Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1901, Page 6

b [ l ( THE THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. k. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY TE H8CRIPTION Dally B 1 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Tllustraten Bee, One Yeur Bunday O 0 Baturany e, O L " Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRI ¢ Sunday, per copy.... %o ny per we sunday, g fer week thout Sunday, per week I fheltd ng Sunday, per week. i T or rrexularities indelivery Addressed t City Clreulation De- partment OF I Omaha: The Lice Bullotng. - 8outh Omaha ; Hail tullding, Twen- and M Strects . Pear] Street v nlding CORRESPONDEN Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addres Omaha Editorial Department Business 1o & should be addressed ublishing Company, Omahn REMITTANCE Remit by draft, express of postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company! Piily 2-cont stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not acoepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING (-] ()MI’AB» STATEMENT OF CIRC JLATION. Btate of Nebruska, Douglas County, 8s.: Georgo B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly swo says that the nctual number of tull and mplete coples of The Dally, Morning, $vering and Bunday Hoe printed. durlry the month of September, 1901, was as fol- Jows: L. 26,045 16, ...28.700 27,480 1Toiein . 30,000 27,274 18.0eiesn. 40,880 27 160 19 ..28,060 27110 20. 20,250 41.100 27,070 47,710 ..28,600 34,775 28,770 . B8 900 ... 48,080 28,150 ... 28580 | 28,180 L..38510 27,800 L.28,640 40,210 L28,700 45,710 28,080 32,100 28,870 Total v v 31,710 | Less undold and returned coples 127 Net total sales e DD 898 Net dally average.. ... 30,640 GEO. B, TZBCHUCK, Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this J0th day of September, A. D, 901 M. B, HUNGATE Notary Pubil Pat Crowe's latest effusions seemingly acquit him of any conunection in the kidnaping of Miss Stone The trouble with Mr. Uti is that he has been so long identified with the Commercial club e thinks he is the club. Nebraska has earried off a gold medal as highest award for agricultural dis- play. In its own class Nebraska can't be beat, An officlal connt shows sixty-nine “gushers” in the Texas oil field—almost enough to fill the front row at a light opera performance. And now we are told that a good plle of the money stolen by Bartley went into amine. The impression is that most of it went into a rvathole. Four anxious for commissiongr are impatiently walting for the supreme court to say in which ring the performance is to take place, aspirants county Uncle Sam foots the bill for the Behley naval board of inquiry. That may explain in part why its proceedings are conducted in such a leisurely mun ner. Those South Omaha politicians might have the politeness to walt till after the coming election hefore starting the row over the mayoralty, which is not to be fought out until next spring, —_— Wyoming stockmen are organizing a campaign to exterminate the hear, svhich are proving destructive to sheep. Here is a good chance for the man who thinks he bas lost a few bear, German officinls deny the report that the emperor's nerves are failing him, Whatever else may be said of the G man emperor no one has heretofore i timated that be was Incking in nerve, General Buller is being urged by his friends to tell all he knows about the proposal to surrender Ladysmith. The average Briton is undoubtedly of the opinion that he has told too much al- veady. It is only through constant agitation that the waters of the ocean are kept from stagunating, and it i only through constant agitation that the political at- mosphere {8 purified. The same princi- ple applies to soclal and commercial or- ganizations, King Leopold of Belgium has decided to visit New York some time during the present year. He will doubtless find the metropolis an interesting place, but he would also find much that is inter esting many hundred miles to the west and south of that cit It is to be feared the new paving for which the city has Just contracted will hardly be ready for final delivery before next spring. It is certainly remarkable that with all their experience our prop- erty owners should wait till late fall to put in their orders for summer goods. Bince the democratic member of the #chool board evinced such a lively per- soual interest in the republican school board primaries apd convention. it is only turn about for outgoing republican MISLEADING COMPARISO! There is nothing so misleading as fig ures when they are willfully juggled for a purpose. This truth i again strik fngly fllustrated by the statistical tablos which the popocratic campaign man agers are putting out with a view to mauking the people believe that a great setback has taken place in the conduct | of the state institutions since they passed from fusion to republican con- trol, With shrewd cunning the figures have heen prepared to show the expense of maintenance of nlue asylums, schools and reformatories “for the first six months under republican administra- tion and the last six months under Gov- ernor Poynter” Assuming that the amounts are correctly given, let us in- quire what