The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1903, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. %200 Fillmore, open until 9 o’clock. o TRADE CONDITIONS i 3 of the old saying that we never know how thi C. CHANGING RADE conditions are undergoing a decided ange. Everybody now sees it mercial observers it coming k But the change 1s in the nature of a sur- to even the latter and is but another illustr. Close com- have seen for tion gs are to tur In the first place the money mar- hich everybody expected would be stringent at g out ne wh crops are beginning to move, is is easier than it was t : go. In the &cvmd place there is a nced downward tende in prices for almost ng, accompanied by larger supplies of almost In other words product has at last | ken consumption and in many lines is now g it. This means lower prices for these prod- cates that the cost of living from now rather than It was not vill decrease increase. supplies and recessior would occur before next spring, but it d that this increa ices even now with us on and steel trade furnishes the most notable example of this increase in production and decrease and. The United States Steel Corporation re- hat its orders now are 1,000,000 tons less than whereas on the 1st of January they were larger than at the same time the year re, wh all the leading producers of pig iron greed to cut down the output. The New Eng- s are running on reduced time and The footwear fac- r ago, 1,00 000 t land cotton r some are storing their products. tories of the same section report operations fair, though prices are léss satisfactory and the margin of fit is smaller. The cotton crop is not turning out 1 as anticipated and the movement at New ans is being deranged by a labor strike. Pr. ns continue to drag at Chicago and other Western centers and the market is being held up, as e reports from Chicago express it, “by sheer The tendency in farm staples is now down- d rather than upward and cereals on the Chicago Board of Trade are weak. There is one good feature to this, which is that if the American wheat market keeps down to the European export basis we shall be sell wheat to Europe, whereas for months we were handicapped in this business by our h The same condition applies to pig Increased production lower prices will ions of this product from abroad increase our local business. So lower grain 1 iron markets are not altogether an unmixed evil. Dry goods are reported quieter at New York and as reports some falling off in business there and ts of the Southwest, largely owing to the ess of the cotton crop. But no trouble in zollections from this cause has yet been reported. The continuation of labor troubles, though by no means as acute as some months ago, is diminishing building - operations, reducing the demand for structural material and making the lumber market ieter. position to ows hi 1 prices. and ron k our mpor may The best reports are still from the western half of the country and the very best are from the Pacific slope, where the volume of business is keeping up excellently. The railroad earnings still lead those of last year by about 8 per cent, and while the com- plaints of car shortage are by no means as numerous or loud as for several years past, there is still a de- ficiency in cars to move the goods tendered the rail- roads The country’s bank clearings are still running be- hind those of 1902, the loss last week being 13.7 per cent, though the aggregate clearings have increased sharply during the past ten days from the low point of $1,400,000,000 to the good showing of $2,180,000,000, The loss in percentage is not uniform, about half of the largest cities exhibiting gains over 1902. Fail- ures last week were 223, against 245 for the same week last year. Our foreign trade diminished last week, both imports and exports falling off, though the loss in both was not heavy. : Conditions in Wall street have not been satisfactory of late, as the sinister developments in connection with the internal affairs of the United States Steel and Shipbuilding trusts have still further shaken ‘public confidence in the stock market. The great trusts seem tog have reached that point predicted several years ago by Henry Clews, the astute and far-seeing New York banker, who even then saw what was coming and said that the public need not ! THE SITUATION CLEARS. Y the developments of the campaigning for the B week that closed on Saturday night the domi- nant issue of the time was brought plainly into public view. The ratification meetings of the three parties with the speeches of the candidates for Mayor and for other important offices outlined the programme of each party, while the character of the audiences assembled at the different