The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1903, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Keatucky, cpes uotll § o'clcck. 2200 Fillmore, open umtil § o'clock, 0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER | C2ll subseribers comtemuiating & chamge of e during the summer months can have warded by msil to their new otifying The Call This paper will aise be on sale at all summer resorts «nd s represemted +y & local agemt im on the coast. = -2 all tow [ Q O B B = w Q - e e 7] ] o » » b trade last week. t the country ex- increased activity an T with goods reported all over the which are in- aness, 1 street stocks, - (or supposediy so) by these were weak and de- body apparently knowing why. This par- tion of frade hardly ever occurs. » mokt astute financiers pretended to Jast week's marked weakness in the For several days the whole conditio market and railroad shares declined and professi support failed to ation. Guesses were numerous, but | g The general supposition n was not vet over, as previously is about as good an explanation The Government crop report and the per- hoor threshing returns from the wheat belt, minating in the issuance of the report which | a wheat crop of than . 700,000,000 | bushels, againsf! an expected showing- of - 750,000,000 { or 800,000,000 2 month or two ago, might have had something to do with the depreciation, but this is us nal sses. 101 less . as said before, general trade made a better exhglyt than several months. The retail trade n ‘mvrcr goods showed marked improvement, with many reorders; the wholesale business brightened up under larger orders from the jobbers and practically sure prospects of abundant harvests gave the whole situation a brighter aspect. The improvement was er than special, for taken individually ~onditions did not appear especially encouraging. In | the first place iron and steel were dull, unsettled and ; not over firm, while provisions persisted in bciné# weak at Chicago in spite of the attempts of the | packers to hold up the market. Both-of these com- modities are accepted as very good barometers of There was an advance in raw wool, but no | general ra | 1 trade other staple showed any improvement in quotations, while 2 number declined. Still, the tenor of the commercial reports was uniformly cheerful and the impression seemed to prevail that the commerce of the country, both foreign and domestic, was in pretty good condition in spite of the pessimism of the past several months. This cheerful confidence in the fu- | ture is about as difficult to explain as the decline in the New York stock market. Nobody seems able to give a satisfactory reason for either. Taking up the great stapies of the country seriatim and cog- | sidering them from all sides give no grounds for | either optimism or pessimism, for regarded in this | spect general business remains precisely as for a ! month or so back. The bank clearings show very | little fluctuation from week to week, the percentages | of gains and losses as compared with corresponding | periods in 1902 being small. Last week there was | 4 gain of 7 per cent. Next week may show a loss | of the same per cent. Thus the tide of business | flows on week after week. The failures last week | were 104, against 103 last year. The railroad earn- ings in June were 13 per cent larger than in June, | 1902, and 25.3 larger than in 1901. As to the plane of quotations, Dun’s index number showed a slight { advance in June, being $90.456, against $98.936 in:' May. This is a change for the better, as this index number has been slowly traveling down hill for some months. As compared with July, 1902, there is a decline of 2.4 per cent, chiefly in articles of food. | Locally there is not much change in conditions. | Almost everything that the farmer produces is bring- i ing good prices under light stocks. This is true of | wool, hops, hides, cattle, sheep, hogs, dried fnlit,i butter, cheese, eggs, wheat, barley, oats, corn, rye,! beans, hay, and in fact practically the whole range of farm produce. This being the case good times prevail in California as a natural result. The whole- salers report a good demand for merchandise, both ! for local, interior and export account, the banks have plenty of money to loan at reasonable rates of interest, real estate is moving very well at firm prices and collections are good. The crops, as far as the harvest has progressed, are turning out well, and from present indications we are to have another , year of prosperity. | Cleveland at Buzzard's Bay | of Grover Cleveland will be is ‘duty.” | beneficent tariff adjustment. { which tariff reform is made the chief issue. CLEVELAND AGAIN. ESPITE the well nigh universal opinion that Cleveland cannot be seriously considered as a. candidate for the Presidency next year, the D Brooklyn Eagle insists he will be by all odds the ! strongest figure in the Democratic convention and will have a fair prospect