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Some consoling hope of good administration during the next two year might remain to us if there were a particle of emnnil fop the belief that GEOHOB B. McClellan, inspired by his great oppor-tunlty, might harden his heart and stiff en his backbone against the vulgar, corrupt, criminal mob that put him in nom ination and with Democratic assistance has borne him to the Mayor's chair. If that belief might have been entertained at the beginning of the campaign Mr. McClellan has completely destroyed it by his utterance and his attitude, which create the expectation that he will be as niiant as Sullivan could demand or Croker require. It -ts a Tammany tri umph that confronts us, softened by no mitigations.

Tsra Times is by no means accustomed to take gloomy views po litical events, but the figures of yesterday's voting seem to us to shut but every ray of light. "We have slid back into the black slime and ooze of the. Van 'Wyck administration. "With an this deluge of talk' about honest government, reform. clean administration, and morality, with the actual realization of these whole some aspirations under Mayor Low, we have not advanced one inch since 18U7.

The electorate of the city deliberately, with careful preparation, forethought, and full knowledge of what itajlecision has extended an Invitation to every Vrook and criminal, to alk dive- keepers, gamblers, and blackguards the world over to converge upon New York and ply their vocations. The red light and the wide open" sign are displayed. In the sight of mankind. 1 To Edward M. Shepard the great pin- rality for McClellan must be the cause of bitter reflections.

Him, the Democrat of recognized ability, of clean and of pure, strong, and independent charac ter, the voters would not have. McClel- un, untried, weak, mediocre, and sub' servient, they eagerly and with an enormous vote put into the office of Mayor. The significance of the thing is blazlngly distinct. McClellan's weakness was his strength, his pliancy the commanding quality that brought him confidence rnd support In overwhelming measure. For they had very little use.

Mo Cxellan Is the very man they want. It is not at all the worst aspect of this triumph of Tammany that it insures for ms two years of lxt and corruption such as we saw under the Van Wyck admin titration. There is a deeper discourage ment than The "defeat of Mayor and his associates upon the Fusion ticket goes far to prove that with. the present of Its electorate New York City is not altogether fit for i government. Popular suffrage itself is Impeached by this appalling choice delib i erately made by something like 600,000 voters.

Dr. Rainstord was wrong. The I majority of -the voters of New York are not both honest and intelligent. There Is a vast horde of them who are openly in sympathy with vice and law-breaking. who actually desire the re-establlshm3nt I of the police system in order that the laws may again be' suspended and the I profits of vile and unwholesome callings may again be brought within their reach.

There is another huge multitude I of voters not in sympathy with criminals, not consciously immoral or dishonest, In I Whom shortness of memory and dullness I of mind have served to blind them to the demoralizing consequences of a vote for i the Tammany candidates. Two years more of the Tammany abominations we can stand. We can rise superior even to the discouragement of such a dreadful backsliding. It is a more serious and 1 enduring, calamity when faith in human nature itself is shaken, as unquestlon-i ably it has been shaken by the election figures spread before the people of the 1 city and the whole country this morning. It will be Immensely more difficult to organize effectively for the next fight 1 egainst, Tammany.

The German voter whs puts his dear privilege of guzzling beer all day Sunday above every consideration of politics, principle, and morality, probably counted for mach In this result The disloyalty of Republican district leaders, election I district Captains, and other understrap pers may have made a difference of some thousands of The full valuation policy of tax assessments foisted upon the reform administration by Grout undoubtedly cost the Fusion cause the support of many men of property who found their taxes greater than under the oM system of assessment. The silly and stupid feeling of dislike of Mayor Low because he Is not "mag-j netic," to whictt Mr, JTcrqms) gave such vociferous expression, counted for some- thing. But beyond all doubt the big con-t trolling factor aas the revival of party feeling among Democrats. It. Is only hole Democratic Democratic candi dates that such plurality as that ot Mr.

McClellan recorded- The partisan appeal iru effective, after all. Empty and insincere as it was. it caught the ear of Democrats, and they heeded it. They forgot. the police corruption, they forgot the red light, they put out -of mind all the vileness, the vulgarity, the Inefficiency, the waste, and the predatory practices of Tammany under Vak Wtck.

and stolidly put their mark under the star on the ballot because they believed that It was for the Interest of their party that this city should go Democratic In Kings County it Is evident that Ytry little Democratic support was given to the Fusion candidates. In the Borough of Manhattan there were of course many independent Democrats who voted for Mr. Low. But the great mass of the party supported Tammany. IJf THE DEMOCRATIC C0LTJMX The returns of the city election will be disquieting news for President Roosevelt, He has been more apprehenoive about the State of New York than about any other State entering Into his polit ical calculations for next year.

