The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1900, Page 4

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F. E! W OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of | tl 9:30 .o'clock. 300 Hayes, | o'clock. 639 McAllister, open | k. 615 Larkin, open until 1941 Mission, open antil 10 Market, corner Sixteenth, open 1096 Valencia, open until 9 leventh, qoen until ¥ o'clock. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, ‘n until ® o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum-Vaudeville Californis—Pmma Nevada. | mbla—"The Christian.* 4 Opera-house—"'Sinbad.” | nd_Opera-House—Symphony Concert Thursduy afternoos, | “Mysterious Mr. Bugle. ¥ 18 -azar | An Affair of Honor. | and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | mbra. Zoc corner Mason and Elils strests—Specialties. | a Battie of Manila Bay, Market street, near | stern Turf Assoclation—Races to-day. ridge & Tuesday, January 9, at at 635 Market street | | | ey — | CHANGES IN COMMERCIAL RANK. “J HE first week of the new year showed a bare l gain of 0.9 per ¢ent in bank clearings over the first week of 1899. New York lost 2.6 per cent, | Boston 1.4 per cent and New Orleans 17.9 per cent. | San F cisco gained 31.8 per cent and Pittsburg, whose clearings represent almost exclusively the iron and steel trade, 27.5 per cent. hese bank clearings mark some change in the rela- | tive business of American cities during the year 1899. | New York, of course, kept first place, with clearances of $60,761,701,000, out of a total for the whole country | of 0. Boston moved ahead of Chicago, the ying to third place, the clearings of being $7,086,203,000, and those of Chicago 3.000. veland, which was in the thirteenth place in 1898, moved up one, displacing New Orleans. retained their 1808 status, San | hth, coming betwen Baltimore | The heaviest increase during the year | Pittsburg, owing to the remarkabie | the iron trade. | es for -everything in 1899, but | was 56 per activity i We 1 higher pri from present indications will pay even higher prices { this year. Already some advances have been made in | the minor lines of iron and steel and in boots and | shoes and a further advance in woolens is predicted. | If the new starts off in this aggressive fashion | on the basis of already high prices, the question natur- | ally arises. Where is the advance going to stop? There is a limit to the purchasing capacity of the | public, but apparently the manufacturers think it has not yet be ached. If the advance in merchandise is accompanied by a corresponding advance in wages it can be ma ined indefinitely, but if the latter keep down, then the rise in commodities must come to an end and in this case the end might be rude. Wall street opened the new wear like a lamb, Easier conditions in the money market, coupled with effective support given the railroads and industrials | by powerful interests, gave a good tone to the market | couple of days the feeling was rather firm herwise; but the German irritation over the ish seizures in Delagoa Bay led to free selling of mer can securities by Germans, both in London and | New York, and the market lost much of its previous | tone, especially as’ the German realization was sup- plemented by vague reports of further British re- verses in South Africa. We are now sufficiently ad- vanced in the South African war to see that until it is finished there will be more or less uneasiness and un- certainty in the money markets all over the world. Prospects in California continue brilliant, though it must be confessed that the continuous rains are great- Iy delaying farming operations in the northern, central and coast sections of the State. In some of the most important counties very little work has been done and the season for getting in the crops is half gone. The farn 1 these counties are beginning to think that there is such a thing as too much even of a good thing. However, it will not be calamitous if the pro- duction of the State is cut down somewhat, for our capacity in the way of turning out crops is immense | and overproduction is a synonym for low prices. With a fortnight of clear weather a vast deal of farm work may still be done. so the time for the croaker to emerge from his long seclusion has hardly yet ar- rived. He will crawl out of his hole and make his batrachian voice heard before long, however, unless it stops raining for a few days ers | | If the boast of the Eastern track gamblers that they have a majority of the new Board ef Supervisors pledged to permit the reopening of Ingleside track be true, then the Supervisors have a stormy time before them, for the fulfillment of such a pledge will raise a tempest that will not be easily settled. The very evident desire of Mayor Phelan to includa the entire administration of the municipality in his interesting self suggests that he must have made a very close study of the comic opera, “The Mikado.” I all reporte be true Mayor Phelan must have made pledges to about everybody who wishes an office, as well as promises of civil service reform to those who didn’t. | by the voters to do. |(he pledge be broken. W THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THE OUTGOING SUPERVISORS. 