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3 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. JfEW YORK. FRIDAY. MAY 30. 1902.

BUSINESS NOTICES. (Copyrighted.) fTrade mark registered.) there, will he for those who suffer them and for their children after them an heritage of honor and fame. Thus it has always been; thus it will continue to be, for Army experiences develop in men what the country has most need of, and that is character. It is not dollars that figure in the history of the country, but deeds, and a whole city Jull of writers and talkers do not count for so much in men's final judgment as to what constitutes the greatness of the nation, as a single creator of events. throtigh the distributing ssoney of Sub Station No.

3, it will improve the service nil over Long Island. If the postal department decides that we can't have It this year we will only have to wait until the department is inclined to be more generous, but while Mr. Payne is considering the matter the expenditure of missionary effort upon him or in his direction should not be stinted. Brooklyn congressmen and others please take note. give apparent immunity to partisan defamation.

But the work of contemporary Copperheadism has been overdone. Those who resorted to it are running away from it, and denying theiv responsibility for it. This nation never did desert, decry, defame or fail to honor its Army or its Navy. This nation never will. It has set them to no tasks of which it.

is ashamed; to none by which the world has not been made better; to none which has not made the bounds of ordered freedom wider yet The liberated thought, the stored statesmanship and the luminous nad pulsing power of the President's words to day lift the occasion of the address to a high Importance and make and mark an event of long and shaping significance in our history. sumably prove of some scientific worth. He is the first human being, so far as is known, who has gone close to the great source of this most destructive volcanism. In the dispatches he Is represented as frankly confessing that he made the trip largely because he was in utter ignorance of the danger to which he was exposed. This confession will not be credited until it is affirmed over Havana gh's own signature.

Newspaper men engaged in especially hazardous missions do not usually care about the danger they run in doing their duty. Whether they go attached or unattached, their business is to find out the facts the world wants to know. And the world wants to know all about Mont Pelee; therefore, we do hot beiieve that Mr. Kavanagh hesitated a moment when the opportunity was presented to him to climb that deadly slope nor do we believe that he was unaware of the risk he rah in doing so. fastened to a line of spikes beginning with one labeled "Magic" and ending with another labeled "Columbia," to learn with apprehension the reported repetition of the familiar test between the "mug hunter" and the conveniently handy tug, and to pay $5 for the privilege of seeing two big boats loaf through a contest officially called off because there Is no wind and unofficially called a fizzle because women are around and it is impolite to use stronger and more accurately descriptive language.

These expectations now bid fair to be realized and while we all admire Sir Thomas' grit and while we will all imitate him in our talk of "lifting" the cup no one not crassly ignorant ever alludes to the subject in any other way. and while all the yacht reporters are writing themselves dry concerning what they unanimously and unvaryingly term "the blue ribbon of the seas," we will all cherish the hope that Lipton's luck will again prove to be disproportionate to Lipton's pluck. faie you dined at Cfhe Montague, 103 105 Montafsue St, near Hicktt. One visit will insure the continuance of your patronage. Table d'Hote Pinner, 6 9 P.

$1.00. A la Carte AH Day. flusic Every Evening. ST Be sure and find the right place, Montague Street near Hicks Street. EPILEPSY, An account of the most successful mode of treatment.

Pamphlet tree. Box 247, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. AMUSEMENTS. Broadway and Halsey Street.

CIRCUS12 PERFORMANCES TWICE DAILY. GREAT 4 Paw AND Sells Bros' ENORMOUS SHOWS UNITED. NEW AND EXCLUSIVE FEATlRESl LOOP THE LOOP. THE AURORA ZOUAVES. MINTING, THE MARVEL AXD 300 OTHER CHAMPIONS.

Doors open, at 1 and 7 P. M. for the Me napeiing and Promenade Concert by Merrick's Magnificent Military Band. Arenlc displays one hour later. Numbered Coupon, actually Reserved Seats, may be secured at HELD' 3 PIANO.

STORE. 313 Fulton St. Admission, Hoc. Children under 9 years. 25c.

ORPHEUM SUMMER SEASON" OF COMIC OPERA. THE ORPHEUS Tn ftrnfwl Production THE WIZARD THE STAR CAST AND CHORUS OK SIXTY. Orchestra, 7Bc. and 50c. Balcony, 50c.

General Admission, 25c. Special Matinee Decoration Day Evening Prices. Bargrain Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. 25c. For Every Seat in the Hoqhc 25c.

