The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1899, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUN DAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1899. 1899 12, .NOVEMBER KELS, Proprietor. : B e nications to W, S. LEAKE, Manager. A S N UFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Maln 1868, ROOMS ..£IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Matn 1574, DELIVERED BY CA! . 15 CENTS PER WEEXK. &ingl 5 cents. by Mail, Including Postage ing Sunday Call), one year. Sunday Call), $ months. y Call), $ months JOHN D. SPREC FUBLICA EDITORIAL Coples, 26.00 3.00 1.50 650 1.50 5% 1.00 iv. subscriptions. arded when r:quested. tes will ba CAKLAND OFFICE.. eereacias 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Bullding, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: £ COCARLTON. .t 50 -.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: UKENS JR. 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO WS ETANDS. Bherman House; P. O. News Great Northern Hotslj it House; Auditorium EW YORK NEWS 6TANDS. Astorie. Hotel; A. Drentano, 31 Union Squaret otel Welilngton Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. EBRANCH OFFCES—-S27 Montgomery street, corner Clay, 30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market gtreet, corner Elxteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh treét, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner T cond and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o AMUSEMENTS. Orpheun—Va udeville, Sad Sea Waves." at Happened to Jones Africaine. “The Merry Mona —*'A Lady of Qualit rater—Vaudevi every af n ner Mason and B reets—Specialttes. teeplechase and performances, -day. Quartet, Friday afternoon, AUCTION SALES. mber 14, reet at 7:45 p. m., BLESSING OF THE RAINS. 1 weather and the rains falling d ess and a new stimu rom the minds of the mountain sides and ies. showers there have us 1n the past season and ¢ , ar grain fields and pastures into the ¢ the husbandmen, but there a greater prosperity to come. ht be another drought like ed. Thus far the rain- 1 and central parts of the State has led harvests bringi State a ile the south has not been so for- ospects even there are good. season has begun with an activity alls the abounding energies of boom years. gree be a larger acreage 1 than ever before in the history of the State. t grain farms will be worked to the limit ost improved and potent machinery will be to speed the task. There will be new orchards and new vineyards set out, and the cultiva- tion of olives 3 more ¢ e scale than ever. It is to be a year of progress for rural industry, and every sec- of our diversified State from mountain sides to will exhibit evidences of the beauty and the thrift that are to follow industry. It is not in a material sense only that the rains have brought us blessings. They have revived the bloom and the verdure of the landscape and infused a beauty into every rural vista that cannot fail to have its effect upon the minds of the people. The tourist who comes to California now from out the threaten- ing skies of the East, where morning frosts and chill blasts forebode the coming of blizzards and dreary drifts of snow, will find himself as he descends the rn slopes of our mountains entering something like an enchanted land. From the purple glow upon the mountains to the emerald green of the grass- covered hills and vali there will be before his eyes as rich a combination of gorgeous colors as ever an artist dreamed of, and through it all will be geen the homes of a prosperous people, bowered in thery e will tior vines and fruit trees, girdled with orchards, adorned | with innumerable blossoms—roses with a thousand s or blooms to the bush, callas illuminating the air with their white splendor and geraniums climbing almost to the eaves of the cottages and brilliant with rlet flowers. n such a land, with such a season, there is no room contented, no ion of anything save their hearts already 1e year, and the celebra- the outward jubilant h is already making It is to be a Californian | sense of the word, will show our Golde rejoici The people 1 a fecling whi faces of all. ar nd through all of its ate worthy the lote le and the admiration of the world. e o e a indicate the alarming fact ” has reared its ugly head in the Phil- is the time for some of San Fran- sco's t heir peculiar qualities will be better appreciated than home. School students of Stockton have adopted a at they will be lonesome if they are good. row that has followed the adoption of the motto ficates that the young people will be more lone- they are not better. The new Lord Mayor of London is said to have a cloudy reputation. Perhaps he is one of those men that show the lights in their character to better ad- e if their past is hidden in the shadows. vantag Now as for Admiral