The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1898, Page 6

JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. dress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL RCOMS.... 27 to 291 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 16 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE ... 908 Broadway Eanstern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D.C. OFFICE ................ Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. sorner Clay: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 930 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untl! S o'clock. 2518 Misslon street: open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st.. open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk streat cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o’clock. PUBLICATION OFFICE AMUSEMENTS. Paldwin Aleazar— Morosco's Optieal Nustons. b, Ingleside Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. ‘uesday, January 25, Real Es- 215 Montgos ot. at 12 o'clock BRILLIANT PROSPECTS CONTINUE. HE improvement in trade already noted shows no signs of diminishing. Several lines are lagging, but as a general thing the demand for goods is heavier, factories are better employed and the outlook is more satisfactory than for years. The bank clearings of the whole country showed a gain last week of 36.5 per cent over the same week in 1897, and the failures again fell off, being only 300, against 429 in 1897. From no section of the country is business re- ported really dull. In fact, the distribution of mer- chandise and manufactured products is good every- where. The tendency in prices is steadily upward, though no marked advances have been reported of late. The railroad earnings thus far in January are 10 per cent larger than during the same period in 1807, and exports of American products to foreign countries are remarkably heavy. The iron trade, which has for years been accepted as one of the best barometers of business, is enjoying a pronounced boom. The demand for finished products is un- precedented, including 1,200,000 tons of steel rails thus far this year, and the Pittsburg works are send- ing orders away to other concerns, being unable to fill them. This extraordinary demand of coursé af- fects prices, which are firm in consequence. With the exception of cotton, which continues dull, the in- dustrial situation is extremely gratifying. The woolen trade is stimulated by higher prices for wool abroad, owing chiefly to reports of a short yield, and the de- mand for clothing has been brisk for some time. Wall street has lately been the weakest spot in the | country, as speculation in securities has been un- favorably affected by the Congressional agitation over Cuba and silver, as well as by the political di turbances in Asia, which have rendered English in- vestors cautious in placing their funds. This cau- tion has indirectly affected American shares, of which the English are the best and most frequent buyers. At the close, however, more tone was exhibited by the market, for all American securities are inherently strong and would probably be active were it not for the disturbing political causes mentioned. The cereal situation, while irregular, is rather firm than otherwise. Shipments of corn to Russia and Egypt, the very countries from whrch, next to the United States, Europe draws the bulk of its sup- plies, have imparted considerable strength to grain in general. Indeed, the exports of corn from the United States have been remarkably heavy of late. Prices have not fluctuated widely, but they have har- dened somewhat, and breadstuffs may be classed as firm with a slight upward tendency. The Pacific Coast is enjoying its share of the pros- perity. Trade is good all over the State. Dealers in provisions say that they never betore did so much business in January as now. The demand is for all distributive points, from Alaska to the equator, and it is expected that hams, bacon and lard will advance in the near future. Hogs have already gone up and are firm and in rather light supply at the advance. Beef and mutton rule firm at the good prices. Hay has again advanced; barley, oats and corn are quoted higher, and every few days a rise in beans is re- ported. The deficiency in grass is giving more firm- ness to the butter market. Dried fruits are looking up and prunes are quoted at a fractional advance, with an improved demand for Eastern account. Prices for wool, hops and hides are maintained, though all of these lines are quiet. Merchandise is in good movement, and fluctuations are few and generally in the direction of higher prices. In fact, the ten- dency in everything is upward, just as it was down- ward a year or two ago. The