The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 The TUESDA JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications 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 1574 THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE. -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE............. ..Riggs House | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE. -Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. ne year, by mall, $1.50 +ee-...908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until I0 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25i8 | Mission street, open untll street, open until 9 o'clock. untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, epen until 9 o'clock. e 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*A Milk White Flag.” Baldwin—*Magda.” Alcazar—*The First Born" and “ A Tragedy. " Morosco’s—The Land of the Living * Tivoli—*La Traviata.” Orpheum—Vandeville. New Comedy Theater Alhambra, Eddy The Chutes Woman's Wit.” nd Jones streets—Vaudeville. 00, Vaudeville and Spanish Bull Fight. Ulympia—Co: Macon and Eddy streets—Specialties. £utro’s Baths—Swimming. Mechanics' Pavilion—The Irish Fair, Closing ball. B MAGUIRE AND ANARCHY. Y the thrill of horror which ran through the civilized world on the announcement of the assassination of the Empress of Austria by the hand of an anarchist, the attention of the people of | California is recalled again to the sympathy which James G. Maguire has always avowed for that class of criminals. It is, moreover, pertinent to the time that this sympathy with ravening cruelty and lawless- ness should be made the subject of public comment, for Maguire is a candidate for the office oi Governor, and should he be elected would have it in his power to pardon the crimes of such criminals and make | California during his term of offic€ a safe place for their residence. | It is notable that Maguire’s sympathy with anar- chists is so close and so strong that he has never been able to perceive any moral turpitude on their part. | He has on the other hand maintained that even when they commit assassinations they are justified so long | as the persons assassinated are selected from the offi- cial representatives of governments. These sentiments, | so repulsive to Americans, and indeed to law-abiding | men of all nations, were conspicuously asserted by | Maguire during the debate on the immigration re- | striction bill in the House of Representatives January 27, 1897. In the course of the debate on that day Maguire is | reported in the Congressional Record as having said: ! “Gentlemen urge the passage of this bill as a step jn 1505 Polk street, open | | | not change him. OUR TROPICAL COLONIES. OTH parties in this State have approved ex- B pansion in the tropics, without heeding or indeed hearing a discussion of the policy which would bring out the facts which illuminate and must determine its wisdom or otherwise. In the absence of any opportunity for voters to express themselves against tropical expansion, because both parties favor it, The Call adheres to its former position against holding anything in the tropical islands that have fallen out of Spain’s palsied hands into ours, beyond some convenient coaling station. We have shown that the population of those islands by our American people is impossible, for physical reasons which no act of man can overcome. We made this same show- ing in the case of Hawaiian labor, when the annexa- tionists were holding out the lure that white men would be wanted to replace the coolies in the cane fields and sugar mills. We said that white labor could not endure the vertical sun in Hawaii, and that as soon as anmexation succeeded the planters would de- mand the continuance of coolie labor. This has come to pass. They must have the only labor that can live there or they must submit to the decay of their in- dustries and the ruin of their commerce. Their for- mer pretense was false, and we exposed it. The San Francisco Argonaut, which is hotly in favor of holding the American and Asiatic tropical possessions of Spain, advocates garrisoning them en- tirely with negro troops because “they can withstand a climate that crushes all energy out of white sol- diers after they have been exposed to it for any length of time, and they are immune to the tropical diseases that strike down the whites like cattle.” We need submit no further proof on the point that our tropical conquests can never be colonized by white men to plant and protect there the Anglo- Saxon institutions under which we live. The next subject for consideration is the people al- ready constituting the population of these islands. Draper and a line of writers so numerous and re- spectacle that “their statements are not controverted have shown by evidence irrefutable that absolute domination of man by his physical environment, so that to dispute it is to war with every conclusion of science. The kind of people who live now in the tropics are the only