The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1902. The— dezznt Call. SATURDAY.......s.e00s000n0e0e-- JUNE 14, 1002 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAEE, Manager. TELEFHONE. £sk for THE CALL. The Will Connect You With the Department You Wish, PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. ¥. FLUTORIAY, ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevensom St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cenis Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. +.$6.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § months. 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. o5c SUNDAY CALL. One Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Y 1.00 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of May, 1902. - 59,920 | May -59,5201 May Ney 60,260 | Fin s Total.... teseiasissesssrnnessssss LOIG,E80 ETATE OF CALIFORNIA, { CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. " day of June, 1902, personally appeared before Hess, a Notary Public in and for the city ore said, W. J. Martin, who being sworn accord- ares that he -is the Business Manager of the I, & dally newspaper published in the city of San’ Francisco, State of California, and that e hundred and fifteen thousand eight hun- elghty (1,915,850) coples of the said newspaper, Which number divided by thirty-one (the number of days of issue) gives an average daily circulation of 61,802 coples. s g W. J. MARTIN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of June, W. T. HESS, ry Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- cis: ate of California, room 1015 Claus Spreckels Bldg. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be or sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in =il towns on the coast. e THE GRASSHOPPERS, E about the grasshopper invasions which occur from time to time and disappear, with as little known cause as their coming had. The grasshopper is always with us as a rather harmless and lively insect, related to the cricket, which chirps at harvest-time and was a necessary feature on the old-time hearth, Just why, at certain periods irregular in recurrence, this insect comes in myriads, with the appetite of a hog, and eats every green thing, is not yet known, It is the locust of the East, and in Northern Africa and elsewhere is used as food for the people. The name locust is mistakenly applied to a very different insect, the Cicada septendecem, which ap- pears in fixed localities at periods of seventeen years. It is not a hopper, but is a sluggish and slow-flying creature, with a rude imitation of the letter W on its wings and a monotonous cry of “faroe,” with a prolongation of the last syllable. It is comparatively harmless. The female deposits her eggs with an ovi- positor in the bark of trees, making a series of inci- sions for that purpose in regular rows running lengthwise of the limb. Sometimes the smaller limbs of fruit trees break as a result of these incisions, which penetrate the sap, but the harm done wvery slight. These insects exist in broods, in widely separated localities. They are not migratory. The eggs hatch and the young go into the ground and remain there seventeen years going through the changes of insect life and emerging at the end of the period to frighten the superstitious, who think that the W on their wings is a prophecy of war, and that their cry is the name of the Egyptian King of the Exodus, and that these were the fabu- Jous insects that were sent to be a burden to the people of the Nile. The different -families do not all come at once, but each has its own seventeen years period. This regu- lar and orderly recurrence eminently distinguishes them from the true locust or grasshopper, which is a creature of irregular habits. Just now this insect is prevalent in small areas in - the foothills of the Sierras, in Fresno, Sacramento and Placer counties, and the people are much alarmed. Their voracity is amazing. At first wingless they crawl on the ground and eat every green thing, their progress being about 100 yards in twenty-four hours. They strip vineyards bare, and if an orchard be in their line of march they gorge the leaves and the young fruit and leave it as bare as if it had never borne fruit or foliage. In the wingless stage they are exterminable by using fire, or by poisoning some food that they will eat and putting it in their way, or by putting coal oil in troughs or ditches across which they must crawl. For several years they devastated nearly all of Kan- sas and Nebraska and a wide strip of Western Towa, reducing land-owners to insolvency and distress. During those successive sieges many devices were brought against them and some were effective, but just what they were is forgotten, for the plague has long disappeared from that part of the country, and when it comes again, as it no doubt -will, in- genuity and invention