The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1904, Page 8

fHE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1904 — Special Dispatch to T WASHING e most world” h regard to houses cton. ¥ f time this sessic . one 3oth will no doubt the be spent at rotunda upon the apex to the great h it, stands a ster of the com above » of what will building is to extend the portion of ‘the more into o ng as it is on t \ the east front at pr ent extend beyond the center. The dome rises from the east front almost directly from the wall or back of the butlding. is com- pleted the nter will have been of the steps of th e and House wings while a r on of nearly two-thi of the main projects | carry with it the por- tico a nt which dominates the ald face of the re The xtensi Mr. Waiter had for n the demand for further extension incident to expans nd growth of the coun- attention to the his elop the original or would 10 a point where the word “com- might be written. These he left is to the realiza- forty-five years re begun by the great as & dream of the far future House of Representatives has the mc It aid .that this appropriation was mad session by the House, but the Senate was not ready to act. The model, however, was authorized oy should be by the bill. This was completed last December and has oply now been brought to wview. It has attracted great attention, be rounded by mixed cr men and visitors 4 N wg constantly sur- wds of Congress- g its merits. The plan, of course, introduces no innovations A suggestion of such a thing would not be tolerated. The ex- tended center - with it the architectural forms, while it adds vastly to the strength and dignity of the building by bettering its proportions. The present east wall will remain and form the rear wall of a courtyard created by the extension and will be visible from the corridors of the new section. This wall opens directly from | the portico to the rotunda. With the extension a vestibule, 108 feet deep, lined with marble, will lead from the new portice, forming a grand entrance to the rotunda. The old rotunda is itself to be transformed by marble. The extension will, of course, neces- sitate material changes in rounding grounds : the statute been P years from its place in front of the en- trance. The practical part of the improve- ment is the addition by the extension of sixty-six rooms, greatly needed. Thirty-three of these are to be appor- tioned to the Senate and a like num- ber to the House. This will enable the Senators now occupying office rooms in the Maltby building, or the Senate Annex. so called, to be gath- ered with their fellows under the roof of the capitol. There are exactly thirty-three of these housed, officially, in the annex. The cry for more room #n the capitol building has been heard throughout the session from both ends of the capitol and the evident neces- sity will create sympathy in the Senate for the proposed improvement. . o o the sur- The proposition to erect a building for the United States Supreme Court within the capitol grounds and to the northeast of the capitol buiiding, rela- tively distant from it as is the Con- gressional library, has many champioas in both houses.” This completed it will give further - >m within the capitol to the uses of members of Congress. in all the discussion concerning the wity beautiful—the ecity of the presen:, the city of the future—there has been not 8o much as a hint that Washington may not always be the capital of the propriation | the romoval of | !nnuun. Millions are contemplated in the plans for improvements now be(ore! Congress. I said two measures had | passed, each one house of Congress; | that would seem to confirm \/ashington as the capital to the end of the life of the nation. The Senate measure re- ferred to carries no dollar of appropria- tion with it, but is the forerunner of a sweeping improvement. It is the Newlands bill, making it unlawful to struct a building within 445 feet on each side of a line drawn from the center of the dome of the capitol to the apex of the Washington monu- ment. The Agricultural Departmen” | had seélected a site for its mew build- | ing within this line and the bill is in- | | tended to prevent its location there| and to estop any future plans within | the area being formed. The purpose | {of the bill is to guarantee a grand | vista from the west front of the cap-| | itol down the mall to the monument. | This was contemplated in the original | {plans of the city as prepared by! | L’Enfant. In the plan as elaborated | by the Park Commission a sweep of | lawn stretches 300 feet wide down this | vista, bordered by trees to @ width/| of the capitol and the evident neces- | Between this and the line of public| build which it is designed shall 1ltimately fringe each side of the mall 145 feet each side is reserved for drives and walks, making a total width ' of 890 feet, wxtending in a | west froms the capitol to! monument. s t line the 55 The plans matured and discussed, at in the Senate, without dissent, as ctically agreed upon, con- | s the purchase of the exten-! angle between the mall and nia avenue from the Botanic -~ which face the Capitol grounds—to the Treasury, at Fifteenth The shabby structures that] ont the avenue on the south side for | nearly this whole distance are to be replaced by great public buildings, as they may be required, and constructed for the Federal or district Govern- | ment. The buildings are to be given