The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, M NOVEMBER DAY, The ;\VOT\:D‘AY, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. ‘\'O.VVEMBER 22 1897 Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ..517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) ig served by rs in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cMits a week. mall $6 per year; per month cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. ... ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........ 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE -Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. = : Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. Larkin street 339 Haves street; oven until 9:30 o'clock. 615 open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untl 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open tilt 9 v'clock. RATHER QUIET, BUT PROSPEROUS. S the holiday season and the new year approach the Iull A in trade becomes more marked, as it This is well exhibited by the steady decrease in bank clearings, which showed a gain for the whole country last week ver cent against 9 per cent for the preceding week At the sa does every year. of only 2 and 22 per cent for the two previous weeks. me time commercial advices from the East report a pronounced stimu- | lation in the retail trade due to colder weather snd the usuai Christmas demand. Many manufacturers are unable to fill all their orders and others unwilling to receive any more, which augurs well for the new year. One of the best signs of the times is the diversion of vast ameounts of capital from speculative to productive enterprises. This makes speculation dull, but gives a marked stimulus to manufacturing and kindred pursuits and begets general confi- dence in the furure of traae. The foreign export trade of the United States continues re- markably larpe. The following figures taken from the bulletin ned by the Bureau of Statistics show the value of the exports of domestic products from the United States for the ten months ended October 31: Bread- stuffe, $185,083,707; cotton, $140,7 50; mineral oils, $19, 523; provisions, $110,376,006; cattle and hogs, $30,475,917; total value for the ten monihs, 903; for the ten months end- ing Octuber 31, 1896 $47 Indeed our foreign trade is increasing with such strides as to seriously alarm the continental countries, which find them- selves being slowly supplanted by all sorts of American manu- factures and the cdifferent commercial bodies of iss several European states have recently applied themselves to the task | of discovering some means of checking the inroads of America on their trade. Their efforts will be fatile, however, for as long as we turn out superior articles of manufacture we wili con- tinue formidable rivals for the patronage of the world and there are no present indications of any apathy in this direction on our part. It isa trait of the American that if ever he gets his foot well planted anywhere he generally succeeds in keep- ing it there against all comers. Failures fell off azain last week, those for the whole country being 235, against 273 for the previous week and 30¢ for the same week in 1896. The money market continues easy and collections are up to the average, except in two or rhree | Southern States, where the refusal of planters to sell their cot- ton at ruling prices restricts the circulation of funds. this proceeding shows financial strength among the planters, it is by no means a bad sign. The leading changes of the week are the higher prices for wheat, corn, oats, hides, leather, shoes and several arti- trade. The iron business continues in good shape, the consumption of pig iron being the lergest ever known. Wheat exports from Atlantic ports show a heavy in- cles in the oil crease over the preceding week, those for the week just closed | g. with one exception, the heaviest in the history of the trade. There are few mew conditions worthy of note in the local market, The grain trade continuesdull and lower prices are recordea for 2ll the minor cereals, except barley, which is a shade higher. Hay is lower and flour has been marked down 20 cents per barrel. The great staples, such as wool, hops, pro- visions, dried fruit, raisins, hides and leather, are quiet, though some sales are being made all the time, and there is no decline in prices of any consequence. The financial condition of the farming community shows much improvement; so much so that the interior banks are now loaning money on ranch property, and country collections are fair in most lines. We nave now fully entered on the usual dull season, which begins about this time and generally continues until along in January or the first fortnight in February. The winter buying has practically ceased, and the movement of merchandise from now on to the ovening of the usual spring demand will probably be light, unless this vear is different from all others. An Iowa man accused of murder advances