The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1904, From ’Prentice to President. Srectal C: derc ADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5. HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT "GARDEN, LONDON, Aug. 1.—As head of the gwu Porhcu'ar and Orienta Stea criand is ane \1)’"! flgfl,n these statesmen are t\"‘u H xFl\ discussing (he | GARDEN, possibility of w g from Rus- sia’s seizure of fle In ac tom, Sir Thon efrained | from expressing blic opinion on | the controversy, but it is knewn that he| 1= in communication with the Government and strenuously insists that Russia should be compelledato pay end apologize for her transgressions of the she is now pla B-walr s mercantile mar Sir Thomas *h\h .mml is one of the | h«Fl intere able of England’s c He is a product © which bas given s cuished men to the world pn\erl} and S and ancestry. He was born in Aber- deen in 1834. His father, a reduced gen- rality laws and to stop the sort | ving against | otch birth | | only, tieman, had gone to the colonies in the | bope of making a fortune, but lost| what little money he had and died. Eoon after young Thomas was adopted by his maternal grandfather, a retired fish curer, This worthy man, like many chief solace of his old age in thelstern * greed of Calvin. He sent his grandson | to the Aberdeen grammar school and subsequently entered him at the uni- versity there that he might be trained " for the ministry. But Thomas, after | opportunity of the middle class Scotch, found the | Play by Israel much youthful wrestling with theolog- | ical problems, discovered that he lacked the religious enthusiasm essential to a successful pulpit career, and, more to the point, succeeded in con- vincing his grandfather that he was | Dieppe,” what is|that a revival of Marshall’s “His Ex- ! his ‘An the keeping tab of Russian seizures to de- vote any time to his favorite game. The I.nndmt'Smgr'. Special Correspondence. 1 THE SAN:' FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . « o oo o0 0. Adfress All Courmmications JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publlcltlon Oftice -.Third and ‘Market Streets, S. F MONDAY TRADE HERE AND ELSEWHERE, \ SPITE of a falling off of 15.9 per cent in the coun- try’s bank clearings last week, as compared with the corresponding week last year, and a decline in the aggregate clearings to about $1,670,000,000, the low- est figures touched for several years, commercial re- HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, l ports last week reported a slow expansion in trade in HENRIETTA STREET, COV! ENT | LONDON, Aug. 1.—Since the immense success of “Mrs. Dane's | Defense,” some three years ago, play after play by Henry Arthur Jones has | been produced in London, but America theatergoers may have been struck by | the fact that so far not one of these | pleces reached the United States. This season, it seems, Mr. Frohman is going to see what “Whitewashing Julia” will do in America, but the com- | edy In question is the only one of the | playwright's recent efforts that would ' have the slightest chance of success at home. In the old days, when Jones was producing pieces like “The Liars,” “The Maneuvers of Jane” and “The Bauble Shop,” it would have been safe | to proph: that the new play from | ven Arthur Bourchier | reopen the Garrick would be seen ted States soon afterward— | s another matter. However, is long since Jones had a| enough success, this most dramatists has been | on the up grade ontly. In “Chance, the Idol” with which he followed | “Mrs. Dane’s Defense,”” he came an awful cropper, but “The Princess’ Nose” was better, though too slight for success as a three-act play. “Jo- seph Entangled,” written just before “Whitewashing Julia,” was admirable half way through and Cyril Maude gave it at the Haymarket for over 100 nights, but it is not likely that the capacity of that playhouse was taxed point in the run. Counting “The Carnival” and “Mrs. Dane's * Jones has produced during the last three years no less than six | plays. During the same period his great rival, Pinero, has put forth two “Iris” and “Letty,” but, oh, how | different! Perhaps, however, Jones will score again with his new piece at | | the Garrick. The name has not yet‘ been revealed. Londoners who have not yet had the of seing a really worthy | Zangwill are waiting | with much curfosity for “Merely Mary Ann,” which, with Eleanor Robson, | Mr. Frohman now announces for the | Duke of York's “early in September.” Not much good fortune attended this‘ playhouse during the past season. It was opened with Pinero's “Letty,” after which was given “Captain which proved so flat a failure is to-day it though it i real sure prolific of Briti: re cellency, the Governor,” had to be put on hurriedly. “The Rich Mrs. Rep- unfitted to uphold a harsh and narrow | ton,” R. C. Carton’s much heralded creed by precept and example in a|Play, also proved a failure, so Mr. skeptical world. He was therefore | Frohman turned his theater over to| withdrawn from the university and put | into