The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN MONDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 185S. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 YHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL....... OAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE _..One year. by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway Room 188, World Baildiag DAVID ALLEN, Advert| & Reprecsentative. WASHINGTON (®. C.) OFFICE. ....Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondsnt. CHICAGO OFFICE -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—57 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin strcet, open until 9:30 o'clock. i941 Mission strect, open until 10 o'ciock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, cpen untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventp street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until %30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, eville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. | Eddy streets, Specialiiea. boating, fishing, every Sunday. ! AUCTION SALES. By Edward S Spear & Co.—Tuesday, June 31, at 3138 Sutter swreet, Purniture ete., at 11 o clock. d FLATTERING TRADE EXHIBIT. | HERE were three distinctive features to trade | Tlast week—the collapse of the Leiter wheat deal at Chicago, the passage of the war tax bill by Congress and the opening of the subscriptions to the new war bonds. The success of the latter is already practically assured. The idea of dividing the bonds into small amounts, as low as $20, proved to be a wise one, for the public are taking hold of them so hat no syndicate, from present indications, ary to float the whole loan. In- deed offers from investors already amount to three times the amount wanted, and it will probably prove most successful loan ever invited by the United An especially gratifying feature is that these ost exclusively held by the Ameri- us both principal and interest will This is the French plan and works that country. It is the second of its | ited States. situation is showing steady improve- rt movement of the country is enor- of exports over imports in May 000,000, making a balance in favor s for the first eleven months of cal year of $571,889,000, an unprece- | . The imports of gold during this | riod were $102,027,000, the best previous rccord\ being $97,466,000 in 1832. These flattering figures | are the direct result of an immense foreign demand | fis, provisions, manufactured prod- ucts, cotton and general merchandise, very large rail- road earnings and a fine and continuous distributive trade thronghout the whole country. In fact, busi- | ness during the past year has been away ahead of anything ever before known, and has been really a | commercial boom, without any assistance from specu- | lation. While the East and South are far from dull, the West and Northwest are the scenes of the greatest activity, and have been for'months. Owing to their geographical position they are most readily affected by the briliant crop prospects and the advance in provisions and livestock. Their cities show the largest gains in the bank clearings, which, for the country as a whole, exhibited a gain last week of 24 4 per cent over the same week in 1897. The coun- try’s failures were remarkably small, being only 207, against 234 for the corresponding week last year. The cotton and wool markets are both showing con- tinned improvement, though there is room for stili | greater activity in both of these important staples. The iron trade holds its own, the West showing the greatest animation. As showing that the fine business of the country is substantial and not speculative it may be pointed out that the public still holds aloof from Wall street, where the professional manipulators remain monarchs of all they survey. During the early part of the week there was a decline in most stocks, but toward the close there was a reaction and prices again showed a recovering tendency. The leading trade features in this city during the week were a stagnant and declining grain market, a better trade in fruit and continued activity in hides, leather and provisions at firm prices. The dry win- ter is beginning to show its effects in an advancing market for sheep and hogs, and incidentally their products, as both are getting more or less scarce. Beef is less affected, as there is no scarcity in cattle thns far, thongh that may come later on. The war has thus far been profitable to San Francisco, as the | quartering of large bodies of troops and the fitting out of the Philippine expeditions have created an extra demand for supplies of all sorts, but particularly provisions and clothing. The shipping interest, al- most exclusively controlled in this city, has also come in for its share in this extra demand. So San Francisco has no cause to lament the war from a commercial standpoint. Prospects for the farmer continue exceptionally bright. Good prices are almost sure to rule for the major part of his products. Already certain va- rieties of fruit, notably peaches and apricots, are get- ting scarce, and quotations are advancing daily in consequence. The canners are out in