The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1898, Page 4

s HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1898 AUGUST 15, 1808 MONDAY. P s JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 ¥HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.... ceseresess..908 Broadway ®EW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. QVASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE.. .....-Rigge Houes C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. ..Marquette Bullding One year. by mall, $1.59 | THE FARCE OF THE WEEK. HILE the peace negotiations between the United States and Spain will constitute the W serious business of the drama of the week, and rumors of war between Great Britain and Russia will furnish the gloom and intensity of menacing tragedy, the gathering of the Democratic clans, tribes and factions at Sacramento will provide an entertaining farce for those who like hilarity and do not object to noise. Although the gathering is to be made up of Demo- crats it is not certain whether the assembly will turn out to be a Democratic convention or a Populist rati- | fication meeting. The issue is not one of importance, and the result either way will not seriously affect the commonwealth or the changes of the moon, but the proceedings will nevertheless be worth watching. When the Populists set their Maguire trap for the Democrats they baited it with the office of State Treasurer. Everything else they took for themselves, but they left that position with its control of the State money as a temptation for those they were after. It MRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, } open untll 930 o'clock. 387 Hayes strect, open until | 9:30 o'clook. 62! McAllister street. open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open untll i0 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Le raiced at Sacramento; and Billy willdoubtless wear | to the last man. The bosses will have their full force | a deeper scowl this week than Henry did when it | at the polls. What are the good citizens going to do Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS +Trilby." Faust Work and Wages.” grin.’ Columbi: Alcazar— Morosco’s-— Tivoil—“Lok Orpheum— Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Suspended Animation—Corner Marketand Larkin streets. vlympia—Corner Nason and Eddy streets, Specialties Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville Opening Eaturday, September 3. Nauve Sons’ Hall—Entertaiament Tuesday evening. boating, fishing, every Sunday. State Fair—Sacramento, September 5. AUCTION SALES. | By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—This cay, August 15, Real Estate, at 14 Monwomery street, at 12 0 clock. WE ARE AVERAGING UP WELL. HE close of the war with Spain again changes Tconditiuns, but hardly back to where they were | before the war. In fact, they probably never will get back there. Heretofore the United States has been a nation aside; henceforth it will be one of the | world’s group, with universal, not sectional interests, | and with a greatly broadened field of commercial ac- tivity. From this time the attention of the country will be more or less diverted from the monotonou fostering of local trade to the expansion and exploita. tion of a vast and continually increasing foreign com- | merce with transmarine countries. Cuba, Porto Rico | and the Philippines will be opened up to our goods as never before, and new industries must be created | to fill these new conditions. Unless all signs fail the United States is on the eve of remarkable commercial | expansion. Wall street sees this, and with its traditional | shrewdness is already discounting it by resuming the | purchase of railway and other shares. The public, which has held aloof so long, is now reappearing in the street and taking hold. The granger stocks have been the favorites, owing to the fine crop prospects, which indicate large railway earnings this fall. Gov- ernment and railway bonds continue active, with a tendency toward firmer prices. The bank clearings do not show any particular activity in general trade, the gain last week being 5.8 per cent over last year. On the other hand, the smallness of failures indi- cates that business is on a safe and conservative footing, those for the week being 157, against 214 for the same week in 1897 and 258 in 1896. In the extreme East there are decided indications of an increase in business. The foreign demand for wheat and corn is better, in spite of a small advance in the former cereal. The iron trade, both East and West, showed a marked improvement during the week, with increasing activity all along the line. Cot- | ton has advanced, the inquiry for woolen goods is‘ decidedly better, and all textile works report more motion. The fluctuations in general merchandise are | generally toward higher prices and include advances in oats, lard, beef, coffee, lead, rubber, copper and cotton, besides