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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1897. OCTOBER 18, ooy JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. S B IISTeoes PUBLICATION OFFICE......... o sons 710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... . .00c0000m00m0ms cerenens D17 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 63 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL....... +....One yoor, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Brosdway NEW YORK OFFICE... BRANCH OFFICE: Roows 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open uniil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 1305 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; oven till 9 o’clock. CONDITION OF TRADE TO-DAY. USINESS in the local market has been quieter during the past week. The principal staples have eased off somewhat, as far as the demand 1s concerned, though there has been no positive deprecigtion in values. Wheat has been unsettled, in sympathy with the Eastern and foreign markets, though the quotations are firm. Barley is decidedly lower, and the call for itis very elack. Oats and corn have also shaded oif and are dull. Prices for hay still keep up, though the market is easy and not overactive. The dried fruit market isin the dumps, though the demand has improved slightly during the past few days. Wool is less active, as the consumers are well supplied at the moment and do not care to purchase until they need more stock. Hops have eased off somewhat, and it is doubtful whether 15¢ could now be cbtained for even the choicest. The cattie and hog markets continue i1n firm shape, and beef has advanced to 7c. A fair trade in provisions is reported, with a dectine in hams. Fluctuations in merchandise continue few and far between. Linseed o1, which has been weaker of late, has azain taken the up-grade, and quotations were advanced on Saturday. Coal rules firm at the old prices. Coffee is moving off fairly. Dry goods are in steady demand, as the farmers are laying in their winter supplies, as usual at this time of the year. Hides are active and firm all over the country. These enumerations pretty well cover the local grounda during the past weck. As far as the country at large is concerned trade is good. This is shown by the bank clearings, which gained 32 per cent during the six days, only one eity, New Orleans, showing a loss, and that on account of the yellow fever, and not through any inherent condition. The gain in San Francisco was 1734 per cent. As long as these bank clearings continue to gain busi- ness, of course, countinues to improve, and as the conditions on tne Pacitic Coast are generally a mere reflex of those ruling throughout the whole country, it is therefore reasonable to con- clude that the present lull in San Francisco is simply an in- terval between two periods of activity, sucu as always occurs during the fall. Advices from the East say that the activity in the leading staples is less pronounced than a month ago, owing to the well- stocked condition of the interior merchants, to the fever in the South and the holding back of farmers, who decline to let go of their wheat. Unseasonable weather has a'so interfered with the distribution of merchandise. Still, the general markets are firm. The flactuations for the week were higher prices for iron, hides and lard, and lower prices for flour, baef, lead, print cloths, cotton and several lines of farm produce. The other great staples show no. change. In offset to this, however, the peyments through the clearing-houses tihus far in October bave been the largest ever known, the iron trade has shown a pro- nounced increase, and the foreign trade has been of vast pro- portions. Mi!ls have continued to start up here and there, and a steady increase in the employment of labor is noted. The iron and steel mills have hard work to keep up with their or- cers, and the woolen mills have all they can do to keep abreast of theirs. The record of failures is also another zood sign. Those for the whole country last week were oniy 196, against 236 for the preceding week and 279 for the same week last year. Commer- cial failures have been few and small ot late, which speaks vol- umes for the condition of trade throughout the country. The observing reader of the above conditions will remark that the country has passed the boom stage of the business revival and has enterei that better condition where trade pro- ceeds on conservative though profitable lines. This is by far the best state, for it contains within itseif a stable prosperity which is more permanent than feverish excitement, and there- fore more to be desired. As far as can be seen at present there is nothing on the commercial horizon to indicate that the pros- perity of to-day will not endure for a long time to come. Woman's intellectual equality with man may still be an open question, but for a demonstration of equality of courage the incident of that Maine woman, who, to save the life of a farmer, made a splendid, heroic stand against a mad bull ana won the mastery over the enraged beast after a desperate en- counter, ought to be sufficient to convince the most skeptical ot those who are accustomed to denominate themselves “the braver sex.” Baseball is in no danger of being superseded by goli. The physical operations of this faddish game are easy enough; but the stupendous task comes inywhen you tackle the glossary. The American national sport is just the other way; its terms are a