The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1899 MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN. I:RO.\I the large attendance at the Republican ..OCTOBER 16, i rally on Saturday evening, and from the earnest 1809 spirit displayed by the audience, good auguries = | can be drawn of the outcome of the municipal con- test. It is now clear the Republican party. has a | ticket which the taxpayers generally will gladly sup- port. It is to be noted that hardly any statement JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieter. TSl s s sediTe Sos UL SOt Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. oty S el oaiu sl oS PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S. F Telephone Main 1563, EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 made by the speakers during the evening won more | cordial applause than the declaration of Irving M. pr g Scott: “I came down here to-night to ask every Re- i and every good citizen to vote a straight lican ticket from top to bottom at the next DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, § cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: tion. There is not a nominee of the ticket that DAILY CALL luding unday Call), one ye: ¢ one need feel ashamed of having voted for.” DAILY CALL (inc ding Sunday Call), 6 mont DAILY CALL luding Sunday Call), 8 monthks The signs of the time are indeed encouraging. DAILY CALL—By Single Month i B i DAY CALL One T The business men of the community have begun to B w . One take an interest in politics and to feel the responsi- bility that rests upon them. Evidences of this awak- 1 civic patriotism are to be scen everywhere, and, the Horace Davis pointed out in his ad- de strikingly manifest in the remark- able registration, which equals that of a Presidential election. Many things have combined to bring about this desirable state of things. In the first place the bright- ening future of the city has roused the energies of business men to profit by the opportunities that are now before them, next the long desire for municipal has begun to prompt men to earnest of the bosses in the Republican party under the new primary election law has been encouraging, and finally the possibilities of municipal development and improvement under the new charter have stimulated all classes of citizens to strive ener- getically to procure for the city a good administration OAKLAND OFFIC ..908 Broadwoy Hon C. GEORGE KROGNESS, % Mansger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : €. C. CARLTON. ....Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Metel} Fremont Housa; Auditorfum Hotel WS STANDS. 31 Union Equare; improveme action, the defe NEW YORK NE ‘Waldorf-Astoria Ho A. Breatano, Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Welilngton Hotel &. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. $:30 o'clock. 639 ctreet. open untll 9:39 in every department. oclock. 6i5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | T, t feature of the new charter is the power | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 22C" Market i the streets. Cabinet will tend to incline Congress to a favorable consideration of the desire of the mining men for In brief, proper supervision of their vast industry. every promise of the time is good, and the convcn.ti' will have all it can do to attend to the opportunities before it. N POLITICAL BANNERS. Order of Odd Fellows. Supervis OW that the municipal campaign is on in carnest and the various candidates are resort- ing to all manner of means to keep their names before the public, the people will appreciate the full value of the resolution introduced by Supervisor Hol- land forbidding the stretching of banners across our thoroughfares for the purpose of displaying the names of the political aspirants of any party. A display of banners designed for decorative pur- poses and having in the brightness of their coloring a glow of beauty is an attraction pleasing to the eye, and the public sees with no little pleasure the flags and banners which have been put as adornments along the streets in honor of the jubilee of the Independent It would, however, be a grievous offense to every intelligent and artistic citi- zen to see interspersed with those flags great stretches of canvas sprawled across the street and marked in scare-horse letters “Vote for Von Ginnis de Muggens, the Mugwump candidate of the people for Pound- keeper.” The practice of such advertising in the past has been overdone. It is time to put a stop to it alto- gether, and the resolution finds public sentiment already formed in its favor. There is no reason why the thoroughfares of the city should be made hideous at every election by that style of political advertising. There are abundant means by which candidates can keep their names before the voters without defacing or Holland has taken a step in street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 1096 | vested ir > Mayor. In sum zing those powers | the right direction. His resolution mnrkf aEReniBn ey Valencla street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 _Er‘=V¢“‘b on Saturday evening Mr. Davis put them in this terse | and much needed reform. The suppression of what | street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twemty- | "% _, i % < 3 R second and Kentucky strests, open until 9 o'clock, way: “The Bunrd_u Supervisors is madg .