The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1900, Page 4

4 THE SAN FKANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1900. The hoe Call. MONDA&" JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Ma MANAGER'S OFFICE ..Telephone Pre PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. Telephon Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year... weses DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months DATLY CALL ( Sunday), 3 months r. 204 F. Press 202. DAILY CALL—By Ringie Month SUNDAY CALL. One Year......... WEEKLY CALL. One Year... - ; All postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should te particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a pr and correct compliance with thelr request OAKLAND OFFICE. . «...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long ance Telephone *‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON..... saan .Herald Squar NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. TW YORK NEWS STANDS ria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P, O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House: Au WASHINGTON (. C.)_ ..1406 G St.,, N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. corner of Clay, open en until Market, % o'clock open until’s —*MadamesSans Gene.” Opera-hou oy fornia—West's Minstrels rnia—Piano recitals Wednesday, October 3 rpheum—Vaudeviile. Orpheum—California Club Benefit Tuesday afterrmoon, Octo- ber 23 Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudevilie every afternoon and evening. Fischer s—Vaudeville. Fabbri's Theater—Vaudeville. Butro Baths—Open nights. BUSINESS CONDITIONS CHEERFUL & RADE reports from the different sections of continue encouraging. Business is 7 are coming from the South Here we are kept busy by the demand for army and navy t, and it is expected that this Indeed, the the Government Or: ue for several years. y alone here and on materially advanced quotations for both to the gratification of the farmer, down stocks so that good almost assured. Certainly that returns him good profits on his is probably one of the chief reasons is so popular on this coast. n has not depressed the South, for a m that section, the consump- rchandise being brisk and liberal. , except in boots and shoes. mprovement noted several weeks is not limited to fall goods, but bas extended to orders for next spring, though the manufacturers are trying to keep the increased sales ing the hide and leather r are firm, however, in sy ore, ha xt year rmer has reason to bless e cu re quiet for fear of advan +++++30 Tribune Bullding | house—Maurice Grau Opera Company, Mon- ! election day will put an end to Bryanism and assure ..OCTOBER 22, 1900 i VICTORY FOR PROSPERITY, BY means of a canvass carefully made of every State where the vote ip the coming election has | been considered at all doubtiul The Call was able to present yesterday ample reasons to justify the expectation that McKinley will be re-elected by a majority of the electoral college even greater than that of four years ago, and that not only will pros- perity be assured for another four years but that Bry- | anism and all that it implies will be swept from our | p 7 to 221 Stevemson St. politics. The canvass made by The Call and the New York Herald was devised solely for the purpose of obtain- | ing reliable information concerning the prevailing | intrusted to men of impartial minds and of large ex- | & % | public opinion in the doubtful States and the drift of the sentiment of that class of voters who in the early stages of the campaign were undecided how they should vote. The collection of the information was perience in the study of popular sentiment. Two sets of men were employed in order that the reports of one might serve as a check upon any errors in the reports of the other. One set noted the sentiment of the voters concerning the rival candidates for the Presidency and the other the contests in the Con- sional districts. These reports so far from con- flicting, strongly confirm one another. They give »ssurance that McKinley will be re-elected. that Re- | publicans will elect a majority of the next House and | l that the Senate also will be safe for sound money and rotection. The care with which the canvass was made and the thoroughness of it render these reports altogether dii- ferent from the usual campaign predictions. It has not been a case of claiming everything for the party nor a case of guesswork. It has been an honest effort to obtain information in a systematic manner upon 2 subject of great importance, and is therefore not a mere campaign fake but an enterprise of legitimate ism.'It has cost much money, time and