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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1900. - The +Sokase Call. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. tddress All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. .......Telephone Press 204 e PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. FDITORTAL ROOMS. ... .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year. -$8.m DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § month: 2.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 150 DAILY CALL—By Single Month 650 EUNDAY CALL. One Year. 1.5 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.2 ATl postmasters are anthorized to receive subscriptions. Fample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of sddress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ..e2..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising. Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “OCentral 2619. YORK CORRESPONDENT: NEW C. CARLTO NEW YORK REPRES STEPHEN B. SMITH. .3 NTATIVE: NEW YORK NE Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: Hill Hotel. STANDS: A. Brentano, 31 Unfon Square: Murrsy '8 STANDS ws Co.; Great Northern Hotel: WASHINGTON M. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., . W. MORTON E. CRA Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—27 3 830 o'clock. 300 Haves, open unt!l 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister. open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until until clock. 1941 Miselon, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Markst r Sixteenth. open until § o'clock. 109 Velencla. open 11 ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. N'W. cor- enty-second and Ken oven until 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vavdeville. Grand Opera-house—*La Boheme.” Alcazar— The Railroad of Love.” Columbia—"The Ameer.” Tivoli—"A Jolly Musketeer.” bra—*'A Stranger in New York." alifornta—Royal Marine Band of Italy. © crrner Mason ipecialties. mpia. Zoo and Theater- afterncon and um-—Benefit Charity Fund Associated Theatrical Mar- T afternoon, November. 22. n Park—Races to-day By Cohn—This day, at 11 o'clock, mi! Powell street By ivan Sixth street at 16 ery, & Doyle—Wednesday, Nov. Horses and Bugg G. Layng-Thursday ughbred H 21, at 11 o'clock, at 7:45, evening. at -3 TRADE ALREADY RESPONDING. HE return of the Republican administration to as already produced a marked improve- n business throughout the country. For months the bank clearings last week i a gain and even New York exhibited an increase. The the whole country was 14.1 per cent, against age loss of 13 per cent for ronths past, and New York 21.1 per cent. All large cities ex- and Chicago showed a gain. This is neficial reversal of previous cenditions, for rge cities have heretofore shown aa Bo i very n business after the re-election , but it was got expected to r so pronounced. her throughout the Eastern States and this has stimulated the lagging r goods, especially for clothing and other e dependent upon winter weather, but no- body disputes the beneficent influence of the election. vemen Mc t weather does not affect the foreign export trade. which is rapidly increasing and which is assum- irg large proportions. Nor does it produce the g of new enterprises, of which the prelim- are now being considered. Hence it is 1at the major part of the current business nent is directly traceable to the election. reet was qu eter last week. The intense fire the few days immediately following the election were no longer visible. Trading was active, however, though the hardening of the money market tended to restrict operations, and there was heavy selling, principally by people who were shrewd enough tc take the profits of the post-election ad- vance. The industrials weakened first, and the rail- roads followed. Later onin the week, however, many stocks showed a tendency to recover the lost ground, and there was no general downward' settlement after the first day or two. » The commercial staples generally ruled firm. The iron interests attempted to advance prices in view of an improved demand, and did succeed in some cases, though it was claimed that the advance checked the demand. The call for rails and structural material, however, continued good. Hardware was reported in better request in sympathy with the raw material. Hides ceased to advance, but were still quoted firm Cotton hardened, owing to the colder weather, and this produced a general business improvement throughout the Southern States. Wheat weakened off, owing to heavy quantities set