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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, #_——_.————_—_____——_—__—__—_—__.——fi AUGUST 11, 190, “OBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. LEAKE., Manager. 7 ceress Al Communications to W. S. TELEPHONE. Agk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. rket and Third, S. F. to 221 Stevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 2€ Cts. Per Week, 75 Cta. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terme by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), One year.. 00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), € months. 4.00 DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL. One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. FOREIGN POSTAGE....... { Sunda: | Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra All Postmasters are anthorized to receive subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of acdress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. Broadway ...Telephone Main 1083 BERKE;I-EY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street... Telephone North 77 1118 C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- tisxing, Marquette Building, Chicago. long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE. .1406 G Street, N. W. ENTATIVE: 20 Trihune Bullding NEW YORK REPE STEPHEN B. SMITH. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON <v2s..Herald Square BRAXCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untsl 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAlileter, open until 9:30 o'clock. - 615 Larkin, open until ©30 oclock. 1941 Mission, open umtil 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Va- cper 9 o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open Filimore, open unttl ® p. m. lencie o rlock ant! ® X h the sympathy of Mex- abroad to arrange an in- silver and gold. are cut out to the clean question of ratio. ard countries use, as we do, silver for for token or subsidiary coins. Like the ey are all subject to the fluctuations and as their coinage ratio at present mercial ratio they find their t of disturbance. ) finds the European powers quite stion and reach a solution margin between the artificial or the average commercial difference s. There is a general conviction never again closely approxi- existing coinage ratio. For a even under the gold standard, has nsisted that her ratio of 15% to I as the could be reached. The other gold countries s, but have made no move for & nce now seems to willingly give it up, ee that silver will never again mercial value of $1.2929 per ounce as existing ratio. It is reported by our hat she assents to a new ratio of 31 her present standard. e attractive reason for a new ratio, offered by the . is that it is necessary to the financial sta- 5 the Oriental countries. The leading Euro- pean nations and the United States have a partnership of interests in the Orient through territorial pos- ses there, and all have 2 community of interest in the Oriental trade. For both reasons they should desire a ratio that will for a long time closely approx- imate the actunal value relation of gold and silver. The co! Paris, The Hague and Berlin, and is in St. Petersburg to sound the Czar on the subject. If all those nations agree with vs upon a ratio there will be nothing in the way of its adoption. In the progress of the commission through Europe there has been no manifestation of life in the free silver movement. The followers of Henri Cernuschi in the states of the Latin union have all disappeared. In the honeymoon of Mr. Bryan's carcer he was actively supported by that school, and even Balfour in England moved uneasily and unwisely toward the Nebraskan's position. European socialists, too, were impressed the arguments of the Democratic Jeader. But now there is no like sign from any quar- ter. The 1896 phase of the issue, which had such sympathy and support abroad, has been settled by the United States in favor of the gold standard. Since that world adjustment was made there have been steady accessions to the roll of gold standard coun- tries. As soon as an international ratio is settled it may be expected that more recruits will come. Ap- parently Mexico is only waiting for that event. In every capital visited by our ratio commission its members have found the representatives of China for coinage rat wiemer I'he goid co ce, ieved tl bility by keenly and intelligently alive to the issue, and it may | well be that that vast empire will begin its needed internal reforms by following Japan into the gold standard camp. It is not a far cry back to 1896, only seven years, but what greater change could be than the abandon- ment, even by silver countries, of the divine ratio of 16 to 1 insisted upon by