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THE BKOOKLYN DILY EE MAROH' 1897. 6 estimate of the increase of revenue be correct it is the most ultra protective tai ift' that we have had in recent years. The wisdom of carrying the protection idea tc such an extreme will have to be demonstrated, and before it is demon accustomed that we are unable at once to discriminate between them. No doubt If eighty one shaven erring Americans, dressed alike, were set. before a Chinese official he would have the same trouble iu distinguishing one from the other as the officials did in Newark, and perhaps they would have the same good iuck in gaining their liberty, as the Chinamen did.

TUESDAY EVEXINtS, MARCH 16, (Copyrishted.) been provided by these roads in all directions. They have charged no extra fare fo'r such distances. It will be an outrage to charge it for a mile and a sixth, merely because it: is in tin; direction of New York. The trustees who think they can throw the tub of compensation to public opinion or to their own consciences for doing a wron. thins will find themselves mistaken.

They would is not even a provision for its use in the camps of our national guard, nor for carrying it in patriotic processions. Under the terms of such an act not even the sons themselves could display the flag their fathers fought for. There is objection to using the flag for advertising purposes, and if the sons will frame a bill in support of the measures already urged in that respect 'will have a general indorsement. The bill as it stands is one of the most tyrannical, harrow spirited, impracticable that the brains of cranks ever conceived. We doubt if a Russian or a German would endure a law that forbade him to raise the flag of his country on his housetop.

And this is supposed to be a free country. If the sons get their bill into the legislature it will be the duty of that legislature to sit upon it so hard it will never be able to get up again. own. His boyhood work was sold by Mr. Watts years ago, lost sight of and then repurchased, by the painter for $25 from a Scotch dealer.

The surplus of women in France is returned than one tenth of what it is in Germany, and less than one eighth of the excess in England. Statistics which have been compiled for the Yale News show that graduates of Yale are now. presidents of nineteen universities and colleges in various parts of the country. Ill Milan's great opera house, La Scala, a large room, with every convenience for writing, telephoning and telegraphing has been provided for the musical critics. Walter Besant says that if he writes an autobiography he will not note the great men at whose tables he has sat, nor the ways and manners of poets he has known but will commemorate remarkable men and women not known to the world.

Tho gold medal which the South Carolina branch of tho Sons of the Revolution offered about six months ago to the college student who should submit the beat essay on the subject "South Carolina in the Revolution" has been awarded to Ira S. Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell is a member of the junior class in Ers klne college, at Due West, S. C.

unhealthy and very hot. in summer. The building is unhealthy. The ring: is too small. There is not room enough to put iin the necessary stall and saddle room.

It would cost $50,000 to make the needed repairs and alterations to put the bulldingr into proper condition and arranged for cavalry. Result, after this is done, a building too small, not designed and, Ill adapted for the purpose. Now, because other organizations have been properly provided for it does not follow that Troop should be left without proper quarters. troop has not asked for and does not expect swimming tanks or bowling alleys and, by the way, the regiments that have these attractions did not get them from the state or county, but by private means, raising the' money among their members and friends. Troop only asks for an armory having a good drill hall of the size laid down in the drill book for a troop; a sufficient number of well ventilated, healthy stalls to keep their horses, a suitable locker room, saddle room and the necessary offices and troop room.

Now as to the cost of such a building, that depends very largely upon the architectural effect to be given to It. That part can be very well left to the state and local authorities, who would have charge of the matter, and to the troop is secondary when compared with a consideration of those features necessary to the health of members and horses, and to the efficiency in drill and equipment. It might be added that there is no more desire on the part of the troop to locate on any of those blocks now owned by the city and known as the east side lands, than there is to secure any other good location. There are a greai many people who think that an armory built on plans approved by the park commissioners as to exterior and location could be made an ornament to the neighborhood of the Willink entrance, just as the Twenty third regiment armory is an ornament to its section. There is certainly no desire to oppose any plans for Improving that long neglected entrance or any other plans of the park department.

