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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
oPEN-AIR GYMNAsInN.
Plans for n Playground In the East River Parlz
Laid Before tho Park Board.

Plans for n Playground In the East River Parlz
Laid Before tho Park Board.
A committee composed of Barlow 8. Weeks,
J. F. Harder. R. Z. McBurney, Frederic n,
Pratt. Paul r. Reynolds, and Louis weide,
represented to the Park Commissioners yester.
day the necessity of taking another and larger
plot than the one selected in the East River
Park for the proposed open.air gymnasium. ID
submitted plans and diagrams for a play
ground to accommodate 500 children between
8 :ane 16 years old at any one time, girls and
boys being admitted on alternate days. There
are to be an expert superintendent and assist
ant superintendent as teachers, and outside of
their salaries the cost of the whole plant is es-
timated at only 50, 800. with scarcely any ex-
pense for maintenance. All apparatus Is to
be fixed and permanent.
The plan provides for high and broad jumps,
hop, skip and jump, horizontal and paral-
lei bars. vaulting bucks, perpendicular, in.
clined, and horizontal ladders, pole and rope
climbing, and travelling rings. Besides these
are two circles, each twenty eight feet in
diameter, for concerted games Of all kinds,
The proposed site is on the lawn near Avenue
b, on the line OF Eighty.eighth street, south Of
the house In the park. The committee repre-.
sented the Amateur Athletic Union Of the
United States, the Turner societies of the city,
the Athletic. League of the Y. NJ. c. A., the
association for the Advancement of Physical
Education. the lnterscholastic Athletic Asso-
citation, and the Social Reform Club.
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To THE EDITOR OF The sUS--Sir: Your article OF
to-day on Mayor Strong nts exactly my ideas as 10
this eccentric, unreliab.s man.
Hhe has any impression that after the LIST OF Jan.
uary next his opinions about anything will have any
especial weight In this community. he will nud him.
self mistaken. No Mayor ever had a fsirer chance
to achieve greatness than he has had. Three years
with the brightest hopes. He ends his career In a
dismal failure. "~
Indeed, II Is the truth to say that everything Mayor
htronH says or does &c ms to he Just the opposite OF
the right thing II 10 some satisfa ton 10 Us poorer
fellows 70 note, taking hlm As an example, that al
the wisdom OF this world 10 NOT centred In men who
are able TO ontstrP US 10 the race for wealth.
He has proven himself TO be an Ignorant pIE.headed
obstinate, yet validating. man, and there is lust a.
much chance OF his ever coming 70 the surface agaIn
In public Affairs a. there IL Of Julius CSsHr's reap
psaTancs. FR
hEW YoaK. Dec. IA
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whom the Government keeps under pay,
but the Captains 80 retired by selection
will receive the rank and pay Of the grade
next above. Again, sixteen vacancies must
occur annually among the Commanders and
twenty-five among the Lie~utenant.C om-
anders or else In each grade as many as
four may be chosen for retirement, to pro-
cure the required number, while thirty
hve inc are the number fixed for the
beutenants. Then there lie to be q grading
OF pay like that OF the army, and voluntary
retirement of officers with the next highest
grade after thirty years service, 30 that,
on the whole, with the readjustment Of
number In the various grades, the amount
OF $780, o a year extra. under this plan,
for paying the navy, seems a very moderate
estimate.
The bill too, provides for adding 0 war
rant machinists with pay Of from 81, 200 to
Yl,4oo year. This provision Is In accord
ance with the urgent desire Of Chief En-
gineer for q larger engineering
force on the ships, his request being that
the hundred should be Assistant Engineers.
or course, such an increase would represent
additional numerical strength on the active
AouuiOiOuhl SOoo " WIG ooN-
eminent for the same number of active
officers, as In some other changes proposed
by the Roosevelt board. But the total
result Is to propose increases Of expense.
Secretary LONG, too, wants a Thousand
more enlisted men, and that will add much
to the cost of the personnel.
Yet the friends of the project seem hope
full, and Mr.. ROOSEVELT will set forth it's
advantages In his report. The central point
of ending the controversy between line and
engineers oyer questions of title and rank
must appeal favorably to Congress, and,
although the increases Of pay and rank
through enforced retircments and other
measures are not necessarily connected
with the staff controversy, yet the slowness
OF promotion In times of peace will furnish
an argument for them.
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One Vote Prevents the Blunder.