this means. The last six months taken under Governor Poynter cover the period from June 1 to Novem- ber 30, 1000, while the six republican nmonths cover the perod from December 1, 1900, to May 31, 1001, Iu the first place, for most lustitutions, the first six to eight weeks credited to a republican administration were not under republicans, but under the fusion hold-overs, because the republican ap- pointees did not take hold until the mid- dle of January, or later. The outgoing tusion officlals were not particnlar about the legacy they were leaving to their republican successors in the shape of overlaps, unpald accounts and contracts for future delivery, so that the responsi- bility for these excessive outlays, so far a8 they go, belongs to the Poynter regime rather than to the republicans. In the second place, the six months credited in the comparisons to Governor Poynter and his appointees are the sum- mer months, extending from June to November. In these months some of the institutions, particularly the schools, suspend their work almost entirely. Most of them use supplies from farms and gardens in connection and the sum- mer expenses are naturally the lightest | In the winter months, on the other hand, which are charged up the republicans, all the institutions ave fn full blast, winter clothing is more expensive than summer clothing, the conl bills pile up, the supplies that must be purchased tncrease and the general cost of maintenance is at its highest, If the fusionists wanted to make a falr comparison of the management of state institutions under successive ad ministrations, why would they not com pare the same months of the year? Is not the fact that they have selected periods not properly subject to compari- ®on simply further proof that they pr fer to fool the people” Spenking in all candor, we believe there is still room for reform in several directions in our state | institutions, but juggling the figures for political purposes will not help to effect the desired Improvements, A LIBERAL NAVAL POLICYT. It is expected that the administration will urge upon congress the nstruction | of additional war vessels and it is| highly probable that the recommenda- tion will be heeded. President Roose- velt is in favor of building up the navy until the sea power of the United States shall be made adequate to any demands that may he made upon it. He | is opposed, it Is said, to a merely com merce-destroying fleet, believing that | seagoing battleships are the proper and | effective type of vessel. This view is in accord with what {8 being done hy | foreign governments in the building up | of thefr navies. They are constructing battleships and powerful crulsers, | rather than mere commerce-destroyers, and If the United States is to keep pace | with European countries in the strength- | ening of its sea power it must pursue i like policy. While this country has not entered into rivalry with European nations in' nuval construction and it is not con-| templated to do so, yet the fact that all the maritime powers are rapldly in- creasing their navies enforces upon us the duty, for the proper protection of our now world-wide interests, of in- creasing our sea power. We can not with safety allow ourselves to fall far to the rear of other nations in this re- gard. At present we hold fourth place, in the number of effective vessels and armament, among naval powers and we should at least endeavor not to take a lower rank than this. We have no need of such a great navy as that of Great Britain and no Increase in the sea power of that nation need concern us, for it is hardly possible that it will ever be directed against the United States. But the growing sea power of the continental nations is a matter of significance which we cannot prudently ignore, particularly in view of the fact that there is in the continental nations of Europe a strong and apparently growing feeling of commercial hostility toward the United States and jealousy of this republic’s influence in the world's affairs. We have to consider not only home defense and the protection of our commerce, but also the safeguarding of our new possessions. Within a few years our interests have been greatly extended and our relations with the rest of the world much enlarged. - It is impossible to foresee what complica- tions the future may have in store, but it I8 the part of wisdom to be prepared for any exigency that nay aris In our former comparatively {solated posi tion we did not need a large navy. Under the new conditlons we must maintain such power on the sea as will insure respect for our rights and inter- ests everywhere. While building up a navy provision must also be made for oficering and members to exhibit like solieltude for the makeup of the democratic school board ticket T The most competent estimates of the world's wheat crop place the total slightly in cxcess of the previous two years. Theve s little, if any, prospect however, that this will have any sub- stantinl effect upon prices, as the short- age in other foodstuffs, particularly corn, will more than take up this slight eXcess. The American farmer is assured of & market at g all of his wheat, and Nebraska will @S 4p for more than