The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1900, Page 4

~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUAKY 2¥, 10U. , QUESTIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONERS. e e pavy last year, the steam trial data which were as follows: SAVING MINERAL LANDS. : ASSOCIATION PROGRESS. SLUICING AWAY TOWNS. ‘NEWS OF THE DIGGINGS. ENTLEMEN of the Police Commission, you have heard the testimony given in the hearing concerning the fitness of Esola to be Chief of Police of San Fran- cisco, and incidentally you have learned the truth of the charge made by The Call that Mayor Phelan bargained that office away before the election in return for votes MORDAY -~~~ trs JANUARY 22, 1000 | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor ! PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, §. F. Telepho Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Steve Telephone Main 1574 SUADAY CALL Ome Year.. WMEERKLY CALL Ome Year All posimasters are ant subscripiions. fumple coples will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE., . .908 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Foreigm Advertising. Marguette B ing, Chicage. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ve+...Herald Sguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR.. 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: herman House: P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Anditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: f-Astoria Hotel; A. B ane, 31 Un mrray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCE OFFICES—527 Mo mery, correr of ‘eclock. 629 McAll 615 Lurkin, Mission, o' clock. hi Market, until ® o'clock. 1086 o'clock. 106 Eleven AW. cormer Twenty-secomd and Kentacky, | ‘elock. Queen's Lace Handkerchief.” Isiand.” ater—Vaudeville every afternoon and streets—Speciaities. this evening. -+ ton street | esday, January 25, at 11 o'clock, ay, January 2, at 1 o'clock, Track THE STATUS OF TRADE. " nother good week in trade, as wn by the increase of 13.7 per cent in the s bank clearings and by the 2335 co | t 262 during the corresponding ar business has not ex- g2in over its predecessor t! 1858 The gap between the failur ga2in in bank clearings Jess. trade of 1899 is considered, any phenomenal year is gratifying, ued increase in business. ics. The gain ike that in 1899, is not general. Dur- burg, too, was comparatively light, per cent, against recent gains of 30, 100 per cent. This shows less boom el trade. Still, this line continues ac- on old orders, new business being 1g the last half of 1809. Production ed as ever, but the fuel question is turers some concern. The West is vy orders for steel rails, which points ivity in Chicago lines es are reported strong, with some | the demand. Cotton is quoted fraction- 2 good inquiry, which is ascribed to prospects in South Africa. Wool is ong and fine wools have now touched the highest point in twenty years. Prospects for a lzrge domestic copsumption, coupled with higher es in Europe, have vivified coffee, which is being | ht freely on speculative account. Lumber main- é its strength, owing to smaller stocks in the | west and indications of a heavy building de- | 1and during the coming spring. Cereals continue disappointing, owing to the large supplies here and @broad and wheat continues to decline slowly, though corn and oats are showing more or less strength, the former especially. The boom in boots and shoes shows some signs of wavering. While shipments from New Engiand on old orders are heavier than ever before known, it is said that new business does naet amount to a quarter of the production, and doubt | as to the maintenance of prices hinders buying. | Nevertheless, hides have recently awakened into re. newed activity and heavy sales have lately been made in the East. General distributive trade is being affected by the unusually mild winter in the East, but wherever | spring trade has developed it has been in such | volume and accompanied with such readiness to ac- i cept high prices 2s to point to undiminished con- | fidence in the future. The general demand is large, | but speculation seems to be declining in volume, Money continues to ease off everywhere. The | Rank England has again reduced its rate of dis- | int, this time to 4 1-2 per cent, the lowest rate for months New York call loans are now back to a lower average than at any time since early autumn. Supplies of funds for loaning purposes are steadily mcreasing, and while lenders are disposed to put out their money more freely and at lower rates, also less critical as to the character of the But the whole financial situation at the moment hinges on the fortunes of the South African war. It is the opinion, both in Europe and America, that a serious British reverse would be likely to cause 2n ally serious disturbance in the London market, while a British victory would immediately result in ecasier conditions all around. So the