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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED SDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1897 Call DEC WEDNESDAY . JOHN D. SP Address All Communicat PUBLICATION OFFICE....... Market and Third Sts., S. F. . Telephone Main 1858, | EDITORIAL ROOMS........... 217 to 221 Stevenson stree | Telephone Main 1§74. RECKELS, Proprietor. ns to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL . One year, by mall, $1.50 CAKLAND OFFICE .... 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFlCEf Riggs House | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. i S | BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, comer Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAlllster street: open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkln street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open until | So'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second cnd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. “Tha Jucklings. At Gay Coney Isiand.” n Iuteruational Mateh." T Left Behind Me.” Tom's Cabin.” 0se.” 1lle. Ladles’ Milltary Baod. | Cosmopolitan Orchestra. | alia German-Hedrew Opera Company, Saturday > s, de Track—Races to-day. Stark's V Orchest P day, December 51, Horses, at Twelfth THE GOLDEN JUBILEE. ™\ REPARATIONS f{ér the celebration of the I Golden Jubilee go forward with such a vim and vigor of movement as to the complete success of every feature of the enterprise. It is now recognized that the proposal to make the cccasion one for holding a mining exposition was All classes of people in the city have joined heartily in promot- ing the w the State at large is respond- favorably, and the whole mining region of the will be represented when the exposition is assure in all respects a happy inspiration. dertaki Wes of L There are good reasons for believing the cele- bration will be the most successinl thing of the kind ever carried out on the Pacific Coast The Alaskan gold excitement has prepared the public mind for just such an exposition in this part of the country. | When we issue invitation to an exposition of mines and ntining in a State renowned for its gold fields we appeal to a sentiment already inclined to ac- cept. The campaign of education on tne subject has been largely done for us, and all we have to do is to make ready to show to all those who come the resources of the State and the products of its industries. In order to make known as fully as possible the mineral wealth and mining possibilities of the whole of this section of the Union The Call will is- ste on Sund January 23, a grand special edition that will be a comprehensive summary of the sub- ject. It will serve as a literary and pictorial com- ium of what the exposition will display. The rk of compilation and editing is in the hands of competent experts, and the number will prove to be most reliable as well as the most interesting | cver devoted to the mining industry. With an exposition so timely and important as to merit the a ized world, and with a special edition of a newspaper to capably and worthily illustrate it, there is every assurance the Golden Jubilee will be as notable in the annais of | San Francisco as the Centennial Exposition in the per ntion of the ¢ history of Philadelphia, or the Columbian Fair in that of Chicago. It is a bright future that glows before us. All prospects promise good. To achieve prosperity we have only to exert our energies in harmonious If the ardor and enthusiasm with which the movement for the coming exposition has been begun can be maintained to the end we will sh a genuine triumph, derive profits of ds and make the celebration a golden jubi- lee in every sense of the words. 3 | co-operation. Several States and municipalities are devoting time to an effort to estop flirting between young men and women. If their time is of any value they might as well drop it. The only way to bring about the reform, if the change could be so designated, would be to catch the offenders in the act and promptly hang them to the gallows tree, afterward burying them at the crossroads. As such a course is not only unpleasant, but contains some elements of impracticability, perhaps it might be best to refer the whole matter to Charlotte Smith and call off the police. | It appears that a certain young woman who was shot at by a Japanese died of a bullet wound, and not of fright, as was the first opinion of the doc- tors, so an intelligent evening paper calls the deed “murder after all” Now, supposing death had been caused by fright due to the shooting, what | would the act have been? Hardly a visitation of Providence, as implied by the words quoted. The recent death of John Cosgrave, a noted ath- Jete still in the prime of years, suggests the advis- ability of revising an old theory that the good die | young. It is true that the good may sometimes do this, but for certainty of speedy decease they are simply not in it with the trained athlete who is proud of leather lungs and muscles of iron. By having the Chief of Police present and