The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1899. ....FEBRUARY 6, 180 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS,.........2I7 to 22! Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Sirgle Coplea. 5 cents Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Month SUNDAY CALL one year .. WEEKLY CALIL, one year - 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE.............. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Corrcspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... 3 Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Ad ng Ropresentative. ver BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen untll o'clock. 38T Hayés street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open uptil 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2891 Market strect, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll $ o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until $ o'clock. EMENTS AMU Scandal.” Left Home."” a, the *Lady of Lions."” Olympla is streets, Speclalties. A. Audlitorium, Oakland — Shakespearean Recital ruary 7. politan Temple—Piano Recital Wednesday evening, February 8. de Race k—Races to: CONDITIONS STEADIER AGAIN. HE wave of speculation which swept over” the T Eastern trade centers, and particularly New York, ten days ago, perceptibly subsided last week, and while transactions in Wall street continued heavy they were by no means as large as during the preceding week, when the record was broken three our days in succession. A spirit of caution came the professional operators and those financiers control enormous interests, and they temporarily from the street to give it a rest from its Some of them turned bears to reap prospective profits in the reaction which 1ly follows undue ad- But there was no serious break in prices, nu f stocks fell off agreeably to expec- London sold heavily. There were no im- in consequence of .the flurry which so it seems to have been a fever. ances. ber o ugh a tatic he s upheaval ew year, declined during the week, carrying a number or cereals down with it. The depreciation aused by the Government crop report, ed the last crop at 675,000,000 bushels, f even the most sanguine cal- hich had named 650,000,000 as eld. The general consensus But of the T was la rgely wh a quantity f trade, culations of the probable maximu n below this latter figure. of opinion was ev wheat had risen sharply the week before, so the de- cline brought it back to about where it was befc W pathy with cotton weakened somewhat in natural sym- there was no decline, owing to a the goods. Present prospects for = that the outgo will place the market position than it has enjoyed for a num- Woolen goods, too, show more tone, with a better demand reported in some lines, though prices are low. While iron is reported somewhat icter the rush of orders for the future does not d most of the mills are covered for months whea strong de cease. ahead. The feature of the week in this industry was the sale of practically the whole ore output of the Lake ior mines for the coming year. Lumber inues to show a co firm front, and dealers are com- plaining of continued scarcity of hard woods. A slight improvement in the boot and shoe trade has imparted rather more firmness to leather. The recent cold blizzard in the West has acted as a damper on some lines of wholesalé trade, but this is offset by a consequent improvement in retail busi- ness. notably in heavy clothing and footwear, so there is no net lo: The spring demand is already open- ing in good shape in many sections of the country and the outlook in this direction is considered more than favorable. The statistical record of January was highly grati- fying. The volume of business was beyond all prece- dent. The clearing house exchanges were 44 per cent larger than in January, 1808, and 59.7 per cent larger than in 1802, the year preceding the panic. The commercial failures were the smallest for months, and the average of liabilities was smaller than for any other fanuary on record. The above exhibit fairly represents the state of business throughout the country at large. In Cali- fornia there were few new features of note. Wheat went up and down in sympathy with the Eastern mar- kets, and the minor cereals followed suit. In farm products the tendency was upward, and nigher prices were quoted for hogs and hams, while the feeling in hay was very firm at the close, with a recovery in prices anticipated by some dealers. The dried fruit market has been showing more tone of late, in sym- pathy with New York, where stocks are reduced and the .demand is improving. Rather more demand is reported for country real-estate, but the inquiry is mainly for small holdings at low prices, which are not so easy to obtain as they have been, owing to the higher prices lately ruling for farm products. The cold snap of last week has attracted general attention, but it is not thought that serious damage to fruit has been done, as the buds are not sufficiently advanced. A few early varieties, such as almonds, apricots and late peaches, may have sufferéd slightly. A court-martial of General Miles would be equiva- lent to an inquest upon that embalmed beef, and the country would await the verdict with interest. AR T Statutes forbidding the compression of feet and saying nothing about the horrors of the corset must be regarded as class legislation. 