The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1898. @ MILITARY REPUBLIC. ~HE citizens who are advocating a strong mili- tary policy because our possession of tropical i JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnstos to W. S. LEA}EL,M}"LKgB" PUBLICATION‘ OFIEICE:A ..Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Mailn 1874 ¥ m— [ THE AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week., By mcll $6 per year; per montb €5 cents. YHE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Buildl DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (B, C.) OFFICE C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year. by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second eas Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. s eville and the Zoo. Bd., Streets, Specialties. to-day. Bazaar, Thursday, Decem- ser 1 Rosenthal — Coming in December. AUCTION SALES. at 1905 at 11 & m, at 11 o'clock, 7:80 30 p. m. n Ness avenue and Mar- oning, November 28, thor- THE STATE OF BUSINESS. past week in trade was dull. In xheAEas( d storms interfered with business, ough the bank clearings were 25.6 per cent in 1897. Here there s quiet, nevertheles any activity i of the year. cold weather larger n for the same week were no storms, but bus But it is seldom that there is ess W All the during the two closing months s been done by the middle of No- demand does not set in until 1e spring ary, and in the meantime there is very ilers, who are along in Febr except.among the reta I demand. de st last week were meager, and contained little of interest and nothing new. The récent reduction in some kinds of cotton goods re ther more liberal buying, but the move ment Jw at best. The opinion is that cotton has <een its lowest point; and it is to be hoped that it is correct, for this great industry, which is the life of the Soughern part of the country, has been paralyzed for There have been free sales of wool, but at concessions, and there are still hand to be got rid of before any marked activity in s can take place. The iron and steel trade brilliant record,-and although the demand harp as some time ago, it is still large das “enor! by the men who An unusually good demand for rted for next year. The exports of fre Atlantic ports continue larger than.for the sa time last year, and prices have gen- erally been maintained. The failures for the week rainst 236 for the same week in 1897. The hide and leather markets show more firmness; other- je great staples exhibit no new features of in- little going.on, k by the ¥ sulted arge stocks leit on busi! keeps up is not as enough te be ¢ are engaged export is an wheatand corn te were 188, wise terest The feeling in Wall street continues strong, and the present temper of investors, both professional and public, -continues bullish. The market is not easily affected by unfavorable reports, while anything in the way of a bull movement meets with an immediate re- sponse. The ‘ease of the money market has a great deal to do with this, but notwithstanding the abun- dance of funds the undercurrent of the market is one of marked firmness. Bonds are especially sought after, though the usual stocks have come in for their share of trade. Bisiness out on this coast is a fair the East. ‘While there is no activity dullness, and profit margins are sufficient to pay rea- sonable dividends on invested funds. The continued lack of rain has been severely felt, and until the State gets a good soaking general trade will undoubtedly rule quiet. The rainfall to date is below that of last year, and this ominous fact deters capital from branch- ing out in any direction. Although 1808 has been called a year of scanty pro- duction, it is satisfactory to note that the shipments of fruit overland from California were only 9 per cent below those for 1897. Early in the spring it was not thought that this year’s shipments would amount to more than 2500 carloads, or about one-half of last year's shipments, but the close of the season finds us with a total of 4824 carloads of deciduous fruit—quite 4n improvement over the early estimates. Last year's shipments were 5323 carloads. But the returns this year were larger than those in 1897, owing to the higher prices-this year. Cherries and pears made the best showing,. the loss in the latter being only 3 per gent. The dried fruit exhibit this year, however, is not as favorable as usual, and falls behind that made by deciduous fruit, owing to its inferiority, due to the dry season, which resulted in a large proportion of small-sized and otherwise undesirable fruit, prunes teing the chief sufferer in this respect. Canned fruit has don# very well, having met with a2 good demand at better pricés than have ruled for several yedrs. In field and range products there is little or nothing new. .Wool has shown rather more life, but is dull at ‘best, and sales are made only at concessions. Live- stock of all kinds except veal has declined during the week, owing to the raising of the tunnel blockade in the Sierra Nevadas. . Hops are still in brisk demand reflex of that in there is no real at good prices; and sales are readily made. Provisions are slow and unchanged. The grain markets have ex- hihited no striking features during the week, and trade has been dull all around. e One-man has gone crazy over the defedt of Cor- bett, but the defeated seems to keep his head all right and is probably even now planning how next to fleece the-publi e —_— In replying to his critics Shafter chose to regard some of them as so small as not to be worth notice, s ‘—Tew which will tend to strengthen him in popular > L ve.