that in wheat already mcntioncd.l There have been no depreciations worthy of note. The money markets all over the country are reported | in good condition, with an abundance of funds and all the gold coin the country can stagger under, with lots more to flow in from Europe during the coming fall. No reckless speculation is visible anywhere, and the commercial reports unite in saying that rarely has the financial horizon been as cloudless as at present. All this is general. It is an aggregation of con- ditions, a common average throughout the country. Individually speaking, trade is almost featureless. There is no boom in anything, and no single line ex- hibits any especial activity. It is what is called in the jargon of commerce “a percentage basis.” The Unit- ed States is now running along on the lines of the ordinary merchant, who falls behind on some goods and runs ahead on others, but is averaging up a good percentage of profit on the whole proposition. This | is a healthy state of trade, and is the best and safest to win on. Here in California the conditions are practically the same as elsewhere. Regarded as a whole the trade situation is without especial feature, but the aggregated lines are averaging up well. During the past week there have been no marked depreciations in anything except two or three lines of canning fruit, and this happens every year at this time and lasts only a week or so, or during the brief period when al] the fruit in the State seems to be ripening at once. An almost unprecedented hot wave rested over the State for some days, but although the thermometer ranged from 100 to 115 and even higher in the interior val- leys no serious damage to fruit or anything else was reported. As far as the leading items of produce are eoncerned; wheat shows a small gain for the week; the other cereals are dull and not materlally changed. hides are quoted rather steadier, dried fruits are stiff and wanted for Eastern account, provisions are more active owing to large Government orders for cured meats; wool is quiet and hops are dull; butter, cheese and eggs are higher; fresh fruit is still selling at good prices in spite of the temporary congestion already noted, and the only thing to show any marked weak- ness is the American hog, which has persistently de- clined in price for a fortnight and is utterly devoid of backbone at the close. These few points pretty well cover the trade situa- tion at the moment. Everybody is looking forward to a good fall trade, and there is nothing in sight to indicate anything else. | | | | Colorado gentlemen in quest of Senator Wolcott’s seat should bear in mind that it was held at a pretty is now to be seen whether the crowd at Sacramento will grab for the treasury and be content or will set up a full ticket and demand everything in sight. It is not likely there will be much of a fight, though there will surely be plenty of noise. The racket of the cats in Mr. Foote's back yard which has so disturbed him of late will be as nothing to the racket which will was announced to him last week that he is morally and probably legally responsible for some 400 cats on Green street. There is a breed of apes known as the “howlers, from. whom Democrats -differ only by slight degrees of development, the process of evolution having not yet gone far enough to wholly separate the primeval relations between them. The howlers, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, are the most bulky of | American apes, and are thosc whose muzzles are most | projecting. They are stupid animals, but have a won derful power of voice. Some of the species, it is added, are brilliantly streaked with red and yellow. It is in habit rather than in outward form and show, however, that the relation of howlers to Demo- crats is most clearly seen. In each tribe of the species there is always a leader.. Whenever he howls all the | others hasten to gather around him, and each one grabbing another’s tail -begins to howl also, so that in a short time after the leader has given the signal the chorus beats a cat chorus out of hearing. The grabbing of tails has of course a good deal to do with the raising of the chorus. It is not a formal ceremony merely. It will be readily understood that if a tail be rightly twisted the accompanying howl will be much increased in tension. At Sacrameénto, for example, if some Foote or Harney howler be in position to catch the Maguire fellow by the tail about the time he is going to raise his voice, it may be accounted as certain the resulting screech will raise the keynote of the campaign so high the Iro- quois Club will have to climb over one another to get half way up, and the Examiner won’t be able to reach it even with a siren. Altogether there is going to be fan at Sacramento, with noise enough to take the edge off the rumors of war in the Orient. Read The Call and *get the news of all the proceedings MAGUIRE @ND THE FUNDING BILL. this