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yIO lli tiWtU JH II tl 1 6 5 THE SUN WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19 151 Wb Ut WKDNE8DAY DECKMHKU 19 1804 1 tvr frinli en fare I W40I iiueipfl ftP rdfMtn teft I la hr rtttettd frtlrln 1 trtunrl Uw wu In all raitt tnd ttnnpt far thnl rmijwv IhU fwTb City and nburhdn ews Tturean of Ib UIT I PsTMand YoU Anomnn rittn It at ill to 2 9 Ann raIY Information Rod documents foe ptiMle IIM Initantlydlutmlnatal to tin pto the whol eonnirj UnstrmlttR tilt Bu pen lon of Gold Payments I 1rcsluenl ClKVKLAND exhibit a remarkable talent fur blundering In financial matters llu delajett king steps for the repeal of the silver pirctiaatng section of the HllERU act until the anlc of 1898 which th ropeM might Imve averted was in full iarecr He hm twice usurped tho power of liBtilnt IratiiU to pay current expense under pretence of timliitdlntiiK gold payments He has forced through Connre 1 reform Urlft which doe not jleld revenue enough for tie walt of the Government although It Is I loaded 1 with an Inquisitorial and unconstitutional 1optlllst Income tax and now ho has set out to procure theenacU ment of a currency bill the Inevitable effect of which will be to hasten national suspension of gold payments and a return to the depreciated paper money of war times The bill relating to bank currency which at the Presidents Instigation was reported 1 the House of Representatives on Monday and for tho passage of which all the power of the Administration Is to exerted erted amounts to this The requirement of Government bonds as ecurity for national bank notes is abolished and the bonds I ndw on deposit are to returned the pro hibitory lax on State bank currency Is repealed and hereafter the 8000 and more national and State banks In the fortyfour States of the Union are to allowed Issue notes to circulate as money up 76 per cent of their respective capitals aggregating over 1000000000 upon I I I the mere deposit of 00 per cent In legal tenders of the amount so issued and of the payment of an annual tax from which safety fund of five por cent Is to accumulated in the course of ton years Provision li I Indeed mado that the notes shall a first lien upon the assets of the banks and that national banks Issuing them shall be jointly responsible for their payment but this I imposes no restriction upon the amount of their issue The 80 per cent in legal tenders deposited as security Is I not to held as a special trust fund for the purpose but like the gold reserve Is to be liable to i depletion whenever the necessities of the Treasury may require it Even the five percent safety fund is to be expended in the purchase of Government bonds Of a gold redemption fund not one word is said The practical tendency of the measure is I therefore to add 760000000 the 1100000000 of paper and silver money now resting upon the small and steadily dwindling fund of gold in the Treasury 1 That this must lead to a speedy suspension of gold payments is too plain for argument The eminent financiers In Wall street who havo assisted the President twice in his unlawful tale of bonds get money for current expense under the delusion that I they were maintaining the national credit i can now see just what sort of a financier he 1 Is They have loaded themselves up with 100000000 of bonds of questionable legality and before they hare been able to dispose of half of them the President I proposes throw upon the market the I 200000000 of bonds held by the national banks and besides inflate the currency to such an extent as to bring on the very suspension of gold payments which they were 1 anxious prevent I A Strange Omission When the LKXOW committee examined Capt CKBEDKK and took his confession of havlngfrtven tlSOo for a police Captaincy why did they not examine him closely a I I the means which he paid the notes that he gave forlthat amount I he paid 15000 for a post worth 9760 a year he must have expected make great profits out of It by dishonest and Illegal means Here dlaot ad legl mes was the chance of the committee learn from the Up of a principal the way and means of bleeding vice and business in a police precinct for the purpose of enriching the Captain and other officers Where did the money come from and where did I got About all the committee took the I trouble find out was that CHEEDKK got a leaner precinct than be expected pected get when be Invested Bat what did he make and how did he make it What violations of law did ha wink What vloltn bt at What offences or nuisances did he collect from Vat devices of blackmail or extortion did he use What obscene oblations from vice did he get Into his pun I The committee was too much occupied insetting i a premium upon a confession of perjury aud bribery to inquire by what channels the proflta for which the bribery was resorted had been conveyed An opportunity for pursuing the legitimate purposed of the investigation was thrown away in maudlin adulation of a perjurer and a briber The LEXOYV committee prefers sensations tat The exow Hcliool of Ethic Police Captain STrUCS took occasion on Monday to deny a report that he had made up his mind confess before the Lxxotv I committee after the manner of CaravaN He said he had nothing confess and howe his guileless ignorance of the met ode and the standards ot that committee by such talk as this I I rightly udrtUad Ih aim of the Luow com miu It cualres to arrlv at truth its dMr would agoonllBgly dfuuJ were I to ge oa te I iud a4 Je uyilf by tMtirjtathat I nave Mc td UM appolauneut la my prcttml position by li us or Booty Evidently Capt STBIUSS is a very unobservant or stupid person or one of moral 1 I conception different from those of the 4 COlcp very dfernt fr th Lsxow committee Ills conduct of his Lw cmit 1 cndut I duct already bean brought in question before that body Be liable be sum fc iif monad before I at any time and the less he tell or ha tell the more severs will the committee be with him AH be ha do to get committees good grace and 1M I sent back the Pole Board in a white sheep washed beyond possibility of future soiling and entitled to A gold collar and a blue ribbon Is to perjure hlmsoltstoutly for tho committee one day and blandly admit the perjury the next day Perjury will probably bo sufficient but I it I not and Capt HTIUUM Tnt to make aura I of the committee and establish himself a an irremovable police officer ho will merely have to say that he bought his Captaincy I that so hard do Is It even false 1 What of Itf Why should nn obliging on clnl anxious stand welt with the committee and have the nobility of his nature admired by the public mid Indelibly impressed upon the Police Hoard hesitate at little more perjury Or I Copt STRAUSS