The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1898, Page 6

-...AUGUST 17, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. e L e A S R P DUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..217 to 22f Stevenson Street Telephone Malo 1874. THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In'this city and surrounding tow! for 15 cents @ week. By matl $6 per year: per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.......... NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs Houes C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. .-Marquette Bulldlh C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. tvereeerestenee---908 Broadway IRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll #:30 o'clogk. 62| McAllister street, open untll 9:30 e'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 194! Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untli 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untl, 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane | (ha¢ peeded my attention. n until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, rilby * Master of Ceremonies — “Work and Wages ‘Lohengrin.’ Orpheum— Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudevilie and Cannon, the 6l3-pound Man. 1pia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. o's Baths—Swimming. Central The Battle of Manilla,” Saturday, August 20 El Cam boating, fishing, every Sunuay. A S its readers are aware, this paper will support the Republican ticket. Therefore among its rights is that of promoting the nomination of the best and strong®t men. This it has done and will continue to do. But it does not by this course forfeit the privilege of giving all the news, and pre- senting it without bias. Its accounts of the Demo- cratic convention wiil be full and accurate, and those | of the Republican convention to*follow will be given | ina similar way. | Already there has been a clear demonstration of the { truth that a partisan journal can at the same time be a | ©ewspaper, untinged by prejudice, and that by being | so it will win respect and friends, During the prog- | ress of the two conventions the public can depend | upon The Call for the most complete r:ports, and that this statement will be accepted as a fact and not an idle boast there is not the slightest doubt. The record has been made, the precedent established, and is being lived up to day by day. | When of great current interest are being | treated it is known that the mews will not only be | printed, but that in laying it before the public there | will be the least possible delay. For instance, a spe- cial train was run to Sacramento yesterday carrying | The Call, so that the hundreds of people gathered | there from all parts of the State might learn what | was being done in politics and get the information as early as they got their breakfasts. Such has been and is the policy. Itis a winningi policy. It is appreciated. The congratulations of | friends have been numerous, and these are also appre- | ciated. They can depend on having a continual op- portunity to extend further congratulations. Enter- the experimental | eve: | | prise and accuracy have passed stage. WHISPERING McNAB’S SQUELCHING. W HEN “Whispering” Gavin McNab went to Sacramento he carried with him a notion that he was to run the Democratic convention and the preliminarics., He scems to have thought that his domination of his funny committee of one hundred could be extended to embrace the entire party. So, naturally enough, Gavin ran against a snag. While it is true that many old-line Democrats, im- pelled by a sense of disgust due to McNab’s course, have stayed away, some of them are there with pre- cariously balanced chips on their shoulders. One of these is W. W. Foote. When Foote and the whisper- ing boss got together the chip onthe former’s shoulder tell with a suddenness which attracted much atten- tion. The attorney called Gaviwn a liar and applied to him other qualifying terms usually indicated in polite journals by a series of dashes. There are bosses who would have resented this, but the whispering variety is different. McNab said the question was one to be settled in the convention. To attempt to dictate the policy of the convention is none of our intent, but it does seem that there are matters of greater public importance to be considered just now than as to whether McNab is a liar and the other things on Foote’s picturesque list. This ought to be of personal interest to. himself, and to settle it is clearly his own affair. Until it shall have been set- tled he ought to take a rest from the arduous labor of running the Democratic party. To look at the matter seriously it really has bearing on the situation. McNab is not popular. His meth- ods have given rise to distrust. He has been trying to sneak into a Congressional nomination, and his lack of frankness has not been well received. Those whom his whispers have wooed into line