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

Che Sk G’aill‘__fl cevvee-nissee---MARCH 18, 1921 e JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communiestions to W.'S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’'S OFFICE........Telephone Preas 201 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. In ng Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .00 TAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. . 8.00 cluding Sundav), 3 months. . 1.50 1 By Single Month. . e NDAY CALL, One Year..... . 150 WEEKLY CALL, One Year . 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive mubscriptions. OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazssger Forsiga Advectisiag. Masgmtts Building, Chieage. (Long I Telephone “Central 2619."") NEW YORK COR . CARLTON.... XEW YORK I STEPHEN B. SMITH. . . NEW YORK Aetoria Hotel; Hotel . ¢ .Herald Square ENTATIVE: «++30 “ribune Bullding N¥ S STANDS: Brentano, ;31 Union Square; A CHICAGO N STANDS: man House: P. O. News Co.: Great Northern Hotel: t House: Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE MORTON E .1406 G St., N. W. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFIC Montgomery, corner of Clay, open til $:30 o'clock. s, cpen untfl 9:3 o'clock. &% AY o'clock. Larkin, open until Mission. open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, n. open until § o'clock. 109 Valencia, open 106 Eleventh, cpen until 9 o'clock. NW. car- wenty-second and Kentuckv. open until 9 o'clock. ok AMUSEMENT&® Barber of Seville of the Alley.” stood about it did the pre s the in same activity 3 of 1889, the same goad West, and the sasme las- abrics. going on in Wall street worthy of extendel mg with a number of ad- c were not in nd th- he market pretty much to th Jves i the best and safest bonds and the feature of the stre A The money market continved ient of some $25.000,000 ceiment United States treasury pointing 1 enormous th ple ra ra arcity. The amount was nst 416,218,000 on the same date las; t now on hand breaking all previous e increase in the gold holdings -of the er (han a s e law goes into effect. In view of this immense »f goid and the continued increase in railroad nings it is pretty hard to muster any bear feeling street. The bank clearings, too, continue tu ence ply their in e last week over the corresponding wéek in 199) ng 30.7 per cent, and every city of any consequence except Minneapolis showed a gain. The failures are exceeding those of 1900, however, those for the week being 217, against 190 last year. The main feature of the”week was the upward turn in wheat, which advanced slightly every day during the latter half, under the influence of the Governmen: report, which showed 30,000,000 bughels less in farm- ers’ hands than a year ago, and decreased shipments from the Argentine. Foreign exporters came out of reir holes and began to buy, and it looked as if the export business had again acquired steerage way. The raw wool situation, too, seemed to be clearing, sales being larger, Eastern stocks smafler and declining and | the foreign markets stronger. The shortage of car; throughout the country which has lately been disas- trous to the California orange trade accentuated th: reports of an active railroad movement. The West reported an active market for dry goods and clothing. and the New England boot and shoe factories liberal orders, some of them having their full capacity en- gaged up to September, while leather continues firm and active. But the iron trade still leads all others, as it has done for several years. away behind in their orders, and the great develop- ment of the oil industry throughout the country is causing an active demand for pipe and drilling mate rial, Steel rail contracts are being increased and the ‘ railroads are ordering additional rolling stock. Al these conditions indicate great commercial activity in the United States. Apparently the immense improve. | ment in business which followed the first election o President McKinley has not yet passed its zenith, | though nobody expected that it would last as long as | it has. Locally there is nothing new. San Francisco re- {"Unionists as voted with the Government were induced Even the dried frujt mar- | flects the prosperity of the East in most lirés of merchandise-and produce. ket is picking up, and for a fortnight or more ‘thers has been an active demand for prunes at Eastern centers, which, if it coptinues, will mean much to 2 number of important agricultural districts around the bay. Wheat and prunes have for months been the dullest articles of farm produce in the list, and their awakening into activity may be the herald of increased Jife all along the line. Certainly the crop prospects could not be more brilliant, and as money continues in large supply at easy rates, the general expectation of a prosperous year seems well founded. It i noted that of the twenty-seven towns or camps teported in Alaska by the census of 1900 only nin= were in existence in 1390. Of the new places Nome City is the metropolis. It is credited with having last year z population of 12,468, and may fairly claim to be :he Empire City of the Midnight Sun. to 221 Stevemson St. | Northwest-and g th past vear has been $65.604.800. | 1 going on at the rate of about $5,000,000 