The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3. A el AR BT TR e MO B R TESIMEOE S, 1000 g L e e The _#% @all. MONDAY ........ .DECEMBER 3, 1900 | ~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. “;1';::!:' :mmu;\wca;em to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. ....Telephone Press 20t 217 to 221 Stevenson St Preas 202. EDITORIAL ROOMS Tele Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copics, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: CALL (including Sunday), one year. "o Se52 00 ¥ CALL (inciuding Sunday), 3 monthi oo LBO ALL-By Single Month seass 890 NDAY CALL. One Year - 180 X 1 One Year = i All postmasters are muthorized to recelive subscriptions. Semple coples will be forwarded when requested Ma subscribers in ordering change of address should be give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 15 imeure a prompt and correct compliance with their request CAKLAND OFFICE. €. GEORG hHOGNESS, Wanager Foreign Advertising. Marquette Bui'ding, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2618.”') 1118 Broadway NEW . CARLTON NEW YORK REPRE! STEPHEN B. SMITH. . . YORK CORRESPONDENT L, .Hernld Square g TATIVE: 30 Tribune Building S STANDS EW YORK N Waldorf-Artoria Hotel: A. Brentano, %1 Urnfon Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS “herman Hoeuse; P O. News Co.. Great Northern Hotel: remont House: Auditorfum Hotel WASHINCTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. TRANCH OFFI tgomery, corner of Clay, open $:3.o"clock ee. open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 c'clock. 615 Larkin, open until pen until 10 o'clock 2261 Market pen -until § o'clock. 109 Valencla, open 106 Eleventh W open until § o'clock ucky. open_until cor- AMUSEMENTS n and Bddy streets—Spe Theater—Vaudev every y Club, Oakland Raceragk—Races to-day AUCLION SALks m.. G. Lyang—M at 745 horoughbred yes . ¥ Wednesday, December 12, at 12 o'clock utter street BUSINESS SURELY EXPANDING. RE stion that business is improv. commercial he best reports con outh and West, er in the extreme E: check the buti i goods. The bank clearings 5 s over 1899, those for the past eek easing 24 per cent, and, what i1s more, all ties except Minneapolis increased, the clear- g I rg, the center of the iron and steel 1stry, gaining 27.1 per cent. Not'for a long time earings < ns, though ever on the tendency has been upward, as ward before. _As the bank clearings are be ter of trade the n on an increasing d as the he leading staples confirms the the bank clear te ngs. The holiday trade is ep brisk, and boots and shoes record a small nce nst x recent depression of several | yths. The advance is accompanied by large orders | Dry good, too, are expanding, | s y irregularly The wool trade ecent heavy failures and sales for e week gained about 500,000 pounds, t ugh prices ost descriptions are still weak. Cotton goods ; i are ed .very firm, with a numbe The <dron and_ steel trade is we g - around into firmer condition— hed products are increasing, the rail- I purchasers and small advances in are reported here and there. In addition of e furnaces are going into blast. The oad earnings show a slight gain over 1809. The re and lumber trades are reported flourishing. however, continues the mule in the procession s at weak prices, due to the large supplies ali over the world and -good crop prospects street was qu er last week, though there was 1 investment purchasing by the public, especially when concessions could be obtained. In fact, the | public form an important factor in Wall street now, whereas the past year they have been conspicuous by their absence The feature of local trade during the week was thes | combining of the salt works about the bay into the control of the Federal Salt Company, and a cons>- ump in the price of salt from 93¢ to $2 per bag rwise there were few fluctuations in merchandise. ct, trade in San Francisco is unusually smooth and featureless. The wholesale merchants report an unvarying monotony of liberal sales, easy collections 1d geod profits. Shipping continues to lead in point of activity and profit, 2nd those who own vessels have certainly nothing to complain of. Their only appre- hension is how long the boom in sea transportation will continue.. Oil men are close on the heels of the shipowners; and the industry is progressing more rapidly than at any other time in its brief local his- tory. Sales on the San Francisco Oil Exchange are heavy and steadily increasing, and reports of strikes ing in from all over the State. Farm produce is rather quiet than