merely calling on him to occasionally interfere the San Jose City Council finds it possible to hold peaceful meetings. At is indeed pleasing to observe brethren thus dwelling together in unity. There is a distressing certainty of starvation in Cuba. At least people die of hunger, and yet yel- Jow journalism has overlooked the chance to say that tables down that way are groaning under their burden of food. % P Fitzsimmons says he is sick and tired of answer- ing questions about his intention to fight again.: If he thinks, however, that he has a monopoly of the sickness, or even of the tired feeling, he is consid: erably in error. Perhaps the men who held up 2 bobtail car did it less in the hor nf gain than to administer a re- buke to the antel’ vian style of locomotion, EMBER 29, 1897 | l A TEREST is beginding to be taken in the form of government which independent Hawaii would adopt, and even annexationists, as their plans go glimmering toward the limbo of things that have failed, are discussing it. It might prove a good idea to give the people back the ballot taken from them by the Dole oli- garchy and let them have a voice in the present government. What is now called the government of Hawaii has never been submitted to the people at all. A majority of the constitutional convention was appointed by Dole, and that majority con- inued him in power without submitting his can- didacy to the people. Since that revolution the Presidency of the United States has changed from Harrison to Cleveland and from Cleveland to Mec- Kinley, and still this country is doing quite well. The Cabinets which govern several other large countries have changed several times since Dole set himself at the head of a republic in which 2 per cent of the people vote and even these are denied the right to change the Presidency by voting for that officer. Of course “Mr. Dole is one of the anointed, but he is rather too close a corporation for a republic. Why not try the experiment of terminating his term, letting the people vote again who were electors under the constitutional monarchy, and going before them as a candidate for re-election? Presidents in this country have to go before the people, and when they are beaten they have to quit the business and be as polite as possible to their successors. Perhaps if we guarantee thé indepén- dence of Hawaii the people may for the first time try a constitutional republic there in place of the present oligarchy, which is a cross between the Tammany tiger and the autocracy of the Ameer of Afghanistan. Surely the delegation of Hawaiians now Washington pleading for the independence and autonomy of their country have no other issue at present. They do not propose the overthrow of the Dole crowd. They only ask that that gang be not permitted to sell the country to the highest bidder for cash. The annexationists have bid $4,000,000 in cash.to pay Dole’s debts and $19 a ton on raw sugar to benefit the planters. The Hawaiians com- riain that not only do they get none of the pur- chase money, but they are not even promised any participation in the future government of their own country. Again, suppose that these Hawaiians ask what form of government we are to give the islands if we annex them? Who can answer that? The al- ready defeated treaty does not answer it. Senator Morgan’s proposition to steal the country by joint resolution does not answer it. The President’s message declares frankly his inability to answer it. If annexed the future method of governing Hawaii is in the air. Therefore those people who are to be governed have a better right to ask how we propose to govern them than we have to ask how they propose to go¥ern themselves. It is only fair to assume that whatevertheform of government they will choose it will conform more closely to our solemn declaration that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed than any that we can impose upon them without their consent. It is also safe to assume that whatever form we impose upon them will be entirely repugnant to our own scheme of government and will establish be- tween the island people and ourselves that inequal- ity against which our whole constitution canonizes? We tread on perilous ground for ourselves when we propose to convert our equal system into a monster of inequality. No nation has ever done this without punishment, and there is no charm in the life of this republic to hold it harmless where others have suffered. THE '_l'éR|FF A@ND BUSINESS. in S the months pass the voice of the free- trader denouncing the Dingley protec- tive tariff becomes weaker and weaker. Re- viving prosperity depresses the calamity howler. Only now and then can be heard“above the joyous hum of bustling industry the cry of some futile | babbler asserting that the tariff will not provide a revenue sufficient to the needs of the Government. Reports from all trade papers show that the busi- ness of the year has been surprisingly large, that the output of some important staple goods, such as iron, woolens, boots and shoes, has been the largest on record, that the exports for the