outlook for crops is still uncertain. = Except in one or two sections of the State there is plenty of moisture in the ground thus far, and the grain crop is reported right, though free rains in the spring will be needed. Prospects for a good fruit yield are excellent, as the long period of cold weather has kept the fruitbuds back, thus minimizing the danger from frost later As to the future of the ocal grai are kept on the anxious seat by the vagaries of the weather, but the fact that there has thus far been no sharp rise in prices is good evi- dence that no serious deficiency is feared at present. In brief, wherever the eye is cast the commercial outlook is cheering, and unless all signs fail we will have one of the best years for the farmer and mer- chant that California has ever seen. on. speculat; 1i the United States intends to keep up with the times it must send a gunboat to Hayti to demand indemnity for something. It may or may not have a case, but this is not a.consideration. The rule seems to be to base action upon the fact of having a gunboat. The Supervisors say they have viewed many fen- ders and found few worthy. The public does not care if there are only a few. One good one is all it has been asking for. Dole is reported to be talking abowe failure. With- out doubt he is doing so. = His usual theme is an- nexation, and if that isn't failure there isn't such a thing. ANUARY 24, 1808 | THE DAY OF JUBILEE. AN FRANCISCO awakes this morning to ex- g tend on behalf of California a welcome to all " who come to take part in the rejoicing of the Golden Jubilee of the land of gold. The splendor and accomplishment of fifty years of activity are be- tore the eyes of the visitors. The city is radiant with colors, the streets are adorned with banners and arches, and the people are buoyant, joyous and jubi- lant. All things tend to make the day the greatest festival in our history and all things promise a week of pleasure both to the citizen and the visitor. It is a striking coincidence that the jubilee year of the discovery of gold in California should find the people of the United States excited by another gold discovery on the Pacific Coast. By that fact the public mind is brought into perfect harmony with the celebration. It is easy for us to understand the fer- vor of the Argonauts of ‘49 when we feel around us the fervor of the cager adventurers who are pre- paring for the Klohdike. The glamour of gold is upon us to-day as it was upon our predecessors of a half century ago, and we can celebrate with sym- pathy as well as with pride the discovery of that wonderful nugget at Sutter’'s Mill. The Call has done its share toward the celebration by the publication yesterday of a grand special edi- tion devoted to the memory of the Argonauts, the history of gold mining in California and the condi- tion of the industry this time throughout the Pa- cific Coast from-Alaska to Mexico. That edition serves as an introduction to the week of jubilee and to the mining fair that is to follow. This morning The’Call has no more to do than to utter the general voice of San Francisco in a cordial welcome to visi- tors and a wish of joy for all. Through streets made gorgeous and glorious with all forms of brilliant decoration, will move the stately procession that with civic pomp will mark the pub- lic appreciation of what Marshall's discovery of gold meant for California and the world. It will not be forgotten that others before Marshall knew that gold existed here. The merit of his discovery over their knowledge, is that he made known what they kept hidden. The moral is the advantage of publicity over privacy, the benefit that comes from sharing good fortune with the world at large. This moral will be in our minds to-day. We have a golden land; let us make it known. We have re- sources richer even than our gold fields; let.us make them known. We have a city superior to any other on earth in natural advantages. in beauty of location, in mildness of climate and splendor of possibilities: let make it and its glory known. We hold up our city and our State to-day, of old Marshall held up the golden nugget, and invite the world to share the treasures and the prosperity they will yield to all who rightly work for them. In this spirit we welcome our visitors, and cele- brate the da The accomplishments of the past are the prophecies of the future. What we have done is the guarantee of what we yet shall do. Our joy to- day is not wholly derived from memories of the by- gone fifty years. We rejoice also in the future, whose prospects gleam along the horlzon even more golden than those that drew to California the brave host of pioneers of "40. : A FREE PUBLIC MARKET. NEW step is to be taken in the movement