The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO' CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1901. | MONDAY. | “JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor | Address All Communisstions te W.B. LEAKE, Msnag MANAGER'S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, s. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Inciuding Postage: DAILY CALL (incl DAILY C. DAILY « DAILY CA Month SUNDAY Year WEEKLY CAL Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested Mail subscribers in ¢ ng change of address should oe particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o & eir request and correct compliance with OAKLAND OFFICE.... ce2..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Fo (Long I NEW YORK C. €. CARLTON...... NEW YORK REPR STEPHEN B. SMITH. . €0 ISPONDENT ++.+.Herald Square NTATIVE nion Square; Northern Hotel: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St.,, N\. W, MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. .— 300 ner of Clay, open BRANCH OFFICE! u K Hayes 1 s Trained Animal Show Plano Recit Tuesday afternoon, »akiand)—Races. 2 Park—Races . AUCTION SALES. n Co.—Toesday, March 12, at 10 o'clock, Market street THZ TRADE SITUATIDN. report Tk ¢ or less active. cent ov last year; jportant cities to show a falling off The ies were 51 per cent in New York, 3.5 at Chicago, 45 at Pittsburg. etc or the correspond larger The manufacturers report a very nd, and bids for future delivery at e more often turned down than ac- riously enough, there is considerable ex- finished products, in the face of stributive demand for the spring trade ttended to by jobbers and retailers at the nt both report business good. Building als, particularly lumber, are in brisk demand, the East, which is rather curiou r th: puilding operations for many years. This especia West | s the line, however, in which the East leads the rest of the country, as far as mercHandise is con- cerned The s regular. Wheat has been sagging, s usual, owing to heavy receipts at primary points, liberal i afloat and good crop prospects. ignificant proportions at e foreign demand for 4 and New Yor n wheat is light. y condition , and th The wool trac is more or less of a puzzie c is in an un- atisfac the trade, prices having declined from 70 to 8o per Europe and from 30 to’ 40 per cent in the United States during the past fifteen months, accord- g to a local authority. Sales have been larger in is country of late, but the demand for manufactured cent in £o00ds has not beexf up to purchases o raw wool. There have been several large failures in this line Jately, both in New England and Europe. The cotton trade, too, is lagging, with declining prices for the rew product. Boots and shoes continue to move off ¢ll, and most factories report sufficient orders to keep them running for some little time yet. Provi- ons comtinue in very fair shape, the light supply of hogs keeping pork products firm. Wall street is without special feature at the moment. I on of the huge steel combine was effected turbing the money market, and, now that s become a thing of the pas*, thé street has little 12 to talk about conditions remain as before stated. Dryer enabled fruit growers to begin plo and the same clear skies have given ctus to the growing grain all over the State. p conditions were seldom better than at present, there is still pienty of time for frost and north to do damage. Wholesalers and exporters re mtinued active demand for most kinds of nd few if any of the retailers are com-+ nds are still in ample supply, and collec- The ship- Local weather rchards s are up to the average in most lines. rade of the port is still hea e e £ - King to ard’s decis raised a storm of protest from Scotland. The are reminding him that he holds his not through the Plantagenets and Tudors of 1 but th VI ha throne ist thst he be crowned as Edward 1. Robert Whiteside says he intends to convert the big He should be advised that vandal. which comes a profit is as dangerous to in- dulze 2s that which s parcly wanton. troes into lumber 1 out of ake the title Edwar! »ugh the Stuarts of Scotland. an? & RUSSIA IN 'MANCHURIA. UT of the Chinese imbroglio there has sud- O denly developed a new storm center. It ap- pears that while Germany has been devoting her attention to making a collection of Chinese heads to be presented to Kaiser William on a charger, aad the Unifed States, France and Great Britain, along with Japan, haye been figuring out claims for money damages, Russia, with the manners of a quiet and | unostentatious bear, has gradually taken possession of Manchuria. The powers, it is said, have had their attention directed to what Russia has been doing, and it is now no longer a question of -head hunting or- money gathering but one of inducing the bear to quit ! hugging and quit crowding. Various are the reports that have been put.into circulation concerning the