The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1898 Call MAY 2, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pro Address All Communications KOWE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFIC _Market and Third Sts., S. F. Teclephone Main 1868. [EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telep! Main 1874, THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE ......cccoviuninn NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building ‘DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House . €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES-—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6!5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I8 Mission street, open untll 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. prietor. | i One year, by mall, $1.50 | veeesrsess..908 Broadway Baldwin—“The Purser " Columbia— A Secret Warrant " California—"A Texas Steer." Alcazar—Th Parisfans. Morosco's—~Hearts of New York.” Tivoll—“Wang. Orpheum—Vauc . udeville, aud “African Lion Hunt.” son and Eddy streets, Specialties. Pony Show hs—Swimming. st Jockey Clup, Ingleside—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. \is day, May 2, Furniture at t 11 o'clock Co.—Monday, May 9, Real Estate. at 14 0" clock. Monigoimery street, | pride, and we need not wait for the full official records | the nation has a new hero to add to the illustrious MANILA IS OURS. | GLORIOUS victory marks the opening of hos- | fl tilities between the United States and Spain in | the Orient. Commodore Dewey and the gal- | lant crew of his fleet have crushed the naval forces | ! of Spain in that portion of the globe with one blow. :The star-spangled banner floats triumphant in the harbor of Manila and the city is ours. The feat thus accomplished was one of the most signal achievements of skill and daring in the history of naval warfare. It was a stroke worthy of Farragut’| or Nelson. The story even as told by the Spaniards themselves is enough to thrill American hearts with of the battle to recognize that in Commodore Dewey galaxy that adorns the pages of its military and naval annals. Dewey with his fleet arrived off Manila at night. He was far from his base of supplies and had no place to turn for refuge if he should meet with defeat. hese considerations did not for a moment cause him to hesitate. He wasted no time ia reconnoitering or taking counsel of his fears. In the darkness of night he boldly entered the harbor, which to him was un- known, and which in all likelihood was strewn with mines or torpedoes. Straight through every danger, whether known or unknown, that menaced him he held his way, and at daybreak the startled Spaniards at their posts along the harbor saw the fleet with Old Glory streaming to the winds advancing to the attack. Then from the forts and batteries along the shore and from the Spanish warships in the harbor the guns of Spain sent shot and shell to sink or drive back the fleet that had so daringly assailed them in their stronghold. Had the American fleet been com- manded by an officer of daring only, that terrific fire might have destroyed it, but Dewey proved himself a master of naval tactics as well as a man of valor. The Spanish concede that his maneuvering during the engagement was a notable feature of the fierce fight. Once the American fleet seemingly retired from the fray, but soon returned; and then the end came swiftly, bringing defeat to the Spaniards on land and sea, and victory for the Union and its gallant seamen. COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS SETTLING. T HE feature of the week in Wall street was the rzzxarkcd recovery in the tone of the markets toward the close of the week. This buoyancy was due to the inauguration of a bull campaign based on’ the thus far successful prosecution of the war against Spain. There was no important opposition to the rise, and prices moved up easily, without, how- ever, any especial activity. The public were not in it, and it was a matter almost purely between the reg- | ular operators of the street. As The Call’s financial | report put it: “The main consideration was the satis- | faction felt over the excellent gunnery of the United States ships at Matanzas and in pursuit of prizes and The | skill thus demonstrated imparts a strong conviction | as to the superiority of the United States forces. | Early intelligence is also confident of a naval victory | over the Spaniards off the Philippines.” All standard | bonds, both Government and railroad, were strong | and in good demand. The American financiers evi- | dently haVe no doubt as to the eventual victory of the | national arms. For that matter noboCy else in lhei country has, either. General trade, while exhibiting considerable of the uncertainty remarked a week ago, is beginning to as- sume more definite lines, as was then predicted. The woolen manufacturers are reporting a larger business, y on account of the heavy Government orders. 