The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1903, Page 4

THE €A FRANCISCO CALL, ONDA JANUARY 12, 190 oAb .JANU \'(\ \JONDAY 12, 1903 JOHN D. *PRECKELS, Proprictor. / ddress @l Communicetions to W. S TELEPHCONE. LEGKE, Manager 4sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You W.*: the Department You Wish. UBLICATION OFFICE IDITORIAL ROOMS. and Third: 8. V., 1 Stevemson St. Delivered by € s Weel. Fostage: A1l Postmasters are subser Eample copies wiil be 1. Msil mubscribere in orde AR LAND OFFIC .. 1118 Broadway €. GEORGE ¥ azager Foreign Adve (Tong Distance T NEW YORK CTEPHEN B. SMITH KROGNESS, ng. Marcentte Bai Chicage. me Baildinz NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT . C. CARLTON........... ..lerald Square Waldorf-Astoria Murray Hill Hotel Fifth-a nue Hotel and ‘4 ffman House. TANDS Great No Palmer House ouse; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St., MOHRTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. , corner Sixteent! open until 9 c'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untfl 9 . NW. corner T second and Kentucky, open . o'clock. 2200 . open until 9 p. m THE NEW YEAR STILL LOOKING WELL. The how- ire to trad le icat at prese: first week whole has lea off well, the for the country 6.2 in corresponding week ge wing. gains, week were 350, against 378 and the aid to be normal as v as large . the con- been In lately enor- be a luil for some idays. Eastern manufacturing c ient at present - One effect output of . and these lines are reported ninish the teel produ they have been, in spite of m srders forward delivery still unfilled. Cars as well as still in undersupply and the movement of . nd grain is ccnsequently diminished rring these hampering conditions, which are al and in no wise connected with the inherent country, depression of the business is T stapl The however, disposition to waver last week. East- » urers reported that orders n those of the preceding week and last i though hides Corn and cotton were weaker, quotations resulted in a bet- mand for both goods there was lit The demand for cotton for foreign ng ¢ much larger than anticipated The demand for woolen goods, es- 1 deliv week e easing off of , has not come up to expecta- in rubber good as been have be movement i greatly dim professediy bulis on the cu rent situation supporting the market. Country produce in general is meeting with a large dem: at all the great consuming points and prices continue above the normal: so much so, indeed, that there are com- irom all over the country of the high cost e for a week or more and, 1 and watchfulness the he wild animals oi that arena have become well domes ed. Whenever any undue iging develops the banks call in their loans, money becomes tight i the banks the plungers retire from the This attitude equilibri m is restored. shed general interests and bext an dun‘v the closing 1902. There still disposition but it is accompanied by a roceed with caution has establ the financial much dence tone of the co! the of is to speculate freely, tendency al situation remains about as before. The e port continues lively and large quantities of produce and merchandise are being shipped to foreign countries. The domestic trade o and is also brisk Al- s of the State are well cleaned nd fruit growers now hold but Il percentage of the crops of 1902. Thus far this season the weather has been ideal, both for the erain and fruit grower, and a large acreage is being seeded to while the nurservmen report a ©o comp he: s from any quarter. 1 of the prod most cereal heavy inqui uit trees for mew orchards. A gratifyving feature of agriculture at the moment is the large mumber of small farmers ceming into the State from the East and West, and the majority are looking for land either as lessors or buyers. If the railroads will continue to encourage this highly desirable immigration by giving reduced rates the prosperity of the State will be greatly enchanced. A short time ago the saloon keepers of Maine were given four days’ time in which to dispose of their stocks and then shut up shop. From the ominous silence which has followed any reference to the result of this action it must be inferred that the people of Maine have a tremendous capacity absorption of strong drink. worthy for the San Francisco and Olympia seem to be vying with one znother in diametrically opposed schemes of cruelty to babies. A woman testified in this city a ago that she had bought a baby for $50 and in Olympia there is an epidemic of babies, the little strargers being abandoned on inhospt'uble doorsteps. | passed ALIFORNIA has an opportunity to stand forth as a champion of the interests the Greater West. Reports from Wash- icerning the probable fate of the omnibus hood bill are uncertain and varying. Although measure has be before the Senate ever since the last session, when it was sent up from the House, it appears there are a considerable number of Sen- who have not yet made up their minds how to A resolution of the California Legislature irging the passage of the mcasure may have the ei- ucing some of