The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1901, Page 4

THE SA MONDAY.... JANUARY 14, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. W. 5. LEAKE, Mazager. .. Telephone 7P>r¢‘ll 217‘07 Address All Communications to 3 RS OFFICE. . JATION OFFICE Teleph .Market and Third, S. F. Press 201. ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Preas 202. EDITORIAL Delivered hv Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, including Postage: DAILY CALI, (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL Gneluding Sunday). § month: DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 month: DATLY CALL—By Single Month. DAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters mre subseriptio Sampie coples will be forwarded when requested. anze of address should de llance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS. ette Building, Chicago, “Central 2619."") c. Maneger Toreign Advertising, Marqu Long Distan NFW YORK C. CARLTON...... DENT: [ . .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRE STEPHEN B. SMITH. 0 Tribune Building NFW YORK NEWS STANDS: Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: P. 0. News Co.; Hotel Sherman House Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium WASHINGTON D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—Y ontgomery. corner of Clay. op2n unt!] #:80 o'clock. 30 Hayes, open until $:30 o'clock 633 McAllister, open $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open un“l #:20 1941 open untfl 10 o'clock. 2261 Market ® o'clock. 109 Valencia. open 3 o'clock. NW. cor unttl 9 o'clock. ————————————————————————— AMUSEMENTS. ger In a Strange La “The Twn Orphans.” THE PRESENT MAIN- SPRING i both for some day rd the clc longer than cotton, e both staples as supposed to have set in w Wall-street operators Cotton weakens=d mour and et he feature of se Liverpool did not respond to the Amer d enormously in power during Formerly it was merely year or two. the fir is the overshadowing pivot on American business turns. ven of refuge for those Euro- re hard up for funds. During s loaned money to England, France, Sweden and Mexico. Indeed, it » with these countries in a wciers like Henry Clews are ether this European expan- then it became more operations of t wk been overdone. Time alone will teil everything seems to be flourishing in the ywcks have lately been very active, and the for investment shows no y has been stimulated by the narket, due more or le: terior. At the same market has been growing stringenrt leaning upon Wall street more or less We may have to ship gold there 1o and have a certain quantity which i for that purpose without unduly harden- arket s bond ce Financiers, however, are apt to t exports of gold, even when it is bor- business. as shown by the weekly bank very good. These clearings last week learings ned 41 41.4 per cent over the same week last year, and no city of importance, except Milwaukee, showed a Joss. The gain at New York was 56.5 per cent, largely due to activity in Wall street and the disbursement oi the January dividends, which set millions of dollars into general circulation. showed substantial gains. 324, against 274 last year. The best trade reports continue to come from the West and South. The general staples stand about as they have done for some weeks. Wool shows rather more steadiness and a fair demand is reported for boots and shoes, clothing, and structural iron and steel. There have been few price changes of late, 2<ide from advances in sugar and coal oil, and a weak- ering off in provisions at the Western packing points. Nome of these changes show any general change in the condition of trade, one way or the other. A feel- ing of confidence continues to pervade the country, and th are no signs of any disturbance. In San Francisco the conditions remain as before noted Scarcity of freight room on outgoing ocean The week’s failures were cteamers tells the story of the heavy export trade | heing done by the port. The remarkably even dis- tribution of the rains thus far this season compensates for the deficiency in the rainfall, which is pronounced. The crops are looking well all over the State, if we except some districts in the south, where heavy frosts have done some damage to citrus fruits and summer vegetables. The oil industry is still attracting general attention and the daily transactions on the Oil Ex- change are remarkably large, and as a rule at rising prices. One line of trade, however, is lagging badly. There is no call whatever for dried fruit, owing to the great abundance of fresh tropical fruits on the Atlantic sea- | board and the large fruit crops all over the world