+..908 Broadway | ...Riggs Houee | ..Marquette Building | colonies will require it may be suspected of fa- — | voring an imperial colonial policy, because it will | make necessary a standing army of about 200,000 men and a navy equal to the combined sea strength of Continental Europe. : It all means that we are to have a military republic, in which the army and navy will eclipse civil pur- its. By pursuing a non-military policy and keeping | arms in a position for defense only, the country has | rospered until we are the richest of the nations. | | Now we are following the same course as that trav- ! eled by older countries. The wealth won in the pur- | suits of peace is regarded as a prize to be devoted to the purchase of glory, and its investment in a mighty military establishment is treated as the highest | patriotism. 1i there be no check to this, it will not be long un- the army spirit will control the country. Already the politicians are on the lookout for a ary hero as a candidate for the Presidency. rly in our Civil War, when an army of 50,000 was passing under review, Caleb Cushing looked | thoughtfully on the marching mass and a- friend | asked him what he was thinking. The veteran law- yer answered, “I am wondering what subaltern o {in those ranks will rise to be ruler of the republic | when the struggle is over.” The old student of the | history of nations reasoncd rightly. Following the | war seven military men were candidates for the | Presidehcy, and five have reached that high office. | Politicians will materially assist in making this a | military republic, for our appearance under arms on the theater of the world’s contentions and disputes | y material. im E { men | will supply us with an abundance of mil | Our Sirdars and Pashas will be coming home, pan- | oplied in mititary glory, and none of them will forget | the path that brought him to the highest civil prefer- | ment. The army will be to this country what it is to France, where it dominates every interest in the re- public and is able to arrest or distort the processes of ivil justice. Already the politicians are bringing the heroes of our brief war into focus for 1g00. When the war began political ambition sent men after commissions in the army, and the desire to deserve well of their country- men at the polls was not improperly among the mo- tives that sustained their courage under fire and t- It is well that the people should consider how we may glide from our position as a peaceful nation | | | | Bal to that of a military republic, in which the pursuits of | | peace are valued, not se much for the homes they | | build, the tables they fill and the hearths they warm, as for the sinews of war they can supply and the pomp and circumstance they can support. ference of librarians at Sa : appointment of a committee to draw up a bill | for submission to the Legislature providing for the | blishment of some form of the traveling library | em which has been so successful wherever adopted | LléRARYiflI—TFAIRS. ng results of the con- | | | E of the most grat cramento was the | | | in the € The matter is one of interest to all sections of the | ate, for in every community there is a considerable number of persons who will be benefited by it. Its main benefits, however, will be conferred upon those | portions of the commonwealth which are so sparsely | settled that they contain no public library for the use of the people. 3 So much experience has been gained in several of | the Eastern States in the conduct of traveling libraries | that the committee appointed to draft a bill for such | a system here can hardly go astray in formulating it. | They have only to follow the main lines of the New | York plan and adapt them to local conditions in or- der to devise a feasible and beneficial system. | While the proposed bill promiises, for” theState ' at | large a better and fuller use of the State Library, the people of San Francisco have a library problem of | their own to consider. According to the annual re- | port the Free Public Library has outgrown its pres- ent quarters, and for its normal growth requires more space than can be provided for it in the City | Hzll. Within two years, it is estimated, a new build- | ing will be absolutely necessary for the institution. | On this showing it is full time for the public and the officials having charge of such matters to begin | to consider how the needs of the library are to be met. | San Francisco is far behind other large American Gities in the matter of libraries, and while, owing to | her comparative youth, this is not