The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 190v. The -2oe @all. OCTOBER 8, 1920 MONDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Addres mmunic MANAGER'S OFFIC PUBLICATION OFF ns to W. S. LEAKE, Mana ..Telephone Press 204 arket and Third, S. F. Press 201. .217 to 221 Stevenson St. ess 202. . All postmasters are authorized to receive phmeriptions. PONDENT ...Herald Square SSENTATIVE 20 Tribune Building Northern Hotel; News Hotel Sherman F ; Great Fremont D. C.) OFF . CRANE. ICE « ..1406 G St., N. W. espondent. WASHINGTON MORTON BRANCH OFFI( ES— tion trade through- improv last the bank se from rings year t s for a long » New York was slight, beir showed a gain of .05 p the first increa Iy explanation of this stical pes of the triumph of P t the polls next month. As a political The York is de y in fair tone, and with the no marked decline , and trade i however of wheat to nishes the retail and dryer ioubtedly nd the cruder forms The boot and shoe more active business diate delivery, but spring business Sales of wool are still behind those but there has been no further decline in prices w of remark. Considering the nearness of the election the general condition of trade avorzble than otherwise. cets show no particular change for Wheat was quiet and irregular all the week, barley fell off slightly, oats, bran and hay advanced, beans de; nder the influx of the new crop, bacon and d went up and sugar down, and hides met proved inquiry. These variations, while more animation to business, and e a good sign. When prices fluctuate here ing up and down according to the vary- ions of the supply and demand, trade is condition. Prolonged dullness is but this condition has been absent Francisco market for several years ns, while heavier than the usual fall thus far had no marked effect on The fruit has been pretty well dried, the y is under cover, and grapes are the only important product in danger of suffering from wet ler ahea 1 of iron tories seems imp ight, <ho: ght, <h in October ng. weather. Some damage has been done, but not enough to cause any violent fluct in prices D ——— e — The local Civil Service Commission has been freely criticized for refusing to accept experience as a quali- fication of any value in applicants who want positions. | It is natural something which the commission should not value does not itself possess —— The tourist season is over in Europe, and yet it is said the attendance at the Paris Exposition is increas- ing, so it seems that as the natives are no longer busy skinning foreigners they have a chance to go to the show themselves. Whatever else may be said of the Board of Educa- tion, it possesses the merit of candor. caught letting illegal contracts After it was which aggregate thousands of dollars it confessed guilt and begged | 1 pardon. Mark Twain has dropped humor and has taken an excursion into logic. His fisst effort is a gem, He says we must be a friend of England because she can’t find another on earth. The Rocklin double murderer, who boasts that in his crime he did a good job, is possibly of a disposi- tion to feel discontented until the hangman has finished the incident. THE FIGHT IN THE SECOND, | ITIZENS of the Second Congressional District are to be congratulated upon the opportunity of obtaining ¢o able a man as the Hon. S. D. Woods to represent them in Congress. A candi- cate of the Republican party, pledged to Republican policics and to a support of the Republican adminis- tration, he will be nevertheless a genuine representa- | tive of the whole people, for he has lived in the district for years, is well acquainted with all classes of its population, knows its interests and-its needs and can be counted on to be faithful and energetic in pro- mot g every measure calculated to advance its 1840. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school and among his pupils are many who have sifce risen to eminence in the State. In 1875 he was ad- mitted to the bar, but on account &f ill health he abandoned the profession of the law for a time and spent several years as a member of a surveying party in the southern part of the State. Afterward he was engaged in mining in Inyo. Yuba and Placer coun- ties. He also made a journey oa horseback from' San Francisco through the central and northern parts of the State and into Oregon and Washington, thus making himself familiar by observation with the resources and needs of those sections of the country. In 1885 Mr. Woods returned to Stockton and re- sumed the practice of law. He soon attained high rank at the bar and is esteemed not only for his learning and his force as an advocate, but for his strict fidelity to his clients and his firm maintenance of the best traditions and highest standards of pro- fessional honor. His studies, however, have not been confined to matters of law. "He has given thought and work to every important question that . affects the welfare of the State. The problems involved in the impounding of mountain streams, the conserva- 1 e forests, the devel ment of mining, the ion of the valleys from floods, the provision irrigation: and all subjects of that kind have found in him a