The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1902. , - e e JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e s AR T VLY Address All Commurications to W. sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With tiae Department You Wish, Third, 8. F. 217 to 221 Stevemsonm St. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Lelivered hy Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Coples. 5 Cent: Terms by Mail, Incl DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), € month: DAILY CALL (including Sunday). 8 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, Ope Year. und 3233 23 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples wiil be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change address should be particular to give both NEW AND O} ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. YAKLAND OFFICE. +...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, ¥erager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building. Chicago. 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NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, cpen until § p. m. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER Call wubscribers contemplaiing n chanze of residence during the summer months eay” have thelr er forwarded by mail to their new wddresses by notifying The Call Busin Office. This paper will also be on e at all summer resorts and is represented vy a local agent in =1l fowns en the coast. SRR e TRADE IRREGULAR AGAIN. RADE agzin showed signs of irregularity and T hesitation last week. How much of this was dus to the coal strike is impossible to say at the moment, but judging from the commercial senti- ment throughout the country, as indicated by the press dispatches, the strike has already had the -ef- fect of checking 2 good deal of business otherwise would have been done. If the walkout extends all over the country, as intimated by the leaders, it is feared that not only the iron and steel trades, already handicapped by scarcity of material, but the railroads as well, will be tied up, in which case the loss to the country’s business will be enor- mous. The apprehension of this possible condition caused a weak feeling in Wall street at the close of the week, especially as everybody had previously been assured that there would be no strike, hence the final announcement of the walkout came as an un- pleasant surprise. Another unfavorable feature was the announcement that the wheat crop of the country would fall below previous estimates, owing to the recent dry weather in the Southwest and to wet weather in the Northwest, the latter having materi- | ally delayed seeding and curtailed the wheat acreage in that section. Still znother bearish feature to gen- eral business was the decline in the country’s bank clearings, which showed a loss of 30.8 per cent, as compared with the same week last year, while the aggregated clearings,fcll to $2,384,492,000, the small- | est total for several weeks. The failures were 228, against 177 for the same week last year. The staples were more or less irregular. Wheat advanced and the minor cereals were also firm and pointing upward, with the exception of corn, which was weaker, with more disposition on the part of the Western farmers to let go. Hides were very strong and more active. Provisions were unsettled, but ruled firm at a slight advance. The woolen goods trade showed rzther more life, but the cotton export trade was dull. Footwear was reported in good demand in the West, but dull along the more densely populated Atlantic seaboard. Thus it will be seen that considered as a whole the trade of the country was decidedly irregular last week, firmness in some lines being offset by weakness in others, this condition prevailing everywhere except on the Pa- cific Coast. As far as the bank clearings given above show, the net result was rather unfavorable than otherwise. On the Pacific Coast the conditions are uniformly cheerful. Everything the coast produces seems to be wanted in some quarter of the world, and, with one or two exceptions, there is no dullness reported in any line of business. An especially gratifying feature is the current advance in all the leading grains, which cannot but favorably affect trade. Wheat has gone up considerably during the past fortnightand the demand for it is now first rate. Barley and oats are steadily advancing under light supplies and a good and in- creasing inquiry. All the available corn has been bought up by a San Francisco firm, which is mark- ing up quotations every day or so. Hides are higher and dairy produce is moving off well at quotations above the average at this time of the year. Dried fruit is so cleaned up that most lines are practically exhausted. Salmon is in better demand and canned fruits and vegetables are also meeting with an im- proved inquiry. Wool alone is dull, but this is due to the Eastern strikes, which have checked the ope- rations of buyers, and the undertone of the market is one of