secondary part of the business, and anybody can master its most picturesque expletives without half trying. A PARK ASSOCIATION. EGENT REINSTEIN, in the course of an inteiview pub- R lished in THE CaLL a few days ago, suggested as one of the best means to procure the opening of a park between tue City Hall and Market street the organization of an associa- tion to take charge-of the work and promote its accomplish- ment. “The work,” said Mr. Reinstein, ‘“‘must be carried on, and it can be done only by the organization of a number of our public-spirited citizens for the purpose.’” He added: *'‘Such an association can bring influences to bear upon tha property- owners that will prevent any attempt to mulct the city, and it can also exert great influence with the Supervisors in spurring them on to the necessary action.” Since the pub.ication of the interview with Mr. Reinstein his suggestion Las been warmly commended by a considerable number of influential citizens. Indeed it seems to be the pre- vailing opinion that such an association as that proposed effords not only the best, but the only reasonabiy sure means of bringing about the much desired recovery of the lots in question. It is clear that the enterprise can never be considered as a practical question of city politics untilit has besn put into defi- nite shape and some plan proposed for carrying it out. The verformance of this preliminary work can be best done by forming an association of men in whom the people have con- fidence, and intrasting the details of ways and means to them. A report from a thoroughly represeniative body of taxpayers on the subject would bring the issue fairly before the city, and in all probability present it in a way that wouid assure public support from the stare, / San Francisco needs this park and must have it. Her people have never been satisfied with the existence of a range of tu'idings between the municipal edifice and the main thor- oughfare of trade and trafic. They have never wholly con- sented to the sale of those lots, which were originally dedicated for park purposes. They will be glad to recover them by any fair means, and now that the Grand Jury has brougnt the ques- tion ap for consideration it is appropriate to see if something cannot be done to gratify the public desire. {CALIFORNIA AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. COMMITTEE of the State Board of Trade appointed to congider the proposed exhibit of California produets at the coming exposition in Paris has recommended that efforts be made to obtain for the exhibit about 15,000 square feet of space. It will, of course, be diflicult to get so large an area assigned to us, but it is not more than we will need and it is worth while putting 1n a prompt application for it. The success attained by our exhibitsat the Hamburg exposi- tlon this vear affords present proof of the important benefits that result from well prepared exhibits of our goodsin Euro- pean markets. We have recently called attention to the en- larged sales of our fruits tuis year due directly to this exhibi- tion, and there is every reason to believe that the way having been thus opened for our products in that market the demand for them will increase as the consumers become familiar with their merits, America has for so long a time Jlooked to Europe for almonds, walnuts, raisins, prunes, oranges and all forms of fruit conserves that it mav seem a forlorn hope for us in Cali- 1lmnu to expect to find for our products of a similar kind a2 market in Europe itself, In this asin other things, however, it is the unexpected that happens, We have already found a con- siderable market there, and it is in our power by good manage- ment ard proper energy to largely increase it. In the recently published volume of consular reports for October there is one from Eugene Germain, Consul at Zurich, giving a review of the fruit prospects for the year in Central En- rope, in which he says: *‘There will be a rood chance to place American dried fruits, as well as green apnples, iu Burope this sea- son, provided our growers will put up choice stock only. They must keep small, inferior fruit at home. Transportation znd other charges being high, it will not pay to ship anything but the very best.” The lesson of sending abroad none but choic fruit, well packed, is one our shippers will promptly learn, and fortu- natoly our orchards and vineyards are not niggards in yielaing good fruit. In no other land is the average quality of fruit so high as in California, and we can afford to send large quantities of the highest standard fruit to the consumers of the old world without stinting the home market. The consumption of fruit is raplaly increasing among all civilized peoples. It is no longer regarded as a luxury merely. It is consumed as a food at all seasons of the year, and the de- mand for it is continuous. The market will take 21l the really fine fruit we can supply as soon as we demonstrate the fact that it is to California epicures must look for the best. That dem- onstration can be most easily made at the Paris exposition. ‘We must make there a tenstrike before all the world, ana the State Board of Trade has acted with commendable vigor in go- ing to work at once to cbiain room enough for us to show our- selves, R in California show that while land-owners of zll classes are doing well the reduc- tion of mortgage indebtedness has not been proportionally as large here as in some other sectionsof the Union. Asthe Farmer puts it: “Now that better times are here instead cf the mortgage-paying campaign which is under way in the wheat belt of the Central West, (hereis a disposition among California land-owners to employ their extra profits in extending their operations ratker than in paying off present incumbrances.’’ FARMERS AND MORTGAGES. ETURNS made to the Orange Judd Farmer by county recorders, bankers and farmers There is, of course, a reason for this difference between the methods of the Californian and the Eastern farmer in dealing with the enlarged profits which have come to him. In the East the depression was much more severe than with us and was of longer duration. The farmer of that section was almost crushed by it and hasnot vetrecovered tha: sanguine hopelulness which leads men to enter upon new ventures with a cheerful alacrity. His sole idea is to save what he has hold of, and he is paying off the mortgage on his land before he buys anything clse. The farmer of Calitornia, who did not suffer so much as his Eastern brother and who was a year ahead of him in recovering irom the depression, i, of course, much more hopeful of the future and feels encouraged to undertake an extension of his business. The general revival of industry throughout the State has also its effect in determining bhim to take this course, and as a consequence we are opening new fields and planting new orchards rather than settling up old debts, Notwithstanding this facty however, the payments on mortgages in California have been very large. In San Fran- cisco the real-estate loans of the savings banks were about §5,000.000 less on July 31 than on the corresponding date of last | vear. In the northern counties there has been an increase in the rate of payments on mortgages, in the central part of the ' State the returns are still more encouraging, while in the south the banks report payments as being much better than for the past three years at least. As one of the results of the inquiry, it is noted that the more strictly rural or agricultural a county is the better have be:n the payments on mortgages, other things being equal, All sections, however, report prosperity and a revival of the spirit of enterprise among land-owners. The new tariff has had an effect in the fruit districts, and many new orchards are to be set out or old ones extended. In fact the whole outlook is so bright that the Orange Judd Farmer heads the review with the title, “In the remarkable State of California,” and the facts re- ported justify the epithet. Los Angeles furnishes another victim to the literature of suicide. A Germar barop, after feeding his brain witn ideas as poisonous as yellow journalism and deluging his interior with liquid flame, gave the Coroner a distasteful job by emptying his revolver into bis stomach. Baffron literature might be less intolezable if its effects were confined to an occasional bank- rupt baron; but the trouble is that it carries its deadly faflu- ences into the American home, and is a menace to our repub- lican institutions. Altgeld’s latest political utterance deals Bryan ‘“‘the most unkindest cut of all.” He refuses absolutely to recognizs the Silver Democracy, and the Presidential boom of the prize orator of the Corn-State Agricultural fairs has atready become as a jest of the days that were, A FEW PLAIN TRUTHS, ERVENT hope exists that vellow journalism will soon cease to be so obtrusively obnoxious. Just now it thrusts its unclean presence upon the public notice, defying the common-sense of decency supposed to prevail among men and lift them into a sphere above that occupied by the vulgar pole- cat, the prowling byena and the deadly rattler. When creat. ures of a venomous or malign disposition, even though their character be indicated only by giving rise to an impulse to hold the nose in their vicinity, become aggressive they must be driy- ea out. The desire to shrink from the task is natural, but sull the duty must fall to somebody ; itis vain to bope that the in- serlopers will beat a voluntary retreat. So it happens that time must be devoted to the yellow journalist, who,while not ex- acily one of the ““varmints’’ mentioned, combines in propor- tions potent for evil the traits of all, This queer combination of shrewdness, stupidity and ma- levolence objects that its contemporaries do not shower upon it a series of bouquets for the manner in which it has “re:cued” agirl from prison. Itsview of the case is, of course, unfair and even ridicuious. No contemporary is sorry that the girl is out of prison. But every contemporary capable of thought does object 1o seeing a yellow journal pretending to_do what it did not do and stealinz from a brave man credit that is justly his. The Cisneros campaign of yellow journalism has from the first been a fraud and a farce; everyuody knows this. No wonder that in viewing the continued seil-praise of the Hearst- lings patience becomes exhausted and a great yearning that the curtain be permitted to drop on the bogus show of phitanthropy fills the land. Yellow journalism is happy on any sort of notoriety, and yet its belief that it can always thrive by the methods of the charlatan is based on a misconception of facts periectly clear to any one not poisoned by the atmosphere that gathers over a Hearsiling den as miasma above a swamp or unpleasing fumes about a tannery. THE COAST PKESS, The Mountain Messenger, published at Dow- nieville, Sierra County, appears in a handsome new dress, and is now & model of typographi- cal neatness, H. W. N. Pennimau has assumed the