The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1898, Page 4

The MOND. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Ml Commanicxtions tole SIS M PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per montp | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Buflding | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, | WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE...............RIggs Houes C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... .Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second an@ | Kentucky strects. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. | fenne Lecouvreur.” Jowess | d Me Your Wite and “The First Born* | The Coast Guard > Queen of Sheba."” villa. Theater—* What Haopened to Jones." Bddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville. Zoo, Vaudeville and Spanish Bull Fight Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Corner s—Swimming. orfum—Concert. W eduesday. Septémber 32 There is no feature out of the common hum- course of business, as far as anybody can ercial statistical authoritics chronicle edule of comparative bank clearings, ailures, comparative exports, and so on. | t year shows up well enough under this blooded comparative business, though it is de- | nt in several directions. Thus the bank clearings nty last week were 4 per cent behind those | of the corresponding week last year, and those of San | sco have been running behind for some weeks | to the recent dry season, as already mentioned. | The loss last week was particularly heavy in New York, where it ran up to 32 per cent, and was due to | the falling off in speculation in Wall street and to | ncial operations through fear of a possible tight money market. These apprehensions, however, seemed to disappear at the close of the the market strengthened considerably under | nd local buying, and the day of the bears curtailed thereby. | Merchandise conditions remain practically un- | ¢ railway earnings are still ahead of last and this indicates a larger business, but whether larger business is attended with the profit of former years is a question which is doubted in some | action 1n fir quarters. The great staples continue dull as a rule at unchanged prices. Some cotton mills have | stopped, while as an offset some woolen mills report Hides and leather are in fair shape, but not active. Wheat has moved up somewhat dur- | ing the week The week’s failures were 174, ap.instj | | | more business 204 for the same week last year. The loc the pects ones. commonplace as- the national The whole field of feature, if a certain hardening tendency during the past few days be excepted. seems to know exactly why wheat go up at the moment, but it has cer-| improved during the past week, and closed though very dull. Following the governing barley was also strong at a slight advance, | and hay likewise developed more strength, closing the week with small advances in some descriptions. In- deed, the whole list of farm products appeared in bet- e than at the close of the preceding week, though there was no especial activity. The fruit season is drawing to a close. It has been a profitable one to the State on the whole, with indi- vidual losses here and there, but some people are al- ready beginning to worry about next year. They | fear that the present season has been so dry that the{‘ fruit buds for next year’s crops will not develop, | hence 1899 will turn out deficient in fruit, like 1898.{ This may prove true, but there is no use in trying to cross a bridge before one gets to it. There will be plenty of time next year to worry about next year’s fruit crop. Jobbers and exporters of merchandise are not com- plaining about trade, so it is natural to infer that they | are doing fairly. For the rest, collections are reported average, failures are still running small and generally | unimportant, and the supply of money is in excess of | the demand as a rule. Briefly, business is in that condition where it is impossible to find much to say about it one way or the other. As long as it remains thus we are all right. markets share of barren t is in whea Nobody uld tainly firm cer By the appointment of a committeee to examine the evidence given in the Dreyfus case and deter- mine whether a new hearing should be granted the French Government has taken the first step in the direction of justice, and the next one will be easier. When Alford, Gould and McNab appointed that committee of one hundred cooks to stir and skim the Democratic broth in this city, it never occurred to them that the cooks might run away with the pot and swallow the whole mess. Possibly the rumor that English stockholders in- tend to make war upon Huntington will fail to alarm the old gentleman. In fact, were he not engaged in a fight with somebody he would probably think life not worth living. Many anarchists are leaving Europe for America. Possibly this will be pleasing information