r month, though it will decrease when the new rev- ! o the bullish sentiment, ‘the ‘in- | The steel mills are | THE SAN THE RACE TRACK VETO. AYOR PHELAN, by vetoing the Ingleside M track gambling ordinance; has saved the city from the curse which menaced it. He has prevented the resumption of an evil which in timzs past brought upon the community every form of crime from petty larceny’ to suicide, and which, if tolerated, would unddubtedly have produced. similar tesults in the future. By his action the Mayor has upheld the mbfi]ity and the well-being of the city, and in this connection deserves the commendation of all good citizens. There is the more reason for a public expression of approval of the Mayor's action because it has brought upon him the condemnation of many who' have heretofore posed as his friends and of all those who expected to profi¢ by the reopening of gambling at Ingleside. These men have impugned the Mayor's motives in vetoing the ordinance and are endeavoring to discredit the action by every means in their power. Against such assaults the voice of the better elements of the community should be heard in protest. The Call does not pretend to be able to penetrats the Mayor’s heart and discern his motives, nor, so fa~ | as the public interest is concerned, does it matter what his motives were. Whether his action was designed ifor political purposes, for personal advancement or for any form of self-interest matters nothing. The one thing of importance to the people is that he has prevented track gambling at Ingleside and has main- tained the cause of morality and good government. | It is well known The Call has not been a supporter of Mayor Phelan. It has criticised him unsparingty in the public interests and has condemned every action of his which it deemed prejudicial to the welfare of th: community. That antagonism which The Call has hefd toward the Mayor's general policy and toward many of his particular measures does not, however, blind it to the merit of his present action. In this instance, at any rate, he has acted wisely. He has set zside the claims of those who have been acting with m and has championed the cause of the whole people. The Call, though a steadiast political oppo- nent, will never permit partisanship to prevent it from ledging the worth of any official who does his to the public; and therefore, in the name of the | better elements of the® community, it says to Mayor Phelan: In vetoing the race track gambling ordinance W FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, under the Gladstone act as “a nondescript rent charger hovering about in a state of suspended ani- mation,” and the se struck the popular fancy as being so accurate that it has been frequently quoted. . Since the attempt to settle land quesions by land courts having authority to fix rents has failed there seems nothing left but to buy out the landlords and sell the land in small racts'to the people. Mr. Red- 'mond argued that since “compulsion” has ‘been al- ready applied to the landlord to compel him to rent his land at reasonable charges there can be nothing revolutionary in applying compulsion to make him sell his land, and as for the cost to the Government of buying the property he said: “You are spending over two millions a week on a devastating war, and it would be better to spend it in ending the long war over Irish land and bringing peace and tranquillity to the country.” wisli f Redmond was supported by a strong speech from T. W. Russel, who represents Tyrone and is one of the strongest Unionists in Ireland. - In fact,’as has been stated, all parties in Ireland appear to be virtu- ally dgreed upon this question. The objections that have been made to the schems are that the great bulk of Irish lands are of such a nature they could not be successfully cultivated by peasant proprietors. It is said that small owners could not drain the swamps and that, while Ireland is i need of additional forests, peasant proprietors woula cut down what forests remain. In other words, it is argued that Ireland would be better off if her lands were in the hands of richer capitalists instead of poorer. ¥ It is hardly to be doubted that in the end victory will be with the advocates of peasant proprietorship. A united people raraly fail in achieving what they resolutely work for. For once the Irish people pre sent that unity and resolution, and accordingly th prospects of success ave bright. . e s e THE LEGISLATIVE £ESS'ON.- ITH something of gratification the people of California can review the proceedings of the recent session of the Legislature and compare them with the proceedings of former sessions.. There has been this year no disturbance of legislative work by Senatorial contests or by county division schem | There have been no ccandals of a serious nature, and hardly even any intimations of bribery and corruption. The utmost of that kind that has appeared has been in the nature ‘of signs of an eagerness on the “part of some of the legislators to obtain money for their votes, but no evidence has been forthcoming to justify you have done wel | | THZ ENFORCEMENT OF LAW. | | e certain men claim- ~\ ESPITE the ordinance of this city forbidding | [ track gambling at Ingl ing te represent the wealth and respectability of the