The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1900, Page 4

i MONDAY..........0........DECEMBER 24, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Mamager. MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE md Third, S. F. Telepho: Market Pr EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stew Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Incinding Postage: All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested ail subscribers in ordering change of address should be culer to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order sure a prompt and correct compliance with their request OAKLAND OFFICE.... ..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Masager Poreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago. (Long Distance Telepl ‘Central 2619."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT €. €. CARLTON. ..... Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH......... 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 3 Hill Hotel Unton Square: rray CHICAGO NEWS STANDS Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE MORTON E. CRANE, C 1406 G St., N. W. spondent. BRANCH OFFICES—S2T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 1 $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untfl 8:30 o'clock. 633 Allister, open until £:30 o'clock. 615 La until $:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 19 o'clo rket corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 109 Valencia, open | 8 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. cor- | wenty-second and Kentucky, open AMUSEMENTS. ! Grand Opera-house—*"An Officer of the Second.” Alcazar—*"Naughty Anthony." Columbia—Primrose and Dockstader Minstrels. | Cinderella.” Theater—"“The Heart of Maryland ™ roia—"At the White Horse Tavern.' udeville . corner Mason and Edd Zoo and Theater—Vaud: streets—Specialties. e every afterncon and Fischer' s—Veudeville BUSINESS AND THE HOLIDAYS. T he RADE thronghout the United States continues 0 holiday character. The bank clearings last week again dropped off, showing a gain over last year of only .1, and the e largest cities lost. This gain has been marked hence the falling off last week indicates a pro- nounced holiday lull. The failures were 260, against | e corresponding week in 1800 the weekly commercial reports show that busi- | ness is apparently good all over the country. The holesale trade is quiet, of course, as the retailers do | all the business just before Christmas; but the general distribution "of merchandise seems up to the average, except in the Northwest, where unseasonable weather and a short spring wheat crop operate against 1 activity. The West and South are sending nifo v good reports, while better weather along the Atlantic seaboard has stimulated the distributive d that section. les continue quiet and featureless. w an increase, but prices have not recov Cotton, on the con- | Hides is also week about Sales n the recent decline about recovered from the late break. are quieter and rather lower, and leather he boot and shoe trade is reported weli h orders. Western hardware men report 1 business on’ record, but new business in ron and steel is light. The general shutdown of fur- ces u season is lacking this year, how- ever, owing to the abundant orders on the market | require months to fill. Wheat and provis- | being aevoid of an the best 1al at th bout as before, v, and the former, indeed, has been ex- wemely dull for the past fortnight. A nk statement last week stimu- Wall street, and there was con- e buying as soon as it was seen that there was The demand for bonds and stocks for permanent investment was very brisk more favorable operations in no danger of a financizl stringency. Out on this coast the situation has shown no change i worthy of note for some weeks. Business is quiet, but | st more so than usual during the holidays. The sea- | n Cal has been exceptionally good for the thus far, and farm work has been pushed so r ily and energetically that barring the normal mis- haps liable to occur in the spring the State ought to harvest abundant crops. This gives general con- fidence to merchants and bankers, and as a result times are very easy. The export trade of this port keeps up to a high pressure pitch, though it is not as lively as during the early fall months, nor was it ex- pected that that abnormal activity would never come te an end. Merchandise is showing more relative life than produce, as the latter, with few exceptions, is dull. The financial situation continues sound, no im- portant failures being reported, while collections are good and solvent borrowers find no difficulty in get- sicg 3l the funds they want to carry them along. B e A young woman in New York sued the keeper of | ber lodging-house for a latch key, alleging that fre- quently when she returned at night she found the door locked and the landlord would not get up to open it for her. The