the country bidding $35@40 per ton for small-sized apricots which they would not buy in ordinary years, and it is reported on good authority that the enormous price of $70 per ton is being bid for cling peaches. Jack Frost did his work pretty thoroughly last spring, though the reports of damage were scoffed at as usual. Beans will be scarce, owing to the dry win- ter, and hay will sell at advanced prices for the same reason. All grains, too, bid fair to bring unusually good figures, Ii California had had the ordinary rains the State would have fairly boomed. As it is the farmers as a class will do much better than for a number of years, though in two or three sections the crop will be too short to benefit the agriculturist. to a exh for our brea Tt is strange that everybody but the police can walk along Kearny strect in the evening and sce a lot of hoodlums who ought to be in jail and whose ultimate destination is undoubtedly the gallows. | long the war as much as possible. | makes but little difference T | defend. | honor of the Castilian brand, the traitor who would | is not beyond easy belief. THE WAR OUTLOOK. UR preparations for aggressive war have now Ob:en well nigh completed. We have driven the Spanish from the sea, and our troops are on the way to complete the conquest of the Philippines and Spain’s colonies in the West Indies. We are | | virtually ready to make a descent upon Spain herself if it should be necessary, and from this time forward it may be assumed we shall force the fighting and bring the war, if possible, to a swift conclusion. Despite the clamor of yellow journals to the con- trary, this work of preparation has been done with remarkable efficiency and dispatch. The declaration of war was issued during the last week in April, and before another week passed our fleets were in the West Indies, Mantanzas had been bombarded and a blockade established at Havana, while Dewey had made his attack upon Manila and destroyed the Span- ish fleet in the Orient. The volunteer army was being rapidly enrolled and the regular force gmassed at points from which it could make a descen' pon :the | enemy at the first opportunity. This record has not been surpassed in modern wars even by European nations, which are at all times prepared for war. In the contest between France and Germany the declaration of war was is- sued July 15, 1870, but, near as the combatants were to each other and already armed as both of them were, the first battle did not occur until August, and | peace was not made until May, 1871 The war be- | tween Turkey and Russia began in April, 1877, but it was near the end of July before the Russians crossed the Danube. The British hostilities against Egypt in 1832 began in June, but it was not until July that her fleet bombarded Alexandria, and not | until the middle of September that her army of oc- cupation advanced to give battle to the enemy. Since the great nations of Europe, whose armies and navies are supposed to be at all time ready for immediate battle, have required so much time to make the attack after the declaration of war, it is clear that our achievements have been remarkable for promptness rather than for delay. The work already done is, therefore, a sure promise of vigorous ac- tion from this time on. We are moving upon the Spanish lines on both sides of the globe, and the de- mand is for unconditional surrender. The Spanish authorities evidently intend to pro- Neither their troops nor their fleets are taking any risks. They have hidden themselves as securely as possible be- hind fortifications and are leaving us to take the initiative and do the fighting. Even by continuing in these tactics, however, it is doubtful if they can hold out much longer. It is significant that many of their troops in Cuba instead of fighting desperately inst the small American forces landed near their rchments have either run away or deserted. The heart of the Spaniard is not in this fight. He will | quit as soon as he can, and perhaps his Goevrnment will imitate the example. At any rate the war, whether long or short, will not seriously disturb our-business, though it will en- tail heavy taxation and add to the public debt. The | great masses of our people will go on with trade and industry as if there were no war. Spain is vir- tually whipped already, and we have provided the means to defray the cost of the whipping, so whether she yields to the inevitable this summer or next fall THE PEKING SPY. HAT there has come a report of a spy on ship carrying a thousand men does not, hap- pily, indicate that any such approach to tragedy has taken place. It does, however, suggest a dire pos- sibility. The Spdnish are brave even when bravery is folly; spectacular, but useless. They make much of a quality they term “honor.” Just what elements enter into the composition of this quality people not of the Latin race do not fully grasp. But from what can be learned of it it might include the operation of enlisting for the purpose of wreaking destruction upon the army whose cause oath had been taken to From the standpoint of the stickler for sink a shipload of soldiers at the risk of going down with it would cover his