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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1899 T 10, 1899 | THURSDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . Manager. Address All Commun cations to W. S. LEAKE, __Market and Third Sts., S. F ne Main 186S. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street | ne Main 1874, | FUBLICATION OFFIC - E DITORIAL ROOMS . 16 CENTS PER WEEK. cpnts. ng Postage: 1), one year. Fund Benefit, Thursday afternoon, etc. AUCTION SALES. = lock, Turkish Real Estate, ow under way one of the most brilliant fest All classes of peopl to take pa nals, e the festivities. able to do so u as a ng men up of and*women yulation will iers in wel- h a pur- e of our Jne more “will be no entail no i Even if the ¢ people will be too tend to the ry point of view, eet the popu- iree for all. indications vill nay be noted a t the reception point ade altoget nt and impressive any State on The com charge has on an ex le, and as a are responding cor¢ - to the appeals ons to ception fund. To that fund. Let the subscriptions uld contribute. 1 pri We are to have a holiday in npt 2d therefore all should in pro- ful cist in making it suc PEOPLE WHO TaALK TOC MUCH. RIE JOHN, R. N, ‘of Peacock. is reported to have said M “General Otis )l—an o teriy incompe- the campaign 1d coura- utter . and been sacrificed by his in- true then Commander St John of dignitaries port be added to the lengthening list be t who in these later ve been talking too much 1d too recklessly Captain Coghlan turned ose tongue to lash the Germans we pardoned him because he is our captai ¢ was lashihg 2 foreigner. With St. John it is different. He is a for- jis fool tongue has been turned against What in Cc hian was but a choleric word been something 1 an epidemic of fool gh tongues ever since craze of Anglo- er the dinner parties of n. Even our Fmbassador at tion se New York the Court of St er dinner rhetoric; acy and Joseph Choate, has but too oiten under 1es, that master of diplo cly the influence of nt spirit of international fraternity, and a tongnes of lesser eloquence that have slopped over their name is Jegion. It is right and fitting for the Americ aste Otis when th n people to s much as they will. We have got into a bad scrape in the Philippines, and a scapegoat is needed. Aguinaldo will neither fight the jungles reiu to disperse, ths m the islands, our kover march v will and ender. vill not stay away troops a glorions are al compelled to walk back, and somebody must be held Otis is in the right position for a gen- €r ting and none can question our privilege to give it to him. A nation is not like a railroad com- pany, and when one of its well regulated trains meets | a smash-up it does not attribute the accident fo Provi- dence but condemns the engineer and demands his hide. Our freedom to condemn a responsible 1 lamb to punish the com- | er in the Philippines b nse the course of imperialism does not run smooth is, however, not to be conceded to The of Britannic Peacocks have -no right to spread a lurid tail of criticism across the fame of A officer. There be limits to the privileges born of fra- ternity and imperial sympathies, and by exceeding ! those limits P. S. St. John, R. N, of H. B. M. S. Peacock. on board R. M. S: Empress, has shown ! imself to be as many kinds of an ass as there are initials in the names and titles of himseli, his sh|p‘ and the steamer on which he did the talking. It is to be noted, however, that this condemnation | will not count nor stand if it be shown that the com- manding offic foreigners. cag tains an rican mander did his talking in private conversation over a modicum of fraternizing spirits. GAGE AND BURNS REPUDIATED. ROM the results of the primaries lessons cadl b drawn affecting State as well as municipal poli- tics, and one of these is of too much importance It is a lesson which teaches how San ernot to be overlooked. ully ‘and how emphaticaily the Republicans of Francisco repudiate the bosses who with Govi Gage sought to elect Dan Burns to the United States Senate. During the session of the Legi lican member of the San Francisco delegation, but one exception, supported Burns. Th re the ins, and the two saloon ure every Repub- with creatures of Kelly and Crimy bosses were in Sacramento holding their push for Burns and aiding Gage in trying to bring about his election. The primary election.: opportunity for Republicans of this city to manifest There was a Kelly and Crimmins ticket in the field. The Burns and Gage All the San their sentiment on the issue push was behind it. Francisco legis- lators who voted for Burns were behind it The | voters of the party knew those facts. They saw their | opportunity and seized it. The vote against the | The Kelly and Crimmins overwhelming. bo: t W s heaten two to one. et wa The who were leaders in the effort to elect Burns to the United States Senate It signi- fies the repudiation of Burns as well as of the saloon tion of the men meaning of such a repudia cannot be