The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1902, Page 4

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OAKLAND OFFICE STATEMENT CF CIRCULAT/ON OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of February, 1902. 1118 Broadway February 1 .+60,560 | February 15.....58,730 . February 2 0,690 | February 16.....70,480 February 3 .59,180 | February 17 090 February 4 X February February & 159,120 | February February € 780 | February 20 February 7 58,440 | February February =~ ,360 | February Februury 9 .69,080 | February February 10 55,930 | February Feb y 11 February iz ,350 | February i3 February February veeeeeeses 1,605,350 CAL!NRNI; STATE OF CITY AXND COUNTY OF BAN mscxsco.t 3id On this 15th day of March, 1902, personally appeared before me. Willlam T. Hess, a Notary Public in and for the city and county aforesald, W. J. Martin, who, being sworn sccording to law, declares that he is the business manager of the San Francisco Call, a daily mewspaper published in the City and County of San Francisco, Staté of California, and that there were printed and distributed during the month of February, 1902, one million six hundred and ninety-five thou- sand three hundred and eighty (1,695,380) coples of the said mewspaper, which number divided by twenty-eight (the Bumber of ‘W. J. MARTIN. e Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of , 1902, W. T. HESS. ; Public In @&nd for the City and County of San Fran- Eldg. cisco, State of California, Room 1015, Claus Spreck AMUSEMENTS. California—""The Den “The Serenad Columbia—*“The Christian.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—*La Tosca.’ Fischer's Theater—*‘Little Christopher.” Mechanies’ Pavilion—Norris & Rowe's Big Shows. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. ‘m. G. Leyng—Tuesday, March 25, at 11 o'clock, By Wn Horses, Vehicles, etc., at 721 Howard street. CHEERFUL COMMERCIAL REPORTS. OMMERCIAL reports from all over the 1 country indicated a general expansion in trade last week. The bank clearings did not corroborate this, as they showed a loss of 10.4 per cent from 1901, hence, while the demand for mer- chandise and produce might have, and probably did, exhibit pronounced improvement, the aggregated business, counted in dollars and cents, was smaller. This would seem to show that the improvement was rather in jobbing and retail quarters than in the heavier importing and wholesale lines. Be this as'it may, there was certainly a quickening in distribu- tive trade, while the export demand for wheat was better than for some time back, The recent rains throughout the winter wheat belt depressed prices to a point where the European countries could purg chase, and the American markets were thereby placed once more on an exporting basis, a position which they had been above for months as far as active ship- ping was concerned. That Europe wants our wheat was shown by her immediate response to the decline, and sales for foreign shipment during the close of the week were very large. The other staples also showed increasing activity. A brisk demand for nails, hard- ware and lumber indicated large building operations, and Pittsburg reported an enormous demand for structural material, especially for office buildings, railroad cars and bridges and viaducts. The general demand for iron and steel, however, is not as ex- cited as last year, and it is expected that by the 1st of July this industry will have gotten back to normal conditions as far as prompt deliveries are concerned. The boot and shoe manufacturers are busy on old orders, but new business is rather light. An advance in the wages of cotton operatives has increased the cost of production and print cloths are higher, though Southern cotton centers are reporting dull- ness in the wholesale trade, with slower collections. Woolens are quiet, though the raw wools are firm under moderate stocks at Eastern centers. The re- tail business of the country is reported exception- ally fine, and the car famine is now so far relieved that but little is now heard of that shortage in cars which hampered trade so seriously for almost‘a year and materially reduced the commercial statistics of the country. An encouraging feature of the situation is the decrease in failures, those for the week num- bering 200, against 224 for the corresponding week last year. . There is not much going on in Wall street just now. The leading financiers, even those who are at the head of the enormous combinations of capital, admit that if left to itself the stock market would go down, as prices are too high, but they candidly say that they will not let it go down—that is, until they see their way to do so without seriously disturbing conditions. As they control the situation they can do as they please. But the country is so prosperous and so flush with ready money that evén under pres- ent conditions if the stock market should go down general bysiness would probably not be affected. The situation .in California remains precisely as for the past year or two, barring the marked influx of new people and new