is inclined finical about these trifles let htm commit sonic crime that will he 1 equal to bribery and go and confess I to the committee I I I likely enough that Mr LEJOW and his eMI In ethics will not bo too severe or Inclined to insist upon the letter of the law We daresay that a good highway robbery or burglary would lie taken equivalent lu an act ot bribery cud arson might win especial mention Let Cnpt STRAUSS or any other police Cnptnln who wishes for ease In the midst of nliinns and longs to ablo to Nimp his fingers at the Police lard coil the Superintendent of Police confers to perjury nnd to bribery or anything equally bad sod ho will hae the satisfaction of being 1 Idolized by the mob lionized by the LKXOW school of ethics and taken up mighty gingerly by the Police Board The glories of the heroes of evgate on their triumphal last journey to Tyburn were nothing In splendor and distinctly inferior in moral ImiiressUcmss S1 to the glory to got before the LEXOW committee by the mere confession of couple of crimes Confess and reecho immunity and tho honors of public benefactor Such the IKSOW and GOPF Is its to iMl prophet If Cupt SrnA USg and other police officials ate not dazzled by the glittering offer It must because they do not take that lofty view of the merits of bribery and perjury that Inspires the Iixov school of ethics Why Not Promote the Hero Almost everybody seems BO pleated with the admirable career of Captain CliKEDEX that wo shall probably noon hear It proposed promote him a a reward for his great public service And why not I ho it fit to remain in command of a single police precinct why should he bo debarred from advancement in the force 1 I is i true people with oldfashioned notions of right and wrong might demur at this but we live in a new time when the morality of GOFF and Lao is in vogue and oldfashioned morality is at a discount The new Recorder of the city of Now York a man who has just heel chosen to administer justice for fourteen years to come in the principal criminal court in this town publicly declares that I Police Captain who li confessedly guilty both of bribery and perjury is lit to retain his office and command I Is a little strange to reflect hat must I the feeling of the honest policemen who are obliged to serve under such a commander as Capt CHEEDKK They will surely find It somewhat difficult to apologize for him When a stranger says I understand that the Captain of your precinct I a perjurer liar and briber and probably a blackmailer the policeman can only respond Yes I know but be was a hero in the war and ho was also heroic enough to make an important confession just at the time that the LKxcnv committee wanted him to make It and thus secure for himself immunity from punishment I thin disgraced police captain is to ranked by modern journalists and modern moralists as a hero then the appellation must of honorable hereafter be deemed Infamous Instead The French Ministry Nearly Overthrown I is hard for Americans to understand why the present French Cabinet should pr nlt itself to imperilled by refusing to purge the rolls of the Legion of Honor What seems to us a reasonable demand was put forward that the council of the Legion should expunge the names of all persons notoriously implicated in the Panama and other scandals Singled out for especial reprobation was EIFFEL who It will remembered was convicted In the Panama trials but subsequently acquitted That the acquittal was on technical grounds seems evident from the fact that he has since been compelled to make IB ha bn comple restitution tution of several millions of francs the official liquidator of the bankrupt company He is thus a selfconfessed embezzler and if such a man can remain a member of the Legion of Honor that body has ceased deserve Its name and had better abolished Why then did the French Ministry risk its existence on a refusal to purify an order which ought to bo held in high respect I Because all the men who were smirched by the Panama scandal and who succeeded in jetting themselves returned to the present Chamber of poputle are found in the ranks of the Ministrys supporters These men have proved strong enough to send to the rear persons of high character and great ability like CAVAlaxU who had evinced determination to expel rascals from public life They are doubtless strong enough to destroy the existing Cabinet but It would tie better in the long for the bter run tbl Cabinet total by their defection than to obtain a it obtained on Monday a bare majority of five for its misguided effort to protect them A majority of five I plainly a moral defeat and it remains seen whether the Minister can survive it The Political Crisis In Italy I We receive conflicting accounts of the purport of the documents which have been submitted by exPremier Gioum to the Italian Chamber of Deputies and by which many conspicuous politicians are said I Implicated in the banking scandal According one report there is nothing in the papers calculated to injure the present Prime Minister according to another correspondent usually well informed both Signer Cmsn and a member of his family distinctly incriminated The latter a dltnctr Inrimint fe lattr statement can be more easily reconciled than the former with the treatment which the document have received I I 1 obvious that those person who were conscious of guilt would desire sequea irate papers which a they knew or IUI pct would disclose evidence against them Equally clear it that those who knew themselves innocent would welcome an Immediate publication of the document In order that a separation oft sheep from the goat might cttt as speedily an possible Let us nee what occurred No sooner had exPremier Oio cur tTTI Illd before the Chamber the record relating to the connection of politicians with the banking scandals than a demand that they should be read broke forth In many quarters This demand A strenuously resisted by Signer CRSII and finally by a very small majority the paper were referred a committee Those however who desired a prompt revelation of the truth consoled themselveji with the reflection that the committee must rlecton tblt committe mUat presently report and that nothing could then avert a publication of the documents To their disgust and Indignation I report of the committee was prevented by a decree proroguing the Parliament and It Is generally expected that the prorogation will followed by 1 dissolution Meanwhile the papers will remain in the custody of the paprl committee but that they can be safely tampered with Is improbable for Signor Gtolmi is I man of too much astuteness and experience not to have had photographic copies taken before suffering the originals to pass out of his hands The course