The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1898, Page 7

'6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MOXNDAY, JULY 4 1898. __Address All Communications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. _ | PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS...... ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) !s | served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mail, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ....908 Broadway " NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. -Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, operr until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untl 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana ___Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. Alcazar—Frede ick th Morosco's - H: The Mik ville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. y and Eddy streets, Specialties boating, fishing, every Sunday. es to-day THE MIDSUMMER LULL. USINESS fell off somewhat last week, and the ast year, as represented by the bank | , was only 9.1 per cent, whereas of late s been running from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. Various causes contributed to this falling off. In the | first place, this is the season for the semi-annual closing down of many industrial concerns, notably iron, steel and glass, and for the regular midsummer stock-taking. However, the shutdown will be briefer than usual this year, and in some sections will not ill it has its effect on the volume of No noteworthy fluctuations in the occur a trade all the leading staples are ok | servable, and the general mar- | kets exhibit.the usual m mmer inactivity. The record of failures for the first half of 1898 makes a favorable showing, the number being 6429, or 8 per cent less tl for the same time in 1897, and 15 per cent less than in 1896. The liabilities, too, were smaller, being $72,120,000, or 23 per cent less than | last year and 31 per cent less than two years ago. t continue extraordinary, those over 4,000,000 bushels from At- nst 2,004,000 last year. Thus far this | e exports o for last week be lantic ports year these exp of wheat, including flour, amount to 217,872,000 bushel§, and of corn 211,452,000 bushels. Prices for general products have shown more or less | weakness, notably in cereals, pork, lard and cotton, while the number :of advances is small. However, prices for wool, hides, er, groceries, print cloths and metals, except iron, are reported steady, and the cotton trade reports a general looking up.. The de- mand for fireworks and flags, which is purely a transient is bettér than for years, owing, | of course, to the spirit of patriotism awakened by the war. Wall street continues quiet. Speculation is narrow and .professional, and though the general public are not buying, they are not selling. The course of shares has hinged on the progress of events at San- tiago and Manila, and as both of these propositions have been more or less uncertain, prices have been unsettled. The grotesque marine parade of Admiral Camara in the Mediterranean, and his moth-like flut- tering about the northern entrance to the Suez Canal, were used a: ers to depress guotations by the bears, but with indifferent result, as Camara, with his an- tiquated and patchwork ships, is of no interest to ‘Americans, except as a sort of naval curiosity. Still, sverything goes in Wall street. The local situation was distinguished last week by ithe hot north wind, which swept the State from one end to the other. California is almost exclusively a ‘producing State, and is therefore peculiarly sensitive to weather conditions. This wind has changed con- ditions matetially, but they will not be wholly mani- fest for a week yet. In the first place, it caused a | rise in barley from $1 1334 to $1 22%4 by shelling out | the grain in, those late districts in the Sacramento IRiver which still remain uncut. In the second place the hay farmers estimate that by unduly drying out the hay it decreased the tonnage of the crop at least 25 'per cent. This may or may not prove correct, but it certainly did hay no good, and the product will have % sere appéarance the rest of the year in consequence. rhc,péai districts report more or less loss through the blowing off of the fruit. South of the bay the wind idried the soil so-in the orchards that it is feared Iprunes will suffer both in size and volume of output. {n short, it caused more or.less mischief everywhere. 1t.to say which is the more disastrous, a vind or.a hard frost, and we have had both le ir as ‘prices for farm products are concerned - ok is bright. The tendency. is upward all ,Aalor'xg ‘the ine.’ Fresh.fruit is bringing good returns, fand the trade ook for a fine market for the dried ¢t owing to the light yiéld and the brisk inquiry | -+ The establishment of 8@9oc per pound jons for new apricots is a har- Hay rin:and no detline is expected, in the near fu- t least. At .the close ‘of the week all cereals showed.ah advancing tendency. The livestock mar- ket likéwise moved up somewhat and closed stiff. | Trade'in provisions bids fair to continue lively at the ;.satisfa‘ctp‘ry quotations. Wool is still quiet, but the undertone §s firm. © Some damage to the hop crop by the hot wind is feared, as the plant is now in bloom "and desiccation is-apprehended. A few contracts have been drawn at 12 cents.per pound, which is a profit- ?ab]e}figur‘e‘. Piospects for a large grape and raisin é,crop_are good..- Hence it will be seen that everything ‘hat the farmer.raisés promises to yield him lucrative retiirns. This. heing the case, it is hard to figure out }f\anyfl;iug‘dse‘tmfi “good year for the State. Frém -such- knowledge of Admiral Dewey's char- Lacter as has been gleaned since he sailed into Manila Bay ‘there is every reason to suppose that the German Sadmiral-6ver there will either behave himself or ac- quire, disagreeable experience faster than it ordinarily ‘=omes eveh to a-meddler. For a nation whose intentions are friendly, and which has no idea of interfering, Germany is sending 1 sufprising riumber of warships to Manila. Wire p_(\lling has been known in politics, and per- haps to a certain extent in war, but to have the wire barbed is a new and distressing extra. B | new triumph of our arms, and when later in the even- | the three fleets that bore the Spanish flag upon the | | seas, two are now destroyed and the thiru can escape | American squadron that meets it, or by the applica- | will not be forgotten. | teemed prophet does not believe that on its part the | is supporting Pardee for Governor because it regards | Judge Maguire. | siders may think the Boodler capable of playing this | idea. NEWS OF VICTORY. ULLETINS announcing the destruction of the yesterday afternoon and evening filled the city with rejoicing and fitly prepared the people for the celebration of the national festival to-day. Thousands of eager readers gathered about the bulletin boards, and by their cheering evinced the joy they felt in the ing the news of the arrival of the transports with | troops at Manila was announced, popular exultation | knew no bounds. The destruction of the fleet at Santiago ic in many respects a more important event than will be the cap- ture of the city itself, which must soon follow, even if | it does not occur to-day. It was, in fact, to assure the | destruction of the fleet that the city was invested. Of the fate of the others only by surrender to the first tion of the Spanish Government for peace on any terms the United States may dictate. Such glorious news would stir the people with en- thusiasm at any time, but coming as it did on the eve of the Fourth of July, it will animate the nation with an ardor almost beyond precedent. Victory and the Fourth are two events that harmonize well. Their influences accord like notes that blend into perfect | music. Their inspirations join to form a concord of jubilant exultation that will be felt as a thrill in every | home and patriot heart throughout the length and breadth of the Republic. For the heroes who have fallen a willing sacrifice | to purchase for the nation the victories around San- tiago, and to whose devoted valor and patriotism we | owe this triumph, there will be every honor that the living can give the dead. In the glory of the day they To them, under God, is due the credit for the success which gladdens the nation, and in that gladness there will not be lacking a peo- | ple’s pride in their deed and mourning for their loss. In their heroism we exult as we cheer the star- spangled banner, and rejoice that the foe has been beaten, that Manila and Santiago are ours. e — A RESTORED. esteemed political prophet of this journal, in / \ the course of an article published Friday, declares that a bargain has been struck between | Dr. Pardee of Oakland, Republican candidate for Governor, and the Third Street Boodler (late of Mis- sion street), whereby the latter is to give its support to the former in the coming campaign. Our es- latter is sincere. He hints strongly that the Boodler— which does its boodling under Democratic auspices— him as a weak candidate, who, if nominated, will elect This is a plausible theory, but it is lacking in prob- ability. The Boodler is too cunning to use its in- fluence in carrying out any such scheme. In the first place, like all boodlers, it entertains an exalted no- tion of its power, and if it