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KEW TORK, TRIDAT. NOV. 8. 190. ELECTED BY TAKUANT.

Judge Gatkor polled tfte Tammany ote, end nothing but the Tammany Tote. That Independent personal popularity ot the Mayoralty candidate upon which Mr. Mcrfkt relied to pull through the rest of the Tammany' ticket counted for nothing In the campaign, it -Attracted no votes -from outside the Tammany ranks. Mr. Gatico -was elected by Tammany, Just as be wras nominated by Tammany.

The figures tsU the story. This is the rote cast la the 'whole -city for the Tammany candidates for Mayor, Controller, and President of the Board of Aldermen: Gatnor aiooBB 230,138 Galvi 11 la the subjoined table the vote east ir Jlr. Gatkor can be compared with that cast for the other Tammany nominees end with, that "for the. regular Democratic nominees In the other 1or-oughs: MANHATTAN AND BRONX Mayor 134.473 SIoobe. 238,481 Galvik.

Pres. Board 130,420 C-BcuavAV, Sheriff. 132,081 TRogscs, City 134,654 Bckxeicer. County 136,252 GoLDWATia, 135,483 Pendleton, Supreme Court Judge. 136,782 BROOKLYN.

Gatnor. Mayor Moord, yZ. Gai.vij, Pres. Board QUINN, Bherlff Moixot, County Clerk Lcndt, JtooNET. KAFrra.

Supreme Court 91.556 SS.678 00,914 87.493 89,106 89.038 0.132 89,609 QUEENi OaTNoa 17.570 Moons 17,694 CALVI.v 17,916 RICHMOND. Gatnor 7,074 Moo as 7.2S5 OALVLf 7,291 So far as -any personal popularity or Individual vote-getting power Is concerned. It Is evident that any candidate would have done Just as well as Judge Gatnor. The name at the head of the ticket might as well have been Montezuma Gasbwller. Indeed, Roebch, with bis Lexow Investigation record, with his peculiar specialty In law practice, XIokscu.

at whom all the anti-Tammany batteries were directed, polled more votes than Gatnor In Manhattan. He got and Christie Scllivan had 132.081, against 134,473 for the Judge. McCooet, the candidate for President; of Brooklyn Borough, ran ahead of the Judge with 93,133. Judge Gatkor has labored -with it-flag sing seal and Industry on the bench and off the bench for fifteen years to build up a solid and enduring personal popularity for use In politics. Mcrpbt had taken note of his and undoubtedly believed them to have been sucoessf uL his calculation the Gay-nor -vote, added to the Tammany vote, made up a total sufficient to elect by a large majority over any possible Fusion candidate.

lift had not reckoned with Mr. Hearst, or, rather, he counted upon the support of Mr. Hearst and Sir." Hearst's -following. Tie reasoned that Mr. Hearst's supporters would naturally and with enthusiasm rally to the support of Judge -Gatnor.

"When1 Mr. Hearst took the field himself, calculation went to Nothing was left to Gatkor hut the irreducible minimum of the Tammany vote. Just what any ether, candidate would have received. It was disastrous to Ml-rfut, and must have been a pretty bitter disappointment to the Judge himself. HELP F02 SENAT0S AtDEICH.

Kent Saturday Senator Aldrich starts on his tour for the winning of the West- to currency reform. Current events lend him much assistance. The authoritative circular of the leading bank In the United States declares this week that banks are meeting: with much difficulty in keeping their circulation out. owing to the redundancy existing." Nevertheless, banknote circulation Increased last week The circulation was redundant, but It was Increased, and the Increase was paltry In necessitous money market. If the facts do not help the Senator's argument, his hearers must be beyond conviction.

Jet there is worse. If the examination be continued. In October It Is 'well known that the money market was disturbed, as It usually is at the harvest, season, for purely legitimate causes. Tct the banknote circulation could tie enlarged only 1,113,237. TSarller in the year money was a drug, yet during the twelvemonth banknotes were ejected vjrn an onwiningr rr.ony market tstil cf CCS.Ci-'G.r, Zl raore than Uxt year, when the volume' was large.

The total cf monetary circulation la the United States on the first of the month was $324,673,037, the largest known. Amid all fluctuations la demand the banknotes persist in coming cut when not wanted, and In net being available when need comes. Senator Aldrich Is fortunate In having his task made easy by the clearing away cf all possibility of defense of the existing system. All he has to do Is to provide an acceptable substitute, and to make It dlffeient from his former attempt, which has not proved itself of any worth under the requirements cf this year. BOSTON'S "KEW PLAN.

