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(Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ETEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building YORK CORREEPONDENT: NEW C. C. CARLTON.. «eso.Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astorie Hotel; A. Brentsno, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS ETANDS: Fherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Premont House: Auditorfjum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open motil 9:30 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open tntil 9:30 o'clock. £33 McAllister, cpen until :30 o'clock. (:3 Larkin, open untfl ©:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- lencis, open until 8 c'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 c'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll § p. m. OUR VISITORS. HE Pythian hosts are marching upon Califor- T nia. This State is becoming the great national host and entertainer. The great benevolent « , the G. A. R, the teachers, Shriners and urchmen, all look to California as the best place nal assemblies. Tley come by tens of thousands, but never too numerous to sit at our table and enjoy our hospitality. California has no worst foot and so her best foot forward, as she has no other. The coun- ties, the Promotion Committee, the State Board of de and the local Pythians intend that the “State play Damon up to the mark again. The com- visit is in the midst of our harvest season, and itors will see the fruit and grain of the State ir best. It is a backward county that is fiot just now moving itself aright, to put its products and resources under the eye of these Eastern thousands. 3 primary motive is hospitality, but with a nd we intend to do some first-class adver- We offer nothing for sale, but we do intend ifornia amongst the dreams of our guests, that they will always feel a sweet unrest with the t when they think of us and recall the sights seen le here. We want them to note especially our imate, the rich and vnfailing source of every beauty and utility of our State.. We want them to remem- ber the guick and easy transition from the cool and gorating climate of the coast and! bay to the dry, warm invigorating climate of the valleys and mountains. Many of them come from localities where the long, hot summer, uncomfortable day and night alike, be escaped only by as many days of travel rs required here to get an entire change. Above all we want to impress them with the fact that in our productions, temperate and semi-tropical, the whole State shares. The orange blooms and bears from Mount San Bernardino to Mount Shasta, as do th fig, lemon, pomegranate and date, the grape, and all the stone fruits. They can settle any- where and live under their own vine and fig tree, eat their own olives and sop bread in their own oil, all the way from San Diego to Siskiyou. Everywhere grow fruits that they never saw on tree or vine before. When they have -made the ‘whole circuit they will soberly say that they have seen the only greatest part of the earth, where rature has planted the splendid specialties of every zone, and makes them grow and yield side by side as they do nowhere else. Then they will wonder why anybody wants to live outside of California, when it is so‘easy to get inside and have a share in all that is here. While they stay San Francisco is theirs, from the bay to the ocean, Chinatown and all, for the Chinese merchants, with local loyalty, are preparing to enter- tain them too. They will admit that where Occiden- tzls and Orientals, Americans and Asiatics, all com- bine in asking them to drink everything from wine to tea, and to eat everything from figs to shark fins, it must be a great country and the most cosmopoli- tan city on earth. invi olive, In addition to bestowing a statue of Frederick the Great upen the natioral capital the Kaiser has con- ferred decorations or other marks of favor upon those who distinguished themselves In ‘the reception of Prince Henry, and there is danger that before he stops he may carry the thing too far and slop over. Indiana Republicans give the country to under- stand they are in favor of Roosevelt as a Presidential candidate in 1904, but should he be out of the ring they will not be for Hanna. They have a candidate of their own. His name is Fairbanks and they say he would be 2 winner. The great movement that is destined to abolish the bill board nuisance in our cities has not been sweeping the country with the force that might have been expected of its merits, but still it is doing something. It is said to be making progress in Buffalo. E It seems 2 foregone conclusion that the Demo- cratic harmony platform will consist of a declaration in favor of the principles of Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden, while carefully avoiding any statement of what those principles are or how they apply to live issues, e e John W. Gates and a coterie of Chicago million- aires