The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY. APRIL 27, 1899 | D | JOHN D ECKELS, Proprietor. - e LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. Fu lephone M s. . S. ress All Communications to W. i—'l BLICATION OF 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Main 1874 EDITORIAL ROOM 4 15 CENTS PER WEE ERED BY CARRIE $6.00 thortzed to T orwarded when GAKLANDOEFICE -i.5, o iohha e vdeaeas 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON. Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. ERANCH OFFICES. 597 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'ciock. 6i5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock, Iission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market el corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2514 sslon street 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh ol | respect which greets industry and good order. THE RACE CONFLICT. HE negroes of this country are -by no means 1l south of Mason and Dixon’s line. Of the thirteen millions of that race in the United States a large percentage are found in the Northern States. It is believed that an of the statistics of crime will show that their contribution to the criminal population is below their due propor- tion. They are accorded civil equality before the law, their rights of person and property are equally pro- tected and they follow the callings to which their fit- ness directs them unmolested, and are not denied the xamination nd the and they are not slow in taking public sc her institutions of learning are open to them advantag It is difficult to recall an instance in the North in which a negro has given the capital provo- fruitiul source of sles and the cause of much white savagery outh tion cation for lynching, which is the race tr in the The conclusion from these facts is ir- | resistible that the negro in' the North is affected by his environment, and his character is built up by his contacts and his opportunity for education and en- Here aim of social lity, and is as exclusive in abiding with ! lightenment. he makes no ¢ his own 15 are the white people. All this gives » scholar, the ablest man of ration of that in . the Booker, who says cat force to the d his race hington T the remedy for rrid lawlessness in the South 1505 Polk street, open | is the educ. of the negro. With education he NW. corner Twenty-second and | helieves that his race will grow better in character Kentucky streets.‘open until 9 o'clock. o e e | and stronger in moral purpose, and that the negro AMUSEMENTS. e th will approach in conduct and manhood | the negro of the North. C fa This is reasonable, and this black scholar should 2 = | be supported in his view by the South especia org Millions of negroes are there. They constitute large! the 1 ng population, and when efforts have been ! Vaudeville every afternoon . Saturday Night, every AUCTION SALES. t 11 o'clock, Furnitu APPROACHING COLLAPSE. the age of eighty or 3 1 representative of ra Huntington presents He this nce in 1-in Connecticut, cent opportur subver , by every influenc 1ate the ent, to do es with which he & , without concession or relaxa he 1 held his railroad enterprises in harsh res ce to public opinion. He has acknowledged | b ed with his imperious will. He ht to fasten Asiatic cheap labor ountry, and he is now openly ende ze the exclusion laws by wing his A He has main- firm opposition to all the small communities avoring in- favor of tic expansi ite that could be injured by railroad strategy road tyranny. He lic j nd aimed to dominate has ob the lative executive departments of the State | i of the Federal governm He has applied continuous pressure to finance, commerce, trade, ufacture, horticulture, all the industrial and 1-producing factors that required transportation s to obstruct and retard natural progress His assumed dictatorship has in- phase of individual, social and political strenuously and s rection. But all past assertions of his authority have now been eclipsed. As the nineteenth century and his own eer approach their inevitable collapse, he appears | ave en into that dogmatic ex which | rked the closin s of Louis XI. A most| strenuous effort was made last year to place the re- the railroad laticns of the people and upon an | amiczble and enduring basis. Pledges of withdrawal | from political manipulation were authoritatively | made by Mr. Huntington, through his factotum, m F. Herrin. When, however, after the cam- based upon