Prunes are in 2 bad way, and those who are in charge of the crop are devising all sorts of means to get rid of the surplus before another crop comes in. But with the exception of dried fruits the farm products of the State are generally in satisfactory condition, and #he sitnation as a whole may be classed as excellent. The other large cities also | DIVISION IN SANTA CLARE. | ROM the reporis published in The Call yester- Fday of the force back of the movement to create | a new county out of a large portion of Santa | Clara and a part of San Benito, it will be seen we are likely to have to face a contest of no little magnitud. Fxperience in the county division fights in the past cerves as a basis upon which to estimate the character likely to be assumed by the present one, and conse- quently we may expect many forms of political in- -ttigue-and jobbery. Upon the surface of things there is no justificaticn for the movement. Santa Clara County is not too large either in territory or in population for a. single administrative control. The county seat is easily ac- cessible from every district; and there is-nothing in the | topography of the coantry to give any particular part of it an interest distinct from the rest. It is true the southern part of the county is at present mainly com- posed of large ranches and occupied by dairymen or cattle-breeders, while the northern part is subdivided into small holdings and cultivated as orchards or vineyards. Such differences, however, are not going to continue long. The movement of the fruit and vine industry southward in the county is going on al! the time. Already in the southern portion the big Morgan Hill ranch has been subdivided and sold in tracts, most of which vary from five to forty acres. | These lands have been planted as orchards, and it is not to be doubted that other large ranches in that section will be eventually treated in the same way. It is far better for a community to have its lands cultivated in small farms than in big ranches. It better to have one hundred families on forty acres each than to have one family on 4000 acres. That being <o it is hardly likely the progressive elements | of the people in the southern part of Santa Clara will favor a scheme that will place them in a county whose ion will be dominated Ly the owners of big administra renches. tion of the taxes needed to maintain the present county than to enter upon a new one made up mainly of uncultivated ranch lands or grazing lands, and whose revenues will consequently have to be derived ainly by taxation upon the comparatively small amount of land that is being thoroughly cultivated THE REVIVAL OF GALVESTON (‘ ALVESTON, :s we learn from the News that city, “wishing a kind and generous worid a happy new century, plunges into a new era of great promise, filled with life and hope and pur- pose.” The News goes on to say: terribly devastated but a few months ago, Galveston has by the exertion of her own people, supported by the sympathy and substantial assistance of the world, risen to her feet, and. though bearing the scars of the ordeal through which she passed, has resumed her place in the phalanx of progress Those strong words of courage and hopeiulne will be read with gratification throughout the coun- Those who were most liberal in contributing riter all those who ha and the determination of h ty tc assist Galveston were most Confidence in the ability people to help themselves. It is therefore chee > know that the coafidence was not misplaced. ani that the city is to furnish another illustration of the indomifable energy and enterprise of American com- munities. A complete study of the losses shows that the damage amounted tc The largest losses were in residences and in househo'd effects. These are placed at something more thar $8,400,000. The next heaviest loss was in the property of the United States. Government. the damake to by the storin 038 yout > about $i7 27 which is estimated at $3,155.000. The relief contribu- | tions in money are to have aggregated the sum of $1.200,000, and in addition there were received con- tributions in food, clothing and other supplies valu=d at $300,000 Since the storm the News estimates that something like $2,000.000 has been exp: restoring buildings. It says $400,000 was appropriate! to aid destitute people who had formerly owned homes in repairing the damage to their houses or in building new ones. 