financial world is watching the movements of the opposing armies with more than ordinary interest. T stag ewise very they are security. B e — The French authorities at the Paris Exposition _have placed the Turkish and American buildings in such positions as to create the impression that the American building is an annex of the Turkish. Per- haps this is 2 delicate reference to our new and dis- tinguished citizen, the Sultan of Suln | there is alwa; and for newspaper support. It is not for you to pronounce judgment concerning the conduct of the Mayor, st “ neither need you concern yourselves much about the bargains that were made and which The one issue before you is the selection of a Chief of Police, and in meeting that issue you have to determine whether Esola is or is not a| | fit man for the place. You heard his testimony on the witness stand. You are aware that less than two weeks ago this man Esola was presented to you in Mayor Phelan’s office by A. M. Law-| rence as his candidate for Chief of Police. You remember the meeting, the Mayor re- s stand, under oath, this candidate you were expected to carry out. members it, Lawrence remembers it. On the witnes for office at your hands swore he did not recollect enything about the meeting; swore he had no memory of it; swore he could not recall meeting gentlemen of your official position within two weeks. Mr. Newhall. do you believe that remember meeting you? If you think he Esola told the truth when he swore he did not | told the truth, do you believe a man with so short a memory for faces and for facts is fit to be Chief of Police? Mr. Thomas, do you think a man who cannot rely upon his memory sufficiently | to testify truly concerning a meeting with you less than two weeks ago is a witaess e word would be worth taking on any point where his interests were at stake? he 2 fit man in your estimation to put into a position where accuracy of memory who is so essential to the performance of duty as in that of Chief of Police? Mr. Biggy, you remember meeting this candidate for office; can you believe him | when he swears he does not remember meeting vou? You heard his testimony on the | stand; did you at that time feel convinced that he was telling the truth? Did you think him then, or do you deem him now, fit to be at the head of the police force in this city? Dr. McNutt, do you have any confidence in Esola’s oath that he had no recollec- | tion of the occasion when he was presented to you and your colleagues in the Mayor's office as Lawrence’s candidate for Chief of Police? When you have heard him give evi- dence of that kind about a matter harmless in itself, can you deem him trustworthy in anything? Would you ever be able to accept with full trustiulness any report which he[ | could make as Chief of Police? These are th= questions which the people will put to you, gentlemen of the Po- |lice Commission, and they will not be satisfied with evasive replies. You are not called :upon to vindicate the Mayor. or Lawrence, or anybody else. You are to choose a Chief {of Police for San Francisco, and if after such testimony as Esola gave you select him {for that position the people will conclude your memories are shorter than his own, and sy, at 11 a m. ama 2 p. m, that you have forgotten what he swore to and what it meant and means. REFORM IN SACRAMENTO. AYOR CLARKE of /\/\ dered an i by suppressing the exhibition of indecent pictures in kinetescopes. The evil is one which threatens every considerable city in the country, for a temptation to the exhibitors of such shows to include among their pictures many which ct the lewd and vicious. be remembered that not long ago The Cail found it nece form of vice Sacramento has ren- portant service to that community as carried on in San Francisco and | at the time of the investigation it was found that | many school children were in the habit of resorting to such places. Something of the same kind, it ap- pears, has been going on at Sacramento, and the Mayor’s action is therefore one of the most important which can be rendered to any community—that of preserving youth from the enticements of the corrupt. The vicious, like the .poor, are always with us. | They are forever aggressive in a sneaking way and continuous watchfulness is necessary on the part of public officials to prevent them from spreading their traps for the unwary at every possible place of van- tage. The indecent kinetescope is a novelty, but it has taken its place along with the gambling rooms, the brothels and the dives as a means of affording the predatory classes a means of breeding vice and profit- ing by it. ary to expose the extent to which that | | be that of That Sacramento has a Mayor vigilant and resolute | in his efforts to rid the community of such plagues | is 2 matter upon which the people of that city may | well be congratulated. Mayor Clarke is doing a good work and it is to be hoped he will find among all | classes of citizens