The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1903, Page 6

MONDAY, MAY 11, 1903. . ™= eAW pawomoo cun, MONMAT.OGY L e .MAY 11, 1903 | ;(;lfl! D. SPRECKELS, Proprielor. to W. S. LEAKE, Manager pccress All Communications TELEPHONE. | Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect | You With the Department You Wish. d Third, S. F. Stev .Market 2 PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS Delivered by Carriers, 15 C Per Week. | Cents. | ing Postage: { CALL (including Sun one year... .$6.00 (incluéing Sunday), € months.. - 8.00 | (including Sunday), 3 months.. . 1.50 | By Single Month . 65c 1.50 . 1.00 L1l Pestmasters are a ized to receivé subserip! rwarded when requested. o4 | cubscribers in ordering change of address should be | eular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order sure & P and correct compliance with their request. Sample copies will be OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway .Telephone Main 1083 BERKBLEY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street ..Telephone North 77 C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Alvu-} tising, Marquette Building, Chicago. Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619."") | REPRESENTATIV! ..30 Tribune Building NEW YOR STEPHEN B. SMITH NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. CARLTON. vv....Heranld Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unien Square; ray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. . CHICAGO Hotel; WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. corner ¢f Clay, open 9:30 o'clock. 633 5 Larkin, open unti, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 en until 9 o'clock. 1085 Va- 106 Eleventh, open until 9 second and Kentucky, open , open until 9 p. m. CURRENT DRIFT OF TRADE. (8 RADE is still proceeding quietly along the lines ed for several weeks past. Distinguish- ures are few and not especially salient. fi ry's bank clearings show an apparent de- g The cou rease of 27.3 per cent in the volume of business for » past weck, as compared with the same week in most of the largest cities on the wrong side | The clearings themselves aggregated with of the exhibit. | $2,318,000,000, of which New York was credited with | § 71,000 The amount of business done y New York City in comparison with the| is wonderful. Over half land seems to center in that spot. The clearings of Pitts- n of 32.1 per cent over 1902, which recent reports of marked diminu- | me of the iron and steel industry, | Francisco shows the very respectable gami The failures for the week were | 7 last year. | nings in April were 16.4 per cent larger April, 1902, and 28.7 per cent larger than in of 24.4 over ast year. Way ear: 1901. Ewven though the increased cost of operating the railroads through advanced wages and higher for material be considered, the fact remains the volume of business handled by the railroads is larger by just these percentages than during the The price of commodities, how- preceding two years. ever, seems to be steadily declining, as Dun's index number made a record of 98561 in April, against 99,267 in March, and 102,289 in the spring of 1902, the ng the highest record in recent years. This index number confirms the ob- ians and other close watchers of , that prices of merchandise in gen- hroughout the United States are slowly receding, e been for weeks, though the recession is so h persons, even business d receive any intimation of it with sur- But the figures are there and trend of on of stati few men, are aware of prise and incredulity. they do not lie But the volume of business is large all the same. I'l would be still larger were it not for labor troubles, which are scattered as thickly over the country as leaves in Vallambrosa, which are checking commerce Iy several important centers and threatening to disturb it at others. Pig iron continues dull and weak, though the de- nd for finished products is still active. Some can- cellation of orders, however, are reported, which is a new condition in this industry. Provisions, too, con- tinue to droop <lowly at Western packing centers, and the packers no longer make strenuous efforts to keep up prices. The textile manufacturers generally report quiet markets in their lines, with a possible shortening of time in New England mills later on, and the job- bers are buying smaller quantities, while salesmen are being withdrawn from the road. The New England footwear factories, however, report business better, | shipments from.Boston thus far this year breaking the | previous record, though leather and hides are quoted quieter and weaker at Western points. The South is | not sending in rosy reports at present, owing to the | frecze of a fortnight ago, which set back the cotton crop and killed