The people of Boston are about to put Into, operation plan to govern themselves which Is well described by The Transcript as Ingenious." The experiment will be watched with interest. Any workable plan to rid a municipality of political Interference In its business deserves 'encouragement, and the plan settled upon 'for Boston seems at the outset though It will undoubtedly, cause much -confusion. Candidates for municipal office are "ta be nominated by petition, and any petition eigned by 5,000 voters will be accepted. This may to a troublesome number of nominations for Mayor, City Councilmen, and members of the School Committee. In last Tuesday's election, when this plan of municipal reform was adopted, 74.000 votes were cast.

It would be possible, therefore, to have fourteen er fifteen tickets in the field. Of course, larger measure of Intelligence than this would Imply Is expected In community where such a device to lift the' municipal administration out of politics has been adopted by a majority of 3,000. No voter may legally sign more than one petition. The temptation to sign the first that is offered to him every voter is urged to overcome by the promoters of the plan, "leadership." The Transcript hopes, win come in various ways as the campaign Bevelops." It has already come in at least two ways. There are both Democratic and Republican candidates for the Mayoralty in the field.

If the Illustrious Fitzgerald should be elected under he new plan it would have a severe setback in Its very inception. The politicians, however, ere sure to be as active as ever as long as there Is a 'fighting chance for success, and they will soon be adept In working the new plan to their own advantage. Their own scheme for the reformation of city government was defeated, but they have not lost hope. 'Good Government Association, Its permanent Finance Commission, organisations of business men, and local Improvement societies favored the successful plan, which was. called Plan No.

2 in last Tuesday's election. It provides for an election of municipal officers Jan. 11. reduces the City Council to a single chamber of -nine members, andflxes Feb. .7 as the date of the inauguration of the new City Government Six petitions for the Mayoralty nomination' were in circulation "Wednesday, and the petitions for other offices promise to be numberless.

Boston has emerged from the turmoil of one political campaign to face another which bids fair to be the most complex and bewildering; In its history. Misgivings about the result are only natural, yet -the movement which has taken shape In the new charter was unquestionably sincere, and, thus far, the people who really, want good government have triumphed. The hardest part of their work, however, remains to be done. THKOTTLING SAPID TRANSIT. Public Service Commissioner Wnxcox allows himself to be quoted publicly as saying: It now seems certain that the new Board of Estimate will be friendly to subway development, and that during the next four years the wishes of the win not be throttled in the manner they have been during the last four years.

Mr. Wnjxxx thereby, suggests that the old Board of Estimate throttled subways. Mr. Wnxcox must be aware that in 1907 the city advertised for proposals, and none were received. The failure to bid was the 'cause of the stopping of Trtl work of this sort.

It was because this work stopped that the city's resources were otherwise expend, ed, and that the Board of Estimate came to appear as a stumbling block, when it was really more eagr to build than the Public Service Commission. Considering that the Courts have rehuked the Public Service Commission for hindering traction enterprises to which the Board of Estimate has granted a franchise it 111 becomes the Chairman of the Public Service Commission to impugn the good faith of associate officials. Mr. Wnxcox must be aware that the reasons for, the failure to bid at the last Invitation for contracts were set forth in a public statement published on April 23, 1007. It Is too long to reproduce hert, hut there is nothing In It about obstruction by the Board of Estimate.

The explanation given accords substantially with that given publicly by Mr. Babsett. Mr. Wnxcox's colleague. 'Mr.

Wnxcox might ask Mr. Bassett whether It Is true that the Board of Estimate has obstructed rapid transit for four years. If Mr. Bassett should repeat his public statements he win inform Mr. Wiocox that since the Elsberg law was passed to 1003 not a foot of rapid transit rosd has been contracted for construction an a operation.

In other words. rsr.IS transit bullilcg came to a standsUU because of the -itrlctnpfs of the 'terms 'CiJrr which the roaJs Bhouli fca If his colleague Is right, Mr, canno'; again repeat ths elur upoa a city body which It is not hla function to rebuke, and hlch as matter of fact Li better Judge of Its duties than Chairman Willcox is of the duties of the body over which he presIJes. Mr. "VVnxcox allowed himself the latitude of language above quoted concurrently with the signing of the first contract since the Elsberg law was amended. The amendment Is the cause of the progress, and not the efrect of the election upon the Boardof Estimate.

