The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANOCISOO OALL, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1898. MONDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 188. | EDITORIAL RGOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) 15 | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. . | THE WEEKLY GALL..... . by mail, $1.50 | ...MAY 16, 1898 | MORE TALK OF INTERVENTION. ECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN'S plain decla- S ration at Birmingham that the policy of the Salisbury ministry is to isolate Great Britain | from European combinations and seek an alliance with the Uniged States, has been followed by a story to the effect that certain European powers recently | requested the British Governthent to act in concert with them for the purpose of localizing the war be- tween the United States and Spain to the West Indies and preventing our continued occupation of the Phil- ippines. This request the British are said to have refused, and it is added they gave the Continental powers to understand that any interference on their part against the United States would be followed by PrEssroig CCORDING to an estimate made by John Wanamaker, the people of the United States have within the last twenty days expended over $2,000,000 in the purchase of national flags, and the demand is still going on at an increasing rate. The purchasers come from every section of the Union— from the South as well as the North—the whole land is becoming radiant with banners. The flags ordered are of all sizes and fitted for all purposes that ardent loyalty can devise. They are to float from barracks and arsenals, from schoolhouses and colleges, from stores, offices and shops, from liberty poles in rufal villages, from city homes and farm houses, and not infrequently from small staffs which can be carried in the hand for ready waving | OAKLAND OFFICE...... +...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room I88, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. | WASHINGTON (B, C.) OFFICE.. -Rigge Heues | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE --Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. i BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 s'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner , Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll S e'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. ——e e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“In O1d Japan.” Columbia—+The Face in the Moonlighs™ the prompt intervention of Great Britain on our side. If this story be true we owe the British some thanks for their display of friendship, and yet we are not wholly grateful. We would have preferred to have had them stand neutral for a while and wait to see what would happen when the first step of inter- ference was taken. The people of the United States are not carrying a chip on their shotlders, but they are somewhat eagerly awaiting just such an action as that proposed. Our Government has in a diplo- matic way informed Europe that no intervention in the war would be permitted, and we would now gladly welcome an occasion for making the informa- tion more specific and emphatic by applying it in the case of a direct attempt to intervene. Doubtless it would pleasé Etiropé to have the war confined to American waters, but we prefer to carry whenever the passing of volunteers or other patriotic' incident affords an opportunity to the citizen to show his colors. Nor is it in our own land only that the Star Spangled Banner is brightening the breeze with a greater frequency than ever. It is streaming now in the Orient from the masts of Dewey’s squadron, and floats above the Philippines with the pride of conquest and possession. - While it floats there as an emblem of American sovereignty over those islands, it rivals the proud banner of Great Britain in meet- ing the sun at every hour of the journey of that orb around the globe. Before the descending stin sets upon the starry banner at Manila its rising beams catch sight of the innumerable flags that fly along the Atlantic from Maine to Porto Rico. In this exuberanceé of the flag there is a significance greater than that of individual patriotism, for a great THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. | DESTINY OF THE PHILIPPINES. The victorious guns of the American fleet have closed one chapter of our national history and opened another. The destiny of the Philippines is not to be decided in a moment or prematurely determined, but whatever the decision and whatever the determination the United States nfust decide and determine. No othér nation can. This responsibility we cannot_divide. Leaving the considera- tion of merely American conditions and abandoning circumstances and an en- vironment limited to this hemisphere, the United States is forced to step upon the world’s stage &nd to deal with the world's problems.