The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1903, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1903. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. ..Market and Third, S. F. ..217 to 221 Steven PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Week. ngle Co) s, & Cent Terms by Mail, including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ome year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday;, 6 montbs. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday DAILY CALL—By Single Mont SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year X111t All Postmasters are a rized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Meil subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in ords to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway ++..Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street.........Telephone North C. GEORGE KEOGNESS, Manager Yoreign Adver- (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.) YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEFPHEN B. SMITH. .. ..30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON. . vsss..Herald Square C. C NEW YORK NEWS STANDS Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlfon Square: Murrey Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman Ho BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open wntil $:30 o'clock. 500 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. €33 McAllister, open untfl 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untii #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, cpen until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- lencia, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until ¥ c'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open urtil o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll ® p. m. MORE CONSERVATISM IN TRADE. HILE general trade throughout the country W is unquestionably quieter than for several years past, it is a question whether it is not on a safer and more satisfactory basis than during last two I there is less fever it is because the years. SENATE AND HOUSE. EPORTS from Washington are to the effect R that quite a number of ‘the strongest mem- bers of the House are giving a good deal of thought just now to a consideration of what steps should be taken on the assembling of Congress to uphold the rights of the House against the aggres- sions of the Senate. The issue is an old one, but while it has at times been debated with considerable heat, no real test of strength was ever made between the two houses. Meantime the Senate has steadily | encroached upon what the House regards as its spe- cial domain in the field of legislation, and, according | to the reports, some of the bolder leaders of the | | House are in favor of bringing the issue at once to | | a decisive contest. popular opinion will be that Mr. Train has carried a virtue too far. No man has any right to condemn a physician who gives him milk punch four times a day as a medicine. Such treatment can be pleaded in mitigation even of rooms sprinkled with carbolic acid. ¢ Mr. Train should remember that some doctors would have given him nothing to eat at all. A gare- ful student of the teachings of doctors with respect to food and drink summed up a portion of it in this terse statement: “Drink water and get typhoid. Drink milk and get tuberculosis. Drink whisky and get the jimjams. FEat soup and get Bright's disease. Eat meat and encourage apoplexy. Eat oysters and acquire taxemia. Eat vegetables and weaken the system. Eat dessert and take to paresis. Smoke It will be remembered that at the close of the last | | session of the late Congress the strife between the | two bodies developed such a degree of irritation that { bitter speeches were made on both sides. Mr. Can- | non, who will be in the Speaker's chair when the | issue comes up, was one oi the most outspoken in | denouncing the practices -of the Senate in dealing | with legislation, and declared that an nppropriahoni bill then under consideration in the House had been | | dictated by a single Senator, under a threat that he | | would have it defeated unless a certain appropriation | for his State were accepted by the House. Suchl‘ methods of getting appropriations Mr. Cannon termed “legislative blackmail,” and declared that he | would never again submit to them. | The outburst came too late in the session for any- | thing to be done to make an issue then, but the dis- | cussion of the subject showed radical differences of opinion between the two houses and a seeming reso- | lution on the part of each to yield nothing to the | other. It is in no sense a partisan issue. Cannon’s | attack upon the Senate was denounced in that body by Republicans and Democrats alike, while in the House it was received with tumultuous cheering by | men of both parties. It is apparent, therefore, that if the question be brought to an open conflict each House will be virtually unanimous in support of its | contention. The prominence of Mr. Cannon in the skirmish of | last spring was not due to accident. He has long | been known as an opponent of Senatorial aggres- | sion, and on many previous occasions had spoken | emphatically on the subject. With Mr. Cannon as | Speaker the House will then have a leader who is| cordially in favor of a decisive struggle. That fact | may have something to do with the discussion now | going on as to the best means of conducting lhei fight upon the part of the House, since Cannon’s | Speakership offers the House an opportunity making the fight under a leader whose vigor is Ol.; for | i manufactured goods cigarettes and die early. Smoke cigars and get ca- tarrh. Drink coffee and obtain nervous prostration. Drink wine and get the gout. In order to be entirely healthy, one must eat nothing, drink nothing, smoké nothing. and even before breathing one should see that the air is properly sterilized.” Such are the facts concerning the case of George Francis Train and his doctors. "We record the pro- test as a part of the life of one of the most original all time, but in doing so must do justice to Ir. Train milk, eggs and Could human kind- men the doctors. They gave whisky and called it medicine. ness go further? British Columbia is showing the most encourag- ing signs that she has felt the American spirit of progress, enterprise and unrest which makes so much for the general good of everybody. She has thrown out her Premier and has a lovely political row on her hands. MORE SHIPS NEEDED CCORDING to estimates of the Treasury Bu- A reau of Statistics the total international com- merce of the world amounts in value to about $4,000,000000 a year. Of that vast trade Great Britain has about 25 per cent, Germany 20 per cent, France 12 per cent, while the United States has but 10 per cent. That our share of the world’s trade is unduly small s evident upon the face of the figures given, and it is apparent that there must be some potent force at work to give Great Britain and Germany so much larger percentages than our own. In natural re- sources, in skill and in industry we are the greatest of the nations. We contribute to international trade an enormous export of raw materials, foodstuffs and every year, and we are capable of largely increasing the amounts. We have nearly 000,000 people engaged in manufacturing 7 in- the great banking interests have been keeping the | the greatest and whose fidelity to the cause of ‘hc‘duqries. and in nearly all lines of endeavor there is heavy plungers in check for nearly a year and did not allow them to flood the market with a great ty of nmew schemes glittering = with promised ts, but which are never more than half floated as It is only far as the purchasing public are concerned. a vear ¢ ago that almost any rainbow-hued enter- prise could enter the market, issue bonds, sell shares atioh of millions and a pretentious disposing of a fair amount of stock, ac and with succeed ) field t and the banks have become surfeited with these rain- bows, each with the mythical pot of gold at its base, and nger give them unlimited countenance. The country has been passing through a period of liguidation, especially in the leading financial mar- ing which vast lines of stocks have been at declining quotations, and there are hand several ties of ‘‘undigested securities” r buyers. We fast are now sensibly proceeding at a more The gratifying feature of ense liquidation is that it has been accom- on went too for years and liberate safer pace. s disaster or convulsion of the There have been few re- and the to be street that if the end of the liquida- ched it is not far off. Already e brokerage houses are sending out tips to to the rallies, but in the plished w finances of th seems impression growing buy on same breath they hedge by advising them to take their profits on the “swel which shows that while the sentiment is less bearish than it has been, there still ¢ iderable pessimism and a commendable on. In fact, the whole country has be- come as cautious as it was cheerfully reckless a year or thing that it has Caution is an excellent preventive of future disaster, and as long as the business of the country is con- spirit of two ago, and it is a good ducted on these lines we shall probably go along smoothly, even if we do not make as much money. In the absence of any sensational happenings in speculative or industrial markets the attention of the b iness elements of the country has been- directed o the crop prospects, which form the basis of all The branches of trade recent floods in the South- done a great deal oi damage. is limited, and the condition itself is west have loubte the too cause more than a ripple on the com- mercial expanse. Within the past week, however, the prospects of the wheat crop have deteriorated in the States of the ddle West, especially in Missouri, where the June condition of the crop is given at 69, a decline of 17 st of May. This is a serious falling ofi, and has resulted in