The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 12

NCISCO CALL, FRIDAY.” DECEMBER 25, 190 SONE CTRINES NDERTAKINGS Which of STEAMER RUNS INTO ROCKS, Hole Two Feet Square Is Made | Queer Enterpr in in Her Side and She Sinks| Certain Municipalities s in Fifteen Feet of Water| Great Britain Are }:ngngodl st { —_———— PASSENGERS ARE SAVED! GLASGOW. STANDS AT HEAD - D | e Accident Oceurs Off Copps Isl-| Brighton Owns a Racetrack, and, Just Outside Norwalk, Tunbridge Wells 'Pheaters, Harbor, During a Heavy Fog| i The prosperous city of ( t of many distinction muszicipal undertak- E id-Bits, 1 to be the most munic sgow -can lized ¢ the we and mana g its street car lines, tele- ¢., the Municip number of other more curious erprises for the benefiy of its inhab- the city's f year et singular sunding municipal or so ago. her- If links panic, One woman scued by a was inaugurated on account of | the fact that the only goif links in uml‘ scheme round a -d ing the con- by a fe an exorbitant ‘omplaints having been made to proper quarter by people who were pre- vented from playing on account of the excessive fees, the Glasg Mu Council laid out its own link: ided the necessary caddies, etc., placed them at the disposal of the pub- vessel lic at a y quickly that 1 to say, these links 1o seize clothing diate success and the profits derived from them have helped to a certain ex tent to keen down the ordinary taxa- tion. GLASGOW RUNS PAWN SHOPS. w clubs, which charged nge i left the pro- ngers v York and ithout wraps the gers on th> wre k- F It was also on account of the very Frastus Corning, h nded pigh interest which pawnbrokers ¢ charged their customers that the mu- B il o nicipal authorities of Glasgow decided Million Widows. some time ago to establish pawnshops ! matician announces of their own. The city now possesses 1 60,396 dows, has a three of these shops, bought outright the original owne which have ous amount of business “trade.” The rate of frony en an eno from the ay and Battersea )lilk' Depot | :t none so | CGlasgow may be, ia, for, in addition to owning | P { system, electric light, gas plants, i Council con- | This | ut Glasgcw were at one time | | subscription. | the | sipal | | and| | very cheap subseription. A\'nenl‘[ ere an imme- | interest charged at a municipal pawn- | five shill- | p is one penny for every ings borrowed, whereas the interest at York other shops is five and six times that amount | r Glasgow has so invested, among other things, in a tulip farm, a laun- dry, a dog and bird store gnd an old 20,00 clothes market. The profits derived | T from the two latter concerns, by the bye, are devoted to the support of the s municipal art studio and i . gallery. The old clothes mar- t ket built at an outlay of £3000. s Ala and whereas formerly the “old cio g man was allowed to hawk his wares in the public streets, he now has to rent a st 1 the market and thus help oth- sl er taxpayers. The dog and the bird .waii anq ™Market adjoins the old clothes market, Jarger fanciers having to pay similar rents, sy *hicago.— | the tulip farm was etsabli ) b in order that the city’s parks and pub- ic gardens might be decorated at less " ; expense than was entailed through ; buying plants each’ year from bulb . France 11 n Austria | dealers { 1 and in Spain #4 Glasgow, however, is by no means e the only town with a go-ahead Munic £ VEL pal Couricil. Swansea possesses one of OCEAN TRA! rd the finest general markets in the three ki Belfast and Preston, as w other towns, have municipal slaughter houses and meat markets. Brighton owns and manages its ow:y s municipal theaters. Manchester, lightens the taxpay burden ith ofits from a municipal candle actory, while Liverpool assists its in- habitants in the same manner by ov:1 ing and managing a beet farm. BATTEREA'S MILK DEPOT. The Municipal Council of Battersea iment. The .death rate among infants having become so large, main m ac- count of the disease germs in milk, the resuit of keeping it in stuffy living rooms and dirty larders, Battersea de- d to see what could be done toward formation obtain folder. for little folk. race track, while Tunbridge Wells pos- | has lately been trying a unique exper- | each | SUPPIYINg pure and proper nourishment | A depot has been estab- | Pange steamers or sall. | lished at which pure sterilized milk, CKET OFFICES—{ New Montgom- |~ 2:enicaily bottled. can be obtained e ace Hotely, 10 Market street and | il Proper quantities, according to the s aree ah hashat ntrest of the child. That is to say, each | C. D DUNAN ral Passenger Agent 10 Market street. San Francise mount of milk which it requires, pot delivering it each day the in air tight O. R. & N. CO, v it S e e e o » weeks old, for in- <" waiis | stance bottles, each of them con- | ond 2 | taining nd a half ounces of milk, Al voints clivered. This gives the little one n and 2 half ounces per day, ard is exactly the‘amount it needs. v is being supplied with exactly the CELESTIALS RETURN TO NATIVE LAND [CREYHOUNDS TO CELEBRATE THE CHINESE NEW YEAR ‘Steamship Ching Wo Sails for the Orient by Way of Tacoma With 360 Pig-Tailed Passengers Who Will Be Carried to Flowery Land for 815 Each ———— J CLEARED. g ‘Thursday, Dece Stmr Santa Tosa, Alexander, Pac Coast S S Co. Br stmr Ching The China Commercial Company's steamship Ching Wo sailed yesterday | for the Orient by way of Tacoma with Wo, Parikinson, Hongkons, | 360 Chinese passengers. At the north- Ste. Vis Haooian; Chiva Ohismcisial Co | ern port the Ching Wo will take a full sl:‘;a"':é",'"’m'(& Bertlett, Victoria; Charles argo for Hongkong, Most of the Ce- Fr »hnfix\.fl;‘l:rl‘esmf);‘nnuncs, Beaudry, Queens- >stials who sailed yesterday are going ey iy Thofihe; - Betie: Ta me to celebrate the Chinese New B GO i Cuie NS Fr F Henry W H Marston, Curtis, Honolul ar. To celebrate this festival on Chinese soil is the hope of all good Chinamen located in the United States and every pig-tailed native of the Ce- ch SAILED, Thursday. December 1 | I I | short time from new if an invention OF THE OCEAN i YRR Clyde Shipyard Now Working ou Design Which Promises Revolutionize Travel l i e ! VESSEL WITH TWO KEEL to Combines Many Other Improve- ments Which Will Tend to Greatly Inerease the Speed IR “To be able to cross the Atlantic in three and a half days will be an ac- complished fact in perhaps a very which is at present being worked out | in a shipbuilding yard on the Ciyde for the attainment of that object is successfully completed and put to the test, and there are very -encouraging ! prospects in the present state of the | invention of its proving an entire su cess,” said Carl D. Flint, an ex-lieu- tenant in theyroyal navy and now a naval constructor for Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipbuilders, who { arrived here last Wednesday from Ire- | 1 | of the | ondly, the p | and land. His visit is unofficial, but while here he is*making a tour of some of | our principal shipbuilding yards in ' order, he sa to get a general idea s to the progress being made on this side in ship construction. Mr. Flint is the guest of Lewis Nixon. He made a visit {0 the navy yard at Washing- ton recently. “Little or nothing has been said as | yet about the invention,” Mr. Flint continued. “It will not mean a revo- lution in the present style of floating craft. but simply a ship with a sort of arched bottom, and a change in the position and shane of the propelle There will be no keels, but, instead, what might be called a double or hull, after the style of the cata- ! Such a hull will prevent the ! at from rolling, and, therefore, do away with what is to the majority one most disagreeable features of ocean travel. As for the new screw | propellers, they will be moved