principle and openly and honestly cted, so far as the Republican press, the ma- of Republican candidates and the mass of Re- voters were concerned, the ticket headed by Mr. Gage was elected, the arrogance of Mr. Hun- tington became so intense and so conspicuous that it soon degenerated into weakness. The mask was en- tirely d All disguises were thrown aside. It inounced in effect that Mr. Huntington te. He proposed and maintained the of Dan Burns. He undertook to destroy | the freed He reduced the Railroad | Comini. He occupied so much of our water fornt as he desired upon his own terms. ile exercised the functions of sovereignty over the Governor even to the extent of demanding the viola- ti n of law by the appointment of the candidate re- jected by the Legislature to the vacant Federal Sen- storchip. In all these acts the will of Mr. Huntington was exerted through the direct management of Mr. Her- rin. It is axiomatic that a delegated authority fixes responsibility on the principal. But in the instance before us the entire series of treacheries and of dic- atorial assumptions has been personally ratified by r. Huntington, who has used social opportunities for that purpose and in measured and clear terms has paraded his intention to permit no restriction upon his determination to enforce his rule upon the State and the nation. It has been said that “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” Apparently. this stage has been reached by Mr. Huntington, whose liberty must necessarily be circumscribed in order that the public safety may be protected. public ppec oyned the S candidacy om of the press. n to possession. William F. Herrin is trying to find a local merchant Wwho will say nice things about C. P. Huntington. How would Railroad Commissioner Laumeister do? He went to J. C. Stubbs to learn what the Southern Pacific considers a fair grain freight tariff for Cali- fornia farmers. German official circles are gradually inclining to the opinion that Captain Coghlan’s remarks in refer- | have shown a sp ence to Emperor William were made in “wine humor.” It is gratifying that somebody can see the Joks. o v b g N ' made looking to the: 10lesale migration the whites it of bitter opposition and resent- ment. As no ope appears with a workable plan to get rid of the biack population, and the proposition of a lady to e ti orderly by lynching a thou- month until they behave has not yet that Mr, uncontested idea that has been it would appear Booker's pre- e sudden root in the South, because it depends upon acceptance by the white I T Y t ented. It may not tak , and As the negro rises t o the plane of moral re and self-respect feel that his common, civil rights are re- spected by the whites. We are sending missionaries = blacks in Africa, and surely s quite reason- able to send school ers to the blacks in our own country. But acher will do any per sore and sad pro the negro are re- a black man and to the treatment of a bond- the trouble. utl: Carolina spect > wi To edy submit 15ify have much to learn also. S a respectable, well- behaved and owning negro was appointed post The whites resented this ting fire to his house, t property ister t year. by set- rning several of his children and other members of his m the fl The mon- trial confessed the crime es. his were arrestéd and put on of th story in this language: “At 11 p. m. about a dozen of us met at the store and outlined our wc We went to a store near by and got a sack of dry shavings and two gallons of coal oil, and then we etly to the postoffice wher ker and Two of us left the crowd the we 1 the he with every arm When we stepped up to the b 'n the shav- t of oil on ch was struck by Lee, then another was applied, and in a | the building. We ran ird the cries of the women and children in the house. Presently the whites began firing, and from the house. When the | women were finally driven out they were shot and the mob pursued them far into the woods. After the fire was out we all gathered at the Baptist church and promised to keep the affair quiet so far as it con- cerned ourselves, and went home.” ings, poured on the c the side of the house. One ma but it went out; sheet of flame covere more sc ns came In this affair women were burned to death, and one | infant was butchered in its mother’s arms and she was killed. The crime was not denied, but the jury refused to convict the monsters who committed it. Their attorney, Mr. Legare, said their defense was hat President McKinley