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An Earl Adiudged Bankrupt.

LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Earl of
Rossland has been adjudicated a bank
rupt. No details have been published.
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Autonomy for Cuba.

MADRID, Nov. 11-A royal decree
granting autonomy to Cuba Will be
formally gazetted on November 23d
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MERGED COURSINC
MEET CONCLUDED.
Grace & Deane's MiaImo Carries
Off the First Prize.
The Nathercott Brothers Little Wonder
Awarded Third Money.

The Revenue Cutter Bear Expected
to Sail From Seattle for the
Arctic the Latter Part Of Next
Week to Endeavor to Relieve
the Ice-Imprisoned Whaling
Fleet.
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Girls
School Shoes,

With thick soIes, oil goat up
pers, with calf patent leather
tips, lace OF button, on the new
London toe, spring heels; dur
ability and style combined;
sizes liz to 2, 81 S5; sizes S1a
to IL, 81 35.
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SCarfS.

Irish Point Scarfs, sizes COX
81 and 2Ox72, also in assorted
patterns and firmly worked;
many sample ones in this lot.
Special prices, 38c, 4Sc and 55c.
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Leggings.

Women's Heavy Jersey Leg
gings, black fleece lined, full
length buttoned,; all sizes,
81 35; knee length, 95c.
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Speaker Reed in Canada.

MONTREAL, Nov. IL. = Speaker
Thomas B. Reed left by the Pacific ex-
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THE WEEKLY UNION-THE BEST
weekly on the coast. Only 81 year.
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HOW KLONDIKERS
ARE MULCTED.
Canada Reaps a Rich Reward From
the GoId-Seekers.
Duties Levied Upon Everything Belonging to
Their Outfits.

Even the Clothes That the Men
Wear Not Exempted-A Sum Ag-
gregating Twenty-Five Thou
sand Dollars Collected From
Prospectors Entering British
Territory Since the Duties Went
Into Effect.
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10 the Copper River and Cooks Inlet
mining countries.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

No artistic event in the last ten years
has given rise to as much discussion In
London as the recent academy election,
by which John Sargent was chosen for the
full honors and Alfred Parsons and j. J.
Shannon for associate membership. All
three are practically Americans, that is to
say, they are. in the English acceptation OF
the term. I here should be word in the Ian
guage to express that man was not born
in the country to which he owes his ale
glance, either by the right of descent, by
the accident of birth, or by choice after
arriving at manhood. An artist is, as
rule, a man who has become a citizen of
the worldwide is at home in Tunis or
Japan, in London or Rome, on a Califor-
mia ranch or in Dutch village. The days
when an artist was supposed to live on
air, and as little as possible of that, to be
distinguished chiefly by colossal igno-
rance of any subject but his own and
superb superiority to such trivial matters
as his appearance. his food and his debts,
this golden age of simplicity has left not
trace behind. Any eccen tricity of any
kind is avoided with care that becomes
almost as absurd as the ancient desire to
mark the professional by his long, un-
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ALFRED PARSONS, ARA.

if he be gentleman and an artist he is
voted for. / have been proud of my vote
ever since. forgot that they were not
subject. of the Queen, but have felt up
lifted, noble, above reproach, ever since
have discovered that we have been gem
erous example to the world. 1t makes a
man feel like monument"
There are few voices, however. which
are hardly allowed to be heard and they
murmur: "What about the protection to
home Industry Here We are, hundreds
strong, knocking at the big gates. They
open up but once a year. and only three
men can enter; can you blame US if We
think it rather hard that the strangers in
the land have the preference and We must
wait the next opportunity
Asa whole, however, the election was
received with acclamation, the sincerest
delight. The models who wait in the
conrtyard to bring the news 10 the fortu-
nate had hard fight TO earn their guinea.
The model who brings the news has. from
time immemorial, had tina: special claim,
and it is to be presumed that neither Mr..
Parsons nor Mr.. Shannon was less gen.
eraI than his British conireres.
Alfred Parsons lives in a little street on
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Campden Hill, ike a country lane, in a
little square. squat, gray house, with a
bit of garden, gay at present with spring
flowers. The trees are just touched with
a mist of green, but the wild plum, with
it's little sharp distinct branches ana its
wave Of brilliant blossoms, looks as though
it had posed for Mr.. Parsons or for the
Japanese artists he admires SO genuine ly
and frequently reminds me of. The gray
stone pathway leading 10 the house is full
of delicate leaves, and a straight row OF
daffodis leads to the very door. The
studio is behind the house and is reached
by long wooden passage, on the walls OF
which there IS a running frieze of sketches
that just refuse to present themselves in
an accommod ating spirit. They all lead
to Rome, or to Mr.. Parsons studio, where
a fire burns in the big, open CRATE, and
where there is much light and ,ugges-
ton of bright things-po iished woods and
bronzes, light frames and water colors and
flowers everywhere. Everything is c.ean,
clear in color and rather delicate, as the
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
A Painful Meeting.

