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Naming fIle Canal.

Some people are born without any
sense Of proportion, and that must
have been the fate Of the Chicago gen
tlemen who are making the effort Of
their lives to have the Panama canal
called the Hanna canaI'' in recogni-
tion Of Senator Hanna's services to
the great enterprise.
The Panama canal already has a
name and has had il for the last thirty
years. This name IS an ideal one. be-
cause Il IS impersOnaL undesigned.
geographical, historical and descrip-
tive To change il now in honor Of
any human being would be absurd
undeserved and little short OF sacri-
legious.-ChicagO Chronicle.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-27
SAN FRANCISCANS
AMONG REFUGEES
FROM VLADIV0STOK

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The
followingI cable dispatch has been re-
ceived from Richard Greener, com
mercial agent at Vladivostok, dated
March 25:
Left Vladivostok-Edwar Huff
David Fairweather, Robert and Mrs.
Rodgers, San Francisco
Shanghai - Mrs. Reuben Smith,
Fruitvale, Cal.
Remaining and well. Shanghai
David Clarkson. Portland, Or; Reuben
smith, t'ruitvale, Cal; Harry Busch
Alexander and Nenmie Lugebit, Ala
media, Cal; Alexander Brown, Mon
tana; Frank Cole, Ada McMahon
Arthur Taylor, San Francisco"
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Steamship Pleiades Returns.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, March
26.-The steamship Pleiades arrived
this morning from Yokohama, after a
passage Of sixteen days. She brought
no passengers and no cargo. The
Pleiades was at Port Arthur during
the naval battle of February 3. When
the vessel left Port Arthur on Febru-
airy 13 for Chefu she carried a large
passenger list of Chinese and other
refugees, whom the Russians decided
to remove from Port Arthur.
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Flee From Military service.

NEW YORK, March 26.-Among
the steerage passengers on the Ham
burg-American line steamer Pennsyl-
Vania, which arrived to-day from
Hamburg, were 1900 Poles and Firms
and 600 Hebrews. Many of these are
said to have hurriedly left Russia in
order to evade military duty.
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Davidson Not Ordered to Antung.

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The
State Department has sent no fresh
instructions to Davidson to proceed to
his post as Consul at Antung. When
the Consul sailed from San Francisco
1t was understood by the department
that he would go as far as Shanghai
and there await further instructions.
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Exnorts Of German Locomotives.

The exports of German locomotives
during the first nine months of 1903 ag-
gregated 16, sos metric tons in weight,
being a large increase over the ship
ments for the same period of the pre-
cding year OF these shipments 1854
tons went to the British East Indies,
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different Russian stock exchanges
whether bureaus of information giving
credit ratings of Russian and foreign
firms should be allowed to operate in
Russia. At present financial agencies
are not allowed to do busines in that
empire.-New York Commercial.
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Hoods SarsapariIIa
and Pills

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44O9 tons to Spain and 1146 tons to
Italy. Holland and her colonies took
1905 tons and Denmark 67S tons.-New
York Commercial
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ships company. The announcement
OF the honor was received with great
enthusiasm. The telegram added that
all OF the officers and men were ready
TO die for their faith. the Car and
their country.
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infantry Barracks condemned.

SEBASTOPOL, March 26.-The in
fantry barracks here, which cost
s250.000, have been condemned as
dangerous.
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Idle Spectators Arc Barred.

WASHINGTON, March 26. The
State Department received cable to-
day from Minister Allen at Seoul ad-
vising the department to discourage
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-27

If the SERVANT QUESTION
is one of your trOubles-end IL.
Reliable men and women are
seeking situations through CALL
ads.
The San Francisco call., 1904-03-27

A concession has been granted TO a
civil engineer. Eugenio de Andrade, for
the building Of an electric railway be
tween Rio de Janeiro and PetropOns.
Work must be begun within two years.
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Reward for Bravery Pleases Sailors

ST PETERSBURG, March 26.-
The Ministry Of Marine has received
dispatch from Captain Stepanoff, ex-
ecutive officer Of the cruiser Variag,
dated Port Said, announcing the re-
ception by the officers and sailors of
the sunken ship of the news Of their
decoration with the St. George cross,
which was conferred upon the entire
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Americans intending to go to Korea
to observe military operations, the
Japanese will not permit them to
do so.
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Fihancial AGENCIES in Rnssia.


