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AGAINST THE HARLEM SPEEDWAY PLAN
To the Editor OF The Tribune


To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Mayor Glroy and the wealthy horse-owners
or New-York City have decided to saddle upon the
taxpayers Of New-York expense OF from 81 900
to SWO.VO to build speedway along the Harlem
River. not for the people as a whole for the pro-
jectors OF this speedway have been fighting against
giving the public walk along the rver-front from
the start This speedway Is one OF the great schemes
of Tammany for the benefit solely OF Tammany
politicians and their friends who own and are able
10 own fast horses. and for Tammany contractors
VINO can make money Gut OF building this projected
speedway. Ihere Is nothing-no public work since
the days of Tweed-that has so much money in Il
Tor Tammany Hall az the building OF this speed
way. 1t is public work that Is wholly uncalled
FOR 1t Is an outlay OF millions that every taxpayer
and citizen outside OF the millionaire
should oppose. Three million dollars 10 build this
Harlem speedway means Increase In the rents
Tor every man who has to hire a house. store or
rooms to live In.
When the people OF New-York have parks laid
out already within the city limits which still re-
main unimproved. and around which the owners of
adjacent property have been heavily assessed Il
seems almost criminal that our city officials should
want to spend millions OF the public money for this
useless and inaccessible speedway Look ut River
side Park from Seventy-ninth-st to Grants Tomb.
Let the people OF New-York have a voice in spend
ing the money for public works and they would
SPEAK III manner not to be misunderstood. Finish
our beautiful Riverside Park and Drive which has
cost millions and which has also cost the adjacent
property hundreds Of thousa nds OF dollars
l do not suppose 1t Is possible at this late hour to
say ehytning mat VIII prevent the building OF this
Iaininahy Iiai speedway But IL the labor unions
or New-iork CITY and the public as a whole will
demand mat our Riverside Park be beautlfed and
fora ny ana Ks citizens will realize within the
next TWO years that there Is within the easy reach
Oh merry very man woman and child the most
oeauui ana attracuve pleasure ground In the world
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FOR A vIADUCT AROUND THE CITY.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Would 1t not be practicable to build viaducts
Of stone masonry around city. along river
fronts? These could be built with pretty and con-
venient entrances to our wharves. and have them
broad enough for four tracks; then have system
Of branches at central points, at Thirty-fourth
and Forty-second SITS. The rentals from the stores
and warehouses underneath would pay the interest
on the investment, which would necessarily be
large. With such structures we would have speed
safety and ornamentation of the city, and to
durability, compared 10 our present roads, they
would be as Gibraltar to a bank OF sand With the
multitude of unemployed men, not only In the city
and vicinity, but throughout the land, and with an
abundance of material accessible, 1t would be an op-
perfume time 10 construct such roads, providing
charter could be procured. A. H. S.
New-York, Jan. l. 1894.
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CHANCE FOR AN EMPHATIC VERDICT.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

Sir: The editorial comments on Andrew Carneeie's
letter the tariff. and the article XIII the Will
BILL" by X. c. Horn. have just the right ring
to them. That Wilson bill. passed in any form II
will likely to be passed by the present Congress
will be the ruin Of many industries and will benefit
OF every Republican In and out OF Congress The
election for Congressmen In the XIyth and XVIII
those districts alone but every district in the city
and State should send their best speakers to adj
house house canvass Of every voter should Be
had. and special efforts to have the workingmen
of those districts know what this election means
for them should be made. II this is done, Repub-
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has made such claim for him. but we are all VIII
ing TO agree with De Lancey Nicoll that Or; rhIrh
hurst In his great work has displayed zeal OF wnicn
St paul need not have been ashamed and In regard
to which we may be sure the words OF Christ Apply
JAMES V. CHALMERS.
Lonsdale, r. l., Jan. G, 1894
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torchlights and banners In all the principal streets
in the districts will make many voters. Cant y DC
done? II. r. NJ
New-York. Jan. o. 1891.
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AN INCOME TAX REWARDS Ip1.ENEss.
To the Editor of The Tribune

