The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, 6 TUESDAY. MAY 31, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main I EDITORIAL ROOMS.. Telep! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a Wt By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE......c..ccouvveeseanessesss.908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE.... --Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1931 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission strcet, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until O o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. —_— AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—* The New Dominion " California—Hopkins Trans-Oceanic Star Specialty Co. Alcazar—~The Master ot Ceremonies Baldwin—Benefit for the Red Cross Soclety, Thursday after- noon. Morosco's—"The Bottom of the Sea " Tlvoli—"The Poster.” Orph e ‘The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville, and “Visions of Art." Ulympia—Corns son and Eddy streets, Spectalifes. Sutro Baths—Swimming, “ampo—Music. dancing, boating, fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield-This day, May 81, Furniture, at 819 California street, at 11 o'clock. Fard —Thursday, June 2, Horses, at S8an Mateo Stocs ar i ck. | COMPLIMENTS TO R. P. SCHWERIN. fl S R. P. Schwerin is general manager of the | Pacific Mail, and thus becomes a semi-public to character; as he never neglects an opportunity | make himse | obnoxious, necessity arises for call- | ing him down from the loity perch upon which he | has ensconsed himself and making him understand | that he is of the earth, earthy. Schwerin is a trifling | obstacle in the progress of anything which has a ten- | dency to move, but, like the gnat in the eye, or the | fly in the ointment, he may be annoying. The Schwerin grievance seems to be that fault has been found with his company because the City of Peking, a ship under its control, was sent to sea laden with the brave boys of the First California, and | that absolutely no provision had been made for their comfort, although the company which Schwerin so | ably represents is being paid by the Government for having done this. He regards the soldiers, volunteers ‘ going to the aid of Dewey, as a man with ordinary | instincts might regard a lot of cattle. The Call ob- | jected, and Schwerin the mighty, Schwerin the su- preme, Schwerin the self-satisfied, decreed in hisbogus wisdom that no representative of this paper should be allowed on a dock controlled by him. In addition | to his attributes hereinbefore mentioned ‘ Schwerin seems to be a j. Does he think his feeble efforts will keep the news from being printed? Can | it be that an idea has percolated his dull intelligence | that a swaggering ass is a thing to be feared? chwerin is a mistake. This conclusion was reached | when he permitted the Colima to go to sea with a deck load which carried her to the bottom. On that | occasion also it is remembered that he acquired a dis- | like for reporters and ordered that they be kept from | the dock. Nevertheless the story of the Colima was | Nevertheless shall the story of the Peking be | Schwerin merely over-estimates himseli. He | s to awe people, and makes them tired. Once He left it and the navy re- ated with him were glad to | other told. told. thin this man was in the nav; All who had asso joiced be rid of him. a tyrant without the ability to carry out his purposes. A place with the Pacific Mail gave him power, which he has abused. A natural bully, a man without heart or conscience, he winces under exposure and tries to | wreak a pitiful vengeance by excluding from the dock those who have assisted in showing the manner | Schwerin should resign. His field is Among gentlemen and officers he has | of man he is. on a flatboat. no place. A THIRD CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS. HY should not Chief Lees issue a call for vol- \)\ unteers? He needs some for his own use. The | exigency of the times cries aloud that he be furnished with a drum corps. To be sure he rides in ! unwonted splendor now at the head of every proces- sion, but the prancing steed he bestrides has to step | to the sound of borrowed music. This fact is an actual grief to the Chief. He wants his own drum corps; he yearns for an individual martial strain. There are thousands of brave volunteers in the city. Some have no uniforms. If they did have the uni- forms would be plain blue and with never a glitter of gold braid. Yet the volunteers have music till you can't rest, and the Chief, a symphony in radiance, can’t muster a fife and drum. It's too bad. Information has leaked out that one policeman on the force can play the fife. He suspects that his serv- ices are in demand, and is doing what is known in police circles as laying low. He is certain that if caught he will be dragged to the flanks of the Chief's snorting bay and made to bust into melody whether he feel like it or not. His one hope of escape is that nobody among the Chief’s valiant patrolmen may be able to beat a drum. Detectives are on his track, and | if he get into the middle of the street in broad daylight and there shrill a tune perhaps he will be caught. Then he could be handcuffed to a lamppost while the detectives skirmished for a drummer. These circumstances make