The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1901, Page 4

4 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1901. ; : : .‘____——_—________—_—————_'——_'___—'—__ Che +oiee Call. MAY 20, 1901 MONDAY .......ccnnn-- JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A e Address All Communicstions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manage:. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 A A A R TP A ra D FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. ¥. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stev Telephone Prers 202, Delivered hv Carriers. 15 Centsx Per Weelk. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Inclu Postages JATLY CALL fincluding Runday), one year. 0.0 DATLY CALL (including Sfunday), § months. 8.0 DAILY CALL (Including Svnday), 3 months. :.‘:: DAILY CALL—By Eingle Month. ¥y WEEKLT CALL. Onpe Year.. All postmasters are authorized t- receive subscriptions. Sample coplee Will be forwarded when requested. e Maf! subserfhars In ardering chanes of addrese shonld to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. 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Union Square: | providing ample work for ind AMUSEMENTS. 1 Central—"Shadows of a Great City.” | Tivoli—“The Toy Maker.” Orpheum—Vaudevilie | Columbia—*"Heartsease.” H | Aleazar—*The First Born” and “Gloriana. Grand Opera-house—""The Queen of Chinatown.” California—""Barbara Frietchie.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. | Sutro Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. | | | Fred H. Chase—Monday, May 20, at 11 o'clock, 60 head at 1722 Market street. | 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer | Fesorts and is represented by a local agent in all towsns en the coast. By Horses, BRIGHT COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS. | L The market is now as quiet as it was excited a few days ago. The public is sold out, thousands of disappointed and disgusted speculators have left the street, and the professionals again have the market to themselves. Most of them are re-arranging their financial feathers, like a flock of bedraggled poultry, pluming themselves after a hard shower. Some bold spirits are again buying, but they are confining their purchases to the safest stocks in sight—those from which they can reasonably expect dividends right The sentiment of the street, however, is AST week witnessed the clearing off of the Wall street cyclone as far as the present is concerned. along. bullish. General trade continues to make a brilliant show- ing. The bank clearings of the country last week showed a gain of 104.5 per cent over the correspond- ing week last year, but about 75 per cent of this in- crease occurred in Wall 'street, and was due to the larger volume of speculation and stock gambling this year. But the gain in the other cities represented a legitimate increase in trade, and ranged from 3 per cent at Minneapolis to 50 per cent at St. Louis. Every important city in the country showed a gain. The staples, while without especial feature, are mak- | ing a good exhibit. The demand for the crude forms ‘L of iron and steel is reported lighter, but the mills re- | port orders enough for finished products to keep them running for three months, with new orders com- ing in right along. The hardware trade is also re- ported active, and there is a continued demand for all building material. Some of the best reports are be- ing received from leather and boots and shoes, ship- | ments of the latter from the New England factories being 48 per cent larger than at tl\is time last year. Farming supplies, including field implements, are in large and steady demand, which is to be expected in view of the fine crop prospects all over the country. The textiles, however, continue to drag, woolen goods and clothing being quiet and cotton lower again. | Wheat and corn are zbout 10c per bushel higher than at this time last year, though at best they are not high enough to hurt anybody, and could stand considerable advance over present quotations without inconven- | iencing the public. Money continues easy and plenti- | ful everywhere, and the only cloud in sight is the per- sistent menace of labor disturbances, which tend to prevent the organization of new enterprises and to render capital very cautious. * In San Francisco the Presidential visit has checked business in most lines. Tuesday and Saturday were largely holidays, so there were really not more than four full business days during the week. But the tone of trade on this coast continues very good. Our crop outlook, except for fruit, which will be short, is flat- | tering, and the higher prices confidently expected for fruit will probably offset the loss in the volume of the product. A very good sign is the higher range of values already established for the early fruit