Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1902, Page 6

{ THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE » ROBEWATER, EDITOR, PUBLISHED P‘ RY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Bee (without SBunday), One ally Bee and Sunday, One 'Y Alustrated Bee, One Yea Bee, One Year. Baturday Bee. One Year... Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. g:lly Bee (without Bunday), per cop; ly Bee (without Bunday), per weel Daily Bee (Including Bunday), per week. 1jc nday Bee,"per coby . (] Bee' (without Sun e Bee (including Sund; weel .15¢ Complatnta "6 Irregularities in delivery hould be addressed to City Llrculluon epartment. orrrrr—:s Omaha—The Bee Bufld £outh Omana—city 1ail Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M streets Couneil Bluffs—10 Pear] Street, Chicago—1640 Unity Building. New York—Temple Court. | Washington—wl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. i Communications relating to news and leditorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. 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Taschiick, secretary of he Bes Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and gomplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of May, was as follows: 1., 1 18, 19 pEURNRREERES Less unsold and ralurfled copl Net total sales Net dally averag Subscribed tn my resen nd lworn to before me this 3lst J’ (Seal) M B of M.{ D. 190L INGATE, Nolary Publle. —————————————— The baccalaureate sermon shows no signs of retiring to the background. — Local ‘merchants should make the most of the enlarged train service out of Omaha. e ——— ‘What North Sixteenth street needs Is & new pavement rather than constant patching and repatching. ‘With all the Shriners assembled at Ban Francisco the Occident will be tem- porarily transferred into an Orlent. Ex-Senator Allen still persists In booming Bryan for governor without walting either for his aid or consent. ‘Aeronautic wonders whose airship ex- ploits recently made so much talk do ot seem to be flying so high of late, France has a brand new cabinet of ministers who ought to do something at once to attract attention to them- selves, L] Omaha will this week lavish hospital- ity on the state association of under- takers. And the undertaker—he will do the rest. SEpe— Out of deference to the yellow jour- nals Mont Pelee should subside a while and let them turn loose on the impending coronation. S —— It may be worth while recalling that no, new churches were dedicated until republican prosperity dispelled the pall of hard ‘Mes. It is due to neither lockout nor strike that Omaha's public schools close down this week. They will be reopened in season without resort to arbitration. Preparations are going right along for old fashioned Fourth of July celebra- tions just as if we had not been told that Independence day had been ex- purged from the calendar. John N. Baldwin of Iowa ought to hawe a speclal resolution of thanks ex- tended to bim by Nebraska republicans for the kindly and unselfish interest he constantly manifests in Nebraska af- falrs. Sesslons of the county board as a board of equalization commence this ‘week. The gains made in the fight for tax reform in the city assessment roll must be riveted down on the county ‘assessment roll. e President Burt of the Unlon Pacific is credited with the ambition to shorten the time between Europe and the Orient. The first step in that direction should be the cutting out of fifteen miles between Omaha and Fremont, E—— , Why worry about the possible conse- )quences on Wall street of the death ot J. Plerpont Morgan? If that financler 1s as astute as he is credited, he will organize a company to protect all his other interests Inst that emergency. ————— Douglas county populists are indulg- Ang thelr customary threats of what ghey will do unless the democrats come fo time with guaranties of place and profit. These methods bave worked in the past and ought to be successful agaln. e———— i Advices from South Afriea are to the effect that the only opposition to the peace terms still manifested comes from a few of the Boer women who appear to ‘be more irreconcilable than the men. The women unquestionably had much to de with inspiring and keeping up the courage of the Boers in thelr un- equal fight. Their reluctance to yleld even after actual resistance has ceased illustrates the nnn.