The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1901 E\IONDAY....................OCTOBER 28, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Msuager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. ¥. Telephone Press 20L. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Teleph 202. one Press Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Fostages Sample coples will be forwarGed when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should de particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in +.1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago. Gong Distance Telephone *Central 2619.) t NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. ..cccvcvcesscccssss.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Grest Northern Hotel: Fremont House:; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: £ ‘Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—E2 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open uotil 930 o'clock. 300 Heyes, open until 9:30 o'clock: 633 McAllister, open until 3:30 c'clock. €15 Larkin, open until #:3 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 109 Valencla, open wntll § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. o e —————————— e AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—"My Friend From India.” Alcazar— ‘Tennessee's Pardner.” Columbia—*‘The Henrietta.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. California—*‘Sporting Life.” Tivoli—Paul Steindorff Testimonial. Central—"“The Great Northwest.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Open nights. g ERAL trade was less active last week. SLIGHT DECREASE IN GENERAL The bank clearings of the country were only TRADE. G 14.8 per cent larger than for the correspond- ing week in 1900, which is the smallest gain for some time. But every city of s showed an increase, though the gains in all were smaller than has been the rule of late. The failures were 240, against 205 last year. No particular line is responsible for this slight de- crease in the volume of business last week. It seemed to be general rather than special, but it was not-suf- ficiently pronounced to cause unfavorable comment. In fact, the business oi the country was so brisk that there were not cars erough to handle the freight of- fered. This condition has prevailed for a year or more and is hampering trade from Maine to Califor- The railroads are ordering new cars fast cnough, but the iron and steel trade has been so 1ushed for several years that the different works have been unable to supply the demand. Nor is there any immediate prospect of a slackening up in the iron trade. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week placed zan order for 160,000 tons of steel rails, the largest order of the year, and this, with other orders for rails, has run the total amount booked for 1902 delivery up to 1,500,000 tons. This does not indicate any lack of activity in the iron and steel business. The other staples are also sending in good reports. Shoe shipments are largely in excess of a year ago, and leather is from 5 to 10 per cent higher than in September, while hides are strong and active all oyer the country. Woolen mills are fully occupied and are buying raw wools liberally at firm prices. The cotton crop has begun to move more freely, which has led to prompter Southern collections. The move- ment in coal is retarded by lack of cars. Provisions are unsettled at Chicago and other Western centers, and the general tendency in both hogs and cured meats is downward, as the recent high prices checked consumption Wheat taken an upward turn, chiefly on account of serious damage to the Argen- tine crop by drought, and quotations have been slowly advancing for some days. Flour has sympa- thized with wheat, and the output is heavy, the Min- neapolis mills breaking all records last week. The general wholesale and jobbing trade of the country is reported good, though hardly as lively as it has been for some time. Sales of fancy goods for the Christmas holidays are unusually early, indicating an expected heavy business in this direction. A good sign is the liberal ordering by railroads of steel to replace wooden work. This shows that the railroads are on a good basis and are now in a po- sition to build with a view to solidity and permanence. Coupled with the general shortage in cars just men- tioned, this looks as if the railroads were doing a rushing business Conditions in the local market remain about as be- fore. All lines, except several farm products, such as hops, dried fruits and the minor cereals, including barley, are reported active, and generally at good prices. The outward movement of wheat has im- proved materially, owing largely to a #arked decline in ocean freights and a simultaneous improvement in the price of wheat abroad. Merchants who handle general merchandise report the demand steady and large. Passengers on the ferry-boats see many more vessels in the bay thaa in recent years, and they are all moving about. Collections in all lines are reported good, and there are no failures large enough to at- tract attention. The present year, taken all in all, is one of the best that the farmers have had for some time, and the city trade reflects this prosperity in a brisk commerce, both local and foreign. We are do- ing about as well as we ever did, which is saying a good deal, and there are no indications of any fall- ing off in business. 