a merchant’s office in Aberdeen. ‘While here he chanced to hear some talk of a Mr. Allan, an old friend of | his grandparents, who had become the manager of a steamship company. That fired him with an ambition to follow his example. He asked his grandfather to write to Mr. Allan to inquire if he could find an opening for an energetic youth | in the same line. The result was that €t 18 years of age Thomas Sutherland ‘was Installed as a junior clerk in the office of the great Peninsular and Ori- ental Company. It soon became no- ticed in the office that any work in- trusted to Thomas Sutherland was sure to be done well, and that he didn’t mind working overtime to do it. His sdvancement was rapid, but he kept his eye open all the while for larger opportunities. At 20 years of age he seized a chance . to go to Hongkong in the service of the company. Here he found a field in which he could display his rare powers of organization, and soon rose to be euperintendent of the company in the Far East, with prac- tically a free hand—a fact of which he took full advantage. He mapped out new routes, new coasting services and started the dock company, whose huge works at Hongkong add so much to the vabue of that port as a naval base. The Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Com- pany, one of the most important of Far Eastern financial concerns, was aiso started by him, and at 30 years of agze he was appointed one of the three unofficial members of the Colonial Leg- islative Council. All these signal proofs of his ability convinced the directors that he was the sort of man whose talents could best be employed at head- qQuarters, and In 1869 he was recalled home to take a prominent position in the management of the company’s af- falrs. Up to that time the business of the company had been practically a mo- mopoly, but the opening of the Suez canal and the consequent change in the usual route to India and the Far East so changed the situation that the company was threatened with ruin. Its revenues declined at an alarming rate. In this emergency it was felt that Thomas Sutherland was the one man connected with the company Who might stem the tide of adversity that had set ®o strongly against it. He was made manager and given a free hand. “It was what the Yankees called a hard road to hoe,” he said when speak- ing of this crisis in his career, “but I hoed it.” With consummate ability he confronted the altered conditions, changed the methods of the company, created a new fleet and not only saved the great concern, but increased its businese until it has attained its pres- ent splendid position in the maritime and mercantile world. When he took charge of the company its fieet repre- eented a tonnage that footed up 80,000 tons. It now amounts to 400,000 tons divided between seventy vessels valued =t between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000. ‘The man who, rising from the humble billet of a junior clerk, can point to such an achievement has certainly done something to be proud of. For twenty-five vears he has been chairman of the company, and is likely to hold that position for another ten years st least. Although 70 of age, hale, erect and vigorous, he looks hardly a day over 55, and is as brimful of fight es ever. His favorite recreation 8 golf, and he has his own private links on his picturesque estate in Hamp- shire, but et present he is 100 busy affairs of the| | gave it up and Forbes Robertson, who wanted it for | | his new production, “The Edge of the | Storm.” But this was another frost. A revival of “Mice and Men” also failed to attract, so the management the playhouse was closed for the season. Michael Marton, the American adap- ter of “Resurrection,” who is now Beerbohm Tree's right hand man, is responsible for the English version of La Montansier,” in which Lena Ash- well is to star. This is the French play in which Rejane and Coqueiin ap- | peared together. Much was expected of it and I fancy that Miss Ashwell must | have secured the English rights before the play’s production, for only the pop- ularity of the two stars saved it In Paris and the London critics found it indifferent when the French company gave it here. It was at this time that A. B. Walkley, the Times' dramatic y, W “ that th S ol SUtRSEIEY; gurpte; > 06 i gexa tha °"® | have lately been placed, which indicates an inc is to be an English version of this piece, but there is no need of meeting | | trouble half way.” John Hare will not be seen in Lon- don for a while, but is off on a long provincial tour with “Little Mary.” The Secret of Success. The same diligent genius that en- ables a landscape gardener in Japan to compass within a few square yards of land a forest, a bridge-spanned stream, a waterfall and lake, a chain of terraced hills, gardens of chrysan- themums, hyacinths, peonies and pinks, 2 beetling crag crowned with a dwarfed conifer, and _through all the dainty park meandering paths with here a shrine and there a dainty sum- mer house, has made® it possible for the farmers of the empire to build