the fruits and vegetables over a large a indeed practically throughout the South. Wall street continues quiet and featureless. The * market goes up a little one day and falls back a little the next. The money market has shown no change worthy of note for several weeks, and there are neither bull nor bear campaigns to excite the public. As the midsummer dull season is not far away now, not much agitation is expected in Wall street un- til fall. Conditions in California remain about the same, though the weather has lately become a factor of mo- ment. The State needs rain, especially in the bay and central counties. Showers will be necessary to fill out the grain, which otherwise will be small of berry, -pinched and light in weight. Those districts which and harvest early are the best off this and will harvest good crops as a rule, ut the late districts will suffer unless rain comes v a few days. The yield of everything, how- <ver, fruit as well as hay and grain, will be much smaller than was indicated two months ago. A chilly, sackward spring and the sudden cessations of the -ains and concluding showers have given the crop sit- aation a different aspect in the last fortnight. But he State is so wide and its climate so diversified that ve will get a crop just the same. We always do. sow par, W THE PERSIAN GULF PROBLEM. HEN Great Britain declined a few weeks ago to take part in the construction of the Bagdad Railway with Germany and France there was a good deal of speculation as to the signifi- cance of her action. On the face of it the proposed international combination appeared to be in the in- terests of the British, for it afforded an opportunity for her to bring Germany and France as her allies across the path of Russian expansion toward the Per- sian Gulf. Her statesmen, however, have evidently been aware of facts not known to the general public, for it has been announced by the Foreign Secretary, | speaking for the Ministry in the House of Lords, that Great Britain purposes to keep all nations out of Per- sia and prevent any of them from establishing on the guli a fortified naval base. The language of the Fpreign Secretary was about as explicit as it could be while avoiding a direct threat. He is reported as declaring: “I say without | hesitation that we should regard the establishment of a naval base or a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a grave menace to British inter- ests, and we should certainly resist it with all means at our disposal.” Such a declaration implies that the British Govern- | ment is by no means confident that Germany could be relied upon to oppose Russia should she be enabled to establish herself in Persia by means of an extension of the Anatolian Railway to Bagdad and thence to some port on the gulf which she could fortify. Great Britain is therefore compelled to resume her policy of isolation, and to stand in defense of her communi- cations with India against whatever alliance may be formed among the continental powers. For some time past there have been rumors of the formation of such an alliance. It is well known that Germany has refused to join in any agreement to check the course of Russian aggression in China. She has not protested against Russia’s continued hold upon Manchuria, she declined to join with Austria and Great Britain in the joint note to the Sultan with regard to reforms in Macedonia, and she has in other ways shown a desire to stand well with Russia, no matter what the Czar's Government may do in the way of expansion and aggression. From all these facts students of Eurofean politics draw the conclusion that we are likely to see a new arrangement of European alliances, and that the chief factor of international politics in the immediate future is to be an alliance of Germany, Russia and France. That combination would be the most formidable ever formed since the beginning of history. It would bring into combingtion powers extending from the Atlantie Ocean to the Pacific. The powers lie contig- | tous to one another and could readily co-operate for military purposes. The naval strength of the combi- nation would put it in the first rank on the Atlantic, and it would even be formidable in the Pacific. The first* point of policy on which way. France and Germany have already a concession from the Sultan to construct and operate a line through his dominions to the Persian boundary. Rus- | | sia has concessions to build in Persia. What is more natural than that the three should agree among them- sclves to complete the route and establish a naval | base on the gulf? The difficulties in the way of such an alliance have been so great that it has never been put forward as anything more than a possibility, but the recent reve- lations go far to confirm it. It is very