funds into San Francisco and the hali-dozen counties around the bay. The amount of new building going on in San Francisco is re- markable, as is the large increase in the number of its inhabitants, both temporary and permanent. Vast sums of gold coin are now being released in this city in payment for the Market-street railroad system and in the settlement of immense estates and the con- struction of new edifices, and the city is enjoying a commercial activity highly gratifying to its citizens, violently. TRAIN ROBBERY. ONGRESSMAN KAHN has made a sugges- . tive and valuable report for the Judiciary Committee -on a bill to suppress train rob- bery. Railways are mail routes and come under Federal jurisdiction. Mr. Kahn's report takes some of the wind out of the sails of our pride by compar- ing our criticism of brigandage in Turkey, Greece |and Italy with the actval facts concerning train brig- andage in our own country. The only fault to be found with the committee bill is its lack of adequate penalty. If train bandits take life the. bill fixes the ceath penalty; if they kill no one the punishment is imprisonment of not less than five nor more than ten years. This is wholly inade- quate. The penalty for - train robbery should be death. Every such robbery involves interference with the 1unning of the train and every such inter- ference causes the risk of derailment or collision and endangers the lives of passengers. There are statutes that attach the death penalty to the crim.e of arson when committed in a building where there are hu- man beings. Under such circumstances arson be- comes potential murder, and should pay the penalty of that crime. Train robbing should have the same treatment. C A Federal statute on the subject has many advan- tages over a local law. Trial of such offenders in a Federal court and infliction of the death penalty upon conviction will be a quite different affair from arraignment in a State tribunal. In criminal society the train robber figures as an aristocrat. His position is of that high rank occu- pied by the Bulgarian bandits, who are held in awe and respect by the communities which know their crimes and shelter them from punishment. In this State we have seen train robbers made heroes by a yellow newspaper, which succeeded in generating a diseased sentiment that saved the necks of the crim- inals, who in eluding pursuit committed more than one murder. The chief of these miscreants was set upon a pedestal to be admired by the unthinking, and he published interviews upon such psychological subjects as the time of day or night at which a man engaged in criminal enterprise feels the most or the least courage. This course was pursued until peo- ple who should have khown better condoned his scarlet crimes on the ground that a railroad deserved to be robbed! Proceedings in the Federal courts are not per- mitted to be turned into complimentary receptions tendered to such criminals, Their legal rights are protected, but they arc not privileged to®turn judi- cial proceedings into z farce by the posing and in- terviewing which impregs others, of weak morals, that crime is a heroic business worthy of all praise and of frequent imitation. When a train robbzr is imprisoned for his offense he still remains a hero to such admirers and his con- finement is not reformatory. He is apt to consider Limself a deeply wronged man and to accuse himself only of being caught. His crime does not disturb his conscience in the least. He is enlarged at the end of his sentence tc be looked upon as a much injured man, and to seek the first opportunity to re- peat his exploits. Train-robbing is a very cowardly crime. It re- quires more address than courage. As usually com- mitted the robber compels some member of the trgin crew to do the dangeious part of it, under threat of death. The engineer is made to obey the robber's orders with a pistol at his head, and the fireman is by the same means cocmpelled to place the dynamite if an express or mail car is to be blown open and to stand between the robber and the gun of the express messenger. The commission of the crime has al- ways the intention to murder as its necessary accom- paniment, and its successful execution would seldom be possible if intended murder were not used in the act. Death should be the penalty, and when the rope has choked a few of these miscreants the heroic ele- ment will cease to be attractive. | Modoc County seems determined, like an incor- rigible criminal, to bear the scarlet badge of shame in the community of California counties. It appears im- probable that the murderous lynchers of the county will ever be made to pay the penalty for their heinous offense. W doing a good deal of politics during his lec- ture tour of the Eastern States, and has thereby greatly disturbed the reorganizers. A num- ber of Democratic National Committeemen who were recently in New York City are reported to have been quite frank in avowing their dislike of the situa- tion. Some of them ceclared Bryan to be a political nuisance, 2 man who has outlived his usefulness