The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1903, Page 4

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OAKLAND OFFICE 1118 Breadway...........Telep BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street... .Telephone North GDORGE XROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Adver- tising, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.. .30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON.. Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Uniom Square; Murray El Hotel; Fir enue Hotel and Hoffmen House. e Main 1083 CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Tremont House; Auitorium Hotel; Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE 1406 G St MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner cf Clay. open unt!] $:30 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAliister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untii $:30 oclock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 8 o'clock. 1006 Va- lencis, open untll ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen untll ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. > LESS ACTIVITY IN TRADE. N comparison with the phenomenal activity of the past three or four years, trade is quiet the country. All lines seem to share the ger The Pacific Coast is now doing the best busi- reasons are the weather, ozch of th e appr i thousa leness of tha are now so frequent purchasing f the country has been noticeably impaired, i the diminution in this direction is beginning to and prices. The proposition is sim- thousand m king and lie 1 capacity to purchase goods, and trade ) s off in that section. Extend this ~on- over the United States and the result reover, when trade falls off so do the profits manufacturer and farmer ed, they camr no nd so the consequences of the strike section in a given idle for a few weeks they heir oper- to pay rchant, are re longer afford previous wage: all back upon the very ones that strike. Hence, it 1l be seen vhen there are thousands of small sfrikes scattered all over the United States, as has-been | months, business is bound to suffer by more or less dullness tion prevails to a greater or It is re- the case for mar succeeded ty This cond hroughout country to-day ing off last week being 14 per cent, onding week last year, though the ‘Wall street accounts for a good crease, as the loss at New York was 21.7 York does over hali the busi- of the 1902, coun are runn ast g m being corresponding week last year. is made by the rai those week 196, Tl the at presen oads, far in May txceeding those of the same vear by 12.4 per cent, and thosg of 1901 i ). cent the staples are concerned, there is little mills throughout the country are generaliy time, but forward orders are fewer and ries more easily obtained, showing a of opcrations than has been the rule Provisions are quieter e at Western the packers are no longer aggressively he market on declines. The tendency is toward lower prices. The production of vears stock shows that the volume of trade Another affirmation is the e in the volume of the bank which seldom show a loss Wall Nobody apparently wants to pecel The market re about stationary, the m of one day being offset by a loss on the next. oney is as easy wbody expected that it would | ment in collections is reported om several important parts of the country. Conditions in California continue encouraging, but The ation of stock is still heavy. weekly at Pittsburg, street is e increa clearings 1 duil as be, and some improv ¢ crop cutlook is not as rosy as.a month ago. 1 late spring ra: n the estimates of d hay. they may t ler th: oiiset Nobody now expects heavy crops arn out light. The yield of fruit will last year, but this loss will probably it-handlers anticipate. Nor will iruit rot on the zround tius year for want of hands to pick it up, as the case in many districts last year. (eneral business in California may be classed as The demand for almost all products of the il is eharp and prices for most are above the normal lections are good everywhere, and funds are in irge supply, both in city and country. The interior nd export trade are both active. All the quietness in 1rade lies beyond the Sierra Nevada. tive. The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs is re-| ported to have settled every problem before them ex- cept one, and that is to be made the subject of study and discussion during the summer, so that action may be taken on it at the next State conierénce. It is a perplexing probl and has been submitted in the form of the query, hat shail we do with the men?” but even here there are increasing complaints o:'“ sud- | inued losses in the bank clearings, week | ) | pleteiy is still large, and the fact that there is no ac- | have failed