afloat by foreign countries, and to the bearish effect of the usual weekly he improve Wall statistics. The country’s failures, like the bank clear- | ings, made an improved exhibit, those for the week being 217, against 219 for the corresponding week in 1899 The feature of the week locally was the heavy rain, which caused a feeling of confidence everywhere. In some parts of the State the fall was unusually copious for this time of the year. It put the ground in condi- tion for renewed plowing, and as a large area had already been turned up and sown the prospects for a large grain acreage this year are bright. The internal trade of the State continues brisk and the export movement large, Shipowners report great prosperity in their line, with not enough ships to transport all the freight offered. Many more vessels are needed to handle the commerce of the Pacific Coast. which is increasing with remarkable rapidity. The political events of the world during the past three years have turned an immense demand for goods into Pacific Coast channels, and the coast will henceforgs enjoy a permanent export demand which will more than ever make San Francisco what it has always been called, the gateway to the Pacific. And the major part of this unboundsd prosperity has been caused by the administration of President McKinley. ——— The only note of university extension that has ap- peared in our Eastern exchanges lately is the an- nouncement that Yale is to increase. the capacity of her football grandstands. 20 Tribune Butlding | rtgomery, corner of Clay, open | over the corresponding week of last | It was expected that the country would | INTERESTS. OUR IRRIGATICN Sthis winter the fact should not inany way remove from the public mind the impressions produced by the lessons of the dry years. Whether we have rainy winters or. dry winters, it is equally a matter ‘of importance for us to devise a comprehensive sys- | tem of water storage. The campaign of education upon the issue of conserving our forests and our flood | waters should go on with unwavering vigor, and as speedily as possible we should begin the work of con- | servation. | * At the present time we are permitting our forests | to burn and our waters to run away in floods, with HOULD California receive an abundant rainfall | Joaquin and Salinas particularly, the rainfall has been | the negligence of utter barbarians. The people of ol1 ! | Egypt 4000 years ago were wiser than we. The old | Peruvian Incas were wiser. The losses we suffer in | that way even in the best years are incalculable; and | what is worse the loss increases with the years, so | that what is felt as a slight evil at present impends | | with a menace of ruin over the future. Something of the extent of the injury done has | been exhibited in an address at Sacramento by the Hon. William E. Smythe, vice president of the Cali- | fornia Water and Forest Association. Comparing thz progress made in Sacramento Valley, where little or | nothing has been done in the way of irrigation with | what has been attained in the south, he quoted statis- . | tics of the census just taken, and said: | “The Sacramento Valley gained as a whole a beg- garly 4 per cent on the figures of 1890, which is less | Even that little | gain was mostly credited to towns and cities. Four of your ten counties showed an actual decrease; four ‘others gained less than a thousand each. And yet in this imperial valley all the people of New York and New England might find homes and ready sus- | tenance from your resources! The seven counties of the south gained 47 per cent in the same period, or | nearly five times as much. If we leave out Santt | Parbara, Ventura and San Diego, and consider only jthe reasonably well irrigated counties of Los Angeles, 10rnnge_ San Bernardino and Riverside, we find that | the gain in the _soulh was 67 per cent, against 4 per cent in the Sacramento Valley.” Mr. Smythe went on to point out that we have undertaken irrigation in an inadequate way; and as an illustration he said: “In 1857 we enacted the dis- | trict irrigation laws. We created nearly fifty districts, | which issued about $17,000,000 of bonds and disposed or about $10,000,000 of them. With the single execp- | tion of Turlock all those districts are financial wrecks. | To landowners they bave brought nothing but dis- | appointment and ‘hope deferred that maketh the | heart sick.” ” We must have a better as well as a more compre- | hensive system of dealing with the problem and a model upon which to base future action is to be found in the plans devised by Napoleon for the redemption of the