Dewey he would rather have a honeymoon than to run for President. d that of the corresponding period of | 1d of nuts will be undertaken on a | red citizens to migrate to a place where | THE SHIP-BUILDING SYNDICATE. E of the most gigantic combinations of this O day of giant enterprises is that which has now been organized to take control of the great i ship-building yards of the country. The story of the deal, which was published exclusively in The Call yesterday, was the most important news item of the y, and is of interest to every portien of the United States. It is not to be denied that the passing of so great industry as that of the Union Iron Works from the control of local capitalists to that of a syndicate hav- ing its headquarters and its chief irterests on the other side of the continent is to a certain extent menacing to our welfare. So long as there is suffi cient work to employ all the shipyards at its com- mand the syndicate will of course maintain the Union Iron Works up to the present measure of capacity Whenever it becomes ad- visable, however, to shut down any of the works it a that the yard in this city is the one which will be closed. There are many rcasons why it should be so, for ship-building material d { an and will keep it running. most a certai is cheaper in the East than on this coast, and the con- trolling capit: being Eastern n, will be naturally inclined to favor their own section. Thus there is a possibility that an establish- ent which has become the pride of the coast, and | which has constructed such masterpieces in naval { craft as the Oregon, will dwindle in importance and | become eventually hardly more than a repair shop. Fortunately there is no immediate danger of any diminution in the activity of the Union Iron Works. Enough work is now on hand to keep a large num- ber of men employed for a long time. There is now iction there two first-class battle- s of the syndicate, n process c ships, the Wiscor and the Ohio; three torpedo- boat destroy Paul Jones, the Perry and the Preble; nitor Wyoming. Some of these | a ships are quite well advanced, but, none the I eat deal remains to be done when all are taken into consider: It is well known that in addition to the const ion of vessels for the navy the Union n Wor ties. It is the vears or more the syndicate will find it necessary to and perhaps ion much work on hand for private par- re safe to say that for at least two run the wo: at their presen e closes there may be such an expan- capacit before that t m of Am commerce on the Pacific as to keep on the works in An intere: uous oper re of the condition in the ship- ation of of all the ship- ol is the effect ment will have There ernment nds or it must about by the ¢ the 1 the com | varc it w vessels. 1e Gov e syndicate de ion of the »s or extend the ope navy-yards so that it can < 1Ict 1ts own ever point of view the subject be consic clear this combination is one of the at has yet been formed. and the result with ost pot it will watched close attention both be home and abroad. of at | There is more than one way of s from defeat and more than one method struing failure a success. The Washington authorities have decided that it is not necessary to capture Ag Philippin It would be easy to guess what Uncle Sam's soldiers would do if they found a chance to grab the island rebel. Imperialism, expansion, paternalism high- sounding platitudes on the brotherhood of man leading Uncle Sam into dangerous places. bination of enterprising American bankers want him to protect with his warships a gigantic pawnbroking scheme which has been suggested and which Guatemala will be the borrower of $15,000,000. J public issues. atching victory of con- out of and e A com- in CONGRESS AND FINANCE. HE position of Senator Allison in the body of which he has so long been a leader gives weight to any expression he may choose to make on Speaker of the next House, by reason thereof not only but because of his long sustained leadership ot the Republican side of the House on the floor, is not listened to lightly when he speaks of public affairs. President McKinley on his campaign tour con- | cerned himself almost entirely with the issue of ex- pansion and imperial domination of races not fit to govern themselves. He seems satisfied that we can it an indignant and hostile population, and, with an optimism that is most admirable, sees those popula- tions in the future becoming more American than Americans themselves. His inattention to the burn- ing e of 1896, sound money, would cause some uneasiness and apprehension were it not for the ut- terances of Allison and Henderson, leaders respec- tively of the Senate and House. General Henderson during the Towa campaign de- clared in plain terms for financial reforms, on the line apolis monetary conference. directness of speech that if