The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1902 ‘ - MONDAY. & JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress A1l Communiestions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. s MG S BT ATRGCT TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You Witk the Department You Wish. ..Market and Third, S. F. .217 to 221 Stevemson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Copies, 5§ Cem: Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), € month: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers In ordering change of mddress shouid be particulsr to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. .e..1118 Broadway C. 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T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can bave their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in on the coast. A CHEERFUL BUSINESS ASPECT. HE majority of trade reports from the different T sections of the United States last week were of a cheerful cast. In fact, the optimistic tone was more apparent than for some weeks, and it was remarked that the country was just as able to pay the current high prices for the neccssaries of life as at any time during the past two or three years. These prices certainly are high, but how long they will con- tinue so is impossible to forecast. Chicago reports say that “provisions are out of sight,” and what is more, they are going into consumption as fast as pro- duced. The comparative scarcity of livestock is the | prime cause of these high prices, but whether it is | a good thing for the country to have to pay high prices for what it eats, even if it has the ready cash to do it with, is 2 question. If there was any unfavorable feature to business last week it was the general decrease in the bank clearings among the most important cities. With the exception of Cincinnati, Cleveland and Minneap- olis every large city in the country showed a loss compared with the corresponding week in 1901, and the aggregate clearings again fell below $2,000,000,- 000, being $1.847,629.000, of which New York was credited with $1,150,638,000. The net falling off for the whole country was 13.7 per cent. The failures, however, made a more favorable exhibit, being 193, against 208 last year. The weather was better last week, and this condi- tion may have given business its rosier hue. It was not really good weather at best, for it rained almost continuously over the great grain and vegetable re- gions in the West, damaging crops more or less and discouraging farmers in a number of States. The Government crop report, however, showed the condi- tion of the wheat and corn crops to be better than expected, which had a stimulating effect on general business. The wheat crop of the country will prob- ably fall 140,000,000 bushels short of 1901, but the corn crop bids fair to be huge. Cash wheat is in brisk demand almost everywhere in the world, and quotations have been steadily rising of late in conse- quence until the noble grain is once more getting back toward respectable prices. With wheat selling at good prices, prosperity generally smiles on the whole world. Hence the higher wheat goes the more we smile. The other staples are making a fair showing. Wool and woolen goods seem to be slowly working higher. Leather is growing firmer again in the West, and the New England boot and shoe factories are now more fully engaged than at any previous time this year. Ship-aents of provisions from the United States during the first half of the year broke all rec- i ords, but those of cereals were smaller than for sev- eral years, owing to the shrinkage in the corn and oat crops. The high prices for livestock checked the exports in this line also. The railway earnings thus ..r this month are 8 per cent ahead of last year, and the excellent crop prospects point to continued heavy earnings during the rest of the year. There is no marked decline in activity in the iron and steel trades, and most mills are still away behind with their orders. Lumber shows less movement, but | stocks everywhere are small and no pronounced de- cline is anticipated. The situation in California shows no change worthy of especial comment. The only condition at 2ll adverse at the moment is the absence of the usual summer fog along the coast, which is rather against the production of large, fine fruit in the great fruit counties around the bay. The weather is too fine. We need rather more humidity and less warm, dry wind just now. No positive harm has been done, but we would turn oyt 2 better fruit crop if the 2ir were moister and a few degrees cooler. The demand for our fruits this year has been first rate, and the growers thus far haye received profitable returns. General merchandise is also in exccllent demand, even at the current high prices, and