The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1902, Page 6

MONDAY. .]ANUARY 6, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adédress All Commenicstions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, §. F. Telepho: Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one yesr.. DAILY CALL (ncluding Su:day), § 1 onths. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65¢c EUNDAY CALL, One Year... 1.5 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.0 All postmasters nre authorized to receive subscriptions. Eample coples will be iorwarded when requested. Ma!l subscribers in orderirg change of addresrs should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure s prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. .. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Yansger Foreign Aévertising, Marquette Building, Ohieago. (Long Distance Telephone ‘‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON......q:es0224000+.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .30 Tribune Building NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Eill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Ce.; Great Northern Fremont House: Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—$27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 8:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Bixteenth, open until § o'clock. 109 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 06 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. eorner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 220 Fillmore, open until § p. m. Hotel; AMUSEMENTS. Cavalleria Rusticana™ and “Com- edy and Tragedy California—*“Whose Baby Are You?" Tivoli—"Little Red Riding Hood.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening. , however, as crease, the loss being 13.2 per cent. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. YEAR. THERE was not much feature to trade last week. was a falling oif of 9.4 per cent from the pre- ceding year in the volume of busine: first time in 2 long while New York recorded a de- Boston, Phila- in clearings, while the gains of the other large centers were small, that at Chicago being only 0.4 per cent York were $1, 000,000, quite a sharp decline from the $2,000,000,000 and $2,350,000,000 of the past few Fischer's—Vaudeville. BEGINNING OF THE COMMERCIAL There never is at the turn of the year. There own by the country’s bank clearings, and for the delphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati also showed-a loss over the same week ir 1901. The clearings of New months, and the combined clearings of the whole | country were less than the recent average of New York City alone. The failures were 270, against 266 last year, but aside from the embarrassment of the great Cleveland electric railroad and telephone synd: cate, which was capitalized.for $130,000,000, they were generally unimportant. The suspension of this syn- dicate was due to the undertaking of too many differ- ent cnterprises, for while most of them paid good clividends, the income derived from them had to be civerted to build up the others to a paying basis, and the load was too large. In spite of this unfavorable showing of the bank clearings, however, commercial reports received from all parts of the country were uniformly cheerful and buoyant and expressive of confidence in the coming year., The iron and steel situation continues to show great strength, gains rather than losses being re- ported from all poi The car shortage, however, is still a serious drawback' to this industry and threatens to affect both production and consumption. Some of the blast furnaces are already shutting down cn this account, and suppiies of coke are piling up at the ovens. But on the other hand, Southern pig- iron has advanced 50 cents per ton, and in the East 1.0 orders are accepted for delivery before July 1. This frmness in the raw product, however, is offset by a cecline of $2 per ton in wire and nails owing to_in- creasing competition of outside makers. The other staples are generally reported in good ‘condition. tubber goods have advanced 8 per cent over a year ago, but shoe shipments are decreasing, though still larger than at this time last year. Copper has again been cut and brass has gone down in sympathy, while tin is also lower. Provisions are unsettled at Chicago, going up on€ day and down the next, which has been the rule for some time, the general plane of values remaining practically unchanged. The grain markets are quieter than they were a month or so ago, but values have not varied much during ° this period. Otherwise the great staples show no change worthy of comment. The above is the Eastern commercial situation. Lo- cally, we are doing a good business. The tendency in all grains and hay has been upward for some little time, and prices for 2ll are better than during the fall, while the demand is excellent, and for some de- scriptions sharp. Flour has been advanced 25¢ per barrel, the first change in months. Canned and dried fruits, wine, wool, hides, hops, potatoes and the gen- eral run of farm produce are mgeting with an