plains of Lombardy. Under the Napoleoni: | law no irrigation disirict could be formed “until the | expert engineers of the Government had reported that it was feasible, that the water was available and that the works proposed would furnish adequate protec- tion for life and property. Neither could a district is- sue bonds until the financial experts had examined the | project and calculated the relation of debt to secarity, | of earning capacity to fixed charges.” We need some such law as that, but_the particular | form of law is a matter of detail | than the normal nati®al increase. | | | The important point is to devize and put in force a thorough system of | preserving our forests and conserving the flood waters | of the State. Were anything like an adequate system | of flood storage provided we would never need fear a dry season. There is no lack of water on this side the Sierras if we were onl e enough to make use of it. HIGHWAY IMPROVcMENT. HICAGO will this morning have the honor of entertaining a convention called for the purpose w C devising means for the accomplishment of such work and planning a compaign of education to interest the public in the enterprise. The convention will be in session for three days and will be immediately fol- lowed at the same ciiy and in the same hall by the National Irrigation Congress. The good roads movement has been | country a long time. | before the | In some of the older States a most commendable progress has been made, while in others little or nothing has been done. In that respect California has been an epitome of the whole Union, for in some of our counties a most excellent system of roadways has been established and is maintained, but | in others the reverse is the case. We can show sec- tions of the State in which the highways are as good as any in the most progressive parts of the Union, and there are other sections where the people have been content with the most primitive sort of thor- oughfares. Such being the case, our interests in the movement for better highways is as great as that of any other ready to profit by anything that may be done by the large attendance is anticipated and that the gathering is expected to be the most practical industrial conven- Concerning the importance of the movement it is sufficient to point out that 09 per cent of every load a wagon or truck over a highway. The statistics of | the “office of road inquiry,” under the Secretary of farmers of the United States nearly three times more than those of Europe to market an equal tonnage of THE JOY-GIVING RAINS, W HILE the rains thus far have not been suffi- the coming season, they have been ample enough to raise sanguine hopes and give something question that a much more cheerful spirit will now be felt by all classes of people, and preparations with a true holiday spirit. Though the rain was welcome everywhere a partic- so timely in the southern counties. To the orange- growers the storm has been a veritable blessing and that has so interfered with the prosperity of that sec- tion appears at last to have ended, and the orchardists the past. Mr. McAdie, chief of the United States Weather the most extensive of the last four or five years. In a statement published yesterday he said: “It is rain- We do not often have that condition. It has rained all through Arizona.” He went on to add: “I have fits in a way that has befallen this State for some time. The orange crop particularly needed the rain, rChicago convention. tion ever called in this country. by railroad, steamboat or express must be carried in | Agriculture at Washington, prove that it costs the farm products over primary roads. cient to give any assurance of good crops for | of joy to every section of the State. There is no for Thanksgiving and the holiday season will be made ular gratification will be felt over that which has come its benefits will be immediate. The long drought can now expect a return of the bountiful seasons of Bureau on this coast, reports the storm to have been ing from the Mexican to the Canadian boundary. no doubt that this storm is one of the greatest bene- class of American people. We ought therefore ta be | A circular announces that a | | to begin an era of greater prosperity than ever before. | given satisfaction. ! a good showing, but there were a few cases in which | not wait their turn. of promoting the improvement of highways. | | permitted the arrangement of the names otherw: than alphabetically, or had there been two voting | machines in each ward. The votometer would giv | entire satisfaction even under present conditions in | its