The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1897. MONDAY.... A BETTER FEELING IN TRADE. 5 i RADE was better throughout the East last week. This is | noteworthy, as an improvement in business seldom occurs at the close of the year. It was thought that the country had entered upon a period of dullness which would continue "~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor, to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communicatior PUBLICATION OFFICE. ......) eots, San Francisco Tel EDITORIAL ROOMS MAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by towns for 15 cents a week. nts. ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.......... 908 Broadwey Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK CFFICE .Room 188, World Building D. C.) OFFIC! WASHINGTON ¢ 5 C. €. CARLTON, Correspond t. BRANCH OFFICE 27 Montgoméry streat, corner € open until 1 clock, 615 th and open A TROPICAL EXPERIMENT STATION. ds Horticultural Club 1 on the part of the ent station in 2 committes was appointed by the club bout the establish- Red to & propo spical exper a recent meeting of the attention was directed 1ment to estat Gove; isha Southern Florida, an nd me s for bringin in Southern California. the action of the 1e worthy of ¢ sport nd the horticultnral comme: g on n Californ Trade p and co-operate with towns n various fru t-growi: the Re nd: n on the to secure favorable ac should be amended to the ex- 1,and not the southern section ds in working for the proposed ng that tends to increase or diversify the frmt atter that concerns all portions of people of every s 1 rected enterprise tims ago we made e trees to the arid n he of th hern counties favor- the count tion an Southern at three bunko men are It , been caught red-handed. to apvear. Why are iness of skin- And people would the yolice courts thus Ar livered his soul of an opin- e se him, but they can been made to a that the yo omen who en- ed the church with Du ut w the it in the cide, and succeed te of hi in 1t them. ool they think 10 presampiion to re- When these teach- they wil in the youngsters. ies of their own ey seem to now. pers giving an account of recent inventions es for canhl work constitute the most important s for the current mon be foun , and to particularly inter- itornia they wi he new mac portion of the dre nes will be of greataid ina d other river and har- bor work we shall be called upon to do in the near future. The principal article of the seriesis that which na at has been rates nplished by the new devices on the great This paper deals w Ttsets vhat may be achieved by new inven- tio! It confines itself to statements of work now being done and shows what the machines do in actual operation. It fs, therefore, the be:t kind of promise for the future nce its promise comes under the guarantee of deeds performed. 1t will not be necessary to go over ali the variety of the re- cent devices now in operation on the Chicago canal to show the vast advantage they confer in work of the kind. who know what has been the experiencs in the United States with public work and how seidom it occurs that any sort of construction is finished at a cost not exceeding the original estimates, the value of the n ma the Chicago enterprise will be ampl accc h results. forth no specul chines brought into use in demonstrated by the fact tnat these machines have made it possible to complete the ltions of dollars less than was computed by the Government engineers, The most conspicucus of the new appliances are the huge machines for removing earth from the canal and dumping it on e banks. Thnese are of such a size that it is said they appear from a distance to be cantilever bridzes spanning m'c channel rather than mers chove ling earth, Bome of 09 feet long, and are capable of sustaining a weight of filteen tons and carrying it to the banks Luundreds of feet away at a rate of 500 cubic yards every tea hours. lossal cantilevers are poi are un s for hanc them a These co- upoa a pivot swinging freely, and can be directed with no more ed t0 make a twist of the wrist. Tne contrast between thia machine and the old way of dig- ng canals by shovels in the bands of laborers istypical of the vance made in canal construction all along the line. Itis calculated that improvements made in explosives for blasting have alone saved in the work of the canal upwards of $7.000,000, ind there are many other inventions noted hardly less impor- tant in their contributi California ha der thy « than is requ h control muscalar labc a to economy. much use for these new machines. She needs them in the work of deepening her rivers, in draining the marshes around her baysand in her harbor work. Her main interest in them just now, however, is due to the assurance they give that the coustruction of the Nicaragua Canal is an enterprise economically feasible. The Chicago drainage canal has in fact been an epoch-making event in the history of such enterprises, 2nd in the future canal construction will be under- :ken on ascale that a few years ago would have been'regarded an impossibility. Fresno has a female borsethief in juil. It is hardly likely