The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 14, 1901, Page 6

Adéress Al Commenications to W. 5. LEAKE, Mauager. MANAGER’S OFFICE..... PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market Tele; Press 20 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ngie Copies. & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DAILY CALL (including Bunday), ome year.. DAILY CALL (including Surday), § months. d Third, 8. F. | 4 88 All postmasters are horized to receive subscriptions. Semple coples Will be forwarGed when requested. Mall subscribers n ordering change of sddress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o tnsure & prompt and correct compliance with thetr request. DAKLAND OFFICE. +...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. > Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Ohicsgo. (wong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2613.”) 2 et NP YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON. . ... ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorjum Hotel. XNEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 51 Unton Square; Murray Hill Hotel. [ ——————— AMUSEMENTS. Rudolph and Adolph.” r se—“The Little Minister.” Grand Opera-house—Benefit of Charity Fund of the Asso- Managers, Thursday afternocn, October 1. orodora.”” "audeville. Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Fischer's—Vaudeville. Alhambra—Royal Italian Band, Sunday evening, October 13. ro Baths—Open nights. AUCTION SALES. M. B. Mihran—This day, at 11 &. m. and 2 p. 'm., at 332 Oriental Rugs. —— &> NO EHALT YET IN TRADE. LL over the country there is a brisk demand mand ior goods, comprehending the usual fall and winter, and in some lines even the spring de- T'he movemen: is said to be remarkable. This word has been used so often to characterize trade during the past three or four years that the public is beginning to accept it as a regular descriptive ex- Several times this year a slackening off of business seemed at hand, and every time the lull proved only a matter of a few days, being succeeded by lively orders for merchandise from all over the country. And this has beeh the course of trade for a long time. No such prosperity has ever been experi- enced in the United States, and the end is evidently not yet La activity mzade it devoid of especial feature. week was one of many similar ones. Its very The bank clearings showed the usual gain over the correspond- ing week in 1900, and the different sections of the country reported the same unvarying active demand for merchandise. monotonous reading, if making money to ever become monotonous. can be said The distributive trade iell off somewhat in the West and Northwest, owing to wet and warm weather, while several Southern markets reported delayed collections, owing to the restricted movement .in cotton. The Western job- bers reported less call for dry goods, clothing and shoes, but these lincs generally ease off in activity at this time of the year, when the wholesale stocks have been completed. But what may be called progressive work, such as construction of buildings and appliances for manu- facturing, continues with unabated activity to such an extent, indeed, that the iron and steel mills are running to their full capacity to keep even with their new orders and catch up with their old ones—some- thing that few have thus far been able to do, many of them having work enough ahead to keep them em- ployed until well along into next year. The foot- wear factories all over the country report business lively, and there is no immediate prospect of any lower prices, especially as hides and leather ate firm, | with a2 pronounced tendency toward- still higher prices. The Eastern shipments of boots and shoes are twelve per cent larger than at this time last year. There is less activity in dry goods, as mentioned above, but sellers are very firm, and are in many in- stances asking prices above the views of buyers, both at home and abroad. The cereal markets have shown little change dur- ing the week, the Government report issued Thurs- day being considered bearish on oats and bullish on corn, though the changes in crop conditions were not sufficient to produce any violent variation in prices. Exports of wheat for the week fell off some- what, owing to favorable crop prospects in the Argentine and the United States, and to heavy offer- ings of Russian wheat in England, but were still large. The country’s failures for the week were 231, against 232 for the same week last year. This is a noteworthy change for the better, as the failures thus far this year have generally been more numerous than last year, though of smiall liabilities as a rule. Conditions in Wall street did not vary much last week. The market was irregular and subject to brief fluctuations, leaving