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GOVERNOR APPOINTS
V DELEGATES TO SEATTLE
Names Citizens Who Are to Repre
sent California at Trans-Missis
sippi Commercial Congress.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10.— The following
appointments were made public at the
Governor's office to-day. Delegates to the
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress,
to be held in Seattle August 18 to 21—
Frank D.' Ryan, Sacramento; Colvin . B.
Brown, Sacramento; C. B. Booth, Los An
geles; H. D. Loveland, San Francisco; M.
C. Nason, San Diego, and Hugh Craig,
San Francisco. James A. White of Plac
erville, guardian of the Marshall monu
ment and grounds, vice Francis Nlcholls,
term expired. The Governor has named
Judge F. B. Ogrden of Oakland. to hear
certain cases in the Superior Court of
Cake County, Judge Crump of that coun
ty having died. *
CIRCUIT COURT UPHOLDS
ACTS OF INDIAN AGENT
Declares That Expulsion of Pros
pectors From Reservation Is
Authorized by Law.
SPOKANE, Wash.. Aug. 10.— In the in
junction suit of M. F. Gibson vs. Indian
Agent Anderson. Judge Hanford of the
United States Circuit Court has handed
down a decision upholding Agent Ander
son in expelling Gibson from the Spo
kane Indian reservation, where the lat
ter had located mining claims. Gibson
contended that under the general law he
could locate claims previous to the Presi
dent's proclamation withdrawing the land
and hold them in spite of that order. The
ruling Involves much valuable mining
property, claims to which are now de
clared worthless.
FEARS SALMON PACE
WILL BE A FAILXJBE
Manager of the Pacific Sealing Com
pany Says the Outlook Is
. ; Discouraging.
SEATTLE. Aujr. 10.— With only 97.700
cases 01 sockeye salmon on the Sound
and Indications pointing to an early close
of the season, there is every reason to
fear that the saimon pack this year will
be a practical failure. This is the opin
ion of Charles Corby, manager of the
Pacific Sealing: Company.
The pack of less than 98,000 cases this
year shows a shortage of almost 125,000
cases as compared with the catch last
year at this time.
VOLCANO OF XHjATTEA
BESTJ1EES ITS ACTIVITY
Much Smoke Rises From Crater and
Intense Subterranean Heat Is
Again Manifested.
HONOLULU. Aug. 10.— The volcano of
Kllauea, on the island of Hawaii, tha
movement of which was suspended a few
days ago by a lava slide into the pit of the
crater, has resumed its normal state of
activity. A considerable Quantity of
smoke is rising from the mountain, and
intense subterranean heat Is again mani
fest In the neighborhood of the crater.
NEW YORK. Aug. 10.— The following
Californians are In New York:
San Francisco— J. H. P. Atkins, at tha
Everett: J. Brower. J. F. Sheridan, at
the Grand Union; F. F. Conner, B. Lipp
man, at the Herald Square; B. Doble, at
the Grand; G. J. Henry Jr., at the Im
perial; W. S. Llndsey, at the Continental:
G. 8. McKenzie, W. W. Pulllan, at the
Victoria: W. Rosenthal, at the Metropoli
tan; T. T. Williams, at the Holland.
Los Angeles— C. V. Sprague, at the
Grand Union: Miss A. Wessell. at the
Imperial.
San Diego— H. E. Griswold, at the Marl
borough.
Californians in New York.
L. Hopkins, chief artist of the Sydney
Bulletin, is a guest at the Palace. He went
toy Sydney some twenty years ago and
has been there ever since. He is now
making a tour of the -world and will re
turn home by way of the Red Sea.
Benjamin Turner, vice president of a
large paper company In Plattsburg, N. Y.,
is at the Palace, having arrived yesterday
from British Columbia, where he has been
looking over a site on which his company
purposes to erect a big paper mill.
James A. Beaver, former Governor of
Pennsylvania and now Judge of the Su
perior Court of Bellfonte, and his legal
associate, John M. Dale, who have been
In Southern California on business, came
north yesterday and are stopping at the
Palace.- Judge Beaver has not visited
San Francisco before In sixteen years.
