The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FR CISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 11, 189 e <5 JULYS11, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. d nications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. P. Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 29| Stevenson Strest Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.. teees...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE... .-Room 188, World Bulilding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs Houss C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... -..Marquette Buliding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. Address All Commu; One year. by mall, $1.50 SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 194! Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Nission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | AMU ENTS, Lost—24 Hours Moroseo's—“Romany Rye " Tivoli—+Fatinitza.” Chutes— deville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. French Celebration—At the Chutes. Thursday, July 4. r Mason and Eddy streeis, Specialties. wimming. ancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, July 11, Groceries, at 1950 Howard street, at 11 o clock. By A. . Ruoker - Tuesday, July 12, Ho' #2s, etc., 81721 How- ard sireet, at1l o'clock. CONDITION OF BUSINESS. | ’_‘["HE semi-annual trade reports just made up | show results rather above even the sanguine ex- pectations of those optimistic operators who last winter predicted a phenomenal spring trade. If any- thing is calculated to depress a country’s trade it is a foreign war, and yet, in spite of the war, business during the past six months has been better on the whole than ever before. The failures, as before re- | marked, have shown a marked decrease, and the | bank clearings have uniformly exhibited a pro- | nounced gain over the same period in 1897. We be- gin the second half of the year with a war tax which will largely increase the revenue without seriously For the first week the country show a gain of 14.8 per cent as compareéwi!h the | 1e week last year, and from present indications the usual midsummer lull will be shorter and less pro- | nounced than usual owing to the continuous demand for goods all over the country. Signs are also mul- tiplying that the fall trade, which will soon open, will behind the remarkable movement of last inconveniencing any line of trade. of the new half year the bank clearings of rvey of the general field of business reveals no atures out of the ordinary. It is seldom that pro- | nounced features are visible in midsummer, when the | business men of the country, from the New York cier down to the commonplace tradesman, are g their annual respite. Speculative operations in the different stock and product exchanges are being m: ly diminished by the new stamp tax, | which acts as a severe check upon all exchange of res not strictly legitimate. Brokers are careful bout their transactions, when each one requires a np, and wash sales have, therefore, gone out of | on all over the country. This in itself is not at | a bad thing. The great staples show normal ac- } tivity for the season on the whole, and there are in- | dications of increasing animation in the iron trade, | which has been active all the year. Pigiron is in es- | pecially improved demand, and agricultural imple- ments are being called for in the West and North- west as fast as the factories can turn them out. Evi- dently the farmers are doing a land office business this | year. These two sections also continue to lead the | rest of the country in distributive trade, though the | East and South both report a better movement ini this line. Wool rules quiet, though a better inquiry | has developed during the past ten days, because the | Western holders ask prices which the Eastern manu- i facturers cannot afford to pay. The cotton crop is | looking better and the South is rapidly increasing its manufacture, while the Northern mills are more ac- | tively employed than usual at this time of the year. | As for our cereal exports, they are far ahead of the | normal and could not well be better. The business | failures last week, however, exhibited an increase over the corresponding week in 1897. Locally there is little new. Like the greater part of the country, California is vegetating through the summer. Harvesting is in full blast, and the farmer is getting good returns for almost everything he raises. Nothing has declined iu value during the past week, and the general tendency in all products is toward still better prices. All products are just about short enough to create fine quotations without pinch- ing the State. There is no over-production in any- thing this year, nor is there a famine in any article of produce. The light production of 1898 will result