The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1900 THE ALAMEDA FRUIT-GROWERS. Y way of meeting the menace to their industry caused by the combination of the canners, the MONDAY... ----:o. MAY 21, "’f’,‘i fruit-growers of Alameda County have taken JOHN -,VEPH;\_KELSY Froprietor. steps toward organizing for the purpose ot h;ndliug k TSRy i g 2 . e e __ | and canning and marketing their fruit themselves. Address All Communica to W. S, LEAKE, Marazer. Whether it be or ever was the purpose of the canners to wrong the fruit-growers does not in any way affect the wisdom of the action thus taken, and it would be well for orchardists in other counties to follow the example. OFFICE. .Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Main 186GS. PUBLICATION ROOMS. ...217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, EDITORIAL So far as we know there has been no movement on the part of the canners’ combine to injure the or- chardists, and if the leaders of the combine be wise there never will be such an intent on their part, for Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: vear E nday), Sy CCALL One. Year.. Bl A 1 nish and the canners will find themselves in the og """m""":n;::':;‘::::f"d to recelve | position of the man who killed the goose that laid the Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. golden egg. The large output of fruit will decrease and the canners will then be unable to obtain a suffi OAKLAND OFFIC ...1118 Broadway NESS, quette Euiding, Chicago. ““Central 2613.") cient ount of it to compete with the rival canner in the East. Conceding the best intentions to the canners, how- ever, it remains true that orchardists will be wise in organizing for co-operative effort whenever it may be needed. It is well to have confidence in others, but it so well to have not too much. Among the di- s of the Greeks there was one whom they repre- sented in poetry, in painting and in sculpture, as wear- ng. nee Telephone YORK CORRESPONDE: Heraid Square NTATIVE: Tribune Building is vinit STANDS News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Hotel always helmet and breastplate and bearing shield STANDS and spear—full armed at all times and all places—and 0, 31 Union Square: | that divinity was known to them as the goddess of wisdom. The very forces which have made it advisable for the canners to combine make it also advisable for the The economic tendencies of the time enforce co-operation, and it seems certain that e not the ability to combine, organize and co-operate must suffer disaster until through a painful experience they learn how to adapt themselves B growers to combine, “The Butterfiles."” to the conditions of their time and country. In the end it will probably be found advisable for the canners and the growers of California to combine and work together, on a plan similar to that now pro- posed for co-operation between the growers and the pac of dried fruit. Such a combination would ve the business sufficiently diversified to enable each branch of it to be carried on independently as an industry while combined as a trade; that is, the growing of the fruit would be in the hands of expert orchardists and the canning and selling would be in | the hands of experts in those lines, while the profits of the sale of the canned fruit would be equitably di- | vided. One of the notable features of the Alameda move- ment is the promptness with which it was started the moment a need for it was evident. This is another illustration of the superior capacity of the men who | control and carry on the orchard industry in Califor- nia. No class of business men trained by daily habit in dealing with the markets of the world to form as- sociations and to act quickly could have moved with greater vigor or with more sagacity than the Alameda fruit-growers have done in this instance. her's Concert House—*Faust." p Company Concert Hall—Vaudeville. Baths—Open nights o Monday, May 21, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at = ets. May le at 11 o'clock, Carriage | THE CURRENT LIQUIDATION. ~HE cou ¥ is mow in the midst of the liquida- lowing the great commercial boom of Slowly, and without shock 4 iselves to ph Those 1 soared too high are coming down, and iches which produced 100 many goods last oduce. [ conditions normal The readjustment is pro- tible but noiseless force of a stop it. It is the great law of itself having In anufacturing combines are lead are fighting it, but vainly, for e public purse, and that limit was December. es g ca and reassert atter fiverted from its natural course. It is safe to say an industry in the hands of such men is not going to suffer in the competitions of the world. Men of that type will be