otherwise and prices show iittle change from day to day. This is the dull time of the year for most products, especially dried fruif, which is nov. extremely dull. The other narkets, such as provisions, hides, wool, etc., sympa- e closely with the Eastern markets on which they dependent. ‘and are apt to rise and fall with thei- ~overning centers hey also are quiet at the 1,- ment. Otherwise there is nothing in local trade call- ing for especial mention —— Before the big intercollegiate football game on Thanksgiving day the Berkeley boys declared that they intended to rip things up. They seem to have succeeded, but, in the loss of the game, not as they anticipated are cor It is officially announced that the battleship Ken- tucky has made a very deep impression upon the Sul- tan of Turkey. He should have a care that it does not make a deeper impression upon some of the cities of his peoplé The allied powers, it is announced, intend to modify their demands upon China. It is always wise when you cannot get what you want to accept gracefully what you can. as unseason- | CONGRESS AND ITS WORK. CONGRESS assembles to-day for the short ses- | | '1 sion with an amount of work before it which it can hardly hope to complete. Between now {and March 4, when the session closes, the holidays !are to intervene, so that there will be hardly more than sixty working days for the transaction of busi- ness: and so numerous are the important measures before the two houses it is fairly certain that some of | them will have to be postponed to the next session. | The routine appropriation bills will have to be passed, and the country also expects this winter a river and harbor bill, carrying large appropriations. Another matter of urgency is the army bill, for our present military establishment terminates by law on July 1, and unless a new law be enacted the army will on that date shrink to very narrow limits. Finally | Congress is expected this winter to pass a Congres- ;(xr\“al apportionment bill, so that the various State | Legislatures may know how many districts they are to establish in apportioning their States. Our dispatches from Washington are to the effect that the Republ of passing all desirable measures at this session, will deal first with measures of imperative urgency and | leave for future consideration those which are mot | absolutely necessary. It thus becomes a matter of interest to the public to learn as early as possible what issues are to be taken up and what are to be post- poned. It is quite probable the country may differ | from Congress as to the comparative importance of various measures, and, therefore, pressure may have to be exerted by the press and by boards of trade and i similar organizations urging action upon measures which might otherwise be set aside. Among the important issues of the time are the re- | duction of the war tax, the merchant marine bill, the Nicaragua canal bill and an immigration restriction bill. The canal bill and the shipping bill are now before the Senate. The day and hour when the Sen- ate is to take up the canal bill is, in fact, already fixed by action taken at the last session; and it has been | announced that Senator Frye intends to call up the shipping bill as unfinished business. Those two meas- ures; therefore, are in good positions, and unless some unfortunate conflict arises between their supporters we may reasonably expect the passage of both. Where the session is so short and the number of | important measures so great the minor: good deal of power, for by making a will have a ight on every | measure that arises the business of Congress may be delayed despite all the efforts of the majority to hasten it. Consequently the attitude of the Demo crats toward the leading measures of the session is a matter of great public interest. Should they under- take a determined obstructive policy in opposition to every part of the programme of progress they will undoubtedly be able to defeat much of it. To their action, therefore, close attention should be given, so that the public may have a clear understanding of Democratic responsibility for the defeat or postpone- | ment of any important measure. It is going to be a crowded and a busy session. The river and harbor bill alone will take up much time, for it is expected to provide larger appropriations than ever before in our history. The Republican eering committees will have to exercise a great deal of skill §f they succeed in carrying through even the In fact some Republican leaders, including Senator Frye, are quoted as saying