The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1898. IAY 17, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e Address All Communications to W;‘E.NEEAKE, Manager, EUILICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. MHE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) ts served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents o week. By mall $6 per year; per month 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL... OAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE. DAVID ALLEN, One year. by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway ...... Room 188, Werld Building rtising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE --Rigge House | C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE -Marquectte 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. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second cna Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. — | AMUSEMENTS. | “The Face in the Moonlight " “Moths " 3. Winthrop Vauceville. Nattve Song' Hall, Mason street—Lecture Th v —Paloma Schramm, be ternoon. row Wedneeday, May 18. ad “Vistons of Art. 1d Eddy streets, Spectalties. | Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. | tro Baths—Swimm.ng, | liforata Jockey Ciub, Oakland—Races this day. 1 Campo—Musle. danciug, boatine, fishing, every Sundav. _ | day might. | ofit to the Red ‘ AUCTION SALES. e | By E. S Spear & Co —This duy, May 17. Furniture, at 2103 | 11 ¢ elock. A. F Rooke=r & Co.—This day, May 17, Horses, at 721 How- | et. at 11 0 cloc Bpactie aventic, e oo A YELLOW HOLD-UP. PICTURE published in the Examiner of | yesterday afforded the thoughtiul a brief season of delight. It represented the cap- ifain of English vessel having climbed nto the rigging, from which point vantage the was actively displaying the Union Jack, the em- ‘blem, doubtless owing to the gentleman’s agitation, 7\ an as of being upside down. As the ship was provided with masts and halyards there should have been some ex- planation of the extraordinary method adopted by the captain. As a rule the British captain does not shin gloft, and he certainly would not do so for the pur- pose of accomplishing that which could better have been done in a manner wholly-sane and having the pustaining approval indicated by numerous prece- | ‘dents. But no wonder the captain was scared. He had been approached by a Journal-Examiner dispatch boat, and, as the yellow tail of that combination states, ‘expected to be held up. Such thought on his part was perfectly natural, founded upon a just estimate, and | does credit to the intelligence of the captain. How- | ever, no man with so keen an insight into depravity | would have been guilty of not knowing how to use the Union Jack. The suspicion that the Examiner «correspondent has been lying again projects itself into @nd saddens the mind. e e THE HALL OF JUSTICE. WNERS of property in the portion of the city O where a hole has been dug in the ground for the ostensible purpose of building a new Hall of Justice, are reported to be preparing to make an- Jother effort to hasten the completion of the building. {In the past they have appealed to the contractors, the ‘mrchitect and the Supervisors in vain. This time they ‘turn their thoughts to the prospect of a new Grand ury, and when that body has been organized will ‘gndeavor to get it to redress the wrong that has been one them by the long delay in constructing the difice. ' According to reports a count made of the persons #t work on the structure last week showed that there were employed one bricklayer, two ironworkers and ® boy. With such a force the progress made is, of gourse, so slight that the work is hardly more than M pretense. In fact it is not a decent pretense, for it #does not promise anything, and it would seem that #he object of those in authority is not so much to Melude the people into the belief that work is being Mone as to show them by this mockery how little #hey care what the public thinks, or what the property Pwoers say. The manner in which the construction of the build- fing has been delayed, in spite of repeated protests, Pmuld be a farce if it were not a scandal. Again and ®gain a time has been fixed when the building should e completed, and again and again the Supervisors ave extended the time. The hall should have been ished and in the hands of the city for occupation ears ago. There has never been any cause for delay n account of a lack of money, of workmen, or of pmaterial. All these have been at the disposal of the ontractors in abundant quantities. The delay and he dawdling have been as wanton as they have been hameful and wasteful. The whole affair has been an soffense to every citizen who has any regard for either ghe honor or the interests of the municipality. It is hardly worth while to go over again the old fask of getting the subject investigated by the Super- isors. It is not worth while to ask any more prom- gxes from the contractors or the architect. The prop- lerty owners of the vicinity are right. The next appeal ‘'must be to a Grand Jury. There must be fraud in such an outrageous delay as this. It surpasses credul- to accept the glib statement that in this day and generation a building of that size and character hon- testly requires as long a time to construct as was con- sumed by the Pharaohs in building the Pyramids. e s m— It appears that the Spanish had