excep- tionally good demand for this season of the year, though some cutfing in cured meats were reported at the close of the week. The export trade of the port continues brisk, and nothing but cheerful re- ports come from the wholesalers, jobbers and retail- ers. If there is any lull in the East, it has not ex- tended to California, which was never more prosper- ous than to-day. The banks, both city and country, report large supplies of money available for solvent borrowers at fair rates, and there are no failures suf- ficiently lurge to disturb the equanimity of the mer- cantile element. Hence we ought to be satisfied with the outlook at the beginning of the year, and most of us are. Of 2l the cities from which Christmas reports have come to us Baltimore takes the lead in social festi- vities. One of the leading matrons of the city en- tertained her friends on Christmas eve with a prize- fight in the back parlor. ..1118 Broadway | THE SAN IRRIGATION IN CALIFORNIA. ROFESSOR ELWOOD MEAD'S report of Pthe investigations made in 1900 into the irriga- tion problems of California has been published in a form handsome, enough to attract attention even if the public were indifferent to the importance of the subject. It constitutes, however, so valuable a contribution toward the solution of some of the difficulties in the way of the full development of the agricultural resources of the State that no one who gives it anything like a careful study can remain in- different to the need of adopting a comprehensive scheme of irrigation such as %as been suggested by Mr. Mead and the eight experts who assisted him in making the investigations. % The report begins by pointing out our unrivaled possibilities. “As an agricultural State,” it says, “California stands alone. No other humid or arid commonwealth has as diversified products or high- priced farming land. In some respects the climate is marvelous in its possibilities. The usual limitations imposed by latitude are here set aside. Oranges ripen as early and as surely at Oroville, 100 miles north of San Francisco, as at San Diego, 500 miles south of that city; and much of the State has the unique dis- tinction of being able to grow all the products of New England and of Florida on the same acre of land. Sacramento, which has the same latitude as Southern Illinois, is surrounded by districts where bluegrass lawns are shaded by palm and orange trees. The summers are not too hot for the turf, nor the winters too cold for the trees. * * * It is the only State where crops can be harvested with abselute assurance that rain will not injure them, yet where those crops can be grown by the aid of rain- fall alone.” With all those advantages of soil and climate there remains, however, much for man to do. The report says: “Although irrigation is not a necessity, it is everywhere of value, because its magic brings into full fruition all of the attractions with which the State is.so generously endowed.” There are, however, in California obstacles in the way of irrigation that are not met with in any other arid State. In no other are rivers used for both navigation and irrigation, nor is there such a complexity of claims upon streams and water rights. Some of these claims cover the }right to the use of water for placer mining, some for the supply of water to cities, some for the generation of electric power—and the development of that power, the report says, “will not cease until the latent force of the cascades in every mountain canyon has been harnessed in one way or another to the wheels of California’s industries.” The problem before the people of the State is to | devise some means of adjusting the control of water |so as to conserve all of these interests. Unfortu- | nately, the early settlers and founders of California came from humid States and brought their old laws and customs regulating water rights with them. The | consequence is a confusion between the real needs | of the State and the statutes that govern irrigation questions. “Ability and success in material develop- ment,” says the report, “have been rendered futile by a marked failure in legislation. Some of the best examples of ditch construction tq be found in this country are in California, but the operation of these works is embarrassed by legislation which violates every principle necessary to enduring success.” That the time has come for the people to grapple with this problem in earnest is now well understood by all who have given it any consideration whatever. The confusion and conflict in our laws should be cleared away and legislation be made to conform to the nature of the climate and the relation of water to land. Suggestions are made in the report as to | the best means of accomplishing that end.. The ex- | amples of other States and of other nations furnish lessons which we should carefully study. The subject | is worthy the best efforts of the ablest and most pro- gressive men in the State. Moreover, the reform in the irrigation laws should not be delayed. As Pro- fessor Mead says: “If the creation of institutions worthy of the time and place can come as a ;;art of the