The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898. JUNE 23, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. SUBLICATION OFFICE | Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS...........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE... ....908 Broadway | THE LATEST BRYANISM. | HILE one set of Democrats in view of the W approaching election is trying to get rid of Bryanism by dropping the silver issue and | adopting a platform of opposition to the alleged :‘“imperialism" of the Republican war policy, and | another set is seeking the same end by the very dif- ferent course of advocating territorial extension on an unlimited scale, there remains a considerable fac- tion of the party still devoted to Bryanism, which, finding the silver issue unprofitable, is endeavoring to make capital for the party out of the war revenue | bill. The scheme of this faction is to represent the bill as an unjust imposition of burdens upon the poor and thus array one class of citizens against another by appealing to such prejudices agalnst the rich as NEW YORK OFFICE.... -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.... Riggs House ‘ C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. i CHICAGO OFFICE.. C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Adverti --Marquette Building | ing Representative, | WRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ! 9:30 o'cloak. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. ! Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. Kentucky streets, ope corner Twenty-second ana | | Columbta—* Aristocracy " Baldwin—* The Passion Play'™ Alcazar—A Celebrated Case | Morosco's—*“After Dark Tivoli—"All Baba." Orpheum—Vaudevilla. Mechanies' Pavilion—Red Cross Benefit, Tuesday evening, June 23, audeville and Cannon. the 613-pound Man. son and Eddy streets, Specialties. | ro's Baths—Swimming. | AUCTION SAL | o | Lip & Co.—This day By une 23, Buggles, Carriages, ete., at corn and Van Ness avenue, at 11 0'c lock. By Frank Butterfield-This day, June 23, Furniture, at 8 Moss street, at2 0 clock. J. Barth—This day, June 25, Furniture, at 316 Sut- | —Monday, June 2, immense Library, at Seventh streets, at 2 and 7:50 P. M. AS TO A VULGAR THIEF. ] ECESSITY fo ain mentioning the Examiner i\ is merely the necessity for rebuking a thief. | The Examiner is a thief. It steals news. It | steals this so frequently that to set forth the circum- stances with some detail is a simple duty undertaken | in th s of the public and of decent journalism. | Not only does it steal the news, but so distorts it | as to rob it of its real character, making it give a | It twists a truth into a deliberate | ise a falsehood ever suits the purpose On another page the particu- | miner's latest theft appear. We say latest” with some doubt, as another issue of that | disreputable sheet is probably printed this morning. | Taking a copyrighted cablegram sent to the Herald-Call syndicate the Examiner presented it as | Jut the information given by our corre- The sender stated in the beginning that he himself did not credit it and merely | presented it for what it might be worth. Yet in stealing the cablegram the aminer eliminated the | portion expressive of doubt and treated its readers to | a statement of supposed fact instead of labeling the | vague and dubious allegations as possibly unfounded. | Thus the Examiner not only stole, but having stolen it lied with as great deliberation as had marked the first crime. at it should steal from the Call- | But that it should | steal and then so alter the stolen news as to utterly | destroy the value of it is simply another illustration { of the perverted instinct which shrinks from being | honest and abhors decency. The Examiner chooses | to be a vulgar thief and a stupid liar. Impelled by | a desire to expose rascality and pretense we direct interes wrong impression. falsehood, bec: of yellow journalism. lars of the Ex its own. spondent was conditional. Herald syndicate is not surprising. attention to its shameless course; not with any hope | of reforming the journalistic degenerate, but that | people may know it for what it is—an unclean and mendacious daily insult to the community. | o s THE RASHNESS OF CROWDS. | Y the fearful accident attending the launching B of the British battleship Albion at Blackwall on Tuesday another evidence was given of the fatal rashness of crowds, and of the extraordinary | risks men and women will take almost without reason if only there are enough of them to so encourage one another as to overcome individual common sense. Near the scene where the big ship was to be launched lay the hulk of a Japanese cruiser in pro- cess of construction. Around the cruiser there had been raised a light staging for the use of the work- men. It was of temporary construction and designed to hold only a few men and those men who are ac- | customed to move and work on such scaffoldings. | To warn outsiders against venturing upon thei | i staging the sign “dangerous” was conspicuously dis- played. Moreover on the day of the launching police- men were stationed at the place to prevent the people | from getting on the scaffolding. Every precaution | was thus apparently taken to guard against disaster | and yet in spite of all more than 200 persons climbed ; upon the frail structure. As a result when the sweep- ing of the great battleship into the sea caused a high “ wave the staging was too weak to resist the double strain and gave way. A great mass of men, women and children were precipitated into the water and despite all that could be done to save them upward of fifty were drowned. Under ordinary conditions probably not a single | man or woman in that ill-fated crowd would have thought of venturing upon a ship carpenters’ staging conspicuously marked “dangerous.” Assembled, however, in a great crowd the impulse of the mass was upon them. That spirit of numbers which moves men to do in masses what they would never do alone led them to take the risks. The warnings were dis- regarded and the police were pushed aside. It would | seem that the only way to save a crowd from the effects of this kind of delirium of the mass would be to chain each separate individual and prevent him | from moving at all. | e ——— | All the property of Murderer Haynes goes to the lawyers who deftly steered him through the process of being found guilty. Doubtless the charge was reasonable, but, as has been said of other offenders, he might have been convicted for less money. There is no likelihood that the Spanish will harm Hobson. While they are prone to go to excess at times the proud spirit of an admiral naturally revolts at the thought of being hanged. Spain is again threatening to take an “‘energetic course,” the threat, however, losing much of its fear- someness from the fact that she has nothing to, take | ever, is a minor matter. may exist among the envious and the thriftless. It is scarcely necessary to say the yeflow Examiner belongs to this faction. It has already begun to denounce the revenue bill, and if it can arouse class antagonisms among the people and ‘weaken the popu- lar support given to the administration in the prose- cution of the war it will be gratified. In an editorial yesterday it said: “The burden of the war revenue falls heaviest on people in mod- erate circumstances, on the poorer classes.” In maintenance of that theory it asserted “out of $3,239,000 which is expected to be collected in San Francisco under the provisions of the new law $2,135,000 will be paid on tea, beer, tobacco and flour.” Waxing indignant it asked: “On what principle can |a tax on flour be justified when at the same time Congress refuses to tax the receipts of corporations?” In this jumble there are misrepresentations of all kinds. The revenue to be raised from San Francisco | is nothing like the amount asserted by the Examiner, | Its estimate on that branch of the subject is as wild as any campaign roorback ever uttered. That, how- It is not the amount to be raised but the manner of raising that involves the proposed antagonism of the poor to the rich which forms the essential feature of the Examiner’s cam- paign. On that point it is to be noted first that the yellow raving over the flour tax is one of misrepre- sentation. There is no tax on flour itselfi. There is a tax of 4 cents a barrel on “mixed flour,” but that is rather a tax on the mixture than on the flour. Four cents a barrel is not too much of an imposition on adulterations which constitute such an imposition on the public. The principle on which the tax is justified is that the people have a right to be pro- tected from dishonest manufacturers who sell food | supplies under fraudulent titles. The tea tax of 10 cents per pound is one which has long been advocated by the tea importers them- selves as a protection against the importation of adulterated teas. For a long time past there have been imported into this country a class of cheap deleterious teas, made up partly of poor tea leaves and partly of other substances. The only cheap teas of a pure quality that come to our market are some exported from Japan and these form but a small part of the great mass of the cheap teas sold here. The tax imposed by the revenue bill will shut out the deleterious articles by making it unprofitable to im- port them, since the tax will be as heavy upon the cheap stuff as upon the better grades. The tax is, therefore, in the nature of a pure food law and will | be like the flour tax, a benefit to the American home. Taxes on beer and tobacco are justified by all precedents of all nations. It is worth noting more- over in this connection that all these taxes upon flour, tea, beer and tobacco are parts of the free trade system of taxation and not of the protective system. They are Democratic and not Republican. They have been adopted to meet the exigencies of the war and should be loyally supported by patriots. The Examiner, however, desires a Bryanite cry for the coming campaign and distorts the war revenue bill to that end. Seeking to arouse against the Gov- ernment all the discontented classes, from extreme socialists to extreme anarchists, it shouts for an income tax and clamors against the President, Con- gress and the Supreme Court in a wild screed that is almost traitorous in its villainy. THE RECORD OF THE NAVY. OR two months the nation has been at war and I:during the whole of that time the burden of the contest has been upon the navy. Every part