Next Week THE ISLE OF CHAMPAGNE PAYTOM 'S if i THEATER Elliott Barnen' Comedy Drama. ONLY A FARMER'S DAUGHTER Big Scenic Production. EveninRH, Matinees, 10, 20, 30, 50 Cts. JO. 20 Cts, Next Week AS YOU LIKE IT.

SPOOLER STOCK GO THE PRINCESS OF PATCHES. Next Week A Dnuprhter ot the South. MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. Manhattan MRS. FISKE iffilY Friday Eve, (only) "A POLL'S HOUSE." WOXtLD IN WAX.

NEW GROUPS. I CINEMATOGRAPH. Hourly Exhibitions. EOE Orchestral Concerts Vocal Soloists EXCURSIONS. BY SEA TO ftlAlR3E OX THE FAST MODERN STEAMERS NORTH STAR and HORATIO HALL OF THE MAINE STEAMSHIP is the most cnafniinq: "short ocean' trip but of New York.

No Summer tour complete without it. Steamers leave Pier (New) 32. Bast River, toot ot Pike Now 1'ork, Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdavs, at M. Returning, leave Portland same days at 6:50 P.

M. The route to Bar Harbor, White Mountains and all coast resorts. Descriptive book free on application at Ticket Office on the pier, 290 Broadway. New York, and all agencies. DECORATION DAY AFTERNOON EXCURSION TO WEST POSR8T.

STEAMER MARY I'OWELL. Leaving Desbrosses St, 1:45 P. W. 22d St. 2 p.

M. Wext liiiHh 2:20 P. M. Arriving at West Point 4:40 P. M.

good to return5 by West Shore Special 7:25 P. or any regular train. Fare round trip $1.00. Return N. Y.

Central $1.10. or return Steamer Roms dell $1.00. Ample time to see Dress Parade, Public Buildings. Concert Orchestra on board. This excursion also made every Saturday.

VP THE HUDSON To West Point, Newburgh or Poughkeepsie. Grand Daily Excursion (except Sunday). BY PALACE IRON DAY LINE "STEAMERS i NEW YORK and ALBANY. From Brooklyn. Fulton by Annex, 8 A.

M. From New York. Desbrosses St Pier, 8:40 A. JL From New York. West 22d St Pier, 9:00 A.

M. From New York, West 129th St Pier. 0:15 A. M. Returning, due in New York.

5:30 P. M. MORNING AND AFTERNOON CONCERTS Half Rate to Cairo. N. May 29 to Juno 9.

SHIRT WAISTS AT, LAW SCHOOIi. (From the Ann Arbor, News.) There is dissension among the faculty ranks about the wearing of the comfortable shirt waists. Last week, during that fierce sheltering weather. Professors McAlvay, Knowlton and Lane each announced to their classes that they would allow shirt waists in their classes and that they did not Bee why men could not be comfortable as well as the girls. CLIPPINGS OF CURRENT COMMENT.

Philadelphia has a baby that drinks five gallons of milk at a meal. Oh, yes, of course, you knew right away that it Is a baby elephant. Boston Globe. Some day the sportive statesmen at Washington who are playing ping pong with the Cuban reciprocity question will learn what the people think of them. Chicago Tribune.

A bill is to be pushed in the Cuban Parliament to extend full pardon to all Americans in prison or awaiting trial on criminal charges. Cuba would evidently like to be relieved of the expense of maintaining prison inmates left as a legacy to the republic. Omaha Bee. One of the first duties of our new minister to Cuba will be to secure sites for the coaling stations which the Piatt amendment to the constitution guarantees to the United States. The government wants four stations, and has decided on tho sites, but as the Piatt amendment does not mention any particular number and leaves the question of sites open it may take some good diplomacy to reauh an understanding.

Indianapolis Journal. There are many Lafayette monuments in the United States, but very few beside the one unveiled at Washington, on Saturday, for Roeharnbeau. There is one, however, very near Yonkers. It was erected by the Sons of the American Revolution, at Dobbs Ferry. It marks the spot where the French allies, under Roeharnbeau, joined the American army, on July 6, 17S1.