are said to have undertaken to finance a flying machine enterprise, and now if the thing doesn't fly the rest of the world might as well abandon experi- menting STILL IN DOUBT. HE tentative position assumed by President T Roosevelt and other party leaders as to the final status of the Philippines is reflected in the expression of Jowa Republicans. At the Des Moines convention Congressman Walter I. Smith, the chair- man, says: “If the people of the Philippine Islands ever become civilized and capable of independent self-government and then desire it, I, for one, would be in favor of giving it to them. But I am con- vinced that when those people have struggled up with our assistance until they are fit for independence they will be as unwilling to sever their relations to the United States as Towa would be.” Who is to know and how when they are fit for in- dependence and desire it? The Philippine statutes, en- acted by the commission, make it a felony for the Filipinos o ask for or advocate self-government. With such a law over them how are we to know what they want? Towa is a sovereign State with a population of two and a half miilions. The islands have a population of ten millions, or enough for four such States. Does Mr. Smith mean that when they have struggled up with our assistance the islands and the people are to have the same motive that the men of Towa have for not severing their relations—to wit., that they are citizens of sovereign States of the American Union? All cordially agree that in the present status there should be unity of sentiment in this country. But there can be no agreement as to the future status un- til it is made the subject of a definite policy. As we have said, the future is a trilemma. Either the isl- ands are to permanently remain colonies or become States, or be set free under such conditions as will protect them from foreign interference to work out their own independent destiny. Their status now is colonial. Their goevernment has no resemblance to our territorial organization, with a governor and judiciary appointed by the President, and a legisla- ture and county officers elected by the people. It is entirely colonial, going even to greater extremes than the crown colony system of Great Britain, which nearly everywhere in that empire, outside of India, includes a local Parliament elected by the people and a Prime Minister and Cabinet selected by the Parlia- ment. Even in India natives sit in council and enjoy thereby a mixture of executive and legislative au- thority. It remains to be proved that such colonial -condi- tions will prepage the islands for statehood, - equip their people to receive American citizenship, and qualify them not only to govern themselves but to take part in governing us, for in the republic every citizen not only governs himself but also governs every other citizen as they all share in governing him. The Philippine states, Porto Rico and Hawaii, if all admitted to the Union, with the power in this Gov- ernment which the constitution gives to their aggre- gate population, will hold the balance of power in our Government. - They will umpire our affairs. They will decide who is to be our President. Their repre- sentation in- the Senate and House will -decide the form of our legiclation. Will any one say whether this is in contemplation? These states will. all be tropical, and there is no hope of fixing there a per-- manent white population. That is forbidden by the climate, and we cannot overcome physical conditions. It may be granted that, if put upon an equality with Towans, the Filipinos would be as unwilling to sever their relations with this Government. But do Towans desire that such equality be given to them? We are unwilling 2t present to believe that the American people want Philippine States in the Union. Nor can we find any reason for believing that they will ever want them. If this is true, the future holds for the islands only the colonial status or independ- ence. It would be well if those who lead would speak plainly. Chairman Smith talked in riddles. We all want to do that which is best and wisest. "It is the testimony of all our people in the islands that Americans there reject social relations and equality with the natives. There is the same social barrier that exists between the whites and negroes in this country. Can there be a homogeneous republic under such social conditions, with political equality? Twelve Chicago Aldermen recently visited New York to inspect the rapid transit system, and New a Panama hat. For a moment there was a suspicion that - Chicago is behind the times, but one of the leader of fashion said to them: “Don’t wear no jidgi- jappy when on dooty. If yez means to be statesmen, MARCONI - AND HIS WORK. D EVELOPMENTS in the various suits over public attention the fact that Marconi is by no means the only person to whom credit for the than right that each scientist and inventor who has helped on the final triumph should