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ov LXI Xo'X 0 20,232. MINISTER HOOTED OUT. LIVELY INCIDENT A CARNEGIE DINNER. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS TELLS AJfi INTERRUPTING CLERGYMAN" To WANTED TO GIVE CARNEGIE The dinner given by the Society of American Authors in honor of Andrew Carnegie last night at the Hotel St. Denis was marked by an that was at the time it occurred more dramatic than amusing.

Mr. Carnegie had flniFhed speaking, when a Protestant Episcopal Clergyman, who sat about ten yards from the nest's table, jumped to bis feet, flushed and excited, shouting: "I am Mr. Crawford-Frost, rector of the '-hurch of the Holy Comforter, of Baltimore. Carnegie. I want to give you $5,000,000.

I want you to accept this gift in behalf of all humanity. I you. the greatest philanthropist" At tins Rasros S. Ransom, president of the society, rapped the clergyman to order. But Mr.

Crawford-Frost refund to be quieted. He began again In high-keyed voice, and had got as far as saying that he had come from Baltimore for the specific purpose of permitting Mr. Carnegie to benefit the entire world by a plan which he had invented, when Mr. Ransom, growing angry, again attempted to quiet the speaker. clergyman, undaunted, refused to be silent.

He acain addressed Mr. Carnegie, "You, sir, the. greatest philanthropist" Then Mr. Carnegie rose to his feet, waved his hand excitedly, and said: do not wish to be known as a philanthropist I do not want to be remembered as a money giver." tbe dersyman bad an opportunity to again Mr. Ransom told him that if "ft leslst be would better leave the room.

Btfil aawed his arm excitedly at yf Can agfc, arhOe the atldience "Sit Bit won't listen to my plan for tbe benefit tatty I'll leaw you." said the clergyman. Co. Go!" -Mr. Ransom replied. To which ft d-Frost returned the rejoir "I leave you.

but you'll hear from me again. You'll hear from ma once more. I go. but I leave this audience convicted of stupidity." In the corridor of the hotel the clergyman, who Stopping at the Waldorf, told a Tribune reporter that was an invited guest, but that he hfid come to set Mr. Carnegie's support for hi? invention.

"It's a marvellous invention." he said. "I call it a rftoajraph. or a printojrraph, or an automatic thought producer. It's like a typewriter, only it records thoughts. You space with your knee, make capitals with your right knee.

Your hands are. either stationary or they move. In this way you think thoughts. I snail renew ray offer to Mr. Carnegie.

They made me leave, but. they will Regret it." The clergyman was much excited, but those about him affected sympathy, and succeeded in him. He said he was William Albert i3rc-F'-ost. saitnr of the Memorial Church Holy Comforter, Baltimore. Carnegie was In excellent humor throughoat the He was only temporarily disturbed by the peculiar proposition of the clergyman.

Mr. Carnegie's quick retort that he did rot wish to be remembered as a giver of money considered by many a significant index of how he wished men to judge him in the light of great gifts to the foundation of libraries in this and in other countries. Before Mr. Carnegie spoke, he was unanimously elected an honorary member of the society. He was the fecond speaker.

Replying to the toast Mr. Carnegie, said in part: Mr. President, you have, done me a delicate by not priTiTins my name on the programme. if 8 speaker. I thank the club very heartily for this beautiful reception.

It surpasses what I had expected. I did not think I should pee. such an array of youth and beauty. I thought we'd be a lot of fallows together. When I candidate for membership at Author?" Club my name withdrawn for the feascn, pome cne advanced, thai no PlttPburg Ironmaster could I v- written my book.

I got of! scot c'lt. I understand, we are all poor ps that was the reason I was brought here. Mr. Carnegie chuckled at the thought, and then spoke at some length on the advance American poets, artists, painters, authors and song were making in the fame of the world. "When men inspire others, when they reach the spirit of their fellows," he added, "are not fossae things better than to supply steel to the nations Letters of regret were read from Joaquin.

Miller and William Winter. Joaquin Miller's letter was as folia Hail, fat King Ned! Hail fighting Ted! Great William! Grim Oorn Paul! But I'd rather twist Carnegie's That open hand In this hard Than shake hands with ye With recrets that New-York so far from Calllornia. and with Jove to you and yours. Other speakers wire MelvJl Dewey. director of the New-York State Library, who eulogized Mr.

