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1 8 THE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BROOKLYN. THURSDAY. APRIL 14 1910. would hav permitted a few months THE TTJRSY THE TCRF. THE STMIDARD UIIIOIl BOOTH KILLED LINCOLN 45 YEARS AGO TO-NIGHT QUEENS COUNTY JOCKEY CLUB RACING BEGINS TO-MORROW TUE NATION'S CAPITAL Pennsylvania Railroad who do not go, to church than wbe do, and about the" first thing that win-occur to them If we have direct nominations is that they can have Sunday baseball' of all kinds, without any restriction whatever, for tho asking.

It is possible this great majority In favor ef Sunday baseball might make common cause with tho liquor non and vote for open saloons on that day alto. When nominations are directly made, has been proven time and time again, tha man with tho longest purse the man who can afford the expense of canvassing for the necessary petitions usually wins out. Doubtless the saloon men would supply the long purse, while the followers of outdoor sports generally will furnish the votes. The A xi rovriMin evert htk it txtii. mat irrn.

Ill INTERESTING CONTESTS DAU.r. BEGI.XX NO AT f. X. grkat oraxio dat attbvactiok THE CARTER HANDICAP Special liar. Trains with Psrlor Csre leer, foot East setb St 10:10 19 U.

1:20. 1 PM Alas from Flstbush A 1 AM. 1. 1 OS. 1:20.

1:0. 1 15 P.M.. stopoira at Nostraud An tt.d test 1 Tro.l.r car with Kings County Published dally ead Bandars; PHo Cent Mkdua: Tin Cents gundaya. Bab. eortsttoae.

40 cent per month; tt fpr three month, or (3.50 par year taaoreee cheated whenever desired) free of inland PMIift. Oeoan soeiafe a eanta par cpy added to forelera subscriptions. Ia ehen- ln( aa address both old and saw ehould a given. STANDARD TJXIOX BTTL.DJNG, Fettea and Waahlagtea Street Telephone, All Departments. BS0O Xata.

MANHATTAN OFF1C: St. Paul Building. 330 Broadway. Telephone, 6269 Cortlandt. Corporate sunt: The Brooklyn Union Puellshlns Main Office, Standard L'nion Building.

Fultoa and Waahlnctoa St, Brooklyn, N. T. William Berrl, Free-Ident: M. F. Smith.

Treasurer: W. Tea Cyck. Seo't'y: H. L. Bridsrman.

Business afanagar. Address Standard Union Build-in g. THURSDAY ETKXENQ, APRTL 14. ltll. FOURTEEN PAGES.

AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION FOR ENT1REYEAR 1909,62,905 The Thaw Lawyer's Fee. The throwing out of tho claim of a lawyer fo- J9S.00O from, lira. Thaw has more importance than merely tha blocking of an attempt to bleed till more the trnfortanate mother of an unrwertby soa Th verdict of the Jury a4 tha action, of tba court not merely protaet this lndTridtial. btrt sjetae long step temrnrtt-tb pro-eMtims-c( the xmbOo. XI ta tha oecvoptton Jsstteo.

a I portOa "grange fbr43otjoam tte pab- tw IB3SnsU da prtvai rrang fn-nWvvS'Ca to ovui -liEg PJeivioes UlaVf tfW(Tlllllr3aiBl nigh loajri tjraft w2mo Cm claim I Si Zbv twivtuu readerM that are fLirbtiTfTwn try pirtltlts pcAlcQr te ijrtreartaa by pTthno tt GbsCowkio) b4 the tHiiltrtfimuBt ctro ttrpa for a totpTVramaSB Ia Che dmrslB- trrgts trlees trJra miitwutlmi Chat free mM ba1 ppodnoed high ItrfOML Mr. Bryan cover eoclfj rot iaiOPTjlaaiBaa blaowa original prto-etXAv that wUatnc a point ta arm- i mestv la mum limimtmit than winnfns aj eleotloH. A Barren Island Oder Bill. Tha nnusaal sdtuatton at Albany this winter has distracted attention from a number of btn which ahould be known to the publlo and cenaidered by it before legislative action Is taken. One which concerns Brooklynites is the Burllngamo measure to end the Barren Island odor nuisance which arises.

from the burning: of garbage and other refuse matter. The bin requires adoption of such methods and devices that will prevent the escape of noxious gases, and provides a penalty sufficiently heavy to discourage violations of the statute. It would be a mighty gooa thing for the surrounding sections If the Barren Island plant were made less objectionable. Something has been done in this direction in the past few years, but some conditions remain which should be mitigated or entirely removed. The Legislature would xbe doing a real public service If It passed the bill.

