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THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, THURSDAY MAY 11, 1903. 0 ican people at his back, wlin he enunciates such a strictly American programme as the paramountcy of the United States on the SALARY LIST INCREASES IF! BRIOGEIPARTIMENT The Brooklyn Citizen Nos. 397 to 403 FULTON STREET, Opposite theCity Hall. IwtTlnj tin Entire EuMitierErei Mjocl.tt.n Scrvlc. Entered at the Brakljn fit.

fl.) East Office Secone-deie Metier. POSSIBLY FOR I YEAR MR. BIDDER DEFINES HIS ATTITUDE. THURSDAY. MAY 14.

1003. Dr, Parkhurst, Mayor Low and Travers Jerome, there has been a sudden and surprising change in his English. In the Fusion press reports of his speech at last nights opening gun the Reform campaign, there is no trace of the Deverv of 'Hill and the Bowery. Itis ah entirely' new Dcyery to wltoin we are introduced; a Devery who uses the language the grace and the finish of a Harvard graduate. Verily, reform works wonders, and nothing that it lias accomplished in its brief fioluj on the government of New York has been so mar-vclous as the transformation of Devery, Dissert and Schmittberger into respectable 1 Lindenthal Makes Public His Quarterly Report $3,500,000 Tied Up' Because f- City Is Nearing Debt Limit.

Readers of THE CITIZEN may have the daily and Sunday editions mailed to them in any part of the country at the rate of 75c. per month. Orders jny be sent through newsdealers or to the publication office. PROGRESS OF BRIDGE CRUISE OF TRAINING. SHIP.

BRANCH OFFICES: Hornhoatrl'a Contract for- Making Architectural Deaigna on Blacks well'i Iiland Bridge, Sf. Mary' Will Carry 99 Boy Tbla Year Settling Claim Against Contractor physical traininp In elementary sehoola will conducted hy the Board of Examiners on Monday, May 21. at the hall of the Hoard of Kilueation, Park avenue and l-'ifty-ninth street, Manhattan. Ihe salary for women is the first year, and an iiieieuse of $1(X for the three follow ittp years. Men stall- at $1,100 and increase $10 a year until they reach $1,400.

No person will lie elipihle for this license whose ape on May 21, 1003, is under 18 or over .11 years. Coder tins provision an applicant wilt lie reparded as elipihle up to and ini hiding the day preis-ding his thirty-sixth bilthday. Knih applicant mast bare the following 1 i lien ns; tat (iradualinn from a satisfactory hiph si tiool or institution of equal or hipher tank, nr an equivalent academic traininp, or the passing of an academic examination; (hi Ihe (ompletinn of a satisfactory course of professional traininp nf at least twp tears in physical traininp: Id three years experience in teiuhinc physical traininp. with three years must not inelmte the two devoted to professional traininp; or six experience ns a class teacher redi hi iir pliysii-al liiiininp satisfactory portion nf the time, which six years may '-e inclusive of the ears 'devoted to pro-, fcssicnal liainiip. The written examination will be mum tal iinnlomy.

phy moIorv and Itypiene: (Id sys-lejns of physical education: (el pynmastio Raines; nil the principles and the practice of physical traini ip. ineludiap methods of insti uc-tievi and class An oral and practical examination will lie pivett at the mil of Ihe Board nf Examiners.1 Applicants coniinp from a distance wilt le examhied rrally on Ttu-sdny, Mav 2(1. The oral examination will include a piiu-tical lest with class in plits-icnl traininp: applicants should provide themselves with pymniisiuin sails. A BROOKLYN-STATE ISLAND FERRY. SOUTH BltOOKI.YX.

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L. I. OFFICE OF THE "ADVANCE." Our friend. Mr. Ridder, in a leading editorial in this morning's 'Staats-Zeitung, takes occasion to define at length the attitude of himself, of Ijis newspaper and of his friends with regard to the campaign this fall.

