The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 4, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1897. Call OCTO_BER 4, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 710 Market street, San Francisco ++0..017 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL....cccc.ceeennnsen +..0.sOne year, by mail, $1.30 OAKLAND OFFICE.... ....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes sireet; open until 9:830 o'clock. 615 Lerkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1505 Polk street; open untit 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second *nd Kentucky streets; open till 9 o’clock. ..Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. SAII;LNG ON SMOOTH SEAS. HE most significant feature of trade at the moment is the marked decrease in the rate of failures as compared with the number 1n business. The falling off in liabilities is elso rapid. This is a sign of health. It shows prompter coliec- tions, larger profits and an increased circulation of money. The total failures in the Unitea States during the first nine months of the year were 9333, a decrease of 13 per cert from the total of the same period in 1896. The liabilities foot up $118,- 484,000, or 30 per cent less than in 1896. The current revival has abounded in curious features. The general tendency has been to pursue a moderate course, and, excenting in wheat, there has been no marked speculation, which 1s different from the usual run of trade revivals. This is well illustrated at the moment, for while legitimate trade is constantly increasing, speculation is constantly decreasing. For instance, wheat has slackened up considerably of late, but wool, hides, iron and steel and several other important staples bave shown increased activity. The business of the country is somewhat hampered at the moment by the Southern gquaran- tine, though the effect on the generai movement of merchan- dise in the Southern States is not as marked as might have been supposed. New Orleans is the heaviest sufferer from this drawback, for the clearings of that city last week fell off 16 per ceat, while every other large city in the country showed = gain. The improvement in the clearings of the whole country was 26.1 per cent, and in New York 50.6 per cent. The gain in San Francisco was 30 per cent. The amount of wheat exported from the United States dur- ing the seven months ended July 31, 1896, was 34,432,930 bush- €ls, and during the same time this year 28,189,715. The exports of flour during the periods were: 1896, 8,566,200 barrels; 1897, 7,093,071 barrels. The summary of the foreign commerce of ths United States for the seven months ended July 31, as eompiled by the Burean of Statisiics of the Treasury Department at Washington, shows the volume of articles imported and exported at all ports of the United States during the time mentionea. Total value of im- vorts of merchandise was: Dutiable, $247,384,648; tree of duty, $259,212,172; grand totai, $506,596,820. O! this the value of that imported direct from foreign countries was $430,338,253; im- ported through exterior ports without appraisement, $26 258, - 567; entered for immediate consumption, $44 ,199; entered for warehouse, $63,367.621; brought in cars and other land vehicles, 382,525; American vessels, steam $52,828,218, sail- ing $22,184,372; foreign vessels, steam $387,373, sailing $20,- 828 479. The total value of exports of domestic manufacture was: Carried in cars and other land vebicles, $33,005,876; in American vessels, eteam $20,289,877, sailing $12,764,933; foreign vessels, steam $439,882,203, sailing $34,000,990; grand total, $549,- 943,879, The above statement, while gratifying from a commercial point of view, has another and most unpleasant aspect. A glance at the figures tells the story of American decadence on the high seas. 1t shows that while our foreign trade is im- mense, very little of it is nandled by American vessels. There is nothing new in this. Every American knows it only too well; but sometimes it is brought before us in an unpleasant way, as in the present case. Business in this city ana State is in good shape, without es- pecial feature. The deciine in wheat has had a tendency to quiet things down more or less, and the whole grain market has been weak and inactive for a fortuight. Otherwise there isvery little of interest exhibited by any of the markets. Wool con- tinues wonderfully active and prices have again advanced. Houye, 100, have moved up « cent or so, and are sieady at the advance. Mutton and lamb have risen during the week, and beet is firm at the recent improvement in prices. Trade in pro- visions, while fair, is not as lively as it was several weeks ago. Dried fruit and ralsins are still dull, buf as the Ssptember de- liveries have all been filled dealers look for renewed activity along in the middle of the present month. 