Carnegie; Henry M. Leipziger. supervisor of free lectures of the New- York public schools; William T. Peoples, librarian of the Library; Edwin Markham. who spoke on A Word on Poetry." and Charles Bpragve Smith, manager of the People's Institute.

About six hundred pet sous were present. ERIT7.I VGER of ITTFD. BOER COMMANDER BEING WELL TREATED AP A PRISONER OF WAR. Lonflon. April A dispatch from Lord Kitch-.

ener dated from Pretoria says Commandant Kritzlnger. ho -as captured by General French at Hanover Road, Cape Colony, on December 17 -ast, and who has been tried by court martial f. rhar hav! ns committed four murders riTT.tlon train wrecking and cruelly to PrisonerF, has bc acquitted, and is being well treated as an ordinary prisoner of war. COMMANDANT ERASMUS KILLED. London.

April Kitchener reports that the Boer casualties during the engagements of March SI and April 1 were, at the lowest estimate, thirty men killed and eighty wounded. Erasmus was killed Boshof, Orange colony, on April 11. ADDITION TO FLEET. Santiago Chill. government will flMom" rr rt Pinto to Colombia for Panama, Colombia.

April Salazar has received a cable dixpatch announcing the Ing for of the gunboat Salumeh. recently purchased from Morocco. 1 Bt 'l fi SalanlPh Was -d. in by the Colombian Government from Morocco. ST 3S been Tanslcr her outfit.

The. Is a su-el vessel 229 feet mil Sunder na UIn un a ur FACES SET AGATXST PEACE. BOER REFUGEES IN HOLLAND STILL CRY FOR WAR. NEW FICTION DISPLACES OLD ILLUSIONS AS TO ENGLAND'S KRUEGER BROKEN DOWN. 1902: By The Association.) to Tribune by Frer.rh The Hague.

April There is little faith among the Boer sympathizers here that peace Is imminent in South Africa. Hearts are hardened in consequence of the conferences held here and at Utrecht, and the Boer envoys and refugees are asserting in a louder key than ever that the war will last four years longer, and that there can be no peace without independence. The credulity of the burghers in South Africa is matched by the assumption of their agents here that their deliverance is coming from England's foreign complications when there Is not a cloud In the sky. When the three Boer commissioners were sent to America it was assumed that a good case would be made out for an investigation of the military conduct of the war and the shipment of supplies of horses and mules from the United States would be prohibited. These illusions were dispelled when the delegates returned, but a new fiction has been supplied.

The Boer advocates are asserting that England is fatally embarrassed by her alliance with Japan, and will certainly be drawn Into a war of tremendous magnitude in the Far East. The Boer sympathizers are consequently justifying an Indefinite continuance of the guerilla warfare, and forcastlng the ultimate triumph of the cause of independence, when British troops cannot be spared from the larger theatre of European operations. There is. apparently, no limit to Dutch credulity 'when anti-English feeling is aroused. The Dutch were once the most astute neutrals In the world.

They are now the most aggressive partisans. When the Radical Government in power the ministers were honest enough to confess that the future of Holland might be Imperilled by the bitter hostility displayed against England. Some of them were frightened by the fact that Utrecht had become a base of operations against England, and that Mr. KrUger had brought to Holland what gold remained in the Transvaal treasury and was using it for the purpose of maintaining hostile operations and promoting foreign intervention. They wire charged with a lack of sympathy for the Boers when they asserted that the presence of Mr.

Kruger kept Holland In a state of excitement, and that it would be a good thing if he were to leave the country. Premier Kuyper's Conservative Government has been committed from the outset to a more active support of the Boer cause, but its bolt was shot when the Prime Minister vaguely suggested the experiency of granting the Boer agents a safe conduct to South Africa. Nobody supposes that he had a diplomatic errand to Berlin, or that he can do anything except to pose before the country as the active champion of the Boer en use. There are the strongest reasons for believing that Mr. Kruger and his associates have not been in direct communication for a long time the burghers fighting in the field.

Kriiger himsflf is old. enfeebled and worn, and takes little interest -n negotiations now in progress. His associates control -the action- of j.he. broken old man except in money matters. He retains a strong grip upon that which remains In the war chest.

F. ACCUSE BRITISH OF CRUELTIES. REPORTS OF GENERAL DELARET REFLECT ON LORD METHUEN. Liverpool, April former trooper of the Bosnveldt Carabineers, who has returned here. Is quoted at paying that the convicted Australian officers belonging to that corps, since disbanded, murdered from thirty-five to forty persona.

