The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1900, Page 4

kS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1900. STILL THE WRONG WAY, ITH the change in the Chinatown squad it is said there is to be a change in the police methods of dealing with the Chinatown gam- 4 : ; blers. Lottery games and fan tan games are to be jOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. raided. Thatywill be an excellent change, perhaps, kddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ! but it will not clean up Chinatown nor suppress gam- MANAGER’S OFFICE. .. .Telephone Press 204 bling there, nor close up the foul secret passages that FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third. 8. ¥, | 2fford avenues for crime and vice and disease. It will Tiphaas T W | not even serve to whitewash the abomination. 217 to 221 Stevemsom St. | The people of San Francisco desire to know of the T | Board of Health and of Chief of Police Sullivan why Delivered by Carriers. 16 Cents Per Week. | the sanitary ordinances of the city are not enforced e Sontea. X Sente. !in Chinatown. The petty gamblers who run the fan #.% | tan games are violators of the law and should be pun- 150 | ished; but they are not the only offenders in China- * o5 | town, and, moreover, their offenses are not very ® | serious menaces to the community. The offenses of the rich property-owners in Chinatown are serious. By permitting the violation of the sanitary laws of Mall subscribers in craering changs of address should be | the city in that district the municipal officials have perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS 1n order ,1lo\ed the development there of a veritable cesspool %0 insure a prompt and correct compliance withi their request. : s i of corruption, moral as well as physical; and out of that foulness there have come almost all forms of | evil. The recent quarantine and bubonic scare were the direct results of the unsanitary condition of the Gong Distance Telephone “Central 2413.) Chinatown buildings, and they are by no means the XEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: only ill effects of permitting the property-owners to € C. CARLTON.. .. Heraid Square | maintain their premises in such condition. NEW YORE REPRESENTATIVE: The arrest of a few miserable Chinese wretches is STEPHEN B. SMITH.,, 30 Tribune Building; | not going to benefit San Francisco very much, a}'ld auc‘oo_—m—Tn k :t.wnll‘not improve Chxn?town at all. ’I‘}-ne police Eberman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Nortbern Hotel;. Might just as well be sent into the sewers with orders Fremont Hcuse, Auditorium Hotel to arrest microbes one by one. It will be an endless job to catch fan tan gamblers in Chinatown as it is Shareny JaS) Notst, now. Clean out a sewer and \!1: rr}icrobes will die. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE i i Clean out Chinatown, _cl.ose up its du"ty undcrg‘r?lfnd SORTON £ ORIIE B ngt passageways, put all of its buildings in the condition sz sogecd PORIOM- that the sanitary regulations of the city require, and lnAH(‘:j OA’I-‘V‘FI(‘EEfim‘.:'":danL mery, e.r‘-lrncfmo.',_r*zg_v. open | the fan tan business will not be so tlouris]‘ling. b e L:r:l)l\. \;w_:‘u_“;"’ There is no reason apparent to the public why the 541 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2251 Market, cnforcement of the health laws in Chinatown should e e B Clock, | 86 valencia. 9PeN | be shirked by the municipal authorities. Those law mer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock are enforced in other districts. Property-owners in other localities have to keep their premises clean and in good repair. Among the owners of Chinatown property are some of the richest men in the city. Why are they permitted to ignore the law as if it were not? Why should the police be set to work to direct all their energies to ferreting out hidden gambling dens when the violations of the sanitary laws are so flagrant that the offenses can not only be seen but treet and alley of the district? Che o< @all. s osbrbnssosse s ADUISTVS 5igtn MONDAY.. EUNDAY WEEKLY CALL Obe Yesr..... Ali postmasters are muthorized to receive subscriptions. Bample copes will be forwarded when requested. C GEORGE KROGNESS, Mznager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A Brentano, 1 Unlom Square;) Grand Opera-house—*"The Middlem: The Night of the Fou: . corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. utes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudevilie every afternoon and | | smelled on eve CONTRIBUTE PROMPTLY. ROM the ‘executive council of finance of the Native Sons there has been issued an appeal for prompt contributions to the fund for the celebration of Admission day. To the appeal a cor- dial response should be made. The date of the cele- bration is rapidly approaching, and as the programme EUSINESS APPARENTLY PICKING