to her discredit, it is time she was making preparations at least for a suitable home for her Free Library. Two years is not a long time in affairs of such importance as this, | and the best thought of the city should be given to | a consideration of ways and means for providing the | municipality with a library building commcnsura!ei with its dignity and its needs. OUR PROMPT NEWS SERVICE. ESTERDAY The Call once more demon- Y strated the superiority of its news service by" being the first to give to the public full and ac- curate information of the results of the fearful explo- sion that wrecked the steamer T. C. Walker. The details of a catastrophe of the kind constitute a species of news for which the public cannot wait. Thousands of persons have friends who may be in- volved in the disaster, and these are eager to know at once the names of all who were killed or injured. Recognizing this anxiety on the part of the public, The Call, as soon as the report of the explosion was received, set about gathering all the details and pub- lished them without a moment's delay. The extra contained every particle of information that could be desired by the general public. It in- cluded a full list of the passengers, the names of the dead, and also the names of the injured, together with a statement of the nature of their injuries.. Thus the full extent of the disaster was made known at once to the city and the surrounding country as far south as Bakersfield, and the further evil of anxiety and fear “in many households whose friends were uninjured was spared. The promptness with which the news was gathered and published is another demonstration of the efficacy of The Call staff and the splendid equipment of its me- chanical departments. The accomplishment may be accepted as another assurance that The Call affords ot only to the city but to all the country round a news service adequate to every demand and prompt 10 meet every emergency. OUR LATEST BATTLESHIP. Y the successful launching of the Wisconsin an- B other powerful battleship has been added to. our navy and another proof given of the con- structive ability of our shipyards. As Mr. Scott pointed out in his speech at the banquet on Saturday evening, the launch was a most important one, “in fact, second to none in the United States, as the ves- sel is a thousand tons larger than the Oregon and the contract calls for one knot more speed.” That the new ship when armored and equipped. for | not far from $100,000, and, to add to the offense, the | it goes it completely sustains the charges made by | this | manipulated for illicit gain. | i Togues. | safe prediction that the higher the license the larger her trial will show herself equal to all the require- ments of the contract and probably superior in speed is hardly to be doubted. The record of what has been accomplished by our ship-builders in the past affords a firm foundation for the most sanguine hopes in this case, and we may, therefore, expect to see the Oregon surpassed not only in size and speed according to con- tract. but in every respect. This new achievement of. our ship-builders increases | the strength of our claim that the Government should | provide for the construction of another battleship of the first and most powerful class, to bear the name | of California, and that she should be constructed at | our shipyards. This should be borne in mind by our | Representatives at Washington whenever plans for | further naval expansion are under consideration. It | is time to have a California upon the seas to protect | the flag of the Union and do honor to the State that | has contributed so much to the wealth and the glory of the republic. | JOBBERY AT THE FERRY. . the jobbery which had marked the construc- | tion of the ferry building. It demonstrated | dispassionately, yet sparing no offender, that the job- | | ONTHS ago this paper made an expose of | THE BALDWIN'S horsey-looking man with a red-and- chal Is gone for gocd and all. years ago. don’t cut any figure. morning after a few blinkerg at the a break a chap'd naturally drop into to find himself there. Then he'd haul Next he'd nod familiarly to some one difference who it was. If one of your were all O K to be able to see that your mind with too many details. “So far so good—and the hoodoo more passes with yourseif up Of course you wouldn't be bery lmf:l been actual robbery; that the State had been swindled by the Harbor Commissioners, in con- | nivance with a lot of contractors; that every change | T :ul‘c in the specifications for the building had bcen! detrimental to the integrity of the structure and an | extra expense to the State. It pointed out in detail who had permitted the crooked work and to whom had fallen the unholy profit. According to the belief of The Call, founded on careful investigation, the stealings amount to a sum | | | { people get a depot far inferior to that for which they were \\'lxllmyz to pay, and for which they were taxed. In justice to the present board it must be said that Chairman Colnon is the only member who was a utcmher of the body while it was devoting