gatherings served to reveal the nature of the forces that are back of each. Other events, meetings and speeches of the week tended to further clear up the situation and re- move every confusing element. We begin the second week of the campaign therefore with an accurate con- ception of the situation. Every intelligent voter now knows that the task imposed upon our citizenship at this juncture is that of saving San Francisco from | the menace of class politics and from incompetent and perhaps corrupt administration. The lesson of the last municipal election remains fresh in the memory of conservative men of both the great parties and of all classes of the people. If the conservative elements be divided we shail again see a triumph of a faction that is ostensibly working in the interests of a single class, but whose record in of- | fice pm\ts.i! to be working for the selfish purposes | of a few individuals who are really as regardless of the |interests of the workingmen whose votes they ob- tained as they pretend to be of the interests of the corporations they denounced. If that sort of politics is | to be rebuked, if that kind of administration is to be discarded, there must be on the part of all citizens who are opposed to the machine a har- Schmitz-Ruef | monious movement toward the election of Mr. Crocker and of his colleagues on the Republican | ticket. It is true Mayor Schmitz can no longer pretend, save by effrontery, to be the representative or even | the friend of union labor, nor indeed the friend or rep- 'rc<emati\-e of anything beyond the Ruef machine | and the discontented masses that are willing to accept it. His record since his election has been that of a lightning change amateur. Hardly had he learned of his election when he wrote effusive thanks, not to the | leaders of the Labor party and to the workingmen who had been deluded into supporting him, but to Abe Ruef and to such malcontent Republicans as had followed Ruef. A little later he declared himself a Republican and then almost immediately hastened away to New York to support a Democratic candi- date for Congress. As the intelligence of the workingmen of the city may naturally be expected to guard them against being deceived into supporting Schmitz and Ruef a second time it may be assumed in some quarters that | the machine is no longer dangerous. Such assump- {:vnns. however, must not be blindly trusted. There | | is blazing and blaring evidence all over town that Schmitz and Ruef have money to burn in electric lights ard to blow to the winds through trombones land trumpets. An element in the city that is power- ful enough to furnish so much in the way of a cam- | i’nmzn fund for a discredited administration and a pair | f jack-o’-lantern politicians is an element powerful enough to be dangerous. A union of the conservative elements of the city is | therefore imperative, and that union to be effective must be organized behind Henry J. Crocker. The | Democratic party is hopelessly divided. Any one | who watches the campaign can see a hundred evi- ltlcncu almost daily that the Hearst wing of the ‘Ipan_\' is going to knife Lane, partly to get him out of | politics and partly to make a showing that will seem- | ingly justify their assertion that he is looked upon as |a tool of McNab, “the avowed enemy of labor,” as | the Examiner styled him. The only possible way |then to defeat the Schmitz-Ruef or the “Ritz- lSthmnfl“‘ combination is to vote for Henry ]J. | Crocker. That is the plain issue. Now let the people ;gc to it Under the benign influence of American institu- tions, encouraged and enforced at the point of the bayonet, the Moros have decided that they will have | no more slave hunting in their provinces. This con- cession to our civilization is encouraging. It may not be too much to expect that wheén the Moros fight with us, in consequence of periodical disagree- ments, they will decide to restrict their operations | to what we are pleased to call civilized warfare. ; T the affairs of the shipbuilding trust have prob- ably struck a death blow to future combinations of capital by means having no other motive than enrichment of the promoters. It seems quite sure that the power of J. Pierpont Morgan is broken and that no other will succeed him as the wizard of com- bination. We long ago predicted that the time would |come when every over-capitalized enterprise would get the water squeezed out of it and the people would be taught once for all that there was Natural limit to combination beyond which no artifice, no matter how cunning and expert, could sustain business in violation of the natura] laws of commierce. It is well that this time has come now. The coun- | try can stand the consequences. There