thoughtfully put double crews aboard their ships at Manila in order to have sailors ready to take charge of Dewey’s ships as soon as the white flag had been run up. The Spanish were, in fact, prepared for any emergency ex- «ept the one they ran across. There will be general approval of the determina- tion of the authorities at Washington to let Sampson end Schley use their own judgment. Each is sup- posed to have a good quality of this and the guns to back it. 3 Sigmagno oy The suggestion is offered to Spain for what it is worth that Weyler be garroted as a traitor to his country. It is not often that great fleets put in weeks playing B game of “hide and go scek.” OUR EXPANDING POWER. NE of the most notable effects produced by O the war upon the American people has been the expansion of the popular ideal regarding the destiny of the nation. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities the average American was content with the isolation of this country from the affairs of all parts of the world outside the two American continents and their adjacent islands. To-day we have broader ideas. Even the most conservative papers treat Dewey’s victory at Manila as the first step in a new carcer that is destined to make the United States a world power of prime magnitude and far-reaching influence. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an elaborate edi- torial nearly two columns in length and double lead- ed to give it emphasis in every word, announces itself strongly in favor of the expanded ideal. It says: “Come! we have progressed, and progress has brought its invincible changes—changes that can no more be turned back than the swiit currentof Niagara, to use an old but most forcible simile, can be dammed in its irresistible progress to the lake. We still stand by the Monroe Doctrine so far as foreign invasion of the two American continents is concerned, but we have arrived at a time when that doctrine must be broadened. There is no longer a reason why our in- fluence should not be exerted all around the world.” The impulse given to the new conception of our national destiny by the war is increased by commer- cial considerations. The coincidence of events has brought about this war and the victory in the Orient just at a time when our merchants and manufacturers have been disturbed lest the threatened partition of China by the European powers should deprive us of our rightful share of that vast market for our manu- factured goods. Commerce is even more expansive than war itself, and the needs of trade not less potent- ly than the pride of victory incline us to extend our influence and power to every part of the globe where there is likely to be any considerable market for the products of our soil and the articles made by the skill of our workingmen. We are of necessity forced to look for trade ex- That populous empire is a near From San Francisco to pansion in China. neighbor of California. | Hongkong there is a free, broad pathway across the ocean, by which we can gain cheap access to that | vast field which is now the most promising in the world for commerce. We cannot permit our present and future interests there to be sacrificed to Euro- pean greed. In spite of ourselves we are forced to | take part in the responsibilities of the larger destinies | of the world. We do not seck for conquest. We have no desire to assume the government of the mongrel races of the Philippines. Nevertheless we cannot any longer restrict our energies to the American hemis- phere. We will emerge from this war a world power with 2 world commerce whether we wish it or not. THE PROPOSED STATE FUSION. HE Populists are feeling their oats. They have Tmany of the county officers all over the State. In Alameda they have the best offices—Sheriff, Treasurer and Assessor. Elsewhere they did quite well in the election of 1894, and find themselves now in a position to raise funds by assessment of their office-holders. This levy was ordered at the last meeting of their State committee, which took up the subject of fusion with the Democrats and silver Re- publicans on the State, county and Congressional tickets. This question brought on a struggle and convulsion that lasted from 8 p. m. Tuesday to 2:30 a. m. Wednesday, with the result that it was agreed to | fuse provided the Fresno example were followed and the other two parties to this political polygamy adopted the particular expression of Populism known as the Oregon platform. The committee declared that this is a good year to tone up on principles, and that any union or amalga- mation of the forces of reform must be upon the Populist platform. Quoting exact language, the committee say that the Populist party “demand of such other political forces desiring unity of action that said parties by their proper conventions first agree and adopt an identical or common platform of principles which all candi- dates desiring the support of any of said parties must accept, and that adoption of such common platform must precede any and all nominations.” The committee then ordered a referendum to all Populist county conventions upon this question: “Shall there be a union of the People’s party of California in 1898 with any other party or parties for the nomination of a joint ticket, provided that such parties shall first agree to the following platform of principles?” The platform follows, and is made up of all the Populist