that she will stay there long, but alas, even the spirit of gal- jantry so prone to make easy the way oi the fair transgressor can hardly turn her locse before yellow journaiism shall have fashioned her a halo. A final squelching of the nickel-in-the-slot machine would be a great triumph for Police Commissioner Gunst. The sturdy ion in which he has sought to expel from our troub ei midst the evil of gambiing has justly excited the admiration of all benolders 517 Clay street ..Riggs House will be tavor- | | quent, and yet oner is permitted to | is strange that no attempt | purpose of let | To thase | until the spring demand set in, but from some ccuse or causes not yet explained, business is picking up at the very season wken, according to all precedent, it should be quieting down. As far as can be ascertained at the moment it is the heavy export demand for American products which is restimulating the national commerce. The export of wheat from Atlantic ports is very lively, and is accompanied by an advance in prices. That deficiency in the crops all over the world, except in the United States, liks Banquo’s ghost, wiil not down, and the most powerful bears in the land cannot keep it down. Every now and then it bobs up :erenely and prices bob up in sym- pathy, The ex;ort of cotton has also improved of late and is now large, which is another important factor in the currenttrade revival. Corn, too, is golng out of the country in large quanti- ties and this in turn helps matters along. And last, but not least, we are shipping more manufaciured pro lucts, especially machinery, out of the Eastern seaports than ever before. It !s natural to infer that it is thisremarkable export move- ment which is reviving business. Itis so thought on Wall street, at any rate, and Wall street generally sizes up situa- tions correctly. The improvement is shown in a gain of 13 per cent in the bank clearings, against 2.5 per cent for the preced- | ing week. The failures for the week were 236, against | the week before, 206 for the corresponding week in 1896 and in 1895. The great staples are more than holding their own. Wool, which has recently been dull, is more active and prices are firmer. This is due to the improved demand for woolen goods, consequent upon the colder weather throughout the East. The demand for iron as 2 whole shows no abatement, though sev- eral individual lines are quieter. The tendency in wages is upward, which is being favorably commented upon in com- mercial centers. The New York stock market exhibited in- creased buoyancy at the close of the week, though railway shares were neglected. On this cosst condilions remain about the same as last | week., The feature was the advance in wheat, accompanied by | increased trading on call and greater activity on shipping ac- count. But the other cereals were dull and rather weak than otherwise. 1f the rise in wheat continues, however, they will probably recoverin sympatby with the governing cereal. Wool has also been dull, but it, tod, will doubtless do better again if the improvement in the East keeps up. Provisions are stiil quiet at unchanged prices. The hop g out of first hands at prices whicn | yield good returns on the investment. Beef and pork continue steady at the quotations which have ruled for some time. ed uit and raisins are as dull as ever, and it is almost impossible large lois, though - the feeling in raisins has lately been orted firmer. he crop outlook, though of course vague at thlstime of Thelight rains | received Lave enabled the farmers in the centraland | northern parts of the State to sced large areas, with the reason- | | | | ! | | crop has teen slowly pas i | the year, is more than favorable up to date. thus able expectation of getting good returns from their crops next | The southern portion of the State needs mere rain, Present stocks of the principal farm staples indicate a pretty | eneral clean-up before the next crop comes forward, hence | the outlook on this score is flat:ering for fair prices in 1898. In fact, s the opinion on all sides that the forthcoming year will be one of the most successful for a long time. | year. 2 | Alger can have the proud con:ciousness that he did everything be could to prevent tue beginning of work at San Pedro. The residents of California appreciate this | fully, and it Huntington is not & monster of ingratitude Le will let A r know that his efforts were worthy a good and faithful rva nt of the people. SURPLUS CASH IN KANSAS. PLEASING and somewhat surprising indication of pros perity in Kansas is disclosed by the announcement that the bankers of the State have been called upon to advise farmers what to do with their surplus cash, It bas been so | short a time since the calamity howlers were assuring the peo- ple of Kansas that no farmer would ever have money enoug to pay his debts, and that bankers were S least Secreta Noi, howeve | | locks, seeking to | reduce debtors to panury, that the story of a farmer with more | money thar he knows what to do with going to a banker to ask | | advice as from a trusted friend rounds like a fairy tale, and re- ! minds us that the new era has