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CARLTON ++.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, Murey Hill Hotel peisbsls B ... SRS S R SRR . AMUSEMENTS. WS STANDS: f1 Union Equare: Aleazar—*The Conguerors.” Grand Overa-house—"Mr. Barnes of California—""A Bachelor's Romanc Central—""Ten Nights in a Barroom.” Tivoll—""The Idol's Eye.” Orpheum—Vaudeville Olympia, corner Mason and E@dy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and evening. Pischer's—Vaudeviile Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. ew York. AUCTION SALES. By Sullivan & Doyle—Monday, April 29, will and business of Sullivan & Dovle. at t 10 o'clock, good 5 Sixth st. T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This pager will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local agent im coast. TRADE AGAIN IRREGULAR. RADE conditions became irregular again last T\\cek. The steady tone was no longer visible, Some lines kept up, while others fell off. The country’s bank clearings showed an apparent gain in the volume of business over the corresponding week last year of 60.5 per cent, but when the figures are examined it will be seen that this gain was largely confined o New York. Thus, the aggregate clear- ings of the United States were $2,934,897,000, and of this amount New York furnished $2,201,516,000, with an increase there of 103 per cent. No other city of importance showed any such gain, the next highest being 34.8 per cent at San Francisco, while the gains at Boston and Chicago fell off to 7.0 and 5.2 respect- ively. Pittsburg, the center of the steel industry, fell off to 258 per cent. S this increase of 69.5 per cent in the business of the country last week simmers down to much smaller proportions when looked at closely, and it is seen that the apparent improvement in trade is largely confined to t'ie New York Stock Exchange and represents active speculation in railroad and in- dusirial shares. Wall street has been boiling for some little time, but indications of a reaction are appearing. The situ- ation is simple. The vast financial interests which have formed the enormcus trusts are not ready yetr to let their shares deciine, and are straining every rerve to keep *hem up, while the small and cautious interests, as well as the public at large, are becoming afraid of the high valuations and are getting out. They are selling—which, in the jargon of the street, is called liquidation and realizing. The great moneyed inter- csts are taking the stocks thus thrown on the market und actually bidding for more. This is called “sus- taining the market.” How long this will last is a couundrum which is interesting the bankers and finan- cicrs of New York. What will happen when the pub- lic has liquidated is ancther conundrum. At present cenditions are assuring. Money is not stringent and the powers behind the trusts seem to have plenty of it to operate with. Besides, the national treasury is almost gorged with gold. Furthermore, the Euro- pean nations are coming over here as borrowers, and the United States has practically superseded England as the creditor nation of the world, for England is now borrowing from us. Every day brings nearer the, time when New York, and not London, will be the financial center of the world. Nor is that time very distant. Still, with all this ready money, it is a question how long Wall street will continue to boil. As for the humdrum side of business—the daily trading in produce and metfchandise—there is litle new to note. Floods in many sections have inter- rupted the distribution of merchandise and interfered with retail trade. The staples show little life as a rule. Wool is barely steady, hides and leather are quiet and not materially changed, and business in boots and shoes is smaller. Lumber is reported firm, while orders for iron and steel continue to engage the full capacity of the works everywhere, though they are not as crowded with business as in 1899. The feature of the week, owside of Wall street, was the advance in wheat, mainly due to bad reports from the German crop, assisted by less favorable reports from California, where rain has been seriously needed. The local situation is now purely dependent upon the weather. The long dry spell, broken by the rains of yesterday, extending over the major part of April, and which has been exceeded but twice in fifty-two years, according to the records, and further severe frosts during the past week, have al- tered crop prospects materially. In most sections; however, a good crop of grain is still possible without any more rain, though the yield will hardly be as large as previously anticipated; but it is undeniable that the continued heavy frosts have made serious inroads upon the fruit crop. The merchants, however, con- tinue to report the best trade for a number of years, 2nd there are no complaints from any quarter. With (?i‘i- showers from now on we ought to pull out all right. 