in at least another good year in 1899, and we will probably go into the twentieth century with flying colors, because everything we raise this year will doubtless be all cleaned up when the 1899 crops come in, and they will thus find a clear field. So the great dry year of 1808 is quite likely to prove a blessing after all. At any rate, the agricultural depression which prevailed from 1893 to 1896, both years in- clusive, has passed out of sight, and the farmer is doing first-rate once more. The merchant comes in for his share of this prosperity as a natural conse- quence, so everything.is cheerful again. Germany seems to thinkl that this country is under great obligations to her. It must be admitted that Germany has contributed to this country many good citizens, but this was not because she wanted to. It was because she couldn’t help it. Instead of howl- ing about the obligations of friendship we owe Ger- many the beery editors over there ought to make out a list of them. At the next meeting between Cervera and Blanco there will be a sense of chill so decided that the tropic climate will for a time be shorn of its terrors. It is to be hoped that the boy shot by Mrs. O’Con- nor will recover, and that both of the parties in in- terest will know better next time. An observer of human affairs says that Spain needs a Thiers. Our idea of it is that Spain is get- ting exactly what she needs. e When Spain applies for peaceand means business the application will be directed to a representative of the United States. é | confront difficulties which promise to transcend any | ning. | is not usually a sudden matter, not in the air yester- | day, but to-day accomplished. Even when such policy | conforms to the genius and meets the necessities of | war of conquest,’ | in war. ! subordinate colonists, the decision will not be sud- | start to finish. 1troops UBLIC opinion in this country is directed, in WILL OURNATIONAL POLICY CHANGE? pa marked manner, to events that will follow the close of our war with Spain. At present the only easy place in the outcome seems to be Porto Rico, where there was little discontent with Spanish rule and where the people seem to pre- fer some government to none, and have not given their interests and aspirations into the keeping of any grandiloquent “general” or word-mongering Junta. Being inclined to look with favor upon government, they also seem discriminating enough to prefer the best they can get, which is a distinct advance upon the practice of their congencrs in some other parts of Latin America. Turning away from Porto Rico we that arise from the Spanish situation direct. The future of Cuba and the Philippines presents the problem toward which American thought is run- It is not probable that we are to witness a sud- den change in policy that will so acutely wrench our institutions as to mar them like the work of a con- vulsion. The assumption of distant jurisdiction, and the appearance of a nation as a power in all zones, a country, it does not fall from the skies like thei meteors of November, but begins in a cloud less than | a man's hand. England acquired the greatest of her external possessions, India, slowly and by indirection. It was a far cry from the first factory of the East India Company, on a fever smitten coast, to Plassy and the final ruin of the Mogul Empire. English- men first appeared in the Hindostan peninsula as | traders, and commerce went before conquest. The | method of English administration in India was of slow growth. Its germs were in the experiences of the East India Company, and its expanéion and ap- plication have been wrought out by some of the best | intellects in Great Britain. As American ambition toward an imperial colonial policy has first to settle with Spain, and then with | various and very incipient Caesars, in Cuba and the | Philippines, there is likely to be ample time for the sober second thought of our people to weigh and measure an acute departure in the second century of | our existence from the pledges and policies of the | first. | There is in process of manufacture a public senti- | ment against giving up any territory which we take by conquest, and to propose it may soon come to be denounced as unpatriotic. In order to ease the situ- ation and purge it of that element, let it be understood that if it be good policy to wage the war to a close for the purpose that was declared at f{ts opening, when the President said to the world, “This is not a ’ it will be quite as patriotic to ab- | stain from imperialism as to enter upon it. It is a mistake to suppose that patriotism is pos- sible"in war only. It is more necessary in peace than It is needed to keep virgin the national | honor and preserve it unstained by bad faith and hypocrisy. The patriotism of war will fill the ranks, fight the battles and cherish