The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1902, The— oiiine: Call SEPTEMBER 22, 1902 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor, Atdress ALl Communiostions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. A BN PURURRR LN TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . ...217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Mont! SUNDAY CALL, Ope Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. Eample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in onder ompt and correct compliance with their request. 1118 ®wLAND OFFICE.. Broadway 4 C. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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Sy T—— MARKABLE thing occurred in trade last A Of the ninety-two cities and towns re- porting weekly bank clearings all but two— Detroit and Davenport, Iowa—reported an in- crease in the volume of business over the correspond- ing The decrease at Detroit was only 4.2 per cent, and at Davenport only 1.4 per cent. This is a really weonderful showing of prosperity. In other words, practically every city, town and village is now doing more business than last year at this time, and when we consider what an excellent year 1001 was, some idea of the activity in trade may be d. The increase in the large cities was also noteworthy, New York showing a gain of 50.5 per Pittsburg 618 per cent, Chicago 25 per cent, last week year. gain This is altogether about the best statis- showing ever made by the United States. Nor The Government returns of for- eign co ing August showed marked gains in expc over the preceding month, while the im- ports far excceded those jor August in preceding vears. We net only sold heavily, but bought heav- ily. It must be btorne in mind, however, that our large were materially swelled by the liberal imports of iron, steel and coal, caused about 2s any abnc uch by the coal and steel strikes as by mal demand for goods. We had to have 1 the enormous American demand, to f h which to work them into shape; and as, owing largely to the two conditions tioned we not produce enough of products in our own country, we had to go abroad for just could ture of interest is the uniformity with which mor wv. Funds seem to be plentiful everywhere ex- in New York, upon which the whole country draws whenever it needs large blocks of money to move the crops in the fall. The money stays in the the same, onmly it is scattered from The assistance of the ment, however, coupled with knowledge that we could get all the cash gold in Europe if we cared to pay for it, immediately eased the financial market in New York, and the extreme rates noted a week ago did not last more than two or three days, the situation easing off materially last week. The tension is apparently over, and all inte- report pienty of money for all normal purposes, and at reasonable rates of interest. The distributive trade of the country is reported not only brisk, but expanding. The certainty of fine crops has created a lively demand for all kinds of goods, as at least another year of prosperity assured. The West and Northwest report a book unrestricted fall and winter or- uth is sending in cheerful reports. anufacturing is still unusually active along the At- c seaboard, and the condition of trade on the Coast brilliant. Everything is rosy all the country.. The financial condition of the farmers is said to be the best in years, and enables them to market their products at leisure and to the best advantage, without being obliged to throw them on the market, even at 2 loss, to raise ready money. In fact, looking at trade from any side we may choose, it is doubtful if the United States was ever h good commercial condition as it is to-day. There is not much to report in the great staples. ceipts of cattle at the Western depots were much larger last week, and it is possible that we have seen 1c top notch of prices for livestock. Prices weak- d under the large deliveries, and hides eased off sympathy. Leather is no lower, but quieter. Woolen goods are active and the mills are fully em- ployed. Lumber is in brisk demand and firm. Pro- visions are quiet, with a marked scarcity in bacon all over the country. The cereal markets are steady in West, and very lively and firm at good prices the Pacific Coast, where the demand for grains is the best for some years. The farmer seems to be doing well everywhere at present. rior poi ems he 2 & A in th It is announced that the war balloons used by the Germans in the recent army maneuvers were made in the shape of a sausage, and now if they could only put their ammunition into beer kegs the Germanic wouid be complete. A Lake County laborer with $800 in debts and no assets has been adorned with the usual plaster of in- solvency. He evidently has solved Crawley’s problem | on the