a beautiful setting of green, back from the thoroughfare, and with ample room. In their mind's eye the Sena- | tors who discuss these plans see in the | Pennsylvania avenue of the future the | noblest highway in the world. There is on the south side of the avenue now ; the postoffice building and the new| municipal building is to be placed | there. And there a place for the pro- | posed new State Department building | will undoubtedly be found in spite of all efforts to add it to the group of department buildings about the White House. For not only does the majority look to it that the proposed new build- ings shall be architecturally creditable to the capital of the greatest nation, | but that their location shall be chosen | to lend every possible charm. Yankees of the South. d winds come from the south and | nter is in July: otherwise the Argen- | tine republic is like Yankeeland, ac- | cording to the New York World. The Parana, the chief river, larger than our Mississippl. Its annual | flow of water is double that of the Ganges, three times that of the St. five times that of the Nile. Argentina has the longest railway tangent (straight line) in the world—186 Tts wheat plains are like those ur West. The climate is similar. | | Argentina’s population grows 40 per | | cent in ten years, the United States 20 | per cent, Germany 16 per cent. Of the 2,000,000 igrants received in Argen- tina in f years more than half have been Italian In 1867 there were but 355 miles of railway in Argentina; in 1900 there were 10,601 miles, some 12 per cent belong- | ing to the Government. Argentina is nirth among the nations in railway is far | J mileage. | Argentina has 120,000,000 sheep, as | against the 62,000,000 in the United | States. { All Argentina suffered from the Bar- ing crash in 1890, but recovery is now complete. Imports during 1899 were | $117,000.000 and exports $185,000,00. | | From the United States carge but $15,- 000,000 of the imports and only $8,000,- 000 of the exports were to this country. | Montevideo s in area the largest | city in the world—three times the size | of New York. Buenos Ayres, growing | faster than New York, London or Ber- |lin, is the largest city in the world | south of Philadelphia, except possibly the Chinese cities. It will reach the million mark in {1906. Argentina is building one of the finest | drydocks in the world, a model of which will probably be seen at St. Louis. There is energy in South America—if | you go far enough south. One National Melody. There is nothing of serious inmova- ‘th.n in the recent order of Secretary M. y that “The Star Spangled Ban- | ner.” and that only, shall be played at | “colors” on shipboard—revellle and | { retreat, sunrise and sunset. As a na- tion we have but one national anthem | or melody or air, and that one is “The | Star Spangled Banner.” It is used ' upon all occasions of high ceremony. | It is made obligatory in the army, and | has been for years. It is the only tune to which officers of the army and navy | and patriotic citizens generally pay the | homage of erect posture or doffed { headgear. It is recognized by other nations, whose bands play it invariably |when an American official or person- | age is to be complimented. It is dig- nified, suggestive, inspiring — though | net the easiest in the world to sing. It is our own. The so-called “America” is English; “Yankee -Doodle” is a ca- dence joke and was foisted on us by the satirical John Bulls in the days when Brother Jonathan was the syn- onym for reproach. While “Hail Co- lumbis” and “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” have proper place in a national repertory, they are no more ational than “Bonnie Blue Flag,” “John Brown's Body” or the inspiring “Dixie.”” Men have died and women have wept to the inspiriting and sad- dening strains of these songs of our | united country, as they have to “Rally | Round the Flag,” “Sherman’s March to the Sea” and other lilts of loyalty and its opposite in days gone by.— Cleveland Leader. P 9 | It is among the world’s moral emergencies. | tion of representative government and institutions. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . ... ... Addres; All Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager s PRREE,Y SURECH SR val Vi Sl ) @ teieeeiessscees...Third and Market Streets, S. F. ..APRIL 12, 1904 = RUSSIA AS A CHAMPION. TUESDAY. HE British conquest of India was openly and frank- T ly commercial. The peninsula had been for ages under alien masters. The Hindoos had paid but lit- tle attention to the defensive arts and were overrun in turn by the stronger races. The Mahometan conquest, made by the descendants of Tamerlane, established the Mogul Empire which the English overthrew. Begun by the East India Company as a commercial enterprise en- tirely, since the British Government took administration away from the company it is believed that the English have beeit the best masters that have ever ruled India. Anyway there was no pretensé of race championship or philanthropy about it and England has had to stand crit- icism of her methods from qute another point of view. The Russian conquests that have at last crossed Asia are equally commercial. - They are equally sordid in their motives and have been pushed with equal or greater inhumanity toward the weak peoples that have been ridden down by the Cossacks. There is no reason to be- lieve that humanity has had any more part in them than