for Ma- guire, but the rest of the country will not like it. The committee of one hundred bosses will now present the Democrats with a committed ticket and ask “What are you going to do about it?” LTl The only definite and positive statement that Ma- guire has thus far made during the campaign is that his middle name is not Gallagher. It is not the nigger in the African woodpile that bothers Kitchener, but the appearance of a French- man in the situation. oA There is a depressing outlook in the Botkin case THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1898. THE HUNDRED BOSSES. NCE the people of Athens, finding the rule of the Pisistratid family intolerable, rose in revolt, drove out the kings and established O | their government in the hands of a council of thirty members. That council became known to history as the “Thirty Tyrants,” and its exactions, oppressions | and public plunderings were far worse than any com- mitted by the royal despots. Once the people of Rome, after expelling the Tar- | quin kings, intrusted their government to a council of ten. This council, known as the Decemvirs, stands recorded as one of the most infamous governing powers in the annals of nations. Once the people of Israel gave their government into the hands of a council of Judges, and Holy Writ records of them that they were “the sons of Belial and served nat the Lord.” Once the people of France overthrew their mon- archy and chose to rule over them a convention known as a constituent assembly, and the deeds of that assembly constitute the blackest and bloaodiest page of tyranny and terror known to modern times. History repeats itself. On a small scale and in petty degrees the Democrats of San Francisco are ex- periencing the woes that befall any people or body of men who put into power an irresponsible council, sufficiently numerous in its membership for each man to shift the blame for bad actions upon another, but still so small as to be a clique rather than a true rep- resentation of the body it has been called upon to govern. The council of one hundred bosses of the San Francisco Democracy has been in power but a short time, and yet it has gone far along the path pursued by the Thirty Tyrants, the Decemvirs, the Sons of Belial and the makers of the Reign of Terror. It has assumed to itself all the powers of an arbitrary and wholly irresponsible assembly.” Appointed for the | sole purpose of arbitrating the disputes between the contending factions in the party in this city, it at once set itself up as the permanent head of the party. It named the delegates to the State convention from this city, and by pledging them beforehand named the candidate for Governor and other mem- bers of the State ticket.. Now it transforms itself into a county convention, and on Monday night will nominate all candidates for county and municipal offices and for the legislative districts. Never before in the history of American politics has such a violent usurpation of the rights of the members of a party been even so much as attempted. The annals of Tammany Hall furnish no parallel to it. What has been done in this city by Higgins, Buckley, Mannix, Brady, Crimmins and Kelly is as nothing in comparison with the boldness and shame- less audacity of the scheme. Other bosses have worked their parties to the raw, but the hundred sons of Belial have skinned Democracy. In defense of their action the members of the coun- cil make the plea of hypocrites, “We are doing it for the public good”; the plea of the Pharisees, “We are more honest than other men”; the plea of con- fidence operators, “You can trust us, for we are pious.” Behind these pleas made ostentatiously to the public there are threats and menaces to indi- viduals of the party, “We will ruin you if you op- pose us.” If the Democrats of San Francisco submit to this dictation and support a ticket or even a single can- didate nominated by this seli-constituted convention they will have virtually abdicated the functions of American citizenship. They will have ceased to be members of a self-governing party and become the blind followers of a clique more vicious than any boss and more greedy than the henchmen that the VOLUNTEERS IN MODERN WAR. G that the United States must have a larger force than at present of thoroughly trained new strength to the growing demand for an increase of the regular army and for an even greater propor- boss employs. ENERAL WHEELER'S recent statement professional soldiers to do its fighting has added tionate enlargement of the staff. The experience of | the short war with Spain seems to have been conclu- sive on the subject, and now there is very little in the way of argument to be heard on the other side. The authority of General Wheeler as an expert on military matters is well established, nor can he be justly charged with prejudice on the side of the regu- lars. It is true that he was trained at West Point and has been educated to look