Nobody has ever questioned the physical capacity of the city to construct subway with public funds. But the wisdom and the result of the fcity assuming todo so has been authoritatively questioned. For example, last Spring the Chamber of Commerce expressed itself thus: It is practically certain that lf ad- dltlonal subway lines could be and were constructed the city, con-. tractors could not be found to lease them for equipment and operation, and the city 'would therefore be compelled to equip and very probably to operate them as municipal enterprises. Tour committee has been advised by substantially all of those with whomthey have conferred, including the officers -of the city, that it 1s not believed that bidders could be obtained under exist- Ing law to lease this routs for equip- ment 'and operation, and that if tbe city should construct it it would find Itself compelled to equip it with power -houses, rolling stock, and all parapher- naJla for and most probably to operate It 'at municipal 'expense; any loss Incurred, however great, 'would have to be covered1 by taxation.

This Is the Toad for the construction of which contracts are now being signed with such congratulation. AVe are none of us prophets, and the result may be more gratifying than anybody expects. Meanwhile, unless prepared to guarantee results, it would become the Chairman of the Public Service Commission to confine his official and publlo declarations to those documents which It is his ttuty to issue. The present 'Board of Estimate has had the very best of support in rejection of the Commission's unasked and unwarranted counsel, and the Board-elect will be even less well disposed toward advice from a source el ready so much the worse for'ita conflicts with Its predecessor." THREE WOMEN COMMISSIONERS. Three women of wealth, personal endowment, and high mental qualification have been appointed by Mayor Mc-Cleixan to be members of tbe Board of Education.

It Is understood that the Mayor appoints them because of the great increase in recent years of the educational standing of such subjects as domestio science and the technical training of girls. like their men- associates, Miss Levevtritt, Mrs. Bobbiv3, and Mrs. Post will be assigned to local school boards as representatives of the general Board, but also to special committees on which they will. give particular attention to the teaching of domestic science, the training of girls for domestic occupations, and the relations of the public school system to the Institutions for the higher education of women." Their selection by the Mayor Is particularly significant five days after the Woman's Suffrage Convention In Carnegie Hall, which resolved: That a deputation wait upon the Mayor to urge the appointment of women to at least three of the nine vacancies to occur In the Board of Education on Jan.

1. 1010. This resolution was passed according to the principle, as expressed: Women are especially qualified by nature and training to render peculiarly efficient service to the community in those departments of our Municipal Government which immediately concern tbe home and children, the aged, the sick, and the poor, and which have to do with the health and cleanliness of the city. Therefore the services of women should be extended, says the platform. In constituting the Board of Education, in the Tenement House Department, and in the departments of Street Cleaning, Health, Charities, and.

Correction. The suffragist jrogramme includes amending theCharter to make mandatory" the appointment of women to certain boards, fixing compensation in the municipal service without reference to sex, and restricting the power to exclude women from civil service examinations. A deputation like that which waited upon the Mayor will urge these changes before the Charter Legislative Committee; moreover, they will ask that at least one-third of the Tioard of Education he women that at least three of the members' of the Board of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals be women." and that measures be taken toward amending the civil service ikw to prevent exclusions on account of sex. These things a body of enlightened. Intelligent, and determined women of this city have set out to do.

So much of thalr programme may. conceivably, be executed without obtaining from the Legislature the passage of "a resolution submitting to popular vote a Constitutional amendment which shall extend the franchise to women. That women may be peculiarly fitted to fill positions in the scheme of municipal housekeeping we are by no means disposed to deny. "We believe that Mlns Levtv-tritt, Mrs. Robeivs, and Mrs.

"Post may make better members cf the Board of Educa tion than the average among their male associates. Ta the housewife's phrase, new brooms sweep cloan, and especially good samples cf their brand. If individual cases mlht prove, a general theory, we should unhedtat- to tUj r-r-t cf the sif- fras'its programme. Foreign titles cf nobility d.iri'.e the untitled citizens of this country. Few.

of them are worth much, even when they are authentic Cornte and Vlcomte, for Instance, signify very little in France to-day. "When we recall the array cf discharged valets, ho-ttil servants, and common adventurers vho have Jooled 'the susceptible and credulous people cf the United States, often in the very heart of great cities, where the presses are sending forth hourly news of the harpcnlnjs the world over, where the means of Information are always close at hand, it is to reflect anew that few cf us are eapable of profiting by the experiences of others. Probably most of the acquaintances of a young American woman who be-troths herself offhand to some hlther-to' trr.known foreign nobleman remember the old familiar Uiles of imposture and are inclined to doubt the genuineness Of the title. Their doubts. If they express them In are sure to be set down' to envy or Ignorance.

