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THE NEWS. WAR. The Boers accuse Methuen of bringing up arms and ammunition in ambulances. bid farewell to the Prince of Wales before leaving for South Africa. Lord Kitchener arrived in Cairo and started for Th'e Duke of Marlborough offered for the war himself and.

,150 men and horses, not fifteen, as first Charles Thebault, a noted Canadian, denounced Britain's, against the Boers as "a war of brigandage," and denounced Laurler for supporting England at this time. Steps were taken for holding a mass-meeting of citizens io express sympathy with the Boers. GENERAL, NEWS. Senator Hanna said the Wall street stock flurry will not retard business prosperity. Comptroller Dawes closed the Globe National Bank, Boston.

joined in a statement giving a history of the Republican gold plank of 1896. There are disquieting reports in Wall street about big- houses suffering from the effects of the recent panic. Wall'street believed the gas war was practically over. Russell Sage confirmed this view. Klval companies for operating street railways In Havana were consolidated.

was reserved on an application for an injunction to prevent consolidation of the Pullman and Wagner Palace Car Companies. Sam Thomas was spoken of as a possible successor of Turner A. Beall as President of the Prod" uce Exchange Trust Company. The fund to save the home of Gen. Lawton to his widow is nearly $5,000.

Gov. Roosevelt will to-day consult Republican leaders and prominent citizens on many legislative subjects. Sheriff levied ou the furniture in Republican State Headquarters to satisfy an unpaid judgment. Comptroller Coler is preparing" figures to 'show the great benefits of municipal ownership. Yesterday was the "shortest" day In the year to great many people.

Two millions for Increased salaries but $20,000 less for the people's libraries! Rapid transit in Brooklyn seems to mean merely rapid transit toward a receivership. But two more days remain in which to head off that green Christmas which so horrified the old saw- makers. What beautiful consistency to rush into "foreign in the China Sea and then to cry "no when republics are attacked in South Africa! The fact that Woodruff's luncheon consists of "oysters, duck, cheese, coffee and two hours at table" leads one to Infer that he might live out a term as Vice-President. The State Department has adopted the Spanish spelling of "Puerto 'Rico." Why not "Habana" as well! Why stick to the Spanish spelling after we nave kicked the Spaniards out? "hold-up" of a Pullman car in a Western State is. In its way, an evidence of uncivilized conditions, but In no way does it compare with the hold-up of the salaries in Greater New York.

The gallant Lawton was ever too busy doing his duty to big country to make any money. Now It Is the duty of his country to see to It that his home is preserved for his family and that his wife gets an adequate pension. If we flo not mean to avail ourselves as a nation of ptjjf privileges of The Hague- Peace Conference, why -jWaVthe nation called upon to pay for the attendance ot several gentlemen who are too peaceable now Tieard from? £or live days how the British generals at tlie front jU ea, materially sireue forces, as carefully foro It The the other hand, must have been strengthening their positions and their forces. A COLOSSAL GOVEB1TMENT FAVOR. The National City Bank is the most powerful financial institution in the country.

It has the largest capital stock, increased on Dec. 3 from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. It has the largest average of more than It has the most Imposing directory, including William Rockefeller, representing the Standard Oil interests; H. Walter Webb and William Douglas Sloane, representing the Vanderbilt interests; Robert Bacon, ot J. Pierpont Morgan H.

0. Havemeyer, of the Sugar Trust; Jacob H. Schiff, representing such vast interests as those back of the great Union Pacific syndicate; John A. McCall, of the New York Life Insurance Company. It is a bank of railway kings and trust barons and all manner of great interests that have direct concern in national financial and commercial legislation.

The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Gage, has selected this bank as the beneficiary of a colossal financial favor. He has ordered that the internal- revenue receipts of the Government shall be paid over to it to use or distribute. These receipts amount to close upon a million dollars each of $250,000,000 a year. For this favor the National City Bank will pay not one single penny to the Government.

Out of this favor it will make enormous sums, for it will put the money out at Interest. And Interest in Wall street ranges from 6 to 100 per cent. The law forbids the Secretary of the Treasury to use the customs receipts of the United States to enrich persons and interests friendly to the Administration. But it leaves him free to be benevolent and appreciative with the internal- revenue receipts. Therefore you are contributing to the wealth and the happiness ofjhe McKinley- Hanna syndicate's pet bond syndicators and railway kings and trust barons whenever you draw a check, or smoke a cigar or a cigarette, or sleep in a Pullman car, or send a telegram, or give a promissory note, or send a package by express, or drink a glass of beer.