A dramatic story was told at the Ham,
ilton College alumni dinner in New York
the other evening. General Schuyler
Hamilton gave some interesting incidents
from the life of his grandfather and de-
scribed a meeting between Aaron Burr
and Mrs. Hamilton, daughter-in-law of
Alexander Hamilton and the mother of
the speaker, In 1890 "As Colonel Burr
entered the room," he said, my mother,
in extreme agitation, seemed about to faint.
Colonel Burr, noticing this, but not know
ing her, Immediately went to the SIDE
board, poured out a glass of water and
advanced to hand it to her. 1t was all
done most naturally, gracefully and
courteously. My mother shook her head
and murmured: Il am the daughter of
Alexander Hamilton Without word,
Colonel Burr placed the glass of water on
the sideboard, bowed IN silence to the
Misses Nathan and quietly retired. 1t
was to him, as to my mother, evidently
very painful meeting. Colonel Burr
deported himself like q dlgnified gentle
man. l was little boy about years old.
Then / learned for the first time to
impress the fact upon my memory that
Colonel Burr had killed my grand
father."-New York Letter.
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be propelled by electricity and it is
thought will be able to achieve at
least fifty miles per hour. so that the trip
across the Atlantic may be made in sixty
hours. Recent discoveries in the rehabili-
tatlon OF the oxygen in air that has been
vitiated by breathing removes all diff
Guilty In the providing of pure air for the
use OF the occupants of the vessel. On
the under side of the trolley tube will be
subm electric cable provided at
designated points with attachment de-
vices, so that, if necessary, q vessel using
the trolley will be able at any of these
points to establish electrical telegraphic
com mun1cation with the shore. 1t is not
contemplated to use the trolley tube as
an electric force conductor to carry cur
rent for the use of vessels. Each vessel
will be in itself independent. being
equipped with a new and improved form
of storage battery. By means of adjust
able tanks the vessel will be so balanced
rs TO have slight excess of buoyancy, so
that II by any means connection with the
trolley tube should be broken the vessel
will rise to the surface and would then
complete her voyage at the rface.
Between the United States and England
the bottom of the ocean is of very even
surface. So level is it that it has received
the name of the "telegraphic plateau" 1t
is most admirably ada pied to mode OF
service such as is here outlined.
The first Jew trips of the su bmarine ves-
sells may not De successful from financial
point of view. People are timid and will
hesitate. All the dangers. real and i'm
aginary, will be greatly exaggerated at
first, but as the operation is continued the
travelling public will soon learn to prefer
the swift, smooth trip through the haunts
of the wonderful denizeus of the vastly
deep to the body and soul racking torture
OF storm tossed journey at the surface.
F. NJ CLOSE, D.. Sc.
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cal matters as well as in mining manipu-
latIons.
Recent years have developed in Mr..
Sutro an aptitude for superlatives that be
avoided while he graced the editorial tri-
pod in Virgins City. He purposely
escnewed that style of wild and woolly
Western journalism that has been made
familiar to the world through the lucu-
brations of the Arizona Kicker and the
Nevada Self-Cocker.
A favorite form of attack on the big
corporations that were attempting to
throttle the Sutro tunnel was to keep be-
fore the people a realization of the COM
bination that had been made for the
absorption of every item of pront that
could possibly accrue from the operation
OF the great Comstock mines. Accord
ingly Mr.. Sutro's paper frequently pub
lished extracts from the test mony of
James G. Flood in the suit of George w.
Kinney against the Consolidated Virgins
Mining Company, Flood. Mackay, Fair,
o. Brien, Solomon Heydenfeldt aud others.
Here is q sample:
Question-At what mill has the ore of the
Consolidated Virginia mine been crushed
within the past year? Answer-At the mills of
the Pac1hc Mill and Mining Company.
Q.-Who are the owners of the Pacific Mill
and Mining Company? Alt is an incorpora-
ton; Macksy, Fair, Flood and O'Brien are the
principal stock holders.
Q.-Where does the company procure wood
for the purposes of its mine? A.-Sometimes
from the Pacific Wood, Lumber and Flume
Company, and sometimes from Yerington
& Co.
Q.-who are the owners of the Pacific Wood,
Lumber and Flume Company? Alt is an
incorporation; Mackay, Fair, Flood and
oBrien are the principal stockholders.
Q--From what source does the company
procure water? A.-From the Virginia and
Gold Hill Water Company
Q-Who are the owners of the Virginia and
Gold Hill Water Company? Alt is an incor
poration. The principal stockholders are w
s. Hobart, John Skae, Mackay, Fair, Flood
OBrien and others. forget the others.
| Q.-Who are the trustees of the Pacific NIL
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tossed so terribly that her passengers on
one eventful trip were unable to stand
upon their feet, and a COW was thrown
bodily through the skylight of the main
cabin into a group of wretched passengers
who were clinging to each other for sup
port against the awful wrenching, tossing
motion.
The effect of wave motion does not ex-
tend to very great depth. The extreme
height of the waves of the ocean at dis
tance from land sufficiently great to be
freed from any influence of it upon their
elimination is about twenty feet. Such
waves may be quarter of a mile between
crests, but their influence does not reach
very deep. The water is practically un-
disturbed at depth OF fifty feet. Even
the ocean currents, which are everyw here
found, are mostly at the surface; some eI-
,end to depths of thousand feet in
narrow channels like that of the entrance
to the NJ Mediterranean and the channel of
Mozsm biQue, but the depths of the ocean
are always at rest
1t is now proposed 10 avoid the draw
backs and di, comforts of ocean travel on
the surface and hereafter use the strata OF
water below all distur bance of wind and
wave as the new route. A modern genius
offers plan utilizing The trolley 10 ac-
complish the navigation OF submarine
depths. His plan is a simple one, and
when the engineering works that the last
few years have witnessed are considered
the scheme here described does not ap-
pear mpractica Bile.
The plan embraces the stretching of a
continuous trolley conduit across the
ocean. The line is not exactly a 'line,"
but is a split tube of bronze or other metal
not oxidized by sea wafer, made continu-
Gus by its sections being hinged in such
manner as to form an uninterrupted tube,
one side of which is open for the traverse
of the vessels trolley. This ube is 10 be
held in position by anchors. placed at
proper distances, and it is held in suspen-
sion at the proper depth by metal floats
attached to the anchor chains. Perhaps
a better idea will be had by reference to
the accompanying drawing. OF course it
may appear at first thought that the mag
nitude of such an enterprise would be
fatal to its accomplishment, but now wadays
the size of the job does not deter modern
engineering from attempting it. The yes
sells engaged N transportation will be
built like huge cIgar-shaped spindles,
so as 10 make high speed. They will
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