up on less than 19,000 square miles of arable land the most remarkable ag- ricultural pation the world has known. If all the tillable acres of Japan were merged into one field, a man in an automobile, traveling at the rate of fifty miles per hour, could skirt the entire perimeter of arable Japan in eleven hours. Upon this narrow free- hold Japan has reared a nation of im- perial power, which is determined to enjoy commercial pre-eminence over all the world of weaith and opportunity from Siberia to Siam, and already, by force of arms, is driving from the shores of Asia the _greatest monarchy of Europe. The secret of the success of the lit- tle Daybreak Kingdom has been a mystery to many students of nations. Patriotism does not-explain the riddle of its strength, neither can commerce, nor military equipment, nor manufac- turing skill. Western nations will fail fully to grasp the secret of the dy- namic intensity of Japan to-day, and will dangerously underestimate the for- midable possibilities of the Greater Japan—the Dai Nippon—of to-morrow, until they begin to study seriously the agricultural triumphs of that empire. For Japan, more scientifically than any other nation, past pr present, has per- fected the art of sending the roots of its civilization enduringly into the soil. Progressive experts of high authority throughout the Occident now admit that in all the annals of agriculture there is nothing that ever approached the scicntific skill of Sunrise husband- ry. Patient @iligence, with knowledge of the chemistry of soil and the physi- ology of plants, have yielded results that have astounded the most ad- vanced agriculturists in Western na- ticns.—Booklovers’ Magazine. | dle, most sections, with the tone of the advices of a decidedly cheerful and sanguine cast. The two conditions do not harmonize. If there is reaily an expansion in trade the bank clearings ought to show it by an increase, while any marked tlccrc1~c in the clcanngs indicates a cor- responding falling off in the volume of business. There are two conditions, however, which may explain the apparent contradiction. One is, that while business may really be expanding, the lower prices for many commodities may diminish the clearings sufficiently to offset the expansion when the net showing is made. Another is a dull specudative market in Wall street, which in itself would cut down the volume of clearings materially. Perhaps both of these factors prevail. Briefly, the actual volume of trade may be expanding, while the lower plane of quotations for some important lines of merchandise may reduce the amount of money necessary to carry on the trade; and this, in connection with a dull stock market, would naturally reduce the aggregate clearings. But this, of course, is conjecture. But aside from these theories and abstractions, it is a fact that the reports now coming in from different parts of the country continue to improve week after week. The jobbing trade is not equal to last year's i and the industrial conditions could be more promising, but aside from the damage to the wheat crop, which, as far as ascertainable at present, amounts to about 10 per cent, reducing the crop from a previously estimated vield of 625,000,000 bushels to somewhere about 565,000,- 000 as a rough calcnlation, the crop prospects of the country are very fine. A prominent Western bank last week sent out inquiries to 1042 banks in as many dis- tricts in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indian Territory, lowa, Kansas, Kentugky, Louisiana, Michigan, Okla- homa, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas and through- out the Middle West, which brought answers of crops retarded by cool nights and unfavorable weather, but | that in spite of this all grops except wheat showed an increase over last year. As the crop prospects are the overshadowing and ruling factor in trade this year, it is | probably this which gives to the current commercial situation its brightening aspect. These excellent crop prospects come at the very time when they are most needed, for business was beginning to languish. Now, the dullest tradesman can see that { with abundant crops and an active demand for them at prices above the normal, business cannot become very dull. With a 12,000,000-bale cotton crop, a 2,500,000,000- bushel corn crop, a 565,000,000-bushel wheat crop and a very large yield of hay, which is one of the largest sources of revenue possessed by the country, the farm- ing districts will be alive with activity, the mills be kept running, the railroads have all the freight they can han- the banks multifarious channels for the profitable placement of their funds, the merchants increased orders { for goods and the manufacturers easy outlets for their products. All this is but another name for trade activity and continued prosperity; not a boom, perhaps, but a good, steady, normal trade movement, beneficial to the capitalist and wage-earner, the merchant and farmer, and the transportation lines, which furnish employment to great armies of men. Such