kind who can ever live there. Their intel- lectual development is all that can ever occur there. | Does any one recall a great tropical scholar, diplomat, statesman, scientist? No. Copernicus, Newton, La- voisier, Mitchell, Proctor, Huxley, Darwin, Spencer, | Hegel, Keppler and their peers in science and phil- osophy were all natives of the temperate zone. In literature Shakespeare, Bacon, Sue, Hugo, Goethe, Schiller, Tennyson, Byron, Burns, Long- fellow, Hawthorne, Irving—all of the northern race. The tropics have been open to civilization and its contacts for four hundred years. In that time, since the invention of printing, our mass of the literature of science, art and philosophy has been created. What is the contribution of the tropics? Nothing. The | same facts of nature which fix the physical character- istics of man in the tropics determine also his mental and moral elements. As he has been always, between Cancer and Capricornus, he will always be. We can- “Of one blood God made all men and set the bounds to their habitation,” is the declara- tion of the old and solemn book. In no respect can these bounds be passed nor their conditions be made interchangeable. Therefore such conditions as we find now in these islands are permanent. There is sentimental talk about raising the grade of these peo- Nihilists from this country. Assuming that it would | be right and desirable, though I do not ad'nit it would be either right or desirable, to exclude these | classes or any of them from this country, yet the present bill does not tend to their exclusion. They are | generally educated men, many of them holding uni- | versity degrees, whose offending consists of resistance live is obedience to God. Who are the Nihilists? | to tyranny, which in the conditions under which they | | | They are the Democrats of Russia who are struggling against almost hopeless odds to establish the natural and inalienable rights of men in that country as against the tyranny and false pretense of divine right on the part of the Czar.” This speech having been made as late as January of last year, after the anarchists had filled the world | with a hideous record of crime running from the assassination of the Czar to the blowing up of the opera-house at Barcelona and causing the deaths of men and women who had nothing whatever to do with government, shows that Maguire’s sympathy with anarchy is not the result of any ignorance on his part of what anarchists desire or of the means by which they hope to accomplish it. Anarchy and nihilism as a matter of fact are aim- | ing not at the murder of crowned heads, but at the destruction of society. The scoundrel who struck down the venerable Empress of Austria avowed that at his first examination. He disclaimed any animosity toward either the Empress or her husband the Em- peror. He had not gone to Switzerland to seek her as a victim. He stabbed her only because the oppor- tunity offered. He boasted: “If all anarchists did their duty as I have done mine, bourgeois society would soon disappear.” The words should be remembered. It is not against royalty, imperialism or despotism that anarchy has raised its hideous head and murderous hand, but against society. It is as antagonistic to social con- ditions in America as to those in Russia. It has per- petrated its crimes in Chicago as ruthlessly as in St. Petersburg. It was one of the purposes of the framers of the immigration restriction bill to shut these decadent wretches out of the United States. to their exclusion. He proclaimed his sympathy for them. He raised in Congress a cry as violent as any ever heard on the sandlots in this city when agitation was at its worst; and to-day he asks to be entrusted with the enforcement of law in this State—to be chosen as its Governor. A few days ago the British were rejoicing over the defeat of the Dervishes by General Kitchener, and hailing it as a triumph of civilization; and now comes the French occupation of Fashoda, causing the re- joicers to take a second thought and consider whether there may not be such a thing as too much competition of civilization in Central Africa. peami . Miss Fusion Populism having wedded herself to Democracy at Sacramento, it is only fair the middle- of-the-road maiden should have sole use of the family name. Democracy cannot rightly deprive a whole tribe of its good name by running off with a crazy sprig of it. — The order of the powers that both the contending parties in Crete shall lay down their arms is good enough as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. What is wanted is the kind of order that will make life secure and arms unnecessary. Whatever discords may exist in some quarters, there is more harmony in San Francisco to-day than there was a month ago, We never hear the siren now. - Maguire objected | | N 5 3 o le by education. the direction of excluding Anarchists, Socialists and“ 5 2 But education is only a form of utility. It is sought by civilized man as an aid in the