ideas, fiat money and scoop-shovel distribu- tion of the same direct to the people by the Federal Government being the most prominent. It remains o be seen whether the Democratic party of California will surrender its individuality and be content to trot along under the Populist wagon. The silver Republicans are the political mules of the State, with some pride of ancestry but no hope of posterity, and may be glad to eat thistles, even, in the Populist corral. Theamusing partof thesituationis thatif the Democ- racy chase office through such fusion it surrenders its identity, and though it pray toward Jefferson and Jackson, it will be in the fix of the Christians whose conversion to Mahomet had been perfected, by the Abrahamic rite and all, who were caught counting their beads again. Their Mahometan brethren laughed at them, for they had been sealed to the Prophet and were wasting their prayers. No matter what the result may be one must respect the Populists. They have seen and smelled the car- rion-like scandals in a Democratic Board of Super- visors and Board of Education in this city. They have seen the new ferry clock trying to get one hand behind its back by force of example set by the Har- bor Commission. They Have seen the- exposure of the jute-bag manipulation by the Prison Directors. They have seen the rainbow of Democratic promise, and where it touched the earth they have found cor- ruption so vile that the buzzards fly from it to the garbage dumps to get a breath of fresh air, and they don’t propose to keep such company unless it is put under bonds of some kind, and from their stand- point what better promise of reform can this particu- lar “reform force” make than by swallowing the Pop- ulist platform? o e —— While there has been surprise at the apparent lack of haste in getting men started for Manila it must be remembered that the army on this coast is bound and swathed in red tape. When an officer cannot fur- nish a shirt to a recruit without first asking Wash- ington speed is difficult. Pierre Loti accuses the United States of brigandage in the matter of the Philippines. By what oversight Loti was not consulted before Dewey broke loose has not been explained. Perhaps Loti would feel better if he were to swear out an injunction. SALARIES OF SCHOOL TEACHERS. N a communication to The Call Joseph O’Connor, lwho represented the School Department upon the Board of Freeholders which framed the proposed charter, declares that the limit placed upon the amount which may be expended under that instru- ment for teachers’ salaries works ip only one direc- tion. That is to say, he holds that the charter-makers fixed a minimum for a maximum amount for school salaries. According to his notion the salary fund may exceed $28 per pupil but shall not be less than that amount. If it were the intention of the Frecholders to fix a minimum, they have adopted a very strange method of expressing themselves. Subdivision 9 of Sec. I, Chapter 3, Article 7 of the proposed charter gives the Board of Education power “to provide for the prompt payment, on not later than the fifth day of every month, of all salaries due and allowed officers, teach- crs and other employes of the School Department. For this purpose the Auditor shall annually segre- gate so much of the Common School Fund as shall not exceed twenty-eight dollars for each pupil in average daily attendance in the Public Schools of the City and County during the preceding fiscal year. The amount so segregated shall not be applied to the payment of any demand against such Common School Fund during any fiscal year other than for salaries, until all salaries for that fiscal year have been fully paid and provided for. The Board shall ascertain and transmit to the Auditoronorbefore the first Mon- day in April of each year an estimate of the amount required for such segregation within such limit of twenty-eight dollars.” It is true, as Mr. O’Connor says, that this para- graph does not declare in terms against the expendi- ture of more than $28 per pupil for salaries, but it establishes a salary fund and so provides the only money which may be expended for that purpose. If the Freeholders intended to fix the minimum amount which may be disbursed by the Board of Education for salaries they have made a blunder. Mr. O’Connor ought to be familiar with the legal rule of construc- tion, “expressio unius, exclusis alterius’—the state- ment of one thing is the exclusion of another. Apply this rule to the paragraph quoted. Therein the Free- holders have established a salary fund. Can it be | possible that they intended to grant the Board of Education power to establish another? If they did so intend why did they not say so? Is it not plain that taxes for school purposes are fixed at $32 50 per pupil, of which $28 per pupil and no more shail be expended for salaries? On their face the figures of Expert Williams are correct. The average daily attendance of pupils has not varied for three years. In 1895 it was 33,019, in 1806 33,508 and in 1807 33,531. At $32 50 per pupil the latter figures would give the School Department an appropriation of $1,089,757. The appropriation for 1807-08 was $1,200,000. There is here plainly a reduc- tion of $110,243. The amount which may be expended in salaries under the charter at $28 per pupil at the same average attendance will be $038868. The amount expended last year was $1,112,320. The