careful and earnest student. It may be therefore said that his mind is stored with the n of t preserv for knowledge which will fit him to advocate with ef v the adoption by the Federal Government of measures designed tor solve all problems of that kind in a way to serve the interests of the mountain and the valley counties alike. ing into consideration the diversified experi ces of Mr. Woods, and also his personal character :nd fitness for the office, the Republican Convention of Santa Cruz could not have made a better choics. Mr. Woods has always been a stanch Republican, but has never taken an active part in politics. * On several occasions he bas refused the importunities of friends to accept a nomination for office, but has e declined, and it was only aiter h: inced that it was his duty as a citizen d as a Republican that he finally consented to ter the political arena. He belongs to the optimistic class of Americans who have an unfaltering faith in American institu- tions and in the destiny of this nation. He believes that the planting of the American flag on other soils illment of America’s mission among the ons of the world. He is an expansionist in the lest meaning of that word, and is an enthusi- ic admirer of President McKinley as a man and as 2 statesman. His place him at once in the front rank of the nation’s best law-makers. He represents that typical class of Californians who and whose broadminded, progressive and liberal spirit has served to make men from the Golden State dis tinctive wherever they are found. s but the ful vig Of high personal character and intense human feel- | 2. Mr. Woods is a2 man who wins and holds fri Frankness is one of his most notable char- acteristics, making him a reliable man to care for all of the interests of the people and a stumbling block to would-be manipulators. All the interests of Cali- fornia, and especially the interests of the Second Congressional District, although they be diversified, could be in no better keeping in Congress than in' the S. D. Woods. THE FIRST VOTERS hands of Hon MONG the millions who will cast their ballots /L\ at the coming election there will be many thousands who never before have exercised the right of suffrage in the choice of a chief magis- trate of the republic. They have attained to manhood since the election of 1896 and are now called upon to make cheice between the two great parties of the country and to express by their ballots the judgment ‘they make upon them. In closely contested States the ballots of the young voters may hold the balance of power. They are, therefore, of importance to the whole nation, and it is worth while for the foremost statesmen of the land to make special appeals to them to vote right. No appeal of that kind had ever been more elo- quently or more nobly made than that of McKinley in his address to the first voters of Cleveland in 1895, After reminding the young men that their fathers had to pass through the civil war and all the years of bitter sectional controversy that preceded and follow- ed the conflict, he said: “Born in the seventies, you have enjoyed the most marvelous advantages of the nineteenth century. You have witnessed the greatest progress of science, mechanics and material develop- ment of any period in our history. You have enjoyed | the advantages of the free and higher schools of learning. You have lived in'a period of the greatest opportunity for moral and intellectual growth, and cenjoyed most favorable conditions for forming right | opinions. You have escaped the extreme bitterness of party divisions and the passions of a fratricidal | war. You carry none of the scars of the past party conflicts.” Then proceeding”to the issues of that time, which | were virtually the same as those of to-day, Mr. Mc- | Kinley went on to say: “Surely every young voter | who has his spurs yet to win, his career to make, his fortune to build, will hesitate before he will give his ;ballol to a party which seeks to create hostility between classes and sections; between the rich and | the poor; between the mechanic and the manufac- turer; between the farmer and the banker. He will | cast his ballot to continue the equality of citizenship, of privilege, of opportunity, of possibility, which | has been the boast of our citizenship, and is the very | cornerstone upon which our free institutions rest.” Then followed the direct appeal so timely to the issues before us: “How would Lincoln, Grant, Gar- field and Logan have stood if in their time they had | accepted the doctrin® which some now teach, that | because they were poor and of humble surroundings they must go off by themselves and shut the door of opportunity to the best impulses of their souls, and the noblest aspirations of their minds? The ballot of the young man, as well as that of the old man, the | ballot of the first voter, as well as that of all vote-s, should always express the voice of truth and con- brous personality and tireless energy will »rnia and who have faith in her greatness, | science. It should represent the calm and unbiased judgment of the voter. It should embody the highest welfare of himself, his home, his community