the weak and wounded, preserving the memory of the fallen in unfailing honor. The patriotism of peace will settle the results of the war and determine the further duty of the republic; whether it be to remain the master of the world by striking in far lands and seas for rights of man, and giving all nations notice that those baptized into lib- erty by the chrism of American blood must hence- | forth be respected, for we will smite off the hand that touches tMem; or whether it be to stay in the arena of contention by taking Spanish government and self-government both from the people we have rescued, to hold them, not as fellow citizens, but as den, but the distant hour of judgment will find ts THE POPULIST CONVENTION. f ; TATE politics, which have long been simmer- | of the people at Sacramento to-morrow. The Populist convention, which is to assemble in thati the general public an opportunity to see whatiin- | into the mixture, and which is going to dominate the whole when the boiling is done and the scum has It is already evident that the stalwart Populists are not going to be permitted to manage their household interferers, kickers and bulldozers around them from It will be, in fact, a Populist conven- representatives of all the factions in the Democratic camp, all sorts of silverites and Bryanites, and of office-seekers in the State, and their part in the pro- ceedings will be hardly less important than that of It is recorded in the Book of Samuel that when David established his camp at the cave of Adullam in debt and every one that was discontented gath- ered themselves unto him.” It is this kind of a crowd earnest Populists at Sacramento. The Adullamites with their political distresses, debts and discontents, road reformers take to the woods with silver Repub- licans and out-of-office Democrats if they can. It is principle and the hungry men of greed, and the con- test will be worth the close and careful study of all If the honest and earnest Populists had a fair field 1t is probable they would overcome their opponents Bryanite factions that are secking to make use of it. It is certain, however, that they are not to have fair varieties of Democrats have already stolen a march upon them, and when the convention assembles a considerable number who are far more devoted to Bryanism or to Maguireism than to Populism. and traitors in the convention itself, the true Popu- lists will have need of all their strength and all their under foot and their party from destruction. It is that fact which gives more than ordinary interest to the is at stake on the issue. It is to be a battle for life. The party was sorely shattered by the fusion of 1896, tion disappear from our politics forever. e ill will between Sampson and Schley, at least until there had been some remote indication of this feel- with judgment matured. ing, will begin to bubble and boil over in sight | city, will take the lid off the pot, as it were, and give | gredients of fusion and confusion have been thrown been skimmed off. in their own way. They will have advisers, coaxers, tion in name only. There will be at the gathering every other sort of discontented clique or gang of the Populists themselves. “every one that was in distress and every one that was that is going to assemble to hamper and perplex the will block the highways and make the middle-of-the going to be a struggle between the sincere men of citizens. and save their party from being subordinated to the play. The so-called silver Republicans and several there will be found among the delegates themselves Thus, with swarming wire-pullers on the outside sagacity to save their principles from being trampled convention. The existence of Populism in California and if it surrenders once more it will as an organiza- Tt might be well.to stop guessing at the existence of ing. The outcry against Camp Merritt is getting a little tiresome, but a good way to end it would be to be- gin to prepare the Presidio for the reception of A MONUMENT TO JOBBERY. O-DAY the ferry depot is to be given over to the public. The great building, impressive to the eye, but from ground to tower-tip a sham, is almost out of the hands of the jobbers. It is a monument to the work of these jobbers. Over the main entrance to the city has been reared a deception in stone, a pretense in wood, the mutilated sugges- tion of that which the architect planned and for which the people pay. The shameful story has been told again and again, and while the truth has caused indignation, it has not brought any one to the felon’s dock, herein fall- ing short of the purpose of its telling. The men who had charge of the erection of the building have seemed to try to devise methods by which to squander the funds provided and cheat the community which had trusted them. The sum of ,000 had been voted for the