The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1900. Che +Sebase Call. ....DECEMBER 31, 1900 MONDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “Adéress A1l ommusieations ts W. 8. LEAEE, Mamager. ~ A\,Al-'ltl};: ?r!'(:!/- vessse.Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, 8. F. Telep! Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep! 217 te 221 Stevemsom St. Press 202, rriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Copies, 5 Cents. Delivered by Ci st Terms by DATLY CALJ, (including DAILY CALL (including Sund: LY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. By Eingle Month.. AY CALL. Ope Year. FKLY CALL, Onbe Year. g All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptio coptes will be forw: subscribers In ordering change of address should e slar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order sure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request Sample when requested. Ma OAKLAND OFFICE. . ...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Masager Foreign Advertising, Margoette Building, Chicage, Long Distance Telephone “Central 3613.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. .....00n0vsssss0+.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . ...30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS ETANDS: Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 3l Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. . MORTON E. CRANE, Corre BRANCH OFFICES—:2T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 580 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 638 ster, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until clock. 181 Mission, open until 10 o’clock. 2261 Market. orner Sixteenth. open until 9 o'clock. 1086 Valencia. open % o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cor r Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock _— AMUSEMENTS. A The Belle of New York.” dereila ter—"The Heart of Maryland.” Edward Strauss deville House—"'Nell Gwyn." Shenandoah.” Nell Gwynne corner Mason and Bddy streets—Specialties. and —Vaude: every afternoon and schor's Vaudeville. nics’ Pavilion—Masquerade Ball, Monday evening, De- n Temyle—Yale Glee and Banjo Clubs, Thursday 3 COMMERCIAL OUTLOOK. losing week of the year and of the century stinguished by noteworthy activity in street and an increase of 11.9 per cent rv's bank clearings. New York showed per cent and Pittsburg one of 11.5 d all the leading cities of the country ex- ielphia, Baltimore and Minneapolis showea something that has not happened for The failures were 213, against 220 for the g week in 1899, res are gratifying as showing 2 healthy of spot business, but the record of failures as In round numbers collapses last year amounted to total 0,000,000, represented by 10,690 fail- 899 there were 9393 failures, with liabilities 000. This exhibit shows more failures in n 1899, $47,000,000 more lidbilities. foreign export trade this year has been very d estic commerce more than good, this in failures is peculiar. Some ef- g made to explain the inconsistency on 1at there was a boom in 1899 with rising reaction with falling prices in 1900, and is correct. was featureless, as was to have The-e is never much life to trade losing week or two of the year. There in the staples worthy of remark, s that all ought to do better after the satisfactory s t with s be iew wee new the feeling he year A street, however, as before mentioned, was live- There was a sharp demand for bonds hiefly for investment, and from this it ed th: the public had again entered the Continued good bank statements belief that there would be no and this stimulated speculation. bought largely of American securities. The nd for gilt-edged stocks and bonds for dividends been so keen ever since the election that they become scarce znd buyers are now limited +o cks and second-class bonds. The demand is idend payers, however. Francisco the century goes out brilliantly. All kinds of trade report a good movement at profit we except those farm staples which at this time of the year. The export trade of the port was never better, and the demand f he northern mining regions and the Orient keeps ships and shippers busy. The domestic distribu ude, too, is active, and the noteworthy develop- ment of the oil fields in different parts of the State exercising an indisputable influence on generai husiness. Money continues plentiful at easy ‘rates of interest and collections have been exceptionally good ever since the Spanish war, now two years and more our wake. No complaints are heard from any uarter of merchandise trade, and our local failures re few and generally unimportant. We thus begin he new year and century