were shrewd enough to support Pardee for the purpose of electing Maguire it would always be haunted with a notion that pos- sibly it might succeed in making the former Gov-i ernor, in which event it would defeat itself. Out- | | game, but no person who understands the nature of “ its opinion of itself will for a moment entertain the Spanish fleet at Santiago displayed by The Call THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. AR and wide over the globe, in every spot l:where any number of Americans are gathered, J the star-spangled banner will be unfurled to-day, 1 and there will be shouts and songs of patriotic pride |and feelings of love and loyalty so deep they will | move to prayers and tears. From Dewey's conquer- ing fleet in Manila Bay, from transport ships in mid- ocean, from the victorious army around Santiago, from American residents in the great capitals of the Old World, from the far off islands of the sea, the swelling notes of bands and the voices of men and women singing will send forth upon every breeze under the whole heavens the triumphant strains of the national anthems of the republic. Strong and free will be the sounds of patriotic re- joicing that will come to us from far off, but stronger and louder will be the mighty chorus that rolls up from the soil of the republic itself, when throughout all the States the people assemble to honor the day by every form of memorial observance known to man. Never before has the United States seen a festival like | that which this morning summons every citizen to adorn his home with banners and give free utterance to the enthusiasm of loyalty, and never before has that summons been so universally heeded or obeyed with such intensity of ardor. Far removed from the comparative indifference of former years will be the feeling with which we will celebrate this anniversary of the declaration of our national independence. The memories of the Revo- lution that made us a nation, of the war of 1812 that established the rights of our seamen and our flag upon the seas, of the Mexican War that widened the | original boundaries of the Union and made it an ocean girt republic, and of the Civil War that freed and freshened in our hearts by the war that now rages, and we shall draw from out the past a deeper inspiration of patriotism than has been our custom in o times of peace. Deep in their foundations and lofty in their heights will be the sentiments stirred within us by the recol- lections of the past glories of the nation, but deeper yet and still more lofty will be the feelings born of the present emergency, the offspring of the conflict we are now waging not for ourselves alone, but for an oppressed people, that liberty may be established and justice done in all parts of this hemisphere. Our thoughts to-day will be with the conquerors at Manila and with the victorious battalions that are battling around the entrenchments at Santiago. Indeed at this juncture we need borrow nothing from the past, rich as it is in noble inspirations to patriotism. The living present is in itself sufficiently vital with pa- trotic impulses to thrill every heart with an exultant and devoted loyalty. From our orators we have reason to expect to-day a genuine eloquence. The theme is great, the occa- sion momentous 4nd the audiences will be every- where responsive and inspiring. A mighty people, recognizing the grandeur of the manifest destiny of their nation, has made with itself a resolve to be equal to that destiny and strong to bear every burden it im- poses. The wealth required for the struggle, the lives demanded in payment of victory, are given freely, not from recklessness, but from an abiding faith that they are expended in the service of the country and of God and will secure a thousand blessings for the land and for humanity. B vicinity of Michigan Bar the people of Cali- fornia are once more reminded of a danger that in many parts of the State i continually imminent during the dry season. Every year there are a con- siderable number of fires in our forests and the an- FOREST FIRES. Y reports of the destructive forest fires in the With all due respect to our esteemed po!iticall prophet, therefore, we beg to scout his theory, and | in place of it substitute another more probable and The Boodler is supporting Dr. | Pardee for Governor. There is no doubt about that. Dr. Pardee is the Southern Pacific candidate. That is also certain; our political prophet establishes his connection with the monopoly by unmistakable evi- dence. How is it possible, then, for the inevitable conclusion to be avoided? The Booaler has been re- stored to the Southern Pacific payroll. The only question which remains concerns the amount