7 The above points tell the commercial story of the week. It will be seen that there isa lack of sensation, but no lack of business. We are trading along on a good, profitable basis, with fair collections and plenty of money coming in, and what better does anybudy want? Of course not too much is to be expected of a human Sheriff." When such an official desirous of laying detaining hands upon a stage robber announces that he has a clew, the case begins to look dubious for everybody but the robber. Yet Sheriff John- son of Ukish confesses to being torn by the conflictinz emotions engendered of possessing seven distinct clews, and some biood- hounds, and still cherishes hope of success. Mr. Johnson’s san- guine temperament must keep him 1n a state of unbroken bap. piness. Two young men in Alabama rocked a boat and jocosely drowned the feur girls under their charge, but with a presence of mind that never deserte! them, swam boldly to shore. Of course they felt regretful, and so did other people thereabouts, s0 much so in fact that the pair, their presence of mind intact, ran away to avoid being hanged. Thus the tragedy, aiready dark enough, lost its only chance of being in some degree brightened. Butsomebody will hang those fellows yet. We could almost wish that when sc'entists discussjthe probability of the sun’s throwiog off a new world they would not be so calmly confident that ihis process would be de- structive of the earth on which wedwell. There is somuchun,_ occupied space that a new worid or two ought not to overcrowd it; and with all its faults this globe bardly deserves o tough a fate as being utilized as fuel with not a soul 10 get the benefit of consequent heat. S ey There is no reason for mourning becanse one of the clever- est of female thieves has jumped-her bond. On the contrary, let it be hoped that the jump is a long one. Tue beauty of the scheme is the distress of the bondsmen. People who habit- ually go bail for eriminals do so for a fee and with no expecta- tion of being called upon to pay it. In this instance the chance Jor such a call is too good to be neglected. Yeilow journalism it seems has been paying a man to score ball games sor it, not, huwever, paying him much. But he not only did this, but now scores yellow journalism very thor- oughly and is understood not to charge a cent extra. Death bas claimed the man known as the Cigarette King who will perhaps find enough cigarette fiends where he h; gone to make him feel right at bome. The founder of Dawson City scoffs at famine. He happens to be in Chicago, where a person with the price of a ioal can get it, and can scoff quite cormafortably. Believing always in justice it is Jair to say that o far as known the Ezamumer has not stolen a copy of THE CALL since last week. ! minority. . PLIGHT OF THE ANNEXATIONIST. HE CALL desires to condole with the oligarchy at present Tin power in the Hawaiian Islands. Although a regard for the best interests of the United Siates has placed this Ppaper in a position antagonistic to that of the handful of ad- venturers who have taken and now hold forcible possession of the Government of Hawaii, yet do we wish to assure these gentlemen of our fullest appreciation of the difficulties of the position in which they find themselves. The present situation in the islands is peculiar, and, which more nearly concerns those in power, untenable. A score of foreigners, whom greed made brave, seized the Government of Haw: The unsuspecting good nature, the generosity, the hospitality of the natives, as well as the significant pres- ence of United States troops, made their task comparatively easy. The filibusters had the islands. The question now was how to keep them. A rigid military ofigarchy was estab- lished, the natives were disfranchised and a social and political boycott was pronounced against all men, white, brown or black, who should presume to differ in ofinion with the small ruling It is rather an un-American programme to which those stanch Americans, the annexationists, are committed. Yet one is compelled to admit that given unscrupulous greed for | wealth and power, the rest follows naturally. It is easy to ! realize the filibuster’s point of view. He saw an oppor- tunity for gain and seized it. If he thought at all of the future, it was with an optimistic belief that time would aid him in overcoming the natives’ absurd prejudice against being robbed and deprived of liberty. So with all the improvident trust in his own good fortune that is characteristic of the adventurer, he rested upon his unstable scheme of government as though it had been founded upon a reality—the consent of the gov- erned ; he marched unsuspectingly on, blinded by his vanity and his selfishness, to the fact that the sides of his onward road converged instead of remaining parallel. Itis for this almost childish simplicity that one, however great may be his condemnation of the methods of the dozen- headed despot of Hawaii, pities him. It would be cruel to doubt the annexationist’s unselfish devotion to his own inter- ests. Yetin his desperation, he is about to jump from the frying-pan which has become unbearably hot into the fire which must be hotter. In the event of annexation the en- franchisement of the native Hawaiian naturally follows. Give the native