us, and we have had | zood deal of drying wind, which has materially cut | ld of field crops, nolahly! the better prices which both growers and | s | cease. and those birds be added to the list of pro- . | terference on the part of game wardens with the mil- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, THE AUSTRALIAN STRIKE. HE socialistic troubles of New Zealand are ex- | T tending to Australia. In the large island the ‘ Government runs the railways. The employes ! work for the Government. They number thousands, | and by affiliation with the labor unions become sub- ucct to orders from union headquatters, which con- | flict with their obligation as public employes. They are liable at any time to be called out on strike in a quarrel in the building trades, the farm laborers, ?cooks and waiters, or any other division of organized | labor. When so called out the entire railroad service is suspended and transportation and travel are im- possible, y The Government, in view of the serious conse- | quences of such a situation, has ordered them to with- | draw from affiliation with the labor unions, and they | | have refused. They gave the Government a date at | | which to withdraw its order, and as this was not done | they struck. It is said by them that the labor unions | of England and the United States have agreed to give | them financial support, and they enter upon war with | { the Government with their war chests filled from for- | cign lands. } The issue is no doubt entered upon as an experi- ment to test how far employes can go who work on public utilities under Government ownership. The colonial authorities are trying to keep up a passenger | service, crippled and inefficient. Freight | | carriage is entirely snspended, and already a great | increase in the price of food, fuel and other necessa- | ries of life has resulted. | The United States will watch the e¢bb and flow of | the battle with very great interest. If the employes succeed, a great impetus will be given in this country to the policy of public ownership on the part of organ- | ized labor. When industries are in the hands of pri- vate parties or corporations they can appeal to the | Government ister the law in defensc of their | investments and their prope But where universal | suffrage exists, and the Government is the employer, and its administrators are politicians who have to be elected, will Government do for itself directly what it | can do for private individuals or corporations? This question will be partly answered by results in Australia. If the employes win we may expect the whole power of organized labor here to be exerted in favor of Government ownership. That will be wisdom from their standpoint. It natural to seek ends | along the line of least resistance, and if it prove that Government is the weakest employer, then it will be human nature to put all employment in the weakest hands The international feature of the movement is of the keenest interest. England and the United States are the highest wage countries in the world. It seems t their wage scale is sufficiently generous to afford a surplus large enough to support 11,000 railroad em- ployes on strike against the Government in Australia. | If that strike win, the wages paid by the will | | be in turn drawn upon to propagate Government own- | United States and, but to admin coiony | ership in the with that accom- |1I;~l|c<j. to put railway employes here on a war footing | against the Government of the United States. Behind it s the steadily moving and impressive campaign of all governments. is impending in all socialism for the revolution of The breakdown of socialism which New d teaches no lesson to those engaged in the sc st propaganda. They think that elsewhere | they may ke a success of what has been a failure | | there. Men always run aiter that which is new. Novelty | has h a charm that it sometimes induces peopie | to change from a good system to a bad, for no better | reason than that it is an experiment, see if it : and they are ! | curious to will work. | It was supposed By its founders that the ‘Govern- ment of the United States leit men so free to avail themselves of all the opportunities of life that the voice of the leveler would be unheard or unheeded. | But we have received so strong an infusion of im- | that there is a strong and rising tendency to dispute the wisdom of the fathers o gy i e ported id life Another assault has been made upon the sensitive | of Uncle Sam in the A few | Moros had the impudence to make, a few days ago,” | a display of courage. It is hardly necessary to add that an addition has been made to the death-list of Moros. | | R that the Millinery Merchants’ Protective Asso- | ciation and the Audubon Society of the State of New York have reached an agreement