—Philadelpuia Press. ARE WELL WORTH KEEPING. ‘With the flag planted by Commodore Dewey flying over the city of Manila, the Philippine Islands are a possession of the United States as rightly and legally as any State or Territory. We do not know much about our new possessions in the far Pacific, but what little we do know indicates that they dre of great value. What we shall do with the Phillppines ought not to offer a very serious problem when thelr possession 1s unquestionable. Fhey are certainly well worth keeping, if we do not care to do anything else with them.—Providence News. SCHEME OF COLONIAL POLICY. Give Cuba her freedom, sell the Philippines and hold Porto Rico would seem to be the proper disposition of the possessions which Spain must forfeit to the United States on account of the war. The Philippines we do not want, certainly not if they can be sold to either Japan or some other power for a sufficlent sum to pay a large share of the expenses of the war.—Minneapolis Journal. HAMPERED BY NO PLEDGES. ‘Undoubtedly, the case of the Philippines is different from the case of Cuba. The United States is pledged not to keep Cuba for its bwn, and to stay only till Spaln has been put out of the island and until the Cubans have established a vernment. With regard to Porto Rico, if we take it, and with regard to the hilippines, we are under no such pledge. We are under no obligation, formal g\;r}{?&l}ed, to abandon the Philippines at the conclusion of the war.—Milwaukee A VALUABLE ACQUISITION. Such a territorial acquisition would more than indemnify us for a much greater war than any we would be called upon to wage against a weak and rotten State like Spain. It may be said, however, as to the - ledger account, lt;l;{o:e’r?;fil.} take and keep the rich little island of Porto Rico to boot.—Wash- MAY PROVE A COMMERCIAL PRIZE. If holding and governing a country were equivalent to controlling its trade and commerce, the Philippine Islands might prove a commercial prize. The exports | it wherever we can find the foe. We have sent our | fleets to Manila and we may yet send them to Europe itself for the purposes of attacking Spain at home. California—"Moths " Aléazar—"Young Mra Winthrop " Morosco's—"The Corner Grocery." Tivoli—"Ship Ahoy." . ¢ i i: Orpheum— Vaudeviila. | 1t is our war and we will wage it as we think best. Shermen, Knetsel Quartet, Monday, May 18. | wr : e venti g Native Sons , Mason atreet. Locture Tharedsy night. | When we choose to have intervention we will ask for it, and any power or cothbination of poweérs that offers it before we ask will meet with a rebuff that | will surprise them as much as Cleveland’s Venezu- | elan message surprised Great Britain. var wi i S icati in the AUCTION SALES. | I.i the war with Spain causes complications t e | Orient of elsewhere that so disturb European pride By E. 8 Spear & Co —This day, May 16. Furniture, at 2108 The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville. and “Visions of Art. * | Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Spectalties. | Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. 3 Sutro Baths—Swimming, California JockeyCiub, Oakland—Races this day. national aspiration can never be measured by per- sonal feeling, no matter how intense that feeling may be or how strong the personality of the individual. The people have been once more aroused to a sense of the manifest destiny which overrides individual inclinations and shapes the onward course of the great republic. Whether flying from the peaceful schoolhouse of an inland State or from a warship riding a far off sea and dominating a hostile port, the flag carries the same meaning for nations and for humanity. It marks the advance of a power in the world with which all will hereafter have to reckon exports the United States took, chiefly leum.=Philadelphia Times. Manila and_Cavite as Herald. PLEDGE MU of the islands in 1895 amounted to $32,000,000 and the imports to $29.000,000. Of the in sugar and hemp, the v: imnd furnished of the imports the inconsiderable amount of §119.%5, chifly petro- ue of $4,731,366, COALING STATION IN EASTERN WATERS. The Philippines are nearly §000 miles distant from the Pacific Coast, and belong to another continent and to another political system, besides being inhab- ited by an alien race and one difficult to govern. fortified coaling stations and places of refuge for American Vessels In Eastern waters is a question the solution of which will call for the highest statesmanship and diplomacy after hostilities are ended.