laid the foundation of the crime by appointing a negro to office.” It is easy to see that if this spirit animate a consid- erable number of Southern whites it must be exor- cised in order to bring in sight any solution of the problem except by The unspeakable savagery that attended the lynching of Hose Georgia is so appalling that it is beyond characteriza- tion. speakable crime committed by the victim. massacre. But what 1 | of individuals as well as to those of nations. Wher- ever it is possible to provide irrigation at economical | rates it will be well for orchardists to do so, although The | of every opportunity to sccure an educa- | there is no immediate necessity for it. Good seasons are the epted times” for such work, as in most cases it will be too late to provide effective irrigation if the work is del ved until a drought comes. In the meantime the people of California have good reason to be well satisfied with the present outlook. Prolonged dry seasons are rare in the larger part of the State, and it ‘will probably be many years before our farmers and orchardists have to contend with another such drought as that through which they have just passed. Reports from the East are to the effect that most of the fruit crops there are short, and the consumers of the country are looking to Califor- nia for the supply of the year. They will not look in vain. Our crops are going to be fairly abundant in almost every variety, and we will have trainloads to sell. THE SAN PEDRO CELEBRATION. OS ANGELES has with good cause made the 1 beginning of work on San Pedro harbor a pub- —* lic holiday and an occasion for general rejoic- ing. The event marks not only the undertaking of a work of great importance, but the accomplishment of a.victory over a poweriul corporation which has long been antagonistic to the welfare of California and which strenuously opposed the San Pedro enterprise. In reviewing the course of the long struggle re- quired to bring about the improvement at San.Pedro, | Senator White said in an interview with The Call: “Perhaps there has never been any work projected in the United States so embarrassed by unnecessary difficulties. Many of those who opposed the present location did so in the best of faith, but the public will never believe, nor would it be justified in believing, that had not the interests ‘headed by Mr. Huntington been behind Santa Monica there would have been any serious opposition after the making of the Mendell report. Individual Senators or Repre- sentatives might dissent, but the powerful have expressed project would have gone through.” There will be no dissent among intelligent Califor- nians from that statement. provement of the harbor would have begun-years ago, and Los Angeles might now be celebrating the completion instead of the beginning of the work. The popular rejoicing, therefore, is due as much to what has been accomplished in throwing off the yoke of the monopoly as to the high expectations of what is to be attained through the work its While to the people of Los Angeles and their reso- lute leaders at home and in Congress full credit is due for the victory they have achieved, it is to be re- membered that they were not left to fight the battle alone. Throughout the State the independent press took up the cause of San Pedro and fought with as 1estnes if it were one that concerned much ¢ each alone The Call in particular has good reasons to be grat- ified with the San Pedro victory. It entered early into the strife on the side of the people and was the foremost champion in S: Credit is also due to the Examiner, which as soon as it had been relieved of the $1000 a month contract with the railroad joined The Call in the contest and helped to expose the schemes of the monopoly and reveal its antagonism to the true interests of the State. an Francisco of that cause. To Los Angcles and her people, however, the full- | ness of the victory is mainly due, and theirs is of right the glory of the triumph. The Call and other papers in different parts of the State could, and did, help, but Los Angeles has had to take the forefront of the fight and bear the burden of its cost. are fully justified, therefore, in making the beginning of the work a civic holiday, and in giving honor to | those among them who were most steadfast in the struggle and most efficient in accomplishing the vic- tory. RESOLUTION. THE ‘“CORKSCREW” HE resolution considered by the Board of Su- Tpcr\-i<ors on Monday which grants