a voice in the Government and what is the first use to which he will put his novel wishing wand? The ousting of the usurper, of course; the usurper, whom he hates with a hatred that is like a slow, smoldering fire. One cannot withhold his pity for the gamblers in Govern- ments, for considering the weapons at their command, what a failure they have made of it all! Four years have passed, and with the exception of a public dett which has grown at the rate of a million a year, the ‘“Men Who Would Be King”’ have accomplished nothing. The natives are unchangeable, con- verts are few, it is even whispsred that there is disaffection among the elect. Day by day their horizon becomes more and more limited ; their hope of escape—escape with dignity from an undignified position—escape from the consequences of their own shortsighted sslfishness, becom2s weaker. Is it to be wondered at that knowing their political exis- tence to be only a question of days, that feeling the top-heavy governmental organization tremble bensath the weight of their sins and stupidities, they should seek to place their burden on broader shoulders? It is only human to shrink from the consequences of one’s own blunders. The Hawaiian oligarchy has grasped at the live wire of a psople’s liberties s their struggles to let go are truly pitiable. The oligarchy’s chestnuts are scorching—Help! Help! Can ths United States disregard such an appeal? Soon thoss sweet kernels will be allburned and blackened. To the aid of the brave business | men of the South Seas who stole a nation, yet are not strong thieves enoigh to keep what they seized! Surely Uncle Sam must coms to the rescue, must consent to become a receiver of | stolen goods even, that Messieurs the adventurers may not | suffer—may not lose that for which they wrought so steadfastly, | so cunningly, so unscrupulous'y ! Verily, if it were not for THE CALL’S profound conviction that the United States would be irreparably injured by assuming control over those turbulent, tawny little islands ; if it were not for ths bitter injustice such an assumption would | be to the natives, whose land Hawaii is—out of sheer pity for the desperate position o° these luckless South Sea land-pirates, this paper would be tempted to advocate annexation. For, to be frank, THE CALL confesses itself unable to see any other outlet to the blind alley into which the cupidity of these unfortunate filibusters has driven them. provide for numerous more hands. Nicola Tesla promises to accon: plish some wonderful things by electricity, 10 do more revoiutionizing than anyboay, He there. The time would seem to be ripe for Mr. Tesla to do something more than tell what he intends doing. The penitentiary is surely large enough to accommodate Itagc Bain, who 1une what is supposed to be a matrimonial the lunatic asylums. WARNINGS FOR FRUIT SHIPPERS, RUIT shippers have recently received a 'vurning from both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of the folly of shipping [n each case the warning takes the form of a statement of specific instances of losses resuiting trom such shipments, and indifferent cannot afford to overiook or neclect, The Western warning comes from Tacoma, where it is an- destroyed a large shipment of apples from this State because they were found to be wormy and unfit for the market. A close fruit 1ufected with any kind of pesis and we have no right to complain of the less when it has been caused by our own ket whatever. ‘The lesson from the Atlantic side comes from a recent re- Journal of that city. In the course of the review the Journal says: ‘“Much of the fruit shipped here was of a very a remunerative price. On the bulk of receipts the selling range was 35 cents 10 50 cents a basket, while stock packed ana as it upon close examination shqwed more or less premature frult. Some few small shipments of choice fruit conscien- the rule. ‘We have here an evidence of the value of good packing and per basket is certainly sufficient to pay for the extra care re- quired to select good fruit for shipment and pack 1t well, This vract'ce before we will ever reap the full profit, of our orchards, Nature does much for us, but she does not do everything, and her zifts. ‘We have applied these warnings to California because it is ple. and not because they are needed here more than else- where. The fruit-growers of Washington doubtless send as any that comes from California; and the peaches to which the Fruit Trade Journal referred, in the New York market, were districts. The defect of bad peciing is much the same ali over the country, and the State whose fruit men first adopt better rode into fame on a promise, 2ud by the same token remains P AE T agency, but to accommedate his clients wounld almost outtax Fem," poor fruit or good fruit poorly packed to market. the two taken together afford a lesson that even the most nounced the Horiicultural Inspector condemned and ordered watch is kept at the sound ports to prevent the importation of neglect or worse in shipping fruit of that character to any mar- view of the peach market