The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. s to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communi PUbLlCATION OFFIC .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Teiephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telep! Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns | for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per mont, 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE....... i | NEW YORK OFFICE -.Room 188, World Building 1 DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Rep=cscntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE. -.Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Ropresentative. | -One year. by mall, $1.50 | <evee-...908 Broadway | BRANCH OFFICES--52T7 Montgomery street, corner Ciay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market streel, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2318 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—The Purser." Columbia—+The Nancy Hanks " California—* Trilb, Alcazar— The Gay Parisians Morosco’s—"The Wicklow Postman.” Tivoli—"Sinbad the Satlor.” Orpheum~— Vaudeville. Sherman, Clay Hall Sherman, Clay Hall r 0dd Fellows' Hall ing, April2s. The Chutes—Zoo, n Lion Hunt " Olympta—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro Baths—Swimming. El Campo—Music. dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, Pacific Coast Jockey Clup, Ingleside—Races to-day. loma Schramm, Tuesday, April 26. 0 AUCTION SALES. April 25, Turkish Rugs, at 106 , how levels. By N. E. Clark—Monday, Grat avenue at 2 o'clock. Market street, at 12 oclook. THE WAR AND BUSINESS. | ‘ are now changing to conform to the new state of affairs occasioned by the war, but it is yet too will be. Wheat has already declared its new us in | a sharp advance, both in Europe and this country, and have appreciated, but the great majority of the com- mon commercial commodities have not yet exhibited it wise to attempt to forecast. ‘Generally speaking, however, those articles which will be needed to supply a war tax, will advance in price, while those which are commonly exported, and which will therefore be least relapse into an unsettled and fluctuating con- | dition, dependent from day to day upon the varying an come at the moment. As time goes ver, things will fall naturally intotheir proper | established its equilibrium, as has been seen, and | wheat is in process of doing the same, as just re- Up to the present there has been no change for the worse in general trade. Railroad earnings have been | April and 4.8 per cent larger than 1892, with railway tonnage eastbound from Chicago about 10 per cent actions gloomy, the week's payments being 33.6 per cent larger than last year. The failures last week were These exhibits indicate an increase, rather than a de- | crease, in business, hence the war has thus far done | slight decrease in the distributive trade of the East and South is reported, but this is offset by increased | vance. It is these contrary conditions which render the commercial situation vague and complex at the trade almost impossible. But it is worthy of rema in this connection that the money market, that most ed no stringency, and that the supply of funds for all ordinary mercantile and financial uses is abundant. | basis nor so well prepared for war. Spain presents | 8 pitiable contrast, being agitated by a financial panic | The local situation partakes of the general uncer- | tainty, .and values for many articles are unsettled. | advance, and is stiff at the rise, with an active demand | for both export and local milling account. Barley has per barrel. Truthfulness compels the admission that | we will have very little wheat for export this year, fornia began to export this cereal in any quantity. Of course the other grains are in a similar plight, and the | There will be enough of everything for our own use, | however. The upward tendency in hay is less pro- | The canned and dried fruit markets are firm, and while | not especially active, business is sufficiently brisk to | to a minimum by the time the new crop comes for- | ward. The fruit-growers will probably do well this as a rule, and fluctuations are neither numerous nor sharp. Everything seems to be on a normal basis, ing, and times may safely be called good, the dry year to the contrary notwithstanding. By Von Rhein & Thursday, April 23, Real Estate, at 636 | OMMERCIAL conditions all over the country | early to definitely specify what the individual changes coffee, sugar, rice and several other grocery staples the final change from a peace to a war basis. Nor is the army, and those which will probably be subject to liable to seizure on the high seas, will decline, or at combat. This is as near to it as human Thus the New York stock market has already | marked. ' The other lines will follow in due time. 14.3 per cent larger than last year for the first half of larger than 1892. Neither are clearing-house trans- only 204, against 218 for the same week last year. no harm to trade, so far as can be seen. A further activity in certain lines, accompanied by sharp ad- moment