3 1ay be said of hides and leather, both of which are advancing again in the East The con- sumption of iron is still the largest ever known, and many orders are remaining unfilled. The phenom- enal advance in wheat has carried with it a corre- sponding rise in other cereals and flour, while pork ! products-have also gone up. In fact, the war is stim- ulating trade in those lines which are called upon to supply the land and naval forces of the country. How far the rise will extend, and what other articles will be indirectly affected, it is impossible to say at the moment. But that the general trade of the coun- try is on an active basis is shown by the continued gain in bank clearings, those last week being 28 per cent over the corresponding week in 1897, only two | of the larger cities—Portland, Me., and Providence— showing'a decrease. Exports of wheat and corn from the Atlantic ports are very heavy and considerably in excess of last year. The country is likely to reap a fine golden harvest from its grain production this | .yedr, as stocks are deficient all over the world. Busi- ness failures in the United States last week number 245, a gain of 21 over the preceding week’s total, and compared with 244 in the corresponding week of 1897, 254 in 1896 and 206 in 1895. The local markets,~which for some little time have been quiet, are again showing signs of improvement. The slight recovery in dried fruits has already been mentioned. As for the sensational advance in wheat and its dependent cereals, flour and feedstuffs, in- cluding hay, that has been too prominently treated during tlie past few days to need repetition here. The next articles to advance will probably be hides and Jeather, as things seem to be shaping in that direction. The staple groceries are reported in good movement, with higher prices for sugar and rice. The general H merchandise market is distinguished by advanced | quotations for several descriptions of oil, cement, cordage and several minor articles. It is noteworthy that no article of importance has declined of late. The weather has ceased to be a factor in the mar- kets, except in a few scattering lines. The seasoh is over as far as the rain and the grain crops are con- cerned, and whether it rains or not is immaterial now. The mischief has been done. Good rains would help the fruit-growers, though they can get along without them. the ineffective efforts of the Spanish gunncrs. Diplomatic rumors in Europe seem to be emana- tions from the same source as the war rumors of the yellow journals in this country, but are somewhat more amusing. The latest announcement is that the United States, Great Britain and Japan have formed a dreibund with the intention of reorganizing the world, and it would be hard for even a circus poster .to beat that as an announcement of a stupendous aggregation of mammoth wonders. S s e The rapidity with which the various States are fill- ing their quotas for the volunteer army is a new proof that while we have commercial habits we are at heart and in spirit a military people. It does not take much to get the average American to leave his plow, his yardstick or hammer to get his gun and follow the flag. \ The vehemence of the French press in denouncing the United States for making war against Spain has inclined the German press to take a second thought on the subject and come over to our side. A strong A The Spanish authorities, while conceding the heavy losses suffered by their arms, claim that their forces fought with courage and patriotism. The claim is not without justice. Certainly the captain of the Span- | ish flagship who died at his post fell as a brave man | would wish to fall when overtaken by defeat. The very courage of the Spaniards, however, adds to the | glory achieved by the Americans in meeting such foes under the very walls of their forts and batteries, and in a harbor familiar to them, but strange to the Americans. The victory is in every way a notable one, and moreover is as useful as it is glorious. It renders us virtual masters of Manila and thus gives us a coaling station and port of refuge in that part of the globe. Hereafter we shall not have to take such hazardous chances as in this combat. Commodore Dewey and | his men have attested the virtue of the fighting strength of the republic, demonstrated anew the in- ncible daring of our seamen and added another splendid chapter to the history of our triumphs. THE SCHOOL BOARD AT BAY.: CTION taken by the Board of Education at a special meeting on Saturday shows that the members of the board have been aroused at last to the necessity of doing something to assist in the task of exposing the manipulators of the lumber jobs that have been brought to light, and thereby aid in relieving the innocent members of the board from suspicion by making the guilty parties known and bringing them to punishment. To carry out the investigation the president of the board has been authorized to employ experts in the_‘ lumber and building trades. These expérts are not to | exceed three in number, and none of them are to be connected with the Retail Lumbermen’s Exchange. This has a fair sound. It promises a committee that will work intelligently in the examination of the charges and will be impartial in judging between the city and the contractors who are alleged to have been implicated in the jobs. A proposition, however, is not necessarily fair simply because it sounds fair. It is possible, under the terms stated, for the president of the board to ap- point a set of experts who will