mistaken. bosses who with Gage are his most potent allies. It cannot be doubted that Republicans part of the State weuld with .equal vigor repudiate Purns if an opportunity were afforded them to do so. in - threatened to appoint Burns to the Gage | Senate if there should be any chance the appoint- ment would be recognized by the Senate. He has San Francisco open now learned what the Republicans of ink of the threat. That muc]| the pri made clear to the push as well as to the people. t ries have sllow that Collector of the Port Jack It does not i son is a bird because he has been so successiul ; his own nest. . THE OREGON BOYS. feat good reason to be proud of her EGON boys s to their worth 1 Francisco can a does bear wit- During th city they won golden opinjons from all sorts of .peo- ne: stay in this they have returned to their homes pie, and now t send t pr service bu them the best of good wishes and the we full not only whife in the ise for their cond orief s they made with us iring the after being mustered out ¢ straightforward conduct of the Or ms w tiveness 1e service may have been due to the effe th orderly cour soldiers, d paid off, exposed 2 large n be attrib- of th after being mustered ¢ ir discipl which e to the full 1ptations offers to young men away from hor 1 nobility of character and a volunteers, therefore, alor of irtue and are- uted only to a nat ful home training. Oregon’s have Borne witness not only to the patriotic the State but to the sterling excellence of its v the high standard of manhocd inculcated in its house- hold ; Some re been felt in thi banding here of all the volunteers on their the Philippines would result in turning loose upon the community a large number of idle men who in- tead of going home i rema to spend their money and thus in the end add to the unem- ployed and probably to the dissolute idle class of the city that the -dis- arrival from vou If any such fears were ever felt concerning the All the ci Oregon men they have been dissipated members of that regiment stood as steadfast by their colors aiter being mustered out as before, and in a Lody they left us to return to the welcome that awaits them 1t home. The course taken by the sons of our sister State | is another illustration of the superior character of the men who make up the volunteer armies that respond to the call of the Union. The men who are first to rally for the flag whe ar breaks out are not the vagrant idlers and tramps of the cities and the countryside. They are the earnest young manhood of the nation They fight for love of country and not for a2 mere love of adventure. Their hearts are with their homes as h the banners of their regiments, and as have accomplished through war an hon- W well as w soon as they crable peace with victor; ms and return modestly to the work they leit un- finished in their offices, their shops and their farms. Oregon, we repeat, can welcome her boys with a just pride. They have reflected honor upon her in peace as in wa Th were good soldiers in the Philippines, good men in San Francisco, and gentlemen at all times They have been faithful to the best aspirations of Oregon homes, and merit every honor the proud State they love can bestow upon them of service as well as in it. The Shamrock has had to be towed a good part of the way across the ocean. and she may towed out of the race before the end comes. THE PARCELS POST. Y reason of the good results of the parcels post B between the United States and various countries of South America, Mexico and the West In- dies, a strong desire has arisen in ' the commercial cities of the East for an extension of the system to all countries with which we have any considerable dealings. In reviewing the subject the New York Tribuns points out that while in dealing with the ~countries with which we have a low parcels post rate we are o reat Britain, yet when it comes to the larger commercial countries of the world we are at a disadvantage. It For carrying a two- pound package the postage to Australia and New Zealand is 36 cents English and 05 cents American. To Hongkong the rates are respectively 32 and ‘o3 eents; to Cape Town, 36 cents and $t to Berlin, 24 and 70 cents; to Paris, 32 and 75 cents; to Brussels, 30 and 93 cents, and to Milan, 40 cents and $1 15. S equal terms with ( it is seen that the American rate is from 120 to 230 | per cent higher.than the English, and, unfortunately, foreign express rates on small packages are not such as to compensate for the postal deficiencies.” The need of a cheap rate of. postage for foreign parcels is unquestionable, but the agitation for it should be made to include a cheap parcels post for domestic as well as for foreign service. At the pres- ent time a three-pound package can be sent to Colombia for 36 cents, and an eleven-pound package costs $1 32. If the Government can carry such par- cels at those prices to foreign countries, why should it not carry equally Jarge parcels for the domestic business of our own country? The Tribune says: “Sentiment