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HepresentatlTS ItOBiirsow of Arkan-as has put the Oovemor of Arkansas In Ms placs on the Income tax question. It appears that dor. DoKAOHarr presumed to reto ths ratification of ths tnoome tax. althouffc it did not require Ms si mature, and therefore ought to been regarded aa exempt from Ms pernicious activities. The Constitution provides that Congress shall propose amendments to ths Constitution, and 'that ths Legislatures shall ratify them.

Tbers Is no provision for Executive action In either State or Nation. This particular amendment resulted from ao- tton by ths Prssldenr, but action by the President such as was taken by ths Governor of Arkansas would be lmpos-' elble, and It taken by htm would expose him to such action as that taken by ths Representative from Arkansas. He Introduced a re solution declaring that ths amendment was ratified, ths veto notwithstanding; and he summoned ths Oovemor by telegraph to withdraw his unwarranted attempt to control the ao- tlon of ths Legislature. It would seem that there might be an excess of actlv tty in support of ths amendment as well ss In opposition to It. This would not fcpply to such discussion of tt as was contained In Oov.

JIuohxs's mes sage, and Oov. Prx has that precedent In his favor for similar action. But Got. Dtx far surpassed Oov. lira tub's activity Hs has gone so far as to threaten to summon ths Legislature in special session if It disregards Ms In structlons as to how it shall act in ths present session.

There are many reasons why ths Oovemor is open to criticism In thus proceeding. Constitutional amendments -ought not to be matters of partisanship, and this ons was not In Congress, nor In this Ftate until ths Governor sought to maks it so. This Is ths mors 1m proper because ths Oovernor was not elected by a party rots strictly, and because hs Is now taking a course which hs thought to be improper when ths conditions of his election were fresh In Ms mind. In his first message he said: "Such matters as I Judge expedient are, by this message, respectfully recommended to ths Legislature, not aa a chart of Instructions to be fotlowed, but as recommendations to be deliber ately considered, and adopted or rejected by ths Legislature on its own re sponsibility, a a co-ordinate and Inds pendent department of ths State Oov em men t-" Even mors explicit Were ths Governor's declarations during the campaign, under thfc stimulus of a Republican example which a Democratlo Executive thought to shins by avoid lng. In this city ths Governor said: ATI can do is to maks recommendations to the legislators.

I have no lisht ta foroe my views en th.m. If they don't like what recommend It la another matter, and they will have to answer to those who elected them for what they do or what they don't do. This matter of the Executive forcing his views upon the legislature ta getting to be altogether too Irk noma. am solng to make a change In that when get to Albany. Now hs is dragooning ths Leglslat urs in true Rough Rider style on matter of National instead of State pol ttlcs, and In ths manner of most ad vancsd partisanship, although ths sub ject ought to be one of highest patriot Ism.

"Ths" amendment Is entitled to be defeated on Its many Imperfections, but the Governor's course respecting- it cannot be defended by associating it with ths amendment itself. Ths Gov ernors courts is open to criticism by those supporting and defending the amendment alike. TUB TERM COUNTERFEIT." Conditions have changed, and for the better, with reapect to the public recognl I tlon of what things are counterfeit Hlth erto, condign punishment has been visit ed upon men who counterfeited money snd papers representing money; against them only the charge of counterfeiting lodged, while bogus, deceptive, mock ham, and epurloua artlle atari trad and Imitated marks and labels. flooded ths country, without ths re- gard of publlo prosecutors for sup- pressing the wholesale agencies of their production and distribution. A trial Is now being held In Newark.

i. before Judge Thomas Davis Sgalnst a vendor of counterfeit liquors. i Ths liquors are made to resemble well known and the evl denes has shown that ths counterfeit tuft- consists, mors than ons-thlrd of MkMri(la lttetr Vn. FeaUg. lAII.T ASI KCNUAV, PT Week AII.T AND KI'NDAT.

Month 'Arrr and bc.ndat. tt ier J2 AiLr. rr liAILT. Jnh Aii.r J-r ef erud wood alcohol. Of court the mixture Intensely poisonous Th chemist who submitted, It to analysis declared that the drinker who should take but a glass ef it a cay before hit dinner "would ro blind wlthla tlx months." This Is woro than cotmtOTf eltln bill or coins.