There also Washington, aided by Roeharnbeau, planned the Yorktown campaign, which ended the war for American independence. Yonkers Statesman. The automobilists should bear in mind the fact that they constitute a very insignificant minority of the people, and that when the vast majority is required to get out of the way of so small a minority there is apt to be some feeling. Some of them never will be able to understand this, and will have to have it impressed upon them by the courts; but there must be many automobilists who have common sense, and they should be set a good example for those who have more money than brains. Rochester Union and Advertiser.

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The address of Pivsklem Koosovelt at Arlinjrton tVnierery to d. iy is printed in this papor. Ho talked to tho survivors of the old Army about tho men of the new. He dofomied the soldiers that are In the Philippines to tho soldiers that were for tho North and the T'niou in the South, in 1 ho times which tho President names as the iron years of our nation's life. Mr.

Roosevelt has similarly but never so well before described the supreme place which the preservation of the Union takes in American history and the unsurpassed place which it takes in the history of government anions men. He notes the bravery and honor of all the soldiers in the Civil War, the matchless estate of benefit and the unique and infinite wealth of valor which that war brought to North and South both. He turns all that to the account of the Army and Navy now. in the work which they are doing for freedom and for peace in far away places against eavage foes and amid maliiu conditions. Where they are, as well as under the impact of infamously unnatural opprobrium from the friends of the enemies of their Country at home.

The intensity of his indignation, the warmth of his tribute, the sternness of his purpose, the elemental strength of his eloquence and tho keen sense of his suggestions, as well as the unmistakable candor and clearness of his words as to the future, will have a strong effect. Those who like what he says, who honor him for saying it and who have sustained him and who will sustain him tu carrying it out will lie inspired and strengthened by his address. Those whom that address indicts or nails or pillories or brands or stings will recognize in his words a rebuke hard to bear, in his personality an incarnated courage and conscience that should be their pride, but can only be their envy, or their shame and their despair. And in the overwhelming support which he will receive they will see a proof of their condemnation by the people as absolute, as depressing and as tinal as the warrant read to men just before they are taken to tho chamber and hair of electric death. The splendor of the address is the splendor of illuminated manhood.

The strength of it is ihe strength of manifest right. Not. we think, since Lincoln's words ar. (iettysbnrg lias the constitutional Commander in Chief of the Army and of the Navy of the I'nited States said that which will be longer remembered, or which more deserves always to be kept in mind. Truly, the baptism of duty and the touch of destiny have made or re cah ihis President to be a thinker and a leader who can carry his countrymen with him in all things in which iio is just himself, forgetful of party, compart ot patriotism, resolute for the right and as scornful of political cunning as of personal consequences.

The address is in all parts patriotic and eloquent, hut in none merely rhetorical. It sums the past, portrays the present and faces the future. Its summary of the past is accurate to nicety, and discriminating to the very shade of justice. Its portraiture of the present not only glorifies the Army and the Navy as a whole, but scarifies those of their number who have yielded to the Temptation to retaliate on savages the outrages of savages on our men. It also classes and characterizes the wholesale contemners of the Army in words that will ueiihor down nor die.

The President likewise meets the propositions not merely of the hour, but of the far future with regard to the Philippines in a way 10 show that ordered liberty, graduated government, regulated right, taught truth and trained purposo of fittedness for freedom enter into the veritable missionary movement of our Army In the archipelago. The programme is and looms so' largo as to appal some. The details are so many as to fatigue others. Koth tin; magnitude of the project and the multitude of the particulars invite pessimism, Stimulate apprehension and lately did CRYING NEEDS OF BROOKLYN. (From the Buffalo Review.) New York is crying loudly for the completion of the tunnels under the Hudson and East Rivers, and the construction of the new Brooklyn bridge.

The congestion of the present bridge Is so pronounced that thousands are in danger of life and limb every night and morning. On Monday there was a collision in the East River between a yacht and one of the ferryboats, which resulted in the death of a prominent broker on his way to his business. There were two collisions in the fog of Monday, both of which might have resulted in great loss of life. Tho great increase of population of New York and of the traffic in the boroughs ot Manhattan and Brooklyn make it Imperative that, the government of the metropolis put forth most vigorous efforts to solve the problem of urban transit. At the best it will be several years before the tunnels and the new bridge will be completed and in the meantime millions will be compelled to use the present antiquated and insufficient conveniences.

POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. The retirement of Surgeon General Sternberg is to be celebrated by a complimentary dinner tendered to him in Manhattan on June 13. Daniel P. Bradford, seventh in line from John Bradford, first governor of Massachusetts, has just celebrated his Slst birthday at his home in the village Tyndall, S. D.

