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adventitious. unfamiliar air. They appear
just about as truly indigenous as does
Chinatown. For the elms some raison
d'etre is apparent, but palms are cheap
attempt TO persuade the newcomer into
the belief that he has come to tropical
climate. He soon finds out the contrary.
In the early days of our city's growth,
when it was deemed unsafe to build in
brick, the impression also prevailed that
we could not have trees on this windy
peninsula. How absurd is this notion,
and how much of charm its prevalence has
lost to the city, he may judge who will
make a trip along Taylor street, walking
northward from California. Here, for
nearly block, stretches row of joyous,
smiling naples, their tops stretching up
ward against the sky, their foliage making
pretty patterns on the walk and pavement
beneath. There is cure for homesickness
in that maple walk. 1t is worth climbin
a high hill and going some distance out of
ones way just to pass beneath that gra-
cious greenery and fancy oneself to be
taking leisureiy stroll for pleasure, In
stead of hurrying along the naked, glaring
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Strange Harvest
Ceremonies Of an
Uncanny eop1e

admirably adapted for lawns. quick grow
growers and not too large, branching grace
fully and full of individual character.
The Western juniper, Lawson's cedar, the
Western yew and the California nutmeg
are among these. The last named is a
very lovely tree, growing to height of
sixty or seventy feet, with slender, droop-
ing branches and shining green leaves {;
bark is lovely light-b brown, the new
branches in the spring-tim cleaning
bright red through the foliage. Our yew,
too, has a delicate, feathery beauty,
stretching itself against the landscape
with the lightest of penciled strokes. 1t
grows very straight and its foliage is thin
and delicate and an exquisite lignt-green.
The redwood grows slowly, yet I have
seen one planted in a garden attain a
noble growth in twenty years. They are
being destroyed so rapidly among the
hills that San Francisco should really
make an effort to secure a few along some
of our uptown thoroughfares, in order to
show the Californian mountaineers of
twenty years hence what this majestic
tree is like.
Like most of our Californian trees. the
madrona is an evergreen, and no tree has
a more varied loveliness, save, perhaps,
the eucalyptus. There is something so
vital anu vivid about this tree, with its
beauty of trunk and foliage and blossom,
that it is distinct event to come upon
one, even in forest. You see it cleaning
like jewel, through the phalanxed
trunks, long ere you reach it, and you
never, for an instant, mistake it for any
other tree. It's oval, shining leaves, dark
green above and lighter beneath; its
smooth, beautiful trunk that one instinc-
lively caresses: its graceful, free-growing
branches. and its bright red berries, make
up form so beautiful as never to be for
gotten when once beheld- What a Joy
they might be to the incoming traveller
thirty years hence had they been planted
along our water front.
Among the trees we have brought from
Australia the eucalyptus is by far the most
useful as we'll as the loveliest. The aca-
cia, so much favored at first is an unwhole-
some tree despite its popularity, a notah
fever-breeder where it grows in any abund-
ance. But the eucalyptus has never had
half chance in the city, and certainly no
tree ever had more detractors. They
should be planted upon some of our hilIy
streets.
1 was glad to note down in South Park
the other day how the city is redeeming
that once waste place. The ground has
been turned over and sown and the
eucalyptus trees are already yielding
grateful returns in shade and beauty for
Harvest to +he Old Woroec.
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In the bulkheads and other divisions OF
the hull, where wood hitherto has been
used, steel sheeting or fire. proofed wood
will be used wherever possible to minimize
the danger of fire.
No premiums for excess of speed are
offered. but penalty of $4,000 on each
quarter knot is imposed for the first half
knot below the required contract speed.
The plans and specifications of these
battle-snips were prepared by the Bureau
of Construction and Repairs and copies
were forwarded to prospective bidders
within eighty-two days from the date of
approval of the act authorizing their con-
struction.
The propelling machinery is calculated