its-usuahshare, L4 manning it. We are deficlent In this respect and congress will be called upon to remedy it. The report of the chief of the navigation burean, just submitted to the secretary of the navy, states that there I8 imperative need for more off cers aud men and that {f the department were called upon to man the ships for war service it could not weet the de- mand. There are not enough line offi- cers to man the sbhips already con- structed. This 1s a state of affairs | the ¢lub to use which calls for prompt rewedy and there are other requirements which should receive the early attention of copgress. The country requires & OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1901. will poliey strong navy and the peopl prove a judicfously liberal strengthiening our sea power THE DECLINE [N INDUSTRIALS The industritl cembinations are being subjected to a which may deter mine whether are able to hold out against a r ing tide of prosper ity and a har g money market. The reporis during the Inst few weeks of nearly a score of these combinations have with one or two exceptions shown that their earnings have not been suth clent to enable them to dividends to the amount they had been paying. whi of them can pay none at all. o these clrcumstances there has a decline in the prices of the industrinl securities and a growing feeling of distrust in class of investment. The situation does not appear favorable to improvement and a further shreinkage in the market price of in dustrial securitios is The New York Journal of Commerce si would be premature to assume that the declines in the industr mean a shrinkage in general business, although they naturally suggest a result not en tirely unexpected by those who believe the wave of prosperity has reached its crest and must soon recede. The de- cline is partly due, says that paper, to speculutive reaction, but chiefly to a falllng off in the abnormal profits ob- talned in many lines of manufacturing last year, which no one expected would ap for test they some Ui naturally probibi continue indefinitely, and adds: “De clining demand and new competition will ve 00N put a severe test upon these combinations with their huge over- capitalization, Their control over the varions markets may soften or delay the day of reckoning, but the trusts, what- ever their advantages in some respects, are not a success in suppressing com- petition or in avolding the consequences of inevitable fluctuations in supply and demand. 1t i vorth remembering that two of their chief objects of being were the suppression of competition and the vegulating of supply and demand failure reminds us that the tendencies in human nature remain unchanged in spite of trusts” There is large capital behind some of the industrial combinations which will of course be used to sustain them against adverse business conditions for a time, but how far the owners of this capital will go in employing it for this purpose is a question. At all events, recent experience is of a nature to warn the public agalnst Investing in the in- dustrial securities, since there 1s mani festly danger of their futher shrinkage g There may be no reason for 0 In the present situation. The gen- 1l business of the country Is good and the outlook Is not unfavorable. But the industrial combinations, with reduced earnings and new competition, certainly offer mo attraction for investment. Ep— On behalf of the Commereial club, Mr. Utt puts in a disclaimer to the charge that the club ix controlled hy political aspirants. He admits, however, that it 1 true “that the Municipal league has held two meetings at the club rooms, be- se many of the members of the \gue are also members of the elub and it is their privilege to meet in the club rooms”" Mr. Utt is entitled to a good deal of eredit for exhibiting so much eandor. If it is the privilege of the members of the club rooms for po- litieal pow-wows in the name of the Municipal league, why could not the re. publican members of the club hold a cancus in the club rooms, just because it is their privilege to meet there, and why could not a democratic conference Be held by the democratic members of the club as a matter of privilege? Socretary Uit appears to be very well catisfied with himself, and hence he can uot comprehend why anybody should find fault with the policles and methods pursued by the Commercial club or even suggest the possibility of any improve- ment in the work mapped out for it. Mr. Utt does not seem to he aware of the fact that with the exception of a small coterle of the members, who dab- ble in politics and seek to pervert the influence of the club for personal ends, the enterprising.and intelligent members actively engaged in the management of commercial and industrial concerns have reached the conclusion that there is room for improvement and an impera- tive need of reorganization. In the interchange of money orders between this country and Sweden is a balance of 51,000,000 kroner, which represents the amount which people of that nationality In this country have sent back to their folks at home in ex cess of that recelved by them, he Swede i Industrious and saving and, seelng what he has reaped by coming here, has not been slow