here has generally rded for the first time an | every in they gladly lay down their | have to be | cor of giving the largest scope to private en- | terprise and setting the Government at no work which {scomid sbe sotherwise performed. The express com- ‘;;anics. having taken into their own hands the smail | parcels business while the letter postage system was ’ye( in its infancy, did the work so well, so much better | than any similar service is performed in Europe, that there has heen little disposition to cut their business in two by diverting the small parcels traffic to the postofiice.” That statement may be true of past conditions, but ‘i: is not ttue of conditions now. The express com- panies no longer give satisfaction in the carrying of small parcels. On the contrary, from one side of thcI country to the other there is complaint against them. | Chey are extortionate; they discriminate against small | shippers to the unjust advantage of richer rivals; they | shirk taxes, and in many other ways carry on their | business in a manner injurious to the community. The Government, for the convenience of the pub* took out-of the hands of bankers the work of transmitting small sums of moncy from one part of the country to the other and conferred an immense benefit upon the people by the establishment of a | money order department of the postal service. It ght now with an equal wisdom extend the cpera- tion of the parcels post and make it as useful within | the United States as for the foreign countries, and thus derive a profit from a traffic now in the hands of | corporations that shirk even the slight taxes laid upon | them for the needs of the nation in time of war. | been in fa lic, mi l { THE FORESTS ANP THE SOIL /\)\R. JAMES McLEAN has addressed to Sec- / retary Wilson an open letter containing | 4 considerable amount of information gathered | from various sources concerning the effects in Gali- | 11ce, Russia, and elsewhere of the destruction’ of for-| ests. The subj one of vast concern to the peo- | | ple of the United States, for our own forests have now | | been destroyed to the danger limit, and it is weil that | intelligent men should give heed to what the inevit- | able conscquences will be. | The ruin of Galilee occurred so long ago it is t‘lil‘—t ficuit to impress men of our time with the lesson it | teaches. The steady sweep of desolation over the | plains of Russia, however, is going on in our own time, and even the most heedless can hardly be inat- | tentive to it | mine follows famine with alarming rapidity in | of Russia which were once fertile and flourish- | e is the blight brought about by the | uction of forests. Mr. McLean quetes from a writer upon the “Penury of Russia,” in the Edin- | burgh Review, the following impressive statement of | al ess ¥ . and the cau: the cause of the penury i “Owing to the destruction of the forests the rivers | are drying up, and the eastern part of the countfy is | literally being sanded up. The ruthless forest_ de- | struc: which has been going on for a long time | | lias had a serious effect in reducing the average rain- | fall. The belts of wood attracted and held the moisture, which was slowly distributed for the bene- fit of ag now, in vast regions, as, for in- stance, on the black soil, there is hardly a tree to be seen, and the consequence is that the underground rivulets which nour peared. Tl also broke the force of the fierce east riculture; hed the soil have disa e fore desert wind Now these winds, piercingly cold in winter and scorchingly hot in summer, burst with 1l fury on the great plains. In summer’their blasts and capable of withering the corn in a few days, with them come sandstorms which turn fertile land | t deserts. The unfortunate cxperience‘ | into permane of Central -Asia, which once was a garden of fertility | and now is a desert peopled by nomads only, is re- | peating itself. | It is a hard saying to predict that the bountiful | of California may yet be as desolate Asia, and yet it the wasting of the forests ¢ We destroy forests much more rapidly than the people of any other country, or of any other age, for we | | have brought to the work a host of mechanical inven- | tions to aid in the cutting and the wasting. More- over, we are perhaps more careless and reckless in | starting forest fires than any other people. As a con- | sequence. the desolation which ages were required to bring ab in Russia may be wrought in Californiai within two or three generations. | | It is indeed impossible to overestimate the value’| | of forests, for without them no land is fit for human | | habitation. American inteiligence is needed!to put | | a check upon American waste, greed and careless- | ness in the destruction of woods. If that check be | | not applied with sufficient promptness and with sufti- cient force, the future of this country will be a repe | tition of what is now going on in Russia. There will be penury and famihes for a time, then the stricken populations will move away, and over