firmness. The abundance of money is well illustrated by the promptness with which the offer- ing of $5,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds of the United Railroads of San Francisco were taken up, the whole line being absorbed in a single day, with so many surplus orders received that the larger subscription? will have to be scaled down to accommodate the smaller ones. Thus, whatever may be the condition of trade in other parts of the country, the Pacific Coast is enjoying a period of prosperity which shows no signs of cessation. In brief, times were never better in California than they are to-day. The Philippine debate affords a good opportunity for high oratory in the Senate, but up to this time it has been rather rank than high. which | GAGE'S ADMINISTRATION, ROM the first Gage's administration has been F a scandal and if it cannot be said to have grown worse from month to month it is only because his very first action in-office, that of schem- ing and working with Billy Herrin to bring about the election of Dan Burng to the United ‘States Sen- ate, was about as scandalous a job as is possible in American politics. From that time on, however, Gage has piled one offense upon another. He has made the interests of the commonwealth subservient to corporation bosses, has debauched the public ser- vice by filling it with political henchmen, has de- graded the normal schools and charitable institu- tions of the State by making them a part of the spoils of politics, has vetoed good measures providing for the general welfare and approved bad ones, and, in short, has entered readily into any kind of scheme calculated to win him the support of the bosses and corrupt corporations, through whose aid he hopes to dominate the Republican Convention and procure a renomination. With many of the bad acts of Gage’s administra- tion the public has long been familiar. Recentiy, however, The Call has had occasion to reveal two more of them and to disclose the fact that the public is not yet fully aware of the extent of the incompe- tence or worse with which Gage and his allies have mismanaged the affairs of the people. The first of the two disclosures was made by The Call on Saturday and consisted in the revelation that Gage'soutside law partner, Daniel Ke\'_ant. and Assist- of Examiners, purchased two lots of Kern County 6 per cent bonds, which upon the face were redeemable at the pleasure of the county at any time at par with accrued interest, and paid for each lot a heavy pre- mium. Thus, for one lot of fifty bonds, having a par value of $50,000, they paid $61,061 66, and for the second lot, having a par value of $37,000, they paid $45,185 63. The premium paid on the first lot over and above par value and interest accrued was $10,290, while that on the second lot was $8080 80. In less than six months Kern County redeemed the bonds, paying for them only their par value with the inter- est due, thus obtaining them for $16,637 29 less than the State paid for them. The circumstances under which the purchase was made render the transaction worse than appears on the face. Not only did the bonds declare in exprgss | terms that they were redeemable at any time before maturity at the pleasure of the county, but the county had actually taken steps to redeem and retire them. The question of their retirement had been submitted to the people and the people had voted in favor of the proposition. The Board of Supervisors had ar- ranged for their retirement. A question affecting the legality of the’ proceedings had been raised in the courts and tried. All those proceedings were of record, and yet Gage’s officials paid for the bonds the high premiums that have been stated.. It is clear from this transaction that somebody had { Kern County bonds which he or they wished to un- | leoad before they were retired and found the Gage officials ready and accommodating. It may have been a mere case of incompetency, but it cannot be | denied that it looks like something worse. The second revelation of The Call, published with ample detail on Sunday, shows the gross mismanage- ment of the Gage officials in supervising work on the water front. The specifications of the contracts for constructing car ferry slips and piers have been | grossly violated in many important particulars un- | der the very eyes of the officials charged with the | duty of enforcing the contract, and seemingly with { the connivance of at least some of them. The violations of the specifications occur at points %(hat threaten to affect the value of the whole work. | For the purpose of guarding against the destructive teredo, it is provided in the contract that the piers shall be constructed upon what is known as the “cyl- inder concrete process,” which consists in driving | large wooden cylinders into the mud, pumping out the water and mud and then filling the cylinders with | concrete, so that when the teredo wears the wood away the concrete will securely sustain the wharves. It will be seen that