The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1900. —_——-— e ——— The Sebase Call MONDAY..........e..rr-...DECEMBER 17, 190 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER' OFFICE...ce00 "l‘fll‘ph-ne Press 201 FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. Telep! Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS,....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one yeas $6.0 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § month: L DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 month: 1.60 DAILY CALL—By Single Month, 50 SUNDAY CALL, Onve Year. 1.50 WEEELY CALL, One Year. 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to recelve subseriptions. Sample coples wili be forwcrded when requested. Mafl eubscribers in ordering change of address should be yarticclar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o meure & prompt apd correct compliance with thei * request. CAKLAND OFFICE.. ©. GEORGE KROGNESS. Menager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Loog Distance Telephone “Central 2615.") ...1118 Broadway NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON........ vees2..Herald Sqnare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ..30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, f1° Union Square: Surray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINCTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—2 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open unti] $:39 o'clock. 300 Hayes, upen untfl 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin. open until $:30 o'clock. 1561 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market. corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 109 V ia. open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cur- ner Twerty-second and Kentucky. open until 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. e. Grand Opera-house—"A Tale of Two Cit —*"Madame Butterfly ““The Duke's Jester.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and vening. Fischer' s—Vaudeville. Tanforan Park—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Edward S. Spear & Co.—Thursday, Friday and Satur- k a. m., at §1-38 Sutter street, Books. e TRADE CF A HOLIDAY CHARACTER. liday character. It is still better in the West 2d on the Pacific Coast than in the densely sections along the Atlantic seaboard. At e time country collections are everywhere re- good and there has been a fair increase in the trade. The failures for the week were 240, + 218 for the cortesponding week last year, and fell heavily in New York that city in somewhat, particularly in textile ng of importance new in the leading the English y selling cn the New York Cotton Ex- e and prices declined. Woel remains quiet ve been easy for some time. Provisions have more tendency to fluctuate of late, but were t quieter at the close, with not much varia- ss in cotton rices. er hetter, stocks at central points being less 1 more manageable. Quotations, however, change from day to ddy. re was more activity in Wall street and toward f the week the feeling changed from de- the hardening of the money market to on the banks, which had been cutting was more than off: of over $4.000,000 from some mysterious us reserves, ce. buying demand set i the t restoring confidence. It was cory that this influx of funds was due to the im- g payment of the Standard Oil dividend, which e of the week was the issuance of a state- 1e Bureau of Statistics showing that our ex- ports to Germany had increased about $27,000,000, or sbout 20 per cent, during the first ten months of the calendar year, while our imports from that country is especially gratifying, as it had been feared that German restrictions on our exports might cause a de- | crease in our business with that nation. The local situation shows very little change. Timely | s continue to facilitate farm work and inspire the rcial community with confidence. Collections least average and there is plenty of money for solvent borrowers at regular rates. In fact, the diffi- culty is often to find the borrower, and there are larga blocks of capital available on first-class security. Produce and merchandise show little variation. ctuations in the latter are infrequent and narrow, usual during the closing weeks of the year. The kets will probably grow duller from now until the beginning of the new year, when a gradual improve- ment may be looked for. CRETAN EXPLORATIONS. /V\R. LOUIS DYER of Oxford, who recently sity of California, is now assisting in the work of came from England to deliver the Phebe raising funds to carry on the Cretan explorations in T the town of Knossos and the Dictacan Cave of Zeus. ‘ As a good deal of interest was shown in this work by the persons who heard Mr. Dyer’s lectures at Berkeley he has naturally turned to us for contribu- tions to the fund. It appears the demand for contribu- tions in