in exceptionally good shape, nd the weather thus far this season has been such st week s buyers € uraged the gency in money able prices. re always du that there is a general feeling of confidence in the | results of the year 19o1. It is doubtful if any General had better luck in war than Lord Roberts. aal until Buller had done all the preliminary work nd found out how the war should be carried on, and ow he is permitted to go home and leave to Kitch- cner the disagreeable duty of cleaning up. San Francisco is famous for the manner in which he has passed nights chosen by her as incidents of ignal interest in her bistory, but it is safe to say that <he will mark the death of one century and honor the birth of another in 2 way which in its extravagant enthusiasm will surprise herself. —_— San Francisco is about the only city of importance » the country that has made no preparations for a wrand celebration of the beginning of a new century, ut after all we may Lave as good a time and as big “n uproar as sny of them. The discussion as to when a century begins will now go over as unfinished business, to be taken up again in 1000. Until that time we can rest. \ He was not sent to the Trans- | THE CLOSING CENTURY. ‘ /E\S great men are rever fully understood by those who see them nearest, so the great human { movements of any particular century can not | be rightly appraised by the people of that century. In this as in all things else it is necessary to stand at a distancé from an object of much magnitude to be able to perceive it in perspective and so obtain an ac- ‘ curate view of the relations of its parts to one another 1 and their comparative proportions. That which is im- ‘mediately in front of the eye and is ever present to | the mind naturally appears larger and greater than | that which is distant and seldom thought of. Conse- quently the nineteenth century seems to us much | largersand grander than it will to those who look back {upon it from the distance of a hundred years. | To us it appears as an era of revolution bringing about such marvelous changes in government, in- dustry, commerce, science, art and war as to have | virtually created a new social organism; a civilization | the like of which was never before seen or heard ~f. | To one it willappear 2< distinctively an age of science with Darwin as its foremost man; by another it will be deemed the century of humanity with Lincoln as its type; a third will look upon it as the age oflma- terial improvement through the combined forces of commerce angd industry, having its greatest men among those who have compelled steam and electric- ity to serve human reeds and make better the con- ditions of all human homes from cottage to palace; a | fourth may regard it 2s a century of liberalism in re- ligion, politics and society, the age in which the human mind has well nigh thrown off all the old | shackles and bandages of ignorance, superstition and caste, and stands forth with something of that intel- lectual freedom necessary to its dignity and its hap- piness. Each of these views of the century is in a measure accurate. Compared with the past, the nineteenth has been indeed a century of science, of invention, of in- dustrial and commercial expansion, of material im- provement in the conditions of all classes, of a deeper and broader sympathy of man for man, and of an in- creasing liberality of thought and sentiment. These noble things, however, are not likely to make any | deep impression upon the minds of people of the | close of the twentieth century. Measured by their at- tainments our inventions, science. industry, com- | merce, social conditions and liberalisms will hardly appear much better than those of the eighteenth ap- pear to us. The developments of another hundred years of endeavor are going to make our marvels show as very little things. It is great, indeed, for man within a single century to have passed from the davs comparatively small sailing vessels beating their way slowly against th: winds to these days of mighty ocean steamers that have converted the Atlantic into a ferry: but what will the noisy steam-driven, machine. racked, laboriously-going, wave-tossed steamship appear like to a man in the next century, who looks down upon it from his swift, quiet, aerial flight, far | above the storms, in an airship? We cannot expect men of future ages to have anv greater respect for our science and art than that which we have for the beginnings of those things in former centuries; it is therefore probable that when from a distance our chief characteristic as an epoch in history will be our -Napoleonic ideals of individual For the whole century we have been living under