well known that the cld alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy has become obsolete. The Austrian Government is too much distracted by internal dissensions to stand for much as a world power. Italy is nearly bankrupt. Spain no longer counts for anything. The other powers of Europe are too small and weak to consti- tute important factors in the European problem. What more probable therefore than that the three great powers should pool their issues in world poli- tics and agree upon a policy for the exploitation of Asia? Such an agreement would leave Britain in isolation and would explain her course with respect to the Per- sian Guli. Evidently her Ministers believe that the time is coming when Britain will have to fight for her empire and they prefer to make the fight before an enemy gets a position where it could safely attack the line of communication between Great Britain and India. 2 ———— The $1200 saloon license tax has gone into effect in New York, and along with it went a resolution on the part of the saloon keepers to limit the free lunch to crackers and cheese and to raise the price for fill- ing a “growler” from 10 to 15 cents; so now look out for a heavy exodus to the West this summer. GERMAN SOCIALISM. CCORDING to reports from "Ber]in, the A Reichstag whose term has just been com- pleted has been one of the most important, in the history of the empire, and has enacted laws which carry Germany a long way on the road toward na- tional socialism. The work of the session in that di- rection is noted as the more significant because. it was enacted not by Socialists, but by conservatives, who were induced to undertake it for the purpose of satisfying the people and checking the growth of the Socialist party. The measures which are looked upon as tending to- ward Socialism are not all of them of a strictly So- cialistic nature. Some of them, indeed, were opposed by Socialists. They are divided into three classes— those which tend to increase the power of the central government at the expense of the States, those which tend to increase the power of the States at the ex- pense of the individual, and those which are directly and frankly experiments in Socialism. The policy of checkmating an opponent by get- ting ahead of him in the adoption of some policy sup- ported by a large class of voters is a familiar one among politicians. It has been practiced in all gov- ernments where the party system exists. Robert Peel practiced it when he repealed the corn laws, and Disraeli described his action by saying: “He found the Whigs bathing and stole their clothes.” Disraeli himself practiced it when he extended the suffrage for the purpose, as he frankly said, B “dishing” the Whigs. It has been tried in this country over and over again. No special blame, therefore, is to be visited upon the German conservatives who have tried to head off the Socialists by enacting social legisla- tion themselves. Nevertheless, it is quite probable that in the long run they will find it would have been much better for them to have faced the issue firmly at the start, for it is evident that sooner or later So- cialism in Germany will have to be met and con- quered, or else the empire will be hampered by a so- cial system that will weaken the individual initiative of its people and seriously compromise its strength as*a nation. & Outside the social tendencies noted, the five-year term of the Reichstag has been distinguished by the these powers | | might reach an agreement is this very Bagdad Raii- !frequency with which the debates turned upon Amer- ica. In fcrmer years comparatively little interest was taken in Amierican matters by German legislators. During the recent sessions, however, the debates on the tariff, on colonial expansion and on the increase of the navy have been marked by frequent references to this country and its relations to German produc- tion, commerce, colonial empire and naval power. | —— Between noon of the last day of April and the dawn of May day in upper New York the tempera- ture dropped fifty degrees, and even in New York City it fell from eighty-eight to forty-five within twelve hours. That is what might be called a pic- turesque climate and full of variety. e — OCHINA AT ST. LOUIS. O foreign nation has shown greater interest in the St. Louis exposition than China. The Empress Dowager has contributed $400,000 of her personal funds as 2 preliminary expenditure upon | the Chinese exhibit. When the treaty of Paris transferred Louisiana to the United States a hundred years ago China was but | little known. The Western nations had seen but few | Chinese and they were a curiosity. Less than a hali | dozen adventurers had penetrated the country, and | their reports were tales of wonder to the outside | world. Since