The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1899. th fou JOKN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieter. | T Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. i e | PUBLICATION CFFICE...... Market and Thiré Sts., S. F Telephons Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1574 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year.. 86.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § months.. .00 DAILY CALL (ind ng Eunday Call), 8 months t:fl o DAILY CALL—By BUNDAY CALL WEEKLY CALL All postmas authorized to recefv. subscriptions. Eampls coples will be forwarded when raquested. ...908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Menager Foreign Advertising, Marquetto Building, Chicago. NEW YORK COR! €. C. CARLTON. NEW YORK RUIPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. ..29 Tribune Bullding RESPONDENT 1 st Herald Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS., Ehermsn Mouse; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Meteli Fremont House; Aucitorium H NEW YORK NEWS STANDS, storia Hotel, A. Brentano, 31 Uniom Hotol. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ‘Welllngton Hotol d. L. ENGLISH, Corrcspondent. Waldort. Bquare} Murray Hi reasonable antagonisms. | sippi Valley. rai PACIFIC COAST INTERESTS. S the movement startetl by the Traffic Associa- tion to bring about the appointment of a rep- resentative of the Pacific Coast to the Inter- state Commerce Commission is designed for the benefit of all the interests of the coast, it follows there is no point of the issue over which there can be any It is a movement in which 1l the forces of the States of this section of the Union can unite and work in harmony. So great is the solidarity of the Pacific Coast in- terests in the contest with Chicago and St. Louis in the fixing of freight rates, that not even the railroad | which so irequently opposes itself to the welfare of California can find any ground for antagonizing the movement. Rates fixed to protect the commerce and the industries of the coast would not be unjust nor It is as easy to adjust unprofitable to the railroads. them in a manner fair to the coast as to fix them ac- | cording to the schemes of the big cities of the Missis- Between the contending claims the roads can at least be impartial, and it is even prob- | able that if a comprehensive view be taken of the question the railway magnates may see it will be of advantage to them to build up the business of the s rather than to weaken it State and the coast generall in the interests of other sections. As the maintenance and extension of the trade of the coast do nat entail any loss upon the railroads that carry the goods that are handled in the trade, neither would the appointment of a Pacific Coast rep- | resentative on the Interstate Commerce Commission ERANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 ©:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street. open untll c'clock. 6!5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. i841 Mission street, open untii 10 o'clock. 22C' Market street. corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Tweaty= second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clol AUCTION SALES. ‘, i October 23, at 10 o'clock, , at 11 o'clock, Horses, at corner y, at 11 o'clock, Horses, etc., at 1515 —Tuesday, October 24, at 12 ket street. ridge & ( at 635 ) STILL EXPANDING. RAL weeks ago it was pointed out that | so active that it had got ahead of of cash, and now it appears that of From all the same complaint of lack oduce and merchandise. At Chi- there were thirty miles of cars tied up t week, while here at home the supply is | d. As for ocean carriers, they been scarce for some time, so much so that San | 1ts have been unable to fill all their 1 cars. ead of the supply 1e de s adverse condition the trade of the yace. Returns of export trade do | the effect of recent advances in d show the movement of merchandise ; September to have been the best re- at month, being per cent larger than 6 per cent larger than September ago. For the nine months our exports ex- > of 188 by 4 per cent, 2 maintenance of indicate a total export for the 1809 of $1,300,000,000, which total, till further exceeded if the freight | s continue to exhibit number of lines show ad- The final outbreak of war in produced no appreciable effect on British will tend to ease off wheat | , especially as England needs sish her depleted supply. ictory on Fri- | _ondon stock market materially | 2 firmer tone in New York, as foreign buying of our securities. | had been discounted. ed gs of the country reflect the immense [ ade, the gain last week being 48 per cent cek in 1808, Omaha being the only | to exhibit a falling off. The failure: | | | hat the enormous buying movement | off before g. Already purchasing | checked in some lines, either because prices | sen too high to suit buyers, or because the | e past year has at last fully demand. The majority of lines, how- | il report a