and his country. It should never be false to his convictions cr opposed to justice and honor, either in public or private concerns. It should express on its face his best hopes and highest asp#rations as an individual itizen, and always represent the greatest good to his fellow-countrymen.” The young men who come to the polls for the first time in this election have before them the same alternative as that which confronted the first voters of 1806. Tt is a choice between the party of prosperity and the party of calamity; the party thz} preaches harmony and the party that preaches antagonism. A great majority of the first voters of 1806 allied them- selves with the Republican party and cast their ballots for national honor and public prosperity. [t is hardly to be doubted that a similar choice will be made by the young men of this year, and that the strength of the party will be renewed by the accession of recruits who will take up its standards and its. principles and carry them' forward to future victories for the republic and for humanity. Y way of reply to the critics who condemn him SENATOR HOAR’'S DEFENSE. [ ; for supporting the Republican party while op- ! posing the Philippine policy of the administra- tion, Senator Hoar has contributed to the Interna- the United States, in the course of which he points out that in this country government can be cffected only by parties, and that whosoever hopes to have any influence upon legislation must choose between ¢ne party or the other; nothing can Be effected by holding aloof from parties or by shifting from one party to another because of special issues and without regarl | to the character of the men who control the parties. | The Senator makes a strong contrast between what | was effected by Wendell Phillips and other independ- | ents like him in fighting the slave power and that | which was accomplished by the politicians who form- |ed the Republican party. He says: “After nearly | thirty vears Mr. Phillips and his followers had made bno progress whatever. The thirty years of their activity witressed a series of victories for slavery. |* * Now what was done by the politicians? Scme ;m’ us met at Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 28:h of | June, 1848, to found a new party devoted to arrestiny | the future ¢niroachments of the slave power and to sccure the ‘reedom of the vast territory between the Mississippi and the Pacific. * * * In eight years it carricd a majority of the free States. In twelve years it elected its President and had a majority in | both houses of Congress. In sixteen years it had abolished slavery and had put down the rebellion; ;;md in twenty vears it had adopted the three great amendments to the Constitution which made every ‘ila\'e a freeman, every freeman a citizen, and every | citizen a voter.” The moral of the lesson taught by the contrast is clear. If the men who are opposed to the annexation of the Philippines hope to accomplish anything they must act with an organized party. They can gain nothing by mere agitation. In the selection of a | party they must choose that which is most likely to | cerve the interests of freedom and the welfare of the | | republic. Twice within recent years the independents | | and mugwumps have voted with the Democrats and | helped them to elect a Democratic President; and the Senator says if they like the results of the Demo- Then, bringing the argument to the issue, he says: I am opposed to imperialism. When the treaty witn Spain was before the Senate I did my best by speech | and by vote to amend it in accordance with the | doctrine I have stated. T was faithful to the cause of freedom and justice as I understood it. The cause was stabbed in the back by Mr. Bryan in the moment of its victory. I do not trust him now. I am prepared to purchase the chance of what he will do | hereafter at the price he demands—a Supreme Court | ! of his choosing: the solid South in the saddle: ten | million of American citizens at home disfranchised; national dishonor; the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one. He told his Populist audience the other dav that if he were elected they might be sure that this | monetary reform would be accomplished before tha | | next Presidential election. If you are ready to make | this purchase at this price, my independent friends, go “_vnur way, do your duty as you see it. I shall do mine l2s I see it. I think the future of justice and liberty | in the Eastern Hemisphere is safest in the hands in | which it is safest in the Western Hemisphere. T think it is safest abroad where it is safest at home.” Against the logic of that argument, the strength of that position, the mugwump following of Schurz and others will rage in vain. The supreme choice after all is a choice of parties, and when Bryanism is under- stood in its full meaning, all good citizens, whether they be annexationists or not, will find ample reason not of law, order, honor and industry that maintains the prosperity of the republic. e e We boast of quick work in this country, and with reason, but the French are not far behind us in per- formance, for an underground railway