Professor Alfred Croiset, one of the representatives of the French republic at the Hochamboau statue unveiling, will deliver one lecture at Columbia University hefore returning home. It is reported that King Edward has subscribed $250 toward the Rosa Bonheur statue at Bordeaux. The celebrated painter is to be represented as a young woman leaning on a horse and holding a palette. Lord Roberts, on Harrow Speech Day, July 2, will lay the foundation stone of the memorial aisles in the school Chanel to be erected in memory of the Old Harrovians who have fallen in South Africa. Mrs.

Julia Bedell, who haB just celebrated her 101st birthday in Bayonne, N. was a favorite with Commodore Decatur, who presented her with numerous trinkets, which she still has in her possession. Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge who died suddenly in Washington on the 18th was a daughter of Frederick W. Lincoln, the war mayor of Boston, and she was a great granddaughter of Paul Revere.

Two large laurel wreaths, placed on the grave of Bret Harte at Frimley, bear the inscriptions: "In Loving Remembrance. From the Bohemian Club, San Francisco," and "In Remembrance. From Sir Henry Irving." Sir A. L. Jones, of the Elder Dempster Line, announces that he will give free passages to and from England once a year to any of the Rhodes scholars sailing from the Canadian and Jamaican ports served by his firm's steamers.

The finest collection of Russian sables in the world is owned by the Dowager Empress of Russia. The lining of one of her cloaks cost 50,000. She dresses in black and devotes much of her time to works of charity. Leon, the fashionable hatter of Paris, is dead. When he took the measurement of the head of a famous man, he always took it in duplicate, thus obtaining a collection of head shapes of celebrities of great Interest to phrenologists.

Lord Overtun conducts a Bible class in the High Church. Dumbarton, Scotland, which numbers 448 members, seventy seventy of whom have attended every meeting during the year. The leader has conducted the class for thirty two years. King Edward has invited Bishop Brlndle, D. S.

tho Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham, and for twenty five years a chaplain to the forces, to bless the colors that his majesty will present to the new regiment of his Irish Guards on June 24. Albert Gallatin Riddle, the well known lawyer and author, who has just died in "Washington, D. while in the House of Representatives, was the first man to advocate the arming of the slaves and the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. a The Right Hon. Charles Owen O'Conor, better known as the O'Conor Don, who was 64 years old on May 7, would be the Legitimist claimant to the Irish throne were there one.

He claims to be able to trace his lineage In unbroken succession to the last of the Irish kings. Horace Day of New Haven, owns the complete bedchamber set that belonged to Lord Percy, who commanded the reinforcements of the British troops at Lexington on April 10, 1775. The furniture came to him from a long line of New England ancestors. King Christian IX of Denmark, who recently completed his 82d Year, was one of ten children, all but two of whom lived to be over 60. His sister, the Dowager Duchess of Anhnlt Bemburg, is 91 years old, and has two brothers living, aged 78 and 77 years respectively.

Should Sir Michael Hlclts Beach remain in his present office for another four years, and thus bring his tale of budgets ud to eleven, he will have equaled Mr. Gladstone's record, and surpassed that of any other English chancellor of the exchequer during the last hundred years. Cecil Rhodes is one of the few men who have had statues in their lifetime. A colossal figure in bronze of the maker of South Africa Is standing in tne studio ot Jonn Tweed of Chelsea. London.

It was executed to the order of the citizens of Bulawayo, and Is intended for the market place of that town. Major General Edward Charles Marston of the Bombay army, who died lately at Karachi, at the age of SO, distinguished himself at the battle of Meeanee in 1843 by saving Sir Charles Napier's life. Three huge Belu chis were making for Sir Charles, when Marston intercepted them and slew them with his sword. FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST. Every year salmon become scarcer in Scotch rivers.

Tho weekly mail to the English army in South Africa is 204,000 letters. The Brazilian coast City of Bahia has about 200,000 inhabitants, who live in 17,000 houses. George N. Dale, Consul at Coaticook, Canada, reports a decline of American trade in Quebec as the result of high duties here. The Prussian state railway administration has begun to use American electric light apparatus for the lighting of postal and passenger cars.

