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Ohicage, «long’ Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €, €. CARLTON......... .......Herlhi Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ATEPHEN B. SMITH. .+30 Tribune Bailding 2 NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Breatano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermsn House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, cpen unts! 9:20 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, .open until 9:30 o'clock. 6156 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Barket, corper Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1006 Va- jencis, open until ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW, corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open untll 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmare, open until p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Fischer's Thester—'The French Maid.” Calitornia—""Rupert of Hentzeu.' Tivoli—"The Serenade.’” Central—""The Last Btrokes" Aloazar—"At the White Horse Tavern., Columbia—"Arizona." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—"A Cantented Woman." buies, 4oo and ‘iheuter—Vuudeviile ever, afternoos and ening. o Metropolitan Hall—Emma Nevada, March 3. Woodward's Pavilion—Winter Clicus. Oakiand Racetrack—Races to-day. NO CAUsE YET TO CROAK. - EBRUARY was a month of storms all over F the United States, from California to New ngland, and the last day of the month was characterized by floods, blizzards and other varieties of winter weather over the greater portion of the country. These adverse meteorological conditions always restrict the volume of trade, yet the month made a fine record- revertheless. -The distributive trade was good, coliections were easy, failures were 1ot above the normal and orders for merchandise for spring delivery were fully as large as anticipated. There was 2 halting tendency in several lines, notably wool, which is now being taken less freely by the mills and Eastern dealcrs are showing less confidence in the future of this staple. Per contra, however, buyers in thi! State are even now in the San Joaquin Valley, where the spring shearing has just com- menced, which is considered by San Francisco opera- tors as presaginggan zctive and firm market. Provi- sions have been bobbing up and down at Chicago and other Western centers, but whenever a decline occurs it is wsually followed by a recovery the next day. The cereal markets have shown more tone, the ninor grains meeting with an improved demand at firmer prices at Chicago, while Australia is in this market for a large line of barley, which is now being shipped. There has been no pronounced change in wheat, the market having ruled dull all over the world for the past fortnight. Iron and steel appear quieter on the surface, but the consumptive demand is reported as heavy a2c ever, and the high prices for finished products are maintained without difficulty, with most of the mills sold far ahead into the year. Railroad earnings are rather less than at this time last year, but the only comment to be made in this con- nection is that considering the violent storms all over the country the wonder is that they are as large is they are. Were it not for an cecasional fiurry on account of legisiation or litiga- tion, both of which are the leading factors in the stock market at present, the street would be compar- atively liieless, as the general public seems more in- tent on making money in the old-fashioned merchan- dising way than by gambling in stocks. Strong inter- ests still stand under the market and it is not allowed to drop far; no matter what adverse influence attacks bonds and shares, Our Jocal California conditions remain about as before. We have had a rainy February and enough rain has now fallen to give reasonable assurance of heavy crops, so il we want to worry we will have to hunt up something c'se than the ¢rop outlook. At present there is no worrying material in sight. The dry commercial figures, which are accepted as the best barometers of the country’s commercial con- dition, continue to make a gratifying showing. The bank clearings for the past week were 11.3 per cent larger than during the corresponding week in 1001, but the aggregate was smaller than of late, footing p only about $1,952,000000, of which New York furnished $1,272940000. It is surprising “what an enormous proportion of the country’s business is done in New York. The failures for the week were 215, against 179 last year, but included none of suffi- cient consequence to attract attention. The financial situation in New York has lately been. improved by a recovery in Germany and Russia from the recent trade depression in both countries, and this, with the enormous stocks of actual gold held in the United States, gives a rather rosy aspect to the near future, The most pessimistic. searcher after impending disas- ter can find nothing at present to afford him an op- portunity to croak. It does not scem to be in the