the stimulating influence of that marvelous mian who showed that by talent, tireless energy and dauntless courage a man can attain to leadership and mastery, and gain for himself all the prizes of life. That example has been inspiring to thousands, and its benefits to the world have been large, but its influ- ence of it is already waning. Men are coming to have less regard for individual glory and more for the general welfare. The spirit that found a stermn joy in strenuous competition is giving way to that nobler one which finds its joy in co-operation and helpiulness The twentieth century will have very different ideals from those which have so intensely influenced human life during the whole of this one. It promises to be much more nearly a Christian century than this. [t is therefore one to which all men and all nations can look forward with hopefulness. of seen success. | RED CROSS WATCH MEETING. NCE more O “watch meeting” to be held by the Ameri- can National Red - Cross this evening at ! Golden Gate Hall, on Sutter street. Arrangements | have been made by the society for similar meetings in upward of fifteen thousand cities, towns"and vil- lages in the United States, consequently those whu attend will be in sympathetic touch with the grandest of all demonstrations made in welcome of the twen- tieth century. The meetings are to be held for the purpose of obtaining contributions to the funds of the society As has been pointed out, the Red Cross societies in other countries have received endowments from vari- ous sources which supply them with means for prompt action whenever an emergency calls for it. The American National Red Cross has no such endow- ment. When in peace or in war a call is made upon it in the cause of humanity, to which it is devoted, funds have first to be raised before help can be given So long as that condition of affairs lasts the Red Cross of the United States will be less fitted than that of Europe to perform its charitable and humane work. It is right and fitting that the beginning of the new century should be marked in this country by such liberal contributions to the Red Cross fund as will enable it to act as swiftly as the emergency de- mands, and to follow with help immediately upon the occurrence of disaster. Bear the meeting in mind. and be among those -who watch the old year out an{ the new century in at Golden Gate Hall under the banner of the Red Cross and in sympathy with its , work and its aspirations. | L - | A SONG WITH A MORAL. ALL street as & rule teaches by ‘example more Wthan by precept; and by experience more than by example. In the great school which it keeps oper: for all venturesome comers, the lessons are cost- ly and each has to learn them for hirself and profit by them as best he con. It is therefore a matter of passing interest to note that much of the moral of all Wall street instruction has been embodiefl in & song and was sung with hilarity by the brokers at the Christmas eve jinks in the Stock Exchange. The chorus of the song runs thus: Here's to the bull and the bear; May each one get his share, "Il skin him out of his hair, ‘We'll skin him out of his lulf!o s | Now of course it is known to the people of every | part of the United States except those of New York City that a sheep has no hair; and therefore in trying _ to raise hair from a she#p it is necessary to take the < skin itself. Wall street does that with the lamb why ventures to graze in its pastures, | That Christmas song of the brokers, that exulta. léoadbdlcndbul.eomuuunuufivedm,h we remind our readers of the | the people of the country. This is to be a prosperous year. There will be much speculation all around us. The enticements of Wall street will be many. The safe thing to, do is to keep out of the ring. Don't be a lamb. ; > S ——— MORE PORTO RICANS COMING. ISPATCHES from San Juan, Porto Rico, an- D nounce that the steamship Arkadia has sailed from Ponce for New Orleans ‘“having on board 400 Porto Ricans, sixty-five per cent of whom are women and children, destined for Hawaii.” That little item of news is a matter of some con- cern to the people of California and particularly to those employed as workers in our farms and orchards. Not long ago, as will be well remembered, a number of Porto Ricans engaged for work in Hawaii were brought across the continent. From the time it was known they were ‘coming, a yellow journal of this city began working’up a sensation, charging that the Porto Ricans were being carried into slavery. By the exercise of its peculiar tactics it managed to in duce a good many of the number to break their en- gagement to go to Hawaii, and to stop in }his State. They were without money, without