4 Ii you have not yet designed the manner in which you are going to decorate your premises for the Presi- deut’s visit, now is a good time to think about it. A matter of that kind should not be left to the last mo- ment and then done in a hurry. Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1901. THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR. RESIDENT McKINLEY will to-day leave P Washington upon the tour that is to bring him to California. It is to be the lond®st Presi- dential tour in our history, for while other Presidents have come to California none have made the long sweep around the whole Union that McKinley will have made when he gets back to Washington. In other respects, also, it will surpass the former tours of Presidents, for never before have such extensive preparations been made for the reception of a Presi- dent over so long and so varied a route. In his great speech opposing the policy of the ad- ministration toward the Philippines Senator Hoar paid a high tribute to the personal worth of President McKinley and said of him: “He is more loved thaa 2ny President we have had since Lincoln.” The phrase comes as near as any single phrase can to expressing the hold the President has upon the peo- ple. He has a place in the hearts of all. His deep regard for the personal welfare of every American, manifested during his whole political life and uttered again and again in his speeches, has had its natural effect upon the masses, and he is looked upon as a personal friend by all whose industries he has helped to make prosperous. His coming, therefore, im- presses the public mind as something more than a mere official tour. a lcyal desire to show their respect for his high office; bet because of a personal admiration and esteem, and, as Senator Hoar said, love for himself. 3 He comes to us with his Cabinet on what is called 2 holiday tour. It is to be no idle holiday. From the t:me he leaves Washington until he completes his journey there will be for him the most fatiguing kind of work, that of atteading official receptions, public dshakings, fetes and functions of all kinds. It devolves upon the citizens to be considerate and not impose too much of that kind of work upon him. It is to be borne in mind his Cabinet will be with him and governmental business will have to be performed every day. Such consicerations should prompt the people to receive the President with that hospitality which does not impose too much upon the guest. The time which the Presidential party will spend in California will constitute the climax of the tour. The receptions given from the day he enters the State until he leaves it will form the most memorable features of his journey. From preparations that have been made at all points where he is expected to stop, even for a few minutes, it is evident that California as sesn from the Presidential train will appear as a land gar- landed with flowers from one end to another, and occupied by a people to whom hospitality is at once a virtue and a joy, a duty and a love. It is gratifying to know that all these preparations have been made, but in the midst of them we should not forget that the President’s life work has been the study and the practice of that kind of politics that promotes prosperity. He delights in learning of th= working life of a people, of their industries and their interests. He should therefore be afforded as many opportunities as possible of becoming acquainted with the resources of the State and the matters in which tire welfare of the commonwealth can be promoted by national legislation. Starting from the capital to-day, it will not be long before the President is with us. From now until the day on which he is due in San Francisco time will fly fast. once upon the extent znd nature of the decorations | with which he will maks his premises vie with those of his neighbors in beauty and brightness. There have been many notable decorative effects produced in San Francisco on great occasions in times past, but new let us break all records. B BRYAN'S OLD SHOES. RYAN has taken from his feet the shoes of Presidential aspiration and cast them aside. Such at any rate is his statement. In a recent number of the, Commoner he has said: “I am not planning for another Presidential nomination—if 1 were I would not be editing a paper.” Under ordin- ary circumstances such a statement would not amount to much. It has long been the custom of candidates for the Presidency to take off the shoes of candidacy in off years, but it has been noted they put them on again when an election year came round. There are reasons, however, for believing Bryan to be sincere. In the first place he his had enough in the way of Democratic nominations and in the second place Democracy has had c¢nough of him. In his case, therefore, it is likely the shoes have been cast aside for good. Whatever view the country may take of Bryan's renunciation, the Democratic leaders have evidently taken him at his word and his words at face value. Tt is a long time before the next Presidential election, but already the wirepullers of Democracy have begun to lay their wires, the “oomers have set about arrang- ing for their booms and the hornblowers have made ready their horns. . : Within the higher circles of the party David Ben- nett Hill has an easv leadership. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times quotes a prom- inent Democrat of Maryland as saying that while his personal preference is for Gorman, he believes that statesman to be too timid for leadership at this time, and that therefore Hill has the advantage. - By way of explaining the situation the Maryland man went on to say: “We are not rich in leaders, in men of statesmanship; but we need some men of common sense and courage more than we do brilliant states- men. Until these men come to the surface and as- sume that leadership which must be followed by suc- cess, we shall go on trimming in Congress and grovel- ing at our conventions under the malign influence of the Christian Scientists of politics. If there is one quality the possession of which will give to its pos- sessor the chance to revive the drooping spirits of the Democratie, party, that quality is courage, and the man who now seems to have a conspicu6us share of it is your former Senator, Mr. Hill. If another, with more courage and a ciearer perception of the needs and opportunities of nis party arises before the next national convention, I am convinced that the Demo- cratic party will hail him as a veritable political Moses.” Signs of the work of the Hill boomers are visible in all sections of the Union. His friends are to be seen throughout the Southern States and on this coast. It is in New York, however, that the work is most conspicuous. The recent organizdtion of “The Greater New York Democracy” on a platform declar- ing opposition to Tammany Hall, is clearly a move- ment in the interests of Hill's Presidential aspirations; and seems designed not so much for use in New York as for the purpose of impressing the country with the idea that Hill is now a reformer, against the bosses and for the people. In the meantime it is to be noted that the boom for Tom L. Johnson, which started immediately upon hiz election as Mayor of Cleveland, has not subsided. Henry Watterson has taken it up. In a recent issue of the Louisville Courier-JTournal he said: “If Tom John- son is elected Governor of Ohio next fall, and if two He will be greeted by people not | solely from a fondness for grand parades, nor yet from | Every citizen should therefore determine at | years later, having made a good Governor, he holds down his job, all will be over for 1904 but the shout- ing. Put that in your cob pipe and smoke it, you cropheads.” 4 1t will be noted there are a good many “ifs” in Mr. Watterson’s prediction, but they do not disturb the flow of his eloquence; so he goes on to pour forth the rapture: “Let the boys in the trenches pray that it block, born in Dixie, blessed by Indiana and blazed ferth a leader in Ohio—this ‘Cousin Tom Johnson of Ours,” who went hence a barefoot to come back with a pocketful of buckeyes and something to spare besides, may sweep the State of Ohio as he has swept the city of Cleveland; that he may fight and win the ante-Presidential battle of 1903, and that, repeating the story of Tilden and Cleveland before him, he may finally come to his kingship at the head of a mighty host of Democrats unterrified and undefiled, not cast- ing one look of longing nor regret behind.” It is not to be doubted that “Cousin Tom Johnson” will be a pretty good war cry in Dixie, and perhaps | the “cropheads,” as Watterson calls them, may yst have to accept it. In the meantime the Hill boomers have taken due notice of the Wattersonian “ifs” and are going right along as if there were no Cousin Tom in the country. ; A VOICE FROM ALABAMA. | ESPITE the advice of Senator Morgan that D the Democrats of Alabama carry out their scheme for disfranchising the negroes as quiet- ly as possible, so as not to give rise to discussion in the North, it appears the movement will not be effect- ed without ‘ebate and p:b&test eyen in Alabama itself, | There are Democrats iu the State who deem the pro- | posed policy to be prejudicial to the interests of the | commonwealth and they have not hesitated tq say so. | One of the opponents of the plan, E. G. Murphy of | Montgomery, has issued a public letter warning the | people of the dangers likely to result from it. He dis- misses the argument that it is necessary to disfran- chise the negro in order to sectire white supremacy | with the simple statement that white supremacy in Alabama is already universal; there is not an elective | office held by a negro anywhere in Alabama and negro ‘domination could not be accomplished in the State | except by military force, which will never be at- [ tempted. Mr. Murphy then proceeds to point out that while illiteracy is not a crime, literacy is a duty; that it is incumbent