The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1901, Page 6

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AN FRANCISCO'S interest in the approaching S operation of the wireless telegraph service which the New York Herald has installed on Nantucket lightship is hardly less than that of New York itseli. Thanks to Secretary Wilson, it is well assured that as soon as possible after the successful operation of the plant on the Nantucket lightship the Weather Bureau will install a similar plant for the purpose of establishing wireless communication be- tween the Farallones and this city. The Herald plant is to go into operation July 1. There may possibly be some defect in the machinery that will disappoint expectations at the first attempt, but of the eventual success of the service there are no doubts in the minds of those who have given any at- tention to the work which has been accomplished by the Marconi system. The Herald itself, for the pur- pose of completing the tests of the system, made the recent experiments of sending and receiving wireless messages between various stations on the British coast and the steamer Lucania as she made her way down the channel to the open sea, and they were en- tirely successful. We have, then, the prospect of an early establish- ment of the much desired service between San Fran- cisco and the islands which, lying thirty miles away at sea, serve as an outpost from which information can be dispatched of the approach of shipping, and also from which news can be sent to the Weather Bu- reau of all the phenomena which are useful to the ex- perts of the bureau in making forecasts of the weather. The need for the service is great;-and the impor- tance it is well understood by everybody. It is therefore gratifying that Secretary Wilson has so promptly given the Weather Bureau authority to install a wireless system as soon as a suitable one has been found. The system found suitable on the Nan- tucket lightship will certainly be suitable on the Faral- Jonmes. It is therefore to be expected that action will be taken to establish the service here as soon as it has been successiully in cperation there. Certainly there should be no delay. There 'is no telling what day some vessel lying in the fogs off the Farallones may be in dire need of just such service as wireless teleg- raphy could give. It may be safely said that in a matter of this kind every day is of value. Immediate action is therefore in the highest degree desirable, and it is to be hoped the Weather Bureau officials will be prompt to make use of the authority granted them by the Secretary. e — The American officer detailed to study the South African war reports that the Boers are not soldiers, Considering what they have done, one may ask what would have happened had they been soldiers? It is worth while to remember that European officers made the same comment on both the American armies in our Civil War; yet it is probable that those armies combined could have beaten the rest of the world in arms, The persistent agitation which is now going on in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri for the formation of a third party looks very much as if Bryan were pre- paring a place for himself in case the Democratic reorganizers should squeeze him out of that party in the next Presidential campaign. In commfenting upon the absorption of the Glas- gow Mail by the Record of that city, the Westminster Gazette says the number of morning papers in Scot- land has been thus reduced to sewen. Even so large a city as Glasgow has but two, and Edinburgh only one. » —_— Several of the largest sugar refineries in Louisiana @re reported to have arranged for using Texas oil instead of coal for fuel, and according to the esti- mates made at preseat prices $50,000 worth of oil will do as much work as $150,000 worth of coal. T HE SAN ,FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, | THE SORROWING SECRETARY. T and his many friends in a very special and per- H sonal way, will genuinely sympathize with Sec- retary Hay in the tragic death of his very promising son. 3 The young man was sent to represent his country as Consul to the Boer republic, and many there were who delighted in deriding the appointment and in predicting his failure to impartially represent our in- terests in that storm center of the world. He was ac- cused of pro-English sympathies, and a storm of abuse followed his departure to duty that was fiercer than the equinoctial gales that buffeted his ship. How false and mistaken it all was is now history. He reached his post and served his country with the greatest activity, intelligence and wisdom. It is not easy to please a people under such awful stress as were the Boers. But he accomplished that delicate and difficult task, and when the city of his post sur- rendered came home with the good will and praise of all with whom his cfficial duty brought him in con- tact, and at last with the praise of his own countrymen. Mistakes might have been forgiven to his youth, but he made none, and when his service was over, with a sobriety of mind not often found at his age he treated as a matter of course that he should have done his duty, as that was expected of him. His father is a man of peculiar goodness and simplicity of life and manner, devoted to his family and of the most lovable personal traits. This son was like all his children, dear, and he felt great pride in the fault- less