The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1902, Page 4

SO 4 The= e Call, MONDAY...........onnnnn.. . JANUARY 27, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’'S OFFICE. .Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE Teleph Market and Third, S. F. Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS to 221 Stevensom St. - Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. . 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday months. . 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. 65c SUNDAY CALL, One Year. . ;fi WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters mre authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in_ordering change of address should be particular to give both ‘W AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr reques:. OAKLAND OFFICE.. veree...1118 Breadway C. 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Alcazar—*‘Coralie & Co.” Columbia—'"Thie Princess Chic.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—'‘Norah.” California—**Ole Oison.” Tivoli— "The Ameer, o Central—"A Man of Mystery.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—Thursday, January 30, at 11 o'clock, Palo Alto Brood Mares, at 721 Howard street. SOME HESITATION IN TRADE. HE lull in business mentioned a week or ten T days ago was even more pronounced last week. There is now more or less hesntatign all along the line. Speculation has ceased to be rabid and operators in Wall street, on the Chicago Board of Trade and at other leading exchanges in the country are showing more caution. There is also less disposi- tion to inflate prices for all sorts of commodities to the danger point. The passing of several large syndicates into the hands of receivers since the turn of the year and the collapse of several large specula- tive operators at Chicago and New York have been accepted by the figancial and commercial public as tips to go slowly. It is beginning to be seen that the admonitions of the great bankers last year were wise. They said the country was traveling too fast, and it wa They said that there would be a pause later on, and there is. Not that there is any serious check to the volume of trade, or especial stringency for neither condition exists. There simply a growing t. ency to take legitimate profits without running any zbnormal risks, and it is a good thing. The hesitation is best seen by the bank clearings, which, though 1.2 per cent larger than during the corresponding week last year, were smaller than dur- ing the closing weeks of 1901. of the money was less in money, is That is, the aggregate changing hands through bank channels showing reduced business. At the same time practically all the leading cities show an excess over last year, week aiter week. As long as this gain is kept up an occasional pause is a good thing. It is a breathing spell, a halt on a mountain top to look over the country and locate the chasms and preci- pices before continuing the march. It is financial re- connoitering, and as necessary to trade as military reconnoitering is to an army. It often averts disaster. As far as the staples are concerned but little change is manifest. TIron and steel continue firm, though the demand is hardly as eager. The car shortage is being slowly remedied, and there is less complaint on this score. New Engiand is beginning to complain of insufficient margins of profit on print cloths and similar textiles. Raw wool. however, rules firm, with a continued good demand. Eastern shipments of boots and shoes are still larger than Mist year, the gain thus far in January being 11 per cent, which ought to satisfy the manufacturers. The decline in sugar appears to have been overdone and the mar- ket has developed renewed strength during the past few days. There is also more buying of provisions at Chicago, though coffce has broken again at New York. The open winter at the East has enabled builders to do more than usual at this time of the wear, and stocks of lumber are accordingly smaller and the market is firm, while recent heavy snows in the Jumber regions have stimulated logging opera- tions. - Railroad earnings are still running ahead of 1901, while from all parts of the country come reports of a very large distributive trade, the demand for re- tail and jobbing account being reported immense. The West continues to send in the best feports, but even the South, which has lagged behind other sec- is now reporting improvement. Thus it will be seen that the general business of the country is still in first-class condition, with nothing in sight to cause any apprehension. Light but general rains, extending from British Columbia to Lower Calijornia, have greatly