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NEW PARKS AND WIDER STREETS,
Small Park ut Seventy. ssxth Street and East
River-Aun Street videniuE May Go Through.

Small Park At SeSenty-Nxth Street and East
River-Aun Street widening May Go Through.
Several applications for small parks were
made yesterday to the Board Of Street Opening.
A number of clcrgymen Of the west side asked
for q park along the Hudson River somewhere
between Forty-eighth and Sixty-frst streets.
The request was refused. The Harlem Regatta
Association asked for a small park on the south
bank Of the Harlem River, near the new Third
avenue bridge. This property is under the jur-
isdiction OF the Dock Board, and permission for
the park will have to come from that body. 1t
was decided to establish a small park at Seventy
sixth street and the East River. ~one-quarter Of
the cost of which will be assessed on the neig h.
boring property.
Several citizens Of Morrisania ask cd the board
to condemn the old Bensonia cemetery, near the
Morrisania Town Hall, and turn 1t into a small
park: The petitioners stated that the cemetery
had become a resort for tramps and disorderly
persons. No interments have been made in 1t
of the decd not TO sell the ground except for a
cemetery. but tho city can condemn 1t. The
matter was referred to President Mcmillan OF
the Park Board. The latter submitted a propo-
sition to widen 10th street from Fifth avenue
to Seventh. He was asked to submit a plan.
1t was said after the meeting that a majority
OF the appointed to consider the
proposition TO widen Ann street from Park row
the scheme at the next meeting. The improve
ment will cost from g.. 200. 900 to $6, 600. 900,
and 1t has been advocated tor a long time by a
south side of the street, and who want the north
side set back. The committee is composed of
Comptroller Fitch, Con. Coils and President
Mcmillan OF tho Park Board. Tho Comptroller
has always opposed the scheme on account OF its
cost.
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THE RAID OF THE CENTURY.
EnEiand's DsaiEus on the Boer Republic. and
tho Reasons for II.

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=. = ~" 70 aAsaii tme repuo-
VI u AnsvAAi = soon a'er the royal
!-oI1. ~ . european politics VIII
l. 1917 D' = poesio'o intervention OF
~. 80 - o"eiS VIM save
-, .P"..o tfomA hhousterins
iau' u y eA'o"od u'fee'ioh OF the British
80 49, - HuH"'ips o'efAAty 'hou'
u,,d.h,s 800" .'use'aer WIN LOT
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Many powerful amendments have been
cast at the octopuses by divers Senator'S, among
whom the Hon. HORACE Chiffon of Texas de.
rerves honorable mention. Mr.. CHILToN's
amendment Divides that II any manufacturer,
dealer. or other person, knowing that eIy ar
ticle or articles of like character to those upon
which duties are levied under this act arc MANN
featured or their sale controlled or their price
affected by q trust or combination, shall send
or transmit any such articles from one
State to another" such manufacturer and SO
on shall. II convicted before a Federal Circuit
Court, be punished by imprisonment for not
more than three years. SO, II Mr.. Chiffon had
his way he might be imprisoned for three years
for sending a plug Of tobacco to the Hon. JOHN
c. SIBERIAN. or a lump Of sugar to the Reform
Club. His antitrust admirers here could not
send him a leather medal without making them
selves liable to a dungeon cell. Other antitrust
amendments are not less wise than his Is.
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Trains on the ninth Aveuue Rle,.,sa no.a.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: ] would like to
kno" why the management OF the al" road don't
run more way trains on Its Ninth avenue division. I
think It is an outrage the way they treat people ON
this road, Patrons using the way trains are com.
PEELED. in the rush hours. to wait nvo and ten minutes
for a train; This is particularly true in the evening.
wheh the delay Is somettmes alex l have been
obliged to wait at the Fourteenth street atation
around s,n o J: y: nfteen and even twenty minutes for a
possible TO board 1t. II is Q shame to see the moor.
vIen, WORKING girls and men crowded into these cars
IKE cattle bound for the slaughter house, | have seen
the cara so crowded that the gates could not be
closed, and one evening a policeman. who was using
ms body rs a guard In place Of the gate which could
not ne closed. was almost thrown Into the street by
the crowd pushing to got out between the Thirtieth
and Thirty fourth street stations. Cannot aom ethinv ha
done 70 improve this state OF arairsp Employees tell
trains right along. 1oHS HOW Ann
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Franco and Her Fleet.