an extra session is inevitable. We need not, however. face that fear just yet. The Democratic opposition is composed mostly of Southern men, and they are likely | to be on their good behavior at thi measures we have named session for fear the Congressional apportionment may be made upon the basis of voters, and not of population. There is such | a thing as making the country tired of too much | South in Congress, and consequently there may be no violent opposition to needed measures. THE DEAD Y CANE RUSH. i) and freshman classes znd by the wide publicity given | to more or less exaggerated accounts of it, President | Prichett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lhas issued a statement concerning the accident, to- | gether with an announcement of the policy of the in- stitute in dealing with such sports. In describing the contest and the accident the presi- dent says: “The cane, which is a strong oak stick about four feet long, with a knob at each end, was placed in the custody of the freshmen. Six or eight of the strongest men in the class grasped it firmly. Around these a small circle of the most athletic fresh- OVED by the dreadful accident which resulted in the death of a student of that institution at the recent cane rush between the sophomore | | | til perhaps 150 had been formed into a compact cir- | cular mass. Outside of this guard, formed to defend | the cane, forty or fifty freshmen operated in detached wings to interfere with the sophomores in their at- k. These latter formed at the other end of the | grounds in two flying wedges which simultaneously | lung themselves upon the mass of freshmen in the | effort to break up their formation and reach the cane. an leaders, realizing the impossibility | | | | These plans will be pushed to completion as rapidly as the resources of the institute will admit.” It will be well for the faculty and the students of other American colleges to study with care the les- son which the Institute of Technology has learned in this respect, and to follow the example the institute is about to set in devising safér and better methods of athletic sports and rivalries. THE INDOMITABLE BOERS. REAT BRITAIN has found in the Transvaal G a foe as tireless and as fearless as the guerrillas of Spain, that in the early years of this century wore out the strength and mocked at the strategy of the armies and the generals of the great Napoleon The Boers have surrendered their cities and their farms; they have left their wives and their children to the invader, but their arms and their horses they have kept, and by means of them are harassing the British land all who favor the British from one end of the | and you encounter opposition country to the other. The Westminster Gazette recently published a map marked so as to show places where the Boers have made attacks since the first week in October, and the map was spotted all over. Not a single important section in the Transvaal or Orange River colony is free from disturbance. In commenting upon the showing made by the map the Gazette says: Take the belt of country stretching from Mateking to Barberton—some 3% miles as the crow flies—and note how every important place, and many others besides, within that belt is a center of disturbance—Ottoshoop, Lichtenburg, Rustenburg, Krugersdorp., Johannesburg, Middelburg, Belfast. Or, again, take another belt of country from Barberton Philippolis In the southwest of the Orange River Coldny, some 500 miles in length, at Carolina, Ermelo, Bethel, Standerton, Platrand (where the railway was re- cently cut), Vrede, Reitz, Harrismith, Ficksburg (held by the Boers), Ladybrand, Wepener, Dewetsdorp, Jagersfon- tein. Take yet another line from Vryburg, in Cape Col- ony—midway between Kimberley and Mafeking—to Vry- held, in the southeast of the Transvaal, a distance of nearly 400 miles, and you have fighting going on at Bloemhof, Hoovstad, Bothaville, Kroonstad, Venters- burg, Senekal, Bethlehem, in the hilly triangle formed by Vrede and Harrismith, fn the ~ Drakensberg . Utrecht and Vryheid. A glance at the line of raflway from the Orange River to Pretoria, and thence to Komati Poort in the far East, and from Volkarust in the northern apex of Natal to Johannesburg and Potchef- stroom, will show how our lines of communication are daily threatened by the enemy. To crush an opposition of that kind by military force it will be necessary to resort to what has become known as Weylerism. From that the British naturally shrink. A demand has arisen in London as well as in Cape Town for a resort to