the Market Street Railway Company permission to use electricity upon its proposed “corkscrew” line from Sixth and Brannan streets to Washington and Jack- son, on its face appears to be innocent enough. But the Supervisors should take nothing for granted in connection with this matter. The Market Street Railway Company is proverbially tricky, and at the present time it has great interests on Geary street. The franchise for the present cable railway on that thoroughfare expires shortly, and the corporation | has madé two attempts already to secure its renewal in | But, after all, it had the provocation of an un- | can be said for the midnight assassins of the Baker | | family in South Carolina, where the victims were in- | nocent of crime and were noted for their intelligence | and good order? It will be seen at once that the negro will reason | that he has no legal protection for his life, no matter how excellent his conduct, and as long as the South- ern whites justify that conclusion we may well de- spair of any progress toward the bettering of condi- tions, which are not only deeply disgraceful to the whole country and retard the material progress of the Seuth, but which lead to a general race war, the most pitiless and distressing the world has ever seen. O opportunely and so bountifully over the larger portion of the State that it seems al- most to have come in direct response to the prayers of fruit-growers. It has put an end to the last lin- THE FRUIT SAVING RAIN. NCE more the rain of the season has fallen so- | gering fears of orchardists and gives something like a positive assurance of good crops. Profuse as were the heavy rains of March, they were not quite sufficient for all the needs of orchards and vineyards suffering from the prolonged drought of the previous season. Recent reports from several parts of the State were to the effect that fruit was dropping badly, and there seems to have been a gen- eral agreement amopg fruit men that.the trees had been so weakened by the long dry season they were | not able to ripen all the fruit that had set. The late rains will of course have a tendency to overcome any such weakness and will doubtless materially increase the fruit output of the year. With the coming of abundant rains many persons who have been considering the advisability of pro- viding irrigation will be tempted to give no further thought to the subject. As drought no longer threat- ens the State, they no longer see the need of guard- ing against it. It is natural that it should be so. Nevertheless, the wisdom of the old maxim, “In of gease prepace for war,” spplis 1o the afins | for a long period of time. Both of these attempts have been defeated by the property-owners and residents of the street, who desire the construction of a modern electric line instead of the maintenance of the present hobo cable system. If the resolution granting permission to use elec- tricity upon its proposed “corkscrew” line does not confer upon the Market Street Railway Company some privilege on Geary street by which it will be enabled to hereafter unhorse the people living upon that thoroughfare there will be no very strong objec- tion to its passage. But every intelligent person knows that it is dangerous to confer privileges of this sort upon street railway companies. At first they ap- pear trivial and commonplace, but later on they cut tremendous figures in litigation designed to fasten perpetual privileges upon public streets. The proposed “corkscrew” road runs on Geary street, from Taylor to Grant avenue—seemingly a short and unimportant distance. But it is not a ques- tion of distance in this case, but a question of the legal effect of such a privilege upon a street which in a few months will revert again to the people. There is apparently no disposition among the Su- pervisors to rush hastily into this business. The resolution referred to has been sent back to the Street Committee, where it has been under consid- eration for some time. Therefore we do not sound these words of caution because there {s any imme- diate danger of hasty action, but in order to put the Supervisors upon their guard. The Geary street franchise should not be complicated in any manner. When it expires, which it will shortly, it should be offered for sale and disposed of to the highest bidder. A corporation has now held the street for a great many years and made an enormous profit out of it. It is about time that the people should receive some benefit