uP, | n several lines of trade mercial observers to believe that 1 of the decline in pri t om es has been | has been planned upon a scale of magnitude and with the end of the midsummer | splendor never equaled on this coast, there is Time will tell. At pres- no time to spare in making preparations. In fact, ked reaction. True, time is about as important as money, so that the citi- stimulated the de- zens who intend to contribute to the celebration t is even said that the 'should make their contributions at once. steel is as large as ever, though at | The committee has once more reminded the public n ruled last year. The inquiry that, while the celebration has been undertaken by the for finished products and for rails for the | Native Sons, it is not to be regarded as an enterprise ugh foundry pig iron is reported in better | pertaining exclusively to that society. It concerns Ther heavy foreign demand for bitumin- | every resident of the commonwealth. The appeal kinds, and & ous co: 1 view of the upward tendency in prices | sayé: “This is a State celebration, commemorating pr tate to make contracts for future de- 'the admission of our State into the Union. This must 1 copper situation also shows more | appeal not only to men and women born in the State ex for July being 10661 tons, but to those who have made it their home.” That | o0 in July, 1899, while the amount coming’ ior home consumption during the last half nearly 20,000 tons less than last year. Il be seen that hard goods are in rather | tional reputation for its magnificence, and therefore y have been. have a right to expect a generous and patriotic sup- s, t00, are in much better con- | port from the people gen v. y in wool is reported, but quota- Moreover, the enterprise has aspects of business as The stagnation, however, | well as of patriotism. It will benefit the whole State by advertising the rich variety of Californian resources, and to San Francisco will bring the additional benefit under large demands for the army and | of a large influx of visitors, whose presgnce will stimu- ve stock are maintained at | late trade at the beginning of the fall season. The able level. Provisions have lately | executive council says: “We expect the celebration derable strength, and quotations for | will bring at least 100,000 people into the city, and over half a million dollars will be left among the merchants and citizens of the municipality.” Upon these points it is hardly worth while to dwell ugh here in yrnia barley, oats and corn | at any length, for they will occur of themselves to e very firm, with advancing quotations and a good | the minds of intelligent men. That which is offered d. Wheat is weak and quiet everywhere. Dried | by the celebration is an opportunity to combine busi- its are meet with a brisk demand, particularly | ness and pleasure with patriotism; to advertise Cali- wing to the discovery that the output | fornia; to quicken trade in San Francisco; to make a s, except apples, will be considerably less | grand holiday not only for ourselves but for thou- contributing liberally and promptly themselves to- ward making the occasion one that will have a na- eral wer. The hop market, weak and neg- is strong. All beef products are navy, and quotations for li lard are higher. Hides and leather, inue depressed, with large stocks. The s, taking the country as a whole, are | ir fornia, th er in the season. Dealers who | sands of visitors, and at the same time demonstrate j herto held off for low prices for apricots are | to the country at large how much California has now scurrying about the country for supplies, but | profited by the Union and how much the Union owes choice stock is hard to obtain in some sections. The |to California. shrinkage in the prune crop has caused an advance To those who are indifferent to patriotism and to ha cent per pound in New York, with further | business and who have no delights in festivals there is nces not unlikely, as the desirable sizes are re- | nothing to be sald; but to all who have the elements ported 40 per cent short of last year. | of a genial humanity in them and who sympathize The situation seems to be gradually changing all | with American aspirations, as realized in California, around, and whereas buyers have been cautious ever | there is this to say: ‘Come up with your coin, and since the beginning of the year, it is the sellers now | come up promptly. who are wary about letting go. It is the belief of PROMOTED FROM THE RANKS. many that the shrinkage in values is about over, though, 2s previously remarked, time alone will de- { RECENT dispatch from Washington an- |/ \ nounced that the President has appointed in the regular army and has assigned them to various Wall street continues dull. The approaching Presi- dential clection, coupled with the Chinese disorder, tends to imbue the speculative public with caution, and even