State, and making the further claim of acting in the interest of honest sport and of horse breeding. deliberately violated the law on Saturday by holding | . a racing meeting at Ingleside and sanctioning pool- fling and’boakmaking in the inciosure. These same men have annbunced positively that they hold a racing meeting at Tanioran Park to-day, notwithstand- ing the fact that the law of San Mateo County forbic. | That much was made evident by the reviews of the session furnished to The Call by leaders of the Senate, any such meeting. at confront the officers of the Such are the fac law in this county and in San Mateo. The violation was done defiberately’in this conaty on Saturday. A signed statement by Mayor Phlelan, published in an- other column this moring. asserts that the mea whe held the racing at Ingleside track on that day werz | ] informed on Friday that the ordinance permitting poolselling and bookmaking within that inclosure had heen vetoed. Notwithstanding that knowledge, re- ceived directly from the Mayor himself, they went forward with their illegal programme. They now pro- pose to show an equal contempt of law in San Mateo County. The duties of the officers of the law under such circumstances are clear. The guilty parties should be arrested, brought inte court and evidence furnished to convict them. It is to be borne in mind that ths persons who are morally and legally most guilty are 1ot clerks and other subordinate persons but the men | who control the track and who direct and carry out | the violation of the law, The fact that those men are rich should not be sufficient to enable them to escape the penalty of their actions. This is not a government which has one law for the rich and an- | other for the poor. It is a land where laws apply | equally to all, and the officers will be negligent of their ‘dvty and false to their oaths if they arrest a few pear men in the employ of the rich violators of | the Jaw and lcave the employers to g;) scot-free. |~ The people of this and of San Mateo County hava cnacted ordinances forbidding bookmaking and pooi- selling within their limits. Certain men well known to the officials have already violated the law in this city and purpose to violate that of San Mateo. Is it | too much to expect that every one of those parties shall be brought to answer for the offense before the | wood forest, are each and all of them measures wh suspicion that they rezeived it. Taken as a whole, the tvork of 'the session has been well done, and in many. respects it has beea important work. - The 1atification of the lease of China Basin to the Santa Fe Railroad, the passage of the code revision bills, the adoption of a primary jaw | the appropriation of $250,000 for the University of Cal- ifornia for the next biennial period, and the vote of an equal sum for the purchase of the Big Basin red I deal with great issues of State politics and will be of lasting good ta the community. Thus, while there has cnuine work to note with satisiaction. There will, of course, be differences of opinion con- cerning the relative merits of the measures adopted. and of the Assembly and published yesterday. Thu Senator Davis says that while the large majority of the dominant party “might have invited recklessness or extravagance, no session has been freer from scan- dals and no session has accomplished more in the way of positive legislation.”” He went on to say: “The peneral appropriation bill has cut off all needless ex- pense of maintenance in the public service, and the State tax rate is the lowest in many a year.” On the other side, W. F. Cowan, who represents the minority, says: “Extravagance has been the keynote for the majority of the members, Very few bills or resolu- tions carrying appropriations have met with defeat. The barriers of the Belshaw act were let down and attaches came in swarms.” Another difference of opinion appears in the judg- ments upon the primary election law. Senator Davis says: “Every effort has bpen made to frame an hones’ primary law, and it is believed the bill passed will, it be approved, make it possible for political decency to control the organizations of both political parties in the large centers of population and for the San Francisco delegation in our State conventions to be something more than a bunch of asparagus tied by a string in the hands of a boss.” On the other hand, Mr. Cowan says: “The test adopted absolutely vitiates the bill, and it will be with poor grace that the Repul)- lican party may lay ¢laim to any glory for reform in | this direction.” Such differences of opinion are largely due to par- tisan points of view. - Mr. Cowan naturally seeks in the action of the session for such material as can be used in campaigning against the Republican party. He is quite right in condemning the excessive number of employes put upon the payrolls of both the Senate and the Assembly. Whether his objections to the primary law are valid remains to be seen. Until it- has been tried before the Supreme Court and in prac- tical operation no one can accurately judge its merits. bar of impartial justice? ) : ¢ LAND PURCHASE IN IRELAND. [ T. PATRICK’S DAY dawned this year upon H an Irish people well-nigh united on the chiei subject of their immediate political aspirations. | Whatever