—Chicago Times= The permanent retention of ST BE KEPT. When the United States undertook the war for the liberation of Cuba a pledge Pacfic avenue, at 11 o clock. | as to lead to a general war, we would, of course, be glad of the help the British have it in their power to give. It would be of great advantage to us fo have our coasts guarded by her dominating fleet until we could build up our own. We are thankful, there- fore, that such help is promised by a member of the British Cabinet, and that the promise was greeted with approving cheers by the British audience that heard it. We are not so thankful, however, that the proposed interference was checked. Sooner or later it will be necessary to make the European powers clearly understand the claim of the United States to be able to attend to her own business in peace or war, and this is about ag good a time as any to give the understanding. OUR INTERESTS IN CHINA. OME time ago it was decided by the Philadel- S phia Commercial Museum to send to China a commission charged with the duty of investi- gating the conditions of the different provinces of that country with a view to increasing our commercial relations with them. The outbreak of the war does not appear to have interfered with the project, and accordingly the commissioners will probably soon set out on their undertaking. The object of the commission, while of great im- portance to the Union generally, is patticularly so to the Pacific Coast. In the very nature of things our commercial expansion must be largely in the direction of China. We can hardly hope to have any considerable increase of demand from the East for our manufactured goods, or, indeed, for goods of any kind except fruit, oil and wine, by reason of the fact that the East produces itself more than it can consume of such articles. Moreover in sending freight to the East high railroad rates so increase the cost of our products after they arrive at those mar- kets that théy cannot compete with those of the East- ern_producer. In China a different set of conditions prévail. We have cheap ocean transportation to Chinese ports, and in this have an advantage over any American competitor, while the proximity of China to this coast when compared with the lohg distance from Europe gives us an advantage over European com- petition. Thus the geographical situation of the Chinese ports with relation to our own and those of other civilized nations is in our favor, and we ought to find there a profitable market for all such goods as the Chinese obtain from foreign countries. As China advances from her long seclusion into closer relations with the rest of the world there in- creases a demand for the products of civilization. ' Her people are beginning to consume large quantities and a great variety of marufactured articles. The demand for cotton cloths, clocks, bicycles, and all ! kinds of hardware and agricultural implements is rapidly increasing. Moreover there is a growing de- sire among the Chinese people for wheat and for canned fruits. We can supply much of this demand, and, therefore, have a material interest in the com- merce of the country. The proposed commission, while organized by the Philadelphia Museum, will travel under authority of | the State Department and will represent the whole | country. It will look after our interests as well as those of the Eastern States. We have a right, there- fore, to expect good results from it. All the great commercial nations of the globe: Great Britain, Rus- sia, Germany and France, are struggling for suprem- acy in the Chinese market. The United States is not likely to imitate them in seizing Chinese territory, but it cannot permit them to interfere with our com- mercial interests, and it is, therefore, timely and op- portune to assert our claims and develop our trade with all the Chinese provinces where there is any | considerable demand for articles produced by eithes | our fields or our mills. e i ey xo It must be conceded that the Creelmans and | Deckers of the yellow press have Spanish rivals in the | art of lying. But the work of the Spanish is raw yet, | though improving. Their fabrications are really as harmless as the tales of a Munchausen. The more ‘practiced liars tell that which might be true, and sometimes have the joy of noting that for an hour or two their. yarns are believed. arth—This day, May 16. Furniture, at 475 Guerrero By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, May 16, Furniture, at | 1308 Stockton street, at 11 o'clock. | Rook-r & Co.