are inclined to rebel, anyhow, and now to have the, self-made boss characterized as a liar and fail to disprove it adds to their discontent. There is such a possibility as being too fresh. Per- haps this is what ails the imported, self-made boss who has the nerve to try to run a party, but lacks the nerve to more than feebly protest when publicly de- nounced as a liar. When Judge Cook wished that God might have mercy on the soul of a murderer just sentenced the murderer responded by expressing a similar wish for the spiritual part of the Judge. An exchange of courtesies is always pleasing to observe. paimiat St A man arrested for robbery proves to be the same who was recently caught with the “knock-out” drops in his possession. Now, if Chief Lees wants to keep his tanks full this individual should not have been overlooked, SEfes The men who prophesied that this is to be a quiet campaign have begun already to take to the woods to get out of the racket s The Spanish officer who fired on a flag of truce must entértain an exaggerated idea of that thingwhich his people term “honor.” = As a sequel to the numerous forest fires there should be a procession of criminally careless campers on their way to jail. There may be truth as well as poetry in the state- ment that Hay is to succeed Day in the Cabinet. One year, by mal, $1.50 | | try in 1805. ROTTANZI'S INDEPENDENCE. HE proceedings of the Board of Supervisors T with reference to the Mayor’s veto of the light- ing . contract awarded to the Gas and Electric Company were notable from the fact that they pre- t.sented Dr. Rottanzi with an opportunity to declare | his independence of yellow journalism. For some | time past the Examiner has evidently been trying to | effect an "ad\*cr:ising” contract with this corporation | “similar to the one formerly entered into with the | Southern Pacific Company, under which it drew from | | the railroad treasury $22,000. No other construction can be placed upon its motives, for it has assaulted | | the electric monopoly at all points and has resorted | | to every device known to it for bossing the Super- visors. When Mayor Phelan vetoed the lighting contract | | the yellow sheet apparently thought that at last it had | f&hc corporation in the door. It promptly counted | | noses and found that if Dr. Rottanzi voted to sustain’ | the veto the contract would be defeated. It thereupon ! publicly informed the versatile doctor that unless he | supported its efforts to secure an “advertising” con- | 7 i 5 itrnct from the Gas and Electric Company it would ! send him down to history as a boodler, a knave and a | bribe-taker. A VANISHING FACTION. ROM the Salt Lake Herald we learn that the | [::Silver Republicans of Utah have closed the | State headquarters which they opened a few weeks ago with the avowed intention of making an | i{ctive campaign of education in the cause of free sil- ver. - The movement, though begun with a mighty flourish of trumpets, found no support. Around the headquarters there gathered no army. As a conse- quence the field and the campaign have been aban- doned, and the chiefs “folded their tents like the Arabs and silently stole away.” What is thus recorded in Utah is but a part of a movement that is going on all over the country. Free silver coinage was even at its best a delusion merely, and when the attempt was made to organize a Repub- lican free silver party the folly was carried to theverge of madness. In the excitement arising out of the hard times of the Democratic panic years and the confu- sion of remedies suggested for the evils of that dis- tressing period, a good many men who were other- wise loyal to the Republican party were led to aban- don it by reason of their infection with the free silver mania. They marched with the Bryanites and made the campaign with some show of ardor as the allies of free traders, fiatists and calamity howlers, but got Dr. Rottanzi's reply to this is reported as follows: “I did not intend to come here at all to-day to | | vote either way, as I had important private bpsiness But when I found out that | this newspaper, the Examiner, was trying to boss me, | I came to vote as I pleased, which is against the dic- | tation of that sheet! It is thoroughly rotten to the | Who appointed it a dictator over me, an honest | man? The association of the Examiner’s name with | my own is a stench in my nostrils. Who is the manag- 1 ing editor of the dirty sheet? I would not care to| compare him to myself. I am a gentleman! If he | tries in future to impugn my motives in any way he | must settle personally with me!” We trust the doctor will not persist in his deter- mination to hold the editor of the yellow sheet per- sonally responsible; that would infract the law, and | |'really the editor is not worth any such trouble. But | :it is to be hoped he will persist in maintaining his in- | dependence. | Newspaper bossism differs only from saloon boss- | | ism in that the former is if anything the more corrupt. | | Why should Dr. Rottanzi assist the yellow bood]er‘ in getting an ‘“advertising” contract out of the Gas and Electric Company? Perhaps he could have con- scientiously voted to sustain the Mayor’s veto; it | appears to us that many of the points made by the Mayor against the contract were worthy of considera- ion, and it may be possible that it was the doctor’s duty to vote to sustain it. 