to develop about 1000 more horsepower
than the Indiana. Massachusetts and
Oregon, and will probably exceed the
Iowa, which Is calculated at II, 600. There
will be two triple expansion engines, each
in its own water-tight compartment, with
cylinders of 351k. 81 and 70 inches in
diameter and common stroke of 48
inches. The boilers, eight in mum Der, will
be single-ended and placed in four water
tight compartments.
These boilers will have 6S5 CRATE sur.
face, against 532 cf the Oregon class. and
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the brief care bestowed upon them. Less
than six months ago they dropped cheer
less and hopeless, mere shadows of trees.
Now they are vivid and vigorous ard the
children playing in their shade may fairly
know them for trees. The birds have
found their way to them, and the once
draggled hopeless looking square is place
OF attractiYeness and pleasure. 1t will be
strange if this bit of green park in that
teeming district off Second street does not
yield rich returns in better citizenship.
Where it does not sink to the level of a
fad, as there Is danger OF letting it, the
growing sympathy of the race with ma
ture is one of the most hopeful signs of
this time. 1t is question whether lovers
of pnre politics and mem bers of our good
government clubs might not find it
profitable expenditure OF energy to ac-
complish making our city beautiful and
then put upon our youthful population
some of the responsibility of keeping it so.
At all events those of US who are in a posi-
ton to do so might help the good work
by following the advice of the canny
Scotchman to his son, AN Jock, when
We hae naethin' else ia do, ye might aye be
stickin' in tree. Itn be grawin' when
ye're sleepin'."
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Comparing the cost of the Indiana with
that of No. 8 it will be noted that there is
q decrease of nearly % per cent. The bid
of the Newport News Company in 1895 on
Nos. and was undoubtedly too low and
made without a full realization of what
the work really was. and the recent bid
by the same firm, showing an increase of
16 per cent on the bid Of year ago, indi-
Gates that there is now a better under
standing ofnaval work tnan in 1895.
AS compared with the British battle
ship Jupiter OF 14900 tons the contract
cost is apparently 43 per cent greater at
Cramps than in England, but with a
few more ships built in this country this
margin will decrease as our experience
grows. The contract price paid for the
Jupiter is $1,675, 900 for hull, S452. l65 for
machinery, SO, 500 for erection OF hydrau-
lie gun machinery, making a total of
81, 199, 665, or st the rate of S147 per ton
displacement. 1t may be mentioned in
this connection that the arnor for the
Jupiter els contracted for at s.. 1853 $50.
whereas that for No. s or the Kearsarge
will cost 81, $40, 800. The weight of the
latter is 1921 tons, but as the weight OF the
Jupiter's armor is not made public no
comparison of cost in this instance can be
made with approximate correctness.
The three new battle-ships are conf BIZ
nations of the iowa and Kearsarge types.
with such Improvements as have been de-
cided most desirable. For the purpose of
comparisons the following table shows the
dimensions and principal data of the three
types:
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/ rode uptown on cable-car few days
ago carrying branch of madrona. The
fact does not sound particularly note
worthy, but there was one feature in con-
nection with my carrying the branch that
surprised me greatly. That was the inter-
est excited by my burden among my fell
low travellers.
One would have supposed my bit of a
characteristic Californian tree to be some
rare exotic, so curiousIy was it regarded.
Two ladies opposite me were evidently
discussing it. Eyes. it is the magnolia, /"
one said; ''you can tell by the leaves" A
gentleman next me examined the foliage,
lingering it curiously, and looked puzzled,
but said nothing. Another was bolder,
and, leaning forward, said tentatively,
"That is laurel, is it notP" l explained
that it was madrona, and pleased mur-
mur ran from lip to lip. sit is very nice" "
commented my interrogation. "The tree
must be quite handsome"
1t seemed singular thing that among
many residents of California not one
recognized this, one of the earliest of Cali
fornian trees.
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Here Is a City Without Trees!