and honorable manner in which he had carried a. great responsibility. Himself associated witH the highest tragedy in our national history, as the official confidant of Mr. Lin- coln in the Civil War, the Secretary was gratified by the quality shown by this son, who is dead untimely. Our people, who so recently met the bereaved father, and admired him so sincerely, offer their con- dolence in an effusion of unaffected feeling. ‘When the attention is fixed upon such a group as a President and his Cabinet the havoc made among all by the incidents of mortality is more plainly real- ized than when man is contemplated in the mass. In Mr. Cleveland’s first administration Secretary of State’ Bayard lost a loved daughter, Vice President Hen- dricks died, and a member of Attorney General Gar- land’s family passed away. Secretary Lamar did not long survive his advancement to the Supreme bench. In General Harffson's administration sorrow invaded the White House in the death of Mrs. Harrison, and Blaine passed from the State Department to his grave. And in Cleveland’s second Cabinet Secretary of State Gresham died. The death of the wife of President McKinley’s Sec- retary of the Treasury and that of the son of his Secre- tary of State make his official family share the com- mon lot and universal fate. At one of the meetings of the Y. M. C. A. con- ference in ‘Boston there was read a message from King Edward expressing sympathy with the work of the association. In describing what followed the Boston Journal said: “Everybody shouted, and those who had not climbed upon their chairs stamped and jumped up and down in a kind of frenzy, and the less demonstrative, whose hands were not busy waving something, applauded in more conventional way. The vast audience, larger than at any previous session of the convention; and more brilliant, perhaps, for it was a sort of collegz night, had sprung to its feet at the mention of King Edward’s name. A moment of roaring enthusiasm, and some quavering voice started ‘God Save the King.'” Evidently the boys had been jubilating with too much Boston lemonade. G the officials of the Pacific Commercial Mu- seum of the progress made in the work of col- lecting exhibits. The agent in Manila of the museum gives assurance of an excellent collection of articles of trade and industry from the Philippines, the ex- hibit of Costa Rica at the Pan-American exposition is to be obtained for permanent exhibition here, and instructions have been prepared to direct the work of an agent in collecting exhibits from the various countries of South America. With that much accomplished or undertaken it is fair to assume that within a comparatively short time we shall have a commercial museum second only to the great institution in Philadelphia. That it will be widely beneficial there is no reason to doubt. ~The history of the museum at Philadelphia is conclusive upon that point, for it reveals the fact that there is an urgent demand oa the part of manufacturers and merchants for just such exhibits as the museum af- fords. The later and larger developments of the mu- seum have, in fact, been- caused by efforts fo meet the TRADE AND GEOGRAPHY. RATIFYING reports have been received by demands of trade and industry, and have been in no sense an extension or expansion of the enterprise from a mere desire for bigness. Trade conditions on the Pacific are not so widely different from those on the Atlantic but that we may with reason expect the his- tory of the museum at Philadelphia ta be paralleled by that of the museum in this city. . Now that we have learned so profitable a lesson from the East we might well endeavor to make it more profitable still by learning in connection with it a lesson from the thoroughness with which the Ger- mans teach geography. The rapid advance of the Germans in the commercial world, which is one of the most remarkable features of the history of the last twenty-five years, has been the result of many forces working harmoniously together. Not the least among them is the stimulus to foreign commerce given to young men in the schools and in the universities by instruction in geography in the fullest sense of the word. Such instruction does not consist wholly in physical geography, or political geography;s not in teaching the student how to locate on a map a river or a town, but it embraces the whole relation of man to the earth, deals with everything of industry, com- merce and politicy and, indeed, with well nigh the whole of life. The University of California is well equipped to take the lead in raising the study of geography in Cali- fornia to the position it holds in Germany. The influence radiating from Berkeley womuld soon have good effects on the public schools and colleges of the State, and especially in this city, where geo- graphical knowledge is so much in demand. Were such instriiction given, our merchants would soon be able to obtain in their employ young men who could make a much more profitable use of the Com- mercial Museum than others who lacked the knowl- edge which comprehensive geography teaches. v The subject is one that deserves the earnest atten- tion of educators in mapping out the courses of in- struction to be given in the schools at the opening of the coming term. We are collecting at consid-' erable expense of time and money a museum bf com- mercial exhibits, and it will be nothing more than common sense to fit young men and young women to use it