subject before the people. of how to live well on nothing a year, co 38.4 per cent, St. Louis 34.7 per cent, | cities and towns report an abundance of | the | | men- | these | | that the deci { will be any | event of a foreign war. HEN the people of San Francisco won INGLESIDE ORDINANCE. Wtheir first victory over the bookmakers and procured from the Supervisors the ordi- nance that forbade the practice at Ingleside race- track The Call warned the people that it would not be long before they would have to meet another assault from the trackmen. It was a safe prediction, for the profits of bookmaking at a racetrack near San Fran- cisco would be so large that racing men will be ever eager to obtain the privilege. The recurrence of the fight at this time, therefore, is not in itself surprising, but it is strange that a new attempt to obtain a license should be made before the very Board of Supervisors which refused such license hardly more than six months ago. In recording once more the protest of the morality of the city against the proposed license it is not necessary that The Call go over again the dreary list of crimes and miseries that bookmaking caused | when it was tolerated. A due sympathy and respect- ful regard for the families of those who were ruined by gambling, and whose ruin brought so much of sorrow and disgrace upon their relatives, forbids a republication of the specific cases of robbery, de- falcation, theft, murder and suicide caused directly by the practice. We shall not repeat them. We are certain the public has not forgotten them, that the Supervisors are familiar with them, and that the dread lesson they have taught is still vivid in the minds of the people and of those men whom the peo- ple have chosen to enact ordinances for the common good. Without mentioning or even alluding to any special case, it will be sufficient to remind the Supervisors that public indignation against bookmaking was not formed without dire experience with the evil Track gambling was carried on here for years. What \ad\'antagcs the city gained from the trade of the horsemen are well understood. In the public mind horse-racing is not confused with gambling. It is known to everybody that there is no ordinance of the city that forbids racing at Ingleside. The pro- hibition runs solely against gambling. That pro- hibition the people adopted deliberately after full consideration, and they rely upon the Supervisors to | keep it in force. The license essentially different from that which was asked for seven months ago. now urged fore. The issue not spect. Neither has public sentiment changed. Neither has there been any change of conditions. Furthermcre the Board of Supervisors remains un- changed. Thus we have the same issue backed by the same forces and confronted by the same opposi- tion presented to the same officials for judgment. Surely there can be no weighty reason for fearing ion oi the Supervisors in this instance erent from what it was seven months now ‘a The arguments and inducements the that were tried has changed are same be- in ago. ‘What hopes have led the bookmakers to so soon re- new their activity are known only to themselves and to their accomplices. in the situation that gives ground for the expecta- tions that a license for gambling will be granted. It is hardly supposable that a single one of the Su- pervisors who have been esteemed and honored among the people for defeating the schemes of the bookmakers a few months ago will now turn round and favor them. The pulpit, the press, the people, the whole moral public of San Francisco are opposed to the desired license at Ingleside, and they count upon the Supervisors to stand firmly upon the hon- orable record they made seven months ago. French diplomats are ground. They are boasting all sorts of things in the treading on dangerous They should remember that it is all very well to call yourself names, but ex- tremely hazardous to try that sort of a game on the other fellow. DEMOCRACY’S BIG FIGHT. A cratic State conventions held this year have reaffirmed the Bryan platforms adopted at Chicago and Kansas City, and thirteen have rejected them. Since the tally was made the Democrats of Massachusetts have put themselves on the side of the reorganizers, and the opposing forces are therefore even so far as the declarations of State tions go. This even break along the skirmish line of the party gives promise of a redhot and fairly well bal- CCORDING to a recent tally fourteen Demo- conven- anced contest when the national convention meets | in 1904. Bryan has already virtually chosen Tom Johnson as commander of his forces in the conven- tion, and from this time on he will exert every energy and every influence to make Johnson the Presidential nominee of the party—always provided, of course, that Bryan himself