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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1903. BATTLESHIP MASSACHUSETTS BREAKS ALL THE NAVAL BAD LUCK RECORDS MONDAY.......c.c0uveeeznn.. . AUGUST 17, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. A SR AT F¢éress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. PR oA A s N TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator ‘Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cta. Per Month. Single Copies § Cents. Orden): $2.00 4.00 T5e 2.50 1.00 Per Year Extra Sunday.. 4.15 Per Year Extra Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra EUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEEKLY CALL, Ope Tear. FOREIGN POI!‘AOI‘..‘...Q‘ All Postmasters are authorized to receive scriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when Mall subscribers in ordering change of atdress should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. 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C15 Larkin, open until 980 cclock. 1941 Mission, open ustil 10 o'clock. 2361 Market, corner Bixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1098 Va- lencia, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'rlock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea - 2200 Filimore. open until ® p. m. = ———— CONDITION OF 1RADE tit & - etnrk is seldom that general business condxl»lons are od by the public as at on is their simplicity. the other thoroughly Oner re-eminently a commercial era and - attracts more scrutiny and study than it ever did before. History will probably designate this commercial age As for the first reason the situation is simply that dise trade of the country is proceeding on + and well-ordered lines, while the great specula- mart of the country has been writhing in the of an old-fashioned attack of colic. Legiti- trade, composed and well balanced, has been n ing this speculative convulsion with the the mer tive throes erent eve of a mastiff mother lazily observing t puppy working itself up into a frenzy a newspaper or an old hat Stocks have gone down, down; recovered and gone down again, <o on, while the farm and counting-room have millponds. But, of course, this sooner or later, some time or ess will be affected by these rket spasms unless the country’s legislators je an elastic currency adapted to the rapid ex- < and contractions of business characteristic as been as t la quiet cal ast forever; other, general bus i modern It is a case of tempora mutantur. Times change we change with them. Forms and methods of < become modified through various causes and the currency must coniorm to the demands of the new conditions or there is trouble. As far as individual staples are concerned there been but few changes during the' past week. e clearings of the banks are just about what they were a year ago, the difference being less than 1 per cent. The failures were 175, against 148 last year. The earnings of the railroads thus far in August show a gain of about 8 per cent in favor of this year and the railroads are becoming unable to handle all the freight tendered them owing to insufficiency of cars. This indicates an enormous distribution of merchan- dise, for the railroads have been stocking up with new cars for several years back, and though the facto- ries have been working to their full capacity all this time they have not yet caught up with their orders. This condition says more for the state of business | than any other. The foreign trade, however, is not making 2s good an exhibit as the domestic, as both exports and imports have been decreasing of late, The iron and steel trades are reported active without | any excitement and gquotations changes. Fall business in the different descriptions of cloth- ing is expanding generally throughout the country, show some slight which is a regular seasonal condition at this time of | the year. Hides and leather have been weakening for some little time and provisions continue to drag toward a Jower plane of values, with the output of hogs and other livestock steadily increasing. There is nothing new of any consequence in the cotton and woolen trades. The crop outiook of the country con- tinues excellent, though previous estimates of the volume of the wheat yield have been materially re- duced during the past ninety days. Wall street has shown considerable ' tendency toward reaction during the past week. The general trend of prices was upward, and on one or two days *he recovery was very pronounced. The opinion is growing that the decline, like the preceding inflation, has gone too far, and that a good many shares are now selling below their actual worth as dividend propositions. The public, however, has not yet re- covered from its recent nervousness and is not flock- ing freely to the bargain counter. The bankers are reassuring them, but they are like shy animals, slow