—Tuesday, May 17, Horses, at i21 How- | 1 HE war goes on, and so does business, much WE ARE STILL DOING BUSINESS. I to the surprise of a good many worthy but timid and over-conservative people who pre- dicted all sorts of mishaps to trade coincident with the embarkation of the country in a foreign war. Everybody has met these cautious folk, and every- body remembers their doleful predictions. The war was going to cost a deal of money; foreign compli- eatiors would probibly ensue; taxes would be tre- | mendously increased; money would gat tight, business ‘ would be paralyzed, and the poor would suffer. The | country would not get over it for a generation, and | things génerally would go to the bowwows. These | timid people are always with us; they always see the lion in the path, but alas for their apprehensions! | the war has been under full steam for some little time, a large fleet has been destroyed, fortifications have been battered down in the Occident and Orient, the map of the world undergoing important changes, and yet a stranger could travel from New York to San Francisco and see no signs of a foreign war, provided he could be kept away from the news- papers. On all sides, wherever he went, he would see a great nation plodding along peacefully in the universal occupation of making money. Of course there have been changes, but thus far they are insignificant. As remarked several weeks ago, those articles directly affected by a foreign war have advanced, but nine out of ten of the common lines of trade remain absolutely unaffected. As far as business is concerned, the war is an incident, not half as serious or important as the dry season. Generally speaking, trade is quiet and devoid of feature. Iron, which was abnormally active for a year, has quieted down, owing largely to the immense production, which is placed at a million tons month. Wool, per contra, which has been stagnant for many months, is showing increased activity. Groceries and food products have again advanced as a rule, in"consequence of' the remarkable rise in wheat, which is in light supply all over the world. The bank clearings last week again showed a marked gain, being 37.6 per cent over those for the same week in 1897, which indicates that business is just that percentage better this year than last, the horrible war to the contrary notwithstanding. The failur too, make a good exhibit, showing liabilities of $2, 978,080, against $3,005,804 last year and $4,138,271 in 1896. Money is easier, with increased loans at lower rates of interest, and the Government is actually pay- ing out gold over its Treasury coynter because it needs notes more than coin. “As an effect of this dreadful war this latter condition is positively refreshz ing. The truth is, the nation has lately been rather surfeited with gold from foreign countries, and there is still more to come—something like $11,000,000 in actual coin. Nor must it be forgotten that we have recently been loaning money to Europe. All this is respectfully submitted to the consideration of the aforesaid good folk who predicted hard times. Locally there is little new to report in the con- dition of trade. The farmer continues on top, as his preducts are commanding better prices than he has enjoyed for a number of years. Some districts have suffered more or less from lack of rain, and a few severely; but the northern half of the State, at least, will go through the year with flying colors. Even here crops of all kinds will be short, but the sharp advance in prices will offset the deficiency in the yield. At the cleventh hour we are favored with a gentle rain which may catch some hay out napping and split a few cherries here and there, but which will enormously benefit all grain and hay still uncut, so it is more of a blessing than otherwise. The fruit interest, from present indications, will make money is this year, as the crop will not be large, except in one or two varieties, such as prunes, for instance, and buyers are already in the field bidding fancy prices for cling peaches and pricots—$60 per ton being named for both kinds. These figures are pretty steep, and it is doubtful whether the heavy buyers will pay them. Europe is going to unnecessary trouble in worry- ing about the passing of the Philippines into the possession of England. This country is friendly to | England, but has no present intention of turning over to her such chestnuts as may be dragged from the fire during the war. R S s 6 If members of the late Grand Jury can only get over their sulks they will find that private life has many pleasing features. > If the sewer system south of the park s.hall turn out to be worth all that is being paid for it, it can hardly be less than perfect. in every crisis that affects the larger destinies of man- kind. There can be little doubt in the minds of any who are at all familiar either with our history or with our people, as to what is the significance of the ad- vancing bannef, or what will be its influence among nations. The flag carries its meaning with it. As has been said by an orator not given to vain declama- tionf “Look at it. Listen to it. Every star has a fongue, every stripe is articulate.” It proclaims that which from the earliest days of the republic has been borne as a legend upon the reverse of the great seal of the nation. “Novum ordo saeculorum” (a new order of the ages), and “The heavens approve.” FRENCH SYMPATHY WITH AMERICA. p suaded that French sympathy is almost wholly on the side of Spain and against us in the present war. This conclusion is founded on reports of articles in the Parisian press, telegraphed to the United States, and to that extent is fully justified. It appears, however, that the press of Paris does not OPULAR opinion in this country is about per- was given to the civilized world that it should not be turned into a war of ag- gression or for territorial aggrandizement. This pledge must and will be kept. We are now in military possession of the Philippines, and while events have thrust certain responsibilities upon us with reference to those islands, there is nothing in the situation to justify the opinion that we should establish our sovereignty over them. The same may be eald of Cuba, and Porto Rico need not be acquired.