Ths statutory punishment for counterfeiting goods 1 not yet made severe, nor Is tho work of prosecuting such cases dons with that thoroughness which charactsrlsee ths Federal Secret Berries la hunting down ths formers of bill en craving and of official salens for stamping ths precious tnstals. But ths term "counterfeit has been ex tended accurately to describe this class of crimes. L0 AH SHASXS AKD CITT EM- PLOYZS. Every loan shark in this city, who has been lending- money to its em ploy's, has been summoned to Commissioner of Accounts Fosdicx's office to show Ms books and to reveal every detail of his business with those whose salaries from ths dty are mortgaged. It is estimated that over one-third of the policemen and firemen, and a large percentage of municipal clerks and teachers In ths publlo schools have had unfortunate dealings with ths adver tisers ef loans upon chattel securities.

Ths younger men and womsn in the employ of the dty are ths victims. Tounr policemen and firemen, whoso Initial salaries are insufficient and who are at expense in retting under way for new uniforms and equipment, and school teachers, entering the service at cost which strains their resources- thousands of these classes bars read ths advertisements of loans at 0 per cent, signed ths tricky papers, and found their small securities devoured. According to Mr. Ajmrca Ham of the Sags Foundation, ths average payment upon loans granted to these unfortu nates Is not less than 200 per cent, a year of tho principal. Ths prlrats em ployers of labor are Joining In an sf fort to break up this evil business, and It Is encouraging that they bars ths oo- ope ration qf ths city.

TEX T0RXE5T 07 TALK. President Btrruen wise counsel to ths members of tho graduating class at Columbia yesterday when hs warned them against ths political, literary, and religious nostrum vendors who now in fest this country in such countless num bers the demagogues, ths men of now ideas," men who preach "new thought without ever bavins; learned to think, the thousand advocates of changes and reforms springing' from no need, growing out of no experience, and wnicn nave no virtue wnatever save that of mere novelty; the shallow, the unqualified, the half-baked horde who are letting loose upon ths land a tor rent of talk." insomuch that the edu cated man or woman of to-day has literally to struggls against being swept into the current of President Cutler regards this ss a phe nomenon difficult of explanation, but tt Is sn actual and visible condition. We quote from his addresat Ro far aa the larger publlo life It concerned, the last half-century of aclence. a truly marvelous period, has made absolutely no Impression on the thinking habit. It has destroyed many, prepossessions and not a few beliefs, but It has not taught mankind to think.

Our at la less reflective by far than was the eighteenth century or the first half of the nineteenth. Men are now so busy hunting for something new that they have no time to Inquire what the word new tneana It I odd that wa should have fallen so largely Into this mood within a short generation after the doctrine of evolution had taken firm hold of the minds of cultivated men. If there is any one thing which that doctrine teaches more clearly and more Insistently than another. It Is that all true development and progress are out of and because of what has gone before, and that they are to preserve, not to destroy, thona structures, habits, tendencies, and accomplishments which have shown themselves physically or morally fit; that is. suitable or worthy.

Whatever else this age may be. It certainly le the ace of the crowd and of the demagogue. The crowd wltn its well-marked mental and moral peculiarities It everywhere In evidence; and demagogues political, demagogues literary, and demagogues religious din our ears with hungry criea A torrent of talk is abroad in the land. The crowd Just now. the world over, sways from right to left In policy.

In belief, and In action, and cries out with wild enthusiasm to-day for the demagogue political, literary, or religious that it trample under foot to-morrow. The art of being a demagogue appears to be easy and quick to learn, and the rewards of the successful practice of the art have strange fascination for minds and characters that one would like to thtnk in all respect worthy. But wa are under no obligation either to run with the crowd or to follow every demagogue. The crowd has a natural tendency to follow the demagogue. It Is Inclined to be assenting rather than critical to ward hit tdeaa We see this in the tre mendous vogue of those excediqly popular nostrums, the Initiative and referendum.

We are asked to set aside or very largely to modify our represent atlvs system and to revert to the meth odt of a pure democracy, possible of application only In small communities We are asked by the adoption of the recall, applicable to all elected officers. to make Judicial tenure of office subject to mob caprice. The people are betn taught to believe that pretty much all wealth la culpable, and small trades men who have for years cheated their customers by false weights or by ths sais or adulterate commodities roar out their applause of soma barrel-head orator who denounces the predatory rich and the soulless corporations. There a very treat probability that our next struggle win be In resistance to a multitude of attempts to amend ths Constitution. Popular leaders declare that It Is an outworn Instrument, that It Is not adapted to ths conditions ef modern political society, and that it must changed.