(he legis- | has been a p.ubhc nmstance in the past e | Jative power, and it has charge of the raising of all | commendatioin on all sides. money to carry on the city government. The ex- AMUSEMENTS. ober 17, Vaudeville every aftern streets—Specialties. at 11 o'clock, ut in every case them. They have no afiiliations which will hamper | Warm words of approval have been given to the | whe are working ox ahy sement to those elf. with very lit Lax them in the right fulfillment of their duties. That | programme of study by the foremost educators of | f€lds- SR a week ago that ope in Wall street | niych was certainly well understood by the repre- | the State, and now that the publication of the series | , Other important matters will come be- | rates for and yet the | sentative audience that gathered to cheer the ticket | has begun the reading public will be able to judgs | Misere Asamrio mateins o rornia mere a nt that the Government would an- | oy Saturday evening, and ther Republicans: | far theracelies of the tnerit of fie undertaking. We | Portant purpose of securing further Con- he Nov icatures of the and readi- ket than once htened in New penditure of this money is placed almost wholly in the hands of boards appointed by the Mayor. These boards are the board of Public| Works, the Board of Education, the Board of Police | sioners, the Board of Fire Commissioners, 1 Service Comm the Board of Health and the Park Commissi You will see, therefore, the large discretion and the power left to the Mayor. It requires a man of business judgment and wide ex- | perience and knowledge of men, and, above all, an he less man. is this so during | the first year, when the Mayor will have the appoint-'| 1l the members of all the boards named.” | Will it be safe for the people of San Francisco to vest those powers in the hands of a man of large per- | use the 5 4 HOME STUDY CIRCLE. seven ITH this issue begins the series Comm ers. The opening article by Professor Albert on. pearean study will be published on Thursday est and f Especi esting of Shakespeare’s works will ing of the fall and winter until the course is completed. , who_ desires™ to as a stepping-stone to higher offic cet, from the distinguished gen- | tleman who heads it to the last name upon it, is:made | up of men whom the people can trust. They repre- |and\ Household Economy on- Saturdays. 1 at the same time’ the con- | They stand for It was no seli- | constituted committee ruled by bosses that nominated | sonal ambition in politi yoralty he Republic: ti American Statesmen-on Fridays, and Home Scien Each | sent the progres: ement of the community. improvements and also for economy. servative will be from the pen of a competent expert. of home 17 W studies The Call has arranged to publish for the entertainment and instruction of its read- Cook of Yale on “How to Study Shakespeare” w be found in another column, and a second Shakes from the pen of Professor Parrot of Princeton. Thereafter | similar articles dealing with many of the more inter- appear in The | The The other courses, as has been announced, include studies of the World’s Great Artists, to be published | every Tuesday; Desk Studies for Girls and Shop and Trade Studies for Boys, on Wednesdays; Great | st | these courses will be carried on by men and women | who rank as'established authorities on the subjects with which they deal, and every article of the series | commend the article of this morning particularly to ticipate mber bond interest was sufficient to | jndependents, taxpayers and the workingmen of the | ease thir off at once. companying this an- | community have good reason to be satisfied with the | nouncement was a falling off in the demand for | gutlook. W street breathes freely again. Tra e ————r—. | be on solid foundations when such an insig- | The dear old Bulletin prints a page of type and a| nt plaster e prepayment of interest prompt- | picture to show why Mayor Phelan should be re- Is the con ion in the comme: body. elected. Wi Bulletin please rattle ‘its inside pocket 1 the extent: of the jingle that was | its reason for the type and the nd industrial reports for the past and 1 of busin picture? conditi | will prove interesting even to different reader, their full value will be obtained only by those who read them with care and studious at- | the attention of our readers, in order that they may start the series with the first paper and learn at the outset how to study Shakespeare and what to look for in his works. It must be borne in mind that while the papers the casual in- Only good reports were received from distributive . . “~ 5 e “i l‘ ; k]: The lack of details from the seat of war in the | tention. They are contributed by men and women rade center some markets reported the fail | : e o sy 2 [l : ;‘ LT | Transvaal is becoming absolutely tiresome and |to whom education is a life work and have been de holding out n expectec he railway | A ! ) > oxf g ; 5 ° | monotonous. What else can we expect from Boer- | Written with