wrought ancial revolution in the conditions of the country. | ‘The Farm News of Springfield, Obio, in publishing a sum- mary of the counsel the bankers have given to the farmery, through the medium of the Kansas newspapers, says a majoj ity of them advise first the payment of farm debts, so as stop interest; and second, the avoidance of wheat-raisin, the exclusion of other fsrm industries. Another point vankers insist upon is the value of improved homes. T | urge upon the farmers to make iheir home surroundingzs nj | comfortable and more beautiful, on the ground that b houses and better living for the iarmer and his family will in the long run, just as surely as an improvement in the hol ing and feeding of live stock. The point in the advice which has attracted mwost attentio isthe warning against an extensive planting of wheat. As onel of the bankers puts it farmers “should not let dollar wheat ) tempt them to their own ultimate destruction.” The advice is to “stick to cattle’’ for the reason that there is more profit in selling hay and corn in the form of beef than in seili | | 5 them as | raw material. Itisthe opinion of the Farm News that this ad- vice is equally applicable to nearly all the farmers in the country as it is bty no means certain that the high wheat prices of this year can be obtained in 1898, notwithstanding winter wheat has not started out in a way to give encouraging hopes for the harvest of the comingseason. Whether or no the advice given by the bankers shows the best use that can be made of surplus cash in the hands of farmers is a question that eacn farmer must decide for himself. Tue points in the matter that are of interest to the country at | large are that Kansas farmers have passed the calamity stage | of howling about hard times and demanding hat money, and ere now talking business with bankers about the investment of | surplus funds every dollar of which is as good as goid. The rumor that a murderer has been lynched by fire down in North Carolina has the saving grace in all probability of not being true. Butit is saddening to think how some people, when they get a chance at a telegraph wire, are over- whelmed and carried away by an impuise to lie. A WELL-WON VICTORY. HE controversy between the California Jockey Club and Tlhe Calitornia Owners’ and Breeders' Protective Associa- tion has been settled on terms that constitute a vic tory for Charles T. Boots, who made the fizht for the associa- tion, and who was for a tume deprived of his badge and ruled from the tracks of the ciub. The victory is complete in all essential particulars. The ! Protective Association continues its existence, Mr. Boots re- mains president of it, and yaet his badge has been returned and his horses are admitted to the tracks of both the California and the Fac fic Coast jockey clubs. The settlement of the controversy on such terms is a fortu- nate one in every respect. As THE CALL has pointed out the | issue involved between the contending parties was fraught with danger to the racing and horse-breeding interests of the State, and if an amicable arrangement had not been reached might have produced here results similar to those which have bean so disastrous in the East. As the danger now seems to have passed and peac? is re. stored on a basis fair to all parties it is not worth while fighting the battle over again. All is well that ends well, ana the ending of this certainly promises well for all concerned. The victory won will prove beneficial to the entire horse industry of the State and. particulariy so to the patrons of the turf and the friends of what has been called “the sport of kings.”' We con- gratulate Mr. Boots upon his successful fight for the rights of the ownersand breeders, and the jockey clubs upon an agreement which restores to their tracks a man who is so much esteemed by all true borsemen in California | Gazette is A credit to Martinez. | € { lished. | for THE COAST FRESS. R. H. Hewlitt has succeeded H. C.Cree as editor and manager of the Pomona Beacon, which becomes a Democratic paper. Tne Beacon is a bright little journal, and has done agreat deal toward attracting favorable at tention to Pomona Valley. An illustrated hollday edition of the Seattle Times will be issued December11. It will contain twenty-four pages and will be replete with matter descriptive of the State of Wash- ington, and especially of the Puget Sound country and its leading city. The Portland Tribune nOW 8PpPEars as o morning paper, with a complete telegraphic service. It declares its intention to “‘talk, work, fight for the masses of the people, re- gardless of party or politicians,” and believes that Oregon’s chief city offers an ample fleld for that kind of a paper. The Yuma (Ariz.) Sentinel has just celebrated its twenty-seven(n birthday, and it takes oc: casion to observe that,in common with the people of Yuma County, it is entering upon “an era of development the extent of which- has never been witnessed, perhaps never im agined, in this section of Uncle Sem's do- main."” The Contra Costa Gazette has undergone a changa of management, the mew editor atd publisher being G. E. Milnes. The