The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1901, Page 4

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Alcazar—“The Adventures of Nell Gwynze.” { Grand Opera-house—*“The Senator.” Central—*“The Ensizn.” Tivoli—*Alda.” Califcrnia—““The Case of Rebellions Susan.™ Orpbeum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*Garrett O'Magh.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. . Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and 1 Fischer's—Vaudeville. ! Recreation Park—Baseball ! Sutro Baths—Swimming. State Fair and Exposition, Sacramento—September 2 to 1. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, August 12, at 12 o'clock, Real Estate, at 14 Montzomery street. e | 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVIKG TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subseribers comtemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new | eddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. | This paper will also be on sale at all summer | resorts and is represented by a local agent im «ll towss on the coast. ] T have given business the other side of the Rockies a brighter aspect. A large spring | wheat crop is now virtually assured and while the early | corn has been seriously damaged in many sections | and almost destroyed in some, yet the late corn has been helped out materially. Conditions are still crit- | CONDITION OF TRADE. | HE rains throughout the West and Southwest | ssouri | and the condition of corn in N Adpvices | ago during the past two or three days re- ical, hewever, is now placed at 21 points, a poor exhibit. from Chi port renewed strength in this cereal, as the improve- | ment owing to the rains turns out less than expected, | for, while the plant itself has again become green and | apparently vigorous, many of the stalks are barren and will produce no ears. dicate a corn crop of 1,500,000,000 bushels, againstj 2.400,000,000 anticipated a couple of months ago. | The recent weather in the West and Southwest has | | | The best estimates now in- completely reversed business conditions in many parts of the country. The rains have improved cotton prospects in the South and reports from there are [ now much more cheerful. Dry and hot weather in the | West, on the contrary, have produced an enormous demand for many lines of fruit, vegetables and other fzod products. The market for California dried fruit has been remarkably y stimulated and San Francisco operators are reporting a heavy movement in peaches, | apricots and apples in the country, while the Cured | Fruit Association, after making an enormous sale of { 80 cars of prunes, following it up with additional sales on a smaller scale, has withdrawn all quotations and will sell no more at present, expecting higher prices for this fruit from now on. The demand for our canned fruits and potatoes for the West has already been mentioned. The Northwest will pro- duce large crops, considerably in excess of last year, hence a heavy fall trade is expected in’that section. As far as the East is concerned conditions are re- ported The country’s bank clearings were 33.5 per cent larger last week than for the same week last year, and every important city except New Orleans and Omaha showed a gain. At Pittsburg, where the iron and steel business centers, the in- crease in bank clearings fell to 7.6 per cent, the small- est for a long time. This indicates a slackening in the iron and steel business, though commercial re- ports show continual orders on a large scale, with many mills supplied with orders up to the end of the | wear. The production of pig iron during the first half of the year was immense, breaking all records, while from present indications the production of the last half will be equally jarge. The boot and shoe trade is still quoted active, though there have been many cancellations of orders from the dry sections of the West. The woolen mills are filled with fall orders and the spring business is also opening up well. Lum: ber, however, is reported quieter. From the foregoing it will be seen that while there is a large spot in the Western and Southwestern parts of the country where the hot and dry weather has depressed trade. the East, North, South and Pacific Coast are all doing an active business. The steel strike is a disturbing element in Wall street and the iron regions, and our own local strikes have affected trade in this city more or less. With these exceptions, however, commercial conditions in the United States are much better than usual at this time of the year. This is partly substantiated by the failures during July, which were 697, against 793 in July, 1900. satisfactory. | Now that Korea is importing American petroleum the people who have been predicting an explosion there may prove to be good prophets. 