its ener- gies to the swindling of the public and the fattening of contractors. It is seldom that even in connection with public work, where stealing is recognized as a habit, there has been such bare-faced, unblushing frauds as The Call brought to light. The accused made denial, but tlle)" could bring forward nothing to sustain their con- tentions. The evidence against them was complete. The testimony of figures and the logic of tangible ff’u‘h were not to be shaken by indignant assevera- tions of innocence. ‘ Yet for a time the matter has seemed to rest. Per- | hflp‘s the erring, clinking their ill-got coin, thought tl_m!r method of obtaining it had passed from mind. 1f so, they were over-hasty with their congratulations. A Senate Committee has heard the report of ex- perts. This report is not yet complete, but so far as aper. It shows that on four contracts alone the stealing amounted to $66,847 55. On masonry it was more than $28,000, and on carpentry and plastering more than $20,000. There are many other contracts, and there is reason to believe that each one of them | above the foundation was tainted by corruption and The question arises as to what shall be done about <0 shameful a condition of affairs. Shall officials who have been faithless to their trusts be permitted to go unpunished? Shall one of them still be continued in | the power he has abused? Surely the people of Cali- fornia can find some way to protect themselves against Penalty should be meted out and a demand for restoration of the lpot vigorously enforced. ALASKAN AFFAIRS. NOTABLE feature ot the annual report of the f\ Secretary of the Interior, which has just been | made public, is the prominence given to | Alaskan affairs and the space devoted to a considera- tion of the needs and the prospects of the Territory. | Before the Klondike excitement of last year Alaskai could hardly get even recognition at Washington, but now the officials of the Interior Department make | her the subject of a host of recommendations. The first feature of Alaskan conditions referred to i the difficulty of preventing the smuggling of liquor into the country. This difficulty is likely to_increase as the population increases. The Governor of the Territory is quoted as favoring a high license law as a means of putting an end to smuggling, but it is a will be the amount of smuggled liquor in the country. It has been found impossible to prevent the illicit importation of liquor into districts where its use is prohibited even when they are so well policed as Maine and Kansas, and it is safe to say the only way to regulate the traffic in a country like Alaska will be to make the license so low that the legitimate dealer can compete with the smuggler and drive him out of business. By the imposition of high license the Secretary believes there could be raised in Alaska a revenue of $200,000 annually. To that sum $50,000 could be added by a tax on salmon, and probably $100,000 more by wharfage duties. The Secretary, however, announces his opposition -to the enactment of any system of taxation upon the Territory until land laws have been provided which will enable settlers to ac- quire titles and make homes for themselves. A sanguine view is taken of the resources of the country outside of its mineral wealth. It is stated that many sections of the Territory are shown to be suitable for agricultural purposes, and that with proper care. cattle can be raised in the milder dis- tricts. The report adds: “It cannot be doubted that in the course of time herds of reindeer will cover the plains of Northern Alaska, and a few thousands of dollars spent now in helping the Esquimaux to ob- tain herds will save the expenditure of many thou- sands in the future.” The rapid increase of the trade of Alaska has brought with it a necessity for the erection of more lighthouses along the coast and the establishment of a better mail service. Strong ground is taken by the report in favor of granting the people of the Terri- tory representation in Congress, and it is pointed out that there is needed an enlargement of administrative authority to the local government and the extension of !and laws to the more settled portions of the vast region. 5 Tt will 'be seen that the development and organiza- tion of our northern possessions entail a great many problems and a considerable cost of money. Nothing czn be gained, however, by postponing the settlement of any of them. Representation in Congress, some- thing of local self-government and liberal land laws | such as are conceded to other Territories ought to be granted to all parts of Alaska, where there is a considerable number of Americans residing and working. The region promises to be rich, and a full opportunity and encouragement should be given to American energy and enterprise to develop its re- sources to the uttermost. According to the Report its contemporaries have been announcing that no bodies would be found in the ruins of the Baldwin. No such contemporaries are on our exchange list. ] ture. tion, moving, and then you're dead sure the cause you're tired. the windows