new phase of the Chinesg problem. According to one story Great Britain has taken the lead in protesting against the action of Rus- sia and has sought the aid of the United States. An- other attributes leadership in the protest to Germany. ! Some have said the United. States has agreed to op- pose Russia, and some that no such agreement has been made or will be made. ' These various repotts are not only interesting but instructive. They make clear to the public tie fact that something is going wrong in the concert but that no outsider knows ex- actly what From reports derived from sources outside of dip- lomatic channels it appears it is now too late for the powers to protest against Russian occupation of Man- churia. They might as well protest against, American it is. : occupation of the Philippines or British occupation | of Egypt. The time when a protest might have been available is past and gone. What is sometimes called nifest destiny” and sometimes “divine providence” has conducted the armies of Russia into that province of China. They cannot now be «driven out except by war, and, of course, there will be no war on that issue. It will be easier for. Germany and Great Britain to atone for Russia’s wrong by following the example and taking a pro¥ince or two themselves. The sudden splutter over tiie Manchurian question is a striking illustration of the close similarity be- tween the mov omacy and the move- The newspapers of all parts of the civilized world have been publishing notices of the her encroachments upon China lose of the war betweerr China and upon Manchuria has been British travelers and Germar tedly published their observations f the world and have kept the reading ents of ¢ ments of a snail advance of Russia ever since the ‘he movement time and ag; Conse- surprising to learn that at th lomatists have begun to get disturbed Dispatches from Berlin recently announced that a T d cof what was going on. t somewl the d the Tageblatt has reported ut Mo ; that Russian al orders refer to the country and he adds that M correspondent © hat & olia Russian flags ger as a p a are everywhere se of Russiar ne so virtually Some time w Gazette had of ment ¢ E . and i doing zu enly advo- f a permanent an ad " throughout Manchu “At ptesent we are forced to incur ex are merely camping there: e without compensation and without being able to rescue the inhabitants from tress and demoralization. Yet the welfare of Man- churia would be a natural consequ ed Ru n admi ne time relieve the trea ture. The necessit Manchurian 1ce of a properly , which would at from the present of t orga: atic the enormous expe 1e permanent settlement of the n has now be- come urgent. We repeat that the more the Chinese problem is confused by the intrigues of the Europeaa powers and of the Imperial Court the more necessary for us is the speedy solution of the M churian ques- tion.” With all those facts before the public there is not likely to be much excitement over the réports of a diplomatic disturbance. It is too late to protest against the virtual annexation of Manchuria to the Russian Empire. The bear has that province within his hug, and nothing but a knife-thrust to the hear: will ever make him turn loo: Roger Q. Mills of Texas, who was once among the notable statesmen of the day. has not_been sulking out of a job since ke leit C but exploiting the wealth of his State, and with such success it is said he is pow drawing from his invest- ments $15,000 a month, with bright prospects of an increase. vidently there are some things in the United States that are better than a seat in Congress. ngress MANUFACTURERS AND PRODUCERS. B done which clearly attests the value of the organiza- tion, not to members only but to the whole State. Not is the bulletin cdnfined to statements of what has been achicved in the past. It announces the nature of tasks now occupying the attention of the associa- tion and gives a prog-amme for the immediate futurs. Among the things accomplished are the distribution of printed matter on a large scale, the influencing of Lome patronage and State pride in manufactures and produttions, overcoming in all possible ways discrim- inations against home products in bids calling tos supplies for public institutions, and successfully over- coming in many instances discrimination against our products in eastbound freight rates. Furthermore, it is pointed out that it is largely due to the efforts of the association that there were expended in this city by the War Department between $11,000,000 and $12,- 000,000 in outfitting troops for the Philippines, and that there has been an increase of about $50,000 an- nually in the purchase of supplies in this city by the Indian Bureau. In that connection it is noted the association promptly met an attack upon California oak-tanned Y a special bulletin which has just been issued by the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association