The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1897. NOVEMBER 29_ 1807 JOHN "D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. t and Third streets, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1868. i’l'E:LICATIUN OFF Cl EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 517 Clay street Telephone Mai THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. ..908 Broadway Eastern Representati NEW YORK CFFICE , DAVID ALLEN. ...Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC : .......Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. open until ) o'clock. 615 th and open 1505 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery streat, corner Cl £ Hayes street; open until ):30 o cloc ts; open until 9 o'c th on street; A TROPICAL EXPERIMENT STATION. T a recent meeting of the Redlands Horticultural Club attention was directed to a proposal on the part of the Government to establish a tropical experiment station in Southern Florida, and a committee was appointed by the club to consider ways and means for bringine about the establish- ment of a similar station in Southern California. The Riverside Press in commenting on the action of the club sa “The movement is one worthy of cordiel support ections of Southern California, and the borticultnral Boards of Trade in variou tter up and co-operate with the Redlands action on the fruit-growing towns should take the matte committee in their ef rts to secure favorable yand not the southern section ¢ for the proposed tent of calling upon all Cali only, to co-operate with objec Anything thatt industry o it, and the press 333 n work s to increase or diversify the frmit a matter that concerns all portions of ion should unite ledlands the State is d the people of every sec in promotin v well d about such results. I known that the Secretary of Agriculture is warmly in- terested in p whether of for irected enterprise igned to bring ects for zil promotin planting of tim> ago we made or of orchar note of a plan devised by hi ate trees to the arid I n the tro re, certain he will be tavor- 1 er place for such a Dor s of the country, station Southern In fact he can find in our southern counties favor- for than semi-arid 12 with trees suita cal regions. related in the local columns ihat three bunko men are , been caught red-handed. t at fauit similar ite 1g, s0 10 spe n e not infrequent, and yet Is to appear. Why are sequel to each regula 3 ws convicted? After a while a suapicion arks in the business of skin- lipped with a pr faith an er And people would e yolice courts thus in as delivered hiscoul of an opin- 1i the prisoner is permitted to must 1 the way, it is strange that no attempt been made to demonstrate that the younz women who en- tered the church with Durrant went th comm amuse him, but they can r convince 1ttir z suicide, and succeeded in deing it in spite of his efforts to prevent them. Some teachers need to learn that even if fathers and moth- end children to school they think it no presamption to re- tain a parental interest in the younzsters. When these teach- ers resign, marry and acquire babies of their own they will, let 1t they seem to now. er: e hoped, know more t FOR CANAL WORK. MACHINES SERIES of papers giving an account of recent inventions A and devices for canhl work constitute the most important feature of Review of Reviews for the current month, and to the people of Calitornia they will be found particularly inter- esting, inasmuch as the new macbines will be of great aid in a iderable portion of the dredgix bor work we shall be called upon to do in the near future. Thre principal article of the seriesis that which nar: what has been accomplisked by the new devices on the great Chicago drainage can his paper deals with results. forth no speculations as to what may be ach and other river Ttsets eved by new inven- tions. It confines itself 1o statements of work now being done and shows what the machines do in actual operation. It fs, therefore, the best kind of promise for the future since its promise comes under the guarantee of deeds performed. 1t will not be necessary to go over a!i 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. To those who know what has been the experiencs in the United States with public work and how seldom it occurs that any sort of construction is finished at a cost not exceeding the original estimates, the value of the new machines brought into use in the Chicago enterprise will be amply demonstrated by the fact that these machines have made it possible to complete the canal for millions 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 the banks. These are of such a size that it is said they appear from a distance to be cantilever bridges spanning the channel rather than merz shovels for handling earth. Bome of them are 700 feet long, and are capable of sustaining a weight of fifteen tons and carrying it to the banks huandreds of feet away at a rate of 500 cubic yards every ten hours. These co- lossal cantilevers are poised upon a pivot swinging freely, and are under such control they can be directed with no more muscalar labor than is required to make a twist of the wrist. The