further up in the'body of the vessel, and built | in ridges formed by the twin keels be- | ing a part of them. ! “In all iiners as built at present the | screw propellers, you know, come out on each side of the stern. The ad-| vantage claimed for the new idea— that is, the screw and hull together— | are twofeld; first, on account of the position of the screws being removed from the stern, the tremendeus suction ! power which always follows a vessel, sreatly retarding her speed, is carried off to the stern by the two keels; sec- opellers are rendered much more powerful because their diameter and consequent grasp of th: water is| very much greater. In every propeller | now being used on steamships there is much lost power in the ceater of the| whirling blades. An electric fan is a m of propeller. It forces air out! instead of water. If you place your hand in the center of an electric fan you will find that there is no a The breeze comes from the vutside edges | of the blades. The same is true of alll camship propellers in use at present, ! it means a great loss of power. That defect has been remedicd, how { ever, in the new propeller, by mak|ng" it nothing but blades and placing a | solid metal wheel or hub ou the pro- | pelier shaft and setting the tlades on | it. The scheme, of course, would be of no practical benefit if applied to our | present liners, because the v heel of | the propeller, being large, would catch | the water and tend to retard the pro- | gress of the boat with its s As [ have explained, however, the new vessel has an arched or shallow bottom along its whole length, and that secures a flow of water under the center of the boat equal to that along the sides and establishes a bearing for the new propeller equal in diameter to the large hub wheel upon which the | propeller blades are fastened. The pro-| | | shaft | these two points. 4 | i ays Harbor. ial Kingdom who has the price of | rays HAThor. spoctation, ihe His 1o sppse 14 ewburs, Anfndsen. Grays Harbor credentials which will insure his re- i Stonal City. Hammer. Hedondo dmissic is « : packs his SRR 5 orge W, Fider. Randail, for Astoria. admission to this country ¥ | ; 5 orge 1Y Blder: Rendal, foc Ameila | grip and crosses the Pacific [t I Thanks to the rate war waged as| | UNITED STATES CRUISER | Br stmr Oanfa Bartett, Puzet Sound. i1 C NEW YORK, WHICH SAIL RBr stmr Ching Wo, Perkinson. Hongkong. etc. a result of the Pacific Mail Company’'s | | BN YORI SWHICH, SRIES N s e, Hawel. foe Hlongiuil effort to wipe out the China Comme! | FOR PANAMA TO-MORROW. Br chip Anconii. Salter, Tacoma, = 5 ¥ St Pt ship Jules Gommes, Beaudry, Queenstown. I Company, the Ching Wo's passen- s g T T T G A L et gers will be carried to China at an e g . g town. i % : f v $15 ach Fore every day in the order of occurrence as to time; the Bark S Allen, Johnson, Port Blakeley. pense of only $15 each. ¥ | fourth time column gives the last tide of the | Br bark Inverness, Lewis for Sydney. Chinese that sailed yesterday on the | day, axen when ‘nsrr: are h:l three tide: as| Schr Louis Meyer, “1l]a;vr ||ar\‘wr. = " 9 _ | sometimes occurs. e heights given n Schr Coats, Dahloff, Astoria Ching Wo there were three fellow-| gqqjiion to the soundings of the United States | Schr Volunteer, Breseen, Astoria | countrymen on Steuart street wh':\r[ N B TELEGRAPHIC. to bid him good-b nd a happy New Movements of Steamers. POINT LOBOS—Dec 10 p m—Weather Year when it comes in China. hazy; wind M\u "-:Mll"\] miles per hour. o 10 ARSI LONDON, Dec 2i—Ger ship Elfrieda, from Bennington Goes to Mare Island. i TR Rotterdam for Portland, put into Santos with The United States . gunboat Bennington; | ———" _ | S e foretopsail yard sprung: repairs will require which arrived Wednesday from Seattle, went | Phocnix Mendocino g S e A e up to Mare’ Island recetve & sup- | L5000 e s Dec 5, lon 2 N. lat 36 W-—Fr bark Marechal piy- oL o to Jaiing | & Monica Graye ¥Iait Davout, from Rotterdam, for San Francisco. for Pa Visitor lved _ (hi8 | & ronado ey Fast Dec i9. lon 40 N_ lat § W—Br ship Speke, | Misrmoen_on 2ORN e e rotke] Aiidnes portiand & W from Antwerp, for Port Los Angeles which Will saifon Saturday for the isthmus. * | ¢ 3 Portland & Way ¥ o Oregorian....