if-the work be not carefully done | the concrete columns will be weak and worthless and all the superstructure that rests upon them will be endangered. In fact, some experts who have watched the way in which the specifications are being | violated have not hesitated to say they would not be | surprised if some day the wharves now being con- structed slip into the bay, causing an enormous dam- | age to property and a heavy loss of life. | Here, then, are two specimens of Gage's adminis- | tration. They show the kind of men to whom Gage iimrusts the management of the affairs of the State | while he is attending to Herrin's schemes and doing politics with the bosses whom Herrin controls. When added to the list of other offenses which have been exploited from time to time it will be seen that Gage ends his term as he began it, with a scandalous dis- { | | regard for the prblic welfare. Gage, by the assistance of Dan Kevane, may be a | fairly successful practitioner in the criminal courts, but he is unfitted to be Governor of California. He has no regard for the duties of the office and no re- spect for its responsibilities. He desires the place merely that he may use it for the advantage of his friends and his friends are predatory politicians, who are not at all scrupulous how they plunder the State. A GRACIOUs ACT. | ING EDWARD did a gracious thing when ;: K he insisted that on coronation day his wife [ should be crowned also, so that she will be not Emere]y a Queen consort, but a veritable, legally rec- | ognized and crowned Queen, even as he himself is King. He has now shown an equal graciousness in sending, under his own signature, a special invitation to Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson to attend the corona- tion ceremonies at Westminster as a guest of his household. The invitation manifests a grateful memory of courtesies shown long ago. When, in 1860, Edward, who was then Prince of Wales, visited this country, James Buchanat was President of the United States, and his niece, Miss Harriet Lane, presided at the White House. The Prince was received and.enter- tained there with all the hospitality and cordiality that has ever marked American democracy in its re- ception of the representatives of great and fricndly nations. Through all the years that have intervened Edward has kept the recollection of his American hosts, and now that he is King he invites his hostess of the old time to come and accept a return of her hospitality It is to be regretted that Mrs. Johnson's great age and weakness forbid her to accept the invitation. They, however, interpose obstacles that cannot be overcome, and the royal return for democratic hos- pitality can go no further than the issue of the invi- tation and the manifestation of a grateful recollection. {to this city? - % ant Attorney General Post, acting as the State Board This remembrance on the part of the King will win for him no little esteem among the American people. - The act is simple, but it is gracious and graceful. There is in it a touch of true humanity that will please the hearts of democrats as well as princes. It is no slight thing to remember a courtesy for forty- two years and then act upon it with genuine kindli- ness. King Edward is a gentleman. . Massachusetts papers are indignant because the Governor of Arkansas pardoned a negro on co:}di— tion that he should go to Massachusetts, and yet it is not long ago that The Call had occasion to note the action of a Massachusetts Judge who permitted a criminal in that State to go free on condition that he yould come to California. A delicate health has given rfse to so many fears and anxieties ever since his birth, has safely attamed his sixteenth birthday, and upon taking the coronation oath has been duly installed King. Reports‘ tell us he bore his part in the ceremony with dignity and with grace. It was noted that hé pronounced the oath wi’h singular clearness and earnestfess, and the people, ever ready to sympathize with youth when called to serious’ résponsibilities, has greeted his accession to the throne with acclamations that betokened both joy and loyalty. The stately ceremonies, which were conducted largely upon medieval models, were disturbed for a moment by an incident that recalled the present and gave notice of the disturbed and discontented c_om‘]i- tion of the Spanish populace. A young man rushed from the crowd and tried to present a petition to the King. It was at once assumed that an attempf at assassination had been made, and while an investiga- tion showed that the youth was but a harmless luna- tic, the anxiety that prevailed until the ‘truth was made known reveals how conscious the Spanish peo- ple are of the dangers that menace the new reign. Alfonso has been so carefully reared by his mother, the Quéex] Regent, thiat those who know him best have high expectations of his career on the throne. He appears to-he naturally of a good disposition and to have been wéll trained for the duties he is to un- dertake; but