The prodigious OUTLAWS of England on her
navy are responded to without hesitation
by France and Russia although they have
also vast lar forces to maintain.
The latest proposal of NJ. LooKRoY, cost
ly though it is, has secured the approval of
the Naval Committee. 1t calls for the
enormous sun of about $50, OOO, 900, of
which $4,oOO,OO will go To repairs for
warships, 100000 to harbors of refuge,
and $40, 600, 600 to new warships.
In this last item there is one very signih-
cant feature, namely, that it is for cruisers
and nothing of it for battleships. That is in
ydeed a new departure, While battleships
smay serve either for defence OF aggression,
cruisers. when supplied in such numbers,
suggest use against the of an
penemy. 1t is hardly a matter Of doubt that
THE vulnerable mercantile marine of Eng,
sland, the greatest in the world, is aimed at by
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Signs of improvement.

The indications of improving business
conditions begin to be recognized by the
mast conservative observers as unmistak.
able, and they are appearing in all parts Of
the country simultaneously.
The more hopeful outlook Ia practically
demonstrated in the moro confident tone Of
Wall street speculation. The influences
producing bear or bull markets there may
seem to be capricious and ephemeral at the
moment, but in the long run they are in
dicative Of business conditions actually
prevailing. The stock market does not rise
steadily from q low level or descend stead
lily from n high to q low level, unless there
Is In such conditions q sufficient reason for
the changes.
Simply from a study Of the variations Of
prices at tho Stock Exchange the general ten
dency Of trade and industry, whether toward
prosperity or downward to adversely, can be
pretty accurately measured for considerable
periods of time in the past. Prices are
determined by something more than the
bowling and the bustling on the floor Of the
Stock Board. The brokers are only puppets
moved about by forces operating overa wide
field, and reaching every department Of
business and industry.
Governor FLOWER and other cool and
competent observers who have travelled
recently over the Union have discovered
evidences satisfying them that improve
ment has begun everywhere, slowly but
actually. The increasing confidence in a
speedy settlement of the tariff question,
not merely for this Congress, but also
probably for a long time to come, is giving
a spur to business, which needs the basis
Of such a settlement on which to build sub
st~antially.
Moreover, we nave now an Administra-
tion which depends for its justification on
substantial prosperity for the country. For
four years up to the 4th Of last March the
whole spirit and tone of the White House
was bearish. Everything was wrong with
the republic, according to the Cleveland
Administration, because the people resented
its depressing influence. 1t was a dead
weight upon the country. That weight
having e removed, there begins to be an
elastic upspringing Of every industry which
promises to become a bound in due time.
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tary Of State, TO tho Hawaiian Commission
ers, Messrs. RICHARDS and HuALILIo. 1t
will be observed that, while repudlating
the idea Of conquest or Of absorption
through colonization, he says not a word
about rejecting n voluntary request of the
islanders for annexation. The letter In ques.
ton, after recognizing the independence of
the Hawaiian kingdom, declares cas- the
sense Of the Government Of the United
States, that the Government Of the Sand.
witch Islands ought to be respected that no
power ought to take possession Of the
islands either as q conquest or for the pur-
pose of colonization; and that no power
ought to seek for any undue control over
the existing Government or any exclusive
privileges or preferences in matters Of
commerce." To much the same effect
spoke President TYLER n few days later
in his message to Congress, dated Dec.
80, 1912. While declaring that for
the time being the Government Of the
United States sought no exclusive control
over Hawaii, he averred that its relatively
NEAR approach to this continent and the
intercourse which American vessels lave
with it, such vessels constituting five
sixths Of all that annually visit it, could
not but create dissatisfaction IN the part
Of the United States at any attempt by
another power, should such attempt be
threatened or feared, to take possession of
the islands, COLOMBO them, and subvert the
native Government"
The Globes additional assertion that the
American navy is absolutely unfit to pro-
tect the islands from Spanish warships"
will be received with n guffaw. As to
Japan's sea power, it is true that this is for
the moment superior to that Of the United
States in the Pacific, but ours could be
rapidly and immeasurably increased IL we
had any reason to apprehend a quarrel with
the Mikadois empire. or such a quarrel,
however, there is scarcely q possibility.
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THE SUN. SATURDAY. JUNE 10, 1897.

