The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1904, Page 8

THX SAN TRANCISCO CALL, VFRIDA\’, APRIL 22, 1904 MEN and Q ——— » E— n Amusemient. CALL, F THE LONDON nes in which Jlights of afety, an ac ing sense music king round 1 round at In rranged which fifty n the A ma of th five mi that outward at side at which r became virtually nned to their s, rate and, ¥ to the bewildered | terrestial seem to be language is mot ibe what my other . he said, “but there were lots of them and they were all hriliing Two of these “fiying machine merry- »-rounds” now are in this and the process of ere at PBarls the Crystal ntry, one other ' which will enter upon their zy whirls next summer, and it would seem &s if the St. Louis World's Fair people couldn't do better than build The captive fiying machines, Sir Hiram asserts, he will develop into free flying achines, I shall imence on a small scale,” he explained, “and. as in earlier ex- iments attach my machine long arm, which, while preventing it from esqaping, will allow it to move upward or downward in the air. When 1 have succeeded in perfecting my motors, my aeroplanes and my screw propellers so as to make the machine fiy above the point at which it is at- tached to rotating arm, I shall know that its lifting effect is greater than its weight the ¥ next step will be to make a still larger mach 4 run it around a « ular track about 500 feet in diameter, the machine being kept in place by being tached to the rotating arms of a suiteble device, which will neither retard its action nor assist in pr pelling it When the machine is able to fly around the track with a single oper- ator three four feet from the ground a number of times, I shall al- low it to go higher, and when the operator has it under perfect control I shall allow it to be run over a straight road, still very near the groumd. I shall not allow it to be navigated more than ten feet above the ground for seme time. In this way the de- velopment of the machine and the art of steering will go on together.” Sir Hiram holds firmly to the opin- ion that if aerial navigation ever be- comes practicable it will be by means of fiying machines pure and simple and mot by balloons aided by motors. Balloons, he maintains, are so large and bulky for their weight that it will never be possible to maneuver them with certainty in any kind of weather except a dead calm. “&ny one who has studied the flight of birde,” he adds, “cannot fail to have noticed that many of them do not ap- pear to exert as much energy in fiying as 4 small animal does in running. The motor car and the locomotive are @ble to run three miles while any land animal i able to run only one. Why then should we not be able to make a fiying machine that will outfly the swiftest bird?" Sir Hiram believes that it can be done and that he is the man who can do it. All that is needed, he argues, is a motor that shall combine the requi- site power and lightness. In respect of these all essential qualifications the development of the motor car has wrought wondrous improvements and paved the way for the flying machine man to step in and by still further in- creasing the power and reducing the weight of these motor engines obtain # machine that attached to or aeroplanes | ate Captain will solve the problem of aerial navi- | In the roar that gution. 5 ‘man “I feel certain” concludes ‘cdn: ] 7 % & 7 A | | machine is a ‘fait accompli.’ " “land penetrated to the mouth of the S | | Hiram, “that the time has now arrived it is not only possible but prac- make a successful flying | it capnot fail to be of enor- | mous vaiue to the country as a mili- engine. -1 have determined once more to take up the subject and con- tinue my work until a successful flying | Californians Abroad. Special Correspondence. | HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, | |5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT | | GARDEN, LONDON, April 10.—John ! Blick of Pasadena, Cal., is expected in | London shortly after an adventurous journey in the heaft of Darkest Africa, | in the course of which his expedition | reported to have been massacred by the warlike Turkana tribe inhabiting | | the country to the west of Lake Ru- | R. Burnham, formerly of| who was at the head of the ena, | expedition and who had previously re- | ‘n:lned to London, leaving Mr. Blick in| arge, has since received word that the reported massacre was based on a | vere fight, in which some of the na- | | tives attached to the expedition were | killed. None of the white men were in-| jured. The exved whieh had been | dispatched by th st Africa syndi-| | cate, penetrated almost to the center | of Africa through territory in which no white men had been seen before. | uch of the journey to Lake Rudolph, | Which is 300 miles north of the Uganda railroad, had to be made on foot. I A | Mr. and Mrs. George T. Fox of San Francisco were in London a few days Monte Carlo, where are to meet Mrs. Fox's mother. will do some traveling on the rent and will afterward return to ion, staying at t Hotel Russell for the season | s o » Redding of San Francisco has 1in London and is at the Savoy it is from Paris that Mr. Red- ding has crossed to England, and after rt time in the metropolis he pro- return again to the French but Yeft for ago. they poses 