to fl bring about the establishment of a free public market in this city, in accordance with the law enacted at the last session of the Legislature. The Board of Harbor Commissioners has formally in- vited the producers of perishable products who would be benefited by such a market to appoint a perma- nent committee to co-operate with the board in ar- ranging for its establishment, and the San Fran- cisco Farmers' Club has called a convention of pro- ducers to meet in this city February 23, for the pur- pose of electing and instructing the proposed com- mittee. When the movement for a free public market was first undertaken it found almost universal approval. It was generally recognized that the market would be of great benefit to both the producers and the consumers of fruit, vegetables and other perishable articles of commerce, and the desirability of provid- ing it promptly was conceded. The more the sub- ject was discussed, however, the graver appeared the difficulties in the way of establishing one that would be adequate to the needs of the trade, and at last the enterprise seemed so hopeless that the agitation was temporarily suspended until plans feasible and prac- ticable should be put forward in its support. The call now issued by the Farmers’ Club of this city and the renewal of the agitation give promise that some definite plan, practical in its nature, has been devised by the promoters of the scheme and will be submitted to the producers’ convention. In the expectation of such a plan the public will await the meeting of the convention with no little interest, and will be ready to give approval and support to any wisely directed movement toward the accomplish- ment of the desired object. That San Francisco needs a free public market is beyond question. It is equally unquestionable that the producers of perishable products throughout the State should have some means of selling their produce in the metropolis of the State under conaitions that will enable them to get something like the real value of their goods to the consumers of that market. At the present time our trade in fruit, vegetables and poultry products is done in the most expensive and wasteful manner possible in a civilized commun- ity. The State produces vast quantities of fine fruit, the climate renders a fruit diet agreeable and health- ful at all seasons of the year, the general prosperity of the people enables them to pay fair prices for it, but such is the inefficiency of our commercial sys- tem that large quantities of the fruit are wasted, tons of it being thrown away. While the producer hardly receives a price sufficient to pay him for his labor the average citizen finds the price fixed for the con- sumer so high that he can hardly afford it as a luxury, much less as a staple article of food. No ordinary market place will serve the require- ments of a city so large as San Prancisco, and 2 trade so extensive as this. In that fact lies the dif- ficulty in the way of providing the market. All dif- ficulties, however, can be overcome by wisely di- rected effort, and it is to be hoped something of the kind can be assured by the Harbor Commissioners and the committee of producers that is to be ap- pointed to assist them. ———————— The Rev. Foute has destroyed an illusion. He says the armor of the Merrimac was aot composed of railroad iron, and having fought inside of it he doubtless knows. But nobody can fail to experi- cnce a pang of regret at letting that railroad-iron story go. The latest gentleman to report having been held up by a footpad had, it appears, merely run against a poker game. The two experiences do not of neces- sity differ widely. There are poker sharps who, be- coming footpads, would justly be regarded as having i partially reformed THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1898. THE HONOR OF BEING DISLIKED. 1 T may be gathered from a casual reading of the l Los Angeles papers that their newly acquired habit of disliking The Call grows apace. For this a small measure of gratitude is due, and hereby ten- dered. One of the cheering possibilities of life is | that of winning the disapproval of rogues. We de- | cline to take these papers seriously and, indeed, fai!t to see reason why they should be taken at all. One Los Angeles daily says virtuously that the | leading papers of that city are in favor of exposing and punishing corruption. Then, why the row?