which will resuit in the absolute withdrawal from the millinery trade of the species of birds which the Audubon So- ciety and the American Ornithologists’ Union have been working to protect for a good many years past. Hitherto the bird lovers have sought to prevent the | killing of pretty birds for the millinery trade by pro- | | curing the enactment of laws against the killing ‘or | the such birds, but all efforts the kind | have been comparatively futile. The arrangement ! he trade promises at least to be com- Certainly if the trade refuses to use the feathers of such birds for the adornment of | millinery, and refuses purchase them when of-| fered, the practice of killing them by wholesale will ! f be brought to a prompt end. | The report of the agreement says the members of | { the Millinery Merchants' Protective Association have | <plcdgcd themselves to abstain from the importation, Philippines. | | | | dignity | 1 ! MILLINERS AND BIRDS. EPORTS come from New York to the cfl'ec\‘ sale of of made with successful manufacture, purchase or sale of gulls, terns, grebes, humming-birds and songbirds: to publish monthly in the Miilinery Trade Review a notice informing the |m|lIu‘cn trade in general that it is illegal to deal in | those Dbirds, and that no means wiil be spared to con- vict and punish 2l persons who do so: to notify the | millinery trade by printed notices as to what plumage can be legally used: and to mail printed notices to all dealers in raw materials, importers and manufacturers of fancy feathers and to the millinery trade in gen- | eral that all violations of the law will be reported to the proper authorities. It was further agreed that on | and after January 1, 1004, the importation, manufac- , purchase or sale of the plumage of egrets or herons and American pelicans of any species should | hibited species. On their part the members ol the Audubon So- ciety agreed to endeavor to prevent alt illegal linery trade; to refrain from aiding the passage of any legislation that has for its object restrictions -against the importation, manufacture or sale of fancy feathers obtained from domesticated fowls or of the plumage of foreign birds other than those specifically] forbidden. The agreement is to be in force for three years, but it is a foregone conclusion that if the operation result as beneficially as is expected it will be re- newed. By obtaining in this way the co-operation of' the highest class millinery manufacturers of the coun- j try the Audubon Socicty has taken what appears to be! | . direct to the northern ocean, so that during the sum- { ened for the purpose of making effective use of every | truth as ever in | sian and you will find a Tartar,” the wisest course they could have pursued. They have brought over to their side a force that hitherto has been more or less antagonistic to them, and obtained an ally of great importance. The fight now will have to be made against only a small class of more or less unscrupulous tradesmen, and it would seem that vic- tory for the allied forces ought to be easy and com- plete. f ———— Just before adjournment the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture passed a bill raising the salary of chaplains from $3 to $6 a day, and the newspapers say the raise is none too much, considering what a tough job it is to | pray for such men as make up the Legislature. R RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES. SSIA holds to-day the foremost place on the broad stage of world politics. Her Czar is a feeble man in comparison with the Kaiser. Her position with relation to the world is narrow and dis- advantageous in comparison with rhat of Great Brit- ain. Her people are poor, ignorant and stagnant in comparison with those of the United States. Never- theless, she manages to make herself more spectacu- lar than Germany, more aggressive than Britain and more enterprising in many ways than the United | States. Whoever discusses world- politics at all dis- cusses Russia. She is not only the chief factor in every existing problem, but is busily engaged in mak- ing: new problems for the perplexing of statesmen. The range of Russian activity is enormous. Her energies are pressing upon Manchuria in one part of Asia, and upon Persia#in another. At the same time‘ she is absorbing Finland in Northern Europe and menacing- the Balkan states in the south. Each of these movements is accompanied by railway or canal building and by plans for the establishment of spa- cious ports for commercial and naval fleets. North- ward from St. Petersburg enginecers are opening al canal that will give Russia access from her capital mer months her fleets will be able to make their way to the Atlantic without having to pass through the Baltic under the guns of Germany, Scandinavia and