im- proved conditions in California. All talk of crops drying up or failing to sprout has ceased. We need still more rain, however, to give us the normal sup- ply. as we are considerably behind last year's record. What we need is a good old-fashioned southeaster or two fo put us on Easy street so far as the general crops are concerned. With these later on we will roll up another prospcrous year. Otherwise there is little to note in trade conditions, and as no com- plaints are heard from any quarter the inference that the State is doing well is natural. But human nature is never satisfied, and no matter how well we are do- tions for months, ing we always want to do better. Man is built | Shaw by relieving Iowa of the duty of maintaining | that way ......Herald Square. 'ECuli\'e clemency within the last two years. : THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE, NCE more the Interstate Commerce Com- O mission has presented to Congress an earnest plea for greater authority in the enforcement of law and an invincible argument why the plea should be granted. Congress may ignore the argu- ment, may evade it, but cannot refute it. The com- mission has evidence to sustain its assertions. It has proof in abundance that the laws enacted by Con- gress for the regulation of interstate commerce are being flagrantly violated by railroads and by other large corporations, while the commission under its present powers is unable to do anything more than to complain of the violation. In the brief summary sent out by telegraph of the report there is enough to show that the commission has been rendered more earnest by the failures of the past to obtain the desired authority and returns to the attack with unabated vigor. . It presents a state- ment of the unlawful relations existing between cer- tain railway corporations and a number of large shippers, and, referring to recent investigations, says: “The facts therein developed are of such a cHbracter that no thoughtful person can contemplate them with indifference. That the leading traffic officials of many of the principal railway lines, men occupying high positions and charged with the most important du- ties, should deliberateiy violate the statute law of the land and in some cases agree with each other to do so; that it ‘should be thought by them necessary to destroy vouchers and to so manipulate bookkeeping as to obliterate every evidence of the transactions; that hundreds of thousands of dollars should be paid in unlawful rebates to a few great packing houses; that the business of railroad transportation should to such an extent be conducted in open disregard of law, must be surprising and offensive to all right- minded persons.” The railroads, however, do not stand alone in the violation of the law. The big corporations to which the rebates are given share in the guiit as well as in the benefits. The commission notes the participation of these corporations and_ after summing up the wrongs committed by the transportation companies in the cases under investigation says: ‘“Equally startling at least is the fact that the owners of these packing houses, men whose names are known throughout the commercial world, should seemingly be eager to augment their gains with the enormous amounts of these rebates which they receive in plain defiance of a Federal statute.” The violations of the law work a positive injury to the industries of the country. The commission says the seffect of the rebates is to give to those who ob- tain them “an enormous advantage over smaller competitors located at other points. Already these competitors have mostly ceased to exist. These dis- closures afford a pregnant illustration of the manner in which secret rate concessions are tending to build up great trusts and monopolies at the expense of the small independent operator.” In the face of the most flagrant of these violations of the statute the commission is well-nigh powerless. 1t is not easy to convict railways of paying unlawful rebates, nor corporations of receiving them, for in order to obtain such a conviction it is necessary to show not only that a railway company paid a rebate to a particular shipper, but that it did not pay the same rebate to some other shipper with respect to the same kind of traffic moving at the same time under similar conditions. Such proof is nearly al- ways impossible. The commission asserts that “de- parture from the published rate is the thing which can be shown and the thing which should be visited with punishment.” Another obstacle in the way of the enforcement of the law is found by the commission in the decisions of the courts that penalties cannot be imposed upon corporations violating the act, but