'HE Board of Supervisors that goes out of office to-day merits public recognition and acknowl- edgment of the zeal and efficiency with which it has performed its duties and the fidelity with which it fulfilled every pledge and promise made during the campaign when its members were candidates for of- fice. The record is one which it would be hard to parallel in the history of any legislative body in America. It has had no parallel in recent years in San Francisco. In not one single instance can it be shown that this board has failed in the performance of anything which it was elected and specifically charged All the issues of the canvass | when it was before the people have been met and adequately provided for. The dollar limit pledge, for example, was demanded by the platiorms of both parties and was sustained by the voters during he canvass. Still, when the time came to make the apportionment of funds for the various departments of the city and county government a tremendous pressure was brought to bear upon the Supervisors to induce them to break their pledge and levy a higher Many of the very men who during the canvass were most insistent on the dollar limit, were among the first and most aggressive in their urging that Against all that clamor and against all promises of favors to be shown the Super- visors stood firm. They fixed a tax levy not exceed- ing one dollar, kept their pledge in letter and in spirit and gave the city the revenue which the voters had decided to be sufficient. That was an instance in which the board showed its firmness in opposing the demands of public officials who desired large sums of money to dispose of and of office-seekers and job-chasers who wished a chance to profit by the disposal. In the recent contest against the telephone company an instance was af forded of the courage and public spirit of the board in combating the greed and resisting the persuasions The task was not an easy one. tax. | of corporations which have grown rich by something ' of those things at like extortion upon the public. It is useless to go over the whole record. The two instances cited show that the board did its duty in every case without fear or favor of corporations or of bssses. The record of the outgoing board should excite in the new board a spirit of laudable emulation to equal the service of its predecessor and merit as much praise and commendation when it retires from office. It will be with that wish the people will to-day wel- | come the outgoing board back to the duties and re- wards of private life and speed the new board in the work that lies before it BOASTING TRACK G;MBLERS. HEN in response to the demands of publijc sentiment the Supervisors put an end to the track gambling at Ingleside, The Call warned the people that the victory would not be permanent unless it were guarded with vigilance. The profits | of the gamblers were enormous and it was a fore- gone conclusion that they would leave untried no | means which gave the slightest promise of a chance to reopen the track and resume their trade. Sure as it was that the gamblers would try to re- cover their ground, it is with something of surprise the public learns of the boasting of some of the more bold and unscrupulous among them that Ingleside Park will be opened again for unlimited racing, that the old gambling games will be resumed there and that once more the touts, the toughs and the black- legs of the community will have a free field in which to prey upon the follies and the vices of the unwary and the corrupt. These boasters assert that the incoming Board oi Supervisors will grant them permission to reopen at Ingleside; that a majority, at least, of the new Su- pervisors have given pledges to that effect. It is a boast which the public will be inclined to regard with contemptuous incredulity, and yet it is one which should not be overlooked. In dealing with an evil of this kind continual vigilance is necessary, for the profits are so large and so sure there will be al- ways big inducements for permitting its practice. The outgoing Board of Supervisars en#cted the ordinance which closed the track at Ingleside, only after the fullest evidence had been given of the mani- d evils resulting from it. These evils were of many kinds and degrees. Shop boys were enticed to neglect their work to hang around poolrooms, con- | fidential clerks