skill in our kinds of labor and could speak only Porto Rican Spanish. They thus became competitors with California labor and were of necessity compelled to accept any wages offered. Moreover, as may be clearly foreseen, they | are likely to become charges upon the charity of the communities that receive them. All such considerations were as nothing to the yel- low journal. Having made a fake display of philan- thropy by provoking the Porto Ricans to refuse to go to Hawaii, it then undertook to make another by providing work for them. The means by which i’ sought to do that without expense to itself are shown by the following telegram which it sent to the editor of the Coast Advocate: SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, George P. Schaefer. Halfmoon Bay. Cal.: Will vou assist f1s in deing a kindness to stranded Porto Ricans by giving immediate employment or a good home for one of them? Are mild-mannered, strong young men. speak only Spanish and can do plain manual labor. Telegraph an- swer. Commenting upon the action of the yellow faker, the Coast Advocate says: “It created a hullabaloo, stopped the men and women from going to occupa- tions where they could have earned a comfortable livelihood, and where they would doubtless be much better off than in the land they left; and now appeals to the public in well turned phrases to assume the care of the unfortunates whom its grasping lust for trade has thrown helpless and penniless among a strange people, of whose ways and customs they are irtensely ignorant. Ao B Ii this bombastes furioso in the journalistic field were sincere in its ef forts for the amelioration of the condition of these people, why does it not send them back to their own country, announce the fact that it has done so. and await the praise that might be bestowed were the public satisfied that the act arose from a disinterested motive?” ; After a further exposure of the methods of the yel- low jdurnal, the Coast Advocate goes on to say: “Many times in the past people who could not afford to give-five cents without imposing hardships upon their own, have been cajoled into giving five or more dollars” to some protege of the yellow journal: and concludes by saying: “It is time this incubus upon the American journalistic world should be called down. It is nauseating.” That is the record made up by the yellow journal gaged to work in Hawaii: and now another company of Porto Ricans are on their way toward this city. Surely it will be worth while for the public author- | ities, the labor unions and all concerned to see to it | that none of them be stopped in this State to be cither placed as competitors with our own workers of that kind is bad enough. Let us not have another. BAD TIMES IN BRITAIN | O war in South Africa continues to harass Britain’s army and her treasury: and now a fairs, leading to the failure of many firms and seri- ously imperiling others. The coming of the new cen- | The fact that Lord Dufferin has been involved in | the failure of the London and Globe Finance Corpora- or else made charges upon public charity. One fake UR British cousins are having bad times. The great disturbance has taken place in her financial af- tury will find London in anything but a joyous mooii. | tion furnishes another illustration of the old saying, “Call no man fortunate until he is dead.” No English man of his time was more successful and more for- | tunate through a long series of years.than Dufferin. | He is the most distinguished of the living Governors of Canada and of India, in both of which countries he is honored for his ability and his service; and moreover as a diplomatist at Constantinople and at Paris he attained a reputation as high as that gained by his service in the colomies. Now in his old age | one evil after another falls upon him, and he has to | face the wreck of his fortune as well as of his happi ness. | For a long time past there have been forebodings of financial troubles in Great Britain and also in Germany. These forecasts have undoubtedly had some effect in preparing the public mind, and.conse- quently the evil of the London failures will not be so great as would have been tl\e case had they come iwholly unexpected. The disaster will throw gloom but will hardly occasion anything like a general panic. It is a cloud that will pass, and does not to any great extent dim the bright prospects of the new year. e —— The only defense that has been made of the out- rage and brutality of West Point hazing is that it was a “measure of correction.” Somebody powerful enough and «lose enough in the confidence of the President ought to cary that measure to the comple- tion, where the other students