The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, FRIDAY........ e JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. L it Address wan:!nicltions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1888 EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street : Telephone Main 1874 ¥HE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is “served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. YHE WEEKLY CALL.. “One year, by mall, $1.59 | OAKLAND OFFICE... cesensen v+.-.908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Buildi DAHVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcatative. busmm:'rou (D. €.) OFFICE. Rigge Houee €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE...... ...Marquette Build C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | SRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | tion. | Committee ordered a primary and Mr. Rea’s follow- “JIM” REA’'S TRIUMPH. HE success which so far has attended in Sahta TClara County the efforts of James W. Rea to defeat the Republican party of California this year will be received by readers of The Call and Re- publicans generally, throughout the State, with re- gret and alarm. Mr. Rea objected to an open primary altogether, because such a thing would compel him to resort to unfair methods for depriving the people of Santa Clara County of representation in the State conven- He much preferred to appoint the delegates, and had he been let alone he would in so doing to a great extent have concealed the nature of his politi- cal leadership. But the Republican State Central ers have been forced to disfranchise his constituents by stuffing ballot boxes, suppressing Iegal votes, bull- dozing respectable citizens and carrying things gen- erally with a high hand. The affidavit of Charles J. Cornell, a resident of San Jose, that one of Rea's heelers deliberately pocketed his ballot and refused to deposit it in the box typifies the methods of the boss. He has car- open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, open untll 9:30 _o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open unth 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem | unth 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*His Absent Boy. Alcazar—+Camille Morosco’s—“The Cherry Pickers.” . Mivoli—*Tl Trovatore.” . Orpheum—Vaudevilla. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympla—Corner Mason and Bddy streets, Specialtles. Butro’s Baths—Swimming. El Campo—Mausic, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. ** Gtate Fair—Sacramento, September b. . Garden Party and Feto—At Orocker's residence, San Mateo, turday, August 13. AUCTION SALES. Moni6omery street, at 13 0’ clock. THE DUTY OF CITIZENS. N thousand personal interests that are insepara- -V bly bound up with the welfarc of the nation vformance of their political duties, and yet, in spite %of all and to the neglect of all, a very large propor- Tegister as voters and thus assure their right to vote f@t- the coming elections. ®pathy-among a considerable number of citizens with respect to politics. The registration at the City | three days remain for precinct registration. Unless there is an immediate awakening of the laggards to tain that many will fail to register and thus by their own fault forfeit the privilege of having a voicé and county officers this fall. -The worst feature of the situation is that it is al- By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monaay, August 15, Real Estate, at ATIONAL patriotism, State pride and all the fand the State combine to impel citizens to the per- fion of the people of this city have as yet failed to There seems to be something like the deadness of | Hall has been the lowest for many years, and but a sense of their responsibilities as citizens it is cer- a vote in the election of Congressmen and State and most a certainty that those who have neglected to | register are members of that class to which a com- ‘munity has to look for support’against the machina- tionts of bosses and the corrupting elements of poli- tics. . The henchmen of the bosses always register. Their votes never fail at primaries, or on election day. If, then, the citizens who are tndependent of | machine domination neglect to register, to attend | the primaries or to vote, the control of our politics falls necessarily into the hands of the bosses and those who are willing to co-operate with them. Three days remain for registration. The time has | come to make the last appeal to the laggards to rouse up from their apathy and attend to their polit- ical duty. If they continue to neglect the trust the | Government reposed in them when it established | universal manhood suffrage they will surely regret i | All citizens are concerned the maintenance of good government and all should help to sustain it. in THE CHEST-EXPANSION TEST. R. OLIN F. HARVEY of Pennsylvania, who D is reported to have recently examined more than a thousand applicants for admission to the volunteer army, has embodied the results of his observations in a statement that the defects snost frequent among the applicants were those