Mr. Bryan as necessary to the prosperity of nations and the industrial salvation of the world! His party proposes to repent of its sins of that tinte. But when one measures the offense by its pos- sible and natural consequences had it been crystallized into a policy by the success of its advocates it rises to such awful stature as to require that repentance be impressed by penance, probation and apology. — The young lady of Oakland who has been forced by the police, at the intercession of her mother, to stifie her ambition to go upon the stage, is hardly old encugh to realize what a2 sweeping benefit has been won to her and an enduring public. Some day she will reflect what some Oaklanders have done to the stage and she will be glad that she was not an accessory. The Board of Education has resumed its sway over sthe schools, newly opened, and not a single sugges- tion of nepotism or scandal has yet marred the scene. 17 experience be any teacher this is probably the lull before the storm. We can always rely on the School Board for several sensations during each school term. n has found encouragement in London, | % 5 fore that King Peter, reflecting that murder placed 1 | i ! cure the election to their party conventions of dele- | gates who can be relied upon to nominate fit men | the offices for the ensuing term. | be defeated only by the energy of good citizens. | Apathy and indifference to-day may mean a loss of THE DUTY OF TO-DAY. PON the voters of San Francisco there restg to-day the important duty of attending the primaries and doing their uttermost to pro- for every office to be filled at the approaching elec- tion. The duty affects equally men of all parties. It is a duty inherent in the citizenship of a free country, and the man who ignores it or evades it fails in one of the essential characteristics of genuine American- ism. Every city and county election is a matter of im- portance to all citizens, but this one is especially so. | Propositions to issue bonds for large sums of money for various public improvements have been submit- ted to the popular vote, and it is quite probable that | many, if not all of them, will be carried. That will | mean a large extraordinary expenditure in addition to the ordinary expenditures of city and county admin- istration. The spoilsmen of politics see before them an opportunity for obtaining richer spoils than were ever before possible in San Francisco, and very nat- urally they will do their uttermost to get control of Their schemes can millions of dollars to the city. It may baffle all the movements tending to municipal progress and im- provement and bring about a period of stagnation or worse. While there are evidences of vigor and of hopeful- ness in the ranks of all parties the general prospects to either of the rival organizations. The nomination of a good ticket by the Republican convention would virtually assure victory for the party. It therefore behooves Republicans to make sure of good nomina- tions by electing honest, independent and public- spirited men to the convention. That is the issue confronting them to-day, and no loyal member of the party should permit any private business or pleasure to interfere with his performance of his political duty. The choice submitted to Republican voters in the different districts is not a difficult one. The United Republicans of the city and to eliminate factional dif- ferences and boss control, has done its work well by proposing in every district a list of candidates who if | | | = elected will worthily represent in the nominating con- vention the best traditions of the party and the best hopes of the city. It is to be borne in mind that the gentlemen proposed by the United League are pledged to no faction and are subservient to no boss. They will have no other aim in convention than that of nominating a ticket which will merit the support not only of all loyal Republicans but of all inde- pendents who sincerely desire the welfare of the city. The opposition tickets are either directly controlled by ward bosses or are indirectly playing into their hands. For Republicans then the issue is simply that of voting for genuine Republicanism as represented by the United Republican League or voting for bossism. The appeal of the league to Republican voters says: “Do your duty as a citizen and interest yourself in | the selection of delegates to a convention which will name a ticket to command the respect and confidence of the community, which will stand for a new and better San Francisco, which will give us an admin- istration based on business principles, which will im- prove our streets, our schools, our hospitals and our other public institutions instead of wasting our taxes on extravagant and unnecessary salaries, and above all will be the