cannot get a renomination. On that point there appears something like unanimity in the Bryanite camp. We hear of no other man being supported by them. They will stand or fall with the great automobile, circus tent campaigner of Ohio and will go into the campaign shouting for three-cent fares on street cars and municipal ownership of everything the National Government doesn’t own. In the other camp there is confusion. New Eng- land reorganizers wish Josiah Quincy, New Yorkers are backing Judge Parker, Pennsylvania is urging the claims of Governor Pattison, and Iowa puts in the forefront of the fight the venerable figure of Gov- ernor Boies, who has been drawn from the privacy | of his great farm to make a race for Congress. In the meantime back of both camps stand a clam- orous body of free-traders insisting upon making tar- ifi revision the chief issue of the coming two years, so | that it may be made the point of conflict in the com- ing Presidential election. The Bryanites are rather shy about the plan. That faction of the party is largely composed of workingmen and farmers, who have not forgotten the result of the last experiment with Democratic tariff tinkering. They would much prefer even the old silver issue to the old tariff issue, for silver has not been tried. The other side, how- ever, takes the free-trade bait with avidity, so that if the reorganizers win we shall surely have to face an- other prolonged contest over the fiscal system of the nation,*with the consequent inevitable disturbance of trade and industry. In California the Democratic camp is hopelessly confused and demoralized. Neither the Bryanites nor the reorganizers show any vigor or enthusiasm in the contest. The State platform declares a willing- ness to stand in with the free-traders, for it de- nounces protection as an imposition and declares for a tariff for revenue only, but it is safe to say none of the speakers of the party will make much of a fight Evidently local Democrats are waiting to see what Eastern Democ- | all events to be clean. ked for bookmaking is not | any re- | The people can see nothing | | merce. - | Public Ledger says: | treasuries. racy does. Should Bryan win again the Democracy of California will be Bryanite once more. Should the reorganizers win, the old conservative war- horses will get to the front. It is scarcely mecessary to add.'that no sane voter will be willing to intrust control of the House to the hand of either faction of Democracy until the fight in the camp has been settled and it is known whether Democracy is to mean Bryanism or something else. The fight between the two factions must be fought to a finish before long, but there is no reason why it should be permitted to take place in the halls of Congress. Let the wrangling go on outside. There is room enough for it in State conventions, but no room at all for it in the Government. Iowa regrets the rctirement of Speaker Hender- | son about as much as Maine regretted the retirement of Speaker Reed; but in the one case, as in the other, a good Republican will be found to take the place of the lost leader and the column will go marching on for protection and prosperity. more influential of our Eastern exchanges v U are studying with care the object lesson in finance presented by the present drain of money from the financial centers to the provinces means for moving the abundant crops of the farm- ers. A scientific system of banking and currency is cne of the great needs of this country, and the pres- LEARNING WISDOM. ITH much gratification we perceive that the | ent financial situation reveals the need in a manner so plain that no observant man can mistake it. The currency of a country should be so established that it would automatically expand or contract as the conditions of industry - and commerce require. Government regulation and control should go no further than is necessary to assure the redemption in gold of cvery dollar of paper money and the sound administration of bank affairs. It should be no part of the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to watch the course of private business and be prepared to go to the help of bankers in financing trade and com- Under existing conditions Secretary Shaw has to attend to Wall street almost as closely as he attends to the treasury of the United States. It can be hardly necessary to say he should be under no such obliga- tion. Only a short time ago his presence in New York led to rumors that disturbed the money mar- ket, and it became necessary to issue an official state- ment from Washington correcting them. In that case no grave damage was done, but it is easy to see that an emergency might arise in which the interfer- ence or lack of interference on the part of the Sec- retary of the Treasury might injuriously disturb the trade