Denmark. Should her designs on Persia succeed, she will have a port opening on the Persian Gulf, with easy access to the Indian Ocean, and through the Suez canal to the Meditérranean, without having to pass under the Turkish forts along the Bosporus. At the new city of Dalmy she has already a good port on the Pacific, and can readily play an fimpor- tant part in Pacific politics. Her various railway and commercial enterprises, however, constitute cnly a portion of her activities. She has set about internal reforms of all kinds and | on a most extensive scale. Canals, railroads and good highways are being constructed for the purpose of opening and facilitating communication between the various parts of the empire, and provinces once re- mote from the markets of the world will be brought into speedy communication with the trade centers. The roads will tend to check the famines that so fre quently afflict some provinces, while in others the farmers let grain rot in the fields because there are no buyers. Every form of governmental aid that statesmen | can devise and despotism confer is extended to manufacturing industry. Enterprise of all! kinds is stimulated to the utmost and the sluggish nature of the Russian is roused to an unwonted indus- trial activity. Political reforms have been decreed upon a plan calcalated to further encourage individual initiative and ambition. Thus, while the limits of the empire, are being extended by war or diplomacy, the interior forces are being augnfénted and strength- i advantage that may be gained by expansion. As a result of these various activities we shall prob- ably have in the next twenty-five years something very much like a new Russia, at least so far as out- ward appearance goes. There will remain as much Napoleon's saying. “‘Scratch a Rus but it will not be so | casy to do the scratching. The veneering of civiliza tion will be thicker and the inner Tartar more care- fuily hidden. Russia, in fact, is making ready to play for the lordship of Asia and ior an important place | on the great oceans. Her activities are incessantly | directed to those ends, and it appears there is nothing that can prevent her attainment of them. e i e Recently a young woman was arrested in New York | for driving her automobile too fast. The ncwspapersl describe her as the owner of a miilion and the heiress of further millions, editor, playwright, theatrical manager. amateur actress, daring horse- woman, full-fledged lawyer, trained athlete, society woman and one of the best chauffeurs in America. Truly such a woman should be pardoned the offense of which she is acensed. An auto going at ordinary speed. would not be fast enough to keep up with her. The recent municipal election in Baltimore appears to have been satisiactory to neither side, and now alarmists are asking one aunother, “Is Baltimore trembling on the verge oi a political revolution?” There is no answer to the query, but it seems agreed | that ii the new administration should proceed to in- vestigate things, was done in St. Louis, there would be o on for a good deal of trembling on the verge of revelation. Russian diplomatists are said to be showing some irritation because of the frequency with which they are questioned concerning their intentions in Man- | churia. It never seems to occur to them that they might rid themselves of all such annoyances by mak- ing up their minds to act as they talk and quit saying one thing and doing another. —en It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the Chinese in Chicage are said to be so well pleased over the strike of the laundrymen in that city that they | are thinking of passing a vote of thanks to the unions, and burning punk sticks on their behall before the | biggest joss in the city. a magazine — By way of posting the country on the proper pro- nunciation of her name as an American city, the au- thorities of St. Louis inform the public that it is nof to be pronounced Saint Louee, or Looee, nor even { home or boar Saint Lewis, but “S'nt Louiss.” So there you are. There has just been organized in the East a syndi- cate to finance the founding of no/less than fifty towns along the line of the Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas Railway. The railroad company will grant the sites and the syndicates will do the rest. A sociological expert who has been sfudying the tramp problem says the only cure for the hobo is to | set him to work, and now if he will devise some sure means of effecting that object he will deserve a medal. —— Despite the cordial welcome given by the French to King Edward the visit may have unpleasant results, for it is said the Poet Laureate is to write an ode on the subject. MAY 18, 1903. CLUBHOUSE TO PROVIDE PLEASURE DELAY DUE TO MISMANAGEMENT IN SHIPYARDS The