Shioe. ‘ % Wall street continues apathetic. Insurance against smallpox has become so much in vogue in Great Britain that it is said to have reached a volume of $200,000 a day in London alone, @nd it would seem the insurance men are making a big profit out of the scare. —— Russia seems quite willing to have an open door in Manchuria, but she wishes to have it understood that ghe is to go through first and those may follow who choose. / THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, A DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. FFORTS at Democratic Teorganizationsare go* E ing briskly forward in the East. New York has taken up the work where Massachusetts left off, and under the lead of*Nixon and Hill the once-warring factions of New York Democracy are being rapidly harmonized. Hill' has emerged from retirement and the obscure manipulation of in- | trigues and come to the front as'a ‘leader. He has made a speech outlining a platform (or\his party and has materially aided the work of the regrganizers action. - 4 P % Mr. Hill's speech delivered at a dinner of the Man- battan Club coincided ‘with the arrivak in New York’ of \Prince Henry of Prussia, and accordingly did not teceive the notice from the press which its ‘merits s | 2 notable utterance upon the immediate poliey of the Democratic party by @ tion and strong local prestige. It may. be.regarded as the first authoritative announcements of the pro-, gramme which the Eastern Democracy purposés:to' urge upon the pafty; and as Western and Southern Democracy have been discredited by the failures of Bryanism, it is fairly certain the programme will be accepted by the party as a whole. Mr. Hill declares for an affirmative platform de- manding: “A free constitutional government for all our possessions over which our flag of right floats,” the maintenance “of the Democratic doctrine of home rule for the States,” “the prohibition, restric- tion or regulation of dangerous corporate combina- tions of capital,” “the expression of nafional sympa- thy with the struggling republics of South Africa,” “the enactment of a tariff for revenue only,” “the en- forcement of the Monroe doctrine” and “the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the peo- ple.” He made no direct statement respecting free sil- ver issue, but said: “The Democratic party favors the maintenance of the public credit at all times, the steady reduction of the national debt and the payment of all obligations of the Government according. to their letter and,_ spirit.” ¢ The speaker emphasized the importance of the tariff ‘question @nd urged that it be made the chief though not the only issue in the coming campaign, After declaring that it is not a new controversy but an old one, he went on to say: “It is an issue upon which every Democrat in. this broad land can stand, without regard to past differences or ‘previous con- dition of sérvitude’ to any other issues, good, bad or indifferent. It is not a dead issue, but a living issue; it is not 4 passing issue, but an ever-present issue; it is not a questionable issue, but an honest issue, It is not 'a temporary expedient, but a permanent and substantial principle, which had been the cornerstone of our political faith during all the one hundred years of ‘our existence as a political organization. Jeffer- soff, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Marcy, Wright, ‘Cass, Tilden, Cleveland, Hendricks, Bryan and Stevenson have all advocated it. It has stood the test of age because it is right. + It has been ob- scured at times by other issues, but it has never ceased to be the party's faith.” Republicans will. make a mistake if they. underrate the significance of that utterance. Hill may not be a great statesman, but he is not a fool in matters of practical politics. The efforts of reciprocity men and other tariff tinkers to break the solidity of the pro- tective system show that there is danger in the issue. It is-clear that if the system be broken in one place it wiil be difficult to prevent a break elsewhere. Hill has been prompt to see the advantage offered in- the reciprocity schemes, and he declared reciprocity to be a Democratic_policy. He did not undertake to explain how a tariff devised solely for revenue pur- poses would afford any means for arranging reci- procity treaties, but that gap in his logic would not materially weaken the onslaught of the combined free traders and reciprocity men if once an opportu- nity were given them by any divigion in the ranks of the protectionists. Hill' cheered his party by declaring that their op- portunity has come. “If,” said-he, “the expansion of our tfade'and commerce is the pressing problem of the time, why should'not the Democracy press it for- ward. It is an issue in regard to' which they have been always right. " If reciprocity treaties are in har- mony with the ‘spirit of the tirhes and measures of re- taliation are not, why should those treaties.be con- fined to a few countries and why should not the tariff barriers to commercial: intercourse