The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN | FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY MAY 1 !‘ THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY. i YEAR ago to-day, at a quarter to 8 o'clock in | JOHN. D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Addross All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. _Market and Third Sts., S. F. hone Main 1868. ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street PUBLICATION OFFIC EDITORIAL ROOMS 15 CENTS PER WEEK. cents. ciuding Postage ay Call), one year. .$6.00 ay Call), § months, . .00 Call), 8 months. 50 G5 0 17ed to receive subscripti rwarded when requested. CAKLAND OFFIC 2 903 Broadway AEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC Wellington Hot=) C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untli ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:31 ck. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, C41 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Marked treet, corner Clay, o'clo etreet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 itission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until ©:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. ter—Vaudeville ever afternoon Mason and Ells streets, Spectalts Ta! C arket near E! th— to-day. resort. Amusements every Monday, May 1. A CLEAR COMMERCIAL SKY. ign trade of the United veekly exports, is ex- the s to its minimum his is season exports of manu- f M h were $36,- 00, « t § fine g sating for the falling off in ever been touched be- tr on oi the great ex- exports of wheat less than during ures being 96,200,000 he bank clea - , in Boston , and so on. ainst 245 for the here are no signs here, though the is lighter, e year, when the spring trade is s is usual C 1 has ly begun. The retail 1 try, however, reported good, 1 y favorable weath tbout previou reported. iles of foreign de- being made e e stocks of hides ices stand about time. Lumber s far as Cop- her e quiete still good gin of profit is It is remarkable hcw well business stands the strain ed a week or slications the strained re Samoa and the ilippines would have an adverse effect, but thus far as been apparent. o w Spanish war. matter it happened 1 the business of the country went on expand- ing, with hardly a ripple on the commercial stream. t lesson to other countries, as showing abra It is an obje the stability of American institutions and the perfect confidence of the American people in their Govern- ment. We know that we are able to take care of n land or s and in the midst of war go handising as if war were a mere side issue— ng to amuse the children, as it were. s not much excitement in Wall street dur- The continued easing of the money W mds and the disposition banks and mon Iy upon industrials good effect and feeling was decidedly better. The cnly drawbacks were the uncertainty regarding the slacken of public interest in the irket, which made itself apparent in a falling off in the volume of transactions. rence to stocks, and were strong and in tions in ifornia continue brilliant. : It is ng to observe that in official reports of the condition of the t crop the six principal winter States make an average of 60 per cent, while alifornia is classed as perfect, or 100 per cent. This nieans millions to us, and its importance cannot be crerestimated. If wheat is perfect the minor cereals kely to be equally promising, and they are. Fruit With the single will be light, but there will be no famine in any description, and the light- v heat conditions remain about the' same. exception of peaches the cr. ness of the vield will result in higher prices and better ing the field clear for the next vear. This season promises brilliantly for the fruit- grower and general farmer, and as a natural conse- ce for the merchant; and it is reasonably safe to wy tha the S markets, besides leavi 1800 will be one of the best all-round years e has ever seen Mascachusetts has come to the conclusion that the ! telephone business is a pubiic service that ought to be regulated by the public and not by a monopoly, and has been introduced into the Legislature giving the State Gas and Electric Commission the ight to supervise it and fix prices. The conse- ice is the telephone company in Boston is crying it that the good old State is getting to be as woolly as Kansas, The announcement is made that among the sup- the Government is to purchase for the Indians year are to be a number of lawn mowers, so the next ¢ will probably be one of profanity because the Government did not provide aoldiers to run the machines. 