He must now see, and the Republican leaders must see, that the election ot Mr. McOuBTXaN by such an imposing plurality at once transfers New York to the Democratic column in all trial estimates of the Pres-idential vote in 1004. Since the administration of Gov. Buack the State has exhibited a marked tendency to return Democratic majorities. save in the year 1900, when the business of disposing of Mr.

Brtan became a paramount Mr. Roosevelt narrowly escaped defeat in 1893, and Mr. Odell would have been defeated last year but for Democratic wrangling and disaffection in three counties up the State. Next year in all probability New. York will elect a Democratic Governor and Demo cratic Presidential Electors.

it will be through the offensive badness of Mr. McClellan's administration as Mayor. That, we think, is their only hope. It is not exactly a slender one, since there Is a manifest probability that Tammany will not be diffident in resum ing its favorite pursuits, and that Mr. McCleulan will not unreasonably obstruct that resumption.

But even then prudent forecasters will cease to claim New York as a Republican State. It can, at most, be claimed only as doubtful with visible Democratic probabilities. It had not been our belief that the partisan ap peal of Tammany would get this response. It has got it, and the omen Is one which the Republicans 'will scarcely Ignore. THE CANALS SAVED.

The voters of the State have decreed that the barge canal -shall be The attorneys, the emis saries, and the touts of the railroads failed to Ipersuaae them 'that "the canals should be abandoned. They will be sa ved. deepened, improved, and the Erie Canal will become a great waterway of commerce. i "The loss of the city to Tammany is a misfortune of perhaps not more than two years' duration. The failure to carry the canal Improvement would have been an enduring and irreparable calamity.

The returns make.it plain that the Republican organization exerted itself strenu ously to secure an adverse vote. Its platform declarations of last year were a lie. Gov. Odell's profession of interest In the project was flagrantly insincere. The Republican counties for the most part went heavily against the expenditure, and Tioga, Mr.

Platt's own county, returned a magnificent majority on the railroad side. Erie County and the counties which make up New York City saved the canals. PATTrS RETURN. In our critical columns Justice, tempered with all the mercy of which the case has already been done to the melancholy reappearance of Adelina Patti in the city in which she made her famous first appearance a generation and a half ago. It stands to reason that she can no longer sing, that her vocal efforts would not be acceptable as those of a debutante, much less as those of the acknowledged "Queen of Song "which she so long was.

Ten years, nay, twenty years ago, Patti's farewells were already a joke. They have long been past a Joke. Now her reappearance at an age which ber very tame renders it Impossible to forget. Is simply an appeal of the crudest kind to mere curiosity, to the curiosity, on the one hand, of the aged who heard her In her glorious prime, and who vainly seek to recall the past in the present, and to the youthful who desire to know what it was over which their parents and their grandparents raved, and whose curiosity' the facts change to bewilderment. It is really a public offense that the venerable songstress has committed, an offense against her fame, an offense 1 against her art.

An occasional appearance of an antiquated artist, in behalf of charity, might be not only pardoned but welcomed. Such an appearance might be made, out of good nature, by. an artist who respected her art. Such appearances have been made by many once great singers, who used the publio curiosity about them for public causes but not for their own private profit, in circumstances in which they could not pretend to render an artistic equivalent for the money they drew." Nothing but dire need could excuse an artist for making merchandise of the public interest in a reputation no longer deserved. That can hardlr be the.

case with a aineer whose gains have been so fabulously great, greater, doubtless, than those of any other slurir that ever lived. To bt i in need bow of give her. Mme have been very what a concert tour can Patti's resources must Ill-husbanded Indeed, tut we do not understand that to be the case, and at any rata it is not put forward as an excuse for formance upon khe very Inartistic per- which we are-corament- lng. true friends and most judicious admirers of the once great singer would rather pay thel money to. save ber from a public reappc trance than to encourage her to make on s.

Men are we, observes the poet, and rr ust grieve when even the which once was great has passed aw afar. We should have more reason to grievfe when It refuses to pass away, and we pave to listen to a once thrilling voice vlved. which its owner has sur- THS OF REMOVAL. The Mayor's power of removal under the present charter (1901) is very sweep- Irg. It is thus! defined in Section 05: The Mayor may, whenever in his Judg ment the public! interests shall so require, remove from of fee any public officer hold' ing office by appointment from a Mayor of the City of N4w York members- of ih Board of Education are excepted, and trus tees ot Bellevui and allied hospitals.

public officer saall hold his office for any specific term exrept as in this act is other wise expressly provided. The chief exception referred to in the ha the Commissioner of Police. His term is made five years, but he may be removed either by the Mayor or by the Governor whenever in the Judg' ment of either ot them the public Inter- est so require In case of removal, the be appointed by the successor mu Mayor within 1 en days, and the successor may also be re noved at discretion by the Mayor or the It will be seen that the removkl and appointment ot the Police Commissioner, like that of any other Commissioner, is practically in the hands of the Mayor, subject, in this one case, to the pfwer of the Governor a1 so to remove. The officers! whom the Mayor may. therefore, Immediately on taking office are as aollowsr City Chamberlain Commissioner Greens, Health Commissioner Lederle.

