The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1901. MONDAY..cscenisesnonnses I‘EBRU‘\RY 18, 1901 J’)HN D. QPRECKELS. Propnekyr B Acdress Al é..um.um to-W. 8. LEAEE, Manager. M \\ AGER'S OFFICE...... Telopllnnl- rr l'l HLIC ATION I\I"F‘I('E Telephone Pres: 204 1. ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. EDITORIAL Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per “Week: Single Copies. 5 Cents. Including Postage: Soid Wox 3 il ¥ CA ¥ CALL (including Sunday): 6 T CALL (incl ATl £83 By Single Month One Year CALL, One Year All postmasters are -mhorlled to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be .forwarded when requested. | subscribers in ordering change of address should Ye give both WEW AND OLD ADDRESS-in order mpt and corre tance with their request CAKLAND OFFICE. L1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mensger Foreign Aévertising, Marquetts ‘Building. Chieags, Long Distance Telephone *Central 2613.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTO cieeees....Herald Square NEW YORK REPRES STEPHEN B. SMITH TATIVE: Tribune Building NEW YO! Waldort-Astoria Hotel: Hill Hotel NEWS STANDS: A. Brentano, % Union Square: HICAGO NEWS STANDS: use; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE....1406 G St MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. Sherman H ,, N.wW. gomery, corner of Clay, open open ‘until 9:30 o'clock. 3% ‘clock.” 615 Larkin, open until 10 o'clock. open afternoon and | c steel combination cek was devoid of especial iea- This combina was concerned italization, ot to disturb v € d in at least, has been suc Ir t the effect of the combination was to ess. in. Wall street- and to ich were showing signs of stocks were -especially firm,. as connected with the and’steel Sage to-take a' beatish view of ymbine and rather looks for a financial but 'th views Hré ot known, all street on eems operator’s by the other promi ral trade is concerned good reports The 5 per and Min- tant city to exhibit a g received of the country. for the we parts showed a gain of 3f sponding week in 1900, Iy impc all New York was very large, being Pittsburg, the center of the iron This shows a healthy Indeed, ere and there to hold per while somc eel supplies until after the trust 1g the mills to na me positive and some are so crowded looking for any and structurz new material ar € here s no disposition to shade 1 products, and pig iron is ac sburg stapies = le are firm, except wheat The former is carrying a load of large d ripments, which keeps ¢ market depressed, and cotton fabrics are quiet, with ne land buying raw cottor from It quantities. Wool still lags, ee leading Eastern markets is, breaking all recent records rearly 1,000,000 pounds over The boot and shoe trade is ki ctory exhibit at the moment e demand ve that many manufacturers are.| booked several anead and buyers cannot- se- re-March delivery suve'in exceptional cases. Drum- turning from the West and the South with reports, and the business i$ in good condition 1 around mers heer The_feeling-in lumber is also firm. Pro- have been more or less:unsettled for some e market i<’ without ctpeaai feature. ng off in number, though they are ahead of last year, those for the week for the same week last year. the week throughont howing e gy, and it will be seén that it is a goon one. Th is littie to 1eport in the local situation Beiinods 15 sl Sk ture. There but without, fea arter, and we seem to \mh no clov in sight Farm p s lagging somewhat as usual at this ne of the year. and while the movement in merchan- ise ot be as active as it was last summer, it better than last year at th time, as shown by the <ly bank clearings. The cal thus far this season and every- locking forward. to “abundant harvests and nes regular incréase in the wee weather has been body gobd The prohibition raids of women in Kansas have lost their last element of originality who have been Awidlng the in The male raiders e enthusiasts wil] t upon getting drunk uponithe liquor which they have stolen.” This species 6f “loot” has a tendency to injure the crusade. San Francisco is again the yictim of jealous rivalry. Depver has ordered an‘nvestigation of her Police De partment just as we were having a little tun with ‘one own. We can have the satisfaction, héwever, tha: Denver can’t beat us cn Chinese perjury. 