| New York........ DOMESTIC PORTS £ Seattle & Olympia FORT BRRAGG—Arrived Le Stmr Brurs, Bringing Shipwrec Portiand & Astoria k. hence Dec 23, ToR e The m schooner Del ‘Norte, which 4s due Goauille River O :wn;:\ —Arrived Dec 24—Stmr Czarina, early this morninz from Crescent City, s | China and Japan...... KA Arrived Dec 24—Schr Lottie Car- thought to bave on board ths crew the Seattle & Tacoma.. 7 san Pedro; stmr Pasadena, hence sehooner Mary Buhre, which was sunk last 4 g Wi L o Dec 15 Saturday morning about eight miles off Hum- | Chehalis Chavs b b e Pedro, Westport Bar after being in collision with the Del | Eureka. . Humboldt A for San s Titania. | Nanatmo: .. 25 Sailed Dec iy Ma- — Pomona . for San Francisca: lumbia and 5 or North. Bonita. 3g | Whittier and 5 V sarms and_Antelope. | } Oanfa Sails 4 o | Stateor Calll | San Diego & Way Ports/Dec. 28 | for San Franci jer ship Arthur Fitger, for | The big British freighter Oanfa sailed Yes- | Gity Puebla...| Puget Sound Poms 28 | Canao. 3 §: terday for the north, having discharged in rec- H. Kruger | Seattle and Tacoma . 20| PORT GAMBLE- Arrived Dec 24—Br ship ot the skilled divection of | Mexic 3 | E dston Hill, hence Dec 14. ord time u r the skilled directi § f « NII‘I\ ‘#_l.;‘l"lfl Ports. Dec. .’fl l':)l.\'T LOBOS- Passed Dec 24, 2 n m—Stmr Wilson, superintendent of the Pacific Mail | Mariposa...... | 1 £ Jisc 38 ' - POINT LORCECIAISS Tor Pois Bartoed: Dock, the large cargo she brought here last | North For Humbolde [Dec. 20 | ALERG L™ passed out Dec 24 Erig Geneva, Sunday for the Occidental and Oriental Steam- | €2 ‘cos Bay c. POCHEE—Eunsed qut *ig iramp ever in this bort and attracted consid- | Santa Rosa. .| San Dieso & Wa v s E § erable attention during her short stay. She | Point Aren: ‘ Mendocine & Pt % 1] 22 c 208 Meivitle B 1 el ‘away in & hurry. aa her Chinese | G. Y. Elder. | Portiand & Astorla...iDec. 31 | SEATTLE Sailed Dec 2i—stmr SEwiIC passengers must be landed in British Columbia | Coos Bay.....| 8an dro & v Ports{Jan. 1 ‘f‘ ';"k m["‘ for San Francisco, before the first of the vear or pay a head tax | Umatilia.....| Puget Seund Ports.....[Jan. 2 | W H Kruear. o8 S0 500 g Vatencta, £500 cach. Captain Bartlett warmly thanked {J. Dollar..... | Seattle and Tacom: 2|, SEATTLE 248§ aptain Wilson for Ahe cxpeditious manner in | Alameda. . ! | Honolutu - 5| from Skagway e e Vehich the great freighter had been discharged. | Coptic.. China_and Japan {ran s ATEli e 2 g & FULma Newpor ew York via. Panama.|Jan. x"“f.m?"'v e CTTY The Overdue List. 3 flle River, for & e e i SAU | Norte, tor San Franclsco. | vt The rate of rein on_the | N PEDRO—Arrived Dec Sktn Skagi advanced vesterday to 6 per cent. The Willy | _Steamer. Destination. ‘5'"'» Pler. | (o Nport Gambie; stmr Despateh, from Re- ! | s is quoted at 15 and the W. J. Pirrie pa & paiR gpostian ., December 25. donddd Dec 24—Schr W I Patterson. for ——— | & Dollar... | Seattle & Tacoma.| I pmiPier 20 | Gravs Harbor: bktn Northwest. for Eureka | Eureka. Humboldt .. AORT HARFORD—Sailed Dee mr Bo- { ¢ vear-old baby forty-two oun-es | 19 lm!'Pler 13 Britisher Joses a Mast. December 26. for San Pedro, hence Dec nita_ British “eltic Monarch, bound from | Pomo. .| Pt. Arena & Alblon| 6 pm|Pier 2 | ABERDEEN—Sailed Dec 2i—Stmr Chehalis, n for Victoria, put into Queenstown yes- | Rival. Willapa Harvor...| 4 pm/Pier 20 | for San Pedro. e e L for repairs. having lost her fore iop. | Pt. Arena...iPt Arena & Mdcno| 4 pm|Pler 2 EASTERN PORTS. gallant mast. | Barracouta. | N.' Y. via Panama.