B. T. CLAYTON. Captain Troop C. Brooklyn, March 16, 1897.

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The bridge trustees were to bold a conference with surface and elevated railroad presidents on yesterday (Monday J. They lirst. thought of postponing It till to day. They put ir off. however, until to morrow I Wednesday I.

It will then be held unless again postponed, lie flection may convince ilii that indefinite postponement would be wise. Public opinion is being aroused on the subject under ion. The subject, is the giving away of the bridge, which has cost and is worlTi $21,000,000. to the railroad companies. The bridge was built for.

lias been paid by and was supposed to belong to the people. The proposition to take it from the people and to give it to the railroad companies did not come from the people. It came from the railroad companies. To speak precisely, if came from the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad company in the first instance. The Kings Comity Elevated railroad necessarily and not discreditably joined in the request.

It had to place itself on even terms of opportunity with the oilier company. Then tne surra ce roads put their requests for the roadways of the bridge. Their officers could not concede a monopoly of bridge advantage to The elevated roads. The contagious character of this scheme should be borne in mind. The original germ of greed should, however, be ascribed to the Brooklyn Elevated company, to which it belongs.

Itedueed to persons, that company comprises Frederick Uhhuann and Edward Ean terbach. They never desired anything which belonged to others, unless they could get it. and never sought anything beyond their reach, unless they could employ or influence some one with a longer reach. Their desire for the bridge has its motive in several considerations. The bridge is a parr of the earth.

The earth is all they want. They are willing, however, to take a little of ir at a time. The bridge is the next part of the earth which they si'k. Specifically, also, the difference to them between getting and not getting the bridge is Hint between bankruptcy and prosperity. If they can get it from the people of these cities, the people will be somewhat poorer and the corporation will be richer.

Beside the success of the seizure might embolden them in their undisclosed intention to ask for the City Hall of New York as a down town depot. We notice that some independent, citizens mean to lind oui. whether this thing can be done merely because Frederick Uhlmatm, Edward I.autcrliacb. Mayor Wurster and Controller Palmer have made up their minds thai it must bo done. These independent itizens propose to call a public mooting.

oi.g others who will be willing to "ss that meeting is liridge Trustee chinm. A. Ilenriques. He has no objection to appeal from the board to the people, for the preservation of the people's property, when the board by a majority seems bent on giving it away to the railroad companies. The thing had better ho done quickly, if at all, not.

ilie meeting, "nut the giving away of the bridge. The meeting can be held before or after, for a taxpayers' suit against, the unlawful giving away of public property for private interests can lie begun at ai.y time. Should such a suit be maintained, the trustees voting for the scheme would be personally liable for the waste and wrong and. if they have $lil. about their persons, they would do well to put it aside as an indemnity fund.

While they should nor delay their purpose, lest the people catch up with them and head them off. rhey will do well to settle every stage of it carefully. The stage of coming on the bridge at all has. they think, been serried. They are mistaken about that.

They will do well to conclude that it has not been settled. Then the question of who shall pay for the changes of coming on would lie well considered. Tin folk at least limn to make the bridge treason nav for lie strated we may expect an outcry not unlike that which greeted the Wilson bill. It is very certain that tinder the operations of the new tariff the trusts will have a picnic. As to the consumer we suppose that it is of small consequence what becomes of him.

Prize Fight To morrow. The prize light is a relic of barbarism and ought to be suppressed. The hope will be universal that the best man may win. Nothing more malignly illustrates the survival of savagery in the human breast. Both contestants have been trained by differing systems 'to the last point of destructive power and defensive alertness.

The mind may well ask whether centuries of civilization have not been satirized or their lessons lost by the spectacle and excitement prevailing at Carson to day and there to culminate to morrow. To discriminate between the dispatches which tell the truth and those meant to stimulate wagers is not easy. It is noticeable that even men of' religion, to say nothing of men of culture, are tempted to forget their scru pies, if not. their principles, under the i spell of evil curiosity which the uearing event forecasts. If the battle depends on science, as that word is applied to fistic events, Corbett's chances ought to be superior.