were led to defraud their employers to obtain ‘money for gambling, ‘men of all classes in ! society were corrupted by the associations of the | track; even women did not escape its blighting influ- ence and the home, as well as the shop and the office, was cursed by it. A long record of crimes blackens the pages of history of the community while the track { flourished. There were frauds, defalcations, divorces, | embezzlements, robberies, assaults, murders and sui- cides traceable directly to the effects of the race track gambling. Is it possible that with a recent suicide due to gambling fresh in the public mind the incom- ing Board of Supervisors can think of reopening Ingleside under the management of the same old gang and reviving all the evil which the outgoing board suppressed? Upon Mayor Phelan at any rate it would séem that the public can count in this emergency. He cannot consent to the reopening of the Ingleside gambling without stultifying himself. closing the track. He vetoed an ordinance that would have permitted pool-selling at coursing matches. Ii he now consents to give the Eastern track gamblers full swing there he will wrong his own record be- yond atonement. e BRYAN'S LATEST GABBLE. IX hundred Democrats, seated at a banquet in S Chicago to celebrate Jackson day, heard Bryan make his latest speech. There was a time when a speech by that orator on such an occasion would have been reported almost to the word and the whole country would have paid attention. That time, however, was in the days of depression, when the calamity howler was a power in the land and when even conservatives gave heed to what he said in order that they might know to what extent the agitation of class antagonism was being carried. In these days of prosperity the country little heeds or cares what is vttered upon themes of that kind, and accordingly even the Bryan organs themselves give but a brief summary of what he said and what the 600 heard. In the brief report that comes to us of the speech Bryan is quoted as saying: “The currency bill fastens us to the financial systems of the Old World and sub- jects us to all the disturbances which affect them, ! while it places the control of the volume of paper money in the hands of a bank trust, which will be as merciless to the people of this country as Weyler was He signed the ordinance | to the reconcentrados. The fight for bimetallism at the ratio of 16 to 1 has not been lost. The increased production of gold has shown the advantage of more money and has answered the argument so often mada that the parity could not be maintained because of the | overproduction of silver.” He declared that the Re- publican party is unable to enact and enforce efficient anti-trust laws and that the Democratic party when in power will meet the issue with a plain and posi- tive remedy. In all that there is nothing beyond the repetition of the old misrepresentations. The currency bill does not fasten upon us the financial system of the Old World, but of the New World and the new age. It is the outcome of the conditions of our own land and our own time. By the study of economics men have learned something of the natural laws which regulate trade and finance, and the object of the bill now be- fore Congress is to apply those laws to the needs >f the people of the United States. It is the language of a demagogue to term it an Old World system and to attempt to arouse against it the unreasoning | prejudices of men who are incapable of understanding | financial questions, or who, through partisan perver- sity, oppose any and every measure that has not its origin in their own party. / Just-how the increase in the output of gold and the abounding evidence of the existence of a sufficient amount of gold to supply the monetary needs of the world have weakened the argument advanced by the sound-money men in 1896 and confirmed the free- | silver agitators, Mr. Bryan will have to explain by | diagrams. It was asserted by Bryan that unless silver were remonctized there would be a continuous fall in prices. The world knows there has been a rise in prices, and now Bryan says the rise proves he was right. It is fortunate for the orator that he is known {to be a total abstainer from intoxicating liquors, otherwise there is much in that argument which would incline folks to believe it inspired less by states- manship than by bourbon. The assertion that if intrusted with power the Democratic party will provide a plain and positive remedy for the evils resulting from trusts, is another | feature of the speech that requires explanation. Mr Bryan should state clearly what he regards as the evil feature of trust organizations, and what is the remedy he would apply. He had an opportunity to do both the Chicago conférence on the trust question