other matters before Con- | gress had to wait on financial legislation they must | wait. While he did not give in detail the financial pro- gramme which, in the Speaker’s chair, he will have the power to put through, he plainly indicated his purpose to go to the extreme of the committee con- ference of last summer and beyond that extreme. He | seems to understand that it is hard to be too radical | to suit the patient and long waiting sound money sentiment of the country. This speech of General Henderson was delivered at Waterloo, in Black Hawk County, the of ex-Governor Horace Boies, whose financial vagaries have made him cele- brated even beyond the fame he acquired by being the only Democrat elected Governor of Iowa since Stephen Heamstead's election in 1831, Senator Allison’s financial speech was made at Cedar Rapids, one of the centers of sound money sentiment in the State. Both Allison and Hender- son seemed to feel that something was demanded to satisfy the country and fill the gap leit by the Presi- dent’s inattention to the subject. That they performed an essential service for their party and their country ! by the certainty and clearness of their utterances is felt by all Republicans who believe that it is good party policy to redeem old promises before making new ones. The sound money sentiment of the country should prepare to make itself felt in support of these two champions of its cause immediately upon the assem- bling of Congress. The committees of both houses are to be re-formed, and the membership of the House Committee on Banking and Curréncy and of the Senate Committee on Finance becomes of in- stant importance. The energetic but impracticable Mr. Walker of Massachusetts is no longer in the House to be a stumbling-block head of the Banking La"d Currency Committee, and in the Senate the sil- | | home aldo in order to crush rebeilion in the : His townsman, General Henderson, who is to be | succeed in taking by force territory that carries with | of the platform of 1896, as expounded by the Indian- | He indicated with much | ‘ver members are outnumbered beyond the possi- ‘\bi]i!)' of obstructing legislation. The situation leads | the country to entertain great expectations, and it | should not be disappointed. | e e — | The application of civil service rules to the admin- istration of municipal affairs has overwhelmed many a hard-visaged, beetle-browed political heeler with consternation. The violent change from the manipu- lation of ward wires to an intelligent understanding of “the three r's” has wrapped “the push” in almost unspeakable woe i — THE WORLD’'S GOLD SUPPLY. | VER since the outbreak of the war in:South ! E Africa there have been dismal predictions of | the effects it would have upon the finances and commerce of the world by reason of the interruption it would cause in the working of the gold mines ot the Transvaal. It was estimated that upward of $100,000,000 of gold would be obtained from that re- gion during the current year, but it is now fairly cer- tain the war will be so prolonged that no gold ca | be expected from the Transvaal for at least a year o come. The argument of the pessimists has been that so large a diminution in the annual output of gold will be felt throughout the civilized world and that the consequences are likely to be serious. By way of meeting these predictions and showing the insubstantial base upon which they rest the Treasury Bureau of Statistics has recently issued a statement of the gold production of the world since the discovery of America, so tabulated as to exhibit the rapid increase in production which has taken place in recent years. From these appears the fact that of the $9,833,050,600 gold produced since 1493, $5,341,855,600, or considerably more than one- | hali, has been produced since 1860, and $2,540,260,400, or more than one-fourth, since 188s. The following condensed table shows the average annual gold product from 1493 to 1860,and by decades from 1860 to the close of 1809, adopting for the cur- rent year an estimate recently made by the Director of the Mint, but deducting from it the temporary los: likely to result from the suspension of production in the Transvaal during the closing quarter of the The original estimate of the Director of the nt for the year 1809 was $350,000.000, and deducting 000,600 for the suspension of work in the Trans- aal during the closing quarter of the vear, would put the 1800 production at $325,000,000. The statement of the world’s gold production for the period 1493-1806, therefore, stands as follows: ear. A Average Annual Production. 