in New York oy the Fruit Trade inferior quality and it was difficult to move at anything lize classed as faucy rarely exceeded 75 cents to 80 cents per basket, tiously packed brought §1 a basket, but it was the exception to good fruit. The difference between 35 cents per basket and $L is alesson the Cslifornia fruit shipper will have to learn and we must exercise skill and care in order to make the best use of desirable 10 impress them particularly upon our own peo- to Tacoma as’ badly packed and poorly selectel fruit mainly shipped irom New Jersey and other neighboring o' chard tactics will get control of the maiket and reap a rich reward. THE COAST PRESS. Walker Jones has sold the Mountain View Register 10 G. K. Estes, an experienced news- paper man of San Jose. The Register improved in every raspec. during Mr. Joues' proprietor- ship thereof, and now Mr. Estes will endeavor 1o raise the standard of that paper still higher. In nonor of its twenty-first birthday, the Fresno Republican has issued a souvenir en- titied “Imperisl Fresno”” It describes the varied resources of that city and couaty, and the illustrations are many and beautiful. The work constitutes an excellent advertisement for that section of California. The editor of the Orange County Heraid con- fesses that he entertains the human longing for coin, but he scorns to *‘disgrace his profes- sion” by retusing any time-honored medium of subscription exchange. Hence he edver- tises that he “‘can us: stovewood, butter, eggs, chickens, ball caives. pumpkins, hay, peiro- leum, spuds, selt pork or any old thing like that. Delinquent subseribers who are long on 80y of these ariicles and short on cash might tarry long enough on this snnouncement to stamp itindelibly in their memory.” An important newspaper change has taken place in Santa Rosa. The Democrat, of which Hon. Thomas L. Thompson was proprietor, has been sold 1o the Press Publishing Company, and as soon as the necessary detalls in re- #ard to the transfer can be arranged the two papers will be merged into a morning daily to be £DOwWn as the Press-Democrat Grant O. Ricnards will be the editor-in-chief of the new paper. It is rumored that Mr. Thompson will, in the near future, become connected with the Brezilian consulate here, and that he will also represent a big Rl Janeiro commercial com- pany which has offices in the principal ports of the world. Oakdale wants more factories of d:fferent kinds—flour mills, pork-packing houses, ma- chine shops, cte., to supply the demand of her sister towns. The Oakdale Leader says: “We bave the cheapest and best motof power in the State, and all it needs is a little capital and perseverance to put it to an avallable use. Our s0il is all that can be asked for—of many varieties and very productive. We are str.ctly in it for all kinds of tropical fruits; orang:s, lemons, olives, etc, growing here to perfection and yielding good crops. With all these ad- vantages Oakdale cannot do otherwise than prosper.” The Los Gatos Mail urges that attractive burg to get into line with the progressive towns of the State and keep step to the grand march of pubtic improvement It remarks thateven littie Ben Lomond, in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, is making ar-. rangements to double her accommodations to meet the demands of the public next year; San Jose will build one of the fiuest theaters 1n the State; Santa Cruz is leading ouv for another public school edifice, Mountain View will erect a handsome public school building, and Los Gatos ought to lcse no time in profit- ing by their examples. The Oroviile Register reports that a number of farmers on the west side of Feather River in the vicinity of Gridley have organized an astociation among themselves for the purpose oferecting a large leves to hold the waters of Feather River from their lands. This levec will begin at the Ord ranch, owned by Rey- man & Evans, and will extend south two and ahalf miles. It will be six feet high, six feet wide on top, and forty-two feet on the bottom. They will push building the levee with the utmost dispatch, some furnishing money and others teams and men, and will get the levee completed a#eariy as possibie. The top of the levee will be two feet higher than the high- water mark of 1881, An enterprise of great moment to Tuolumne County is the construction of a dam across the North Forkof the Stanislaus River, near Lyons F.at, by means of which, it 1s esti- mated, an ample supply of water will be se- cured torun all the mines along the line of ditches in that section all the year round. Some $20,000 will be expended in the work, which will be comploted by next June. The Tuolumne Indevendent states that “in place of there being two or three idle months in the year and hundreds of men out of employment, all will in future be eugaged, 1o say nothiug of the development work that will follow and As an in- vestment it is said that the dam wiil pay for itself, during tae usual shoriage of water, next year.” The dawn of Bakersfield’s new era 1s redden- ing into the luster of day. A