world-wide movement toward the Pacific Coast |and of the material development of arid America by public and private aid, which is now being’so stren- uously urged, the opening years of the twentieth century will witness a new era of home-making in the West.” Professor Edward Sheldon of Harvard has warned the public against making a fetish of dictionaries. He says colloquial usage of a word is gpod enough authority for a gentleman and a scholar, so it is prob- able he will not object to have his learned eloquence lrefcrred to as “guff.” GERMANY AND HER COLONIES. ROM the State Department at Washington F there has just been issued a summary of a report from Mr. Harris, consular agent at Eibenstock, giving an account of the commercial results of Ger- man experiments in colonial enterprises. The statis- tics given do not make a favorable showing and by no means bear out the theory that “trade follows the flag,” but none the less the report makes it clear that the Germans, if not satisfied, are at least determined to not only carry on the present colonial enterprises, but to expand them as rapidly as occasion serves. | The German colonial possessions have an area of 2,557,000 square miles. They are scattered in various parts of the globe; and some of them are said to be promising, but at present not a single one of them is self-supporting. The report says the total income from the colonies for 1900 was but $8,226,470, while the expenditure required to manitain them was such that the deficit for the year is estimated at nearly $7,000,000. Moreover, in spite of the heavy expendi- | tures and the efforts of the Government to procure for the empire all the trade of the colonies, Germany gets but 50 per cent of their exports and sends to them but 60 per cent of their imports. It is noted, furthermore, that while the Germans aim to make use of the colonies as producers of raw material and consumers of manufactured products made in Germany, there is already a tendency in some of the colonies to do their own manufacturing; and it is believed the result will be the establishment in all successful colonies of something like commercial and industrial independence, such as has been ob- tained in the British colonies of Canada and Aus- tralia. In spite of the cost, however, the Germans are holding bravely on their way toward colonial em- pire. Mr. Harris reports that in a recent address to the merchants of Leipsic Dr. Vosberg-Rekow, di- rector of the German Bureau for the Preparation of Commercial Treaties, said: “It is evident we can never give up our present policy relative to foreign affairs or the strenuous efforts being made to become a great sea power. We must engage in colonial poli- | tics on a large scale. We must strive to expand our spheres of interest and to instill into our people the consciousness of the recessity of an aggressive policy. It is only by the annexation of territory beyond the FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, tion and direction of emigration to the same, that we may ever hope to be in a position to supply those within the borders of the home country.”, It is a bold policy and a costly one. It puts a be carried out at whatever cost so long at least as the present Kaiser is alive. This is an age of impe- are engaged in it, and the Kaiser is neither wiser nor more foolish than the other strong men of the time. Since President Roosevelt has followed up his grand reception on New Year's day with a grander society, it is evident that social functions at the capi- tal are to be made parts of the strenuous life for the — EIGHT-HOUR LnGISLATION. UT of the competition which the Northern cotton mills have had to meet since the de- Soutn there has arisen a demand among Northern workmen for the establishment of uniform labor mills in the South employ a considerable proportion of child labor and that the hours of labor required North. Consequently the competition is felt to be unfair and efforts are being made to equalize the In the South itself a strong movement is under way to bring about the enactment of labor laws sim- but it is feared the efforts in that direction will be long in accomplishing the desired purpose. The therefore, turned to Congress and an attempt will be magle to establish the uniformity by Federal statute. duced at-the last session of Congress a resolution providing for the adoption of a constitutional amend- subject. In New England the proposed amendment will have strong suppcrt and doubtless the Northern that interstate competition renders: labor legislation a matter of national as well as of State concern. ous list of proposed constitutional amendments. Each and all of them tend to the increase of Federal | the greater is felt to be the need of uniform legisla- tign on many subjects that in former years were.left stitution were easy there is no telling to what extent it would be changed by the numerous classes now Fortunately the process is not easy. Where it is im- peratively necessary we may safely say that amend- prefer to put up with evils rather than run the risk of worse by too free a change of the constitution un- istered