Corpora- tlon Counsel IUves, Fire Commissioner Stusgis, Park Commissioners Wilmwx, Youwo, and Epsns, President of the De partment of (Taxes and Assessments Wells, Commissioner ot Charities Folks. Commissioner Commissioner lof Correction Hatnes, and of Docks Hawkes. We need not say hat we think Mr. McClbl-lan will find exceedingly hard to find a dozen men equal character and ability to repla these gentlemen from among those (vhom bis political associates will acce His responsibility will be very great, and it is well that it is so. Whatever the result, it is to him that the credit or ie.

blame will belong. A TREASURY The fact thtt the Treasury balance on the first of November was some 11.000,- 000 smaller than It, was on the first of October constitutes technically what is known as a "(deficit. But as the avail able caah bamnce in the Treasury, over and" above thj amount set apart as a gold reserve, is still about (229.000,000, It is obvious that I the country has little to feel concerned about, During the month of October the rev enues shranl some (4,500,000, and the expenditures ncreased a little more than that, or by 3,000.000. The latter was due to the pi yment on increased appropriations by the last Congresa and by an unexpected increase in the net ex penditures the Post Office Depart- ment. The dhief falling off In the rev- enues was i customs, and was about equally dlviq ed between the decline in the imports tt sugar, owing to the ap proach of the ratification of the treaty with Cuba, and a decline in the imports of Iron and steel.

The latter must nn doubtedly bej placed to the account of a check to general commercial activity. most of wbick is due to the labor troubles that have impeded building. It is to bfa hoped that this slight reminder of the tact that the resources of the Government are not absolutely without limit may aid the advocates of economy in Congress, and put some check on the reckless extravagance of that body. If this shall be the case, it will go far to compensate for any temporary disadvantage revealed by the Treasury returns. LIBRARIES IAS PUBLIC EDUCATORS.

The information furnished by Mr. Ar thvr E. Boerwicg, Chairman Of the Circulating Department of the New York Publio Library, as to" the character of the literaturfe called for from the libra ries of the irowded east side is ot unusual Interest. From the records of the Chatham Sqbare Branch. In East Broad way, Mr.

-Bostwick was able to announce the fact tha the use of a publio library in that part of the city is for education rather than amusement. His conclusion Is that, unlllj parts of the! the people In the wealthier city, the population of the crowded eaalt side rejects fiction largely and chooses instead solid Information on scientific an 1 other serious subjects. He says; An Intense (thirst for knowledge Is siown by the Hebrews, who make up the tetter part ot. tne I readers nere, and last: year this little library circulated 100.778 vol umes. Sometimes as many as a thousand volumes a wera taken out The circulation of hi tory.

especially th civil and political his ory of the United 8tat st this branch exceeds that at any other branch ot th library except that of the on at Seventh Street and Avenu C. Th books on igllsh literature and philology come next 1 1 the demand. This is oet significant That those whose time for reading is most limited appreciate he Importance of using It to the best ad antage shows that forces are at work which ar molding into good clt- i lsenahlp th elements of our current im I migration ri-om which least has been ex 1 Pctet la way ot a prompt response to educational influences. As the arid lands of the plains respond more quickly to irrigation do these of greater normal fertility, it may very well be that the educational value ot public libraries is greatest for those who hunger and thirst knowledge and have never be fore had the means of getting it. LOITDOJf TO PARIS IS CARS.

4 After half a century of discussion as to the best means of establishing rail way communication between France and England without requiring the passenger to make at least two changes, the Intercontinental Railway Company proposes to solve the problem In what woul3 appear to be a very simple way that ot running the cars on ferryboats and so taking them across the Channel. This will enable the sleeping-car passengers, to be run between London and Paris without change ot cars, which will be a vast improvement upon the present system of changing to the Channel steamer. The car transports will be something over 300 feet long and from SO to 50 feet wide. The movable bridge In the shape ot capacious transports to receive cars is not at all new in this Most of our large rivers have been crossed in this way before being spanned by permanent bridges, and the system has wotke very well, though involving somewhat greater cost than 'the Interest on a bridge. Where bridging is impracticable, as in the case ot the English Channel, the car transport should greatly, promote tht convenience of travel, and the wonder is that it.

was not adopted many years ago. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. Cot Avsten ot Brooklyn was. so much irritated at a public meeting in Brook lyn the other evening by tha miscon duct of some of the audience who remained seated, or covered, or both, during the performance of The Star- Spangled Banner." that he administered to them a well-deserved rebuke. His re buke, however, was more merited than accurate, tor be told them that since pupils in the publio schools were required to rise while the National anthem was playing, those who remained seated showed that they had never been at school.