1f Aguinaldo really needs 000,000 he ought to wait until the $60,000,000 touch of Gomez has worked, and then touch Gomez. Apparently the French choose to believe Dreyfus guilty, not from any evidence, but because they have taken the notion. A This country may feel a degree of sympathy for }:gan, but it can never lend its approval to rotten beef, | | century, the season following the great exposition in AN HABITUAL CONFIDENCE MAN. | F Dan Burns it may be sajd that every new in- O cident of his career that comes to light adds to his shame. He seems to have been false to every trust imposed in him, whether private or public. He has counted as a sucker everything that came into is net, whether it were the State, a county, a capital- st or a workingman. To the disgraceful records of Burns in the manage- ment of the clerkship of Yolo County, the office of Secretary of State and the Candelaria mine, The Call added yesterday another chapter from his career, showing how he left in the lurch the miners employed | by the Napoleon Mining Company, dismissing them | without paying their wages, and even skipping off | without paying his hotel biil or horse hire. | The men thus defrauded of what was due them are | not rich enough to bear easily the loss which Burns® | financial methods imposed upon them. They worked hard for their money, and they .not only deserved it, but they needed it. They are still in need of it, while the slick confidence operator, who retains it, is living in clover with plenty of money for racing touts and political jobbers, but none it seems for the honest workingmen to whom he owes it. It 4s by such practices as this Burns has made his way in the world. His path can be traced by the slime he has left behind in his tracks. Every step he has taken has inflicted a wrong upon some one and left a stain upon himself. This is the man who now aspires to represent Cali- fornia in the United States Senate, and finds men base | enough to support him in his ambition. He is able to summon to his aid a host of allies who are not in politics for health, for he seems to have money for everything except to pay his debts. Common honesty unites with common decency in opposing the im- pudent pretensions of such a man, and the working- men of the State should, through their organizations, take the part of honesty in the fight against the ma- nipulator of the Napoleon Mining Company, who has shown himself to be that worst of all enemies of labor: the dishonest employer who defrauds labor of its wages. [ meeting on Saturday, good auguries may be | drawn-of the success of the coming international exposition to be held in this city. The meeting was largely attended and the tone of the discussion showed that all are sanguine of good results from the under- taking and are assured of a cordial and strong sup- port, not only in the city, but throughout the State. So confident of success are the promoters of the | enterprise that it was decided on Saturday to com- plete the work of organization, and the next meeting was fixed as the time for the election of permanent | officers. It was also determined that the exposition should be held in 1901, the first year of the twentieth FULL STEAM AHE@D. 3 ROM the proceedings of the committee at the Paris and preceding that to be held in St. Louis to celebrate the centennial of thé acquirement by the United States of the vast region of the Mississippi Valley included in the Louisiana purchase. The date selected for the exposition is a fortunate one and gives ample opportunity for carrying it out on a grand scale. Enterprises of this kind cannot | with a beauteous precision, never verified, that the span of life could be made to cover a century, and from such a theory has sprung “The Hundred Year Club.” The belief permeating this organization is that the scriptural three score and ten may be over- ridden, and men and women retain their faculties and their activities until ten decades shall have passed over them. However Quixotic the scheme may ap- pear, there is much to commend it. If intelligent men and women, devoted to right methods of living, given to investigation, weighing physical causes and results, gather to compare thought, while they may not be enabled thus to stay on earth as long as they desire, they may be enabled to stay longer than other- wise they would, and through moderate indulgence in deleterious luxuries, sane rules as to work and food and rest, enjoy a serene old age, retairiing strength of mind and body until to each the summons may come. There are many difficulties in the way of arranging a set of rules. The available instances of longevity do not furnish a means of prescribing a definite method. 