only upon their agents. Upon that point the report says:- “The ob- ject of rate cutting is to get business and to make money, and the corporation, if any one, profits by the illegal act. It is the real offender and ought cer- tainly to pay the penalty.” Finally the commission notes that the railways do not obey even the courts when it is to their advan- tage to ignore them. Thus, referring to certain vio- lations of the anti-trust act, it says: “We call atten- tion to the fact that the decisions of the United States Supreme Court in the trans-Missouri and Joint Traffic Association cases have produced no effect upon the railway operations of the country. Such associations in fact exist now as they did before those decisions and with the same general effect.” Upon that showing it is clearly the duty of Con- gress to augment the powers of the commission. If the statutes enacted for the regulation of interstate commerce are bad they should be repealed, but so long as they stand they should be enforced. There is a menace to the country when any corporation is powerful enough to openly violate the law and go on its way despite a decision of the Supreme Court itself. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. ECRETARY SHAW upon retiring from office S as Governor of Iowa made public the names of 473 prisoners to whom he had extended ex- The dis- patch announcing the fact states: “To the majority of Towans the release of more than 9o per cent of the prisoners came as a complete surprise, and in many quarters a strong protest is heard.” It is none too much to say that the surprise outside of Iowa is fully equal in intensity to any that exists among the people within the State. In the first place, it is surprising to outsiders that such a whole- sale prison delivery could haye been carried on dur- ing two years without the Towans knowing anything about it. As an explanation of the prevailing igno- rance on the subject the report goes on to say: “It was the Governor's policy to refuse the newspapers access to the pardon records, urging as a reason that publicity attending the release of a convict would handicap his efforts to reform. Unless the prisoners released returned to their former homes, as was not often the case, no one learned of the action. * * * Twenty-two prisoners convicted of murder were re- leased. The following figures show what were the crimes of some of the others who were released: Of- fenses against women, 38; fraud, 20; manslaughter, 14; forgery, 18; perjury, 5; embezzlement, 4; burglary, robbery and larceny, 128.” _ Against an executive policy’ of that kind there should be a protest not in Towa only, but through- out the Union. These criminals, secretly pardoned, did not often return to their homes, we are told. They went elsewhere. Strangers in a strange land without money and with a criminal record behind them, it is fairly certain a good many of them are now menacing society in other States. Governor SAN FRANCI! ¥ T W | ¥ CALL, M 5 i AY, the duty of rearresting and reconvicting them or of lying exposed to their depredations on property and their assaults upon life. There can be no question ‘that in pursuing - the course he did the Governor made a grave mistake. The proportion of criminals to population in the United States as compared with that in other civil- ized countries having anything like our degree of public prosperity is in the nature of a national dis- grace. There are good reasons for believing the chief cause of it is the weakness of the administration of law. The police find their best efforts at suppressing crime thwarted in many ways by the courts, and it is frequently impossible to obtain the tonviction even of notorious offenders. If now to that weakness of the courts there be added an indiscriminate exercise of executive clemency the situation could hardly be made worse by abolishing law altogether. Doubtless there were a good many convicts in Iowa who merited pardon, though the courts of the State have never been accused of being unduly se- vere. When, however, the pardons include so many of the inmates of the State prisons it is clear the executive clemency has been abused. The news- papers of Iowa should hereafter insist upon having access to pardon records. Secrecy evidently does not work for the public good. It is to be hoped that in his new office Secretary Shaw will not follow the rule he adopted as Governor of Iowa. ————— e It has been alleged that the Government has issued an order that Indians shall cut their hair and ‘quit painting their faces; and now the friends_of the red men are asking why the Government does not com- pel football men to cut their touseled curls and re- strain “society