then, notwithstanding all her vicissi- | tudes, China has progressed, and her trade has be- come an object of first interest to all the Western na- | tions. At this moment no other part of the United States or of the world has a greater interest in that| trade than has California. The powerful protection of Chinese integrity:and sovereignty, given by the | United States, has caused the best of feeling toward | this country, and the act of the Empress in personally | providing for the enrichment of the St. Louis exposi- | tion by an exhibit is an expression of friendship that we cannot overlook. To make such an exhibit as she contemplates re- quires the bringing in to this port of a vast value in | commercial articles and of many Chinese merchants, | officials and workmen to install and care for the arti- ; cles exhibited. It is to be hoped that the Treasury | Department and Federal authorities will see to it that | the entry of this property and the persons necessaryi’ to exhibit it may be as little obstructed as possible. Granting th.at a few Chinese may try to take ad- vantage of the occasion to dodge our laws for the ex- clusion of coolies, no possible harm caused thereby | can be as great as would be the harm to California’s | trade in China by the practice of harsh and unsympa- 1 thetic methods toward a people whose ruler shows such an enlightened desire to be represented at the | greatest exposition ever held on the planet. It should be remembered that a very large nymber | of the Chinese gentlemen in the foreign service of | | that empire are the graduates of American universi-, ties. They have the right to sit with the alumni n!i Yale and Harvard and Ann Arbor, and we should | show them that our civilization, whose culture thcy? have sought, is a gracious and appreciative and | courteous civilization. There be those, even in Cali- | fornia, who would hail a gentleman like Wu Ting| Fang as “John,” and address him in pigeon slang, | but they are few. We can maintain exclusion against | Chinese coolies consistently with politeness and in- ternational courtesy to Chinese ladies and gentlemen. The grateful disposition of Tsi An should be met with kindly appreciation, especially by intelligent Califor- | nians. “The profitable trade of this State is to be with | Asia, and especially with China, as that of the Atlantic | seaboard is with Europe. Let us see to it that good | manners promote good trade. S ———— Having given $1,500,000 for the erection of a Tem- ple of Peace at The Hague, Mr. Carnegie has now | donated $200,000 to purchase a library to put in it. By and by he will probably be called upon to put up a million or so to keep it ruaning. ONCE MORE THE CLIMATE. | N May day the Philatelphia Public Ledger summed up the weather reports of the pre- | O vious day by saying: ‘“Yesterday the ther- | mometer registered 9o degrees in the shade. It was | the hottest April day since 1888, when the mercury | achieved its zenith at o1 in the shade. One victim | was prostrated by the heat and taken to St. Josepl's | Hospital. To-day there is a promise of rain and cold weather. Snow fell to the north of us last night, and | it is likely we shall have frost.” | That is a nice hodgepodge of weather for a quiet town. Sweltering heat, sunstrokes and a promise of snow make up a picturesque variety of climate that sounds like a combination of the Klondike and the Amazon. From every other section of the East come similar reports. It is cnly on this coast that mankind finds a climate that can be counted on, and where one can go to his work without fear of blizzards or sunstrokes. It may be said of California that De- cember is as pleasant as May, and of the East that May is as unpleasant as December. | Climatic influences do not affect civilized man as potently as they affected the earlier races. Many in- | ventions have been sought out to counteract the ef-! fects of a sun too hot or a blast too cold. We are| housed and clad and fed in a manner that assists us to escape the full effects of the weather. Nevertheless, | we do not wholly escape. Man is still more or less what his climate makes him, and the high superiority of our climate over that of the eastern side of the con- tinent justifies us in the expectation that it will de- velop a superior type of man. Here, at any rate, is the land where man can live, work and play with the greatest degree of comfort all the year round, and consequently it is the land where he may be expected to achieve the highest degree of culture and pros- perity. e — A local Democrat, distinguished chiefly by the wind and noise created by the cavity in his face, pro- tested strenuously the other night at a “harmony” meeting against any attempt to gag any Democrat. He was right. It is an outrage to