George L. Fish, formerly a wholesale
grocer of Oakland, who, for several years
has been engaged In mining In Nome,
arrived from the north yesterday U
at the Palace.
Bernard Moses, for many years pro
fessor of history at the State University
and latterly a member of the Philippine
commission, arrived from the East yes
terday evening with his wife and is reg
istered at the Palace.
"W. A. Blssell, assistant traffic manager
o; the Santa Fe road, returned yesterday
from a three months' visit to Lake Tahoe.
Charles S. Orpin, business manager of
the Dally Humboldt Times of Eureka is
at the Lick for a few days on business.
Dr. John Gallagher and Dr. Wilbur M.
Swett have returned from a three weeks'
trip to Mendocino and Humboldt coun
ties. They killed six bucks.
Perslfer Frazer Jr.. a member of one
of Philadelphia's leading families, is
among the latest arrivals at the Palace.
E. A. Bullard, manager of the Ameri
can Slate Company of Boston, ia at tho
Grand.
Dr. John G. Cecil of Louisville is at the
Palace.
Dr. A. J. Rice of Detroit is at the Pal
ace. * ,
Dr. John L. Burkhart of Manila ia at
the Occidental.
Dr. A. F. Schafer of Bakersfleld Is a
guest at the LJcfc.
Dr. Clark Coones of "Washington, D. C,
ia at the Occidental.
T. J. Field, one of Monterey's bankers,
and his wife are at the .Palace.
James H. Peabody. Governor of Colo
rado, is expected In the city next week.
J. P. O'Brien, District Attorney of
Troy. N. Y., arrived from the East yes
terday and Is registered at the Palace.
PERSONAL MENTION.
When young Gonzalves learned that
transportation had been sent to him at
Chicago he said he would wait in Council
Bluffs for It. He said he will have no
difficulty In identifying himself when he
finds his mother and believes she will
recognize him. The boy says he has a
number of wealthy relatives, one of
them, an uncle, living in Honolulu.
Young Gonzalves' father left auite a
fortune, of which he will not come Into
possession until he is 21 years of age.
The police here expect to hear from his
Oakland relatives in a short time.
COUNCIL. BLUFFS. Iowa, Aug. 10.—
August Gonzalves, the Portuguese boy
whose mother in California has made an
extraordinary effort to locate him, was
picked up in the Chicago and Northwest
ern freight yards in this cfty early to
day, having Just arrived from Chicago
en route West He was taken to the po
lice station, wheref 1 he made known his
identity and a wish to reach Oakland.
He carried with him a Chicago paper
detailing the ' story recently published
about his travels and family connections.
He told of his wanderings since Ms fath
er kidnaped him I in Oakland, and said
he had been a cabin boy and his father's
ship carpenter during most of his ocean
trips, which included voyages to Portu
gal, the Madeira Islands and South Af
rica. >/^ ' :V / :
CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 10.— The erup
tion of Mount Colima showed increased
activity last night and to-day. The seis
mic disturbances which accompanied the
eruptions added to the terror of the pop
ulace. The earthquake shock was felt
throughout the country bordering on the
Pacific, from Mazatlan to the isthmus
of Tehuantepec. Severe damage was done
to buildings in a nuixsber of pueblos in
the state of Guerrero, tut no loss of life
Is reported.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
IOWA POLICE
FIND KIDNAPED
OAKLAND BOY
EARTHQUAKES
IN VICINITY OF
MOUNT COLIMA
The Board of Education has resumed its Sway over
•the schools, newly opened, and not a single sugges
tion of nepotism or scandal has yet marred the scene.
If experience be any teacher this is. probably the lull
before the storm. We can always rely on the School
Board for several sensations during each school
term.