| They should not regard their own corruption in--1 mune, but rejoice that the way to lead a better lite is being pointed out to them. There is naught of malice in the assistance they are receiving from this | city. The Call would be glad to know that its seeth- | ing contemporaries of the Southland had concluded | to become decent, and would hasten to commend them. When they shall emerge from the seridom in | which they are held by the water company, when they shall begin to fight the battles of the people in- stead of doing the bidding of monopoly, and no longer have occasion to hide their rascality by a | frothy clamor of words, not judiciously selected, these | fucts shall be proclaimed. They shall be proclaimed | as frecly as the unpleasant facts at present existing. | As to having “lost the respect” of Los Angeles’ peo- | ple we must decline to believe it. There are people | in that fair city neither holding shares in the wate concern nor accepting its bribes. The respect of | these is wo-th having. | Another paper remarks, we fear with something | approaching rancor, that no assistance was asked of | The Call. This is an error which may bé ascribed | to a wrong point of view. Assistance was asked, | not by the robbers, but by the robbed. TIhe foot- pad engaged in th-ottling a wayfarer 1ot cnly does | not request the aid of the police, but resents the mere presence of the police as a detriment and an impo- sition. Yet haled into court, the footpad would hardly have the nerve to enlarge upon the circum- stance that the police had no business to interfere. At least he could only have acquired such nerve by a preliminary course of training on a Los Angeles water organ. It is true that a paper is not officially a police agent, yet any citizen has a right to arrest a criminal caught in the act. One of the writhing victims of exposure laments that The Call is simply rotten. The expression lacks elegance. Neither does the important element of truth lend to it a benign and redeeming presence. However, it is quoted to show that decayed journal- ism, nipped by the frost of fact, is sloughing vigor- ously and imagines its own taint to have got into general circulation. ' In justice to the Los Angeles Record it must be said that it is not included among the papers that the water company is running. Particular refer- ence has been intended to the Herald, Times and Express, a three-headed corruption suffering from water on its several brains. SURVEYING AT NICARAGUA. EPORTS from Nicaragua concerning the work R of the Canal Commission do not give encour- agement to any hope of speedy action. The Commissioners, it is said, have decided to ignore the work of the commission of 1805 altogether and to make a complete survey of their own. This is per- haps the best course to pursue, but it is further an- nounced that the new commission will take a longer time than the former one in making surveys, and that apparently means an indefinite delay. To make the matter worse the season has been un- favorable to any kind of survey work along the route. It is announced that heavy rainfalls have interfered with the progress of the workers, and on-one occa- sion the Newport, with a number of laborers aboard, was kept from landing for three days, and was finally | compelled to seek safety in a port thirty miles dis- tant from the point where the landing was to have been-made. It is further reported that as a result of the survey thus far accomplished the commission may recom- mend a change in the proposed location of the en- trance of the canal. This threatens a further complication, as the suggested recommendations would raise a dispute with the engineers who selected the original site for the entrance, as well as with the commission of 18035, which also had its own ideas where the entrance should be fixed. In the meantime it has been announced that a group of capitalists, including the contractors who consWucted the Chicago drainage canal, have sent a surveying party of their own to go over the Nicar- agua route and estimate the possibility of construct- ing it by private enterprise. It is said that Chief En- gineer Coolie, of drainage canal fame, has expressed the conviction that the Nicaragua canal can be com- pleted at a cost not exceeding $25,000,000. The constructors of the Chicago drainage canal have had more experience in canal work with im- proved mechanical appliances than any other set of men in the world. They completed the Chicago canal at a cost much less than the original estimate, thereby breaking the record of large municipal enter- prises. They know what modern science, mechanism and explosives can do in the way of blasting rock, dredging rivers, removing earth and building em- bankments, and hoiv superior the implements and methods used at Chicago are to those used at the Suez canal or at Panama. It has been asserted all along that the Nicaragua canal would cost from $80,000,000 to $100,000.000, and much of the opposition to the enterprise has been due to a dislike to have the Government guarantee the bonds of