contrast between this machine and the old way of dig- ging canals by shovels in the bands of laborers istypical of the advance made in canal construction ail 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 mary other inventions noted hardly less impor- tant in their contributions to economy. California has much use for these new machines. She needs them in the work of deepening her rivers, in draining the marshes around her bays and in her harbor work. Her main interest in them just now, however, is due to the assurance ihey give tbat the coastruction of the Nicaragua Canal is an € terprise economically feasible. The Chicago drainage canal L.s in fact been an epoch-making event in the history of such er ‘rprises, and in the future canal construction will be under- sken on ascale that a few years ago would have been'ngnrded as an impossibility. —_— Fresno bas a female horsethief in jail. It is hardly likeiy that she will stay there iong, but alas, even the spirit of gal- jantry so prone to make easy the way of the fair transgressor can hardly turn her locse before yellow journaiism shall have fashioned ber a halo. A final squelching of the nickel-in-the-slot macbine would be a great triumph for Police Commissioner Gunst. The sturdy fashion in which he has sought to expel from our troub el midst the evil of gambling has justly excited the admiration of all benholders It for the purpose of | l by all true borsemen in California A BETTER FEELING IN TRADE. 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 duliness which would continue until the spring demand set in, but from some couse or causes not yet explained, business is picking up at the very season wken, sccording 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, like Banquo’s ghost, wiil not down, and the most powerful bearsin the land cannot keep it down. Every now and then itbobs up :erenely and prices bob up in sym- pathy. The ex;jort of cotton has also improved of late and is now large, which is another important factor in the currenttrade revival. Corn, too, is going out of the count-y in large quanti- | ties and this in turn helps matters along. And last, but not least, we are shipping more manufactured 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 235 for the week before, 296 for the corresponding week in 1896 and 288 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 a 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 coast 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 sympathy with the governing cereal. Wool has also been dull, but it, too, will doubtless do better again if the improvement in the East keeps up. Provisions are stiil quiet at unchanged prices. The hop crop has teen slowly passing out of first bands at prices whicn vield good returns on the investment.. Beef and pork continue steady at the quotations which have ruled for some time, Dried fruit and raisins are as dull as ever, and it is almost impossible to seil large lois, though - the feeling in raisins has lately been reported firmer. The crop outlook, though of course vague at thistime of the year, is more than favorable up to date. Thelight rains thus far received Lave enabled the farmers in tbe centraland northern parts of the State to sced large areas, with the reason- able expectation of getting good returns from their crops next ye: The southern portion of the State needs mere rain, Present stocks of the principal farm staples indicate a pretty general clean-up before the next crop comes forward, hence the outlook on this score is flatiering for fair prices in 1898. In fac t is the opinion on all sides that the forthcoming year wiil be one of the most successful for a long time. At least Secretary Alger can have the proud consciousness that be did everytbing be could to prevent tue beginning of | work at San Pedro. The residents of California appreciate this | inlly, and it Huntington is not a monster of ingratitude he will let Alger know that his efforts were worthy a good and faithful serv, A 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 wou!d ever have money encugh to pay his debts, and that bankers were Shylocks, seeking to | reduce debtors to p=nury, that the story of a farmer with more | money thar be 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 financial revolution in | the conditions of the country. Noi, however, a servant of the people. SURPLUS CASH IN i(ANSAS. PLEASING and somewhat surprising indication of pros THE COAST PRESS. R. H. Hewitt hus succoeded H. C.Cree as | editor and manager of the Pomona Beacon, which becomes a Democratic paper. The Beacon is a bright little journal, and has done agreat deal toward attracting favorable at- | tention to Pomona Valley. An illustrated hoflday edition of the Seattie 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 fts leading city. ; The Portland Tribune DOW &Ppears as s morning paper, with a complete telegraphic | service. 