and feature of our naval system has by this prolonged experience in action been put to a severe test, and the result is one that is<in the highest degree gratiy- ing to the nation. By the long voyage so successfully made by the Oregon, and by the safety with which ships of all classes have kept at sea among the West Indies, the seaworthiness and steaming capacity of the vessels have been amply demonstrated. The excellence of | the constructive work of our ship builders is therefore established beyond questioning and it is now certain that in this department of naval work we are not inferior to any power on the globe. In seamanship and in the handing of the war craft of all kinds we have also shown a‘capacity for meeting all the emergencies of war, wind or wave with an easy mastery over every difficulty. It is a singular fact that since our fleets took to the seas in this war the only accidents or disasters that have occurred among them have taken place in the squadron charged with the peaceful duty of guarding the coast from New York to New England. Not an accident has befallen any ship at Manila or off the coast of Cuba or Porto Rico. Even among the home squadron criiising along the shores from Maine to New Jersey the accidents have been few and slight. The Columbia was dam- aged by running into a merchantman in New York Bay, the engine of the Katahdin broke down once or twice while cruising around Massachusetts Bay, and the San Francisco, trying evidently to eclipse the feat of the Oregon in sailing around Cape Horn, ran aground on Cape Cod in her eagerness to get to her destination by a quick route. These are the only mishaps that have occurred so far. It is evident, therefore, that the engineers who handle the big fighting machines are as capable as the men who built them. Of the fighting force of the navy ¥ is not neces- sary to speak. Every day brings additional news of their deeds of discipline, of tactical ability and of valor. From the commanders who direct the great squadrons to the gunners who send the destructive shots direct upon the vital portions of the enemy’s batteries all have proven their fitness to fulfill the duties imposed upon them. The naval work of the war is for a time at least virtually completed. The fleets of Spain have been driven from the sea. The army is now moving to the front. The next phase of the war is for landsmen to perform. It is right, therefore, at this juncture to give praise to the men of the navy; to all of them— ship constructors, engineers and enlisted seamen, as well as to the heroes whose names are blazoned in it with. X { the dispatches of battle and victory. @ KNOTTY .QUESTION. OSSES McNAB, Gould and Alford are not the B only persons whose conceit has in the past led them to imagine that they were the moving forces of the world. As has already been recorded in The Call the three tailors of Tooley street resolved that they were the people of England, but even they finally discovered their mistake. In the case in hand “Whispering” Gavin McNab may be described as the fly, Gould and Alford as the wheel and the local Democracy as the chariot. The fable proceeds no further, however. These bosses are making the Democratic party “go” in unmis- takable fashion. Whether the “go” will result in the entire disappearance of the party at the next election remains to be seen. One thing may, however, be counted upon with reasonable certainty. If these bosses can run the Democracy on the plan they are developing a seventh. wonder will be added to the world, for never in history has a political party capable of making itself heard at the ballot boxes calmly submitted to appointed delegations and con- ventions and dictated tickets. Tweed in all his glory never attempted the feat that has been planned by these three usurping tailors. It is quite true that nominating conventions have been appointed in this city, but with a single excep- tion the work of all has been spurned at the polls. In the case of the exception the ticket would have been spurned, but the opposition was split into frag- ments and success was easy. Never in the history of San Francisco have the Democrats submitted to an appointed convention and the assumption that they will at the present time is a species of midsummer madness peculiar to the character of the Tooley street tailors. If McNab, Gould and Alford, the usurping bosses of the Democratic State Committee, did not in their conceit imagine themselves the moving force of the universe they would be appalled at their own audacity. Their nerve is Napoleonic. Under ordi- | nary conditions we could not fail to admire it. We do not know what advice to give the rank and file of the Democracy at this juncture. Unless the grip of these brigands can be broken disaster is certain to follow. An open primary is the only thing that will save the party. How can an open primary be secured? Boss McNab says there shall be no open primary. He will appoint the delegates and name the Democratic ticket himself. The party is in re- volt, but this will avail nothing until the election, when the work of the three tailors can be spurned at the polls. The burning question is, how can the Democratic voters wrest the control of their organi- zation from