an earnest support in the work of reform and improvement he has undertaken. AN AMENDMENT NEEDED. UT of the disturbance at the masquerade ball at O Mechanics' Pavilion on Saturday night comes an illustration of one of the defects of the charter. In the article relating to the Police Depart- ment it is provided in chapter X, section 12: “When a request is made for regular policemen to be detailed at any place of amusement or entertainment, ball, party or picnic, the party or person making such re- quest shall first deposit $2 50 for each man so de- tailed with the property clerk of the department, who shall give him a receipt for the same and such sum shall be at once paid into the treasury to the credit of | the police relief and pension fund. The defect of the regulation is that it leaves it optional with those who hold such entertainments whether police protection be asked or not. The law should be mandatory and require the managers of public or semi-public entertainments to have a police detail o preserve order and keep the peace. At the masquerade ball it appears the managers at first undertook to conduct the affair without police protection. Before the evening had fairly begun they found themselves compelled to apply for six police- men. It is easy to perceive that the disturbance might have grown to serious proportions and one or more persons might have been dangerously injured before the police came. In cases of prizefights the danger of disturbance would be very great and there is hardly less danger at public picnics. The issue is not one that requires argument. That clause in the charter should be supplemented by an ordinance compelling managers of certain classes of entertainments to provide police protection for their patrons. It will be well to learn that lesson from the experience of Saturday night and not wait for a tragedy to teach it Nickel-in-the-slot machines are no longer to be de- spised. Although he does not say as much, it is fair to presume that Secretary of the Treasury Gage was influenced by their ravages to point out in his recent report the absolute necessity of providing additional fractional coin. The people of the Mission are rencwing their agita- tion for the removal of the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad from the district. The records of the Morgue ought to make a good campaign document. The advantage of warning criminals through the agency of a newspaper appears to be becoming pop- ular. The little town of Irvington has followed auickly in the wake of San Francisco. . THE COMMERCIAL MUSEUM. | ROM the conference called by President [:Wheelcr to meet at the Hopkins Institute of Art | to-morrow evening to consider the proposed | establishment of a commercial museum in this city, some definite plan providing for immediate action | may be confidently expected. The issue is not a | new one. It has been discussed by the press of the I;cuy and by the Merchants' Association, the Me- chanics’ Institute and other organizations of a like nature and is well understood by all who take an in- terest in it. There will be no occasion therefore for any elaborate campaign of education. Action may begin as soon as a plan for undertaking the enterprise can be formulated. ¢ The leadership in the conference which President Wheeler has undertaken at the request of the trus- tees of the Mechanics’ Institute is a good assurance of success. In his inaugural address at Berkeley the newly installed president showed his keen interest in the commercial and industrial affairs of the State and the city in what was said upon the subject of the commercial college and the work it would have to undertake in the development of the Pacific Coast. | Dr. Wheeler's relation to the movement therefore will a strong and earnest advocate and his leadership will raise it from the degree of a mere mer- | cantile venture to an enterprise of interest to the | whole nation. The success attained by the museum in Philadel- phia is an evidence of its value. Merchants and | manufacturers resort to it from all parts of the East and letters of inquiry are received from every im- portant port or trade center on the globe. If such an institution has been found beneficial in the East, where the trade is mainly with European countries, with whose people and commerce we are fairly familiar, how much more beneficial will be a museum specially devoted to the trade of the Orient, which is as yet hardly understood? The conference to-morrow evening ought to pro- vide the beginning of the work of establishing the museum. The meeting was designed to be thor- oughly representative and if those who have been in vited attend there will be present a body strong enough to start the movement at once and bring about its success. e e If people are judged by the company they keep the ambitious young police lieutenant, who is not wise enough to let well enough alone and wants td be Chief of Police, ought to'feel