energy. jour | Tt has required the employment of men of high ability | and fellow-citizens of Neb: i W | news | the Pacific coast he has been exposed in many an | in politics, but titles of that kind nd of well-trained skill in such matters. It is a work n whose results the public can have confidence, and all classes of Americans may now rest assured that if h will but do his duty and vote. the judgment on eay the integrity, honor and prosperity of the republic. A HOME VIEW OF BRYAN. ILLIAM J. BRYAN has not much of a repu- vet such repute as he has at tation abroad, = a distance from his home is much more favor- able to him than that which he has established among his neighbors. The old saying, “Go away from home to learn news,” is one that Bryan will doubtless care- te whenever it is a question of learning On the Atlantic coast and on fully ing concerning himself evasion of vital issues of the campaign, and has be- come known as a dodger and a good deal of a faker applied to him aska. 4 The reason why the people of his own State arc more severe than the people of other parts of tha parison to those by his neighbors an is that they have under their eyes in their own homes an illustration not only of the insincerity but of the vindictiveness of the man. There is in Nebraska City a business enter- prise known as the National Starch Company. largely under the control of Gold Democrats like J. Sterling Morton, who was Secretary of Agriculture during Cleveland’'s second administration. There is also in Nebraska a silver smelting company at Omaha, which is under control of Bryan's political friends. Now country in condemning Bry | Bryan has denounced the starch company as a trust and he has incited his fellow-partisan, the Attorney General of the State, to institute proceedings to break it up, or at least to drive it out of Nebraska; but he has had not one word in the way of con- demnation to say of the silver smelting company, which from all reports appears to be a real “trust,” operating under methods designed to prevent com- | petition market m- pathy w d goods. The wool trade, e is p ast, and sales show an in- crease, an for a long time, though still below the ab: v of a year or so ago. Re- | gorts § ie are reassuring. More fur- ) blast, and the demand is said ing, though all large buyers are holding ie election. Small advances in billets re reported at severzal points. Railroad naces tc be im off unti ard pigiron earnings are making a good showing, being larger than during the summer, and the export trade of the country is in fine condition, the exports for September being the largest ever reported for that month, while the returns for the rine months ending September 20 are far in advance of any previous year. It is con- fidently expected that 1900 will break all previous records in the outward foreign trade. Wheat, how- ues to rule weak, and has declined again, large shipments from foreign countries to ever, owing the world's chief markets. The country’s bank clearings continue to fall below those of 1899, the decrease last week being 13.2 per Louis, all the largest cities exhibited a loss, that ttsbu: per cent, the heaviest loss in the list. The failures for the week were 223, against 221 for the corresponding week 1899, All apprehensions of a possible scarcity of money in New York have been allayed by the reflux of gold from Furope, and the feeling in Wall street is much easier than a fortnight ago. Still, there is little specu- uation there, nor will there be until after the election. unless something unforeseen turns up. London coa- tinues to sell our stocks on the slightest advance, though this is due more to the need of ready money in England than to any distrust of our securitics. The e of American securities now held in Europe said to be smaller than for some years, which is a good sign, as it relieves us from the liability of having lurge blocks of our stocks thrown back upon us, to the impairment of our spot funds, The situation of the United States in reference to Europe is especially favorable, and it would require a financial storm of more than ordinary magnitude to upset our financial equilibrium volu It is noted that the Bryanites nominated for Con- gress in the East are nearly all of them gold men, while those nominated in the South are nearly all of them imperialists. With such a divided Congress on his hands, even were he elected, Bryan could do noth- ing but draw his salary and keep his mouth shut. Reports of the latest trial of the Zeppelin airship continue to be favorable, so the nineteenth century may yet snatch from the twentieth the distinction of starting men in aerial navigation of a practical kind; but as yet the thing will not do to bet on. and with the exceptign of San Francisco and | z many or by other Democratic leaders. It is not pleasant to charge a candidate for the | the center of the iron industry, being 23.