grains are bringing better prices as a rule than for some time. The banks continue to report plenty of funds, collections are easy and failures few and small. Californiz has no cause for complaint in any branch of industry. DEMOCRATIC ISSUES. AVING failed to develop an issue out of the H legislation of the session, the Democrats of Congress just before adjournment met in cau- cus and proceeded to formulate resolutions for use during the coming campaign. It is not 'likely they will be much heard of before the people, for little or no attention has been paid to them by Democratic State conventions in making up platforms, but they are nevertheless worth noting as evidences of the programme the reorganizers would like to get the party to adopt, not only for this year but for 1904 as well. The caucus resolutions are four in number. The first declares: “We condemn the Republican ma- jority in Congress for its failure to pass a measure providing reciprocity with Cuba. * * * The failure of all reciprocity legislation with Cuba rests upon the Republican administration, which is will- ing to reduce the duty on the raw sugar of our pro- ducers, but unwilling to destroy the sugar monop- |oly," The second resolution says: “The Republican majority in Congress is dominated and controlled by the trusts and monopolies which have the great in- dustries of our country in their grasp. * * * They refuse and fail to bring in any measure to sup- | press the trusts, or to report favorably on any of the numerous anti-trust bills introduced by Demo- | cratic members during this Congress.” The third resolution is the most notable of the set, for it offers something in the way of an affirmative programme instead of mere denunciation of what Republicans have done or left undone. That resolu- [ tions says: “We favor the immediate passage of a measure to amend the present anti-trust law so as to more fully protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and also a meas- ure to reduce the duties on all articles and commodities manufactured and controlled or produced in the United States by a trust or trusts, so as to destroy any illegal combinations, ‘and to reduce the rate of duty on any article or commodity manufactured in the United States ard sold in a foreign country more cheaply than in the United States.” The fourth resolution is but a bit of claptrap. declares: “We oppose the adjournment of Congress until the measures mentioned above have been en- acted into law.” The most notable feature of the resolutions is the absence of any declaration whatever concerning the Philippines. The whole issue of anti-imperialism, which was so elaborately discussed in the Senate, and in support of which so much testimony concern- ing the “water cure” and other evils of the ,war in the islands was brought forward, is absolutely ignored. The silver question itself is not more completely dropped and set aside than the Philippine issue. Thus { upon one of the great political questions of the day Democracy has not only no policy but no opinion. Concerning every problem involved in dealing with the islands the leaders of Democracy stand dumb. The resolutions return always to the charge that the Republican party is dominated by the trusts that are now rapidly acquiring control of the great in- dustries of the country. Upon that issue Repub- | licans have nothing to fear. The position of the party with respect to every form and phase of Ameri- can industry is far superior to that of the opposition party. A very large part of our industries has been | built up by Republican legislation, and every part of it has had the benefit of Republican protection. A Republican Congress long ago put upon the stat- ute books of the nation the anti-trust law which a | Democratic President refused to enforce, but which is now being invoked by a Republican President and a Republican Attorney General to protect the public against jllegal combinations in restraint of trade. Should the Democrats desire to make an appeal to the country in favor of reciprocity with Cuba the Republicans will be willing to meet them on that ground, but it is safe to say that in Louisiana and in other cane-growing Southern States. Democracy will make no such fight. The demand for a repeal of customs duties on articles produced by the trusts is an evidence of the usual Democratic stupidity in fiscal matters. The powerful trusts would be affected but little by the repeal of the protective duties, but the smaller operators who are now competing with the trusts would be ruined. Whatever may be the wisdom or the folly exhibited by the Democratic leaders in formulating the resolu- tions, they make it evident that the intention is to force the trust question upon the people as the chief issue of the time. Everything else is to be subor- dinated