of the eyes, of the teeth or of chest expansion. Concerning defcctive teeth, or eyes, there are not likely to be any great differences of opinion, but it is questionable whether the chest expansion test is @-fair one. According to reports of the statement that have come to us, Dr. Harvey says: “Strange @s.it may seem, nearly all who had narrow chests twere young farmers. Brought up to run a plow pr hoe and scrape the ground with long-handled tools, they had very strong arms and backs, but were muscle bound and bent over. Their chests had been contracted, and few of them could expand on inhala- gion the requisite two inches.” : / The very fact that young men brought up to work on farms could not stand the chest expansion test is one that tends to show there is something wrong with that standard of measuring strength or vital- ity. As a matter of fact, a great many people prac- tice abdominal breathing. Their chests are exer- cised only by labor. Therefore, the chest, while big enough for the lungs and strong enough to enable a.man to work all day at a threshing machine, i$ not elastic and does not respond easily to attempts at expanding it. On the other hand, some man who has practiced chest breathing may have a great deal of ‘elasticity and expansion, and yet be but a weak- ‘ling in comparison with the abdominal breather of “the harvest field. Any set of muscles can be developed by exercise. Continual piano playing will make a man’s fingers Isupple and strong, but it would be absurd to assume ‘therefore that the hand of a piano player is stronger ‘than that of a farm boy who has been handling a ‘hayfork, and whose fingers are not nimble at all. The elasticity of the chest muscles and the conse- qguent enlargement of the extent of chest expansion are undoubtedly desirable, but there is such a thing as overrating their importance to the human organ- ism. ° The greater portion of the lungs are below ‘the chest, and abdominal breathers are in most cases possessed of a larger lung power than the chest breathers. There is many a gymnastum athlete who, *3f set to work in a harvest field, would get out of wind, while the farm boy would be singing as he worked, and much the same difference of condition might result if the two were set to making quick time on a long march. .~ As a general rule, it may be stated that any test that excludes the American farmer’s boy from the _manks of a vitally strong manhood is very apt to be wrong. It may appear that his chest is contracted and his shoulders humped, according to city stand- ‘ards, but he is nearly always of perdurable tough; ‘mess, and whether at a fight or a frolic is a match ,br any man he meets. i i | disreputable of political tactics. | Republicans of that county? ried Santa Clara County by the most practical and But the questions which now demand an answer Has Mr. Rea thereby won the votes of the Can he, on election day, secure their support for the ticket which the men he has succeeded in sending to the Sacramento convention will aid in nominating? Are these dele- gates to be received into the counsels of the State Republican party with favor and will their opinions with reference to platforms, policies and candidates carry weight with the respectable Republicans who must sit down with them at Sacramento on the 23d inst., to choose a winning ticket? The Republican party of California has begun every campaign for many years with a bird of evil omen perched above its head. “Jim” Rea, it now seems probable, is to become the somber raven of the campaign of 1898, unless events shall develop a larger and more formidable imp in San Francisco. We think it is time for the Republicans of Cali- fornia to note what every intelligent man in all par- ties now accepts as the truth, namely, that their party cannot win so long as its Reas are permitted to con- trol its counsels. No stream ever rose above its source. It will be impossible for Mr. Rea to nomi- nate a winning ticket. If his delegates trade or combine with Pardee, Gage or any other candidate that will kill him. The Republican Convention which meets at Sacramento on the 23d imst. must face the great issue at last. Boss and corporation control must be repudiated. The people will never vote for candidates which are the product of railroad com- binations and political bossism. This fact is so conspicuous that it cannot be | gainsaid. The Republicans must cast out their bosses and corruptiomists or they cannot hope to win this battle. W Indies are concerned, and in that part of the field we are now studying the lessons that | have been taught by the campaign. This, it is al- | ready evident, is not going to be a pleasant task for | us, for despite the weakness of Spain she has given | us some things to learn that will scem bitter after the glory in which we have been indulging. The scope and intent of some of these lessons have been made public even at this early stage of the | study. In the first place it has been shown that this progressive nation actually sent to the field an army equipped with out-of-date arms and ammunition, and that the sluggish Spaniards were better supplied