steady expansion. The fcverish\ n iron and steel is shown by the gain of 122 | 1 the Pittsburg bank clearings. The minor s. however, are now dull, and copper and tin | There have been large speculative | ses of wool, those at the three principal mar- ast amounting to 11,293,000 pounds, | is a twice the consumption. coast general conditions could hardly be | better. Early and copious rains have brightened an | atmosphere which cer y was not gloonty before. From all over the State come reports of an active | demand for goods, easy collections, fine prices for | most commodities and, of course, a scarcity of cars. | There are no complaints from any quarter, and the croaker has apparently ceased,to exist in the land. | All the situation needs is a moderate advance in wheat to make it about as perfect as a commercial situa- tion can be. The year 1809 will go down ‘into jocal agricultural history as one of the very best on record, and we shall be doubly fortunate if 1900 turns out as well, as it promises now to do. o e e lo week bout Another appointee of the Dan Burns Board of Health has distinguished himself at the Receiving | Hospital. This time the police authorities are the ac- I cusers. They claim that the brutal inaction of “Dr.” | Fred Starr was directly responsible for the death of | Mrs. Pauline Hornech. The centers of the old world will soon be stirred to their very depths as a result of the present activity in California. A great many things are being done in oil. | of it either by defect of personal character or by rea- | son of his affiliati | common cause. gonism to the welfare of the trans- It would, of course, be objec- imply any an portat panies. ve a rank demagogue on the commis- sion using ial power to harass the roads, just as it would be objectionable to have in the office 2 Iroad tool, using his official power to support extortionate rates or unfair discriminations. It is not at all likely, however, that either a demagogueora cor- po or would receive the appoi rank ion attorney will be recommended for the place ent if recommended. tm The movement has been started in behalf of no par- ticulat individual, and it is certain the promoters of it will not give support to any man who is unworthy h for once all the in- It is a| matter which concerns the welfare of every city west of the mountains and every class of people, Wash- | ington, Oregon and California stand side by side in Merc and It moreover mated by good motives We have then an fluential forces of the coast can be united. this emergency. farmers have a ants movement ani- It is right that this section of the Union should have a representative on the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, it is right that the commercial interests of our is a nd seeking only justice. cities should be duly considered in every question of rates that affects them The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided that a w fer no pecuniary loss in the aliena- tion of her husband's affections. There must be a great many gold bricks among the husbands of the Bay State. e can sul There has never been, perhaps, in the political his- tory of San Francisco a time as when the “present incumbent” was so fiércely and numerously | abroad in the land. K of those speeches by which he reveals an am- pursue a much more enterprising course than he has been able to undertake, and once more he repeats his favorite dogma: The Kaiser is | the Government, and it is the duty of the German people to obey and to trust the sovereign ordained | by heaven to rule over them. \ The occasion of the new declaration of imperial now, SEE]ES I(AISER AMBITION. | AISER WILLIAM has once more made one bition to | policy was the launching of the warship Kaiser Karl der Grosse at Hamburg. The Emperor reminded his audience that he had long desired to increase the naval strength of the empire, but had been baffled by the opposition parties among the people. He then went on to say: “If that class of reinforcements had not been refused me during the first eight years of my reign, refused despite my %urgent requests and admonitions, refused with scorn and even mockery, how different matters would have been now. We should be able to push our thriving trade and com- merce over the seas.” The significance of the -words cannot be mistaken. Had the Kaiser been in command of a stronger navy | he would have ventured more than he has ventured. In what direction his enterprises would have been ushed no intimation is given, but the world is aware | that he desires to promote German commerce -in China, in Syria, in Africa and among islands of the Pacific. In every effort he has come into conflict | with some other of the great powers of the earth. | In China and in Syria he has had to confront both | Russia and Great Britain, and, while those nations have not been united against him, neither has either of them consented to support his plans. He once in a notable letter to President Kruger gave evidence of a willingness to support the