be merely a white- washing committee. That fact is well understood by the people, and the personnel of the committee will be watchfully scrutinized. The president of the board | must be careful in selecting the committee. He can- not afford to make a mistake. The scandals to be investigated are among the gravest that have ever affected any part of our muni- cipal administration. The evidence which has been made public in regard to them shows that the school funds have been seemingly plundered of large amounts under circumstances which compel the con- clusion that at least some of the members of the Board of Education must have been aware of the plundering. The charges have been specific and the correctness of the statements supporting them can hardly be doubted. If, therefore, the charges are to be disproved and the statements refuted the investi- gation for that purpose must be made by men of the highest character and must be conducted openly, so | that every particle of the testimony and evidence may be made known to the public. It is to be regretted that under the resolution by which the committee is to be appointed the work of the experts will be confined to the task of examining “into the quality and the quantity of lumber furnished to the School Department” by a specified firm of Jumber dealers. The committee should have been given power to make a full and comprehensive inves- tigation, so that it would be authorized to report on all the facts of the case. In that way the people would have been given more confidence in the work of the committee. Fortunately the determination of the case will not be dependent upon the report of the School Board experts, whatever report they may make. The Grand upon to discover the guilty parties and provide for EPORTS of last week to'the effect that Brya;n The work of an agitator is a hard one, and the agita- a rest from wearisome talking and a step toward re- in trying to keep at least a show of life in the silver national prejudice is sometimes a very good substi- tute for reason Jury has brought to light a mass of evidence which their punishment. is seriously contemplating enlistment in the vol- tion in which Bryan is engaged promises nothing in form, both of which would be beneficial to him. issue is afforded by an account given in the Phila- he reached Hazelton, fought his way through a mob to a carriage, met a lot of people, dined, delivered an address, journeyed on to Pottsville, held two recep- tions there, made a speech three hours long, and wourid up the day at a banquet.” . Bryan is a strong man in the jaws of him, and his lungs are leather, but even he must feel the need of a rest from such incessant talking, traveling and banqueting as that. Six months in Cuba at hard fighting ought to seem a relief to him. If it offered no other inducement than that of a rest from mobs and a cessation from the iteration of the old worn arguments of the silver campaign, enlistment must still have an attraction hard to resist. The hopelessness of the task in which he is en- gaged is another thing that must incline Mr. Bryan to seek a rest. The course of events ever since the campaign of '96 has shown the fallacy of the free sil- ver arguments. There has been a steady rise in prices of nearly all kinds of American products and a con- tinuous importation of gold. It is noted that over 70 per cent of the cash holdings of the New York banks is gold coin. Eastern banks are shipping gold coin instead of bills to their correspondents in the in- terior; 20 per cent of custom payments are made in gold, and the treasury gold reserve exceeds $180,- 000,000. According to the estimates of the Treasury Department there is more than $800,000,000 of gold in | the country. In the face of such golden conditions as these it is certainly folly to go on howling calamity. Moreover, Mr. Bryan can hardly have overlooked the growing He has sense enough to perceive that the country honors at this time the man of action and not the mere talker. This fact also serves as an impelling wondered that Bryan is in a mood to talk of it and possibly even to think abeut it. ENGINEERS IN THE NAVY. EABOARD, a journal which is recognized as the organ of the shipping interests of the East- ern States, and may therefore be considered a to an incident in connection with the officering of the vessels newly purchased from the mercantile marine for the navy, which in a striking way illustrates the engineers in the naval service. In fitting the ships for immediate service it was de- sired, says Seaboard, “to retain as far as practicable found that while the engineers are machinists, they are also engineers,and would not enlist as ‘machinists’ to do engineer's work and surrender all claim to ‘While patriotism may have demanded that the en- gineers should enlist for the war even if they were to be rated simply as machinists and not as officers, acted exactly as they did. Their course has served to force the issue of a just recognition of the important part the engineer plays in the management of modern popularity of Fitzhugh Lee in the Democratic ranks. force toward enlistment, and it is therefore not to be representative of American seamen, directs attention need of a revision of the present method of