to the Bbst advantage for their employers, HE whole couniry in a general and sincere way, | That can be done only by geographical studies, and. just as the schools and universities of Germany work with the empire builders in fitting young men to carry German commerce into far lands, so should those of iCaliform‘a assist in expanding our commercial em- pire. If the wild assertions of sensational journals are to be accepted the staid and ‘highly respected old Union up-to-date lessons and a little more on muni- cipal corruption and efficial dishonesty in everything affecting the public welfare. Perhaps the old town is ——— HEAT -AND HUMIDITY. CALIFORNIANS may again congratulate heat and humidity are not associated. In our rainy season it is not hot, and in our hot season it is not humid. Heat and humidity are hunting in the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. Drivers fall dead from their seats and horses drop in harness. The public hospitals are crowded with patients who When the temperature ran from gz at St. Paul and 03 at Chicago to 102 at El Paso, and the humidity from 70 to go per cent, the maximum temperature 84 at Fresno, 60 at San Francisco, 76 at Los Angeles, and 64 at San Diego; and the minimum temperature at Red Bluff was 60, at Sacramento 52, Fresno 52, San little fire in open grates and fireplaces was found com- fortable, morning and evening. The humidity in Cali- fornia was not worth recording. the fact that the tropical isotherm runs into that af- flicted country in the summer, in respect both to heat and humidity. That same isotherm reaches far north moisture behind. For an outsider to comprehend our climatic advantages it is necessary that he understand this relation of heat and humidity. ® subject to a temperature of 90 or 95, and an average humidity of 85 for the greater part of the year, it would be uninhabitable to white men. Even now they dreds of thousands take refuge in far Northern re- sorts, on Lake Superior, the coast of Maine and in the maritime provinces of Canada, while we are en- work in a dry air at a temperature that would kill thousands if associated with humidity. In discussing tropical labor, the San Francisco that white men cannot labor in the tropics. It is no hotter there than in the interior valleys of California.” The Chronicle might have said truly that it is often nia dry tempesature of 105, but the same men would die in an hour in that temperature in Cuba, the Phil- ippines or Chicago. If the Chronicle thinks that trop- town of Philadelphia can give the other cities of the tired of being considered behind the times. themselves that they live in a climate where couples just now agd slaying people by scores from are prostrated by heat and humidity. in California was 82 at Red Bluff, 76 at Sacramento, Francisco 48, Los Angeles 58, and San Diego 60. A A study of the Eastern heat and moisture discloses in California, but brings dry heat only, leaving its If the country west-of the Rocky Mountains were flee from the weather as from a pestilence, and by hun- joying a little fire on the California hearth, or are at Chronicle says: #%We do not believe it to be true not as hot. White men work in comfort in a Califor- ical temperature and humidity are favorable to white | labor, why does it not praise this Eastern weather as the best part of the year in that region, and advise a rush thither from California? These insufferable conditions of heat and humidity in the Eastern part of our own country, which lasf but a few weeks and are intermittent, are the permanent conditions of the tropics. People in this country are deceived by the report of temperature from Hawaii and the Philip- pines. The maximuam does not seem high, and'the Chronicle helps the people to fly to conclusions that are not warranted by the facts. Just fancy the conditions that prostrated Chicago on the 24th and 2sth inst. prevalent the whole year with but slight intermission, and you have the con- ditions under which the Chronicle insists that white men can work in the tropics. A notorious gambler and a discredited ex-Chief of Police of Seattle mixed things the other'day, and one is dead and the other is in jail charged with his mur- der. The peatce abiding citizens of the town are to be congratulated upon this improvement in their con- ditions. : THE IMPROVING SOUTH. HILE the actions of Alabama and Virginia \;s’ in following the lead of Mississippi in dis- franchising the negro show that Bourbon- ism is still the dominant elément in Southern politics, there are evidences that better elements are at work in the social organism, and that they are greatly im- proving the: conditions of the Southern people. * One of the latest of these better developments is the action taken by the Georgia Industrial Associa- tion to bring about the abolition of child labor. The issue has been under discussion a long time. In fact, a year ago the Georgia Legislature came very near enacting a stringent law forbidding such labor. At that time the mill-owners were opposed to the law, but they have since come to the conclusion to do voluntarily what they objected to being forced to do. According to the report of the proceedings of the association given by the Atlanta Constitution the agreement recites “that the extended employment of children growing out of local conditions w/as' not profitable, as the leaks more than counterbalanced the difference in wages that would be demanded by more mature