pursued by Signer Cnisrt In this business has not only subjected the Prime Minister himself grave suspicion but tins seriously shaken public confidence In King HUMDKHT I who by signing the decree of prorogation has made himself 1 party an attempt to hush up a scandal seems plain enough that the Italian sovereign has been badly advised unless indeed the Is well founded that trd rumor wel a thorough exposure of the banking frauds would Implicate certain members of the royal family Whatever may have been the grounds on which HuuiiEKT I consented to prorogue the Parliament at this juncture there no doubt that this proceeding coupled as It Is with 1 previous betrayal of 1 wish to smother investigation will tend to render precarious the position of the Sa oyard dynasty With nearly half the registered voters complying with the injunctions of tho Vatican not to recognize the Italian Government by taking part in the elections and with the Radicals who constitute tho majority the other half fast drifting Into avowed Ilsluyalty the devoted adherents i of tho house of Savoy must now form only a small fraction of time electorate Nevertheless It is I commonly assumed In foreign countries that a revolution in Italy is impossible owing to the hold which the monarchy supposed to possess upon the standing army Whether as 1 matter of fact the loyalty of tho soldiers which is i thus taken for granted extends beyond the Pled monteso contingent is 1 question which events may at any hour put to the test American Armor Triumphant The award of the entire armor contract for the new Russian battle ships Sebastopol and Petropavlovsk to the Bethlehem Iron Company of Pennsylvania may fairly called the crowning triumph of an impor tunt branch of American Industry When less than eight years agorSecretary WILLIAM WHITNEY made 1 contract with the Bethlehem Works for about 4GOO tons of steel armor plate to cost upward of 3600000 the foundation ot the armor making industry In this country was laid A great step had been taken by his predecessor Sccletnr CHAXDLElt that cessor Secretary CIA DLEn namely that of beginning tho building of steel war vessels In America But for armormaking anew steel plant or ft of appliances was needed and by putting together the appropriations for the armor required by a number of new ships Secretary WHITNEY was able to offer a sufficient inducement for Incurring I the cost of such a plant But the actual production of American ship armor comes down to 1 still later date It took a long time for the preparations and then additional time for experiments The contract with the Bethlehem Company signed July 1 1887 called for the completion of the plant in two and a half years or on Dec 1 1880 and for the delivery of the first installment of 300 tons of armor by Feb 1 1800 But delays ensued In this novel and costly enterprise carrying the ulniment of the contract stipulations well along into the year 1801 In the mean time certain great steps were taken which have proved of vital importance in securing the present renown acquired quired by American armor Secretary TRACY had come into the control of the Navy Department on March 4 1880 and had appreciated at once the importance of he Bethlehem contract which he called I the crowning triumph of my predecessor The Bethlehem Works were to manufacture heavy plates for battle ships on the system adopted by the SCHNEIDERS of Creusot in France that the system of homogeneous allsteel plates as distinguished from the compound plates adopted for the British battle ships Secretary TRACTS attention was attracted in July 1800 to some important experiments going on In England and France for the introduction of nickel as nn alloy of steel Acting instantly on that information ho ordered from the Messrs JCHNLIOEK nickelsteel plate 0 feet by 8 In size and lOJf inches thick to tested against a similar allsteel SCHNEIDER plate and a compound plate mlle by CAMUELL of Sheffield which be bad also ordered The trial came off at Annapolis the following September and the fame of it rang through the world The nickel alloy llate came out ahead the allsteel plate a good second and the bad secondlnd compound plate a very third Secretary TRACY thereupon procured a large appropriation from Congress for buying nickel matte and America was frt in the field lu the use of nickel armor When the earliest Bethlehem nickel plate were finished they proved superior even to the Creusot thus making American armor at the very start the best in the world In order obtain such armor fast enough Mr TRACY gave out a large contract which i resulted in founding a second great plant at the CARNEGIE works of Pittsburgh and I this was put into operation more speedily a I the armor there instead of being forged under a gigantic hammer was rolled Very noon after the adoption of nickel came a second and extraordinary improvement in American armor This was the process of hardening the surface by means of lupercarbonlzlng under the Invention of Mr HARVEY of Newark whose success I Newark suce with It in the manufacture of steel tool had attracted the attention of Commander Vet GER Chief of the Ordnance Bureau at that time After some difficulties had been surmounted the triumph of this American process became Indisputable Foreign nation eagerly availed themselves of It In England VICKEK3 of Sheffield achieved a complete success with it in a trial on the proving hulk Nettle at Portsmouth Then aUarveyed plat mad by VlCKKRS was sent the polygon at Ochta the Russian ordnance ground and won a great victory there Presently the British Admiralty adopted the HABVKT process applying It however plate wholly of steel and not using nickel alloy we do English armor II I now Harvvved Accordingly It will understood the Russian Government while knowing the value of the Sheffield and Creusot worb ha noW come Bethlehem We are not to Infer that with the rate for American labor it can get armor cheaper here and indeed the Bethlehem and CAn EGIR works which had both put In bids teem have suspected that the European maker would combine for loW prices rather than create the precedent of allowing such contracts cOle across the water The actual award is in fact something of a surprise and ha created the Impression that Russia influenced by the success ot American armor may have determined try It on these two ships even at higher price lIe this as it may time statement from Bethlehem Is that the contract wa secured over fourteen competitors Including Knurr and that it calls for more than 12000 tons In Secretory TRACTS report for 1800 it I I I declared Cat up to July of that year although i 20000 tons of armor were required for our new steel fleet Ilot a pound of this armor had yet been manufactured