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BENJAMIN B. 0DELL. To (ft ZHtor of Ttm Xew Tork Timet: In your lasue of to-day you say: Mr. Roosevelt Is employing Ms great energy, experience, and shrewdness of political manipulation In accompllahlng- the overthrow of a leader who deserves overthrow." meaning thereby Mr. Odeix.

As a disinterested spectator of the fight now being carried on by Republicans I would l.ke to know from an Independent paper of the high standing of Tub Times on what It bases Its statement that Mr. Odeu. deserves to be overthrown. This la not saked argumentatlvely, but from a real and esmeat desire for Information. The sentiment In the newspapers seema to be almoat unanimous against Mr.

Odell. I ahould like to know upon what It is baaed. Do you conalder him convicted by the testimony of HydeT Do you t'ltnk he made a good or bad Governor? Is there any specific act of his that would rause one to question his personal honor? Or Is the sentiment against him represented In the general protest aaalnat bosslsm? These questions are asked sincerely, with the single purpose of securing information, and any information In. addition to that asked for would. I am sure, be appreciated by many Republicans.

INTERESTED. Brooklyn, N. Deo. 23, 1905. The misuse of executive power for partisan ends and arrogant bosslsm are the chief charges against Gov.

Odeix. While he was Governor Mr. Odeix availed himself of many opportunities to bring about a concentration of power at Albany that Is. In his own hands. An Instance of this was his reorganization of the administration of State charities In such a way as to diminish the Influence and authority of local boards made up of the most public-spirited and philanthropic men and women throughout the State, and the lodgment of control in the hands of an officer under his own direction at Albany.

Another and flagrant Instance was his meddling with the designation of Supreme Court Justices for servtco outside their own districts, the plain intent of which was to malt the Judiciary up the State subservient to the Governor. Mr. Odeu. was Chairmen of the Re publican State Committee while serv Ing as Governor. That in Itself Is i scandal of sufficient magnitude to war rant the use of any decent and reasonable means to deprive him of political Influence.

He was a moat domineering and Intolerant boas. He declares that he was laboring to secure the electlm of ex-Gov. Black as United Htates Senator until President Roosevelt asked him to give his support to Mr. Dlpew. There was no warrant in law or morals for the Interference of either of thee gentlemen with the free exercise of the Legislature's will, but the behavior cf Oov.

Odkix was more unseemly by fur than that of the President, since In that contest he set himself in opposition to what appeared to be the will of the people of the State, and he never relaxed his grip upon the Senatorial situation until, according to his statement, the President changed his mini about Mr. Black and urged the e-electlon of Senator Detew. Oov. Odell's relations to Wall Street speculation may be Ignored altogether If the Impartial observer Is not convinced by the testimony. Outside of all that there Is reason enough for his overthrow as State boss.

But we think It Is the general Impression that for a man honored with the highest office In the State he has shown himself to he too fond cf money, too sordid, too Hitle scrupulous about keeping a broad line of division between official duty and schemes for personal gain. Taking it altogether there Is no Governor since the days when Hoffman a generation ago consented to serve the Interests of the Tweed ring who has left office under to dark a cloud of dislike and distrust as Benjamix B. Odeix. Drx, Tilde. Robinson, Cornell, Cleveland.

Hill, Flower, Morton, Black. and Roosevelt there Is not one name ta the list that candid men would not put far above the came of Odeix. Gov. Hnx was a boss and he had to stand much berating. But he was not half the boas that Odeu.

has shown himself to be. he did not seek to destroy the Independence of the Judiciary, and he did not use either bis boss-ship or Ms Governorship as a means of money-making. Finally, Gov. Odeu. last Fall entered Into a oompact or an alliance with the Hearst leaders, by the terms of which rotes were to be given to bis candidates for Assembly and for the Board of Aldermen In return for which, of course, his followers gave votes to Mr.

Hearst. Putting all questions of public policy and political morality aside, this was from the party joint of view such a falling from grace and orthodoxy as to merit the withdrawal of all confidence. There was a Republican candidal for Mayor In field. Mr. Oocu.

did not want to nave blm Mr. Odeu. and hie Chairman of the Republican City Committee did not loyally support him. Thb Times Is not concerned with Mr. Ooell's party orthodoxy, but It Is well convinced that bis dethronement would make, the majority party In this State better and cleaner, that the public business at Albany would be con-ducted upon a higher plane, and that consequently the public would be the gainer.