= | , % s > | Presidency with personal vindictiveness, but that is | to support his pretensions to the Presidency. It is said the starch company pays good wages to 250 persons, has been of immense benefit to the in- dustries and the trade of Nebraska City, and during the last ten years has paid over $2,000,000 to farmers in the neighborhood for corn. It has never done any- thing in restraint of trade. Yet that important local industry Bryan is now trying to break up for the purpose of gratifying his political spite against the Gold Demccrats among its stockholders who refuse He is seeking to injure his gwn State and his fellow-citizens merely to gratify a vindictive spirit. Fhis view of Bryan as he appears in Nebraska is cne never taken elsewhere. The prevailing opinion | has been that Bryan, despite his financial vagaries an. his tendencies toward demagogy, is on the whole a genial, good-natured sort of man, hurling invectives | against capital out of rhetorical exuberance, but with- out malice. If the Nebraskans, however, be right, Bryan is quite a different man, and should he be elected he will enter office animated by a desire to punish all who opposed his election. He will put into power an Attorney General who will undertake to drive out of business every corporation composed of men who supported McKinley, while he will have nothing but favors for the ice trust, the round cotton bale trust and other combinations controlled by Tam- the report made of Bryan's conduct in his own State and by those who know him best. It is a revelation of his utter inconsistency on the trust question and a |-warning to the people not to confide in him any gov- ernmental power whatever. THE IRON AND STEEL TRADE HE Treasury Bureau of Statistics has just issued T a monograph on the iron and steel trade of the United States, which makes a magnificent show- ing for those industries and demonstrates the wisdom of that system of protection under which these in- dustries have been safeguarded against foreign cheap labor competition and enabled to grow to such mag- nitude they now surpass all similar industries in any other nation. It appears from the report that the United States in 1899 produced 30 per cent of the world’s ore, or 25,- 000,000 tons out of a total of 85,000,000 tons, in round numbers. This quantity is somewhat less than the combined ore output of both Great Britain and Ger- many, including Luxemburg, which produced, respec- tively, 17 per cent and 21 per cent of the world’s ore supply. This alone gives the United States the leader- ship among the world’s great ore producers; but this dact must be taken in connection with coal production, on which the iron industry depends, and of which this country produces 32 per cent of the .world’s output, while Great Britain produces 30 per cent and Ger- miany 19 per cent. With primacy in coal and iron ore the position of the United States is one of undisputed and permanent ascendency in her control of the raw materials of iron and steel production. This primacy are mild in com-’ in raw materials gives tht’ United States a seif-suf- | ficing position, as compared with that of her foremost | rivals, Germany and Great Britain. A notable feature of the report is the showing made i of the extent to which the age of iron is giving way | to the age of steel. The transition is illustrated by the substitution of steel for iron rails in railway con- struction. Here again the United States holds the | primacy, because of her producing almost 40 per cent | of the world's steel output, while Great Britain pro- duces 18% per cent and Germany 21 per cent. No other nation converts so much of its pigiron into | steel as the United States does. - Of the world’s pig- | iron output, 40,000,000 tons, 70 per cent is made into steel, whereas this country converts 77 per cent of its pigiron tonnage into steel, amounting to 10,636,858 tons, qut of the world’s total output of 27,110,000 tons. The United States is the foremost steel-consuming country of the world. a single city having consumed | 125,000 tons in a year for building purposes alone; and | one car company having required 400,000 tons of steel to meet its yearly contracts. [ of our pigiron was made into rails, but since that date | steel rails have ceased to be the chief form of steel production, their proportion in 1808 being but one- ixth of the whole. The consumption of steel per | capita for non-rail uses in 1879 was 75.4 pounds: in 1889, 213.2 