of carrying the country. In confirmation of its views the Eagle has recently | printed a long letter on the subject from a corre- spondent who writes from the summer home of Mr. Of the letter the Eagle says in a double-leaded editorial: “The statements which the correspondent makes are interesting, im- portant and suggestive, and are quite likely to prove historical. cannot be. They will not be misunderstood and for the same reason. They will not be underestimated by any intelligent politician, by any enlightened statesman, or by any thoughtful citizen. Nor can they be easily overestimated, for their significance is unmistakable and unescapable.” With that declaration by way of introduction the article commands attention. The correspondent does not assert positively that Mr. Cleveland will be a candidate, but intimates as much. He says: “The keyword to a determination of what the course Ii in the de- velopment of events it can be made to appear to him | that it is a duty which he owes to the party and to the country, those who know him well anticipate he will accept another nomination and obey the call. | He recognizes the obligations of duty as few men do. It means much to him, and it will be with him as in the past, swaying with him. All those then | who wish an answer to the question can find it in watching the development of the political situation of the next nine months.” The writer goes on to say further that the friends | of Mr. Cleveland are not asking him to declare his | position at this time. Those who are trying to get | an answer from him, or who are making demands on him for a declaration of his intentions, are his op- ponents. He quotes “a man who knows Mr. Cleve- land as well as one can know another.” as saying: “Such demands can only confirm Mr. Cleveland in his determination to remain silent during these days of development. enough Adam in the former President to refuse to | gratify them by an expression. Ii he were to signify that he would accept a nomination they would imme- diately lift up a great shout that they had smoked him out; if he were to say that he would not take a nomination, they would declare with a flourish of trumpets that they had driven him off. he might say would be tortured to suit their ends.” The sort of developments which are expected by ! Mr. Cleveland’s friends to bring him back into ac- tive political life are those which lead to a “rehabili- | tation of the party in the esteem of the people, bring k to old and tried principles and cast off the errors and sophistries that have led it into disaster and nearly into destruction.” If that view be correct it is by no means improba- ble that Mr. Cleveland may be the nominee of the | party, for it is unquestionable that in the South and in the West the drift of Democratic sentiment + clearly in the direction of Clevelandism as against Bryanism. That tendency has been demonstrated in well nigh every Democratic State convention of the year, and has been further revealed in the expressions of newspapers and of Democratic leaders. In fact Bryan by his assumption of dictatorial powers in the party has alienated thousands who might otherwise have supported him, and it is now becoming ques- tionable whether he will be able to control even so much as an important faction in the national con- vention. As to Cleveland's relation to the révolt against Bryanism the writer says: “He looks with leniency and equanimity on the use of his name in giving direction -to the movement within the party which cannot fail to aronse among its members an old time love and enthusiasm for the creed of pure Democ- racy.” Then follows this statement: “In various utter- ances, by tongue and pen, Grover Cleveland has lejt | the party and indeed the country in no doubt as to what should be the future policy of the Democratic party and what principles it should espouse. Disin- clined to talk to interviewers, at least on his own re- lation to the party, he has been free to speak of party principles. He regards tariff reform as the most important issue and believes that the best as- surance of success in the coming campaign is an insistence upon its old-time doctrine of a fair and He believes thousands who have not declared irrevocably their party affilia- tions await an opportunity to espouse a cause in second to this is administrative reform, and in the recent disclosures at Washington this question has gained an' importance it had not a few months ago in the public mind. Sound money should be an affirmative declaration and the present financial sys- tem perfected by the necessary legislation.” Such is the understanding of the attitude of Cleve- land by those who are near to him and are in com- munication with his closest friends. Cleveland should not be urged into making a de- cisive statement at this time. ing game. It appears as if everything were moving in their direction, and that they have nothing to do but to sit