UNCLE SAM'S NIGHT SCHOOL. It was a curious and mighty Interesting picture of the pupils -of a class in Evening School No. 45, with Its twenty-six different races represented, that was published In the Pictorial Section of Thb Times on Sunday last. It showed In a striking manner the very varied sources from which our community Is made up and also what the American system of education and the American social and economic organization do for and with those who are gathered from sucb wide and disparate sources. The first thing, we think, thst must have Impressed the reader is the degree cf likeness rather than of unlike-ness among the representatives of these numerous races, especially in their dress.

Every one of them was neatly clothed and plainly paid all proper attention to personal appear ance. A certain smartness In the linen, a flower In the buttonhole, the gleam of a white waistcoat crossed by a watch chain, tidiness In the arrangement of the hair. Indicated the observance of a common standard In these things, so that this group of two-wore of young and old from twenty-six races might, so far their habits In the apparel that be speaks the man, have been all American born and descended. On the face of it this fact Is a sign of assimilation not to 'be Ignored. Our fellows of foreign blood evidently have the same kind and degree of the self-respect expressed in the care of the person that we like, to think is characteristic of the natives.

One might even say that they have It In rather greater degree. Another feature of this significant group is the range In their ages. They include a lad of apparently fifteen, a man of possibly threescore, and all ages between. And their faces are is a rule decidedly Intelligent and e.lert. Clearly most of them have a defl.iite purpose in view and they are interested in its pursuit.

In this regard they are, we suspect, a little ahead of an average college class, as Is not surprising. There are not many pupils In the evening schools who attend because it is the fashion among their parents to send them. On the other hand, It may be said that an evening school class would naturally show the flite of the pupils of the public schools, since the attendance Is voluntary and the students are especially ambitious. That Is true, and it is one of the most encouraging elements In our National situation that the class of the more ambitious. Intelligent, and alert is recruited from so many different race.

If the underlying idea of democratic society be not a delusion and a snare, here is evidence that it la molding representatives of extremely varying races into a community fitted to exorcise democratic privileges. It is interesting to group the twenty-six races. The English-speaking are the American. Irish. Scotch, the American negro, while the native of England Is absent, not being confined oftsn to night schooling.

Akin to these are the Germanic and Scandinavian races, German, Austrian. Dutch. Danish. Norwegian. Swedish.

The Latin blooj is represented by French, Italian, Spanish, Cuban, Mexican, and Swiss, though the latter may well be German In descent. The rnces of Eastern and Southern Europe are the Russian, Finnish. Bohemian. Hungarian. Polish, Roumanian.

Slovak. Armenian, Greek, and the one Oriental is the Japanese. It la this last group that constitutes the most puzzling one In the problem of Americanization. They have at the start the least to Impel them toward our Ideas and sentiments. They have for the most part been trained In Ideas and sentiments not only alien but more or less antagonistic to ours.

Their past lives and those of their ancestors, with their widely differing languages, are obviously a serious barrier to their assimilation. It Is harder for them to understand the life into which they are brought, and It Is natural that they should have less desire to understand It. But here they are in an evening school In tie heart of our great city. That at least shows that the desire to understand Is In tnVlr hearts and that the ability to understand la being cultivated. If we ask why.

the complete answer Is not easy, but one element Is plain enough. These people or their parents have come here to better themselves. They were not Induced to come, nor were they deported. The spark of ambition, feeble perhaps and almost Indistinguishable In some cases. In others bright and strong, was and Is In tholr minds.

Hence their steady pursuit of opportunity. Hence, too. the hopeful assurance of the success of the Republic which to the utmost offers them cp-portunlty. NOT SO EASY. Senator Drtden has concluJed that a bill depriving Insurance companies of the use of the malls unless they comply with Federal regulations would not be enacted by Congress, and ought not to be enacted.

Representative Davis has introduced sucb a bill this year; Senator Dbtden Introduced one last year. We presume the New Jersey Senator present opinion about excluding the Insurance companies from the use of the mails la sound. If the Federal Government baa no authority over Insurance companies It could not very well punish them for disobeying Its mandates. Mr. Drtden sees but one way to control from Washington the business of Insurance companies.

That. Is through the power given to regulate Inter-State commerce that is bis present opinion. He holds that that method would be constitutional. Inasmuch as the Supreme Court of the United States In the case of Hooper versus California In the year 1805 declared that the business of Insurance is not commerce; the contract of Insurance Is not an instrument of commerce, It would seem that an act drawn upon the lines Senator Drtden suggests might be attacked, with fatal results, on constitutional grounds. The language of the court In this and other decisions Is unequivocal.

