The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1902, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl 9 p. m. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER. Call subscribers conmtemplating a chadge of residence during the summer months ean have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew dresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a loeal agent in all towns on the <o = BUSINESS IS IRREGULAR. RADE again. showed T week, particularly in the neighborhood of Chicago, where the teamsters’ strike assumed grave proportions, involving many branches of busi- ness, particularly those connected directly or indi- rectly with the packing plants, such as the fresh meat nd ice trades. The coal strike, too, showed renewed signs of spreading along the Atlantic seaboard, and between these two great labor disturbances the week closed with 2 not very promising outlook for the near future. Other unfavorable indications were poorer reports from the New England footwear fac- tories, nany of which are now running on half time only, with prices on the down grade and smaller orders coming in from the South, which is unusual at this time of the year. Domestic hides are also quieter, and the general feeling is that these goods have about reached the top as far as quotations are concerned. Leather is still held up to the recent ad- vance, but the market is net active. The textiles are reported inactive, with smaller business in cloth- ing and cotton goods, the exports of the latter having fallen off considerably of late. The cotton crop is looking very well, and the indications are for a large yield. Iron and steel continue active, but the best business is now in the cruder forms of the product, the finer fir ed lines being in diminished demand. But the production is still enormous, the monthly output of pigiron exceeding 1,500,000 tons, breaking 2ll previous records, but in spite of this stocks are still low, showing enormous consumption. Against these quicter lines, however, the regular commercial reports call attention to smaller failures, an increase of 9 per cent in the railway earnings over last year at this time and a fine demand every- where for lumber, hardware and almost all material | employed in the construction of buildings. The ex- ceptionally cool weather all over the country, how- cver, has curtailed the retai] and jobbing trade and checked considerable reorder business. The crops of the country are looking very well as a rule, and collections are reported good in almost all sections. Speculation in Wall street continues quiet, which is by no means a bad sign. Prices for meats and pro- visions continue high, owing partly to scarcity of live stock and partly to the operations of the beef trust; but both lines are much’ quieter, with decreased speculation in provisions. London were well brisk at firm prices. 5 The above features, summarized, indicate consid- erable irregularity in business. The general firmness and gradual advance in quotations which have been the rule for several years have been succeeded by hesitations here and there, with. occasional lulls, which, though heretofore succeeded by renewed ac- tivity, are recurring with increasing frequency. The banks are watching this change in conditions with observant eyes, and are admonishing people to go slowly. Indeed, it has been a source of surprise to the great financiers of the country that the wave of prosperity has. continued as long as it has with hardly any break. We have enjoyed probably the Jongest period of trade activity and buoyancy that the country has ever witnessed, and more or less re- cession and inactivity may be expected at any time. Some .of the longest financial heads in New York predicted a halt two years agq, and though it oc- curred it was of brief duration and was followed by renewed activity in the course of several weeks. We are now entering upon the summer season, and it is too much to expect lively times all the year round. Perhaps several months of decreased activity would be the best thing that could happen to general busi- ness, especially at this time when money is plentiful all over the country. A lull in trade means a decrease in production and stocks of goods and adjusts condi- tions for lively times again later on. The recent wool sales in attended and the bidding was As the death of Lord Pauncefote has been sin- cerely mourned in Washington and the United States accorded him a state funeral, it is evident the German reports about that joint note of intervention said to have been urged by him must have been greatly ex- some hesitation last | WHAT IT WAS FOR. REAT BRITAIN had made ready for an ex- G ultant roar of joy and