the net proposition not far from where it was at the close of the preceding week. On this coast there are few new features. Since the termination of the strike we have been doing an increased business, and the commercial decks are being rapidly cleared of large lines of merchandise accumulated during the labor trouble, Renewed ac- tivity is seen in almost all lines, the downtown:* streets are thronged with drays and trucks, and the wharves present their normal bustling aspect. Most merchants say that business was never better at this time of the year. Boss Croker of Tammany has had a volume pre- pared containing an extensive collection of cartoons of which he is the target, and it is said he likes to Jook at them. Evidently the old man knows a joke when he sees it and ise’t thinskinned. It is said Emma Goldman thinks of undertaking a dramatic career, and should she try it she would prob- ably expand the theater, for while she would lower the stage the audience would raise the roof. This prosperity is making rather | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 1901. RHODES AND GLADSTONE. MR. GLADSTONE seemed to belong so much to all mankind that human interest in his name and fame will long survive in the world, Because of this the recent letter of Cecil Rhodes excites great interest, far outside of England. Rhodes seems to seek to put Gladstone in the position of having sold out his own principles and the policy of his party for a campaign contribution of £5000. It is true that Rhodes has, in making this revelation, the pretext of a denfal of the transaction by Sir Wil- liam Vernon Harcourt and Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman, which impeached his veracity. But that denial was apparently provoked by him for the pur- pose of opening the way to his full narrative of the” affair. He declares that he bargained with Schnadhorst, a Liberal campaign manager, that for the sum of £3000 the British army was to be left in Egypt by Glad- stone, and that Ireland was to retain representation in the British Parliament, no matter what Home Rule, bill was passed. As for the latter, there would have been no inconsistency in giving Ireland home rule and representation in the Imperial Parliament. That is a plan that has been canvassed to secure the gen- eral Parliamentary federation of Great Britain and all the crown colonies. They could well have home rule and each its own Parliament to legislate in all local concerns, and representation in the Imperial Parliament to take care of their interests in the fed- erated empire. Such 2 system would be exactly like for here the States have home rule and home legislation and a representation in Congress in re- spect to their Federal interests and relations. There would have been no sacrifice of principle in the adop- tion of such a system by Gladstone. Nor is it clear that he held as a cardinal principle of his politics that Egypt should be evacuated, though Rhodes re- garded his attitude upon that subject with suspicion. To make out a case against Gladstone’s memory, however, Mr. Rhodes must establish the fact that the bargain with Schnadhorst was known to and ap- proved by Gladstone, the leader of the Liberal party. Of this he submits no evidence, and therefore his revelation fails as an impeachment of the integrity of the Grand Old Man. 7 It is prebable that Schnadhorst, like many other campaign managers, was willing to replenish the party treasury from any source znd to make any bar- gain that would bring money. These things are in- cident to politics and campaigns, and such bargains are repudiated by the real leaders more frequently than they are kept. Special bargains have been made, in campaign emergencies in this country, and usu- |ally have led to trouble. Lincoln was involved in one by his managers in the Republican National Convention of 1860, by which they obligated him to put Simon Cameron in the Cabinet, an appointment that led to no end of trouble and scandal, that finally compelled the President to expel Cameron and ap- | point Stanton. The treaty of Mentor, between Gar- field and Conkling, was another bargain made in the necessities of a campaign, to be broken by the Presi- dent, and the breach brought in its train many tragic and grievous consequences. But neither Lincoin nor Garfield ever became in- volved in a transaction that made necessary a promise to vielate party principle or sell out a party policy. This is the intended implication of the affair which Rhodes has divulged, and the world will not believe that Gladstone was a party to any such arrapgement. His political career knew many reverses, and the ups «nd downs of his public life make an intensely inter- esting chapter in the history of British politics, but | he never purchased power by a sacrifice of principle. In