to aid relatives and friends to joln him. That is one adverse item in the balance of trade which this conntry can stand, The proposed concentration of more troops at Fort Crook will restore to that post some of the importance that belongs to it. Fort Crook is the most modern and best equipped post in- the department and its proximity to Omaha adds to these advantages. Were it not for the late war, which drained this country of almost all of its regulars, Fort Crook would have been populated up to its limit all the time. Anything that brings it to the front as the central military garrison of the west gives incidental benefit to Omaha, Johann Most, the w York anarchist, will be retired from circulation for a year for publishing a seditious article immediately following the assassina- tion of President McKinley, Most in sists the publication was a coincidence, but it certainly was an unfortunate one for him. Hereafter Most should pro- vide some automatic device for throw ing his raving wachine out of action when anything happens which might at- tract attention to it ratly to the credit of the city s office that taex-gather- ing machine it has collected in so much more mouney on current and back tax levies than in previous years. But it s a this | would b collected were more equally distributed as between the ordinary home owner and the great privileged corporations. Wise Old Warr! Washington Post Military history will always have a se- cure place for Lord Roberts as the man who knew just when to quit and reach for the laurels More Rope. Hoston Transcript. The testimony under oath of ex-Assistant Secretary of War Meiklefobn indicates that he is rather too stiff a hemperialist to hold office longer. Troubled by a Sarpla Boston Transcript. Now Uncle Sam {s annoyed by haviag more money than he wants to take care of. We do not want to go beyond & moderate to be | appreciation of ourselves, but it does no harm casually to remark that not all the nations are sitting up at nights with that rt of financial worriment. Sample ine e of Modesty Buffulo Express A New York man i sulng a steamship in New York for commissions on vessels sold the government during tho Spanish war. He sold $4,000,000 worth of ships and claims $50,000 In commissions. Only 000 on $4,000,000! The man did not know how to charge. Jutey Holl of Cuban Clatms. Philadelphia Ledger. When congress placed $50,000,000 {n the hands of the president, to be used in driving the Spaniards out of Cuba, it thought it was providing pretty liberally for the ex- penses of the war, But the total amount of claims filed as a result of that war, In- cluding the blowing up of the Maine, is $57.681,807. And these are only the un- considered trifles of our war expenses grow- ing out of that episode. company Last Stages of Deaperation. Indfanapolis News. The Boers are said to have over 12,000 men In the field, and it s evident from the reports of recent engagements that they are putting up an exhibition of some- thing more than guerrilla warfare. They have proved themselves daring, tactful, brave and resourceful. Is there any more reason, then, why Great Britaln should proclaim banishment for them now than at the beginning of the war? PS AHEAD, Results of a Forelgn Inspection of American Raflroads. New York World. Mr. Samuel Fay, general superintendent of the London & Southwestern rallway, has been making a long tour of inspection of the principal railroads of the United States for the purpose of obtaining sugges- tions for improving the operation of his own road He reports, among his other conclusions, that the small compartment car {8 better for English purposes than our long coaches. A prime necessity fn England, on account of the short distances between stations, Is rapldity fn taking on and letting off pas- sengers. The long coach, he belleves, would make the stops longer. He makes the Interesting statement that his road carries 60,000 persons dally into London and takes them home in the even- ing, “and not one of them has to stand up.” In this matter, at least, Mr, Fay is justified in thinking that his road cannot learn much from American city railroads He says further that ‘the locomotives in use on his road “securé w complete come bustion of fuel,”” doing ‘away with sparks, cinders and smoke. Our railroads might with advantage—to the public, at least— send over and see about those locomotives, When it comes to the handling of freight, however, this English official admits that English raflroads are ‘“not in 1t." An American freight engine, he says, hauls three times as much weight as an English one. English roads, he admits, must copy the American frelght traffic system in ore der to bring their net earnings up to a satisfactory point. M'KINLEY SURGERY APPROVE Migh Forelgn Authority Shows Treat- ent Fanltless. Tondon Lancet. In considering the reason or reasons of the fatal Issne of the case we may leave out of consideration the bullet itself; where it was lodged it could do no harm, and time and the patient's strength would have been wasted In searching for it. The njury to the kidney also appears to have been of but little moment and need not be further considered, The damage to the pancreas was probably