of the academy would be taught that the trade in which they are being educated by the Govarnment is not one of crime. Moroceo has paid the indemnity which we de- manded of her. This*appears to be one of the inci- dents in which the study of history is good for'a na- tion. We had a little discussion with Morocco once before, and her existing governing spirits probably were taught to remember that we meant then what we said and we have not changed in temperament. ‘When Congress comes to enact the new apporti'on- ment bill our delegation should remind the House that Califgrnia expects an additional Congressman by way of marking the difference between the old cen- tury and the new. R California expects her Legislature to start the new century by setting an example of straight politics and good govmmen_t} there may be some disappoint- ments ahead. - i A recent dispatch from Europe described the finan- ] ::1! .nmt;:n in Germany as being “black in the " 80 it would seem to be a good time for t » 'S o § y \ « iy | in dealing with the first number of Porto Ricans en- i over London, and will cause some anxiety elsewhere, | SOCIETY+ VERYBODY fs on the tip-tes of expectancy concerning the ‘‘cen- tury ball” that is cBming off at the Jewett home this evening The wide latitude allowed by the invitations—guests to come in character Tepresenting some fad or fancy of the 04 century or some anticipated wrinkle of the new vear—are sure to he productiva of much merriment. 1 confess T am anx- fous to see how Mrs. Jewett will arrange her home for the affair. . She s nothing it not original. and T have an idea that on this occasion she will surpass herself. Then. again. T am more than curious to see what she will wear. On Christmas nieht Mrs. Jewett zave a delightful lfttie dinner that fust bristled With new. pretty and effective fdeas. Six- teen neonle sat down to a table that was beautiful to behold. with its arrangement of fruit and holly. As the guests entered fthe dining-room they were showered with fine white confett!, until they looked as though they had just come in from a snowstorm. Another surprise was the string of dolls danzling from the central chandelier. One weant to each guest. and With them went a dainty present con- cealed somewhere about the sawdust Im- ages. A Christmas house party such as vou read about in swell novels is the kind they had over at “Casa Boyd." the lovely country seat of Mr. and Mrs. Colin M Povd. at Fruftvale. on Christmas day The Bovds are ideal entertainers, Their Buests are always free to follow their own sweet will. if they so please. or else they mavy enjoy the many good things that ara always arranged for therr entertainment. When I tell you that ¢n Tuesday last they surpassed even their own high standard, vou may get a faint idea of their merry Christmas. 1 think there never was such a Christmas night. First came the good cheer, then the dances, in which the fea- ture par excellence was the Virginia reel, and then the fire. The fire was not a part of the programme, but when all the excitement was over we all concluded that it certainly ended a merry day in just the proper way. It was past 1 when the two and hap- DY guests bid each other good night. It was hardly 4 o'clock when dear Mr. Boyd was roused from his pleasant dreams by the cry of-“fire!” 1In less than five min- utes all the members of the household were rushing through the smoke-filled house to the cellar. where a defective chimney was causing all the mischief. Each and every one fell to work with bucket and hose. and danger was speedily averted. Then all went back to the downy beds and took up the thread of interrupted dreams. . We all had just the jolllest kind of a time at the Ames vaudeville show on Thursday night. The performance went off without a single hitch. and the actors covered themselves with lasting glory. Lathrop's little play was a gem—full of bright. snappy lines and clever situations. T hear it is to be done by truly actors, but 1 don’t belleve they will do it one whit better than 4id North Ames and beautiful Norma Preston. In the midst of all the fun, there was a sweetly sad side to the even- ing. We all sald “gocd-by” and ‘“‘bon vovage’ to Edith and Norma Preston. They left on Saturday for a trip around the world, and it will be a few months before we have them once more with us. F T never saw anything half as pathetic as was the soldiers’ Christmas festival though, . READY FOR BY SALLY SHARP. SURPRISES AT JEWETT BALL MRS. ALICE ZISKA JE 1 IS NOW DEVOTING ALL HER T ! MUSIC. ’ WHO HAS RETIRED FROM SOCTETY AND IME TO THE STUDY OF VOCAL - out at the Presidio on Christmas eve. admit that we girls worked hard and expected the great success