divi They are not offering very freely, however, being | moted men have gallant records and in their examina- closely held, and it is due to this condition that the | tions attained to high averages. It is, therefore, bears find it difficult to depress quotations. The |reasonable to expect a bright career for each of y“n:*"\“mnr)wt is featureless, supplies of funds being | them, and possibly a demonstration that in our army for all current requirements. | a man may rise from the ranks to the highest com- Looking over the situation as presented this week | mand. it must be 2dmitted that the outlook is rather bullish The report of these promotions will recall to the than bearish, and that those who believe that the re- | people the benefits which have accrued to the army by action from last year has about reached its end have | the reform that opened to the men in the ranks the best of the argument—for the present, at least. | avenues to advancement. ‘Under the old system our e | republican army was in its organization one of the A Jocal hotel. Clerkc L opened a vista of wonderfui mzst aristocrati’c’ institutions in the world. A private ibilities in the way of business. He keeps a | had as little chance of promotion to high command as sharp lookout for the health conditions of his gu would a similar individual in the armies of Germany 1? order x?x:fx he may ncgot:a.te with undertakers f; or Russia. Under such circumstances there were few the disposition. of his Jatrans’ corpses. inducements for men of ambition and intelligence to When fiery Democratic orators begin to refer to enlist. Desertions were frequent, ?nd the general “stovepipe dictators” and “plug hat czars” the pub- tone of the army YRS ROEH c_onducxve. $0. xuy. roal lic has a chance to learn how dearly his Honor the | oo R o g Amcncamsc.ntlment Mo Mayor is loved bysthose that know him best. thE . men 8 he ciEEle. - Meer . dGR s fe condition now. The young soldier sees before him a means by which he may rise in the army as in | any other department of American life, and as a con- sequence recruiting officers are getting into the ranks men like those who, by their service and their ex- aminations, have just won their way to honorable promotion and to a position from which they can aspire to higher office. The very satisfaction with which the public will re- gard these proofs of the excellence of the new system termine whether they are right forty-eight enlisted men as second lieutenams idend-paying bonds and stocks are quiet. | branches of service. It is added that all the pro- s or An Oakland girl who recently appeared in court is said to have disguised every evidence of her iden- tity except her beauty. And 'now everybody is won- | dering who she was. The Chinese in this city have concluded a celebra- tion which might well be emulated by the people of other races. They periormed the ceremony of feed- ing their poor. % fact should be borne in mind. The Native Sons are | in the army will increase the dissatisfaction with the persistent denial of equal rights to young Americans who enlist in the navy. What has served so well in one corps will serve equally well in another, and the reform, which has been justified in the army by its works, ought now to be applied to the navy. No good reason can be given why the avenues of pro- motion should not be as open to an enlisted man under the United States flag on sea as to one under the flag on land. LONGING FOR SHIRT WAISTS. ROM out the sweltering cities and torrid sum- l:mer resorts of the East there has come some- thing like a wail for relief from the burden of masculine garments., Seeing the girls serenely cool and comfortable in shirt waists, men have begun to ask themselves why they may not dispense with coat and vest during the summer season and wear shirt waists like the girls. Why should Mme. Grundy per-’ | mit to woman what she denies to man? Why shouid man submit to her decree? May not a gentleman be a gentleman in shirtsleeves, provided the shirt doesn’t button up the back? To the men of San Francisco, rejoicing in the ocean breezes and wearing overcoats along with their duck vests and straw hats, these questions may appear but emanations of the idle chatter of the silly season, but in the East they are given serious consideration. In fact, if we may judge from our exchanges, they con- stitute the hottest topics of talk just now, and there are signs and symptoms that those who object to shirt waists for men may yet have to shed their coats in order to fight for them. The New York Press declares that the shirt waist movement has been fairly well started in that city. It says: “Wall street men do not bother about put- ting on a coat or vest when attending to business be- tween 10 and 3. They go about everywhere in belts and negligee shirts. In the wholesale dry goods dis- tricts and among the dealers in sporting goods along