have his full share There is danger, however, that in the effort to do justice %o the comparatively unknown investigators man who has succeeded in making wireless teleg- raphy practically possible and profitable as a com- The charges made against the validity of Marconi's claims to the invention are but a repetition of simi- inventor since the world began. It is inevitable that it should be so. Inventors like every other class of lines on which hundreds of other men are working. They have the same general end in view and the same advance of all of his competitors; nor does any one deny himself the benefit derived from the experi- assistant to his rivals, and when at last the long sought object is attained and the machine works putting in their personal claims for credit against the tendency of the public to give all the glory to the It is an old story that eacl great invention has been “in the air,” as the saying is, a long time before vention of the steamboat, the locomotive, the spin- ning machine, the cotton gin and electric telegraphy, Fulton, Stephenson, Arkwright, Whitney and Morse, In all races, however, there is one who gets there to him who first makes the thing work. The men who are now making their claims against took much from them. He seems in fact to have been ready to make use of every improvement made York noted with surprise that none of them wore visitors explained that just before leaving home the always wear a plug hat.” wireless telegraph patents are bringing to great invention is due. It is of course nothing more of the glory and th: rewards of the achievement. and experimenters sorie injustice may be done to the mercial enterprise. lar charges made against almost every other great men are creatures of their age. They work along material to work upon. No one man is very much in ments of others. Thus each one is in a measure an those who have failed in the race naturally feel like winner. it was actually accomplished. Thé history of the in- contains the names of many men besides those of first, and in the matter of inventions the glory goes Marconi will undoubtedly be able to prove that he in the direction of telegraphing without wires. Amer- !ican, British, German, French and Italian inventors were all compelled to render tribute to the energetic young man who had made up his mind to get there first. It is to his credit that he did not use the brains and the work of others in vain. He succeeded. Who- ever may be entitled to the honor for solving this or that part of the complex problem of converting the Herzian wave into a message bearer for man, it is indisputable that the final touch was given by Mar- coni. He is the man who first made wireless teleg- raphy a matter of practical utility. } Even at this time while his competitors with more or less justice are disputing his patents and setting up claims of their own, he is going forward with practical telegraphy. The London papers recently announced that the Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto off Kronstadt received messages by wireless telegraphy sent from Poldhu station in Cornwall. These it is said were the first experiments in wireless telegraphy over a distance of sixteen hundred English miles in a straight line by land. The results were highly suc- cessful. Whatever the courts may hold concerning the validity of the Marconi patents, or whatéver histo- rians of science may say concerning his use of the ideas and inventions of others, the public will not overlook the fact that he is the man who does things. He may not be the real inventor of wireless teleg- raphy but he is certainly the mamr who has made it something more than an experiment. e —————— The number of Americans emigrating to the Cana- dian Northwest appears to have been greatly exag- gerated, for in replying to a question on the subject in Parliament the other day the Under Secretary for the Colonies said that last year the number of such emigrants was 17,087 and this year the number will hardly exceed 24,000. Nevertheless the Minneapolis and St. Paul papers give good reasons for their larger estimates. Probably a good many of those who g0 come away again, and thus the settlers are not so numerous as the rushers. PRINTING AND PUBLISHING. ENSUS Bulletin No. 216 gives statistics of ‘ the printing and publishing industry of the country. An attempt was made to divide the industry into two parts, the one containing the print- ing of newspapers and periodicals and the other the book and job printing. The effort, however, was but partially successful, for while in the larger cities there is a clear distinction between the two there is fr.one in the smaller towns where the same presses and the same workmen are employed for book and job printing as for printing newspapers. Segregating the two. branches as accurately as possible the bulletin reports that the total value of the one is about equal to that of the other. Book and job, printing including the