11 tbreak of the bravc o MANT. 1899“) == —— ices continue strong It was the same through- | y lenders to look collateral had a | Bonds again came to the | the morning, while Admiral (then Commodore) ‘ Dewey and his forces were fortifying themselves | a hearty breakfast for the second part of the battle | | of Manila Bay, Colonel George A. Loud on the | | revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch wrote in his diary | | the following words: g | “ “This is Sunday and May day, and it will be an; | American date in history.” J This prediction, made when the echoes of the ter- | | rible cannonade that had destroyed the flagship of the | Spanish admiral and wrought havoc on the Spanish | fleet and the Cavite battery had scarcely died away, | has been literally fulfilled. In the dead of the night A the American squadron had passed Corregidor | | Island, and in the gray dawn it had approached within four miles of Manila. Five times it had iled in grand procession, describing a semi-circle, nd poured |its terrific broadsides upon the enerr h in the water and upon the land. The Icla de Cuba, to which the Spanish admiral had trans- ferred his flag, had been sunk. One torpedo-boat had h another had been riddled under the | fire of the Olympia. When Colonel Loud wrote the | battle had been practically won, but at 20 minutes to If-past 12 the Spanish had 11 it was renewed, and by vessels were sunk or destroyed, Cavite had sur- rendered and Manila was at mercy. Not an American life had been lost and only five or six of a ' the Baltimore had been slightly wounded by splinters. | This is a brief record of a naval engagement that humbled the pride of Spain, emblazoned our Occi- ! dental flag with the splendors of the Orient, estab- lished a new epoch in naval warfare and enrolled Ad- miral Dewey in the fraternity of the immortals. The sacrifice of life among the defeated Spa was, But seven of their ships were swept from their chosen refuge, and their shore de- reduced with a on and with a celerity that had never previously was com- our crew on iards comparatively small. | fense red with powerful guns, | preci { been equaled. In every sense the victory In the first a n vessels and modern armaments, in which me- ] test upon a large scale of plete | chanical adjustments play such a conspicuous part, the | United States led the powers of the world. Admiral | Dewey, with his broad intellect, with his scientific | education and trained experience, with his perfect | nerve and with his calm and prompt judgment, was | the very type of a great naval commander of the nine- teenth century. He made no mistakes, then or since, | either of omission or commission. The deep enthu- siasm of his countrymen, the plaudits of the nations, have not shaken his self-poise. He remains where i recipient of | his honors were won, the appreciative essional and popular distinction, avoiding the Cong rock of politics, upon which so many high reputa- tions have been wrecked, and illustrating his patriot- of privations And no one ism by the uncomplaining endurance and by the resolute fulfillment of duty. of the intelligent and brave officers and men who dis- played their superiority of race and of discipline has been overlooked by their commander or will be for- All are in- ary. gotten by their rejoicing fellow-citizens. at odds and leaps to the blow— Nelson's That lau It is Dewey's g A hundred vear THE HUNTINGTON DlC:TATOR_SHIP. T has been the custom of Mr. C. P. Huntington is State to deliver one during his annual visit to tt his imperial , decrees were suc- This year the latest phase of r which speech, cinctly registered. | road policy has been developed in a succession of ad- Huntington, in which his autocratic | | | dresses by Mr. character is boldly and incisively revealed. | He appears to entertain a sublime confidence in 1 govern an unflinching determination to His blunt expres- | himself both State and national policy. sions, however, in the first place, conflict with estab- lished facts, and, in the pla excite the ity. If, in a few sentences on his own | behalf and representing his rail would annour his withdrawal from all pretense of supremacy over the law and over social, industrial and | n second ace, deepest ho d ccrporations, he | political action, and then live, up to the declaration harmony would be restored and the railroad and the | labor together for that kind of prosperity | that would liit the State out of the slough of corrup- | ion to a level corresponding with its geographical po- | sition and its natural advantages. | But Mr. Huntington seems to be obstinately bent | upon rigid adherence to despotic conservatism, and 1\\ht‘n. with the stern paternalism of William of Ger- | many, he occasionally expresses his personal wish to | | advance the public interests, prolonged and bitter ex- [ perience contradicts his statements. | In his address of Thursday night at the Palace | | Hotel banquet he formulated his belief, in which the | j intelligence of the world shares, “in the future of San i | Francisco,” and declared that the true interests of | | the State and of the railroad were identical. This | proposition has never been seriously disputed except