a plea so frankly unique that it deserves going on record. His alleged crime also included arson. The burning of his siore generated a gas, the gas got into the system of the defendant, fuddled his menta) paris and created a desire and furnisned at the same time an impetus to get away from there. Hedid not mean todisappear; it was the wicked gas that sent him. That gas constitutes one of the greatest discoveries of the age. Asa motive power it has never been-equaled, Why, after this single dose of it, the inventor did not stop until he had reached the Kiondike and a detective bad difficulty in stopping him even then. According to the latest speech of the Kaiser a man is a bet- ter soldier for being a Christian. Perhaps this is true when the soldier fights voluntarily and for principle. But when he goes into the army because the laws of his country force him there, and his auties consist in parading to the glory ot a war lord who makes whole brigades stand at attention while ke fires long, bombastic harangues at them, Christianity would sadly hamper the soldier’s natural tendency and right to swear. Because Blanco, the successor of Weyler, has liberated cer- tain prisoners, this being in accordance with the policy he announced at first, yellow journalism once more brays, “We did it.”” The fact that yellow journalism had nothing to do with the matter 1s known to everybody, but the braying pabit has become fixed. = There is, of course, a desire to know who poisoned the people at Dixon. Yet what's the diffcrence?||if found out there will be no resu!t more important than the satisfying of this curiosity, which is after all a volgar emotion, chiefly remarkable for power to fill a courtroom or morgue with a morbid throng. The passing of a society leader is no trivial cffair, and they who realize its importance will basten to lay & flower on the Greenway grave. More than this, there will be a general wish that the late monarch of the dance, 1ke herder of debutantes, the censor cf clothes and style, may speedily find a better job. An Alderman of St. Paul has been sentenced to six years in prison for accepting a bribe. This sort of thing by becom- ing general will tend to rob municipal office of the attractions it offers to a certain class of statesmen. One of Durrant’s lawyers is missing, but the rest seem to be cheerfully working a double shift. The noble ambition to make the jaw against murder of no effect ia a powerful stimulant to endeavor. But doubtless had Governor Budd gone into specifications he could bave named a number of things not to be grateful for. Market and Third streets, 8an Franciseo | f the Treasury Devartment | But as | A MENACE TO AMERICAN LABOR. RGANIZED workingmen in Los Angeles at a mass- O meeting held in that city, adopted resolutions declaring “that the workingmen of Los Angeles and Southern .| California enter a most earnest and energetic protest against | the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States ; on the broad ground that it would in no way redound to the i try.”” Furthermore they resolved ‘‘that we urge upon the | worlsingmen of the United States everywhere the importance | of arising in peaceful assemblage and protesting against the g‘ annexation of territory zooo miles from our fair land with its | 100,000 objectionable population.” These resolutions express the intelligent judgment of or- ganizad labor in California, where thz labor problems involved | in the issue of Hawaiian annexation are best understood. The | annexation of islands where work is carried on mainly by coolies would be a menace to the white labor of the Pacific | Coast. It would open a way for the coolies to flock to Cali- | tornia, and, even if excluded by stringent restriction laws | rigidly enforced, they would still in the islands compete with the workingmen of California employed in the sugar and fruit | industry. | Senator White, who made the principal address at the meeting, quotad from an official report of ex-Minister Stevens, | who, while representing this country at Hawaii, was the | prime mover in the annexation scheme, the statement that it | would be impossible to profitably conduct the sugar plantations ‘on the islands without cheap cooly labor. This statement Trerutes the often made assertion of the annexationists that if Hawaii is admitted to the Union it will immediately become a ! land of white labor and fair wages. It shows that the move | for annexation is made solely for the purpose of opening the | American market absolutely free to the products of cooly labor } in the islands. | The mesting was notable not only by reason of the resolu- | tions adopted and the addresses made, but by the character of | the men who took part in it. It was held under the direction | of the Los Angeles County Council of Labor representing 5,000 | organized workingmen, and was attended by an audience | limited only by the capacity of the great hall in which it was { held. The president of the