plain the necessity for volunteers enough to make a drum corps as a trailer for the Chief. They would be where the beams of his gilded glory would fall upon them. It Is embarrassing to contemplate that players may have to be caught and made to play under forced draft. From all accounts it would appear that the nerves of Captain Sigsbee did not receive anything like a fatal shock when the Maine went down. He acts much as a man whose courage had been healthfully stimulated by experience. Red Cross ladies proved Sunday that all soldiers look alike to them. The regulars were welcomed as heartily and fed as well as the volunteers. And per- haps they appreciated this attention even more. To term a correspondent a “special commissioner” is simply a piece of silly affectation, He had manifested the inclination of |- i Carnot, who represented the humanizing of govern- JUDGE MAGUIRE AND THE MILITIA @ND NAavy. W count for his characterization of the taking of Spanish prizes as “piracy.” His afterthought drives | him to shelter behind the subjunctive “if.” He has | now learned that there are prize courts, and that the ‘ condemnation of a sea prize is a judicial process, in which all rights are guarded by international law. He may yet learn that pirates have no prize courts. They take unarmeg ships at sea, rob and then scuttle them, to sink with their crews. If he is hurt by his own language, which is all that we used against him, may it teach him moderation in speech. He denies proposing to “cut the Gordian knot with pools of blood.” His speech was so reported and | printed and was not denied until now he says that he declared “there were those who proposed to cut the Gordian knot and wipe out injustice in a carnival of blood.” Between cutting a knot with a pool of blood and wiping it out in a carnival of blood, there is only the difference in the quantity of blood used, after all. The Judge is in the habit of attributing opposition to his ambition and criticism of his loose and violent | language to “the railroad.” This habit increases one’s | regret tHat the railroad deserves so many of the blows | it gets, since it furnishes an excuse for hiding one | abuse behind zeal against another. So hides the | Judge. His long letter leaves his “piracy” remark | just where it was before. It was a remark in line with his secret thought and his public utterances, pro- jected from his associations and in harmony with the kind of men who manage his campaigns, promote his | ambitions and are selected by him for public trusts. His weekly organ here is the San Francisco Star. October 8, 1892, the Star, Ln an editorial under the caption “If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It,” said: | “ * % % * * the militia of Pennsylvania de- serve no more mercy than so many rattlesnakes, as it | is no crime to give them their deserts at any time and E have given full space to Judge Maguire's vituperative resentment on being called to ac- lin any place or manner, so that nobody be hurt but | them. Mercy to them is cruelty to humanity. They | have ceased to be human otherwise than in form, and | have no rights which at any time man or woman is bound to respect.” Within three months after that | article Judge Maguire selected the editor of the Star, | who wrote it, as his candidate for Superintendent of the United States Mint in this city, and when Mr. | Cleveland refused to appoint him Maguire began abusing the President and kept it up to the close of | his term. Indorsing the author Maguire indorsed the vtterance. The identical regiment of Pennsylvania | militia which Maguire’s organ denounced as “rattle- | snakes,” and desired killed “at any time and in any place or manner,” is in San Francisco now, in camp at | the Bay District track. Our people can go and look at what manner of men Maguire’s organ regards as “rattlesnakes.” Perhaps the Judge's manager and | candidate for the Mint might like to go out and try killing some of them “in any manner!” Judge Maguire’s letter in its manner is an index to bis intellectual methods and his mental stature. He conceives that we hold him up to be seen by himself because he “was born on a farm.” We confess the in- | felicity of not knowing that he was born on a farm, | but we admit it since he takes pains to advertise it. | He has been so constantly an office-secker and office- holder that it was natural to suppose that he was not | born at all, but just nominated for an office and raised on a salary. Not only is he given to violent and reckless lan- guage like his piracy tirade and his indorsement of his | organ’s rattlesnake article on the Pennsylvania militia, | but his thought and sympathies run to violence. The last Congress passed a pill to restrict immigra- | tion, which Mr. Cleveland vetoed. Judge Maguire's | daily organ, the San Francisco Examiner, abused | Cleveland for the veto and denounced Senator White | for voting against the bill, but in illustration of what | the Judge considers model journalism, the Examiner lid not inform its readers that Maguire also opposed | the bill and spoke against it. His daily organ said of this immigration bill: “Where the opposition to the restriction of immi- gration finds its strength is in the steamship com- | panies, the coal barons and the great employers of labor in other lines.” Yet Maguire