Transvaal in the con- test with Great Britain, but by the swift gathering of | the flying squadron ready for war the British gave him reason to pause, amd his African schemes were | baffied. He has been equally unlucky in his ventures among the islands of the Pacific, for the United States have stayed his hand in Samoa and have fore- stalled any designs he may have had on the Philip- pines. It is under such circumstances the Kaiser informs | his people that conditions wonld be widely different had the Reichstag given him the strong navy he de- | sires. He would then. he says, have been able to push German commerce, which means, of course, he ! would have been willing to enter upon war for im- perial aggrandizement had he been strong enough to win. It goes without saying the speech will be noted; by foreign nations as well as by the Germans. Great | Britain involved in a war in South Africa with the stubborn Boers will find a new reason for calling out her reserves and making ready for any emergency that may happen. The Kaiser has. by no mc:m‘-; abandoned his ambitions. On the contrary, he deems the time favorable to press them once more on his people. He invokes them to abandon government by party. “The face of the world,” he says, “has changed | greatly during the last few years. What formerly | required centuries is now accomplished in .a few months. The task of Kaiser and Government has consequently grown beyond measure and a solution will only be possible when the German people re- | nounce party division. Standing in serried ranks be- hind the Kaiser, proud of their great fatherland and | on in a yacht race. | ments could not agree upon the line at which the | ing a great service to both nations. | fied with the line agreed upon. | our Government has claimed. | porary possession of a port on Lynn Canal. | pectation that he will yet be able to bring all our dis- C | of business by great aggregations of capital, and a | prospects now encourage the belief that much of that conscious of their real worth, the Germans must watch the development of foreign states. They must make sacrifices for their position as a world power, and, abandoning party spirif, they must stand united behind their Princes and Emperor.” The speech gives notice that William is not willing that the United States, Russia and Great Britain shall be the only world powers. It is his intention that Germany shall be a partner in the spoils. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY. ITH the formal acceptance by Great Britain W of the proposition of Secretary Hay for the temporary adjustment of the Alaskan boun- dary line, the possibility of any vexatious conflicts among the miners and other settlers along the dis- puted border has been removed. The provisional line stands until the discussion over the boundary is finally setted by diplomacy after a thorough study of the whole subject. It is in fact probable the tem- porary line will be confirmed and made permanent, and that the old dispute will no longer be a cause of friction between ourselves and Canada. While there was never any likelihood that war would grow out of the controversy, there was risk of serious complications so long as the two govern- sovereignty of the one stopped and the other began. The discovery of gold in the Porcupine district within the disputed zone added to the apprehensions of the statesmen of both nations and undoubtedly did much to hasten an agreement upon the modus vivendi which has now gone into effect. There is another cause of gratification over the set- | tlement of the boundary dispute. It is well known that the boundary has been the stumbling block in the way of the Joint High Commission appointed to arrange a settlement of all matters in dispute between the United States and Canada. Now that it is out of the way the commission can resume its sessions and proceed to the consideration of the issues that ra- main. It will moreover have now a bright prospect of solving all the problems before it and thus render- The American people have every reason to be satis- In the final revision it is said in the reports from Washington that the | temporary boundary on the west by the Dalton trail is placed twenty-two and a quarter miles above Pyra- mid Harbor, which is regarded under the treaty as tidewater mark, so the Canadians are not allowed to | reach any point on the Lynn Canal. Moreover, there | is no permission given for a free port or even for the free transfer across American territory of Canadian goods, except of miners’ belongings. These matters may figure later, when it comes to a permanent boundary line, but they are not touched upon in this modus. The line on the Chilkat River is twenty-two and a quarter statute miles from the head of naviga- tion on Chilkat Inlet of Lynn Canal, and on the Klehini River twelve miles farther inland, and the whole valley of the Porcupine is included within the American lines. As to White and Chilkoot passes, the line is fixed at the summit, or watershed, being