paper will advocate the same political creed as of old, but it promises that its “Republicanism will be sharp, unmistakable and fervent.” The It is a well- printed and very readable pager. The Hanford Sentinel has undertaken to hold us exhibit in its offices during holiday It is determined to prove to the people of Kings County that mo better oranges are grown than are produced in their favored sec- tion of country. The majority of the Kiugs County people, it would appear, are noc yet fully alive to the great possibilities of their region in the metter of the cultivation of citrus fruits. Sausalito rejoices over the prospect of a [TAMPING DONE WITH GOMPRESSED AIR. An army of 200,000 men is kept busy constantly at work upon the roadbeds of the rail- roadsof the United States. The importanc: of this work may be judged from the fact that thesa men have about 580,000,000 ties to look after, and their labor alone custs the railroad- nearly $70,000,000 a year. These are the section men. Approximately, there is one section man employed for each mile of track. A gzeneration ago, when the heaviest locomotive did not weigh more than fifty tons and a freightcar load was ten tons, a good dirt roadbed sufficed. To-day, with 110-ton locomotives tearing over the roads at sixty miles or more an hour, with trains of Pullman cars or hauling PNEUMATIC TIRE SURFACING MACHINE. freightears with loads of from 60,000 to 80,000 pounds each, the strain on the track and roads modern street railway. A franchise for it has | alrendy been applied for, and the Sausaiito | News understands that the parties at the pack of the scheme sre well supplied with coin. | The motive power, 1t is understood, will be | compressed ai ihe N “With this | improvement Sausalito will step proudiy to | the front, It offers more attractions thau any | town on the bay, and its only drawback has | been the lack of chenp and ample facilities for | getting over ihe hillside roads. When this | rond is in operation the population of the | town should double inside of six months.” Last Fridey was the anuiversary of the dis- covery of San Pedro and the Los Angeles Ez- press suggests that, as the bay was destined to Lecome the great harbor of the metropolis of Orangeland, the day ought to be celebrated | in the future by that city’s commerciat bodies. ““In 1597 Sebastian Vizcaino, with three ships, sailed irom Acapulco, and, crossing the Gulf of Californie, sailed north, and on the 13th of November of that year anchored at San Diego, aud on ihe 8th hind sightea four islands which he called Cuatro Coronados (the four Corona- dos). On the 234, 25:n and 26th of November | they were near San Pedro, They named one | island San Clemente on the 234, the feast day | of that saint, and another Sania Catglina, on the 25th, and on the 26th an Pedro Bay was nemed after San Pedro of Alexandria, whose feast the Catizolic church celebrates on that | day. The Sacramento Pee is urging upon the people of Sacramento County the importance of voting for the bonds to be issued for the construction | of the highway from the capital city to Fol- som. The election takes place December 4. ' The Bee says: “Certainly the farmers who, winier after winter, hive at times been un- | sble 1o enter this city with thelr produce, | should be the first to champion it. And most | certainly no farmer should oppose it simply | bzcause he may not be on the line of the road o be built in the coming year. Kor, if this project is defeated, it wili be years snd years to come before the farmers of Sacramento County can get relief Irom the roads which now shame and disgrace them. But, if this road is built, other roads from all other sec- tions of the country, converging into Sacra- mento as into a common center, wiil foliow as surely as tne nigit succeeds the day. The workingmen, particularly, should vote for these honds: for it 1s stipn tract tuat the road is to mento labor.” has owner 200 ray least milaage, the ensien Tough the best eo s of auy route to reachadeep | and sain harbor. The engineers of the com- pany have unloubtedly looked over the coun- try or the report would not hive been pub- | That our town is now small and ob. scure and our harbor in course ol construc- | tion, will not deter observant, far-seeing men. Tney will see the formation of the countr the advantages of the harbor and the | possibilities for capitai and enterpris. | This is the consummation of our long hoped east and west raitroad. Itwill give us a transcontinental railway direct. The route | from Salt Leke to Port Harford is through a country of great mineral resources and of ag- ricultural and grezing capabilites of 8 fair order. The iron, coal, salt and sulphur of Southern Utah are of great extent and rich. ness, and silver, gold, lead, copper, borax, | sodaand other mineralsalong the entire route | aresufficent to engage the | abor of hundreds | of thousandsof people. The most direct route to our harbor would be either by the Cuyama | or by Walkers Psss of the Slerra Nevaas, but by whichever way the road may come San Luis Obispo will practically be the western | terminus, San Luis Obispo could