time, in order that we may have a point from‘ | HILE Maguire’s cunning or luck has enabled | Whim to be successful thus far in the manipula- | tion of men and the pulling of political wires, he has been singularly unfortunate in his efforts to formulate ‘an issue on which to go before the people as a candidate for Governor. His party leaders have withdrawn the silver plank from the campaign, and he for reasons of his own has pitched into the rub- bish pile his single tax programme. Being thus in danger of appearing before the public as a candidate of two parties with no platform, he | made an earnest effort in his speech in this city to frame some kind of a structure to stand on. He se- lected the funding bill as an issue, struck a stately | attitude on the subject and proceeded to declare that he would have succeeded in defeating the iniquitous measure had it not been for the betrayal of the peo- ple’s cause by the Republican Congressmen from California. Maguire’s pose as he ests of California against the octopus was like tha told of his fight for the inter- t | of Falstaff when he told of his fight at half swords for an hour with twelve men in buckram. It required only a very plain tale to put down the boastful Fal- staff, and a story equally simple destroys the boasting and the vaunting of Maguire. Congressman Barham told the story of the passage of the funding bill in The Call yesterday, and it causes Maguire's intended campaign thunder to fizzle out like a broken fire- cracker. It will be remembered that Maguire in his desper- ate effort to make capital for himself out of the fund- ing bill had charged that Barham was largely respon- sible for its passage. Record of the proceedings relating to the measure. As the bill came from the Senate it was objectionable to Mr. Barham and other Republicans, notwithstand- ing it had received the sanction of Senator Morgan, | who has long held the position of leader in the fight against the railroad. Mr. Barham proposed an amendment declaring that nothing in the act should waive or release any right, lien or cause of action al- ready held by the United States. The amendment was submitted to Maguire, who suggested the in- sertion of the word “right,” which is found therein. ‘When the question of adoptingthe proposedamend- ment came up in the House it was then possible for Maguire to have defeated the bill had he chosen. He was present, but he made no objection. Mr. Bar- ham therefore very pertinently says: “Mr. Maguire knew perfectly well that unless my amendment was consented to I would vote against the bill, and there were at least twenty other Republicans who would also have voted against the bill, and it would have been defeated. He will prob- ably explain why he did not say ‘I object,” and kill my amendment and thus defeat the whole bill.” This exposure of Maguire’s double dealing on the funding bill deprives the demagogue of any possi- bility of making a winning fight on that issue. The fact that after remaining silent and permitting the bill to pass he now comes home and endeavors to make glory for himself by slandering his colleagues in Congress will add to the shamelessness of his rec- ord. The words which from his mouth might have defeated the bill, but which, for reasons of his own, he refrained from speaking, will now be a common cry in the campaign. Wherever his candidacy is put forward among men who believe in straightforward politics and are opposed to demagogues, there will arise a universal cry “T object.” It is not yet too late to punish those who starved our soldier boys on the transport ships. e stiff figure when the incumbent took it, and that times are hard. Be sure and register-to-day, - b Call no man a good citizen until you have found out whether he has registered or note - < Barham refuted the statement | by quoting the account given in the Congressional | DO NOT FORGET TO REGISTER . EGISTRATION closes to-day. For the bene- | fit and convenience of the large number of persons who have not yet registered the books | will be kept open until midnight. Up to the last min- ute of the time allowed by law an opportunity will be afforded for citizens to secure themselves in the privilege of voting at the coming election. For causes hard to understand there has been something like an apathy among a large number of people with regard to politics this year. The regis- tration has been slow and the number registered is far below the full vote of the city. There is nothing in the situation to justify this indifference to public duties. The issues of the campaign are not so ex- citing as those involved in the Presidential struggle of two years ago, but they are sufficiently important to arouse the minds of earnest men. Moreover, they affect to a greater or less extent the welfare of every | citizen. Certain it is that when the campaign begins | in earnest and the full scope of the issues at stake is | made plain all who have