is the situation to-day. True, some lines are dragging and some sections of the country report busi- ness quiet, but the country as a whole is in excellent condition. Provisions are dull and the packing-house strike in the West is cutting down the volume of trade in that region; predicted lower prices for cotton are ren- dering buyers cautious about laying in supplies, but there are signs of improvement in the dry goods trade, and late advices from New York emphatically say that the improvement in the iron trade, hinted at lately, is more than mere talk. Orders for over 110,000 tons of Sigiron ‘easing movement in this line. The wool industry is in excellent | condition, prices for raw wool being excellent and the demand for the clip large and lively. : As for the question of ready cash for the conduct of business, a New York banker, who keeps himself thor- oughly posted on current trade conditions, says: “There is no need of concern about the monetary situation. Our local banks carry a big surplus reserve of about $60,000,000, which is the largest in many years at this period. The West and South are also amply supplied with funds, and the crop and business demands are not likely to cause any embarrassment in the money mar- kets. On August 1 the stock of money in circulation in the United States was $2,546,000,000, a net increase of $164,000,000 in the last twelve months. Of this increase $24,000,000 was in gold coin, $114,000,000 in gold certifi- cates and $31,000,000 in national bank notes. During the last seven years we have added about $650,000,000 to our stock of gold and about $200,000,000 or more to our supply of bank notes, raising the per capita circulation in that period from $23 to $31. Such an enormous in- crease in our currency supply, out of all proportion to growth of requirements, is sure, if maintained, to have a stimulating effect upon values, especially when the latter are upon a lower plane than formerly, a¢ is now the case.” In our local markets the feature last week was the sudden quieting down in general business. It was gen- eral and seemed to begin abruptly, in one day. There was general complaint of a slack demand for all sorts of merchandise, heretofore active. Nobody seemed to know what caused the sudden quictude, but everybody remarked it. It was particularly noticeable in some of the products of the farm, though manufactured goods were also affected. Lower prices resulted in a number of cases. It might have been the long-expected arrival of the wave of dullness, which has been slowly rolling across the continent toward us for some months, or it might have been one of the periodical lulls which occur in midsummer and midwinter and which appear and disappear without any assignable cause, like a Ppassing breeze on a quiet day; but whatever caused it, it was perceptible. There is one unpleasant and serious feature to our coast trade at present which needs immediate and ener- getic attention, and that is the preservation of our Ori- ental trade. We must not let any war between two Oriental nations divert it from us. This coast is the natural geographical field, depot and supply area for the Orient, and it must continue so. It is too big a commercial plum to relinquish. Happily, our merchants seem alive to the situation and have already taken steps to retain this valuable trade, which means so much to San Francisco and the whole Pacific Coast. DEATH IN THE COACHES. HERE is now under way in England a widespread I movement that may well find an (nergetic and determined counterpart jin the United States. The English traveling public has been aroused to the serious menace involved in the unsanitary condition of | in | railway coaches, which, in their uncleanliness and the manifold inconveniences of their construction, have become recognized agents for the dissemination of dis- case. Travelers’ associations are being organized, the indorsement of physicians, men of affairs and the public generally has given unquestioned dignity to the cam- paign of reform, and representations, strong_enough w( demand attention, will be made to the transportation | companies to correct the evil. If conditions in England warrant so emphatic a dis- cussion, it is palpable that in the United States, where the traveling public is much greater and where the movement of all classes and character of people is prac- tically without supervision, the urgency of protection is immediate. The menace of railway coaches as carriers and distributors of disease has been a subject of desul- tory consideration in American medical journals; but while the existence of the evil has been accepted, no popular interest, designed to suppress it, has been aroused. First-class transportation in the United States is such, generally speaking, only from the point of view of fare, not accommodation. Provision is yet to be made for | ordinary comforts and the common decencies of inter course between men and women. Efforts have been | made, in warnings earnestly and repeatedly made, to pro- tect travelers from the germs of