effect. | be required in that State to effect the change, and | the Legislature is expected at the coming session | those States will not be indulgent to any faults in the | clination to accept the results obtained elsewhere. | certain that some of the defects of the war tax will | marine, it will not be possible to determine’_ st how afraid that there might be some injurious results from he long dry season. In the northern valleys, San exceedingly heavy. It gives the fa(mers a supply of water that will carry them for quite a while, and, what is of more consequence, it restores the confi- dence of the farmerin the rain conditions of this State.” It is to be noted that not only was there an abun- dant rainfall in the valleys and along the Joothills, but | that snow fell in the mountains. That means a large amount of stored waters to descend to the valleys in | streams later on. The great reservoirs of the irriga- tion districts will be well filled and the natural reser- voirs of the upper mountains will also be supplied | with water to furnish the springs that feed the rivers. | It is of course far too early to begin to “count chick- | ens,” but none the less the condition now prevailing ; is undoubtedly full of promise. It would be impos- sible to calculate accurately the extent to which the advancement of California was retarded by the defi- cient rainfall for several winters following immedi- | ately after the great industrial depression that began ! in 1893. The panic years and the dry years taken to- | gether placed a heavy handicap upon the State for | seven successive years. We are now seemingly about | with all forces of nature and of commerce working harmoniously to promote our interests. Good rains and good business with rising prices and increasing | industrial activity taken together are sure to bring large rewards to the diligent and the thrifty. What the, future will bring no man can forecast, but at present California has every reason for making ready for a joyous Thanksgiving. ~ ] turns from elections in States where voting ma- chines are in use has never been satisfied until full information has been givgn of the operation of the | machines. In the past the reports have been almost wniformly favorable, zrd this year the uniformity has not been broken at ull, so far as we can learn. In every place where the machines were used they have VOTING MACHINE RETURNS. OR several years past public interest in the re- The Utica Observer undertook to publish an even- ing edition giving a complete report of the voting in that city during the day, and thanks to the speed of the machines it succeeded in doing so. From an account given of the enterprise by that paper it ap- pears the first full report from a voting district. was received at the Observer office just eighteen minutes after the polls closed. Reports from other districts followed fast, and the evening edition appeared with complete returns in detail within an hour and a half after the closing of the polling booths. In fact, the Observer managed to give more than the Utica returns, for it published at the same time reports from other cities and towns where machines were used. Thus the account says: “In the meantime the Observer's correspondent at Rome had secured the vote in that city and tele- phoned to this office. There were nine machines in Rome, and the work there was done with accuracy and wonderful dispatch. West Winfield, which also had a voting machine, was secured by telephone, and at 6:30 the edition giving the returns from the two cities was issued.” The Springfield Republican, giving an account of machine voting at Northampton, Mass., : “The general result of the Bardwell votometer is that 2619 votes were registered, against 2430 four years ago, and the blanks were less in almost every case. s: individual voters lost their vote because they could The voters crowded the polls from the very minute of the opening. Long lines ex- tended from the machines to the railing and beyond. Voters waited from ten to forty-five minutes. Th= voting was done in from thirty seconds to four min- utes. The use of the votometer was fairly successful, and would have been thoroughly so had the State law e wards having no more than 350 voters.” The opposition to the machines from the politicians continues, but it is to be noted the success attained wherever they have been tried has not been without Boston is to give the machines a trial in a municipal election to take place in December: and these is a strong movement to bring about their use in Pennsylvania. A constitutional amendment will to submit such