to approach. Our local conditions remain about as before. With excellent crop conditions, good prices for farm products, a steady overland and foreign demand for our State products, plenty of money, high wages, labor fully employed, a steady immigration into the State and active domestic markets, the condition of affairs in California is not only cheerful but bright and {ull of promise. Prosperity is still with us. A Shawnee woman sewed $7500 in her bustle the other day, lost it and then spent several harrowing hysterical days in a finally successful effort to find it. This should teach the fair sex that it is not safe 1o sit on anything even remotely connected in any way with things financial GRAND ARMY WEEK. URING this week therchief business and the chief pleasure of San Francisco will be that of entertaining the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. To that end the promptings of loyal hearts and the ministrations of willing hands will be given unceasingly until the encampment closes and the veterans depart. It is right and fitting that it should be so. In the order of nature it is not likely we shall ever see again a gathering of the Grand Army in this city. Many cities will compete for the honor of entertaining the veterans in future years, and their ranks are now so rapidly diminishing that long ere it comes our turn | to again receive them their numbers will be few and it is doubtful if among the survivors there will be many who can come across the continent from their Eastern homes to assemble on this coast. Our wel- come this week therefore must be one of “hail and farewell,” and though it may not be openly spoken the feeling will be in the hearts of all that we are now | as a city giving dur final greeting to the Grand Army | as an organization. Among our visitors are many whose names are familiar in our mouths as household words. They are the commanding ones on whose lives and deeds the light of fame has fallen. The youth of the city will hold it hereafter as a precious memory that they | have seen and perhaps|have heard these famous ones with whom history an¥l tradition will be busy. It will delight them to recall that they have a personal recollection of this or that man whose name they will meet in reading the annals of their country. So to ! the famous ones all eyes will be turned during the week and San Francisco will feel a pride in doing them honor. It is not to the famous only, however, that the hearts of the people will turn with affection. The essential spirit of Americanism is that of a genuine democracy that recognizes ‘worth wherever found, and we know that in the ranks are many veterans as ;worthy of honor as those whose high offices render them more conspicuous. Americans have never failed to give proper tribute to the privates in the ranks, the men who bore the heat and the burden of the day, whose pay was small, to whom promotion | never came, whose names are unrecorded save in the annals of their homes, and who during all the years of the war fought with an undimmed ‘patriotism and an unflagging courage from a sense of duty and of loy- alty to their country and to the sacred cause repre- | sented by its banner. Reverence too will be given abundantly to the army | nurses, those brave women who left their homes to | minister to the sick of the camps and the wounded of | the battlefields. Their trials were not lighter than | those of the soldier at the front, their patriotism not less. They too served their country well and the story of their deeds will remain for all time as an in- spiration to the patriotic womanhood of the republic. So for every grade and rank of the visitors and for | the families who have come with them to share in the patriotic inspirations of the encampment and to | see the wonderland of California there will be a cor- dial welcome everywhere. San Francisco is not to stand alone in the welcome, for from all parts of our great State invitations will come to the veterans to visit localities already notable for beauty and for hospitality. Moreover thousands of Californians will come to this city to take part in the events of the re- | ception here; so that it is a literal Californian wel- come that is extended to the veterans, and we may | be sure they will carry with them a thousand pleasant | memories of it when they return to their Eastern homes. | | Professor Moses assures us that the theory and | practice of our teaching in the schools of the Philip- pines are eminently successful. Recent events indi- | cate clearly therefore that this conclusion of an emi- | nent educator proves that our instructors in the | islands of the Southern seas have not enrolled many | of the ladrones in the public schools. These rascals | iappear to be imperious to sweetness and light. PARLIAMENT PROROGUED. ARLIAMENT has been prorogued by a speech from the throne which