struggle of life. In the tropics nature ministers with | a prodigal hand to all of the physical wants of man; therefore he needs no education and is not receptive to it. Look upon those people to-day and you look upon what will be there a thousand and a thousand years from now. This brings the discussion down to the status of these people, if we take them in. Are they to be our fellow-citizens, admitted as members of our body politic, or are they to be our subject colonists, de- prived of representation and self-government? This no one has yet answered. It is needless to remind any student of the constitution that it grants to the Federal Government only one way of enlarging our borders by the admission of States into the Union. It was to acquire territory by treaty or conquest, to be peopled, pass a novitiate in self-government and become a State, as may be done even with Alaska, where our race lives and increases wholesomely, but no power is granted to expand with any other policy in view. Nature has fixed the kind of people for the tropics and set bounds not only to their habitation, but to their mental and moral constitution. Let us further consider at another time their fitness for American citizenship. R nominating Mr. Loud for Congress not only showed a just appreciation of the merits of the man who has so ably and faithfully represented them in the past, but also made evident the fact that they understand how important it is for their district and for the State to retain in service at the national capital a representative who by his experience there has ac- quired prestige among Congressmen, is familiar with the methods of transacting business and has the re- spect and confidence of the great leaders of all parties. The success of Mr. Loud in his first campaign for Congress was a proof of his excellence as a cam- paigner and his ability as a vote getter. He was pitted against one of the most popular Democrats, and was himself at that time untried in nationallegislation. His repeated re-elections since have been due to what he has accomplished at Washington much more than to any canvassing tactics at home. His record has been his best campaign document, and has won as well as merited the approval of his party and of all independ- ent voters among his constituents. At the present time Mr. Loud’s rank in the House of Representatives is a most enviable one. He has become one of the foremost of the younger leaders on the Republican side, is one of Speaker Reed’s most trusted lieutenants, and has been rewarded for his efficiency and his ability by appointment to the very responsible post of chairman of the Committee on Postoffices. It would have been a great blunder entailing a loss upon the whole State if the Republicans of the Fifth had failed to renominate their distinguished represen- tative. The opposition to him fortunately came from sources other than the body of the people, and though headed by M. H. de Young and D. M. Burns, as- sisted by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, was able to control only seventeen votes in the nomi- rating convention, while Mr. Loud received ninety- MR. LOUD’S RENOMINATION. EPUBLICANS of the Fifth District in re- VAN FLEET AND HIS SLANDERER. JUSTICE HE Examiner Sunday morning, August 28, in Tits editorial columns, reproduces the slander upon Justice Van Fleet, which it published about a year ago at the time the opinion in the case of Fox vs. the Oakland Consolidated Railroad Company was rendered, charging him with discriminating in his opinion against the poor man. There is not a syllable in the opinion which purports to draw a distinction or comparison between the rich and the poor, and the attempt to create a class antagonism by imputing such a purpose to Justice Van Fleet is an unwarranted attack upon the judiciary; for, although the opinion was written by Justice Van Fleet, it was concurred in by the entire court, and is but the statement of a well recognized rule of law. At common law a father could not maintain an ac- tion for the death of his son by the negligence of another, but under statutes enacted in modern days damages for such negligence may be recovered. In many States the amount is limited to $5000, but in this State there is no limit to the amount of recovery, except that the jury may give such damages “as un- deér all the circumstances of the case may be just.” The Civil Code defines damages to be compenshion in money, and the term “compensation” by its own force limits the amount of recovery to the actual loss of the party who has sustained the injury. By the statute authorizing the action the circumstances of the case become, then, the guide in determining the amount of damages which will be just in each case, and this involves an inquiry into all the circumstances which tend to show the amount of loss. The father is entitled to the services of the son during his min- ority, but he is also under an obligation to clothe and maintain him during this period, and