and hay row coming in, which is an encouraging augury for the balance of the season. For the rest, our banks | have plenty of funds, and are cheerful lenders on the usual security, while rates of interest are moderate. Collections are reported good and failures are few and small. The failures for the whole country last week were 192, against 155 for the same week last year. The increase last week was largely due to the collapse of 2 number of minor business firms in the East through the break in Wall street, which, happily, produced no effect of any consequence on the Pacific Coast. Lord Kitchener has announced a willingness to concede the Boers eyerything except independence, but as that is the only thing the Boers are willing to accept. his Lordship is not likely to be any more suc- cessful in diplomacy than in war, | portant*issue of the time. of our export and import trade is carried in foreign McKINLEY'S SATURDAY SPEECH. RESIDENT McKINLEY'S speech at the Plauncbing of the Ohio on Saturday was in many respects the most notable utterance he has made during his tour. It was in some sense a declaration of his public policies; an emphatic enunciation of his devotion to the cause of American laboj, commerce and prosperity. It was with fervor he said: “I am glad again to meet the workingmen of the country. All my publicy life has been devoted to give workingmen the best opportunity, the best chance for good wages and steady employment. When labor is well employed the country is safe, and there is contentment and hap- piness in the home of the workers. Let us do our duty, the great public duty that confronts us; let us do it walking humbly before God, dealing justly and mercifully and always asking his favor and guidance.” From that declaration the world can take the meas- ure of the statesman and the man. His statesmanship is to establish security for the homes of the people by try and ample wages to sustain workers in the comfort to which Americans are entitled; and his religion is to carry out his official duties with a conscience ever heedful of divine com- mand. It is a simple platform, but it is sufficiently broad and strong to carry the best hopes of humanity. By the protective system with which the President is more closely identified than any other living states- man the industries of the people have been built up and made secure. The next duty of the Government is to make clear the way for merchants to obtain | larger markets for our products, and it is an illustra- ; tion of the progressive character of the man that the President now preaches the doctrine of commerce as carnestly as he ever preached that of productive in- dustry. The essential point of his speech of Saturday was a plea for American trade and American ships; and no plea could have been more appropriate to the occasion or more in accord with the sentiments of the audience. After giving due commendation to the skill of the | workmen who constructed the Olympia, which served Admiral Dewey as a flagship in that glorious victory in Manila Bay, and the peerless Oregon whose mar- | velous journey around the Horn amazed the naval | experts of the world, and alluding to other noble craft built in the Union Iron Works, he went on to say: “What we want is to build more ships. We ought to have a good commercial line from here to the Philip- pines, built by American workingmen, manned by American sailors and carrying the American flag. There is nothing in this world that brings people so close together as commerce. There is nothing in this world that so much promotes the universal brother- hood of man as commerce, and we want to encourage commerce.” The encouragement of commerce and the promotion of the American merchant marine is indeed the im- So long as the great bulk ships we must pay annual tribute to the foreigner; | and not only must the great ship-building industries of the country lag instead of going forward by leaps and bounds, but all other industries must suffer by the annual drain of money and the loss of that addition to the home market which would be furnished by the | | extension of ship-building and the increase of our merchant fleets. % All Californians will be gratified by the warmth with | which the President spoke of the part California acted during the war with Spain and particularly with the patriotic praise given to our volunteers. We may long remember with just pride the words spoken on the responsibility of the Presidential office: “As the head of the nation, I want to thank the people of this coast for their noble-work during the Spanish war, and I want to make special reference and acknowl- edgement, for I may not have another opportunity, to the gallant First California Volunteers, that was among the first in the field and almost the last to leave it, and performed conspicuous and gallant service