victory upon the offi- cial announcement. of peace. It has now been received from Lord . Kitchener. The war has closed. So far as ‘the British are concerned all is over but the shouting, and it is the intention to have the shouting attended by every form of dem- onstration that can be used to attest an -imperial triumph. There will be arches and bonfires. There will be honors and rewards scattered by royal, hands, und the victorious soldiers and their general return- ing from the war will be welcomed with an enthu- siasm that will not fall short of that which stirred old Rome when a Consul marched. in triumph up Capitoline Hill. There has been much dispute as to the origin of the war in South Africa, but that dispute may now be ended. The death of Cecil Rhodes has resulted in bringing to light many things revealing the plans {and tactics of that master imperialist which would | never have been published had-he lived. Among them are certain documents or well authenticated statements so clearly proving that Rhodes deliber- ately precipitated the conflict that in the very hour of his defeat old Oom Paul may be said to be vin- dicated out of the mouth of his foe. One of the most luminous of these revelations of | the nature of Rhodes’ ambitions is contributed by his friend Sidney Low, who reports that Rhodes in speaking to-him of the controversy with the Boers said: “I knew that in five years there would be 250,- 000 white settlers on the Rand. In ten years there might be half a million or more. Now that large European population, with its enormous wealth and industry, would inevitably become the political cen- ter of all South Africa. If we left things alone the outlanders were certain, sooner or later, to turn out Kruger and his lot, to get possession of the Transvaal administration, and to make the republic a modern, financial, progressive state which would draw all South Africa after it. But they would have done it entirely by their own efforts. They would owe no gratitude to England, and, indeed, they might feel a grudge against the homé Government for having left them in the lurch so long.” Continuing the theme Rhodes went on to say that whether this enterprising and dominant population of mining men and others who would pour into the Rand to develop its mines felt a grudge against Great Britain or not they would at least be careful to retain their independence. Upon that point they would make common cause with the Boers, and they might even in an emergency seek the protection or an alliance with Germany. He then added: “The Afrikander world would gradually recognize their leadership. So that in the end instead of a British federal dominion you would get a United States of South Africa, with its capital on the Rand, and very likely it would be ruled by a party that would be entirely opposed to the English connection. In fact, you would lose South Africa, and lose it by the efforts of the Engiish-speaking minority in the Transvaal, who are at present anti-British as well as anti-Kruger.” That statement seems to clear up every doubtful point in the proceedings that led to the war. Rhodes desired to force the war because he was as much afraid of the foreigners who were going into the Rand as he was of the Boers. He desired that South Africa should be British and he deliberately brought on a war to accomplish his desire. He is dead, but his plans have succeeded. It now remains for the future to tell how permanent that success will be. It is by no means improbable that united South Africa may yet choose to be independent, and in the end Rhodes’ policy may lead up to the very thing he tried to prevent. Since an officer of the Russian army has been found guilty of exposing the nature of the Russian | frontier fortresses to the German Government, it is said the Russians have decided to make the fortresses more formidable than ever, so of course Germany will have to imitate the example, and that is the way the money goes in Europe. THE PHILIPPINE BILL. D around and about the Philippine bill in the Senate for a long time. Very little of it, however, has ever touched the bill. With the excep- tion of the speech of Senator Lodge in favor of it, and that of Senator Bacon in opposition/ hardly a single clear cut discussion of the details, or even the principles underlying the measure, has been uttered on either side. So far away from the bill itself has the debate ranged that a man might read nearly all that has been said on each side without getting ‘a definite idea of what the measure purposes to do. The bill is supposed to represent a party policy, and to some extent it does so, for it is an adminis- tration- measure. Nevertheless, one of the ablest arguments