1In fact, of the persons attaining great age every one has a fad and a fancy whereby the phe- nomenon is explicable. One will ascribe his immun- ity from the grim reaper to temperance, another to whisky, still another to the soothing influence of to- bacco. Some are certain that hard work has preserved them; others will speak of long hours of slumber. There is the vegetarian and the lover of meat. OQut of the conflict of testimony, philosophy will scarce be able to deduce an impressive truth. A woman has just died here at the age of 110. It had been her habit to drink much brandy. Her constant solace was a foul and blackened pipe, smelling to heaven with the rankest brand of the weed. Her ¢ase is cited as a sample with which the new club will have to wrestle. But there is another side to all this. Why should any hope to live a hundred years? Surely’ they who have borne the burden and heat of the day while the passing seasons have whitened their hair, robbed their step of its spring and their forms of erectness, must grow weary. They must have seen those dear- est to them pass away. They must have paid to grief the full measure of tears. Their youthful hopes have cither been fulfilled or utterly crushed. Why should they seek to linger amid scenes to which they must be alien, standing solitary while all around them is- the bustle of new generations to the progress of which they cannot contribute, whose sympathies they do not touch and to whom they are either a burden or a curiosity? If the natural law which sets the term of life at 70 can be abrogated and out of the mysteries of science be conjured a substitute adding thirty years to the term, all these conditions would change, and the centenarian be no longer a melancholy figure link- ing the present with an almost forgotten past. But here and there, for an individual to reach an extra- ordinary age can be to him no joy. Better and sweeter that, with his work accomplished and those of his kin to gently close his lids, he sink to sleep. Life has its trials, and in a life which covers far less than a century one may have had a fuall share. He has striven and won or lost and there remains for him nothing more to do. Deep in the heart there is a faith that beyond there awaits reward, and however one may rebel against losing the material existence, it is given us to know, at the approach of the dark angel, rebellion ceases, and in the shadow of death there is no repining. Therefore arises a question as to whether life is worth prolonging to the cen- tury mark, and many, weighing the question caref\illy. will answer in the negative. B i e X £ THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. UDYARD KIPLING has joined the ranks of R those eminent British jingoes who are trying to induce the United States to help Great Britain in her imperial schemes by taking part in the Oriental imbroglio. Chamberlain and Balfour have enticed us with lofty oratory. Kipling wooes us with a song published in The Call of Sunday. The title of the ballad is “The White Man’s Bur- den.” - Mr. Kipling sings: be successfully accomplished if extensive preparations are not made long before the time fixed for the open- ing. In the two years that will elapse before the spring of 1901, much can be done to make the ex- position one of the most notable ever undertaken, but to achieve that the preliminary work must be started at once. The exposition will be as fortunate in the distinctive character of its display as in the date. The attention of the whole world is now directed to the develop- ment of Pacific Ocean commerce, and it is in the countries bordering on that ocean the chief energies of the nations will be employed for years to come. A comprehensive exposition devoted to that commerce and industry as a specialty will command attention everywhere. It will he international in the fullest sense of the word. The movement has been well started and now—full steam ahead. o rar— THE EIGHTH CALIFORNIA. HE last two companies of the Eighth California T Volunteer Infantry will be mustered out of ser- vice this morning, and the gallant regiment, under the command of Colonel Park Henshaw, will cease to have an existence under the flag to whose defense it was so prompt to hasten when the war with Spain broke out. The regiment was one of exceptional merit, and although by reason of the swift success of the Ameri- can arms both in the West Indies and in the Philip- pines, the war closed before it had an apportunity to display its valor and its discipline on the field of bat- tle, it has, nevertheless, in its short life, shown quali- ties that attest the sterling manhood and patriotism of its members and render its record a matter of just pride to the State. The regiment was organized last June under the second call of the President for troops, and was com- posed of a superior class of young men. From the time it entered the service it has performed all duties imposed upon it with the ardor of volunteers and the steady discipline of regulars. The general instruction given was with a view to actual service in the field, and so cordially and loyally did the rank and file co- cperate with the officers in profiting by their military lessons and training, that had it been called to the front the regiment would have proven itself one of the most distinguished in the volunteer service. It does not require the actual test of the battlefield to show the heroic loyalty of men. A prompt offer of life and service to the flag when duty calls is itself sufficient proof