The young lady of Oakland who has been forced
by the police, at the intercession of her mother, to
stifle her ambition to go upon the stage, is hardly
old enough to realize wfiat a sweeping benefit has
been won to her and an enduring public. Some day
she will reflect what some Oaklanders have done to
the stage and she will be glad that she was not an
accessory.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S letter to Gover
nor Durbin of Indiana commending him for
his resolute action in upholding the law of the
land against a mob of lynchers'will do much to con
firm and to augment the growing public sentiment in
favor of dealing summarily with violent offenders
against the good order of society and the dignity of
American law. ,
It is to be noted that Mr. Roosevelt writes not, as
President of the United States but as a citizen. His
opening words are: "Permit me to thank you as an
American citizen for the way in which you have vin
dicated the majesty of the law by your recent action
in reference to lynching." That of course is the
proper way .for Mr. Roosevelt to> speak. Our system
of government does not admit of a President so far
interfering with State affairs as to either condemn or
approve officially of what a Governor has done or
left undone, and accordingly Mr. Roosevelt carefully
avoided all captious objections on that score by ex
pressly stating that he wrote hot as President but.as
a private citizen, exercising the American right of
declaring his conviction on every subject of public
concern. «
While the people will recognize the tact of Mr.
Roosevelt in avoiding anything like an official super
vision of the conduct of the. Governor, they will none
the less bear in mind that he is after all President of
the United States; that his letter is an expression of
the commendation of the chief magistrate of the re
public, and as such the great mass of the American
people will approve and indorse it. — ¦'
In truth the frequency of' lynching of late ; has
become a matter of serious import to the country.
As the President says: "The well being— indeed the
very existence— of the republic depends upon that
orderly liberty under the law which is as incompatible
with mob violence as with any , other form of des
potism. Of course mob, violence is simply one form
of anarchy, and anarchy is now, as it always will be,
the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny." •> That
truth isone which for some strange reason consid
erable numbers of people* seem to have forgotten. It
is therefore imperative to have it reasserted sjgainfarid
again by every man whose voice commands public at
tention. ¦ ¦ '
ROOSEVELT TO DURBIN.
P^ ROFESSOR LANGLEY and Thomas A. Edi
son are men who have done much, but each of
them has promised so much more than he has
done that they may be rightly spoken of* as the two
most promising men in America. If we could have
had prompt realization of all the promises of these
gifted men we would ourselves as a people have been
gifted by this time, and fish would not be in it with us
as navigators of the under depths of the' sea, nor the
birds as travelers along the trackless wastes of air.
For a long time past Professor Langley has been
promising a flying machine that would make the
dirigible balloon look like a summer toy with a
string on it, and only a few days ago he went down
the Potomac to "make good." With much curiosity
and some large expectations the public waited for the
next news. First we learned that a storm had come
along and shaken some of the mechanism of the craft
out of gear. Next came a report that certain bel
ligerent clubmen had ordered Langley to take his
machine out of their house and their grounds. Then
came the climax. The machine when released on her
experimental trip rose gallantly and swiftly in the
air. For as much as three minutes the experiment
was a grand success. After that time something hap
pened. The spectators saw the soaring machine sud
denly turn her tail up and her nose down and make
a plunge for the river. Driven by her powerful en
gines she struck the water with such force as to cleave
clean through it and bury her nose so far in the mud
that if took a dredger to get her out.
So disappointing a result from an experiment of
which so much was promised would unquestionably
have saddened the American people for at least nine
days had they been left to meditate upon it. Fortu
nately no meditation has been permitted them. The
same day that brought the news of the failure of
Langley's promise brings us news of another promise
from Edison, so we can turn from the spilt milk of
the flying machine to enjoy the cream of what prom
ises an automobile for every family and two for those
who are greedy.
Mr. Edison now promises to construct immedi
ately a motor and a battery of such a design and so
light that it can be fitted to the body of any existing
four-wheeled vehicle and which, when thus attached,
will drive. that vehicle over an ordinary country. road
at a rate of twenty-five miles an " hour. There is a
promise big enough to console us for the loss of our
expected flying machine. Perhaps Mr. Edison may
in a few weeks try his motor. .Then we shall see
MEN OF PROMISE.
It is expected that in a few days a Seattle news
paper man will have finished a trio around the world
in fifty-five days. Even the extravagance of tha
riotous imagination of a Verne was not equal to the
possibilities and wonders of modern progress.