There appears to ave been some doubt in
some minds as to whether. the vote of q
single member of the Municipal Art Com.
mission. SO called, is enough to prevent the
erection Of an unworthy monument or
statue In a public place in this town, or of
. worthy monument or statue in an u n
suitable place.
The language of the statute. enacted on
March 10, 1895, in relation to the erection
Of public monuments or memorials In the
city Of New York, is clear and conclusive
rs to this question:
"No statue or piece OF sculpture or work OF art Of
any sort. In the nature of q public monument or me-
mortal. shall DO erected or placed on any ground. or
within any building. belonging to the city Of New
York. without the approval Of the Mayor. the Presi.
dent Of the Board Of Aldermen. the President OF the
National Sculpture Society. II such organization be
chen existing. and the President of the Municipal Art
Society. II then existing"
The word italicized fully answers the
question. 1t will be observed that the law
does not create a commission which Is to
approve or dlsapprove as a corporate body,
according to the opinions and votes of a
majority Of its members. The law requires
the approval of each and all Of the four
gentlemen designated, and the veto of any
one OF the four is legally quite as effective
rs the veto of all four.
The question of establishing at the Fifth
avenue and Fifty-ninth street entrance to
the Central Park the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument. a worthy memorial which
should have a proper site, comes up to-day,
probably for ina determination. The
Mayor and the President of the Board of
Aldermen are reported as ~favoring the
Plaza site. The President of the National
Sculpture Society and the President of the
Municipal Art Society nave expressed
themselves as opposed to that site, and
have given reasons which are convincing
TO any mind competent to pass upon such
questions of aesthetic %propriety.
That Is the duty which the law devolves
upon them. 1t is already evident that In
adhering to the position which they have
taken, and preventing the irreparable mis-.
take which Mayor STRONG, in the last days
OF his term, would commit, II he had the
power, Mr.. WARD and Mr.. BARNEY will
have public support and will win the peo-
pies lasting gratitude.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
Temperance Of the Floral Fleet.

&ASoos
Dispatches from the duck region report
the assignment Of the Government launch
Water Lily to special duty as a pleasure
boat for the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND,
formerly President Of the United States.
With his feet once more on the deck of a
Government tender, MI. CLEVELAND be-
comes again. in a certain sense, a public
character.
We do not remember that the Water
Lily has ever before been employed by Mr..
CLEVELAND in the pursuit of ducks. The
Wistaria, the Maple. the Myrtle, the Vio-
let, the Verbena, the Mistletoe, and the
Jessamine, with perhaps one or two other
members of the floral and arboreal sister
hood. were, according to our recollection,
his favorite craft in days gone by.
1t was quite impossible for Mr.. CLEvE.
LAND, during his second or lighthouse.ten.
der Administration, to get through the
entire list. He has not vet tested, for ex-
ample, the duck chasing qualities of the
Goldenrod, the Lilac, the Rose, the Column
bine, the Azalea, the Marigold, the Dahlia.
the Cactus, the Arbutus, the Pansy. the
Laurel, or the Zizania.
Curiously enough, on the very day when
the Water Lily left Charleston to put her
fragrant little self at Mr.. CLEvELANp's
disposal. Senator MCMILLAN of Michigan
reported favorably from the Committee on
Commerce Senate bill No. 1901, namely,
"a bill to remit the time penalties on the
lighthouse tender Rose"
This measure will astonish the country.
The citizens Of the United States were not
aware that there was any such thing as a
time limit on lighthouse tenders. Mr..
CLEVELAND himself did not know 1t.
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itpelf too good TO live, and 70 Il would have
ceased 20 exist and lost the happiness Of the
Scotch dialect which infects IL.
1t will DO said that Mr.. JAMES wooD is q
myth. That the persons who hate Sir WAL
TER RALEIGH and tobacco drinking have
drenched tho country with an improving allie
CORY. We believe In JAMES WooD and his
vow. Yet not the memory Of all tho malodor.
Gus and mlasmatio cigars and pipes OF woe that
ever assailed tho noses Of men and gods shall
be strong enough to tear us from the belief that
when a man 10 a hundred he deserves to smoke.
II he likes smoking. and after tho heat and
burden Of the day to loaf and invite his soul.
Nobody ever know n centenarian chower to
reform. The Hoe WILLIAM LYsoNa STRONG can
be depended upon to DO more consistent In his
tobacco-eating practices than he has ever been
In his politics.
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IA YTIAN CABINET RESIGNS.
nc HAD Been Interpolated BY Congress in II
DoinEs In the German AFFAIR.