Has Secretary Gage ever heard a United States Bank issue which made and unmade Presidents half a century ago? wfeicn liwton The Filipinos are I aged by war, with all its attendant miseries. JOur flap is being used as a cloak for all that it was born to protest against. And such few representatives of the people as dare or care to protest at all, offer discussion after the Christmas recess!" Let us -hope that tho little children of the Republic will not lift their eyes from their school histories and look upon this spectacle of manffood and independence and conviction called the Fifty- sixth Congress. The Cnnnillnn there not more significance In the denunciation of the war In South Africa as "criminal" by that distinguished Canadian politician, be It noted In all the official protestations of enthusiastic loyalty? And will Britain Improve Its standing with Its colonies by employing East Indian mercenaries to fight the Boers and by arming and using South African savages, as Its officers admit having done In Bec.huanotend? OONGKESS IN THE OBISIB. With that audacity which history shows us is characteristic of weak men who drift, Mr.

McKinley is subverting constitutional government, betraying the basic principles of the Republic, making a mockery of its most sacred traditions and professions. With hesitating yet fatal steps he is advancing, not along the road of commercial expansion and aggrandizement of the power and influence of the Republic, but along that bloodstained, corpse-strewn highway of war and ever more war, of grinding taxation and tyranny and slaughter and sorrow. He has refused the light which more than thirty centuries of cruel experience now sheds upon the pathway of mankind, and is pursuing that false ideal "glory" which has caused the history of humanity's past to read like the records a torture chamber. Such-is the situation 'the Republic. And what is the Congress doing? There is the venerable Gen.

Henderson, Speaker the House, a man of good of right instincts, a man of courage and convictions in times past. Who has fought more valiantly for liberty? Who has spoken more eloquently against the barbarism called war? Take him as a type of scores of men on the Republican side of the House, fighters for liberty with sword and pen and tongue in the past, men who owe their all tp these democratic institutions of liberty and equality. What have they done, what have they said, about Mr. McKinley's war of conquest which has produced desolation and anarchy at the cost of Lawton and twelve hundred others of the best sons of the Republic, a war which is still being fought in the suburbs of Manila? What do they think of Sulu and its tolerated slavery and polygamy? What do they think of a President dictating to the Congress of the people and making it a mere register of his decrees? Ask rather what these brave men, these specimens of American manhood, think of the "pie- counter." Ask rather what trepidations agitate their souls over the smiles or frowns of the dispenser of patronage and campaign funds. And in the of Proctor, who moved tht nation with the story of Cuba's sufferings for freedom's sake? What of all those Republican Senators, from Perkins of California to Beveridge Indiana and on to Frye of Maine and Sewell of New those men who have had the chance to rise from the ranks of the plain people solely because the fathers kept the faith? The same story there.

Craven silence or the drowning of the voicie of conscience with demagogical shouts for t'he "glory" of seeking but inferior races in their remote homes'and shooting them down because they dare to lift their eyes to the everlasting light! And what of the opposition? Any manly outbursts? Any outpourings of that consuming fire of the eloquence of conscience? Any putting forth of that puissant strength of duty, justice and right which has power-to "put down the mighty from their seats?" Any effort to rouse the sleeping conscience of the country, to stir the people to put an end to crime against humanity and liberty done in the name of the Republic? Nothing, nothing and still resor lutlons and yet more resolutions. Hoar resolutions re-enacting the Ten Commandments; Bacon and Tillman Williams'resolutions, discussing legal technicalities and carefully avoiding any assertion of the rights of the Congress or any reflections upon Mr, McKinley and his cruel and costly war, conceived In folly lawlessness carriedjon THE BATTERY PARK NTJISANOE. The elevated railroad structure over Battery Park is a nuisance in itself and an illegal trespass. Upon the expiration of a period fixed for an abatement of the nuisance the company has offered seven alternative plans, flve'cf'-vyhich contemplate continuing the occupation tifTthe Battery Park, while the other two propose to use respectively routes by State street and Whitehall street instead, their structure in one case passing by the side of the pro-posed new Custom-House, and in the other case passing in front of it and cutting it off from Bowling Green'. All of these plans contemplate using public property for corporation purposes without compensation, creating a nuisance fully as objectionable as the one which is sought to be abated, and obtaining a legal sanction for encroachments which are now -without any sanction of law.

In other words, the best proposition that the Manhattan Company can offer is to alter its illegal nuisance into a legalized nuisance. This will not do. Terae To the Editor ol Tho World: Thank God for ringing- editorial on "Irfiwton!" H. H. York, Dec.