still and let the nomination come to Cleve- land without effort on his part or on theirs. It is certainly an interesting situation, and the Eagle is fully justified in pressing it upon the attention of the | plublic. Records of the police court indicate very clearly that wife-beating is something of a pastime in this city among certain classes of human brutes. It is to be regretted that the whipping-post, under such con- ditions, is not also among us. A GREAT CANAL SCHEME. ERMANY'’S rapidly increasing power on the G seas has convinced British naval authorities that something will have to be done to safe- guard the British islands from a possible attack from the north. To that end steps were taken some time ago to establish a strong naval base of supplies on the Scottish coast. Large appropriations for the purpose were voted by Parliament and a site selected {at St. Margaret’s Hope on the Firth of Forth. It is a familiar truth that the undertaking of one work compels the undertaking of another. The new naval station is no exception to the rule. The establishment of such a base of supplies on the east coast of Scotland has raised at once a desire for a means of speedy transportation of large ships from the west coast to the east. The Caledonian canal is too small for such purposes, and moreover it is not sufficiently direct for the desired object. The [Govemm},there&on has decided to lend its aid They will not be questioned because they | And, indeed, I imagine there is | Whatever | is | Hardly | They hold that i It is with them a wait- | ilo a long discussed project of Scottish business en- | terprise, and 2s a consequence plans are now being | made for the opening of a deep canal capable of affording passageway to the largest ships afloat from ! the Clyde to the Forth. The proposed water way will be about forty miles | long, but some ten miles of that distance will be thfough Loch Lomond. The estimated cost is about | $50,000,000. - The money required for a careful sur- vey of the route and for obtaining approximate cal- culations as to construction has been deposited by | a syndicate that purposes to undertake the work, | be submitted to the public in November. | Naval authorities are quoted as saying the canal will be of the highest strategic value and it is for that reason the Government will give its aid to the enterprise. When opened the canal will enable British fleets to pass at once from the waters of one | coast to those of the other without having to make a long voyage. The effective strength of the channel and home fleets will therefore be materially in- treased. From a commercial point of view also the work will be of great importance to the Scottish people. In comparison with its length the canal will be one of the most costly of modern times. The Cale- | | donian canal, sixty miles long, cost but $6,000,000. | The Kaiser Wilhelm canal, sixty-one miles long, | | cost about $40,000,000. The record for extreme cost, “ | however, will remain with the Manchester canal, for | | that work, while only thirty-five miles in length, cost | in the neighborhood of $75,000,000. A harvest of gold is already pouring in from the | | irozen fields of Alaska, and new men of millions are | rising from obscuri Later will come the stories of the tragedies in which men win this wealth and of | the comedies of life in which they spend it. e s — i and it is announced that plans for the enterprise will | B3 AN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1903, INCREASE IN THE COST OF BUILDING BATTLESHIPS FOR UNCLE SAM'S NAVY o MEDITERRANEAN STATION. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD AND HIS OLD FLAGSHIP, THE BATTLESHIP RAMILLIES, WHICH \'ESE'L HAS ACHIEVED THE HIGHEST AVERAGE FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS IN SIX-INCH GUN FIRING ON THE —_—— | | + E contracts awarded for the battleships Minnesota, Vermont and Kansas show a considerable increased cost of navy work as compared with the contracts of 1%1-2. The Newport News, for example, increased its bids for the Louisiana 1114 per cent over the Virginia figures, and in the Minnesota the cost is again raised 3 per | cent over the Louisiana, making an apparent increase of I THE PRAISE OF KINGS. HEN our fleet was at Kiel the Kaiser poured forth in commendation of the | U V American people a stream of words about ! as sparkling and as exuberant as the champagne that gave it a glow even if it did not inspire it. Now | in London King Edward has been equally gracious. His method of speech is of course radically different | from that of the Kaiser. He speaks as a diplomat, | while the Kaiser has the oratorical instinct and talks | with a flow that sometimes makes diplomatists gasp | | and stare. | The commendation of crowned heads is not likely : to turn our heads. We have British blood among | our people and German blood also. We have a cer- | tain liking for the sovereigns who hold the loyalty | of our