the points which for some time past have been ob- | served by the customs authorities of the two coun- tries. The line it will be seen retains for Alaska all that It is not a compro- and Canada does not get even tem- Secre- tary Hay has once more proven his fitness for the high office he holds and given reason for a sanguine ex- mise boundary, putes with Canada to a satisfactory conclusion. CHANCES FOR INVESTMENT. OMMENTING upon the changes which have been wrought in the industrial conditions of | the Eastern States by the development and ex tension of the “trust” system of managing indu: tries, the New York Post says: ‘It is an extraord: nary fact that while everybody says that the coun- | try is prosperous there are a good many places in which manufacturing has flourished where men are being thrown out of work and the local outlook for | the future is discouraging.” After citing several cases of the kind, it adds: 3 “In some of the smaller places which have experi- enced similar adversity the action of a trust is respon- | sible. In other cases the result is due to the same | primary cause, even if there is no trust in the industry affected—the fact that the aggregation of capital in large places and its superior efficiency there have ren- dered it impossible for the manufacturer in the small town longer to carry on his business profitably.” How far that statement may be true of the Eastern States we have np means of knowing, but the Post is in error when it asserts that similar conditions pre- vail all over the Union. It says: “A business man from a city east of the Mississippi who was going to San Francisco was asked by three or four friends to look around and see if there was an opening for them to invest some spare capital in a promising industry—$15,000 to $25000 apiece. They could not discover a good opening at home, and thought that probably conditions must be better on the Pacific Coast: The investigator brought back a most digcouraging report. In California, as east of the Rockies, the tendency is strong toward the doing sum which once seemed quite large enough to estab- lish a new industry seems now too small and weak for consideration.” It would be interesting to know in what part of California the investigations of that expert were made and what kind of investments he was looking for. It is safe to say there is not a county in California where investments of $15,000 to $25,000 in some kind of manufacturing enterprise could not be profitably made, if the man who undertakes the factory under- stands his business. There are all kinds of openings’| in the State for business men with a moderate amount of capital, and the skilled men of the East who can- not compete with the big trusts of that section can find ample opportunities here for doing an independ- ent business and making a profit out of it. That the industries of California have suffered something of a handicap by reason of the unjust dis- criminations of transportation rates is true, ‘but all & evil will be unknown in the future. In the first place there is to be a transcontinental freight com- petition which was not enjoyed in the past, and in the second place the people of the coast are now more earnest in standing up for their rights than they have been. Taking all things into consideration therefore we can safely invite the Eastern manufactur- ers to come West. There is plenty of room and good profits for an almost unlimited amount of $25,000 in- vestments in California. e — If local Democratic orators persist in mixing their metaphors in their encomiums of Mayor Phelan his Honor will be everything from a ship of state to an Uitlander. ; Ml It is now clear the “Lipton luck” won’t do to bet investigated was that of-a dam at 1 Narrows, but a series of borings showed ] STATE MINERS' GONVENTION. STORY OF ITS MAIN ISSUES The elghth annual convention of the California Miners' Association, which be- gins a three-day session in‘San Fran- cisco to-day, will interest the mining population of the State in many ways. Besides the important material questions affecting the Industry to be discussed, this big association and these big conventions serve a valuable purpose in giving unity of force and a sense of solidarity to the mining people who compose so large a proportion of the State’s population. They do a great deal to stimulate indus- trial patriotism among men who are al- ways proud of their great industry, which more than any other industry is free from grinding competition and which does not create wealth at the expense of others. While the California Miners’ Association exists to secure practical benefits for the miners, its members constantly display an unselfish loyalty to and pride in the mining industry and its great future in California. The $30,000 or so which h: gone Into the treasury of the association since 1892 has been freely contributed by men of large and of small means in the city and in the mountains to keep the in- dustry as a whole and without definite calculations