Judge refused to grant the latch key, but ordered the landlord to have the door open until midnight. It thus appears to be New York law that women must be home before midnight or forfeit | the right to admission. As theaters do not close until 11 o'clock in these days, there is just one hour allowed 2 woman in which to get her supper and make her home run; and it will be seen the effect of the law will be to develop in women a speed al- together undesirable. iforniz P Galveston has so far recovered from the effects of the hurricane as to do a little blowing herself just for the fun of it. Thus the News of that city recently said: “The construction of the Nicaragua canal, the possession of the Philippines and the open door in China will make Texas the greatest State in the Union.” All of which is excellent, but the News for- gets California. Joseph Weldon Bailey of Texas, once known as “Boy Bailey” and regarded as the hope of the Demo- crats of Congress, has been out of sight and out of mind for some time, but he is not to be wholly lost to fame. It it said a tobacco firm has named a brand of cigarettes after him. DATLY CALI (including Sunday), one yea: $6.00 | A CALL (including Sund: . 3.00 DA CALL (including Sunday L1530 I . 85 1.50 1.00 | diate educational uses at the university A SESSION FOR BUSINESS. promised the country to do all in their power to keep Congress during this session strictly R marine, and in other measures of the kind, may be promoted and advanced by necessary legislation. Such is the promise and every prospect points to the corclusion that it will be kept; that the session wiil be marked by so much in the way of accomplishment s will make it memorable in the annals of Congress. It will be well for Republican leaders who are to direct affairs at Sacramento to enter upon the work of the Legislature with the same spirit that animates the national party leaders at Washington. At the present outlook there is hardly anything likely to oc- | cur during the session to seriously delay business if the business be resolutely undertaken. There is fo Senatorial contest to take up time and to cause dis- sens The only cloud upon the horizon is'the ger that the bosses may undertake to carry an un fair apportionment bill or to enact a priumary elec tion law that would insufficiently protect the rights of honest citizens at the primaries. If the bosses can be made to keep their hands off those matters, and the nment act and the primary election bill be and rightly Jrawn, ail will be well is important that the session be made one of B ms | business, for much in the way of legislation ought to be enacted this winter. The last regular session was more than a contest over the Senatorship. The extra session did not by any means make up for the lack of good work during the previous onc. This time, therefore, the amount of work required the Legislature is even greater than usual, and it will be impossible for the legislators to satisfy the people unless the whole session from first to last be given to legitimate legislative work, entered upon in a spirit of honesty and performed with strict fidelity to duty hardly The Republican party will, of course, be held re sponsible for the acti of the session, and it is but right it should have that responsibility. The candi | dates of the party were elected upon definite pledges of providing legislation for the public good, and they | should be held to the pledges they haye made. Tt | Call, though a stanch and stalwart Republican paper, will nevertheless take the side of the people against | any attempt that may be made by legislators calling themselves Republican to violate any pledge given tc the cause of economy, progress, improvement and good government generally. Let it be borne in mind, then, by every legislator that what is demanded thi sess ear is a strictly business n at Sacramento. We have had enough of party politics and of faction fights and of crooked schemes and cinch bills. This timesthe public demands straight politics and a businesslike efficiency from start to finish. fl sion at the Palace Hotel on Saturday evening of the best means of increasing the income of the State University are these: The university in point of attendance is second to but one in the Union; in the course of its comparatively short career it has surpassed all the great institutions of the East with the single exception of Harvard; in the past decade the increase in the number of students has been about THE STATE UNIVERSITY. MONG the facts brought out by the discus- 400 per cent, or five times the percentage of increase of income: upward of eighty-seven per cent of the students now at Berkeley are from California and the proportion of those coming from points distant from the bay counties is increasing annually; the cost of university maintenance at Harvard $229 per is | student, at Columbia $365, while at Berkeley it is but $165 On that showing it will