The alarm clock goes off In Fhlla- dtlphla to-day, but the real baseball season of course does not begin till next Monday at Washington Park. AMrsEMEjrrs. ORPHEUM tVi BARRYMORE, RANKIN CQ rT itoovrr a ma mow nrvr I TOr O- IH WOUO DAJrCKM BERT WILLIAMS AKTOia rro FRET TWTa- GTXi iTi MooirVi Ti-roRt rocaoti CBF'iri'MT 1 'r. -Pbea 2S-42 Mam Unttll MATINEE EVKBT DAT4 tk a a Br Ore, v.t we iu ittarmt. Axt.tTt r.i I rxA Jixn Brrc 0.: WAIKKBIKV BKO.

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A a Ttm: Glaa- WHERE THERE'S A WILL West Week THI I.OVE CTP MAJESTIClalll Antrrtra. si I isjsl Msisiasrf Afltew. MR. JAMES K. HACKET1 "MOVSIf.l-R BEArCAIRE ''w Held.

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Trhsa ef risrktac alaar LECTURE ON ECONOMICS OF VEGETABLE RA1SINGJ "The Fre-iomln of Vegetable Rals Irr-r" was discussed before the stuH dents In the agricultural class oon-j ducted by the Bedford branch T. C. A last night by Leonard BarronJ editor cf the "Garden Magaalna. Mr Barron gave special attention to thai subject of forcing vegetables for Xtm early market, with suggearUons as tof the best way to pick, crate and ship! ai: kinds cf green truck. This lecture was one of a regular Jserles on "Agriculture and Country Life," planned for city men.

Ni WATER RATES EOR 1910 ARE DUE ON MAY Water rates for the year 1910 are ue and payable on May 1. If they are not raid before August a penalty of five per cent, is added, and if r.ot paid before Nov 1 an additional r-enalty of ten per cent Is edded. making the total penalty fifteen tr Bilis for water rates rr.ay obtained on and fcfter 1Z upon mini 'he Hur' i i Wi-tr iiateji. No. 7 A.

P. ii sn.l th-n fr'-m A to 1. noon. T' of tax- pa; t-rs and to fa- t'-. the depart n-ert it r- application le ie r.

bills at on. re. U'at-r r. 'inl' -g Brook lyn. i Miirbern t1.

r'y for rr, .1 I 3 re r--o sn1 e- -se starrped for r' Tlv. Payrrer.ts n-av In a.h to the cashier t. -o f- rf Twe Iejrltrr I -a A nnd 2 PI" M. ex -pt Sat'irlay. a--: then from A.

1. noo- I'i -mens rr.ay be rs-in hk rr mor-y n-d'r and he lr. t-n da ys if -r ranted by stamped return. Attention Is ra.d to the r-j'e of th department Its t-e use of ater throusrh ho fr anv purpose f. -pt utile.

'h i 1. case a per-r o- apj REPUBLICANS TO HEAR ABOUT HALLEY'S COMET. George r.or to the' members tr-e As- 1 serr.biy Plstrl-. r.fpjbli'an to. 1 n.orrov evrr toe ros-.

Ha Key street. i- ar.w. i "Tf9 S'ar Syte-r ar-i The r.errbers of the club i have heard some te-est jr speakers in a number of -s during the The -rs of the club! arrange interesting roerB.rr.mes for encn meeting, an 1 mrrbers show tl.eir appreciation In 1 iarR-e nurrber. 1 There will af.d slnclnr be fore and after the THE SUNNY SIDE. The early baseball fan catcheth a cold Albany Journal.