~ Ak3
DoinEs In the German AFFAIR.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The Haytian Minis
ter, Mr.. Leger. has received a despatch from his
Government reporting the resignation of the
entire Ministry Of President Simon Sam. The
indirect reason for the resignation was the pop
ular disapproval of the Ministry's concessions
to Germany in the recent diplomatic negotia-
tions, and the likelihood that a violent outbreak
would occur as q result of this. The direct
cause OF the resignation was the passage Of
resolutions by the Haytian Congress on Friday,
to interpolate the Cabinet on its doings in the
German affair. Nothing was indicated in Min
lister Leger's despatch concerning tho forma-
ton OF a new Ministry. as up TO the time the
communication was sent President Sam had
not decided TO accept the designations. II no
refuses to accept the Ministry will be obliged
to answer the questions of Congress. and
trouble may occur should disclosures result
Mr.. Leger says .that the domestic troubles are
no surprise to him. as the republic feels hu.
INFLATED by the action of the Ministry in its
dealinge with Germany. No despatched on the
ment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
NO PERU MINES FOR HIM.
MIR. Livermore says the Inca Mining Region In
No Poor Mans Country.

~" ooF AAh sOuutFy.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.-Homer Liyermora
who left here in March last with the Johns and
Haggan party for the Inca gold mines in Perm.
has just reached homo forty-fve pounds lighter
In weight, but with much valuable experience.
He says that 1t is no place for the placer minor
and warns all American prospectors to keen
away from 1t.
Eight of us went to Mollendo." said Liver
more. and from there we managed to reach the
mines. Tho climb is IL 900 feet In seven miles.
1t Is so difficult to get anything In there that
rice is about the only food to he had. Mrs. Chan
man. who was acting as book eeper at The m,,a
lived six weeks on rice without salt or snnnr'
and. as there were only two American So,nen
there; they got tho best there was. You can
imagine how The rest Jared. "
The climate Is so atrocious that the miners p
in wet clothes the greater part of the lime
Tor gold, there Is no placer mining whatever II
Is no poor mans country. In any sen e.. The Inv
ca hlne mas been very rich. but the present own.
ers, are only paying out money for tunneIIina
ana are taking out nothing at present. Thor
would be only too thankful TO get OUT" 'hoy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
! To-Tor sr1B MovED ON RoEIERs.
n, \. 90 Form Fart or sohn w. rracEss's Mas.

eO1eum.
The last Of the schooner load Of eighty.hvo
tons OF granite which Is to form q portion OF
tho pedestal for tho cross that will surmouno
John w. Mackay's mausolcum In Greenwood
Cemetery was moved yesterday from the pier
near Hamilton avenue and Fourteenth street,
South Brooklyn, TO the cemetery. 1t viii take
two weeks to erect a scaffolding and make
ready to set the ~afty.ton slab which will form
tho base Of the pedestal. This particular
stone Is as difficult to handle as was the obollsk
when It WINS raised in Central Park, its shape
making 1t necessary to use every precaution
against possible fracture, while its weight is SO
great that 1t REQUIRES special tackle to move 1t.
II was dra wn to the cemetery, n distance OF
two miles, on rollers. and TO raise 1t to. It's
place a hea Wy framework Of timbers @ foot
square is being put up. The stone will be
raised by two heavy winchcs and hoists to n
platform beside the mausoleum, and VneH
shifted to its bed. 1t Is not expected that II
can be put in place before Jan. l.
Work on the chapel.like interior of the maui
soleum Is nearing completion. The marbles
are all In place. and men are nov, setting the
mosaics in the floor and roof. Electricity 10
to be used for lighting and heating. About
fifty incandescent lamps will be ranged along
an angle OF the corniCo in such o manner thai
thoy will be hidden from sight, but will flood
the interior of the mausoleum with n soft diff
fused light. Electrotherms will DO PLACED
either below registers in the floor or behind
fans in tho corners. The mausoleun will not
be completed inside OF a month.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
Experts at Variance.