in the campaign in the Philippine Islands.” Such words coming from the head of the nation are not to be taken as an idle compliment. They stand as an official recognition of the credit due to our young commonwealth, and may rightly be remem- bered with satisfaction. To the workingmen, to the volunteers and to all Californiansthe speech appealed in the right way and by the right words. It i5 to be hoped, moreover, that all may profit by them and work together for the general good and the prosperity of the republic. BRITISH ARMY REFORMS. Y a vote of 305 to 163 Mr. Brodrick, the Brit- B ish Secretary of State for War, has managed to have his scheme of army reform adopted by the Commons. It is stated, however, that the vote does not truly represent the sentiment of Parliament, but was obtained only by the action of the Ministry in making it one of confidence. To have defeated the bill ‘under such circumstances would have been to precipitate a Ministerial crisis, and ' consequently many who object to the measure voted, for it in thé expectation that it will be amended in the Lords. That there is objection to the measure is not sur- prising. In all countries army reforms are difficult, and in Great Britain they are exceptionally so. For | a long time the British army has been almost as much a social as a military institution. Men of wealth and rank enter the service largely because of the prestige in society given to the officers of crack regiments. Moreover, for years the interests of the army have been subordinated to those of the navy, and com- | paratively little has been done to render it effective | for meeting any great emergency. In closing the debate on the subject Mr. Balfour, the Government leader, pointed out the negligent manner in which the military affairs of the nation had been attended to in the past. When the present Conser- vative Government entered office it was found, ac- cording to Balfour, that tHe supply of ammunition | for small arms was only 92,000,000 rounds instead of 146,000,000, which had been fixed as the minimum supply, and, furthermore, there was no reserve artil- lery ammunition except what was with the guns re- tained at home. The War Department appears, indeed, to have been " conducted like what Dickens once described as a “circumlocution office,” in which every official was mainly intent on “how-rot-to-do” his work. In the speech with which he presented his reform bill to the Commons Mr. Brodrick gave many striking illus- trations of the inadequacy of the service of the de- partment. Some of them go far toward affording an explanation of the failure of all efforts of successive Secretaries to accomplish anything in the way of im- proving the military forces of the kingdom. In speaking of the inefficiency of the staff officers Mr. Brodrick said: “I received a letter from a Re- cervist who had made application for further ser- vice, and who for two months had waited without re- | prejudged by the public. tary of State. I admitted that, but I wished to know whether the man was to be allowed to go or not, and said so. I waited a fortnight, and, hearing nothing, I wrote again, requesting a prompt reply, for which I waited another weck. Then I sent a telegram say- ing that I must know, and still nothing came. At the end of the fourth week I thought the time had come to exercise my authority. I wrote to the adju- tant general, and said if I did not receive an answer PAPERS ON \CURRENT TOPIC PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR TuE SAN FraNcisco CALL. on the following morning somebody would go on | Fourteenth Article of the Series on “The Opportunity and The Man,” a Pen half-pay. I got an answer the next morning. Here is an instance of needless delay still more grotesque: A paper came before me last November in relation to whether a particular cottage should be shut up, or pulled down, or repaired at an expense of £130. Then T ascertained the history of that paper. It started in 1896 and came to me in November, 1900. In the interval it had been touring about between three military officers. In the second year it reached the War Office, and the Assistant Under Secretary sent it to the commander in chief. Then, as officers had been changed meanwhile, it went again on its peregrinations, and the result was that <after four years the matter still remained unsettled.” When' such abuses exist in the administration of military affairs there can be no question that reform is imperative. It happens, however, that there are al- ways men who profit by governmental abuses, and those men, v|'ith ‘their friends, are always opposed to reform movements. Even the ill success which has attended the British armies in South Africa has not weakened the sluggish opposition of the staff, and, as has just been shown in the Commons, it has taken a threat on the part of the Ministry to resign if the bill were defeated to bring about even the first step.in the direction of. reform. 