the company for so large a sum. If the Chicago contractors offer to do the work for $25.000,- 000, or even for double that sum, there will be a greater willingness on the part of Congress to under- take it. Under the circumstances the counntry will wait for the reports of the two surveying parties with a great deal of interest, and it is to be hoped neither of them will be long delayed. H. W. Patton is not winning the regard of the water company’s papers at Los Angeles. As bitter |. as this may be, there is every reason to believe the experience does not come as a surprise to Mr. Patton. When a man yells “thief” and displays the evidence that he knows what he is talking about, the thief seldom pauses in his career to express a sense of ad- miration and gratisude. There is unnecessary distress unless war come upon the land and find the Government’s stock of powder small. There is a large quantity of powder in pri- vate hands, and rather than be licked by a foreign foe Uncle Sam would doubtless go to the length of buying some of this. Two young men in Iilinois, having been walloped by their school teacher, waylaid him and beat him 1 death. Day by day the problem of education in this country presents new difficulties. Perhaps the declaration of Brazil that it is pleased with Bryan for Minister grows out of an idea that he is another Bryan. nnuLn auLnLuRNRNnn BOVE and beyond the uninspired idiocy of John J. McNally “Court- | ed Into Court” is blessed by the personality of Marie Dressler. There is hope and consolation in Miss Dressler; it is good to know that she is in the land. In case anything ever should happen to May Irwin we have Marie Dressler to fall back on. Not that things are likely to happen to May Irwin's sensational health—not that!—but she might some day take it into her genial head to retire; she might—who knows what these good- natured women will do?—marry her- self to some proud prince who could not bear to see her work: or she might stay away from San Francisco alto- gether. It has been a long time since Miss Irwin westward hoed, and there is nothing in our immediate horoscope to point her on the way. New York, you know, finally has “discovered” May Irwin. She can stay there now all the year round with any old kind of a plece and nothing to do but work night in and night out, with never a care of transportation or advance agents and grow stouter and richer while we wait. Miss Dressler makes hope deferred en- durable. She is all but May Irwin and a magnetic considerable of her own be- sides. .. ACCORDING to the cant supersti- tions about beauty that commoniy ob- MISS DRESSLER BY ASHTON STEVENS. R R R R A A R RERRUARARURANKURRRNR RN RN QKRN QKRS pression, SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS AT THE PLAY, & 8”8 "uRLNR | held up to the scorn of this Juno's strength. So would I. But Mr. Rice s, on the contrary, kissed—yes, kissed by Miss Dressler. It is not a Nethersolean kiss; there is nothing tumultuous, throbbing, scorching, stifling about it; it is a plain, slew—I have to confess it is slow—business-like salute with a | smack at the parting that Miss Dress- ler indents upon the osculatory feature of Mr. Rice. Unworthy Rice! You may see where the caress has left its seal. Mr. Rice's lips were a flattened pout, a ripe red spot glows between the diverg- ing points of his mustaches—and that is where he has been kissed. Twice | blessed and twice unworthy Rice! It/ has been his specialty to be kissed by | the two most accomplished kissers ln{ the profession. He has been kissed into | fame, nectarized into notoriety. First | it was May Irwin—she had themselves | kinetoscoped in the act; It was called | the May Irwin kiss and was patented | and copyrighted by photographers and kinetoscopers and could be seen for a | nickel in the slot. Now it is Marie Dressler who kisses Mr. Rice. I ask | anybody if there is anything in this | AND MR. RICE. tain Marie Dressler is not beautiful. But she has a fascinating way of being plain; in her physiognomy there i§ | something of a homely Hading, and | she shows all the warm, womanly cor- | diality that Hading—if she has any at | all—conceals under a mask of snow. | | Also she is probably a better McNally | farce-comedienne than her contempo-! rary of the Comedie Francaise. Have | you heard Marie Dressler sing? Her voice is the superlative of plump joy; it has the real essence, the snuff-col- | ored tone, the just-throw-myself-away l quality that finds the true temper of | the modern coon song. Her “Ram-a- Jam, I Want That Man” is the most momentous Americo-Ethiopic song- | burst that has happened here since | May Irwin sang “The New Bully.” PR I WONDER if Miss Dressler has the | same attraction for women that she has