British and our German cousins. We delight therefore in receiving the praise of royalty as a sort | of evidence of cousinly regard, and we are averse to | analyzing it too critically. Still in this case we can} hardly forbear believing that much of the commen- | dation is due to the fact that we are getting to be | the biggest power on the globe, and that Kaiser and King are gracious to us because we ase strong and not because of any recognition on their part of dis- tant cousinship. The American colony in London is now numerous enough and influential enough to cut a conspicuous | | figure in the cosmopolitan, world, and a::cm'dingly3 | when it speaks the world listens. It has just spoken | on the occasion of the celebration of the Fourth of | July and in doing so has been profuse in professions of friendship toward Great Britain. Such professions | are natural enough. It is but right that a visitor in a foreign land should speak kindly of the natives who give him welcome and enable him to have a good time. Were there as strong an American col- ony in Berlin as in London we should have had | equally fervent professions there: of American love of the fatherland. In fact when it comes to talking love international we are about as eloquent as either King or Kaiser. Something like a love feast is going on between our republic and the royalties of the Old World and perhaps the world is the better for it. At any rate no harm is done. Meantime neither Great Britain, Germany nor ourselves will cease to strengthen naval armaments. It is agreed at the love feasts that a | combination of the three powers could assure the peace of the world, but it seems to be understood that as yet they are by no means so loving as to venture to ally themselves with one another and un- dertake the job. oo e s A Philadelphia parent wrote to a schoolteacher in that city: “Miss Brown: You must stop teach my Lizzie fisical torture she needs yet readin and figors mit sums more as that, if I want her to do jumpin I kin make her jump.” Some folks may laugh at that note, but if everybody in Philadelphia could write with as much snap and ginger the city would never more be regarded as a slow place. An effort is being made to secure the next meet- | ing of the National Educational Association for this city. It is such people that we want to visit us, to criticize us and to see in us and in the country in which we live that which we believe we have. It js to our interest to have such visitors and then to be on our best behavior when they come among us. & | o A Wide as is the scope of the daily newspaper and varied as are the subjects it discusses, there seems nowadays to be something lacking if in every issue there be not a report of some train wreck in which lives are lost and property destroyed. Our modern trains are becoming purveyors of death rather than instruments of transportation. % The new marine biological station at Coronado is alrgady proving the wisdom of its establishment. Its faculty has just discovered two forms of marine life never hefore seen upon this coast, one of which has heretofore been seen only in European waters. And now the Greek Cabinet has resigned and all Athens is in a fever of political excitement. It is not likely, however, that the spluttering in this tiny leg- islative sea will cause more than a ripple in the great ocean of European politics. President’s Loubet’s visit to England, marked by every desirable demonstration of good feeling, is one of those incidents of international life which make well for the world. The nation with a chip on its shoulder is fast disappearing. A Hoboken dog with a gold tooth has died from gout, and its valet, a female human being of that city, burned candles over its body and has gone into mourning. No blame attaches to the dog in the selection of its help. % In the wreck of a Virginia train the other day most of the victims were negroes. It seems as if fate it- self were conspiring against the black man in his struggle for existence in the Southern States. . | fT14 per cent in two years and five months. While the Vir- ginia has 1032 tons less displacement than the Louisiana and Minnesota, the horsepower is 2500 greater in the first named ship than in the latter two, making the Virginia relatively more costly to build. On the basis of $160 per ton displace- ment and $63 per horsepower for the Virginia, the corres- ponding data for the Louisiana rose to 31767 and $70.5, and is now increased to $18L.6 and $73 in the Minnesota. The following table shows the increases: ing, that of chief water tender, at 350 a month, has also beon established. . The third increase of Japan's navy has received the san tion of the Diet and eight ships are to be bullt, consistin, of three battleships, three armored gruisers and two pro- tected crulsers. Plans are already being prepared In ths Admiralty. The battleships are to be of the Shikishima . of 15,000 tons; the armored cruisers of the Asama type. 7% tons; and the crulsers of the Chitose class, of 0 All of these prototypes were completed four years tons. ago, since which time many minor improvements have been made, which will be Incorporated in the new ships, but no speed is contemplated. The Chitose was buflt at the Union Iron Works and has evi- dently given satisfaction as a happy combination of gun power, speed and coal endurance on a moderats displace- ment. The battleships are to be built abroad and the other inerease in displacement nor | Horse | plom NAME OF SHIP. Power. Date of Contract Per Ton. Rhode Island Feb. 15, 1901 $227 50 Virginia Feb. 13, 1901 240 20 Louisiana Oct. 135, 1902.. 