4 THE CASE OF JUDGE NOYES. Y the issue of a citation commanding Judge BNoy:s of the United States District Court at Nome and Attorney Thomas J. Geary to appear before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals to answer to a charge of contempt of court, a step has been taken in a movement wWhich will doubtless result in a complete exposure of the whole of those extraor- dinary proceedings at Nome which constitute such a grave scandal in the administration of law. Since Judge Noyes has now to appear before the court it is but right and fair that his case be not He is entitled under our system of law and in natural justice to have an im- partial hefiring not only before his judges but at the bar of public opinion. His defense should be heard fully before final judgment is pronounced; and ac- cordingly, until his defense has been made known, The Call, at least, will not undertake to declare wheth- er or no he has been guilty of offenses against the public and in violation of the duties of the high office he holds. ' ‘When everything has been conceded, however, that justice demands or Judge Noyes and Mr. Geary can ask, enough remains to justify a feeling of gratification that they have been cited to show cause why they should riot be punished for contempt. The evidence that has been made public by testimony given in the | trial of Alexander McKenzie, the receiver appointed by Judge Npyes, is sufficient to justify the belief that something in the nature of gross judicial outrages were committed in assigning various mines at Nome to the control of McKenzie. Such offenses are among the most menacing that can affect an American com- munity, for the courts under our constitution are given such vast powers that should they become the seats of corruption the very life of society would be endangered. The scandal is got a slight one. Tt is not a matter which either the ‘\ighcr courts of the United States or the public can afford to overlook. From evidence already made known it appears that the proceedings at Nome inyolve not only the Judge of the United States Court of that district but men holding. high office at Washington. It seems that something like a conspiracy was formed by rich and powerful men | to obtain possession of the gold mines at Nome either by fair means or by foul, and that these men were so confident of their strength and of their influence that they did not hesitate to defy an order of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and to proceed illegally and de- fiantly upon the course marked out. Receiver McKenzie has been proven guilty of con- | tempt and is now in jail. It is but right therefore that others supposed to be his accomplices should be brought to trial. If convicted of contempt it will then be the duty of the House of Representatives to take steps to impeach the corrupt Judge. Of our courts it may be said that like the wife of Caesar they must not only be pure but must be above suspicion. We cannot tolerate injustice on the bench, and conse- quently there is a deep feeling of gratification in the public mind that the Circuit Court of Appeals has determined to bring the whole case before it for inves- tigation and judgment. . i Tt is noted that at)the recent flower festival at Col- ogne the president of the occasion announced that for the first time since 1870 French writers participated in the function and joined in glorifying the German language. The announcement was greeted with cheers and sanguine folks have hailed the event as a proof that the dead past has buried its dead in that part of the world and flowers have grown over the grave. New Yoric has made .. fuir start with automobiles, but now her people are perplexed as to how they ought to dress for the machine. One writer says: “Whereas the men are usually seen in what is clearly the most hideous uniforms ever devised for a sport, the women are usually got up in costumes that rise to the dignity, in the milliner’s phrase, of being ‘toil- ettes.”” Down in Georgia the people are discussing the ex- istence of hell, and the Atlanta Constitution says: “For nineteen hundred years the doctrine of eternal punishment has helped to make people better.” = If that be true it is hard to say what Georgia Democracy might have beeu without a fear of hell. e Jacksonville has caught her breath®that was taken away by the suddenness of the big fire, and is now announcing to the country that by November she will have her tourist hotels open for winter visitors and will show them a new city miuch more beautiful than the old. A German scientist claims to have invented a meth- od of making tobacco harmless by taking all the nico- tine out of it, but it remains to be seen whether there will be enough flavor left in the doctored stuff to make it worth while for any one to put it in his pipe and smoke it. . Henry Watterson renews his declarations in favor. of annexing everything in sight, and says: “The Democratic party will not be found bellowing at the ceiving an answer. I made inquiry, and I was told that the man should riot have written to the Secre- sight of blood”; and now Bryan will have another spasm. % sk ‘Sketch of a N oted Inventor. \ By John B. O’Hara. XIV.