tuberculosis, but noth- ing further has been done. The railroads will not take the initiative and the public, victims of unsanitary, crowded, dark and dust-laden coaches, seem not inclined to do so. Common sense, fortified by the conclusions of medical science, dictates that railway coaches should be well lighted, completely ventilated and so constructed as to be subjected in-every interior part to sunshine. Draperies, cushions and all the unnecessary gimcracks of ornamen- tation that collect and hold dust should be replaced by comfortable, durable, washable stuffs. The dust of rail- way coaches is germ-laden and its burden is disease, inhaled by the susceptible. Another feature of reform in American travel, and one that sooner or later will be recognized as absolutely vital, is the separation of passengers unfortunately af- flicted with infectioug disease from travelers not so con- ditioned. One of the transcontinental railway com- | panies has suggested such an arrangement in its service, but the proposal has met with the apathy of the public. That the evil is insidious and in its discussion cause is so difficult to trace from effect are not sound reasons why the matter should not be one of immediate public concern. i Travelers’ associations should be formed in the United States, communities should interest themselves in an af- fair so intimately associated with their health, transporta- tion companies should be asked to remedy evils easily | overcome, and if necessary legislative action should be invoked to accomplish the result, ——e A measure submitted for adoption to the Legislature | of Georgia provides that all fathers of six children shall be honored with the title of colonel and fathers of ten children shall be elevated to the dizzy dignity of a place on the Governor’s staff. What a splendid vision, sustained by hope, this presents to everybody out of Georgia. What a magnificent opportunity it affords to make a Georgia colonel mean something in the beneficent | scheme of things. T as the date of the bond election. The issue is for | parks, boulevards,’ a new City Hall, a polytechnic | school and needed necessary public improvements. Intending to further promote this enterprise, we take occasion now to say to our Oakland friends that no city was ever improved to death. Cities are improved into more abundant life always. They die of dirt and in- ertia. If this bond issue is ratified, as we are persuaded | it will be, at the polls, the first year’s tax in payment of it will be only $325 on the $1000. After that the amount declines. We are within reason in saying that the moment the issue is ratified every $1000 worth of property in Oakland will be advanced in value to more than twice the amount of the first year’s tax, and that as the improvements are made this advance will con- tinue in a constantly enlarging ratio. The situation of Oakland is unrivaled for beauty and salubrity. Nature cut the bottom out of her purse of gifts and graces in behalf of that location. But man has heretofore been too content to let it go at that, with- out assisting the unspent energies of nature to improve upon her first work. Now that community is quickened by a mew spirit and the capacities of their town appear to them in a raised vision, that is formed of a union of charms with an impulse to material prosperity. ‘There are not many cities in the world whose every part is as flawless as Oakland. It has no place where slums can permanently lodge, none where things low and unsightly can nalurally gender and fester. Every bldck in it can receive graces and attractions that hold the fancy of the observer. When these proposed im- provements are made in the spirit that has prompted the undertaking, but few cities in the world will display as many charms. And then the people will discover that they have only made a beginning, and will clamor for more and longer steps forward, guided by the experience gained in taking those now so carefully and wisely planned. OAKLAND BONDS. HE Oakland City Council has fixed September 27 Certain municipal employes, more eager and insistent in the agjtation of desired favors than in the perform- ance of public duties, have organized a movement to sccure more holidays and fewer hours of labor on days that are not listed as intervals of recreation. This propa- ganda is, to say fhe least, puzzling to the generality of uncomplaining taxpayers. We, who are not of the ma- chine-made politically elect, believed that the life of the petty Office holder was one long holiday without the threat of a single cloud of hard work. | youngsters stood in front of the shop | sented themselves to be. | |In the affidavit book,” said the judge No Cats for Him. A certain barber in the Mission dis- trict has a marked aversion to cats and it all came about in this wise. Some practical joker inserted an ad- vertisement in one of the morning papers recently to the effect that an unlimited number of cats was wanted at once at the shop of the aforesaid barber. The advertisement stated that it did not matter if