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4 ' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1901. ; Che ol Call. .JULY 29, 1901 MONDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. S Adéress All Communicstions %o W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. SMANAGERIS OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 VUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. - Telephone Press Z01. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Centx Per Weelk. Single Copies, 5 Cents, Terms by Mail, Incinding Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ome year.. $6.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § month 2.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 monthi 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 850 FUNDAY CALL. One Year. :: WEFKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to rece! subscriptions. Eampls coples Will be forwarded whe: requested. Matl subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt end correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. v...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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Alcazar—"The Adventures of Nell Gwynne.” Grand Opera-house—"‘The Senator.’” Olympla, corngr Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. , Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Swimming. Call subscribers contemplating a change of resideace during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new eddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agenat im all towns on the coast. THE WEATHER AND BUSINESS. THE weather continued the leading fattor in trade last week. The corn belt still languished under heat and drought, and business throughout that large area, covering the States of Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and the Territory of Oklahoma, be- sides portions of Illinois, Indiana and Obhio, suffered in consequence. Toward the close of the week there ewere light, scattering rains at different points, suffi- cient to replenish the water supply of some of the smaller towns, but not enough to materially benefit the crop, which is past redemption in many places. The effect of this was especially apparent in Wall street. The prospect for a greatly reduced yield of corn led to the belief that the fall earnings of many of the largest Southwestern railioads would be im- paired and that the dividends would suffer in conse- quence. Public interest flagged, speculators took the short side of the market, and there was a general de- crease in the volume of sales. During the early part of the week there wzs a sharp decline, but toward the close the feeling became firmer again. The business of the country as a whole, however, according to the weekly bank clearings, was 56.6 per cent larger than during the Ssame week last year, and all the leading cities except St. Paul showed a gain. The increase at New York was large, amounting to 82.5 per cent. The distributive trade of the country, outside the States mentioned above, was very fair, and the West was in the market for additional sup- plies of hot-weather goods. The staples showed more tendency te fluctuate than for a long time, principally on account of the weather. Produce, particularly but- ter, eggs and vegetables, advanced in the Eastern cities, while the calls of the West for fresh and canned fruit stimulated both of these descriptions and caused an advance in prices. Large shipments of fruit to the West were made from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Baltimore reported a marked corn, tomatoes and other lines California there was rise in canned of canned food. In a general advance in canning plums, pears and peaches, owing chiefly to the im- | pairment of the Eastern and Western fruit crops by the intense feat and drought of the past six weeks; and dried fruits also showed some stimulation on this account. The drought in the West will make a good many lines of farm produce higher during the coming fall, and, as will be seen, the advance has already set in. Wool mzintains the improvement already noted, and in the Eastern markets the demand from manufac- turers to fill orders for winter and spring wear is brisk. The San Francisco market is well cleaned up of raw wools, both fine and coarse. The consumptive demand for boots and shoes is still good, and some increase is reported. The iron and steel mills not affected by the strike report exceptional activity, par- ticularly for railway cars, structural material, builders’ hardware, steel bars for farming implements, etc., showing that construction of all sorts is active throughout the country. In fact, building is lively, and white pine lumber, like iron and steel products, is active ior this account. The strike has interfered with business in San Fran- cisco during the week. A good deal of