The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1900, Page 4

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1900. 4 T l‘! “THE PUBLISHERS’ BURDENS.” g ® | NDER the title “The Publishers’ Burdens,” | U!hcre has been sent out from Washington a cir- cular urging newspaper proprictors to write to = —— ‘thcir Congressmen protesting against the passage of JOHN D. SPRECKELS,” Proprietor. ln‘hat is known as the “second class mail matter bill,” ~mrmmnimoe | introduced by Mr. Loud and designed to put an end . LEAKE, Manager. |11 certain abuses which exist under the present postal S The circular is signed “Publishers’ Commit- Telephone Main 1868. ‘Icc. and closes with the announcement: “The pub- Stevenson St. lishers have no lobby and no money to spend in pre- | senting this matter to individual members, and the | only thing that will defeat the bill is each publisher .....MARCH 19, 1909 | /ddress All Communications to W. S. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third. . F. | 12Ws. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 22 Telephone Main 18 Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. fi;ntl"l' :'ovl -I 5 Cents. writing individually to his Congressman.” Term Ma neluding Postage: 5 o -~ YATLY CALL ¢ ,._’udm‘ Bustay), ous _\f“ ey ...s6.00| If the “publishers” who are profiting by the ease L (including Sunday), B months 2.00 | with which they are now permitted to abuse the priv- 150 .. 2 850 I‘ ilege of second class mail rates have no lobby nor 150 | any money with which to make the fight at Washing- ALL (inu ng Sunday), 3 months. Y CALL One Year < S | al I ok } ital AN postmbsiers are Snthoriscd to ressive |ion theaall reports on the subject from the capita sabscriptions. have been grossly in error. Some of the publishers fes will be forwarded when requested make enormous profits out the privilege, and if they ....1118 Bromdway | have not expended a part of them in an effort to con- te the privilege, they have been less enterprising | than any other set of men that ever managed to get ST | the best of the Government. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: | The circular makes a cunning misrepresentation of C. C. CARLTON.. Herald Square | the nature and the object of the bill. It is described NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: 135 a blo.w »:n legitivmate newspa_pers and magazinfs, RY LUKENS J .22 Tribune Building ‘whereas it is of a directly opposite nature. The priv- |ilege of sending certain classes of matter through the | mails at low rates, known as “second class,” was de- | signed by the framers of the present bill to facilitate NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: | the circulation of newspapers and literary, religious, Wealdorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Unfon Bquare; {industrial and scientific periodicals among the people. SRy S0 .. _ [I‘. has been taken advantage of by the publishers of WASHINGTON (D. C)) OFFICE.............Wellington Hotel | 34vertising circulars, cheap novels and other stuff MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. of that kind. These people issue their circulars or | their novels once a week or once a month, call them “periodical publications,” and under that title get ad- vantage of the low postal rates designed for legitimate JAKLAND OFFICE. c GEORGE KROGNESS Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.: Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel OFFICES—:27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 0 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 ster. 1 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until BRANCH open unt ock. 1961 M1 open umtil 10 o'clock. 2261 | , Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1098 | newspapers and magazines. 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until | [ consider from the standpoint of their tra solely, yet if they should do so they would be none the less in favor of the Loud bill, since legitimate | newspapers are perhaps the heaviest sufferers from { the effects of the abuses which have grown up under the law. The cunningly framed circular of the Pub- | lishers’ Committee, however, is calculated to deceive their interests are threatened corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, ® o'clock de interests ay afterncon, March 20. editors into a belief that by it. Thus it declares: | “The aim of Mr. Loud is to finally model our postal | laws after those of monarchical countries, which Mr. | Loud visited and investigated during the past sum- In foreign countries the publishers have no heater—Vaudeville every afternoon and of Mason and ert House—G: Hall 4dy streets—Specialties. opening March 19 Afred A. Farland, Banjoist, Friday mer. privileges not extended to merchandise of all kind | The result is there are a few publications of enormous Association—Races to-day AUCTION SALES. | circulation and practically no weekly papers like ours, which have made the United States the most intelli- - | gent country The second class postal laws of the United States to-day are not as favorable to the publishers as those in force in Canada and 1 the world naay March 19, at 1 Market st Horses, at TRADE STILL FEATURELESS. narchical postoffice, nor to transform the United States into an imperialistic