an earnest purpose. Those who are | earnings continued to r a fine failures th ughout the cou 250 for the same wee ag only three important towns (Baltimore, St showed 1 of showing, try were only 164 against last year, and the bank clear- | .1 per cent over 1898, with | dom? know by reading what a critic of such eminence Professor Cook has to say about the proper study the great master’s treatment of the problems of life. MINERS’ CONVENTION. LN | LIC interest in mining men and mining best acquainted with Shakespeare in a general way can learn something in addition to what they already Omaha) showing a decrease. The wholesale pur- | p chasing by the people at large, so frequently alluded ‘ to, continued without diminution, and the complaint was of the scarcity of goods and not of the lack of demand. Evidently the American people have not yet finished buying, though they have bought more dur- matters aroused by the visit of the representa- tives of the American Institute of Mining En- gineers will not diminish with their departure, for already the time for the meeting of the annual coa- vention of the California Miners’ Association is so | near that it engages no little of popular attention ing the past twelve months than ever before. Cotton | and discussion. The convention this year will be has advanced and cereals have shown an under- | something more than a State gathering. Delegates | current of strength, as the world's wheat crop is | are expected from all the surrounding States and | falling below expectations and the yield of the Territories, and the meeting will be virtually a repre- minor cereals is turning out less than anticipated. There is no falling off in the demand for iron and steel, coal production is particularly heavy, and wool | sentation of the mining industries of the whole of the vast region known as the Greater West. Rarely if ever have the gold miners of the State | met under circumstances more promising to their nand on next spring's ac- inquiry, and the news |industry than thosc that now prevail. The commerce r ally scarce. Tobacco is ac- | and industry of the world have counted largely upon tive at almost all and Western markets, lum- | the continued output of gold from the Transvaal. Ir ber is as firm and brisk as ever, hides and leather | as been confidently estimated that the vield of the are st nd selling heavily and the output of boots | mines in that country would during the coming year and shoes is phenomenally large. In fact, all down | ! add $100,000,000 worth of gold to the money of the the line of commodities intense activity at firm quo- | ) ; world. That hope is now blighted; the Transvaal tations is reported. | ply is shut off. At present all signs point to the conclusion that no considerable quantity of gold will aging. The recent rain broke all records for Oc- | pe forthcoming from anywhere in South Africa for at tober, and while it did a little damage to grapes and | Jeast a year to come, and probably for two years. berries and destroyed the old feed here and there, it | That means, of course, the world must look elsewhere was vastly more beneficial than harmful and pre- | for its additional gold supply and that mining invest- saged an early and wet winter, as far as any winter | ors will be quick to turn to every field that promises can be presaged in this part of the United St;nes.,good returns. The Alaskan gold fields remain a doubtful source of supply. Up to this time nothing has been done there In California the conditions are especially encour- At any rate, it gives the croaker no opportunity to | n. The demand for produce and mer- | chandise is as good here as in the other sections of for cry a dry sea the country, and prices everything are high | enough to afford the fa , merchant and manu- facturer a good profit. The export trade is receiv- ing more stimulus from the increased tonnage room, though vessels are still in inadequate supply for the quantity of goods ordered for export, while internal traffic is seriously hampered by lack of cars. It is leng since San Francisco has been as busy as at | present, for produce and merchandise are pouring into and out of the city as rapidly as cars and ships | can transport them. With a good winter there is no | reason why this local trade prosperity should not | continue for many months. quartz mining could be profitably undertaken. It is to California, therefore, the attention of more con- servative and prudent investors will turn. It is known its neighbors have hardly been thoroughly pros- pected, much less developed. If mining should be undertaken here with anything like the degree oi energy and the affluence of capital that have been the results would be surprising even to many of our own miners. It is therefore at a period when the mines of Cali- | fornia are exceptionally interesting to all the world | that the convention of the mining men of the coast |is to meet. That they Will understand the advantages n‘c\\"s mi the :\rri\-a"l of Funston and his men from t!