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GREENBERG & GREENBERG.
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WING SHOTS AT SEA.
Novel Sport of Shooting Flying Fish
Need for a Retriever That
Can Swim.

One morning the yacht Linda steamed
out of the Bay of Avalon with two or
three friends and myself sitting on the
upper deck, about eight feet from the
water, each armed with a shotgun, says
a writer in Outing The Linda was
headed up the coast and was presently
running at fair speed, and in a short
time into the flying fishes, which rose at
or near the bow and went skimming
away in graceful lines. The first flyer
went to the left, and was cleverly
dropped by one of my companions, who
killed another with his left barrel The
third fish fell to me. 1t rose 20 feet ahead
with a vigorous trembling of the body,
produced by the screw-like motion, and
dashed away three feet above the sur
face. AS it swerved to the right fired,
dropping it; as it fell the splash startled
another fish from the water, which came
straight toward the boat, rising slightly
on the stiff wind. 1 did not fire, as the
fish was too near, and it passed over the
boat into the preserves of my compan-
ion. who dropped it when so feet away.
There was something essentially novel
in this sport. The fish appeared as
though by magic, shooting out of the
water with little or no splash, often ap-
parently sailing along foot above the
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weeks in advance. Every downtown
restaurant enjoys the greatest period Of
profit Of the year. Crowds throng. the
streets all night blowing horns, yelling,
drinking and making merry in every
possible way.
But the year 1903 passed unnoticed
while Chicago wept. Mayor Harrison
had not then closed the theaters, but he
might as we'll have done so so far as the
patronage they received was con-
cerned. The most popular places Of
amusement in the city were not one
third filled. People tore their tickets
into bits and stayed at home. Res
taurants where the demand for seats il
usually so great that to secure them they
must be engaged six months in advance
were without more than score of pa
irons, and the orchestras at these played
Gospel hymns instead of roliicking
New Year tunes. On the street there
was not horn to be heard, there was
not a yell, not even drunken man to
mutter meaningless gutturaIs at the few
pedestrians. -. a. -
The "owl cars" carried but few pa
irons other than tired searchers going
home from their visits to the morgues
and the hospitals in search of friends.
Big, thoughtless. tinsympathetic Chi
cago found that it had heart.
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SPIRITS OF THE DROWNED.
of the Departed-CustOm of
TaOist Religion.

Shanghai residents seeking cool
breezes on the river recently could not
fail to notice the number of Chinese
boats flying gayly colored lanterns and
scattering burning paper on the water.
Not only paper, but wonderfully con-
structed oiled paper lamps Of various
colors. which were dropped from the
boats to float on the water. sometimes
trails of II or 13 red. blue and green
lamps bobbing up and down on the
muddy waters of the Wrangpoo, says
the Shanghai Mercury.
Inquiry of even the meanest natives
elected the reply that joss pidgin was
being done to keep the drowned men
quiet. This is in reality very ancient
custom developed under the Taoist re-
ligion, which teaches that the spirits
of the drowned fit miserably over and
under the water until such time as
cash is paid to the gods to release them
from their purgatory. Failing this re-
lease, the drowned spirit lays in wait
to catch boatmen sitting by the waters
edge at dark and pull them into the
water to take their places, when they
themselves escape.
Hence, clinging to the old supersti-
ton, everywhere for the past Is days
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Time II SuuuSu OuI
he lives of 500 people. s
Such is a comparison of the city's two
greatest disasters. For the second dis
lster conditions have been ripe since
the days of the opening of the old Rice
heater on Randolph street in June of
l847 1t was a firetrap, and though
burned it did not result in any great loss
Of life.
Of the 35 play houses in Chicago to-
lay, not one of them is considered as
safe as such places should be. Not one
If them has fully complied with the
ordinances regulating the construction
If such buildings. Now, after terrible
experience has taught the lesson every
one of these play houses has been closed
by the authorities for not complying
with the law.
+ 1t seems such simple thing, the in
stallation of an automatic sprinkler
system There is scarcely manufacture
ing plant in the city that has not one
and there is not theater in Chicago
that has, and yet sprinkling system
would in all probability have prevented
the Iroquois theater horror.
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Of the seventh moon the Chinese as
semble in bands and go down the
rivers in their boats. beating gongs
and burning paper money. Products
of moCern life are curiously blended
with the old ideas. as we see every
where in China. and in this festival
steam launches are often to be seen
towing string of boats with colored
lanterns waving to and fro. One pro-
cession of boats carrying over 100 Ian
terms and scattering others in their
wake was preceded by the music Of a
cornet, strange anomaly indeed.
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park. On the same park the state Of
Illinois wishes to erect an armory for
the use of the National Guard, and here
the city talks of building a new city hall.
Like most things legal the explanation
of the attorney is so hedged about with
legal phraseology that it is no explana-
ton at all for those not versed in the
law. What the people do know, how
ever, is that they want home for the
Field museum on the lake front, and
that the. courts have said legal techni-
calities will not permit its being built.
The National Guard wants an armory.
but the same legal technicalities prevent
the building of that.
In the meantime the work of filling in
east Of the railroad tracks moves on
apacs. To-day the water of the lake does
not reach within 500 yards where it did
20 years ago. Not SO very long ago spray
from the lake was thrown onto the
Michigan avenue roadway, and the snail
boy caught perch from OF the Michigan
avenue sidewalk. The made land both
east and west of the railroad tracks
would make an ideal location for the
buildings it Is desired to locate there.
In the meantime the public are waiting
impatiently for the end Of the legal bat
tie, confident that they will have their
way in the end
WRIGHT A PATTERSON
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Railway Con:truction.