A new plot of murderous design has been hatched
in Servia because the assassins of Alexander and
Draga have not been honored by promotion in of
ficial service. It is not altogether improbable there
fore that King Peter, reflecting that murder placed
him upon a throne, may decide that the same expe
dient shall keep him there.
It is not a far cry back to 1896, only seven years,
but what greater change could be than the abandon
ment, even by silver countries, of the divine ratio of
r6 to I insisted upon by Mr. Bryan as necessary to
the prosperity of nations and the industrial salvation
of the world!
His party proposes to repent of its sins of that
time. But when one measures the offense by its pos
sible and natural consequences had it been crystallized
into a policy by the success of its advocates it rises to
such awful stature as to require that repentance be
impressed by penance, probation and apology.
In the progress of the commission through Europe
there h2s been no manifestation of life in the free
silver movement. The followers of'Henri Cernuschi
in the states of the Latin union have all disappeared.
In the honeymoon of Mr. Bryan's career he was
actively supported by that school, and even Balfour
in England moved uneasily and unwisely toward the
Nebraskan's position. European socialists, too, were
impressed by the arguments of the Democratic
leader. But now there is no like sign from any quar
ter. The 1896 phase of the issue, which had such
sympathy and support abroad, has been settled by the
United States in favor of the gold standard. Since
that world adjustment was made there have been
steady accessions to the roll of gold standard coun
tries. As soon as an international ratio is settled it
ma? be expected that more recruits will come. Ap
parently .Mexico is only waiting for that event. In
every capital visited by our ratio commission its
members have found the representatives of China
keenly and intelligently alive to the issue, and it may
well be that that vast empire^ will begin its needed
internal reforms by following Japan into the gold
standard camp.
titments arc cut out to the clean question of ratio.
The gold standard countries use, as we do, silver for
currency and for token or subsidiary coins. Like the
United States they arc all subject to the fluctuations
of silver bullion, and as their coinage ratio at present
is so far from the commercial ratio they find their
silver currency an element of disturbance.
Our commission finds the European powers quite
ready to discuss the question and reach a solution
which will leave less margin between the artificial or
coinage ratio and the average commercial difference
between the two metals. There is a general conviction
that actual values will never again closely approxi
mate the former and existing coinage ratio. For a
long time France, even under the gold standard, has
stubbornly insisted that her ratio of 1S 1 A to I Was the
best that could be reached. The other gold countries
have disbelieved this, but have made no move for %
ratio reform. France now seems to willingly give it up,
and ;vith the others agree that silver will never again
have the commercial value of $1.2929 per ounce as
when she set her existing ratio. It is reported by our
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commissioners that she assents to a new ratio of 31
to I or one-half her present standard.
The attractive reason for a new ratio, offered by the
American*, is that it is necessary to the financial' sta
bility of the Oriental countries. The leading Euro
pean nations and the United States have a partnership
of interests in the Orient through territorial pos
sessions there, and all have a community of interest in
the Oriental trade. For both reasons they should
desire a ratio that will for a long time closely approx
imate the actual value relation of gold and silver. The
commission has found encouragement in London,
Paris, The Hague and Berlin, and is in St Petersburg
to sound the Czar on the subject. If all those nations
agree with us upon a ratio there will be nothing in
the way of its adoption.
THE United States, with the sympathy of Mex
ico, has a commission abroad to arrange an in
ternational coinage ratio for silver and gold.
NEW GOLD AND SILVER RATIO.
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Alaskan wildernesses will be brought into connection
with one another. When that is done the task of
uniting the systems of America with those of Asia
by the northern route will hardly be more difficult
than that of connecting the North American , lines
with those of South America across the mighty
mountains that interpose. Neither project is to be
expected speedily, but each is within the scope of the
energy of the century which has opened with such
great expectations and some of the children of this
generation may live to make the grand all rail trip
from Paris to Buenos Ayres in first-class cars and
at a rate of speed that will admit of making the jour
ney as a mere holiday trip.
AMONG the many vast enterprises which now
engage the attention of speculative men none
are more imposing " in their dimensions or
more interesting in their possibilities than the two
great railway projects now before the American
people. One of these projects aims at the construc
tion of a Pan-American railway extending from Can-^
ada to Patagonia, while the other aims at the con
struction of an all rail route from New York to Paris
via Alaska and Siberia.
