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fridat. uarch as. mr. ITO TIME TO LOSE, i Of tho plans formed la Wsshlnston for tha defena of that country by sir. land, and sea thero nothlcr dis-paratlnf to say.

They hare ba well thousht out. and while disputes hare arisen regarding trPs of runa and propelling luacblnery for It is. fair to assumo that the awloctlons ha made with rood Judrnient. But, reneraily apeailns-. w4 have acquired little In the way of defense except the plans.

With all the urgent appeals of naval and military experts, of newspapers and speech makers, for two years past, we are still la a state of unpreparedness. The first batch of the new; submarine chasers Is to be ready In three months. In that time many disasters may occur. And the building of those mail boats Is the slightest operation the Navy Department has In view. Bur-pllee and equipment for soldiers are not ready.

In spite of all the Warnlajra. Full equipment can be obtained Ions before the men are trained to use It," Is the poor consolation we may derive from the Washington dispatches. The universal military training bills are to be rought forward In both houses of Congress early In the extra session. That Is as It should be, and in both branches serious attention Is to be paid to the General -Staff's plan, the chief features of which should be em bodied In whatever bill Is accepted. But universal training and service plans are preparation for the future.

and we are facing present peril. The array system we have must be made the most of. Granting that about 00.000 mei can be quickly placed under arms after a fresh mobilization the National Guard, the equipment of even that comparatively small force will be beset with difficulties. The question as to we may eventually send troops abroad, therefore, seems for the present purely arsdVmlc. It Is not worth while now' to com.

pute the number of warnings of danger to come unheeded by Congress. But It can scarcely be forgotten that In 1911 Secretary Stimsojc in his annual report polned out the deplorable condition of the field artillery In the matter of equipment. Very little has since been done to provide that important branch of the military service with arms and ammunition. There is suit only one field gun larger than six Inches. We have no large siege runs.

la the provision of airplanes for defense and scouting there have been needless delays. The disposition to correct these errors Is commendable; we are at least no longer dwelling In a fool's but there Is a great deal of practical work ts ha (inn before we ran effectively defend There Is encouragement In the man ner In which the citizen members of the Council of National Defense and the Naval Consulting Board have taken up their difficult Men of action, who have had targe experience In business, they have succeeded In beginning the processes of "industrial and transportation moblllJation. The railroads and the manufacturers In all parts of the country are co-operating with them, and so are the, bankers. The appointment by the War Department of a Munition Standards Board of experts Is a good move. But the board must have something to work upon.

Our need of munitions Is as great as our need of trained men. The regular army Is not yet up to Its authorized strength. The National Guard needs many; recruits. The navy lacks many men. The amount of work to be done Is prodigious.

There will bo no lack of money. There will be no lack of patriotic Dut co-ordination of energy la the departments, rapidity of work In 'shipyards and munition factories, the manufacture of air. planes and seaplanes, the making of tents and blankets and the thousands ef other things Included in military equipment are the pressing needs of tho hour, Tho Treat Board appointed by See. rotary Gassisox reported a little mare than a year ago on the requirements for the equipment of 1.000,000 troopa. That la the size of the army.

ladaCrg tbo rtxulara, ml'jti. aad volunteers, which the Administration now Intends raising with the consent of Congress. It would form merely the nucleus of the army we should need In the event of a protracted war. We can train, arm, and equip such a body of men in all the branches as quickly as any other nation. If we set bravely to work about it; But there Is no time to lose.

A VISITOR IN LINCOLN. Nebraska will commemorate In June the semi-centennial of her admission to tho Union. 'The Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, situate, like Mr. Bsvax. la Lincoln, has asked Colonel Roosevelt to make a speech at the celebration there.

The Chancellor and some of his friends have told Col onel Roosevelt the kind of speech they want him to make. They hold that the Colonel's 103 per red corp use led, and straight-out Amer tcanism la genuine Ncbraskan, that bis views are those of Nebraska. There Is ho better Union man than the Colonel. There Is no heartier American. If Nebraska has been belled by tho vociferous pacifism and pro-German pernicious activity of some of her publio men.

the annifer aary of her entrance Into the Union will be a mighty apt time for the proof and vindication of her Amerl canlam. The Colonel can be depended upon to make the kind of speech the occasion calls and wo hope sin cerely that Mr. Bryan will have to listen to It. PRESENT AND FUTURE OP RUSSIA. It Is to ba expected.

It Is Inevitable, that Berlin should send out reports of anarchy and chaos In Russial It would be unreasonable to expect from that quarter any -Russian news that could possibly give comfort to friends of liberty and democratic Institutions To the last possible moment the Imperial Government must and will keep from the German people the truth about the overthrow of the autocracy in Russia. The Russian example Is of dreadful augury for the house of Ilohenzollcrn, tho less said about It In Germany the better. The portents of evil upon which the Berlin dispatches dwell have no place In news coining directly fmm Russian sources. Tho dispatches that come from Petrograd from day to day are reassuring, and It Is inherently probable that they tell the truth. Tales of disorganisation and disloyalty to the new Government In the army must be set over against the self-evident fact that the Czar would never have abdicated If he had not been convinced that the- army was with the revolutionists.

Sovereigns who have a powerful army at their bacjc are not so weak ami yielding-the Kaiser, for example. The Rus sian Church also exhorts the people to be loyal to the new Government. That Is a favorable indication not to bo Ignored. There may be Socialist demonstrations in the big cities, agitations. more or less rioting.