'But not at the risk of aid- ing the blackmailing schemes of yellow boodlers. The Examiner once made a contract with the South- ern Pacific Company to keep silent at the rate of $1000 | a month for thirty months, or during two Legisla- tures and a political campaign. It drew $22,000 and broke silence, whereupon the railroad repudiated the contract. The yellow sheet did not sue for the bal- ance, but immediately began abusing the corpora- tion, which it has continued to do ever sir!cc. core. OUR CLAIM AGAINST TURKEY. OW that the war with Spain is over it has been N suggested in the East that we employ our army and navy while they are in fighting trim to col- lect ‘a little claim that we have against the Sultan of Turkey and which he has emphatieaily refused to-pay. I¢ is believed that if Dewey's fleet’ were brought up | through the Suez Canal and Watson’s squadron were sent from the West Indies to combine with it, and | | | | | | | a joint display of the two were made within gunshot | of the Turkish forts, the Sultan would see the claim | in a new light and pay it without further controversy. | property belonging to an American mission at Har poot in Armenia during the insurrection in that coun- It appears that a number of buildings, consisting of a girls’ seminary, a theological school ard five dwellings, all belonging to Americans and erected and maintained under treaty agreements with the Sultan’s Government, were looted and burned by a Turkish mob. A claim for damages was made by our Minister at Constantinople at once, and the mat- | ter dragged along until recently, when, according to they would not pay. The Philadelphia Telegraph makes the moral of the situation clear by pointing out that last year Austria, payment of an indemnity with the twenty-four hours that were given the Sultan to render redress for in- dignities heaped upon the Austrian Consul at that port. From that incident it draws the conclusion that | a similar demonstration by an American fleet at any Turkish port would be equally effective, and that our | claim would be settled without war. fact that other nations also have claims against Tur- key, suggests that they would be willing to co-operate with the United States in forcing the Sultan to meet | his obligations. While that may be true it certainly would not be advisable for us to seek that co-opera- tion. Such a policy would necessarily involve us to some extent in the entangling meshes of the diplo- macy of the concert of Europe, and in the end that would be probably be worse than a war. The Washington Post, after a general review of never be paid until the Government at Constantinople becomes convinced that further delay will be danger- | ous. The fact that the menace of Austria brought an immediate settiement, while other powers that have relied on diplomacy are still waiting, justifies this cenclusion. We certainly have no desire for further war, but, as the Post very justly says: ‘“National dignity would not be more compromised by the absolute surrender of a just claim than by everlastingly pottering about it with a power which will pay it enly on compul- sion.” Sy New York wants to have a naval review, and there does not seem any good reason why San Francisco shouldn’t have one too after the Philippines have ceased from troubling and the fleet of Dewey is at rest. —_— Gentlemen who are afraid to hecome members of the Philippine commission lest they do something to harm their political chances are almost tao timid to be good citizens. Augusti is said to have lost the opportunity of going down in history as a hero. He lost it when he was born with a white liver. Ny Augusti and Blanco seem to belong to the variety of rats capable of recognizing the situation when on board a sinking ship. Rochefort advocates American extension, which is probably as heavy a single blow as the scheme has received. If any of those Cubans object to peace there is every probability they can get anything they want. .. The claim grew out of the destruction of certain | reports, formal notice was given by the Turks that | by a naval demonstration at Mersina, enforced the | The New York Mail and Express, recalling the | Turkish methods of late, maintains that the claim will | | nothing for their service except defeat and disaster. Since that foolish break with the party to which they naturally belong by reason of their abiding faith in its policies of protection, internal improvements and reciprogity of commerce, they have had two years in which to meditate. They have seen the hard times pass away, the