An an Instance of their coldbloodedness, the trooper relates how three Dutch brothers, ten and twelve years respectively. and their little arrived at the carabineers' camp to surrender, in order to get food. The girl and one of the hoys were wounded. The uninjured boy took his little brother on his back and was carrying him off, when a shot killed both boys. The shortly afterward.

Amsterdam. April The Boer bureau here has published a report which was sent last January by General Delarey to Mr. Kruger, and which is countersigned by Ignatius Ferreiro. the acting State Attorney. This report contain? numerous stories of alleged British atrocities, and is supported by affidavits.

Besides the general accusations of placing women as screens around the British camps, as a result of which practice many women are said to have been killed. General Delsrey gives specific instances, with names and dates, of the killing of wounded prisoners and women. He complains that, owing to Lord Methuen's persecution, his own wife, with six children, has been wandering on the veldt for the last year. General Delarey complains, also, that his mother, aged eighty-three years, was driven into Klerksdorp, after her cattle had been stolen and her house burned. Van der Iferwe, late Mining Commissioner of the Rand, now fighting under Delarey, a further list of atrocities, committed on women and children, to the report of General Delarey.

TO PUBLISH SriOX KOP DISPATCHES. ANNOUNCEMENT MADE ON THE REASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT. London. April The House of Commons reassembled to-day after the Easter recess. An early opportunity taken to press the government for information on the subject of the peace negotiations in South Africa, but the government leader, a.

J. Balfour, declared the ministers had nothing li. that connection to impart to the House. Answering a question about the General controversy, the War Secretary, Mr. Brodnck.

said that in view of the recent statement of Mr. Balfour It had been decided publish the papers and dispatches relating to the Spion Kop engagement forwarded to the War office by Lord Roberta. The order forbidding Geuei al Buller to publish the documents would not. however, be rescinded. Tllh: UPOTHEORIfi OF THE CAT.

RBGISTBB FOB TABBIHB IN BAT STATE- IIKI.I> TRIALA FOB MICE OOMB KBntT. IST nUKBtPH TIIK rEIErXE.J Boston. April 7. Th. Massachusetts cat to date hri'-- been Merely a beast.

It hns been born, has mewed on back fences, fought with its next doer neighbors, kept the rat census small, multiplied and Staired without having received the attention of n. but the period of legislative neglect is ever. ESeten Wlaaslow Is the mnfftrr of a movement Which Is likely to make her name illustrious if not Immortal. As reformer would have the cat licensed, like unto the animal's arch foe. the dog.

duly registered nnd compelled to wear collar with the owner's name thereon. A bill to that effect in In the lower house on Beacon Hill. and. despite the adverse report of a committee which said "Scat!" the entire body of statesmen to-day with a roof lifting "Aye" substituted the cat licensing measure for the hostile report. The coming debate on this reform scheme is expected to be the climax of the NEW-YORK.

TUESDAY. APRIL 8. 1902. FOURTEEN A ROOF HUNT IN SIXTH-AYE POLK'E AND ALX-EGED POOLROOM MKN CHASE AND DODGE, AND ENGINE WHISTLES BLOW. Captain PJieeban, of the West Thirtieth-st.

station, yesterday made another unsuccessful effort to make arrests in an alleged poolroom in the upper part of the Chimney Corner building, at the southeast corner of Slxth-ave. and Twentyfifth-st. Saturday nieht. when detectives entered the plnco. they found men toggr-d out in regalia chanting a Masonic hymn to the accompaniment of an organ which was much out of tun" They told the Invaders that the place was a lodgeroom, and ordered the police to withdraw.

When this was done, and while the officers were going downstairs, they heard the lodge members singing "Go 'Way Back and Sit The descent chimney Corner yesterday was spectacular, and the proceedings were seen by hundreds of shoppers. Twenty-flfth-Ft. was lined from Broadway to and the excitement for nenrly an hour was Intense. The hunt was playing hide and seek, and part of It was over rooftops. MAP SHOWING EAST SIDE SUBWAY RECOMMENDED BY JOHN M'DONALD.