2 e e e—— 2 = nia, has Mr. Frank Garland, the gun inventor, who is said to have obtained a divorce from his wife, the consent of a new girl to become his wife, and a $500,000 order from the Russian Government on the same day no doubt will mark the date as the luckiest in his life, but time may have another tale to_tell. 4 and | tion. From that statement it is The Call for publication, he said: “If I had when I die.” touts. of going to heaven. loot. That is Mr. Wells’ opinion of the men whose nomination for dictated to the so-called Republican convention by the Democratic railroad bosses, W. F. Herrin and Jere Burke. If Mr. Wells would not have accepted the nomination on such a ticket, had he known what it was going to be, why should he expect The Call to sup- port the ticket now that the character of its membership is known? i The Burke and Herrin ticket of Supervisors is not only bad in its personnel, b.eing composed in the main of persons utterly unfit for the office, but it is rendered worse by the pledges imposed upon it and by the character of the domination to which it is subject. The ticket of Supervisors which revolted Mr. Wells for a moment and The Call per- manently is pledged to a wide open town, to the schemes of the gas and the water com- pany and to whatever else Mr. Herrin may demand. That charge has been made over and over in language even more specific than we now state it, and yet it has never been denied by Mr. Wells, by Mr. Herrin, nor by the Herrin nominees for Supervisor. The issue raised by the nomination of such a set of Supervisor candidates under such domination is one which no decent citizen of San Francisco can afford to overlook or ignore. The election of that set of men would surrender San Francisco to the looting of every kind of looters from corrupt corporations to tin horn gamblers and poolroom. Herrin has surrounded himself with the worst elements in San Francisco. backed in this. fight not only by Jere Burke and Sam Rainey of the Democratic camp, but by Mose Gunst and Max Goldberg. His success would mean the opening up of the town to pretty nearly every form of vice and iniquity that has money in it. The schemes of the gas company and the water company and the Southern Pacific Company would be jostled by the jobs that Gunst and Goldberg delight in. Treasury to the Police Department would be in the hands of the looters. The Supervis- ors would do what Herrin commanded, and Hervin would command whatever meant money for the vicious and debased gang that is supporting him in the fight. The issue in the contest for Supervisors is that of saving San Francisco from be- ing looted. Mr. Wells spoke like a man of true civic patriotism when he said that if he had known what kind of men were to be nominated on the Herrin ticket for Supervisors he would no more have accepted the nomination than he would have given up his hope There is no possible defense for such a ticket, no sufficient palliation of its offensiveness, no satisfactory apology for its nomination. ticket. It is a Herrin and Burke ticket, a Goldberg and Gunst ticket; a ticket that means THE CHOICE OF SUPERVISORS. R. ASA R. WELLS said in his speech on Saturday evening that he was nom- inated by the Republican party and that The Call opposes him because the proprietor of The Call was not permitted to dominate the Republican conven- evident that either Mr. Wells has a very short memory or else he is utterly reckless of what he says. When soliciting the support of The Call, which was refused him, Mr. Wells stated to the proprietor in the presence of Mr. Grove P. Ayers that if he had seen the list of men who were to be nominated as Supervisors on his ticket he would not have accepted the nomination for Mayor. In repeating that statement substantially to a representative of seen the list of names I would no more have accepted the nomination for Mayor than give up my hope of going to heaven Supervisors was He is Everything from the City It' is not a Republican Wells that he was nominated« by the same VER and over again The Call has had occa- O sion to point out to the people facts tend- | ing to the conclusion that the Railroad Com- | mission obtains from the Southern Pacific Company's law office the decision which the commission is called upon to, make in any important case that comes be- |fore it. Upon one occasion, indeed, the decision seems to have been handed over to the commission not from the iaw office direct, but from the dining- room of the residence of W. F. Herrin, It is now necessary to once more direct attention to new facts tending te the same conclusion. When a majority of the Commissioners decided the oil rate case in such o way as to give a slight reduc- tion in rates on oil between Bakersfield and this city there was a little flutter of surprise among the peo- ple. Something utterly unexpected had happened. It seemed that the commission had for once found a decision without consulting the railroad law office. The reduction made was very slight, but still it was a reduction, and among the oil men there was a con- { scicusness of victory. | The oil men, however, were mistaken. Why the commission reduced rztes w& do not know, but it is | now evident that it acted unadvisedly, for the railroad has petitioned or demanded a rehearing and the com- mission