Tt Is nnderstood that r.o space has t.n reserved for chiropodists at the' New Kngland corn show Manchester I Union. It irlsht b- Sm iter the -world in sreneral if happines a-id dldn so often trac: son Globe. AT Price trigs on some Pittsburg four -oilmen that there are sorr.e ar-ti. les that have not advanced In price. Washington Star.

"I heard ye had words with Casey had no words "Then nothing passed between "Nothing but a brick Washington Herald. Another thing, how can the woman who 1 a slave to fashion ever make anybody believe she could be lnde- 1 pendent in politics "I las Newa. No true Ameri-an girl will wed a 1 forei-rrer. or without title, whom I she cannot support in the to I which he hs been accustomed Buf-i falo Times. I It Is reported that the eon of the i King of Servia is to marry the daugh-1 ter of the Sultan of Tnrkey.

One's sympathies naturally go out to both. Indiajiapolls News. Pt. Iou's man wants a divorce because his wife hasn't spoken to him for five j-enrs. You see.

It Is always possible to get a little too r-moh of a good thing Cleveland Le-adcr. 1 i to elapse before undoing what tha Jury nitd aooompllshed, but unfortunately that la not tho of tho Governor. It Is one of tho most remarkable instances of 'executive interference that has occurred In a number of years and cannot be approved by any reasonable minded person, and will unquestionably bo a powerful weapon In tho hands of tho anti-Patterson people. The campaign this fall, when the Governor is expected to be a candidate for another term, will tell how much the people resent an act of this character. "Dean This and Canon That Work.

Ing Overtime. Some time before he became a candidate for Mayor, Judge Gaynor In one of his publlo addresses Impatient with certain clergymen whom he referred to contemptuously as "Dean this and Canon that," because of their constant attempts to dictate to the authorities how certain laws should be enforced, always with the purpose, apparently; of Interfering with tho enjoyment by the people of a reasonable amount of personal liberty In the matter of Innocent amusements. The Implication of Judge Gaynoro criticism of the class or rather of tho comparatively few in dividuals, for they never reached the dignity of a class against whom his remarks were directed, was not that they were malignantly impertinent or chiefly actuated by a desire to pose before fhe community as persons of superior virtue, but that they did not understand the people nor their wants and because of that lack of understanding lacked sympathy also, whloh. la turn, made them appear as mere busybodlea. Tha llsyor adopted no each tone In addressing the great body of clergymen to whom be spoke this weak aa the subject ef tho enforce ment of the liquor law and the general attitude of the poSoe toward the matter.

There was bo Impatience, there waa co characterization of any group as "Dean this and Canon that," Ha was talking as the chief magistrate ef the city to a body of Intelligent men who can give him great help In carrying out wise nroniefpaJ policies. By refraining from unjust or uninformed crMl-ctsrn. by calng their Immense Influence, both aa citizens and tho chosen leaders of men in the field of morals, they could contribute toward creating a supporting publlo opinion upon which he might confidently count. Tho appeal for such support was not direct, but It was easily Inferable from the man ner and the matter of tho Mayor's earnest address. But we have always with us the group referred to by Judge Gaynor in his speech long before election as Dean this and Canon that." Just now some of them are engaged at Albany trying to get a law passed which among other things shall forbid the newspapers publishing the odds on any sporting event which may take place anywhere in the world.

Their purpose apparently is to kill off horse racing aa something dreadfully wicked, but even If horse racing, with its attendant speculation or private betting, were all they describe it to be their method is very like that resorted to by the man who burned down his barn in order to destroy a rat he believed to bo hiding somewhere within Its walla The same coterie is also trying with all its might to defeat the bill permitting the playing of base ball on Sunday by amateurs. And some of the Assemblymen, too, are being terrorized by "Dean this nnd Canon that." They fear the boycott so openly threatened by the reverend antagonists of Sunday baseball for amateurs which, it may be remarked in passing, is a method of procedure the courts have frequently condemned. Privately these legislators say they favor Sunday baseball played by amateurs, but nre coerced to act against their own convictions by the organized opposition from the boycotters with which they are threatened. Another class of the opponents of Sunday baseball for amateurs 'have Joined in the propaganda for direct nominations of the wholesale radi cal kind provided for in the Green- Hinman bill. They do this probably in tho hope that if tho Legislature passes the bill in favor of Sunday baseball for amateurs and it Is approved by the Mayor, as It is most likely to be, if it passes, they could get Gov.

