The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1901. . Adéress All Communieations to W. 8, LEAKE, Manager. F <Market a Telephone Freu 201, EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202Z. DATLY CALT, (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL fincluding Suni WEEKLY CALL. One Yeer . All postmasters are aunthorized to receive =abscriptions. Gample coples Will be forwarded when requested. Mafl shecribers n ordering chanse of address shoold e particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o msure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...1118 Broadway GEORGE KROGNESS. ¥aoager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago, Lovg T “Central 2618.”") o stance Telenhone £ 1 NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLYON...... vees..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . 30 Trib: NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Breotano, % Union Square: Murrsy Eill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. 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A 1 T ay, at 11a. m. and 2 p. m, bckton streets. rer Geary and 'CALIFORNIA REDWOOD P@RK. s Club has presepted to the 1 designed for the purpose oi igtion “‘a forest of the oldest " The forest stands in ated to ivation of forestry by the ) great universities of the State, ay park and recreation e a summer outing under ort made by the Semper- orest is therefore worthy the serve as a wood- of the whole State. the creation of a commission to overnor of the State, the presi- v of California, the president of , and two other Commissioners the Governor. The commission i land within the State upon irees known as Sequoia semper- i s most suitable for a park whose body of those trees from ovided that the land shall not n cost, and that the sum of $250,000 Iy appropriated to be used by the the purchase of land for the o Ao he till does not specify any par- The commission is to be free o nd select such tract as in the nissioners will be best fitted to however, prepared a written and il- in favor of the Big Basin. It con- cenes within that forest show the general landscape but pic- largest, oldest and most mag- 1e photographs reveal the beauty oi 1e hugeness of the giants of the wood. constitute a valid justification for made. on of these great trees is a matter in rnians ought to take an interest. They « of the chiefest glories of the State. They are the stately adornments by which nature has his land as more favored than all else the world. Were even a few of them in any part Europe they would have been in ancient days the chief Druidic veneration and through aii ages since the subjects of royal care. They would be renowned in song and story, and the four corners of the wc of d would long ere this have rung with the fume of their majesty snd their beauty. Upon Californians of this generation is imposed the @ ving these trees from destruction. It i« a duty whose fulfiliment cannot be postponed. Rap- idly are the redwoods falling before the march of | civilization that is ruthless of beauty. If anything of the grand old glories of California is to be saved for the delight of the present and the wonder of the future the work of salvation must begin now, A bill has been introduced in the Legislature at Sacramento with the single purpose of appropriating $3000 for the study of the history of bugs in the State. Legislators might perform a public service, accom- plish the suggested task readily and save the proposed expense by scrutinizing many of the bills which are before them for adoption. They may find more than one interesting bug. A Christian orator who is now laboring among us says that college students are subjected to more and greater temptations than any other class of men. Ip is hardly possible that the reverend means that the young gentlemen go looking which will tempt them. observer for that ROl S 204 | Butiding | ig Basin” of the Santa Cruz | he giant redwoods. The Semper- | MISMANAGEMENT @T SAN QUENTIN. Y the publication of the facts concerning the B fraud practiced by C. J. Walden in the sale of sacks stolen from the jute mill at San Quentin | The Call has exposed something more than the dis- | honesty of that ex-clerk and ex«convict. It has | brought to light the carelessness or worse of the | prison authorities and exposed a condition of affairs " | that renders investigation imperative. | Upon the very face of the facts there is evidence | of bad judgment; to say the least. An ex-convict em- | ployed in a capacity of great responsibility and trust has apparently been permitted to have an a.most free | hand in control of the sale of sacks from the prison { mill. His previous bad character, though well knowa to the Warden and to all in authority, was seemingly | e warning to them of his weakness and no sugges- | tion that they should put around him the watchfulness needed not only to protect the property of the State but to prevent him from feeling the temptations that would lead him to add other frauds and crimes to those of which he had been already convicted. No valid reason can be given to justify the appoint- ment of Walden to a position of such trust, nor, in- deed, can it be even so much as excused. The office should have been assigned to some man of knowa homnesty who has a family to support and who, being a good citizen, merits the position. Instead of be- stowing the place .upon a worthy man the prison authorities conferred it upon an ex-convict, gave him a large freedom of action in the conduct of the busi- ness of the office and then left him without that super- vision which shouald Lave been exercised over even | the most honest man who might have been employed | ir the place. To what extent the State has suffered by the de- falcations of Walden and the neglect of duty on the part of his superiors is not yet known. In comment- ing upon that phase of the question Prison Director Wilkins stated in an interview: “The loss to the State by Walden's defalcations may reach as high as $50,000, although as yet we know of only $2750. From our expert’s report and the investigation of detectives 1 believe the stealing has been going on for a number of years—in fact, almost since Walden took his place. The man Levy admitted to me this morning that he had had other dealings with Walden, than those we have discovered, and I think it likely that yet other receivers of stolen goods will be found.” Passing from the particular case which has been brought to light to a general view of the subject Mr. Wilkins went on to say: “If Walden did any stealing previous to September 9 of last year Clerk Joseph Ellis of the Prison Board must have been aware of Lis defalcations, and the thefts probably extend over a period of years. We believe they did. Certainly Walden must have had confederates at the prison. The business management of this irstitution has been lax and disgraceful. In every administration affairs have been loosely conducted, and the present one of Mar- tin Aguirre is no exception to the rule. Since Sep- tember 9 we have had no clerk of the Prison Board, and no attempt has been made to see if sacks were delivered. Before that date the sacks were dumpe” on a wharf in San Francisco and whoever called fo- them took them away. The clerk of the board was posed to find out if the sacks were delivered, and if while that official was holding office any thefts were made he must have been an accomplice.” Upon that showing Prison Director Wilkins is cer- tainly justified in declaring: “A thorough reorgani- zation of the present prison methods is a necessity.” The issue confronts the Legislature. It cannot be ignored and it must not be evaded. An investigation must take place. It can hardly be necessary to add that when made the investigation should be thorough. Tt should not be confined to the circumstances con- cerning this particular case; it should bring to light the whole system of prison management and maks clear the practices by which that system is carried out in daily operation. Reorganization, as Mr. Wilkins says, is a necessity, but before it is undertaken it should be made known wherein the present manage- ment js defective and who are to blame for the de- fects either of method or of practice. | EASTERN WATERWAY PROJECTS. HENEVER a Western man suggests the ex- W penditure of a few millions of Government { money for the irrigation of the arid regions of the country the East complains of “an alarming tendency to loot the treasury,” but when it is a ques- | tion of supplying more waterways for any part of the East, then those same people begin to talk loudly of the duty of the Government “to promote internal improvements.” | There are enough canal or deep water projects | urged upon Congress by the East to entail a govern- mental expenditure large enough to irrigate every acre of arid land in the West, plant it with roses and chrysanthemums and build a villa on it with a red | stable in the background. The country is already familiar with the proposal to | convert the Chicago drainage canal into a ship canal which will enable sea-going vessels to pass from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi and the Gulf. The fur- ther project of constructing a deep water canal from the lakes to the ocean at New York is also well known. Those two enterprises alone would cost more than twice as much as has ever been estimated as requisite to irrigate all the arid West that is capable of irrigation. In addition to them there are other big schemes. Philadelphia wishes the Delaware River opened <o as to make a thirty foot channel to the sea, but that is a small and modest wish, not widely different from Boston’s desire for a forty foot waterway in her harbor at a cost of only $10,000,000. A more costly project is that of constructing an | inland waterway from Beaufort, N. C., to Boston, on the one hand, and to the lakes on the other. The plan is to have the canal start at Norfolk, Va., and run southward through the Dismal Swamp canal tc Albemarle Sound, thence through Scuppernong | River to Pimlico Sound, and thence to Beaufort through the Neuse and Newport canal. Northward i from Norfolk the waterway is to be opened through | Chesapeake Bay, and thence by canal to the | Delaware River. After that there is something like | clear sailing for the scheme, for, as a New York ad- | vocate of the enterprise says: “The Delaware River | is navigable by all craft to Philadelphia, and for ves- | sels of considerable size to Bordentown. From the | latter city there is canal navigation to the Raritan, at | New Brunswick, and thence, of course, there is afine inland waterway to New York. From this city there |is a cross-country waterway by the Hudson River and Erie canal to the whole system of Great Lakes ! and the St. Lawrence