If he had said that It showed that they had not lately been at school, he would have been justified. But we take leave to question whether, in CoL Acsten's own school days, obligatory rising during the performance ot the tune in ques tion was enforced. In tact, it is only re cently that The Star-Spangled Banner has been officially recognised aa tha Na tional anthem, to the exclusion ot Hall, Columbia," and "God Save the King," whkh last was supposed to refer to. the words of "America." The actual an them leaves something to be desired. mainly slngableneaa.

For it is a melancholy tact that It Is only a very small minority of any publio assemblage at which the chorus is attempted which can either remember' the words or manage the tune. It is, we think, rather CoL Austen's military experience than his scholastic recollections that excited his indigna tion against the persons who disregarded the observance. Now "The tar-Span gled Banner Is. undoubtedly the of ficial" National air, in the sense that it has been adopted, and the manner ot listening to it made matter ot reg. ulation." both in the army and the navy, In the former service It is required that the hearers shall rise, uncover, and re main standing and uncovered, with the hat held against the left breast, until the strains are concluded.

It is a gra clous and patriotic observance, and one would suppose would commend itself to all Americans. Those who are so un- ortunate as to be still Ignorant of the usage deserve commiseration and en lightenment. Those who are aware of it, and. refuse to conform to it, are justly to be regarded as boors. Foreign ers never rau to rtse when their respective national airs are playing.

Until the usage becomes aa universal here as it is abroad, it might not be a bad thing for managers to put on their pro grammes a request to the Ignorant or boorish to do what the great majority ot American audiences how do without the need ot prompting. To Richard Crokir, Wantage. England; Come home. The town is yours. No cablegram in these exact words may have been sent yesterday, but there can be no doubt that more than one ot this import was sent under the sea to the old Tammany chief.

The great city is in fact again In the grasp of Croker, sub ject to the easement of Sullivan. The revenues from a hundred racing stables would be insignificant compared to the gold mine here that awaits the pick and shovel of Croker after Jan. 1, He will not stay away. TOPICS 07 THE TIMES. That Mr.

Gladston Dowis should now be engaged in regaling th English r. porters with bitter denunciations of the American press is in itself a matter of Im portance inflniteslmally minute. The fact however, Is. not without a certain Interest since it illustrates one of the many curious ways by which a wholly Insignificant person can attraot to himself International attention and make It seem worth whil to give his empty scoldings the expensive publicity of cable transmission. That this elderly and bewhiakered youth really wholly Insignificant that his opinions oa any subject whatever esn have no wrlght with anybody except.

his father's least Intelligent dupes, will hardly be denied, sixes the fellow, so far as known, has never had an original thought In his life, and ail his activities have been displayed In tha roles of capper tor -the elder Dowis' games. barker for his shows, and puller-la for his shops. Even in these capacities he has ex hibited no notable ability, and "Elijah chooses other subordinates to do such real work for Zlon as he does not perform himself. And yet the son is eagerly later viewed on his arrival in England, asd not only ar his tirades printed there, but the substance of thm 1 cablol back her, quits as if soma diatlng-uUheJ er ot thought or action were on his-travels! Why? Not because there is anything peculiar about the English papers, or became the editors thertQf have the slightest regard for Mr. Glad stoics Dowis or his opinions, but simply because the accident of birth has set the man close to one of the eensatlons ot the moment.

Not having Dowia himself to stir up and sts into amusingly, becaune futilely, raneoroi volubility, they use the sen, exploit his nity, ar-d, for lack a big sensation, make the best of a little one. It's not a laudable procedure, but there ts no particular harm in it and we, who alternately advertised and baited the charlatan because he was rather coor funajr than detectable, have small excuse for criticising amr cousins. Dovlelsm in ail its phases is after all not what geologist would call an, in trusive formation, but a natural and inevitable product of social materials in their existing combination. Given ignorance and fanaticism and woolly mysticism la certain proportions and yen get Down er Mr Eddt. and for the cause be angry at the effect, or even contemptuous of it, is decidedly unreasonable.

was to be expected, tha comments Ct The London 8arurdav Review oa the Alaska decision make up in vivacity for what they lack in kindness and la Interest for veracity. The evlew assumes that the decision is received hare "with unconcealed glee as a signal diplomatla triumph." as it may well be." Now the fact Is that no measurable traction of the American people took more than the alight- est trouble, while this Alaska controversy was dragging its slow length along the years, to Inform themselves what It was all about, and the vast majority failed to conceal their glee simply because they had no giee -to conoeaL and such emotion as they did feel over the "triumph." was for tha most part aa aesthetic Joy over the loud bubbUng and boiling noises that reached their ears from across tha Cana dlan border. Yet The 8aturday Review pictures us all ss darkly plotting to do our neighbor out of a ewa lamb or per-haps reiiMeerould go better with the Ajaaxaa latitude. Arbitration." tt says. was refused by the States, a commission substituted and on that cocamlsslo were put three men whose decisions, as extracts from their public speeehea prove, were al ready taken.