have no | rival between San Franeisco and Los Angeles. A midway port and commereial center of two nundred miles each way would make it one of the most importaut localitiss in the Swte.” e NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. France has ordered 200 torpedos from the Whitehead Company, Eagland, to be deliy- cred at the earliest possible date. A drydock for the dock yard at Kiel has been contracted for at a total cost of $2,147,500, and to be completed in five years. The Pomone, third-class eruiser of 2135 tons, butlding at Sicerness since December 21, 1896, was ready for launching on the 25th of this month. Oue of the longest to ws on record is that of the floating dock from Shields. Eag land, 1o Havana. It was towed 6500 miles, the long route being to take advantage of the tirade winds, and the time occupied was fifty-aine days, the dock arriving at Hovana Novem- ber 6. Munoz Gamere, Chilean torpedo-boat de- stroyer of 800 tons, and 30.42 kuots specd, has recently gone through & series of trials, demonstrating her utter uselessness. The principal trouble was with the torpedo launch- i tra bed is something which an old railroader never thought of. One-hundred pound steel rails have replaced the old iron 56-pound ralls, stone rondbeds have replaced those of dirt, and ties are put only about half us fur apart as they used to be. With all these improvements section men are constantly at work keening the track in proper shape. When the depressions are found the rails are raised by forcing earth or broken stone under the ties with tamping irons. This meehod is crude, nnd there are many objections o it. One of them is that it i.- volves the breaking up ot the bed of each tie disturbed. Now an inventor comes forward who Proposcs to do the work with compressed air. peditiously that a saving of more than ¥10,000,000 worth of time can be effected every year. The machive, says the New York Suu, cousists of a Root blower driven at the rate of per- haps 800 revoiutions a minute. It is set on top of one rail, and has two small wheels on which it can be trundled along the rail likz & wheelbarrow. When itis to be used a lever clips it fast to the rail. Attiched to it is a hose about twelve feet long, ending in a metal feeder for the broken stone, which has a hopper a the top, where the stone or other suitable ballasting material is shoveled in, and a bent end at the bottom, which is put under the ties to direct the stream of filling. In using it none of the ballast b:tween the ties need be re- moved. A shoveltul is removed at oue end oi the raised tie until the beat end of the hopper tube can be poked under, and_then the filling material is blown in snd packed tight by the machine, Experimental machines were keptat work nearly all summer. sometimes on the Hudson River Railroad tracks and sometimes on those of the New York, New Haven and Hartford line. As a practical result, the reports say that a Erugru»: of about 8! feet an hour can be mude for each man empioyed, while the reilroad textboois say that by ‘the ordinary methods frow 2!5 to 4 feet an_hour is the best that can be done. It placing new ties itis claimed that its work is equally ahead of the older mothod. crashed into the Decoy, !ying astern. Eoth i boats were serionsly damaged. As the Lynx and Thrasher are still laid up four of the six | destroyers of the Devonport flotilla are now disabl Decoy, collided at Devonport Harbor Nover- ber 8. Tne engineer on the Ferret mistook the signal “full speed astern” for “full speed ahead,” with the result that the Ferret PERSONAL. T. Hirose of Los Angeles is at the Cosmopol- itan Hotel. Dr. W. D. Roagers of Watsonville is at the Oceidental. J. D. Culp, the tobacco-grower of San Felipe, | is at the Lick. H. Levitt, a Grass Valley merchant, is stay- ing at the Lick. Sheriif Milton Besse of Santa Cruz is at the Grand. Mr, and Mrs. John Woltsk!ll of Los Angeles are at the Grand. H. sheridan of Elko, Nev., is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Every southern harbor of any consequence | the south of Eugland is now provided edo attacks. Lich narrow e 1as i1s boom, and each of these booms nted with it & boom-defense vessel, Iy an old gunboat. In time of peace vessels are in charge of naval pensioners. his scheme of torpedo defense was devised snd begun Lwo years ago. in County | 1 | | | Baldwin wi:h Mrs. Stefn. Walter Mills, a mine-owner Gulch, is registered at the Lick. B. L Johnson, & horseman from Chicago, is a recent arrival at the Baldwin. Combined army and neyy maneuvers are about to be undertaken in Italy. The effzctive strength of the navy, which is now , 000 men, is to be increased to 31,000 by caling in the reserves. The maneuvers will extend over | one month, and sixty-two vessels of various clusses, besides sixty-five torpedo-boats, will participate in the affair, which will fnclude an attempted landing upon the Tuscan cosst. The Russian battle-ship Gaugoot, which sank in the Gulf of Finland during firing practice about three months ago, i3 to be raised. A Swedish salvage company has taken the contract for 950,000 roubles, about §4 000, and as the ship lies