contribute to the self-strangulation of some of our misguided fellow citizens. England and Japan are seeking to convict the Czar of all sorts of treachery in reference to his interna- tional relationships and ambitions. It is not at all improbable that the ruler of all the Russias knew with whom he was dealing and played the cards which his opponents hoped to hold. The gudgeons who come from the rural districts to “see the sights” and driit into the deadfalls of the city to be beaten and robbed have a deal of assurance to expect sympathy from anybody. San Francisco does not number among its institutions a society for the protection of fools, About all that Chicago has had to say about the St. Louis exposition so far is that the arrangements for entertaining the President at the dedication cere- monies were “positively shocking.” | expense. | of the Massachusetts is 4500 miles and of | tail and superior workmanship of | fine of $00 per ton on the excess of the | frequent interruptions to make good | In the first place the ship was entirely ! firing and coal passing. MAINE’S DEFECTS TO BE REMEDIED BYCONTRACTOR —_— The boilers of the battleship Maine can Pe repaired at a cost of $10,000, according | to the preliminary report of the navfl_ board which examined the machinery of the ship. This expense will, of course, be borne by the contractor, unless it can be proved that the boilers were not properly handled by the naval engineers. The tur- ret supports have been found defective, but they can be strengthened at a small The weakness developed in the ship is on the whole fortunate, in that it enables the Navy Department to correct any similar defects that may exist in the design of the ships under construction and on which work has not progressed so far as to make additional strengthening more difficult and expensive. It is to be hoped that the defects in the Maine will not develop in the . Missouri and Ohio, for although the three ships are built from the same design and specifica- tions, the methods of different builders make dissimilar results possible. A nota- ble instance is that of the Oregon, built at the Union Iron Works, ana the Massachu- setts and Indiana, built by the Cramps. On the same displacement the weight car- ried of machinery and coal vary consider- ably, the comparisons being as follows: Oregon—machinery weights, 1009 tons; coal, 13% tons. Massachusetts—machin- ery, 1062 tons; coal, 1360 tons. Indiana—| machinery, 1242 tons; coal, 1550 toms. The superiority of the Oregon is further shown in the small coal consumption, which en- abled that ship to cover 530 miles at ten knots speed on her coal supply, wiile that the Indiana only 3720 miles. Thus with 233 tons less weight of machinery the Oregon is capable of steaming hearly 1800 miles further than the Indiana, which fact is a substantial proof of better design in dl:- the California-built battleship. One of the| many serious defects in the Maine is the excess of weight of machinery, for which 1130 tons was allotted, but which weighs 1463 tons, an excess of 333 tons, or nearly 30 per cent above the estimate. In the early contracts for ships of the new navy a penalty of $5000 and $50 per ton of ex- cess in weight of machinery over 5 per cent of the weight allowed, was imposed on the contractor, but it is not known that this clause has ever been enforced. A Maine’s machinery weights would amount to $166,500, and in all fairness to the Gov- ernment it should be much more. The in- creased weight brings the ship about six and a half inches deeper in the water, alters her trim and does not improve her seagoing qualities. It is, however, safe | to predict that neither the Missouri nor the Ohio will turn out so badly as tF Maine, and that the Ohio, at least, may once more demonstrate our ability to turn out better ships than any other yard in the United States. . An account of the voyage of the British | armored cruiser Good Hope from England to Durban was recently published in the Engineering and is of more than usual in- terest, partly ‘because of its detalls and because the ship, which is of the Drake class, has proved a disappointment. On the speed trials the four ships of that class—the Drake, Good Hope, Leviathan and King Alfred—exceeded the power and speed requirements of 30,000 horsepower and twenty-three knots by a good mar-| gin and the Belleville boilers gave entire satisfaction. From the results of the thirty hours’ coal consumption trials it was estimated that the coal supply of 259 tons was sufficlent for a stretch of 7000 miles at fourteen knots speed, and the voyage to Durban was to demonstrate the aceuracy of the estimate by actual expe- rience. The trip was made In three stages, with the following results: Portsmouth to Suez, 2853 miles—Average