publication of music is cred- ited with-capital to the amount of $168,030,707, while the publication of periodicals employs $175,789,610. It is noted that during the decade from 1800 to 1900 the capital invested in each of the two branches increased while the value of the product per estab- lishment declined. The tendency toward the organ- ization of trusts or cther combinations of capital which is so marked in other industries is not ob- servable in this. Of all printing and publishing es- tablishments reporting during the census year, 63.3 per cent were owned by individuals, 19.7 per cent by partnerships and only 17 per cent by corporations. The total number of wage earners in the industry in- creased 10 per cent during the decade and it is noted that there was a much larger relative increase ameng women than among men. Concerning the sources of profit in the industry the bulletin says: “Of the total value of the products advertising formed 43 per cent, subscriptions and sales 35.8 per cent and book and job printing, includ- ing miscellaneous procucts, 21.2 per cent. The pro- portion of subscriptions and sales steadily declined from 180 while the proportion which advertising formed steadily increased until it is more than half. This suggests that publications depend more and more upon advertising as-their principal source of in- come.” In the branch of the industry devoted to the pub- lication of newspapers and periodicals generally a notable change is going on in the period of publica- tion. The proportion of daily, triweekly and ~semi- weekly papers is increasing while that of the weekly is diminishing. A similar tendency toward shorten- ing the period of publication is shown in the decrease in the proportion of quarterly publications and an in- crease in the proportion of monthlies. The tenden- cy, however, has not been equal in all parts of the Union, for while in the more thickly settled sections the weeklies are vanishing they continue to hold their own in other sections. Other interesting facts concerning the industry are these: The total circulation per issue of dailies was sufficient to supply one copy to every five of the population, while of the weeklies and monthlies com- bined there was one to every two of the population; the proportion of publications devoted to special opics showed a marked decline, and there was an advance only in those devoted to news topics or gen- eral reading; publications in the English language formed 04.3 per cent of the total, showing a consid- erable increase over the corresponding figures for the preceding decade. Finally it is noted that during the census year the printing and publishing industry used one and a quarter billion pounds of paper, }7.6 per cent of which was consumed by newspapers. It is stated that the British Government intends to send a number of young Boers to Canada, Australia and New Zealand for the purpose of teaching them improved methods of farming and incidentally get- ting them interested.in the empire. The suggestion is a good one in its way, but it remains to be seen how the Boer boys will take to it. AT 1 The Democratic and Republican candidates for Governor in Arkansas are going to have a stumping tour and joint debate by way of enlivening the cam- paign.-It is conceded the election will be a walk over for the Democrat, but perhaps in the discussions he may be made to sweat a little. | Canada is rejoicing in the fact that during the Jast ten years her export trade has doubled and now amounts to upward of $70 per capita of population, Evidently our-northern neighbor is warming up to the commercial struggle and intends to get out of the frost belt. e Vermont Democrats *have declined to fuse with the bolting Republicans in that State and will make a straight fight on their own account. Those are the fellows whom the New Englanders call “rock ribbed,” and they seem to deserve the name. B v Dot One by one the Republican State conventions are declaring for Roosevelt, and one by one the Demo- ! cratic conventions are declaring for nobody LAWLOR STILL RETAINS PLACE AT GLEN ELLEN Parents and guardians of unfortunates who are wards of the State at the Home for the Feeble-minded at Glen Ellen have clamored for the immediate removal of Dr. W. M. Lawlor as superintendent of that institution, but Dr. Lawlor still re- mains in authority, with the power to use the “black hole,” the camisole, the bread and water diet or whatever form of pun- irresponsible beings in his keeping. No meeting of the Board of Trustees was held yesterday, because Governor Gage and two or three of the Trustees are not Yet ready to make good the promise given to the people by the Governor that if evi- dence of Lawlor's guilt was forthcoming his removal would be summary. The two colonels of tne board—Harring- ton and Rooney—are nursing their wrath and extracting what comfort they can from the contemplation of the gold brick that the Governor passed to them, with the eager assistance