Throughout the States the 'signal diplomatic victory was already spoken of freely when the 'Senate insisted, as the price of the passing ef the treaty, on the appointment of three prejudiced Judges. Canadian protests against what was openly confessed In the American cress to be a 'Job were totalbr dtererarded irr our Government Of the six members hre were already pledged to the American and the diplomatic situation which American bluff usually aims at was reached: Heads win, tails yon draw and we toss again." The Review holds the conclusion reached to be a "pitiable" outcome of a pretended effort to further the causa of international Justice) and peace. accepts In full the Canadian theory ot Lord Alvxrstokb's baseness, and, after tha somewhat rash admission that ot course the new value ot the Yukon district did not constitute a piece of evidence," ends with the declaration that the new value "at least demanded that the question should be settled by other arbitration methods than a competition In national Chauvin ism, at which all nations will concede the pre-eminence ef the American people and their It apparently did not once occur to The Saturday Review, while tt criticised our Commlsslonera for expressing advance opinions that would have been unbecoming In arbitrators, that tha members ot the board were not arbttra tors at all. but admittedly interested par ties to the controversy who met for the avowed purpose of settling their, differences if they could. According to present report, Ntw Mexico, instead of trying to get promotion to Statehood In company with Alisons, thinks it will be easier tor herself tf she absorb rival aspirant, with the result that one boon Instead ef two will have to be asked.

That is a very pretty scheme for New Mexico. Arizona, however, regards it with high disapproval, and our sym pathies are all with Arizona, not because the idea of seeing her a State gives ua any fervid joy. but because tha proposed absorption would obliterate from th map of the United States a nam fas every way satisfactory and perpetuate there one that possesses no single merit "Arizona" is a delight to eye and ear alike, while New Mexico has every fault a name can com bine without becoming absolutely repulsive. It long since ceased to be true in meaning. and it will be more and more false with every year that passe will.

that la, tf there is any accuracy at all in the claims and prophecies ot th New Mexican a It would be fad better for Arizona to do the absorbing, or. If not that to da the naming, That done, the quarrel would loe all inter est for outsiders, except' that oa general principles the outsiders would prefer to have these Territories come in as one 8 tat instead ot two, there being a full suf ficiency of their kind in the Union already. But do- let th one Bute ba Arizona and not New Mexico! In this latest battle with th In dians the losses were so nearly all oa on side that on cannot easily believe it to have been much of a tight To call It a mas sacre would doubtless be going too far, but apparently the red men had grievances that appealed to th distinguished graduat ot Carlisle, who was on ef their leaders In the hopeless struggle, and possible enough the grievances would net hav seemed quit empty to men net red. It seems a pity to spend a lot of money la training Indiana, only later to have them killed, and the amount ot th pity is not much affected by the question whether the killing was tavited or not THE ISTHMIAN CANAL DELAY To the Ztitor TU yeas Tors Slews Private advices Just at hand show that stat et perplexing uncertainty exists throughout Colombia with reference to the cessation ot canal negotiations with the United States. With the adjournment of the Colombian Congress last week the pos sibility ot favorable action en tha ifay-Herran was formally terminated, although President Marroquln known to be honest and progressive Is said tw be anxious see th Panama Canal completed by the United States.

ts explained that be did all in his power to cause favorable action by th Colombian Senate, and that he Is taking steps to have, pr. Herran arrange a new convention with Secretary Hay that might acceptable, to the Co lombian people. Reliable Information from unbiased sources pictures a situation, la Colombia bordering, on consternation. Charge are hurled back and forth between Individuals and groups ef statesmen carrying respon siblUty tor the refusal to accept tha $10.. 000.000 offered by the United States qv- eminent But the real explanation of tht failure to get a vota, I assume from my acquaintance with the country, ts that th Liberal would not assist the dominant Conservative party by vetlng for a treaty that would place a large sum la the bands of an oligarchy Striving constantly to keep the Liberals out of power.