Today after the lapse of a little more than four yean wo find the supply of American armor for all our existing ships nearly completed and an American establishment engaged provide It for the needs of a great foreign power Cant our friends the British yachtsmen with Lord UUNHAVEN at the head yet pull themselves out of the hole of rudeness Into which they have dived and make ract There I still time Today is the anniversary of two battle in the war of 1812 On the night of Dec 18 1813 the nrltlsh under Gen Dnnuiioxo threw a force of SiO men across Niagara lllver at a place called Five Mile Meadows three milts above Fort Niagara Immediately on crossing the Ilrltlsh marched down the river and at 4 A MM Dec 10 drew near Fort Niagara This place was defended by flee OEOIIOF McCLUHE who had learned of the Intended Invasion and had gone to Buffalo raise I force to repel the British When the British approached the fort garrisoned by 450 aproache as larrlsone men Under Cupt LKOSAIID and when they arrived Capt I EON All was asleep In a farmhouse three miles away A large portion of time garrison were Invalids in the hospital and everything about tho fort showed the carelessness of the American commander The British on the other hand lad made the most careful preparations stealthy a their approach that the sentinels wore seized and silenced before they could give the alarm Time main gate of the fort wa wide open and the British marched In without opp mitten A guard In the southeast blockhouse tired once wounding the British commander Col MURRAY Tho British rushed Into the hospital and barracks and began slaughtering the Americans right and left More than forty of the Invalids were bayoneted in their beds as were fifteen others who had taken refuge In the cellar and fourteen wounded Of the entire garrison only twenty escaped eighty having been killed fourteen wounded and 340 made prisoners On the part of the British only five men were wounded klllcxl and a surgeon and three men were On the same morning of this attack a detachment of British troops and COO Indians under Ian HtALL crosse from Qucenstnwn and attacked Lewlston The place was defended by I small force of Americans under Major hex nerr These men fought heroically until completely surrounded by the overwhelming force of tho enemy when they cut their way through the BritIsh lines and escaped leaving only eight of their number killed and wounded After plundering village the British burned all the houses while their Indian allies added all the atrocities characteristic of their mode of warfare The British then marched Irltsh marbe upon the villages of Youngstown Tuscarora and Manchester now Niagara Falls and after plundering the houiea and driving the Inhabitants Into the wilderness they burned the town In the letter from our correspondent at Florence Italy which we published a few days ago we were told that the theatregoers there favor particularly those plays In which tho actors upon the stage debate and Illnstratequcs tlons In philosophy ethics and social law Wa regret forced to admit that the theatre evens In New York have not ret reached this height In the ladder of culture Most of them want plays of a Jtghter kind those that give them relief from thought and make them laugh rather than those that cause them thlnK upon ethics and the soul Perhaps the Florentines do not spend 1 much of their time In thlnklncdur InK the day a the New Yorker Even the dramas of SIIAKESPEAKE In which philosophy and ethics are ever at the front have ceased to bo aa attractive to New Yorkers aa they ought to be If the Florentine actors could J10reltleator speak English we would Invite I company ot them visit New York Florence has been a city ot culture and art for a thousand years Founded beforetime Christian era it Is yet the loveliest of the many lovel cities of Tuscany We could wish that the Impatient New Yorkers were able to sit through a oneact play like that of GIOVANNi Bovio which has entranced Florentine audiences so many night of this year His Imperial Majesty of Germany is silencing all the captious critics who sneer at the words or the muslo of his Bong Aeglr Besides those of them who Ide th00 were recently arrested at Berlin a good haul of other been made at hamburg They are accused of making disrespectful remarks abut the composition of which the Emperor claims the authorship such remarks a render them liable to imprisonment for Ifte I majatt The Imperial clemency was exercised In the cues of several of the detractors who were arrested for laughing at the time of the gangs publication but this teems to have served only as an encouragement for others of their kind the whole of wbom are now In danger The offence of BEDEL and LIEU KNXCIIT In refuting to cheer for hi Majentr at the opening of the Kelchstag a few days ago wu of little consequence iu comparison with the snarling of the poetry critics Prof LKVT of Cologne ban gone 1 far a to allege that the work I I weak while the Kldm Journal an audacious publication tries to prove that Itl ungrammatical What I majesty worth anyhow when the critic dare to swagger In Its face Tus HUM cannot uphold those of the analytical vcrnlOera and solfatits of Germany who an too disrespectful In their analysis of the Aeglr Bang of WIUJAU 1 After examining the words of It and listening to the tun of I wore happy to assure bin Majesty that It Is not bal 1 bad as some of his subjects say it We affirm that It ha merit I I is pleasant new that the Ute Indian of Colorado who Invaded Utah last month the number of 1000 or more hare returned their reservation la Colorado at the request of Uen MiCooK For a time they were threatened with assault by the Governor of Utah who ralttd the cry of danger to the settlers called out the milItia for pubIc protection and urged the War Department help him to drive back the savage invader who according his de spatches wee about to devastate the Territory and butcher its people Fortunately for all concerned Gen UcCooK took the business out of his hauls and seat a officer confer with the wandering band of Utea who It turned out were not upon the warpath at a but were merely hunting la a desolate region of Utah which they had been led regard their own As ioo th asked the sooa as they were ke by te army officer return their proper reservation In Colorado they signified their readme and wilUoiD do 1 mounted their ponies and began leave Utah the which had been scared without canes Then was not the least difficulty in dealing with the roaalog Ctee They wen not bloodthirsty but peaceful Dot engaged devastation but look lag fo game They a very good Indians UuiOoreraorof Utah bad not been overruled ruled by the commander of tbe department nalllUa would very certainly