upon the State to educate its people; that | if all illiterates, white and black alike, were excluded frcm voting the act would stimulate them to learn to read and to write; that to exclude only illiterate ne- | groes, leaving the ignorant and idle whites in full | possession of the ballot, would be a surrender of one |'of the best means to promote education and would : put political power into the hands of willfully ignorant and lazy vote sellers. As a further and perhaps more effective argument against the plan, the opponents of it remind conser- | vative and progressive men that any suppression of political privileges will hzve a tendency to render the negroes restless and dissatisfied. On that point Murphy says: “Will such conditions help anybody’s business? Our negroes are not an ideal population, but they are suited to the industrial needs of‘ the South. Most of them are going quietly about their work. A policy of alarm will not be a policy of profit. Tt will not increase the value of the negro to Alabama. Anxiety, restlessness and discontent bring the paraly- sis of efficient labor. Political agitation is economic foolishness. Contented, steady, eontinuous work is the most productive werk in the world. The farmer and planter know that they can get more corn and more cotton out of a centented labor than out of the labor that is frightened by the beating of the political tom-tom, and disturbed and unsettled by the crude animosities of the political hustings. It is all un- necessary.” There may not be many nien in Alabama who will actively engage in opposing the scheme of the Demo- cratic leaders, but the slightness of the 'vote in favor of the constitutional convention is a proof that the great mass of the people are indifferent to it. Conse- quently they are in a mocd to be affected by the argu- ments of such earnest men as make the fight. The situation has therefore its gleams of brightness. The scheme is not to be carried out in silence. The better clements of the people of Alabama are to at least con- front the wrong with argument and with protest. MONUMENTAL ERRORS. WING to the widespread discussion over the O action of the sculptor in placing upon the pedestal of the Logan monument at Washing- ton a tablet misrepresenting the facts of history there has been a general examination of monuments in the Last, and as a result there have been brought to light a number of errors in memorial tablets, some of them being even more glaring than that which started the discussion. The most notable error of the kind has been dis- covered in the inscription upon a memorial recently set up in New York Citv. It runs thus: This Tablet Marks the Site of the Provost Prison, ‘Where Patriots Died for the Cause of Freedom About A. D. 1756. Erected by the . Mary Washington Colonial Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, April 15, A, D. 1901 Tt is explained that the patriots whom the tablet was designed to commemorate are those of the Revo- lution, but as the war for independence did not begin until 1775 the record piaces their death about twenty years too early. Evidently the Daughters of the Revolution have tried to make their lineage a little vit longer than it really ought to be, and the result is going to be confusion in the minds of the young patriots who try to make the school histories tally with the records of th civic monuments. It appears that another error just about as serious but on a local matter was discovered in a memorial tablet commemorating the founder of the city of Springfield, Mass. In that case, however, the citizens pretested, and we leara that the error was “rectified by an amendment” to the inscription. Another case of amending an inscription has been brought to light in the city cemetery at Norfolk, Va. There stands there a handsome marble monument ‘bearing the inscription, “Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Margaret ——, who died —"”; and beneath is | added, “Erratum: For Margaret read Martha.” Taken altogether, these various misrepresentations and mistakes are of a mature to shake popular faith in the accuracy of monumental inscriptions. It may be all right to trust to those which were erected by the ancient Egyptians and by the ancient Assyrians, but anything later is subject to dispute. We have long heard in this country of monumental errors, but not until this time did the exact meaning of the phrase come home to us, — The weather bureau is loyal, for it has arranged a good shower in time to freshen up the State for Mec- | Kinley's visit. may be so; that this chip of a sound old Kentucky’ E PAPERS ON CU RRENT TOPICS. | PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRA NCISCO CALL. Eleventh Article of the Series on “The Op- portunity and the Man,” Relating to the Career of a Shipbuilder. By Kendall Cressey. PRCAT S R (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) —_— . XI.