Great Britain for various war funds and:the ! Indian famine fund has made it difficult to obtain there the sums needed for prosecuting the explorations, and it is for that reason American help is asked. The work, of course, interests archaeologists of all coun- tries and President Wheeler of the University of Cali- fornia has indorsed the réquest of Mr. Dyer by the statement: “The Cretan exploration fund is a cause worthy of ali honor ard respect.” Any contributions to the fund sent to Mr. Louis Dyer, care of the Macmillan Company, New York, will be highly ap- precizted. Once more we remind you that California goods ‘or California buyers is the proper motto for the holi- day season or any other season. INESS all over the country continues of a | market | Wheat continues unsettled, but the tone ! ancy and confidence, as the drain of the | This eased things off at once and an active | Hearst lecturss in archaeology at the Univer- | CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. HRISTMAS shopping, which has been briskly C skirmishing through the city ever since Thanks- giving, will begin in earnest to-day. It will be a week of joyous bustle and merry business. There will be a rush all along the streets, and in the stores there will be jostling and crowding, but there will be no ill temper in the crowds, for all will be glad | with the spirit of the happy season. There are three rules to be observed in the rush of the shopping: First, remember the poor; second, pat- ronize home industries, scatter the beautiful products of California far and wide through the East: third, do your shopping early and avoid the rush of the closing days. Few. words will be needed to remind Californians to set apart some portion of the Christmas funds for | the benefit of the poor. We have very little of that dire poverty found in the older States of the Union and among the peoples of Europe. Compared with those of other lands the desolate homes in California are few and far between. It will be, therefore, an easy task for us to provide a merry Christinas for all so far | as merriment can be furnished by human liberality. | Let each citizen who has been blessed with fair for- tune give a little for the orphans and the poor; and { Christmas day will bring joy to every home in the State. 3 To patronize home industries is the wisdom of patriotic citizens. In some respects that is even better than charity, for it encourages self help and thrift and builds up industries that, growing from more to more, will eventually give employment to thousands and advance our people in all lines of artistic en- deavor. There is no necessity for us to go to France or Germany or even to the Eastern States of our own country for Christmas goods. California with her manifold resources lacks nothing that the heart can | desire in the v of luxury or beauty. The elements of all good things are here and all that we need to do is to encourage those of our neighbors who have the taste, the talent, the skill and the energy to work the raw material up into the forms that are neces- sary to enjoyment. In all the shopping of the week. therefore, remember that where other things are equal California goods should have the preference when you come to make your purchases. Finally, do your shopping as early in the week and as early in the day as possible. The brilliant display of beautiful things in the shop windows and the won- derful array of stocks advertised in The Call show that the stores for this week will be as attractive as any expositions ever held. The temptation to delay purchasing and to wander from store to store in | search of princely gifts at petty prices will be great: but that temptation must be put away. Get your busi- ness done promptiy. The first comer gets first choice. That which pleases you to-day may be sold to-mor- | row. If you wait to the last you will have to make | your selections in the confusion of a great hurry, but | now you can use your leisure and choose wisely. All persons who can do their shopping in the early part of the day should do so. That is one of the Christian courtesies of the Christmas season. . Bear in mind that at the close of day all the host of tired workers are on their way home, and that there is barely sufficient streetcar accommodation for their needs. Therefore all who can get home before the 6 o'clock rush should do so. The evenings should be left as far as possible to working men and working women, who, being employed all day, have no other | time in which to do their shopping. Let us make way for one another. Something of a moral wrong is committed when persons who can do their shopping early just as well as not postpone it and then crowd others who have only the evenings at their disposal. It is to be one of the happiest Christmases this country has known for many years. There is no rea- son why it should be marred in any way. It will