the dispatches describe | as of little interest to the world or even to |the British public. It was a non-committal address, | which pledges the Ministry to nothing, so the dis- | patches say: “There has probably never been a pro- | rogation of Parliament leaving the future of the }Gn\'ernmem so uncertain as is the case im this in- | stance.” By the King's speech the prorogation runs | to November 2, but in the debate upon it some of the leaders of the opposition declared a conviction that the present Parliament would never meet again and that there would be a dissolution and a general elec- [ tion in the fall. | The uncertainty of the situation is due almost | wholly to the keen interest taken in Chamberlain lproposal for the establishment of a system of cus- | toms duties on imports which will enable Great Brit- | | | | | iain to protect her home industries, give preferential | trade to her colonies and obtain commercial privi- | leges in other countries by reciprocity treaties. Since Chamberlain first submitted his plan it has been the | chief theme of political discussion in the press and | among the people. The education bill and the Irish :land bill, of which so much was heard when Parlia- ment met, have been almost completely set aside by the new issue. It is true there remains a faction that holds the educational bill to be the most important measure before the country, but it is only a faction, {and it is safe to say that if a dissolution take place | this fall the ensuing election will be fought out 'mainly between the free traders and the protectionists. The Prime Minister is to make a speech at Shef- | field at the end of September and the nation is waiting | eagerly for the event. He has hitherto avoided a | definite statement as to his attitude toward the tariff ‘1“5 one of practical politics, and as a consequence he | has in his Cabinet, along with Mr. Chambel’.ain, sev- | eral men who are in strong opposition to him, The !Sheifield speech is expected to clear up the situation Jand it is predicted that when it has been made either | Mr, Chamberlain or the Duke of Devonshire and his free trade colleagues will have to leave the Cabinet: iThat would entail a reorganization of the Ministry and may compe! a disenlution of Parliament. ‘While Balfour has not decisively expressed himself upon the issue at point he has said many things which give ground for the belief that he will favor the Chamberlain scheme. Thus in discussing it in Parliament he said on one occasion: “Many persons have allowed themselves to be led into a belief that this controversy i¢ simply a controversy as to whether the food of the people should be taxed. That is not the controversy. There is no logical or substantial reason I know of why a policy, if it be wise and if it be practicable in other ways, should not be carried out without increasing the cost of living to the poorer classes of the country.” On another occa- | sion he showed that he is much influenced by Cham- i berlain’s argument for a preferential tariff as a means | of conserving the empire, for he said: “There is a side to this controversy which is beyond mere pol cal economy and the wisdom to be derived from sci- entific text books. That question is the question of closer imperial unity, * * * It is an idea very alien to the palmy days of free trade. Mr. Cobden had, I believe, little regard for the colonies. ~Mr. Bright said it did not matter to us to whom India belonged. We have all passed beyond that. We have passed beyond it as political economists; we have passed bey*nd it as patriots.” From utterances of that kind the protectionists draw the conclusion that when events force the Prime Minister to declare himself he will be found on the side of Mr. Chamberlain. Then the issue will have to be met by Parliament<and by the people. { Such being the case there appears good reason for deeming that the present Parliament will have but a short career even should it ever meet again. It is seldem that Californians have so general a community of interest in the movements of a band of men now at large in our midst. The savage crea- tures who escaped from Folsom prison and disap- peared no one knows where and apparently no one knows how have become in our imaginations ubiqui- | tous. We may meet them anywhere and at any time, and under any condition they will be dangerous. ‘ tune time to organize for the purpose of peti- tioning Congress to prohibit the sale of adul- terated wines in the American market. The issue | has long been under consideration and in the general form of a fight for pure food is now engaging the attention of leading men in nearly every legitimate producing industry in the United States. Dairymen, flour manufacturers, fruit men, oil men, meat packers and the manufacturers of pure drugs have all within a comparatively short time declared themselves in favor of