produce, such as fruit, potatoes, etc., which would otherwise have come here, has been shipped out from interior points or diverted to interior canneries. Prices for fruit are very stif and pointing upward, and fine table fruit has been scarce in this market for some days. Mer- chandise has felt the strike severely, as the reception and shipment of goods has been seriously retarded. This is an extrinsic condition, however, and does not in any way indicate any lassitude in trade per se. Our agricultural and commercial conditions are’all right, and the loss to business on account of the strike is temporary. T An enterprising New Yorker has opened in London a marriage bureau by which he expects to arrange weddings between titled Britishers and American Beiresses. Tt is deeply to be hoped that he will not | discover idiocy to be an American national trait, AN ISSUE OF PATRIOTISM. EFORE the Illinois Bar Association, at its re- B cent meeting, Lieutenant Governor Northcott of that State is reported to have said in the course of an address on “How Laws Are Made": “I want to say to you, my brothers, that unless we go to the rescue of the Government the political future is very' dark. Don't be satisfied with going to the polls and voting to ratify the choice of either one of the two party bosses. The citizens of this country must interest themselves in politics. He who' strives for the elevation and purification of the Government is as much a patriot as he who shoulders a musket in the defense of the nation.” That warning and invocation comes as pertinent and as timely to the people of San Francisco as to the members of the bar of Illinois. In the approach* ing municipal election it is to be determined how our local laws are to be made and how our city govern- ment is to be carried on. The issue will be deter- mined largely by the 1esult of the primaries. If good citizens remain away from' the polls and the bosses get control of the nominating conventions, then good citizens will have no cther option than that of ratify- ing the choice of one of two party bosses, and ‘we shall have in our municipal affairs a repetition of all the old inefficiency, corruption and dishonesty that have con- stituted the basis of so many scandals in the past. In the present political situation it is not too much to say that the task of preserving the city from boss rule depends upon the better element of the Republi- can party. Democracy, discredited and demoralized, will hardly be able to do anything to redeem itself. It is to the Republican party, therefore, that inde- pendent voters and taxpayers look for the nomination of a ticket that will have the confidence of good men and assure the community of econemy, honesty and efficiency in the administration of public affairs. If that expectation be disappointed the Republicans might as well abandon the contest, for independent voters, and, indeed, many stanch and true Republi- cans, will not support a ticket nominated under the domination of Kelly and Herrin. The appeal then addresses itself directly to the civic patriotism of the rank and file of the Republican party. In this contest the question whethér we are to have good government or bad is to be determined by Re- publicans. That much is recognized by the bosses themselves and by the whole predatory class of politi- cians. They have united and are fighting with all the energy of men who see spoils in sight. To Kelly’s aid Gage has brought the State machine, and Herrin, in defiance of the orders of President Hays, is trying | once more to swing the Southern Pacific Railroad in | the old way. Each of the leaders in the combination | hopes to make a personal profit out of the victory if | it be gained, and most of their hungry following of | taxeaters have also hopes of sharing in the spoils. It is a ravenous crowd that seeks to capture San Fran- cisco and divide the loot. To oppose the banded bosses the better elements of the Republican party have organized and are fight- ing in the interests of the city and of its people. The Republican Primary League is pledged to no particu- lar candidate, nor is it antagonistic to any. It seeks only to bring out the full vote of the party at the primaries so that the delegates elected to the nomina- ting convention will be thoroughly representative of the party. A victory for the league at the primaries will mean an honest convention, an honest ticket and an honest city government. It is therefore a victory for whose accomplishment every stalwart and genuine Republican should work and vote. Under the primary election law there can be none of the fraud or force by which Kelly and others like him have, in times past, defeated the will of the party. In this election every vote will be counted. The bosses will, of course, carry as many heelers and toughs into the primaries as they can manage to pass off as Re- publicans, but there