evening, H. E. Martens, is one of | the most influential labor leaders in the State, the speakers | were Senator White, ex-Governor Sheldon and Cyren E. Fisk, State organizer of the Typographical Union, while the resolu- tions were moved by F. B. Colver, editor of the Labor World. It is not to be doubted that other labor organizations will | follow the example set by the vigorous organization in Los | Angeles. Th: workingmen of the country are beginning to understand the menace to their welfare embodied in this | scheme to open the Unit=d States to the cheap labor now em- ’p]oyed in the islands and their protests will be heard in Con- gress as soon as the coming session begins. Organized labor is opposed to the whole annexation schemz. It neither desires to rob the Hawaiians of their government, nor is willing to permit the coolies to rob the American of his wages. Warden Hale seem- to be sensitive concerning the conduct of affairs at San Quentin, and perhays this is only natural. However, a convic! might do much worse than write an essay | on penology, the offnse for which one has just been sent to the jutemill. At least the essayist in this instance knew something of his subject, & roint in which he possessed a dis- tinct advantage over most people whof venture into this field of letters. It is gratifying to realize 1hat although Mr. Hayman has withdrawn from this city he neither tore down the Baldwin nor took it back with him. Also that the sun still rises and sets here with its accustomed regularity, notwithstanding | that such conduct on its part must seem to Hayman to be clearly reprehensible. Tue new superintendent of the City and 'County Hospital | evidenily is a person who does not believe in aelay. It took | him only two weeks to et into hot water, this being ahead of | the record. That be would get there sooner or later there was | never reason to doubt, as the long line of precedents leaves no other course open. If the gentlemen who seem likely to get the Baldwin and California really do so the public will have nothing to regret, and in fact may ressonably indulge in some congratulaiions ‘ These gentiemen at least kKnow how to keep in touch with their, | is a jay town. | | i ROE e | RESIDENT ELWOOD COOPER, in the address with | Pwlnch ne opened the Fruit-Growers’ Convention at fac. | ramento, stated some of the problems that confront our fruit-growers, briefly indeed, but with sufficlent force to impress their importance not only cn those engaged in the fruit indus- try but upon the general publie. His review of the conditions of the industry, while not made from a pessimistic standpoint, shows that the outlook is not altogether brizht, and that there | is needed no little energy and wisely directed co-operation on the part of the orchardists to overcome the difficulties that con. front them. One of the most important of these problems is that of pro- viding a wider and more economical distribution of the prod- ucts of our orchards. Mr. Cooper points out that this problem was first discussed as far back as 1885, and that since that time the subject has become more and more important until it is now what he calls “one of great alarm.” No solution of the diffi- culty has yet been found, and Mr. Cooper declares that under | present conditions the fruit industry does not pay anyihing like 80 well as the growing of sugar beets. He therefore sug- | mests we should discourage further tree-planting and apply our | energies to the sugar industry. No one will question the wisdom of Mr. Cooper’s argument in favor of developing the sugar industry, but his assertioa that fruit-growing is becoming unprofitable in California will be challenged in many quarters, not pay are either badiy tended or have been unwisely planted. In the great fruit-growing counties there bas been no slump in the price of orchards offered for sale, or even in the price of lands suitable for orchards. The orchardists are evidently wel} content with their profits, for very few are trying to sell at a sacrifice, and a great many are planting new orchards. Mr. Cooper himself pointea out an avenue by which our fruit can attain a wider and better distribution if a proper care is exercised in keeping the avenue open. That is by the en- forcement of the pure-food laws. At the present time our or- chard products have to compete with adulterations of all kinds. Vast quantities of so-ca!led fruit jellies, jams and preserves are manutactured from glucose or other adulterants, even in this State, where thousands of tons of good fruit go to waste for lack of market. If we can enforce a pure-food law and make known to the world that California preserved fruits are pure, genuine and wholesome there wiil be n~ aifficulty in getting a good market for all that we can furnish, even if our tree-planting coes on until the orchard area of the State is ten times its pres- ent extent. i In the meantime Mr. Cooper has done well in dirccting at- tention to what can be accomplished