of the whole country. In commenting upon the situation the Philadelphia “It would seem that we might some time grow wi The Fowler bill promises to be most salutary in effect if Congress could be in- duced to pass it. Are we to wait for some great catastrophe before we take to heart the lessons of our own financial history and heed the example of all well administered foreign Governments?” There is of course no threatening menace in the situation. The Secretary of the Treasury has large sums of Government money lying idle in the sub- He can relieve a stringency either by in- | creasing the Federal deposits with the national banks or by the purchase of national bonds. Neither of those ways, however, is a good way. A resort to either is liable to subject the treasury to a political scandal. We have had several such in the past. It would be better to put our currency and banking upon a sound system and be done with the problem. UNREGISTERED VOTERS. EGISTRATION closes on Wednesday. Only three days remain in which voters can make sure their privilege of cast- ing a freeman’s ballot at the coming election. At the close of the registration on Saturday evening it was estimated that more than 10,000 voters have not yet enrolled their names and secured their right of suffrage. So large a number is portentous. Can it be possible that there are among the qualified voters of San Francisco 10,000 men who are willing to forego the proudest privilege of an American—that of having a vote in the choice of the men who are to carry on the affairs of the government? It is to be hoped that the men who have thus far remained indifferent can be roused to a due sense of their political responsibilities, their privileges as a citizen of the self-governing community and coun- try, and their patriotic duties. The issues of every American campaign are important, for they affect the welfare of millions of people. It is a matter of much concern tc every one what sort of man holds a seat in Congress, or in the State Legislature, or presides as Governor over the administration of the laws, the finances and the institutions of an American com- monwealth. In every election with us both the men and the measures submitted to the arbitrament of the popular ballot have much to do with making or mar- ring the common welfare. The man, therefore, who throws away his privi!ege of voting as if it were a worthless thing not ofily wrongs his citizenship but his business as well. Three days for registration remain. There is time enough yet for all the neglectful ones to enroll them- selves. Those who fail to do so will be sure to re- gret their neglect before long, for the excitement of the campaign will soon be felt throughout the State, and then as the issues shape themselves in the pub- lic mind those who have forfeited the privilege of voting will find themselves in the position of aliens to their own country and their own State. They will be able to talk, to howl and to kick, but they won't be able to vote. James Whitcomb Riley having been congratulated by a friend on the fact that he gets a dollar a word for his poems, replied by lamenting that on most days of the year he is unable to write a word. Thus we perceive that no one is truly happy. Riley can’t write, Rockefeller can’t dine, and Morgan can’t have one foot on Europe and another on America at the same time. —, . Senator Clark of Montana has publicly bewailed the attempt of certain corporations to mix up with the politics of that State. Evidently he believes that since he bought the State he should be allowed peaceable enjoyment of it from this time on. At last the sea serpent has been seen, captured and killed. Tkis fact will in no way affect, however, the credibility of the testimony of gentlemen who nar- rate the horrors of the vision the day after a bust. —_— Oakland is having at least one gratification in her apparently interminable row with the garbage men. She is advertising to the world that she would like at to provide | unregistered | ONE OF THE SMART SET IN PTOLEMY'S DAYS e | tian ladfes accompanying picture. A of the famous Tha was easy to obtaln an excellent idea as were the ex] fons of surpris two thousand years ago. Even the soft old brillia et VY DEPARTMENT NA SSTSTANT Naval Constructor Dan- fel H. Cox has resigned from | the navy to enter a firm of naval | architects. He entered the Naval | Academy in September, 1890, and was graduated In June, 1884, when | | he was sent to Greenwich Naval College, England for a two years’ course in naval | architecture, at the expiration of which | he was commissioned assistant naval constructor at a yearly salary of $2000. His first tour of duty was at the New York Navy Yard and since April, 1900, he has been supervising the construction of tornedo crafts at Baltimore and Wil- mington. The