of that high quality. That proof was | given by the men of the - Eighth when they volun- teered while yet the war threatened to be long and fierte. As they pass out of the service, therefore, they deserve the full measure of praise due to the brave. California salutes the Eighth and receives its mem- bers back to the ranks of citizenship with honor. . TO LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS. HERE is a human horror of death, not always for what death may bring, but by reason of the ties it will sunder. To cling to life is instinctive. The sailor adrift at sea prays for the sight of a sail, though by loosing his hold on his frail support he could find quick peace and know no more bodily anguish. Even the murderer fights against the await- ing doom, and the good man, assailed by mortal pangs, sends in haste for the physician. Yet at the last there seems to come to all a sense of resignation, but this is only when the grasp on life has weakened, the perceptions been dulled and the eye looks no longer on earthly things, but fixes its gaze upon the hills of eternity. While the blood bounds in the veins, life is sweet. Through suffering and sorrow and want, by the grave of friendship and at the tomb of ambition, mankind still repels’ the thought that all must lie down to final sleep, to be as dust. Take up the White Man's burden— Have done with childish days— The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise; Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers. By way of further information as to what we shall have to do when we have done with childish days and set about winning the approving judgment of our peers with their cold, edged, dear bought wisdom, the poet, drawing an easy lesson from the experience of Great Britain, adds: Take up the White Man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captive's need; To walt, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. It seems we are to infer from this that if we do not consent to send forth the best we breed to serve in exile amid the jungles of tropic islands for the noble purpose of imposing American law and civilization upon the mongrel races, half devil and half child, we shall lose the esteem of European powers now en- gaged in that task, and possibly the esteem of Mr. Kipling also. It is a dilemma from whica we cannot escape. Fate has ordained it and face it we must. ‘We might be more willing to enter upon the im- perial task if our British cousins were not so out- spoken in their eagerness to get us to do so. Their willingness to have us share the glory of civilizing the Orient awakens a suspicion that the glory is not altogether a profitable one. Great Brithin evidently has more than she can carry and would like to divide the glory with us. The invitation to take part is flattering to our pride, but not attractive to our common sense. “We have a pretty heavy white man’s burden at home and it will take something more than a song even from so strong a singer as Kipling to coax us to go to the Orient in search of an increase. In jall seriousness the eagerness of Chamberlain, Balfour and other British leaders to get the United States involved in the affairs of the Orient and in- directlyy_ made a party to all European squabbles, is a significant sign of the times. and ought to be a suffi- cient warning to all intelligent Americans to avoid imperialism as they would a plague. _The pursuit of imperialism has raised up antagonists te Great Britain in every part of the world; it has imposed upon her people @ heavy burden of debt and taxation; it has disturbed her politics by the continual menace of war and thus prevented the acéomplish\ ment of many needed reforms at home; and finally it has brought her into a position where without an ally she is confronted by a hostile world and is in danger of having her commerce, and perhaps even her em- pire, swept away at the first outbreak of war. - Rightly considered the white man’s burden is to set and keep his own house in order. It is not re- Qquired of him to upset the brown man’s house under pretense of reform and then whip him into subjection i There have been theories advanced, demonstrating | whenever he fevolts at the treatment. CALIFORNA MAY PEOPLE HOT SOLITUDES To Accept a Million Desert Acres. PLAN FOR THE LEGISLATURE OFFERED BY THE WATER AND FOREST SOCIETY. Propose That the State.Accepts Uncle Sam’s Offer of Arid Lands, Then Water and Popu- late Them. A bill providing for the State's accept- ance of 1,000,000 acres of arid land from the Government and " for a commission supposed to hustle this amount of desert into bloom and verdure will be presented and urged before the Legislature within a few days. The scheme presents dimly great poksibilities for the Colorado and Mohave deserts, in whose awful solitudes whitening bones are yearly more thickly strewn, but of which water would make vast tropical gardens. This is one of the important new mat- ters just taken up by the executive éom- mittee of the California Water and Forest Society. This new name, by the way, was adopted on motion of Senator Elliott Mc- Allister at a recent meeting of the execu- tive committee of the new State associa- tion organized