will be called on to create means for resisting it. Perhaps the entomologists will be able to protect the country by finding some way of knowing when the insects are in the ground in dangerous numbers and dealing with them in that stage of their existence. At present man is comparatively powerless in the presence of this small enemy, which lays waste his fields and devours his substance in spite of all his knowledge and his strength. The present visitation in this ~State does not threaten an extensive district, and as soon as the in- sects get wings they may rise and fly to the moun- tains. > ‘ In the grasshopper years in Kansas the flight of the insects would continue for days, and their num- ber was so countless that they appeared like a cloud and obscured the sun. Since they were a burden to Egypt they probably have never appeared in such force as in the years when it was said they ate every- thing in those States but the rail fences. - is families, or i {to own. NTOMOLOGISTS are still much i'n the dark | THE PACIFIC CABLE. HE discussion of a Pacific cable in the House T brought out a great variety of opinions. Mr. Dalzell declared himself opposed to a Govern- ment cable and also opposed to Mr. Mackay’s propo- sition to lay one. The value of his contribution to the debate may be judged by his peroration, in which he said: “I want an’ American cable, built by Ameri- can capital, in American workshops, by American wage-carners, laid by American ships, under the American flag.” When other-people talk that way in opposition to our manufactures Mr. Dalzell and his colleagues on the Ways and Means Committee get quite warm about it. Nor is he always consistent in his reiterated and reaffirmed Americanism, or he would stand by the rights of American farmers against the Cuban junta. 3 He opposes the Mackay cable because he says it will be built in England. The fact is that no ocean cable can be built without going to England for the material. She owns and controls the only insulating material that is known. Only gutta percha wili insu- late and protect an ocean cable. England controls the gutta percha supply of the world, and the ma- terial is worth $6 per pound. This is the reason that England has a monopoly in the manufacture of cables. If Mr. Dalzell will look a little further into the sub- ject he will find that one of the greatest sources of supply of gutta percha is in the Mahometan islands of the Philippine archipelago, which we are supposed Their gutta percha, copal gum and other natural products of highly concentrated value find a market in Singapore and go to London. When Americans have desired to locate on Mindanao for commercial purposes, having been invited there by the Mahometan Dattos and Sultan, the American Congress, including Mr. Dalzell, has refused them the right, and they have been made the objects of public suspicion and political abuse. The English traders, however, circulate freely among our Mahometan sub- jects, enjoy their confidence and respect and get their trade. Instead of traders Mr. Dalzell aids in sending there the troops, trained in destruction by making Samar a howling wilderness, to slaughter hundreds of Moros without adequate cause and make all Ameri- cans the cbjects of hatred and suspicion. For all this England is very much obliged, and can afford to smile on Mr.- Dalzell's intense Americanism which proposes to prevent the laying of any cable until it is insulated by the star-spangled banner, while he makes it forever impossible to lay an American-built cable by preventing American control of an article with- out which no cable can be laid. So. far; thanks to that kind of Americanism, we have all the expense and all the hatred in the Philip- pines and England is getting the most important part of the trade and control of such commercial special- ties as gutta percha and copal gum. Mr. Corliss, author of the Corliss bill for a Gov- ernment cable, followed Mr. Dalzell in the ‘same strain, except that he wants a cable manufactured, laid, owned and operated by the Government. If his bill pass the Government cannot have a cable built in this country without robbing the taxpayers, on the reason that the Government cannot get the material. If that fact become known, and the knowledge carry with it the further fact that Ameri- can merchants and traders, if allowed to do so, will make an industrial conquest of the Philippines, which will slay no people, create no howling wilderness, | cost the taxpayers nothing and leave no loathing and hatred in the breasts of the people, and at the same time give us control of gutta percha and the ability to make an American cable, the discussion will not have been in vain. Owing to the lack of financial support the managers of the New York Infant Asylum have decided to dis- band. They have 320 infants on hand to dispose of in lots to suit. It is a queer incident in