|12 m|Pier 40 | cApg HENRY—-Passed Dec 23—Br stmr fS A e sl 8. Monlca.. Los Angeles Ports.| 4 pmiPier 2 | anglo-African, rom Junin. for Philadelphia. NP PORTS ~Arrived Dec |~ December 27. | | [ Humbolat .. {10 am|Pier 7| NEWS OF THE OCEAN. S stmr HONOLULL Solace, hence Dec San Diego & |9 am Pier 11 | | whole circle is more than 90 feet. peller’is 15 fect l1ong from the center of | the shaft to the tip of the blade and the | The | Deutschland's propelier is exactly one| foot shorter than the new one. “The sole object of the invention is, | of course, the reduction of friction, and ; that seems to have accomplished | wonderfully by the shortening of the shaft and the hollow bottom. On our present ocean liners the propellers are all out at the end of the boat. The en-! gines are located in the center and the| is necessarily long, connecting New York Adver-!| | tiser.” 1 S R e Independent Telephone Service. 3 The most noticeable development of | | recent times has been that of independ- Agt K will be sent in six hottles of | A Cargo {ge Honolala.g, /ol ‘| San Pedro & wWay.| 9 amlPler 11 | SO Ve mr American, for Knhu!m: s - unces ch. A i i ndes schooner Marston was cleared | Puget Sound Ports.|11 am!Pler . 0, s hefore reported. Dept.. Pos 50 s S ounces each. As it is intended | o Eiopolule” witl sorted mer- | HUMbBOME e cnens 11:30 pipier @ | and not Hilo &e boror® PORTS | for the poor, the milk is sold at | chundise cargo, valued at $35,997, and includ- ¥ | December 28. | | s sved DA — Br ship Queen | st apossible Tate, as may be | ing the following e Cy. Pavam .x Y. via Burope ..[12 - m!Pier 40 S"PNE“"“'":’X‘"‘ ey Lo | | e % Vhis flow ctis barlcy, 300 ctls wheat, | Alliance. ... | Eireka & Coos Bay} 'Pler 16 | Margaret. from Honol ¥ | 3 |judsed from the fact that sufficient | sei culs comn 1 ctls cats, 50550 Ibs bran. 42, | £ Lexrett. | orons & Soonioaaio amibier 3 | ST MICHAEL-Arrived Der R e, | milk to feed a baby under six month: ibs sidiinze, wien hay. 5000 b3 cof’ | Phoenix.. | Momdocin Citye-.| 1 pmiPler 15 | Nordin, tram Yokohams, f QREERTAL *Y % et ana | 014 for a week may be obtained for 1 e e e s A i December 29. Shinano Maru. for Seattte. a e i e . { cx canncd goods, 5 pkgs provisions, | Elizaveth.. | coauite River 4 pm|Pier 20 Inano Ja o e Dec 23—Br ship ann: . I DKOHAMA | shilling and % penc iable preparations. 465 gals wine, 100 | w. Kruger.: Ios Angeles Poris.|10 am|Pler 2 | - CA i o Sasasaki od mecting: ai 2 ¢ ST \]‘k::k:;v;”;.wd.\ll.n?l:r D et Irh S | Axeate Cdos B.-P. Orford.|[12 m|Pier 13 _Arrived prior Dec 24—EBark Ser- . = No | FLOW OF C1 . | «hingles, 2364 Tt lumber, 45 bdls shooks, 210 bxs | Astoria & Portlandill ‘“"IP‘" | via from Tacoma. o day of saill ! 1 cs boots oes, 74,050 Ibs bitumin. | December 30. ADEN -Arrived Dec 24—Ger stmr Albenga, & at Manila) Yool ) 1bs yellow metal, ks Seattle & Whatcom| 4 pm!Pier 10 | S G0 “york, for Manila December 30, 1903 | The followine tabie gives a comparative | P2, 100 SEN Mg BOUON MG, B VIR, abs Humboldt 1:30 plPier 9 | "ieToRIA—Afrived D: Stmr_Olympia, 23" yany | SAtemeNt for two years of the estimated flow | Liig piteh, i1 baies filter cloth; 10 coils rope ‘| Ghina & 1 pm Pler 40 | | " pongkong: Br stmr Miowera, from Aus- y. January 23771004 | of certain California rivers in cubic feet per | 1y k/g< mails, 10 cs turpentine, S0 kegs ved Coquile 6 pmiPler 2| jia pxacEeezs- 2 4 . or second feet. one second foot equal- | joqd, 4 cs dry goods, 100 tons fertilizer, 1 horse, | December 31. ! : QCEAN STEAMERS. February 17 1904 | 50 California miser's inches. or about 4 {5y pic pine. 2 2 San Diego & Way..| 9. am|Pler 11 NEW YORK—Arrived Dec 24—Stmr Cedric, tickets at reduced 40 miner's inches. . The figures for the | e togtt L Newport & Way...| 9 am(Pler 11 | ¢ /'] jierpool (Nantucket): stmr Anchoria, | saseage. apply at ear may be tevised by inter me » .