‘.c | fi;‘ueli;]l"cz;;)“,Zh;];\yare;::c}leorl;‘;‘;‘n;;a:i,é]s, :iti::l ‘;: Philippines. In any other S““c, than l\:msas‘ ”“‘_ | will tend to profit by the opportunities afforded. could h(nve been prevented by a judicious wetting of | It is to be added that this is a good time to renew the whistles. the movement started some time ago for the creation | of a department of mines and mining in the National | Government under the direction of an officer of Cabi- net rank. There is a demand in the larger commer- | cial cities for a department of commerce with a Cabi- | net officer at the head ‘of it. There will probably be The British Government has given Buller a “free | also a movement to create a department for the new hand” in South Africa, but perhaps it won't be so | colonies with a Secretary at the head of its adminis- very free after Oom Paul gets a grip on it. tration. All these movements for the increase of the According to reports from Topeka the whistles in every town in Kansas screcched on receipt of the e Dewey’s tour of the country will be incomplete hout a trip to San Francisco, and the duty of our city officials will be neglected if they do not insist upon his coming. | but placer mining, and it is questionable whether | > ties. that the mineral resources of this State and those of | SCHOOL BOARD SCANDALS. UFFICIENT evidence of fraudulent transac- tions on the part of certain members of the School Board has been made public by The Call to justify the belief that if the Grand Jury do its full duty without fear or favor the people may have the satisfaction of seeing some of the plunderers and | | spoliators of the school funds indicted, prosecuted and punished. It is hardly worth while to go over again the dis- graceiul record of jobbery and corruption The Call | has from time to time disclosed. Enough was pub- | lished yesterday to make it evident that the Grand Jury must act vigorously in the matter or rest itself | g under suspicion of neglect of duty, or worse. There is no department of local administration in which fraud works a greater wrong to the munity than in that of the public schools. When the money paid by the people for the education of their children is wasted either by robbery or by extrav- | agance, then it follows of necessity that school build- ings are neglected, needed repairs are not made, the rooms are overcrowded or badly ventilated, danger of disease threatens the children who gather there, the teaching force suffers from lack of salaries, the proper equipments of the schools are not supplied, and in many other ways evils are inflicted upon a very large proportion of the community. The late Grand Jury declared in its final report that in the former School Board, but that it could obtain no legal evi- dence sufficient to convict the presumably guilty par- It is to be hoped the present jury will have better success. Where wrongdoing has been carried on to the extent The Call has exposed, there must be some way of bringing to light proofs of it that will bring about conviction in the courts. The people | therefore look to the Grand Jury with expectation, expended in working the deep mines of South Africa | and something must be done. a moral certainty existed of fraud Admiral Dewey appears to have valued more the spontaneous outburst of welcome he received Boston than all the grand parades and ceremonies In the course of his speech at Boston he said: “The ovation' | which was given me last night I believe has never that were prepared for him in New York. com- The biggest and most important State convention in the history of the Cali- fornia Miners’ Association will open in San Francisco on the 23d Inst., a week from to-day, and for several days will be the chief thing of interest in the coast mining field. Secretary E. H. Benjamin’s voluminous correspondence concerning it indicates that there will be several hun- dred delegates present. The sixteen local associations, includ- ing that ‘of Southern California, have nearly all held conventions and elected their quota of dele- gates during the past two weeks, and at these conventions special interest in the industry and in the convention has been shown. The delegates are leading and active mining men, and the conven- tion will be representative of the best in- tellect and character in the California mining field. The convention will declare the wants and policies of the State’s great mining population, united for the general good of the industry, and its dec- larations and demands wili have a pres- tige before Legislatures and public opinion that few voluntary associations can com- mand. This convention will have a wider scope than any of its predecessors, and the suc- cess of the executive committee in secur- ing the co-operation of other Pacific Coast States in making it representative of the entire Western mining field will give it an importance’equal to that of the Trans- Mississippl congresses. The Governors of " Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho and Wash- ington had last week reported the ap- pointment of 10 delegates each, and all the other Western Governors will un- doubtedly respond in time. Each_ execu- tive was asked to name representative men who would really attend the conven- tion, and it is hoped that there will be any delegates from sister States who will later be active at home in promoting the policies