Mr. Ridder says that lie is driven to make this declaration because The Citizen has misunderstood his position, in, attributing his opposition to Mr. Low's renopiination to his unwillingness as a Democrat to aid in a victory which will strengthen President Roosevelt's prospects in the State in 1004. Mr. Ridder declares that for a decade he has been fighting fqr non-partisan municipal government anff the separation of ifuitucipal from State and National elections.7.

And it is precisely because of this conviction that lie has deemed the renomination of Mayor Low inadvisable. 11 is criticism of the Citizens' Union, lie claims, was not made for the purpose of preventing or making difficult a union of all the anti-Tammany elements, but as a warning against taking action that would he a bar to success. Mr. Ridder declares that he has not said a word to indicate that lie desires the election of a Tammany candidate, or that' lie intends to take cne-stepto make a Tammany victory easy. Only those who wish to he blind, ays Mr.

Ridder, can have failed to perceive from a thousand signs and acts that the- purpose has been apparent to utilize the municipal election this year for Republican party purposes. We are opposed to this, adds Mr. Ridder. and arc similarly, opposed to anv attempt to make Democratic capital out of the election. THE CITIZEN IN EUROPE.

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PARIS. HOTEITRTNDA, NO. TTRUE DB UECHELLE. The city including the Mayor, who have authority to establish a ferry between this borough and Staten Island, seem to he making a pretense of keeping the antewlection pledges to promote the. adoption of municipal ow net-ship and operation of public utilities, by their readiness to indorse the application of one or more private companies for leave to run a ferry from points on Gravesend Bay to South and Midland Beaches, as explained in these columns yesterday.

But, tlie public will not he deceived by any suclr mockery of the demand it lias made for a ferry that be a convenience for nearly a hundred thousand people on Staten Island and. perhaps, two hundred thousand in Brooklyn, few," if aoyYofwhom would he content to be landed on a pier at Bath Beach or one at Bensonlutrst, as almost all belong in Brooklyn proper or would desire to go there. If. however, the proposition of the Dock Commissioner and the statement of the Engineer concerning these proposed franchises he correctly understood, they indicate clearly would am The lhvei ulive Committee of Uir Hoard of Hduoation met yesterday afternoon anti approved the awimKof tontraett foradarge number of repairs to lie made to the schools of the-eitv dnrins the ta-ation period. grcffi'ting Of this mini Brooklyn will have opent on il Miimiattan, Queens, ltion.

JMUKlMii; Kh hmond. The thirly-HX mIiooN in Brooklyn will I generally repaiied and altered, have the pani-taty impioved, have new furniture installed, or eleehie wiring and fix time put in. The wtme ir the tase in tueohk. The Committee rn Finance reported that a mmnniefition had been recoiled from the Coi pn ration "Counsel relatise io Jhe sgltle of the Haim against the American Surety 4 ompam wiH'ef ie -of M. tiibhonp A Sons for the eonlrarts ereetinc Pub-lie hool Xn lli.

and. 4 Boroughof Queens. The Corporation Cnunpel rerotn-mended that he aerepted jn full. The amount due is $10.1170, The mutter ai referred to the Building Committee with power I.iimmis prcMMited it rrsnlutinn hili Hl.ilpd lint the Pnitrii St.itos llovpinnipnt nils nhoiil infilPinn thp unit SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 00 00 50 3 75 t.

3 00 75 1 00 Dally and Sunday one year Dally anty one Sunday only, one year. Dally and Sunday, tlx months Dally only, ix month Sunday only, six months Daily and Sunday, three months POLITICAL COMMENT. The Role for Cleveland. cFrnm thr Cnni-orcl Monltrr.) A writer in the Washinptnn "Post" raises the interestinp question whether the Cleveland boom will not evolve a enn difitcn where site proposed beneficiary will' not decline the profferel honor several months in advance and ner-ept a role- ns The CITIZENS readers will confer a favor upon Its publish era If they will send Information to this office of any news-stand, Tatiway -train or posssngsr steambnst where a Brooklyn. evening newspaper should be sold and THE CITIZEN Is not offered for sole.