by Mr. Huntington himseli, definition of mutuality of interest, like Lord Glosmore's concep tion of liberty, means unqualified submission to rail- road demands and to aggressions. With | marked consistency with his past conduct, but with | | equally conspicuous inconsistency of sentiment, he | advocated Asiatic expansion, which would insure an endless supply of cheap and degraded labor, but | recognized the great neces: ity of California to be the introduction of thrifty colonists. He even addressed honeyed words to the unfortunate Finns, whose ex- | cellent capacity for colonization will be generally con- | ceded. But what immigrating spider would be de- sirous of entering the railroad web? Does Mr. Hun- tington remember the Dutch colony that was induced | to settle a few miles from Merced, which comprised | an unusual combination of intelligent, educated and honest families, possessed of means, who transferred themselves and their possessions with their Lares and% Penates to California? Those people were drawn from their native land by glowing representations and | by flattering proposals. They brought with them the | | industry and the integrity of their-race and expended | large sums of money, established substantial homes, erected ornamental and attractive structures for so- | cial purposes arid commenced horticultural operations | | upon an extensive and diversified scale. The result | | was that, within a few years, their capital was lost and | | their enterprise abandonetl. Most of them were re- {duccd to poverty and the survivors returned to Hol- land. To-day their settlement is an uninhabited ruin. | The soil, thinly spread over the bedrock, would bring no fruit to perfection, and the dead orchards and the crumbling buildings are a ghastly memorial to fr;\ud! | and to greed. White colonization is a prime necessity to this State, but it must be promoted under public auspices. - It will not flourish through railroad methods. There are many other striking points in the last manifesto of Mr. Huntington. He indorsed in words, | as an excellent rule of mercantile life, supplementing the payment of “legal taxes” by allowing a reason- able margin of profit to purchasers of goods, but he | omitted a reference, which the community will sup- | . | public co whose ailroad | France has been amer | the con R | Equally marked has been the increase in freight. | more than 1,475,000,000 pounds. | common and will thus aid in diminishing the suffer- ply, to the fact that the railroad has always been the principal tax-shirker on this coast and has rarely con- /tributed to the liquidation of public indebtedness ex- cept under compulsion or through compromises that produced the most unjust unequality. California does need “more people” and our mer- chants “more customers,” but our “logical develop- ment"” can only be secured through efforts apart from the railroad, unless Mr. Huntington reverses his policy and renounces a dictatorship, to which Ameri- can communities will not submit. THE DREYFUS CASE. T has been frequently announced in the press that the decision of the Court of Cassation in the | Dreyfus case will be promulgated to-day. Wheth- | cr this statement is authoritative or not remains to | be seen. All civilized nations await the final decision of the tribunal that represents the ultimate judg- OAKLAND HAS CRAWLED OUT THE HOLE Won Another Game From Sacramento. NEW GROUNDS DULY OPENED ment of France with the deepest interest.© The real question seems to be whether, under a gm’crnmenti nominally republican, the law can be gagged by | wmilitary influence. An enormous mass of evidence has been taken and most of it has been published. of Dreyfus by a court-martial was improper is the very least that can be claimed under the additional | proof. The bordereau, containing treasonable in- | formation for the benefit of Germany upon which the prosecution was based, must certainly now be | discarded. Three out of five experts at the trial ex- | pressed the opinion that it was in the handwriting of Dreyfus, but one of these three, M. Charavay, upon further consideration, has retracted his original views, and the majority, thercfore, now favor the ac- cused. If in other respects the trial had not been grossly unfair, this fact alone ought to insure either | the release of Dreyfus or a new hearing. | Under the Frenc igation it has been insisted that there were other evidences of guilt, | not introduced before the trt-martial or the troduction of which was studiously concealed at the time, by which' the alleged crime was or might have The widest latitude for the pre- | sentation of this testimony been allowed by the Court of Cassation, which has considered an unlim- ited number of documents and many oral statements, | chiefly hearsay, matter of opinion and vague convf jecture. The result is that the case against Dreyfus has materially weakened, and, in the