opportunity to say & good thing for himself usually gets lost - in the dust cloud at the rear of the procession, Tnere is just one kind of people that can’t be soitened by flattery—dead people. One peculiarity about most people 1s that the difficulty they have in remembering n‘r’{‘l“ and faces increases with their pros. perity. 2% There may be men who never lose their tempers, but living with them must be very monotonous. 4 ! CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's> ———— GraND Fourth of July dinner at the Rusy- House; 50 cents; can’t be excellea, & ——————— FPECTAL Information daily to manufssturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomary. * . .- Wife (8 A.M.)—I believe I will run’over te Mrs. Gossip’s for a minute. % Husband—Will yon be back befors. noont Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. . See Southern California. Los Angeles, the most beautiful city in the. United t tatcs. “an Diego, Pasadens, Riverside, . Redlands, Coronado Beach, Catalina Tsiands, and the thousand aud one other delig 1¢ful places must * be teen. You can return to ths East throush the orang : groves of Southern California without ad.. dic onal expensts aud you will always regret it 17 you fail to see Los Angeles and her siater citjes. The Santa Fe trains furnish the highest character of accommodationy, and consume onmly three nights Los Angelesto Chizago. Call at 644 Market street, Chronlcle building. —_———————— ¢ 825 Kate to Chicago via the Grest Santa Fe Route. it The low rates made for Christian Endeay : will be open to the public as well. An opp::: y nity 1o visit the Eact never before enjoyed by Cal. tiornjans. Pullman Paluce Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholsterad . - tourist sieeping-cars run daily through from Vay- 1and pier to Chicago. Sce time-table in adverus. * ing column. San Francisco ticketoffice 644 Mackey - street, Chronicie buildipg. ‘lelephone Mainisal .. - Oakland, 1118 Erosdway. ——————— 3 832 50 to St. Paul, Minneapolis amd Chicaga. s Tickets will be on sale July 12 to the 17t ‘Good final limit, August 15: stopover fllo'zl-n pI¥ splendid opportunity to take a trip to Chicago anq stopoff at the famous Yellowsione Park. Send 6 cents in stamps for {llustrated book, *“Wondar 1and”’ 10 T. K. 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