will not be enough of them to turn the tide if the true Republicans of the city attend to their political duties. The issue is, therefore, one in which we may say with Lieutenant Governor Northcott: “He who strives for the elevation and purification of the Government is as much a patriot as he who shoulders a musket in the defense of the na- tion.” ————— The National Democracy has closed its headquar- ters at Chicago, sent its records on to Washington and shut up shop. It would have been an outrage of national moment to have kept the corpse above ground much longer. ROSEBERY AS AN ISSUE. ITHIN the field of British politics Lord Rosebery has become as much of an issue as ‘ V Bryan is in American politics. In their na- ture, however, the two issues differ widely. In this country the demoralized Democrats are doing their best to get rid of their old leader, while in Great Britain the demoralized Liberals are trying to coax Rosebery back. The one man is an issue because’ he | persists that his party shall hold fast to bygone poli- cies, while the other is an issue because he will sug- gest no policy at all, but stand aside and criticize everything and everybody. So great is the popular interest in Rosebery and his | present attitude toward politics that the British have begun to study him from his childhood up. Thus they have gone back to his schooldays and sought out the estimate that was placed upon him by his teachers. One of them, who was Rosebery’s tutor at Eton, is reported to have written of him: “He has the finest combination of qualities I have ever He will be an orator and, if not a poet, such a man as poets delight in. He must be the wisest boy that ever lived. But one thing is lacking. He is one of those who like the palm without the dust.” That description does not sound anything like Bryan beyond the oratorical feature. Bryan certainly could not have been the wisest of boys, nor has any one ever noted in him a dislike to the dust. In fact, he is so fond of agitation and demagogic strife that it is quite likely he prefers the dust to the palm. Tt affords, however, a very fair ground from which to cstimate Rosebery as a man and a leader. He has retired from politics seemingly from no other reason than a dislike to share in the give and take of the | struggle. He would of course like to be Prime Min- |ister of Great Britain, but he is not willing to fight for the place. Unless he can be absolute dictator-and have everything go smoothly his way he will stay outside and find fault with those who are doing, the work. That phase of his character was well illustrated by his recent manifesto in which he mocked at the in- effectual efforts of the Liberal leaders to organize an opposition to the present Government or even to for- mulate a policy on which the party can or will agree. He described the recent action of the Liberal party | in giving a vote of confidence to Campbell-Bannerman as an act of “organized hypocrisy,” and declared such an attitude on the part of the Liberals is as dangerous seen. to the party as the Ministry is dangerous to the em- pire. “ There has been a. good deal of speculation as to' | what Rosebery means to do. He himself has spoken upon_the subject in but a dubious way. Still it would seem he is dissatisfied not only with the present lead- ership of the Liberals but with the party itself. In a recent address he is quoted as saying that no man now living can remember in Great Britain another Government which had crowded into its administra- tion such an assemblage of error, weakness and wholesale blunders as the present one, and that the failures of the Government should be the oppor- tunity of the opposition. He added that if the Lib- erals did not undertake the task another party would be created for the purpose. Speaking of his own views upon the issues of the time Rosebery declared for a vigorous prosecution of the war against the Boers, but avowed a decided antagonism to the methods and tactics of the Min- isters. Under the circumstances he declared he would have to walk apart from political organizations and “plow his furrow alone,” but he added significantly that perhaps before he got to the end of the furrow he might find he was not alone. It appears from that statement that he is bidding for a following which will give him absolute leadership. In other words, the noble Earl seems to be a pretty good British imi- tation of an American mugwump. | A Suffolk minister has agreed to buy each par- ishioner who pleads shabbiness for non-attendance at church a new suit of clothes. The gentleman, it is said, has hitherto showed no signs of softening of the brain. THE END OF BRYANISM. AMPLE time has now been given for the rad- ical Bryanites to recover from the blow dealt them by the Democratic convention in Ohio, but with the exception of a feeble and futile attempt to organize a bolt in that State they