vast regions | | of this country, as in Central Asia, there will be no | human habitations except the tents of the nomadic tribes that wander from place to place in search of water and pasture. ROM the New York Times we learn that a good I:nmny postmasters in the East have failed to | notify persons seeking to mail packages to the Yukon district that such mail cannot be carried, and accordingly Third Assistant Postmaster General Mad- den has found it necessary to issue an order calling | the attention of postmasters throughout the country to the fact that while letters and postal cards can be | sent through the mails to the Yukon territory, there is no way by which parcels or third or fourth class mail of any kind can be forwarded. It is desirable to have this matter understood by the public as well as by the postmasters, as a con- | siderable number of persons address parcels of third or fourth class mail to points along the Yukon and drop them in the mail boxes without consulting the | postoffice officials on the subject. There would be little complaint against the Govern- ment for not carrying third and fourth class mail if it would carry letters with due diligence and care, | but it does not. The failure of the mail | throughout the Yukon region -has been a disgrace to | | both the United States and Canada. Men-and even | women having but scanty outfits have made the jour- ney in arfd out across the passes from Dyea and Skaguay to Dawson at all seasons and during all months of the year.-and yet the mail contractors have been permitted to neglect their work in every- thing except drawing down ‘the money that should | not have been paid them. The whole Yukon district has now. become the scene of considerable industrial and commercial ac- tivity. 5 Thousands of people are there ‘and thousands | in every part of the United States have large interests there. It is therefore a duty on the part of the Gov- ernment to supply that country with an adequate mail service. *Where private citizens, many of them far from rich, can carry in tons of food and heavy im- plements and machinery it ought to be possible for Governments so powerful as those of the United States and Canada to carry a few mail bags full of let- ters and postal cards. and profuse s as the once fertile plains of Central certain such fate will befall them i yes on in the future as in the;past. MAIL FOR THE YUKON. i | service AN AUTOMOBILE ELEPHANT CLEANS THE STREETS OF CHICAGO It Runs by Electricity and Trunk. HICAGO has a very odd sort of street cleaner. It is an elephant—not a flesh and blood affair but an automobile It looks just like the real creature, though. and it ambles about the sticks and other debris, trumpeting with apparent streets picking up papers, delight when doing the hardest and most Journal. Tony Gronendyke, a Chicago electrician and inventive genit 1. He Is now engaged in testing his elephant for the remarkable automobile ani Chicago Street Cleaning Department. The first idea of the inventor was to and carry away the paper, sticks a ad the test made a week ago in circus performance. THe battery and machiner; the apparatus by which it w: by which able to do v the The work is performed entirely by steel hands linked perior to the prob matic bellows. piece of paper, a stone or stick in the that are ranged around the howdah and object. This sets the bellows In obstacle into the mouth of the trunk phant, where it is deposited. and Touching another handle, the apparatus i y for a second attack. tusks and everything is r articles are picked up under th The street for two blocks w utes and thirty-eight seconds. The west, where the accumulation wa had been Invited to witness the t The dumping process is ver face in the howdah. A s lower part of the elephant swing falls to the ground. The elephant around clear of the rocking away When at work the elep gracefully wherever the engineer wi Ccapacity he trumpets automatically. skillful engin dump simple open t hes d general debris that collect in the streets, hland avenue, Chicago, was as good as a ay behind the dull sides of the monster m: colored to resemble the hide of the animal. gether, giving it a strength and suppleness equal if not su- °is of the living animal. When the engineer, who s action, us cleaned thoroughly in exactly seventeen min- | t follow! ight pull on one en made to rear up on his hind feet, swing ttling engineer desires scarcely any noise, but moves silently and Picks Up the Dirt With.Its animal. uncleanly labor, says the New ¥ork . ., has built this perfect a machine that would pick up the elephant was propelled, as well as the most astonishing things, are hidden achine, that is made entirely of steel, trunk, which is made by hundreds of Within the head is a great auto- | ts in the saddle, or howdah, sees a | street he pulls one of the small handles | the proboscis swings out toward the @ suction is created which sweeps the | carries it into the interfor of the ele- reset, the trunk folds up under the | It is