from the valuable privilege of operating a street car line along and upon it. The fact that Railroad Commissioner Laumeister is a miller may not have influénced him in casting | his voice and vote in favor of the Southern Pacific in the passage of the Blackstock resolution ordering the dismissal of the grain rate case. It may have in- duced him to believe, however, that he could throw flour dust in the eyes of the public without much cost. One of the Berlin newspapers ventures an opinion that America has all she can attend to in thrashing Aguinaldo. Admiral von Diederichs didn’t think so when Admiral Dewey Had it not bean for the | antagonism of the.Southern Pacific Company the im- | Her people | Td?i‘;%“lfll‘i‘fit—??m: AN HEIRESS 15 ARRESTED O VAGRANCY dred Webster. (ELCPED WITH A SOLDIER DESERTED AND LEFT ALONE . THIS CITY. Her Adopted Father, Daniel Webster of Vallejo, Says She Will Get Part of a Valuable ZEstate. | A girl a few months past 16 years of | age was arrested last Friday by Police. man Hightower on a charge of vagrancy and yesterday it developed that she was joint heiress to an estate valued at over | half ‘a million dollars. Her name'is Mildred Webster, and she | roomed at 21 Turk street. When she was | | arrested she was almost immediately re leased on bonds, but when the case was called in Acting Police Judge Barry court on Saturday she failed to appear and a bench warrant was issued for her | r She was taken into custody on | night and appeared before Act- | ing Police Judge Groezinger yosterday | morning. el Webster, an engineer at Mare |Island and a Grand Army man, was in | | court, and told the Judge & strange story. | | He said the girl was his adopted daugh ter. She was adopted by him and his late wife when she was three days He was then an engineer on a Mi ippi boat. The girl was born at Burkes Point, Butler County, Missouri, and was 16 years | of age last August. Her father, whose | | name was Whittaker, owned nearly the half of Butler County, and she and her er, who was now living at Cairo, 111, the sole helrs to the estate, which s valued at half a million dollars. Webster declined to say under what cir- | cumstances he adopted the girl, but when | the proper timé came he could make affi- davit that she was the heiress. He had warned her, however, that unless she faithfully promised to’ behave herself in | future he would not make the necessary | affidavit. | The girl ran away from her home in | Vallejo last October with Fred Melville, | ier, with whom she was Infatuated. ey came to this city, and two wee ago Melville left for Manila. Webster’s | wife died two weeks after the girl ran | away, and it was only on Tuesday that he learned that she was here and had | been arrested, so he hurried to the city. | | The Judge, after listening to his stor: | continued the case till Saturday and ri leased the girl en her own recogn Mildred corroborated her ad father’s statements. She said she always | | looked upon Webster and his wife as her | arents untfl about five years ago, when after being vaccinated she had an attack | rd Mrs. Webster tell the doctor who was at- tending her that she was not her own daughter and that when she came of age | she would be a great heiress. She intend- ed to go to Cafro, 1L, to her sister and be a good girl. |AROUND THE I CORRIDORS J. M. Beck, an insurance man of Chi- cago, is at the Grand. Douglas S. Cone, a Red Bluff banker, is registered at the Palace. J. H. Glide, a Sacramento merchant, is a late arrival at the Grand. | R. C. Harbison of the San Bernardino | | Sun is a guest at the Grand. | W. H. Holabird, a capitalist of Los An- geles, is a guest at the Palace. James M. Hellman, a prominent resi- dent of Los Angeles, is at the California. E. Dinxkelspiel, ~ Bakersfield merrhant,’ is registered at the Occidental with his | | wife. Rev. J. F. Flint, a clergyman of Chi- cago, is at the Grand, accompanied by his family. Mrs. M. E. Stone, wife of the manager | of the Associated Press at Chicago, is at the Occidental. V."M. Clement of Salt Lake, whn has | extensive mining interests in Randsburg, is located at the California. John Tuohy, a large grain-grower of Tulare, and E. C. Humphrey, a merchant of San Diego, are among the arrivals at the Lick. J. 8. McFarland, a retired capitalist, and C. E. Gill, proprietor of a publishing house, arrived at the Occidental yester- day from Chicago. Professor James E. Keeler and wife of the Lick Observatory came up from Mount Hamilton