1t 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 offsrs an ample fleld for that kind of a paper. The Yuma (Ariz.) Sentinel has just celebrated its twenty-seventn 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, perbaps never im | agined, in this section of Uncie Sam's do- mai The Contra Costa Gazette has undergone a change of management, the new editor and 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 tte is A credit to Martinez. It is a well- printed and very readable paper. The Hanford Sentinel hasundertaken to hold a citrus exhibit in its offices during holiday week. It is determined to prove to the people of Kings County that no better oranges are grown than are produced in their favored sec- tion of couutry. The majority of the Kings County people, it would nppear, are noc yet iully alive to the great possibiiities of their region in the matter of the cultivation of citrus fruits. Sausalilo rejoices over the prospect of a modern street railway. A franchise for it has alrendy been applied for, aud the Sausalito News understands that the parties at the pack of the scheme are well supplied with coin. The motive power, 1t is understood, will be _compressed air. Says the News: “With this improvement Sausalito will step proudly to the front, It offers more attractions than any town on the bay, and its only drawback has been the lack of cheap and ample facilities for getting over ihe hillside roads. When this rord is In operation the population of the town should double inside of six months.” Last Friday was the anniversary of the dis- covery of San Pedro and the Los Angeles Ez- press suggests that, as the bay was destined to bLecome the great barbor of the metropolis of Orangeland, the day ought to be celebrated in the future by that city’'s commercial bdies. “In 1597 Sebastian Vizcaino, with thre led 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 he Sth hind sightea four islands which he called Custro Coronados (the four Corona- dos). On the 234, 25.n and 26th of November they were near San Pedro. Thev named one islaud San Clemente on the 23d, the feast day of that saint, and another Sania Catglina, on the 25th, and on the 26th San Pedro Bay was nemed after San Pedro ol Alexandria, whose feast the Catholic church celebrates on that day."” The Sacramento Bec is urging upon the people 0! Sicramento County the importance of voting for the bonds to ba issued for the construction of the highway from the capital city to Fol- som. The election takes piace December 4. | The Bee says: “Certuinly the farmors who, winter after winter, h:ve at times been un- ble 1o enter this city with taelr produce, should be the first to champion it. And most certwinly no farmer should oppose it simply because he may not be on the line of the roaa to be buiit in the coming year. For, if this project is defeated, it wili be years and years to come before the farmers of Sacramento County can get reliefl irom the roads which now shame and disgrace them. But, if this road is built, other roads from all other sec- mento as into a common center, wiil foliow as surely ms tne night succeeds the day. The workingmen, particularly, should vote for these bonds: for it 1s stipulated in the con- tract that the road is to be built by Sacra- mento Jabor.” The Tribune-Times of Port A rngeles, Was has changed hands. Charles Ulmer Sr., its owner for the past five years, has soid the goodwill and part or the waterial to a corpo- ration composed of M. J. Co rrigan, Mary A, Corrigan and Will A. Sparks. Mr. C orrigan 18 an old newspaper man, having run a paper at The Farm News of Springfield, Ohio, in publishing a sum- mary of the counsel the bauKers have given to the farmers through the medium of the Kansas newspapers, says a major- 1ty of them advise first the payment of farm debts, so as to | stop interest; and second, the avoidance of wheat-raising to | the exclusion of other farm industries. Another point the | | bankers insist upon is the value of improved homes. They | urge upon the farmers to make ineir home surroundings more comfortable and more beautiful, on the ground that better | houses and better living for the jarmer and his family will pay in the long run, just as surely as an improvement in the hous- | ing and feeding of live stock. | The point in the advice which has attracted most attention isthe warning against an extensive planting of wheat. Asone 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 seiling them as raw material. It is the opinion of the Farm News that this ad- vice is equally applicable to nearly all the farmers in the country as it is by 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 bands of | farmers is & question that each farmer must decide for himself. | iie 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 are now talking business with bankers about the investment of | surplus funds every dollar of which is as good as gold. 