Madagascar is believed to be civilized enough by the French to have an academy of letters and sciences of its own. It contains 16 members at present, 13 Europeans and 3 Hovas. The Vulcan shipbuilding yards of Stettin have recently inaugurated a pension fund. All employes who receive an annual salary of more than 1,500 marks ($357) aro eligible to membership. Duties on articles imported into Guada loupe are collected under several categories: First, customs duty, this being the regular French tariff; second, octroi duties; third, quay duties; and, fourth, statistics duty.

The octroi duty is styled "tax for the benefit of the communes." A Good Work Well Done. Judge Charles E. Magoon, law officer of the Division of Insular Affairs in the War Department, recently prepared for publication at the direction of Secretary Root a number of valuable reports dealing with affairs relating to the government of our colonial possessions. These are now placed before the public in a volume issued by the War Department under the title, "The Law of Civil Government Under. Military Occupation." Judge Magoon's work in his capacity as legal adviser of the cabinet official most closely in touch with colonial administration has been especially arduous.

The questions requiring his attention were numerous and varied, and the intellectual effort necessary to their careful and adequate analysis is evident in the book now presented for public inspection by' Mr. Root. In accomplishing his remarkable task, or rather his series of tasks, Judge Magoon traversed what is practically a new field. He had few precedents for his guidance. The war of 1808 changed the national policy so completely that the legal garments frequently needed to clothe the actions of the government had to be cut without the assistance afforded by approved patterns.

The labor involved in the rendering of all these opinions, tronien dotis as it must have been, is doubtless compensated by the knowledge of the appreciation of the laborer tersely and characteristically expressed by the Secretary of War in a note prefacing the reports. Mr. Root's object in presenting Judge Magoon's reports in collective form Is stated In his acknowledgment of his adviser's services. "Your reports," writes the Secretary, "upon the various questions of law arising during the military occupation of the islands ceded or yielded by Spain under the Treaty of Paris, have been of such value to me in deciding the questions treated that I have determined to have them printed for the use of the officers concerned in the government of the islands." This Is a frank recognition that the value of the skilled legal researches undertaken by Judge Magoon is great enough to warrant the widest circulation of the book among the men in the service of the War Department; as well as among the unofficial public, whose professional relations with our colonial system nre more or less intimate. It is inadvisable here to review Judge Magoon's work, either as a constructor or compiler, or as both.

Many of the Individual reports would not be intelligible to the general public unless the circumstances of now forgotten incidents were recalled in detail, and that is now obviously impossible; but it may be worth while to direct attention to those portions of the hook referring to the insurrections of 1847 and 1S4S against the military governments established In New Mexico and California. Of course, the facts presented by Judge Magoon are on record elsewhere, but they are not commonly known, for written history has taken comparatively scant notice of these small but bloody campaigns, the issue of which determined for all time bur right to thousands of square miles of valuable territory. The policy of stern suppression then pursued by the military authorities was justified by President. Polk, who, when questioned by Congress as to the alleged conflict between civil and military agents of government in New Mexico, replied in a message discussing the character of military government generally, and holding that such a government may "exercise the fullest rights of sovereignty." This is good, sensible doctrine, respectfully commended to the consideration of certain people in Congress and out of it who are busy questioning everything done under military rule in the Philippines from burning a haystack to hanging a spy. The Rev.

Joseph Dunn Burrell formally offering resolutions in Presbytery censuring the editorials in the Eagle or in any other newspaper is not an impressive study. The conduct of the press has not yet been submitted to any church in the United States, and the assumption that it has been puts Dr. Burrell and the Presbytery on a funny defensive. The press will some day perhaps censor those Sunday editorials which ministers miscall sermons as soon as they are vigorous or vicious enough to draw newspaper notice. On page eleven, this afternoon, is a letter by Dr.

Burrell contending that he has been unwittingly misrepresented and criticising his critics in more than paternal fashion. IN NO SPIBIT OE" CRUELTY' Are the Acts of Our Soldiers in the Philippines Performed. (From the Army and Navy Journal.) No more baseless Blander has been uttered than that which ascribes the action of our soldiers In the Philippines to the brutalizing influences of war. Not even a single native has been killed under the orders responsible officers to gratify a spirit of cruelty and revenge. Modern war has no brutalizing Influence, as all experience with old soldiers in their actual character will show.