River. There is also the way | up the coast, by Long Island Sound to Buzzards | Bay, and thence, by the construction of a short cana?, ports to Atlantic ports. Another project is to have an inland waterway from Savanuah, Ga., to Wilming- ton, N. C, and so on, to connect with the northern waterway. In short, anything that promises a water- way by which to empty the United States treasury along the Atlantic coast or down the Mississippi Val- ley is regarded as a legitimate work of the Govern- ment. In the meantime the West is exhorted to pay taxes and to abstain from looting the treasury. ———— HOLDING BACK IMPROVEMENT. Y reason of his many extraordinary statements Tesla has managed for some time past to oc- cupy a much larger space in the columns of sensational journals than any other experimenter in this country along lines of electrical development. His recent suggestion of the possibility of communi- cating with Mars is a specimen of the means by whick he makes his bids for fame, or rather for notoriety. In comparison with such declarations Edison has been quiet, and yet he has made an assertion which has far more claim upon the attention of intelligent men than anything Tesla has said or done in five vears. The statement occurs in an interview with Edison recently, published in the Western Electrician. He is Guoted as having said: “There is no inceative to-day fc any one to devote time or money in attempting to increase the rapidity of telegraphic communication in this country. As you very well know, telegraphy in the Unitéd States is in the hands of financiers, and any business man will understand me when I say that it is only too evident that the present policy of the great companies is to ‘let well enough alone.” This statement contains the clear imputation that the big telegraph corporations, being no longer urged by the rivalry of competing companies to make im- provements in their lines and increase the facilities for telegraphic communication, are deliberately hold- ing back improvements because they do not wish to go to the expense of altering their plants. If that be true of telegraph companies, and Edison is in a position to know the truth, it must be equally true of the corporations that control telephone com- panies. It is quite probable that if there were any- thing like competing telephone lines available to spur one another on to improvement there would be a much better system of telephoning in use by this time. Science and invention are, in fact, held back by corporate interests, and the new century begins the work of rivaling the nineteenth in progress with that handicap upon its efforts. It is not easy to determine what should be done to remedy the evil, but it is worth noting the United States Government recently compelled railroad cor- porations to adopt the improvement of automatic couplings, and it would seem, therefore, that intelli- gent governmental supervision and regulation might compel telegraph and telephone companies to accept improvements which are calculated to be of service to the public. It is well understood that while great combinations in control of the public utilities and industries of the country are productive of much good, they also bring many evils in their train, and among those evils is that of checking the improvements which men of scientific attainments and mechanical skill are now capable of devising for the advancement of civilization. O by reports from New York that there had come a reaction against the movement for the consolidation of great interests under a single man- agement. The statistics showed that while in 1809 the aggregate capitalization of industrial combines reached the enormous sum of $2,500,000,000, the ag- gregate capitalization of such enterprises last year was but $945,000,000. So marked a decline as that justi- fied expectation that the worst of the trust scare was over, but later developments threaten to revive it. In fact, if all reports be true, we are now about to witness a combination that will come very near being as big a thing of the kind as can ever be achieved un- less we reach absolute state socialism. The great railroad deal arranged by J. Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill appears to be reaching after everything that can in any important way affect railroads. They have not only discussed the combi- nation of some of the greatest trunk lines of the con- tinent into one system, but they have approached the Carnegie Company for the purpote of controlling the steel manufacturing industry so as to command ths price of rails and other materials of that kind, and, moreover, they will virtually dominate the coal in- custry of nearly the whole country north of the Poto- ‘mzc and east of the Mississippi. In addition to the report of those schemes from New York there comes another from Chicago to the effect that Morgan and Hill have been negotiating for the purpose of getting control of the express traf- fic.- It is stated to be the intention of the combine to conduct the express business as a regular part of railroad operation. The report adds: “While noth- ing definite regarding the plans is obtainable, it is claimed to be the intention of the railroad officials to refuse to renew contracts with the companies where the remaining life of the contracts is not long and to make outright purchases of franchises where the con- tracts still have long lives before them. The ex- press companies have contracts ranging all the way from"five to twenty years, and at the expiration of their legal agreements they are at the mercy of the railroad companies.”