differences of Dpin;ion may exist concerning | home rule, there are almost none upon the question cf establishing a peasant proprietcrship of Irish lands. | That much was made evident by the recent debate upon the question in Parliament. Not only did all | the Nationalists support the measure but many Union- ists did so, and the London Times has said that such to do so solely by Balfour’s appeal to them not to join in what would be recognized as a vote of censure. It is therefore fair to infer that such Irish members as voted with the Government on that occasion did so not because they oppose the land purchase plan but because they believe that on the whole the present | Ministry should be retained in power. |, the old Irish discontents, but is a néw phase of Irish’ development. The act carried by Gladstone in 1895 establishing land couits to fix rent rates in Ireland has proven a failure. The land courts, in fact, have disturbed the relations of landlord and tenant without | helping either. They kave destroyed the responsibility ! the rights of the renters. In a recent speech in Parlia- | ment Mr. Redmond described the landlord in Irelanl v T Meantime it is gratifying to have such a bill adopted. Altogether the most important dev:lopment. of the session is that brough: out by Senator Smith in the statement: “A notable feature of the trend of legisla- tion is found in the increasing demands upon the public treasury for public improvements. The im- peundingof debris, the improvement of navigation and drainage, the storage and conservation of water for irrigation, the purchase of forests for recreation grounds and the construction of public highways are but a portion of the subjects proposed, and in each case urged with great vigor by at least a portion of the people.” ; These are indeed the chief issues that confront Cali- fornia, and it is inevitable they should soon become the main questions of State politics. To properly deal with them it will be necessary for the people to elect to the Legislature men of progressive ideas, genuine patriotism and a high degree of statesmanship. It «cannot be questioned that we have in California men ‘wi@:compnut to solve all the problems such issues present, nor can it be doubted that the people have sufficient intelligence to elect such men as soon as it .becomes recognized that their services are needed. 1t .is admitted by the leading 'Hfldsli papers that | Consequently we can look forward to an improvement the land purchase question is not a mere repetition of | in politics as well as in other things, from the appear- ance of these problems in the field of State legislation. The outlook is therefore bri We have begun the new century by a legislative session without scan- and without ‘any controversies that leave behind them bitterness and ill-will. Democrats will, of course, find cause for denouncing the majority, but. of the owners of the property, but have not protected | on the whole, the Republican party can safely chal- lenge comparison between the work of this session and that of any under Democratic control. iy 5 % % % i been little evil to complain of, there has been' much | MARCH 18, 1901. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS —_——— PREPARED BY EXPERT Rise of an By James . “Barberton!” cry the brakemen on Ere and Baltimore and Ohio railway trains as | they reach a bustling Ohio town of 5009 inhabitants 300 miles east of Chicago. “There was nothing but a cow pasturc and meadows and swamps here a little more than ten years ago,” Is the informa- ‘tlon the local passenger is likely to give to the stranger in the car seat beside him. “Barberton is a remarkable town now. Those big brick bulldings which we justL pasded are the works of the Diamon] ;Maich Company, the largest of the kiad in the world. Hi Barber founded the com- | puny and fotnded Barberton, which is named for him. His full name isn't Hiram, as one 'would think, since his | friends call him ‘Hi,’ but Ohlo C.—plain ©O. C. Barber, he writes it."" It is as the “father of Barberton,” a plo- neer: in match manufacturing and a rich and benevolent man that Mr. -Barber i3 | widely. known. Akron was his beyhood i home and Barberton is elgnt miles south | west of Akron. Fifty years ago in his father's barn he was splitting little sticks by hand and dipping tnem in sulphur to make the crude matches of that day. As {boy and man he has developed an enor- mous business and now makes and sells | matches all over the world. Physically | Mr. Barber is tall, broad-shouldered and muscular. His eyes are large and appear eyebrows. They and the drooping corners severely searching, under heavy, dark { of his large, nrm mouth and indented, slightly protruding chin, give him a look of power which the most casual observer cannot fail to notice. S AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. - Fifth Article of Series on “The Opportu- nity and the Man,” Dealing W ith the Ohio Man. A. Braden. COPYRIGHT, 1901 Lo PSS SRS V.