The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1898, Page 3

~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1898. C CERVERA'S STRATEGY CRITICIZE Naval Men of France Say the Admiral Scored a Good Point. But the English Naval Expert, Columb, Declares the Spanish Blundered Fatally. Cepyrighted, 183, by James Gerdon Bemastt. | wil] try to follow Admiral Cer- PARIS, May 21.—The general }vera's tactics. Every one agrees oplnion is that Cervera has scored | that these tactics deserve un- the first blood in a very skillful | stinted admiration. Their incon- strategical movement. He is safe | trovertible success proves how in- in a harbor absolutely impregna-|adequate were the measures taken ble, defended by four forts and so | by the strategical bqard in Wash- narrow at the entrance that any |ington to counteract them. It is attempt to force it would be fool-| possible, then, that the reserve hardy in the extreme. He is thus master of the situation. While he [ with Cervera’s forces, which, in remains there the blockading fleet | the meantime, are quite safe from must keep in the neighborhood. | persecution, or may descend upon He thus renders them useless should Spain decide to send a re- | fended by the enforced stay in the serve fleet to harass the American | Antilles of the American fleet, coast, owing to the necessity of keeping Naval experts here call atten- | Admiral Cervera’s force shut up tion to Senor de Bernabe’s remark | in Santiago Bay. about a heavy blow being struck One point all parties are agreed before the war is over. The in-|upon—that is, Admiral Cervera’s dustry with which the report that | squadron should not again be lost a reserve squadron is to be sent to|sight of, now that it has once been Manila is teing circulated in|definitely located. This, then, is Madrid and other Spanish agencies | the situation. Admiral Cervera arouses suspicion in the minds of | has shown himself a superior strat- e whose opinion of the |egist to America’s admiral. He has greatest authority, both on ac-|succeeded in entering without dif- count of their eminent position as | ficulty a place of perfect safety. naval authorities and their great | His presence immobilizes the is experience. They dwell with em- | blockading squadron, and the re-| phasis upon the skillful way in|serve fleet now at Cadiz is l=ft I Spain has misled public|free to follow out any line of pol- for example, the |icy that seems best to the Spanish ch announcing the | naval authorities. return to Cadiz of Cervera’s R SAYS CERVERA HAS squadron. O CUERRILLAS ,Chief of Cutthroat Band D | squadron may effect a conjunction | | American coast towns left unde- | At the present moment Manila is in every one’s mouth. = They say a squadron must be sent to| Manila. Infantry and artillery must be sent to Manila. The| Spanish navy must avenge the defeat in the Philippines before Manila itself, The Herald’s Valencia corre- spondent judiciously observes to- | day in this connection that, al- though all preparations and public | announcements point to the Philip- | pines as the destination of the troops being concentrated at Valencia and any battle-ships which are to accompany them from Cadiz, many military and naval authorities whisper that the expedition will probably sail in MADE A MISTAKE. Vice-Admiral Columb Thinks Spanish Admiral Has Blun- dered Fatally. the LONDON, ENG., May 21.—Ac- cording to the best expert |opinion in London if Admiral Cervera has gone to Santi- ago de Cuba he has made a fatal mistake. Vice Admiral Philip Howard Columb, retired, the au- thor of a number of naval works, including “The Naval War Game,’’ writes that he is con- vinced the Spanish Admiral is now | unlikely to strike at all. He adds that if he enters a.south Cuban |bor or else he or Commodore Schley | {port it will scarcely effect the|™ United States blockade, for Rear | Admiral Sampson will only have | to detach a somewhat superior | force of his heavier ships to cover the opposite direction. At any rate, it would not be safe to as- sume the expedition is going to Manila until it has passed through the Suez Canal. This opinion is Cervera’s | the lightest and swiftest vessels |did not move without being re- ported, and all the restof Rear | Admiral Sampson’s fleet could | devote themselves to the blockade of the other Cuban ports, - ARE NOW ;AISING generally held there. There seems every reason to be- lieve that the reserve squadron ADVERTISEMENTS. NO PAIN! We do for our patients all we promise in our advertisements. | | | | | Certain Newspapers of Paris Coming Out Boldly in Favor of | Uncle Sam. | NEW YORK, May 21.