leather and-seeured a cancellation of orders for 75,000 | pairs ot shoes of Eastern leather in favor of Califor- nia manufacturers.” It is added: “The association was mainly instrumental in securing a treaty of commerce between this country and Ecmador which will be of great advantage to this State, especially in the markoat it affords for our lumber, preserved and dried fruiis and wines. The association has instituted similar steps as to Bolivia, and has within a few days fur- nished the State Department with important data on the subject.” That 1s a most excellent showing for an organiza- tion which dates only from March, 1893, and it is grat- ifying to note that the energies employed for progress and improvement are not in any way diminishing. The association is now working for the adoption of pure-food legislation, for the prevention of the import into this State of convict-made gonds and for action on the part of the United States Government to pre- vent interference by Russian authorities with Amer- ican fishing craft in Okhotsk Sea. The bulletin closes with the announcement that the there is presented to the public a record of work | | brary without passing the hat. | ity of this world that while Sampson and Schley ars | admiral has received high honors from his govern- | ment. has been | { | phatically convinced of the various unworth of one tries is most encouraging. The great need of the State has been for cheap fuel or other power-produc- ing energy. That need is now to be supplied by the use of oil as fuel and by the extension of electric power generated by waterfalls. The future is thus full of promise, and if our manufacturers and producers can continue to work together for general advantage through the association there is no reason for any fear of the outcome. CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN. NE of the last acts of the recent session of Con- gress was the passage of a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to adjudicate claims of citizens of the United States against Spair: arising between the outbreak of the Cuban insurrec- tion and the ratification of the treafy of peace at Paris. By the terms of the treaty the United States Govern- ment assumed paymeént of all such claims, and it is likely that the total amount is going to be consider- able, so that the commission will have a good deal | of work to do. ! . Reports from Washington are to the effect that | there are now about 260 of these claims against Spain on file at the State Department, aggregating upward | of $38,000,000. It is said, however, that in most cases | the claims are excessivé and that in many of them the | claimants will firid it difficult to prove their American | citizenship. " Furthermore, even where citizenship 1s indisputable and the amount of the claim not excess- ive, the Government will not be required to pay it unless it be shown that Spain would be liable for the loss sustained had not the United States assumed the payment. In other words, our Government occupies the position of the Spanish Government and is not liable for war losses except such as are justly charge- able t& Spain. The commission is to consist of five persons, each of whom is to receive a salary of $5000 a year. The decision of the commission is to be final when the commissioners ‘are unanimous, but the bill provides: | #“When the commission is in doubt as to any question of law arising upon the facts in any case before them ! they may state the facts and the question of law so | arising and certify the same to the Supreme Court of the United States for its decision, and said court shall have jurisdiction to consider and decide the same. The commission will have many complex questions of law and of fact to settle. Where injury was inflicted or property taken by the Spanish military authorities in Cuba it is clear that Spain was responsible, and we must pay the claim; but it is said that for indirect | losses no damages can be obtained. One authority estimates that of the whole $38,000,000 of claims pre- sented to the State Department less than $4,000,000 will be recovered. It s recalled that under the Amer- ican and Spanish claims agrecment of 1871 claims | amounting to -$30,000,000 were presented, but on! 00,000 was allowed. The United States and Mczx an Claims Commi out of the 1017 claims presented. Of the aggregate of $35.000,000 of claims American Claims Co less than $1,000,000 w presented to the French and rission (convention of 1880) A part of the work of the University of New York is the publication of an annual summary and synopsis of State legislation. That for the year 1900, which has just been made public, shows that during that year there were thirteen State Legislatures in regular ses- sion and they added to the State statute books an aggregate of 5772 laws. New York led the list with 6, Maryland was a close second with 747, while Ohio came third with 583. ¥t will be seen that the com- plaint to be made of oud Solons is not that of idlene but that of pernicious activity. 