hare attacked the Lte bmdaa tttu we uu4 tire heard vf Indian ravage and other mIsdeeds calling for a campaign ot extermination Many of our Indian wars particularly those of later times wa prlcularll tme have been brought about through a misunderstanding of Indian purpose Gsa McCoox deserves more credit for the peaceful settlement of the Ute affair than he could have won I he had killed every Ute alive A correspondent sends us word of his purpose to Invent a couple of machines which shall turn out snch works of art as oil paintings and marble statuary We encourage him go ahead Machinery has not yet been use In the branches of Industry to which he refers but we do not feel called upon to say that It may not Invented The masterpieces in oil and marble are high priced because the artist spend ranch skill and time In their production I but if they can be turned out at the rate of hundreds a dab a machine they will brought within the reach ot the poor There Is no discoverable limit to the use of machinery in this age of the world There Is no doubt that the handpainter and handsculptors charge to much for their wares ran coxsriitAcr AGAINST an JIJtOOKITAr from llu EIn Tttttram Thus ends a persecution born In calumny promoted by subornation of perjury and carried on by an organized schooled and drilled Rang of perjurers There never was any real necessity for the Investigation No cause therefor exIled or ever ha existed except the malignant hate and sensational clamoring ot a vile If not criminal newspaper combine The records of the prison have always been an open book The pet organs of the criminal classes have been taught a wholesome lesson Tho representatives of thugdom should now slink away and hide their shameless facet JVom the SvracvH Journal Superintendent Brock way has passed through a terrible ordeal He has been hunted with calumny aud malignity scarcely equalled In any like persecution But his vindication Is complete and carries with It recompense for all that he has been compelled to endure lYom the AVirtmrv Frtst The charges agaInst Mr Bnickway were made for the cole purpose of booming the New York World by creating a sensation and we doubt If half a dozen people can scared up who really believe that tho Uortit had any other object In view For years the HcuM has ben recognized a the most brazen and libellous sheet that was ever allowed to bo Issued from a newspaper office It has attacked len In all stations of life without the least shadow ot cause simply to create I sensation and Increase Its own circulation hence It Is not at all surprising that oven Its 1 own party papers denounce It In unmeasured terms prty ppr unmeaure JVom the SOB 7Yr It Is I matter of congratulation to the State and to the whole country that tho malicious sensational bulldozing blackmailing attack made by certain parties upon time Superintendent and Board of of tho Managers State Reformatory oar anller story at ElmIra has been finally squelched by the report of the Commissioner appointed to Investigate the charges and by the action of Gov Flower In sustaining the report from Jameitotrn AIL The New York World which accepting the stories of vengeful convicts brought the charges against Mr Brockway and thu Reformatory managers and hlcn has been shamefully abusive of them and of Oov Flower of course doe not relish the Comlltllon findIng and time Ucv ernors determination Join and Help the I A To TiE EDITOR or THE Sux Sfr The work of decorating the Court of Oycr and Termlner undertaken by the Municipal Art Society I progressing favorably but It will Impossible for us to undertake a new work In the course of next year without a very largo Increase In the membership Our motto Is To make us love our city we must make our city lovely and we feel that there must be more than 000 breasts In Now York In which these words would stlrare ors atr sponsive echo The object of the Municipal Art Society which was organized In March 1H93 Is to provide adequate sculptural all pictorial decorations for the public buildings and parks In tho city of Now York Hath mrn and women are eligible for membership ami tho annual dues or memo bership fee lire i i Life inrmberMilp 330 The cooperation of nil publicspirited citizens Is solicited and all such ixTfmt sLlr lrlnit join tho society may do 80 by pending their iinmro la Kilwanl Hamilton Hell Secretary 48 It Twentieth Street neonnjpnnleil 1 check for the annual membership fr of S3 lilcli should bo drawn tn the oulfrof I llcniy Munimiml Treasurer Enw HAMILTON HLU frecrotao No Sleet for the Xlnrber Tn Tit fDIY01nr Ti usSlr InlastMon days RUN there wit nn account of the opposition to keellnl liquor store or taloons open on Sunday It was aeertetl that It unt agaInst our American institutions that Sunday should be kept a a Sabbath and that America and Its American Institutions should respected Now why dont these people gun little further nnd close barber shop Stmndmi ro blrbtr on Sunday after nnon loon tp to ten years npn the barber had Humlnj af ttnioun oil but wall the coming into the bunt ness ot foremnora vu I Italian Jews cud gome iermana things have rhnnked At ant lNt only the Italians kent open all tiny l4imndmuy then few Jons who claim Saturday as their Sunday but keep open then nil the same nnd dont recognize ourSunday then a few iermans who dont are for any law that America mckee for holIday but ar on the grab to make nn extra dollar or two on that day at the expense of the helm and lately all the rlrstrlast lintels lIz llolfnmn Grand Ole Imperial Metrnpole lulfnut borough Waldorf Njvoy anti others Alimwt all of the clubs keep open until I or oclock on Sunday evening and on every holiday which to be counted a 1 Sundny so that the journeyman had a bait holiday wliare other people hind a hole one and now nn has none Now the barber nhop employe has to 10 to more work on at 7 Saturday A until I or emJ I I and one hour Dont you think Mr Editor that the people who want the Sabbath respected might take time tcter barber case in hand also for the benefit of the journeyman a ho hlmielf Is almost helple and cannot complain or he lose his position DANK ILWIH Barber ITAltOAJtET OF AAVAllUE TOLD IT She Anticipated bJ 3iO rears Mr rO II Sill ler In Harper Magazine To TiE tmroa ov Tua arselr Iu your lure for PetS IS Anxious Inquirer writes roumuliiK atory la the December Harper the recital Ueaof whkti tie lays bu been current for the tut fifty or one hundred years and be Whit some otto luforw him who One told I It Is I an uy matter to belp Anxious Inqulrw baek to before the year ISIttat tau for If be wUI turn to Ihe XXXIV novel told on he fourth diynf the litptamrron of time lunenluut llargiret Queen of Nataire no wimi Unit vutivtantlaUv I the iftme siorytbv