The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MO NDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1899 OCTOBER 2, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. cations o W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Commun fedeee A PUBLICATION OFFIC, ....Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Mein 168, EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, RS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. 5 cents. luding Postage: DELIVERED BY CARRI Tern: DAILY CALL day Call), one year. 86.00 ¢ Sunday Call), 6 months, 3.00 & Sunday Call), 1.50 e Month . G5e EUNDAY 1.50 WEEKLY 1.00 All post 4 to recetv: subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when raquested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, 3 Manager Forciga Adver ng, Marquette Building, Chicago. SPONDENT 1 NEW YORK CORRE . Herald Square €. €. CARLTON. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Buiiding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.; Great Northera Hotel; Fremont House; Audttorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. 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October 3, at 18 , at 11 o'clock, BUSINESS LAST WEEK. yed in New York last week on over Admiral Dewey, and two closing days were holidays ‘and the vere 1 xiven over to prepara- cial considerations ot the ti ool cotton quota- r ‘the great event ! being. gated to the hern cotton markets on e was rather topsy- e feature of the week was the rise in t, which, though slight, was sufficient to brigl on in en nd lift it from the stagna The advance r several sions of a South 10 dev pments in ¢ world’s crops t 1 1pathized with wheat, e slightly under an improved was little change in the bet- to warra ons in merchandise were of late, showing a livelier state of exception of rice and linseed oil, c ges were all in the direction There were heavy shipments oi and salmon to the Atlantic Coast rs for dried fruits ent in these i. Thep y up to $2 ce df ket h i signs at Hides and Wool and hops growers kept the on, and there a raisin association announced h enough ume of b v York been y pre hrough the cle gainst § g with September, 1892, It n that 1802 was and is taken as the best was thought that it was vious ye: In th house 1 71,200,000, ©00 in t $28,400.000 00, e over 46 per cent. membered in this connecti: vious to the pan comparis de merely a reaction aiter a long period of commercial depre and that when the replenishment of stocks had been completed busin ould naturally subside to ordinary volume. But there has been no halt what- ever. - The demand for sorts of merchandise con- tinues, and instead of diminishing is actually incr nt greater than in 18 in population, according to treasury esti- mates, is only 16 per cent. Shipments of boots and shoes from Boston in nine months have been 3,500,676 cases, against 2,833,682 in 1892, and in four weeks 390,622 cases, against 360,600 last year. Here the increase is more nearly propor- tioned to population and wages, but works are all a month or more behind their orders for the season. This -heavy buying characterizes the whole range of farm and manufactured products, and has been so What will happen when this enormous buying ceases is a ques- ing, being now 6o per c the increa often mentioned that repetition is useless. tion which has been bothering financiers for somel weeks, but it is folly to cross the bridge before we get to it. Moderate conservatism and a proper atten- tion to the future will probably be sufficient safeguard against any serious results from the current boom in trade. A safe-cracker was discovered the other night at work in the Sperry Flour Mill at Fresno. He claimed that he was only an amateur, but his selection of a | place of operation gave him the lie. The condition of his clothing showed that he was out for the dust. The Fresno burglar who robbed a safe to secure money with which to send his wife and child East will probably compromise by taking a little journey him- self. YEARNING FOR DEWEY. ROM the day when the great popular outburst I:of admiration and honor for Admiral Dewey manifested itself upon the announcement of his epoch making victory at Manila, those Democrats who have long been eager to rid the party of the | leadership of Bryan have been looking to him with | yearning that he might become their candidate for | the Presidency. He seemed tb them to be a heaven | sent Moses to lead Democracy from the wilderness, if | they could but get him to act in that role, and every- thing which has happened from that time to this has but increased the yearning and strengthened its hold upon them. Thc,\" were not coy wooers, these Democrats. They soon let the admiral know that if he would accept the nomination of the Democratic party he could have it, 2nd they tried with eloquence to persuade him that if he would accept the nomination the people would do the rest and his election to the Presidency would be as certain as was that of Grant in 1868. | Dewey promptly rejected the overtures, As a mem- ber of the navy he has had nothing to do with political ies, but he came from a family of stanch