and make a definite exhibit of the state | 4 sensitive of all trade barometers, has thus far exhibit- | In this respect the country was never on a sounder | and runs upon almost every bank in the kingdom. During the past week wheat has made a sensational also started up again, and flour has gone up 50 cents , something that has not happened before since Cali- | year 1808 will go on record as the great dry year. nounced, but there is little prospect of any decline. | warrant the belief that stocks of both will be reduced | year. The merchandise markets are in good shapel without excitement, the merchants are not complain- T T r———— Eastern correspondents who are so certain of the plans of the naval department seemed to have dreamed the information they are loading on the wire. Apparently they think the world will believe | the Navy Department to be as gossipy as a sewing circle. | e i It would be interesting to know if the whacking of | a doctor over the pate by another of the crait is any | violation of the justly celebrated code of ethics of which so much is heard and so little known. The Topeka seems to have had a narrow escape. It appears that some ship came into collision with some other, and had the Topeka been one of them it might have been damaged. As to naval engagements, the word of Florida fishermen will not be accepted. They riay know all about clams, but war is out of their line. | This ste, | correspondents and | flict of statement. 'FACTORY LABOR OUR WAR NEWS SERVICE. MPLE arrangements have been made by The Call in alliance with the New York Herald to furnish the public with prompt and accurate reports of all events growing out of the war with Spain, no matter in what part of the globe they may occur. These arrangements are the result of prepara- tions made long before actual hostilities broke out, and as a consequence are superior to any that may now be made hurriedly to meet the emergency. As the course of the struggle, for the present at any rate, will center mainly around Cuba, special care has been taken to provide good correspondents throughout that island and the West Indies genera‘lly. In addition to reporters located at important points and thoroughly familiar with the situation, a corps of accomplished writers and experienced news- gatherers has been dispatched to follow the army and the navy so as to be present whenever and wherever | anything of note takes place. Amonz the representatives of The Call and the Herald at the seat of war are Rich- ard Harding Davis, who is now with the fleet, and Charles Akers, the well-known military expert, who is with the army. To assist in gathering the army news five spe- cial correspondents who speak Spanish have bezn sent south to be ready to follow the first corps that makes the descent upon Cub: Two powerful steel tugs, the Som- mers N. Smith, and the Albert F. Dewey, each carrying a staff of writers, artists and | photegraphers, are already with the ‘fleet and in addition thereto The Call and the Herald service will be increased by the fleet | flving the Danish flag. a competent corps of artis is now on her way to Porto Rico, and wlil cover the detail camer Tyr, mer, with ocean | of the blockade. Arrangements for the prompt transmission of news have been as carefully prepared and as effectively | made as those for gathering it. Dispatches will be | sent from St. Thomas or Kingston as circumstances dictate, and special reporters are stationed at all the West Indies, and will send dispatches as long as the If the cables are de.troyed or cables remain uncut ymmunication by them is in any way interrupted the ¢ swift tugs of The Call and Herald will be ready to | bring the news to the American coast witiiou* delay. It is to Le further noted that correspondents of The Call and Herald will remain at Madrid, Cadiz, Barce- lona and St. Vincent, and arrangements have been made for a comprehensive cable service from Europe in order to bring these correspondents into close touch with this country. Finally there are with each i a dozen or more naval officers, who squadron h: will act as correspondents of The Call and Herald, quiring in- ibing nav: and, as these have special facilitics for 2 formation and special aptitude for des affairs, their reports will be of great value to the public. It should be borne in mind that these arrangements made by The Call and Herald are not the result of hasty action. ed long ago. A host of correspondents are already on the field. They in- clude men who have lived in the West Indies for years. While the hastily organized staffs of other papers will be involved in the confusion of affairs they do not understand and will be forced to cend out as.news a multitude of rumors and reports cf nc more value than as many fakes, the reports of The Call.and Herald will be accurate and reliable They were plan THE PRIVATEERING QUESTION. SBATES in the United States Senat- and the British Commons have disclosed the fact D that there was a misconception in the re- ports given out a few d: ago to the effect that our Government had given assurances to Europe that it would not issue letters of