yesterday afternoon on a brief visit, and registered at the Palace. F. R. Sargent of Peoria, I, a repre- sentative of the Railroad Firemen's As- sociation, and Frank Barrett of Palo Alto, | who has large ofl interests in the south-| ern part of the State, are registered at the Lick. . . Rev. C. K. Cumming, a missionary of Nagoya, Japan, returned from his East- ern trip with his wife and child yesterday and engaged apartments at the Occiden- tal. They will leave for the Orient on the next steamer. B. E. Hand, assistant general freight | agent of the Michigan Central Railroad, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday from | Chicago. Pacific Coast Freight Agent John A. Gill of the New York Central lines left for the south last evening to | meet him. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 26—A. G. Freeman and wife of San Francisco are at the Hoffman. Miss MacCurley and W. 8. Dixon of San Francisco are at the Im- perial. : ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 26.—G. H. Ran- dall of San Francisco is at the St. James. ‘Willlam A. Entwistle of San Francisco is at the Raleigh. —_— The Racetrack Raid. Another weary day has passed in the | trial of the sult instituted by the Pacific | Coast Jockey Club against I. W. Lees, it: only result being to more thoroughly es- tablish ‘the already established fact that the Ingleside track was raided for the purpose of suppressing unlawful acts which were being committed when the raids were made. Officers George C. Douglass, Smith Carr, James Aixen, Charles P. Bush and Danlel A. Sylvester | were on the stand during the day and tes- | | tifled regarding the gambling which was | going on when the raids were made. At. torney Ach, who represents the jockey club, made strenuous efforts to shake the testimony of the witnesses, but without success. The case goes on again this morning. —_———— More Counterfeit Stamps Seized. Special Revenue Agent Thomas seized yesterday 16,000 cigars in boxes bearing the counterfeit revenue stamps issued by a Pennsylvania firm, making the total seized in this district ug to date 136,000. Mr. Thomas estimates that the firm has issued in the United States 38,800,000 cigars fraudulent stam; sa rqsd“m- ered as be- , lary clgars havi (% per thousand, a price far Mogan erday for examination on the | charge against him for attempting to ex-| tort money from J. F. Turner of this ¢ | Several days ago the prosecution cl Strange Story of Mil- | vanced. | the fai Jow cost if the stamps had been genuine | and paid for. The stamps issued by the | Internal Revenue Department for cigars are sold at $360 per thousand cigars. P e LUCAS APPEARS IN COURT. Further Hearing on the Extortion Charge. Against Him. Detective Lucas appeared before Judge its case before the lower court, it con- sisting solely of the identification of the letters written by Lucas to Turner for the | ed purpose of extorting money. | Yesterday the defense endeavored to | that the letters did not contain a | and were simply written for the | o of obtaining a settlement of an account which Turner contends he do not owe, a_contention which Turner sz he will prove when the case gets mor Attorney George D. Collins rious authorities on his contention that even though Turner did owe the mo alleged by Luecas to be due him it was no excuse for the alleged blackmailing let- ters he addressed to Turner with the in-| tent of extorting money under the threat | of some unknown exposure. The law on this point is plain, but as Judge Mogan | wished to be thoroughly conversant with the facts which caused Lucas' arrest he allowed Lucas to be examined on the mat- ter of debt. Lucas, on taking the stand, resented a receipt from Turner for § vy way of introduction to the debt a count, and Turner then presented a sim- flar receipt, it being contended by the prosecution 'that the one held by | is none other than a copy of the or which was taken up by Turner, procurs in some mysterious manner not vet di covered. Lucas gave some further purpo: | timony, after which the case went over till next Thursday to give Lucas an op- portuni ccount book which me light on the debt accoun! PHILIPPINE EXHIBIT FOR MECHANICS’ FAIR GOVERNMENT WILL ALLOW IT TO BE DETAINED HERE. Tesla’s Famous Vacuum Light and Tripler’s Mysterious Liquid Air ‘Will Also Be on Exhibition. At the meeting of the trustees of the Mechanics' Institute, held Tuesday, the first definite outline of the coming fair | to be held here in September was