with success for more than a hundred years. P —— purpose of studying railway construction went from his work to a dinner party in his overalls; and now | him there is something else to learn in this country besides railroad work. HE Call has insisted that no reliable informa- tion can be had showing the relative economy tties, such as light, water, street railways, telephone, telegraph and steam railways, until public accounts In the numerous instances in which we have given the record and results of public ownership it has of a business "public waste is equal, or more than equal, to corporate profit, and that, therefore, there the quality of the service suffers by reason of the in- adaptation of government to business./ the line of public ownership and also in securing such | public and private accounting as permits a compari- electric light commission, whose members are ap- pointed for life, or during the proper discharge of sworn accounting by municipalities and private com- panies, showing every detail of their business in fur- the following showing was read by Mr. Jenkins of San Antonio, Texas, to the recent meeting of the Massachusetts own and operate their lighting plants. Of these fifteen are electric plants only and three eighteen cities in operating their plants for the year ending June 30, 1900, were $148,364 21 greater than of street lighting. The balance sheet of the lighting plants of these eighteen cities shows a deficit for the sumers for electricity by these cities varies from 10 cents per 1000 watts in Danvers to 23 cents in Hull, a cent per hour in North Attleborough to one and a fourth cents per hour in Hull for a sixteen-candle owning their gas plants was, per 1000 cubic feet: Middleborough, $2 63; Wakefield, $1 75; Westfield, dleborough, $3 72; Wakefield, $2 o5; Westfield, $1 24. Crediting the expenses of operation, the entire in- net loss from operation to cost of city lighting, we find the Icwest cost for arc lighting to be, with one moon table lighting, the ayerage being $75 60 per year; and for all-night lighting, $137 73 per lamp. eighteen cities 1250 are only 1200-candle power and 125 are 2000-candle power. The lowest tax rate in average $1 71.” These official figures seem to negative a great deal municipal ownership. The example of Massachu- setts should be followed everywhere in the establish- frgm politics, to compel a uniform system of ac- counting, public and private, in the case of all public precedent to embarking in public ownership, as by. no other means is it possible to know the gain or seas, the development of our colonies, the organ.iu- natural products which we are not able to produce heavy burden upon the German people, but it will rialism and of colonial expansion. All great nations A e — ] ball at which Miss Alice Roosevelt was introduced to ‘ next four years. ¢ O velopment of cotton ‘manufacturing in the laws throughout the Union. It is known that the of all classes of workers are much greater than in the conditions. ilar to these which have been adopted in the North,' more eager advocates of uniform labor laws have, Representative Lovering of Massachusetts intro- ment giving Congress authority to legislate on the States generally will favor it, as it is now recognized This, therefore, adds another to the already numer- power. The nearer the States are drawn together to the States. If the process of amending the con- pressing for amendment for one purpose or another. ments will be made, but otherwise the people will der which the affairs of the country have been admin- A Japanese Prince now visiting the East for the the leaders of the Four Hundred are trying to teach —— PUBLIC Ow NERSHIP. Toi public and private ownership of public utili- are kept with the same care as private accounts; seemed to be demonstrated that in the management is no economy in public ownership, and frequently In Massachusetts great progress has been made on son of the two systems. That State has a gas and their duty. That commission by law . compels a nishing light. From the report of this commission Mayors’ Association of Texas: “Eighteen cities in operate gas and electricity. The expenses of these their income, and that sum was charged to the cost year of $177,641 25. The rate charged private con- on meter rates afid in contract rates, three-fourths of power lamp. The price of gas in the three cities $1 64. The cost of producing the gas was in: Mid- come from sales of electricity, and only charging the exception, $58 13 per year; the highest, $134 08, for Of the 1375 lamps used in street lighting by these this group of cities is $1 10, the highest $2 23, Sthe of the expectations that people have in the results of ment of able and upright public commissions, free utilities. This should be insisted on as a condition loss in such an experiment. JANU ‘the Orient, is at the Palace, accompanied ARY 6. 1902, ¥ CO T S NEW HEAD + NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, WHO HAS BEEN AGREED UPON AS PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TO SUCCEED SETH LOW, RECENTLY ELECTED MAYOR OF GREATER NEW YORK. — R. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER will be the next president of Colum- bia University, of which he has been the head of the department of phil- osophy and education since 18%5. Upon the resignation of Mayor-elect Seth Low of New York Professor Butler was appointed acting president of the university and has had charge of the administration of the institution since that time. Nicholas Murray Butler is a graduate of Columbia University of the class of '82. The degrees of master of arts and doctor of philosophy were conferred upon him at the close of the two succeeding years. In 18 he received the degree of doc- tor of laws from Syracuse University. He is one of the foremost educators. both theoretical and practical, in the United States. After leaving Columbia College, in 1884, Butler was for one year in the univer- sities of Berlin and Paris. He returned to sistant in philosophy, which he held for of philosophy, ethies and psychology and Columbia to aceept the position of as- four years. In-1880 he became professor delivered a course of lectures on the his- tory of education, which greatly enhanced his growing reputation as a student of advanced educational theories. For.five years between 1886 and 1891, Professor Butler was president of the New York College for the Training of Teachers, now the Teachers’' College. He has been for many years one of the most active and influential members of the Amer- ican Psychological Association and the National Council of Education. He is also an editor of the Educational Review. _ -In March, 1899, Professor Butler gained great publicity by applying the epithet “educational mastodon’ to Joseph J. Little, then president of the Central Board of Educatfon. Mr. Little took the matter so seriously that he carried it before the Grand Jury of New York County and precured an indictment against Professor Butler for criminal libel. The affair was subsequently settled in an amicable way. Professor Butler, besides being actively engaged in the work of education itself, is the author of many of the best known works upon the subject. This is the fifteenth college presidency offered to Dr. Butler. ‘The other four- teen offers were declined by him. He has just turned his thirty-ninth year. rofrofeefeofeofrofooforfoforid PRINCE KAWANANAKOA CLAIMS BRIDE TO-DAY By Sally Sharp. O-DAY is an important one to Miss Abigail Campbell and Prince David Kawananakoa. Their wedding cere- mony will be performed at high noon at the Occidental Hotel. “If all the world loves a lover,” and all the women love a bride, Miss Campbell will get her share of admiration. Yes, more, for the usual comment, “she will make a beau- | tiful bride,” can be sincerely passed upcn her. It would be difficult to find beauty more faseinating. Miss Campbell has some Hawaiian blood in her veins, which accouvnts for her rich biack hair and olive compiexion. Her eyes are the deepest, softest, dreamiest brown and her figure tall and willowy. Her gentle languor and beautiful English lend the real charm to her manner, while her gowns are dreams in themselves. For the Hawaiian has been reared in luxury and enjoyed every advantage of travel and education. The gowns for her trousseau she recently se- lected in Paris, and they are certainly worthy of a Princess. Having had a real | look at the bridal gown, I may say with- out exaggeration that it is a poem. Re- naissance lace over white chiffon and taf- feta, with all the artistic touches of a| Parisian hand, ought to deserve the ad- miration they will be accorded to-day. It is whispered that Sam Parker, who has just married Miss Campbell’s mother, will be the next Governor of the islands, and as the bridal couples will visit Wash- ington at once there will be a strong par- ty with a bright future. X! The engagement of Miss Ruth L. Ris- ing, daughter of Professor W. B. Rising of the University of California, to Signor Carrado Menicenti, an Italian, was re- ported from Rome over four months ago | and proved a surprise. More facts have only just come to light. Miss Rising ac- | companied her father to BEurope on his year's leave of absence. Professor Rising was a member of a commission from this Government to investigate the condition | of the chemical industry in Germany and | France. It was while the Rising family were traveling in Italy that Ruth fell in love with Signor Menicenti, a poor young : lawyer. I learn that the signor made love to Miss Rising in bad French and she understood very little of the language. The young lovers would have married | speedily, but Mrs. Rising interfered, for | while Signor Menicenti is spoken of In the papers as an Italian of distinguished reputation, he is unfortunately without means and the prudent mamma has been prevailing upon them to wait, but they insist they will not hear of it. Mrs. Ris- ing 'has had her way so far, but the American colony in Paris expect Cupid to win out almost any day. ® L m e The McCutcheons have certainly proved themselves artists in original ideas of entertaining. The long programme was a delight from start to finish, and the sex- tet at the end was repeatedly encored. “The Wheezy Six” they called