in the wars of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. But now Russia assumes a philanthropic attitude and desires to pose as the champion of the white race against the yel- low, and makes this appeal to race prejudice to cover a declaration of war upon China. To this end the nagging goes on. g Our dispatches from Peking and St. Petersburg give in detail the effrontery of the measures which Russia pro- poses as preliminary to the military annexation of China. ‘What has the yellow race done that calls for a white race cham- pion against it? The yellow races are not threatening white race territory with conquest. They are not in arms against the Western powers. They are recognized as members of the family of nations and are represented by Ministers to all the leading governments. They are in treaty relations with the rest of the world and in Japan have a civilization higher and in all respects better than that of Russia. Races, nations and peoples need a champion when they are in peril, when their rights are in danger and their liberty is threatened. None of the white races is in this condition. It is impossible for the yellow races to injure them. What the white races want is that all of the yel- low men work out their civilized salvation as the Japan- ese have done. Then their progress will begin, their wants will increase as they rise in the scale and their trade will invite only the commercial competition of .the white nations. Russia is conducting in this country a hot propaganda for sympathy. The incidents in the history of our Civil War are being made much of. One gentleman remem- bers that the Czar told him that if England had recog- nized the Confederacy he would have instantly declared war against Great Britain. That has all the elements of a fairy tale. But taking it for the truth what is the prece- dent it establishes? English recognition of the Confeder- acy would have been a move for the dismemberment of the United States. If the Czar told the truth about the state policy of Russia a Russian declaration of war against China now would be exactly what English recog- nition of the Confederacy would have been in 1862. As England is committed to the neutrality apd integrity of Chinese territory Great Britain would be justified, on the same grounds, in declaring war against Russia. It may be safely said that the people of this country dc not want Russia as a champion in anything. Nor do we believe that the Western nations desire that Russia be promoted to the mastery of the world as will be the case if she annex China. The Russian system of govern- ment is less desirable than the Chinese and still less de- sirable than the Japanese. If China follow the civilized lead of Japan her reformers and intelligent statesmen will take the lead and the people will be trained in the opera- But if China become Russian the administration will be worse than now. Surely there is nothing in the government of European Russia that the nations with parliaments and systems of jurisprudence desire to copy. Russian reform is out of the question. The autocracy under the thumb of the Holy Synod has stubbornly with- stood all pressure for reform. The brains of Russia, rep- resented by Tolstoi, are under the ban. Not content with political persecution, the Holy Synod assumes to shut Russian intelligence out of heaven by the solemn process of excommunication from the orthodox church. Russia in no way represents the civilization, the intelli- gence, the civic institutions, the aspirations or religious liberty of the white race and Americans will repudiate at once any such pretense. Representatives of the great civilized countries of the world are gathering at St. Louis in preparation for the opening of the splendid exposition that is expected to eclipse all others ever held. For six months, at least, this progressive American city will be the show ground of the world’s best endeavors. The town will be the parliament of modern civilization, M spots. While it seems to have roared louder in the prospectus than in the performance, still it is alive enough to give the Democracy a pain. It serves to WHAT HOGG SAYS. R. HEARST'S Presidential campaign proceeds, in | illustrate plainly the confusion of the party as to issues. In Texas Mr. Hearst relies on Governor Hogg. Hogg is an interesting man. He is several times a millionaire, dresses carelessly, makes money easily, “having the ac- quisitive faculty, and does a deal of roaring against other rich men. No one knows why he does this, unless it is caused by a sense of rivalry and a desire to Hogg it all. The Houston Post has been roasting I(Iogu and has made it so warm for him that he is out in a letter, which Mr. Hearst publishes with all the grace and garnish of black type. In it the Governor catechises Judge Parker, through the Post, to ascertain his standing on public questions, Among other things he wants to know if he will build the Panama canal, and demands that he oppose our authority in the Philippines. In this it appears that the party is divided about the construction of the canal. Mr. Hearst at first denounced the Panama affair and attacked the only sure means ever secured for building the canal as disgraceful to this coun- try and “the dragging of American honor in the mud of Panama.” Later on he came out in favor of the canal, moved thereto by the strong Southern sentiment in its support. Now Governor Hogg is afraid that Judge Par- ker will not take his spade in hand and dig the canal. On this issue we beg tc ask the brethren what better | are as much puzzled at canal digger do they want than President Roosevelt? 