justice to. his great rival, Disraeli, the same must be said of him, and of the other great party leaders of England in the nineteenth century. The princi- ples of parties in Great Britain were as definite as in this country during the last century, and there, as here, parties were willing to die but not to surrender. Rhodes is guite safe in putting any color he chooses upon the bribe he says he paid, for both Schnad- horst and Gladstone are dead, and neither can | confront him. But we believe the character of Glad- stone stands in testimony that nothing can impeach against the implied charge that Rhodes evidently de- sires to make. At present the Liberal party is_in such a condition of demoralization that Rhodes can hardly hurt it, and the Conservative party, led by Lord Salisbury, is in such a position that nothing can help it. It is held together solely because there is no opposition to which-men can safely go, and it will retain power indefinitely, until new issues arise {and compel a new partisan alignment. These issues are not at present apparent in the germ. The honor and integrity of the empire have been made to de- |pend upon the complete conquest of South Africa and the extermination of the Boers, and while Eng- | lishmen chafe at the delay and at the cost of the war, and criticize the Minictry, they have no choice but i to support it. ours o e e It is noted that the St. Louis papers refer to the President not as “Teddy,” but as “Theo”; and it would seem they are doing it just to show a culture superior to that of Chicago. { SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE. i ONSUL GENERAL STOWE of Cape \‘ Town, in the October number of Consular Reports, gives a gloomy account of the pres- ent conditions of trade in South Africa, but an- nounces that the prospects of future trade are much brighter than would Lave been expected of a country that has been so harried and wasted by war. Of the present situation he says: “The war drags along, trade in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony languishes; the fields are bare, and practi- cally no planting has been attempted. Several thou- sand Uitlanders have returned to Johannesburg to prepare the mines for future operations. A number of these are at present engaged in working up the ore mined before the outbreak of the war, but the mines cannot be run at the full capacity until the return of the native refugees, which will probably not be until after the cessation of hostilities.” ‘War has not been the only thing that has interfered over $16,604,000 in 1890 to more than $20,000,000 in 1900. The increase is due of course to the demand for war supplies and foodstuffs. With the return of peace the war demand will fall off, but the Consul Delieves the reviving industries of the people will more than compensate for any diminution on that score. In speaking of the future he says: “It is said plans are matured for expending $50,000,000 in new rail- ways; that several thousand miles of telegraph lines are to be erected and renewed; that $5,000,000 is to be expended for public works and $15,000,000 on har- bors; that $300,000 is to be invested in electric lines in Natal; that $25,000,000 or more is to be expended. in the Transvaal and a like amount in Orange River Colony.” The machinery and the material used in these works will of course be obtained from the quarter where they can be had cheapest, for South Africa will have no money to spare when the task of re- building begins. There is therefore a chance for Americans to enter the market in competition with the British. The Consul says: “Our trade for 1899 and 1900 with the Uitlanders of the Boer states (our best customers in those states) has been lost owing to their exodus. On their return to their old busi- ness their trade will be again open to us, and in time a great improvement will be witnessed, particularly in Johannesburg. The streets will be properly paved and the sewerage system so much needed will be in- stalled. A beginning has been made in opening up the mines, hotels and stores. Goods are being for- warded by the military authorities. As soon as mer- chants have ample stocks the military stores will be closed.” 