1« A Mrs. G. L. Fish of San Fran- | ved in Londo t week and are registered at the Hotel Cecil. w is now er Green of San Francisco the Hotel Cecil, London. Culture in Siberia. In the surprisingly short time of | | seventy yvears from Yermak's entrance | to the valley of the Obi, Russian pio- neers had reached the Pacific. Ocean |Lena and established important cen- | j ters of civilization at numerous points | which have comtinued to increase to present day. Tobolsk, Omsk, | Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Minusinsk, Ir- kutsk, Yakutsk, Verkhne Udinsk and | Nertchinsk have- behind them as long a history as Salem and Boston. While they have not developed in size like those early New England settlements, | they can render an excuse for not so | doing by pointing to the limiting con- ditions which have surrounded them, | which even yet are only partially re- | moved. But at Tamsk one will now ! find & university which will compare | faverably with any in the United | States fifty years ago. At Krasnoyarsk the ions the transition frem the stone to nze and the iron age is more perfectly shown than anywhere else. |In this collection are sixty thousand | specimens well housed in a two-story | brick building, and arranged and | classified after the most improved | methods, with an equally commodious | library building adjoining it. Al this| s been accomplished by private sub- | scription. And this is only a specimen of what is to be found in nearly every Siberian town of more than ten thou- | sand inhabitants. The country abounds | in museums and in people who are in- terested in them. Minusinsk has but | fifteen thousand people, but in the larger cities of Irkutsk and Khabar- ovsk, where branches of the Royal Geographical Society exist, the muse- ums, though not so much specialized as this one at Minusinsk, are built and organized on a larger plan. Irkutsk, nearly four thousand miles | east of St. Petersburg, though contain- ; ing only about sixty thousand inhabi- tants, has, besides its large museum, an elegant opera house, vying in pro- {portion and fullness of equipment | | with anything found in America out- | | side of New York city. It has a public reading room and a library containing books and magazines in all the leading | languages of Europe. At Blagovyes- chensk, on the Amur River, fourteen hundred miles farther east, in a city of thirty thousand, one will find, in addition to a well-equipped hospital and library and museum, a community of such high musical culture that a local society renders with ease and in most creditable style such choruses as those of Saint-Saens’ “Samson and De- lilah.”"—Review of Reviews. Her White Strain. When the Washington friends of the bill to give former Queen Liliuo- kalani $156,000 were talking the mat. ter over in the Senate lobby after the adverse vote recently, Mr. Tillman, who had voted against the measure, expressed regret, according to the Kansas City Journal, that the dusky daughter of savage Kkings did not seem able to understand the strong prejudice existing in some parts of the country against the black races. “Now, if she could show a strain of white blood!” he exclaimed, and looked de- fiantly around. ! “Beg your pardon, Tillman,” re- torted Senator Lodge. “Have you forgotten that her great grand-uncle Cook 7" [he will find a library of a wealthy Si- | | berian, filled with many treasures, | which any European library would | covet, but could not obtain. At Min- | usinsk, three hundred miles away | from the Siberian railroad, is a mu- ro‘\zrvl which is the admiration of the | | world, wiere from the local collec- | | the br The ot shost il g \ | FRIDAY | tration and fearful of his extraordinary, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor . .. . . .. ... Address All Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: Publication Ofice ........ooeeennoseseseeenss CEEEBEID <-nveenveessee-- .- Third and Market Streets, S. F. seveessses. LAPRIL 22, 1904 PENNSYLVANIA PIPES. HE Pennsylvania Democratic Convention returns T the lead of New York in making a personal issue against President Roosevelt. The' sentiment of the country is declared to be “distrustful of his adminis- erratic and autocratic assumption and exercise of power.” G Like New York, Pennsylvania files no bill of particu- lars. Nt an instance of any assumption of power is cited, because there is none. The President is declared to be “a menace to constitutional government.” That was said of Lincoln and of Grant, by the same style of partisans. The men who say it now know that there is no more truth in it than there was then. The fact is that President Roosevelt has been conspicuously unpartisan in his administration. What the New York and Pennsylvania denunciation means is that his en- forcement of the law against those who violate it has made him dangerous to the illicit business interests-of the country. i These interests which seek to prosper by violation of the law had involved large numbers of innocent people in investments in stocks that were sure, soon or late, to be lost because they lacked a proper founddtion of legal assets. When the President enforced the law, the illegal and improper nature of the securities appeared 2nd those lost who had been beguiled into investment. Since then there