The points Of difference between Virginia
and Kentucky ave been few in the past.
At the time OF the Revolutionary war Ken
lucky was a part Of Virginia, and It was
not until sixteen years later that she was
admitted into the Union as a separate State.
The two Commonwealth have much in
common, as, for instance, horses, tobacco,
liquid beverages, shotguns and dexterity
in their use, Colonies and Majors, duels,
and one of the principal causes of duels,
namely, beautiful women. A possible sew
erance Of the friendly relations which nave
been maintained cordially for many years
between the two Commonwealth Is now
threatened. The trouble concerns what
ought to be a matter of cheerful concur.
renee, the carrying of firearms.
The circumstances which lave led to
this Interstate difficulty are few but i'm
p%ortant. A Kentucky man, a resident of
the great Blue Grass Commonwealth, was
sent to jail, or, more properly, was taken
to jail, for no one goes to Jail peaceably in
Kentucky, for the alleged crime " of Cen
gaging In a fist fight in the street." When
tidings of this occurrence were officially
received by Governor BRADLEY at Frank.
fort, he pardoned the incarcerated Ken
tuckian. explaining that fist fighting, as a
substitute for the usual Kentucky method,
OF street fighting with firearms, was to be
regarded with lenity. II not. indeed, to be
extolled n a%pplauded.
Such was the Frankfort method, sane.
toned by the Governor of Kentucky, of
dealing with the reprehensible local prac-
tice, 30 distasteful to all tourists, of shoot.
Ing pedestrians at sight in times of local
disagreement In Kentucky streets or on
kentucky roadways or turnpikes. The
right to carry firearms has long been one
OF the reserved rights of the people of Ken
lucky, and it has been s%edulously protected
In practice, too, by their Virginia neigh.
bors on the other side of the Cumberland
Mountains. A Virginian visiting Ken
lucky takes his ~six-shooter along with him
as a matter of course, just as a New York
man takes a railroad guide or his visiting
card case when he goes to Boston. A Ken
tuckian visiting Virginia generally carries
along his purse and his gun, forgetting
neither.
Governor BRADLEY has wounded the
neighborly sensibilities of the Virginians
across the border, and they have not been
slow In marking their ~disapproval. Mr..
ARE OF Southampton has introduced in
the Virginia Legislature at Richmond what
may be called a measure of reprisal. Under
the present law of the Old Dominion, the
minimum penalty for carrying concealed
weapons is a fine of twenty dollars. Under
the amendment proposed by PARKS. it Is
reduced to two dollars and fifty cents. As
1t Is not customary in Virginia courts to
impose on white men fines less than
three dollars for any offence, the practical
effect OF this amendment would be to
abolish the penalty for carrying concealed
weapons In the Old Dominion.
kentucky may falter. Virginia is true.
The gauntlet which one State throws down
the other takes up.
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H'd' Asked FOR ga. Gao. 600 C.n,,

HlpANY, Dec. ls.-stato Comptroller lame.
al N ., aa advertised to-day for bids for the
the las, nI, ho so NO . per cent. gold bonds, being
~, - 'aos ., INC $4,000, 900 authorized to be IssnaS
i0r canal improvements. The hiS, 20 LSSueo
Tor Ia" Who'll Ian; o next. anu proposals. m NAV S pc
Than a 'onn Ur any part OF tho loan nor leooo
Of he seb6 o : cheek for per cent. Of fttSSS s
GsaM tsTatioho ~, sn ipr; These bonds are e1SmnS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sfr: Permit me to sug.
geSt that the word boulevard" be dropped In nam.
ing streets. 1t is an absurd and erroneous term as
applied to the streets OF New York.
Asa substitute. the more correct word parkway"
can be used. Thus the continuation OF Broadway. now
called the Boulevard, - can be called the Parkway"
or "Bloomingdaie p~ark The Southern boule.
ward can be called the Southern parkw az and the
Lafayette boulevard can be called the Lafayette
parkway, &c. w. Il. II.
NEW YORK, Dec. l2,
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Col stronE'S May Be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
VIII H.. "a Dutch Trent.

ror the second time yesterday the committee
Oh o'sht appoihted by the Mayor at belmont.
co.'s last Thursday night to ARRANGE tou a""n
bration OF the passing OF old New yorL na.
Obliged to adjourn for the lack of a ouorum "a
was decided to make a final effort 10 GET tn
committee together today, and IL the men,h .ne
ali n.y. 6c aesRohd, Col. Strong's wake viii npoh.
N dhe wake IN Brooklyn will, according e.
WuF ste D and ali the lhnsl s1Ly T reception by Msyos
at ne CITY Hall on the afternoon of Of nnsr MM6oydrs
Ing. iDI hs t I'm she "a rhiIadelphIa plan in the ey aas
cover the expciise no' The + singh, IN (, dollar in sight TO
TO chip In to defray them. 'p""ts VIII have
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
EoE In q New spaper once.
Hom the Railroad Gasetfe.