Vermont blicans and his partisan leanings, if he had any, He announced clearly n first approached that he has no political ambi- tions, that he does not feel fitted for undertaking the grave duties of statecraft in which he has had no ex- In fact, as he laughingly said when some him that “Dewey and Wheeler” would be a winning ticket, “I would run the nation like a ship and Wheeler would run it like a regiment.” Despite the positive assurances of the admiral, how- ever, the yearnings of the anti-Bryan Democracy have ened. It is in fact a ground hog case with them. They must have a candidate to put up against Bryan and they nnot find one except Dewey. It s not surprising, therefore, to find that the celebra- tion of the admiral's arrival at New York has been at once followed by efforts to bring him forward even against his will as a candidate. It is not the irresponsible yellow journals of Democ- racy that are working up the vain Dewey Presidential boom, nor the lesser class of politicians, but men of the foremost rank in Democra For example, no less a leader than William C. Whitney is quoted as having said in regard to it: “I am convinced that his selection as Presidential nominee would be something very much larger and better at this particular time than a party victory. It would be a partiotic reunion around the one man who typifies the new era and is best fitted by his char- ter and experience to preside over its development. Dew He understands the situation as The people would trust him to deal with it more completely than they Rep would be naturally to that side. wi perience. one suggested to not les ; gave us the Philippines. no other man does. would any other man. the helm, directing the policy of the Government in its new posses They know that he always has done the right thing and they buld do the right ons, than any other man. would feel sure that he always thing. whole people have this unquestioning and trust. Tt such a man in Washington. gave us another in Jackson. 3 w it has given us Dewey.” ch shows on the part of the saner Demo- perfect It t gave t cratic leaders a very wholesome desire to rid their party and the country of Bryanism, but it also shows how rlorn is their hope. Admiral Dewey as a Dem- ocratic candidate for the Presidency is an impossi- | bility. n boundary While the Venezue the hands of arbit dispute is still in ors the people of the country tion, gone through with it and returned to their cock fights much easier it is to fight a thing out than to talk it out. have started a revol all of which shows how The recepton ven to Dewey has probably in- clined Sampson to wish a good many times that he had steamed at once into Santiago Bay and smashed the Spanish as Dewey did at Manila, but in cases of that kind after thoughts don’t count. P dismissed from the army. to be imprisoned for five years and a statement of his crime, his punishment, his name and place of abode hed in the newspapers in and about State from which he came or e usually resided. Thus aiter two of the punishment imposed by the court is to be meted out, and the man who by reason of his power- ful friends seemed at one time likely to escape with compdrative impunity is to suffer at last. It is not at all probable, however, that the case will end here. There > longer an avenue of appeal to law, but there remains always the right of an appeal to public opinion and that is what in all likelihood will be undertaken next. Wayne MacVeagh, in his brief submittéd to the Attorney General, intimated “that C: fair trial before a court compe- tent to deal with the case, and plainly charged that the War Department had issued to the press false stat g it; and now Frank P. Blair, who counsel for Carter, openly de- ounced by the court, to be the foundation for an THE CARTER CASE. IDENT McK entence imposed upon has approved the c tain court-martial. ter had not a nts concerr sociate vhat appear agitation of the issue. He is quoted as saying: “Captain Carter was con- victed on perjured testimony, as the defense clearly proved. Dreyfu was condemned: on hearsay. Wherein lies the difference? The principal witness for 1 ght in the cross-exam- nd yet he was allowed to go on, and on his testimony alone Captain Carter was condemned, This injustice to an innocent man shows that the court- martial is utterly unfit to grapple with the questions involved in a case of this kind. In my estimation a majority of the court-martial were honest in their be- lief of Carter’s guilt. They were induced to find the captain guilty, in the main, because of the perjured | testimony of the Government's witnesses.” | It is of course to be regretted there should be any question of the justice of a decision by a military | tribunal in this country. We have regarded our army with a patriotic pride and have looked upon its offi- cers as men having the integrity and the ability to per- | form all the duties imposed upon them with honor to | themselves and to the nation. Nevertheless, we are | ot superstitious in our reverence for the army, and if the friends of Carter make an appeal to public sen- | timent they will receive a fair hearing. It is