tc that, and the country may as well get ready to meet it. Vermont is to have a triangular fight for the Gov- | ernorship this summer, and experts are in doubt whether it will make the State so hot that summer | resort people will leave it or whether it will be so much of a free circus that holiday seekers will come | from all parts of New England to see it. O of Congress is the extent to which members of each of the two great parties broke away from their leaders and the success which attended their efforts. The defeat of the programme of the Republican leaders of the House on the Cuban re- ciprocity question naturally attracted more attention than the revolt in the Democratic ranks, for the pro- ceedings of the majority are always more iriteresting than those of the minority. Nevertheless, the Demo- cratic revolt was much more formidable than that which occurred in the Republican ranks, and it is probable it means the retirement of Richardson from the position of Democratic leader of the House, Richardson owed his position to the strength of the Bryanite faction and to his skill in parliamentary tactics. His fall is due to the vanishing of Bryanite strength in Congress and to his lack of political sagacity. Democrats of all parts of the country looked to the leaders of the party in the House to formulate issues for use in the coming campaign against the administration. It was the task of Rich- ardson to guide his followers in that work. Had he possessed a mind of any great capacity for states- manship, or had he even the cleverness of a first- rate demagogue, he might have succeeded in finding or making an issue for his party. He failed because from first to last his mind ran upon fittle things, He was more intent in hunting for scandals and petty malfeasances in office than in looking for great issues, and the result is that his party goes to the country without an issue and he himself is discred- ited and repudiated by his former followers, In no feature of Richardson’s career as a Jeader was his incapacity more conspicuously displayed than in taking up the Christmas scandals and demanding lan investigation of them in the expectation of in- | volving the administration in fraud. Richardson EXIT RICHARDSON. NE of the notable features of the late session It | went so far as to almost make himself responsible as an indorser of Christmas’ statements, notwithstand- ing their self-evident absurdity. To Richardson anything that promised to stain or smear the admin- istration seemed good politics, and he went at the investigation with an energy worthy of a better cause. He had evidently made up his mind that some kind of scandal was necessary to Democratic success and a scandal he would have, The committee appointed to investigate the charges reported just before the adjournment of Congress that “there is not the slightest semblance of evidence” to support a single one of them. Cou- sins of Towa in reviewing the case said: “This wild and incoherent story of the adventurer Christmas be- longs to the dark and bygone ages, when innocent credulity, ‘with wondering eyes, believed the mon- strous stories of the ancient oracle, and accredited the spurious performances of the necromancers and the alchemists. There is but one thing in connection with the whole matter that approaches the silliness and absurdity of the driveling diatribe and fictitious tale of Christmas, and that is the unparalleled and ludicrous performance of deliberately and solemnly spreading it upon the records of the American Con- gress, where it must remain throughout all history as a shameless challenge to the credulity of man.” In the face of the jeers of the House, Richardson could do no more than say he rejoices as much as any one that no proof of bribery had been forthcom- ing. The collapse of the case, however, leayes him utterly discredited. While he has been chasing scan- dals and watching at knotholes in the hope of seeing something wrong within the Republican fence, a group of abler Democrats have been making their way to the front. De Armond of Missouri, McClellan of New York and Williams of Mississippi are now much more potent in the party than the nominal leader. Mr. Richardson may as well follow Bailey to the Senate. The House has no further use for him. Generals Botha, Dewet and Delarey it is said are to visit the United States with the object of collect- ing funds for the relief of Boers who have been ruined by the war. That they will be warmly re- ceived goes without saying. The American people 'tablc, and as in this case there is to be a chance of manifesting both those virtues at once the visits of the three heroes will be notable. { S was given to the action of a New York court in awarding $15,000 damages to a young woman against a milling company which had used a picture of