name with glory. That some Spaniard shall yet make the attempt It would mean nothing worse than death, and this soldiers face in many forms. When Hobson went into Santiago harbor his chance of escape scemed as slender as that of one of a regiment on board a scuttled and riven transport on the high seas. Bagley on the deck of the Winslow faced certain death, and, coming, it found him smiling at his place. We regard Hobson as a hero. To Bagley we give the tribute due a martyr, and on his grave the hands of the nation would strew flowers. These men acted in accord with the American notion of honor. The Spanish | notion is so different that for it to lead to some hor- ror such as the perpetration of an act like that said | | to have been essayed on the Peking is far within the bornds of credibility. THE ESSENCE OF TREASON. DROFESSOR NORTON, lately of Harvard, in son. In a country in which there was not permitted full freedom of speech he would have been deemed worthy a place in a dungeon. This country has enemies. Some of the powers of Europe would be glad to see it crushed. Spain is open in expression of dislike. Such foes can be met. | But a deadlier enemy than any from without is theI Norton, mouthing his dispraise of American man- hood, of American methods, declaring us to be en- gaged in an unholy and barbaric war, and urging the young men who come under his influence not to enlist, but to reserve themselves “for the patriotic labors of peace.” It is nothing to him that the peace must be won by the blood of valor, that the flag must be upheld. He would have those who bask within the light of his intelligence calmly wait until the end had been accomplished and then come forward to share the fruits springing from the battle-field. Norton has not yet been charged with lunacy, but if friends he has they should advance the plea of in- sanity in his behalf. Either the man is crazy or he is a monster of selfishness. For a teacher to take the stand that the administration has dragged the coun- try into a war for which there is no excuse and against which all the better elements of society protested, is for him to stamp himself not only as unfit to be a guide and mentor, but unfit to mingle with' men to whom the honor of the country seems a thing to be cherished. Norton would have a limited aristocracy, composed of the superior, he being a sample of the superior. God save any country which shall come under the domination of such egregious poltroons. T Spanish soldiers who have to fight hungry may console themselyes that when a bullet strikes a full Lstomach the owner of the stomach has-no chance. board the Peking having tried to blow up the | his recent speech was guilty of the double crime | of foolishness and an unpatriotism near to trea- | FR. SCO CALL ONDAY, MISREPRESENTING THE RECORD. MONG the misrepresentations of fact by which f\ the Chronicle and the Record-Union evidently believe they can deceive the people on the Hawaiian annexation question is that of reiterating the charge that Senator White was instructed by the California Legislature to vote for annexation, and ;that he is violating his duty to his constituency in | not doing so. Even as stated by the annexation organs the charge | is not an effective’one, It has long been established by the precedents of many of the ablest statesmen who have served in the Senate that the duty of a Senator is not due primarily to his State, but ‘to the whole Union, and that this duty is to be performed in accordance with conscience and the eternal prin- ciples of right rather than of the resolutions of legis- latures. That point, however, may be waived in this instance. Even if we concede that a Senator is | bound by the declarations of the Legislature of his State and that he must change his policy in the Sen- ate whenever the political majority in the Legislature changes, there would still remain a full justification | for the course pursued by Senator White. That jus- tification lies in the fact that while one Legislature | adopted resolutions favoring annexation a later Leg- islature defeated such resolutions. | The Chronicle and the Record-Union falsify the | record and distort a half-truth into a whole lie by ignoring the fact that the last utterance of a Califor- nia Legislature on the subject of annexation was a defeat of a resolution in its favor. By the Legisla- | ture of 1803 a resolution was hurriedly passed favor- | ing the scheme. At that time the subject was not fully understood. The Legislature of 1805, when the issue was better comprehended, rejected a similar resolution. The vote on the issue in the State Sen- ate stood twenty-two against and but nine in its favor. A majority so overwhelming showed the genuine sentiment of the people of California. If a Senator is to be bound by the Legislature of | his State he must of course follow the latest dictates | of the Legislature upon any particular issue. What may have been done by a bygone set of legislators is of course overruled by an adverse action taken by a later Legislature on the same subject. The charge of the annexation organs in this instance, therefore, is one of gross misrepresentation and has been so | often