the life of the rich metropolis. There are millions of money for dogs, horses and automobiles, but not enough for babies. o THE FRENCH CABINET. PREMIER COMBES and his new Cabiziet have submitted their programme to the Chamber of Deputies and have received a vote of confi- dence by the impressive majority of 329 t6 124. This is a striking proof of the excellent work accomplished by the - retiring Cabinet, headed by Waldeck- Rousseau. France has had a Government with which a large majority of her people were satisfied. It is from that satisfaction the present feeling of harmony and confidence comes. Combes has succeeded to a strong political heritage from his predecessor. It remains to be seen what he will do with it. The new Ministry is said to be much more radical than that which has just closed its career, but nevertheless it takes cffice pledged to continue the former policy. Of course the pledge cannot be fully kept. New men mean new ideas, even when they un- dertake to maintain old measures. = 'We have an illustration of that fact in our own Government. President Roosevelt has no doubt sincerely under- taken to carry out the policy of McKinley, but he is not McKinley, and 2lready his. Cabinet has under- gone several changes and the relations between the administration and Congress are not what they were. The personal factor counts in government as in everything else, and with a change of leaders there inevitably comes a change in the whole situation. It is a safe prediction that the large majority that gave the vote of confidence to the Combes Ministry on Thursday will not long remain undiminished. The very terms in which the confidence was expressed are ominous of division and discord as soon as the Min- isters undertake to put their policy into practice. The resolution declares: “The Chamber expresses its confidence in the Government to.apply the policy of laicism, fiscal reform and social solidarity.” Now laicism means further separation of church and state, fiscal reform means to some people a graduated in- come tax, and ‘social solidarity means almost any- thing the socialists may take a notion to demand. There can be no agreement among the, majority of the Chamber upon plans for carrying out such a pro- gramme, and sooner or later among some of them the feeling of confidence will give way to antagonism. A summary of the programme outlined by the Ministry states that the principal measures to be brought forward at once are the reduction of military service to two years, the repeal of the Fallpux law, which favors religious orders engaged in teaching, the establishment of an income tax, the thorough execution of the law regulating associations, and bills providing for fiscal reform, financial economy and the state purchase of railroads. In the debate in the Chamber upon the programme M. Brussiere, speaking for.the Radicals, urged the | Government to carry out an extreme programme in | dealing with the church, so as to bring about an en- tire separation from the state. M. Jouares, speaking for the Socialists, also urged further action toward restricting the powers of the clergy, but he went fur- ther than the Radical leader in advocating a reduc- tion in the military service by urging that France should take the lead in the disarmament of the na- tions. It appears, therefore, that while the Radicals and the Socialists voted with the Ministerialists for the resolution of confidence, they are not wholly sat- isfied. In the meantime the Conservatives are frankly discontented. One of them declares; “We are threatened with- a brutal application of the law of associations and the suppression of the liberty of teaching. We have serious reasons for believing the Ministry will not last three months.” i/ The new Premier is not widely known. He is by profession a doctor of medicine: He is a member of the Senate and has served as Vice President of that body. For a time hé was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the Senate. He received his early in- struction at the Roman Catholic seminary of Albi, was for a time a schoolmaster, and is regarded as one of the foremost authorities in France on educa- tional matters. He is described .as a cool, clear- headed, practical man with a vast store of common- sense. He has a good share of the old Jacobin spirit of the Revolution, tempered ‘by modern ideas. Finally, it is said he is an early riser, an indefatigable worker and has a great faculty for making ‘and re- taining friends. , stone the Liberal party in Great Britain has sunk from “imperial liberalism to provincial radicalism”; place in the Demoecratic party in this country. It has no longer a national,policy on any issue, and in buncombe platform of its own. FOREST PRESERVATION S the attention of the public has been recalled to the\subject of forest preservation by the re- changes says that during the month of May “de- structive fires have broken out in Pennsylvania, Ken- Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Maine, Texas, New Hampshire, Iowa, New Mexico, North Caro- That is a tremendous record for a single month of springtime and gives a portentous warning of what hovg swiftly the hot sun dries the forests of the East when once the snows are melted and the spring extensive forest fires in May. That, however, is an- other story. The issue now is not one of climate in against the ravages of fire. We in our turn and our season shall have fires enough to impress us ~with of the State will ‘escape. Over and over again the question of preserving discussed. An elaborate campaign of education has been carried on, and it is not likely that any con- longer a doubt of the urgent need of adopting some plan of guarding against fires and other causes of ?eeded and to take action, however, are tWo different things. Californians have long been agreed on the subject, been takef or even scientifically formulated. It is'tyfne to get to work at this problem in ear- and neXt winter it will:meet. The time is propitious, therefore, to a thorough consideration of the forest lature men who will undertake to devise ways and means for solving the problem. & been done in the way of experimenting in forestry, and the general Government also has done much. in the matter, though of course as our problems are radically different in many respects from those of the many ways. Be that as it may, it is time to get at it. The springtime fires in the East are warnings of use waiting until the fire flashes in our eyes and the smoke is in our nostrils before we begin to think the non-partisan State politics of the year, and leg- islative candidates of all parties should be pledged to tion of our forests and the conservation of our waters. NLY the early fruit is ripe and goihg forward to market, and the enormous crop to follow the State that the labor is not here to do the harvest- ing and marketing. handlers that half of this fine crop will rot on the ground for lack of labor to secure and save it. This much to lose in one season from such a cause. At the same time that lack of labor in that field appears on ranches, which adds to the burdens of rural life. For most of this there are certain economic rea- whole fruit industry in this State was founded on Chinese labor. It requires a mobile form of labor be available in any part of the State on time, for ripening fruit does not wait for anything. A sort of quire, is necessary in all orchard operations. Coupled witlt these characteristics fillelity to con- one of the qualities possessed by Chinese to a greater degree than by any other people. These made Chi- on account of its cheapness, but because of its ability and its reliability. As the experienced fruit hands get others, the quality of cheapness has disappeared, and experienced fruit-growers would pay more for Chi-~ cannot. } : This year is to test the matter. The railroads and The charge is made that since the death of Glad- { and something of the same kind of decline has taken the comirg elections every district will have a local UMMER has barely begun and yet in the East currence of forest fires. One of our Eastern ex- tucky, New Jersey, Maryland, Indiana, New York, lina and Ohio.” . is to come with the summer. Incidentally it shows storms are over.” We in California do not look for spring or summer, but one of protecting our woods the lesson the East is now studying, and no section our forests and conserving our water supply has been siderable number of intelligent people have any woodland waste. To agree t! ction but no comprehensive programme of action has yet nest. his fall a new Legislature is to be elected, problem, so that there may be elected to the Legis- In several of the Eastern States a great deal has California, therefore, will not have to act as a pioneer East we shall have to work out our own salvation in what we are going to have in the fall. There is no about the issue. It should be taken up as a part of accomplish something next winter for the preserva- LACK OF LABOR. O is still growing, when a cry goes up all over It is the opinion of experienced fruit-growers and will mean a loss to the State of about $10,000,000, too there is also a dearth of household help, especially sons that should be understood. The fact is that our that can move readily from orchard to orchard and skill, which the Chinese were found to readily ac- 'tract is a prime necessity in handling fruit, and this is nese the orchard and vineyard labor of the State, not older and exclusion has prevented the addition of nese than other labor if they could get it, but they immigrant agencies are straining every nerve to sup- All parties concerned look on with interest curious to see if yhite and J:pmele labor can fill the gap. The world never before saw so many volcanoes ac- { tive