be pleasant in every respect for all who keep these rules: Remember the poor, patronize home industries, and shop early. The spirit of reform is in the air. Even the barbers are preparing for presentation to the Legislature a | bill which will force members of their crait to know their business bcf_orc they practice upon an unoffend- ing public. = POPULAR MAJORITIES. HE full vote of the States, cast at the November election, is counted. The totals of States, and of the Union, are interesting; but the details, the | county and local votes, are surprising. In the North- ern States the reversal of partisan attachment by | counties and communities is marvelous. The Southern Illinois counties, the Egypt of that State, which were Democratic from territorial days until 1896, emphasized this year their reversal of four | years ago. Then for the first time they gave Repub- lican majorities, but now it was expected that they would return to their moorings. It was believed that | they were influenced in Bryan's first campaign by the prestige of General Palmer, to whom they had always manifested the same good feeling they had toward Douglas. But Palmer was dead before this year's clection and it was expected that with his spell off them they would agam follow the Democratic name and enter the Bryan camp. But they did not. Wherever, in other Northern States, Bryan had a lccal majority it was greatly less than the former party vote. The Democratic decrease and Republicar increase in the vote are more evenly distributed over the States than in 1896, showing a more general con- viction that Bryan is not to be trusted in the Presi- dency, now or ever. Of course, a considerable per- centage of the changes are permanent additions to th2 Republican party, due to conversion to its public poli- cies and its principles. Other changes were made with a view of killing Bryanism in the hope of a resurrec- tion of the old Democratic party. So there existed for a long time the “Silver Gray Whigs,” who hoped that the party of Clay and Webster would reappear, though | they knew not in what form it would come nor in what body it would be clothed. No man can predict in what form an opposition may appear nor the point |in the political horizon at which it will rise. The popular vote is a final verdict on the Bryan | idea, against its leaders and in condemnation of all its works. The conditions this year seemed more favo:- able than ever for the success of that idea, but it failed—failed worse in its year of strength than in that of its weakness. President McKinley received the largest popular plurality ever given to a candidate for the Presidency. In 1860 Mr. Lincoln had a popular | plurality over Douglas of 491,195, and in 1864 over | McClellan of 407,342 ¥ | Since the war period the pluralities have been as follows: ge The verdict is the most decisive ever rendered by the American people =nd should scttle for all tiwc the £ novelties which appeared in the platforms of Chicago and Kansas City. If conditions were equalized with the Grant cam- paign of 1872 it would appear that Bryan has been tv.vice beaten by a larger plurality than any other can- didate of a great party since the beginning of the Government. ScNTIMENRT In 1872 the restrictions on the ballot in Missouri and other Southern States outlawed from the polls hundreds of thousands of votes that would have been cast against Grant, to the reduction of his popular plurality. Had those votes been cast it would have been less than McKinley's. Students of American politics will find much room for useful study of this situation. No party in our history has reached such a high mark of popular ap- proval as the Republican party. This was attained in the face of a fusion and combination of all its op- ponents. Whence is to come the power that can over- throw it? A MATTER OF N interesting question, in which sentimental /E\ considerations are strong on one side and jus- tice and precedent are equally strong on the other, is now before the country for discussion. A bill is before the House authorizing the appointment of Congressman Boutelle to the position of captain on ! the retired list of the navy, and the question is | whether the passage of the measure would be a com- | mendable act of public gratitude or a legisl®ive out- rage. & The facts are these: Boutelle, after a short service in the navy, left it nearly thirty-five years ago and de- voted himself to politics. His career as a member of the House of Representatives has been distinguished and useful to his constituents and to the nation. Re- cently his health broke down and his mind failed. He has no private income. His constituents re-elected ‘him to Congress notwithstanding the fact that his | mental state is such as to leave little hope that he will | ever be able to take his seat. It is desired by his ;friends that a pension be provided for him and they | have hit