It Is not easy, the advocates of Federal regulation will find It exceedingly difficult, to draw a bill that will stand the test of adjudication. Unless the supporters of Insurance legislation have received assurances that the Supreme Court Is willing to reverse itself and that cannot be true they would seem to be wasting tbelr time upon an Impossible task. PYRAMIDED BANK RESERVES AND CREDITS. Chicago, as one of the three central reserve cities, has suffered in the same manner as New York from the operation of the law compelling them to keep the Nation's ultimate reserve. New York, Chicago, and St.

Louis are required to keep their own reserves at 23 per and practice requires them to respond to any demand for the return of the reserves which the law allows country banks and banks in reserve cities to keep elsewhere than In their own vaults. Mr. Forqan. Vice President of Chicago's First National Bank, gives this unconventional account of the endless chain of demand for reserves which springs up after such incidents as the Walsh embarrass, ment: The farmer out In a little place becomes frightened snd goes Into his village bank and draws out the 11.000 which he has there and hides it away. That bank usually runs with 5.0(0 caah.

and when thU Is carried on a little bit. and other aimer begin to draw out their money, they telegraph to their little reserve town of J0.O0O or 12.000 for fo.OOO. The little town sends this to them, and if this feeling has gone through the community, that little town has half a doxen little banks calling for $3,000, and that makes And so they telegraph to their reserve city. "Charge our account and send us snd the reserve city, after it has half a dozen little banks calling for S.TO.000 or E5O.O0O. they get excited and telegraph to the central reserve city.

"Charge our account and send us and the deposits melt awsy like snow before the sun. You see, the farmer's deposit Is counted four times; it Is counted in the little bank anu is counted in the first town of or 12.000 population, and It Is counted In the rererve city, and it 1, counted In the central reserve city; so that It does not take long for those deposits, which are. after all. mere entries In a ledger, to be changed and to melt away. And.

of course, wherever the reserves are redeposited they are loaned out. so that there is a chain of loans as well as reserves, all of which are shaken whenever events establish a pull upon the chain. It waa not Chicago's redeposited reserves which the Walsh case caused Chicago to withdraw from New York-for Chicago has no right to re-oposit Its reserves but the result was the same, for tho demand upon Chicago compelled Chicago to call upon New t.it- i Tork. which was compelled to surren- irueposuetf reserves kept here "uuuoiit wantea at home. The necessity of breaking this endless chain Is one of the morals of the Walsh case, as was remarked the other day.

The law permitting the redeposlt of reserves so works out that less than half. of the 13 per cent, of cash reserve which is lawful for country banks Is in fact In bank anywhere. The total is frittered away so that there Is no solid amount of cash anywhere, and the sum Is smallest exactly where the strain is greatest, that la. in the three central reserve cities. Pyramiding of this sort is more becoming speculators than bank officials, yet It Is likely that bank officials would oppose any proposal that they should each keep their own reserves.

sm4 i WIRELESS FEATS AND PERILS. Christmas night Admiral Mannet at Washington and Admiral Rodqers at Guantanamo exchanged the compliments of the season by wireless messages. Wireless messages have been exchanged over greater distances, but conditions considered, this was a creditable feat. The Brooklyn, when bringing home Paul Jones's body, communicated with Poldhu at a distance of 1.700 miles, but that was over water alone. The Christmas record was miles over land and water, a complication of conditions which makes ihe transmission more difficult.

It is upon such exceptional Incidents that faith is built In at last communicating across oceans. Nor is pride In this incident lessened by the fact that It goes to the credit of the navy. Wireless transmission of Intelligence Is an art of war as well as of peace, and It Is reassuring to think that commercial achievements can be duplicated by our officers. The value might be priceless at some crisis now unforeseen. It is not by such tours de force that the value of the wireless art la rati- mated by practical people.

What's the use? they ask. Fortunately there are many recent cases of the most practical application of means of communication which could not be duplicated by land telegraph or ocean cable. The rescue of the Nantucket lightship crew Is a conspicuous case. The warning sent by La Lorraine to the Philadelphia Is another case. They left different countries for the United States, and had no understanding with each other.

Yet as their courses approached, although hundreds of miles apart, Lorraine was able to warn Philadelphia of an unsuspected Iceberg. The Philadelphia set double watches, anal altered her course, thus depriving her ship's company of the pleasure of seeing the berg, but also avoiding a possible collision. The Navy WirelessxBureau has compiled a list of nine recent cases In which service of this sort was rendered when no other means of communication was possible. There Is an enormous field here entirely distinct from the familiar uses electricity with which wireless transmission might have difficulty In competing. In such fields It has no competitor, and it can make uses for Itself.