expense to the Govern- ment of educating an assistant naval constructor s approximately $50,000, to | which should be added his subsequent galary for four years during which he receives a practica! education in a navy yard or under the supposition that he is superintending vessels building under con- tract. It does not seem to be right that a person educated at public expense should sever his connection with the Gov- | ernment when his services may be of some value and the Navy Department is sald to be contemplating some method | by which resignations of younger offi- cers will be restricted. This is the sec- ond resignation during the present year from the construction corps which is al- leged to be short of officers. . s . The British second-class gun vessel Swift was sold at Hongkong August 13 | last for $28,500. The vessel was built in 1879 by the Thames Company, London, at a cost of $190,110, and her cost of re- pairs and sea stores amounted to $112,02%5 up to April 1, 1899, when she was struck from the effective list. The Swift was of composite build of 736 tons displace- ment, 165 feet length and 11 feet draught, and had engines of 870 horsepower, giv- ing a speed when first tried of 11.81 knots. She has served continuously on the China station since 1880, and the Interesting point about this old craft is the high | price obtained at the auction at which Chen Wo Chung was the successful bid- der. The coaling of the British cruiser Ter- rible at Singapore on August 4 was an event long to be remembered on the water front of that city. The contract- | ors, the Tanjong Pagar Company, had | made up their minds that they would | beat the record made by the Terrible at HongKkong, and so informed Captain Scott, who courteously offered the as- sistance of his men. This offer was de- { clined, Tanjong preferring to do his task unaided, and a!l that the Terrible crew | had to do was to remove all obstructions | and stana by watching the array of coolies. The work began at seven minutes past ten in the forenoon, 800 coolies swarm- ing ant-like over the gangways, carrying the coal in baskets suspended on poles | over the shoulders. No time was takén for lunch, the men eating while work- ing and by seven minutes after 3 o'clock 1510 tons had been taken on board and bunkered. The hourly average was 302 tons, beating the Hongkong record by | 30 tons. At the latter place the ship's crew assisted by bunkering the coal and the band was playing to enliven the | workers. The coaling feat of the Terrible is the best made by any ship-of-war, but falls short of that made by the Canadian steamer Empress of India in July, 1897, | at Nagasaki. The steamer was in need | of coal and the Mitsu Bishi Company | agreed to fill her bunkers with the least possible delay. In four hours 1360 tons | were taken on board and bunkered by | 1300 coolies, giving an average of 340 tons an hour. The difference between the records of the Empress of India and the Terrible is largely due to the fact that the former stows her coal In bunkers containing several hundred tons, whereas the bunkers of the Terrible are numer. » CCORDING to European archaeologists the exact manner in which Egyp- attired themsélves two thousand years ago is shown in the This question was raised recently owing to the discovery of the mummy , who was so beautiful that she charmed even Alexander the Great, and afterward became the wife of Ptolemy I noted beauty, and in this way all adequate information in regard to the fashion that prevailed in Egypt during her epoch was soon secured. M. Gaget, a distinguished archaeologist, took special interest in the matter, | ana having procured all the necessary parts of the costume, he arranged that lady should wear them in the presence of some friends. at the announcement that the necklace, brace- lets, hair comb, gold rings, white sandals, and all the other parts of the attire | were genuine, having been manufactured in the land of the Pharaohs at RESIGNATIONS OF YOUNG OFFICERS)| | for the ba = - - MUMMY RECENTLY DISCOVERED OF NOTED BEAUTY, THAIS, WHO l‘ BECAME WIFE OF PTOLEMY I. IT SHOWS HOW THE LADIES AT- “ TIRED THEMSELVES TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. | o - =3 From this mummy it to the costume wora in life by the a This she did, and many least | woolen garments had little of their | MAY RESTRICT ‘» | ous, some of them not holding over 100 | tons. | The British battleship Montague, of 14,- 090 tons, 18,000 horsepower calculated speed of nineteen knots, co eted her preliminary trial of thirty hours under one-fifth power on August 27. She is fit- te¢ with Belleville boilers, and with 247 pounds of steam and 7142 revolutions de- veloped 3676 horsepower and twelve knots speed, consuming 2.2 pounds of coal per unit of horsepower. The trial of thirty