of the Boodler's new contract. Formerly it received $1000 a month, and it had a written contract whereby the subsidy was to continue for thirty months—a period covering two Legislatures and a State campaign. As a matter of fact, the payments did continue for twenty-two months, at the end of which time the Boodler broke its silence on railroad topics, and the monopoly, considering its contract at an end, refused to longer put up. ‘What is the amount of the contract this time? Has the figure been increased or reduced? Is the present contract to cover the Legislature of 1899, or has the Boodler simply been employed to support Dr. Par- dee? These are questions the people desire answered, as there is not the slightest doubt that arrangements have been perfected whereby the Boodler has again agreed to aid the Southern Pacific to capture the State. Even if it were not plain that the Boodler has taken a contract to nominate a railroad candidate for Gov- ernor in the Républican convention—the choice of which is certain to be elected this year—sufficient evi- dence might be adduced to prove that it had been re- stored to the payroll. It has kept very quiet on rail- road matters lately. All its various cinches have died out. The marked attention it is paylng to war mat- ters and the able manner in which it is daily discussing European politics would be suspicious under any cir- cumstances, but they are doubly suspicious at this juncture. We are unqualifiedly of the opinion that the Boodler has a new contract. equally as plausible. The Examiner used the early hours of the calm Sabbath morning in stealing an interesting cablegram from The Call. The theft was committed in great haste, for the larcenist omitted several essential de- tails and forgot to place the line “Copyrightec by W. R. Hearst” at the top of the stolen article. The cablegram contained an account of the sinking of a gunboat, a sloop and a pontoon by Sampson. It is worthy of note that at the time Sampson’s fleet maneuvered at the mouth of Santiago Bay a whitehall regatta held its peaceful course in San Francisco harbor. el It is not easy to understand how matters could have gone wrong in Cuba with Correspondent Hearst right on the spot. Can it be possible he was not consulted? e Any pleasing little theories that the Spanish would lay down their arms at sight of American troops far less than themselves in number have been revised. Ledee A Military critics who never smelled powder will please bear in mind that to tell a general what he ought to have done is merely a display of ‘cheek. It was the Oregon, our California battleship, that struck down the Spanish flag from the Morro at San- tiago. The ten strike of the day was ours. nual loss is in the aggregate one of great proportions. It is therefore important that all persons who are in the habit of resorting to the forests or fields for any purpose should be very careiul of fire at all times and under all circumstances. It is never easy to trace the origin of a fire in the woods or in the fields. A cigar stump carelessly, thrown away by a casual passer along the road, a fire started by a camper and left burning after he had gone, a match dropped in a meadow and started into flame by the hoof of cattle—any one of these things is sufficient under certain conditions to begin a blaze that in the dry season will sweep miles of country be- fore it is checked, and the cause of the conflagration would never be discovered. Nor is it easy to estimate the damage done by such fires. The loss of grass or grain in a field may in- deed be computed with reasonable correctness, but the amount of the loss occasioned by an extensive fire in a forest is almost incalculable. Our woods are of great value in many ways. Their destruction en- tails the loss not only of the merchantable timber standing in the area swept by the fire, but a multitude of young trees not yet of commercial use, but which it will require years of growth to replace. So great is the loss to the commonwealth by these annual summer fires that competent experts agree it would be an economy for the State to maintain a forest police to watch our woods during the dry sea- son. In the end it may be found necessary to provide such a police, since there is no way to make forest laws and regulations enforce themselves, and so many people are seemingly careless whether the woods burn or not. Something of a combined and resolute effort will certainly have to be undertaken to protect the State from the enormous losses of these ever recurring fires. In some of the older States of the Union, such as Pennsylvania, for example, that originally possessed forests as valuable as our own, a neglect of proper protection has