structure. After all the contracts had been let there remained of this at least $35,000, ample margin, it would appear, for all emergency. Straightway began a series of changes. Cheaper stone was used than the contract called for, pine was substituted for oak, terra cotta tiling was abolished, wooden shutters took the place of steel, plumbing specifications were ignored, common brick worth $14 laid in the wall supplanted that for which the con- tractor would have had to pay $125. Numerous par- titions were eliminated. The list is too long to set forth in detail. Enough to say the changes, all bad, extended to every department of the work, that con- tractors were permitted to do as they pleased, and actually received extra pay for changes for which they could have afforded to pay the State a handsome bonus. The details may all be found in the files of this paper, and in the records of the Grand Jury. It might have been supposed that allowing con- tractors to use cheap material where good material had been called for in the specifications, by the terms of which they were legally and morally bound, would have resulted in a saving to the State. Quite the contrary. With all the shoddy substitution the money has been used to the last cent, and it was found ne- cessary to actually leave one story unfinished for lack of cash. pended? . By what right did Colnon and Swain waste State funds? Why should they escape punishment? These are some of the questions naturally arising as 'the gigantic swindle they engineered to a botched completion is turned over to the use of a common- | wealth which has been betrayed by its paid servants. Californians are liberal. They take pride in any material improvement. It is not their way to enjoy being the victims of a confidence game. They agreed | to pay for a first-class depot, and expected to get it. They did their share; they paid. They did not get the depot. In its place they receive an inferior build- ing, walled, plastered, honeycombed and topped with glaring fraud. OUR UNTHANKED SEAMEN. / \ orable in itself and illustrious by its record in our history, the /United States Senate shortly after the noble feat of Hobson and his brave crew of the Merrimac, adopted a resolution con- ferring upon them the thanks of the nation. The resolution, following the form usual in such acts of CTING in accordance with a precedent hon- | recognition to our heroes in war, purported to be | the thanks of Congress, and therefore required adop- tion by the House of Representatives. It is a matter of amazement and indignation that the House ad- journed without acting upon the resolution, leaving the valor of the heroic deed unrecognized and the heroes unthanked. The story comes from Washington that when an attempt was made to have the Senate resolution re- ported to the House for action it was defeated, largely through the influence of Dalzell of Pennsylvania, who went about and warned the members that if the reso- lution were passed it would confer upon the seven seamen who shared Hobson's heroic deed the privi- lege of the floor of the House for life. On that ar- gument the resolution was set aside. the House concluded that it would be better to leave the brave men without recognition than to give them such thanks as, in accordance with precedent, would entitle the seamen to enter the august chamber where Congressmen hold their deliberations. It is difficult to believe that a motive so slight as the one given could have moved any considerable number of intelligent American Representatives to refuse to Hobson and his companions a recognition which by long usage has become an established form of rewarding patriotic services in this country. There is nothing in the person of a brave seaman such as those who sunk the Merrimac under Spanish forts that would contaminate the average Congressman, nothing that would pollute a hall habitually used by suoh-men as those who have refused the recognition. Moreover, the seven men will be most of their lives at sea. They are not to be hanging around the Cap- itol. It is doubtful if any of them would ever make the use of the “privilege of the floor” more than once and then only to enjoy the honor conferred on him by the country which he loves and in whose cause he had distinguished himself in a host of brave men. The whole thing seems to have been another illus- tration of that extraordinary social influence exerted in Washington against every attempt at the advance- ment or promotion of seamen in the navy. It is a strange fact that an enlisted man or a young appren- tice seaman has a better chance for preferment and honor in the aristocratic navy of monarchical Eng- land than in our own. The whole of our system of officering the navy seems in need of reconstruction from top to bottom, and the accomplishment of that reform at this