McNab and his fellow conspirators? We confess our inability to answer. In other words, we give it up. THE PROMOTION OF THE COOK. SHORT time ago we called attention to a de- f\ bate in Congress in which the War Department and the military authorities generally were severely criticized for neglecting to provide cooks for the recruits of the volunteer army assembled at Camp Alger. By Congressmen who had served in the civil war the criticism was received with a good deal of derision. “What,” said they, “are we to make dudes and epicures of the boys? Let them skirmish for their rations and cook them themselves, like the heroes of '61.” The speeches of the critics, however, have sur- vived the howls of derision. More than that. They have found an echoing response in many sections of the country. So strong has become the clamor not only for cooks but for good cooks to prepare the rations of the troops that a movement has been started to effect something like a revolution in the culinary department of our armies, and there is a prospect it may accomplish great things. Nothing in the way of war can be considered in these days without an appeal to the maxims and practices of Napoleon on one side or the other, and sometimes on both sides. Accordingly in this cru- sade one advocate of high grade cooking asserts that the great man drafted into his army the best cooks in France and provided every company \.ith an ac- complished chef. The same great dictator of military matters is quoted as having said “an army travels on its stomach.” Hence it is concluded that we must have at the front men skilled with the stewing pan, the soup pot and the gridiron, in order that we may do things in the grand Napoleonic way and send our troops to an-Austerlitz or a Waterloo with a stomach fitted for the fight by a good dinner. To bring about the desired result it is proposed that cooks shall hereafter be enlisted expressly for professional service, as musicians are. The applicant for position as cook is to undergo an examination and prove his skill, just as an applicant for a posi- tion in a regimental band. Moreover the proposi- tion carries with it the further proviso that every cook in the army is to be a non-commissioned officer with the grade and pay of a corporal. He is to have authority to send a private for a bucket of water or an armful of firewood whenever such things are needed. He is in fact to be a chef tn rank as well as in title, and whoever in his presence quotes the proverb “God made meat and the devil made cooks” is to be subject to punishment for disrespect to an officer. 3 Ungquestionably the reform movement is one of considerable merit. The manner in which a man’s food has been cooked has much to do with his effectiveness on a long march or in a sharply con- tested battle. The value of the cook has long been recognized in peace and should be now acknowledged in war. One of the most popular of poets has told us that “civilized man cannot live without cooks,” and how then can the civilized soldier be expected to die without them? ——— There is no use for the men of the Seventh Cali- fornia to fret. They make up a regiment' of which California is proud, and they are certain to get to Manila. In the meantime San Francisco is not a bad place to be, and far more comfortable just now than the islands. —_— Russia kindly sends word that we may have the Philippines. Thanks, ever so much. It is only a just return to inform Russia that she may keep the piece of China she recently took and that so far as we are concerned her title to Siberia is unquestioned. —_— Great enthusiasm, so announcement is made by way of Madrid, is felt among the Spanish soldiers at Santiago. But there are different kinds of enthusiasm and the style prevailing there may be directed to getling out. —_— Cervera is said to want to get into the open sea, but he would be wise to stay where he is. At least he could reach land now without diving for it. A The charge that the Spanish are cowards can hardly be sustained. Indeed they do not seem to be half as badly scared now as they have a right to be. PR TP Announcement is now made that Russia will inter- vene. Fittingly enough, the news is printed under the line, “By way of Madrid.” | BRANDING A VULGAR THIEF.| " *F& chrwnors The Thief Is the Examiner and Its Booty The Call's Copyrighted News. When a paper has struck such a down grade that it gravitates toward the sarbage crematory and circulates through the chimney thereof, no reason ap- pears for being surprised at any piece of iniquity in which Nothing is expected of it but crime. Yet there is a law against theft and a prejudice against lying, wherefore protest arises at the persistent stealing and falsehood of the Examiner. The Examiner is a paper published is saturated with fraud. Nothing appearing in it can be believed without It is utterly & daily rogue, a chronic pest, spreading calumny, dealing in subterfuge, an ex- pert in pilfering; these few brief remarks being preliminary. Yesterday there seemed to be occasion for rebuking the shameless sheet, and to-day there is reason for repeating the discipline, not in order to reform the Examiner, which, being rotten from the core out, is beyond reform, but as an expression of