—0HIO C. BARBER. * - o Ohio C. Barber. * to-do even, tapers rolled from old news- rapers were constantly employed in light- ng lamps and starting fires, to husband the high priced matches. To increase the consumption of the match company's pro- duct it must be sold for less money, and _His iron-gray hair, his heavy gray mus- tache and the lines about his mouth and | eyes mark him as no longer young, al-| | though he does not look as old as hial { sixty years. Most persons would guess his {age’ to be 50. Notwitiistanding his aus- | tere look he is one of ‘he most approach {able of men.. His ways are democratic. | As he walks about Akron he contirually | récognizes and greets the friends of nis | youth and early manhood as well as the | machinists in his shops. His Akron resi | dence on Market street, near the business center of the city, is far less pretentious ! than others near 'it—a plaln, three-story | brick house on a lot no larger than sult- | ably accommodates it. He lives alone | | When he is away the three or four s vants have the big house to themselves | and its outward appea ince glves no sipn | | in one.way or the other as to whether the ! master is'in Akron or Etrope. The hous (is richly but simply furnished. The Ii | brary bears-evidénce that its owner likes | | books—that he is interested in economie | { subjects, but reads isuch else as well. | newspapers, however, .aking the place of fiction. Yet Mr. Barber reads novels some- | times. He especially admires Ernest Se- | ton-Thompson's wild animal stories. " | P:ginnings of 3 Great Business. | | Ohio_ C. Barber was only 8 years old | when he was set to work making splints | ! for the manufacture of matches in his | father's barn at Midd.cbury, now a par: of Akron. His father was George Barber, | a poor man, but awake to the needs of his | | day and generation, 1s his son has beea | {after him. This characteristic in the elder | | Barber led him to begin tha manufacture | i of matches on a scale as great as his { means would permit, about 1540. In those | days the lucifers were made by a gang | of fine circular saws, so that when the operation was completed the strips resem- bled a-double-edged, coarse-toothed comb. he open ends of the strips having bee: dipped in a composition made principally 1 of sulphur,.a. slow-burning, expensive | match was secured by sawing through the | ! center of the comb iengthwise and sepa- { rating the teeth by splitting each from | the main body. In the beginning th= | | matches had been marketed without be- { ing split apart, because of the theory that they would ignite themselves if packea more closely. | _There was nof much play for little Ohio Barber. He went to school when fhere | was a school to which he could go, but| | his holidays and odd hours were spent | {in the primitive match factory. His | father, though a man of little learning, | had the foresight to know that his busi- | mess, unless calamities befell, some day | ‘must be of such proportions as to require | & manager possessing a fair. education. | So he hirea other help and sént his boy to school. But young Ohio was an en- | thusiast in the business of making matches and even as a boy had many ideas about improving the methods of their manufacture. He was only 16 when his father agreed with him that he could read and write and cipher sufficiently well to permit of his giving his time en- tirely to business. However, the learn- ing he had was too valuable to permit of the lad being employed at common labor in the shop and the father was able to do all that was necessary in work requiring skill. Young Barber, therefore. was provided with a horse and cove: wagon and put upen the foad as a trav- cling_salesman. His territory included all of Ohio. He sold the product of his father's little shop to country merchants and dealers In the larger towns and citles. His industry and success as a | ealesman brought more work for the fac- tory and from time to time additions were made to the force of workmen and to the investment in machinery. How Progress Was Brought About. “We are too slow, father,” the young salesman said n returning from one of his trips. e must make matches by some faster process, and we must make use wherever we can of the rail- roads that are being built. to get our goods into the hands of the wholesalers and rétaflers more quickly. We shall have to confine ourselves to the whole- sale trade before long.” The elder Barber agreed with his son, who picked up ideas rapidly during busi- ness trips. He had already made some im- provements in the method of match manu- facturing, and father and son worked to- gether to make still others. They suc- ceeded, and year after year the business grew. When the son was 24 years old—in 1 e Barber Match Company was or- ganiged. and the business was removed to arge brick building in Akron. Ohio C. ngfll' was made secretary of the com- .