he is not strong, either physically or mentally, and there is no telling whether he will be able to exert an influence strong enough to be felt cither for good or for evil. A recent writer, in describing affairs at the Spanish court, says of Alfonso that he is the living portrait of his mother, and adds: “Sniall and frail, his slen- der body makes his head seem more than alive.. He has the forehead, the close-set. eyes, the nobility of expression of his mother, and her attractive bearing and carriage. The pale face shows distinction, that is marked still more by the famous Hapsburg lip. His mother has given him an education that is per- haps too select, too high. . The little King has also ALFON.O X.Ii' OF SPAIN. L T & LFONSO of Spain, the young Prince whose | taken from her tenacious perseverance, a pcrfcct. character of inadaptability; he is doubly a Spaniard. His education has left him an independent mind and the gift of initiative. If Spain can rise again the King will lift her up; so those who know hope.” Of His mental characteristics, it is said he is gen- erous, capricious, mischievous, and while prone to melancholy has, like many another melancholy man, a large fund of humor. He has some capacity for work and is ambitious. It is narrated of him that once when his teacher was explaining to him the con- stitution of Spain and the mechanism of government he exclaimed: “What is left for me in- all this par- liamentary business? Where is'my place, my power, my authority?” Finally, it is noted that he has al- ways displayed courage whenever in his carefully guarded life there has ever been an opportunity for displaying it. p He begins his reign, thereiore, with some compen- sations for the handicap of ill health, weakness and inexperience. How he can advance a race so proud of its past and so indifferent to present conditions as the Spanish it is difficult to see. He will have for many years, however, the guidance of his wise and brave mother, and it may be his reign will fulfill some, at least, of the hopes of the patriots who greet- ed him so loyally at his coronation. A bidders for the privilege of establishing wireless telegraph service in Alaska, but an- other report gives the number as six. agree that the bidders represent three distinct sys- tems of telegraphing without wires. Each of the A UABK IN PO.NT. CCORDING to one report there are five | bidders is confident of ability to comply with the re- | | quirement¢ that the service shall be put into opera- | tion before the short Alaskan summer ends, that it | will be adapted to general business and be capable i of transmitting from thirty words minute. twenty to a Those bids represent private enterprise. They show | what competition can do in the way of making use of the latest achievements of science, and Invention and applying them in the most remote and inacces- sible parts of the habitable world. Five or six dis-" tinct bidders are willing to guarantee a wireless tele- graph service in Alaska covering many miles of coast within a period not much longer than ninety days | from the time the contract is granted. 5 Contrast that with the progréss. of a movement to establich a wireless telegraph ‘service under Gov- ernment control. From San Francisco to the Faral- lones is no great distance. In comparison with Alaskan distances it is a mere step. The Govern- ment has not called {o1 bids from private contractors to establish a wireless service from the Farallones to San Francisco, but has undertaken to establish and_ operate the service itself. It ha$ been engaged in making preparations for the service -for a long time, but as yet there is no slightest evidence to show whether the service will be in operation this year or next year or ten years from now. In fact, it is quite probable that remote, far off, desolate Alaska will be | enjoying the advantages of wireless telegraphy while the people of San Francisco are still waiting for the Government to decide which kind of a plant it would | make use of if it shovld ever decide to make use of any. “ A ‘The contrast presented by the two methods of dealing with the wireless telegraph service is worth the attention of those who are studying the problem of government ownership of public utilities. It is not in any way an exceptional case. Private compe- tition can provide for many miles of wireless telegraphy in Alaska within as many months as it takes years for the Government to establish ~such, telegraphy between two points that are within eye- sight of one another. Can any sane man desire to have all cur improvements in public utilities subject to such slow processes as the: Government is. using in establishing communication from th Both reports | MARS THE SWIFTEST OF BRITAIN’'S ' SQUADRON IN THE MEDITERRANEAN + : v y N- H. M. BATTLESHIP MARS, THE FASTEST OF THE FORMIDABLE FLOATING ENGINES OF WAR THAT CON- | STITUTE GREAT BRITAIN'S SQUADRON IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. THE VESSEL DEMONSTRATED . | HER SPEED