Ths changes likely to be demanded, and most to be feared, are amendments that would sweep away ths guarantees of ths Constitu tion. There Is an outcry whenever a Federal court suspends ths operation of a statute that violates ths Constitution, which Is ths same thing as saying that a part ef ths people, a few of ths people In any Stats, ought to be allowed to Ignore and set aside the fundamental law which an the people have established. It Is not by thinking', tt is by a sort of cerebral ferment, that most of these Ideas are evolved. They do not strike their roots in political experience, they promise no remedy for any evil not better and more easily cured by standard application. But ths crowd acclaims them, and men who ought to know better, and do know hotter, too often adopt the Ideas of the demagogues simply because the crowd approves them.

Political ambition leads men into ths temptation to throw overboard their own snllghtened beliefs and to take on a cargo of these raw products of thoughtlest mlnda In the' hopo of political success they betray their better selves. President Eutlir has done wen to send out hit graduating class with this admonition against ths wiles of ths quacka TENEMENT HOUSE BUILDING. One point cams prominently to the front at the conference of experts. which has Just been completed under the auspices of the National Housing Association. The tenement is regarded by all who have Investigated it scl-sntlflcally as a habitation to be' excused only by necessity.

The visitors saw what New York has dons to Im prove Its tenements, not only by legis lation, but also by private effort, yet every allusion to the erection of similar barracks other cities was always mads with an expression of regret. On the other hand. Miss Hzleh Paji- rish of Philadelphia and J. H. Hanson of Toungstown.

Ohio, put before the con ference the results of actual experience of other communities in the provision of small but comfortable and sanitary dwellings for families who can afford only from $10 to $20 a month. They showed that there was nothing charitable about their erection, and that as an investment they should commend themselves to any business man. They steered clear of theories and sentimen talities and kept down to facts and figures. At this Juncture, when the Subway question seems on the verge of settle ment and a great suburban delevolp ment is inevitable, such a discussion Is of particular Interest to New York. The tenement we shall always have with us, and It Is perfectly true that the shape of Manhattan has saddled us with housing evils that can now only be ameliorated.

But Manhattan Is not New York, and In the Bronx. Queens, and the outskirts of Brooklyn, perhaps also In Staten Island, are thousands of acres of unoccupied land, destined In the near future to be traversed by streeta It Is of the utmost importance that their development shall be on right lines. Again and again have sodolo gists deplored the erection of tenements in green' fields, where to speak of pres ent congestion Is absurd. Property owners should realize that this class of habitation is not the only one that will pay, and that they can build single family houses for the millions of tollers with the certainty that they can reap from them a sufficient return on their investment, While it is yet time, the experience of other cities has been laid before them, and it has been demon' strated in the clearest fashion that the teachings of enlightened sociology can bs harmonized with the rightful expec tations of finance. IF WE SHOULD 00 TO WAR, "If the United States Should Go to War la the suggestive title of an artl de in the current number of The At lantlo Monthly by Major John Bigelow, retired, of the United States Army.

The author is a student and writer on military affairs of recognized authority, widely and accurately Informed, cautious and acute in Judgment In this article hs sums up very olearly the actual military force at the command of the UnKed States Government the numbers of the regular army and the National Guard of the various States, the means of mobilizing them, of equipping them, the conditions attending their reasonable readiness for actual operations against an enemy, and the time required to Increase their number within certain assumed periods. That Is to say, what force could we put into the field of a quality up to the standard of European armies In from three to tlx weeks. In seven months, In a year, or more? The calculation is made with reference to the possibility that should our navy fall to prevent sn army of 100,600 men. thoroughly prepared for war, could be landed on our shores in three weeks and another 100,000 In forty days more, or 200,000 men in two months. The conclusions at which Major Biox-low arrives are not optimistic.

He estimates the regular mobfte troops In the United States on a peace footing that Is, as they now are, within the home territory, at 35,156. From this number he thinks that there could be formed a field army of ths various es sential branches infantry, cavalry, field artillery, engineers, signal troops, and sanitary troops of 14.M5 men, with thirty-four guns. The President has ths authority, at discretion, to expand the organizations of the regular army to their fun war strength. Should he do so, ths number would bs increased by about 27.000 men. which, if equipment were supplied, would give a field army of 3 little larger than a Euro pean army corps.