her face without her consent as an adver- tisement for a certain brand of flour. At the time of the announcement the verdict of the jury and the decision of the court received general approval. Pub- lic opinion cordially indorsed the doctrine that a woman has a right to privacy and that her picture cannot be used for general advertising against her will. The decision of the lower court has now been over- ruled by the Court of Appeals, the highest tribunal in the State. Four Judges out of seven have declared that the woman is not entitled to damages; that the milling company, or any other company engaged in a legitimate business, has a right to use the face of any woman it chooses as an advertisement for the purpose of attracting attention to its wares. The Chief Justice in rendering the decision said: “The sc-called right of privacy is, as the phrase suggests, founded upon the claim that a man has the right to pass through this world, if he wills, without having his picture published, his business enterprises discussed, his successful experiments written up for the benefit of others or his eccentricities commented upon ecither in handbills, circulars, catalogues, peri- odicals or newspapers, and necessarily that the things which may not be written and published of him must not be spoken of him by his neighbors, whether the comment be favorable or otherwise. While most persons would much prefer to have a good likeness of themselves appear in a responsible periodical or leading newspaper rather than upon an advertising card or sheet, the doctrine which the courts are asked to create for this case would apply as well to the one publication as to the other. * * * Ap examination of the authorities leads us to the conclu- sion that the so-called right of privacy has not as yet found an abiding place in our jurisprudence, and, as we view it, the doctrine cannot now be incorpo- rated without doing violence to settled principles of law by which the profession and the public have long been guided.” THE RIGHT OF PRIVACY, OME time ago a good deal of attention tween the publication of a woman’s picture in a news- paper where it would appear as a part of some item of news in which she was interested and a publication on bill boards and circulars as a part of an adver- tising scheme of a business in which the woman had no interest whatever does not appear. We have to accept the decision as it comes to us. The court seems to have had no option between deciding as it did or deciding in favor of a principle of privacy which would cause more trouble and more wrong than the denial of such a principle. As the matter stands, then, no man nor woman can live to them- selves alone. After all it is not a bad rule. We are creatures of society and we might as well be sociable. When the Standard Oil Company announced its dividends for the year it seemed as if it had looted the country, but when the steel trust presented, its annual statement it was seen that a good deal had escaped the oil men. Next came the Treasury report show- ing that the Government had found good pickings after all the trusts got through, and finally the re- ports of gay crowds at the summer resorts show that a whole lot of wealth escaped taxation. Evidently the American goose can stand several pickings and still show plenty of feathers at the wind up. The Japanese are said to have adopted baseball as a game, but they are reported to be using it as a recreation for girls, and moreover they have four bases instead of three, making a pentagon instead of a diamond. In short, they are chopping up the great game to suit oriental ideas, and some day we may get it back as a novelty and never recognize its origin. American trade must be growing very important in Paris, for it is said that an enterprising man is doing a big business in that city by giving instruc- tion to shop clerks in what he calls “American man- ners and the American method of speaking French.” 1o An Illinois funeral was interrupted the other day by the mourners, who proceeded to tar and feather the husband for making love to the sister of his dead | wife while the parson was reading the service are especially proud of being hospitable and chari- | Just why the court could not make a distinction be- | TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN NAVAL EXPENDITURES IN TWENTY YEARS i L SHE MADE ONLY 18 KNOTS. JEANNE D'ARC,,ONE OF THE NEW CRUISERS OF THE FRENCH NAVY. THE VESSEL IS OF PLACEMENT, AND WAS TO HAVE A SPEED OF 2 KNOTS AN HOUR, THOUGH IN HER FIRST TRIALS | — 11,329 TONS DIS- HE increase in naval expenditures during the past twenty yvears is so vast as-to excite alarm in those countries already heavily taxed with army establishments. The St. James Gazette glves figures of ordinary or annually recurrent expenditures of six continental powers, which, however, are incorrect. There was comparatively little new construction going on in 1882, and none whatever in Japan and the United States, but since 189 all the naval powers have been busy building ships, with a gradual increase in expenditures, and the following corrected table of eight navies shows that while a total of a little over | $136,000,000 sufficed in 1882, Great Britain {alone expended in 1902 $23,000,000 more than the sum total of eight navies twenty | vears ago: Per cent Countries. 