240 30 Minnesota June 9, 1903 258 %0 Kansas 18, June 9, 1903, ... ... .l.. A 261 20 Vermont 16500 | June , 1963............ . 260 30 The Connecticut, building in the New York navy vard, is] vessels in home vards. estimated to cost $3.952,000, against 3$3,9%0.000 for the Loulsi- - o . ana, building by contract at Newport News. The sum au- The e of oll as fuel has proved a siccess on the Mars thorized by Congress to be expended on each of these five ships is $4212,000, exclusive of armor and armament, leav- ing $260,000 for equipment for the Connecticut, but only a $33,000 surplus for the same purposes for the Kansas. This latter margin will be entirely wiped out in extras to contractors and work done by the Government to complete the ships and it is evident that there will be a deficlency in the building of these ships of not less than $00.000 in the aggregate. The Brooklyn navy vard mechanics have appealed to Sec- retary Moody for his decision regarding the fifteen days leave which the law allows them during the year. They complain that they are not permitted to take this leave as they would like to have it, but that it is doled out in small sections and that they are forced to take it whether they like it or not. Last summer it was the custom to make the men take a half holiday each Saturday for thirty succes- sive weeks, and they ask now to have this practice discon- tinued and that they be permitted to take two or three days off at a time. The heads of departments, as well as the commandant, oppose the plan of the mechanics. The- Buresau of Steam Engineering, which has been pre- paring plans for a scout ship with turbines, has found that the increase in size of the turbine exceeds In rapidity the increase in power, and that turbines as now designed are far too large for use in small vessels of high speed. To overcome this difficulty two alternatives present themselves, one being to build the vessel with a highly arched deck; the other to discard the deck altogether and substitute side armor as protection. The selection of C. W. Rae as successor to George W. Melville as chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering is a disappointment to the regular line officers of which several were candidates for this desireable office. Mr. Rae, how- ever, possesses the requisite theoretical and practical quali- fications and is considered the best selection that could be made. He was graduated from the first class of engineer students at the Naval Academy in 1868 and during his thir- ty-six years and nine months of service has been a mem- ber of several important boards requiring expert engineer- ing and general scientlfic knowledge, besides taking his share of sea duty. He is popular in Washington where his duties required his presence for a number of years. His service record to date is fourteen years and six months at sea, chiefly on the European station; twenty years and two months shore duty, largely in Washington and at the Naval Academy, and only two years and one month unem- ployed. During the recent war Mr. Rae was chief engineer of the battleship Iowa, the steaming performance of which during the battle of Santiago was rather a disappointment as contrasted with that of the Oregon. The failure of the Towa, however, was no doubt due to conditions beyond the control of its ship engineer. Mr. Rae will relieve Engineer- in-Chief Melville in August next and his retirement on ac- count of age takes place June 30, 1909. Chief petty officers in United States navy are to receive $70 a month after July 1. The present pay of this class, embracing twelve designations, ranges from $2 to $70 a month, and the increase iz not to apply to those already in the service but only to such as shall receive permanent employment after a competitive examination. A new rat- PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. H. Nadeau of Los Angeles s at the Palace. Dr. E. L. Southworth of Sacramento is at the California. C. F. Foster, a prominent rancher of Corning, s at the Grand. Colonel A. K. Whitton, a real estate man of San Jose, is at the California. George W. Colwell, a capitalist of Har- risville, Mich., is stopping at the Palace. Mark L. McDonald, the well-known Santa Rosa capitalist, is at the Occi- dental. Warren Rose, a butcher of Angels Camp, is among the latest arrivale at the Grand. Oscar Robinson, a banker of Colusa, is in the city for a few days and s stop- ping at the Grand. A. B. Wray of Melbourne and Maurice J. Nathan of London, merchants who are making a tour of the world, registered at the Palace yesterday. ———————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. [ “You-think I make some pretty bad breaks, don't you, Fred?’ asked the young wife. “Yes, dea replied the husband kind- 1y, “‘but they’re not like the breaks moth- er used to make.’