—EDWIN In the minds of those famillar with modern steam practice the name of Edwin Reynolds will be associated with that of Corliss, because of his work in the devel- opment of the steam engine. His reputa- tion is not confined to this country, for the "Reynolds-Corliss engine, embodying the improvements introduced by kim, has been recognized throughout the world as the standard type of machines of this class, and has been adopted in foreign countries of late, wherever exceptionally heavy and exacting service is required. | Even in Great Britain, where prejudice against American innovations was strong- est, the engineers of the city of Glasgow accepted the Reynolds-Corliss engines in competition against the leading Scotch and English types, because they were su- perior in every resg‘ect and because of the wide experience and high reputation in the engineering world of the designer and builder. Mr. Reynolds is a fair type of the shrewd, intelligent Yankee, who exacts the rewards which fortune often grudg- ingly withholds from less persistent and determined characters. A New England lad, starting in life as a machinist with- out money or influential friends, and not ven favored with an education beyond hat obtained in the common schools fifty years ago, by force of character, perse- verance, integrity and natural ability, he has gained wealth, position, reputation and all the enjoyments that commercial success and culture command. Early Years as an Engineer. His early years were passed in Connec- ticut, his native State. He was born at Mansfield, Conn., March 23, 1831. He went to school until 1847, when he entered a | machine shop as apprentice. After three ears’ training he _followed several ranches of mechanical work, gaining ex- perience in the best shops and under the ablest engineers in New England, Ohio and Indiana. From 1857 to 1861 he was su- | perintendent of the shops of Stedman & Cor, at Aurora, Ind. The building of saw- mill engines and drainage pumps for Mis- sissippi plantations was looked upon in those days as heavy engineering, and Mr. Reynolds had much experience in both of those branches; consequently, when he was secured by the Corliss Steam Engine | Company in 1867 for the shops at Provi- dence, he was considered one of the best- equipped men n the country. But it was while he occupled the position of general superintendent of those shops, to which he was promoted in 1871, that he began | his experimental investigations which led to marked improvements in the Corliss en- gine and first won for him recognition as the leading steam-engineering authority of the time. In 1877 he withdrew from the Providence works and took the Eosl« tion of general superintendent of the E. P. Allis & Co.’s shops, and ever since he has been in charge of the great Milwaukee enginéering works, with which his name has been closely identified. A Designer of Great Engines. His experimental work on the steam en- gine was continued in his new position upon a much larger scale and with better | facilities than formerly, and his rare me- | chanical genius found other channels | through which to put forth_the products | of his inventive faculties. Mr. Reynolds | is a thorough student of mechanics, and the engines which have been constructed from his designs are to be found in nearly | every civilized country on the globe. They are employed in city pumping statfons, electric lightin® ani street railway plants, blast furnaces, rolling mills, cotton mills, mines and wherever power is required. He was the father of the first triple expan- sion pumping engine and the first man to substitute the solid bottom for spring tim- bers in the heavy stamps employed in the reduction of copper ores in the Lake Su- perior region. This change from form- er practice has increased the capacity of | the stamps about 50 per cent and is now the standard construction by all builders. Under Mr. Reynolds' supervision many important _engineering problems have been solved, and work performed, thu magnitude of which has excited the | wonder of the meviianical world. The | great steam engine at the Centennial ex- | position and the later types exhibited at | the World's Fair in_Chicago have long since been surpassed. The influence of Mr. Reynolds’ work is felt in many de- | partments in which he is not directly en- the big engines [ ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES San HOLDING OFFICE—Subscriber, Pablo, Cal. A man in a (;ol;!;tryn;)llgfs deputy sheriff, constable, 5;',’{;“131‘3 pnsl:master and salounkeeper at | one and the same time. cal.