country. It simply pro- poses to prevent men from loading down the mails with tons and tons of advertising dodgers, patent medicine circulars, gold-brick prospectuses and a lot of other stuff of the kind, under the pretense that they characte: ed by continued commercial field there y of note, except the recent , which, by increasing the tely enliven spec- it did not do af sluggish. Apparent ordin: would be neces- are periodical publications e e ——— If the Congressional controvers becomes much more acrimonious some of the worthy statesmen who are conducting the debate will be as | tattered in reputation as the suffering prisoners of the es over the bull pen e cou itry are still falling b e figures last week pen were in garment. showing a de- < but the failures were oniy The judges who sat in solemn thought over the » 1899. The markets, however, | offered designs for the Phelan flag declared that out distingu all the suggestions offered six only merited com- Cag it be that these were the six offered hed them throughout ire to speculate and stocks of mendation. rge and increas; The | by the artists of The Call? le is uncertain, being bri some P quarte The tendency last week | TURKISH RAILWAY CONCESSIONS. 2 for farm products and AT bt ranufactured goods. Cotton still [SPATCHES from Europe have during the last two or three days had much to say concern- ces for the raw product but there is less dispo- D s , owing to this very condi- ' W s & owing chiefly to the recent |0 Prevent the construction of a railway xhrough the < are still turning out | TUTkish empire from a point on the Mediterranean | < yout buying raw | to @ port on the Persian Guli. While these reports I and leather continue weak, and the | 2T¢ :h.nvbne:s exaggerated, there is probably some | ¢ C foundation for them, as Persia has now becoms | alized in almost all markets markably active for a few days, | € < at at the close of the week, and a | 13Ty OF na 1 operations. g € eat was checked in sympathy [ For a long un'v‘: it has I)u.-n known that a railway wh »nditions are now rather po | aoross Asia Minor, passing down either the prices, the weather being unfavorable in ~ e A i prise of large profit to any nation sufficiently strong rtant ¢ ies. Iron and steel show = though there is still more or less | 1 Protect it and sufficiently alert to develop the t lower quotatiofis here and there. The | cOUntry along the route. o obtain a concession for | ctals are generally firmer. | the desired road Great Britain, France, Germany, ( s in this State remain unchanged Thf; Russia and Auvstria have |<.)ng contended. _Umil re- for rain, while the north is hop- «('n‘tl_\' their mutual antagonisms prev u‘ued f‘lthcr com- 2 r skies. One condition about | PEtitor from ,\m‘.rcf:vhng. for the Tu‘rkwh (:ovcfr}mcnt e er, so prices for farm products re- did not dare to favor one in face of the opposition of s a rule. Wheat has taken a fittle | 21! the others. Shortly aiter the Kaiser's visit to Lon- = hy with Chicago, but the other don, however, the concession was giveq to Germany, yminal, with ample stocks on evidently })) arrangement with Gr t Bntam,‘and now g weak and much quieter than the Russians have made terms with Persia, which seem to show a determination on their part to fore- stall Germany and get to the Persian Gulf first. While the advance on Pefsia has been construed in this country as a Russian movement against India and Great Britain, it is in reality a much more serious rp competition among local rket from improving in sym- 1g in the West dull. Hides. hops The livestock markct other line in the commercial 1 any | menace to German interests. s to be the stockman’s era. Dried Z . : i i el i i : | garded in Germany itself, for while the semi-official | s are quiet, but with the exception % P G I es both descriptions are well cleaned up. The 1‘{' gans of the German Government have takc_n occa- far has been remarkably propitious for | 1 to say thal.thc proposed Bigdad railway is to Abe A . | wholly international, and that Germany would main- s we get frosts later ou the crop this | 5 2 . 1 : robably be too large for ease in handling. | " i ‘m“};q T _|rn r:gflnlm\(}mi"ons pend; General business conditions remainas before. Money | 8 between Russia and Turkey, the Munich Neueste | Nachrichten, which is seemingly not bound by offi- | cial restrictions, asserts plainly that Great Britain has consented to co-operate with Germany in upsetting I, collections are normal and failures are certainly not over the average. There is a good ship- g d nd for those articles usually exported from = in Asia Mi » isco, and prices are steady as a ru The Russmx? plans in .