edi- torizl management of the San Audreas Citizen, which boasts of being the only Democretic paper in Calaveras County, and announces his intention of publishing *a paper that the pup- lic will want to read.” The Greater West, “a journal of education and politics,” has come forth out of Santa Cruz. Arthur A. Taylor is the editor and Isabel Hammel Raymond associate editor. The paper sadvocates bimetallism, and a broader and simpler public school education; and will labor to promote the material prog- Tess of the Western side of the continent. It has an attractive appearance, is printed ona fine grade of paper, and is iilustrated with photogravures. It contains ample evideuce of editorial ability and artistic taste. The various mills in Sickivou County, sup- plied with logs, are kept in operation day and night in filling extensive orders on hand. and tbe Yreka Journal says that “by the nid of ®ood electric light plants the mills can be operated nearly as well at night as during the day. Nextsummerall the mills will be better fixed for stiil more extensive operations, since iumber has aavanced in price sufficiently to make lumbering profitable, or pay enough to cover the expenses without danger of 1oss &s heretolore, when the mills were obliged to shut down. This shows what a littie tariff on foreign lumber will cause without any detri- ment 1o the community in general.'” Apropos of the fact that the great Murphy ranch is veing rapidiy subdivided into small tracts, the San Jose Mercury remsarks that “during a period which bas been marked by comparative siagnation in other agricultural sections there have been built up in tais county several large orchard communities on ranches which five years ago were devoted solely to the production of grain, and from which support was derived only by. the owners anda few tenants. To-day those ranches are covered by thousands of acres of fruit trees, well into bearing, and are occupieéd by hun- dreds of families who are contributing to the social, intellectual, moral and financial wealth of the county.” The Yuma Sun deplores the fact that the natural advantuges of that part of Arizona Territory are so little known, and directs at- tention to the importauce of the navigable river extending the entire length of Yuma County. “The Colorado, Norih America’s Nile, gives Yuma County a direct communica- tion with the Guli of California, with its world-famous fisheries and oyster beds, and an outlet to the Pacific Ocean. It sffords a weans of iransportation to and from tne rich mineral and agricultural section streiching aloug its banks north of the town of Yuma for 200 miles, where in an incredibly short neriod of time thousands upon thousands of acres of fertile lands, watered by canals from this same river, will be in cuitivation, and hundreds of mines will be giving up their golden store.” The enth tic movement on the part of cramento business men with reference to the beet sugar problem has stirred up a simi- larly progressive spirit in Stockton, some of the leading merchants of the latter city being deeply impressed with the results sure to flow from beet sugar culture in that part of the San Josquin Valley. The Stockton Mail urges organization and & thorough canvass among the farmers 1 get the scheme under way Oue capitalist has agreed 10 take the prod of 500v acres at $1 a ton, and this means, according to the Mail, that over $300,000 cash can be brought into Stockton in 1898, if the | city will only hustle for it. It is suggested that the live young men who made a brilliant success of the San Joaquin County fair again prove their publie spirit and executive ability by vushing along this sugar beet project. The Humbo'dt Standard s it is becoming more and more evident that greater profits can be made from rcdwood shingles than from lumber, especially in the Eastern trade. The redwood district is comparatively small and lies entirely in California. “Tue better times prevailing in wheat-growing sections of Cali- fornia will meke sn increascd demand for lumber, shingles and shakes, and our mill men should ‘hustle’ to get their share of this trade. But we again assert that the most promising fleld for & profitable market is to be found, principally for shingles, in the States east of the Rocky Mountains. If only the best grades arc snipped and pranded true to name, there is no reason why redwood shingles shou'd not fizd as good & market in the East as cedar shingles. But cedsr is establisned in those markets, while redwood haes not yet a gaed foothoid. If necessary, money should be spent by the shingle men 1o get a showing in tiose markets. 1f one firm can ship three millions & month to the East at a profit, there is no good reason why ten times, yes, fiity times that number, may not be sold in Eastern market San Jose has broken all its records in over- land shipments. The Heald of that city states that the total for the week ending Oc- tober 9 was 9,046,140 pounds, or & trifle over a million and a ha f pounds a day for the six days. Dried prunes led with 5,617,640 pounds, smashing the new record of the week before, when 5,216,990 pounds went forward, the heaviest shipments of any commodity during any previous wcek up to that time, fruit follows with 1,350,430 pounds, but de- spite these immense figures, was over 350,000 pounds short of the shipment of the week fore. This is to be expected, however, es the green frult for this season, with the exception of grapes and apples, has now about ali gone forward. Cenned goods rank third in the list, with 1,241,250 pounds, dried apricots fourth, 380,240 pounds, bringing the total shipment of apricots for the season up to §,029,605 pounds, 1,074,605 pounds more than was ever shipped out during any entire previous sea- sou; dried peacbes fifth, with 215,890 pounds, wihile there were aiso fair-sized shipments of dried pears and plums, wine, garden seed, leather, wool, asphaltum ana quicksilver. The total shipments of dried pranes for the season to lust Seturday nignht amounted to 19,678.015 vounds, and from what can be gathered irom shippers it would seem that not,more than a third of the season’s pack has yet been shipped. 