repeated as to lead to the conclusion that the organs regard it as a lie cunning enough to do damage to others besides themselves if they stick to it. THE EXAMINER'S FOOL PICTURES. | CORRESPONDENT whose discriminating | taste does not prevent him from amusing him- self with the absurdities of yellow journalism when he has nothing else to do, sends us a critical dissertation on the pictures printed in the Examiner yesterday, and some of his comments are worth pub- | lishing in order that the general public may share in the amusement caused by the ridiculous feats of the | yellow artists. | Referring to the illustrations on page 3 he says: f “In one blue flaring picture we see a gunner wearing trousers and with a pouch strapped to his waist hard at work firing a gun in one direction while an officer fully clothed is pointing in another. A companion | picture on the same page, and equally blue, shows a | number of sailors hoisting ammunition. These sail- ors, like the gunners in the first picture, are all duly trousered; one of them has a sword and a revolver | strapped to his waist, while another has a sword in | his hand.” The pictures were designed to illustrate a story of the battle of Manila purporting to be told by Gunner Evans of the Boston. Now the writer, in describing the maner in which the fleet prepared for action, says: “Hatches were removed from the magazines and the men stripped to the skin, wearing only their shoes. The only way you could distinguish an officer was from the shoes he wore.” Our correspondent very justly says, “The marine artist should have read the story before he drew the pictures.” | Continuing his dissertation the critic says: “Further | on there is a tragic story of battle by Ambrose ?'Bierce. The field artist now gets in his deadly work, for there is the usual corporal’s guard fighting in all | postures, and of course the usual officer pointing out | the enemy with a sword as if the men could not see | them well enough.” [ In this case it is probable our correspondent is | unjust to the field artist, for it is well known that | Mr. Bierce is himself a critic of pictures and no doubt | directs how his stories shall be illustrated. The art- | ists of the yellow journal must not be held respon- sible for every silly thing in art which appears in the paper. [ GERMANY’S ASSUMPTION. | & O persistent are the reports of Germany's in- | S tent to settle the future of the Philippines as to | rather outnumber the denials. While there | exists no probability that there is to be an attempt at actual interference, the rumors are definite enough to show that Germany would interfere did it but dare. There can be no harm in being frank about this matter. What the future of the islands is to be is { hidden in the book of fate, yet sealed to mortal ken. But whether the territory wrested from the bloody | hands of the Spaniards be retained, given indepen- | dence, turned over to another power or revert to a chastened and contrite Spain, the verdict will be given by the United States Government; none other. Germany's wishes will not even be considered. Her expression of desire to have them considered is a distinct impertinence. The fact may have been noticed that the blood of this nation is up. The soldiers of the republic by land and sea uphold the flag, offer their lives to the sustaining of its honor, and while no selfish motive impelled them to hasten to answer the call of the President, they are not fighting and dying and suffer- ing that the result of their victory shall go to fatten the ribs of an alien people. On this point the Amer- icans are a unit. Here and there arises a Love or a Norton to bray dissent, but these creatures do not count. They are not Americans; they are without 2 country. An Illinois volunteer went 1500 miles for the pur- pose of killing a woman, shét her three times and beyond making her hysterical did no particular harm. The country does not need such fellows for soldiers. The offender should be turned over to the military authorities. They would probably send him to prison for a longer term than the civil courts would im- pose. e ol There would appear to be danger that this insur- gent chap at Manila may get into his $25,000 head an idea that he is a bigger man than our Dewey. Writers of anonymous letters might as well grasp the fact that there is positively no limit to the capacity and willingness of a waste-basket. n Spaxtish torpedoes are so uniformly worthless that a suspicion may ultimately arise that somebody else | blew up the Maine. > o JUNN 22U, 139Y8. COMET OBSERVERS AND THEIR DISCOVERIES. . BY PROFESSOR JAMES G. KEELER. The last week has been an active one for comet observers, particularly for those on Mount Hamilton. On the night of June 11, Mr. E. F. Coddington, fellow at | o¢ Vienna, the observatory, discovered a comet by |year was expected. photography. It made a short trail on a | fessor Hussey auite clo x:!iate which he had exposed in the Crocker gfice- 1t is very faint, elescope, to the nebulous region sur- 1 rounding the bright star Antares, in the | siib HSSaber. constellation Scorpio, and this trail at- tracted his attention when the plate was