The morning call., 1892-09-18

sign that those sporadic cases which did
occur have been dealt with carefully. On
incoming vessels also the situation is very
reassuring But there is certainly no war
rant to suspend the putting in force of pre-
cautions. We may escape a general vista
ton of cholera this year, but our greatest
risks will come in the summer Of next year.
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue Mason
emphatically states that ii the Chinese in
this country do not register as required by
the law, they will 10 a certainty be deported
TO China when the periud allowed has ex-
pired. he is confident the law is sound and
will stand any test argued on the constitu-
tional basis. A good many people probably
hope that the Chinese will stand firm and
allow themselves TO be Geported. That
would be n final settlement OF the Chinese
question very much to our advantage.
There perhaps never has been more re-
markable criminal case than that of Sidney
Bell. He has yet to stand second trial
for murder, il the case is pressed, but in the
meanwhile he has been sentenced upon
three charges of robbery to sixty years i'm
prisonment. To these charges of crime he
made no defense, aud he was not the least
perturbed when the sentences were passed.
BY behaving himself in jail he may regain
liberty in thirty-six years. Even that re-
mission is a dreafy outlook.
1t is ubtful whether there is a dock at
Liverpool large enough to accommodate the
new White Star steamer which the CON-
pany has just placed with Harland tS
Wolff, the shipbuilders OF Belfast This
vessel is to be 700 feet long. as compared
with the two new Cunarders 600 feet long
and beating the Great Eastern, now broken
up, by twenty feet and the Teutonic and
hInia 10 H., thor
is this competition TO end? Assuredly not
with a length of 700 feet. The steaming
power is 10 be guaranteed up to twenty-five
knots per hour, and twenty-seven knots are
expected In fne weather. Sucn vessel
viii probably carry 5000 tons OF cargo in
addition to 2000 passengers and the voyage
should certainly be done under five days.
The new steamer is to have three propeIlers.
Ii Is doubtful whether twin or triple pro-
pellers really add to speed, seeing what the
EtTuria and Umbria can 90 with old engines
and single prOpellers, but they .unquest0n-
ably add to safety.
The Montserrat, which sailed from San
Francisco for the South Seas with the
avOwed purpose of getting cargo of blacks
for the plantations in Guatemala, under the
usual contract, of course, was oyerhauled
by a British man-0f-war and allowed to re-
sumo the voyage, as IL there were nothing
wrong. Yet the traffic is only shade less
black than slavery. This is a pretty CON-
ment on the kind of preteetorship Great
Britain Will exercise over the Gilbert Islands.
The letter published in the London Times
from some one in San jose is not accurate
in asserting that malaria prevails in the
hot interior valleys where rasin-making Is
an industry. Instead of attributing such
aches and pains as prevail TO malaria, more
reasonable cause would be found in water
which has not been boiled or filtered. Very
dry air is not usually associated with mala-
ria. But where bad water is not dealt with
carefully many physical ailments may arise.
The Inconsistency and rapacity of the
Southern Pacific are shownup by trade with
Bakersfield. 1t is actually cheaper to send
nails via Los Angeles and the mountains to
Bakersfield than up valley with uniform
grade about as level as floor. The cost is
- cents per hundred pounds cheaper, or So
a ton, notwithstanding the fact that the
freight has 10 be handled twice and the dis
tance is go miles longer. The Southern
Pacific must now invent some other excuse
for excessive rates than hauling freight
ever steep mountain grades. With its usual
audacity ii will be equal to the occasion.
1t hardly requires assurances from the
agents Of the Nicaragua Canal Company that
1t is impossible to hope for resumption of
work on the Panama Canal The total col
lapse of the project has long been foreseen.
1t would be a case of throwing good money
after bad, and such an enormous amount of
good money is required that investors would
be bereft of their senses if they were TO ad-
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