opinion of sound lawyers in France and elsewhere, his innocence has been at least presumptively shown. His alleged The secret dossier upon which so much reliance was placed was almost | inly 1 ingenious afterthought. The trial and acquittal of terha charge of having written the bordereau, was transparently a concocted | That the conviction | h method of reinv in- | been sustained. been confession has not been proved. cert upon a scheme to check the development of public opinion in favor of Dreyfus. The confinement of Colonel Picquart, who chivalrously assailed the proceedings that had brought reproach upon France, is an obvi- ous persecution. The arbitrary punishment of Zola was an attack upon free speech and upon the right to express honest opinions, for which the only re- cent parallel to be fi upon the California press at the instigation of the und is the legislative onslaught railroad. The the Tribunal d during the present year. As it now stands the revision proceedings must re- sult in one of three judgments. It may be held that iction was legal and just, but this can hardly be anticipated. It is more likely that one of the re- maining alternatives will be adopted. The Court may annul the sentence, declare Dreyfus law governing Supreme innocent and award him an indemnity, or it may determine that a crime was perpetrated, with which he was not | legally connected, and direct a retrial before another tribunal. The last form of decision would simply recognize the evident fact that some one having ac- cess to the records of the Staff Department of the French Army had committed a heinous offense, but would not imply a judicial belief in the guilt of Dreyfus. It is earnestly to be hoped that the outcome of the investigation may relieve France from the im- putations of injustice and cruelty that have impaired | her standing, and measurably remedy an | apparent atrocity, against which more than three mil- lion Frenchmen have at last protested. THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. ECENT statistics relating to the great Siberian | Railway show that the line will be something of | much more value than a mere military mad,i As the line open for traffic is extended the amount | of its business increases so rapidly there is abundant nationa | evidence to justify the conclusion that the railway is needed to meet the demands of commerce and in- | dustry and will repay the Russian Government even it were of no strategic value whatever. Upon the western and central divisions of the great | road now in operation there wete carried in 1806 less | than 175,000 passengers. In 1897 there were 413,000 and in 1808 fully 630,000. The present year, it is pre- | dicted, will see the number increased to 1,000,000. In | 1806 it was scarcely 405,000,000 pounds; in 1808 it was | to what an extent Siberia is being colonized and its resources developed. This rapid increase of traffic is said to be surprising to the Russians themselves. It is much greater than | the road was prepared for, and as a consequence | while the line is being pushed forward at the rate of about two miles a day a sum equal to $9,000,000 has been appropriated to lay heavier and better rails along certain portions of the old track to fit it for the traffic carried on upon it; and at the same time something like $20,000,000 has been set apart for the construc- tion of branch lines as feeders. It has been long foreseen that the opening of the | & Siberian road will work a mighty change in the course of the commerce between Europe and the Orient, but | it now appears it will work in Russia itself a much greater change than was expected. It has broken up the stagnation of ages and set large numbers of Rus- sian people to traveling in search of new homes. It | has proven that Siberia is really a rich country,fittcd:‘ to become the home of a prosperous people. cation with the parts of Rus a where droughts are ing which follows the frequent famines. The rapidity with which the traffic is increasing also has had the | effect of encouraging the Government in the work, and the enterprise is now being prosecuted with more vigor than ever. Miss Viola Jeffres of Telegraph Hill, the author of the Tom Bozzle letter, is wasting her time in a cracker factory. Her gift of metaphor should have no difficulty in finding a market. “My heart beats for you,” she wrote, “like a nanny-goat on a tin roof.” Match that if you can for a figure of speech. Let every shop be closed to-day anu every starry banner fly. There is but one Admiral Dewey in the world—and he is ours. 4 | with is a good out- |y of | | aside from the sluggiag, w é | ered from his charley These figures show ! b It will | | bring the wheat lands of Siberia into close communi- HITS AND ERRORS THE FEA- TURES OF THE EVENT. Rain Interfered Somewhat With the Play and Prevented the Game at Recreation Park in the Afternoon. In a drizzle that threatened