7 If Mat or Low', continues" Mr. Ridder, not 'constantly sacrificecHhe citys interest in favor of the Republican party, and the danger was not apparent that he will do to an even greater extent in the then, we would have been the first- to demand his The report of the Bridge Department ft the quin ter ending March 31 appeared in the "City Record" this morning, and oeoa, etoned much. Mil-prise because it was only two months -behind time. As a rule tho City Record" publishes news nnywhero front six to eight months after it happens, and many of the newspapers are beginning to fear that the "City Record" will como out with bent some morning. During the quarter the salary list o( the department increased but tho Commissioner explains this on the ground that the opening of the new- Itrnnd-, street bridge over Newtown Creek eauscdah in-(reuse of more than pnd the balance is made up hy slight increases in salaries.

Tile receipts from the Rnioklyn bridge for tlie quarter were $70,023.83, and tha cost of maintaining the structure wns 122.14. leaving a hainnee of $11,001.30 to thp good. -The following amounts were expended on the new bridges: Williams- littrc bridge, Manhattan, nnd Blackwell's Island, $08, 033.32. The Commissioner has on hand a total balance of from an appropriation of 038.38, having spent $.88,804.82. rDnring- the quarter 271.237 vrhietei -f-rossed the bridge, returning a revenue ot $18,710.73.

A total of 308,148 trolley car trips were made. In his report on the Manhattan and Blackwells Island bridges. Commissioner Lindenthal makes short reference to Anhiteet Hornhoste nnd his fees. Of tha Manhattan contract he says: flu the 0th of March a contract wai made with Miv Henry K. fot Jhe making of nil the architectural design find thb -perforniaui nf till the Architectural services required on this bridge, at a compensation of $20,100, payable periodic- ally as the work progresses.

Under the contract, Mr. Hornhostel pays his own draught-men. office rent and all expenses connected with the architectural work. Plans nnd specification for the anchorages in hoth boroughs ate being prepared, and it is that contracts for the construction of abchorages will be advertised in Jutuv' Speaking tf the Blackwell's Island Bridge, the Commissioner says: "During the quarter, 10 per cent, of tho work under the contract for the six masonry piers was done, nnd the whole con-traot-Ht the end of the quarter was about J5(i per cent, complete. On the Gth-of March a contract, similar that for the Manhattan bridge, was made w-ith Mr.

Hornhostel, for the architectural designs and services required for thp Blackwells Island Bridge, at a compensation of $24,000. THE PENNSYLVANIA LIBEL LAW. iinaiinatty-from the establishment of a ferry from Thirty-ninth street, or some other point on the South Brooklyn water-front to Staten the custom alone, without saving anything about the increase in taxahle values sure to follow. For. the boats referred to are said to have been running for some -years, carrying from lot) to 00 passengers, once an hour.

If so many passengers are to he gathered at such a point, how many more would he waiting at a convenient one; especially if the boats made a trip every fifteen minutes and ran all the year round, instead of only during the summer, as the Gravesend ferries do? 4 1 A FAT POLICEMEN. hief sachem of the Iteinoc-ratie party. In thill kind aif duty-lie would be fnHnwing in the footsteps of the Kape of fJreyslone, a bit of political history with which voters of the younper generation may not be entirely- familiar. Kollo inp the memifrable elect inn of ISTti. whet, his supporters be-Meved thorouphly that Mr.

Tilden was honestly elected lo ths.rres!deni-y. Democrats reparded him as their piiido and Iftjjemi. In the months preeedinp the convention of 1884 a peneral cry went up for the nomination of (joy-eraor Tiblon, and it assumed larpe proportions. so IntRc as to establish him anew a tbe le of the party. Toward (ii-evstone Detnucratic ailcrs began to turn their feet, but Tilden asserted that be wits too old then.