now in their indifference neglected to register will regret it. If we are to have good politics and good adminis- | trations in the city and State, good citizens must | register. As a matter of fact no matter how good a | man may be socially or in business he can hardly be | accounted a good citizen if he neglects his political | duties. The “push” and the “pull” will be registered | about it? It costs nothing to register. It imposes little or no inconvenience. It interferes with-no man’s business. All should attend to it. Each should assure himself | in the right of an American citizen to cast a vote for those whom he desires to represent him in the gov- ‘ ernment of the city, the State and the nation. STUDIES OF THE FUTURE. MONG the articles relating to war issues in the magazines and reviews for the month the two | most notable are: “The Spanish War and the | brium of the World,” by Brooks Adams in the | | A | Equili Forum, and “Distant Possessions—The Parting of the ways,” by Andrew Carnegie in the North Ameri- The conclusions of the two are diametrically opposed, and the methods of reasoning | are widely diverse. Both, however, give expression | to the sincere thoughts of able men, and are deserv- | ing of much more consideration than is usually given | to the fleeting literature of monthly pubiications. Mr. Adams declares there are now dominating the | world two great forces whose impulses have started | movements that may be interfered with to some ex- tent, but cannot be checked or turned aside by states- men. One of these is causing a steady drift of com- mercial and industrial empire westward. The other | is forcing the peoples of the world into ever larger combinations. ~ As a result of the first the United States will find itself eventually the center of the busi- ness of the globe and intimately concerned in the affairs of all nations. As a result of the second there | will be some form of coalition between the British | and the Americans made necessary to resist the pow- erful combinations now building up in Continental Furope. Arguing from these propositions Mr. Adams | strongly urges the annexation of the Philippines at can Review. which to protect our growing commercial interests in | the Orient, and he also advocates an Anglo-Saxon | coalition. Should such an alliance be brought about, he says: “Probably human society would then be absolutely dominated by a vast combination of peo- ples whose right wing would rest upon the British | isles, whose leit would overhang the middle provinces of China, whose center would approach the Pacific, | and who would encompass the Indian Ocean as ithough it were a lake, much as the Romans en- | compassed the Mediterranean.” Against the conclusions of this growing prophecy of the future Mr. Carnegie sets the reasoning of a practical man of business dealing with the problem from the standpoint of American interests as they exist to-day. He points out that Europe is at this | time an armed camp, not because the home terri- tory of any nation is threatened with invasion, but because of aggressions made by all in Africa and in Asia. If we annex the Philippines or enter into any | sort of coalition with Great Britain we will involve the republic in wars, the end of which no man can foresee, and the results of which certainly will not tend to the maintenance of our republican form of gevernment and our democratic institutions. Moreover, Mr. Carnegie points out that distant possessions are a source of weakness rather than of | strength even to Great Britain. We, with our vast and rich territory at home, have nothing to gain by | them, but much to lose by reason of the cost of gov- | erning and defending them. We have a continent to | populate and develop. Within the limits of our con- tinental domain we are safe from foreign attack, and while we retain that position we can play a com- manding part in the world without seeking the alli- ance of any other power. When the excitement of the war is over the people like Mr. Adams, who are now so eager for a coalition | with Great Britain and the entrance of this country | into the scramble for possessions in the Orient, will } have a chance to take a second thought of the issue. | When they do the more intelligent among them will j surely perceive the wisdom of the reasoning of Mr. Carnegie, Judged from the standpoint of American interests, the true policy of the natlon to-day is the same as it has been in the past, to preserve our se- | curity on this hemisphere safe from any danger of complications that may involve us in European strife ! and war. | D This is the last day for registration, but remember the opportunity will not close until midnight, and so long as the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return and save his franchise. If reports of how our boys were treated on the way | to Manila are true there should be numerous enforced | vacancies among the commissioned