re- duction in teachers’ salaries is therefore $173,452. If our construction of the salary limit is correct there is no escape from these figures. A BOOM FOR SHIPBUILDERS. HE war thus far has been not only a glory for TAmerican arms, but an advertisement of the highest value and widest fame for American shipbuilders. The fact that Dewey's fleet passed through a long battle against both ships and forts without suffering serious damage is an unmistakable proof of the excellence with which the ships and their engines were constructed. Foreign nations that may hereafter desire more warships than they can build at their own yards will naturally be inclined to have them constructed at the yards and by the builders whose work was shown at Manila to be of such sub- stantial and battle-proof character. In addition to the increased orders for ships of war there will be also a large increase in orders for mer- chant vessels. The American Economist estimates that the purchase by the Government of vessels for war purposes equals in the aggregate a transfer of 100,000 tons of carrying capacity from private hands to the nation. This in itself makes a large gap in the merchant marine of the country, and the gap of course must be speedily filled to meet the commercial de- mand. Commenting upon the work required to fill the gap the Economist says: For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, the total iron and steel steam tonnage built on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts amounted to 21,586. It would therefore require nearly five years of construction at the same rate to make good the withdrawals of ships for Government uses. This estimate, it will be seen, is based on the con- struction of shipping on the Atlantic and the Gulf coasts only. It does not include Pacific coast work. It is therefore clear that the estimate of five years as the time required to fill the gap made in our merchant marine by the Government purchases is erroneous. With the increase of orders for new ships the capaci- ties and capabilities of our shipping yards will in- crease, and it will go hard indeed with us if our Cali- fornia shipbuilders do not perform a large part of the work required. In addition to the construction of warships and the vessels needed to supply the present demand in the mercantile marine there is likely to be a further im- petus given to American shipbuilding by the adoption of laws which will give the industry a degree of pro- tection equal to that given to others. The Republican party is pledged to that policy, and the enactment of such legislation may be looked for as one of the not- able accomplishments of this administration. Taken altogether, therefore, the outlook for our shipbuilders is better than it has been for years, and, as San Fran- cisco has large capital and thousands of men engaged in the industry, we may expect to receive no incon- siderable local benefits from the work that seems so certain to come. The Spanish Governor of the Philippines is said to have been given authority to inaugurate such reforms as may seem to him to be necessary. It is believed, however, that the Governor is seriously handicapped by the presence of a determined gentleman named Dewey, who has a plan of reform already outlined. The women who have taken hold of Red Cross work in this city are simply wonders. They do not know what it is to weary in well doing. If they want anything they ask for it, and as yet they have met nobody who manifests the least inclination to refuse. The fact that war is costing a million dollars a day ought to be an argument in favor of pushing it to an end. It is generally admitted now that the Spanish are beyond moral suasion. It is pleasing to read that preparations for the re- lief of Dewey are “being rushed with great haste.” No ordinary observer would have suspected it. I COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS P. Hirschfield, a merchant of Los An- geles, s at the Lick. John W. Mitchell, a Los Angeles poli- ticlan, is at the Palace. Colonel W. J. Fife, U. S. A., is among the arrivals at the Baldwin. Rev. Frank Thompdon, chaplain of the Mohican, s a guest at the California. Carl E. Lindsay, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, Is registered at the Grand. D. Falconer, a well-known merchant of Cortez, Nevada, registered at the Grand. W. W. Turney, a prominent business man of Campbell, is registered at the Grand. Ezra Kendall, the comedian, is at the Palace, having come here to fill a local engagement. Ex-Senator James McCudden of Vallejo is in this city on a short visit, accompa- nled by his daughter. Lieutenant-Commander S. C. Paine, U. 8. N., and wife are at the Grand, after an extensive trip through the Orlent. G. Bell, who came from Chicago to act as judge of the coming bench show, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. Brigadier General H. C. Merriam, U. 8. A., is staying at the Gccidental, and is here to assume charge of the troops at the Prestdio. A party of Chicago excursionists are at the Palace, and include Mr. and Mrs. B. 8. Hart, C. H. Ruddock and son, Miss Farnsworth and Mrs. Delius. Rev. J. W. Wadman, a Chinese mis- slonary, is at the Occidental with his wife and five children. He has been engaged in Christian work in Tokio, Japan. L. H. Snell, the well-known horse-owner of Boston, registered at the Palace last evening. He has just returned from a Vvisit to the various resorts in the south- ern part of the State. Colonel Ivanoff and Captain Ivano- vitsch, two distinguished officers in the service of the Russfan army, who are making a tour of the world together, with thelr wives, are guests at the Pal- ace. Baron von Meyer Watson arrived on the Doric to-day, after a trip through the Orient, and is at the Palace. He is a brother of Mrs. 8. M. Ritter of Santa Bar- bara, who will come to this city to meet him. Willlam E. Bainbridge, second secretary of the United States Legation at Peking, who has been at the Occidental for some weeks, left yesterday afternoon for Los Angeles. He will return in a few days. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 18.7—HA L. Wagner of San Francisco s at the Manhattan. Mrs. Cebolan de Laveaga has gone to Paris. OLy GLORY ALOFT. She’'s up there—Old Glory—where light- nings are sped: She dazzles the nations with ripples of 2 red; And she’ll wave for us living, or droop o'er us dead— The flag of our country forever! She’s up there—Old Glory—how bright the stars stream! And the stripes like red signals of liberty gleam! And we dare for her, living, or dream the last dream 'Neath the flag of our country forever! She's up there—Old Glory—no tyrant- - dealt scars— No blur on her brightness—no stain on her stars! The brave blood of heroes hath crimsoned her bars— Shé’s the flag of our country forever! Frank L. Stanton. HOLDING OF THE PHILIPPINES. 1f, therefore, we are going into the col- onizing business we must make up our minds to groan under the burdens of crushing taxation, for a great standing army and a great fleet are necessary to the very life of the country if we are to grl';ange off to that policy.—Richmond (Va.) mes. ‘When all of the conditions which make for anarchy in these islands are under- stood; when the press and public come to see the enormous price we should have to pay for a great military, civil and na- val establishment to govern the inhabit- ants without suffrage of any Kind, it is to be hoped that public opinion will harden against the hazardous experiment of har- monizing with American democracy 8 colonial system of the inevitable Aslatic type.—Buffalo Commercial. There appear but two courses which we can consistently pursue. One is to return the islands to Spain after the war has been concluded, and the other is to glve | the people there who have been in revolt against Spanish tyranny an_ opportunity to set up a stable independent govern- ment. The war we are engaged in is for humanity’s sake, not conquest.—Phila- delphia Public Ledger. The United States must take her place as one of the active dominating forces among the powers of the earth. Send an army of 30,000 men, white or black, or both, to the Philippines. Rebuild the Ca- vite fort. Fortify the harbor so that we can hold it against all comers. Appoint a military Governor, or a civil one, if you will, until we have enough Americans there to vote and carry on our own form of government. Some of the other powers may hem and haw a little at first, but they will get used to it before we get through.—Kansas City World. It may be, as we sald yesterday, that we shall have to hold the islands per- manently. But the necessity should be clear. It looks now as though they would be either English or American. In the meantime we shall have to govern them as best we can.—Indlanapolls News. That we shall be a factor henceforth is recognized by the thoughtful English and Buropean journals, and this recognition calls for a display of diplomatic force in Washington. We are not ambitious to dominate the world by might, but we do believe that our peaceful trade relations should not be ignored, and the possession of the Philippines will give us & position such as we have never occupled. There is no hurry. When peace comes we shall take up the peaceful topics of commerce, and diplomacy will then be relied upon.— Philadelphia Inquirer. It looks very much as though this coun- try would have to retaln possession of these islands, and provide a stable gov- ernment there. The consequences of war have placed these islands in our hands, and no matter hasv undesirable or trou- blesome they may be, we must make the best of them. We have not gone into this policy with the epirit of imperialism. Im- Eerlausm seems to be forced upon us.— tica (N. Y.) Observer. It is hardly too much to say that the national policy has witnessed a radical change since the Cuban war began. Foreign ports will be acquired in the eastern and western worlds; a navy suf- ficient to command the respect and in- spire the fear of the greatest European ggwer will be created and maintained. ‘e are not at all likely to enter upon a policy of territorial acquisition, but rather of '‘commercial expansion. We want American Influence to be felt in every port and every capital. We want the United States to be in fact the at- est nation on earth.—Fresno Republican. To the United States, in a commercial sense, the benefits that will accrue from acquisition of the Philippines can hardly be overestimated. The cities of the Pa- cific Coast would be first to feel the bene- fit, and in virtue of relative contiguity should secure a very great proportion of the traffic that will grow up between the islands and their protector, the Govern- mt of the United States.