1 The trustees of the public library at New Bruns wick, New Jersey, voted down a proposal to ask Car- negie for a donation, and in doing so declared a b iief that the town has enough wealth to support a li The spirit of the ac- tion is all right, but it remains to be seen whether the town will live up to it. Tt 1s worth noting as an illustration of the pervers- still waiting for some sort of promotion for their ser- vices in the victory at Santiago the defeated Spanish They get the “ha ha” and he has the laugh. g Ly | The New York Temperance Union has taken the strange course of commending Mrs. Nation but con- demning her hatchet. Had George Washington been able to make so nice a discrimination at the time of the cherry tree affair he would have said: “Father, I cannot tell a lie: it was the hatchet.” The local Civil Service Commission and the Board of Public Works are to be congratulated on reaching a conclusion which everybody else arrived at some time ago. The two boards are absolutely and em- another. The fear that the United States will lose more of | its Alaskan lands to the British through diplomatic jugglery is not weM founded, but our British cousins appear to think that our new made friendship means that they are to receive everything they demand. The Duke of Manchester has been sued for dan- ages for breach of promise. To the ordinary ob- server thgre appears to be nothing in the life of the Duke which would make the violation of any of his promises damaging to anybody except himself. The Government of Abyssinia has agreed to accept the advice of British officers in the settlement of in- ternal affairs. This appears to indicate clearly that the Abyssinians never heard of the adage that he who sups with the devil must have a long spoon. Ciiais _Cooper, the dangerous ex-convict, has decided to give the officials no trouble in their efforts to bring him to trial. He should be advised that any endea- vor to put him where he belongs will be looked upoa as anything but troublesome labor. There is a disposition on the part of the good peo- ple of Oakland to turn this penitential season of sack- jon (treaty of 1868) allowed 186 is allowed. | IPAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR |, . THE SAN Francisco CALL By W. S. Harwood: The scene is in the dining-room of a big hotel. A banquet is on. The admirers of a victorious Western football team are having no end of fun. All at once an elderly man rises at a point of honor at the board and, with all the enthusiasm of the most excitable freshman, pronounces his opinfon that next year, which is now this year, the football team of the Uni- versity of Minnesota must meet and van- quish Harvard. This man who enters with such zest into the features of the evening's events has been so long identified with the institu- | tion reoresented at the banquet and so devoted to its Interests that he has come | to' be known as the “Father of the Uni- versity’’; his name is Pillsbury—ex-Gov- ernor John 8. Pillsbury, easily the most aistinguished living citizen of his State. If the young men of to-day who are gradvated from such institutions as the COPYRIGHT, 1991 1V. JOHN S. PILLSBURY. an amount hardly possible to appreclate an A rom the mills of one Arm. Why a Flour Trust Was Not Formed. the Incidents of a man’s life that theow . the strongest l;g‘g(.o:‘e:'l(s ears or s g Tt | person called on Mr. Pillsbury ated with a lot of others into a ;:!;:I[ganrgur trust, The scheme had at- tractive features from a commercial point of view. Mr. Pillsbufy held the key to the situation. He could swing enough stock to close the deal. If the great Pills bury interests could be secured the tru was a “go” and the most dangerous com- bination in foods ever attempted In Amer- i€a would be a fact. i‘t is net recorded what Mr. Pillsbury eaid when the promoter called with his scheme, but any one who knows him would not be surprised if his.words were pointed and emphatic; for he has a way of Speaking very plain and direct English when he wills to do so. But, whatever <+ - JOHN S. PILLSBURY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA., A PRAC- TICAL PHILANTHROPIST AND THE FOUNDER OF THE GREATEST FLOURING MILLS IN THE WORLD. < o | one of which Mr. Pillsbury is the most censpicvous patron, to s y nothing of the | young women graduates, should sirive for | the spread of ednvecation with | zeal the, that this man has striven. | For, to begin with, Mr. Pilisbury ha very slender equipment—only sueh educa- tion s the course of a school in a small his face toward the educating of others. | He is a New Hampshire man, born in the town of Sutton in July, 1828 At an ase and serving as a clerk in'his brother’s store. From the start he seemed bent on trade. Hs made a_thorough