statesmanship instead of war, One of the difficulties in the way of conciliation is that as soon as a Boer becomes conciliated and settles down on his farm the guerrillas raid his place and kill him as a traitor. The problem is a difficult one, but it is certain the solution of it is not to be found in Weylerism. Such tactics have been tried in many lands and many ages, and always they have failed. The indomitable Boers are not to be conquered by anything Kitchener can do. If Great Britain have a single wise statesman in her councils now is the time for her to listen to him. O Greater” Their charter was one of those improved schemes for municipal govern- ment and was regarded as up-to-date in cut and fit. Equipped with this new pylactery, the people pro- ceeded to stretch it over contiguous territory and an- nexed outlying spaces. Having become “Greater Oakland” the good city sat down to enjoy the era of expansion, only to have her dream inter- rupted by importunate demands from her new posses- for street lights, police, schoolhouses, street pavements, sewers and all the other muniments, con- veniences, necessities and luxuries which go with “Greater” cities. Just then the unpleasant discovery was made that the taxable property annexed does not nearly yield the additional cost of watching and tending it, and the result has been a cramped exchequer and an altogether unsatisfactory fiscal condition. As is too often the case in the presence of difficulties, the mem- bers of the city government have given to strife the time they owed to business, and an administration which went in nearly two years ago really desirous of doing its duty is approaching the close of its term with a record for inefficient honesty only. It is not for us to gird at Oakland, but really the soil is newer and GREAT.R CIiIES. UR neighbors in Oakland are the vicfiims of a fever. various sions | the field better there than in San Francisco for bene- men was formed with hands clasped and facing out- | ward. Concentric circles of freshmen were added un- | ncial administration. This port needs more room for transaction of business that comes and goes by water. Oakland has two miles of water front that offers splen- did opportunities. It 1s on the harbor which the Fed- eral Government has been creating and improving since so long ago that its beginning has almost passed out of history into tradition. If the city government would awake from some of its dreams of “Greater Oakland” and “Oakland City and County” and do something to promote the speedy occupation of that water front by deep water trade it would relieve the in- | creasing pressure on the whatf facilities of San Fran- | cisco and do something that would bring more than | map greatness to Oakland herself. | After the first three minutes all that one could dis- | ‘tingmsh was one mass of struggiing students. At the end of fifteen minutes a pistol shot gave the signal ‘ for a cessation of the struggle; the number of | hands on the cane was counted and the class to which Mhe larger number belonged was declared winner. | Young Moore was an unusually strong fellow. For | this reason, and on account of his interest in the cane | rush, he was chosen as one of those to hold the cane. 1At some time during the struggle he was caught in such a way as to receive a powerful wrench, which, as the autopsy showed, dislocated his neck. His death | was probably instantaneous. These, so far as I have | been able to learn them, are the facts.” | Commenting upon the subject the president says | there are two objections to the cane rush as practiced |at the institute either of which is sufficient to banish ir from college sports. In the first place, it is not a | : | game of skill and cannot be plaved under definite | rules; in the second place, when carried on in an in- 400 or 500 students in the fray the danger of acci- | dents is too great to be tolerated. For those reasons that form of contest will be prohibited at the institute hereafter. The president adds that the “institute committee,” | acting in connection with a committee of the sta- dents, is now engaged in devising some other form of centest for trials of strength between the freshman and sophomore classes. What form of contest will be decided upon he is not at this time able to say; but he announces in conclusion: “Plans have been for some time under consideration in the institute for the establishment of a system of physical culture which should assist in the upbuilding of the health of the general body of students rather than in the development