pounds; in 1898, 276.2 pounds, showing | how ofher than rail uses of steel have developed in | twenty years. | One further fact is to be noted. In former years | we used to import iron and steel, but now we export | them. In 1880 we imported five times as much in value as we exported in iron and steel products, but | now we export six times the value of our imports of | such goods. These exports in the past year ag- | gregated a value of $121,858,341, thus ranking next to breadstuffs, cotton and provisions, the three high- est in value. Among iron and steel goods there | twenty-one classes of products of which the expor's were valued at from $1,000,000 to $9.000,000 each. Spich is the official record ‘of the results of protec- tion and sound money. Can any intelligent citizen wish to change all that for free trade—and Bryan? EXPERIMENTS WITH LYDDITE. & s | /\/\ that were told in the early days of the South | African war of the effects of the explosion of ‘Iyd(litc shells fired by the British against the Boers. It will also be recalled that after a time there came | reports of quite a different nature; so that.while the first stories depicted the explosive as something so terrible that it blew whole mountain tops away and destroyed regiments with one shell, the later stories were to the effect that lyddite shells are hardly more OST people will easily recall the lurid tales dangerous than tom-toms, making a mighty noise in- deed, but rarely killing anybody. The truth coficerning the effectiveness of the ex- plosiveness in war appears to lie between the two ex- tremes of these stories. The shells used against the Boers did not produce anything that could be rightly described as “frightful carnage.” Nevertheless, they 'were far more effective than a shell loaded with an old-time explosive would have been, and the British have no intention of abandoning the use of them. From recent reports it appears the lyddite shells used in the Boer war were fired jrom guns of a com- paratively small caliber, none of them being more than forty-pounders. Tests made with 100-pounders | firing at the old battleship Belleisle showed that the big shells are dangerous to everything in the neigh- borhood unless it be heavily armored, and furthe- | tests made at Shoeburyness with guns’of a caliber between those used in the South African war ani | those used against the Belleisle also demonstrated an | extraordinary explosive force. In describing a test made with a gun of 9.2-inch caliber the London Chronicle says: “To begin with, it was fired at a target about 1500 yards distant from the gun. When it burst fragments of the shell were flung back nearly 8o yards—half a mile—toward the gun; that is to say, the distance of a very fair rifle | range. This, however, was merely the mildest part of the explosion; fragments at the sides were actually hurled a whole mile away! The detonation was lik2 |'a clap of thunder just overhead, while at the target | there rose a huge tree of green smoke as high as the | | clock tower at Westminster, but of far greater bulk. A mile away men felt a heavy blow across their faces from the concussion. And this, be it remembered. was a relatively small shell compared with the sort of thing that will be fired in the next naval battle.” As to the effect of the use of such shells in naval warfare, a British authority is quoted as saying the | Belleisle experiments showed that lyddite may burst against armor without any effect worth mentioning. but that if a shell once landed in a ship and exploded she would have no fighting force left. He then went on to say: “Great distance makes hitting difficult and makes the skill of the gunner the final arbitrator. The big lyddite shell is likely, therefore, to do little at pres- ent beyond adding a thousand yards to the recognized fighting range. In the future. however, there is another | thing it may do—alter the size of.the ships. The ! present mastodons may double their enormous bulk. Already the French, who always lead in plans of this kind, have projected a battleship of 30,000 tons odd. Such ‘a vessel would not be so greatly incommoded even by a 12-inch lyddite. The other alternative is to | make ships smaller, so that one or two may be lost | without the general total being much affected. This is | no new proposition—it is trotted out with every new invention. But it is the less likely of the two. Far more probable is it that the naval architect will first | lay himself out’to create something bigger—thirty, forty, or even fifty thousand tons in displacement.” The thought of constructing 50,000-ton battleships is likely to make the British taxpayer turn pale, for if they once be launched