the_ enactment of a Federal law which will protect the honest producer from the unfair compe- tition of men whose goods are either adulterated or are falsely labeled. In fact public interest in the issue is now so great that if the various industries injured by the fraudu- lent trades will unite and present their demands strongly before Congress it is well nigh certain an effective bill on the subject will be enacted during the coming term. The Call has for several years been urging the wine, oil and fruit men of California to look to Con- gress for a bill of the kind proposed by the wine growers and has repeatedly pointed out the injury resulting from the present license allowed to the manufacturers of spurious goods. If nothing has been done by Congress of a really effective nature to prevent the sale of adulterated and falsely branded | articles it is only because the various industries af- fected have not yet combined to work for the common good. The action taken by the wine men at St. Helena promises good results because & represents organization and union, but the prospect of success | would be brighter still if the fruit men and the oil men of the State would form similar organizations t | work for the same end. 1t is not merely adulteration that should be forbid- den, but false labeling. A great deal of harm is done to many industries by the practice of unscrupulous manufacturers in labeling inferior goods as standard brands. Comparatively worthless Eastern fruit is sold in Eastern markets under the name of Califor- | nia fruits, and our oil men and our wine men suffer similar wrongs. That the issue will be a difficult one to deal with is conceded, but it is quite possible to frame a bill that will injure no legitimate industry, while ridding the | country of the great mass of fraudulent food and medicines now on the market. * The wrong affects | every consumer as well as the producers of honest | goods, and there is a strong public sentiment to sup-| port the demands of the reformers. The conditions i of the time are therefore propitious to the movement of the wine producers, and if they stay with the fight they may attain the desired Federal law during the | coming winter. IURE WINE LAWS. ALIFORNIA wine men have taken an oppor- THE LATEST OCTOPUS. HAT is entitled in its corporate charter as W"Thc Cash Buyers’ Union First National Co- | operative Society” has just been incorpor- ated under the laws of New Jersey. Our Eastern | exchanges say it is believed to be a department store trust. Certainly the name is long enough and big Ienough to mean almost anything and to do almost |any kind of business, for if ever the cash buyers | achieve a genuine national union they will wish to | include within the scope of their activity all things that are offered fog cash from a seat in the Senate to a pint of peanuts. The objects of the corporation as specified in its | charter are as wide and as varied as the title is long. They are thus set forth in the New York Times: “To establish, conduct and manage general depart- ment stores in every State in the United States and | Europe. To manufacture, buy and sell all kinds of merchandise, animate or inanimate. To manufacture ! all kinds of raw materials into finished products. To own, acquire and conduct printing, lithographing, en- graving and publishing business. To construct, own, operate or lease warehouses in every State of the United States and in foreign countries. To organ- ize and operate schools of instruction and libraries. To carry on any of the business of house decorators, sanitary engineers, electrical #ngincers and contract- ing in all the pranches thereof; gas fitters; coal and wood dealers; land, estate and house agents; builders, contraétors, storekeepers, ~refreshment contractors restaurant keepers, dealers in drugs and medicines and mineral waters, barbers and hair dressers, perfumers, dairymen, market gardeners, nurserymen and florists, photographers and dealers in photographic supplies; printers, lithographers and engravers; dealers in do- mestic trained and fancy anin®ls and in every com- modity sold in general deparfment stores.” With a charter like that there will be well nigh no legal limit to the activities of the corporation. It seems that pernussion is granted to do everything except practice law, issue marriage licenses and write poetry. It appears the start of the all comprehending cctopus is to be made in a comparatively modest way, for it has an authorized capital of only $3,000,000. As that sum would not run the department stores of New York City alone it will be some time before tli:: outreach of the corporation will attain to this city. A curious feature of the charter is that it gives directors of the corporation the right “to enter into and perform any kind of contract with the company.” It will be seen that the directors are to have not