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 Tme Calitornia Owners’ and Breeders' Protective Associa- tion has been settled on terms that constitute a vie tory for Charles T. Boots, who made the fight for the associa- tion, and who was for a time deprived of his badge and ruled from the tracks of the club. The victory is complete in all essential particulars. The | Protective Association continues its existence, Mr. Boots re- mains president of it, and yet 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 Tue 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 tighting the battle over again. Allis well that ends well, ana the ending of this certainly promises well for all concerned. The victory won will prove benelicial tothe entire horse industry of the State and particulariy so to the patrons of the tarf 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 | speculate on o bright prospect for that city: Chillicothe, Ohio, for & number of years be fore moving to the Northwost. He also pub- lished the Point Crescent Leader for several years. Mr. Sparks Is. also an experienced newspaper man. He has been pubiisher of | the Beaver (Wash.) Leader for three or four years, and it is understood that he will con tinue {16 publication. Mr. Corrigan was re- cently nappointed Deputy Collector of Port Angeles. Mr. Ulmer was a candidate for the | same position and the sale of the paper is the result of a deal between the two candidates, whereby Mr. Corrigan ias to purchase the peperand Mr. Ulmer to withdraw his applica- ton for the position of Deputy Collector. The new proprieiors state tnat the paper will be straightout, stalwart Republican, The probability of the construction of a rail- road from the present terminus of the Utah Southern to a junction with the Pacific Coast Railway leads the San Luis Obispo Breeze to “Here the Oregon Improvement Company owns arailroad and a wharf in the best harbor it fa possible for it to reach on the coast. From the present terminus of the Utah South- ern to San Lu's Obisyo hgrbor, or Port Har- ford, a reilroad can be constructed with the least mileage, the enslest grades and through the best country of any route to reach a deep and safs harbor. The engineers of the com- pany have undoubtedly looked over the conn- try or the report would not hive been pub- lished. That our town is now small and ob. scure and our harbor in course of construc- tion, will not deter observant, far-seeing men. They will see the formation of the country, the advantages of the harbor and the possibilities for capital This is the consummation of our long hoped for east and west railroad. Itwill give usa transcontinental railway direct. The route from Salt Leke to Port Harford 1is through & country of great mineral resources and of a, ricultural and grazing capabilites of a 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 minerals along the entire route aresuflicent to engage the | abor of hundreds of thousands of people. The mostdirect route toour hiarbor would be efther by the Cuyama or by Walkers Psss of the Slerra Nevaaa, but by whichever way the road may come San Luis Obispo will praciically be the western terminus. San Luis Obispo could have no rival between San Francisco and Los Angeles. A midway port and commereial center ot two hundred miles eacn way would make it one of the most important localitizs in the State.” NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. France has ordered 200 ;arpodnu from the Whitehead Company, Eugland, to be deliv- ered 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 213 5 tons, bullding at Sicerness sinoce December 21, 1896, was ready for launching on the 25th of this wonth. 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 roule being to take advantage of the irade winds, and the time oceupied was fifty-nine bdni‘;. the dock arriving at Hovana Novem- er 6. Munoz Gamera, Chilean torpedo-boat de- siroyer ol 300 tons, and 30.42 kuots speed, has recently gone through a series of trials, demonstrating her utter uselossness. The principal trouble was with the torpedo launch- ing tubes. The boat was built by Lairds, Bir- kenhead, last year. Two torpedo-boat destroyers, the Ferret and roadsof the United States. nearly $70,000,000 a year. These are the sect! man employed for each mile of track. 'TAMPING DONE WITH GOMPRESSED AIR. An army of 200,000 men is kept busy constantly at work upon the roadbeds of the rail- 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- ion men. Approximately, there is one section A generation ago, when the heaviest locomotive did not weigh more than fifty tons and a freightcar load was ten tons, a good dirt roadbed sufficed. tearing over the roads at sixty miles or more an hour, with trains of Pullman cars or hauling To-day, with 110-ton locomotives tious of the country, converging into Sacra- | and enterpriss. | EUMATIC TIRE SURFACING MACHI freightears with losds of from 60,000 to 80,000 men are constantly at work keening the track This meehod is crude, and there are many o proposes to do the work with compressed air. | haps 800 revolutions a minute. It is set on clips it fast to the rail. feeder for the broken stone, which has & hopper bullasting material is shoveled in, and & bent en to direct the stream of filling. In using it n. moved. A shoveltul is removed at one end of th: machine, Experimeatal muchines were keptat Hudson River Railroad tracks and sometimes Hartlord line. can be mude for each man empi peditiously that a saving of more than $10,000,000 worth of time can be effected every year. The machiue, says the New York Suii, cousists of o Root blower driven at the rate