In 1857 an American named Collins
first proposed railway from the Amur
to the village of Tchita. Later, several
plans were formulated, but it was not
until March II, 1891, that the Trans
Siberian railroad was definitely deter.
mined on and projected by an imperial
order. On May 10. 1891. the first stone
was laid. The line covers 1862 miles in
Russian territory and 1.604 miles in
Chinese territory. In ten and one-half
years 5.166 miles of rails were laid In
the Canadian Pacific, constructed under
similar conditions, it took ten years t
lay 1921 miles OF rails.
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CnsflH "Snite" Tower.

Every one is familiar with various
spite fences or houses, but it is safe to
say that quite the most costly and
elaborate enterprise of this kind in the
world is the famous Wainhouse Tower,
in Yorkshire, England. Its builder.
John Edward Wainhouse, was the own
er of dye works in that valley, says
the New York Herald. Next to his
estate lay that of an English lord. The
two quarreled. ana Wainhouse built
the tower so that he could always over
look his neighbours grounds, although
they lay very much higher than his
own The tower is nearly 800 feet high
md cost $4,000 to build.
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road stock on Wall street. He operat' ;
the road, and to do this takes train !
ability it is not possible to secure in a
brokers' Office.
Leeds owned a good share of Rock .
land stock, or at least he controlled ,
and in connection with the Moo
brothers controlled the entire Rock i
land system with all it's numerous 6 80
pendages. He remains on the director!
for it is the directory rather than tn
president that operates the finances OF
the road.
Loree is a graduate of the engineering
department of the Pennsylvania, begin
ming his experience on the road in 1877.
In the same capacity he has served the
United States government, and later as
sisted in making the preliminary survey
of a part of the Mexican National
railway. He returned to the Pennsyl-
vania and remained with that road ur-
til he had risen to the position of fourth
vice president and transportation man
ager of the lines west of Pittsburg, and
then went to the Baltimore & Ohio as
it's president, which position he vacated
to become the head of the Rock Island
Stuyvesant Fish, of the Illinois Cen
trail, is partially typical of the old-tim:
railroad president. His Office is in New
York, where he is supposed to watch the
roads financial interests, but he spends
the greater part of his time either IL
Chicago or along the line of the road
and knows personally hundreds of farm,
ers and townspeople in Illinois, many Of
whom are stockholders in the road.
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cagO and destroyed
practically on e
half of the entire
city, but the loss of
life was less than
800 people. For
from 10 to 20 min
utes on the after
noon of December
80, 1903. freRaged
in one building in
the city of Chicago,
destroyed in prop
erty little more than
the fancy trim
mings of the build
ing, but in that
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tAOho IA tAO "oA H.
Sorrow comes to
the individual, but
not to the general
public. Crepe on
the door seldom
ELECTS the extern
sion Of the hand of
sympathy from the
next neighbor, for
the family across
the hall" in the
fat building, or in
the next house is
not often known.
But the Iroquois
tn eater disaster
softened the heart
of Chicago. 1t
cknnnnl AIA sr4A
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hOCh 1SlduO, IS Typ
ical Of that new
class Of railway
presidentsS trained
railway men, who
of late years have
to a large extent
assumed active con-
troll of the operat-
ing end of the
American railroads.
The railway pres
ident of to-day is
no t, as a rule, a
stock jobber. 1t Is
not his duty to
manipulate the fiuc-
-.
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forced WOULD make The Ho.els Are Over
such catastrophes. crowded
impossible, but they are seldom en-
forced in Chicago or elsewhere until
the catastrophe has occurred.
In nine on tot every ten Of the Chicago
theaters it is safe to say that half the ex-
It's are not opened once in three months
In many of them it is virtually impossi-
BILE to escape from the upper galleries at
all save by means of long and narrow
stairways. In but few of them is there
any way of shutting off the stage from
the auditorium, though the law says
there shall be a fireproof curtain In
every theater, but, as usual, the law has
been a back number. The law also pro-
yides for f1ues in the stage roof, but the
flues are not there. Neither are the
sprinkling systems, the fire apparatus,
The trained employees at the exits or the
men to fight fires should they occur on
reopen they will have all of these
things, and be the safest in the country
or the world-for time.
Just as conditions are ripe for fire
horrors in the theaters, so are they in
the cheap hotels and lodging houses.
These fire traps are. filled to overlooking
with a mass of humanity. They are
filled with the tough and the hobo. the
drinker, the opium fiend, the cigarette
smoker. The very class who exercise
the least care in the prevention of fire.
Is it to take another fire horror to
make this class of buildings conform to
the law?
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No Kick Coming.