—A dispatch from Paris says: There are remarkable indications in certain Paris journals | hitherto inimical of a complete reversal :of the French disposition toward | America. . The Gaulois, for example, extols the cleverness with which Admiral Sampson < o1y | has maneuvered, taking advanta f Saved 0“ YOIII' Defltlst B‘“- | his opponent’s slowness to ef:{:ct Oa | junction with Schley and thus enable TEETH EXTTRACTED | him to divide the forces into two parts. | M. Jaures, in the Petite Republique, WITHOUT PAIN. | writes in the same strain of America’s W NO GAS. NO CHLOROFORM, | ‘admirable attack and_ defense, which This week all patients who call and get an | have been directed with energy and :"V‘Inr:;a'vt: on their dental work will be en- | life. ” FREE | M. Jaures derides Spain for allowing *.. -, | herself to be made the sport of clerical- < 75 |ism and militarism. | There is also a strong article in the Echo de Paris, signed Henry Beaure, | calling French hostility to her ancient | friends and clients beyond the Atlantic PLAQNE GOLD FILLING OPEN EVENINGS AN | T. s. HIGGINS, D.D.s. e | foolish and illogical. “France,” th Metropalitan Dental Parlors, eever o, % “raurats sewwn ‘o | America as a republic and should not Ovor 2-2';(2!::‘1:55.!51' STREET, | give way to sudden tenderness for Fifth Floor—Elcvator, | Spain.” | would be watching to see that he | FIENDISH ACTS Imprisoned. B RUTALITY OF DE BOURBON.| WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE | NOT SPARED. | | | | Women Assaulted by the Spaniahi Soldiers and Then Wantonly | Murdered and Fed to the Buzzards. Copyrighted, 189, by James Gordon Bennett. MONTEGRO BAY, via Kingston, Jamaica, May 21.—A letter received | here yesterday from Santiago de Cuba | under date of May 15 says that Col- onel Castelvi de Bourbon, chief of the guerrillas in Eastern Cuba, has been imprisoned for an assault upon a young Cuban girl. The girl was one of a family who had fled to Santiago for protection from the insurgents, | having obtained safe conduct of Ca- | WHALERY SAID T0 - TN Five of the Fleet Are Reported Crushed. | RUMOR FROM POINT BARROW | | | MEAGER DETAILS RECEIVED BY HUME BROTHERS. News Sent by Their Agent at Kar- luck by Way of Seattle—The Number of Men in Peril. Five whaling vessels are reported | | here as having been caught in the ice | | off Point Barrow early in the fall. The | | news comes to Hume Bros,, the well- | known packing-house, from their agent at Seattle, who is said to have received | the intelligence from an agent, Charles | Pfaff, at Karluk. The letter says that few detalls | prilles. Colonel Castelvi de Bourbon made advances which the girl indig- | nantly rejected. During the night she was kidnaped, and when an attempt was made ‘o rescue her in the streets of Santiago three of her male relatives were murdered. Colonel Castelvi's guard at the time were acting under | orders of General Toral, military chief | of Santiago. A few days before this affair, while | | a party of Insurgents were conveying | arms and ammunition to General | | Garcla from Santiago, near the vil- | lage of Cabre, they saw a flock of vul- | tures. On investigation they discov- ered the bodies of twelve persons, all | of them horribly mutilated. | the women were identified later as a party which had left Santiago for the country, owing to the lack of food | supplies. They had been followed by |a band of Castelvi's guerrillas. The men, after assaulting the women, shot them. Colonel Castelvi de Bourbon has been The military commander is_endeavor- Ing to effect his release. This infor- mation comes from an authentic Cu- | ban source, TWELVE SPANISH " SHIPS REPORTED ~ DESTROTED Continued from First Page. | Spaniards will not think of returning to | Spain without meeting our vesseis and hence that if they do not remain Santiago harbor they will make for | Clenfuegos with all speed. It is true | that Santiago harbor is naturally the best fitted for defensive purposes, but as no rallroads reach there any sup- plies landed for Blanco would be seized by Garcia’s insurgents which now in- fest southeast Cuba. Even if the ex- pedition succeeded in eluding the rebels these supplies would have to be hauled three hundred miles overland. | Although Admiral Cervera has been | congratulated upon eluding our ves- sels and entering Santiago harbor, his mission has not yet been successful, for he crossed the Atlantic to bring supplies and ammunition to General Blanco. For him to now return to Spain without having either delivered his goods or engaged our fleets would be most humiliating to Spain as well as dangerous to the welfare of the tot- tering Spanish Government. For these reasons it is very | believed that Admiral in generally Sampson will | either bottle them up in Santiago har. 11l catch them at Cienfuegos. Censored reports from Key West and | Tampa bring very little definite infor- mation concerning the military expedi- | | tion to Cuba, yet being read between | the lines convey covert intimations | that the troops are soon to embark. | The correspondent at that point, after | wiring that unusual activity prevails | in