He indicated that (trover Ctevenlund was a man to whom the Domm-acy could well look with favor. He who hv ull precedents of party justice should hnve been the Democratic nominee apititi in 1880. although he had refused It, thus became the trusted counsellor. Many look for Mr. Cleveland to assume such a p-irt toward the campaign next year.

They believe he would be entirely satisfied with such an achievement, which would be in Itirge measure a vindication of his career in the White Douse, at timeR bitterly denounced. This fits in wilh whut looks like a concerted effort to obscure Hon. William Jennings Bryan between now- and election time and to telepate him to the galaxy Pf M. John. Weaver and Debs.

Of course, rafculntiona on. that score -may go awry, hut Mr, Biynn, by his own conduct, scents to be Hiding the programme extensively. He is decidedly a more influential man than any of the tiio mentioned, hut is committing the same follies that have destroyed popular favorites heretofore after their day of emineuce passed. iiiolnii tine thr rmiTmiltpp on llu Nantiml S'-tiont, of liii'ti VV-plv is rhnirmiin, lo nspprliiin liPthiT an pmitit lip nimlp for Hip Si. Marj'a, tlir rpa-Min that tlio liillpr i a snilii'g tpsspI and llip I.ama$.tpr is a strain vpsspI.

Mr. I.mmnis resolution a loo said "And at tho o-imp tiino to i-pporl'iis to the post of nuiin-tuinins tho Xaiitif-iil Si-hool. and the raluc tin root as a art of the 'school system of this pity." Mr. I.iimmis, in to thr rpsoltt ion. said that while tie had no dould the Nautical Si hoot was of some benefit to the i-itj.

lie did no) think that it wits worth what was lieina paid for it. There were hut fifty-one lieys nit the ship, width mid non Ipiivp on the summer itnisp, wiiiih would rosy nhout Jgtoil.OTMi. an average of STtht a head. donht, it was a very pleasant trip and ireatly enjoyed by the hots, Put there was sotpe doubt whether it would five an adequate return to the oily. The City Superintendent, in the nbsenee of the chairman of the eonimittee.

said that he was ope of a party that inspected the St, Mary's the day before, and be was happy to say that Mr. laimmis -was misinformed ns to the number of boys on board. TJtere were ninety-nine boys to start tin mdse and their tu-tivtiy, -skill, Rood manners and Rood order was satisfactory to the members of the committee and himself. Commodore lianas hitd dieen recently appointed and from what he saw he eoulil not imitRine the boys beins in better hamtsHmitnl Captain II a mis had spoken about acijuirinR the Lancaster, and Captain lianas had said it would not ho polii to acquire that-vessel. It would cost $.10,000 to overhaul it." and would cost very ttiueh tom-e to sail it than it did trt sail the St.

Mary's. Boys, aoiordmc to the raptain, should learn the art of sailiup, anil they routd learn tlie work on a steam rosso very quickly. Mr. I.ummie said he was very plad to learn that the number of boys aboard tbe St. Mary's was so larpe, hut "he had taken his fienres from trie superintendent's report of last year.

The number of boys'was not so larpe as It used to he. and ho wanted to know whether better results tnuld not he obtained The cost per capita even with the incrcn-scd number would be for the trin more than $310. He would The text of tlie new libel law of Pennsylvania does not bear out tbe report that it will have tbe effect of muzzlin'; the press or preventing the publication of cartoons. It is. upon the whole, a measure just to the press ami the public alike, while taking care to safeguard tbe rights of both public officials and private citizens against tbe animosity of men who dishonor the newspaper calling.