be perceived there is noth ing extravagant in the desire of the Regents to have the income of the university increased by $100,000 From a recent statement of the financial condition of the university made by President Wheeler it appears that, excluding the $27,000 income derived from the Wilmerding fund and used for the support of the Wilmerding School, the income for next year may be estimated at $410,000. Of that sum $56.000 will b2 et apart for permanent improvements, $28,000 for Lick Observatory, and $10,000 must be used for scholarships. Thus there will be available for imme- little more than $300,000, an amount less than that which the collegiate department of Harvard University collects from tuition alone. We have, then, a university whose attendance is sec- ond to but one in the Union, whose education is as free as any, whose administration is more economical than any, whose increase is more rapid than any. What Californian can be indifferent to the credit given the State by the existence of such an institu- tion, founded by the ple and maintained by the pegple for the good of the people? It is but reasonable to expect a cordial co-op- eration with the movement now being made to pro- cure from the coming Legislature an increase in the revenues of the institution. That, indeed, is one of the urgent measures of the time and should receive prompt attention when the Legislature meets. s THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. THE amount appropriated in the pending river and harbor bill touches the high water mark. Sumptuous as it is, California’s share is rather Limited. San Diego gets cash $50,000 and on contracts $217,850, and San Luis Obispo cash $50,000—a total of only $317.850 out of the $60,000,000 carried by the bill. The East has been long in receipt of appropriations, and one would suppose that the work in that section had been accomplished, so that the expense could be reduced to a2 minimum. But the contrary appears. Boston harbor gets $3,600,000; though it has been in receipt of appropriaticns long enough, and large enough, to have made the work permanent as the Havre basin. Buffalo gets more than twice as much as all California, and the sea and lake ports of New York get eight times as much as the whole Pacific Coast. The Ohio River, described by John Randolph many years ago as a streak of dust half the year and a streak of mud the other half, gets $2,350,000, and not a dollar appears for the San Joaquin and Sacramen- to! Trinity River, Texas, gets $750,000. seaports and rivers upon which commerce is just im- pressing demands for transportation and facilities should expect a greater expenditure, if needful, than old ports long the object of Government care, and rivers upon which there is no new demand. The river and harbor bill has always been a log- rolling affair. When Henry Clay reported it in the House, about seventy years ago, he refused it further indorsement than to say: “I take it as T took my wife, for better or for worse,” and for better or for worse it has been ever since. The work at San Pedro seems to be left out en- tirely, and so is that on Oakland harbor. To the lat- EPUBLICAN leaders at Washington have attentive to important business. So far as it is possible all partisan measures will be set aside in order that | quired in works to control and keep open to navi- the great interests of the country involved in the | gation the Mississippi River, for which $11,700,000 is Nicaragua canal, the Pacific cable, the merchant [appropriated. But that is one of the world’s greatest Naturally, | ter the growing commerce of this bay looks for ac- commodation when the facilities of San Francisco are outgrown. If the surplus cannot resort to Oak- land it must go to Puget Sound, and California has 1 great interest in retaining it here. One startling feature of the bill is the amount | rivers, with a vast watershed, and carrying such a vol- | ume of silt as to make its control one of the hardest | 1roblems of modern engineering. That river has car- | ried the silt that has pushed back the waters of the | gulf from above Memphis. The land it has built is of | great richness, inviting to agriculture, but subject to : 9\4erflow as the river builds a ridge and jumps out of its old bed to form a new one. | The problem of keep the silt in motion to its | mouth, thus avoiding the filling of the channel and | consequent overflow, ceems almost beyond the power | of man to solve. AN UN.XPeC: D REV.VAL. | UT of the fight now going on in New Hamp- | shire against the re-election of Senator Wil- pected. liam E. Changler there has come the unex- Persons of iniddle age and good memories may recall that there was once such a statesman as Henry W. Blair. He had as a pet meastre an educa- tional bill designed to give Federal aid to the educa- %(inn of the negroes in the Southern States that was much discussed at one time. He has not been heard of in a long time, and