AN INCOME TAX REWARDS IDLENEss.
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: There Is one striking objection to the pro-
posed income tax which an surprised not to have
seen noticed by any OF its opponents. Under the
proposed income tax. persons would be rewarded
FOR idleness- Those who improved their property
would have TO pay an extra tax for their Industry
and enterprise, while their neighbor who did moth
Ing would get his property enhanced in value by
his neighbours thrift and industry, and would es-
cape taxation because his property was not bring
Ing In any income.
1t seems to me that fair tax would be a tax
on corporations. tax ground rents and n tax
on the selling value OF lots where the rent derived
from them Is less than fair interest upon such
selling value. NJ. r. LEVERSON NJ d.
New-York, JAM g. 1894.
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Sir: Please don't let UP the cable roads until
they adopt continuous warning. In PHILADELPHIA the
have a bell attached to the axle which give
constant warning. Our cars sound the gong when
they run over YOU. ~ A d. HOPE
New-York, Dec. g. 1893
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For Boys and Young Men-City
II UNIVERSITY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ~ IVES, Bsth.sA
5ih Prepares for colleges scientific schools Or
business Primary department Four pupils received
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Qearhers.

A MEXICAN AND FOREIGN TEACHERS AGENCY
"A supplies Professors Tea chers Tutors, Goy W.
~ Mrs NJ. J. YOUNG-FULTON. % Union square
A GENCY Miriam Coyriere supplies tutors. professors
"A teachers gove-nesses etc. in all depts reconmsnus
schools TO parents. 100 oth-ave, book d Iains, @ ~
r INSTRUCTION IN FRENCH-Private lessons IN con-
i yersation, grammar and Literature 49,. x,,. 49,,
's'' CASTOR DOUAY 21e West 44th-st
POSITION desired in gentemans family or prSxa.
Il school by Young English lady: experienced teacner
several years in France; advanced English subjects, n.vns
French music pianiso drawing Latn Nsr' Ti,nns
UPTOWN Ofice, 242 Broadway.
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Musical Instruction.
NJ ETROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF MUSIC.
Nl LEADING MUSICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
Residence department for nonresident students DUDLEY
BUCK. Pres; Albert Ross Parsons vice-Pres.: H. W.
Greene Secy and Treas.
10 & 81 EAST 14TH-ST.. NETWORK.
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For Both SeXes--Cit

For Both Sexes--City
p. BERCY'S SPECIAL SCHOOL. OF
~ LANGUAGES,
80 West 42d-st. opposite Bryant Park.
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Brooklyn.

THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SEMINARY. Boarding
1 and Day School for Girls: 43d opens Sepefnbet
IS l3S-i40 Montaguest. Brooklyn. n. Y.
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QERLIrZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
- - Madison Square (25th-st. and Broadway.
Term begins
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Danelns Arabemlcs.

IryANDrR MACGREGOR'S Mendelssohn Assembly
"A rooms los West 5Jth-s Private lessons ana eiaSs
in dancing.
= FORGE H. wALLACES Dancing Glasses az mu ~
N Hall 57th-st and 7th-avc.. and Harlem
Wallaces Classes 50 and So West l26h-s see cilcu.
r, EO f. WALTER. lately returned from sv LIE
II Glasses and private Lessons IN SOCIETY D" '
128 Columbus ave. SOth and Slst SITS
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HOW M. r. DIVER WON 100000.
Clever Ruse by Which He Misled Betters
on tho New York Election.