( S(l‘fl Minor. ; ever on a better commercial footing than The interests of Germany in the matter are much greater than those of any other nation. For years past | Germans have taken an active part in the industrial and commercial development of Syria and Asia Minor generally, and have large interests there. The State Department recently issued a report from Consul Jewett at Sivas, Turkey, in which, after giving an ex- tended account of German railway enterprises either | completed or about to be undertaken in that region, the Consul says: civil service examinations have been held a As soon as the “machine” rs who was who in the bustling times*of the n the successful applicants for municipal favor ony is over ecil Rhodes is firmly convinced that it will be idle attempt federation in South Africa. le to suppose, therefore, that the onl th catment of the Boers is federati It is reason- ential rates for goods on German lines, will be able to control the chief markets of Asia Minor and invade the East. Germans purchased the Constantinople- Ismid Railroad from an English company and ex- They also checkmated the French and English by extending their line from just measure The Oakland attorney who is suing a burglar for his fee ought to consider himself fortunate that he | tended it to Angola. still retains his office furniture The issue is not one which newspaper men should | | Mexico, and yet Mr. Loud proposes to take a step backward and toward the usages of imperialistic coun- | tries.” For all that tirade there is no particle of excuse in the Loud bill. It is not an attempt to set up a mo- | ing the movements of the Russians toward | <ia and an alleged attempt on the part of the Czar | a strategic point for commerce as well as for mili- | Euphrates or the Tigris Valley, would be an enter- | It appears to be so re- | “It is not difficult to see how Germany, with prefer- | Eski-Sher to Konieh, thus preventing extension of both the Smyrna-Afion-Karahissar and the Smyrna- Aidin-Dinair roads. The two great distributing points—Constantinople and Smyrna—-arl thus con- trolled by Germans, and German goods may enter the interior of Asia Minor and the great valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates on German controlled roads at a decided advantage. Germans have obtained the right to build docks and warehouses at Haida Pasha, and travel to Mesopotamia and the confines of India sequently at a disadvantage.” have obtained control of a harbor on the Persian Gulf | that the Kaiser will maintain the strictest reserve as way concessions and do his best to preserve for them INCE the main contention of the opponents of smaller firms or individuals engaged in the business, prevent such combinations. the industries of the country, with the sole exception ture to assail the system during this generation. As Our merchant marine is as much entitled to protec- argument in favor of a liberal shipping bill has a ent time we pay an enormous tribute to British ship- land. | were three tons of shipping built in Great Britain for munerative employment of thousands of persons, it would feel the life-giving influence of the enactment Government. The farmer who raises the grain and would receive his share of the benefits.” building an American merchant marine, and the peo- | foreign antagonism to be crushed and the indiffer- icommerc:, and since that commerce is so rapidly in- the terminus of the Anatolian railroads, and with through rates for German goods on German lines German freight cars may be sent across the Bosphorus and Persia without change. Goods from the United States and other countries will have to be trans- shipped at Constantinople or Smyrna, and will be con- These prospects, so brilliant with promise for the Germans, are now clouded by the swift advance of Russia upon Persia. It is even said the Russians outside the Straits of Ormuz. If that be true it will be perceived that the value of the German railways will be largely diminished. It is therefore not likely to the questions pending between Russia and Turkey. It is more likely that, relying upon the countenance of Great Britain, he will support his right to the rail- a free port as a terminus upon the Persian Gulf. S ————— THE SHIPPING BILL. Sthe shipping bill has been that its terms would give advantage to trusts or to large combinations of shipbuilders or shipowners in competition with it is to be expected the opposition will diminish now that the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has agreed upon amendments designed to The hostility against the bill has been the more | bitter because it is the last fight possible for free trad- ers to make against the protective system. To all of oi shipping, abundant protection is now given, and the results have been so widely, so generally and so greatly beneficial that no political party will ever ven- yet the shipping industry remains without adequate | support from the Government, and it is the last strug- | gle of the free traders to keep it in that condition. tion as is any other industry of our people. That much may be deduced from the principle of common justice. At this particular juncture, however, the special force derived from the fact that the rapid in- crease of our exports requires an increase of shipping to carry it to markets beyond the sea. At the pres- | owners to carry our commerce for us, and therefore it i RS ! will be a matter of economy as well as of justice to build up our industries on the sea as well as those on In a recent report on the restoration of the Ameri- can merchant marine, a committee of the National | Association of Manufacturers says: “Last year therc | every single ton built in the re® of the world, and we Americans would very much like to see that sort | of thing reversed. It would mean the steady and re- would mean the profitable investment of millions of capital, it would mean immense expenditures for sup- plies and materials. The iron and steel