of Trustee Dugan, when they were induced to accept Law- lor's resignation to take effect when his successor should be named. They see lit- tle prospect that the. successor will be se- lected soon, but their minds are made up' that at the regular meeting to be held to-morrow Lawlor must be ousted from his position and Dr. Hatch placed in charge until a new superintendent is chosen. They express their opinions in picturesque and not altogether pious lan- guage that would do credit to any typical Kentucky colonel and which must have caused the ears of Trustees Dugan and Gould to tingle yesterday afternoon. STATE’S BUSINESS NEGLECTED. C. Walter Gould réturned from an out- ing in the Santa Cruz Mountains Wednes- day evening and found waiting him at his office the notice from the secretary of the special meeting to be held yesterday at 1 o'clock at the Grand Hotel. He at once wrote to President Dugan, stating that | he found it necessary to devote his atten- tion to his business for a few days and that he did not see the necessity for ac- tion at a special meeting. He would, he wrote, if possible, attend the Saturday meeting. Dugan was not willing to trust himself and Lawlor's fate with the two colonels, and when Harring- ton and Rooney arrived at the Grand Hotel they found a note from the drug- gist, saying that he would not be present at the special meeting, as in view of the absence of Trustees Gould and Leland he deemed it only just to postpone action un- til Saturday. Harrington read the note and exploded. He read it to Rooney ‘and Rooney ex- ploded. These two men helped to depose Dr. Osborne and to put in his place Dr. Lawlor, and they feel the blush of shame and the weight of the responsibility for that act. Harrington is down from Colusa spending. his time waiting for a chance to do what he can to rectify -that blun- der, and Rooney has deferred an.impor- tant business trip to Calaveras County until Dr. Lawlor shall have been kicked out of the place that he refuses to va- cate. 2 “It is a contemptible subterfuge,” said the Colusa colonel. ‘‘The idea that Gould could not spend half an hour at our meet- ing to-day is preposterous. .He is trying to protect Lawlor, that is all there is to it, and Dugan is standing in -with him. Lawlor cannot -be ousted now until Sat- urday, and in consequence he will be able to demand his salary and that of his wife for the entire month, amounting to $325. That is the secrét of the whole matter, and if they. can postpone action beyond Saturday they will do it.” A GOLD BRICK. “We had a fine gold brick passed us,” said the San Francisco colonel, “but we will put them on record Saturday. We will demand’ that our acceptance of Law- lor's resignation with a string to it be rescinded, . and that Lawlor be ousted. Then Gould ‘and Dugan will have to go on record. We are not anxious to-select a new superintendent at -once. . That is a matter that requires great care. But we do insist that no further consideration be shown Dr. Lawlor.” Trustee Harrington had intended to present, the name of Dr. Clark of Santa Cruz for superintendent, but both he and Rooney say that the main thing is to get rid of Lawlor. The law requires Dr. ‘Hatch, as superintendent of the State hospitals, to take charge of the home dur- ing an interregnum, and Lawlor's re- moval before a successor is named will not leave, the institution without a head. Trustees Harrington and Rooney have asked that to-morrow’s meeting be held in San Francisco for the-greater conven- ience of the trustees and others who may wish to be present, but they do not ex- pect fdvorable action upon their request. Trustee Leland is in Seattle. All the oth- ers are in the gity and cannot well shirk the duty of attending this regular meet- ing. PERSONAL MENTION. A. J. Condon of Tonopah is registered at the Grand. J. H. Edwards, a cattle man of New- man, s at the Lick. : George R. Elliot, a merchant of Port- land, Or., is at the Lick. E. E. Bush, a’ Hanford real estate man, is registered at the Liek. Dr. C. B. Barck of St. Louis is among the arrivals at the Grand. “Herman Cramer, a mining ‘man of An- gels Camp, is at the. Lick. John Rodgers, a timber dealer of Red- ding, is a guest at the Lick. M. Biggs Jr., a landowner and capltal- ist of Oroville, is at the Grand. < Mr. J. C. O'Donnell and sister of Placer- ville are rusticating at Santa Cruz. ‘W. H. Hatton, the well-known attor- ney pf Modesto, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Lieutenant Commander W. S. Hughes, U. 8. N, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. - E. T. Willlams, the secretary of the American legation at Peking, who has hecen away on several months’ leave of abserice in the East, returned to this city yesterday, en route to the Orient. He is registered at the Occidental. Sheldon G. Kellogg, president of the Board of Election Commissioners, will leave for Santa Clara to-day in care of his physician, Dr. C. M. Cooper, for the purpose of recuperation. He has been confined to his residence for ten weeks with an attack of rheumatism of the heart. A LR L Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 3L—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—E. H. Bradley, W. A, Tough, at Gerard; L. McCreery, at Manhattan; 8. Bernstein, H. G. Wolfe, at Herald Square; F. W. Clarke, at Earling- ton; L. Ransohoff and wife, at Navarre; Miss Lucile, at Savoy; Miss Smith, at Hol- land. From Los Angeles—G. A. Bobrick, at Imperial; I Nledes, at Albert. —— ' Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 31.