help; that hereafter under no circum- stances will children of 10 or under be employed; that no child under 12 shall be employed at ‘night, save in case of a widowed mother to whose support the work may be necessary, and that even this labor will. not ‘be employed unless it has four months’ schooling each year.” 3 The rule is to go into effect September 1. The as- sociation, it is announced, will urge the Legislature to increase the school facilities for the children of the State, and the members who represent the largest amount of property have declared a willingness t bear the increase of taxation necessary to provide a long term of effective public school instruction. Here, then, are two excellent things—the suppres- sion of the child labor system and an increase of the public school system. Such mqvements will go far toward preserving the South from the reactionary tendencies of Bourbonism. They will help to place the social organism of the South on the same level with that of the rest of the country, and when that occurs Bourbonism in politics will vanish. Indeed, there are already evidences of revolt against it, and, the South may be said to be improving all along the line. L " William Jennings Bryan has commended Mark Hanna as a candidate for the Presidency. Even the well wishers of William Jennings ought to hope that he meant his commendation as a joke. Now the plumbers of Fresno have struck, and th public is looking for a path to the woods. : o JUNE 28, 1901. ; {|SOME OF THE LESSONS OF THE ~ NATIONAL GUARD ENCAMP MENT THE GATHERING AT CAMP GAGE DEMONSTRATES THAT The guard for absolute efficiency requires the very best officers. From a military standpoint the relations between junior officers and men in the rnnh are false. The drills were more for the officers than for the men. The recognition of a center of authority in the organization is necessary. The matter of transportation should be separate and distinct from camp allowance. The guard needs a better appreciation of the principles of the military system. SRS Y OOKED at from the standpoint of availability for active service, the only true way to #stimate the efficiency of the National Guard, Cemp Gage was a success. Those that went under the tents last week in search of work and instruction found both in plenty. Those that went in search of play found but little of it, and they have returned complaining that the camp ground is too far from town, that it was too big and that too little attention was paid to the instruction of the individual soldier. It is true that but little time was spent upon the individualy soldfer, comparatively speaking, but'the last day of the en- campment showed.such a marked improvement in his knowl- edge and bearing that it was plain the camp had supplied many things in which he was lacking. Besides a soldier in an army is a small thing. He is not even a unit in the system un- til he has other men with bim to form a squad, and since the double rank formation was adopted he is only half as impor- tant as he was before. An the guard, however, the individual soldier seems to be paramount. He €lects his officers and he threatens them with failure of re-election if they go not his way in all things; and altogether the Individual soldler has much more consideration so far as his opinions are concerned than he is entitled to. The encampment was not for him as an individual. It was for the soldier collectively, and particu- larly for his officers. Anything in the way of individual in- struction, if properly attended to, could have been taught in the ‘armory before going into the field, and the camp could then serve its real purpose—field instruction. A few weeks’ drilling will make a good soldier in alt but experience, but it takes years to make a good officer; and if the camp did no more it demonstrated that the guard is in need of good officers. Real Discipline Lacking. The officers of the line maintained a falr discipline all through the week, but it was not the true discipline; not the discipline and respect that comes for the rank and the straps regardless of the man; not the sort that prevented officers in uniform from drinking and hobnobbing with men in uniform; not the sort that made it impossible for an order to be ques- tioned; not the sort that showed judgment in the handling of the men and that secured prompt obedience. The relations between the junior officers of the National Guard and the men in the ranks are from a military standpoint entirely false, and it is in just those relations that discipline commences. It is'apparent there is nothing in the shape of ® man so utterly helpless as a private soldier whose officers will not or cannot look out for him, and the encampment demonstrated that should active service come there are many men who would be in just that helpless condition. It is more important to them if they are going to remain in the service that their officers be well trained than that they themselves shall be well trained, and such training can best be had in a large encamp- ment. The division camp developed the resources of the Junior officers by giving them the duties that belonged to them with only directory and not supervisory authority over them.. Every afternoon was left to the reglments to do as they pleased. Some company commanders used the time in the school of the squad and the school of the company; most of them allowed their men to call it a half holiday with unlimited