in seventeen fathoms r the task of raising her will be a diffi- cultu The sinking of the Gaugoot was due 1o bad workmanship on the hull, and ight bulkheads were an illusion. Eeacquence of this accident the admiraity pcmined to thoroughly test all bulk- aw ships before fitting for service, 8 completed compartments with 1op, thos provirg the strength { the bulkhe: It fs stated Augoot w t bersteam sMantly going whether the on a cruise. from Grub the Lick with his wife and chiid. N. W. Moodey, Tax Collector of County, is registered at the Lick. C. H. Sinclair of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey is at the Occidental. District Attorney Carl E. Lindsay of Santa Cruz is a recent arrival at the Grand, Professor George Kriehn, of the department of history in Stanford, is at the Palace. Governor Budd came down yesterday from Stockton and 1s making a short stay in the city. Samuel McMurtrie, the railroad contractor of San Luis Obispo, is & late arrival at the Palace. Fresno few aays. Marion Biggs, Jr., who owns orange groves | and other real property near Oroville, is stay- iog at the Grand. William H. Cornwall of Honolulu arrived at | the Palace last night en route from New York to his island home. H. W. Leonard and C. M. Manby of Boston, | Mass,, are among the recent arrivals at the | cosmopolitan Hotel. Bloss, a real estate agentof Atwater, s charge of the Mitchell estate prop- erty sales, is at the Lick. John V. Clarke, presidentof the Hibernia | Bank of Chicago,is a recent arrivalatthe Palace. Miss Clarke is with him. J. baines, a capitalist oi Ottawa, Onta Canada, sccompunied by his wite and daugi- ter, 1s Tegistered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Charles A. Piercv of Chicago, auditor of the National Linseed Oil Company and of that company’s railway car line, is at the Palace. Dr. A, E. Oshorne of the Home for Feeble- Minded Children located at E!dridge, s at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Osborne and by Dr. Albert E. Osborne of Thermalito. imates for the navy for hleted and will shortly be They provide for | 3,056,000, an iu- over the present year. w ships is #20,400,000 walrs. Sixty-four vesscls ter construction, and a 1'l be completed, accord. ithin six yenrs, embrac- ypes: Eight battle-shipe, i, four first-class cruisers, and three third-class eruis- s aviso, ten torpedo-boat Peagoing torpedo-boats, and Piass torpedo-boats. While a fient is visible under the new gement of the navy, the cost of | ps is still greater than in England, ips Charles Martel, Charle- nd Gaulofs are admitted to cost from per cent more than simiiar vessels in i navs. CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO. CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—At the Auditorium An- | nex, Jacob Wallner and wife, San Francisco; | Great Northern, C. N. Sheffer, San Francisco; 0. C. Sullivan, Los Angeles. SONG. [Modernized version.] Home thev brouht ber warrior dead She nor wept nor uttered cry. All her madens, watching, said, “she must weep or she wilt die. THE LATE JAMES wm. GETCHELL. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The life of the late James M. Getchell was so replete with interesting incidents, and his devotion to the principles in which he believed so conspicuous, that his death should not be unobserved, He came from a highly respect- able family, which migrated to America with Willism Penn. He studied law under Thomas Corwin of Ohio and S. P. Chase, afterward Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice. For some time he was the poiitical manager for Mr. Chase, whose intimate and beloved | friend he remained uutil his death. In 1871 'l N | be engineered and bore a very counspicuous The centenary of the birth of Thomas Haves | part in the effort to nominate that distin- Bayley was celebrated recently at his birth- | guished patriot for the Presidency. place, Bath, England. This song writer is still | In his early manhood. when' it required remembered by a few popular ballads lika | Zmirflghnhud:;:ehflx ‘:c:;'}‘.f \';10"1‘“"!:“0, ll:}- GRS - » | Getchell bee A onist, an ull:ll i:h‘e::;i’::‘:’h;’"”“ the Troubadour” | /o \vag among the very foremost of those who e undertook the defense of the fugitive slave Mlle. Mark Twain is what the Paris Figaro Among mhcrlcmehrtled causes, he manag: % £ the defense of # black woman named Margaret calls the daughter of Samuel L. Clemens, who | Garner, who, to preserve them from slavery, is studying music in Paris. It says: “The 5 very beautiful voice of this young woman of | killed fior mulatto chiidren. Hs was a mem- ber of the first Republiean convention ever 18 will some dey make her as fascinating on | held in the United the stage as her father is in Jetters,” Rose a purse of eighty years, “You're not in it, by his wii ! Like summer tempest came her toars, She sobbed and sobbed tiil she was (11, —New York Press. NOTEs ABOUT NOTABLES. Isanc H. Clothier of Philadelphia, who re- cently purchased in Europe the beautiful | painting, ““A Quaker Wedding,” has pleced it | on exhibition at Swarthmore College, and it has been hung in the col lege parior. tates. He