opposed it, and in a speech in the;v House, January 27, 1897, printed on page 1494, Con- gressional Record, Fifty-fourth Congress, second | session, he said: | “Gentlemen urge the passage of this bill as a step in the direction of excluding Anarchists, Socialists and Nihilists from this country. Assuming that it would be right and desirable, though I do not admit that it would be either right or desirable to exclude these classes, or any of them, from this country; yet | the present bill does not tend to their exclusion. They | are generally educated men, many of them holding | university degrees, whose offending consists of resist- | ance to tyranny, which in the conditions under which | they live is obedience to God. Who are the Nihilists? i They are the Democrats of Russia, who are struggling against almost hopeless odds to establish the natural and inalienable rights of man in that country as| against the tyrannous and false pretense of divine right on the part of the Czar.” Therein Maguire indorses and defines Nihilism and | anarchy. Mickhail Bakounin, the Nihilist leader, who 1‘ allied that principle to anarchy in The International, | defined it as “universal destruction,” and presented } himself as “The Apostle of Universal Destruction” Nihilists and Anarchists are “Democrats,” accordin, to Maguire, and are acting equally in obedience to | God when they assassinate the Czar who emancipated | the serfs, and the President of the French republic, | ment and expansion of the rights of man. Maguire does not believe in excluding these self- avowed apostles of universal destruction from this country, and hails them as “Democrats.” He knows, | as do all men, that they aim to destroy all govern- | ment and have bomb and knifeand poisonas ready for the President of the United States as for the Czar. The American navy represents Republican order and law. It is natural, therefore, that the defender of the apostles of universal destruction should see “piracy” in their taking of Spanish prizes. The regi- ment of Pennsylvania militia now in camp here stood under arms in its own State for law and order, for the rights of person and property. It is quite natural, therefore, that Maguire should indorse the editor who denounced them as “rattlesnakes” and said that to kill them “in any manner” would be no crime. Since Judge Maguire has entered upon explanations of his record we will continue to give himopportunity. He is a public man and seeks to continue in public life, and the public is interested in his views. T Children and grandchildren may each have the sword presented to Admiral Dewey, and yet the museum of the future will be full of it. r THE LEAGUE CLUBS. ITH the assembling of the convention of Re- publican League clubs in this city to-day the campaign of the coming elections will virtually begin. It is the first important political gathering of the year and will have a potent effect in rousing Re- publican enthusiasm and inducing the members of the rank and file to organize for the struggle and the vic- tory before them. 3 The Republican League is comparatively a new comer into the field of political worls, but in past campaigns has amply demonstrated its usefulness to the party. Leaders of the highest eminence have borne witness to its worth and have encouraged the continuance and expansion of its organization. Through it the clubs of different localities are united as a State association, and that in turn is brought into close relations with organizations in other States, so that the whole is a national union of organized Re- publicans of great power and influence. The characteristic of the league which gives it an especial claim upon the loyalty of Republicans is its strict devotion to party principles and complete sepa- ration from the interests of particular candidates. It supports no aspirant for nomination to any office, but after the nominations have been made it supports all with the ardent zeal of stalwart Republicanism. This frees it from any possible weakening through dissen- sions brought about by rivalries between contending factions of ambitious leaders, and makes it strong in the unity of all for the great policies for which the Republican party stands in our governmental system. At the convention which assembles to-day there are expected to be upward of 1000 delegates representing all sections of the State and reflecting the sentiment of the party as a whole. The work it will be called upon to perform is important. It will have to arrange for making a vigorous campaign, for organizing clubs in every county, for rousing the energies of all Re- publicans and for allying the league clubs of the State | in close sympathy and touch with the national organi- zation. With a disorganized Democracy and a Populism gone wild there appears a sure and certain victory for the Republican party in the coming election. This ap- pearance may, however, prove deceitful. It will be safest at any rate for the Republicans of California to rely for success upon their own strength rather than upon the weakness and demoralization of their foes. The issue involved in the Congressional contests will be of great magnitude and of vital interest to our | national welfare. It is therefore gratifying to have the Republican ranks set in order at this early date for the