as the California Soclety for the Conservation of Water and For- ests, i Most Californians have forgotten that a | million acres of Government desert land‘ muy be had by the State for the taking. In 1894 Congress granted a million acres | of arid land to each of the Western States where such land existed, with the stipu- | lation that the grants must be accepted | within ten years. But acceptance involves enaanF acts by State Legislatures, and | legislation providing for the great amount | of labor and engineering skill involved in | the inspection, selection and surveying of the lands, provisiod for their irrigation | and occupancy, and so on. Every State | but California has accepted the grant, Wyoming doing so in 15%. California’s acceptance must be made within five | vears, and it will be urged in the Legis- ature that to wait two years more will | give too little time for the vast amount | of preliminary work and consideration | necessary. It is, therefore, urgent that action be taken now. California has with-| in its borders 19,000,000 acres of lands now | worthless for cultivation, of which 6,000,- | 000 acres are desert and mainly belong to | the Government. A long bill has been drafted and is in | the hands of Curtis H. Lindley, chair- man of the committee on legislation. At | the request of President J. M. Gleaves, | the United States Surveyor General, it | was drafted by Miss Pratt, the accom- | plishcd land lawyer of that Government office. The bill as it stands is patterned | after similar acts fia‘ssed by_Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, ontana, ~Idaho and ‘Washington. It accepts the grant and then puts about everything into the hands a commission of three, one to be the State Surveyor General and two to be ap-| ointed by the Governor for four years. hey shall serve without compensation, but ‘shall employ a secretary and an en- gineer. The commission shall examine the arid lands capable of profitable irrigation and compile data concerning location, soil, | cultivation, rainfall in the mountains of | the same watersheds, sources of water, | possibilities of irrigation and production | and so on. hen its gets ready the com- | mission shall apply to and act with the | Secretary of the Interior regarding seg- Tegation of the lands. he commisison’s blgfiest éob will be to | rovide water for the State’s desert | ands, and the proposed plan is interest- | ing. It is not proposed that the State | shall spend a dollar on irrigation Wm‘ks} beyond the cost of the commission’s en- | gineering work. The commission is em- | powered to Invite proposals for and to contract for water uqulies to be in-| stalled at the expense of the bidder. The | person supplying water for reclamation | shall sell water rights, which shall attach | *to the land and be perpetual, and the wa- | ]terdbllls shall be a preferred lien on the | land. This may look odd and useless so far, for irrigation companies can build canals | and sell water anywhere without con- | tracts with State commissions if they | want to, but the reason of this plan is in ! the lands. i Government land under the desert land | law, but little is taken up because of the | difficulties. It takes five years and more | desert under this law than a parcel of | ood rich prairie or timber land. 8o gesert land goes begging. | The proposed bill fills the trough and | then leads the horse up to it and makes | him drink. It plans to get people onto | the land by making it easy. Any citizen | may enter 160 acres or less. He can get | a patent in two years by showing a con- | tract for a perfect water right with the | party authorized to furnish water for the reclamation of sald land and by proof of | actual settlement and the cultivation or; twenty acres. In other words, the land is given to the settler if he lives on it and | cultivates twenty acres within two years. | The jdea is that people will take desert land for nothing but a little time and labor if there is plenty of water on it, and that capital will irrigate uninhabited deserts if it sees a rate paying popula- tion coming. ‘The irrigation of the Colo- rado desert by turning the Colorado River into it has been an inchoate and much-talked about project for a genera- tion, accompanied by visions of vast orange, date and pomegranate groves, miles of palms, spice trees, tea fields and tropical glory, but it has remained too big, risky and costly a job for capital. If the State accepted a few hundred or a thousand square miles of it and offered to give redhot farms away for the water- ing and planting of twenty acres a bj, irrigation project rooted in the floods o the Colorado might make capital more eager. At least that is the philosophy and the promise and potency of the pro- osed law. The Mohave River and its ordering wastes are a similar problem, A number of small areas would_be found desirable to make part of the 1500 square miles. Anofher important matter receivin eration is Abbott Kinney's schem% consi for the protection from fire of the forests of the Sierra Madre Range in Southern California, which have suffered so severe- H, and amid which are the fountains, e would divide the mountain region into five districts, with a signal peak in each district, and each district into five sec- tions, with patrol camps in each. Peak signals by day or night and telephone lines could promptly muster the fire fight- ers over provided trails. Details from the army would be breferable for the service, which needs discipline, skill and endurance. No one should be allowed in the protected region without a pass. - Secretary Benjamin and others of the executive committee see a poor outlook for the School of Forestry and Forest Pa- trol, which the committee on legislation recently urged in the Legislature on be- baf of theSiate Dnivereity. 