The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1903, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ¥ o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o’elock. TRADE STILL QUIETING DOWN. OMMERCIAL reports from most sections of the country last week indicated a continued quieting down in general business and the demand was reported considerably less than for several years past. The bank clearings tended to con- firm these reports, as they showed a falling off of 24.3 per cent from the corresponding week in 1902 with about hali of the largest cities on the wrong side of exhibit. The loss at New York was 36.7 per cent, though much of this was doubtless due to the shrink- es on the Stock Exchange and the lack of speculative activity which prevailed during most of the lures throughout the country were 208, t year. ess is still good in the West, but the farther cast the reports go the quieter business gets. The slope reports the movement fully as good as Hence it will be seen that a comparative inactivity is proceeding c the country from east to, west and that it has not yet reached this coast. It is interesting to note n this connection that there seems to be a universal ndeviating law that all movements and changes, social and commercial, move over the world from east to west, traveling with the sun, and his law has operated as.far back as the records man race show. The tide of population has iably followed this great law. lly agreed now that the direct cause of s quieting down in business is the great shrinkage age of v week e last year. wave of gic ion and prices in Wall street. It took | this shrinkage to affect general business, i at last. Money stringency was not the money is reported easy everywhere, there ng less dem: for it. Collections are slower than be they have been, though no serious complaints on this score are heard. The general tendency in all lines is rd 2 lower plane of prices, including farm prod- merchandise and manufactured goods, though the downward movement is very gradual and normal and apparently 2 natural recession from inflated valua- tions to more moderate prices. When the adjustment is completed and prices are where they ought to be we may consider business as once more on a normal, basis There is not, nor has there been, anything sensa- tional about this gradual readjustment. Spasms have occurred in Wall street, and every now and then some great trust quietly disintegrates of its own weight; but the movement is noiseless, like the silent sliding away of a snow bank. The great banking interests have put the brakes on the decline from time to time, just as they did on the advance when it became too feverish. The great bulk of the loss has fallen on the rich and very little of it on the poor. The slump in Wall street has been frequently styled “a rich man’s panic.” As pointed out in this column some months ago, it was largely a paper loss and rather a disap- pointment in anticipated profits than an actual money loss. True, a2 good deal of actual money has been sunk in inflated speculation and overexpanded invest- ments, but the paper loss has been much larger than the real loss in dollars and cents. This is probably the reason why the shrinkage has thus far not been accompanied by any pronounced financial stringency. Of the two evils the country has suffered the least. But it must not be inferred from all this that busi- ness as a rule is stagnant. Far from it. Many lines of trade still report an excellent movement with a fair margin of profit. Many branches of manufacture are still actively employed, with orders placed ahead. The railway earnings thus far in October are 6.2 per cent larger than last year ahd 12.7 larger than in 1901, The New England shoe factories are reporting ship- ments heavier than in any previous year. The woolen trade also reports rather better sales than of Ilate, though the raw product is quieter. The Eastern cotton mills have not yet fully resumed and are not buying heavily at present. Dry goods are reported dull at many places, but the movement in groceries and provisions is said to be better, following easier prices. The wholesale and jobbing buyers, however, are proceeding cautiously and not ordering every- thing in sight as they have heretofore done during the past four or five years. The natural law of sup- ply and demand is now being observed. Briefly the country is recovering from its recent fever. It has lost considerable finlnc'u'.l'fie'sh, but its reduced weight will tum out to be-a good thing for the commercial body. Too much profusion is worse than adversity, for the former results in consuming. fever, while the latter is 2 most excellent corrective, We have not been seriously hurt and probably will mot be. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1903. — REAR ADMIRAL RAE PLANS TRAINING STRAIGHT POLITICS. S the municipal campaign progresses it becomes A more and more evident that despite the ap- pearance of three tickets in the field we are to have in the closing days of the contest a straight issue between two parties, with the third ticket vir- tually out of the fight. It is of course natural that it shou)d be so, for in American politics there is no room for a third party as a permanent factor. In the practical work of government there must be an ad- ministration party and an opposition party, but for a third party, which is neither one thing nor the other, there is no place whatever in practical politics. In the present contest we have the administration represented by the Mayor himself seeking re-election by an appeal to those discontented elements of the | population which two years ago were powerful enough to profit by a division of sentiment among conserva- tives and elect him to office. The natural opposition {to such a municipal government is the Republican party, for that party has ever been the party of pros- | perity and contentment, the party whose great policy of protection to American industry carries benefits to capital and labor alike. In ‘municipal as in national politics that party stands for harmony of sentiment and unity of effort among all classes of Americans. It is therefore inevitable that the great masses of the conservative people of the city should look to it for leadership in making a fight against the factions that are seeking to continue in power an administration founded upon class prejudices and devoted mainly to the advancement of the personal fortunes of a few leaders. From the very opening of the campaign the ten- dency has been toward drawing the line clearly be- | tween the party of prosperity headed by Mr. Crocker and the party of discontent led by Schmitz and Ruef. |1t may be that some conservative Democrats do not |see the futility of Lane’s candidacy, but there is no contented elements of the party. Those elements are not going to throw away their votes by voting for {Lang, They are going to vote for Schmitz, and 1according1y the candidacy of the Mayor is formidable. ]That is the issue which gives importance to the can- | vass, and the fact should be carefully pondered by | every citizen who desires not only a good government | of the municipality, but the elimination of class preju- dices and dissensions from local politics. Lane and Schmitz recognize that they are appealing to the same class of voters, and accordingly each is ldoing his best or his worst to discredit the other. The campaign between them ranges daily from farce comedy to mud slinging. There has been as yet no open affray between the personal partisans of the two leaders, but there have been occasions when red pep- | per was strewn in halls where speaking was to occur |and decayed fruit thrown at the heads of spellbinding orators. Such campaigning is doubtless offensive to | Mr. Lane, but the very fact that he is mixed up in it | shows the quality of the factional spirit that con- fronts him and to which he must appeal. While such tactics are being used by the followers | of Lane and of Schmitz the campaign of Mr. Crocker and of his colleagues on the Republican ticket has been steadfastly maintained on the high plane of rea- son and personal dignity. That fact in itself is suf- | ficient to show the nature of the forces that are back iof the Republican organization in this contest. They | are forces that tend to harmony and good will among ia!l classes of citizens. Mr. Crocker is not a business man'’s candidate any more than he is a workingman's candidate. He is a genuine Republican asking sup- port of his fellow citizens upon the broad platforms | of Republicanism, which in their essential elements are virtually the platforms of good citizenship. Attention has been directed in our local columns to a phase of the contest that should not be over- looked. Ample experience has shown that with each | successive ballot law many votes are lost by reason |of mistakes in preparing ballots. Such being the | case it will be advisable in this election for every Re- | publican to vote a straight ticket so that no excuse !may be given for the judges to throw it out. We ought moreover to have a good straight Republican | victory this year as a preparation for the coming | | Presidential election. This is a contest in which the Republican party is the only organization in the field that stands for straight politics. It is but right therefore that its loyal members should vote the straight ticket and make the victory a clean sweep. The crafty owners of that clever pilfering device, the nickel-in-the-slot machine, seem to be proof €ven against retributive justice. Two burglars were cheated a few days in Redding in their efforts to steal stolen money from one of the machines, as the device began to tune a musical air just as it was being uifled. There are at least two savage breasts in | Shasta that music will not soothe A deplored the death of Sir Hector Macdonald, the hero of the British army, under circum- stances that seemed to leave his name smirched with dishonor and shame. The sad story will be readily recalled. Macdonald, a boy of poor parentage, en- tered the British army as a private and fought his way | up to the rank of major general, winhing the Victoria | Cross on the way. He was the idol of the rank and | file of the army and was honored by the ablest and foremost of the officers. He was in England enjoy- ing the honors he had won when a summons came to him to return to Ceylon to answer charges gravely affecting his character. He started to Ceylon, but at Paris committed suicide, and thus seemingly con- fessed himself incapable of clearing his fame of the charges brought against him. Even at the time there were men who knew him well who did not hesitate to maintain his innocence and to attribute his suicide to a form of insanity that not infrequently occurs in vigorous minds of natives of the temperate zone who have overworked them- selves in the tropics. It now appears that the view of these faithful friends is correct and that the brave soldier was not the guilty creature scandal pro- claimed