uncomfortable in the revelation that he owes his position to Dan Burns, The Mexican invariably exacts a stiff price for his favors. Because he believed the teachings of Christianity forbadé him wearing his hat on the back of his head and shouting “Hello, Bill,” to every friend he met on the street, the Rev. James Maclnnes of Oakland has resigned from the ministry. Many people fear he is on the high road to perdition, although he says he is only headed for Chicago. Count von Bulow, the German Minister of For- cign Affairs, says he intends to give the Reichstag some inside information on politics in general. Somebody must have given him a tip on how we do things in San Francisco. SRR With a big row in progress in the Nevada Univer- sity and the professors of the Cincinnati University lined up in battle array it would seem timely to re- vive a plea for the establishment of chairs of pugil- ism in our seats of learning. sduiv i i At Chicago there is an end of harmony between piano manufacturers and their employes. It was hoped that the soft pedal of arbitration would have been effectual, but it wasn’t. Now the men are out on a strike. The Oakland minister who pined for the company of “lushing friends” has probably discovered that his freedom of selection was not in any way impeded by a fearful flock. 5 3 If the water companies continue to combine in Oakland water will be soon included in the list of lux- uries in the city across the bay. 3 RS SR Th_e friends of Esola seem to think that the only requirement necessary to make a good Chief of Police is to have kept out of jail. HE meeting of the executive com- mittee of the California Miners’ Association called by President W. C. Ralston for the evening of the ly to consider miners' intercsts g Congressional bills and the tion of forests and waters will undoubtedly resuit in important action on both lines. The association has had much expe- rience and has achieved much success in islation in behalf of the miners, and it an energetic committee, provided with what money is needed and having the great prestige and influence of the 1sso- ciation behind it, gets the power it repre- sents to bear on Washington it will stir up interest in pending measures and be a strong force in pushing them forward The most important measures pending are those looking to the creation of either a Cabinet department or department bu- reau to care for the mining industry, and the mineral lands bill, which has been fought for for years and which is still stuck in the mud. The latter measure i3 | the one of most direct concern to Califor- | nia miners. of most pressing, present .m- | portance, and the one in which most | active interest is taken. The mineral lands bill, as all California miners know, purposes to save from pat- 6th inst, at the Palace Hotel espe- | past years in securing Congressional leg- | | ent 1o railroad companies some millions of | {acres of the remaining public lands in Isjculilornla, which are chiefly mineral in | character though profitable mines are not | yet developed in them, and which are not valuable for agriculture. which is getting patents to such lands by the thousands of acres right along, they are valuable holdings for their timber and futur, rior It has been the policy of the t to regard such Ia valuable g _development will reveal. They are the tage of the prospector and miner, and should be pre- | served for the mining industry to grow on. | It is proposed that these mineral lands be segregated by a commission and wich drawn from patent to_the alded raflrc < has been done in Montana and ho. vears railroad influences have been able to block all the many vigorous at tempts of the California Miners' Associa- tion to secure justice for the miners, and now the association will cross swords with the railroad company once again. President Ralston practically 12 the fight himself many years ago, and he has vigorously stood by it through all the bat- | tles that have occurred since the assc- ciation took up the issue soon after its organization, nine years ago. It was back in the '80's, when Ralston was not the general manager of a great mining prop- erty, but when, having energy and am- bition, he naturally decided to start a suc- cessful mining weekly. He started the paper, and observing the constant land- slides of mineralized sections to the rail- road domain, he turned loose his heaviest | guns and stirred up an issue that lived, | though the valiant paper did not. The fight troubled the rallroad company, and | on one occasion, when C. P. Huntington and Ralston met, the former said. “‘You're a very fresh voung man, Mr. Ralston. Neither Ralston nor the association has tired of the fight, and another campaign, | worthy of the hearty support of every California miner and mining interest, will 8soon be under way. | President Ralston wishes the advice of | the executive committee in the creation | and direction of the committee on conser- | vation