marque to privateers in The declarations made by case of a war with Spair the Government reierred to clauses of the treaty of Paris of 1856 other than those which relate to the question of privateers. The subject was brought up in the Money of Mississippi. who, aiter saying ticed in the press a report that the State Depart- ment had announced that during the approaching war there would be no privateering on the part of the United States, and that this Government would abide by the treaty of Paris, asked if any member of the C’ommincc on Foreign Relations could inform the Senate if the report was correct. /To this the chair- man of the committee, Senator Davis, replied: “I have heard nothing about the matter except what I have seen in the newspapers.” The discussion in the Commons explains the con- Balfour, in reply to a question on the subject, said the British Government had ceived from the United States a notification that it would adhere to the treaty of Paris so far as regards neutral vessels. A declaration of respect for neutrals is quite a different thing from a declaration that we would not sanction privateers, and leaves that im- portant question open for decision as the needs of the emergency may require. Senator Money directed attention to the fact that the power to issue letters of marque and reprisal is under our Government confined exclusively to Con- gress. This fact in itself shows that the report so extensively circulated was in error. Whether or no we shall send forth privateers to prey upon the com- merce of Spain is for Congress to decide, and there is no reason to believe that it will be in any hurry to reach an absolute conclusion on the matter. The whole policy of our Government has been to respect private property in war as much as possible. The history of American privateers has been one of courage and daring, but in our admiration for the brave men who carried it on we have never inclined to make that form of warfare perpetual among na- tions. It is well known that the only reason we did not agree to the treaty of Paris was not because it went too far in suppressing privateering, but that it did not go far enough in guaranteeing the rights of neutrals. In the same spirit of honorable war Con- gress will deal with the problem in this emergency. We may have no desire to enter upon it, but if Spain tries it she will find that privateering is a game we have played before with distinguished success, and if need be we can play it again with equal vigor. IN THE SOUTH. Senate by he had no- re- impressive illustration of the far-reaching fl effect of human actions is afforded by an un- foreseen and unintended outcome of the re- cent strike of the cotton mill operatives in New Eng- Jand. The strikers aimed to maintain the former rate of wages in their own localities, but completely failed. The local effect of the strike was merely a few weeks of idleness on the part of some of the operatives and the closing down of a fex: of the mills. It is in the far South that the greater effects are felt, and-the results there may prove in the end to be among the most important ever brought about by a labor strike in the history of the United States. This unexpected development was brought about by the fact that among the causes which enable South- ern cotton mills to undersell the Northern mills is the long hours of labor required of the Southern operatives. The Northern mill-owners pointed out to their employes that they had to compete with workers in the Southern States who toiled twelve hours a day, and for lower wages at that, and conse- quently that the Northern operative would be at a disadvantage so’ long as the Southern mills are run under the present grinding system. Out of this there came at once a demand and an agitation for better labor laws in the South. The strike in New Enczland is over, but the agitation for Southern reform continues. This, it is already seen, is the most important thing accomplished by the strikers. They have not achieyed anything of impor- tance for themselves, but they have rendered a valu- able service to the fellow-workers in the Southern States. They have directed the attention of the na- tion to the evil conditions of factory operatives in thosé States, and by doing so have started a move- ment which in the end can hardly fail to result in a far-reaching benefit to an overworked and ill-paid class. The agitation has of course aroused a great deal of opposition in the South, but this was to have been expected. The movement for labor laws has been bitterly fought in every portion of the world where it has been started. The South is industrially to-day where the Northern States were twenty years ago, when in 1874 Massachusetts adopted a ten-hour fac- | tory law, and the fight for labor there will be as hard as was the Jong fight for it in the North. In the | end, however, it will be successful, and the Southern operative will have occasion to give thanks to the New England strikers who precipitated the battle for their relief. | ONSIDERABLE interest has been expressed C in the East over a recent statement in the House | of