+ His acquaintance with the trade and elsewhere made his services lly valuable. It was not long be- was at the head of the business. ust make matches more econom- sell them at lower prices to in- erease the business,” was the thought constantly in the young man's mind. All people now in middle life or older will re- member with what excellent reasons he took this view of the situation. Matches were a luxury. In the homes of the well- yet there must remain a profit. Mr. Barber has tolled all his life at the task of improving methods of manufactur- ing matches. Notwithstanding the won- erful success which has attended his ef- forts in this direction, he is still striving 0 make further improvements in the matches turned out by millions by the orporation of which he is the head. Making the World’s Matches. ‘When the Diamond Match Company was organized in 1881 Mr. Barber, because of his commanding position in the trade, was made the president of the corporation. He still occupies that position. A small num- ber of independent match companies were brought under one management in the be- ginning. The greatest growth of the busf ness has been in the wonderful extension vhich the Diamond Match Company has made. In addition to its commanding po- sition in the United States its enormous trade and its profitable holdings. includ- ing vast pine forests worth miillons of dollars, the company has bullt factories in many foreign countries. It was Presi- dent Barber who secured Government concessions and privileges in Europe which are of very great val The court- esy and business shrewdness which he found essential to success as a salesman of matches to country storekeeners in Ohio many years ago have stood him in good stead in these far greater transac- tons with foreign governments of later ays. The making of matches now has been reduced to a point that is positively ma velous, largely through O. C. Barber's i creasing efforts, his disposition to be e tirely satisfied with nothing and his w failing belief that further improvements are always possible. To-day blocks of wood are fed into a machine and come out finished matches. Great sheets of straw- board are fed into another machine and re delivered in the shape of finished match boxes. Combating Match-Makers’ Malady. In the middie history of match manu- facturing phosphorus polsoning was the bane of the business. The disease—for such it was—often resulted in death, and, if not that, at least in the removal of a | part or_all of the afllicted person's jaw- bone. Mr. Barber undertook, years ago, to remove this curse and thus lessen the danger to his employes. The Diamond Match Company now pays a‘high salary to an expert dentlst who gives all his time to examinations of the teeth and gums of its workmen. seeing to it that they are sound and well cared for. The company's shops are ventilated with the greatest care by a system more complete, it is as- serted, than that used in any other line of manufacturing, so that the fumes from | the chemicals used—espectally the phos- | phorus fumeb-mux be quickly carried off and thus rendered harmless. By these precautions tha number of cases of-phos- phorus poisoning has been reduced of late years by more than % per cent. Mr. Barber, who has been {ll himself scarcely a day in his whole life, takes a great interest in the Akron City Hospital and has plans in view for many improve- ments in that institution. At this time an offer made by him to give the hospital | $100,000 Iscr?endln . while other citizens are’ subscribing $15000 to pay the hospi- tal's debt, the only conditions he imposed in his proposition thus. to aid the charity. Growth of Barberton. The town of Barberton takes much of its founder’s time. Every year he is there to make the Fourth of July address at the annual celebration. He has given a library to the town and has subscribed most generously to other public under- takings. He has secured many factories for the little city and is proud of its growth. “Some day we shall annex Ak- Ton,” he is fond of saying. “There iIs not an old man in our city. We are in our infaney now." His faith in Barberton is shown by his large Investments there in many lines.of manufacturing and in real estate. The tract of 360 acres on which he intends bulldl\;ls a handsome residfence to he sur- by a park cost him $68.500 the last v It was Mr. Barber's intention at the beginning to establish at Barberton a eat factory for the manufacture of a_ash. Before his plan took definite ape, however, he had interested himself in a 'similar enterprise near Cleveland. But he decided to bulld up Barberton in spite of his change of plan. Slowly at first, then more and more rapidly, as he placad factory after factory upon his Tm land, @ town rew up, There is evi prospect that, when its founder shall look over Barberton in years to come from his new home on the hilltop, it will be worthy of the name of city. AL ready It has surpassed his expectations. but, as is characteristic of him, he is not and will not be content to have it stop growing. Mr. Barber married Miss Anna Brown of Akron when Jouns man. Her death several years ago. e has one daughter, Anna, the wife of Dr. Arthur Bevan of Chicago. L e e e e e ) PERSONAL MENTION. |ANS Willam N. Russ, a eattleman of Eu- reka, {s at the Lick. Dr. J. D. Damercn of Stockton is a guest at the Grand. & ’AN‘.Halnu. a merchant of 'Mas , [ o is at the Grand. G. B. McCord, a hotel man of Hanford, is staying at the Grand. Dr. Melville Wassermann of New York is a late arrival at the Palace. ‘Woodward, a banker of Fresno, is am the guests at the Lick. Estee, an nsurance man of Mil- is registered at the California. ‘an Nuys, the hotel owner of Los is registercd at the Palace with Swift, the pork-packer of Chi- at the Palace, with his TO QUERIES. THE PARIS—H. R., Raymond, Cal. The steamer Paris of the American line, after being taken off the rocks, was rebuilt in 1900 and is now in'that 1i aaa i running hat line as the OCEANIC AND DEUTSCHLAND-II, !