Everybody ought to know by this time that in France especially there are so few hereditary titles left to which even Impoverished estates are attached that a genuine UTrcnch nobleman seeking to recuperate hls fortunes in marriage would be cordially received here In whatiS' called "society, and would scarcely be' compelled to carry his hunt beyond its somewhat narrow confines. Some 'of the most distressed human creatures In the world, who have had genuine and Incontestable titles, have found 'American wives with dowries or millions In the most exclusive If not the most Intelligent American circles. The or Comte hunting In the by-ways is almost certain 'to be proved an Impostor, though his character as a whole may be quite as good as that of many a real man of title, The foreign nobility has been honoring us greatly of late. Titled persons at whom an experienced French cook would hy hive been dined and feted and welcomed at week-end parties. Whether or not their titles are bogus does not matter so much after all, as whether or not they are worth knowing and entertaining.

A man of title may be a man of parts," learned, variously gifted, and Interesting. If he is merely a Isry hanger-on he ought to have no more standing a democratic country than an untitled drone. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. In looking over any of the more extensive tabulations of, election returns a. curious, and striking fceculiarltv elwe-re -'Mysteries of the 'Elections.

seen is the difference between Mie vote received by candidates on the same ticket- Personal antagonisms and preferences fn- Variablv conflict with an nmrmm. tW so-called obligations Of party loyalty and discipline, and for one reason er other eadr man runs behind or ahead of non-existent average known as "the ticket." In. the case ef the mare oromlnent can. dldates the reasons publicly known. dui even trie most omicure aspirants for office are the victims or the beneficiaries of discriminations the basis of which it would be difficult or impogible to find out.

The mystery Is -perhaps deepest in the case of Presidential Electors, those vestigial organs In the body politic, long since become utterly useless. Why anybody should want that office is hard to It is still harcer to see why anybody should object to anybody's getting It. and yet no two Electors ever get precisely the same vote. In splta, however, of this abundant evidence that the cutting and scratching of ballots is habitual with many and frequent with more, there exists a somewhat widespread reluctance to attempt anything more than the voting of a "straight ticket" The modern ballot, unless, as In Maryland this year. Intentionally made complex and confusing for the purpose of disfranchising one or another class of voters feared or hated by those who arrange It, is one that can as -easily be voted "split" as "straight" by anybody who will devote a few moments time to learning the almple rules that govern the matter.

But heard Of this or that more or leas eminent Demon gone astray In trying to divide his vote Detween tne candidates of different parties, and when they bSDDen to be nnnm particularly cautious or more interested in me success or their pitrty as a whole than in that of any individual eanAM.t they reluctantly, content themselves rlth tne one crow la the one circle which so pleases the professional oolitic. made by others. These timorous persons should remember that a ballot marked with hnnMt in tention rarely invalidated t. comes to the reviewing boards, strong as Kay be the inclination of F.wti t- erectors to throw It wit, and that In these aays to vcte tUe whole of any ticket is rarely a sign of anything else than reprehensible elvto indlfferentism. As between the "Mother Church" of Christian Scl.

wee In Boston and Its rebellious daughter in this City. lack of trmiMfh. Merciless Use crLosic. elther enables us to view the preKent quarrel with entire anA tiallty. However or rather therefore we irei sure mat Dotting but falrneas compels us to say that the Rostnn successfully met and answered the argu- -wmca ut Tork Trustees tried to their right to govern their own "church" without Interference.

There is only one mind, and -that the divine mind, declared the friends of Mrs. Btetsojt, and everything nun rwuij ia renects it; we are; consequently what we have done and want to do has been. Is, and must be, right." That Is Ingenious, and the conclusion follows logically enough from the premise, but the Bostonlans. not liking the conclusion, attack the premise. Nar.

r.a-p. th.i. Joinder; in effect you cijCm infallibility. ju iorgm titimiu Authority speaks of whatever is of material sense, or mortal "meaning you and says ma-teriillty IS the Inverted image of spirituality." That seems te be unanswerable. Of course, the words used on both sides are absard nf5nsefl.

and mtanlrg, but la the saconl group vlo by lnconv-: re-ct- Ity are forci to ecc rt them aa final do Ceiitrcy the contention of those la the first leave New York cnicnaVIe to any that Tuiiton f-c-s to at ply. la a last i ach stands on its claim to be a refleotion, and not an Inversion-cf "clilne One or the other must give up, and from present indications it look a as if the yieUIng would have to be dene by New Tork. That Is a great victory for Boston, but New Tor will pnfcably survive. Without much humiliation it can confess its comparatively smaU In the discussion ot vague and frnaklsh Irms, while Boston's vast experience in that interesting but rather sterile exercise the human mind Is well known. However reached, the conclusion that the members of the New Tork "First Church" are not so real as to be Infallible li all matters, doctrinal and other, has Its favor a certain Intrinsic plauelbiUty and will be hard to overthrow.