most people have thought him to be dead. He is very much alive, however, and we learn from our Eastern exchanges that he is once more a candidate for the Sendte and has a fair chance cf winning. / Blair has been out of politics so long that no one remembers how he got out. His friends are now | claiming that when in office he was one of the most | useful Senators New Hampshire ever had. One oi them is quoted by the New York Tribune as saying lin a recent interview: “Half of the pension laws, under which $150,000,000 is now annually disbursed, originated with Blair, and of this amount New Hamp- |shire receives $1,500,000. It was Blair's cam- paign in the old Third District in 1875 that saved the State and insured the Presidential vote to the Republicans in 1876, when only one vote savel | the Presidency to *he Republican party. Blair originated the Department of Labor, and his efforts to exclude foreign cheap labor from this country were so effective as 10 lead the Chinese Government to reject him when he was appointed Minister to that jempire. Blair's record in local New Hampshire poli- tics is fully as creditable as it is in the wider arena of national legislation. Among other things he suc cceded in saving the Portsmouth Navy-yard to the State in spite of tremendous opposition. Politics is so full of surprises that it is a cammon saying no one should be surprised at anything that | happens in the political world. Nevertheless even the oldest stagers will be a little startled if after ail these years the old man should return to the Senate. The fight against Chandler is a bitter one. His !¢curse in the Senate has been frequently irritating to almost every member of that body. He is cranky, erratic, sarcastic, and gifted with a multitude of words with which to display every varying mood of his ec- |centric nature. He claims that the fight against him is made by the railroads, but the claim is hardly jus- tifiable. How the contest will result is not yet cer- tain. At this time it appears to be anybody’s fight | and Blair’s chances are not to be despised. = A LEADERLESS tMPIRE. ROM almost all parties in Great Britain there comes a cry for a leader. The Liberals are demoralized, the Conservatives are discontent- | ed and the Radicals are wandering about like lost | heep. The condition of the Democratic party in the United States is bad, but the condition of British | parties is worse. Hardly any one appears satisfied | with Salisbury, or his Cabinet, or his policy; and ye: | nearly all prefer him and his to anything the oppe sition has to offer. | A writer signing himself “Young England” con- tributes to the current number of the National Review |a striking summary of existing conditions and points | out that the time is opportune for the coming ofi a new man. He says: “There never was an oppo- sition which offered less noble sport to its opponents or gave less opportunity for serious attack. never was a Conservative government, on the other hand, which practiced a more systematic neglect of | its followers, or made less effort to draw out the tal- ent which has failed to appear.”” He declares, “The | abject and characterless docility of the Conservativs | rank and file in the House of Commons has be- | nimbed the whole mass of the party.” [ Drawing his conclusion from the evident deman for a leader and the apathy displayed by both th Conservatives and the Liberals in Parliament, he goes | on to say: “‘Public life never offered more brilliant prizes to a Canning, or a Disraeli, or a Randolph Churchill than it does now to any one capable of following in their footsteps. To some new man the future assuredly belongs. England is in a mood. to surrender herself to, not necessarily to a prodigy of genius, a Napoleon of politics, but to any man of marked independence, faith and capacity. The country is weary to sickness of the old gang and the old ways. There never was a time when party allegiance was more detachable, or when a strong leader capable of con- structive patriotism was more certain to command the overwhelming support of the country, upon which- ever side he may appear.” While such statements are somewhat exagger- ated, they do not materially misrepresent the political condition of Great Britain as revealed by the press. The absorbing political issue there is not a question of measures, but of men. The writer from whom we have quoted appears to be fully justified in asserting that the country is prepared to support a strong man, no matter which side he may take. When such a temper prevails in the public mind of a great empire, the unexpected is very apt to happen, and the next session of Parliament may open the new century in Great Britain with something sensational in foreign or domestic politics. | | The latest novelty in war is a substance which is being supplied to the British soldiers in South Africa and is known as “solid beer.” It is said to be a pre- paration of malt