1 | gather in from the four quarters of the State. | of the slums in San Francisco. { party can turn over to them. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, A%Usr 5. 1901. NOW FOR THE PRIMARIES. UPON the closing on Saturday evening of regis- tration for the primary elections there were more than 78,000 names on the Great Register, being the largest number ever recorded in San Fran- cisco. done by the Republican Primary League in arousing public interest in the election, and gives promise of a complete defeat of the bosses on election day. Now that the voters have been duly registered, the next thing is to make sure that they take part in the election. At this point we are once again confronted by the danger that the very promise of victory may go far to defeat itself by awakening among the better elements of the people a spirit of overconfidence. Realizing that the hopes of the bosses were based upon the expectation of a light vote, and perceiving from the registration that a heavy vote will probably be cast, some men may persuade themselves that their vote is not needed, and that they may safely stay away from the polls. It is against that danger that good citizens must now be cn guard. The contest this year is to be almost wholly within the Republican party. In the Democratic camp every- thing is stagnant. The symbolic donkey of the party is seemingly hidebound and balky. He cannot grow and he will not go. The machine will put up a ticket | in which most of the party will take but little interest and the public no interest at all. It is a foregone con- clusion that if the bosses be beaten in the Republican | primaries and a good ticket be nominated it will carry the city and be charged with the responsibility of the ensuing administration. Herrin and Kelly and Gage and Crimmins are fully aware of every feature of the situation. They know they have a desperate fight before them and they have not hesitated to bring to their aid in this local contest all the cunning and unscrupulous bosses they could Any- body who can do any kind of dirty work is good enough for them at this juncture, and whether he come from Modoc or Los Angeles makes no differ- ence. So long as he can serve them they are willing to interject him into San Francisco politics. ‘While searching for aid from outside heelers the bosses have not overlooked any of the possibilities Evidence has been already forthcoming of attempts made to colonize voters in doubtful districts, and the people may be sure that the bosses will not hesitate to take ad- vantage of the disaffection in the Democratic camp to bring into the Republican primaries as many of the camp followers of Democracy as the bosses of that In fact, the primary law, while it puts an end to certain of the bolder frauds of predatory politicians and secures to every citizen the right to'vote without molestation and to have his vote counted, does not prevent the bosses from still trying fraudulent practices of other kinds. 1t is not too much to say that the immediate welfare of the city will be dependent upon the outcome of the Republican primaries. If, under the new election law, the bosses should succeed in controlling the Repub- lican nominating convention, there will be left for the people at the municipal election nothing but a choice between two boss tickets. In that event nothing in the way of improvement in municipal affairs cofild be expected: San Francisco would .suffer in every direction and the injury would fall not only upon public administration but upon private business. Such being the case, it behooves all earnest and genuine Republicans to engage actively in the task of bringing out a big vote of the better elements of the party at the primary election. The members of the party should post themselves concerning the rival tickets which will be placed in the field in their dis- ricts and should be prepared to vote for and to work for the ticket that stands for honest politics. Election day is not far distant and the time will pass rapidly. Therefore good citizens should get to work at once. | Having a big registration, there ought to be an over- whelming majority for good government. B It is announced that a Pennsylvania man who has | reached the age of 104 years has started to walk from his home in that State to Kansas, and should he suc- ceed it will be an encouragement to Pennsylvanians to know that if they live long enough they may all escape. M years of the probable organization of a Euro- pean tariff union against the United States. Now and then