the doubtful ones to make nds to votc right right and fitting for the Legis- | now of the 5 on this subject. California the empire State of the Great West and ought therefore to manifest a sympathetic interest 1l that concerns the upbuilding of any Western Morcover we have a closer relation nonwealth. with Arizona and New Mexico and a fuller knowl- edge of their conditions than have the people of the Ifast, and therefore have a good right to speak for the Federal Senate. Action on our part s the re important as there has n a haid fight madec against the Territories largely a mere Eastern prejudice against the West. g opposed the adoption the advancement of hem before bee: because of elements that so | feral irrigation the country are now making the against the admission of the three Territori 1 the arguments like those in the are hardly more than badly concealed ex- pressions of sectional prejudice and ignorance. The California speaking through Legislature by a unanimous resolution will certainly ha\e effect at the national capital. The debate on the bill has been prolonged to a point where it is giving occasions for scandals. Rumor is busy de- | claring that certain railroads and mining corpora- | tions are backing the bill, agnd on the other side it is said that political and partisan influences are at work to defeat it. It will be timely, therefore, for California to utter a non-partisan declaration on the | subject. | It is to be regretted that there has been so pm—" ged a controversy over the issue. In the House treated with a true statesmanship and promptly It was not question partisan politics. The House Republican. The original bill went to the Committee on Territories, where there i$ also 2 Republican major; There it was framed and passed in the form in which it is before the Senate. There were no scandals about the passage of the measure in the House. There was no waste of time in prolonged ali-day speeches, threshing over a subject with which every one is familiar who takes any The only things to be co whether the Territories are sufficiently advanced to be fitted for statehood. answered by of population, wealth, s and education. of those re- spects each of the Territories included in the bill measures up to the requirements of law and prece- dent. Each of them is more populous, more wealthy and has larger rcsouncs.lhan several of the common- wealths that have long enjoyed statehood. Moreover each of them has a potency of future growth that will raise it in the near future to a high rank in the sisterhood of States, leaving some of those whose Senators are now talking scornfuily about “Western ! ning camps” far behind in the race for wealth and | population. | Both the great political parties of the country have in their national platiorms declared in favor of the| admission of the three Territories. The time has now come for the fulfillment of the pledge. The Republi- Senators and Representatives are especially charged with a fuifillment of the pledge of their since the power of government is in their The Republicans of the House have set a good | enate and it is to be hoped law ‘for id regions of in this case. mer, voice of her w made 2 of is strongiy now interest in it at al dered in the matter are Those questions are to be statist re- sour In every one m can party, hands. example to those of the that when the talking is finished and the vote taken a strong majority 1 be found registered on the | side of those who seek to do justice to the West and to the three Territories. At any rate it will be well for California to speak out on the subject by a unanimous vote of both houses of her Legislature. w The tailor to the Suitan of Turkey is dcad This | would be subject for no unusual comment were it not | for the fact that the gentleman, now happily deccased, | was not killed by the Sultan. | | TRUSTS AND GIFTS. 1‘ AST year was a record-breaker in many things, L but not in everything. - It fell short of the previous year in the amount of capital involved in new industrial organizations, and it also fell short of the same year in the amount of donations made by millionaires in the United States to various pub- institutions. In the one respect there is clearly a reaction against the excessive tendency toward the organization of trusts which was so marked in 1901, and in the second respect it seems that the multi- | millionaires of the time have now completed their big foundations and are content to do no more than contribute a million or so here and there to help something along. The New York Journal of Commerce has com- piled figures of industrial organizations for the year. They show that the stocks and bonds of the compa- nies organized in 1902 foot up $1,112,205.250, against €2.8035,475,000 in 1901, less than one billion dollars ' in 1900 and well over two and a half billions in 1899. The capital and bonds for four years amount to $7,536,320,200. The capitalization of rivals of the trusts formed in three years is $482,250,000, and of miscellancgus companies in three years $3,221,786,550. | It will be seen that if the