campaign. The convention will have the close attention of the party, and its work will be to start the forward march toward victory for the administration which is now upholding the welfare of the people at home and advancing the banner of the nation in a foreign war. THE, DEMOCRATIC DEAL. OR the first time in its history the local Democ- racy has been placed under the exclusive control of an appointed organization. The Democratic State Committee has often, in the interest of “har- mony,” interfered in San Francisco politics, but such action has always been taken with great caution. The city's patronage is a standing temptation to the State bosses, but it has never tempted them to go any fur- ther than the appointment of 2 committee for the pur- pose of conducting a fair primary election. With the result of such an election the State authorities have considered their obligation discharged. In short, the Democratic principle has always been “let the people rule,” and interference has never been justified on any other ground than that the rule of the people was endangered. On the present occasion, however, the State bosses have absolutely wrested the party organization from the warring factions and placed in charge a committee of their own selection. It is not to the point that the members of this committee are mostly good citizens and life-long Democrats; it is well known that men of their character often neglect their civic duties, and quite as frequently, through inattention, become the willing instruments in politics of cunning politicians. | The programme outlined for them is the main thing. This programme is at pnce un-Democratic and amaz- ing. It is said that the committee will, under the leadership of those who appointed them, select dele- gates to the State convention and appoint a county committee to conduct the local campaign. The justi- fication for this is alleged to be the presence in this city of irreconcilable factions. If this be true—if the local Democrats have become incapable of self-government and must whenever they split call in an appointed committee of “high joints” to exercise their functions—the effect on the munici- pal and State campaigns cannot fail to be disastrous. Surely if the party cannot govern itself it is unfit to govern either city or State. How.can even the com- mittee of one hundred, composed though it is of the flower of the unwashed, ask the people to trust a party with the conduct of public affairs, which is afraid to call a primary election for the selection of delegations to its own conventions? E Probably the course adopted by the State bosses in this matter will result in the utter rout of the Democ- racy this year. The Republicans sometimes submit to autocratic methods in party management, but the Democrats never can be persuaded to do so. The very life and strength of Democracy is bossism, and with- out popular party government bossism in the machine must perish. There is of course a job behind the action of the MNemocratic State Committee in this matter. Later on 1e public will discover the details and ascertain the name of the beneficiary. In the mean time it is well to consider the availability of Republican candidates for office. The people—even Democratic people—will never trust the single-taxers, Populists, agrarians, bosses and schemers of the Democratic State Com- mittee to run this city and the commonwealth. Prep- arations should be made to sweep them all from power. Their struggle to obtain control of the party machine may be rendered futile by the nomination of a first-class Republican ticket. Presentation by an individual of an admiral's flag to Dewey, as advertised to take place, will be a coarse and disgusting impertinence. The individual in ques- tion misses no opportunity to put himself on display, and here is one too good to be overlooked. The same spirit actuates the offer as ‘inspired an offer from the same source of $50,000 reward for the discovery of the wretch who sunk the Maine. It is to be assumed that the Government will supply Admiral Dewey with the flag befitting his rank. Still, if a presentation were to be made by some representative body of men, proud of the patriotism and valor of the admiral, it would be a gracious act. Under the circumstances the best thing the recipient of the flag can do is to drop the gift In the waters of Manila. No honor can attach to the accepting of it, but the act would surely be blazoned to the world with the name of Dewey in 4 small type and that of Hearst in billboard size, MAY 31, 1898. The fact that General Roy Stone, presi- dent of the National League for Good Roads, and United States Director of Road Inquiry, has been ordered by this Government to Cuba, to construct roads there for our army, s one of the most striking events in the history of the agi- tation for good roads. General Stone has, during the past two years, been engaged in bullding ‘‘object lesson” roads in some of the Hastern States, under the direction of the Gov- ernmental department at Washington. He has had under his control a complete out- fic of road bullding machinery belong- ing to the Government. The purpose of these ‘“object lesson’ roads is to instruct people in the neighborhoods in which they are built how to construct and maintain a sclentific and Fer(ect modern road. Now in