and who, being politically dead, ought to stay buried. It was also stated by these committeemen that the Bry- anites no longer control the committee, and ' that there would be no large amount of dissatisfaction if the Bryanite chairman of the committee, Senator Jones of Arkansas, were to lose his seat in the Sen- ate and be retired from national politics along with Bryan himself. L While the committeemen who hang around New York hotels entertain such sentiments, Mr. Bryan continues to take himself quite seriously as the per- petual candidate of his party, the man whom destiny has chosen to be the next Democratic President of the United States. During his visit to Washington Bryan received a good deal of attention, and in commenting upon the impression made the Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution says: “William Jennings Bryan undoubtedly regards himself still a Presiden- tial probability. He made this pretty clear in talks he had with Democratic Senators and Representa- tives here to-day; mcre, however, by what he did not say than by what he did. He also made it clear that he believes every Democrat in public life either‘ reads the Commoner or should do so. 1o each man to whom he talked he made some refererice to his paper.” . 3 In the course of his talk Bryan undertook to in- struct Democratic Senators and Representatives how they should voté on every important question before' Congress. About the only issue on which he was not ready to give advice or command was that of the choice of chairman of the Democratic Congressiogal campaign committee. On well nigh évery other topic he was free and firm in speaking. He even tried to cheer his despondent followers and told them: “The Democratic outlook is good. We have a prospect of carrying the next House, and such a victory this fall would pave the way to triumph in the Presidential campaign.” This reappearance of Bryan as an active cam- | paigner for the Presidential nomination confuses the Iplans of the reorganizers and disturbs their calcula- TOO MUCH BRYAN. ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN has been tions. They have been making their plans upon the assumption that Bryan is out of the fight and the way open for a new leader. They now find themselves confronted by the silver man and threatened with 2 faction fight. The Richmond Times, which has been la gold paper and an opponent of Bryan from the |outset, mournfully says: “Mr. Bryan’s - political funeral has been time and again preached by those who thought that he was politically dead, but they reckoned without the corpse.” Mr. Bryan is very much alive and he is going to give the Democratic party a great deal of trouble yet.” R e e T tive legal reforms.” Among the aims spécified in their programme is ghat of uplifting the character of the bar by having unworthy members disbarred. A scheme like that would be worth trying in San Fran- cisco, even if it did originate in Chicago. A POST CHECK CURRENCY. VERY ONE who has had occasion to send E small amounts of money through the mails is aware of the inconvenience or the risk entailed. The only safe way is that of making use of a postal money order, but to obtain the order even in a city is a matter of considerable trouble, for one must go to a postoffice and stand in line waiting his turn, while to the farmer and others who live remote from postoffices the inconvenience is much greater. To many persons, indeed, a trip to the postoffice to get a money order means the loss of half a day. On the other hand, to send money through the mails by any other means subjects the sender to the risk of losing it. These inconveniences and risks have long been felt and many efforts have been made to deévise a feasible plan for getting rid of them. The desired object seems to be attained by a system devised by Mr. Gardner of Michigan and submitted in a bill now before Congress. The measure provides for print- ing the one, two and. five dollar bills in the future with blank spaces on the face. These bills of course pass from hand to hand before the blanks are filled. When it is desired to send one in the mails the blanks are filled in witl e n{me of the payee, his city and State, a 2-cent postage stamp is placed in an- cther blank space and canceled with the initials of the sender in ink, the name of the sender is signed on the back, and, presto! his money has suddenly ceased to exist as currency and has been transformed into a check on the United States Government, hav- ing all the safety of any bank check, and ready for inclosure in his letter. When the payee receives this check he treats it just as he would any other check —indorses it, goes to the nearest bank or postoffice and deposits it or has it cashed. The paid check finally reaches the Treasury Department, when it is replaced by a new one with the spaces unfilled. This keeps the circulation 2t par. - No change whatever is made in the financial policy of thel Government, the only change being in the character of the printing on the bills of five dollars and under. The advantages which