—Seattle Daily es. ; It is conceded by the European powers that the United States has the right, if she chooses to exercise it, to retain pos- session of the Philippine Islands. The only advantage possession would give us would be a base of supplies in the far Pacific in case of another war; but out- lying possessions of that character are usually very expensive in times of peace and may become a source of weakness rather than of strength in time of war.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The question of the disposition of this conquest presents opportunity for plenty of hard work on the part of the State Department, and is one that will doubt- less be handled very gingerly.—Oceanside ee. There will soon be a radical change in this situation. The United States will be in a position to challenge Europe for com- mercial supremacy in_countries on the other side of the Pacific. The American motto will be ““A full share of the world’s commerce, and the lion’s share if we can get it.”"—Greater Los Angeles. The general sentiment in Los Gatos is in favor of making them a colonial pos- session of America.—Los Gatos News. There is a possibility that the United States will hold these islands as an in- demnity for the war, and there are many who urge that we should annex them per- manently. It is more probable, however, that they will be turned over to Japan or some other county that will be willing to make good our war expenses.—Hemet News. The seizure of the Philippines by the Americans is apt to give rise to irritating | complications that may not be easily set- | tled. Since the sum and substance of the Monroe doctrine which We have pro- claimed is ‘‘America for Americans, might not European nations turn our doctrine upon us transposed in the follov:: ing form, “‘Only America for Americans? Calaveras Prospect. Our country should come out of this| fight without the suspicion even of being | a land grabber. We can afford to give the whole world a lesson along this line, especially the greedy, grasping nations of Europe. The United States shouid retain through all the exalted and advanced position that it is not territorial aggran- dizement that we seek and fight for, but | humane and civilized government and freedom of life and conscience to every one.—Visalia Daily Times. The argument ;that the United States would add to their puissance among the powers by the annexation of Hawali has not been strengthened by Commodore Dewey's victory and the practical pos- session of the Philippines. The fact is that the nation without islands is getting the better of the nation that possesses them. Spain’s islands furnish points of attack for her enemies. By putting our- selves in_the position which Spain now occupies by seizing and holding her West Indian and holding her East Indian de- pendencies, we should accept her disabil- ities.—Virginia City Chronicle. / EUROPEAN CELEBRITIES. Nearly all the statues of Goethe scat- tered throughout Germany represent the | poet as he appeared between 50 and 60| years of age. | Leipsic 1s now about to| erect a statue of Goethe in memory of the three years which he spent as a stu- dent at the University of Leipsic, from 1766 to 1768. It is to cost 30,000 marks, and will be unveiled on August 28 mext, the| 150th anniversary of Goethe's birth. | The magnificent tomb of the late Duke of Clarence, in the Albert Chapel at Windsor Castle, will soon be completed. Upon the lid of the beautiful Mexican onyx sarcophagus containing the coffin there is to be placed a recumbent statue of the deceased, and the royal burial| place will be sufrounded by handsome | bronze railings. In order to marry a girl of whom his| family disapproved a young. German | count, Finck von Finckenstein, some time | ago obtained the permission of the Em- | peror to change his name to Stein. After | his marriage, however, he continued to | use his former name, and he has just| been fined for the ‘“illegal use of a title of nobility.” The Sultan of Turkey is to be the re- cipient of a novel gift from the Emperor of Germany in the shape of a handsome | and excellently trained war dog, at pres- ent attached to a regiment of the garri- son in Berlin. The two officers who have trained the antmal will convey it to Con- stantinople this month. The Prince of Monaco, Who excused | himself from discharging his duties as an | officer of the Spanish navy, is a recos- | nized authority on oceanography, upon | which subject he has promised to deliver | a lecture before the members of the Royal Geographical Society, in London, at an early date. —_—————————— THE REICHSTAG ELECTIONS. The German Government has at last made the official announcement of the date of the general elections. It is fixed | for June 16. The delay in setting the day | is said to be owing to the hope that the Conservative factions mignt agree upon some formidable course against the grow- ing power of the Soclallsts. However, no tangible union has been possible between those who oppose the Socialist party, as their interests lle in such opposed quart- ers. The present Reichstag, which was elected June 15, 1893, goes out of office June 15, 1898, hence the Government| placed the day of the new elections as distant as possible. A majority vote fs required to elect a member *o the Reich- stag, and as in many constituencies there are three or four candidates in the field, it is quite likely that not more than 200 out Og the 397 Deputies will at once have seats. The seats where