the cats were mangy, cross-eyed, blind or had any | other physical defects, that fifty cents would be paid for each one. That morning a motley crowd of) just as the barber came along to open up for the day. The boys carried all sorts and conditions of cats in their arms. The barber wanted to know the meaning of it all and one of the crowd who had a sack full of cats in- formed him. “Ah, say, you're de guy what ad- vertised for cats and we've brung you a lot of 'em, see?” The barber protested that he want- ed no cats and just then a boy came along carrying a huge basket filled with specimens of the feline family. To add to the barber’s consternation a wagon drove up to.his shop and the driver unloaded a chicken coop con- taining at least thirty cats, saying, “I guess these will hold you for awhile.” The barber by this time was frantic and, refusing to open up his shop, fled from the ecene in dismay. Now, if any one desires to make that bar- ber frantic, all that is necessary is to yell, “cats,” or “mee-ow"” when he ap- proaches. Her Testimony. He was a bull-dozing inspector at one of the polling places at the recent primary election and had made him- self obnoxious by challenging several intending voters on the ground that they were not the men they repre- A young man, whom we will call John Blank. came along, accompanied by his pret- ty three-year-old daughter, and after giving his name asked for a ballot. “That’'s not John Blank,” said the offensive inspector. “I know him well and you are not the man.” Blank smiled and his little daugh- ter, scenting trouble, edged over to him saying in a deflant manner: “That's my papa.” “Well,” sald the judge of the polling place, who had become disgusted with the exasperating tactics of the inspéc- tor, “we’'ll just leave it to the baby, ‘What is your name, little girl?” “My name is Dorothy Blank, and my papa’s name is Joehn, for I call him that sometimes.” “Now, where do you live, my little dear?” “I live at 1235 Dewey street with my papa and mama,” came the an- swer In lisping accents. “That corresponds with the entry looking sternly at the inspector. | “John Blank, here is your ballot.” Mark Twain Caught. On one of Mark Twain's later trlp:\ down the Mississippi he made the | Journey incognito in order to gather material for stories about Mississippi pilots, and the following story was told by a man who knew him well, of the way Twain was discovered: “The steamer was hardly under way when through the automatic action of the brain, the author instinctively wan- dered to the pilot house, and essayed the role of the greenhorn. The pilot loaded him with the kind of river chaff and badinage that must have recalled the days of his youth more vividly than would have the taste of one of his grandmother’s pies, and our author was enjoying it as keenly as if he were at a country circus, stowing away page after page of the most delightful ma- terial, and secretly hugging himself with the thought that he was getting a large amount of the most desirable copy from the very source to which he had looked most longingly, and for the acquisition of which he had been racking his brain in an effort to decide as to the best method of procedure. At the moment when he decided on beat- ing a retreat, in order that his stenog- rapher might take down the interview while it was fresh in his mind, the pi- lot left the wheel, and, turning to Mr. Clemens, calling him by name, said: ‘Here, you take her and lie awhile— you're handier at it than I am. Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent! Why, I knew you before you bad spoken seven words, and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. It was to draw me out. Well, I let you, didn’t I? Now, take the wheel and finish the watch, and next time play fair and you won't have to work your passage.’” The results of this trip were incorporated in the sec- ond half of “Life on the Mississippi.” Sons of Rest. “The Ancient Order of Amalgamat- ed Sons of Rest,” so long prophesied by the comic papers, has become a reality in Louisville and has been founded by fifteen young negroes be- tween 20 and 30 years of age, who in this enlightened age it is not nec- essary for a man to toil for his ltving. “The members are bound to stand by each other in case of troubls and to do everything in their power to help any brother who may be arrested on any charge. “We hereby declare every day a hol- iday and agree to spend the remain- der of our days in the enjoyment of | the life that has been given us.” The club was formed by fifteen young negroes, but it is sald that al- ready a great number of applications for membership have been recetved and if the applications are not accept- ed it is believed that opposing organ- izations will be formed. The organization of the club is con- sidered a “menace to the public wel- fare,” and the police have procured a list of the members. They will bs carefully watched and the first time one of them breaks a law an effort will be made to crush the organiza- tion.