be removed’ by statute as well as by treaty where other countries have been ‘always desirous of free ports and are still so desirous?” g5 ot Such is the issue which Hill puts before the coun- try as the programme of a great political party. It will be well for Republicans to take heed of it. If any encouragement be given to the movenient, this country will have to vndergo another long -agitation, which, by threatening to overthrow the established fiscal system, will menace every industry and’ weil nigh paralyze trade It Jooks as if the Canadian people were drifting in our direction so rapidly that annexation is bound to come, for the Montreal Star says: “An honest elec- tion has become such a rare thing in Canada in re- cent years that to speak of the people governing the country is satire,” CHANCE FOR NEW SPATES, ESPITE the early reporis that lhcse was D slight chance for cither of the Territorial ap- plicants for statehood to receive admission at this session, it appears there is, after all, a very good prospect for all three of them. The House Committee on Territories has decided to report bills for their admission, and as the decision was unani- mous it is believed the report will be favorably re- ceived by the House. Each of the applicants has a good claim for admis- sion to the dignity and privileges of statehood. Each of them is now, in area, population and. wealth, supe- rior to some of the States in the Union, and each of them, moreover, has a bright prospect. of rapid growth and development in the immediate future. Oklahoma has a larger population than either Dela- ware, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Wy- oming, Utah or Vermont. New Mexico Has a larger population than er Delaware, Idaho, Wyoming or Nevada, and Arizona, the least populous of the three, has a larger population than either Nevada or Wy- oming. MLy There was at one time considerable objection to the character of the. population in Arizona and New Mexico, but that objection no longer holds. The mi- gration to those Territories, as well as that to Okla- homa, has been of the typical American character, and the recent census statistics of schools and indus- tries show them to be making a genuine American progress, both mater‘iafly and morally. " There is not athe slightest reason to doubt the capacity of either i by furnishing them with a definite " programme -of: statesman of “natignal reputa- | the temporary prominence of | ‘| erease of wages it will also lead to bftter systems of one of them for seli-government, as the Indian and | hali-breed ‘Spanish «inhabitants are no longer the dominant-elemengs of the population. 5 Both .political _parfies have in their national plat- forms declared-themselves in favor of the early ad- il'nissi(:v'n of the three Territories. There is, therefore, i@ pledge which ought to be fulfilled at this session if ‘possible. ' Political “¢onsiderations, of .coutse,: always have weight with Congress.in matters of ‘this kind, but-in' this case there is gothing in the political situa- tion to'make!it worth while for either party to 0ppose admission.” . In" 1900;@klahoma and: New Mexico -clécted Republican Delegates to 'Congress, while Ari- zona elected a'De: - “Honors, then, were about demmgerat. as even as they couldibe.., The, main. thing, howeves, sue before the country, is that there 1;@*&1 n ly to_‘ar'r"ay- the new States of nole” which is againbr_‘thc;iqte;reéé;'6‘? the East. - The time. is there- fore propitious to the claims of the applicants, and the country: genérallys would be glad to see, their stars of stateliobd blazoned upon the national banner on the next Fourth of July. The semi-annual report of the London-and‘North» Aestern Railway'shows that by the adoption of “the American system”of ‘railway work the traffic receipts shew an increase of £39,270 and the working expenses a decredse of.£32,809; s it is ‘safe to say the stock- holders zre warm in'their approval of the American idea. f MIGRATION SOUTHWARD. NE of the notable featutes of the census O statistics for 1900 is the, revelation that the Southern States-have begun' to increase in population as rapidly as the North. For a long time there was a larger migration of Southérn men to the North and West than of Northern and Western men to the South. During the past decade the prevailing migration was in the other direction. The South not only held her own against the North, but man- aged to add to her population a sufficient number of immigrants to make up for the large European mi- gration which'is so pctent a factor in increasing the Northern population, The southward movement is attributed mainly to the development of manufacturing industries in that section. As the Southern people have had no expe- fience in those lines,of work there has been a demand for Northern help at every new manufacturing center, A considerable number of country people have gone to the cities and towns'for work in the factories, but the number does not séem to_have been sufficient to affect the former proportion of urban and rural popu-~ lation, so it seems certainuthe increase in the fowns must have come from the North'to a very large ex- tent, A : The South Has no Jasge citics, and the industrial movement has not asiyet tended to produce them. Most of the factories vil been established in com- paratively small towns, €6+ that the growth of that | section has been more notable in“towns of less than 8000 inhabitants than in larger towns. 