‘; M., C:t'z mamendo.ll;‘- of the steam- are: feet, breadth 6, th 44: those of gg Deutschlan, 2 6% foet, breadth 673 depth 3 CAPTAIN WARD-H. R, Cal. Mdmrtmnteummrmm why Captain Ward was | WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS ;3 France is clearing its effective list of vessels that have outlived their useful- ness, the latest removals being iwo tor- pedo-boats, of which the Lansquénet was built in 193 and the Bouet-Willavmuex in 1888, e Germany’'s naval expenditures are now more than flve times the sum of twenty- eight years ago. In 1893 the total was only $6.500,000, rising to $12.500,000 in 1589. to $27,780,000 {n 1598 and for 1900 increased to . . The two vessels purchased by Ecuador from France were the gun vessels Papin and Inconstarit of %91 tons and thirteen knots speed. They were built in 1386 and las their hulls are chiefly wood they are *too far gone to be of any value as naval | vessels. One of the softest naval billets held by an officer is that of Vice Admiral J. R. T. | Fullerton, who has had command of the | royal yacht Victoria and Albert since Oc- | tober, 1884. In a recent audience with the | King it was arranged that the gallant ad- | miral was to relinquish his command shortly, and a former commander of ths yacht would be selected as his successor. Pt R The fireproofed wood used in American ships of war is reported to meet all the requirements. Samples were recently taken from the torpedo-boat Winslow, built four years ago, and pieces placed in a stove for some length of time were only slightly charred. Splinters held over a Bunsen burner withstood the flame, no ash forming. . . King Edward is the ninth King of | England to become the Lord High Admi- i ral of the British navy. Alfred the Great | held that office and performed its duties Ifrom A. D. §72 to 90 and thence up to 1216 seven Kings were Lord High Admi- rals, since which time, up to the present, no British monarch has headed the naval | list of Great Britain. The Myrmidon, torpedo-boat destroyer, | just completed at the Palmer yard for the | British navy, made her trials last month | with good results. Developing 6623 horse- i power with 379.4 revolutions, the boat made 30.134 knots, and a few days later | when the engines were not so hard pushed the speed averaged 30.209 knots for three hours on 633 horsepower. The contract called for 6300 horscpower and ¥ knots | speed. » otie | Three battleships will be placed in com- mission in the German navy during tha latter part of the present year. They are of the Kaiser ciass of 11000 tons and were begun and launched In the following order: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, laid down in November, 1867, launched June 1, 15%9; Kaiser Barbarossa, begun August 3, 188, Jaunched April 14, J90, and Kaiser | Kagl der Grosse, keel laid in July, 1899, floated in June, 1899, . | ;. Twelve first class torpedo-boats building at Elbing are ready for launching as soon as the Ice disappears, They are of 15 tons, 25 knots speed and carry three twelve-pounders and three revolving deck torpedo tubes. A third division of six hoats is In progress of construction and a fourth will be begun during the present year. These boats are intended for sea- going service and are claimed to be supe- rior to the British torpedo-boat destroyers in every particular, including speed. e Trial trips in the British navy rarely pass off without some accident more or less serious to the machinery, the latest being that of the battleship Implacable. The trial under 12,000 horsepower came to an abrupt end on February 13 through the heating of the connecting rod of the low pressure cylinder of the port engine, and necessitated the ship’s return to the dock- yard to make repairs. The Implacable has still to develop 15,000 horsepower dur- Ing a four hours’ full power trial. P il e | | The Russian cruiser Bogatyr was launched from the Vulcan yard, Stettin, Germany, on January 30 last. She is one of a type of ten practically allke In gen- eral characteristics, but will have greater speed than her predecessors. The vessel is of 6750 tons on a draught of 21 feet 10 Inches with 720 tons of coal on board, and her engines of 20,000 horsepower are cal- culated to give a speed of 23 knots. The battery, consisting of twelve six-inch, twelve three-inch and six three-pounders, are all quick-firers, and her complement | numbers 573, of which twenty-three are of- ficers. - . The advance made in armor protection of ships during the past twenty years is indicated in a late number of Engineering, which has tabulated the progressive stages in the British navy since the In- flexible was launched. fn the tabulated . comparison the second column gives the ‘ total weight of armor. the third columa the percentage which the armor is of the ship’s displacement, the fourth column in- dicates the length of beit, and the last column shows the percentage of the ship's length protected: | iz 3 NAME OF SHIP. 3= ES | 33 - | 22 3 | .8 2 thd [ | Inflexible ».8 3 | Royal Sovereign. n5 2 | Majestic 1. | 5.8 1 7 } 18 |5 4.3 235 | 0. The height of side protection has de- | creased from 15 feet 8 inches to 14 feet in the Duncan class now buflding. 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