Heavy black lines Indicate the subway now under construction. Dotted lines indicate routes proposed to tap the Kasr Side, and to relieve th- consequent congestion of the mala line at tbe Grand Central Station. If ap prepared by engineers under the personal supervision of Mr. McDonald. When the police reached the door leading to the upper part of the Chimney Corner the Jookout set the "hnsz" working, and the alleged gamblers took flight the rooftops.

The police followed. began the hunt, while Captain held the front of the building. The engineers on elevated road trains, seeing the excitement belcw. and not knowing that the police had caused it. sounded alarms from whistles as they passed, calling other policemen to the pee.no.

At last a couple of men were, found behind raptors were unable to connect them" 1 with the operatives of the alleged poolroom, and they were simply hustled to the street and freed. When Detective Buckridge, who Is a stout person, returned to the sidewalk, he appeared excited and chagrined. His hat was denied In and his clothing was covered with whitewash. He said that In his effort to pursue Ramblers he got wedged In a scuttle bole, and in Ing so blocked the open- Ing for fully a quarter of an hour. This compelled Policemen O'Connor and Matthews to come back to the street, and In the attempt to gain the roof had to get there by means of the house at No.

Twenty-flfth-at They had tried adjoining house. No. 47. but as a wake was being held there and stresmera of black crape were hanging from the doorbell, they decided not to. disturb the mourners.

The police are satisfied thnt there Is a pooiroom In th" Chimney Corner building, but thus far they ay been unable to set sufficient evidence against the place. MADDEN DISMISSED FROM FORCE. HE WAS ACCUSED OF POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH BLACKMAIL FIXED. Policeman Joseph .1 Ifadden. of Bldrldge-st rtation, my from the yesterday.

He was tried before Deputy Commissioner Thurston last week on charges of Lbsenting himself from duty without leave from March IT to March 22. and of marrying a daughter of the late Dollar" Smith when he already had a wife living. Madden was known in the precinct ns the "dandy boy cop," commissioner Partridge inflicted a fine of thirty days' pay on Policeman Patrick J. Reid who was accused "with Policeman Thomas A. Burke recently of trying to blackmail a saloonkeeper after making an excise arrest.

Burke was dismissed from the force some days ago. APPOINTMENTS TN ORDER ONLY. George McAneny, aecretary of ttie Civil Service Commission, yesterday issued -circular warning applicants for appointment as poilcemen persons pretonrtinp to be sble to secure appointment. The circular declares: The certification of names for appointment will be absolutely in order standing Not only no opportunity for securing appointmeni other means, but those relying upon other mean? apt to Injure their chances seriously adopting them. VOl JEKYLL-HYDE CAUGHT.

HONEST AS JEWELRY CLERK. THIEF A3 A MESSENGER BOY. Chicago, April it. In the guise of a messenger boy, made perfect by his clever of grease paint and hair dye. Ernes! R.

Erikson, the nineteenyear-old son of Mrs. Lawrence Erlkson. rt diamond merchant of Evanston, successfully victimised two downtown Jewelry firms. But for a due to his own carelessness he mluht have succeeded In one of most clover confidence games ever brought to tin attention of the Chicago police. Diamonds valued at were obtained by the youth, who.

aftr-r Intrusting them to friends, -til of whom were ignorant ot hia deception, boldly returned to his home and assumed his natural character as that of dirk In mother's store Detectives were already al the store trying to solve the mystery of. the dlsappearam the it-i-monds, and traces of grease paint and dye still on the boy's face and hair aroused suspiaioiu which led young Erikson's arrest and the discovery that for three daya had successfully played two roles Brikson at first stoutly denied the accusations against him, Qnally confessed and assisted the police In recovering all the stolen gems. THREE MORE OF VEGRO'B VICTIMS. ANOTHER NEGRO KILLED BECAUSE UK CURSED REYNOLDS'S SLAYERS. Tuacumbla, April Three of the men who were wounded In the with "Will" Reynolds, the negro whom the officers attempted t.i arrest near here yesterday morning, and who was killed only after a desperate struggle, have died from their wounds, and two others are not expected to live.

Sheriff Gassowny. P. A. Prout and Jesse Davis died 'art night. "Will" Oassoway and Payne, who were wounded, cannot survive.

Finney'a wound Is si'cht. Flonnce. Simpson, a negro. was killed as a result of yesterday's tragedy at Tuscumtila. Simpson went into a tiuteher shop and began to curse all the men who had participated in the kllllnK.

