The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1898, Page 6

JUNE 24, 1898. FRIDAY et shanins e B JUNE 34, 1808 JOMN D. SPRECKELS, - Proprietor. e A A e A A~ Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. IR esuer b Sl sdo B MBS e ubs Baisie e 20 PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS... .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrfers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE taaee. NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. <......Riggs Hones C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... +ess.Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.50 <eevroarasseses-908 Broadway SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock.s 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'closk. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untl 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 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—* Aristocracy. Baldwin—* The Passion Play'* Alcazar—"A Celebrated Case.” Orpheum —Vaundevills, 2 Mghmlnl‘ Pavillon—Red Cross Benefit, Tuesday evening, une The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudevills and Cannon, the 618-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialies. Butro’s Baths—8wimming. El Campo—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. Mirabel Park—Excursion Saturday, June 25. Oakland Racetrack—Races Saturday, June 25. AUCTION SALES. By Geo. . Lamson—Monday, June 27, immense Library, at corner Market and Seventh strests, at 2 and 7:80 P. M. l:of a popular sentiment directed toward making the celebration of the Fourth of July this year one of almost unprecedented brilliance and signifi- | cance. It is to be an occasion for manifesting the universality amd the intensity of the patriotism of | the people. The war has aroused the ardor of even | the most indifferent to such spectacular displays, and | all over the Union preparations are under way for a demonstration of loyalty to the nation and devotion to the great principles upon which its government is founded. | For some years past there have been in the public mind doubts and fears concerning the welfare of the republic. Our Fourth of July oratory has been more or less devoted to a discussion of so-called problems | confronting the nation. To a considerable extent the baneful spirit of pessimism affected the addresses of the day. Orators pointed out dangers which they saw or thought they saw confronting the nation or its social structure, and much of their eloquence was uttered in warnings against this or that evil supposed | to be menacing the land. A different mood prevails among the people now and we shall have a different oratory. Once more there has awakened in the hearts of all an abiding faith in the destiny of the nation and a sure confi- | dence in its glorious future. There are no longer any | fears of sectional prejudices or class antagonisms. Men of the North and of the South are marching | together under the same flag, and rich and poor are | serving in the same regiments. A common patriotism | and a common friendship bind together all the people | of all the States. The heart of the nation is in full harmony with the occasion that is to be celebrated. | This year the ceremony of the day will be no per- functory observance. It will not be necessary to urge the people to close their places of business and take part in the great festival. All will do that of their own accord. It will not be overlooked that the celebration of | the year will be held over a wider area than ever be- fore, as well as with greater fervor. The great day will be hailed and the flag saluted not only in our own land, but by our fleets in the West Indies and in the Orient. San Francisco must make her part of the celebration equal to that of her sister cities and worthy of the occasion. To that end every citizen should cordially co-operate. Let us make it the most glorious day of festival in the history of the city. DT —— THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. ROM all parts of the country come evidences Admiral Camara remarked before embarking on one of his celebrated jaunts out of Cadiz that he would not return until his flag was wet with the enemy’s blood. Evidently the gentleman’s intentions are hostile. However, when his flags get wet it will probably be with salt water, into which the enemy will take grim pleasure in sending them. It is surely not a libel to add that Camara seems chiefly success- ful as a false alarm. Blanco explains that he did not free Hobson for fear the lieutenant would carry valuable information concerning the defenses of Santiago. However, this excuse cannot be regarded much