unimportant, though it has been suggested that the escape of pancreatic julce may have caused, or sisted In causing, the “gangrene” of the bullet track described in the account of the necropsy. This is hardly likely, as the ‘“‘gangrene’” was found also in the wounds of the stomach wall. The peri- toneum and the wounds of the stomach re- main to be considered. There seems to be no evidence that at any time was there any peritonitis and this was confirmed by the absence of leuvocytosls, the blood having been examined several times during the patient’s life. 1t does not appear from the account of the necropsy that any bacterio- logical examination was made of the perl- toneal wall or fluld. Still, we shall prob- ably not be wrong in assuming that no peritonitis was present. The empty con- dition of the stomach prevented extravas tion occurring, at least to any great extent. The wounds in the stomach wall were sutured with a minimum of delay and ap- parently no leaking oecurred. How shall we account for the “‘gangrene' of the margins of the wound? There is no need to suspect any poisoned bullet and the supposition that such a bullet was used was probably due to the fervid im- agination of a reporter, not unwilling to pile horror upon horrar. It {s by no means rare to find after revolver wounds of the stomach wall that but little attempt at repair is made. This is to be attributed In part to the local action of the tric Juice and in part to the patlent's general state. The pathological condition has been met with before and will doubtless often occur again. Surgery does all of which it Is at present capable. The wound s ca fully sutured and the peritoneal cavity is aseptic and yet healing does not occur. The bruised gastric wall has mot suficlent vitality to recover and it makes no effort. The favorable prognosis which was put forth at first was so far justified that in some cases recovery might have followed, but the issue hardly comes as a surprise. The injuries were terrible, the patient was no longer young and the circumstances were such as to produce, even in a man of fron courage, the maximum of shock. If we may venture to criticise any portion of the treatment we feel Inclined to suggest that the feeding by the mouth was some- what in excess of that which is usually considered advisable. But while we ¥y this we know that to the brilliant surgeons and experienced physiclane around Pres dent McKinley's bed there may have been indications for the bolder freatment im- possible to be disregarded. 1In short, on a careful review of the whole case we feel justified In saying that surgery did its best; the sad result is to be ascribed to the lack of vitality of the tissues them- ves, more to its credit if the taxes ATMED AT BEE T SUGAR, Desperate Efforts of the Tr to Check the Industry. Portland Oregonlan The Sugar trust has finally come out openly against the beet sugar industry. Its recent reductions leave no doubt about it When declines followed the harvesting of the California beet crop, eastern beet inter- ests foresaw a reduction in their territory when their crop should become ripe. Their forecast indeed a true one. The fall in price. will work hardship upon the beet sugar industry, and may (nvolve considera- ble loss of money. Oregon and Washington, which have the beginnings of large fnterests | In beet sugar, will watch the result with pecullar solicitude. The trust knows its business. Its motive is by unjust methods common to trusts, to retard the progress of the beet sugar in- dustry. It probably does not expect to drive the present beet sugar factorles out of existence. The trust appreciat the situation at its true value. Reduction of sugar beets to sugar is an industry that bas been growing apace until the annual output of the United States fs 200,000 tons This {s two-thirds of the output of cane sugar in the United States, nearly one- third of the production of cane sugar in the United States, Porto Rico and Hawaii, and almost the amount of consumption in the United States. It Is quite natural, there- fore, for the trust to be disturbed by the growing annual production of beet sugar. It {8 not, however, that the trust fears overproduction. The trust fears that a rival may grow up in beet sugar which may Uwax as strong as itself, a situation In- compatible for a trust. The hostility of the trust may therefore be interpreted as meaning that it desires to gain control of the beet sugar Industry. If so, it is going about the matter in the regular trust way. This interpretation is reasonable, since the trust would not undertake the policy of fighting beet sugar without a business mo- tive, and no other motive Is apparent, be- cause sugar beets are destined to become porhaps as great a source of supply of sugar as is the cane. Of course, the consumer gets the benefit of the lowered prices. This s poor con- #olation, however, because trust manipu- lations have been in vogue long enough to prove to consumers that jockeying prices do not save anything to buyers. Public sentiment takes a fair estimate of such methods of business It knows what they mean and understands that it cannot af- tord to permit competition to be eliminated in this or any other commercial