and hops in the form of a jelly. When mixed with water it can be fermented any- where, and is reported to be very good. Experiments have been made in our own army with concentrated rations in the form of tablets. The two inventions would work well together. You take an American tablet, put some of the British jelly on it, and you have a dinner of beef and beer. What more could you wish for a cent? Almost every city in the East has started what is :.udl“n;mM"bminmm thing will hardly amount to much more than There | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1900 i BY SALLY SHARP. NIGE LITTLE ROW BOHEMIAN GLUB VAL THIS EVENING. MISS FLORENCE BROWER, A PRESIDIO BELLE, WHO WILL BE ONE OF THE SOLOIST3 AT THE SOLDIERS' CHRISTMAS TREE FESTI- i HERE is something doing at the Bohemian Club. ‘lhe old smolder- ing feud between Joullin and Staf- ford has blazed up afresh, and, well, the owl is stirring and the French artist has been summoned to ap- pear before the club’s board of directors, to explain whether or no he has been “spieling" for himself, It all came about after the first “ladles’ day' of the recent exhibition. On that fatal afterricon the artist was observed In solemn converse with a charming lady writer. On the next day there appeare in the columns of one of the local papers a descriptive article (from the pen of the aforesaid charming lady writer) telling | all about the show and incidentally men- | tioning how superior was Joullin's art when compared with Stafford’s. o Joullin stands charged with “giving away | information to newspaper people,” a silly | charge, at the best, I'm inclined to be lieve, allowing, of course, that newspaper | people have eyes and are apt to use them. | It has been some time since the Boh:- mians here had so serious a matter as th to dispose of, and I can see the fine di eriminations the beard will be called upon | to exercise. It is no easy task for stal- wart men to decide which is the worse— | to praise oneself or to cry out when one is hurt and want “papa” to lick the boy who did it instead of hitting him you'- self. J & Have you noticed recently how brave'y Edith McBean walks and how nobly she thro back her shapely shoulders? And have vou observed the preity color in Dorothy Collier's pretty cheeks and the splendid poise of her well proportioned form? Do you know what is doing it? It is fepcing. Edith and Dorothy are two of a bfg class of swell girls who have gone in, heart and soul, for fencing. They are studying the noble art of sword-play with the celebrated master, Wieniawski. i ana are the prize pupils in a class where all might be mentioned with unusual praise. The girls meet around at the dif ferent homes and a splendid time usually | follows the fencing lesson. PR The jolliest sort of news comes from | Japan telling of the nuptials of Mamis McNutt and Lieutenant Potter. The knot was tied in Yokohama on November Frank Goad, In spite of his tender years, played with admirable tact the difficuit role of “‘papa’ and gave the bride away. Ruth McNutt and beautiful Genevieve { Martin were the bridesmaids. If there was not quantity at the wedding ther2 was quality and among the aistinguished | guests was the American Consul. The only sad thing about the wedding was the United States stepping in and cutting short the honeymoon. Two days after the ceremony Licutenant and Mrs. Potter sailed ofrom Japan for Manila, whither the lieutenant was bound to re- | port for duty. { Genevieve Martin and - her brother, Frank Goad, are to remain some time with the Potters. 1f you have a.card fur the dance at the | Palace on the evening of January 9 you have proof positive that you are really “in it."” Ever since Burlingame declared | it- would not stand being allided to as “Blingum’ there has been an un- written law that the Burlingame contia- gent was the head and front of all social happenings. Unfortunately everybody cannot live at Burlingame, but everybody | who is anybody may have a card| for the ball to be given by the Burling- | amites. The patromesses of this ball | which is to determine our social standing are Mrs E. D. Beylard, Mrs. Joe Crock- ett, Mrs. Robert Coleman, Mrs. Frank Carolan, Mrs. Joe Grant, Mrs. E. W. Hop- | | Kins, Mrs. Dan T. Murphy. Princess Pon- | fatowski, Mrs. George Fope and Mrs. W. ! B. Tubbs. Nearly all these ladies belong to the E. A. Davis of Placerville is a guest at the Grand. J. H. Blood, a Bakersfleld merchant, is a guest of the Grand. W. H. Buster, a Colusa capitalist, {s & guest of the Occidental. Josiah Champlon, a well-known mine- owner, is at the Grand. T. Fisher, an oil man of Los Angeles, is. registered at the Grand. P. C. Atkins, a Topeka capitalist, is registered at the California. 