Neither project seems feasible to the conservative
mind, and yet no intelligent man will, pronounce
either of them to be impossible or even impracticable.
As a matter of fact the only serious obstacle in the
way of either is one of finance rather than of engineer
ing. Capitalists abstain from undertaking them solely
from a well grounded .fear that they will not pay
interest on the investment. If it could be assured
that a railway across the wilds of Alaska and Siberia
would pay dividends right along there would be no
great difficulty in finding men to embark upon the
enterprise. * """
As a matter of fact it appears to be quite probable
that the Pan-American road will come of itself, as it
were, without waiting for any grand combination of
capitalists to finance it. The Canadian railway sys
tetr. is closely connected with; that of the United
States, and our system has close relations with the
Mexican lines. Several of the South American lines
are within reaching distance of the isthmus and a
few connections here and there, made from time to
time, will eventually bring the systems of the two
continents nearer and nearer to a common meeting
point.
Recent reports show that considerable improve
ment is going on along the South American lines
even now. A summary of the work going on in that
continent says:
"The Government of the Argentine Republic has'
pushed the building of its railway lines from Jujuy,
formerly the northern terminus, till they are now
close to the boundary of Bolivia, and Bolivia also is
encouraging the extension of its system south along
the route of the intercontinental survey so as to con
nect with the Argentine system. Chile, which has a
most extensive railway network, is encouraging the
trans-Andean project that will bring Santiago into
through rail connection with Buenos Ayres. Peru
is also having an era of railway building, some actual,
more in prospect. By the. end of the present year it
is likely that the gaps between New York and Buenos
Ayres on the intercontinental route will not aggre
gate more than 4700 miles, as against 5200 miies when
the last reports were made."
The grand project of an all rail route from New
York to Paris appears much more formidable and
impracticable than the Pan-American, and yet it may
prove to be less so. Russia has now in operation a
line across Siberia. Canada is talking ' of a great
northern road to extend her lines to Dawson and the
Klondike country. American energy has built several
lines in Alaska. It is not improbable that at a time
not very far distant those scattered roads in the
BIG RAILWAY PROJECTS.
The two triple-screw ¦ cruisers Columbia
and Minneapolis are being fitted out fcr
service* at sea after, a rest of nearly five
years,, during which they. have served as
receiving ships at New York and League
Island. They are not, as some naval ex
perts in this country assert, failures, but
they are unquestionably uneconomical as
cruisers." The triple-screw system," while
apparently' abandoned in our navy, has
grown In favor In the navies of France,
Germany and | Russia, and all the recent
battleships and armored cruisers of those
powers are fitted with triple screws. The
defect in our two cruisers is due solely
to the Doilers, : and not to the . principle
of dividing 22.000 horse-power between
three engines. . The slightly - increased
space, weight and 1 personnel required are
fully -compensated for by decreased liabil
ity, of breakdowns and saving in fuel
when using only one engine or.one-thlrd
power under. ordinary cruising speed. In
foreign navies, except that of Great Brit
ain," these r; latter advantages evidently
outweigh all other alleged drawbacks,
and it is to x be : assumed that the 'foreign
naval experts have thoroughly ! studied
the military and "economic i value of the
triple-screw ¦ system. :1*gjg?jlBfflHHI
The cost of the new Naval Academy at
Annapolis will far exceed the original
estimated cost of $4,000,000. Considerable
progress has been made on the buildings
proper, such as officers' and cadets" quar
ters, but the contracts for accessories
have not yet been awarded. Bids were
opened last month for building the chapel,
the lowest being $365,000. The gymnasium
bids ranged from $222,800 to $230,000, and
the building .of 'a sea wall will require
$141,000. The total cost of the entire In
stitution will be very close to $3,000,000
when finally completed.