—The following Californians arrived here to-day and reg- istered at the hotels: At the Arlington— Miss M. Jernandez, California, and Miss Louise G. Enright of S8an Jose. At the Willard—Charles Bliss of San Francisco. At the Ebbitt—A. M. Golden of San Fran- cisco. - ¢ —_———— Judge De Haven Returns. United States District Judge de Haven returned yesterday from his summer va- cation in where he coumudle fiantor&‘d pens n holding ishment he may deem necessary for the TO REGULATE EMPLOYMENT OF STREET-CAR MEN The Supervisors’ Street Committee yes- terday recommended the passage of Wynn's ordinance requiring streef cars to be operated by competent and expe- rienced motormen, gripmen and conduc- tors. The ordinance is designed to pre- vent the street car companies from put- ting on green hands in case another strike is inaugurated, as it provides that mo- tormen, gripmen and conductors shall have at least seven days' experience in this city before taking out cars. Under these conditions the ~companies would hesitate before allowing a strike of its employes. Attorney Joseph F. Tobin asked R. Cor- nelius, president of the Carmen’s Union, if he was in favor of the bill, and the last named replied that he was. Tobin said the United Railroads is opposed to the bill on genéral principles and that if it were passed other regulations of the com- pany should be incorporated therein. “We do not think the Supervisors should reopen old wounds,” said Tobin, “nor that they should step in between employer and employe. There is no oc- casion for such a bill at the present time and its constitutionality will be tested at the proper time. No one has asked for this ‘legislation and our regulations are fair and reasonable.” OPPOSES ORDINANCE. C. F. Holbrook, president of the cor- poration, sald the passage of the ordi- nance will have an injurious influence on the owners of the road and the board of directors, who are dealing fairly with their employes and endeavoring to work in harmony with them and the city. “The management of the company may change}’ said Wynn. “Twelve months ago, Mr. Tobin, you did not expect to be a railway manager.” “Neither did you expect to be a Super- visor,” retorted Tobin. Charles Sonntag, foreman of the Grand Jury, addressed the board in support of the resolution recommended by that body and designed to obtain better accommo- dations for the public during the morn- ing and evening hours. Sonntag called attention to overcrowded cars on O’Far- rell, Ellis and Market streets. He said'the cars are not run for the convenience of the public and it was the duty of the Supervisors to insist on better service in return for the valuable privileges enjoyed by the roads. 4 NEW TRANSFER SYSTEM. - General Manager Chapman acknowl- edged that traffic is congested between 5 and 6 p. m., but the company is doing all in its power to handle the crowds by putting on forty extra cars during rush hours. Sonntag said that trucks ‘and wagons add to the confusion and should not be allowed on Market street from Front to Sixth between 4:30 and 6 p. m. Chapman said the company will inaug- urate a new transfer system in a few days, which will change the course of travel and relieve the congestion. More cars will be added as necessity requires. The committee placed the resolution on file apd will report Chapman’s statement to the board. The committee ordered an ordinance prepared declaring Seventh avenue, from the Presidlo to Golden Gate Park, a bou- levard. - The committee decided to visit the dis- trict south of Silver avenue to inspect obstructions existing on the streets in that locality. The committee called the attention of the Board of Works to the bad condition of the sidewalks on the west side of Mis- sion street north from Twenty-third and on other streets in thé Mission. —_— RESENTS ATTEMPTED REMOVAL FROM OFFICE Health Board in Its Amnual Report * Addresses Mayér Schmitz in Sarcastic Vein. Dr. J. M. Williamson, president of the Board of Health, filed his annual report yesterday with Mayor Schmitz. The re- port is a pecullar document, inasmuch as twenty of its twenty-three typewritten pages are devoted to a criticism of the Mayor’s letter removing the four members of the board from their positions. The re- port is written in President Williamson's most sarcastic vein, which prompted Mayor Schmitz to remark when he read it that “The four members—Drs. William- son, Baum, Buckley