But ths process of enlisting; equipping, and fairly training the new men would require at least six months. After examining the various conditions attending the tue of the mili tia. Major Bioxxow estimates that ths United States may secure for immediate operation the first line from three. to six weeks, 15.000 regulars; In six months. 87.000 regulars; In seven months, regulars and National Guard, in nine months.

180.000. and In one or two years; He thinks, however, that any force beyond 73.000 might be seriously lacking in transpor tation, medical equipment, signal equip ment and engineer equipment He also finds our sea coast defenses lacking in both equipment and men. This, cannot by any stretch of patriotio complacency be called readiness for It cannot be called read iness to repel promptly an invadlag force which, according to Major Biax-tow, it is physicany possible for other nations. If they chose to do so, to send against us. Our condition, at the present time, so far as our fighting capacity goes, is not only that of a nation at peace, but that of a nation able and determined to remain at peace.

Whether we shall Indefinitely be both determined and able to maintain peace Is another question. During the first 115 years of our National existence we were Involved in four wars with other nations, at an average interval of less than twenty-nine years, whjch is rather more than one to each generation. In three of these contests we were vic torious; the remaining one was, in a military sense, a draw," when peace was signed, though a signal victory was won by us before the news of the treaty reached the country. None of these wars was such as we should have to wage now in a quarrel with any" first-class, or even third-class, Power. Ws may for long years be safe from such a quarrel, but obviously, our safety does not He in preparedness.

The florists of Walthaxn, Masa, who have asked the courts for an Injunction to prohibit the airships, exhibiting In that vicinity, from flying over their glass greenhouses because a fall upon these structures would ruin valuable plants which could never be re placed," are acting within rights an ciently recognized but never before as serted. In the old Roman law it was held that the owner of land had do minion of It "frome the centre of the earth up to the sky." Nobody knew, but the Census Bureau counted them up, that there are 2,956 counties In this country. Their lines are but faintly observed. Will the time come when State lines are regarded with Uke indifference? TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A member of the Na A LMtlerence tlonal Association of Not Hard Audubon Sooletles to Discover.

us with inconsistency, injustice, and several other rather dreadful things for severely criticising hid organization's acceptance of money frota the manufacturers of pump guns snd at the same time highly commending the course of Dr. T. Hornadat in the same mat ter. We are asked to note and willingly comply with the request that Dr. Hornadat has himself said: I was offered $10,000 a yar, with a possibility of $23,000.

but with the understanding that should not male, any mora war on th. puiqp gua or automaUo gun. I ald that It they ulshed to plac. th. monr In my hand, for nplfic uses in th.

promotion of wild lit. protection I would taks it and spend it In the ways that might agree upon, btt I would not promt, to ceas. my effort to dlacourag. th. uh of murderous We see nothing In that to make us regret our commendation of Dr.

Hornadat, or our condemnation of tlw Audubon Association, but in Bomo mysterious way our indignant corrcspondeat deduces from it that Dr. Hornadat h'mself made the suggestion that he would do exactly what the Directors of the Association of Audubon Societies are now criticised for doing on Invitation, yet Dr. Hornadat has long led a fight against these guns, whereas the association has never gone on record in regard to them." And he actually asks, "Wherein lies the difference So large is the difference, and so obvious is Its position, that the question at once amazes, and amuses. Dr. Hornadat so formulated his answer to the proposition he received that tho gun men saw the Impossibility of getting through him what they wanted, and.

Uke the practical business men they are, they took their money to a shop where the merchandise they sought was on sale. Our own opinion 1 that they are going to be disappointed in its quality, but they are grown-ups. and the rule of caveat emptor" appllea Whit becomes of Jambii Brown, alias Mason, as an Individual, Is a matter of small mo Meant Well. But They Didn't Know. ment to the world, and of little, more to himself, but it is distinctly lamentable that from his case a number of highly Inaccurate conclusion have been drawn, the most important of them being the conclusion that nothing could have been or can be dons with James Brown, alias Daniel Mai ok.

more likely than what was done to make bim a harmless or even useful member of society. That simply isn't true. Thla assertion may be made with confldnice, partly because it denies a univenial negative of obviously undemonstrable truth, and partly because the failure of the well-intentioned experiment to which he was subjected was so nearly inevitable that there was really no Justification for trying it Hare was a man whose career fer many years had been fun of proof that there was something serious the matter with what it is convenient to call his "win" of proof that he was Incapable of resisting neither large nor small temptations. Yet he was placed in an environment where temptations ef both sorts are known to be more than ordinarily abundant where he had. apparently, much futile help from sympathy, but not a bit of effective help from science.