Broadway above Duane street men go for a shave, a drink or a lunch in shirtsleeves and belts.” In Cincinnati there has been something in the way | of a judicial decision on the subject, for a Judge of |2 Court of Common Pleas in that city is reported to have said on opening court one warm day: “Gentle- men of the jury, no one believes in maintaining the dignity of the court more than I do, but in this weather I think some liberties should be permitted. Those of you who wish may take your coats oft. And,” continued the humane Judge, “‘for fear there may be any hesitation, I'll take off my own coat.” The church has been not less tolerant than the courts. It is reportad that at a camp meeting in Pennsylvania the men in the congregatior attended services without coats or vests, and several of the preachers preached in their shirtsleeves. With so much in the way of santtion from business, law and { religion, one would suppose the Eastern man would go his way and wear a shirt waist, but it seems the ladies object. From north to south they deny the right of'a man to wear a shirt waist at any social } function, and thus far they have had their way. i There is a belief among the more sanguine men that | the ladies will eventually relent. Thus the Atlanta | Constitution says: “Surely the women of Atlanta | would not object to 2 revolution which contains so | much of sense, and the success of which would con- | | tribute so much to the comfort of the men who have tc serve the public. Common sense in dress is so rare an article that it is hard to find it, but when the ladies themselves have won the fight for the shirt waist they should permit their brothers to enjoy thz victory with them.” It seems clear that if Eastern men would unite and | stand together on the issue they would win and the | masculine shirt waist would be a proper garb for ali | summer purposes and would go in society as well as in business, in court 2nd at camp meeting. Unfortu- nately, however, there are divisions among them. | Some mien declare that no man should wear the re- | form garment unless he has a proper figure, and of | | course that would bar cut a good many. Thus a New | York clubman declares with the positiveness of one | who speaks with authority: “Men who train big on | beer and beef are weighted down by rich deposits of fat in the subcutancous tissue, in the peritoneal folds | and in the great omentum, and by the abnormal size | of the parenchymatous organs of the abdomen. They | | have no hips to speak of, therefore must of necessity wear suspenders to hold up their trousers. Such | creatures bring discredit upon the rest of mankind when they appear in public in their shirtsleeves, coatless and vestless. They are an offense to gentle sensibilities, notwithstanding some exhibit Ho- garthian lines of beauty. A proper man as to shape might successfully do away with the coat and vest in | summer, but his shirt must not open behind, and he | must have no acquaintance of suspenders.” Professor George Stratton of the University of | California has gone into executive session with him- self and has decided that the notion of a free higher education is the birth of an unhealthy sentimentality. Perhaps the professor has reached that ideal state where he is willing to teach the higher learning for the glory cf the thing. —_— William F. Herrin has at last reached a stage where he deserves the sympathy of the public. Coa- scientious people must share with him the pain he feels at seeing his friend and associate, Phil Crim- mins, grilled by indirection in the pool-selling inves- tigation. Statesmanship in Kentucky is evidently located in the muzzle of a gun. The interesting discovery has been made that the office of the Secretary of State was converted, during the Goebel troubles, into a | small arsenal. When Superintendent Hewitt- of the municipal electrical system sold his unused telegraph poles in bulk he evidently was determined that no proverbial “nigger” would be found in his woodpile. Local Democrats must be making the startling dis- covery that their Phelan political god has feet of clay. They are demanding the right of individual rep- resentation in the affairs of their party. Sergeant Patrick Mahoney, who has been 're- moved from the Chinatown detail by Chief of Police Sullivan, ought to be able to make some original ob- servations on the partition of China. More than 6,200,000 men, women and children are demanding food in India. And this is in commentacy of England’s boast that she can clothe the naked and feed the hungry. £ 5 1 ——— Governor Gage and Attorney General Ford are at war. Attorney General Ford should be called to task for attacking the vagaries of a perfectly harmless enemy. William Waldorf Astor, the dispatches declare, is now a man in search of a country. The gentleman's’ history ought to suggest to him that he buy one of his own. o | foreigners in