dis cussed. Folders containing the format an- nouncement of the fair, which were issued vesterday, were read at the meeting. The fair will open on September 2 and close on October 7. One of the chief features of is to be the native exhibit from the Philippines. This exhibit will include the native products and industries, and it is to be loaned to the Mechanics' Insti- tute for exhibition by the Department of Agriculture, permission having been ob- tained from Secretary Wilson by Pr dent Denicke. The trustees voted a letter of thank to Secretary Wilson, and also one to Gen eral Shafter and Senator Per] who were instrumental in securing tra tion for the exhibit from th pines to this country on the Gov transports. The trustees are also c dent of having an_excellent and ins tive exhibit from Hawaii, and to this end President Denicke requested that member of the board should do all in h power to try and secure such an exhibi tated that L had departed for Atlanta where he had gone te attend the conve: tion of the American Library Associati He will be absent about sik weeks will_spend much of his fime in the nor studying library buildings. He will al. see Tesla, the famous electrician, for the purpose of securing his new vacuum light as one of the exhibits for the fair. He will visit New York in order to try and ar- range with Professor Tripler for an hibit of his latest invention of liquid air. —_—————— ANSWERS TO CORRRSPONDENTS. A PUMP—A. S., Goleta, Cal. An ordin- | ary lifting pump placed 30 feet below the | surface will show an appreciable Increass in force over one placed on the surfac but the difference at that distance would be but slight. PACKAGES TO MANILA—E. W. Grove, Amador County, Cal. Pa that were intended to be sent to soldie and sailors at Manila through the quar- ter master's department, U. S. A., and which did not reach that department be- fore the departure of the St. Paul, which was known as “the Christmas ship,” were kept until the sailing of the next tran ort, which was the Scandia, and th Sate of her sailing was the 24th of Jan- uary last. 1he particular packages asked about were received here December 14, and were shipped on the Scandia. PROPERTY IN SCOTLAND-H. W, Vallejo, Cal. If a native of Scotland came to the United States, and by the death of an elder brother and parents became heir to an estate in Scotland, nev- er made an effort to secure that propert and died leaving children, those children in order to ascertain if they have eny rights in the premises would have to write to the American Consul at the paint nearest the place where the parties al- lude¢ to died, and secure a copy of the wiil, if there was one. The wili woul show if their father was entitled to any thirg under the will. If he was, then they would have to engage the services of an attorney, who would adyise them what proceedings would have to be taken. | MINISTERS AND CONSULS—R., City. C. B. Hart is United States Minister at | Bogota, Colombia; W. L. Merrv at San| Jose, is Minister for Costa Rica, Nicara- | gua and Salvador; W. G. Hunter, at the City of Guatemala, {s Minister for Guate- mala and Honduras. The American Con- suls in the countries asked about are: In Salvador—Acajutla, F. W. Melville; Ceiba, L. Bier; El Triunfo, J. H. El In Hon- duras—Amapala, W. Hayden; Belizia, W. 1. Avery; Bonacca, W. Bayly: Nacome, J. E. Fuller; Puerto Cortez, W. E. Alger; Ruatan, W. C. WIldt; San yacinto, C. E. Dickinson; Truxillo, H. P. Boyce; Utilla, | B. Johnston. In Colombia—Baranquila, | W. J. Shaw; Bogota, J. C. McNall Bu- | carumanga, G. Volkman; Cartagena, R. Madigral; Coloh, W. W. Cobbs; Cucuta, P. Tillinghast Jr.; Honda, H. Medellin, T. Herran; Panama, H. A. Gridger; Rio Hache, T. V. Henrique: Santa_Marta, G. M. Daniels. In Nicar ua—Bluefields, M. Clancy; Corinto, H. 'alazio; Managua, C. Donaldson; Mata- galpa, J. B. Connelly; San Juan del Norte, W. B. Sorlsby; San Juan del Sur, C. Holmann. In Guatemala—Champerico, J. A. C. Kauffman; City of Guatemala, A. M. Beaupre: Livingston, T. C. Dennis’ Ocos, 8. Walford; Quezaltenango, G. A. Mel;rm; San Jose de Guatemala, A. Lo- rentz. For information as to the place in which a young man could best succeed, direct your inquiry to nn{ of the officials named, giving age, condition financlally, capabil- ity and such other information as would €)£:Ll b‘ol;_ fl{l 1n(’elllgfi?threply. “Which is | est place in which a young man can locate?” ?s too indefinite. b RANGE FINDER—J. E. M., City. The range finder that