of what dollars were coming back and how. The prospects of the convention ap- peared as bright as ever yesterday, full county delegations which began to arrive vesterday promising to appear to-day, making up a gathering of several hun- dred representative mining men. It can- not be foretold how many of the dele- gates appointed by the Governors of seven Western States will put in an ap- pearance. The report of the committee on resolu- tions, which will be the main business of Tuesday, will in the main cover the scope of the convention’s business and declare its opinions and demands. Many resolu- tions have already been prepared for %uhmission and some will cause lively de- ate, The miners’ demands for a Cabinet de- partment of mines in recognition of the importance of an industry which produces annually nearly $300,000,000 worth of raw material for the industrial life of the na- tion will be again expressed. The Caltfor- nid Miners’ soclation Is really the father of this movement, having been early in its history the first organized body to start this agitation. As a result of its ef- forts this demand has throughout the West, and has been strongly indorsed by Bastern influences. A great many State and inter-State gath- erings have resolved in favor of the meas- ure, and a good deal of direct effort has been made in Washington. Tirey L. Ford, who has long been active in favor of this measure in behalf of the association, and who is the present chairman of the com- mittee in this matter, will report its status, which is not yet very encouraging. The question in the near future will be mixed up with proposed colonial and commercial Cabinet departments, and its Congressional backers may en- deavor to gain strength by, -trad- ing support. The miners’ Interests are now in the hands of the land department, the geological survey, the mint bureau and other bureaus and departments, and are everywhere made subordinate.” One proposed solution, and one easier gained, is the creation of a bureau of mining in the Interior Depart- ment, in which the geological survey and other governmental functions would be gathered, and which would have addition- al functions directly concerning the min- ing industry created for it. The miners naturally insist on a full Cabinet depart- ment. The many similar departments of foreign governments, inciuding several British colonies, illustrate the value of such departments. In taking up the question of the con- servation of water in an active way at this convention the association is not fol- lowing the efforts of any other body. A year ago the association recognized the vast importance to the industry of water storage and control and appointed a com- mitte¢ thereon, of which Surveyor Geu- eral J. M. Gleaves was made chairman. This ‘committee wisely invited co-opera- tion and organized the California Water and Forest Society. A delegation to Sacramento tried to get an appropriation for a preliminary survey of the State's water resources, but failed, thanks main- ly to Governor Gage. The Water and Forest Society went into a decline and lost interest in nestling lakes and bab- bling brooks, but its soul went marching s recent movements have shown. sociation will declare its policy on | this live issue and be an important factor in the general efforts that will follow. How the convention divides on the ques- ton of State and Federal sovereignty ot water storage will be a matter of interest and champions of both sides are on hand. This convention will be an important influence in the domain of American min- ing law. Its resolutions and committees on the revision of the Federal mining law of 1872 will cut a large figure in the efforts of the near future to have this law re- cast and to secure Congressional legisla- tion correcting departmental policies and rulings on this law and the land laws, which give the miner the worst of it as a rule when there is any worst to be given. It should be remembered in noting the value and prestige of the California Min- ers’ Association that, as it represents directly a united membership of voters, and indirectly the entire mining gopulation of the State, the Congressional elegation from this State Is always ready to follow almost implicitly its policies when simply the mining interests are con- cerned. Another resolution that will likely pass will create a committee on State mining legislation, which will be instructed to re- port to the convention next year a State mining location law and other legislation to be submitted to the next Legisiature, It will be hoped that this committee will succeed in framing a law supplementary to the Federal law that will be generally satisfactory to the miners and that sug- gestions will be asked from all sources. One important matter which promises much lively discussion is the policy to be pursued in defending the validity of the Caminetti law from the attacks whi.h the nearly defunct Anti-Debris Associa- tion has begun. Suit was brought against the Kate Hayes