Only by looking at the motley company of the idle, the vicious and the brutal at high tension is the I moral nature able to feel now the dis gust and disapprobation which will not i be wanting after the struggle has passed into history. Fttzsimmons methods may hold in them an art beyond the ken of superficial observers which will give to him rhe victory. Men and women of sensibility have asked in vain: "Why does not the law forbid this Either man wishes he were better informed concerning the reserved devices of the other. Nevada has attained the unique disgrace of formally legalizing the battle. Fitzsinimons did not object to the referee's rules without a purpose, nor was Corbett's alacrity to accept them wise.

A commonwealth for tht! free coinage of silver is not inconsistent in enacting protection for the free scope of systematized brutality. 1 ne gamblers were moved to suspect that the Cornishnian was seeking a pretext to lirevent a meeting in which he feared he would be worsted. We are glad to say that every other member of the federal union has outlawed these repulsive exhibitions. A great dissipation of speculative schemes ensued when the middleweight champion afterward accepted the rules. The national government has also prohibited prize lighting in the territories.

Investigation soon showed that Siler's conditions were not so favorable to the Californian as his friends had claimed. No other community in the republic has failed to outlaw what Nevada has sanctioned. The sense of the referee in settling all disputable points iu advance is now realized. Not a single word can be sanely or sincerely employed for the toleration of prize fighting. There is as litrle prospect of mob interruption as there is of magisterial interference.

Fighting of brutes for money does not encourage athletics, but only vulgarizes them. Arrangements for protecting the proceedings from interruption are said to he perfect. The idlers and wasters of unearned fortunes who patronize professional pugilists do not elevate the latter, but only sink to their level. Whether the fight be long or short, rhe necessity of order and fair play to insure a decisive result, and a satisfactory acceptance of ir. is apparent.

The measure of encouragement given by fashionable clubs to fighters for purses stamps those organizations with moral condemnation. One may feel certain that nearly every prediction or prophecy concerning the incidents of the encounter will be brought to naught. Neither the animalism nor the "cupidity of the champions woulds be arouscnl to the killing point of battle desire, but for the rewards, which those wiio would like to be regarded as gentlemen have dangled before the eyes of rhe.se boastful gladiators. What will happen may be the unexpected. The evil already done by the treatment of the approaching fight is not small.

As a reservoir of surprises, each man may be phenomenal. Journalism and converse have been degraded to the level and ro the language of the vicious and of the vile. Fitzsinimons has a ferocity that, intensifies without confusing his purposes in the ring. The noble art of illustration has been made the servant of savagery and savages, to meet tht! presumed interest of the people in the struggle, orbett. will rely on his power to avoid punishment more than on his ability to indict it: or to endure it.

All movements that, rebuke the theory of the wholesale love of Americans for brutality at its worst should be vindicated by public support. Fitzsinimons is resolved that he shall not be worn down or evaded by his adversary. A demand as broad as the Union and as poteirl as its decency should shame Nevada into repealing an act which has made her soil an asylum for moral monsters. Both men will disclose and will learn more after they have taken their positions than cither has been willing to reveal or to admit in advance. Certainly the cure of the evil should be the truest and most prompt presentation of its features to general perusal and reprobation and that, the Eagle proposes to furnish tomorrow.

It is an amazing state of things when a justice can step down from the bench to defend criminals. That is what is to lie done in New York. Justice "Warwhoop" Lynn, who draws $0,000 a year as judge, is to defend the notorious The Allen in one of the minor courts of the city, associated in that capacity with ex Judge Callahan. Oiks can understand Callahan, but Lynn Ii is most extraordinary! Klgliiy oiie Chinamen were arrested in Newark on a charge' of gambling and opium smoking. When it came to trial the police could not identify one of them, for rhey all looked alike.