The Conservative rganisatlon is a rabid Church party, whil th Liberal may described as anti-Church. In th sense that the Stat should not gov trned by tht Church, Tht caust ct tht ttxH years' civil war waged with mediaeval crueV ty. and continued until the nation was lm-poverlshed, was th withholding front th anti-Church party ef the right of going to tha polla although the country's constitution (patterned from that ot the United States) provides for popular elections. Intrenched ra office, th Church party employed th army prevent th holding ef national elections' that might brlrg their adversaries to power. Although peace was declared months ago.

the Liberals may have no genuine wish to see financial sinews com to their rivals. Hence th Hay-Ilerran convention expired by limitation, and the Colombians are nearly derperat la their poverty, while each week brings rumblings ef discontent oa th isthmus that may lead to an attempt by the ProTtnc of Panama to secede from th Confederation and Itself negotiate with Washington. It Is a regrettable fact that a high stand ard of honor ts not looked for In Colombian politics, with some notable exceptions, and cupidity enters Into th makeup of a majority of Colombia's legislators, big and UU tie. The averag statesman In our Bouth American neighbor is a grafter on a broad gauge. Consequently many Colom blans perceived the disproportion, between the SeO.OOaooo offered by Unci 6am to the French Canal Company for work performed and franchises, and the proposed compen sation to th Bogota Government for th transference to us ot the right to compute and operaU the canal.

There no question that some of those at the Colombian capital thought it sagacious to inquire what would happen It th French Compasy was forced into, having its concession with Colombia lap, six year bene. Wey could aot Colombia, then claim trader forfeiture everything done on th Isthmus by French capital, and negotiate afresh with th United States with the crosnect of a-ettina th full tOOu- OuO.OOOT thee schemer afked. NO latellLeent naraon in Colombia Believes the United State will connect th oceans at any point other than at Panama, for th nest engineers In the world have said tnat th Kicaraguan route is no rival to Panama Whv no niir. EMtf-S rmiDAM and frighten it into giving up at leant half or ine sum to oe paid ny tne cnuea EtlteaT has been a frequent Inquiry In political circle at Bogota, praumably. In any event, it Is known at Parle and la Washington that precisely this has been, unofficially, proposed.

it is aot complimentary to tne unngni- ness of the American people for -Colombians to assume that our Government would view allently a deal with tha French Company, bearing any eupgwrtion of a noll-UD. Tha modi, of PrinM ar too closely allied bv ties of frlendiihlo with the Americans for them to fear any sharp practice from the Colombian that mlrht be carried Into afact with our knowledge, and tne countrymen of Lafayette and Kocnam-beau will never be permitted to suffer through any technicality imposed upon tnem bv Colombia in a nea-atiation to which th Government of the United Slat Is a party. When this ts learned bv the Colombians, ber officials should be willing to reope negotiations upon a basis of equity nn nonesiy. It may not be an extravagance for us to increase th payment to Colombia for a concession that will atop short of alienation ef territory: but at th earliest opportunity th South Americana ahould informed that tber must be no secret squees th French, and no diplomacy m4oyed in lutur negotiations that is not open sna Just It ts not a piece of dating to predict that before another year passe Colombian mlsaarie will iwtrm In Washington with proposal to speedily reopen the subject voiomDias need ror caan la more urgent tha our need ef the eanaL With her ne- ceaaitle accentuated in many ways, a rear's delay will to ber an eternity: while to us, planning a great and permanent work, aa added year la Immaterial. mapired aanounoament made periodically that If th United State doe not coneiud terms advantageous to Colombia.

that country will complete th canal oa borrowed money, or Indue European capitalists to do so. Is nonsensical. With the American Government certain to construct a canal, no Intelligent Individual would haaard a penny in a rival enterprise, nor lend funds to Colombia for such purpose st any rate of Interest It has bn aatd that Kenor Arclnlegas. finding no disposition In tale country to ad ranee the Colombian Government 125.000000 for its Immediate needs, will go to Europe and negotiste a loan bv nledrine hl country's Brrxroectlv benefit In tha Panama CanaL Thia talk inivm no one. FREDERIC COUR TL AND ENFIELD.

rw fork. HOT. 2. TESTING SUBWAY ROCK LASTING. AFTER 0 gdU Tss Sew Ter Timett On of th questions asked by th Civil Bcrvto Commission of the candidate tha position of assistant engineer on the rapid transit subway was this: "After a blasting, bow.

would you detect th stability ef th rock In th roof ef th tunnel Being Interested In tunnel work. wrote a letter to the Civil Service Commission asking for th correct answer to such a question, sine I did not believe th method used ra th New York subway was at all reliable. This method consists In pounding the rock with an Iron rod. and If It gives a clear, ringing sound the root ts considered safe. This method, which has already mad so many victims, was severe ly criticised in my description of th New York sabway.

which was published in London Engineering, March, 1902. Th answer that I received from tha Civil Serrlc Commission was written on a postal card by a gentleman In Elisabeth port N. J-, In which he advised me to discuss the matter with Mr. George 8. Rtc.