1 .Market and Third, S. F. | _'335 purchasers are | THREATENED REVIVAL OF CRIME. N attempt will be made to-day to- reopen th ‘flracetrack at. Ingleside. This effort will meat, | to the people of San Francisce that dangerous vice is again to'be given an opportunity to corrupt the men and dishonor the womeén of this city. Upon the shoulders of the Supervisors rests the responsibility | of preventing this outrage. These men; who are the official representatives of the people of San Francisco, reed not be told what the racetrack evil means to this city. They, as well as every one else in this com munity, know what of disgrace, dishonor and distress this evil has worked. They know of the crime which, as an mtntzhle re- svlt, has followed the toleration of ra ufack‘.gam- bling. Men in high official stations have ‘dishonored | themselves and robbed the city, the Statc and the nation through their infatuation for trad\ gambling. Homes have been wrecked, lives have been ruined, distress, poverty, mental, moral and physical collapse have followed where the evil of track gambling has led. p The Supervisors of the city knm\ this, and upon’ them rests the stern responsibility of prucnunsz‘n« repetition of the crime and disaster which this city has, won through a toleration of a dangerous evil. If any member &f the Board of Supervisors dare_present to-. day a measure designed to reopen Ingleside mcetrar‘ and re-establish in San Francisco the dread. scnurgc of criminal gamblers he cannot evade the respons bility of being sponsor for that which means: mota death to the people of the city. n is credited as being the author of the proposed schéme to reopen the racetrack and to re-establish the crime of track gambling in San Francisco. Supervisor Tobin represents, Supervisor Tol through his family: and his associations, one of*ths most pmverful,e]"e“ ments of moral health in the city. .In his keeping ara' the savings of thousands of families. Does he dafe to'| ather a measure which will :tempt these people: into the way of evil doing and make easy for scoundrels began h]lmg themselves, to save thexr honor by suicide, Dr. Elliott says: “Buddhism and - Confucianism’ have their martyrs to chastity which no martyrology Fwill evet record. Those obscure -but right-minded women flung themselves into the rivers and kept their |- heads under water until death had set his seal on the sacrifice of their life. But a large number of ill- starred women fell alive .into the hands of the allied troops. I saw numbers of them in Peking and Tung- tschau dead, with frightful gashes in their breasts, skulls smashed in, and one with a horribly mutilated body.” The Turkish outrages in Armenia seem so mild by contrast ‘that Chnstendom owes an apology to the un- speakable Turly for making so much noise about his misdeeds, . It is nut,ylelsant to read these ‘things nor to pub- fish them.:~But it is the duty of a newspaper to hold, the mxrror up to ' ndture that - thmg< may be seen ‘as they are. “We have hoped* (hat the conscience of this country. m:ghz “béiquickened to its duty. of protest, firm and cfievcme',protest, against the shame that'is upon the name of Christian civilization because of the riethods -pursued-in- China. X We have watched the work of negouanons in China’ with: gréat anxiety, looking fora progress and an ont-* ‘come -consistent with the ‘proféssions of the nauons that have China undér th Lrheels But we are sorry.to sy that no such outcome-is’in siglht; . The' allieg ‘are dma\wmg blood atonement. md will nog,axen consent that thme Prmcm shal} have, rhe ‘privilege. of committing: unless (1"& F“‘Pl‘mf will: i\fire 'fhmt«hur heads ‘aré . to, b_é i ‘ flrrnughout Chm.a' : “Wesare glad fosay” that no "simi fin stained Lhe\hlauk record nf,.Com;nche, Apachc or. mhz of Amer;can Indians. ECF!\T d:< chss fmm Tscoma announc: that | Extensive pr a!ltrons' are “being made: m tHat “city and at Seattle to hznd!e the Ala;kan trade, which is &xpected this.year. to surpass all. previous’ records. It is stated: “Not less ‘than two dozen sail- ing vessels will staft: ior Nome and Benng Sea in the filching of money dearly earned? Does Super-. visor Tobin intend to ask from the people of San| Francisco patronage for a savings bank while he:| pleads for the harpies of a racetrack?_, Does he, wish | the people of this city to understand.that he asks, thei~ savings and wants them to indulge a° game that hus men—that: has . destroyed;| homes, ruined lives, wrecked the hopes and ambitions of families? g i made thieves of honest If Sipervisor Tobin wishes the people of San Francisco to under: | { | tand this he will present | to-day his measure demanding the re-establishment | of Ingleside racetrack. | The issue is a people of this | : | serious one. It has been for the | Each day almost gives to the public a new, and horrifying illus- tration of the evil of track gambling city a most dangerous one. The press and | the pulpit have proclaimed against it; will Supervisor Tobin attempt to revive it? The people of this city have a right to presume that ‘his thought of family. his sense of responsibility -and- his self-respect will prevent. him. | N nh;cuiun was made to some of the mcth | ARE 'WE HEAD-HUNTERS? Wnds pursued in the Philippines it was met sby the statement that the islanders were of savage \[.