—St. Louls Post-Dispatch, DANGERS THREATEN US. It was essentlal, as a military measure, that we should occupy the Philip- pines. But it Is by no means essential that we should make this occupation per- manent or that we should use it as an excuse for hoisting the American flag over Hawalil, as Congress now seems inclined to do. The very fact, indeed, that Hawailan annexation is a probability illuminates the situation and shows us what dangers threaten us. There is too much reason to fear that the patriotic enthusiasm of the moment will lead us to take steps that afterward we should be glad to retrace.—Providence (R. 1.) Journal. TROUBLESOME POSSESSIONS. ‘We need now, as we needed before, coaling stations in different parts of the world. But we do not need now any more than we did before the fight in Manila Harbor any possessions that it would require a navy to defend. Hawailan annex- ation is as unwise as it ever was, and the arguments against the absorption of the Philippines arc even stronger. Of course, we ought to have a coaling station in both these places, but there is no argument, except that of necessity—of which we shall speak later—which would warrant this Government in retaining posses- sion of the Philippines.—Indianapolis News. COMMERCIAL CONQUEST. Tt is believed that the East offers the largest and most Inviting fleld for future American commercial conquest. Our trade with China and Japan, partic- ularly in breadstuffs, has increased at a remarkable rate in the last few years, but it is a mere bagatelle to what.it might become if we made the Philippines a i Doctors are blaming the cigarette for the many rejections of volunteers; and probably the cigarette is as guilty as half a dozen other things. If anybody | entertains the idea that the men who passed do not indulge in this form of attempted suicide he has only to visit the military camp and incautiously display a package of the little rolls te be undeceived. Some regret is expressed that Sampson failed to destroy the coal Spain has stored at San Juan. But cheer abides in the thought that that coal will burn well under the boiler of American men-of-war. Nobody could blame the Spanish Cabinet (omcen if in addition to resigning they were to ask for pass- ports for safe escort. thoroughly represent France, and that we have among the French a body of sympathizers, less noisy but not less strong than that which so vociferously up- holds the Spatish. A large number of persons of French birth or descent ate residents of the United States, and all of them have a greater or less number of relatives or friends in France. It is inevitable that the influence of the American French should be felt in the old country, and.it is the stronger because of the senti- mental tie which has bound the people of the two nations together through the memiofy of the aid given by France to the United States in the days of the revolution. There is another motive, less lofty and less senti- mental which inclines the French to hold friendly relations with us. It springs from the desire of all classes of the people to make the international ex- position of 1900 a complete triumph from every point of view, and that could hardly be accomplished if the United States were antagonized to such an extent as to induce her citizens to ignore the enterprise and take no part in it. We have, therefore, a sympathy arising from the pocketbook as well as one of the heart, and the two cosbined constitute a force of sentiment hardly less potent than that which con- trols the Parisian press. The instincts of the French people as a mass are always on the side of humanity and liberty. They are too proud of the glorious achievements of their revolution to have a natural sympathy with a des- potic monarchy against a struggling people, and, therefore, under ordinary circumstances would sup- port the United States in its efforts to establish the independence of Cuba and the liberty of its people. It happens, however, that a large ntimber of French capitalists hold Spanish bonds, and these have been powerful enough to induce the newspapers of Paris to misrepresent the issue. Thus a false im- pression is given to the people of both countries. We are persuaded