1882. 1902. |Increase” Austria .....|$ 3,8250001$ 8,873,000 132 France 31,180,000/ 62,400,000/ 100 Germany .. 8, 82: G Great Britain Italy Japan Russia United Totals . ..|§136,335,000/$448,109,000] 220 ol e The two battleships of 16,000 tons and two armored cruisers of 14,500 tons de- | signed for the United States navy are to have speeds of eighteen and twenty-two knots, respectively. In view of the fact that foreign warships of similar classes are being built with greater speed, it is just possible that there is some mistake about the intended speed of the American i ships. The five battleships of 15,000 tons mow bullding are designed for nineteen knots. Six armored cruisers of 13,680 tons and three of 9700 tons are to have speeds of twenty-two knots, yet the new battle- ships, designed three years later, are in- tended to steam one knot less than their predecessors, and no increase in speed is given to the enlarged armored cruisers. In England armored cruisers of the Drake class have exceeded twenty-three knots, | and six others of 10,200 tons are to steam twenty-taree knots, as are ten others of 9800 tons. The Russell type of battleships have speeds of nineteen knots, although they are only of 14,000 tons displacement, and the three ships of the King Edward class are to steam 18.5 knots. The four new battleships, each of 13,200 tons, in thé German navy are to make nineteen knots. Italy is building two battleships of 12,624 tons and twenty-two knots, and Japan and Russia contemplate not less than nineteen knots in their new ships. If the gpeeds are correct as given for the Amer- ican ships it is possible that there may be other compensating features, such as in- creased protection, armament or cqal ca- pacity to make up for the apparent loss of speed as compared with foreign ships. The alleged reasons for choosing the New York Navy Yard in preference to the Norfolk yard in which to build a battle- ship are sald to be, first, that the cost of transportation of material from the iron mills is 10 per cent greater to Norfolk than to New York, and, secondly, that ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NOT RELATED—C., Oakland, Cal. If two men, strangers to each other, marry sisters, they do not become related by marriage. Each becomes the brother-in- law of his wife's sister. NO BONUS—W. C. G, Wadsworth, Nev. This department is informed that the railroads do not offer a bonus for the aiscovery of coal or ofl beds on their lands. INCOME—H., City. What is called the income of the people of the United States is only a guess, but from the figures of statisticians who have given such guess the annual income per capita is $260. PARLOR GAMES-—Samantha, City. If you will go into any first-class bookstore Jou can procure books that will give any Pumber of parlor or outdoor games which can be played by a party of eighteen or twenty. MIRRORS—A. O. S., City. There are two methods of producing mirrors. The one is the laying on the back of the glass sheets of tin foil, with the addition of mercury, and the other the modern one of coating the glass with pure silver. LAW OF EUCHRE—W. H. M., City. The law of euchre is that if a player who plays alone takes flve tricks he scores four points; three tricks, he scores one point, and if he fails to take three tricks he is euchred and the opposing party scores two points. INDIAN HAIR WASH—W. C. B, City. The root that the Pueblo Indlans use for a hair wash is the ordinary soap root, plentiful on this coast. They dip it in vater, rub It between the hands until a lather is obtained and then apply it to the hair and rub it as one would in the ordinary shampoo process, then rinse with clear water. INCUBATION—C.; City. The amount of heat required by the natural process for incubation is about 104 degrges F. By _the artificial process 40 degre®s centi- grade. There are a number of stores in this city that deal in artificial incubators, the addresses of which can be obtained in the classified part of the city directory. The addresses of tinware manufactories can also be obtained in that part of the directory. » private shipyards in the South would be retarded in their work on present Govern- ment contracts by workmen going to Norfolk. The first objection was too trifling to be mentioned, as an approxi- mately correct