But an Incident of a less agreeable sort should be recorded. When the Bremen arrived last week she reported that she had been in wireless communication with the Nantucket lightship when the lightship was In fact at the bottom of the sea. The signals uslns the Nantucket "pi" began to arrive when the Bremen was C31 miles eastward of the station of No. 58, and continued until the Brerr.en had arrived within 319 miles. The signals then became confused until the Bremen was within thirty miles of where the lightship ought to have been.

Then, of course, she was not sighted, and the Bremen's navigators were confused. In a fog or storm such signals might cosily have been a source of danger or wreck. It is a peculiar forgery-, snd peculiarly contemptible. As the Bremen received foul language In response to its inquiries and protests, there Is a suggestion of commercial rivalry and Jealousy as a motive. Publicity may arouse a sentiment which should discourage such objectionable practical Joking, If it can be called such instead of a crime.

There is a risk of a similar sort in all messages transmitted electrically, except by the telautograph, but familiarity with the fact has deprived it of Its terrors. Telegraphic forgeries can be detected and punished more easily than wireless forgeries if It Is possible to call them such and they have an element of possible gain which makes them understandable. But falsification of Intelligence which cannot be verified and which It may be dangerous to neglect, and to no possible profit. Is villainous. It would be Interesting to know what the lawyers say about means of punishment.

TOPICS OF THE TIMES. At first thought It la decidedly startling to learn that in the year about to close the people of the Vnited States have import Millions for Jewels. ed worth of precious and semiprecious gems, diamonds making up the greater part of both number and value. This addition to our stock of such toys can be taken as somewhere near the year's total dealings In them, for while there have been, of course, many trans fers from hand to hand of Jewels already on hand, the importations only provide for keeping up with a natural increase the assortments displayed In showcases and awaiting purchasers. But though $37,000,000 is a lot of money, when divided among sn.oiio.oiio people the fractions of It are not at all impressive, and it must be remembered that the Imported stones are not.

ns In the case of most wares, a mere addition to our own supply, for this part of America, despite the multiplicity of Its resources, makes a showing I muimn. small among me pro- ducers of real Kerns, and can offer not nruch more than a besinninir when it comes to meeting its own demand for the poor relatione of the aristocratic crystals. It is true, too. that by no means all of the will contribute toward the but the utterly unjeweled minority la not a large one, for the love of the shiny things Is a survival of barbarism which is almost universal, and that family Is poor Indeed which has not In it enough terns of one sort or another to go round If the women folk would distribute them fairly. And It Is not at all neceasary to lament the expenditure of these few millions.

Jewels are useless to the Implacable materialist, but It Is their money cost, not their beauty, that Is fixed by their scarcity, and they do give an enormous amount of entlrelv Innocent pleasure. That it is pleasm-'ofaTTTuun-tellectua! sort and ahapld by children and savages does not detract essentially from its reaUty or rendef it reprehensible. There are many worse i-ays of spending money than for preciousstones, and worse ways of Investing It. for that matter, since their value Is curiously stable and their immediate conversion Into ready cash In an emergency Is easier than that of most other things, and rarely Involves so great a sacrifice. The ideal man certainly, and the Ideal woman perhaps, would not wear jewels, but we are iot threatened with general perfection for some years to come, and meanwhile even what passes for good taate will continue to cherish the ancestral belief that gems are about the most beautiful and decorative of nature's ready-made gifts.

Our correspondents Of Rewards continue to express and diverse and diverting Their Takers. f'lnions on the question o' paying rewards for the return of lost property. Somo of them say it Is a poor sort of hr.nesty. or something different from honesty, that expects or is willing to be paid for not keeping what belongs to another, while the upholders of the opposite view maintain that the loser, having been careless and having made trouble, not to siak of causing temptation, really owes something to the finder and returner of hi property, and that the size of the something should be duly proportioned to the value of the thing lost. There Is more or less to be said in behalf cf both contentions, but.

underlying the whole problem, is the fact that. In cases of this sort, rewards are never paid to an admitted equal or to an admitted superior. They always go. when they go at all, the other way; that is. downward.

The grading may be any one of half a hundred kinds-social, of age, of business rank but the rule Is invariable. Whoever takes such a recompense, therefore, explicitly confesses that he la the inferior of the giver, and puts himself on, or very near, perhaps below, the shameful level of him who accepts a tip. The acceptance of the girt Is. or should be, a humiliation, and the people who do It are lacking in the delicacy and self-respect which one would like to believe the common heritage of all free-born Americans. The same test applies to the giving as to the taking.