some eminent statesman or economist THE GERMAN TARIFF. ANY have been the reports in the last few 1in Europe has been reported as declaring in favor such an organization and some persons in the ted States have been alarmed lest the proposed league might really be formed and the European market be virtually closed to our products. The new German tariff which has been submitted to the Reichstag, and which will probably be adopted, disposes of those fears at least for the present. It i essentially a measure devised for the benefit of Ger- man agrarians and means anything rather than a gen- eral European combination. So far from being aimed mainly at-the United States it appears to affect Austria and Russia even more injuriously than us. The Fremdenblatt, which is said to be the organ of the Austrian Foreign Office, is reported to have de- clared the proposed tariff to be a menace to interna- tional trade and to havé uttered the significant threat: “If Germany wish a tariff war, Austria, Russia and the United States will be ready to undertake it.” The Vienna correspondent of the London Standard adds: “The draft of the new. German tariff has caused great excitement in interested circles throughout Austria- Hungary because it threatens to put an end to exports to Germany of barley, oats, cattle and fimber. Some papers assert that a commercial treaty between Aus- tria and Germany will be impossible if the proposed enormous increase in duties is persisted in. A similar dissatisfactior appears to prevail in Russia and dis- patches from St. Petersburg announce that M. de Witte will institute reprisals if the bill become a law.” The Germans have met the foreign criticism with a bold front. It is not certain whether the bill can be passed in its present form, for it concedes so much to the agricultural classes that the manufacturers are very sure tc oppose it on the ground that it will in- crease the cc st of the food supplies of the people. The advocates cf it, however, make light of the probabili- ties of foreigr. reprisals. Thus the Cologne Volks- Zeitung is quoted as saying: “Who will be frightened by the big talk of Russia when it is remembered that Russia has only the German market for her surplus of rye? An Austro-Russian tariff alliance against Germany is impossible since Austria herself exports grain.” It will be seen that the rivalry among the three powers ic so great that anything like an alliance among them against the United States is well nigh impossible. Dr. Samuel Johnson, in undertaking to describe how many fleas there were in a bed in which The result attests the excellence of the work. Lie once slept in the Highlands, said: “If they had all pulled in the same direction they would have dragged me out of bed.” Much the same might be said of the nations of Europe with reference to the United States. If they could all pull in the same way they might do our trade some damage. Fortunately for us, Ger- many, Russia, Austria and France are like the High- land fleas. Each one is pulling its own way and while they may annoy us thsy are not likely to get us out of bed. When the Democratic convention in Ohio turned Bryan down there arose a cry from a few Bryanites calling for another convention, and now that Towne has forsaken free silver a number ‘of persons calling themselves “free silver Republicans” are seeking a chance to rally and fly the old flag. Evidently Byron was right—"“nothing dies but something mourns.” FOREST FIRE SEASON. REPORTS from Redding ahnounce the outbreak of a forest fire which at the time of the dis- patch had already swept over a district five miles square and was still burning. The report stated: “The flames are being fed principally from limbs and brush of trees left by woodchoppers. Dry as tinder, the stuff makes a hot fire that in some places roars like a cyclone. The fire department of Keswick had to be called out to save the historic old town of Shasta. Its destruction for awhile seemed certain.” We will have to record many an item of a similar nature before the dry season is over. Every year these dreary stories are repeated. The annual loss in mer- chantable property amounts to many millions of dol- lars and forms a heavy offset to the revenues derived from out fields and forests, but such losses, heavy as they are, constitute by no means the whole of the damage. The destruction of a forest implies some- thing more than the burning of merchantable timber or the biighting of a grass or stubble field with its valuable pasturage: It means the killing of thousands of young trees that would have grown up to be of great value, and moreover it widens that deforested and bare area of territory that