time would be a good way of giving thanks to Hobson and his men without in any way exposing Congressmen to the danger of having to admit a seaman to the floor of the House. General Miles seems inclined to think that all the land fighting thus far has been done by the regular army. Friends of the dead volunteers, of course, make a merely civilian estimate, but they are not ready to accept this view. e Belief is expressed in some quarters that the Span- ish will not get back any of their islands; and that they will be required to pay indemnity besides. But what with? They couldn’t so much as find an indorser for their note. SRR One writer remarks that Spain and the United States are separated by an unfathomable gap. He might have called attention to the danger that Spain may fall into the gap. - A Spaniard at Salinas, maddened by the news of the defeat at Santiago, ran amuck, and had to be violently restrained. He deserves a place in the Madrid Ministry. — Cubans, it is said, must prove their fitness before they will be permitted to govern themselves. Strictly adhered to, this will defer their independence about 100 years. There is no doubt that the Spanish admiral who still has a ship will use every effort to be a Camara ob- scurer than Watson will permit him to be. Who got this money? Why was it ex- | RICH QUARTZ BROUGHT FROM A GOLDEN ISLE The Prospectors Prefer It to the Diggings in the Neighbor- hood of Dawson. “The Island of Gold” has been discov- ered and the bonanza which H. Talbot ‘Watson and his confreres came all the way from England to pre-empt has been taken by other parties. From all accounts, however, the new El Dorado is anything but a second Klondike. Yesterday the schooner Altair arrived from Karluk and in her hold there are sixteen sacks of ore which are said to be falr samples of the ledge located for Messrs. Hotaling, Gor- den and Garratt. Dan Dougherty, an old miner who came down from Karluk with the gold hunters, does not think very much of the find, however, and says there are lots of better locations on “The Island of Gold.” A couple of years ago L. Gilbert was mate of the American ship St. Nicholas and went with his vessel to the canneries on Kodiak Island, “The Island of Gold.” While out hunting he ran across some quartz ledges and secured a number of samples. These specimens he brought back to San Francisco with him and gave them to Mr. Garratt, who had them as- sayed. The assay showed that the stuff was worth from $250 to $£00 a ton. In the meantime Gilbert had become ac- quainted with the captain and told that gentleman all about his discovery and pricked off its exact location on the chart. With a few of the specimens Moore went to England and there interested H. Talbot Watson and others. When Watson and his experts reached San Francisco they handed over $10,000 to Moore, with which he purchased and outfitted the schooner Free Trade. The story of that vessel and her visit to Kodiak Island, where Watson and_his party were put ashore, has al- ready been told. Before the Free Trade got away from here, however, Moore and Gilbert, the latter of whom was golx_llg as first mate on the Free rade, had a falling out and Gilbert left the vessel. He at once interested A. P. Hotaling and Messrs, Gordon and Garratt, with the result that the schooner Altair was fitted out in a hurry and sent post haste after the Free Trade. Both vessels met in Uyak Bay. It was there that trouble broke out on the Free Trade, and Moore would have got the worst of it had not Gilbert gone to his assistance. This part of the story is denied by Cap- tain Gilbert and Mate Hanson of the Al- tair. One thing is certain, however. The Free Trade sailed away and the Altair re- mained behind to allow Gilbert to relocate his gold mines. An old miner called “Jim- my’” helped the skipper in his search, and the sixteen sacks of ore in the hold of the Altair are the result of his labors. “Jim- my”’ was sent North by Mr. Hotaling. ‘While in Uyak Bay Mate Holmes near- ly lost the number of his mess. He went out hunting and ran across a big bear. He wounded the animal and it showed fight. It played hide and seek around a big boulder wi. the mate for nearly half an hour, until, just as Holmes was ready to drop from exhaustion, he got a chance and put a bullet into bruin in a vital part and the battle was over. Mate Holmes brought the skin down with him and Is very proud of his trophy. Dan _Dougherty, who came down from “The Island of Gold” on the Altair, has been away from civilization for ten years. Oncae every six months he has been in the habit of going to Karluk for letters and supplies, and he would not now be in San | Francisco were it not for the fact that he requires machinery to work his mine. His place is forty miles from Karluk, and he says it is quite enough of a Klondike for him. He