“a\ blood and were nothing but head-hunters, ac- customed to taking the heads of their enemies and putting thie same on exhibition as a means of intimi- dation. At that time it seemed throughout Christen- dom that such a ‘misuse of human heads was an evi- | dence of barbarism so revolting that those who di | it were outlawed from Christian sympathy. | The same Christendom that held up its hands in lhorror at heathen head-hunting is now in China struggling to open the way for Christianity | to walk into the affections of the people. We have re- | cently publisheq the testimony of Americans to the | fiendish methods pursued by the Christian troops in | | Ching. The unspeakable crimes they have committed are all the more horrible because their’ vile and beastly conduct stands in contrast with the courage, | enterprise and seli-restraint, of the heathen Japanese soldiers. These latter are admitted to have been the best soldiers on the march and in siege and batt and not a stolen tael nor an inhuman outrage charged against them. Next after them in good qua ties our Afnerican soldiers are placed by common con- sent. But, untouched by any sentiment of mercy and unmoved by any good example, the Christian forces of Europe have charged up against them a record blacker than was ever made before by any troops ilized or sivage. Sir Robert Hart, the glish Commissioner of Chinese Revenues, has’ published in the Fortnightéy Review a statement of the inhumanities which came | under his own observation! . It will be remembered that when his wife went through San Francisco a féw months ago she made one of the first statements about the system of butchery and outrage that pre- ceded and attended the march upon Peking, Sir Robert say “The days of Taepingdom, whea native warred with native, showed nothing worse, and the warriors of this century can be as brutal, with all their wonderful discipline and up-to-date weapons, as were ever the savages of earlier times with toma-. hawk, boomerang or assegai, and the puzzle is to ex- plain why it should have been so, or forccast the con- sequences in the future.” Another Englishman, Dr. E. } Dillon; who spent six years in Armenia, a witness to the Turkish out- rages in tha(_cnumry whith so moved Christendom, has printed in the Contemporary Review an acount of bis observations-and experience in China while ‘ac- companying ‘the allied troops of Christendom. His account is under the caption, “The Chinese Wolf and the European Lamb.” He says: “All along the march to Peking it was the same sickening story— Chinese girls and women of all ages first outraged | and then bayoneted by troops whose Governments were \\flpplllg themse]ves in the <oft wool of Vlary 3, little Jamb. Dr. Diilon then gives in detail the appalling crimes he witnessed through ail the country between Peking and the sea. He saw three daughters of a Chinese of the upper class subjected to treatment unspeakable and immediately after run through with bayonets by soldiers who represent Christianity and civilization. A Chinese father and his little sqn of elght vears were shot down in the name of Christian civilization ‘whi'a they held each other’s hands and begged for mercy. Hundreds of peaceful villagers were cut and hewn to pieces after witnessing indescribable conduct against their wives and daughters which spared none be- tween the ages of six and sixty. He ‘says that Chi- nese womerl $oor: Iearned that no worse could befall them than to fall into i%e hands of the Chnstlam and [ when the civilized troops entered a village the women | | pious], £ | April and May, and’ that twenty steamers are ‘being m.xdc ready for business along the Upper Yukon,” It is added: *“The.peaple of Southeastern Alaska .,,,nc petitioned Senator Perkins to aid them m se- \urmg a lighthouse afrd other means of protec ron |'for, the inside route_between Facoma and Sknguay The petition sets fonh that! 13,000 paflsengcr:, 200,000 tons of freight and $20,000,000 in treasure are annua}ly transported over thdt 1oute.” P Doubtless the figfires are fo, some extent exagger- ated, but, making gvery. allq“ancg for such errors, there' remains enough to show that the Puget Sound people are making vigorous efforts t reap nearly the whole profits of the growing trade of Aladka: More- over, it is quite cerfain the field is rich enotigh to re- pay the energy didplayed in cultivating it. FEnough has now been done in Alaska to prove that;it will be able to sustain a considerable white population for many years and probably farever. The country is rich in gold, and comqum ¢xperts have estimated that the territory hclrmging to the United States is richer than the Canadian K10qdlke Not long ago Dr. Cabeil Wh!!»hcad who left the office of Chief Assayer of the'Mint at Washington to go to Nome, was reported by-the New York Sun as saying; “I have had four months and a half to ex- amine the subject to my own