This charge ot wanton killing comes with peculiar ill grace from the organs of the prevailing commercialism, which most ot all tends to harden men into selfish indifference to the feelings, the rights and the interests of others. Comradeship, good will toward one's fellows and promptitude in action for their succor and relief when the occasion requires It these are the lessons of Army life. It la the spirit of the Army that prompts President Roosevelt in his quick response to the cry of distress which comes up from stricken Martinique, and it is upon the organized energies ot Navy and Army that he relies for an Immediate and effective response to that appeal. In the end the common sense of our people will Justify our Army, as it always has justified it under like circumstances in the past. The board ot vile insects that are seeking for Army sores, that they may fasten upon them, will find in the end that they have a healthy organism to deal with.

The contemners of our soldiers' will be to morrow where the critics of Lincoln, Grant and Sherman are to day. The deeds done in the Philippines, the hardships and sufferings endured Automobiles and People. The ease of Edward Copeland Wallace, well known in Brooklyn from the long residence of his family here, is a sample of tho sort of trouble which men who drive automobiles at railroad speed over highways are going to get into. Some of these reckless riders have been fortunate enough only to kill or injure children, so that they have escaped with merely showers of stones. Mr.

Wallace was unlucky enough to injure a Republican leader in Rockland County who knew what his rights were, and the automobile owner will have to pay the piper. If the damages which the injured man collects are heavy enough to be punitive the defendant will find no sympathy, outside of the men who own automobiles and are afraid of facing his punishment for similar recklessness. The injured man, Mr. Lovatt, was driving a mettlesome horse, which is not a crime, and In the country is not even an imprudence. He saw Wallace's automobile coming at groat speed under the control of a boy of fourteen.

Mr. Lovatt signaled him to slow up, but the signal was unheeded. As the automobile passed the horse bolted and threw Mr. Lovatt and his wife out, injuring the latter seriously. There is no indication that Wallace stopped his automobile then, made any inquiries or expressed regrets.

Indeed, there is Indication that he tried to escape, and Would have done so had not Mr. Lovatt telephoned to his son. far ahead on the road, who built a barricade on the turnpike which stopped tho man. The son attacked Wallace on his machine, dragged him before a justice, and had him held for trial. Beside this prosecution, Wallace will have to face suits for damages to the occupants of the carriage and Injuries to the horse.

If this were the first case of the kind it would not be occasion for alarm or fooling. But this sort of "accident" happens so frequently as to convey the impression that automobilists think they own the highways outside of the large cities, and sometimes in them. They will rind out presently that they do not own the right to run their machines at any rate of speed which endangers the safety of other people. They will face not only bridges, but missiles, and ultimately shotguns, if neither their own sense nor the punishments inflicted by courts bring them to a serious consideration of the rights of other people, of which they now show a cynical and reckless disregard. This country is not going to be turned into a vast racing track nor a slaughter house merely because a new vehicle has been invented.

A justice in Flushing recently held that a man was justified in throwing missiles into the face of an automobile driver when the latter endangered a child by his recklessness. This is not new law, but merely an application of the fundamental doctrine of self defense to new conditions created by the automobile. It will be reaffirmed wherever the occasion arises, because it is both common law and common sense. The matter will become of even greater consequence than it is now, if, as Mr. Edison announces, he has so perfected and cheapened the storage battery that automobiles will be placed in the reach of every man who has been able to own a horse and buggy.

This may be merely an Edison dream or it may be true. Many electricians have been working on the problem for a long time, and it is one of the difficulties whose ultimate solution is confidently expected. When that time comes the preponderance of automobiles near cities will make over the laws of the road to some extent in their favor. But no law will ever take away the right of a man to walk or ride or drive a horse on any public highway. So long as that right remains people who run powerful engines of destruction in public thorough faros will he forced to regulate their speed with regard to the safety of others, rather than with an eye single to their own pleasure.

It is to be hoped that Mr. Lovatt, who is a man of wealth and position, will not accept a settlement out of court in this case. He ought to insist on the last ounce of punishment and all the incidental publicity which the law provides for the sake of the many obscure persons injured who have neither the means nor the influence to take tho men who run into them into court. The Third Shamrock. Information that seems to be definite and convincing comes from England saying that the plans for Sir Thomas Lip ton's third challenger for the America's Cup are now in the hands of the builders who constructed Shamrock II.