has promptly declared its former action in- valid and put the rates back where they were before. There is to be a rehearing of the case and, perhaps, a redining at Mr. Herrin's residence; and then there will be another decision. It remains to be seen whether after that decision the smile will be on the face of the oil men or on that of the railroad. The old farce plays itself over and over again. In this particular instance it has presented a new stunt— that of Mr. Edson performing a flip>flop. That Com- missioner was one of the majority that reduced the oil rates. He is also one of the majority that invalid- ated the reduction. His colleague, Laumeister, who voted with him for-the reduction, was not present when the vote for invalidation was taken. Mr. Ed- | EDSON'S SECOND THOUGHT. son therefore had the stage to himself, as it were and his somersault was the spectacular feature of the‘ performance. The reason assigned by Mr. Edson for the flop was not less farcical than the flop itself. The petition, or demand. for a rehearing came from the railroad, but Mr. Edson said *he granted the rehearing for the sake of giving the oil men a chance to introduce more evidence. Did ever a clown utter a greater absurdity? The public would like to have a heart to heart talk with Edson, one of the kind of talks that Herrin has with him—a sort of searching talk that reaches him in the right place. It would like to learn from him whether he really believes he is deceiving the public by his pretense that he has granted a rehearing to the railroad solely for the purpose of doing more sub- stantial justice to the oil men. It would like to know just why Mr. Edson voted to vacate the act reducing rates before the new hearing is had. If, upon the evidence submitted to him at the first hearing of the case, Mr. Edson deemed it right to reduce rates, why does he now set the reduction aside without further evidence. If the railroad have made a sufficient showing for a rehearing why does not Mr. Edson grant the rehearing on that showing instead of grant- ing it, as he says, for the sake of giving the oil men a hearing? If the railroad have not made a sufficient showing for a rehearing why does Mr. Edson grant it at all? Why does he drag the oil men in when they did not wish to come in? Is it that he in- tends to force a benefit on them? Whether the commission costs the Southern Pacific Company more money than it costs the State of California we know not, but of one thing we are certain—the work done by the commission is worth a great deal more to the road than to the State; so that if the cost to the road is five times that im- posed on the people the road is still getting the bet- ter of the bargain. The public has long noted that every time a Commissioner flops he flops “agin the people.” A New York physician who has just returned home after a prolonged tour of observation around the world is quoted as saying that the most thorough- 1y modern hospitals to be found anywhere are those of Japan. Here is another proof that travelers see strange things and possibly also a proof that travelers sometimes lie, The municipali contest has now shaped itself- so clearly that every one can understand it. There is a ticket to represent those who favor class politics, another ticket pledged to corporations, and then there is the ticket that stands for the whole people and the public good. been rash enough to say he will never marry until he has lifted the America’s cup, so it would seem that any girls who may have been setting their caps for him might just as well look in another direction. From the attention which King Edward is giving to the details of the coronation ceremonies it seems that he has made up his mind that since he had to wait for it so long he is going to have it now just lcxactly as he chooses. « It is now reported that Sir Thomas Lipton hasv The project for draining the Zuyder Zee of which so much was heard a short time ago has been dropped by the Dutch Government, the Ministry , having reached the conclusion that the ruling price for arable lands is now so low that very little would be gained by the creation of new agricultural holdings. —_ It is rcported from London that a difficulty is found in getting young men ‘to enlist in the army for foreign service just now because of the eagerness of the people over the coming coronation. Every- body wishes to be in town to see the show and join in the whoop-up. 4 When those astute railroad Democrats, Burke and Herrin, undertook to make up a municipal ticket they ought at least to have made it harmoniots and not given it a head that denounces the tail nor a tail that tries to sting the head. Have you made your contribution yet to the Mc- Kinley memorial fund? If not, this is a good time to do it.’ i —_— ) The campaign was dull at the start, but it is sharp lenoughnow to cut ice with everybody Last January ata banquet at the Palace Hotel Mr. Wells said: “The Superviscrs 1| believe are the best hoard we ever had in this city. In the forty-eight vears I have lived in this city I have known of no such board as we now have.” The board deserved the commendation thus given by Mr. Wells. Tt has received substantially the same commendation from the great mass of the intelligent people of the city. Most of its meinbers have been renominated. The Call supports them because they deserve re-election. Their