general, Japanese and Amer- } | country folk | view of this | consent to have them run through their | agents of syndicates eager to secure con- ! | just one, and many of these men I know SPHERES OF INFLUENCE, DAVID STARR JORDAN WRITES FROM JAPAN, ARE CENTERS OF TROUBLE PRESIDENT OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY SUMS UP SENTIMENT IN THE LAND OF THE MIKADO CONCERNING OCCIDENTAL AGGRESSION IN THE ORIENT. Raku-Raku Inn, Hikone, Lake Bl:fln SHIGU, Japan, DITOR of The Call: In accor%anoe Wwith your kind suggestion, I send a word in regard to the Chinese problem as it looks from the stand- point of Japan. I do not try to| glve news, for that reaches California as | soon as it does Japan, and Chinese news | mostly reaches Japan before the event takes place in China. I can now appre- ciate better the needs of a news censor. Every sort of idle rumor current on the streets of Chefu or Shanghai is tele- graphed to Japan and half of it is con- tradicted the next day. While not a word can be heard from Peking, long official edicts, the views of Chinese Viceroys and the thoughts of the Emperor, if there is any Emperor, or the terrible Dowager, if there isn't, are freely sent over the wires, proving only the ingenuity of the politicians or journalists who invent them. But there are many people in Japan, Japanese, American and English, who know something of the conditions in China, although no one pretends to under- stand the Intricacies of Chinese official intrigue. I try in this letter to give a sort of composite of the views of these people, reserving the right to form opin- fons of my own later. I have no right to any yet. The immediate cause of trouble is the outbreak of the soclety called ‘‘Boxers.' This is a secret organization, called Ta Tautze Hui, “the Big Knife Society,” its original purpose being the subversion of | the present Tartar dynasty and the sub- | stitution of a native Emperor. It is alleged that the present adminis- tration has entered into an intrigue with | these big knives and has secretly en- | couraged them in attacks on Catholic | and other missionaries, on wandering | mining and rallway engineers, and on | icans, as well as German, English and — Chinese and they cannot be lgnored or displaced.” In other words, all that Europe can ever get in China is mines and roads. In general, railways or other en- terprises on a large scale cannot be made to pay in China. The nature of the peo- ple is such that things have to move slowly. French. The motto of the Boxers is said to be ‘“Mieh Yan,” ‘“destroy Occi- dentals,” and “Pau tschu,” ‘“protect dynasty.” The word corrupted as | “Boxer’” (tautze, apparently), means much the same as gladiator, the bearer of a gladius or sword. These gladiators are | the leaders of the bands, but the rank and | file of the Boxers are described as being filled with ‘“‘village bullies” or rural ma- rauders, a characteristic feature of | Chinese_life. I It is alleged that these bands could have | been dispersed at the will of the adminis- tration, but that they have now passed beyond such control, for the movement has now behind it a growing feeling of | nationality as well as the intensity of re- ligious prejudice. | The causes of the trouble lie, however, deeper than this. The present outbreak is the expression of a dissatisfaction which has been growing a long time in the North of China, which .as relations with the outside world very different from the trading and wandering people of the southern ports. st source of trouble, and perhaps is found in the work of Chris- ssionaries. Wisely or unwisely, | some of these put themselves in direct op- | position to time-honored but doubtless | very objectionable Chinese customs. To overthrow these is in the minds of the | to destroy the worship of ancestors, to sap the foundations of Chi-| nese morality and in general to wreck | both church and state. The national feel- | ing is weak in China, but the feeling for | ancient customs, the feeling which we cail | consclence, bigotry or fanaticism, accord- ing to the way it affects us, is exceedingly strong. In the south of China the people | grow rich through trade or service with | foreign devils and they have learned the | tolerance which commerce always brings. In the north bigotry has freer sway. In | a prominent American in Peking said last winter that “anything | might happen in China and it might come | at any time.” The time seems to be now. More potent toward immediate trouble | has been the invasion of railway and min- ing engineers, who wander about the country, often recxless of native customs or prejudices. asking nobody’s leave and | heeding nobody’s objections. The Chinese | do not want railroads. Still less will they | grandfathers’ graves, and almost every foot of land is somebody’'s graveyard. They do not like mines, least of all those | conducted by foreien devils in sacred | hills, and they =re incensed when samples of ore are knocked off from their tombs or their temples. Everywhere are found | cessions, often doing nothing with them save to hold them for future speculation. This view of the matter may be an un- to be doing honest work in the interests of the Chinese people. Still, public opin- fon awards them a large share in the disturbance of Chinese good feeling. It is, of course, only through mines and rail- roads that the foreign element can make money out of China, and these represent the sole returns which any sort of Eu- ropean jurisdiction could give. Father Pius Trovarelli, a very intelligent Italian missionary, says: “There will be no partition of China ex- cept as regards the coast ports. No for- eign nation could afford to conquer or to administer any Chinese province. There would be great loss and no possible profit. I All the land above ground belongs to the | | beria the Chinese gain R e S L S S to quicken her steps. The movement in the Orient must come from within. Even in progressive Japan, European influence counts for little; European pressure for next to nothing. The Japanese see some- thing they want—a vel lamp, a brand of ettes or a soclal custom— and forthwith they take it. Nobody can force it on them. The European nations forget sometimes that jurisdiction and ownership are two different things. Jurisdiction is costly and unless it is in full accord with the will and the customs of the people over whom it is exercised It Is ineffective and unprof- ftable. ; This touches the third an@ most direct cause of the present outbreak. The “breaking up” of China, Iits partition among ropean jons, has been freeely | discussed throughout the civilized world, not to the pleasure or the edifics the Chinese. “Spheres of influer been freely laid out on paper b do not know that the true meaning of “sphere of influence” is simply “center of trouble.” In commerce and manu- facture the Chinese will hold their own in any competition. They learn to make what they want. They bring in sk led workmen from the rest of the world as teachers. They are apt pupils and soon learn to avoid the outside shipment of raw material. Even in British Hongkong, as well as in Singapore and Manila, it is said that all trade is falling into the hands of Chinese merchants, who displace the for- eigners by greater attention to business. Chinese workmen supply most Chinese de- mands more cheaply than any one else can do it. China is weak. but Chinamen are strong, and the future of the tropical Orient lles in their hands. Even in Si- foothold faster than Russian influence spreads in China. China cannot be conquered nor divided nor | retained by outside powers if it is once awakened and united. Some men foresee the formation of two strong nations—Man- churia and China—instead of the one now as a nation headless and _irresponsible. Some concede tar Manchuria to Rus- sia, in which case Japan will take Koreu, which she does not want save as part of the strategy of nations. This Japanese gentlemen freely concede, but it is feit Japan will have to do it, as they have already taken the fractions and unprofit- able island of Formosa. The Japan Mail thus sums up in striking fashion the poii- tical grievances of China: “China has been undergoing a process of vivisection. Her territories have been seized on ridiculously flimsy pretexts: her ports have been rented—virtuaily by force; concessions for building railways and working mines have been wrested from her whether she would or not. She has Dbeen divided up into spheres of Influence by Western States as though she were | the fact is irksome. | her suffering all this tamely and timidly |and we have flaunted her for cowardice A little at a time China demands | and ridiculed her for helplessness.” progress, but not at any breakneck pace, | and not all the Occident can force her | reaches me in these propositions: DAVID STARR JORDAN. B kS S D i e o o o g g > ® e Jelly or a cheese. She has been compelled to open her doors wide to foreigners of all complexions, while foreign nations on thelr side close their own in the face of her people for reasons as insulting as We have watched I may sum up public opinion as 1t el L b R R e e L e e R = = 3 > First—The foreign powers must prot: their own legations and eftizens agains official weakness and local fanatictsm. This they are doing shoulder to shoulder— a fact of which the people of Japan seem very proud. Secord—The foreign powers must not make this an excuse for the partition of China. This is a thing impossible, and China once roused not all Europe could furnish the men to conquer the country or to hold it in check. No foreign power can maintain an army in the interfor of North China through a Chinese winter. If China falls apart it will be through the diverging interests of north and south. This is not lkely to happen. Sooner or later, it