officers of the | various regiments involved. There is to be a real live Lord Mayor in New York soon, but a little later there is to be one in San Fran- cisco. The effete East shall never be permitted to beat us. Murderer Cheesman of Oakland pretends to glory | in the prospect of being hanged, but this will be found another instance of distance lending enchant- ment. AR S With the treasury full of money and the army full | of men longing for a chance to fight we are more unprepared for peace just now than we were for war. Maguire’s record on the funding bill vote gives every citizen a right to meet his claims in the coming campaign with a prompt “I object.” EE s i Assassin Clark of Napa will go to the scaffold, and there can be no doubt that this is the best place for himy e . ¥ | | { | because it may be interesting in { Braunhart's 13 WHISPERING” GAVIN'S DELEGATES. Motley Crowd of Office Seekers and “Push” Politicians Appointed to Rep- resent San Francisco Democrais. Now that the McNab-Gould-Alford Committee of One Hundred has com- pleted its self-appointed task of ap- pointing delegates to represent the wishes of 30,000 Democratic voters of this city at the State convention, it may be of interest to these same voters to know who the men are who have been delegated with the power to give voice to the popular will—of the bosses. Not because the knowledge can in any way change the fact that the delegates were appointed without the consent or approval of the voters, but the same way that it might be interesting for a condemned man to know the name and personal characteristics of the hangman to whom has been dele- gated the task of ushering him into an- other world. - The list of delegates comprises 154 names, all of them selected without reference to the wishes of the voters whom they are to represent. It is not necessary to go over the entire list, as many of the names and many of the men are familiar to a majority of the residents of San Francisco. They need no introduction, therefore, as their po- | litical history is well, if not favorably, known. There are others, comprising over two-thirds of the entire number, whose names are given herewith for the purpose of allowing the reading public an opportunity to know the manner of men to whom has becn dele- gated the power of representing the wishes of one-half the inhabitants of the metropolis of the Pacific Coast in the selection of candidates for the ex- ecutive and judicial offices of the State of California. The list follows: TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. LAWRENCE J. HOEY—Agitator. Clerk in Registrar's office. Not on the assessment roll. J. W. FARREN JR.—Bank secretary. Father was one of Buckley’s Supervisors. MARTIN J. HEAVY—Porter. Not on the assessment roll. A. ESTELITA—Upholsterer. Not on the assessment roll. D. ¥F. MOORE—Name not in the direc- tory. One of Braunhart’s “push.” JOHN F. MOORE—Not on tn ment rol One of TWENTY-NI} JAMES P. LALL ment roll. One of MICHAEL loon. One of Braunhart the assessment roll. JOHN AL IN—S. ‘push, THOMAS FAULKNER—Not on sessment. Has a brother in the ;:m(;e through the solicitation of hart. assess- TH DISTRICT. Not on the assess- aunhart’s “push.” irocery and sa- “push.” Not on Br: LUCEY oon keeper. One of the a licen: Braun- CHARLES KIESEL—Not on the as- sessment roll. (J:\.\l S BRANNAN—Late k gardener nion Square. One of Braunhart's R. MURPHY—Not on the assessment roll. JAMES W. FITZGERALD—Late em- ploye of Harbor Commission. Not on the assessment roll. THOMAS F. MULLE—Clerk, gas light- er and general utility man at Buckley- McNab headquarters. THIRTIETH DISTRICT. THOMAS GRADY—Painter. Not the assessment roll. ROBERT WALSH—Name not in the di- rectory. Not on the assessment roll. JOHN HEANY—Not on the assessment roll. ALEX GREGGAINS—Professional pu- gilist, saloon keeper and Buckley's guide and friend. FPETER J: CREEGAN—Late of Sheriff's ffice. JAMES FARRELL—Gas fitter. Not on the assessment roll. GEORGE SMITH—Name not in direc- tory. Not on the assessment roll. THIRTY-FIRST DISTRICT. WILLIAM on o Prosecuting Attorney of Police courts. Is one of Buckley's pets. P. M. WELLIN—Sand-lotter and politi- cal carpenter. FR:\NP'K E. MAHONEY—Clerk. Not on s t roll. P N B 6 BRIEN—Clerk. Not on the JOHN E. O'BRIE. assessment roll. JOHN E. A. HELMS—Corner grocery and saloon keeper. THIRTY-FIFTH DISTRICT. STEPHEN A. BYRNE—Laborer. THOMAS BRENNAN—Saloon keeper. JAMES E. DONAHUE JR.