astonishing how rapidly manipulation of the engineer. T th ran the elephant three miles 1on acant lot and burned, those who ing t they could on their bicyeles. and fs all done by the engineer from his of the little handles and the whole and the load of paper, sticks and stones down again on all fours, he goes him to go. When he is filled to his | THE LITTLE BROWN AN With a rag around his middle An’ a basket on his head An' a mess o' rice for dinner, An’ mat for bed, | An’ a For to puff 3 5 all n' 4 bloomin’ < care, nothin'— aire, millic between a Tagal alay an’ a don Such a redhot mixture, demme, Isn't found the world upon An’ his vices, which are man explode as they expand. generous an’ politeful house o leav: " twigs; shows an’ c a pi That his little wi Also knows a thing or tw little beggar If you only take him ri An’ ‘there is no doubt whatever He's a_good 'un in a figh With a hop an’ skip ad "Twas a sight to see his jags | Shootin’ Off his bows an’ arrers | He's a joll 'Gainst the Maxims an’ the Krags. So te easy with him; let us. | Kind o' heart and calm o' brain, | Think o' what the pe suffered | From three hundred years of Spain. .| Lift him, teach him an’ befriend him, An’ perhaps some future day | He will march brigaded with us | At the carvin’ o' Catha ‘ PRIVATE WILL STOKES. To the Editor of The Cal San Francisco Turn Verein wishes to ex- | tend to you its sincere thanks for the valuable sistance rendered us through your paper in making the Turn Festival | just held such a pronounced success. Very Tespectfully yours, the committee on a rangements. F. ATTINGER, Chairman. OIIN SIMMEN, Secretary. San Franciseo, August 7. —_— e————— READY FOR THE CEMETERY. Ma The Monarch of the low up its Receiving Hospital with an | “Examiner Cemetery,” where its victims | of misplaced confidence might find decent | burial. | AROUND THE 6 : CORRIDORS | G. W. Megeath of Omaha is at Palace. | Dr. F. G. Fay of Sacramento is a guest | ville Appeal. Dailies should fol- the | at the Grand. Lieutenant Commander N. S. Hughes, 8. N., is at the California. | J. H. Walker, son of the Salt Lake | banker, is a guest at the Palace. T. 8. Phelps Jr., U. 8. N, is one of late naval arrivals at the Palace. Alex Brown of the State Board Equalization is in San Francisco. Dr. E. B. Robertson of Jackson is of yesterday's arrivals at thé Russ. L. F. Moulton, the Colusa capitalist and millionaire, is registered at the Liock. W. D. Keyser, a merchant of Hopland, is among_the late arrivals at the Russ. Collin H. Ball of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment is a guest at the Occidental. Dr. G. W. Sims, U. S. A, was one of | yesterday's army arrivals at the Ocel- | dental. I Judge E. W. Churchill has.come down from Napa and is staying at the Oceci- dental. Henry Tupper, a well-known and popu. lar attorney of Fresno, is registered at | the Lick. W. R. Newlon, a capitalist of Paclfic Grove, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Judge E. C. Hart has come down from his home in Sacramento and is a guest at | the Grand. Judge J. W. Mahon of Bakersfield ar- | rived in the city vesterday and registered | at the Lick. H. D. Chandler, a wealthy fruit grower of Vacaville, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. H. P. Shepard, a traveler from Cape | Colony, is at the Palace, where he arrived | last evening. J. C. Chatterji, the famous Bramachar- fan from India, s a guest at the Grand, where he arrived last evening from the East. Dr. Burke, one of the leading and most the | | of one | prominent physicians of Albany, N. Y., | for those countries. | Cor | n | This | several batteries of the Heavy Artillery | | port of dellvery, and since 1875_has been | | in session he did is a guest at the Occidental, where he ar- | rived yesterday. s V. Vezzetti, one of the leading mer- chants of Los Angeles, is among the late arrivals at the Palace. | W. B. McCubbin, a wealthy Klondiker, is one of those who arrived in the city vesterday and registered at the Grand. | George E. Housker, a wealthy mining man of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand with his wife. He comes on a short | business trip and will remain in the city | only a few days. 1 Emanuel Elzas, the popular young busi- | ness man, who has also been connected | with journalism in this city, sailed last | evening for Sydney, Australia. | Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento, sec- | retary of the Republican State Central mmittee, was in the city yesterday. He convalescing after a long siege of sick- s and will return to Sacramento next | month. Vice President Crocker of the Southern | Pacific Company left vesterday for a trip of inspection over the new coast line. Mr. Crocker will pay particular attention | to the work now being done on the gap from Surf to Elwood. e e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ! WASHINGTON, Aug. J. S. Virden Of: San Francisco is at the Normandie. W. A. Kidwell of Oakland is at the St.| James. James H. Waller and wife of San Franclsco are at the Wellington. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RED CROSS NURSES—R. D., City. The Government is not engaging Red Cross nurses at this tlme for Manila. HEAVY ARTILLERY—A. R., City department is informed that the (California) left with the California REgLJ ment of Infantry. | ELECTRICIAN IN THE NAVY—W. | M., City. If you desire a position as‘ | electrician in the United States navy, file an application with the Regorder of the Burcau of Emplovment at Mare Tsl- | and. | THE AUTHOR—G. §. ! - A friend of this department furnishes the | information that the lines commending i “There through the long summer hours The goiden light should lie,” are from the third stanza of “June,” by | William Cullen Bryant and to be found | in any good edition of his poems. WAIFS—A. B. C., Westside, Cal. There | are orphati asylums in San Francisco and | also homes where infants are left, out of | which a reliable person can adopt an in- | fant. There is the Protestant Orphan | Asylum, the -Roman Catholic Orphan | Asylum'and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. A letter addressed to the superintendent | of either will bring forth a response as to requirement for adoption. SAN FRANCISCO AND ST. LOUIS— Subscriber, City. According to the esti- mates of Mayors of the principal cities in | the United States, on the last day of De- | cember, 1898, the population of San Fran- cisco was given as 350,000, while that of St. Louis was given as 638,577. St. Louls is a a_Jjurisdiction separate from St. Louis | County. It has a city charter of its own, | This ;fe‘pa:ilment cannot Inform you what your friend means by “a schemi e Fauetroad ng charter BOYS IN COURTS—E. L. L., Oakland. A Police Court is certainly not a place that should be visited by young boys, for attendance in such places is not caleu- lated, from the character of testimony given in criminal trials to improve their morals; and if an officer in charge of such a court ordered two boys 16 vears of age | out of the courtroom while the court was JPerfectly rivht and ought to be commended instead of censured for uch an act. If they were to be witnesses in a case their place was in the walting. room until called into court to give tes- timony. 25 FOREIGN POSTAGE—W., Philo, Cal. Mail matter for Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico and United States possessions in the Philippines, if addressed ta a person in the service of the United States, should be prepald at domestic rates, and at pos- tal union rates if addressed to other per- sons. Articles for or from a foreign country (except Canada and Mexico) are not by the postal authorities known as first class, second class, ete., but are classified as letters, postal cards, newspapers and other printed matter, commercial or busi- ness papers and samples and merchand- ise. Periodicals for foreign countries (ex- cept Canada and Mexico), whether trans- ient or for regular subscribers, are re- quired to be prepaid with postage stamps at the rate applicable to printed matter | d: | after 1 o’'clock when he was accosted b | bt | art House to go ) MUTIRY OO THE SHP FALLS OF HALLADALE Outbreak Quelled by Captain Fordyce. — THE MOANA AND GAELIC SAIL e —— A Carriage for King George Tonga’s Bride—Ships Florence and Elwell Arrive from Australia. e Captain Willlam Fordyce of the British ship Falls of Halladale, which left here for Tacoma in March last to load lumber for Cape Town, had a lively voyage of it to South Africa. The ship is now in Delagoa Bay, discharging, and in a let- ter received in this city yesterday Cap- tain Fordyce tells of his experence. While the Falls of Halladale was being towed to sea the crew mutinied. Men Were scarce at Tacoma and they had been put aboard by the boarding masters With the understanding that they were to be taken oft again before the ship sailed. They went before the captain in a body and swore they had been shanghaied. The ship was then under way, and as the captain would not pay any heed to their complaint the men refused to work. Cap- of tain Fordyce did not argue the point with the men, but going below armed himself with two revelvers. For five hours he paced the deck with one of these in each hand, and finally got sail on the ship. Ar!‘wr the tug had cast off the Falls of Halladale and the vessel was well clear of Cape Flattery the men went to work without a murmur. The next accident happened to the mate. A big sea washed him into the scuppers, breaking his col- Jarbone and dislocating his shoulder. Then four of the crew were laid up and a succession of gales kept the rest of v f the In spite of men on deck night and da In_spit all this the run was made to Cape Town in the splendid time of ninety days. From South Africa the Falls of Halladale will 2o to Australia_and then come to this port withea load of coal. The steamer Gaelic left for the Orient yesterday afternoon at 1 g'clock sharp. and the Moana sailed for Australia shortly before midnight.: Both vessels stop at Honolulu and there will