always able to look out for them- | selves and profit by every change in the situation. There is no excite- | e e ceeding is orderly n ‘ But all over the United is again the dominant force in That it came to | is a matter | credits, no stringency The Alameda Justice who sent a man to jail for six months for stealing a kiss and then let a girl who had stolen a diamond go with a sentence of fifty days has so high an appreciation of kisses that the girls should have rewarded him on the spot. r alarm. States trade, i s As a picnic season this could hardly be beaten. ven Bryan, were he in the woods of California just 1 | E el 4 ” now, could find nothing to howl about and would be compelled to talk optimism by the force of circum- ues is steadily assuming st it was confined to iron and ste hends corn, pork, beef and muttc lucts, wool, cotton, petroleum, lead, : e . By 2 ; | stances and the influence of the climate. tin, 1 wire, paper and dozens of other el comm ace of the wild s!-cc lation in se- THE PERJURY PROSECUTIONS. ), we now contemplate a liquidation % E =t i 3 twenty preferred industrial stocks | PON the question o.f the gu:][ or innocence of prices averaging $83 per share, | 1.he parties mdl.ctcd by the (Jrflfl(l._]ury for per me week last year, and twenty jury in the Fair case The Call will not under of $38 50, against 57;’ take to pronounce judgment. The accused persons are n in the hands of the courts and are entitled to a fair and impartial trial, not only in the court it- self but before the larger bar of public opinion. The Call therefore will give full reports of all the pro- | ceedings in the several cases without prejudice or fa- vor and leave the decision to wait until all the evi- dence on both sides has been heard. While thus careful not to wrong the rights of either force, which at that time last now vear reasing, 1is decreasing. | asly scarce in 1899, is now some of the works are actually ve the excessive production. Many d steel works are doing the same Paper, w more stog toppage. of works and consequent dis- rercentage of wage-earners is the only € of the situation. Business | ©f those whose reputation and liberty is now at stake in some n almost suspended by the ob- | upon the serious charges against them, The Call will stinacy facturers and agents in holding on | MOt pretend to be indifferent to the gravity of the to the high gices of 189. | issuc involved in the prosecution of perjury. Upon the honesty of courts and their ability to secure to every man his rights our whole social structure rests. The boy tosses his bail into the air and uncon- ciates a great commercial truism when i goes up must come down.” This js | All civilization' is based upon justice, upon the con- the s the United States to-day. The Cai] | fidence of men that, subject to the human liability foresaw the new year, and pointed | to error, essential fair dealing will be secured through | t at th | the courts to every member of society whenever his it of the public pocket had been reached w saw it then; everybod | property, his rights, his liberty or his life is wronged now. It is easy to sce through a millstone if some- | o menaced. Therefore when justice is poisoned at body will point out its fountain by perjury, a wrong is done not only to It is better as good, steady bu the litigants in the particular case in which the per- jury was committed but to the whole community. That there has been a tendency toward perjury in our courts of late years is beyond dispute. The evil has been felt in every State, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. It has been noted in high cases of national importance, heard in evidence given before committees of the United States Senate sitting with | the authority of courts and having the right to ad- minister oaths; and from those august tribunals down to the Justice Courts, where the common peo- ple seck an honest settlement of their controversies, the same blighting villainy is manifest. It has be- ter of t come “a crime of the time,” and constitutes one of The ‘bank clearings of the country last week were the most portentous menaces to the weltare of the re- 116 per cent less than in the same week last year. | public. New York Under such circumstances it is the imperative dutvy cent. The of all who have been intrusted by the people with the | administration of justice to see to it the crime of per- jury be checked by vigorous prosecutions in every case where it is suspected, and by the severest penal- ties in every instance where guilt is proved. That han as it was. Tt is better to do a | ss, as we are doing now, making our moderate profit, than to be rushed by a boom, . though it is doubling those profits, perhaps, s