every mo- ment to develop into a downpour, Oak- land opened its new ball grounds at Gold en Gate yesterday morning by defeating the Senators by a score of-11 to 5. It was a nasty day and none of the San Francisco contingent ventured across the bay, but several hundred loyal Athe- nians braved the in- clement weathe nd rooted for thejr bunch of cripples. It may have been the rooting, or may have been t moisture, or poss bly it was Manager J. Cal Ewing's win- ning smile and new song, but whatever the mascot was, those got in and slugged the ball as they hav not lambasted it be- fore this season. E eryhody hit the it EVERYTHIN: SIGHT FOR PW/IN sphere—that is everybody who ever pre- | tends to hit it, and after the third inning the result was never in doubt. nted its regular team Now Beck- Sacramento pre with Beckwith in the box. fielder, a fair sticker 1 an exceedingly t man on_ the paths, his particular feature being his ability to get away from” a base, but Beckwith should take the miscreant who made him think he could pitch and argue with him to the contrary, using a bat to enforce argument. Becl kwith mos cepted. when the reinforced y, and are Hary W down they win present firmly intrenched diteh, and it does mot seem likely that any team in the league could rout them out of it even if the attempt was made. Sixteen hits, including two home runs and a double, were the sum total of Oak- land's stick for the game. Hammond and Mos kiman both put the Yall over left field fence for _the ecir- cuit, and Moskiman plugged out _a tw agger be- ' midget howev ar of tt to will games his they the last hion out r-c nicked ingles. not con- his work fc h, with on Saturc ed to rey performance, so E: ng, in response his entreaties, tent to al- lowed him to go into the box a~ain. But one inning was enough for Russell. Sacramento piled up two runs and three hit: and Russell gave wi to Moski- man, o finished the string, Dun- leavy going to first. The Senators were as full of holes as a sieve, and when the Oaklands did not hit the ball fair they managcd to reach first on a misplay. About the only am feature of the Donovan's phenome- nal slides to bases, Jack made dives and into the ning in the old d: He has fully rec horse and s more easily the best pilferér in the started across bay to fill their ternoon engagement |RE at Recreation Park'- the rain b to come down h ly, continuing until af- ter it was decided to postpone the con- test. Then it cleared up and shone beautifully the remainder of the afternoon to the great disgust of Cal Ewing, who was convinced that he had shattered the hoodoo that has pursued him all the season, and figured on mak- ing it three straight from the Senators. The score of the morning game is as fol- lows: SACRAMENTO. AB. R. BH. SB. PO. A. E. 3b CEO R0 0 a0 0 b e (T IR T c. L R L T R T s vie, c. f. T R S Egan, s. s [ AT B Sheean, . f. wER0nEa gt g Shanahan, 1 4 0 [ 0l 1 1 Walker, 1. £ 45 el Tk i Beckwith, p. 3 0 : 0 B 4 1 Totals' covoieracee T T AND. R. BH. SB. PO. A. E ;T R AT G e P T e ROGER A S s Sy LR R e T s e L. Hammond, (A Rk e o NMoskima T e Dunleavy LECT Russell, p. OFTE0 s 02 0l g irap Shea, 1b. & 1. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . n 16 0.2 u 5 INNINGS. Sacramento 0200010 Base hits. 1300000 Oakland 1320212 Base h 1331323 SUMMARY. Home runs—Moskiman, W. Hammond. Two- base hits—Moskiman, ‘Egan (2), Beckwith, Doyle. Passed balls—Stanley, 2. Wild pitch— Beckwith. Base on balls—Oakland, 3. Left on bases—Sacramento, 3; Oakland, 5. Struck outo By Beckwith, 4; by Moskiman, 4 Umpire— Levy. Scorer—A. S. McFarlin Baseball To-Day. Oakland and San Francisco wiil play a postponed game at Recreation Park this afternoon, and, in honor of the oc- casion—Dewey day—there will be no post- ponement on account of the weather. Oaklanders | other | o | ) OSEPH D. STRONC to his fame as a po of the Bohemian Cl touches of his brush 1b. completing down. James M. Ham! picture. The face, slight Highlander. S masterpiece, the picture wh rtrait painter, is the ilton, a lifelong friend of the painter, posed for the idealized, bears all the cha There is an atmospliere of the braes about it. STRONG'S MASTERPIECE GRACES BOHEMIA'S WALLS ; : : : : : § TR RSP S IS S S S SN S A R TR Y B+ 0400000004000 4040+ ¢+ O+ 0+ +90+0 Portrait of dJames M. Hzmilton es a Highlander. h adaed the capstona to be shown among the art treasures It was upon this picture Mr. Strong placed the last work just before was stricken cteristics of the gallant The figure shows all the poetry and strong character of the Scotch race, there is t in eve which spéaks of the subtle Scotch humor so ably ited here recently by the Rev. Dr. Watson. Mr. Hamilton was a favorite model for Mr. Strong. He often | sald he could, when blindfolded, reproduce the kindly and familiar features of | his friend. | The picture aid by to be a companion in portraiture to Charles | Rollo Peters’ wo 2 7 Camp by the Cr. Both bear the np of genius t of th West, now commanding ich widespread ckets gular f: " = b No Game at San Jose SAN JOSE, April 30.