® The CORK—T. N. W, Cl:ockett. cork tree or cork oak is a native of t};e south of Europe and has been grown In this State for several years. It thrives i rkably well. The bark from | and Qoo o aak 15 manufactured is from two to four inches thick and has been ed of superior quality. DT ercial value according to quality and demand. PINE TREE SHILLING_li‘lilT"‘Ci’ (t):; 1, Cal. “Pine Tree Shilling’" is :Tl:l‘:afiat was given to the largest of the coins issued in 1652 by the first mintdeSA tablished in Boston. These coins had a value of 12d, 6d and 3d, that value being denoted by the figure XII, VI or III, stamped on the reverse. The obvelx‘se c(::; tained the revreselnteadtigx;‘gafw?mp t‘;nee leg: encircled by a grainé K, - | o cots In’ The weight of the | ;:fl!lnga:};g 72 grains and the value 18% cents. The pine tree shilling of 15%% t‘s offered by dealers in coins at from $850 to In order to tell if the coin youb}‘:five has any value you should send a rubbing of tne same and a full description. LKING WITH A LADY—A. 8. and C.w é, City. A gentleman who visits a house in the evening and on leaving be- comes the escort of a lady!ls perfectly justified in offering his arm. Of course the lady is at liberty to accept or reject the offer. By either she does not violate any rules of etiquette. If the lady pre- fers to walk by her lonely, it is the duty Lot The escort to keep close to her left side ive of the inside or outside of :g: 531:(1::(. ‘A_writer on etiquette says “a lady who will not take the arm of a gen- tleman selected to escort her home of an evening, on the ground that he is neither her husband, male relative or intended, is prudish to a degree, and ought to be allowed to go home by herself. D FELLOWSHIP—W. H., Petaluma, Cg?) The Independent Order of Odd Fel- Jows was organized in Manchester, Eng- jand, in 1812, although isolated lodges had existed in varidus places for some time previously, the oldest, whose name has peen preserved. being the Loyal Aristar- cus No. 9, which met in London in 174. Previous to that date there is a mention of the “Soclety of Odd Fellows.” When t was organized in Manchester it was own as the Manchester Unity and it rinciples of 0dd Fellowship. adopted the Denely Eoaa Fellows organc The early lodges of | ized lex‘:A nfe Unft.e:d States, about 1806, soon became extinct and no permanent branch of the English order was established till 1819, April 26 ., wnan‘Tho‘mu Wllg:y nm} ur companions, former members o gnsllsh Pt s, organized Washington Loage No. 1 in Baltimore, Md. In the fol- lowing year duthority of the Manches- ter Unity this body was invested with grand and subordinate lodge prerogatives the title of ‘“No. 1, Washington 15 gD‘otkl'w of Muyhnd;:nd of t of America.” An in- h body in 1826 and a complete ration of the Annefl]c;él‘_ from tfie Em nt charter was obtained from the ¥ body took place in COPYRIGHT, 1%L REYNOLDS. e enabled the Carnegie Company to engag in the manufacturs of armor plate ‘;’_“mf scale that gave them at once a comm: - ing position. These 5000 hor-e—powH‘; i gines have cylinders forty inches A ameter and. geafr tw?lwlaI tteet in diam . with a twenty-four-inch face. Another example of advanced ena‘lneff“_ ing was introduced in the vertical, C\;’een compound blowing engine which has accepted as standard practice for heavy work of this class. Triple Expansion Pumping Tt has already been mentioned that Mr. Reynolds has the distinction of designing and building the first triple expansion pumping engine for waterworks, and It might be added that the original desl{n has been adhered to very closely in_sub- sequent practice. According to official records a test of this machine showed a duty of 152,448,000 foot pounds for each 1000 pounds’ of stear used. All attempts at building large engines of this kind had proved unsuccessful because of the jars and shocks experfenced, but this defect was entirely eliminated in Mr. Reynolds design, which at once insured for it par- ticular favor, even before the high effl- ciency of the combination was known. The cross compouna hoisting engine for large mining enterprises may be accepted as a fair example of the mining machin- ery turned out under his supervision. The cylinders of these engines are fifty feet apart from center t> center. In spite of the many demands upon his time, Mr. Reynolds devotes much attention to the work of his contem- poraries, and, although he started life with scant education, he has since ac- quired a valuable fund of information, covering a wide range of subjects. En- filneeflng and mechanical works remain is favorite study, however, and his eminent position has been recognized by tne University