on too furiously for our own good. Thanks rge increase in the circulation, there is plenty ‘ in the country. In fact, we have more than | | e hole | | | to the of mon want, and are again loaning it in large blocks to Furope. The other day we loaned France $15,000,000 She needed it, Europe did not and it was a mere bagatelle to New e came over here and got it. A few New York will be the financial cen- exposition vears 1 off 188 per cent and Boston 12.3 per rcial f against 168 They show that le the volume of business is smaller this year the So be it—it shows that the coun- healthy co! lures were 15 for statistics. last year. So muck failures are fewer. try is commerci . S————— | duty is imposed not only upon Judges and juries but Fffi"‘ all that we can ‘"f‘"l_lhc only delegate to the | yipon the bar itself, for the bar will not be held guilt- Populist convention at Cincinnati who attended to | Jess if perjury escape punishment. 4 Again and again @ the proceedings instead of howling | in cases whose magnitude or whose sensational fea- was Delegate Kellie from Minneapolis. The reports | tures attract public attention suspicion has been say she sat on the platiorm with her baby in her 1ap | aroused that the lawyers in the case have either and nursed it without getting excited from start to suborned perjury or accepted it in the interests of finish. their elients. It is not necessary to cite specific in- stances of that kind, nor to give names of suspected ' parties. It is sufficient to say such suspicions have been excited so frequently in contested will cases and | other suits involving large sums of money that the : bar cannot afford to treat them with contempt. | The people of California have a right to expect that | in the indictments for perjury in this case the bar will hen has the consolation of knowing that the game | co-operate with the courts in making an investigation business duri The Germans may exclude our fruits and our meat, but the fact that filibustering was resorted to in the Reichstag a few days ago is an evidence that our in- fluence cannot be excluded unless the Kaiser shoul.l adopt Tom Reed tactics and play Czar. The policeman whe shot at a burglar and killed a he aimed at. unless fruit-growing be profitable the industry will | innocence established by the clear light of a com- plete examination of zll the facts of the case. If they or any one of them be guilty, then every person who aided or abetted in the offense should be brought o answer for it before the bar of justice. ONE OF THE YELLOW FAKES. HEN the Hastings-Benedict wedding took. i Wplace at Greenwich, Conn., a short time ago, the yellow journals wrote it up with such a | sensational glow of safirch exaggeration that the New York Sun thought it worth while to get the facts and | by publishing them show. the contrast between legit mate news and the stuff which the fakers furnish to | | their gullible readers. The results of the labors of | the Sun are sufficiently striking to be read with in- | terest even on this side of the continent, for we have a yellow journal in our own city, and it is worth while to know how such papers make a. reputation. | The record runs thus: The yellow journals said the wedding cost $1,500,000—it didn’t cost more than | $10,000. It was said Mr. Benedict gave the bride a check for $1,000,000—no check whatever was given. The bride's trousseau was reported to have cost $250,000—it did not cost as much as $2500. The floral decorations at the church were estimated to have cost $100,000—they were furnished from Mr. Benedict’s | garden and cost no more than the wages of twelve men who were employed for half a day in putting | them up. It was said Mr. Benedict followed the English custom and distributed $1000 in giits to servants—he did not. It was published that at the house the full Damrosch orchestra played—Mr. Damrosch, who was a guest, was the only member of the orchestra pres- {ent. The music was said to have cost $25,000—it cost $250. The floral decorations at the house were valued | at $25,000—they consisted of flowers from the garden arranged by the household. The collation was re- ported to have cost $50,000—it cost less than $1800. Mr. Benedict was reported to have placed the steam. yacht Oneida at the disposal of the bride and groom for a cruise in the Mediterranean at a cost of $300,000 —the yacht carried the happy pair no farther than | from Greenwich to New York City. The news thus dished up by the yellow fakers had a | stimulating effect in circles where such papers are read, and as a consequence we are told the Benedicts received a multitude of letters from persons eager to share in the prodigal bounty of a man willing to pay cut so