a decided apward t cy in wheat at Western trading cen- ters. To offset this, however, the crops of the Pa- cific Coast have, during the same period, shown per- ceptible improvement, thanks to the cool weather, which has filled out the grain, which threatened to be badly shrunken, so the net resuit has undergone serious modification points since the Considering the country as a whole, the harvest will be abundant and the great trunk railroads wi be kept busy transporting grain and other produce 21l the fall. This condition” is imparting more or iess confidence to railroad shares and their dependent nterests, and is having a beneficial effect on the New York stock market, which otherwise would be in 2 weak and unsatisiactory state. Even as it is, it is none too steady, being characterized by frequent relapses, many of them too pronounced for the peace of mind of both investors and speculators. The general complexion of commercial reports in- dicates a slackening in the demand for goods of all kinds and a correspondingly slow decline in prices, _potably in iron and steel, provisions, live stock, some descriptions of textile goods, etc. Sporadic labor disturbances, too, some of them large, but most of them smeall and local, assist in the pruning of busi- ness, both as to volume and profits. The cost of living is still high, but it bids fair to become less from now on, as the country evidently reached the crest of its purchasing power some time ago. Money, hiowever, is still abundant and collections are fairly casy, while the fecling as a whole is one of calm confi- dence throughout the country. The commercial and financial tone of Europe, too, has become much im- proved during the past few weeks, resulting in beneficial effect upon trade es have changed. Both the public | | House cannot be doubted. In reviewing the discussions of the House leaders and the probable course to be taken by them to | bring the controversy to a distinct issue, the Wash- | ington reports say: “Two important legislative mat- | ters with which the House next winter will have to | { deal, and which the Senate leaders are said to show | la disposition to arrange in advance for the House, | | were discussed by the members in consultation here | | in the last few days. These are the Cuban reciprocity treaty and the proposed financial legislation. The | House leaders are said to resent the manner in which | {the Senftors who have been in H(ytf | Springs, Va., recently, have assumed to forecast the | | sort of financial legislation that will be enacted at | this winter's session of Congress. The members of | | the House declare the Senate wiil find, when Con- | gress meets, that the lower body will be inclined to| have a great deal to say about the shape this legisla- | | tion shall take. In dealing with the Cuban reciprocity | treaty, also, the House leaders intimate that their | body will take a position quite independent of the Senate. They will treat the reciprocity proposition | | as if it were a matter that had originated in the House ‘ and not act on it mer session at in a perfunctory way as | something that had already been determined in the | Senate. This would indicate that the House leaders | are inclined to go into an debate, not only on the constitutional function of the House in exhaustive | framing of reciprocity treaties, but on the whole sub- | ject of reciprocity. 135 | % The if strongly maintained by i each side, will be the most interesting parliamentary battle in our history and one of the most important in*all history. It has been noted by students of po- | | litical affairs that the Senate has been encroaching not only on the House but on the executive, and has attained at the present time an extraordinary in- fluence in the machinery of government. It appears | evident, therefore, that unless the House be content to become a mere subordinate chamber a fight for its vailits cannot be iwech louger postponed’ | issue, raised and A Tammany orator, addressing a conierence of dis- | | trict leaders, told them that to succeed in politics a district leader must be not only honest, but above suspicion; and now Mark Twain must look to his work if he expects to hold the reputation of being the greatest American humorist. NLY a short time ago New York dispatches announced that George Francis Train was | | so weak and ill that his death might occur 2t any moment. If that report were true, his recovery | ! must have been very rapid, for there now comes irom him a protest exhibiting so much of his old- time vigor that it may be surely said of him he is | alive and kicking like a bay steer. | It appears the old fighter was sufficiently sick to enable the doctors to treat him as they pleased, with- | out consulting either his erratic taste or his almost ! occult wisdom, for his first words on recovering the power of untrammeled speech were to denounce them ! and all their ways. He is reported as saying to them: “I am surprised to find my so-called medicated food (five glasses of milk each day for four days) doctored with alcohol, never having tasted poisonous liquor. To save you from blame, I decline to take any more. My special nurse told me she had put an egg in the glass. Now, I have touched no animal food for three decades, and here are two poisons which to me are deadly; besides, I cannot take up a newspaper without being met with an instance of carbolic acid poisoning, and yet each day the nurse sprinkles my floor several times with this poison diluted. I believe the poison to be absorbed by the 7,000,000 pores of the skin. George (this is a boy attendant) hangs two curtain sheets soaked in formaline at my door. The nurse alsc sponges me all over with carbolic acid. Having taken no medicine in half a century, I am immune from sickness. Unless I can have a bit of toast, oatmeal and fruit, I-will eat nothing.” . The American people never fail in sympathy for the sick. We are the most tender-hearted of people. It is difficult for our juries to convict a murderer even when of the deepest degree of depravity. More- over, on general principles we approve of almost any one who demounces his doctor. Still, in this case the | i | | S ——— ; TRAIN'S LATEST PROTEST. { 1 felt urgent need of larger markets for the products of our mills. With all that capacity and material for trade, however, we fall behind the Brit- ish and the Germans and get only 10 per cent of the whole. = The sole cause of our comparatively low rank in the scale of exporting nations is our lack of a mer- chant marine sufficiently strong to carry our trade and find wider markets for our goods. British su- periority over us may be due in some measure to the fact that she has preceded us in the world’s mar- kets, but Germany as a commercial nation is a new comer. She has nothing like our wealth and variety of native resources, neither has she a manuiacturing industry equal to ours. Her astonishing success in building up a foreign trade that closely rivals that of Great Britain is due to the wisdom of her Govern- ment in promoting German ship-building and the maintenance of a fleet of German merchant vessels carrying on trade in all parts of the world. With proper legislation at Washington in favor of American shipping we could soon equal Britain and Germany, and surpass them at a date not far dis- tant, but without such legislation we shall have to an go on indefinitely paying tribute to foreign ship- owners and permitting foreign exporters to hold ';upremm‘_\r over us in the great markets of com- merce. It is a significant fact that even in South America our Furopean rivals are surpassing us. In the rions South American countries there are upward of 50,000.000 people, and yet our entire export of manuiactured goods to them last year was valued at less than $20,000,000. To Canada, whose population is barely 6,000,000, we sold fully three times as much as to all South America. Our trade with Canada is carried on mainly by railroads, and the absence of a merchant marine cuts little figure, but we have no railway communication with the South Ameri- can states, and accordingly in that trade the absence of shipping is a very important factor in the problem. We justly boast of our prosperity and of the vigor of our industries, but the showing of a beggarly 10 per cent of the world’s international trade is not a thing to boast of. The treasury figures serve to re- mind’ us that there remains something to be done before we can challenge comparison in every respect | with the nations of the Old World, and that is the enactment of legislation which will give our mer- | 5 | chant vessels a chance to compete on equal terms with the vessels of other nations for the world’s trade. When that is provided we shall speedily ad- vance to the foremost place in commerce and ma- terially promote industry by providing bigger mar- kets for the products of industry. e _ ] So many calamities have occurred near at home of iate that but little attention has been given to the earthquake in the valley of the Euphrates a short time ago. Late reports are to the effect that it de- stroyed several villages and one considerable town, killing more than 2000 people within a few minutes. Evidently all the storm centers are not on this side of the globe; there are troubles elsewhere. When Califgrnians are determined to shout, hoorah and grow patriotic a little thing like a Presidential veto upon their 'bubbling enthusiasm may delay it but certainly cannot kill it. The fireworks, bombs and general pyrotechnics intended for the delight of President Roosevelt during his stay in the Yosemite will; by order of the Commissioners, illuminate the valley after all. Our County Clerk has demonstrated a most un- usual versatility in transacting the business of the public in a variety of ways in which it should not be done. It should be a task involving neither time nor labor for some one to discover just what this offi- cial has done rightly since assuming the emoluments but not the responsibilities of office. The rivalry to obtain street railway franchises in the cities of Southern California is fast approaching the stage where we may expect to hear that Grand Jury investigations may be found necessary to clear the atmosphere. Dealing with Town Councilmen on railroad affairs is a very delicate and sometimes dangerous undertaking. f TREES MINGLE ABOVE THE BLOSSOMS BRIDAL COUPLE POPULAR YOUNG LADY OF | GILROY WHO WAS MARRIED | YESTERDAY TO MERCHANT. | | | | ILROY, June 7.