left them so exposed to the ravages of fire that they are now virtually destroyed, and the State is the poorer by untold millions of dollars. We should be able to profit by the warning of such ex- amples and not have to learn wisdom when too late by undergoing the same experience. German editors are charging us with presumption because some papers have gone so far as to accuse the Kaiser of insolence in attempting to dictate the policy to be followed in the Philippines, where it is none of his business. They should remember that in this country the divine right of kings is regarded as a royal bluff, and the divine right of expressing opinion something that cannot be taken away. If any American papers have rebuked Germany they can put forward the excellent excuse that Germany needed it. LRSS fn the report that the Spanish are using Red Cross flags for protection there is nothing out of consonance with the Spanish character as revealed since the open- ing ‘of the war in Cuba. gEa e Now it is a Pasadena man who has heen found far from home without the slightest idea how he got there. Perhaps, however, this case is novel. The man may be sincere. e A San Leandro man who slapped his sweetheart because, as he claimed, she had told him a falsehood, will for a span meditate in jail over the problems of social ethics. the slave and kept the Union whole, will be brightened | A FEW THOUGHTS FOR JULY 4, 1898, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: I differed from many citi- zens in seeing no logical reason for the present war, and I now believe that the effete Spanish monarchy, with all its possessions, is not worth the good red American blood that has been poured out at Santiago. But all this is comparatively unimportant. The war is on, and whatever the cost in lifeor in money our country must win and the honor of our flag be upheld. The questions that may now be considered are those in which I agree with The Call and recognize it as among the stanchest defenders of true American- ism in the United States. In fact, your splendid editorials, which I have read for the past \ ek, are the immediate inspiration of this communication. The tactics and methods of the sensational press, especially of certain newspapers which profess to be Democratic, are plainly infamous, and in this respect there is nothing to be added to your searching comments. But I would like to supplement with a few paragraphs your powerful and ac- curate discussion of constitutional limitations and of revolutionary tenden- cles. ‘What {s the outcome of this war to be? The humiliation of Spain un- doubtedly, and possibly, in the event of combined interference by European powers, a magnificent vindication of the strength, the intelligence, and the physical and moral ascendency of the composite race which speaks our language. But after that, what? This is the question of questions on our na- tional birthday. Are American institutions to be permanently changed. Do the new conditions of modern times demand a political revolution? Or is the system of government devised by the fathers of the republic, as inter- preted and conducted during the first century of its existence, the best guaranty we possess for the spread and the durability of organized and edu- cated liberty? These interrogations are variously answered. You have responded to them rationally and strongly. In relation to them, my own opinions are so fixed and my feelings so intense, that I read with horror of the tendencies which you are seeking to counteract and which are manifested, at least on th surface, in every direction. Our national flag has no connection with classes or with dynasties. It is the converging point for humanity everywhere. It represents the possi- ble breadth and depth of fraternal patriotism. It means the Declaration of Independence—the Constitution of the United States—Washington’s Fare- well Address—the Monroe Doctrine defined—our Civil War, with its results of unclassified freedom, of law and order, of an ibroken Union of hearts and hands. But, in some parts of our Republic, and among men of influence and standing, it is boldly asserted that we have outgrown the theories and the practice of a hundred years and that the war in which we are engaged fur- nishes us with an opportunity or a pretext for abandoning our constitu- tional moorings, and launching into a dazzling care.r of conquest, which will necessarily b-ing us into an alliance with Great Britain, not for the legiti- mate purpose of maintaining the fundamental rights of men, 'ut to extend our dominion through the essential methods of imperialism. It has been said that “war is hell,” but these ideas and projects are worse. They are false in every