Hughes to veto the measure and bring gloom and sorrow to tho hearts of hundreds of thousands of hard working men and boys who have no other day In the week ex-eept Sunday to enjoy tho National game. This particular grodp of self -appointed regulators of other people's morals would get more than they bargain -for if were abolished and candidates wore nominated, directly at the primaries. There are a good many more vo WASHINGTON'. April 14.Forty-flvo years ago to-night the country, rejoicing over the conclusion of the Civil War, was suddenly plunged into darkest r.loom by the news of the assassination jt President Lincoln by Jchn Wilkes Booth. The President was shot while witnessing a performance of "Our American Cousin'' in Ford's Theatre In this city.

There are still living In Washington several persons mho were eyewitness of the assassination. Mortally wounded. the President was carried from tha thfatr amid a scene of Indescribable excitement He was taken to a house across the street, occupied by a tailor named Peterson, and there he died th next morning, surrounded by th members nf his family and the offii. ru of his Cabinet. The last survivor of ow who were present at Lincoln's rlfath wm the lato Secretary John Hay.

Sir. Hay was irtvpn the ring worn by tho President at the tim of hlr death He had It over with a rystul setting, containing a lock of President Lincoln's hair It was this ring hich President Roosevelt ore a' his first inauguration at tho request of Mr. Hay. COMING OF AGE. To tr.e Editor of The Ksji()sj-'1 Please let me know when a boy or girl Is of ag in America, anl oblige A READER.

Twnty-one years old Kd. Hoot, Mori! Our Spring suits show a penerous sprinkling of Scotch offsets in wcavo and coloring. More demand for rough fabrics this Spring than for oars past, and more supply here. Including some suits of imported Bannockburne. Karris tweeds ta motor oos's anather Scotch Three thing? make a good rain coat Cloth that's all wool and fast color Tailoring that's smart and substantia Proofing by the real Crav-nctte Process o-jrs have aM three Hoch der Reiser-Barathea! "Iloch." or high, boing the quality of pure bright silk from which these famous carfs are made.

1 and "Pedwell" means "a well foot" especially for big men. "Pedwell" is the shoe especially designed for men whose heaviness causes weakened irehes, Specslly extended h-e! ar.fl irrrpr aich avoids tint trc-ur'e. What's the use of hunting fed-Men where they are few? All the Red-Man collars are waiting for you here. Including for 25c- Chamois gloves have a ight to be popular! Kasily cleaned just a little elbow soap and 'roton. Chaniols of our own Importations, 1 and 11.50.

In-between underwear for in-between seasons! Light weight all wool Der-inophile. Unshrinkable? Of course, that's the great thing about Dermophile. rz.M a rarmeBl The "Asquith-Tilf is a "gay The Derby that accomplishes the smart English backward tilt by an optical delusion, llave you seen it? Black or brown. 4. The most grown-up son cannot fade them.

Stetson fast black flexible featherweight Derbies, f.50 to $3. The "Stetson Spader la eselueire with as In New Tork. Easy to choose shoes for youths from our Spring stock. Our young men's lasts show a smart Russet ford eaw. Rogers Peet company.

Taree Broadway Store at, ar at 4t it. Warrea at. ataXsLaTTAJC. TOURS April 21 and May 5, 1910. 512.00 and $14.50 from New York Covers all necessary' expenses Itineraries, tlck-ts.

and full Information may be obtained from Ticket Agents; C. Ktudde. r.A.. i13 Fifth Avenue, New York, or J. R.

WOOD. CfEO. W. BOYD. Pass Traffic Mr.

Oen Pass Atrnl. ACCUSED "COP" Deputy Commissioner Walsh to Listen to Further Facts in Case Wednesday. SALOONKEEPER COMPLAINS. Says Condon Made False Arrest and Was Offensive. Bartholomew- Conoon, a patroiman attached to the Bergen street station, appeared before Trial Commissioner John J.