~ Of course in reports of that kind there is always more or less exaggeration. That much is understood. It is to be borne in mind, however, that the progress toward centralization of railroad interests has been so rapid of late that the exaggerations of one day have been understatements on the next. Between the railroad companies and the express companies there is now close alliance. In the end it may please the magnates of the roads to swallow their allies, as well as the coal mines and the steel plants. A FAR - REACHING TRUST. NLY a short time ago the country was cheered Our State legislators are of the opinion that ‘Con- gress would be wise to investigate the official acts of United States District Judge Noyes of Nome. What- ever else may be said in reference to the affair it cer- tainly cannot be denied that Judge Noyes has left a very rich field for investiffation. William Waldorf Astor has once more bid for the favor of the English aristocrats by whom he was snubbed. He has fed them a sumptuous feast. He evidently believes that the social army makes progress as does the military—on its belly. - The impetuous Stanford student who was given an unwelcome morning bath for an indiscreet remark has probably been persuaded that there are some things that were best left unsaid. NO SIGNALS SENT Flammarion Explains tions From FROM RUDDY MARS the Luminous Projec- the Planet. Flammarion, are nothing new. The same announcement has been made nearly ev- ery two years for the last fifteen years, and each time the false Interpretations made of them have been refuted. But the public memory is short, and then not everybody reads astronomical works even of the most popular kind. What, then, are these luminous projections? The planet Mars, like the terrestrial globe, is lit by the sun, which naturally illuminates only one-half at a time. The line of separation of the hemisphere thus 1t up from the hemisphere in darkness (the line termed the ‘‘terminator’) forms the limit of the phase, as one can see with the naked eye in the case of the maon. Well, it is there, always there, that we observe these luminous points—that is to say, on the meridian of the rising or the setting of the sun, and to explain these irregularities, these white prominences, two simple and natural hypotheses pre- sent themselves. Very high mountains might throw their summits into the dark hemisphere, as we see constantly on the moon, and as hap- pens on the earth in the case of isolated mountains. Clouds still higher than the mountains and more isolated might offer the same aspect. Now, if we take a globe of Mars and examine the region on which the last projections reported by Mr. Doug- las were seen, we find that it was be- tween the three hundred and eighteenth and three hundred and thirtieth meridian and on the seventh southern parallel of latitude. Clouds are very rare in the at- mosphere of Mars, a world that enjoys great privileges in regard to the almost permanent clearness of its sky. However, on examining this globe, you will remark a white spot (the only one on it) near this int. POrhe listle Tearian Sea forms the left of the western Knrt of the great long shaped ulf from the east to the west named inus Sabeus, and if have indicated there and there only on the whole planet a long white mark, it is because I have often remarked white spots forming a contrast with the dark tone of the sea and with the yellow tone of the continent itself. Other observers have remarked this like myself. They cannot be due to clouds, but to fogs which, when lit up from above by the sun, are perfectly white, or else to white frost. But this probabiltty is In favor of fogs, the con- figuration of the ground suggesting the existence of two chains of mountains sep- arated by a large valley corresponding to S =3 | | | | i ¥ SULLY, 5 .\\ NS W == é“ - 7 (2275 N N, 4 S N X2 \\\Q\j\fl\} ;l,,/ G | MAP OF MARS, SHOWING THE CANALS. THE BLACK SPOT ON THE WHITE PORTION, REPRESENTING LAND, IS WHERE THE LUMIN- OUS SIGNALS SEEMED TO COME FROM. ; * —_— CAMILLE FLAMMARION, in an | the mouth of the Euphrates and the Phi- article recently published in the |Son. On the other hand, everybody knows Parls Temps, comments on the re- | yy,a¢ the planet Mars turns on its axis in cent projections of light observed | 4 ljttle more than_ twenty-four hours (24 1 on the planet Mars at the observ- | hours 37 min. 22.65 sec.) from west to atory at Flagstaf, Ariz. east, and when we observe it the spots These luminous projedtions, says M. |oD tHe surface move from right to left. The planet will reach opposition to the sun on February 22 next, and then, being perfectly round, completely lit up by the sun, it will not have any phase. At pres- ent the phase, whlcg is somewhat strong- ly marked, is on the left hand. It marks the terminator, the meridian at the set- ("’H: of the sun. e various countries of Mars pass un- der our eyes, moving from right to left and from the day toward the night. the globe of Mars to which I have referred the cloudy belt extends from the three hundred and fifteenth to the three hun- dred and fiftleth meridian: that is to say, nearly three hours of rotation. There is, therefore, nothing surprising in the fact