'More than a thot have been erected through that assistance. and the housing problem is thereiore pretty nearly solved Under such circumstances Galveston meets the new century without forebodings, and the News closes the -greetings of the season with the words: “We are well on with the rehabilitation of the city. We have heer. greatly helped tc do the work, and confident of the continued and unfailing sympathy of our fellow men, we feel that we shall not falter until the work is \\‘cll done.” °* o4 in repairing and and cottages PRIMARY ELECTION BILLS. { ROSPECTS for the enactment of a satisfactory p primary election law at this session of the l.e,,;- islature are reported from Sacramento to be bright and promising. Many of the ablest and best men in each house are giving close attention to the subject. Several bills dealing with the issie have been introduced, and as it is announced that others | are to follow there will be no lack of methods and pro- | visions to choose from when the time comes to blend the best of them into one bill and enact it. From a multitude of counsel in legislative bodies | there is not always wisdom. It not infrequently hap- 1 pens that the more the counselors the more the wrang- ling, and that the outcome is a compromise measurs, which, being neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring, | is virtually valueless. In this case, however, such a | result is not likely to occur. The issue is one which | involves no partisan or factional advantage. The law | when adopted will apply equally to both parties.- The only class of men who can have any desire to defeat | the measure or distort it are the corrupt bosses and | their following. Tt ought to be easy, however, to | guprd against their machinations, and since so many | of the most reputable and public-spirited men in tfle | Legislature are earnestly at ‘'work in the task of de- | vising a good bill it is reasonable to expect they will | succeed. | Itis to be borne in mind, moreover, that the present Legislature has the opportunity of profiting by the mistakes made in previous primary laws. The de- cisions of the Supreme Court on former acts serve to show what is to be avoided in the bill. For the rest the things to be remembered are that the bill should be as simple as possible; that it should fully protect the rights of all citizens, and provide a system by which nominations for office may be made by the people and not by the bosses and their tools. s —— Cing for the protection and preservation of our forests of giant trces have obtained in Mr. Lacey | of Towa an ally who is evidently in earnest. Just why he should have come to the front in the fight pc do not know. There are no big trees in ITowa, nor any personal advantage ‘o be gained by Lacey himself. Conse_quendy it is to be presumed that his activity is A SEQUOIA LUMBER BILL. { v ALIFORNIANS engaged in the task of provid- It will be better for them to pay their frac- | “Sorely stricken, | FRANCISCO CALL, DAY, due to a pure and disinterested zeal in the good causz of saving the big trees. The method he has adopted in making the fight for the_trees is clitious. He has introduced into Congress a bill providing: “That from and after the passage of this act there shall be levied and collected a tax upon lh'e manufactured products of the wood of the Sequoia Gigantea, or big trees, as follows: When such trees are cut down there shall be levied and collected a tax at the rate of $2 per thousand feet, board measure, to be scaled as soon as any tree is felled and cut into logs; and when one of said logs is cut into lumber or manufactured in any form there shall be levied and collected a further tax of $10 per thousand feet, board measure.” The bill is of course designed to protect the big trees by making it unprofitable to cut them down or cut them up. The commercial us¢ of the Sequoia Gigantea is to be stopped in the same way that State ‘banks‘nf issue were stopped by the application of excessive taxation. We direct attention to the bill as a matter of inter- est to Californians. We are not aware what forces, if any, are back of it. The fact that it was introduced by a Representative from Iowa, instead of one from California, leads to the conclusion that it-has no sup- port in this State. It serves to show, therefore, that Eastern people have become interested in the preser- vation of the big trees, and that in itself is gratifying. Before many years are passed the United States will have 'to take up the question of preserving not only the big trees of this State but the forests generally, and consequently every new evidence of a willinghess on the part of members of Congress to co-operate in legislation to that end is a matter of satisfaction. FOREST FRESERVATION, ESOLUTIONS drawn up by the California Club urging upon Congress immediate action for the preservation of our forests are to pe | submitted to the Legislature. There