would follow the adoption of the Gardner system are so apparent as to hardly require statement. The postal checks would be in circulation as currency and would be readily obtain- able at any time and from almost any store. They would, in fact, be as common as bank bills and serve the same purposes until made payable by the sender to a particular person, after which the bill would be- come virtually a check. With such a postal currency in circulation there would be a large increase of ac- tivity in nearly all lines of trade. The adoption of the system would be especially beneficial to rural communities whose postoffices are not money order offices and who therefore have hardly any safe way of sending small amounts of money under the present system. It is worth noting that the inventor of the post check plan, who is a successful business man and who has patented the idea, offers, in case of its adoption, to turn the patents and all rights under them over to the Government free cf any cost or charge whatever. He considers that should the system be adopted the consciousness of having accomplished a reform of such importance to the general public and business nien will more than compensate him for his time and trouble. The measure being one for the general benefit. its adoption should be strongly urged. It will be well, therefore, for those who are interested in the subject tc write to their Congressmen in support of it. —— THE BURDEN OF ROYALTY. ISPATCHES from London giving accounts D of the first’ “court” held by the new King and Queen were devoted largely to the changes made by the new sovereigns from the cus- toms that prevailed at such functions under the old Queen. The function was far more brilliant than anything of the kind in the later years of Victoria, but as that was a matter of course, not much has been said of it. The feature of the new function that most impressed London was the abolition of a good many of the old ceremonial observances upon which Victoria insisted, and .the substitution of forms which relieve the court of a great deal of the former awkwardness. One report of the function, after describing with due lavishness of rhetoric the magnificent display of jewelry and unprecedented toilets gleaming under the glow of myriad lights, and so forth, says: “At the drawing-rooms Queen Victoria stood at one end of a long line of royalties, beginning with the Prince. and Princess of Wales, and every lady as she was presented had to make a courtesy to each, member of the royal family placed at very short intervals. This awkward performance is now abolished. The mem- bers of the royal family and other members of the court are now ranged in a long line behind the King's and Queen's throne chairs. Several yards in front of the thrones the King and Queen stood and those presented bowed to them alone. This saved much time, as did another innovation, To-night none save Embassadors .and Ministers shook hands, | whereas all the debutantes used to do so. Another difference was that the King and Queen remained throughout, responding to each person presented- with a slight bow, while the line of royalties and court personages, ranged - in the distance behind, stood practically motionless throughout the rather less than two hours that the presentations occupied.” The point in this story of most interest to Ameri- cans is the part taken by the royal family and the higher courtiers in the function. Just imagine standing for two hours without having a word to say or even a nod to give to anybody at the reception, The situation is worse than that of a supe at a theater serving without pay. Any citizen in this country who has a chance to dance at every frolic he attends has fio cause to envy Princes or wish he were one of them. « A number of lawyers in Chicago have organized an association for the purpose of “promoting legisla- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1902. ALL HER FRIENDS FIND DELIGHT F it is an accepted truth that all the world loves a lover, there is no deny- ing the fact that all/the women love a bride, and what is ‘more interesting than to make a character study of the chosen one after the happy man de- clares his choice to the world? We take to ourselves the flattering unction that ‘we are much more capable of judging her than the groom could possibly be in the blindness of his love, and we realize a satisfaction most profound in approving his selection or take a certain pride in our own prudence when we disagree. From the day Rowena Burns' engagement was announced to the immediate present, covering her pretty wedding yesterday, we have heartily indorsed all the good things we have heard about Charles Dun- phy, and knew he must be a splendid fellow to recognize such a priceless treas- ure and make it his own. We have known 11 along that Rowena Burns was one of he rarest in “the rosebud garden of girls.”” Almost any one can smile under favorable conditions and look pleasant in a ballroom, but it requires a sweet, gen- erous nature like the one in point to radi- ate sunshine and show