only a big hand and a grasping one, but also a free arm to swing it with. Altogether the Cash Buyers’ Union First National Co-operative Society has not only given itself a large name, but intends to acquire a 1 larger reputation as speedily as it can. | serfously damaged. Captain H. N. | tary Herbert, | to 1000 coples, and now, for Some unex- O ONE OF HOLLAND'S NEW WARSHIPS, THE DE RUYTER, WHICH RECENTLY UNDERWENT REPAIRS AT ONE OF FIVE OF THE SAME CLASS BUILT OR BUILDING FOR THE DUTCH NAVY. THE OTHERS ARE: KONINGIN REGENTES, COMPLETED IN 1%2; HERTOG HENDRIK, COMPLETED THIS YEAR, AND TWO ' | THE NEWPORT NEWS YARDS. THE VESSEL WAS COMPLETED IN 101 AT A COST OF $1737.500 AND 18 | UNNAMED IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. CCIDENTS to our war vessels are becoming rather frequent of late and there is scarcely a ship in the navy that has not been more or less seriously injured by’ running into some hidden rock or other obstruction. The accident of the Massachusetts on August 12 is the third to that battleship since her first commission—June 10, 186 On December 14, 1898, the ship scraped her bottom on Diamond reef in New York harbor, necessitating repairs at a cost of $138,000. On March 21, 191, she ran aground in Pensacola Harbor, sustaining slight in- jury and now the ship has locatad another rock by bumping against it and getting Man- ney, her commanding officer, is evidently not afrald of his ship, but takes great chances. He took the same ship through Hell Gate June 20, 191, narrowly escaping grounding and the Navy Department re- buked him for his rashness. On June 20 last the Massachusetts coliided with a schooner off Boston Light, and thus the ship is acquiring a record of bad luck, largely due to poor or reckless naviga- tion. The office of naval intelligence estab- | lished in 1852 has up to the present time issued many publications relating to naval matters at home and abroad. Un- der the title of “Information From Abroad,” a yearly volume has been issued since 1885, giving a synopsis of naval con- struction in all countries, whicn because of the evident care bestowed In making the Information as reliable as possible, and because of the limited edition ts much sought for. This set of twenty-one vol- umes contains the record of progress made in the world's navies from 188 and | is the only work of its kind in existence. It has been somewhat Inconsistent in its | scope of information owinhg to the fre- quent changes of secretaries of the navy, | chief of the office and personnel of the staff. Up to 1593 it dealt with all navies, but in the year named Secretary Tracy | eliminated all the data relating to the Unhted States navy: in 1885, under Secre- the edition was cut down plained rea has been , its publication | discontinued. President Roosevelt has written a letter to the recently organized Navy Ligue in New York cordially indorsing its aim to arouse public Interest in the necessity for building up a large navy. That gen- eral interest—such as is manifested nota- in this country is quite evident. There is an utter absence of publications, entirely or largely devoted to naval subjects, and the only information the public at large recetves is an occassional item about the launch of a ship or disaster to some foreign or United States naval vessel. Yet there is a respectable number of persons | interested in naval affairs. The rnavy per- sonnel, rank and file, numbers upward of 40,000, to which add the navy yard forces | and the thousands of persons engaged in | building ships for the navy. In England, France, Germany, Italy, and even Spain. | public interest is stimulated through seml- official or official publications relating to | naval matters with good results. The| United States Government should ex- tend rather than curtail its information on what is going on in the several navies and should not have discontinued the | “Information From Abroad.” | There is no delay on armor contracts for the eighteen battleships and armored | crulsers under construction. All the or-| ders have been placed and the shipbuild- | ers alone may be blamed for noa-delivery | of ships at the stipulated time. On August 6 six hundred tons of armor was tested | nd accepted for the battleships New Jer- | sey and Rhode Island, the ships being only 40 per cent completed. The plates tested were for the belt, 11 inches thick at the top and 8 inches at the bottom, and the penetration of our S-inch capped pro- jectile fired at a velocity of 1608 feet per second was only three and one-half Inches. The new system of teaching languages by means of gramaphones has been in-| | troduced at the Naval Academy. One hun- dred and fifty-five of these machines, each containing ten records, have been| placed In the rooms of the midshipmen to instruct them In the French and Span- ish languages. The lessons of the day as printed in standard