Deputy Chief Engineer ot the New York Rapid Transit Commission, adding that he Mr. Rloe) kaows more than anybody else about tunnel work. As It was Mr. Rice who directed all th rapid transit work. It was clearly useless to discuss th matter with htm.

and so I did not call on Mr. Rlcd for information or discussion. At the last meeting cf the Rapid Transit Commission I noticed that Mr. W. Barclay Parsons, in submitting a report about the subway accident which resulted In the less oi eleven uves.

aamitted explicitly the un- roiwuio vi uui nitinoa, in I act. i reaa in your columns uat he concluded that It WSS th unusual Sis Of tha maaa of rock that prevented th foreman from discovering the seams when he proceeded to make th customary examination, and also to mak the sounding which had sufficed In other cases not, however, in them Many accidents that occurred th sub. way would hav beer avoided If scientific inncipies naa oeen aanerea to, both In he excavation of th tunnel and In th means et detecting seams In th rock, especially In regard to th stability of th root. And although Mr. Rice declared that such an accident could not be foreseen.

I believe, on the contrary, that with a little patlenc and car It could have been certainly avoid- a. cxprnrnc is a goou teaoner. II th engineers In charg had examined the cause of th accident tt One IIundrl an Sixty-fourth Street In the month of October, 1901, and in consequenc adopted other means tor aeiecting tne presence of loos or seamy rock on the roof, a repetition of the accident on th very same tunnel, gnd ror jubi in aaro cause, would nave been voiueu wiia cenawiy. w. PREI4NL New York.

Oct 8L 19u3. CONGRESSMAN J. A. C0ULDEN. I As tiltor of TU Jfrm Tor Tim: Your leading article of to-day headed "Tammany la Congress" does great though no doubt, unintentional Injustice to one at Igt of the Democrats who represent this city In th National Legislature.

I refer to Congressman Joseph A. Goulden of th Eighteenth District Cot Goulden has -resided In the Bronx sine 1889, and Is on of th most popular and Influential men a th north side. He was a School Commlsisoner and Trustee for several years, and the splendid condi tion et the schools in the Bronx is large) due to his well directed and lntriseiit el forta He organised the Tax Payers' Al liance, with Its thirty affiliated property owners' associations, and he ts a charter member of the North Hoard of Trade, Although Identified with Tammany Hall, he has always been sn Independent, oni supported the Low ticket In loi. la the election a year age Mr. Goulden carried every on of the 113 election district In th Eighteenth Congressional Dlstrl, and be had a majority of close on 14.000, his supporters Including not only the member ct his wn party, but th labor unioa and hundreds of Ilspublicans.

II wall deserves the universal esteem In which he is held on the ponh '-io, for be a man of tinaullied character and a bisk rtfer of ability. v- ANT1-TAMMANT. York. October loa. A WiDQW'3 POINT OF VIEW.

fas Eilh retTUVtw Tor Time: It is good that the water 1 qu-aH out Thus speaks Andrew Carr.egto. maa of minic-a, not accumulated by his wn exertions, but by th labor of many giving life and energy to fUl hid coffers. Here is the story ef what squeermg the waitr cut" did for one woman. I bought for an Investment twenty shares of United States Steel comroan at 504 who floated thia stock wr honors tie. Th money It took to bwy that atx-k wma the aavlnrs of twalr yra ot hard labor among the poor, eoprvorung tare child --a at th eme time, children who ar as dear to me, perhaps dearer, than Andrew Cfune-r one.

bacans now they are ail I hare. Thoa twenty shares ar to-day worth IS per ahare, and the dividend eut in two; and thw rrpreaent twelve yar of savin. It good that th water K. nryorNov. 1M1 Xg VtCIQC i'.

HAZinq AT ANNAPQL18. E4Ur cf TU yew Tors TUttt: Being an old subscriber. I bar followed th trend ot your valued paper for many years, sad have admired the determination with which you have exposed existing evils until sufficient public spirit had ba roused toward their extermination. May ask why th subject th reeeat basing at Annapoh has suddenly ba huaad vpt Are the fathers and mothers of this country not yet fully awake to the fact that what th poor boys have suffered there and at West Point aad at ether schools and collega may and will turn reach their ewa offspring tmleaa sufficient criticism ha been evoked to stop tula remnant of barbarism rear cur children at the cost of our own health and substance. AI'Mt we, then, when they enter ur ducURal Institution, submit then to in cruel treatment ot a handful of raw.

Ignorant and vicious youngsters, wha fw ture thrm phr-ically and mentally, and malm some of them for met It ts evident that our eehoobi iim cot yet established sufficient protection to the children whom we Intrust to their car. If they hav laws they hav not adequate: means for enforcing them. Prefeots Iramatur years are not proof against in-Judicious use of their power, aa plainly manifested at the recant discovert at Annapolis. have right to publicly demand palpable guarantees that our boys will be protected and guarded at an ag wb they themselves cannot. dr not announce their tormentors.