chief ulfrrriuH ul belweru It and that the curmot writer being that the merry homer nle It made la tail twice a well 1 bit the space I hare always held that these old writers ought to be put down 7 the strong arm of the taw TUeyan oTurTl tlclpato so many 10 Mtninclr inuijr of our hardest i working I modern literary tollers A II LusTCiTT Ulan url Delights sad Meager or tbe Peony Walk To TUX Entree or Tug Sex Sfr In the always Inter citing Suobeani column this morning I a paragraph about au attractive and novel aiuiuuuenl called the I penny walk An Improvement suggests Itself lu me In view cf the fact that tossing a nnr gives 1 only too ehancei Involving almplr turning to bbL ft fJ pl right or left would JIf the interest to have a tbtr chance that of bOlcK straight ahead I maybe safely assumed that uo man would choose to late a kolltaryixnur walk Anjthluaoen 111 Mpaaf wa Aabwi omen rrmotelv ug iiratlvdofa lofltary cent I dUllnctlr the reverie cf attractive VltbWro hanou alKr In the party lime thing can be develop bcautlfullr Tue a ptll ctnu If they not match oa straight ahead 1C tells ihey go the both ether head goon war and I they boO torn lal lUxbt te well In limbs city to add a rule that the at 11 penny pathfinderw should not be followed overboard pUR1 014 and limi walk luriiwl Into a wad or a wtm There ant 1fw a fw Weeks lu Uw year when It would pluainl to walk Into th river A waiting party might and themselves I at a South street or Wttt strut cur and told by tbl illrrcUnir pea to a straight ahaad Wtuo UOLLI NiwYoajcIXeia I Mr Vuderbllt ud the NCWIBOI To TU biro or To SexSir The letter i awl to Xn Taadtrbllt oa account of giving a dlwwr to the uwsboji Is tlu product a very oar row blind It was not don lor effect sum mIght think but from what all should poutai 1D lure kindness fully I for one uy Cod I3o our respect li Teas 1 alCvidea4 1 Oi JTMra Ttltaram Tn 1 laB its readers thai II I I lel Tb reader tI Jl WJJ MAY JtETAltATA Th Act of 1590 fay I taveked 4ft tet Hpt mid Qermaey WAttnttaToic Dec 18U Is confidently expected pected at thel3tate Department that the Span pcted Ish Government will top IU discrimination against American flour Imported Into Cuba Minister upon the representations made by llannl Tailor regarding the almost forgotten power retting In the lresldent retaliate and by proclamation to forbid the Importation of Cuban sugar I Is probably not true that a IUlar butltli but threat ha been made by Mr Taylor I understood that he ha mAde clear Spain the great friendliness manifested by this country as evidenced by tho reluctance of the President louse the authority conferred by Coimress In the Meat Inspection and Adulterated food Act ccedlnes of Aug 30 1800 to Institute retaliatory pr It Is believed that Germany will alto affected fected by the attention that ls I now being called to this act and that a modified attitude toward American products the Importation of which Into Germany Is now practically prohibited will re ult The act referred to la I ery broad tn time discretionary authority It I gives to the President Section 0 under which Oermany as well 8ect unrer ftrmalY wcl a Hnnli may reached I as follows I Whenever tto Preililent IU tatUflnl that un tun dIscrImInatIon lure maids bv or under the an thorlty of any foreign Stats axalnit the Importation to or sale In such foreIgn main nf any prmltict of the United State he may direct that ono products of sUch rOn Stale An dIAlmltnl alnn Say prOuc or Ihr Ullt Mtattn em to dm lrnprr may be eaeimd1 fron importttmon to the Unmtei hr rl tl Stales and 1mm mh ts he lh make ProOlAflhstlOn of his direction I In the timnlnct Cat therein theme the time when such rnrunntinn I shnll lt mI effect ami after Mich datctlic Importation of the article tinnird In such proclamation Shah IK I unlawful The Irest 1 lent may at any lime Ish eke modify terminal renew any uih direction lu bu the publto I hi opinion lut Interest may r10U I Is learned that action In compliance with these terms has been urged upon time Ircslnent for two month but that lie has preferred to Rive Hnnln ample time to recognize time Injustice of her discriminations before reiortlnu to tho radical power entrusted to him If however he Is I convinced that the Interests of the United States can be fully protected In no other WAY I Is understood that he has expressed a delI mlnustlon to Ismie such a pnirhinmtlnn nil contemplated by the law and prohibit Importations fruit any country which maltitmna an unfriendly States commercial nttttude to the United tutAXTisn nr THIS ATnTI1JlT A htreet Cur Line In Meit Kldhtyalith btrert Victory for the Ilnekmen The Hoard of Aldermen passed jcstenlay 1 rcuilutlon allowing the hackmen to have one Imck In front of each hotel This Is A victory for the hackmcn as the hotel proprietors hate objected to what they termed time entering wedge Time lintel people threaten to take the matter to tho courts A they malntnln that the Hoard has not the rleht to grant any hack owner the right to stand lu front of their property rime Law Committee had chen both side I hearing The Hoard granted a franchise to tho Forty second Street Manhaltanvllle and Rt Nicholas Avenue Itallruod for I line to rim through Eightysixth street from the Iloulcvnrd to Central lark to connect with the lino now running tlirougli 1 Central IA Park anti over East I Kliihlt sixth street to Avenue A One faro fllt be charged for the trip ncroas ton I Thn Hoard grnntrd permission to I 11 DOIMICV a contractor tu I construct 1 ntill under the sidewalk at Thirtyfourth I street and Astors Klfth avenue for tie new hotel to built by the Alderman Long opposed the grant which IIP said meant the 11lnl away of SAOOOO of city property to the Aitors Alderman Long woo lirotesttd nualnst granting the franchise to the Street car line He said that on ot Klchty sixth street property nn tiers wero very much oppontd to 1 trirks being laid Aldermen Kion and Ottftit naked 1 that the subject of time fran chl laid over The three voted against It but It granted rCCKXTltIC JIlT SOT 3TAII ThIs SVma Edwin linker Condition cud Conieqncntly ills Will Is tonaeqnenUy II 11 lplieltl Surrogate Abbott of Ilrookl hut admitted tho will of the late Edwin Iaker the eccentric real estate dealer to probate In spite of the determined efforts of his widow Mary I linker and his children to have It upset Tor several years before hlsdeath Mr linker had been noted as a political crank amid time doting years of his life wore marked with a bitter contention tHccn him and his wife arid children In 1NOO after thlrtytwo years ot married life there was separation nnd ho then devoted himself to nnnoylna hit wIfe In cery ponslblr way Ills hioUvekrier Sman Morrlll seems to Imve been the oul rtrsoi in inn