The President has Issued an > order In
creasing the pay of enlisted men serv
ing, in gun crews. Heavy gun pointers,
from 13-inch to 7-inch, are to receive from
$10 to 56 a month extra pay. 'Thos.2 of
7-lnch to 4-inch, or intermediate gun
pointers, $8 to $4, and secondary gun
pointers, comprising batteries of 3-inch
down to 1-pounders, are to have $4 to $2
a month extra pay. New ratings of lead
ing men of gun's crews are also estab
lished f with corresponding ; pay. Chief
turret 1 captain, $60 to $70; turret captain,
first class, $50, and enlisted men ; in pri
mary batteries serving a gun captain will
get $5 a month Increased pay. This order
goes. into effect October 1 next."
Two light draught river gunboats are
being built at Elbing Intended for service
in the German possessions In China. One
of these boats, named Tsingkau, ia near
ly ready for shipment. It is of 200 tons
displacement, 164 feet in' length, 26 feet
3 inches beam and draws 2 feet fully
equipped. The armament consists of one
12-pounder, one 1-pounder^ and three ma
chine guns. The motive power is by twin
screws developing about 1400 horse
power, giving a speed of 13% knots, and
the coal supply is sufficient for steaming
2000 miles at 12 knots. The complement
is 53 officers and crew. The several naval
powers have of late years built a num
ber of these serviceable river craft which
acre likely to put a stop to the depreda
tions of the pirates infesting the rivers
and coast of China. .
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The French naval budget for 1904 is $62,
586,365, which is a decrease of only J107,
935 on the amount for, the current year.
This slight reduction affects the ship
building programme mainly. Among the
many changes made in the administration
and regulation of naval affairs the most
important one is that reducing the term
of service of crews to two years. It was
adopted by the Senate by a vote of 217
against 23.
The French armored cruiser Sully, 10,
000 tons and 50,000 horsepower, built by
contract at La Seyne, has made its full
power- steam trial and developed 20,110
horsepower and 21.4 knot speed. Its nat
ural draught trial of twenty-four hours
failed. 00 account of the breaking of a
cylinder head. The Desalx's full power
trial had also to be discontinued on ac
count of damage to the port engine. The
Marseillaise fared even worse on her trial,
owing to the carelessness of a workman
who had left some tools' in one of the
cylinders, causing a general smash when
the ship got under steam.
The change in propellers of the armored
cruiser Drake made quite an Improve
ment in the speed. With the first propel
lers, having a" blade area of 152 square
feet, the highest speed was 23.05 knots,
with 30,864 horsepower.. The new pro
pellers have an area of 210 square feet
and gave a speed of 24.11 knots, with 31.4C0
horsepower.
According to the London Times of July
17 the new armored cruiser Donegal of
9800 tons averaged 22.3 knots for thirty
consecutive hours and averaged 23.73
knots in four runs over the measured mile
course. * /
John Thornycroft & Co. of Chiswick,
England, have made another Irecord in
shipbuilding. On April 3 last the Japan
ese Government placed an order with the
firm to build a shallow-draught river gun*
boat as quickly as possible. The vessel
was launched July 14 and made its steam
trial on July 23, making a speed of four
teen knots, or one knot over the contract.
The boat is a duplicate of the British gun
boat Woodcock, built In 1898, and is 145
feet In; length, 24 feet beam and 2 feet
draught fully loaded.
An airship of war is being built in Eng
land, under direction of the War Depart
ment, and is expected to be ready for an
experimental ascent during the month.
The hull proper of this ship Is 180 feet in
length, 75 feet in height and 50 feet wide.
It is composed of an arrangement of
bamboo poles lashed together with ropes
and wires. This framework will riarig be
low the balloon and will carry, in addi
tion to the crew of five men, three fifty
horsepower petrol motors, working a set
of fans on each side of the ship. Each of
these fans has screw blades twelve feet
in length, turning at 1000 revolutions a
minute. The steeripg- is done by a rud
der twelve feet In length. The balloon
has a capacity of 200,000 cubic feet and is
calculated to lift seven tons.
This makes a total of 191 vessels-of-war
of .all types, besides auxiliary crafts, such
as dispatch vessels, colliers, etc. The to
tal complement will be about 4S.0O0, of
which 9000 will be drawn from the Naval
Reserve. .