7The percent- age of increase in towns of.different populations is thus given by ‘the census bulletins: 5 In places— South. United States. 41.0 25,000 and over. - 310 . 2.9 23.1 v 813 6.7 v 444 33.0 11,9 9.4 fference in the tenden- cies the populations of the South and the Union | as .a whole, but it is not likel, 3 difference will ever be so notable again. 'South- ern papers report that there is° now a great | deal of complaint in the rural districts of a lack of labor caused by the migration of negroes as well as { whites to the cities. It appears, ‘then, that manufac- turing is having the same’ effect in those States that {it has had everywhere else, and by the time the next census is taken it wili doubtless be found that the urban movement has been fully developed in most if not in all of the Southern States, and that the larger towns will show greater proportionate gains than the smaller ones. £ The drift of. the negroes has' given rise to com- plaints ‘onthe part of the. planters, Some of them urge the adoption of vagrancy:laws which will force! idle negroes out of the ‘cities to. the country, where they are needed. . Others are urging the importation of Chinese. It is not at all probable that eithe- of the proposed i)lans will avail anything. There is no proof that the mass of the negroes who go to the cities remain idle when they get there, so vagrancy laws would not return to the rural districts any whose return would be desirable. | On the other hand, the Chinese suggestion has met with no favorable re- sponse from the people generally. As an illustration of the ‘Southern view of the sub- ject, it is worth noting that a correspondent of the Atlanta’ Constitution in a recent letter to that paper said: “While we are stfaining to send missionaries to China to improve their moral and religious condi- tions, in.the very next breath we admit that a flow of emigrants from that country would improve us and is almost a necessity. How sad does it seem when we of Georgia know of what a blessed thing we had in the rural homes, and then to think “that there of |COMING OF VIRGINIA FOLTZ EN and women are ever at- tracted- by beauty, admire . the, stylishly-gowned -while they gaze at their latest Paris - creations, and never fail to be interested in clev- ., ©' ermess, hut when a young ‘woman possessing the three qualifica- tions strikes San Francisco she is ‘bound- “to . make - Something of a stir. The newest comer, perhaps, of this - description s Miss Vir- ginia-Fokz, who has left gay New York Wwith its stronghold "of artists to have a Tittle visit with her clever mother, Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz, the bright and prominent lawyer, who enjoys the dis- tingtion of being the only woman in her profession in this part of the country, Possibly. Miss Foltz is indebted to her mother in moré ways than one for the high standard of ability she has shown, for Mrs. Foltz -has been very successful financially .in the legal profession and has spared no expense in giving-this young- est daughter, as- well as the other four children, a liberal education. Miss Foitz 1 has studied voice in America and Europe for the last-ten years, and, while she has already had excelleht offers for the ops eratic stage, she js still ambitious to make the most of her gifts. For the last two years Miss Foltz has been in New York, where she has been singing in opera comique with Lilllan Russell, and Fay Termpleton, who have great hopes for her future. E But the rare quality of her voice is only one of her virtues. She has a pretty face, a bewitching manner and a figure that sets off her gowns to perfection. And such dreams as Miss Foltz is wearing! ‘Words seem altogether inadequate to de- scribe their loveliness. One that T con- sider a poem is a gown of white Renajs- sance lace with zigzag strips of white silkk inserted in the lace. Perhaps the reckless extravagance of Parisian de- slgners adds to the charming effects pro- duced, for underneath the lace gown is one of white chiffon, then still another 0f cream chiffon, and still another of corn-colored silk. Somehow the white over the two thicknesses of cream subdue the yellow = tint and make a soft background for the white lace. THe dainty elbow sleeves are bell- shaped, ending with plaited ruffles of white chiffon. Frou-frou flounces of chif- fon also furnish the bottom of the tratned skirt, Otherwist the gown is quite plain and the quiet elegance {8 more pleasing than would be any attempt at garniture, Another exquisite gown I8 of white silk mull inserted with little squares of white Valénclennes lace edged