longer as good for the American army is about to inspect the defenses from the inside. There are so many rumors as to the intention of reviving the rank of lieutenant general that this will probably not be done. Since every statesman has a favorite candidate for the prospective position, the interests of peace would suggest that the position be not created. —_— If Alger and Long cannot in their little nests agree they ought to hoist flags of truce until peace with Spain shall have been declared. Then they may pro- ceed with their personal scrap and depend upon an entire nation to referee. A fine of $1500 together with an indefinite sen- tence in jail for not answering questions will probably impress upon Mr. Overend that as an obdurate wit- ness he stumbled upon a time when silence was not golden. Apparently nobody outside the highest military circles knows whether Porto Rico is or is not to be invaded. The announcement is varied every other day, so that interest in it never flags. e Just what “rewards” have been given by Blanco to some of his valiant soldiers is not stated. It is }n.rdly believed he went so far as to actually pay them their wages. The tendency to criticise General Miles appears in many quarters. He is simply undergoing the penalty for being at the head of the army in war time. The report that Blanco had been shot at probably | hibition of | Ptolemaic, who seem not to have heard of Copernicus | the equator, therefore he admits Unalaska to be the | |ing upon Lemaitre’'s observations an Eastern re- grew out of the circumstance that he deserved some such delicate attention. & ho THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, ANNEXATION GEOGRAPHY. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PLAN. T is probable that no other question ever before our people has so depended on ignorance, prejudice and misstatement as the annexation of Hawaii. It was a dead issue until Dewey’s victory in Manila Bay revived it. It was resurrected, panoplied in falsehood. When it was up before an argument made for it was that Honolulu was on the shortest route between this city and Hongkong and Yokohama. Senator Perkins himself disposed of that by showing the shortest route to be nearly 1600 miles north of the Sandwich Islands. In the prospect of a temporary or permanent occupation of the Philippines the an- nexationists came up again with the shortest route to Manila via Honoluly, and the old argument now stated in the form of a military necessity. The Oakland Board of Trade addressed to Con- gress a petition, to which we Lave referred, demand- ing annexation on the shortest route to the Philip- pines idea. In answer to our criticism of this ex- geographical ignorance the Oakland Board of Trade exhibits a statement by Lyman Bridges, in which the distance from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, is given at 6900 miles, and that | from San Francisco to Unalaska at 2035, Unalaska to Yokohama at 3600 and Yokohama to Manila 1800, making a total of 7435 miles, and showing 535 miles in favor of the Honolulu route. Just why Mr. Bridges diverged to Yokohama, or why, while di- verging, he did not go to Seoul or Vladivostok, is not explained. But he is not the only geographer. Mr. John Haynes appears in the Chronicle with a desire to use up Senators White and Pettigrew on this mileage question. Mr. Haynes says that these Senators state what is “grossly untrue” about the mileage of the two routes, and proceeds to prove it by the map. To | quote his inexactness exactly, he says: “An air line drawn from San Francisco to the northern end of the island of Luzon passes about four degrees, or 240 nautical miles, north of Honolulu, while Unalaska is twenty degrees or 1200 miles north of the same line. Yet the Senator figures that the Unalaska route is shorter by 800 miles; that is, the Senator contends that the greater the divergence from a straight line the shorter the distance between two points.” Reading this, one is convinced that Mr. Bridges } and Mr. Haynes went to school to a teacher who taught that the world is round or flat, and that they took it flat, hence Mr. Bridges' zigzag by sea and | Mr. Haynes' air line cast upon the waters, and his | innocent prattle of “degrees” in discussing east and | west mileage on the surface of the globe. | If these two gentlemen, whose geography is ante- and to whom Maury is unknown, will inquire they will | learn that the world is round, that in sailing east and | west meridians of longitude are crossed, not degrees | of latitude. They will learn that as these meridians | converge at the poles they are widest apart at the | equator, and continually approach each other until | they