Commons that the failure thus far to arrange a parcels post system between the United States and | Great Britain is due mainly to the reluctance of the Postoffice Department of the United States to enter into such an arrangement. The subject has given rise to no little discussion, and as a result there has de- } veloped so strong a sentiment in favor of such a pos- | tal system that it is probable earnest efforts will be made to induce our Government to arrange for one as speedily as possible. A PARCELS POST SYSTEM. | | The proposed scheme is not of so much interest to | the Pacific Coast as it is to the Atlantic seaboard, | where the interchange of parcels with Great Britain amounts to an enormous traffic, and yet we can read- | ily perceive the advantage it would be to the people | of both countries. The parcels delivery is one of the ccesses of the British postoffice. It provides the | people with a means of sending small parcels with a | security equal to that of the best express companies land at a comparatively small co: 1f extended to the | United States it would largely increase the trade in steall articles between the two nations and thus lead to a better trade in all classes of goods. The chief benefit of a parcels post to the people of California would be the facilities it would afford our | manufacturers and fruit preserving men to send small | samples of their wares to Great Britain for inspection and trial. In that way we counld make known to the | dealers of London many articles of California pro- } duction for which there would grow up a large de- | mand in the course of a few years. In addition to | this there would be other advantages of considerable ‘in\por(:\nce, It is therefore likely that the Eastern | agitation for the establishment of the international lparcels post will find almost as much favor hcr.c as | there, and that the country will be virtually a unit in urging it upon the Government. 1t is not clear why our Postoffice Department has been opposed to the project, although it is likely the fear of increasing expenditures at a time when we have a yearly deficit in the department has been the | chief reason. If this be so, we have another cause to complain of those members of Congress who defeated | the Loud bill for reducing expenditures and have | failed to advance some other means for effecting that object. The deficit in itself is bad enough, but it be- comes worse when it stands in the way of postal ex- pansion in a direction that would be of great advan- tage to all. O THE CALL BULLETINS. WING to the imposition in the way of fake ex- tras which has of late been practiced upon the public, and for the purpose of guarding the people against such deceptions and frauds, The Call will at once make a nctable extension ofiits news bulletins and publish dispatches of every notable event of the war in such a way as to make the news accessible at once to readers in every part of the city without cost. To accomplish this The Call will print every dis- patch of importance as soon as it arrives, and post it not only on the bulletin boards of The Call office, but on the boards of every Call agency in the city, and also at other places where the people congregate. No time will be wasted in getting out extras to be hawked about the streets. The moment a dispatch is received at any hour of the day or fore part of the night it will be at once printed on a special press, and the copies, as soon as struck off, will be sent by mes- senger boys on bicycles to The Call agencies and to such other notable places as may be selected, and there posted for all to read. These dispatches thus publicly posted will furnish the people with the news as fast as it comes to San Francisco, and will save them from the fake-extra fiends who issue sheets proclaiming battles when no battles have occurred. The public will have a reliable record of events as fast as they occur, and will have no occasion to pay out a nickel in order to.read a rumor or fake. In addition to extending its bulletins in the city The Call will give a larger service than ever in its bulletins throughout California, Nevada and Arizona. At the present time The Call is sending such bulletins to upward of 100 points, and will soon add new ones to the list as well as increasing the service to those already reached. In this way the people of all im- portant places in this State and in Arizona and Ne- vada will be kept posted on the progress of events as rapidly as they occur. The reports obtained by The Call are tl.e most ac- curate received in this city. The public has doubtless already noted that The Call has published no fakes. The superiority of our service is due to the fact that it was arranged for long beforehand, as it is not made up on the spur of the moment out of rumors and fan- tastic fancies like those of journals that waited for the war to break out before they arranged for getting the news. The Call bulletins will be accurate as well as prompt. Look out for them. | RN RRRRRBRES 2 2 *“NAVALGUNS: s = I g to Fire Them. & TTENTION was recently directed by a naval official to the fact that