satisfaction, and I have come to the conclusion that the mining region of the Seward Peninsula, which includes all of Western Alaska north of Norton Sound, contains the richest placer deposits of gold of any that have been discoy- ered since the days of '49 in California. After having made that positive statement T may qualify it to the extent of saying that the Klondike region may pos- sibly exceed this -region in the output of precious metals during the next. decade, but-I do not believe it will.” It is to be noted, moreover, that the firmness of the | United States Gircuit Court, sentencing McKenzie to sitting in this city, imprisonment for non- compliance with the orders of the court, will have a wholesome effect in advancing the prosperity of the Nome country. It assures to the miners the ample pratection of law, and will prevent any further schemes. in the way of grabbing mines such as se- riously interfered with the industry of the district last year. Thus the prospect of Alaskan mining is much better than it has ever been before. The trade of the country will therefore in all probability go forward with leaps and bounds, and the merchants of San Francisco should note the efforts made at Puget Scund to capture the trade and put forth equal cfion\ of their own. A NEW ERA GRAND JURY. ROM out the remote recesses of Georgia there r:comcs a voice of good cheer; it is the voice of a Grand Jury making a‘'report of a new kind. In- stead of ‘reporting upon the condition of the jail and other county institutions, the prevalence of crime and the difficulty of supprgssing it, this Laurens County jury took a stirvey of the “hole commumty and re- ported progress. The document began by declaring: “We, the Grand Jury, congratulate the County of Laurens that on the opening of the twentiéth century there is .so much evidence of efiterprise and progress on every “hand. During the last decade the County of Laurens doubled _in population, and Dublin (the county, seat) is more than three and a half times as large as in 1890, furnish- ing a market for the produce of the county unexcelled in Georgia.” o Truly that-was a new and surprisingly glad voice from a Grand Jury, but there was better to come. The voice mounted in pitch of joy-and increased in volume of glad tidings as it went on, until the grand sweet song closed in the, wordss - “We congratulate ourselves upon the spirit of good-fellowship and har- mony which exists between the people of the town | and country, and trust that it will ever continue to he <6,” In the remotest corner of the county the people take pride in the upbmldmg of Dublin, because every person in Laurens knows that as that city increases in importance the county will increase. in importance and every interest in the county will thereby be benefited.” Now none of that may he Icgmmate Grand Jury business, but all the same ‘it is better business than most Grand Juries dv. It is worth imitating. Some California Grand Juries might find it worth while to ‘find out the qood as well as the evil of their commu- mt)es and report upon the harmony that exists be- tween the people of the county seat and the people ‘of the country. Talk of that kind may not tend to the suppression of crime or the improvement of county institutions, but all the same it may be as true a bill a5 ever a Grand Jury féund and be more bene- ficial than the usual custom of rwomng all the evils of a community and none oi its virtues. E (PAPERS ON CURRENT T TOPICS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. E TI‘-I)E‘ OPPOR‘TUNIT l‘rm- series, which is unagr the Airection Lwersits of Illinois, will close “A Stud; George F. Hoar of “A!!lchule!rkb By Richard I.—BOBEE'I‘ SOMERS BBDOKING& Robert S. Brookines of { years-old, worth $20,000,000, benefactor of varfous educatfonal and charitable - iristitutions, -was 'born and raigéd on a Maryland firm. The date of | his birth was January 22, 1850, At'17 years of age, in 1867, he left his father's house tand went to the We&t. Applying for worl at, the office’ of the' Cupples & Warston Woodenware - Company of St. Loui was hired at'a small wage. Tall, vigor ous, handsome and silent, the “new boy" | Q’uk‘kly established himself'as a promising | cleTk in the growinz woodenware house, and at the end of a vear his early ‘success and hts boyish audacity prompted-him to apply-for a.traveling man's territory. He: 8¢ ek 0 founder and wast content to take the least promising and mest. unpopular assignment, for which the.salary was the smallest. With half- S | | | { . A 5t A P e [l The Rise of a Millicnaire Philanthropist o St. Louis, Illustrative of the Opportunity and the Man. e it PRV (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) ROBERT SOMERS BROOKINGS. f Y AND THE MAN. of the Uni- of President Andrew S Dra e by Senator v of American Opportunity, H. Benton. United States, soon sent experts to study the merits of the vast warehouse in which twenty firms transacted their business. loading and umloading freight under their own roof, where stood for their accommo- dation the cars of a dozen different rail- roads. At the time of its completion *upples Station,” the joint property of Mr. Brookings and Mr. Cupples, was ap- praised at .000, ‘and its value is now reckoned at $,000,000. Its net earnings re more than $150,000 a year. Splendid Endowment of a University. Five years ago Mr. Brookings was elect- ed president of the board of trustees Washington University, the. leading edu- WORLD'S NA AL NEWS Tt is reported that Edador and Peru have purchased several cgst-off vessels of war of the !