Clevcr Ruse by Which Ha Misled BetteFs
on tho New York Election.
Betting men have been discussing the
clever ruse by which Michael Il. Dryer,
the turfman and plunger, misled the
hosts OF spectators and won7a fortune
on the election of Levi P. Morton as
governor of New York, say the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Sun. For three weeks past it has been
announced daily, both in New York
and Washington, that Mr.. Dwyer was
anxious to wager $50, 900 or upwards,
at odds of / to ?, that David b. Hill
would be the next governor of New
York state, and BETTING Commissioner
Joseph II. Nendig, better known
as "Gircn'ar joe kept the bet.
ting fraternity in a state OF
panic. Nobody could hear of much
money being placed by Mr.. Dwyer'a
agent, and it was generally believed
tina the republicans feared that The
turfman, whoi is one of Richard Croker's
closest, If not his most intimate, per.
sonat friends, knew something or had
some pointer, such rs he had when he
and his friend Croker won 500, 900 on
Cleveland in 1892.
Three days before election u dispatch
from Washington announced that MIR.
Dwyer was burning with the desirc to
back Hill to the extent of $40. 900 Ia
100000, and the New Workers were
implored to send on some of the Doodle
which the Wall street syndicate had
Hooded the metropolis with. On Satur-
day morning Col. John A.. Bennett of
Parkville, who is i'll Washington at
tending the races, received u commits
sion to bet 500, 900 against
$4,000 of the Dwyer money,
but the commission expired at noon,
and although Bennett hunted the cap
ital high and low, he could not catch
the turfnlan. Vending and his en-
ployer We're prominent in the corridors
OF the st. james and Gilscy house on
Monday, but it was remarked that not
much of Dryers money went up on
Hill, most of the money placed by
Vending being bet against the passage
of the amendments to the constitution.
Yesterday evening, when tho election
returns came in, showing that Hill had
been overwhelmingly beaten, much
sympathy was expressed for Dwyer,
whose season on the turf has been
the most disastrous he has ever en-
countered, and his losses on the
election We're footed up to reach
Mt least $50, 900. 1t was learned
beyond the shadow of a doubt that Mr..
Dwycr not only Won on tse election
but hat his gains foot up fully $50, 900.
All of the money placed on Morton by
lobe Wall and the Pinkerton. and by
three or four Wall street ulen was his,
aud the Wall street syndicate who took
the Morton end of the bets at almost
any odds vas none other than Dwyer,
who was backed by a well known New
York republican. Vendig was merely
blutfing in an cndeavor to hold the
market while the other agents got the
cream of the market. 1t is not known
whether Mr.. Dwyer had any partners
in he deal. but as Mr.. Croker had half
of his wager on Cleveland in 1892, and
us the men are the frlnest friends and
nre practically partners in the racing
business, it is only natural 70 infer that
the one time leader of Tnmmuny had u
portion of the risk.
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A FAMILY FIGHT.
The Chicago Board of Trade Is rreparin,

nc ShicaBo BOARD OF irade Is Ireparini
Tor One.
r,r,,oo NJ 20 r,.
onicAao' Nov -ine ooaf" o.
trade Is ABOUT to ensage in another
hose beautiful family fights which nf
ford so much entertainment to the com
munlty at large. Not satisfied with
the partial success of the crusade
against the elevator combine which re
suited in a reduction of 3 conts pei
busrcl IN annual storage charges on
grain, the powerful grain receiving ele
ment on change is moving to still fur
ther Cypress warehouse men. A few
weeks ago the receivers set on foot a
scheme for building the first of a chair
of steel elevators, with which they On
pect to buck tho old combine on its own
ground and break ii downin the open
field of free competition for business.
But that is It slow process, and the mul.
titude Of small grain men are laiua-
tient. Honce the desire on their unrb
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FORTUNE R o A ROSE.


How the Famous American Beauty Was
Discovered by ii Gardener.
Here is a pretty interesting story
about the origin of that most beautiful
OF fovers, the American Beauty rose.
The late Hon. George Bancroft. be-
sides being n historian and scholar,
was II of the first amateur rose grow
ers in America. Every year he
imported cuttings from the lead
ing flower growers of Europe. The
king OF Prussia, when old Kaiser Will
lam was king. allowed the American
historian to have a slip of whatever he
might fancy in tho royal co~nserva,or-
les. Mr.. Bancrott's gardener used to
cultivate some of his roses in an old
house away out on Il, or perhaps it
was G street, above Twenty-second
street. in the west end of Washington,
d. G. Mrs. Grant had II florist named
Field in charge of the white house con-
s~ervatory. He was u rose grower of
rare merit and skill in his artistic
work.
One day he happened into the old
building where Mr.. Bancroft's gardener
potted his plants and budded his roses.
Over in a corner lie observed a rose of
Il variety utterly unknown to him and
of wonderful size and perfection in
form and color. "NThere did this come
fronP" he carelessly inquired of his
rose growing confrere. "Oh. it is an
otfshoot from some cuttings we inn
ported from Germany" the man re-
piled. 1t wa evident to Mr.. Field that
the other did not in the least co,npre.
bend the value of the new plant. After
some talk Mr.. Field bought the
cuttings he had seen for S.. A year
thereafter, when he had propagated
his new purchase and become con
WINGED that he had u new and very val
liable variety of rose, which he named
the American Beauty, he sold his find
for 5000, the most wonderful result
of the Investment of IS on record. To
follow hir luck Il littlo further Mr..
Field invested his easily earned SIS, 900
in lands near Washington, which in II
little less than three years were sold
for $50, 00o. Truth is sometimes
stranger than fiction.-Raltimorc
Herald.
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IOWA E