developed. A larger telescope, turned to the same part of the sky, showed that the object which had left the trail was a comet, moving slowly toward the south- comet was fl turn in 1891 it was found by Dr. servatory. Encke's ~ comet, at its present return and this comet cannot northern latitudes. Of which have appeared west. It has since , A Berrine has_discovered seven, night. bonn Sbeerved ey ek wamn aiscovered conseau | On the same evening Mr. John Tebbutt, | tively. In ail Mr. Perrine has discove: | an able amateur observer in Australla, | DA, COMets, discovered the periodic comet of Encke on its return toward the sun. This is a very famous comet In the history of astronomy, although it Is always faint and insignifi- cant in appearance. Mr. Perrine of the Lick Observatory added another to his long list of cometary discoveries on the night of June 14. The comet which he found is about as bright as a tenth magnitude star. No tail is yet visible. It is at present constantly above the horizon, but is too low to be well seen, except for a short time before sunrise. The ‘‘elements” of this comet have al- ready been computed by Mr. Perrine ana Mr. “Aftken from the Mount Hamilton observations, but they would mean little to most readers. They show that the least distance of the comet from the sun, on August 17, will be about three-quarters that of the earth. Its path is east and south, through the constellation Camelo- par.c}ahs and the northern portion of Au- He orbit of this comet resembles some- what that of Perrine's comet of March 20, which is still visible, and both have some resemblance to the orblis of the comets of 1634 and 1755, The comet of March 2, referred to ahove, 1s now known £o bo periodic. Tha preliminary computations show . (Hat 1t il return in ‘about 305 vears, but the mpltations ma: £ “"Xfi cok:\s degn.bly. y change these flg: about 3 o'clock on the mornt Jine “17" Professor .. Husser " dlseavereq Wolt's periodic comet with the great tel- the popular than do any observatory. The comst short telescope (known by is rewarded by discovery. not, however, made at random, ducted according his telescope over a part of the sky, coV ering a narrow strip. If no suspicious’ other sweep, covering joining the first, and amine. different region. for new comets, apt to be in bed. the comet hunte: Keenn not, however, a this class of work. small nebulae, which closely comets, and the observer must in the catalogues. it is certain to be a comet. necessary quali are patiénce and perseverance. Mount Hamilton, June 15, 1838, EDITORIAL VIEWS OF THE WAR, HE war has lasted long enough to prove that the President, in spite of his reputation for amiability, is a man of strong purpose, con- servative by nature, yet one who acts with decision when convinced that the right moment has arrived. He follows a higher law than that based on the arts of popularity and demonstrative jingoism. In refusing to recognize the Cuban insurgents as an independent government he displayed a wisdom that is no longer questioned. He has taken bold measures to preserve the fruits of Dewey’s victory, though it opens up new Questions of national policy. He is a firm advocate of the annexation of Hawali, and reveals in that the high American spirit looking to the future for the commercial security and development of the country. In Cuba, Wwhere every reconnoisance is heralded as a repulse by the Spanish Cabinet, care has been taken not to bring about a real repulse by precipitate orders. The United States in this crisis is fortunate in its President. McKinley is a man of solidity, of character, of principle, of prudence, and he is a true representative of American progress. Under his earnest, thoughtful, single- minded leadership and pure patriotism no serious mistake will be made by the United States in its conflict with Spain.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. COMMERCE TO RESULT. There will be many trans-Pacific lines from this continent to Manila— lines of steam vessels and lines of sailing ships—when American control and influence are fully established in the Philippine Islands. We doubt whether it is generally known, however, that there was an American line to Manila long ago, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the days of the great Spanish galleons, when Mexico was New Spain, and much of the wealth of the East Indies found its way to Europe through the Mexican port of Acapulco on the Pacific. In the history of the Philippine group there is no more interesting chapter than that relating to the infamous voy- ages of the richly laden galleons of Spain between Manila and Acapulco. The voyages of the galleons ceased in 1815 with the departure of the last one from Acapulco. A commerce equal to theirs in their best days, and far surpassing it, may yet arise between the Philippine Islands and America, :j‘;}e}n vest;els bm:.m:lf %aslg\fvard from Manila will not turn to the south upon ng the coast of California, but will steam st Golden Gate.