In eases of this kind the eye is unable to take in the lessor and individual distinctions, because it is occupied with the type. We see the slant eye, the high cheek, the round head, the pigtail and the rest, and these are so different from the type to which we are daily Vaccinating the Tramps. The tramp is a nuisance, but in so far as be is a conveyor of disease he will not he allowed to be as dangerous as he anight: prefer to be. In New York, Tired Thomas and Parched Perkins have been corralled in their dime lodging houses and have been vaccinated, peacefully, when possible, but vaccinated. In one ease a policeman and one doctor had to sit on a tramp, while another doctor inoculated him with vims and fear, but the example was beneficial, and in one evening 164 peripatetics were made safe against smallpox.

This act is wise, in more ways than one. It indicates that the health authorities are not neglecting the lodging houses along the Bowery, and it is not safe for them to do so. It assures to the tramps that, however predacious and Insolent they may be elsewhere, they are under the watch and operation, of the law, and this will renew in them a respect for it, which at times appears to be in danger of failing. Chiefly it will defend the public, no less than the vagrants, against the spread of smallpox in ease that disease should become epidemic. The objection to vaccination is now confined to those whose wishes in this matter may be safely overridden in the care for the general interests of the community.

A Bill of Doubtful Necessity. The passage of Assemblyman staff's park department bill is urged on the ground that, While it will do no harm if it is unnecessary, it will prevent the possibility of future complications if there has been any technical irregularity in the proceedings of the park commissioner. It is a sort of a bill of health which the park department is seeking. It. provides first, that all the parks, squares and highways acquired by the County of Kings under the authority of the county park and boulevard law or which may be hereafter so acquired shall be vested in the City of Brooklyn and shall be under the control of the city park commissioner.

Then, the commissioner is authorized to grade, pave and develop the parks and boulevards upon such plans as he may determine and he is empowered to enter into contracts for this purpose. But he may not spend more in this work than the unexpended balance of the county park fund and this money must be turned over to the controller and be paid out by him on vouchers certified by the department of parks. The last section of the bill, which is the most interesting, confirms all expenditures heretofore made in connection with the purchasing and improving of the county parks and highways. It seems that Timothy L. Woodruff, when he was park commissioner, assumed that he had control of the county as well as the city parks and was county as well as city park commissioner, and did some things in one capacity and some in the other.

and sometimes when he was not certain whether the thing should be done by the county or the city commissioner, he did it in both capacities at once. The last section is intended to legalize these acts. If the bill consolidating the city and county governments put the county parks under the supervision of the city department, then the part of Mr. Wagstaff's bill which does this over again is useless. There has been dispute over the proper custody of the unexpended balance of the proceeds from the sale of the county bonds for park purposes.

This dispute will be settled if the bill' is passed. Mr. Woodruff was criticised for hiring three or four hundred laborers in his capacity as county park commissioner without consultation with the civil service commission, to work on Forest park a few weeks before election. The bill will legalize the payment of those men. It is gratifying to note that Mr.

Woodruff has thought it necessary to explain that there was no county civil service commission, and that he could not as county park commissioner call on this non existing commission Tor laborers from an eligible list. This excuse is certainly ingenuous, coming from a man who had been in the habit of signing warrants in his dual capacity for the payment of money. If the theory that the consolidation act transferred the county parks to the city is sound, then the city commissioner had control of the development of Forest park and Mr. Woodruff was under legal obligations to ask the city civil service commission for laborers, and all talk about the right of the city park commissioner to act as county park commissioner is as pertinent as would be the justification of his assertion of his right to burn his own widow on the ground that he was Ah koond of Swat. There may be other things which, the Wagstaff bill does that do not appear on the surface.

We have no doubt that it will be examined thoroughly by the corporation counsel before it receives the approval of the local administration. It certainly ought to be so examined. To Pull Down the American Flag. The Sons of the American Revolution are not living up to expectation if they attempt to stay our freedom in the use of the American flag. They recommend legislation making it a misdemeanor for an American citizen to lly the Stars and Stripes, and will fine him $10 if he persists.

Was ever such nonsense? The alleged objection to our present liberty is that shopkeepers and others raise the flag to call attention to their promises. Suppose they do? What harm The flag suffers no desecration in that act. You cannot defile the American flag. It honors all uses. Moreover, the flag has beauty.