army circles there, and that impor- tant developments are expected, con- cludes his dispatch by complaining of the “rigid censorship” now instituted by order of General Shafter. There was also a great commotion in the War Department to-day. All of this indicates that the troops are being made ready for the invasion, which may occur on any day. | also have been received. A Norweglan | sailor had brought the news to the ef- | fect that the fleet was a total loss. He reports the loss of the sealing schooner Alexandria, which the North | American Commercial Company had sent with the supplies to the northern | stations. The Hume Brothers give credit to the authenticity of the news and attribute the paucity of details to the belief that Pfaff had barely time to catch a south- | bound vessel. i | The latest heard of the whaling fleet | was brought down by Third Mate | | Walker of the steamer Orea. | Walker crossed = m Point Barrow to Mackenzie River, and brought news up | to November 1 last. At that time 186 | whalers were camped near Point Bar- row. | _he steamer Orca had been crushed in the jce and the Freeman had been | ordered to trial by the civil Governor. | burned, so that the fleet remaining in | ner,-Secretary Coleman and myself called | the ice was composed of the steamers |on the State officials here and we have Belvedere and Fearless, the steam |SYSI¥ reason to believe the request for | | tender Jeannie, the schouner Rosario | iy submitisar | ¢ &ranted. Respectful- | and the bark Wanderer. | D. A. LINDLEY, President. All these vess were fast in the| A committee from the Chamber of ice, but Walker dec ed that th;.rp“‘nmmorre attended a meeting of the | | should be no difficulty in their getting {j";‘”‘ of f‘lm“n Dire Etors 1,"'"‘?2[ at | R s Folsom, and were successful in obtain- out 85 Boonas the ice DRpke b BLHE |y o et Boa e b request to the | SRS ; | Board of Examiners for a deficiency | It is thought that the ice must have | sufficient to, erect the necessary plant | broken up suddenly and great floes at the prison. Thus an abuse of twenty crushed the imprisoned vessels before years' standing is about to be abated they could reach clear water. through the endeavors of The Call. ster pls ¢ did not save the stores es 186 men in great WOoM S ZOOLOGISTS. | from the they may run out of AN AR ZOOLOGISTS | supplies before the relief expedition, The committee for the endowment of now on the way from St. Michael, can an Ame an woman's table at the zoo- logical station at Naples has succeeded reach them. FACTS ABOUT LAKE SUPERIOR. Lake Superior, to begin with, is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is water of wonderful pur- ity, which it holds, too; and some time, and in the not very distant future, either, the people who live in the large cities to the west and south will come to this lake to get the water for their Eight of | | appointed to PURE WATER FIGHT WON People of Sacramento in Luck. EVIL WILL BE REMEDIED. | SEWAGE PLANT FOR FOLSOM PRISON. Directors Ask for the CSreation of a Deficiency, and State Officials ‘Will Grant the Request. | SACRAMENTO, May 21.—As a result | of the Call's work in sounding the note | of alarm to the people of Sacramento in the matter of the prison sewage at | Folsom polluting American River, D. A. Lindley has addressed the following | report to the Chamber of Commerce: To the Board of Directors, Sacramento, Chamber of Commerce—Gentlemen: Pub- lic attention having been called to the sewage dumped into the American River at the State Prison, I visited the prison last Saturday for the purpose of ascer- taining if it would be reasonable to re- quest the proper authoritles to correct the evil. William Graham, civil and hydrau- lic engineer at Auburn, met me by ap-| pointment at Folsom and rendered ma- terial and valuable assistance in the in-| vestigation. | Our conclusion was that a request to | abate the nuisance would be entirely within reason and the problem very sim- ple. We found the evil of considerable less magnitude than the community had been led to believe, but, nevertheless, one which should be abated. We found the | prison authorities alive to the situation and abundantly able to take care of the matter promptly as soon as funds can be provided. Their efforts to render the evil as innocuous as possible with the present facilities of dis are to be comimended. 1 would suggest that a committee be t on the prison directors at Folsom this coming Saturday to peti- tion them to ask the privilege of the State Board of Examiners to create a de- ficlency of from ten to fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of disposing of this sewage, which can be done either by fil- teration, incineration, or on a sewage | farm, as the prison directors may deter- | Special Dispatch to The Call. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE FIVES Just Rolled In! Yes, the biggest crowd that was ever in our Men’s Suit Room was that of Saturday. It was a big crowd; we pleased ’em all, and it was such a simple matter to please ’em, as the styles were right; they were up to date., There was a snappiness, a chic, and all the essentials to good tail= oring that make swell Suits. We start off Monday with these same Suits in the prettiest of Spring col= orings, and all for a Fivew Dollar Bill. $5.00. . mine. Prior to visiting' the prison, A. J. Bru- in the first task set for itself, and is now securing funds to be applied to the expenses of the successful candidates. You will find it on the head of every fashionable dresser im toten —the Dewey Alpine. I scored a complete iriwmph, as it’s a pretty hat and equally as sweecessful as the naval hero after whom it is named. Yow get it in the pearl, with blac’ bands: yow getitin black, brown, cedar and otter. The stock is every bit as good as yow det at the evelusive hatters’ at $2.00. Here at 95(;. Wash Fabric Suits It is the belief of the committee that the usefulness of the table will be much increased and the appointment of the best qualified women—irrespective o r ability to meet the expenses of a s residence in Naples—insured if 8t ten annual subscriptions of $50 re placed in its hands to be thus hemes. It will not be so remarkable 11 ' | Rl : e applied. The effort has been made to |87 sheineering feat to ipe the Water | ghiain subscriptions from the governing e oaks, pure and sparkling and | poardg of colleges for women, coedu- ! fresh from its cold depths, to these cit- 1 colleges or universities having i ies which are now struggling with the question of their water supply and meeting all sorts of difficulties in their efforts to get water fit to drink. All down through this thousand feet of blue there is a peculiar coldness. At | the very most the temperature varies through the winter and summer not more than 6 degrees. Winter £nd sum- mer this great lake never changes to | any appreciable extent, so that if you | dip your finger tips in the blue sur- | face on a day in July, or if you test it | some day in the early winter when you have been out on some belated, ice- | mailed fishing smack, or when you | | have gone out to watch the fishermen | | spearing their supplies through the! thick ice in mid-January you will find but a trifling difference in the tempera- ture. Away down at the bottom, too, here is but little variation in the tem- | perature, for it stands at nearly 40 de- grees lrahrenheit at the bottom, and | varies from 40 to 46 degrees winter and |summer at the surface. The other lakes though cnld are not in this re- spect like Superior. The whole bottom of the lake is be- lieved to be a strong rock basin, though it would seem that there | be great springs at the bottom to help | keep up the enormous volume of water. | flect, while a group of | This agrees with reports from Tampa. | From the north there is a large amount | | of water pouring into the lake year in | | and year out, the swift-rushing, nar- row-banked Nipigon and other streams | furnishing no small part of the supply. These streams in a large measure make up for the loss on the surface. One of the old lake captains, a bronzed, kindly faced man, who had been for thirty- five years on the lakes and had faced death many a time in the frightful storms which sometimes sweep across | these beautiful bodies of water, told me, as we were passing along near the north coast of Superior, With the head- lands and inlets and glossy green bluffs of that most picturesque shore in full | genius of the director. must | AMERICAN STRATEGY. | The order sending the coast defense | view, that the theory that the lake is | by laws. ial endowmer women’s de for men, or a furtherance of wome: New York Tribune s the colleges and associations represent- | ed in the committee have subscribed to | for women stu- ", ”I: tments of univer- * i II il f = ates that eight of | the table: Bryn Mawr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, the Associa- i tion of Collegiate Alumnae and the | committee on science lessons of the Woman's Educational Association of Boston. The zoological station at Na- | ples was founded in 1872 by Professor | Anton Dohrn for the collection of bio- | logical material and for the study of all forms of plant and animal life. Un- der his personal direction the station has developed into an international in- stitution of vast importance for scien- | tific research and for the professional training of the students of all coun- | tries. Contributions to the support of | this institution have been hitherto in great part personal tributes to the| It seemed de- sirable that a permanent endowment be attempted.