that the French people regard us with hostility, and the French are persuaded that we are a nation of aggressive bullies seeking to deprive Spain of her territory for the gratification of a greed for conquest. Sooner or later these misconceptions will pass away from both sides. Our cause is so just that no civilized people can long refrain from sympathizing with its objects. Nor will the American people re- main for any great time under the impression that the democratic instincts of France have been subverted by a new born love for Spanish monarchy, or by a commercial interest in Spanish bonds. The French press is brilliant and potent, but it is not France. At last ex-Banker Spalding of Chicago is in the penitentiary. To get him there consumed more time than should have been devoted to the purpose. He rests under the uncertain doom of an “indetermin- ate” sentence., What this may be is not understood out here, but it is probably something which will last until some tender-hearted Governor happens to be in power. « There is some talk of a second call for volunteers, and if it come the response will be as prompt and enthusiastic as it was to the first. The boys in camp at the Presidio would have had everything they needed if San Francisco had under- stood in advance that it was being depended upon to supply it. Now the people of the city are devot- ing their energies to catching up. By killing the men on the Winslow the Spanish have added to a long score which they are destined to pay with interest. \ The action of a suspected Spanish spy in Washing- ton in hanging himself will be accepted 25 a plea of guilty, : : basis for the deveiopment of our comm: It is the value of the Philippines fo and productiveness of the islards them: consideging the quedtion of their final disposition, to them as a result of conquest.—Chicago Times-. erce with the Orient. r this purpose rather than the richness selves that will have greatest weight in rovl:ided we éestablish our claim erald. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS State Senator H. V. Moréhouse is at the Lick. Superior Judge M. S. Bonnifleld of Car- gon City, Nev., is at the Lick. R. A. Herron, a wealthy iron merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. 8. W. De Witt, United States District Attorney, is staying at the Baldwin. B. B. Crafts, a commerecial man from Boston, s registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs .O. A. Hale and daughter of San Jose are guests at the California. Robert Towne, a traveling man of ‘Washington, D. C., is at the California. 8. R. Langworthy and Truman Cola, both captains in the regular army, are registered at the Baldwin from Los An- geles. J. R. Reed, one of the founders of the town of Reedley, Cal., is registered at the Grand. L. R. Mace and wife and Mrs. S. A. Johnson, all of Boston, are guests at the Ocetdental. F. 8. Babcock, the proprietor of the Coronado Beach Hotel, will be at the Palace for a few days. Dr. A. G. Bennett and wife are among the arrivals at the Grand, having left San Jose for a short pleasure trip. 0000000000 A number of o O stories have b:}e‘n o WITH 0 been told at the mustering head- - THE RAW 2 quarters in the © RECRUITS. O calfornia Hotel © about the new ©000O0O0O0OOO recruits who are ationed at the Presidio, but the follow- lsr'xg two are probably the best and will serve to illustrate the greenness of the w-made soldier. ngl‘h:nrevcllle, as everybody knows, is a genteel hint to a soldier to get up, and yesterday morning it was being sounded by a drummer who was a vigorous sort of a chap, and he, imbued with the import- ance of his position and the glory at- tached to his enlistment, put in some ex- tra heavy licks, and soon the drum taps sounded louder and louder. He was'qulte close to the tent of some recruitd who had been mustered into the service on the day before, and presently one of them stuck his head out of the opening and said vehemently: “Say, for goodness sake, old man, stop beating .that infernal drum. How do you expect me to sleep h all that noise?”’ w!;he second story runs like this: Lieu- tenant Neall was slowly sauntering through the Presidio grounds when he saw a party of some ten or twenty indi- viduals ahead of him in civillan's clothes. They had reached a sentry (just enlisted), who ordered them to halt in a dignified sort of way. But the irreverent crowd paid no attention to Rim except to pass some jocular remarks about the soldier’s appearance, and they went their way un- molested. When the lieutenant came up to the sentry he, too, was ordered to halt, which he accordingly did in true soldier fashion. The young guardsman said: “Have you got the pass word?” The lieu- tenant confessed that he had not. “Then,” sald the sentry, “you Will have to go to the guardhouse with me.” The lieutenant then said: “But I say, you didn’t take that crowd to the guardhouse.” “I know that,” sald the sentry, “but you are the only man that would stop.” Senator J. H. Seawell of Ukiah is a quelt at the Grand. Dr. T. M. Todd, a prominent physician of Auburn, is at the Palace. our Waterhouse, a mining man of Plsa?:: County, is at the California. ‘W. L. Austin of Denver and Don Ray of Galt are among the arrivals at the Oc- cldental. 