1If this is true there must have been more than 50,000,000 pounds of prunes packed in toe valley tuis season. FOREIGN NAVIES. The Yashima, Japanese battle-ship, recently built in Eugland, left London September 23 tor home. The ship will call at the most prominent harbors, the last port to be Singa- pore. NEWS OF There is great discontent among the firemen in the British flagship in the M diterranean. Of 164 discharges during the past year no less than 137 were firemen. Three leading fire. men have been disratea and twenty good con- duct budges have been taken away. A battie-ship to be called the Vengeance has been ordered by the British Admiralty irom Vickers, Sons & Co. st Barrow-in-Furness. The design 1s trom Sir W. H, White, Dircctor of Nuval Construction, and the ship will have a length of 390 feet; beam, 74 feer; mean draught, 26 feet, and a dis placement 0i 12,950 tons, Emanuelo Filiberto, battle-ship, building at Castellamare, is to be launched during the present month. She is a sister ship to the Ammiraglio di St. Bose, recently launched at Veaice, ana is of 9800 tous displacement, cal- culated to steam cighteen knots. The side *armor is only of 93¢ inch maximum thickness, anda the turrets are of the same thickness. The maln armament consists ot four 10-inch, eight 6-inch quick-firing guns and 4.7 1apid- fire guns. A 92-inch gun burst Saptember 21 on board the British armored cruiser Galatea while at target practice off the Lincoinshire coast. Itis believed the mccident was caused by the premature explosion of a cordite shell. The muzzie was shattered, and oue portion of the guu was hurled some uce and burst lulo pieces. The flying fragments destroyed & whaleboat and other pieces ripped up the Qeck and demoiished one of the officers’ state- rooms. The loss of life was loriunately limited 1o one senman, who was terribly in. jured and taken ashore in & dying condition. The Thrasher and Lynx, torpedo-boat de- stroyers, had a very uarrow escape {rom total THE BLIND FISH OF MAMMOTH GAVE. Before the British Association for the Advancement of Secience at its recent meeting at Toronto, Canada, Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, an American, read a peper on the blind fishes of the United States, in which it was shown that beyond the bald fact that blind fishes existed in the Mammoth Cave, practically about them heretofore—or as the learned gentleman him- self :ex?ussed il—everyihing that was known about them ‘“‘turned out on examination to be not so. The things that “‘are so” about them, as revealed by Dr. Eigenmann's researches, never be" fore published, are highly interesting. Itappears that there aro three species of blina fishes known in the underground waters of the Centri underground wtercourses in the limestone sections of these States, and here the blind fish can be studied to advantage, though owing to the character of its habitat its pursuit and cap- ture are very aifficult. tates. There are several hundred miles of The species found in the Mammoth Cave is the most abundant and is about five inches. 1ts body is periectly smooth and the skin has no pigment, so that itis translucent and of a pinkish appearance. About the head are many cilia or feelers, which teke the place of eyes, though in spite of them the fish frequently run against the sides of the cavern. They have no enemies, and are devoid of the shyuess of fishes generally, so that they can be easily caught with the hand, if care is taken notto agitate the water too much. By its feelers it readily perceives any motion about it in the water, but no amount of noise disturbs it as it is devoid THE BLIND CAVE FISH-NATURAL SIZE. The above specimen was taken from the River Styx in Mammoth Cave, which crosses the chamber of the “long route’ some six miles from the entrance. This river is about 387 feet below the mouth of the cave, and is on a level with the waters of Green River, into which it is supposed 10 discharge underground. of ears as well as of eyes. Though absolutely blind it is not quite correct to say that the blind fish has no eyes. lived in the lig It has the rudiments of eyes, showing its descent from an ancestor that tand could sco as well as other fishes. Professor Eigenmeann made some highiy important microscopical sections of the rudiment ary eyes and compared them with sections of the eyes of other fish, finding in the degenerated eyes rudiments of all the main lay dition, of the celis in the normal eye, but in & very aborted con- For instance the crysialline lens is represented by a mere dot composed of but few microscopic cells. The optic nerve is even more rudimentary, so that there is no nervous con- nection between the aborted eye and the brain. : It s ebsolutely certain thut the animal cannot detect the slightest trace of light with its rudimentary eye, but Dr. Eigenmann has proved that it can sppreciate the presence of light in some other way. Its native caverns are as absolutely dark ss anything in this world can be, but when the fish is brought out into the light it seems to appreciate the presence of licht somewhat as a plant does. Sucn a sensitiveness to light may be a property of all animal bodies, but one that is overlooked in view of the highly developed sensitiveness which the functional eye has developed. &re devoid of pigment. 