of water and forests provided for at the last State convention, and the creation of such a committee, which will Tepresent the association in this field that | has recently assumed so great importance and life. This movement for the storage of surplus mountain waters and the pres- crvation of the forests is of especlaily vital interest to the miners, and the Cali- fornia Miners' Association will furnish a powerful reinforcement to the new State organization which 1s now seeKing strength, money and plans. State Senator John F. Davis of Amador County, who is one of the leading forces in the California Miners’ Association, has taken much interest in the recent move- ment for better roads begun by the Cala- veras Miners' Association. . In a recent article in the Calaveras Citizen hé has written some vigorous suggestions that apply equally to all the county miners’ as- sociations. “I would say,” “that the two main problems that confront us in the quartz-mining counties of the Mothe: Lode are: 1. That of obtaining a_ cheap. continuous motive power; and 2. That of good roads. Referring to the county as- sociation, he says: ““This assoclation can be the nucleus of all public effort concern- ing anything _even remotely connected with mining. It can, as part of the reason for its existence, take up the problem of continuous motive power. can affiliate it- self with the California Water and Forest Assoclation, or the Callfornia Association for the Storage of Flood Waters, or the San Joaquin Valley Commercial Associa- tion, and accredit delegates to those or- ganizations, and thus thoroughly Inform the central organizations of the local con- ditiong in Calaveras County. The road question is equally germane to the pur- poses of its organization. What we re- quire is a continuously active, live local body; not an annual resurrection of a dead one. Membership should in- creased, meetings should be fréquent and in different localities, and constant cor- respondence should keep the members in- formed of what is going on in the associa- tion. The impulse should come from the members to the officers and in that way the programme for public improvement developed and spread abroad.” he observes Up in Northern California whole towns are being swept away by the new flood of mining enterprise and development that has struck that region. Through Siskiyou and Trinity counties are here and theré little communities which have long been sleeping in the sun on favorable river benches where they naturally grew along the water courses in a country that is nearly all on the slant. After the ploneers got lxrough shoveling up the gold of the Tich early placers the country quieted down an Suuffiled along in_an absent- minded way, with occasional digging over of low-grade gravel left, with a very lit- tle spasmodic quartz mining, with some hydraulic mining in favored places and with the vast network of rich quartz veins under the pines practically unknown and unsought. Now. hesides the booming development of quartz mines from the Sacramento to the sea, there is great activitiy in the mining of vast deposits of low-grade auriferous gravel with hydraulic moni- tors and dredgers. Many river benches above the present streams are extensive deposits of ground that will pay to work by _modern economical methods and with sufficient capital. A fiood deal of money is going into hydraulic propositions in that big region and where a town is built on golden sands the town must go. The eople know it and brag about it. ‘hey wash out pans of dirt from the street and astonish the tenderfoot with the colors, and they wait eagerly for capi- tal to come in and wipe their towns off the face of the earth—for so much a lot— as other towns want capital to build them up. Old Trinity Center is now being sluiced into the river. Scott Bar in Sis- kiyou County thinks it hears the welcome summons to oblivion. A French company has been mnegotiating for the ground on which it stands and, it is said, success- fully. When Scott Bar was a bar it was rich and used to yield nine-pound nug- gets from the old channels, but it will take a big hydraulic plant to work the deep ground left unworked. Other town sites have been similarly sold or ne§oun. ed for, and it is even talked that Yreka the county seat, may bought and an slufced awq‘rm spite of the high prices ot property. he own is built on rich ground and would make a fine mining proposition. ' A highly important point in the law of mining locations, which has never been before the Supreme Court of the United States, was recently decided by the United States Court of Appeals in a Southern California case. The Federal mining law juires $100 worth of work on a clalm during the year after that in which the location is made. The question whether a State or district can y im- Pou additional uu-rmt W a lim- e ] e ihis Tight, Tudge Ross’ Bissenting. | that for safety | should mineral resources, to be developed in the | { Mountain, 5 | suce o State law. To the railroad, | °ceed In its effort to repeal the dity of the sixty-day and $0 require- T ihe. lately repealed California statute is thus indirectly ~upheld, with Judge Ross against it and the Supreme Court to be reckoned with in issues that v arise under it. T he case alluded to is described and commented on in an interesting way by ‘nited States Circuit Court of .A\ppe‘lls. -l:{?l:gla( San_ Francisco, has recently decided in the case of Northmore vs. Simmons, that either a mining district or State has power K-’) make a regulation requiring a prescribed amount of work to be done on a claim within ninety (40) days after its location, and to make | H. Ricketts as follows: | 5/*Ariadne . 