gentle considera- | tion under all circumstances to every one she meets. Is it so surprising, then, that such scores of presents were recelved from admiring friends? It would be impossible to describe such a bewildering array, for a large room of the Burns' residence was entirely filled with wedding gifts. That immense chest of silverware from the Dunphys was a magnificent affair. The wooden chest itself was elaborately carved and fully four feet long and two deep, containing a number of large and exquisitely wrought things, too costly to be duplicated among the other presents. Colonel and Mrs. Burns presented their daughter with a grand collection of jew- els, many of which are vefy old. The necklace worn with the bridal robe was especially interesting, having once been the property of Marie Antoinette. It was a single row of large diamonds, suspended from a fine gold chain. The bride also wore the groom's gift—a diamond sun- burst, consisting of ten brown and cherry diamonds, set in a circle and many white ones within. The stones were especially fine and set with true Tiffany art. The bride was certainly a picture in her clinging princess gown of white panne satin, with the filmy tulle veil over her pretty, girlish face. The gown itself was an expensive creation, having a deep flounce of rose point lace about the trafl- ing skirt, while the bodice, too, had a lav- ish garniture of the lace. The shower bouquet of llies of the valley, tled with DMIRAL HAWKE, one of Great A Britain's many distinguished naval commanders, defeated the French fleet in Quiberon Bay No- vember 20, 1759, gaining an im- portant victory. On the same day the populace of London, impatient over what was considered Hawke's delay in striking a decisive blow at the enemy, hanged his effigy in the streets. When six weeks later Hawke came home he was received with great enthusiasm, the King settled a pension ®f $10,000 a year on him, the pen- sion to extend to his:descendants, Parlia- ment gave him a vote of thanks and sev- enteen years later he was made a Baron. Hawke died in 1785, and his successors have been regularly paid the pension, which up to the present time foots up to the aggregate of $1,260,000. None of the gallant Hawke's descendants have distin-' guished themselves either in the army or navy, but two of them have broken their necks in fox hunts. The present and sev- enth Baron, Martin Bladen Hawke, born in 1860, was up to 1894 captain of the Yorkshire Ninth Regiment, is' now retired, resting on his laurels, and is referred to in “Who's Who'" as a well-known crick- eter. The stock appears to have dete- riorated and is doing nothing to keep up the name of its great ancestor, but the yearly pension of $10,00 will go on until \the government of England changes. Lord Beresford delivered an interesting speech recently before the United Ser- vice Institution, in which among other points he advocated large battleships in preference to smaller ones. He sald: “We have to fight all over the world, and should have to fight very often at the enemy’s bases, therefore we must have a flotation that would float the same arma- ment plus the coal’”” He criticized the Admiralty, claiming that it lacked sys- tem, and the same applied to the War Office. The defects of the Belleville boil- ers, he claimed, were largely due to the want of trained stokers. He commended the new .idea of inviting the opinion of subordinates. If he were going to have a fight he would have all his officers be- fore him to express to him their opinions, and then he would say to them: “Now, gentlemen, you have been good enough to glve me your ideas; you go and obey my orders, so that there may be no mistake about it.” But if anybody gave him an idea—he did not care if he was only a Jjunfor lieutenant—that enabled him to win the action, his name should be at the masthead of every single ship after the action. There is need of officers of the .PERSONAL MENTION. F. A. Waters of Los Angeles is at the Palace. John T. Cameron, a cattle raiser of Newman, is at the Lick. J. J. Dailey, a mining man of Trinity County, is at the Grand. Leon 8. Hirsch, a merchant of San Jose, is registered at the Palace. Speaker C. W. Pendleton of Los An- geles is among the arrivals at the Grand. at the Lick, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Meyer Blum, a merchant of Vacaville, is here on a short business.trip. He has made his headquarters at the Grand. Judge Isalah Hartman, a Superior Judge of Santa Cruz County, who resides at Boulder Creek, is registered at the Lick, A W. A, Clark Jr., son of United States Senator Clark of Montana, arrived at the Palace yesterday, accompanied by his wife, from Butte, Mont. Senator Clark will join them in this city next ‘Wednesday. Mons{gnor Kirchberger of the Cathe- dral of Munich, a prelate of the Cathollc church, arrived here yesterday from a tour of Mexico. He is accompanied by Oscar Zettler, also of Munich, a well known designer of stained glass windows, Mr. Zettler designéd the windows for Holy Cross Church in this city and for e visitors Claus