upon war probiems from the standpoint of a professional soldier. On the other hand, however, his whole military service has been that of commanding volunteers. Both in the Civil War and in the Santiago campaign his troops have been of that class. He has, therefore, close affiliations with volunteers and is not likely to underrate their soldierly qualities or misjudge their capacity for downright hard fighting. As a matter of fact in what Wheeler and others have urged as arguments for a larger regular army | there is nothing disparaging to either the courage, the endurance or the loyalty of the volunteers. The one point is that war in these days has become a | science which must be learned by study and by prac- | tice. It is not the natural method of fighting which is instinctive in the brave, but a matter of tactics and skill which it takes time and training to acquire. An illustration of one defect in the volunteer is given in a criticism of the campaign around San- tiago by a British officer who was detailed by his Government to observe it. As this officer, being a foreigner, writes more critically than our own offi- cers would like to do, his words are worth considera- tion. He states that the losses of the Americans in battle on the day of the hardest fighting were much larger than they should have been, and that the cause was the impatience ‘of Roosevelt and his Rough Riders to charge the enemy at once. The critic maintains that Roosevelt should have held his men back until the force sent to flank the Spanish position had turned the wings and got an enfilading fire on the center. Had that course been followed the British observer of the fight is sanguine the Spaniards would have been forced to retreat and we would have captured their lines with a much smaller loss of officers and men than we actually suf- fered. : A fearful demonstration of the evil consequences of excessive valor in war in these days was given in the slaughter of the daring Dervishes by the British torce under General Kitchener in the recent battles in the Soudan. Our brave volunteers escaped lightly in the war with Spain, but were they confronted by a really dangerous foe an attempt to rush things would be terribly disastrous. Among the defects of volunteer forces, therefore, may be included an over-confidence in sheer valor and an over-eager desire on the part of officers and men alike to distinguish themselves. This, taken to- gether with a lack of understanding of the compli- cated armaments of the age and a failure to appre- ciate the advantage of tactics, exposes volunteers to heavy losses. It is therefore an economy of life as that Justice will not even get a chance to render a | well as of money to provide professional soldiers for Scotch verdict, war purposes, and since it scems that we are to have wars, the expediency of providing for a more thor- ough training of our National Guard and the en- largement of the regular army is not to be disputed. S e et BARNES ON THE SENATORSHIP. G cible or more eloquent than in the address with which he opened the Republican cam- paign in this city on Saturday evening. He presented in a striking manner the importance of the issues to be determined by the popular vote in November, and showed not only the weakness of the opposition party and the personal inconsistencies of the opposition candidate, Maguire, but the genuine strength of the Republican position—a strength which, as the orator pointed out, is so invincible that the fused factions of opposition dare not directly assail it in this or in any other State in the Union. Able and interesting as the speech was throughout, the most notable portion was that relating to the United States Senatorship. Gencral Barnes clearly announced his own candidacy, and in dealing with that of M. H. de Young said: “I do not care who the man is, I don’t care what newspaper he owns, if he does not come up to the standard that has been required of the United States Senators from this State hitherto, he cannot be elected Senator, and all the bosses that God ever spawned upon earth cannot make him one.” No man who has any acquaintance with the senti- ment of the people of California, or with that of Republicans only, will question the accuracy of that statement. California has not been always strongly represented in the Senate, her Senators have not al- ENERAL BARNES has rarely been more for- | ways taken high rank among the great statesmen of the nation, but, as General Barnes said: “It has been | a very good list. Go back to Casserley (Democrat), Hager (Democrat), Farley (Democrat), Sargent (Republican), Stanford (Republican), Felton (Re- | publican), White (Democrat), and Perkins (Repub- | lican)—they are all gentlemen.” The people of the State intend to uphold that stan- dard. Any aspirant for the Senate who does not measure up to the requirements dares not to openly announce his candidacy. HF can hope for success only by secrecy