The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17
DIMENSIONS.
Vaikyrie

boom. Observation-Disclosures. 1885 IS.S4
VAIN gam ...................... o4S2 9e.oo
! one-ffth Of topm as............ 1924 44.79
| Perpendicular height 80. -. 123.4S l29 50
| SOU re root of sail area .-..... laps 11A14
kacln ne gth...........-..l IOO,9o 1oL.es
| Unofficial figures give the beam of the De-
| fender 23.03 and draught 1906. The sail area
in square leet was: Defender, 12,602.30; Val
| kyrie, 1902. 93. The time allowance to the
| Defender was 20 Ito seconds.
| FEDERAL COURT PRACTICE - Inquirer, City.
The following is the United States law in the
matter OF drawing grand and petit jurors for
| the Federal courts:
| All jurors grand and petit including those sum-
moned during the sess on OF the court shall be
public y drawn from box containing at the time
of the drawing the names Of less than 800 per-
sons, possessing he qualifications prescribed by
ton 500 Of the revised statutes, which names shall
have been placed t4erein by the clerk of such court
ana ON missioner TO De appointed by the j udge
thereof, which commissioner snail be citizen of
coed standing in the riot In which such court is
held, and a well-known member of the principal
political party in the district in which the court is
held oppos ng that 10 which The Gle may be.ong.
| the clerk and said commis Sioner plac-
name in Said box alternately, wi hout reference
party atfili 'tions It'll the whole mum Der required
shall be placed therein
But nothing here ntained shal be considered
to prevent any lu ge from ordering he names OF
III s III selecting the highest courts OF the state
The practice of the Federal courts of this
district is to take jurors, not from the extreme
northern and southern limits of the district
on account of the inconvenien, e they would
be put to, but to take them from the counties
nearest The central point, namely, San Fran
cisco, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa
Clara counties. 1t is not the practice of the
courts to draw names from the State box.
CAPITAL PUNIsHMENT-E. B. NJ, Cle-Eum,
Kititas County, Wash. Under the laws of the
United States the death penalty may be in
/ f1icted for the following crimes: Treason, MUIR
der arson OF dwelling, rape, piracy, robbery
OF mails iii endangering the lives ofpers ons in
charge), rescue OF a convict on the way to
| suffer the death penalty, burning a United
States war vessel and corruptly destroying
private vessel The only States in which the
death penalty is forbidden by law are Rhode
Island, Maine and Wisconsin In Rhode Island
the only alternative is Imprisonment for life.
The death penalty is inflicted in every State in
the Union for murder except in the three
named. In Louisiana it is inflicted for rape,
assault with intent to kill, administering
poison, arson and burglary; in Alabama, for
rape, arson and robbery; in Delaware and
North Carolina, for rape, arson and burglary;
| in Georgia, for rape, may hem and arson; in
Missouri, for perjury and rape; in Virginia,
West Virginia, South Carolina and Mississippi,
for rape and arson; in Florida, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, for rape; in
Montana, for arson of dwelling by night; in
Maryland, for any variety of arson. The
death penalty is inflicted in New York and
Ohio now by means OF electricity.
MEXICAN CoNsr1TUT1oN-B. H. S., Berkeley,
Cal. The Republic of Mexico has written
constitution which was adopted February 5,
1857, and with subsequent modification is
the constitution of that country to-day. By
it's terms Mexico is declared q federaistrepub-
lie. divided into States-nineteen at the out
set but now twenty-seven-two territories and
the federal district, each of which has right
to manage its own local affairs, while the
ybnfa &c bOTr I'M bod IN NV do
mental and institutional laws. The powers
OF the supreme government are vested in Con-
gress, consisting of House of Representative
and Senate, which is the legislat tive branch;
then there is the judicial branch and
are elected by the SURFACES of all
the respectable male adults, at the rate of one
for ~, 900 inhabi ants; they hold office for two
years and tIe qualifications are that each
must be % years of age and must be a resi-
dent of the State. The Senate is composed of
two me m bers from each State. No one can be
a Senator who is not 80 years OF age. The
salary of the members OF each house is $4,000
a year. The President is elected by electors
popularity chosen at q general election; he
holds office Tor four years and according t. an
amendment to the constitution in 1887 he
may be elected for two consecutive terms of
four years each. In the event OF q vacancy in
the Presidency, otherwise than by lapse of
time, the succession is vested In the president
and vice-president of the Senate and in the
gress, successfully. Congress has to meet
au nually from April 1 to May 80, and from
| September 10 to December 10, and perma-
| nent committee of both houses sits during the
recess.
SHIP TERMs-E. w. L., Suisun, Solano County,
| Cal. Tonnage is the capacity of ship expressed
| in register tons of 100 cubic feet, the register
ton being the unit which port and other
| charges are levied. Prior to 1865 the rule fol-
| lowed in the United States in computing the
| tonnage of vessels was to multiply the extreme
| length, less one-third the breadth, by the
| breadth and the dep respectively and then
| to divide by 95. In 1865 the British system,
| with notifications, was adopted. In the new
| system actual meas urements are made at GER
| tain intervals along what is called the tonnage
deck Il. e., the second deck from below in all
vessels OF more than two decks, and the upper
deck in all other vessels), the NUM- Der of which
| depends on the total length of the vessel as
measured along that deck, with length of so
| feet, six depth measurements are made, and so
| on through the six classes into which vessels
| are divided according to length. At each of
| these points transverse areas are computed
! and set down in feet and declmals of foot.
| These, except the first and last, are then m Ill
| tiplied by certain numbers "a for the even
numbers, counting from the bow, and for the
! odd the sum oil the PROD uctS added to the sum
| OF first and last transverse areas III any; the
| total is m urtiplied by onethlrd the common
| distance between areas. and then divided by
| 100. That represents the register tonnage be-
| low the tonnage deck. To obtain the gross
| tonnage it is necessary to add the cubic con-
| tent of all spaces abnve the tonnage deck, the
| poop, if any, Lighthouses, etc. This is aseer-
| tanned by multiplying the horizontal area of
! such spaces by the mean height and dividing
| by 100 as before. In steamships it is custom
| airy to deduct the cub content of the engine
| room and the space occupied by the screw
| shaft, etc. Displacement is the quantity of
/ liquid which is displaced by solid body
| placed in it. If the weight of the dispIace-
body the latter will float, II less 1t viii sink TO
| the bottom. A buoyant material sinks TO q
level where the pressure of thr liquid displaced
] is sufficient to counterbalance its weight. The
/ term is most frequently used in connection
with ships, as a ship OF 5000 tons displacement.
/ Displacement tonnage is found in the same
| way register tonnage, except that measure
ments are made not along and from the ton
mage deck, but from the load water line, and
/ the final cubic content is divided by 50. Tons
| burden refers to the quantity or number of
/ tons of freigh vessel will carry, as ship of
| 600 tons burden. Custom house measure
| ment is the measurement taken by the Gus
toms officers TO verify the statements in q
| ships manifest.
SAN DIEGO ROWING CLUB-F. c., Oakland, Cal.
| The following is history of the Columbia
Rowing Clubof San Diego: 1t was organized
| in September, 1894 and the following. named
/ ladies were the original members: Jessie
Haight (captain). Minnie Bostrom, Lottie