is a slowing +up of trade and cautionary signals are abundant, but | legitimate operations will sustain the shock. There is no use trying to conceal the fact that it is the most serious in all our industrial and financial history. It | is great in proportion to the wide departure from cor- | rect principles which has caused it. Ten years ago |it would have convulsed the commerce of the coun- | try from the top down to the smallest peanut stand, for we were largely in debt abroad and our public | finances were disordered at home. Now the foreign | balance against us is imperceptibly small and our finances are on a far sounder basis. It may be noted in passing that the manipulators | of these unnatural combinations have had an excel- |lent excuse, from their standpoint, for thejr attacks | on President Roosevelt and their accusation that he is the cause of the tumbling of their card house. | With 2 very clear prevision he saw the end from the | beginning. He saw that these over-capitalized | schemes were destined to collapse when the people ceased to buy inflated stocks. Therefore he insisted upon a degree of publicity that would warn the people against such investrgent. His course made it impos- | sible for the underwriting syndicate to sell stocks at | thirty times their actual value and so caused the col- }lapse of the shipbuilding trust and the present down- | fall of every watered combination. He has rendered. |a public service as great as that of Mr. Cleveland when he sustained the public credit against exactly such a proposition in finance. His fame has outlived the denunciation ‘of the men who wanted to water all the money of the country by falling to a silver basis | and making the people take 45 cents for 100 cents. THE TRUSYTS TUMBLING. HE disclosures incident to the examination of | tacked him with extreme bitterness the people see now clearly the rightness of his position, and those who have gone on biting at the trust bait against his warning have only themselves to thank for their predicament. As a Cabinet maker Premier Balfour is anything but a glittering success. Even his well wishers, who know of no Ministerial crisis as serious as the pres- ent since the last of Gladstone, are sorrowfully of the opinion that Mr. Balfour should try his hand at another trade. Cabinet-making is too intricate for potterers. school, near San ANOTHER TRADE SCHOOL. the new State polytechnic T is Obispo, is an event of peculiar interest. The State can better afford to endow such institutions than to build reform schools for the reception of youthful incorrigibles, under semi-penal conditions, The young need oc- cupation. They need the ordinary opportunities of- fered by the public schools as a preliminary, but while vet in their teens they need the training of mind and hand in some manual industry. The restrictions upon apprenticeship and the al- most entire disappearance of the “open shop” have had a disastrous effect upon our native-born yputh. That effect is seen in the steady increase of *the semi-penal institutions in which large numbers are restrained. While they are thus branded the places they should occupy under normal conditions are filled by foreign immigration, and the country is sacrificing the benefit it would get from the upright citizenship of those born on its soil and reared to know the genius of its institutions and respect its laws. The policy that creates these conditions is a mis- taken one. Not every boy who goes to a trade at the proper age makes a finished mechanic. Only about one-tenth of all the apprentices have the qual- ity that induces them to always remain in the use and practice of a trade. The highest purpose of their training in the trade is to teach them industry, thrift, temperance and economy, the training that makes for good citizenship, and they apply these qualities in lines of life suited to their tastes, often from the trade in which they were acquired. HE opening of far aw: It is therefore an error to presume that apprenticeship should be denied or so limited that the privilege is useless, in order to maKe trained men in the trades scarce and thereby make the control of labor easier and give it the features of a monopoly, enjoyed mostly by aliens. The deniz! or limitation of apprenticeship has made the polytechnic school necessary, and it is well- that such institutions are increasing in number, for they have become the bulwark of good citizenship. Where they are made part of the public school sys- tem of large cities the most interesting cffects have been observed. Before their establishment a per- centage of pupils, by indifference to the study of books and a tendency to truancy, reduced the stand- ing of all grades above the