1f this is one of the main issues, all they have to do is j as the rest of us. An exp ior T to fall in behind the President, who has done more for the canal in four months than others had done in a hun- dred and fifty years. Next Governor Hogg wants to be assured that Judge Parker will immediately admit the Philippines as States of this Union or as am alternative surrender them en- tirely. Now all this in the face of the fact that in 1898 Mr. Hearst was whooping over the longest leased wire in the world, “Nail the flag to the Philippines! Nail it.” This he printed at the top of what he considers the most impressive page in all his newspapers in all kinds of type and all kinds of colors. He roasted President McKinley for not nailing the flag fast enough to those islands, and his American soul raged in his ribs on that account. He abused the President roundly and continuously, de- claring that he had not American sand enough to take the Philippines. Does Hogg know this? Or has Mr. Hearst changed and has he a claw hammer up his sleeve to pull out the nails and let the flag down? At a time when the country had very conservative ideas about the Philippines, and doubted the wisdom of their permanent occupation, Mr. Hearst was telling how Jefferfon would have stuffed | them in Uncle Sam’s pocket, and Mr. Bryan was coaching Democratic Senators to vote for their acquisition. What followed, followed, and no man can yet say what our permanent relation to those islands is to be, except that the people will never permit their incorporation into our body politic. So between Hearst and Hogg, Parker and Hill the whole Democratie situation suggests the muddle that will muss the affairs of the country if that party take control. . United States Senator Simmons declared in debate a few days since that it was impossible for him to predict who the Democratic nominee for President will be. The Senator should possess his spirit in calm satis- faction. After November the American people will have forgotten who the Democratic nominee for President was. T Commerce of San Francisco, which has just been issued, includes current commercial and industrial history of San Francisco in epitome. More than two hun- dred pages are crowded with statistical matter, all relat- ing to the business of San Francisco, its manufactures, banking, real estate, commerce, trade, and the related in- terests which center in this city as the greatest seaport on the Pacific coast of the United States. Many of the facts that are found in the report have, necessarily, been given publicity before, but there are others that are here assembled for public review for the first time with the sanction of an organization making a specialty of such useful work. The Chamber of Commerce presents, as might be in- ferred from the bare statement referring to its statistical opulence, such a compendium that an intelligent student, by devoting the proper time and attention to the matter, may know much about material San Francisco. The first thought that will occur to many is that such a document would be valuable for use at St. Louis during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Unquestionably, in con- nection with other literature and distributed with dis- crimination, it would prove vastly interesting to seekers for comprehensive knowledge. The figures are not confined to returns for 1903. In carefully compiled tables the statistics of many years are placed in juxtaposition, so that the analyst may be able to trace with certainty the advancemen{ that has been achieved in all lines of endeavor and the rate of such progress. A city that is continually improving holds out promises and attracts the striving and the ambitious. One series of tables shows the normal climatological data for various points in the State for a period of twenty- five years, as compiled by the “United States Weather Bureau. One page is devoted to figures relative to the rainfall in San Francisco for every year since 1840. Climate and rainfall are sufficient considerations to induce many to cast in their lot with the community that is favored in these particulars. George A. Newhall, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, supplies valuable facts that are not to be found in the annual returns of any other organization. {le lays emphasis upon the statement that there was a alance of $14,000,000 in favor of San Francisco in 1903 as between imports and exports. The manufactures of this city in 1003 were estimated by him at more than $150,000000. This is indorsed by the chamber by in- cluding it in the annual report of the body. Of the mopey invested in real estate in San Francisco last year Presi- dent Newhall shows that $38,166,868 was fiew capital. It is pleasing to learn that the chamber gained forty members in twelve months. Benefit would accrue to | rising Californians if the annual report of the Chamber of Commerce should be tnade the basis of some careful lessons in the higher school grades in this city, at least. It does no harm for the San Francisco boys and the girls to have an intelligent idea of the greatness of the business "and commerce of this port while they are finding out in their geographies about the world at large, to which its services are so greatly