Thirty-two battleships, including three
old ones for torpedo operations; eight
armored cruisers, including one of an old
type; seven first-class protected cruisers;
twenty- four second-class protected cruis
ers, nine third-class • protected cruisers,
U..rteen torpedo gunboats, sixty-one tor
pedo-boat destroyers, thirty-seven tor
pedo boats.
The armored cruiser 'Berwick has ex
ceeded her calculated speed of twenty
three knots during a continuous run of
eight hours by .613 knots, with 22,000
horsepower. Under one-fifth power the
average horsepower was 4676 and the
speed 14.85 knots for thirty hours, and un
der four-flf ths power the average was 16,000
horsepower and 21.64 knots during thirty
hours. The coal consumption during these
runs was 1.92 and 1.97 pounds for the
thirty hours' trials and 2.10 pounds per
unit of horsepower during the full power
trial. The ship is fitted with Nicclause
water-tube boilers, and their performance
proved quite satisfactory, giving econ
omic results fully up to those. of any other
water- tube bo Jlers and better than the
old Btyle box or Scotch type.
The British naval maneuvers are to be
on a larger scale than ever before, as will
be seen from the following number of
ships that will take part in the opera
tions:
A Washington gambler, who, in order to test the
constitutionality of a law which made gambling a
felony in the State, brought a test case, has been sent
to the penitentiary for a year. This possibly suggests
an exception to that rule which provides that every
man should have the courage of his convictions..
Every city and county election is a matter of im
portance to all citizens, but this one is especially so.
Propositions to issue bonds for large sums of money
for various public improvements have been submit
ted to the popular vote, and it is quite probable that
many, if not all of them, will be carried. That will
mean a large extraordinary expenditure in addition to
the ordinary expenditures of city and county admin
istration. The spoilsmen of politics see before them
ah opportunity for obtaining richer spoils than were
ever before possible in San Francisco, and very nat
urally they will do their uttermost to get control of
the offices for the ensuing term. Their schemes can
be defeated only by the energy of good citizens.
Apathy and indifference to-day may mean a loss of
millions of dollars to the city. It may baffle all the
movements tending to municipal progress and im
provement and bring about a period of stagnation or
worse.
While there are evidences of vigor and of hopeful
ness in the ranks of all parties the general prospects
of the time are more encouraging to Republicans than
to either of the rival organizations. The nomination
of a good ticket by the Republican convention would
virtually assure victory for the party. It therefore
behooves Republicans to make sure of good nomina
tions by electing honest, independent and public
spirited men to the convention. That is the issue
confronting them to-day, and no loyal member of the
party should permit any private business or pleasure
to interfere with his performance of his political duty.
The choice submitted to Republican voters in the
different districts is not a difficult one. The United
Republican League, which was organized to unify the
Republicans of the city and to eliminate factional dif
ferences and boss control, has done its work well by
proposing in every district a list of candidates who if
elected will worthily represent in the nominating con
vention the best traditions of the party and the best
hopes of the city. It is to be borne in mind that the
gentlemen proposed by the United League are
pledged to no faction and are subservient to no boss.
They will have no other aim in convention than that
of nominating a ticket which will merit the support
not only of all loyal Republicans but of all inde
pendents who sincerely desire the welfare of the city.
The opposition tickets are either directly controlled
by ward bosses or are indirectly playing into their
hands. For Republicans then the issue is simply that
of voting for genuine Republicanism as represented
by the United Republican League or voting for
bossism.
The appeal of the league to Republican voters says:
"Do your duty as a citizen and interest yourself in
the selection of delegates to a convention which will
name a ticket to command the respect and confidence
of the community, which will stand for a new and'
better San Francisco, which will give us an admin
istration based on business principles, which will im
prove our streets, 1 our schools, our hospitals and our
other public institutions instead of wasting our taxes
on extravagant and unnecessary salaries, and above
all will be the advance guard of the battle for con
tinued prosperity to be fought under the leadership
of Roosevelt in 1004."
