The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1897, Page 6

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ANY and various were the suggestions of \/\ value and importance made by the con- tributors to the New Era edition of The Cail in dealing with the development of our resources and industries during the coming period of prosperity, but all agreed in placing among the most pressing needs of the time an expansion of the markets in which our goods are sold, or, what amounts to the same thing, a more earnest effort to introduce our products into the world wide market that awaits them. It is indisputable that market extension is one of the most imperative needs of Califernia industry. Al- though as yet we cultivate but a portion of our soil, have developed but a fraction of our resources and are not making full use either of our capital or our labor, we produce more than the demands of the State require for the consumption of its own people. Our productive development has outstripped our commercial development, and in consequence we do not gain from our industries the reward we have a right to expect under better conditions. The evil of the situation is rapidly growing worse. At present our output of fruit exceeds the de- mand, not only on the coast, but in the great cities of the East, and we must open for it a market in the smaller towns of the country beyond the Mississippi or in Europe. The supply of wine and raisins is in almost the same condition, and in a time compara- tively short we shall have sugar also to export, while the outlook for the dairy industry shows similar prospects. Market extension is not a simple problem. Many forces will have to be set in motion to bring it about. There must be cheaper transportation, better packing of goods, a wider advertising, a more active commercial spirit, more co-operation among the dealers and a large expansion of our merchant marine. In fact, the extension of the market for California products requires a display of energy and sagacity in ncarly all departments of our industry, and more than one set of men will have to work to accomplish it. The complexity of the problem is not a cause for despair nor even for hesitation. Some of the forces needed to widen our markets are already in operation. The construction of the Valley Road as- sures better and cheaper transportation facilities than we have had in the past; the prospects of an act of Congress to promote our merchant marine are good; the advertising of our products at Hamburg has accomplished much in the way of increasing the European demand for our fruit and our wine, and the enforcement of the pure food law will prevent the sale and manufacture in the State of adulterations which in the past have been a serious injury to the trade of the producer and the honest manufacturer, Taking all things into consideration. it may be said the task of market extension has been fairly well started. It is now the duty of all concerned to lend a helping hand and keep the movement going on its forward way. Let us develop our commerce in harmony with our productive industries, and the rew era will be one of prosperity bevond the ex- pectations of even the most sanguine. e — T — The fact that a woman recently knocked down and put to rout a footpad ought to be a lesson to the sterner sex. The masculine habit, it will be remem- bered, is promptly to throw up both hands, yield up all possessions without protest, and then, with clattering teeth, seek the police, who hear = tale about a tall and a short robber. And this ends the matter, except that the victim gradually acquires an opinion of his own prowess which improves with age and finally becomes something to admire. s There is no danger that Germany will train its guns upon the United States. When the Kaiser gets loaded with a sense of his own importance he is apt te explode, and while the concussion is considerable, it is very different from the detonation of artillery, although the difference does not seem to be appar- ent to that distinguished young man. Spain can perhaps do as small a thing and in as mean a way as any country ever in the business. The idea of rejecting the representative of France be- cause his wife is an American never would have oc- curred to people who had acquired the useful habit of thinking. The men who continue to pay large sums for positions on the police force happily continue also not to get the positions. Such men would pause on their beats to buy gold bricks and neglect their sworn duty of protecting the unsophisticated against bunko sharps. A woman has begun a sixty days’ fast in New York, and as the case is utterly without interest un- less she starve to death, here’s a modest wish that she be successful in doing this. Let there be no further concern about anything Russia may do in the Orient. Lieutenant O'Brien has resigned from the army and is going over thel_-e *a see fair play. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2I, I897. THE KAISER AND HAWAIL LL wars and rumors of wars just now are cagerly sought as water on the annexation A wheel. The last fairy tale is of the remarkable intentions of the Kaiser. He is represented as about to seize Samoa and Hawaii, ravage the Pacific cvast of the United States and claim from us an im- mense indemnity which he will use in building a navy. As there exists no cause of war between us and the German empire, there is in sight no pretext upon which the Kaiser could turn corsair, incarnadine the Pacific and light the welkin with the blaze of our burning cities. For this reason the intention to exact an indemnity where we have been injured instead of injuring is a delicious bit of stuff that would make Munchausen jealous. However, in the fantastic rumor is a mirror in which we may look upon ourselves. The pretext for pocketing Samoa and Hawaii is the manifest des- tiny of Germany, the necessity for expanding the na- tional life of that empire and the needs of its trade. A review of the sumptuous list of reasons for our annexation of Hawaii includes all of these, with some ornate and perfervid references to the physical bland- ishments of the islands, and an exhibit of our ex- panded phylactery in the form of pious statemeat of our Christian duty. In other words, the enormity of the Kaiser's intentions, as exploited in this tale of two continents and one ocean, gives us the chance to see ourselves as others see us, in the land grabbing line and as the destroyer of the autonomy of a small nation against the protest of its people, for no better reason than that we have the power to do it. But suppose it were all true and the Kaiser in- tends to dance such an international can-can, the weakness we acquire with our annexation policy is made painfully apparent. If we stand as adherents to our historic policy, panoplied in the moral power it has always made ours, we may appeal with dignity A and confidence to the two first European antagonists of Germany, France and England, pledged by treaty to abstain from any aggrandizement in Hawaii, and in duty to their own dignity and position bound to ioin us at once in barringany suchaction by Germany. The latter power would then have to meet in every sea the combined navies of the United States, France and England. In the German navy are 191 ships and 21,835 men. Against these would be England, 523 ships and 03.750 men; France, 433 ships and 44,042 men, and the United States, 105 ships and 15,425 men—or a total of 1252 ships and 175,052 men. All this force, by virtue of existing treaties af- tecting Hawaii, is at our service to maintain the autonomy of Hawaii and compel respect for the treaty of independence entered into by France and England. So this rumor has its uses in bringing into focus a proposition no less monstrous than our own annexation policy and revealing the strength that can be called to sustain our settled position in support of Hawaiian autonomy. orre—— s — Chief Lees did right in refusing to let Hoff talk into a phonograph, the remarks to be doled out tc the listening ear at a nickel a dole. Hoff’s re- marks are not particularly edifying, and, such as they are, yellow journalism is joyfully recording with copious illustrations. Nobody desires to see the phonograph, which can be respectable, reduced to the moral plane of a yellow journal. BREAKERS AHEAD. HILE Senator Chandler of New Hamp- W shire is in many respects a free lance in pol- itics rather than a party leader, his opinions are shared by a good many men more conservative thran himself in expressing them, and for that reason his letter predicting that an attempt to carry out Sec- retary Gage's plan for currency reform this winter ‘will result in an uproar in Congress is not to be passed over as an idle threat. The danger may not be great, but it is one that careful party leaders will kave to guard against. The Senator objects to any effort at currency reform at this session, and particularly to the sug- gested retirement of greenbacks. His argument is that no bill of the kind proposed has any chance of success in the Senate and that to press such a measure would embroil Congressmen with the Presi- dent and disturb business. “We ought to await,” he says, “the progress of international bimetallism, the advent of business prosperity and the filling of the treasury by the normal working, soon to be seen, of the new tariff law.” It is well known that several other Senators share this opinion. They hold to Lincoln’s maxim that it is unwise to swap horses in crossing a stream, and now that the country is in the act of transition from depression to prosperity it would be in their judgment poor policy to undertake a radical change in our monetary system. Among those who hold this opinion are some who are firm advocates of the Gage plan of reform, and they hesitate to take it up at this session only because they regard it as un- timely and premature. Against this view of the case is to be found the great mass of the business men of the country. For good reasons such men desire the carrency question settled like the tariff and taken out of politics. So long as it remains a party issue, to