and he failed to do either of them. From the short reports given of the speech it is easy to understand why more was not sent out. There was evidently nothing in it worth reporting. | Within the burr was a chestnut and within the chest- | nut only dust. Bryan may still be a Prcsldt‘nlia]l candidate, but as an orator he has exhausted every- thing except his lun THE LAW AND THE LADY. T the meeting of the Mothers' Union of Golden Gate on Saturday there was adopted a resolu- | tion requesting the co-operation of the Oak- | land Club and other societies to petition the Oakland | merchants to provide seats for the lady clerks in all | the stores and shops where they have not provided | them. The resolution was the outcome of a discussion upon the injurious effects which certain kinds of work | have upon women and its object is to provide for the health and welfare of those who are engaged in stores and who are frequently required to remain on their feet almost continuously from the time the store opens for business early in the morning until it closes | at night. | With that object all who are interested in the wel- fare of the race must have a warm sympathy. The Mothers’ Union of Golden Gate will therefore find cordial co-operation in the work they have under- taken and their petition to the merchants will be | strongly supported. If the merchants should ignore the petition or refuse to accede to it the Mothers' | Union has an easy method of redress in the law of the State, to which recourse should be promptly | taken. | There was approved February 6, 188, “an act to provide for the proper sanitary condition of factories | and workshops and the preservation of the health of employes.” Portions of it applicable to the case at | issue run thus: “Section 5. Every person, firm or corporation em- ploying females in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed and shall per- mit the use of such seats by them when they are not | necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed. “Section 6. Any person or corporation violatjng | any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. “Section 7. Tt shall be the duty of the Commis- | sioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to enforce the provisions of this act.” The ladies will perceive that the remedy for the evil complained of is amply provided. It will be best, | of course, to begin by directing the attention of of- | fending merchants to the law and requesting a com- pliance with its requirements. If that means fails | the ladies should at once notify the Commissioner of the Buread of Labor Statistics of the violation of the law and it will be his duty to enforce it. [ It is gratifying that there are women who are suf- | ficiently considerate of the welfare of working girls to | engage actively in supporting their righu and pro- | viding for their welfare. As is pointed out by the ]L;bor Commissioner in an interview, published in | another column, his office has no patrol force to seek | out offenders against the law and therefore he can act | only when his attention is drawn to some violation of it. The girls employed in the stores dare not make | complaint. For that reason the agency of such asso- ciations as the Mothers’ Union is necessary to the en- forcement of the law and it should be exerted con- | tinuously and with vigor throughout the State. From the tone of Bryan's speech at the Jackson | day banquet in Chicago it appears he is willing to suggest a plain and absolute remedy for the evils caused by trusts, provided he be elected to the Presi- dency, but he is not willing to say what it is before- . hand; so it will be seen the boy orator has some dis- cretion after all and knows how to keep his mouth shut on at least one subject. The proposal to establish a “home” for the purpose | of reforming ex-convicts is very good, but at the | same time it should be remembered that if the pro- posed beneficiaries of the establishment had ever had any regard for a home they would never have been | convicts. | There may be disputes as to whether the Pope re- | garded New Year's day as the beginning of a new | century or not, but there can be none about the | Kaiser's opinion. It is the twentircth century in Ger- | many at any rate. A German officer has raised a chatter of adverse | eriticism in all Continental dueling circles. He vio- | lated all of the established rules of the game by get- ' ting killed ONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1900 MOTHER LODE STUDIES. STORMS GOES AFIELD. CRIPPLE CREEK’S GOLD. NEW MINING DECISION, HOW CLAIMS WERE WON O-DAY W. H. Storms, the latest “Examiner of Mines” to be ap- pointed by Governor Gagé, will start for the mother lode region, where he will spend the ensuing months in spite of mud and snow, which