8. L. Hogue, a Fresno attorney, Is among the arrivals at the Grand. Victor E. Till, the Seattle merchant, is among the guests at the Occidental. G. Sieber, the Marysville capitalist, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Lick. d Delventhal, a wealthy cattle man “Em“ Rosa, aying at the Rust. Dr. J. D. Van Vleck, a noted physician of Los Angeles, is'a guest at the Grand. Professor Clark, principal of the Santa Cruz High School, is at the California. G. J. Van Wormer, a fruitman with large interests in Fresno, is at the Lick. J. A. MacKennon, the well-known mer- chant of San Diego, is registered at the Russ. Charles L. E. Lardy, a member of the wiss Legation at Washington, is on a s 5 and is staying at the | her home | ever wore a Yale pin. | names of the ladies who are the patron- { Mrs. Thomas Breeze, Mrs. George Cadwalader, R PERSONAL MENTION.| ANSWERS TEQUERIES -+ Burlingame crowd with the exception of one or two—just to show, as I said be- fore, that we all cannot live in San Maten Countyv. . Gertle Lewis, who blossomed upon the town two weeks ago, just to look in on her mother between plays, as it were, has returned to New York to be the star and chief attraction of a road company about to bring out a new play. Back with Gertle to the Empire State, in the ca- pacity of “chaperon,” went her sister, Edna, bouncing and charming and just eighteen, two years the junior of the com- ing star. Maybe there was not an awful buzzing up and down Van Ness avenue | and within the aristocratic precincts of the Richelieu during Gertie's brief stay in town. And maybe Miss Gertle did not | startle with her merry wit and flashing | repartee the ladies who called to welcome “Isn’t Edna a rather—young chape- ron?” asked one lady of the beautiful | girl who is working to prove that only | stars grow in California. said Gertle. “But you see it I'm doing it to save the men. | If Edna 1s with me tney will not all fall in love with me.” Miss Lewlis brought out here with her many of the famous gowns with which she startled New York, and these stun- ning confections had the same effect up- on her native city as they had upon the people in the biggest town in the United States. S L, 1 understand that since Al Bouvier un- dertook to look after the Interests of the Yale Glee and Banjo Club during their stay here, he has grown thin and pale and his mellifiuous voice has taken on a thick, burry coat. It all comes of answering tne telephone so often and reading over | for the girls the names of the boys who are coming out. The ball at the Palace on the evening of January 3, right after the first con- cert, which takes place at Metropolitan Hall, is sure to bring out all the girls who Following are the esses of the ball, and by them you may judge of the crowd the boys may expect: Mrs. Henry F. Allen, Mrs. Gordon Blanding, Mrs. Donald Campbell, Mrs. Francis Carolan, Mrs. James Coffin, Mrs. Willlam H. Crocker, Mrs. Robert Coleman. Mrs. Joseph B. Crock- e Mrs, Albert N. Drown, Mrs. Chartes P. Eells, Mrs. George W. Gibbs, Mrs. Joseph D. Grant, Mrs. Horace Hill, Mrs. Walter S. Ho- bart. Mre. Jonathan Kittle, Mrs. V. K. Mad- dox, Mrs. W. Mayo Newhall, Mrs. Sydney V. Smith, Mrs. Henry T. Scott and Mrs. William 8. Tevis. And now, so the girls can see for thew- selves and won’t have to bother Bouvier any more, here is the full and correct list of all the boys who are coming: R. H. Schneeloch, president of Gles Club: D. S. Blossom. 1301, president of Banjo Club; J. Keppelman, 1901, manager; C. D. Barnes, assistant. Glee Club: First tenors—J. M. Carlisle, 1901; F. M. C. Robertson, 1301; F. W. Jackson, 1301; F. W. Moore, 1903: J. W. Reynolds, 1808. Second tenors—G. V. Reynolds, 1901; G. A. Dewey, 1%02; H. E. Smith, 1902; F. W. Wiggins, 1904: R. H. Schneeloch, sp. First bassos—F. W. Sheehan, L. 8.; G. A. Welch, 1901: F. B. Eiseman, 1901: P. L. Michell, 191; B. P. Twichell, 1901; C. W. Smith, 1%02. Second bassos—M. K. Parker, 1901; R. B. Hixon, . Spalding, 1%02; W. W. Her- rick, . Weston, 1903; L. S. Tyler, 1904. Banjo Club: Banjeaurines—L. X Butler, 1901; G. B. Kip, 1901; L. Mannferre, 1%1; E. H. Toothe, 1901 S.; L. E. Fulton, 1%1; D. S. Blos- som, 1501. Plcolo—C. O. Day, 1908. Banjos—D. 1. Whittelsey, 191 S.; B. G. Yung, 1902, Guitars—A. D. Allem, 1901: H. Chappell, 1901 G. D. Guthrie, 1901 8.: A. J. Bruff, 132 S.; R. C. Levering, 192 S. Mandolins—F. Van Wicklen, 191; F. L. Belin, 19801 S.; H. 8. Curtiss, 1901 TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD — Sub- scriber, City. The termini of the Trans- | Siberian Railroad are Orenburg and Via- divostok. DRAWBACK-S. 8., Turlock, Cal. When grain sacks bearing a firm name or the name of an Individual have thereon the added words “right of drawback re- served,” it shows In effect that if the sacks are exported the manufacturer gets @ rebate of 99 per cent.of the tariff paid on the raw jute. THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE-W. P. C., City. At the dead letter office, Wash- tngton, D. C., letters containing money or other articles of value are placed on | file to awalt application. Those contain- | ing money may reclalmed at any time wn)lun ftm;"m alfi Int:;idlu?