detail. They involve among those who pro- mulgate them, consciously or unconsciously, treason to the flag, and trea- son to mankind. If the young men of the present day, with their high intel- lect, their noble ambition, their sturdy manhood, were seduce by them, they woul? make a long stride toward the destruction of their country, the obliteration of self-government, and the revival of Napoleonic despotism. The obstinate attempt to annex Hawali, ana the inflexible purpose an- nounced, not by the Government, but in Congress and in other quarters, to annex the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, the Canaries and other Spanish possessions, with their barbarous or mongrel populations, are illustrations of a deep-lai. revolutionary design, which must be trodden under foot at once, or we will follow the precedent of the Roman Republic with such un- erring certainty as almost literally to justify the universal application of Solomon’s aphorisn. that there is “nothing new under the sun.” Language, race, deep-seated love of freedom and independence, may retard, but they cannot arrest or turn the stream of conquest, when it once fairly begins to flow from the heart and brain of a great nation. Let any citizen read the history of the decline and fall, not of the Empire, but of the Republic of Rome, say in the pages of Duruy, and he will find whole chapters, which, with very slight changes, could be published as a narrative of what is go- ing on to-day in our own midst. The fact that we cannot annex Hawail or administer the Philippines or other Spanish possessions without breaking our constitutional compact, abrogating the Monroe doctrine and violating our own precedents and prac- tice, has been demonstrated until the argument has become threadbare. There is not a great lawyer, a great publicist, or a great American in any profession who would even attempt by any sound or honest reasoning or citations to dispute this proposition. And it ought to be superfluous to say that the essence of treason is to defy the constitution. But, independently of these conclusive points, what caused the destruc- tion of the Roman republic but foreign conquest, colonization, mercenary armies and the internal corruption, individual, social and political, which inevitably flowed from these causes? How can we expect to avoid identical consequences if we drift into identical channels? 1If we annex Hawaii, against the will of its people, if we take the Philippines, we cannot develop them Into States, and, with their inferior populations, we must govern them as dependencies. A policy of conquest, once adopted, never ~*ops until Prov- idence breaks it up. With the schemes already developed we shall need the second largest navy in the world and an army of 500,000 men. Who are to compose that army? The forces we are now sending to the Philippine Islands and to Cuba are mainly American young men, fresh from the American schools, filled with the ardor of citizenship,and with the glow of intelligence behind the fire of their rifles. These men have left their various pursuits in life, their relatives, their families, their useful functions in civilized Amer- ican societv not for the pay, which is a poor substitute for what they have sacrificed, but for patriotism. They saw that Spain had to be thrashed, after hostilities were once declared, and they have deliberately accepted their share of the danger and of the glory. These men will not remain in a standing army, itself a menace to liberty, but they will do their work and go back to their homes and to industry. The standing army of the United States, like the standing army of the Roman republic, will be composed of mercenaries, incapable of citizenship, and in this, as in every other particular, if treason- able counsels should prevail, the deadly parallel of history will be completed. This is by no means all I could say, but it is all I will say now, and it is the contribution of one humble citizen to the literature of our national holiday in 1898. PUBLICOLA. THE FOURTH IN THE INTERIOR HE Fourth of July observances of Participated in by Naval Reserves, United the year 1898 in the towns, cities tates volunteers and others. Forty ves. sels are advertised to take part. Ti and hamlets of California will be | pEs: &% rtised to part. The Jong reietitiered). Tha | war with | Doe Jons.oF the day il s, Major Larmb, Vallejo will begi ;: Spain Has favsied Satrlotism ntol] A band. conPa At DK ot S a blaze, and from one end of Cali-|lowed by the arrival of the marines from fornia to the other national salutes, fer-| Mare Isiand, and at 10 o'clock the pro- | vid oratory, parades, pyrotechnics and | (ESSION ,\Z‘ui!l}sfi{vil :;_der m’}hdxreuion ot | national songs will illustrate this fact. | tp, % igan. e _orator of San Francisco and Oakland and other the day will be Hon. Fr SGow and Trank R. Deviln will be tha onans communities near at hand have published | dent. In the afterncon the children will their programmes in the local papers. rAflrud.