an amendment to the people. The tests that are to be made in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania will be of value to all the States. It is certain that those who will conduct the experiments in | machines, for in both States there is manifest disin- Both in Boston and Philadelphia the authorities and the press demand a local trial before deciding. The desirability of providing for a prompt and accurate count of the ballots at elections is not to be denied, and consequently the public will note with no little interest the results that are to be obtained from the new tests to which the machines are to be subjected. WORK OF THE SESSION. ENATOR HANNA in a recent interview stated S(h;t at the coming session the energies of Con- gress would be directed mainly to the army bill, the shipping bill and the Nicaraguan canal bill. The opinion is in harmony with that expressed by other responsible Republican leaders. For example, Mr. Payne, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, has stated that the task of making a thorough revision of the war tax will probably be left to the next Congress, and that in the short session that now remains for this Congress hardly anything will be undertaken outside of routine bills, except the measures named by Senator Hanna. The work outlined is ample, and if it be accom- plished the public will be well satisfied. It appears be remedied during the session, but that a complets revision will be postponed for the good and suffi- cient reason that until it has been determined what expenditures the Government will undertake for the construction of the canal, the government of the Phil- ippines and the building of new ships for the navy, coast defenses and the promotion of our merchant far, if any, the revenues from the present rate o1 “\xa- tion may be diminished. It would be gratifying if to the measures named by Senator Hanna and Mr. Payne there could be added this winter the immigration restriction bill, of which Senator Lodge recently spoke in Boston. The tide of immigration has been rapidly rising of late and increases with the increasing prosperity of the coun- | natural draught and 15,000 under forced SOCIETY: ID vou ever see such swell gowns as were displayed on Monday night at the opera? We have been told I don't Xnow just how many times that we had no grandmothers. Now, I could easily have disproved that on our first Melba night just by showing yards and yards of the rarest and oldest of rare old lace. If we had no ®grandmothers where could we get our magnificent and yellowed meshes? And if we had no Oak- land millionaires how could we fill our family circle during an opera season? On Monday night I saw the house, and, of course, listened to the music from a “palco.” ' Inspired by the rare art of the singers, T gazed heavenward, and then— oh, good fortune—I saw all my Oakland friends in the family circle. There were the McNears and the Goodalls and heaps of others. And not forgetting my San Francisco friends. 1 must mention the | Schmiedells and the Dunhams. Some people will tell you that where you find wealti there also will you find a lacking of all things artistic. That als~ the opera gives me a chance to disprove. Any artist will explain to you that the true music lover {s to be found in the .am fly circle, and if you care I can mention at least ten milionaires who took their opera at that altjtude. 7 QARSET T can't stop writing about the gowns T saw on Monday night. They were all so EOrgeous ,that it will take many moons before the subject can fade from my mind. If Major Rathhone is to be accepted as the oracle of that occasion Mrs. E. Avery McCarthy was the handsomest and best dressed woman in the house. T don't know what the opinion of others may be, but T am rather inclined to accept the dear major's ultimatum in the matter. Mrs. McCarthy’s ~own was of pink—just the right shade of pink—and the corsage verily glittered through meshes of the most exquisite lace. Her wrap was an er- mine cape that hung considerably below her walst. You know Mrs. McCarthy's delicate blonde beauty and the chic way in which she carries her charming little head. Was she pretty? Well, I should say so. . . But if Mrs. McCarthy's gown was rret- ty. It was not pretty enough to overshad- ow the dainty attire her sister, Helen Wagner. Helen's gown, with i.s rainbowy tinted tulle, was a dream and beyond any description. Dick Tobin had Miss Wag- ner and Mrs. McCarthy as his guests Monday, and he was quite right to be sur- passingly proud of them. o5k e I was so smitten with the gown Mrs. W. S. Leake wore that I am