a church members, 3 of our church, and Presbyterian; not one was buried from the church, tho' in one instance the husband was the junior warden of our church and his wife a regular attendant and Communicant. Monday, 13th. We had a big box of fruit brought in to-day, plums, large round greenish yellow ones, mostly ripe, and two kinds of pears, bartlett and small round kind. I think there is more fruit in the house to-day in various shapes than I ever remember. The pears are quite hard, but will ripen in time. The U.S. are very busy getting men together for the war; there is no enthusiasm on the part of the men, except in certain lines; plenty are willing to be officers, or aviators or commissary, but rank and file no. The quota for our County for the first draft is 200, of the 1st 200 drawn 180 wanted to be excused on one ground or another, so the officials will have to call up the next lot to make up for forced exemptions; the radical ground of claim is having relations to support, and this is worked for all it is worth in favor of relationships that the exemptions would never dream of having any moral liability under other conditions. But the men will be got all right the ten millions can be and will be raised if required. men will be got, the ships and flying machines will be built, and I hope in short time. The The U.S. is in a pretty anxious state just now, strikes, railroad and street cars, turbulence of I. W.W., who are certainly financed by Germany. I.W.W. means, according to the owners of the term, Industrial World Workers: the vulgar public, with greater truth, say it stands for “I wont work." Their mission in life is to promote strikes, destroy by fire cotton-fields and grain-fields, prevent working in the canneries, blow up industrial plants and so forth. They are giving trouble all round: they get asked to leave one State, on the borders of the next State the officials turn them back: the same thing occurs in counties: they are vicious tramps, hoboes, or whatever you may choose to call them: this is one way in which Germany does her deadly work. One of our butchers is called Metolo, it seems to me that the name is French, but he is a German: is very fond of a chat, prolongs a conversation. To-day he asked what I thought of the Pope's message, which appears in full in the papers: I told him I thought it would do nothing, that the Pope ought to have declared himself 2 years ago: whereupon he went on to explain why the Pope couldn't speak earlier, so I listened and frankly said "The reason why the Pope Never for ever, for ever never. Three generations (which is a long time in the U.S.) of young girls have occupied the throne chair in the entrance hall, when they make their début in society. It is The house belongs to friends of ours for whom we have taken care during vacancy, as it is for rent; we have to leave on the 15th, as it has probably been rented from that day. The house has twenty rooms, and four bathrooms which are not reckoned as rooms. located in one of the most fashionable parts of San Francisco, and ought to bring in $200 a month, but it cannot be rented at anything like its real value; the servant question has driven everyone into apartment houses, with few rooms, and family life is not as it was fifty years ago: it is not only the expense of servants as the scarcity of them. $50 or $60 a month each to 3 servants is nothing to rich people, but it is the laziness of the women, and the luxury that seeks the newest and the most central. The proposed lease is $75 a month. Your letter from Smedley's Methods" is entertaining-the independance of help is so novel to you that you are more incommoded by it than we should be; should such an occurrence as you describe take place in one of our large establishments the guests would take it as a huge joke and make their way into the kitchen and help themselves. I was staying at "the Hotel del Monte," one of our powerful show places, one day at the end of June. It was the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the State Library Associa B tion, which I usually attend; it lasts four days, but I only went for one night as the San Rafael Library pays my expenses and I did not want to cost them too much. Nearly all the waiters are women, but cultivated, good waiters-no suggestion of any friction. The only difference I noted was in the table fare. When last there the dinner menu was crammed with different dishes, probably fifty or sixty all told, for the patrons' choice. This time the dinner menu contained 2 soups, one fish, and 2 roasts, only one being allowed. Extras entirely cut out, vegetables