upon the scheme of placing him on the list | of retired captains of the navy for that purpose. | The sentimental arguments in favor of the plan are apparent. Here is a statesman who in his devotion to public duty has neglected to make any provision for | his old age. He is now suffering from an affliction that threatens to leave him helpless for the rest of his lli(c_ Why should not a rich and grateful nation pro- vide a pension for him? The arguments against the bill are not so attractive 1(0 the sympathies of the heart as are those in favor of it. They are the hard arguments of justice. A man who left the navy thirty-five years ago has no right | to claim equal privileges with those who have served | the nation at sea during all that time. He has had a | chance to provide for his private fortune while they | have not; and it would be unfair to them if he should ! now be ranked among them as if he, like them, had | remained with the flag steadfastly and had no other | thought than the naval service. | There is another consideration. Why should a man | i‘hc pensioned for service in Congress? Our Congress- | they serve about six months. [n the years of the short | session they serve less than four months. Thus in two | years they do about ten months’ work and receive | 810,000, besides mileage and perquisites. On that | salary each of them can live and each can insure his {life ii he choose to do so. It would seem, therefore, | that no just claim can be made for 2 pcns“mn for Con- | gressional service under any consideration. E In fact, the practice of pensioning is growing apace | in this country and needs a little wholesale restraint. 1i we once begin pensioning ex-Congressmen there is no telling where we will stop. It appears well as- sured the Boutelle bill will pass and the country, in | remembrance of his service and in sympathy with his | great affliction, will doubtless approve the action: but | ail the same there will be a demand that Congress take notice the case is not to serve as a precedent. T ——ra— TO WEILCOME THE CENTURY. ROM our Eastern exchanges we learn that con- | siderable preparations are being made for the | celebration of the opening of the new century in almost all of the larger cities of that section of the country. It is recognized that the anniversary shouid ot be left to such celebration as comes at every New Year's day with a horn-blowing frolic. Something more should be done to mark the close of the most marvelous century of human history and the opening of one so promising 25 that which awaits us. In some of the Eastern cities there are to be fes- | tivals accompanied by street pageants. These we ia- fer will be something like the carnivals which hav: Lecome so common ir all parts of the country. others there is to be nothing of that kind, but in place of it a sort of public demonstration of rejoicing car- ried out upon a scale of greater dignity and magni- ficence than that of the annual celebration. In Baltimore, for example, we learn from the Amer- ican, the Retailers’ Association has come to the front with suggestions for the celebration, and while these include carnival features, they might be made cffec- tive without that form of parade. They include the ringing of all the bells in the city, a liberal display of bunting, the unfurling of Old Glory on every house- top, the general illumination of all public and com- mercial buildings, certain streets to be given to a car- nival parade, the furnishing of music by brass bands and such trade displays and transparencies as will be most fitting on the occasion, with addresses at appro- priate places by prominent speakers. i Some of these forms of marking the close of the century might be undertaken in San Francisco. It is too late to organize a carnival, and nobody desires one, but it is not too late to arrange for concerted ac- tion in street decoration and a general illumination by night. . The coming century is going to be a Pacific Ocean century. The greatest events of its course will occur in the struggle for supremacy on this ocean. San Francisco, therefore, should welcome it with more than ordinary rejoicing. AT TN & T AL AL T According to a Chicago paper that keeps a record of such things, there are about 10,000 murders committed in the United States every year. It has published a list of the number in each State for the last decade and credits, or discredits, California with 422 of them, being the largest number of any single State except New York, which had 512, and Texas, having 1021. It will be seen that we do not make in this country anything like as frequent use as we should of one of the best products of hemp. It looks as if we were going to have a good old California winter again with plenty of water in the lowlands for Venetian carnivals and plenty of snow in the mountains for toboggan slides, so let us all be The thing that troubles Kitchener