But the Social its of Ruia are to be found In the operative class and some extent among university students. They are but an insignificant fraction, of the population. The land-owning class. the tillers of the soli, are the heart and soul of Russia. They are faithfully represented by the Duma, whose leaders are men of Intelligence and moderation.

There are no more loyal and earnest supporters of the Duma and the revolution than the Zemstvos. or rural county councils, and the Rus sian Unions of Towns, or rural town ccunclls. It waa theso unions that assumed the task of furnlahlng sup- piles to the armies at the front. but DiaLblo tnen It tho Government service broke dowy They are immediately representative of the spirit of the Russian people throughout the whole empire. With the army, the Church, and the Russian people themselves giving faithful support to the new Government, It Js not eajjy to believe either that the forces of reaction generated within tftie old titled and official class, permeated with treason and or the radical spirit among the extreme Socialists, will get the upper band.

The Nihilists have disappeared, the terrorists of whom we heard so much ten or fifteen years ago find their occupation gone. The revolution has come without the bloodshed of which' they talked so threateningly. There may be conspiracies against the new Government of the people, moments, of peril may await It, but there Is solid ground for the belief that the popular election will be held, that the Constituent I Assembly will do its con. struct! ve' work in peace, and that a permanent Government will be estab lished acceptable to the Russian people and worthy of the world's welcome. It Is idle to hold up the example of the French Revolution aa a warning.

The nations of the earth have stored up a great deal of knowledge drawn from history and experience in the last 15 years. The leaders of the Russian revolution, great numbers of tho people of Russia, who through their experience In local self-government have gained much worldly wisdom, are not at all likely to repeat the excesses and blunders of the French 'Revolution. It is far more likely that titty will take nifaaurea to avoid them. When Mi1. Kkrenski, the new Minister of Justice, said to ah audience he was addressing the other day that the faithless Ministers of the former Government were under arrest and In his charge, the cry was heard: "Chow them no quarter! Hi reply that the ahoiu ful methods of the oldlrcglme would not be adopted by the Constitutional Government.

No man would be punished without trial, I he said, none would be condemned without a hear Ins In court. That Is the foundation principle of English Jurisprudence. Yet nd American TOT. KERENSKX has been called a radical, he Is a Socialist member of one of the groups of the Left in the Duiaa. A revolutionary Government that at the very beginning acts upon sulh principles Is little likely to give way! to reaction on the one hand or to disaster and excesses' on the other, A THREAT OF MOREOMIIIBUSES.

Congestion in the thoroughfares of thts borough has not idjmlnlshed since the plan to license more omnibus lines, which would tend to make getting about In the principal streets even- more dangerous Mas4 defeated by thej and difficult, orce of public opinion. It is discouraging to 'note that' the plan has reabpeared In the Board of Estimate. I The Committee on Franchises repdrfted yesterday that the Invasion of ithe streets by more omnibuses would! not materially lessen such profits at the city obtains from; existing lines or may obtain from the coinplel dual subway. 'But that is not to! yie point. The time has come when Ithe streets of New Tork 'are so overcrowded that there' Is not room I dnough on the street- surface for te public con- veyances already In orirration.

Doubt 5 less the new vehicles would get pas i sengers. nut tney would aaa. new miseries to life in the! great city. It Is to be hoped that ttlrt Hoard of Ks-tlmate will consider tills matter care fully and from the pomt of public Interests without rega jrE to any present or prospective profits. THE SUPRASUPRIME COURT.

Mr. Samuel Goiiifess. President, and Mr. Frank Morrison. Secretary, of the American Fexiefation of Labor, are sitting as a Couijt of Cassation; and the mere Kuprtnje Court of the United States is natilrilly rebuked and The two' learned juriscon sults have served General the protest oa tne Attorney of the Federation and the workers of America most of whom i don't bekd the opinion, looking to It asalnnt oward compul- scry arbitration, of thfc Supreme Court in the'Adamson law declsion, an opin- Ion which belongs the old renc-of Russia and tlonary dKMniii Mexico, and is out Of harmony with the free Institutions of this Repubi Thus Is the Supr me Court sent about Its business hhe Iabor Court of Appeals.

WHEN. THE HOtfSE MEETS. It does not make much difference to the people whiclji ne of the plans for a compromise organization of the House Is adopted; jt 1 ry will be satis-fled with any of therh. They will not 5 be satisfied, they wi be outraged. If no compromise i Is i 'ached and if a House summoned 1 1 meet in the gravest emergency he country has faced in half a century begins its session with a deadlock Over the Speakership and a squabble! over the House patronage.

While il whole nation la thinking only of thefway to meet the crUls, for a branch Its Government to embark Immediately on a par- tlsan row will be Isherj-tenlng and dangerous. Furthermore, ther must be an end about five un it once of the tal knowns holding balance of twin power In the lln us. Such a thing undignified and1 weak In ordinary not to be endured li such a time as this. Neither does ft have to be en dured. If the flvel unknowns are per mitted to hold, the balance of power the election of Speaker, they will continue to hold) It on every item Of general legislation that comes up during the life of ih Sixty fifth Con.

press. That Is a reason of the first Imports nee why they should not be permitted to hold lt In that election The legislation; of toe country at the beginning of a great war must not be permitted to depeadlon the deals that 14 Republicans 214 Democrats each successive can make over measure with cue Socialist, one Pro- one 'rogrcssive Pro tectionist, one; Prrre8lve, -and one Independent. I. No such eituatloi can arise If the House patriotically resolves to meet. Republicans and not as a House Democrats, but' ask House of Amer icans' assembled tj defend their country.