To that appeal The Call has only to add an appeal
to voters of each party having candidates in the field:
Go to the primaries, vote against the bosses, elect
honest delegates to your party convention. Let us
have clean politics and good men to the front all
along the line in the campaign that awaits us.
UPON the voters of San Francisco there rest|
to-day the important duty of attending the
primaries and doing their uttermost to pro
cure the election to their party conventions of dele
gates who can be relied upon to nominate fit men
for every office to be filled at the approaching elec
tion. The duty affects equally men of all parties. It
is a duty inherent in the citizenship of a free country,
and the man who ignores it or evades it fails in one
of the essential characteristics of genuine American-
CONSTRUCTING
AN AIRSHIP FOR
WAR PURPOSES
what will happen. Of course we must count as'usual
on the unexpected, and therefore it will not be safe
to predict that as the Langley flying ship made a bee
line for the mud the Edison motor car will strike for
the skies and blow up beyond the moon.
THE DUTY OF TO-DAY.
THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY,, AUGUST 11, 1903.
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squadron under Rear Admiral Cotton has ar
rived hero from Lisbon on Its way to Vtlle
tranche. Southern France.
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6
THE CIVIL WAB IN
PICTORIAL PANORAMA
IN all the gamut of human emotions there b nothing that stirs the
inmost soul of man like the clash of war. Civilization may cul-
tivate lamblike virtues, but it does not eradicate the instinct for the
heroic and the ferocious. In music it is the crashing martial strain that
makes the strongest appeal to the greatest number. In mythology the
greatest warriors are given most reverence. In history the battle cry
ever sounds the loudest, most sensuous note; while in art it is the wild
scenes of blood and carnas:e-^of daredevil attack and desperate defense—
in the awful shock of contending forces that rouses all the passions to
fever heat. And thus it is that around the spirit that will do and die for
a principle the tenderest sentiments ever cling. And thus it is. too.
that the coming Encampment of th« Grand Army of the Republic in
our city stands as the symbol of all America's present grandeur.
To those whose names make up its roll of honor that stupendous
struggle must ever be a vivid reality, but to those of the younger gen-
eration the hope and despair of that fierce conflict must be seen through
the eyes of the artist and the painter. And it is a remarkable fact that
some of the best battle scenes ever painted are those depicting our great
Civil War from beginning to end. •
* ; It is this fact that has enabled The Sunday. Call in its special
G. A. R. Edition next Sunday to present its readers with the best pic-
torial panorama of fiercest . battles of the war that can be offered by a
modern newspaper^ Beginning with General Grant's victory at Fort
Donelson, these pictures carry you through the entire war to its, spec-
tacular close with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. which
scene alone, replete as it is with historical characters, is one of the most
notable pictures ever reproduced on a modern color press. There is
"The Battle of Shiloh." "Chattanooga." "The Siege of Vicksburg."
"Sherman's March to the Sea." "The Battle of Gettysburg," "Grant's Ca-
reer From West Point to Appomattox," etc
And in the line of fiction the greatest popularity has ever been given
to tales of love and. war. Just think what themes the Civil War had to
offer! And what sentiment, 'too! There is "Forty Years After" in the
next Sunday Call, for instance. It is a story of the wavering tide of
battle at Vicksburg. *with a thrill ingly pathetic denouement in this citv.
Then there is "A Girl of the South," "Fate's Pence." "A War Vision"
and "Trying Him Out." which latter will bring back the most stirring
memories to any one who knows anything about war.
And in a different way, how many know anything about the
speeches that created that awful slaughter. There are two pages of fervid
eloquence that will simply amaze you who* read them now,- so many
years after.
. And even more strangely appealing are the two pages of. anecdotes
from the hospital, the bivouac and the battlefield told by women who
consecrated their lives to ''nursing. It is war— actual war— from the
point of view of over fiftv of these ministering angels.
And last but not least, there is that magnificent Supplement — t-nder
sentiment crystallized into color— "The Old Army Chest." wherein a
hardy Vairtor of the rebellion is showing his treasures to his beautiful
fair-haired daughter. Just register a deep- voiced complaint with your
earner if you do not get this picture with your G. A. R. Edition of the
next Sunday Call. .