is that whenever he has his men posted so as to head off a Boer, com- ‘mando the Boers walk up and capture the post and take the men along with them. h } | men are well paid. In the years of the long session | In! SOCIET T is all charity now with m‘uazou Christmastide approaching, uds and belles and matrons are working with might and main, so that those less fortunate than they may not feel that unfortunate fact on’ the blessed Christmas day. The first thought of the charitable has turned, naturally, to the soldiers. Colonel Girard was the first to set the kind ball a-rolling. He turned it in the direction of his boys in blue, and I stand ready to wager that the coming Christmas eve at the Presidio is going to be one of those events that help make history. 1 have never seen the girls take hold of anything as they have of this fete, that is going to make the boys happy who gave i their health to their country. The girls are working like Trojans. They have bunched themselves into committees; they have put all their spare money—and sometimes more than they can spare—into the purchase of useful gifts. They have gone around and asked their friends to help them be kind. And they have, with their own fair hands, been making warm and comfortable clothing for the poor, sick, brass-buttoned boys. On Christmas | eve they are going out to the Presidio to gather around a magnificent tree all ablaze with red, white and blue lights, and from its generous branches they are going to gather gifts for all the boys. After the tree has been stripped, they are going to break up into happy little bunches and bring a goodly share of this Iworld'- comforts to the bedside of each and every poor boy who is either too 1l or too weak to leave his cot. Then they are going to pass around refreshments and sing and recite and do anything that they can think of that Is calculated to make the soldiers giad. The ladies of the Presidio have joined hands with the belles in the splendid work and the ladies of the Red Cross, as was to be expected, are doing their share, too. Mrs. Kerwin, Colonel Girard's pretty, blue-eyed, dimpled daughter, lles awake nights, 1 am told, planning all sorts of things for the enjoyment of the soldiers. But she is not the only one at the post who is doing that. In the same boat with her are Mrs. Cochrane, Miss Davis, Miss Nanie Marshall, Mrs. Gardner of Fort Black, Miss Lally, Miss Brown, the Misses Marshall, Miss Anderson, Mrs. Et- tinge and Miss McFarland. I am sure no society girl can be doing more for the soldier boys' Christmas tree than Della Mills, and she has the assist- ance of Charlotte Cunningham, Mae Col- burn, Ella O'Connor, Tiny O'Connor, | Maud Mullins, Mrs, Linda H. Bryant, Charlotte Ellinwood, Leontine Blakeman, Marie Wilson, Mamie Polhemus and Polly Dunn. Of course Mrs. Merrill is the head and front of the Red Cross ladies and working with her are Mrs. F. G. Sanborn, Mrs. Louis Slos: rs. Smedberg, Mrs. Elder, Mrs. Martiny and Mrs. Madden. There is nothing selfish about this splendid band of workers and they are not only glad but anxious to let all who wili share with them the happiness of do- | tng good. Now, all who want to share in this joy can send donations of any kind |PERSONAL MENTION. | J. R. Foster, a Marysville hotel man, Is at the Lick. i F. C. Baucler, a Vacaville merchant, Is | at the Lick. | E. N. Tapscott, a merchant of Red Blufe, | |is at the Grand. Judge E. C. Hart of Sacramento is a | guest at the Grand. Thomas Delahanty, torney, i- at the Russ. C. H. Foote, a Kellogg merchant, | registered at the Russ. J. 8. Coulter, a Los Angeles oil man, {1s staying at the Russ. Charlés G. Webber, a St. Louls capital- | ist, is stopping at the Palace. Sam Mattheus, a Salinas cattle man, | is among the guests at the Russ. | N. §. Bates, a wealthy Chicago mer- | | chant, is registered at the Palace. | | Robert F. Harrison, an ofl man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. | Mr. and Mrs. Burton Darling of Wash- ington, D. C., are at the California. George B. Sperry, the flour manufactur- | er, 1s here from Stockton and has regis- | tered at the Occidental. ! A. Godbe, a banker of Ensenada, Mex., | and also United States Vice Consul at | that place, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Is a guest at the Grand. ! | ANDERSON To WIN. | a Gibsonville at-| is It i now certain Alden Anderson will | be re-elected Speaker of the Assembly | by the unanimous consent of the Repub- licans. As<emblyman Dunlap of San Joa- quin, who was prominently mentioned as a candidate for Speaker, has withdrawn from the race and has made the following explanation regarding the step taken: *I decided to withdraw from the | contest because I belfeve that harmony will be promoted by the election of Mr. | Anderson. His fairress and ability as a | presiding officer, as shown in the last reg- ular and In the extra session of the Leg- islature, entitle him to recognition. He is impartial and capable, and there is & strong sentment throughout the State in { favor cf electing him Speaker for a full term."