the fete turned out to be, but I must say we were ineap- able of imagining\the joy it was to pre- sent gifts to the boys. I choked up more than once when I saw those dear fellows with their deep-sunken eyves, pale and yellow kid ears, propped’'up with p! lows and comparing presents. I must say that 1 never_knew before the splendid amount of joy a plain linen pocket hand- kerchief could bring to a lonely heart And say. you should have seen those boys munch candy, not the French mixed va- riety, but the plain “grocery kind”: and you should also hava seen them punish rn -+ fcecream. I have not heard anything from the doctors at the post, but I imag- ine they had a busy Tuesday. ¢ . Mrs. Willls s home once more, and se, of course, is her niece, Indla Scott Wiilis. T think Mrs. Wlillis is without exception the most loyal Californian I know. After a sojourn of several weeks in New York, she got back here just three days before Christmas, and then put In a trio of shoppirg days such as were never known before. - Mrs. Willis thinks lots of her friends, and she considered that the best she could do for them on Christmas was to send them presents purchased right in this beautiful city. E R o e o e e B e S L B ) PERSONAL MENTION. J. Touhey. a Sacramento merchant, is stopping at the Lick. D. Smith, a physician of Livermore, is a guest at the California. E. M. Lion, a wealthy furniture manu- facturer of San Jose, is at the Palace. E. E. Manheim. one of Fresno's best known merchants, is at the Occldental. W. H. McClintock, an extensive mine- owner of ‘Sonora, is registered at Lick. George E. Owens, a prosperous ofl man of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Owens are at the Russ. E. J. Roy. who is Interested in Santa Barbara real estate, is stopping at the Grand. C. C. Merritt, a prominent man of Santa Rosa, is staying at ifornia. H. Justy, a capitalist and land-owner of Stockton, is among yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. C. A. Peterson, well known in conpec- tlon with his Pescadero cattle interests, i& at the Russ. Dr. D. E. Chapman, a physician con- nected with the Napa Insane Asylum, is registered at the Grand. R John Haye Hammond. Cecil Rhodes’ right hand man, has returned from a brief trip to Oregon and has put up at the Palace. ANSWERS TO QUERIES DEALERS IN COINS—E. R. P. En- cinal, Cal. If this correspondent will send a self addressed and stamped envelope tre addresses of dealers in old ccins will be forwarded. This department does not advertise such. SOLDIERS' LAND CLAIM-T, R., Sac- ramento. No provision has been made with regard to land to soldiers who served T the Spanish-American war. as was done with those soldlers who served in the war of the Rebellion. SHELLESS EGGS—J. L., Lorin, Cal ‘When hens lay eggs without shells it is a result of a lack of a sufficient supply of lime and an excess of soft and animal food. The remedy is to give the hens powdered oyster shells, powdered egg shells, plenty of small gravel and old plastering broken up into small bits, e . ADMIRAL-C. R. W., Del Rey, Cal The grade of admiral in the United States Navy is specially created. Those who _have held that grade prior to Admiral ‘George Dewey were Farragut, who was commissioned in 1866, and then Porter, who was commisioned upon the death of Faragut In 1570. On tbe death of Admiral Pogter in 1?1‘. t‘!’nie dem o me extinet and was not revived un ongress con- ferred it on Dewey. TABLE ETIQUETTE—Table Talk. Car- son City, Nev. The serving of salad at @ dinner is a-matter of taste with the hostess. As a rule the Americans serve salad either immediatély before or after the soup, as an -mell.ur. The Frencn o th ad with the roast to settle iverything that is taken as food # a rule eaten. Boullion is a _clarifiled -::u.p‘ insurance and W] one eats or drinks boullio depends upon the manner of serving the’ If served in cups it is proper to same. ! say that it Is drinking soup, if served in an ordinary soup plate and carried to the | ns of a when other soups , it 18 proper to say Fn.ne%‘ ‘boullion g\lla- ‘eat soup.” In 18 always served at din- should eaten e proper way t6 handie & dinner knife at table is to t‘tehlndh in the the hand, close the third, fourtl and little 1%2‘:; :; . the index € Thumb 1o steady the blade “n0 Ut is promised at Hotel del . this winter with a an expert golf tournament, maet. | fishing, 1oz, dancing. ete. W 3 N the | the Cal- | WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS. | The French armored ships Duperre and | Neptune are to be modernized and receive | new boilers and a change of batteries, at an estimated cost of $300,000 for each ship. The Duperre was bullt in 1571 at a cost of $2.800.000. and