in that respect. In the second place our facilities for transporting troops, for feeding them, for equipping them with arms and uniforms and for properly caring | for them when wounded, were all inadequate to the " requirements of the emergency. The controversy now going on between the com- manding general at Santiago and the chief of the medical staff as to the responsibility for the lack of | sufficient medical supplies at the front during the fighting is one of the evidences that much has gone | wrong in the conduct of the campaign. Nor does | that controversy disclose the whole extent of it. Re- | ports of other officers abound in statements of our | shortcomings. In fact it is beginning to appear that our victorious march was due almost wholly to the | untiring energy and dauntless valor of our troops rather than to any other superiority over the foe. | ‘When we remember how proudly we have boasted | of our mechanical skill, our vast resources, our mas- \ tery of all the forces of science and art known to | civilization, and how often we have derided the | Spaniard for his medieval backwardness, it is dis- | agreeable to learn that thie Spanish outclassed us in | everything of that kind, and that we won simply be- | cause we are the better fighting animal. | It is useless in prosecuting these studies to seek | to place the responsibility and the blame for our | shortcomings upon the shoulders of any particular | man or set of men. To do so would be to lose the | whole profit that we can otherwise derive from them. | The officers in command did the best they could, and ‘ probably the best any one could, with the means at | their disposal. It is not their fault that the army had | old-fashioned rifles, no smokeless powder, no suffi- | cient means for transporting artillery. Nor is it the | fault of the Government that adequate transports for | the troops were not at hand, that the army mail went | astray and that other evils happened. { The fault is in ourselves and not in our Govern- | ment or.in our officers. We have gone on in the belief that this country has no need of an army. We | have permitted such nations as Spain and even | Turkey to surpass us in the efficiency of military | weapons. We have relied upon our isolation from | Europe to maintain peace and upon the inherent valor of our people to win battles. This reliance has not failed us utterly, but it has cost us much. We ought therefore as a people learn the lessons of this war and profit by them to such an extent that we will not be caught so unprepared hereafter. are: STUDYING THE LESSONS. AR is about over, at least so far as the West When Arkansas goes into the lynching business there is nothing small about it. We are bound to say, however, that the spectacle of five people, three of them women, dangling from convenient limbs, is not of a character to reflect credit upon American civili- zation. It is a little early in the game to accuse Alger of sending men to the front for political reasons. Of | course there are symptoms of peace, but they are more apt to become impressive if there are plenty of troops to encourage them. —— News accounts speak of “busted” miners in the Klondike. The expression may not be correct. However, no better one has been suggested. Aguinaldo and his followers are reported to be sullen, but their state of mind is really a matter of secondary importance. ‘ | people. THE CRITICISM OF SHAFTER. ELLOW jealousy and yellow journalism com- Ybine to gird at General Shafter. He and his old regiment are Californians and our pecople, regarding them as our fellow citizens, are interested in their honor and welfare. In the first place, General Shafter has been criti- cized for putting his men into battle so soon after landing at Santiago. tropical climate knows that, especially in the rainy season, which was on when our army landed, men from the temperate zone rapidly weaken and sicken. Shafter was highly wise when he fought his men as quickly as he could, for he had the use of the strength they brought from the North, which ten days later had been sapped completely by the tropi- cal heat and poison. There were many casualties. Yes, but if the men had lain in camp for ten days the Spaniards could have massacred them all, for their strength would have been gone and they would have been incapable of defense, to say nothing of aggression. Again, the casualties were numerous because it was the only real land battle fought dur- ing the brief war. There have been gallant dashes and heroic resistance to wild assaults, like that at Malate, wherein the finest results of discipline and the highest exhibitions of personal courage have gratified the country, but at Santiago was the only real, set battle of the whole war. There our troops met an entrenched and stubborn foe. Spanish skedaddle, but a contest to the death on both sides. It was a sustained action. Our troops pressed forward step by step, and died to hold what they had gained. Many fell, heroes all, and the swart soldiers who fell under their fire were heroes too. It was not an action with heroes on one side and poltroons on the other. Shaiter