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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 16. 1900, MONDAY " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. P .LI(ATIOI\ OI"FICE Market and Third, S. F. Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOM Telepho Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. en, 5 Cents. mneluding Postage: DAILY CALL Onecluding Sunday), one year. 268.00 DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 6 months, 8.00 1 Y CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 month 1.50 1 CALL—By Single Month. ‘bc JAY CALL One Year.. EKLY CALL One Year. lon o receive All postmmsters are abscriptions. Sample copies Will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON, .Herald Square NEW YOR TEPHEN B. SMITH.. ENTATIVE: CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. EW YORK NEWS STANDS: a Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICH............ MORTON E£. CRANE, Correspondent. GRANCH OFFICES— 27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, oper 1 §:30 o'clock. %00 Hayes. open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 er. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Sixteenth, open until ¥ o'clock. open unmti # o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until oclock. NW. corner Twenty-seccnd and Kentucky until ® o'clock 9:30 o'elock Market, corner Valencia, ® open JSEMENTS. “An Arablan Girl" elor's Romance." skofl and Hambourg this afternoon, e Nile."” P Cavalieria Rusticana.” Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and f Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. atry's Trained Antmal Show, Woeste A RELAPSE last week was rather quieter than usual, kK clearings of the country fell off 11.6 IN MANUFACTURES. facturing towns, more important showed a decrease. River and the In fact, turer, who has enjoyed such an unprece for a year or more, is now beginning to The retail ral public cannot pay the commodities resultant fromn and his method of informing the fact, though tacit, is none the less y cuts down his orders. The on the manufacturer, who s production, and thus the boom le and noiseless subsidence of d declining prices. e gern the dry goods business. We are informed & Co. that * a heavy wholesale business but the question is now it. As yet re- there is an increase, but ant the buying from mills.” e industry is another instance. striby factory; ion wi justify because prices are higher than the , the publ In the ) are willing to pay. ly small,” simply because buyers are more nore convinced that the present high prices will Indeed, some weakness was apparent sev- wecks ago, and some lines declined slightly. iware is the only branch of the iron and steel show any particular strength at the moment. like the iron trade, is active, but on new business being small. Rather more y for raw wool is reported. in manufacturing industries is reflected in Wail street, where many industrial stocks have lately idation in steel stocks having been a On the other hand, some of the re doing better under larger sales. in London ade to he cotton trade, promine: e way Firmness of Y oney turning gold from the latter to the former market, and a shipment was made to Buenos Ayres on European account last week. General trade seems to be better here than in the East. The Alaskan gold fields and Government or- ders keep certain lines of produce active in the local nd the Spanish war and the discovery of gold up north seem to have been godsends to San Francisco. Certainly the town has grown remark- ably in business, if not in population, since Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. It is nct the same town. It is livelier, larger and more bustling: its streets and wharvesgare more crowded, and it never looked so much like a large city as it ork some market, 17 does to-day. The crop situation has undergone considerable modification during the past week. Late rains have benefited grain and vegetable crops, late frosts have done more or less damage to orchard fruits an”® a good deal of mischief to grapes. Of fruits, peaches are the leading sufferers, with apricots a close second, | while cherries, prunes and pears do not appear to have been hurt much except in spots. However. it is generally admitted that the fruit crop of the State will not be as enormous as expected a month ago, and it is probably a good thing. There will be fruit enough. 