by any nation the British tax- payer will have a good many of them to construct and | to pay for. Fortunately for him the Zeppelin airship promises to be something of a success, for short trips, lat any rate, and, should it prove effective, the building 1} of sea ships for war purposes will hardly be carried i | | much beyond the point now attained. One of the things by which the Republican party ! has demonstrated its care for the welfare of the farmer ' as well as for that of the manufacturer is the estab- lishment and the extension of the rural mail delivery system. That service is now in operation to a greater or less extent in every State in the Union. It ! has notably developed in California, thanks to Mr. Loud, Representative of the Fifth District and chair- man of the Postal Committee.' Sir“Thomas Lipton has a very proper regard for the cleverness of American yachtsmen. He says hs will spend his entire fortune to win that cup, and from his manner of talking he seems to htink that he will have to do so. . . It is up to Bryan to go home and after moving to 'make the thing unanimous get his ticket ready to vote for McKinley. We are goinz to have in this country a fall that will ! give certain assurance of prosperity—the fall of Bry- | anism, In 1879 about one-third | SOCIETY: F you would enjoy some of the delights of travel without suffering any of the inconveniences get Mrs. Paulsen to tell You her experfences at Oberammergau. Be sure and make her relate to you how. without "having gone through the formality of securing accommodations ahead, she reached the village in the midst of a snowstorm and, fighting her way to the village schoolmaster’s house, got on the good side of the master's wife. The frau in pity for her plight and in ad- miration of her wonderful persuasive | powers 1ea her up two flights of steep | stairs and then cheered her as she mount- (ed a ladder to find shelter in an attic ! where for more than a century the cos- tumes for the wonderful Passion Play have gathered the dust and entertained the moths. Don't Jet Mrs. Paulsen neg- {lect to give you the creeps, but make her | explain how those costumes, swayed by | the gusts of wind that walled down the | cracks in the old roof. made her think int £pooks and gave her courage to once more let her weight test the ladder’s | strength. Then there is the interesting | part of how she ate her dinner, plate in i hand, seated the while on a wooden box, jand last, but not least, her triumphant witnessing of the play upon a reserved seat and with a horse blanket doing duty as an overa cloak. It is a tale that makes one feel a pride in the fact that Mrs. Paulsen belongs to California. It's a tale that needs a clev- erer pen than mine.. Be sure to get her to tell it to you. . . . Tsn't it just too jolly! Donald de V. Graham has gone and got naturalized ard . in spite of his delightful accent and complexion. we have the right to der him one of us. The ceremony was sclemnized on the 13th and that fate- | ful day proves that our Donald possesses unusual bravery as well as good sense. | T heara that it was a hard and cruel | necessity that made de V. swear to turn {down his trouser legs. He is something or other out in a court (for salary) and it | appears that unless he had sworn to be {true to Uncle Sam in preference to her Majesty they would not let him collect on the first day of each month. The worst is over now. We are all nat- urally proud to own him and he is getting used to being an American and growing to like it more and more every day. . e Mr. and Mrs. Gus Taylor have leased | one of the new houses just put up on | Gough street between Jackson and Pa- {cific and have arranged to settle there | for the n five years. The fact that | the Tavlors have taken a house is good | news. Mr. Taylor’s bride is quite tha most | f1in-loving young woman in this city, and |1 predict that there will be jolly times at the Taylor home. I understand that the wedding of Georgia Hopkins and Will | Taylor is not to take place till next | epring. However, there is to be plenty | of entertainment at the Hopkins home, | which was so quiet last winter on account 1nf the sad illness of Mrs. Hopkins. This vear the Hopkins girls will have their | bride sister to act as chaperon and all | will be merry again. ST Mrs. Genevieve Goad Martin and her brother, Frank Goad, will accompany Mrs. McNutt and her daughters to the Philippines. Genevieve Martin and Mamie McNutt have struck up a very close friendship during the last vear, and it is the pl antest thing imaginable that Mrs. Martin should be present when { Mamie McNutt gives her hand to Lieu- tenant Potter. Won't the McNutts and beautiful