passes. Yet they are the ones who are complaining that too little was done for the individual soldier. In a division en- campment the instruction of the soldier belongs to the junior officers and to the sergeants if they be as capable as they should be. Field and general officers should have no time for fours right and company lines. The instruction of a sentry belongs to the sergeant of the guard, and it can be done and should be done by him. The camp demonstrated that fre- quently the instruction of a sentry was not beneath the duties | of a colonel. It is not the intention of the State that an encampment shall furnish the school for the elementary instruction of sen- tries, of non-commissioned officers, of awkward squads and ot the dozen or two dozen other branches of the military art that { competent company officers can teach their mien in thefr | armories, but it does contemplate the finish of an armory edu- | cation in the art of war. It eXpects that there shall be open order, firing drills, skirmish lires of attack and defense, battle rushes ‘and formations, the placing of troops for assault and to resist assault and all the points that govern the handling of the men in the fleld and works for the purpose of their organi- zation. It contemplates the teaching of thé care of the men in camp, their rations and their protection from disease within as well as from assault without, and the demonstration, sadly necessary in the California Guard, that prompt and unques- tioning obedience, without any knowledge of the reasons for it, are the first attributes of a soldier, be he in the ranks or bearing shoulder ‘straps. With all this to be crowded into a week the instruction of the individual soldier is a small ques- tion. He is to be considered only in his collective capacity. A Few of the Breaks. An instance of this willingness on the part of junlors to take charge of situations themselves was in the departure of the First Infantry and the artillery battalion from this city. The orders were that the artillery should follow®he infantry, as it does In all cases, even whén the commanding officers are of equal rank, but the artillery started first from this city and arrived firét in camp. And the same thing happened at the breaking up. It may be urged that the artlllery was ready first, but that has nothing to'do with the situation. Again, to go farther up the line, but one of the brigadier generals re- ported himself ready to leave the camp on the break-up. When they were ready they got out, leaving the time an indefinite quantity until the commands started. And in smaller things— it was the custom for the first few mornings for each brigade | to pipe up reveille and rout out its bands whenever the brig- ade timekeeper found the hour had arrived. There should not have been a note until the call from the guardhouse and the raising of the flag at division headquarters. There was noth- ing serious about any of those and the many more little breaks that occurred, but it showed plainly the desire to “go it alone” that is not part of a good military system. A right assumed has limits more or less indefinite, and it may be exercised in things fmportant as well as in things trivial. In an enemy’s country it might easily become advisable that all calls be dis- pensed with. A brigade reveille under those circumstances, that did not wait for ajcall from headquarters, might prove ‘welcome information to an‘opposing outpost. In the drills in open order, and above all in the practice marches, was where the great work of the encampment was done, but they were almost entirely drills more for the officers than the men. It is easy or comparatively so for a soldier to learn how to “fire at will,” te fire aslimited number of rounds or to fire in “volley,” but it takes longer to teach his officer ‘when to order the fire at will, the limited number of rounds or the volleys. In the meantime the soldier should be able to get e 15 ruction he needs, unless he heeds not :;a!:h?x ’:od::::;‘ .l:os:md him. He can learn to look out for himself within his own limits, le;rn to shoot straight and to ose above him. len‘g;‘i‘er? 1;:.:.;35 ;‘:-(;gde. coming home from its practice march, appeared over the hill the call to arms was sounded and within twenty minutes the camp was guarded and out- posts were patrolling the country from a mile and a half to two miles out. General Dickifison placed his men with a skill and quickness that won comfliments for him from the regular officers who were attached to-the camp. In that hour of the morning was one of the drilly for which camps are formed, and the Instruction of the individual soldler was of secondary importance while it was going on. Division Staff Efficlent. 