disapproval, and possibly a warning. [ Appendix, inflamed by the lodgment of a lot of Hearstlings, has been up to strong corroborative evidence. its old tricks. It is hardly necessary pendix” is the Examiner, and that the term is interchangeable with the less elegant “‘blind gut” of anatomy. From the beg.nning of the war with Spain the Sightless Intestine failed to get the news by proper methods. two ways. It has either filled up with and impossible interviews, wild speculation, or has stolen from the Herald- Call syndicate infori:ation which had been copyrighted, and predatory editorial hand had no more right than to the money in another's it presented two such messages, boldly and bodily steal- The first of these was from Rithard Harding Davis, and related to the landing of American troops in Cuba. It is true that in this case credit was given, but no thief is restored to virtue by labeling his pocket. Yesterday ing them in order to do so. booty, “I stole this.” The other offense was more flagrant. his tracks, but with the stupidity of the blundering criminal, left a plain clew. Then he marked the matter as “copyrighted” by the concern stealing it, and distorting it so that its intent was perverted, published it not as a rumor, This act shows the character of yellow journal- ism. The difference between yellow journalism and may be more clearly understood by comparing the cablegram a: it was sent which it was, but as news. to The Call and the same in the shape transposed or eliminated. two headings. Here is the matter in This comparison to be complete must include the it may indulge. for the purpose of deluding people. It devoid of honmest principle, a The Vermiform to explain that the “Vermilorm Ap- has This lack it has made good in palpably bogus fakes, non-existent to which the The larcenist endeavored to cover legitimate journalism it assumed when paragraphs had been its two forms: AIRY PROJECT ACCREDITED T0 TIREE POWERS Speclal Cable to The Call and New York Her- | ald, Copyrighted, 1865 by James Gordon | Bennett. MAUDRID, June 21.—[2] Very many | rumors are current in diplomatic eir- | cles. The one most generally accepted | is also most apparently extravagant, | yet it has such credence here that I forward it to you. I ma_ say it was a | member of the German Embassy in | Madrid who was my informant and | who gave me the news as being ab- | solutely certain. I send it with most | express reserve, as it appears to me to belong entirely to the region of | fancy. [3] According to my informant nego- tiations have been commenced betiween | Spain, Germany and France. By an agreement with France and Spaln Ger- many would acquire sole proprietor- ship of the Philippine Islands, in ex- change for which she would return Al- sace and Lorraine to France. Germany | and France would intervene to restore peace between Spain and the United States and France would agree to pay | the amount of the American war in- demnity in addition to the actual ex- | penses of the war itself. | [4] This combination is too brilllant | to be strictly exact, although I am in- | formed it is being seriously examined by the three interested powers. This much is -certain: [1] Senor Sagasta had an interview with a special envoy from the German Emperor, who was charged with the dutv of making the following proposition to the Spanish Government in behalf of his Imperial Majesty: Germany would establish a protecto- rate over the Philippines for twenty years, thus taking the place of Spain in the archipelago. She would re-estab- lish order after having sent troops in sufficient numbers to bring the state of war in the islands to an end. As a re- turn for this temporary protectorate Germany would agree to pay into the Spanish treasury the sum of 500,000,000 marks in gold to continue the war in Cuba. [2] Senor Sagasta has not yet given his reply to the German Emperor’s en- voy, but I have received information from an authentic quarter that his re- ply will be in the negative. . ; of the American war indemnity in ad- | WILELY DICKERING W SpaIy Cable to “The Examiner.” right, 1898, by W. R. Hearst.) MADRID, June 21.—Senor Sagasta had an interview last week with a spe- cial envoy from the German Emperor, who was charged with the duty of making the following proposition to the | Spanish Government in behalf of his | imperial Majesty: Germany would es- | tablish a protectorate over the Philip- | (Special Copy- pines for twenty years, thus taking the | place of Spain in the archipelago; she | would re-establish order after having | sent troops in sufficient number to | bring the state of war in the islands to | an end. As a return for this tempor- | ary protectorate Germany would agree | to pay into the Spanish treasury the sum of 500,000,000 marks in gold in order | to continue the war in Cuba. Sagasta has not yet given a reply to | the German Emperor’s envoy, but I re- | ceived information from a sure quarter that the reply will ‘be in the negative. Very many rumors are current in diplo- | matic circles. The one most generally accepted is also the most apparently extravagant, yet it has such credence here that I forward it to you. According to my informant, negotia- tions have been commenced between Spain, Germany and