wss long and | intimately associnied with Rutherford B. Hayes and with General W.T. Sherman, one of whose brothers married s oniy sister, Mr. Gladstone expects 10 spend part of the | ever he i3 likely to be absent from home for coming winter in Cannes, where he will be the guest of Lord Rendel at Chateau Thoren, Itisnoied of the aged statesman that when- any time he Jikes to to take his owa books and writing materfals with him. He has a considerable colleciion of paper knives, mk- stands, etc., gifis from admirers. The knives are nearly all very large. Several have ivory blades and are mounted in massive silver. The Earl of Harringin is 1o be counted in the list of British peers who are not above deriving an income from trade. He is the owner of a iruishop at tne Trafalgar Square end of Whitehall, which he has dubbed Elvaston, sfter his castle in Derbyshire. Its | windows are vlacarded with the frank | anuouncement that the fruit is “from our own gardens.” Wnen theshop was first opened the costers tried to break up his business. They used to gather aro 1nd it with their barrows, crenting so much disturbance that tho police had to interfere. The result was a splendia advertisement for the Eivaston shop, and its profits at once increased 150 per cent. ing tubes. The boat was built by Lairds, Bir- kenhead, lnst year. Two torpedo-boat destroyers, the Ferret and Coucuis and colds cured with Low's hore:.ound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 San In 1860 he came to Californta, and was a special sgent of the United Stetes Treasury. Twice, as I am credibly informed, he wes of- fered a Federal judgeship on this coast, but in each fustance declined on the ground that heinrended toreturn 15 the Eastern States, In 1872 he was sppointed a Registrar of Bankruptey by the late Judge Oiden Hoft- men, aud during his incumbency of that po- sition, as he was then agein intending to ieave California, refused an apoointnent as Collector of Internal Revenue in San Fran- cisco tendered to bim by President Hayes. Ho was also offered sna declinea to accept the cousulship at the Hawailan Islands. Such 13 A rough and meager outline of the career of a man remarkabie for his intelli- gence, bis altainments, nis unobtrusive ways and his ster ing charucter. His body wes in- terred pn Thursaay Inst, but his memory and his influence will Teng survive, snd will be tre red Ly his relatives, by his f:ivnds and by the pub! PUBLICOLA. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. 5 New York Press. ome woman had probably told Goliath that she was going to stay around LT ¥ 1d just to see him If a m seems to notice pretty girls that pass his wife ac's suspicious Apnd x? llm doesn’t she acts more so. Show a woman’s political club a bunch of some st, * bare toes kicking up out of a baby carriage and you can break up the meeunx.y 2 | | { | M. P. Steln, & Stockton merchaat, s at the | A. McMillan, a merchant of Knoxville, isat | Daniel R. Murphy, ex-United Stales District | Attorney from Oregon, is at the Palace for a | H> says he cau do the work so much more ex- | ¢ Bussians, | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FREE TRADE—A. L. M., Rio Vista, Cal Na Democratic platform has adyocated absoiuie free trade. eI ELECTORAL VOTE—A. L. Rio Vista, Cal. McKinley’s majority over Bryan in the eléc- toral coliege was 95 4 WORTHING — Bates — K. F., City. Frank Worthing and Blanclie Bates of the theatrical world are not married and never have bees PRINCE OF PEACE H., City. .It was Don Manuel Godoy who was named “The Prince of Peace,” because he concluded the peace of Basle oetween the French and the Spanish na- tions in 1795. 552 ALAMEDA AssEssy Castro Valley, Cal. The roll of 1896 for Alameda County, in- cluaing personsal property, as it left the As- sessor’'s hands, was $04,273,845; in 1897 it was §94,007,417. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI—L., West Palmdale, Los Angeles County, Cal. The trageday of Francesca da Rimini was written by Siivio Peilicio in 1819. The voem of that name wus written by Leigh Hunt. Corxs—J. H. A., Santa Cruz, Cal. This de- partment does not advertise any business or firm. It you will send a sclf-addressed, stamped envelope the iniormation sought for witl be sent you by mail. DiMEs—L. A. U., City. There is no premium on a dime of 1894 that has not the letier “§” upon it. There is no premium offered for a dime of 1834. Dimes of that year ure offered by dealers at from 25 to 40 cents. MARcH THE FourtH—Reader, City. March 4, on which the President of the United tes is inaugurated, has falien on Sundays since the first President, Washington, was insugurated i the jollowing years set for inauguration: 1821, 1849 and 187 The next time that in. auguration falls on Sunday will be in 1917, CRIMEAN WAR—W. H. M., City. War was de- clared against Russia by England and France March 28, 1854. Anexpedition against the Crimea having ben determined upon, the allica British, French and Turkish for i amounting to 58,000 men, commanded ’ L Raglan and Marshal St. Arnaud, sa from Varna September 3 and landed on the - 14th, 15th aud 16th without opposition at 01d