have shown no signs of fighting back. On the other hand, from all parts of the Union come reports of Democratic com- mendation of what was done in Ohio. Many papers speak kindly of Bryan himself, but for Bryanism they have nothing to say in the way of approval and very little in the way of excuse. The Memphis Commercial Appeal hails the Ohio platform as something in the nature of political sal- vation. It says: “The Ohio Democracy records its w_eariness of failure and defeat. It turns its back upon free silver as a dead issue. It breaks away from a leadership which, honorable and well meaning as it has been, has brought the Democratic party to a con- dition of nerveless disintegration.” The Richmond Times is more severe. It con- demns the silver leader as well as the silver platform, and says: ‘‘Mr. Bryan’s leadership has not only been a flat failure, but it has cost the Democratic party almost its existence. Mr. Bryan has done about as much as any one man could do to disrupt the party and destroy its organization. It was largely through his influence that the party formed an alliance with Populists and Free Silver Republicans, and it was Mr. Bryan’s idea to drive away from the party all Democrats who were opposed to his peculiar doc- trines, and then to form a new party of all sorts and conditions of men who believed in Bryanism.” It is not from the South only that such declarations come. The Albany Argus says: “The process which might be better called rehabilitation than reorganiza- tion is quietly doing its work all over the country, and the Ohio convention is merely a sort of first fruits or visible evidence of the practical unanimity of the Democratic party in demanding that,dead issues and disastrous alliances be dropped.” The Boston Post says: “In refusing to reaffirm the Kansas City platiorm or to express continued confidence in Mr. Bryan, the Ohio Democrats have set a good ex- ample to the party throughout the country.” Practical politicians among the Democrats are say- ing much the same as the Democratic press. Thus® in Pennsylvania, where there is to be a Democratic State convention on August 15, it is accounted as cer- tain that the Ohio lead will be followed. One of the members of the Democratic State Committee when questioned about the situation answered by saying, “There is no political situation this year.” Others, however, have been more outspoken, and made it clear that the Kansas City platform will not be again indorsed by Pennsylvania Democrats. Never before in American history has a political leader been so discredited as Bryan. Of him it may be truly said he rose like a rocket and came down like a stick. He no longer has any support as a Presidential candidate, and it is questionable if he can much longer retain much patronage as the editor of the Commoner. ——— A New Jersey girl sued her employer for wages due, but when asked on the witness-stand to give her age she said she was 20, and thereupon the counsel for the defendant moved for a nonsuit on the ground that the plaintiff was a self-confessed infant and had no standing in court. Her attorney offered to prove that she was at least 23, but an intimation of a prose- cution for perjury caused him to drop his offer; so the next time that young lady goes into court she will have sense enough to tell her age rightly. It will be remembered that in the reports of the sea fight off Santiago it was stated that Schley’s ship, the Brooklyn, inflicted 58 per cent of the damage done to the Spanish fleet and suffered 54 per cent of the dam- age done to the American fleet; and if the reports were true Schley should attach the Brooklyn to his answer to the investigating committee as “Exhibit A” and let it go at that. Al L An Illinois pastor has hit upon an ingenious plan to kéep sleepy members of his flock awake during the sermons: He pays two little girls a cent apiece for every person they awaken. Perhaps he believes that men should resist slumber under even the most adverse conditions. —_— Although the date of the coronation of King Ed- ward is fully six months off, people have already be- gun to engage windows in London overlooking the route of the procession, and in some instances as high as $1500 has been paid for a room with three win- dows. : For a long time there has been a standing joke that New Jersey is not in the Union, but if it be true that her dudes have been playing golf by electric light it will be time to quit jesting. Such enterprise shouldn’t be mocked even by indirection. When the late Max Muller was buying books he was not aware that he was working for the Japanese, but that was what he was doing, for hisentire library has just been purchased for the University of Tokio. Maclay’s history may no longer have a place as a textbook at the Naval Academy, but he is getting enough free advertising to make up for the loss. DEFAMERS OF ADMIRAL SC CONDEMNED