advance guard of the battle for con- tinued prosperity to be fought under the leadership of Roosevelt in 1904.” To that appeal The Call has only to add an appeal to voters of each party having candidates in the field: Go to the primaries, vote against the bosses, elect honest delegates to your party convention. Let us have clean politics and good men to the front all along the line in the campaign that awaits us. E—— A nelv plot of murderous design has been hatched in Servia because the assassins of Alexander and Draga have not been honored by promotion in of- ficial service. It is not altogether improbable there- him upon a throne, may decide that the same expe- dient shall keep him there. MEN OF PROMISE. ROFESSOR LANGLEY and Thomas A. Edi- son are men who have done much, but each of them has promised so much more than he has done that they may be rightly spoken of-as the two most promising men in America. If we could have had prompt realization of all the promises of these gifted men we would ourselves as a people have been giited by this time, and fish would not be in it with us as navigators of the under depths of the sea, nor the birds as travelers along the trackless wastes of air. For a long time past Professor Langley has been promising a flying machine that would make the dirigible balloon look like a summer toy with a string on it, and only a few days ago he went down the Potomac to “make good.” With much curiosity and some large expectations the public waited for the next news. First we learned that a storm had come along and shaken seme of the mechanism of the craft out of gear. Next came a report that certain bel- ligerent clubmen had ordered Langley to take his machine out of their house and their grounds. Then came the climax. The machine when released on her experimental trip rose gallantly and swiftly in the air. For as much as three minutes the experiment was a grand success. After that time something hap- pened. The spectators saw the soaring machine sud- denly turn her tail up and her nose down and make a plunge for the river. Driven by her powerful en- gines she struck the water with such force as to cleave clean through it and bury her nose so far in the mud that it took a dredger to get her out. So disappointing a result from an experiment of which so much was promised would unquestionably have saddened the American people for at least nine days had they been left to meditate upon it. Fortu- nately no meditation has been permitted them. The same day that brought the news of the failure of Langley’s promise brings us news of another, promise from Edison, so we can turn from the spilt milk of the flying machine to enjoy the cream of what prom- ises an automobile for every family and two for those who are greedy. Mr. Edison now promises to construct immedi- ately 2 motor and a battery of such a design and so light that it can be fitted to the body of any existing four-wheeled vehicle and which, when thus attached, will drive that vehicle over an ordinary country road at a rate of twenty-five miles an hour. There is a promise big enough to console us for the loss of our expected flying machine. Perhaps Mr. Edison may in a few weeks try his motor. Then we shall see of the time are more encouraging to Republicans than { Republican League, which was organized to unify the | what will happen. Of course we must count as usual on the unexpected, and therefore it will not be safe to predict that as the Langley flying ship made a bee line for the mud the Edison motor car will strike for the skies and blow up beyond the moon. —— A Washington gambler, who, in order to test the constitutionality of a law which made gambling a felony in the State, brought a test case, has been sent to the penitentiary for a year. This possibly syggests an exception to that rule which provides that every man should have the courage of his convictions. e — e ——— BIG RAILWAY PROJECTS. MONG the many vast enterprises which now A engage the attention of speculative men none are more imposing in their dimensions or {more interesting in their possibilities than the two great railway projects now before the American people. One of these projects aims at the construc- tion of a Pan-American railway extending from Can- |ada to Patagonia, while the other aims at the con- struction of an all rail route from New York to Paris via Alaska and Siberia. Neither project seems feasible to the conservative mind, and yet no intelligent man will pronounce either of them to be impossible or even impracticable. | As a matter of fact the only serious obstacle in the | way of either is one of finance rather than of engineer- from a well grounded fear that they will not pay interest on the investment. If it could be assured that a railway across the wilds of Alaska and