cross at the poles. Sailing directly around the | earth east and west the greatest circumference is at [ the equator, and lessens as the poles are approached. | Hence to get the shortest distance between two points east and west of each other in the Northern | Hemisphere, even if they are both upon the equator, sail north on a curve, and if in the Southern Hemis- phere sail south. This is circle navigation, which was explained by Maury and is so well understood by navigators and by all landlubbers who were taught that the world is round that they refuse to be | taken in by Mr. Haynes’ “air line.” | In every ocean steamship company’s office may be | found a map called “Tracks for Full-powered Steam 1 Vessels.” These are the circle tracks, and by this; map the distance between San Francisco and Manila | via Unalaska is about 800 miles less than by Hono- ‘ Tulu. Congressman Grosvenor was taught that the world : is round and that its east and west diameter and cir- | cumference decrease as you go north or south from | | except those who were | shorter route, and so do Commodore Melville, Sen- ator Perkins and everybody taught in a flat world school. THE “POPULAR” GOVERNMENT OF| COLONIES. ULES LEMAITRE, a noted Frenchman, hasi QJ published an article in which he discusses at | some length the difficulties, theoretical and | practical, which beset the government of colonies | under a democratic constitution. He says that one of the greatest of these is the necessity which at the | outset compels the governing power to flatly re- | pudiate the principles of self-government. Comment- viewer quotes and advocates the immediate adoption as a national motto of the following couplet: A marciful Providence fashioned us holler O’ purpose thet we might our princerpels swaller, Perhaps the formal adoption of this coupiet would | be opposed, but it is quite certain that if the policy of | acquiring outside territory now so generally advo- cated by the yellow papers, and some not quite so yellow, is ratified by Congress, some such rhyme as this will be necessary to explain exactly where our | “princerpels” have gone. In his article Lemaitre said the French armies had invaded Madagascar for the purpose of murdering “a childlike people who have as much right as we have to be free, to govern themselves and to own the land leit them by their ancestors.” He declared also that those among these childlike people who had not been murdered by this expedition had in the name of civilization been enslaved. As we are about to invade the Philippines on a sim- ilar “civilizing” mission, it is interesting to keep track of such discussions as have been precipitated by this Frenchman. What are the Americans going to do with the Philippines after they have landed their army and placed General Merritt’s military govern- ment in command? What are they going to do with Cuba after Admiral Sampson has bombarded all its ports and General Shafter has taken all the Spaniards into custody? Are they then going to withdraw and permit the turbulent races who inhabit these two re- gions to govern themselves? Or are they going to “civilize” them after the method adopted by the French, English and Germans, and thereupon their “princerpels swaller”? There is no doubt that a strong public opinion is forming at the present moment upon this subject. What policy it will cause to be adopted cannot now be foretold, but that something will have to be done toward amending the American notion of non- interference in foreign affairs seems almost certain. Cuba and the Philippines are an unworked field and will require far from the usual republican treatment. The question raised by Lemaitre is one that will dis- turb the American people for a long time to come. Anybody who wants that Cadiz fleet will have to go Spain for it URING the last few days, for the purpose of Dkeeping our readers posted on the drift of things in the national Democratic camp, we have presented three policies suggested by members of different factions for the campaign of this fall. One of these, favored by the Richmond Times, was a pol- icy of opposition to an increase of the army and navy, to the annexation of any island territory and to all forms of so-called “imperialism.” The second, supported by the Louisville Post, advocated a broad scheme of colonial expansion and the maintenance of an extensive army and navy. The third, advanced by the Examiner, was a contest against the adminis- tration on the alleged ground that the war revenue bill places nearly the whole burden of taxation upon the poor. This was designed to continue Bryanism in politics by appealing to a supposed antagonism of the poor to the rich. This morning we have