time of war, when the demand for good roads Is the greatest, this Gov- ernment has shown its appreciation of their value and necessity by drawin upon the best road-building talent an sending the man who has been for years at the head of the good roads movement, doing at the same time actual road buiw= nf. General Stone is an _engineer of abllity and an army officer. Being a mili- tary man, he understands the exigencies of the situation in Cuba. It is reported that all the road-buli.ng machinery belonging to the icultural Department {8 to be sent to Cuba with General Stone, and that he will build roads, with the aid of troops, over the marshes and swamps of Cuba and through the otherwise Impenetrable for- ests, over which our army will march on its way to Havana. In the days of Caesar, the Roman sol- diers were employed in bullding roads; | but this was in time of peace; when the soldiers were not otherwise eflrixigaged. they were ?ut at work building roads that would last forever, and preparing the country for future military movements. But it remains for the inventive genius of American citizens and for Yankee in- genuity to hit upon the idea of construct- ing the roads in actual wartare, through the enemy’s country, over which our sol- diers shall march to storm their cita- | dels. And great need there is that we should do so in Tuba. The island is about 750 miles long. Its width varies from about ninety miles at the eastern end, to about twenty miles in the vicinity of Havana, which lles on the northern side of the western end. Its area is 28,000,000 acres (or about 48,000 square mlles—a little larger than all of New England), of which 17,000,000 acres, 60 per cent, iS un- cleared forest, much of which Is practical- ly impenetrable. The configuration of the remaining 40 per cent, or say 17,000 square miles, consists of varied and distinct types of relief. There are high mountains, low hills, plateaus, level plains, valleys, marshes and swamps. About one-fourth of the total area is mountainous, while a very large portion is swampy, breedin the deadly miasm, more to be feare than the bullets and sabers of the enemy. So accustomed have we become to the mysteries of African gun les and to tales of the researches of Livingstones and Stanleys that we think nothing of them. The average reader will be astonished to know that so near our own firesides as the island of Cuba, there lies another re- gion of darkness, a veritable ‘‘dark con- tinent,” which the foot of man has never vet trod. Yet such is the fact. We write and think of Cuba as the “‘Pearl of the Antilles,”clad in a voluptu- ous floral mantle, smothered with flowers and exhaling the sweet perfumes of the tropics. Humboldt has said of Cuba, “We mlfih! believe the entire island was orig- Inally a forest of palms, wild limes aad orange trees.” : But there is another side to all this, and | THE ROADSOK .CUBA. that is the stern reality. While the flow- ers and the limes and the oranges, the sweet perfumes and the sugar cane are there, we are powerless with our armies before the jungles of the Cuban interior and the dangers of the rocky coast. The coast line measures, without its mean- deriags, over 2000 miles, while, with all its embayments and islets, it measures over 6000 miles. Before the road-building of the interior is undertaken the coast line must first be passed. In many places it is nothing but a narrow benc¥l of rock, standing twenty feet above the sea be- tween high bluffs aud the water. On ths | porth, the cliffs run in a horizontal line from Matanzes 500 feet high down to 100 feet in the west. The east coast is abrupt and rugged, a series of rocky terraces. West of Guan- tanamo_to Cape Cruz, the mcuntains of Sferra Maestra rise behind the terraces. From Cape Cruz to San Antoaio the coast is low and marshy, excepting a_ brief stretch between Trinidad and %lenfuesos. -Along the middle coast line, on both the north and south sides of the fsland of Cuba, are dangerous obstacles to naviga- tion, coral reefs and mangrove islets, | t;nnénng uninhabited barriers to the main- Hence, the great difficulty of landing troops in Cuba, either for road-building or for warfare, with all the safe harbors and landing places guarded by the Spaniards. | Of the interfor there are many parts ot which very little i8 known. It has never been sufficiently surveved to give accurate maps of either the naturg of the soll or the topography. The Spanish Government has, from time to time, sent commissions to make reconnoissances, who have repeatedly reported that the lack of habitation, the impenetrability of the forests and Insurmountable Cordil- | leras have prevented the successful con- summation of these expeditions. Such ob- servations do extend east to the seven- tieth meridian, about 12) miles from the eastern end, which includes Santiago, and but fragmentary reports have been pub- liuhded of such investigations as have been made. Roads in Cuba are more celebrated for thelr scarcity than for anything else. Good hilghways are short and they . are few and far between. There is a road now extending from Havana to Pinar del Rio called the King's highway (Camino el Rey). It belongs to a class of roads of which a few were tonstructed centuries ago, leading from Havana and from a few interior cities to their entrepots. Be- yond