—Clerk. Not on the assessment roll. | WILLIAM H. BELL—Buckley's candi- | date for State Senator in 189%. Not on the assessment roll. WALTER GALLAGHER—Police Court lawyer and member of the Clan Gal~‘ lagher. Is one of Buckley’'s admirers. THIRTY-SIXTH DISTRICT. | J. J. FLYNN—Known as Buckley’s "Blg 1 Mouth” Flynn, and not to be confounded | with Buckl%{‘s “Big Head” Flinn. i JAMES M: CURTIN—Corner grocery’| and saloon keeper. | JEREMIAH LOWNEY—One of Buck- | ley’s old guard. | EDWARD J. COFFEY—Not on the as- | sessment roll. M. McGLINCHY—Name not in the dl-l rectory. | DENNIS O'KEEFE—One of Buckley’s supporters. On the delinguent tax list. PATRICK CASSERLY—Name not in the directory. Not on the assessment roll. | W. D. CROWLEY—A follower of the | Blind Boss. JOHN SAMISINO—Not on the assess-| ment roll. THIRTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT. | PAUL D. WALSH—Salesman. Not on| the sment roll. i McAVOY—Buckley itical undertaker. | T lamb HUGE and pol THOMAS MARTIN—Not on the as-| sessment roll. CHARLES STERN—Name not in the | directory. A. D. LEMON—Police Court lawyer. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The armament of the 6000-ton crulsers building for Russia will consist of twelve 6-inch quick firers of 45 caliber length; seventeen 8-inch quick firers of 50 caliber length, throwing shells of 13 pounds, and six 3-pounder Hotchkiss. The six-inch guns will each have 180 rounds of ammu- nition, the 3-inch will have 300 rounds to each gun and §10 rounds are to be the supply for each Hotchkiss gun. The total | weight of guns and ammunition is near- 1y 380 tons. The Pactolus, a British cruiser of 2135 tons, 7000 horse power and 20 kot spee has recently gone through her 20 hours® coal consumption trial with unsatisfac- tory results. The ship, in conformity to the pecullar practice in England, was fly- ing very light, drawing only 14 feet, whereas her load draught is to be 17 feet. ‘With 251 pounds of steam and 168 revolu- tions the engines developed only 3265 horse power against the calculated 3500, Worst of all the coal consumption ave: aged 2.74 pounds per horse power per hour. The ship Is fitted with water-tube | boilers of the Blachynden type, which in this instance were a decided disappolnt- ment as to efficiency and moderate eco- nomical coal consumption. The Albatross, torpedo-boat destrover, was launched at Thorneycroft's yard July 19, all complete, ready for steaming. The vessel 18 of 360 tons displacement, 227 feet in length, 21 feet 3 inches beam and 8 feet 5 inches mean draught with 80 tons of coal on board. She has three water- tube botlers to carry 20 pounds of steam and with 400 revolutions is calculated to develop $000 horse power and a speed. of 32 knots. Another boat, named Express, was launched at Laird's yard in June which is calculated to make 33 knots with 7700 horse power. She i of the same length as the Albatross, but has nine inches more beam and has muclt finer lines, displacing only 300 tons. The dockyards in Great Britain are ‘unllsuall_v busy and shipbuilding is being pushed with great activity. The keel of the battleship Formidable was lald at Portsmouth March 21, and up to July 23 there had already been worked 2200 tons material into the hull, being at the rate Ari; LI L ary el | of 550 tons per month. At the same yard L BLINNCOne of Buckl gy e 2000 men “are working on the. battleship S KELLY—One of Buckley's foi- | Canopus. | {IRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. | SR H. JACOBS—Lawyer. Not on | sment roll. | POWERS—Butcher. Political job One of Buckley’s old guard. | Buckley's hench- | ommittee of 100. I F. STAFFORD—Lawyer. Is| guest at Buckley's board. | J K. ASHEH wyer. A double- | ender who alw gets aboard when the bell rin; 0 a member of Har- | ne, 450, ! JMANN—Chronic can- | | AUGUSTUS T | didate for Supervisor and School Director. One of Braunhart's “p EDWARD T. MINEHAN—Expressman. | THIRTY-NINTH DISTRICT. | IRT C. HOWE—Clerk. Is on the list. C. SMITH—Name not in | L. BIENFIELD—Detective for McNab combination and ex- pigeon of “Junta” of 1%96. Has been | dismissed from the Fire Department, Har- bor Commssloners’ office, Custom House { and was in_trouble in the Street Depart- ment. Is the guardian of Max Popper's | political consctence and honor. Used to | transport legitimate voters in vegetable wagons from one district to another on the night of primary elections when Buck- ley was on top. FORTIETH DISTRICT. E. R. ROCK—Bookkeeper. Not on the assessment roll. CHARLES L. WELLS—Dancing teacher. EMIL PERRY— Marble cutter. Not on the assessment roll. FORTY-FIRST DISTRICT. “J. B. CRAIG—Father is a candidate for the ‘Congressional nomination in the Fifth The Russian naval programme is, ac- cording to a published statement by Lord Charles Beresford, as follows: One hun- dred and seventeen millions dollars is to be expended during the period of 1598~ 1904 upon the construction of eight first- class battleships, six first-class cruisers, ten second-class cruisers, one submarine transport, one torpedo transport, twenty torpedo-boat destrovers and thirty tor- pedo boats. The battleships will all be of 12,900 tons, 368 feet in length, 72 feet 6 inches beam and 26 feet draught and to have a speed of 18 knots under natural draught. One is being bullt by the Cramps at a contract cost of $4,358,000, to be dellv- ered in thirty months; four are being built at the Government yards in Russia, one In France and two