from Vincennes to the Bois de Boulogne, a distance of about ten miles, has been put into operation within sixteen months after ground was broken. From present appearances the Democrats who in convention indorsed a certain yellow journal as the organ of Democracy were sadly lacking in foresight and in hindsight as well. They neither looked to the future nor remembered the past. George Fred Williams of Massachusetts is not widely known in this part of the world, but in New England he has a Bryan cinch on the silver men and is said to be training to take Bryan’s place when Bryan's tongue fails. —_— The only stable thing about the boundary agree- ment between the United States and British Columbia appears to be the disposition of everybody concerned to fight over rights which are not supposed to be in dispute. g S Fresno seems to be on the high road for the cre- ation of an asylum for human freaks. She has just liberated a boy murderer and now has a child fire- brand on her hands. When Kruger said he intended to travel for his health the British took him literally at his word. He will be allowed to take no South African gold with him. The silly season is lingering late in the East this year, and a number of locally prominent men in that section are still talking of forming a third party. The defense of a local thief that he stole because he was tempted will probably land him in a place which is happily free from temptation. Every man who expects to be benefited by four years more of prosperity should help in securing it. tional Monthly an article on party government in | o ok cratic administration they are welcome to the choice. | | for supporting the party that stands for everything | SOCIETY: e OU all want to be prepared for| the startling announcement of the engagement of Bishop Potter's adventurous nephew and the daughter of a prominent local phy- sielan, who does not rely solely upon her papa’s great name for a fame that is hers by virtue of her beauty, talent and tact. Just at present the engagement is being kept dark, and while we are all gossiping about it, not cne of us is sufficlently brave to come right out and tell it. 1 have heard more than the mere fact of the engagement. I have heard that on the first of the month Mamie and her mother will leave for the Philippines, where the wedding Is to take place. Corporal Potter is a man with a rosy past and a brilllant future. When he passad through our city on his way to the Philippines ‘accounts of his escapades filled several columns in the daily papers. | Besides escapades I belleve he was once | before engaged to a Miss Carter of Phila- delphia. In the matter of a previous engagement he is not ahead of his pretty flancee. She had several years ago a heart-to-heart affair with a popular young lieutenant of the navy and the loss of the fair maid was the penalty the naval constructor had to pay for the possession of an ugly temper. o e I got one genuine jolly surprise during | the week—the announcement of the wed- ding of Ada Dougherty and Jabish Clem- | ent. There was nothing sensational about the wedding—just the case of an ardent, impatient lover, who eould not bear to be separated from the lady of his choice, who was about to leave for a prolonged | tour with a suffering mother. The recent | death of Ada's sister threw the mother into a fearful nervous state and Mr. and Nirs. Dougherty, their two sons and Ada were about to start for an extended trip, | when Clement discovered that he couldn't and wouldn't bear the pangs of separa- tion. The result was the wedding—a nat- | lady’s name is mentioned there is always | | wealthy | The jewels which he has presented his urally cuiet one. Everybody sympathjzes with Mrs. Dougherty in her trouble. Every time the some one by to recall days of lavish hos- | pitalf enjoyed, either at the town or| country home, and many musical even- | ings when Ada's musical compositions were the delight of cridcal guests. I have heard that recently the gifted musician has «iven her attention to dramatic writ- ing, and the result is a play of more than ordinary merit. | . . Mme. de Guigne, whose health for some time past has been very poor, s going south to spend the winter months. This will unfortunately take Miss de Guigne, | who is one of this season’s debutantes, | out of town for a good part of the sea- son, for naturally she will want to be | near her suffering mother. While on the subject of debutantes, I want to say that T have been told that Sophia Pierce is coming out this winter, but that she will not make her initial bow to society until early in January. i e The death of Colonel Jackson neces- | sarily postponed the wedding of beauti- | ful Lucy Jackson and Dr. Rothchild. Their marriage, I understand, was to have taken place some time this month | at the Jackson country seat at Napa Soda | Springs. | Lucy’s engagement, which came as such a surprise to all of us, has not yet ceased | to be a topic of interest. I don't be- lieve there ever was such another de- | voted lover as the doctor, who, I am told, is a member of the world-famous family Whose name he bears. bride-to-be are of rufficient quantity to stock