this the Government has con- structed no roads leading into the coun- try, so that inland communication is much impeded and in most of thse island im?oss(ble. Had Spain pursued a differenl iollcy with regard to road-building in Cubh she might not have been Involved in the present war. It was the lack of military roads, with the consequent impossibility of rapld movements of troops, that has made possible the Cuban revolution, ter-| minating In the nresent war. With good military roads Spain could have termi- nated the revolution long Bgo. The re- sult of her neglect in road-building will | now be the loss of the entire territory. | Vastly different is the policy pursued by | England in the Island of Jamalica. Al- though only one-tenth the size of Cuba this island p ses over 2000 miles of splendid highways and enjoys a prosper- “l')l;l which without good roads is impos- sible. RKurther reports of General Stone’s work in Cuba will be awaited with interest. The problem of how to build roads in ac- tual ‘war and at the same time to trans- port over them the troops who are to do the fighting at the front is a question that wiil call for the highest degree of skill and the most expeditious applica- tion of all the instrumentalities at his command. CHARLES FREEMAN JOHNSON, Acting Secretary National League for Good Roads. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. J. H. Martin of Los Angeles is at the Baldwin. I. A. Rohje, a well-known resident of Sacramento, 18 registered at the Cali- | fornia. ‘W. W. Middlecoff, a prominent attorney of Stockton, 1s one of the arrivals at the Grand. Morgan Hill and wife of Morgan HIill, Santa Clara County, are guests at the | Palace. Captain F. R. Rufer, U. 8. A., and Cap- #ain P. F. Straub, U. B. A., are at the Occidental. | Edward P. Phelps of Chico and M. W. | Muller of Fresno are registered at the California. C. H. Holmes of Sacramento and T. | Alexander of New York registered at the Baldwin yesterday. Paul H. Blades, editor of the Los An- | geles Record, is at the Occldental, accom- | panied by his wife. Among the guests at the Palace are Captain Morini and wite, Miss Hinckley and Master E. Witherby of Irvington. F. Beaudry, wite and niece, of Weaver- ville, Trinity County, who have been vis- {ting Paris, are among the guests at the Palace. Clio L. Lloyd, manager of the Santa | Barbara Morning Press, and William | Niles, a breeder of fancy stock in Los Angeles, are staying at the Occidental. Colonel Charles L. Jewett, judge advo- | cate of the Department of the Pacific, is a guest at the Palace. He will probably | be assigned to duty on General Me_n‘itt's staff. € ~opooo0oo0000C © SHE ALWAYS © © DRESSED ° © N BLACK. oOoo00O0OO0O0O0OOO The first-night- ers who attended the opening per- formance of Rob- ert Mantell in “A Secret Warrant” at the Columbia may remember | having observed a lady in one of the proscenium boxes who appeared to be in- tensely interested in the romantic actor, | and while he was delivering his most im- | passioned passages she appeared to be | oblivious to all surroundings, and finally she manifested her undisguised admira- tion by throwing a beautiful bouquet of American beauties at the feet of the his- trionic artist. The roses were gracefully gathered by the recipient, who bowed his acknowledgments with tender glances to the fair occupant of the box. The next night the same little scene was reproduced In all its detalls, with the exception that it was not the same lady, though she bore such a strong resem- blance to the other that even Mantell himself was deceived, and when he re- tired behind the scenes with the usual tender glances to the dispenser of floral favors he was heard to remark, “By George, she is a stunner. Such a lovely face, and two nights she has sent me flowers. She is evidently in love with yours truly,” and Mantell's chest ex- panded at the pleasant thought. Then it was that a dark scheme was | planned by the stage hands to “Jolly” the self-opinionated actor, and on the next night a lady, dressed entirely in black and heavily veiled, occupied the box and watched every move the artist made. She seemed to hang on his words and was well-nigh falling out of the box in her exaggerated attention. When the climax | came the lady threw a single red rose at | the object of her admiration, which rose was eagerly gathered up. This panto- mime went on for three or four nights. The lady was always dressed in black, and no one, not even Mantell himself, could discover her identity. Presently the managers took a hand in the affair and found out that it was a put-up job by the stage attaches and the lady was re- fused admittance to the theater. It all leaked out, and Mantell has been unmer- cifully twitted about the lady in black who fell in love with him, a favorite mode of torture being to sing in his presence: “She_could look so innocent and cute; She had charms which no one could dis- ute; Bntp the color of her dress kept Mantell on the guess; And she’s always dressed in black.” Sherift Frank T. Johnson of Sacramen- to, Edouardo de la Cuesta, the Santa Bar- bara cattle-raiser, and Superfor judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento are staying at the Grand. tendent of Instruction; Richard T. Cohen, Recorder of Sacramento, and J. C. Wray, | a Los Angeles