—-CHARLES T the naval demonstration at Kiel in 1895 Emperor Willlam 1I of Ger- many displayed a marked admira- tion for the United States armored crulser New York, which was sent over as this Government's contribution to the splendid naval display made at the German festival in honor of the opening of the North Sea and Baltic ship canal. His Majesty was aboard the vessel on mcre than one occasion and on his final visit partook of midnight lunch on ship- board with a distinguished company. Im- mediately upon the conclusion of the lunch the Emperor was placed in com- mand of the vessel and gave the quick or- der to disconnect the fore and after en- gines. His command was carried out in exactly two minutes and forty-six sec- onds. = In amazement the royal guest ex- HENRY CRAMP. life and genius of the man have found their constant and most complete expres- sion. Here it is that his character im- presses one deeply and displays those traits which have wrought success. He is a member of the Union League Club and may often be found there; but any study of the man that will bring true re- sults must be made from the viewpoint of his comfortably furnished offices in the very heart of the shipyards. It is from this vantage ground that he gives his per- sonal direction to the operations in ship construction that have made his plant famous in every civilized country, for in =a majority of these there is some fangible evidence of his genius in the shape of a sea vessel, planned elther for war or for commerce. Of course Mr. Cramp has a knowledge of the shipbuilding trade tnat half a cen- claimed: “The industry and genius that hove made this splendid fighting ship pos- s‘lhlp deserve the highest praise of a na- tion.” That genius and industry is possibly best embodied in the person of the head of the great American shipbuilding firm from whose yards on the Delaware River the New York was launched, Charles Henry Cramp; for, notwithstanding the able assoclates in the persons of his own sons and members of the Cramp family connected with him in the direction and control of the great works, it is to him that the credit is due for the past achieve- ments of the firm and for the proud place it_now holds in the shipbuilding industry. ' n that group of American citizens whose names are indissolubly connected with the vast commercial and industrial achievements of the past half century the name of Charles Henry Cramp, head of the great Willlam Cramps’ Sons Ship and Engine Bullding Company, is familiar throughout the world. Yet' it belongs to a quiet, modest gentleman, who is as thoroughly ldentified with the work and advancement of the humblest riveter in his big shipyard as he is with the great rational movements of recent years that have practically made him the “‘maker of navies.” Founder of the Shipbuilding Firm. Mr. Cramp inherits the genius that has brought him such great success. He is, the eldest son of a shipbuilder, his father, Willlam Cramp, having established a shipyard on nearly the same site now oc- cupled by the immense plant of which it was the nucleus, so long ago as 1830. That was two years after the birth of his son Charles, which occurred in the Kensing- ton Borough of Philadelphia on May 9, 185, Willlam Cramp was a notable fls- wre in the early development of industrial Philadelphia. His was a strong, yugged character, possessed of virtues that made him beloved by his fellow-citizens. His indomitable perseverance was shown in the fact that amid conditions unfavorable to the development of his enterprise he overcame all obstacles. At the time of his ceath in 1879 he had the marvelous record of having built 207 vessels for the high seas and had brought the once small shipbuilding plant of his early efforts to a_worla-wide repute. ‘Young Charles H. Cramp as a boy was sent to the ol Central High School of Philadelphia, where, under the tutelage of | the famous Alexander Dallas Bache, he received a thorough training in mathe- matics, a study for which the young pupil showed a peculiar aptness. As illustrative of this it may be noted that of the four pupllz of the Philadelphia Central High chool selected . by Professor Bache to make nightly cbservations from the Gi- rard College observatory Charles H. Cramp was one. Reports of these observ- ations were sent to .Washington and the system then Inaugurated formed the basis of what is now the nation's signal service bureau. Begimning Work as a Shipbuilder._ From “the high school young Cramp passed immedlately into the active career of a shipbuilder. Although his father owned and was operating a shipbuilding Elln& it was thought best to give his son is first taste of service beyond the par- ental roof, so he went into the shipyards of his maternal uncle, John Birely, who conducted a small shipbuilding plant on the Delaware River front in the Kensing- ton borough. From his uncle’s youn; Cramp was graduated into the mold loft of his father's shipbuilding plant and from the daty he assumed those responsible qu- ties until the present he has moved stead- ll{ forward In the career that glace! him at the head of the world's shipbuilders and has made him practically the princi- pal builder of what is to-day called “the ew American navy. » inherits much of his taste and inclination for ship construe- tion, and, like his father, the original head of the enterprise, 18 possessed of remark- able inventive genfus and a mind whose natural bent is toward applied mathemat- ics, he has also a distinctive persol ty suc- that explains 'n no small degree hi: cess and the present magnitude and sca of the great company of which he Is the president. n It is within the immediate confines of ards In Kensington, hiladelphia, that the the big shipbulldin a urt‘ot t}?a clty u, SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Corenado. Coronado Beach, Cal, effective after April 15, 460 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. ! Pacific Coast 8. 8. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. CHARLES HENRY CRAMP. e e el ity tury of active identification with it and a mind of naturally predisposed by inher- itance and early training alone could give, but it has been by intense and constant personal effort that he has mastered the modern problems of naval construction, and this has enabled him to turn out from his shipyards such splendid specimens of na vessels as the New York, the Bal- timore, the Indiana, the Massachusetts. the Brooklyn and the Iowa of the new American navy, the Retvizan and Variag for the Russian navy and the Kasagi for the Japanese navy. The transition from wood to iron shipbullding was made when the present head of the Cramp yards was a young man. That he caught some fore- shadowing of the future of iron and steel shipbuilding goes without saying, and through the years that have elapsed since the death of his father and the active management of the enterprise fell upon his shoulders he has been slowly and me- thodically working out the plans which lay in his mind as a result of his earlier study and applicatipn. Closely Davoted to His Business. Passing to the more directly personal side of Mr. Cramp’s life the same qual- itles of simple, direct, forcefulness are found to exist. He is known to nearly ev- ery one of the thousands of employes of the big yards, and there is not a man, from switch tender to consulting engl- neer, who cannot approach him. For years the imniediate discipline of the works has been committed to other hands, but there is little of the life, Individual or opera- tive, that goes on without his knowledge. In all the affairs between the company and’ the men Mr. Cramp takes a strong interest, and while firm in his stand when once assumed, he is kindness itself when it comes to a study of individual cases. It may be a surprise to know that the builder of million-dollar ships for this and other nations s not many times a mil- lionaire himself, but the truth is that Mr. Cramp is not a'very rich man. The ener- gles and interests of his life have been al- most wholly absorbed In this shipbuilding plant that bears his father's name. He has not given time to the accumulation of wealth for his own use. He is not known as a patron of art, nor does he live in an extravagant fashion. He is a straight-forward, simple-mannered gentle- man, who has given all the years of his life to the arduous task of building up the industry that was in its infancy when he first opened his eyes upon the little world of Kensington. His Sons Share His Burdens. Mr, Cramp has been twice married, and has five living children. Following the ex- ample of his father he has drawn his sons into active identification with the ship- building industry. Henry W. Cramp is vice president and treasurer of the com- pany. Edwin S. Cramp is the superintend- lnfi engineer. r. Cramp is intensely charitable in his inclinations and the immediate see- tion of the city in which the Cramps' shipyards are situated = offers a fruftbal field for private and unostentatious acts of benevolence. Many are the stories told of his generosity among the poor of Ken- sington. But one doubts whether, if asked about any one of these cases of helpful- ness, the donor would be willing to_ad- mit the act, so quietly does he go about hig works of charity. A Mr. Cramp is greatly honored in the commercial and industrial world of his native city, where no representative gath- ering is deemed complete without his presence, and his advice and counsel on public_matters are highly esteemed. His life has been singularly free from ostentation or the desire ta occupy a large place in the public eye, but he has, never- theless, made the impress of his force and genlus felt in the broad progress that the country has made from an isolated nation to a commanding position in the naval and maritime history of the half century just past. —_——— King Edward’s Empjre. Exclusive of Egypt, the area of Kin; Edward's empire is 11,773,000 square mnu‘: including Egypt about 13,000,000 square miles, or much over one-fourth of the land surface of the globe.” The wealth of the United Kingdom alone, that of India, Australla, Canada and other possessions. Is about $80.000.000.000, or second only to that of the United States. ‘The W‘&ulnuon of the empire scme 400,000,000, ng comparab tes e with that of the empl: ina.