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Integrity. A few years ago a well-known lawyer remitted in settlement of an account to the publisher of a paper In the West a two-dollar bill, which was re- turned with the brief statement: “This note is counterfeit; please send another.” Two months passed before hearing from the lawyer again, when he apolo- gized for the delay, saying: S “I have been unable until now to find another counterfeit two-dollar bill, but hope the one now inclosed will suit, professing at the same time my inability to discover what the ob- Jection was to the other, thought as good as a counterfeit ever saw."—Philadelphia Ledger. ch I as 1 Answers to Queries. LONDON TIMES—L. N., City. The address of the London Times is Print- ing House Square, London, E. C. IN HOC SIGNO—J. A. C., City. The words “In Hoc Signo Vinces.” the mot- to of the Knights Templar, is Latin and means “In this sign, or under this standard, thou shalt conquer.” TO ADDRESS CARNEGIE—L. N, City. To address a letter to Andrew Carnegie it should be directed the same as to any citizen who does not hold any public position, namely: “Mr. An- drew Carnegie.” He has no title of nobility. INFORMATION — R. C., Truckee, Cal. There are individuals in the various branches of the United States Government whose duty it is to furn- ish Information relative to the par- ticular department in which they are employed. Direct your letter of in- quiry to the department from which you degire information. GUID! BOOK—Subscriber, City. Go to any first class bookseller and he will procure for you such a guide book as you desire. Bicycle guide books may be obtained from dealers in bicycles. This department does not know of any book that gives agguide to all bicycle roads in the United States. Such does not appear in the catalogues. CITIZENSHIP — Habitancum, Ce- ment, Solano County, Cal. To become a citizen of the United Staltes the alien must declare upon oath before a circuit or district court of the United States or a district or supreme court of the Territories, or a court of record of any rof the States having common law juris- diction and a seal and clerk, two years at least prior to his admission, that it is, bona fide, his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to re- nounce forever all allegiance and fideli- ty to any foreign prince or state, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen or subject. He must at the time of his application to be admitted declare on oath, before some one of the courts above specified, “that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he abso- lutely and entirely renounces and ab- Jures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sov- ereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sover- eignty of which he was before a citizen or subject,” which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court to which the alien has applied have sworn allegiance to a constitu- tion which binds them never to do a stroke of work and to help each other out of trouble. The new club made its first appear- ance in public recently and a pa- rade through Breckenridge street was given. They bore a banner with the inscription, “We Never Work.” The club never holds a special meeting, for it is always in session. It will proba- bly have enormous success, as its — The ministers of this city, mindful of public welfare and vigilant in the detection of evil influences, have voiced a protest against the display and sale of obnoxious publications and pictures. In the campaign which these gentlemen have commenced to suppress the outrage they should not forget that through the negligence and con- nivance of officials the demand for this refuse of the printing press has increased largely because the class to which it panders has been permitted to increase. members have plenty of time to give to it and need not worry about other duties. The constitution, which is being kept secret, is said to read like this: “The object of this order is to avold all kinds of labor, both mental and manual. Its members are sworn never to indulge in work of any kind or form. “It is the further purpose of the or- ganization to promote rest and recre- ation and to prove to the world that that he has made a declaration to be- come a citizen two years before apply- ing for final papers, and has resided continuously within the United States for at least five years, and within the State or Territory where such court is at the time held one year at least; and that during that time “he has behaved as a man of good moral character, at- tached to the principles of the comsti- tution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happi- ness of the same,” he will be admitted to citizenship. If the applicant has borne any hereditary titie or order of nobility he must make an express re- nunciation of the same at the time of his application. —_—— ‘Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_———— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men the Press Bureau (Allen's). 230 Cal~ ifornia street. Telephone Main 1042. *