has been a studied attempt to direct the wrath of the innocent losers against the President. To this scheme the “Democratic party is lending itself. Ii this were done by the yawping wing alone, that wing that flops for Mr. Hearst, it would cause no sur- prise. But it is also done by the swallow. tails, the so- called respectable and conservative element, the high and holy persons, who have put themselves under the leadership of Mr. David B. Hill. It is hypogritical politics an extreme kind. The purpose is to secure the assistance of the “high financiers” whose schemes of spoliation have been blocked by the President. - As long as the issue is merely personal it will release irom party allegiance an immense Democratic vote, of real conservatives, who see in the President’s enforce- ment of the law the policy which they wish their own party to follow, just as in 1806 the sound money Demo- crats saw in the gold standard policy of McKinley that issue which they knew their own party ought to have made. These men know the folly of charging that the President menaces “international peace and business sta- bility and prosperity.” Why do not his accusers show in what particular he has threatened #nternational peace? To complain that he is dangerous to the present prosperity of the coun- try is an almanac joke. When his party came into power there was no prosperity. The Democratic free silver agitation had bankrupted business and brought the national credit near to breaking down. Prosperity was restored and business was made stable by the defeat of everything for which the Democratic party had. stood from the time Senator Vest said, in 1893, that “the party and Mr. Cleveland had reached the parting of the ways.” The men who now support the declarations of New York and Pennsylvania have ever since 1896 declared that Mr. Cleveland was and is a Republican, because he stood out on former issues, just as thousands of Demo- crats will now stand out on the personal issues which are to be in this year’s campaign. The burden of proof of these personal charges rests upon the accoisers. Let them face the country with-spe- cific proof that our peace has been endangered. Let them furnish evidence of the specific acts that menace the stability of business. They need not expect to get through the campaign without answering. The Ameri- can people will not act upon vague charges and general declarations. They learned better in 1896. That cam- paign of education transformed our political methods, and ended the whoop-de-dooden-doo campaign, run on ditties set to the tune of “The Camp Town Races.” That would do in 1840, when people were told to “Vote for Harrison, therefore, without a why or wherefore,” and Van Buren was beaten becausé somebody said he had a set of gold spoons. But now the people demand a why and a wherefore, and men who know why and wherefore they are Democrats will repudiate assaults upon the President of the United States intended to punish him for enforcing the law in accordance with his oath of office. \ The opposition policy is to nominate a recordless sphinx, with David B. Hill as the boss of a2 campaign, to wink at socialism with one eye and at capitalism with the other. of A New York peddler found the Sartoris jewels, worth five thousand dollars, and then sold them for fifty cents. If that man be a type of the present New Yorker, the farmers of the country seem to have a chance to sell back their gold bricks at an advance on the buying price. AFFAIRS IN CUBA. EPORTS from Havana concerning the Cuban Con- gress, whose spring session was recently opened, are to the effect that no less than 658 questions re- lating to disputed elections were submitted to the House, and as a result there is confusion on all sides, a general cry and clamor of “fraud,” and every prospect of a stren- uous session. It is not feared, however, that anything serious will follow the confusion, for the disturbance is confined to politicians, the business elements and work- ing classes being evidently well satisfied with the con- ditions of trade and industry and with the Government. The statements in the annual message of President Palma show that the administration has been fairly suc- cessful in its work, and has given Cuba a much better government than prevails in most Spanish-American countries. A summary of the message says the President points out that the mortality rate of the island is but 15 per 1000 inhabitants, being the lowest since 1820, Street cleaning in Havana has been improved, while the cost has been less than it was under American adminis- tration. The President recommends an appropriation of $2,000,000 for improving existing roads and constructing new ones. The summary continues: “The fiscal report makes an excellent showing, and the industrial situation shows steady improvement. Su- gar, tobacco and fruit all show a notable increase in value and quantity. Tt is pu'ticnsrly gratifying to note nearly $1,000,000 increase in the“export of fruit. This indicates that Cuba is getting away 'fioln her former two- crop status. The notable increase in the number of | it. horses and cattle is also encouraging, for the reason that | brate, and the State these animals are essential factors in so large a part of Cuba’s productive activity. It is true that