In The CALL of July 10, 1896. appeared
an article describing a submarine tube to
be used as q means of communication be-
tween places separated BY bodies OF water,
the manner of operation being to force
carriage through the tube by air pressure.
Considerable interest was awakened by the
proposition and its merits were widely dis
cussed, the opinion of competent engi-
neers being that while the scheme was not
wholly impracticable, yet the difficulties
20 be encountered were OF too great magnl-
tude to warrant the construction of such a
yiaduct at the present time; the necessi-
ties of TRANSPORTATION not being now be-
yond the ability OF modern surface carr iage
to supply.
Modern genius is however, never salts
fed with existing appliances, and it is con-
tinuaIly invenIing and devising new ways
and methods, with appropriate machi-
merry, to accomplish in less time and at less
cost and hazard what is now being done
with present appurtenances. Certainly
there would seem to be abundant room for
Improvement i'll the matter of marine
Transportation. For the high class
traveller. the cabin passenger. able and
willing to pay a couple of hundred dollars
for his passage across the Atlantic there
is little more to be desired in the accom-
modetions furnished him on the best of
the huge "greyhounds of the sea-"
But for the one who does not
possess the plethoric pocketbook of his
more fortunate fellow, and so is com PEELED
TO take passage in the steerage, there is
yet great deal to be sighed for. But the
passenger traffic, while large, is only a
small portion OF the traffic which passes
and repasses on the seas and oceans. The
desires of man compel the services of i'm
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mense hotillas to supply his wants. The
interchange of commodities which make
up what is called commerce is part and
parcel of civilization, and that IL will in
crease is patent to all. The land side of
commerce traffic is fairly well to do.
Celebrity, certainty and safety are now ad-
mirably com binsd in the railroad trans
portation OF to-day: but in marine trans
portation the march of improvement has
not proceeded with equal speed. This is
measurabiy due to the fact that carriage
by water is confined to the surface of the
water, where it has to continually contend
with adverse winds and currents, to say
nothing OF waves which, forming an un-
equal and ever-changing surface, add
very greatly to the resistance to be over
come by the vessel. 1t is also menaced at
all times by delay and wreckage resulting
from stormy and unfavoI able weather.
Steam is gradually substituting the sail
on the main routes of ocean travel, but
for very many years the sailing vessel
will maintain her place over those routes
less freqrented and will continue TO make
her services appreciated in all cases where
celebrity is moi a factor.
There is one feature of ocean travel
which is common to both sail and steam
vessels, a feature which in the case of
many people amounts to prohibition
against seagoing. 1t is the motion of the
vessel. Large as may be buided the
colossal passenger steamer, there are
waves in plenty to toss her to and fro,
hither, thither, with as great ease as il
she were the smallest of the feet. The
Great Eastern the largest vessel ever
built. SO large, in fact, that she had to be
broken up because her immense size rem
dered her unwieldy, was pitched and
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kempt hair, his wildly rolling eyes. his re-
markable clothes and hi, complete self
absorption.
The three new members of the academy
are natives of Cosmopolis, for Sargent
was born in Florence, the son of Boston
physician. and was educated partly in
America, but principally abroad; Shan
non, of Irish descent, was born and lived
in America until his fifteenth year. and
Parsons was born in Somersetshire, in
Merrie England, but curiously enough he
alone of the three lived in America, was
educated there, and only returned to
Europe 10 study after he had reached the
age of q. English artists speak of the
election with a mixture of admiration,
cordiality and regret that is not guiltless
of fine and somewhat horror struck con-
sciousness of their own generosity.
We'll" said Scotchman In a recent
rather heated discussion, "we did it; We
are a marvel of the highest sense of JUS
tice. We do not care whether man be
native of China or the Sandwich Islands /;
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