On a sunny day our streets are enlivened byih.Mlut erof bi livm the roofs and Windows. If the American Hag is pulled down from the hotels, the theaters, the shops, the private houses, the place of it will be filled, we may be sure, with banners and streamers advertising "four dollar pants" and bearing the names and virtues of the firms that do business on the highways. As between that kind of an exhibit and the flag, all people, except the Sons of the Revolution, will declare in favor of the flag. These unfaithful sons make it a sin to show our nation's emblem except on public buildings. There better not commit it at all.

for if they never commit it they will never rind if out. while if they do commit it, it will never cease to lind them out. We trust, that citizens will bestir themselves. The matter is theirs. The bridge is the people's bridge.

The trustees were meant to be trustees of the bridge for the people. The structure has cost them .000.000. The proposition to give it away to railroad companies is a new form of a sin older than the promulgation of the eighth commandment, which forbids such The Eagle has only called attention to the matter out of a sense of duty, confident that its position is right and that the rightfulness of it will be realized quite as acutely, should the scheme succeed, as it will be, should it deservedly fail. The Dingley Bill. Mr.

Dingley. chairman of the ways and means committee, which prepared the tariff bill reported to the house yester day. estimates that it will add one lmn tired and welve millions to the revenues, based upon the importations of the last, fiscal year, and adds: "The bill has two purposes, namely to raise additional revenue and to encourage the industries of tlie States." The primary object of a tariff is. or ought to be. the raising of sufficient revenue for the expenses of goverumeut economically administered, and this includes payment of.

and interest on. the debt, and the cost of war pensions, as well as the increase of the army and navy, which is now being advocated. All this revenue must be raised in the main at the custom houses. How to subserve fly primary purpose of raising revenue and at the same time subserve the in cidental one of encouraging the industries of the country, is rhe problem that confronts all tariff makers, and it is one that Mr. Dingley thinks he has satisfactorily solved.

In general form bis bill shows that parties apparently have learned nothing. The McKinley law was an attempt to formulate an entire policy of government in one act. So was the Wilson law. Both broke down from overstrain. The new Dingley bill is a renewal of the same attempt.

It tries to regulate our entire commercial and industrial system. The result will be a civil war among the industries of the country a' struggle for largess and plunder in which, all forms of log rolling and corruption will find room for play. Undoubtedly the bill will be jammed" through the house. Then ir. will go ro the senate, whose political proportions are unknown, but whose capacity to sell itself is well understood.

In this senate there will he the greatest opportunity for bribery and loot that was ever known. We are familiar with the scandalous circumstances that attended the passage of the Wilson bill familiar with the manner in which the trusts wrote their own schedules and directly or indirectly paid for their conversion into law. There is reason to believe that the passage of the Dingley bill by the senate will not lie free from a similar disgraceful exhibition. Meanwhile it seems to be a question as to how best to discount the law. Tin; customs record was broken yesterday.

The duties paid at the port of New York amounted to the largest sum ever taken in one day. Merchants are importing all they possibly can before the new tariff goes into effect. The law will not have a chance for months and when it begins to have a chance, we may suffer as much from overiiinnufacturing as wo are now suffering from excessive importation. If the author of the Wilson bill may be accepted as authority, the production of public revenue has been but an incidental consideration in the framing of the Dingley hill, being entirely subordinate to the purpose of taxing all the people for the benefit of a few. It is certainly a protective tariff, pure and simple.

It generally restores McKinley rates and advances them in a large number of instances. Duties are levied on articles from which little or no revenue may be expected, and industries which can successfully compete with foreign rivals without a cent's worth of protection have apparently got all they wanted. Congress had to take into account the maintenance of wages at the American rate. Whether it be scientific or unscientific to take this into account, is not settled, but it is certain that if unscientific the people are not educated to the belief that it is. If it be scientific it should be done on its merits and not in response to a variety of selfish and conflicting interests.