activity. For a single trust to galn control of all the means of producing sugar, which s one of the most important articles of household consumption, s dangerous to common in- terests. ADAM AND ONE OF HIS SONS. Pathetic Efforts of “The Peerle Revive a Corpae. Washington Post. ‘While the democratic contingent of Mr. Bryan's triune comblne s trying hard to forget the free sllver question and all the aflictions it has brought upon the demo- cratic party; while Mr. Brvan's demo- cratic brethren in Ohio, Maryland and other atates where elections are pending are dolng their best to keep that hobgoblin out of sight; while the great mass of in- telligent democrats are saddened by the re- flection that clrcumstances beyond their easy control compelled them to permit Mr. Bryan to force 16 to 1 into the platform of 1900; while the intelligence of the country, irrespective of parties or sections, realizes that free colnage is an absolutely dead and a practically buried {ssue, Mr. Brayn con- tinues to shout for it with-as much gusto, apparently, as he did in the Chicago con- vention of 1896, Although condemned by the country in two great national campaigns, 16 to 1 is still dear to the heart and springs eternal in the thought of Willlam J. Bryan. Although all the arguments on which 16 to 1 was sup- ported in 1896 were ruthlessly swept away by the loglc of events soon after the close of that campaign, Mr. Bryan ignores that logic. Whenever an opportunity occurs the “‘peerless leader' exalts his horn and toots 1t as gaily for the old cadaver as ever the troubadour twanged his guitar. An oppor- tunity occurred in 8t. Louis the other day. The Bryan Travellug Men's club of that city held some gort of meeting, and to the officlal head of that organization the elo- quent Nebraskan addressed an epistle in which he strongly opposed any concession on sllver. ‘““You will find,"” he said, “that with the opponents of free silver once in control of the party, the party will be in the condition in which It was when Mr. Cleveland filled all the offices with gold bugs, refused to prosecute the trusts and brought the party to the verge of ruin. The moment you allow the silver question to be ignored you will find that the cor- porations will push forward their candi- dates for office, and the party will be im- potent to accomplish a single reform." The persistence of Mr. Bryan in keeping before the democracy one of the most af- flictive of its mistakes reminds us of a sweetly solemn poem recently perpetrated by Mr. Frank L. Stanton, the poet, humor- Ist and philosopher of the Atlanta Consti- tution. The last verse of that inspired out- burst will suffice for our present purpose. It reads thu Adam wuz driy fum Eden Out In de fiel' en wood: But, gwine eriong, he sing dis song: “Apples 1s mighty good!" As the apple was the cause of Adam's expulsion from Eden “out in de fiel' en wood,” 80 free silver has put Mr. Bryan's party, or the democratic section of it, out of the control of great states, out of many seats in the United States senate, out of the confidence of conservative citizens and, to & lamentable extent, out of its own self- respect. And Adam, after he “‘wy driv fum Eden,” roamed through the “fiel en wood,"” singing “apples {s mighty good, #0 Mr. Bryan, looking at the wreck of his party, at the blasting of its hopes, at the good things it has lost, at the better things it might have gained, shouts ‘‘free colpage s mighty goos PERSONAL NOTES, Admiral Eva newspapers Glant Killer. Lipton s ready to challenge again, if no- body else will. Lipton's pluck 1s much more to be depended upom than Lipton's luck. Ex-Governor Jones of Alabama, whom President Roosevelt has just appolated to a federal judgship, carried, when not 21 years old, one of the flags of truce at Appomattox. Evelyn Abbot, the Greek historian. who died recently, suffered from paralysis of the lower half of his body shortly after graduating from Oxford, and, becoming an Instructor at Baliol, had to deliver his lectures fn a reclining position. A monument has been erected in Titus- ville, Pa., to Colonel E. L. Drake. who nut down the first petroleum well. Its cost is estimated at $60,000, but {ts modest donor is not known. In 14873 the Pennsylvania legislature granted Drake an annual pen- sion of $15,000 Adelaide Ristori {8 belng referred to in the Writing Bob" and “Bob the recently celebrated the elghtleth anniversary of her appearance on Imparts that peculiar and flavor noticed in ROYAL BAKING POWDER lightness, sweetness, the finest cake, short cake, biscuit, rolls, crusts, etc., which ex- pert pastry cooks declare is unobtainabile by the use of any other leavening agent. Pure, healthful, highest in strength. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 8T., NEW JORK, WASHINGTON GOSSIP, Ripples on the Carrent of Life at the National Capital, Former Senator Willlam E. Chandler of New Hampshire is one of the regular at tendants at the naval court of inquiry and shows great lnterest in the proceedings The {ssues on trial do not concern him particularly. It is the spectacle that en- chants. The easy confidence of the wit- nesses, thelr airy positiveness, thelr con tradictions, together with the squabbles of the attorneys, furnishes an adequate for taste of what the retired senator is going against. Mr. Chandler is president of the Cuban claims commission, and the chances are that the members will encounter as much versatility amoug witnesses as the Schley court develops from day to day The claims filed for actlon by tho com mission show the claimants to be experts in the art of inflation. They foot up $57,000,000 and 495 persons, firms and cor- porations are interested in milking the national treasury for damage done to their property fn Cuba during the last insur- rection, The largest single one ls $4,177, which was presented by a Cuban sugar company, incorporated under the laws of the state of New York. From this sum the claims run down to $7,000 or $8,000, although such small amounts are the ex- ception. The average claim, not countiug those flled on account of the disaster to the battleship Maine, is between $200,000 and $260,000. Most of the claimants evi- easfost “picking” the world ever knew The statements they have filed with the commission setting torth the damages they have suffered might well rank as humorous literature. A man with a name decidedly Spanish, averring that he was naturalized in the city of New York, who asks for $215,000 damages for the alleged ruination of what must have been a veritable Garden of Eden in the province of Matanzas, puts down his mules at $160 each and every horse on the plantation at the same figure. A stone chapel which was destroyed is valued at $15,000, stables at $25,000, an overseer's house at $10,000, with $4,000 additional for furniture and barracks for laborers at $310,- 000. These are simply sample ftems in this particular claim, and similar ones &are found In nearly every one, In every claim topnotch figures are asked for crops that are said to have been de- stroyed, and indemnification is demanded for the full value of harvests in the troub- lous times when the plantations were aban- doned. In one bill for damages is an item of 1, for expenses incurred in pro- tection against insurgents and brigands. In this same claim is an item of $91,610 for timber sald to have been destroyed. Most of the claimants have an ingenious way of doubling up on varfous items in their bills. For example, one man asks for $36,000 for the loss of his sugar crop, and then adds 5,000 more for the expense of replanting. For 100 years the home of the president has been familiarly called the White House, but officially the Executive Mansion. Last Thursday President Roesevell decided that hereafter the colloquial name shall be sanctioned ofcially ““The White House'' will now appear on all stationery used in the presidential resi- dence. Al the executive documents will be sul ribed as given from ‘“The White House, The president has explained that he has changed the appellation becauso each state has an “Executive Mansion,” and that the president’s home should be spoken of fn terms to form an assoclation with the national history. The White House was so called fn honor of the home of Martha Washington, in Westmoreland county, Virgin It was here that the first president wooed and won his bride President Adams. who was the first occupant, called it the executive mansion officially, 1n order to live down the odlum of the popular term. “'Presi- dent’s palace.” In Andrew Jackson's time it was known as the President's House. and some of tho old siiver, linen and china dently belleve the government is about the | terest will ba the dedication of the first monument erected to the herole dead of | Valley Forge by the general socity Daugh | ters of the Revolution of Washington. | This handsome obelisk of granite is fifty feet | high and at the base appear two bronze panels, one containing the seal of the soclety and the other representing scene of camp life at Valley Forge. Th inseription will read: “To the mewmory of the soldiere of Washington's army, who sleap In Valley Forge." The original co lonial flag with thirteen tars has been carved in the shaft above the panels The unveiling will take place next Sat urday and will be attended by a large num- ber of Daughters of the Revolution from many states, The president and membors of the cabinet have been invited, also the governors of the thirteen original states and many distinguished representatives from patriotic organizations This great work has been achieved by the soclety In twc years' time, says the Washington Post, and it is hoped that it may be an initial step toward a more fitting commemoration and preservation of this spot, whose historle significance s unique. The beautiful country, chosen by Wash ington for his famous encampment, les to- day in almost the same primitive condition s in the winter of 1777-5 and It seems the duty of the nation to thus preserve it. To this end a blll was presented to congress in December last asking that Valley Forge he | made a national rescrvation and it 18 hoped | that this worthy project may be realized in the near future. President McKinley wus heartily in favor of this work of the Daiigh= ters of the Revolution and had signffied his | intention of being present at the dedicatory ceremonies. 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