are still unassign- ed. Of the first-class crufsers of 6000 tons and 23 knots speed, Cramps are building one, two have been placed in France, two are being built by a Belgian firm at Nicolaieff, and builders in Germany have been invited to bid on the remaining large cruiser and one of the 3000-ton cruls- ers, of which latter nine are still to be as- | signed. Six torpedo-boat destroyers of 312 tons are building at the Neroskey works, St. Petersburg, and six of the same size | in France; they are all to have a speed of 29 knots under natural draught. Ger- man shipyards have been offered a chance to bid on eight boats of 250 tons. Finland is building four 150-ton torpedo- | boats to steam 29 knots under forced | draught and the remainder will be built in Russian yards. The total of this naval programme s 76 vessels of 199,744 tons. LOWENFELD—Barber. As-] District, and is alSo a member of the | There Is quite a number of battieships Commitiee of One Hundred. | and cruisers not yet placed and the BARRY BALDWIN JR—TFather Is & pyjigers of the Oregon should have an o the Committes of ion® HUM- | opportunity to compete with Eastern and STEPHEN POTTER—Qne of Buckley's | foreign shipbuilders and furnish vessels sessed for $75. ! old guard. to serve as samples of what constitutes D. S. O'BRIEN—Not on roll. THOMAS CAMPBELL—Blacksmith. Not on the assessment roll. EDWARD F. O'BRIEN—Not on the as- sessment roll. Belongs in the Thirtieth | District. CHARLES E. GALLAGHER—Political ‘llum.ber. One of Buckley's ‘“Business| Men. ]E‘l P. QUINLAN—Laborer. ROBERT LOWRY—Name not In the dfrectory. Not on the assessment roll. Said that Richard Doolan will have his proxy. THIRTY-SECOND DISTRICT. JAMES I. TWIGG—Boat builder. One of Buckley’s “business men.” Brother is a member of the committee of one hun- dred, and his father is a member of Har- ney’s general committee. AMES MULDOWNEY—Name not in the directory. J. J. M’MANUS—Assessed for $40. (MICHAEL M'GRATH—Lodging house ceper. WILLIAM REMWICK—Machinist. As- sessed for $40. KELLY—Not on the assess- CHARLES ment. roll. THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT. JAMES KINGSTON—Not on the assess- ment roll. JAMES DONOVAN—Liquor dealer. Not on the assessment roll. Is a partner of Buckley’s friend, Anthony Quill. W. W. GRIFFIN—Name not in the di- rectory. WILLIAM McCANNON—Lawyer. Prop- erty sold for taxes. Personal tax delin- quent. P. F. NOLAN—Not on the assessment roll. THIRTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. R. LYNCH—Name not in the directory. Not on the assessment roll. DANIEL RRY—No occupation given in_the directory. STEPHEN R. O'KEEFE—Police Court lawyer. Chronic_ political Job chaser. Late candidate for Police Judge and 0 the assessment FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT. McCOY FITZGERALD—Name not in the directory. R, M. SIMMS—Name not in the direc- | tory. TOSEPH O'CONNOR—Student. the assessment roll. FORTY-THIRD DISTRICT. | R. T. McKISICK—Student. Lives in Oakland. Father is a candidate for the | nomination for Attorney General or Su- | preme Justice. HENRY A. CONRAD—Carpenter. Bot- tle holder for Thomas *‘Janus” Pinder, the | Not on | political farmer. Does not live in’ the district. ORGE M. TERRILL—Not on the as- | ssment 1ol HULL McLAUGHRY—Lawyer. As- sessed for $40. Paid one-half. | J. H. BRIDGE—Not on the nssessmentl roll. FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. _GEORGE KRIMPHOFF—Assessed for $0. | “I.. V. MERLE—Ts a follower of Buckley | and Popper. | H. A. SAYLES—Clerk. Said to have promised his proxy to McNab. WILLIAM GRIMM—Walter Occidental Hotel. Said to have promised his proxy to_McNab. FRANK McDONALD—Not on the as- sessment roll. Sald to have promised his proxy to McNab: C. E. LOGAN—Fireman California Hotel. His proxy sald to be at the dis- posal of cCarthy. One of the committee of 100. . L. REA — Custom House broker. Lives in Alameda. HARLES McCARTHY—One of Buck- ley's men. FORTY-FIFTH DISTRICT, L. W. LOVEY—Business manager for James H. Barry, candidate for the Con- gressional nomination in the Fourth Dis- trict and a member of the Committee of One Hundred. Lives in Alameda. Not on assessment roll. IN MEMORIAM. BY TOM GREGORY. Tt was indeed a strange coincidence, but a fitting end for the noble old hose life had been given to the service of his country, that Admiral W. A. Kirkland, U. S. N., should dle at Mare Island on the day peace was de- C seaman W clared.] “Cease firing!” Lo, the bugles call— “Cease,” and the red flame dies away. The thunders sleep, along the gray Smoke-shrouded hills the echoes fall. ‘“Cease firing!” “Cease firing!” “Cease firing!"” The armored squadrons, 1 “Cease firing “Cease firing.” Glorious For country tis to die—and comes The Peace—and bugles blow and drums Are sounding out the Last Retreat! San Francisco, Aug. 12, 1898. Close the columns fold Their shattered wings—the war-worn troops Now “stand at ease”—the ensign droops, The chargers’ heated