him. Shortly after the suicide six commissioners were appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending and affecting the death of Macdonald. The commis- sion has now reported, and the Westminster Gazette in reviewing the findings says: “The report is pub- lished from the Government buildings, Colombo, and says that the commissioners, individually and collect- wely, declare on oath that, after the most careful, minute and exhaustive inquiry and investigation of the whole of the circumstances and facts connected with the sudden and unexpected death of the late Sir Hector Macdonald, they unanimously and unmis- takably find absolutely no reason or cause whatso- ever which would create feelings such as would de- Itermine suicide in preference to conviction of any lerime affecting the moral and irreproachable charac- A SCANDAL EXPLODED. 4 Lo g MERICANS as well as men of British birth misconception of the subject on the part of the dis- | | | the means and leisure to gratify their tastes. | complish this it is only necessary to improve the op- ter of so brave a hero. The commissioners further state that ‘they believe the suggestions of crime were prompted through feelings of spite.’” The world has 5ot so many heroes that it can af- ford to surrender the fame of any of them to scandal- mongers who delight in maligning the brave. Mac- donald was a man of the type that Americans espe- cially delight to honor. He was one of the humbly born, whose heroic hearts are capable of daring all dangers and fighting their way to eminence against all odds. Such lives are an inspiration to the youth of every land and of every age. We cannot afford to lose the influence of their memory, and consequently throughout the civilized world there will be no little satisfaction in the report that clears the fame of the gallant soldier who, weakened by years of toil under tropic suns, broke down under the strain put upon him by spiteful slanderers. The spectacle of a murderer weeping over his dread work when confronted by the dumb evidence | that cold-bloodedly, deliberately and heartlessly he had cut the thread of a defenseless girl’s life, had de- stroyed the happiness of two families and had shocked the city by a dastardly crime, was before a Coroner’s jury a few days since. Tears from him under such conditions mock the dead. EMBELLISHINQ MARIN. EDITOR JAMES H. WILKINS of the Marin Marin County to “prepare a great pleasure ground for a city that will before long contain 1,000,- 000 inhabitants.” The county can, he says, “be made a land of homes for those who love nature and have To ac- portunities that the Creator has placed before us.” The preliminary step to be taken, so writes the editor, is to have “a careful and intelligent investiga- tion by men familiar with the topography of the dif- ferent localities, men of taste, experience and broad gauge minds, who can consider the subject as a w}lole and not with any narrow desire to secure some selfish advantage for themselves.” $ The general idea entertained is that the greatest need is the improvement of roads. " The recommenda- tion is made that the great highway through the county to the Sonoma line be modernized. = From Sausalito to San Rafael it is in excellent condition and also a few miles north from the last mentioned city. “It leads through a picturesque country that is touched by the railroad at only two points and would be a source of pleasure to thousands if it were in the condition that the ideas of to-day demand.” Then again it is proposed that the rofgl around Point San Pedro that has been discussed during twenty years by the people of San Rafael should be constructed. “It would be the star attraction of San Rafael and would pay for its cost five or six times in a year in the business it would bring.” A new road is also suggested to reach the Nicasio Valley to open up the country between Nicasio and Point Reyes. “There is no more beautiful country in the State than that comprised between Nicasio and Point Reyes townships, but they are pretty much a closed book to the multitude who travel on wheels of one sort or another under the existing conditions.” The rough estimate of $150,000 is given as the cost to_provide the roads in the county “that would sim- ply transform it and leave it without a rival in its own line around the bay of San Francisco.” To educate the people to the advantages to be de- rived from good roads to open up all the scenic beau- ties of Marin County the Tocsin would have an im- provement club formed comprised of the leading men of each section of the county who have leisure and inclination to give definite attention to the subject. It says: “Several problems will have to be considered, among them being the passage of a constitutional amendment permitting the issuance of bonds for such a purpose, as the bonds of Sacramento County for a like purpose were once rejected on legal grounds. But if the work is once placed in strong hands all obstacles will give way, and now that public interest seems aroused is the time to make a start.” B —— During the life of the St. Louis Exposition 178 conventions of national repute will meet in the expo- sition city. Realizing the value of these conventions to any community, the commercial bodies of Denver have decided to ask San Francisce and other coast cities to co-operate with Denver in an effort to secure these assemblies for 1905 and share their presence and the advantages which will follow. In such a plan as this San Francisco has much to gain, for