of expensive and time-consuming athletic contests, and which may help a student of serious purpose to decide what athletic contests he | mav enter without injury to health or to scholarship. stitution where the classes are so large as to involve | This city has no commercial jealousies against Oakland. We feel the spirit of partnership in her progress and prosperity and desire to see the members of her government quit bickering and do business. d The location of Oakland is‘one of the finest in the world. It seems to an unprejudiced, non-resident and observing friend that if ehe would pool her issues and strike for the full exploiting of her capacities as a residence and a commercial city all things would be added unto her. This means parks and a harbor, The rebuke of a friend is kind, but this is not even a rebuke—it is an amicable observation. The Call acknowledges gratefully the kindness of Oakland’s people, and feels that it is minding its own business when it ventures to advise them along the lines for the best development of the many capacities of their | city. James Taylor Rogers should congratulate himself that in his life he is able to teach a moral lesson preg- nant with meaning. The penalty of beginning life all over again in the dread solitudes of the frozen north for an offense against the dead is severe enough to impress its moral. Our Mexican friends appear to be contributing al- together too much to the gayety of nations. Our southern neighbors, who persist in arresting Ameri- can trainmen, with or without cause, may discover that we have rather an emphatic way of treating such a joke. The Board of Public Works has been arraigned again for violating the municipal laws established by the charter. The board seems to be inspired by a notion that it has a special dispensation to do as it pleases. There was no feature of the horrible Thanksgiving day disaster more deeply pathetic than that which has made the loss of life the death of young lives, of boys in whom the hope of many stricken families was centered. : SOCIET HAVE not the slightest doubt that the presents the new Vanderbilt baby found to welcome it into this world of wealth are far beyond my limited powers of description, but of this I am certain—none were dainter than the one sent from here by Mrs. Blair, the old friend of the motHer of the wonderful girl baby. Mrs. Blair's gift was a pillow slip made of Irish linen and finer than a cobweb. It is all hand embrotdered and the work on it is so fine that it looks as though it had been done by magic hands. I understand that it is on the Blair pillow that the Vanderbilt baby will repose ~on her christening day. . woman in this town. She lost a magnifi- cent pin valued at $1000 at the opera and carly the next morning—while traces of | tears yet remained on her face—she had it returned to her with the compliments of the honest finder. ‘When Mrs. Roos discovered the loss of her pin she was just preparing to step into her carriage. With her husband | she returned at once to -the auditorium, and while Mr. Roos furnished a match illumination, Mrs. Roos and the theater attaches searched diligently under each seat. But to no avail. Then the theater was swept up, but still no pin, and so the lady went disconsolately home to weep over the loss of her jewel. Maybe though she was not glad when the next morning a messenger brought a tiny box, and within, nestling in a cover of tissue paper, she saw her pin sparkling. The finder's name, I believe, was Mrs, Pike, and I understand that the vase, with its wealth of costly blossoms, that went back with Mrs. Roos' grateful thanks, cost the loser iufil $100. g e Ny Every one of the pretty students at the Girls' High School is madly in love. Of course, that is nothing strange or won- derful, but they are all worshiping the same man, and that is where my tale comes in. On Monday last ex-Minister to Siam Barrett visited the school and spoke to the pupils. “How shall 1 address the students?" said the ex-diplomat to Principal Brooks as he stood in the auditorlum facing a bewitching bunch of blooming girls. “Shall I call them young ladies?" “Call them girls,” said Brooks. ““Very well,” said Barrett, “but I really ‘would like to call them sweethearts.” And that is how it came about and that is the simple fashion in which Barrett with one fell swoop captured several hun- dred palpitating girlish hearts. D Did you ever see such gorgeous gems as Mrs. Flood has been showing at the opera? Necklaces and flashing pins and wondrous tlaras! Goodness me, she has made me blink