materially affects the conservation of moisture and the general climatic conditions of the country. In the Eastern States the destruction of forests has already reached the danger point. It is noted in New England that streams which in bygone times flowed with full currents all the year round and furnished an abundant water power for factories and mills are now running in torrents every spring and becoming almost dry in the summer. The change in the flow of the streams is due to the destruction of the woods around +heir sources and along their banks. Thus New Eng- land, by permitting the destruction of her forests, has not only wasted her woodland wealth but has actually lessened the water power upon which so many of her manufacturing industries depend. 1t has taken the people of New England a long time to learn the importance of forests to a community, and perhaps Californians will be equally obtuse on the subject. Our education, hotever, while it may be equally costly, is not likely to take so long in teaching its lesson. Owing to our long dry season our forests are far more exposed to fires than were those af the New England States. When a fire breaks out in our mountains it is not easily checked. During the dry season report after report comes in of fires that have swept miles and miles of territory. In the aggregate the waste has never been fully computed, but it is known to be enormous. California is large and her forests are extensive, but vast as they are they cannot for many years stand the tremendous waste. If we do not put a stop to the fires by some comprehensive system of forest protection we shall in a few years be compelled to go to the cost of replanting forests even as the veople of Europg are doing at this time. B e I The cashier of a bank in New Hampshire-is said to have been infected with smallpox through a bank note, so there is another strong argument why the people of the East should drop their filthy lucre and take to using clean gold. F of discussion concerning the advisability of changing the date of the inauguration of our Presidents. The season that has been established for that ceremony is so inclement that at every successive inauguration the clamor for a change arises with in- creased emphasis. THE INAUGURATION DATE. OR a long time past there has been a good deal We are now to have something more than a dis-- cussion on the subject. A movement strongly sup- ported in Washington has been started for the pur- pose of urging action upon Congress at the coming session. A committee of citizens, headed by John Joy Edson, who was chairman of the last inaugural committee, has requested the District Commission- ers to appoint a national committee to assist the ef- forts of the promoters in Washington, and it has been announced that the committee will be composed of the Governors of the various States and Territories and of fifteen other persons chosen from the country at large. The proposed change will mean something more than the mere substitution of a more convenient date for the inaugural ceremonies. If, as has been sug- gested, the date be changed from March 4 to April 30, there will be added something like two months of time to McKinley’s term and a corresponding addi- tion to the short term of Congress. It is from the latter change that most good is expected: At the present. time the closing term of the life of a Con- gress is so short that very little work can be accom- plished. As a rule Congress does not get fairly to work until after the January holidays, so that when it has to adjourn on March 4 it has only about two months in which to work. By postponing the in- auguration date to the end of April there would there- fore result considerable benefits to Congress and to the country at large. The Washington men who are directing the move- ment assert that the general sentiment of the coun- try is favorable to the change, and that there will be a strong support for it in both houses of Congress. It is therefore quite probable the subject may become an issue of practical politics this winter. The interest of Washington City in the matter is very great. The change would vastly benefit their business, and, that being so, there is a certainty the movement will not fail from any lack of energy at the capital. —— There is a good deal of midsummer talk in the East about the fitness of a Southern man as a candidate for the Presidency, but the question will not be of any great interest to the country until the South has furnished a man who is big enough for the place. e Whether it be the result of the hot weather, or of general prosperity, or of Carrie Nation’s crusade, or of common ordinary thirst, is