to be noted the members of the court-martial are not charged with prejudice against the accused or corrupt motives in condemning him, but only with an unfitness for judicial functions and an inability to | detérmine what rightly constitutes evidence. That simplifies the issue a great deal and will render the public more willing to listen to it. An agitation directed against a department of the the prosecution was easily ca ination They would rather see him at | It is only at long intervals and on special occa- | sions that Providence presents a man in whom the | It gave us another in | arter by the | The condemned officer is to be | to suffer a fine of $5000, | Government is always disagreeable, but the results afe generally beneficial. We had an illustration of the effect of such appeals in the embalmed beef scandal. The examinations resulted in a report acquitting al! the accused officials, but nevertheless there has been no more rotten beef sent to the army. Something equally beneficial may result in this case. A thorough exposition of the manner in which Carter was con- victed may not reflect discredit upon any member of the court-martial, but may have the effect ofgpro- viding more competent courts for trying such charges against officers hereafter. Wact together with promptness which fits them for conducting the affairs of the nation, the Republicans of the House of Representatives have al- ready virtually chosen their leader who is to be Speaker of the coming Congress. The Democrats, on the other hand, although they constitute a minority party and their leader will have no patronage to be- stow, are still disputing among themselves as to who shall have the almost empty honor of presiding at their caucuses and leading them on the floor. Bailey of Texas, from whose bright youth so much was expected, has proven even more futile as a parlia- mentary leader than young Bryan as a Presidential candidate. His leadership during the last Congress was a fiasco, and he has either too much sense or too little courage to desire to repeat the experiment. Of his own will he is out of the contest, and is now seeking to obtain the seclusion and the repose of the Senate as a relief from the stormy struggles of the House, where he came to grief every time he under- took to distinguish himself. Three Democrats are eager to take the place left vacant by Bailey's retirement and are reported to be | busily canvassing for support. These are John H.: | Bankhead of Alabama, David A. De Armond of Mis- souri and James D. Richardson of Tennessee. Neither of the three is brilliant nor has any genuine leader- | ship in him. Each, however, has had long experience in the House, is a man of good repute, and would probably be an improvement on the aspiring youth from Texas who won the prize from them in the last Congress. Bankhead is said to represent the conservative Democracy of the South. He has declared more than | once that the Chicago platform is a blunder and that its doctrines are not those of genuine Democracy. De Armond is much better known to the nation than Bankhead, and is reputed to be one of the foremost constitutional lawyers on the Democratic side. He is a rank partisan, believes in the spoils system, and | takes the Chicago platform without a murmur. Richardson is an abler parliamentary tactician than either of his competitors, but is a feeble debater and | not likely to hold his own well in a contest with the | strong men the Republicans will pit against him. On the other hand, he is said to know the House better and to be better known by it than either of his com- petitors. It will be noted that all of the aspirants for the place are Southerners. That of course is natural, for the strength of the party comes from that section. | The Northern Democracy has hardly a representa- {tive in the House any better qualified to lead than those who are now striving for the honor. Under any circumstances promises to be a dull one for Democracy, and for such fighting as it will be capable of doing almost | ary sort of a leader will be sufficient. THE MINORITY LEADER. ITH that well ordered harmony and ability to @ PROGRAMME FOR PROGRESS. W ITH the current number of the Merchants’ Association Review, a comprehensive pro- gramme for future work on the part of the association in the direction of municipal improvement is presented for the consideration of the public. While nothing new in the way of enterprise is con- tained in the programme, every feature of it having been at one time or another urged, not only by the association but by the press, the review is none the | less interesting because it for the first time presents the whole of the plans for progress now entertained | by progressive citizens. The programme includes the enforcement of the civil service provisions of the new charter; the recon- struction and improvement of the sewer system; the erection of a suitable City and County Hospital, a hospital for contagious diseases, public school build- ings, where necessary, and Fire Department buildings in districts now without fire protection; the enforce- ment of the law for placing all electric wires