iewa Delegates to antioption Convention
DIES MONIES, Nov. IL. - Governor
Jackson Saturday appointed twenty
seven delegates from Iowa to attend
the a%ntioption convention, to be held
at Vicksbnrg, Miss, November 20. The
object of the convention is to urge upon
the United States senate the passage of
the Hatch bill or some like measure for
the suppression of gambling in staple
products. The delegates appointed are:
A. w. Swain. Oskaloosa: Charles Ill.
Martin, Des Moines; Il. II. Walnen,
Allerton; M. j. Kelly, Williamsburg; d..
g. Chaser, Dubuque: b. r. Vale, Bona
pnrte: j. p. Manntrey, Fairfield. John
A. Evans, West Liberty; Bruce II. Sea-
man, Dayenport; j. L. Merry, Manches-
ter; q. M. Miller, Hazelton; Daniel
%Sheehan, Usage; Simon Rustad, North
wood; A. N. Poyneer, Montour; John L.
Hamilton, Cedar Rapids: John voor-
hees, Osknloosa; ID. w. Norris, Grinnell,
r. c. Webb, Des Moines; John Forester.
Abel; L. j. Gault. Cincinnati; j. b.
Harsh, Creston; John Hays, Red Oak;
w. b. Martin, Greenfield; $. Burnquist.
Dayton; John G. Smith, Algonn; Dam
lei Campbell, onawa. w. w. Field,
.DIebOlt.
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STREET CAR MAIL SERVICE.
The Now System lnaugurated in
Pittsburg Today.
Put In Operation at $ O'Clock This Morn
lnE-Enriicr Deliveries and Later
Malls Among the Adyan-
tages of the Plan.

~PITTsBURe, Pa. Nov. L -The new
md novel electric street railway mail
service for the city of Pittsburg was
inaugurnted today. The first branch
OF the proposed system was put i'll
operation on the main line of the Du
Quesne Traction company, between
the MUM city p~ostofiice and sta
ton A, East Liberty. The first cni
carrying the United States mail under
the contract left the Fourth avenue en-
trance of the government building at &
o'clock this morning.
The schedule calls for fourteen dis
patches from the main Office and eleven
dispatches into the main Office, aside
from two directly to and two directly
from trains at the East Liberty station
of the Pennsylvania railway.
The advantages derived are many,
the greatest OF which are earlier dc.
l~iyeries and later mails.
So Jar today the new arrangement
has worked admirably. The system
will soon be extended to ali branch
postoffices of Pittsburg, Alleghency
and adjacent towns reached by the
electric line.
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That BOND ISSUE STORY.
Nobody at the Treasury Knows
Anything About 1t.
No Preparations Made in tho Mechanical,
Department for such d Move
Reiteration Seems to BE Its
Firm Foundation.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1a.--In the abb
sonee of President Cleveland, Secretary
Carlisle and other membsrs OF the cab
met IN Philadelphia today there
is a dearth of news in the treasury de-
partment about the alleged contem-
plated bond issue. There is. however,
much gossip, which, in the absence
OF positive information, is being
passed around. No treasury official
today is willing to be quoted as to q
prospective bond issue. The truth of
the matter is That they know no more
about it than the general public. None
OF the mechanical preparations for a
bond Issue are being made in the bu-
reaus where such preparations would
originate. Nevertheless, by constant
repetition the statement is gaining
ground that the Issue will be made.
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5000 PEOPLE MURDERED.
Kurds Reported to Have Destroyed TWEEN
ty-iive Armenian Villages.