with the tinfest of lace ruffles, At the bottom of the skirt 18 a solld row of the lace’squares, but there is no other trimming. The trim little bodles fasten down the back with HE superiority of naval vessels built at San Francisco over those con- structed in Eastern yards is proved I by Senate document No. 175, of Feb- . ruary 10. It is a tabulated statement from the Navy Department giving the first cost and subsequent amounts of money expended in repairs of vessels built since 1833, bringing the data up to June 30, 1900. The most prominent ships. are the Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon, prac- tically completed at the same time. The completed cost of these vesels was $5,983,- 371 98, $6,047,117 9% and $6,575,08276 in the order named, and includes speed pre- miums, which were $38,500, $100,000 and '$175,000, respectively. Deducting the speed premiums the Oregon appears to have ex- ceeded the cost of the Indiana by $455,161 and that of the Massachusetts by about $452,000, which is nearly 8 per cent over .ie ‘Eastern buflt ships. Tp offset this the re- pairs to the Indiana have required $283,- 134 96, the Massachusetts §224,38% 19 and the Oregon $67,758 09. It is especially in the engine and boiler rooms that the Oregon has manifested its vast superiority, for while the repairs to the Indiana’s ma- chinery cost $117,402 93 and the Massachu- setts’ $107,849 79, the Oregon’s repairs were only $10,628 39. The latter ship has -steamed ten miles to one mile of the other two, and proved herself the best ship in any navy. She was cheap at $5,000,000, and the Indiana and Massachusetts were “lame ducks” as compared with the Ore- gon and costly at any price. The Secretary of the Navy refers in his latest report to the necessity of barracks in preference to recelving ships for hous- ing enlisted men. He expresses the qpin- ion that “it, of course, will be many years before any vessel of the modern navy will become sufficiently obsolete to be utilized for this purpose.” There is a singular discrepancy between this expression of opinion and the actual condition of affairs. The Sécretary’s report is dated November 4, 1901, and the Columbia, a cruiser of the modern navy, commissioned April 23, 1884, was substituted September 1 of last year for the old Vermont as a receiving ship at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and is Indi- cated as such In the latest navy register. The Columbla’s cost was $3,900,011 26, in- cluding $350,000 for speed premiums, There arg two explanations which ‘'may be of- should ever appéar a willingness to give up this bless- edness to a race ‘of heathens whose God is not our God and whom we can never hope to Christianize.” Evidently the South is slowly coming into touch with the ‘life of the nation at large. She will find that an increase of the urban population will do her no harm, and if the lack of farm labor leads to an in- farming and larger profits for the planters, At a woman's club in Chicago the other day there fefed to reconcile the Secretary's appar- @ il deleieled PERSONAL MENTION. Baron Leo von Rosenberg is reglstered at the Palace from New York. * L. Hartman, a cigar manufacturer of ‘Washington, D, C., Is staying at the Call. fornia. George W. Mapes, a large cattle of Reno, Nev., I8 one of the arrival the Russ. was a discussion on the question whether men should be admitted to membership in the club, and one lady said: “I don't object to men. I may have reasons for not marrying one of them, but none for shutting them out of clubs and discussions.” Another woman was in favor of admitting them, and said, “Men are good things.” A third member advised, “Let the men come in, pay the dues, take part in the discus- sions, arrange the tea tables and receive the ladies, but don’t let them vote.” ' At the conclusion of the discussion one man was elected to membership, and now it remains to be seen whether ‘he will prove an example of warning or a model whose exemplary conduct will open the door for many another who wishes the privilege, 'of paying dues, arranging tea tables and passing out when a vote is taken. At the latest, count there were something more than 11,000 bills before Congress, but it is safe to say | most of them are not worth the trouble taken in counting them. « () —_—— R. G. Barton, proprietor of the Barton Opera-house of Fresno, Is at the Califor- nia with his wife. James R. Garfield, son of the martyr President, James A, Garfield, is registred at the Palace from Menton, Ohlo. Rev. J, C. Gillan of Chicago and Rev. John J. McCann of Eigin, Ill., have re- turned from a visit to Mexico and are guests at the California. State Senator M. A. Leddy of El Paso County, Colo., is heading a party of tour- ists, who are registered at the California. The party includes Alex Anderson.and H. C. Bush, railroad men, and F. 8. Sargent, a banker of Denver, Colo. ~John T. Macleod, a resident of Manila for the last twenty years, arrived on the steamer Coptic yesterday and registered at the Palace. Macleod is president. of the