should be needed | no argument to sustain the resolutions, nor to procure for them the unanimous approval of both houses. The issue is one which has been presented to the peopl: over and over again, and all who take an intelligent interest in large questions affecting the public welfare R are familiar with the importance of the subject. The resolutions, after setting forth the wasteful manner in which our forests are being treated, and the possibility of so conserving them as to render | them ,productixe and profitable for all time to comz urges “an appropriation by Congress of money to be | expended in the accomplishments of the objects aimed at in the preamble” amd “instructs our Senators and Representatives to use their best efforts to accomplish the purposes recommended.” No valid objection upon any ground whatever can be made to the adoption of the resolutions. Califor- nia ought to take the lead in the national movement for forest preservation, and to that end her Senatc and Assembly should spesk for her in urging the work the national Gover When upon ent the reso'u tions are submitted they should bhé adopted unani- mously. That much, at least, the people have a rigin to expect from their representatives Roth houses of the Legislature now session have ready clothed themselves with more e pense than their predecessors. It is cerely to be hoped that the worthy gentlemen assembled at Sacramento have not reached the conclusion that the pesple of the State have retonciled themselves to the thought of enjoying luxuries whatever the cost may be. Sam found S2n Francisco a ket and spant $ico000.cn0 with us there is Simply because Un ion on foot to make us hear a greater bur den of State taxation. Our veighbors of the interior | should glory in our prosperity and not in envy seek tn take part of it away from us. William Jennings Bryan insists that it is the duty the Democ thought proba of ic party to regenerate itselfi. The never occurred to him that the first nre of regeneration for the party would be to get rid of the evil company in which it has been traveling for more than four years. mei An English naval officer has made the original suggestion that warsh'ps to be effective ought :0 prowl the ocean in disguise. This thought ought to recommend itself with particular force to the gentle- wen éngaged in the reconstruction of the Spanish J | ravy. | The process of disinfecting. Havana by the United | States Government seems to have raised an official ! stench far more offensive than that which caused it. | Tf we have a few more Federal scandals we will be- | gin to look upon them as matters of course. \ = & PR3 4 | local orator who <aid the other day that the spoils | system is a thing of the past in San Francisco might have had the kindness to tell us what he considered the raid upon the City Hall made by the Phelanite under the cloak of civil service reform. Bullman, the jockey, has been engaged at a salary of $15,000 a year and our most | sarcasm of the fates it is safe to say that neither would exchange places with the other, Another of our antiquities made sacred by the gen- erous consent of the nation is crumbling into the com- mon place of modernism. A very high authority, in no way soured, declares positively that Philadelphia is unquestionably a wicked city. Another instance of the fact that the bond which unites malefactors one to the other is as frail as in- evitab[y the reward of their evil actions is* small has been given in the offer of one of the Omaha kidnapers to betray his pals. Late dispatches from China give no particular en- couragement to the worthy effort now being made in New York for increased missionary labor in ths Ordent. The natives of Shansi have decided to eat all strangers. A man was killed and several people were danger- ously injured the other day by a bull infuriated against his human tormentors in a Mexican arena. This rightly looked at appears to be retributive justice. Everything significant seems to point to the con- clusion that Tod Sloan will have to look for a new vocation. How would tailor’s model do? He seems to have fitted himself for the part. New terrors of American occupation in the Philip- pines are being mfli:ted upon the natives. The Fili- | pinos are being initiated into the intricacies of mu- nicipal politics. : Of -'u; the last century sfiéennen of this country the one who seems to be most completely forgotten Tom Reed. ; o fly 1 ambitious college | president must content himself with $10,000. In this | 1901 SOCIET HE Century Club has stirred up all the men. The ladles are pre- paring to enjoy themselves through the medium of a mock sensational trial. and