The warbler faced the audience
And thus sang trite and true:
ST cannot sing the old songs,
AS once l used TO do"
Twas then a gallery goblet
Called out from his high pew:
Amen, old gal; get busy now,
And give US something new"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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surface, which it so resembled that Il
was as difficult to drop them as it would
be the woodcock darting over cover that
1t perfectly resembled. There was one
essential lacking IN this novel sport-a
retriever Many Of the fish sank before
the small boat could be cast off to secure
them
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and the hilarity and throughout the en-
tire city 1t turned it to sorrow and
weeping.
The passing Of the old year has become
\ greater occasion In Chicago than Is
the Fourth Of July. For the latter every
body tries to get out Of town, for the for
mer everybody tries to get into town.
Theaters are sold c.. for that night
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W nCA SlOl CO VI lAC
opposition of the
abutting property
owners, otherwise
Michigan avenue
property owners, to
the erection of
buildings upon the
Lake Front park.
Here it is that
Mars hall Field
wants to erect a
building for the
great museum he
has endowed for
Chicago, and which
is now housed in
the old Art build
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Smart Little Robbie

Mamma, know the gentieman's
name that called to see Aunt Ellie last
Highland nobody told me, either"
We'll, then, what is it, Bobble?"
why, George Don't! heard her
say George Don't in the parlor four or
Eve times running. That's what his name
s!"-Tit-Bits.
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so conditions are
ripe for fire horrors
in all of them.
Since the disaster
of December 80
NJ a or Harrison
has pointed to the
fact that not only
the theaters, but
the churches, and
IN fact all places Of
public gatherin gs,
are law breakers.
There are laws on
t h e city statute
books that if en-
forced would make
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Little Willie-Say, pa, it must be awful
to be poor orphan boy and know THAI
Santa Claus won't bring you a bicycle, q
sled, cannon, knife, a box of tools, Q
watch and a lot of oranges, candy and
nuts for Christmas,-Chicago Daily
News
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The Provoking Wretch.

why does Amelia hate Cholly SOP"
why, when she told him she coulo
never learn to love him, he Insisted that
one was never too old to learn. Puck.
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Cruel PunIahment.

A man who was caught in the act of
committing burglary at Paterson, N. J.,
was ducked several times IN clean water
and then told to leave town. 1t is re-
ported that the friction he created in the
air as he left almost set his clothes on
are