1f local police duty continues to become much more complicated in its demands the dressing rooms of the police stations wiil look not unlike the dressing rooms | of variety theaters. In Chinatown and Barbary Coast work the “finest” have to masquerade now as Chinese and negroes Judge Taft is of the opinion that circumstances be- yond our control have thrust responsibility for the Philippines upon us. Perhaps the distinguished gen- tleman can suggest some means by which we can re- turn the thrust. As Secretary Long asks for $61,219,016 for the nave next year, it is evident he doesn't intend to belie his name and run short anywhere. vessesss....APRIL 16, 1900 17 to 221 Stevemson St. e2..1118 Broadway | ..30 Tribune Building | .Wellington Hotel | 21006 | is well illustrated by the present | ing half time and others are | and easiness in New | CALIFORNIAN SPRING FETES. IVERSIDE is now beautiful and joyous in the R bustling gayety of a “street fair,” the first ever Jheld on this coast; and by the time that closes Sacramento will be about ready to open another fes- tival of a similar nature to add to the frolic welcome of the May. A few years ago the State was noted for its mid- winter rose festivals, and it appeared for a time as if | in several localities these would become established as annual fetes. The industrial depression resulting from the panic of 1893, followed later by the two years of comparative drought, appears to have ren- dered these celebrations unprofitable, and accordingly last winter there were but three or four of them in the State. Now, with returning prosperity and abun- {dant rains, the natural buoyancy of the spirit of the | people revives, and the fetes of the spring will doubt- _‘ less be among the most successful ever known. | At Riverside, we are told, the town is radiant with | banners, thronged with visitors from all parts of | | Southern California, and has every prospect of a | week of bustling activity in which business and pleas- | ure will be combined. The profit of the venture, | moreover, will not end with the trade of the festival itself. A new attractiveness will have been given to the city and its repute abroad will have been aug- so that the good effects will be far reaching and long enduring, and, what is more, not Riverside | but all Southern California will be benefited | by them. The street fair at Sacramento will, of course, be much larger and more elaborate in every way thaun | that which is now going on at Riverside. It is to be more of a fair and less of a fete. It will not, perhaps, have the floral beauty of the southern celebration, but it will have a richer and more extensive display of | lights and banners and other artificial decorations. From the preparations that have been made for it each successive day of the fair will provide for the people of Sacramento and their visitors an attraction peculiar to itself. There is to be no monotony in the | week, and the event will doubtless prove one of the nnnb'e successes accomplished in the way of open-air | entertainments on a grand scale in California. mented, | only | | | | WARSHIPS AND S‘:HMEN NLY a short time ago the Naval Committee | reported to the House of Representatives a bill appropriating for the navy $61,000,000, O | | i of which sum $28,350,000 is to be employed m‘ | the construction - of new ships, exclusive of ar- | mor and armament. Now there comes a report | | shire, to go out of commission. In addition to this orders have been prepared to put the Marblehead | out of commission at Mare Island, and telegraph or- | ders have been sent to Admiral Watson to send the | gunboats Bennington and Concord, now at Manila, to San Francisco, where they will also be put out of commission. The big battleships Indiana and Mas- sachusetts, which have just been overhauled at the. New York navy yard, are to be sent to League Island about the first of the month, to be laid up in ordinary instead of being commissioned. | The reduction in the number of ships in commis- sion is said by the naval authorities to be due to a lack of officers to take charge of them. Thus we are told that for all of the four great guns in the double | turrets of the new battleship Kearsarge but one officer | could be spared, involving undue risk even in times of peace. The Navigation Bureau is authority for the statement that there are fully 160 vacancies in the | | line of the navy, and the total number of officers is | really less than it was fifteen years ago, notwithstand- ing the great increase in the number of ships. The projected shortening of the course at Annapolis pro- | vided for in the impending naval bill would not sub- stantially relieve the situation in less than fifteen years, so the officials are striving to find some method for temporary relief, such, perhaps, as the graduation of the Annapolis classes for the next two years onc year in advance of the usual time, or an authorization for the immediate appointment to Annapolis of about 100 extra cadets. We have, it appears, built up a navy faster than we have supplied a force to make use of it. In the pro- gramme of the House bill it is purposed to construct two seagoing battleships, three armored cruisers and three protected cruisers. When they are completed it will be necessary to put more ships out of commis- sion in order to supply officers for the new ones. We shall thus have costly vessels rusting at