It is really a more liberal law than that of the State of New York, for it distinguishes clearly between negligence and malice, and in tbe former excludes verdicts of a punitive'1 diaracty. which tbe law of this State, in theory at least, docs not do. The chief defect the new measure is in omitting to provide that before an action for damages can be sustainable, the aggrieved person shall have been' refused an adequate retraction. Every journalist knows that in the absence of this provision, the dpor is left open for the bringing of speculative suits based upon oversights, far removed from any intention to do injury to anybody and which no hon-orahle newspaper would IrTthe least hesitate to correct, if informed of the error But Penn sylvania. nnd.er the new law, will not in this respect he any less in accordance with coni" mon-sense than the State of New York, and it may he suggested to onr hrethren nf this State, who have been squandering unnecessary on their neighbors of the Ke stone State, that a littlejnf their vigor might with advantage be turned in the direction of Albany.

The explanation of the baseless outcry against the new law is to be found, not in what lias been done, hut in what was intended by the corrupt and infamous politicians who first off took he job in hand of presiding a check on the liberty of the honest, not the dishonest, press. Hias'-hccn attuned that whaf-the-ras We are not opponents, says Mr. Ridder, but supporters of a union against Tammany, but we demapd candidates who have a prospect of winning. This cannot be the case if they are Selected by Platt, Odell and Woodruff. Just so long as nothing more i to he expected from the Democratic organizations, than the nomination of outwardly respectable men like Van Wyck, who blindly execute all orders emanating from men like Croker, Murphy and Tim Sullivan, just so long will we be their irreconcilable enemy.

Mr. Ridder is in error in thinking that The Citizen" represented his opposition to tbe nomination of a Republican for Mayor by the Fusionists as due to his unwillingness to strengthen the Republican party in the Presidential campaign. What said represented our own opinion, and we merely referred to Mr. Ridder's' interview as a corroboration of our view of the meaning of the Platt-Odcll-Woodruff domination the Fusion forces. Senator riatt has publicly slated that tlie clcrt i iro Fu si cirri ek et 'this year was necessary in order to strengthen the hands of President Roosevelt in 1904.

The willingness of the Citizens' Union to fall" in line behind Plait and Odell in order to bring about the re-nnminatinn of Mayor Low, is all the evidence that any Democrat needs to convince him that thc'municipal election this year, no matter what may have been the case, two years ago: I cannot he separated from the national election in 1001. We can see no reason, therefore, why any Democrat should support the Fusion ticket, unless the Democratic organizations make the SCHOOL ROOMS LEASED. No fault can be justly found with the action of the Police Commissioner to rid the force of the men who have grown so fat as to he unable to da much more than keep a chair from running away. One of the most essential qualifications of a policeman is agility, quickness of action as well as thought, and if the members who got on the forde ty the display of it cannot retain enough of it as the years go by to fit them for. the.

duties they expected to perform, they ought not to expect to retain their places. The burglars, thieves and ruffians in general with whom they are expected to deal, sire careful to keep themselves in condition for emergencies that call for the exercise of speed, strength and endurance, and why should policemen do the same? If they neglect the regimen necessary, to that end. and by adding thus to their avoirdupois render themselves unable to cope with the enemies of society referred to, they must resign or expect, to he dismissed from the force, and see their places supplied by men who are ahleto preserve the peace. Sinking Fund Commission Authorise Contracts. The Sinking Fund Commission at its meeting yesterday afternoon upon the recommendation of Engineer McLean ot the Kinandi1 Department, declined to renew the lease of No'84 Prospect avenue, tfhich is Used for school purposes.

The engineer reported that it was in an unsanitary condition, wholly unfit to be occupied by school children. Tho lease of No. Driggs avenue for the Board of Education was approved. The commission also authorized the leas of the store at No. 40(5 Knickerbocker avenue for one The Brooklyn Public Library will estnhlisb a hranch there.