under- | ground; the improvement of the street cleaning | system; the extension and betterment of the | street lighting and the sprinkling of streets; the | improvement of street pavements; the establishment of a salt water pumping plant and the use of salt water for sprinkling streets, flushing sewers and such purposes; the erection of public comfort stations throughout the business districts of the city; the ex- penditure of all surplus revenues from taxes in per- manent improvements; and finally an election upon the question of issuing bonds for such improvements as are necessary or desirable at the present time, but which cannot be previded for by the annual tax levy under the charter dollar limit. Such a programme is one in which all progressive citizens will cordially assist the association in fulfilling | as speedily as possible. There is no feature of it that is either visionary, extravagant or impracticable. Nor can it be questioned that the association has acted wisely in presenting all the various schemes for im- provement as parts of one comprehensive programme. It gives assurance that one reform is not to be over- looked in the interests of another and affords a basis on which the progressive elements of the community can co-operate with general satisfaction. Another religious conference has demanded that | Roherts of Utah be denied a seat in Congress because he is a Mormon, but as it demanded at the same time the abolition of the canteen in the Soldiers’ Home, the condemnation of the Sunday newspaper and base- ball games, and denounced Sunday travel, Mr. Rob- erts will find himseli in so much good company he will hardly feel the full severity of the attack on him. e Oy The Navy Department has decided evidently that the men who fought with Dewey on the Olympia shall not be Hobsonized. It has ordered the flagship | to Boston, where, if tradition is to be believed, the girls will give the Jackies the frozen face. Chief of Police Lees ought to join the Society for the Suppression of Vice. He might learn something to his advantage in treating with the solution of moral evil which afflicts the northern part of the city. Certain important changes have been ordered in the French army. The French people have reason for congratulation in the fact that whatever the changes may be they can’t be for the worse. Ii the rebels of Venezuela suffered as many en- counters as the various correspondents eredit them with the country would be practically depopulated by this time the coming Congress | ALTH BOARD ‘RAIDS ARE TO BE PREVENTED Wells Will Audit No Overdrafts. | WILL SEEK LEGAL ADVICE, B JUDGE HUNT’S DECISION MAY | GO FOR NOTHING. el The Board Will Be Restricted by the Auditor to Its Own Fund and Wholesale Appointments ‘Will Be Stopped. e The raid on the tréasury which the Board of Health is contemplating as a | means of paying another bunch of Dan | Burns' Senatorial debts will llkely be nipped in the bud. Although Judge Hunt's | recent decisionsapparently opened the city | and county cash drawer to either hand the Health Board clique cared to dip into | it, there is still a vigilant watchdog in | | the person of Auditor Asa R. Wells. If| any of the claims the gang is gleefully | projecting get past him they ought to be paid. There is small chance, however, that any of them will. Judge Hunt's decision may have been precisely along the lines of the opinion | of the individual members of the board, and coinciding with that opinion it may have given the board the power to make all the appointments it finds necessary, or that Burns’ political obligations render necessary, but Judgse Hunt's decision did not add a cent to the tax levy nor put an- | other cent in the treasury; neither did it | | add a sou marquis to the apportionment | fixed for the board. If Auditor Wells pur- sues the same course that has charac-| terized his administration thus far, he| will not deplete the general fund, or any | other fund, for Burns, no matter what that astute politician’s necessities. | That the Health Board would make the most of the Hunt decision became evident at the meeting of Saturday night when Dr. Keeney worked through his little plan for the appointment of three more plumb- | ing inspectors to assist Chief Inspector Beyreuther, and at the same time car- ried into effect Dr. Coffey’s scheme for a wholesale cleaning out of the County | Almshouse in order to make room for the | elect of the combination. Coffey’s Alms- house programme Wwould have gene | through at the last meeting had he con- sen(eg in time to vote for Dr. Hodghead to succeed Dr. Susdorf as Superintendent | of the City and County Hospital. He held out, however, for Dr. Mahr, and not until Drs. Keeney and Payne had al- most given up hope of putting Hodghead through at that meeting did a threat to l:llll;.he Almshouse clean out bring Coffey o_time. Since that time heart to heart talks with Burns and his lieutenants have been the thing, with the result that the Board of Health is about the happiest and most harmonious political combination at the City Hall and only the next meeting is| needed to demonstrate what the weekly | percentage of new appointments is to be. | Concerning the course he would take with claims filed by the board in exc: of its actual appropriation, Auditor Wells ! declined yesterday to speak. I think the board is spending too much money,” said he, “but what course I will with its warrants in the face of Judge Hunt's | on I am not yet prepared to say. | been my policy to protect the inst any other than necessary h our appropriations fixed sis they are I s 1 adhere more closely to that policy than ever. I will| be compelled to, if 1 want to last the year out without bankruptingevery department. | I am going to talk the matier over with my attorney and I think that no one will | have reason to fear that I will depart from consistency or announce any change | in my present policy.