—Chicago Chronicle. okt Ce WORLD’'S NAVAL NEWS Of 1428 applicants for admission to the Japanese Naval Academy only 200 suc- cessfully passed the required examina- tion, which was recently held at several piaces throughout the country. . ‘ol cw A Russian captain commanding the vol- unteer steamer Saratoff was arrested March 25 at Nagasakl, charged with pho- tographing the sceme of the Nagasaki harbor, which is within the fortification zone. A subsequent preliminary hearing resulted in the captain being held for trial. i Captain Takasaki of the Japanese navy and a dockyard clerk have been court- martialed, charged with receiving bribes while In performance of duty at Yoko- suko dockyard. The captain has been de- prived of his rank and decoration, and 1 both of the men were sentenced to eight < months’ severe imprisonment and a nom- inal fine. Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge. U. S. N., celebrated his ninety-sixth birth- day on Wednesday, April 2. He entered the navy on January 1, 1818, at the early age of 12 years and 9 months, and has now been eighty-three years three months and twenty-one days in the service. He |13 no doubt, the oldest living officer of any navy. AL e M. Landry, Minister of Marine in France, expresses the opinion that the principal reason why England has re- | jected the Belleville boiler is because of | English prejudice against anything that is French. He contends that no change in boilers is necessary, but that those who have charge of the boilers should be changed. . . A new international signal code, de- vised by Admiral Boweson, chief-of- staff of the Norwegian navy, has been adopted provisionally by three govern- ments. By his simple system three flags will make the number not only of every warship in the world, but also of every merchant vessel capable of being put to warlike use. The Belleville boller has been discard- ed for the new British cruiser Encounter, and Durr boilers will be substituted. These latter are really of the Thornmy- croft pattern, with some modifications of German origin, and are favored in the navy of Germany, where they have been installed in one training ship, three bat- tle-ships and a crulser. kTS 9 There are 17 large shipbuilding yards in Germany, employing a force of 45,000 men In all. There are 9 yards at_which war vessels are built, namely: Klel 3, with 12,000 men; Stettin 2, with 8000 men; ‘Wilhelmshafen 1, 7000 men: Hamburg 2, 6000 men; Danzig 1, 5000 men: Elbing 1, 4000 men. The wages average 40 per cent less for skilled mechanics and 30 per cent less for unskilled labor than in England, and the hours of labor are about ten hours more per week than in Great Britain. The London Engineer was particularly sarcastfc against the United States Navy Department in 1883, when the first four vessels of the new navy were contract- ed for. It expressed the belief that our Bureau of Steam Engineering was in- capable of designing marine engines with satisfactory results. It Is, therefore, pleasing to note that in a recent Iissue the Engineer states, in speaking of the machinery plans of the Navy Depart- ment: “There are many features of interest about them, and we may add that, as far as is known on this side of the Atlantic, the machinery of the American navy is, as a rule, successful in no stinted measure.” ity United States gunboat Bancroft will probably soon be withdrawn from active service and be lald up, with the Texas, as obsolete. The Bancroft is of 839 tons, built for a training ship for naval cadets in 1892 at a total cost of $431,282, and first placed in commission March 3, 1883. As a training ship she Is entirely too small, having insufficient room to accommodate the classes during the annual summer cruise, and shortly after the recent war she was converted into a gunboat and sent to Turkey to impress the Sultan with the naval power of this country. Her mission in that re- speet does not appear to have met with success, and since the Bancroft's re- turn she went out of commission from September 30, 1898, to July 21, 1900. Her trial trip speed of 1437 knots has nevet been reached in actual service, the high. est being less than 12 knots, and under these circumstances it will be true econ- omy to permanently retire a vessel which in less than eight years has become ob- solete. The Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* f Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* } Townsend's California glace fruits, 5o a ound, In_fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- ots. 539 Market, Palace Hotel bullding s 1 Best eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c. 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