hydro-electric plant now furnishes light and heat to Kern County’s capital, and the Californicn has pub- lish d an illustrated descriptive article with reference to that valuable improvement. The electricity is developed at the mouth of the canyon ot Kern River, sixteen miles east of Bakersfield. The water has a fall of 193 feet to the water-wheel. Theoretically 170 cubic feet of water per second, fal'ing 193 feet, de- velop for this company 3700 horsepower. The 10,000 volts are transmitted to Bakers- fieid over a line composed of six copper wires end twenty-six sawed redwood poles, placed 125 feet apart. This electric power will be used for lighting, for running electric rail- ways, for manutacturing and for pumping water in irrigation. The Stockton Mai! editorially pays & hand- some tribute to oue of the builders of the West. It declares that “the broad public spirit and genuine affection tor the State which hasled Claus Spreczels to invest his many millions in California and to spend the income of those many millions hers at home is worthy of houor and applause. Hs has built in the San Joaquin Valley a railroad, he has erected gréat beet-sugar factories, thus bringing employment and comfort to many thousands of persons in the interior. In San Fraucisco he has erected the finest business edifice on this coast and has built a magnifi- cent home. His investments are made to earn him mouey, of cours>. They are not charit- able undertskings. But they furnish employ- ment to industrious men, put moaey in eir- culation, stimulate trade, build up and enrich the commonwealth and are big with benefi- cent results. We shall continue, doubtless, to disagree with Claus Spreckels at times. But no heat of disagreement shall ever cause us to forget that all his time, his ability and his vast wealth are wholly expended in his own State and among his own people.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The torpedo-boat destroyer Mallard, built by Thornyeroft, had a very successtul three hours® continuous trial on September 7. Under an air-pressure of 2.87 pounds, with 211 pounds steam and 397 revolutions, the engines worked up to 5749 horsepower, and the speed averaged 30.201 kaots per hour. The engineers’ strike in England 1s becom- ing very serious. Steam trial of tie cruiser Arrogant have been delayed for some time, the Associsted Steam Engiueers having with- drawn the engine-room artificers in the em- ploy of Ear’s Shipbuillding Company, by whom the vessel was built. The Admiralty decided on Septomber 13 to have the trial come off on the fo lowing day and selected a lot of picked naval ratiugs to take the place of the men on strike. In consequence the A. 8 E. withdrew the contractors’ cnarge men and this withdrawal left the contractors un- represented in either the engine or boiler room. Ls the machinery has not yet been tested as customary before hizh power trials there issome anxiety as o the oulcome of the affair, the naval men haviog no intimate koowledge of the machinery. Idees of naval education in Eagland differ somewhat from those entertained by our naval authorities. The course of cadets in the British navy, which has hitherto been two years on the Britaunia, bas now been cutdown to eighteen months, which means only fifty two weeks et school. In our navy the course is four years at the academy and two years at sea before being promoted to the grade of n. The British cadet, however, continues his studies at sea, and practice and theory thus go together, Furthermore in order to qualify for special services, such as navigation, orduance, torpedoes, etc., the English officer has to take special courses and pass rigid examiuations, whereas in the United States Davy, the four years' course at Anmnapolis is assumed to qualify the young man for any service he may be called upon to perform. An armored cruiser, 10 be called Lupetit- Thouars, is to be laid down at the Toulon dock- yard. She will have u displacement of 9516 toas and iz 10 steam, under forced draught, 21 NATIVE SON WINS LAURELS ABROAD. f Calijornia has produced another genius in the line ot fine art in the person of Eric Paps of this city, who is at present one of the special instructors in the Cowles Art School in Bolur‘il In the East and in Europe Mr. Pape has won many laurels for himself with his brush and pencil, and the ative sons of this State may feel proud that one of their number has met with such notable success. Mr. Pape is now only 27 years of age, but his youth has not pmve'd & bar to his being ranked mon.pnu best artists and fllustrators of America and the Old World. He was educated in the public schools of this city, and at the age of 19 years went to Paris, where he studied art. Boulanger was his first master; later he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at Julian’s. Amoung. his teachers have been Lefebyre, Jean Paul Liurens, Constant, De- lance, Blanc, Rixens and Doucet. In October, 1891, he went to Egypt, During two years in that country he painted a lar icture, ““The Two Great Eras,” which brought him his first taste of