EU11, the possibilities of Eddylte logic ari enormous Infinite, for the perhaps It can be done. An untimely peace Is not to be denlred. 'HEREDITARY" CRIME. Confused Seeds of Good and Evil Were In the Jwards Family. To Via Ziitof cf Te Xew Tors Timet: Had "the sterilisation of criminals as a cure for crime' advocated by Mr.

Eugene Smith in your issue of Nov. 2. and by Judge Foster in the November Pearson's Majazlne been known and practiced by our unenlightened forefathers iu Connecticut, it would have cut off absolutely at the start the very Edwards famity cited by those gentlemen as an example of the persistence through hered-Itr of the good type In contrast with the persistence through heredity of the "bad type" as seen In the Jukes family. For it Is well known to those conversant with the early history of Connecticut that Jonathan Edwards was the son of the Eev. Timothy Edwards, who was the son of Richard Edwards, an eminent citizen of Hartford, and the first lawyer ever admitted to practice ia the Connecticut "courts, and of Elisabeth Tuttle.

Now Elizabeth Tuttle had a toother, who was hanged for murder, and a sister who likewise committed murder, -and who escaped the gallows only through the refusal of the people of Connecticut to recognise the courts and Government of Sir Edmond Andros. History' further records that shortly after the marriage of Richard Edwards and Elizabeth Tuttle. she had a child, and Mr. Edwards was subjected 1 to ecclesiastical discipline therefor. Though he testified that he vru not the father of the -child, he was punished.

Notwithstanding this, he continued to live with her for many years, and. was the father by her of the ancestors of- all the bright Edwardses in this country. conduct became such, however, that in 1631, be was, after repeated refusals, granted a divorce by the Colonial Assembly, at the very time when their son, the Rev. Timothy Edwards, the father of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, was being' graduated from Harvard College with such distinguished honors.

Richard Edwards then married a daughter of the Hon. John Talcott, and had several children by her, none ot whese -descendants ever amounted to much. Had the penologists and criminologists of our day been in power then, Elisabeth Tuttle could not have escaped them, so as to become, as she did, the ancestress of more genius end virtue than any other woman in the histpry of this country, i The late Dr. Charles J. long the accomplished State Librarian of Connecticut, Used to cite the case of this family -as proof of the tendmcy, through heredity to revert to the original type.

For It is a remarkable fact that In every subsequent generation of the Edwards family there have been in special cases reversions to the criminal type-among many other Instances, note that of Aaron Burr, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards. DANIEL DAVEXPORT. Bridgeport, N'ov. 2. 1009.

WAITER'S REJOINDER. Think the Giving of Tips Is Not Miti gated Blackmail. "5 the Editor of The Jfete Tork Timet: Wtah to take exceMton ta' the 1ta na ml-m tlh In Topics of the Times, under tbe title of unaenraDie as Jurymen." 80 far as thli: refer to 'waiters as a class of men and th taklns of tips by them'aa mtttrated blackmai; or aa belns demoraUalnj, I would like to tin. as ray opinion that the treat majority of tip tlrers do net look upon It In thatf Uht. not.

that It Is only those who refuse to eonforn. to the custom who think In that war. 1 ban. been a waiter for some years, and believe ma Mr. Editor, It jl not altocether from choice-.

I would touch rather be a bank President or a trust tnatnate; but. not being so fortunate I must he content and continue tJolnr my small share of the neceuarv prt of the world'n work. I have Invariably found that tiut person who pays tne waiter rerularlv la the moet eaally aatisfled, the mo: pleasant to serve, and the beat euntomer In every way, without a thought of towering; tho snltv of the TT often thanks the waiter as well, whereaii iuu rarer onrn. tjucn pnraons leavi the table poorly satisfied wxiix thmelves. aa ta Sfnerally dUcloMd In thlr manner.

I hare been a constant rrader ot Thb Tlvyi '0y1 choice," and entirely arreo with Mr. Carnetcle that It la the bt cenfl worth In the world, but I think that all clueei of people are entitled to consideration, hoth 111 their person and position. A WAITER. New Tork. Nov, 3.

m. A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR. Believes Vhat do Roujemont Was a Case In Point. To the Editor of Ike Vew York Timet: your article, A Famous Impostor." I should like to know whether the possibility of 'do Kouxereont's feeluf a liar. Irresponsible for bis statements.