Siberia " would pay dividends right aleng there would be no | great difficulty in finding men to embark upon the | enterprise. : i As a matter of fact it appears to be quite probable | that the Pan-American road will come of itself, as it were, without waiting for any grand combination of capitalists to finance it. The Canadian railway sys- tetn is closely connected with that of the United States, and our system has close relations with the | Mexican lines. Several of the South American lines |are within reaching distance of the isthmus and a ifcw connections here and there, made from time to | time, will eventually bring the systems of the two | continents nearer and ncarer to a common meeting point. Recent reports show that considerable improve- | ment is going on along the South American lines even now. continent says: “The Government of the Argentine Republic has’ pushed the building of its railway lines from Jujuy, formerly the northern terminus, till they are now close to the boundary of Bolivia, and Bolivia also is encouraging the extension of its system south along the route of the intercontinental survey so as to con- nect with the Argentine system. Chile, which has a most extensive railway network, is encouraging the trans-Andean project that will bring Santiago into | | is also having an era of railway building, some actual, more in prospect. By the end of the present year it is likely that the gaps between New York and Buenos Ayres on the intercontinental route will not aggre- gate more than 4700 miles, as against 5200 miies when the last reports were made.” The grand project of an all rail route from New York to Paris appears much more formidable and impracticable than the Pan-American, and yet it may prove to be less so. Russia has now in operation a line across Siberia. Canada is talking of a great northern road to extend her lines to Dawson and the Klondike country. American energy has built several lines in Alaska. It is not improbable that at a time not very far distant those scattered roads in the Alaskan wildernesses will be brought into connection with one another. When that is done the task of uniting the systems of America with those of Asia by the northern route will hardly be more difficult than that of connecting the North American lines with those of South America across the mighty mountains that interpose. Neither groject is to be expected speedily, but each is within the scope of the energy of the century which has opened with such great expectations and some of the children of this generation may live to make the grand all rail trip from Paris to Buenos Ayres in first-class cars and at a rate of speed that will admit of making the jqur- ney as a mere holiday trip. It is expected that in a few days a Seattle news- paper man will have finished a trip around the world in fifty-five days. Even the extravagance of the riotous imagination 6f a Verne was not equal to the possibilities and wonders of modern progress. S— ROOSEVELT TO DURBIN. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S letter to Gover- P nor Durbin of Indiana commending him for his resolute action in upholding the law of the land against a mob of lynchers will do much to con- firm and to augment the growing public sentiment in favor of dealing summarily with violent offenders against the good order of society and the dignity of American law. It is tc be noted that Mr. Roosevelt writes not as President of the United States but as a citizen. His opening words are: “Permit me to thank you as an American citizen for the way in which you have vin- dicated the majesty of the law by your recent action in reference to lynching.” That of course is the proper way for Mr. Roosevelt to speak. Our system of government does not admit of a President so far interfering with State affairs as to either condemn or approve officially of what a Governor has done or left undone, and accordingly Mr. Roosevelt carefully avoided all captious objections on that score by ex- pressly stating that he wrote not as President but as a private citizen, exercising the American right of declaring his conviction on every subject of public concern. . While the people will recognize the tact of Mr. vision of the conduct of the Governor, they will none the less bear in mind that he is after all President of the United States; that his letter is an expression of the commendation of the chief magistrate of the re- public, and as such the great mass of the American people will approve and indorse it. In truth the frequency of lynching of late has become a matter of serious import to the country. As the President says: “The well being—indeed the very existence—of the republic depends upon that orderly liberty under the law which is as incompatible with mob violence as with any other form of des- potism. Of course mob violence is simply one form of anarchy, and anarchy is now, as it always will be, the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny.” = That truth is one which for some strange reason consid- erable numbers of people’ seem to have forgotten. It is therefore imperative to have it reasserted ggain and | again by every man whose voice commands public at- jtention. 