—Chicago Times-Herald. | ADVERTISEMENTS. ‘ . | : Those little wash suits of ours | in Galateas, in the genwine Russian Crash, but yow know ours are made perfect ; the col- lars are extra deep : the fabrics are all thoroughly shrunk, thor- oudhly tested, and made by the same tailors that make owr fin- est Cloth Suits. A big lot of such kind of good swits to-day that will compare with anything in | | | The Astronomy of Lite. When an astrono- mer foretells the ex- § | act minute at which two planets will cross each other, we know there is no magic | about it. The whole universe is governed A man who stu | vessel Monterey to re-enforce Dewey | indicates that Spain’s announced inten- | tion of sending troops to the Philippines | is no longer discredited by the War and | | Navy department officials. The Navy Department officials are expecting great events to occur at any moment. What they most fear is the effect that might be produced upon our people by greatly exaggerated and mis- leading reports from Spanish sources of some great naval engagement if the Spaniards should claim the victory. It is realized that the first news of an en- gagement in the neighborhood of Cuba off to the eastward may reach the United States through the Spanish cables via Madrid, and these are al- most certain, no matter what the result may be, to make a claim of victory for ‘the Spanish. Obviously the only man- ner now in which the truth could be discovered would be through our own officers. A traveler through Servia will often no- tice dolls hung up inside the cottage win- dows. He learns that the dolis are put up as a sign to announce to wayfarers that a marriageable daughter dwells in the house. ‘early every house has a wreath of corn ears hung up on the outer wall, and there {8 a su, tition that if it is stolen a daughter will shortly be mar- ried. Where this is particularly desired, | slowly going down in size was true. He | maintained th:* he couid tell from cer- tain landmarks along the shores, with | which he is as familiar as he would be | with the strects. of his old Scottish birthplace, that the lake was slowly— | very slowly—but surely receding. How- ever, it will be some centuries yet be- fore there will be any appreciable less- ening of the great lakes, so that we need not be concerned. Strange as it may seem, the lake has tides, too—well-defined tides, dis- covered in 1860. It is what is called a self-registering tide, with a regular flux and reflux wave, caused, so the scien- tific men say, by the sun and moon. The average rise and fall every twenty-four hours is 114-100 of a foot; the maxi- mum at new and full moon is 1 28-100 of a foot. —_———————— MAKES IRON DIGESTIBLE. On account of the difficulty of assim- ilating iron as a medicine, as it gen- erally fatigues the stomach, a French- man has sought to introduce it into the stomach in a digestible manner by what he terms ferruginous eggs. Hens can digest iron easily, while rendering it back through the albumen of their eggs in a form which is easily digested by the weaker stomachs of mankind. A salt of iron is given to the hens with grains of wheat. A dozen of these medicated grains of wheat a day make the hens, after three or four days, lay eggs which are very rich in jron al- ready digested.—Philadelphia Record. —_—e———— The bones and muscles of the human care is taken to suspend the wreath weli ‘within reach of possible marauders. body are capable of over 1200 different movements. town at $2, and what a lovely choosing for little fellows be- tween the ages of 3 and 10 at 98e. pature carefully and reduces them to a sci- ence, can count on exact results every time. A doctor knows that certain remedies affect certain diseases. ‘When a disease seems to have no remedy the doctors pronounce it incurable. All the time Nature may have the remedy right at hand, but it will only be discovered by the doctor who has studied longer and deeper YoufigMen’s Suits The well-dressed young man appreciates the fashionableness of @ dowble-breasted Vest; that’s quite the swell idea. These come in all owr fashicnable swits this spring in fashionable colorings, which we will have on speciab sale at $4.48. than others into this particular disease. Consumption seemed for a long time with- out a remedy, until Dr. Pierce made his wonderful ** Golden Medical Discovery” 30 years ago. It has proved to be a marvelous and almost unfailing specific for consump. tion and all forms of lung, brorchial and | throat difficulties. 3 | Tts effects seem almost magical but its op- eration is based upon simple natural laws, It has the peculiar pr?eny of exuabiing the blood-making glands to manufacture healthy, red hloos and pour it abundant! into the circulation. This nourishing, vital izing effect is rapidly manifested in the lungs and bronchial tubes where it stops the wasting process and buiids up healtky tissue. Straws. A pretty lot of Children’s Sailor Straws, pretty color ecombinations, at 10c. 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