defeat would mean the betrayal of the city into the hands of those men whom Mr. Wells has declared to be unfit and who are known to be. pledged to the worst elements in alliance with Herrin. The appeal therefore goes to the civic patriotism of the citizens: Vote for the men who have been tried and found true; and | down the tools of the corporations and the advocates of a wide open town, E Finally it is just as well to remind Mr, convention that nominated the Supervisor ticket of which he is ashamed. - remit the check he asked for. BLINDNESS BEFALLS AUTHOR JULES VERNE — e b e P JULES VERNE, THE FAMOUS ROMANCER OF FRANCE, NOW IN HIS SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR, WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE BECOME TOTALLY BLIND AT HIS HOME o+ IN AMIENS. ULES VERNE, who is reported to J published a novel only three year: in Amiens, has been a sufferer with deficient eyes for a long time. great romancer of science is now in his seventy-third year, never ceased his literary work, even after his sight began to fail + have become totally blind at his home The but he has He s ago, and, although this did not Lear the vigorous stamp of his early work, it was by no means weak. M. Verne re- cently distinguished himself by declining a seat in the French Academy for the second time. He began his literary care years labored successfully in that field as a writer of comedies. til 1863 that he published the first of the This was “Five Weeks in a Balloon.” T and for thirteen It was not un- stories upon which his fame wag to rest. ts immediate and rebounding success in- eer as a dramatist duced M. Verne to continue to exploit himself in this direction and. the result was that widely read series of romance: and old, for thirty years or more. M. Ve has been yachting. He owns a fine stea been those spent on its decks. s which have delighted the world, young rne’s chief amusement since his youth m yacht and his happiest days have PERSONAL MENTION. R. H. Jackson of Reno, Nev., at the Palace yesterday. i Lieutenant L. Bradman, of the United States Marine Corps, is a guest at the Grand. Howard A. Dodge, an attorney of Los | Angeles, is among the arrivals at thes Grand. 8. D. Rosenbaum, a well-known mer- | chant of Stockton, is in the city on bus.- | ness, and has made his headquarters at the Palace. Garrett McEnerney, who left here the early part of this month, is at present in France. He spent two weeks touring Ireland, and has written friends in th's city that he is having a most enjoyable | time. | Max Hirsch, treasurer of the Metropoli- tan Opera-house of New York and finan- cial agent of Maurice Grau, arrived from New York yesterday and is staying at the Palace. Mr. Hirsch made many friends here during the last season of | grand opera, and his return to San Fran- cisco is a pleasant surprise to the pa- trons of grand opera. arrivel | | “I suppose, there’s no use of asking you to go with us,” said the shirt waist te the corset. “We'll all be in negliges, of course.” 3 “Thank you,” replied the corset stiffly. “I have a pressing engagement at home.” | —Plain Dealer. Major Crust—So you refuse me, Miss Fondant? Miss F.—I am very sorry, Ma- jor Crust, but your son just proposed to me, and I accepted him. Major C.—Good gracious! You don’t mean to say the boy has been such a fool!—Tit-Bits. «Church—Did you ever ride in one of those electric cabs? Gotham—Once. “How'd vou like it?” “Got a terrible shock when I got out.” “Heavily charged, was it?" “Yes; I was.”—Yonkers Statesman. \ . Citizen—I want a perfectly noiseless lawn mower. Dealer—You are a very considerate per- son. Citizen—Yes, I have to be. If I can't get up early and cut grass without the neighbors hearing me I'll have to iend that lawn mower seven times before I get to use it again myself.—Record-Herald. “I'm afraid I can't interest my 5-year- old Elsie in fairy tales any longer.” “And why not?” “I was telling her about the ‘Forty Thieves, and when I got to the forty oil jars with a thief in each jar, what do you suppose she said?” “I give it up.” “She said, ‘Wouldn't that jar you."— Plain Dealer. On a sweltering Sabbath in a little church in the backwoods the perspiring minister, instead of preaching a long ser- mon, called the attention of the congre- gation to the figures on the thermometer. “Just study those figures,” he said. “It afn’t half as hot here as you'll find it hereafter if you don't mend your ways."— Atlanta Constitution. “Huh!” exclaimed Mr. Rox, after read- ing his morning mail. “‘@ur boy's college education s making him too blamed smart.” “What's the matter?” asked Mrs. Rox. “I wrote to him the other day that I thought it would be kinder for me not to Now he writes: ‘Dear Father: I shall never for- get your unremitting kindness.’ "—Phila- delphia Press: An Tiford correspondent has just had a card left upon him, and has sent it to us. It is an ordinary visiting card, bearing on the front, ‘The Lord Jesus Christ.”” In the left hand corner, usually devoted to the address, is §In Heaven, 4 you Inter- ceding.” On the reverse is printed the name of John Kensit. We think it bet- ter to add no comment. To take it seri- ously would be flattery of the name on the back, and the obvious jest would add a further insult to the name on the front.—London Daily Chronicle. —————————— SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15; I Pacific Coast 8. 