for a community in devel- oping an important industry by wisely directed governmental aid, I: was by the fostering aid of the Government that the farmers of Germany were able to build up the sugar industry tosuch an extent that Germany has now a valuable export trade in that commodity. The United States imporis about $100 000 000 worth of sugar every year, and of that amount about $90,000,000 is brought from Germany. It is folly on our part to send abroad for suzar which we can raise at hore, but there is no reason why we should stop tree-planting on that account. Some day large capital will b+ j invested in preserving fruit as is now in refining sugar. In the hands of sagacious men who understand the value of manufac- turing a good article and keeping up the standard, that capital will make a market 1n all parts of the world for our fruit and, moreover, it will be able-to handle it on terms that will vield a profit for all concerned 1n it. honor, the credit or the bettering of the condition of our coun- | Orchards in California that do | THE COAST PRESS. C. A. Gwinn, who for the past ten years has owned and edited the .Garfield (Wash.) Enterprise, hus disposed of the paper to Messrs Brown Scnick and D. H. Gwinn. That wide-awake paper, the Grass Valley Uniom, has enlarged from four 10 eight pages. Its success isdue to genuine merit, and i evidenc: of the fact that Grass Valley knowsa good thing when it sees it The Los Angeles Herald has moved into its new home, and it now boasts of an estab.snment worthy of its patronsandof its own ambition. The Herald ranks to-day as the leading Democratic paper of California. Tehachapi will soon revel in the possession of & newspaper, and the name of the publication would seem to indicate that it willbe & lively affair of the sort thatitdoesn’t pay to monkey witn. It will be called the Buzz-Saw, and Gray Oiiver, formerly of Bakersfield, will supply brain power to keep the thing whizzing. The San Luis Obispo Breeze has provided itself with a new press and stereotyping appsraius and contemplates improvements that will render the publication in merit second to none between 8an Jose and Los Augeles. The Breezeisa progressive paper and its enterprise is evidently bringing in golden returns. The Concord Courant is the latest addition to the interior press. Its editor is Hart A. Dowuer, and he proposes to run it as a non- partisan paper, every political party, however, being allowel the use of its columus st space rates, cash in advance. Mr. Downer isa capable newspaper man, end the Courant will doubtless prove an im- portant tactor in the upbuilding of Concord. The Los Angeles Times states that the proprietors of the new citric | acid factory at North Outario are quite satisfied with the resultof prospects up to date. They are goiug tosend Esst to buy necessary mecninery for the works which ciuno: be obtained in Calitornia. This concern will be the ouly producer of citric acid in the United States. The supply now comes from Sicily in barrels. The business men of British Columbia are bestirring themselves with the object of attracting thither as much of the spring Alaskan trade as possible. The Vicioria Zimes is preparing a large Klondike edition, which will bs issued duriug the coming week. The news- papers of Seattle and Tacoma have already sentout boom editious, and the Puget Sound cities generally are industriously adverusing themselves as points of supply for Arctic-bound gold-geekers. Arcadia, Wash,, has a fish-curing establishment in which 1500 pound of Saimon are cured daily. It 1s on the Big Skookum K.ver and was started in asmall way three yea's ago by Wiliiam E. Kin- dred. He began drying salmon as an experiment and now employs ten men. The Olympian suys the process has been brought to a bigh state of perfection, and thatit would seem from the samples tested that a greater degree of excellence “could neitner be had nor desired. Itis as firm and deiicious as any food one could select. Mr. Kindred says that the market for the productof the salmon-curing works seems unlimited. He has found sale for much of itat 25 centsa pound in certain of the Eastern cities, when times were much harder than now. Heanticipates no difficuity in disposing of this season’s product at remunerative figures.” The Yreka Journal anticipates that unless the Klondike excite- ment causes a very lurge migration during the next couple of years, the census of 1900 will show from 25,000 to 30,000 population in siskiyou. *The mining fnterest s the principal incentive toward bringing people here,’” says the Journal, “and tue mining industry is stillin its infancy, tne ground being merely scratched over com- pared to the extensive works and deep excavations in oiher counties of the Sierra Nevada range along the eastern boundary of the Siate. The lumbering interest is also immense, supplying the lower country with ail kinds of superior building material and ihe best sugar pine in existence for finishing and