is believed, the moderate leaders of the north will come to terms with the Viceroys of the south. Third—The European powers, as Lord Salisbury has distinctly pointed out, ca not guarantee the interests of syndicates doing business under Chinese jurisdiction. They can protect their citizens under ordi- nary conditions, but they cannot foster foreign enterprises by a show of force. Fourth—It is for the general interest of the world to hold China together, to strengthen her Government so that it can maintain order at home and dignity abroad and to treat Chiness peopls wherever they go just as similar peopls of other nations should be treated. It doea not, for exampie, help our own trade or relations with China to subject her people to statutes which apply to immigrants or travelers from no other nation. To apply similar statutes to people of Japan would be regarded as a national insult, not to be forgiven or forgotten, as it would be if France or Germany or Italy were ex- pressly singled out by name. The Japanese agitation in San Franeisco Is garded with great surprise and greater disfavor in Japan. There is no desire in Japan for war witl Russia or any other nation. There is & feeling that Japan will not again be made a catspaw for any European combination. If Russia seizes Manchuria Japan will feel it her duty to take Korea, a weak, irre- sponsible and badly governed neighbor. Every one hopes that the flames of war will be confined to the region whers they have been kindled. The powers cannot be too quick to act in defense of their of- ficial representatives. They cannot be too careful as to giving fresh cause for fanat- ical outbreaks. - It is well that the United States should take an active part in the defense of her unoffending citizens at- tacked by an uncontrolled mob. It is alsa well to hold aloof from any European con- cert looking toward pelitical action. For our notions of treating nations and peo- ple differ somewhat from those current in Europe. DAVID STARR JORDAN, Care American Legation, Tokio, July 9, 1900, S NEWS OF THE NAVIES| The_ yacht originally intended for the use of Queen Victoria is to have her basin trial on August 9 and her trial at sea nine days later. The Yakuno Japanese armored cruiser of 980 tons, built in Germany, left’ Kiel June 24 for Japan and should be due there by this time. Two armored cruisers for the French navy are to be lald down at once in the dockyards. They are named Jules Ferry and Leon Gambetta and will take four vears to build. Their dimensions are 476 feet by 71 feet, displacing 12,400 tons; en- gines of 24,000-horsepower, and will cost approximately $,000,000 ready for sea. Three hundred ships in the several na- vies are fitted with water-tube boilers of different types. England leads with nine types, France six Germany and United States four, Russia and Italy three. The number of ships having the several kinds are as follows: Belleville, 155: Yarrow, 35; Niclause, 30; Thorneyeroft, %: Lagraffel and D'Allest, 20: Normand, 12; Durr, 9: Bleychinden, 4; Babcock and Wilcox (American), 2; Laird, 3; Guyot and Num- ford, 1 each. China has only three naval arsenals, of which that at Kiangnan is the most im- portant. It is located a few miles from Shanghal on the Woosung River and was established thirty years ago. It is under the charge of two British superintendents and employs about 2500 men, turning out all sorts of guns from small quick-firers up to guns of 12-inch caliber. The estab- lishment is supplied with the latest im- proved machine tools, a 2000-ton forg- ing press and other labor-saving appli- ances. It can hadle castings up to twen- ty-five tons welght, and steel ingots are | Ing 32458 men, and the Japanese navy is| made at the works for all guns up to 6~ inch, above which the material is import- ed from England. The arsenal has for many years turned out quantities of guns for fortifications and ships. The Foo- chow Arsepal and that at Tientsin are | small affairs. Four others at Hankow, Canton, Nanking and Chingtu are chiefly devoted to turning out rm_ parapherna- lia of indifferent value, and the Kiangnan establishment is virtually the only one of importance. ‘Warships of all nations are hurrying to China. Italy has six in Chinese waters | or on the way, carrying complements of | 2054; Germany sixteen with 6268 officers | and men; France has thirteen ships, car- | rying 4471 crews; Russia nineteen vesse carrying 5861 men; Austria has four ships with 1620 complements; United States eight ships and 2060 men, and England has | thirty war vessels of all kinds, manned with 10.12%. The seven nations are| represented by ninety-six vessels, carry- | still tc be added to this grand congrega- tion of fighting ships. The Santa Fe will sgell tickets to Chicago and return on August 21 and 22 at the very low rate of $72 50, good for sixty days. 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