have in the past kept Mining Bureau ex- perts out of the mountain mining fields. This will be the first time in three years that the mother lode, or, in fact, the gold regions of the State have raceived any at- tention from the bureau except in the compllation of yet unpublished maps. There have been great developments along the mother lode in that time. The era of deep mining there has recently opened and great operations, costing mil- lions of dollars, are under way. Electric power has been distributed to many mines during that period and. various improved processes have been installed and new problems met with. The miners of that region will welcome Mr. Storms.as an expert familiar with the region for vears, and as the most compe- tent one available for the task. He goes at once to Amador County, w..ere he will remain some time. It is planned that he shall put in most of his time along the mother lode from Mariposa County north during the next eighteen months, and give as much attention as time will al- low to the mining regions further north. He will aim to inspect every mine of .—0—0—0—®+®+®+0+0+0—0—g O S e e e s [ e e e e e e e e X s ] W. H. STORMS, Examiner of Mines. any Importance in each county, gaining all the information that owners are willing to allow him, observing the geology. methods of working, conditions imposed. etc., and note progress and prospects without ondenvnrlnfi to go Into private financial matters which miners generally want to keep to themselve He expects to be able to make his reports more com- plete and of more practical use to mining men than most former bureau reports. | Improvements in methods, costs of oper- ation, if they can be given, comparisons of different mines, what « accomplished at great de they expect to accomplish formatlon will be especiall and y sought, in setting forth such information the con- ditions must necessarily be completely given. The big mining field is rich in o portunity for interesting and valuable re- L 1d the min will hope to see some of character in spite of the political mess into which the bureau has dropped. It may be observed that not the least of the benefits of this sort of field work is the personal dissemination of informa- tion and expert advice, as an official with a broad knowledge of mining science and | practice and an acquaintance with how things are done all through the mining field comes In constant contact with miners, often sharing their beds or bunks, | their bottles or bacon and meeting with | them their problems and mistakes. A | field man has a varied experience and is | a mining missionary constantly distribut- ing pointers amid the hills. Generally he is a Yrecmwd. but some- times he Is scorned by miners who 160k on all “experts” with supreme contempt, and sometimes they chuckle and plan a scheme to make a fool of him. While he was a fleld deputy of the bu- reau four or fiye years ago, Storms climbed to a prospect In Calaveras Coun- ty where two old miners were sinking on a vein in which they thought they 1 struck it at last. The shaft was eighty feet deep, and when Dan had hauled up the bucket by a windlass, Storms saw that it was fastened to the rope by a simple loop held by a slippery pointed stick, easily pulled out to take off the bucket. “Want to see the bottom?” asked old Dan. “No, I don't,” said Storms. “Why not? Just go down and see how purty she widens,” urged the lucky partner above. “Not in that rig,” said Storms. “That pin will drop out, the first thing you know, and somebody will be killed. Why don’'t you fix it this way?" ‘“Oh, Scotty! There's a mining expert up here ‘fraid to go down 'cause he's 'fraid the bucket'll come off with him,”” Dan shout- ed down the golden well. “Haw! Haw! Haw!” came up from where Scotty tickled in the muday gloom. Two weeks later they burled Scotty and soon Dan bought the widow's interest In the widen- ing vein. Nobody knew how it happened, and they seldom do, but the slippery un- safe pin did it, and the Mining Bureau did not save poor Scotty. Preliminary estimates of the precious metal product of California for 1869 have been made by the Director of the Mint and by the Superintendent, and the statis- tician of the San Francisco Mint, and, as aisual, they disagree. They always do dis- agree. Each year the director recelves careful estimates from local representa- tives of the bureau here and there, and then goes for them with an ax, apparent- Iy on general principles. Tt was stated In this column a short time ago that the gold product for 1599 woud probably show a small decrease on ac- count of the unprecedented lack of water, in spite of the great increase of develop- msn?, Statistician Charles G. Yale, how- ever, discovered an increase, estimated at about $500,000. The Director of the M'nt makes his