The herald., 1896-03-07

States has q stronger army and navy than
Spain. She has only one first-class battle.
ship, the Pelayo, launched in 1887. of
5000 tons displacement, $50 feet long.
with engines of $500 horse power, which
produce maximum speed of 1913 knots
per hour. Besides this, she has two vessels
for defense of her ports, nine flrst-class
cruisers, six second class cruisers,
forty six third class cruisers and
thirty-three torpedo boats, making nnet6-
cruisers are the Infanta Maria Teresa,
ship of 1000 tons and eighteen
knot speed; the Vizcaya, Alrim-
rante. Oquendo, Calabuna, Carde-
nal Cisneros and Princescade Asturia.
of smaller ships are the Riena Regenta,
the Alfonso XIII, and the Lepanto, of 1900
tons and 2O-knot speed. The Emperador
Carlos V, built at Cadiz in S92, is a for
midable ship. Among the torpedo boats is
the Ariete, of 81 tons, built in England.
She can steam 26 knots on an average.
This navy is manned by $4,000 sailors
and petty officers, 5000 marines. and Off
cered by one admirall26 vce-admirals and
$50 other executive Off GERS. The navy,
like the army, is recruited by conscrption.
In a naval conflict with this country there
would be no difficulty in beating such an
opponent. The Spanish army is not {.
large one, compared with other European
armies, but the force on a permanent foot
ing ia about four times as large as that of
the United StaGes. The regular force num-
bers nearly l6 1000 men. and is classified
into "a regiments of infantry, 81 of cav
airy and 10 of artillery. All males over
the age OF 9 are liable to military duty,
and are compelled to serve three years in
the permanent army, three years in the
active and six years in the secondary re-
serve. The augmented force is ,Os3,-
sos. The greater part of this army is
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the Spanish coast; about 10000 are on
duty in the PHILIPPINE islands; 25,O0O in
Cuba, and about 1000 in Porto Rico.
The Church Temperance society's lunch
wagons, under the Woman's Auxiliary of
the Church Temperance society, have met
with great success, according to DR.. u. ii.
Dwyer, in New York, and they will per-
| haps be introduced into San Francisco and
Los Angeles. The profits are devoted to
! the erection of ice water fountains in the
more densely populated parts of the city
and to giving sick children and invalids n
week ortwo's rest in the country during
the hot weather. Permission has been
granted by the park commissioners for the
erection of neat little kiosks in the parks,
where light refreshments will be served at
q small margin over cost. The idea of the
temperance kiosk had its origin in Belfast,
Ireland. from which it has spread all over
Ireland and is now finding much favor in
the large cities of Scotland and England.
The great value of the ice water fountains
is testified to by the police, who record
that last summer it was common sight to
see long line of children with tin pals
waiting their turn to carry home the cool
ing draught instead of lager beer from the
too numerous saloons in the tene ment
house quarter,
The report of Charley Lanes rich strike
in the Fortuna mine is erfectly correct,
said Hugh Price, we'll known mining man
who has been for years associated with
some of the most famous California mines
and an intimate of Lane, Fair and Hobart.
The new mine is a veritabie Ell Dorado, at
a very conservative estimate there being at
on it for $15O,0O0 last December, sold out
his interests in the Utica, scraped the
money together and paid the last INSTALL
ment few days ago. He has just put up
a twenty-stamp mill. Fortuna is thirty
miles northeast of Yuma and about eight
cen miles from Blaisdell, on the Southern
Pacific. The only drawback is the absence
of water, the nearest being fifteen miles
away. But owing to the rich strike a town
is rapidly being built up and there are now
about 400 people there to patronize four
saloons and as many dance houses. Jim
Keene and Jesse Grant were there recently
and since they left big reservoir and
pumping works are on the way to compile
ton, at cost of $4,000. Although the
mine has turned out to be so rich, the dis
coverers seem satisfied with the price they
got, and one of them, a poverty stricken
German. has started for home with his
share, 500, 900.