their moorings for lack of men to keep them in working order. Under such circumstances it is clearly one of the duties of American statesmanship to provide a way for increasing the number of men available for naval | service, either as officers or as seamen. The plans | proposed for graduating cadets from Annapolis in ; that the Navy Department is under the neces- | sity of ordering the United States cruiser De- | troit to the Portsmouth navy yard, New Hamp- | | two years, or for adding to the number of cadets | there, may supply the officers immediately needed, strength except the upbuilding of a merchant marine which will fit thousands of young men for service at sea. We can construct new ships more rapidly than merchant marine bill should accompany the naval ap- propriation bill as a part of a comprehensive plan for establishing our prestige upon the.ocean. ALONG THE YUKON TRAIL. AWSON appears to have profited to some ex- tent by the rush for Cape Nome. The event tion without a corresponding diminution of supplies, and consequently the town will not have to live on | Mafeking rations this spring. In fact, one of the local Dawson and coming in than can possibly be con- | sumed before the arrival of warm weather will render : more or less of it unfit for use. Whether parties who much better put the price down within the reach of every one than run the'risk of consigning large quan- tities to the river upon the break-up.” Dawson. It seems a lot of luxuries have been going in over the trail, but that sometimes they strike snags, | as it were, and then the way stations have festivals. says: “Durand has reached Bennett and is on his way to Dawson with 1000 quail and 400 pounds of frog legs. As the latter are spoiling very rapidly, he sold the whole town indulged in a frog-leg feast, the first in its history.” 3 Other reports are to the effect that Dawson is full they are too proud to go home. In an extended re- view of the subject a Dawson journal says: “Many men who have not sufficient pride here to prevent but nothing will ever give us an adequate naval we can raise up trained seamen, and therefore the e —————— D has led to a considerable decrease of popula- papers recently said: “There is more beef now in | are handling beef have made or lost money, they had Beef, however, is not the only viand plentiful in’ For example, a report from Skaguay of March 27 a large part of his stock in Bennett yesterday, when of men who stay there for no other reason than that them from sleeping under crap tables have been ‘high rollers’ at home; but to go back looking like Weary Willies is too much for them, and the result is that they | have continued to hibernate here through two or | three long and dreary winters, and when the spring- time or fall work time had come made no effort to Letter their conditions. The rustling qualities attrib- uted to them at home had not the necessary staying ingredients, with the result that the first reverse knocked them out for good. There are hundreds of just uch men as are described above in Dawson to-day, and here they will remain, perhaps, until the district has been practically worked out, at which time they will have only what they have now, to wit., the pride that keeps them from going back to the old home | penniless.” Among the miners a deep dissatisfaction prevails with the Canadian mining laws and the Canadian of- ficials. The laws appear to be unjust, and the manner of their enforcement is in many cases vorse. So much has been said about corruption in American | @4+44 44444444 D R . ] | official life, as compared with that of Great Britain .ad British colonies, that it is worth noting, in this | | connecton, that while Canadian officials have rendered themselves liable to grave suspicions of corruption and have given rise to discontent, the administration in Alaska on the American side of the line has been | in every way satis(actory Major Ray has performed a difficvlt duty in a manner which has wor universal | ;cnmmendallofl, and, by contrast with the course of so many of the Canadisn officers, his success is not anly creditable to himself but honors the Government he serves. 2 makes the very obvious point that if the visit “be leit to stand alone; if it be not followed up by wise and conciliatory steps on the part of the English public rather than the British Parliament, it will soon be completely forgotten.” The writer commends the Queen’s order for the formation of a regiment of Irish guards, but claims TO CONCILIATE IRELAND. CORRESPONDENT of the London Chron- icle, writing of the sentiment of the Irish peo- it must be regarded as an act of )usnce rather than and settled in Eastern Tennessee. one of favor. “For fifty years at least,” he says, “one ple with regard to the visit of the Queen, | | | Mrs. Bumetts Last ( Marriage and Other Striking Examples of Talented Women ' 'Who Have Married Men Far Younger - Than Themselves. + $ NoTesLE maxriAGES : Of Their Kind. + | + }t Mrs. Langtry-Hugo de Bathe, 49-2. + [+ Adelina Patti-Baron Cederstrom, 3 i+ 5628 y | | 4 Mrs. Frances Higginson-James W. 3 |+ Smith, 02 3 |4 Mrs. Mable Hopkins-E. F. Searles, 5 : + 73-46. + { |+ Baroness Burdett-Coutts-Ashmead J | |+ Bartlett, 64-23. | 4 Mrs. Frank Leslie-Willle Wild, + + s pe| $ Georgle Ellot-Mr. Cross, 5022 31 OHH+ 4444440444444 44440 \ s IE marriage of Mrs. Frances | Hodgson Burnett. the famous a ‘ thor, to her young secretary, | Stephen Townsend, again calls a lenli(-.l to the frequent union of | women of mature years with men | much their juniors. Mrs. Burnett !s now somewhere in the fifties, and her life has been as full of romance as that of any of her heroines. Like most of her books, it promises to| fifth of the British army has been composed of Irish- | men, but only eight foot regiments and four cavalry regiments bear Irish names. It follows that more than 30,000 Irish soldiers contribute to the reputation of English and Scotch regiments. There are prob- ably not more than 6000 Scotch, by race, soldiers in | clan duly licensed to practice in Tenne: the British army, but they give their names to two | Guard, five Highland, one cavalry and two Lowland | regiments. There are consequently more Scotch regi- ments than Irish. Moreover, the popularity of their names, the Gordons, the Camerons, Seaforths, etc., and the prominence given them in every campaign, | has produced an impression of military service far in excess of the plain, simple truth. This would have been very difficult if some Pitt had taken up the sub- ject of treating the Irish septs as he treated the Scotch clans, and given the British army regiments desig- nated by the names of Kavanagh and O’Connor, Mac- Mahon and O’Neill. soldiers in English battles has, therefore, been an unrecognized and unappreciated part, and for the first time the public has been made acquainted with the existence of an Irish brigade during the present ‘e‘ war in South Africa.” The establishment of a national regiment, composed of three full battalions and having a strength of up- | story immediately brought the writer rec- | | son come to a peaceful termination after long | years yet to be of happiness and content. Frances Hodeson was born in England, but her parents came to this country | when the future author was but a child The Hodgsons were very poor when lttle | Frances, a dreamy, original girl of six- teen, who had already written some lit- tle storfes which had been published, and who secretly cherished the ambition which has been so splendidly realized, be- came acquainted with an equally poor and unknown young man named Burnett. Dr. Burnett at that time was a physi- see. He was poor, young, ardent and in love. His practice was very small, and medical compensation has never been too generous in Tennessee; but love is rich, d so it came about that Frances Hodg- one day made the happy bride | of the struggling )oung phy:lchn ‘ Years of &edded Life, i Jhen They Parledi R. BU R‘\FTT was especially fasci- | Inated by the study of the eye, and Dh.m a consuming desire to go to the | great hospitals in Europe and fit | et b specialist in his chosen ward of 3000, officered by men of representative Irish families, and intrusted with the permanent guard of | ana Mrs. Burnett to go to London, where Dublin, but being at the same time attached to the | The great part played by Irish | fleld. His young wife shared his ambi- tion, and it was in an effort to help her husband earn the money to realize his | cherished hope that she undertook to | te a story for publication. This story, timidly offered to a magazine ditor, was “That Lass o' Lowrle's,” a | novel whose characters were drawn from her childhood recollections of her early home in the English mining region. The | | = ognition, fame and money. It was this money, so falrly earned, that enabled Dr. | they remalned two years, at the end of which time the physiclan was regarded as royal household guards, would, he says, have a strong a master of his specialty, as he is to this influence in promoting a spirit of loyalty in Ireland; but much more than that must be done to put an end to the long antagonism which the Irish have felt toward the empire. Military glory and | pageantry can never make up for a lack of justice and | the absence of efforts to promote the material wel- fare of the people. The Queen’s visit and the establishment of a reg ment of Irish guards will avail little, therefore, unless they be supported by a comprehensive conciliatory policy. Thus the writer says: “We must take a peo- ple as we find them if we ‘wish to gain their good will and esteem. It is no use investing the Irish with qualities they do not possess, or expecting from them | at the Palace. They have a | the phlegmatic action of colder races. capacity for silent suffering and for relentless recol- | lection of a