\h of I.bo anwon PRESIDENT AND STRIKE, ‘While President Roosevelt has no legal authority to take any action in connec- tion with the anthracite coal strike, he is very properly manifesting a great deal of fnterest in the contest and is dis- posed to do whatever he can to bring about an amicable settlement of the unfortunate controversy. As the dis- patches have already noted the presi- dent has been In conference with the commissioner of labor with a view to ascertaining what can be done and there is a reasonable probability that some- thing of a practical nature will result from this. It appears that in the law creating the department of labor the commis- sloner 1s speclally charged with author- ity to Investigate the causes of and facts relating to all controversies and dis- putes between employers and employes as they may occur and which may tend to interfere with the welfare of the people of the different states. The gen- eral purpose of this clause was to pro- cure, for the use of congress at stated intervals, reports on events which have passed, but the language is so broad as to authorize an inquiry by the com- missioner while a controversy is still in progress. It {s under this law that the president has conferred with the com- missioner of labor, but all that either can do in. the premises, so far as appears, Is to investigate the facts and to report the same to congress. There was formerly & law under which the president might have interfered in the anthracite coal strike, but this was re- pealed some years ago and at present the president has no power to interpose. However, there i8 no reason why the commissioner of labor may not Investi- gate conditions in the anthracite region and report the same to the president, who can communicate the facts to con- gress, and probably this will be done. What effect such action would have is altogether problematical, but it would at least acquaint the public with an official statement of the true character of the questions in controversy and thus enable the people to judge fairly as to the justice of the clalms of the respec- tive parties to the controversy. That it is desirable this should be done we think will be universally admitted and therefore the interest which President Roosevelt is manifesting in the matter must meet with general approbation. It ought to be safe to assume that both parties to the controversy will be glad to accept the efforts of the president of the United States to bring about a satis- factory settlement. e MERCERITE SHARP PRACTICE. Three weeks ago the republican com- mittee of Washington county issued a call for a delegate convention to nomi- nate elective candidates on the county ticket and appoint delegates to the state, judicial and senatorial conven- tions. The convention met at Blair Saturday, but instead of confining its action strictly within the limits of the call, the partisans of David-H. Mercer took snap judgment on the republicans of Washington county by selecting fif- teen delegates to the Second congres- slonal district convention. For this action there is absolutely no warrant in law. No call has yet been issued by the congressional committee, no apportionment of delegates has yet been made and nobody knows whether the nomination is to be made by direct primary or by the old-time delegate con- vention. The delegates to the Wash- ington county convention had therefore no right to anticipate that call. The selection of these delegates was not only fllegal sharp practice, but a downright imposition upon the rank and file of republicans of Washington county, who had not even the suspicion that the convention would attempt to take action on the choice of congress- man. It is an open question also whether a candidate nominated by the votes of the Washington county dele- gates could have his name legally in- serted on the officlal ballot as the regu- lar republican nominee. The most essential requirement of the law is publicity. All primary elections and caucuses must be called at least twenty days before the convention, and the call must specifically designate the offices for which nominations are to be made, elther by direct vote at the pri- mary or in convention. This attempt of the Mercerites to capture a delegation by underhanded trickery forcibly illus- trates the desperation of the non-resi- dent congressman and his followers. They know well that the great majority of republicans in the district do not favor Mercer's renomination for a sixth term, but they propese to force his nom- ination against the popular will and ex- pose the party to the risk of defeat on electlon day. e THE DISCUSSION OF RUUTES. ‘The argument made by Senator Hanna on the isthmian canal question has un- doubtedly made a favorable impression upon the country in behalf of the Pan- ama route. The facts presented by the Ohlo senator are of a most convincing character and so far as they relate to the danger from vwolcanic conditions they have received very substantial sup- port from the latest disturbances in Guatemala, which show beyond doubt that the situation in that region is peril- ous and that it would be a very grave mistake on the part of the government to expend a vast sum of money there in the conmstruction of a canal. The argument presented by Senator Hanna ‘was wholly practical in character and as such will appeal to the business judg- ment of the country, rather than to sen- timental considerations. It is impossible to say with any de- gree of certainty what the prevalling opinion in the senate is in regard to this question, but there is pretty good au- thority for the opinion that there i1s a majority in favor of the Panama route. According to recent adyices based upon careful