8, Co., 4 New ANSWERS TO QERIES. SIGNAL CORPS—D. 8., Salt Lake City, Utah. Up to the 2Ist of September, 1901, Company F, United States Signal Corps, was at Manila, P. L. McKINLEY—X., ‘Hollister, Cal. Pre- vious to his recent visit to California, | William MecKinley was in this State on his wedding tour in 1871 YOUNGER BROTHERS—M., City. The Younger brothers were released from State prison on parole July 23, 1%1, and went into the business of selling grave- stones. FIRE ENGINES—J. W. H., Los Ange- les, Cal. This department has not been able to find any figures that give the ag- gregate of steam fire engines in the Unit- ed States and Canada. LIEN LOAN—M. W., City. This de- partment is informed that a lien loan on a life insurance policy is one which gives the party who loaned money on the policy first call on the money to be paid. APPORTIONMENT—F. R. C., Clover- dale, Cal. By the provisions of the Bur- leigh bill the apportionment of Represent- atives according to the census of 1%0 is increased from 357 to 386. By this Califor- nia will have an additional Representative in Congress. By the new apportionment Tllinols, Texas and New York have made a gain of three each, Pennsylvania and New Jersey two each and Arkansas, Cal- ifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida. Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakata, ‘Washington, West Vifginia and Wiscon- sin one each. TWO RUNS—F. 8. 8., City. In cribbage it matters not in what order cards are played in order to count a run, so long as the cards can be counted in consecu- tive order, without an intervening card appearing. If the play was 6—3—7—4—3 that makes a run of five because the cards can be counted 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. If the next play was a duce then there would be a run of 6. If however a qard that would not make a sequence, as for in- stance there had been played a trey or a ten after the seven, there would not have been a run. BIG GUNS—G. V. T., Oakland, Cal. It is claimed that a thirteen-inch gun on board of a war vessel could be loaded and fired twice a minute, but such would not be the case in an engagement. While rapidity is desired, accuracy must be taken Into consideration. Shots from a thirteen-inch gun are not fired off as are firecrackers, just to make a noise. It is the aim of the officers in charge to make each shot tell. Durning the battle off San- tiago, the vessels of the United States navy fired one round from eight-inch gun once in four minutes. BLACK HAWK-G. G. P., Seabright, Cal. Macculimiskecacas, commonly called “Black Hawk,” 2 chilef of the Sac, or Sauk, nation of North American Indians, was born on Rock River in 1767. He was a Pottawatomie by birth, but was brought up by the Sacs. When the Sacs were driven from lower Lake Huron by the Iroauois they went to the region of Green Bay, where they were joined by tke Foxes, and afterward the two tribes intabited both sides of the Mississippt River from Wisconsin to Missouri, His- tory does not tell that Black Hawk ever was in Florida. At one time when his tribe was in great distress Black Hawk went to St. Louis, Mo., for assistance. The Black Hawk war occurred in 1s31. By a treaty with chiefs of the Sacs and Foxes at Prairie du Chien July 15, 1380, their land east of the Mississippi wag ceded to the whites. Black Hawk refused to consent and ir 1831 made an attack on some Illinois villages and the following year massacred whites. He was defeateq at Wisconsin River July 31, 1832, ang again ‘August 2 at Bad Ax River, when he was captured and the war ended. He was corfined at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and in April, 1833, he was, with other cixleu taken to Washington, Fortress Monroo, Baltimore via Norfolk, Gosport and Portsmouth, Philadelphia, New York, Al- bary, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and Fort Armistrong, on the upper 1. where he was restored to freedom after having promised never to raise his namq against the whites. He was taken on the | tour described to give him an i $60 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. | importance of the country. ot et He died Octo- st. | ber 3, 1833, on the Des Moines River, - |NICARAGUA’S ASPIRATIONS IN A NAVAL WAY T is reported that Nicaragua has pur- chased a monitor from Germany. The I only vessel of that type in the German navy is the Armenius, built in Eng- land in 1862 at a cost of $460,000. She is of the Camanche type. 1823 tons, and when new had a speed of nine knots. The belt armor and turrets are of iron only four inches in thickness, and the battery consists of four $-inch Krupp guns, old pattern. The vessel was struck off the active list twenty years ago and Is en- tirely unfit for venturing away from her anchorage in the harbor of Kiel. The price which President Zelaya of Nicara- gua is said to have paid for this old iron is 350,000, for which sum our Navy De- partment would no doubt readily dispose of the eight monitors lald up at League Island, as they are of no fighting value whatever and yet far superior to the Ar- menius in resistance to shot. 4 oy The floating dock built at Baltimore fog, the naval station at Algiers, near New Orleans, has been completed and has started on its long voyage for its destina- tion, which it may reach, barring acci- | dents, in about twenty-five days. Another floating dock, that