Even the "generous" loser who gets back his own knows that with some there is no question of anything except thanks. With others he hesitates, and with still others he bestows without delay, exactly as In tha case of a tip. The truth is that It Is only decent and honest to give back what has been found when the loser Is known or can be discovered. It is only the payment of a debt to humanity at large the very simplest application of the Golden Rule. The loser, provided conscience tells him that he would do as much, really owes nothing material to the Individual finder for not being a thief, though he well may keep him In mind as one who is worthy of trust of employment If he needs it, and of promotion if already employed.

In some instances it would take a lot of courage to avoid the charge of meanness that would inevitably follow failure to reward, and in some perhaps the charge would be made true by the prevalence of custom, but In most the giving of largess Implies that there is something wrong on one or the other yr both sides of the transaction. The assertion of superiority is hateful, the confession of Inferiority Is disgusting. Nicholas Hard at Work. How pathetic it is that the Csar can think of nothing better or more important to do at the present desperate crisis in his own affairs and those of the empire he still calls his than to hold daily reviews of the regiments detailed to guard his person! This is what he is doing, according to the dispatches, and it is gravely reported that the poor fellow finds consolation In the enthusiastic loyalty which the cheers of the men receiving his Imperial notice are supposed to express. Another man, whether BOldier or statesman, would certainly be able to utllizo his time to better advantage, unless.

Indeed, the other man happened to be a second Nicholas and still trusted to the power of a few bayonets to guard him from a nation in frantic revolt against all that he represented. The revolutionary leaders, whoever they may be, are employing different methods and are appealing to the soldiers with different arguments. Even they, -however, seem to be accomplishing pitiably little except the slaughter of their followers. The latter need a leader, not leaders somebody with a name that can be remembered from one day to another, and a plan with a beginning and an end and something In between. Everything Russian at the moment is chaotic when It is not futile, but people are dying In more thousands, apparently, than the French Revolution demanded scores for the doing of its necessary and magnificent work.

If Russia cannot develop a Washington, or even a Napoleon, kind fate might at least give her a Robespierre or a Marat to systematize the killing and make it effective. New Leader Wanted In Brooklyn. To the Editor of The Xcw Tort Timet: Referring to tha article In your Issue of today about the Woodruff-Dady fight In Kings County, allow me to state that the Republicans of Brooklyn are disgusted with both of these men as leaders of the county; they are both bac numbers. What we want la a new leader. Dady la not fit to lead.

The people lost confidence In him long ago. Woodruff, the self-made leadr, now la In Syracuse most of the time, ao that he cannot give proper attention to politics here. If the people Jo not get a new leader, the Republican Party will go all to pieces the next election. Woodruff la alone to blame for allowing Dady to try and steal the leadership from him. Let both take a back seat, otherwise Kings County will go Democratic by In 1906.

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN. Brooklyn. Dec. 21, 1905. Still Seeking Cupid's Address.

To tht Editor of The Xew Tor Timet: There seem to be others," especially around thie Christmas time, who are looking for Cupld'a addresa." and I ahould like to be counted in. Mlsa C. A. really needs not go to Schenectady, for there are lots of men and young women all In the same boat. X.

New Tork. Dec. 26, 1905. To the Editor of The Xeie Tork Timet: Should C. A.

succeed In locating Cupid's address, will ahe be so kind as to notlfjf the undersigned Why not combine our efforta In the laudable attempt to locate that clever little, but mischievous, Schatchea? Two heada are better than one. tla aald. T. O. ROWLAND.

Schenectady, N. Dec. 26. 1905. Praise for Presbyterian Hospital.

To the Editor of The Xew Fork Timet: After reading In to-day's Times the letter of An Officer of the Presbyterian Hospital on the valuable ambulance service of that Institution, I wish to add the lndoraement of a patient who baa received the attention that It gives to tha poor of New Tork. without regard to race, creed or color." (Its motto.) It i la only thoae who have experienced, not only the ambulance benefits, but Us alert, able surgical help and lta equally skillful and devoted nursing of Its patient, who can and should, at thla aeaaon. testify their obligation to that most admirably conducted hospital, so true to its professions. A WALL STREET HAN. New Tork.

December 25. 1905. People In Glass Houses. To the Editor of Tae Xew Tork Timet: Please ask Reader to atop using the word newe aa an adjective. It Is a noun.