BY AMER HLEY ICAN PRESS space, editorially and otherwise, to the Sampson-Schiey controversey. ‘‘Historian” Maclay, whose third volume of the “History of the Navy,” recently published, started the discussion, Is having coals of fire heaped upon his head by the press in all sections, and officials in the navy are also being severely criticized for their attitude toward the gallant officer who commanded the Brooklyn at the battle of Santiago. Brief extracts from the editorials of many of the leading newspapers follow: ’ NEW YORK TIMES. Our neighbor the Sun, in its issue of yesterday, speaks of Mr. Maclay as “the most distinguished livipg American his- torlan.” Of course he is—or dead, either. Anybody who knows the qualities of the true historian instantly detects them all in Mr. Maclay. Where on earth did he get them? A Washington dispatch to the Times is the humble means of disclosing the secret of this historian’s training: ‘“He was formerly an edi- torial writer on the New York Sun, and was appointed to his present position on August 23, 1900, having been transferred from the lighthouse service.” So he was bred in that school of sanctity! TBE newspapers of the country are devoting considerable el PROVIDENCE TELEGRAM. How could it come to pass that a “laborer” on the payrolls of the Brooklyn navy yard, employed ostensibly in the light- house service at $2.24 per diem, should be the .author of a “History of the Navy, a “History of American Privateers” | and “Reminiscences of the Old Navy” and other literary biographical and historical works? How, also, does it come to pass that he is so successful as to have his history adopted as a textbook in the naval academy, and before it is com- pleted even? . e . ANACONDA STANDARD. In vivid contrast to the conduct of Admiral Sampson In this controversy has been that of Admiral Schley. He has carried his honors with undissuming modesty and that simple manli- ness that the people expect in a great naval leader. Alike under the fire of shell and of printers’ ink, he has proved himself a man above all clse, while Sampson has had the mis- fortune to give ample grounds for the charge of caddishness. That is the difference between them. o PHILADELPHIA TELEGRAPH. Even the most reckless champions of Admiral Sampson en- tertain a suspicion that Maclay has gone beyond the bounds of decency and fairness in his application offthe most deroga- tory adjectives and epithets to the action of Admiral Schiey in the Santiago campaign, while on the part of the impartial and judicious public there has been aroused a feeling of dis- gust at the attempt to palm off as history the venomous tirades of the ex-lighthouse keeper. . i PORTLAND (OR.) TELEGRAM. It is no light thing for a man of his position and services to be charged, in an official naval history, with being a run- away, a recusant, a caitiff, a cur, a scoundrel and a coward. The public doesn’t believe that Schley is any of these things; if he is not, the historian ought to be branded with disgrace for the rest of his life. 'The strange thing is that Sampson, so venomous in his jealousy and hatred of Schley, should have 4 approved such accusations. . . . CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. In approving Mr. Maclay's history of the Santiago naval battle and indirectly confirming all the bitter things which that history says about Admiral Schley, Admiral Sampson seems to have imperiled whatever halo of heroism he may have had. For a large number of American citizens, who know little or nothing about naval maneuvers, but who have fixed ideas as to ordinary clvility and fair play, this is Sampson’'s finish. . . BALTIMORE AMERICAN. The country now understands pretty thoroughly the malicious and slanderous character of the book that Edgar Stanton Maclay wrote under the guise of history. It has been repu- diated by the Secretary of the Navy and the author so branded by the officials of the Navy Department and by the public press that his standing as a historical writer is forever de- stroyed.’ S LA SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) REPUBLICAN. Mr. Maclay, whose previbus work has proved him a good historian of the past, has in his later volume concerning the war with Spain condemned Rear Admiral Schley with unspar- ing severity, charging him with falsehood and cowardice, and in so much expressing partisanship to a degree which unfits the work for a textbook in the present generation at least. S ST. PAUL GLOBE. Sampson may be no great shucks as proofreader of Mr. Maclay's history, but what he does not know about social functions, both at home and abroad, would not fill a sheet of common typewriting paper._ . SALT LAKE HERALD. It is not possible to believe that a'man of the character that Maclay paints Schley could have arisen to the prominence he has and have been honored as he has at the hands of his superiors. . « . PHILADELPHIA