calculation will show. In a battleship of 15000 tons displacement the weight of metal going into the hull and machinery will be about 630 tons, which if transported to New York at the rate of, say, $15 a ton would amount to $97,500 for freight charges. If sent to Norfolk with 10 per cent additional cost the difference in favor of the New York vard would befonly $9750, which in the cost of a $6,000400 battleship is figuring it down too close for practical purposes. The second reason is undoubtedly a good one, which would apply with equal force to Boston, League Island and Mare Island. But the prime causes for selecting the New York Navy Yard are due to these facts: First, that there is no shipbullding being done to any appreciable extent on the seaboard of New York State, and, secondly, it has thirty-four members in Congress, against only ten from the State of Virginia, in which the Norfolk Navy Yard is located. One of the several cases of iniquitous legislation by the late Congress was the appointment. of Naval Cadet W. V. Tomb to the graue of ensign. Tomb had falled to pass the physical examination for pro- motion and was to be dropped from the ravy. He entered the, Naval Academy September 5, 159, and stood number 46 In a class of sixty-one members at the ex- amination in May, 1%0. Contrary to the unwritten law in the navy, Tomb married before he had become an ensign and when ordered to the Asiatic station he obtained sick leave July 20 last year, and has re- mained unemployed up to the present time on a salary of $500 a year. Cadet Tomb, with the responsibility of a wife, realized his precarious situation if drop- ped from the navy and got Senator Jones interested in his case. The naval commit- tees of both houses also came to his sup- port and in the closing hour of the last day of the sesslon a bill was rushed through appointing Tomb an ensign in the navy. He will now retire as an officer in that grade with a salary of $1050 a year and is provided for for the remainder of his life. He is about 25 years of age and is likely to be the beneficiary of a pension for many years donated by a generous Congress, in addition to a $20,000 educa- tion, and for which he has rendered no service whatever. Of fifty-four naval cadets of June, 1900, who recently passed the final examination for promotion to ensign, there are none from California, Oregon or Washington, nor were there any among the forty-eight commissioned January 28, 1901. Of thirty- seven cadets commissioned as ensigns April 4, 1900, there is only one credited to California and none to Oregon or Wash- ington. In the first class of sixty cadets still at the Naval Academy on January 1 last, two were appointed from California, one from Oregon and none from Wash- ington. Of 327 cadets in the four classes elght were from California, two from Ore- gon and one from Washington. Twenty- four States and the District of Columbia A CHANCE TO SMILE. Captain—What 1is strategy Give me an instance of it. Irish Sergeant—Well, strategy is when ye don’t let the enemy discover that ye are out of ammunition, but keep right on firin’.—Washington Star. in war? The Butler—Pardon me, your excellen- cy, but you have Invited one guest too many for dinner to-day. The President—That's all right. Send over to.the neighbor's and borrow a chair.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Did you say that hair restorer is a good thing?” asked the patron. “Yes,” answered-the barber, with some slight hesitation; *I a good thing. We sell several bottles a week.” ‘‘But how do you know it's a good thing?" “Because the profit on every bottle is 75 cents.”—Baltimore American. “I got a cigar at your place, yester- day, and it was rank,” said the customer, ““Who waited on you?” asked the dealer in the weed. “Your wife.” “Well, you know it's pretty hard to get the best of a woman.”—Yonkers States- man. “‘So you think of becoming a profession- al pianist.” “I do,” answered the musician. . “Have you taken any steps in that ai- rection?” 2 “I have. I have employed a press agent and purchased a bottle of halr invigor- ator.”—Washington Star. ‘“Should we move,” expostulated my ur loss would come to a pretty It did not escape me that the cook was blushing quiétly to herself. “And mine,” I distinctly heard this son mutter, “to a handsome copper! Puck. “Good evening, Mr. Johnson.” “Good evening, Bones.” ‘“Can you tell me, Mr. Johnson, why an egg am like a barrel?” ““Well, no Bones, I can’t tell you why an 1s like a barrel; why is an egg like a barrel?” ““Well, Mr. Johnson, an egg am like a barrel because both am made by a coop- er.