FV"F FFE TF"FF y
hr. Gabriel Leverich writes to THE sun. saying that
the EventR0 Post has said editorially that with a tun.
mel road New York travellers would not be troubled
by fogsi that he has explained to the editor OF the Post
that q fog may be worse In a tunnel than ON tho
surface. and that so far his letter has not been print
cd In that candid journal Mr.. Leverich need not be
surprised; his experience must DO very common.
Three weeks ago we asked the able editor how he
proposed to keep fog out OF . tunnel, but have had
no answer.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14
ENGLAND has NOT PROTESTED.
She Has Acknowledged Our Right to Annex
tho Hawaiian Islands.

u huWniinu ASinnun.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.-The State Depart
ment denies emphatically that Great Britain has
protested against the annexation of Hawaii.
Officials of the department cannot understand
how such a report originated IL view of the at
titude Of the British Government since tho
fetal reference to the subject has been made BY
Great Britain. but semi.ofiicial explanations ap-
peared in tho English press that the Govern
ment recognized the right of the United States
to annex the Hawaiian Islands, as a natural
outcome OF their geographical situation and in
accordance with the policy toward which this
country has been tending in the last seventy-ive
years.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-14

Mr.. DooKERY's bill to change the name
Of the Library Of Congress to the National Ii
brary ought to pass. 1t is no longer the Library
Of Congress-. 1t is a National Library.
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The Christmas number of brooklyn Life ID
very bright aud very pretty. aud is full Of good
things written ~ welLknown winters and illustrated
By excellent sNSA,
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" our Jrfsnds uho favor US trfth manuscr tpts for
publication cfsh TO haze rejected articles returned,
Nev mus. IN all CAGES send stamps for that purpose.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-12-01
SPAIN WE'LL SATISFIED.

Cabinet Omcer says the Reception Of Au-
tonomy Is All That Was Expected.
MADRID, Dec. IA member of the
Spanish cabinet, in an article just pub
lished, says the government of Spain is
well satisfied with the results of the
publication of the decree providing for
an autonomous form Of government in
Cuba and Porto Rico, adding that the
manner in which it has been received
in the United States is favorable to
Spain.
The cabinet minister is further quoted
as saying that the only difficulty to be
apprehended isin regard to the position
which the Carlists will assume, but the
Spanish government, he explained, does
not believe the country will support
Don Carlos, ''whose ambitions are con.
demned by the Vatican"
The minister further said that the
plans of the Carlists had failed for lack
of money. He denied that General
Weyler, the former captain general of
Cuba, who is alleged to be in sympathy
with the Carlists, had been summoned
to Madrid.
Senior Cos-Gayon, former minister of
the interior, in an interview, is said to
have asserted that the Conservatives
will not make any attempt to place diff
ficulties in the way of the policy of the
liberal government in establishing au.
topoeny in Cuba and Porto Rico.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-12-01
DOES NOT PAY A TAX.

Levy Against Archbishop katxer's Resi-.
dence Declared Illegal.
MILwAUKEE, Dec. l. = Archbishop
Katzer won victory over the munici.
pality'in his suit against the city of
Milwaukee and City Treasurer Mil
brath to have the tax levied against his
official residence declared illegal.
Judge Fish of Racine. who occupied
the bench in place of Judge johnson,
decided that the city had no right to
tax the diocesan residence.
Archbishop Katzer testified that the
title was in his name, but that he was
not the owner. He held it as trustee
for the churches Of the diocese. If he
should for any reason leave the Office Of
archbishop the property would pass to
his successor in trust, and wonld not
remain his individual property. In case
Of his deatl, it would revert to the dio.
cese and not pass to his heirs. The
property was used for the residence of
the church officials of the diocese, the
archbishop said, and for the transaction
Of the business OF the diocese aud for
no other purpose.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-12-01
Farm Loans at Lowest
-%RATES'#-
WILL MOVE TO MEXICO.

Choctaws aud Chickasaws to Sell Their
Lands In This Country.
MUsCOGEE, I. T., Dec. 1.-The Choc.
taw and Chickasaw Indians who have
been in session at Antlers, I. T., for
the past week, have determined to or.
ganize a colony and emigrate to Mex.
leo. 1t is understood that the Mexican
government will sell them large tracts
Of land very cheap.
United States Indian Agent Wisdom
Of this place was selected as the Moses
to lead them and they have written to
him to know if he would accept. Agent
Wisdom states that the Indians propose
to sell their lands in this country to the
United States and with the proceeds
purchase homes in Mexico.