as compared with foreign ships in the lack of quick-firing guns. It is four verted at the Washington yard into a quick-firer, and since then only about a costs about $1000 for esch gun and the present capacity is five months to each daily. By putting on three shifts the time would be reduced correspondingly, dozen quick-firing 6-inch guns to our ships’ batteries. The efficiency of the bat- guns and doubled in an $-inch rifle. Tha importance of rapid firing cannot beover- In the following table the principal data of United States and Spanish naval ord- a star are quick-firers, and the powder charges of the Spanish guns are smoke- guns is given for common brown pow- er: # And What It Costs i ARV INRRRIRRN our naval ordnance was defective years since the first 6-inch gun was con- dozen more have been thus converted. It Iot of twelve guns, working eight hours and every forty-five days would add a tery is nearly tripled in the 6 and 5 inch estimated. nance are given. The guns indicated by less powder or cordite, while that of our UNITED STATES (?L‘\:\DS SPANISH NAVAL WEIGHT. ‘sung GUNS-CALIBER. *-gu0y I 2 @ “spunod ‘IepMog uonTIUIT 4 230/115 254(1 100{ 47 The rapidity with which guns can be served and discharged is recorded from actual tests on board ship at target prac- tice: 18%-inch—7 rounds in 12 minutes. 13-Inch—1 round in 2 minutes. 12-inch—1 round in 1 minute 19 seconds. 10-inch—1 round in 2 minutes. n . quick-firlng—4 rounds in 2 minutes 2 nds in 1 minute. dvantage of a ship with ordi- v_breech-loading 6-inch rifles again. another with quick-firers is quite appar- | ent. Another element in naval gunnery is that of cost, which is enormous as com- pared with that of thirty years ago. The cost of Elswick guns ten years ago was inch, inch, $1111; 12 $3 g 8 inch, $10] inch, $5127; 5 inch, $1600; 12 pounde Quick-firing guns had not yet come into general use, and their introduction en- tajled of course additional cost. The cost of United States guns is not at hand, but they are not likely to be less costly than those above enumerated. e ammuni- tion which would be expended in a half hour’s engagement of a battleship of the Oregon class would be quite a fortune, and approximately as follows: Four 1 inch guns discharged fifteen times each, making sixty rounds, the cost of each discharge would be nearly $600, or a total $1000. of $36,000. The eight s-ine thes. 1ieu twenty times each or collectively one hundred and sixty rounds, would cost $25.600. Two hundred and forty rounds from the four 6-inch guns u would foot up $9600: twentv G-non-a firing 300 rounds each would cost $17,000, and four l-pounders peppering away the rate of thirteen shots a minute would expend $1746, making a total of nearly | $90,000 gone-up in smoke in half an hour, or $45,000 in one-quarter hour engage- ment. Then there are the torpedoe: which cost $2500 each of the Whitehead pattern and $2200 for the Howell. Half a dozen of these missiles sent off would be at an expense of over 714.000. and to this should be further added the fire from the machine guns when sufficiently close to make them effective, making not less than $64.000 expended during a fifteen- minute engagement. Add to this the cost of damage done to the ship by the adver- sary, which may be merely nominal or destruct some idea of the cost of modern war- fare. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Russian Navy Department has or- dered twenty Yarrow water tube boile from the Baltic building Works at St. Petersburg. The boilers are for torpedo-boat destroyers and torpedo-boats in course of construc- tion. The latest improvement in the pounder Maxim quick-firing gun is a d; appearing carriage, making the gun par- ticularly well adapted for smaller vessels. The entire outfit weighs only 2130 pounds. The shell complete weighs 145 pounds, fired with a charge of 1 ounce 110 grains, which gives a velocity of 1300 feet per second. Its firing capacity is 250 rounds per minute. K The d'Entrecasteaux, armored cruiser, built in France soon after the United States cruiser New York of that class had had her highly successful trial, has re- cently had a preliminary speed trial at sea. She made nineteen knots with 12,500 horsepower, and when the engines are worked up to their maximum power of 14,000 horsepower a speed of twenty knots is anticipated. The dQ'Entrecasteaux is 8114 tons, against the New York of §200 tons, which developed a speed of twenty- one knots on 17,400 horsepower. The French battleship Formidable, of 12,165 tons, was launched in 1885, but has been completed now, after undergoing various changes on the original design. She has recelved new boilers, and the bat- tery and gun protection has been entirely changed. The ship has a steel belt of 21% inches in thickness, and her two 14.f-inch rifles are located in barbettes, or open turrets, 17% inches thick. Eight 6.3-inch quick-firers are protected by 6-inch case- mates, and her eight 5%-inch quick-firers have hezvy shields. The dimensions of the Formidable are: 322 feet length, 69 feet beam and a draught of nearly 30 feet. The coal-bunker capacity is tons, and she is