international reputation. | This picture took the second place in the Salon in Paris, and 1t attracted much aitention among the art eritics of the Old World. Mr. Pape submitted sixteen paintings to the Ssion this yea; the committee accepted them, but were unable 10 hang the entire number on account of space. They wrole the artist to come to the Salon and select eight which he especially wished to exhibit out of the num- —— Ry e “THE ANGEL WITH THE BOOK OF LIFE,” a Painting Now on Exhibi(son in Munich, From thc Brush of Eric Pape, a California Boy Who Has Won Fame as an Artist in Europe and the East. ber—rather an unusual proceeding. He chosa seven that formed a ser Al- , and one other. together Mr. Pape has had twenty-two pictures in the Saion of the Champ de Mars. Bt Pape returned (o Now York somewhere about the time when Professor Sioane's ¢ Lite of Napoleon” began its long run in the Century. He was at once engaged to prepare the illus- trations for that work, and this undertaking kept him busily engage! for abouta year. A surprisingly large number of pictures were made at this time for many other books and stories i besides the “Life o Mr. Pape has m ared 1n one of the or Miss Grace King's stories, poleon.” agazines; aicony Stories”; na many others. Among the most striking productions of the California artist was his painting, llustrations for & play by Sir Walter Besant, “The Charm,” which ap- My Sad Captains”; nson’s posthumous - Great North Road,” and for poems, stories and books by Bret Harte, l}'nrinn 1;281):\;51.“ Wiggin, Beatrice Harraden's “Hilde Sirafford,” Telford Grosbeck’s“The “‘The el With the Boox of Life,” which is now on exhibition at Munich. Itis attracting much R O and fhvicable! fommeds ¥a i wiea i phn and ink production of the picture which apoeared as the frontisp.ece in Mrs. Josephine Curtis Woodbury's new book of poems, During the eoming season Mr. Pape will conduct a course on iliustration and book decoration in the Cowles Art School. Mr. Pape's family in this city is weli known, especially among the German-Americans. knots an hour. Her dimensions are: Length, 450 feet; beam, 64 feet 8 inches; mean draught, 23 feet 4 inches. ‘Steam will be sup- plied from twenty multi-tubular bollers and theship will have three screws. The battery will consist of thirty-six guns, and the total cost, including armament, is estimated at $4,000.000. Two other similar armorea cruisers are to be begun shortly, one at Lori- ent and the other to be built by contract. These new French ships are imitations of the United States armored cruiser Brooklyn, but as they are 50 feet longer and ot only 245 tons more displacement, the lines will necessarily be much finer than the American and there should be no difficulty in pushing her at the rate of 21 knots, with 19,600 horsepower, which is nearly 900 in excess of the maximum powers of the Brooklyn when she made 21.91 knots. A commerce-destroyer is being designed for the French navy. The vesselis to have a speed of 23 knots, the triple-screw engines to work up to 17,400 horsepower. The dimensions are: Length, 449 feet; beam, 49 feet 3 inches, and a dratt of 20 feet 8 inches, displacing 5685 tons. The normal coal supply will be 600 tons, but the bunkers will hold 900, on which 1t is calculated the ship can steam 1330 | knots at tull speed and 9300 kuots at 10 knots. Everything has been sacr.ficed for speed, hence the armament is light, and consists of eight 5-inch rapid-fire guns, ten 6-pounders and six 3-pounders. She is to be named Jules Gravierre, aiter a distinguished French ad- miral and naval historian. The designer is de- cidedly ambitious, as it is intended to eclipse the United States cruisers Columbia and Min. neapolis of 7375 tons, which made 22.8 knots and 23.073 knots respectively at their trials. the French ship is 87 feet ionger and of 9 feet less beam and 2214 inches less draught than our Columbia, lines of extraordinary sharpness may be looked for; and the ship will be simply a torpedo-boat of large dimensions so far as the hull is concerned, the coefficient of fineness of displacement being .43 agalnst .49 of the Columbia and Minneapolis. PERSONAL. E. D. Meal, a Stockton lawyer, is at the Lick. A, C. Snyder, a Santa Cruz druggist, is at the Lick. A. Kiland of Stockton is a guest of the Cos- mopolitan. Mr. and Mrs, L. B. Allen of Sargents are at the Palace, E. H. Cox, a Madera banker, is registered at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. D. K. Hawley of Napa are guests at the Grand. D. V. McLean of Boston, Mass., is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Z. St. Martin, a deputy sheriff of Mountain View, is at the Russ, George 8. Howe, a merchant of Grass Valley, is visiting at the Lick. F. A. Wiser, a wholesale merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Russ. J. J. Nunan, a journslist of Stocktonm, is registered at the California, A. Bmith and family of Melbourne, Austra- lia, are at the Cosmopolitan. Mme. B. M. Mountford, the lecturer, re- turned yesterday to the Palace. Ex-Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Guthrie