women from tinting ‘the beauty of their cheeks with artificial pigments. B — THE DARIEN ROUTE. B.Y regson of the controversy between the sup- porters of the Nicaragua route and those of the Panama route for the proposed isthmian canal there has arisen a renewed interest in the Da- rien route. A considerable number of persons believe that route to be the best of the three, and they have recently presented their arguments on the subject to the Congressional committee. They claim to be able by the Darien, or San Blas route as it is sometimes called, to provide a canal at sea level which will be only thirty miles long. _ The route is being advocated by “The American Isthmian Canal Company,” and those who spoke for. it before the committee were General Edward W. Serrell, consulting engineer; H. H. Adams, a stock- holder, and Theodore Schroeder, counsel. They claim to control a route extending from Mendago harbor to Pearl Island, based on surveys made by Professor Hopkins in 1840 and afterward by McDougal, Sweet, Forman and Rude, They are reported to have stated that they have estimates which convince them that the entire canal could be constructed at sea level with thirty-five feet depth of water for a sum not exceeding $90,000,000 and could be completed within three years. It appeared from replies to questions by the com- mittee that the company, while it claims to “control” the route, has obtained neither a right of way nor Government concessions. When asked to make a definite proposition to Congress they declined to do so at that time, but said that within thirty days they would be able to state terms. They intimated that the terms proposed would probably be the retention of ownership in the canal by the company, while the United States should pay 50 per cent of the cost, the payments to begin when $10,000,000 worth of work has been completed. Of course such a proposition is not likely to re- ceive much attention from Congress. The people of the United States are not going to domate $50,Doo.q00 | to build a canal for a private company. Whatever route be selected, the canal will be built by the Gov- ernment and owned by the Government. Aside from the terms suggested, however, the statements of the witnesses before the committee seem to have made a favorable impression, and a good deal of consideration is being given to the route. It is claimed that while the Panama route requires a canal forty-six miles long and the Nicara- | gua route a very much longer one, the Darien canal would be but thirty miles long. It has a good natu- ral harbor at each end, while the Panama route has but one good harbor and the Nicaragua route none at all. The Panama canal will have many curves, while the Darien route would be straight. Either at Pan- ama or.at Nicaragua the canal would have many locks, while the Darien route would be at sea level. The claims make a good showing on paper. For the construction of the Darien canal, however, it would be necessary to make a tunnel for five miles through the mountains. The plan of the company is to make this tunnel 200 feet in the clear and with thirty-five feet of water, and they claim the work can be done at a cost of 87 cents per cubic yard of rock removed. ' 1 i Such in general is the new plan proposed for the canal. It comes to the front late in the day, but should the fight between Panama and Nicaragua end in a deadlock at this session of Congress it may prove an important factor in solving the problem. e M. de Witte, the Russian Minister of Fimance, is reported to have summed up the qualifications of the nations for the coming industrial struggle by saying: “Great Britain has been hard hit in the Transvaal, but is still the richest country in the world; France is without initiative, satisfied with returns on past achievements; Germany shows the greatest energy and initiative in Europe, but has traveled too fast: America has an unparalleled combination of natural resources and initiative and will go on to greater achievements.” He says nothing about Russia, but then of course cvery statesman must keep something up his sleeve. It is now asserted that all the reports of the will- ingness of certain Boer leaders to make peace and of the readiness of the British Ministry to grant good terms were started by a lot of speculators in London who had Kaffir stocks for sale, It seems that when it comes to bulling the market anything is fair so long as it wins. S Captain Hobson of Merrimac and kissing fame wants to be retired from the navy on the ground that his eyesight is failing Liim and that he is unfit for the technical duties of his position. Perhaps a vision of triumphs political is, blinding him to affairs which ordinarily demand his attention. 