France. By agree- | ment with France and Spain Germany would acquire sole pro- prietorship of the Philippine Isl- ands in exchange for which she would return Alsace and Lorraine to France. Germany and France would | intervene to restore peace between | Spain and the United States, and Frapce would agree to pay the amount dition to the actual expense of the war itself. . This combination is too brilliant to be strictly exact, although I am informed it is being serfously examined by the three interested powers. A glance at this exhibit will show the method of villainy practiced. thief took the cablegram, shifted the paragraphs, eliminated the portion cast- ing dpubt on the information, and printed as a fact that which the corre- spondent had taken pains to give as a that he himself did not credit it. The beginning of the larcenist's cablegram was taken from the third paragraph of the genuine one, and similar changes were made throughout reproduced message demonstrate to the eye instantly. was omitted— And having stolen, mutilated, and turned awry the very pur- pose of the news, the thief had the assurance to announce righted!" Still will the Examiner continue to boast of its war news, to menda- ciously assert that it discarded the Herald service, from participation in which it was incontinently kicked; still will it continue to steal and mangle this news to fit its own vile purposes of deception; while from time to time, less the law intervene to check the directing scoundrels of the Examiner, The Call may make candid remarks. The rumor, and & rumor so unreasonable swindling as the numbers inserted in The Call’s That in black letter it as “copy- un- THE VOLUNTEER. Beneath his country's starry flag, Where_thousands stood before, Prepared to fight till life shall’ flag And darkness gather o'er. Garbed in his uniform of blue, Ready to answer ‘‘Here!" A man and soldier through and through, He stands, the volunteer! *Tis not the joy of clashing arms That calls him to the fray, *Tis not the love of war's alarms That bids him haste away; For him there's pain and grief and woe, A wife—a mother's tear, But loud his duty calls, and lo! He comes, the volunteer. O, mighty nation, proud and great, e is a tower! And glory's To greet T, &ntu ‘will ope on high e volunteer. -Fra: nk X. Finnegan. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. IOWA, SANTIAGO—A Reader, City. Towa is pronounced I-o-wa, with T as in pine. Santiago is pronounced San-te-a-go, wl:ha.ann far, e as in meat and o as in note. BOOKS ON ETIQUETTE-T. O. A., City. This department is not advertisin “first-class standard modern books on eti- uette” or any other books. Any first- class book dealer in the city will furnish you with such a book. i GERMAN CATHOLIC COLONY—K. K., Azusa. This correspondent is an obtain {nformation upI?ont a Germnfiog:tfzg olic colony that it was said was about to start a lusuhbeet ranch in the viel isalla. Can any of the mflm :}"{hfi lepartment enlighten the correspondent? ONLY A BABY—M. E. F., City. Mon- sleur Cannon, who has been exhibi! in this city for some time, u°i‘ mdvflt::a man as to avoirdupois, but he is compara- tively a baby s.lonfislde of John ans:n Craig of Danville, Hendricks County, Ind. A few years ago he weighed 907 pounds, At that time he was 37 years of age. At birth he weighed 11 pounds, at 11 months his weight was 77 'pounds, and at the age of 2 years he welghed 206 pounds. is height was 6 feet 5 inches a.mfhls measure around the hips was § feet 4 inches. JOHN PAUL JONES—P. §. John Paul Jones, the naval officer, was born July 8, 1747, at Arbigland, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbri ¥ was the son of a garden?:.t Aoutiend. He MAIL TO DAWSON-A. §., Big Onk ::::tl. e(:al. Fo\; l:hem p;esent. mall for‘ Daw- ves on the 15th of each Seattle. Mail intended for that teeriiors should reach Seattle not later than tha 14th of the month. Arrangements may be made in a few malls oftener, Weeks (o dispatch the A DEED-J. M. L., City. If you pur- chased property from an indlviduu.lphl;- B., City. tending to pay for the same 0 - stallment p?an. and the indlvil:lu‘:le dllgd before the finai payment was m: dee propert: ess there was w‘;n:o 55: Y, else spectall: execute such. a'éifif‘“ by, the. grantor o ANNAPOLIS ACADEMY—, bl MY—A. 8., San The examination of cadets for tll:e naval emy at Annapolis takes &u.ce shortlil after the member or dele- te to the House of Representatives has made his nomination. g‘he members or delegates are notified M shortly after the 5th of of tary of the Nax??} y.e;r 2{03‘ s‘ffifi exists in their district. he number of nominations each 18 according to the :!mnber nl'nunm es _exib Isting on the 5th o AT e | rived from Vallejo yesterday Leonard Coates of Napa Is staying at the Grand. ‘W. Faull of Angels and wife are guests the Russ. e meney of Marysville s staying at the Grand. L. R. Sargent of Sargents stopping at the Occidental. W. P. Thomas, a prominent attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. B. T. K. Preston, secretary of the Ione School, is stopping at the Grand. Mrs. J. D. Spreckels and family have gone to Coronado to spend a f;w ;Ve;k:. Captain John K. Jeffery and H. B. Jef- ferypof (l?