—New York Sun. THERY. & Huuishig EUROPE WILL LEARN MUCH. The fact that English, German and French papers have sent corre- spondents, or at least representatives, into the field with the American troops, and that most of these are fair-minded, is encouraging. They will inform Europe as to a good many points that have hitherto received very little attention. The genuine army correspondent will write of men and events much as the great war correspondents wrote of the battles of our Civil War and of the Franco-Prussian War. There will be in the field hundreds who never will become war correspondents, with comprehension of military movements or appreciation of fighting qualities and courage. But the people will soon learn which correspondents have a capacity rightly to describe strategic or other movements in the field. 7The corre- spondents from Europe are men who have been in the habit of writing about English or German or French armies, and we may expect some little show ortfrejudlce, but in the end the instincts of the war correspondent :)\'lll compel recognition of generalship and soldierly quality.—Chicago Inter cean. RECORDS AND PENSIONS. Costly experience gained by the War and Navy departments during the Civil War has led to the cmeation at Washington of what is probably the most elaborate system of records of military and naval service ever estab- lished by any nation in the world. Although the current war will unques- tionably add largely to the pension list, it will be impossible to renew at any future time the multiform and scandalous devices by which persons not entitled to Government bounty have been borne upon the pension roll. Our enormously exaggerated list of pensioners of the Civil War, which shows no signs of decreasing from year to year, denotes and embodies an error into which the Government could not fau a second time. There is not the slightest apprehension at this time in the Record and Pension Division of the War Dejartment that any improper or unjust claims will get through the Pension Office on account of military operations in the war with Spain. As to the navy, the system of hospital records there is so thorough that they practically constitute a complete history of every case of illness or of injury to men while afloat. These are preserved in the Sur- geon General's office, and may be referred to there at any time.—Philadel- phia Record. THE SPANISH NIGHTMARE. The act of Cuban invasion is an accomplished fact. Into the crevice cre- ated by a wedge of iron driven by the navy batteries, Sampson has pushed a party of marines. Old Glory floats above Caimanera, on the bay of Guan- tanamo. Santiago, near-by, is closely invested, and all is in readiness for the prompt landing of the army now en route by transport steamers from Key West to Cuba. In other words, the contemplated junction of the army with the navy is about to be accomplished, to complete upon land a work so well begun by the water batteries, the thunder of the warships. Cuba will now almost immediately be occupied by the soldiers of the Union, and Spain’s supremacy over the Queen of the Antilles—now but a drmxfi—wm become a nightmare.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. WHAT THE PRESIDENT DESIRES, The good people of this counfry may be sure that the President 4s as anxious as any man in the United States can be to make short and credit- able work. He has been a soldier, and knows better than most men of his age what is necessary and possible, and infinitely better than the men who had not opportunity to learn from experience thirty years or more ago. Perfect characters are not as frequent in real life as in novels, but the country has not yet found occasion to doubt the President’s ability, even in the handling of difficult and complicated questions, while no one has doubted his sincerity and devoted patriotism. He means to do the best thing possible for his country, all may be sure, and he has the benefit of daily counsel with men of the largest experience and the highest ability in the work to be done. In view of these facts, a great deal of patience is in order. It lacks ten days of two months since war was declared. A great deal has been accomplished for so short a time, and it is not yet alto- gether clear that more haste might not have made less speed. The President does not need to be told that people are intensely anxious to see the great powers and resources of the Nation developed and used with the least pos- gible delay, and he well knows how apt his countrymen are to grow impa- tient. But the management which sacrifices nothing and risks. as little as possible, and makes every step safe, sufficient and irrevocable, will in the end command the confldence and approval of the Nation and the honor of mankind.