the present aumber is only about one-half of that of ten years 3 X v ago, ‘but compared with five years ago there are consider- ably more than twice the number of horses and mules, and considerably more than three times the number of cattle.” It appears from all these reports that Cuba would be all right were it not for her politicians, and perhaps a similar statemenf might be made of a good many other countries. A man in St. Clair County, Ill, found guilty of mur- dering his wife, sued for the insurance on her life and the Supreme Court of that State decided the company must pay him. Such a decision may be an exact inter- pretation of the insurance policy, but it places a premium on crime and nullifies the rule of law which provides that a man cannot profit by his own wrong. I devise a new form of philanthropy. They have pro- ceeded to organize the Southern California Home Association and ‘Floral Investment Company.. The ob- ject is to provide a pleasant home for aged negroes and orphans of the colored race. The support of the home is to be derived from the sale of carnations and other flowers. The old people and ‘the children, not being strong physically, could not be expected t6 perform hard labor, but the growing of flowers for the market will ‘supply them with light and profitable occupation and they will find themselves amid pleasant surround- ings and with comforts. An organization was effected several months ago, prin- cipally through the endeavors of Mrs. Mary J. Jackson. A tract of five acres of land admirably adapted to the culture of flowers was secured at Duarte. Six town lots have also been secured in addition, so that the ground is ample for the experiment in its earlier stage. The soil has been tested and has been proved to be desirable for flower farming. It is all under a good infigation sys- tem. The association is undenominational, but it has enlisted the efforts of many colored church people. The women of the association have already paid a share of the money nceded to purchase the land for the flower farm, and charitably inclined pedple have pledged quite large amounts. It has been decided, in view of the favorable financial conditions attending the beginning of the enterprise, to start work on the first home buildings on May 1. Only one cottage will be built at a time, the purpose being to handle the home conservatively and not to incur any debt that might prove to be burden- some later. In addition to cash donations, the colored people of Duarte, Monrovia and other near-by commu- nities have promised to give several days of work each 40 save expense and to get the farm in shape as soon as possible at the lowest possible limit of cost. The officers of the association are all colored women. Mrs. M. J. Jackson is the president; Mrs. Louisa Oliver, vice-president; Mrs. H. A. Jones, secretary; Mrs. S. L. Jones, treasurer. Carnations have been selected for the original plantation of flowers because they are in strong demand in the south, and also because it has been dis- covered that they grow to great perfection at Duarte. Several schemes were considered by the practical- minded colored women before they hit upon the idea of the flower farm, the leading purpose being to utilize the labor commercially of those to be cared for, and so to make the home for the aged and the orphans as near self supporting as possible. It is not supposed that flower culture will pay the entire expense of the main- tenance of the home, but it will go far in that direction if it is managed on business principles. Auxiliary organ- izations of colored people are to be formed in the south- ern counties to secure co-operation and support. NEW FORM OF PHILANTHROPY. T has remained for colored women in Los Angeles to A modern Enoch Arden of Seattle, Wash,, was ar- rested for burglary for trying to break into his home and a welcome on his return. Upon his promise to go away and not bother the new husband the charge was dismissed. That is an easier way of adjusting family relations than the old style, if not quite so romantic. ‘ Union in the variety of its natural capacities. On the 23d inst. the people of Modesto celebrate in ample form the completion of an irrigation system that will make fertile 260,000 acres of dry land, by sup- plying it with abundant water for use in tl'c raising of all kinds of crops. Just one month later a convention will meet in this city to devise ways and means for keeping water off an equal acreage on the delta and tule lands and islands of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. The too great abundance of water on these yet lands is evidence of the exhaustless supply of water for diversion to the dry lands, and the problem of the maintenance of both descriptions of land in fertility in- terests the whole State. 