the actual dam- age which he sustains by his death is the amount of money which would compensate him for the excess of his earnings over the cost of his maintenance. Of course it cannot be determined in advance whether the child will be employed in any service; or, if so employed, what his wages will amount to, but, as juries are not permitted to render verdicts upon con- jecture, or without some evidence upon which they may rest, the earning capacity of the child must be shown by the best obtainable evidence. It is upon this principle that in the case of an.adult evidence is ad- mitted showing the amount of wages which he was earning at the time of his death, and the number of years which he would probably live, not upon the ground that he will always receive that amount of wages, or that he will live that number of years, but as being the most satisfactory method of arriving at a just estimate of his loss. This is what the plaintiff in the Fox case sought to recover, and all that was said in the opinion of Justice Van Fleet was in cor- roboration of this rule—that for the purpose of de- termining the probable occupation the child would have pursued, it was reasonable to conclude that it would have followed the calling of the father, for the reason, which no can deny, that experience teaches us that children do very frequently pursue the busi- ness of the parents, whether they be rich or poor. What Justice Van Fleet did say is as follows: “HWhile in no semse comclusive, we have the right, and it is most reasonable in judging of the probable character or occupation the deceased would have pursued, to regard with the other circumstances surrounding him the calling of his father—since experience teaches that children do very frequently pursue the general class of business as that of their parents.” In his opinion he refers to a case in the Iowa reports, where the same rule was approved in the instructio: given to a jury in nearly the same language. In fact, the real tendency of the opinion, as well as of the rule which it expounds, would authorize a greater verdict for a poor man than for a rich man, for it is an un- doubted fact that the son of a rich man is a pecuniary expense to his father, without any possibility of in- come during his minority, and a jury acting upon this well-known fact would give the rich parent a nominal verdict where the poor man would receive a sub- stantial one. B THE TAX LEVY. LIMINATING from the subject the political clap-trap and buncombe with which it has been invested by the demagogues and their organs, there can be no doubt that a strong public | demand exists for a low municipal tax rate this year. This demand cannot very well be ignored by the Board of Supervisors, and that body should not ig- nore it. Doubtless it would please Mayor Phelan and the Examiner to have a tax levy of $2 10 on the $100 valuation. Such a rate would make no end of “politics” for them and the demagogues who follow the leadership. But the Supervisors should not con- sider anybody’s interest in this matter save that of the tax-paying people. The year 1898 has not been a good one for Cali- fornia, and consequently business is not prosperous in San Francisco. The wheat crop is a failure and the fruit crop shy. This is no time to lay the heavy hand of the tax gatherer upon ¢he people. They are not able to stand a levy of one million additional dol- lars, whether the money is necessary for public im- provements or required to carry on an extravagant government. Who is to spend the money is immaterial. We shall have a new Board of Supervisors next year which, if Republican and not chosen by Mayor Phelan and the Third-street Boodler, will be an improvement upon the present one. But this need not be considered either. A tax levy greater than that of last year should not be imposed, because the people cannot stand it. True there are many necessary public improve- ments pressing for attention, but they should all be postponed to another day. The new County Hospital, 0 cost $400,000; the new police and fire alarm boxes, to cost $35,000; the removal of the fire alarm station on Brenham place, to cost $40,000; the new police station at Seventeenth and Folsom streets, to cost $50,000; the California-street park, to cost $75,000; the Mission Zoo job, to cost half a million; and the various other schemes of public beautification and improvement can and must wait. The only, thing to be done this year is to get along as cheaply as possi- ble. Tt is the duty of the Supervisors to make up the | deficits and leave their successors a sufficient sum to carry on the government until July 1, 1899. No more money than this should be raised. An additional reason for adopting this course consists in the fact that no money can be expended intelligently upon permanent public improvements under the present legal system. The new charter may not provide a better one, but it promises to do so and it will be well to await the fulfillment of the promise. If