—New York Tribune. hlom o Bl "THE NEW NAVAL ACADEMY. The complete rehabilitation of the Naval Academy at Annapolis bein; assured by the Congressional appropriation of $1,000,000 to start operatloni —the estimated expenditure is $6,000,000—work is to begun on the dredging and the seawalls. The first structures to be undertaken are the armory, the boathouse, and the power house. The scheme of rehabilitation is compre- hensive. It aims at having all the academy buildings at such convenient points that the prompt and efficient autonomy of the school for naval aspi- rants may be ass Just now, with the naval arm of the nation first in ublic eye, and with its movements and fortunes the subject of intense public interest, the future of the American navywill be a matter of solicitude for at least the next decade. With its increase and adaptation to the re- uirements of modern sea defense and aggressiveness comes the necessity the best equipped and best arranged school for those who in time wiil in a greater or lesser degree be responsible for the doings of the United States fleet, The naval school opened at Fort Severn in the fall of 1845 under the auspices of Secretary Bancroft and grew into an agglomeration of mmfi?nl wm:lx ;rg now out of fltt:: end ladequate, if they do not tend to militate in not a few ways against the success of the moders course of in- struction.—New York Times. i the Lick Observatory. This escope of thet ‘discovered in 1854 by Dr. elberg. Opn ils next re- Max Wolf of Heid: 2. e taler of course its return this 808 o Tt was found by Pro- se to its predicted bus 1t has a short which have appeared 1%, have, with one ex- discovered at the Licl Z ceptlon, been e exception referred to is the discovery of which has just been noted; be seen in our the ten comets since September, | eking more closely resembles | N poris ihlea. of astronomical work other of the operations of an seeker uses a the same [R‘mez)) e sky until his patienc and he searches th v o iy but is con- to a system. He sweeph object is found, he slightly changes the direction of his’ telescope and makes an- a strip of sky ad- 50 on unthll he has covered the whole region he wishes 1o ex- On the next night he chooses & The sky in the east be- fore sunrise is one of the likeliest places artly because at that hour the less enthusiastic observers are A comet when discovered is usually very } faint, for any strange bright object would | not easily have escaped the sharp eves of g of vision 15 | ufficient equipment for | The sky is full of | at the resemble know where these are situated and be able to identify them with the nebulae recorded If an unrecorded ob- ject of this kind is found to be in motion The comet seeker, no matter how skill- | ful he may be, is not rewarded by a dis- covery every nlghl. and among the most | catlons for his pursuit NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Takasago, Japanese crulser recently built at Elswick, left Portsmouth May 31 for Japan. The Argentine training ship Presje Sarmiento, built by rd, had her trial May 80, and m: of 13% knots, one-half knot in the contract speed. The British cruiser Terrible made the trip from Portsmouth to Gibraltar M 26 and 28 in 72 hours, being f behind schedule time. Her re also failed to give anticipated re The Russian volunteer fleet now n bers fifteen steamers of placement and 91,180 hors oldest in the list ar Orel, bullt in 1588 and 1889; the ott launched between 1881 and the year. Seven of this fleet are from to 11,700 tons, and the smalle | the average tonnage Is | Yl The British cruiser Buropa of 1y tons completed a 30 hours’ trial 2 under one-fifth of her total horse er. With 3200 horse-power the eraged 12.7 knots, using 2.2 pounds o per horse-power per hour. The nex of 30 hours will be with 12,500 followed by a four hours’ horse-power, at which a knots {s anticipated. A crulser built for Portugal | San Gabriel, w launched at H 7. She is of 1800 tons displacement, : to have a speed of 15 knots. The arr ment of quick firing g ists of 5.9-inch Canet guns, four 4.7 inch, e 3-pounders and two m ter ship called the same yard. wood-sheathed and coppered. The average time of passage through the Suez Canal during 1897 was 15 hours and 36 minutes, a reduction of | and 24 minutes over 18%. The c | greatly utilized by ships of w. rope for China waters, all now there having passed th canal, excepting the British cr erful, which went by the way of Cape Good Hope. The Russian Admiralty has given ship- building contracts to t nt of 000,000 to a Belgian company which established a construction yard at Nico- laieff, near Sebastopol, on the Blacl It is also alleged that Cramp, PI phia, has secured Russian contr: build a battleship of 12,500 to sea speed of 18 knots during 12 ship to have 100 tons of coal during the trial. The second cor for a protected cruiser of € 23 knot sea speed during 12 hours wit 725 tons on board. one hour 1 was Barrows has rec British Admiralty eruiser of 12,000 tc named Hogue, | length, 69 feet 6 in | 3 inches mean d be 21 knots, and t 800 tons with a carp armament will breech loaders, twelve & seventeen 6 and 3 po be wood sheathed an total cost, exclusive o cons! Genuine eyeglasses specs,l: —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Special information supr business houses and pub Press Clipping Bureau (Alle gomery street. Telephone Main 10 S e ey The Brooks homestead in Dunkir Y., has been presented by the est the Young Men's C stian Assocl the town. The property is valued at Sis 000, and is to be used as a hospital and a free library. M THE CRYSTAL SWIMMI BATHS. Physiclans recommend the Crystal warm ses water tub and swimming baths, North Beach. B Excursion to the Yellowstone Park. 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