5 N 5 ¢ |ing. Capitalists abstain from undertaking them solely | A summary of the work going on in that | through rail connection with Buenos Ayres. Peru | Roosevelt in avoiding anything like an official super- | AUGUST 11, 1908. CONSTRUCTING AN AIRSHIP FOR WAR PURPOSES —— The armored cruiser *Berwick has ex- ceeded her calculated speed of twenty- three knots during a continuous run of eight hours by .613 knots, with 22,000 horsepower. Under one-fifth power the average horsepower was 4676 and the speed 14.85 knots for thirty hours, and un- der four-fifths power the average was 16,000 horsepower and 21.64 knots during thirty hours. The coal consumption during these runs was 192 and 197 pounds for the thirty hours’ trials and 210 pounds per unit of horsepower during the full power trial. The ship is fitted with Nicclause water-tube bollers and their performance proved quite satisfactory, giving econ- omic results fully up to those of any other water-tube bojlers and better than the old style box or Scotch type. The British naval maneuvers are to be on a larger scale than ever before, as will be seen from the following number of ships that will take part in the opera- tions: Thirty-two battleships, including three old ones for torpedo operations; eight armored cruisers, including one of an old | type; seven first-class protected cruisers; twenty-four second-class protected cruis- |ers, nine third-class protected cruisers, ti.rteen torpedo gunboats, sixty-one tor- | pedo-boat destroyers, thirty-seven tor- | pedo boats. This makes a total of 191 vessels-of-war | of_all types, besides auxiliary crafts, such | as dispatch vessels, colliers, etc. The to- {tal complement will be about 45,000, of | which 000 will be drawn from the Naval | Reserve. An airship of war is being built in Eng- land, under direction of the War Depart- | ment, and is expected to be ready for an | experimental ascent during the month. The hull proper of this ship is 180 feet in | length, 75 feet in height and 50 feet wide. {It is composed of an arrangement of | bamboo poles lashed together with ropes | | and wires. This framework will hang be- low the balloon and will carry, in addi- | tion to the crew of five men, three fifty- | horsepower petrol motors, working a set | of fans on each side of the ship. Each of | these fans has screw blades twelve feet |in length, turning at 1000 revolutions a , minute. The steering is done by a rud- | der twelve feet in length. The balloon has a capacity of 200,000 cubic feet and is calculated to lift seven tons. The change in propellers of the armored cruiser Drake made quite an improve- | ment in the speed. With the first propel- lers, having a blade area of 152 square feet, the highest speed was 23.05 knots, with 30,864 horsepower. The new pro= pellers have an area of 210 square feet and gave a speed of 24.11 knots, with 31,409 horsepower. According to the London Times of July 17 the new armored cruiser Donegal of 9500 tons averaged 22.3 knots for thirty { consecutive hours and averaged 23.73 knots in four runs over the measured mile course. 2 John Thornyerdft & Co. of Chiswick, | England, have made another record in shipbuilding. On April 3 last the Japan- | ese Government placed an order with the | firm to build a shallow-draught river guns iboat as quickly as possible. The vessel | was launched July 14 and made its steam | trial on July 23, making a speed of four- teen knots, or one knot over the contract. The boat is a duplicate of the British gun- boat Woodcock, buflt in 1898, and is 145 feet in length, 24 feet beam and 2 feet draught fully loaded. o o The French armored cruiser Sully, 10,- 000 tons and 20,000 horsepower, built by contract at La Seyne, has made its full power. steam trial and developed 20,110 horsepower and 21.4 knot speed. Its nat- ural draught trlal of twenty-four hours failed on account of the bréaking of a cylinder head. The Desaix's full power trial had also to be discontinued on ac- count of damage to the port engine. The Marseillaise fared even worse on her trial, owing to the carelessness of a workman who had left some tools'in one of the cylinders, causing a general smash when the ship got under steam. The French naval budget for 1904 is $62,- 586,365, which is a decrease of only $107,- 935 on the amount for the current year. This slight reduction affects the ship- building programme mainly. Among