resorting to un- derhand work to find out the name of the lady's costumer. Such a magnificent black and white brocade and a bodice of white lace, the cut and style of which made everybody within seeing distance ABOUT SWELL GOWNS AND MILLIONAIRES BY SALLY SHARP. * MISS GEORGIANA HOPKI WHO WILL SPEND THE W TER IN NEW YORK. | Photo by Taber. | - green with envy. In Mrs. Leake's box there was pretty Georgle Spleker, and 1 was taken with the way that turquolsa panne velvet relieved the airy white of her point d’esprit dress. Miss Bessie Gowan, the third member of the party. wore a beautiful decollete gown of green pineapple silk. trimmed with panne vel- vet. But I tell you that the young folks did not have it all their way on the opening night. I never knew we had so —any handsome old ladies in town. And as for their style—whew! but daughters must find their mammas most dangerous rivals - e Was there ever such a dear old lady as Mrs. Eleanor Martin? Another such an angel—always planning to entertain and make the life of youns folks happy. [ believe that Elena Robinson is the most- to-be-envied girl in town for having been allowed to take her first peep at the worlds of society under the kindly wing of Peter Martin’s sweet mother. Flena looked lovely at the opera on Monday evening, in her dainty gown of white point d'esprit. And, by the way, I think that the bore herself lovelv under the most trying circumstances—Mrs. Martin on one side in her elegant gown of black velvet and rare old lace, and Mrs. Downey Harvey, whose pretty head and creamy shoulders peeped out of a magnificent Zown of black lace all broidered over in silver, on the other. Addie Murphy is golng to Washinzton for the winter as the guest of her brotner ! w and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John Biddell. ‘Addle will be sadly missed bere. and really T don't see how our girls a72 g0ing to manage to get married this ved without Addie for one of their brides- matds. T believe Addie Murphy has ore- ceded more brides to the altar than anv other ‘two belles combined. and also 1% the proud breaker of the ‘hostess at 2 breakfast™ record. However. Miss Mur- phy Is to come back to us, just previous to the breaking up of the secial seasom. and. if we will, we ecan erowd much en- tertaining Into very 'ttle time. . . The McKinstrys are getting ready to €0 inta thelr newly comnleted home on Pa- cific avenue. and T-have heard when thev McKinstrv take possession Miss Laura y wil! manage to show her friends that he extensive charity work has not \‘fl:‘:“: her of her rare gift of entertaining. » quite a long time since T saw Laura 2 any function worthy of mention. Tt is not so long back. though, but that T car still remember her in her pet gown for ewell entertainments — perfectly plain black. with just one long-stemmed Amer- fcan Beauty to lend a dash of color. Sa- vere black is the most trving of all garbs but Laura McKinstry has found a wav to triumph over it, and the result she achieves is stmply stunning. . . Just before sailing the McNutts altered had r anned for and Lieuterant the arrangements they the wedding of Mamie Potter. and it was decided that the sol dler-lover should meet his flanced and her party at Yokohama and that there, in the Jand of Madam Chrysanthemum. the bind ing words should he spoken. After the ceremony Mrs. MeNutt and Ruth are to return’ home and may be expected to reach here about January £ With the Potters back to their island home will go Mrs. Genevieve Martin and her brother. Frank Goad, and they will remain with the newly-wed couple for several months. That the McNutts have the jolllest kind of a trip out T stand ready to wager No one who knows Frank Goad and is on to his tricks and his anlimited supply of bon mots eould arzue otherwise. PR il The very latest thing—straizht from !ha tables of the ultra fzshionables in New York—is to serve old Scotch whisky and some fizzy mineral water, to the exclu- slon of all other drinks, at dinner. Whisky and fizz has already been adopt- ed at swell club tables and T was at one informal dinner party where the men toolk it in preference to champagne. Resides having the Empire City stamp I under- stand that the new beverage earns t approval of physicians as an ald to di gestion. WORLD'S NAVAL NEWS } There is a rumor circulated in British | dockyards that an armored eruiser 600 feet | in length is about to be built. | SR | No less than five torpedo-boat destroy:. ers in the British navy were reported dis-| abled in one day during last month. i e i The French fleet in China waters con- sist of twenty-two vessels—chiefly