the ac- cepted streets are to be repaved and the sewer system reconstructed the work ought to be conducted under the supervision of engineers and competent me- chanics. The Street Department is an excellent ma- chine for disbursing money, but ineffective for pro- nine, and was afterward nominated by acclamation. His renomination was, therefore, a victory over the antagonism of bosses and corpprations. It was a triumph for honest politics and for the true interests of the State. The people of the Fiith are to be con- gratulated. ducing results. Oregon soldiers now here are not starving to death. Local people will not be surprised at this, but to the Governor of that State the fact seemed to come as a revelation. : 3 same | 1898, AGAINST THE NICARAGUA CANAL. Editor Call—An impression prevails to a large extent with the publ‘:g that the early completion of the Nicaragua canal was an event much to desired. Especlally has this idea prevailed with the people of San Fran- cisco. To this end both political parties have put a plank in their pl&l:- forms urging the early completion and the fostering care andsuppogt ofthe Government to this enterprise. It does seem strange that a great community should thus want to do itself a permanent injury and detriment to both its commercial and real estate interests. A novice can certainly see that the canal if completed would create an opposition harbor and shipping depot to San Francisco, and a very serious one at that. We have just acquired the Hawaiian Islands. Of what benefit would their trade be to San Francisco with a Nicaragua canal? Alittle hay, lumber and flour, perhaps, and all the other commerce diverted to the Eastern States, or perhaps to Europe direct. ‘We are about to acquire the Philippine Islands, an empire as large as Japan, with re- sources of vast magnitude; with sugar, tobacco, rice, hemp and all the semi-tropical products in quantities to attract the commerce of the world, all diverted away from San Francisco and to the canal, and thence to New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Liverpool and other European cities. China is now in the throes of dissolution, her vast territory about to be divided up among the nations of Europe, and all this trade, with its immense possibili- ties, to be wrested from San Franciscco and the Golden Gate. Mr, Editor, the people of San Francisco and California certainly do not consider the danger this coast is exposed to. I can readily see why they advocate the canal: it is simply to create an opposition to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and put fares and freights on a reasonable basis and checkmate Collis P. Huntington. This view is all right if there was not another side to the question, but when to attain this object we must dam the Golden Gate and divert all the vast trade of the Orient from San Francisco to the Nicaragua canal, then the question takes on another aspect and I can- not but think the paper to first call the attention of the property holders and the business and commercial commmunity to the great danger to San Francisco the canal would be will receive the grateful approval of this com- munity and the whole people of the Northern Pacific Coast. It is not at all surprising that the people of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and all the Eastern cities should advocate the speedy construction of the canal; it is to their interest to do so, and Europe, especially Liverpool, would derive great benefit to commerce from the opening of this route; but San Fran- at but one side of this question. cisco? Never! weight. Grafton, Yuba County, Sept. 9. But there i{s another view of this question which much weight with the people that I will be pleased to commu think the subject of sufficient importance, either the substance or an extract from the article so as to call the atten- tion of the business community of San Francisco to this subject and to the dangers which threaten the very existence of the city. small property-owner in San Francisco, and I do not went property values destroyed, so, you see, I am not altogether a disinterested party. They have never looked You have advocated and encouraged the Valley Raflroad, which is now about to make a connection with the Santa Fe, and thus have a competing overland road. This will be a grand thing for San Francisco, and another or two or three more overland roads would be desirable and will be required to do the business which must of necessity open up with the Oriental trade in the near future, providing we do not have a competing harbor at the Nicaragua canal. I hope, Mr. Editor, you will be induced to see the threat- ened danger to San Francisco and raise the alarm in time to prevent this great disaster to California. I have thought much on this subject, but do not want my name attached to this publication, as it would carry no should carry nicate if you and I hope you will publish I myself am a W. SNOWBALL. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. ‘Willlam H. Alford of Visalla is at the California. Rev. A. Ennor of Santa Rosa {is at the Occidental. | S. H. Rice, an attorney of Ukiah, is at the Grand. Judge W. H. Clark of Los Angeles is at the Grand. C. E. Barnhart, a cattleman of Suisun, is at the Lick. Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada is at the Palace. H. W. Walker, a druggist of Willlams, | is at the Grand. | J. E. Duncan, a grocer of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. | A. W. Plummer, a merchant of Colusa, !1s at the Grand. X R. E. Brown, a mining expert of Victo- ria, is at the Palace. V. S. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee |18 at the California. John Barrett, an insurance man of Port- land, is at the Grand. ! E. H. Decker, a mining man of Eli, Nev., is at the Palace. | Dr. C. Hart Merriam of Washington, D. C., 18 at the California. John Breuner, a merchant of Bacra- ! mento, is at the Palace. ! H. M. La Rue, the Raflroad Commis- sloner, i3 at the Occidental. James Philip Smith, a caplitalist of Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. Henry Gannett of the United States Ge- ological Survey Is at the Occidental. Richard U. Goode of the United States Geological Survey is at the Occidental. Edwin Burnett Smith, a prominent at- torney of Chicago, is at the Palace. | 'W. H. Clary of the Sheep Ranch mine | 1s at the Lick with his son, W. H. Clary | Ir. I A. Lothian, Thomas Bigus, J. K. | Skinner and John H. Norton of Los An- geles are at the Palace. Amos Burr, the passenger agent of the Vanderbilt system, has returned from a trip to the Sound country. D. W. Hitchcock, general agent of the | passenger department of the Union Pa- cific, has returned from a visit to Los Angeles. James J. Farrel, C. M. Carter of El Paso and James White of San Antonio arrived yesterday to attend the council of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers. Thomas Schumacher, general agent of the Union Pacific freight department, has | resigned his position with the Union Pa- cific to accept that of vice president and general manager of the Transcontinental | Fruit Express. —_—————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—C. W. An- thony and wife and Earle Anthony of Los Angeles are at the Riggs House. Charles H. Benham of San Francisco is at the St. James. THE DEMAND. Another era’'s dawning. Things that charmed the world before thelr attractions, hour by hour. losi) A Eidor of the masses finds his glory almost Thewxdol of ex, Like ‘the fainting fragrance of a withering No more the politiclan moves the multitude to_cheers; No more for orators the music ylani No more men walit with laurels for successful financiers. You've got to be a hero nowadays. Dame Clio takes her pen in hand and turns another page The records of a marvelous year to trace, And thousands crowd and struggle her atten- tion to engage, 5 But the old-time winners aren't in the race. In vain the mountebank proclalms his presence with a drum; In vain doth art perform her polished lays. The echolng of the cannon makes all else seem Youvs S0t be & hero nowadays. u've got to a . ¥ —Washington Star. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The maxim that “the speed of a squad- ron Is governed by its slowest ship,” was practically illustrated during the recent French naval maneuvers, which also in- cidentally brought out the fact that there is a vast discrepancy between trial speed and sea speed. A squadron consisting of seven armored vessels and three cruisers, practiced “keeping station” passing at the highest uniform speed before the forts of Brest. The speed was found to be twelve knots, which, compared with the credited trial speeds, is a rather consider- able reduction. The names of the fleet in the squadron and their paper speeds were as follows: FRENCH SQUADRON AT BREST. NAME. “eeemguoy, Admiral Pothnau . 2 A P 28883 The first seven names are those of arm- ored ships, the others are cruisers, Ac- cording to above speeds that of the Bou- vines should have been that of the squad- ron, but the “lame ducks” were the | Jemappes and Valmy, which could not | make over twelve knots. Similar man- euvers in Great Britain have given four- teen knots as the speed of squadrons under ltke condition. The electric launch recently ordered by Russia in England was shipped to Kron- stadt, July 13. The contract was to make at half-power 414 knots per hour for ten hours, but she made 5% knots. Boats are now being built which will run 8 knots without exhausting the current in the storage battery. A trial course of two miles in length is to be laid off in 20 fathoms, near Ply- mouth off either Devon or the Cornish cosst. Tt is to be used as a trial course for large ships, the experience of late vears having shown that deep| water is required to make the heavy | draught armored ships and cruisers get all the speed of which the engines are| capable under most economical conditions. In shallow water it takes more power to drive the