books used at the academy are repeated by the records, so that the midshipmen have their eye and ear educated at the same time in the language they are studying. A trial of | this new method is sald to have given | very satisfactory results. R The reported) explosion of a water-tube | boiler, August 8, on board the British cruiser Blake is probably a mistake. The Blake was built in 1889, six years before | the introduction of water-tube boilers in the British navy. She was fitted with six ordinary bollers of the Scotch type and | there is no record showing that new style | bollers®have been substituted. The ship ——— no occasion to use steam except in her donkey boiler. The British Admiralty has placed con- tracts for four scouts with Laird, Viek- ers, Armstrong and Fairfleld. The new ships are to be duplicated of those now under construetion by the builders named, and vary in dimensions and horsepower, but are all to have a speed of 25 knots. The Pathfinder, building at Laird's, is 360 feet by 38 feet, 13 feet 3 inches draught, 2610 tons and 16,000 horsepower. The larg- est, named Sentinel, is 360 feet length, 3815 feet beam, 14 feet 2 inches draught, 2000 tons displacement and 17,000 horse- power. They have all a normal coal ca- pacity of 150 tons and carry a battery of ten 12-pounder quick-firing guns. The Londoi. Times of July 2¢ states tuat the Euryalus, an armored cruiser of 12.- 000 tons, had proceeded to sea for the pur- pose of trying her 9.2-inch guns on long range with an Increased charge of 25 pounds of cordite. The gun stood the test, but the mountings and all the machinery in the vicinity were torn up. On the fol- lowing day the Admiralty denfed the above statement, asserting that no such trial had taken place and that the Eurya- lus had not fired her guns since June 2. The Admiralty is, of course, loth to have any news of a disquieting nature become public and its contradictions on several occasions have proved to be mere quibles, notably in recent accidents to ships in the Mediterranean” In the Euryalus case the Times has probably agaln forestalled official information. Al battleships and & large number of cruisers in the British navy are fitted with wireless telegraphy, chiefly the Marconi stem. The present expense upon wire- less telegraphy is about $100,000 a year, and an agreement with the Marconi com- pany is pending by which the use of the system would be greatly extended in the navy, as well as on coast stations. The armored cruiser Donegal has at- tained the phenomenal average of 23.737 knots and 22154 horsepower during the eight-hour full power trial last month and is the fastest ship of her type in the | British and all other navies. The ves- sel's performance is so much more re- markable from the fact that the ship was fully completed and ready for active ser- vice, a condition which the Admiraity now exacts from the contractors. FHer maneuvering trials were also satisfactory. The Donegal was built and engined at the Fairfleld yard, near Glasgow, and is of 9500 tons. Of the ten ships of this class eight have been tried and accepted up to bly in England and Germany—is lacking | is laid up in reserve at Devonport and has | the present time, .W%WIM%W. DR. JULIUS GOEBEL OF THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY WRITES A HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN AMERICA TANFORD UNIVERSITY, August 15.—After a number of years spent in work upon an important new book, Dr. Jullus Goebel, head of the department of Germanic languages at | Stanford University, has at last complet- ed the volume and it is now in the hands of the publishers. The book, which was prepared by Dr. Goebel at the request of a noted publishing house in PMunich, is an exhaustive treatise on the conditions and aspects of the Germans living in Ameica, and 18 one of a series of similar reports on the German colonles in vari- ous parts of the world. The book is a compilation of “facts gathered by Dr. Goebel through many years of travel and study. material heretofore unpublished, and in effect will be a complete history of the Germans in America, from the earliest coionization untfl the present time, and It will contain a great amount of | the latter part of the work, especially, is a consensus of German influence in this| country at the beginning of the twentieth century. Among other things, the book | contains statisties to prove that almost | one-half of the presenc population of the | United States is of German descent, | | either entirely or otherwise. The influ- ! ence of this element in our civilization is shown in the opening and extemsion of | the resources of the country; in the de-| velopment of our higher intellectual life as expressed in music, literature and ed- | ueation. | The book is entitled “Das Deutschthum | in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika,” and is a comprehensive