in the newspapers as now. ? ply the State with labor enough to save the fruit crop. | BRIDES-ELECT ARE FETED BY MRS. TIBBITTS Two charming brides-elect, Miss Clara McNear and Miss Julia Tibbitts, were guests of honor at a luncheon given by Mrs. A. D. Tibbitts at her home in Pet- aluma on Tuesday. Miss McNear's en- gagement to Harry Leppe was recently announced, and Miss Tibbitts is to wed Captain Fox. It was a pink luncheon, a profusion of pink flowers being arranged about the rooms and tled with ribbon to matoh. The table decorations were in keeping with the room. Covers were laid for twelve. Those present were: Miss Clara McNear, Mrs. James Bardell, Mrs. John McNear Jr. of Polnt Pedro, Mrs. Harry McWeston, Mrs. Wellington S. Bell, Miss Margaret Grant, Miss Maud Brainerd, Miss Kittie Weston, Miss Tibbitts and Mrs. A. L. Tibbitts. The Williams christening on Thursday afternoon was a very smart affair. The Van Ness avenue residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Williams was thronged with friends. Rev. Willlam Corson Shaw of Oakland officiated, and the three months’ old baby duly became Thomas Hanford Williams Jr. An elaborate din- ner followed the christening. The guests were: Major Rathbone, Mr. and Mrs. Harry East Miller, Hermann Oelrichs, Naglee Burke, Colonel and Mrs. Daniel Burns, John Ferris, the Misses Ferrig, Mrs. E. L. G. Steele, E. L. G. Steele Jr. Mrs. Charles A. Bennet, Miss Elsle Bennet, Charles A. Bennet, Danfel Mur- phy, Miss Tibbe Taylor, Mrs. David Bixler, Alexander Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Jackson, Thomas McCaleb, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Andrews, Thruxton Beale, Colenel Felton, Miss Florence Burnham, Miss Belle Burnham, Mrs. Lombard, Laurence Draper, Dr. Clinton Cush- ing, Mr. and Mrs. T.'T. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Prather Clark, Colonel and Mrs. Hermann Ben- del, Miss Evelyn Bendel, Miss Johanna Bendel, Samuel Hubbard, Charles Hubbard, Arthur Goodfellow, Hugh Goodfellow and Colonel Kirk- patrick. 2y £e 2 The engagement is announced of Miss Effile Ramsey, daughter of Mrs. M. Man- ning of Nashville, and G. B. Jewett, a prominent railroad man of this city. The bride-elect has spent some little time here and has made many friends. The groom-elect is connected with the Santa Fe Ralilroad. No date is set for the wed- ding. f s TR Peter D. Martin has been spending a few days at Burlingame. ALTe Ex-Senator Felton and daughter, Mrs. Elkins, have opened their summer home at Menlo Park. A The George D. Toys are entertaining Miss Viola Shaw of Boston at San Ra- fael. ey Percy King has returned from his Eastern trip. pg A delightful ping-pong party was given by Mrs. J. J. Crooks at her country home in San Rafael Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Miss Kitty Ains- worth, Mrs. Fred Beaver and Miss Ber. tie Bruce. The guests were: Mrs. J. J. Crooks, Mrs. Frank Mathison, Mrs. Willlam Casey, Miss La Salle, Miss Kitty Ains- worth, Mrs. Fred Beaver, Miss Bertle Bruce, Mrs. Flechler, Mrs. Leslie Wright, Mrs. Vin- cent, Mrs. Neal, Mrs. Hitchcock, Miss Bruce, Mrs. Pond and Mrs, Black. o e e The marriage of Miss Alice Frank to Henry T. Ottenheimer will take place next Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the-home of the bride, 2121 California street, in the presence of relatives and a limited number of friends. | — «QERSONAL MENTION. Elwood Bruner of Sacramento is at the Lick. H. H. Hart of San Jose is at the Cali- fornia. T. H. Ramsay of Red Bluff is at the Palace. R. B. Spencer of Monterey is at the Oc- cidental. Ben U. Steinman of Sacramento is at the Palace. T. C. White, a merchant of Fresno, is at the Lick. J. 8. Artist, an oil man of Hanford, is at the Lick. Dr. G. F. Chalmers of Niles is at the Occideutal. J. M. Collins, a merchant of Manila, is at the Grand. _ Dan Patton, a mining man of Napa, is at the Grand. Henry Booksin, a mining Jose, is at the Grand. W. A. Mackinder, an attorney of St. Helena, is at the California. ‘W. F. Nichols, Auditor of the Territory of Arizona, is at the Palace. P. C. Drescher, a well-known business man of Sacramento, is at the California. Samuel E. Darby, a patent attorney of Chicago, passed through the city yester- day en route to Mexico. E. C. Dunnavant, passenger and ticket agent of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad, is at the Palace. Samuel A. Meyers, traveling passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, stationed at Pittsburg, is at the Palace. ‘Willlam W. Banks and bride of Port- land, Or., are spending their honeymoon in this city. Mr. Banks was elected to the Oregon Legislature at the recent State election. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 13.