the many changes made in the administration and regulation of naval affairs the most important one is that reducing the term of service of crews to two years. It was adopted by the Senate by a vote of 217 against 33, &, "wile Two light draught river gunboats are being built at Elbing intended for service in the German possessions in China. One of these boats, named Tsingkau, is near- ly ready for shipment. It is of 200 tons displacement, 164 feet in length, 26 feet 3 inches beam and draws 2 feet fully equipped. The armament consists of one 12-pounder, one l-pounder and three ma- chine guns. The motive power is by twin- screws developing about 1400 horse- power, giving a speed of 13% knots, and the coal supply is sufficient for steaming 2000 miles at 12 knots. The complement is 53 officers and crew. The several naval powers have of late years built a aum- ber of these serviceable river craft which d@re likely to put a stop to the depreda- tions of the pirates infesting the rivers and coast of China. . The cost of the new Naval Academy at Annapolis will far exceed the original estimated cost of $4,000,000. Considerable progress has been made on the buildings proper, such as officers’ and cadets’ quar- ters, but the contracts for accessories have not yet been awarded. Bids were opened last month for building the chapel, the lowest being $365.00. The gymnasium bids ranged from $222,800 to $230,000, and the building of a sea wall will require $141,000. The total cost of the entire in- stitution will be very close to $3,000,000 when finally completed. The President has issued an order In- creasing the pay of enlisted men serv- ing .in gun crews. Heavy gun pointers, from 13-inch to 7-inch, are to receive from $10 to $6 a month extra pay. Thos: of 7-inch to 4-inch, or intermediate gun pointers, $8 to $4, and secondary gun pointers, comprising batteries of 3-inch down to 1-pounders, are to have $4 to §2 a month extra pay. New ratings of lead- ing men of gun's crews are also estab- lished with corresponding " pay. Chlef turret captain, $60 to $70; turret captain, first class, $50, and enlisted men in pri- mary batteries serving a gun captain will get $5 a month increased pay. This order goes into effect October 1 next. The two triple-screw crulsers Columbia and Minneapolis are beirng fitted out for service’ at sea after a rest of nearly five years, during which they have served as receiving ships at New York and League Island. They are not, as some naval ex- perts in this country assert, failures, but they are unquestionably uneconomical as cruisers. The triple-screw system, while eapparently abandoned in our navy, has grown in favor in the navies of France, Germany and Russia, and all the recent battleships and armored cruisers of those fully compensated for by decreased liabil- ity of breakdowns and saving in fuel when using only one engine or one-third power under o cruising speed. In foreign except that of Great Brit- ain, these latter advantages evidently outweigh all other alleged drawbacks, and it is to be assumed that the ‘foreign naval rts have thoroughly studied the milif and economic value of the W system. g IOWA POLICE FIND KIDNAPED OAKLAND BOY COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Aug. 10.— August Gonzalves, the Portuguese boy whose mother in California has made an, extraordinary effort to locate him, Waa! picked up in the Chicago and Northwest- | ern freight yards in this cfty early to- day, having just arrived from Chlcaso! en route West. He was taken to the po-| lice station, wheré he made known hls{ identity and a wish to reach Oakland.| He carried with him a Chicago paper detailing the story recently published about his travels and family connections. He told of his wanderings since his fath- er kidnaped hird in Oakland, and said he had been a cabin boy and his father's ship carpenter during most of his ocean trips, which included voyages to Portu- gal, the Madeira Islands and South Af- rica. When young Gonzalves learned that transportation had been sent to him at Chicago he sald he would wait in Council Bluffs for it. He sald he will have no | difficulty in identifying himself when he | finds his mother and believes she will recognize him. The boy says he has a number of wealthy relatives, one of them, an uncle, living in Honolulu. Young Gonzalves' father left auite a fortune, of which he will not come into | possession until he is 21 years of age.| The police here expect to hear from his Oakland relatives in a short time. —_——————e GOVERNOR APPOINTS DELEGATES TO SEATTLE Names Citizens ;‘Ho Are to Repre- sent California at Trans-Missis- sippi Commercial Congress. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10.