speed, 15.7 miles; coal consumed. Suez to Zanzibar, 2540 miles—A 16.7 miles; coal consumed, 1840 ton anzibar to Durban, 15691 miles—Average speed, 15 miles; coal consumed, 851 tons. The total distance of 7293 miles, at an average speed of about 15.7 knots, thus re- quired 4457 tons of coal, or nearly 7 per cent over the estimate at 14 knots. Con- siderable difficulty was experienced with the machinery and boilers and there were such defects as developed. The showing made was rather disappointing, but there are mitigating circumstances to be considered. new, no opportunity having been given to get the machinery down to its bearinks, which latter requires at léast six months usage. -Secondly, the engine-room force, which during the contractor’s trials num- bered 486 picked experts, was reduced to 28 during the voyage, and it became necessary to draw 65 to 19 men from blue- jackets and landsmen to assist in the The breakdowns of the machinery and heavy coal consumption is, therefore, in all fairness, largely, if not en- tirely, attributed to the insufficient and unskilled engine-room force and pointedly indicates the folly of expecting good results from machinery improperly handled. Similar causes are, no doubt, responsible to a great exient for the troubles experienced with the motive power of the battleship Maine. The building of the proposed 25-kuot Cunarders, to be used as auxiliary cruis- ers in the event of war, is not eagerly sought for by any of the British ship- builders. The original estimate of 65,000 horsepower is deemed entirely too low by prominent experts, who assert that not less than 100,000 horsepower will be re- quired. This increase would correspond- ingly raise the estimated cost from $i,- 950,000 to about $5,000,000 and vastly in- crease the running expenses in fuel and personnel. e The captains of the French battleships Gaulois and Bouvet have been sum- marily deprived of their command by the Minister of Marine, notwithstanding the protest of the squadron commander, Vice Admiral Pottier. The alleged cause is said to be that the officers had talked too much; in other words, that their criticism of naval affairs was disapproved by Min- ister Pelletan. This action of the Min- ister has created an uneasy feeling in naval circles. PR T The Russian training ship Okean at- tained a speed of 17% knots on her trial with 11,800 horsepower, which is less by one-haif knot than was calculated with 11,000 horsepower. This deficiency of speed, however, does not materially de- tract from the usefulness of the vessel, its primary object being to serve as a training ship for engineers, firemen and engine-room mechanics and incidentally to carry coal. The dimensions are 470 feet between perpendiculars, 57 feet beam and 25 féet draught, fully loaded, on a dis- placement of 11,90 tons. The main en- gines _are two vertical triple expansion, with four cylinders each, and the boi.ers consist of six Belleville, six Miclausse, two Schulz-Thornycroft and three Yarrow small tube. Seven hundred and fifty men will be attached to this vessel during the year, divided into periods of four months, during which they will receive a practical training in manipulating the various tvpes of water-tube boilers and taking care of the machinery, in which all ihe latest improvements are introduced. Rus- sia is the first naval power to adopt this evidently practical method of training an engine and boller room staff, and it is be- ing adopted in the British navy. It is possible that our Navy Department may follow this plan of giving an all-round krowledge to engineers and firemen in preference to the present system, which is deficlent in this respect that the men are only taught to manipulate one particular set of boilers. The Okean was built at the Howaldt yard, Kiel, where the keel was laid June 10, 1901, and launched Feb. ruary 16, 1902. Further additions to the fleet in Asiatic OFFICIAL PROGRAMME | FOR PRESIDENT'S VISIT | TUESDAY, MAY 12. ‘ 2:15 p. m.—Arrival of the train with the Presidential party at Third and ceremony by the executive com- | the Naval Reserve in the vicinity of the depot. | 2:30 p. m.—Military procession will move under command of Major General l MacArthur, U. S. A., and Major General Dickinson, N. G. C. The pro- | cession will start from the depot at Third and Townsend streets, up Third to Market, down Markst to Montgomery, up Montgomery to Sut- ter, up Sutter to Kearny, down Kearny to Market, out Market to Van Ness avenue, on Van Ness avenne passing in review ‘before the Presi- dent’s carriage, which will be located between Pine and California streets. h 4:00 p. m.—/The President and party will proceed to the Young Men's Christian Association building, where the President will take part in the dedicatory exercises and burn the mortgage, after which he will deliver an address. 