primary. Where the trade schgols are established it is observed that this class of indifferent and truant pupils, almost without ex- ception, voluntarily enroll themselves in the ‘“shop school,” where they at once become interested and industrious workers. It will be observed that this improves the morale of the whole School Depart- ment, reduces truancy to a minimum, raises the stand- ing of the grades affected, and is the means of checking and effacing the tendency to idleness and indifference, The City Superintendent of San Francisco has re- cently proposed the establishment of truant and parental schools, in which the class of pupils referred to are to be separated and kept under conditions that, after all, are semi-penal. In the training of the young it is not well to classify thegp according to their faults and shortcomings, as would be.the case in such schools as the Superintendent proposes. It is, on the other hand, far better to cause them to voluntarily seek congenial occupation. No natural trait is more universal than the fondness of the young for mechanism and their desire to make something with their hands. The boy loves his pocket-knife, and with it whittles something into shape. It was said that the whittling habit of the Yankee was the foun- dation of the early manufacturing supremacy of New England, and so it was written among the classics of the old and excellent school readers: The Yankee boy, before he’s sent to school, Knows how to use that magic tool, The pocket knife. If more study is given to leading the young in line with these natural tendencies, and less to the use | of force to compel them into things that are dis- tasteful, we will be training better citizens: and if as much attention is paid to this as is given to the penal plan, the happy time may come when the State schools for incorrigible youth may be turned into polytechnic institutions, to which pupils resort voluntarily and cheerfully for training in handicraits and skilled occupations. The school near San Luis Obispo is the first of its kind in respect to location. Heretofore such institu- tions have been placed in the large cities. This one is oractically in the country, in the midst of whole- some surroundings, where those who seek to enjoy its opportunities will not be diverted by the allure- ments of a great city. To it the country youth may be expected to resort. Successful ranch manage- ment in California requires such a school. The owner or the foreman of a ranch should know how to shoe a horse, to plan and build, to take machinery down and set it up. In the near future electric power is to be extensively used in running Califor- nia ranches. It will operate pumps, distribute water, run stationary machines for threshing grain and beans, and will do the churning in creameries. In these schools boys will learn something of elec- trical engineering and the mechanism to be actuated by electricity, so that this new labor-aiding agent may be handled by them, To return to conditions in this city, for the pur- pose of emphasis. “We have here, operated in con- junction, the Lick and Wilmerding manual schools, established by private endowment. The Lick School has 415 pupils, and for lack of facilities is compelled to turn away more than that number who apply. Instead of establishing the semi-penal departments proposed by the School Superintendent, why not de- vote what they would cost to extension of that polytech}lic school, so that its capacity would equal the demands upon it? It has generally been conceded that it is impossible to exaggerate an arraignment of whisky as a pro- ducer of crime, but an Oakland man has proved that the attainment of the impo;si‘ble is practicable sim- ply by word of mouth. He charged his accomplish- worry about the huge trusts—they would settle them- ! President Roosevelt started the machinery of the |ments as a burglar to whisky after he had spent llaw in motion, and though the trisst organs have at- i several years of a sober existence in a penitentiary, selves if given rope enough and left alone. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1903. COAST EPISCOPALIANS INDORSE THE SELECTION OF NEW BISHOP e & O more potent voice was raised in this city on the floor of the general convention of the Protestant Epis- copal church, two years ago, than that of the Rev. David H. Greer of New York. He became a marked figure while in San Francisco. His vehemence In the convention on the subject of di- vorces and his pulpit oratory alike char- acterized him for earnestness and re- vealed to his delighted listeners that be- fore them stood a man such as all Ameri- cans like—one who was not afraid to speak his thoughts fearlessly and fully. The press dispatches have brought from the East the meager announcement only that Dr. Greer has been appointed coad- jutor to BEishop Potter of the diocese of New York. That bare statement means to church men that Dr. Greer has become b In fact the foremost man of the Prot- estant Episcopal church in the United States. Among Episcopalians on the gntire Pa- cific Coast there is the liveliest interest in this fact and what it implies. Promi- nent clergymen in this city believe that his advent as coadjutor to Bishop Potter is fraught with great good for the Prot- estant Episcopal Church. BISHOP NICHOLS' VIEWS. This is the view of Right Rev. Bishop Nichols: He has declined other elections. He was elected Bishop of Western Massachusetts some years ago, but declined the honor. If he had hot demurred he would have been made Bishop Coadjutor of Pennsylvania two years ago. He is the logical successor of Biskcy Potter of the diocese of New York. This la true because of his position and other reasons. He was rector of St. Bartholomew's parish in New York. He has great influence and popularity with all schools of thought In the church. He has been in New York as the rector o St. Bartholomew's parish for a long time. He has widened tae work of that parish into all sorts of usefulness. He has greatly stimulated the missionary work. The election of Dr. Greer as coadjutor to Bishop Potter is of importance to all the church. When he accepted the appointment he said that ‘“‘one thing, however, you could not and cannot, and I am sure would not compel me to do: you would not compel me to be taé bishop uf any party or any school of thought in this diocese or in the church at large.” This indicates the man very well. If those who represent varlous views in‘the church are united in the selection of a bishop of the most prominent diocese in the United States as they were on the occasion of the election .of Dr. Greer, thut certainly tends to unity in the church and help practically. He will not be a partisan in office. He has endeared himself by his independence of character. The Rev. Dr. Clampett said that he re- garded the election of Dr. Greer as coad- jutor to Bishop Potter as a great thing for the Episcopal church, and continued: . Greer was_called to St. Bartholomew's parteh I New. York in 1388. He was when Callea the rector of Graee Church ateProvi- dence, R. 1. His fleld was limited there. He ranked easily first among the Episcopal clergy in Rhode Island. The call to New York af- forded him a splendid opportunity for his powers. 1 was assistant at St. Bartholomew's Church when he was made rector. I an opportunity therefore to know personally about B ¥ found a gold miue,” sc he sald to me, alludin to S.. Burtholomew’s. The weasui ion at that time was estimated o be $200,000,000. For two years Dr. Greer worked quictly, making no special move, but he devoted all this time to pastoral work, preach- ing and examining the fleld. In the third year of his rectorship he entered upon the perform- ance of his plans, and all the years since have brought continual developmen: of the Work. e built & parish-house that cost almost §1,- 000,000 In that building services are held in five different languages. He was the first cler- gyman in New York to come to the assistance of the poor in rescuing them from the clutches of the usurers or money lenders, who were tak- ing enormous interest. He established a large pawnshop, and in every possible way guarded The poor, trying always to preserve their seif- *" fn_the pulpit he has been one of the ers of New York City and of the entire t. e is a bold, fearless, practical, aggres- sive preacher, who never faiis to speak the truth. In this way more than in any other, possibly, he won the respect and love of his egation. O 5 one of the few men who have remark- able pulpit power with strong administrative ility, His churchmanship is broad. tolerant. comprehensive. He ls, unquestionably, well suited for the bishopric of such a diocese as { New York. He will be a leader of men. HIGH CHURCH OPINION. The Rev. Herbert Parrish, rector of the Church of the Advent, estimated Dr. Greer as a man of very brilliant gifts and of tried stability of character. He said: ‘hurch of which he has been rector in N::a!:rlrSL Bartholomew's, is an institution of enormous wealth and influence; Including in the parish church proper many of the rich- peopie in New York City, and reaching the whole church. ‘Everybody in our spects Dr. Greer for his ability and also for his absoluté inde- pendence and sincerity. not think that Dr. Greer can be regarded 2 “party” man narrow sense. His early tralning was “evangelical” or “low church" church res H im. That he be absolutely fair in. it 1s beyond question. -tm:mflmwnumbr. m@n\:-mu