agreed upon. It has been sought to, make the conven- s which will be made of chief im- ern State as much as in another. These are the revision of the law and the conservation of water. The Federal mining law of 1872 decisions and departmental rulings that have been hung to it have kept sporadic demands for revision going for years | among mining men. The California Min- ers’ Assoclation resolved in favor of the revision and codification of the Federal ~ | mining and land laws early in its history, S. | and has appointed committees thereon, ill but never until now taken up the matter il | as one of chief importance. A wide field for warm debate will be opened, and the f and enemies of the apex law may nother inning, but whatever may ¢ not be agreed upon, the discus cre and the efforts that will follow | may result in some further legislation by | Congress | water will come at an opportune time Call regularly every Monday and Thursday d“"i“gi\\'hen conventions and societies are at last arting a definite ive effort to ave to the arid Wi greatest treas- ure—the water that it so royally wastes. he convention should do much to further awaken the mining interests to what the { problem means to the industry and to add | another effective force to the efforts to ure the storage of flood waters and their distribution through mountains and ce | plains. The big gold mills that are of { POW again silent along the mother lode reglon of the Sierra Nevadas and elsewhere and the monitors that are | waiting for the rains are vivid evidences | of the ‘California miner's interest in_the tion of water. The taking up of ion in this active way is another evidence of the value of this big organi- zation and an | gressional appropriations for restraining | dams and the improvement of the navig- | able rivers of the State, but as the Fed- | eral engineers composing the California { Debris Commission have not yet been able to get up a report on how the $500,- | 000 already appropriated should be spent, | the convention will not be apt to do much { about dams this year. The mineral lands | issue is not dead and will get attention. State mining legislation will be one im- | portant topic. Steps will probably taken through resolutions and committees to prepare a satisfactory State mining law to take the place of the one supposed | to have been repealed by the last Legi |lature. The convention will undoubtedly result in the organization of new county ! associations and in otherwise increasing | the membership and vower of the fede- | rated organization, which now counts {about 9000 members. The Paris mining | exhibit will be among other local topics considered. as | The convention will assemble amid new of | life and boom in the mining field and will reflect that revival in its vim and good will. The election of officers promises to STATE MINERS’ CONVENTION ; SOME OF ITS BIG PROBLEMS | tion an interstate affair’ because the ques- | ce affect the industry in one West- | Federal mining | and the court | ut considerable ginger into the proceed- ngs. The oil boom is still booming. There is especial activity in the San Francisco oil fie?d. which has some thousands of oil stock players now and which is becoming the chlef centar of oll operations, both legitimate and otherwise. The opening of the call board of the Oil Exchange will stimulate investments in ofl stocks for a | time, and will afford seme guarantee of safety to investors by eliminating compa- nies which have for assets only paper and agebrush. The Coalinga field js still the only pro- ! ucing one of importance north of Te hachapi, and is now reported to be yield- ing 4500 barrels a day, or as much as the Los Angeles field ever produced. The | daily” product of one well belonging to | Canfield & Chanslor is given at 1000 bar- rels. Many new companies are bexng formed and buying or bonding lan | through the oil belt, chiefly in Fresno, Kings and Kern counties, and several are driving prospect wells, or preparing to do so0. The boom is s0 young that with near- ly ail the companies the early stage of prospecting and of expectations has not been passed. The wrecks will begin to appear a little Jater, while here and there | lucky ones will really strike ofl. The| Southern Pacific Company is planning two 50,000 gallon tanks from which to supply fuel to oil-burning locomotives. “The American Fuel Oil Company, a corporation jately organized in San Fran- cisco with a capital of $100,000, to acquire and operate oil-producing weils and oll- bearing lands in Los Angeles and other places, has purchased a number of wells in this city from the American Crude Oil Company,” says the Los Angeles Times. At Fullérton, in Southern California, the Tnion Oil Company has begun work on a new pipe line system, reaching seven miles to the Santa Fe railroad. In the Los Angeles field ofl operators want the limitations which the city has established | about the parks to protect them from for- | ests of oil derricks near by, removed, and | the issue is a burning one. The old Union copper mine at Copper- opolis, which was once the chief copper mine of the State but which has been idle | since 1893, is to be really pumped out at| |last. The pumps