Such a House, being confronted by an equal divlsliif of party strength. will come to an greement at once by which a long- jjawn fight over the Speakership will jbe avoided. The agreement will place the leadership of the House In mtn, whether Repub licans or Demcxfats or a coalition. who by virtue of become the leadei of the House as a that agreement will I not of parties but whole. The legisla tion these leaders propose or approve will therefore call for the fiupport of a majority of hit House, not a ma jority of the Republican or the Democratic Party, and fiuch support will be given; the agreemjent will assure that.

This will dispose the power of the five perhaps entljnable but unknown individuals known as independents" to control in accordance with their un ascertained prejudices the self-defend- ing labors of a Igreat nation In the presence of an efficient foe. Our belief Is that the neces sary co-operat lon between the leaders aud Ihe parties would bo best secured by a division between the two parties of the Speakership and the Important committees. But any agreement whereby the House can act as a whole will suit the country. The one thing which It will not endure is aa ex hibition of governmental inefficiency on the threshold of war, inefficiency caused by a political squabble over offices and patronage. PATRIOTISM OF LABOR AND CAPITAL, The capitalist Interests are rallying to the support of national interests In a manner which qualifies them to expect -the co-operation of labor.

The united copper Interests are selling to the Government below the market for ethers. The Government has accepted the use of Hens Ford's great automobile plant on his terms of no profit to him. The Bethlehem plant, greater than Krupp's, will work for the Government alone on terms of huge loss, in comparison iwith what might lie made In selling to general buy ers. Ships will be Duut tor tne Government on terms of cost and a fair profit, not a wartime profit. The list Is too long for completion, and is a fair challenge to labor to work also on own terms, as snnniim-e-d March 12.

On that day 117 representatives of threi million workers announced from Washington that services more exhausting than the principles of human welfare warrant 5 should be asked from' labor only when the profits which the employer shall secure from the industry In which they are engaged have been limited to fixed percentages." Theso are the economic conditions upon which the officers of fthe national trade unions pledged members in stress or In storm to stand unreserv-" cdly by the standardssof liberty and "the safety and preservation of tho institutions and ideals of our Re- public." In this co-operation of capital and labor In the pubhc service lies our best hope of avoiding 'some undesirable experiences abroud. There profits and wages rose competitively, without tho restraint ot such self-denying ordinances as have? been imposed here. Under the stimulus of unlimited necessitous buying by tho Government the cost of living rose, and labor found itself benefited not at all, except so far as It refused to Indulge itself. The British laborers who bought Jewelry and music machines and went to their work In automobiles enjoyod a beg. gar's holiday at the public cost, instead of raising their economic position.

British labor emptied the Government cash box In defense of what It called its rights, meaning short hours, the prevention of woman labor, limitation of output, and the rest of the trade union program, It Is Undesirable that the billion, or perhaps billions; which we are about to spend should be wasted In excessive profits or wages or in protection of labor's privileges Just now. There is neither desire nor necessity to exploit either labor or capital. Wages and profits should both be fair, for this Government can pay Its way, and ought be beholden to nobody for anything except good citizenship. There should be no excess of praise for the capitalists who have shown the way of patriotism to Isbor. The trade-union leaders must be rethnl unon to hold the workers within bounds, according to the professions made when they, protested against pi-oflta at labor's expense.

There should be no such profits. And there should bo no disproportionate rains for war workers at the. expense -of their associates In other employments. For tho present, labor should waive its eight-hour propaganda, receiving overtime pay for overwork. If the men are taken from the workshops for either preparedness or service, they should assent to their replacement with women or children of suitable age, however contrary to union principles at other times.

Fair, even i generous, treatment should be the rule, but no excess either of profits or pay. Neither should excuse the other, and the thrift which has been so tardily practiced abroad should be taught from the first here. We are the world's general and we make the good things of life dear for ourselves when we sell ejther goods or credit too dear abroad. MAGISTRATE HOUSE. Magistrate House Is to be congratulated for the: enemies he has made.

His strict enforcement the law against reckless speeding has made the Traffic Court Just what" It was Intended to be the foe of careless and criminal -drivers. It Is natural that his fearless conduct should have provoked the enmity of some members ot the Professional Chauffeurs Club of America. But It is not natural, it Is wholly reprehensible, that the club should endeavor, by a veiled political threat against the Mayor, to obtain the removal of an honest and upright Judge and the appointment In his place of Its own legal representative. This attempt at political blackmail has called forth a prompt and deserved rebuke from Chief Magistrate McAdoo. It cannot be treated otherwise than with contempt by the Mayor.