nug-uunuam surprised its vehemence. sunnorted with great ardor the law of the feel that they can trust hi and his + REV. DAVID H. GREER, WHO HAS BEEN APPOINTED COADJUTOR TO BISHOP POTTER. L 4 indissolubility of marriage. He has expressed himself publicly since on the same subject with even greater force. There was a fear at ome time that “low” or ‘broad’ views on the subject of divorce would make some way in the church, especially In fashionable New York. The election of Dr. Greer is an indication that the diocese of New York will not favor laxity on_the divorce question. Dr. Greer, howeve: He is regarded as a man of wide reading general lines, and he is a striking preacher. His popularity is the more remarkable in that Dr. Greer Is pecullar and absolutely frigid in manner. He has & waxed mustache, parts his halr in the middle and dresses like an affected floorwalker of a fashionable dry-goods store— which would impress one atfifirst somewhat unfavorably. Respect for hin, however, grows with acquaintance. He is honest, fearless, able and kind. There 1s not row in our church about ritualism, either in New York or elsewhere. The Bishops recog- nize thoroughly that incense, lights, vestments and all the ceremonles of the mass are strictly legal in the American church. about ritual, due to historical reasons In con- nectlon with the Church of Rome, is rapidly dying out. Slowly but surely Catholic eere- morial is being adopted In all of our churches. There is no atempt made to oppose the Cath- olic movement, Moreover, the old errors identl- fled with the names “low church” and ‘‘broad church” are gradually passing away. If there are any ‘‘parties’’ dm our church, and a church | there Is, at | to be alive must have ‘‘parties,’” least, with very few exceptions, a mutual cour- tesy and charity which unites them In a bond stronger than their differences, ALL PARTIES SATISFIED. The Rev. Dr. B. M. Weeden, rector of St. Luke's Church, said: Dr. Greer will be hailed by us all with de- lisht In his new position. While there is no or archbishop, in the American Epis- urch, yet the bishepric of the diocese of New York, by reason of the prominence of the diocese, has great-weight. It is the largest and most prominent diocese of the Episcopal chureh in the United States. Dr. Greer will not have a party blas. He is thoroughly broad in his sympathies.. Preju- dice in favor of this or of that opinion has no pluce in his composition. He has made of St. Bartholomew’s parish a perfect Christian empire. St. Bartholomew's is & very wealthy church. He has used its wealth and power in missfonary work in New York City. simple as he is great. The Episcopal church holds unitedly to a few essentials. It leaves a broad field for dis- cussion. It is important that Dr. Greer is not a party man man in the church and he will be listened to with great attention. Wkhen Dr. Gr?r was elected Bishqp co- adjutor he wag nominated by churchman. The nomination was second- ed by a broad churchman and the first ballot showed so large a majority, made up of votes from all parties, that all idea of partisan blas was entirely disproved. When the bishopric was accepted by Dr. Greer he was escorted by a committee consisting of Dr. J. Lewis Parks, J. P.| Morgan and W. R. Grosvenor and was received by Bishop Potter. The two par- agraphs of Dr. Greer’s address on ac- cepting the appointment that will at- tract the most general attention upon the | part of churchmen in all parts of the United States are as follows: One thing, however, you could not and can- | not, and, 1 am sure, would not, compel me to do You would not compel me to be the bishop of any party or school of thought in this dio- | cese or in the church at large. I recognize the fact that beneath the sur- face, however diversified that surface may be, there is a deep and loyal devotion to our com- mon Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, There is no name that can so touch and swayour hearts as that name. That name is the one that I shall recognize, and that personality is the one | that I shall try to serve. Dr. Tyndall’s Lecture. Dr. Alexander J. Mclvor-Tyndall enter- tained and mystified a large audience at Steinway Hall last night with demonstra- tions in occult phenomena. It was one of the most brilllant gatherings of the sea- son, and the famous psychic sclentist was in excellent trim. He delivered an excel- lent discourse on the destructive power of thought, citing many cases of personal experience. where thought vibrations of a certain potentiality have been instru- mental in producing chemical changes in | the human organism that have resulted in death, or, as he calls it, disintegration. Dr. MzIvor-Tyndall is a bold and