& xYachts of the Pacific Interclub What will take place at home is kn(;wn "f:gcc'a;gsgrgiycezdd gayety to the pa- of all men. While we are celebrating, nces. some Interior towns and citles Will Do | pracecsion will. ponarar froudly. The engaged to-day as follows: under the leadership of Frank Miller as | San Jose will have a parade in five divi- grlll‘!q marshal. One division will consist sions, exercises at the park and fireworks. | {01¢! y“l_’,fnsc]ggfil‘ dchndr]en. The second divi- Rev. Dr. Kummer will offer prayer; Miss | great chorus will tabe ggo?d men. A Margaret Griffith will read the Declara- | &t the Pavilion. Elwood Brumsr s | tion of Independence; Colonel Frank H. | liver the zddress on “The Future ngfi: Powers of San Francisco will deliver the | Way of the Republic.” oration. There will be music by the Fifth | 3 l?\"‘a-.\ HU}_.\((}’:’ i1l tcelrebll"ate with John F. Regiment Band; a flag drill; singing by | Wl Jr. as grand marchey apd N. 1 a chorus, and so on. The procession Will | be a_flout in'the procession deod in | Include floats. Master Macauley will rep- | the Goddess of Liberty, and the ge-ee. resent George Washington, and Miss | tion will include, among many other Eleanor Cator will represent California. d":fi",‘;fi‘é“’“sh“ body of lady ecyclers, | The fireworks will include “Hobson Cork- | ete. The oration will ho 5, [0F Prizes, ing Up Spain” “Company B on to Ma- | Theodore A. Bell, 'Miss Baiin o ohors nila,” and “The American Flag.” The |is the Goddess of Liberty. She wilibe at. grand marshal of the day will be George | tended by Misses Ethel Hartsod and Y. Bolinger. | l?em?:h:eé:‘;e{im% The different Stafes will Santa Cruz will revel In the spectacle | ing sthiciae o Y School children carry- of a military, naval, civic and industrial | Stockton will have a procession, literary parade; in literary exercises, which will | eXercises, a naval display on Stockton include an :ll;auon by Willlam H. Alford; &%:;:1 E:mdma; ’gls&luy rfllf flrewogs in a baseb: game; a sham battle; and e e chief marshal, by night in a “spectacular reproduction Mayor Engiish the president aid Rev. W. of Dewey's famous battle at Manila,” C. Evans the orator. Los Angeles will make a feature of its procession, which will be in eleven divi- sions, the colored people having a sepa- rate division. The customary literary and musical exercises, etc., will take place. San Bernardino and Redlands will cele- brate jointly. The procession will include civic organizations. Judge F. F. Oster is the president of the day. Wilford N. Peck of Riverside will deliver the oration. Mrs. Kendall Holt will read, the Declaration of Independence. Athletic sports and pyro- technics are on the programme. Goddesses of liberty and goddesses of war will abound, too numerous to men- tion. Some of the orators who will voice atriotism at various places are as fol- ows: Red Bluff, Captain T. B. Dozier; Grass Valley, Thomas J. Barry; San Luis Obispo, Warren M. John; Sonora, Critten- den Hampton; Halfmoon Bay, George C, Ross; Lewiston, Professor G. E. Bailey; Santa Rosa, Judge A. J. Buckles; Tesla, Walter J. Bartnett; Monterey, Ross Sar- gent: Angels Camp, C. R. Hawle Por- terville, Forest L. Alford of Tulare: Som- ersville, C. F. Montgomery; Vacaville, Ar- thur_Eiston of Berkeley; Upper Lake, Joe Craig: Petaluma, T. J. Butts of Santa Rosa; Willows, Seth_ Millington; Fresno, N. L. F. Bachman; Bishop, F. C. Scott; Bridgeport, L. D. Murphy; Smith River, D. W. Finch; Nevada City, Burdette Cor- nell: Ferndaie, A. J. Monroe; Lodi, Rev. J. W. Brier Jr.; Guerneville, J. C. Sims Sonoma City, Henry Hogan of Napa; Ma. rysville, John P. Irish; Sonora, Crittenden Hampton; Santa Clara, David M. Burn- ett: Lompoc, Professor Halton Webb. The following significant bit is from the Los Angeles Herald: “British-born Americans” will turn out in force on the Fourth of July, and they promise to provide an interesting and characteristic feature of the parade. Tt is a noteworthy fact that at the meeting vesterday which took steps to organize the affair the feeling was predominant that this British feature of the parade must be primarily American. However much love and admiration British-born citizens of the United States feel for the land and the flag of their birth, the fealty they .ave sworn to Old Glory will always overrule. No one will deny his father- land: still less can the true man be dis- loyal to the land of his adoption. Ameri- cans of British birth are entitled to every duty and privilege of this free land. Their demonstraton on our national holiday will be of peculiar significance when ~they march beneath the star spangled banner and the union jack. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Rearmament and refits of the older British armored ships are progressing. The Alexandra, 9490 tons, built in 1877, has been fitted with six 4.7-inch quick-firers in place of the old six 4-inch battery, but the main battery of eight 10-inch and two 9.2-inch muzzle and breech loaders still remains, owing to lack of modern guns. The ship has also been fitted with four-bladed pro- pellers in place of the three-bladed, which were unsuited for the unusual full lines of the hull. . The Niobe, one of the elght new 11,000 tons protected cruisers building for the British navy, has passed through some of her steam trials. Under one-fifth power she developed 3341 horsepower during thir- ty hours and 12 knots speed, using 177 pounds of coal per horsepower per hour. With full power 16.834 horsepower were de- veloped during eight hours and a speed of 20.5 knots with a coal consumption of only 1.66 pounds. The contract required was 16,500 horsepower and 20.5 knots speed. Commander Herman Gercke of the Ger- man navy has an elaborate article with numerous {llustrations in the Marine Rundschau on the disaster to the Maine. He proves to his own satisfaction at least that the explosion was not caused by a mine or any other outside agency, but that the forward magazine of the Maine caused the catastrophe. He claims that there was an accumulation of gases from the powder and explosives, the properties and dangers were not understood by the officers on the ship and that these gases caused the forward magazines to explode. Similar conclusions have been reached by “naval experts” in France, Spain and Austria, tending to show that the articles have been inspired by the Governments of those countries. On the other hand in countries friendly to the United States there has been no attempt to disprove the conclusions reached by our naval board that the Maine was destroyed by agencies outside the ship. The failure of the Terrible to maintain a more than ordinary speed, owing to de- fects in her engines, is being investigated by a board appointed by the British ad- miralty. Lord Beresford has promised a thorough examination and that the public will be made acquainted with the facts. He is not ready to lay the blame on the contractors, J. & G. Thompson, Clyde- bank, but is of the opinion that the high pressure of steam, which is 230 pounds, may have something to do with the inabil- ity of the engines to work where 180 pounds has hitherto proved no obstacle. It is the first time, it Is claimed, that en- gines of such great horsepower have been built and that it may be found that the limit of safety has been exceeded. Other ships with 21,000 horsepower, such as the Minneapolis, have three engines, whereas in the Terrible and Powerful the two en- gines are worked un to 14,000 horsepower each, or just double that in American, French and German ships. Great Britain has acquired from China an extension of territory around Hong- kong of 1247 square miles. The original treaty of 1843 gave England only about 29 square miles, but the acquisitions of Ger- many and Russia by leases from China necessitated a like course on the part of Great Britain and by a treaty of June 9 this year a lease of 99 years was given covering the waters of Mirs Bay, Deep Bay, the peninsula and promontory of Kau-lung and island of Lan-tao. ‘The ter- ritory extends about 43 miles east and west and 29 miles north and south. Dur- ing the year past active preparations have been In progress to extend the fortifica--- tions and improve the dockyard facilities of Hongkong, for which several million doliars were appropriated, and another foreign stronghold in the Chinese empire to outrival those at Port Arthur and Kiau Bay will be completed within a few yvears, The British torpedo-boat destroyer Dasher of 220 tons, built in 1895, has had her Thorneycroft locemotive boilers-taken out and water-tube boilers substituted. ‘With the latter she developed last month during a three hours’ trial an' dverage of 3388 horsepower and a speed of 27 knots, while with the old boilers the horsepower was only 3152 and the speed 26.21 knots. Treat your friends to Townsends Call- fornia Glace Fruits, 50c 1b. in fire etched boxes. 627 Market st., Palace Hotel bldg.* Erm g ko information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen'’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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