rating the officers and crews of these vessels, but it was soon being an officer.” there are many good reasons why they should have ships, and therefore will be helpful in bringing about | a concession of the claims of engineers to be rated as officers. This view is taken by Seaboard, which says: “It is possible the navy may get engineers to enlist as machinists, but we do not believe the better class of them would do it.” As a means of solving the diffi- culty until Congress can pass a navy personnel bill which will give engineers in the navy the rank they merit it suggests that volunteer engineers be given acting appointments,-as was done during the Civil ‘War. That much of justice can be easily done, and should not be delayed. There is no question but what the navy will get all the engineers it needs, for the men of that profession | are as patriotic as those of any other, but in these days training and accomplishments to master its duties, it is absurd to go on treating the.members o1 the pro- A STRONG LAW NEEDED. C OMMENTING upon the frequently made laws is due to the lack of popular sentiment be- hind them, City and State of Philadelphia very justly finds a golden reward in preying upon the public— needs a masterful law, a law which says ‘Thou shalt just as surely as it needs the application of masterful wit in every other phase of the same, or all the re- order to achieve the end coveted.” This statement is unquestionably true. The task upon popular sentiment, nor even upon popular ac- tivities and initiative. Many people are not aware to in a general way are aware that large quantities of “sophisticated” foods are for sale under deceptive a crusade against the evil. The Government does not wait for popular sentiment to aid it in suppressing the for such aid in suppressing the manufacture of fraud- ulent foods. at Washington last winter the Hon. Marriott Brosius said: lays higher command upon Americans than to pro- vide a remedy, if we can, for this adulteration; the Of the 576 articles of food used on the tables of the people 253 are adulterated. These may be approxi- minds the murder that is done in the name of com- merce in food commodities, to say nothing of the said of food is true of drugs. How many of the potions advised by physicians and administered by health, are vitiated by deleterious substances or ren- dered useless by adulterations?” should be dealt with as vigorously as the illicit dis- tillation of liquors. The Chronicle has suggested the bring them under the control of the internal revenue, and there is much to commend the plan. Either that matter under national supervision. Popular senti- ment on the subject is all right, but the nation must when marine engineering requires men of scientific fession as if they were unfitted to hold official rank. statement that the failure to entorce pure food says: “To put down profitable wrong—wrong which not’ with wholesome clearness to the manifest evil, sources that can be commanded and marshaled in of enforcing pure food laws ought not to be thrown what extent their food is adulterated. Others, who names, have not the time nor the means to assist in manufacture of illicit whisky. Neither should it wait In an address before the Food and Drug Congress “Perhaps no cause in the whole range of service more I contemplate it the more enormous I find it. mations, but are sufficiently accurate to convey to our consequences to the morals of our people. What is Joving hands, in the hope of calling back to life and The evil is indeed one of portentous magnitude and enaction of a system of taxing such articles as would or some other should be adopted which will bring the make the law and enforge it in a masterful way. The resolve of the Board of Education to appoint a committee to go over the lumber deals recently exposed by the Grand Jury will not be commended by the public until it is made certain that the com- mittee is not appointed to whitewash either the lum- clearly shows frauds, and the courts will be called AGITATOR OR SOLDIER. * R unteer army are not inherently improbable. the way of repayment. Enlistment would be for him An illustration of the hard work required of Bryan delphia Ledger of a single dav of his recent tour of ber or the board. A [ Pennsylvania. - The Ledger says: “On Wednesday | COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS J. Bayha is registered at the Palace from Colon. ‘W. C. Gibson, U. 8. N., is registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Parish of Grand Rapids, Mich., are staying at the Falace. N. K. Harris, a fruit raiser of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. H. C. Warner, a journalist of San Ber- nardino, is one of the late arrivals at the California. L. F. Shepard, a well-known citizen of Los Angeles, is at the California on a short visit to the city. R. A. Douglass of San Diego has come up to the city and Is st@ying at the Cali- fornia for a few days. M. C. Osborne and wife of San Diego are at the Grand. Mr. Osborne is the superintendent of the San Diego Gas Works. Maurice Friemaa, a wealthy merchant of New York, is one of yesterday's ar- rivals at the Occidental. He is accom- panied by his wife. J. M. NIlwaine, a wealthy planter of Salvador, is a guest at the Occidental. C. H. Schibeley, a wealthy banker of Oroville, and 8. Marks, a prominent mer- chant of the same place, are both regis- tered at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Thorne and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Boyd and family, and several young ladies consti- tute a party of people from Auburn, N. Y., who arrived at the Palace yesterday on a visit of pleasure to the coast. 