brought down with him three packages on which he declined to place any value. They must be worth consider- able, however, judging by the self-satis- fied smile that sprea.. over his face when the valley of the Yukon was mentioned “'Gold-bearing quartz can be found cro ping out all over the island,” e terday, “‘but the question work? These Altair people have simply located a ledge, the same as dozens of other people have done, but it remains to be seen what their specimens will say. I'm perfectly satisfied with my location, and I'm going back there as soon as I transact some business here.” Soon after the anchor was dropped the crew of the Altair went ashore. One sailor was left aboard, but he was so helplessly drunk that neither kicks nor cuffs would wake him. The only thing on watch was a little black pup, and it barked at every passing vessel until it got tired and went to sleep beside the drunk- en sailor, with small tubes are washed with weaker solutions, after which the tubes are fllled with fresh water. Next a smoky fire i3 bullt in the furnaces with coal tar, the smoke from which forms a coating on the tubes. A quantity of quickltme is then placed In the boiler, the casing closed and kept airtight, and finally the outside is painted with red lead or coal tar. Triple screws and water tubes are being introduced in several of the ships build- ing for the German navy. Two battle- ships to replace the Friederich der Grosse and Preussen will have triple screws, and one first-class crulser of 6300 tons and four second-class cruisers of only 5650 tons, named Freya, Hertha, Victoria Luise and Vioreta will be similarly fitted, Three types of water-tube boilers—the Niclausse, Belleville and Durr—are being experimented with, and one-third of the steam generating power in the new ships 1s supplied by either of these bollers and two-thirds is still retained by the ordi- nary box boilers. In the navy of Holland the practice is to use equal parts of each type, while in the British and French navies the water-tube boilers are sup- planting the Scotch boilers entirely. Lord Brassey professes surprise at the apparent saperiority of recent ships built at Elswick for foreign governments as compared with ships of the same class and displacement in the British navy. The Japanese cruiser Tagasako of 4300 tons is compared with the Astrea class of British cruisers of 4360 tons, and the comparison is in favor of the Japanese. The latter mounts two 8-inch quick-firers, ten 4.7-inch, elght 12-pounders and six 1%-pounders, carries 800 tons of coal and has a speed of 24 knots. The Astrea has a battery of two 6-inch quick-firers, eight 4.7-inch, elght 6-pounders and one 3- pounder, carries only 400 tons of coal and her maximum speed is only 195 Kknots. The apparent vast superiority of the for- eign ships is probably not quite so great actually, and it is possible that the Brit- ish ship carries a greater quantity of am- munition. The disparity, however, is un~ doubtedly considerably In favor of the Elswick-built ship, and the solution lies probably in the fact that the designer in the Armstrong vard is not hampered by the interference which exists in all navies, and prevents the director from properly exericising his functions of naval construction in the British navy. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.% —_————————— Going out of business. Best eyeglasses and specs, 15c to 40c. 65 Fourth, nr. Ba: ber. Open Sundays from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. —— The British soldier has not always worrn a red uniform. White was the prevailing color under Henry VIII, and dark green or russet in the time of Elizabeth. — ce———— Speefal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. & COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodl is at the Grand. H. Bell of San Jose is staying at the Baldwin. Judge R. B. Carpenter of Los Angeles is at the Grand. 8. W. DeWitt of Washington, D. C., is registered at the Baldwin. George M. Bowers, a merchant of Ari- zona, is staying at the Grand. C. W. Underwood, a mail contracter of Missour], is a guest at the Grand. C. Gray, the twell-known journalist of Oroville, is stopping at the Grand. Edgar T. Wallace, a well-known mining man of Yreka, is registered at the Palace. G. H. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Clark and daughter are staying at the Baldwin. J. T. Watson, H. H. Darral, J. K. Thomas, and T. A. Siegel have returned from Dawson Clty, and are staying at the Baldwin. 