during the campaign and the work of the bosses afterward. It was altogether right and fitting that the orator chosen to open the Republicon campaign in San Francisco should make this subject an impressive feature of his address. It is irsportant to the party. The people know it, and it is time for the bosses themselves to take heed. [:‘ report just filed with the Governor for the forty- eighth and forty-ninth fiscal years, ending June 30, 1898, makes an ‘excellent showing for the institu- tion generally and has the satisfaction of submitting a financial statement which discloses that the library has on hand the considerable balance of $8968. In one respect, however, the report is not of a nature to be gratifying either to the librarian or to the public. The usefulness of the institution is not commensurate with its value or the cost of its main- tenance. As Mr. Coombs points out, the real value of a library lies in its utility. If the State library was designed and is supported by taxation merely to be a storehouse of art and literature it fulfills its pur- pose, but if it was intended to serve the requirements of the people for books it falls far short of its object. Several suggestions are put forth as to the best means of making the library widely and increasingly useful to the people. The most important of these is the one which The Call has repeatedly presented, that of establishing a traveling library system with the State library as a central storehouse, from which volumes could be sent out to all parts of the State for general reading. This system is not one of experiment. It has been thoroughly tested in many Eastern States and has been found to be of great advantage to the thousands of intelligent men and women who live in commu- .nities where no great public libraries are maintained. So successful has it been in practice that in every State where it has been tried it is being rapidly ex- tended, and other States are arranging to adopt it. California should not lag behind the progressive commonwealths of the Union in a matter of this kind. We have one of the finest State libraries in the na- tion, and it is folly not to so administer it as to give the people the full benefit of it. e o s UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS. TWO great educational institutions in New Eng- THE STATE LIBRARY. RANK L. COOMBS, State Librarian, in his land, Amherst College and Brown University, are at present engaged in a search for a presi- dent. In the New England States there are many professors of ability and learning, but neither Am- herst nor Brown has been in a hurry to select a presiding officer and chief executive from among them. The trustees of each institution are well aware that something more than fair ability and good scholarship are needed in the head of a university in these days, and they are looking for a strong natural leader of men rather than an eminent scientist or philosopher. The University of California can offer much more in the way of salary and opportunity for far-reaching work than either of the two New England institu- tions. It ought, therefore, to easily win away from them the strongest man now available for university employment, but in order to do so the regents must widen the field of their choice to include merit and executive ability wherever they are found. Amherst and Brown will not confine their search for the right man to their States or even the New England group. Neither should we confine ours to California. There is no position in the world more promising to an ambitious aspirant for fame and honor in the upbuilding of a great university and the advancement of learning than that which the presidency of the University of California will offer. By reason of causes which are inherent in the very nature of things, California is destined to become one of the dominant commonwealths of the Union, and San Francisco will be one of the intellectual and artistic centers of the world. The university in which that inteflectual life has its source and glory will of necessity be an institution of great potency and worldwide fame. It may well excite the emulation of progressive scholars to be among the leaders and directors of its career, and it seems certain that the regents will find no difficulty in obtaining the service of any man whom they may esteem worthy of the honor. P — One by one the obstacles between Dreyfus and a fair deal seem to be disappearing. Some of them commit suicide, and some adopt the more robust method of resigning from office. Alger is to'be congratulated. ‘The President, who A MAGDA During the walts in a rehearsal of “The Jewess” at the Columbia yester- day morning Miss Nance O'Neil sat on a box of properties and talked to me about plays, people and ecritics and things and herself. Especially about herself and about one play—“Magda.” And in the .ife, ambitions and convic- tions of Nance O'Neil there is a tre- Praying for Her