He was ordered out by a white rn HU named Walker. The negro refused to go. and struck Walker on the head with a hoard. Walker seized a butcher knife and hamstrung the negro in each leg, and cut off the thumb oT his right hand. The negro bled to death.

Walker surrendered to the authorities- WEST END JOINS CAR FIGHT ASSOCIATION TO SUPPORT EFFORT TO CORRECT ARISE. ITS GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE TO trO-OPERATE WITH TUB TRIBUNE AND THE CITY IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY. Another society has joined Tbe Tribune in Its effort to get a proper city ordinance regulntine; the cab service of this city. At a meeting of the West End Association last night resolutions were introducod and unanimously passed pledging the support of that organisation to The Tribune and the City Improvement Society 1n their efforts to obtain better cab regulations. These resolutions, which were offered by C.

Pumpelly. read ns follows: Whereas, this association heartily approves of the efforts being made by The New- York Tribune and the City Improvement Society to regulate improve the cab service of this city: therefore, le It Resolved. That the Grievance Committee be empowered to co-operate with The New-Torfe Tribune, the Improvement Society and Alderman Herbert Parsons, and if possible have such an ordinance passed by the Board of Alder- men as will bring about this greatly desired reform. Already The Tribune, lias been assured of the hearty co-operation of City Marshal Brown, who expressed himself strongly in these columns recently Public sentiment ha.i been deeply stirred of late by the large number of gross violations of city ordinances by cabman. Only last night a Tribune reporter caw a flagrant violation of the city ordinance by one of these j'abnifn.

At the Bowery and a crowd of people had gathered, awaiting a car. Presently a carriage drove up at full speed and the driver charged through the crowd with utter recklessness, A woman who had just iff a passing car was struck by the pole of the carriage and knocked under the hoofs. The driver was stopped and pulled from his seat by Indignant bystanders, and it was discovered that be had no number on his carriage. He refused to give his name, although his passengers declared he was a public hackman. and.

as the woman was not seriously injured, he was allowed to proceed. Such recklessness could come only from the assurance that he would not. in case of an accident, lose his license, as his number could not be taken. This Incident furnishes a fair example of the utter disregard, either for the city ordinance or the public safety, which characterizes the cabmen at present time, and serves to emphasize: the need of ordinances sufficiently stringent to Impress on the cabmen the necessity observing them. LABOR CANDIDATE VICTORIOUS IX CITY'S ELECTIONS Hartford, April 7.

Organized labor won victory in Hartford to day. following the example of Bridgeport and Ansonia, they have elected a Mayor of the city. They captured the Democratic nomination, ami their man. Ignatius A. Sullivan, received the solid vote practically of the trades unionists.

Up received 6,630 to 6.134 'or Major William B. Dwlgbt, the Republican nominee. The Republicans succeeded In electing a majority of Common Council. Sullivan's majority of 305 votes waa a surprise to many of the friends of Major Dwight, who expected him to receive enough votes from the dissatisfied Democrats to offsei the defection of Republican workingmen. The labor pt-uple paraded the streets, and there is great rejoicing among them.

Mr Sullivan has ri clerk in a clothing store. He waa "ne of the leaders in the organisation of the clerks' few years ago, and this union affiliated with the central Labor Union. He has been ever since a leader among the workingmen. He has been presideni of the Hartford Central Labor Union, and Is serving h's second tersa as presideni of the State Federation of Labor. He haa lived in Hartford for seven years.

BUTCHERS FIGHT MEAT TRUST. PIITT.AnKr.PIHA DEALERS WILL TRY TO GET STATE AID TO ASSIST THEM. TEI'ECRAPH TJ TIIK TP.IBUNR] Philadelphia. April 7. -The retail meat dealers of Philadelphia have to fight the beef trust.

They Hssert that within the joist'; ten years the price on all grades of hits been almost doubled, and they say that the trust is responsible for it. There are two classes of local meat dealers who have grievances agiilnst the Western linns -those who do their own butchering and make a speclalty of Philadelphia dressed beef and the proprietors of the meat stores who handle Westerd meat? almost exclusively. The former hive three' protective West Philadelphia Stock Yards Association, the Philadelphia Live Stock Association and the Wholesale Butchers' Association. The retail dealers have now organized an association which la known as the Retail Merchants' Alliance. This organization proposes to make a stand against the trust, and will meet on Wednesday night to map out plans for the campaign There are three hundred retail meat stores already in the alliance and their proprietors say that beef is weighed in Chicago, and they pay according to the Chicago weight, despite the fact that there is considerable shrinkage in transit.