20. Tintli, Fimt, and Forever To tho Editor ot The World: I cannot command language! to express my admiration for the true American sentiment" displayed 'In these days upon your editorial pages, exemplified in to-day's Issue under the title "Lawton," and from day to day similarly upon tho McKlnley war In the Philippines and Britain's pirate War In South Africa. I wnnder often whether the people generally appreciate the value of the service which a. great newspaper renders in thus faithfully and persistently fostering and encouraging tho spirit of tho patriotic ideals of our glorious past and the llberty-lnapiring sentiments of our Declaration of Independence! Truly "The World is a great newspaper," and It has 'become such by consistently and steadfastly urging always that principle should not be sacrificed to policy and that truth is not altered by environment. No newspaper in this country wilt enter upon the new century with a record la-fior to its credit than the New York World.

J. B. New York, Dec. 20. Gives (lie First of a Series of Din: ncis at Her Fifth Avenue Home.

The "Law-ton" Editorial. To tlio Editor of Tho WprW: 1 must congratulate you on your editorial of to-day's. Issue on "Lawton" and our "criminal oppression" in the Philippines. Although have not been a. steady admirer 1 of your paper, hereafter consider me one.

JUSTICE. Harrison, N. Dec. 20. ODS TBADITIONAL POLICY," In sending to the Senate the treaty agreed to by the powers at Tlie Hague for the pacific settlement of disputes between nations, Secretary Hay called attention the reservation made by the plenipotentiaries of this country by declaring that nothing in the agreement Ba so construed as to require the United States to.

depart from Its traditional policy of not intruding: upon, interfering with or entangling itself in the political questions or policy or internal administration of any foreign states; nor shall anything contained in the convention be construed to imply a relinqulshment by the United States of Its traditional attitude toward purely American questions. It has been hastily assumed by some that this declaration operates to prevent our Government from tendering its good offices to end the war between Great Britain and the Boer The language of the declaration forbids such an interpretation. Our "traditional policy" favors arbitration as a civilized substitute for the barbarism of war. Our "traditional policy" is one of sympathy with all peoples who are defending their liberties and resisting aggression or oppression. It would therefore be no departure from pur traditional policy to offer our good offices to Great Britain and the Boers to put an end to the bloody strife in South Africa.

Acting with equal friendship for both, and solely in the cause of humanity and civilization, there could be no suggestion of an intrusion upon or 'possibility of an entanglement -with either. Furthermore, article 3 of The Hague treaty, signed by the delegates of Great Britain and the United States, expressly sanctions and invites such an offer in these words: The right of offering their good offices belongs to powers not connected with fhe conflict, even during; thte conrae of lioNtilltiott, which act can never be regairded UK an niifriendly-acit. W'hy does Mr. McKinley hesitate in following our traditional policy of peace through arbitration? Why does he fail to voice the nation's traditional sympathy with a brave people defending their liberties? What mysterious influence is it, The World is constrained again to ask, that prevents the the precedents of history and the warrant of The Hague Conference to support an instant and earnest endeavor to usher in tho new year the divine acclaim, "Peace on earth, men?" THE BUNDLES AND THE BABY. The psychologists who have insisted that the maternal, instinct is 'the strongest, of all human emotions will have to revise their schedule in the light of the experience of the St.

Louis mother who lost her baby while shopping in a department store. On counting her bundles as she was leaving, after a most successful plunge into Christmas shopping, she found she was one bundle short. On closer investigation 'she that she had brought her baby with, her and that it was the'baby that was missing. Had the maternal instinct prevailed she would have sacrificed her. purchases to find the; baby.

Instead of doing TO; she left her address', with-ai notice that she would hold the establishnient re-; sponsinle for the 'delivery, of whenj found, and went home with her purchasesJintaci! The maternal Instinct is ordinarily a potpnt. Influence, but when It tries conclusions' with the shopping instinct about Christmas time the shopping instinct Is apt to carry the day. THE NEW ABOHITEOTHEE IN NEW YOBK, The private view on Wednesday of the new Appellate Court building oif Madison avenue and Twenty-fifth, street'gave New York an opportunity to study and example- of that new architecture which should fix the type and standard of our public buildings hereafter. This means that it -presents as great a contrast as. Is possible to the architecture which we have hftd forced on us In our public buildings.