1o the same wey, though having pigment cells in its skin, they It has no need of pigmenteitheras & protection from the sun or the eyes of other creatures, but the fact of the presence of the cells shows plainly its descent from afish that had use for such cells, and with the sightless eyes they are proof of the evolutionary origin of the blind fish. Another siriking peculiarity of this fish, now brought out for the first time, is the manner of breeding. I:siead of depositing 1is eggs on the bottom of the water, the female conveys them to her gilicases, where they remain until they hatch, and where for some time the young take refuge. This is & most interesting circumstance, a result of condition and envi- ronment. Food s probably nct overabunaant in the dark underground waters, but the blind fish can thrive onscant diet. aquarium thout any food at ail. Professor Kigenmann has shown that they will live for two years in an Several living specimens from his squarium were exhibited to the members of the associa- tion and attracted much a'tention from the foreign zoologists. While the biind fish of Mammoth Cave present so many peculiar diversities from other fish, anotner denizen of the cave, the “grand-daddy-iong-legs,” found quite numerously near the River tyx and six miles from the mouth, have the same disgusting smell and to all ap- pearances are the same as their kind on the outside. destruction on September 29. They were out for a four days' instruction trip from Devon- port when the Thrasher ran on a rock at Dod- man pointand the Lynx ran into the Thrasher. The steem pipe on the latter boat burst, and four men were scalded to death. Subsequently the boat was towed to Devouport, where she was docked, and it was found tha: fora dis- tance of eixty feet from the bow the boat was practically wrecked aud the two forward boilers were entirely ruined. The Lynx was uninjured. Le Yacht, the French publication on naval mauiters in general, pronounces the French | battle-ship Massena &s the most formidabie vessel built for any navy. Not less than 4000 tons out of the availabie dispiacementof 11,- 994 tons has been given to armor weights, and her battery, which is very powerful, is so ar- ranged tnat e even guns can be fired directly ahead, estern and broadside. The Massena lacks two important essentials, however, in that she does not come up to the estimated speed of 17.5 knots, and the coal supnly falls snort about 250 tons as compared with ships of like dispiacement in other nevies. The Crescent, British first-cluss cruiser of 7700 tons displacement, arrived at Ports- mouth September 23 from Halifax, having made the passage of 2680 knots in eight days. The trip was made with fire under six boilers. During the first twenty-four hours only four bollers were used, giving & speed of twelve and a half knots. The avarage speed for the trip was fourteen knots. At her trial in May, 1893, the Crescent developed a speed of 18.6 knots, using all of her eight boilers. Her re- cent performance of & continuous sea speed of fourteen knots during eight days is 8 material reduction from her trial trip speed, and strongly indicates the unreiiability of trial speed figures when applied to actual service conditions. Prince Bismarck, battle-ship 1n the German navy, was launched September 25 at the Ger- manin dockyard at Kicl, her keel having been 1aid April, 1896. The ship difiers somewhat from Brassey's tables, and although length- ened 16 feet still keeps the displacement down to 10.650 tons. The length is now 393.6 feet. beam 67 feet, mean draught 26 feet3inches. The engines are of 14,000 horsepower, caleulated to drive the ship 19 knots under forced draught, and the cosl ca- pacity is 1000 tons. The armor belt 18 of Har- veyized steel 734 feet in depth and 113{ inch maximum thickness. The ship has two arm- ored decks, the uprer one being 1.9 inches thick. Ore peculiar feature about the ship is the great neight—32 feet 6 inches—at which theaxisof the heav; guns are carried above the water line. The battery, co:sisting en- urely of quick-firing guns, is composea of four 9.6-inch carried in turrets, twelve 6-inch in casements, ten 3 6-inch behind screens and ten 1.6-inch machine guns. The torpedo ar- rangement consists of six tubes, of which only thestern tube is above water. The armament is somewhat delayed, and the Prince Bis- mark is not like'y to be ready for sea until the autumn of 1899 PER-=ONAL. W. Sailes, a merchaut of Gonzales, is at the Grand. Rev. M. L. Zweizig of Portland, Or., is atthe Grand. Dr. J. L. Ord of Pacific Grove is at the Grand. C. H. Schiveley, a merchant of Oroville, isat the Grana. Dr. L. E. Cross of Stockton is registered at the Grand. J.D. Culp, the tobacco-raiser of San Felipe, isat the Lick. C. H. Schiveley, a banker of Oroville, is a guest at the Grand. H. C. Dorroh, & rancher of Pendleton, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan Colonel A.G.Hawes of London arrived at the Occidental last night. A. L. Levinsky, a Stockton lawyer, is among the ivals at the Grand. 