Either way. both par tics have had their turn at tariff making and both have recognized the necessity of deferring to public opinion on the wage iisuc. Tl same purpose, however, could he subserved in a much more uniform and satisfactory way. It is possible to make tl.e duties on imports with which this country competes equal to the difference between i lie wages paid here and those paid abroad in the making of the articles involved, plus if necessary, a slight addi tion to meet the cost ot transportation. Itt publicans nor Demo' rais could cotild report, the cost, of manufacture in all blanches of industry and by treating the matter from the business exports' point of view we might eventually get a tariff that would be something belter than a vast conglomeration of injustices, Thai, too, would take tin' tariff out of politics, and in taking it out of polities there would be tranquillity anil prosperity.

As it is, neither party is able to frame a tariff that can escape the rebuke of the people even before ii has had a fair chance to demonstrate what ever merits it may possess and we do tint suppose that the Dingley product will be an exception to the rule. Its most important, feature is the general substitution of specific for ad valorem duties. If Chairman Dingjey's i I The Trade of Damage Lawyers. Affairs have come to such a pass that the presumption is against the honesty of the plaintiff in every damage suit. The business of the damage lawyers has been conducted in such a way that the bringing of a suit has come to be one form of speculation, for the plaintiff as well as for the lawyer.

It is champerty adjusting itself to modern conditions. The lawyer engaging in it becomes a tradesman and not a professional man. His stock is a certain number of alleged injuries sustained by people whom he has been able to induce to go into partnership With bim. He hopes to receive payment from the corporations which he charges with causing the injuries. And the corporations are frequently forced to give several hundred dollars and sometimes several thousand dollars to the lawyers, but a moiety of which reaches the pocket of the person injured.

There is actual incitement to litigation by these lawyers, though it is done in such a way that it is not easy to bring them under the provision of the code which punishes such conduct. Agents are attached to every hospital and to every ambulance and to police headquarters, and whenever a man gets his finger pinched in the door of a car a dozen of these agents are suggesting within two hours that he bring suit for damages. If a trolley car runs over a child the dozen agents increases to scores, and if no suit is brought by the parents they are even denounced as fools by the vultures who are preying on the big corporations in this city and In every other city of the country. The announcement made in the Eagle on Monday that four of the five trial terms of the supreme court were constantly occupied with cases of this kind shows to what extent the abuse has grown. Legitimate suits are delayed by the business of the speculators until a man who has a real grievance that he desires to redress hesitates a long while before he appeals to the court, trusting that time will adjust matters more quickly and more satisfactorily.

The damage lawyer might better be engaged in hoeing potatoes in the country than in chasing about the streets to see whom he can induce to invest in a chance to get something for nothing out of a corporation. There ought to be a higher sense of honor in these officers of the court than seems to move them today. They should understand that the business of the lawyer is to discourage litigation rather than to provoke it and they should know that the courts are for the settlement of disputes which it has been impossible to settle honestly and honorably elsewhere. To claim damages to the amount of $2,000 because a boy has fallen from a car and soiled his clothing is not honest. To take such a case into the courts is an outrage on the taxpayers who maintain them for legitimate transactions, and to ask for a new trial, as is sometimes done when the verdict is hi favor of the defendant, involves a combination of dishonesty, presumption and nerve which, alas, is too often found.

RIGHTS OF THE MASSES Should Be Superior to Selfish Interests of Great Landlords. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: I find the opposition to the greater New York charter, now being voiced in this city, through the Unkm League club, the City club, the Bar association and the real estate exchange, is directed almost solely against the equalization of taxation. It coines from the great landlords O'f Manhattan island or from the lawyers or real estate agents, who congregate in small bodies in the clubs, associations or exchanges and pass resolutions. These men realize that beside reducing taxes in your city, consolidation will cause institutions and individuals who loan money on bend and mortgage to have more confidence in the value of Brooklyn property. And this wili greatly accelerate the construction of new buildings there.

Many these new buildings will attract the tenants who now pay exorbitant rents for dwellings on Manhattan island. Consolidation without equal taxation would be unreasonable. When a part of Westchester was annexed to New York city it received equal taxation. When Vienna was enlarged the authorities were so anxious to cause the population to spread, rather than have it congested at the center, that they decreed that new buildings in the new zone should be exempted from taxation for several years. And, Dr.