—The following appointments were made public at the Governor's office to-day. Delegates to the | Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, to be held in Seattle August 18 to 21— Frank D. Ryan, Sacramento; Colvin. B. Brown, Sacramento; C. B. Booth, Los An- geles; H. D. Loveland, San Francisco; M. C. Nason, San Diego, and Hugh Craig, San Francisco. James A. White of Plac- erville, guardian of the Marshall monu- ment and grounds, vice Francis Nicholls, term expired. The Governor has named Judge F. B. Ogden of Oakland to hear Ttain cases in the Superior Court of ke County, Judge Crump of that coun- ty having died. ’ ————————— CIRCUIT COURT UPHOLDS ACTS OF INDIAN AGENT Declares That Expulsion of Pros- pectors From Reservation Is Authorized by Law. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 10.—In the in- Jjunction suit of M. F. Gibson vs. Indian Agent Anderson, Judge Hanford of the United States Cizcuit Court has handed down a decision upholding Agent Ander- son in expelling Gibson from the Spo- kane Indian reservation, where the lat- ter had located mining claims. Gibson contended that under the general law he could locate claims previous to the Presi- dent’s proclamation withdrawing the land and hold them in spite of that order. The ruling involves much valuable mining property, claims to which are now de- clared worthless. —_———— FEARS SALMON PACK WILL BE A FAILURE Manager of the Pacific Sealing Com- pany Says the Outlook Is Discouraging. SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—With only 97,700 cases or sockeye salmon on the Sound and Indications pointing to an early close of the season, there is every reason to fear that the saimon pack this year will be a practical failure. This is the opin- ion of Charles Corby, manager of the Pacific Sealing Company. The pack of less than 95,000 cases this year shows a shortage of almost 125,000 cases as comvared with the catch last year at this time. —————————— VOLCANO OF KILAUEA RESUMES ITS ACTIVITY Much Smoke Rises From Crater and Intense Subterranean Heat Is Again Manifested. HONOLULU, Aug. 10.—The volcano of Kilauea, on the island of Hawail, the movement of which was suspended a few days ago by a lava slide into the pit of the crater, has resumed its normal state of activity. A considerable quantity of smoke is rising from the mountain, and intense subterranean heat is again mani- fest in the neighborhood of the crater. EARTHQUAKES IN VICINITY OF MOUNT COLIMA —— / Special Dispatch to The Call. CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 10.—The erup- tion of Mount Colima showed increased activity last night and to-day. The seis- mic disturbances which accompanied the eruptions added to the terror of the pop- ulace. The earthquake shock was felt throughout the country bordering on the Pacifiec, from Mazatlan to the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Severe damage was done to buildings in a number of pueblos in the state of Guerrero, Lut no loss of life is reported. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. John G. Cecil of Louisville is at the Palace. Dr. A. J. Rice of Detroit is at the Pai- ace. X Dr. John L. Burkhart of Manila is at the Occidental. Dr. A. F. Schafer of Bakersfleld is a guest at the Lick. Dr. Clark Coones of Washington, D. C., is at the Occldental. T. J. Field, one of Monterey’'s bankers, and his wife are at the Palace. James H. Peabody, Governor of Colo- rado, is expected in the city next week. J. P. O'Brien, District Attorney of Troy, N. Y., arrived from the East yes- terday and is registered at the Palace. Persifer Frazer Jr., a member of one of Philadelphia’s leading familles, Is among the latest arrivals at the Palace. E. A. Bullard, manager of the Ameri- can Slate Company of Bostom, is at the Grand. V. A. Bissell, assistant traffic manager 0* the Santa Fe road, returned yesterday from a three months’ visit to Lake Tahoe. Charles 8. Orpin, business manager of the Daily Humboldt Times of Eureka is at the Lick for a few days on business. Dr. John Gallagher and Dr. Wilbur M. Swett have returned from a three weeks’ trip to Mendocino and Humboldt coun- tles. They killed six bucks. George L. Fish, formerly a wholesale grocer of Oakland, who, for several years has been engaged in mining in Nome, arrived from the north yesterday gnd is at the Palace. Bernard Moses, for many years pro- fessor of history at the State University and latterly a member of the Philippine commission, arrived from the East yes- terday evening with his wife and is reg- istered at the Palace. L. Hopkins, chief artist of the Sydney Bulletin, is a guest at the Palace. He went to, Sydney some twenty years ago and has been there ever since. He is now making a tour of the world and will re- turn home by way of the Red Sea. Benjamin Turner, vice president of a large paper company in Plattsburg, N. Y., is at the Palace, having