and his council of war planned the battle and it was fought out to the line on which they laid it. The desperate attempt of Cervera to escape and the destruction of his fleet hastened conclusions. It is probable that, without that event, to have car- ried the city by assault would have required a con- siderable addition to our forces, fresh from the North and bringing strength with it to replace that which was rapidly ebbing from the regiments first landed. General Shafter was not responsible for the lack of equipment of the medical and hospital corps. He was not responsible for the theit of what meager stores there were by our ignoble allies, the thieves under Garcia. Equipment is the business of the quartermaster general and the surgeon general of the army. Shaiter is no more to blame for its lack than he is for the poison climate of Cuba which felled his men when Spanish bullets failed. Shafter commanded in the single land battle and won it. He received the surrender of a city and a province and its guarding garrisons of 24,000 men. He maintained civil order, set up a government and promoted the resumption of commerce and the arts of peace, so necessary to avert starvation of the Carping and yellow criticism cannot alter OUR VANISHING FORESTS. these facts nor tarnish his image in history. T this season, when we are preparing to elect f:\ a new Legislature, when progressive men are considering what legislation to ask on behali of the general welfare next winter, and when forest fires are sweeping away thousands of dollars’ worth of property every week, it is pertinent both to the politics and the industrial interests of the State to | iterate and reiterate the importance of providing pro- tection for our woodlands. For that reason, though we have repeatedly directed attention to the subject of late, we return to it this'morning with a new argu- ment. A few days ago we showed the interest taken by the Eastern States in the problem of forest preserva- tion by extracts from a discussion upon the issue a the recent meeting of the wood pulp paper manu turers. To-day we direct attention to the same prob- lem considered from the point of view of the lumber industry. In reviewing the growing scarcity of lumber woods and the increasing value of forests as far west as Michigan and Wisconsin in a recent issue the Timberman says: “The greatest obstacle to a proper utilization of our forest resources is that there are so many operating lumbermen who are carrying on their businesg solely for the present, with no regard for the future. They should be brought to an appreciation of the fact, how- | ever, that twenty years, or even ten years, is likely to bring great changes in values of timber resources, and therefore that within the life of the ordinary lumber industry of to-day there is likely to be an in- creased value to the timber as it now stands which will repay present care in its preservation.” According to that estimate, and there is no reason to doubt its accuracy, the cost of forest preservation in the East would be compensated for in twenty years by the increase alone in the value of the timber without counting anything of the gain of saving the trees from destruction. If that is the condition of affairs in the East that of the Pacific Coast cannot be widely different. In our indifference to forest preserva- | tion we are permitting the destruction of that one of our natural resources whose comparative value is most rapidly increasing with every year that passes. If in the older States more serious and earnest shought is given to this subject than with us, it is not because the conditions there are widely different from our own, or because the problem there is more im- portant, but solely because they have had a longer ex- perience of the evils of forest destruction and are now suffering more acutely from the results of past negli- gence. Not long ago the Philadelphia Record, in com- menting upon the waste of woods in that part of the Union, said: “Within the past forty years vast tracts of walnut, oak and other valuabie forest trees have been ruthlessly destroyed in this country, and some varieties of these woods are now almost extinct.” A similar waste is going on in the great forests of the Pacific Coast. It will not be long before we also shall have to bewail past folly in this respect if we do not { profit by the experience of the older States and apply at once the remedy of adequate protection to our forests. Our woodlands are far-reaching, abundant and prolific, but they are not inexhaustible, and the question of their preservation is one of the most im- portant economic problems in the whole range of practical legislation. School Director Waller would be safe even if some one were really to shoot at him. It is believed by those who saw him sprinting from imaginary danger that he can outrun any bullet yet known to military science. s K ST Now the Spaniards are showing a disposition to court-martial Toral, a circumstance proving that for a Spanish general to exhibit any symptom of com- mon sense is the height of rashness. SN D v We are hardly prepared to