Thla criticism la certainly aa good aa that by him on proletariat." He might also learn to place please and atop neat to each other and not separated by a phrase. ANOTHER READER. New Tork. Dec. 25.

HKtt. Already Planning for Next Year. To the Editor of The yew Tork Timet: Let all of your readera who share my present disappointment over the poatponement of their Christmas greetings to the 2th of December bear In mind next year that when sending cumbersome matter like letters and Christmas cards to foreign countries, euch aa Brooklyn, these ahould be mailed at leaat a week or ten days In advance If the aender would avoid the humiliation of learning that hia warm good wishes arrived somewhat frostbitten the day arur tne lair. HARLEM. New Tork, Dec.

26, 1905. For Immediate Use. From The Philadelphia Public Ledger. Little Girt I want to get a mitten, please, an' charge It to me mother. Shopkeeper A mitten? Tou mean a pair of mittens, alaty.

little Girl No, Jest on'y one; one that's suitable for a boy that's goto' to propose an' be rejected. Over the Garden Wall. From The Louisville Courier-Journal. American manufacturera to the number of 130 have transferred their factories to Canada In order that they may eacape the blessings ot the Dlngley tariff. That Is not the way we were tolj the tariff would build up home Indus triea.

A POINT. LUSTS PAINTINGS. Landscapes by Child Hassam at the Montross Gallery. For this week only there Is to be seen at tho Montross Gallery. 772 Fifth Avenue, thrice the mystlo seven of paintings In the best style of the pointllllste by Mr.

Childe Hassam. They Include three landscapes, with water In the middle distance and small nude figures subordinated In color and texture of flesh to the general color scheme, two moonlights on water, two studies of rocky bluffs near the sea, and two townscapes, from Paris and Manhattan, respectively. The last mentioned Is dated 1802, and shows the Washington Arch on Washington Square. Sunset Towers, Gloucester." and "Ferry Landing-. Gloucester." jars of 18SH and 1806.

Age has Improved them by bringing the colors together in a general way, perhaps mainly through the warmer color introduced by time in the whites and very pale grays. The forecast that pictures painted In the light tones this artist prefers would mellow and improve with time seems to have been well taken. Seventeen other canvases are recent works, painted since 1W0O. Especially attractive arc two views of rock eminences near the seaside Cliffs Near the Sea" and Koclc Cliff. Appledore "In which the crumbly, red-ruvi-spuited surface of the rock ts very happuy caught and a good feeling for the structural values of a landscape is apparent.

Kich. strong notes are found in Kockweed Pool." especially In toe upper part of the canvas. Toward middle is a rocky ledge In the shoal water, where a nude woman lies with her feet In the nearer inlet and her head bent over the ledge, as if regarding her reflection In the further and deeper pooL One looks twice to see if she does not end in a fish and is not a mermaid whose horns is among waters and rocks. frobabiy this would not suit Mr. Hassam, who avoids mythological and anecdotic pictures; but it would suit the place nd scenery lar better than a biped, for whose tender flesh the rough rocks nug-get too harsh a couch.

The figure, of course, la decorative, and part of the scheme ot color. The watery foreground of the pool has nothing to in this picture, which would probably be Improved if it were cut off a foot above the lower part of the frame. Tho sky Is very lovely and the rocky headland delightfully painted, as one, perceives when the picture Is examined from that respectful distance which the pointillist style of painting demands. A -very fine and far-carrying marine Is At Sunset in tne October Huie," a view of lower Manhattan, faintly looming through the mist under a crushed-raap-berry sky. Another attractive canvas of this year vintage Is called Indian Summer.

Decorative and panel-like is the tall glimpse of -a porch, wall flowers, and garden, with a woman in a white diena sewinu very demurely on the porch. "June Morning" has delicate trees In a fringe against a pule-bhie lake and a nude woman seated, very upright ant contemplative, on the grass between trees and water. There is a strange primness in this figure's pose, so that one is at a loss to assign to It a human or a supernatural existence, and one concludes at last that It is neither, but merely there for fun and for technical purposes, like that red-ukirted peasant woman who has served so nobly for generations to provide a point of bright, strong color in a dark foreground. These pictures are such capital carriers that one might sit in tne middle of the gallery on a revolving chair and lose no delicate passage of brushwork without rising to examine the canvases closer. Summer Morning Sea," Early Morning, Appledore Moonrise at Sunset," and Summer Time indicate sufficiently the kind of landscape favored by Air.