estimate $14,952,392, a decrease of over a half-miilion. The disagreement is not highly impor- tant, as_both estimates are Pfe"mlnar’ ones. The final estimate, which will be the offictal record, will be ready in April. and it will be compiled from confidential returns from practically every producer in the State, supplemented by information from every available and reliable source ssible. This arduous work has now been gun by Mr. Yale. Whatever the result may be, it will doubtless show na great variation from the output of 1898. It is of more importance to realize that the boun- tifulrainsand snows of the present season and the steadily multiplying mining ac- tivity will provide 1900 with an increase cf the gold output in California that will reach well into the millions. The local mint estimated the silver product at $636,000, and Director Roberts ut it at $1,396,363. This difference arises 'rom the fact that the former used the market value, 53 cents, and the latter the cofnage value, $1.2829. in estimating the product, which was about 1,200,000 ounces. Because California has at last besn passed by Colorado as a gold producing State, Colorado’s record and the reason for it are of intere: The year's record is about $26,000,000, and the reason is e tirely the rapid development of the world's most remarkable gold field, Cripple Creek. which covers an area of but a few square miles. The chief facts of Cnprle Cresk's d for the past year are given in the ;:fiz:finx special report to The Call from Colorado Springs: ¥ DO SPRINGS, Colo, Jan. 2.—The mlcn.:ny(‘flflvle Creek produced during the year 1899 $20,241,342, a net gain of 33 pe over the production of 1598, which was $15.802, 0. As Indicated by the one of marked prosperity in the great gold gamp of Colorado. ‘While over 300 mines helped to maké up the year's record-breaking produc- tion the large producers were: Stratton's In. The year's m Cripple Creek was marked by the opening up of the largest and richest ore bodies at the greatest depth yet attained In this camp, viz, 1000 feet, and also by the extending of the gold-bearing area by several miles. These two facts form the basis for the prediction that next year the camp will produce $26,000,000 in gold. During the year thirty-two companies pald dividends amounting to $4,811.365. The total amount of dividends paid by Cripple Creek mines to date Is $11,777,167. In addition to this | sum there have been distributed by close cor- | porations and earned by lessees profits amount- | Ing to $5,000,000, so that the camp has earned | to_date over $15,500,¥0. | Wholesale dealing in Cripple Creek mining | stock bas been a feature of the year. The sales upon the Colorado Springs Mining Stock | Exchange during this time amounted to 238.- | 319.221 shares, of a cash value of $34,527.00. On | this exchange last year there were sold 67,038, 000 shares, of a cash value of $10,351.00. The valuation 'of outstanding Cripple Creek stocks to-day Is estimated to be $60.000, This camp has produced in years of its history $73, | the monthly outpat more than doubled, reach- | ing $3.000,000 in December. ] 000 the first nine During the year 42. In most mining towns, as elsewhere, the last midnight of '9% saw a pande- monium of noise. One mother lode Journal observes that every sign in town got from one to six playful bullets in It, and rather condemns this method of cele- | bration. | But all through the mining regions | there were midnight doings as quiet as the town tolks were noisy. 'Twas the | hour when claim-jumpers strike. The evening knew hundreds of stealthy trips into the hills to claims on which assess ment work was due, and within a few | minutes after midnight hundreds of lo cation notices were going up according to | secret plan and knowledge. A good pro- portion of the thousands of claims taken up during 1568 were fully open to loca- tion, the holders not belng able to afford the $100 worth of work or having too | many claims to take care of. If the lo- cators had not done the work they could | relocate January 1-and hold for another two vears, and in many cases they were on hand for that purpose and with guns along to stand off the fellows who stealthily came for the same object. That midnight would provide many good min- | ing storles. Here and there, a lways, were un- | protected mines of known value on which the assessment work was not done through mistake or neglect. One was the Good Hope, near Jackson, Amador County, in which Senator John F. Davis ately became interested. It was wrongly | sed that the work had been done, “‘some parties” lald qulet and elab- grate plans to jump the mine and had | hired a “gun fighter” to aid in the job. The gun nighter had too long a tongue and the plan leaked out Saturday night, just as Judge Davis arrived