1t 1 re- ported that Governor Gage opposes' the et Kcrvca tas aopol en eaves has appointed the following committees: - pe Finance—Jullan Sonntag, E. A. s C._Ralston. = b Organization—Edward F. Adams, J. M. Wall- ing. Jobn F. Davis, C. 'N. Feiton, P. M. Britt, Hugh Crai Irish, Abbot Kinney, Crai- Manson, N. N. 3( Chipman. B. Kerr, Lyman Bridges, Frank oy W. Hilgard, M. o, Kearney, E. F. Adams, Curtls H. Lind: ley, A. P. Ma; lister, A. Sbar wton, Horace flson. Printing and publishing—W. H. Mills,_ Tim- helps, M rs_and reservoirs—George David- Distribution of waters—B. glslation —curtls H. Lindley, Flliott MeAl 5 urtis H, . Ellio - baro, W. D. othy Guy Pl M. L. McDonald, ‘F. Farwell 3 Sun Ignites Celluloid. The building at 200 Post street, Jointly A |8 oceupied by William L. Greenbaum and the Centemeri Glove Factory, was found on fire shortly after noon yesterday. The damage was nominal. It is beljeved that some celluloid tooth brushes, exposed to the sun, were ignited, thus causing the | fire. —_——————— AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Member s of the Chi Psi Fraternity in This City Organize. At a banquet held at Delmonico’s on Saturday evening an Alumni Association, composed of members of the Chi Psi Fraternity jn and around San Francisco, was organized. The institutions repre- sented were: Williams, Samuel C. Bigelow, Horace Davis, '48; Wesleyan, E. S. : Hon. Lippitt, 47; Edwin Fish, ‘s7; Bowdoln, the Rev. W. Pond, *48; Union, the Rev. J. ’58; Middlebury, O. M. ’80; A. L. Mann, K. Me Miner, '74; Princeton, A. D. Michigan, Dr. F. stelhun, herst, A. B. Davis, '70; Wofford. 5 Sesslons, ’74; Cornell, C. H. Ball, '%; Stan- B. 'Bernard, '9; W. A. Souther- California, C. F. Craig, H. C. Parker, E, J. Sherman, W. G. Wood, Willlarh Wells, ex-'98; R. A. Bender, ex-'09; 0. W. Westerfeld, W. D. Ladd, ex-"00. The undergraduate members of Stanford and California attended in a body. Samuel C. Bigelow presided. Officers of the asso- ciation were elected as follows: President, Hon. Horace Dayvis; first vice president, Rev. W. C. Pond; second vice president, C. A. Cross; secretary and treasurer, W. A. Sutherland. PRETTY GIRLS AS VALENTINES Society to Take Part in Mrs. Collier’s Original Entertainment. Mrs. William B. Collier has arranged a delightful entertainment—something alto- gether novel and original—to be held on Monday evening next, at Hotel Bella Vista, where Mr. and Mrs. Collier and | family are passing the winter. A valen- | | tine party is the alluring title of the en- tertainment, which will challenge the in- | terest and goodwill of society, and ‘“hu- | man valentines” are to be the first and | most prominent feature of the - affair. | Belles and buds and dashing beaux will | pose in a framework suggestive of Feb- ruary 14 billet doux, with all the dainty lace work, delicate coloring and wealth of | blossoms that constitute an up-to-date high art valentine. ‘With each ‘“valentine’” goes an accom- | panying verse, which will be read by Mr. Cameron. Between the ‘‘valentines” there is to be a musical programme, in which Miss de: Fremery of Oakland, Miss Loentine Pirrie, Miss Kirby, Frank Cof- fin arid Robert Bien will take part. A postoffice and a fortune-telling booth, over | which Miss Klinck will preside, are also to be features of the affair. | The entertainment is to be for the bene- | fit -of the Mission Church, at Lakeport, | Clear Lake. The church has just been completed and $2000 is necessary for the furnishings on the altar. Mrs. Collier, Hotel Bella Vista; Mrs. Drown, 2560 Jackson street; Mrs. Wil- liam I. Kip, 911 Eddy street; Mrs. Monroe Salisbury, 1414 California street; Mrs. E. Breyfogle, Palace Hotel, and Mrs. Caduc, Hotel Bella Vista, are the patron- esses, from the ladies. | THE RELIEF BOARD OF ODD FELLOWS | | WHAT WAS PAID FOR CHARITY IN SIX MONHS. Election of New Officers for the Term—A Presentation and a Banquet. The work of charity that was per- formed by the board of relief of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows during the past six months was described at the semi-annual meeting held yesterday in Eureka Hall, I. O. O. F. building. Presi- dent J. A. Wilson presided, and from the reports it appeared that during the term a little in excess of 300 cases were called to the attention of the board at its regu- lar Sunday meetings, and that the aggre- gate of ‘donations to members in need | and relief to widows and orphans of Odd Fellows was $8937. The reading of the reports was followed by the election of officers for the cur- rent term. A. G. Clark of California | Lodge, vice president was promoted