The reports of a cup contest in 1003 have increased and diminished at Intervals during the last few months, according to the scarcity or abundance of real, undeniable yachting news. The industry of exploiting Sir Thomas Lipton Is always fruitful, occasionally fascinating and not infrequently liable to be indorsed through the subsequent development of facts. Heretofore the stories of his intention to build a third challenger have been based upon nothing more substantial than hot air and an indefinite pledge given by him prior to his departure from this country last fall. Every American who cares a straw about yacht racing and who knows tho difference between a catboat and a schooner believed that sooner or later Sir Thomas would spend another million or two in chasing that homely piece of silverware so jealously guarded by the New York Yacht Club. Sooner, rather than later, every nautieally minded American expected to read again the daily printed predictions of the new challenger's success, to see again the old familiar cartoon of the cup irremovably Mistrial of Herlihy.

If anything justifies the wholesale release of indicted gamblers with merely light fines, which District Attorney Jerome sanctioned yesterday, It is the failure of the jury which tried Police Captain Herlihy to agree. The Herlihy case shows the extreme difficulty of securing a conviction in cases which affect general social conditions after the lapse of time has dulled public Interest in them. Captain Herlihy was tried for permitting generally vicious conditions in his precinct, and the District Attorney expresses confidence in his ability to secure a conviction in the retrial which will begin inside of a fortnight. In fact, the precinct was notorious for open and flagrant vice during the period in question. There was credible testimony that Herlihy called the Rev.

Dr. Taddock a liar when the latter called at the police station to secure protection for members of his congregation at the Pro Cathedral, who lived in tenements in which the clergyman declared that the police permitted vicious resorts. That interview with Dr. Paddock brought Bishop Potter actively into the political campaign, aroused moral indignation which caused the organization of the Committee of Fifteen, and was in large part responsible for the Fusion victory. An outsider would suppose that, if there is any such thing as general neglect of duty gross enough to justify conviction, proof would be easy in the case of that particular captain.

Yet Herlihy's defense was that he did practically the best he could with the force at his command. He declared that there were a. million transients in his precinct, that his men were frequently drafted to guard political meetings and parades and. that the arrests on his blotter showed as much activity as could be expected. The argumentative answer Is that if the houses on whose existence the indictment was based had refused to pay their protection money, Herlihy would have found means to close them all in a fortnight.

Nine citizens out of ten believe that, to be true. But it was not proved in court. No attempt was made to prove the payment of protection money. The idea seems to have been that it was to be inferred, as citizens infer it, from the large number of vicious resorts of which the police captain could not have been ignorant. But the juryman under oath refuses to make the inference which the citizen, reading of conditions in his newspaper, makes readily enough.

The fact that some at least of the jurors sympathized with the captain is clear from the disagreement. Probably such sympathy will always get into the jury box whore a captain is accused on general principles, unless there is proof plain and straight of corruption. Jurors know the inference of corruption well enough, but they also know the difficulty of suppressing vice even with the most strenuous efforts. The outcome of the second trial will depend largely upon the nature of the proof which the Listrict Attorney offers. Direct and positive proof of bribery is the most diffi cult thing in criminal procedure, while conviction without such proof is practically impossible.

The case shows the extreme difficulty of reforming social conditions, even with an honest and earnest administration of the criminal laws. If reform were merely a matter of one crusade or one election, the millennium would be a good deal nearer than it is in New York. Local Pneumatic Mall Service. Postmaster General Payne has invited bids for the installation of a pneumatic tube service between the main post office in Brooklyn and Station situated on Fulton street, near Nostrand avenue. Owing to the supposed lack of funds sufficient to warrant the establishment of more than three or four miles of tubing in tho borough, over and above the line connecting the post office here with the main office in New York, it was generally believed that the postal authorities at Washington would not undertake purely local extensions this year.

Postmaster Roberts is still doubtful as to whether or not Brooklyn will get the Station connection before 1003. He bases his doubt upon the fact that the four per cent, proportion of last year's postal revenues in Brooklyn is not large enough to justify the government in carrying out all the work indicated by the Postmaster. General's request for bids, and that the Brooklyn office, having contributed to the SS0O.O0O fund for tubular extension less than any of the other great offices, which expect to benefit by the pneumatic system, will be the first to be cut. He holds, and perhaps correct that the call for bids merely shows that the postal department wants to know how much of the work eventually to be done in Brooklyn. Manhattan, Philadelphia.

Boston, Washington, Chicago and St. Louis, can be accomplished through the expenditure of the money now in hand. Tho Eagle trusts that Mr. Roberts' view of the situation is incorrect. We are sure he would gladly welcome proof of the fact that, in this particular instance, his judgment of conditions and his estimate of results are both at fault.