of Cambria are at the Grand. Mr. Guthrie is a merchant, R. M. Shackeliord, o wheat dealer of Paso | Robles, is registered at the Occidenta!, William Wehuer, a wine-producer of Ever- green, is at the California with bis wite. J. F. Chiles, cattieman and orchardist of Dawisville, is in town. He hasaroom at the Lick. W. E. Travis, a Star Route mail-contractor of Chicago, is a late arrival at the Palace. Sol E. Labe, a whisky merchant of New Or- leans, is making a short stay at the Palace. W. N. Cameron of Sydney. Australia, home- ward bound, arrived last nightat the Paiace. Ben Timmons of San Jose, traiver for Burns & Waterhouse stables, is a recent arrival at the Lick. Mrs. N. Davis and family of Duteh Klat, Tuolumne County, are registered at the Cos- mopolitan. J. T. Hem of Salem, Mass., and Ed Seifert of New York, two merchants, are guests at the California. C. M. Dougherty, a land-owner of Dougher- tys, Alameda County, arrived at the Palace yesterday, accompanied by his family. John T. Harrington, lawyer, politician, and Colonel on the Governor’s siaff, arrived at the Lick last night and registered from Colusa. Alfred A. Fraser and J. H. Richards of Boise, Idaho, arrived here last night on a belated Central overland trair. They are at the Grand. Brad Barner, the mining expert and repre- sentative of Baring Brothers, bankers, de- parted last night for England. He expects to | return in about two months. The following party from Ottawa. containing Canadian officials connected with one of the Interior departments, arrived yesterday at the Palace: Collingwood Schneider, Mrs. James Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Avery and Mr. and Mrs. Newcombe. N. Goodbody and R. Goodbody, two young tourists from Ireland, fearful of American bunko-steerers, arrived yesterday at the Grand. They are on a tour of the world for pleasure and willreturn home in four months. They are cousins of Goodbody, the big tobacco magufscturer. R. R. Gailey of New York, Princeton’s giant center-rush last senson and during the season ©0f 1895, arrived here Saturday and delivered an address last night in the chapel at Stanford University. He isnow traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer Movement and has come to this coast to spend a month in the in- terests of the Y. M. C. A. He weighs 210 pounds stripped. Next March he is going to China to work among college men there in the cause of the Christian religion. PEOPLE OF NOTE. Harriet Prescott Spofford is slowly recover- ing from an iliness of four months at her home on Deer Isie, near Newbury port, Mess, Rev. W. E. Barton of Boston s preaching a series of sermons, the texts of which are taken from the newly discoverea Logia. Cardinal Gibbons has given his approval to the movement for the establishment of a Catholic university for women in Washington. The Baroness de Hirsch is a thorough busi- ness woman, and sees to it that the money she gives to various charities is expended properly. One of the most venerable and best-known clergymen of Baltimore is Rev. Dr. Henry Scheib, pastor emeritus of Zion Lutheran Church, the sixty-second anniversary of whose pastorate will be celebrated on Oc- tober 18, Senator Morgan’s old schoolteacher says that the Alabama “ambassador’” went to school for but one year. His lack of education, however, d1d not prevent him from studying law at an early and becoming a successful prac- titioner. Tae literary acquirements for which h2 has a reputation were gained by reading ! in later years, S : John G. Stowe, who has just been appointed @ United States Comsul at Cape Town, South Africa, is one of the best-known business men oi Kansas City, and has been prominent for many years in the Republican councils of Kansas. : Miss Linda Richards, who, is about to Mf?e charge of the University of Pennsylvani Medical College, has probably had the broa est experience of any woman in the country in establishing training-schools, both in this and other lands. OCTOBER. When come October days, Jemnity of sutumn lends The Sadpess of & tale that sadly ouds: The dove’s call is the sofier for the tone That hints of old regrety and hear s alone: The cricket’s dinning rises lise (be zoag That sounds fiom some retreating fairy throngg Across the hil's there hangs & azure haze, As some vasc web mlpragll:‘;:r:::fily;. 50 dily. Yy (l‘he;nhgoh‘ll;x.e “otld, 100, Beaves a s0b and sigh When come Uctober days. When come Octoher days. E The nuts drop 0 the sp'ashing poos where 1rout. Napoleons of (heir spheres—the m nnows rout: The wagons {u (he orchurds go and come, children’s voices me.low o & hum: The fiecks of sun and shadow lie like scates Upon the roa ! that crawis on throush the vales; The leaves fsll—hiding dee) ér from our view The torms and faces o1 the ones we knew; And we refloct w.'re nearer to the ‘When hearzs shall feel no chill of When come ¢ ctober days. WiLL T. HALE in Chicago —e FLASHES OF FUN. When one word leads on 1o another it’s & good scheme to lag behina a little.—Puck. When & woman in a sirestear is engaged in purchasiug & newspaper the newsboy calcu lates on riding at leest & mile before she fin- ishes.