flanks turn cold. Down with point reversed The reeking, crimson saber drips; Cool grows the fevered cannon’s lips— Their wreathing vapgrs far dispersed. From the sponson’s rim The mute black muzzles frown across The sea, where swelling surges toss Look, white banners show Along the graves where warriors sleep— Above the waves where men lie deep In pure soft flutterings of snow. silent, grim. and sweet AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 1. Hirshfeld, a merchant of Bakersfield, 18 at the Lick. L. M. Peters, a mining man of Quincy, is at the Russ. J. H. Flint, the pharmacist of Marys- ville, is at the Lick. John P. Dahlgren, a civil engineer of Honolulu, is at the Russ. Emile H. Breldenback, a hardware deal- er of St. Louls, is at the Grand. Charles. V. Ecclestgne and W. A, Town. send of Los Angeles a dentats geles are at the Occl- Francisco Monteverde and Albert Cubil- las of Mexico are at the Occldental. Fred Conn, who is largely interested in borax mines at Big Pine, is at the Russ. A. G. de L'Estoile, a French mining en- gineer, has returned from EI D:mdo County and is at the Palace. John D. Spreckels is ra; pidly recoverin, at Del Coronado from the effects of hl: Tecent accident. Yesterday he was so far efficiency in working and in construction. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DR. ORD—W. M. 8., Napa, Cal. Dr. J. . Ord, brother of the late General Ed- L. | ward O. C. Ord, is still alive and at pres- ent a resident of NOT HARMFUL — Compounders of drugs say that the prescription given in your communication is not harmful. POSTAGE STAMPS—S., City. The proper place for a postage stamp on an envelope is the u hthand corner. ALKALI WATER—J. B., City. To render alkali water fit for use as drink- ing water it should either be boiled or condensed. FACT AND FAITH—J. B. M., Dayton, Nev. The book entitled “Fact and Faith” max’( be procured through any first-class book seller. This department does not advertise book sellers. HALF CENTS—S8ubscriber, City. There is offered a premium of 3% cents for a half cent of 1825; for a half cent of 1849 with the date in large figures the same premium is offered; for one of that date with small figures a premium of from 36 to 38 50 is offered. PULSATION—J. L., City. The average puise of a healthy man is about 70. If it falls below 60 it i8 considered by physi- clans as an indication of disease. gl‘hera are cases recorded where the pulse of an apparently healthy man was as low as 20, but it was the result of disease. A fatty accumulation about the heart may de- crease the pulse to 20 or 30 without any pr(]llrlrlflncnt signs of ill heaith in the in- valid. DISABLED SEAMEN—S., Mare Island, Cal. The following is the language of 4761 of the United States Revised Statutes: Every disabled person who has served in the navy or marine corps as an enlisted man for a period of not less than ten years and not discharged for misconduct may apply to the Secretary of the Navy for ald from the surplus inccme of the naval pension fund and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to convene a board of not less than three naval officers, one of whom shall be a_surgeon, to examine into the condition of the applicant and to recommend a sultable amount for his relief and for a specified time, and upon the approval of such recommendation by the Sec- retary of the Navy and certificate thereof to the Commissioner of Pensions, the amount shall be paid in the same manner provided for the payment of persons disabled by long service in the navy, but no fon shall ex- Geed the rats of & pension for full dlsabillty corresponding to the grade of the applicant, nor, if In addition to a pension, exceed one- fourth the rate of such pensior CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—E. H. Greenleaf of Santa Barbara and Dr. J. R. Lain of San Francisco are at the Sturtevant. Cal”glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.® Special information supplied dafly to business houses and pub‘)& men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 K(ont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_————— To Portland and Return $20 First- Class. Account Pactfic Const Dental Congress. By O. R. and N. Co.s steamer, salling August 1. Inquire at 630 Market street. First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market. —_——— But few people impair their eyesight from looking on the bright side .of things. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup™ Has been used over fifty by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mra, Winslow's Soothing Syrup. ¢ a bottle. —_———————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tlekets. Now only 360 by restored as to go out and enjoy the alr. He expressed % Saleecii himself as feeling quite con: steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- i longer stay §2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery, street, San Franclscos -