As soon as the suggestive influence of the scene In court which led to his paroling wore off. 'he feU again, exactly as he had fallen a score of times before. Of course he fell, and nothing whatever Is ehown by the taU except that hi would-be benefactor didn't correctly dlagnoee hi malady or us In attempting Its curs a system of treatment that could reveal even as much as whether the malady was euxable or not Society has, of course, the right to shut him up as an enemy to its peace and safety, but its light to shut him up a a habitual criminal in a place designed for the punishment of men morally responsible tor their evil deeds that is not certain, la questionable. Is wlds open to denial. Probably, or at least possibly, James Brown, alias Daniel.

Mason, Is hopeless," In the sense that even science the new psychology and the new penologycould do little or nothing for Mm. but the last chance which he was so sternly lectured for wasting was no chance at all for a man in his condition. That there 1 a clo and clear connection between International sport and Nw York weather we are not Meteorology Has Its Mysteries. prepared to assert fact that In aa abnormally dry eeason rain that everybody except tte officials In our Water Department would call heavy has fallen on three days selected for the polo games between English and American players does not prove the existence of such a connection. Did It stand alone It could afely be almost of necessity would he-ascribed to the blind working of chance or by those of more pious minds described as a mysterious dispensation.

The fact does not stand alone. New Yorkers with good memories, especially if they also have little Mary at odds with Father Neptune, can well recall how In all the years of the big yacht race the brisk winds so nearly always blowing off our harbor sank and died whenever the boats went out for battle and left them to drift like the painted ships they were on a ground swell that tried more than the souls of the watching thousands. often did this happen that It cams to have significance, then, and it lends significance to the meteorological experiences of the polo playera But though New lork fretted over the cup race calms, It Is enduring these rains with something more than resignation. We like, or at least we are Interested, in international polo, which is some fun to watch and Is probably a fine game for those who can afford to play it or under, stand its nicer points. But we think of rain, this year, a something to drink, not aa something that lnterfeijs with sport, and our visitor must not surprised or grieved If we are on ths whole content to see in them four sons of Aquarius, gracefully reclining on large Jugs, gushing abundantly.

REFERENDUM AND RECALL. Democracy- Has Run Mad In the New Political Nostrums. To fae Editor of The Xeio Torh Tim: In your editorial Aa Oov. WUaon See. It," you call a timely halt to Democracy run Tna4 In the initiative, referendum, and recall.

Tour flrit remark that th. p.opl. cannot b. railed upon to u. these vwponi Judiciously and with dlscrcUon.

if they har. anything alse to do, hits the nail squarely on th. head, at th. first tlow. To put these weapons in their hands la, as you lntlmata, simply to put the Government Into th.

hands of agitators and demagogues. Bo few peopl. seem to understand the differ-nc batwaan what you rightly call a republican and representaUv. system," which our founders Intended to give us, and the pure democracy, which the modern tinkers are trying to force upon us. Athens mad experi ment of th.

latter many centuries ago. and failed miserably. Her democracy degenerated into a tumultuous mobocracy, and no good man could retain office except by force. We elect people, aa you contend, to do our thlnklnc and our legislating, and we should not tnrad. th.lr province with our crudities.

John Randolph of Roanok. undented this when, at the CMt of defeat, he refused to b. Instructed by his constituents. O. NASH MORTON.

T.w York, June 6. Poetlo Hydrology. To th Editor of Tht Hew York Timet! I tak. it all back. J.

I-" is right. In his frofound disquisition on hydro-things of various kinds in yesterday'a Times he calls at tentlon again to the wait, of wat.r from th. Columbia fountains. Th. water that issues from the main is, after all, the main Issue.