1wl output of gold from the Transvaal since 1885 in comparison with that of the world. From that table it appears the gold output of the world excluding the Transvaal is'now double that of the world including the Trans- vaal a decade ago. ing the entire table, but since 1805 the record stand annt It is not worth while quo Other parts of the worl. $157.2 160,933,769 181,844,639 : 7 33 208,214,647 It will be scen from these tables that the world is in no danger of a gold famine even should the Trans- vaal mines be closed for a year, or two years, for that matter. The gold districts of the rest of the world are furnishing far more than the average annual out- put of past years, and will therefore be quite able to supply the demand for that metal. It is to be noted. moreover, that the closing of gold mining in South increase the activity of the industry else- where, and thus increase the production. Africa w Hypnotism seems to be becoming a popular ex planation for marital infelicities and delinquencies. Another Oakland woman, who wanted to run off with the other fellow, has discovered that she was “hypnotized.” O serves credit is that of having made a success | of the experiment which Pingree tried in Das- | treit when he started his potato patches on the vacant {lots of the city. For three years the Philadelphia | Vacant Lots Cultivation Association has been in operation, and the results have been better with each succeeding year. The beginning was made on 3 small scale and the work of the first year was regarded as hardly more | than an experiment, but the persons to whom the lots were assigned took hold of their cultivation in | earnest and produced crops which led the association | to widely extend its operation in the following sea- |son. The aim is to obtain unused lots in or }near the city for the free use of the poor for raising ;\'egcmblcs. Seeds and implements are supplied by | the association without cost, and the only condition ;imposcd is that the lots shall be properly cultivated | and cared for. The results of the work during the past season | were exceptionally good. Commenting on them the Philadelphia Public Ledger says: “Two hundred | and sixty-eight families were given plots of a quar- ttcr of an acre each, and how faithfully and success- ! fully the work was performed is shown by the results, | which are between 3000 and 4000 bushels of potatoes, | 10,000 to 12,000 baskets of tomatoes, 60,000 to 70,000 ; heads of cabbage, 10,000 to 12,000 ears of corn, 10,000 | to 12,000 stalks of celery, 4000 to 5000 bushels of tur- | nips, besides large quantities of other vegetables, in- | cluding egg plants, carrots, cantaloupes, watermelons, beets, peppers, onions and radishes.” It is to be noted the Philadelphia movement differs from that started by Pingree in Detroit inasmuch as it has never been under the direction of politicians. Whether it would have been so profitable had it been undertaken by the municipal government is doubtful. As a means of encouraging the poor to help them- selves it is, however, one of the best yet devised, and the Philadelphia society has good reason to be proud of its work. e The Governor has positively declined to tell politi- cians or newspaper interviewers whether or not he intends to call an extra session. This is another very clear indication that the Man from Mexico has not yet dropped a nickel in the slot. S e London newspapers incline to the belief that Great Britain has been squeezed out of Samoa. It wouid be a perfectly safe prediction that our clever cousin squeezed everything else out of the islands before she herself left. A PHILADELPHIA SUCCESS. NE of the things for which Philadelphia de- People firm in the belief that marriages are made in heaven will be pained to learn that a couple of Angells were divorced in this city recently. Ladysmith is a very appropriate name for a town besieged by so many gallant men and defended by so many others. QUEER CONTRACT FOR BLOUSES FOR OUR GUARDSMEN One Bidder Allowed an Excess. SEVEN HUNDREDDOLLARSIN IT o INDIFFERENCE AS TO STATE PROPERTY. e New Colonel for the Sixth Infantry. Change in the Matter of Naval Militia Drill. “LOST” | | | | A A AT R IR L el R o S R R S R 2 The men in the Nationai Guard are | marveling at the actlon of the uniform board, consisting of Major General Dick- | inson, Colonel Cutler and Lieutenunt | Colonel Geisting, in the recent awarding | of contracts for blouses. At the meeting hield on the 25th of October the bids pre- sented were as follows: Brown Bros., $4 30 each for blouses and $8 9 for overconts. Pettibone & Co., §8 54 for blouses, 8 69 for overcoats. J. M. Litchfield, §3 74 for blouses, $9 55 for overcoats. | Mandel, Pursch & Wiener, $3 52% for blouses | and $§ 24 for overcoats. At a subsequent meeting of tue board | the contract tor the blouses was by vote | of Colonel Cutler and Lieutenant Colonel | Gelsting, General Dickinson votirg in the negative, awarded to two of the vidders. one-halt of the 4000 blouses to be fur- nished by the Pettibone Bros. Manufac- turing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, at 