Local that is. the men who do their own say that the greatest trouble is that the trust not only controls the retailer, but seeks to sell to the consumer as well. In proof of this it is alleged that the trust sells direct to several of the large hotels, boarding houses, hospitals and other Institutions In this city. In this way the trust has already driven many of the smaller butchers out of. business, and is steadily encroaching upon the retail market.

They also agree that the trust Is responsible for the increase in prices. The only remedy they can see is the passage of some law by the legislature that will prevent institutions receiving a State appropriation from buylug thing froii any of the concerns in the trust. M'DONALD FOR EAST SIDE RAPID TRANSIT CONTRAi TBJXKS LFXIXGTOX-AYE. WOULD BE TIIK BEST WOULD TAKE THE WORK ON TIIK PRESENT TERMS After careful consideration of The Tribunes proposition for an East Side subway. John B.

McDonald, contractor for the rapid transit subway system, gave out a statement yesterday In which he warmly indorsed such a plan Mr. McDonald furthermore consented OOtfkM what he considered the most practicable route for such an extension of the present rapid transit system, and embodied his recommendations in a map. which was drawn under his personal darectton, nnd which is reproduced this morning in The Tribune The route for an East Side subway, according to Mr. McDonald, should be r. long I.exsuch lngton-ave.

Its northern end should connect with the eastern branch of the present rapid transit road at One-hundred-and-forty-nlnth-st. and and its lower connection with the main line should be either at Forty--. St. or Fourteenth-st. Mr.

McDonald said that if a subway were built in Broadway from Union Square to Long Square which would permit the operation of subway trains through such a connecting link, thereby economizing: time In the Harlem and Bronx express service, he would recommend that the East Side subway connect with the main line at Forty-second-st. and Park-aye. If. on the other hind, authority to build a Broadway subway could not be obtained. Mr.

McDonald would recommend that the East Side subway extend as far south as Union Square, passing under Gramercy Park and through Irving Place Such a connection would relieve the congestion which would otherwise arise at the Grand Central Station in case both East and West Side trains were run northward on the same tracks as far as this point. READY TO RID IT. After commenting on the fact that traffic of a subway to the east of Central Park would be exceedingly heavy and eventually prove p. nsset to th-- city. Mr McDonald made Important statement that he would bid for construction of such an extension, if contract were drawn or tli" same linos as that for the present subway route.

it has been conceded by all the Interests involved In of Jhe present rapid transit scheme that all it Is Mr. McDonald who holds the key to the construction of any extension of the system, the announcement of the contractor thai he favors an East Side route and ready to bid for the work Is of the most fari reaching Importance. In order to secure .1 har! monious operation of an East Side route in conjunction with the main line It is clear that Fame interests should build and operate both. Mr. McDonald furthermore emphasized the point, which has been made by The Tribune from the beginning; that all the preliminary work should be done at once, so that when the city Is able to pay for the building of the road construction may begin without delay.

Accordingly, he said the Rapid Transit Commission should authorize as soon as possible Investigations by its engineers, from which care- i ful estimates and plans could be prepared and on which the consent of property owners could be obtained. Serious delay, he added, had ali ready occurred in beginning the construction I of the line from the City Ball to Brooklyn, it was fully authorized. question of an East Side subway aim all be taken up and thoroughly thrashed continued Mr. McDonald. "Now Is the time for discussion, bo that there will be no del.iv.

An East Side subway Is an absolute necessity, and as Ions: as action is postponed in regard to it the best interests of the city are suffering. I am heartily in favor of what The Tribune has done to bring this subject before the public, and invite general discussion. ALWAYS IN FAVOR OF IT. "From the very beginning I have been In favor of an East Side branch of the subway, for I saw the need of rapid transit in this greatly congested part of the city. The present system, as a matter of fact.

Is not complete without such a branch, which, in my opinion, should consist of three tracks, so as to offer these the fastest kind of an express service. "All that Is necessary to show the demand for rapid transit east of Central Park Is compare the population in this part of the with that on the "West Side. Such a compari- son has already been made in The Tribune, and it has shown that above flirty annual at i the people without rapid transit facilities are nearly two hundred thousand in excess of these who will be benefited by the present Improvement. "The preponderance of travel on the elevated and surface lines of the East Side, as has also been shown in The Tribune, at once demoni srratea the great earning capacity which such air East Side branch would possess. And as the road would eventually pass Into the possession of the city the revenue which then flow Into the public treasury would be enormous.