orld with whom he mnltitnliiMl I any friendly relation lly hi will which hears date Oct 7 KSWI he loft iillOO of his 100000 estate to relatives mid friends In CiiglanU to time Irnkln Library Slonn hU friend Susan Morrlll all hits money In the South Brooklyn Savings Institu tion nml Dime Savings Hank tu his widow I what the law allows and no more anti the residue to lute chmllumen Surrogate Abbott says I that although the deceased was vIolent sting tniinme reienccful and Intemperate It WIIH evident that he knew what he was doing all had outUrient testamentary capacity when lie rx niHd tho will Ho adds capllt Jinny entries In his diary were undoubtedly the ttlllv obscene and profane unr0tbtely drunken brain but nt the time the will was lucnnrvd and executed 110 1 not think the Im 1 tator wan so under the Influence of Intoxicants as to Incapacitated Eccentric and abnormal was In mal not Insane phases of his character Edwin linker Aatltoxlae fur Diphtheria ST Lotts Dec 181he first practical test of the benefits of the recently discovered ant toxlne as a cure for diphtheria was made here yesterday and proved a success The patient was the threeyearold child of Floyd Schock The childs condition was such that tracheotomy had been decided upon a a lat resort to save Its life The parents however consented to the experiment of antltoxlne and Its 1 effect elect was Instantly apparent The child breathed easier and In twelve hour all diphtheritic symptoms had passed away dlphtherlto Tho TrottlBE riulkTa Han Wheel Explained from tht Hub When the Ort pneumatic sulky with Its 2M Inch liieh began loner tho trotting records thousjtndx of horsemen and mechanic rrON once 1 began tn res on that I there a such advan taxi In the pneumatic tire as to make the little wheels 1 In what couldnt bo dow If the came tint were placed on a largo wheel Kor obvious reasons we ohall never know how many experiments were trIed but enough of enoolh them have come to light prove that the 28 Inch wheels which are universally used today ere not accepted blindly U8e tlY Time question has been repeatedly asked Are not large wheels better than small one and If ho hoiv do you account for the present revolu ibm In trotting gigs The answer I that large wheels are certainly better than small ones In theory and within cer tain limits they are better In practice wlthll A pnromatlo tire is comuarativelr heavy and has required a flangrd meW tire under It which tro will weigh fully as much per running foot as would a standard steel tire for time same vehicle tro amo vhicle And besides tlie smaller a pneumatic tire is the more ptactlcal it Is I to make and maintain The pneumatic tire is I an advantage The mal wheel I avntie Frm the Te antages of the one we subtract the dlsadvan taiiea of the other and find that have a balance in favor of that combination viz as inch wheels and IHluch trea ncr Choice hromm fix helmetS Tttimxt He would have gathered In a warm embrace but she waved him back UV VA4 I1IU4 WAV A No she said Imperiously You crush my heart he protested 5 helter thy heart aba answered than my sleeves the cuckoo rushed from the clock on the man tel and with a wild shriek directed attention to the fact that it was now 1110 Htmrtllaic Newa from Hliaachal from tht uhi Kt ntlaMfhttt feconj Shanghai Dec 10 Another victory baa been won by the Japanese troops lu Manchuria The zIliedIIhtmflt flU ffl flntUJflUtlUflW Well Kid or utah fro CAarkatoa ic ukj Courier Mr Adolph 8 Ochs of tb Chattanooga Tteuj has withdrawn from the Southern Asaoclalx Press and Joined Lie fortune with UM Associated Frees of III nets We are not surprised lie Is the only member of Southern Aaaoclat4 Preasof who adouty lath auocUUon we have hail any doubt II wag the only member at Ih recent toasting of the aaaocUUoa fn Norfolk and Atlanta whouall taace wu warded with tmplcloo Potato th Aroatla row IJU Wuoioj AYTU Ilirald Potatoes are so scare and dear la this city thai th WJICLW rulaaruU exhibit them la the window besIde rare fruit and TNetbies AHhinallo trouble and sqzeaa or the tuts or tbrual an usually orrcomiTy Vr JarWs ijpco mesa smite cuntlve ten vlUU raxxirrR rRMxirs Ktperte by Sanitary IiipeeleiB Meats age stud Seneral Lack of Repair Sanitary Inspector of the Health Hoard have handed In report on the condition of the tens ment houses owned by the Trinity corporation Yesterday thirtyone reports were nisde public AH the houses are on the loner west side In the following list details are omitted but the main caatea for complaint are given No 501 Vnrlck streeth Pavement not watertight no sewer connections made with yards resulting In dampness sinks are bad No 104 Hudson itreetl Walls dirty outhouses containing piles ot rags and straw i pats menu of the yards not graded nnd pools of stagnant water have collected i sink filthy No 178 Varlek street Willis dirty and often Ives closets defective pool of water In the 7N 000 Greenwich street ip on the wallIs dirty ceilings dirty an4 cellar tutu con talnln decnnipoitflg vegetable matter NA 182 hudson itreett Nt sink toy faucet cMisintf thmunpnese In the cellar by dtippltigh rear area not conmmmctee wIth sewer No ens ireonieim streeth Two reports mt1 tool a special coinplailmt toads to the iitmlkltn floorIngeare batit sinks an ohm Ihrrtment OIN Greenwich street Valves leaky banIsters of Ih halls are dangerous foul odor arise from lop floor sinks No 033 Oreenwlch street Walls and hallways dirty supply of yater meagre and pavements no tvateriroit 1140 Jreeimwiclm street CeIlIngs of top floor an dIrty BINo 148 flreenvt kim street Cellar of hoitc and extension Used for lodging awl eltonlng by Inn ml 11 Its In vlolntlmi of section IH if tue sanitary code The adult are workmen tnitiloj ed by I Melnhoffer Irssep rime celling tif the cellar Is on a level with the sidewalk Cellar nf Mien Sloth is hot ventilated Special complaint mid to the Ilnlldliiir Dcpnitment No 381 Hudson street Fomit gates from iltio pIpes No 184 Varlek street Roof leaks plaster Ions No 180 Varlek street A barber Imp In thi basement foul odors from holes of lend trains roof leaks No nil Varlek street Brick pavement not water tight or rnnnuclrti with scumer i No Vnrlck street 1ooln of stfttfnant water tn yard dHtmi boards straw nnd tagS In the yard emitting offcnslvr odiim iiilnr nails nnd all ceIlings dirty lulling of cellmr I neither lathrtl nor plastered and foul odors fill the hiic thNo 203 Vnrlck street Pavement not watertight sInk fnu i rts IrnV No 182 Vnrlck street Foul odors from ilo fectUo pipes main wasleplpr ob trii tedl filthy waste water from sinks flons back Into sink In the cellar No 1HO Vnrlck street Foul odors from tie fectlve pipe No 111 Vnrlck street riling of hnscment only twelve llches above hvcl of