is in use by the United States navy was invented by Lieutenant Bradley A. Fiske, U. 8. N. It is described in the following words: It is not at all complicated, Involving only elementary knowledge of mathematics and eiec- | tricity. It is based on the familiar mathe- | matical proposition that if two angles and one side are known, the other two sides of the triangle can easily be found. The Fiske range finder, however, elimmates all calculations, and finds the range automatically. A base line fixed once for all on the ship is the known side of the imaginary triangle. The distance of iha object is represented by either of the other Hollman! | two sides. The target, therefors, at one angle. of the imaginary triangle, and at the other angles the extremities of the fixed base line, are placed two spy glasses, which can be directed upon it. As these spy glasses are turned into the proper position they move over and touch wires which are bent in the form of arcs. The difference in length of the wires passed over corresponds mathematically to the distance of the object. As this length of wire increases or diminishes, it will offer more or less resistance to an electrical current sent through it. A very simple electrical contriv- ance, amounting practically to & balance, al- lows' this resistance to be measured and read, not in units of resistance but in vards. The two spy glasses being pointed at the target, the observer at each-spy glass has nothing to do but to keep it thus pointed. Elsewhere in the ship another observer may stand at a_tele- phone, listening to a buzzing sound produced Dby an electrical device known as a circuit- breaker, and simultaneously moving with one hand a’ pointer over a graduated scale. The insfant the buzzing In the telephone stops he reads the range denoted by the pointer from the scale and conveys the information by a telegrap! simple form of the men at the | Ripley | knowles and Henr CHARITY BAZAAR WILL OPEN N A BLAZE OF GLOAY Native Sons’ Hall Is Decorated. FETE TO COMMENCE TO-DAY CATHOLIC LADIES’ AID SOCIETY OFFICIALS ARE READY. They Anticipate a Large Attendance at the Inauguration of the Fair in Aid of Their Deserv- ing Organization. The monster charity patronage of the ciety will be t en. to the to-day. Nat iall, 414 Mason street, never does now with its ith of vari-colored dr; the society have weeks preparing ¢ and believe now the have e readiness for both an artistic and a cial succ They the hearty co- operation of the C , composed of many Irish so gue of the Cro nd kindred )ns. The work of the Ald iety covers a wide field of endeavor, and no one in dis- tress ned empty d from its doc to replenish that the present bazaar is being nd the more money received the more good ¢ be accomplished among the deserving poor. On the ground t e who give quickly give doubly, it is hoped the open- ing days will witness a great throng pass through the ent of Native Sons’ Hall. ; The bazaar will be opened informall; at high noon to-day, 1 x cises will not be hi st arranged that ice until eve! Honor May: or fi Phelan should deliv idress, but he left for San Diego at shog nc 1 terday and ¢ the Progr: ary. Mavor'a b by some other eloquent speake remainder of the entertainment will be made up of 1 musical programme. The contributions 3 of the known eur ormers in given over to be Celtic 1 be night w t ay will men 11 be tri fee wi will. > :nt may b free charge, u succumbs the assauits of the charming young ladies in charge of the booths. SKETCH CLUB OPENING. Architectural Drawings Find a Place in the Spring Exhibition. The Sketch Club h ? ing innovation in its devoting considerable tural drawings, by prominent local The exhibition, which is being held at the club rooms, Sutter street, opened of yesterday during the weel. able work by the club on_exhibition. Among_those represe Albertine rdall Wheelan, who shows an ambi- s water color sketch, “Little God “Our Ark” “After _Glow, water colors by Liilian Vasaria; 1d,” showing much dainty treatment, v Blanche h Ij i\'ume exquisite ahan. Mary In- galsbe Bradford s s some very origi- nal wallpaper designs, and the Misses have some of their celebrated fl- exhibitior Bliss & luminated leather on The architects represented are: Faville, Coxhead & Coxhead, Albert Farr, John V. Knoth, Julius E. Kraft, Edgar A. Mathews, Wiilis Polk, Reid Bros., Ed- ward R. Swain, AlberteSutton, Tharp & Holmes, Frank S. Van Trees, Thomas Schulze. 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