them- selves on the programme—a sextet of “Emerald Voices from Emeryville.” The performers were dressed as country lassies and bumpkins in the most laugh- able costumes, with manners to match. They had been rehearsed by a profes- sional in true “Florodora” ethics, and the results were more than pleasing. The sextet was composed of B. G. Lathrop, Mrs. .athro- Mr. Schmidel, Mrs. Schmidel, Miss Ames and Mr. Somers. There was no end of fun over the bur- lesque, “Die Walkure—As Wagner Never Hoped for It.” Ed Schmidel acted as Ger Hilde and was seated upon a rocking horse, which he only left at short inter- vals while he looked for the maidens, Mme. Rusty Belts, Mme. Shoeless-Heink and Mile. Frisky Cook. All possible the- atrical properties were brought into play, including thunder, wind, lightning, horses and plano. The maidens were: Mrs. Lathrop, Miss Sarah Collier, Miss Cora Smedberg and Miss Bessie Ames. Mjss Edith Preston presided at the piano. CLNTRL Miss Ernestine Cassell and Joseph Kragen were married last evening at the bride’s home, 1457 Geary street. On ac- count of the recent death of the groom’'s nother, the wedding was a very quiet one. e o e e o Y ‘PERSONAL MENTION. 0. 3. Woodward, a banker of Fresno, is at the Lick. J. M. Henderson, a banker of Eureka, is at the Lick. \ Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace with his wife. Dr. Clyde B. Laughlin of Reno is one of the arrivals at the Lick. Henry Meniken, a cigar manufacturer of Cincinnati, is at the Grand. E. C. Merritt of Santa Rosa Is at the California, accompanied by his wife. Joseph Henshaw, a hotel man,of Salt Lake City, is registered at the Palace. A. R. Patteson, an English resident of by his family. W. J. and S. P. Dobbins, extensive ranchers of Vacaville, are among the ar- rivals at the Grand. —_—— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, cholcest Wintet Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, boating, bathing, fshing and most amuse- ments. E. S. Babcock. manager, Coronado, Cal. ————— “I see that Lord Kitchener has cfiicially banished the Boers.” . “Magnificent! Now he g0 home In riumph like Lord Rol aid."—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PENUCHLE—G. 8., City. In penuchle the penalty for a player who goes on with less cards than he should have is the loss of all he has melded. FIRST RING FIGHT—Subscriber, City. The first ring fight In America was the one between Jacob Hyer and Thomas Beasley, in 1816. The record does not give the place of meeting. STATE INSTITUTION TRUSTEE; Livermore, Cal. The following is 2—1‘1‘,: of the Trustees of the State Institutions asked about, as furnished Secre! State Curry: iy e Agnews State Hospital—*Isaa¢ Upham, San Francisco: *O. A. Hale, San Jose: Adolph Greeninger, Sax Jose; J. K. wil. son, San Francisco; *Edward White, Wat. sonville. Napa State Asylum—E. Washburn, Franeisco; E. J. Hennessey, Nlp.'s"; Louls Martin, Vallejo; F. W. Bush, Naps. and Reuben M. Swain, Santa Rosa. % California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble Minded Childron.. John T. Harrington, Colusa; John D. M- Kenzie, San Jose; Thomas H. Rooney, San Francisco; Herbert F. Dugan, San Francisco; C. Walter Gould, San Fran. cisco. *Term expired, but commissi sued for successor. - ELL-KNOWN EDUCATOR [REAR ADMIRALS LUMBIA’ WHO WILL SOON BE RETIRED There will be ten retirements for age during the year in the higher grades of line officers In the United States Navy, in this order: Rear Admirals W. T. Samp- son and B. J. Cromwell, February 9; Rear | Admiral J. A. Howell, March 16; Rear Ad- miral N. H. Farquhar, April 11; Captains L. J. Allen, February 23; John F. Merry, | March 5; L. W. Robinson, March 7; C. H. | Rockwell, April 29; J. D. Ford, May 19; < | Andrade, September 1. Allen, Robinson, | Ford and Andrade are of the former engi- | neer corps and are at present performing engineer duty on shore. As all these retir- ing captains participated in the civil war they will be retired as rear admirals and receive $4150 annually. Rear Admirals Sampson, Cromwell, Howell and Farqu- har, being in the grade ranking with a major general, will get the handsome re- tired pay of $625 a year. Three assistant surgeons in the United States Navy have successfully passed their physical and moral examinations for promotion, but failed to pass the profes- sional examination. The latter fallure is undoubtedly a very serious drawback to their efficiency as healers of wounds and disease. The “pull’’ will now be applied to obtain a re-examination in the near fu- ture, during which period of “boning up” and “cramming” the lot of the defenseless sailors and marines is to be commiserated. | A recent dispatch concerning wireless telegraphy at sea states that: “Admiral Bradford of the Bureau of Equipment has \asked that the armored cruisers of the | Pennsylvania class have their masts and rigging so arranged that the wireless sys- | tem can be introduced. This will necessi- | tate the lengthening of the masts of the | ships and the insulation of the metal rig- | ging by the use of hemp covering for hal- | yards.”” The ships referred to have not yet assumed