no majorities have been obtained will be contested a fortnight later in_ the Stichwahlen. As has been said before, the Socialists ex- yect to increase their number of seats rom 48 to 70. But the Agrarian Reac- tionary Association is spending a_great deal of money and has placed candidates in 250 constituencies. If the Conservative landowners can elect only 100 of these they will be able on certain questions to manipulate a majority against the von Hohenlohe Government, which will force the Chancellor to retire unless the Em- peror comes to his rescue with the im- perial prerogative. ———————— BOATS OF HIGH SPEED. The Russian Government has ordered of a British firm two 88-knot torpedo- boats on the model of the Turbinia, and propelled with turbine motors working on four shafts, each of which carries three propellers. This is eight knots faster than the fastest torpedo-boat destroyers in the British navy. Just how much courage is required on the part of the naval archi- tect who signs his name to a contract for a 38-knot boat—thirty-eight knots is forty- four miles an hour—is evident from a comparison of figures. The 300-ton ‘‘de- stroyers’ require 6000 horse-power to drive them at thirty knots an hour. At these high speeds the resistance of the water increases as something more than the cube of the speed. The cube of thirty- eight is more than double the cube of thirty, and hence the 6000 horse-power of a 3¥-ton destroyer would have to be raised to over 12,000 to enable her to catch one of the new torpedo-boats. But 12,000 horse-power reciprocating engines of the common_type, with the necessary boiler and coal, would sink a 300-ton torpedo- boat, supposing they could pe stowed away in_her hold. -Evidently, then, a sped of thirty-eight knots involves a radi- cal change in the accepted methods of propulsion.—Scientific American. ——ee— ME CUBAN PILOTS. Here are some facts about the Cuban pllots who are engaged upon the vessels of the American blockading squadron in Cuban waters: Captaln Charles Silva, one of the Cuban pilots of the New York, has had a decid- edly interesting career. For twelve years he has been a pilot in Cuban and Florida waters. He is a Cuban sympathizer of the most pronounced type, and holds a commission as captain in the insurgent army. For many months he was em- loyed as pilot of filibustering expedi- ions and proved quite successful. He iloted the Dauntless, Three Friends, a _and other famous flli- He made twenty-seven _trips to the island In that way, and was chased by United States revenue cutters nearl every time. Three times he was capturt and tried—twice at Jacksonville and once in Key West. He was acquitted, a fact he relates with a knowing wink. Euex this year he went to Cuba and join the {nsurgent army, with the rank of captain, agend(ng two months and fifteen days in the service. As a pilot for flli- busters he made month, but now he gives his service to the Govern- ment for a mere pittance. When pros- t of war breaking out became assured e Cuban Junta ai New York sent for him, and he entered their employ. He was taken down to Washington and offered to Secretary Long as an experi- enced pilot. The secretary had Silva's record carefully investigated, and becom- ing satisfied of his usefulness, gave him letters to Admiral Sampson. He was at once taken aboard and has served faith- fully in the blockade work. Juan Santos, the other Cuban pilot aboard the New York, is a great friend of Silva. The two served together quite frequently on fili- bustering expeditions. e THE ASTUTE WHISTLER. While Whistler was at West Point, there was, in addition to the regular cadet mess, a private mess for twelve, of whom Whistler was one, at the house of an army officer’s widow. One day the cadets conceived the idea of having a litile sport at the landlady’s expense. The first cadet who came to the table said, as he down, “Good morning, Mrs. /There is a cat on the roof of your house.” The second cadet repeated the remark. except that he varied it by saying, “There are se. added a cat, until, Whistler, who was the last to arrive, sat down, he said gravely and with much concern, ‘“Good morning Mrs. . There are twelve cats on tne roof of your house.” During the next meal Whistler Each cadet found under his napkin a billet notifying no him that his presence at the m longer desired. RBeing, however, av to returning to the general mess, W ler hit upon a plan to regain the widow's good will. After dinner he planted him- self in front of a portralt of her late- lamented, which hung in the parlor, and appeared lost in admiration of it. When he heard the widow entering he began descanting, as if to himself, vet loud enough for her to hear. upon the virtues | of the deceased, winding up_with_this exclamation; “To think that West Point should have produced such a man, and that we have his portrait here to remind us of what we ourselves may attain to!"” This touched the widow so deeply that ‘Whistler was re-established in her good graces—and the mess.—Chap Book. —_——————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HARRIET LANE—B,, City. Mrs. Hen- ry Elliott Johnston, formerly Harriet Lane, niece of the late James Buchanan, President of the United States, is living in Baltimore, Md. WIVES OF PRESIDENTS—Broderick Street, City. Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler, second wife of President Tyler, died in Richmond, Va., July 10, 1889; Mrs. Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James K. Polk, President of the United States, died Au- gust 16, 1891, at Nashville, Tenn. A COLONTAL BILL—M. T. I, City. The description of the colonial bill asked about is too indefinite to admit of an answer. You possibly will be able to obtain the information desired by show- ing the bill to C. P, Wilcomb, the curator of the museum in Golden Gate Park. INCOME TAX—S., Livermore, Cal. This department does not furnish ideas for de- baters for the reason that those who wish to debate a guestion should furnish their own ideas. -If this department fur- nishes such and they are used by the debater they are the ideas of Answers to Correspondents and not those of the de- bater. Cyclopedias will furnish all the data required upon which to base an ar- gument. THE INFANTA—J. M. C., Albina, Or. It was Princess Eulalie, infanta of Spain, sister of Alphonso XII, father of the resent boy King. who visited the Colum- bian exposition, held in Chicago in 1883. She came to this country as the repre- sentative of the Queen Regent of Spain, landing in the United States May 18 of that year. MAHER'S DEFEATS—G. B., City. Prior to the close of 1867 Peter Maher, the pugilist, was defeated March 2, 1892, at New Orleans by Bob Fitzsimmons in two rounds; December 8, 1892, by Joe Goddard in three rounds before the Coney Island Club; October 5, 1894, in a fight with Peter Courtney at Philadelphia. He quit in the second round, and February 21. 1896, he was defeated in one round in Mexico by Bob Fitzsimmons. A MATTER OF CHOICE—L. M. J., City. This correspondent asks: “Has an alien, who is not a citizen of the Uniteu States, the right to claim his son, born in the United States and who is of age, as a foreign subject?” The answer to that question is that after the age of majority has been attained by a boy, and 21 is the age of majority in the United States, the father loses parental control over his son. In the case cited the boy is a native of the United States and a citizen thereof by virtue of his natlvity, but on attaining his majority he could elect whether he would be a citizen of the United States or a citizer of the country to which the father owes allegiance. After the boy had attained his majority the father could not claim him as a cit- izen of a foreign country, as the choice }’1' citizenship is purely a personal priv- ege. THE PLOUGHMAN—A. 8., City. The following is given as some of the trans- positions of the line from Gray's Elegy, “The Ploughman Homeward Plods His Weary Way' The weary ploughman plods his homeward The The The :'ci;';'y ploughman homeward plods his o plods his homeward homeward plods his plods his homeward ‘Weary, homeward plods his Homeward, the ploughman plods his weary his his his his The :l:-:%newud ploughman plods his weary way. ploughman, weary, way. ploughman, weary, y ‘Weary, the ploughman way, the ploughman way. Homeward the ploughman, weary, plods way. Homeward the weary ploughman plods way. Homeward plods the weary ploughman way. The homeward ploughman, weary, plods THERMOMETERS — T. B. J., City. The Fahrenheit thermometer is com- monly used in the United States and in Great Britain; the Reaumur in Germany and the Celsius or Centigrade in France. The last named is almost exclusively used bv sclentific men of all nations. The relations of the scales of these three in- struments is shown by the following fig- ures: Fahrenheit o 2 o o122 m Reaumur [ 20 40 50 Centigrade 0 b 5 100 In the Fahrenheit scale the freezing oint is 32 degrees and the boiling point B2 "degrees. o that the space between these is divided into 212—32, or 180 equal arts or degrees. In the others the reezing point is zero, but the boiling point is degrees and 100 degrees re- spectively. It is easy to reduce from one of these scales to another, thus: ‘What is the Centi;mde reading for 77 de- es Fahrenheit? The numbers in the fFahrenhelt scale are all too great by 32, because 32 degrees and not degroe stands for the freezing point; subtract this 32 from 77 and there Is 4. Hence the required number of centigrade degrees must bear the same ratio to the 100 from freezing to holling in that scale that the £ bear to the 186 degrees between the same limits in_Fahrenheit. Similar pro- cess as to the Reaumur scale. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's.® —— e ———— Special information supplied dally to ine houses and public men by the ?‘:is.%?:pmnz Bureais (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery stree! Telephone Main 1042, ¢ Trunks, valises, alligator bags, telescope baskets, Mexican carved leather belts and pocketbooks. We offer as inducements the largest variety and the lowest prices in the city. Sanborn, Vail Co., 41 Market street. . — e SCIENTISTS BARRED OUT. Apropos of the recent meeting in Wash- ington of the National Academy of Sci- ences, Dr. Marcus Benjamin says in the Scientific American: “That such eminent scientists as David A. Wells and Edward Atkinson among economists, David Starr Jordan and Henry F. Osborn among nat- uralists, Daniel G. Brinton and Franz Boas among ethnologists and William Harkness and James B. Keeler among as- tronomers, are not admitted to the acad- emy is a most unfortunate fact.” NOTHING contributes more to digestion than the use of DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS. 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