Walsh at police headquarters yesterday in an investigation of charges which grew out of the complaint of Paul Bernd. proprietor of the saloon at 847 Union street. Condon It Is alleged, demanded liquor from Bemd's bartender, use'! indecent languaee In the saloon aru. failed to take proper action ror violation of the Uquor Tax law on Jan. was off post and in the saloon on Jan.

23. and unlawfully arrested Bernd and made fnNo charges against hm; Bernd was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, but the case, was dismissed in the Mjrtle avenue court The saloonket-per fald yesterday Condon naid to him as he made the arrest. "I've been waiting for this opportunity, Bernd, to get you for I ions nine, and now ou 11 a. ui little ride In the wagon Before Commissioner Walsh would proceed with the case, he decided first have the blotter at the Birgen street station examined, in order to see whether Condon had made a report. Consequently the trial was adjourned until next Wednesday.

The Investigation jat the charges against Mounted Policeman Daniel McNIchol, who Is accused of pointing his revolver at citizens while off duty on April 10, was adjourned. James Riley, of 161 Columbia street, and James Walsh, of 23 Cheever place, the complaining witnesses, have disappeared and all efforts to find them have so far proved fruitless. The men failed to appear at the trial in the magistrate's court and the case was 'dismissed. Decision was reserved In the case of John H. Rooney.

of the Gates avenue atatlon, who. with Patrolman Von Hatton, of the Ralph avenue station. Is accused of assaulting an Italian while making an arrest, on Oct. 17 last. Some of th other cases tried were those of I-ieut.

Joseph McKay. Newtown, failed to make inspection of station house March 3. complaint Henry J. Zlttel. Canarsie.

absent from relieving point March complaint dismissed; William K. Ma-honey. Vernon avenue, used improper lansruajre to woman March 10. complaint dismissed; Bernard A. Johnston.

Eighth Inspection District, in llouor saloon during prohibited hour while off duty March 20. found guilty, decision reserved; Henry Carney. Atlantic avenue, late In reporting station house March IS. reprimanded: Abraham Hersi hewitz and James Cuff, Grand avenue. In pumping sta tlon, off post March 15.

decision reserved; Henry It. Pfistcr. Rockaway Park, absent from post, derision reserved: Jacob J. Meyers. Miller avenue, absent from post March 17, decision reserved.

The following cases were adjourned: Cart. John Gardiner. Newtown, failed to notice absence of blotter entry. March Sergt. Delmar J.

Bolison. Grand avenue, entered barber shot of Edward C. Palmer, at 9JX Atlanti. avenue, assaulted him. threatened him with revolver and unlawfully arrested him.

January 30; Harry Swenson. Hamburg avenue, absent from post, sitting in engine room of brewery under Influence of Intoxicants. March 22: Francis Fesron Adams street, failed to make arrest In accident case. March 21; John Ber-gln. Fourth avenue, failed to prevent burglary.

March Henry Zirk and George T. Cooper. Gates avenue, absent from poet. March 19; Thomas Lynch. College Point, loitering and In conversation with citizen, March 19; Detectives John T.

Conway and Harry Neggarsmith. unlawfully aearched apartments of citizen, January 10. IN THE WIDE WORLD. The British battleship Dreadnought which has given the class name t6 the present-day big warships, has been In commission for three years, and has juet gone to Portsmouth' England, to undergo her first refit since hoisting her pennant. The total exports of the Japanese Empire for the first three quarter of 1909 show an Increase over 190S of JS.

931, 677. of which the principal items were rice. tes. refined sugar, camphor, raw silk, cotton ysrn. straw and chip braids, cotton tissues and matches.

Hanford A- "Werner, for more than fifty years a manager of the well-known Wild Men of Borneo, died at his home in Waltham. aged S3. He brought the wild men, Wallo and Pnutano, from Borneo and traveled oH oer the world with them. After retiring from the show business ho took them to hie home, and one of them lives now, aged over 90. Twelve years ago.

when Secretary Wilson came to the United States Department of Agriculture, there were but ten agricultural high schools rn the country, and the teaching of agriculture In normal schools fir in publlo elementary schools had merely begun. To-day there are 0 agricultural high schools or definitely secondary agricultural courses In colleges; I4 public high schools teaching and 11 State or county normal schools and 1 agricultural colleges training young men and women to teach agriculture. In addition, to these there are a number ef private Institution giving secondary Instruction In agriculture, and If institutions offering correspondence courses or reading courses which are practically of secondary -making In all abont too Institutions glvtng secondary la-atractlon in agriculture. ADJOURNS HEARING overtime worked by "Dean this and( Canon that." if it is crowned with success in Its legislative endeavors. Is likely to do more harm than good to the community.