The Mreeta of New Tork, In the annual toll they take ot pedes trians, have often been called as dangerous as a battlefield. They can be made safer- by punishing with con siderable fines first offenders against tho law andl by sending second offenders to Jail without the alternative of a flue. This a hat Magistrate House has been doing. This is what the general public-, including all decent chauffeurs and motor car owners, hope ho will continue to do. TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

On flrat reading the Resentment resolutions by means cf Hard which the members of to Explain. pressed their bitter Indignation at having been asked to sign a pledge of loyalty to the American Government, one couldn't help seeing that, they had aa much right as any other American citizens would have had to rearnt what U-y took to bo an Intimation of doubt aa to the thoroughness of their patriotism. It didn't take mora than a second thought, however, certainly not a third to brins realization that this particular group yt citizens bad no more excuse for feeling that their loyalty had been impugned by tha prcaentatlon to them or this pledge than did any the other Americans, in or out of groups, to whom the same pledso has been offered for signa ture. Why, after all. were the Arlons so deeply offended, while the members of the Union League for lnatance, neither grieved nor raged when they, too, were asked to Join In an assevera tion of fidelity to the country in which they live? And here Is another question which the Arlons would do well to ponder.

-though tha pondering will now be a bit brlated-: I low wrtild llioy hove frit if. when the Mayor's Committee on Na tional Defense whs sending out Its pledge so widely, that pledge had not been sent to liu-m? That, surely, would hove been an Invidious distinction an Insult as deadly ns could be imagined for It would have lieen, not an Intimation, but an assertion as nearly ex- illicit as can be mado without tha ua of words, that In the estimation of the committee the Arlons stood apart from the great, body of loyal Americans and that nothing v.nn to be expected from their. In the wa of a patriotic demon stration. But it was necessary either to send the pMlgc to tho Arlon Society or not to send It there, and everybody out of that organization or other organizations of tho same kind and sentiment, if such there are will hold that had the com mittee not done exactly what it did It would have been as reprehensible as it la new commendable. The members of the Arlon Society are morbidly and somewhat mysteriously sensitive.

It Is no reflection Saloons at upon the men who will the Gates attend the riattsburc Of a Camp, training school this Summer to say that there Is real and serious need for the Imntedinto 'UK" 'f Hit I'leico bill prohibiting the sale of liquor within a quarter of a mile of any military camp. For the great majority of tho men who seek the Instruction given in such places it makes no measurable difference whether thrs or sr not autitous at the aiatca cf tho cuini, na they are strong enough to withstand temptation, and will do It. But, of the something more than UO.iJtiO rookies expected at Plattsburg this season, at least 3.1.000 will be little more than boys, and In a number so great there will be. inevitably, not a few moral weaklings, and some who may even have the antiquated notion that It la a part of soldiering to ho vicious and An Albany dispatch says that at the hearing on the Pleive bill by the Assembly Excise Committee, after' a regular army Captain had feelingly described the miserable dives near tha riattsburg reservation, and told how the sale of intoxicants was not the worst business carried on In them, one Jchn E- JUDtiK, representing the liquor dealers whose property Is threatened," argued against tho passage of the bill. The dispatches o.t hand do not teveal the arguments used by Mr.

Jl'duc, but one can assume with fair safety that he did not contend for the perpetuation of the dives on the ground that they were esMential to or hastened the attainment of the military efficiency of which the country Is nuw In such ttraperate need. It Is ssd. indeed, that property should be "threaten'." but. without being quite an one might foresee even the complete financial ruin of those who own this particular property," and still not suffer from an Intolerable grief. As fur Plattsburg itself.

It legitimately pronts ao much from the presence of the camp on its outskirts that there Is cause for some wonder that it does not voluntarily devise measures for keeping its saloon, if it must have them, Just a little further from the reservation than a quarter of a mile. These srs days In which a wise regard for their own political Interests and lives should Inspire our legislators with fear of voting against a law like the Pierce bill, or of heeding such pleas as those of the ingenious Mr. JiObC. WOMEN ELECT PACIFISTS. Part of Ticket Chosen by Women'i City Club Opposed to War.

The following officers of the Women's City Club of New York, elected Wednesday, were announced yesterday: President. Mrs. Krnest C. Poole; Vice Presidents. Mrs.

Frederic C. Howe. Mrs. Marcus M. Marks.

Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins, Mrs. Slgmund I'ollltxer. and Mrs. William M.

iainwin. recre-tary. Mr. Henry Hruere Treasurer. Mia.

Joseh Uriswald Uean; Trustees. to nerve, one ear, I Mrs. HoDert Hoe, tin aorve two vears.) Mrs. Frederick Crantord: (to serve three years.) Miss Mlna Bruere, MIns Heiie aa i oats treen. learned Hand.

Mrs. V. J. Simkhovltch. and Charles Tiffany.

A dinner was given on Wednesdiiy evening at the Plirk Avenue Hotel to the rellrln President, Mrs. learned Hand preccedlng the annual meeting, mere was no opposition to Mrs. Poole, who was eleclea t'rcniueni, aiinoiign iwo candidates were up for several of the offices. An Independent ballot was cir culated previous to the election, omit ting namei or women on me reiruiar ticket known to be pacifists, snd urging the members not to vote for them Some of these, however, went Into office on the regular ticket. Ths is the beginning of the second year ot the club, which has now members.