capitalist. Captain Edward Murphy of the quar- | termaster's department, United States | W. H. Steger, who have been ordered to | the Philadelphia, are at the Palace. Charles Erickson of Martinez, a rallroad | contractor; J. R. Hebbron of Salinas, ex- | | member of the State Board of Equaliza- | {nited’ States army. tion, and George Johnson, & stockraiser of Pleasanton, accompanied by his wife | and child, are among the arrivals at the? Grand. | Fred Dodd, proprietor of the Hughes | Hotel, Fresno; Benjamin P. Barker, & vineyardist of Livermore; A. C. Blair, a | business man of Los Angeles, and W. A. | Lord and wife of Sacramento, are at the | Baldwin. | Editor C. W. Willlams of the San Jose | holiday yesterday and to honor the mem- ory of the nation’s dead. He reports that | the outlook for crops in the Santa Clara | Valley were never better. Prunes are| looking exceptionally well. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Russia 1s about to build a glant torpedo boat at St. Petersburg. It is alleged to| be of 1500 toms, or about four times the | displacement of the largest torpedo boat | destroyers. Gunboats of medium size and speed, but with great coal endurance, are coming into favor in European navies. France Is building one at Brest, named the Zelie, which will be 187 feet three inches in length, twenty-six feet five inches beam, and with engines of %0 horse power will | steam thirteen knots. Her coal supply fis | sufficient for a run of 2700 miles at a ten- knot speed. “El Solitario” (the one only) is what the Spaniards commonly call the Pelayo, | as Spain has only one battleship. The tax-ridden people of Germany will | be made to pay & little over $115,000,000 | during the next seven years toward build- | ing up the navy. This is for shipbuild- ng, armament and torpedoes, and the total expenditures are estimated at $1%9,- 430,000 for the septennial perfod. The shipbuilding programme is distributed as follows: Increase of the fleet... .$39,608 470 Replacing old vessels. . 51,642,270 Gunboats .. . 4,800 Torpedo boats. +.. 10,108,380 Total shipbullding......$102,623,920 Considering the fact that the entire German nayy is of comparatively recent origin the item of $51,642,270 to replace old vessels would indicate that the admiralty must think that the greater part of the navy now existing of little account. The British battleships Hannibal and Tllustrious were placed in commission May 10. The latter goes to China to relieve the Barfleur. The Hannibal was begun at Pembroke dockyard May 1, 1884, and the Tlustrious at Chatham March 11, 1595, making a good record for the iatter yard, but still much short of the Majestic, built | and commissioned within two years. The old broadside ironclad Resistance, built In 1862, has been ugjlized in the Brit- ish navy for a number of years as a tar- get by large and small guns. As her side protection was only four and one-half inches of iron, the tests with modern guns must have been very unsatisfactory and barren of results of practical value. The old hulk has been shot through from end to end and from side to side with shot | and shell from guns ranging in calibers from 4.2 inch down to machine guns. The ship has-been sunk and raised several times to undergo this naval war vivisec- tion. Dummy sailors have been slaugh- tered by the dozen, and exploding shells in the Interfor of the ship have made sad havoc with decks and fittings. The old craft is now so battered as to be scarce- ly worth temporary repairs to fit her for continued assaults by shot and shell. The British cruiser Terrible is st 1 un- dergoing trials, and indications point to a feellng of disappointment over the Belleville boilers on account of the quan- tity of fuel they consume. On May 9 the ship complet her trials under dif- ferent revolutions of her propellers, com- | P rate of 125 tons per day steaming 807 knots. As the bunker capacity of the Terrible is 3000 tons this supply would take the ship only 7360 miles, which is rather expensive steaming for & low speed. Compared with the armor plate manu- facturers in England, the Carnegie and Bethlehem works in Pennsylvania are rather slow In their output. There are three notable firms in Great Britain mak- ing armor plates, gun-forgings, projec- tiles and other similar war material, namely, Carmmell & Co., with a yearly capacity of 8000 to 10,000 tons of armor plate; John Brown & Co., 10,00 tons, and Vickers & Co., with 8500 tons. These three firms can, in the course of twelve to fif- teen months, supply the armc: for nine battleships of the heaviest type, aggre- gating about 27,000 tons, whereas the Car- negle and the Bethlehem works only agree to deliver jointly 600 tons per month, and deliveries to begin six months after sign- ing of contract. —_——e——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. POET LAUREATE—D. R., Angels Camp, Cal. Alfred Austin is the poet laureate of England. PATENTED ARTICLES—E., City. Pat- ented articles must bear some kind of no- tice that they are patented and the date of patent. GRANT IN SAN FRANCISCO—A. C. R., San Jose, Cal. Ex-President U. 8. Grant, while on his tour of the world, arrived in San Francisco from China on the 20th of September, 1879. THE SHENANDOAH—R. M., City. The ship Shenandoah left this port for Europe on the 2d of last January. She carried 