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HELL GATE—J. F. J., City. The blow- ing up of Flood Rock, which obstructed | navigation at Hell Gate, New York har- bor, occurred an the 10th of October, 1385. | TWENTY-RIVE CENT PIECE—Sub- scriber. A 25-cent plece of the United | States coined in 187 does not command a | premium from dealers, but dealers charge | from 50 to % cents for such. JOHN C. HEENAN—H. J. Mc., Tine- maha, Cal. In 187 John C. Heenan, the “Benicia Boy,"” fnuih( John Morrissey in New York. In 1860 he fought Tom Sayers in England, and in 1863 he fought Tom King. If Miss CARDS—X., City. Johanna Wellworth marries Charles H. Youngbody her visiting cards after marriage shouid read *“Mrs. Charles H. Youngbody.” It | would be proper for her to have her resi- | dence and calling days written or en-| graved on the lower ieft-hand corner of the card. SMOKESTACKS—A Subscriber, City. The smokestacks of the ¥United States transports are painted red, white and | | blue, with the red at the top, because | that’ is the proper way to paint them, The American colors are red, white and blue, on account of the predominance of the color in the flag—seven red stripes, six white stripes and the blue field. IN THE NAVY—A. W,, City. A naval | cadet at Annapolis recelves $00 a year, beginning with the date of admission. Cadets after leaving the academy when in service other than on practice ship re- celve $950 a year. Sea pay after that is: | For ensign, first five vears, $1200, after | 400; licutenant junior grade, first ars, $1800. after that $2 lieu- tenant, first five years, $2400, after $2600. lieutenant commander, first five years, | $2800, after $3500; commander, $3500; cap- tain, $4500; commodore, $000; rear ad- | miral, $6000; admiral, $13,000. BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS —E., City. In order to commence an action in proceedings In bankruptey the party | must have been a resident of the State for a period of six months, or the greater | part thereof: the party may have him- self declared a bankrupt thirty days after filing petition and within a year after such filing. Generall peaking, the fees, not including attorney’s, are $35, but such may be increased by the issuance | of papers that may be required in the | proceedings. An itemized account of all | debts must be presented. If a wife has | been declared an insolvent debtor and | has: been_ discharged creditors could not sue her for the debts of her husband if such debts were included In her schedule. SUCCESSION—C. T. Oakland, Cal. If a married person dies in California pos- | sessed of property in his or her own right and leaves no issue, one-half goes to the surviving husband or wife and the other half in equal shares to father and mother; | if either is dead it goes to the survivor; | if there is no father nor mother the half | goes to brothers and sisters, and to chil- | ren or child of any brother or sister by right of representation. If the deceased leaves neither father, mother, brother or sister, the Whole goes to the surviving husband or wife. If the decedent leaves | a surviving husband or wife and only one child, or the lawful issue of one child, the property, if there be no will. goes in equal shares to the surviving husband or wife and child, or issue of such child. If the decedent leave a surviving husband or wife and more than one living child and the lawful issue of one or more deceased | children, one-third goes to the surviving ! husband or wife and the remainder in equal shares to his children and to the Jawful issue of any deceased child by right of representation. —_——— SOOI ORISR0 POSTAGE ON SUNDAY CALL. . SUNDAY CALL wrapped ready for mailing—postage 2¢ to all points in United States, Canada and Mexico, and 4c to all for- eign points. * | power per hour, and the speed was { two 12-pounde JAMES W. GIRVIN AND HIS DOUBLE. Curious Ways in Which They Have Been Mistaken for Each Other Through Life. Honolulu Pacific Commercial-Advertiser. ID I ever look like that? Well, hardly,” said James W. Girvin on Saturday, when he was asked about the picture n The Call of September 2 that had his name m‘l‘dAe;dn;'et that is a picture of James W. Girvin all right, for I happen to know him well—to my sorrow, 1 might almost say. Do you know that that man has been the bane of my life almost from the day he was born and was unfortunate enough to