GARBAGE SUIT SANCTIONED. Richmond's Borough President and Residents Must Defend Action. Supreme Court Justice Cohalan has decided that the $.100,000 damage suit brought by the Metropolitan By-Products Omoanr against Borough Presi dent Calvin Van Name and other residents of Richmond Itorough who under took to frustrate the establishment by the nlalntlff of -a garbsge disposal plant on St at en Island stated a good cause of action snd that the suit must be tried. The thirteen defendants but jiinil.e Cohalan In overruling' tlieni rie. rlded that, an action would lie for wrongful Interference with the per formance tif an executory contract:" The chief complaint against the de fendants was that they organised Vigilance Committee, held meetings at which inflammatory speeches were made, caused false and misleading arti cles to be publinhed ugalnst the garbage plant in the Staten Island newitpapers.

and instituted three m-parale court na tion lu delay the erecUua of the ylaau N.Y. CENTRAL MAKES NEW 'CONCESSIONS Mayor Anjnounces Proposal Which Preyents Overcapitalization In West Side Rights. FULL REPORT TO WHITMAN Agreement Would jTermlnate Steam Operation Of Railroads In City Within Fopr Years. Mayor Mitchfl maie public last night, after several drays' delay, his report of new concessions offered by the New York Central In Its proposed agreement with the cltyj for west aide improvements. The report -as in the form of a long letter! to Governor Whitman, snd" was slimed byisll the five members of the Poft and Terminals Committee of the Board of Kstitnate except Borough President Marks.

On the previous night Mayor Mitchel had telegraphed Governor Whitman asking him to defer action on the Public Service Commission's jadverse report until this report of new! concessions hsd ben received. The Mayor Says that the railroad still refuses to entr intoj an agreement with llio rlty on a 'lml jof IrHHrlioWW of thn lands granted' by the city. This point, tho granting tf thej land In perpetuity. Is one that has aroused great opposition. As an alternative, tie Mayor states, the railroad's repJresentfitive was urged to agree that tlio rights acquired by the railroad unttrf- the Contract shall not bo valued by thef railroad st sn amount In excess of the 'turn paid for thern by tho company.

Xothls. jho elates, tho railroad agteed. (This js tho principal concession, and the Mayor then says: Obviously this amendment would preclude tho jTallroad from capitalizing any Intangible rights if granted by vir tue of this settlement at more than It Iays for then and anaklng such grants the basis for' a future charge upon tho commcr'co of ihe clljy through rates." wfuld bIso prevent the. railroad from selling hack thene rights at an exorbitant figure in tho event or ultimate public acqulnltlon, he arirues. President Marcusr.M.

Marks tosuea a separate statement! yesterday aettinjj forth his views. r. Jiark aa noi present at sill of conferences at which tlieae lust concessions, which tho Mavor states! In his report to be In tne leller of the! committee the railroad's final concessions. were agreed upon. and In another siatrmentyeteidtty Mr.

Marks said received no notice of the final conference on ithe subject. In addition; to thfe concession to prevent over-caipitalizHtion of the rights gained by the railroad, on which subject there were restrictions In the former HSI Willi Hie coirimlttee lepolird tliat the rail road hitd eiiaented to mri'O to the following; new features: I i I'roVlalon for Spur. I First. Tht the' railroad consent to give the Koiird of Estimate and Apportionment ihe rlajht to direct the con struction of iuis 4nd sldlnifK lo prlvalo property alcsig Its' line whenever the Board of KHtlmate and Apportionment may, by formal determination, decide that a reasonable necessity exists for such facilities; am li facilltlea in event to be furnished by the rnilroud company on; terms and conditions no more oneroup to the private enterprise nerved thatw I hone on which ulnillur spura and stjliias are rurnlnhiHl to other property its illne. 'J hat tho ratfroad agree to limit Its rUht to put spurs and into private property along Its line us follows: (a) tVher! tha railroad Is cmistru-te-l scroaa any alraat, avenua, or puhllc lma ouih of West Thirtieth Klraof.

a -aim 11 by tli plan pruriloa of 11' lit. Ilia mil-road company may provMe for apur trMrta and turnouts bjr. ldenln its at'ructura acroaa aald alrret. avenues, or labile places, oast and meft or the right of for such purpose, ticept that there shall not bo inorvi spur Uvi ny rasa stieet than (ilia uiai and one west iill main tracka jleadlnaj to I ha southerly Mih and on. east and ne west of aull initlu trucks leading to tHa northerly bliw-k, an I no such aur track shall be cunatruced lengthwise along any such cross turret.

(til Where! the railroad Is conMnwted hereunder, south of: West Thirtieth Street, parallel to and adjolnlns any atreet aa -hown by trte rlana and profllfs of tho railroad Company may construct arr.oss aald atrrfd ajiur tta-'fc. and titinmtta litl Inf to lml air (daiita, and warvhutiaea located wltldn blouks fronting uxm aaij at reel. asi-eiS that nothing In (Ma para-arai'h onfalned altll auiiiortso aald railroad cm ptirjy to construct any such spur lengthwlaa alnnit any street or avenue or to onatr'irt mnie than one spur track. itlth turnouts lesilns to any ons block: (-K Whers the railroad Is oonatrhrted south or ytt Ktfty-nlnth Street alonic any atreet. i avenue, or aa shown hy the plana rnd profiles of IHIH, tha railroad': company may count ru, antir b-ack anl turnouts leading to Industries, nlanf.

and Wrvrkhoaea located upon Hooka frontlns upon atreota. avenuea. and public ways, along which rmilroud la to be constructed herundr ss aforesaid, except thbC no sues srur track shall pass beyond the limits tf any one blra-k that I to say. the Mo It Into which said spur Is first ronatrurted-for shall ther be constructed mm a Ih rn spar track turnout leading to any om Mock, axcept that on Thirtieth Street, thero nuy I con-structet ons auch track with turnouts fur ovary 200 feet of frontage on aald street Provided, (that the clearances of atioh elevate structures provided for In sub.ll- 11 on. a.