of per- which it can be trundled along the rail likz a wheelbarrow. Attiched to it is a hose ubout twelve feet long, ending in a metal As na practical result, the reports say that a yed, while the reilroad textbooks say that by ‘the ordinary methods from 2!5 to 4 feet an hour is the best that can be donc. It placing new ties itis claimed that its work is equally ahead of the olaer method. pounds each, the strain on the track and roads bed is something which an old railroader never thought of. One-hundred pound steel rails have replaced the old iron 56-pound rails, stone roadbeds have replaced those of dirt, and ties are put only about balf s far apart as they used to be. With all these improvements section in proper shape. When the depressions are | found the rails are raised by forcing earth or broken stone under the ties with tamping irons. bjections to it. One of them is that it .- volves the breaking up ot the bed of each tie disturbed. Now an inventor comes forward who | H> says he can do the work so much more ex- | top of one rail, and has two small wheels on When itis to be used a lever ag the top, where the stone or other suitable | d at the bottom, which is put under the ties one of the ballast b:tween the ties need be re- o raised tie until the bent. end of the hopper tube can be_poked under, and then the filling material is blown in sud packed tight by the | work nearly all summer. sometimes on the | on those of the New York, New Haven and rogress of about 81 feet an hour Decoy, collided at Devonport Harbor Novem- ber 8. Tne engineer on the Ferret mistook the signal “full speed astern” for “full speed ahead,” with the result that the Ferret | crashed into the Decoy, lylng astern. EBoth boats were serlously damaged. As the Lynx and Thrasher are still laid up four of the six destroyers of the Devonport flotilla are now disabled. Every southern harbor of any consequence in the south of England is now provided | | against torpedo attacks. Eich narrow cn-| | trance has its boom, and each of fhese booms | | has associnted with'it a boom-defense vessel, | generally an old gunboat. In time of puce‘ | | these vessels are in chargeof naval pensioners. | Thisscheme of torpedo aefense was devised | snd begun two years ago. Combined army and navy maneuvers are | | about to be undertaken in Italy. The eff-ctive | strength of the navy, which isnow 23,000 | imen, s to be fucreased 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 sffair, which will fnclude anattempted lauding upon the Tuscan coast. i The Russian battle-ship Gaugoot, which | i sank in the Gulf of Finland during firing practice about three months ago, is to be raised. A Swedish salvage company haes taken the contract for 950,000 roubles, about §475, | 000, and as the ship Lies in seventeen fathoms | of water the task of raising her will be a diffi- { cult undertaking. The sinking of the Gaugoot | was due to bad workmanship on the hull, and | her water-tight bulkheads wera an illusion. " In consequence of this accident the admiralty | bas determined to thoroughly test ail bulk- | heads of new ships before fitting for service, | and to fill the completed compartments with water to the top, thus proving the strength | and tightness of the bulkheads. It fsstated | that while the Gaugoot was afloat berstenm pumps were constantly going whether the | ship wasin port or ona cruise. | French naval estimates for the navy for | 1898 have been completed and will shortly be | submitted to the Chamber. They provide for | total expenditure of $53,056,000, an in- | crease of $4,052,000 over the pre-ent year. | The ullowance for new ships is $20,400,000 | and §7,500,000 for renalre. Sixty-four vessls | of all classes are under coustruction, and a | | total of eighty-four wi'l be completed, accord- | ing to programme, within six years, embrac- ing the following types: Eight battle-ships, ten armored cruisers, four first-class cruisers, three second-class and three third-class eruis- ers, one first-ciass aviso, ten torpeao-boat destroyers, six sesgoing torpedo-boats, and thirty-six first-class torpedo-boats. While a great improvement is visible under the new order of management of the navy, the cost of | building ships is still greater than in England, | and the battle-ships Charles Martel, Charle- magne and Gaulois are admitted to cost from | 20 to 25 per cent more than simiiar vessels in in the British navy. | | SONG. [Modernized version. ] Home the brought her warrior dead She nor wept nor uttered cry. All her ma dens, watching, said, i “She must weep or she wilt die, Rose a nurse of eighty years, “Yeu're not in it, by his wiil 17 Like summer tempest came her toars, She sobbed and sobbed il she was il New York Press. NOTE> ABOUT NOTABLES. Isaac H. Clothier of Philadelphia, who re- cently purchased in Europe the beautiful painting, A Quaker Wedding,” has placea it on exhibition at Swarthmore College, and it | has been hung in the coi lege parior. The centenary of the birth of Thomas Hayes | Bayley was celebrated recently at hts birth- | place, Batn, Engiand. This song writer is still | temembered by a few popular bailads like “I'd Be a Butterfly,”” ““Gayly