reduced, and dessert (as everything else is styled) greatly reduced. Also, which to me is a hardship, wheat bread cut out; a sort of composite grain bread, chiefly, I think, oats and rye, took its place, but very sparingly served, augmented with a tiny roll of corn meal. We can get anything we want, at a price; generally speaking prices have doubled, in some instances trebled; d; rolled oats used as a cereal breakfast dish, has more than trebled the last 2 years. In the spring of 1916 I paid 25 cents for 8 lbs. of rolled oats, the other day I had to pay 10 cents a pound for the same; I say had to pay because they were in a manner forced upon me. We had some in the house, did not want any more, but did want wheat flour, which we could not get without buying a similar amount of specified substitutes, the only one of which I had any use for was rolled oats. There is nothing in the world to justify these prices. The U.S. have fixed the price of wheat at $2.25 (to be advanced to $2.50); this is what the millers pay: the public has to pay the millers at the rate of $10 for the flour produced from the $2.25 wheat. The Government price of wheat is about double the normal figures. We have had the pleasure of having Joyce Parkin with us, off and on the past month. She has been 2 years at the University taking a Classical course, which she is turning to good account in a general assay office in S.F., where she started at $60 a month; the salary is merely temporary and will be advanced after her first month: she appears to be making good; besides analysis of ores, she has water and soil. She has not mentioned oil so far. I gather that she wants to earn enough money to complete her four years University course. I have just had my attention called to the original poem by Lord Tennyson entitled "Hauls Around," as published in the Examiner in 1852. The version to be found There is no butcher here; we have to send orders for meat by the stage driver, who brings back the goods next day and charges ten cents for his trouble. Some people order their meat from City butchers by schooner, which comes in on Wednesday and Saturday. We dined out once with friends, the day being set for Saturday, his joint arriving by schooner that day; it was a leg of mutton, quite nice: it developed in subsequent conversation that beef disagreed with him. This reminded me of an occasion when we brought a party over here, and stood them dinner at a boarding house. One of our guests, an Army man, professed that he could not eat mutton, that it made him deathly sick, that he had been tested many times under various disguises. So he had to have a steak cooked specially for him. We shall be very glad to get the Times again; no copy has come as yet. You were very faithful in marking same, when you could. We get, however, all the latest news, and how wonderfully hopeful they have been at last. Our mail arrives here daily except Sunday, at 11 o'clock; the post office and telephone are in the general store, the only store in the place. This store is really our genesis"; it is well stocked, has no grill and supplies the town of Bolinas and the farmin rming country round; it owns the gasoline schooner that plies between the City and here, and is the schooner's best customer for freight, hence the raise over City prices, which is considerable, and justified by the freight, which goes into the same pocket. It does quite a banking business, there is no bank. It is kept by a Joseph Peter, his wife serves in store and post office; there are 2 paid helps, one in the Post Office, which the salary of the Postmaster pays for, and one in the store, so the overhead expenses are very light. Peter owns the store premises and warehouses, and his house, quite a nice one, is across the street. I said to him the other day, "Joe, I don't believe there is another store like yours in the State of California"; his reply was, "I am quite sure there isn't." This (Oct. 5th) is a pouring wet day; it commenced to rain yesterday evening and has kept it up since. It will be bad for 2 local festivities, one Kentfield grape festival cantributed many many years for the benefit of a Presbyterian Orphanage, the other a long advertised fair on the Coast house grounds of San Rafael for the fatherless children of France. I am very sorry for this, so much effort has been expended in promoting it. I would much like to know the number of orphan children being supported in France by the U.S. Our little County supports over 100, individuals support 1 or 2 that are never heard of. I know a Clergyman whose salary was $50 a month supported one and his wife another. captured the West Indiaman RICHARD and SARAH from the French in 1706. 