and most earnest utterances against it { was made by Senator Hoar, a life long Republican, and one of the foremost exemplars of the party; while about as vigorous and efficient a speech as has been made in favor of it was that of Senator Mor- gar, a lifz Jong Democrat, and the most eminent and strenuous representative of Southern Democracy now in Congress. With Tillman of South Carolina and Hoar of Massachusetts, on one side, and Mec- Laurin of South Carolina and Lodge of Massachu- setts on the other, how can it be a partisan ques- tion? Yet it is so considered, and we shall doubtless hear a good deal of it from the stump during the coming Congressional elections. One of the salient features of the debate is the revelation that neither in the bill itself nor in the | speeches of its supporters is there given any definite statement of the intention of the United States Gov- ernment with respect to the Philippines. An illus- tration of the vagueness of the statements on that point is to be found in the speech of Senator Spooner on Saturday. Spooner is one of the foremost law- yers and logicians of Congress. No man in that body is better fitted to make a definite statement of his own views, nor has any single man more authority to speak for his party. Yet from the telegraphic summary that has been given of his speech the reader can gather almost any idea except an idea of what Spooner’s policy is, or what he would like the Government’s policy to be. X In the report of that point of the Senator's speech the dispatches say: ““I have not been in favor of permanent dominion over the Philippines,’ said Spooner, ‘but I do not mean by that that I have been in favor of the United States running away like a coward and abandoning a people who have come under our protection, or surrendering them to tyranny, anarchy and chaps.’ He said ke had never been able to contemplate with equanimity the admission of the Philippines as a State or States. Nothing was dearer to him, ex- EBATE may be said to have literally raged THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ! cept his home ties, than that this Government should be confined to this continent. No question of im- perialism, he said, had been raised in this problem except for party purposes.” { _ Here then is a Senator who is not in favor of hold- ing the Philippines permanently, but who is opposed to running.away. He is not willing to admit the islands to statehood or the people to titizenship, but he is opposed tc governing them by imperial methods. That statement is just about as tlear as any that has been made on the subject, except that of Morgan, who advocated permanent occupa- tion of the country and permanent subjection of the people. g ‘ Even tpon the broadest and most conspicuous facts of the case the Senators disagree. The dis- patches report this colloquy between Hoar and Spooner: ] “Hoar inquired if the inhabitants of the Philip- pines were not a people where there were millions of men acting together, who raised an army, selected a general, turned Spidin out of all territory except only the city of Manila, and who had agreed upon a constitution republican in form., _“‘They would be 'a people,’ replied Spooner, ‘if that were true”’ “ ‘It is true,’ said Hoar. “‘I deny it,” insisted Spooner. ‘I deny that there is more than superficial truth 'in it “He referred to the Filipino army as a collection of misceilaneous persons, who now constituted bands of-bandits and cutthroats.” L] 36 What ure we to make of that? After all the re- ports from official and non-official sources concern- ing the islands, one learned Senator declares the Filipinos are a people in the legal meaning of the term and that they had an army, while another Sena- jtor just as learned and representing the same polit- ical party, asserts they are only superficially a people and their army was but “a collection of miscella- neous persons.” When the question comes before the people this | falf there may be many who will understand it, but they will have to understand it through their own illumination, for the Senators have cast -no light upon either the law, the principles or the facts of the case. A striking illustration of the small amount of cash needed to settle the balances of large affairs was re- cently afforded at the clearing-house in New York. The Chatham National Bank of New York had clearances one day amounting to $1,323,604, and yet | when the balance was struck there was found due to the bank just ten.cents. A WINE FAKER'S SCHEME. HE Pacific Wine and Spirit Review gives no- T tice of the presence in the city of what it calls “an unprincipled wine faker with his schemes for producing a substitute for .wine with which