ornamental work. In addition, the farming business has come to the front on account of the good prices for grain, which this county can raise in great sbundance, when the prices are suffic:ent to allow a margin over freight rates for the loitg haul toseaboard. The stock-raising and dairying business also brings agreat amount of money to our county, while many industries are constantly springing up to provide the home demand for articles heretofore almost whoily imported.” The Mayor of San Jose has Inauzvrated a movement for the exten- sion of the municipal limits. The Herald sxys that West San Jose, for instance, has availed itself of the city’s sewer system, and if the resi- | dents of thatimportant subarb vote to be taken into the corporation they may retwin that connection; but if not, there is nodoubt that they will be promptly cut off, as the city proper is tired of giving val- uable privileges for nothing. *“No little proportion of the crime and disorder in this community prevails in the district outside the eity limits, simply for want of police protection,” says the Herald. *‘The extension of tne limits would supply that want. The suburbanites also get no small benefit from our lignt masts, and it is proposed to lower those in the outskirts of the city so as to no longer light our neighbors if they continue to dodge the expense. It will readiiy oe- cur to any one on considering this question that other economies would result from extending the city :imits. It is always cheaver to do business on a Jarge than on a small scaie. With a rigid limitation of the rate of city taxation and the advantase of oparating the city gov- ernment on larzer lines, {t may reasonaoly be hoped that the tax rate may in due time bs brought below the $1 lmit.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. A sheathed cruiser of 2452 tons, named d’Estres, wes launched at Rochefort October 27. She is to staam 2035 knots, will cost $1,041,- 000, and will be completed early in 1899. Germany proposes to build a drydock at Dares-Salaam, a seaport in Africa, twenty-five miles south of Zanzibar, and $2,000,000 will | be asked from the Reichstag for that purpose, Russian naval appropriations for the present year amount to 89,555,420 roubles, of which 6,000,000 is for new ships and 15,500, | vatrons and are not controlled by the idea that S8an Francisco [ 000 dor unproyementa o Shs ¥ isa FoncckiavRL station. Russia has forty-one schools of navization slong the coast of the empire. Theseschoolsare notall subyentioned, but they were assisted in 1895-96 from the Russian treasury to the smount of 55,000 roubles. A round bottomed vessel, to teach gunners to fire from a rolling platform, is being built at Portsmouth dockyard. There have already | been platforms ashore arranged to roll in a manner to imitate the motion of a ship a1 sea. The triple-screw cruiser Guichen was iaunched at St. Nazaire October 25. This ship is of 8277 tons and 24.000 horsepower, with a calculnted speed of tweniy-three knots. The battery consists of twen{y-six 4-inch quick-fire guns, six 5lz-inch rifles and ten 1.8-inch guns; the total estimated cost, 1s $3,059,725 and her complement. numbers thirty-five officers and 590 crew. The armored cruiser Russia had her full-power trials July 18, and made 20 knots over the measured mile. She isa triple screw vessel, and with eighty-five revolutions developed 15.697 horse-power for the port aud starboard engines and 2750 horse-power for the center engines. The ship was built at 5t. Petersburg, and 15 of 12,130 tons diplacement. The calculated speed was twenty knots with 14,500 horsepower, and both speed and power were considerably excceded- Electric light and power are to be introduced in the Portsmouth dockyara, and the Admiralty has authorized the building ot a structure 150 feet by fifty feet at a costof $500,000, to contain an electric lignt plaut and motors to drive much of the machinery hitherto worked by steam. Gas alone for the yards and barracks now ¢75's $15.000 a year. An extension of sixty-two ucres is being added to the yard to be utilized for parade grounds, store houses and other purposes. The idea of inclined turret armor, which was proposed by Chief Constructor Hichborn some seven years ago for the mouitors and other armored vessels in the United States navy, has been adopted | in the Briuish navy on the Canopus class. The ordnance bureau in Washington opposed the innoveiion and the Carnegie company pro- fessed inability to make the armor and as a resulta very important element of strength lacking in our armor-class has now found favor in Great Britain, from which it is iair to assume that the armor manu- facturers in that country do nmot dictate how the vessels are to be protected. The British cruiser Powerful arrived at Simons Town October 30 and was to leave for Singapore November 9. Before leaving Englaud the ship passed through a series of progressive speed trials, import- antand inieresting in their