many thousands of dollars for flowers and show at a wedding. These letters are of all kinds and from all sorts of silly folks. We are told that one old lady asks for money to cnable her to take a journey to meet her four sisters whom she “has not seen in six years.” Another woman demands $4000 to pay off a | mortgage on her house, and insists that if the $4000 | cannot be sent at once $5 be sent,anyway. Such is yellow journalism in the effete East, and in the Golden West it is not widely different. W Towne for Vice President on the Bryan ticket it was promptly announced, secemingly on au- | thority, that the nomination would not stand, that the Democrats would not indorse it, and that Towne would retire to make way for the neminee of the convention which is to meet at Kansas City, thus saving Bryan from the perplexity of having two tails | to his kite as he had in 1896. It is probable the an- nouncement was correct, for certain it is the Demo- cratic leaders are busily casting about tor a man to take the second place on their ticket, just as if Mr. Towne had no claims upon the position whatever. As soon as the action at Sioux Falls had been taken | the Omaha Bee stated that Bryan's managers in the convention had gone there with a paper in Bryan's own handwriting suggesting three methods of dealing with the Vice Presidency. One proposed that the choice of the candidate for that office be left with a committee to confer with similar committees to be appointed by the Democratic and the Silver Repub- lican conventions; the second that the Sioux Falls convention select several names for the office, leaving it to the Democrats and the Silver Republicans to choose from among them; the third that some man should be nominated who would withdraw if the Democrats did not indorse him. It is claimed that Towne's nomination was an adoption of the third of the three plans, and that he will retire whenever his retirement is called for. . Most of the Democratic leaders desire an Eastern man on the ticket, but no name has yet been re- ceived with much favor. Pattison of Pennsylvania is regarded as lukewarm in the cause of free silver, Williams of Massachusetts is without influence, and Van Wyck of New York and Dewey are too eminent to accept a subordinate place to Bryan. In this situation certain New York politicians have scen a chafce to booin a new candidate for the place—- none other than George B. McClellan, a son of the | General whom the Democrats nominated for the Presidency against Lincoln in 1864. Young McClel- lan is now a member of Congress and is said to have expressed a willingness to take the place. He re- fused to state his views on the money question four years ago, but he voted against the currency bill this year, and that is supposed to make him eligible for a position on the free silver ticket. Perhaps he will be as good a mate as Bryan can have. He has no more chance of carrying his State than Williams has of carrying Massachusetts, but then he is not so much of a talker as Williams, and that will be some ad- vantage to a ticket whose chief nominee is likely to ‘overdo the talking business of the campaign without any help from his running mate. BRYAN’S RUNNING MATE. HEN the Populists at Sioux Falls nominated | The reports from Paris are to the effect that Count Boni de Castellane is expected to take a prominent part in attacking the Government when the Chamber of Deputies gets down to serious work. It will be re- membered that while in New York he promised to shoot somebody to death on his return home, and it is rather disappointing to learn that he is going to content himself with shooting his own mouth off. 1 ‘While the British have been rejoicing over the re- lief of Mafeking Russia has managed to gain another coaling port in Korea. Thus while the British are struggling to hold their own the Russians are going ahead, and when Salisburg gets through with his troubles in South Africa it will take him a long time to catch up with the procession in Asia. Although not much attention has been paid to it by the country, there was almost as much of a ruction in Congress over the oleomargarine bill as over the Porto Rico tariff, and from the amount of noise made it might be supposed that oleomargarine is a thing that statesmen cry for all the time and bawl for on occasions. The American building in Paris has been formally turned over to the exposition authorities, and we are AN T s written, ‘It is not good that man should be alone,’ but on the other hand, it is often far from g0od to be with him. A docile cat is preferable, a mongoose, Or even a canary. = deed, for want of proper instruction, a large number of (he_ human race, as they are known in this damp