prosperity of the country revive, in- dustry recover its profits and labor its wages, with the gold standard unshaken; and from these things they have learned the folly of the whole free silver scheme. Thus the rank and file of the misled faction are returning to the Republican camp. The free sil- ver chiefs open headquarters in vain. They have no longer -any support. Even if there could be consistently and logically any such thing as a free silver Republican there would be no place for him in the politics of to-day. The free silver movement has collapsed even more completely than the movement for free trade. The nation has gone forward. New issues have arisen, and the great parties of the country are rapidly aligning themselves on new fields of controversy. A Silver Republican this year is not only a misnomer, but an anachronism. The leaders of the misguided faction in Utah have done wisely in closing their headgquarters, and if good judgment remains they will abandon all their schemes for a campaign of education. They have themselves much to learn before they begin to teach others, and the first lesson is that of recovering from a blunder. They have made a bad break in the past and should | now redeem the future by zealous service in the cause of the grand old party of sound money. protection and SOME BANKING PROBLEMS. NE of the most striking features of the finan- O cial condition of the United States at this time is the extreme disproportion between the rates of interest in the money centers of the country and in the outlying communities. In New York money is almost begging for borrowers, while in the South and to a considerable extent in the West hardly enough can be obtained at fair rates to carry on the industry and commerce of the people. President ‘Hepburn of the. New York Bankers Association, n an address at the anftal meeting - of the association, suggested as a remedy for this coun- dition of affairs the enactment of a law permitting the establishment of branch banks, so that the great monetary institutions of the financial centers would be in close touch with the country at large and able to advance funds wherever needed. Such’a system, it seems clear, would go far toward | equalizing interest charges. throughout the Union, | and thus place the business men of smaller cities on | something like an equal footing so far as money mat- §ters are concerned with those of the greater cities. | As Mr. Hepburn pointed out, if such banks were in | operation the: funds which the big banks in New | York are now holding in idleness or which are beg- | ging for investment at 3 per cent or an even less rate | of interest would be employed in the West and South | at better rates, and the welfare of all sections of the country would be advanced. The issue is one over which there has been much controversy, and even among the more progressive | reformers of our banking laws there is by no means a unanimity of opinion on the subject. It is feared by some the right to establish branches would enable | the great banking houses of the cities to crowd out j the small bankers of the country at large. Whether | these fears are well founded or not, it is certain some- | thing should be done to equalize interest rates and | put all sections of the Union as near as possible upon | the same monetary plane. As Mr. Hepburn said: “A proper remedy for the evils complained of by the South and West is not to be found by waging war upon existing banks, but by the establishment of more. They need competition and greater facilities for exchange.” Another important banking problem dealt with in the address is that of providing for a stricter enforce- ment of the laws regulating the administration of banks. Some striking statistics were given by Mr. Hepburn showing the shameful facility with which | “bank criminals,” as he called them, obtain pardons. Strangely enough the record of the Federal Govern- ment in this respect is worse than that of the States, and it appears that the average term served by bank criminals has been but 51 per cent of the average sentence; executive clemency having wiped out 49 per cent of the penalty imposed by the court. Mr. | Hepburn adds: “From data obtained it appears that the greatest degree of leniency is extended to the ‘Napoleons of finance,” who, in the furtherance of some scheme of speculation or in the indulgence of a desire for fash- ionable and expensive living, appropriate the funds intrusted to them for safe keeping. The social posi- tion, friends and influence which these stolen funds enable them to obtain seem to avail in obtaining a modification of their sentence. Surely this class sin against greater light, and it is difficult to see wherein they are entitled to greater leniency than the brutal burglar.” Whatever differences of opinion may exist concern- +ing the proposal for equalizing interest rates there will be none with respect to the demand for a stricter enforcement of the law