| Sydney & Way...| 2 pm|Pler 7 [ from AiRC E q ments. The. figures are by §. G. Bennett, Time Ball. .| Seattle & Tacoma..[l0 am|Pler 2 Salled Dec 24—Stmr La Bretagne, for Havre; . H. bydrographer. United States Geological Survey: | Branch Hydrozraphic Otfice, U. SN, Mer- Jennary 1. | | stmr. Corinthian. for Glasgow | = TSRS PSRt S chani' Exchange, San 'Francisco!’ Cal, | north Fork. | Humboldt | 2 pm|Pler 20 [ "N APLES—Sailed Dec 22—Stmr California, mwan, SANOL, NEW TUOLUMNE RIVER AT LA GRAN December 24, 1903, 1 yanuary | for New York. Dec 24—Stmr Carpathia, for ms s.c. ZEALAND aws SYONEY. | T . 'Y The Time Ball on the tower of the Ferry | scapulco...| N. Y. via Panama.|12 miPier 40 | Now York. = - ® DiRECH A1E o ANl AT | _ Second Feet. | bullding was dropped exactly at noon to-day— | City'Puebla | Pugei Sound Ports.|li amiPler ¥ | ~ QUEENSTOWN-—Salled Dec 24—Stmr Ma- ——— - L DATE. $e. at noon of the 120th meridian, or at & p. e e sestie, for New York, . o o P SIERRA, for noluly, m., Greenwich tige. e N “ uary 3. 3 N Salled Dec 24—Stmr Lancastrian, | 4 and Sydney, Thursday Licuterant U. S. N., in charge, |G- W. Elder| Astoria & Portland|11 am|Pier 24 ,vmgfi e Mesaba, for New York. & FEARSEENEA, . Soe- Sl R T FROM SEATTLI BRPOOL-Salled Dsc 24—Stmr Lauren- 1 m § g | Sun, Moon and Tide. 2 2 TN BT ERE | aaVirom Glasgow for St John, N B. & A3 A. for Honolulu. Jan. 9, 1904, United States Coast ?nl:‘ .v;}eud:l;zSu‘;lveY— Steamer. For Salls. e ——aiiuan. i1 s Time and Height of High and Low Waters o &8 SPRECRELS & BROS.00., Aghs., TickatUice 643 Rotty at Fort Point, entrance to San Francisco Skagway & Way Ports.[Dec. 26 Grain for Europe. S Bay. Published by official authority of the .| Cooks Inlet & Way Pts.[Jan. 1| rhe French bark Jules Gommes sailed yester- | ezt Office, 325 Earket St Pierle. 7, Pacdie 82, Superintendent. Skagway & Way Ports.lJan. 1| 4oy for Queenstown, for orders, with 59.696 ctis | > - - _— NOTE. —The high and low waters occur Cooks Inlet & Way Pt 1 | bariey, valued at §68.650, and 13.440 ctis wheat, - the citv front (Misslon-street wharf) about 25 | Farallon. Skagway & Way Ports.(Jan. 3 | VAl 20 §18,144. The vessel aiso carried 22,0 (CMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUS minutes later than at Fort Point; the height | Bertha Cooks Inlet & Way Pts.[Jan. 10 | 000 ft lumber as dunnage, valued at £320. TO HAVRE-PARIS | OE - Aty Baoa e —— evay Tiiey et ¥ E o R — FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25. Shipping Intelligence. : Small_Shipment to China, b & . | December : ; )3 e : | “oot ot Morton street Sun Rises . h steamer Ching Wo sailed vester- | e §7 At Gowerd. See. | December 4 Bun Sets . m. ARRIVED, aar o imgkong via Tacoma with 9000 1ba 5 Havre, 885 and upward. G Docember- ., Thirsday. Desember 24 e and 3800 Ibs rice, valued at $550, as svre, VIS and wpt L Deember -11:20 p. m. | S¢mr Gualala, Hansen, 13 hours from Ben- | shrimps X : NCY ¥OR UNITED STATES AND | picember déss Landing. cargo from this pert. e B Ly %) SalMing). | Decemler 18. el (A i BN T v Point Arena, Miller, 14 hours from ey T 9 m":. g cle.nl December 19 Lw| "L W Mendocino, A person who can sit down and com- g -3 TR, § Praoeierie: stmr Fulton, Lee, 10 hours from Bowens | pjetely relax his muscles can obtain 27, 2 Landing, More absolute rest in ten minutes than '3 1’6 | “Stmr National City, Hammar, 15 hours trom | (HerS &0 " Cho cannot_relax his mus- 19 Fort Rrags. cles will be able to obtain in an hour. Mare Island and Vallejo Steamers. 