arrived yesterday from British Columbia, where he has been looking over a site on which his company purposes to erect a big paper mill. James A. Beaver, former Governor of Pennsylvania and now Judge of the Su- perior Court of Bellfonte, and his legal associate, John M. Dale, who have been in Southern California on business, came north yesterday and are stopping at the Palace.. Judge Beaver has not visited San Francisco before in sixteen years. Sanp el *2 bt Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—The following Californians are in New York: San Francisco—J. H. P. Atkins, at the Everett; J. Brower, J. F. Sheridan, at the Grand Union; F. F. Conner, B. Lipp- man, at the Herald Square; B. Doble, at the Grand: G. J. Henry Jr., at the Im- perial; W. S. Lindsey, at the Continental: G. 8. McKenzle, W. W. Pullian, at the Victoria; W. Rosenthal, at the Metropoli- tan; T. T. Williams, at the Holland. Los Angeles—C. V. Sprague, at Grand Union: Miss A. Wessell, at the Imperial. San Diego—H. E. Griswoid, at the Marl- borough. —— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.—Ar- rivals, New Willard—Edward Kelly, San Francisco; A. P. Boetz, Sacramento. Townsend's California glace fruits and artistic ———— p Special information supplied dally ta business houses and public _n-by the fornia street. Tdcphoumh , ——————— squadron Cotton has ar- rived here from Lisbon on its way to Ville- heroic and thé ferocious. In music stru, Civil War from beginning to end. It is this fact that has enabled notable pictures ever uced on offer! next Sunday Call, for instance. It and “Trying And in a different way, how years after. consecrated their lives to ‘nursing. fair-1 carrier next THE CIVIL WAR IN DICTORIAL PANORAMA N all the gamut of human emotions there is nothing that stirs the inmost soul of man like the clash of war. tivate lamblike virtues, but it does not eradicate the instinct for the makes the strongest appeal to the great test warriors are given most reverence. In history the battle cry ever sounds the loudest, most sensuous note; while in art it is the wild scenes of blood and carnage—of daredevil attack and desperate defense— in the awful shock of contending forces that rouses all the passions to fever heat. And thus it is that around the spirit that will do and die for a principle the tenderest sentiments ever cling. that the coming Encampment of the Grand our city stands as the symbol of all America’s present grandeur. To those whose names make up its roll of honor that stupendous e must ever be a vivid reality, eration the hope and despair of that the eyes of the artist and the painter. And it is a remarkable fact that some of the best battle scenes ever painted are those depicting our great G. A. R. Edition next Sunday to present its readers with the best pic- torial panorama of fiercest battles of the war that can be offered by a modern newspaper. Beginning with General 3 Donelson, these pictures carry you through the entire war to its_spec- tacular close with the surrender of General Lee b scene alone, replete as it is with historical characters, is one of the most reprod “The Battle of Shiloh.” “Chattancoga,” “The Siege of Vicksburg,” “Sherman’s March to the Sea.” “The Battle of Gettysburg,” “Grant's Ca- teer From West Point to Appomattox,” etc. And in the line of fiction the greatest popula: to tales of love and war. Just think what themes the Civil War had to And what sentiment. too! There is “Forty Years battle at Vicksburg. -with a thrillingly pathetic_denouement in this city. Then there is “A Girl of the South,” “Fate’s Pence,” “A War Vision” T Him Out.” which latter will bring back the most stirring memories to any one who knows anything about war. lreethes that created that awful slaughter. There are two pages of fervid eloquence that will simply amaze you whos read them now. so many And even more strangely appealing are the two pages of anecdotes from the hospital, the bivouac .fifi'lmf battlefield told by women who point of view of over fifty of these ministering angels. And last but not least. there is that magnificent Supplement—tender gentiment crystallized into color—“The Old Army Chest” wherein a hardy ¢ r of the rebellion is showing his treasures to his beautiful red daughter. Just register a deep-voiced complaint with your if you do not get this picture with your G. A. R. Edition of the Civilization may cul- crashing martial strain that t number. In mythology the it is And thus_it is, too. rmy of the Republic in but to those of the younger gen- fierce conflict must be seen through The Sunday. Call in its special Grant’s victory at Fort at Appomattox, which a modern color press. There is rity has ever been given in the is a story of the wavering tide of many know anything about the It is war—a war—from the