the men. Interested as they never have been before In ;‘:m::;“ clu:) lmatten. are dropping into uial . . i ynu:"‘ al ‘and asking, “Wouldn't it _ It was a man who first told me what ths club women were doing. “Gofng to have & mock trial,” sald he, “and try one of thelr members for the atroclous offense of having smuggled a man within the sacred precincts of the club.” "gwtul," said I. “Preposterous,” sald he. “As If yo could hire a man to go there.” And t‘ha‘: is what every man T met during the week said.only some expressed themselves more —picturesquely; and then, of course. begged my on. Fhe wrath of the men Is not, howeve-, worrying the ladles; who are going on with their preparations for the great trial. Mrs. Gamble, T understand, is the ladv who is to be tried by the club women, and Mrs. Kaufman is to be one of the Rortias of the occasioh. I'd give anythin, JANUARY 14, g to be présent at that trial. T consider that it offars.a magnifi- cent new field for the ndant's coun- sel. and oh, what a OUS ODpOr- tunity for the prosecutar. n't she ba able to score the men. I am able to get her closing ad to th, jury T shall print it {n tall i In the meantime I°gAyi n to take the matter. phil They consider It rather a slur; ! but then excitement is bad for necléieq and real- 1v there was not one man that I spoke to about the trial that didn't look as though the thermometer was registering 110 in the shade. Tsn't it just too fovful! ° The population of New York is nearly ten times that of San Francisco. vet in the Empire City there are only 150 swells | while we can boast of 250. That we are 100 ahead of New York is no dream of | mine. T have statistics to prove it. At | the last swell gathering in New York the rames of those present were flashed all over the world, and they were just 150 in number. On Wednesday night at the ball given by the Burlingame ladles | covers were lald for the supper which follow, for 20. Now, am I not right” | When vyou come to think of if, 20 is not at all bad. We are only a littla | aver fifty years old and we have a quar- ter of a thousand people with bank ac- | eounts and grandmothers. 1 predict that my convincing figures will take the breath away from George Gould when he comes | eut here shortly with the Eastern golfers | The Burlingame ball. [ believe. is to be repeated for his benefit and delight. and that will give the New Yorker not only a chance to taste of our hospitality, but also to feast his eves on our. beautiful women and handsome men. FEEEAT | The latest imported mode requires that { the maid. or valet. as the case may be tand suard behind her mistress’ or her r er's chair during the progr ' th: meal in a public restaurant. I saw the fashion in its double varfety illustrated at the Palace grill the other a Ti illustrators were Lord Thurlow, just over from England. and Madam Levy, the erstwhile landlady of the fashionabla Richelieu, just % from Pari Lor1 Thurlow's man kept watchful eve over him - made his fat mutton chops dis appear, and Madam's mald did the same for her mistress as she delicately toyel with her matutinal chocolate. While everybody stands ready to declare ti.at the mald or the man at the break- fast table must be the proper thing, [ have not been able to discover exactly , MOCK. SENSA BY SALLY SHARP, TIONAL TRIAL * FOR CENTURY CLUB. —— MiSS NORMA PRESTON, WHO LEFT RECENTLY FOR A TOUR OF THE WORLD., ACCOMPANIED BY HER MOTHER, MRS. E. F. PRESTON, AND HER SISTER, MISS EDITH PRESTON. s o what their dutles are while in such ar- tendance. Any authoritative explanation will be gratefully received. . Evervbody is raving over the gorgeous tapestries Mrs. William Irwin has brought from the Gobelin looms to beautify the eumptuous rooms of the mansion now in process of construction for her. These tapestries are only a small item of the magnificent art treasures Mrs. Irwin gathered up during her European tour. and no one need hesitate to claim that when the Irwin mansion complete there won't be a more handsomely furnished house in this city of bautiful and artistic homes. Mrs. Trwin leaves shortly for New Or- leans, where she will witness the Mardi Gras festivities. From the Southern city she goes on to New York-and will then return and occupy the new hous No one can think of new houses and art treasures without immediately referring to the pessibilities of the new home soon to be ready for Mr. and Mrs. James Flood. Mrs. Flood is intensely interested in her new home, and more than anxious to get into it. She declares that unlike the homes of most of our other millionaires, her doors will never be boarded up. “When I once get into our new home,” Mrs. Flood said the