to the office of president. vice president there were four candidates | and six ballots were taken before there was a choice. H. H. Dobbin of Abou Ben Adhem Lodge was chosen, and on mo- tion of J. J. Applegate, his principal op- ponent, the election was made unani- mous. J. F. Nicholson of Parker Lodge | Lodge was unanimously elected treasurer. The new officers were Installed by James A. Wilson, the retiring president, president a watch which has been passed from president to president for many years. The watch, since it came into the possession of the board, has always point- ed to the hour of 10, and has never been wound. The hour was set to remind the presiding officer of the hour at which the board is called to order. After the ceremony there was to the retiring president by.J. resented . Apple- | gate, on behalf of his fellow-members, a | Dock, Shanghai. very flne bronze clock for a mantelpiece, | as an expression of the appreclation of his _excellent service while in the chair. Jpon adjournment the officers, mem- bers of the board and past officers, also visiting members of the order, went to a famous rotisserie, where they par- took of a fine dinner. There were ad- dresses by President Clark, who acted as master of ceremonies; Past Presidents L. L. Remy, J. A. Doyle and Willlam W. Watson; .Past President 8. Davis of the San Jose relief board; J. Deheney, vice resident of the same board; John ray, junior past president; J. A. Wilson, Vice President Dobbin, J. J. Applegate, A. J. Hoovey, L. C. Marchand, S. Regens- burger, Louis Kragen, Secretary. J. F. Nichols, L. F. Frederice and M. Wicks. The most eloquent of all the addresses was that by the necretnry.xbo in the past has always been most retiring. e board during the term received sev- eral contributions to its 1rlendsh1g fund, including several from soldiers at Manila. who _attended the meetings prior to sail- ing for the front. These stated that they sent their contributions because they were so pleased with the good work the board does. —————— Sherwood Circle Installation. Miss Tillie Meyer, district deputy grand chief champion, assisted by Mrs. Seaman, as grand herald, installed the following named as officers Companions of the Forest; - Mrs, Esther C. Dunn, past chief companion; Mrs. M Harvey, chief companion; Mrs. George O'Brien, sub-chief companion; Mrs. J. Hartley, recordinf secretary; Mrs. Kate Howard, financial secret: Mrs. , Sheldon, treasurer; Mrs. K. Hart, right ide; Miss L. Schlofke, left 8ulde: E:odman, inside guard; Mrs. G. Lay, out- side guard; Miss Lulu Mitchell, organist; Mrs. C. Hill, Mrs. George O'Brien and J. Watson, trustees; Dr. George Hawkins, physician. —_—————— Died From His Injuries. Charles Hartman, 43 years of age, a na- tive of Germany, and a driver for the California brewery, who fell from his seat on the wagon on the 23d of last month while turning the. corner of Sev- enteenth and Church streets, died at the City and County Hospital yesteday morn- ing from the injuries received. When Hartman fell both wheels of the wagon assed over his left thigh, crushing the ne into fragments. On being taken to the hospital Dr. Pryor did all that medical science could do to save his life, but the shock to his nervous system was too severe to be overcome. The body was re- moved to the Morgue. s Cal. glace fruit §0c per Ib at Townsends.* | —_———— ‘;l:l:chl g:fcrnufladn supplied dally to ess houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), mh{( - Eomery streot. Telephone Mats iz 3 Tickets for the affair, which have | been placed at 50 cents, may be procured | For the office of | 15t of Sherwood - Circle, | [ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. F. G. Berry of Fresno Is stéang at the Palace. W. E. Baker of Baker City is a guest at the Lick. A. Behal of New York is régistered at the California. James Ricalton of New York is staying } at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ward of New York {are at the Palace. Dr. M. Schenebul of Newcastle guest at the California. D. W. Jones, a miner, from Fort Jones, is staying at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair of England are staying at the Occidental. W. H. Hopkins and George Phillips of Sacramento are at the Grand. James E. Wadham and wife of San Diego are guests at the Palace. E. L. Powell of Spokane and C. R. Knapp of Calistoga are registered at the | Lick. | Mrs. Senator W. M. Stewart is visiting | Mrs. W. F. Herrin at her residence, north- | east corner of Scott street and Broadway. Attorney H. B. Gillis and wife of Yreka are at the Grand. Mr. Gillis was at one time the District Attorney of Siskiyou County. Sheriff Nat Stewart of Santa Barbara and his deputy, J. T. Edsell, are af the Russ. They arrived in the city yester- day morning with five prisoners, whom they have brought up to serve terms in San ‘Quentin. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Flirt, British torpedo-boat de- stroyer, had a three hours' trial at Ports- mouth on January 11, and made 30.3039 knots, with 6688 horse-power. According to Spanish official records the .complements of the Spanish ships when they entered the harbor of Santi- ago were as follows: Therese, 556; Oquendo, 487; Viscaya, 491; Colon, 567; Furor, 80, and the Pluton 8 men. When | the ships made the dash to escape, being taken in the harbor, the total comple- ment of 2261 was 34 short, 8 having been killed in defending the city and 10 were left sick in the hospital. Of the 2227 remaining 392 were accounted for as killed and missing, 120 got ashore and escaped to Santiago. It is claimed that only 28 were assisted by the Americans, and that 1687 have returned to Spain. The Thames Iron Works and Ship- building Company of Blackwall, London, has received contracts from the British Admiralty to build two battleships of 14,000 tons each, at a cost of over $5.000,- 000. The company is making arrange- ments to absorb the famous engineering works of Messrs. John Penn & Sons at Greenwich and Deptford, and will under- take the manufacture of the 18,000 horse- power engines required for these vessels. This contract is the largest ever entrust- ed by the Admiralty to a single firm, and altogether the two battleships in course of construction—Albion for. the British navy and Shikishima for Japan— | will make quite a battleship record for the river Thames and a triumph for the eight-hour day. An accident which came near being se- rious happened to the British torpedo- boat destroyer Bittern last month while going through her three hours’ trial in | the proximity of Maplin Sands. The ves- sel was running her sixth mile, when she suddenly swerved from her course with- out apparent reason and headed directly for the sands, it being low water at the time. The violent change of direction gave quite a shock to the destroyer, and brought nearly everybody on deck to learn what had happened. Prompt re- versal of the engines just averted dis- aster, the vessel actually touching the ground. The stokeholes had meanwhile been. opened and the boilers been eased by way of precaution. A dockyard tug came to her assistance and towed the crippled craft to Chatham, where a pre- liminary examination found the after part of the vessel to be leaking, and she was to be docked next day. The following table shows the number of ships, their tonnage and cost built in British dockyards during the last nine years: YEAR— | 1803 | No. 8 g 50 9 8 8 9 4 9 Totals 446,700 The collective horse-power of the nine the section providing for the disposal of | was re-elected secretary by a unanimous | ships now building in the dockyards is Any citizen can take up arid | Yote, and H. F. Nunaber of Yerba Buena | 91800, of which 77,800 are being built in | private establishments. Since the in- | quiry, some ten years ago, into the ad- trouble and expense to get a parcel of | who placed in the keeping of the new | ministration of dockyards and their con- sequent reorganization, there has been a vast improvement in the quality of work turned out from the dockyards, and the excess of cost, as compared with private yards, Is becoming less every year. A most useful gunboat, suitable for British service on the rivers in China, | was launched last month at Tunkadoo She is of steel, built at Thorneycroft’s yard on the Thames, | launched and given a steam trial, when | she made 13.39% knots, after which the { boat was hauled up, taken to pleces and | shipped to Shanghai, where .only one week was spent in putting her together and launching. The boat is 14 feet in | length, 2¢ feet in breadth and draws only two feet of water, with a displace- ment of 150 tons. Her engines are twin- | bollers carrying 130 pounds of steam. H. | Bhe has two Thorneyctoft turbine propel- | lers on each shaft, making four in all, two driving her when going ahead and two when going astern. The engines are of 550 horse-power. The armament consists of two 6-pounder Hotchkiss and two 45-caliber Maxims. The deckhouses are of special Harveyized steel, which will resist a bullet from a Lee-Metford rifle at twenty-five yards. The boat was | named the Woodcock, and a sister boat, | to be named Sandpiper, is in course of erection at Hongkong. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE CRUCIFIXION — Anambulus, French Camp, Cal. For the story of the crucifixion and the reason therefor this | department refers you to the Bible. | A PHYSICIAN—Converse Street, City. | A physician is not by law compelled tq | obey the call of any one who may require | his services and render such service. | ABEL GUY—J. D. City. Abel! Guy, who | was a banker in San Francisco and did | business on the south side of Washington | street, west of Battery, has been dead for a number of years. THE KENTUCKY—C. E. C., Sacra- mento, Cal. The length of the United | States steamship Kentucky on the water line is 368 feet; her beam, 72.5; draught, 23.6, and displacement 11,53 tons. THE MINUTE MAN—F. P., City. The statue called “The Minute Man" is the work of Daniel Chester French, an Amer- ican sculptor. It was unveiled on the bat- tle ground of Concord, Mass., in 1875. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, sllays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle. Plass i e i sy HOTEL DEL CORONADO-—Take advantage [fot the round-trip tickets. Now only $0 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, $3 per day. Apply at 4 New L Afotitgomery street, San Francisco.