year will prob- ably exceed those of any previous year in our his- tory, and that the balance of international trade is enormously in our favor. These reports demonstrate what the protective tariff has done for the business of the country, and there can be no intelligent doubt that the reviving prosperity of the people will lead to a larger con- sumption of products of all kinds which in turn will result in an increase of revenues to the Govern- ment. According to estimates recently made by Mr. Howell, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the Dingley tariff, which yielded but $34,752,322 during the four months ending November 30, would under normal conditions have yielded $69,574,152, or $35,- 009,830 more than the actual receipts. This would be ample for the neceds of the Government and would enable the administration of protection not only to conduct the affairs of the natfon on a cash basis, but to pay off the debts contracted to make up the deficit caused by the free trade experiment. Time will vindicate the excellence of the Dingley tariff as a revenue producer for the nation as well as a measure protective to the industries of the people. We are justified in believing there will not be another tariff fight in the country during this generation. Free trade is a dead issue, and the Dingley act lives to attest the wisdom of the party that made the fight for American industry and American workingmen against the advocates of the British system and the free importation of the products of pauper labor. According to the New York Herald the railroads are robbing the Government of about $8,000,000 an- nually. Doubtless the paper has investigated the subject and it may be correct. The popular esti- mate, however, would have put the figures higher. It i$ not fair for gay young men who waste their substance in riotous living to claim to have been robbed. Occasionally there is a genuine case of hold-up, and the victim will get so that he can’t re- port the fact without forfeiting his reputation. Chicago was burned once by a cow, and now a pet dog has given it a scorching. Perhaps that city would be wise as a precautionary measure to place its domestic animals in a fire-proof pound. ——— However, the people of the United States who favor the taking of Hawaii have no right to howl about the robber nations who want to gobble 1 China. GOVERNMENT .FOR HAWAIL ——l ) | votes. PROSPECTS FOR RAIN. AIR weather is excellent, but there is such a thing as having too much of it. The long succession of sunny days has filled the farmers with forebodings of disaster. They are beginning to hum the words of the old song, “Spring would be but gloomy weather if there were nothing else but spring.” A good rain just now would be more welcome to the State than a visit from a convention of international beauties. There are as many kinds of weather predictions as there are kinds of men. The ways of the wild goose, the squirrel, the hedgehog and the ram are to some reflecting observers evidences of coming conditions of weather as sure as proofs of Holy Writ. The incredulous who do not accept these signs with faith have a faith of their own in official bureaus or in almanacs. Each man in accordance with his creed is searching his signs now to learn whether we are to have a dry year or a wet spring to follow the fair days Santa Claus brought with him for his comfort during the holidays. There is no reason why any one should take de- spondent views of the situation. A dry holiday season seems on the whole to be about as good a sign of abundant rains in January as of anything else. According to some records the less rain there is at this season the more there will be later in the winter or early in the spring, and there are people wise in rural lore who maintain that spring rains are more valuable than those of winter. The Ventura Independent has dug from the issue of the Free Press of that city for Decem- ber 22, 1877, the statement of a wise man of that generation to the effect that the records show the best seasons in Southern Cali- fornia to be those when the rains are light in No- vember and December. If the 1877 man was wise, as we may suppose him to have been, we may safely conclude the weather out- look for Southern California is all right and that section is going to have this year a prosperity big enough to spread a table and invite the neighbors in to turkey and pumpkin pie. If the outlook is so good for Southern Califor- nia why is it not equally good for the north? The weather signs of one section should be about the same as those of another. True we have not Mad the frosts that have been noted in the south. The callas and geraniums have bloomed unblighted in San Francisco, while there has been ice at San Parbara and chilly waves in San Diego, but that should not affect the rain problem. X We commeng to our readers the philosophy of the Ventura man of 1877 and also him of 1897, for both promise the coming of good rains. In fact, if they are right this is to be not a dry year, but a wet one, and the men now complaining of the drought may ere long