were started to work | last week, and Copperopolis was glad, for if the mine were worked to its full capac- ity it would employ several hundred men \and put life into the region again. It is | not known whether the Boston owners | are pumping out the mine to sell it or to | work it. G. McM. Ross, recently in | charge of the work of unwatering the Comstock mines, is superintendent. The work of unwatering will be conducted slowly and will take three months or more, because the water, which is strong- ly impregnated with ‘copper, will be leached in vats, in which the copper will | be precipitated on scraps of iron and tin, producing copper cement in the usual way. : The Miners' Association of Nevada County has elected the following officers: Fred Zeitler, president; George Mainhart, Vice president; W. F. Englebright, secre- tary; James F. Colley, assistant secre- tar; F. Snell, treasurer. Executive committee—R. C. Walrath, C. J. Brand, George Fletcher, D. B. Marwick, J. 8. Mc- | Bride, C. T. Worthley, C. D. Eastin, O. K. Cloudman, John Fay, L. L. Myers, H. C. Schroeder. According to the report of the secretary and treasurer, the collec- tions for the year were $383.55. There had | been paid to the State Association $852.50. Mining in the Salmon River section dur- ing the coming year promises to be more | extensively carried on than ever before, especially if we have a good winter in the | way of snow and rain, says the Yreka Journal. At present, owing to the last | dry winter, water is very arce and sev- | eral quartz mines, as well as placer aims, have been shut down in working. | All along the Salmon River and tribu- taries, clear up into the Cecilville, Know Nothing Creek, Methodist Creek,” Coffee Creek and other districts adjacent to the Trinity County border, rich mines exist that only need plenty of water for getting gold in immense quantities. . The investments in mining property in the Gazelle district is becoming quite ex- tensive, and with thorough development may prove to be one of the richest min- ing sections on the coast. This locality abounds in immense ledges of quartz co taining_gold. silver and copper, not sup- posed heretofore fo be rich enough for | working. It would be a good locality for smelting works, as the vast area of quartz ledges seems to be unlimited in extent.— Yreka Journal. The mines known as the Keystone Con- solidated, at Amador City, are in a fair way to pass into other hands. The rea- son for selling is to avoid litigation be- tween two of the mines to be consolidated, namely, Keystone and South Spring Hill, | both of which have yielded much wealth to their owners, the former about $15.- 000,000. Ground has been broken at the Qneida_mine for a 60-stamp mill and a large boarding house. This mine wiil probably be one of the first among _the new mines to swing into line as a divi- dend payer in 1300.—Amador Republican, | Everywhere throughout Calaveras | County there is a pronounced revival in the mining Industry. This fact is appar- | ent not only at home but recognized throughout the State. The output of gold will be largely increased in 1899 over any previous year since the beginning of quartz mining.—Calaveras Citizen. AROUND THE is at the Grand. P. C. Drescher of the Sacramento Bee is at the California. W. I. Smart, a mine owner of Placer- ville, is at the Lick. P. Reichling, a wealthy mining man of Jackson, is a guest at the Grand. L. R. Stuart, a leading business man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Grand. W. A. Sanders, an Alaskan capitalist, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. . C. Joergery, a German globe-trotter, was among the arrivals yesterday at the Palace, Levi Chase, one of the foremost mer- Occidental. is at the Lick, where he arrived yester- day morning. Dr, B. Taylor, U. S. A., who arrived yes- terday on the Gaelic from Manila, is stay- ing at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stimson, prominent the recent arrivals at the Palace. Keize 'Sano and T. Tkedo, two Japanese merchants, arrived yesterday on the Gae- lic and registered at the Palace. Mrs. E. J. Chamberlin of Eureka, Cal., is at the Grand. This lady is one of the leading temperance advocates in the State. 7 Mr. and Mrs. Peters, prominent in the social and business lite of Truckee, have come down to the city and are registered at the Lick, Douglas Hardy, a wealthy Englishman, who is traveling for pleasure around the world, is at the California. Mr. Hardy is accompanied by his wife. Ex-United States Senator Warner Mil- ler, accompanied by his daughter, has re- turned to the Palace after a short absence in the southern part of the State. Lieutenant General Ganford of the Brit- ish army in India is a guest at the Occi- " | Gaelic. The general is on his way home to England on leave of absence. Major Archie G. B. Winston of the Brit- ish marine corps is a guest at the Califor- nia. He was attached to the Powerful, and having served his time on the Asiatic been equaled in the lifetime of any of us. At any |Station is on his way home for orders. event, I never saw the equal of it.” The admirai 5 NEW! FORE: 1E: should now come to San Francisco and see how BeoX ACH WAVIES casy we can