The Third Term Talh. (Frsm th- Pittsburg Pst A poll of the Democratic National Committee. of which Senator Jones, of Arkansas, is chairman, has been made hy a Chi-oapo paper ob the Cleveland boom, or alleged boom, which Ihe' Republican papers have been doctoring with a great deal of interest. The result was what might have When a man finds himself outgrowing his belt and getting winded by going upstairs, lie is plainly reminded of-the duty of abstinence iir the matter of eatuigand drinking. Less The resolution establishing a ferry between Nunley's pier.

South Bead), find the Captain's pier. Bath Beach, wait approved and the issue nf 00,000 corporate stock was authorized to complete the atmory of the Second Naval Battalion. mistake, that Mr. -Ridder somewhat gratuitous-lv assumes that they will nominating an objectionable' candidate for On ihej-ontraryv there is. overyreasou to assume that such a mistake will he "avoided, and that a candidate for Mayor will he named-for whom no man calling himself a Democrat cap object to cote, least of all the great body of independent German Democrats of whom Mrjxifl-der is the capable and intelligent leader.

MEN AND WOMEN. cals set out to accomplish they succeeded in -effecting. Why the conspiracy was desisted from we do not hnow.Tmt that it failed is'made hvjthf text-of4hr hill. The reasons given hv the (iovernor -for signin the hill, we may add. are chiefly interesting as showing that a right decision mav he arrived at though the syllogistic -of the jndgc-piay he ridiculously faulty.

In signing the hill, the Governor did nothing that called for any apology: hut in proceeding to talk about the excesses of tlie and its relation' to the community, he showed "Himself to he an entirely worthy supporter of Senator Ouav. beer, aiul less sweet and fatty foods than lie lias been indulging in, and a great deal more -exercise are essential parts of the prescription by which lie may keep himself in proper police condition and if lie will not take it he cannot honestly complain if his place be giyen to another. FAST, RAILROAD TIME. BIG BILL, REFORMER. been expected, and is -altogether against strike out the reference to Ihe Lancaster, and have the committee Inquire into and report upon the subject.

tenet nl Wingate and Mr. Dix were of the op nion that the work should be broadened and impinvcd. Mr. Di.x saying that if netes-afy the aid of the State should be invoked to make the sehoolship of greater benefit. Tho resolution its amended wns adopted.

Mr.Ad.imN. the ihairman nf the jTpmmit-tec on Building-, rend letter from Building Superintendent Snyder, in which he slftd that the troubles interfered with the woik on linol huildiugs. Out of twelve si hook in Manhattan not -one was fie l-oni a str-ke. In Brooklyn four were directly affected nnd two indirectly af-feited. i If the six in Queens two were affected.

Mr. Adams -aid that even where thero were tm.sl rikes tlie committee was powerless to lot any contracts fpr the past six weeks, fur the reason that the Controller had informed him that the money was' not a a i la i de Mr. Stent a-keit why the Controller was holding up -tho money for schools, Mr, Adams replied that it was been use the city, was so near the di ht limit. Mr. Ropers' 1 strongly and truthfully when he declared the probability or expediency -of Mr.

Cleveland's nomination next year. Of the twenty eight National mminitteemen who responded. ouCnf fifty who were consulted, only three expressed thcmsplvcs in favor of Mr. Cleveland's nomination. Twenty-five committeemen expressed themselves strongly against stub a nomination or were The three who favored the ndniination were Mr.

Mink, of New York, and the members from Mnn-Janajiud North Dakota, the first hein the only important declaration. The opposition to Mr. (Uevplnd was of varying degrees. Somfluiscil tt on his opposition to Mr. Bryan in 18l(i and WOO, and on tho general ground that instead of uniting it would divide the Democratic party.

While Mr. Cleveland has many warm friends nnd admirers in all the States, and especially in the East, the sentiment eliyitgd front tho members of the National Committee there is every reason to believe fairly represents the judgment of the party. It is not proha tile that it ran he materially modified or (hanged within thp next year Da the third term question, on which most Ameriinns have made up their minds, the (Jeorgia member of tho eomniiltee put it THE PARAMOUNTCY OF THE PACIFIC, By a vote n'f 12 to 3 Mrs. Alma Wflli-ton. a woman doctor, lias heen appointed municipal physician hy the town council of rhillipshurg, Warren County, N.