7 It will be seen, then, that the outlook for trade in South-Africa is by no means bad. The vast amount of Government work to be done will be particularly attractive to American manufacturers, and so the ruin that has been wrought by British war will be remedied to a large extent by American industry and enterprise. e o The organization in London of a tobacco trust strong enough to control the entire tobacco trade of Great Britain is the latest combine. reported in the commercial world, and the people who have been saying that trusts are due to the American system of protection will have to put it in their pipes and smoke it. THE ELIMINATION OF HERRIN. -\ ; \’ Railway system to a syndicate of Baltimore capitalists who operate street railways as a come to the people of San Francisco many benefits. One of the most important of these will be a cur- longer hold the position of attorney for the road. Herrin's relations to the corporations of which he himself strictly to law matters, or if he undertook a faithful supervision of the law business of the South- the work of that corporation alone to occupy his time and employ all of his energies. It happens, how- name of “law” is of such a nature that he serves not cnly the Southern Pacific, but the Market Street well. A stranger to San Francisco might well inquife ploy the same attorney, and how it is that the one man can serve them all, since each of them neces- the attention of its counsel. The resident of San Francisco, however, feels no surprise on the subject. tions do not keep him busy poring over law books. They are of a nature which lead him to employ as They are not so fatiguing to the brain as exhausting to the conscience. any tact, Herrin might have made his power useful alike to the community and to his employers. He has, of politics rather than with the business elements of the city, and to elect corrupt or corruptible’ men to thereiore, made enemies for every corporation he has served, and has done them more harm than good. that they are now virtually compelled to stand in with and support the worst elements of municipal politics antagonism to the better elements. With his dismissal from the Market Street Rail- tent be curtailed. Then it will be for President Har- riman to determine how much longer he will retain Pacific Company a man who gives so much of his time to other corporations, so mauch to private prac- Crimmins, so much to cesrupting Supervisors and so much to alienating from the road the favor and the community as a whole. ——— to advise the British people to have patience instead of fretting over the war in South Africa. Whatever highly profitable to Roberts, and he can talk patience with all the sincerity of a man who is himself well ITH the transfer of the Market Street matter of business and not for politics, there will tailment of the power of W. F. Herrin, who will no acts as attorney have been peculiar. ern Pacific (fompany, Le would have enough to do in ever, that the kind of service he renders under the Railway, the gas company and water company as with surprise why all those corporations should em- sarily has a large amount of law business to occupy The services which Herrin renders to the corpora- associate counsel such men as Kelly and Crimmins. Had he been a man of any greatness of ideas or of however, preferred to associate with the lowest bosses office rather than to support good men. He has so mismanaged the affairs of his employers because Herrin has brought them into a position of way law department Herrin's power will to that ex- at the head of the law departmen® of the Southern tice, so much to associating with Kelly and with the friendship of merchants, of manufacturers and of There is no man better fitted than Lord Roberts the struggle may have brought to others it has been satisfied and has no kick to make. The latest report is that since the "English have repeatediy failed to lift the America’s cup, and since Sir Thomas Lipton has had no better luck when chal- lenging in the name of an Irish yacht club, the Scotch have come to the conclusion that victory is reserved for them and a-Scotch syndicate is about to issue a challenge. Judge Bakerof Ohio has made something of a sensation in the East by declaring from the bench: “Man has a God-given right to work, but no court with trade. The Consul notes that there is a large amount of merchandise and machinery at the ports awaiting transportation to the interior, but just at the time the railways were released from military traffic so that they might handle the commercial shipments there came a panic fear of the bubonic plague that checked business, prevented the moving of trains, caused an exodus of the population and upset values. Under such circumstances the discharging of cargo was slow, and the Consul says: “At one time there were in the harbor no fewer than 100 steamships and quite as many sailing vessels, with cargoes valued at nearly $25,000,000.” Qur trade with South Africa is growing, the im- ports from this country having increased from a little has a right to make him enjoy it, if he doesn’t wish to do so.” On that platiorm the Judge ought to get the hobo vote whenever he runs for office. President Roosevelt is said to have informed sev- eral members of Congress that their recommenda- tions for appointments to office will be favorably re- ceived provided they recommend fit men, and now the Congressmen are wondering