character, showing the requisite horse- power for certain speeds. With 2256 horsepower a speed of 10.59 knots was maintained; 3735 gave 12.49 knots; 5452 gave a_speed of 14.22 knots and with 8344 horsepower a speed of 16.21 knots was renched. It required 25,000 horsepower 1o make a speed of twenty- two knots, or as shown by the foregoing figures it took practically ten times the horsepower at 10.59 kuots to double the speed. Two new cruisers in the French navy have undergone very suc- cessful trial trips. The De Chayls, built at Cherbourg, laid down Marcn 13, 1893, and launched Novembar 10,1896, haa her trial Oc- tober 27 iast and made 2014 knots, whereas only’ 19! knots were an- ticipated. Herengines, of 6000 horsepower, were built at the Gov- ernment establishment at Indret and the boilers are of the Lagrapet &’ Allest water tube type. The other cruiser, Cassird, was also built at Cnerbourg, laid down Octover 22, 1893, Iaunched May 27, 1896, tried October 25 last and made three-quarter knots more ihan ex- pected. Her engines were built by contract. Both vessels are from the same design and are 3952 tons displacement, 325 feet 6 fnches in length, 44 fset 11 inches beam and 20 feet 6 inches draught aft. They carry six 6.4 inch quick-fire, four 8.9 inch quick-tire, ten 1.8 inch and eleven 1.4 inch rapid-firing guns. The Cassard was completed one month ahead of the estimated time. THE MODEST *“EXAMINER.” With its characteristic modesty the Ezaminer refrains from giving itself due credit for its really unexampled enterprise. It remains for THE CALL to inform the San Franciscans, therefore, of the degree of yellowness to which its contemporary has attained, The Ezaminer told its readers merely & sort of half-truth in the announcement of 1is intention to publish “Azora,” a novel by Theo- dore Durrant. The management of the Mission-street paper has in wind the presentation of a series of interesting articles from the pens of men as celebrated and .as able as that noted litterateur, W. H. T, Durrant. There is, first, a lyrical ballad on “Filial Love,” written expressly for the Ezaminer by that renowned poet, Thomas Flennelly, formerly of Red wood City, but now of San Jose. A short ech by A. Lueigert, the brilliant essayist—once sausage-maker—of Chicago, 111,35 to foliow. - Mr. Luetgert’s subject is one which this areat man hould be able to present with the most charming felicity. The title self issufficie guto rouse interest in this coming masterpiece, cven if it were not written by so justly famous a man. The Eznm‘iner f!?‘: proud to b able to present to its readers in the near ruture, “It Is No Good for Man 10 Dwell Alon: by A. Luetgert. But there is better to foilow. That greatest of Ensiisn humorists, whose nom de plume 18 Jack the Ripper, has consented to furnish the Ezaminer with 8 nunil; ber of original jokes never before published. These triumphs of 'l: will appear i1 the colored supplement of the paper, which, for this occasion, will be printed entirely in vellow, verging upon & deep orange. The Ezaminer has gone to considerable expense in getting up this superb edition. It has a spirited rival in the Police Gazette, which attempted strenuously to outbid its sisier journal, but the Western re- corder of crimes triumphed ; so these ciassics of modern fiction will appear exclusively in the Examiner. The price of the paper will be the same as neretofore. At present it is_impossible to oublish & complete menu of the chefs d’ ceuvres making up a most luscious literary banquet to be set before Fzaminer reader-; gnt apartiai list will enable the pubiic to realize the delectable dishes in store ana to join with THE CALL in singing the Ezaminer's praises, for the yellow caterer is all too diffi- aent, too timiJ, too modest to let its own light shine. TO GET AT KLONDIKE GOLD. For over two months, says the Chicago News, John Gustavson has been laboring with & pencil and sheet of whole paper in his endeavors to make a drawing of a boat which will run over ice, water or snow and reach the Klondike ficlds in time to allow for digging some of the go!d before it has all been 1ugged eway. Now that he has completed JOHN GUSTAVSON’S PLAN FOR A KLONDIKE CRAFT his drawing and s confident of success his wife has practically knocked his scheme in the head, for she firmiy refuses to give her consent to his request to mortgage their home at 3604 Seeley avenue in order to raise the necessary money to cowplete 1.8 contrivance. Gustavson is an oid sailor and for years has been employed by the Illinois Steel Company. He claims to have knowledge of the icy re- gions and says he is sanguine of success. According to the drawing the boat has a fiat bottom and has two sets of runners, with a water paddle on each side. On paper the proposed boat looks like a large box and but for the two sails it would not be easily recognizea us any- thing that could be balanced on water. iu running over ice the paddle wheels will be equipped with spurs to drive the