not known, but the importation of beer into Kansas this summer is said to have been the largest on record. BOUNCING BABY BOY OF ABNORMAL WEIGHT e — MASTER HARRY EGGERTS, THE SON OF A NEW JERSEY FAMILY, WEIGHS 155 POUNDS AND IS PROBABLY THE LARGEST CHILD OF HIS AGE IN THE UNITED STATES. gerts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Eggerts, 307 West Kinney street, New ark, N. J. He is three and a half years old, is considerably taller than children of that age and welghs 155 pounds. very proud of him and of his baby sister Grace, who is only twenty-one months old and weighs ninety-two pounds. Mrs. Eggerts says that the children were not weighed at birth, but she thinks Harry welghed about twenty pounds when he came into the world. He is now as tall as an ordinary child of six years, and aside from his excessive fat is normal in every way. He is mentally bright, is physically active and has a good PROBABLY the largest child in the United States for his age is Harry Eg- appetite. Both father and mother of the children are of ordinary height and bufld. Mrs. Eggerts is, in fact, rather slim, but the says that every other member of her family is stout. Harry and Grace are remarkably healthy, and have been since their birth, although Harry takes slight colds easlly and has to be carefully watched in ‘winter. L e e ) PERSONAL MENTION. E. E. Bush, a capitalist of Hanford, is at the Lick. Dr. M. Wright of Los Angeles is a guest at the Grand. George F. Denison, a railroad man of Honoluly, is at the Occidental. C. 8. Holmes, a wholesale druggist of Seattle, is staying at the Grand. Charles G. Bonner, a civil engineer of Fresno, is a recent arrival at the Grand. Washington Porter, a big dealer in Cali- fornia. fruits, is one of the arrivals at the Palace. George Conway, a rallroad man of Port- land, Or., is making a brief stay at the Grand. E. H. Trerise, a mining man of Butte, Mont., is registered at the Palace with his daughter. Francis E. Young, a Boston capitalist, who is Interested in California mines, is at the Palace. D. S. Rosenbaum, president of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank at Stock- ton, is one of the arrivals at the Palace. George L. Alexander, proprietor of the Express-Advance, Lebanon, Oregon, is spending a three weeks' vacatlon in this city. < A. W. Milligan, well known in the iron and steel trade in New York, is visiting the coast with his family. They have apdrtments at the Palace. George A. Dorsey, curator of the Field Museum of Chicago, is at the California. He is on his way to Arizona to witness the snake dances of the Indian tribes, with a view toward writing a description of his observations. He is accompanied by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs, E. J. Dorsey of Granville, Ohio. — ee————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “You have no more sense than the law allows,” he sneered. Then he added, as a bitter afterthought, “and a prohibition law, at that.” Whereupon the party to whom the re- marks were addressed began fracturing a few statutes.—Baltimore American. ‘Watterson is argyfin” sWith our friend young Willle Bryan; “Tis only Watterson can"keep Bill Bryan from a deathlike sleep! - But he should sure have understood That when Bill sleeps then Bill is good! —Topeka Journal. Circumstantial Evidence. — Papa — ‘Where's my umbrella? I'm sure I put it in the hall stand with the others last even- ing ‘Willie—I guess Mabel's beau took it when he went home last night.” Mabel—Why, Willle! The idea! ‘Willie—Well, when he was sayin’ good- night to you I heard him say: “I'm going to steal just one.”—Philadelphia Press. “As usual,” remarked the sad-eyed teacher of the district school; ‘“‘as usual, Jimmie Scroggins takes the palm in rhe- toricals.” And a succession of wild yells a few mo- ments later carried the impression that Jimmie was taking the palm very serious- ly.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. When two women bid each other good- by and say sweetly, “Now, do come again soon,” the words cut no ice. There may be two imaginary fists shaking between them, and the apparent pleasant rela- tions may be kept up waiting for an open- ing to land a good snub.—Topeka Journal. Too Liberal—Wite—Here's an advertise- ment in the paper that you'd better look into. It says a man is wanted, and he won’t be worked to death, and he'll get paid enough to live on. Husband—Says he won’t be worked to death, eh?” & and they promise pay enough to live on.” Some catch about that!”