a fourth Democratic pro- gramme to present. It comes from a letter pub- lished in the New York World, and which, accord- ing to the World, was written “by one of the most prominent Democrats in the State and nation.” The writer in discussing the outlook for the campaign in New York says: “The ablest leaders seem to think it unwise to press national issues in a time of war, even if the party was wholly united on them, as the war issue alone absorbs and overshadows every other national question. Therefore, as a matter of expediency, it is deemed wise to postpone the presentation or discussion of national issues until the war is over and press State issues‘to the front, upon which the party is not only strong, but entirely united. There seems to be much wisdom in this course, and it will undoubtedly pre- vail with little or no friction, as all elements of the party seem desirous of success.” It will be seen that each of the four plans is in con- flict with all the others. The Richmond and the Louisville men would bring the war questions di- rectly to the front, but they do not agree on the policy to be pursued with regard to them. The Ex- aminer plan subordinates great issues to the minor one of taxation and puts forward a policy of per- nicious demagogy, while the New York proposal favors the abandonment of national issues altogether, leaving the Congressional candidates of the party to make the fight any way they please and concentrating the whole strength of the organization to carry the State tickets. Out of this confusion it is impossible that harmony can be brought in time for the elections. Democ- racy will make a guerrilla fight this fall. Each petty leader will rally his followers by whatever war cry seems best to himself and them. Between the platform put forward in one State and that in another there will be inconsistencies and contradictions without number. If by any possibility the Democrats should elect a majority of the members of the House of Representatives by such tactics the proceedings of the next Congress would be confusion worse confounded. If for no other reason, therefore, the people will have to vote the Republican ticket this fall for the purpose of providing the nation with a government capable of governing. BOSTON GIVES IT UP. OMMENTING upon the complex problems of C foreign policy which have arisen out of our new relations to the Philippines the Boston Globe says: “Nothing has happened in the war that was planned before it began. We have been the sport of chance.” Then, after describing the doubt and confusion in the public mind on the subject, it adds: “Even Boston, which is the greatest compounder of solutions for all problems that vex the minds alike of the finite and the infinite, discovered when its wisdom was assembled in Faneuil Hall on Wednes- day that there was no complete solvent ready made for this most novel and unforeseen occasion.” Since the wisdom of Boston assembled in Fanueil Hall could not solve the problem, ‘it is the opinion of the Globe that the rest of the country might as well give it up. It says: “Since circumstances are responsible for involving us in such a strange situa- tion we shall have to wait for circumstances to ex- tricate us.” There may be many people who will agree with that conclusion, but few will accept the ground on which it was based. Some will hold that | while it may be best to wait on circumstances in or- der to see what will be developed, it would not be wise to wait simply because Boston has no solution to offer. The objection to waiting and drifting is that na- tions as well as individuals who surrender themselves to the current not infrequently find themselves car- ried into situations from which it is difficult to- es- cape. If we had dealt with the Cuban problem reso- lutely several years ago we might have escaped the cost of this war. If we now clearly determine what we are to do with the captured colonies of Spain we may save ourselves from some serious complication later on. We have had ample experience in our compara- tively short history of the folly of waiting on events. By postponing the settlement of the slave question in the early years of the republic we had a great civil war to fight out. By neglecting to settle the finan- cial problems of the nation in a time of prosperity we had a free silver agitation in a season of panic and distress which caused untold disaster to many an industry and many a home. By postponing consider- ation of the problems now before us we may permit the growth of an erroneous sentiment among the people which will be as troublesome to eradicate as the free silver craze. It should be determined at once that whatever it may be