hj. and the area to be occupied by anr structure acro-s any atreet. avenue, or public I way. and the location of Ihe columns supliortlng any auch elevated ahall be aubjeet to the appr-'val of Ithe Board Estimate and Apportionment Ease-meat' af Crossings. Third bhat the railroad agree to an omnibus clause providing for a present consent by 'it to aj future crossing either above or below lis line by a municipal railroad orj by any other railroad, on determination of fircesslty by the Hoard of Kstlmat.

at afiy point from the New York Central's Southern terminus In Manhattan, to tho city line, except across the property occupied by the New York Central for terminal yard, on payment of adeduafe compensation for such easement of rrosslng. th amount of such compensation to int determined by condemlMtlou proceedings according; to the provisions! of law FourthsThat the railroad consent to permit either a municipal railroad, aa now provided In the proposed settlement, to he attached to Its elevated structure between Fifty-ninth and Thirtieth Streets. or the elevated stiuctnre rif ann rsllro.id authorized by the city to be constructed along the marginal way. It which event the New York Centfal to; acquire the same right of crossing such future railroad, other than a municipal line, as may be reserved In the contract to a future munl-clpsl railroad of other railroad authorised by the cltyj to cross the line of the New York Central. Fifth That ithe New York Central also consent toi permit tbe crossing of its line without reservation or restriction as to ithe purpose of such crossing or as to the point to be reached by such crossing.

iThe proposed agreement as now drawh would appear to limit the rifftit nt nrossine to a mnnlriiia! rnll- road and to blocks Immediately to the est of he) New York Central's right of way. Thelnew clause will remove these restrictions and permit the crossing by municipal llneui or other lines and to any point east 1 of the New-York Central's right of way without limitation, i Separate Franchise for Duets. Sixth the railroad consent to tke .1 sesatatf friilielilae for the electric servlcie. duits. which It proposes to locate in ejty streets outside of the easement sresj, at fa stated price for such franchise jpiivilvge to be agreed upon, the railroad td pay an additional sum in caau such are employed in the future foi the; conduct of electric current for sale by the railroad for commercial plirpcies.

such additional puy-weut lo be at the rale of pti cenl. of the gross Income received by the railroad from uch commercial sales of electricity. Seventh Thrtt the railroad consent, with respect to the future roof covering to be constructed at the city's option and expinse over the Manhnttanvllle yard, to the determination of minimum clearances and the inclusion thereof in the conlrect. such maximum clearances to; be 2S feet. I or, at points where the roof of the nmm line tracks rises to higher level, not more than sufficient to bring the roof of the yard to a level with the roof jof the main line tracks.

1 Eighth. That Jtbe railroad consent to a relocation of columns In Tenth and Kleventh Avenues In the region; of the Thirtieth Street yard in auch a Way as to leave hut one line of columns In the mlddk of the avenue In place of two, teservlng thirty feet; unobstructed driveways on each side of such rowiof columns. i Ninth. That th railroad consent to such further clarification of the language of the proposed contract as will make definite and certain the surrender by the railroad of nil claim to franchise or rights or operation south of: Canal Street. That the railroad consent to the Incorporation In the contract of a suitable clause providing for liquidated damages in the case of default; by the railroad company 4ri the performance of its promises, and particularly In the case of failure lo comtiletn the work within thhe times and In, the manner specified In the contract." atreet Clear lVllhln Yeara.

A-ccordlng to the! Mayor, the agree ment terminate within six years' surface operation the New York Central Railroad In th streets of the city, with ita attendant. menace to life. They would terminate all steam operation by the railroad wlthln'the city within four vears. Rv effecting material expan sion of the terminal facilities of that railroad thev would serve the growing and Impel nllVo demands of the. com merce of thn -lty.

They. would free the city's water front of oc cupation hy the; New York Cen tral, except at the Thirtieth sntt sixtieth Stret ards snd for the space of feet north of l.Tith Street, and would preserve for other railroads free access to the itoroushs of Manhattan snfl the ilronx. with opportunity ror stteno-ant terminal development. Jointly or severally. Thej worn Id put the New York Central Ftallrond under ground where It now passes throucli or adjacent to clty parks, and add maiiv acres of park area at those points, a.Md would improve Incalculably the park situation on the west side of Island." The report calls Sttentioti to the ruh-Hc Service Commission's recommendation that the proposed i agreement be abandoned on the EToukid that better adjustment could bn obtained through the exercise by the StHe of Its compulsive pollen power.

Responsibility for that course. If followed, and whatever j-e-stilts mnv flow frWm It." the committee warns. rmft rest upon the State authorities." They) state that their proposed agreement was drawn up under the provisions 1 Chapter 777 of the lnwa of 19tl. and that they do not believe any beneffelal-i result would come from the repeal rof this chapter at the present time. Mat Senator Oeorge P.Thompson of Ntartra Introduced a bill the Senate InAlhnnv on Wednesday providing for tho repeal of thts chapter.

MARKS I ILIZS OBJECTION. Says City Should Regain Instead of Giving; Up Waterfront. In his MMemenl setting forth objection a to the proiiosed west side plan yesterday. Borough President Marks argued that theclty should regain instead of alienating Its As for the necessity lot granting the railroad fee ownership for the Sixtieth XI i a I'd. he s'nld Another objection Is the granting of fee ownership to the New York Central in entire Street yard.