grievance of which no other race seems capable, but the task of removing the causes is not beyond the means, while it is well worthy of the ends, of English statesmen.” Whether the statesman equal to the task of doing | justice to Ireland will come into power in time 1o profit by the admiration which the skill of Lord Rob- | erts and the valor of Irish officers and troops have court | |, ! Willoughby' Claim.” | p i | | excited among the English people remains to be seen. | The time is certainly propitious to the adoption of a | just policy in dealing with Irish questions. The Lib- erals in England, remembering the teachings of Glad- stone, are evidently favorable to home rule at this time, but they are not in power. It is.for Salisbury to act, and upon his action will it depend whether the Queen’s visit becomes memorable as the mark of the beginning of a new era for the United Kingdom or be forgotten as a passing pageant of the time. e et s The revelations which have been made of the oper- ations of the local Ckinese ring suggest the propriety of organizing a new and unique parlor of Native Sons of the Golden West. The parlor might be called the Jackson parlor, and members be restricted to candidates who cculd prove that they were born be- fore June 6, 1882 The fact that a society in this city gave a ball and had a frolicsome dance for the purpose of - raising money to purchase a cemetery is an evidence that when the average Californian wishes to have a gay time any excuse will do—and after all waltzing to a grave may be as good a way of gettinig there as any. 1i the Pippy ring continues the success which has already attended its efforts we may find some day that our citizen coolies will be framing a new charter for us. His Honor the Mayor might do .worse than give his serious attention to the matter. ¢ et Dewey may still' cling to his belief that there is no great difficulty in performing the work of Presi- dent of the United States, but he has undoubtedly learned by this time that pretty hard work is required to get the job. European political experts predict that the present French Ministry will fall as soon as the exposition is over and that France will then show the world some spectacular politics that will open the new century with a bang. > William C. Whitney denies that he had anything to do with Dewey’s decision to be a Presidential candi- date, but in New York, where Whitney is known, it | | | | Evening Democrat, is at the California. ¥ sereatter the coupls. lived much _in Washington, where “Through One Ad- tration” and “Little Lord Fauntle- roy” were written, and where Mrs. Bur- nett gained the information used in her | atest book, “In Connection with the De | Tn 1865 it was reported that Dr. and Mrs. Burnett had parted, but this rumor was | | emphatically denied by both husband and | wife, and the actual separation did not oceur until several years later. Then, i- | Without suggestion of scandal or wrong on elther side, it became known that the | | woman of the old regime. | confidence two people—both eminent, both respected and successful in public life in aifferent flelds—had, for reasons of temperament, agreed to separate. Mrs. Burnett's acquaintance with the gentleman whom she has recently mar- ried began just before the death of her son Lionel, the original of Lord Fauntle- roy. Later Mr. Townsend and Mrs. Bur- nett collaborated in the dramatization ot Lady of Quali Their marriage was colebrated quietly in Genoa, Italy. abegs o faindbn Lillian Langtry and Mugo de Pathe «1E young may laugh at the Indfan J summer romance of a woman admit- tedly far past the “‘forty-year'’ term, which is the period the French have fixed for the opening of the great gulf be- yond which love may not pass. But “La femme a quarante ans” is a There are in- controvertible proofs that neither ro- mance nor happiness nor mental youth nor physical beauty is a question of years, and the modern woman has proved that she is only as old as she looks, and that she can be passionately loved and can physically carry away the beauty prizes | long after her maturity. Mrs. Langtry, at fifty, according to the baptismal records of the Island ot Jersey, where she was born, became, a few months ago, the bride of Hugo de Bathe, aged 2. Persons who know them say the marriage was a love match. In any case, Mr. de Bathe is one of the handsomest and most agreeable young men of London’s smart set. Less recently Mme. Adelina Patt!, whose age s about 5, married Baron Ceder- strom, who desperately in love with the lady, and who will not enter his thir- ties for several years vet. The marriage of Robert Louis Steven- son to Mrs. Samuel Osborne, a lady with grown-up children, was one of ideal hap- piness, and here again the wife was many years her husband’s senior. cvsadsle | Baroness Burdett-Coutts and jfer Pnfu:au Jecretary *iE recent and lamentable death of G. W. Steevens, the war