each time I looked on her Y . I consider that Mre. Roos is the luckiest S b i e (Rl LS RGBT J. MRS. BLAIR'S GIFT BY SALLY SHARP. * MISS PEARL LADD SABIN, MOST STUNNING OF THEH DEBUTANTES. (Photo by Taber.) - -+ blazing self. Speaking of Mrs. Flood re- calls to me that if I would pose as an In. fallible I-told-you-so girl. 1 must right here predict that when Mrs. Flood's mag- nificent Broadway mansion is completed, she will be the most sought after matron in the swell set and that as a hostess San Francisco will not know her equal. Laura McKinstry and Mrs. Flood have become the firmest of friends and that is the most assuring thing to those who have not the pleasure of the young ma- tron's acquaintance. Laura is clever, quite the cleverest girl I know, and only a clever and original thinker could win her friendship. I live in anticipation of TO VANDERBILT BABY entertainments at which the Mrs. Flood will preside. What's the matter with no‘th. lm: P old Bohemian Club? It's b il up to its name or its traditions. » has been full of artists—grand opera &% tists—and not a one has seen the O . blink in truly owl fashion. The ro"‘:'d have been dull and dark and dreary - really we girls are almost ccmpelledB - believe that there are no longer any B00 hemians In the club—just old fogles. h. then we had the right to expect 80 muci We've been fed on flashy tales of the days when Patti warbled at the Grand the red room was a serles of scenes substantial splendor by night and revelry by dawn. That is all of the past. though, and real- Iy hard on us girls. What traditions are we going to hand down to our children? is so joily that we are almost reconcilel to the present quiet condition of affairs and feel grateful to Ned and entertan hopes for the future. . Thers s nothing small sbout the Fri- Drown and Olive Holl to lead at the opening cotillon which takes place on Friday evening and Bur- bank Somers and Percy King, lucky fei- lows, will assist them in their pleasant come and clubs may go. nightly always manages to have the tlest girls on its staff and where girls are—well, you don’t have to very far for the boys. i I don’t belleve there ever was & love match than that of Ludle Ji and Dr. Rothschild and I dow't there ever was a sadder wedding. were heavy hearts and eyes with tears and an attempt at was more depressing than a funersl the presence of the beloved bride’s ness the bereaved family could mot the memory of their dearly loved from them, and pretend as their laughter sounded hollow. boys sang the dear old songs—the songs the bonnie young bride loves—I rush from the room: I was afrald was going to be a scene. But not. Mrs. Jackson's composure velous and Mrs. Small, who was vous that she scarce could aged to smile on till the end. Jackson's all love Lucie! How and pray that she may be happy. In spite of the fact that no in were issued for the wedding presents galore. e doctor's ft to his handsome young bride wes & ow knot of brilllants topped with splendid pear-shaped pear) s § g § pfid il : {; il i WORLD'S NAVAL NEWS There is $15,000,000 accredited to the Brit- ish navy since 1897 for shipbuilding pur- poses which still remains unexpended. fIRE Among the harbor improvements being made at Vladivostok are two dry-docks 700 feet in length, which are nearing com- pletion. Two shipyards are also being laid out for buflding vessels up to 3000 tons. . The British Admiralty will shortly in- vite bids for the delivery of one million tons of Welsh coal at depots and perlods of its kind in the navy, the plan having hitherto been to contract for smaller lots as required. b Thornyeroft has recelved orders for two torpedo-boat destroyers of 31 knots speed for Japan. The six boats recently com- pleted for the same Government have ar- rived at their destination, making the trip from Aden to Colombo. Ceylon, a dis- tance of 2093 miles, without recoaling. * % e The German Government is reported to be negotiating with an Italian syndicate of shipbuilders to undertake the construc- tion of three battleships and two cruisers. The reason assigned is that the German yards are unable to handle more work than they have already contracted for, and the Kaiser is in a hurry to get a big navy. ¢ il Commodore Perry's flagship Niagara, which lies on the bottom of the lake north of the harbor of Erie is plainly visible when the water 1s clear, and the recent inspection of the harbor and the recital, to the Government representatives on that duty, of Perry’s fight and victory has aroused local Interest which may result in a bill being presented to