-—Yonkers Statesman are represented among the fifty-four new- Iy commissioned ensigns, of which Penn- sylvania has ten, Illinois 6, Ohio 4, New York, Texas, Tennessee and District of Columbia three each, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Virginia and Kentucky two each and Nevada, Utah and ten other States have one each. In the Naval Construc- tor's Corps, composed of men selected from the heads of the classes at the Naval Academy, there are forty-three, in- cluding three shortly to be commissioned. Of these twenty-six are natives of North- ern States, fifteen from the South and one from England. California has one, who was appointed from Pennsylvania, giving the latter State a representation of seven, against six from Okio, three from New York and four each to Virginia, Ala- bama and Pennsylvania. The Southern States, considering their aggregate white population, have a larger quota in the navy, but the Pacific Coast boys, for some unexplained reason, do not appear to pass the cruclal test in the Naval Academy with the same success as the Pennsyl- vanians. > Work has begun on the five gunboats building at Uraga, Japan, for service in the Philippines. They are to be completed by April next year, but lack of material, which has to be ordered from abroad, is | likely to delay their completion. The gun- boats were contracted for by the United States Philippine Commission, the bids of the Japanese being much below that of the ‘offers from Pacific Coast shipbuilders. ey When a war vessel is launched at a British dockyard it is customary to pro- vide an elaborately made box to contain the chisel and mallet by means of which the cord is severed and the ship takes the water. This box is presented to the lady who has named, or, as is erroneously designated, christened the ship, and the cost of this casket has of late years be- come rather extravagant. An order has therefore been issued limiting the expense and will hereafter allow the cost of launching caskets at $150 for ships of 5000 tons and over and $100 for vessels under 5000 tons. Where royal personages perform the naming and final launching ceremo- nies no restriction is imposed on the cost of the souvenir. The pay and promotion of medical of- ficers in the British navy has been im- proved through a recent-order from the Admiralty. Surgeons are to receive a daily pay of $350 on entry in the service, increased to 3425 and $ after four and eight years in that grade. A staff sur- geon's pay begins with $6 and is raised to $6 75 after four years. Fleet surgeons re- ceive $7 50 on promotion, increasing to $8 25 and $9 after four and eight years. Deputy inspectors $1050, and inspectors $500 yearly. Surgeons are eligible for promo- tion to staff surgeons after two years, to fleet surgeons after eight years and to in- spectors three years' service in the lower grade before selected to serve in the high- The pay of assistant sur ns in tha es navy ranges from $1650 to $1500 yearly, that of passed assistant sur- Feons 1s $2300, of surgeons 3% to $9500, but the surgeon general's pay is only $56u) or $1000 less than the Brm.% f;xs,mo, gen- eral. @ vt e e e e @ PERSONAL MENTION. Jules Cain, a Newman merchant, is a guest at the Lick. A. Rummersburg, a merchant of Dun- nigan, s at the Grand. W. A. Veith, a fruit grower of Fresno, is staying at the Grand. D. R. Cameron, a real estate Hanford, is at the Lick. s Railroad Commissioner E. B. Edson of Gazelle is at the Occidental. Samuel Leask, a dry goods merchant of Santa Cruz, is at the Californfa. Hervey Lindley, the well-known I man of Klamathon, is at the m:m g Frank B. Glenn, owner of a lar in Glenn County, is a guest at uu" P;hcr“u: N. E. de You, a merchant of Modesto, is here on a business trip. He is at the Lick, James D. Schuyler, a prominent business man of Los Angeles, is T es, among the arrivals Indian Commissioner W. A. Jones has returned from Washin, tered at the Occidental o e A. B. Corey, a railroad contrac makes his headquarters at Omht:hh'hl: the eity for a few days.and the Tiow v 1S registered at A. L. Nelson, a candy manufact: Los Angeles, who has been mn‘u‘r:r e:S nnd:: ;on; ‘ol the Eastern States, accom- panis ¥ his wife and so: - m, is at the Pal- “I met Bigsins this morning,” sai. man with the muffler. “It's : lbodd!ot!h:. }!:Y'u ;o hoarse he couldn’t talk.” ou don’t mean to tel giad your friend has a coar . YO0 3 “Well, I'm not exax one myself, and it 3‘-{ ‘;hd' Ll t comfort to meet some one who couldn’ enough to tell me what to do ltv:alll.k nfi had to do was to stand three feet away stn:‘r. he was Powerless."—Washington ————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's,* —_—— Reduction, genuine eyegiasses, specs, to 40c. Note 81 4th, front barber, me-.-”: —_———— Townsend's California Glace fruit ang candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched bcxes. A nice present for Eastern 2r'lt¢u 39 Market st., Palace Hotel building. « —— Special information supplied dally 1o Py, Jamies, d public men by e fornia strect. Telephone Matd W ¥~