6 Gladiator . 7 *Hermes 12| Ploneer 13 Pomone essels indicated by E of such claim subject to relocation in default o such work, notwithstanding the ninety days may expire before the first of January suc- | ceeding the date of location Tudre Ross d'ssented from the opimion of a | majority of the court, and holds that mot a single decision cited and relied upon in the i rule laid dc Court of State (n Original Cor Winthrop, 80 Cal. 31), wh eritic di!ll’lvmeed by Judges Gilbert and Morrow in | the said opinion, is the true one. that such a regulation is contrary to the plain meaning of the statute of the United States and to the welcht of authority. This decision is the prevailing one and makes | it incumbent upon the locators of mining claims within this State to strictly follow any requirements of the local mining districts ir the claim may be situated as to work to be done upon that claim, that the last Legislature effectively repea the State mining law of 1897. It would see locators of observe the provisions mining law, whether in fact repealed or mot as ultimately a court of last resort ma: that as a fact the State Lesislature did not The Dwinelle group of quarts mines, in Siskivou County, is to be extensively de- veloped by its recent purchaser, Charles H. Souther of Boston, and promises to be one of the important mines of the State. The Montana Copper Company has se- cured a good deal of new mining property and will widen its 1 as great ncrease the ting tions on the original properties. The t acquisition Is a bond on the Stowell oup of copper and gold mines, near Iron at_the price of $I properties will be extensively during the life of the bond 2 adjoining claims, owned by L. D. Water: rve heen bonded for $15,000. Th operations are made through the Iro | Mountain Investment Compa repre- senting the interests of the Montana Cop- = composed of the emplo: States Mint at Denver ha f Denver prospecting in assisted by Nevada Coun The Sierra Rallroad bridge across the Stanislaus at Robinsons Ferry has been completed. J. 0. DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. P. O'Brien of Sonora Is registered at the California. John McCall is registered at the Grand from his home in Madera. D. G. Dean, a wealthy mining man of Caribou, s a guest at the Palace. Dr. M. Carlbery, a well-known physi- cian of Oroville, is a guest at the Lick 1. F. Poston. the Coalinga oil magnate, is registered for a short stay at the Lick G. Motheral, a wealthy fruit grower of Visalia, Is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Michael Simons, a traveler from Glas- gow, Is at the Palace, where he arrived vesterday. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wood of San Jose are among the arrivals of last might at the Palace. Frank E. Wadsworth, a merchant and capitalist of Nevada City, is registered at | the Occidental. | J. L. Patton, a missionary to Japan, is | at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and family. 3 0. J. Woodward and T. C. White, capi- talists of Fresno, are among the recent arrivals at the Lick. L. C. Montfort has come down from his | home in Sacramento and is at the Oeci- dental, accompanied by his daughter. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. ~ The latest proposed French battleship | of 12,416 tons is estimated to cost $5,585,- 000 complete, | The Institute of Naval Architscts in | Japan, started about two years ago, has already 20 members. Celestial thieves are causing consider- able trouble at the Wei-Hai-Wel naval station. Some months ago a quantity of | telegraph cable was “lifted” along the | coast and now about 8700 feet of cable has been stolen. | The German battleship Woerth of 10,100 | tons ran aground November 25 last near | Eckernfoerde and damaged her bottom | greatly, but managed with all pumps agoing to reach Wilhelmshofen. Her re- pairs will be very costly and take not less than three months. i Claim is made for the new French sub- | marine boat Narval that she can steam from any point on the French coast to any opposite point on the English coast | and return. If such is the case, then the | Straits of Gibraitar could be dominated | from the port of Oran on the African | coast. The commission trial of three