If Mr. Taft persists in adresslng the women raffragista, ha has had ample warning that he will lose the vote of all the women antl-suffraglsts. The Assembly blocks the Income tax amendment, being In some doubt as to Just what Assemblymen's incomes are to be in tho future. Indeed, some points on how to catch rats might prove as useful to a Mayor as any elucidation of Petrarch's opinion of Cicero. What courts will not do to repeal the law against murder, Governors may do to nullify it COUNSEL SUM UP IN FIVE-CENT FARE CASE Dykman for 1 and B.

and Julius Harburger for Mon-heimer. The case for the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company against the complaint of Jonas Monheimer. praying for a reduction of Coney Island fare, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, was summed up before the Public Service Commission yesterday afternoon by William N. Dykman in a two-hour address. Counsel aimed his attack particularly against the appraisal of the company's property made by Blon J.

Arnold. The valuation of the property at t3.851.00O by Mr. Arnold was an astonishing piece of calculation, according to Lawyer Dykman, and tailed even to approach a fair estimate of the company's belongings. The property, he declared, was worth at least 16,000,000. He dodged an answer, however, when Commissioner Maltbie asked whether he believed there should be a reasonable return on the original capital.

A ten-cent fare should continue on the lines of the Coney Island an4 Brooklyn company, argued Law Dykman, first because the Commission had decided a double fare was proper for the B. R. T. system, a much largrer and wealthier corporation, and. second, for the reason that under tho former complaint against the C.

I. and B. ten cents had been ruled to be a reasonable maximum on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Julius Harburgrer. ex-coroner, of Manhattan, summed up for Mon heimer.

He announced he appeared aa a laymnn representing the great population on the East Side. He began by ridi culing the Idea that a reduction of the fare would mean poverty to the company. He quoted a few of the dividends paid by the compaay in the '90s. He remembered when he was in the Legislature, he said, that It was a common claim among corporations they made no money. But Mr.

Harburger had noticed that thepe same corporations made millions of dollars without keeping books to show It. The ex-coroner pointed to the officials of the C. I. and and declared it was only necessary to note their prosperous condition to be convinced thp company was not In danger of going into a receiver's hands. THE POLITICAL TREND.

At last Taft rips the velvet cover from his big stick. Atlanta Constitution. A de-Taggartized Democracy in Indiana would seem to be something eminently worth fighting for. Washington Herald. Assemblyman Lee.

of Kings County, proposes to abolish the atatute of limitations as to all crimes involving a breach of public duty. Yet why not? Rochester Times. The enormous Republican majorities are melting away. There Is hard fighting ahead and it will take good generalship to keep these majorities from disappearing next fall. Suc-ft will have to be deserved If It Is be won.

CJeveland Leader. Congressman Fltsgerald of lyew York amiably moved that the tariff law be repealed. Tho motion was promptly voted down, the Republicans, regular and Insurgent, voting unanimously against lt This indicates that for somo purposes at least the Republicans will stand together. Lowell Courier-Citizen. Possibly Mr.

Tart could be persuaded to appoint Mr. Bryan to the United States Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Brewer's death. Ho wouldn't fill It full. It is true, but the place would remove him from the political field temporarily at, least, and Mr. Taft surely owes him a great deal for what he has done for htm snd his party.

Richmond Times-Dlspatca. President Taft. in his speech last Saturday made it plain enough what Is his view as to party "regularity," The principle which ho set forth is one which will appeal to the common sense of the American pnople. It is unavoidable that men of the same general way of thinking should differ as to certain details of public policy, but President Taft lays own as a rule that no man can be real out of his party who consistently supfiorts his party platform. There ia cartalnlv anmtthiner nmniM.