treeless streets would drive the stranger
within our gates mad with homesickness
were it not for the never-ceasing fascina-
ton of our hills, the beauty and wonder
of the matchless bay and the charm of the
blue sky.
San Francisco will never have the ap-
pearance of city of homes until we are
wise enough to plant trees along our
streets and in our gardens. 1t isa curious
shortsightedness upon cur part that leads
US to devote time, money and patience to
the cultivation of palms and other semi
tropical trees upon our lawns, to the
neglect of the beautiful and characteristic
varieties that would add so much to the
interest and charm of our city.
What meaning or attractiveness is there
about the dreary rows of palms that have
been set out along our waterfront? The
planting of these trees is the crownlng alb
surdity OF the many that have signalized
Carrying Home the Harvest.
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and Bis for the t2-inch, "a inches for the
S-inch and 1915 for the 6-inch rifle. The
slight apparent advantage of 3 inches
which the 13-inch gun has over the i2-
inch is more than offset by the latter's
quicker service. The Ordnance Bureau,
however, insisted upon the larger guns in
the Kearsa'rge, Notwithstanding the chief
constructors arguments to the contrary,
and thus while in every other navy the
largest guns are not over II inches, our
navy still carries an unnecessarily pom
derous gun, much heavier by far than re-
qulred to penetrate any ships armor.
The four 13-inch rifles on No. are
mounted in pairs in two balanced HIGH
born turrets. The turrets and barbettes
will be of Harveyized armor, fifteen inches
thick, augmented OH the slanting faces by
two more.
These turrets OF the cone shape are a
decided Improvement upon the vertical
turrets hitherto used, as the slanting sides
virtually increase the horizontal thick
ness by couple of inches, thus making
the turret armor nineteen inches, against
thirteen inches in the Iowa and Kear-
sarge.
OF the 6-inch rifles two are placed on
each broadside within an armored citadel
six inches thick on the upper deck, eight
are on the main deck amidships behind
the casemate armor, and two will be
placed forward protected by six inches of
armor.
The armor will consist of belt 16H
inches thick and feet 6 inches IN depth
at the water-line extending four feet be-
low water. This belt will go clear around
the ship, tapering to four inches at each
end. From the top of this side belt up to
the upper deck the space occupied by the
main deck battery will be protected by
five and half inch armor, backed below
the main deck by copper dams with corn
pitch cellulose and bunkers full of coal.
Athwartship bulkheads twelve inches
thick will run inboard to- the parbettes
from each end of the thickest part of the
side armor, and on top of these four walls
there will be fat protective deck two and
three-quarter inches thick. Below and
within this adequate protection thus
formed will be placed the engines, boilers.
magazines and shellrooms. Tne protec-
tive deck will be three inches thick for
ward and four inches aft.
The engines will consist of two triple
expansion, each in its own water-tight
compartment, and there will be eight
large single-ended boilers, in four separate
compartments, to carry 1S0 pounds of
steam.
There will be four above-water torpedo
tubes, two on each broadside.
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DATA.

In the secondary battery the Iowa and
Kearsarge carry twenty 6-pounders, which
in No. has been reduced to seventeen.
The Iowa and No. carry also
four 1-pounders. The Kearsarge has
six, and the usual four machine guns COM
pletes the battery OF all three types.
1t is IN the substitution of rapid-fring
guns of 6-inch ca1iber that No. shows a de-
cided advance over her predecessors. This
will be easier understood from the ap-
pended table. showing weight of proiectile
and the rapidity with which the several
guns may be fired.
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the Improvements" in that quarter.
Why should the city by the Golden Gate,
the chief entrepot of region possessing
such distinct individuality and loveliness
as characterizes California's sylvia, at
tempt to rival the scenic effects of every
seaside village in Kanakaland? Rows OF
palms have pleasing air OF locality along
Waikiki beach and Hilo harbor. On the
San Francisco waterfront they have an
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And yet the average San Franciscan can
hardly be blamed for not knowing by
sight the commonest trees. We have
been at most extraordinary pains to keep
every touch OF grace and beauty from our
city streets, and it must be admitted that
our efforts have been very largely success
ful. The monotonous gray stretches of
our bay-windowed, wooden houses along
the monotonous gray stretches of our
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streets where nothing is met to divert us
from our feverish anxiety to keep up with
the procession.
1t ought not to be so. There is no
reason why we should not have trees along
our streets, and trees that belong to our
landscape and are part of our locality.
There are plenty of these, most of them
far more beautiful than the tropical trees
we are coaxing to grow. Some of them are
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ships, instead of as hitherto. one abaft the
other.
The boilers, eight in number, are placed
in four water-tight compartments. They
will be single-en about sixteen feet in
diameter and ten feet long, placed in pairs
in each compartment, with their backs
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carry 1S0 pounds steam, which it is calcu-
lated will work the two propellers o! six
teen feet diameter at the rate of 120 revo-
lutions per minute when making full
speed. One noticeable feature is that the
two smokepipes are placed on line
athwartships, as in the latest foreign
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The perforation of iron at muzzIe is cal
culated at BAG inches for the 13-inch gun
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
Louis Brian
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
PICKED n