be borrowing umbrellas and praying for sunshine. AN ALPHABETICAL QUESTION. HE alphabet appears to have played a con- spicuous part in the election held on Mon- day. It is interesting to study the result from an abecedary standpoint. The practical politicians have always looked upon 2 candidate with a musical name as a favored child of fortune, but never until the Australian ballot became fashionable have cognomens cut a con- trolling figure in politics. On rumored that large numbers of people had voted the first fifteen names on the ballot. That there was some foundation for this is plainly shown by the returns. For instance, Barry, Socialist Labor candidate, whose name, beginning with B, stands near the head of the ballot, received 1726 votes. Whitney, the last candidate on thelist, alsc repre- senting the Socialist Labor party, received 1332 he space between A and W, therefore, ap- pears to have been worth to Barry about 4o0 votes. At Monday’s election the official ballot was made vp of two columns. The names of some eight or nine candidates appeared in the second column. Every one of these ran behind the candidates of their parties further up the list, showing that the voters generally selected fifteen names before reaching the second column. That this is the fact is demonstrated by the vote of E. R. Taylor, nom- inee of the Charter Convention. Dr. Taylor is an ex-president of the Bar Association and has prac- ticed law in San Francisco for thirty-five years. He is well known throughout the city and has served on the bench and in the Legislature. Yet his name begins with T, and that circumstance nearly de- feated him. It has been said that no man can be elected Piesident of the United States who does not bear a musical name. The names of the Presidents are certainly all euphonious. None could be prettier than George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, An- drew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln or Grover Cleve- land. ‘A chief magistrate named Dink Botts, Hoke Smith, Abe Gruber, Tobe Scrutchings or Jump Squizzer is inconceivable. A candidate possessing any such cognomen would be laughed off the political stage. . Speaking of the tendency of mankind to abbre- viate words, Horne Tooke observed that letters were like soldiers—in the long marches many of them are left behind. The introduction of the Aus- tralian ballot with its alphabetical rules suggests the paraphrase that upon long ballots candidates whose names begin with letters located near the end of the alphabet are also usually left behind. We do not at this time propose any change in the ballot system, but it would appear that unless the people are to be governed in the future by men whose names begin with A, B or C, something will have to be done. It is unfair to defeat a man for office simply because his father was so shortsighted as to have his name commence with a T or a W or aZ. T TR O T While a man was in jail at Oakland and could only get out by marrying a certain young woman he was embarrassed by the absence of the $2 neces- sary to pay for a license. At this juncture another woman appeared, explaining that she was engaged to the prisoner, but would give him up. Nor was this all. She would go farther in her generosity and advance the $2 without which he was unable to claim a wife. Such nobility of character excited admiration. And so they were wed, the self sacri- ficing female being present as a witness. Then im- mediately after the wedding the witness walked off with the groom, leaving the bride to ponder ‘upon the sweetness and unselfishness of which a woman can be capable. Altogether it was a touching inci- dent. : g The gentleman who intends to walk across the Atlantic with a little boat attached to each foot de- serves every encouragement. There will be no cause for an inquest, and the remains, instead of being pottered over by a Coroner, will go to cheer some worthy fishes. Monday it was | THE NEW SUBMARINE BOAT ARGONAUT. Submarine navigation seems to be an accomplished fact. In the presence of a thousand persons the Argonaut, built by Simon Lake of Baltimore, was recently submerged in twenty feet of water and remained at the bottom of the Patapsco River for four hours. The craft behaved admiradbly, fulfilling all the requirements, claimed by the inventor. As the vessel lay at anchor she looked very much like a miniature monitor. Her decks were covered with water, only the hollow masts towering above, supplying air to those inside. After an exhibition of her going ers above water the little craft too a position a short distance from shore, and in two minutes after coming to a standstill went to the bottom in twenty feet of water and cruised around at the will of those inside. The party which accompanied the inventor say they ex- perienced no unpleasant sensation. The only time at which the motion of the vessel was felt was when rolling along on a hard bottom. Then there was a slight vibration. The test was a sevi owW- up ! and water one, as much of the bottom was muddy. Nevertheless the boat plowed through without any