If the contract be let on the same terms as the present contract the city would not be out a single cent, but would simply extend its credit for the time being. "I understand that the city would not be able at once to issue bonds for the construction of i PRICE THREE CENTS. a subway, for the reason that the debt limit stands In the way. But I do not see why the debt limit should prevent all the preliminary work from being done The Rapid Transit Commission has power. I understand, to take such preliminary steps, such as making surveys, preparing plans and obtaining the consent of property owner a before the city I thorities take action and the city 13 committed to the Issuance of bonds.

AN EXAMPLE OF DELAT. "An example of the delay which is entailed by waiting until the rlty Is able to undertake thn work and to issue bonds is seen In the prea-nt status of the Brooklyn extension scheme. The Rapid Transit Commission passed resolution.3 year ago in favor of such a feeder to present system, but there has been no tlsement for bids on work. Now. If the preliminary work, had been got out of the way first, bids could have been advertised for as soon the city authorities voted for the Improvement." "What route on the East Side would you favor.

Mr. McDonald?" was asked. "The question is too broad a to answer definitely, Inasmuch as the situation must be looked over from several points of view." was the answer. "Personally. I have always thought that I.exinston-ave.

offered the most suitable route. It penetrates the East Side very near its centre, and by tunnelling under the Harlem River it can be? extended into The Bronx to connect with the eastern branch of the present route ii Third-aye. and By this me the people of upper extern cart el The Bronx will get faster service to the southern end of Manhattan, and. consequently the congestion of the main line in; upper Broadway "nil be considerably les-5-nM. "The sou nets cassssctlmi of an East subnay could made at either ore of two points.

If subway in Broadway from Union to Arrp Square cannot be built in the near future I should favor 'nlon Square as fas point of connection. According to IMs plan the subway would be brought raington-ave, Oramerey Park and under park Into Inrtasj Flare. The route -wonM be tiara Irving P'nce to where the road turn to Iks east and connect with main Tine. CONVENIENT FOR PASSEXGER3. "Passeneers trom the New-York Central --l the -York.

New-Haven Hartford ratlroads was might desire to utilize such an East Side could board its trains at a station at Forty-set at and vMe) would be easily accessible as soon as the terminal at the Grand Central Station si constructed for suburban service. Thus it would I possible for these passengers to board the subway trains by simply stepping 1 across a platform. "An Irving Place i-onneetion would relieve the main lines of the subway between Fourteenth-st. and Forty-second-st. There is no doubt in my mind that as Ins tunnel is bei-ijf built at present the service in this section will be considerably congested.

If. in addition, an East Side feeder should empty into the main line at this congestion would increased. If. on the other hand, the main Una was tapped at Fourteenth-st. the congestion at Forty-second-st.

would to a great degree be relieved. "Connection at Forty-second-st. with the East Side branch has been favored by William Bari lay Parsons, chief engineer of the Rnpid Transit Commission, and the subway tracks In Fourth-aye. between Thirty-eighth-st. and have been built especially to permit the eastern subway to branch off at this point.

Such a scheme has many features to recommend it. and meets with my personal approval if, a subway could be built in Broadway between Union and Long Acre squares. Such a connecting link in the present system is. to ray mind. Indispensable.

means of it the time for express trains to Harlem would be reduced several minutes and the congestion at the Grand Central Station would be greatly relieved. If. however, authority for subway in middle Broadway cannot be obtained, the East Side subway should join the main lin at ITnion Square." "Should such an Side subway be constructed of two or more tracks?" asked The Tribune reporter. construction of a two track road through this part of the city would be a very shortsighted policy." was the prompt answer. "A two track road would have iittl-- to recommend It over" the elevated lines.

What the want of an line is rapid transit, and they can't get it with a two track road, on which ii would be necessary stop trains at short intervals. By the construction of a threes track road an express service which would be almost equal to that of a four track system could be afforded the public. The reason for this that the rush traffic is south in the morn- Ing and north in the evening." The New-York Central announces a number of first class excursions to St. Paul. Colorado.

Utah. California. Oregon and Yellowstone Park, at very low rates. Itineraries now ready. Call at ticket offices or address M.

C. Roach. 1.216 Broadway. Advt..