inquiry it appears lkely that the result of the discussion will be the adop- tion of the Spooner substitute for the pending bill, which mm the se- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1902. route in case a perfect title can be se- cured, as to which thére seema to be no doubt. It is expected that a vote on the question will be reached in the sen- ate within the next week or ten days, g———— INDIAN SUMMER SCHOOLS, A number of institutes will be held this summer for the benefit of the teachers of the Indian. Several of these have already been ordered by the sec- retary of the interior, including two In South Dakota in June and July and one at Minneapolis in July. Refer- ring to this the Washington correspond- ent of the Brooklyn Eagle says that the first Indlan summer school of record, consisting of representatives from four boarding and two day schools, convened at Puyallup, Wash,, in 1884, Simlilar meetings have been held each year since with greatly Increased attendance. At the Los Angeles meeting in 1899 the teachers in the Indian service were ad- mitted as a department of the Na- tional Educational assoclation, being known as the department of Indian education. The meeting of the latter at Minneapolis next month will be at- tended by teachers from all over the country and its program contains pa- pers, addresses and lectures by the most eminent educators in the United States. These summer schools have been of very great advantage to the cause of Indian education and are therefore en- titled to every encouragement. The service they have done in advancing the work of Indian education has been recognized and cordially commended by the Interior department and there is no doubt that the deliberations of the meetings this year will bave gratifying results. — The congressional campaign commit- tees of both the great parties expect to promulgate officlal statements of the national issues involved in the coming political contest. These committees, to be sure, are actuated by the best of motives with the purpose of saving the people at large from the trouble of formulating their own Issues, but the voters may want to have something to say about it themselves before they get through. These ready-made issues do not always fit in with the fashion. e———— According to the publicity department of “the rallroads of Nebraska” those public-spirited institutions have always been eager to bear their shares of the burden of government. But when the law imposed on them the duty of pro- tecting thelr tracks across busy thor- oughfares by viaducts, the city of Omaha had to fight the case clear through the supreme court of the United States in order to bave the law enforced. Spain is gradually resuming its pur- chases of American wares and goods notwithstanding the prejudice created by its disastrous war with this country, Trade follows the lines of mutual ad- vantage and if American merchants can offer tempfing enough bargains, no recollections of the war will long stand in the way of Spanish patronage. emp—— Methuen’s Double Halo, Philadelphia Press. Lord Methuen is sure of fame in two respects. He was the first British gemeral to get licked and the last to get captured. Footing All the Bills, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bull understands himself to be the victor, but will have to put his South Afri- can farm in order at his own expense. Pass the Wings, Please. Chicago Record-Herald. ‘When a girl secures damages in a lawsult because the jury is sald to be influenced by her beauty she is about as near heaven as it is possible to get without dying. Peg to Hang Hope Onm Washington Post. The Indiana populists favor the momina- tion of Bryan in 1904, provided he will clear himself of the few slight taints of democracy he has exhibited in the past The Critic Corn N Baltimore American. It seems like the sarcasm of fate to see Mark Twain recelving & collegiate degree, when it has not been so long since h was poking fun at the people who were gotting them, Comfort for the Feeble-Minded, San Francisco Chronicle. It 1s announced that the British authori- tles have introduced ping-pong inte im- becile wards of poor-houses for the pur- pose of affording the inmates an easy and innocent amusement at & small cost. So it seems the game has its value after all. Unsurmountable Obstacles, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. A contemporary is satirical on the sub- ject of good crops under a republican ad- ministration. The country bad good crops under the last democratic administration, but somehow the souphouse tariff and the rest of the misfits and general incompe- tency beat the bounties of nature. Looks Like the Last Straw, Baltimore American. Fate has not forborne adding the last straw. An irish lorse ridden by a Yankee jockey has won the English Derby, taking the race bodlly from the English scepter. As the king himself mournfully sald, the superstitious could easily find an omen in this combination of circumstances, Stirring the Interior, Chicago Inter-Ocean, With