Galveston, building at vard, Richmond, Va., will probably turned over to for completion. The vessel, contracted for December 14, 1589, to be delivered June 14, 1902, is only 66 per cent completed and has remained at this stage since the beginning of the present year. The other five vessels of the Galveston Trigg's class are likewise far behind the contract | | time of delivery, their percentage of com- | pletion being on April 1 in the following order: Cleveland, building at Bath, 94 per cent; Denver, at the Neafle & Levy yard, Philadelphia, 88 per cent; Des Moines, at Fore River, 82 per cent; Chattanoog; the Lewis Nixon yard, Elizabethport, per cent, and the Tacoma, at the Union ron Works, 69 per cent. The causes which have protracted the completion of the Tacoma, were almost entirely absent in the other yards, where strikes have not retarded work to any appreclable extent as at the Union Iron Works. In the Eastern yards the delay is due either to non-delivery of material, precedence given to mercantile work, or incompe- tence on the part of the builders. In tak- ing the Galveston off the hands of the Trigg Company the small profit which may have been anticipated by the build- ers will be entirely wiped away, and with | a further strong probability of increasing the deficit of the defunct company and its bondsmen. There is tention is forts of officers and crew than that of the United States, and the causes which prompt men to desert is not on account of insufficient or poor food. The rations of man-of-wars men are of better quality and more pleatiful than the average tofl- ng mechanic receives at either his own ing place, and if there are isolated instances on board ship where he food is insufficient or improperly ooked the fault is to be attributed to the commissary department and to slack su- no navy in which greater at- | pervision of ihe commanding officers. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, com- mander in chief on the Asiatic station, has directed the attention of the captains | of the several vessels to look after the culinary depariments more closely, the admiral realizing and appreciating the fact that a well-fed crew is more content- ed, better fit for work and less likely to succumb to the sickness and hardships incidental to the service. A prominent London paver recently sug- gested that a national challenge trophy should be subscribed for by the public and offered for annual competition among gunners in the na The suggestion was iaid before the Admiralty, which has re- jected the project with the statement: “This question has been very carefully considered on several occasions during the last few years, and they (the Lord Commigsioners) see no reason for the fur- ther development of a system which, whatever its advantages in certain . di- rections, has been shown (o possess many serious disadvantages. They therefore regret they are precluded from entertain- ing the proposal that prizes should be given to the service afloat, beyond those which are already recognized by the | King's Regulations.” Perlodical complaints are made in the British press that the dockyards are ex- pensive to create, costly to maintain, and because of faulty administration do not give results commensurate with the out- lay. efcient and most notorious. It holds the record for delayed work and vast expend- itures on worthless objects, and while the Admiralty is responsible for the money wasted in repairs and refits of obsolete ships, the yard departments do not act in harmony, the workmen are idling and the result is excess of esti- mated cost and time. Among recent in- stances of money wasted and work de layed is that of the crujser Spartiate, five years under construction and obsolete when finally placed in commission: the curiser Pandora, three years and a half building, and the cruiser Powerful, under Tepairs §or nearly two years. A few years ago $100,000 was expended on the Her- cules, built in 1368, for new engines and boilers, although it was well known that the ship was entirely obsolete and unfit for fighting. She still retains her muz- zle-loading guus, and is not even fit for harbor defense. Several thousand pounds have been wasted on the patriarch of the —the Warrior—built in 1861, to fit her tor a torpedo depot-ship, but the work has been stopped and the ship is swing- ing at her moorings, taking up valuable room, and is only serviceable as a coal hulk. The primary object of dockyards is for purposes of building, repairing and fit- ting out of ships, but this object appears to have been entirely lost sight of in Brit- ish and American navy vards. The clvil engineers place buildings wherever they pleage without regard to accessibility. The size and general construction of said ‘buildings is determined upon by the civil