Viuso. ON LOCAL AT Clergymen Argue Both for and Against the Gardner-Holden Bill. M0LL0Y BEFORE LAWMAKERS County Clerk Wants Power to Destroy Useless Records. (Special to The Standard ALBANY, April 14 An hearing was held In the Assembly Chamber yesterday by the Joint Committees of Taxation and Retrenchment and the Excise groups upon the Qardner-Holden I.ocal Option bill for counties end cities. In well Informed circles It Is generally believed the bill has no chance of passage, but despite this fact, the chamber was filled with advocates and opponents of the measure.

One of the features of the session was the appearance of clergymen upon both Bides of the proposition. There were several Brooklyn and Lonar Island clergymen on hand to oppose the I measure. One of them was the Kev. J. W.

Knapp. of the English Lutheran Church. A speaker against the bill was Chaplain Edmund Banks Smith, of Governor's Island. The chief argument was made by William Forster, general solicitor of the New York State Brewers' Association. A number of Greater New York clergymen, including tho Rev.

J. A. Patterson and the Rev. E. P.

Miller, argued for the bill, as well aa a group of total abstainers, who pictured the evils of excessive drinking. The Gardner-Holden bill is the most radical of the local option bills. It provides for the prohibition of the manufacture of liquor and at general elections for Its sale. Discussing the bill, Mr. Forster said in part: "Upon this one thing both anti-saloon leaguers snd prohibitionists must or eventually will, agree, as they have had to do to so many other things, namely, that the people or cur State, in their prosperity, are growing better.

Apart from the moral Question, the next serious one Is the economic proposition in connection with the liquor law. There Is jeopardized and threatened with destiuction some J500.000.000 invested In breweries, hotels and allied and dependent properties. More than 000.000 in license fees have been paid by retailers since 1896 to the State and localities. These license fees would be discontinued by this measure. It alFo threatens to wipe out taxes paid by those Interested in the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

During -the period since 1J98 more than tlOU.000.000 have been paid in taxes. The chief effect of this bill will be the destruction of economic prosperity and the fostering of hypocrisy." County Clerk Henry P. Molloy appeared before the Assembly Codes Committee yesterday afternoon and argued for the passage of his bill, which was Introduced by Assemblyman Edmund O'Connor, of South Brooklyn, and Senator Burllngame, ot the Bedford section. The purpose ot the bill is to permit the destruction of ancient records which cumber the office, after application to the Supreme Court The bill amends Section 87 of the Judiciary law. Mr.

Molloy made a brief speech to the committee, of which Assemblyman Fowler, of I'lster. la cha-irroan. in favor of the bill. The County Clerk said In part: "Shortly after assuming the duties -f office on the first of the year I thoroughly examined the general nature of the papers on file in my office, and found a large amount of papers that had been transferred from the different parts of the Supreme and County courts, where" they had been illowed to accumulate for some time past, such papers as briefs, affidavits, xhiblts. used on motions," and which had been left In those parts without ever being intended to be filed In the County Clerk's office, but In making room for the additional court rooms these papers had been literally dumped into the County Clerk's offlcti In order to get rid of them.

I also found primary election returns of mere than ten years old. election canvassers' returns dating baek twenty years or more, old Jury panel lists and other papers of a similar naturo that by the process of time had become useless. These papers now occupy very valuable space In my office. Taking the present amount of papers that are filed in my office as a basis, the remaining empty files will be filled with current papers wtthln the next two years, unless some relief Is given to destroy worthless papers. In requiring the.

County Clerk to make this application to the Appellate Division, I believe that tvery necessary safeguard is put the power to destroy these papers so that there may be no fear that any valuable paper will be de-Itroyed' At thei conclusion of his remarks several questions were asked by members of the committee which the County Clerk answered to their satisfaction. Before leaving the committee room Chairman Fowler expressed his thanks to Mr. Molloy for appearing before the committee. J. J.

EL BRIDGE APPROACH DRAWINGS APPROVED. The Municipal AK Commission approved yesterday drawings of the approaches to the Manhattan Bridge. The estimated cost Is $700,000. Approval woe also given by the Commission to designs for an addition to Publlo School No. 7, Van Alst avenue and Well place, Long island City, to cost I1S0.000.