Mount Redoubt, Alaska, emitting dense smoke, cinders and flames that rise for hundreds of feet and rumbling noises in Mount Teukaba, Japan, and Mount Pelee still belching and the volcanoes of St. Vin- cent in action, and Vesuvius. due to arrive at any moment, it may be sald that there is something doing in the interior of this old sphere. A New Century Wi New York Tribune. Professor Moore, chief of the weather bureau at Washington, declares that he has invented & gravity apparstus which cools and cleanses the alr and makes it dry and wholesome at the same time. If the wonderful invention can accomplish every- thing which the worthy professor clalms for it, he will make the alchemists of an- clent days, the seekers of the philosopher's stone and of the elixir of life, the squarers of the circle, the Ponce de Leons who went in search of the springs of eternal youth and the discoverers of perpetual motion— one and all of them—Ilook like a falnt aand evanescent glimpse of the shadow of thirty s vaalshlag 1n thedim distsaces j Mr. Harriman’s Plan Philadelphia Press (rep.) Mr. E. H. Harriman, the head of two great transcontinental systems, has ex- pressed in a public interview the opinion of a large number of able raflroad men, tbat the rallroads are more competent to manage the country than the country is to manage the rallroads. Mr. Harriman does not say this in terms, but that is what he means. His frank declaration is as fol- lows: “The legislation of the future must be pro-railroad instead of antl-rallroad, and it must develop confidences between the pub- lc and the transportation companies. Give the rallroads the opportunity to de- velop their resources, to show what they can do, and legislation s always a remedy which can be resorted to. I belleve In combinations of lines, whereby the products can be transported on the lines that can do it most economically. In other words, if you can transport over comparatively straight or level raods, against crooked and mountainous roads, you can do it cheaper. There must be some way given to compensate those high-grade lines. * * * I believe commiasions are things of the past. I do not think transportation companies should have to submit to dicta~ tion or control by bodies who do not know anything about transportation. I think now is the time for all of us to speak out what we think. Meet the thing face to face. Bodles formed for the purpose of controlling transportation should have in them representatives of the companles whose business is to be controlled.” Practically, this is a scheme that the rallroads should have the privilege both of combination and of making rates. This is today the {ssue in rallroad affalrs. Men like Mr. Harriman wish to have state and federal commissions abolished, no power vested in the interstate federal commission to make rates, and, through the power of combination, rate-making vested in the rallroads. Wiser men, like Mr. A. J. Cas- eatt of the Pennsylvania rallroad, with a broader view, see that this power can never be granted. Such men are willing to see the power of making rates vested in a commission, it the power of combining and pooling is left with the rallroads. It Mr. Harriman or anyone else thinks that control over the profits of all.the in- dustries of the country will be left in the hands of any body of road men or any rallroad corporation he is making a mistake quite as great, if on a bloodless fleld, a8 did H. L M. George IiL The power to make rates is the power to tax every profit of every Industry in the United States. As long as this power is modified and controlled by competition the public is safe. If competition is to cease by consolidation the public of in- dustry, trade and retall distribution is not safe if the combined rallroads have the power to make the rates. If the rallroads are permitted to exerclse both these powers they will manage the country, This may sult Mr. Harri He is perfectly ready to be a benevolent rallroad despot. All of them are. But this country s not organized in order to give despots, railroad or otherwiee, a chance to show their benevolence. It was made to be a govern- ment of laws and not of men or of rafl- roads and it will remaln such a govern- ment in spite of the benevolent desire which Mr. Harriman and other rallroad presidents show to manage its affairs. Rallroad interests themselves are safer with men like President A. J. Cassatt, who see clearly that in the long run the rafl- roads will gain,by a fair recognition of the right of the state to require rallroad rates to be reasonable through methods more eficlent than those of courts, in short by a commission. A bill providing this is before the eenate. It should pass. The supreme court in it decision on the Chicago termi- nal charges has again decided against in- terstate commission rates. The decision now 1s on & detail, but It is just ae effective as if {t were on the malin issue. Congress ought not to leave the commission power- less even it Mr. Harriman and some other railroad presidents think they can do