to humbug the people and poison their stom- achs.” As evidence of the justice of the charge our contemporary publishes a circular letter sent to a reputable wine house, and the showing is onvincing. The letter is too long to be quoted in full, but the meaning and intent of the offer made to merchants | can be understood irom this passage: “One gallon wine extract yields you 100 gallons blending wine, alcohol free. You have to take a barrel of 100 gal- lons capacity, put in one gallon wine extract and fill the barrel with water, shake the barrel well, and in a few minutes you will have- a cfear and bright wine which will never turn cloudy. You can be sure that your wine that you take to blend with our blend- ing wine mever gets cloudy, and you can bring up | this wine to a grade of 6 per cent alcohol and it will be a steady, good quality of wine that never turns cloudy or sour. We charge you $10 per gallon, so in | this way the blending wine will cost you only 10| cents per gallon.”? The menace to the California wine industry con- tained in this scheme must be apparent to all. It is not so very long ago since the sale of California wine in Mexico was seriously hurt by the discovery there | of certain casks of wine purporting to be pure Cali- fornia wine, but found to be heavily charged with salicylic acid. From that experience it is easy to draw the conclusion that if a few unprincipled deal- ers should make use of the “wine extract” blend and the stuff be shipped abroad under a California label and the fraud be discovered and published the whole legitimate wine industry of the State would suffer. The issue is the mcre important to the State be- cause we are having so much of that kind of thing to contend against. Cheap fruits are put up in the East with California labels, cottonseed oil is marked California olive oil, and some time ago the Philadel- { phia Record noted that plums gathered in the North- west were dried and sold in that city under the style | of California prunes. Qur contemporary says of the wine fake “there is no law by which such enemies of the public stomach can be reached.” Perhaps President Roosevelt's suggested remedy for trusts, “publicity,” might be effective in dealing with such frauds. If the manu- facturer had to put his name on his 'packages ex- posure would reach the right man and a whole in- dustry would not be subjected to suspicion by reason of the unscrupulous action of a single dealer. % S —— It might be worth your while in these days to | keep a lookout for a stout lady of medium height, brown hair, dull complexion, projecting black eyes, plump delicate hands with very long fingers, and who speaks with a south of France accent. That is the description given of Madame Humbert, who is wanted in France for complicity " in a $12,000,000 swindle. She is the star artist of the world in her line, and whoever catches her will make a reputation and incidentally get some money. There are so many people who have a morbid fondness for horrors that it is safe to say if the Mar- tinique disaster had occurred during the winter tour- ist season the island would be thronged with sight- seers for months to come and the surviving inhab- itants could have lived high and grown rich selling relics. —_— English ship-builders have been warned with much demonstration and every show of sincerity to look to their laurels. It might have been better for them if* their friends had advised them to cross the pond and see how we do things in the boat-building line. It is said that thefts have become so frequent in the art galleries of the Louvre it has been found necessary to wire them with alarm bells. It is to be hoped no American tourist with a taste for souvenirs will be the first man caught. - An Oakland man who has been dragged into the ‘courts is accused by his wife of depriving her of everything good to cat or drink. This is probably a new phase of the hot air treatment that is not likely iw become popular, . MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1902. YANKEE GUNNERS SHOW GREAT SKILL IN TARGET PRACTICE ON CHOPPY SEA = AT A SEA TARGET RECENTLY BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE, WHOSE GUNNERS SHOWED RE , MAKING A BETTER SCOR SELS ACCOMPANYING THE BIG WARSHIP. MARKABLE E THAN ANY OF THE CREWS ON THE VES- SKILL IN PRACTICE FIRING = OME good gunnery was recently shown on the battleship Kearsarge while practicing at sea. Out of eleven shots fired from the thirteen- inch guns at a sea target while fhe skip was running at half-speed seven hits were scored. The targets consisted of rafts about forty-five feet in length, with masts at each end and canvas stretched between them. The length of the range was one