the Neptune cost $3.900.000 in 1887. The are both antiquated ships, | and the Neptunme has a_poor reputation as to sea-going qualities, | . . The British crufser Europa, of 11,000 | tons, which was completed about one year ago and has made one cruise only, is to | be reboflered. The Beilville boflers in the ship have proved worse than useless, and it has been decided to apply the only rem- edy to cure the defect—the taking out of | her thirty boilers. It involves an expense | of about $150,000. Additional frauds in the Japanese navy | are coming to light, three clerks at the | Saheho dockyard and four merchants having recently been arrested. charged with embezzlement and ecollusion. The frauds appear to be almost general at the several shore stations, several high rank officers and a number of clerks being im- plicated at three dockvards. The Earl of Selborne, the new first lord of the British Admiralty, has resigned the chdirmanship of the church defense com- | mittee. He is still. however, one of the directors of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company, which receives a liberal annual subsidy from the Admiralty, and there bas been no intimation of his resigna- tion nor intention of so doing. T The British Navy League calls attention | to the fact that the fighting strength of | Great Britain in China waters is far in- | ferior to that of France and Russia com- | bined, and only slightly superior to that | | of Germany. Of battleships England has | { only three against six of Russia and | France and four of Germany. England | has but three armored cruisers, whereas | Russia and France have six and Germany | one. Of first and second class cruisers England has nine, Russia and France eight and Germany six. i 1 . The British armored cruiser Cressy, of | 12,000 tons, has had her first coal consump- tion trial of thirty hours under one-fifth power. The ship was down to her de. | signed mean draught of 26 feet 3 inch and the engines developed 4731 horse. power, with 208 pounds of steam and T4 | revolutions. The speed was 13.89 knots | and the coal consumption 1.87 pounds per unit of horse-power. Under full power the engines are to develop 21,000 horse-power and 21 knots speed. The Cressy is of the same class and identical with the Aboukir, Bachante Euryaius, Hogue and Sutlej, now in course of construction. They are | sheathed and coppered, and the six ne American armored cruisers of the Cali- fornia class are improved' copies of the | British type. A The three Russian torpedo vessels, | Osiotr, Kepal and Losos, building in France, will be subjected to unusually se- vere tests before being accepted, and thelr construction involves a great expense, in that the frames and hulls are to be of | nickel steel, which is very difficult of | working. The boats are to steam 26 knots | With 4750 horse-power. The trials include one of eight hours at 14 knots to ascertain lthe coal consumption, after which there is | | to be a six-hour trial at full speed. This is | to be followed by a speea trial of 22 knots, during which the behavior of the engines ‘Il to be carefully noted, and within two | hours of the end of this trial the hoats | | Are again to make a spin under full speed | i for two hours. There is a penalty of $300 !for each one-quarter knot less than % ;;m dowr:‘to 25 knots. at, which a penaify ! M $5000 imposed for each one- knot down to 24 knota, which hm:“l:nt: i lowest limit for acceptance. A miscalcu- l1ation or a break-down may thus cost the ! contractors $32.000, which would more than wipe out the profit on the $300,000 contract. o VT M. Lanessau. Minister of Marines, con- templates certain radical improvements fn the French navy, the principal of which 18 to reorganize the system of naval con- struction. He contemplates placing that bureau under the directt of a naval en. gineer and the executive bureau under civifans. The term naval engineer in the French navy is different from what ts im- plied by that title in the American and British navies. the French engineer being a naval constructor and marine engina designer. M. Lanessau's object in making these changes s to fix individual respon- sibllity and have each department attend to Its owri particular business. Under ths former arrangement a council of sixteen officers, sea-going and naval engineers were wrestling with the preliminary de- signs of mew ships, and after determining the general outline detailed designs wers Invited from the engineers at the five dockyards. Tt is not to be wondered at that so many ships, designed under sueh a system. have proven faflures, and M Lockroy, the predecessor of M. 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