correspond- ent, who succumbed to typhus fever in South Africa, recalied his one ro- mantic love affair. The iady of his heart chur became his wife when Steevens was in his | twenty-sixth year and she had passed Ker sixtieth birthday. as it may appear to some, the Steevens’ married life was one of unalloyed happi- ness. Baroness Burdett Coutts was over 60 when she created a sensation in the homes | of the respectable British matrons by an- nouncing her intended marriage with Ash- mead Bartlett, her. private secretary, a penniless young man in his twentles. Yet in the score of years which have succeed- ed that amazing marriage there has never been a whisper of aught but devotion and between the pair, and Mr. Bartlett has, by his ability, become a con- siderable figure in British politics. Mme. de Stael, the literary genius of France in the early part of the century, not_exactly a prototype of Mrs. Burnett, erhaps, when she secretly married De Rocca, was almost twice the romantic young officer’s age. Lili Lehmann, Lillian Nordica and Clara Louise Kellogg are all years older than their husbands and all happily mar- ried. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps married Her- MRS FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT-TOWNSEND. @0+ 0000000000009 60+0000000600eIeded Incomprehensible | LOVE AND ART SEEM BLIND TO AGE R R B e ® ‘ae L4 bert D. Ward, a man_ almost young hi The: a ve ave collabor- enough to be her son very happily togethe effective literar, Georg attired in bridal wh she became th Her ro to whom she was never mar- Lewes, . had kept alive for ye her capacity for ' tender aff n. after Mr. Lewes’ death would she consent to marry With the exception of Baroness Coutts, all these examples cited have been women of literary artistic tempera ment. The rank and file of British matrons and faithful to the code of their H | tors. But in this breezy | country of our pride and independence we | have temperament, it would appear, with- out especlal talent or artistic Pent. Mrs. Mark Ropkins and Young Mr. Searles #=HE happy union of Dr. Ashton Tal- J bot, aged about 24, with Mrs. Calieta Phelps, who was T8, is a case In point; also the satisfactory marriage of Mr. Charles F. Reglid and Mrs. Adele Ronalds, the lady nearly %0 and the bride- groom Mrs. Frank Leslie married W n Wilde, a man much her junior. Mrs. Florence, “Billy” Florence’s widow, se- lected a young man not much more than half her own years in her third matri- monial venture. In Boston—staid and proper Boston— Frances Higginson, a social leader a few years ago and fairly stunned by eloping Vi . young James W. Smith, who was about 24, and whom she has since married—and a happy mar- riage at that, according to the people who antly see the Smiths at their villa sntone, not so very far from th e of Mrs. Burnett-Townsend’'s honey moon. Then there was Mrs. Mark ank‘hs the widow of the ( a million: who at 73 marrted E Searles, a genhu architect and decorator, in his fortles, who had been employed 'upon her country house in Great Barrington. Professor Richard Hovey, Mrs. and a matron of 0. astounded a cont whose death, recently recorded, is a distinct loss to literature, married Mrs. Henrietta Rus- sell, a lady certainly twenty years his senfor. And the Hovey marriage might also be called ideal. In our smartest set we find the superior- ity of age on the wife's side. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. married at 21 Miss Grace Wilson, is much hi Wiillam K. Vanderbilt Jr. is several years younger than his wife, who was Virginia Falr. And as who should say, “I am not (lnn-v with pranks, yet my master: comes from wanton Cupld well- fnuml» rumors that Lady Randolph Churchill positively to marry Lieutenant Cornwalk West, a_young Guardman, not quote h eldest son's age: and, again from B evered and austere Boston—a sta that Mrs. Jack Gardner, the ct and eccentric leader of fashiom, espouse as a second husband one othe than Master George Proctor, a youth in whom she became interested when he was a member of a boys’ church choir. Love is declared, by those who should know, to be blind. It is unfortunate, such being the case, to be able, as an honest chronicler, to add that in every one of the alliances here recorded or sug- gested, love has lost nothing by his un- toward affection. All the ladies in the case have large bank accounts. PE RSOIVAL MENTION Captaln F. J. Poole of Peking, China, is L. W. Moultrie, an attorney of Fresno, | is at the Lick. Superior Judge I. F. Poston of Coalinga is at the Lick. L. T. Wright, a mining man of Shasta, is at the Palace. F. C. Chinn, a merchant of Sacramento, is at the Palace. B. F. Snell, a mining man of Nevada | City, is at the Lick. Colonel A. E. Bates of the United States | army is at the Palace. F. W. Mattherson, a merchant of La Salle, Il is at the Palace. i ‘W. H. Holabird, a rallroad promoter of | Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Mark Plaisted, editor of the Fresno George C. Dean, a prominent business man of Cambridge, Mass., is at the Pal- ace. J. A. Brent of St. Paul and Frank Shaw of Jackson, mining experts, are at the Grand. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at the Lick with his family. McKinley Mitchell, a business man and politician of Gervals, Or., is at the Oceci- dental. ‘W. M. Hunt of the Continental Fruit ‘Express of Los Angeles, and his bride are at the Grand. * F. A. Hartman of Los Angeles, who is heavily interested in Mexican mines, is at the California. W. M. Liggett, a mine owner of Daw- son, is at the Russ. He has just returned from Washington, ———e————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 15.—G. M. Hoar Jr. of San Francisco is at the Holland; Jo- seph McKinley of San Francisco is at the Astor; James W. Smook of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The German navy is at present repre- sented In forelgn waters by sixteen ves- sels and it is intended to add five more during the year. A quick-firing gun of 7% inch caliber has been made for the British navy and is to be tried shortly. It will throw a shell weighing 200 pounds. The obsolete armorclads are being weed- ed out of the European navies. France has relegated the Colbert, Richelieu and Trident to harbor service; Germany re- cently condemned two old turret vessels, and the Deutchland and Koenig Wilhelm will also soon retire from the effective list. The floating dock at Havana is still un- disposed of, the private bidders having failed to make good their offer. Spain has again offered it to the United States at an advance of $15,000 over the first, but our Navy Department has no funds for the purchase and the dock is likely to be unidflmwhenmrhedenhunbmmdmemm a dead loss to Spain. he is joking. mwhottho!mmmmwm- ers of Maudslay Sons & Fields at Lambeth no longer exists. The tools and other ap- purtenances were sold at auction during the first week of this month and the un- filled contracts have been turned over to | the new works located at Greenwich. This old marine engine firm has built engines for every naval power except that of the | United States, and thelr machinery is to | be found in fully one-half of the world's naval vessels bullt prior to 18%0. British manufacturers of armor plates were unofficlally encouraged last year by Lord Goshen, First Lord of the Admiral- | ty, to extend their facilities and they have | promptly acted upon the encouraging hint of large orders. The three firms, all lo- cated at Sheffield, comprising Vicker's Sons & Maxim, John Brown & Co. and Charles Causswell & Co., have added im- | provements to their plants involving an { outlay of $5,000,000, and are now prepared to turn out 30,000 tons of armor per an- | num. The pay of German naval officers is considerably lower than in the British | navy, but somewhat higher than in the French. A German admiral of the fleet recelves a salary of $3000, which, with table money and other allowances, makes | a total of $7900 annually. A captain’s pay is $1950; that of a lleutenant in command is $975, and chief inspector of machinery afloat recelves only $1650. The flest sur- geon's pay is $190. It is asserted that during the first ten years of a German naval officer’s career his income falls short of his actual necessary expenditures by $2500 and, as a consequence, only the rich can afford to enter their sons as officers in the imperial German navy. That the French excel in the smaller callber guns Is a fairly well established fact, but the claim made for a better 12- inch gun than that of any other navy re- | mains to be proved in actual practice, for comparative data do not support the claim. While the initial velocity is greater in the French gun, the projectile welghing only 643.8 pounds against the British 80 pounds, the penetrating en- ergy must therefore be much greater for the British gun. The Engineer of recent date contains the following Interesting table of the principal armor-plercing ord- nance of which some of the data are: THEEr = s 2 = e | S | o ol 200 3 NAVY. gl 8] 2fFslin of I8 |igles i85 '; Az'gi L iEf2alin; e £lix g s 52 246/389.3 3T 510|660 22.4 170/676.2 T4 4,840/654.1 8.48/ 6. 4.730/886.5 The figures for the American guns do not correspond with the latest report of the - Bureau of Ordnance of the United States navy, which gives an energy of 58,221 foot tonms, equal to 1019.6 foot tons per ton weight of gun. Its penetrating pov-umm'mbofl.nluchnot Harveyized nickel steel armor, making it vastly superior to any gun yet bullt for any other navy. 1 | ANSWERS TO connmoxnmv'rs CENT OF 1845 M. B., City. A l-cent iece of 1848 does not command & premium Tom dealers. _ CHIEF JUSTICE—T. M. L., City. W. | H. Beatty is the Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of California. NEXT ELECTION-T. M. L., City. 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