small v 52 aggregate tonnage, car- rying 2 Acers, 348 crew and 359 guns of large and small caliber. T . | The two battleships to be laid down at once for the French *navy are esti- ! mated to cost $7,000000 each, lnrhxdmfi’ armament. Four similar ships will Iw‘ lald down in 1902, and an armored cruiser | is to be begun next year estimated to cost $5,500,000, . At the recent gunnery trials of the | British Channel squadron the captain of | one of the turret guns of the ,\Iajl‘i(k‘; fired five rounds in three minutes, h|tt|mxi the target each :ime. As the guns are of 12-inch caliber. carrying a shell of §23 | pounds and a cordite charge of 158 pounds, the service must have been exceedingly prompy and the sighting equally com- | mendable for its rapidity and accuracy. Sy - | The British Admiralty will try as an | experiment to withdraw commanding line | officers from the torpedo-hoat destroyers in home waters and place chief gunners in charge of the vessels. Engineer offi- cers are also to be replaced with engineer artificers, corresponding with warrant machinists in our navy. If the results are satisfactory, the plan will be followed up and extended to other ships, which | will make a large number of line and en- gineer officers avallable for 'larger ves- sels. | P | The Niclausse boilers in the German cruiser Freya have proved a failure. The | speed fell short two knots of the calenla- | tion of 20 knots. As the same type has | been extensively experimented with in the British torpedo gunboat Seagull and given | satisfactory results, its failure in Ger- | many may be due to causes not yet ex- plained—perhaps national prejudice, as all | other water-tube boilers in the German | navy are of home manufacture. The Ni- | clausse boiler is to be used in the battle- ship Maine, buiding at Cramps; in the monitor Arkansas at Bath. and probably in one of the six 3200-ton sheathed cruis- ers in course of construction. e The naval programme of France is to complete 110 vessels from 1901 to 1905 in- clusive, the number of each class to b3 added to the navy during this period being as follows: 380q 0padio} #sU[0 IS SHUR_PUODIS nwoq 0padioy el To this should be added one protected cruiser for 1%01. S . The Spanish armored cruiser Cataluna was launched at Carthagena September 2. The vessel, which is practically du plicate of the ill-fated Colon, Oquendo, Viscaya and Marie Terese, is 348 feet in length, 61 feet beam and disnlaces 6709 tons on 21% feet draught. The engines are to develop 10,000 horsepower under draught with corresponding speeds of 18 and 20 knots. The armor belt is 230 feet in length, 5% feet up and down and 10 inches to 12 inches in thickness; the tur- rets are of like thickness, and the arm- ored deck is 2 to 2% inches. The arma- ment consists of two 11-inch, ten 5%-inch, two l4-pounders, eight 12-pounders and four 3-potinders. The bunker capacity is 1200 tons. - - . Promotion of officers in European na- vies is made by selection or seniority, while in the American navy only the lat- ter system prevalls in time of peace. The @ual plan works unsatisfactorily and is the cause of much heartburning among officers who are not selected. Three re- cent cases in the British navy show how try. Moreover, it is becoming more and more an’ immigration from Southeastern Europe, composed of ignorant and moneyless people. Such immigration is objectionable on every score, and if it be possible ‘ta anolv a check this winter it should be done family influences are likely to benefit some officers at the expense of others who B i o S e e A i lack the requisite pull. Three sub-leu- tenants were promoted over the heads of thirty-five, forty and fifty officers in the same grade to lieutenants. These lucky individuals were E. J. A. Fullerton, whose father, Vice Admiral Fullerton, has been in command of the Queen's yacht since Octoher 15, 1884. The second one is H. C. | 8. Rawson, whose father is also a rear admiral, and the third youngster is a grandson of Admiral Sartorius. Such a system, which some of the Washington sailor officers wish to have Introduced in our navy, would speedily demoralize the service, and the Sampson-Schley contro- versy originated just from the selection of the former over the heads of a dozen | senlors to command the fleet in Cuban waters during the late war with Spain. * + FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. L BLUE CLOTH COSTUME. This costume is of pastel blue cloth, taflor made, bralded with silk slightly darker, with indentations on the skirt and bodice. The walstband is of taffetas to match. A CHANCE TO SMILE, “But when the news came, dear, it Is a wonder That you did mot fatat “How silly!” You know that I could not faint without mussing my new dress."