4 It was In the departments of the staff, however, that the camp found its greatest fleld for instruction. The division staff 'h man proved itselt an efficient body of men, partly because eac! is skilled in the department to which he has been assigned. ,but mainly because all are enthusiasts; but even as it was it was a valuable experience to them and quite as important to the man in the ranks, who will reap the benefits of competence at headquarters. Down the line, however, among the junior staff officers, there is need of many more division emcamp- ments. Colonel McCarthy’s fleld hospital was as well equipped as the best in the city, and the canvas walls In place of those hard finished made up the greatest difference. The principal trouble was a lack of patients, for the camp was an aggres- sively healthy one. The signal corps men worked harder than any set in camp. They strung wires and established communication between headquarters all through the grounds, and their work on the practice marches made apparent the reason the Government ‘was so willing to take them at the opening of the war. The commissary department was in the hands of Lieuten- ant Colonel Huber, and it ran along without a hitch until one day one of the regiments complained that it had not enough to eat. The complaint was Investigated and it was found that of the day’s ration of meat there was still enough for another meal, when it should have been dealt out to companies ‘o the last ‘pound. An overzealous commissary had tried to make a day's ration go half again as far as the commissary depart- ment expected or wished, and his command went short in con- sequence. There was a lesson that was of vital importance to the regiment, although it had no individual instruction to the soldier worked into it. The quartermaster’s department showed itself efficient in every way. Colonel Rickon, the division quartermaster, was called home the second day and the arduous duties of the de- partment fell upon Major J. W. A. Off, quartermaster of the First Brigade. A better man could not have been selected. Contracts were made in one and everything was done through the_division, the principal result of which system will be & large saving In the expense. Competent Officers Necessary. The tour of duty in Santa Cruz went to show that the sooner a center of authority is recognized im the Natlonal Guard of this State the better. Quicker than anything else, the division encampment showed that companies and bat- talions are, after all, but small things when they become part of an army, and it is so they should be treated. It is hard for an officer who knows his duties to give way to one who he is sure does not, but that is the service, and unless there is a willingnesg to do so the whole thing must fall. It is hard for a private in the ranks to realize that after all his rifle is the only thing about him of any importance, and that it is really more serious not to have it clean than not to be clean himself, but the fact remains, and nowhere is it better demonstrated than in a divisiontencampment. In a squad In the skirmish line 2 man is a man, but in a battle line stretching across three miles of country a man is no more than a spot on the hillside. It is then he begins to realize that his lfe is In the hands of those above him, and when as a national guardsman he has a chance to elect his officers he should remember that and elect good ones. A tent in the open with five men In it Is a con- spicuous thing, but in a division encampment it is but a patch of canvas with two flles and a half of men under it. All this to the man who Is in the guard for fun is disagreeable, but the enthusiasts understand it and are satisfled. It Is the base of the military prineiple that it should be so. So in the last division encampment the complaint that there was not enough individual instruction for the soldier means that the junior officers did not attend to their dutles; it means, too, that there was no time and no place to do the work that should have been done in the armory; it is a protest against the fdct that the camp was not one for recruits, but one for soldlers. A division encampment means that all the organiza- tions T the guard shall be placed side by side in their true re- lations to one another and as parts of a whole in which the identity of each is lost. That many of both the officers and men do not see ft in that light does not alter the fact, for that is what active service means, and unless the guard is carrfed along with active service as its end and aim it Is a useless ap- pendage to the treasury. The encampment brought out forel- bly what was apparent before, that what the guard needs is a better appreciation of the principles of the military system, a greater willingness to perform the duties of one rank without seeking higher authority without higher rank, and a greater unwillingness to accept high rank or any rank without having or seeking to acquire the knowledge necessary to support it. Men have been elected as gocd fellows in the guard to com- mands that place them absolutely, should they be called into active service, in charge of the safety and the lives of scores if not hundreds of men, and they have hardly the military abil- ity to attend to their own safety. There are many who are soldiers no deeper than their uniforms. One more thing was demonstrated by the division encamp- ment thap is important. The matter of transportation should be separate and distinct from the camp allowance. If it costs a regiment $1000 to go into camp at Santa Cruz and but $100 to camp but a few miles from home, the saving in transportation is its best argument against traveling to a division eneamp- ment. The camping allowance should not be drawn upon until the regiments have pitched their tents and occupied them, nor after they are struck and the regiment starts for home. It costs the regiments of the First and Third brigades twice as much to camp with the division as it does the regiments of the Second Brigade, yet the allowances are the same. Money saved on transportation means more to spend on equipment, so the element of geography becomes an important one. It