belleve that having polished us off Spain is preparing to try a round or two with England. Every one familiar with that' It was not a. | means have been taken to prevent a [at 1898 FATHER YORKE REPLIES TO DR. CLINTON. - To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: The letter of the Hon. C. A. Clinton, published this morning, demands a few words from me. He accuses me of mak- ing “erroneous and misleading state- ments” and he demands the justice of a correction. If I made “erroneous and misleading statements” concerning Dr. Clinton I shall be most happy to with- draw them. I desire to further no cause by “erroneous and misleading state- ments.” The first “erroneous and misleading statement” of which I am accused is my charge that Dr. Clinton has attack- ed me. He says, “I have never either directly or indirectly attacked the rev- erend gentleman.” Permit me to transcribe a letter which I recelved from the honorable Supervisor last May SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 1898. Rev. Father Yorke—Editor Monitor: The article in to-day’s Monitor in which my name is used in connection with the Sallors’ Home does me a gross injustice. It is faise, cowardly, contemptible, un- crateful, uncalled for and totally o- Servea. C. A. CLINTON. I do not know what ideas the honor- able gentleman may attach to the words used in that note, but to me it seems a very serious attack to be called an ingrate, a coward and a liar. The second “erroneous and mislead- ing” statement of which I am accused is my charge against the Sailors’ Home. The honorable Supervisor declares that the Mayor and the Board of Supervi- sors thoroughly investigated the man- agement of the institution and found it faultless. I beg to state that no inves- tigation, thorough or other, was made by the Mayor and the Board of Super- visors. Such investigation to deserve the name should have been made by the board in the light of day and with due notice to the persons concerned. To merely hear the pleas of those in- terested in getting the lease, to listen to the attorneys of the old society or the officers thereof in a private room, to stroll alone through the corridors of the institution, these private and un- official actions do not constitute an in- vestigation. Let me say here, Mr. Editor, that the facts which I have published about the Sailors’ Home have never been contro- I have shown it to be a secta- rian institution. I have proved that it is not a charitable institution. If the Hon. nton, if his fellows on the Board .rvisors were acting in good y did they not meet these The facts are backed up by They have never No efficacious 8?7 nt testimony. been explained away. recurrence of them. The only answer that has ever been proffered concern- ing them has been the ipse dixit of Dr. Clinton. The honorable doctor may be a very great man, but he is not so great | that his mere denial will abolish facts. That denial is of the less weight that it is couched in such terms as “false, cow- ardly, contemptible, ungrateful, uncall- ed for and totally undeserved.” Let me tell Dr. Clinton that T am not in the habit of making rash and reck- less assertions, and therefore I am not to be turned from my purpose by rash and reckless denials. I have made use of many more opportunities than Dr. Clinton has at his disposal to study the question of the Sailors’ Home. Were I accustomed to deal in mere assertion, to take rumor for truth, or to set forth propositions that are not demonstra- ble with certainty, I might have said many more things about the Sailors’ Home, about the Board of Supervisors and about the Hon. Dr. Clinton. I have, however, confined myself to hard facts and they are sufficient to prove my con- tention. The third “erroneous and misleading statement” of which the honorable doec- tor complains i§ my accusaticn that he is the moving cause in this latest at- tack. I have shown how much faith is to be placed in his previous general de- nial, that he never attacked me, di- rectly or indirectly. From his own let- | ter you may judge, Mr. Editor, how | much credence is to be placed in this specific derial as to this new attack. It may be well, however, to remark that he attributes this late letter of the Seamen’s Friend Society tu the fact that: “In a recent number of the Mon: itor the subject was again brought up and again the management of the Sail- ors’ Home was attacked. This ‘last | mont immediate straw’ was pr, Wably the ete., cause which moved the board,” ete. The ingenuousness of this plea may be judged by the fact that the manage- ment of the Sailors’ Home was not at- tacked in a recent number of the Moni- tor. The only reference to the subject made in a recent number of the M"um« tor is contained in this sentence: The Supervisors who elected Reis, the l'n~ dorsee of Apaism, and delivergd over the Sailors’ Home to a sectarian so- clety, together with Ragan’s tail in the School Board, are mnot fltt_me'r_l to be nominated by any convention. D'lr'r;iis is an attack, not on the man- agement of the Sailors’ Home, b\g; on the Supervisors. The Supervisors, therefore, and he who was the most guilty, the