for men. Possibly not. She is the most popular person, from the mascu- line estimate, that I have seen in four- teen months. All the men about the town are intening her praises. I have ! heard but one woman mention the mat- ter—and then it was to say she thought Miss Dressler a trifle bumptious and rough. Never mind about the rough- ness, but the bumptiousness I admits there is no word which better than that describes the physical attributes of this large unique young woman. She is bumptious to be lovable. She revels in a vast clumsy grace that isvivid, personal | and magnetic; she deals in a sort of | convivial hypnotism that is immediate | and fatal. But she is as gentle as a | man. You, if you are a woman, may not consider it gentle in Miss Dressler to lift Mr. Lyon by the scragg of the neck and joust him against the floor and poke him in the waistcoat and titillate him on the solar plexus—but I, | who can feel the 'fluence of this Brun- | hilda of McNally, know that these are | mere and monetary concessions to a | depraved play writer—episodes in which the artist’s physique Is imposed | upon by an acrobatic author. You may | not think that Mr. Lyon deserves his | share of this scrimmage, either; you | would, perhaps, prefer to see Mr. fl.lceI | ballet. | with a surprising degree ~* naturalness. Mr. Rice which deserves the double dis- tinction? . MR. JOEN C. RICE has fluent legs and a fair command of dialect, but he | is not an attractive personality. There is in his manner and his voice some- | thing which sets a pace in the admira- tion of Rice that no one else can keep up with; and his very limberness sug- ®ests the epicene mister of the French Mr. Rice is not in tune with the healthy rest of the company. As fine a company, by the way, as ever was wantoned on a McNally farce. John G. Sparks hasn’t his usual much to do this time,but what there is of the Irish- | man he plays with a legitimacy and comic seriousness that are unapproach- able. Jaques Kruger, too, does a Har- riganesque study of a toper that is limited only by the fragmentary possi- | bilities of the part, and little Miss Sallie | Cohen sings a tidy note and plays at being Miss Dressler's servitor-cousin | An odd bit of grotesquerie, at this time of day, is Oscar Figman's dude; he car- | ries me back to the old farce-comedy | days at the Bush-street Theater, where | nearly every show had its spider-legged | dude, with wonderful skin-fitting trous- ers, slim satanic shoes and foolish low- crowned hat. Mr. Figman's pantomime is weird and funny: he is alto~ether astonishingly successful—but I should | hate to think of this once-departed caricature as loose again with any| probability of permanence. DR i SINCE “The First Born,” one never knows what will lie in a new piece at the Alcazar. I was easily lured by the announcement of “an original pathetic | play in one act,” written by Frederic | Paulding. In the present invasion of | farce it would be a luxury to weep a tear or two; it would perhaps reconcile us to the immediate future, which is to | consist of more farce. But there were no sweet tears at the Alcazar last week. “A Man’s Love” is damp and mushy | enough. but it is not pathetic, according to the pathos that is pledged in the bill. I cannot see where a man of Mr. Pauld- ing’s experience found the nerve to ex- pose it in the theater. And his acting of the principal part would not have | been countenanced by any stage man- | ager other than“himself. COLLECTED IN ‘ 'THE CORRIDORS John Noble, a mining man of Boise City, is at the Baldwin with his wife. { E. E. Biggs, a prominent banker of Gridley is staying at the Grand. A. Torey, a leader in Boston business circles, is at the Occidental with Mrs. Torey. James F. Farecher, one of the best liked and most public spirited citizens of Yreka, is a guest at the Palace. Brigadier General M. W. Muller of Fresno has arrived at the California with his staff, to take part in the parade. Mrs. Muller accompanies her husband.* M. R. Price, a large fruit grower of Fresno, Is among those who have regis- tered at the Occidental, while visiting the city to witness the Golden Jubilee. ‘E. T. Stinson, son of T. D. Stinson, the Los Angeles millionaire, can be found at the Baldwin during the next few days. A. J. Hinds, a large real estate man of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand with Mrs. Hinds. Al len, a wealthy mine owner of So- nora, s registered at the Occidental. L. W. Burrill, one of the big merchants of Santa Rosa, is at the Baidwin. General J. W. B. Montgomery, a prom- inent politician of Chico, is staying at the Grand. F. A. Cuttler, a prominent attorney of Eureka Humboldt County, is in town. . Mr. Cuttler Is a prominent member of the | Native