Albert Shaw, in his work on "Municipal Government in Continental Europe," shows this to have been a wise policy. The rights of the masses in crowded communities should certainly be superior to the selfish interests of the great laindlords of the older portion of the city. I am sure many of your readers would like to learn the vieivs of the Eagle on this matter. JAMES D. LYNCH.

Brooklyn, March 15, 1897. TROOP ARMORY. Captain Clayton Wants Quarters, But Not on East Side Lands. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Referring to your editorial of last Friday, headed "Hhe Craze for New Armories," allow me to call your attention to a few facts. The building now occupied by Troop was erected some forty years ago as an arsenal and storehouse.

Later, about 1873, $60,000 was appropriated to add the drill hall and make the building habitable for the Fourteenth regiment. Since then it has had but little repairing or paint and is much in need of both. About $6,000 has been spent on it for Troop changing the drill hall into a riding ring, building thirty stalls, putting in extra flooring, fixing some of the rooms on the second story and making some of the most needed repairs. We keep forty horses, ten being kept In temporary stalls, built by the employes and not fit for the purpose. Our uniforms we keep In some old, patched up lockers, discarded by the Fourteenth regiment.

Our overcoats we are obliged to keep altogether, as It is impossible to get them in the little lockers. The helmets are piled on top the lockers for want of room inside. There are no racks for carbines, sabers or pistols. The rifle range Is dangerc us. For want of proper ventilation the stables are Cook's Imperial Champagne, Extra Dry, naturally fermented; nearly fifty years' record.

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American and European plana. OVINGTQN BROS, C0 66 ESp Sap 99 Grip ds WORK ON A BIG How the New Bridge Contract Is Progressing. Work is being rapidly pushed forward on the first, or northerly, caisson for the New York tower of the new East river bridge in course of construction by Contractor Fly nn at the foot of North Second street. It is expected that the caisson will be launched toward the end of next month, or at latest by May 1. Some of the framing has already been done on the second or southerly caisson.

As soon as. the first has been launched work will be begun on the second so that by the time the sinking of the northerly caisson is well under way the sinking of the southern one can be started. Mr. Flynn's contract calls for the completion of the work by December 31 of the present year. In view of this fact the scene at the foot of Delancey street, New York, during the coming summer promises to be.

one 'of great activity. The launching of the caisson will resemble in some respects the launching of a ship. When ready it will be slid from the ways on which it at present rests and towed to its proper position at the New York pier. As the yard in which the workmen are building the caisson is inclosed by a high wooden fence few of the public have seen it or are aware of its importance and necessity In bridge construction. An idea of what it looks like may be had from the picture printed in today's Eagle.

The caisson somewhat resembles a huge box braced in the interior In the strongest manner known to mechanical science. There is a chamber at the bottom 8 feet high, surrounded by walls 2 feet thick. This chamber has a roof 5 feet thick. Two layers of yellow pine timber 1 foot square are used, for the walls and roof and timbers 16 inches square for the trusses in the working chamber. There are yet two 3 inch layers of planking 3 inches thick to be placed on the outside walls or hull, so that the latter will be just 2 feet 9 inches thick when completed.

To the hottom of the caisson walls sheets of iron 2 Inches thick will be spiked. These will form what will be known as the cutting edge ot the caisson and this is the portion of the structure that will cut its way through the mud and sand at the bottom of the river until bed rock Is reached. The work of the sinking of the caisson and the building of the tower is most interesting and was technically described to a reporter of the Eagle yesterday. When the caisson is placed in position the work of sinking i't will be at once begun. This will be (lone by laying concrete and masonry on the roof.

The next step is to pump compressed air into the working chamber to displace the water and permit the man to descend into the interior of the caisson and begin work in the working chamber. The weight of the concrete and masonry on the roof, meantime, gradually forces the cutting edge into the bed of the river. The depth of water at the point wfoere the caisson is to bo sunk Is about 20 feet at high tide. The height ot the caisson is 19 feet. It is 76 feet long and 60 feet broad.