boat along. According to the present plans the craft wili carry an engine and will have capucity for about ten men. Nothine but hills or thick woods will prevent the inventor from reaching the Klondike gold, he says, NEW NON-PUNGTURABLE TIRE. For many years the inventive mind has been turned toward the construction of a tire that could not be punctured, or was non-punc. turable within reason. Some of them have contained armor com- posed of steel scales; others contained fluids which closed up the holes made by tacks, nails or other things, but for some time nothing that is absolutely new has been patented until last week, when a tire with A=HOLLOW INTERIOR. Be=CyinoRricaL case & PRFIER MACHE C=ouvrcr Tuas ax Fusaer an inner tube of papier mache wes placed upon the market. It is sim- ilar in size and outward appearance to the ordinary tire, and, it is claimed, has the snme resiliency. It1s not pneumatic in the sense of containing air under pressure, for its resiliency comes from the elasticity o the papier mache core, which in addition renders Lhe tire uopuncturable. So the inventor claims. The advantages claimed by the inventor rre that the material is of such a nature that it can be furnished for the inner tube at less ex- pense than an inner rubber tube, that it has resiiiency with smail weight, that 1t is impervious to water and thatit is punciure-proof. “THE CALL” AND ITS HOME. Stockton Record The 8an Francisco CALL is about to move into its elegant and towering mew quarters in the Spreckels puilding. Thisisa proud abede, and THE CALL will celebrate 1ts advent into such a preten- tious home by the issusnce of a souvenir numbar, remarkable tor the quality of its contents ruther than bulk. THE CALL deserves its new career so rick witl promise. It has played an important part in the history of 8an Frauc.sco and the Siate. It maintained iiself for years as the champion of the best and hignest interests of the best people. It flourished in spite of the enmity of all its newspaper competitors, whose schemes of plunder it frequently balked. It was never a blackmai.ing sheet and enjoyed tae confileace of business circles. Because of this it exerted n wider and stronger influence with a re- stricted circulation tha: d its more sensational rivals. But now 1t is in the possession of a wealthy man, who hes pro- vided it with all modern equipments and accessories and arranged for 1t the finest home of auy paper west of Chicago. The papcr has improved wonderfully since the recent change in management. It has grown strong edilorially, supplies a better news service, become more pronounced, more fearless.. Its influence is generally for the goud, for the hetterment of its readers as weli as itself. It is not given 1o demagogism and dares (0 combat popular error. We belicve that it will become & conservative force in the Siate, politicaily and in- dustrialiy. Its proprietor has maniiested an unexpected disposition to reach out in journalistic enterprises along legitimate and laudable lines. An instance of this is the offer to provision a reifef expedition to Cape Barrow to rescue the ice-imprisoned whalers. This 18 an act to be commended and that will enlist the admiration of the whoie peo- ple. Itiscertainly more praiseworthy than a project to break open ioreign prisous. Tne Record cannot agree with THE CALL 1n all its undertakings. Farticularly are we opposed to the siand iinas tuken regarding Huwaiian annexation; but we are quite willing to concede that it is zealous inali it undertaces. Itsentryinio its new home should en- iitle it to the congratulations of the whole Ca iforuia press. The State needs THE CALL and a wealthy proprietor behind it to counter- act the yellow uunge given to California life by the tactics of tbe Examiner. FORGING TO THE FRONT. Eureka Standard. The San Francisco CALL, under ils p-esent management, is forg- ing to the front as the great journal of the metropolis. Like the Chronicle and Examiner, it 0w has miliions behind it, and it seems 1o be the determination of the proprietor to make it the leading moruing daily of the coast. Its Eastera news service has been in- creased until it now has the most complete record of the world’s daliy dofngs of any paper west of Chicago. Mr. Spreckels seems able to ful- fill his promise 10 make THE CALL the greatest newspaper on the Pa. cifie Siope. 1f the puper shell avoid sensaiions and confine itself to relinble news and clean, high-grade literature, the proprietor will realize his laeal and lead all other journals fa the estimation of the people. FLASHES OF FUN, “You have basely deceived me; you told me when you married my daughter that ; on had money coming to you.” “Well—I meaut the money I would get by marrying her.”—De. troit Free Press. Mother—Your schoolmaster can’t be such a mean man as you makeout. Inoticed his son has all the toys he can possibly want, Tommy-—Why, those are the ones his father takes away from the other boys. —Boston Post. *That man dces not seem to have got credit for his public ser- vices.” “He doesn’t need it,” replied Sena tor Sorghum. “He has made enough to be able to pay casn.”