Sons' order. | cesscscessece h"Pel‘hRP! it is the crowd: SHE the s!re‘:t : th(:x‘ FOOLED THE gause us to be- - ome m § PASSENGERS. § Lo o le | day's tramp'ng | is over, or ¥ be in losing our provincialism xndm:(;— coming more like our Eastern brothers, | we are likewise losing that gallantry | which has always been distinctive of the wild. rough and untutored West,” said a gentieman in the California yesterday, who has come down to the city to wit- ness the Jubilee jubilation. “Whatever the cause, I motice that wher the crowded cars start homeward at night there is no more of that old | Chesterfleldan offering to a woman a | seat. that was once so common. “My daughter has a chum living out on Pacific avenue who has sprained her ankle. and who is forced to use crutches. The other evening my little girl started down town for repatrs. “Along came a Sutter-street erowd- ed to the doors with e | the university. over his features. The ex- however, sa\;‘e platce tohone of rely different character when the ::rexx::ach’gd Webster street and my young lady took her crutch under her arm, and jumping off the car walkeq z\'n_;f on two perfectly sound and shapely legs.” Captain Charles Dodge, U. S. A, anq wife are at the Occldental Dr. A. Anderson, a prominent physician of Petaluma, is at the Grand. ; State Senator A. F. Jones of Oroville 15 staying at the Palace. Mrs. John Sparks of Reno, Nevada, hag come down with her family to Witnesq the Jubilee celebration. They are at the Occidental. Major Frank Ryan, N. G. C., is regis- tered at the California from Sacramento. F. A. Nash and W. S. McCormick, two wealthy bankers of Salt Lake, are stay- ing at the Palace. W. H. Cleary, a well-known resident ot Stockton, is at the Lick. J. J. Nagle, one of Sacramento’s lead- ing citizens, is at the California with his wife. C. F. Titus, the proprietor of the Golden Eagle Hotel at Sacramento, and C. G. H. McBride, a capitalist of San Jose, are two Jubllee visitors registered at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ng Sp! WASHINGTON, Jan 23.—Mrs. Dr. S. E. Hall and Mrs. J. M. Boalt of San Fran- cisco are at the Riggs House. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. A batle-ship of 8880 tons in course of construction at Nicolaiff, in the Black Sea, has received the formidable name of Prince Potemkin Tavricheski. Since 1890 Great Britain has built 199 vessels of €90523 tons for the navy. Of these 63 of 374,375 tons were built in the dockyards, and 136 of 316,148 tons were built in private yards. Two armored cruisers of 7700 tons have been ordered at St. Nazaire and Bordeaux for the French navy. They will be 433 feet 4 inches in length, by 59 feet 4 inches in beam, and are to have triple screws and a speed-of twenty-one knots. Their armament of twenty-six guns will be en- tirely of the rapid-fire type. The Petropolawsk, turret battle-ship of the Russian Baltic fleet, has had an un- successful trial, her engines falling short 183 horsepower in the guarantee of 10,600. The engines were built in England, and the contractors have been notified to maka such changes in the machinery as will develop the requisite power and to have another trial of the ship. The Proserpine, third-class cruiser, is to be completed by June 30. She is one of a class of eleven in course of construction for the British navy, and was launched at Sheerness December 5, 189%. These vesels are of 2135 tons displacement and are to develop 5000 horsepower and 18.5 knots under natural draught, and 7000 horsepower and 20 knots under forced draught. Both hull and engines were built at dockyards, but the ship is to un- dergo trials similar to those to which con- tract-built ships and engines are sub- jected. The battery consists of eight 4-inch quick-firing guns, eight 3-pound- ers and three Maxim machine-guns. Two drydocks at the Portsmouth dock- yard have just been completed. They are known as Nos. 14 and 15, and the folowing are the dimensions and data of No. 14: Length extreme at copings. Length on floor ...... ‘Width extreme at top ‘Width on floor Depth from top Width of entrance ‘Water over sill .. 33 feet 10 inches Capacity in gallons . ...12,621,000 Dock 15 Is of like dimensions, except the entrance, which is 94 feet wide. The work of building these docks has been accom- plished in lees than two years, and upon its completion the Government showed its | appreciation of the services of the engi- neer in charge by promoting him. One great defect in most of the jate French war vessels is their limited coal supply, especially the armored ships. The armored cruiser Amiral Pothuau, recently commissioned, is of 5360 tons displacement and has a normal coal supply of only 538 tons. 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