original thinkér, and while he is probably many years in advance of the age with his pe- culiar views of life, yet he adheres to the latest developments of material science in expressing his novel theories of the psy- chological side of life. The lecture was evidently much appreciated and was re- ceived with enthusiasm. —_——— Fountain Pen News. Let us fit your hand pen. The “Waterman,’ shall” are the only ones worth consider- ing. Prices $1 to $5 each. Sanbor; Co., 741 Market street. i —————— To Celebrate Anniversary. At the quarterly meeting of the St. Pat. rick’s Mutual Alllance Association, which wag held last Saturday evening, the re- ports of the officers showed that the so- ciety has within the last three months raised its general fund to $10,000, an in crease of a little over 3 per cent. Secre- tary Alford reviewed the work accom- plished by the society in the last three months, and the committee on arrange- ments reported that the nece: arations for the celebration -:mnst Patrick’s Mutual Alliance Association’s | thirtieth anniversary had been made, and will take place at Unlon Square Hall on Friday evening, October 30. Townsend's California glace fruits and &‘iwxm A Rice. vre:in 1 - es. or friends. 715 Market st above ! ¢ et Special information supplied dally to D peine Bureaw (Alentsr z” Coie fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. o Cars of double that capacity are tested. is rather a practical | man of affairs than a scholar or theologlan. | in | the slightest possibility of a| The prejudice | He is as | He will be the most prominent | a high | a good fountain | ‘Swan” or “Mar- FOUR HUNDRED WARSHIPS FLY BRITAIN'S FLAG The shipbuflding programme of the British navy for 1903-4 Includes forty war vessels of all types, divided as follows: Three battleships, four armored cruisers three cruisers, four scouts, fifteen q. stroyers, ten submarine boats and one river gunboat. No particulars of size, speed, armament and cost of this fleet | have yet been made public, except as to | the battleships, which are to be improve- ' ments upon the flve ships of the King Edward VII class now under construc- tion. The new ships are of 1350 tons, nineteen knote speed, armor B lt ten inches Krupp steel and an armament of four 12-inch, eight 9.2-inch and iwelve 8- | inch. The corresponding particulars the King Edward VII are: 16,350 tons dis- placement, 18.5 knots speed, %-inch Krupp armor belt and an armament of four 12- | inch, four 9.2-inch and ten 6-inch. These new battleships, which will probably be completed before 1908, will again give Great Britain the most powerful ships afloat, an advantage temporarily held by the United States in the Louisiana and Connecticut and three others now under construction. The American ships have reached the limit of size in a displace- ment of 16,000 tons, on a draught of 26 feet 9 inches, on which they carry four 12-inch, eight S$-inch and twelve 7-inch guns. ~Their speed is calculated at 18 knots, or one knot less than the British ships, a sacrifice necessitated on account of the disproportionate heavy batte Great Britain's outlay on new construc- tion during seventeen years, from 1857 to date, foots up to 3506530000, against the combined expenditures of France and Russia for the same object of $505,125,000. The several classes of vessels authorized to be built for the British navy during this perfod number 402 in all, consisting of 48 battleships, 32 armored cruisers, 19 first- class cruisers, 65 second and third class cruisers, 18 torpedo gunboats, 133 destro ers, 12 scouts, 23 torpedo-boats, 22 sloops ¢ gunboats, 11 river gunboats and 19 sub- marine boats. Of this total number one second-class cruiser and two destroyers have been lost at sea. The personnel in the British is now more than double of what it was fifteen years ago. In 1388 the number was 62,400, now it is 127,100. The highest number in the past was 146312 in 1810, during the Napoleonic war. The highest figures in the navy estimates during that war was in 1814, when they amounted to $117,500,- 1000, an enormous sum for a country of | 18,000,000 people. The cost of the navy was then 16 per cent of the value of the | British sea-borne trade, and at the pres- | ent time, with navy estimates of $172.