manufacturers | of the measure. The miner of the ore and coal and limestone, which are used in the iron furnaces, would | feel the effect of the new policy on the part of the meat to feed the thousands of additional workmen, who would secure employment in the process of pro- curing all these various supplies for the shipbuilder, The issue has long been before the country. The powerful foreign commercial interests in our great seaports have been hostile to every effort toward up- | ple of the interior have been indifferent to a measure | in which they have felt little self-interest. The time has now come when we may reasonably expect the | ence at home to be overcome. According to the esti- mates of Senator Frye we are paying to foreigners | about $1,000,000 a day for carrying our international | creasing it is surely time to provide for an American merchant marine to carry it. P According to several quarreling ministers of Chi- cago services of song have a distinct and very mate- rial commercial value to the Lord. A coterie of | clergymen in the Windy City is fighting bitterly to determine who owns the royalties on a denomina- | tional songbook. The uproar which greeted the Lord Mayor of Dub- lin in his effort to secure the adoption of a series of resolutions of welcome to the Queen indicates that the coming visit of her Majesty to Ireland will lack nothing in demonstrative effects at least. For the first time in histor$ the green flag of Ireland has floated for a day over the mansion of the Lord Mayar of London. England must be planning for the Irish soldiers some immensely harder service than they are now rendering in South Africa. The revolutionists of Colombia have changed their minds. They intended at first to retire to the mo- notony of private life, but the dispatches announce that after much persuasion they have consented to a return engagement of twelve months. In the midst of all sorts of local annoyances, troubles and disappointments comes the announce- ment of an unexpected blessing to the people of San Francisco. city and promises that he will not talk. If the row over the arrangement of a tariff for Porto Rico indicates what may be expected when Congress approaches similar discussions in reference to other new possessions we may hope that the next generation will see a settlement of the'dispute. Another Peruvian revolution has ended in the death of the last revolutionary general. The Republicans of the South American nation have great hopes in a | néw crop of fiery patriots, however, and the end is not yet reached. e e The San Andreas stage robber who pleaded that | his little effort to hold up a stage was all a joke will | probably discover that some practical jokers are re- warded with long terms in the penitentiaries. The thing that troubles the imperialist most is to | decide what to do with the constitution. William Jennings Bryan is coming to the CAPTAIN COGHLAN SAYS THE RALEIGH FIRED BOTH FIRST AN On Behalf of the Officers and Crew of That Ves- sel He Makes Statements That Will Be of Use to Historians of the Battle of Manila Bay. DITOR The Call—Dear Sir: In your issue of Sunday, March 11, 190, E page 9, there is a very pretty de- scription of the United States reve- nue cutter McCulloch, which as a liter- ary production does credit to its author, {but which as a historical record is en- tirely wrong in its essential parts. WHITE, Inquisitive nose into everything, etc., Is true, except her ‘‘nose” was not white, but the whole vessel was of a light olive green or drab, the > squad- ron's war color; “that she ¢ turned her guns loose and threw v pounds of lead at the Spaniards, which pounds were, by the way, PART OF THE FIRST CHARGE FIRED BY THE AMERICA IN THIS GREAT BATTLE.” That part and if it means or intends to convey the impression that the McCulloct fired the first suot ,in the Manila campaign, or even at the battle of then it is not only mis- Manila proper, My atiention leading but enflrely untrue. in capitals is also pretty, but misleading, Nanshan. = o =¥ CAPTAIN JOSEPH B. COGHLAN, U. S. N. has been called two or three times be- fore this to the fact that several of the coast papers have credited the McCulloch with having fired the first shot in that campaign, but never before have I seen it in print. In justice to the Raleigh I must enter my protest against your ar- ticle, for the Raleigh fired the first and That part which so prettily states that also the last gun of the Manila cam- at Manila the McCulloch stuck her little pajgn. The fleet passed into Manila Bay a. m., by the Boca Grande entrance, passing within 800 vards of El Fraile rock. The whole force of vessels were strung out in line at that time. The Olympla was in the May 1, 1598, at 12: lead, next the Baitimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston in suc- cession nd following the Boston and nearly in her wake was the reserve squad- ron, the McCulloch, the Zafiro and the As the vessels were 400 yards apart, that would have put the McCulloch (if she and all others were up to their proper places) 1600 yards—nearly a mile— astern of the Raleigh. The Olympia and the Baltimore both passed El Fraile rock without drawing D LAST SHOTS fire, but as the Raleigh got nearly abreas: of it, I, while on the bridge directing turn of the ship, saw a flash of fire o rock