from San Francisco. A force of men was rushed to the propertythat night and $100 worth of work was done by the following mld-l night, thus saving the mine. On the Mojave desert at Randsburg and beyond prospecting for water is now going busily on by means of vertical borings and tunnels into hills, and lucky | “strikes” are being made. A fair supply | of water in a mining reglon where it €osts a bit a drink for mules would work | wonders for the industry. The desert also has an ofl excitement fn a dis rict near Mojave, where there not the slightest sign of oil but where the for- | mations have been pronounced favor- | able. Railroad men have secu large tracts in which to prospect, and this knowledge started a rush the m ment it | became known. The desert is OW es- pecially interested in the precious liquids C. A. Cantield, who with assoclates plan to put a large number of f1lin rigs at work in Kern County ofl fields, a machine shop at roposes to establish Bakersfield to make and repair tools, ete. El Dorado County's slate industry is looking up with the rest of the mineral enterprises. According to the George- town Gazette teamsters are busy hauling slate from the Strahle quarry at Kelsey to Placerville, wnere it is shipped by rail The slate is of the first quality. and. it is safd they cannot take it out fast enough to fill the orders on Fand. About eightgen men are employed. At the Ploneer copper mine, near Pilot Hill, a force oi twelve men is now em- ployed doing development work, says the El Dorado Republican. New bufldings have been erected and other preparations made for a thorough development of this mine. In addition to its copper, which averages 8 per cent, the ore also contains gold and silver. The introduction of steam traction en- gines at the Grand Reef mines of J. W. Mackay in Arizona Is said to have re- duced the cost of transportation between the mines and the raiiroad from & to $3 per ton. The deposits of zinc ore recently dis- covered on the San Vincente ranch, six miles from the terminus of the Cuyamaca Ratlroad, San Diero County, are attract- ing considerable attention The Placer Co~ty Miners' Assoclation | has {ssued a cireular calling for annual | dues from its members. A list of collec- | tors has been appointed for the diffcrent | sections of the county. | J. 0. DENNY. | AROUND THE CORRIDORS | J. W. Drysdale s at thea Grand from | Madera. | E. H. Cox, the Madera banker and cap- | italist. is a guest at the Palace. A. M. Duncan, Supervisor of Mendocino | | from Odessa the extra 600 were hel v could find space to le down, chiefly the fore hold. ditfons of semi-darkness. tench, and a :m,-nw of thes unfortunates died during the vovage and upon k several dozen ha 1 to the hospital. of which nine died dur ing the next !uuri has an interesting record, was publish established in 1851 for irof smnw"lndxle and covered less than six acres of grou 0 and the works ceded that the mechanism of mod!;‘n ‘:a.lr; ships and their armament Is sucl g discount the importance of PhY strength. Badiiinge Some good target practice fs ch_nm:.! for the British battleship Victorious. A a speed of nine knots and at a |l|flhln o of 2000 yards, six shells out of NK.! the sma.u pinnacle rock. which rise !l ‘d; or twelve feeet out of water jus‘l‘:'\;“s the western entrance to Wei-Hail- France has of recent years been %o u:; tently bent upon building ships as *0 almost entirely lose sight of the fac e dock-yards properly equipped are a vers essential adjunct to an effic td‘: :a b The appropriations for dock-yards. were $1,80 00 in 1885, fell as low 000 in 1896, and the result has b he& s commission, which recently inspected the several yards, found them deficlent " drydocks, coaling barges, tugs mmvm v requisites, and appropriations for a coub’s of new docks and other necessities is urs gently recommended by the Minister o Marine. Two shallow-draught river gunboats, named the Robin and Nightimgale, have been sent out from England for service tn rivers in South Africa. They are Wit screws and are 100 feet in lemgth by 20 feet beam, drawing only nine inches “: water with a load of twenty-five tons, anc can make a speed of ten knots. They are buflt in seven water-tight sections, easily taken apart and put together. Four sim- | nar boats from the Yarrow yard were built two years ago, of which two were sent to China and two to th xxx»-‘rlii':- e. and have proved as satisfac- tectorate, and have p phohoaifr - tory as their pr 14 very cheap by Rus- t lging from the results fan authorities judging from the of its transport system. The steamer St Petersburg, one of the volunteer flvfl.