investigation of the West and Northwest just after the cen- tury had turned its first half, but er of the nomad was not in his v after long searching, he reached a tin; hamlet in Minnesota called St. Anthon now the city of Minneapolis. He made his mind that there was the place to set- tle down. One day not long ago a gentleman s gested - to Governor Pillsbury that should pick out a different location for the plendid public library building which he as decided to give to the east side of Minneapolis—a building now under way. The friend’s thought was that for so fine a buflding perhaps it would be better to locate it on a more fashionable street and in a finer part of the town. But the reply was that the site was excellent! It was near one of the high schools of the city. Which was an advantage, and was handy to street cars at a transfer point, but, above all, it was in the part of the city where lived a good many of the people whom he had known when he first came to the place. “Thorg was a time,” said Mr. Pillsbury, “when I asked these people for a few favors and they granted them and were always steadfast in their friendships; now 1 want to do something for them and, where the older ones have passed away, for t{:e!r children. A good many of these People -are not living in the fashionable quarters, So I golng to put this library building where it will be handy for them. Practical Msthods as Governor. T do not know that I can in any way better {llustrate the character of this man than by an incident in his life when he was Governor of the State. s In 1873-74 rasshoppers devasted many portions of ghe Wel':?e)dr, Pillsbury was elected Gov- ernor in 1875. ‘There were many reports that the le were suffering because of their loss of crops from the pest, so the .Governor-elect, in the late fall, sent a man out to see how the farmers were coming on, that he might be J’rep‘red, when the Legislature assembled and he was inaugurated, to make recommenda- tions, if necessary, for aid. The agent re- ns and. ported and colored his report against the T, December, not yet convinced that the people were not suffering. Mr. Pillsbury started out on a personal trip unknuw:n to any one. He drove out in the country places through biting - wintry weather, caliing upon the farmers from T AT e, 1o Found many of them in the most abject some of them with nothing but potatoes to eat. He left money where that would relieve immediate dis- tress and went home. In a few weeks he started out in another direction on a simi- cloth and ashes into one of jubilant congratulation. There are signs in the town that the day of the po- litical orator is passing. In gll the reports of the great competition between the big millionaires of the.country it is to be noted that none of them show any desire to prevent Cars negie from having a monopoly in the way of founding lijbraries. : Under American sanitary regulation it is announced that the death rate in Havana has been reduced as low as that in New York, but unfortunately for the boast- | ing of the report tha New York rate is nothing tu brag of. In the a?proaching Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo Californians will have at least one subject for congratulation. They won't have to pay the poker .| outlook for our manufacturing anf}, producing indus- | debts of expensive Commissioners. lar tri Meanwhile the Iegislature as- nmblu% and sat Governorless—the Gov- ernor-elect did ndt put in his appearance on the day of inauguration. ‘But when he did appear, soon afte he had something to tell them other than ‘the pretty platitudes of such an occasion —he told them of the terrible present and rospective suffering within their own Pitders.. The facts were published. the Legislature Avsrnyflated money, people centributed foed and clothing by the car- load and the Governar and his wife per- sonally superintended its distribution. They fed and clothed during that wre{ched season f000 settlers, all of whom were in dire need. 1t was while Mr. Plllsbury was engaged in business In the little town of thony. where he was steadily prospering as & h -huroi lm.rchamt. that he saw the possibilities o e great water power in the Mississippi River., the Fallz of St. Anthony. Finally, in connection with his nephew, Charles A. Pillsbury. recently deceared, the flour milling plant was es- tablished which has row become famous over the world. The Fezinnings were not large, but little by little the enterprise srew until now the company of which ‘Mr. Pillsbury is the vresident has a daily ard. St. An- | r before seen. | " when the average boy of to-day is in high education no doubt school or college he was ledrning a trade | es ug- | he | and when some years later the number of | | students had so increased that 1 | | 1 I H the precise language, he told the promoter Innr only that he would not go into the deal from business reasons but that un- same | der