Louis Heuermanp has succeeded
F. Vogel as captain of the Casinos
and was initiated with a pair Of
victories.
The Missions have a medal bowl
tonight on their alley. The pres
ent holder of the trophy is Walter
("Pink") Rummel.
An error occurred in the LIGHTS
score yesterday, which gave the
Hayseed's 206 instead OF 1876, but
it did not affect the score, neither
the standing of the clubs.
The next league game will be
bowled tomorrow night on the
Turner's alley between the Turner's
and the Missions. This will be
the Missions first game on a.
strange alley, and the Turner's will
exert all efforts to take a fall out
of the champions.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
GET APPETITE.
If You Don't, You Will Never Be Strong
Or Healthy,


Appetite is n thing that you cant
afford to be without, for without 1t your
health, strength and Comeliness flies out
Of the window.
Poor appetite means weak stomach,
starved body, sick individual. Good ap-
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Poor appetite is a sign that your stom-
ach Is too weak for digestion. You can
aid 1t with Shaker Digestive Cordial.
When your stomach Is able TO digest all
the food that your body needs, you wall
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Good food, well digeSted, means strength
and a long, healthy life. Undigested food
creates poison which effects the whole
body, and may give you headache, dizZI-
ness, Dausea, constipation, ~tlatulence,
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All these disorders will be relieved II
you will take Shaker Digestive Cordial.
1t is a pure vegetable digestive and
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Shaker Digestive Cordial does not act
on the liver, but on the u~ndIgested food
in the stomach. 1t cures indigestion or
b~iliouSness without Irritating the liver or
any OF the internal organs.
At druggists. Ten cents for a trial
bottle.
Write for free book to The Shakers, 80
Reade Street, New York.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
WEATHER BULLETIN.

Forecast for San Antonio and
vicinity for the "a hours ending at
8 p. m. October 10, 1896:
Showers tonight; Thursday, gen.
orally fair and warmer.
WEATHER NOTES.
Rain was falling at the majority
OF Texas stations at z a. m. this
morning, and northeasterly winds
were blowing into a disturbance,
probably central ove Northern
Mexico. Except these rains in
Texas the weather has been fair
over the southwestern states DUR
ing the past "a hours, and the
skies yer generally clear this
morning.
The weather Is from s to II de-
grees cooler over Southern Texas,
while temperature rises OF from 6
to 8 degrees have occurred over
Colorado and Central Nebraska.
The weather continues cool over
the cotton belt.
Light rains have fallen in the
Galveston, Atlanta, Augusta ard
Charleston districts.
LOCAL RECORD.
Maximum temperature yester.
day, 70 degrees.
Minimum temperature in past "a
hours, Sc degrees.
Mean temperature, GA degrees
normal, 76. H.
Temperature at 7 a. M, this
date, 81; sensible temperature Sc,
Relative humidity, "a per cent
Rainfall in past "a hours, g;
inch.
Wind light from the northeast
and light rain falling.
8. B. PFANNER, Observer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
A CLEVER IDEA,

Plan to Extend the Usefulness of the Home
Industry Attack.
Secretary Irvine, of the Business
Mems club, outlines a plan for
holding home industry meetings,
similar to those held in this city
in many of the surrounding towns.
His plan is to secure samples Of
the goods made by Son Antonio
manufacturers, place them in a
special car and with a few good
speakers 60 out to the surrounding
towns or trading day Of the farm
ers and make home industry
speeches and distribute samples of
San Antonio made goods among
the farmers and others. Mr.. Irvine
thinks great benefits would result
not only to San Antonio, but to
the farmers and indeed the whole
section by building up such re.
ciprocal trade relations.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14