—Ne York Weekiy. b SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15, 360, 15 days at hotel. for round trip, including h:mncuns.s.cw..llnlmtlmmn_ Coronado, Mr. and Mrs. Eggerts are ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE COAL KING—P. M., San Ber- nardino, Cal. Alexander Dunsmuir, the coal king, died in New York City, Janu- | ary 31, 1900. Sl THREL-DOLLAR PIECE—Subscriber, City. A three-dollar gold plece of 1854, the‘\ catalogues say, commands a premium of from 25 cents t6 $1. COPPER—H. B, Little Shasta, Cal. In the year 1899 Arizona produced 126,377,758 pounds of copper and during the same period Montana produced 237,953,951 pounds. LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE—Sub- seriber, City. It is proper to answer let- ters of cendolence sent to the relatives of one who has passed away. Ac- knowledgment should be sent as soon as convenient. POPULATION OF CITIES—A. C. L., Milton, Cal. Following is given as the population of each of the twelve cities named in letter of inquiry, according to the census of 1900: San Franecisco, 342,- 782; Los Angeles, 102,479; Oakland, 66,960; Sacramento, 29,292; San Jose, 21,500; San Diego, 17,700; Alameda, 12,772; Fresno, 12,- 470; Pasadena, 9117; Riverside, 7973; Val- lejo, 7965, and Santa Rosa, 6673. IRON CLAD OATH-D. C. S, City. “Iron clad oath” was a popular name for the oath of office prescribed July 2, 1862, in which the person not only promised to defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or do- mestic, but also swore that he never gave aid or encouragement to its enemies or accepted office under any government hos- tile to the United States. SALT RIVER—D. C. S, City. “Gone up Salt River” is an old time phrase ap- plied to politicians who are forced out of public life or who retire because of dis- appointed ambition. It is sald that the phrase arose from a small stream of that name in Kentucky, the navigation of which was very difficult and the unpleas- antness of a journey up that stream was thought fairly to represent the feelings of the politiclans to whom the phrase was applied. SAN FRANCISCO STREETS—Reader, Honolulu, H. I. The width of San Fran. cisco streets asked abqut is as follows, the measurement being from building g | building: Market street, 120 feet: Van Ness avenue, 1% feet; Kearny street south of Broadway, T feet; north of Broadway, 4.5 feet. Broadway, 2.5 feot The sidewalks on Market street and Van Ness avenue are 22 feet; Kearny street. south of Broadway, 18 feet; north of Broadway, 10 feet, and Broadway, 19 fect P S STEAMERS—Subseriber, City. :xhe e 1866 the steamers of the ne between San Francisco an ama were the Colorado, sammenfipéfimen Age, Golden City, Constitution and Mon- tana. The connecting steamers betw: _ Aspinwall and New York were the At lantic, New York, Henry Chauncy, Costa Rica, Ari Fi zona, Ocean Queen and Rising In 1867 the steamers were the Golden City, Montana: poras tution, Golden Age anq Sne‘ra.ment | Those on the Atlantic side Were the Henro\; | Chauncy, Rising Star, N. Queen and Arlzona. =~ o'k Ocean —_—— PB'gINg:)fl?;:LIéB UNDER THE SEA— under the sea” ‘you Lm.,':iimy“;‘fifl refee: ence to Duncansby Head (the Berur;l"- :; Ptolemy), a Promontory which s e northeast extremity of Cajy tafha Scotland, one mile and a half east olh e ‘OGrouts House. In the vicinity are tl:e":l ong chasms or ghoes, in the Devontan strata, and curious detached u.ndon i c;lnmns in the sea called stacks, o::wm :n ?e chasms is 300 yards long, 12 t: 'i.; e and 100 feet deep, anq Ccommunicates three openings; one of During Panama CONCERNING THE NAVIES OF THE POWERS In the French navy the torpedo per- sonnel is charged with taking care of the electric lighting on beard ships. CRRCER Tt is claimed for the new British twelve- inch gun that it can fire one round every twenty-four seconds, or at the rate of five shots In two minutes. Gl Baron Krupp, the head of the great gun works at Essen, has declared his income for taxation to be $4,200,000, and values his fortune at 189,911,207 marks, or, approxi- mately, $37,980,000. He employs 0,000 per- cons. The British cruiser Hyacinth, fitted with Belleville boilers, arrived two hours be- hind the Minerva in the race from Gib- raltar to Portsmouth. The latter ship has Scotch boilers and had no trouble, whila one of the tubes on the Hyacith burst and caused delay. > A Swiss engineer, Georges Barbey, re- siding at Lausanne, is sald to have been oftered $50,000 for the plans of his ship motor Velecita. The British Admiralty Is alleged to be desirous of acquiring this invention, which enables vessels using it to almost double their speed at one-half the expense of present steam machinery. ! e P The Dutch torpedo-boat Rindjani, which was launched with steam up from the Yarrow yard on July 2, slid into the water at 2 o’clock p. m., left the yard at 2:35 