from the direction of your eyes to see 'em <o past the door em? Nit. They'd reach the door post, and changed into a couple of men or an old woman with a basket o: T Funny, you'd think, but perhaps they got in a Corbett side step, and you'd lay for the next lot. The same thing. “Say you saw Colonel Kowalsky gagement with his breakfast you'd side-stepping act on you. But at Clawson, the jockey, or some other pipestem fellow One morning 1 saw Baldwin himself that shock you and mal “And the effects it would have on morning steady himself in a manner was done so beautifully until he got his eyes from the windows, but they to twitch. He crossed carefully over, opened the inner side looking rather wild at everybody passing. rubbed his face and then coming in to the clerk gasped: ‘Save a room for to-night?’ says the must get back home—wife sick,’ and “Then there was—but never mind desk from the chair crying: up?’ asks the clerk. ‘Why. your coal least twenty people fall into it. Send “Another fellow I know dashed out of the house, took a drink cure and has been sober ever since. I tell you it as a reformer with the hoodoo chalr. hang of as a hundred-to-one shot on man became confidential. 1 mean some fellows. street as they went by the door. Tod's picture always hung above the But at this point a policeman fell which the exhalations from the Ingleside Maduro had made in the street e and the glassy-eyed man was lost in the ensuing shoveback. smok as he stood opposite the Baldwin rulns th nels In the drifts of smoke with the strong! cigar, “but there are lots of the boys Wwill be tic] ou see,” he went on, after he had save by a strong draught through one of its own tunnels, “it was the corne in the office just as you went into or c: ally when you came out, and especially out of you. I don’t just exactly remember who Strikes me it was White Hat McCarthy or Ji Anyhow, all you had to do was to stroll ¢ hand in hand with the gray dawn on certain occasions. enough to make any play on tips and things till somebody size up the fleld in a free-and-easy way, and compare it with the office clock to see if the hot recognize him ’cause you were tco busy picking W you'd light brace youself for a look at the street through the Powell fool enough te waste anv time admiring early morning sunlight, for you all know about those times when no matter how bright the sun and blue the sky there's a wart on everything in na- It's an optical delusion, I s'pose, but we a fellow'd try himself on human nature first. nd its comforting if you don’t feel like moving y Well, you'd see two lovely butterflies come a Market street, and you'd follow 'em with | coming up to the post to keep an en- feel sure he wasn't ke you think that your last night's dreams were true. or that you had been born over again and changed at the birth? ‘Quick, for God's sake, save them.’ “You know about six feet and the passageway was paneled with long mirrors. couldn’t see the street doorway except as it was reflected in the glass, a fellow’d naturally think it was a continuation of the window. The people that pa: back of the glass, and in their place you'd see the people coming down the Sitting in any other chair in the house a fellow'd glance to the window on the other side of the doors, but in the hoodoo seat one wouid no more do it than he'd take his eyes off a mix-up at the quarter pole to see if the home-stretch was barreled game with every trump against you. on Tod Sloan one morning, but it never phased him, and that w HOODO CHAIR. “It's a mighty bad plece of business,” loudly remarked a glassy-eyed, yellow sweater reaching up to his ears, e day after the fire and made tun- 1y charged breath of an Ingleside kled to know the hoodoo d the cigar from being sucked r seat ame out of the bar, but it was usu- in the morning, that it took a fall got the first rally several m—but say, names sut in the nsation that comes Not feeling strong | else had made that first seat, light up a cigar and bar to soothe the se! paper, typewrlften, and is a clear, military document, giving in dettafl the condition of the various organizations within. the limits of the brigade on the Ist of last April, which included at that.time the First’ and ¥ s -of infantry, Troop A Cav snal Corps, th Sanitary Corps and the Cadet Company, now known as Company many of the men who ¢ ganizations are in the vo and only Tro listed men, and men previous h 1 ubject” of 10ss 0f propsrty he | s find that when property was lost at camp. Were camps yuld be impossible ted with regl- ments to property without being ob- served by se uently the would be within the_ ilmits so no one'd think he was surprised cker as steady as he could el was up to date. across the office. It didn’t make any friends was watching he'd think you distance, and that you only failed to inners for the day to clog out his ti hispered. Well, after a few | up your cigar again, and -street windows. the | hadn’t W won't argue that. Any how, That's something in mo- ourself to see others a standstill be- flitting past | world hasn’t come to or maybe come in. Would vou see then either evaporate or be n her arm. going to do any the door the colonel would become weighing_ 50 pounds. melt into a newsboy. Now wouldn't different chaps. I saw a fellow omne that was a nerve tonic in itself, it the hoodoo. First he tried to keep wandered back again and he began door and stood out- He looked quite awhile, My grip—quick.’ ‘No, no— clerk, passing the grip. out he went. the name—he came rushing up to the ‘What's hole’s open outside and I've seen at some one -own for heaven's sake.’ our old friend conscience was not in And it was all as easy to get the the square tip,” and the glassy-eyed the inner doors of the hotel set in You and Of course into the sed the window went clear. It was a double- Some of us put up a hoodoo chair. Now, there—' through an unusually large tunnel ARQUND THE CORRIDORS. B. R. Cameron, an attorney of Hanford, is at the Lick. F. B. Gower, a fruit grower of Madera, is at the Lick. John E. Stearns, a mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Grand. State Senator Guy B. Barham, of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Rev. Danfel G. Mackinnon of Stockton | is stopping at the Occldental. A. G. Campbell, a mining man of Hum- boldt, is registered at the Grand. G. Lindsay, the District Attorney of santa Cruz, is a guest at the Grand. Mark R. Plaisted of the Riverside En- terprise is stopping at the California. Dr. J. W. Farrington, a noted physician of Arizona, is a guest at the Grand. W. C. Peyton, of the powder works at Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Palace. W. D. Parker, a capitalist of Wisconsin, accompanied by his wife, is at the Russ. J. H. Sherman, proprietor of the Sher- man House of Prescott, Ariz., is a guest at the Lick. Peter Gaffney, the well-known New York clubman and owner of fine breed- ing stock, is at the Palace. George W. Hofman, a prominent busi- ness man of El Rio, accompanied by his family, is a guest at the Russ. J. S. Happor, the United States Consul at Kobe, Japan, arrived in this city last night on his way to the Orient. A. E. Grinnell and Captain C. W. Ander- son, of Dawson, are stopping at the Russ for the winter and will return to the Klon- dike in the spring. Commander C. A. Postley, U. 8. ar- rived last night from the East to attend the wedding of his son, Sterling Postley, and the sister-in-law of Henry E. High- ton. N.; —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 2I.—John B. Wise of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. An armored cruiser named Kaiser Karl VI was launched October 24 at S8an Rocco, near Trieste. She is the largest ship of modern design in the Austrian navy and is 367 feet 6 inches In length, 56 feet beam and displaces 6250 tons on a mean draught of only 20 feet 4 inches. All the armor is of Harveyized steel, the belt having a maximum thickness of 10.6 inches, the tur- rets 9.8 inches and the protective deck 13 inches. The armament consists of two 9.4- inch, elght 6.9-inch Krupp guns, the latter being quick-firers, and eighteen smaller guns in the secondary battery. With twin- screw - engines of 12,000 horse-power a speed of 20 knots is anticipated. The nor- mal coal supply is exceptionally large, it being 800 tons, and the ship in its entirety is credited with being a perfect specimen of her type on so limited a displacement. The courtesy of Russian naval officers is well known and thoroughly appreciated all over the world, and they are welcomed wherever they go. One reason for this en- viable reputation is that the officers are of the best families and have private means besides their salaries, and are therefore not hampered with the unpleasant trouble of how to make both ends meet. It is not alone abroad but also at home that their courtesy gains for them so many friends, and an incldent is told of the ex- perience of some English tourists, who by some misunderstanding were left by their steamer at Kronstadt. The Orfent steamer Lusatania called at St. Peters- burg and a party of ten took a trip to Kronstadt while the steamer dropped down the roads. The tug failed to come in time for the excursionists and they were in danger of losing their steamer when the admiral commanding the fort- ress learned of their predicament. He at once placed his official launch at the dis- | posal of the party, Insisted on paying their cab fare from the pler to the place of embarkation, and had search made for one of the party who had lost his w: and he twice dispatched the launch to e Lusitania to satisfy himself that all the || belated g)uuenxen ‘were safe on board, The London Times gave an account of the pleasing incident and stated that the naval luglg%elx;d to 'xhtk%r:u excursfonists were In ‘Wessal, naval governor of Kronstadt. A | zines equal to 44 inches of iron. { and twenty l-pounders, One of the most remarkable battleships in any navy is the turret ship Bouvet, in { the French navy. Her offensive and de- | fensive power exceeds that of any other ship afloat in that she carries heavier armor and can bring a battery of 52 guns of all calibers into play. She was bullt at L'Orient. her keel laid in January, 1893, launched