she has won much from the simple opportunity of showing people what she has to offer. Court revelations of the character and conduct of the shipbuilding trust indicate that the organizers of the concern took unwarranted liberties with the English language in naming it. It should have been called a corporation established, encouraged and pro- tected to rob the public under due process of law. In a police court its methods woquld be characterized as robbery; -in the world of dishonest finance they are business propositions. : ‘While we are sympathizing with our friends who are being butchered in Macedonia, reflecting upon the unkind fate of the Jews in Russia, marveling at the bloody insurrections in China and speculating upon the outcome of the row between Russia and Japan, let us not forget that the ladrones and the head-hunters are abroad in the land and are making life strenuous for Uncle Sam’s soldiers in the Philip- pines. Judging from the allegations in a divorce suit re- cently filed in this city it seems that some people in- sist upon garbing the airy fancies of sentimentality with brute realism. The husband, who is being sued for divorce on the ground that he threatened to cut his wife’s heart out, probably believes that when she said she would give him her heart she meant so literally. He is lamentably defective in imagination. A local man, pathetically pleading, wants a divorce because he says his wife spends his money for liquor and meat for seven dogs. Perhaps the lady is in training for the position of poundmistress. She cer- tainly possesses one of the necessary qualifications for the position, if not both. The murder of two girls in this city by jealousy- crazed, jilted lovers, which has aroused and outraged the community, has provoked a natural inquiry. Has the time come when American girls cannot be given the protection which is afforded to vagrant dogs on the streets? Because his wife called him a bow-legged runt an aggrieved husband of this city says he was made to suffer keenest mental agony and given a good reason.| \ for divorce. A fellow always has a right to object not to what he is but to what he is called, ! 9 County Tocsin is exhorting the people of | Cete ZULE HE navy afloat is not seriously in need of highly scientific persons to run and take care of the ma- % chinery, but it is somewhat dif- ferent when {t comes to designing engines for future ships. The new engineer in chief, Rear Admiral C. W. Rae, chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, has recommended the appointment of a board to report upon the suusect of training line officers in engineering. The board, com- posed of Captain Converse, Commander Perry, formerly an engineer, and Lieu- tenant C. Davis, is to report on the estab- lishment of an engineering schpol for officers, and £n the period in tHeir pro- fessional cafeer in which officers should recelve this instruction. It would seem that the best instruction would be on i board ships by the warrant machinists. If the officer is really desirous of knowing the working of engines and the proper { way of keeping up steam, he can learn more In the engine and boiler room in a ship in commission in three months than | he will know after a year's course at an engineering school. As it Is now, the mere presence of a line officer on the engine-room platform does not raise the steam one nound nor add to the revolu- | tions of the propellers. As for the de- | signers of machinery, there Is no scarcity of such outside of the navy. It !s over four and a half years since | the personnel law went Into effect, by | which the Engineer Corps ceased to exist | |as a distinct organization In the navy. iTha engineers wcre merged with the line | jand of the 184 former engineer officers (in July, 1899, only 141 remain, the rest having either dled, resigned or retired. Of the present total 23 are exempt from sea service, leaving only ..8 available for service afloat. To make up for the with- drawal of commissioned engineer officers | | the grade of warrant machinist was es- | | tablished, beginning, in 1960, with 100 men and was recently increased to 150,and these warrant officers, \together with enlisted machinists, have satisfactorily performed the duties of commissioned engineers on board ships. Engineer in Chief Melville | Was somewhat pessimistic regarding the ability of warrant machinists and prophe- sfed all sorts of disastrous results, but fortunately none of them have material- ized; ships come and go as they were wont to; there have been no serious break- | downs and no visible increase in repair ! bills. The torpedo-boats are run by prac- tical engine drivers, and the efficiency of the navy as a whole does not seem to have been impaired by substituting experi- enced warrant officers at $1200 a year for {the high salaried naval academy grad- uates, The British Admiralty has awarded con- I!racls for three armored cruisers to the ! Fairfleld Company at Glasgow, Armstrong | at Newcastle and Vickers at Barrow. The i ships are to be of the Duke of Edin- | burgh type, 480 feet in length, 13,020 tons ! displacement, 24,000 horsepower and 22 1-3 | knots speed, as compared with the Black | Prince and Duke of Edinburgh, having | | 480 feet length, 13,550 tons displacement, | :2.1500 horsepower and 22 knots epeed. The { belt and side armor is of f-inch Krupp | steel and the gun protection of heavy and sccondary batteries are of the same thick- ness. The main battery is composed of six 9.2-inch and ten 6-inch. Another ship