a small sized jswelry shop. He lets | no occasion pass without marking the | event with the gift of a jewel, and when birthdays and holidays are exhausted the | nerous doctor invents anniverdarles. T, w, the other day, a dazzling diamond nburst given by the doting doctor to | his lancee, the occasion being the anni- | versary of the day they first met. | PR | Some one who has just returned from | abroad told me that they had met the Countess Artsimovich (formery Mrs. | Webster Jones) in Dresden. She was| beautifully gowned, as was naturally to | be expected. and all the Dresden women | were marveling at her erect figure and supple walst, and trying, without success, to make their clothes “hang” like hers! aid. Alexander Baldwin's luncheon, at . . Mrs. | her exit the feminine portion of the audi- RP. BY: SALLY SHA GOSSIPY BITS MOSTLY ABOUT ENGAGEMENTS. MISS EDITH PRESTON, which she announced the engagement of Miss Frances Baldwin and Sheffield San- born, was a jolly affair. Of course, no one was _exactly day urprised—no * one is these at the announcement of an ehgage- _but no one was exactly expecting it day, and therefore it may be set | one of the unexpected features affair. It ‘'was a most congenial of the party, and if the society editor was mak- ing a note of it he would write “among those present were Mrs. Alexander Keyes, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss Susie Blanding, Miss Margaret Salisbury. Miss Margu. rite Sawyer and Miss Ida Belle Palmer.” ok w0 If grit and perseverance can make an | actress, then Gertrude Lewis is destined to be one of the dazzling bunch of shin- ing stage lights that have come out of { this Golden State. Last winter Gertle WHO IS VISITING MRS. KIMBAL THOMAS) AT HER HOME AT HANFORD. MISS PRESTON W OF THE BRIDESMAIDS AT THE THOMAS-KIMBAL WEDDI 4 | a8 b LEL 2 i (NEE S ONE tion as to how much that ecoat must cost the beauty from Califorr of fancy prices were set down it, but, as a matter of fact, $1000. peared with M Knowledge" When the New sev York season came to a close Gertrude was still of ‘the opinion ¢ 3 t she could make the “feu sacre” glow, nd s ing a tour with the Tohman forces and wearing her pretty clothes and speaking her few lines Miss Lewis jolned a continuous performance stock company in Albany and has spent her summer giving two performances daily, gathering experience and laying the forsook the joys of local socfal life to win ( foundation for a successtul future. smiles of approval from the generous but On Saturd next her father., Willlam hard-to-please audiences that pay their { Lewis, accompanied by his second daugh- $250 per head to enjoy the shows Froh- | ter, Edna Lewls, will leave for an ex- man mounts on the classic Daly stage in New York. i say in the Frohman productions. Her | speaking part in the first play of the sea- | son was limited to “Yes, mamma.” How- ever, in the playing of it she had the moral support of a gorgeous' Persian Gertie did not have much to not accompany | not go to the tsl lamb “automobile” coat, besides the sat- | dutiful and atten tended trip to Honolulu. Mrs. Lewis will them, but will occupy apartments at the Richelleu during their absence. “I can’t put the sea between | Gertrude and myself,” she explains to her friends when they o daughter. T get a {staction of knowing that after she made | letter from het every day, and not all the ence paid no further attention to the play. The plot was lost (to them) in specula- ‘tmplcn! islands In the world could make | me miss the pleasure of my daily morn- | ing epistle fram my girl in New York.” WORLD'S NAVAL NEWS. Two twenty-five-knot cruisers of the| Novik type are to be laid down at the | Nevski Engineering Works at St. Peters- ik ok ieAn | The armor plates for the Russian bat- | tleships Alexander III, Orel, Borodino and | Knaz Suvaroff, amounting to about 10,000 tons, will be manufactured in this coun- try. . The British cruiser Powerful Is to be refitted for another three years' commis- sion and the overhauling and’ repairs will tawe six months at the Portsmouth dock- | yard. . e . The Normand water-tube boiler is find- inz favor in the Russian navy and is be- | ing extensively introduced. One import- | ant advantage claimed for it is that the combustion is perfect and that it emits| less smoke than anv other boller. 4 ele The Ttalian battleship Amiral di St. Bou has at last been completed and placed in commission. The keel was laid July 18, 1863, and the launching took place April 29, 1897, so that seven years were re- quired to construct this ship of 9300 tons. . e . The coal consumption of the torpedo- boat 'destroyer Viper was 2.49 pounds per unit of horsepower at a speed of 33.8 knots, the engines developing 10,300 horse- power. The thirty-knot destroyers In | the British navy average 2.38 pounds of !, coal per unit of horsepower. PR The German naval increase will necessi- | tate an enlargement of the dockyard at Kiel, and the village of Ellerbeck, with 5740 inhabitants, adjoming the ward, will cease to exist as the land is needed for dockyard extension. The force of work- men, which is now 6000, will be shortly in- | creased to 10,000. . . . Contracts