-‘nnch nav‘y PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR| . muwstrien ines ofconst dstonse ships in the German navy §re 2ll to ba re- constructed and receive ngv armaments There are six of these vemels of w! one, the o beé twenty-five feet with satisfctory Fgi g erulgr Cress: conthet on “A The Bl’!llih 12,000 tons, ready Clyde, will | for cgmmission in April next. The keel was lali October 12, 1538, launching took place Pecember 4, 1899, and the official trial du December Iast e The Japanese crulser Naniw:, built at Elswick in 1885, has recently been over- hauled and is apparently asi good as new. The vessel .ad a trialitrip after repalrs were completed, and rrlflow knots speed was anticipated, instead of which the Naniwa made 17.8 knots. Her ir speed when new was 18.72 knots} and t late good resuit goes to show that » of their sh al tically Tost Great Brita . remunerative of building vessels for foreign navies. Germ Russia 1 Holland build their own ships while France gets warship orders f Spain, Portugal, Greece, Brazil and ( Turkey is now patronizing Germany, and the only foreign country getting ships from British y is Norway. Japan scattering its favors and will soon be able to be independent of yards outside of its owns con St cational institution of Louis. T finances were in a bad way, its future wa circumseribed and its affairs were almeost at a standstill. From his own means My, Brookings immediately supplied money enough to prevent the university from | running beHind in_its expenses. “I will never be president of anything that has a deficit,” he declared. Thqn he set about o | + pitving encouragement the firm gave him outhwest Missouri in _which to secure trade, and when but 18 years old he | packed his trunks with samples and es- | sayed the forlorn hope of getting up a “paying busin in what was then re- arded as the slowest district of the West. | Tn six months he had proved that he was st-class traveling salesman. and in months he was reinforced with an | | assistant. Southwest Missouri began to { be a profitable factor in the earnings of | the house, and the trade grew continually. irouulrlrg goon a number of men to care field of operi- | for it. Instead of limiting his [uom to the newly discovered territory the | young salesman led his older helper up to take full charge of the trade there and | then went back to his superiors and asked | for other tasks. They gave him in turn the remotest, most difficult and least hos- pitable districts, and be built up valuable trade in each. He did not fail to give | himself due credit for these achievements. With all his silence, discipiine and loyalty he had a full appreciation of his personal value as a salesman and organizer. After | three years of this work he told President | Samuel Cupples, the head of the firm, that he had reached a point where it seemed most profitable for him to engage in business on his own account. Mr. Cup- ples had already placed a high valuation on the services of the young Marylander, land so instead of permitting him to set | up as a competitor he offered to his sales- man the position of juntor ' partner d | general manager of the firm. In twelve | Years the young man had attained. the position of Vice president and the house of which he was yet manager had surpassed every competitor in its race for commer- cial supremacy. The Rescue of a Great Library. Up to this time Mr. Brookings' success had been dependent upon his ability to gain trade, upon hard and incessant-work and upon his ceaseless energy in. looking after the physical requirements of a grow- ing business. In 1882 his salary was in- creased from $10,000 to $25,000 a year. As a financiey his talents were widely recog- nized, and he was accepted as an aythor- ity among credit men and a counselor of bankers. He became a director of the Mercantile library, a g“ cumbrous and money-losing (nstltutl(m r-to the hearts of his fellow-citizens, but slipping into de- cay for lack of ‘good business manage- ment. Mr. Brookings secured plans ?or a new bullding for the library, floated the bonds and supervised the construction of a suitable