hours under four-fifths power was begun on the day following, but had to be abax- doned after running twenty hours owing | to the heating of a crank pin. The Mon- | tague was laid down at the Devonport | dockyard November 23, 1899, and launched March 5, 1901. The Swedish torpedo-boat destroyer | Mode, built by Yarrow, England, attained a speed of 3233 knots during a three hours’ run, exceeding the contract speed | by 138 knots. The Mode is 220 feet in length, 20.6 feet beam, 8.9 feet draught and 400 tons displacement. She is of twen- ty tons less displacement than the nine destroyers contracted for in May, 1898, for the United States navy, which, with sev- | en others ranging from 400 to 433 tons, Wwere to maintain speeds of twenty-eight to thirty knots for one hour. Nine of | these sixteen boats came up to the orig- | inal contract requirements, and the Navy Department consented to a reduction of speed to twenty-eight knots,at which the boats completed up to the present time - have been accepted. i . 5 e | . . The naval expenditures of Austria for the coming year have been placed at $10,- 196,030, an increase of $448,280 over those of the present financial year. The allow- | ance for extraordinary expenditures, com- | prising new building, armament and dock. | yard Improvements, has been reduced | from $3,310,000 to $2,940,000. Blds were opened at the Navy Depart- ment September 10 for the supply of steel | tleship Connecticut, to be built | at the New York Navy Yard. The pro- posala called for 4206 tons of ship plates, 97 tons nickel steel plates, 152 tons shapes, 188 tons castings and 250 tons riv. ets. The accepted bids per pound were 19 cents for ship plates, 7.15 cents for nickel steel plates, 1.92 cents for shapes, | 7.45 cents for castings and 2.01 cents for | rivets. The total contract awarded foot- €d up to 7436 tons, at a cost of $465,412 &6 The progress made in the manufacture of steel for shipbuilding purposes during the past twenty years is marvelous. It is not alone that the quality of material has been vastly improved through the rigid | requirements of the Navy Department, i but the prices are now only about one. Balf of what they were in 1883, when John Roach bullt the first four steel vessels for | the navy. The Dolphin's plates were then quoted at 5 cents, shapes 2.5 to 4 cents | and rivets 45 cents. Steel castings could | then be procured in England, and it took several years to enable our steel makers to make satisfactory castings and shafts, In 1587, when the battleships Maine and Texas were built at the New York and Norfolk navy yards, steel wag still high, although somewhat lower than in 1589, The contracts for the Maine's matorin] were 3.3 cents per pound for plates, 3.54 cents for shapes, castings were at 16 Eex{m and rivets 414 cents per pound. Nicke steel plates are of comparatively recens production, quoted two years ago at 10 cents and now- down to 7.15 cents, Takin, the 6499 tons of material for the Cunnevg- ticut and comparing it with the prices * thereon. | for New York, where she will marr; pald in 1857, the total reduction i nearly $i31,000 on steel, which is ;'rf;%ffm'? ';?ltmrt ::nt superior to that which entered o construction Main, the Texas, o kg -~ MANY FIANCES SAIL TO ORIENT TO BE WEDDED It has become so much the custom among the brides-elect nowadays to sail | for the Orient to be married that, in scan- | ning the steamship passenger lists one in- tuitively feels an interest in the names ¢t unmarried young women appearing In fact, when Miss Anna Sutro safled on the China a few days ago, some of her friends whispered tnat cupid had a surprise awaiting us, but those Wwho kncw assert that she is merely paying a isit .to her brother Oscar Sutro at Ma- fla. But Mrs. David Greene, also-a passen- ger on the China, will come back Mrs. Rice, for she goes to Shanghal to marry a retired’ navy officer of that name, whom she met on a recent trans-Pacific voyage. She is a friend of Miss Sutro and also of Miss Emilita Carman, another passenger. Miss J. A. Macauley sailed on the same steamship for Manila, where she will be come, a bride, but her confldence is enjoyed by the rest of us and the name the man in the case is not known here. Miss Carman will marry U. S Constructor John D. Beuret a fe after reaching Manila. The wedding s be a quiet affair at the home of Mrs Eg bert—an old friend of the bride’s fam Miss Carman has been T way with her sister, ‘.