—Roxbury Gaz:tie. The Teacher—We are told that Eve was quite unclothed, yet not ashamed. How was that 7 The Little Girl—'Twas prob'ly the dressmak- er’s fault.—Detroit Jourral. Shade of Sapphira—Say! What are you moping round and looking so discouraged and no-'count for ? Shade of Ananiss—Nothing; only every new shade I meet doesn't do & thing but talk atout that Luetgert trial!—New York Press. Little Willle—Say, ma, have they got a dog over at Deacon Smith's ? Msmma—No, dear; not that I know of. why do you ask ? Little Willie—Because when I was over there yesterday I neard Mrs. Smith tell the cook to chase the growier as soon as the coast was cl Chicago Daily News. But ODD FACTS. Dr. Crede of Dresden says that he has diss covered a great antiseptic for treating wounds in soluble metallic silver. Wild passenger pigeons, which once were so plentiful all over the United States thatat | their time of migration they were slaughtered by tens of thousands, now are so rare that a flock of iess than a hundred excited comment in a fairly wild country in Nebraska. Projectiles used by the United States army for its great modern guns cost as follows: +oifd shot, 8-inch $69 80 each, 10-inch $144 50 each, 12-inch $212 each; 12-inch mortar shells, weighing 800 pounds, $114 esch; 12- inch mortar shells, weighing 1000 pounds, $195 eacn. Dr. 1. E. Van Iterson of Leyden has per- formed fifty-one operations of laparotimy without giving the patients ether or maxing them otuerwise unconscious. He has found that injections of 1 per cent so.ution of cocaine into the abdominal wall made even these serious, operatious practically painless. The frescoes in the Houses of Parliament, London, have been decuying noticeably lately. Experts say that thisis due to the use uf p.as- ter which was prepared irom limesione irom Durdnam Down, near Bristol, waich is of ma- rine origin. The marine sait, which siill re- mains in the limestone, is blumed for the de- cay of the plaste A STATE CONSTA:ULARY. Alameda Encinal The need for a State constabulary be. more apperent every day. In dealing v highwaymen and stage robbers sucn s force would be invaluable, It isimpossible ! - ne local officers to handle such affairs oratall evenis they show s lamenta ofsuccess in tracking up and arresti offenders. But wsth a State const somewhat after the line of the Texas Ra: made up of men whose sole pursuit is hun i down offenders, familiar with every trail and pass in the mountains, it would be diffi 1or eriminals o escape. Itis to be hoped th the Legisiature will take some action in this direction at the next session. —_— STRICTLY ELIGIBLE. o ulary New York Mail and Express. Philadelphia has secured the skeleton of an Egy: ;lnn nobleman v.r)g(:ldh’d 3500 B.C. This genteman ought to ead e h t even the chilaren of Wi.liam Penm, Y —_— —_— ABLE TO STING. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Uncle Bam’s fleet of five torpedo-boats is called a ¢“mosquito squadron,” and if it lives up to its name the discomfiiure of thy be all that could be desired. 5o iy _— A CASE OF BLOWHARD. Boston Transcript. Glass is now biown by machinery, and there is hope that in time political made in that way. ks FETCinsmerte e —— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib, Townsend's* —————— EPECIAL information daiiy to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the P Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Munytznmm'r;." —————— Dr. and Mrs. F. A, Miles of Greenville, 8. C., have given a valuable tract of land, consist. ing of nearly 2500 acres, to Furman Uni- versity. 3 _— b ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup " Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfecs success. 1t oothes the child. softens the gums, at- lays Paln, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhaas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask ior Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25cabostle e CORONADO.—Atmosphera is perfectly dry. soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round- trip tickets, by steam. sbip, including fifteen days board a: the Hotel lel Coronado, 860; longer stay $2 50 perday. APpLy 4 New Montgomery street. San Francisco, or A, W. Bailey, manager Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Spriogs, Colorado. —_——— The Episcopal Cburch of the Holy Inno. cents, Highland Falls, N. Y., was built by Professor Robert Weir, in memory of his two daughters, with the money he received for his picture in the rotunda of the Capitol. NEW TO-DAY. There are times when the variation of a pulse beat tells the practiced physician Whether the scale will go down and mean death or up and mean life. But suppose the medicine he prescribes is not the medicine which your child is taking, but some- thing the druggist though would do just as well! Wh is going to regulate the bal- ance then? A druggist who will offer you something else when you ask for Scott’s Emulsion will do the same thing with his Pprescriptions, cht what vou ask for| -