necessary for justice sake to do with the colonies wrested from Spain, we shall not annex them to this country nor shall we ever include among our citizens the Mongol and mongrel races of the islands of the Orient. Incidentally the same may be said of Hawaii. Boston may give it up, but the rest of the country doesn’t propose to drift. Now the members of the ex-Grand Jury who failed to do anything with the water front jobs have another chance to be ashamed of themselves. Evidently the scare Commissioner Colnon got did not wholly re- form him. There is believed to be a fair profit in the lumber business without robbing the State. Happily this belief seems to be entertained by a majority of the Harbor Commissioners. When we read so much false news designed to “buoy the Spanish heart” we can but wonder if the Spanish brain is not to be considered. . The announcement that the bodies of American soldiers slain in Cuba were not wantonly violated is gratifying and it is also surprising. ARG e Blanco will be remembered in after years for the power of imagery characterizing his fiction. “Perhaps ex-Treasurer Widber pleaded not guilty just for the joke of the thing. Adakh Island for a distance of Total, San Francisco to Manila . Luzon Island) . Cape Engano to Manila .. Total, San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu . Of the route by way of Iliouliouk, Thence by a Great Circle to Point Engano, the northeast point of Luzon Island, cutting very close to Cape King, off Yokohama Bay....3450 Thence by the shortest steaming route around the Northwest Cape of Buzon' fo Manila L o0l l. 0n L e o she s oo 0 42D This sailing route reaches close to latitude 46 degrees 20 minutes longitude 165 degrees west, or five degrees of latitude (300 nautical miles) south of the southernmost of the Aleutians. ' ROUTE T0 THE PHILIPPINES. Hundreds of Miles Longer via Honolulu Than Dy the Way of - Unalaska. Professor George Davidson has carefully computed the distance be- tween San Francisco and Manila by three routes. He finds that the Una- laska route is hundreds of miles shorter than the route by way of Hono- lulu. The argument that the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands will provide a stepping stone on the most direct way from Manila to San Fran- cisco is therefore seen to be based upon a false and misleading assump- tion. Professor Davidson’s statement is as follows: OCEAN ROUTES BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND MANILLA IN THE PHILIPPINES. Nautical Miles. 1. Composite route from San Francisco to Manila, via Iliouliouk harbor, on the north side of Unalaska Island, Bering Sea. Distance from San Francisco to Unalaska Island by Great Circle route....2035 From Unalaska a Great Circle sailing route canot be laid down to Luzon Island. It would pass close along the north side of the Aleutian chain, pass through these dangers, So a vessel must come out into the Pacific through the Akutan Pass, then follow under the south shorbs of the islands to a point south of and then find Japan in the track. ve.. 465 Total San Francisco to Manila, via Unalaska.....cccoveeeenanenss..6370 2. By a Great Circle route from San Francisco to the Northwest Cape of Luzongslatid fof Sudeo il e e e e S T e D e S8 From::Northwest Cape ito Manila ..ot el ii o Bl 08 080000l 330 in 3. Composite route from San Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu. By Great Circle from San Francisco to Honolulu.. e By Great Circle from Honolulu to Cape Engano (northeast cape of Unalaska, reaching latitude 54 de- grees, it should be borne in mind that the vessel must pass out of the Pacific into Bering Sea through the Akutan Pass; and in coming out again run the risks in that channel. high, rocky and enveloped for days and even weeks in dense fogs. Furthermore, a vessel going westward by counter to the Great Japanese Warm Stream for the whole distance, and at all seasons she is under the southeast edge of the typhoon storm path. These paths are laid down on the North Pacific Pilot Chart, and their origin among the Northern Philippines. Many years since I was consulted by a large steamship company of San Francisco whose steamships had suffered frem heavy storms on the Great Circle route from Yokohama. I advised that they would meet with a mdre equable temperature, better weather and smoother sea by not running higher than 40 degrees north latitude. no good reason to change my opinion. That whole coastliné is very, wild, that route must run I have seen TEST OF THE VESUVIUS. The Vesuvius is officlally styled a dyna- | the hills about the mouth of Santiago mite gunboat, of 929 tons displacement and 21.42 knots, but our naval high explo- sive for use in great quantities is still guncotton, so that she is really a gun- cotton or pneumatic gunboat. The exact effect of her three tremendous shots we may not know until after we have taken Santiago and examined the points of im- pact, but they seem to have fulfilled ail expectations. The Vesuvius, in short, has & sphere of her own. She may never be risked alone against a hostile ship, or certalnly against a ship that can hit other things than the ocean, yet her uses in at- t&c]gng forts and defending harbors or narrow passes are obvious, and her high- an%le fire was exactly suited to the cliffs of Santiago.