43 54 per blouse and the other half to be | furnished by Mandel, Pursch & Wiener of | this eity at 1, per blouse. The Guardsmen are of the opinion that cach firm must have furnished sampies | that came up to the specifications and given assurance and bonds that the goods to be delivered would be up to the stund ard required, else the two firms named would not hiave been awarded the con- tract; but they want to know why the ajority of the board should vote to pay 381% cel more to one firm than to the other for presumably exactly the same kind of garmen They want to know hy the fund set apart for uniforms should be drawn upon to the extent of| § procure from the second named | actly what the first named firm will for that much less mot The reason that Colonel Geisung given for Lis action is that he wants to patronize home Industry. The Guauls- men think that this is a very peculiar state of affairs. There is a possibibty 2ttention of the Governor wiil alled to it and that there may be some delay In furnishing uniforms to the Guard. The contracts call for the deliv. ery of trousers, , overcoats da caps sixty days after the order is given, and the orders have been given for all| but the blouses. If there is any unusual | delay in regard to them the men will, for | ditional period, be without uniforms, | without blouses the trousers, over-| and caps will not uniform them. | It seems as if it is not the duty of any one to care for the property of the State. In his inspection report two years ago Major Jansen, inspector of the Second igade, drew’ the attention of the then adjutant general to the fact that a certain | amount of property that had been in- trusted to Troop A, Including twenty two | pistols was missing. The value of that | rty was considerable. The pistols | g new, were worth about $300. sassed and no action was taken in | to this loss of property. Last June, of inspections, the major P regard in his report again called attention to missing property ate in Troop A and specified it as One carbine, 21 pi: (one hav- ince the previous report), 15 pistol holders, 2 sad- | 2 bridles, 5 meat cans, 43 saber belts, sacdle blankets, 7 saber slings and 6 canteen straps.”’ In his report he sug- gested that the matter be Inquired Into and that it be ascertained who was or Is | - the loss of this property. | ptain Burnett, com- | manding the troop, had informed him that the pistols were lost while the late Cap- tain Jenks was In command. The major added: ‘“‘Captaln Burnett was senlor lieu- ant at that time and he ought to know what became of the pistols and the other | property.’” This report was presented last June, and up to this time no action has been taken In regard to the lost prop- | It is true that Captain Jenks is . but if the matter had beeen acted upon during his lifetime he or his bonds- men would have had to make the loss 0od to the State. From the apparent in- ifference of the eral and the present one to the loss of | State property it is falr to infer that | neither read the report of the inspector of the Second Brigade or else neither cared or cares what becomes of the prop- erty of the State even if its value runs up Into the hundreds. Possibly it's a case of “the State is rich and the commander in_chief or his factotum don’t care.” The members of the division staff have been ordered to report for the third of the series of the annual target shoots, on the | 18th inst. W. R. Johnson has been elected colonel of the Sixth Infantry, Major Gus G. Grant | lieutenant colonel " and Captaln G. W. Jones of Company F major, vice Grant, advanced. The resignation of Captain Willlam Lewis of the Seventh Infantry has been | accepted. Dr. Galloway, surgeon general, has been granted a further leave of absence of | four months from October 30. The officers’ meeting for the purpose of discussing the reorganization of the First Infantry, which had been arranged for last Monday, will not be held until the 16th inst. The men of the naval militia at this port are being instructed weekly in sea- manship. After the first of next year the different divisions of the militia” will all drill the same night, Preparations are already being made for the cruise next year, Licutenant W 2. of the follows ing turned up cartridge boxe E. Morrison, Tieutenant Harloe, Lieutenant (junior grade) G. B. Kamerer and Ensigns J. F. Murphy and J. C. Kelly have successfully passed the examining board. Tieutenant C. C. Denis has applied to be placed on the retired list. | Brigadier General J. B. Brown (retired), | Lieutenant C. V. Otto and Lieutenant (junior grade) G. P, Smith have been de- tailed as an exa ing board for the fifth | division of the Naval Militia, TOWN OF LADYSMITH. Was Named After a British General’s | Wife, Who Was a Daughter | of Spain. | Ladysmith, which has been brought fnto | such prominence since the outbreak of the Boer war, was named after the wife of General Sir Harry Smith. His mar- riage was a romance of the Napoleonic wars. When the British under Sir Arthur Wellesley, afterward Duke of Wellington, were driving the French out of gpnln‘ Henry Smith was a captain in the British army. One night he and another young | officer in a Spanish town which the Brit- ish had fust occupled were visited by two | beautiful Spanish girls of high rank. wha begged thelr protection in the alarmin, circumstances in which they were placed. The protection was, of course, glven, and Captain Smith fell desperately In love with one of the girls and subsequently ma.