103,717 centals of wheat and 1725 centals of barley, the whole valued at §79,500. The net tonnage of the ship is 3154. TWO SHIPS—H. D., City. The steamer Kaiser Willtelm der Grosse is 649 feet long, 66 beam and 39 depth. Her gross tonnage is 13,800 and her horse-power 27,- 000. The Lucania is 620 feet long, 6.3 beam and 43 depth. Her gross tonnage is 12,950 and her horse-power 30,000. SPANISH NAMES—M. V. B., Westmin- ster, Orange County, Cal. “Balsa chica™ {s Spanish and means little lake or pool; “la_mirada,” also Spanish, means tran- sient view, and “las lomas,” also Span- ish, means rising gro-nd on & plan, lit- tie'hills or hillocks. MACHINISTS—M., City. For informa- tion about machinists to be sent to Ma- nila to work on ships there personal ap- plication must be made to the Bureau of Employment at Mare Island. The ap- | plicant must file his application, and if there is need for his services he will be notifled. TO ENLIST—F. 8., Oakland, Cal. It you desire to enlist in the service of Uncle Sam and serve your country during the war with Spain you should present your- self to the recruiting officer at the Pre- sidlo, and if you are qualified, physical- ly and mentaily, you will be accepted. If rejected you cannot enter the service as an individual. THE JOHN JAY-T., Alameda, Cal There cannot have been any historical event connecting Benjamin Franklin with the ship John Jay, broken up in the Oak- land estuary several yéars ago, for the reason that Franklin died in 179, and the vessel named was not buiit until 1839, at Staten Islfnd. PENSIONS—C., Alameda, Cal. By the act of Congress passed January 27, 1890, a woman who has married a veteran of the clvil war since the close of the war is not entitled to draw pension after the death of her husband, unless it is proven that death resulted from wounds recelved or disease contracted in the discharge of | volunteers, and Ensigns D. F. Sellers and | duty while in the service. BOOKS—M. V. B., Westminster, Orange County, Cal. The best military books in the United States from which to study tactics, etc., are the several tactlcs of the Cook books very with the taste of the individual desiring to use the same. Any first-class book dealer will furnish a list of the books of this character that are on sale. GERMAN MILITARY SERVICE-K., Mountain View, Cal. If a German in time of peace leaves his native country with- out having performed military duty, goes %0 the United States, becomes @ citizen thereof and subsequently returns to his native country, he may remain there un- molested for a period not exceeding four | News came up to this city for a little | months. If he remains bevond that time Germany can claim his military service. WAR-D. R., Angels Camp, and J. H. C. C., City. The message of President McKinley announced that war _existed between the United States and Spain is dated April 2, and it sets forth that war existed since the 21st of the month. The reason for the war is the refusal of Spain to discontinue its inhuman warfare in Cuba and withdraw its land and naval | forces from the island. There have been as yet no land battlés, that is nothing that can be designated as a battle. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_———— Special information suppiied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —— The young widow who obtained a Ii- cense for a third matrimonial venture took the precaution of finding out where divorces were granted. Evidently she does not regard marriage as a permanent blockade. I SO e Excursion to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. A select party of educators and sclentists will leave San. Francisco Monday, June 6, for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in charge of Protessor Emory Smith of Palo Alto. Very low rates have been made and a pleasant and profitable trip is assured. Full particulars at Santa Fe Office, 644 Market street. —_— e Cut Rates via Santa Fe Route. On and after June 5 until further notice, second-class rates will be as follows: Kansas City and Omaha, $1; St. Louls, $37; Chicago, $32 0. Through palace and tourist sleeping cars every day. Full particulars at Santa Fe Ticket Office, 64 Market st. —e——————— Northern Pacific Railway. Cut rates to all points East. Call on T. K. Stateler, General Agent, 83 Market st., S. F. ——— ANGOSTURA BITTERS are endorsed by all the leading physicians and caemisis for purity and wholesomenesa. Get the genuine.—Dr Stegert's —_——— EXPERIENCE 1S THE BEST TEACHE Use Acker's English Remedy in any case ol coughs, colds or croup. Should it fall to give immed{ate relief money refunded. At No Per- centage Pharmacy. e A *The street sprinkier,” says a Vermont aper, “has started, and looks as gay as a young girl in yellow paint, with black stripes on her ribs.”” Young girls in Ver- mont apparently indulge in queer artistic fancies. P = ADVERTISEMENTS. The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one- third further than any other brand. prising 25, 40, 70, 88 and 104 With fire under twenty of her forty-eight boilers, carry 217 pounds of steam, the horse power averaged (0S4 during sixty hours and the speed 12.8 knots, The coal con- Among the arrivals at the Lick are S, T, Black of Bacramento, State Suverin- ‘sumption for all purpeses was at the rate of 2.3 per horse power per hour or at the