ship at a given speed than off scundings. | The new French battleship Suffren of 11,870 tons is to be fitted with 20 Niclause water-tube boilers to develop 16,500-horse power. The total cost of the ship, includ- ing armament, is estimated at $5,591,755. The Marceau, built in 1887 is also to have a get of the same type of bollers. The Belleville boller {s gaining in popularity in Great Britain, but the Niclause boller i{s now almost entirely displacing the Belleville in the French navy. There is great activity In the shipyards at Kiel, Btettin, Elbing and Hamburg. Among the orders placed by the Govern- ment are six large torpedo boat destroy- ers of thirty-three knots speed to be ready for service early next year. Orders have also been received from Russia, Spain, Brazil and the Argentine. A novel scheme of naval defense has been suggested to the War Office and Ad- miralty of Great Britain by Major Gen- eral Crease. He proposes placing a num- ber of floating battle forts at certain im- portant localitles along the coast of the kingdom, the forts to be 11,500 tons, 400 | feet length, 100 feet beam draft, 11% feet and a speed of 8 knots. They are to have a side armor of 12 inches tapering to 3 inckes below water. Four two-story tur- rets will earry the heaviest guns made. To each battle fort are to be attached two battleship exterminators of 3200 tons, un- armored, with guns solely to repel tor- pede-boat destroyers, and their only means of attacking battleships would be by ramming and torpedoes. They are to be 350 feet length, 39% feet beam and with 35,000 horse power a speed of 35 knots is anticipated. The cost of French battleships is far out of proportion to that of United States ships of the same class, as the following comparative table of size and cost indi- cates. Cost of French and American battle- ships: FRENCH SHIPS. ‘ Esti- NAME. mated T°"°'1 Cost. Bouvet .. | 12,200 55,417,305 Charlemagne X| 10275 | 5 201,700 Gaulois .. || m2ss | slasaass St. Louls -| 11,275 | 5356, 160 Massena ‘| 124 | 5,428,995 i AMERICAN SHIPS. NAME. Indiana ...... ; Massachusetts 2| 10,288 Oregon 21 10,288 | 5,740,088 The cost includes guns, armor and out- fit, as the wages in French dockyards are only one-third those pald in this country. Shipbuilding is evidently very expensive in France. —_——— HUMOKX OF THE DAY. ‘“What do you understand by the de- partment of domestic science?"” “It's where they teach women Fow to keep thelr husbands away from the clubs.” Of course the answer was ‘wrong, but they all felt she ought to go to the head of the class just the same.—Chicago Post. Her dress was so wildly bizarre, That people who heard it afarre, Cried out in affright And remarked at the sight, “That outfit would quite stop a carre.” —Indianapolis Journal. “How can Eva May put up with such a spoony fellow as Cholly Cadlets?” “Why, I suppose that’s just it.” ‘““What is?” “Because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”. Philadelphia Bul- letin. “Did you hear of the Czar's proposal to dl:arm' ‘Eurupe?" inquired the officer. Yes, answered Admiral Camara with emotion. “It’does seem that this fleet of mine has got to be destroyed somehow or other.”—Washifigton Star. Commander—What is ng;llnst this boy? uejacket—Well, sir, as I was a-walkin’ arft, thgl ‘ere boy, 'e up an’ calls men bloomin' 1djit. Now, ‘ow would you uk; to be called a bloomin’ 1dj s ‘wasn't one?—Punch. 7l supposly you your complaint ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE GLOUCESTER—H. M., City. THe speed of tie Gloucester is 16 knots. CUBAN BONDS—R. 8., City. Cuban bonds are 10t quoted @ boimig AL q in the San Frgm‘— VENEZUELA MONEY—J. A., San Mat teo, Cal. Ths unit of Venezuels y the Bolivar. That, in Iz"rl:i\(:dm"g:a}!cl; money, I8 worth 19.3 cents. GAMBLING-E. P. D., Oakland, Cal, If there is any place where there is any gambling going on it is your privilege tc call the attentisn of the pwlicgr!‘u ‘hsk:(‘:”: such is carried bn. DEPARTURE OF TROOPS—F, C. J. City. The first United States s left San Francisco for the 1898. The First California Vol for Manila May 2 regulars st April 20, unteers left OLD-TIME COAL YARD — Pioneer Days, City. There was a coal yard on the present site of the Grand Hotel and the Burlington before the Civil War. In 1857 a portion of that site was rented to E. T. Pease, who established a coal yard there. il — THE PROSPER—M S. D., City. There are three schooners named Prc per that sail out of this port, and do not specify the particular c desire information about, the qu. cannot be answered. DUCK SHOOTING—O. A. B., Oakland, Cal. A hunter in the State of California may shoot ducks in season on any of tha navigable waters, irrespective of the fact that such waters run into or through called game preserves, but the is subject to the local ordinanc territory in which such waters THE GREAT OBJECTOR—N. N., City. The late William 8. Holman of Indiana, at the outset of his Congressional ca- reer, became conspicuous as a champlon of economy, and