fn April, 189, and completed two yvears later. The Bouvet is 401 feet 2| inches in length, 70 feet 3 inches breadth, and displaces 12200 tons on 27i feet draught. She has triple screw engines developing 14,000 horse-power and a speed of 17% knots. The ship has an all-around water line belt of nickel steel 16 inches thick at the water line, tapering to 8 inches below, and a protective deck 3% inches thick, which with the belt gives | protection to the machinery and maga- | There | are four turrets, one at each end and one | on each beam. In the forward and after turrets, which are 141 inches thick, a placed one 46-ton 12-inch gun of 40 cali bers, with muzzle velocities of 2625 feet | per second, equal to a striking force of | 20,750 foot tons, and the beam turrets car- ry one 10.8-inch gun of 45 calibers, with a striking force of 22,750 foot tons. Eight 6-inch quick-firers are carried in small turrets 4 Inches thick, and eight 4-inch | quick-firers are distributed on the upper deck behind 2-inch steel shields. The sec- ondary battery includes twelve 3-pounders a total of 52 guns. There are three above water and | two submerged torpedo tubes, and the three conning towers are 10 inches in thickness. The power of the four larger guns at 2000 yards is calculated as capable of penetrating 24 inches and 18 inches of | iron, or roughly estimated to go through | 12 and 9 inches Harveyized steel at the range of 2000 yards. At the twenty-four hours’ trial at sea the Bouvet averaged about 17.25 knots. Her normal coal supply is only 621 tons, and the estimated cost of the ship ready for sea, including arma- ment, was a little over $5,415,000, which has been slightly exceeded. THERE IS LACK OF MILITARY ENTHUSIASM UNCERTAINTY RETARDS RE- ORGANIZATION. The National Guard as Viewed by the Second srigade Inspector in His Report. For the reason stated in the National Guard department last week, that is to say, the disinclination of men already in the guard to go before the medical board for physical examination, and the fur- ther reason that, in view of the incoming administration, there is no telling at this time if there will be any change in the plan at present being followed in the reorganization of the guard, matters in the guard came to almost a standstill last week In this city. The medical board held two sessions. At one there were examined twenty-eight men for Company I of the First Regi- ment, and at the other session four men | were examined for Company B and a like | number for Companies D and L. Another session will be held this week. The en- thusiasm which prevailed at the time that | the announcement was made that the ac- tual work of reorganization would com- mence seems to have been snuffed out as suddenly as it was kindled. | property report th | appes | mov arms and ¢ | brance of home th: lost proper: 'ommend at cam mpa commander, who camp, assemble deavor to perty. 1t found, and it a '’ s willfully taken by persol »nnected with the regi- ment, stch persons should be made an ex- f before leavin unds.” amplé ition to the m In disci ¢ good. Company pla manual erally ment ge good »od and fair, the i of for on the part of captains. character is the of to command men and maintain dis The same rule applies to ligutenants a sioned off th give their commands in a itating man- ner and without animation, as if they had no self-reliance — e AT THE PARK AND CLIFF. Usual ngmmme, Was Dispensed With—Aquatic . Contests at d_exceltent; in others tter merit be of char: Force Sutro’s Baths. ple sure grounds were de- Anticipating rain the programme of the park band was dis- pensed with and there was- but little pleasure promenading in the damp, cold In conseque the crowd was small and the drive sm A small number of people braved the tening, storm and visited the Cliff Hou d strolled along the, beach, but the majority anxious for a pleasur: 1 the Chutes and Sutro Baths, w Iter is afforded. The ust tests interes the visitor Following the results of serted dash for novices Berry second; diving by H. Seebach, E. tub race, a derson and first, and D. Mackel second; race, won by Dan_ C: diving, won by A. Hay, high diving, won by —_— e SOLDIEK AND STATESMAN. Frank B. Hargrave of the Tenth Pennsylvania Elected to the Legislature. Frank B. Hargrave, a young lfeutenant of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, now in Manila, returned to this . city Satur- day on the City of Para. The first remem- a he received telegram from his nounced to him t to the Legislature of Penn Hargrave knew of his nomination, but had not received information as to the Tesult of the election. He was a happy friends were bow- | ing to him with deference. He will repre- sent Westmor! nd ty in the lower branch of the Le E — e Cal. glace fru.. 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® —_—————————— supplied daily to Special information by the business houses and public me: Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. —_————————— Chaste gold frames with ebony shadow boxes are very artistic for pictures in colors. 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