Fort, near Eupatoria, about thirty miles from Sebastopol. On the 20th they attacked about 50,000 strong, unmder Prince Menschikoff, intreacaed on the neights of Alma, supposed 1o be unassailable. Aiter a sharp conlest tho Russians were totally routed. On the 8th of September, 1855, and days following, the French took by assaultthe Tower of Malakoff, the English assuulied the Redan without success, the Russians retired from Sebastopol to the North rorts, the allies entered the city, and the Russians destroyed or sank thelr own fleet. Postilities were sus- pended February 29, 1856, and peace was de- clured March 30 of tae same year. HE HAD DONE HIS SHARE. Epare Momen's. 1n tbe last Egypilan campaign the Royal Irish Regiment was stationed about three miles from Lord Wolseley’s headquarters, so he sent to the oficers saying he wouid like to dine with them and see the regiment paradec. After dinner the men were called together and Lord Wolseley addressed them ia this style: “Men of the Roya! Irish Regiment, you are on the eve of what I believe to be one of the greatest battles of modern warfare. You will meet meu worthy of your steel and far above your number; but stiil 1do notdoubt 1 feel sure you will do your duty. Good-night, men, and remember there are (en of the enemy to every one of you.'’ Next night found the regiment creeping slowly on the sands toward the Egyptian | eartiworks. Not a word was spoken as they crept nearer and nearer, iill at last with one wild Irish shout they sprang up and charged the works They foughton for some time, till one of ta men came on a gun manned wiih ten gunner: and after a severe struggle managed to kill the ten. After that he took the rop: from the gun, tied the ten bodies together, sat upon them and calmly began to smoke. He had not been there many moments be- | fore an officer came up and sternly ordered him to the front. “Sorra a peg will I stir, surel I've killed me tin min, an’ if iverybody in the rigiment had done the same sorra a one would there be leit to till the tale.” SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM. The Arena. ‘We do not want sensational Journalism; we are only made to think that we do. There is no real demand for putridity in the form of printed sheets of large circulation. The her- culean efforts made to keep up these larg cutations are evidence of thelr instability and the vast sums of money spent by the great’’ dailies in ndvertising themselves show that the demand for them is fictitious. These journals, 1n their vaulting anbition for great- hess, have o’erleapt themselves and fallen into toe diteh. There is & time in the future when the ex- penditure of money and the utterance of dogma will fail to keep up the circulations which con- stitute the sole value of these ‘‘grea.’ dailies. When that time comes, and not until that time, will the public get w. treaily wants, and it will not secute such a prize untis it begins to think that tbere is no real demand for seusas tional journals. Fine Display of Art Goods. S. and G. Gump, 113 Geary stieet, are showe ing now their European importations for the holidays, and invite their patrons and the public to view the many fine and interesting novelties received and unpackea so far. * e CALIFORNIA glace iruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.” ————— £PECIAL Information daily to manufasturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomerg, * —_———— F. Hopkinson Smith, the painter, writer, con- tractor and connoisseur of art, always writes from notes and observation, When he does water colors he always resorts to scenes long become familiar by close study. ~ ““Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap”” Fas 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,al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels | and is the best remedy for Diarrheeas, whether arising from teething or ctier causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the word, Be sure and 8K 108 413, Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 20€a00iils ———— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry. so™ snd mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Kound- trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days' board at the Hotelal Coronado, $60; longer stay 8250 petday. APp7 4 New Monigomery street. San Francisco, or A W. Bailey, manager Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. ————————— G. R. Hancock, a West Point cadet, and the Misses Hancock are in Washington arranging for the presentation of a collection of swords, the property of their grandiather, General Wiafield Scott Hancock, to the National Mu- seum. NEW VT;—DA’". Scott’s Emulsion is not a “baby food,” but is 2 most excellent food for babies who are not well nourished. A part of a teaspoonful mixed in milk and given every three or four hours, will give the most happy results. The cod-liver oil with the hypophosphites added, as in this palatable emulsion, not only to feeds the child, but also regulates its digestive functions. Ask your doctor about this. soc. and $1.00 ; all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New Yorlk,