that on December 8 ‘ast, the date of the dispatch, an observer may have seen for more than an hour the clouds lit up by the setting sun, Mr. Lowell has ulrendywrubllshad two enormous volumes fllled with documents on the numerous and important observa- tions made at his observatory. In thess we find no less than 487 observations of the terminator (made in 1894-1899), of which the greater part show irregularities and prominences and the luminous pro- Jections which are lrlls;ncstlcn at present. and 175 made in 1896-189i. The astronomers of Flagstaff, Messrs. Lowell, Douglas and Pickering, are also of opinion that thes» luminous points !lmpl{ represent clouds lit up by the sun. It is not in this that we find signs that the planet is inhabited by an intelligent race more or less resem- bling our own and even, as we will see, more intelligent than ourseives. If our neighbors In the sky were mak- ing signals to us we would ask why they chose the hour of the setting sun and a meridian so oblique to our view. Would it not be suggested bv nature herself to choose daylight and solar reflectors? If we desired to reply to them we ought on the comnfl' to choosa the middle of the night, as Mars gravitates round the sun in an'orbit outside that of the earth, and when the two planets are closest together it presents to us its hemisphere lit up by the sun, while our oplanet presents its hemisphere in darkness. No, there is nothing mtentional in this— nothlnf human. But we have quite an- other impression if we regard the globe of Mars and especially if we examine with care all the details of the Martian maps. The geographical network of the canals is so regular, so remarkably designed—for these immense straight lines start visibly from regions where water is concentrated and finish at fixed points of distribution— that the more we examine them the less we find them natural and the less we can resist the idea that these lines represent a hydrographic system, judiciously con- cetved for the fertilization of a globe very advanced in Its evolution and on which water has become a rare and preclous vital element. EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Waiting for Bryan’s Paper. The first issue of Bryan's paper, ths Co ner, will be pubiished a week from next/ Wednesday—January 23. Bryan says the 'circulation promises to more than meet his expectations. Many editors ara waiting to get a “lick” at the newcomer in the journalistic fleld.—Ogden Standard. Rural Mail Delivery. The free rural mail delivery system !s a progressive step and its influence for good in bringing the inhabitants of the countr in close daily touch with the centers of commerce and thought is Incaiculable. To receive daily newspapers and to dal'y come in touch with the rest of exercise a_broadening and enli influence. The Postmaster G n last annual report promised a rapid e tension of the system .and as Co - men generaliy are informed of its and, the wishes of the people reg. they will undoubtedly vote whate propriation the Postmaster General may ask for it.—Nashville American. Lord Pauncefote’s Record. Twice at least the term of Lord Paunce- fote's services at Washington has been extended. He long outstayed the us ual period of foreign representatives in the United States and now an indefinite extension is announced when the Embas- sador Is ready to go hence. All of which is highly complimentary to Lord Paunce- fote. He is a skilled diplomat and very agreeable gentleman. Thus he i3 useful to his own Government and agreeable to the Government and people to whom he is accredited. His continuance at Wash- ington signifies that Great Britain is ali to the importance of questions now be- fore the nations. A new man at Wash- ington at this time would mean the tram: fer to London of much of the busines that is safely placed in Lord Pauncefote's charge.—Utica Press. New England Warned. There is food for sober thought for New Pngland in the summary of the new tex- tile mills of 1900 as presented in the Bos- ton Journal of Commerce and Textils Industries. Only three new mills wera undertaken through ali last year ia Maine; none in Vermont: none in New Hampshire; none in Connecticut: oniy eight in Rhode Island and omly six in Massachusetts,.or seventeen for all the New England States. mills were undertaken in the one South- ern State of Alabama; forty-one in Geor- gm; forty-one in North Carolina and orty-seven in South Carolina. Tennes- see had eleven new mills, or almost twice as many as Massachusetts: M’lnisstpéu had eight, or as many as Rhode Island; Virginia had eight also and even far away Texas had seven, or twice as many as Maine.—Boston Journal. 1f Sydney Smith Were Alive. If Sydney Smith were alive to-day ho ‘would realize that In the last elghty years of the century just closed considerable progress had been made in this country— more perhaps than in any country in the civilized world. It was only in 1820 that in one of his savage attacks on our peo- Dli lg the Edinburg Review he sneeringly asked: “In the four guarters of the globe who reads an American book? goes to an American play? Or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world to American physiclans or sur- ? What new substances have their chemists discovered or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellation= have been discovered by the telescopes of America? What have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of Amer!