—New York Sun. It is the function of vessels of the Vesu- vius type to deliver the finishing blow. They are properly classed, therefore, with the torpedo boats, and not with the ships that go into action for the purpose of de- Wvering a broadside or turret fire and keeping it up until the enemy is crush- ed. The Vesuvius crushes at one blow precisely like a torpedo or a submarine mine. She resembles a torpedo boat, moreover, in beinfi defenseless against a heavy fire. If she is hit hard it is the end of her. The tremendous efficiency. of shells charged with a large quantity of high explosives had often been demon- strated in experimental firing. The safety of the pneumatic gun and the trustworth- iness 0? the fuses used for the shells were also established before the test of the Vesuvius at Santiago. What she proved there was her ability to get near enough to a shore fortification to reach it with her guns, which have an effective range of only about one mile and a half. Un- der cover of darkness, with the Oregon's searchlights serving the double purpose of illuminating her target and screening her from observation, she was able to ex- lode two shells on the hill where the Bban(sh battery was placed, and to send one shell over the hill to the anchorage of the Furor and the Pluton. The first use of the pneumatic gun in actual war appears to have had results that will greatly increase professional interest in this arm.—New York Times. Some fear has been expressed that the enormous guns of the Vesuvius might possibly be more dangerous to the per- sons on board than to the party attackea. They have been proved at a practice on harbor, and the execution of the shells was terrible beyond description. The ex- plosion on impact of the shells was deaf- ening, and with each discharge tons of rock and earth were huried into the air. No fort of whatever it might be con- structed could stand an hour’s bombard- ment by these guns. When it becomes necessary to attack Havana Blanco's “impregnable forts” would be no better protection a%ss.lnst the guns of the Vesu- vius than if built of cards.—Chicago News. Another unknown quantity of the American navy has been tested and has not proved disappointing. The dyna- mite cruiser Vesuvius, the only war ship of its kind in the world, was given a chance to try its terrible dynamite guns at Santiago the other night. Three heavy charges were_ fired, with marked effect, and the experiment was repeated next night, when one of the shells struck Cayo. Smith, the small fortified {island Just inside the harbor of Santiago, and ‘“tore a hole in it large enough to hide a church.” It can hardly be claimed that the tests thus far made have been con- clusive, but the destructiveness of the dynamite gun has been abundantly dem- onstrated and its practicabllity has been proved. The Vesuvius marks a new era l‘g x:‘;‘\iral construction.—Chicago Times- erald. The most terrible product of modern sciente to be used in future warfare was tried against the forts guarding Santiago harbor and proved a great and complete success. It was the first use of a dyna- mite cruiser in actual warfare, and the result proves that the United States has the most mighty destructive engines afloat in the Vesuvius. As a destroyer the cruiser has proved to be the most terri- ble and frightful agent known to science to-day.—Brooklyn Times. Now that the Vesuvius has been tried on Santlago and found equal to the best expectations, if the dispatches give us correct information, we may rest in the confidence that the reduction of the Ha- vana fortifications will be easy, It would not take more than two or three shots planted in Morro Castle at the mouth of the harbor to destroy it so effectually that not a gun would remain mounted and %?;tgl: gunner would escape.