J. Her riutl-i were the. two former- physicians, whose salary wfis $200 a year. Dr. Willis-Kin will draw $300.

In addition the council will provide her with an automobile and will allow her $100 for medicine. Although the Pope has no less tha $100,000 per annum at his disposal it is said that his personal expenses are not more than $10 it month. -Charles Stevens, secretary of the Antl- Vacclnation of Minneapolis, died from smnllpoi April 11. He had frequently denounced ran inntion as ineffieacioua and a barbarous practice. CURRENT HUMOR.

No American will quarrel with President Roosevelt's speech in San Francisco dayvitl which lie proclaimed the paramountcy' of this country on the Pacific. The. United States, by reason of its geographical position and its outlying possessions in the Pacific, is the dominant estern Power on the mightiest of all oceans, and with the completion of the Isthmian Canal our roleas a Pacific as well as Atlantic power will be accentuated. All this, of course, naturally disagreeable reading to the European Powers, which secretly resent the growing expansion of American influence in Asia, and hence the necessity on our part, as tlie President says, to protect our natural right and manifest dcstinv to con-trol of tlie Pacific by a strong navy. We do not wish this control tor purposes of territorial expansion, hut solely as an outlet for our pending eommereer The Hon.

Big Bill" Devery, as The Citizen" predicted, has become a convert to the Fu'ipii-Rcform party. Last night lie announced himself as an independent candidate for Mayor on a platform of good government. Before the summer wanes. Big Bill" will see that his cause and that of Fcidon-Rcform are Identical, and he will hasten to" place' Ins name and his fame at the service of Mayor Low. as, his erstwhile comrade in theJofice Department, Inspector Schmittberger, has done.

The cause of reform, like the cause of charity, covers a multitude of sins, and sinners, and there is every inducement held out toff" Big Bill" to join the good government pnalanx. The latest recruit is ex-Wardman Dissert, whose temporary sojourn in Sing Sing lias converted him into a stanch supporter of the Fusion administration. Honors, rich emoluments, the panegyrics of the Fusion press, the friendship of Dr. Parkhurst, await the converts from the ranks of the "grafters." Reform will have celebrated its greatest triumph when Devery joins the gang. -And tt-H-w mtdef fuh liaiaa ilUxL QlYCt sion to the cause of reform makes upon a man.

Bill" fraternized with Croker and Carroll and Dry Dollar." lie used language that Dr. Parkhurst termed beastly" and that was reminiscent of the Bowery and Cherry Hill. At least New York was led to believe that he did, from the published reports of' his sayings and doings in the Fusion press. Now that Devery lia been given the marble heart" by his old Tammany friends and the glad hand" has been extended to him by Fresh evidence of the speed possibilities of the steam locomotive is furnished by the run of the Empire State Express from Utica to Albany yesterday. fMi miles in 90 minutes, and from Albany to New York.

143 in 139 minutes. -r Thi same train of -the Central system ran a mile in Mav-. 1S93, in 3 seconds, which is over 112 miles an lnmr: hut the best time made on long-distance runs that compare, vyith yesterday's performance were by the 20th Century Lt'd." on the Lake Shore, in August, 190, ill miles in Ta niinutcs. and by tlie "World Flyer" in September, lSOo, 11 miles in 130 minutes? These speeds are equaled by trains in jreat Britain, and there is promise that they will he greatly excelled by electric power hefore long; but, one thing is certain speed cannot he regularly maintained except on a road-bed a'nd track that are perfect. 1 There does not seem to be anv real connection between the speculation on thc-Ncvv York Cotton Exchange and tlie doings of the cotton mills bfNeW Lngtmrlras Sir-immy-ucw papers have suggested.