be fought over in every Congressional campaign, so long will our finances be disturbed and our business insecure. Whenever the question comes to a vote there will be a hard contest, and there is no reason to believe the battle will be made easier by postponement. The only point of difficulty in the way of under- taking the desired reform at once is the Senate. That body is so equally divided that one or two recalcitrant Republicans could defcat the measure if they chose to do so. The issue to be decided by the Republican leaders is that of putting these Senators to the test of an aye or no vote. Ii a bill drawn on the lines of the recommendations of the Secretary is pressed as an administration measure and a strong fight made for it there is a chance for success, and the chance is worth taking. Currency reform is necessary, and the Gage plan is one on which the business interests of the country are virtually agreed. Taking all things into consid- eration, this seems as good a time as any to enact it and end the controversy. It is true there are break- ers ahead, but of these it may be said, in the lan- guage of Sir Boyle Koche, “the best way to avoid them is to meet them boldly.” e —— Mme. Dreyfus is not a contributor to yellow journalism. Desiring a communication from this lady, yellow journalism merely forged it. The pro- cess was easy and is getting to be common. People have gone to jail for similar acts, but the astute edi- torial forgers are careful not to illegally use the name of anybody who is near enough to be likely to prosecute. All there could be to check them would be a fear of exposure, and they have been exposed <o often that shame is dead and fear has gone to join conscience. If General Lew Wallace is determined to discip- line Congressman Hilborn he might corner the Cali- fornian and read some of the Wallace style of blank verse to him. However, it is possible that Wallace, even though angry, does not wish to go to extremes. R ARy S 2 Fitzgerald is not down on the State’s payroll as a boomer for annexation. He seems to have a biased conception as to the nature of his job. If the Cramps really intend to come to this coast they will find that the art of building ships is understood out this way, too. FACTIONISTS AND THE CHARTER. \ —_— HE main objection to the charter movement of the Committee of One Hundred is that it is - being used by a combination of Democratic politicians for their own selfish purposes. The pre- tense that the committee’s sole and only object is to secure the adoption of a new organic law for San Francisco might be allowed had that body early in the campaign declined the assistance it is receiving flogn the Phelan:Sullivan-Buckley Democrats. That assistance condemns it. No sane person will concede purity to a political combination which has all along shown that it is in the charter contest, not for the good of the public, but for its own political profit. These factionists have already thrown discredit upon the cause of the committee by trying to grab places upon the precinct Election Boards to which they were not entitled. Who believes that repre- sentatives of the Phelan-Sullivan machine would count the votes more accurately or more promptly than the representatives of the regular party organ- izations? The allegation that it is the purpose of the latter, with the aid of the Election Commission, to “steal” the election has no deeper foundation than a desire to make places for a lot of factionists who will, when defeated at the polls, do their best to thwart the adoption of any charter. The proceedings which have been taken by the Phelan-Sullivan Democrats in the name of the Com- mittee of One Hundred indicate clearly that the rule or ruin policy of that faction is about to be forced upon the respectable gentlemen who form the Char- ter Association. If the Sullivanites cannot control the entire movement for a new organic law they will en- deavor to defeat any and all attempts of the people to get rid of the present ramshackle government. There is no escape from this conclusion. It follows, therefore, that in order to secure the co-operation of Phelan and Sullivan in the making of a new charter | the people of San Francisco will have to relinquish the management of their government to them. 1t is our deliberate judgment that if on December 27 the voters fail to place the seal of their disap- proval upon this factional attempt to get control of the patronage of the city they will make a serious mistake. The triumph of the Freeholders nomi- nated by the Committee of One Hundred will not of itself be a disaster. But it is reasonably safe to as- sert that no charter they can frame, with the in- fluences which surround them, can be adopted. In their frantic efforts to secure political power the Phelan-Sullivan Democrats will lead these Free- holders into antagonisms which will defeat their work. History shows that these factionists are neither statesmen nor politicians. They are mere patronage grabbers, whose only idea of political economy is to appoint all their relatives to