—Atlanta Constitu tion. Bill—I read in the trade journals that “the noise of the hammer is heard in the South.” Bill—Yes: I guess they've got on to the fact that Croker is down there, and they are beginning to nall things down.—Youkers States- man. *You better not go boat-riding with sister,” said Tommy Jones to his sister’s beau. “Why not, Tommy?" “Cause I neard her say she intended to throw you overboard soon.”—Oh io State Journal.. Oh, T don’t know, you’re not so warm; and see.” remarked the depleted can of dog miner’s thermometer. “No, but you’re not s0 many, either; coun t yourself and see torted the thermometer.—Cincianati Commereial Tribune, take your temperature biscuit to the Klondike " re. Weary Willie—De milk inspectors hev hired ol’ Slobsy Slocum ter test milk. Sunset 8ims—Is it hard work ? Weary Willie—Not very. Slobsy simply drinks a littls out uv each can, an’ ifdere’s enny water in it it simply puts him right in ter con- ‘vulsions.—Judge. PERSONAL C. W. Fischer, a druggist of San Jose, i8 at the Lick. Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is a guest at the Grand. L. W. Fulkerth, an attorney of Merced, i3 registered at the Grand. W. F. Brokeman of San Jose is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. .) N. Michael, & merchant of Woodland, is late arrival at the Grand. E. A. Cutter, an Arizona mining man, ar- rived at the Russ late last night J. M. Waters, wife and son of Monterey are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, George A. Sterns of Oakland, Or., a whole- sale raiser of turkeys, arrived yesterday and is at the Lick. D. Harmon of Nevada City, superintendent of the California mine, in Nevada County, is a guest at the Lick. Protessor Charles B. Wing of the depart. ment of engiceering in Stanlord, arrived at the California last nignt. —_— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—At the Palmer House—C. C. McLean, wife and boy, Los An- geles; Vietoria—Mrs. R. E. Avory and daugh- ter, San Dteci—____ CALIFORNIANS> IN CHICAGO.! CHICAGO, Nov. 21.—At the Palmer House, C. C. Clark, San Francisco; Miss E. Walden, Los Angeles. — NOTES ABOU I NOTABLES. John L. Stoddard says in his new lecture on Norway that the most interesting sight in Bergen is the graveof that marvelous Norwe- gian violinist, Ole Bull. Mr. Wilson, the Secretary of Agriculture, will make the principal address at the opening of the negro Agricultural College at Tuskogee, Ala,, on November 17 The late E. C. R. Walker of Roxbury, Mg who left § 0,000 to various charities, w: seldom seeu st public gatherings and had but one hobby, that ot flower culture. Professor Runge, the famous German astron- omer, is in this country on a Government mis- sion. Inafew monthshe expects to prepare a report on the progress of astronomy and as- trophysics in the United States, The German Emperor hasdecorated Dr. Men- del Hirsch, son of the late Rabbi 8. R. Hirsch, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and director of the Hebrew Realschule there, with the Order of the Red Eagle, third class. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have taken a great liking to Lieutenant Niblack, the naval at- tache of the United States Embassy in Berlin, and frequently invites him to the palace, where they discuss naval matters with the greatest informality. BOHEMIAN CLUB EXHIBIT. It Will Be Held on December 1 and Will Remain Open One Week. The artist members of the Bohemian Club are going to have their art exhibit on December 1. The little difficulty be- tween the directors and the painters of that association was all amicably settled and at the meeting on last Saturday the date of the exhibition was decided upon. All the pictures contributed by the artists must be received before 6 »r. m of the 29th inst, and a list of tne piciures they intend 10 send must be submitiea by next Wednesday. The artists tbat were appointed on the hanging commitiee were Stanton, Robinson, Yates, Joullin and Bloomer, and those on the decorating committee are Stanton, Breuer, Yates, Raschen and Joullin. Circulars will be sent to the artists immediately, and it is assured that all wili respond. The exhibition will remain open one] week, and during that time there will be iwoe ladies’ days, namely, Wednesday and Thursday, at which time .he artists will entertain the many guesis. Gordon Ross will draw the design for the cover of the catalogue. Raphael Weill offered the artists any materials that they might need to decorate with, which they gladly accopied. The time to get the pictures ready is short, as the directors had informed the members that there would be no exhibit, but nevertheless the artists have never doubted but what they would have the regular exhibit when matters were ex- plained to (he art committee of the club. 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