stocks and bonds of the great steel trust were deducted from the total of 1901 there would still remain enough to surpass the total of last year. Whether the’ check in the devcl-! opment of such organizations be due to a lack of further industries capable of consolidation, er to a | fear of legislation directed against trusts, does not appear. It is probable that each of those factors has had something to do with the decline in the rate of | organization. To have established trusts with a total ‘capitalization of more than seven billions and smaller corporations with a total capital of more than three billions within four years is, however, an extraor- dinary achievement, and it is not strange there should be a temporary slowing up until the public has a chance to look around and study the situation. The Chicago Tribune has compiled all the dona- ' tions for the year when given in sums of $10,000 and upward. It reports the total amount at $77.397,167 for the year, as compared with $123,888,725 for 18g1. In the list for 1802 no account is taken of the raising of $20.000,000 for the Methodist jubilee fund, as the contributions for the fund have extended over a pe- riod of eight years, and cannot be rightly credited THE STATEHOOD BILL. ! ! amount of donations there was given to educational | Academy, $1,000,000; J. D. Rockefeller to Southern lit is charged that the railroads | large part of the coal that is shipped into the State.” | strike the output was only 31,400,000 tons, and con- | that the trust has been trying to run the mines on too . possible. By the aid of the Marconi system a daily 22 newspaper, containing absolute news, is soon to be -fi | published on board one of the Atlantic liners as she 2 . to be directed in some profitable sphere in life. i to 1902. The report goes on to say that of the total institutions $28,150,803; to charities, $36,519,864; 10 | churches, $4,869,700; to museums and art gallerie GOOD LOOKS OF BRIDAL PARTY TO BE A FEATURE OF WEDDING $2,886,000, and to libraries $4.970,800. The list of the larger donations runs thus: Estate of R. C. Billings, Boston, to Public Library, $500,- 600; Cooper and Hewitt families to Cooper Union, §6c0.c00; Priscilla P. Cresson, Philadelphia, to Academy of Fine Arts, $500,000; J. D. Rockeieller to Harvard University, $1,000,000; George L. Litticfield to Brown University, $500,000; R. C. Billings’ estate, Boston, to charity, $600,000; John McKee, Philadel- phia, to charity, $1,000,000; W. H. Webb to Webb - educational movement, $1,000,000; John M. Burke, New York, to charity, $4,000,000; F. W. Vanderbilt to Yale College, $300,000; unknown donor to New York Museum of Fine Arts, $600,000; Harriet Benson, Philadelphia, to charity, $500,000; W. S. Stratton, Colorado Springs, to charity, $15,000,000; Mary Win- throp, New York, to Princeton College, $500,000: John M. Burke,. Marshall, Minn., to charity, $4.00’ 000; J. D. Rockefeller, to Teachers’ College, $500,- c00: F. A. Palmer, New York, to charity, $500,000; A C. Hutchinson. New Orleans, to Tulane Un ersity, $1,000,000; J. D. Rockefeller to University of Chicago, $1,226000; W. L. Elkins, Philadelphia, to charity. $500,000; H. R. Bishop to New York Museum of Fine Arts, $500,000. It will be noted that Carnegie’s name does not ap- pear in the list. That is because he has given no single donation equal to $500,000. However, in the agregate his donations have been large. During the vear he gave $2,508.500 to ninety-six libraries and distributed $840,000 among other institutions. Alto- gether Carnegie is credited with having donated in four years upward of $21,000,000. During the same period Rockefeller has given about $5,000,000. v s San Francisco is again endowed with the advent of a new set of municipal officials. It is to be hoped that the incoming guardians of our public affairs will be able to impress some of their fellows, older in service, with some idea of what public duty means. THE COAL FAMINE. EPORTS from thc }'a’t concerning the short- age of the coal supply throughout the entire country north of the Ohio are sufficiently Toy reception on Satt Calla and Mrs. Henry ys look distingu they wear and white.. [ beil combin: riably affects this magpie which is in excellent taste. g Walter E. Dean wore a beautl fon of golden Brown chiffon ove: pin silk. The chiffon was elaborately and ri ly embroidered in cream and th parent yoke was of the same Miss Edith Sonnt cou debutante, wore a g0 ir of white shirred liber thing of rwwn we th transparent Yoke and garniture of rich cream Cluny lace. Miss Ardella Mills never looked better than on this occasion and W3 ply numerous and sufficiently definite of statement to render it certain that the situation is serious and that be an interesting wed- there is no exaggeration in calling the shortage a I ding in Detroit on Wednesday of, “coal famine,” for a considerable number of people RS hoky NIy Mips MORug: 7 [0n Blackman becomes the wife of cannot get fuel at all and are suffering in consequence. Ty Hadentalatior. this: s, A At the present time New England is said to be s bidding as