CAPACITY DURING A RECENT TEST RUN IN WHICH SIX OTHER WARSHIPS PARTICIPATED. | | | ’ I IX battleships and one cruiser of the British Mediterranean squadron had a full speed trial recently from Palma to Gibraltar, a distance of 342 miles. The ships arrived in the following order: Mars, 162 knots: Niobe, cruiser, 16.1; Jupiter, 16; P{a_nnlbal, 15.9; Magnificent, 15.7; Majestic, 15.5. The engines of the Prince George broke down. All the battlbships are rated at 17.5 knots. but fell considerably short of thelr speed trialg in this occasion, while the Niobe of 111,000 tons, built four years ago, did not | come up to her trial speed within 5.1 | knots. | “The British armored cruiser Leviathan, {14,100 tons, built at Clydebank, has been | delivered at the Portsmouth dock vard. She made the run of 570 miles at an aver- age speed of 19 knots, which was consider- ! ed satisfactory and giving a fair promise of attaining the contract requirements of 23 knots during eight hours. The three battleships, King Edward VII, | Commonwealth and Dominion, recently begun, will be of 16,350 tons displacement and 18.5 knots speed, and will carry main i batteries of four 12-inch; four 9.2-inch and iten 6-inch. guns.. The estimated cost of each ship is $3,625,000. The five battleships | for United States navy, recently contract- ed for are of 14,948 tons displacement and 119 knots speed; carrying main batteries of i four 12-inch, eight $-inch and twelve 6- inch guns and are estimated to cost from 16,377,149 25 to $6,176,612 25, according to lo- calities at which they are buiit. The King Edward VII is building at Devenport dockyard. The Commonwealth and Do- minion have been contracted for while all the battleships for our navy are being built in private vards. The unlucky cruiser Sparltiate has made another unsuccessul steam trial and has returned to the Portsmouth dock yards for several months’ repairs to her machinery. She was delivered in April 1900, since which four attempts have been made to pass through the regPla‘:lon steam tests. o | | i i | ! i OUTING WILL SUPPLY GOSSIP FOR SOCIETY If the fair maids and matrons that make up San Francisco’s charmed circle have as gocd a time at country places os they anticipated while they were making enthusiastic preparations, then the trou- ble of shopping, having gowns'fitted anl packing trunks was more than worth | while. They will be coming back again @ in a few weeks with happy faces and | | tanned complexions, talking constantly of | their delightful happenings until the first | cotillon with its new coterie of men. 1 do | hope that the debutantes who came out {last fall will have as good times next | year. Some are in doubt as to the atten- tion they will receive, inasmuch as thece will be more {han twenty-five new debu- | tantes” next season; but the 1%1-02 girls | are not worrying about that very much, as they are getting such wonderfal letters while they are away from ome Prince Charming or another, that they feel very intereésting themselves and wonder what the rest of the world will do when they future. Miss Sophia Pierce has not gone yet, but she will be leaving soon for Port Ludlow, where she will spend a little time with her aunt, Mrs. Cyrus Walker. Ethel Cooéper Is having a good time at Napa Soda Springs. Princess Poniatowski and Mrs. William H. Crocker are at Burlingame, as usual, while their sister, Mrs. George Sperry, will open her cottage at Lake Alta on the first of the month. Miss Eisie Sperry will entertain Kathryn Robinson. Mr. and Mre. Edward Eyre have gone to Europe, but Miss Mary Eyre has taken their home | at Menlo and will keep “‘Gleneyre' closed this summer. Mrs. George Hyde has opened her San Mateo home. Mrs. Nellie Hyde-Smith is also at San Mateo, Mr. and Mrs. Schwerin are at San Mateo. Mr. and Mrs. Russeil Wilson have the Crock- ett cottage at Burungame. Mrs. Thomas Magee Jr. divides her time between Fruit- vale and Burlingame. Several of the re- sorts are immensely popular, but Burlin- game will remain ;‘the rich man's Para- dise.” s v . Great preparations are being made in the islands for the wedding of Mary Rice and Walter Scott, which will take place on the 25th of June. The groom-elect leit this city a couple of wee.s ago. His sis- tér, Miss Ella_Scott, leaves on Thursday with Miss Georgia Soieker. Miss Spieker is to be a bridesmaid—and a charming one she will be—and will wear an airy- fairy-Lilllan gown of pink dotted chiffon over silk. Miss Anna Rice, a sistér of the bride, will be maid of honor. After the festivities sir. Scott will bring his wife to San Francisco, where they will estle.’ We will be interested to see the ture Mrs. Scott, for we haven't had a glimpse of her yet. Miss kice was born in the fslands and has always lived there. ] & 5w e It is not altogether the thing to play ing-pong In New York now. When the Gowntown peaple take up a fad it becomes common, and the uptown people would tell their happy secret and plans for the | deprive thémselves of any amount of amusement for the sole purpose of be- ing exclusive.” The game that has taken the place of ping-pong is croguet, which | bas been revived with a few ‘such added , such an extent when steaming at high speed to make it impossible to use the big gun§, with accyracy. It is not alone that the ship will eventunally shake itself to pieces unless measures are taken to remedy this defect, but its fight- ing efficiency as a gun platform is, of course, largely reduced. A French naval expert claims that the disproportion be- tween the length and beam indicates faulty design, and that the hull is in ad- dition flimsily constructed in order to carry engines of great power and weight and a large coal supply. The Jeanne @' Arc is 477 feet 2 inches in length, 63 feet 8 inches in beam, displacing with 1460 tons of coal in her bunkers 11200 tons on a draught of 26 feet 7 inches, and her triple screw engines are of 23,000 horsepower. The new armored cruisers in course of con- struction are of 1200 tons less displacement and, while 24 feet shorter, have the same beam of the Jeanne d’Arc. Their engines are of 20,000'horse-power. Four of this im- proved type are nearing compleiion and are likely to prove good ships. Thirty-seven new vessels will be laid down in France during the present fi- nancial year. Three battleships are to be built by contract and one in a deckyard; one armored cruiser Is given to a private vard and a sister ship to a dockyard. Two destroyers, thirteen submarine boats and one torpedo-boat are divided between the sovernment yards, and fifteen torpedo- boats are to be built by contract. A The plan of Téconstructing the three Italian battleships, Dullio, Italia and Le- panto, has been abandoned. They were built. in 1876, 1880 and 1883 in the order named at a total cost of about $16,000,000, but bave become obsolete to such an ex- tent as to make their modernizing un- profitable. They were triumphs of naval architecture in their day, and the Italian naval constructors have ever since main- tained the reputation of combining theory with practice to a degree not excelled in any other navy. 1 fcatures as betting for the sake of adding new zest to an old game. € If Mrs. Herman Oelrichs does not have 2 good time at London this summer it |\\'1!| not be because the fates have for- | gotten her. Mrs. Oelrichs and her sister, | Virginja—Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr.— | bave been invited to visit Consuelo, the ’Duches! of Marlborough, at i They will probably be entertained at the | Duchess’ new London residence at the time | of the coronation. When we stop to think :that Mrs. Vanderbilt is a sister-in-law i to the ninth Duchess of Marlborough and | that the Duchess has been invited to wait | upon Queen Aleéxandra at the court cere- monifes, we see that the Fair girls are very clese to things. Mrs. George Crocker and Mrs. Oelrichs will spend the month of June together in London. Mrs. John Mackay will throw open the doors of her town house to a number of American vis- iters. This will be a summer of hospltal- ity across the pond, and many Americans will be handsomely entertained. € ke e itg so quietly this season, spending sev- Lome, made a sensation among her friends at Gotham by renouncing all “tne | in the capacity of godmother for the in- fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gould. Her present was the handsomest ard daintiest prayer-book she counld find. This is a new role for Mrs. Fish, though she is ever the pink of propriety. No mat- ter how unforunately enthuslastic her friends become over their wine at an oc- casional dinner, Mrs. Fish never forgets her reserve and dignity. She seems to feel that the weight of New York so- ciety is upon her shoulders, and that she must carry it gracefully. i 1¥ shifting the burden, however, as the orly affair she has given of any formality this season Is a dinner to seventy. She is greatly missed with her clever and original ideas of, entertaining. Where will New York find another leader who will | not expect every lady to fit a pattern, wLether it conforms with-one’s individu- ality or not? The Gould baby, at present the center six children who certainly make presence felt, judging from the festivities that reign at Georgian court. Mrs. Gould is a devoted mother, and prefers their on earth. The family will not go to Newpert this summer, ‘as was reported, but in the fall may sail across the pond to get the air. SALLY SHARP. RN I AL ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. lusa, Cdl. The Pacific Oil Reporter is pub- lished in San Francisco. CONTRACT MARRIAGE-K. A. H., City. - 1f parties at this time should enter into a contract marriage such would not be valld. % —_—t e Cal. glace fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's.” —_——— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ———— Special informaticn supplied daily to | business housés snd puoiic fen by the 1 Yress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230" Cal | fornia street. Telephore - 