\lrs. Snow, and it is disappointing ,lh“ wedding cannot take place here, Lieutenant Beuret is stationed at Cax in charge of the construction departmer and must remain there for the presen Lieutenant and Mrs. Beuret will cc t of to this city next July, however, and then we shall see more of them. Lieutenant Beuret graduated from rapolis in the class of '92 with the highest honor, being first at all times there. & ve e Hammered silver is quite the thing for | wedding gifts at present, yet it is unusual see so much of it as was received by Miss Landers last week. Her parents sent a large set of table silver in ti style, and as friends who knew of it « ¢ered their presents to match, the John- stons have silver enough for a lifetime, end it will outlast many generations. This ware Is extremely thick, as it must be for hammering, and some of the spoons 2nd forks, with their bands and rivets, look quite massive. . Jack Jonhston and his bride will be with us again on Wednesday for a part- ing visit before going to Los Angeles, where a home awaits them. They will be busily entertained during their stay here and Miss Pearl Landers will be among the leading hostesses. . o /8 Another girl who caught the bride’s bouquet will live out its prophecy. Elsa Cook was the first to pounce upon Miss Landers’ Lilles of the Valley. She also drew the coin. Miss Cook never looked lovelier than at the Johnston-Landers wedding in her dainty shirred gown of | white embroidered net over pink, and no for announ Nobody & was time was more opportune her engagement formally. surprised, but everybody was glad, and as the bride-elect looked as happy Charles Greenfleld seemed proud. N | Cook is recelving almost no end of dainty cups and saucers, with showers of good | wishes. ¢t e Aifred Sutro and his bride, who was Rose Newmark of Les Angeles, are spending their honeymoon in the North— principally at Banff. Th will return to this city in October and will be warmly received by their friends. Mrs. Sutro has spent considerable time in this city at the Hotel Richelieu. She made many’ strong friends and a great deal of entertain will be done for her. Mr. Sutro is prominently connected here and stands high in the legal professic having offices in the Crocker buildl with E. S. Pillsbury. P . Gertrude Jones, who made her formal bow on Friday, is a welcome addition (o society. She went out sometimes in- formally last winter with her mother Mrs. Clinton Jones, and those who met L:er fell quite in love w her sunay d position and charming ways. The Jone Ross Valley home is a beautiful place for entertaining, and every one felt amply paid for the long trin from to Joneses will return later in the the Colonial, where they spent last win- ter. e The latest guest of the C. P. Robinsc Mrs. C. L. Johnson of Southern Cali- fornia, who is a longtime friend of the family. Mrs. Johnson leaves on Tu Howe, an English gentleman of ¢ and refinement. ure Miss Merritt Reed's friends looked for- ward to her coming out this winter, but there is to be more travel and study be- fore that event. Miss Reed leaves in & fortnight for Boston, wkere she will at- tend school. ; . Dr. C. C. Collins, U. 8. A., has returned from Fresno and will be at the California Hotel us a guest of the Warfields until he sails for the Philippines on October The young officer was entertained up to the 16th, having not a dinner or evening disengaged, as he expected to depart on that date. Now that he can be with us a little longer hostesses are beginning all over again, and Dr. Collins will be made twice welcome. . Miss Ida Robinson is spending a few e | days with Miss Mary Bell at Berkeley. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lung Jr. who have been occupying the Jacksom street home of the senior Lunds during the ab- sence of the latter abroad, have taken a cozy flat on Locust street for the winter, | where they will continue their first house- keeping. Mr. Lund's parents are expect ed back early in November. | PREDICTS DESTRUCTION OF ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE Professor Bishop Believes Volecanic Activity Is the Forerunner of a Greater Outbreak. HONOLULU, Sept. 14.—Professor E. Bishop, who is a recognized autherity on volcanoes, has written a communication in which he predicts that the volcanic ac- tivity at Martinique is likely to prov but the forerunner of an even greater outbreak. The conditions are similar, he says, to ghose that prevailed previous to the total” destruction of the isiand of Krakatow years ago, and is very appre- hensive that a similar fate awaits Mar- tinique. * Reports from the volcano of Kilauea are to the effect that the fire has disa) peared entirely and that there is a com- plete subsidence of activity — e Protest Against Meat Prices. MUNICH, Sept. 21.—The German Soclal- ist Congress which opened here on Se tember 15 adopted resolutions providin for the inauguration of meetings through- out Germany to protest against the price of meat and to authorize the Deputies to interpellate the Government regarding the scarcity of meat and the boycott against foreign meat. s B L e Pruned stuffed with apricots. 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