Compania Maritima of Manila, one of the largest steamship lines running to the islands. Quality makes price. Were Burnett's Vanilla Extract 1o better than other extracts its price would be the same. Once tried always used. s Sy it The word “mile” comes from the Latin cmilie.” o thousand. A th ' paces A Kansas prophet declares the dead will ‘rise in 1915, so those Pennsylyania fellows who have been voting for Andrew Jackson right along may get an inning after.all. ) of a marching soldier made the Roman mile. s ———————— . HOTEL DEL CORONADO, cholcest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, CREATES A STIR Oregon Fa l | MISS VIRGINIA FOLTZ, WHOSE GOWNS ARE THE ENVY OF BOCIETY. +_—_———_———+ true schoolgirl simplicity. The gown is worn over pink silk. Miss Foltz is a declded poster girl In her long black silk coat with its high, flaring collar and broad revers down tho front from head to feet. The entire coat is_lined with white duchess satin, as are alsb the wide revers, and worn over a white gown'the effect is strikingly ar- tistic. A black crepe de chine creation, bearing in its originality of garniture the Parisian ent inconsisteney, one being that the Co- lumbia, after barely eight years’ exist- ence, is to be regarded as obsolete, or else that the Secretary is not kept posted on what is going on in his department. W wie The foundation stone of the dockyards extension at Hongkong was laid January 15 last. The actual wofk has, however, been in progress for some time and 1is he- ing vigorously pushed. The total area to be occupied by the new works is 32% acres, and include a basin of 9 1-3 acres, with a depth of 30 feot at the lowest tides, a drydock 550 feet in length, building sites, gun parks, etc. The water front, 4550 feet in length, is constructed of concrete blocks laid to a depth of forty-six feet be- low water level. A bluejacket and a marine were recent- ly caught smuggling a bottle of whisky on board their ship while at one of the British dockyards, and in due course of time were properly punished for the of-| fense. The confiscated article was con- sumed by the officers of the ship, and Labouchere expresses the opinion that the receiver is as much amenable to punish- ment as the enlisted men whe were caught in the act of bringing liquor on board ship. \ Eight battleships of the Royal Sover- eign class, launched in 1891-92, are shortly to have improvements made which will greatly increase their fighting efficiency. The six-inch guns on the upper deck are to be protected by casemates, and the same decision has been reached as to the Centurion and Barfleur. Hitherto only four out of the ten guns forming the heavy quickfiring batteries of these ten ships have been protected by casemates. Two British battleships, the Bulwark and Irresistible, of 15,000 tons, have at last been compieted. The -Bulwark was built at the Devonport dockyard, her keel be- ing lald ‘March 20, 1899, and is to be placed in commission on the 1Sth of this month. The Irresistible was built at Chatham, keel laid April 12, 1898, and was commis- sloned February 4 last. There has been quite a rivalry between the dockyards in trying to make records for expeditious work and the Devonport yard, although not so well equippéd as the other dock- yards, has turned out ships in better time than fts competitors. ' The tfme required to complete the Irresistible, which was ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NO PREMQUM~—N. O., Alameda, Cal. A halt dime'%f 1853 does not command & COMIC ACTORS—E. Q., City. This cor- respondent asks for the names of the two most comic actors of a certaln amateur club in this city and adds: ‘“Telephone to the manager and he will tell you."” This department wishes to inform the correspondent that as he knows where he can obtain the information he is as well able to telephone to the manager as the representative of this department s, PLATINUM—G. M., City. If you will go to the library of the State Mining Bu- reau in the Ferry bullding in this city you will find books that will tell you how to separate platinum from iron ore. The old system was to remove the plat- inum from the metal with which it was assoclated by the successive action of ni- tric and hydro-chloric acld. A later sys- tem or method is that of Delville and Debray, known as the welding process. This department has not the space to describe the two processes. . LETTERS IN TRANSIT-A. C. T., City. Probably the law in regard to mail matter that has been stamped that you inquire about is the following from the United States Revised Statutes: “Every route agent, postal clerk or other rrier shall receive any matter pre- sented to him if prepaid by stamps and deliver the same for ‘maliling at the next postoffice at which he shall arrive, but no fees shall be allowed hfm “therefor.”, There Is no Federal law that says that it is a for a verson having a letter properly stamped to neglect to drop it'in the first mfl” . box reached.’ " Bhe was formerly a pupil of Miss Laki IN SOCIETY( stamp, is worth mention. Thé skirt has a deep plaited flounce of soft black silk. The yoke of the bodice and the lower part of the sleeve are of heavy black lace over white chiffon silk. Between the lace and the white chiffon, however. is a layeZ of black cniffon which softens tne giaiiue effect' of the white, rendering the entire ensemble more in harmony. All of Miss Foltz's gowns are quite sim- ple, as she is not a fluffy girl and fussy clothes do not suit her. Permit me to add, however, that jewels are decidedly becoming, and Miss Foltz has some very pretty stones. Perhaps the handsomest one is a large pin, a diamond horseshoe with an elaborate fleur de lis of diamonds in the center. It is a beautiful design, especially made by Tiffany (I have heard), so the horseshoe may be separated from the centerpiece and the two designs worn separately. . Society has scarcely had a glimpse as yet of Mrs. James L. Board, who has come to this.city to escape the cold weather in New York and has taken apartments at the Palace Hotel with hewgy husband, the clever millionaire. The Boards travel a great deal, and it is to be hoped that they will not flit away to their favorite home at Port Huron, Mich., fore she has given us a chancd to en- r:y the sunshine of her fair presence, for Mrs. Board is certainly beautiful to look upon, having youth, personal charms and a bright mind in her faver. It is surmised that her husband appreciates- this fact from the generous gifts he showers upon her. It will be remembered that Mrs. Board is the happy possessor of the famous shamrock of diamonds and rare pearls which was so much admired at the World’s Fair. The three large pearls—one in each leaf—are the largest that San Francigeo has seen for a long time. One pearl is of the rarest shell pink, one is creamy and the other almost black. They are surrounded with scores of diamonds and worn as a D:ndl.fll. A Mr. Alfred Sutro and Miss Rose New- mark are engaged! The news will come in the nature of a decided surprise to the many friends of the well-known couple, but as they deserve so much happiness congratulations cannot be too genuine. Miss Newmbark Is perhaps more widely known in Los Angeles, where she has been residing for some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Newmark. school in Ban Francisco, where she wa an much loved as admired for her charm- ing qualities, Mr. Sutro Is an unusually bright and prosperous attorney, and a graduate of the Harvard Law School. He has been adsoclated for some years with Mr. E. 8. Pillsbury, and their united ef- forts have been an honor to the legal pro- fession. The date of the wedding is as yet quite indefinite. SALLY SHARP. L e B e e o e e o WAR VESSELS CONSTRUCTED ON THE PACIFIC COAST ARE MUCH SUPERIOR TO THOSE BUILT IN THE EAST Facts and Figures Regarding Three Battleships in the American Navy Prove That the r Excels Its Sister Ships. 1383 days, is only slightly better than that of the United States battleship Iowa, built six years ago, for which the cor- responding perfod was 1410 days. e - A submarine boat 100 feet in length has been ordered from the Viekers Comp: for the British navy and is to be com- pleted to participate in the naval review during the coronation of King Edward. The revised naval budget of Japan for the ensuing fiscal year has been passed by the House of Representatives and pro- vides $10,674,526 for ordinary expenses and $3,538,292 for extraordinary expenditures, making a total of $14,212, The amount voted for 1901-1902 was $1 1633, YT In Austria seven ships are under con- struction at Pola and Trieste and com- prise three battleships, one cruiser, two river monitors and one torpedo depot ship. One of the battleships is a duplicate of the Hapsburg type, of 8340 tons and eighteen knots speed. The other two have a length of 3% feet by 72 feet beam and will exceed 10,000 tons displacement and are to steam nineteen knots. Their bat- teries are said to consist of four 9.45-inch In turrets; eight 7.48-inch, six 5.9-inch, fourteen 14-pounders and sixteen machine guns. ‘While the German training ship Moltke was at Baltimore last month fourteen Germans of various occupations applied for examination with a view of entering the German navy. There were three butchers, two clerks, one each of laborer, locksmith, railroad employe, hairdresse: piano polisher and waiter, and only two were sallors. The latter were applicants for “unter officers,” or warrant officers’ positions. They will serve ome year on probation, and if married their wives must not be of the laboring class. It is evi. dent that salary is not so much of an ob. Ject, but that the first love for the Father. land induces these men to join the Ger- man navy. [ e The Argentine has ord arm crulsers ’rom Ansaldo, 3‘2’-:’»{"’1»..:"3‘; of 8500 tons, 17,000 horsepower and 1 knots speed, The ge: the San Martin .'.":&'&r".’&.':':‘" - the Cristobal Colon, su e & nk in the fight of L) A CHANCE TO SMILE. “And mo you are doing charitable w In the slums, Mrs, Nznmn?. 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