‘r:: e carried 1600 third-class p ng o to Viadivostok. Acc r‘nmf\-l vere only provided for 1000, an< e a o were herded wherever they in such inhuman con- suffocation and 11 laws of sanitation violated. Human life is h Under 1 upon arrival at Viadivos- 1 to be transferred vs after arrival. r vard at Stettin, Germany. The Vulean i datanss mong ths forelgn navy - - and to which the The yard was news some weeks ago, following are additional: 1 3 own district. a barren and almost unknown - 1‘: 1359 it began a miscellaneous mgxnfi;.r“ ing business and l'as reached its No. - locomotive. The yard was :‘al\l?:: l".\al"\u: 5 sent valuation is 35,500, at $475,000; its pres B e kg and employ 8300 men. In 1566 1t hu\:sl IE: first war vessel for Prussia: in 1 : first order was for a large marine taken for - engine, which was placed in the Hansa, and in 1871 the yard received d the first or- arme hip, which was der for an armored ship, - named Preussen. The Vu uan'yard has become to Germany quite as an tmpor- tant auxiliary he navy as any ene of the regular dockyards. th propounds Iy to receive body denomi- E sery | Labouchere of London a question which is n a reply from the aug nated Lords of Admirs what is to be the final res: ‘“m‘:l age done to the cruiser Bonav kgl et six months ago in wat T Admiral B. N. Seymour ge o o squadron, was on a €ru 3 % »f his ships venture was one led the admiral to expic unsurveved wal Victorio dered the Bonave into Komiloff Guif. > that the unfc vessel i a2y And had to jettison 600 tom: c value and sustaining 3190, mage to the hull. The captain and navigating lieus tenant were tried court-martial nad acquitted. as the vice admiral frankly ad- mitted that he had ordered the shin o %0 in. As the responsibility for ll‘fr:‘gr;':’ loss of money nee sacrificed I been so well established Labouchers wants to know what is !v‘happ\;’;l;-fix;_ ase will probably terminate 1x- ;‘;\T:ne responsibility and classed w:'[h such as being struck by lightning, for | which no course of redress has yet beem found. —eee _—— 30c per ™ at Townsend's.® Cal. glace fi ————e————— Zoh-i-noor pencils and Selling depot for Koh-i-noor pencfls a Waterman fountain pens. Sanborn, Vail & Co. ———ee——— information supplied daily to siness houses ané public men by the ';’»L‘.? 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Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle. —_——— Personally Conducted Excursions improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourtst ‘e Route. Experienced ompany these excur- ace D. D. Oliphant. a wealthy merchant of | To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Portland, Ore., Is registered at the Pal- ace, with his wife. | W. A. Littlefleld, a wealthy Eureka merchant, is among the arrivals of yes- terday at the Grand. i W. J. Marks, one of the big business men of New York, short stay at the Palace. E. B. Edson, the Railroad Commissioner, | has come down from his home in Gazelle | and is at the Occidental. Dr. A. C. Griffith, one of the leading physicians of Santa Rosa, is among the | late arrivals at the Occidental. | Wednesday and Friday | and Toronto eve every Sunday. Friday. Is registered for a| greamship. To Boston, Montreal Wednesday. 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Mr. Strong fs the man to whom | Manila is indebted for the magnificent ice plant that has been put in there. ¥ WEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. British ships on the China station are henceforth to be painted black instead of white, as has heretofore been the custom. It is done for the sake of economy, but will greatly increase the discomforts of officers and crew during the hot season. | Ttaly's new naval programme provides for a regular force of established men in the dockyards not to excced 12,000 of all classes. The expenditures for new con- struction has been fixed at $24,080,000 dur- ing the next five years, divided as fol- lows: 1899-90, $4,700,000; 1900-01, $4,900,000; 1601-02, $4,880,000; 1902-08, $4,500,000; 1903-04, $4,800,000. For the succeeding fourteen years the amount is reduced to $600,000 an- nually. The Minister of the Japanese Navy. Ad- miral Yamamoto, was recently subjected | to a most searching Inquiry before the | Luiget committee of the Parliament. Some very interesting points were brought out, one being that the admiral admitted the inferiority of physique of Japanese sailors to those of the Occldent, but con- y line to the East, | Ticket office. 625 Market street. The latest Chinese papers state that there are at present six smokelass powder factories in operation in the Chinese Em- re The Young Mother She thinks little of her- self, and fails to notice how pale and thin she is grow- ing. She worries constantly over the baby that does not thrive, although its food seems abundant, Scolls nourishes and strengthens the nursing mother and su plies to the baby’s food the bone-forming and fat-pro- ducing clements which were lacking.