at Havana, is slated for a much longer voyage, but the time for its departure for the Philippines has not been fixed. This dock was built in England for the Spanish Government at a cost of $545,000 and towed to Hava 1897 at a cost of $25,000. by the United States last July for $185,000, with the intention of locating the dock at Sublg Bay In the Philippines. The structure is sald to be in good condition and only about $80,0000 will be required to put it in perfect working order, but the expense of towing the dock nearly 12,000 miles via the Suez canal will be very heavy. The cost has been estimated low as $30,000, but as the canal dues will not be less than $10,000 it is evident that coal, vessels for towing and other neces- sary outlays will largely exceed this low estimate. The dock is capable of lifti the largest battleship yet built in our navy and will eventually pay for itself by the saving effected in present heavy dock- ing charges paid in Hongkong. TR as During a race between seven torpedo- | boat destroyers off Margate, October 7, the | Angler and Salmon collided and a terrible calamity was narrowly averted. The boats were within thirty yards of each other | when rounding the lightship, the Angler | being inside the Salmon’s course; both boats were under forced draught, and it appeared that the Angler was in danger of ramming the Salmon. The latter real- ized her peril and starboarded her helm, but the momentum of the Angler was too great and the Salmon’'s stern caught the other's starboard quarter, completely sweeping the after deck. The Angler's propellers were thrust through the Sal- | mon’s side, rending the thin plates like cardboard. Only two men were injured, but the boats, brought In in a sinking con- dition into Sheerness, will require very ex- tensive repairs. & d . The British third-class cruiser Fearless, of 150 tons, built fourteen years ago, has been repaired and refitted and made 15.4 knots on her commission trial. The vessel made 16.7 knots when new and, having had four commissions abroad, her recent per- formance Is considered quite satisfactory. The first cost of the Fearless was $460,62 and her repairs up to two years ago amounted to $188,045, showing an annual average of 3 per cent of first cost expend- ed in repairs. o« The first of the five submarine boats built for the British navy was launched October 3 from Vicker’s yard at Barrow. The boats are of the Holland type and are identical with those building in the United States. They are 63 feet in length, 11 feet 9 inches beam and will have a sur- face speed of eight knots and seven knots when submerged. The boats will have a crew of six. The other four boats also building at Barrow will be launched this year. 4 e e A new torpedo boat destroyer, the Sy- ren, has had a twelve hours’ coal con- sumption trial. Only two of the four beil- ers were used, developing 1234 horse- power, giving ‘a speed of eighteen knots and showing a coal consumption of 2.2 pounds per unit of horsepower an hour. The Syren is one of a dozen boats built at Jarrow for the British navy, all of which have given good results. CEER The floating dock at Dar-es-Salaam, in German East Africa, was wrecked on Au- gust 12. During the testing of the dock one of the pontoon pumps failed to act and the dock sank. The loss, which is total, amounts to $125,000, and falls on the contractor, the Howaldt shipbuildiers at Kiel, as the dock had not been accepted by the colonial government. W The four torpedo boat destrovers built at Elbing in 1898-99 for the Chinese navy were appropriated during the late fight at Taku—Great Britain, France, Russia and Germany taking one each. They are the speediest and best all-around vessels of their class yet built for any navy, and will be of more use and better taken care of by their new owners. = s = The King of Portugal has purchased a small electric launch in England. It is twenty-eight feet in length, six feet six inches beam and draws two feet. Its mo- tive power is twenty-four large accumu- lators, which will run the boat 100 miles at eight knots, or at a greater speed for a shorter distance. e Thirty-five French warships participated in the recent review at Dunkirk, of which six were battleships, two armored cruis- ers, three protected cruisers, four coas defense ships and three torpedo boat d stroyers. The remainder consisted of tor- pedo and submarine boats. R e The naval appropriations of Japan for the year ending April 1, 1902, foot up to $20,891,600, of which $10,630,000 is for ardi- nary expenditures, $9,492,600 for extraordi- nary expenses and $568,400 toward an ar- mor plant. The total is $543,000 less than last year. - &7 e p . The trials of the Babcock & Wilcox boil- er on board the’ British torpedo gunboat Sheldrake were stopped after six hours’ duration, it being alleged that the coal consumption was largely in excess of the calculated expenditure for fuel. e Four drydocks and two basins are in course of construction at the Keyham branch of the Devonport dockyard, Eng- land. The work is nearly completed and eleven drydocks will be available in this one dockyard. s The Belleville bollers taken out of the British crulser Hermes after being in use less than two years are being distributed among those dockyards. They will be mounted on hulks and serve in training stokers. 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