The connection between Station and the main office by way of Sub Station No. is only secondary in importance to the line between Brooklyn and Manhattan. The fact that we have managed to do without it so long is no reason that its establishment should be deferred another twelve months or more. It will expedite the handling of mail matter in the upper wards of the borough, and, Presentments by Grand Jury. The Grand Jury has not indicted any one responsible for Coney Island.

Instead of that it has the conditions of that resort as something which are a disgrace to the Police Department and the city and has alleged a wholesale violation of law down there, which, If true, would have justified indictment. Now, an indictment by a Grand Jury is one of the most important instruments of government. It is a matter of grave moment to the persons indicted and to the community alike. Even a consideration of charges with a failure to indict is a serious matter because it leaves the person investigated under suspicion without the vindication which acquittal In open court gives. But a presentment by a Grand Jury is of just as much weight as a set of resolutions adopted by the occupants of a trolley car crossing the bridge, who should agree to relieve the tedium of a blockade by freeing their minds upon things in general.

It carries no more consequences than the resolution of any other body of citizens who think that something ought to be regulated, but who lack the spunk to go out and regulate it themselves. The presumption is that if the Grand Jury had discovered serious violations of law, that could be proved to the satisfaction of a jury, it would have found indictments against the men guilty of those violations. That is their sworn duty. When a Grand Jury fails to make such an indictment the presumption is that it does not consider the ease susceptible of proof. In this case the grand jurors were, according to their own showing, their own witnesses.

Presximably, they did not care to go upon the stand in open court and swear to what they had encountered, or else they did not think they had seen enough to convince a jury that the police captain or the hotelkeep ers ought to be convicted. They did, however, see things which they thought ought to be changed and they eased their consciences by a presentment, which has no more power to affect the conditions complained of than a piece of waste paper blowing through Surf avenue has. It is well to be plain and specific about the uselessness of such presentments, because it is a growing habit with grand juries to scold about matters for which they decline to put any man on trial. There is a terse phrase from, the betting ring, "put up or shut up," which applies forcibly to this sort of vague and ineffective denunciation on the part of bodies which have the power in their hands to inflict punishment for any evils of which they find proof. As to the conditions of Coney Island, the Grand Jury says they are bad, while Colonel Partridge says they are good.

Colonel Partridge went down in the day time, when decent people fill the resort. The grand jurors stayed late into the night, after the decent people had come home. In fact, Coney Island Is a chameleon which reflects the color of the mind of the investigator, as shown by the time and circumstances under which he in vestigates. In any case it is not the island but the people who are there that make the place either good or bad. If there are bad people there little would be gained by driving them away while their propensity for evil remained.

The farmer who drove rats out of his barn only to have them settle in his house would hardly be praised for wisdom. In fact, the farmer would poison the rats and so end the mischief. But we have not reached a stoicism which allows us to dispose permanently of the vicious members of society or even to confine them for long periods of time where their power for harm would be stopped. Until we either convert them to righteous ness or agree to imprison them for such long terms there is nothing to be gained by "chasing them around from one settlement to another. That merely spreads their contagion.

In fact, when certain neighborhoods or certain hours in neighborhoods are clearly marked as the rendezvous of the vicious that servos warning for the virtuous to keep away and is about as effective a restriction as is practicable. All the parties to this dispute agree that during the hours when families visit Coney Island the resort is kept at least reasonably decent and safe. Most of the complaints of the Grand Jury and others are as to what happens there between midnight and morning. That concerns only a small minority of the population and in the main affects people who have only themselves to blame if they suffer in their pursuit of evil. Kavanagh's Daring.

A very daring exploit was that of George J. Kavanagh, a newspaper man, who approached within a mile of the Mont Pelee crater. Mr. Kavanagh, who is described in tho Martinique dispatches as "unattached," which means that he went to the island on his own hook, accompanied Professor Hill, the government geologist when the latter traveled toward St. Pierre, but instead of following the scientist into the ruined city.

Kavanagh climbed the mountain in tho direction of the new crater. He made photographs and rough sketches and found many curious and grisly things in the course of his investigations which were undertaken in tho period elapsing between the two worst eruptions that have occurred since Sr. Pierre was overwhelmed. While Mr. Kavanagh is not a man of scientific attainments and while tho value of his observations is necessarily limited, his expedition will pre.