In other word. n.ihi.. leal liar, has been seriously considered. His childish. Innocent manner, his naivete, his apparent simplicity, together with his lack of abllltv to make a plan and atlck to It, were, as a matter of fast, if not symptoms of patho-lotlcal lylDf.

at least so often- associated with It as to carry suspicion rather than confidence to the mind of any one aroualnted with tbe peculiarities or the mythomanlao. Voder the beadlnif. The Fantastic Frn-m of DrjreneraUve Insanity." the Grrman Psvrhl-atrlst Bernard Hisrh. has described oni frI.uf,1tbk""'1, by "an Irresistible Impulse to Invent atoHea. an lm-rlee orilnauna; In the eooentrtc to play the part of a hero." Hie papW I sunv marlxed and reviewed by Krnest Jone.

a recent number of The Journal of Abnonnal Klsch. the sort of story telllnit he deemh. 4. not d.luston.ry, but. Ilka de7usWnTl ll the result oft mental', Pasadena, CaL.

80. 1900 FlHER-INSECTS ON MARS? Could They Not Have Dug the Canals en That Planet? fc Ta the Editor tf The Xt Tork Time If Mar, 1 habitable. It Is Inhabitants, however, teed rot 'be a specie, of to-or warmblooded animal, to be capable of clnlat canala the surface of their planet. If the-, for instance," were laree and w-U-aeveloped Inserts ef aa anUlk. sort, with the power of rsasonlcr and the relative strength peculiar to sjits, etmia they not accomplish tbe task Jf Kll.1i-r cans), of prooortlore a.

a. even more e. rra? TTit some lnwa with by ro.wN ar.1 the Interior of an i i. evidence fs.t tle tBl, ai Lal a wr.nderfu.iy deveted Irstinrt. mT l.f, exist wr-r, rrrara, K.

KevYiT. ZUZZrL CHlLDHEu'. About 7.CC3 of Them Here Meed Un School Wcrk. 1 To the Editor cf The Xte Toik Ur attention baa ealied to aa arJe uhlch you quoted from The MeJIcal Record o' Aus. 23, 1309.

the education of directive children In Grrmsn schools. I want to make a fete ststeiserts will round out the Information there riven, and will put similar wort done la New Tork City la Us true llht. The work for defertlt-e chitdren In Germany was br-j-un In IS3. Ia'1-5. sccorrllns to the writer In jneotlon.

theie were defective cMldrea tinder Instruction In German schools. In 1003 at a of auxiltiary school teachers, held In A us slurs, the statement was officially made that tlore were then In man school children In heed of vpeital Instruction. This notwithstanding the yen's which bad Intervened since the Inception of special work. Orsntlnr for the present tliet this number, 00,000. remained stationary diir-ln the school years 1903-04 and liXX-Oi it Is obvious that German school authorities taj provided for 23 per cent, of the defective e'l-dren In fortylr years.

Now. what Is the state or the writ for at si liar children In New Tork City schools? Ttur children are) segrt'cated In ungraded classes. These clashes have br.n formed la schools since tbe school year lEOO-laoO. It was not until 1308 that this walk was orranlzed as a special department. To-day there are noarly 100 clarses.

with something over 1,700 children undor Instruction. It Is there 7,000 children who need omrraded class work. It Is a niatter of arithmetical calculation to ahaw that New Tork School au thotitles have provided for 25 per cent, cf the children needing ungraded class work and that the large part of this provision bat btirs msde In three years. It Is to be regretted that Information aa gncd In Itself as ts that resulting from the researches made by 8chIestngrT and quoted you should not have been offered to the American public without Invldljnia comparisons. In view of the amount of work accomplished and the time In which It was accompUalied In encb rase considered I think It will strike the reader that New Tork City school authorities have attacked the problem in a Timorous and an enthuslastlo way with fc rle of getting things done, which can scarcely called tardiness." ELIZABETH E.

FARRELL, Inspector of Ungraded Classes New Tork, Nov. 1. 10OB. RISING OF ISLAM. Official Moslem Indorsement of Turk Ish Constitution Was Good News.

To the ECltor cf The Xete Tork Tour excellent editorial la to-day's Issue. Islam and the Constitution." deserves a wide As a native from Constantinople, more or less actively connected with Turkey ta commerce end politics, I believe that the publication of the translation of Oubeyd-oullah Effendl's speech' at San Sofia In Etamboul was the best piece of news from the Turkish capital any paper has given In this country elnce the change in Sultans happened. There ts ntlll much more to be added to this speech In connection wtth a liberal and progressive Interpretation of the Koran," and this Is not the first time that an official rootlem Indorsement of the Constitution has been given. Without going far back, at tbe time of the triumphal march on Constantinople and the TUdls Kiosk ot the Second and Third Army Corps last April, a manifesto which has as crach force and power aa Oubeyd-oullah Effendl's oration, was sent broadcast by the official clergy of Treblsonde, (Asia Minor. Black Sea.) At that time it was real manly courage to send this manifesto out and request allegiance to the Constitution.