7] —_— It is announced that the tomato canners and catsup makers in the East have organized a trust with a capital of $20,000,000; and now is the time for a free people to eat their tomatoes raw. The canned stuff is not worth the interest on that arhuqnt by a long them in prison has imposed upon other communities 1 shot. JANUARY 27, 1902. O TG e HOW GREAT BRITAIN IS INCREASING HE OCEAN HER FIGHTING POWERON T 5 - — ] Y ——— o ) s ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. IX battleships of 84,000 tons and ten armored cruisers of 119,600 tons were launched during 1901 for the British 5 navy. Of this fleet four battleships, ~Corn- wallls, Duncan, Exmouth and Russell, of 56,000 tons, collectively, were built at private yards, while the Albemarle and Montague, of 28,000 tons, collectively, were constructed at dock yards. The armored cruisers Good Hope, King Alfred and Leviathan, of 14,100 tons each, and the Bedford and Monmouth, of 9800 tons, were built hy contract. The armored cruisers Bachante and Euryalus, of 1200 tons each, the Drake, of 14,100 tons, and the Essex and Kent, of | 9800 tons each, were built in dock yards. Fifty-six and one- quarter per cent of the ships and nearly 58 per cent of the tonnage was built by contract, leaving a very fair proportion as the share to the dock yards. Of smaller vessels, exclusive of destroyers, the sloops Fantome, Merlin and Odin, of 1070 tons each, were all built in Government yards. Thirty-one vessels of all classes passed through their steam trials and were added to the effective list of the British navy last year. This number embraces six battleships of 85,900 tons, collectively; four armored cruisers of 48,000 tons, col- lectively:; one third ¢lass cruiser, of 2200 tomns; three sloops of 3210 tons, collectively; thirteen torpedo-boat destroyers, of about 4000 tons, and three tcrpedo boats of 540 tons, making a grand total of about 143,850 tons. The trials have, in the main, been satisfactory and given results exceeding the calculated speeds. In the appended table giving the principal data of the steam trials of battleships and armored -cruisers, those vessels indicated by an asterisk had their speeds taken by log, while the other speeds were taken by runs over a measured mile course. The trials were under full power and eight hours’ auration: 2 | Horsepower. Speed. ) _ [ & g 2 g So 2 4 3 2§ 3 I3 £ =3 NAME OF SHIP. i Lot & b - 3 3 2 -1 : . & Implacable . 1.87 | Bulwark .. 15,353 1.8 | Formidable " 15,502 1'% *Irresistible . 15,605 | 107 *Albion . 13,885 | 2.04 { *Vengean 18,862 | 172 Sutle] . 21,261 1 2.36 *Bachante . 2‘.5':‘0 | 1 | *Aboukir . 21375 1184 | Hogue .. 000 | 21,332 | 208 All the above vessels are fitted with Belleville boilers. The coal consumption, it will be noted, varies greatly, which may be dug either to the quality of coal or to experienced or ineffi- clent stokers, The Albion's poor showing is probably due to | THE KING ALFRED, THE MOST FORMIDABLE OF ALL CRUISERS OF THE WORLD, AS SHE WILL APPEAR ‘WHEN IN COMMISSION, AND THE VESSEL'S PROTOTYPE—A WARSHIP OF KING ALFRED'S TIME, — for many years one of the leading yards in England, but dis- astrous Government contracts led to its failure. The works have been bought by C. H. Wilson, a shipowner who will not bid for any navy work, and the two destroyers still uncom- pleted will be finished by the Government. R Y The ship yards and engineering works of Schichau, at Elbing and Danzig, cover collectively 155 acres and give employment to about 6000 persons. Both yards turn out war and merchant ships, marine engines, locomotives and other railroad rolling stock. The yard at Elbing was established by F. Schichau in 1837. It has now fifteen bullding slips, and has completed dur- ing the past twenty-three years 250 torpedo vessels and cruisers. The yard at Danzig, covering seventy-three acres, was estab- lished in 1891, and has eight building slips, a 120-ton shear-legs, and the buildings, machine tools and other labor saving appli- ances are of the latest improvement. The thoroughness of the navy work done by these establishments is such that of the many division torpedo boats built since 1394 only one boat re- quired trials extending over a period of three months, while all the others began and concluded their official trials within fourteen days. It is a record unsurpassed in any other coun- try. The Prinz Adelbert, armored cruiser in the German navy, which was launched last June, has hitherto been described as a sister ship to the Prinz Heinrich, but latest advices show quite essential differences. The latter is 3363 tons, 15,000 horse power, 20% -knots speed, and carries a battery of two O.4-inch, ten 