- can glasses? Or eats from American plates? Or wears American coats or gowns? Or sleeps in American blankets?" The records of the nineteenth century show thdt these questions have been an- | swered pretty comclusively to the British | mind, if not always satisfactorflv to the | British pocket. Perhavs some snarler of the present period would like to submit | another lot!—Atlanta Constitution. —_——— Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotsl * But sixteen new f ‘Wilgus ofl burners. Office and salesroom 514A Mission street. Telephone John 2406. * —_——————— Best eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ to 40e. Look out for 81 4th, front of barberand grocery.* —_—— e | Cameras, photographic supplies, books | on photography and books for unmounted | photographs. Printing and developing | Bone in the latest styles. Sanborn, Vail | & Co., 741 Market street. . | —_——————— Townsend’s California glace frults. 3te und, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ts. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bujlding. * Specfal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 Moat gomery st. Telephone Main 1043 . It is commonly believed among the peasantry in the Ural Mountains that for a wolf to see a man before the man sees the wolf {s an omen that he will be “struck dumb,” and so remain as long as the wolf lives. ——— New Santa Fe Train. The new Santa Fe train known as the Calt- fornia Limited affords service very much supe. rior to anything ever before offered to Coast travelers. . PERSONAL MENTION J. R. Robinson, a Chico banker, is at the Grand. Y Dr. W. F. Graham of South Carolina is at the Occidental. Dr, H. L. Pace of Tulare is a late arri- val at the Palace. J. R. Weeks, an ofl man of Los Ange- les, Is at the Grand. G. T. Coffey, a Nevada City mining man, is at the Lick. James I. Dolan, a mining man of Coul- terville, is at the Palace. N. C. Murdock, who settled in Utah in 1847, is visiting in the city. Lew E. Aubrey, a Los Angeles mining man, is registered at ihe Grand. Dr. A. B. Chamberlain of Galveston, Texas, is a late arrival at the Grand. A. C. Clark, superintendent of the Pat- ton asylum, is registered at the Lick. J. W. Rogers, banker at Sundance, . Wyo., is at the Occidental with his wife, Dr. Irwin N. Frasse of San Jose Is staying at the Occidental for a few days. Glasgow, is at the Palace for'a few days. A. J. Blethen, one of the proprietors of the Seattle Times, and his wife are at the Grand. J. H. Ambrose, a wealthy retired busi- ness man of Orono, Maine, is at the Grand. W. A. Bissell, assistant trafic manager of the Santa Fe, is quite 1l at his home in Alameda. Captain E. G. Beeson, surgeon of the Thirty-ninth Infantry, is registered at the Occidental. e ———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASBINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Mrs. C. B. Jennings, Mrs. A. B. Bastwood and Dr. Kate J. Howard of San Franeisco, H. H. Wilkins, the Misses Wilkins and Miss Nichols of San Rafael are at the Shore- ANSWERS TO QUEREES. LABORI'S WIFE—A. S, Maitre Labori, one of the attorneys Dreyfus case, did not marry “the divorced wife of Ignace Jan Paderewski,” but he married the divorced wife of M. Viadimir de Pachmann, a Russian pianis! FORCE OF WIND—§,, City. Wind with the velocity of 5 miles an hour has a pres- sure of 2 ounces to the square foot; 10 miles, half a pound; 20 miles, 2 pounds; 30 miles, 41¢ pou: ;wunu.lponnagsw t. miles, 13 pounds; 60 miles, 18 pounds; 70 miles, 24 pounds; 80 miles, 32 pounds gnd Robert W. Balrd, a noted electrician of | must have knowledge of the sea and ships, and should serve a voyage before the mast so as to get knowledge by practical ex- erfence. To obtain ‘“‘a position of some ind on a merchant vessel,”” application should be made to the master of the ves- sel on which the individual would like to ship. - ——————— Gas Consumers’ Association, 344 Post st., re. duces gas bills from 20 to 40 per cent. Gas and electric meters tested. Electrical department. All kinds of electric work prompfly attended to.* ———— To neglect the hair is to lose youth and come- liness. Save It with Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. —NEXT —SUNDAY’S JANUARY 20, 1901. | CALL of Peck’s Bad Is San Francisco in the Grip “The Green Terror’’? What Sort of a Creature Is Man? . By GRACE FERN. The Queen of Portugal as a -Heroi Notable Examples of Hazing. Our Best Bear-Hunting | Stories. By Five San Francisco Sportsmen. What Some of Our Weaithy Boys and Girls Desire to Be When They Grow Up. ne. Boy and the The Sacramento suicide who was found the other | tc Cape Cod Bay and Boston.” 160 miles 50 pounds. day with a racing pool ticket as the only mark oi jdentification upon him forgot that he belonged to sn army which is identified only as unfortunates, ‘ | There are some other projects. The new South has i a yearning for canals. One scheme proposes a canal across Florida so as to shorten the route from Gulf Information comes irom New Hampshire that while Senator Chandler is 1o be out of office at the end of this Congress, he is rot going to be out of politics so long as his tomahawk holds its edge. e RV S SEA CAPTAIN—C. T., Modesto, Cal, In order to become a sea captain the indi- vidual who has such an inclination must wtudv and be famillar with mlnflnlfi_ He “Groceryman in New York. Completion of the Coast Line