and foggy island, are ‘gey ill ti live wi’,’ and no one would attempt it but for charity and the love of God.” There is a time when the youth of twenty il any one on earth could teach him, and more than he ever W know again; a time when, no matter how kind his heart, he Is incased in a mental haughtiness before which plain wisdom 1s dumb. But a time will come when the keenness of some girl's stilletto of wit will prick the empty bubble of his flz‘\mbnyant egoism, and he will, for the first time, learn that he is but an urtrained man under thirty-five. You cannot argue with the untrained man under thirty-five. In fact, I never argue with anybody, either man or wom: be- cause women are not reasonable beings and men are too rea- sonable, Conversation with the untrained man under thirty-five is equally impossible, because he never converses; he only talks. And your chief accomplishment of being a good listener is en- tirely thrown away on him, because a mere talker never cares whether you listen or not, as long as you do not interrupt him. He only wants the floor and the sound of his own voice. It is the trained man over thirty-five who can converse ana who wishes you to respond. The untrained man desires to be amused. The trained man wishes to amuse. A man under thirty-five is in this world to be made happy. The man over thirty-five tries to make you bappy. There is no use of uttering a protest. You simply must wait and let iife take it out of him. The man under thirty-five is being trained in a thousand ways every day that he lives. You can do little to help him, if you are the first girl to take a hand at him. You can but prepare him to be a little more amenable to the next girl. His mind is not on you. It is centered on himself. He cares nothing for your likes and dislikes, your cares or hopes or fears. He only wishes you to be pretty and well dressed. Have a mind if you will. He will not know it. Have a heart and a soul. They do not concern him. He likes to have vou tailor-made. You are a Girl to him. That's all. e eves of the untrained man under thirty-five are never taken off himself. They are always turned in. He is studying himself first and foremost, and the world at large is interest- ing to him only inasmuch as it bears relation to himself as the rivotal point. "Join in his pursuit if you will; show the wildest enthusiasm In his golf record or how many lumps of sugar he takes in his coffee. and he will evince neithér surprise nor grati- tude. You are only showing your good taste. The conceit of one of these men is the most colossal speci- men of psychological architecture in existence. As a social study, when I have him under the microscope, I can enjoy this. 1 revel in it, just as I do in a view of the ocean or the heavens at night—anything so vast that 1 cannot see to the end of it. It suggests cternity or space. When success—business or social or athletic or literary or artistic—comes to the untrained man under thirty-five, it comes pitifully near being his ruin. The adulation of the world is more intoxicating and more deadly than to drink absinthe out knows more than A MAN UNDER_ TH UNTRAINED -FIVE Of a stein; more insidious than opium; more fatal than death. It unsettles the steadiest brain and feeds the too-ravénous Ego with a food which at first he dee 1 nectar and ambrosia, but which he soon comes to feel Aff of life. With sue- cess should come the determina »u man or woman, to fall upon your knees every day and pray heaven for s to keep from believing what people teil you, so that y may be bearable to your friends and livabie to your family. Of cour: I know that girls with nice brothers and cousins and husbands under thirty-five will also offer violent protest. I only beg of them to remember that I am not discussing giri- trained man or w Both of these types are as near per- fection as a man can become At Furflh» it from me to say that the untrained man under thirty-five, at his worst, is of no use in this world. He is excel- lent for a two-step. I have used a number of them very suc- cessfully in this way. It is the clever girl who suffers most of all from the un- trained man—not the brilliant, meteoric girl—but just the or- dinarily clever girl, other girls know her. Being a real woman, she like: ked. She wishes to please men. We all But what men are we to please? Untrained men under thirt: men, some red herring. and admired. They or how cleverly h; love to go about & we admired quite as much 1t is of no usc ar, wing to the horrible prevalence of these ither fish, flesh nor fowl, nor silt ome good . pink-cheeked sisters followed r how shallow these girls are al. Clever girls are also human. They state of things. Facts are facts. Men