The mill owners generally supplied at this tiBie of the year vyith all the staple -they can use up to or 'including August, when they generally shut down, if a convenient strike is not on hand, for a month's overhauling and repairs. Consequently, they arc not generally affected now by the. high price of cotton, which is due entirely to speculation and not at to any scarcity of the staple. .1 that Jhe nomination of Mr, Cleveland for a third term, would "put the club of Hercules in the hnnds of tbe Repuhlbans, on which they would ijhlnad their scandalous and un-Ameruan policies, and ride to victory without serious olistrnelinn." Mr. Cleveland understands this as fully as any American in public life or with a discerning knowledge of politics, and he has not been a parly to the third term movement.

All the talk putting hint in such connection has h-n insincere, and largely emanating from bis peisonal or political opponents. Mr, Cleveland's name may as well he eliminated front the list of possible or probable Democratic andidntes. lie may liavb ambitions and de-ires ns to the future of his parly, nnd it would be strange if he had not, hut the "Post" his never a moment that lie had a desire for a tliird term nomination, nr woiil.T pfu' mote any movement in that direction. The suggestion is simply an interesting incident In the dismission of future polities. There is no reality to it.

-a that that was true, as he hud been so informed by the Controller. Mi. Stern said that the holding up of contracts letnrdod tbiwxoctinn nf school buildings mine than did the strikes. Wh-n the Board of Estimate voted tp give the Board of Kducation $11,100 fast for buildings, at the beginning of tlie year, it should hare known the iiindition nf the finances. It wa- a very embarra-ung po-jtmn in which the board had been placed.

The Board of Estimate hid made a great hue nnd rry that it was cnine to give Ihe Board nf Education all the money it could spend for new- school-, and now the board is informed that it ealinot bare the money. It came with very ill gnu-e front the authorities. Jt means more than a delay of four or five months it meant a delay of nearly a whole year, limine given their word it lieongN. According to the statement of Aiiditor C'Sik, there is a balance nf I in the trea-nry to the credit of the Board nf Eilui ation's building fund, after allowing SJ.if.iil.tirithii" for sites to bp acquired. -11 lss solemn said the you6f man.

"when woman trusts a man wtla her affections." "Jt ain't as solemn. said the man the pink necktie, "as when she won't trusts hint with his own wages." London Tit-Blts. 'Maty, her father railed downstahs, "just ask your man if he doesnt think it'a pretty near bedtime;" Yes. papa." replied the sweet girl, after a pause, "(ieoige snis if you're sleepy go to beit, by all Toledo Bee. "Who lives in that big house onthe corner.

Dennis 7" "The ividily O'Mnllev, nir. who is dead. "Indeed! When did she die?" --If she had lived tell next Snndny sh would have been dead- a year." Kansa A. l-'nsser What would you do if I should kis yon' Mni-v Mi Liiiii I would scream for help. A.

Knssrr Why. don't you think I could do it alone'; Peiinsvbani.t Itimh Bowl. Smith Your new- cook stnys with you fontented 7 "Tompkins Oil, yes; she can't cook, De--tnut i ns- Press, Cond (Mil Lady I wouldn't smoke cigar- cites if I weie (on, little hoy. Diminutive Mocker An' I wouldn't smoke if I were you. Harvard We must have free and untrammeled access for our commerce to all tlie ports of China, hence any-attempt to partition the great Asian Empire among the European Powers, as Poland was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and is a menace to the business interests of the United The mistake that Secretary tlay made in the affair was in not insisting-upon tlie leasing cf one of the ports to this country.

Ihe President is certain to find the Amer- Physical training teachers. Professor Edward Scripture, head of the department of experimental psychology. Yale College, has hcca awarded the Edward I-ongstrrth ruodnt from the Itank-lin Seientihe institute. Philadelphia, for his oiigin.il investigations in color Examination for Both Men nnd Women to Bo Held. Ah Oiimibation lot licento teacher of nfl at I i.