specifically which Tammany will make,
they will not really be issues at all, for they
will not in themselves be contested poll.
cics. The Citizens Union seems already
to have preGmpted them as its own.
Hence Tammany Halls bargaining with
Mr.. BRYAN to get his assistance in hum
bugging the people in the municipal cam
paign, will come to naught. But his
~connivance at it will damage his reputation
and may defeat the plan he is 30 industri-
ously working at in his present political
journey through the Union tho plan Of
making himself the logical candidate of
the Chicago Democracy in 1900.
That Is not a result to be lamented. It
would even be altogether desirable, II it
involved also the defeat of the revolution
airy programme represented by him last
year.; but Organism will continue even IL
BRYAN himself Is kicked out rs its repre-
sentative; and apparently there is no
chance of beating it and driving it out Of
the Democratic party, except by voting it
dow from now on to the election of 1900.
1t is encouraging to honest Democrats, how
ever, to discover from his bargain with Tam
BRYAN is as a leader.
Whoever else, BRYAN, Tammany Hall,
or Mugwumps, may try to keep the Chi
cago platform out of the municipal cam
paign, all stalwart and sincere opponents
Of Reputation and the Chicago deviltry
will hold their eyes open to the fact that
1t Is there beyond rcmoval short of square
repudiation,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-19
A New Measure of Mckinley.

When the Mckinley Cabinet was made
up the member most difficult of explana-
tion was the Hon. JOHN SHERMAN. Mr..
SHERMAN was an Ohio man, it is true,
distinguished, experienced, and successful
as n Cabinet officer in a preceding Admin
istration; but upon the great question Of
the territorial future Of the United States,
certain to be extraordinarily prominent
during the four years to follow, SHERMAN
was at odds with the national traditions,
with which MCKINLEY was supposed to be
fully and ardently in harmony.
"If my life is prolonged" the Secretary
Of State had written in his "Recollec.
tions," 81 will do all I can to add to the
strength and prosperity Of the United
States, but nothing to extend its limits or
add new dangers by the acquisition Of
foreign territory
The statesman who thought this when
the Sherman volume was published would
have thought the same when JEFFERSON
bought Louisiana. The United States nave
not eliminated in 1897 any more than they
had In 1903. However, notwithstanding
the leading place In the Cabinet was be-
slowed upon a public man of this way Of
feeling, the President has shown, through
the Hawaiian treaty. that the dominating
spirit in the Administration Is that OF the
WILLIAM MCKINLEY whom the people
knew as an American inspired with the
sentiments n purposes expressed by the
leading American statesmen from JEFFER-
SON to BLAINE. The President sees more
than the petty flaws picked in Hawaii by
the old defenders of the policy of infamy,
and recognizes the irresistible arguments
for hat Stands annexation.
The American public like John SHERMAN
well, and praise him for excepting the
Sandwich Islands from the rule laid down
in his "Recollections'; but to-day they
have cause for profound satisfaction that
MCKINLEY Is President.
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this new measure, although It would apply,
also, Of course, to Germany or any other
commercial enemy Of France.
M. LocKRoY, in fact, has long been the
most conspicuous advocate OF building
cruisers instead Of battlcships. Before
he had been raised to Office he made
a sensation by ~denouncing sundry mod
crn French armor.clads. His bitter Mt
tack, ut that time, took also the broader
ground Of urging the construction Of
swift cruisers instead of heavy battle
ships. 1t was sometimes said that he
spoke in the interest of n famous firm Of
shipbuilders that made a speciality Of
cruisers. BE that rs It may, during his not
very long term rs Minister of Marine he
maintained his views, and the current re.
port is a striking enforcement of them.
Whether france will consent to lay out
30 vast a sum on cruisers remains to be
seen; but IL she does, we need not be sur.
prised to find IN echo Of the result in Eng.
lands next naval programme.
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Successors to the American Rail
way Union.