-Solano County Courler. ANSWERS TO QUERIES CAPTAIN CLARK—W. M. W., Alame- da. Cal. Captain Charles E. Clark, who was in command of the Oregon, has not been on the active service list since he be- came {1l many months ago. THE RUSSIAN RIVER—A. S, City. The Russian River in Sonoma County is at the highest generally in January, after the second rains of the season. The time seldom varies from year to vear. MAMMOTH TANK RIOT—M. P., Oak- land, Cal. The riot between officers of Yuma County and some 200 Mexican I borers at Mammoth Tank, near San ego, occurred on the 25th of October, 1867. ACTION FOR WAGES—J. B,, City. In an action for wages in a Justice Court, should the plaintiff recover judgment, he is allowed his costs, but not his counsel fees. SOUTH AFRICA-R. B. and Mrs. L., City. The British flag waves in South Atrica over every past that is under Brit- ish rule and in t) olpouun on of the Brit- ish army. On the 1ith of 1900, date of your letter of in , the | a shallow depth contained a lot of sand, er flag was still waving in th Af. rica. . FINES IN THE ARMY—Ex-soldlers, City. The War Department did not issue an order to the effect that all fines im- posed for petty offenses on all soldiers who enlisted for the BSpanish-, g shouid be remitted. "Money heid. out of T8’ rflwmmn the be on an order of ar De- It mumofl&nfi do_that, and no_such act has l was during the latter part fl“nfinm- order t X court-1 that tried the ers not The order went out, none of ‘men ever got any of the money back. A GAY BEASON s promised at Hotel del o-uo-:u-.mn--u-m. ing, dancing, etc. > DRESSING AN XMAS TREE, & POR BOYS IN BLUE. BY SALLY SHARPF. . 4 * . MISS KATHERINE DILLON, ONE OF SOCIETY'S FAIR CHARITY WORKERS. Photo by Taber. + - Washington street and Van Ness avenue, and that lady will see that it reaches the Presidio in time to adorn the big Christmas tree. . . Work similar to that the belles and Red Cross ladies are doing for the soldiers the board of managers of the Armitage Or- phanage at San Mateo is getting ready to do for its charges. In the cause of the “orphans Mrs. Austin lubbs, Mrs. Henry T. Scott, Mrs. E. Duplessis Beylard and Mrs. W. B. Hooper are directing their best efforts and I am confident the or- phans’ Christmas tree will be a sight worth seeing. All who want to help make that tree a success can send their contri- butions to Mrs. Hooper at the Oceidental Hotel. Isabel Preston—I beg her pardon; I should say Mrs. Len D. Owens—planned to Mrs. Merrill at her home, corner of every one of those delightful details that e e e e e e e e WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS. Two German fourth-class cruisers, the Ariadne and the Amazon, have been | launched at Bremen and Kiel, respect- fvely. The Niclausse boller is receiving favor- able consideration in several navies, It is to be installed in the Japanese cruiser Yayeyama, built in 1889, - The French Minister of Marine will ask for a naval appropriation of 329,286,699 francs for the ensuing fiscal vear, an in- crease of 14,913,198 francs over the present allowance. | &gty The Superior Council in the Italian navy has approved of plans for several 12.000- ton battleships, to carry two 12.6-inch guns in turrets forward and aft, twelve 7.87-inch in side turrets, and twelve 12- pounders and twelve 6-pounders. sorecte * Three torpedo-boat destroyers bullding in France for the Russtan navy are 18 feet in length, 19 feet beam and of 312 tons | disnlacement on 19 feet draught. Their en- sines are to develop 4730 horsepower, to give a speed of 26 knots, and the cost of each boat is $257,000. The contract cost of the Stringham, built at Wilmington, Del., for the United States navy. is $236,000, and | the boat Is forty feet longer, twenty-eight | tons greater displacement and four knots more speed than the Russian boats. e . A curious and rather costly accident be- fell the Britisn crulser Spartiate on No-| vember 15 while on her commission trial. The ship in turning to retrace her course | ran into shoal water, of which fact the engineers were not notified. Some of the shaft-bearing showed signs of heating, and the engincers sucked up water to | flood the bearings. The trouble was made worse, however, for the water drawn from which speedily injured the bearings to a | fusing point through friction, and the trial | had to be terminated at once. . The Belleville boller appears to be doomed in the British navy, judging from continued mishaps to ships and unfavor- able reports as to the working of this type under service conditions. The cruiser | Hermes, only twelve months on the North Atlantic station, has been ordered to re- turn home owing to difficulties ex rienced with her boilers. Another crulser of the same class, the Hyacinth, con- sumed such an extraordinary quantity of coal during a recent trial as to necessitate her detention at the dockyard to ascertain the cpuses for the great discrepancy be- tween the latest and a former trial. 