office. Citizens who really want a new charter will vote for the nominees of the regular party organizations. Those gentlemen represent the intelligence, respec- tability and conservatism of the city. The charge that they are the creatures of the bosses is the inven- tion of demagogues and should deceive no sensible person. et e ‘The company which furnishes to San Francisco an illuminant that does not illumine except in a tal- low dippy fashion, and that bears to longevity the same relation borne by an epidemic, is just now re- ceiving considerable advice. This advice is well meant, but does not seem to have much effect. The poison is still measured out and the untamed meter does it with all the old abandon SAN FRANCISCO'S NEWSPAPERS. San Francisco merchants, business men, house- holders, and, in fact, all the dwellers within the city, have reason to feel proud of our newspapers. Not especially for the big editions that are now being issued in honor of the holidays, but for the remarkable enterprise displayed by them through- out the entire year. There is nothing to compare with them anywhere in the United States, outside of New York, and even in that great city of three millions of people the newspapers are not any larger or better than they are in San Francisco. These truths are made more conspicuous now owing to the huge special editions that have just been is- sued by The Call, the Examiner and the Bulletin. The achievement of The Call in' producing its | eighty-page New Era edition with its beautiful art work and its instructive and entertaining matter is quite wonderful. We are accustomed to the occa- sional picturesque flights of the Examiner, and, therefore, its attractive Christmas number was ex- pected, and hereafter it will be of The Call. Mr. Spreckels has moved his paper into its beautiful new home, where he has every modern facility that money can buy, and the improvements were very noticeable in the big edition yesterday. The art work was especially good and the articles were well written, timely and appropriate. The New Era edition is a credit to any newspaper and to any city. The Chronicle, in a similar way, will be heard from soon.—San Francisco Bulletin. e —cr A PAPER WITH A HISTORY. 2 The San Francisco Call was founded in the last month of 1836, and is the oldest gnorning newspaper ir. San Francisco. Unlike its contemporaries, it is not the offshoot of an afternoon publication. Its original name, The Morning Call, was adopted at the suggestion of a committee of three compositors, who were the first owners of the paper. The San Francisco Call bears the reputation of being the most conservative morning journal of the Facific Coast; in fact, west of Chicago. Without recourse to sensational means for inducing popular- ity, it has sprung to the front rank as a leading newspaper of the western portion of this country. It is regarded entirely as a family journal, giving reliable news, and that only when its complete credibility has been established. From the standpoint of the advertiser, it is viewed as the newspaper giving the best results from any given amount of advertising. In its new home and under its present owner- ship it cannot be doubted that The Call has entered upon a new era of prosperity in the quality of its news, the character of its circulation, and in its in- fluence as the great home journal of the Pacific Coast.—The New York Journalist. SPLENDID ISSUES. The Sunday morning issues of our esteemed contemporaries, The Call and the Examiner, were triumphs of journalism. For breadth of conception and journalistic skill of execution they have not been surpassed in the history of the profession. Whatever may be said of the editorial course of these paupers, their issues of yesterday will justify the feeling of pride on the part of the people of San Francisco that such papers could be published here. They covered the world as a news field and treated in other departments a comprehensive range of thought. The Call should be sent broadcast over the East. Its stories of California’s industries and products are written by clever men and are filled with splendid optimism for the future.—San Fran- cisco Evening Post. PETTY LARCENY. The prospects for the annexation of Hawaii do not look so bright as the promoters of that iniquity should wish. The people of the Pacific Coast cer- tainly do not care to have another cooly invasion, and if Hawali is taken in the cooly cannot be kept out. No honest man wants to see the Hawalians robbed of their inheritance to protect the swag of the missionary freebooters. Surely the natives, who welcomed the preachers so warmly and treated them so well, have some rights. It is their coun- try, though the vampires have sucked it dry. America will not shame itself before the nations by being party to petty larceny.