the Troubadour’ | and “The Soldier’s Tear.” Mlle. Mark Twein 15 what tho Paris Figara calls the daughter of Samuel L, Clemens, who | is studying music in Paris. It says: “The very beautiful voice of this young woman of 18 will some day make her as fascinating on the stage as her father Is in letters.” Mr. Gladstone expects 10 spend partof the coming winter in Cannes, where he will be the guest of Lord Rendel at Chateau Thoren, Itisnoted of the aged statesman that when- ever he is likely to be absent from home for any time he likes to to take his own books and writing materials with him. He has a considerable colleciion ot 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 Harrington is to be counted in the list of British peers who are not above deriving an income from trade. He is the owner of airuiishop at the Traialgar Square end of Whitekall, which he has dubbed Elvaston, sfter his ecastle in Derbyshire. Its windows are vlacarded with anuouncement that the fruit is “from our own gardens.”” Whnen theshop was first opened the costers tried to break up his business. They used to gather aro :nd it with their barrows, creating so much disturbance that the police had to interfere. The result was a splendia advertisement for the Elvaston shop, and its profits at once incressed 150 per cent. Coucns and colds cured with Low's the frank | PERSONAL. T. Hirose of Los Angeles is at the Cosmopol- : itan Hotel. Dr. W. D. Roagers of Watsonyille 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 atshe Lick. Sheriif Milton Besse of Santa Cruz County isat the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. John Woltskill of Los Angeles are at the Grand. H. Sheridan of Elko, Nev., is staying at the | Cosmopolitan Hotel. | M. P. Stein, a Stockton merchaat, isat the Baldwin wi‘h Mrs. Stein, Walter Mills, a mine-owner Guleh, is registered a¢ the Lick. B. L. Johnson, a horseman from Chicago, is arecent arrival at the Baldwir. A. McMillan, a merchant of Knoxville, is at the Lick with his wife and chiid. N. W. Moodey, Tax Collector of Fresno County, is registered at the Lick. C. H. Sinclair of the United tes 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 Kriehu, of the department of history in Stanford, is at the Palace. Governor Budd came down yesterday from Stockton and is making a short stay in the from Grub | eity. samuel MoMurtrie, the railroad contractor of San Luis Obispo, is a late arrival at the Palace. Daniel R. Murphy, ex-United States District | Attoruey from Oregon, is at the Palace for a | few aays. i Marion Biggs, Jr., Who owns orange groves and other real property near Oroville, is stay- ing at the Grand. William H. Cornwall of Honolulu arrived at the Palace last night en route from New York to his island home. I W. Leonard and C. M. Manby of Boston, Mass., are among the recent arrivsls at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. 8. Bloss,a real estate agentof Atwater, | who has 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, Ontarlo, Canada, accompanied by his wite and daugh- ter, 1s registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Charles A. Piercv of Chicago, auditor of the National Linseed Oil Company and of that comvany’s railway car line, is at the Palace. Dr. A. E. Oshorne of the Home for Feeble- Minded Children located at E!dridge, is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Osborne and by Dr. Albert E. Osborne of Thermalito. 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. THE LATE JAMES m. GETCHELL. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The life of the late James M. Geichell 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, afierward 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 until his death. In 1871 he engineered and bore & very copspicuous part in the effort to nominate that distin- guished patriot for the Presidency. In his early manhood. when it required courag- and ability 1o take that stand, Mr, Getchell became an active Abolitionist, and he was among the very foremost of those who undertook the defense of the fugitive slaves, Among other ceiebrated causes, he managed the defense of a black woman named Margaret Garner. who, {0 preserve them from slavery, killed her mulatto chiidren. Hs was a mem- ber of the first Republican convention ever held in the United States. He was long and intmately associuted with Rutherford B. Hayes and with General W.T. Sherman, one of whose brothers married his oniy sister. In 1860 he came to California, and was a special sgent of the United States Treasury. Twice, as [ am credibly informed, he was of- tered a Federal judeeship on thls coast, but in each iustance dec'ined on the ground that he intended to return 1> the Eastern States. In 1872 he was appointed a Registrar of Bankruptey by the late Judge Ozden Hoff- men, nud durkng his incumbency of thet po- sition, a8 he was then agsin intending to leaye Californis, refused an apuointnent as Collector of Iuternal Revenue in San Fran. cisco tendered to bim by President Hayes. He as also offered »na declinea to accept the cousulship at the Hawaiian Islands. Such i3 a rough and meager outline of the career of a man remarkable for his intelli- gence, his altainments, nis unobtrusive WAYS and his ster ing charucter. His body wes in- rerred on Thursaay Iast, but his memory and his iufluence will lenz ‘survive, and will be trensured by his relatives, by his fiisnds and by the public. PUBLICOLA. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Some woman had probably told Goliath that she was going to stay around AL ¥ uud just tosee him If & man seems to notice pretiy girls that pass his wife ac's suspicious a: . 4 She acis more 50, T e hore:.ound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 San some st, Show a woman’s political club a b f bare toes kicking up out of a baby :;l:‘r:?u:e and you can break up the meeting, | clured March 30 of tie sume year. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FREE TRADE—A. L. M., Rio Vista, CnL‘ Ne | Democratic platform has advocated absoiuto free trade. W ELECTORAL VOTE—A. L. M., Rio Vista, Cal. McKinley's majority over Bryan in the elec- torel coliege was 95. WORTHING — BaTes — K. F,, City. Frank Wortning and Blanche Bates of the theatrical world are not married and never have been. PRINCE OF PEACE—M. H., City. It was Don Manuel Godoy who was nemed “The Prince of Peace,” because he concluded the peace of Basle oetween the French and the Spanish na- tions in 1795. ALAMEDA ASSESSMENTS—C., Castro Valley, Cal. The roll of 1896 for Alameda County, in cluding personal propert it left the 2 vas $94,275,845; in 1897 1t nands, 4 FRANCESCA DA RIMINI—L., West Paimdale, Los Angeles County, Cal. The tragedy of Francesca da Rimini was written by Silvio Peilicio in 1819. The poem of thit name wus written by Leigh Hunt. Corxs—J. H. A., Santa Cruz, Cal. This de- partment does not advertise any business or firm. If you will send a sclf-addressed, stamped envelope the iniormation sought for wiil be sent you by mail. Dimes—L. A. U., City. There is nopremium on a dime of 1894 that has not the létier “8” upon it. There is no premium offered for & dime of 1834. Dimes of thatyearure offered by dealers at from to 40 cents. March THE FourtH—Reader, City. March 4, on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, hns falien on Sundays sinice the first President, Washington, wus innugurated in the foilowing years set for inaugaration: 1821, 1849 and 1877. The next timé 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, 1€. 1. Anexpedition ‘against the Crimea baving bren determined :upon, the allica British, French and Turkish fo amounting to 58,000" men, commanded Lord Raglan and Marshal St..Arhaud; s, from Varna September 3 and landed 0n b - 14:h, 15th and 16th without opposition-at 01d Fort, near Eupatotia, about thirty mlies from Sebastopol. On the 20th'they attacked the Russians, about 50,000 streng; under Prince Menschikeff, intreacaed on tne héights of Alma, supposed 10 be unassajiable. Alter a sharp conlest tho Russians were totally routed. Ou the 8th of September, 1855, and days following, the French tock by asseultthe Tower of Maiakoff, the English assuulted the Redan without success, the Russians retired irom Sebastopol to the North rorts, the allies entered the city, and the Russlans destroyed or sank thelr own fleet. Postilities were sus- pended February 29, 1856, and peace was de- HE HAD DONE HIS SHARE. Epare Momen:s. 1n tbe last Egypilan campaign the Royal Irish Regiment was siationed about three miles from Lord Wolseley’s headquirters, so he sent to the cfficers saying he would like 1o dine with them and See the regiment paraded. After dinner the men were called together and Lord Woiseley 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; butstiil Idonotdouvbtyou. I feel sure you will do your duty. Good-night, men, and remember thereare ten of theé enemy to every one of you.'” ext night found the regiment creeping slowly on ihe sands toward the Egyptian earthworks. Nota word was spoken as they crept nearer and nearer, iill at last with one wild Irlsh shout they sprang up and charged the works They foughton for some time, till onc of t men came on a.gun manned with ten gunners, and after a severe struggle managed to kill the ten. Alter 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- jore an officer came up and sternly ordered him to the front. “Sorra a peg will Istir, sure! I've killed me tin min, an’ if iverybody in the rigiment had done the same *orra 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 theé form of printed sheets of large circulation. The her- culean efforts made to keep up these large ir- cuiations sre evidence of their instability, and the vast sums of money spent by the “great’’ dailies in ndvertising themselves show tnat the demand for them is fictitious. These journals, 1n their vaulting ambitton for great- hess, have o’erleapt themseives and fallen into tne diteh. There is a 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.” dailles. When that time comes, and not until that time, will the public get what it reaily wants, and it will notsecute such a prize untis it begins to think that there is no real demand for seusa- tional journals. : Fine Display of Art Goods. 8. and G. 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