work. Perhaps the most important thought conveyed by the author is expressed in a_chapter de- voted to the winning of the West by the | Germans. It is sfown that the German pioneers from Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas were the first to push out into the western wilderness. Further- more, the important part taken by the Germans in the wars of the Revolution and the Rebellion is pointed out with his- torical citations which simply substanti- ate the author's words. Lastly the influ- ence of German science and literature is set forth to emphasize the scope of this feature of American culture. The new work is dedicated to President Roosev: Other Important books from Goebel's pen have been published time to time during the past fifteen years and he is now looked upon as one of the foremost contributors in this class of in- ternational literature. of Ph. D. at the University of Tuebl in 1882 He was instructor of German at Johns Hopkins for several years and at one time was editor of the “Belletris- tisches Journal” in New York City L i a e a w a m aca a aon a a a aed ANSWERS TO QUERIES NOT RELATED-B., Oakland, Cal. Ed- win Stevens and Landers Stevens, actors, are not related. h . CARNEGIE—]J. 8. M,, Burlingame, Cal. Andrew Carnegle resides at 51 West Fifty- first street, New York City, N. Y. COTTON MANUFACTORY-N. M. ¥, City. It is said that the largest cotton factories in the United States are located in Fall River, Mass. A SECOND—A. C. 8., Oakland, Cal. A second is the time of one swing of a pendulum making $6.469.09 swings a day, or the 1-86,400 part of a mean solar day. TO THE CLIFF—Subscriber, City. The distance from Baker street at the en- trance to the panhandle of Golden Gate Park along the main drive to the CHff House is 24,500 feet. 3 ADOPTED CHILD—S8ubscriber, City. In California a child, when adopted, may take the family name. After adoption the two shall sustain toward each other the legal relation of parent and child and have all the rights and be subjected to all the dutles of that n. MITCHELL—A Subsecriber, City. n Charlie Mitchell fought John shows twenty-eight combats. COTERMINOUS FENCES—8., Santa Clara, Cal. Fences are regulated by lo- cal laws. The question asked is one call- | ing for a legal opinion. It is one of the class that thie department does not an- swer. This department will state the law, bnt will not declde cases nor give legal advice. SISTERS OF CHARITY—E. M. A, City. In Hassard's life of Archbishop Hlllhen' it does not appear that the Archbishop named oftered to the Government the ser- vices of the sisters of charity for mili- | tary hospitals during the Civil War. I ELECTRIC RAILWAYS — Subscriber, City. The history of the electric r way in the United States dates back to | February, 1883, when a short exhibition line was built in Chicago. This was fol- | Jowed by experiments in November of | the same vear on the Mount McGregor and Lake George Railroad. CHINESE SCHOOL—S. and T.. City.! The Chinese Public School on Clay street | in San Franelsco is in the brick structure on the north. side of that street, between Powell and Stockton, in what for many years was the residence of the late J. W. Winans. It is not now and has not been | draped in mourning. The one referred to in the- letter of Inquiry is a private school, | nat under the control of the Board of | lucation. i CAPER—J., City. Caper is the common | name of the pickled flower buds of the | Capparis spinosa of Southern Europe and | Barbary. It Is a trailing shrub, growing on rocks and walls and extensively cul- tivated in Siclly and the South of France. The flowers are large and beautiful. The buds are gathered every morning and put Into vinegar, after which they sorted and the best are sent to market In jars. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. E. C. Dunn of Fresno is at the Grand. E. M. Woodman, a merchant of Oro- ville, is at the Grand. E-Assemblyman A. 8. Milice of River- side is a guest at the Grand. C. M. Hartley, a fruit grower of Vaca- ville, 1s registered at the Grand. Oscar Robinson, a banker of Colusa, is among the arrivals at the Grand. John McElroy, of the National Tribune of Washington, D. C,, is at the Palace. Gep. W. G. Hawley, a well-known res- ident of San Jose, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wif Gen. T. W. Sheehan, for many years business manager of the Sacramento Ree- | ord-Union, is registered at the Occidental. ————————— Cameras and Photo Supplies. Everything you need in cameras and photo_goods. Tourists and visitors rea- Fonably supplied. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. - Thg cometiof 183 was the only one dur- ing the last century visible in broad day- light. ————— Look out for §1 Fourth (front of barber, grocer); best eveglasses, specs, 15¢ to 50e. * s vibe.=rs i Townsend’s Callfornia glace fruits and §0c a pound, artistie 3