Hassam. Once make up your mind to accept the plein-air convention, and there is much to eniov In ih PI), jsemblages of cool and warmish spots of MRS. CARNEGIE OFFICIATES. Lays the Cornerstone of the Engineers' New Clubhouse. The foundation stone of the new Engineers' Club, in West Fortieth Street, opposite the new Public Library, in Bryant Park, was laid on Sunday at 2:30 o'clock by Mrs.

Andrew Carnegie, whose husband declared the task well and truly done. The ceremony was quite Informal, but the club was well represented by Its officers and committees, Including President W. H. Fletcher and ex-President John C. Kafer.

The architects, Whitfield King, were also present. The records deposited in the stone Included a Bible, a club book of copies of newspapers of Dec" 23. a copy of the certificate of incorporation, a booklet of the old clubhouse, a half-dollar, a quarter-dollar, a dime, nickel, and one cent, a card of W. L. Crow, the builder; a copy of Mr.

Carnegie's letter of gift to the Kngineering Societies and the Engineers' Club, a chronological history of the club, a list of members elected since the publication of the club book this year, a list of the incorporators of the club, the programme of competition for the selection cf architects for tho two buildings, and floor pi ins of the new house. CITY TRANSIT MONOPOLY. Skeptical View of an Advocate of Municipal Ownership. To the Editor of The Xew Tork Timr: That Is a very pretty hypothetical picture In your editorial the other day of what Mr. Belmont might do with his absolute monopoly of New.

York's transit facilities; bnt the proof of the pudding ts In the eating thereof, and the best evidence of what Mr. Belmont is likely to do in the future is the record of what he has done in the past. It is a record of vying with Uncle Russell Sage In the gentle art of giving the least possible accommodation for the money, of cutting down the number and length ot trains as nearly as could be to where only standing room would be provided of tyranny over employes to the extent of provoking a totally unnecessary strike; of defiance of the city's rights to- the protection of Its leased property from the defacement of vulgar advertising. Perhaps all this does fly in the face of the axiom that after all even a monopoly can make the longest dividends by giving the best service, but we must not forget that there are other things than dividends to be considered when we turn over utilities essentially public In their character to private operation. There is the profit to be made out of manipulating the stock market, in which ordinary shareholders do not participate.

There are the subsidiary contracting companies the ground floor teat only the insiders are let Into the "rake-off" on purchases of supplies, and various oiher et ceteras. And when all these are counted up. It is a very nice question whether the worst possible corruption in public office can quite equal the cost to the public ot pri vate operation In enterprises from which the element of competition is necessarily excluded. Shall the Government own the railroads or the railroads own the Govern- New Tork. Pec.

2fX. 1903.. Wanted a Librettist. From The Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Canal Commission wanted a historian.

While it la they admitted. that we have not made much dirt fly, we are piling op history In chunks." Thereupon the committee retired to consult. We rind." they reported. that the real need ia for a poet and a composer. There's comic opera dormant In this layout." Long, Long Ago I From Tha Detroit Free Press.

Do you think ahe Is so very oldT Tea, awfully. I heard her apeak of ewinr. Ing on the gate when ahe was a little girl. It'a a Ions time since fences." Try Philadelphia. From The Boston Herald.

The New Tork Post Office marked a letter sent to Herr Helnrich Coniied. Returned to sender. Cannot be found." We don't think be Is In Boston. He tald he would not coma here any more. VISCOUNT AOXI COMINQ AS JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR Twice Foreign Minister and Twice Envoy to Germany.

visnmiMTPcs its a rcdum. The Appointment of an American Am. bassador to Japan la to be Made In a Few Days. wAaniNUTOX. Dec.

Siuso Aokl has been appointed Japane. Ambassador to country. Inform. lion to this effect was conveyed to tary Boot to-day by Mr. HiokL tha an se Charge here.

The Viscount was twice Minister of For. eign Affairs, was twice Minister to Ger many, and Is a member of the Prlw council and of the First Class of the Or- ,4 m.t i un mii( oun, tne nignest order lu Japan. He stands In the first rank of Japanese diplomats, far outranking Mr. Takahira and even Baron llayashl, the Japanese Minister to London. Viscount Aokl comes as the first Am bassador from Japan to the United States.

He temporarily from the service about six years ago, when he- waa called by the Emperor to be one of the Privy Councilors. When a young man tne new Ambassador went to Germany as a student and received a uni versity training there. He twice returned to Germany as Minister. Naturally German is the foreign language with which he is most but be speaks Eng- 11 1. irnuii), i wo a uviegate representing his country at the Hague Coa- terence.