home for the books. The s(ructure is one of the best office build- ings in St. Louls and a source of abundant revenue to the Mercantile Library, which cccuples the upper floors. Through sav- ing this popular public institution Nr. Brookings eame quickly into prominence as a wise and generous man of affairs. During the dozen years of his closest ap- plication to business, the young merchant not only studied art, but became a liberal patron of artists.. His good . judgment enabled him to appreciateé the best prod- ucts of foreign and home studios and he collected pictures of high merit. In Lo- cust street, near Jefferson avenue, he built for himself a beautiful residence, m\d "Brooklnsn bachelor hall”—he is un- | rried—soon ame famous for the hos- p(umv dispensed there. A Natable Economy in Business. Not satisfied with having built up o trade the greatest of its kind in the world, Mr. Brookings conceived the idea of con- centrating under one roof and in one vast | warehouse all the great business houses of the city. His plan included the saving {of yage, the avoidance of warehouse cha l and of the loss of valuable time in_recelvini f and sli‘pplgg freight of all nd! pples, his busi- kinds. He ness llmm!e. to join him in acquiring ; uis and erect- ound ‘in- the heart of St 4.0 ng upon a structure vast enough to house comlorubly more than a score of planning for the university's future. Its old buildings in a downtown street were to his eyes dreary and unattractive. He conceived the idea of making for it a new home on a beautiful eminence near Forest Park in the western suburbs of the city. He headed a subscription list for the pur- chase of the land and soon had prepared the way for the new bulh.!ngs on the site which he had chosen. Mr. Brookings then induced Mr. Cupples | to join him in an audacious and gemerous | cheme for'the endowment of the unive; sity. A little over a year ago they trans ferred to it the magnificent “‘Cupples Sta- _tion” with its. annual revenue of more | “than $150,000. It was the most princely gift to_a university ever hestowed be- | tween Chicago and San Francisco. *At the =ame time Mr. Brookings transferred to the university his salary of $25000 a year. He remains the president of the univer sity’s board of trustees, and under his supervision a splendid group of hufldlnfs is being erected for the institution’s needs. Getting a Hint From a Competitor. | Mr, Brookings' busy life has left him lit- tle time for extensive travel or recreation During the thirty-four years of his busi- ness career he has not had more than six | months’ vacation, and even then he was not able wholly to withdraw his mind from the affair€ of his firm. His close ap- | plication to its interests is illustrated by | an incident which occurred while he was on a pleasure trip to Alaska In one of | the coast towns he found on sale clothes- | pins made by his firm, but bearing the mflrk of a competitor. Waondering how his rival coufd undersell him with hisown wares he pursued his inquiries till he found that while his goods were going to Alaska by way of Cape Horn those of his competitor were sent direct by way of Vancouver. He was not content until fie regained control of the Alaska market. | vessel, American twelve-inch naval aliber length is clatmed to fire E mnd p at a muzzle velocity of 284 foot seconds. would make it the most efficient gun afloat, for the Vick- ers gun of like caliber and length fires its S50-pound projectile at 2700 foot seconds velocity, but only 2481 fobt seconds are clalmed for it, as the initial trial of a new gun must be accepted as the work it is able to do.right along. The use of smokeless powder wears out the bore of the gun and rapidly diminishes its ef- fectiveness. The new gun of 4 There are eight vessels in the Spanish navy still uncompleted, althougn carried on the list as efficient ships. Of these there are three armored cruisers, the Car- dinal Clanero, Princessa de Asturia, launched five ago, and the Cata- luna, begun in 18%, and not yet launched. The cruiser Estremadura, presented by Spantards of Mexico to the government, is at Cadiz awalting completion, and two torpedo gunboats—Dona Maria de Molina and Don Aivaro de Bazan, launched in 1896 and 1897, respectively, are still unfin- ished. There is practically no mavy of Spain. Thornyeroft is builditg four torpedo boats for the British navy, one being launched January 22 last. Its official number is 9, and the boat is of the foi- lowing dimensions: Length, 15% fvel_ breadth, 17 feet; draught aft, § feet § inches; displacement about 160 tons. The engines are of 230 horsepower, calculated to give a speed of twenty-five knots with a load of forty-two tons. These are the first torpedo boats ordered since 1884, and indicate a readoption of small vessels capable of maintaining a reasonably high speed in preference to the