It is not the architecture of Tweed's Court-House gr.of Mullett'B Ppst-Offloe or of the Centre street donjon-keep, but rather the architecture of the new Cathedral and of the Public Library and 'of the new Custom-House. It m.ay'be,added It Is the Mn4 of wchjtec- tuje Is no hope of our getting under the Horgan Slattery system. The Brooklyn Hold-Up. To tho Editor ot The World: It Is with much gratitude that I have noticed how you have championed the cause of the teachers of the public schools of Brooklyn. Is not the auditor of Greater New York In refusing to audit the pay-rolls of -the Brooklyn teachers, notwithstanding the writ of mandamus issued by Justice Gaynor, in contempt of court? And should he not be made to pay the penalty for the obvious offense? A SUFFERER.

Brooklyn, Dec. 20. A Financial Fallacy. To the Editor ol The World: In a learned article on "the stock market" by an eminent financial authority I read in qn account of the floating of the Industrials early this year that in the purchasing of these stocks "eventually the Investor found himself surfeited. Hia free capital had become fixed capital or had vanished entirely." What an absurdity! The transfer of capital from an Investor to feller merely a change of ownership.

The' capital Is still Intact, although In other hands. The new owner has it and is going to see that it. does not vanish entirely. Instead of having "vanished entirely" the free capital has gone Into shrewder ownership. The country Is as rich as It ever was.

New York, Dec 19. Xo Trouble In Ireland. To the Editor The World: Any suggestion of Irish disaffection weakening Great Britain In these days may as well be dismissed. It is hardly an exaggera'tion to say that there Is no such thing as Irish disaffection. The only disaffected man In Ireland Is the landlord.

Not only has Ireland a land law which gives the tenant a right of eminent domain over the landlord, but it has a system of local self-government more ample in many details than that of New York City. Ireland heeds no garrisons now. Brooklyn, Dec. 19. TOURIST.

Only Thirty nt the Beantlfnl of tlie Ilostcim Will Give a Dull on Jan. 29. Mrs. Astor gave the first large dinner of a series last evening at her home, No. Fifth avenue, and the table about which her thirty guests gathered was royal In all Its appointments.

The-re was the glitter of cut-glass, the gleam of marvellously wrought silver and the glow of American chosen flowers of the hostess. The table extended almost the entire way across the great dining-room, and was in direct contrast with the rich, dark walls and hangings. A long finished with silver he'd three huge silver bowls and two g'ant candelabra In which burned candles In their natural shade, while othe weie placed about. The three bowls -held re.l roses and two others, at either end of the table, were also filled with these blossoms. The large square linen centre- piece was deeply edged with exquisite lace.

Mrs. Astor's guests were Col. and Mrs. John Jaeob Astor; Count de Kergorley. who arrived this week from abroad; Commodore and Mrs.

Klbrldge T. Gerry, Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, Gen. and Mrs.

Lloyd Bryce, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Drexcl, Col. and Mrs.

Jay. Mr, and Mrs. George Rives, Mr. and Mrs. John Munroe, Mr.

and Mrs. Kdmurid Baylies, Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mrs. Charles Marshall, Mrs. Grand d'Hautevllle, Miss Blight, Miss Sands, ex-Gov.

Levl P. Morton. J. R. Roosevelt, J.

F. D. Lanie, Alphonse de Navarro, Baron Oppen- helm and Eliot Gregory. Jan. 29 has been announced as the date of the ball that Mrs.

Astor will give. SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON. President McK.lnley'd to Be at White HOUHC for Holidays. (Special to The 'Wc-rld.) WASHINGTON, Dec. Grace McKlnley and Miss Sara Duncan will arrive at the White House Dec.

26. Owing to Mrs. McKlnley's health the Idea of a large house party for the holidays has teen abandoned. Only Mr. and Mrs.

A'bner McKinley, Mrs. Saxton ami her son, Lieut. Saxton, of Canton, and the two young nieces of the President will spend the Christma.stlde with the Executive family. Mrs. Charles D.

Walcott gave a dehu- luncheon in honor of her sister, Miss Sydney Stevens. But few of the Senatorial ladles kept their day at home. Many will entertain house parties for the holidays. Among these are Mrs. Fairbanks, Mrs.

Klklns, Mrs. Foraker and Mrs. Caffery. Mrs. Foraker will give a dance to the visiting contingent of young 1 people.

Z. teller will sail for Cairo on Jan. 3. She will not go to India, but will remain at the Egyptian resort until the spring, when s'he will be joined by the Misses Lelter. They will then go to Paris for the exposition.

Senator Beveridge will spend the holidays In Indiana. Mrs. has recently been 111, and It is feared will not come to Washington after the recess. Mrs. Stanley Matthews gave a dinner of twenty covers to-night complimentary to the debutantes of the season.

INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY- We Hn-ve Already Bone-lit Them. To the ol Tho World: In connection with the new plan to treat the Filipinos as brigands, permit me to suggest that If the Administration will put a price on their $10 for adult males, $5 for females and $3 for same to be paid for from t'rie property oC the "assimilated," ill would prove a Veritable Klondike to the liberal, liberty-loving American citizen. This plan would flll all the Islands with Americans in short order and "expansion" would be carried out to its fullest fruition. "Duty and destiny" Is great, but duty, destiny and dollars Is greater. HEiNRY H.

COOK. Baltimore, Dec. 19. i What We Are Coming? To. To the Editor of The World: We are going to increase our navy with the natural and obvious intention of coming to the front among the great powers pi the world in relative naval strength: Upon this Germany, while paying a compliment to the friendly spirit of the United States, very properly proposes to double its naval power, thereby of course diminishing our relative strength.

Obviously the only thing for us tp do Is "to see Germany ana go her one other words, to enter into that vicious circle of endless naval Increase which Is squeezing the taxpayers of Europe. That Is what we are coming to. New York, Dec. 16. W.

BAKER. Onr Promised Cat Export. To the Editor ot the World: You will doubtless rejoice with me In the news printed to-day that a great export trade In oats to the is proposed. It Is said that cats are needed there. Our back fences can spare a very great surplus.

Ship them by all means! Political economy 'teaches that trade Should always benefit-both the parties to it. N. M. New York, Deo. 17.

The Uptown Pout-Office. To' the Editor of The World: Who Is it says that any old thing in the shape and mortar Is good enough for New York's new; upto.wh post-office? York Isano irnean city and the Is too igood for, us, We are 'living not In pioneer days, but In.an age 'of culture, and refinement, and no public building.should ever be thought of that will not be architecturally an'ornainent to the city for all time. New York, Dec. 14. GOTHAM.

A Cliiiiigfc of Tone. To the Editor of The World: despatches from London I note 'the absence of the earlier declaraT tlons as to what Great Britain would do to the.Dutch repuWltw of South Africa after It had conquered them. This change tone change of mood, and perhaps the British Government might now be Inclined to give a more favorable hearing to a proposal of arbitration. A BELIEVER IN PEACE. New York, Dec.

21. The ot Cromwell. To the Editor ol the World: Two new lives of Cromwell are announced almost simultaneously, one a brief series of articles by Theodore Rooseyelt and the other a more serious work by-Morley. Will either of these biographers have the courage of truthfulness and give an honest account of those doings, oC Cromwell in Ireland which have made the expression "the orv you" MRS. OELRICHS TO Hermann, Oelrichs, of- No.

-East Fifty-seventh street, will give a dinner and dance Dec. 27. Miss Lily Oelrichs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.

Oelrichs, will be the guest of honor. There will be about thirty dinner guests, and fifty others will be at the dance. Mrs. Oelrichs will devote Christmas afternoon to entertaining children, and a tree laden with pretty gifts will be t-he chief feature of the occasion. HOLIDAY nnd Mrs.

H. McK. Twom'bly and their three children left, yesterday to pass the holidays with Mr. and George VaiKicrbllt at Biltmore. N.

C. They will return to New York next Thursday. William K. Van- derbllt will leave for tBIltnlore to-tlay In hie private cn'r, to be absent until Wednesday. CINDERELLA -DANCE.

Many fashionable young people, (-haperoned 'by several matron? en- Joyed the first of the merry Cinderella dances In Sherry's large ballroom last evening. The 'guests wore received by -Mrs. Henry -E. Howland, Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Anaon Phelps Stokes and Mrs.

Beverlcy Robinson. Alexander Madden led the cotillon, dancing with MIES Mildred stokes. It was begun about 10 o'clock, with Japanese flowers as the favors. At midnight supper was served. Among the patronesses ol these dances are 'Mrs.

John S. Barnes, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Walter S.

'Uiirnee. Mrs. Stanford White, Mrs. Robert P. Huntlngton.

-Mrs. George C. Clark, Mrs. Frederic de Peyster, Mrs. Jacob Miller, Mrs.

Brayton Ivea and Mrs. Robert AT DEL.MONIC'0'3.— Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gus- senhelm, No. 763 Fitth avenue, will give a dinner dance at Dolmonlco's Dec.

27 for their daughter. -Miss Edith Guggenheim. YESTERDAY'S ENTERTAINMENTS. Wtnthetmer, Xo. 904 Park avenue, gave an enjoyable theatre party last evening, which was followed by a 'supper of thirty-five covers at Sherry's.

