The morning call., 1890-07-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Communication over land and sea has at
tained great perfection, improvements having
in creased The efficiency OF Telegraph and cable
lines. while greater skill has resulted in the
transmission of army dispatches over extraor-
dinaly distances by means of the heliograph
The extent OF The circuits that pusate with the
thfobs of trade may be estimated from the fact
that there are 9 002, 402 miles of land line tele
graph wire In constant use In this world, 723,-
All miles being located in this country 0nd
Canada. The longest wire operated for business
purposes is between this city and New York,
and the longest and most complicated circuit In
tie world is one operated by the United Press,
taking in the most important Eastern cities and
having a total length Of 265o miles. Crossing
the Atlantic there are ten cables connecting the
Old and New worlds South America, excepting
Patagonia, is encircled with submarine cables.
while Africa is completely SUR ounded by them
Indeed there are very few places OF Importance
that cannot be reached. The longest route ever
Travelled by Il single telegraph message Is said
to have been from Sydney 10 New Yoik--17.127
miles The perfection Of operating may be
gathered from the performance OF the Wheat
stone, transmitting several hundred words
minute, and tile syuChTonOuS multipleX, an In
SIiUment by means of which six messages can
be transmitted upon one wire, either from one
station or in opposite directions. COmmunica-
ton by means of the heliograph has recently
ment Of Arizona, and performed good service In
operations against renegade Indians. IN recent
experiments the chain Of communication ex-
Tended over an aggregate line of 1000 miles.
The big cruiser Maine. now being const ructed
at the Brooklyn Maynard, VIII proba bly, be
launched in the latter part OF September This,
the first armored cruiser OF The new navy, Will
have displacement of 664S tons, more Than
1000 greater than the Baltimore or Philadelphia
Irli m past n
81, 500 600. She Is to have speed OF II knots
and will be protected by a steel armor belt $50
feet long and IL Inches thick, the TWO for.
ward ends being joined by six inch armored
athwart ship bulHhead. Above the belt
and below the lurret. oval redoubts, carry
ing ten inch aTmor, protect the turret
bases, loading tubes and machinery. The
turrets VIII be covered with armor ranging
from 1G.5 inches to Ills inches aud Will be
equipped with ten-inch guns mounted in pairs
There will also be two siX-inch guns m Ounted In
recessed bow ports, TWO In The superstructure
deck in broadside and two In quarter ports. The
armored deck is TWO inches thick, except on the
slope at the after end OF the belt where II is four
inches thick. The designs were the work OF the
Navy Department and she is the largest vessel
of war constructed in any Government yard. 1t
IS believed she VIII be credit TO American Skin
and give an increased feeling OF security TO the
cities on the Atlantic.
Owing to the short crop OF the East California
fruit is receiving extraordinary att ention in New
York and prices are unusually high. Shippers.
however. should recoll ect that little extra
care in handling and packing will be rewarded
and serve 10 create favorable impression that
Will be lasting. Some of the Eastern papers
claim that prices in the future are bound 10 de
Cline as the young orchards Of California come
into bearing, but The fruit eulturist who man
ages to make the first shipments and lands his
goods in prime condition is bound 10 profit hy
his sagacity and enterprise. Prime fruit Will
always be in demand and extra prices will be
paid iOr 1t.
The disclosures of the census showing an In.
crease in the Chinese population OF this country
confirm the repeated declarations of The CALL
that the restriction law has been fiagrantly
evaded, The unwelcome visitors slipping over the
northern and southern borders. Ii 5000 Mon
goans are shipped TO Mexico to engage in rail-
road construction, il is evident that large num-
bers OF them will seize the first opportunity to
cross the border.
When tie population Of ST. Paul and Minneap-
oils is recounted, il is hoped the enumeratOrs
Will overlook the names on the headstones In the
cemeteries and refrain fl ON padding out the lists
with the names OF DOB-resdents.