The American Railway Union, that labor
trust which, under the statesmanlike direc.
tion of Mr.. EUGENE v. DEBs, constituted IT.
self the de Jacto government over consider
able stretches of territory in 1894, and pro-
duceda very acute state of war which had to
be ended by the United States Government,
is about to be ~reorRanized and greatly en-
larged. OF what further reorganization and
enlargement is it capable3 In 1896 the so.
styled Democratic National Convention
adopted as its own the main principles of
the American Railway Unions freedom of
riot and government by mobs. The neces.
sity for the separate existence of the Ameri.
can Railway Union ceased then. 1t should
have been absorbed into the larger body.
The principles illustrated at Chicago in
1894 and enunctated at Chicago in 1896
still control the so-called Democratic party.
Whoever supports a Bryanlte ticket any.
where, supports, willy nilly, the principles
of the American Railway Union and the
Debs rebellion of 1894.
The rioters Of 1894 and their apologists
and advocates In 1896 have left too strong
an impression of disgust upon the minds
of ~law-abiding and thrifty men for the
latter to forget them, or to fail to recognize
them in any guise.
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Tho Coquettish Maid or Pawtuckot.

Miss Marie Louise Pelkey, the l7.yearod
miss who Is on record as having disappointed !
hour for performing the ceremony, has returned
to her home in Pawtucket. Her latest aspirant
i tSa lat .Th, r n hon9rS YVES Michaei Sslvas, and
evinced Tuesday when a friend of his appeared
at the City Hall with the unused marrias,
license and wanted to know IL he could not leay.
It and get his money back. He was told by Civ
Clerk Roberts that he could leave It IL he liked
but that no money would be refunded, as thes
was no market for secondhand marriage h.
censes. 1t will be recalled that on the occasion
Of Miss Pelkcy's latest disappointment the wed.
ding festivities. including supper. music, and
dancing, went on just the same, even the IN
pectant groom taking part.
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Once more the Hon. RICHARD FRANKLIN
P%ETTIGREw, Senator In Congress from South
Dakota, nops upon the pinnacle OF the Capitol
and crows. He announces that he is ready to
stand by Senator WHITE of California and stay
in Washington all summer, II necessary, to pre-
vent the ratification Of the Hawaiian treaty.
Washington would be fortunate II it could de-
pond upon having n mind like Mr.. PETTtGREw's
In the vicinity oil summer. but Washington will
not DO fortunate. South Dakota will not con.
sent TO exist all summer without the cheering
presence of the unique statesman who wants
TO add forty membors to the Cabinet and to
set up the Government in the land mortgage
and agricultural pawnbroking business.
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From. the 81. Janes's Gazette.

There Is q good story going about Prince A.
exander, the son OF Princess Beatrice, who. a
the early age of IL years, is giving evidence thu
he ought to become a commercial man. He re
ceived a present of one sovereign from his
mother. and, having quickly spent It, applied
for a second. He was gently chided for his ey.
travagance but, unabashed. wrote to his grand
for she replied in the same strain of remon.
STRANGE, whereupon the young Prince responded
as under:
DEAREST GRANpMAMnA: I received your letter. and
hope you will not think I was disappointed because
you could not send me any money. II was very kind
for "a los.
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FOREIGN Notes OF neal uu,.r,.,.


Inefe VIII % no jubilee lunches at westm!nh''
nrw .A'iAmen' oo'ee'e' '"
"'-
hhinometers arc devices to measure the amounso'
eH = man oreatnss tnrou6h Ms nose In order 'hn
his ooc'or nay compare II 10 the amount he 'houia
'AAe thAt way.
Insanity 10 increasing In Ireland. English ststit
ttcians say that one serious cause Of Iunacy 10 The
abuse OF tea, another an over Indulgence In lleo-
hoi. q third the disappointment of having tried
emigration and failed.
Political proseIytism by theatre plays seems to b
the fsahion now in Paris. A piece ~Rloritylug The
late Gen. Boulanger, which fell absolutely nIt, Eu
been followed by q royals play ton Droit, ton
Roi,' At the Nouvsau Theatre. II was equally I'd.
successful. though it created o row In the audience.
"a. n. InyisihI. F,.-,o-. NAN
might al four ,ncb.. n ~. $780,. =. h u..n,
by which "A Tandem .v,na,.. 49,, - =. u,,. nj,
fortune. Tho .,ava,o,. o.. $780,, oo,t an
inch thick pnt in IN. mai. -, 49,. -,,,, VEN
bought nj an CAM. . do,.n n.,,. -, -, ~, G, 81
n na,r Hs n.d m.a. 49,, q, 600 .,..,d
A'i . oeen AR'eAl chahse d mAHDo'
Ns.."s 'Ae 1897 '"n'S years :"
"!ot"son ~ uee'ded TO snow !" :,
~ ou..oseh Az aAush.erA Iathsr'in'!A"' -
~ Dus ms 'A'os' s'orle'' 49,.
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ATTENDED rICroRIA's WEDDya
A Nebraska OctoEonarian who was Guard ,
Honor ut the Nuptinln.
From, the 81. Lout. Globe. Democrat.