0000000000 The excitement o o In the theater was ENOUGH TO o intense. Strong & MAKE THE men sat with o BOLDEST g faces blanched by a nameless ter- o TREMBLE. 1o \ovely wom- 000000 O0O0O0O0 en,shaken in ev- ery delicate fiber, arose from the boxes and seats and fled wildly hither and thither, looking in vain for some place to faint; gilded youths forgot the set of their tles as they struggled for the exit, and the orchestra, joining in the general panic, forsook their beloved instruments and scrambled over the stage, one after another, as though they were storming a body of Spaniards who had taken refuge in a brewery. In the galleries the scene was intensified. Coats and wraps were torn and trampled under foot in the mad struggle of fear, while the occa- sional flashes of cruel red light that shot in through the side entrance and, pene- trating the steamy gloom, lit up for the moment with their vivid brilliancy the struggling crowd, showed by the lines of the strained faces on which they mo- mentarily rested, how great was the panic that for the instant had seized upon all. Behind the wings everything was in a state of chaos. Melba had fainted, and her manager had carried her off. Scene shifters were running frantically about trying to pacify the performers, who were struggling with the fly-men, prompters, property men, mechanics and supernum- eraries In their wild efforts to pass through the stage entrance into the comparative safety of the hotel next door. Outside the main entrance a huge mass of struggling humanity and plunging horses packed the street for a solid block. Men fought with men in their mad ef- forts to get first into the open, while others who had some loved ones exposed to the terrible danger within, struggled with equal desperation to get inside and rescue them from the dreadful fate that awaited them. Two gentlemen, strangers In the city, happened to be crossing Bush street on Kearny just when the turmofl was at its height. The elder of the two addressing a policeman who was trying to calm a crying child, said: "“‘Officer, what is all this panic about? Surely it cannot be that a fire in a stable next door has so worked on the fears of a San Francisco crowd?’ “Fire,” replied the Bobby, “fire nothing. The matter is grave enough to cause the boldest to shudder with ap- riehension, as you would know yourself if you were not a stranger in the city. Afayor Phelan has taken possession of the stage and threatens to make a speech filled with poetical quotations, and"— But the strangers had waited to hear no more. They were fleeing with the rest. At the Russ is J. M. Hicks, a cattleman of Hanford. 1. Bird, a well-known lawyer of Merced, is registered at the Grand. Dr. H. C. Grove of Modesto is a guest at the Palace with his wife. Robert Mantell, the actor, is registered at the Baldwin from New York. Judge W. J. Bariell is at the Grand, where he arrived last evening from his home in Los Angeles. E. R. Eldridge, a wealthy merchant of Salt Lake City, is among the arrivals of last night at the Palace. H. M. La Rue, the Railroad Commis- sloner, is at the Occidental. He has come down to the city to be present at the in- vestigation of the Southern Pacific Com- | pany, which commences to-day at 10 o'clock. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Two gunboats and six torpedo-boats are building at Elbing for Germany. e gunboats are to be completed early next year. R Divers in the British navy have to dem- ‘onstrate their skill before being passed as proficient, the examination being- very practical, and consists in being able to work in twelve fathoms of water for one hour, fifteen fathoms for half an hour and twenty fathoms for fifteen minutes. One part of the Russian naval pro- gramme is to build three battleships of 12,675 tons each of the Peresvet type and armed with four 10-inch guns each. They are to be built at St. Petersburg and will be assigned to the Baltic fleet. Besides these armored ships a fast cruiser of 8000 tons, of the type of the British torpedo- ship Vulean, is to be built at Nicolaieff. A second-class crulser of 5650 tons, buflt at Danzig for the German navy, has just been launched. Another of the same type is still on the stocks at Danzig and two more are building at Stettin and Bremen. They are 350 feet in leng’h and are to steam 20 knots. The armament ¥ill be very powerful, consisting of two 8.2-inch, eight 6-inch, all quick-fires, also ten 3.4- inch, ten lLd-inch, four machine guns and three submerged torpedo tubes. The eight torpedo-boat destroyers build- ing in England for Japan are of 306 tons displacement, and are to be completed gradually after June next. Their names in Japanese and translated into English are: No. 1—Tkazuchi—Thunder. No. 2—Inazuma—Lightning. No. 3—Shinonome—Dawn of the day. No. 4—Murakuino—Bank of clouds. No. 5—Akebono—Morning twilight. No. 6—Fazanami—Rippling waves. 