expected to steam 16 knots under forced draught. An order was recently received at Brest to mobilize the first division of the French squadron in the shortest possible time, as a test of the efficiency of the arsenal. The division included the Hoche, Jem- mapes and Valmy, battle-ships; Dupuy de Lome, armored cruiser, and four smaller vessels. The order came at 8§ o’clock in the forenocon, and by 10 o'clock all the crews were aboard, and by 10 o'clock at night the ships had taken in coal sufficient to steam twenty-five days at twelve knots an hour, and all other war stores, ammunition and provisions up to full war requirements were on board. It was demonstrated that Brest could, in a few hours, fit out a squadron, but it is alleged that if there had been any doubt on this point the order would not have been given. In other words, it was a prearranged plan got up for some political effect to secure supporters for certain naval expenditure appropriations. An official list of vessels building abroad for the Japanese navy gives the following facts: Three battle-ships are building at the Thames Iron Works; Thompson & Co., Glasgow, and at Elswick. The first, named the Shikishima, is 4338 feet by 75 feet 6 inches, and has a displacement of 15,088 tons on 27 feet 3 inches draught. The Asaki, at Thomson's, is 13 feet shorter, but displaces 15,440 tons, and the third, not yet named, is 410 feet by 76 feet 6 inches and 15240 tons on 27 feet draught. Their speeds ate to be eighteen knots and » to the vessel, and it will give | Engineering and Ship- ; one- | thefr date of completion is set for May 4 and October 5, 1899, and March 24, 1900. Three armored cruisers, two of them of 9855 tons, and the third of 9906 tons, are building at Elswick, two to b. completed this year and the last in the summer of 1899. They will have speeds from 20% to 21% knots. One is not yet named; the others are known as the Asama and Ta- kiwa. A protected cruiser, called Taka- sago, is nearly completed at Elswick. She is 4227 tons, and is to make 22% knots. An armored cruiser, Azuma, is being built in France, to be completed in June, 1900. She is 9460 tons and of twenty knots speed. The Vulcan Company in Stettin is build- ing an armored cruiser of 9500 tons, to be delivered April, 1900; speed twenty knots. The protected cruisers Kasagi and Chi- tosi, building at Cramps’ and the Union Iron Works, are to have a speed of 223 knots, and are to be delivered next De- | cember. The distribution of this naval work insures for the Japanese Govern- ment all the advantages arising from competition, and the natural tendency of each builder to excel his rival in turning out ships that will bring more work to the yard. "IN ARREST. A private comes after me all the day long, With a gun in his impident holt, An’ looking right y to blow up the world If 1 took a notion to boit; The others are drillin’ an’ polishin’ arms An gittin' all ready to go, While' I'm cleanin’~ ditches an’ mendin’ the drive In front of the officers’ row. The sergeant comes by with his awkwardest squad, An ev'ry thick-headed recruit Cocks up his off eye an’ he wonders about The man in the firty brown suit. It's § and the guard mount’s about to begin— There, there! Hear the bugle calls blow; T wish T wag out movin’ round on parade, Not diggin’ on officers’ row. There's visitors gawkin’ all over the post— Nice, tender, sweet things from the town— An' they nudge one anotber an’ ask for the > y ~ Of me beln' rigged out in brown. Tt makes me feel hot, but I spose it's all right— You couldn’t expect 'em to know Its because I licked Peters I'm cleanin’ the dite That runs along officers’ row. The boys are all readin’ the papers; I hear Them arguin’ war as they pass, Or when I work near to some lazyin' crowd . That's wearin’ the green of the grass; T'd like mighty well to chip into the talk For just half a minute or so, But I'm In arrest, an’ the guard must be strict Up here along officers’ row. But pever you mind. When it's time to play ba | They'll order me out of arrest: | blue The same as the others are dressed; | An’ harder than when I licked Peters T'll fight, It fightin' should come, for you know That's one kind of scrappin’ ain’t paid for with jobs Of dlggin’ on officers’ row. cazo Record. THE COMMERCE OF SPAIN. Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural Department has authorized the publica- tion of a bulletin on the subject of Spain's foreign trade from 1891 to 1895, inclusive, prepared 1t shows that Spain’s commercial trans- actions with the rest of the world amount | In 189 | annually to more than $300,000,000. the merchandise imports amounted to $151.829,516 and the exports $155,35 Spain’s foreign trade is largely exported during 1891-95 only 15.9 per cent was transported by land, while 8.1 per cent was carried in sea-going vessels. 