Nearly quarter Of century ago, when
l first met ex- Mayor Adolph Sutro, he
looked very much like the picture that is
reproduced herewith. The other day
when this engraving was shown him he
said to me: "Yes-yes; to be sure re-
member that picture very well. 1t was
put on lot of Sutro.tunnel bonds that
were never issued. Some of my friends
said it was intended as my portrait as 1
looked in my working clothes with pick
in my hands breaking ground for begin
ming the Sutro tunnel. Really, 1 never
felt very much battered by the picture. /
thought it made me look too bald, and
imagined / was rather better looking.
Didn't your
OF course 1 could not refuse to acquiesce
in that opinion, Tor as matter of fact
Mr.. Sutro was quite dashing in appear
ance at the time he was in the flush OF his
power, pushing work on the famous Sutro
tunnel, on the Comstock lode, editing the
Virginia City Daily Independent, and
running for tho United States Senate at
Carson, in opposition to William Sharon
first and afterward to John P. Jones.
At The same period he was travelling
through the State of Nevada with magic
lantern, giving illustrated lectures on the
doings OF the big mining company manip-
ulators.
Journalism seemed to have had a gonu-
| inc fascination for Mr.. Sutro at the time
| he was conducting the Daily Independent.
He took lively interest in every part oi
the paper, ana had high appreciation
of the importance OF the local news col
umns. As may naturally be supposed, he
assumed personal supervision of the edi
torial columns, that did not deal SO much
with expletives as with logical arguments
and willy insinuations against the rule o
W lillian Sharon, the then acknowledged
king of the Comstock, with 2 sway more
absolute than was ever welded by the
late Frank McManus in the Potrero and
against Mackey and Fair, who were be
ginning TO make themselves felt in politi.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
SOME EHRLY "REMINISCENCES OF HDOLPH SUTRO