0. B. Hardy, & mining man from Yerring- top, Nev., isat the Grand. Charies W. Kitts, a lawyer of Grass Valley, is at the Lick with Mrs. Kitts. Senator E C. Voorheis of Sutter Creek ar- rived at the Palace yesterday. Dr. Noble has returned to the city after two weeks’ vacation in the country. H. W. Monnastes, a prominent busmess man of Portland, Or., is at the Grand. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti, now a prac- ticing lawyer snd & member of the Code Commission, is in town from Jackson. He isstaying at the Lick. T. J. Sherwood, editor and proprietor of the Marysville Demoerat, is at the Occidental. Among the mining men recently asiembled &t tne Palace is John Kidder of Grass Valley; P. McFaul of Ukiah, treasurer of Mendo- . arrived at the Grand yesterday. Turner, & pioneer hardware dealer of Nevada City, is stoppiug at the Lick. Williem McKinlay of Nevada City, superin- tendent ot the Providence mine, is at the Lick. H. W. Monnastes, a prominent business man of Portland, Or., is a late arrival at the Grand. R. K. J. Aden, the wine merchant of Va- 1lejo, is at the Baldwin, accompanied by Mrs, Aden. Eugene 8. Ives of Pheenix, Ariz, returned to the Palace last night from a trip to Los An- geles, J. B. Cleveland,a mining man from Coro- nado, with interests in Mexico, is & guest at the Grand. J. B. Cleveland of Coronado, who is inter- ested in oil wells In Los Angeles, is registered at the Grand. E. P. Dunn, lessee and maneger of the Ar- lington Hotel of Santa Barbara, is & guest at the Occidental. S. T. Bleck, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is in town from Sacramento. He has rooms at the Lick. John R. Tregloan, the mining operator of Amador City, is emong the miners that ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. Henry Disque of Rudeo and Henry Labner of Colfax, two prominent mining men, ar- rived &t the Palace last night. Colonel Hitchcock, general agent of the Union Pacific Raliroad, returned last night from & month’s business trip East. A. C. Broyles of Chico and W. E. Duncan Sr. of Oroville arrived at the Lick yesterday. They haye come here to attend the convention of the California Miners' Association which apens to-day at Odda Fellows’ Hall. Among the mining men at the Grand ere Joseph L. Stenger, a superintendent at Ne- vada City; L L. Myers, a superintendeat at North Bloomficld, and J. P. Malleville of Grass Valley, meanager for a French syndi- cate. J. Maloney and Frank H. Maloney, sons of W. H. Maloney of New York City, accompa- nied by E. W. Brown,aiso of New York, arrived at the Palace last night from the East. They are racing men and have come here for the Ingleside season. Joseph Stutbs, president of the University of Nevada at Reno and brother of J. Z. Stubbs, third vice-p-esident of the Southern Pacific, arrived here last night on a visit to his brother, D. D. Stubbs, secretary of the Occi- dental and Orien:al Steamship Company. — CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17.—Mrs. J. M. Braly and daughters sre at the Arlington, et bl THE GARD:=N Or Y HEART, The garden of mv hea't nis 1o more roses; 4 hey bio med for you—it was for you they faded, And since for you 0o more 'he liitie gate uncloses None enteis there. ALis! And none perceives how it is rank and shaded. Sometimes I fancy some nale Iilles zrowing, Some bianched jasmise-siar salot perfume giving. That might have lingered there, perchance. with- oul my knowing. How could that be? Alas! Ofali my flowers there no blossom living, Because there was s day when you In strayin: Ublsiched my wicker, smied, and Tave me greeting, Tdeemed you pleased, and pruned asd planted, saying, “>he lingers here.” Alas! Summer Lias passed away with our last meeting. Nay, we have met since then, in what strange place Hizhways and barrens where no My flower showed for you in vain graces— You cuil d them once. Alss! ‘The garden of my Leart has no more roges. —Black and White. —_— PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. bud uncloses; fair scents and John Bowie Strange Camp of Confederate Veterans of Charlottesville, Va., has perfected a plan for the ereciion of an equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson. C. A. Smith of Smithtown, Mass., has a looking-glass that was given 1o his grond- father's great-grandfather in 1716. It isina California | good state of preservation and is s good glass, though of small size. Mr. Smith has alsoan old apple tree that has reached the age of 150 years. 1t bore apples last year, aud hasa jew on it this year. C. H. J. Taylor, who was Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia under Presi- dent Cleveland’s administration, has been elected dean of the Morris-Brown Coilege, & negro institution in Atlanta. By way of commemorating the seventieth birthday of Adolpn Menzel, the Berlin Acad- emy of Plastic Arts has founded a scholarship of the annual value of 500 marks, for which students of painting or sculplure may com- pete. Alderman Backer of Brooklyn 1s a philan- thropist, also a real estate dealer. e hasof- fered to the first family that is blessed with twins in his district & house ren? free as long as they want to occupy it. Tothe first family that registers triplets he offers to give a house andlot. Triplets are now regarded as an un- qualifiea blessing in the Alderman’s district. Selectman Job Pickett of Greenfield, Mass., exuibited a queer product from his furm the other day, which was a genulne freak. was a Siamese twin novelty in pigs. The an- imals had two distinct bodies, two heads and four pairs of