of Wisconsin, which con- ferred the degree of doctor of laws upon him in 1895, and later placed his name among those of distinguished sclentists and inventors that occupy places of honor upon its new hall devoted to en- gineering. The Paris Exposition of 1889 conferred upon him the unusual distinc- tion of awarding him personally, al- though not an exhibitor, a gold medal for the excellence of his design of ma- chinery exhibited by others. Activities of a Busy Career. ‘While he is primarily a.great inventor, Mr. Reynolds possesses many character- istics which distinguish him from most of those who are occupled with the de- signing of mnchlner{& It has already been explained that Mr. Reynolds left Providence to accept the position of gonersl. syperintendent of the Reliance Vorks, then owned by E. P. Allls & Co. of Milwaukee, and that ever since he has remained in charge of this great plant and the men now employed in it. After his arrival in Milwaukee July 1, 1877, he speedily won the con- fidence of Mr. Allis, not only through his mechanical skill and genius, but be- cause of his integrity and manhood, and this confldence was strengthened as time passed. He developed great exec- utive ability and rare financial judgment. Upon the death of Mr. Allis Mr. Rey- nolds became, through the will of T. Allis, one of the trustees of the estate, and latér, when the business was reor- ganized and the Allis Company formed, he was chosen one of the directors and second vice president. Besides these po- sitions, he is president of the Milwaukee Boiler Company, the Daisy Roller Mills Company and the German-American Bank, and is second vice president and superintendent of the Reliance Works in Milwaukee. Mr. Reynolds owns a beautiful place at Mansfield, Conn., the home of his boy- hood, and several adjoining farms, ag- gregating over 600 acres. His mmfy lives there during the summer, and Mr. R~ynolds spends as much time there as he can spare from his business, Still Engaged on New Problems. Although he is now nearing 7 years of age, he is still actively engaged on engineering .problems, and it is not too much to expect that the new century will witness the perfection of many of those improvements and inventions which he is now developing. His career, begun in obscurity in a small New England town and continued through hardship and adversity before recognition was finally gained, {8 being rounded out by the production of machinery of marvel- ged. F\ instance, B e Qesigned for rolling-mill service | ous design, construction and operation. : % e e e e i B R R Y PERSONAL MENTIO} L. Solomon, a merchant of Fresno, is at the Grand. J. E. Fishburn of Los Angeles is a guest at the Palace. Dr. J. J. Miller of San Jose is a guest at the Occidental. F. E. Dowd, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is a late arrival at the Grand. Benjamin Chavarra, a prominent mer- chant of Mazatlan, Mexico, is at the Oc- cidental. Louis Gundelfinger, a prominent citizen and dry goods merchant of Fresno, is at the Palace. A. B. Bpreckels left last night for the East. He goes for pleasure and a much needed rest. R. Drummond, a member of the Legis- lative Council of Nova Scotia and editor of a mining journal, is at the California with his wife. Baron Perbandt arrived here yeste¥day from China. He was sent by the German Government to the Orient as a Red Cross Commissioner. He is accompanied by his wife and a secretary. They are on their way back to Berlin. o Little Elsie—8ister, do you know what Lent is? Sister—I'm not sure, Elsie, but I think it's forty days set apart in the year for people to_be sorry for being Episco- palians.—Life. g |WORLD'S NAVAL NEWs The latest naval returns Indicate thay the navy of Great Britain exceeds ih, comibined fleets of Germany, France Russia in vessels built or building. 83T A Another old ironclad, the Scorpion, 1y 14 be battered to pleces In order to ascert the effect of modern gunflre. The exper ments will be like those on the Belleis) It is stated that the Scorpion win started under easy steam from her beri, at Bermuda and will be shelled by the Crescent battery, which consists of tw, 9.2-inch and twelve six-inch guns. The ro. port is silent as to what is to be done with the crew of the Sqorpion. T RRTAE England’s shipbuilding programme oy the coming year embraces 3 battleship 6 armored cruisers, 2 third-class ers, 10 torpedo-boat destroyers, pedo boats, 2 sloops and 5 submarina boats. The personnel will be increaseq by 287 officers, 1150 seamen, 500 fireme. 