hydraulic mine some time ago and later the Red Dog hydraulic mine of Nevada County was temporarily enjoined by the Superior Court of Yuba and Sutter counties on suit by Robert T. Devlin, manager and attorney of the Anti- Debris Assoclation, who broufht suit in the name of Yuba County, alleging that the mine was damaging the bed and bridges of the Feather River below, al- though the mine was operated behind a dam inspected and licensed by the Federal engineers, composing the California Debris Commission, in whose hands tue Caminetti law places absolute control of hydraulic mining in the basms of navigable streams in this State. The plaintiff alleged that the action of the engineers was subject to review by a State court, and_ that a hydraulic mine could be enjoined by a State court, L.e law being unconstitutional in conveying exclusive jurisdiction to the board of en- gineers. As the very life essence of the law of 1893 was assailed the executive committee in July last assumed the full defense of the South Yuba Mining Com- pany, which owns the Red Dog mine, and engaged Attorney C. W. Cross at the as- sociation’s expense. The question as to whether the associa- tion should assume the defense of all hy- draulic miners similarly interfered with or limits its defense to a full test of the law in one suit will be a matter of dis- pute with little doubt. Besides holding what it has gained in the interest of hydraulic mining, the as- sociation has future legislation and future appropriations for dams and river im- provements to plan and labor for, and this will cut a figure. The miners want re- straining dams to hold the debris the water from their monitors washes down the steeps. But they can’t go very far into new legislation concerning debris-re- atm{nini dams_until the Federal engin- eers make up their minds' what they are oing to do with the $500,000 which has ain for four years in equal amounts in the State and national treasuries for the Luilding of dams. They have waited ever since, and wondered when dirt would be- gin to fly, and they are waiting yet. It may be announced, however, that the engineers will likely report 4 plan for the expenditure of the money to Washington just before Congress convenes. For over two years Hubert Vischer, an engineer to whom they have delegated the work, has been making surveys and borings in the basin of the Yuba River, which is the stream holding the most debris. One ’;!I‘:n e become general | bedrock to lie eighty feet or more deep, and a dam would cost the whole sum. For some time Mr. Vischer has been mak- dam at De ing investigations for a n Giterre Polr , and Is yet working there. The whole river and région has ben care- | fully surveyed, and several possible plans lm\‘z been considered. Lieutenant Deakyn | states a final report will probably be ready next montl, e “There are importan ] rty rights ihvolved. " says Mr. Deakyn, nd if it were announced what our de- cision was in advance some people would ask exhorbitant prices for their land. Hence it would not be judicious to say ;mw what plan we are most inclined to avor.” i i That is about all the convention will learn of the status of dam construction. It may possibly begin next year, and then more money can be asked for. ions of prop- The mineral lands question fs tied up with the bill long pending In. Congress providing for the segregation of mineral :|and agricultural lands in railroad grants |in California and the salvation of several million acres to the mining industry. The sociation will have this bill to back at ceming session of Congress. The mining exhibit for the Paris Ex- position may be one topic. The execu- committee by special efforts got e last Legislature to increase the ap- tion from $120,000 to $130,000, with standing that the increase the mining exhibit. The Paris commi sion is getting up a fine mining displa and has secured exceptional space in the mining_department for the California ex- hibit. Under the direction of A, Ekman, a llection is being made, and the State will fare better than any other one in this fleld, but many miners suspect that the commission will devote but a part of that 325,000 to mining, and besides the exhibit much could be done in an adver- tising way. The commission has not re- ported its intentions and some are in- clined to kick. i Then there is Governor Gage and the Mining Bureau. When the Legislature appropriated $50,000 a year for the bureau it stipulated for field work in the mining regions to be done by experts, to be ap- pointed by the Governor instead of by the State Mineralogist. That was a long time ago, and this is about the only patronage tiie Governor has not got around to. Four months of the fiscal yvear have gone and the Mining Bureau has not done a lick of field work, or rather the Governor has not. The Mining Bureau is confining its functions to the Ferry butlding and field men are not. J. H. Means has gone to China. F. C. Mathyas is helping A. Ek man on the Paris_exhibit. . L. Watts, the oil expert, ended