mile, and owing to the choppy sea the targets jumped about to such an extent as to require exceptional skill by the gunners to hit the targets. Other ves- sels made also a good showing, but none came up to the Kearsarge's. Naval Censtructor Hobson will undoubt- ecly be retired. It is alleged that he has political aspirations and desires to repres sent one of the Alabama districts in Congress. There are two points of inter- est in this Hobson case, one being the fact that he was advanced ten numbers for his gallant exploit in sinking the Merrimac at Santiago on June 3, 1898. It was clearly a duty outside the functions of a naval constructor, and rather those of a line officer, and Mr. Hobson was confident that he would be transferred to the line. So much opposition developed, however, to this transfer that it was deemed expedient to retain him in_ the naval construction corps, and Hobson was advanced over ten officers in that branch, all of whom were his seniors. He now receives $3700 a year and has the rank of captain, while but for the Merri- mac ingident his pay would be 33200 and his rank that of lieutenant. He has had easy shore billets since his return from coventry, or China, yet he is dissatisfied, and impaired eyesight is the official rea- son given for his retirement at a pay of * $2775. The second point is this: that ac- cording to section 1457, Revised Statutes, “officers retired from active service * * * shall be subject to the rules and articles for the government of the navy and to trial by general court-martial.” In the event of Mr. Hobson's election to Con- gress he would be somewhat hampered by these navy regulations, and the fear of a court-martial would have a restrain- ing effect. He would certainly not be able to quote poetry disparaging to a chief of bureau of the Navy Department nor to criticize or expose the faulty meth- ods of the department. Thus handicapped his usefulness would be greatly impaired, and naval legislation and debates would still be carried on by persons who know little or nothing about the subject. . C i No less than twenty admirals will rep- resent the several naval powers at the naval review at Spithead occasioned by the crowning of King Edward. Admiral Sir Charles Hotham will control the as- semblage of the ships of war. An old battleship is to be located at Devonport dockyard to serve as training for engineers and firemen. The ship wil! be fitted with water-tube boilers of five different types—one of each of the Yar- row, Durr-Thornycroft, Babcock & Wil- cox, Belleville and Niclausse. The British cruiser Terrible holds the best record for expeditious coaling, hav- ing stowed 2500 tons in in nine and one- half hours, or at the rate of 263 tons an hour. The Prince George comes next with 208 tons, and the Majestic is a good third with 203 tons. The two latter ships have, however, a bunker capacity of only 1830 tons, and the work of trimming or filling up the additional compartments in the Terrible makes her record still more re- markable. . The present Lord George Bridges Har- ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PICTURES—A Reader, City. For the particular kind of pictures you desire you should apply to some phonograph parlor. THE KOREA-C. S, City. On the 16th of May the steamer Korea was making ready to sail from Newport News for San FErancisco. | GOLD DOLLAR—E. L. G., City. Gold dollars of 1854 command a premium of 20 cents, according to the scale fiXed by Eastern dealers in old coins. BOSTON DAILY NEWS-D. H. G, Placerville, Cal. The newspaper direc- tories for the current year do not con- tain the name of “The Boston Daily News.” LADIES AT BALL GAMES—E. L. G., City. Ladies are admitted free on Wednesdays at . ball games played at Golden Gate. On Thursdays and Fridays they are admitted free at games played in | this city. COINS OF 1829—Subscriber, City. “Is there a premium on coins of 18297” is not specific enough to admit of an answer in this department. You should state what particular cein of that year you wish to be informed about. hy TITLE OF COURTESY —C., City. “Mr.” before a man’'s name on the super- scription of an envelope, or “Esq.” after the name, is merely a title of courtesy and it is not obligatory that either should appear. It is Jjust as proper to write: “John Henry Jones” as to write either “Mr. John Henry Jones” or “John Henry Jones Hsq.” CARPET MEASURE—B. D., Gilroy Hot Springs, Cal. If A bets that a plece of carpet is ten feet long and the other bets that'it is 9 feet 6 inches long and upon ‘measurement it is found to be exactly nine feet, the bet is a draw, as neither has given the measurement. If the bet had been, “I bet that I will come nearer nam- : 4 ley Dennett