5.9-inch, and ten 3.4-inch, while the Prinz Adelbert is of 3043 tons, 17,000 horse power, 21 knots speed, and carries four 8.4- inch, ten 5.9-inch and twelve 3.4-inch guns. The Krupp armor belt is four inches miximum thickness, and that of the lower deck side four inches, extending for a length of 215 feet. The protective deck is two inches and the gun protections six inches to four inches. The ship has triple screws, fourteen Durr boilers, 1500 tons normal coal and 1700 tons bunker capaci~ ty. There is a marked absence of superfluous superstructure work, and the ship Is altogether a marked improvement upon her predecessor completed only about one year ago. Mg 1 Progress on ship bullding for the United States navy is de- cidedly slow and unsatisfactory. The three battleships, Maine, Missouri and Ohio, contracted for in October, 1398, to be com- pleted in June, 1901, have only progressed 78, 54 and 43 per cent toward completion in the order named. The four monitors, also contracted for to be completed in March, 191, are only ad- advanced from 77 to 92 per cent. Six protected cruisers, to be delivered in June, 192, range from 72 to 20 per cent in com- pletion, and sixteen destroyers and nine torpedo boats, which are from two to three years behind time, are still in the hands of the contractors. Eight submarine boats, to be delivered last vear, are nearly twelve months behind completion. Of tha five battleships contracted for in February, 191, to be com- pleted in three years, no work has yet been dome on two, and only slight progress with the others. The six armored crulsers the latter cause. PERSONAL EENT!O H. T. Ames, a merchant of Galt, is at the Lick. \ T. F. Donaway, a railroad man of Reno, Nev., Is at the Occidental. R. H. Herron, an extensive oil dealer of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. E. May. a business man of Portland, Or., is a late arrival at the Lick. Captain C. H. Grant, formerly of the transport Sheridan, is registered at the Occidental. Wyo., is at the Occldental, accompanied by his wife. State Senator J. B. Curtin came down at the California. Dr. George D: Craven of Drummond, Mont., is registered at the Grand, in com- pany with his wife. —_————————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “He seems to take a great deal of com- fort out of his thoughts of heaven.” “Yes; he says it pleases him when he thinks of all the hateful people he knows who will never get there.”—Philadelphia Record. the latest revolution in South America? Newshoy—T'll be honest with you, mis- ter. It's got all ’'cepti® them wha broke out in the last fifteen minutes.— Chicago Tribune. “Don’'t you think a holiday is more cheerful when there is a large family gathered about the festive hoard?” “I do,” answered the sardonic person. “A large family is a glad assurance that there is not going to be enough turkey left over to supply the menu for the next three days.’—Washington Star. . —_———e—————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsenl's.* ——————— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's * it Skt Townsend’s Californla glace fruits, 50c a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- A nice present for Eastern friends, :‘é}{ifluket st., Palace Hotel building. * Special information suppllied daily B lobins Turaau CAUGhip. 80 D eery Eifeet, Telephane Main 1042, — What you pay for extracts is important, but what you get is ten times more important. Bur- nett’8Vanilla costs more because it's worth more. L I b R ‘ In France tuberculosis kills 200,000 peopie to the - . The Earle Shipbuilding Company at Hull recently became B. F. Perkins, a merchant of Sheridan, | from Sonora Vesterday and took quartersy The Honest Newsboy.—Suspicious Cus- | tomer—Has this paper got the news of | on the three prof |SWEET CHARITY NOT FORGOTTEN BY FETED BUDS | By Sally Sharp. | Was there ever another time when so | many of our society young women were | working for sweet charity, besides dress- | ing in their finest imported gowns and doing a round of luncheons, teas and balls’ If Lent were not close at hand, { with its time for proper meditation, I lam sure the buds would soon be at a loss to know what to appear in mext, {but the Lenten season will bring the usual respite from functions and numer- 1 ous appointments with the modiste. | The last week the Doctor's Daughters { worked for their Eder Jai benefit, while | the happy little Chrysanthemums asgi- { tated the plan for a ball on February 1, the proceeds from which will go to sup- | port a bed in the Children’s Hospital. As | this bed is regularly paid for out of the | young ladies’ pockets it is only natural that money is ever in demand and the buds are on the