what sort of a fit the President likes best, g 3 = e Indiana has already liad her first snowfall this sea- son, and as it is said to-have been the earliest in thirty years the weather men are prophesying a bad winter from way back. The scare, however, will not reach to California. Our weather is all right. If he devoted | He has, | HE bird of freedom is the generally accepted ornament serving as a figurehead on American war ves- sels. It is bronze-easting and is as much a part of the ship as the kel plate or any portion of the ma- chinery. The appropriation bill providing for the building of new ships has this provision since 18%0: “In all their parts said vessels shall be of domestic manu- facture.” Prior to 1839 there were certain articles such as hollow shafting and par- ticular steel castings which it was found necessary to import, but this necessity no longer exists, yet the law is being con- stantly violated and parts of engines have been purchased in Europe. The latest instance of disregard of the law referred to is the arrival in New York on October 5 of the British: steamer Maristow from Havre with six cases of bronze eagles to decorate United States war vessels. The work was done in France, where the workmen receive $t 50 a day, against $350 paid to our work- men. The work could have been done as well in this country and it is to be presumed that only the comparative cost prompted violation of spirit and let- ter of the law. Four torpedo boats recently completed for the United States navy have passed successful trials, all exceeding their con- tract speed. The Shubrick, calculated to make twenty-six knots, made 2.75; Bag- ley and Barney exceeded their contract for twenty-eight knots by 12 and 11 knots, and the Bailey made 30.2 knots, or -2 knots over the contract. The new tor- pedo-boat-destroyers have been less sue- cessful, notably the Perry, which reached 2 maximum speed of only 28.20 knots, or -8 knots short of the contract, although the horsepower was 7752, or 752 in excess of the power calculated. The failure was due to defective design and several boats similarly affected are having their sterns reconstructed with a view to overcoming the defect in speed. The growth of the German navy since 1879 has been almost as phenomenal as that of Japan. The naval force in 1879 was seventy-four ships of all classes, which ten years later had increased to 198. By 1920 the navy will include thirty- eight battleships, twenty large and forty- five small cruisers, and Germany will THE CALL, CITY. Gentlemen: name of our club, Very truly yours, [ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | RIVER AND HARBOR #ILL—B. W. | Oakland, Cal. The river and harbor bill did not. pass at the last held session of | Congress. SLAVE—OId Citizen, City. There are no slaves in the United States now, and when there were such a slave was not accorded the right of franchise. TAXES—Subscriber, City. The first record of the levying of taxes upon the citizens of a country was the act of Solon, the first Athenian legislator, 540 B. C. IRISH GIANT, A. O. S., City.—There is a record of Patrick Cotter, who was called “‘the Irish Giant.”” His height was 8 feet 7inches. He died in September, 1806. THE MACCABEES—L. A. L., Spreckels [ Cal. The headquarters of the Knights of jthe Maccabees of California is in San | Francisco. S. W. Hall is the State com- mander. | WORLD'S STOCK OF GOLD—W. J. G., | OaKland, Cal. It is estimated that the | world's stock of gold is: Coined, 1.646,- 400,000 fine ounces, and uncoined, 263,100,000 fine ounces. A MINOR'S PROPERTY—A. 8. 0. T. C., Lathrop, Cal. The personal property of a minor is his individual property and can- not be seized by the creditors of the’father to satisfy a claim. PUBLIC RECORDS—Grub Gulch, Cal There is a general law that provides that public records shall not be removed from the place where they belong’ without per- mission of a court. PUNDITA RAMABAI-B. G. E., City. | Within a year there was published an ac- | count that Pundita Ramabal was still'in ! India carrying on her work of educating high easte Hindoo women. OLD COINS—P. H. and C. C. C., City. No premium is offered. for a five-dollar piece of 1839 or 1840 nor for a quarter of 1853, unless it is one without arrow heads at date and without rays around the eagle. ICE—A. E, Ci Ice does not occupy less space than water, for in the act of freezing water expands. This is caused by the particles of water crystallizing separately, leaving many hollow spaces or intervals between them. 2 DISCHARGED SOLDIER-W. C., City. This department does not know “any way by which an honorably discharged sol- dier who is unable to obtain work and is without means to buy a ticket can reach his home in the East.” YOUNG VOTER—Minor, City. A minor who will attain his majority just be- fore