—The following Californians have arrived: S8an Francisco —C. M. Bolton, at the Raleigh; Mrs. W. McMurray, at the Murray Hill; E. F. T'uay, A. H. Wangaman, at the Morton; R. R. Dunn, at the Grand; C. B. Kauf- man, at the Holland; F. J. Teggart, at the Herald Square; Mrs. G. Uhl, at the Union Square. Los Angeles—Miss Bushnell, at the Murray Hill; B. F, Field, at LhaIGrand Union. . Oakland—W. S. Palmer, at the Astor. ————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “I see that Mrs. Depew is coming home with twelve trunks full of Paris gowns.” “But do you really think that offsets having a husband who thinks he is al- ways funny?”’—Cleveland Plain Dealer, man of San ‘Yeast—Is your wife curious? Crlmsu%genk—Well, I should rather say she fs. hy, she never gives me a let- ter to mail that she doesn’t ask me, when I come home at night, {f I have mailed it.—Yonkers Statesman. Naggus (literary editor)—Borus’ last book 1is called “Blue Blood.” It's awful rot, but I don’t want to hurt his feelings by saying so. = Mrs. Naggus—Can't you say it is writ- ten in the author’s best vein.—Chicago Tribune. After the young lady left it was plain to be seen that the dramatic reporter was almost prostrated. “Who was she?’ asked the horse re- porter. v “Young woman from the ballet. The one that I sald did not know how to kick. She does.”—Indianapolis Press. Mrs. Gotham—I am surprised, John, to hear you say a good word for that ele- vated railroad corporation. Mr. Gotham—Why so? ’ “Because you are always saying some- thing awful about them when you get home.” E ““Yesy but I stand up for them nearly every night coming home.”—Yonkers Statesman, ' one particular court in San Franecisco in PETITION FOR . FRANCHISE GOES OVER A WEEK The petition of the United Railroads Cempany of San Francisco for a street raliroad franchise on Bay and Buchanan streets came up yesterday morning be- fore the Street Committee of the Super- visors, composed of Peter J. Curtis, John Connor and Samuel Braunhart. Supervisor Braunhart stated that he was in favor of granting the franchise, provided that the United Railroads of San Francisco would in turn grant to the ! city and county the right to use Markat | street for the proposed municipal Geary street road, without questioning the right of the city to use the street. Joseph S. Tobin replied that the United Railroads Company was particularly de-| sirous of obtaining the franchise for five blocks on Bay and Buchanan streets in order to reach the power house for the: purpose of housing the men and cars, and of obtaining additional power. Regarding the other franchises Mry. Tobin said the company submitted that the same should be granted subject to reasonable conditions. Supervisor Connor said that if the rail- way company would grant the use of the Sutter Street Raflway Company’s rBlls‘ on Market street he would vote in favor of the franchise on Bay and Buchanan streets. J. 8. Tobin said the privilege is worth millions of dollars and the United Rail- roads Company has an exclusive right to operate on Market street, and that if a concession is made in this respect it will impair the validity of the franchise and would be unjust to the company’'s stock and bond holders. Continuing, Mr. Tobin said: “I have consulted with our directors and we do not think we can make this concession in justice to our stockholders. “If the Bay street franchise is not granted we must build our power house along the line of the present roads.” Charles W. Reed asked that the matter be laid over for one week in order to offer certain conditfons in the proposal, and it was so ordered. Applications for franchises for the Cal- ifornia Street Rallroad Company and Presidio and Ferries Rallroad Company also went over for one week. The committee was in favor of the passage of the ordinance submitted by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company to lay an underground conduit for a trans-Pacific cable, and it will come up for passage next Monday. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TEN DOLLAR PIECE—Subseriber, City. A ten dollar piece of 1842 does not command a premium. DRAMATIC SCHOOL—R. S. M., City. This department does not advertise any business or profession, and therefore can- not answer your question. POSITION ON A SHIP—C. H. L., City. A person- desiring a position on board a ship should make application to the mas- ter thereof, who will inform him as to the mode of procedure. VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT—R. H., City. At the election held in the State of New York September 29, 1898, the vote for Gov- ernor stood: Roosevelt, 661,707: Van ‘Wyck, 643,921; Hanford, 23,80; Klein, 18,~ 883, and Bacon, 2,103 QUEEN VICTORIA’S MOTHER—L. S., City. The mother of-the late Queen Vic- torla was Marie Louise Victoria of the House of Saxe Coburg and the widow of the Prince of Leiningen when she married Edward August Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George IIL. A COMMITTEE'S REPORT-F. T, City. If an organized soclety adopts the report of a committee