In aa article which I had the honor to contribute to The American Review of Reviews of July, 1009. entitled Real Toleration tbe Watchword of the New there ta short review ot Eherl Law," (Sacred taw.) and its Interpretation by modern theological doctors, as well aa a full translation of the above-mentioned rnanlfesto. It ia agreeable to note that on a day ss Important aa this to the tree American voter you ifhoujd hare found a column of space to dismiss this very Important question. The Rising of Islam." B. E.

LANDAU. Correspondent for The StarobouL Brooklyn. Nor. 2. 190S.

Thomas A. Mack. 'To the Editor pf'The -Vna Tors Timri: I am sura you have many readers who would like to- see In your columns an appreciation of the late Thomas A. Mack. I wish there were some One "wha could tell bis story "as 'It deserves te be told.

He was an unusual man and be left many, many friends. Tom Mack as every one called him was one of those men whose life achievement wes not In groat material success, but It was the friendships be anade and the Impress of his vlrllo personality upon them. Ills life was not without' a background ot mystery and bitterness, but be nevertheless always Irradiated confidence and hope and Jollity. He had always a nimble wit and ready jest, no matter, how difficult his present Or uncertain bis future. He never complained ef his lot.

Or his luck; be never told about his troubles er fretted over his symptoms, but bore all things with a superb llght-heartednes. Els example and memory, should be a benlson In this are of sad tntrosiMtrtion, Without any "new thomeht or "'silence primer he achieved all that these cults prearb. and more. He set himself to flsht hie battles to the end with always a smiling face. And in h1a last days, when he saw what was coming, be wae not a whit dismayed, but met the outlook with perfectly unchanged mien.

Re wanted to seei his friends and he was J'ist the seme to them. And at the end he mas Just trying to shake bands and ear good-bye. Never was one more constantly the csjrtatn of his soul. C. 1 IX Nsw Tork.

Oct. 10, 1909. What to Do with tha' Poor. To the Editor of The Kew Tork Timet: "Economists may differ as to a solution for the 'misery and poverty that stalk abroad, but ail can sea the utility of my suggestion wiich. If novel, should, at least, meet the approval of our bard-headed business men.

Gatnor the aged and Infirm, tbe defective and delinquent, and property por, and after a thorough disinfection press them Into garbage greats. There Is quite a demand for thla article. Incident we can rid society of the element! that tend to take away from the strong and callable those rights which Nature Indicates belong to .4 hem. iet the stronr firM the strong! HAZL.TINS VALE. New Tork.

Nov. 4, I9u. THE SONG OF A HARD WORKER. I sra no Trojan toller, Nor yet am I a Turk, But I con fens. that I dtf bless The man ho first found work! Let Princes take their pleasure, And jesters have their fun To him who lives there's nothing irlves More joy than work well done.

I could not love my fireside, Were I not mot away. And would 1 cam my wife were fafr Did I see her all day? I could not love my pleasures Did I not earn them dear; Nor reallre what money Were debt rny only fear! My footsteps m.y be heavy. And times tny head may ache; But I can smile, for 'tis worth while To toll for something's sake. So, when my Is going And to my chair I croep, I feel no shame, nor much to blame That drop off to sleep. v.

v. uiiiicr, And nest day may be worre; But ten to one. when all is done. There's something in my pursel Let Princes take their pleasure. jesters cve fun l.li.-l WHO IIVM TlKIV.

it liiitn worst dons1 i 5 i A iU-L iiUisiU fiew TurLins Dr5.d- nou-lrt tha World's Fastsst find 'Most Powerful HER AVERACS 21X33 KNOTS She Develops Horse Power Meets Her Sitter Ship, tha Delaware, Also Undergoing Tests. ROCKLAND, Nov. 4. In the Norte Dakota the United States has the fastest battleship afloat, as well as the two moet powerful battleships In the world In the North Dakota and her elster ship, the Delaware. The North Dakota screw standdrllxatlon tests over the Rockland measured mile course to-day developed a maximum spe4 of knots aa hour, end an average of 2LS33.

Bota marks ir in excs of the best performances of the Delaware or the Bellerorhon, the leidlng dreadnought of the British Navy. in attaining lias surpnsirg speoa tne turbine engines of the North Dakota were forced to the development of more power than has been reached by any battleship afloat. A maximum of horse power was recorded, 'while 33,873 horse power was tha mean amount- The maslmuns number of revolutions of her nickel com-posltion propellers was 29G a minute It was found that JG3 revolutions in this) time were sufficient to maintain the coo tract ieed cl' 21 knots. The North Dakota thus takes precedence an a gonersJ first class any other afloat. Her sister ship, the Delaware, which had her trials over the same course on Oct, 23.