1042. Townsend's California glace 50 a pound, In fire-etched boxes or o 5 A nice present for Eastern &9 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. + Blenherm. | Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who has hzen liv- | eral days of each week at her country | pemps and vanities of this wicked world™” | She is certain- | of so much comment, is the younger of | their , country home or a yacht to amy place | PACIFIC OIL REPORTER—F. W., Co- | nd with the United States Navy Department. The chiefs of Bureaus of Construction and Steam Engineering recommended that the claims be referred to Congress, but Rear Admiral Bradford, Chief of the Equipment Bureau, opposes the payment of any additional sums to contractors. He warns the department against taking such action, as it will furnish a precedent for all contractors hereafter, delaying the construction of vessels as may suit their convenience, and for demanding payments in excess of sums stipulated in their con- tracts. The Navy Department has of late years been lenient with contractors, and there was no good reasSon for the recent extension of time granted to the bufiders of the Tacoma, South Dakota and Cali- fornia. The Tacoma is due on contract delivery June 14, 1902, and was extended March 27 last, to May 1, 1903. Work on the other two armored cruisers shows prac- tically no progress, although the ships were contracted for January 10, 1901, to be completed in three years. Secretary Long graciously extended the date of delivery of these two ships to December 31, 1904. S ) In the Norweg avy tenders are in- vited for most of the articles entering into the construction of vessels as well as the ship outfit and clothes of the sailors. England has hitherto been a successful bidder, notwithstanding the Norwegian government gives a preference of 5 per cent to native tenders. o The German battleships Wittlesbach, Wettin and Xachringen are being hurried toward completion and will have their trials before winter. They were begum in October, November and December, 1899 and will therefore have taken about three vears to build and complete. . e The naval strength of six principal pow- ers in China waters was 438,156 tous.on May 1, divided as follows: Great Britain, 164,287 tons; Russia, 92,646; France. 71,535: United States, 48,520; Germany, 48381, and Italy, 12,838 tons. The number of British, The defects in the mew French Builders of the sixteen destroyers and RuSsian, French and German ships stay- armored cruiser Jeanme d'Arc are nine torpedo-boats claim that they have nmar ‘e Togpeciive stations at the same {not confined to the machinery alone. expended $2.052117 more on these vessels Port Arthur, 18; Kiaouchow Bag 100 Sa The hull is alleged to vibrate tu than they are paid under thelr contracts gon, 16. S e ’%'H’:WW%'!‘H"Eiilll"”lHH'iHH!HHHHl‘H. OFFENDERS IN PHILIPPINES MUST SUFFER Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, May 18.—A letter from Presi- dent Roesevelt, dated May 9, in which he declares his determination to discover and punish every instance of barbarity by United States troops in the Philippines, has beefi made public by Bishop Lawtence | of' the Episcopal . Diocese 6f Massachu- | setts. It was written in reply to a com- | munication from the Bihop sent by direc- | tion of the convention of the diocese to place before the President resolutions | condemning the alleged cruelties and ex- pressing confidence in the administration. The -letter follows: “l have received your letter and the resolutions of the convention of the Pro- testant Episcopal church in the diocese of Massachusetts. Permit me to thank | You, and through you the convention, [for what has been done by you. I Hope it is unnecessary to say that no one in the country can be more anxious than I am— save, perhaps, Secretary Root—to discov- er and punish every instance of barbarity by our troops in the Philippines. In ret- erence to these cruelties, I agree with every word in your address. No provoca- ‘tlon, however great, can be accepted as an excuse for the misuse of the necessary severity of the war, and. above all, for torture of any kind or shape. “Long before any statements had been made public and before any action had been taken by Congress the War Depaft- ment had ordered a rigid investigation of certain of ,the charges, including the charges of Major Gardener, the orders of investigation as regards these particular charges ha g Sone out over three months ago. ‘he investigation will be one of the most thorough and sweeping in character, and, if necessary, will be made by the civil as well as the military representatives of the Government fn the | islands. I have directed that the court- martials be held unde- conditions which will give me the right of review.” —_— What you pay for extracts is important, but | what you get is ten times more important. Bur- nett's Vanilla costs mare bacause it's worth mora. —_——— ?? Going to Thunder Mountain ?? 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