p. m. for her trial trip and returned at 9:20 p. m. on the same day. On a six-mile run the boat made twenty knots with 145 pounds steam and 300 revolutions, and 25174 knots with 200 pounds steam and 370.3 revolutions. o e e Fifty-six war vessels were under con- struction in Great Britain July 1. Of these thirty-eight of 230,3%5 tons were at private yards and elghteen of 172,340 tons In Gov- ernment yards. In the TUnited States sixty-three war vesssls are building in private yards, sixty-one of 269,540 tons being for our navy and two of 15400 tons for the navies of Russia and Turkey. Not a single vessel is under construction in any of the seven navy yards. . e 3 The Vengeance, battleship of 12,950 tons, has the distinction of having passed through three of her steam trials without a hitch. The thirty hours’ coal consump- tion trial under fogr-fifths power gave 10,- 387 horsepower and 17.491 knots speed, and the eight hours’ run under full power gave 13852 horsepower and 185 knots. The contract was for 13,500 horsepower and 18.%5 knots. The Vengeance was built by the Vicker-Maxim Company at Barrow. The vessel's keel was laid August 23, 1597, and the last trial took place July 5 last. e e e The new seven-inch quick-firing gun, de- signed to take the piace of the present eight-inch ordinary breechloader in the United States navy, is thus described by the Bureau of Ordnance: Weight, 13.3 tons; length, 45 calibers; weight of charge, 66 pounds smokeless powder; shell, 165 | pounds; muzzle velocity, 2800 foot seconds; muzzle energy, 9225 foot tons. The per- foration at a distance of 1000 yards is caldl cllated at 9.67 inches of Harveylzed armor or 8.76 inches of Krupp armor, and at 3000 yards the perforation should be 7.15 Inches of Harvey or 6.79 inches of Krupp armor. L et The naval arsenal at Toulon possesses unusual good facilities for supplying ships with coal, water, ammunition and pro- visions. Fifteen vessels can be accom- modated along the quays to take in water and coal, and in addition there are fifty- six coal barges, each of 500 tons capacity; fifteen water boats, of which five are steamers, delivering 1840 tons of water: thirty-five ammunition boats, carrying 2155 tons of war material, and eight- een barges carrying collectively 400 tons of provisions. Toulon, as a fitting- out yard for war vessels, Is second only to Portsmouth, England, and excels the three principal navy vards in the United States in their aggregate capacity. o & e The latest design for a submarine boat in France is one of 200 tons, differing but little from that of the Narval, except in the mode of propulsion. The change con- sists in discarding electric accumulators and substituting an engine driven by aleohol, which, with compressed air, fur- nishes the motive power. The air is cen- tained in reservoirs under a pressure of 100 atmospheres, and when the boat is on the surface the air 1s allowed to escape directly into the water. submerged that the alcohol engine ts brought into service. This new boat, which will cost about $180,000, will be bullt with the greatest dispatch at Toulon. s e The Ammiraglio de St. Bon, Italian battleship of 9750 tons, has had her steam trial and attamed a speed of 19.2 knots, an excess of 1.2 knots over the calculated speed. The ship was built by contract at the Ansaldo yard, Genoa, the keel being laid July 18, 1593, launched April 29, 1897, and trial April 5 last. Its correct dimen- sions, according to the Revista Nautica, are: Length 344 feet 2 inches between per- pendiculars, breadth 69 feet 2 inches, draught 24 feet 9 inches. The water line armor, of nickel steel, tapers from 9% inches amidships to 4 inches at the ends, and the casemate armor is 5.9 inches. The armament consists of four ten-inch guns in two turrets, eight six-inch quick-firers, eight 4.7-inch, eight six-pounders, ten one- pounders, two machine guns and four tor- pedo tubes. The complement is 34 officers and 517 men, of which latter 24 are ma- chinists and 114 firemen, ete. The normal coal suppiy is 600 tons, and the maximum horsepower contracted for 13,500. g e The United States cruiser Newark, re- cently returned from China, went out of commission at the Boston navy yard July 24, where sne is to be thoroughly repaired and receive a new battery. The Newark has proved a very expensive vessel, for the repairs up to July, 1900, footed up $i05,- 000 in round numbers. The ship was built at Cramps’ yard at a total cost of $1.830.- 117 and went into commission February 2,1891. On March 6, 1597, she went out of commission at the Norfolk yard. where | she was repaired and modernized at a cost of $411,000. 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