\;rled he(;-.h : . Afterward he became General Sir F and she Lady Smith. Sir Harry wa:f,:,}: ployed in South Africa after it became a British possession, and his name is per- | petuated by the town of Harrysmith, just across the Orange Free State border from Natal. —_——— THE GOVERNMENT'S MISTAKE. San Diego Tribune. Marconi, the wireless telegraph man, has gone home without doing business ' with Uncle Sam's army signal man be- cause the inventor dldn't have a ma. | chine that would telegraph over fwaive | miles. He has machines that wiil tele- graph over 110 miles. Better have en. couraged him. Bureaucrats drove Maxim to England with his valuable gun because they were too dense to appreclate it, It seems short-sighted to opt a similar policy with Marconi when all the powers are yearning for his marvelous invention, | went on just the sam WE PAY THE FREIG (PATTOS 1 S R s at R R RS e Bt dR e -t YOU SAVE MONEY AT PATTOSIEN'S. If you have money to burn pay the manufacturer $25 for burnishing a name on your sewing machine—or you can save $25 by buying the same machine without the name at our stores, AY THE FREIGHT [EN'S MISCELLANEOUS. This Modern High-Arm Drop~He_M Machine, with ail the latest im- provements, including complete set of highly nickeled steel attach- ments, self-adjusting, elegantly fin- ished woodwork, five-drawer sty le —the equal of any machine made. Qur written guarantee for ten years and money refunded after tendays’ trial if machine does not prove satisfactory. Made by one of the most reliable companies and sold by their agents for $50—our price $25. Other “‘no name’’ sewing ma- chines at $22.50, $20 and $18.75. Write for our Catalogue of Sew- ing Machines. To all points in Californfa on the South- ern Pacific or Valley road. Other potnts URNITURE STORE, B R R R S T RSB R B R 1. Cor. I6th & Mission Sts., and Theater Bldg., San Jose. [ TP IR R eOR SO B8 S S A S T8 S MUMUMOME AROUND THE CORRIDORS Baron de Batz has returned to the city and is staying at the Palace. C. B. Jellison, a member of the State Senate, Is registered at the Grand. L. R. Vance, a wealthy Vallejo con- tractor, 1s a guest at the Occidental. J. H. Davis, a wealthy mine owner of Arizona, is a guest at the Occidental. F. E. Curtis, a popular hotel man of Indlo, Is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. J. Muller, one of the leading business men of Austin, Nev., is a guest at the Grand. Benjamin Ide Wheeler came over from Berkeley yesterday and registered at the Palace. Douglas Cone, the Red Bluff capitalist, is staying at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday. O. Y. Woodward, the millionaire rancher, of Staten Island, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. S. L. Walton has come up from his home in San Jose and is staying at the California. F. H. Buck, a well-known fruit man of Vacaville, is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. Mr, and Mrs. Peters, two prominent peo- ple of the Garden City, have come up to San Francisco and are registered at the Lick. H. McMurchy, the famous champion wing shot, is registered at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday from New York. Dr. and Mrs. G. R. M. Graham have come up from their home at San Mateo and are at daughter. ‘Walter Vail, one of the best known men in the Territory of Arizona, is a guest at the Palace. Mr. Vail is a power in the politics of his own Territory and is spoken of as the next Senator. John D. Spreckels, wife and two daugh- ters will leave this evening for the East. Mr. Spreckels goes to Philadelphia on business connected with the new steam- ers being constructed for the Oceanic Steamship Company. Thomas Erskine, recently appointed | ‘antr\lc{lons for usi; great wealth naturally made him a so- ciety star and under the clrcumstances he was much occupled. The service was forgotten or lfnored so far as its dutles and responsibilities were concerned; he remained on the active list apparently only for the honor it reflected and await- | ed "his promotion to commodore before retiring. ———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GOVERNMENT BONDS—A. O. 8, Niles, Cal.. The amount of