Mrs. Jacob Schlff, ot 98? iFlftli avenue, was hostess at a dance last evening. Mrs. James Otis Xo. Seventy- fifth street, gave a reception yesterday afternoon to introduce her daughter, Miss Harriot II.

Hoyt. attractive home wedding yesterday was that of -Mrs. Adah Louise Morgan, of 'No. 214 West Seventieth street, and Mauricti Simon; -which took'place at the Rev. Dr.

Mrtdlson C. Peters, pastor of the Uloomlngilulp nelormed Church, officiating, MAINE DEAD ON THE WAY. Btittle-Ship Texas started from Havana at 1O A. M. Yesterday.

HAVANA, Deo. dislnterment and reeoffining of -the dead of the Maine were completed last night, and at 10-P. M. twenty wagons formed a procession carrying 151 CofliiiB. to the Machlna wharf, through' unfrequented streets: At-G A.

M. to-'day the bb'dies'were taken to the battle-ship and at 10 A. M. the vessel started for the United States; The number 1 of coffins on Chaplain rihidwlck's original list was 154, but the exhumation revealed only Father Chid wick believes that a mistake was rnade'at the time of burial, and that all the bodies that were Interred have been, exhumed. The work at cemetery was conducted unjler the direction of Father Chldwlck.

The old coffins carriea away and burned ahd the remains thoroughly disinfected. ABOUT PROMINENT PERSONS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3, Straus, United States Minister to Turkey, left Constantinople for the United States to-day On leave df absence. PHILADELPHIA, Dec.

Henry Irving was the honor at the Christinas luncheon of the Clover Club this- afternoon. Many prominent men were present, Sir Henry made a short speed) that was well receivedi In part he said: "May the loves of the people of America and, pf my own dew land increase as the days grow, and I believe that this great epuntry, and my own will become closer to each other as time passes 1 BERLINi Marconi Is fix- In wireless-telegraphy with, IS'5r 1 a th 1 J() Secretary Root '-Orders Employees the Uiepariincnt Not Give Out "Father Time," for Five Hundred Hniiiui Plans a Brilliant Social Senson. (Special to The Warld.) Deo. deadline is drawn across the lintel of every room in the War Department. The seal is placed upon the lips of every employee.

Only one man may speak to the 'caller In search of information; he is the Secretary. For the first time since Grant was Secretary of War art interim the rule of'-secrecy is enforced. Secretary Root has authority from the President to do this. The familiar figure on the streets frequently taken for former Minister to Spain Woodford is E. P.

Fleming. He was a colonel In the Confederate service. When Cleveland was President Col. Fleming had a friend in Secretary Manning, who appointed Col. Fleming clock-master of the department.

H.5 still holds the place, and now he is known to the department as "Father Time." Ho has 50Q eight-day clocks to keep tally with the Observatory He starts on his rounds Monday and winds the last clock Saturday night. And then the duties require an assistant. The clocks In his charge do not vary a half minute in the. In the get away from tho capital some of the Representatives nearly fornot to arrange for pairs. Mr.

Lorlmer'. of Chicago, was almost ready to make his train when he asked what he had done in this respect. Ho had overlooked just two hours to. fix fL The member with whom he wished to arrange was in a distant part of the city. Mr.

Lorimer jumpol 'into a cab and the driver sent his horse at speed to make the connection. Mr. Lorimer succeeded, but he barely made his train. The early occupancy of the house formerly the home of VIce-Presldent HObart by Senator Hanna Is accounted for on the ground that the Senator cx- pocts to play a social part in Washington which, his friends say, will eclipse the brilliant entertainments of the lat'e Senator Brlce. It was the social ambition of the latter to surpass the functions of Mr.

Whitney. Senator Hanni expects to go beyond both. All the departments close Saturday at noon and will not lie open for business until the Tuesday following Christmas. PROTEST AGAINST RATES. Shippers Complain of Xcw catlon mid Seek Relief.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Interstate Commerce Commission to-day gave a hearing in the matter of changes in freight classification and advances in freight rates by carriers using the official classification. C. E. Gill, of New York, Chairman of the "official classification committee," maintained that the proposed advances in freight rates were due to the increased cost of railroad plants End maintenance, and the advances had been applied -to classes of freights that could well pay them.

He Intimated that still further advances would have to be made. Upon many articles Mr. GUI maintained that existing rates of freight were "unjustifiably low." In examination by W. A. Day, attorney fojr the commission, Mr.