‘r!l tg!edde- rtment mon a it of re.twn containing vllua.ble’;. e FARMS IN IRELAND-R., City. A person can buy a farm outright in Ire- land. The mode of creating and transfer- ring estates in Ireland is practically the same as that In England. Any estate un- der the laws of 1881 may be the Land Commission YM lhpeu‘;:l:'rpoumd l:)’ll reselling to the tenants of the land - g;‘l‘d‘ifi‘ such estate o!hdr n:p::lt)lnvlc THE PRESIDENT—G. W. B., Marys- ville, Cal. There Is nothing in the consti- tution of the United States nor in the United States statutes which is to the "8 that the Preside, e States shall not go utside of tne !:gr“rlyt:fl the time As commander-in-chi :'h; army ll‘lsd the navy he m: “e!“o'( e be call limits of the Unlone". - 50 Yithout the WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS. A training vessel for engineers and fire- men is to be laid down shortly at St. Pe- tersburg. Its cost is estimated at $1.650,- 000, and the vessel will be used in connec- tion with training for all sorts of experi- ments connected with marine engineer- ing. gt e The French cruiser Catfuat made her commission trial recently and averaged 17 knots during twenty-four comsecutive hours. In view of the fact that she i credited with 20 knots on her accept trial the recent performance is considere unsatisfactory. . The Russian battleship Perisviet had a six-hour trial last month, developing an average speed of 19.12 knots, an excess of 112 knots over the calculated speed. Th horsepower developed was 137 short of the contract, which, however will be condoned in comsideration of her great excess of speed. The Perisviet has triple serews. o e The importance of wireless telesraphy at sea may be surmised from the faet that when the British battleship Glory left the Portsmouth dockyard on Novem- ber 3 for the China station the ship kept up communication with the station ship Hector until a distance of fifty miles | intervened between the Glory and Hector. The two ships are fitted with Marconi in- struments. TR S0 Vice Admiral Nire Kagenorti of the Jap- anese navy died last month at the age of €9. His naval record was interesting from the fact that he did not join the navy un- ti] 1872, when he was 41 years old, and in less than eight years became a rear ad- miral. On 155 he was made vice admiral and in 1882 was appointed Minister of the Navy, from which office he resigned a short time after.” To become a rear admi- ral after eight years of service is unparal- leled In any navy. g ey The Russian cruiser Askold, buflding at Krupp’s (Germania) yard, Kiel, is of 6000 tons displacement and is to steam 23 knots on her trial. Failing to attain this speed | there 1s a penalty of $15,000 for every one- quarter knot down to 21 knots. If the speed is less than 21, but exceeds 20 knots, the vessel may be accepted upon a fur- ther reduction of $20.000 in price. Tt is also further stipulated that the coal con- sumption is not to exceed two pounds per unit of horsepower per hour. The con- tract price of hull and machinery is $2,460,000. (¥ A The Japanese battleship Asahi, buflt at Clydebank, recently arrived at a home port, has had an unsatisfactory experi- ence with her Belleville boilers. She con- sumed as high as 150 tons a day going at a speed of 10 knots whils crossing the Bay of Biscay on her homeward-bound trip. The weather in that part of Spanish wat- ers is known for its storms and heavy seas, but the consumption of quite twice the quantity of coal required under or- dinary conditions makes an unfavorable record for the Belleville boiler. aoa e It 1s reported that the British Admiralty is about to experiment with a submarine destroyer, whose chief object will be to destroy hostile submarine mines. Tha boat will carry submarine guns discharg- ing a specles of small torpedo, like a shell, which may be fired in any direction a submarine mine is located or suspected to be. It is mot necessary that the sheil should strike the mine aimed at, for the explosion of a heavy charge of guncot- ton will set off any submarine mine locat- ed within one hundred feet of the expiod- ing torpedo shell. ;00 Russia is the only naval power that succeeds In maintaining secrecy about de- tails of ship construction. Reliable data relating to vessels building by contract in the yards of forelgn countries are difficult to obtain. This latter difficulty, however, is chiefly due to the fact that none of the vessels are bullt from the original de- signs, and that numerous and materia! changes are made during the progress of construction, which make Russian con- tracts undesirable. The latest informa- tion regarding the three new battleships building at St. Petersburg states that they are to be of 13,500 tons displacement and are to have bottoms of four-inch hardened steel and lateral bulkheads of the same thickness, as a protection agaimst tor- pedo attacks. 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