his connection with the burcau June 3). Some questions may be asked in the convention. There will be a number of other matters brought up, and a number of other features to a lively and interesting three days’' meeting in which sociability, an ‘election’ and many speeches will cut figures. Some things of interest will doubtless be heard from delegates from other States, of which thére will be a number. Reports will show a year of activity and prosperity, during which the associa- tion has done much and grown much. The report of Secretary E. H. Benjamin will outline the year's work. The execu- tive committee as a whole at its six meet- ings and through its standing committees did a large number of things. The State Legislature secured, the State convention on the conservation of water of a few s ago, the meeting of the American itute of Mining KEngineers in San ancisco, the publication of California Mines and Minerals and the organization of the Southern California branch were competent items of the transactions since the last annual convention. The associa- tion was never so representative of the whole industry as now, and it promises to grow much in membership and Influ- ence during the next year. J. B. DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. H. McKenzie, a Fresno banker, one of the recent arrivals at the Lick. Dr. T. D. Blodgett, one of the leading medical men of Tulare, 1s at the Grand. Professor E. T. Pierce, head of the Los Angeles High School, 1s a guest at the Lick. D. C. O'Reflly, a prominent business man of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Palace. S. Runnelsburg, one of the leading busi- ness men of Suisun, is a guest at the Grand. H. W. Canfield, a Santa Barbara cap- italist, is staying at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday morning. Bailey Willis of the United States Geo- logical Survey is registered at the Occi- dental with his wife from Washington, D. C. W. H. Hurlburt, general passenger agent of the Oregon Rallroad and Naviga- | tion Company, is registered at the Califor- nia from Portland. Louis T. Wright, manager of the Iron Mountain mine, is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday from Keswick to attend the miners’ convention. A large delegation of mining men who have come to attend the mining conven- tion arrived on the belated overland last evening and registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hammon are regis- tered at the Palace from thelr home in Oroville. Mr. Hammon is a large mine- owner, who has come down to this city to attend the mining men's convention. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Four submarine boats are to be built at Rochefort after plans submitted by Engineer Maugras. They have been named Farfadet, Gnome, Kerrigow and Lutin, and are differant from the Nar- whal type, of which no more will be built until the original has established its utility. Vickers at Barrows are utilizing the once-famous trans-Atlantic liner Alaska as a boarding house for workmen in the shipyard. The ship is fitted up with din- ing, smoking, reading and recreation rooms, and has thus far one hundred rooms for boarders,. who are charged, $3 50, $3 75 or § a week, according to size and location of rooms. Further exten- sion of the project is contemplated. The German Emperor has ordered a change in titles of the lower grade naval is officers. *“Kadett” will henceforth be styled “see kadett,” the former ‘'see- kadett” as ‘faenrich zur see,” - the “‘unter lieutenant zur see” as ‘'lieutenant zur see,” and the “lieutenant zur see” as ‘“‘ober lieutenant zur see.” The new titles are those used in the Austrian navy, but they appear somewhat cumbersome when compared with those in the British and the United States navies. The naval authorities at Portsmouth dockyard are investigating the mysterious disappearance of two confidential signal books from the depot ship Duke of Wel- lington. A similar incident occurred about two years ago, the thief was discovered and the books recovered. The missing books are the signals in use of the navy, but they are not the secret code, which are very carefully guarded under lock and key and for which the captain is held per- sonally responsible. There is, however, a manifest uneasiness shown by the naval ofticers who are trying to locate the miss- ing books. The Marine Engineer of London is au- thority for the statement that during the recent British naval maneuvers one of the 11,000 ton cruisers fitted with Belle- ville boilers required only three minutes to increase the speed from 8 to 18 knots. The Japanese armored cruiser Idzuma of 9750 tons was launched at Elswick Sep-- tember 19. Her dimensions are: Length, 400 feet; breadth, 68 feet 6 inches; draught, 24 feet 3 inches. The engines are of 14 horsepower to give a speed of 20% knots, and the armament consists of four 8-inch guns twin-mounted in barbettes, fourteen ¢-inch quick-firers and seventeen 12-| ounders, supplemented rx:zerged torpedo tubes. The