Gill gave no reasons for the proposed advances Upon special articles or clksses of freight except the general reasons which applied-to -all freight. Day said a comparison of the proposed rates on certain articles 1 showed, that 11 the new rates would lie higher than have existed since the commission was created. William R. Corwlne. representing the Merchants' Association of New York, suggested that if a postponement of the hearing could be had he believed the shippers and the carriers might come to, a reasonable agreement upon the proposed classification which would prove satisfactory to all concerned.

N. B. Kelly, Secretary, of the Trade Leasiio of Philadelphia, said what the shippers wanted was that the new classifications should go Into effect April 1 Instead of Jan. 1, 190C. railroads would consent to this proposition hu anticipated no trouble.

Mr. Gill did not approve of Mr. Kelly's proposition, as that would deprive the railroads of the added revenues fqr three months. A. J.

Vanlandingham, of St. Louis, testified that a Western rallrpiad vice- president Said to him: "The changes in official classification, particularly the great spread between carloads and less, are, revolutionary In character, and In my opinion should not be made." F. S. Monnett, Attorney-General of Ohio, questioned Mr. Gill as to the cost of shipping petroleum, endeavoring elicit from him some statement to the effect that the Standard Oil Company was favored by the railroads at the expense of the small shippers.

Mr. Mon- nett'uald that less than carload lots of petroleum the proposed classification Increased the rate 869 per cent. This would break up the small Mr. Gill explained that his committee hail nothing to' do with the carload ra-tes on petroleum. Nathan Gyillford, traffic manager of the New York Central and Boston and Albany Railroads, declared tho readiness of the railroads to correct any Inequalities or Injustices, some, of which exist.

His company is now building 10,000 cars, for 'they would have to pay nearly -double the amount, they formerly iad paid for car construction. Tho Increased cost to the irallroads made It necessary for them to secure increased revenues. While the revenues of many railroads had Increased from month to month, the net not pro- pdrtidriately Increased. FOB, THE CENSUS. "Uniis Will Do Mnrtc Showing Every in the City.

Charles S. Wilbur, Superintendent of the Cehgus Bureau in this city, is busily preparing 'for "the work ot'enumeration. It'was said yesterday at. his. office in ilie Pulitzer Building that 1,100 enumerators and'canvassers will be employed in Greater New York.

Judging from tne' preparii tlons of the bureau, every building in the city will be shown in map. 1 The maps be sent to Washington with Su'pi. Wilbur's report. The Insurance companies, it la said, have consented.to allow the Use df house maps, T'he enumerators are to' be selected for their special fitness for the work to be Uohe. WOMEN TO FIGHT Club Are Indignant nt Sunday-Law Violation.

Republican women of the West End Np. 2307 Broadway, will start a crusade for the enforcement of the Sunday liquor law. Mrs. Charles O'Conor Ii'ivir) at yesterday afternoon's meeting said the law is violated on the upper west side, and cited two oases in tho neighborhood of Eightieth street and the Boulevard she, with other woman and children coming from hUd the ejection of men' from a saloon. "There Is not even a pretext of keeping the she, said, The' club'Will, injinedjately apnjy to, the, 'Ollce Commissioners-far an explanation the-JiwflB not 'enforced.

fair 1 today to-morrow temperature Va- riabje -winds, rriostly fresti southerly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER IN NEW YORK. Minimum temperturc, 4 A. 3B Maxlmutn temperature, 4 P. 47 Mean temperature 40 Average temperature of the same day for the past twenty-five years.

3ff Yesterday's In the principal cities o' the United States, as reported to The fro? the United States Weather Bureau, was: Highest Veloc- Place. Temp. Wind. Ity. Rain.

Weather. EiWtport, Me IJoaton, Jacksonville, Fla. Chicago, 111 St. Louis, Mo St. Paul, Denver, Col Bismarck.

N. E. S. NE. S.

S. R. SW. .01 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 Clear, Cloudy. Clear.

Clear. Clear. Clear. AmliHcmciitN To-Day find To-tt Down East, S.10. i ATLANTIC 7.30.

Mary. 8.10. DON 2, 3. Hur. 8.

CARNEOIE 8. Singing Girl. 8.10. Vaudeville Burlesque Company, 3, Frietchlo, 8.15. of Jane, 8.10.

and vaudeville, 2, 8.15. EDEN works, mualo, cinematic graph. of Tears. 8.20. FIFTH Sharp, 8.

FOURTEENTH Dairy Farm, t. Devil's Disciple, 8.15. Holmes. S.20. GRAND Acres, S.

IIARLiEM Great Ruby, 8.15 HERALD Creek Slave, 8.15. and vaudeville, continuous. HdRTIG 2, 8. IRVING 8.10. continuous.