bet- ter In making rates than the commission. /A GREAT LIGHT APPEARS, Indiana Demoecrats Turn from Darke mess to the Dawn. Detroit Free Press (dem.) The democrats of Indiana have gone up towards Damascus and seen a great light. The state convention which met at Indian- apolls Wednesday, rejected both the divin- ity of free silver and the heaven-bornness of the heaven-born ratio, in a financlal k that reads as follows: ““We recognize as an economic fact the increase of standard money arising from the vast increased production of gold from our own and forelgn mines, and the pro- digious influx of foreign gold in this country a8 a result of an exceptional demand for our products arising from foreign wars and other causes, and we point to the result consequent upon this increase of the cir- culating medium as a demonstration of the truth of the quantitive theory of money.” When the Indiana democrats have finally learned that money is only a measure of value, and that the government provides only a small amount of the money actually in circulation, they will have finished the remainder of their financial education and will place the qualitative theory of money alongside of their quantitative theory. Pos- sibly they have already reached that stage. No political party llkes to admit that it has been burning incense at the shrine of false gods, and'it {s the way of man to let him3elf down as easily as possible after he has seen the: error of his ways. This 18 all the Indiana democrats have done. Mr. Bryan will unquestionably scold them. He may bring out his bell and his book and his candle and pronounce a formal anathema; but they will sur- vive it. They can point to excellent precedents. The Presbyterians have re- vised the Westminster confession and ob- literated infant damnation. Even Mr. Bryan cannot claim that the Chicago platform was a more perfect plece of work than the Westminster confession, and If he is determined not to amli with the dem: crats that prefer live issues to dead ones, no power will seek to separate him from his dead. The rest of the mourners, how- ever, are going to trot back to town with the hearse and the gentleman from Indiana. DETHRONING KING COAL. Substitute Officially Ane mounced in France. New York World. We have in this country various kings, such as cotton, oil and steel, but we have only one tyrant—coal. The industry, the commerce, the home comfort of the whola nation are at its mercy—because we must have it or see everything brought to a standstill. There is only one escape from this peril- ous dependence—a cheap and practicable substitute. This the scientists and econo- mists of the world are seeking. During the present year a special exposition was held in Berlin to ehow the technical uses of alcohol. From abundant crops of potatoes vast quantities of raw alcohol have been produced. Last year Germany used over 80,000,000 gallons of it. It will run motors, furnish lighting and heating and do cook- ing. France, making similar experiments, talks of & navy run by alcohol—an oppor- tunity for much jesting, but a serious sug- gestion withal. Germany does not stop with the varlous uses of alcohol, but is perfecting a process whereby peat may be pressed and converted into briquettes which may take the place of coal. “It is expected,” says Electricity, “that the new process will not only serve to greatly relleve the scarcity of fuel in Germany, but eventually furnish a surplus for export.” But the most interesting and promising substitute is announced in recent consular reports from France. Inventors there claim to have succeeded in making petroleum briquettes which, as officially reported, “possess all the advantages of coal and m without the inconvenience of ‘They weigh one-half much as coal and produce twice the heat. They burn without smell or smoke, leave prac- tically no residue, keep Indefinitely, are clean to handle and are perfectly safe. The process of manufacture is so simpie that a $20,000 plant will turn out al bundrea tons & day. The claims for these briquettes would seem incredible were they not made on government authority. On boats, by their lighter welght and superior com- bustion, they would reduce the necessary fuel cargo for a given voya fully o halt. And our consul reports that they can be used in domestic and industrial work without changing furnaces or ranges. As 0 cost, even in this early stage of their manufacture the petroleum briquettes can be made for $14 per short ton. 8o, If our consul is correct, we have here & substitute which at the very least would keep the price of coal under $7, not to mention its other advantager. There is substantial hope in these things. Mankind, so quick to find substitutes for ry other mecessity In its operations, has depended too long on coal, and coal has cost it dewr. Every strike is paid for by the factories and the homes. Each strike becomes more expensive and & greater burden on industry and progress. The world will be better and freer when €00d substitutes topple Old King CN trom his thnlu. Possible “GO 'WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN.” Minneapolis Times: Mr. Bryan has heard from Indiana by this time and it is fair to presume that Indlana will hear from Mr. Bryan very soon. Brooklyn Eagle: Patrick Henry McCar- ren made the hit at the Harmony con- ference in Albany, Monday. *Bryan should be asked to go 'way back and sit down''— in case he seeks to say who shall or shall not be at the front. There was no rhetoric in that. There was some slang. Sald a learned professor once to his puplls: “Slang, young gentlemen, is sometimes the straightest avenue to the human heart.” Louisville Courfer-Journal: It is like old times to read of the Indlana democratic convention—the old times when every In. diana democrat stood shoulder to shoulder in party line and battle line, and every foot of Indiana ground was battleground; the old times when every democratic face throughout the country turned Intently to Indlana, watching the progress and awaite ing the result of the struggle there with an interest born of the knowledge that the result in Indlana indicated and in large measure shaped the result in the nation. Surely there is nothing in portents if the good old times have not come again for the Indiana democracy—if it is not agaln to take its place in the forefront of ths column and s not again to help win ana to lead the way to victory. Indianapolis News: The platform adopted yesterday by the democrats of Indiana and the speech of Mr. Kern, chairman of the convention, are notable chiefly for their practical repudiation of the Bryan leader- ship and their silence on the Bryan theory of finance. Mr. Kern, it is true, mentioned the name of the Nebraskan as one of the democratic leaders, but that is all. The platform does not even do that. He is entirely ignored. Nor is there any de- mand for the free, unlimited and inde- pendent coinage of ellver at the ratio of 16 to 1 “without the ald or consent of any other nation on earth.” When it is re. membered that only a few years ago even city conventions found it necessary to re- Afirm the free coinage doctrine, and when men were discharged from positions in the city government because they did not be- lieve In that doctrine, it will be realized that great progress has been made. PERSONAL NOTES, Several eminent local statesmen of St. Louis have taken French leave of the town and scooted for shelter in other climes. Prof. Michael I. Pupin of Columbla uni- versity, inventor of the ocean telephone, began his career in America as an attend- ant in a Turkish bath parlor in Brook- lyn. Carl Faber of Munich, son of the famous pencil manufacturer, has given $250,000 to the Germanic museum at Nuremberg and to ‘the Bavarian National museum at Munich. Senator Lodge 18 a connoisseur on shirt designs. The other day he appeared in Washington with a shirt and vest of the same material, a delicate purple, which was woven especlally for him. Prof. Virchow, the German physiologist, celebrated his eightieth birthday recently by taking a double dose of borax to prove that its taking was a benefit to the health. He has taken a dose of borax dally for years past. Notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts of the rallroads to furnish quick and luxurious transit out of the city, fifty dis- quieted Chicagoans took their departure via the suicide route during the m May. It is mighty hard to pleas people. In the autoblography which he furnished for the congressional directory Representa- tive Robert W. Davis of Florida tells of his early struggles and subsequent achieve- ments, adding this touch of gallantry: “Before reaching his majority he was mar- ried to Miss Mercer, and to her influence is due whatever of he has attained.” The Twelfth New York regiment, now in camp up the Hudson near Peekskill, has among its lleutenants Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Rogers Winthrop, who are worth, respectively, $7,500,000 and $6,000,000. The two young millionaires sleep on cots in tents, drink their coffee out of thelr tin cups in the morniog and eat off tin phates and declare they enjoy it to the limit. Bllen M. Stone, the missionary, who was ®0 long the unwilling guest of Bulgarian brigands, is about to be put into a melo- drame on account of her adventures in the Balkans. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian balloonist; the white squadron of the Ameri- can American and British sailors, mountain robbers, Turkish soldiers and other picturesque features are introduced, the dramatist evidently having determined to have at least several thrills in each act. The tablet which fe to mark the birth- place of George Peabody, the banker and phbilanthropist, will be unvelled by the Peabody (Mass.) Historical soclety on Jus 16. The tablet is of brass and has the fol- lowing inscription in raised letters: “Birth- place of George Peabody, February 18, 1795, Placed by the Peabody Historical Soclety, June 16, 1902.” This tablet will be bolted to a rough stone post five feet out of the ground, to be set two feet inside the