The railroad company isnys 'lt must own this whole yard In fee and cannot spend monev where it has only a revocable franchise or tt terminable Iraae. If this is true, how did 'he rullioad company coire to spend sums of money In developing to i present status the urent Sixtieth S'toet yard, part of which w-tia on properti which It owned in fee nml the reat of i-hlch was on city property, to which tho railroad tenure could he 'terminated on thtee months' notice I' tirthermore. If, the railroad waa will-in if to spend so much money In yard and terminal development under such apparently adverse, conditions, why should It definitely refuse now to Improve for Its own benefit tlila same yard on the more desirable basis of reasonably long-term lenses for -the city-owned portion nartletilarlv In vtovr of the fact that the Interborouah Kapld iransit eompnn.r 'niimi ir "eyreeflmeiv nrofitsble st a cost r.f of dollars to construct lts elevated vard st l.V'th Street and tne River on city-owned propert which It held on short-term leases? A BILLION FOR THE ALLIES. Views of President of American Chamber of Commerce In London. New York.

Murch U'J. tUlT. T- ae Ml tor rif Th Vric for TlMrt: I have been waiting for some newspaper or man of irge Influence to ask ouestirn which in the title of one reau of Standards; Dr. Charles D. Wsl-i this morning i cott.

Secretary of the Hmlthsonlan ln-your editoring articles this morni.ig ard IJetit- Commander John th of "la That A11T" It Is emphatically not all nor What is so far proposed is simply a transaction in which we lend noney at a good rate of Interest on the Joint obligation of the Allied Powers, wlsose resources, undeveloped or otherwise, are so great that there can be no Question of their ultimately to pay. All that we forego ultimatiiy lo All -mat we ioics! is special tolisteral. which in time of peaco we would scorn to ssk or scorned if we did nsk. help would not be a manifestation of the spirit of self-sacrifice that underlies patriotism- or that conies to the defense of free Institutions. I would answer your question by First, that the I'nited States Government raiso bjf- bond Ihsus the sum of a billion dollars and place that amount as a contribution by us to the credit in this country of the Allied Powers; Second, that.

the large manufacturers of this country, who are In financial position to do so. make, under some Joint plan, the offer to the Allied Powers that they are nald to have made to our own Government, namely, to supply their products -at a small profit or, belter still, at rio profit at all, to the amount of thai; credit. I live abroad and. except for an oc- cnslonnl visit to this country, 1 have been throughout the war in, persons! contact 1 ii Vv. I prlnclples of liberty and right, whose maintenance in as essential to us ns lo them.

1 with other Americans i who live shroud, had to defend mv conn- try raalnnt the chaise made on all sides that ve have "become Indifferent to our national honor snd thought only of the commercial advantage which the war was bringing to us or would bring to us in the future. I know that Is not true, but-1 would like to see that belief removed from the minds of millions of our former In Kurone who now hold It. Nothing would help to efface It more- quickly than the action suggested, and to efface it, I make, bold to say. Is vastly more Important to our future good relations with the nations of Kurope than would be the effect produced by the enlistment in this country of a large arnry or by signal successes of our navy, helpful ss those achievements will ri M. CAMS ATT.

President of JJie, Afherlean Chamber of Commerce in Iotidon. SPRING SEEMS SO A-COMING. LONG How many days In March I've lain And wearily! watched those lines of snow Blow level, past the wlmlow-psne This March, and other Marches ra, Nlirinp arm long o-crn(sj They 'say the Idrd.i are here-that one Cold rohln hides beneath our hedge. Or braves thai drifts thai Ht titff 'h bs gun Her silver gleam on Winter's edge. I heard Hint lonely lohln, too -You'd think his little heart would freeze! The sun was hid.

and snowflakea flew. Some day hje'll sing Ip aolden trees! Spring seems so ot7 n-romtsff DOIIOT1IV LEONARD. Pi.iNriiNP, vm nnn I III 1 1 1 1 ill a wit. xavrww- AIRPLANES BY 1919 Walcott Gives Manufacturers His Views on Speeding Up Production. COMMITTEE OF 7 NAMED Washington Conference Expect ncm rrnnyv tsv i is iwi Standardizing Types.

Bpreioi Thm York Alarch 22. Arraxirs-ments for speeding up the plans of the Government for aerial -preparedness were dlscusned at an all-day conference here today between representatives of the aircraft manufacturers of the coun- ik P.iiMu. CAm if tha li uu inn ca.uvw National Advisory Committee for Aere-- nautlcs. In an address to those representing the QJovernment and tho Indus. try attending the conference, which waa held behind closed doors.

Dr. Charles D. Walcott Director of tho Smithsonian Institution and Chairman of the National Advisory Committee, after re-, viewing the Work dene by. the army, the navy, and the aircraft Industry la the last year, said that the countrr had scarcely innJs a beginning toward real aeiial preparedness. Dr.