election day can register on making the declaration that he will be of age on the day set for election. He could not vote without being registered. EUROPEAN CITIES—M. R., City. Ac- cording to the census of 1897, the popula- tion of St. Petersburg was 1.267,023; that of Berlin, census of 1900, was 1,843,000; that of Paris, census of 1896, was 2,536,834, and that of London; census of 1891, 4,211,086. ENGLISH ODD FELLOWS—D. E. M., City. There are three branches of Odd Fellows in England: The Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity; the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and the National Independent Order of 0dd Fellows. FAILURE TO PAY—C. D, City. 1£a naval officer who entered into a written agreement to pay rent for premises fails to do so, get an attorney to sue him and he will see about the collection, If you re- cover judgment. The Navy Department is not a collection bureau. PREMIUM DIMES—G. W. B., Benicia, Cal. The catalogues of Eastern coin deai- ers offer premiums for dimes of the fol- lowing given dates only: 179, 1798, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1807, 1809, 1811, 1822, 1828 (large date). The highest premium 1s offered for the dime of 1804, from # to ;5 TIDE AT THE CLIFF HOUSE-S., City. Almost every year at 'some time | during the month of June the tide be- tween the Cliff House and the Seal Rocks recedes sufficiently to admit of driving on the beach betwyeen the two points. In June of this year a four-horse team drove on the beach at that point and the hoofs of the horses were not wet. STEAM—A. B, City. The text books lay down that steam is water changed by take third place in the list of the world's naval powers. Five destroyers, or high-sea torpedo boats, have been contracted for to be built at the Germania yards, Kiel, for the German navy, _Their horsepower will be , or about the same power as that of the coast defense ship Lachsen, a vessel twenty times larger than built twenty- four years ago. The acgeptande trials are severe in the German navy and there is no chance for “jockeying,” or getting up artificial speed. The vessel is manned entirely by naval officers, navy engineers, firemen and machinists and the series of trials are no less than six in number, the successful outcome of all being pretty sure to establish the efficiency of the boat. The most imgportant is the so- called “storm trial,” in which the tor- pedo-boat-gestroyer must pass four hours on the open sea with a force of wind of thirty-five to.sixty-five miles an hour, the propellers making a number of revo- lutions corresponding to fifteen kngts in smooth water and upon the behavior of the boat under these conditions depends its acceptance or declination. .- . The French battleship Jena reflects great credit on the expedition shown In construction and the satisfactory result of her trials. Her keel was laid at the Brest dockyard, January 15, 18%, and the launch took place September 1 of the same year. On-January 19 last the ship went to sea to undergo trials under medium speed and everything worked well, a mean speed of fourteen knots with 5100 horsepower being attained. Four subsequent trials of four, six, six and twenty-four hours, under varying conditions, have taken place with gratifying results, her average speed with maximum horsepower being 17.4 knots during six hours. Neither engines nor her twenty water-tube boilers gave any trouble whatever. The Jena is of 12,052 tons displacement and- cost about $,600,- 000, including guns. PRT The British battleship Resolution, at present serving as flagship of the Chan- nel squadron, is to be withdrawn and re- placed with the Formidable. just com- pleted. The London Engineer expresses the opinion to the effect that the Reso- lution is a “back numper,” that she was — heat into a gas. Water heated to a tem- perature of 212 degrees produces steam, which escapes in the bubbles of the pro- cess of boiling. Steam is not visible. The cloud that can be seen escaping from an engine or locomeotive or from the spout of a kettle consist of small particles of water or vapor and is the result of condensation of the steam in contact with colder atmos- phere. NATIONAL AIR—F. A. M., United States, ship Philadelphia, Port Angeles, ‘Wash. It has never been decided which is the national air of the United States, that is there are three which art designated naticnal airs and some claim that there are more, but these three are ‘“America,” ‘““The Star Spangled Banner” and “Yankee Doodle.”” The United States is large enough and great enough to be able to have three. FOREIGN ARTISTS—Subscriber, Peta- luma, Cal. In almost every art gallery in the principal cities of the United States there are pictures by foreign artists. To ascertain what these pictures are and the names of the painters one would