Rodrey is the seventh holder of the barony, conferred 120 years ago on his great-great-grandfather, the famous admiral and the hero of Martinique Havre and St. Vincent, who for his ser- vices received the vote of thanks of beth houses, was raised to the rank of peer and was given a pension of $10,000, to de-| scend to his heirs. Unlike the descend- ant of Lord Hawke, who is noted as a skillful cricketer, the present Lord Rod- has done some service for his coun- . as he has served in the Life Guards and commanded a battalion of ITmperial Yeomanry last year in South Africa. He has four sons, and the pension is there- fore not likely to lapse for several gener- ations. Philip Watts, the new director of naval construction in the British navy, is sald to be at work on the designs of an armored cruiser of 10,800 tons, 22,000 horse - power and twenty-four knots speed. The new vessel will be one knot faster than those now under construction, and will be speedier by a half-knot than the Ger- man liners Deutschland and Kronprinz ‘Wilhelm—that is to say, in a short run under the most favorable conditions, for in a race across the Atlantic no naval vessel has yet been designed or built that can equal the performance of the express streamers. The coal supply of the war- ship would be exhausted in less than two days, leaving the ship unable to return to her point of starting, whereas the mer- chant steamers have coal enough left after a 23-knot gait over 2500 to 3000 miles to return at a moderate speed to their home port. The Exmouth, a battleship of 14,000 tons. built ‘and engined by Laird Bros., Birken- head, was delivered to the Admiralty on May 13 and is ready for her official triats. The keel of the Exmouth was laid August 10, 1899, and her delivery is therefore con- siderably within the contract time of three years. Compared with contract building in the United States, our ship- vards make no such records, as the Maine, due one year ago, is only $9 per cent completed, the Missouri 63 per cent and the Ohio 57 per cent. They were tu be delivered in thirty-two months, dating from October, 1898, and yet they have pro- gressed only 11, 9 and 14 per cent, in the order named, since January of the preserit year. N A series of progressive trials of the ar- mored cruiser Good Hope, of 14,100 tons and 30,000 horsepower, have been highly satisfactory and reflect great credit on the Fairfield Company, Glasgow, bullders of the hull and engines. The ship made a number of runs over the measured mile course at varying speed and on practically the same draught of twenty-six and a half feet, or six inches in excess of the calculated mean draught, which increased the displacement to nearly 14,500 tons, The data of these runs is tabulated as follows: m = = 33 kg §| of EE] £ 2 3 S8 £ B s < 2 2 2 & 3 = b 5 F H : g H 3 & B s g ) * . 8 2 251 50.9 ! 66, 4 ] 7.4 5 20 99.8 20.5¢ <o..| 109.25-108.9 | 22.09 | 278 ....| 125.1 127.3 | The contract stipulated 30,000 horse- power, with which a speed of twenty- ing the length of that piece of carpet than you, then the one who named 9 feet 6 inches would be the winner. INTOXTCANTS—A. H., Reno, Nev. It is unlawful for any one to administer to another without his knowledge any intox- icating or stupefying drug with the inten- tion of enabling himseif or assisting others in committing a felony. _BL'TCHER ON TRANSPORT-J. B., City. To obtaln a position as a butcher on one of the Government transports plying between this port and Manila you must file an application at the transport office at the foot of Folsom street whart. Retommendations as to ability and char- ;zicter do no harm in making an applica- on. THE SAN JOAQUIN—F. S. R., Cassell, Cal. The latest maps show that the San Joaquin River of California rises at the foot of a glacler near the summit of Mount Lyell of the Sierra Nevada Range, flows first southwest to its junction with the outlet of Lake Tulare, thence north- west, traversing-the San Joaquin Valley and joining with the ,Sacramento River entérs Suisun Bay. three knots was calculated. Some inter- esting facts are to be noted from these trials, namely the low horsepower re- quired for low speed and the enormous power needed to develop the maximum speed. A curve made from the trial data proves that there is an error in the horse- power for 18.10 knots, which should be 11,250 instead of 12,108, and taking all the other results as correct, the curve shows that while it requires about 1780 horse- power for ten knots, the power must be increased to about 15,000 to raise the speed to twenty knots, and that in order to in- crease the speed half a knot above twenty-three it would need 45,000 horse- power, or nearly one-half additional