high as $25 a ton for good coal and $15 b a ton for the poorest quality. During the recent cold speil in Boston the city authorities bad to warm up the public baths and gymnmasiums and permit the ing feature of the brilliant affair will tiic good looks of the entire bridal ) One is accustomed to hearing of o beautiful bride, as it seems only nat- of a bride whom but one cannot al- travagant terms of bridesmaids usually . school friends, ural to speak admiring all the ys speak in as women love, poorer classes to crowd into them to get warm, since it was impossible for the charitable societies or the city to obtain fuel to warm the tenements. A report from Chicago stated that the police had to tear up the planking from ks in quarters of the city to supply fires to keep people from freezing to death during a blizzard. ing termed beautiful. In the t instance, however, the at- tendant be allotted more than the usual amount of attention. Miss Black- mar’s maid of honor, Miss Smith of De- wooden sidew certain From troit, is an acknowledged beauty, while other quarters come stories almost as bad, and it Ha “osgrove, who went from San Francisco to be best man, is desperately seems indisputable that death by freezing threatens many thousands of American people in this year of unexampled prosperity. The Philadelphia Public Ledger in commenting on the situation says: “The consumer is blaming the retailer, the retailers blame the mine operators and the independent operators are blaming the railroads.” The Ledger does not undertake to fix the blame. 1t is to be noted, however, that in other localities the blame is charged mainly to the roads. The Chi- cago Chronicle recently stated that 150,000 tons of coal are stored in the yards of the various roads cen- tering in that city, while the dealers are unable to obtain cnough to supply their customers. In Kansas “‘are confiscating a handsome and among the men at the club is deemed quite an Apollo. Mr. Cosgrove s dark and the groom is a decided blonde, also very athletic and has an excellent voice. The bride is a beautiful brunette, also gifted with 2 volce and will be a cbarming addition to San Franclsco so- ciety. Considerable entertaining will be done for her upon her arrival. The wedding will occur at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Blackman, who are prominent in their city and entertain lavishly. After their marriage the happy couple will journey ward. Is a honeymoon supposed to wane or a constant halo over wedded life? rencs of Mrs. Lowenberg-Langdon are remarking in stage whispers her depar- ture upon an extended European trip, which would have had no charms for her kg ; with Lieutenant Langdon left behind. 1t is said that in several towns the people have been 'he marriage, this autumn, seems so re- with difficulty restrained from seizing every car of ¢ent that the echoes of wedding bells i R ¢ could scarcely have dled aw but there coal that arrives. In some localities factories have were none. This devoted couple could had to close ior a lack of fuel, and thus the evil of not t.for an engagement announce- | bk S0 b Mhebwit . ment and subsequent wedding. They | the situation is aggravated by throwing men out of (ueriy journeyed to Palo Alto and be- work when they most need it. came one before apprising their friends, 2, av d e nt d s v The mine operators atiribute the famine solely i e R S S it to the striké of last summer. The Public Ledger ccmplished, however, and the popular an operator of the Schuylkill district” as 2rmy officer has dropped his stepfather’s saying: “The public is paying for its sympathy with the strikers. Had there been no interference an the part of politicians the strike would have ended last August and there would then have been sufficient coal for immediateneeds. * * * The public’s misplaced sympathy has creatad a market value for coal far beyond its normal price. Morcover the mines are getting deeper, the cost of mining is increasing, the cost of labor by reason of strikes is advancing and consequently the price of coal even when the mines are being operated regularly will increase.” quotes N interesting and instructive re- port has been submitted by the British Committee on Mercantile Cruisers. The committee was ap- pointed to consider in what manner Brit- ish merchant crutsers might be secured : F vhich could carry an armament of at 5 w There is of course an clement of trl{ll\' in that ..ot 47 tnch fims w08 should . not’ e statement. In the meantime, however, it is to be transferred to a foreign flag. It appears, says the committee, that nearly all large merchant steamers of high spesd are structurally strong enough to carry and fight 4.7 inch guns, and can be fitted at small expense with steering gear below the water line. As to the methods by which the Admiralty could obtain the right to acquire such steamers in case of war, the committee suggests three plans. The first plan provides that the Admiral- iy guarantee a sum representing the cost of each ship, thus enabling the owner to raise the capital at 3 per cent, instead of 5, the present