Spreckels’ residence. Th are at the Palace. B France, with upward of 40,000,000 of pop- ulation, has but one really e clty— m#’uflwmt"mmm’mumum%m e, B Liyons, with 463,585 inhabltante ~ i3 —— e HOTFL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter Resort in the world, offers best living, climate, NAVAL PENSION THAT W R. D. Hatch, a merchant of Novato, is. MRS, GEORGE P. WINTER- MUTE, WHO HAS PROVED A CHARMING HOSTESS. (Photo by Genthe.) - e white tulle, was happily chosen. I am sure nothing else wopld have suited her— unless, perhaps, white violets. € siie While we are on the subject of the Dun- phy-Burns nuptials, I must say a word about the farewell bachelor dinner Mr. Lord Beresford type in the United States navy. CEST The French armored cruiser Chateaure- nault has had another unsuccessful steam trial. A boiler tube burst and one of her propeller blades broke off, necessi- tating returning to the dockyard. The ship began her series of trials over one year ago. ¥ e % The position of chaplain in the United States navy is evidently a much sought after billet, notwithstanding the recent complaint by one of the corps that thé small pay was insufficient for an officer to maintain himself with ‘‘self-respect.” There is at present one vacancy, for which there were over 400 applicants two weeks ago, and the list still grows, al- though it is understood that the President has promised the place to the Rev. Bow- ers Reynolds Patrick of Duluth, a Bap- tist clergyman. The corps consists of twenty-four chaplains, the lowest pay be- ing $2500 while at sea and $2000 while on shore duty, which salaries are increased after flve years to $2800 and $2300, re- spectively. The highest relative rank is that of captain, and the lowest is that of lleutenant. When performing shore duty, where no official quarters are provided, allowances are granted for house rent. The pay for retired chaplains is three- quarters that of the sea pay. There wiil be another vacancy next November. The London Engineer of recent date contains drawings and data of engines designed for the new battleships of the United States navy. The Engineer states that the information is through the “courtesy of Admiral Melville, that the drawings have not been published in,the annual report of the bureau of steam engineering, nor anywhere else.” The data is no doubt valuable to engine de- signers in Great Britain, where the great- est defect in naval vessels has hitherto been in the motive power, but it is to be regretted that there is no engineering publication in this country with sufficient influence or enterprise to secure such in- formation from our Navy Department. ‘Without: the sanction of the Secretary of the Navy Admiral Melville would not have been able to extend the courtesy to the London Engineer of furnishing ex- clusive important information to foreign navies. The new seven-inch gun made at the ‘Washington gun foundry has been tried for velocity and speed, obtaining a veloc- ity of mnearly 3000 feet a second and a repldity in firing of four rounds a minute. L e e e e i e ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PREMIUM FIVE—J. H., City. A five dollar plece of 1834 commands a premium of from $1 to §2 if it has on the reverse “E Pluribus Unum.” 1If it has not it does not command a premium. METROPOLITAN THEATER — Old Timer, City. The last performance at the Metropolitan Theater on Montgomery straet, between Washington and Jackson, :n.n ml_"‘!mncisco. was on the night of April THEATERS—C. H., City. The follow- ing is given as the seating capacity of a number of San Francisco theaters: Co- lumbia, 1624; California, 16%; Alcazar, 1458; Grand- Opera-house, 2500; Orpheum, 2100; Central, 1600, FLOWERS—G. 8. C., Pacific Grove, Cal. There are florists who make a business of shipping fresh flowers from San Francisco to points East as far as New York. Some lay the flowers loosely In damp moss, others place them in damp cotton and others wrap each flower In fine paper and lay in cotton in a box that has plenty of alr. Some make arrange- ments with train hands to keep the flowers damp during the journey. RESIDENCE—Subscriber, Aromas, Cal. A man cannot have two legal residences. It a man had his residence in Monterey County and then changed his residence to Santa Cruz County and has made that his permanent home he cannot claim a legal residence in Monterey County. A resident cannot serve as a grand juror in any county except the one in which he claims his restdence. If a man is a resi- dent of Santa Cruz County and is hold- ing a deputyship under the county gov- ernment in Monterey County you have your remedy at law to have him cited to a:a: why he should not be removed from office. IN JOY OF THE NEW MRS. DUNPHY Dunphy gave to forty of his friends at the Palace Hotel on Thursday. Although some of us were not eligible as guests, we have been none the less enthusiastic in discussing it. The genial host arranged no end of fun for the dinner by introduc- ing one of the guests as a German Baron —Lieutenant—something, who spoke with an accent and made grotesque