bonds issued under the McKinley administration was $200,000,000. A circular offering these bonds was issued by Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, June 13, 1538, and in & very short time all were subscribed for. TUGBOATS—A. 8., Santa Rosa, Cal. If you desire a position with the tugboat company named send an application to the office of the company, giving name, age, residence and such details as would enable the company to determine if you Wou}d be a suitable person to enter its service, ETIQUETTE—A. F. 8., City. If you will call at the Free Public Library, City Hall, reference room, you can there con- sult “Hill's Book of Forms,’ 'The Ency clopaedia of Business and Social Forms" and a number of books on etiquette | which will give you such information as you may desire on the subject of business forms and etiquette. AT HOME CARDS—A. L., City. If a newly married couple have sent you an ‘“‘at home' card upon their return from their wedding trip etiquette demands that you shoula pay a call, but if for any reason it is impossible for you to cail send a letter of regret and at the same time extend congratulations as you would if you called in person. Your personal card would not be sufficient. RAIN GAUG P, Jamestown, Cal. There are different kinds of rain gauges the Occidental with their | and many of these are called “standard.” g accompany each gauge. Without knowing the name of tne one you have, it d be Impossible to tell you kow to it. “An inch of rain” means if there was a perfect level enclosed space and no absorption there would be in that epace water to the height of one inch IN MEXICO—C. M., Oakland, Cal. It is a remarkable fact that not a gazet- teer, book of reference or guide book gives the territorial area of the City of Mexico. One book says that the city is | square, about three miles each way; that British Vice Consul at Chicago, is in the | would make the area nine square miles. city with his wife and family. Mr. Ers- kine has been a resident of California for about ten years, at his country home in Sonoma Valley. He will leave for his new post of duty to-night. H. B. Wanzer and wife of Santa Cruz are spending their honeymoon in this city. Mr. Wanzer has been for years prominent In Santa Cruz politics and go- cial life, and Is at present deputy post- master of the city. Mrs. Wanzer is one of Santa Cruz's most popular society belles. George B. Warren, assistant manager of the Palace Hotel, leaves to-ni six weeks’ trip to the East. will spend most of his in his native State, Maine, and will en- deavor to recuperate his health, which has been rather poor of late, in the brac- ing atmosphere of the Atlantic seahoard. Mrs. Warren will accompany her hus- band. Mr. Warren —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Willlam A. Mason of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt House; J. A. Merritt of Oakland is at the Shoreham. |HOW A NAVAL OFFICER WAS SPOILED. HE recent death of Commodore George H. Perkins, U. 8. N., recalls an Interesting episode In his naval history. He joined the navy in 181 and was a lleutenant {n 1861 when the rebellion troke out. During the following four years Perkins rendered good service and was almost constantly on active sea duty, having 9 yvears 8 months’ credit for sea service up to January 1, 1885. During | many, and ght for a | e while away | some American firm, Ban Francisco includes within its terri- torial limits the county as well ana its area is given as forty-one and three- quarters square miles. A gentleman who but recently returned from Mexico says that that city is about as large as what | 1s generally alluded to as the city of San Francisco. In Mexico, the capital of the republic of that name, business life, living and other conditions are not the same as it is in the large cities of the United States, but like the conditions in Guatemala and other large Central and South American cities, An_American workingman who went to the City of Mexico in search of employ- ment would find great difficulty in ob- taining such if unable to speak the Span- ish language. He might find work with ut he would have to_take his chances. The population of the City of Mexico is about 400,000. The next largest city in | the republic is the City of Puebla, which has a population of 95,000. HELEN CAMPBELL—S. A. J., Spreck- els, Cal. Helen C. Campbell, author and editress, was born In Lockport, N. Y., July 4, 1839. Her ancestry {s Scotch on both sides. Her father, who was a promi- nent lawyer of New York City, dled in 18%0. She married at the age of 20 to an army surgeon named Weeks, and with him lived in various parts of the United States. At the age of 23 years, under her married name, she began writing fof juvenile publlcations, *Riverside” ai *‘Our Young Folks.” After that she wrote a number of novels which