and Lewitt—would not be so fresh if their injunction against the Mayor had been removed.” After de- voting two pages to the conditions as they exist in the Health Department, Dr. Wil- liamson concludes: “It may not be amiss to state that, tak- ing into consideration the attitude of the press in San Francisco as well as that as- sumed by your Honor, it is difficult to de- termine whether membérship on the Board of Health is to be looked upon as a crime or a joke.” R At its meeting the Health Board rec- ommended the passage of an ordinance by the Supervisors requiring the material from which shoddy is made to be dis- infected. The suspension of Gregory L. Walsh from his position as clerk at the Alms- house was confirmed and charges look- ing to his dismissal will be filed with the Civil Service Commission. F. M. O'Con- nor was appointed to the vacancy. Charles Callahan and Charles Boudrean were appointed watchmen at the City and County Hospital and John Sweeney, a wardtendér, was dismised from his place. —_————— Admitted to Citizenship. Juan Anino, a native of Guatemala, was admitted_to citizenship by United States i District Judge Beatty yesterday. GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS Novel readers will read with something more than ordinary interest that Hall Caine has signed a contract for the pub- lication of a \new novel which will ap- pear some time next year, and which will deal with some phases of the com- plex life that lies around modern non- conformity. 3 It is curious, considering gow large a part religious and political dissent plays in English life, that it has been treated to a comparatively small extent in fiction. Henry Arthur Jones has touched on it in one or two plays, and Richard Le Gal- lienne has dealt with it in his romance, “Zion Chapel,” but, speaking generally for the romance writer, nonconformity is a virgin soil. As Caine says himself, his knowledge of all his other subjects has been acquired, but his knowledge of dissent was born with him. Caine is also just now &xceedingly busy superintending the rehearsals of his dra- matic setting of “The Eternal City” at Her jesty's Theater. It may be re- membered that this work was originally conceived and written as a play and aft- erward written as a novel. Regarding Stories that are being told of Caine’s share in ‘“The Veiled Lady,” now appearing in his son’s magazine, House- hold Words, I have authority for stating that there is no question here of Caine playing the part of another Alexandre Dumas Pere. All that has happened is that certain incidents suggested by Caine had been: incorporated in the stery. Household Words, however, which is be- -coming a really great success under the editorship of young Caine, i8 to have a serial from his father's pen. The story of this- serial is somewhat eurious. Years ago, when M. Zola's “Germinal” was appearing serially in several English papers, it was brought to an abrupt con- clusion owing to” the story hardly ap- pealing to the tastes of English readers. Nothing else was prepared, and Caine, then a young journalist, got his first chance with the story called “She’s All the World to Me,” suggested by a verse of “Annie Laurie.” It appeared serially in the Liverpool Mercury. The motive of this little story was used afterward to some extent in “The Deemster.”” There was, however, little resemblance between the two tales. Readers will again have the opportunity of reading this early work in the columns of the magazine of the author’'s son. Montague Guest, honorary- librarian of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and Willlam B. Boulton are authors of the history of that famous club, which John Murray will publish in the autumn. The volume will contain a complete list of members and their yachts, from the foundation of the club to the present time, together with an inquiry into the history of yacht- ing and its development in the Solent. Needless to state, all the facts related in this book are derived from official records. As so much interest is now being taken in mountaineering, it is not surprising that many publishers are bringing out books on a subject which until a few years ago was almost neglected. Fisher Unwin, who has just issued the first vol- ume of G. Hasler's work on the Bernese Oberland, is preparing for publication next year Mrs. Norman Neruda's descrip- tion of the Dolomites, and in the course of a few weeks he will have ready a col- lection of Alpine adventures, selected by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, whose well known series of photographs of climbers will be reproduced. s e HEYNEMAN SAYS TOBACCO FAMINE IS THREATENED Declares Drought Interferes With Production and That Price Will Go Still Higher. The price of tobacco has gone up and the probability is that there will be an advance in the plice before very long that will make smoking 'a still greater luxury. S. 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