auxiliary. SAN FRANCISCO IN REVIEW. HE fifty-fourth annual report of the Chamber of The Russians, it is announced with some show of authority, will make a stand at the Yalu River. While it is encouraging to know that the fighting men of the Crar intend to do something they should have a care that they do not fall where they elect to stand. The Japanese have the advantage inevitably given by the knowledge that they must fight against odds, S ——— A woman, hired to prey as a thief upon the gudgeons that frequent a local dive, was convicted the other day and will be sent to the penitentiary. Do our worthy police need any further suggestion of their neglect of duty in not closing the pitfalls of San Francisco, even those that thrive in vicious prosperity on Market street? If the woman be guilty, what of her employer? . _ The Board of Public Works has filed estimates call- ing for an appropriation to it of nearly three million dollars for the next fiscal year. Taken at its best this is one of those instances of municipal suggesti the public is asked to pay for methi.\::‘fht ?tnh‘a':h:: reason, fortified by experience, to expect to obtain, —_— San Francisco is out of debt. No more convinei proof could be given that the city is a favorite of the fates. Some of our worthy but expensive public officials _our healthy financial condition Her Quest. She was a wee bit of a tot, curly headed and not a whit frightened by the big policeman who guided her gen- tly into the captain’s officé. “I picked her up on Kearny street,” said the bluecoat to the captain, who took the little toddler in his arms. “What's your name, baby?" kindly queried the officer. “Mamma calls me ‘Golden Locks,’” piped the pretty child, “but mamma’s gone away. They took her away last night and: they sald she’s gone to ‘heaven,” prattled the baby. “But she never said ‘good night’ to me and I couldn’t sleep all night, and when morning came I dess went out to find mamma. I'm awful tired.” The motherless child laid her head on the captain’s shoulder and was asleep, while a great big honest tear rolled down the sympathetic police- man’s cheek. The Antarctic Continent. That a vast Antarctic continent ex- ists, perhaps twice as large as that of Europe, would seem to be proved by the reports now appearing of the re- cent explorations in that region. The American Commander Wilkes, return- ing from the far south in 1841, asserted the existence of a vast South Polar continent, and described his voyage of 1500 miles in sight of the coast. Ross, however, returning soon after, .dis- credited Wilkes’ conclusions, saying that the land seen by Wilkes was merely a great wall of ice. The world has been in doubt which to believe. That Ross was wrong and Wilkes right is very evident from the report of Captain Scott of the British Antarctic expedition of 1901-04. Captain Scott shows that the mass of ice seen by Ross is In reality an extensive glacier resting on land and covering the land like the ice cap of Greenland. The glacier is about 700 miles wide, and reaches the sea through a plain lying between Victoria Land and Edward VII Land. The German expedition under Von Drygalski, working 80 de- grees of longitude farther west, also found a somewhat similar expanse of ice-capped land, whose ‘limits they were unable to trace, but which is ap- parently a part of the same Antarctic continent.—National Geographic Mag- azine. Oyster Farms. In Eastern Virginia'there are several thousand acres of oyster farms, where oysters are raised by artificial meth- ods on artificial beds. The “natural” oyster bed is where the oyster breeds and matures naturally. There are thou- sands of acres of such beds in the Chesapeake Bay system of salt water. In such beds the oysters breed by the millions and as they are too close to- gether there they cannot all reach a satisfactory growth. If taken when small from these ‘‘natural” beds and strewn along on the bottoms where there are no oysters naturally at the rate of 600 to 1000 bushels per acre, such voung oysters mature and ripen off for the market, some in one and the rest'in two years. There is a profit in such work, when intelligently managed, of 25 to 331 per cent. Probably more than 100,000 acres of “artificial” oyster beds are made to grow an oyster crop in addition to the acreage embraced in the “natural” beds. The area of “artificial” beds is increasing rapidiv each year. One singuiar feature about the oyster is this: They all look exactly alike, there being no difference between the male and the female externally or in- ternally; in fact, the art of man is not sufficient to distinguish one sex from the other. Another unique fea- ture is this: The male oyster “lays” as many eggs as the female—‘equal rights,” we perceive. The eggs of the male are called “milt,” and the eggs of the female are called “spawn.” An ordinary full-grown oyster is supposed to lay a million eggs a year. In spawn- ing season the water is full of these eggs, and when the “milt” and the ‘“spawn’’ come in contact and the water is at the right temperature, life is imparted to the microscopic egg and it drops to the bottom, where, if it succeeds in grasping hold of something such as another oyster or shell or rock, or anything to hang to, the tiny creature begins to form its shell and in a few weeks becomes visible to the eye. The oyster farmers are harvesting the crop at present. While the greater por- tion of the United States is under snow and