lookout for more right now. Then, too, the lady managers of the California Eye and Ear Hospital are i selling boxes to their friends for the benefit on Thursday afternoon at the Grand Opera-house, which event will be an important society function. The Doctor's Daughters made a social and iinancial success of their Eder Jai game on Saturday. The unusuaily cold weather was something of a drawback, but the boxes were filled with members of the smart set, irreproachable in man- ners and unapproachable in costume. Mrs. E. O. McCormick was unable to occupy her box, as she left for the East Saturday morning with her husband, but generously offered the seats to her popu- lar relative, Mr. James Henry, who was accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Hunting- ton, Miss Hammond and Mr. Ralph Stubbs. The party was chaperoned by Mrs. J. Kruttschnitt. Mrs. Thomas Magee gave a box party, including Mrs. Walter Magee and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tobin. I noticed that Mrs. Winslow chaperoned Mr. Newhall and Miss Sophie Pierce, while Mrs. Drysdale’s box contained Mrs. McEwen, Mrs. Dreyfogle, Mrs. Currie, Mr. Arthur Drysdale and Master Ellin- ‘wood. ' . . Speaking of bex parties, it will be some time before any one equals the charm- ing theater party given Saturday even- ing at the Columbla by the young e from nothing ul e tocted to 13 per cent, and no work is reported cruisers contracted for in April, 191, to financially crippled, necessitating suspension of work. It was | be delivered in three years. D e ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ASEATING CAPACITY-F. K., City. The seating capacity of the Alcazar Theater is 1438, . ISINGLASS—MCcG., Anaheim, Cal. There is no mineral properly called isinglass. Mica is sometimes so called. PRICE OF SEATS—T. S. Winters, Yolo €o.," California. The average price of seats at the football game between Stan- ford and California University in 1900 was $2 7. @ e @ They looked especially happy. I noticed among the guests Mr. and Mrs. Gus Tay~ lor, Miss® Frances Hopkins, Mr. Owens, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Scott, Miss Spreckels and Miss Jennie Blalr. ey If the debutantes continue to become more and more irresistible at those Pre- sidio hops, I wonder what will happen to the wearers of the gold lace? Last Mon- day seemed to be a white evening, ~al- though everybody didn’t think everybody else was going to appear in it. Miss Kate Herrin was a picture in her filmy white chiffon over pale yellow taffeta, with an indescribable garniture of pale yellow satin flowers en applique: with the richest of Persian effects. Miss Marion Eells was charming in a soft clinging crepe de chine gown, while Kathryn Robinson was even more attractive than ever in cream batiste over white silk. Elsie Sperry, always beautifully gowned. wore a white mous- seline de soi creation over white silk with fine lace. But while there were also gowns in many delicate rainbow tints, white was most in evidence. o sk I wonder if Dolly Madison would be able to compete favorably nowadays with Mr=. Roosevelt in being queen of social affairs at the White House. Surely those palatial drawing rooms have not been so brilliant at any time since Dolly Madi- son’s reign until Mrs. Roosevelt took up her present position with such grace and geniality, and to think that she Is at the same time sensible! That is something most important in the first lady of the land, for we are bound to follow in San Francisco whatever pace she sets in Washington. A few of us are getting brave enough to appear in dinner jackets because Mrs. Roosevelt sald it was not practical to sit in decollete through long dinners unprotected from breezes from electric fans. If Mrs. Roosevelt has made a practice of bringing the expense of her clothes within $350 a year she has out- lived that day, for we read of her appear- ing at one function in a regal robe of a year; in other words, a city of the size | of Toulouse is yearly wiped off the face of the country. —_————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, boating, bathing, fishing and most amuse- ments. E, S. Babcock, manager, Coronado, Cal. Mr. and = Mrs. boxes were filled ‘were certainly in personality of Mr. William Taylor. Miss Georgina Hopkins was guest of honor and it is needless to say that her Prince Charming was also present in the Five cerded silk decollete and en train, with F e showers of frou frou flounces about the Praagtlhom o‘;“::‘:fl': feet; ornaments, gold necklace and diamonds. Then the next day in pink panne, again in mouseline de sole and other lavish creations that grace Mrs. Roosevelt, but put economy far into the Frederick ‘McNear, | background.