be named James W. Girvin, the same as myself? I have run across that man everywhere, in all sorts of odd ways and places. He has opened my mail, cashed my checks, been mistaken for me by hun- dreds of people from San Diego to San Francisco and back again; in fact, at one time he actually made my life miserable. He was always where I was. expected, and generally got there first and his name, being the same as mine, Ypeople talked to him as the real James W. Gir- vin and looked on me as an impostor, And it was a singular fact that many of the bills he contracted were presented to me for payment. “You would hardly believe it possible for two men to cross each other's paths as we have done. About the first time I ran across him was in this way: I owned a lot in Piedmont Cemetery, Oakland, which had the name James W. Girvin painted on a post at the foot. On one of my visits to the cemetery I could not find the lot; at least, not the lot with my name on it. The lots were all about the same size and looked very much allke and, as I had been away for some years since the post was put up, I thought I might have mistaken the location. I went to the same lot several times feeling sure it was the right one, but somebody else’s name was on the post. I went to the superintendent of the cemetery and asked him if James W. Girvin didn’t own a lot h, yes’ was the answer. Tll take you_to it He took me to the identical fot T thought was mine—the one with the other name on it. I showed him the new name and then he told me to go to the office and we would look up the records. Now, what do you suppose was the re- sult? The other James W. Girvin had also bought a lot in that same cemetery about the same time I did, but a few weeks be- fore my last visit had sold it to his father-in-law, being in need of funds. He was always in need of funds, that fellow Girvin—I mean the other fellow Girvin Well, the father-in-law of the other vin showed his Dill of sale of the « change tery lot and had the name owing to the similarity of names name was put on my lot by m After some trouble we got the mistake rectified, but it resulted in my getting acquainted with a man who was conti Bally crossing my path afterward. B some strange fatality we were alwa meeting, always being mistaken for ¢ another and always getting into trout over the mistakes 7 i ““When did nukru‘n across him last, M vin?”’ < asked. Gl‘rO{')n, the last time I was in California I met him one day on Broadway in Oal land. He was on his uppers and. struc me for a loan of $50. I had not the mor in my pocket, but gave him a check f the money on one of the Oakland bank: the. cashier of which was one of my per tonal friends. I made the check payal to James W Girvin and James W. Girvin without any further trouble. About an hour I happened to pass by that part r bank when my attention was attracted | a loud altercation going on inside. I looked in and there was the other Ja ‘W. Girvin and my friend, the cashier, most coming to blows. It appea the other Girvin had indorsed my check and presented it for payment. The cashi knew it was not my signature on the back of the check a; thinking I had drawn it payable to myself instead of the other Girvin, had not_only refused to pay it but had accused the ather Girvin of wrongfully signing my name to obtain the money. As soon as I went in both parties appealed to me. “] said to the cashier, The man is right; he is James W. Girvin and I will vouch for him.’ The cashier said in all his ex- perience he had never run across such a singular instance resulting from a simi- larity of names. “T had thought I had lost track of the other Girvin for good when I returned to the islands #&bout five years ago,” con- cluded Mr. Girvin, “and yet the very firs time I write a few lines for publication in a San Francisco Eaper that fellow’s picture comes out at the head of it. all his friends and relatives wi he is in the islands and will be writing letters here to him which, of course, 1 shall have to open and read. And all my friends on the mainland who see that pic- ture in The Call will be writing to me and asking what has happened to my face and to send them one of my latest pic- tures.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. J. Larsen, a Lodl newspaper man, is a guest at the Grand. J. F. Coleman, the Redding mine owner, is a guest at the Palace. L. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacra- mento, is registered at the Lick. B. P. Tabor, one of the leading business men of Auburn, is at the Grand. Captain J. B. Hughes of the Fourth Cavalry is a guest at the Occidental. Judge Louis Gottschalk has come up from Los Angeles and is staying at the Grand. Milton McWhirter, an ofl expert of Bakersfield, is among the recent arrivals at the Lick. F. H. Ransom, a wealthy lumber dealer | of Red Bluff, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Ed Corrigan, the well-known racing man, came in last night from Sacramento and registered at the Palace. F. A. Marcher, one of the leading busi- | ness men of Los Angeles, is among the | recent arrivals at the California. B. A. Higgins and A. E. Manchester, whaling captains who have lately re- turned from the north, are registered at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Niles of Los An- geles are registered at the Occidental. Mr. Niles is extensively interested in the live stock business. Dr. W. H. Webster, a physiclan who has been connected with one of the big Mexican mines, is at the Occidental en route to New Zealand, where he goes to accept another position with the same mining company. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Contracts for twelve torpedo-boat | destroyers have been given out by the British admiralty to half a dozen private shipyards in England and Scotland. A report comes from Shoeburyness of some marvelous good target shooting. It is alleged that a 6-inch quick-firing gun, which fired 1000 shots against a target moving at the rate of thirty-seven miles an hour, made 970 hits. Further particu- lars are needed, such as distance of gun from target and other conditions, in order to have others besides Tommy Atkins be- lieve it as an example of accurate firing. The British battleship Canogsus, whose trials were canceled by the admiralty owing to defects in the machinery, has had her leaky points repaired and passed through one-fifth and two-fifth power trials in the first days of September. The ship was on an even Kkeel of 26 feet draught and developed 10,454 horsepower with 255 pounds of steam, consuming coal at the low rate of 1.68 pounds per horse- knots. Tt is reported that the British admiralty is about to adopt pneumatic riveters and other tools driven by compressed air for use in the dockyards. As American tools of this deséription are the best, the manu- facturers in this country are likely to receive large orders, not alone from foreign Government yards but also from private ship-building establishments. The introduction of these tools is also apt to make trouble with the trades unions, es- pecially in England. France will place in commission during the present year one battleship, one third- class cruiser, four torpedo-boat de- stroyers and twenty-five torpedo-boats. Great Britain will have placed in com- mission for the same period five battle- ships, four first-class, four second-class and six third-class cruisers, besides about twenty torpedo-boat detroyers. Not- withstanding the apparent great activity in Franch dockyards, only a few ships are annually put in commission. A training-ship for the Chilean named General Bacquedamo has been completed at the Armstrong yard, Elswick. The vessel is built of steel, sheathed with wood and is 2300 tons dis- placement, with a length of 277 feei, 45 feet 9 inches beam and 18 feet draught. She is bark rigged with : uxiliary s m of 1500 horsepower, and carries 350 tons of coal. Her speed under steam is 13% knots, and the battery con s of four 4.7-inch, , two 6-pounders and one 18-inch bow torpedo. navy ' An armor plate trial took place at Whale Island last month in the Nettle casement. The plate was one of a lot to 80 on the Japanese battleship Shiki- shima, building at the Thames lron ‘Works, and was of nickle steel 8% inches thick and eight feet square. Two shots were fired at the plate from a 9.2-inch gun carrying a Holtzer shell of 308 pounds with a velocity, of 1700 feet per second. Neither shot penetrated nor did the plate show any cracks. A third shot fired with a velocity of 1800 feet penetrated the plate to a depth of 3% inches, but there were no cracks and the plate lot was accepted. Italy contemplates building four 8000-ton armored cruisers of the Brice type, but carrying smaller guns, namely, eight 8- inch and eight 6-inch. Although the money has not been voted the ships have already been named the Genoa, Piza, Venezia and Amalfi. They are to have 19,000 horsepower and a speed of 22 knots. Italian builders and the Arm- strong Company have been invited to make bids for the contracts upon the fol- lowing condition: First, to complete the ships in two years, first payment of $500.- 000 to be made in 1%2 and then at the rate of a like sum each year up to 1911, without interest on deferred payments. The cost of each ship will be about $,- 600,000, Another freak armored ship has been launched at Cherbourg. It is the Henry IV of 8948 tons, 354 feet 3 inches in length, 72 feet 10 inches beam and 23 feet draught. This is a compromise between an Ameri- can monitor and the battleship Hoche types; that is, the after part is monitor and the forward portion resembles a floating hen coop on end. There can be but little doubt of the failure of t.is freak as to seagoing qualities, and .ar- mored ship-building is not likely to be revolutionized by the introduction of this craft. Her battery consists of two 10.8- inch guns, one forward and one aft in turrets, and seven 7%-inch in broadside. She is to have triple screws, Niclausse bollers and engines of 11,500 horsepow to give a speed of seventeen knots. The total estimated cost of this craft is about $4,005,000. 5 Read the “Rough Riders.” Governor Roosevelt attended the recent commencement at Cornell, and while there was entertained at one of the col- lege fraternity houses. 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