other day, “T shall never pack my things again. I have traveled encugh, and I now mean to en- joy my home." Mrs. Flood was the guest of honor at a delightful small gathering given by Win- field Jones last week. Besides greeting Mrs. Flood, Mr. Jones' guests had good fortune to meet their host’s niece, Miss Page-Jones, a piquant miss from Alabama. Mr. and Mrs, Will Tevis are at Cor- onado. After a short stay at the south- ern watering place they will go to New York, taking with them charming Flor- ence Breckinridge. Miss Breckinridge, who, on account of death In her family, @id not make her entree into soclety this winter, is devoting herself more than ever to mustc. Miss Breckinridge enjoys the distinction of being the finest pianiste of the swell set. During the stay in New York Mrs. Tevis will see much of her mother, Mrs. Pacheco, who is again busy turning out new and clever comedies. . . The club women of this city are ex- tremely interested In the ‘“California Club Woman,” a magazine published in Southern California, and devoted to the interest of all the women’s clubs through- out the State. The magazine has kept on improving since the first issue, and the latest, the eighth number, is the best yet offered. Among the prominent club - 1 who have contributed to the maga. s 3 Mrs. C. J. Fox, Mrs. M. E. Irvine, Mra. M. E Donsman and Miss Mabel Adams Ayer. Miss Ayer's contribution, a dainty poem, entitled “To Beauty,” is of a high order of merit, and has by its excellence surpris d even Miss Ayver's most ardent admirers. W< RLD’SNAVAL NEWS, The Japanese battleship Hatsuse, built at Elswick, made a short trial last month, averaging over 19 knots /during three | “hours with about 15.000 horsepower, | P Havwthorne, Leslie & Co., at Newcastle- | on-Tyne. have contracts for the engines | for three armored cruisers of the Kent | tvpe. They are to develop 22000 horse- power and will cost about $1,100,000 for each ship, or at tne rate of $30 per horse- I power. P Portsmouth, at which the most impor- tant naval depot and dockyard of Great Rritain is located, is said to be full of foreign spies. of which many are women. The recent mysterious disappearance of two navy signal books has been laid first | to a Japanese and later to a Russian lady who visits Portsmouth at intervals. & The British battleship Albion has, after long delay, passed through the first of her serles of four trials. it being a coal consumption trial of thirty hours under one-fifth power. The ship was down to her load draught of 26 feet. The engines developed 2772 horsepower, giving a speed of 11.2 knots with a coal consumption of 2.17 poun per unit of horsepower. N TR The water-tube boiler which geets with ! most favor in the German navy is that known as the Schulz boiler. According to | a recent statement made by Thornycroft, the noted English builder of fast torpedo crafts, his company Is joint owner in the | German bofler, which will henceforth be | denominated as the Thornycroft-Schulz ( | boiler. Three armored cruisers—Vittorio, Eman uele 11T and Regina Ellena—have been Jaid down in Italian dockyards. They are of 12,62 tonms, 20000 horsepower and 22 knots speed. Their armament consists of two 12-inch, twelve 8-inch quick firers, twelve 3-pounders and two submerged torpedo tubes. The armor belt and tur- rets will be 10 Inches, the bulkheads S i{nches and the 8-inch gun protection L3 inches. The normal coal supply is 1000 tons and the bunker capaeity is 2000 tons. PR The British cruiser Diadem, of 11,000 tans | and 16,500 horsepower, was boarded last month by the Parliament Boiler Commit- tee and taken to sea for a thorough test under service conditions, The trial was for twenty-four censecutive hours, during Which the speed averaged 18 knots, which was considered satisfactory. The initial trial of eight hours. made during . the summer of 1898, gave 17.262 horsepower and 20.65-knot speed, but the ship was light by about one foot. _ . The latest naval programme of Ttaly Is to expend 389,000,000 lira (about $77,500,000) between 1901-1912 upon the building of new and the reconstruction of old ships. The expenditure is to be distributed as fol- lows: Nineteen hundred and one to 1904, $40.