prob- ably be a test of speed on the way down. The Gaelic is a fast steamer, but the Moana has never been thoroughly tested, She is in first-class condition, and Chief Stevedore Olsen sent her away in splen- 3id trim for making good time. Captain 8 does not expect to make up the :lic’s lead, but he does expect to beat her time to Honolulu. The Moana took away an unusually heavy cargo. In it were books, boots and shoes, canned goods of all kinds, bicycles, fresh 'and dried fruit, machinery, brooms and broom corn and a carriage and a case of books for King George of Tonga. His Majesty has lately taken unto himself a wife, and the books and carriage are probably a present_ for his consort. Be- sides all these goods, the Moana had on board over 10,000 cases of onions. At this time of the year onions are very scarce in Australia and New Zealand, so it pays well to ship them from here. Among the passengers who went away oana was Lieutenant Philip An- S. N, He is going to Honolulu to marry Miss Clara Fuller, daughter of Captain_ Fuller, harbor master of Hono- Julu. Lieutenant and Mrs, Andrews will return to San Francisco on the Alameda. The Gaelic took away quite a number of passengers. Among them was Mr. Nugent and wife, Just before sailing time the friends of the couple sent them down a beautiful floral piece. It was a represen- tation of the Gaelic made with flowers and ferns and was an excellent likeness of the steamer. The Harbor Hospital will in future be run by Drs. von der Lieth, Himmelsbach, Niemeyer and Cherry, and Misses Turner and Shelton will continue to act as nurses. For the time being the ambuiance will remain at the hospital and Messrs. Lily and Kelly will continue as drivers. A more competent staff than this could not be found in California, and it is a pity the city cannot see its way to putting the institution on a paying b An emer- gency hospital is & hecessity on the water front, and great credit is due the physi- clans’ and nurses for keeping the place open. VFhe ships Florence and Elwell arrived from Newcastle, N. S. W., vesterday. Both vessels made the run to the equator in thirty -days, but the Florence crossedl it in longitude 153 minutes 22 seconds west and made ‘the run to port in sixty-four while the Elwell crossed it in 184 and took seventy-five days to make vovage. The Elwell had an uneventful passage, while the Florence was caught in a heavy e 29 easterly gale on June 22, which -eight hours, and on June 2 was supplied with fruit and vegetables the ndtives of Crohr Island. Both ships are -coal laden. The Santa Fe's steamer Carlisle City has reached Hongkong after being ashore. A telegram to the Merchants’ Exchange Yesterday say as extensively dam- aged. The v left here for Ja- pan and China t montk SLASHED WITH KNIVES. Unpleasant Experience of M. J. Barry, a Brother of Bailiff Barry. M. J. Barry, a brother of Bailiff Barry of Judgé Mogan's court, had an-unpleas- | ant experience at an early hour yester- morning. He was walking home to room at 233 O’Farrell street shortly This young woman, who mistook him for hi brother, as they -hear a_striking resem- ance .to_each other. He walked along with her for a short distance and left her. he was about to enter the Stew- to his room a voung man ran out of the doorway and slashed him on the cheek. Two other men came out of the doorway and one of them re- marking, “That's the fellow that -was with the two girls in No. 19,” slashed him across the chin. Barry was carried to his Just a | room and a physician summoned, who at- tended to his wounds. Two of the men were later identified as William Denning, bookkeeper a the Stew- art House, and John Bechter, a survevor, of 511 O'Farrell street. The third was a soldier. Yesterday warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the three on the charge of assault with a deadly .weapon and Den- ning was arrested yesterday afternoon. Denning said his trouble was with Barry's brother and he denied using a knife. —_— e e——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's. * s cee—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * — e Treatise on Flowers. Miss Alice Eastwood of the Academy of Sciences has prepared a paper treat- ing of wild flowers, which she wili read at a meeting of the California State Floral Society to be held Friday cven- ing in the parlors of the Occidental Hotel. e President McKinley and his Wifo WIll travel over the Nortbern Pacific Rallway when they visit’ the famous Yellowstone Park. They intend viewing the new geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of bolling water to the height of the Call building. It's a wonderful sight. Send 6c in stamps for book telling all about it to T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt., 635 Market st., S. F. — For a tonle for the nervous and .dyspeptic nothing equals a little Angostura Bitters. The genuine, Dr. Slegert's, in port or sherry. DRSO OUR HEROES’ FUND BENEFIT. AUCTION SALE TO-DAY for boxes and the choice seats at the Orpheum at high noon. SRR