have to consult the catalogue of every gallery. There is not a collection of such cata- logues in San Francisco. The Hopkins Institute of Art might be able to furnish you the names of some of the pictures and names of artists. FREE HOSPITAL—L. A. L., Spreckels, Cal. There is no free hospital in San Francisco open to patients from all parts of the State. Theve is the City and County Hospital, where patients are “treated free, but the applicant, to be ad- mitted, must have been a resident of the city and county for at least thirty da: Were it not for that rule many of the in- terior counties might ship all their county patients to San Francisco, and in that way save the cost of medical treatment and maintenance. THE STAR ALGOL—C. G., City. The variable star Algol (Beta Persia) is one of the most conspicuous and noteworthy lights in the heavens. Its changes of luster are so considerable and performed in so brief a period that a special degree of interest is attributed to it. Its re- markable fluctuations of light were dis- covered as long ago as 1869 by Montanari. The apparent magnitude of the star oscil- lates between 2.2 and 3.7 and it pas: through its various gradations of bril liancy in/2 days 20 hours 43 minutes 15 seconds. The star is usually a Litle fainter than second magnitude and re- mains so for two days thirteen and a half hours, when it rapidly declines in luster and within three and a half hours be- comes one of three and three-quarters magnitude. It continues at this minimum for abeut fifteen minutes, when it sud- denly acquires greater brilllancy, and in three and a half hours acquires its or- dinary magnitude. STANDARD TIME—A. P. G., City. Pri- marily, for the convenience of the rail- roads, a standard of time was established by mutual agreement in 1883, by which trains are run and local time regulated. According to this system, the United States, extending from 65 degrees to 125 degrees, west longitude, is divided into four time sections, each of 15 degrees of longitude, exactly equivalent to one hour. The first (eastern) section Includes all ters ritory between the Atlantic coast and an irregular line drawn from Detroit to Charleston, S. C., the latter being its most southern point. The second (central) section includes all the territory between the last-named line and an irregular line from Bismarck, N. D., to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The third (mountain) section includes all territory between the last-named line and nearly the western borders of Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth (Pacific) section covers the rest or the country to the Pacific Coast. Standara time is uniform inside each of these sec- tions, and the time of each section differs from that next to it by exactly one hour. Thus at 12 noon In New York City (east. ern time), the time at Chicago (central time) is 11 o’clock a. m.; at Denver (moun- tain time), 10 o'clock a. m. and at San Francisco (Pacific time), 9 o'clock a. m. Standard time is sixteen minutes slower at Boston than true local time, 4 minutes slower at New York, $ minutes faster at ‘Washington, 19 minutes faster at Charles- ton, 28 minutes slower at Detroit, 18 min.. utes faster at Kansas City, 10 minutes ‘slower at Chicago, 1 minute faster at B Louis, 28 minutes faster at Salt Lake Clly' and 10 minutes faster at San Francisco, SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15: 360 for round trip, 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S. S. fo.. 4 New Montgomery st. BRONZE EAGLES FOR AMERICAN WARSHIPS IMPORTED FROM FRANCE able to keep station during the recent na- val maneuvers at thirteen and one-half knots only. The ship was'launched in 1853 and Is credited with a trial speed of knots, and the deterioratien in her six years’' service is something remarkable, equaling that of our Indiana and lowa, which in a couple of year§ became nine and éleven-knot battleships, although their trial speeds had been 15547 and 17.057 knots, respectively. The Syren, torpedo-boat destroyer, built by Palmer at Jarrow-on-Tyve, has made her official trial and averaged 6708 horse- power and thirty knots for three hours. In six runs over the measured mile course the horsepower was 6689 and the speed 29.812 knot¢. - o Japan is rapidly developing shipbuilding operationis in its dockyards and within five years will be independeni of foreign shipbuilders. At the present two protected cruisers, named Niikata and Tsushi each of 3420 tons displacement are being built at’the Yokosuko dockyard. They are | 334.6 feet in length, 43.76 feet beam and 18 feet draught, with engines of M00 horse- power, calculated to give a speed of twen- ty knots. Four destroyers of 381 tons and twenty-nine knots speed are aso being built at that yard, while at the Kure dock- yard six torpedo boats