guarding bank funds. A few people may object to branch banks, but all people are in favor of honest bankers. e ——— Ogden is considerably excited over a healer who cures by laying hands on the face. Ogden might also remember with profit that a potato carried in the pocket banishes rheumatism, and a toad is death to warts. el The New York preacher who delivered a sermon and hardly notice the change, and he ought to glide. . W AT Blanco is said to have resigned, but he doesn't feel 1 this way. MR. WARDALL TO MR. CATOR. To the Editor of The Call: About July 30 there was published in The Call an article which had been published in the Los Angeles Herald pur- porting to be signed by a Mr. Carlson, and E. M. Wardall as chairman of the State Committee of the Populist party. As this article was in the main a personal attack upon myself and G. W, Baker, because I favored a straight Populist ticket at Sacramento, I wrote to Mr. Wardall, reminding him that I had openly declared myself in favor of straight party action long before the convention, and that Mr. Baker was properly at the con- vention and asked to be there by the Silver Republican Committee, of which he was chairman. Mr. Wardall writes me under date of August 7, 1898, and upon the subject of the statement purporting to be signed by him he says: “Your letter of the 5th is received. In reply will say I had nothing whatever to do with writing or publishing that letter of personal abuse of yourself and Mr. Baker (published in the Herald). T never have used such methods in the past and see no reason why the present time calls for personal attacks on individuals. I never saw the article until it was pointed out to me in the paper.” \ The article referred to by Mr. Wardall is so personal as to require no notice at my hands, further than to point out Mr. Wardall's denial that he signed it. THOMAS V. CATOR. August 16, 1898. 1 PASS COST MORRISON CHAMPAGNE AND CIGARS. Lewis Morrison is playing at the Alcazar on percentage. Outside of the local press the free list has been entirely suspended. This was the ironclad agreement entered into when that venerable _iar commenced his engagement, and to bind the same Morrison pledged the management a bottle or champagne if he issued a free admission during his season at the Alcazar. Now it happened that on this particular day during the early part of last week Mr. Morrison rang for a messenger to send to the cos- tumer’s for two wigs which he was having altered. He informed Manager Thall the nature of the errand and what o tell the boy when he came as he would be at rehearsal. In the meantime another boy called with a card signed S—— and asking for a pass for two. To issue it being against the rules of the house genial Mark not wishing to abruptly refuse the request said: “You will have to get Mr. Morrison’s O. K. first.” The boy left the office, caught a glimpse of Mr. Morrison just leaving the theater and hastened to him. The sage actor thinking that he was the boy who was to go on the errand said: “Oh, you are the boy, are you?” The boy, half confused at the remark, replied: “Y-e-s—s-i-r—but—that gentleman in the office there said I would have to get your O. K. first.” “Oh, very well,” replied Mr. Morrison, so tzking his card from his pocket wrote on the back: “O. K. for two” and hurried on. The youngster cashed the card at the box office for two seats. When the tickets were counted that night the card bearing Morrison’s name “O. K. for two” came up. Here was Manager Thai's chance. Stepping to the telephone he rang up a well-known wholesale wine house and told them to | send down at once, C. O. D., charged to Lewis Morrison, a quart bottle of “extra dry.” The champagne was brought in haste with the bill as requested. Thall paid the price, took the receipted bill and the O. K.d card, inclosed the same in an envelope and sent word for Mr. Morrison to @rop in the office before he went home. Presently in he came. There were several glasses setting on the desk and the bottle of champagne stand- ing by. }n “Well, well,” said Mr. Morrison. w comes this?"” “Oh,” sald Mark, “a friend sent it.” “Well,” said Mr. Morrisqp, “let me send for some cigars.” So the office boy was Ssummoned and sent for a small box of choice Havana cigars. Wine and the forthcoming play took up the best part of an hour of chat and enjoyment. At leave-taking Mr. Thall cashed up with him for the week. Mr. Morrison counted it over. It was short. “I believe we have made a mistake,” said the actor. “Oh, that reminds me,” said Manager Thall, With a droll wink. is a little bill I paid for you.” ““Here It was some moments before Morrison could see where any laugh came in. He acknowledged the joke a good one, though the pass cost him the champzz=: and cigars. MORTIMER WOOD. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. W. E. Taylor is going to Honolulu to reside. State Senator 8. N. Androus of Pomona is at the Grand. that could happen to the people of country., If they knew thpe anct (tar:'vxt‘i about the war and about their own con- dition there is no doubt that the Gov- ernment would be compelled to take a | vastly aifferent course, and one which | in the end would be better for the coun- | try. There {s sometimes considerable irri- tation in this country when the news. papers unite in proclaiming some dis- agreeablé truth about the nation or about Z. R. Giftord, a merchant of Auburn, | some detail of its management. But it 1, lis a great deal better that is at the Baldwin. shnul(f be told, even if it ?s u:z‘:)elen'sl;‘ntth. J. L. Chaddock, a Fresno merchant, is a | than that it should guest at the California. Drury Melone, a capitalist of Oak Knoll, is registered at the Palace. Dr. A. H. Tickell and wife of Nevada City are guests at the Grand. be covered up, as been done In Spain, If thers were & sia tematic method of decelving the peo-ie ‘;)é’otnhlgoc::ntry about the war we should i compassed with troubles.—New Bedford (Mass.) Standard. e | general | amount of work in a specified time—an | sumption evidently erroneous. | estimated it at 3 on Roosevelt could glide from the pulpit to the stump. Willlam H. Corbusier, U. 8. A., Is regis- tered at the Occidental with his wife. C. D. Chapman, & mining man of Du- rango, Mexico, is a guest at the Califor- nia. P. G. Ginser, J. H. Milner and Willlam Nasburg of Marshfield, Or., are registered at the Lick. * ford, will make the Russ his headquarters for a few day C. M. Wheeler, an attorney of Eureka, was among those who registered at the Occidental yesterday. G. A. Smith, a heavy fruit grower of Portland,« Or., and Charles Erickson, a rallroad contractor of Martinez, are at the Grand. X F. M. Miller, a prominent attorney of Fresno, and W. I. Hupp, a well-known politician of Weaverville, are located at the Lick. F. H. Selvage of Eureka, who is the choice of the Humboldt delegation for Lieutenant Governor on the Repubiican ticket, is at the Baldwin. Jose A. Rodriguez of Honolulu and U. 8. ‘Webb of Quincy, who owns extensive min- interests in Plumas County, ing are among the arrivals at the Occidental. J. Takenuchi, vice-president - of the Bank of Yokohama; C. Matsunaga, secre- tary of the same corporation; and U. Shomidza, all of Tokio, Japan, are stay- ing at the Palace. K. Takahashl, Japanese Minister to Berlin, who is on his way homeward, ar- rived on the overland last night and reg- istered at the Palace. He Is accompanied by R. Ichinomiya. OLD GLORY. Fling the folds of Old Glory out, out to the o = reeze; Fling it out, fling it out, fling it out! Let it gleam In the sunlight and wave in the breeze, Let it shine from the housetop and float o'er the trees, Fling it out, fling It out, fling it out! ‘Wherever brave fighting for freedom is done, Wherever the battle by valor is won; ‘Wherever the victor sends up the glad shout And honor proclaims dishonor's mad rout, Fling it out, fling it out, fiing it out! li'unxb the folds of Old Glory out, out to the ze; reeze; Fling it out, fling it out, fling it out! See the bars of bright crimson outlined in the white And the stars in the blue shining comfort and 1igh! ght, Fling it out, filng it out, fling it out! Where rally brave men the truth to defend, Wherever the weak need a savior and friend; Wherever the poor seek for solace and peace; Wherever the slave would find his release, Fling it qut, fiing it out, filng it out! Fling the folds ot Old Glory out, out to the breeze; eze: Fling it out, fling it out, fling it out! In the soft southern breeze it floats llke a prayer; Th!uh'lIA l)(lu!d by the sun and caressed by the al Fling It out, fiing it out, fiing 1t out! Wherever a Dewey or Sampson shall sall, And this emblem of beauty and, power prevail— There flowers of peace forever shall grow, And Dblessings of freedom the weakest shall know, Fling it out, fling it out, fling it out! Fling b:eh. folds of Old Glory out, out to the eze; Fling it out, fiing it out, fling it out! Here :::ld“ we the heroes who left us this Not é foeman shall trall its fair fame in the ust, Fling it out, fling It out, fling it out! ‘Waye, wave then, Old Glory, the symbol of Float, float on forever the emblem of might; Smilé, smile to the earth while the skies bend above A _Union new-wedded in brotherly love— Fling it out, fiing It out, fling it outt —S. 8. Eddy in New York Mall and Express. Sl dellton el SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH. Buppression of the truth, such as we | see in Spain, is one of the worst things J. Frye, a wealthy capitalist of Ruther- | el AN ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. VISITING THE MINT—C. B. A., Oak- ;\2;1(1. 