Hon. Dr. Clinton, were the Barties who needed defense. That de- fense was delivered from 'ber‘und the petticoats of the Ladies’ Seamens Friend Society, and Dr. Clinton to the contrary notwithstanding, was engi- neered by those whose _)mhncfll future depended on the efficaciousness of the nse. delrfct me remind you, Mr. Editor, that the following account of the proceed- S ared in your paper: mfilh :é’grea.s an amendment,” exclaimed Supervisor Clinton, “'that the communi- cation be spread in full on the minutes of this meeting. I ask this in justice to myself and to the other members of the board who have been unjustly ac- cused. The charges of the Monitor are false and characterized by gross mis- representation. My character has l_)een attacked and I want to be placed right on the record.” The Hon. Dr. Clinton was willing then | to stand sponsor for the bantling which | he would now disown. It w: his “apologia” and he would have it on the records for all time. When thre ago the management of the Sailors’ Home was criticized that man- agement did not dare reply even | though the uninitiated might have sup- | posed that the lease was In jeopardy. Now when the lease Is secured the Sail ors’ Home is trotted out with an un- necessary justification of its acts—and | why? Because Dr. Clinton is in danger. | When we remember this and bear in | mind the value of the former denials of the honorable gentleman it requires no gift of second sight to estimate at | its true value his disclaimer of connec- tlon with the letter signed Nancy | Cooper and Anna McAnney. For the honorable doctor's pious | prayers for my future welfare and con- | version 1 am humbly grateful. As to| the value of such ostentatious suppll-I cations you, Mr. Editor, may be doubt- | ful when you remember the divine warning, “And when ye pray, ye shall | not be as the hypocrites that love to | stand and pray in the synagogues and | corners of the streets that they may | be seen of men. Verily, I say unto you they have received their reward.” I sincerely hope the honorable gentleman will not be defrauded of his due. As for me I have no desire to quarrel personally with him or to pay any at- tention to personal attacks on myself. I have no recollection of having met Dr. Clinton more than twice, once in a | street car and once on the occasion of | a sick call. Why, therefore, he should | claim to have been my friend passes my comprehension; but, whether he | were friend or neighbor or even enemy I have no desire to do him wrong. And that T do him no wrong his manner of | action convinces me. When he meets | my facts with arguments other than bare denials couched in abusive lan- | guage and based on his unsupported | say so I shall give him credit for good faith. Personal charges of untruth, | cowardice and the like do not bother me. I am afraid I have too many sins | of my own in the matter of nersonali- ties to answer for to be justified in re- | plying to mere personal charges. But, | Mr. Editor, this is not a mere personal | matter. It is a great question of prin- | ciple—the question of sectarianism or | non-sectarianism, for which thousands | of citizens of this city sacrificed party | and friends and office in order to set- | tle it once for all in the sense of the | constitution. That this principle has been betrayed by Dr. Clinton and by | his associates on the Board of Super- visors is the sole conclusion deducible from the uncontroverted facts I have placed before the public. Something is needed to offset these facts besides big words, profuse professions and unctuous prayers. Yours truly, PETER C. YORKE. UPS AND DOWNS. When all the chairs are ostriches And all the tables trees, And luggers sail to hunt the whale At any. time you please; And greenhouse palms in’ tropic calms Are waving In the breeze; When Fritz, the dog, and Fiuff, the cat, Are pumas, spitting fire— “hat can you have to grumble at? What more could you desire? But when the sofa springs a leak, And sharks are in the bay, When Indian sples, with fiery eyes And faces paintéd gay Go lurking round the corridors To grab you on your way: When grizzly bears Infest the stairs As fierce as fierce can be— What shall we do for dinner then? Where can we go for tea? —Pall Mall Gazette. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A GAME OF CRIBBAGE—The failure of the word four to appear in an answer to a question on count in cribbage, pub lished on the 9th inst., has brought forth several letters from crib experts, who call attention to the fact that the an-| swer should have been twenty-four in- | stead of twenty. And so it would have | appeared had the word four had not been | accidentally omitted. SEATING CAPACITY — Subscriber, City. The question, “‘What is the seating capacity of the Grand' Opera-house and of the Orpheum?” is one that ought to be pensioned, for it has done so much serv- ice in the past three years. Every few weeks there is received a letter by thfs | department in which that question is in- cluded. As Subscriber is very anxious to know, it will be answered once more. The capacity of the Grand Opera-house is 2500 and that of the Orpheum 2950. COST OF WAR—D. M., City. Accord- ing to Mulhall's Statistics, the following table gives the cost of the wars of the countries named. This does not, in the | rature of things, cover or even estimate the losses or expenditures following wars: Date. Belligerents. Exp'diture. 