7—Yugiri—¥vening mist. No. $—Shiranuki—Phosphorescence. Four torpedo-boats of 150 tons each are building on the continent, three in France and one in Germany. The first three have been named: No. 1—Hayabusa—Vulture. No. 2—Kasaragi—Magple, No. 3—Managura—Crane. The boat bulding in Germany is named Shirataka, or White Hawk. While the names are neither nautical nor naval, but rather poetical and commonplace, t he boats will make up for this trivial neglect in that the torpedo-boat destroyers will have a speed of 31 knots and the torpedo- boats 28 knots. ‘The London Engineer nevi misses any ling toward the United States, and the war between chance for showing its ill % - Spain and this country afforded the paper referred to a chance to elaborately dem- onstrate to its own evident satisfacl.on that the United States is inferior to Spain as a naval power. It groups nine of our vessels of war in three classes, namely the Indiana, Massachusetts and Towa in the first class; Brooklyn and New York in the second, and the Miinneapolis, San Francisco, Columbia and New Orleans in the third class. In juxtaposition it places five Spanish armored ships, two cruisers, five torpedo-boat destroyers and three torpedo-boats, making a total of sixteen effective war vessels of Spain. Upon the basis of these grossly incomplete data, so far as they relite to the United States navy, the Engineer works out a compara- tive efficlency, elucidated by dlagrams, of which the following are the results: Tons displacefe Metal thrown, pounds Energy in_foot tons. Indicated horse-power Rpesd lu ok 5 The British second-class cruiser Hermes of 5630 tons was launched at the Fairfield yard, Glasgow, April 7. Two more of that type are buflding. They are improve- ments In the ..agicienne class. and with the larger displacement of 2800 tons will carry their batieries higher out of water and have greater speed. The Hermes is sheathed with wood and coppered and is 350 feet long, 54 feet beam and 21 feet draught. The speed is to be 20 knots. The main armament of eleven 4.7-inch quick-firers is disposed so that three will fire directly ahead and three directly astern. The quantity of ammunition car- ried may be inferred from the fact that the forward magazine is 38 feet in length and the after magazine 42 feet, making a August 5, 1888, ¢ GODDARD AND CHOYNSKI— City. Joe Goddard and Joe Cgo{_m yaney fought twice in Australia.’ At February 10, 1891, and year. his opponent in fou cured from any first-class book-3eller. you have written any songs %'(lu :should - ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, ACRES OF LAND—Mrs M. E., €ity.. The city and county of San Frangisco contains 26721 squarc acres o- land.. & PHIL SHERIDAN—R. R., City. Sheridan was born in Albany March 6, 1831, and died in Nonqui am uly’ 20, the, ate Goddard de nd & In each instance KILLED IN A DUEL—L.. F. H., Clty. W. C. Brann, editor of the Iconoclast, and. Captain T. E. Davis fougit a street duel . in Waco, Tex., on the evening of April 13- 1898, and both died from the effe thefr wounds on the following day. WEBSTER-STREET BRIDGE-J: i, City. The accident at the Webster- bridge, caused by a train running .iI Oakland Creek through an open draw the bridge, occurred on Memorial Dd May 0,188l - 2 COLUMBIAN STAMPS—Columbia, San Jose, Cal. The Postoffice Departmer San Francisco is entirely out of Cel bian stamps. There Is a possibility.t some can be obtained from the ment at Washington. FURNACE—IL G., City. It is im| to give an answer to the question, **'W is the average heat of a furnace?’- be- cause the particular kind of furnace'is not named. _ Correspondents -should plainly state what it is they want lifor mation about. CBEE POETRY—L. Q. P., Hanford, Cal: of the best alds to writing .ptje! rhyming dictionary, whieh. can B Feart hat. t= It ass T send copies of them to a firs: : S 9 total of 100 feet stowed with ready-made house and if they have any. merit, the projectiles and other ammunition. inch shield: 308 308 308 306 06 06 08 308 308 08 06 O DERE QX E 5 SONGS OF THE HOUR. 2, 0 308 508 308 308 K08 K08 308 30 308 308 308 308 08 06 0 % ‘1 SALUTE THEE.” O, my country, I salute thee, Ab thy banners are unfurled, As thou risest in thy patient might supreme; And 2 holy peace Comes o'er me, As thy statemen face the world, With thy message beacon-signaled In thy sword’s far-flashing gleam. O, my country, dare we chide thee, Who had hoped 'thy queenly brow ‘Would receive Time's rarest crown, the wreath of peace? It were thine—but, lo! thou turnest From such coronation now, To unclasp a tyrant's death-clutch! Ah! for that, whose praise would cease? The axis of the forecastle gun will be 28% feet above water and that on the poop 19% feet. All the guns are protected by 4~ house will advise you and: Will ‘pr: make you an offer. 