recommending the appointment of a named individual for a specific purpose the adoption carries with it the recommendation, and the party ramed should be employed. ANALYSIS—N. F., Brownsville, Cal. The cost of the analysis of water depends upon the individual obtained to make such, also the amiount of labor involved. There is no fixed price for such. You should address some chemist and ask what he will charge for what you desire. BICYCLE RIDING—Subscriber, City. Bicycle riders are governed by the rule of the road “keep to the right.” If one bicyclist collides with another and at the time he runs into the other he is on the wrong side of the road he certainly is at fault and an action for damages would lie. COPYRIGHT—F. R., City. To secure a copyright on a written article, address a communication to the Librarian of Con- gress, Washington, D. C., asking for a blank. It will be sent to you and then you will have to fill out the same accord- ing to instructions and return with a fee of 50 cents. S., San Diego, Cal ‘Washington Bartlett was not clerk of any BARTLETT—A. 1§68. He was County Clerk from 1859 to 1863 and from 1868 to 1869 inclusive. He was Mayor, Election Commissioner, New City Hall Commissioner and member of the Board of Health from 1883 to 1886. TO BECOME AN ACTOR—Subscriber, City. A person who desires to become an actor, if he has the ability to memorize well, has good elocution and has a good stage appearance, should place him- self under the care of a teacher of the dramatic art or go on the stage in the lowest capacity, acquire practical knowl- edge and work up. BIRTHDAY CAKE—A. F. B, City. What may be placed in birthday or for- tune cake is limited only by the desire of the party preparing the same. There “may be placed in the same a ring, coins, and any article of jewelry that one de- sires. A ring signifies a wedding, money, fortune; a thimble, industry; a pocket- knife, a sundering of friendship, and so on. DIVORCES—Subscriber, City. So-called divorces authorized by the Pope were not divorces, as the church official does not authorize divorce or remarriage of di- vorcees under any dispensation. There have been cases of annulment of mar- riage by reason of non-compliance with certain conditions lald down by the church, or on account of impediments arising out of the relationship of the par- ties, which rendered the marriage null. ULSTER COUNTY GAZETTE—Sub- scriber, City. The Ulster County Gazette of January 4, 1800, containing an account of the death of George Washington is an imitation of the original. In the early sixtles more than a million such imita- tions were issued by an enterprising indi- vidual in the east and sold for 2 cents a plece. In the past five years this depart- ment has recelved more than two hun- dred letters of inquiry from individuals having such coples and all under the impression that they had a valuable relfc. CONDEMNED HOUSE — Subscriber, City. This correspondent asks: 1Is a person compelled to pay rent while living in a house on property which has been condemned? The answer to the question as propounded is that if a party occupies the house after condemnation of property he is bound to pay rent. If the heuse suited his purposes before condemnation he would have to pay rent, and if after the condemnation the premises still suit him he is in duty bound to pay the, rent. If he does not desire to remain in the premises he may move, as he cannot be compelled to remain thefe, - | the basis of the GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS “The King’s Race Horses™ is now near- ly ready for publication. Judging by the specimen of the cover in which it will be bound it will make a very beautiful and most sumptuous volume. The royal quarto edition will be 3 guineas and the imperial size 1 guineas. It gives a full account of King Edward's connection with the national sport. Lord Marcus Begesford, who contributes some notes, in a¥ extra. equerry to the King. Edward Spencer, who writes the general narrative, is a well-known ‘sports- man and authority on sporting matters. In the first chapter Spencer deals with royalty on the turf from Henry II down- ward. The fourth chapter is specially interest- ing to lovers of the turf. It.describes the scene on Epsom Downs when Persimmon won for the Prince of Wales, as he then was, his first Derby, to be followed by the Ascot cup, the Eclipse stakes, the Don- caster, St. Leger and the Jockey Club stakes by this famous horse; the winning of the One Thousand Guineas-by Thais, the Manchester cup by Florizel and the Two Thousand Guineas and the St. Leger by Diamond Jubilee. The fifth chapter treats of the Grand National Steeplech: won by Ambush, with other performance by the same racer. The last chapter de- scribes Sandringham, with its natural ad- vantages for breeding blooded stock. The volume is to contain twenty plates in photogravure. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, I have just heard, intends when his dutles af- ford him time to revise his book on Per- sia for a new edition. was the result of wide Lady Warwick is suffic from her recent hunting able to work on the book which = long had in view. s is the Warwick Castle from earliest to the end of Vietoria's reign. With the story of the castle famous in English his- tory there will be linked the story of its owners, who also have played a part English history. The collection of papers at Warwick Castle is ve full and the information they contain will be book. It will be finely {llustrated, in part from old paintings, and will be published in two volumes by Messrs. Hutchinson during the autummn. The last month has, according to the publishers’ reports, developed littie or no improvement over the preceding month in the amount of business done. The de- mand in nearly every class of literature has been, with few exceptions, very lim- ited, although judging from the qrders which come from the various provinecial centers it would appear that the slack- ness in the country is not so pronounced as in London. With the coronation fes- tivities in view, anticipations of any im- mediate change are not high, though with the war now over publishers talk hope- fully of a bright autumn. The great dan- ger, however, will be of the glutting of the market with so many good books of fiction which have been held up for mors than a year, walting for more prosperous times. There has been no great sale even of what are recognized as good books. “A Way of Escape,” by Graham Travers: “At Sunwich Port, by Jacobs, and “Scarlet and Hyssop” have, continued in almost constant request, but even these have not had anything like success. Less meritorious works have had more pros- perous times, strange as it may seem. The fourth and concluding volume. of the “Dictionary of the Bible,” edited by Dr. Hastings, which is not yet out, but will be published within the next few days, has led to an enormous demand for the previous three volumes. No work of a kindred nature has ever attained such popularity. The demand has been almesg four times the amount indicated by the early subscriptions. Another editfon will have 40 be printed before the orders can be met. If fiction and other works are suffering just now the Bible is finding a great many purchasers. It is not that any re- liglous wave is flowing over the nation, but the Bible is undoubtedly the best selling book at the present moment, to- gether with the coronation prayer book, which was mentioned last week. There is a very keen demand for the special coronation editions of the Holy Scriptures which have been issued. I have been try- ing to arrive at an estimate of how many Bibles are sold in England in the course of the year, but the nearest figure I can get is from one theological publisher, who, while unable to give statistics, cal- culates that at least four million copies must be disposed of by different publish- ers every twelve meonths. “But all these,” he remarked, “are not read in En- gland by any means. A great many go to America, the colonies and other coun= tries.” Issues Letters of Thanks. In recognition of the action of thd Grand Parlor of the Native Daughters in passing resolutions to forward in every way the interests and development of the State and to use so far as possible arti- cles of home manufacture and production, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Asso- ciation yesterday issued a letter of con- gratulations and thanks, with sygges- tions as to how the proposed end might be best attained. i ———————— Extend Thanks to Commissioners. ‘The members of the auxiliary of the San Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children desire to extend their sincers thanks to the Park Commissioners and Mrs. Hickok, superintendent of the chil- dren’s quarter, for the courtesy, priv- ileges, attention and generous lunch given to the children at the Golden Gate Park cn Wednesday, June 1L —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —— Townsend’s California glace fruit, Slc a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. = e . Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 . ———————— A woman’'s college announces that fits work, beginning with next fall, will “in« clude a secretarial course.” ?? Going to Thunder Mountain P The Northern Pacific Railway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagom roads to either Warrens or Dixle, from which points the trails into this district are most accessible. For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER, G. A., 647 Market st., S. F. . ————— Keep looking youns and saVe your hair, ity eolor and beauty with Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns, 1Sects, CRAM'S SUPERIOR ATLAS. A ear-load of Call Superios Atlases has arrived and they B 1 i 3 e iy i b § ! i | i