would be better if the State transported the regiments to the ground and home again and allowed them cash only for their subsistence while in camp and for their equipment. PERSONAL MENTION. James F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, is a guest at the Lick. ‘W. A. Junker, manager of the Hotel Del Monte, is at the Palace. \ C. B. Jillson, a mining man who resides at Napa, is staying at the Grand. Rudolph Noel, a Maiden Lane jeweler of New York, is a guest at the Palace. Henry Hahn, a prominent tanner and wool dealer of Portland, Or., is at the Lick. J. A. McBride, proprietor of the Etna Springs, is in the city and is staying at the Grand. John J. Byrne, general passenger agent of the Santa F'a Rallway at Los Angeles, 18 at the Palace. Peck Eppinger, accompanied by his wife, returned from Europe yesterday and is at the California. James E. Bell, Mayor of Everett, Wash.,, and president of the Bell-Nelson Mill Company, is at the Grand. J. C. Bentz, an extensive dealer in cu- rios, who lives at Pasadena, arrived here yesterday and is at the Palace. Fred Dodd,, proprietor of the Hughes Hotel at Fresno, is staying at the Lick. He i1s accompanied by his wife. C. M. Hartley, a prominent merchant of Vacaville, is in the city on business afd has made the Grand his headquarters. A. 8. Holt, Pacific Coast agent of the Pennsylvania lines, is making an extend- ed tour of the Iast and will not return to this city for three months. Hon. John . Woolley, who was the Presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket at the last ‘election and who was recently staying at the Palace, left for the East yesterday. Major E. V. Preston, general manager of agencles of the Travelers' Insurance Company of Hartford, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is spending a few weeks on the coast. H, B. Huntington will start for New York to-morrow and will be gone a mon C. E. Graham, who has been Mr, Huntington's secretary for many years, will also go to New York to reside there permanently &ind look after Mr. Hunting- ton’s interests. Graham's removal to New York will be received with great re- gret by his many friends in this ecity, where h& has made himself immensely popular, especially with rafiroad men. R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 27.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Dr. Brown, at the Belvidere; W. H: Chickering and Mrs., H. D. Clark, at the Manhattan: Mys. J. Potter and J. B. Potter, at the Everett; H. G. Shaw, at the Astor; C. L. Webb and E. H. Brown, at the Imperial; Mrs. H, M. Fortesque, at the Park Avenue; H. B. Inman, at the Grand Unlon; Mrs. M. Shearman, at the Park Avenue; V. Waldron, at the Im- perial; H. C.'Somers, at the Holland, From Santa Ana—L. D. Mercerea: the Continental. o Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, June 27.—Th Callfornians lrrlv‘sum s ':alnl:'r':: Istered: At the St. James, Louis Tanning Jr.; at the Ebbitt, A, Hock; both of San Francisco. " ——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE LAST SPIKE—Subscriber, Clty. The last spike of the Cen Pacif Railroad was driven May 29, lf::l ® MACHINE SHOPS—W. R. M., Oakland, Cal. The machine shops of the Southern Pacific Rallroad Company located at Sac- ramento are as large again as th cated in Los Angeles. e FIRST C.O}NB—H. ., City. The au- thority to issue coins under the sanction of the Unltm& States was- by Congress granted April’2, 1792. The first United States coins issued under that act were half cent and one cent pieces in 1793. —_—— , at SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15, $60 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel, Pacific Coast 8. 8. Ce., 4 RI_' Montgomery st. O b b e P e @ CHANCE TO SMILE. “You can convince a woman that th earth isn't round,” said the breakfast cy? nie, “but you can't convince her that the druggist doesn’t make per cent profit g;\d‘ponaga stamps.”—Philadelphia Rec- ‘“What a saving of time and other things these would be,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, “If a man could take his first ocead voyage and his first smoke at the same time.”"—Yonkers Statesman. A German, In advertising f sald ising for a lost pig, “It has no earmarks except its tail, which is missing.” e oo ) Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® ——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® —_———— Special Information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * ———— The populatlon of Northern China is al- most completely vegetarian, the chief ar- ticles of food being millet, rice, maize, potatoes and turnips. —_———— ' Official Route Christian Endeavorers to Cincinnati, Ohio. The Burlington Route via Denver has been selected the official route. Through Pullman Tourist a.epm: Cars to Cincinnati will leave San Franciseo July 1 at 6 p. m. Tickets on sale June 30 to July 1; rate, $76 50 for round trip. July 1-2 we will sell round-trip tickets to Detroit at $2 25; July 3-4 to Buffalo $7; July 20-21 to Chicago §72 50. For sleeping car berths call on or address W. D. Sanborn, Gen- eral Agent, 631 Market street. Quickest Way to Yosemite, “‘The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thence via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced, Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Vell Falls to Sentinel Hotel. This gets you in at 5 In the afternoon, which i3 ahead of any other line and costs you less, uu? ket street for particularm”