trouble. When at a full stop a diver entered an air-tight com- partment and made his way out of the Vessel. Those within were able to watch him as he moved about at the bottom of the river. A dinner was served under water, and the guests experienced no difficuity whtle eating. Three systems can be used for sub- | merged traveling. With the masts, | Wwhich are hollow, permitting air to come | in on one side and go out the other, the | vessel can work forty feet under water. In deeper water hose is used, which an- swers the purpose of supplying air to the | gasoline engine, and aiso supplies the | crew. In water'10) feet deep the storage battery is depended upon for power and | light and the compressed air reservoir | for the air supply. When the hollow masts are submerged | ours in an_automatic valve | stops the flow. The diver obtains his | supply of air from a tube running around | the top of the vessel, which contains sed air, He experienced no trou- | er in going out or returning. PERSONAL. W. H. Brott is at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. P. Craig of Capay Is at the Grand. B. C. Thomas of Fresno is at the Cos- mopolitan. Dr. S. N. Cross of Stockton is at the Occldental. C. W. Smith of Los Banos is at the Cosmopolitan. ‘W. J. Gregory, a merchant of Hollister, is at the Russ. | T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, is | at the Palace. Dr. W. M. Stover of Soledad is regis- tered at the Grand. F. A. Jackson and wife of Jackson are at the Cosmopolitan. R. P. Dodge, a merchant of Hanford, is at the Russ with Mrs. Dodge. Louis F. Breuner, a Sacramento mer- chant, is a late arrival at the Grand. H. L. Porter and M. L. Graff of Los Angeles are late arrivals at the Palace. 8. Ehorn, a merchant of Orland, is at the Russ, accompanied by Mrs. Ehorn. Sheriff U. 8. Gregory of Amador Coun- ty is at the Grand registered from Jack- son. H. E. Picket, a mine-owner of Placer- | ville, s among the late arrivals at the Lick. 'ax Collector N. W. Moodey of Fresno County is in town from Fresno. He has & room at the Lick. Judge L. B. Stearns of Port'and and his brother, Judge A. F. Stearns of Rose- burg, Ore., are guests at the Lick. Eugene H. Barton of Seneca, Tuolomne County, and Chauncey Wetmore of Son- ora, mining men, are at the Lick. Professor Edwin D. Starbuck of the department of education at Stanford is at the Grand with Mrs. Starbuck. R. Mackintosh and Charles Read, min- ing men of Salt Lake, arrived here yes- terday and are staying at the Palace. Carl M. Nellsen, superintendent of -schools of Sonoma County, is down from Banta Rosa and has a room at the Russ. A. D. Charlton, assistant general pass- enger agent of the Northern Pacific, with ‘headquarters in Portland, Ore., is In town. Ira G. Hoitt, principal of Burlingame School and late State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a guest at the Oc- cidental. W. G. Barnwell, general agent at Los Angeles of the Southern California Rail- way, arrived here yesterday and will re- main until Sunday. Ike Hermann, traveling freight agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, left here last night en route to Portland, Ore., his headquarters. E. P. Colgan, State .Controller, and C. M. Coglan, secretary of the State Board of Equalization, are guests to- gether at the Lick and are registered from Sacramento. ‘Willlam H. Mead of Portland, general agent of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneap- olisand Omaha Railway and chairman of the Portland City Council, arrived here yesterday morning. John A. Eldridge and James J. Eld- ridge, bankers of Salt Lake City, who usually spend a part of the winter here, arrived at the Palace yesterday, accom- panied by Miss Susie Eldridge. George F. Hatton, late editor of the Oakland Tribune, and now an attorney- at-law and notary public in the Crocker building, has been appointed attorney for the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore. Alearus Hooper, who has the distinc- tlon of having been the first Republican ‘mayor of the city of Baltimore, arrived at the California yesterday with Mrs. Hooper. He was mayor about the time Sutro was at the head of this city. ‘W. H. McGuire of Hanford is staying at the Palace. He was recently grad- uated from Stanford University and has purchased what is said to be probably the finest private law library in the San Joaquin Valley, a collection of some $5000 worth of books. Among the school teachers that arriv- ed at the Baldwin yesterday was Miss Mary K. Polk, a graduate of Stanford, who is head of the English department in the Santa Barbara High School, and Miss Schallenberger of the department .of educatipn in Stanford University. J. C. Yager, beginning with the new year, will be general manager of the ‘Wagner Palace Car Company with his office at New York City. He succeeds J. A. Spoor, who resigned. And W. O. Chase will become general superintendent of the company at Chicago in place of J. C. Yager. —_————— DEVIOUS DEFINITIONS. Mute—The -only female that ever goes without saying. Patriot—The man who bleeds for the benefit of his country. Politician—The man who bleeds his country for his own benefit. Experience—Something th; e s ‘onceit—The a PR e e e R el ‘Windmill—The usual result of a meet- ing between two pugilists. {Idar{u—W'hn the doctor = have when ho doesn't know what aio what ails you. Christmas—The glorious season when every man gets a divorce from his coin. Heathens—A class of people who never waste their time quarreling about reli- on. 81WIdow—ficxllethnem a_ woman who be- lieves she is an example of the survival of the fittest.