in the grasp of winter, our oyster farmers are busv harvesting their crop, which requires no fertilizer, food or fencing and costs only for the seed, the sowing and the harvesting and ‘which pays a good dividend on the in- vestment. From 12,000 to 15,000 hands are engaged in the oyster work in Eastern Virginia. It is an odd sort of farming, and the oyster farmers in winter become corn farmers in sum- mer. A Monarch Ostracized. There seems to be a disposition on the part of Old World sovereigns just at present to avoid King Leopold. A short time ago it was officially given out at Brussels that, while Prince and Princess Albert were likely to visit the St. Louis Exhibition, it would be im- possible for the King to cross the At- lantic, owing to the necessity of his remaining at home to welcome, in June, Emperor Francis Joseph to Bel- gium on the conclusion of that mon- arch’s stay in England. In response nouncement has been given out at Vienna to the effect that Francis Jos- eph has for the present no Intention whatsoever of paying a visit to Bel- gium or to the Court of Brussels. Yet Leopold’s visit to Vienna last autumn followed closely upon that of King Edward, and since the old is now about to return the English ruler's call, Leopold may be excused for ‘expecting that Francis Joseph to this a semi-official and curt-an- +* at Paris to induce the King and Queen of Italy to stop over at Brussels on their return from staying with Ed- ward VII at Windsor last autumn, and it will have been noticed that, although Leopold made elaborate preparations to welcome Emperor ‘William at Antwerp on the occasion of the latter’s trip from Bremen to the Mediterranean, yet the Kaiser passed by without touching at any Belgian port. Nor has King Edward visited the Court of Brussels once since his accession, although Leopold is a former friend and a very near relative, as which, indeed, he attended in person the obsequies of Queen Vic- toria. Kings and Their Coins. It may not be generally known that Petrarch (1304-1374) was a collector of ancient coins. It is said that, during his sojourn in Rome peasamts would bring him o'd coins, and that he would decipher. the names of the, different em- perors engraved upon them. Petrarch presented his collection to the Emperor Charles IV, the first of the many Kings addicted to the study of ancient coins. the next century King Alfon- so V of Aragon (1442-1458) used to car- ry about with him on his journeys from Spain to his kingdom of Naples and Sicily his fine collection of Greek and Roman coins, encased in an ivory cab- inet, and he often said that the sight of those coims acted upon him as a pow- erful incentive to imitate the virtues of those whose names they bore. The Emperor Maximilian I laid the founda- tion at Vienna of the imperial numis- matic collection still preserved there. This study had peculiar attractions for French Kings also. Franeis I, Henry II and Charles IX owned fine collec- tions, to which Catherine de Medicis (1533) contributed. The Cat and the King. A citizen of Holland recently had the temerity to call a constable a monkey— a form of untruth which is not per- mitted there. He was arrested, and, on being brought before the Judge, charged with “insulting the police,” he was sentenced to forty-five days’ imprisonment. Before being removed he turned to address the court. “Then I mus{n’t call a constable a monkey?"” he said. “Certainly not; the police.” The culprit reflected. “May I call a monkey a constable?” he asked, with a flash of genius. The Judge shrugged his shoulders and holding no brief for the animal he replied, “If it gives you any satisfac- tion." A S ‘With a smile of gratification the pris- oner turned on his heel in the dock and bowed to his prosecutor. “Good day, constable,” he said.—Boston Transcript. you must not insult Answers to Queries. BEST HARBOR—A Subsecriber, City. San Francisco is the best harbor of California. ZION CITY—Subscriber, City. Zion City, the one built by Dowie, is in Cook County, I, near Chicago. THE RIO—B., Vallejo, Cal. The steamer Rio de Janeiro sank in the bay of San Francisco, as she was in- side the “heads,” designated by an imaginary line from Point Lobos to Point Bonita. INSTITUTE OF ART-B., Vallejo, Cal. The Mark Hopkins building, now known as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, was donated to the University of California by Edward F. Searles February 27, 1893. LICENSE—N. N, City. If an agent solicits orders for books to be deliv- ered at a future time by the house he represents he is not required to pay a license, but if he goes from house to hcuse and selis books outright he be- comes a pedd)er and is required to have a license. A peddler must have a license it he goes from house to house offer- ing to sell goods of his own or any- body else’s manufacture. GOTHAM—B., Vallejo, Cal. Gotham is a parish in Nottinghamshire, Eng- land. When King John proposed vis- iting that place with the view of pur- chasing a castle and grounds there, and sent messengers to the place to pre- pare for his reception, the people, un- willing to support the additional ex- pense of a ‘royal estate, engaged with common accord in all manner of idiotic pursuite. The messengers reported the place full of focls And the royal project was abandoned. Afterward the people remarked that more fools passed through Gotham than remained in it, and in time the people of that place became known as “the wise men of