—The marriage of Miss Genevieve Blake and Rob- ert Lee Mayock took place to- day at noon at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and, Mrs. F ‘W. Blake, in this city. It was an inter- esting society event, on account of the prominence of the couple. The ceremony was performed cn a lawn between magnolia® and syringia trees, PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. W. , a Judge F. Oster of San Bernardino is at the Palace. Dr. W. A. Wickline, U. §. A, is at the Occidental. ’ Dr. J. Parker Dillon, U. 8. A,, is at the California. 0. Robinson, a of Colusa, is at the Grand. S. Phillips, a merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. P. Musto, a merchant of Siskiyou Coun- ty, is at the Grand. M. Lewis, a merc a guest of the Russ. Dr. and Mrs, L. W. are at the California. M. H. Heinrici, a_druggist of Eureka, and wife are at the Lick Dr. H. St. Claire Elliott of London is registered at the Palace. H. P. Clark, a business man of Fresno, Is registered at the Lick. §. H. Corbett, a wealthy lumberman of Saginaw, is at the Palace. F. M. Buck, the well known fruit man of Vacaville, is at the Lick. J. T. Matthew, a merchant of Los An- geles, is stopping at the Grand. w. kelumne Hill, is at the Palace. Dr. I. E. Cohn of the Napa Insane Asylum is stopping at the Palace. Railroad Commissioner A. C. Irwin and daughter of Marysville are at the Lick. S. N. Griffith, who Is interested in elec- tric enterprises in Fresno, is at the Palace. General A. W. Barrett returned from a business trip to the south last evening and is registered at the California. —_—— e PUPILS OF PRESENTATION CONVENT RECEIVE DIPLOMAS Many Gold Medals Are Awarded to Young Ladies for Their Work. The graduating exercises of the Presen- tation Convent were held last Thursday afternoon at the school on Powell street. An excellent literary programme was ren- dered by the pupils. The exercises were attended by a large crowd of the young ladies’ parents and friends. Among the clesgymen present were Fathers Caraher, Redehan, McGough, O'Connell, Chadwick, Quielle, Jose, Heffernan and Moran. Grad- uation honors were conferred upon Miss Margaret G. Flynn and Miss Charlotte de Andreis. The gold medal for Christian doctrine was awarded to Miss Dessie Gallitan. Miss Lillian Beaumont received the gold medal for church history, and Miss May Rosa was awarded a gold medal for ex- cellence in church history. The silver medal for music was given to Miss Marie Bardet. The following young ladies were awarded medals for special studies: Miss Margaret Flynn, Miss Mary A McFadden, Miss Emily Chesworth, Miss Alma McNulty, Miss Emily Messmer and Miss Teresa Wallace. ———e EDWARD SWEENY OF SEATTLE TAKES BRIDE IN NEW YORK His Nuptials With Miss Jessie L. Gair Are Celebrated in East- ern Metropolis. The announcement has heen mage cf the marriaze in New Yor' on June 1 of Miss Jessie Louise Gair of that city to Edward Francis Sweenv of Seattle. The happy coudle left for rn- Wast immedi- ately after the ceremony to take up their residence in the home of th: groom. The bride is the daughter of Robert Gair of New York, a_we'! known busi- ness man of the metropolis. Sweeny, the groom, is the son of a vprominent mer- chant of Seattle. He is well known in this city as a traveling salesman fcr h's father’s business concern. Many friends of the groom in this city sent their Pelicitations t» the happy couple. druggist Moore. of Antioch e e After studying and photographing more than 40,000 vairs of ears of persons, in- cluding those of 2000 insane and 800 crimi- nals, and those of 300 animals, an Eng- lish criminologist is forced to conclude that the ear gives no clew to personal traits. Stitt of Vacavllle is at (‘19' merchant of Newman, is at ant of Pescadero, is | T. Robinson, a mining man of Mo- | | which form a natural arch of fragrant | blossoms Mendelssohn's “Wedding | March” was played by Mrs. Hecker on | the violin and Mrs. Minnie Rives on the | plano. The bridesmaid was Miss Ethel | Cameron and Wili F. Blake acted as best Miss Amy Gregory of Centerville, sang “Beauiy's s" prior to the arrival of the bridal party. The Rev. Dr. | Conn of the Presbyterian Church officiat- | | ed. Fifty intimate friends and the rela- | | tives of the counle were present. The bride is the youngest daughter of F. W. Blake of the Gilroy Advocate and a | native of Gilroy. Mr. Mayock is a promi- | nent business man here. The couple, after | a short honeymoon, will return to Gilroy. I'ANSWERS TO QUERIES. H., SULPHUR Sulphur becomes | about 212 degrees Fahrenheit. | S uniag | H. Livermore, Cal | CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION SHARES —A Subscriber, Keswiek, Cal. Shares of | the Centennial exhibition of 1876 are not on the market at this time, consequently | are not quoted. 