4:40 p. m.—The President and party will visit Press Club rooms and sign his name. The President and party will proceed to the Palace Motel, where a reception will be given exclusively to the foreign comsular ser- vice, military and naval officers and recention committee in the Maple Room. 7:30 p. m.—The illumination of Market street with 20,000 electrig lights and a public concert given at the junction of Market, Kearny and Third streets by s grand military band, under the leadership of Paul Stein- dorff. 7:40 p. m.—Golden banquet, tendered by the citizens of San Francisco to President Roosevelt, will take place at the Palace Hotel. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13. 9:00 a. m.—The President and party will leave the Palace Liotel, escorted by a squadron of cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Colomel Garrard, and the executive committee, and proceed up Market street to Geary, up Geary to Mason and up Mason to the Native Sons’ Hall, where | a reception will be given to the President by the Native Sons of the | Golden West and the Old California Piomeers. A solid gold souveair | will be presented to the President at the same time. After these cere- | monies the President will leave by the following routes: From Native | Sons’ Hall down Mason street to O'Farrell and out OFarrell to Vaa | Ness avenue. ! 10:00 a. m.—The President will review the school children on Van Ness avenue. The children will assemble on both sides of the street, and the President will ride in his carriage ia front of both of these lines. After the review of the school children the President will prc-scd by the fol- lowing route to the Presidio: Out Pacific avemnue to Scott street, on Scott to Jackson, to Central avenue, entrance of the Presidio. 11:00 a. m.—After a drive through the Presidio the President will witness a review of the United States troops stationed in this harbor, under the command of Major General MacArthur. The review will take place on what is known as the golf links in the military reservation. 12:00 m.—The President and party will leave the Presidio and proceed to Golden Gate Park, to the Fifth-avenue entrance and will then drive through the Park to the ocean beach, and along the beach to the Clx House, where the party will lunch as the guests of th= executive com- mitt During the lunch Dr. Riekl will give an exhibition by jumping into the ocean and saving himself by his kite life-saving apparatus. 1:45 p. m.—The President and party will leave the CliT House and proceed through the Park to the Baker-street entrance. ’ 2:15 p. m.—The President will turn the first shovelful of earth inaugurating | H the work for the erection of a monument to the late President McXin- | ley, and will also make the dedication speech. 3:00 p. m.—The President and party will then drive to the armory of the Pirst Regiment, corner of Page and Gough streets, by the following route: Baker street to Devisadero, to Golden Gate avenue, then to Gough street, to Page, where a reception will be held by the veterans of | | the Spanish war. 3:30 p. m.—The President and party will then drive by the following route: To Market street, to Van Ness avenue, to Post street, to Lar- | kin, to Sutter, to Golden Gate Hall on Sutter street, where they will | visit the encampment of the G. A. R. of the States of Nevada and Cali- | fornia. The President and party will then return to the Palace Hotel by the following route: Down Sutter street to Kearny, to Market, to the Palace Hotel. | 8:00 p. m.—Grend illumination of Market street and night procession of the | President with a military escort through Market street to Mechanics” | Pavilion. A brilliant display of fireworks will then take place on Market | street while the procession is moving. The pupils of the public even- ing schools will be reviewed on Market street, between Seventh and Eighth. 7:15 p. m.—Mechanics’ Pavilion will be opened for the admittance of the people to the mass-meeting. No seats will be reserved except on the Presidential stand, and every one will be admitted. Commencing at 3 Pp. m. a concert will be given in the Pavilion by a baad of forty pieces, under the leadership of Paul Steindorfl. 9:45 p. m.—The President will arrive in the grand stand. THURSDAY, MAY 14. 8:45 a. m—The President and party, with military escort, will leave the Palace Hotel and proceed up Market street to Powell, up Powell to Post and down Post to the central entrance of Union square. The Pres- ident will then dedicate the monument erected in honor of our navy and the victory of our fleet in Manila Bay, under the command of Admiral Dewey. After the ceremonies the Presidential party and military escort will proceed down Post street to Kearny, Kearny to Market, to East, then to the United States transport dock, where the President will proceed to Berkeley. 