'Ca]. The San Francisco Branch nt s open to visit ily fur?noon.p visitors daily during the A BILLION—K. F., City. An English gilllnn is a million of millions, written in igures as follows: 1.000,000,000,000. iflrfiln a l:v.lllln:‘ I;: described as "m?lol)on ?lrel lones,” which, bein; million of millions. S st e TAX RATE—A. N. R, City. The rate of taxation for the current fiscal year in the city and county of San Francisco is $1.1854 on each hundred dollar valuation. In Oakland the tax is $1.12, which includes bond redemption and interest. STREET ASSESSMENTS—A. O. §., City. When a street not yet accepted by the city in San Francisco is ordered paved by a resolution of the Supervisors | the owner of a corner lot is assessed to the middle line of the stréet for the num- ber of front feet he owns on that street If culverts, crossings and intersection of streets are included in the work, then the owners of the property on both sides of gach street running hal? way down the Tom corners ar block trom o are assessed to pay, THE AMERICAN FLAG—R. J. Mc and others, City. At the Free Public Library there is a book, the title of which is “The Flag of the United States and Other Nationalities, Preble " which gives a full history of the American flag as far back as it has been traced. It would be impossible in this department to give | even a synopsis of that history. On the | 14th of June, 1777, Congress adopted the b.ue fleld with thirteen stars and thirteen stripes &Itema(ely red and white, as the standard of the United States. That flag was first displayed on an American man- of-war by Paul Jones, and it was on his | vessel, the Ranger, that the colors were first saluted by foreign guns. He it was also who displayed the flag on the first ship of the line buil oiR-g ullt for the .United LIGHTHOUSE DISTRICT—Sailor, Cit: San Francisco s located in the Twellt};n Lighthouse district. It extends from the boundary line between California and Mexico to the boundary line between Cal- ifornia and Oregon, a” distance of about 8§00 miles of coast line and entrances to all the aids to navigation on the seacoast bays and navigable rivers of California. Commander Frank Courtes, U. S: N., Is gxn officer in charge. His official title is ighthouse Inspector, in charge of the Twelfth Lighthouse district. The adjacent district is the Thirteenth. It extends from the southern boundary line of Oregon to the boundary line be- tween the United States and British Co- l;:]rxbla ‘}& n:mb:ces the coast of Ore- 3 ngton, the Columbia the Willamette rivers, Siralts of é:g Juan de Fuca, Pu, Satein get Sound and Alaskan DULSE—S. “Rhodymenia palmata or dulse, such as is used on the Irish and Scoteh coasts for food,” writes Dr. C. L. Anderson of Santa Cruz, an expert on sea growth and sea weeds. in answer to the question about that weed, “is not abun- dant on the Californfa coast. If it occurs at all, save in name, the quallty is not the same, and other seaweeds are prefer- able. Sometimes Schizmenia_Californica, a broad, rubber-like frond, abundant everywhere, is called dulse and used in the same manner for food. So also Por- phyra vulgaris, ‘lavir, and some of the numerous giartinas, which bleach out beautifully, are gathered for food pur- poses by the Chinese, and might prove useful to other people.”” - t The kind of dulse this correspondent de- ;irr‘::i !;%n beb;btah‘hed in the pressed and I sending through some im- porting house to Ireland or sgouand. A MINOR'S RIGHT—A. E. L., City. If ‘| you are a native of England, are 21 years of age, have been a resident of this coun- try fifteen years, having come to this counfry at the age of 6, and your father nor mother were not naturalized as citi- zens of the United' States, you could not vote at the coming election in San Fran- cisco without having obtained naturaliza- tion papers. The law is h(n:n‘;“dr:n. has inor under the age of 21 year: who Tesided in the United States three vears next preceding his arrlval at that age. And who has continued to reside therein £5 the time he may make application to i v, after be admitted a citizen thereof, may. a - he arrives at the age of 21 E;?tr}fi‘natr}‘\e he has resided five years :Ia'frtxf{ed States, including the three g of his minority, be admitted a cmzeg\, )u‘ he must make a declaration on oath .';Inr prove to the satisfaction of the court that for two years next preceding it has el:l" his bona-fide intention to become a IY i- zen. You will find the nnlllrallqulflnu‘:\\g of the United States in Sec. 2-165 lu]St t (:‘ the Revised Statutes of the United States. BUSINESS—W., City. It s asserted that about % per cent of business ven- tures meet with disaster, that is, the parties who engage in buqm-s;eneh:;flruan e of business. An s- e article O that subject published in the reports of the Secretary of /;‘gr (;g - ture shows that while that was the per- centage of unsuccessful business ven- tures, the reverse was shown in agricul. tural pursuits, the failures being only 3 per cent. R A NICARAGUA CANAL—R. D. B., City. The Nicaragua Canal Company of which Warner Miller was the president pro- posed to build the canal with three locks, The length was to be 120 miles, and the time to traverse it was to be twenty- eight hours. Were the canal built and open to navigation it would occasion a