1 WINDOW SEAT—A 8., CIty. The eti- quette of traveling requires that when a | gentleman accompanies a lady on a rail- | way train he should always offer her the | window or inner seat. Any first class | book seller can procure for you a book | that will give the weights of jockeys. The | California.Jockey Club - has published | rules and regulations on the subject. JOCKEYS City. SALE OF LIQUOR-—Subscriber, Bitter- water, Cal. The sale of liquor is regulat- | ed by the ordinances of the county. The case cited in letter of inquiry should be submitted to the District Attorney of the county. CALIFORNIA MAP—T. M., Hayward, Cal. If a person has otfered you the price stated in letter sent to this depart- ment for a ‘“memoir map of California’ by Cadwalader Ringold, U. 8. N., 1851, ac- | cept it. COPPER COMPANY-S8. P, Covelo, Cal. For information relating to a cop- per company in El Dorado County, Cali- fornia, address a letter of inquiry to the State Mining Bureau, Ferry building, San_ Francisco. STAMPS—J. R., City. The so-called lan- guage of stamps Is only an agreement between two persons who may wish to correspond as to what meaning shall be applied to the placing of stawmps In a cer- tain manner on an envelope. REFORM SCHOOLS-B., City. There is a reformatory for boys at lone, a re- tormatory for boys and girls at Whittler, in this State. A communication ad- dressed to the superintendent of either will be answered in the matter of the in- formation desired. RATTLERS—A Subscriber, Keswick. Cal. The best thing to do in case a per- son is bitten by a rattlesnake is to suck the bite, or have some one do so, as soon as the bite is felt, in order to draw the poison from the wound; then take a large dose of whisky. SCHOOL TEACHERS—B., City. Rules governing those who wish to become teachers in the public schools of San Francisco can be had from the secretary of the Board of Education. Information relative to the teachers’ salaries can also be obtained there. PENUCHLE-F. P., City. In double pe- nuchle the party who claims that “when one wants to meld 300 penuchle he must lay down the two jacks of dlamonds and two queens of spades together”” is right. He is not required to “first meld 4 (ack | and queen of spades) and then the 300 | after.” OUTCROPPINGS—Subscriber, Keswick, Cal. 1f you send outcroppings to the State Mining Bureau, Ferry building, San Franglsco, Cal., you will be informed without cost as to what the sample con- tains, but the bureau will not furnish an assay. If you desire an assay, so as to know the value of the sample, you must ! send the same to some assay office, and you will have to pay for the information. GOLD AND SILVER—C. H. M., River- side, Cal. Imitation of gold is made as follows: Fuse together 8 parts platinum, 5 parts pure copper, 2 parts pure zinc and 3 parts pure lead, using saltpeter, salam- moniac and powdered charcoal as fluxes. Ormulo or mosaic gold is copper and zinc in equal parts melted together at the lowest possible temperature at which cop- per will fuse and stirred so as to produce a perfect admixture of the two metals, and then adding gradually small portions of zinc at a time until the alloy acquires the proper color, which isperfectly white in the melted state. The allov should contain 5 per cent of zinc. Imitation silver is composed of 56 per cent copper, 40.64 per cent nickel, 2 per cent tungsten ! and .5 per cent aluminum. It s a metal that is white, ductile, malleable, tenacious and sonorous and has a high luster. I captain, | occupants of the crew s | deck must get along with 192 cublec feet | to each man. utilized for other purpases. ! the liquid when heated to |- | tions which loosened WASTING SPACE IN UNCLE SAM’S SHIPS OF WAR Engineer in Chief Melville contends that German battleships are as whole more efficient than those of the United States. Other Bureau chiefs, while not agreeing with Mr. Melville, entirely concede that onr ships earry weight in the shape of unnecessary luxuries which could be dispensed with and if incorporated into additional strength of hull, coal and other desirable uses would materially improve the efficiency of the large ships. Chief Constructor Bowles estimates that the battleships carry 3% tons weight of ma- terfal which he classifies as pure lux- uries from the military point of view, among which are certain kinds of furni- re, lce machines, radiators, etc. For example, more space and weight is al- lowed on board ships in our navy to the Imiral and commanding officer than in any other navy. On a British flagship the ndmiral has only one portable bath tub, o stationary tubs for our rear The weight of the speclal ac- ons for the commander in chief The against tw admirals. commodati and his