speeches. No one recognized him as Mr. Wild, for- merly at the Orpheum, but now residing at 324 Oak street. The “Baron” showed great ignorance of Americanisms, and when Mr. Tobin proposed a “bumper’’ he had to have the term fully explained, while the guests vainly tried to conceal their amusement at his densenéss. When Judge Kerrigan, in the happlest of moods, addressed the Heutenant as “Lute,” he hotly resented the familiarity and there was a sepsation at the table, some of the guests taking sides with the Judge, while others sought to reason with the injured dignity of the «“Baron.” It was not until the strange «“foreigner’” sang two or three American songs that some one whispered an idea that Dunphy might be getting off another one of his jokes, but the songs, like the speeches, were in German accent, and many continued to suppress their amuse- ment while Mr. Dunphy enjoved his laugh unrestrained. I wonder how many hearts Mrs. George P. Wintermute won last Friday at the tea she gave. This was the first entertaining she has done since she became a bride four months ago. - Everybody was delight- ed with the sweet dignity and charming cordiality of the young hostess. She wore a Parisian gown of the sheerest of panne satin, light blue with a white stripe. The garniture was blue baby ribbon and dainty white lace medallions. L If any of us are sorry spring is coming it s because we cannot see Mrs. Tom Magee Jr., with her fluffiest of mufts any longer. Our grandmothers would have scorned a lace muff in their crisp, New England clime, but Mrs. Magee carries one of thinmest tulle, and an- exquisite affair it is, made of rows upon rows of tulle ruchings, black and white alternat- ing. As there are fifteen or twenty of these ruchings, four inches deep, the muff is quite an immense affair, as muffs go. I have heard that it was so much larger when it came from New York that Mrs. Magee had it made smaller before she could generate enough American nerve to carry it. What must it have been before? A double ruff of tulle—one black and one Wwhite—also belongs to this création and is tied with several wide black satin ribbons, tted at the ends. g SALLY SHARPE. R S S s | AS GRANTED BY GREAT BRITAIN IN 1760 “GOES ON FOREVER,’’ LIKE TENNYSON’'S BROOK Admiral Hawke's Descendants Receive Annually $10,000, Which Was Granted to Him and His Line, in Perpetuity, for His Victory Over a French Fleet in 1759. The battleship Iowa is again in need of repairs, and has gone to Bahia Blanca, the Argentine naval station. The cost of the ammunition expended by United States vessels in the naval fights at Manila and off Santiago amount- ed collectively to $139,909 11. Dewey’'s fleet expended 132 tons, costing $50,044 37, and in the battle off Santiago 164.7 tons, at a cost of 389,364 T4, were expended. of which the Oregon is credited with 1%3 rounds, weighing 36.6 tons, at a cost of $24,960 13; the Brooklyn with 1973 rounds, weighing 25.1 tons, at a cost of $18,640 15. The New York did not fire a shot. The total cost o2 ammunition expended at sea during the war with Spain was only about $175,000. « ooe Russia has now seven large shipbuilding yards in Europe, of which two are located at Nicolaieff and Sebastopol, In the Black Sea, and the others, in order of import- ance, areat Kronstadt, and New Admiral- ty. Galerni Ostrov, Baitic Works and Nevsky, at or near St. Petersburg. Ten ships wer® laid down last year at these yards, namely, two battleships of the Slava type, four protected crulsers and four noviks of 3000 tons and twenty-five knots speed. At Helsingfors five destroy-}§ ers of 250 tons and five torpedo boats of 150 tons were laid down, while Schichan at Elbing received the contract for a novik, and Howald's yard at Kiel began and launched an engineering and transport ship. Plans are in progress for five bat- tleships of twenty knots and five destroy- ers of thirty knots. . e There are quite a number of royal and noble satlors ‘besides Prince Henry of Prussia. The ranking officer in the Italian navy is Tomasso, Duke of Genoa, who served through the several grades and is now an admiral. The Duke of Abruzzi, chiefly known as an explorer, is another Itallan sailor Prince. Russia has Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch and Grand Duke Alexis, the latter being the lord high admiral. King George of Greecs and his son are likewise sailors by pro- fession, and very gcod ones. Prince Oscar of Sweden and Princes Waldemar and Charles of Denmark, the present Prince of Wales, are all admirals in their re- spective navies, and Grand Duke Con- stantine’s daughter, wife to the King of Greece, 18 the only admiral in petticoats. She holds that rank in the Russian navy in recognition for her kindness to Russian sailors and of her remarkable knowledge of practical seamanship. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Dumbleigh—It was an awful trial for me to make that speech to-night. Mildmay—Don’t mention it, old boy: just think what the rest of ~Tit- o of us suffered.—Tit. 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