Tbs ar not boyish Pranks that hara hra rrtnr about but criminal proceed, and I caa pon overy inner a no mother who reads this to unite their voices with mine la daiiy protest until th autnoritl our choohi and oolloge have take that stand whir aloo will firm our children Immunity from to crveiuos to which they are pofced. M0TILE8. fiar Harbor. Oct 50. 1808.

Now It's an Apple Problem. Te tU liiUtr of 1U JTrm Tors Timm: As th "egg proposttloa" has already met with a similar tat to that ef Mary and Ann." kindly permit ms to nubmtt tha following to your reader while they ar still smacking their Hps with saUafacUoa over their latest victim. A farmer had a certain somber of trplcs and marketed the entire quantity at thr Place. At the first eUre sold half ef th number, plu half of aa apple. Te hi second customer be sold ne-half th numbr remaining, plus half ot aa sptu.

and at th third place be aold, aa bf-for. on-half of th number the rsaaint. plus naif of an apple. Flow many arr-W bwu nw mnaiBauyr New York. Oct Ss, 1303, NOT PREACHED BY OfU BROOKS.

ro tutor cf TU JTcw Tort nM. la the Issue of Oct tl, Quarto aX criticise a sermon supposed ta hav bca preached by ma in St Mark's Church en Sunday. Oct S3, on "The Selling of Votes." article is correct "with th following exceptions: hav visited no political meeting during tha year," prsached such sermon, was not In th city on the Sabbath In question, having spent th entire day in Annsnolis, never heard ef the vtrmon until I read it on Tuesday following in on ef th Baltimore pper A young man excellent qualities ocro pled my pulpit and gave utUrano to th unfortunate remarks. His aim was rig at, but th gun being ovrioe4ed. kicked, and he shot beyond the mark.

Rest he wLi not do so any more. W. H. BROOKS. Pastor 6L Mark M.

ChuTCO. New York, ov, LsJi. tr (The report of the sermon was furnished by th New York City News AsaocUUoa.) Richard L. Newman's Dtaclilmer. To As gtfUor ef re Vtm Tort Ttmtot Having noticed rn your paper ef Nov.

2 that a Mr. Newman was elected dummy President ot the United Bute Shipbuilding Trust In June, 1902. and knowing ot no ther Newman a shlpbuuder. I b(r to stat th Newman referred to ts not Richard I Newman, late General Mariager of th Glob Iron Works.71 and General Superintendent of the New York Shipbuilding Company. Camden, and at present consulting engineer and naval architect In New York, he In no way having been connected with lhe trust iV NEWMAN-New York Nov.

a. 1903. NUGGETS. Her "What ar your chief objects In life? Well, to manage mv own affair let other people manage theirs." Detrou Free Press. Smieus What la the best war ta woman's love? Cynlcus weiL you can't ke It UciaaS too return It.

Philadelphia Record. An Author Explains. Mr. Marigold How do you hanoen to be so much brighter than other people, Mr. Author? Mr.

Author VOU-ar-vo clams ot my books make eas City Journal, a th mu ms smart Tha Visitor, Vfr. Brown Is cutslde. aald tha now Office boy. "Shall I show him in?" Not on your life." exclaimed the Junior partner. I owe hun IIO.

mow r.ira in. aa in senior member of th firm. He owes ma l-i." SB Chicago New. China Shop Expectations. -Superintendent a re likely to bar a brisk sal ef china war this year, Mr Tiler." Floorwalker What makes von o.irh thatt Superintendent I See It stated that flowing sleevts are coming int uvou rapsciiyi.

THE HOUSEWIFE. Jack Is Oacmawtl Thmas Piu When Mrs. arbor nail the girt she had Was -simpiy uuu you i felt ma 1 1 m. noi a s.uvw uw rons iwu lasL for aha Got her from me and that's what makes the earn right to the kitchen door, ail rili She'd give ber more than I did! Then she fed Mt taffy. tha mU Told rn her cousin.

Sick lr was daad! Of roars I let ber go, but I called on Mr. Neycvrtr en my way town, and who should iaine lo But my old Delia. It was Uk a playj So blushed and stammered that bo one waa there. i But I Jut went rlrst In. and took a chair I wi.h th cook." stU and Her look of shame a ilk a ocg, icy ur She cam, ot course, aad wssnot so ion before we'd struck a bTi good anJ strong.

And aha is coming ta min kzt hour-Would any other woman sis roof ther ah Is at Uf aad with her Now, I rnust greet fcer frlv, I BTjnrMs. he 11 bo gisd su ne I'd line to see That hateful Narbor toman tt aavwsj.