58 miscellaneous ratings, 310 artisang {including 100 electricians), 1000 marines and 100 apprentices, making a final tota) of 118,635. The total estimates ars 317,500, against $143,959,500 for 1900-91 R There has been a steady improvem in the Japanese navy since 1883, when a new system of rations and provisions was adopted. The average death rate from 1883 to 1897 was 16.25 per 1000; in 1897 ths rate was 8.37, and this fell to 6.34 during 1898, tife latest return made. The daily al- lowarnce of the enlisted men is now proximately one-half pound bread, two- fifths pound meat, two-thirds pound rice, five-sixteenths pound vegetables, sma quantities of preserved meat and fish, otc. This improved diet has likewise Increaseq the weight of the men, which, averagins only 121 pounds in 1883, had increaseq to 130 pounds in 1&98.. . The accident to the German battleshiy Kaiser Frederich III will involve repais expenditures of $750,000 and not less than nine months. The ship ran aground In the vicinity of the island of Bormholm, in the Baltic, on April 2, and it was fear. ed for a time that the ship and many lives would be lost. Fires broke out in the bunkers, the flames doing comsider- able damage below and aloft, and eight of the boilers were ruined. Other ships in the squadron semnt off their boats tqo rescue ‘the crew of the disabled battle- ship, but after several hours’ hard work the fire was got under control. Princa Henry, who was on board the Frederich, refused to go into the boat sent to taka him off, saying: “I shall be the last to leave the ship.” ity The Navy Depgartment of Sweden Is preparing designs for a cruiser of novel type.. The dimensions are feet length, 50 feet beam and 17 feet draught, giving a displacement of about 4000 tons. The speed is to be twenty-two knots and she will be fitted with Yarrow boilers. The armament consists of eight six-inch, twelve six- pounders and two submerged torpedo tubes. The novel features are chiefly in the disposition o) the guns, the eight six- inch being placed in as many turrets, of which latter two are aft, two forward and two on each broadside. The American idea of superimposed turrets has been im proved upon, in that each turret is inde- pendent in its action, and as only one gun is carried In each turret the danger of disabling double turrets and twin guns is avolded. The manner of locating the tur- rets is as follows, taking the forward ones as an illustration: Onme turret is placed with guns firing over the deck at a safe height, and right behind this is lo- cated another, the guns of which fire over the forward one. On the sides one turret is placed in sponson, projecting over the side, and its mate is located well in- board, elevated sufficiently to fire its guns over the outboard turret. 2.9 Y The fleets of the seven largest naval powers are reported by a recent admir- alty return to number as follows: VESSELS BUILT UP TO ! g .31l o ladlstled saviesoF | § (333 |;3‘ Z(a=@ |32 I E 1T 50| 9/10108] s 7({14( 38 35 )fie) 3| » 41 bl {HHE 8 B [o3[flod Z|933822 waviesor | g (23/37(32 Z 35802 ;3 B EE Great Britain....... 2 France . bl Russia . 1 Germany . 3 Italy . 1. United 9 Japan 1l. e Sl e Choice candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel® Cal. glace fruit S0c per 1b at Townsead's.* i Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a und, in_fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- 22.;"'« Market, Palace Hotel buiding s i Best eyeglasses, specs, 10 to 40c; look out for 81 4th, front of barber and grocery. * ——e 5 Special information supplied dailly to hunnegu hpol:au and public nnm tha Press Bureau (Allen’s), lont- gomery -gren". Telephone )?u:n 02 - Thelpinceful D'?_\I:kobhm are the Quak- ers o a. ey are opposed to all wn? hl't ila in -t'lr:lredbnhu? zlhu Tolsto; made his im) o appeal. Man nae_ Doukobohrs are emigrating to %a:. ada. CORONADU TENT CITY, Coronado Beach, Cal, will be the posular summer resort this ceason. It became fan last year for com- fort, entertainment and health., Its splendid cafe was a wonder, the fishing unexcelled. “They do say,” remarked the friend, “‘that there swere more votes in your city than there are De;fh." ““Well,” answered Senator Sorghum as he flicked the ash from a mammoth ci- gar, “I didn’t take the census, you know.” —Washington Star. Nerves that Die For lack-of nourishment are severed with a knife. In eithc{u”dsedlcbue been interfered with. | Nerves that need nourishing wants known through headache. gestion, fluttering of the heart, as dead as though they were of supplies has loss of appetite, indi- 5 backache, irritability, sleeplessness, and gen- cral weakness. Feed the hungry nerves, build thém wup. and make them strong and vi with the great nervé rous, .full of vim, vitality*and and tonic, Dr. Miles* ine. \ . “For many years I was troubled with nervous dys- pepsia. Weeksat a time I have suffered so much that I could not retain food at all. These attacks brought on nervous prostration and I tried many ans and found relief until Dr. Miles’ Nervine was weil and retai then found I restored. t recommended. I Give it a triak qi the nervous irritat mmuhmv the S B e e Dz Mires MepicaLCo., Elkhart, 106