water-line belt is of 7-inch Harveyized s_lee]. taperin the ends; the citadel is 5 inches and barbettes and casemates of nickel 6 inches thick, while the conning tow 14 inches thick. The coal capaciw is 10 tons. A new scale of pay has been establi in the Japanese navy. The salaries fecting s officers embrace fifteen grad indicating a very minute subdivis responding probably to that of some 1 vies where length of service in certs grades entitles the officer to increas pay. The new scale is an increase ov the old pay, and a comparision with ti | salaries paid to officers of like grades our navy shows that the Japanese na service offers no temptation to fereigr to join it, even if the Government should permit it. Highest pay of naval navies of Japan and the Un officers in the ited State | United Grades | Japan States. Admiral $3,000] Rear Adm Captain Comma Lieut. Commander. | Lieutenant .. Lieutenant, junior. Ensign . = | a The vice admiral in the Japanese navy | recetves $2000, and a chief boatswain in the United States navy is entitled to $1960 a vear after twenty vears' service. It is @vident that only wealthy persons can | serve on such absu mall pay, and | that it is for honor rather than emolu- | ments which induces Japanese to becomae officers in the nav The trials of the American water-tube | boiler in the British torpedo-boat Shel- | drake have terminated with satisfactory | résults after a very exhaustive test, tabu- | lated as follows: | Four runs of 1000 miles under 1500 horse- | power. | " Two runs of 1000 miles under 1800 horse- | power. | Two runs of 1000 miles under 2000 horse- | power. | One run of 100 miles under 2250 horse- power. | Only three of the four Babcock & Wil- i cox boilers were used, and the primary | object of the tests was to ascertain the | coal consumption under varying horse- { powers, The first series of trials gave | 158 pounds of coal per horsepower pe | hour; " the second series showed LS | pounds; the third test as low as | pounds and the fourth gave a consump- | tion of 162 pounds, all of which trials | gave more economical results than | eylindrical boilers. Another test was mada | to ascertain the time required for the | boiler under full power to cool off suffi- clently to enable the removal of leaky tubes. The fires were suddenly with- drawn, the water blown out and in twenty-four minutes several caps had been taken off ready for drawing the tubes. The average time. required to take out tubes was found to be ten minutes. SUNDAY AT THE PARK. Threatening Weather Results in a Diminution of the Crowd. The people, remembering the- rains of last week, were loth to leave their homes vesterday and dare the elements, and s a result the crowds at the park and | beach were small. The drive was ordi- narily large and wheelmen were out by | the sc The efforts of the park po- lice to put an end to scorching is gradu- ally effecting the desired result, but it will take some time. Four violators of the anti-scorching ordinance were ar- rested by the police during the afternoon and_taken to the station. They were M. P. Van Horn, 412 Linden avenue; % Lewis, 317 Gough street; Dr. A. W. Baker, 1812 Lyon street, and W. P. Longwill, 14 Stanley_place. Mrs. Berger, who resides at 1813 Mason street, narrowly escaped serious injury while out riding. Her horse took fright near the Baker street entrance of the park and bolted. Mounted Officer M. DeLaguerra gave chase and once grasped the plunging animal's bit, but it broka away and continued its flight. The of- ficer managed to keep neck and neck with the runaway until they reached Chicken, Point, where Captain’ Thompson joined in the chase and brought the runaway to a standstill. Mrs. Berger managed to keep the saddle during the exciting run, and her good riding was the cause of | much comment. The runaway was taken | to the stable and Mrs. Berger was con- | veyed to her home. | The crowd at the Chutes was as en- | thusiastic as usual, although some ex- | pressed disappointment over the fact that Adgie did not enter the cage with Wal- lace, the Chutes lion. Last Friday Wal- lace severely injured his trainer and as he has since been in bad temper the management refused to let the noted lion tamer perform witn him. Adgie's as- sistant, Hall, will take Wallace in hand this week, however, and next week he will perform with the savage beast while Adgie is doing her turn with her trained animals. Major Mite is still the at- traction at the Chutes and promises to occupy that position for several weeks to come. A large number of spectators was in at- tendance at Sutro Baths to witness the various aquatic contests. Following are the results: o Fifty-yard dash, novice, J. Laird first, F. . Juvenile, J. Mor- 19-yard tub race, B, , C. Augustus cond, L. Bou- din third; trick and fancy spring-board diving, McCormick first, J. O’'Brien second; trapeze and high diving, Professor Raymous first, Pro- fessor Baker secon: under-water swimming contest, J. O. 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