—Brooklyn ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TAX ON BEER—O. §., City. The rev- enue tax on beer under the new law has been in operation since June 14. DIMES—O. S., City. Dimes coined in the year 1894 outside of the San Francisco Mint do not command a _p_remlum. RABBIT DRIVES—W. M., Oakland, Cal. It was in the county of Fresno, California, that the farmers had great rabbit drives to destroy the animals. On the 10th of March, 1802, there was one drive in that county in which more than 20,000 rabbits were killed. FEDERAL PRISON—A. O. B, City. There is no United States prison in the State of California. United States pris- oners are kept either in the penitentiaries of the State of California or the County Jail of San Francisco or in the military prison on Alcatraz. GOVERNMENT LANDS-—-C. 8. City. For information in relation to Govern- ment lands in the State of California you may apply to the United States Land Office in San_Francisco, Humboldt, In- dependence, Los Angeles, Marysville, edding, Sacramento, Stockton, Susan- ville and Visalia. SIDEWALK ETIQUETTE—W. L. R., Reno, Nev. It is an unwritten law of etiquette that in walking with a lady the gentlemam should always take the curbstone side of the walk. The reason for this i{s that man being the stronger, he may be ready to protect the lady in his charge from any danger that may approach from the street, as, for Instance, a runaway team turning out of the street onto the walk. DEODORIZED KEROSENE-L. C., Oakland. The odor of kerosene is modi- fied, If not entirely destroyed, by using the following formula: Mix chloride of lime ‘with petroleum in the on of ounces i purified. proporti f three for each gallon of the liquid to b . Ithulen!.p:rndnmininnn-: Muriatic acid is added and th well agitated so as to bring thee wn}llloxlgug? the liquor In contact with the chlorine gas. nally the petroleum is passed into ir;gé)il‘erbvesgelthco;ltflnl{:g slacked lime vhich absorbs the free chlorin ves the oil deodorized and puoflfle?i.and e ALEXANDRIA—A. N., City. It Wi e £ as on the 1ith of July, 1882, that the city of A(lemm“h dria was bombarded. On tha 0t of that month Vice Admiral d- erick Seymour threatened to S{:’;rrb;;eext!d the city if the rebellious Egyptian army under Arabi Pasha, did not cease af once to mount guns commanding the English fleet. At five minutes after 7 o'clock on the morning of the 1ith the flagship Alexandria opened the bombard- ment, and the other vessels—Invincible, Monarch, Penelope, Temeraire, Inflex. ible, Superb, Sultan, and the gunboats Condor, Cygnet, Bitten and Decoy—fol- lowed. The bombardment continued un- til half-past 5 in the afterncon. The Dext day Arabl sent a flag of truce to Vice Admiral Seymour, and under cover of that he and his army abandoned Alex- andria, setting free the convicts who united with the rabble of the city, start- :m?ny fires and murdered many Cliris- ARKANSAS OR ARKANSAW — A Reader, City. When Breckinridge was a member of the House of Representatives he was asked the question, ‘“Which is correct, Arkansas or Arkansaw?’ and his reply was that in the State itself it was onlg Vvisitors and newcomers who used Arkansas. He expressed himself in favor of Arkansaw. The name was for- merly Arkansa. The final s was added }’I the French, but it was silent. :Vh:n illard Fillmore was Vice President of the United States two Senators from the State of Arkansas disagreed as to the pronunciation of the name, but each in- sisted that his pronunciation was cor- rect. Mr. Fillmore, as President of the Senate, compromised the matter by rec- Ognizing one as ‘‘the gentleman from Arkansas” and the other as “the gentle- ot the Siate dccidea that ing omclel as led that the o nranunciation is Arkansaw. the | COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Major Frank C. Prescott is at the Bald- win. Theo C. Marceau has taken apartments at the Baldwin. Dr. H. H. Hopper, a well-known phy- sician of Cincinnati, is at the Palace. H. C. Bowers, manager of the Portland Hotel, Portland, Or., is at the Palace. T. B. Rickey, an extensive cattle owner of Carson, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. George J. Laventhal, a prominent Los Angeles merchant, is a guest at the Bald- win. H. C. Bowers, manager of the Hotel Portland of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. E. S. Churchill of Napa arrived in the city vesterday and took apartments at the Palace. SO000000000000d All was quiet In b4 3 & the Palace Hotel & WHY $ officeand thetired § CHIEF LEES night clerk, Mr. & LOST A PRIze. & O'Brien, was pa- & g tiently watching PO ROROROROROK the hands of the clock go round, conscious that every move was so much nearer to the hour when his labors ceased and his sleep began. The overland was late that night and there was little for O'Brien to do but keep awake. A few idlers were sitting on the chairs counting tue flagstones or the electric lights that stud the handsomely decorated ceiling of the Palace office. A complete silence