engineers, and the ship building and en- gine construction departments have no voice in the matter. At Devonport orders ‘were given two years ago for building the battleship King Edward VIIL rangement of the yard was found defi- cient for hauling material to the building slip because some one had built a work- shop across the rafiroad leading to the slip, and as a consequence material has to be transported by man labor, as the be | the Norfolk navy yard | which was | paid to the welfare and com- | | limited space does not permit the use of | Portemouth dockyard is the least | | will be a gymnasium, bowling alley, JBHOUSE TO SERVE FOR AND MARINES IN cr o+ JACKIES VALLEJO, Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ALLEJO., May 17.—Now that cornerstone of the propased club- house of jackies and marines has been laid by the .President, the work of construction will be carried on rapidly. The bullding, which is to be conducted by the| women's auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association, will be located at | Santa Clara and York streets. The lot, which Captain McCalla purchased with his Spanish war prize money, is 10 by 150 feet, affording ample space for the erection of a commodious building. There bil- liard tables and a library, besides a sleeping apartment. It will, in brief, con- tain all the equipment of a first-class clubhouse. Mre, B. H. McCalla, wife of Captain McCalla, is earnestly working toward the early completion and success of the project. @ ittt oxen or horses, The old Belleisle is in dock preparing for another experiment to be made next month. A trial will be made of the effect from firing torpedoes against an unar- mored compartment filled with coal. The British battleship Commonwealth, launched May 13 from the Fai fleld shipbuilding yard near Glas- gow, was begun June 17, 1902, and is therefore likely to be completed well within the contract of three years. Five ships of this type and size are building, the King Edward VII and New Zealand, in dockyards, and the Commonwealth, Dominion and Hindustan, by contract. They and Louisiana in the United States nav by 20 tons, and are 425 feet in length, feet beam and displace 18, mean draught of 26 feet 9 inches. The en- gines, of 18,000 horsepower, are calculated to give a speed of 185 kno ‘The main battery is composed of four 12-inch, four 9.2-inch and ten 6-inch guns, and the sec- ondary battery numbers twenty-eight 12- pounders and smaller quick-firers. The normal coal supply is 9%0 tons and the bunker capacity 2000 tons. The estimated cost of the Commonwealth is $6,168,330, to which should be added the cost of guns, making a total cost of $6,614,680. R S The French armored crulser Amiral Aube, built at St. Nazaire by contract, was turned over to the Government for her steam trials on April 15. The build- ing of this ship of 10,000 tons has been re- markably rapid. the keel being lald Au- gust 9, 1901, and the launching taking place May 9, 1902. The steam trials are to be exhaustive and severe, 20,500 hourse- power being required, with a penalty of $40 per horsepower deflclency down to 18,000. Not less than 18,000 horsepower is to be maintained during a three-hours run, during which the coal consumption is not to exceed 348 pounds per square foot of grate surface. A penalty of $200 is imposed for every 204 pounds of coal in excess of 34.8 pounds, and If the herse- power is less than 18,000, or the coal con- sumption reaches 37.89 pounds the ship may be rejected. During a twenty hours run the engines are to develop 10,000 horsepower on a consumption of 165 pounds and not to exceed 1.76 pounds, and on 18,000 horsepower, during a six hours run, the consumption of 1.43 pounds may be stretched to 1.54 pounds. The gun trials are likewise to be thorough, to conclude with® five rounds of full charged fired from each gun. 2 e To stimulate proficiency in gunnery in the German navy money prizes, tithes end other privileges are offered to the crews. The beat marksmen will receive an annual addition to their pay of $50, which will be placed to their credit and paid at the close of the enlistment of three years. If the man chooses to re- enlist for another three years and is accepted he is given three months leave on full pay, or is promoted to the grade of petty officer. His title as an expert gunner is that of “Schuetzencapitulan- tum,” which has the merit of being con- siderably longer and more sonorous that that of admiral. —e—— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mother—*“You naughty boy! You've been fighting.” Little Son—“No,” mother.” “How did your clothes get torn and your face get scratched?’ “I was trying to keep a bad boy from hurting a good little boy.” *“That was noble. Who was the good little boy?” “Me."