make no Ro RInd Of wosnes they Yeant us to be. We get preached at from pulpits and lectured at from platforms, and told how to be womanly, how to look to please men, how to behave to please men, and how to save our souls to please men, until, if we were not a sweet, amiable set, we would rebel as a sex and declare that we thought we were lovely just the way we were, and that we were not going to change for anybody. Often it is not that we are not secretly much more of women, and better and clevrer women, than you think us. But there is no call for such wares, so wa lay character and brain on the shelves to mildew, and fill the show windows with confectionery and fllusion. We supply the demand. We always have supplied it and we always will. And yet, I suppose, untrained men under thirty-five have their use in the world, aside from the part they play in the dis- cipline of discriminating young women. Girls even marry these men. Lovely girls, too. Clever girs—girls who know a hundred times more than their husbands and are ten times finer grained, 1 wonder if they love them, if they are satisfied with them, If ennui of the soul is not a bitter thing to bear. I am always wondering why girls marry them. But women wish to please men, aside from their power of winning them. Whereas if men can get the girls without any change on their part, they consider themselves a howling suc- cess. But they might be a little bit surprised if they could read the minds of these very wives whom they have won, whose life-work often may be only to improve them so that they will make some other woman the kind of a husband they should have made at first, and then to lle down and die. So let men beware how they criticize us unfavorably, no matter whar their ages, for the truth of the matter is that, be we frivolous or serious, vain or sensible, clever or stupid, rich or poor, we are what the American man has made us. “I'm not denyin’ that women are foolish,” says George Eliot. “God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” | was one of the few old style | that. at a depth of twenty feet below the NEWS OF NAVIES. On April 1 there were eighty-one war | vessels under construction in England, of | which sixty-four were being built in pri- vate shipyards. The new Armstrong twelve-inch rifle can be fired at intervals of one minute and | forty-two seconds between each round. | This rapidity has been obtained by the use‘of a newly designed rammer. The Naiade, an iron hull and wood- sheathed +cruiser of 368 tons, has been | condemned and sold out of the French | navy. The vessel was built in 1881 Hnd‘ corvettes, which are rapidly disappearing. One serious obstacle to the use of sub- marine boats for war purposes is this: surface, the light becomes so dim as to enable a person within the boat to distin- guish objects only twenty-five feet ahead. The use of any {lluminant would only tend to locate the position of the boat. The old ironclad Achilles Is, after all, not to be broken up, so the British ad- miralty has concluded to expend about $35.000 toward converting her into a float- ing torpedo depot. The Achilles was re- boilered in 18%, at an expense of $175,000, | but has remained in idleness at the Ports mouth dockyard for twelve y Her original cost in 1862 was $2,347.860, it cost up to 1888 not less than $1,0 maintain a comparative efficiency. Prinz Heinrich Karl, an armored cruiser of $88 tons, was recently launched at the | dockyard at Kiel. The vessel is 393 feet 81 Inches in length, 64 feet 22 inches beam and 23 feet draught, being 1300 tons| smaller but of the general type of the Furst Bismarck, and with less thickness or armor. The armor belt and casements are only 3.94 inches, the belt tapering to 3.15 inches at the ends. The armament consists of two 9.45-inch guns mounted in two turrets, six é-Inch in casements and four 6-inch In turrets. She is designed to have a speed of 20% knots, and her en- gines are to deyelop 15,000 horsepower. Another vast plant for the manufactur- ing of armor and guns is likely to be es- tablished In the near future in England. The promoters of the enterprise have sent delégations of experts to the United States and Germany to study the methods pursued, and are expected to’ report by the end of Junme. The vastness of this undertaking may be realized from the fact that it is intended to erect hydraulic presses more powerful than any vet built, that lathes are to be put up with a ea- pacity for boring a sixty-seven-ton gun liner simultaneously from both ends. The armor output facility is to equal that of the other three establishments in Great Britain, and the plant as a whole will surpass that of any other in the world. The startling information