Genevieve make a stir in our new possessions! After the wedding Mrs. McNutt and Ruth will come straight home, but Mrs. Martin, accompanied by her brother, will make a tour of China and Japan. Everybody is hoping the trip will be of benefit to Frank. I saw him the other day, and although he must tip the scales at at least 180 rounds his pallor and general appearance made me fear for his health. “What Is the matter with | Frank?" T asked a friend of his, just as his athletic figure, all muffled to the ears, disanpeared around the corner. “Nothing much.”” said his friend. “Only he is 20 years old, Is worth about $50,000 and fs a member of the Bohemian Club. | He is the Owls’ baby, and the wise bird | 1s overwhelming him with attention. That's all that is the matter with Frank." DA A This week is the time when the club women are going to shine, and all of us who do not belong to one or the other of the fashionable clubs are pretending we do. Not to be at the California Club ben- efit at the Orpheum to-morrow is to sound vour own social death knell. Then there | is Wednesday, when the Forum Club is going to shine with a swell reception at its club rooms, with r ~sic and papers and recitations between the ‘“how-de-dos.” | The Forum. T am told. Is rapidly becom- ing the intellectual club of this city. The members are doing all sorts of brainy things and getting Eastern notices for them. The Forum, however, has not been cultivating the head alone and forgetting the heart. This club has a delightful plan for a donation party that is to take place some time before Thanksgiving. It is to be an evening reception, and each member will be allowed invitations for from three to six friends. Each invited guest is sup- posed to present a package with his or her SOME OF ITS PLANS FOR A . JOLLY WINTER. : FANCY DRESS DEBUT PARTY. g invitation at the door. These .packages are to find their way into one of three baskets, and on the day after the recep- tion the baskets are to be turned over to three local charities. Knowing the popu- larity of the Forums I do not believe I am taking any very desperate chances when I wager that there will not be one poor home in all this big city but will have a bountiful dinn2r on Thanksgiving day. R Mr. and Mrs. A. Haas of Los Angeles have bought the Frank home, corner of Van Ness avenue and Jackson street, and gre going to make their residence there. They have arranged to refit the elegant home and will devote $50,000 to that pur- pose. Mrs. Haas, who was formerly a Miss Koshland of this city, Is delighted to be once again In the town of her birth and near her family. Mr. Haas has been extremely fortunate in all his business en- terprises and has recently amassed a tre- mendous fortune. As his wife is a delight- ful hostess and he himself a generous and lavish husband it is safe to predict that the Van Ness avenue home will be the scene of many delightful gatherings. PO We Americans are striking out for our- selves in the matter of fashlon, and Paris for the time being has lost all influence over us. I've been told this many times within the last few weeks by the returned pleasure-seekers to the exposition and T heard the matter more fully discussed at the Polyclinic luncheon in honor of Mrs. de Young. “You could spot an American any time in Parls,” said one ~orgeously gowned guest. “by her short skirt. The Parisienne will have none of the jupe that does not trall the ground. Her skirts drag for many inches after her and she MISS ADDIE MURPHY IN HER FAMOUS POND LILY COSTUME THAT ‘WAS DESIGNED IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL ESPECIALLY FOR HER BY SALLEY SPiRiNP — SRR A2 SR IR AT ST L D S even avolds all pretense of raising them. There is no use denying the fact, long skirts are graceful, no matter what may be argued against them—from the stand- point of cleanliness—and every one must hold that the American woman has dem- onstrated her inherent good sense and in- dependence In adopting the shart skirt in the face of fashionable Paris’ frown.” Naturally every lady agreed with the speaker in spite of the fact that there was not one short skirt among them. And then the talk for a few moments was of fashion and the startling news leaked out that this winter vells would be worn so as to cover the face onmly to the top of the nose. . From the gay capital comes the pleas- ant news that Mr. and Mrs. J. Athearn Folger are rejoicing over the birth of a son. Mr. and Mrs. Folger have been abroad for more than a vear, but their friends declare they are anxlous now to return and proudly exhibit thelr new baby. & e Miss Bessie Ames is expected home some time this week after an extended visit to Paris. On her way home she has stopped to visit relatives in Eoston and her sojourn there is being made so ex- tremely pleasant that I would not like to positively state the exact day she may be looked for. Mrs. Downey Harvey is home again from a fiying trip East, the purpose of which was to place the Misses Harvey in a boarding school. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Raoul-Duval ars in Paris. This is the first chance Du- val's people have had to know and love his bonnie California bride. WORLD'S NAVAL NEWS. The French cruiser Guichew averaged 16 knots on her recent trip of twenty-elght days from Brest to Saigon. rGaEn Vicker's Sons & Maxim, the ship build- ing and naval armament company at Bar - rows, have gun contracts on hand which will keep that branch of the business go- ing for five years. . That French freak battleship Henry IV is advancing toward completion. One of the novelties introduced Is to have the barbettes perforated with little sight- holes to enable the-captain to =et a good all-round view, but the convenience is off- set by the weakening of the armor. . e e The Dutch torpedo-boat Hydra, bullt by Yarrow, will shortly bhe sent with a sister boat, Scylla, to (he Dutch East In- dles. The machinery in these boats Is completely enclosed and supvlied with forced lubrication in connection with va- rious working parts, thereby considerably reducing the attention required by the engine-room staff. ' . Four battleships have been struck from the French nayy list. Three of these— Colbert, Richelleu and Trident—are of wood and were built more than twenty- five years . The Turenne, built of wood and fron in 1879, is to be broken up. The Inconstant, a gunboat, built in 1886, js also condemned and is to be utilized for revenue service. Dock companies, ship yards and engine shops In Aslatic ports are reaping a golden harvest from the many warships and transports which the war in China has brought out. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company at its recent half-yearly meeting declared a dividend and bonus of 20 per cent to contributing shareholders. THe amount disbursed was ,500. The surplus amounted to $927,647, of which $356,236 was carried to new ac- —_— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Famous for golf, hunting, fishing, scenery, cuisine, perfect cli- mate and the soclal position and culture of lts patrons. At 4 New Montgomery st. or 841 Mar- ket st, clty, get information and rates, count, indicating that the profits actually amounted to a sum sufficient to declare a half-yearly dividend of about 42 per cent per share. . Contracts for non-inflammable wood have been suspended in the British navy pend- ing further investigation in the advantage of using wood chemically treated. The Belleisle experiments are clalmed to have established the fact that ordinary non- treated wood would not burn in a suffi- clently vitiated atmosphere and further- more the absence of wood causes many serious discomforts on board ship. . . There were 347 cases of serlous offenses tried by court-martial in the British navy during 1899. These offenses consisted of striking or attempting to strike superior officers and other instances of insubor- dination. of which ninety-six were com- mitted by petty officers and the seaman class, elghty-nine by non-seamen, sixty- six by marines afloat and ninety-six by marines in barracks. The total number of court-martials were 198 in the fleet at home and 277 on marines afloat and ashore, s e . The naval personnel of the seven prin- cipal powers and the proportionate rate of officers to men is as follows: Sall'rs &| Otficers Officers. | Marines | to Men. T8 | 10757 f1to UT 21 “.w 1 to 21.84 ’w 0.1 1 to 14.56 ™E | o i o141 199 | %50m |1 to 161 19| 208 10 W5 17 | 1833 1t sm gence, contains all the seagoing officers the Unitéd States navy. 3 > .. e e The British cruiser Europe that holds the record of being the greatest coal con- sumer I any navy arrived at Portsmouth dockyard September 25 from Sydney. The round voyage took 168 days and she con- the steam down to 10 pounds. At Port Said the economizers weza removed with the result of increasing the speed with- out using more coal than before. The ship has been turned over to the Water-tuba Boller Commission and exhaustive experi- ments will be made In order to ascertain the reason for the vessel's phenomena! coal consumption, which is more than double that of any of the other seven ves- sels of the same size. —_————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Id at Townsend", Remember the qualities required for our Judges. They are honesty, ability and en- ergy. M. C. 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