was in possession of this honor for a time. ts but one other battleship afloat at the present time whose attainments may exceed thos of the North Dakota. Thla Is tlUL ucu SVr 111 XSTll lsh Navy, but she will have to atlalm to ff'iguree much in excess ot speclfica-Uons to accomplish this. The Bellero phon of th British Navy ha3 made but 21 knou ss compared with the North; Dakota's performance to-day of 22.23. Comparisons between the trial perfornt ances of tbe North Dakota and Delaware, sister ships, are as follows: i Nwth Del- tJe.ota.

aware. ....232" 21. US S1.4 iJ.BTJ Fastest tpeed Mean speed itret horse poer. Meaa horse power It was on the first of her runs over the measured mile course, following several preliminary that the North Da- aoia made ncr record to-day. The tide was la her favor, and this is not subtracted from the best figures.

In the recerded mean, or average, however, tidal corrections are made. The five trials over the mile course were reworded aa follows: 22.23. 21.480. S2.13. 21.503.

and 22.133. Tha Influence Of the tide on the vessel's speel Is shown in a comparison of the time la succeeding miles. While the speed runs were, being recorder! the TCortb ruVnr. going a two hours' test, for consumptlda of oil and coaL Tbe and the Xorth Tlulrnre i. m-M.

i usiuevuipi built for the United Btatea Navy to use the oil-rpraying n.ethod. The showing Is understood to have b-en very satisfactory. IL Smith, representing the Fore River Ghipb-ilidmg' Company, builders of tho North Dakota, naturaily ex pressed great fmisfaclion itn tha kanu.hii.. 1 pert ortnanc. ispocially are we he said, at tbe e( with which the turbines worked and with the great amount of horse power Tne North.

American battleship of the first class to have turbine engines installed. Cpt Edward G. Evans, who narrowly ewped dcm jhtn the tog Nexinscott was iuns offTitpe Ann sev-ral months aeTO. wua in charge of the North Dakota to-day. A wortins; crew of 4oj men were aoo rd.

Besnainj; at 7 o'clock to-morrow morn. th. North Dakota Is Mo be put through-the necond test, a lour-hour rua at .1 knots. It Is expected that an of about 21.7 knota will dc-e)oned rJ1L.TrliJ ott Boston Light, where the North Uk-ta will anchor and prepare for her run at li "o'lnsr thliv-ahe wll go under test at in knots. ln months It is expected the North Dakota and the Delaware wlU take thrtr places in the van of the American NavjrB line of sea fighters, and will then rank aa tte fcattiehlps In commission throughout the world.

rTri in tr. Cleveland High School Pvplls Ask Aid In Fight Against Double Sessions. CLEVELAND, Ohio, NoV 4. The strike or the pupils of tbe West High School against forenoon and afternoon sessions and tbe bigh price of lunches, continued to-day When school convrned.lliere weie not more Ko scholar in the bulld- 7h? wsn'nl'sT held a noting in racant lot and adopted to prolong the fignt. 2" en years only forenoon sm.

pisn at present. i.iJV,. that the scholars In Souti. ti iLr.eLM klnc preparations TO APPOif.T OTHER WOMAN." McClellan Wants One to "Represent" Brooklyn on the School Board. Mayor McClellan said yesterday that he stends in the rear future to appoint another woman School Commissioner.

She will represent Brooklyn. The Mayor li now trying to find a suitable nominee. The New Tork State Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage sees in the of women to te i. a move toward the policy it aovecatta. It addressed to the tltat 1,0 ha'5 "npld with a rt jin t0 Ulra by th re- a Is of opfrlon that suck lT.TM arw method of un.ixing at the present time the capacities Snewfri" lMr In the publlo Tutu rivle instl-fi 1 ttie i tenant upon grap- ing to women unrestricted eufxrage.V AHEARH holding oh.

HU Lawyer Now Asks for Tima Chan-a Answer to DUmlssal Charfies. The first in Borough President Ahearn's Tight to retain vfilce, io spit of the decision ot the Court of Appeals that his re-eleiUoa after deponiUon hy Gov. Hughes was Illegal, was uJcea yr-FtenUy. AttArnw General iAT1; loe. rr i e-j to tne Division ot 3 case, Martin cran.el for boii.ih nik.nx the AP- tr Jnclu-ie In ti.V smrof of ot tre i.Jrher curl a MVlV ii.unjr Mr.

Alicarn 'ru iv- demurrer th, rrai end graat- -t -V i 1 it ti il. nea in tne Hljrh Schools. vJ Vt Trrnt nchl ear the double ona were revived snd the School Rnrv i-7 T1 a i r. vv' Lie an answer. if will consider tiS ZTznizx cia ii-cy,.