\hlcaga are registered at the Pal- “H. H. Sylvester of the United States Geological Survey is registered at the Oc- cidental. H. M. La Rue of Sacramento arrived vesterday to attend the meeting of the Railway Commission. Mr. and Mrs. J. Tobin are up from Burlingame for a few days. They arc stopping at the Palace. H. W. Lake, manager of the Baldwin Hotel, has returned from a tour of the southern summer resorts. station s HO0OOOOOOOES6®d G. F. Richard- g & son of the South- @ @ ern Pacific is a $ ATRAIN THAT § U0 500 man S HAD A JAG. during working b hours and at g & times the pres- HHBEEE s pp o sure of not knowing what to do with a network of trains furrows his brow into the proverb- ial washboard. However busy he may be he never loses his Ingrained suavity of politeness, sits of manner or his instinctive though disturbed when his work hardest upon him. As the master transportation the movement of the diers comes under his surveillance as they aré put upon Southern P lines. The Red Cross Society knows and at the main office where women cor gregate, vieing with one another to am liorate the natural hardships of the s dler’s life, Mr. Richardson is a spe favorite. Never does he fail to answer the telephope when information is re- quired concerning the arrival of trains bearing soldiers. The other day he was called up by the Red Cross Soclety and, to his surprise, heard a voice that be- longed unmistakably to a man. The fol- lowing long-range conversation took lace: P ofee—Would you please tell me if train No. 2 is on time this evening and how many soldlers there are on it? Richardson—No. 2 has a jag. Twelve. Volce—What's that? A jag? How can a train have a jag? Do you mean that it is twelve hours late? Richardson—You don’t understand, my dear man. Why, nothing is simpler. No. 2 is on time with a small load of twelve soldiers. And the voice had to explain to the la- dies present. Joseph R. Ward, U. S. N., and wife ar- and are | stopping at the Occidental. John Breuner of Sacramento has recov- ered from a recent illness, and will re- main at the Palace prior to his departure for Sacramento. Mrs. E. K. Stevenot, secretary of the local Red Cross Society at 16 Post street, has gone to the mountains on a well- earned vacation. J. M. Studebaker, the well-known manufacturer of farming implements, has returned to this city after a short visit to San Jose. Mrs. J. J. Spieker, Miss Georgie Spieker, Miss Florence Dresbach and Mrs. W. S. Leake left last evening for Highland Springs to spend a month. Major W. 8. Metcalf of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment was presented yester- day with a very handsome pair of field glassés by the citizens of Lawrence, Kans., who are great admirers of the major. J. D. Heise, the crack shot and cham- pion of the Schuetzen Verein of this city, started for Bremen, Germany, last night. He will stop in New York two weeks to take part in the Schuetzen international shoot in that city. —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men b& the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ ——————— A self-docking pontoon dock has been built at Stettin in a remarkably short time. The contract was signed October 23, last year, the first plate was laid on November 1, and launching took place six months later. The dock consists of two side walls connected with three pon- toons, the center one being 240 feet and the two ends 135 feet. It is 510 feet 9 inches in length, 110 feet 9 inches outside breadth, and has a total depth of 43 feet 7 inches. The inside breadth is 82 feet, and vessels drawing 24 feet and weigh- ing 11,000 tons can be docked in two and a half hours. = e L Excursion to the Yellowstone Park. A personally conducted excursion will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, via the “‘Shasta Route” and Northern Pacific Rail- way. Tourists will be accommodated in first- class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold, in- cluding berths, meals and trip throut. the Park. Send for circular giving rate and itiner- ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market st., S. F. —————— The Santa Fe Route will run second excur- sion to Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, on Thursday, June 30. Noted scientists will ac- company the party. A pleasant and profitable trip. Get full particulars at No. 644 Market st. —_———— Dewey is a temperance man and knows what Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters did to brace him up at Manila. ————— WE ARE ONE NATION. On Independence day let us draw strength and inspiration from the past and determine that the nation shall al- ways be worthy of its beginning; on ‘Washington’s birthday let us set up a model for imitation and keep it before the eyes of our youth; on a day set apart for all the nation let us weep that we were once divided, and declare that all citizens of this land who offer their blood on its altar are our common property, and henceforth “In their lives they were beautiful, and in death they shall not be divided.” Let the nation visit all its graves on one day, and there annually remember that we are now one and indivisible.— Florida Times Union. e e ADVERTISEMENTS. The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one- third further than any other brand.