Seven shafts, each about 3 feet in diameter, will be built in the roof of the caisson and extend up through the masonry on the top. Five of these shafts will be used for the passage of material and two for workmen. While the caisson is being sunk to bed reck from thirty to fifty men can be employed in the chamber at one time. These men will work in alternate shifts of eight hours, and three gangs, it is expected, will be sufficient to start the When work in the interior of the caisson is beguu it will have to go on continuously. The chamber will be lighted with electricity and fitted with Bed rock will be reached at a depth of 65 feet.

Compressed air will be continually forced Into the interior of the caisson to permit the men to work. At a depth of sixty feet the air pressure in the chamber will be about thirty pounds to the square inch or about twice as dense as the ordinary air we breathe. The workmen will descend into and ascend from the working chamber through the shafts by mean's of airlocks. These locks, which will be really enlargements of the shafts, will each have two doors, one at the top and one at the bottom. To get down into the chamber the men will have to pass through an upper door in either of the locks and close it behind them.

They w.ill then open a cock In the lower door and admit compressed air from the working chamber into the lock. After the pressure in the lock equals that in the! wuriviug cnamue tae lawer aoor may De opened and the man can go through it into the working chamber. In coming out of the chamber the operation Is entirely reversed. When bed rock is reached It is possible that It may be found to be uneven or sloping. In such a case ledges will have to be cut and perhaps some blasting done.

When this Is done the rock will bo swept clean, as In Che case of the laying of the foundation of an ordinary house, and the foundation of the tower will be laid in concrete. RECENT EVENTS. An unsucoesful attempt was male to poison Tip II, a vicious elephant of the Barnum menagerie at Bridgeport, Conn. A newspaper correspondent at Athens has discovered that Russia is still after Constantinople, which she intends to seize as soon as the Greeks and the Turks begin to fight. Charles A.

D. Pcol and his fiancee testify on the witness stand chat they were in a plot to get false evidence against Mrs. Hecr wagen in her husband's suit for divorce. By the explosion of a turret gun on a Russian man of war before Canea, fifteen men, including two officers, were killed. The Moscow correspondent of the London Standard telegraphs that Steinltz, the chess player, has been released from the asylum in which he was for some time confined owing to his mental troubles.

CONTEMPORARY HUMOR. At the rainbow's end, the Ktory reads, Uea hidden a pot of gold, And he who fares thro' the mire and weeds May have it to keep and hold. "Isabel says she has never been in love." "Is that so?" "Yes; she was threatened with it once, but a bottle of spring bitters brought her out all right." Chicago Record. At midnight, in his guarded tent, the Turk lay dreaming of the hours when he could hide to some extent behind the coattails of the powers. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

"Pushpen Is a ready writer, isn't he?" "Yes; he writes readily enough; but the trouble is he can't think." Chicago Record. FACTS ABOUT MEN AND THINGS An interesting thing about Watts' "Wounded Heron," now on exhibition in London, Is that it was first exhibited at the Royal academy sixty years ago, in the year of the queen's ascension. It Is believed that no other living artist can say as much of any picture of his expense to which they may be pur for reasonably disagree as to the feasibility changes in cars, equipment and motive) of such a system. Instead of having the power, especially if they deny such in tariff handled by a congress which tention. That I.

company with which changes every two years, why not have is the germ of greed iti ibis thing always ja permanent tariff commission to re intends what it denies and always do 1 pert 'o congress what should be done? nies what ir intends. To Hits commission our agents abroad After that should be the question of compensation. We know that the companies are assured that "rhey ran safely accept any compensation which the trits tees impose on them with the certainty that, after it. is imposed, the people will make the successors of these trustees I take it off';" bin that assurance may be Insidious anil inaccurate. If the trustees want ro give away the bridge, they will be unable to defend themselves for not giving away the use of it.

also. If the dear people are entitled to travel a mile and a sixth further by and surface roads than ihey now do. those roads have no right in morals or by precedents to charge them an extra fare for the trifling Increase of distance, lore than that increase of distance on land has.