of 152 tons and twenty-nine knots are in coume of con- struction. The armor and steel plant nov being es- tablished by the Japanese Gov:rnment is estimated to cost 33,168,732 and ‘o be com-~ | pleted in five years. . * < The Russian Pacific squadmn will in the future consist of six battleships, eight armored cruisers, seven seagoing gun- boats, two torpedo transports five tor- pedo-bont-destroyers and a flotlla of tor- pedo boats. The agsregate digplacement of this fleet is 143524 tons. carying 216 heavy guns and 686 smaller qiick-firers. oA Spain has ordered two school thips built by contract. They are to be of 2500 tons displacement, ship rigged and with auxii- iary engines to give a speed d¢f twelve knots, and a coal capacity for 4 cruising radius of 2000 miles. The battyries will consist of eight six-pounders, twh smaller guns and and two torpedo tubes. LEADING FRENCH CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO EXCLUDES ANARCHISTIC YELLOW JOURNAL Cercle Francais Follows the Example of the Influential Organizations and Individuals That Have Rarred the Examiner, One of a Trio of Pernicious Newspapers. CERCLE FRANCAIS, SAN FRANCISCO, Oect 11, 1901 In your issue of to-day you published a number of local clubs who excluded-the Examiner from their prem= ises. We notice that our name is not mentioned amongst them. Should you at any tile publish another list kindly add the EMILE LEVY, S:cretary. PERSONAL MERNTION. | & W. Mier of Sacramento ifat the Lick. | Dr 3. J. Hogan of Vallejo isat the Lic L. A. Crane of Santa Cruz is at the Pal- | ace. Dr. L. P. Tooley of Willows i 2 s at the A. H. Nabel of Newcastle |s at Grand. Judge Thomas D. Bond of Lakeport, is at the Palace. E. E. Briggs, a rancher of Gridley, is at the Grand. > Ira A. Collins, a mining promoter Hackensack, N. Y., is at the Grand. _E. J. Rule, a mining man of Sonera, is in the city and is staying at the Lick. E. R. Cramer, a ‘manufacturer of st. Louis, was among the arrivals at the P. ace yesterday. 3 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan returned yesterday from an extended tour of the East and took apartments at the the of al- State Controller E. P. Col : - P. Colgan, accom- panied by his wife, came down from Sac- ramento yesterday and took apar at the Lick. ori Paymaster W. G. Gambrill of the U, States Army returned yesterday Portland, Or., where he for several months, Palace. Gus Holmes, proprietor of the K nutts- ford Hotel of Salt Lake, is at the Pala:-e He leaves to-day for Los Angeles to su. pervise the construction of the Hotel An- geles. Frank Cummings, former clerk of the Palace Hotel, will go with him, ——— A CHANCE TO SMILE. First Reformer—We shall soo ; E soon hav right to propose to the men. it econd Do.—Yes; but if the ; the Tight to refuse we shan't (:;nmt:la‘he shall we?—Pick-Me-Up, o nited from has been stationed He is staying at the “If you are a sensible man,” : e e A" sal Rev. X. Horter, “You will stop drinking My dear sir.” said the candid De Tanque, “if I were a semsible would not hav. D o i e ave started.’—Philadelphia, “That K ¢ Boom . Wentucky novel Is having a fine “Yes; you see, it got such a good start e horse and a brand of fter it at onte.”—Chicaga by having a race whisky named a Record-Herald. Professor (to co. dies, I desire to one of the most ets, Saturn, rings— Chorus—How splendia !—Tit-Bits. A Confidential Explanation— n—“And wha do we mean by saying that we do not inS tend to annex Manchuria?" asked his ‘We mean,” replied the Rusinn statesman, “that we have annexed it al- ready, and it isn't twice.”"—Puck, niecessary to do iy 3 -eds)—Now, young la- direct your attention ta remarkableiof the plan- Wwhich has two beautiful Ineligible.—So Spudd your fishing club, eh?” “No. He heard that a pretty good liar to join.” 2 “Well2” “Spudder can't fish.". er’s going to join a man had to be as well as a fisherman —Bookiyn Life. Mr. Bingo, the junior Taember . of tha gel‘m. had a peculiarly irritating sneeze. It '8an with an elaborate anq terrifying series of facial convulsions, and ended (']:;: :lmosl l;ime and impotent paroxysm 'ways disappointed 1t observer. h‘e s 3 “?our Sneeze,” said Mr. ther senior partner, after watching hi through one of his strenuations, “lsg a r!: ular cireus.” : “A circus?’ said Mr. Bingo. “Yes, sir,”” was the rejoined. formance never comes up to no:tces."—Youlhs' Companjon. —_————— ‘Gringo, “The per- advanca Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * —_——— T Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hatelv ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend'as —_— Townsend's California glace fruit, - und, in fire-etehed boxes or Ja; .".:: ts. A nice present for Hasi lends, 5 639 Market street. Palace Hotel buil —_— Special ]:en!mflvn supplied daily to Somery sitecs ‘Teicphone uu."»n.- - 4