any definite tangible shape and their contract time for completion is set for January, 1904, with the chance of being one year behind time. Admiral | Bradford's move toward adoption of wire- 1 less telegraphy in our navy cannot be said | to be rash when, as he knows, members | of ships in foreign navies have used the system successfully for upward of a year. This incidental part of the system, such as | taller masts and insulated rigging, is too trifling for an official of his standing and responsibility to talk about, and indicates a lack of go-aheadativeness of the bureau he represents. It is but small satisfaction to learn that our navy will adopt wireless telegraphy in 1904 or 1905, when other nayjes find it useful now. Pt Navy building is unusually active in Sweden, and especially so in coast defense ships. Four coast defense ships were launched last year, namely: Toperheten, Vasa and Acrau, of 3650 tons each, and Dristigheten, of 2450 tons. The three first named will be completed this year and the fourth has had her trial, attaining a speed of seventeen knots. Their armor belt is 7% inches Krupp plates, and their arma- ment consists of two 8.2-inch guns in two turrets, six 5.9-inch quick-firers. tem 2.2- inch and two l4-inch in broadside. The twelve boilers are of the Yarrow type, and the normal supply of coal 300 tons. Three older vessels of this type, the Svea, Gota and Thule, are being modernized at a cost of $950,000, and five monitors are ~eceiving new guns. | Sweden has ordered its first torpedo boat | destroyer from Yarrow. It is of 320 tons displacement and thirty-one knots con- | tract speed for three’ hours. The price paid is $241,500, with a premium of $2500 for each cuarter knot excess of speed. A balloon ship is to be built at a cost of about $40,000, and several submarine boats are recommended. . . | The French submarines, Narval and Morse, made a successful attack on two coast deferse shing. Rovvines and Valmv. | which represented the attacking force, and steamed into the harbor of Cherbours. As soon as the approach of the two ships was signaled the two submarines got ready, and, taking advantage of the darkness, disappeared unobserved below the surface of the water right in line of the attacking ships, which they successfully torpedoed. | Those aboard the Bouvines and Valmy were not aware of the presence of the | submarines until they rose to the surface. and it is claimed that the utility of the latter has been demonstrated by these | maneuvers. The trials of the French submarine boat Espadon last month proved very sueess- ful as to speed. She averaged 9.47 knots I during a surface run of fifty-three hours, an excess of 147 knots over the contract. | . . The arsenal at Kiangnan, China, is busy turning out modern rifled guns. Fifteen quick-firers were tried at the testing butts in one day with satisfactory results. The | guns consisted of 6-inch, 4-inch, 20-pound- | ers and 12-pounders. The Chief Commis- | sioner of the arsenal has received urgent | orders from the Viceroys and Gevernors | of nine provinces to supply them with | large number of similar quick-firers, as | well as with smokeless powder, shot and shell, which will be used in rearming the forces on land and sea of the nine.prov- inces. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Some people,” said Uncle Eben, “looks at de price tag so hahd dat givin’ Chris- mus gif's gits to be purty nigh as col’- blooded as a hoss trade.”—Washington Star. [ “Would you scream if I kissed you? inquired the young man from Chicago. “No,” said the St. Louis belle, “but I might yawn.” And those who are famillar with the extent of the St. Louls mouth will see the possibilities of danger that are hidden behind this commonplace remark.—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. “It is true,” said the person of high 1deals, “that you have attained prosperity by your writings. But you have produced nothing that will live.” “Well,” answered the comfortable litter- ateur, “when it comes to a question of which shall live, myseif or my writings, 1 didn’t hesitate to sacrifice my writings.” —Washington Star. “Did you say those folks who just moved into the neighborhood were social- ists?"” asked the woman who was leaning back fence. answered the next door neigh- bor. “Well, I suppose you see by this time that you are mistaken. We have had four socials since they moved in and they haven't been to one of them.”—Washing- ton Star. “How, do you like the slippery weather?* “T like it and I don’t like it.”" “How's that?” “Pretty Miss Bullion fell down just ahead of me to-day and I ran to pick her up.” “What an opportunity!"” “Was it? Just as I reached her I fell down myself and kicked her muff out of her hands.” “What a misfortune!"—Pittsburg Press, Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* prtnatstes Sk b~ fadbanccs Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* ———— . Cal. Glace Frruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* i dhmmi s Moo pobecial information supplied dally to yusiness houses a blic men Press Ci Bureau (Allen's). 310 Mont. gomery str Telephone Main 1043 *