for four armored cruisers of 9800 tons will shortly be distributed by the British Admiraltv. The ships will be 40 feet in length by 66 feet beam, but thélr speed, according to the London Times, is to be twenty knots, which is probably in- correct, as twenty-two or twenty-thres knots would be nearer the mark. e St The departure of the Russian battleship Sebastopol for the Orient has been de- | armor belts and carrylng armaments of | but sunk by the battleship Majestic to | undergo another series of gunnery trials. layed to make repairs to the vessel's for- ward turret. It was found on her gun- nery trials that the turret would not turn, that the base had been displaced and considerable damage was done before the cause of cobstruction to turning was discovered. . . . The British Admiralty is making con- cessions to the engineer officers of the navy and the corps is now to consist of 1 engineer-in-chief, twenty inspectors and and 100 artificer engineers. There is no increass in pay for the first two grades, but chief and fleet engineers will receive 16 shillings, ri€ing to 30 shillings in fourteen years; engineers Will. begin with 10 shillings and increase to 12 shill- ings in eight years, while the pay of all others is to remain as now. * s.9 Austria’s naval programme contem- plates building two eighteen-knot bat!le-l ships of $300 tons, with,7.8-inch all around three 9.2-inch Krupps, twelve 59-inch Skoda quick-firers and twenty-four smaller guns. One ship of this type is ready for launching; a protected cruiser of 7000 toms, to be laid down at once, and | a battleship of 10,000 tons is planned. The increase of the personnel is 250 men. o s <& The old Belleisle, that ' was recently all demonstrate the effectiveness of modern | guns, 1s being fitted out at Portsmouth to On one side six-inch Krupp plates are be- ing put on for a length of twenty feet ard | on the other side four-inch Krupp armor. | The vessel is then to be fired into at vary- ing ranges to ascertain armor resistance under actual service conditions. It will| be several months before the ship will| be ready for the trials. The French battleship Hoche, bullt in | 1886, has been fitted out with new engines, | but the first trials were so unsatisfactory | as to require extensive improvements and alterations of the new machinery. With | 10912 horsepower the speed was 15.92 knots, but the consumption of coal was so | great as to make the supply sufficient for | only 803 knots at the highest speed. This defect has now been remedied and the | speed has reached sixteen knots, while | the coal will suffice for 1202 knots. Nu- merous alterations have been made in the | PERSONAL MENTION. W. C. Bingham, a banker of Marys. ville, is at the Palace. George Schoenwald, a well-known hots] man on the coast, is at the Lick. M. E. Sanborn, a prominent lawyer of Yuba City, is registered at the Lick. Thomas F. Corcoran has arrived from Dawson City and is a guest at the Lick. E. D. Edson, State Railroad Commis- sloner, residing at Gazelle, is at the Occi- dental Hotel. N. F. Clark, J. J. Leidecker and Thomas Clark, three Eastern oll men from Ofl City, Pa., are at the Lick. M. R. Plaisted, editor of the Evening Democrat of Fresno, registered at the California Hotel yesterday. Guy A. Buell, a Stockton lumberman, and W. J. Doherty, a Bakersfleld mer- chant, are stopping at the Grand. Judge J. D. Bicknell and W. D, de Groot, the last named an oil prospector, both of Los Angeles, are registered at the Palace. —_—e———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* —_—————— to the ont- . fal Information supplied dally bigaces Nouscs and pubhe men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 gomery st. Telephone Main 1042, A federal union of vegetarian socjeties exists in Londcn. London has a vegeta- rian hou‘;!t:\l with twenty beds in connec- tion with it ADVIRTISEMENTS. vessel and the draught has been material- | mE MO I HER ly reduced by removing superstructure | and substituting lighter guns for the| original armament. The Hoche will be | ready for service during October, o8 T2 The Russian torpedo boat destroyer | lives to support Som, bullt by Laird’s, Birkenhead, is al- | most ready for trial. The boat is 213 feet | tayed to the utmost, and by 21 feet § inches, and displaces 350 tons on 6 feet 3 inches mean ‘drapght. fitted with Laird water tube boilers and twin serew engines of 6300 horsepower, calculated to give a speed of twenty-seven knots during a three hours’ run, the boat being loaded down to service conditions with eighty tons of coal on board. The contract price is $260,000 if the boat comes up to the requirements, and is subject to a deduction of §10,000 for every one-quarter with a nursing baby has two Her flesh, strength and vitahity are sne 1s | must be maintained or both will surely fail. will keep up the mother’s strength and vitality. It also knot short of.the contract, If tne speed | enriches the baby’s nourish- falls below twenty-six knots the Govern- ment reserves the right to either reject the vessel or to accept it at a reduction of 20 per cent rmz the contract price. 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