—Chlcago News. Stop that cough with Low's Horehouna FLASHES OF FUN. Teacher—Can you tell me, Johnny, which travels faster, heat or cold? Johnny—Heat, of course. Anybody kin ketch cold.—Pittsburg Builetin. ! ‘Tell me, Rafferty,” sald Mr. Dolan, “is Clanty still a walkin’ delegate?” ‘No,” was the reply. *Are you sure?’ “Not iv me personal’ kmowledge. But Ol take it fur granted he's roidin’ in a hack be this time.”—Washington Star. Rector’s Wife—You ought to avoid even the appearance of evil. Do you, yourself, think the girls who dance are right? | Belle of the Parish—They must be. I know the girls who don’t dance are al- ‘ways left.—Harlem Life. An old Georgla negro, hearing that his former master had decided to enlist in the Cuban army, sald to him: “Marse Tom, doan you do no sich fool | thing ez dat—doan you do it!" i “Why shouldn’t 17" “Kase, Marse Tom,"—and here the old man lowered his volce—'you's got a touch er de rheumatism, en you can't | run ez fast now ez you run en-durin’ er de war!”—Atlanta Constitution. Miss Westlake—T really believe George | Benwood Is weak-minded. | Miss Cutting—Why, dear, has he been | making love to you? | leveland Leader. Beck—What became of that charming | little north side widow you used to rave | so_much about? | Peck—Oh, she's married now. | Beck—That's too bad; but you always | were lucky with your love affairs. Peck—Yes; decidedly so. Beck—By the way, whom did she marry? Peck—Me.—Chicago News. A PRAYER FOR EUROPE. 7 Have pity on the German hordes That dwell across the Rhine, And keep them to their simple tasks, Their mimic war and wine; Let fires of counsel light their path And shine their way before, Let demons never tempt their feet Upon the Yankee shore! I Have pity on the Spanish dons Who battle here alone To keep @ foothold on the soil That once was all their own; Grant them restraint from cruel deeds And peace the waters o'er, 3 And keep their galleys from the line That marks the Yankee shore. L Have pity on the English clans That frown the world to-day, Their soldiers brave, their women bright, Their casties hoar and gray; | Keep them from idle, foolish dreams Of strife with kin once more— The sky is filled with Hessian ghosts, | Above the Yankee shore! | Iv. | Remember him who sits to-day | Where star and crescent toss, Nor Leeds reproof when human’ blood Lies spattered on a Cross, Grant Europs eves to see the crime That lles at Europe's door, Ere yet with boastful voice Along the Yankee shore. V. Image of Janus, none we seek Upon the battle plain; Our swords are hidden long from sight, Our cannons rust again. Weicome we give to hands that come The wine of peace to pour, But, If with scabbards, there are graves Along the Yankee shore! i —John James Meehan in Puck. | [ Aechy s tal vy COAST EXCHANGES. } "she calls The Christian Monitor was a superb | edition, replete with beautiful fllustra- | tions and literary matter appropriate to | the season. | The Wave, News Letter and Star cov- ered themselves with credit In their re-| spective holiday editions. Verily, the San | Francisco weekly press is the peer of that of any city west of New York. | The San Francisco Volce of Labor | printed a neat twenty-page holiday sou- | venir edition with handsomely illuminated cover, and the appearance of the adver- tising pages would seem to indicate that | the number was profitable to the pub-! lishers. Sate The twelve-page holiday edition of the Vallejo Chronicle Jast Wednesday was a | number creditable alike to the paper and | to the town. Scenes of interest on Mare | Island, embracing a fine view of the great | stone dock, and a picture of Vallejo as| seen from the navy yard, were particu- | larly attractive features. The sfudents of the Santa Clara High | School edited the entire Christmas num- ber of the Santa Clara News, and made & surprisingly good job of it. In fact,| the Christmas News in quality of matter and excellence of illustrations has hardly | ever been surpassed in that town's news- | paper history. The Redding Searchlight celebrated the commencement of its fourth volume by Increasing the size of the paper from | elght to twelve pages. It ranks among | the successful newspapers of Northern | California, and has materially assisted in | advancing the welfare of that section of | the State. The Washington Prgss is preparing a special edition to be issued at the begin-| ning of 1868. It will contain half-tone il- lustrations of the churches, schools, homes, business houses and manufacto- ries of Washington Township, and will describe the. resources, progress and prosperity of “the garden spot of Ala- meda County. —_——————— Ex-Secretary Hoke Smith has dis- charged all the negro carriers on his newspaper, the Atlanta Journal, and has refused to sell papers to negro newshoys, on the ground that the negroes refuse to be vaccinated and he is afraid they may | | —r % ;- 4.Cough Syrup; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. * | be the distributors of smallpox. | | some of t | lion-dollar country. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The first drydock in England was built at Portsmouth in 1465-96 ulider Henry Vir and cost only £193 38 6%d, or $95 131 American money. It was s Vation, with its sides planked up, and it had no gates, instead of which the en- trance was barred with heavy timbers filled in with rock and clay to keep the water out. One single “ingyne” pumped out the water. Its construction toolk about seven months, and four tons of jron from $18 50 to $20 a2 ton Wwere used besides spikes. Carpenters were paid from 8 to 12 cents a day and laborers got 6 cents for their day's work. The doc remained in use until 1623, when it filled in. There were drydocks on the Continent long before the first dock was built in England. The best fuel for torpedo boats is to be French briquettes, made fr Welsh coal carefully selected and wa ed. Mr. Yarrow's experience in long runs at high speed with torpedo bc has demonstrated this fact, and whe ever he found difficulty in maintair the trial speed of his boats resource w. had to the French briquettes, which have never failed. England is the last naval power to adopt electricity on board ships for its varied uses besides lighting purposes. England was also several vears behind the United States in introducing electri- city for lighting, and now somewhat late realizes the necessity of using electric power for ammunition hoists, turret turn- ing and other labor saving devices hith- erto performed by steam or hydraulic power. A French armored cruiser, to be called the Montcalm, has just been given out by contract. The' ship will be of 916 tons displacement and is to steam 21 knots under forced draught. During the recent trial at sea for twen- ty-four consecutive hours the French cruiser Du Chayla averaged 17% knots per hour. The Vv 1 is 392 tons dis- placement, or about ninety tons smaller than the Charleston, whose trial speed nine years ago developed an average of 18.7 knots during four hours. A successful gun trial took place re- cently in England on the British gunboat Pincher. It is a new type of the Vicker quick-firing type of 6-inch caliber. This gun fired thirty-six shots in four min- utes and forty-seven seconds, whereas the ordinary 6-inch gun can only deliver about one-third that number of dis- charges in the same time. All modern vessels for war or mer- cantile purposes are fitted with water- tight buikheads, but during recent years there have been several notable in- stances where the bullsheads were found anything but water-tight. The Victoria sank in_collision with the Camperdown in the Mediterranean In 1892 and went down like a stone, notwithstanding her water-tight bulkheads; the Texas, in our navy, sank at the dock through an accl- | dent, which, if her bulkheads had been properly fitted, would have still kept her ‘nflaflt, and, lastly the Russian ar- | mored ship Gangoot sank in the Bay of Bothnia chiefly through the fault of her bulkheads. The Rus- sian admiralty has determined to guard as much as possible against the re- currence of such disasters. and hereafter | vessels will be tested while still on the stocks. The first vessel to be thus tested was the coast defense ship Admiral Ush- akoff, building at St. Petersburg. Her | compartments were filled with water and the trial showed that from-the lower deck upward the bulkheads were tight, letting not a drop of water leak through, but below the protective deck the case was quite different, for all the holes plerced for electric wires and pipes leak- ed and water seeped out around the con- nectin ts and fittings and through seams. These defects, lo- cated before the ship was afloat, were easily made good, and demonstrated where the troubles of water-tight work were chiefly to be found. Japan has contracted with the private firm of Chantiers de la Loire for an ar- mored cruiser of 9436 tons, at which the French press expresses high satisfaction | as an indorsement of a forelgn Govern- ment of the high ciass of work turned out from French yards. This armored cruiser, only 165 tons larger than the United States armored cruiser Brooklyn, will have a belt 6.2 inches thick, against the Brookiyn's 3 inches. She will be 448 feet in length, 59 feet 6 inches beam and draw 2 feet aft. Her engines of 17,000 horsepower will give a speed of 20 knots The main armament will consist of four 7.8-inch rifles, placed In two turrets; twelve b5.9-inch quick-firlng guns, of which eight are in armored casemates and four on the upper deck with shields. ‘The secondary battery is composed of twelve 2.9-inch and twelve l.8-inch guns, all rapid firing ordnance. 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