and spoke of it, when Lieutenar: L. Chadwick told me he had just befor seen another, and before we were throug speaking of it a gun was fired from that rock, the shot passing over the after par: of the Raleigh, or between her and tho Petrel. Two more shots were fired quick succession from that battery, whe I gave permission to fire in return, and the after 5" rapid-fire gun on the board side of the poop deck of Raleigh fired the first American shot the far East. Afterward the Concord and Boston fired, and as near as I could learn the next day or two the McCulloch’s small guns fired while the Boston was firing, so that we in the lead did not even hear her guns. And, another mistake in your article, there were no guns fired from Corregidor. The only guns fired by the Spaniards that night were fired from Ed Fraile bat- tery. The battery on Corregidor Island was on its north side (we passed its south side), and was never fired AT ALL, except one gun in which a shot was jammed, fired by Lieutenant Hugh Rod- man, U. 8. N., when he was ashore on May 3, 1898, destroying the batteries at the entrance to the bay. The Raleigh and Baltimore, under my command, obtained the surrender of those batteries on May 2, and the Ra- letgh and Concord, again under my com- mand, went down May 3 and destroyed them. Two on the north shore, one on Corregidor Island, one on Cavallo Island and the one spoken of above on El Fralla rock. Another thing which strikes me showing your correspondent rather drew on his Imagination for his facts is that he says “Captain Coulson” assigned Aguinaldo quarters on board her. This must have been news to Captain Coulson, and also to Captain Hodgeson of the revenue marine, who commanded the Me- Culloch at that time, and continued ta do so until Captain Hooper went out. Now, so far as the article intends to laud the McCulloch and her officers and men for their conduct in that campaign. I am with it heart and soul; for in my opinion, and 1 am sure in the opinion of every other naval officer out there, no vessel could have possibly been more alert, more attentive to duty or shown more zeal, promptitude and efficlency than did the McCulloch, whom we all learned to respect and love. She was always ready, and, what's more, DID whatever work was assigned her, and did it WELL. And the fact that she was not in posi- tion to, and did not fire the first gun in the Manila campaign in no way detracts from her more than meritorious conduct out there. The Raleighs, however, desire to have any honmor or glory belonging to them, hence we always are ready to tell any one whom it may interest that the Ra- leigh was lucky enough to fire the first American shot in that campaign, the last shot at the Manila battle of May 1, 1888, and the last American shot (from a ship) in the war in the East, on August 13, 1898. All this is a simple matter of his- tory. Yours very truly, J. B. COGHLAN, Captain U. S. N., commanding U. 8. 8. Raleigh in Manila campaign. Puget Sound Naval Station, March M4, |900. t 1 AROUND THE are at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. E. A, Short of Seattle are at the Occidental. Rev. Alex Eakin of Santa Cruz is regis- tered at the Grand. H. P. Stabler, a fruit grower of Yuba City, is at the Lick. York are at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Morris of Chi- cago are at the Palace. Mrs. Buckingham, the millionaire vine- yardist, is at the Palace. O. F. Atwood, a prominent business man of Stockton, is at the Grand. M. E. Sanford, a popular hotel man of Sonora, is registered at the Lick. Henry Roy, a wealthy mining man of | Rossland, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. D. P. Pease, a well-known New York physician, is registered at the Pal- ace. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 18.—E. A. Phelps of San Francisco is at the Holland; Wal- ter H. Field of San Francisco is at the Manhattan; Willlam Bayley of Los An- geles is at the Waldorf-Astoria; President David 8. Jordan of Stanford University, California, is at the Savoy. 000000 0-0-0-000 il B e e o o o S o I o o e e o L o S o e g MANTLE TRIMMED WITH SABLE. The beautiful mantle represented is of white panne, covered with black Luxeuil lace. Around the shoulders is a band of sable, which is continued in front, form- ing a stole. From below the knee to the ground the mantle is trimmed with the same fur, as are the collar and sleeves. —_—— NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The French Minister of Marine has or- dered two powerful eruisers from the firm of Ansolda, Genoa, and is negotiating ‘with Orlando Bros., Leghorn, for building two other cruisers. The French sheathed cruiser D'Estrees of 2452 tons, launched in 1867, is at last nearly ready for service. She is credited with a speed of 21 knots and will be at- tached to the northern squadron as a dis- | patch vessel. Her armament is rather CORRIDORS | F. H. Hopkins and wife of Portland, Or., | Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fitzgerald of New | @—00—0—0—o—0-0-—0-0-0-@Q FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. ¢/ + | materially increase the dra NP NP 1 | light, consisting of only two 5%-inch and four 4-inch quick-firers, besides a number of machine guns. Military fighting tops appear to be go- ing out of fashion. In the new Swedish