Failure. IN. THE . LIFE. Nance O'Neil’s Are the Ambitions, Vicissi- tudes and Victories of Sudermann’s Heroine. BY ASHTON STEVENS. world of art and grease paint against the desires of her father. It is said that on the night of her first appear- ance on the stage he lifted up his voice in open prayer-meeting and begged the Heavenly Father to make the debut a failure. It is a matter of record that that prayer was not efficacious. Miss Lampson—that was her name then— went East a raw, lank, stage-struck girl. But she had the right qualities in her, and she worked and worked, and was taken up by McKee Rankin and drilled and softened and developed in the secrets of the craft. One night in New York a year or two ago while playing with Rankin’s stock company she was ‘‘discovered” by that irrepres- sible critic, Alan Dale, who made her the subject of a column of hilarious praise in the next day’s Journal. Then the other critics rushed over to the Murray Hill Theater, and, according to their styles and temperaments, wrote more adulatory adjectives about the young stranger from California. And béfore the week was out Nance O'Nell, actress, was made. She had to mendous resemblance to those of Su- dermann’s heroine. Miss O’'Neil has played the part of Magda many times. She says that it appeals to her more strongly than any other character in modern lterature. Bhe had intended to open her engage- ment with it to-night, and told me so with her own lovely voice. But there is a suit on about the American rights to the piece, and so she had to change the bill to “The Jewess.” “Anyway, there is Modjeska across the street at the Baldwin,” I said by way of comfort; “she is something cf a Sudermann specialist herself. We had her Magda only last week.” “So much the better,” sald Miss Discovered by the Press. Belascoed by Rankin. O'Nell, “for then San Francisco knows the power and depth of the play. I have never seen Modjeska’s Magda, nor Duse's, nor Bernhardt's, and I don’t want to see any of them. Imlita- tion is too easy and seductive. I avoid other people’s characters as you would avoid fllustrations in a book. They in- terfere with your own individual con- ception and interpretation. My Magda is my own, and,.I think, the best thing I do; and now that I am back home and a star with a certain amount of reputation and all that sort of thing, I would like to show it to my old friends. ‘Well, maybe this suit about the rights see me in the part, sure.” I said that I would give almost any thing for the chance—and I would. If the life of an actress ever has anything to do with equipping her for the emo- tions of a role, then surely Nance O’Neil must bring a deal of personal tion of Magda: Her life has been as Magda’s. She went forth into the will be over next week; if so, you shall feeling and conviction into her persona- ® me. get a big new book to paste her press notices in. She must have a trunkful of such books by this time, for her success was real and has since swelled with the seasons. In the meantime the stern papa has not relented, although he abstains from public prayers in the matter. And now in all the splendor of her triumph, brave, confident, willing to play against Modjeska or any other lving genius, Miss Nance O’Neil has come back to her old home. It is the play in the life. Miss O'Nell is full of that “T am I” philosophy of Magda’s. “My life is my own,” she says. “It is what I make it. Perhaps, as in the play, my Triumphant Keturn. father would rather have seen me come back a prodigal daughter in rags and repentence. But I have followed my heart’s desire and I've brought a little of it home with Come and see me play Leah in ‘The Jewess' to-morrow night; it isn’t Magda, but it's one of my big ones.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Judge W. B. Wallace of Visalla, is at the Lick. M. J. Burke, a merchant of Salinas, at the Lick. A. Ginocchio, a merchant of Jackson, is at the Russ. E. R. €ifford, a merchant of Auburn, is at the Baldwin. Jesse D. Carr, capitalist, of Balinas, at the Occidental. D. H. Arnold, a merchant of Colusa, at the Occidental. Charles Syme, a_mining man of French Gulch, is at the Russ. F. 8. Wensinger, a cattle man of Free- stone, is at the Occidental. J. M. Wylmans, a well known mining man of Newmans, is at the Lick. George Seymour, a tobacco manufactur- er of New York, is at the Palace. J. Marion Brooks, a lawyer and politi- cian of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Leon Carteri, a rancher and land owner of Banta Barbara, is at the Baldwin. E. Bweet and wife arrived from New York yesterday and are at the Palace. Joseph Pascholy, the banker, and wife have arrived from Nogales and are at-the Grand. E. Newman, W. T. Hunter and W. R. Townsend of Los Angeles are registered at the Occidental. D. H. Jarvis and E. B. Bertholf, first and second officers of the Bear, are reg- istered at the Grand. Dr. W. T. McGillicudy has returned after an absence of several weeks, which he passed traveling about the State. 