RECORD. Secretary of the Navy Long has very properly decided to ex- clude the third valume of Maclay's “History of the Navy" from uss as a textbook at the naval.academy at Annapolis. The Secretary also contradicts the published statement of Maclay that he had knowledge of the intended attack made upon Admiral Schley in advance of publication. . o . MOBILE REGISTER. f and sent th He put in the hardest words he could think o he proofs to the department chiefs, expecting them to make their choice, cutting out what they did not like; but the proofs went through without alteration and nobody is willing to say he read the part that describes Schley as a coward, a liar, & caitiff, an incompetent and insubordinate. PUEE ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL This civilian critic, in his zeal to serve his cause, has gone beyond “air judgment upon Schley, however severe that may be, and incidentally has presented the severest possible ar- raignment of the Navy Department which eould permit honaors to be bestowed upon such an obvious liar and coward as Maclay declares Schley to be. rse e DENVER NEWS. otic enough to serve faithfully and loyaily mfix".';"é.u'.'fizm‘,’.‘ ‘hrlls Interior in rank, and when Sampson was twelve miles away, fought and destroyed the Spanish fleet. In his report Sampson never mentioned Schley's name. He seemed determined to crush Schley. The people will not have in that way. % . . UTICA PRESS. Maclay, hitherto unknown, has succeeded in getting himself very widely advertised as a historical writer, but it Is the sort of advertising his publishers will regret. The Naval Depart- ment should at least see to it that the Maclay books one and all are no longer recognized as authority at any Government school. v Arin e NEWARK NEWS. He accuses him of attions “most humillating, cowardly and contemptible.” Whatever substance of truth there les behind this, it can scarcely be sufficient to warrant stigmatizing Schley, who had shown himself a man of spirit and gallantry, as well as a skillful officer, on many occasions, as a coward. . * NEW YORK TRIB It is rot creditable to the department that the adoption of such a book was sanctioned, whether Inadvertently or with connivance of one or more subordinates, and Secretary Long, while he has lost no time in stopping the wrong, has perhaps not yet done all that is necessary to do In the casé. « o+ . NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS. His book not only assumes to be an exhaustive and direct study of reports and other original sources, but it has excel- lent sponsorship and good acceptance. At the same time it is useless to attempt to link anybody connected with the Gov- ernment with the responsibility for the charges. . . CINCINNATI POST. If any cowardice was shown no one will ever make the American people believe that a vestige of it was displayed by Schley. Schley has proved himself not only a brave but a strong man, and every attack on him does nothing more than elevate aim in the public’s regard. i ) 29 PITTSBURG DISPATCH. The fact that the Brooklyn inflicted 58 per cent of the injury done to the Spanish cruisers and suffered 5¢ per cent of the punishment inflicted upon the American fleet should make any inquiry unnecessary, but persistent misrepresentation calls for a final adjudication. 8, e CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. Is this fellow Maclay going to be permitted to further dis- grace tke service of the United States by remaining in it, even as a laborer? The navy ring which used him, as an instrument to defame a gallant officer of the navy should be compelled to support him. . . PHILADELPHIA TIMES. No officer in the service has dared to say openly what the bureau clique have inspired irresponsible writers to utter against Schley, and Maclay, though he is carried on the navy yard payroll, is not within the range of a naval court. dIBR . COLUMBUS (OHIO) PRESS-POST. Well, as the country has already rendered its decisioni in the wearisome Sampson-Schley controversy, we need onfy insist on proper punishment for this Maclay who used viperous language not found at all in the Sampson report. PRl e S BOSTON HERALD. If Maclay's quality may be measured by his ebullition re- garding Schley (ex pede Herculem), he is unfit to write his- tory. We think better of Admiral Sampson than to believe he gave his sanction to this prejudicial rant. D 'cn:mmon NEWS AND COURIER. It will be interesting to note what sort of a “loop™ the dise credited Maclay will make in his revised version of Schley at Santiagdo. Nothing that he can write upon the subject, how- ever, will be accepted as conclusive. e e e R ] LOG BOOKS AND LETTERS OF BRITAIN’S MOST FAMOUS NAVAL HERO ARE SOLD ABSURDLY LOW English Admiralty Permits the Hawking About of Lord Nelson’s Papers, Comprising ‘ Documents That Are of Great Historical Interest. ORD NELSON'S log books