5 A. Caminettl, ex-Congressman and pres- ent Code Commissioner for the State of California,/is at the Lick. Charles W. Kohlsaat, brother of the leditor of the Chicago Times-Herald, is | registered at the Baldwin from New York. W. F. Detert, a mining man of Jackson, Amador County, who is interested in the Zelia and Argonaut mines, fs at the Lick. He reports the outlook for mining prop- erties in that locality very bright, sev- eral new properties being on the point of development. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. At the beginning of May there were under construection for the British navy sixteen vessels in the dockyards and seventy-nine at private yards distributed in England and Scotland. Three torpedo-boat destroyers recently added to the British navy have made good speed records. The Violet developed a means of 6630 horse-power and 30.16 knots during three hours, the Flying Fish 6454 horse-power and 30.37 knots and the Wolf 30.30 knots, all the boats steaming continuously for three hours. The armored cruiser Amiral de Gel- oa building at I'Orient is to be of 915 tons displacement, 448 feet in length and 63 feet beam. With three screws and 20,000 horse-power a speed of 21 knots is calculated upon. The armor protection is a water-line belt of six-inch Harvey- dzed steel and the armament will include two 7.6-inch guns, carried in turrets, and eight 6.3-inch quick-firers in broadside. The German Admiralty, in providing for keeping up the standard of the navy, has established the years of efficiency of battle-ships and coast defense véssels at twenty-five years, of large cruisers at twenty years and of small crulsers at fifteen years. This means that ships in the order named having reached the ages of 25, 20 and 15 years will have to be discarded and new ones built to re- place the losses. Steam trials of the French battle-ship Brennus have been completed. They were carried out in four series, namely: With eight boilers, 1143 horse-power, a speed of 8.18 knots was obtained; under twelve boilers, 2630 horse-power, 11.26 knots; un- der twenty-four boilers, 6220 horse-power, 14.41 knots, and ‘with all her thirty-two boilers at work, 123950 horse-power, an average spced of 17.11 knots was made during four hours. The German cruiser Hansa, recently launched at Stettin, 1s 34 feet 8 inches in length, o7 feet breadth and displaces 5650 tons on a draught of 21 feet 8 inches. She is driven by triple screws, engines of 10,000 horse-power, to give a speed of 20 knots. Her normal coal supply is 500 tons, but the bunkers will stow 950 tons, The armament is two 8.2-inch quick- firers, one placed forward and-. another aft In turrets; four 58-inch quick-firers in casemates and four 5.8-inch quick-firers in small turrets. She also carries ten 3.4- inch quick-firers protected by shields and a secondary battery of eighteen small quick-firers. The Spanish battle-ship Pelayo was in dock at Toulon getting In her new boil- ers when the declaration of war necessi- tited her immediate departure. Only four of the sixteen Niclause boilers had been placed and pipe connections made with the engines, but nevertheless the ship went to sea and the other boilers were put up and connected. In less than forty- eight hours the Pelayo had steam up in all her boilers and proceeded with the contractor’s tridl trip of four hours un- der full power, which turned out success- ful. The horse-power developed was 8000, under which a speed of 16 knots was made, and the ship proceeded to Cadiz for final outfit at the home dockyard. Investigation of the manner in which the Russian battle-ship Gangoot was built has excited the wonder of the Ad- miralty officlais that the vessel was not lost long before she did. The ship sank in the Bay of Bothnia about six months ago while at target-firing practice and has since been raised. It is in the rivet- ing of the hull plates that the work was most deficlent and great ingenuity dis- played to cover ‘bad ‘. up In some places wooden plugs were instead of rivets and in other places a composition which had hardened under water, but which melted under the appil- cation of a lighted candle, weré substi- tuted for steel rivets. The ship was bullt by contract at St. Petersburg in 18%, and the contractor is likely to make an in- voluntary visit to Siberia, unless his ac- complices among the naval officers have Influence enough to prevent punishment for the treasonable swindle. IMMUNES AND OTHERS. He—What does your father see in me to object to? She—He doesn’t see anything; that is Why he objects.