no circumstances would he go into It | taking | from particularly into account their oppertu- | would not lend his influence toward form- nitles as compared with his own, the re- | ing a flour trust. sult would be such an extension of learn- | |ing as the country has neve the standpoint of sentiment—he Building Up a Great University. His interest in the U.lversity of Minne- | sota began when it was a struggling t stitution, with a few students and very tewn afforded—and he has steadfastly set | little money, but with an unlimited pros- pect for decay and a fine outlook for an carly death. The fact that he had been denied the opportunities for securing an quickened his inter- : but greater than this was his desire that an institution should be buit up which would serve as a great source of power to the State, a reservoir of intel- lectual influence upon which the futwe might draw. He was elected to the State fev- | Senate.in 1860 and he began at once to work for the universitv. He was instra- mental in clearing up ‘he indebtedness on the institution, putting its financial af fairs in shape and preserving the valua- ble State lands to which it was entitled. The university took on new life. He had not started in to be a friend for a day. | a new | buflding was needed he surprised ”w[ members of the Board of Regents and the legislative committee who had gone | to the last limit in appropriations by tell- | ing them that he wanted to give $130.00) out of his own pocket for the building. Thus the sclence hall. or Pillsbury Hall, as it is known, became possible. ¢ Seeing His Gifts Well Bestowed. One of the peculiaritice of Mr. Pillsbuty is that which now and then of late years is being shown among men of wealth- the disposition to glve away money un- der his own direction: to see to it himself that his wealth goes into the right chan- | nels. Some time ago he thought the little place | where he was born, the town of Sutton, | V. H., ought to have a town hall, so he | ave the money for a handsome building. | %‘wn or three years ago he joined with his wifg to do something for a very worthv | and'vet money-needing institution in M- | neapolis, a home for children and aged women. So $100,000 was given as a perma- | nent endowment fund, placed at a good | rate of interest, and ihe ihcome goes to | the support of the .nstitution. Not lorg | ago he and his wife thought there ought to be a home for working girls in Minne- apolis, a place where they could secure | good accommodations at reasonable rates. where they could be surround-d by whole- some influences; where they could be helped onward in the struggle. A fine site was purchased and a .iberal sum of money set apart for the erection of a handsome | building now neanni completion. The | branch public library huilding has already | been noted. | i | Eleven Maxims for Young Men. I called on Mr. Pillsbury one day not long since and asked him to tell the young | men of this nation what success was. In | the conversation that followed he made clear, first of all, that success was not the mere accumulation of great wealth. Then | he gave what might be termed a recipe | for success, and I have put in condensed form the ingredients: 1. Have a definite object in view. Having | this object, study it closely and continuously on all sides. Day by day énlarge’ your own horizon bv_reading. | 2. Gdod Jud(mfl’l is imperative: study men's | faflures no less than their successes. 3. Be polite to all men, no matter how great the provocation to be otherwise; good man- nere are indispensable. 4 rn your money before you smend it: annot come to the map Who dees not hin his means. 5. Turn your glass down at the banquet: drink no intoxicating lquors of any kind as a beversza. 6. Keep your personal hablts £00d company and see tha Eood before you It 7. Avoid temptation; if yon see ft cominz, dow't_invite it on. but run from It. T 'Be kind to those in troubie; 1t you help them with money, give them a word, anyway. SNever speak evll/of any one. 10 Save when you are young and AR R s e ien i it "™ Suty. truth and homor yield th : ‘est satiafaction: be absomutely’ homest in® yacs | dealinzs with all men. Packed away in these eleven statements of the essentials of success one ma. the secret of the large measure o pure: keep it the company is suc- cess which this man has achieved. —————— | were, through “land sharking, L | | | factorily solved | Czarewitch HOW' A MERCED COLONY SCHEME CAME TO FAIL not _hold itself responsible for the opinions pubiished in this column, but presents them for whatever, value they may have as communications of general interest. N TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALL: ° An editorial in to-day's Call, headed ““That Colonist Rate,” compels me, in justice to Mer- ced city and county, to request the privilege of space in your columns in order to obviats & possible misjudgment of the quaiity and