beat Boston. Srwoee Now let all independent voters and good citizens of every party stand in with the Republicans and start the new era in the municipality with an ad- ministration to be proud of. Sl If the Grand Jury fail to take a fall out of the School Board a whole lot of people will be asking the reason why. The orders for the British cruisers Powerful and Terrible to pass through the they will rendezvous at Cape Town. An increased scale of pay went into ef- fect in the British dockyards September 9. It affects 5000 skilled men, 2e aver- age wages of which was $5 25 before the raise and is now $6. The Vulcan Engineering and Ship-build- ing Works at Shettin, which is rated as the most prominent yard in Germany for CORRIDORS | A. C. Maude, a capitalist of Bakersfield, | chants of San Diego, is a guest at the | T. W. Patterson, a Fresno fruit man, society people of Los Angeles, are among | dental, where he arrived yesterday on ihe | Suez Canal have been countermanded and | war-vessel construction, is located along the River Oder and has an area of 62 acres with a water front of 1756 feet. The yard contains seven building slips, two of which will allow vessels of 700 feet fn length. Each slip has its plant of tools, which, although expensive in first cost, saves much time subsequently. Next April naval maneuvers will be held on the largest scale yet attempted in Japan. About 160 veseels will participate. including the two new battleships Hat- suse and Shikishima. The Emperor will be in command, and the programme will be carried out as though the vessles were actually engaging an enemy. It is ex- | pected that all the foreign squadrons in | Far Eastern waters will assemble to wit- | ness the maneuvers. The erroneous idea seems to prevail in this country that the good gunnery ex- hibited during the recent war with Spain | was due to the fact to much attention | and large expenditures in our navy on | this very important object. According to | the statement made in a recent issue o | the Army uand Navy Journal of New York the total cost of the naval ammunition expended during the Spanish-American war was not one-fifth as great as the amount expended annually in the British navy in practice. It cost $45,000 in shells and powder to destroy the Spanish squad- ron in Manila Bay, being at the rate of | $8 50 per round, and the running fight off Santiago cost only about $100,000, or at the rate of $14 25 per roun The largest drydock in Germany is be- ing built at Bremerhaven. It is 722 feet in length, 92 feet in width at entrance and will have nearly 33 feet of water over the i sfll at high tide, making it possible to dock a ship of the greatest draught at |any stage of water. It is constructed of concrete and brick and will cost about $1,500,000, toward which the Government contributes $600,000, for which it secures | the usual right under such conditions of | utilizing the dock for war,vessels in the {event of war or pressing necessity. The city of Bremen contributes $300,000 toward the new dock and a steamship company has made arrangements for docking its steamers, which will insure an annual interest of 5 per cent upon the outlay by the city. The policy of the Italian Government is very liberal toward contractors for naval vessels. In 1895 the Ansaldo Company at Sestri Ponente, near Naples, obtained the contract for an armored cruiser to be called the Garibaldi. When the ship was launched the contractors received an of- fer from the Argentine Republic, and with the Italian Government's approval the ship was sold to the South American re- public, where she is now under the | original name. A second Garibaldi was likewise disposed of to Spain, and named the Christobal Colon—a name mnot un familiar to the people of the United States. The third Garibaldi was turned over to the Argentine Republic and nam- ed the Puerridon, and the fourth Gari- baldi, ostensibly building for the Italian navy, may lilkewise be disposed of. She ‘was begun in September, 1898, and launch- ed in nine months. The ship is an im- provement on her predecessors, being 7293 tons, 13,5600 horse-power, and twenty Kknots speed. The armor is 6-inch nickel steel and the battery is composed of one 10- inch, two S-inch quick-firers and Llourtleer; 6-inch quick-firers. The contract cost o the first Garibaldi was $3,400,000, but the action of the Italian Navy Department, due chiefly to the chronic state of impecuniousness, has enabled the contractors to turn the sum four times over and thus distrjbute $13,600,000 among the workmen of Italy. Orlando Bros., at Leghorn, have re- ceived similar favors, for of three vessels bearing the name of Varesa, two have gone to the Argentine Republic, where they are known as the San Martin and the General Belgrano, and the third Varesa may follow its sister ships or be taken by the Italian Government. The French Mediterranean squadron re- cently had s target firing with large and medium-caliber guns. The vessels were under steam and fired at ran varying from 2200 to 5000 vards. No report has yet been made public of the speed at which the ships moved, nor of the char- acter of the target, but the records of in- dividual ships is as follows: NAME | | Per Ct. OF SHIP., |Rounds.