13! Stmr Redondo, Krog, 34 hours from Re- RS . = - i FILL —_———————— 1E or MONTICELLO— 27: 7020 5.5 s.smlnjn-. SaMa Rosa, Alexander, 40 hours from e > 3 50 p. m., except Sunday. | |x - 7 n Diego. According to a German contemporary P. cept Bunday. ;: ::;w.:; { ;‘_‘“ H‘Stmr Acme, Lundquist, 77 hours from Grays Am.flmn.madah lawn d«ennu golf and December 16 o farbor.. cricket shoes have made their appear- v m. Fare, 30 cents Tel | Deember 13 | 6 NOTE —1n the above sxposition of The (ides | ter T OIPY: Leland, 28 hours from Mon- | o .Co'on"the German markei. and their Fier 2, Missmon-st. dock. HATCH | Decemter 18 . | the early morning tides~re given in the left | Stmr Coquille River, Sanford, 40 hours from | imports, it is said, are steadily increas- December 19 1 & hand column and the successive tides of the | Crogcent City.- 5 % ‘ln(‘ . i 2 ent telephone companies when com- | pared with the business of the Bell Company, at one time in practical mo- nopoly of the business. That the lat- | ter company, though by far the the strongest in all ways individually, no | longer controls the situation is too pa- tent to deny, nor is there anything par- | SPOTS ON FAC OF THE Little Known by Scientists Re- garding the Phenomenon 0b- 4 ™T s i served for Some Months PR < SRS PORTENDS NO CATASTROPHE g Many Think 0ld Sol May Have me Eruptive Complaint Disfiguring His Countenance The spots that have heen observed on the surface of the sun for several months past have given rise to much discussion in the scientific world. Al- though much speculation has been in- dulged in, people are as much in the dark as ever as to what causes these spots and what their probable effect will be upon other planets, especially upon the one we live on. It has been estimated that the present chain these spots is about 178,000 mi and nearly 60,000 miles wide. As visible sun is about 26,000,000 miles circumference, a disturbance on the earch, which about 25,000 miles in circumferen would involve about 875 miles in ex- tent. The earth moves around its axis in similarly extensive is once in twenty-four hours. The sun's rotation is about twenty-seven days and the procession of the spots con- tinues for nearly a fortnight—that is, the disappearance of the spot occurs in about that time from the first dis- play. The maximum of spot manif tations takes place at intervals of somewhat near eleven years—the last previous one was in 1804. Some of the biggest grou of spots have lasted through three revolutions of the sun; the last to do so was the group of 1395, which was visible to the naked eye through smoked glass, from September to the end November. This was about 85,000 miles long and 35,000 broad, quite inferior to the present one. Attempts are made to create a sen- sational apprehension of some great cataclysmal occurrence relating direct- ly to our planet, and there are proph- ecies of “terrific electrical disturb- ances.” But as a matter of fact clear connection between these phe- nomena and the storms that visit us in our atmosphere has ever been de- termined. It is supposed that such con- nection exists—that is all. It Is folly to make alarmist forecasts such as we see in too many papers. It is not shown even that the sun spots lessen the heat of the sun or Increase it. Of course, the further attempt to make commercial crises depend on these quite inexplicable phenomena is sheer nonsense. Descriptions of the sun spots as great conflagrations bursting out in the gases which form the envelope which to us represents the sun, of tongues of flame “millions of miles,” making a “raging furnace,” are equally nonsense. No one knows what those spots really signify or what causes them. The knowledge that we have of the sun's constitution is based upon the discov- eries of the spectrum. That has taught scientists, without the chance of error, that certain chemical constituents which are known in the earth are also existent and operative in that vast globe which we only know by its gase- ous envelopes. Of its interior character absolutely nothing is known, though much is in- ferred from this present phenomenon, as well as from the revelations of the telescope, combined with those of the spectroscope, at