a couple of weeks ago of the wonderful penetrating power of the American 6-inch navy rifle is subject to some modification. Accord- ing to the tables of the Bureau of Ord- nance a 6-inch shell fired at a velocity of P P S D S SR S P o T TR T - FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. i T e R AR SRS S S S i L S o e o [ e O R e . ] RED CLOTH DRESS. The engraving represents a princess dress of red cloth, trimmed with black braid. The waistcoat is of white muslin -and the apron trimmed with braid. At the edges of the apron are three flat pleats on each sid ART AND ARTISTS. i UGENE CADANASSO leaves San Francisco this week for Santa Cruz, where he will spend his sum- mer vacation. Mr. Cadanasso will make some sea and shore sketches of Santa Cruz during his visit. Charles 1. Diekman will return to this city from Etaple, France, early in Au- gust, after an absence of three years. He wiil bring with him many skete ot French fisher folk #nd coast scenes of Etaple and Brittany, a favored haunt of Freuch artists. Miss Eva Withrow is still in London, and according to last accounts likely to remain there. This clever Californian finds London to her liking, a not un- reasonable result of the very favorable reception she has been accorded there. Her “Antiquarian,” well known in San Francisco, was well hung in the Royal Academy and sold for a handsome.sum. It has since been reproduced by Graves, 3000 feet per second should penetrate a Krupp plate 9.34 inches in thickness, but at a recent trial it is alleged that with a velocity of 2380 feet the shell passed through a l4-inch Krupp plate. Unless the plate was defective such a feat was clearly impossible. In England the 6-inch Vicker gun was tried three years ago with charges 2 per cent higher than the ordinfiry service allowance, and attained a shell velocity of 2040 feet, but the exces- sive wear to the gun with such a charge makes this velocity undesirable, except on rare occasions. As for the soft steel cap, which enables the shell to work its way through hard-faced armor, other naval powers have had the same contrivance for three years past, and thus “honors are easy” in gun-making. Great Britain and Japan are the only naval powers which appear to build ships in accordance with some programme care- fully considered and then carried out. In 1865 Japan adopted a naval programme for a certain number of vessels of all classes to be built and completed by April, 1908, involving an outlay of $106,000,000. Of | lic. this number fifty-four vessels were to be | Marina,” “Venetian Can: completed by 1901, and recent reports in- dicate that the ships will be ready. In November last Japan had under construc- tion in French, English, tleships, nine armored cruisers, two sec- ond-class cruisers, twelve torpedo-boat destroyers, twenty-three seagoing tor- pedo-boats and fifty-six smaller torpedo- boats. At the home yards three large vessels and ten torpedo-boats have been taken in hand. All the contractors have built within the time limits, barring a few cases. During the present year de- livery was to be made of three battleships oot o e o and four armored cruisers, as follows: uaw'’ more Battleships—Asaki, 15447 tons, April 30; Hatsure and Urikasa, of 15,200 tons, in Oc- tober and. May. The four armored cruis- ers of displacements, ranging from 9%0 to 9456, are named Yakumo, Azurna, Izumo now informed that our machinery hall at. Vincennes he got is better fitted to be in the soup than the thing | that will be searching and thorough. If the accused ‘ has been opened, so as soon as the French get ready parties be innocent, theyl have a right to have that the great show may begin and Iwate, and are to be delivered April 1, June 15, July 15 and November 11, in the order stated. The Asaki was completed ahead of contract German and | on_exhibition here. American shipyards no less than four bat- lons-:fo {:&a‘flte of s who has taken much interest in our tal- ented compatriot. and in whose rooms an exhibition of Miss Withrow's work has recently been made. Miss Withrow's | broker ana “Crystal Gazer” has attracted much fa- vorable attention, as also her portraits of Violet, Countess of Roslyn, Miss Ma- rie Tempest, Keith Wakeman and Mrs. Grace Morel Dickman—the two latter also Calltnmlmfi Maurice B. Prendergast has an inter- esting exhibition at a local gallery. This clever Bostonian, whose close artistic friendship with our prince of painters, ‘Whistler, is quoted as his raison d'etre, perhaps hardly needs this stunning recommendation, though that the exam- ples of his work here exhibited are of is best is, 1 think, doubtful. All water- colors are’these and mostly Venetian, a curious compound in style of Ford Madox