1. H. Mulholland, the candidate for At- torney General, arrived from Independ- ence. Inyo County, yesterday, and is a guest at the Russ. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The fiftieth anniversary of the German navy will be celebrated on November 9. is The cruiser ordered at Elbing by the Russian admiralty is to have 17,000 horse- power and a guaranteed speed of 25 knots. According to official reports from the British Admiralty the Powerful made the run from Yokohama to Hongkong last month, averaging 20% knots during twen- ty-four hours and consumed 540 tons of coal. It is only a few years ago that the Ger- man iron-clad Kaiser of 7331 tons, bullt in 1874, was almost entirely rebuilt and al- tered. She is, however, again in the hands of mechanics at the Kiel dockyard under- going another reconstruction. -has already done him many favors, freely assents to the proposition to have him investigated. ‘Why not annex England and get something worth having? Two of the four torpedo-boat destroyers built by Schichau at Elbing for China have gone through their trials, giving highly satisfactory results. One of the boats, called the Hal Lung, carried a load siXty-seven tons and averaged 33.6 knots under trial conditions. The contract called for 32 knots with 6500 horsepower. The Komet and Meteor, torpedo gun- boats in the German navy, are laid up at Kiel, having proved themselves failures. The Komet of 942 tons was built In 1892, and the Meteor of 946 tons was built in 180. They were calculated to have a speed is no longer dependent on Great Britain for naval vessels, and Germany not al<:ne buflds her own ships, but is a formidibls competitor for foreign orders. Japan in a few years, will also be entirely 1ndepemll- ent of foreign builders and British ship yards will either not be considered when naval orders are given out or must come down below the figures of France aad Germany. sl DR ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LIZARDS—J. Cal. M., Kelseyvills, Without a more complete description this department cannot give the desired in- formation about a lizard. 2 tras, BUGLE CALLS—H. D. L., Alcal 3 City. The bugle calls with the doggerel accompaniment were published on the 5th of June last, but not in The Call. DISCHARGE 7FR0M THEuQI;“:ng;: ity. A man can Sec - gfi?nde:fincarymy of the United States by purchase after he has served a certain time. s in- ELECTRICAL—C. P., City. For % formation about electricity at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, add;es:h. communication to the recorder 711 108 university at Berkeley, and he wi r- ward a circular of }qlormatlon. ARYSFORT ;EEF——E., City. Carys- fost Reetf is a dangerous coral reef near the southern extremity of Flurlda.]&tl(uga 26:13 north, longitude 80;13 west, on the ? the Gluf Stream. Upon it thers Ie;'lgfle“ Dironengh(house with a revolving light 166 feet above the sea. NO RECORD HERE—M. M., Los An- geles, Cal. There is n: ;Cnrdt;:ntl:; y arters of the Depar T fommia Bf tha troops that were left at Guam, Ladrone Islands, at the !lm'a that -they were captured. You will have to write to the Secretary of War. YOSEMITE VALLEY—A Reader, City. The United States troops that are sent to the Yosemite Valley remain there dur- ing the tourist season to act as police on the reservation. They remain there as long as their services are required. There is no exact date when they shall leave the post of duty. SNAKES—J. M., Kelseyville, Cal. Snakes are oviparous. They deposit from ten to eighty eggs of an ellipoid shape covered with a soft leathery shell. Milk snakes, king snakes and swifts or racers are described in works on natural history as harmless, still they are not the most desirable of the animal creation to have SE PR 2R MEDICAL COLLEGES—S. A. S, Or- land, Cal. If this correspondent will be a little more explicit in regard to medi- cal colleges this department will find an answer to the question asked, but it is at a loss to know what the correspond- ent wants to know by the question “Ars there any non-recognized medical col- leges?” Non-recognized by whom? TWO POEMS—L. E. 8., City, and City Subscriber. This department has not been able to locate through the sources ot information at its command the fol- lowing lines: I would na gle the linnet's sang That echoes o'er the broomy lea, Nor has it found in any of the collec- tions the poem called “The Last Glass.” Possibly some reader of this department can assist the correspondents. E SICK MAN OF THE EAST—Subscrib- er, Oakland, Cal. The following is given as the origin of the term “Sick Man of the East” as aplied to Turkey: On the night of the 9th of January, 3, Sir George Hamilton Seymour, the English Minister to the Court of Russia, was at a party in the parlors of the Archduchess Helene, when Nicholas, the Czar of Russia, ap- proached him with reference to Eastern affairs, and in the