of the same class is to be built at one of the dockyards, making six vessels sim- {flar to the California class, of which six are being built for the United States Navy. A valuable seam of coal available for | naval purposes, has been ‘struck on the Glencralg Colliery, Fifeshire, about two | miles from the new naval base at St | Margarets Hove, Scotland. The coal mina \ls adjacent to the future anchorage of | warships, making the discovery of inesti- | mable value to the navy. of the Belleville | boilers of the British cruiser Spartiate | closes the battlg of the boilers. The com- | mission which, “after several years of ex- ! haustive and expensive trials, .condemned the Belleville type as unfit for use in ships | | of war is coming in for a goud deal of | criticism and it is chargeda that politics were at the bottom of the business. The opposition to the Lord Spencer adminis- tration was led by William Allen, a Radi- cal of the most pronounced kind. He was dead set against water-tube boilers of The successful trial | any kinfl and it was deemea good politics to throw discredit on the party that had introduced this kind of boiler in the navy. Ancther combination known as the anti- Bellvilles joined forces with the Allen op- position because the boilers were of French make, and a stuffed board did what was required of it. The plan, how- ever, miscarried, for Rear Admiral May, Controller of the Navy, cared more for | naval efficiency than for politics, and, dis- | reg®rding the boiler committee and its | verdicts, selected two Believilie cruisers, | the Europa and Spartiate, for a cruise to | China and back under war condition® A total of 16,000 miles was steamed by each of the two vessels, the Europa with boil- ers five years old, and at the end of the trip neither showed defects of any kind. The Spartiate upon her return from China joined the fleet in maneuvers and ! added %00 miles to her 16,000 miles, and when the ship was pald off the balers were in good condition. Onme of the many instances indicating the value of these boilers is the Spartiate’s steaming record | from Plvmouth to Gibraltar, when she covered 109 miles in tactics, ec., burning | 250 tons of coal, which Is equivalent to, nearly four miles on ome ton of coal at 13 kilots, and that is a record not touched | by any other type of botler. Various alleged improvements have been miade from time to time in contriv- | ances for ascertaining the speed of ships | at sea, but the results have been unsatis- | factory. M. Guyon has suggested to the Paris Academy of Sciences a return to the oldest form of line lox with certain modifications. The float is replaced by a light calico bag containing a little sand, the resistance of which is sufficient to form a satisfactory fixed point. The line is lald in coils and not on a roll, and is: fitted with a simple electrical indicator. An accuracy of 1 per cent is obtained with this arrangement, whereas the latest metallic speed indicator used in most na- vies do not come nearer than 3 per cent to | the actual velocity and are utteriy unre- | liable at high speeds. The new line log | has therefore been recommended for use | in the French navy. . The latest volume of Nauticus, a year- book relating to Germany’'s maritime af- | fairs, contains an interesting resume of the persemnel question in the several na- | vies, especlally dealing with the fanctions | of military and engineer officers. It con- tends that each branch is so distinct in its | requirements as to make a combination | of the two out of the question. In Ger-| many, as in the United States and En land, changes have been made with a view | of improving the organization of the en- gineer officers’ corps. The plan went into | oneration in 1900 and its efect will soon | be ascertained. Young men desirous of | becoming engineer officers must have had | maneuvers for 'NAVAL LINE OFFICERS IN ENGINEERINGY OFFICER WHO SEEKS TO IN- | CREASE EFFICIENCY OF HIS | DEPARTMENT. | : * at least thirty months’ practical experi- ence in a machine shop. The apprentice is first given a three months’ course in naval dril! and discipline, succeeded by nine months’ technical instruction on ships in the home squadron. and is then promoted to “applicant.” After two years’ further service at sea and one year at school of instruction he is prepared to take the ex- amination for engineer ‘“aspirant.” A service of four years is required in that grade before he takes another examina- tion and receives his commission as an officer in the engineer corps. It thus re- quires eight years to become an assistant engineer in the German navy, during which period frequent examinations test the fitness of the person. This ccurse ap- plies to seagoing engineers only and the technical corps is officered by men of emi- nent sclentific and practical ability. St ol Japan’s navy is apparently ready for any contingency. A fleet of twenty-seven vessels has been lying for several weeks at Sasabo awaiting orders from the Min- ister of the Navy. The fleet engaged in several days Dbetween Kyushu and the Korean coast. The fleet consists of four battleships—Asalie, Shi- kishima, Hatsuse and Yashima; five ar- mored cruisers—Azuma, Chiyoda, Idzumo. Iwace and Tokiwa: and three protected cruisers—Kasagl, Chitore and Yoshino. This imposing fighting fleet is further sup- plemented with the Oshimo and Chihaya, gunboats, thirteen destroyers and a num- ber of torpedo-boats. i J B s B O S M o o e ] | PERSONAL MENTION. E. C. Smith, a banker of Pacific Grove, is