ships there will he no fighting tops, and in the French navy the military masts are being removed from the Requin and Terrible, while in the Indomptable and Caineau the after mast is to be taken out. In 1860 it required a crew of fourteen men to serve a 22-pounder on board ship. At the present time four men are all that are required to handle a 6-inch quick-fir- ing gun, firing 100-pound projectiles at the rate of six rounds per minute. The British battleship Glory recently pessed through her eight-hour steam trial under full power. The revolutions aver- aged 107.6, working up to 13745 horse- power, or 245 in excess of contract. Four runs were made over the measured mile course, giving a speed of 18.124 knots. The coal consumption was exceptionally low, being only 1.58 pounds per unit of horse- power per hour. The British Admiralty has decided not to re-boller the Hecate, but to strike her from the effective list of armored ships. The same course will probably be follow- ed In the cases of the Cyclops, Gorgan and Hydra. These vessels, built in 1572, are useless for war purposes, and the London Engineer suggests that they be sold to some South American republic, provided one foolish enough can be found. | The comparative defensive value of the | several kinds of ship armor is very nearly as follows: Six-inch Krupp armor as now being made is equal to Ti-inch Hnrvey-lf 1zed nickel, equivalent to 9-inch Harvey- ized or 12-inch compound, l5-inch steel and 18-inch wrought iron. These relative values indicate the vast saving in weight of armor the Krupp produet has resulted in since 15%0. Armored ships built at the present time can either save 50 per cent in weight of armor or, by retaining the former weight and thickness, a protec- tion of 50 per cent more than that of the Indiana, Oregon and Massachusetts, built only six years ago, may be obtained. The British Admiralty has at last to re- duce its effective fleet on paper by the removal of the Warrior, Black Prince and Belleisle, ironclad ships, and the Boadi- cea, cruiser. The Warrior was built in 1861 and has only 432-inch iron plates on her sides, insufficient to prevent a six- pounder from penetrating this alleged armor at 2000 yards. The Black Prince, built in 1862, is similarly protected with 4%-inch iron, and the Belleisle, purchased in 1878, has been a lame duck for the past ten years. The Boadicea was built in 1875 and has been unserviceable for sev- eral years. All of the vessels mentioned became antiquated with the introduction of improved armor and modern engines. Russia guards her naval secrets more | successfully than any other naval power. Very few details leak out during the con- struction of ships, which may be due to the fact that the authorities are not quite sure how the ships will turn out until completed. There is the Askold, building at Kiel, begun as a protected crulser of 6500 tons, which, it now appears, has been increased to 794 toms, and the question presents itself whether the ship is to have an armor beit or is to use the extra 1464 | tons for coal carrylng. As this would ht of 20 fe 8 inches, the only solution of the conue:." drum would seem to be that all the na- | val powers, lnclud‘n{ the United States |h?.‘ve been deceived by the wily Musco- vites. UNFAVORABLE VIEWS OF THE HUNTINGTON INSURANCE SCHEME fod Haywards Journal e Propos “insurancy 3 the Southern Pacific -trlk:-“ng.:s :r::!nrv?-f uncalled for, and has in it the elements of a freeze-out game. Naturally the fra ternal orders are up in arms against it, for 1t it succeeds it means the wholesale witi members under fire. We are under the impression that the railroad company wiil finally give up the idea, for there is in- tense feeling in fraternal and railroad cic- cles on the coast, backed up by the power- ful influence of the daily and weekly presa, Pleasanton Times. It looks very much as iIf Uncle Collis of the great Southern Pacific Company had *““put his foot in it” in trying to make the thousands of men in his employ insure in his new company, thereby drawing a very considerable percentage of wages from the men. It appears now that the differ- ent lodges are taking the matter up and intend fighting the scheme with all the funds at their command. By compelling the raflroad employes to insure in Uncle s benevolent idea it will take a big percent- age of members from the different bene- ficlary lodges, for a large number of tha i te 1 will mean the crippling financially of t lodges. There is much talk among the em- ployes of the company about & general strike if Huntington insists on his w-n joining in his scheme. Such a strike w!'l mean a $2,000,000 loss to California peopla and another million to the railroad com- flnny. and if Mr, Huntington knows when e is well off he will withdraw his order to make money out of his men—for a mgney making idea it is from the word go. It is simply the taking of $1 out of one pocket and putting it in anether. —e—————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.* e Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * —e————e New finishes in oak moldings for picture frames, and new pictures In water ~olors, latinotypes, photographs and etching: isitors always welcome. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . 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