1850-40/Spain_and Portugal. France and Algeria, France and Mexico. 1864-70(Brazil and Paraguay 1870-71|France and Germany 1876-77|Russia and Turkey. —————— — — THE NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE. The modern newspaper {s In many ways a real magazine. At its best it presents fllustrations of undisputed artistic ex- cellence, many of which give as good an idea of the happenings thdy depict as need be. A first-class {llustrator can catch the spirit of an occurrence and portray it as .satisfactorily as if it had been done with a camera and published in the form- of a half-tone cut. Indeed, a pen-and-ink sketch is often superior to a photographic reproduction. As for the literary quality of the newspapers, In spite of all that has been said derisively about newspaper English, the mass of the work of rhe modern correspondent is not so far below that of the magazine contributors in merit as to e comparison impossible. Indeed, many of the best-known con- tributors to the monthly publications are the present moment engaged in work i | Admiral Cervera and General Linares. for the daily press. The exigencies of | the case forbid the presentation of this matter to the public in the most attrac tive manner, but a great typographical | improvement has taken place In tne | modern newspaper, even if the yellow journals seem at first thought to have | made matters worse. The foundries have been called on for a great variety of new types, and though the general efféct is not always happy, the ultimate result is pretty sure to be. Monthly magazines will continue to be published and to find a large circle of readers, but every .weck | marks an advance in the daily press toward what for want of a better phrase may be called the magazine standard.— Providence Journal —_———————— OUR TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. Good gunnery and dauntless valor are | not the only features of our fighting that have astonished the Spaniards. They are | amazed at our courteous treatment of our prisoners of war. The Spanish pr has contemptuousiy characterized our soldiers and sallors as' “American pigs.’” The Spanish editors have pictured our officers with all the brutal attributes of barbarians. But Spanish prisoners have found our officers chivalrous and humane. They find that among the first concerns of an American admiral or general after an engagement are the safety and comfort of the pris-| oners. The conduct of the victors toward the vanquished after the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Santiago was magnani- mous in the extreme. Admiral Cervera was more fmpressed by the courtesy of the American fleet officers and thelr en- thuslastic _congratulations than by any other incident connected with the crush- ing defeat. He was so elated over the generous treatment accorded him that he took especial care to acknowledge it in his official dispatches to the Spanish au- lhloriltles. t is a pleasure to record the fact th: the American pollcy of dealing with ;rlzf oners, was fully réciprocated in the chi- valrous treatment of Lieutenant Hobson and his crew ‘of the Merrimac by both The Spanish officers at the front kno more than Spanish editors about the gal- lantry and humanity of the American | soldier. They know that in battle he can fight like a demon; that after the battle | he can act like a Christian.—Chicago Times-Herald. s ST N Sy HUMOR OF THE DAY. The nurse had been giving the twins a bath. Later, hearing the children laugh- ing in bed, she said: *“What are you chil- | dren laughing about?"” “Oh, nothing.” replied Edna; “only you have given Edith two baths, and haven't given me any.”—Punch. “Are there many people in this country who are proud of their limeage?” “Well,” replied Mr. Cumrox, “I don't like to boast, but I may say that our own family owns as many railroad lines as apy in our part of the continent.”—Wash- ington Star. “I see,” said the Chicago man, “that they are going to try the experiment of mummifying Philadelphia bodles.” “Before death?”’ asked the inane New Yorker.—Indianapolis Journal. Bachelor—How do You like married life? Newlywed—Ah, Jack, you don't know what you're missing—that is, unless you count your wad every night and morning, and that's mean.—Judge. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. H. L. Meade of San Juan Is at the Russ. 5 Dr. Spatzer of Russia is at the Call- fornia. Captain E. S. Morine of Irvington is at the Palace. J. W. Burnett of Phoenix, Arizona, is at the Occidental. Sam M. Rucker, ex-Mayor of San Jose, is at the Palace. M. Dudley, a hotel man of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Dr. A. L. Wilson and wife of Tulare are at the Lick. 0. F. Paxton, an attor is at the Palace. A. Borders, a merch; wife, are at the Lick. F. Phiscator, one of the Klondike are gonauts, is at the Grand. . Amos Burr of the Vanderbilt line witl leave for Los Angeles to-day. Dr. W. J. Yerringer, a prominent phy- sician of Chicago, is at the Palace. John Ginl ‘will return to-day from & business trip throughout the South. C. B. Moseley, wife and children, of Nashville, Tenn., are at the Occidental. Dr. C. T. Poore, a prominent New York physician, is at the Palace with his wife. ney of Portland, ant of Tulare, and GOOGGUBNEG Every Friday =3 ¥ afternoon chil- % SHE WAS g..dren of the Pa- & 7 g cifc Heights School have a % PATRIOT. % mental parade. bed ¥ Then the teach- GO EHHGD ers try to un- earth latent gen- jus and discover the peculiar talents of their pupils. The school children always put on their holiday clothes and give heir budding genius a vigorous dress- ng. One young lady, the pride of the with an understanding and wit far beyond her years, which her mother cs are twelve, distinguished herself last Friday in such fearful fashion that her parents will not have to buy school books for some time. The teacher was proud of this little girl, and to show the effect of her teaching on the mind of youth she invited several friends to visit her during school hours. The particular di- vertisement of this Friday afternoon was a wholesale coining of mottoes. Every pupil in the class had a chance, and there were'a lot of beautiful aphoristic flowers in that bouquet. All the car- dinal virtues were worked to death and the vices were all shunned. It was quite a Sunday school affair until the bright member of the class had her fling. As a fine finish the teacher left her out of the fight until the last and then called her in on the reserve. “Now, Lily, this is Give us a real good one,” u your turn. she said. Lily did. Tt was this: «“To —— With Spain, Remember the Maine.’ And now Lily is enjoying the bright warm sunshine when other pious motto-coimers are buried in their books. G. F. Herr, ticket agent for the South- ern Pacific Company at Los Angeles, is | in town. Thomas Graves, a rancher, and New- man Jones, an attorney, of Salinas, are at the Russ. Charles F. Gaussig, United States Ma- rine Corps, has been assigned to duty at Mare Island. W. W. Felton, proprietor of a large mateh factory in Mazatlan, and wife, are at the Occidental. Joaguin Reduoluja Culiacan, Lucic de Stuartes and Jose M. Munillo, Mexican merchants, arrived yesterdav and are stopping at the Occidental. George L. Seebrecht, Sheriff of San Antonio; Sidney Shepherd, Deputy Sher- iff, and G. A. Heitig of La Grange, Tex., arrived yesterday with three Chinese who were smuggled over the border without certificates. They will be deported to their mother country on the next steamer. e Dr. W. J. Younger of Chicago arrived in the city erday and was greeted by a legion of friends. He resided in San Fran- cisco for twenty-five years or more, and formed an extensive profesional and per- sonal acquaintance. Dr. Younger served many years in the National Guard of California, and attained the rank of col- onel on the staff of the commander in chief. He will remain here until the mid- dle of September. SIS S CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—James D. Lyn- ett of San Francisco is at the Fifth Ave- nue; V. Jackson of San Francisco is at the Vendome; S. Perkins of San Francisco has gone to Paris. —_— ee————— THE VOLUNTEER ENGINEERS. More than two hundred persons applied for enlisting papers the other day at the recruiting office_of the First Regiment, United States Volunteer Engineers, 33% Broadway. The engineer corps is tc be made up of electricians, linemen, steam engineers, railroad men, track men, sur- veyors, lumbermen, carpenters, masons, sailors, boatmen, riggers, dock builders, blasters, pipe calkers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, cooks, tailors and shoe- a regiment,” said Adjutant Bramwell, “will be entirely new to the United States service. It is the plan fol- lowed in the European armies, and its ad- vantages will be at once apparent. Here- tofore the men in the engineer regiments in service here were drilled and instructed as miners and sappers, and their ability ran chiefly to the construction of fortifi- cations. We want experts in these va- rious lines, and our chief aim is to have each squad commanded by a sergeant who knows how to work the men in these varfous branches. Drilling and tactics il be of secondary consideration, but will receive sufficlent attention. One idea is that if bridge building is required we can at once call on one or more squads for the work, and so in every other branch of work. It is my impression that battalions of the regiment will be sent into service soon after being sworn in, and when it is completed the serv will have the finest body of practical men composing an engineer regiment that it is possible to obtain.”—New York Com- mercial Advertiser. e e Cal. glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend's.® —_—————— Special information supplied daily business houses and public men b, Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. to the ont- . R SR Stationery and Printing. 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