0k The new royal yacht Victoria and Al- bert is ordered to be ready for service In May next, but neither the Queen nor the Prince of Wales is llkely to use the ves- sel. The vacht has the reputation of be- ing unlucky. It is stated that the Prince of Wales, when he recently inspected the vessel, expressed the hope that she would not be ready in his time, and the Duke of York is also sald to have flatly refused to go to Australia In her. The yacht, as finally completed, is perfectly seaworthy and speedy, but her reputation is bad, | and royalty and shellbacks appear to be possessed of the same kind of unreason- able superstition. . . The five battleships for which bids were opened at Washington December 7 last are to have twin-screw, four-cylinder, triple expansion of 19000 horse- power. The cylinders will be 35, 57 and 66 inches in diameter, by 48 Inches stroke. The revolutions are given at 120, which ‘When the contracts for torpedo-boat de- stroyers and torpedo-boats have all been | SCOTT & BOWNE, o9 Pearlsicet, New astonished and pleased the guests at her weddirg. I am sure no one ever saw or thought of anything cuter than those flower muffs the bridesmaids carried. Ana their hats! And thelr gowns! Stun- ning, all and all—the product of the bride’s fertiie and artistic brain. Talking of the wedding, I have been told that prettiest of the bride’s attendants and one of the ushers are busying their heads over flower muffs and similar things. It may not be true, but I am going to be on the safe side and save up to get am en- gagement cup worthy the beautiful bride to be. e There is some diversity of opinion who was the prettiest sirl at tt Owens wedding. Some war palm to Bernie Drown and ot 3 again hold it out to Therese Mor, am not prepared to offer ticklish a subject. Bernie D looks well. A girl with such a complexion just can’t help it. Tt that day wore pink. A pink gow: ing round her splendid figure and a pink hat, all of fluffy tulle, perched at exactly the proper angle on top of her golden pompadour roll. However, I cannot de- cide who was the prettiest. I can cer- tainly tell who was the most stunning— Bessie Ames. Bessle wore a flowing red gown. The skirt was trailing and cling- ing and the corsage had just the proper dash of white at the neck and wrists. A black hat, turned off the face, went with the costume. Hildegarde McKenna {is now a full- fledged Washington bud. When I write such things I can’t heip thinking how quickly time does fly. When the McKennas left here for the nation’s capital Marle, who is now a beile of two seasons, was wearing a pigtail down her back and Hildegarde—why, her frocks did not more than cover her knees. I bel is the only one of the McKenna gir! we girls knew, and if Marie and Hilde- garde are one-half as charming as their sister it is plain to see how they will be petted and feted. P Peter Martin is home once again, and maybe the girls are not glad. Say what you will, if for any reason whatsoever San Francisco should have the misfortune to lose Peter there would be no one who could take his piace. There is no one ir the exclusive set so gallant as Peter There is no one so courteous, and surely there is no one so generous. Do you hear the chorus behind now chanting. “So say we all of us”? Here's to Peter! May he always be with us. And may some sweet girl lead him off in triumph to the tune of Wagner or Mendelssohn. I saw the safe that went into the new home that is being buflt for the Floods out on Broadway, and my, wasn't it a startler! It was big enovgh to do homor to any prosperous banking concern. It does not take a mathematical turn of mind to get a sort of an idea, judging by the size of the safe, how mueh silver is going to be stored aw in depths. My! but I can’t wait untl house is finished Won't there be gay do- ings, don’t you think? filled the United States w! of the former and thirty: named types. They will & within the next twelve months, and rot likely that any more will be buil cept perhaps in the event of war. Hun- dreds of these experimental maval yessels have been built for the world’s navies, but their utility has not been demo: strated. The modern quick-firing guns and the electric searchlight has tended to decrease the danger from torpedo-boat at- tacks. Besides they are expensive to build, and with all the care bestowed upon the frail hulis and delicate machi are ble to fail when most wanted. The D ing of this type of war vessel will hailed with much satisfaction by officers and men. e —————— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's* } Thousands of pounds of California glace fruits all ready for shipping. 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