legs, and were manifesily two complete organisms, except that nature had formed them inseparably united side by side. William H. Brown of Jewett City, Conn., has succeeded in raising a blue pond lily, which he has in bloom at his home, raised from seed which he planted early in the spring in & place as near their native haunts as possible. There are a dozen more buds now slowly coming up under the water. The flower is very protiy, with its deep biue petals and deli~ cate perfume, Professor Dronor, the famous physiologist and the principal of the French Dumb Insti- tute, has just published a report upon the mysterious recovery of speech of Gaudard, the man who was dumb for twenty-three years. Professor Dronot states that Gaudard’s vocal organs were normal, but that being paraiyzed owing to some rcason or other he became dumb. As he grew his muscular system re. covered, and by violent effort to speak he regained the power of speech. 5 NUGGETS OF HUMOR. A man can hardly fail to get rich when Le fails to get rich.—Roxbury Gazette. “Yes,” said Miss Giltington, *the Count is such ashy man! Buthe has proposed to me at last. It was very amusing, for e wus dread- fully embarrassed.” “So I understana,” replied Miss Cayenne; “financially embarrassed.—Washington Siar. Kind Citizen—I cannot imagine anything worse than going to bed hungry for want of the price of a meal. Dismal Dawson—You got another imagine comin’. How about not havin’ even the price of the bed?—Indianapolis Journal Tinkle, tinkle, little bell, Uson the haudle-bar you dwell; Up above the tlickering light, You tinkle, tinkle, every night. With a voice of tinkling mirth, You warn pedestrians off the earth; Eut ere long there will be snow, Then you will not tinkle so. —Chicago News. The little girl was telling what she had learned at school. ““To-morrow’s lesson will be about the pass- ive volce,” she said. You know what thatis, don’t you, Colonel Stilwell?” “I can’t say that my recollection on the sub- jectis exact,” he replied. “ButIshould infer thatitis whatyou use when you happen to have a po’ hand.” ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. TERRY—J. W,, City. Reel B. Terry nephew of the late David S, Terry. is & . City. The steamer , and the Mariposa THREE STEAMERS—P. F Australia was built in 18 and the Alameda in 1883, WEIGHT OF CArs—P. F. S, City. The large cars of the San Francisco and San Mateo line weigh about ten tons; the smaller ones weigh about seven tons. LicENsE—C. R., La Grange, Cal. The law of this State says: “Every person who at & fixed place of business seils any goods. wares or merchandise, wines or daistilied liquors (exe cept agricultural or vinicultural productions ‘when gold by the producer thereof), must ob- tain a business license.” PROMISSORY NoTE—A. O. 8, City. In the State of California an action to recover on any coutract, obligation or liability founded om an instrument in writiug executed in tha State must be commenced within four years; ifexecuted outside of the State the action must be commenced within two years. HALLOWE'EN—M. B, City. Thls department has not tne space to give all the details of Hallowe’en, but if you will go to the reference room of the San Francisco Free Public Li- brary and eall for Chambers’ Book of Days you will find therein a very full aud intereste ing account thereot, and also an account of the games played on’ that night. PROTEST—A. O. City. Protest in law is the solemn declaration on the part o f the holder of a bill or note against any loss to be sustained by him by reason of the non-ac- ceptance or non-payinent as the case may be o1 the bill or note in question, and the calling of anotary to witness that due steps have been taken to prevent such loss. A waiver is the reiinquishment of a known right. *Pro- test waived” means that the holder of a note will not protest. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend’s.* e €PECIAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. S LA g Watis—Got any notion of tackling golf? Potts—Me? No. I mever was any good at learning langueges.—Indianapolis Journal. —_— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Tecthing with perfecs success. 1t toothes the child. softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhweas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and 85k 108 MI3. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25cabottia —_——— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry. sots and mild. being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round- trip tickats, by steam. ship, {ucluding ffteen days board at the Hotel ta Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 pecday. App-s 4 New Monigomery s-reet. San Fraaciseo, or A W. Bafley, manager Iiotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. SR G ey Bess—I'd hate to be in your shoes when your husband sees the bill for your new hat. Ne i—0t course you would, dear. No. 1 shoes would pe awfully uncomfortable on No. 8 feet.—Chicago Nows. —— XEW TO-DAY. Thininflesh? Perhapsit’s natcral. If perfectly well, this is probably the case. But many are suffering from frequent colds, nervous debility, pallor, and a hun- dred aches and pains, simply because they are not fleshy enough. Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- liver Oil with Hypophos- ./ phites strengthens the diges- tion, gives new force to the nerves, and makes rich, red blood. Itisa food in itself, 50¢. and $1.00, all druggists, SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York, | ~