uncertainty of excessively high-powered torpedo-boat destroyers, which cannot be relied upon to | approximalte their trial speeds after a few | months’ service. | . . Contracts for ships bullding for the | Unitea States navy are behind the time stipulated for completion. The three bat- tleships Ohio, Maine and Missourt will | probably not be turned over to the Gov- ernment in less than one to two years behind the time. The six pfotected cruis- ers, which are due on delivery in June, 11002, are making slow progress, and the four monitors to be completed next month are far from being finished. the Wyom- ing, building at the Union Iron Works, being furthest advanced. The builders of the sixteen destroyers and fifteen tor- pedo boats have been granted one year's extension of time, and the contractors are still clamoring for more. The chief cause of these delays has been the in- ! ability to obtain material from the steel mills. It was stated some time ago by a yel- low journal in England and duly tele- graphed to this country that Mr. Wat- son, the noted yacht designer, had been requested by the admiralty to give his opinion as to the best means of making the new royal vacht less of a fallure; that Watson's report was a scathing crit- jelsm, and that it concluded with the rec- ommendation that the yacht ought to be | sunk’ with all the persons who were re- sponsible for the failure. The only grain of truth in the story is that Mr. Watson was engaged to give his opinion on the but he had not up to two weeks ago submitted his report, and he has posi- | tively denied In the Glasgow Herald us- ing the language attributed to him, say- ing that the alleged “unfavorable reports | are as untrue as they seem to be mall- cious.” —— e Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* e ——— Before marriage men and women argue; after that they dispute. —_— et———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* I information supplied daily to men bi the Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- lephone Main 1042. . Special business houses and pubite Preéss Clippin gomery —————e—— ‘Hamburg is one of the wealthlest citils Within the last few years Mr - Brookings has purchased a beautiful estate and | country residence below Crystal City on the western bank of the Mississippi. ;lere is his summer home, and here are .his chief art treasures, his library and his deer park, and here he spends such leisure as he can gain from the cares.of business. @it b e @ PERSONAL MENTION. E. 8. de Gol\er 2 mining man, is at the Palace. Dr. A. L. Tibbetts of Petaluma is a guest at the Grand. S. Levek, a hotel proprietor of Marys- ville, is at the California. R. C. Stevens. a rallroad official of Se tle, is staying at the Grand. J. M. Wilmans, a mining man of New- mans, is located at the Occidental. W. SgCarter of Santa Rosa is at the Oceidental, accompanied by his wife. A. H. Thompson, a merchant of Logan, Utah, is at the California with his wife. James McBride, an attorney of Sacra- | mento, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Lew E. Aubury, a mining man of Los Angeles, is at the Grand for a brief stay. Sueu Chan, & member of the Chinese legation at Berlin, fs registered at the Oc- cidental. J. J. Mack, a prominent grain shipper of ‘Bakersfield. is registered at the Palace with his wife. W. H. Brennan, representative of the Sembrich Oprea Company, which is to play an engagement here, is at the Palace. W. O. H. Martin, a banker and well- known resident of Reno, has taken apart- ments at the Occidental with his wife the largest business concerns in St. Louis. The leading wholesale grocers and Jobben dld not fall to see the advantage of the 5 “They became lenauu of "Cu 'pln mu:!&n. as “th‘!.i 'am: was the success of enter‘rl-e tl great cities of Europe, as 1 u-fllo-tt tgg oW on at full tide. Awmerican and Buropean plans. Best of everything, incl ; the chay- acter of entertainment. Apply 4 -r:n.,clu,fquped-l ticket, Montgom. | and daughter. Ex-United States Senator Charles N. Felton arrived in the city from the East yesterday mornihg and went last evening to his Menlo Park home. He enjoyed a four months' sojourn on the Atlantic coast, but he derived his chief pleasure in planning to return to California, where -—_._..__ Affectatio; he desire of mankind to nmmter flun it really lm | in Germany. yet it has only 209 person: | who pay taxes on an income of over BM a year. Go to the Inauguration. The Santa Fe will make excursion rates from California points to Washington and return on the occasion of the reinauguration of President McKinley, March 4th. The tickets will be seld on February 24th and 25th and will be good to return, starting from Washington, not later than March Sth. West of Chicago, however, the tickets will be good until March 2seh. 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