3 The success of the irrigation project which is to be celebrated at Modesto furnishes a valuable means of contrasting what the people can do for themselves with what the Federal Government will do for them in the irrigation plans which it is effectuating under the law “of Congress. It will do more than this, for it will show the relation of climate to irrigation and to the capacity of irrigated lands to bear the cost of making them fertile by water. In California land will bear a higher cost for irrigation, because in this climate it produces more “crops in a year, and crops with a higher market value. Yet it will probably be found that the cost of irrigation here will be far less than that furniglied by the Govern- ment works. { z The success of Modesto is wrought under the Wright law. The author of that law was a citizen of Modesto when he was elected to the Legislature for the purpose of proposing the measure which bears his name. There has been much controversy over it. Losses have oc- curred in some places where its application was at- tempted, and’ the organization of some districts has been voided by the courts. All this may be without im- | peaching the applicability of the law to any conditions that were in line with its purpose. 1f it never did anything more than enable the irriga- tion of the vast acreage of which Modesto is the center, it is already as fully vindicated as the Federal law is likely to be. This successful achievement may renew interest in its merits and cause its application in other districts, conformatory to the court decisions that affect The Modesto people have earned the right to cele- oins days of jubilee. THE MODESTO IRRIGATORS. ALIFORNIA is the most interesting State in the 1 TALK His Inalienable Right. What was virtually a life imprison- ment for contempt of court stands among the decisions of our Supreme Court. The case and its consequence grew out of a citizen's Interpreting the constitution in contravention to that of the Supreme Court. At the time alluded to a vacancy oc- urred on the bench of the Supreme ‘ourt and the Governor appointed a Judge to fill the vacancy. The consti- tution provided then, as now, that the successor should be elected at the next general State election. This provision was neglected, however, and the ap- pointee retained his seat on the bench. To this method a citizen named Pick- ett, who was one of the street reform- ing brigade, took exception and dis- puted the right of the Judge to oc- cupy the bench after the term had ex- pired, according to his interpretation. Taking the bull by the hornms, so to speak,- Pickett entered the courtroom, which was then on the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, and just before the Justices filed out of their chambers to take their places on the bench he fairly and squarely squatted himself down in the chair about to be cccupied by the Judge whose seat he disputed. The Judges entered the courtroom led by the Chief Justice, W. T. Wallace, and to their utter astonishment found this citizen reformer in the seat. Judge ‘Wallace looked amazed and, calling the court crier, inquired what it ail meant. Pickett answered for himself, and in- formed the Judges that he had just as much right to a seat on the bench as Judge Blank, whose term had ex- pired by limitation of law. Pickett was removed by force and an order was instantly entered commit- ting him to the custody of the Sheriff to be confined in jail pending the fur- ther order of the court. The self-in- stalled “Judge” was escorted to the Broadway jail, whtre he remained for three years, until 1880, when the new constitution abolished the then exist- ing Supreme Court. It was one of the last acts of the defunct court to lib- erate Pickett. The old man died short- ly after, never having changed his mind as to his right as an American citizen. . Honor Among Thieves. “There is honor among thieves”; that oft quoted phrase was exempli- fied in the character of Belle Wilson, the noted female pickpocket, who died a miserable death a few days ago, alone and forsaken by her former friends. Belle was known to the oldest offi- cers of the police force. All knew her to be a larcenist of the most clever type, yet they knew her as well by her word of honor as they did by her bad record. “When Belle ever told you she would do a thing,” said an old policeman the other day, ‘“you could bet on it that she would keep her word. “Several years ago Belle was sent up for four years in San Quentin. At #fat time the matron of the prison had been having great difficulty in se- curing a reliable trusty among the in- carcerated females. I suggested that she give Belle a trial. I said to her that if Belle promises you that shz will do as you bid her, she will do it. “So Belle Wilson was given the posi- tion of trusty. Not two days after Belle was introduced to her new job a big, husky negress attempted to cut the matron’s throat. She had her down on the floor of a cell and with up- raised hand was about to plunge the knife into the matron’s neck when Belle came along at a bound. With one swine she knocked the frenzied negress prone on the floor and quickly relleved her of her weapon. The matron was deeply indebted to her trusty and attempted as best she could to thank her. “‘Ah, forget it said Belle, ‘didn’t I tell you that I'd be your trusty? S’pose I'd let that thing murder you ‘thout helping you?' “The matron was taken back by the trusty’s unconcerned air and relin- quished all hope of thanking Belle with words. When Belle died there were many who had known her, who recall- ed her record as a pickpocket, but there were a few who said, ‘there was a criminal with a werd of honor.” ” The Hill Sight. Of love #here be two hills: ‘Who seen them, at eve or dawn, ‘Wanders forevermore ‘Where