rate. vides for the contribution .of a lump round sum toward the first cost of the | vessel; or, thirdly, an annual subsidy. The cost of high-speed steamers, power and subsidies are tabulated as follows: noted that the normal output of anthracite for a year has been about 55,000,000 tons. In 1891 the output was reduced to §3,000,000 tons, evidently for the pur- pose of raising the price. Last year owing to the sequently there is now a heavy shortage. It appears narrow a margin of supply. The strike found them with no coal on hand. The public therefore suffers not so much from sympathy with the strike as from the action of the combine in limiting the output in any one year to the actual needs of that year so that there was no coal on hand to meet an emergency. The railroads of course are bound to be supplied with coal before any other customer and hence the complaint that the railroad yards are filled with coal 21 Average | while the public suffers. ! f‘lf:;‘" ‘ SR e S IREREE ’ ————— i Knots. | d o Science is about to fly again in the face of the im- 20 ’ speeds across the ocean. Tt may not be too much to expect that one of these days pictures will be flashed through the air with the news. A San Luis Obispo man killed himself a few days ago because he lost considerable money in a game of poker. It is unfortunate that a fellow so thoroughly mindful of the fitness of things did not have the luck There are several interesting facts to be | noted in the foregoing table, notably the first cost and subsidies. The committee was composed of eminent experts, name- ly, the Earl of Camperdown, Vice Ad- miral C. C. P. Fitzgerald, Professor J. H. Biles of the Institute of Naval Architects and others, and their figures and conclu- slons are of more than ordinary import. It appears that in order to increase the | horsepower from 19,000 to 68,000, the cost ‘ls more than quldrupled‘ and that while the subsidy demanded is only 257 per It is said American manufacturers of shoes have cent on the cost of a twenty-knot steam- er, the subsidy increases to 14.9 per cent stripped the European market of hides, and now, of bodgher sty satiirad anpnoCo el sclbosas course, the European manufacturers are feeling raw words, the Admiralty would pay the first and sore. cost of the low-power steamship’ in about | thirty-nine years and of the high-power in a little over six years. The explana- tion lies in the fact that a twenty-six- knot steamer would be shortlived, thump- ing herself to pieces in a few years, and while able to maintain her speed would Democracy’ starts the new year by making a new search through the bulrushes for Moses, but it ap- pears no Moses is there The second plan pro- | 2. | AP T B S » PROMINENT SOCIETY YOUNG WOMAN AND THE MAN SHE WILL WED. L 4 =i 2 name, Lowenberg, and is now legally Lieutenant Langdon. It is sald that the bridzgroom will obtain leave of absence and cross the pond to accompany Mrs. Langdon, so all is well, but the fact re mains that “all the king's oxen and all the king's men" could not have taken this charming girl from our midst a year ago. e . T could not begin to tell you how many charming favors George D. Collins, the attorney, does for his friends. The hand- some farewell dinner he gave at the Pal- ace last week in honor of the Cluffs was only one of his fancles. And such a gor geous time as the guests had! Only a few days ago this generous chap sent two theater boxes to a soclety matron of his acquaintance, thus giving a dozen of her riends a pleasant evening. I belleve it is the man's unselfishness that renders him so likable. If the saying is true that to be popular one must feed people, entertain people or shock people, Mr. - Collins certainly has well deserved popularity upon two scores. ST R Some exquisite gowns were worn at the be under expense so enormous that there would have to be a liberal subsidy. The extensive improvements of the Devonport dockyard are colossal and wili be expensive. The contract for the work was let two years ago and it is to be com- | pleted by 1910 at a cost of $22,000,000. The | existing dockyard, consisting of Keyham | and Devenport, has been found entirely inadequate to modern requirement, as only two of the seven docks had sufficient length to take in vessels of 400 feet, and battleships built at Devenport had to be | docked at other yards. The improvements consist of a tidal basin ten acres in area |and a closed basin of thirty-five and a half acres, with which four drydocks communicate. The depth of the two ba- sins is thirty-two feet at low water, and | the docks vary in lensth from 470 feet to 5 feet, with a uniform breadth of 9 | | feet. Three thousand men are at work on | this great engineering undertaking and | lwnen the contract is compieted Deven- port will be the best equipped dockyard | | In the world. Lord Charles Betesford has declared ! that in the British navy officers are pro- moted to the rank of admiral when too | old. He gives a list of six admirals at im- | portant shore stations and six vice admi- rals, five of which latter are commanders- in-chief of squadrons. The ages of the last five compare with the rear admirals in the United States navy commanding squadrons as follows: BRITISH NAVY. UNITED STATES NAVY. \XAME | Age. | NAME. | Age. C. Bridge ..... | 57 A. K. Wilson. . 