Brown, Walter Crane and the very orig- inal entity, Mr. Prendergast himseif. Strong in’ color, certain in drawing, though almost insolent, yet charmiag, in their vagueness at times, an unconven- tional handling of conventional subject, a free treatement of crowds, which does not prevent one, however, from feeling the scene too “busy’ unreposeful; some times these dra.wlnf should command re- spectful attention from the artistic pub- The “Bridge of Pagila,” “Veneta & na the “‘San rea” will prol more interesting. JE et Old Californians will be interested in the two 8. M. Brookes’ fruit pictures now Mr. Brookes was a the California public, and 3 and other edible ar- rangements in art were deservedly fa- mous as dining-room decorations. 'he two specimens in question are peach ana :gpla paneis, and are happy examples of e late artist's mann er. Willlam Keith. Grace Hudson and Theo dore Wores are also to the fore. The Keith landscape, a cloudy day in the hills with a brilliant break in the sky, is a small Miss Hudson's Indians are e “Head otp, cularly. The examples of Mr. WoruP.'ork are perhaps not of his best, the wistaria garden color scheme being somewhat forced and unnatural. Musical. a piano recital, Cousin Billy?” 1t ."g nds th “It's en somel 21T he. audicncs talk.”—Detroit Free Pross. O0C " o PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. W. J. Waller of Sacramento is at the Lick. E. R. Dodge, an attorney of Reno, is at the Lick. C. L. Behr, a mining man of London, is at the Palace. J. H. Tibbits, a mining man of Red- ding, is at the Grand. A. McHenry, a banker of Modesto, and his wife are at the Occidental. L. W. Blinn. a millionaire mining man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. N. E. Deyoce, a merchant and banker of Modesto, is at the Lick, with his wife. John H. Rother and Joseph Bray, wealthy mining men of Somoma, are at the Lick. George B. Sperry, of the Sperry Flour- ing Mills, at Stockton, and wife are at | the Oceidental. J. J. Hebbron, manager of the Pacific Improvement Company's ranches at Sa- linas, is at the Grand. P. C. Jones of Honolulu, banker and of the most influential men in the islands, is at the Occidental, accompanfed by his wife. W. H. Bancroft of Salt Lake, vice presi- dent of the Oregon Short Line, and his wife are at the Occidental. Miss Nason, Miss Adelaide Nason and W. T. Ander- son are also members of the party. W. R. Castle, head of the firm of Castle & Cook, wealthy sugar factors of Hono- lulu and a member of one of the oldest families in the islands, is at the Occi- dental, with his wife and two children. Mitchell Phillips, a well-known capi- talist and mining man of San Jose, leaves to-day on the Zealandia for Cape Nome. He is the head of the Phillips Mining and Trading Company, which has a large number of claims in the neighborhood of Nome. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, May 2).—C. Jessolyn and J. C. McKee cf San Franc'sco are at the Waldorf. U. S. Grant Jr. and family of San Diego are at the Manhattan. Dr. Potrie Hoyle and N. Bee of San Francisco are at the Holland. Saving Him Money. Mr. Wheatpit—My failure is the talk of tae street. At the meeting of my credi- tors to-day I arranged to pay 10 cents on the dollar. Mrs. Wheatpit (after a moment’; m ing)—Oh, Henry. isn't that lovely? the fifty-dollar hat I had sent home to~ day wiil only cost you $.—Life. An Unfortunate Expression. Wife of Patlent—I'm so sorry, doctor, to bring you all the way to pstead to see-my husband. Doctor _(from Mayfair)—Pray,". don’t mention it, my dear madam. I have an- other patient in this neighborhoed, so I'm kfllln{ two birds with one stonel"— Punc] His Advice. Peddler—I have a most valuable book to sfilll. madam; it tells one how to do any- thing. Lafiy (sarcastically)—Does it tell one how to get rid of a pestering peddler? Peddler (promptly)—Oh, yes, buy something from him.—Exchange. 4 Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* Look out for 81 Fourth (5c barber, gro- cer); best eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c. ¢ Special information supplied Adaily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Burunm(‘uln'-). D.h- gomery street. Telephone Main 142 * f I The advance In coal at Baltimore it 19 estimated, will cost the consumers of that city an extra $5.000,000 this year. Gonsumption is contracted as well as in- herited. Only strong lungs are proof against it. Persons predisposed toweak lungs and those recovering from Pneumonia, Grippe, Bronchitis, or other exhaust- ing illness, should take It enriches the blood, strengthens the lungs, and builds up the entire system. It prevents consumption and cures it in the early stages. SCOTTE BOWNE, Chemute New Yark, J