fence, directly in fromt of the old part of the bouse o which Mr. Peabody was bora. JapRose - Soap one-sixth pure glycerin-- the best for the toilet that human skill can produce. A better is impossible tho’ you pay a dollar a cake for it. Use it for toilet and bath. Use it on the hair. Skin and hair will be as soft and smooth as silk. unu S. KIRK & COMPAN\', CHICAGO 'ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. ‘| Ripples on the Carrent of Life in the A patch of real estate rightly located in New York City rivals in productive wealth the best “‘strikes” in the Klondike or Crip- ple Creek. Last year a department store syndicate purchased the greater portion of a block of ground at Thirty-fourth and Broadway. A little slice of one corner, fronting sixteen feet on Broadway, re- mained in possgssion of a non-resident. The syndicate thought that shoebox slice of ground was within its reach and offered $40,000, a price proportionately higher than the cost of the remainder of the block. The owner asked $50,000. The syndicate hesi- tated and when it concluded to pay the price asked the owner lifted it to $75,000. For four months the syndicate dickered about the price, each delayed acceptance being met with a raise, until finally a spec- ulator purchased the corner for $375,000. A few days ago this valuable corner was leased for a term of twenty years at sn annual rental of $40,000, equal to 5 per cent on $800,000. The lessee agrees to pay all taxes and make the rental clear to the landlord. Meanwhile the department store syndicate i{s giving an automatic kicker a chance to work overtime. Another hotel, designed to overshadow anything of the kind in New York, is to be built on the site of the Plaza hotel, at a cost of §10,000,000. The greater part of this sum will be furnished, it is understood, by men whose fortunes have been created out of ‘the steel industry. Among them are Charles M. Schaub, president of the steel trust; John J. Mitchell, president of the TNifnofs Trust and Savings bank; John W. Gates and C. A. Fleming. As it 1s now planned the new hotel will have a frontage of 200 feet in the plaza, while In Fifty-ninth street, overlooking Central park, the frontage will be 250 feet. If property for which negotiations are now pending is obtained the frontage in Fifty- elghth street will be the same as that in Fifty-ninth, but architects are now prepar- ing plans on the assumption that the struc- ture will have a facing of 125 feet in Fifty- elghth street. The structure will be of twenty stories, and in design will be in keeping with its proportions. From the New York Life Insurance com- pany the Plaza hotel has been purchased, and with it three lots in Fifty-ninth street. The purchase price was $3,000,000. One of the interesting features of the purchases is that the property was pald for with cash, making it the largest transaction of the kind that has ever taken place in New York City. A day or two ago, relates the Brooklyn Eagle, Superintendent Goulden of the bureau of Iincumbrances decided that a board fence extending across East Nine- teenth street, near Cropsey avenue, and ad- joining the Fort Lowrle hotel at Bath Beach, was maintained in opposition to the law, the street having been legally opened to Gravesend bay. That was chapter one. Chapter two was provided yesterday when an inspector from the bureau, armed with all proper au- thority and an axe, strode down with ma- Jestic steps to Bath Beach with the inten- tion of obeying orders and cutting away the objectiopable fence. When he reached the scene of prospective action he halted in surprise. The sight which he saw was enough to make anybody halt. Astride the fence were four women, grim looking and determined. “So you're going to chop this tence dows, are you?" said one of the quartet. “Well, befora you begin just listen to me. If you chop this fence down you've got to chop us down with it. Understand? It don't come down under any other conditions. You hear us, don't you?"" The inspector heard and, feet, he departed. “You can argue with a man,"” he reported at headquarters, “but you can't argue with four women on a fence top." lifting up his Curfous waves of superstition sweep at intervals over certaln sets im New York and nobody ever knows just why they should come at eme time and not at an- other. Probably the cause is the appear- ance of some especlally successful medium or clalrvoyant. Such & woman has lately come on the cene, reports the New York Sun, and the story of ome or two remarkable predic- tions by her has traveled among women until sbe is just now the most popular of all dispensers of the occult. Her modest rooms on the east side of town are dally sought by women who would not under ordinary circumstances be found in such a neighborhood. However popular the purveyors of the occult may become,” they are rarely able to ralse their prices beyond & certaln low figure. The usual maximum is §1 and there is no profit i an attempt to charge more. Even when the medium is most popular, the women who visit her expect