attracted at- tention, then devoted her talents to works on housework and cooking. Then she wrote ‘“Problems of the Poor” and other works which dealt with the poorer classes and attracted the attention of the New York Tribune, which appointed her. its commissioner on the condition of the women wage-workers of New York, and the result of her investigations were pub- lished under the title of “The PMeoners of Poverty.” She extended that work to | London, Paris, through Italy and Ger- what she wrote had much to the perfod up to October 1, 1891, of 25 |do with drawing attention to the con- years 10 months his total service footed up only 5 years 8 months, his shore ser- vice 6 years 9 months and unemployed 13 vears 4 months. Promotion, however, aptain i M larch, and retired aiter vears’ service in that grade with a sea service of 11 months during that period. It was not that Perkins was incapacitat- ed to perform his share of duty, but sim- piy because his private affairs required so much attention. He managed to shirk duty for a long time until Secretary Chandler brought him to time. in May, 1884, Secretary Chandler ordered him to take command of the Hartford on the Pacific tion. As this order was not to the captain’s liking he calied upon the Secretary with a view of having the or- der revoked. ‘“‘See here, old man,” sald Perkins, “can’'t 1 get a change of orders? I am willing to go to sea or perform any duty that is necessary, but it would be a great hardship on me to go to the Pacific Coast just at this particular time. Three ships on the Atlantic seaboard are to have new captalns and I ask as a particular favor to be assigned to one of them.” “No,” replied Chandler, “you must go." flcel" n I'll have to resign from the ser- “You ¥ill do nothing of the kind,” roared Chandler, *“for I'll court-martal you If you attempt it."" Perkins started a few days later for the tl:at;ll'ncnfir\ ;l, l)mned n\e)!lnrlfnrd and eieven months returs his domtcile in B e iis given place to Whitney, who had more consideraiion for Captain Perkins' pri- vate affairs. The latter received his un- divided attention during the following five years and a half, when he was shocked by an order to join the Omaha in the Asiatic station. He managed again to obtain leave of absence with privilege to retire upon completion of forty years' service. ~October 1, 1891, he was placed on the retired list of captains. p;fl;’:d years ht:er SoémmrlHale had a bill promotin, aptaln cc:lx;n;‘modure. high D! Perkins to e cause which led to these yea; duty-shirking was that his wife gflsr‘s'i.l?; Wwealthy and their little daughter had in- herited a fortune of $7,000.000 from a flrandfflther. Incidentally there was some t! This igation about the inheritance, on, Chandler having | , and he became a | idl((on of the wage earners of the | countries she visited. She has written a | large iber of useful books. In 1880 ed a prize from the American Economical Association for a mono- graph on “Women Wage Earners.” CIVIL SERVICE—Subscriber, City. Un- der the provisions of the new charter all the places of employment in or under the following named officers and departments in the city and county of San Francisco shall be classified by the Commissioners: The County Clerk, the Assessor, the Tax Col- lector, the Sheriff, the Auditor, the Recorder, the Coroner, ks g ic_utilities; but the and employes in sa shall be exempte bk Cl chief deputy and the ier of {he A. the chief deputy and the cashier of the “ollector, the under sheriff and the chief b keeper of the Sheriff, the deputy auditor. chiet deputy of the Recorder, the Chief Dey Coroner, the City Engineer, the secretary architect of the Board of Public Wo Registrar of the Board of Election the Chief of Police, the Chief E e Department, and all the appointed by or on the Board of Health, All officers, courts, boards and heads partments vested in this charter with power to appoint deputies, clerks, stenogr ers or employes in any of the offices o partments of the city and county mentioned this section shall make such appointments | conformity with the rulés and provisions seribed by this article, and any appointm not so made shall be void. All applicants for places In the clas service shall be subjected to examination, which shall be public, competitive and free. Such examinations shall be practical in their character and shall relate to th matters only which will fairly test the relative capacity of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the positions to which they seek to be ap- pointed, and shall include, when appropriate, tests of physical quallfications, health and of manual or professional skill. ——— e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's. ————— offices tments refrom: the cashier of the County and ed civil Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042.