stood master of the moment, save for the regular beating of a man’s heels on the flagstones at the further end of the court as he walked back and forth in a seem- ingly never ending journey. On one of the chairs was sitting a man well along in years and a great frequenter of hotel lobbies. Hoary curled whiskers adorned his reddened cheeks. What w he there for at this unseemly hour, was the ques- Mr. brain of of the tion that puzzled the O’Brien, arbiter and rule porary existence of many. While in the midst of these perplexing mysteries a man loosely made and with a shifty eye shambled across the floor to the desk and with muffied speech asked O'Brien if he wouldn't please buy a lottery ticket. O'Brien, expecting a sensation. was dis- gusted to the core of his heart, but the moisture of ingenious reason percolated through his cranium and he saw for the moment a bright vista open up before his eyes. He would be a catcher of the vil- lainous, and his name would be written on the book of fame. In polite terms he told the lottery ticket peddler that he had no money for such fllegal purposes, but advised him to go to the white haired gentleman in the corner, and that he would surely buy one. ‘Lnanking Mr. O'Brien for his kindness the peddier started for the little 0ld man with hopes of selling him a ticket. He just took three steps when the bundle of tickets fell out of his hand, and the man stood there like one with the palsy. Chatter- ing with fear he rushed out. of the place as if he were demented. He recognized the ornament in the corner. It was Chief Lees. Charles Weil and Arthur Seller, two prominent business men from Modesto, are in town. C. H. Brooks and wife of San Jose ar- rived in the city yesterday and took apartments at the Baldwin. J. C. Crawford, a well-known Portland newspaper man, who has been stationed at Skaguay for several months, is at the Grand. F. W. Page, a well-known mine owner, returned yesterday from a trip to his property in the northern part of the State, and reglistered at the Palace. Captain William A. Harper, assistant quartermaster United States volunteers, is registered at the Palace. Mr. Harper is one of the firm of Harper Brothers, the publishers. : R S CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 23.—Z. 8. Spalding of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. F. J. Carroll of San Francisco is at the Hol- land. W. H. Crocker of San Francisco is at the Netherland: BENICIA IS GRATEFUL. Editor San Francisco Call—Dear Sir: It is but proper that the citizens of this city should tender you some acknowl- | edgment and proffer their sincere appre- ciation, in return for the splendid efforts you are exerting in behalf of the State and this city for the establishment of the gun assembling plant on the Pacific Coast, and it is with the sanction of the citizens that these few lines are penned, and I trust they will meet with the in- dorsement of the many readers of The Call in this city, who have spoken in hignly complimentary terms of your commendable enterpris Trusting that you will have the co-op- eration of the press of the State in advo- cating this all-important movement, and wishing The Call further success in the field of journalism, I remain, very re- spectfully, WILL E. RULOFSON. Benicia, June 1898. —_——— - THE SLOT MACHINES. Editor San Francisco Call: I beg to say that, according to the report of the Su- pervisors’ meeting, the anti-nickel-in-the- slot machine ordinance has been laid over again for two weeks. Is there so much money or pull in this line of gam- bling that the proper authorities can not put a stop to it? This city is the only one of all the big cities in the United States where this gambling is tolerated and should the daily papers take the trouble to bring to light all the evil which the nickel-in-the-slot gamble produces there would be soon a stop to it. A. PERRY. San Frarcisco, June 23, 1898, EoEmy e B Treat your friends to Townsend's Cali- fornia Glace Fruits; 50c Ib; in fire-etched boxes. 627 Market, Palace Hotel bldg. * e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomiery street. Telephone Main 1042. * e “Josephine told me of her engagement in the strictest confidence.” ““Don’t her parents approve it?"” “Yes, but she wants to go around and tell all the other girls herself.”—Chicago Record. —_——— 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 through the Park. Send for circular giving rate and itiner- ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market st., . F. —_— e————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children While, Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. 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