—Philadelphia Burglar (suddenly confronted by & po- liceman)—Hello! here’s a ou& . Pollcegnm-tbor;‘thtn _1-‘( terfere. hl'm t uty to-ni ust dropped to Zoe Oe ‘cook Hoston Transcript: He—Have you done as I asked, Hlise, and saved some money this month? She—Oh, yes; I spoke to the asked him not to send in his month!—Fliegende Blaetter. ‘fg was Loulse I'd be ashamed.” Y he’s a_member of the Audubon Club, and yet she has her fitted out in bird's-eye maple.”—Chicago Record. Miss Cutting—Your jokes always remind me of a ball. Littlewit—And wWhy of a ball, pray? Miss Cutting—Because thers never any point to them.—Chicago and till next Mrs. Prior—Miss Smarte, it's funny, but several persons have asked me how old T — e aguin: you San way T 013 snotgh nod 1o tell.—Boston “My daughter's young man went home on 'gl%a last i » u pe . n and remind him?* : had our parlor clock fixed so it cuckooed every ten minutes.”—Detroit Free Press. AN ideal summer and er re- et Awnly b 4 Naw Momtmamars st thavs STRE R T o Pat—Phwat's the ye as much E-WM ATREEA I T Ly | more than i ve; didn't PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. I. W. Hays of Grass Valley Is at the Grand. Dr. M. M. Shearer of Santa Rosa is stay- ing at the Occidental. Willlam H. Schooler, Chico, is at the Lick. M. H. Flint, an ofl man of Los Angeles, |1s a guest at the Occidental. | H. A. Cohen, a mining man of Salt Lake, is a late arrival at the California. | F. M. Miller, an attorney of Fresno, is registered at a downtown hotel. W. L. Carter, a Santa Rosa business | man, 1s at the Occidental with his wife. Count de Dulthemorel and Count K. de Bolaine of Brussels are registered at the Palace. Dr. P.- Howard Humphries, M. D., of Honolulu is registered at the California with his wife. F. A. Shepard, who is connected with the St. James Hotel, San Jose, is at the Lick, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Hattie Delaro-Barnes arrived hers yesterday to fill a theatrical engagement | and s registered ‘at the Palace. Mrs. C. W. Clark, daughter 6f Senator Clark of Montana, and her sister, Miss Roberts, are here on a pleasure trip and bave engaged apartments at the Palace. an attorney of Going Back to Caravans. Russia is about to have an rience which is of interest to the United States in some of the things which it suggests. The Czar has taken complete possession of the Siberfan railroads for government- al purposes, and the merchants of Rus- sia’s principal cities who furnish mer- chandise to Siberia, or trade with it in any way, are to transport s to 1t by the caravans which wers o *Vogue before the rallroad was buflt Travelers, too, it 13 expected, will have to resort to stage coaches in passing in or_through that province. United States What would happen in the 1t the administration at ashington should take possession of all the trans- continental rallroads for the t - tion of soldiers and military stores as Nicholas II is doing in_the case of the Stberfan lines The old stage coaches which had St. Louls for their eastern tee- minus for a few years, and which wers afterward st from points farther west_as the rallroad was built through this State or in the States farther would have to be resuscitated. Tnstead of making the trip between the i pi and the Pacific in about three or four days, as at present. the old twenty-five-day journevs would again. Santa Fe. by the mules or the ox teams which would have to be employed Hom torty 'f",'u"é““'"mk‘.'.?"'"f..: & 'om _forty to sf ays St Louts or Kansas . as in the 8t Louls Globe-Democrat. 1T 04 —_— Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* —_——— 'l'ma niend‘;- California glace frutts, 0o a md. tn fire-etched boxes bas- l‘t’::s. 639 Market, Ph:&co nmfu’:’i&. . ————ee Tt fsn’t work that kills a man. It's ueu- -h hy ally scl mmh- time on a h% T KL haf sape w5 tha Special information supplied daily to houses and public the e Ly T or coma :y‘{h.nofnurw-o’d'n.rn!.n n- Ge. of which 1s engraveds FA v 8.5 F. M. E. R. May God decrée we two agree." ADVERTISEMENTS. RHEUMATISM As experience stands, the most promising way to treat an set u geny th, Wfiatever makes health, in other respects, is good for rheumatism. We don't say it will cure it. Sometimes it does; sometimes it don’t. Your chance is better with Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil than with anything else now known. Byand by there will be a sure cure; it make a big noise in the world when it comes ‘We'llsend youa T . m”'-.'-' :-.;m New Ve