Announcement of the annolntment if the American Ambassador to Japan will be made In the course ot a very few days. Mr. Hloki has been informed that the selection of Viscount Aoki is acceptable iv litis uvvri iiuit'iii. ji is expeciei tuat as soon as the formal approval of his selection Is received from the United Stales the Viscount, accompanied by tbe Viscountess, who is of German birth, the Viscount having met and married her while serving his country in Germany, will come to this country without delay. It is believed here that the Japanese Government will purchase an embassy nn I ll I tr a-ve -wA nstm An I an 111 in tlie present legation.

Viscount Aokl is about 00 years old and Is considered a man of great When he was Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Takahira, whom he succeeds here, served under him as Vice Minister. STRONG GUARDS AT SHANGHAI Force of 250 Men Landed by the British Cruiser Andromeda. SHANGHAI. Dec.

20. All is quiet here. A force of 2T0 men has been landed by the British cruiser Andromeda, and blue jacket guards are maintained all through the foreism concession. The British Assessor, Mr. Twyman.

will resume the sessions of the Mixed Court to-morrow. The Chinese officials have tardily issued warrants for the arrest of the promoters of the riot who have escaped. BLAMES FRENCH CABINETS. Vatican White Book Discusses the Separation Trouble. PARIS, Dec.

26. A French translation of a Vatican White Book regarding the separation of Church and State reached Paris to-day. In the leading chapters an effort Is made- to demonstrate that the entire onus for the rupture between the Vatican and the French Government and the resultant separation of Church and State rests with various French Cabinets, the munlers ot which pursued an anti-religious policy. Including the suppression of the congregations and of religious Instruction In the schools. The book next proceeds with the refutation of the nccufiation that separation was rendered inevitable by the attitude tf the Church.

It declares that this charge was made because French statesmen, knowing that the people of France had no desire for separation, wished to diaclalm responsibility for the consequence, vrhicli It is pointed out would be equally serious for France end for the Church. Then follow arguments intended to show the baselessness of, the charge brought against the C.urch of acting contrary to the Interests of the public. The appendix deals In the main with the French protectorate over Catholics In the Far East, and the argument Is ad-vanvrt that although this protectorate Is founded on International treaties. It must depend on the will of the NEW FRENCH TREASON CASE. Several Navy Men to be Arrested Germany Got Plana of Submarine.

Dec 20. The arrests of several non-commissioned officers of the navy are impending owing to the discovery at their domiciles of detailed plans of the new battleships and submarine boats. Tills, it is expected, will solve the mystery of the disappearance of the plans of the submarine boat Aigrette, of which vubI a rliitilirnt has been constructed In Germany, supposedly- from the French plans. PEACE AGITATORS ONTRIAL Twenty-eight Accused of Inciting French Recruits to Rebel. TARIS, Dec.

20. The Assize Court of the Seine was crowded at the opening of the trial of twenty-eight members of an antl-mllltary organization accused of Inciting recruits to di3loyalty and Insurrection. The prisoners include one woman. Mile. Numietska.

and Gustavo Herve. a prominent anti-military agitator. The chief -ft 1. ft. MvlnAra iMtt- rniirge Batumi inc ance of a circular to the recruits last tooer counseling resisience ficers and a united Insurrectionary movement.

Wants Annual Municipal Congress. LONDON. Dec. 20. Sir Edwla Cornwall.

Chairman of the London County Council, to-day Issued to the press a proposal for an International congress of representatives of capitals having over population, to meet annually for the discussion of municipal methods. In conjunction wlta this congress flr Kdwin propoees an exchange of pupils between the schools controlled by the municipalities holding membership in the congress. NEW -YEARS CON5CIEM1.6 Now the New Tear reviving old desires. Bubalyat. For nearly twelve months in the year My conscience quite serenely slumbers.

And not a retrospective tear T. a Mim)ftrar 7 A very friend eo runs the rede A well-trained conscience is. Indeed! i-- 'f But, as December's end draws nigh -w ft. 4a Ana icw iri isuy ikiuis r.l.V '-mm fllft.h If ftv.lro. nutrlirht.

Stretches, sits tip. fights back a yawn. And with its might starts out to twinge. How Its reflections make me cringe! All, all the misdeeds- of the year Te mVm lfAiM Aekaa at 4 tVa naltiat Each best-loved sin. each folly dear.

I sit in sackcloth while they last. But, annual remorse lived o'er, -My conscience goes to sleep once morel A conscience Is a trlcksey One never knows when It will spring; -n-roln i tn hul Von nover fear Twill only wake up once a year! MAZIE VIRGINIA CARUTHERf.