and official letter books were sold a couple of weeks ago by auction at Sotheby's London. There were eight lots realizing $659, of which the most Important were: Manuscript official letter books for 1796, 1799-1501, 1803-1841, which brought $32. ITsog books of H. M. ship Agamemnon, 1793-4, sold for $42 50. Log books of H. M. ships Vanguard, Foudryant, etc., $42. Autograph letters and papers relating to the lawsuit between Nelson and Earl St. Vincent, $55. It seems rather remarkable that the Admiralty should not have taken steps to have secured these important and inter- esting historical documents for the nation rather than to per- mit them to be hawked about and be sold for such absurdly low vrices. ENR During the recent regatta at Kiel several warships were present. One of these, the cruiser Gazelle, commanded by Commander K. Nietzke, incurred the Kaiser's displeasure be- cause the ship crossed the starting point of one of the regatta races, and the officer was summarily sentenced to twenty-four hours’ imprisonment on his vessel. Commander Nietzke promptly tendered his resignation. As salary is not so much of an object in the German navy as to induce officers to remain in it, the pecuniary loss to the humiliated officer will be less serious than the loss in social standing. He entered the navy in 1875 and had over seventeen years' sea service to his credit. & The Turkish cruiser Ismir, laid up in “limbo” during the .past twelve months in the harbor of Kiel, has recently been Teleased and allowed to depart. The captain ran short of funds to pay for food consumed and debts incurred, and the mer- chants refused to supply the cruiser with food. When :the Kaiser was on his recent visit to Kiel his attention was called to the plight of the Turkish crew, which was in a state of starvation, and he at once made representations of the case to Yildiz Kiosk with the desired effect. The debts were paid and the Ismir hoisted her long pennant, homeward bound. « e e Three hundred and sixty officers of the German army are serving on board vessels of the navy in order to obtain some knowledge of warfare afloat. The disuse of the old-time sailor, "for whom skilled mechanics and expert artillerists have been substituted, make it within the bounds of possibility to predict a return to the good old times of Charles II, wheh General Robert Blake was assigned as an admiral in the British navy and made a brilliant record. Naval officers in those days were of but little importance, serving chiefly as navigators, and the fighting was done chiefly by soldiers. Ve e The forthcoming British naval maneuvers will be on a greater scale than ever attempted, no less than 161 vessels being prepared to participate. The plan of action is for two rival fleets to obtain command of the English Channel and of the approaches to it, and to St. George's Channel. The two fleets are nearly evenly divided in their totals of ships, which consist of twenty battleships, four armored crulsers, thirty- four crulsers, sixty torpedo boat destroyers, twenty torpedo boats and twenty-three torpedo gunboats and gunboats. & Ten ovdsolete Ironclads in the British navy earry - terles which are as antlquated as the ships. The u-z‘:g%-:::- the Agamemnon, Ajax, Alexandra, Dreadnought, Hercules, Inflexible, Monarch, Sultan, Superb and Temeraire of 93,380 tons collectively. The guns include four sixteen-inch, sixteen twelve-inch, four eleven-inch, forty ten-inch, eight mime-ineh and three seven-inch, the majority of which are muzzle-load- ing rifles or breechloaders of old patterns, - . . ‘ The Eindjani, one of three torpedo boats b row’s, was launched July 2 with steam up, a‘:nlt‘id?‘nfm:;lz:lr; ;;:rtted odr; hler trials. These boats are 152.6 feet in length, about ons displacement, 2000 horsepower and are w‘ twenty-three knots. 5 . Lption s - .. The eight principal naval powers have 318 battleshi, cruisers in commission, and of that number the Ifir: l?:rdu:)% the Admiralty asserts that England has 120, A Japan has ordered two torpedo boat destro: and 7000 horsepower from Thornycroft. Twe E:t‘h:é ‘2:"222 Akebon2 type, of 400 tons and 6000 horsepower, ordered late last year, are approaching completion. e e The Eritish armored cruiser Leviathan, 14,100 ¢ horsepower, was launched July 3 from the yard :?'m?daehs:iu: Her keel was laid November 30, 1899, 3 s .. Mexico has ordered the construction of ei; ight small gunboats :: lu(:’llg(fi knots speed and two torpedo boats at a total cost defeleldefeloletefe et ietedelebeedeielfeieiele oo ool ° e PERSONAL MENTION. E. R. Snyder of Coalinga is registered at the Lick. Frank Barrett, an oil dealer of Palo Alto, is at the Lick. ‘Willis Pike, a business man of Fresno, is a late arrival at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. P. D. Cooper are regis- tered at the Palace from Dawson. R. B. 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