to the 30,000, which a twenty-three-knot speed requires. The Good Hope is fitted with forty-three Belleville boilers, which appear to have done well. The boilers trials of the British cruisers Hyacinth and Minerya are to be still fur- ther continued in order to determine the relative values of the Belleville water- tube and the ordinary cylindrical Secotch boilers ip the respective ships. The two vessels dre to have another race to Gib- raftar and return and also a number of competitive runs at varying speeds and conditions over the measure mile course. The boiler committee has been experiment- ing with these ships for more than a year and its inability to come to any conclusion after so many exbaustive trials seems to indicate a final condemnation of 'the Scotch boiler. 3 PN The Italian naval budget for 1%02-03 calls for $22,280,000 in round numbers. The personnel consists of 1855 officers and 2,000 enlisted men. Of the officérs %0 are of the line, 374 engineers and 219 medical; apd of. the enlisted force 18,373 are for sea service and 6627 for various Guties ashore. By July 1, this year, the Italian navy wiil number 50 battleships end cruisers, 11 destroyers, 143 torpedo- boats, 38 auxiliary cruisers, 29 harbor service vessels and 1 submarine boat. The value of ships under construction is placed at $5,392,000; of completed ships, including ammunition, $107,000,000, and other fleet material $1,151,000, making a grand total of $116,543,000 estimated value of the entire fleet. . The French battleship Suffren, built at Brest, is completed and fepresents, like all other battleships in the French navy, one individual type. The ship is of 12,728 tons, 419 feet in length, 70 feet beam and 27 feet 6 inches draught. She has triple-serew engines of 16,200 horsepower, is fitted with Niclausse boilers and is intended to steam eighteen knots. The water line of Krupy steel extends all around the vessel and is of twelve-inch maximum thickness, tap- ering to eight inches at the ends. Below the belt is a threesinch armored deck, and above the belt is another armored deck, the space between the two decks being used for coal. The central battery is pro- tected by vertical armor 5.1 inches thick, and the main turrets are 12.6 inches in thickness. The armament is composed of four 12-inch, ten 6.4-inch, eight 4-inch, twenty three-pounders, two one-pounders and four torpedo tubes, two of which are above water. The coal carried on normal draught is 820 tons; the capacity is 1150 tons coal and liquid fuel giving a calcu- lated endurance of 1000 to 1500 miles at maximum speed and 5100 to 7000 miles at ten knots. The estimated cost is $5,692,12 The Suftren does not compare favorably with battleships of England, Germany or the United States built during the same period. L a B =T PERSONAL MENTION. . S. B. Burshman, a mining man of Bodie, is registered at the Lick. Judge Byron Waters of Los Angeles is a guest at the Occidental. W. B. de Jarnett, a fruit raiser of Colusa, is staying at the Occidental. ‘W. L. Carter, a business man of Santa Rosa, Is a late arrival at the Occidental. F. B. Hill, a mining man of Plumas County, is registered at the Occidental. . de C. Richards, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is making a brief stay at the Occidental. Edward Cox, one of the largest jute manufacturers in the world, employing 6000 hands, is registered at the Palace from Scotland. % Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* i Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* } Tovnun:'l Cl;lhf:‘rnh glace fruit, 50c & und, in fire-et boxes or Jap. bask- 2& A nice present for Eastern 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * - CRAN'S SUPERIDR ATLAS, A car-load of Call Superior Atlases has arrived and they -are mow ready for distribu- tion. All subscribers to The Call are entitled to a copy of this great book at the prem- fum rate of $1 50. Out of town subscribers = a - eopy ©f this splendid prem- jum will be supplied on re- ceipt of $1 5O. Al man orders will be shipped by ex- press at subseriber’s expense. —_——— Ocean passenger rates to Europe may be put up % next summer. The cabin passengers from the United States last year numbered 128,000 and raise means at least 3600,000 more for the steamship companies. PP Going to Thunder Mountain ?? The Northern Pacific Railway is the best, cheepest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are xood wagon roads to either Warrens or Dixle, from which points the tralls into this district are most .ee—:zo. For rates, etc., address T. K. STA’ G. A., 847 Market st.. S. F. - e el G — * What you pay for extracts is important, but Wwhat you get Is ten times more important. Bur- un’-vuu—-.-—n‘nm ‘o