1895, one-half of Spain’s maritime commerce was carried by foreign vessels; but since 1891 there has been a change, and the na- | tional shipping is now in the ascendency. he imports and exports made under the | Spanish flag during 5 amounted | nations to only $115,145,676. The total value of the merchandise annually exchanged between Spain and a, Porto Rico, the Philippines, the narfes and her sions exceeded 000,000. The United States ranks third among the sources of Spain’s import trade. R ortant item among Spain’s non-agricul- tural imports. is procured chiefly from the United Kingdom, the receipts from the United States amounting to less than 1 per cent of the total. In 1865 there were entered and cleared at Spanish ports 36, Of these vessels 19,169 carried the flag of Spain and 17,687 vessels the flags of other e average y nations. Th arly tonnage for the five years, 1591- was 24,374,939, | while that for the prec g five Years was only 22499,5%. This increase was due to the growth in the tonnage of the Spanish merchantme: On December 31, 1895, the latest date for which there are available statistics, the rhant marine of Spain comprised 1783 having an aggregate tonnage of Compared with the statistics for $ this is a slight increase in the size of | the fleet and a marked one in its tonnage. | The steam vessels increased from 431 in 1886 to 523 in 1895. The ships entered and cleared on the Atlantic amounted an- nually to 19704, as against 15,738 along the Mediterranean. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. | 3. B. Brown and P. M. Condit of Eu- | reka are both at the Lick. | W. D. Grady, the Fresno attorney, is | & guest at the Occidental. E. de la Custa, Supervisor of Santa Barbara, is a guest at the Grand. | J. B. Alexander and J. Phillips of Los Angeles are registered at the Palace. John MecInnis, a wealthy merchant of | Michigan, is at the Occidental with his wife. | Professor B. McGillicuddy of Deadwood, | S. Dak., is staying at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday. William M. Meyers has come down from Livermore on a business trip and is to be found at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Brown of Auburn have come to the city with a party of friends. They are all staying at the Palace. Dan Murphy, ex-Collector of the port of Eureka, Humboldt County, arrived here on the Orizaba yesterday and will extend his business trip to Seattle. * gOOOOOOOOO George Bowles, manager of the & lo‘ hhl;ppen after nightfall, issome- 0000000000 thing of a gour- met and never misses an opportunity to try a new dish. The other night he, to- gother with his star, Ferris Hartman, and his star’s friend, one Tomaso Leary, who was discovered some years ago by Hartman when that gentleman was en- gaged in exploring the scenic forests of the Tivoli, went into a cafe adjacent to the Ballwin Hotel for a light supper. The three of them sat down to a table, and when the attendant appeared to take the order Leary said he was not feeling very well, so he would only take a small dish of bolled beef and greens, with a half-gallon of beer to wash it down. Hartman had been to the races playing Joe Eppinger’s tips, so he thought that a thin cracker and a glass of water would be about his limit. But Bowles, the re- splendant Bowles, had been in the box oifice all the afternoon attending to the advance sale of tickets for his show, and consequently nothing on the entire menu was too good or too expensive for his hypercritical taste. He took the bill of fare, and, carefully scanning it, he saw a dish called “‘mousannilni aux frambosii,” which was a new one on him, and conse- quently he decided to have some. ‘When the dish appeared it proved to be a veritable triumph of the culinary ait, and th2 enchanted Bowles insisted on his friends tiying each a mouthful, so they could j3e2 how good it was and know what (> call for if they ever happened to come irtc the place with money in thelr puckets. Leary and Hartman both o o THEWATER o Purser Company £ KNEW o and of anything else that is likel; O HIS BUSINESS, O gl T'll throw off the brown an’ I'll march out In | by Frank H. Hitchcock, the | chief of the section of foreign markets. | mari- | time. Of the merchandise imported and | In the earlier years of the decade 1886- | 5, says the New York Press, more than | to | S | $146,969,806, and those under flags of other | | | tasted and were delighted with the disn and ‘nsisted on knowing what it was “There is the name,” said Bowles, point. ing to the menu, “but what itislh not the slightest idea. However, w call the waiter and find out.” He be oned the menial and, turning to that dividual, said: *Young man, this dish with whiznh you have provided us is deii- extreme. Can you tell ms “Yes,” answered the waiter, _————— ANS“’ERE TO CORRESPON‘DENTS. FOR THE CUBANS—B. P. M., Plea ant Grove, Sutter County, Cal. For in- formation as to whom to send aid to the starving Cubans, address a communica- tion to Faust E. Mascharini, 718 Green- wich street, San Francisco. LARGE CARGO o ; correspondent draws attention to the fact that thce‘il;let& ish ship Somali a few years ago ca away & larg go than the. Shenant doah. “She had on board 6124 tong o wheat, as against 4500 carried by the She- nandoah. A NEWSPAPER—O. V. A., San Jose, Cal. The question you ask about the cost of running a newspaper is one that cannot be answered in a general way. “Bright managing editors’” consider