—Pittsburg Bul- letin. “Are you capable of shooting a man down in cold blood?" said the stage hero, taken at a disadvantage, but looking him fearlessly in the eye. It I'm not,” howled the villain, cock- ing the property pistol and advancing upon him, “what do you suppose the old man is paying me $20 a week for?” the | i @ | exceed in tonnage the Fonnectlc\l!’ FOR BLUEJACKETS AND MARINES/ '|SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS VIOLIN—R., Sonora, Cal. To dateymins it the violin you have is a genuine Cre- mona the instrument would have to be submitted to an expert. CARNEGIE—A. O. 8, City. The ad- dress of Andrew Carnegie was published in The Call's Department of Answers to Correspondents May 12, 1908. DOG HOSPITAL—A. M. A, City. It this correspondent will send a self-ad- dressed and stamped envelops this de- partment will mail the address of a doz hospital. It dces not advertise private concerns. ROOSEVELT—H. M., City. Theodors Roosevelt was a candidate for the office of Mayor of the city of New Yorlk in 1888 as an independent and was indorsed by the Republicans but was defeated in the | election. ROOSEVELT AS A LEGISLATOR-D B. F., City. Theodors Roocsevelt was a member 4f the Assembly branch of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1882, 1883 and 1884. That was the first pub- lc elective office he held. OLD-TIME MURDER—Subscriber, City James Dobson. a sporting character, was shot and killed by John Tyler, one of his own ilk_ near the Capltal saloon or Montgomery street, between Bush and Pine, in the afterncon of July 30, 1870. BELECTRIC CURRENT-T. R. B., City The amount of electricity that a person can take for curative purposes depends entirely upon the condition of the Indi vidual, and that can be ascertalned only after conmsultation .with some ome who makes it a practice to administer elec- trieity. SCAR AND FINGER NAIL-S. 84, City As you do not describe the character of the scar on the face it is !mvflus'h\» to state if anything can bde done to re the blemish. What will be “good to cure a cracked finger nail” depends on the na ture of the crack. A doctor who se the damaged nail will be able to advise A soldier WAR VETERANS-B., City. who served in the Union army during Civil War and was honorabiy discharged can join any of the several Grand Armv posts, and If he served in the Spanish- American war he may join the Snanh American War Veterans ia this ¢ There is 4 post in the Red Men's hulldv ing and the Spanish-American War Vet- erans meet in the Alcazar building. GOVERNOR'S STAFF—D., City. The following are the names of the members of ‘Governor Pardee’s staff. with depari- ment, date of rank. date of cemmission and postoffice address. There are four vacancies, judge advocate general and three aides-de-camp. The list was fur- nished by the adjutant general's affice: Bri r General George Stome, adjutant soneren appointment Jasuary 13, 1008, date of ommission January 13. 1902, Sacramento. Colonel Newton S. Bangham, assistant adju- tant general. appointment May 15, 1899, date of commission May 18, 1869, Sacramento. Colonel Frank A. Va chiet engineer. ap pointment April 29, 1908. date of commission April 29, 1903, San Francisco. Vacant, judge advocate general Colonel Francis E. Beck, paymaster general appointment July 24, 1900, date of commission July 24, 1900, San Franclsco, Colonel Winslow Anderson, surgeon general appointment July 24, 1900, date of commission July 24, 1900, San Francisco. Colonel Thomas Wiihelm, inspector rifle practice, appeintment April 1. 1901, of commission April 3, 1901, San Francisco Lieutenant Colonel Jobn 8. Young, aide camp, appointment Jlnulrv 8 1801, date of commission July 24, San_Francisco. Lieutenant Colonel seem H. Pippy. aide-de- camp. appointment September 30, 1895, date of commissicn October 27, 1566, San Francisco. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Kirkpatrick, atas Lieutenant Colonel E. W. Runyon, aldede- camp, appointment April 14, 1900, date of com- miseion May 4, 1900, Red Bluff. Lieutenant Colonel Robert J. Northam, aide- de-camp, 1900, date of ppointment July 24, don July 24, 1900, Los A: Lieutenant Colonel James B. Lankershim, aide-de-camp, appointment July of_commission July 24, 1900, Los Ange Lieutenant f‘dlnnel Samuel J. Hendy, alde-de- camp, appointment July 24, 1900, date of com. mission July 24. 1 an Franc Lieutenant lonel leuel D. Robbins Sr., alde-de-camp, appointment July 24, 1900, date of commission July 24, 1900, Sulsun. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Wieneke, alde-de camp, appointment September 19, 1902, date of commission September 19, 1902, San Francisco. Lieutenant Colonel Frank M. Chapman, aide- de-camp. appointment October 28, 1902, date of commission October 28, 1902, Covina. 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