| Hits. | Hits. | Time. Casard . i a7 | | Friant . | a | | Du Chayla. | [ 365 | Linois e I Taureguiberry . |2ase | Galilee . | L | Trehouart ‘ [ 30 | | Chanzy | 2= Martel | 25 Massena ........| i 18 Jemmapes .. SCOPE OF EXAMINER'S SENSE. L'Italia, the Italian newspaper pub- lished in this city, resents in most vigor- ous style the insult to its people published by the Examiner recently. The Call, it appears, invoked the aid of Signor Mar- coni’s most marvelous invention to re- port the international yacht race. To be- little the enterprise of its rival the Ex- aminer sneers at wireless telegraphy as a silly fad, and calls its inventor Signor Macaroni. This is about the full scope of Examiner wit and sense. L'Italia very truthfully says that these guttersnipe in- sulters of Marconi would do well to re- member that it was the genius of the Italian, Flavio Gioia, which gave to navigation the mariner's compass; physi- cal sclences owe to Torricelli the inven- tion-of the barometer. Volta and Galvani discovered electricity, and Columbus dis- covered America. This last discovery was not an unmixed blessing, however, for it made the Examiner possible—The Wasp. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NO PREMIUM—J. R., Calavaras, Cal. There is no premium on a $5 piece of 183§ nor on one of 1838. This department has announced several times that there is no premium offered for $ pieces cofned after 1834. ISLAND—B. T., California. The island that presents itself to the view of a per- son standing at the northern end of Van Ness avenue and looking across the bay in a northerly direction is Alcatraz and the one beyond is Angel Island. MONTHS FOR MARRIAGES—C. F. A, City. It is usually supposed that May is the unpropituous month for marriages and this view is generally sustained by official figures. In England, June is the favorite month; in Germany. favorite; in Italy Februar; April; Sweden, November, and in Russia, February. HAWAIIAN VESSELS—L. L., Santa Cruz, Cal. Vessels flying the Hawaiian flag will come under the United States laws as soon as Congress makes provision therefor. This department has not the space to devote to the shipping laws of Hawail. If you desire any particular in- formation thereon this department will furnish it. GRANT AND THE JEWS—J. M., Oak- land, Cal. It was while U. S. Grant was at Holly Springs, Miss., in 1862, that he issued an order expelling from his depart- ment within twenty-four hours, “the Jews as a class violating every regulation of orders from W: tained at caused by oil trade established by the Treasury De- partment and also department orders.” his was revoked three wecks later by ington. GREASE SPOTS—B. T., City. There are a number of preparations to be ob- drugstores that will “remove grease spots from a light tan jacket hair,” but this department cannot advertise any of these prepara- tions. 1If you wish to be sure that ‘‘the color shall not be affected or the texture injured” send the garment to a profes- sional cleaner. TWO SQUADRONS—F. 0. B., City. At the time that the Asiatic squadron in Manila Bay commanded by Dewey de- stroyed thé Spanish fleet it 'was made up of the following-named vessels: Olympia, first class cruiser; Baltimore, second rate cruiser; Raleigh, second rate cruiser; Concord, third rate cruiser; Petrel, fourth rate; McCulloch, revenue cutter; Nachan, collier; Zafiro, supply vessel. Sampson’s squadron 'was made up of the New York, Iowa, Indiana, Oregon, Miantonomoh, Fern, Amphitrite, Puri- tan, Terror, Cincinnati, Marblehead, Montgomery, Bancroft, Dolphin, Detroit, Castine, Lancaster, Nashville, Helena, Vicksburg, Wilmington. Newport, Ve- suvius, Machias, Foote, Dupont, Ericsson, Stiletto, Cushlnfi, Porter, Rodgers, Wins- low, Leyden and Samoset. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. * —_——— Specfal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, < In France advertising posters must bear revenue stamps varying in value, accord- ing to the size of the poster. A man who affixed a li-centime stamp on a poster which should have had only a 6-centime stamp, has just been fined 125 francs, or $25, for the offense. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colic, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or ther causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle. —_— e HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, Including fifteen days' board at ho- tel; longer stay, $§2 50 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_———— According to Dr. Schjerning, there wera only 90 cases of tuberculosis last year in a force of 514,830 men. The number of deaths from this disease in the army has been gradually decreasing from .42 per ;Esgusand in 1892 to .24 .per thousand in ADVERTISEMENTS. WhentheBlood is pale, then your lips and cheeks are pale, your nerves weak, and your whole body greatlydebilitated. Thedoc- torssay “You have anzmia.” There’s just one thing you need—something to make the blood rich and red. v, . will certainly do this. It will make the most happy changes for you, and soon your old strength and ac- tivity will return. Soc. and $z.0s, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.