Congress pro- viding for the recovery of the Niagara and preservation of the old historical hulk. L The British turret-ship Thunderer has been rather unlucky. In July, 1876, a boll- er explosion involved the loss of several lives and in 1879 one of her turret guns burst, killing eleven officers and men and wounding thirty-five of the crew. The latest accident, when the shells exploded in the guns, fortunately without injury to. any one, appears to have been more serlous to the guns than was at first be- lleved. for the guns are to be removed, to be relined or to make way for new ord- nance. It has puzzled the British Admiralty why it is that the French Messagiere Maritime Company has apparently no trouble with the Belleville boilers used in a number of its steamers, while in the British navy the same boiler is caus- ing no end of trouble and alarm. The reason for this immunity from break- downs is that the French company has spare bollers and parts kept at its home port for every ship, and after each voyage about three bollers are lifted out and re- placed with reserve bollers. Evidently the French company has a system which the British and other navies are lacking. « e e . The Turkish battleship Mahmoudich was ordered last month to proceed to Ge- noa, there to be reconstructed, but her departure has been Indefinitely postponed. It was discovered when everything was supposed to be ready and steam was up that the boilers could only work up to five pounds pressure, entirely inadequate to make the ship manageable. Seven oth- er vessels also Intended to be repaired at enoa are detained on account of the dls- covery of serious defects and it is esti- mated that their departure will be delay- ed at least four months. The entire Turk- ish navy in its present condition is evi- dently not & match for the solitary Amer- ican battleship Kentucky. . e . The coal consumed on board one of the modern war vessels does not all go to- ward propelling the ship. In the Ameri- can navy about 68 per cent is used for propulsion and 34 per cent is expended for auxillary purposes, such as for blowers, distiiling pumps, lighting, heating, cook- ing and for steamboats. In estimating the number of knots a vessel is able to make with a given quantity of coal in the bunk- ers the distance is approximately reduced one-third through the numerous other uses of the coal supply. The British cruiser Diadem consumes about six tons daily in running the first four auxiliaries mentioned and the Japanese battleship Shikishima uses five tons daily. — e A GAY SEASON Is promised at Hotel del ., Coronado, Cal., this winter with a Jolly houseful, an expert golf tournament, meet. ing of fleld trials ciub, hunting, fishing, boat- ing, dancing, ete prescribed. This will be the largest order | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. VENEZUELA TROUBLE-J. BE. C, Palo Alto, Cal. The trouble between the United States and Great Britain in regard to the boundary line of Venezuela was settled by compromise October 3, 1599. OF AGE—B., City. A man who becomes 21 years of age on the day preceding an | election is entitled to vote at that election. Parsons on Contract,” a standard au- thority, says: “A person is of full age at the hvginnm; of the last day of his twen- | ty-first year.” THE LANCERS—L. W. 8, City. If you will go to a book seller you can obtain a book that will give you the figures of the lancers and many other dances at a very small cost—10 or 15 cents. This depart- ment cannot publish the figures of a dance so generally known as the lancers. THE VESUVIUS—S., City. The dyna- mite cruiser Vesuvius fn March, 1568, was a part of the flying squadron. When oft Santiago de Cuba the guns or tubes of the vessel were turn shoreward and they did considerable damage. At the first fire the Spanish general Joral and several officers were killed. DEMOCRATIC MANAGER—C. H., Si- erra City. The highest officer who man- aged the Democratic Presidential cam- paign of the current year was the chair- man of the National Committes, Senator Jones. The meeting at which the Exam- iner represented Willle Hearst as present, when in fact he was not there, was a meeting of clubs in Indianapolis. SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS—| G. J. J., City. If you will write to the director of the Lick School of Mechanical Arts or to the director of the Wilmerding | School you will be furnished a circular | of information that will give you all the | desired information in regard to qualifi- cations for admission. e time that is required to learn the machinist’s