sidewalk and below time level of the ysrim occupied bv tvn families basement dark poorly euttlaled end damp bad parnieiitsntid pnolnof water lu time srd Vo 171 Vnrlck street tHnip and dscnjcd boards In areas paeeumentsmmutuster light rtnr part of yard unpnved and muddy cellar windows broken No un Harrow street Pavements not watertight water supply In closets want No i Spring street Hoof leaks pavrnirnls graded nourly no newer connections causing ilnniDness defectIve drain No 4V1 Hudson street Waste pipe are not ventIlated No tINll Hudson street Banisters loose walls dirty plnM rwe cecil dirty No yV t1sl llotiMon Mrptt IEi 1 lirltk drain In cellar nllon Isriipe of foul odor No 24 Vsst Houston trrt Vnnt and woodshed dirty ii lib dvcnt Ing animal anti vegetable matter foul odors from en lnv No JIM Went llnnntou vi rest Olllnc and walls dirty bniilnters mmmx I nnd dnngirotit Other houses reported ar 14J Greenwich street 34S West Hiniitoi and m3l I Greenwich Time usual complaints of dirty ceilings and bad drainage are made ngalnsl them 2ps AllMOKY AtlKK A Itance llenleil far the Tnllora Benins CiiuseN SUrSOO Ilamaisv Fire wasdUcoteryd Jenlerdny morning In the third story of the Twentysecond Ieglmcnt Armory at Slxttefnlh streetnndthe liouirvard win burning In the floor of the mess hall on tho SUt cilili street side Jnci under ft fine attached to the range end was extinguished afti a short but stubborn fight on time part of the llromHii Tho flooring In tho mess hall Is separated from thm rnngii by buick layer of concrete During Sunday nnd iindav night a tire was kept np In time rmungu fur the tailor who were nt work arranging limo uniforms of the regiment for ten 1ortor funciBl onMondur It la ntnpnoed that the heat lgnlt thn flooring through the concrete and that the fire was smouldering a whole day before being discovered The Janltir no tired the smoke and 01 going tu limo second story smuw time dames tomlmr clmvii throush tim flooring and turned In two alarms The dnmago to time tloonni arid calling was about Sotlo The daninKO to the regiments property cunslstlng i mess hail furniture curt tscn was about 4300 fully covered by Insurance t1VftEA Two former church In Wllllaniiburih on at Hooper street and Harrison avenue and the other at Itodney and Alntlle streets are now factories while third at Bedford avenue and houth Third street may lx turned Into a heir garden and concert hall Few persona know that Huntingdon Fit was named In honor of Ibe Countess of Huntingdon an eighteenth century jireat lady who did much forth University of Vrmiyltanla Provost William Smith of lime niilverally founded the little city In 1777 ant gratefully honored the universitys patron In naming tb new settlement Eastside hair dressers seem to flourish In even the poorest quarters parity dnnbtlevs becaus favorite forms of social entertainment thereabout are belie masquerades and itraiuitlc performances all more nr ices demanding the alt of the hair dreuer Again In 4 lime Hebrew quarter the hair dresser la sometimes a win maker twcituw in minr TTehrevr women live itt to the old law rrqutrlnz a married woman toshav her head and wear a wli Several auociallnni of ministers In IVaihlngton and Oregon have proleatetl agalnct the ralitnv of hop and barley liecauM lImos produCts are used In lh minufactura of Intoilcatlnic drinks It Is now dated that very large acreage Wuhlnxton at present devoted lo hop will most likely tie put to other UM next year Iecu of the success of experiment tobacco will be grown on the land Infutur Th mln Uten have not yet been heard from The pbras coffee semi raeKM mean different things In different parts of this town Tha fIrst member of the phrase means sometimes a nyaterloIms eon pound not yet fully Identified While the rroiHl member may mean bun vraMea linkers or sivrot cakes In time German quarter the phrase meant prl I mrIly genuine coffee with hot milk and cheese cake though tlx Utter sometime mitigated Infavur of persons with other than German taste Passersby can get a gllmp through an ares window In a stret near the bead of the liowery of an In tereitln but Uttloknown beads Standing by his block Immediately behind the window a god beater busily Lammerlncat Ib akin that pn trta time precious metiil that he beats Into alrnnil impalpable abeelf wfclh dawn In time corner where the light Is Itjod li a deft lllte woman rapidly laying the ahecta Into boots by the aid of long light wooden tweewri The platforms of the eleelrlo slrsel ears lu Portland Me are In I covered In veitlbnled for the comfort of passengers and time protection of motormen and conduvlnn In sever weather The vesti bule will usoron lruct that they may be removed when desired In summer for Initanc Some hlla delphla street cars are ao veitibuled and In Ohio the law require that inch protection ahall he provllni The cars ot the Montagu street cable lire In Broofcljrn are so protected There Ia a nail foundry lu Wllllimiburgn where th bellows under the forge are worked by flee big mongrel dogs who labor regularly a little mor than an hour and a bait each day Tb log answer la the names of Joe Peter Rover Jack and ieorge and sd and sleep In time foundry Th animals tread In sld a wheel eight feet In diameter and when the lime of one Is up another takes hit plate and for eight hours a day th wheel and Ih bellow are kepi going sttherateof about four miles an hour in another foundry three dogs named buot Check and Itarncta work the bellows There are yet many towns In the further V7eit I wbcith copper cent I despised and time auulleal cola ntd 1 a nickelbut her In Kew York aauHaEajt ecu cities generally penuise have been laerala la demand In recent yean Th faahloa ot clipping a cent from a dollar or half a dollar maklag fiv nt ami 41 cui price tul almost every other pete with odd cents flgurtng la It baa pot a vast amount ot copper change In clrculallou and tula 1s etprcUlly aoUccabl about CbrUlmaa lime On geti lot of brand MW red crnlt just now In dung at the big store where supplies of them have been laid In for the holiday trade BuperUMadrot OllUrt of the St Paul Public Schools BOW la town tells a story fc Illiulrste practical retulu of moral and human training a specialty to th schools Thanksgiving has lumen t3d a subject discussion In the schooU for aum tears pa twlth thi result that tb ealUlrea took vuUalarlljr to COimUtbutlug great wagon Ioa4a food auj other creature romforts to the poor on that ffttlial tmn Ult book of tt school a aomtwlial famous little volume teaching th lasoa of klnduia to brutes and the ct of lu uachlags earn out oa TtuuiksglvUt Uay when th boys flndla th bone thai was to draw a load of tbtlr gift without bank si rttgft oflC taalr eoaM to com tb animal while they lo4d 1Ae wagQ.