—San Francisco Mon- itor. of October and again toward the middle of November, not a single spot hav- ing been visible in a four-inch telescope. Between these periods an occa- Tm: sun’s surface was in a condition of unusual quiet in the two last weeks sional spot appeared, and also upward, but until December 6 they were in- significant in size, faint in tint and of shoft duration. On the date named the gsroup represented in the illustration appeared on the northeast limb of the sun, and when central it was possible to discern it with the naked eye if the atmosphere chanced to be clear. Though scattered over a large area the sections are too far apart to bear comparison with the more compact group of January last, when there was little white surface intervening. The principal section, which is such a com- rlete oval in the first map, measured 27,000 miles on the Sth inst., but, as shown, underwent some changes during the following days, and is now dividing and also diminished in size. ‘When toward the center of the disc the group extended from about heliographic latitude 8 degrees to 15 degrees, which is within those zones specially given to irruptive effects. As many wrong impressions are current as to sunspot phenomena a few words of explanation as to their recurrence and dura- tion will not be amiss. SUN SPOT, DEC. 8, | P. M These dark sections seen on the solar disc are neither as rermanent as the features of our landscape, nor as transient as the foam and billow of the ocean. for several months. Probably the tokens of a sunstorm, they generally last for several days, though it is possible for them to disappear in a few hours, or to endure No group or spot has been known to endure for a year, as soraefimes erroneously supposed, but an unbroken condition of spottedness may be scen for several successive years. A German observer, Hofrath Schwabe, who studied these phenomena from 182 to 1865, discovered that an alternate decrease and increase of spots occurs periodically in a remarkable degree, both being in- cluded in an eleven-year cycle. The maximum and minimum succeed each other gradually, and as the last climax of spottedness occurred in 1892-93 the minimum may be expected in 15%-99. The cause of this fluctuation in solar disturbance is still one of the unsolved problems of solar physies. ROSE O'HALLORAN., PERSONAL. Liloyd England, U. S. A., is at the Oc- cidental. Dr. T. Jeft White of Los Angeles is at the Lick. Henry G. Turner, a lawyer of Modesto, is at the Grand. W. H. McClintock, a mining man from Sonora, is at the Lick. Dr. Bower of New York city arrived at the California yesterday. Charles King, a cattleman of Hanford, is registered at the Lick. John McIntire, 2 mining man of Sac- ramento, is at the Grand. George Blade, 2 mining man of Tuttle- town, is staying at the Lick. Judge J. M. Mannon of Ukiah is mak- ing a short stay at the Lick. N. Wines, the Santa Barbara stage line proprietor, is at the Baldwin. A. J. Graeter, a cattleman of Dillon, Mont., is a guest.at the Lick. E. 0. Dugan, a mining man from Butte, Mont., is a guest at the Palace. A. E. Phillips, a mining man from ‘Winnipeg, Manitoba, is at the Palace. Dr. A. M. Gardner of the Napa Insane Asylum is a late arrival at the Lick. O. S. Knipper, H. V. Butler Jr., and R. G. Broderick, U. 8. N., are guests at the California. H. E. Makinney of Santa Cruz, one of the county officials, is at the Grand with Mrs. Makinney. Ex-Judge John M. Miller, a Los An- geles lawyer, is among the late arrivals at the Occldental. Leslie McKenzie, J. A. Folger's repre- sentative in Denver, Col., is a late ar- rival at the Grand. H. K. Ainsworth, surgeon-general of the Southern California system, is in town from Los Angeles. W. H. Clary, proprietor of the Sheep Ranch Mine, is in town from Stockton, and has a room at the Lick. Thomas R. More of Santa Barbara, who in other days used to write poetry, arrived yesterday at the California. August Uihleim of Milwaukee, accom- | panied by Miss P. Ulhleim and Miss M. Uihlheim, are guests at the Palace. J. E. Terry, a lumber merchant and race horse owner of Sacramento, is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Terry. Commodere Harry M. Gillig of the Larchmont Yacht Club, New York, is in the city. He came across the continent to attend the Christmas festivities of the Bohemian Club. C. A. Storke, an old resident and well- known lawyer of Santa Barbara, who of late has been prowainently associated with the More estate, arrived at the Grand yesterday. W. T. Summers, a young banker of Santa Barbara, credited socially with be- ing one of the three marriageably eligi- ble young men of that city’s local 400, is making a short stay at the California. Charles B. Darling of Washington, D. C., who is traveling correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal, returned to the California yesterday from San Rafael, where he has been spending some time. W. S. Iliff, a well-known young capi- talist of Denver, Col., and stepson of Bishop Warren of the Methodist Church, arrived at the Occidental yesterday, ac- companied by Mrs. Iliff. They have a winter home at Santa Cruz. Dr. George Chismore .has returned from a three weeks' sojourn on the Cat- alina Islands. He was there during the recent storm, when the wind attained a force sufficient to lift up and overturn a stage coach full of passengers. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—H. B. Tay- lor, California, Arlington; J. A. Cook and wife, San Francisco, St. James; W. L Colby, Oakland, Willards. E. P. Foster and wife of California are in ‘Washington. e orec———— PEOPLE TALKED @ABOUT. Senator McMillan of Michigan pos- sesses one of the finest coilections of paintings in this country. He is a great admirer of American art. Mrs. Emma Eames-Story, the well- known American singer, has abandoned her proposed German tour and will spend the winter in Paris. ‘William Penn Nixon, editor of the Chi- cago Inter-Ocean, is an upolicant for recognition as a citizen of the Cherokee Indian nation on account of property rights attaching to citizenship. Nixon's maternal great-grandmother, Phoebe Crews, was a full-blood Cherokee. Stop that cough with Low's Hore- hound Cough Syrup; price 10c. 417 Sansome streets 2 FLASHES OF FUN. Valet (to officer’s fiancee)—My lleuten- ant has sent me to bring you ythis bo:- quet of self-plucked forest flowers. F!npcth. how poetic! And how long it must have taken to gather them! Valet—Indeed, miss, it took me nearly three hours.—Boston Journal, Doctor—What is the particul = pl;ll:\t of your wife? 3 Bl e Caller—She complains 6f every- thing. But she isn’t the one who is S\r.\yl- fering, Doc. It is I.—Philadelphi American. Bioony “Why do you persist in looking at the moon and sighing?" she asked while gently steering their course towar@ the candy emporium. “Pure sympathy,” in an absent-minded way. “It's on its last quarter.”’—D: i Free Press. S e Tom—Will you call for help if I at- tempt to kiss you? Maude—Yes, if necessary; but I don’t see why a big, strong man like you !h‘;flfld require any help.—Chicago Rec- ord. Mr, Brown—Terrible tragedy at a bar- gain counter. A woman who had secured the last five yards of cheap silk was shot by another woman who had been waiting from midnight without having a chance to get any. Mrs. Brown—Poor thing! Surely they won't do anything to her, will y John?—Harlem Life. el “My wife had a good cry last night.” “What about?” “She told me to guess what she had bought me for Christmas, and I guessed. —Chicago Record. He—You always remind me of some- thing very disagreeable. She—Sir! I—I— He—Yes, you remind me of all the time | I have to spend where I can’t see you. And the clouds Bulletin. —_— e ————— ANSWERS TO ERRESPONDENTS. SLAVERY—A. R., City. The importa- tion of negro slaves into the American Colonies began with the year 1619, when a Dutch vessel brought a cargo of slaves into the James River. Some of the Col- onies desired to prohibit the importation of slaves. Virginia passed several acts to prohibit slavery or the importation of slaves, but they were vetoed. Pennsyl- vania passed such bills in 1712, 1714 and 1717, but they were likewise vetoed, as was a similar act passed by Massachu- setts in 1774. There were slaves in the colonies north of Mason and Dixon's line, which is the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. According to the census of 17% there were slaves in the various States as follows: New Hnm&nzhlre 158, Vermont 17, Rhode Isl- and . Connecticut 2759, Massachusetts none, New York 21,324, New Jer: 3 Pennsylvania 3737, Delaware S887, Mary- land 103,036, Virginia 293427, North Caro- lina 100,572, South Carolina 107,094, Geor- ga_ 20,264, Kentucky 11,830, and Tennessee 47, making a total of 657,527. MURDER—A. ., City. In cases of homicide where the presumption is great P that the crime was committed in a pre- | meditated manner the party charged is not admitted to bail, as murder under such circumstances is not a bailable crime. But there are cases where the evidence on preliminary examination de- velopes the fact that it was not comit- ted with malice aforethought, and in such cases the examining magistrate may admit to bail. DOLLAR AND HALF-DIME—Mrs, e City. A half-dime of 1838, if of one of the kind that has ne stars around the figure of Liberty, commands a premium of 45 cents. A gold dollar of 1853 com- mands a premium of only 15 cents, while a_half-dollar of 1829 doeés not command any premium. AN OLD PAPER—M. Cal. The San Francisco Daily Commer- ublis| rancisco 2 [s"not mow published: il FEBRUARY 180—E. A. W., Portland, Or. year) fell on Sunday. J. T., Stockton, e ———————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Adam’s first thought was b that Eve was only Ingended as a‘.’ ,igkzhly withodt dsoppine Them Tohues "Aes chests aren’t flag B peenusec tul Happiness in married lece of soap in a bathtub. now it was there when you got in. The only same woman is the jealous man. The habit married women have of col- robably a collecting lecting china or teaspoons is relic of their earlier habit o{) men. When a woman feels intimate enough with a2 man to get careless about the wa feef too intimate with h her.—New York Press. Sa ey lifted.