staff aggregate fifty tons. allotment of spaces are likewise extravi gant in the case of the rear admiral and the former having no less than feet and the latter 5120 cubic 8927 cubic v This is on the bat- teet apportioned. tleship Alabama. The messroom and staterooms, occupied by twelve ward- room officers, contains 13,510 cubic feet, giving an average of 112§ cubic feet to each of these officers. Eight warrant of- ficers have 753 cubic feet to each, while 134 of the crew sleepnig on the berth deck have an average of 300 cubic feet and 425 ace on the guil ontents The entire cubical of living spaces amounting to 198,302 cubie feet is apportioned as follows: Rear Ad- miral and captain 14374 cubic other officers 43,067 cybic feet: 122,98 cubic feet; officars. sick-ba shops and prison 17,956 cubic feet. thirteenth part of the living space is re- served for the two principal officers of which at least 3000 cubic feet might be Yet, though some of the alleged luxuries could un- doubtedly be dispensed with without de- | creasing the comfort of officers and crew. it is highly improbable that a reduction of 350 tons could be made without making ship practically uninhabitable. The argument advanced that this weight util- ized in additional coal would increase the radius of action 30 per cent, will not bear analysis. In order to increase the bunker capacity 350 tons an entire replanning of the vessel would be necessary, as space to the extent of about 14,000 cublc feet would have to be provided for in order to carry the increased coal supply The balance floating dock at the Ports- mouth, N. H., navy yard, built of wood in 1 is still in fair condition and fit for service. The Reina Mercedes, a cruiser of 209 tons displacement captured during the late war with Spain, was successfully docked last month. The vessel weighed about 1300 tons, and the dock could safely lift 2000 tons. When tested for acceptance in 188 it lifted the old line-of-battleship Franklin, weighing 2300 tons. The first cost was $437,3%5. R The British armored eruiser Euryalus, just completed, has had so many vicissi- tudes and accidents since the laying of her keel as to fairly entitle her to be called the hoodoo ship the British navy. She returned to the Ply- mouth dockyards during the first week of May to have additional stays fitted to the condensers on account of excessive vibra the ferrules of the main condensers. This is the fifth acci- dent to the ship, the others being: The ship nearly gutted by fire while lying ak a pler; tumbling off the blocks while in dock and smashing her bottom plating; port engin found to be out of aligne ment; leaky condensers on her first steam trial and now the present trouble. The Euryaius s of 12,000 tons, 21,000 horse power and 21 knots speed and is the last of six ships of the same type to be com- pleted. Her cost, exclusive of armament was $3,833,7%. ’ The cruiser Spartiate, 11,000 tons, 15,653 horsepower and 21 knots speed, has madé a remarkable good passage to Hongkong and earned the distinction of being the most economical ship in the British navy. Her coal consumption for the trip out from England was only 2600 tons on an average speed oi 13 knots, giving 3.7 knots per ton of coal for the distance of 3000 miles. The Amphitrite, a sister ship, consumed 3%90 tons over the same length of distance at 13 knots, and the Blenheim, of 9000 tons, built ten years ago, burned 4000 tons of coal with an average speed of 12 knots. The cru.ser Hermes started May 12 for a seventy-two hours’ trial of her new Babcock and Wilcox bollers, the result of which will be looked for with much interest in the British and American navies, as most of the ships in the latter navy are to be fitted with the boller re- ferred to. ¥ iave The Austrian coast defense ship Arpad, credited with a speed of 196 knots, is bevond doubt the most efficient and fastest battleship of her class in any navy. Austria has built three of these second-class bat- tleships, namely the Habsburg, Arpad and Babenberg. They are of 5340 tons dis- placement and have water-line belts of Krupp armor of S inches maximum thickness. Their main batteries consist of three 9.4-inch and twelve 5.9-inch guns, but their coal capacity of $40 tons is of eourse limited, as the ships are not in- tended for extended cruising. Their cal- culated speed was 18 knots with 11,000 horsepower which was exceeded by the Habsburg by 1.60 knots and in the Arpad by 1.65 knots. The Babenberg is not yet completed. The average cost of each of these highly successful ships about $3,200,000, and they have all been built by contract. —_——— Raisin Growers Sign Contract. WOODLAND, June 7.—The Woodland Sultana Ralsin Growers’ Assoclation has signed a packing and selling contract with Guggenhime & Co. for this season’'s crop. ‘The association has the right under the contract to set the price at which the crop may be sold and also the right to termi- nate the contract under conditions. 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