10:45 a. m.—The President and party will take part in the commencement | exercises of the University cf California at Berkeley. | 1:00 p. m.—The Presidential party will proceed to Oakland, where they will take part in the ceremony as prepared by the citizens of that city. | 4:00 p. m.—The President and party will go aboard the torpedo destroyer H Paul Jones and proceed to Vallejo to lay the cormerstome of the Y. M. C. A. Auxiliary Club House, to be erected for the henefit of seamen. They will then inspect Mare Island navy-yard, after which they will re- turn to San Francisco. 8:00 p. m.—Banquet tendered to President Roosevelt by the Union League Club at the Palace Hotel. 12:25—NLeaves for the Yosemite. +—_ PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. W. P. Austin of Salinas is at the Grand. Judge Thomas B. Hawley of Nevada is at the Palace. W. P. Hammond, a mining man of Oro- ville, is at the Palace. E. A. Forbes, an attorney of Marys- ville, is at the Grand. James Barnes, an attorney of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. James Dun, chief engineer of the Santa | Fe road, is at the Palace. : J. Ross Clark, vice-president of the San Pedro and Salt Lake road, is at the Palace. Railroad Commissioner A. C. Irwin and | wife and daughter of Marysville are at | the Lick. H. Isaacs, division baggage master of | the Santa Fe road at Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Dr. H. Mestern and Dr. H Wichern of | Hamburg, who are totring the world, are | at the Palace. William G. Kirkhoff, banker and rail. road man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. W. H. Bancroft, vice-president and gen- | eral manager of the Oregon Short Line, | arrived from Salt Lake yesterday and Is registered at the Palace. i —_— Grutli Society Excursion. The Grutli Society held its regular an- nual excursion and picnic at Fafrfax Park, ‘near San Rafael, yesterday. The affair was largely attended,"and in every | way a successful commemoration of the ! I ] | 1 i | i ) - ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HOMELESS DOGS—A. XK. G, City. Homeless dogs are taken In at the public pound in this city. COYOTES — Subscriber, Tulare, There is no bounty at this coyote scalps. Cal. time for FRUIT PICKING—R. G., City. For in- formation relative to fruit picking apply to the California Promotion Company New M:nlgomery street, San Francis or to the State Board of Trade, Unio Ferry building. 39 CIGAR TAX-O. H., Irvington, Cal. To ascertain the amount of tax paid on cigars (33 per thousand) during March 1908, address a letter of inquiry to the In- ternal Revenue Department, Washington, D. C, and if there is any good reason for replying, the authorities will furnish the information. ADVERTISEMENTS. mDyspepsia quickly relieved and in most cases surely cured by the use of organization anniversary. Over 1000 peo- This scientific icide is abe ple were at the park during the day. | | futely bnmm: it subudue’ the Games, dancing and athletic contests i tion of the mucous mem- were jon the programme of events. brane of the stomach, and by re- B e moving the cause, effects a cure, ° ° *U.if‘d.md recommended by leading phy- waters willsbring the Russian naval force bon:?.: no substitute and see that up to a total .exceeding the combined ooC e bears my signature. Trial size, strength of England, France and Ger- 'gRists or by mail, from many. It will include nine battleships, | six armored cruisers, five protected cruis- ers, two armored gunboats, $ cruisers, two torpedo cruisers, seventeen destroy- ers and twenty-two torpedo-boats. TI personnel comprises three admirals, m! other officers and a total crew of 15,57L | All the ships are in the main of the lat- est type and superior to those of the Biit. ish and French, the latter especially be- ing deficient in armor and gun power. The Japanese navy, however, which is fully up to date, will be able to materially increase the balance of navfl power against Russia with the reinforcements that may be rushed by England, France and Germany. DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. Catalogues and Price Lists Mailed on Applieation. 3 FRESH AND SALT MEATS. Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.» JAS. BOYES & Co. -.-Q“mta-; &. RN I T T T R TG O el 1 Special information supplled danly ?’unu mi:volnl anwul]l:n' Lo ':: ‘Telaphone Mem o O OFFICE, BANK FURNITUE, ETC, GEO. H. FULLER DESK CO. 550, P L G A LRSIATIS. OB, S s e PRINTING. §11 Sansome st & ¥, —_—— Townsend's California gla 3¢ & pound, In artiatle s toar friends. mm&lu 0 two doors above Cals meuirogs | E. C. HUGHES, boxes. 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