—Judy. “They tell me he has had sixteen Jes- iner‘t!te love affairs, and look how fat he T - “Yes, he is an immune.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Teacher—What lesson do you gather from the foolish virgins who came to the marriage feast without any ofl? Pupil—Pap says he reckons it was a little game of the Standard Ofl Company. =Boston Transcript. said Mrs. Pepper, enough, so don’t “Look here, George,” “I've been aggravated you put me out.” “Certainly not, George suavely, sit up for me.’ my love,” returned ‘1l go out myself. Don't Pick-Me-Up. He (vawning)—Execuse me, please. She—Certainly. I'm glad you did it. He—I don’t understand wh-what you mean. She~Nell Waddington told me that you didn’t open your head the evening you called on her. Now I can truthfully say that you didn’t act that way when you came to see me.—Chicago News. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DEWEY'S NATIONALITY—G. G., City. Admiral Dewey is a native of Vermont. NO PREMIUM—Inquisitive, City. A half dollar of 1832 is not one of those that commands a premi: THE OLYMPIA—N. N.,, City. The United States ship Olympla was launched in 1892 and she had a speed trial Decem- ‘ber 15, 1863 MARRIAGES AT SEA—P. 0., Vallefo, Cal. As there is no law authorizing cap- tains of veskels to Solemnize martiage at lssa,llt is doubtful if such marriages are egal. ETHEL BRAND Call, City. A lettdr addressed to “Ethel Brandon, care of the Dramatic Mifror, New York City, N. Y., will reach the lady named. CRITTENDEN—W. L. M., Cloverdale, Cal. A. P. Crittenden was shot by Laura D. Fair on the steamer El Capitan on the § o’clock trip to San Francisco on Novem- ber 3, 1870. SIGSBEE—J. M. C,, City. C. D. Bigsbee was a commander detailed for duty with the Hydrographic Office when he was, on the 10th of April, 1897, promoted captain and assigned to the Maine. N-=A"reader of The ers, City. The following figures in rela- tion to the British steamer Venus from Lloyd's Register: Length 339.4, breadth 46, depth 17.6; gross tonnage 3556, under deck 3351, net 2312; horse power 254 by the soclety’s formula. REINA REGENTE—A Reader, Pacific Grove, Cal. There was a cruiser called the Reina Regente in the Spanish navy. Bhe was capsized and all on board were lost on a_voyage between Tangiers and Cadiz on March 10, 1895. She was bullt in 1887, was of 5000 tons displacement, speed twenty knots. er armament was six Sh ton guns (Hontoria), six "12-inch é ontoria), six 6-pounders (quick fire), 'our 3-pounders (quick fire) and five ma- chine guns. €al. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® it oS 4oy Finest eyeglasses, specs; 15c. 65 Fourth.* B S Special information supplied daily business houses and pub{m men bfi the Press Cll‘gpln Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Malin 1042. ¢ — - The_death of Charles Triarte removes from Parisian society one of the few men who was at once a man of letters and a magnate in soclety. He was often called the French Ruskin, and none of the Rothschilds would buy any work of art without consulting him. to “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used ovér fifty vears by millions ot mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gutns, allays Pain, cures Wind Colle, reg- ulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arlsing 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. 25c a bottle. ———e CORONADO—Atmosphere s pertectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round trip ticks ets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $5: longer stay, $250 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., 5. F., of A, W. Bailey, mgr. Hotel del Corona- do, late o Htl Coloradn, Glenwood Spgs, Colo. rrcteinsi-rs Mty Excursion to the Yellowstone Park. A personally conducted excursion will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstoge Park, via the “Shasta Route” and Northern Pacific Rall- way. Tourlsts will be accommodated in firste class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold, in- cluding berths, meals and trip through the Park. Send for circular giving rate and itiner- ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Raflway, 638 Market st., S. F. Joaquin Moretro, Minister Woodfora's geécretary, whom the Spaniards tried to detain {n Spain, was born in tha penal colony at Ceuta. His father had been sent there for life because of his active republicanism, and_ his sweetheart fol- lowed and married him there. ADVERTISEMENTS. EUROPE HAS TROUBLES ENOUGH OF HER OWN, washing her soiled linen, without ine terfering in our little scrap. You will find you have troubles enough of your own, too, if you take yoursoiledlinen toa poor laundry. Be on the safe side and bring it here, where we take special pains to render it beautiful in color and perfect in finish. United States Laundry Office, 1004 Market street. Telephone South 420. R Radway's B B