Francisco. 1 put in all the money l could
raise and waited for the reaction. 1t
looked a little gloomy for while, but at
last it came out all right.
'It was very gratifying to me, you may
be sure, 20 find that my judgment in re-
garu to the Investment was not a. fault.
OF course the possession of the substantial
proof of my forethought did not diminish
my satisfaction, but 1 think my greatest
pleasure was derived from tn. realization
OF the fact that was not lackin. in busi-
ness sagacity in this venture. Then l had
the additional pleasure of Witnessing the
growth and development OF this beautiful
city"
Mr.. Sutro for moment fell into m ed-
tative mood, but he aroused himself and
with an eloquent motioa OF the hand in
q eating the wide sweep of the bay added:
But what l have done is nothing TO
what may be accom- mplished by others who
are buying real estate in San Francisco.
"Just look at that harbor-the most
magnificent on the face OF the globe just
look at the generous site which this
peninsula affords for the accommo notation
OF a great city-:he most picturesque
under the sun.
and all the varied advantage offered to
the people of this City, and you must agree
with me that the future of San Frsnci SEQ
must inevitably be greater and grander
than any dwelers by the Golden Gate have
yet dared to dream. The advancement in
twenty years is startling, but it is nothing
to " hat the future holds in store
In that word future" there seemed to
L ~ ha =
fnancier, for though by the eye of pre-
science he was able to pierce the veil of
time and in imagination view the grand
ours of city that will arise on the ruins
of our best at present, yet in the natural
course of events he could not expect to
witness in the flesh the accomplishment
of those promised marveIs.
WELLS DRURY.
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and Mining Companyf A.-Tne trustees are
MacKay Fair, Flood, o. Brien and Wallace.
Q.-Who are the trustees Of the Pacific Wood,
Lumber and Flume Company? A.-Mackay,
Fair, Flood. O'Brien and Follis.
Q.--Who the trustees of the Virginia and
God Hill Water Company? A.-Flood. O'Brien,
Ma cksy, Fair, Hobart, Skae and Wells.
Q.-Is there any other corporation from
which the company draws supplies of any
character of which Flood, Mackay. Fair and
O'Brien not the trustees and principal
stockholders? Al don't know of any.
Q.-Is the California company's ore also re-
dueed i'll the mill of The Pacific Mill and Min
ing Company Do they procure their timber
also from the Pacific Wood. Lumb Der and Flume
Company, and is their water supplied from
the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company :?
A.-Yes.
One day John I. CHM, who was man.
aging editor of the Inde pendent, invited
me to drive with him from Virginia City
to the town of Sutro, as it was naces sary
for him TO consult with Mr.. Suro on q
question OF importance, concerning next
mornings issue of the paper. After the
most urgent mission had been disposed of
Mr.. Sutro wheeled around in his chair and
exclaimed: "Ginn. did you ever see a
played-out, broken-down mining-camp?"
Mr.. CHM said that he had visited sew
eral of hose scenes of disaster.
"Well," continued Mr.. Sutro, that's
the kind OF place these big mine.owner.
are going to make out of the CONS stock
lode. They are just gouging out the heart
of the ore, instead of mining scientifically,
and the camp IS bound to suffer. l would
like to have you assume the charcter of a
prophet and write description of how
the Comstock will look twenty-five years
hence"
Mr. CHM did so. He pretended to give
vision Of the great mining district q
quarter OF a century from that time. He
said that nothing could stop the woeful
waste of opportunities then going on, and
in view of this !act represented the bo-
nanzas and ore bodies exhausted, the
thunders of the stampmills silenced for