61 A. L. Douglas, 60 G. H._ Noel. 57 ass. ;| = L. A Belumon( 55 |A. 8. Crown'sl d! €0 Average age., 50 ! Average age.., 9 The inhabitants of the Cornish village of Downderry were surprised ‘one morn- ing last month to find lying high and dry | on the Longstone a French torpedo boat without a crew. The boat was resting upon a soft ledge of sand and was got afloat after considerable trouble by the aid of men from Devenport. It was learned subsequently that the boat was being towed from Cherbourg to Brest and broke adrift from a torpedo boat-destroy- er during a gale and disappeared. A stupendous blunder has, from all ap- pearances, been made in the design of the ten 9800 ton armored cruisers for the Brit- ish navy. The horsepower has been de- veloped, but the speed falls considerably short of the calculation. The fault is tributed to the propellers and the Admi- ralty will have new ones fitted. The per- formance of the engines of the two cn.u— ‘ horsepower, but ‘gave a speed of on \ ‘\ | Robinson wore h roses of pink n lace over g atin her dark hair. Miss y Colburn was beaut over silk, wi Frances Bartis wore & pure whita gown and white beaver picture hat with delic com- fon and auburn hair effective ss Marie Wells wore a light gown, with garniture of pale blue, completed by a cream Miss P e hat, edged with mink fur. nter wa pretiily gowned in Hght blue. Miss Pear} Lanc Miss Helen Dean. Miss Gertrude Jo: n and a number of debutantes wore white. The announcement of Miss Florence Josselyn's engagement to, Henry McDon- ald Spencer is brining nb end of &« wishes, with the usual accompaniment of engagement c8ps and dainty presents. Miss Josselyn is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Josselyn, who have taken the Hobart residence for the win that they may entertain extensively in honor of their debutante daughter, Ger- trude. Mr. Spencer is connected with the San Francisco office of the Phoenix In- surance Company. but I understand he is not simply a clerk, as has been reported. Mr. Spencer is quite clever and fond of literary work. Mrs. A. Wenzelburger and daughters, Miss Lalla and Miss Elise Wenzelburger, sent out cards for the third and fourth Fridays In February at their home on Steiner street, but Since that time a fire broke out in their library and drawing- room, making sad ha¥oc with the furnish- ings, so the hestesses will receive on the last day mentioned, the fourth Friday. SALLY SHARP. B O e 2 e S e S S e ] COMMITTEE OF BRITISH EXPERTS ASSERTS THAT HIGH POWER MERCANTILE CRUISERS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE ers tested varied considerably, for while those of the Bedford worked up to 22,67 horsepower, giving a speed of : the Kent's ines develo knots, or 1.3 knots short of the speed. These discrepancies in results are not solely due to the propellers used, but indicate defects In the working of the Kent machinery which cannot be over- come by improvement in propellers. Five firms have buflt the machinery for these ten ship ‘The machinery of the Bedford and Donegal was furnished by Fairfield; that of the Kent, Cornwall and Lancaster by Hawthorne & Leslie of world-wide reputation for good work; that of the Berwick and Suffolk by Humphrey: that of the Monmouth and Cumberland by ths London and Glasgow Company, and that of the Essex by John Brown. The Armstrong Company at Elswick has been established fifty years. and during that perfod has built T3 steam vessel: all descriptions, with an aggregate ton | nage of 998,458 and 1,005,378 horsepower. OF this number 103 were war vessels of 18),- | 129 tons and 545,255 horeepower. o ety A novel subsurface torpedo boat has been Invented by Clarence L. Burger, g civil engineer, and a bill ifas been intro- duced in the Senate authorizing the con- struction- of six boats of this particular design of not less than 15 knots speed. at a price of mot over 209,000 each. A model of the Boat has been tested in the experimental tani at Washington, attain- ing a speed of sixteen knots, and Lewis Nixon has expressed the opinion that “the semi-submerged boat is the coming bont for offensive work avith the automobile torpedo.”” The boat consists of two parts. There is "an underwater hull, cigar- shaped, containing machinery, torpedoes, ete., which is s\upe:t;‘d to a surface hull of light draught. which. latter s filled with cellulose, acting as a mere float. By the separation of the two hulls the lower one is protected from gun fire and the upper one is unsinkable on account of its water-excluding material. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend' —— Usetul presents. Look out for 81 Fourth: front of barber and_ zrocery, best eye. glasses, specs, 25¢ to e, . ——— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in amuh: fire-etched boxes. A nice present for E: ™ £ €9 Market st.. 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