the wind has gone. 4 There is one hill of quiet green, Girt by a little ring Of tremulous apple-trees, all white In the sweet air of spring; v And no wind stirs the gentle peace Of their tender blossoming. And there two slender lovers walk Dreamily, hand to hand. His face is lit as with a_joy Too new to understand; Her edm. with some great wonder immed, Dream in a far-off land. I There is a lonely hill of pines, half-dim with purple haze, Behind which sets the dying red And gold of autumn days. And few come unto it, or know Its labyrinthine ways. And there two stand with unclasped hands; o e holas a broken Iyre: ¥ er past the empty plain, Out in the flume of fire ‘Where day sinks into the waiting night ‘With its dreams and its vain desire. Of love there be two hills: ‘Who has seen them, at eve or dawn, forevermore ders. Where the wind has —Arthur Davidson in Smart Set. A Convenient Clock. ‘While entertaining some friends in his apartments the other day a well known man about town pointed to a beautiful electric clock on his bed- room mantel. 3 “See that?” he said. “That clock is the latest invention. I can hypnot- ize it so that it will ring the hour any time, day or night.” musical dots and dashes. First there were four sets of five rings, and then nine solemn rings in a deeper tone— which, being jnterpreted, meant 9:20 o'clock. The guests were much mysti- fled, but their host explained that he was surreptitiously pressing an elec~ tric button attached to the bedpost. The new kind of clock is an ex-_ pensive ornament and is specially de- signed for people who are in the habit of waking up in the midnight fiours. When they wake and wonder what time it is, all they have to do is to touch the button. Then the hour is rung off and they can fall asleep again without having had the trouble of striking a light to satisfy their ¢uri- osity.—New York Times. What the Cold Does: The excessively cold seasom at bec has had a curious effect upon th& salt water eels. It is their custom in winter to bury themselves in the sand or mud below high water mark and there hibernate. This winter the frost has been so keen for weeks at a time that the sur< face of the wet sand has become a sheet of ice directly the water ebbed away. Probably this has had the effect of partially depriving the buried eels of air, and the fear of death by asphyx- iation has sent them scurrying out into the open, where they meet with imme- diate paralysis from the cold. The appearance of the beach on some cold mornings has been remarkable. Thousands of eels from thirty to sev- enty inches in length, each one about as brittle as an icicle and stretched out as straight as a stick, lie about or stand upright from the sand for a good third of their length. Carts and wheelbarrows, as well as boats, have been filled day after day, and the available markets for fresh eels were long ago glutted. Skinning, salting and smoking have given em- ployment to many who otherwise would have been idle. The question which suggests itself is: Do these eels hibernate naturally when they experience cold beyond a certain point, or 1s the condition noted that of temporarily suspended animation, the forerunner or preliminary stage of death? For it is certain that the eels are not really dead. The returning tide .bears them on its surface at first, as though they were lifeless, but after a few min- utes they wriggle about a little, and soon they dive below, slowly and care- fully, but very much alive. The fisher- men usually make things certain by chopping off the heads of their cap= tured fish before they thaw them out. Apparently no one has ever taken the trouble of deciding whether the fish were frozen through and through, so that there could not be any little stream of life kept in motion in the in< terior of their bodies by ever so slight a circulation.—New York Sun. Answers to Queries. SPAWN—B. M. Petaluma, Cal. Theres are a number of men in San Frane cisco who supply mushroom spawn. ROUND VALLEY—A. O., Madera, Cal. Round Valley Cal, is in Inyo County and is in the Eighth Congres- sional District, represented by M. J, Daniels. LETTER WRITING—Subscriber, Red Bluff, Cal. In writing a letter the in- troductory words, “My Dear Friend.” should be capitalized. A gentleman who simply is acquainted with a lady, no matter how long, would not be jus- tified in addressing her by letter as “My Dear Friend.” There is a marked difference between acquaintance and friendship. NEW YORK CAR LINES—A Sub« scriber, City. The companies that op- erate street railroads in New York are: Interurban Street Ralflway Company; Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad, Third Avenue Railroad, ‘Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Ave- nue Railroad, Union Railway, West- chester Electric Railroad and the Yon- kers Electric Railroad. ARMY AND NAVY—J. T. H,, Owy- hee, Nev. The following is the salary paid officers of the British army (this does -not include extras they may re- ceive): Commander in chigf, £5000 sterling; general, £2920; lieutenant. general, £2008; major general, £1095; brigadier general, £913; adjutant gen- eral, £2400; regimental officers, colonel and Heutenant colonel, from I8 to 24 shillings per day, the amount varying according to the branch of the service; 7d to 18s 64d; major, 11s