Kurds Reported to Have Destroyed Twen-
ty-iise Armenian Villages.
LONDON, Nov. IA dispatch to the
Daily News from Constantinoplc says
1000 Armenians, including women and
children, are reported to have been mas
,acred in the Sassoun region, near
Moosh, Turkish Armenia, during a re-
cent attack by Kurds. Twenty-Five viii
lagos were destroyed. Turkish officials
%teclare the report is not true and that
1t grew out of the suppression OF u small
uprising in the region in question.
What 1t Cost to BE Defeated in New York.
New York, Nov. l2.-Of NIL the an
aidates Mt the election of November t
who have thus far filed their expense
accounts William Sohmer, Tammnny's
nominee for sheriff, spent the most
money. 1t cost Mr.. Sohmer $4,000 to
be defeated. OF this amount he spent
54,S19 for Autographs and printing: for
stationery, clerk hire and circulars,
$500; Tammany hall got So, 600; Sl,e5s
went for postage; for pastors ana letter
writing he spent 81,@s4; for advertising
N periodicals, sofa; for cab hire, S210;
Tor kilograms, SIC; for expressage, $50;
ear fare, S3s and for wagons and
drivers, gas.
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Rice Planting in Japan.

The people were busy putting out
their young rice plants, and the fields
were full OF men and women, wearing
their "kasa" and straw coats, oiled pa
per, rush mats. or other contliyances to
keep off the rain, and working in mud
and water halfway up to their knees.
1t is surely the dirtiest and most labor
ious form of agriculture; the work is
almost entirely done by manual labor
with a spade and a heavy four-pronged
rake, though l occasionally saw a COW
or a pony, with . little matched roof on
its back to shoot off the rain, dragging
a sort of harrow through the mud. As
soon as the spring crop of barley or
rape-seed'is garnered and hung up to
dry. the ground is trenched with the
spade, and water is turned over it Until
it has become n soft slush, which Is
worked level with the rake.
The young rice plants, grown thick
together in nursery patches, arc pulled
up when the fields are ready for plant
ing, their roots are washed and they
are tied in bundles, which are thrown
into the mud and water; then the men
| and women wade in, unite n bundle,
and set the seedlings in lines by just
pressing them with their fingers into
the mud. They do this wonderfully
quickly, and can plant eight or nine in
a row without moving from their places;
when the field is all planted it looks
like a pond with II delicate green haze
over it. The dividing banks are plant
ed with beans or other vegetables, SO
that not a yard of ground is wasted.
This was the 18th OF June, the damp,
clammy heat of the dew month" just
beginning a period very encouraging
to all vegetation, but full of discomforts
for the traveller, and especially for the
landscape-painter.
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WILSON is NOT DISCOURAGED
Tariff Reform, Not in Disgrace with tho
People.

st'io AASioi VI ANtb Ah Jas EhCc ttlln ING
People.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-In a letter to
the Press from Washington, Hon. w.
l.. Wilson of West Virginia gives his
views of the causes of the democratic
defeat in the recent election. Mr.. VIII.
son says:
81 do not believe the people rcbuked
or discarded tariff reform III their
action last Tuesday, for when ] look
over the whole country / do not find
that to have been the com
mon ground of their action.
No question was ever SO we'll
and SO thoroughly fought out in popu-
lar discussion before them ms the cues
ton of reforming and reducing the tar
III In every campaign from that OF
1886 to that of 1892 it has been the
great issue and in every campaign ex-
cept tibet of 1888 the democratic party
won "a decided victory on that
issue. Ii the people inflicted
t~hastisement because OF its dealings
with the tariff, it has been rather that
the party did not carry out with suf-
hclent promptness and thoroughness
the work they committed to it, and be-
cause OF the action of n few of its rep
| re~sentatives in. thwnrting, delaying
apd 1hiiimfng this great work.
! tariff reform, as in reforms gen
orally, it Is the first. step that is the
hardest. BY 1895. fet US hope the pres
lent clouds, already breaking. will have
vanished from our skies. The new bill
Will thsnasliow its merits; the tempo
rary scare and resentment against it
VAL nave spent their force. and / do
not believe tho republican program
VII call for its repeal and a relapse to
McKinleyism."