2 JAPAN'S NAVY—J. S., Monterey, Cal The navy of Japan is made up of five first-class battle-ships, - two: second:.and third class, six coast defense vessels, four; armored cruisers, twenty-two unarmored cruisers, three first-class gunboats,” six second and third class gunboats, five fifst- class torpedo-boats, sixty-three second- Class torpedo-boats, seventy-nine third- class torpedo-boats, three subsidized yes- sels, three stationary vessels, sixteen-ob- solete and other vessels. The armameriton the battle-ships and coast defense vesseis is thirty- sight heavy guns and 23l guns of the secondary battery. TEN LARGEST CITIES—G. N. P., City. The ten largest cities in the United States, obably: according to population,” are: Greater New York, 2500,000; Chicago, 1,800,000; Philadelphia, 1,250,000; St. Louis, 650,000 Baltimore, 625,270; Boston, 550,000; Cincin- nati, 400,000; Buffalo (N. Y.), 389,000; Cleve- land (Ohio), 38,000, and San Francisco, 350,000. This list is on estimates of popu- Jation furnished last December by the Mayors of the respective citi s.l The“t«il; largest cities according to area in squal le Greater New York, 307%; New 1 bave watched thy bosom neaving, et rge wi ty, wrenched by pain: 2 ia, 1201 San I have prayed—and seen sweet patience light g‘;zi,%“’(ta%s' mfhé“"“lf}g‘:’l‘:n (M?)”" = But the {yraht mocks by falseness— Duluth (Mian), 61%; St. Paul,’ 8 Des Flays thy neighbor—blasts thy Maine! gflolne)s. ‘5;0’* Milwaukee, 53, and Taunton ! ass), 445 3 aine! Darg I chide thy clean sword's gleaming? Shall I carp when thou dost rise? No. my country! Thou art giraed ..BY the guardian arm of God! saves. O, thy beauteous strength ne'er charmed me | More than now, when Cuba’s sod Feels thy shadow make a shelter For her people—and her graves! CHICAMAUGA—I1898. They are camped on Chickamauga! Once again the white tents gleam On that fleld where vanished heroes Sleep the sleep that knows no dream. There are shadows all about them Of the ghostly troops to-day, But they light the common campfire— Those who wore the blue and gray. Where the pines of Georgla tower, Where the mountains kiss the sky, On their arms the Nation's warriors Walt to hear the battle-cry. Walit together, friends and brothers, And the heroes 'neath their feet Sleep the long and dreamless slumber Where the flowers are blooming sweet. Sentrles, pause, yon shadow challenge! Rock-ribbed Thomas goes that way— He who fought the foe unvielding In that awful battle fray. Yonder pass the shades of herces, And they follow where Bragg leads, Through the meadows and the river, But no ghost the sentry heeds. Field of fame, a patriot army Treads thy sacred sod to-day! And they'll face a common foeman, e who wore the blue and gray, fight for common country, ‘Il charge to victory ’Neath the folds of one brave banner— Starry banner. of the free! They are camped on Chickamauga, ‘Where the green tents of the de: Turn the soil into a glory Where a nation’s heart once bled; But they're clasping hands together On this storied fleld of strife— Brothers brave who meet to battle In the freedom-war of life! Baltimore News. OFF TO SEA. Our ships have put to sea, And to windward and to lee The old flag is flving, flying, fiying; And it ripples its red bars And the glory of its stars Where the spirits of the stormy deep crying: “On to the fight! Let the stars of Freedom light The land beneath the tyrant's banner gory; Till every tyrant flag Is a torn and trampled rag; And alone in the sunlight waves ‘Old Glory!" Our ships have put to sea, And the light of Liberty Dawns o'er the people sad and dying; The chains of thralldom break, And the thrones of tyrants shake While th ing: “Fare ye to the fight! Let the stars of Freedom light The land beneath the tyrant’s banner gory, Till every tyrant flag Is a torn and trampled rag, And alone in the sunlight waves ‘Old Glory!" —Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. e TWO VIEWS OF WAR. Stirring drums in a sunny street, A bonnie flag in the azure sky, A luring melody, tramping feet, And hope in many an eye. Death in a still and shadowed room, A pallid, boyish face at rest, A sunbeam quivering in the gioom, And woe in a woman's breast. Henry Robinson Palmer. e hath laid help on the might’—thus He Willlam Knight in Boston Journal. - he spirits of the stormy deep are cry- OLD GLORY—L. B. D., Marysville; Cal. The following from Coffin's *Drumbeat of the Nation” is the only explanation that | has ever been published of why the Ameri- can flag is called “Old Glory": Stephen Driver had been @ sea captain befors the civil war and sailed from: Salem,. Mass to forelgn ports. Once, when in a foreign po for some important service rendered the: pe ple, he received from them a beautiful Ameri- can flag. A priest blessed it ‘as it rose to.the masthead of the ship and -Captain: ~Driver promised to defend it with his life if need be. Giving up the sea he settled in Nashville, Tenn., and when' the war “began, to. secrete the flag he sewed it fn a quilt -and siept under it every night. He: named it *‘Old Glory.” When the troops under Bueil “entered Nash- ville, Tenn., February, 1562, ‘e ‘told_ the story of O1d Glory, brought it eut, went ‘Wwith .them to the roof of the State House and flung it to the breeze, the men in -biue. swinging - their caps and shouting their hurrahs; DIAMONDS—W: 8., Ci The study of the action of heat upon:th and without the presence earliest clue to 1ts compasition. ous experiment of-the.Florentine acade- miclans Averanl and Targioni, made In 1684, at the-instance of:the¢ Grand Duke Como, showed that it could be volatilized by heat. In 1751 the Emperor: Francis I caused a number of -diamonds and rubies to be placed in a-crucible ‘and exposed to great heat, when it wis found that the diamonds had disappeared, but that the rubies remained: .Dacet afterward showed that though dfamonds.vanished in an open crueible, they Temained un- altered if the air was-completely exelud- ed. In 1772 Lavoisier demonstrated that the diamond is truly- ‘cembustible, - and that it ylelds carbon’ dioxide. 