—There was no ball game here to-day owing to wet groun AROUND THE CORRIDORS | John E. Budd of Stockton is at the | Lick. Dr. L. Buck of Portland is at the Grand. E. E. Biggs. the capitalist of Gridley, is at the Grand. C.- H. Schivele; the ville, is at the Grand. Oro- banker of A. J. Woodward, a banker of Fresno, is stopping at the Lick. G. Yates and W. H. Colby, of Du- | ihm;u- are staying at the Pa | rles W Ason son, of Mani are a Dr. C. H. Gardner of the United service is a Marine Hc California. Major C. H. Potter of the E Infantry arrived from Manila yesterday and is stopping at the Occidental. Captain C. F. Mudgett and Lieutenants D. Redman and J. Henderson of the | North Dakota Regiment are at the Call- | fornia. Lieutenant Hamlet of the United States revenue cutter service arrived from Bos- ton last night and is a guest at the Cal- ifornia. He will leave this city | Alaska in the near future. gu stopping at the Palace. They are Mrs Mary de T. Carey, Charles Robinson, Frederick H. Baldwin, Louis L. Lorillard Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. James Speyer. sers of the Sherman at the Occidental. A. S. Hay, son of the Peace Commis- sioner and ex-Secretary of State; Samuel who are registered Ellsworth, have returned from their trip to Manila and are registered at the Pal- ace. NEW YORK, April 20. of San Francisco and S. are at the Cadillac; J. W Angeles is at the Stuart. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. France is expending $5,000,000 reboilering and rearming the older ironclads and coast defense vessels, G. W. Shorten evi of Stockton Thayer of Los | to be completed by September, 1900, The | vessel is only 3000 tons displacement, but | is to steam twenty-five knots, and will Three of this type are contemplated to be used as scouts. Two cruisers about to be built for the French n intended for courier and y, are to be very fast. They 394 feet in length, 44.6 feet beam and displacement. The engines, of sepower, are to give a speed of twenty-three knots, and the armament will consist of eight 3 1-3-inch quick- | firers, twelve 6-pounders and four outlook du are at $1,749,000. There is great complaint at the Keyham | Naval Engineering School over the in- sufficiency of food given to the students. After the noonday meal they only receive weak tea, bread and butter, and at 9 o'clock in the evening each student gets one bun. The engineer officers at the col- lege lay the blame upon the sailor officers, who have charge of the institution, and are in favor of having the school taken away from the control of the line and turned over to the engineers and civilians. Daily Graphic that the ships of the Brit- ish navy should have battle honor flags, in the same way as the regiments have, At the break of the poop and on the bar- The Russian cruiser building at Elbing, | Germany, has been named Novik and fs | | pounders. Their average cost is estimated | iture for | would live about 500 years. Frank F. Eastman, captain in the Bighteenth Infantry; L. Conger Jr., econd lieutenant, and F. C. Breen, U.| |'S. A., were among the liberated passen- Dalzell, son of the Congressman from Pennsylvania; I. W. Woodward Jr. of | Washington, and Eugene Hale Jr. of ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. | | | cost $2,152,500, exclusive of armaments. | tiye | | | i great music. wheel appear es of the victories name have 1ip has a flag bearing teering same plan would no if adopted in v, and it would not ned by name- some un- of water tube y in 1895 t introduced Powerful the Times favor of this new expr s the opin- ident on the Ter- P cates of this type of boller t an inquiry by the Admiralty is needed to settle the question of preference for the old style shell boller and the water tube type. The several Russian battle-ships in course of construction all differ somewhat in size and general design. The Tsare- witch, building under contract in France, the largi Retr building at Cramp ton Pobieda (Victory), on the stocks Petersburg, is 11362 tons, and is 1300 tons smaller but of the same general design as the Oslabya and Peresviet. The Tsare- witch will cost over $6,000,000, including armament. One of the terms of the con- ith the firm is that the t of the ady for sea and with , is not to exceed The consumption of coal ainst being too exces- limited to 1.7 'unds per horse- per hour at a speed of ten knots. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ An eminent professor says that ths age of fish Is almost unlimited. As to the length of the life of fish, it is said that the ordinary carp, if not interfered with, The ordinary gold fish has also been known to live A party of prominent New Yorkers are | over 100 years. 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