Bldor Miss Blossom S.30. KOSTER 8.15. Hobb'j, 8.10. Wheels Within Wheels, 8.30. Wife.

8.20. Lion's Iloafl, 8.15. MURRAY 2, continuous. PROCTOR'S 23D continuous. PROCTOR'S continuous.

the city Lamps, 8.15. THIRD London, 8.15. Brothers in Wall Street, 8,18. Ameer, 8.10. WEBER Whlrl-I-Oig, 8.20.

HISTORY OF THE GOLD PLANK Humui Original Draft to SI. Approved Substitute'. WASHINGTON, Dec. Foraker published some time ago a long article concerning the ot'igin and adoption of the "gold plank" at the National Convention of 1896 in which he maintained that the plank was prepared by tho Committee on Resolutions, of which he was Chairman, after much discussion and out of diverse materials. H.

H. Kohlsaat, editor of the Chicago Times-Herald, published an article in reply In which he claimed "gold plank" was framed by the friends of Gov. McKinley at a conference held In Mr. Hanna's room at the Southern Hotel four days before the meeting of the convention, and therefore long before Mr. Foraiver was elected either a member or Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions.

claimed that there were present at this conference Mr. HaWna, Henry C. Payne, Senator Proctor, Myron T. Herrick, ex-Gov. M.

E. Stone 'and himself, and that the gold plank prepared by them was submitted to various Republican leaders, and also to the Committee on Resolutions, by which it was adopted, with 'minor changes of phraseology, and presented to the convention. Henry C. Payne In a statement declares that Mark Hanna brought the original gold plank to St. Louis.

After conferences with the leaders Mr. Payne drafted a substitute, which was the plank adopted. It was telegraphed to Mr. McKlnley, in Canton, who wired back his approval. Senator Hanna, Census Director Merriam and Senator Proctor all certify that Mr.

Payne's statement is correct. BANQUET FOB "NEWSIES." Teiiilercd by President Morris, of iHlnnd News Company. Frederick P. Morris, president of the Long Island News Company, tendered a bantiuet to the employes of the company at his residence in Flushing last night. His parlors were filled with thia "newsies." 'Speeches were made by eminent men, including Admiral P.hilip, who received an ovation.

Hia advocated temperance and said: "If I had been brought up in the city I might have been a newsboy mysell; but 1 went to a naval academy, where I decided to stick." Mr. Morris eulogized the employes of his company and said that as ho was once a newsboy himself he appreciated the position of the also wrjre made by John N. Yrooman, Herbert F. Gunnison, William H. Baldwin, president of the Long.

Island Railroad, and W. F. Potter, superintendent; of the company. A loving cup was presented to Mr. Morris.

CAN'T GET SCHOOL FUNDS. Richmond Must lleforc the Hoard of ISstimate. President Burke, of the Richmond Board of Education, again asked yesterday the Board of Estimate that the $50,000 of school funds taken away that borough should to restored. The mutter was sent to the Comptroller. "An issue of $465,000 worth of bonds to purchase sites for schools in the borough of Brooklyn was authorized." Commissioner Kearny proposed that the city's market buildings should be sold.

President Guggonheimer favored the sale of Centre Market at once, but ns it Was thought Legislative authority might be needed the subject was referred to the TJepartnient of Finance, HTJNDRED-YEAB CLUB. New OffleerH TaKen to Start longevity Journal. At the annual meeting last night of the Hundred-Year Club, at Genealogical Hall, No. 226 West Fifty-eighth street, resolutions were papsed authorizing Secretary, G. W.

Smith to form a stock company for the publication of a journal on longevity. During the evening Dr. Elmer Lee read a paper on "Higher Education for the Physician as a Walter S. Logan, John H. Hull, John De "Witt Warner, Mrs.

Florence V. IC-lpp and Mrs. Florence Corey were elected members of the council, and R. sar, Dr. W.

R. Davidson, Mrs. Almflu HInsley and Mrs. Anna M. Lawson were' Chosen directors.

COLER DISOBEYS Judge (Beekman Threatens, but the HandN Arc Justice Beekman wants, to Icnpw wjry Comptroller Coler has not obeyed order of the Court directing him to'pay Wajter Brown, reoa'var of an a'uflf- duct contractor, the amount of a judgment for If tho Comptroller does not comply with the order of the Court, Justice Beekman threatens to punish himi The Comptroller has baan'nqtlfled'bya, lawyer that his clients haVe'afliejfiunon' 1 the. Judgment, hetavresponsibie Hf.