from his constant objec- tions to new appropriations and measures that he considered extravagant, he was called the ‘great bjector” and - the “watchdog of the treasury.” DRAINAGE-T. F., City. There & ordinance of this city which says: person owning or having control of any premises shall suffer or permit the drain- age, or any drain therefrom, to empty into or upon any other premises or pub- lic square, street or highway, except by permission of the committee of the Board of Supervisors on Health and Police. WASHINGTON VOLUNTEERS — An 01d Subseriber, City. To obtain the na- tionality of the men who made up the complement of Washington volunteers would {nvolve an examination of the mus- are. ter af each company, now on file at Washington, D. C. The War Department has such records, but not compiled, and it is doubtful if the department would de- tain a clerk to make the compilation. POSITION IN THE MINT—A *sub- scriber, Stockton, Cal. To s 3 sition in the United States Mint pick out what particular position you would liks to fill, qualify for it, then take a civil service examination, and if you pass, walt' until there is a vacancy. This of course does not apply to thos which are filled by nomination b President and confirmation by the Sen- ate of the United Stat AUTOMOBILE—A. L. K., City. Auto- mobile carriages have been manufactur- ed in the United States by A. C. Ames of Chicago, Shorges of Chicago, Dr. H. Baker in Kansas, Holzer-Cabot in Bos- ton, in Racine, Wis., and by H. P. Max- {m.’ This list includes steam and electric carriages and tricycles. Don't know of any such rhachines in this city. There was a gasoline tricycle that was run in the park about a year and a_half ago, but it was ordered out, on the ground that if frightened the horses. NATIONAL HOLIDAY—Constant Read- er, City. The statement that there is no national holiday in the United States is correct. Theré is no such holiday, not even the Fourth of July. Congress has, at various times, appointed special holi- days. In the second session of the Fifty- third Congress was passed an act making Labor day a public holiday in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and it has recognized the existence of certain days as holidays for commercial purposes in such legisla- tion as the bankruptcy act, but with the exceptions named there is no general statute on the subject. The proclamation of the President designating a day of thanksgiving only makes it a holiday in those States which provide by law for it. The Federal courts and officers of the United States Government, however, ob- serve the legal holidays of the States in which they are located. HOW FRUIT IS CRYSTALLIZED-S,, Spenceville, Cal. Fruit is crystallized in the following manner: Make a syrup from one pound of sugar and half a pint of water, stir until the sugar is dissolved, then bail quickly about three or four minutes. Try by dipping a little in cold water. If it forms a small ball when roll- ed between the thumb and finger it has attained the desired degree, known as the ball. Throw the fruit to be conserved a little at a time in the syrup. Let it sim- mer for a moment, lift with a skimmer draining free from all syrup. Sprinkl sugar thickly over boards or tin pans, place the frult over it in a single layer, sprinkie over thickly with granulated sugar and place in an oven or the sun to dry. When dry make a syrup as before and just before it reaches the ball de- gree add the fruit and stir with a wooden spoon until it begins to grain and sticks to the fruit. When cold sift off the sugar and put out again to dry. When dry place in boxes in layers between sheets of waxed paper. It should be kept in a cool, dry place. e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* —_——— Bpecfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_——— Old Flemish, old Dutch and Gray Oak, Mahogany, Cherry, Bone Ebony, Mat Gilts and Fine Bronze are tne finishes in pleture frames this fall, and they go well with platinotypes. plain ana colored pho- tographs, etchings, engravings and water colors. Sanborn, Vail & Co. have ever: tning in these lines at reasonnshle prices. * —————— “There’'s no use to ask Colonel Brindle to make th’ Fourth o’ July oration ag'in.” “Why not?” ““All colonel kin do is to twist th’ British lion’s tail, an’ thet's played out.”—Chi, cago Plain Dealer. —_———— First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market. -—— Dewey is a temperance man and knows what Dr, Siegert’s Angostura Bitters did to brace him up at Manila. SER e “Hannah,” exclaimed the very young housekeeper, “how in the world ld you happen to bring home black bass when I told you to get bluefish?"” o “Well, miss,” was the answer, after some consideration, “I reckens I must hab dis yere 'fliction I hyhud yer readin’ 'bout. T's color blind.”—Washington Star. e ———————————————————————— ADVERTISEMENTS. RovaL Baking Powder Most healthful leavener in the world. Goes farther. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.