saving of 1030 miles one wa 2060 miles the round trip to vessels making the western voyage to San Fancisco. Tak- ing New York as a starting point. the port to San Fran- o is 15,672 miles, or 3134 miles the By the Nicaragua canal the Y ersed would be only miles, both ways. cl8 A round trip. CITIZENSHIP—L. §., Palermo, Butte County, Cal. An alien coming to tlLe United States can, the moment he lan £0 to a court of proper jurisdiction and make a declaration that it is his intention | to become a citizen of the United States. it But before he can apply for fihnal % must appear by oath that the ay Hed his declaration of intention : than two years before maki:g the cation, that he resided five years c ously in the United States and with! State of Territory in which he applies for citizenship at least one year. An alien may file a declaration on the day,of ar- Tival, yet he may not make appilcation | for final papers until twenty years after. HORSEPOWER—J. E. D., City. Hor power is a term in mechanics used in pressing the force of a motive power. is based on the assumption that horses perform a certain consta It The fun- damental unit of work is the foot poun ! but in measuring the work of a horse by | this unit the most celebrated engineers differ widely. Boulton and Watt, basing their calculation on the work of London drayhorses working eight hours a day, 0 foot pounds per min- ute. D'Aubisson, taking the work done by horses in whims at Freiberg, estimated the work at 16,440 foot pounds, working cight hours a day. Desagulier's estimate was 44,000, Smeaton’s 22,000 and Tread- gold's 27,500 foot pounds. Seventeen thou- sand four hundred is thought to be about correct. It matters little, however, which is used, provided the same be always | used; and, accordingly, the original esti- is still counted a horse- power. Such power is designated as nomi- nal, lndlvato}i and actual. Nominal is adopted and referred to by manufactur- ers of steam-engines in order to express the capacity of an engine, the elements thereof being confined to dimensions o steam cylinder and a conventional pre sure of steam and speed of piston. Ina cated designates full capacity in the cyl- inder as developed in operaton and with- out any deduction for friction. Actual refers to its actual power as developed by its operation, involving elements of mean presure upon piston. its velocity and a just deduction for friction of op- eration of the engine. In calculating th power of a steam-engine in terms ‘Watt's' unit the general rule e multiply together the pressure in pound on a square inch of the piston the area of the piston in inches, the length of the stroke pér minute. The result divided by 33,000 will give the ‘horsepéwer, but one- tenth of the whole must be deducted as an allowance for frietion. — e————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® mate of Watt o ——— s Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. » An English medical journal has noted some curious medical advertisements. The special merit of a certain mineral spring is that it ‘“‘stirs the dermal func- tions,” while it is also “an excellent re- constructive of animal economy,”’ and has, moreover, a beneficial effect on “the oculary apparel.”” The inventor of a certain ‘“fresh air respirator for the use of indoor patients,” observes didactical- ly: “Only compare the chub-cheeked country lad (living in open fresh air, who, in spite of scanty food, is abounding in health) with the pale-cheeked child of towns, better fed, and secured indoors against the brazing open air, and you will immediately perceive the different ef- irects produced by fresh air on both be- ngs.” —_— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fitty years by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, 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 Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. —_———— To Portland and Return $20 First- Class. Account Pacific Coast Dental Congress. By O. R. and N. Co.’s steamer, salling August 1S. Inquire at 630 Market street. First and Second Class rateg again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market. ——————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamslitp, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. ADVERTISEMENTS. MACKAY’S Furniture Must Go! THIS DEPARTMENT TO BE EN- TIRELY CLOSED OUT. $33,000 WORTH OF FURNITURE ACTUAL COST. AT Stock complete in every detall. A rare opportunity to buy good goods. At auction prices. A few quotation: SOLID OAK CENTER TABLES..43¢ BOLID OAK DINING CHATHS 3(5): SOLE‘{{)SOAK COBBLER ROCK. SOLID OsAK U ARM ROCKER: PIECE ~EASTERN HARD. WOOD CHAMBER SETS.. $12.65 ANTIQUE PILLA - SION. TABLES ... EXTEN About 25 high grade CHAMBER SUITS in quartered oak, Bird's Eye fu;x:nije;lcseOINBMany' at correspflng- s. Brass and eds e Enameled B CARPETS! In This Department During FURNITURE CLOSE OUT LOW PRICES PREVAIL. wnavill)ow OPAQUE SHADES, ALEX. MACKAY & SON, 718 Market St.