365. HAMOZE Transport, 4 (111)T. hoy. Built at Flymouth by Thos. Podd. Added 25 Aug., 1702. 366. POSTILLION Prize, 10 (117)T. 6th rate. "Taken from ye French by Captain Butler in ye Worster (WORCESTER)." Added 3 and 5 Sept., 1702. Ran aground and was lost at Ostend (Capt. Thomas Dennitt), 7 May, 1709. 367. TARTAR, 32 (420)T. at Woolwich by Wm. Lee. Sept., 1702. 5th rate. Built Added 7 and 10, 368. NIGHTINGALE, 24 (251)T. 6th rate. Built at Chatham by Robert Shortiss. Added 16 Dec., 1702. Surrendered (Capt. Seth Jermy) to six French Gallys off Harwich, 26 Aug., 1707. Re-captured by LUDLOW CASTLE (Capt. Nick Haddock). Added 14 Jan., 1707/08, as Fox, rebuilt Deptford, 1727; broken up 1737. 369. PORTSMOUTH, (50)T. yacht. Built at Portsmouth by Thos. Podd. Added 11 Jan., 1702/3. 372. ASSURE, 70 (1102)T. 3rd rate. Taken from the French at Viego. Added 29 Jan., 1702/03. Added as ASSURANCE, 24-26 Feb., 1702/03; ordered to be broken up at Chatham, 5 April, 1712. "applying such of her materials as is fitting for it to the Ballast Wharfe there." 373. MODERE, 64 (887)T. 4th rate. Taken from the French at Viego (17 Oct., 1702). Added 29 Jan., 1702/03, or 24-26 Feb., 1702/03 as MODERATE. Sold at the Navy Office, 15 Dec., 1713, to John Williamson for £335. 374. VIEGO, 54 (605)T. 4th rate. Taken from the French at Viego, 29 Jan., 1702/03. Added 24-26 Feb., 1702/03. "Lost (Capt., Thomas Long) at Hellevoetsluis, on Coast of Holland in Great Gale 26/27 Nov., 1703, as (605)T. 280 men (4 men lost).” 375. TRYTON, 48 (661)Τ. 4th rate. Taken from the French at Viego. Added 24-26 Feb.. 1702/03. Velez Malaga, 13 Aug., 1704; sold at Woolwich, 4 Oct., 1709. 376. SWALLOW, 54 (672)T. 4th rate. Built 377. HECTOR, 42 (420)T. 5th rate. Built at Rotherhithe by Jno. and Richd. Burchett. Added 13 Feb., 1702/03. Took part in Florida Expedition, April, 1740. 378. LARKE, 42 (492)T. 5th rate. Built at Rotherhithe by Rd. Wells. Added 13 Feb., 1702/03. Velez Malaga, 13 Aug., 1704; became hulk and was wrecked in the hurricane at Jamaica, 20 Oct., 1744. 379. LYON (99), T. hoy. Bought of Japhet Crooke for £400. Added 26 Feb., 1702/03. Surrendered (Jacob Wayman, Master), 8 men (99)T. on passage coming from Portsmouth, 6 Jan., 1707/08; re-captured by CHESTER, and re-built Deptford as (108)T. on 26 April, 1709; serving 1750. 380. GREYHOUND, 42 (494)T. 5th rate. Built at Ipswich, by Hubbart. Added 2 March, 1702/03. Cast away going over the bar at Tynemouth (Capt. James Stewart), 26 Aug., 1711. 381. DEPTFORD Transport. (58)T. hoy. Built at Deptford by Fisher Harding. Added 8 March, 1702/03. Sold at the Navy Office for £170, on 11 June, 1713. 382. LEOPARD, 54 (683)T., 4th rate. Built at Rotherhithe by Swallow. Added 15 March, 1702/3. Velez Malaga, not in action, absent on convoy duty, 13 Aug., 1704; action 15 March, 1708; Gaspe and Spanish River Bay, August and September, 1711; West Indies, 1726-28 (New vessel of name Blackwall, 1741). 383. PANTHER, 54 (683)T. 4th rate. Built at Deptford by Edwd. Poperly. Added 15 Velez Malaga, 13 Aug., March, 1702/03. 1704; re-built Woolwich, 1716; as (716)T. Became a hulk at Deptford, serving 1750. (New vessel of name ordered 1741. Built Plymouth 1746). 384. ANTHELOPE, 54 (684)T. 4th rate. Built at Rotherhithe by Jam. Taylor. Added 15 March, 1702/03. Mentioned 15 Jan., 1703/4; Velez Malaga (not in the action), 13 Aug., 1704; drove off a French 70-gun ship in November, 1706; re-built Woolwich by J. Hayward in 1741 as (860)T.; destroyed French AQUILON, 50, 14 May, 1757 on fishing duties on Labrador coast, August, 1760. 385. MUSCOVIA Merct. (322) T. storeship. Hyr'd to Transport Stores." Added 10 April, 1703. Surrendered (with SALISBURY, 48) to four French men-of-war and three privateers off Orfordness, 10 April, 1703. 386. GUARLAND, 42 (496)T. 5th rate. Built at Woolwich by Wm. Lee. Added 28 April, 1703. Velez Malaga, 13 Aug., 1704. 387. TERRIBLE, 8 (253) T. fireship. Formerly a 5th rate. Added 29 May, 1703. Built originally at Shoreham. Added 15 June, 1694, as TERRIBLE, 14 (238)T. 5th rate, 90 men. Surrendered (Capt. Thomas Mabbott), off Capt St. Mary's, and carried into Cadiz, 20 Sept., 1710." 388. NOTTINGHAM, 64 (924) T. 4th rate. Built at Deptford by Fisher Harding. Added 10 June, 1703. Capture of Gibraltar, 1704; Velez Malaga, 13 Aug., 1704; mentioned 1711 re-built Deptford, 1719; re-built Sheerness 1745; with PORTLAND, captured MAGNANIME, 70, 31 Jan., 1747/48; action 14 Oct., 1747. Reduction of Havana, 1762; Martinique, January, 1762. JOHN A. RUPERT-JONES. 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