And yet somehow I don't seem to see the philosophy of this thing. If the water runs back it isn't wasted, is It? Bars W. J. "Why shouldn't it run back?" Sure enough. Why shouldn't It? Every drop that comes out of the main (by main force) should flow calmly and serenely back and get In again, by Jlm.

tntny. Nor should aquatlo economy stop there, Hydrostatics la not a mere matter ef quantity! Every drop that hurtles over the precipice between Niagara's banks should flow Tjaok to ths broad bosom of Erie, and thence again to its outlet, there to furnish aw. for the millions and power for the millionaires. This would be poetlo hydrology. But J.

will forgive mi. By all means let the fountains be stopped until the drought Is liquidated by bydrometeorological phenomena. W. T. New York, June fl.

1811. The Original Blrdmen, To th Editor of The yew Tork Timet: Referring to your editorial article, "An ator With a Grievance," I beg to call your attcnUon to th. fact that in 1903 or 1909 an article was publehed here which conceded to a Frenchman, Felix Ader, who la still living, the honor of being th first man to ride and guide through the air a motor-driven machine, in 1893 and 1897. his being a steam-driven monoplane. Would you now attribute the d.

velopment ef the aeroplane to the Wrights Of a more recent date, in 1906, short flight which lasted only a few minutes, hare also been recorder, the last to be eclipsed by a subsequent one of a few minutes longer, and so on until the present day. The heroes of these fUghts. who were then holding alternately the records of duration for flights with heavier- than-air machines, were Delagrange. Farman. and Wright.

The first two were at that time flying In Franc, with biplanes of their own. Did the Wrights teach thes. men? And have the Wrights had any priority over then on the field of real aerial navigation? New Tork. June 1911. R.

H. NERAT. Crude Expletives. 7o the Editor of Tht Xew York Timet: Is that eoT Is that aoT Is an expres sion frequently used In conversation, and la a very annoying form of expletive or reply. Both sexes are guilty of such bad form It Indicates to m.

a very slack mentality, alas highly Impertinent type ignorance. Then there Is another class of persons wit constantly Interlard their conversation with the expression. Do you understand? I suppose both are only bad habits of sneechl but as no one usually checks the speakers, the The English folk say "What?" er "Hey. what? which is Just as bad. and adds noth ing iw in.

general Detent, jr any of your read ers ar. guilty- of these crudities I hop they WW 7 mu'i umir epeecn. MARTIN XX. VERPLANCK. Kew Tork.

May 81. UU. REUCS OF WORTHIES SOLD. Martha Washington's Spoons, Lock of Madison's Hair, and Soms Rare Books. Two small silver-gilt salt spoons- which belonged to Martha Washington were sold to George D.

Smith st Merwln-Clay-ton's yesterday for He said that bs bought them for himself. They were presented by Eleanor Parke Custl to Mrs. Elizabeth Blsco Calvert ef Mount Airy. Prince George County, Md. Mr.

Smith also obtained for $22 a gold locket containing a lock of 'President James Madison's hair. The locket was presented by Dolly Madison, the President's wife, to Baraa C. Rush, daughter of Richard Rush. rare plan of the "Field of York- town." by Major Sebastian Bauman of the New or Second. Artillery, mad between, the 22d and SSth of October, 1781.

an dehgraved on copper by R. Scott In Philadelphia In 1782. at the request of George Washington, sold for $55, (Nash.) "The Bird of America," by John J. Audubon, brought 120. (Smith:) The Archbishop of Canterbury's Dis sertation on Pure Love." printed by Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia in 1738.

$27. (Clark;) "The Doctrine of Predesti nation." by Jonathan Edwards, printed In Philadelphia In 1742 by Benjamin Frank lin. $18, (Dodd Livingston.) and "Die-courses on Publlo Ocoaslona in America," by William Smith, London. 17C2, containing the first scheme for the establish ment of a college (Columbia) In New York, $85. (Clark.) The famous old folio "Der Blutlg Schau Plats," printed at Ephrata, by the Ephrata Brethren in 1748-8, went to B.

Clark for $32. It Is tald to be the largest book issued from any American press previous to the Revolution. Swain Drake's rare Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage by Hudson's Strelghts to the Western ana southern Ocean of America," published in London In 1748, brought $28.5, (wuson.) The sals win bs ended to-day. Chateauguay. To the Editor ef Tht JTew Tork Timet: Tour ertlcl.