- 000,000, it is only 2 per cent of that trade. The British armored cruilser Cumber- land, 9800 tons, built by the London and Glasgow Company, has passed through her trials without a hitch and consider- ably exceeded the contract requirement. The eight-hour trial under full power took place September 2. The ship was down to a mean draught of 2% feet and fully equipped. With steam at 206 pounds in her Belleville boilers the engines de- veloped 22,767 horsepower, or 767 horse- power over the contract, giving a speel of 23.7 knots, an excess of .7 knots over the calculated speed. The coal consump- tion was 2.01 pounds per horsepower. | Sheerness dockyard is to be utilized as a specilal yard for refits of torpedo ve: sels. Of late years only small craft have been built at this yard, and no more ves- | sels are to be laid down. Germany is turning out naval vessels {at a rapid rate, the latest being the launch of the battleship Hessen, at Kiel, September 13. She was laid down about a year ago and is to be completed In 1904 { The Hessen is one of four of the same type and general dimensions, having displacement of L& tons, 16,000 horse- power and 18 knots speed. The armament consists of four 1l-inch, fourteen 6.7-inch, twelve 3.4-inch and the usual complement of small guns, besides six torpedo tubes, five of which are under water. The esti- mated cost is about $,780,000, including | armament. Two more of the same type and displacement are to be laid down dur- ing the present year, to be completed in 1906, making a total addition to the navy of six battleships during the next three years. The Russian naval programme for 1903- | 04 provides for the building of five battle- ships of 16500 tons, and two battleships on the Black Sea of 12,500 tons. The five battleships, upon each of which $5,475,000 is to be expended during the current year, are to have a length of 430 feet, beam 80 feet and a mean draught of 23 feet; 18-knot speed and an armament of four 12-Inch, twelve S-inch and twenty 14- pounders. The armor belt is of Il-inch maximum thickness; deek, 2% inch gun protection, 12 inches to 7 inches. The Black Sea battleships are to be Improve- ; ments on the Kniaz Potemkin Tavrisch- | eski and of 18 knots speed. | That Russia has ninety war vessels in Asiatic waters in close proximity to Ko- rea Is probably correct as to numbers, but less than ome-half of this number may be classed as fighting ships. Ac- cording to latest accounts the Russian fleet consisted of seven battleships, three armored cruisers two armored gunboats, seven cruisers, ¢ight gunboats, one tor- pedo gunboat and one sloop, a total of | twenty-nine fighting ships. To this Is to | be added about a dozen torpedo-boat de- stroyers and an unknown number of tor< pedo-boats, most of which are of little or no value. The twelve armored vessels and the cruisers are of new construction, { but the gunboats and smaller craft arg ‘old and have no fighting value. Japan possesses fifteen armored ships, nineteen cruisers, eleven gunboats, sixteen de- stroyers, seven §rst class and fifty-one second class torpedo-Boats, a total of 119, which, with the advantage of a home base shows that the naval strength of Russio In Oriental waters is considerably infe- | rlor to that of Japan. Two tank-steamers are being built on the Neva for the Russian navy. They are fitted as distilling ships to supply the squadron with fresh water, and are to ba designated Vodolel 1 and 2 (water car- | rlers 1 and 2). Such vessels were first used in the United States navy during the re- cent war with Spain. s T A unique warship has been added as an | auxiliary to the Swedish navy. It is built like an iron lighter, is about 130 feet n length, and will serve as a trans- port, carrying a military balloon' and its | accessories, and contains the ne: | machinery for producing hydrogen and maneuvering the balloon. The lighter is towed by a steamer. which conveys it | from point to point wherever it may be | desired to make an ascension. The crew | consists of two officers and sixteen sail- ors. The balloon itself is to be used for obtaining information along the coast in | defense of the latter, and will prove a valuable adjunct to the usual service of security and Information. | The contract of the Philippine Govern- { ment with the Uraga Dock Cmnp‘nyr:ln Japad for the construction of five gun- boats has turned out badly. Only two of the boats have been delivered, and they | failed to come up to the requirements, ag they drew more water than intended, and their construction and workmanship were generally defective. The Uraga builders have been notified that the other threa boats will not be accepted, and that the guarantee check for the two boats deliv- ered is forfeited. Several pavments have already been made upon the three con- ftracts now suspended, and which the company refuses to refund, but is said the Government. The Philippine Govern- ment has wasted a lot of money '::d time on this transaction, which is not a surprise to builders un this coast. The boats could have been bullt here. as wag advocated early last year, and if toa -nnulur-tmmflancuddhnh- f"“"’“’“muhnn-kflo— 1 to have made concessions satisfactory to - A