the occasions of the no bottom. |e¢ I:"pscs. both total and partial, and it is 0 over more truly the nature of the body on which the life of the earth and our whole planetary system depends that expeditions are sent out by almost every civilized nation to observe these periodical observances. What may be discovered no one can venture to s: but it is certain that nothing has yet been found to establish a direct answer from our earth to the strange action of the sun in either the spots, the shining feculae or the great protuberances of hydrogen which are shown on the occa- sion of eclinses, projected 250,000 miles beyond the common sphere of the solar apparition. It is elementary to say that the sun has a luminous cloud shell or wrapper, no one knows how deep, but the gu is 2000 miles, which is the source light. It is tHought this is mainly car- bon, but it may be some other incan- descent refractory vapor under the in- fluence of heat. There has been ente tained a theory that the sun is in- ternally cold and that the effect upon our atmosvhere is that of these blazing carbon vapors. Now it is thought that the effect we see as “spots” is produced by the falling into the body of the sun of material from without, such as ae lites, meteors or whatever the residuum may be called of exploded bodies, whether of gas or otherwise, condensed in the upper regions of the solar at- mosphere. Of course when of it is said that the | ticularly discreditable to it in‘the fact. | connection of the sun’s phenomena with | Modern social and business develop- ' those of earth is undetermined it is not ment has proceeded more rapidly than | meant that no such connection exists. it lay within the power of any one con- | Too many observations—they number | its future is beyond any one. One thing cern to cope with, even were it not | handicapped Ly the loss of control of | expired fundamental patents and the passing into other hands of the owner- | ship of improvements. It has done a great work, and no cne owes the Bell | Company more credit than do the vari- ous indenendent companies. To-day the telephone is everywhere —in offices, factories, trains, steam- ! ships, churches, on the farm (and this | latter application is noteworthy for its | rapidly increasing adopticn). War as | well as peacé calls for it. To prophesy | | | can be foreseen in this (a table show ing that in 188 towns in 16 States there are 158,393 independent telephones, against 84.323 Belkphones) and all such tables, ‘and that is, as a unification of Bell and independent interests is con- cededly out of the question, that side which gains a great economic advan- tage oter the other will achieve a com- manding position of tremendous sig- nificance, whether such advantages be localized or general. The immediate necessity for such economy is in the | field of operating expenses—the heav- ' iest item.—Cent Per Cent, —————————— A church recently dedicated in St. Paul was erected at a cost of $7000, raised by 10,000 contributions of 7 cents each. <o) i find out more. several thousand since the telescope, the spectroscope and the photograph have been jointly and comparatively employed—have shown that the mag- netéd needle, the telegraph wires, the compass, are all affected by the fre- quency and extent of sun spots. But there is nothing at all cenclusive yet arrived at in respect to storms over the surface of the earth or to cald waves or heated terms. In fact, hedted terms especially are not explicable -~ any ob- servations that have been made. It is an interesting subject and the astron- omers are continually busy in trying to But there is nothing in sun ~nots on which to nourish super- stitious apprehensions — Chicago Chronicle. o —lp SEE THE PICTURES “THE TOIL FOR MIL- LIONS™ By Senator Clark Who Has | Over Two Hundred of Them. NEW YEAR'S EDITION NEXT SUNDAY CALL | Bt et——