her services to be reasonable. ‘The only person who was ever able to et high prices in the city returned not loug ago to London, because he realized that the end of the game, wo far as he was concerned, had already been reached. cheap. The price has indeed much to do with the demand. A London clairvoyant of great vogue o his own town lately came to New York to establish himeelf in business. He held his services at a high figure. After one month he reduced his fee to one-half of what it had been and at the end of the second month closed his studia and returned to Mayfair. RAILROADS LACK ONE THING. The Courage to Deal Fairly and Squarely with the People. Chicago Chronicle, The most of what James J. Hill has to say in praise of the American railroad sys« tem and its achievements is true. It is true that we have the best system in the world in many respects. For prompt= ness and certainty of service and for cheap- ness of transportation, distance for dls- tance, it far eurpasses any other system in the world. There is no denying that. There Is good reason to belleve also that in respect both of general excellence of service and in the moderation of average rates our system is far better than it would have been under government ownership and far bett® than it soon would be If the government should acquire ownership now. ‘While all this i true, another thing which Mr. Hill does not dwell upon s not less true. That is, that in the matter of discriminating rates the railroad companies notorfously and habitually violate prov! fons of law which they are bound to obey, and which they themselves admit are not only just, but actually conducive to thelr own interests if obeyed to the letter. The public is willing to give the railroad managers of the country all the credit which s justly their due. In fact, the public is proud of them as compared with the managers-of roads in other parts of the world, and especially as compared with managers of government roads. But not the less s the public disposed ta Insist that they shall obey the laws made to prevent them from doing wroi It ts 80 disposed all the more strongly in view of the fact that there s not adow of a doubt that those laws are just and whole- some. This i the point which now demands at- tention, and more especially the attention of the railroad people, and it is the point which Mr. Hill found it convenient to overe look in his address before the Manufactur< ers’ association. READ AND LOOK PLEASANT, Brooklyn Life: Mrs, don’t mean to say that about the education of Mrs. Catterson—No. children. .Ehliadelphta Record: “Yen” aald Cholly, I've got very extravagant ideas: “I wouldn't worry over it remarked Cynicus. *You can't have many of them.” Hatterson—You {ou have no theories {ldren? 1 have too many Los Angeles Times: ‘“Just as the dog grabbed me by the ankle the old man came oy "Vhat aid he dor *“Took the bark oft my shins.* Washington Star: “8o you have made Yes," answered the defeated general of thrifty nation ‘What were “Terms, cash,” was the laconic answer. Detrolt Freo Press: “Cast off by his father, he became a landscape J-!mcr ‘'Why did he choose ihat work ‘He | wanted green.” Puck: Colonel Dobbs—Dear me! How time goes by! [ don't know any of these young people getting married nowadays. Major Hobbs—I'm worse off than that— I don't know any of these older people who are getting divorced. Philadelphia Press: Colonel Vinders, l ly, ‘yaur reporter {)rwmlnd to print sald at the banquet last nlrhl replied the editor. "“'rll. e printed only a few lines, al- lhnu.h my speech was quite a lfml’ effort.” “'¥es, but you didn't say much SOMETHING TO FORGIVE. o terms?’ to continue drawing the “Sep here,” said 8. W. Gillilan in Los Angeles Herald "S;xrh l.r&ant triendship s mis- taken; If you knew-— There! Close your lips and listen: When the sky is clear and blue, When sun and birds and dewdro make Vig world glad and bright, Would ‘all 'be hait ‘so preclous’ had there been no clouds or night? Would flowers seem 80 beautiful 1f sent trom heaven above— Does not thelr earthly origin add sympathy to love: So friendahips must be human If on earth They'd thrive and Hve— For what does friendship feed on when there's nothing to forgive? How could my heart be mentle to'ard a heart that knew no p Could friendship go on living if its prof- fered help were vain? Could I, were I not certain you were only tender, ‘human, feel The 'Lander elon that words {0 you reve sweet comy Oh say not, “If you only Xnew-'' Father knows T know He loft His blessed imprees on each human soul; and so My loved one muyst be human while upon For ‘Sarehly Tlove grows stronger whon rt ve whe! O (here's somethink o forgtve my the USE ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, 1o S 0 Ne chaken faio the Ghore Youw ek nervous and hot, eEd But for six weeks before his departure i be doubled his prices and at the rate of $10 & sitting he was occupled all day. He was the only person ever able to do that. The demand for the supernatural may be brisk, but the article must ke | DRESSES,