The Commission disapproved the model for a-bronse bust of Edward Orlec be erected ay the Edward Otieg Monument Committee In Prospect Pavrk. at errt ef li.W. HEARING OPTION ALBANY Daddy's Bedtime Story- The the Bees and Drone A Pardon That Shocks. Tht pardoning of Duncan Cooper by Gov. Patterson immediately after the Supreme Court had affirmed the sentence of twenty years in the penl- 1 tentlary for shooting Senator Car-, mack was not merely a display of ex-ecrable Judgment, but In effect It puts Tennessee back in that period when a man with money and Influence could shoot or stab at will and escape serious consequences from the courts.

---fhen Cooper and his son were convicted and -suitable punishment had been imposed upon them it was be-: lieved that the State had bid good-. bye Jto tha custom of allowing Its prominent citizens to do pretty much as they chose In resenting personal you know what a drone Is? A drone Is i to work for Its Living, and there are lots are drones, too. "There was a big fat back yard. There were about 1.W0 other bees In the hive, bat all of thrrj re busy bees except the drone. All the others flew out every day Into thf orchard and the meadow snd gathered honey under their wings.

They tocij. tho honey from the doner and frorn the fruit blossozaa aad tookvaal it vnde their wings, then flew back to the hive and stored It away there. sx that the! could have plenty to eat In the winter when It a aa too cold to be otttaidO aul no honey flowers were tn bloom. grievances. Juries were beginning to see that something must be done to end pistol play, and tho apparent Til Cearicsnan Mm" bee that Is too 'axri hosaaa folks drone living In a beea-r ta a farmer' big od fat lasy and that was nd 'of 'lay rtory.

Oood rUgh:" drifting away from the old compla-cent 'attitude was agreeably marked by the verdict in the trial of the Many a time miirj vj i ui wvoa; wao wag jasa sitting in tho hivo taking things easy aad eating op tha honey brought i by tho hard workers. Tou'd better go outside and gatrsar honey, lasy drone: But the drone said to himself: "Whafa tho aa forme to wo? Haven't I got all the 1.000 busy beea to work for soe? Huh! rube a gentleman bee. I i "As the time went along tho drone grew so fat that ho could hardly TJ at all. even when ho went out now and then to get aotna fresn gtr. jga was eat In so much and taking so little exercise that bo felt Ured all Ci time.

So he Just stared In the hive and kept on eating the' other beea hoaef aad got fatter and fatter. :J.l i1 "At last the queen bee tbere is a queen ta every beehive. ekCo4 a taevt-lng of all the busy bees to sea what should bo done with tho drone. Thy all mot la a big swarm oa tha limb of a tro outside the hivo. and trberO ws a terrible bus-sing.

said tho queen bee, aad all tho other beef said. -Now, busy bees, ba-s-s-s-sl What shall wo do with tha drooer gskrd tho qxteerv be a. -Xe-t's shut htm tn a hoaeyrornh jn for a week, where there'a re honey or hlra to eat, and maybo be'U'g-et ao huagry boTl Too vUUng to rork for Ws feed when wo htm mt aald otto bl busy t. "'Bs-a-s-s-o: said -all tha other -busy bea. wtlch meant that they didn't Uko that.

Idea, 1 Then tho queen said. Tm tho boos hero, and I say this d-on bould bo killed and thrown out of tho ttra. Bs-s-s-a-!" aald the dher Ivosy toea. which meant this time that they liked tha Idea. 7 3 Coopers.

But it I evident that Oov ernors must be reckoned with in bringing Tennessee up to tho point where the law makes no exceptions for tho benefit of leading citizens. 86 long as Patterson is the Chief Execu tive the new. era of justice will be blocked, or is liable to be. Gov. Patterson's feverish baste was inexcusable.

It Is evident that he In. tended that Col. Cooper should never pay any part of the penalty which the and his quick ee-tlon flouts the higher tribunal la tho "So tho busy, bees jumped oa tbo vo. otry tho ond of him, bat tUso the Stat. Jl wiser and.

a cooler -head.