Walcott aaserted that the annual requirements of airplanes for the army ar.d navy would be 2.000 airplanes and military and naval aviators, sod that additional machines and 4uU aviators would lie needed for training Pilots. The Industry in Its present state, he said, was unable to meet the country's requirement without great expansion, The principal development ot tbe meeting today waa the appointment of a special comadttee of seven to arrange details for- speeding up production of aircraft and the temporary standardisation of type re-qulred. This corumittee will conaiat ef four members of the National Advisory Committee for" Aeronautics and three representatives of the Aircraft Manufacturers' Association. Their natnss are withheld for: Lhe present, aeronautic Industry's inability to meet the; needs of the Government, said Dr. Walcott in his address to the manufacturers, is in Itself only another example of the fact that, thougn millions mar be available for a specific purposo tii i time of great need, no amount of Bioney will buy time.

Kven the most generous appropriations da not open upc the years that have passed and enable; us to carefully lay the foundational of a arreat industry and a great aerial! arm through the education of engineers, manufacturers teachers, and ail of the Wide variety of personnel required An aeronautical engineer, for instance, docs not step full-fledged Into being, but Is the result of years of pa-tlent studv of and experience with air craft, Such an evolution can only be accomplished with time, At the aireaent time there are not more than! twelve airplane manufacturing organlxatlons-ln the I'nited States with Thn stecesaary engineering and manufacturing experience and facilities to Jaatify Government business. The first conclusion to be arrived at Is. therefore, that these) factories must be em r.uinged: to expand rapidly as possible toi reach rapacity ef planes per year that might be considered as our reasonable needv There are many estimates of our reasonable needs, and the one herewith presented Has been prepared after conferences with ss many men as could I .1 u. I. V.

Av-e4MM judgment qualifying tnem tt express sn opinion, and after obtaining aa many data ns possible from Kurope. Tentative estimate of annual requirements; -of airplanes (assumed to be pofcslbln! of accomplishment in ll'll: "Attached to an army of men. l.ts and l.otiO aviators. "Attached to our fleet at- sea, -200 planes and. 2or-aviators.

Kor harbor and sesport defense. SliO planes end aviators. tors. For training pilots, (worn ot.or. broken.1 planes and 4J aviators.

Total. s.TXW planes and aviators." i A special committee or tne -Aero ctud America came here today from New yors lO' eovise ins udvirnnreni inti more wealthy men in and near New York were anxious to buy their own seaplanes and to undergo training without compensation, if they could be taught by! naval aviation Instructors. This means an offer of 12.000.000 frorrr patrlotlc New Yorkers, the average cost of seaplanes being- 1O.O0O each. Representative Murray Ilulbert. Henry a niemtMif the Hoard cif (Jovetnoisj and Aukuhius Secretary ff the club, were the committeemen.

Tiiey conferred with General Squier, Chief Signal Officer of the army lr H. W. Ktralton. Director of the Bj- ti. Tow-era, U.

B. N. PCAR.T0R Bid AIR FLEET. I 1 Advocates 'Member of Cabinet, in Charge Of Aeronautic Department. The millions expended on the army and naw will be wasted and the millions dt- voted to the Panama Canal thrown away unless the United states naa sucn an air flf-egi AS Lat fc 1 3 ul4 tr va'-'iivv! w.vsss we.

the air for this contisent. so Rear Admiral Robert K. peary reiterated yesterday In speaking at a meeting of toe National Special Aid Society neld at tha Automobile Club of America- He advocated the establishment of a Department of Aeronautics, with a place In the lYesldent's Cabinet, and put forth his plan for a great central aeronautia manufacturing plant. GOETHALS ON WAR NEEDS. i Major General Finds Much to be Done to Defend Country.

The Rotary Club luncheon at the Itnlel li teaterrlav. Under tha" In- spiratlon jof Major Gen. George W. Goethals. spoke on National Ds- fnse." aa turned into a patriot k) demonstration.

Merrill 'Watson. Presl- ttent of the 'Watson Kngineeriog Com- nany. after introducing the speaker. ailed fori the Star-Spanglod Banner from the -orchestra, and the men in the looni sang it lustily, while Cap- lain Chart!" i-Meges vi tne iweniy-second fcngineers wsved the American flag from the speakers' table. Major pen.

Uoethals aald the first factor-in! defense so far as the United; States was concerned was the navy, and aftef it 'cam the coast defenses. He explained that the idea that the navy wss supposed to protect the coast was "entirely erroneous," for the navy was purely for aggressive action. The coast defenses, he said, were intended to afford a refuge for the navy and to protect depots and cities from bombardment by vessels at sea and In the sir. 1 The opioltion to an Invading that had been obliged to land, said the speaker, devolved upon the army, and In this oeparuneni ne xouna.ucpioraoie conditions. In the first place, he did; not believe the plans of the General staff could be put into operation In time to be effective if the Chi led States went -to--war' With a first-class power.

He mentioned specifically the need for blgf Buns, ssyihg that the army was en-j; tirely lacking in and that- al-' though the country was ihdustrlaliy prepared: for their manufacture, the nation deaeiived no credit Tor this fact. Coming lo a consideration -of men. General Goethals was most disturbed. He an Id that a million men would surely liau c.e nl lit to defend th hut that ii sn army would be a mere mob without dMt'lp'ln snd without equipment. The condition of the army, he wefiti-on.

hadi brought forward the neccselty for utilierscl military train- i. lug. and when he advocated this the iiuiiience: broke into lout applause-Colonel. Corniiius Vanderbllt. who spoke before tleneral Goe-tnala.

defended the New York National Guard, saying that criticism' of It, except sn; tho! grounds th" "h'mii JSy which It controlled, was uimii-. i.