course of conversation said that in regard to Turkey they had “‘a very sick man on their hands.” He also ]sipo te of Turkey as ‘‘the sick man of the ast.” % SAILORS’ SNUG HARBOR—Water Front, City. The following are the quali- fications for admission into the Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y.: The persons for whose maintenance and sup- port the asylum was established ‘are de- scribed in the will of its founder and also in the act of incorporation as “aged, de- crepit and worn-out sailors.” Persons of this description only are eligible to ad- mission as beneficiaries of the institu- tion. No person can be admitted who is affected with any contagious disease, or who 1s possessed of adequate means of self supgon. either by his own labor or from other sources; or, if foreign born, who cannot furnish satisfactory evi- dence of having sailed for at least five years under the flag of the United States, either in the merchant or the naval serv- ice. Every applicant must present let- ters from at least two parties for whom he has sailed, showing him to be eligible to admission to the institution under the' rules, stating how long he has sailed for them, and that he is unable to earn a livelihood for himself. Applicants must apply in person at the agent's office at 81 Nassau street, New York City. — Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.s e L L O Yoti will find the latest things in wall paper at Clark’s, 653 Market street. * —_——— This week; best eyeglasses; specs; 15¢, 40c; 65 Fourth street; look out for No. 65. * —_—— Spectal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Cllpplng Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_—— Marcus Ward’s and Hurlbut’s fine writ- ing papers in ream goods, with envelopes to match, tablets, papeteries, Koh-i-noor pencils, Waterman pens, etc. Visiting of 21 knots, but the latter boat never reached it, as her horsepower fell short of the contract, developing only 4500 in- stead of 5000. The Terrible, sister ship to the Powertul, | has been undergoing certaln overhaulings to her machinery at the Portsmouth dock- yard, with a view of overcoming the ex- cessive vibrations at high speed. She is now believed to have overcome this trouble, and during a thirty hours’ run at sea last month averaged 20% knots with the tide and sea against her, the engines developing 18,000 horsepower. The recent theft of a signal book from a British warship by one of the quarter- masters has led to the issuance of strin- gent orders relative to the safe custody of these important books. They are to be inspected every week by captains of the ships, and before any officer is allowed access to them for Instructional purposes he is to sign an undertaking for their safekeeping. Officers of watches will also be held responsible for handing over the books to their successors on duty. The new Russian cruisers are to be ex- ceptionally speedy. Six of 6000 tons will be 400 feet in length, 53 feet beam and only 20 feet draught, with engines of 18,000 horsepower to give 23 knots speed. Four crulsers of 3000 tons will be 385 feet in length, 40 feet beam and 16 feet draught, and are to steam 2 knots. The battery of the 6000-ton cruisers will consist of twelve 6-inch, twelve 12-pounders and six 6-pounders, and that of the smaller crui- sers six 4.7-inch and six 6-pounders, be- sides six torpedo tubes. Both classes are to carry coal sufficient for miles at 10 knots. e The British cruiser Diadem of 11, recently bullt at Elder's yard, Glaas: has completed her sixty hours’ tria) af sea under three-quarter full power. The ship steamed from Spithead to Cape Fin- isterre and returned to Spithead August 27. She was down to a mean draught of 2 feet 8 inches, or one foot over the nor- mal draught. With 270 pounds of steam and 1054 revolutions the engines devel. oped 12,791 horsepower, and gave an aver- age speed of 19.3 knots, which was consid- ered highly satisfactory, as the coal was of a poor quality. With the full power of 16,500 2 speed of 20% knots is calculated, r{it is nfil::lc'eable fact that of the orders pl in France, German; United States for Russian war veuey "IJ: ::: gs{nglasmphubeen‘ivmwa.uyottha yards in Great Britain, and that country is gradually losing a very lucrative busi- ness. Twenty years ago British ship yards turned out naval vessels for prac- tically all other European powers, as well as for Bouth American republics, China and Japan. At the present time Russia | cards and invitations a specialty. San- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market su'eit. < > —_—— Experiments with oil fuel made for the first time by tehe ]%;:tlsgeinn miralty on the torpedo-boat Portsmouth. First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market. -_— i g “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by milly mothers for their children while ’gulhl::x:n:v!:!: perfect success. 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