trade in | such a school depends upon the ability of the individual. LETTER CARRIER—C. F. F., City. | Under the new postdl regulations, the working hours of a letter carrier are eight hours per day or forty-eight hours in six days. If after working eight hours he has not distributed all his mail matter, he may work longer to accomplish that end, but such overtime has to be deducted from other days, so that he shall nut work more than the forty-eight hours. If he has not distributed all matter at the end of eight hours, and does not care to work overtime, he has to return all undistrib- uted matter to the office from which he seceived it. CUSTOM-HOUSE SERVICE—A Reader, Grass Valley. In the Custom-house ser- vice the only positions exempt from the civil service rules are one cashier in each customs district; one chief or principal deputy or assistant collector in each cus- toms district: one principal deputy col- lector at each suo-port or station. Thers are three grades of examination for all positions (except those named) above un- classified laborers. Applicants are ex- amined as to thelr relative capacity and fitness. The examination in the first grad is for deputy office clerk, male or female, day inspector an pler, includes arithmetic, spelling, letter writing, penmanship, copying from plai copy, copying from rvug”dnn‘ -.ndpgm: ng graphy; the second grade, for assistant weigher and messenger, a: the third grade for watchman, night inspector, opener and packer, inspectress, foreman, anitor, attendant, porter and classified aborer is the same as for the first grade, with the exception of copying from rough draft and geography. e pay of day in- spector is $3 and $4 per day, tor 33 per nignt, sam; assistant weigher, $1 desiring to apply for write for an application retary of the iocal board of examiners at the Custom-house in which they desire employment. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Hetty (as they leave the church)—Mam- ma, w‘y do they have tho: BRI o an e e (e: —Tt" - a pirds of pray, of Course, stuplareTE Jinks—Spuds must have an enormous in- ?qun—‘wh:v do you think so? He runs an automo! camera at the same time Dareoit night Inspec- ler, examiner and a year Persons sitlons should lank to the sec- and a Free Schoolmaster—Now, er—Now, Mu; , ns Minor, what were thougits th passe through Sir Isaac Newton's mind whe& the apple fell on his head? - Muggins—I expect he wuz mtlm—m. dwtul glad 1t anh-m." sald replied the latter, In- " Tol 4 ground.” —Pittsburg was mi Professor 5 and E%t me." W a1a he say?” 1d_me Say?: | to stop making a fool K selt.”—Chicago Chironicie® ® 10! of ™Y | time of the accident was | in Sovering him up. ng PERSONAL N[EN. TION. J. M. Peart of College City i» at the Grand. Judge Hart of Sacramento Is at the Grand. Thomas Hill has returned from Wawona | and is at the Palace. W. G. Isaacs of the United States Navy {1s at the California. Mark R. Plaisted, a Fresno newspaper man, is at the California. A. L. Eliot, who is interested in Los An- geles ofl, is at the Grand. State Senator J. C. Sims of Santa Rosa is In town. He is at the Lick. 8. P. Wible, prominent in the Kern County fruit industry and also an ofl man, is at the Lick. R. W. Poindexter, well known in con- nection with his Los Angeles ofl ventures, is registered at the Grand. Frank Short, a well-known attorney of Fresno, accompanied by his wife, is spend- ing a few days at the Palace. Thomas Couch, a mining man of Mon- | tana and who aiso controls large interests | in this State, is a guest at the California. —_———— The Burro Was Killed. According to a report received the other day at the general offices of the Mexican Raiiway, a rather unusual dent happened on , while the ex- press was running into Vera Cruz. About seven miles from the city, when the train was running at a high rate of speed, the engineer, upon rounding a curve, saw a man riding a burro on the track but a | few yards in front of the efdgine. The en- gine struck the man and burro, throwing them into the air. Upon the arrival of the train at Vera Cruz it was that the man who was rwm;lh‘bwmng: fi!fie Dlalfor‘m I?qut on the sh engines. He unhurt, very intoxicated e;x:mn. his experience evidently not ha Tesul The burro was dis- covered I beside the track the next morning literally cut to pleces.—] Herald. Poplar boxes for etching. Townsend's. * Chotce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* t but a * Towngend’s California glace frutts, e a und, in fire-etched boxes or bas- ets. 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