electrician, vas recently blinded by
an electric flash. An arc lamp did
not work properly, and he climbed up
the iron column to reach it. 1t seems
there was a defect in the spools of
the lamp, forming a partial cross.
AS the electrician disturbed it a short
circuit was created, and in an instant
a flash of light went before his eyes.
The men below who had been watch
ing him, were Mortified to hear his
cries: 81 am blind! 1 am blindw He
was taken to the Office and medical
aid summoned. He va not burned,
o did he experience a shock, but he
was totally blind. An examination
by the doctors showed that the pupils
of his eyes had spread out, and only
the whites could be seen. The acct
dent is believed to be the first of the
kind.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
HOME INDUSTRY.
Next Exhibition to Be Held October 81
in Beethoven Hall.

Next Exhibition to Be Held October 81
in Beethoven Hall.
The meeting Of merchants and
manufacturers Of u city, to take
steps toward holding the next
home industry meeting, was large
ly attended last night in the Bust
ness Mems club room on Losoya
street.
On account of the great success
OF these exhibitions in the past it
was q difficult problem to secure a
hall large enough to accommodate
the great throngs that attend, and
after a thorough discussion it was
agreed that Beethoven Maenner-
Choir hall was the largest available
hall in the city, and this was de-
cided upon as the location for the
next exhibition. October q was
set for the event. The speakers
selected are Judge G. A. Keller and
Hon. E. R. Lane, with an address
also by Secretary Irvine.
Various plans were suggested for
increasing the effectiveness Of the
pledges, the most generally ap'
proved plan being to issue home
industry cards or coupons, to be
distributed by the Business Mems
club to the manufacturers, n tc
be given away with each article oil
package OF home manufactured
goods sold, and a series OF prizes
offered fer the largest number o.
coupons presented to the Business
| Mems club BY q certain date.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
A FREIGHT BUREAU,
Among the Early Possibilities For San
Antonio.

ANNS SAS A~J Va SoA
Antonio.
The directors of the Business
Mems club held a regular meet
ing yesterday afternoon and dis
cussed the advantages of establish
ing a freight bureau auxiliary to
the club. The matter was con-
sidered very favorably and was
given in charge OF a special COM
mittee to work up.
The directors also prepared the
following petition, which will be
signed, it is intended, by every
merchant in San Antonio:
ITO the honorable members of
the Texas Railroad Commission,
Austin, Tex.-We, the manufac-
turers and wholesalers Of San An
tonic, do hereby beg to call your
careful attention to the following
facts:
"The manufacturers of the state
of Texas have suffered severely OF
late years in consequence Of the
cutting OF rates from northern
points into Texas.
"This stste Of affairs virtually
paralyzes many Of our most promi-
nent industries for months, while
no one is benefited by it.
"Jobbers are virtually compelled
to lay in stocks of manufactured
goods far beyond the requirements
Of their trade, thereby crowding
out home products.
"We therefore petition your
honorable body that vigorous
means be adopted to prevent the
recurrence Of such rate cutting,
and to this end we would re-
quest that you establish a rule
whereby all local rates within the
state of Texas should be reduced in
exact proportion will be the cut
rates from northern points during
the existence Of said cut rates.
"Also that these cut rates must
be advertised at least ten days
prior to their going into effect, and
that similar notice be given before
rates can be restored.
"We also beg to call your atten'
ton to the fact that the Georges
railroad commission established q
similar ruling at the time Of the
threatened cut rate on the Sea-
board Air line in the said state o.
Georgia, of which please find copy
at foot.
"Praying for your prompt action
on this important subject we are
yours respectfully"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-14
Died Yesterday Afternoon.

Charles Stahl, aged &C years,
died yesterday afternoon at 6
o'clock at his residence, 20S Brooks
street, Of pneumonia, after a two
weeks Illness. He leaves a wife
and several children. Deceased
had lived in San Antonio ten years
and was a native of Wurtenberg,
Germany. He was a member of
the German Central association, OF
which the st. Joseph's society Of
this city is a branch and the flag
Of st. Joseph's ball is at half mast
in respect to his memory. His
funeral will take place this after.
noon at 5 o'clock from st. Joseph's
church.