at the Grand. Attorney F. C. Lusk of Chico is regis- tered at the Palace. | Frank Cox, Representative to Congress | from Arizona, is at the Palace. | William R. Thorsen, a wealthy timber | man of Milwaukee, is at the Palace. Parker Wilson, a capitalist of Stockton, and his wife are staying at the Grand. A. J. Fairbanks, proprietor of the new hotel at Willits, is registered at the Lick. D. Annan, cashier of the Second Na- tional Bank of Cumberland, Md., is at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. Willlam Major of Agua Callente, Mexico, arrived at the Occiden- tal yesterday. Byron Waters of Los Angeles, former claim agent of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, is at the Ofcidental. John Rosene, manager of the companies which have acquired o1g concessions on the Siberian coast, is at the Palace. United States Senator Willlam A. Clark arrived from Los Angeles yesterday and is registered at the Palace. He will re- main here until after the bankers’ con- vention. Allan Pollok, manager of the new St. Francis Hotel, has returned from the Fast, whither he went a month ago on business connected with the hotel enter- prise. He said yesterday that it is ex- pected the St. Francls will be opened in January. P. L. Vernier, French Bishop of the Friendly Islands, who is regarded in the light 'of a ruler among the natives of South Pacific communities, and his young son were passengers on the steamer Mari- posa, which arrived from Tahiti yester- day. As is his custom about every two years the Bishop is making a trip to France to visit his old home. —_——— Leave Chatelaines in Park. Mrs. Mary Nelligan, 1259 O'Farrell street, reported to the police yesterdayv that she had left her chateiaine purse containing $22 on a bench on the south main drive near the bicycle rest, Golden Gate Park, on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Schwalbe, 1030 Howard street, also re- that she left her chatelaine bag, containing $150 on a bench near the music stand. Townsend’s California glace frults and candies, 50c a pound., In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st.. above Call bldg. * L —————— Special information dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornla street. Telephone Main 1042 * ANSWERS TO QUERIES. YACHT CLUB—Y. Herbert E. Case is the secretary of the Sdn Pedro Yacht Club. PRESIDIO—J., City. The acreage of the military reservation at the Presidio is 1540 acres. RELIANCE — R.,, City. If you will write a letter of inquiry to the New York Yacht Club, New York City, the secretarsy may Inform you “what percentage of the crew that sailed the yacht Reliance dur- ing the recent race were born in the Uni- ted States.” HOPE—A Reader, City. The position of the figure representing Hope in chains and with hands uplifted means that the woman, being in chains, has appealed to have them taken off and be restored to freedom, and she hopes that her prayer will be answered. MANGANESE—O., City. Manganese is one of the heaviest of metals. It is of a grayish white color with metallic bril- liancy, is capable of high polish, is so hard as to scratch glass and steel and is non-magnetic. As a_metal it is used in the steel processes. Manganese is correc- tive of the ill effects of phosphorus. NEW YORK SIDEWALKS—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. In the city of New York the width of sidewalks on streets forty feet wide is ten feet; fifty feet wide, thir- teen feet; sixty feet wide, fifteen feet; seventy feet wide, eighteen feet; eighty feet wide, nineteen feet, and above eighty feet wide and not exceeding 100 feet, twenty feet, and on all streets more than 100 feet wide, twenty-two feet. SAND PAPER—Subscriber, City. What is commonly known as sand paper is not prepared with sand, but with flnely pow- dered common window glass, that having a greenish tint being the best. The pow- dered glass is sifted through sieves of dif- ferent sizes for coarse and fine paper. Then coarse paper is covered with thin glue and the powdered glass is sifted upon it. After standing a day or two, until thoroughly dried, the surplus glass is shaken off and the paper is ready to be prepared for the market. The Cal! Al_ds: the State. ' From the Tulare Register. The San Francisco Call fully appreci- ates the fact that upon the development of the agricultural resources of California depends the prosperity of the State, and it is not slowein lending its very helptul aid to that development. There is no spirit of provincialism Call. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. DESTROY THE CAUSE. You Cannot Cure Dandruff Without Destroying the Cause of It. Many people wash their scalps Saturday night or Sunday to try to keep the dan- druff down for the week, but on Monday night the scalp has begun to itch, and Tuesday morning will find a good supply of dandruff when the hair is brushed. There is but one real scientific way of curing dandruff; and that is to kill the germ that causes it and falling hair and finally baldness. There is only one prep- aration that will destroy the germ, and that is Newbro's Herpicide. It is an en- tirely new discovery and the only hair preparation that is based on the new sci- entific principle. In addition Herpicide is a very refreshing hair dressing for reg- ular toflet use. Sold by leading drug- gists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought ey (et Fone Signature of SHIRTS ARE THE BEST AT THE PRICE CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. manifest in The | chitis.