—Philadelphia The 29th of February, 1830 (leap life is like a You always man who keeps on maki fool of himself in the same way. 16 ths she dresses for him he is liable to NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. A battle-ship of 14,900 tons, to be named the Irresistible, and another of the same class, called the Formidable, are to be built at Chatham and Portsmouth. Each ship will cost nearly $,000,000, and they will be of the Majestic type, of which five have been built during the last three years. The Russian warship Svetlana, build- ing at Havre, and approaching comple- tion, is of a decidedly novel type, being partly eruiser and yacht. She is of 3828 ° tons displacement, 331 feet in length, 42 feet 8 inches beam and has a maximum draught of 18 feet 9 inches. The hull is sheathed and coppered, and her engines, estimated to develop 8500, have already been worked up to 9500, and a speed of twenty knots is confidently anticipated. With her bunkers full—1000 tons—the ship has a cruising radius of 12,000 r_n(les_nt ten knots speed. The official designation of the vessel is “‘a cruiser at the disposal of the Grand Duke High Admiral,” and she is fitted with deck cabins and com- modious quarters below decks. She car- ries four 6-inch Canet guns in sponsons and one forward and another aft. The secondary armament consists of eighteen {7-millimeter 6-pounders and two 37-milli- meter 3-pounders. The portholes are ver- itable windows, giving plenty of light and air to the quarters. She has an armored deck over the zines and boilers, one inch thick on the flat and two inches on the slope. Above the armor deck runs a coffer-dam around the entire length of the ship, which is fitted with an auto- matic device, of Russian invention, for stopping shell perforations. The tele- phone system introduced is also a Rus- sian idea, and is of the loud-speaking variety, and the officer on the bridge as well as the captain in the conning tower can communicate with the engine-room and with every gun position. A mysterious explosion took place at the Bull Point naval ordnance depot, near Devonport, some time during Satur- day night and Monday morning, Novem- ber 28 and 30. Everything was apparent- ly all right when the shellroom was locked up, but when opened on the fol- lowing Monday it was discovered that a shell had exploded, the base and head of which had disappeared and the box in which it was kept was scattered to atoms. The affair is being investigated as to the cause, while the escape from a terrible catastrophe—the room being stored with hundreds of live shells—is looked upon as miraculous. Emperor William’s naval estimates, submitted to the Reichstag November 27, is a very ambitious and costly pro- gramme. It provides for seven battle~ ships, two large and seven small cruisers, all of which are to be completed at the end of the fiscal year 1904. The navy of Germany, with this proposed addition, will then consist of 17 battleships, 8 armored coast defenders, 9 large and 26 small cruisers and, in adddition, as re- serve, 2 battle-ships, 3 large and 4 small cruisers. The cost of new ships, includ- ing guns and torpedoes, will be $40,550,000, and, besides, during the next seven years ,000 additional will be required to replace obsolete ships. The expenditure on harbor works, dockyards, barracks, etc., is to be increased 25 per cent, which will bring the total annual increase to $2,250,000, and the total expenditures from 1897 to 1904 will be in millions of marks about 117, 121, 131, 144, 148, 150, 150, 149, or ranging from $27,750,000 to $3 ,000. The personnel, which now numbers 18,138, is to be increased by 8499, of which 344 are officers and 78 marine engineers. The floating dock for Havana, which was built in England at a cost of $1,000,- 000 and successfully towed 63500 miles across the ocean, lies sunk in the harbor of Havana. She arrived November 6, | and on December § the dock began to | sink, slowly and majestically settling to the bottom in about fifty feet of water. No one seemed to realize what ailed the structure. The Spanish engineers cried that a fraud had been perpetrated upon the Spanish Government by the English contractors, others, again, charging the accident to the Cuban insurgents. If, as is quite probgble, some of the valves were left open/ or designedly opened, the work of raising the dock should not prove a difficult undertaking, but at last accounts it still reposed on the bottom, notwithstanding the labor of 200 men to raise it. —_— Best Xmas plum pudding, Townsend's.® ——e—— Mocha pistache, pineapple cake.%5 Larkin® —— e Pop corn—loose, on strings, | balls. and Townsend's, 627 Market, Palace. ———— in . A handsome Christmas gift, a basket of Townsend’'s Cal. glace fruits;50c . * —————— . No waiting at Townsend's. Thousands of packages ready to hand out. . —_——— 2 Also open Sunday till 2 Fourth street; fine eyeglasses exchanged free. e e Special information supplied daily to manufacturers, business houses and pub- lic_men by the Press Clipping Bureau { (Allen’s), 519 Montgomery street, San Francisco. Telephone, Main 1042. . ——— | Husband's Calcined Magnesia; four | first premium medals awarded; mora agreeable to the taste and smaller dos than other magnesia. 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