fer- tility of the lands around Merced city and in Merced County. In the editorial referred to you advise the necessity of seeing that the new settlers expected here shall be well located, and warn against the repetition of an ex- perience made near Merced about ten vears ago, which is deplored by all but by Merced city and county more than by any one else. At that time quite a number of Hollanders, com- \ | posed of a_splendid set of people, mostly | young, " intelligent and educ and all well supplied with means, were brought here for | coionization. Unfortumately, however, they as you call it. located on @ section of land not at all suit- able for the purpose intended—that fs, orchards and “vineyards—and were made to more than the very best of land could have | been bought for, and which is in abundance this fact was not alone the |e bad as the selection of it 1 by no means unpro- a great deal of t heen, ye ductive, for it possess: tility of the sofl surrounding it. on wh finest oranges, prunés, apricots, peach | olives, grapes. berries, etc.. are raised other trouble was that, while the Hollander | onists were a good set of people. yet but few of them were of the kind requisite t | make colonists for a new settiement. were nearly all reared in large cities. a tomed to all the comferts of life, and not much given to that drudgery, tedious and hard wor which 1s naturally indispensable with of the sofl, and much more so With tlers. 1 am neither land owner nor land specu I am a dry goods merchant, estabiis for many years. I have waiched the | colonization scheme from its in. feel competent to pass an opinic cause of the faflure. I theret assertion—and many of the colon selves have coincided with me this land the colony would ha | suceess had the right : located om it. In fairness to Me county- I hope The Call wi giving“‘space to this commun March 7, 1 'WORLD'S WAR NEWS, } A disquieting rumor is current fn the | Pembroke dockyard that the | eruiser Essex and seven |in course of construction, | stablility and will therefore prove failures. H { <o Merced, Cal The first attempts at subma | tion In France date back to 180, not impress the naval au practicable. Twent. miral Aube, Minister of Marine, the subject again, and since th neers and naval officers have wor with uninterrupted zeal. There o | doubt that submarine navigation is pr: cable, but the difficulty in using the boa ev | for the purpose of locating blowing up an enem vessel lles in the inability of the steersmap to e the periscope lor reflector under ail conditions of | weather. This is a problem not satls- | The large number of war vessels to be launched during the present year will more than make up for the apparent b: wardness of 1900. In Italy two batt ships, the Rheina Marguiritta and B detto Brin, will be launched and September. In the United State battleships, two cruisers, thirteen destr | boats and seven submarine bos to slide into the water, while the fi | Russia, France and Germany creased by at least classes. In England r being rapidly pushed Montague and Albemarle being launched on March 5, after the brief period of 47 and 421 days on the stocks, while the ar- mored cruiser Drake was launched in 650 days from the time her keel was laid Several battleships and armored crufsers buflding under contract will also be launched during 191 and altegether con- siderably over half a million tons will' be added to the navies of the world An interesting table of the relative fight- ing value of the principal armored ships appears in the January number of the Marine Rundschau. The comparisons are made by Naval Const r Otto Kretsch- mer of the German navy and appears to be the best practical method yet sub- mitted to ascertain the military value of a war vessel. Mr. Kretschmer takes into consideration the size, armor, speed, arm- ament and endurance of the several ships, which elements coilectively constitute the military efficiency. The low standing of the Maine is an unintentional slur upon a ship which will undoubtedly rank with the Formidable, and is due to the fact that the constructor accepted as correct the data found in the Austrian. naval hand-book, but which, so far as they re- late to our new ships and guns, are incor- rect. Following is the table: BATTLESHIPS. NAME. Mikasa Shikishim: Formidable Suffren Dunean Russia . Retvisan _. | Russia __| Kaiser Friedrich German.| Charlemagne ... French. St. Bon Italy Alabama s Maine .......... Warth class.. ARMORED CRUISERS. 1 | Nation.| Built 1900 NAM Cressy Asame. Furst Bismarck. Mentoalm ... Gromoboi Prinz_He! Brooklyn New York rich Choice candies, Townsend's, Pzlace Hotel ————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ———— Special information supplied daly to business houses and pubiic men oy the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery st. Teleohone Main 142 . 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