—Buffalo Times. “Gommander, dere is a man py de fort ofer, dere dot is at us making bat faces, aind’t 1t?” “Py chiminy Crissmas, dot is so! TUnd look, he is steeking his tongue oudt al- Ode retty! “tllnd't it awful! Gommander, gom- mander, he has shut vun eye und is vink- ing mit de odder!” “Schmidtkopf, ve vill no more of dees nonsense bizness stand. Orter oudt de heavy guns und let de pumpardment go on. You pet your life nopoddy vill efer make faces at de oldt flag of de vater- landt mit impunities. Hoch der Kaiser und down mit der Venzervillingers!”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. e 'ruvun.::- Cllflornhm‘!m frults n.r‘f > ‘boxes. . A nice present for Eastern ched ?m-u 715 Market st.. above Call bldg.* —— e Special daily to business and by the Tosh and Hannibal, battleships in the British navy. Experiments have been in progress on these two ships during the pas: three months, one-half of the number of bollers being fitted for oil burning and the other boilers using coal.. The trials have demonstrated that while oil gives as much smoke as coal the advantage is with liquid fuel in that it has given greater speeds and ability to keep at sea for a longer period owing to reduced consumption. All the boilers in the two ships named are now to be fitted with ofl burning ap- pliances. A new scale of rations has been adopted in the British navy to go into effect October 1. Instead of the old system of only three recognized meals a day—the last of which is at four in the aftermoon—the crew will have four meals. Breakfast is to be at eight o'clock, dinner from twelve to one, tea between four and five, and supper. the extra mea about eight o'clock. Hitherto the men had to provide sup- per at their own expense. A further improvement is made in this that the rations are no longer to be served in the form of a pound of meat and a certain quantity of bread per day, instead of which a greater variety of articles will be fssued. The new scale of dietary Includes jam, vege- tables—fresh and preserved—condensed milk, raisins, etc, while the present meat ration will be slightly reduced. A new school for navigating officers of the British navy is to be established at Portsmouth. Selected candidates will serve ninety days at this station, after which they are to be assigned for short periods to large ships of the Med- iterranean, home and channel fleets, after which follows ex- aminations In order to qualify for permanent appointment as navigating officers. Lord Charles Beresford's old flagship, the battleship Ramillies, has achieved the highest average for &-inch gun-firing on the Mediterranean station. Its score for the last four years firing with the 6-inch guns, Mark I, is as follows: 1900, 43 per cent; 191, 56 per cent; 132, 41 per cent and for 1%3 to date 6.6 per cent. The German third-class cruiser Frauenlob of 2665 toms, %000 horsepower and 21 knots, was built within seventeen meonths by the Weser Shipbuilding Company, and her steam trials have given satisfactory results. Its eight-hour trial under full power took place on March 19 last and developed the calculated horsepower and speed. Later on the vessel mads four runs over a measured mile and averaged 304 horse- power and 21.102 knots. Her most economi- cal performance was found to be 11§ knots with 339 revo- lutions and 1259 horsepower. The Frauenlob being intended for foreign service is wood-sheathed and coppered, by which the vessel maintains its high speed without being compelled to gd into dock for cleaning. . In order to mystify foreign naval experts and to conceal increases made in the Russian navy the Admiralty permits little accurate Information to be given out. Contradictery statements as to types, size, armament and speed confuse all experts. The latest mystification is practiced in chang- ing the names of torpedoboat-destroyers, new names being given to old boats ahd an interchanging of names of new boats of different sizes and types. This plan effectually pre- vents foreigners from knowing the exact number of de- stroyers in the Russian navy. Whisper to Your Lady Love SOMETHING NEW—SOMETHING FASCINATING fo the Summer Girl BY MARY E. WILKINS This Is the First of a Series of Full-Page Pictures, With Catchy Appreciations by Famous Authors, Which Are Just as Good for the Baghful Swain as the Ardent Suitor. 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