their worth all the y from §75 to k. JAPAN'S ARMY—C. H., City. On & peace footing the strength of the army of Japan is: Infantry, 56,037; cavalry, 760; artillery, 7818; engineer and train, 26; total peace strength, 73,94l First TV 70,000, and second reserves, 206,- ; total on war footing, 349,941 COLOR BLINDNESS—A. 8., City. What is called color blindness is often- times the resuit of a lack of education as to colors. In such a case education is the remedy. But if color blindness is a re- sult of a defect of the nerves of the eye then there is no remedy for it. TWO HALF-DOLLARS—A. S., City. A 50-cent piece of 1506, if extra fine and with a fillet head, commands a premium of § cents. The dealers charge from 85 cents to §1 50 for such coins. A half dollar of 1817 does not command a premium, but sells for prices varying from 8 cents to §250. The latter price is charged for those coins on which the date is punc- tuated as follows, 18L.7. HANGING—E. J. C., City. There is ne law in this country that ceclares that a man condemned to be hanged by legal process shall not be hanged on Good Friday or any other religious day. The |law does not fix any day of the week upon which an execution shall take place, but a condemned individual cannot be executed on a day that by law is de- clared a legal holiday or dias non. MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS —B.,, City. According to military rules a com pany order is signed “John Doe, com= manding Company —, First Infantry, N. 000 | G. C..” it it be a company of the First Regiment of the National Guard of this State. A commanding officer of a com- pany addressing a letter to a private of the company would address him by his | name, letter of the company and number of the regiment. WHRLWIND—S. T. W., Eureka, Cal. The rotation of the earth giyes a uniform direction to all whirls large enough to make its twist effective, from right to left in the northern hemisphere and op- | posite to this in the southern. Cyclones are whirling storms of large horizontal | dimensfons. A cyclone is characterized by a center of low atmospheric pressure toward which there is a spiral inflow of The inflow is against the sun (contra in the northern hemisphere | air. ockwise) and opposite in the southern. THE WYOMING MASSACRE—A. L. J., City The massacre of white settlers in Penn., by Indians dur- | ing the Revolutionary War, was a part of the policy of the British Ministry, set- tled in the councils of the King In his { alace. It was doing by Indian | slaughter that which could not be achieved by honorable warfare. There was no act on the part of the settlers | to invite the murderous attack, except possibly that some of the youngér mem- bers of the colony had joined the army arious minor posses- | 0f Washington. THROWING THE SLIPPER-B. L., City. Throwing an old shoe or slipper al, which constitutes the most im- |after young married folk is an expression of wishes for their good fortune. The throwing of such is a renunciation of { dominion over the bride and authority 6 merchant vessels, | I over her by her father or guardian, and the receipt of the shoe by the bridegroom an omen that the authority has been In Kent, England, thrown by the principal bridesmaid, and the others run after it. s supposed that she who gets it will be the first to be married. It is then thrown among the unmarried men, and he who is hit will be. the first wedded. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® g handohos Sl i Alaska cut rates. First steamer direct to Dawson leaves May 3; few benhgllatt. Apply 46 Market street, San Francisco, ® —_————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_————— “Sometimes,” sald Uncle EI o mer S'piclons ‘dat dat boy er mins dossnse show no respeck foh advice case he sees how little his father done got out'n it."— Washington Star. ———— ‘Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by milllons of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Paln, cures Wind Collc, reg ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 2%c a bottle. —_——— CORONADO—Atmosphers s ect!, soft and mild, being entirely {::t o flg.' mists common further north. Round trip tick- ets, by steamship, Including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65; longer stay, $250 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., 8. F., or A. W. Bailey, mgr. Hotel del Corona~ do, late of Htl Colorado, Glenwood Spgs, Colo ———— ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY WILL STOP Sold I twelve nongs, oF saoacy ‘refunded, "Ny Fercentage Pharmacy. . o T onded: No —_———— She—What do you think of the prop- osition to tax bachelors, with a view to encourage matrimony? He—I think it would be much better to give a bounty with wives. ADVERTISEMENTS. AN ASSAULT UPON SPANISH HONOR is what Sagasta calls this. You can fool people some of the time, but not all the time. Regular standard, high grade work year in and year out is ‘what tells, and you can always depend upon artistic and beautiful finish and color on any work turned out at the United States Laundry. Office 1004 Mar- ket street. Telephone South 420,