'The dia- mond burns before the.blow pipe in air or oxygen gas. SR NATIONAL GUARDSMAN—A Con- stant Reader. The following from .the Revised Statutes Is.an.answer to the question, ““Can a -ilitiaman of California be compelled to serve -putside of Califor- nia without his ‘consefit?*:. According to the interpretation of the officers of the United Siates army; *‘National Guards- men” and “m.uitiamen’’ are the same: Whenever the United States are involved, or are in imminent danger of {ovasion, from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, or of re- bellion against the authority..of the Govern- ment of the United States, it shall be lawful for the President to_call-forth such number of the militia of the State.or.States most con- venient to the place of danger, or scene of &c- tion, as he may deem necessary to repel.such invaston, or to suppress such rebellion, and to issue hi$ orders for that purpose to sich offl- cers of the militia as he may think proper. ‘Whenever the President calls- forth the mili- tia of the States to be employed in the servics of the United States he may specify in his call the period for which such service will be required, not exceeding ‘nine months, and the militia 5o called shall be mustered in: and continue to serve during the term so specified, uniess sooner discharged by ¢ommand of the President. £ % HORSE RECORDS—S. L. M., Steven- son, Skamania County,.Wash. The fol- lowing is the record by ‘trotters at dif- ferent ages, for one mile:- ‘Yearling on kite-shaped track, Pansy McGregor, Hol- ton, Kansas, November 18, 1883, 2:23%; regular track, Adbell, against time, San Jose, Cal., September 28, 1594, 2:23; two- gear-old, ‘gainst time, kite track, Arion. tockton, Cal., November ‘10, 1891, 2:10%; regular track, Jupe, Boston, Mass., Sep- tember 28, 1896, 2:13%; thre. ular track, Fantasy, October:17, 1893, at Nashville. Tenn., ; four-year-old, regular track, Directum, Nashville, Tenn., October 18, 1893, 2:05%; regular track, Fan- tasy, against time, 'Terre Haute, Ind., September 13, 1894, 3:06; five-year-old, reg- ular_track, Alix, Terre Haute, Ind., Aug- ust 17, 1884, 2:05%; six-year-old, Alix, same TOO MANY WOULD-BE COLONELS. Nothing can be more out of place and positively harmful to the national interest | Ind,, 2:06, 2:08% and 2:05%. % than the general disposition to suspend | [ PACERS Star Pointer, against tine work and go about snouting and offering | Readvilie, Mass, August B (8T, I to ralse regiments. This is the very worst thing a2 man can do for his country at the present juncture. There may be a call for gratuitous exhibitions of patriotic feeling of this kind iater on if the worst | sort of fortune follows our cause persist- ently enough, but for the present the| government will have more men offering | of the several States than it will know | well what to do with. It is, we must | repeat again, not numbers as much as training, efficiency and armament that | count in war to-day, and industrial power is the basis and support of all. The great ba.tt]eshg Massachusetts carries a crew of 500 officers and men, but its power is immeasurably above that of the tnen mighty Royal George: When Kempenfeldt went down ‘With twice four hundred men, It were better, then, for the shoemaker or ven the politician to stick to his last, to go about offering or attempting to raw regiments for whose effective use there is no prospect, immediate or re- mote. When the Government needs such service it wili call for it.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. INDUSTRIAL CONQUESTS. In the midst of war preparations it is a g‘ntfl ing fact that the demand for our anufactured articles is growing in many reased this directions. Orders have inc gear for American railroad iron, engines, ridges, plows, cultivators, reapers, thrashers, hullers, cotton-working ma-, chines, stamp milis and steam engines.’ American electrical machinery has control of the whole field. Not long ago three ‘water wheels of 450 horse power each were sent to an electric motor company in Japan. American machinery is replacing that of foreign made in Mexico. Russia has followed Japan in ordering new bat- tleships in our ygrds.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. track, Se] heat: October 1, 1867, 2:00%; -Helle. Acton (year- ling), against time, Lyon: ber 14 192, Vi 1y, against timd ber 20, 1 light, against time, Sant. tober 30, their services from the Natlonal Guard | SEoibs suge ptember 19, 18 ; best three Alix, August 17, 1894, -Terre Haute, s, Nebr., Octo< ear-old, Ditect- rg, I ar-old, Segrch: 3 y 20 : two-y e, Galesbu 4, 2:073; three- 1897, 2:05%; four-year-old, Online, i , 2:04; best by mare, Lottie Lorine dead heat in race), and Bessie Bonehill, erre Haute, Ind., September 380, 1897, Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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