hours of the British cruiser Highflyer gave %413 | horsepower and a speed of 138 knots by | the log. As compared with the fuil speed | trial, the horsepower on the last trial was | 931 less and the speed reduced 1.3 knots, | indicating that under service conditions, with bunkers full, the increased draught | of water has a very marked effect on the | speed of the ship. ! The Nymphe, a fourth-class cruiser for | the German navy, recently launched at Klel, is of the improved Gazelle type, 2600 tons, 3%8 feet In length, 39 feet beam and draws only 14 feet of water. Her engines are of 8000 horsepower, calculated to give | a)speed of 215 knots under forced | draught. The armament consists of ten | 41 inch and fourteen 14 inch quick-firers, besides four machine guns, two sub. merged torpedo tubes in broadside and one above water in the stem The vessel bes u two-inch steel deck and is wood sheathed and coppered. | | Thirty-five ships of war, not including | torpedo boat destrovers, were built in Great Britain during 1899. Of these, seven vessels of 69,100 tons and 85,00 horsepow- er were built in the five dockyards and represent an outlay of $2932,500 when completed. Twelve vessels, also for the British navy, were launched at private | yards, aggregating 53,222 tons, 111,000 | horsepower and a finished cost of $18,95,- 000. Sixteen vessels were built for foreign navies, totaling 47,170 tons, 124,000 horse- power and an expenditure of $18,835,000. Of this grand total of $3,737,500 nearly 30 per cent was forelgn money distributed among British workmen. S The accident a couple of weeks the Queen’s yacht while being un::cvk:: at Pembroke was caused through neglect- ing to put in the requisite “stiffening bal- last,” so that when the ship became nearly water borne she heeled over about twenty-five degrees and had to be shored up. During the night 140 tons of pig iron ballast and some water ballast was placed on board, and when the water was ad- mittted into the dock the vessel righted to within ten degrees of being vertical, in which condition - three tugs pulled the yacht to her berth. With a dead load of a couple of h’l;ng:-:d tons of ballast ‘it ‘would seem as of is not faultless. RS Dmxaet , twelve crulsers and Three battleships, three gunboats were added to the British o | corruption in connection with the | inal element sheathed and coppered hulls. T first-named ship: three ar cruisers ats, i s numbered 1 to 9, sive, ha lle boilers; number 1, 16 Yarrow boilers 12 is fitte myeroft's has Reed boil numbe Blechynden b THE CALL'S WORK IS WARMLY COMMENDEL Windsor Herald now doing a gran v way of showing up the a work for San Franc of the Police Phelan's seli-out on and appointment and Mayor into the hands of it and The Call talks squarely the ears of the Mayor, branding him witt high treason to the city’s interest an with having cagt his lot with the slums. th blers and thieves of the cit s el n and with now tur ) the nands of the sc ment. And the fact th mmence legal proceed irns and te background e Call did a protecting the disgra d States ust as ly o drag s of 2 ¢ L e e o e e et ] g ADALLY HINT FROM PARE, + ® LR e e e e e e . Py . PS - & - » B L 3 . - . L 4 . * + ® . L 4 - 4 L The Ophella mauve satin and Is of the tPei vt eebebeded e D e e 1 LIBERTY SATIN DRESS. dress represented is in Liberty “pr cesse” shape. Beneath the opening dow the front is a drapery of white la bands of silk velvet, with a satin, gathered. Cal. glace fruit 30c per ™ at Townsend's.* Special information supplied dally te business houses and public mem by the Press Clipping Buzeau (Allen's), 510 Mot~ gomery street. Telephone M @ ¢ Five hundred Pyrography Outfits now in stock, $5, $§ and $9 each. Skins, Leather and Wooden articles for burning, and de- signs to work from. Sanborn, Vadl & Co., 741 Market street. . The only sure thing about a man's first love is that it isn’t his last. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for Afty years by millioms of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colie, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teethi: or other causes. For sale by druggists in part of the worid. Be sure and ask for Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 238c a bottle. —_————— Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourtst sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excun- sions to look after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday aad Friday. Ticket office, &3 Market street. ———————r N HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, ir luding fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer st.y, $3 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, Francisco. The Fastest Train Across the Con- tinent. The California Limited. Santa Fe Route Connecting train leaves § p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train ahd best track of any I to the East. 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