0000000000 The following o ‘ O story comes like o IT WAS THE o an echo from the o END o boomand thunder of the glorious O OF THE END. © Fourth. Itis told o O by Cora Tinnle, S |{000000000O0O thevivacious sou- A majority of | brette of the Frawley company, and as she furnishes the element of the ludicrous in the narrative, there is a stamp of ver- aclty attached to it. Miss Tinnle, with a few friends, was at the Chutes on the night of the Fourth. Ardent patriotism and a youthful passion for fireworks were two of the chlef reasons for her presence there. A thick and penetrating fog could not chill the desire to see the pyrotechnic display, and despite the con- stant solicitations of her friends to leave the place she remained until the last pilece had been fired—and even longer. by the outpouring of humanity, but Miss Tinnie would not budge, for she spied a spark on one of the large figures and she waited for it to ignite. Around her gath- ered the rest of the party and they also waited. There they stood in the refrig- erated fog, expectant and watchful. The spark glowed, but it would not communi- cate to the rest of the skeleton. Remarks were passed by Miss Tinnie indicative of impatience, and some of the bystanders overheard them. One, a habitual at- tendant of pyrotechnic performances, broke out in a laugh of derision. Miss Tinnie looked annoyed, but before she had time to remonstrate the scoffer jumped over the railing separating the crowd from the consumed figures, and with a pull at the one Miss Tinnie was so pa- tiently watching brought it to the ground in a thousand pieces. It had been set-off an hour before. The spark Miss Tinnfe saw was the end of the end. J. H. Case of San Bernardino is at the Russ. M. B. Totten of Colusa is staying at the Russ. Isadore Laventhal of Los Angeles is at the Lick. Gilman Bullard of Helena, Mont., 18 at the Palace. Paul Wessinger, the leading brewer of Portland, is at the Baldwin. A. N. Butts and G. S. McNelll of Angels are stopping at the Occidental. E. C. Farnsworth, an attorney of Vi- salia, is registered at the Lick. F. W Willlams, a mine owner of Shin- gle Springs, is stopping at the Lick. H. E. Judge, president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, is at the Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kriger, Mrs. H. A. Horning and Justin 8. White of Corning are stopping at the Palace. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Spitfire, British torpedo-boat de- stroyer, collided last month with a coal hulk, disabling the boat’s steering gear and doing some damage to her hull plat- ing. ° Russia intends to hereafter maintain a naval force of some importance in Chi- nese waters, and two cruisers are to be permanently stationed at Vladivostock and Port Arthur. The battle-ship TIllustrious passed through her commission trial at sea June 22, making 15.9 knots with 10,016 horse- power under natural draught. The ship was down to a draught of 27 feet 6 inches forward and 28 feet 6 inches aft, displac- ing about 15,200 tons, or 300 tons over her normal displacement. A coffer-dam one and a half miles in length is being built in the mud to keep out the water of the Hamoaze from the site of the new docks in the course of construction at Keyham, England. The first section was put down and closed in less than six months, and one and a half The grounds were being cleared | million cubic feet of timber was used in its construction. The Queen’s yacht, Victoria and Albert, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire June 18. The fire started in a char- coal burner in the forecastle and the flames shot up to a great height. The crew, however, promptly responded to the alarm and only slight damage was done to the venerable wooden hull. The strike of the coal miners in South Wales has been the means of putting off the British naval maneuvers. It is not for the want of coal in the dockyards, for there is a more than usual heavy stock on hand, and it was broadly intimated in Parliament to the First Lord of the Ad- miralty that his course was prompted by a desire to take sides with the mine- owners against the strikers. The Atlas and Cyclops Works at Shef- fleld have made great improvements in | their armor-making plants. The latter has two hytrdaulic presses of 4000 and 10,000 tons capacity, and armor over six inches in thickness is not rolled but is placed under the hydraulic press. The Atlas Works has two overhead travel- ing cranes of 100 ‘and 150 tons capacity and a hydraulic press of 6000 tons. The preservation of boilers on board ships out of commission in the French navy is, according to latest regulations, as follows: Large boilers with large tubes get a_wash of strong milk of lime | or solution of soda, and tubular boilers | | | Sail from Folsom-street pler No. | 82 50 per day. e There are thirty palaces belonging to the imperial family in various parts of Japan, but the present Bmperor has never occupled more than four of them, and some of them he has never seen. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fity years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. 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