- 600,000 for work in hand, five armorclads of 10,000 tons, each one to cost $4,200,000; six- teca torpedo-boat destroyers, two auxil- jary vessels and reconstruction of the Ttalla and Lepanto, bum.tmty years u;;tvm 1905-1909, six armorclads are to | said the former is inferior. In the event of 2 fight and defeat the Russian officers are to have asserted that they would blow their ships up rather than to fall in the hands of the Japanese, as the Rus- slan crews believe they would be tortured by the Japs. As for the Japanese, they have a standing order for naval battles to the effect that if any of their ships hoist the white flag her consorts are to sink her. With such a mutual hatred a sea fight would be sure to be not alone | to a dead finish, but also furnish valu- able lessons as to the practical utility of many contrivances as yet unsatisfac- torfly tested. Faet The Novik, a Russian cruiser recently launched at Elbing, Germany, is a re- markable vessel in that she. is reallv a large torpedo-boat destroyer. The growth of this type of war vessel, beginning with the torpedo-boat Lightning in 1877, of 27 tons, 460 horsepower and 19 knots speed, has increased until the larger boats de- nominated torpedo-boat destroyers have reached 360 tons, 8000 horsepower and 32 | knots. Now Russia comes with a boat of | the torpedo-boat type of 3000 tons, 17,000 | horsepower and a speed of 25 knots. The | Novik is 361 feet in length, 39 feet 4 inches beam and 19 feet draught, which makes her displacement coefficient—as fine as | 40 L, B. D. She has two submerged tor- | pedo tubes on each sidé and onme In the | bow and stern. The battery consists of | six 4.7-Inch quick-firing, eight 3-pounders | and two Maxims. The conning tower is of three-inch Krupp steel, and the pro- tective deck, also of Krupp steel, is two | inches thick. | . e Liquid fuel as a substitute for coal is apparently not looked upon with favor in the British and United States navies. and an unfavorable report has been made by our naval engineers against using petro- leum on the torpedo-boats. Yet this liquid fuel is used with success in a num- ber of merchant steamers and on naval vessels of France, Germany and Russia. The French flagship on the China station uses it almost exclustvely, and the Ger- man battleship Brandenburg and cruiser Fuerst Bismarck are likewise using liquid fuel. Several Russian battleships have furnaces to burn either coal or | petroleum, the grates of which can be | changed for either purpose in three hours. & The price of Cardiff coal at Singapore is | at the present time about $14 a ton, whils | Uquid fuel is only $6 per ton, with a rela- | tive steam-raising power of 25 to 30 in fa- vor of the latter. It is not alone that liquid fuel is cheaper and better for steaming purposes, but its use dispenses with the large fireman force, which lat- | ter item saves a large expense and re- | lieves the boiler room of its tervor when | cruising in tropical waters. e . The triple-screw system appears to have had its day in the American navy, as no vessels have been built since the Co- Jumbia and Minneapolis in 1892-83. None of the five battleships, six armored cruis- ers and three protected cruisers are to be fitted with triple screws, and while 1 no reason has been published for this set- back to Mr. Melville's pet hobby, it is to be assumed that the increase In weight and space unl’ the additional engine room force overcome tha advantage which the system is clalmed to possess. On the | be bullt, two auxillary vessels and eleven torpedo boats, and during 1910-1912, $15.- 400,000 1s to be expended to replace obso- A other hand, France, Germany and Russia are favorable toward triple screws, and in the first named navy eight battleships, sixteen armored cruisers and three pro- tected cruisers are either bullt or under construction with three screws. Russia has two battleships and three armored cruisers of that class and Germany has six -battleships, three armored crui: and six protected cruisers thus fitted. the latter two are of only 5650 tons dis- t, whereas the American cruls- PERSONAL MENTION. J. W. Brown of Fresno is registered at the Palace. J. O. Hesterwood, a capitalist of San Jose, is at the Grand. Fred Good, a hotel man from Fresno, is registered at the Lick. George Q. Cannon, the Mormon elder, is registered at the Palace. C. F. Cutts, a well-known mining man of Carsom, s a guest at the Grand. Circuit Judge Erskine M. Ross of Los Angeles s registered at the Palace. G. N. Van Worm, a fruit grower of Fresno, is among the guests at the Liek. J. C. Daly, who controls large Interests in Ventura, is making a stay at the Cali- fornia. John B. Kirke, the millionaire soap man- ufacturer of Chicago. and Mrs. and Miss Kirke are at the Palace. H. Isaacs, division superintendent of the Banta Fe at Los Angeles, 1s making a brief stop at the Grand. —_————— New Century Astronomy. What is the very rare occurrence in a calendar year will happen in 1985, the first time since 1823, viz.: Seven eclipses, the largest possible number that can happen ir a year. 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