In last Saturday's number mleht eenvey th Impression that our textbooks and more extended histories neglect the Battle of Chrystei'a Farm, (or Chateaue-oay.) and mini mise the military mia of the war of 1812. As a matter ef fact such textbooks as Larned's and Johnston's refer to th battle by name. whlla others. Uke those by Channlnr and Adams and Trent, describe, usually with fairness, the OperaUcna along the Canadian frontier. Tbers a detailed narrative in Uo-M aster's large history, and a better on In the monumental work by Henry Adams.

It nisy be interesting to not. that such com prehensive histories from th English standpoint a thoss by Gardiner. Ransom, and Sanderson, devote a few sentences to the border warfare, while Alrys Hirtcry of England." a volume of 600 pages, bestows a footnote of three line to the entire war of 1812. EDMUND K. ALJISIf.

Brooklyn, June a 1911. Interpret the Park 8Igns. To the Editor of The Jfew Torh Timet: There seems to be mighty little said In de fense of Mr. Stover's administration in th. management ef our parks nowadays.

But In one Instanoe, at least 1st us not accuse It unjustly. Tour Tompkins square Park oorrespondent should know that it was a previous park administration that put up those keep-off-the- grasa" signs, and that th people ar simply living up to the command In a literal sense by doing th very best thing that will keep off the grass, namely, walking, running, and play ing on iu F. O. B. New Tork, June T.

1911. A Protruding Sidewalk Corner. To the Editor of Tht Veto Torh Timet: The aldewalk at the northwest corner of Blxth Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street la ex ceptionally wide and protrudes Into the road way, with the effect of hampering traffic. Vehloles and teams turning from Blxth Avenue Into Broadway, through Thirty-fifth Street, and vice versa, are compelled to make a rather sharp turn at the corner to question; whereas, if four or five feet of the aldewalk were removed, trafflo would be considerably facili tated and without detriment to the appearance of the street FRED HOUSMAN. New Tork.

June 7, 191t Kills the Maple Worms. To the Editor of The yew Torh Timet: Noting In your paper a complaint about the maple worm, I would say that two years aco I exterminated the pests for good, (so for,) by burning sulphur candles In tomato cans, suspended below the lower branches. Some water in the cans to keep from melting the solder. is necessary. I am a great lover of trees.

and hope that this simple remedy may be tried and prove effectual. A SUBSCRIBER. New Ttrk. Jvne 7, IWt Cram. To tht Editor of The Torh Time It it refreshing and eneouraKlnr as well to see that Thb Nkw York Times does not hesitate to let the publlo know what It thinks of the scandalous appointment of Cram to the Publlo Service Commission.

Cram, of all men who have been known to the publlo for years. has been looked upon as the most complete sort of a political Joke. HENRY SIMPSON. New Tork, June 7, 1911. 8upport for President Taft To the Editor of The yew Tork Time: Permit me to express my gratitude for your splendid editorial articles In reference to Mr.

Roosevelt Memorial Day speech, and for the support you ar. giving President Taft In the effort he is making for the establishment of International arbitration of all, questions, and for Canadian reciprocity. E. p. SWIFT.

New Tork. June S. 1911. NEW YORK'8 PARK CONDITION. Gee whls, What a beauty a park la When It la But, Bay, When lt'a the other way-Wow, Look at our nowl Ain't they a sight to pain the eyes? Ain't they the bums according to size? Ain't they the fields In ragged dress 7 Ain't they the arid wilderness? Ain't they Oh, say.

Was there ever any city Had parks like we have got? Was there ever any people Who would call a franled lot A Park, and stroll about it Or sit In It to rest And try to make each other Consider it the best That ever was, bar none. Kissed by the dew, waimed by the suh? My scat. Where are our senses atT Have we got the nature placesT Have we got the hills and woods? Have we sot the open spaces? Have wo got the landscape goods? Have we? Well, say, Look, anyway. And see Our charm and scope of scenery. We have In the hill and valleys, We have In the wide-spread stream That He all about us tfho beauty Of poeta' dnd painter dream.

That' what! But what have we got To handle the stuff? I Stover enough? It Is up to' bis Honor the Mayor To get mighty busy and do Some Jabor at park salvation And go to tt p. d. q. See! W. J.

LAMPTOJf. REPORT ON SUBWAYS EXPECTED OK FRIDAY McAneny Can't Get It Ready for Board of Estimate Meeting To-day. NOTICE FROM PRENDERGAST. That Hi Wont Vote for It If Uh matum to Interborough I Not Made Strong Enough. The subway report of the McAneny Committee win not be submitted to the Board of Estimate to-day, as was an- -nounced following the conference between the committee and th Public Service Commission at the Bar Association last Monday night.

Instead. Mr. McAneny will present a resolution asking for permission for his committee to make the report publlo when ready." which he now believe will be some time late TrrV day. for publication in Saturday moraine's newspapers. The Chairman of the Board of Et-mate Committee came downtown' yesterday from his house, where he had been working on th report, about lunch time and.

after seeing Mayor Gay nor, had luncheon with Chairman Wlllcox of the Publlo Service Commission. Mr. McAneny asked the Mayor If he would call a special meeting of the Board of Estimate for Friday to receive the subway report. This the Mayor was disinclined to pleading his usual custom of going to his country place in St. Jamea ever the week-end.

Then Mr. McAneny asked to have a special meeting of the board called for Monday and announced hi plan regarding the resolution, asking that the report be mad publlo when ready. He explained later that the labor of dictating and transcribing the report was such that It would be a physical Impossibility to get it done for publication and presentation to the board to-day. Then he went back to hla house to resume his work oa ths report. As matters stand, except for the apportionment of the lines in Brooklyn in ease the Interborough accepts the terms proposed to it b7 the city, the element of uncertainty now has to do with the extent to which Mr.

McAneny la disposed to make concesslong from the city's previous position in framing the terma to be presented to the Interborough in the ultimatum his report will contain. The agreement between hla oommitte and the Publlo Service Commission was reached, it is learned, on the basis of certain concessions by him from the series of suggestions last put up to th Interborough, which that company refused to grant at the final conference. Controller Prendergast sent word to Mr, McAneny yesterday that he would not voto for a report which was in favor of letting the Interborough have some pert of thT lines proposed by it If, in order to accomplish this, the city had to make Improper terma. What Mr. McAneny replied Controller Prendergast did not say, except that the Chairman of the Board of Estimate was quite Bur that th Controller would have no occasion to vots otherwise than for the report.

It Is understood that President Mltchel of the Aldermen takes the same stand in this matter as the Controller. Both will lnaist that ths report of the McAneny committee shall not recede from the position taken by the city heretofore, particularly in demanding- an opera tin 5 basis for the enlarged system which w41t not starve the extensions in favor of the existing lines. The Interborough has already refused to accept an operating expense basis figured on the average cost per passenger over the entire system. The adjustment of franchises below Forty-second Street, In the event that the be completed, and the general matter of the recapture of a set or sets of lines capable of Independent operation without undue expenditure by the city for connections, improbable legislation, or arbitration on term to be determined," Is another point on which, according to information yesterday, the Controller and the President of the Alderman will not support the McAneny report unless it meets their views. There are several others, such as the Inclusion of th Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, subway In the main operating contract, and th modification of the terms proposed for th operation of future extensions, as to which in Its offer as It stands at present the Interborough ask a guarantee against all loss and a second segregation of receipts and expenses in determining its share and that of the city in the poasibla earnings os such lines.

That the recommendation shall be su definite as to exclude th possibility of more negotiations with th Interborough and further delay, is another point that the Controller put up to Mr. McAneny, Mr. McAneny ha said "previously that th suggested modifications of the Interborough offer would be so framed ss to call for categorical answers, so that th Board of Estimate might take final action In determining Just what line were to be built within a week after it first adopted the committee' report-There were renewed statements from Interborough source yesterday indicating a present disposition of that company to stand by its Broadway ultimatum, against the certain demand of the McAneny Committee that the B. B. T.

U9 Broadway in Manhattan be granted. These were accompanied with the same predictions of financial dlssster if ueh a course were chosen that official of the company gave utterance to the day be fore. J. HOWARD PAYNE GATE. To Pay for the Memorial at Union College $3,500 Is Needed.

The fund for the John Howard Payee memorial gate at Union College, Schenectady, now totals The gate Is Intended to commemorate the centenary ef the college day of the author of Home, Sweet Home." To pay for Its erection. ta.MO Is needed, and the committee, ef which the Bev. George Alexander of the University Place Presbyterian Church Is Chairman, hope to secure this sum by June 12. All contributions should be sent to Frank Bailey, Vice President of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 1755 Bern-eon Street. Brooklyn.

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