From, the 50. Louts Globe. Democrat.
LINCOLN, Mob, une 15.--Chaplain Henry Ma.
terman of the Lincoln Grand Army post receives
an invitation to-day to become a member OF N.
Victoria Diamond Jubilee Association. which
has been organized in Omaha for the e~ndowmoD,
Of oleemosynary institutions. Chaplain Ma,t,r.
man is probably the only man in America to.d,,
who attended the wedding of Queen Victoria a,
o guard OF honor. He was Lance Corporal ~
tho Sharpshooter Regiment, Second Battalioo"
Rifle Brigade, compounded by Col. Sir Georrs
Brown. Chaplain Masterman was the younpest
man In the regiment, just as he was the Oldest IN
the Twenty-eighth Iowa Volunteers during Tho
the day MS one of the hottest he ever expeS.
enced. For five hours the regiment stood in ii,
broiling SUM-. The troops were reviewed by tSss
Queen and Prince Albert after the wedding
Chaplain Masterman is now "a years of age, but
Is hcartier than many men mt 20. Chaplain
Masterman is an EnRlishman by birth, but h%
lived in America for nearly half u century, II.
served throughout the war Of the rebellion, b,,
eldest son being in the same regiment. He Is an
enthusiastic Grand Army man and has for year,
been chaplain Of the local post.
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NO Po1rrros IN MEx,oo


EFVWN w AntdNCuh HCTuln.
There are, happily, no politics in Mo,,o.,
writo about. Partisanship lies doad; fac,t..p
are dumb; tho people are oil patriotic, ana
addressing themselves to improving theI, ~, Nv
tunes. Nobody talks politics because, luclNec
Mexico has nom to speak Of. A busIncss,Hs,,
administration is attending strictly to busin.''
and working for the good of Mexico and Al, J,
Mexico. Gen. Diaz takes On impartial inv
In tho affairs of tho whole country. HH.eefhest
said he would like to live Atty, years to see 9 ~.
might, for II will be his great monument " a. nv %
ernized, prosperous, and contentod nation mug
There being no Office seeking on a huge so,,.
here, no tlnkering OF tariffs, no upsettinsa y !,
hSed politics, newspaper, men have to looES ,@ot
something else to write nbout-public imnro,uo'
monts, now charters, the growth of The ' VNs
and silver mining industry, the new f,cto soa
the transmission of tho energy OF WATERFALL J.
distant points, and other profitable and zoo 10
Portable themes. We do not have ia oco cVn
space every day 10 tell how the Hon. Mr.. BSlssppE[
was with tho President two hours ycstetdakk
urging his claims" to the mission to BCiSviwuvH
or the Consulate Gencralship Mt Yokohamss'
Thank heaven, tho President OF Mcxico ha.
something more useful and important to do, D'
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The last day Of the special session of the
Arkansas Legislature seems to have been full of
that wild ascending blare to which the curtain
is lowered in tho last act of q comic opera. A
railroad bill was under consideration in tho
House. A railroad bill seldom fails to raise q
hurlburly in a Southwestern Legislature. The
Arkansas Legislators ross to tho OCCASION: in
fact, they hoped upon their desks to rise to 1t.
They howled like bedlams. Various statesmen
tried to fight, and one statesman invited the
Speaker to como ON to the floor and be licked.
Adjourned, without day and without gore.
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From the Washington POI

When Representative Updegraff Of low,
settled himself comfortably in the BARRIERS chair
OF the House yesterday and elevated his feet d,
was noticed that he wore boots.
You must be the only Congressman who
wears boots, said the Post man.
No. he is not" interrupted the barber.
Judge Powers OF Vermont wears boots. Hc
and Mr.. Cpdegraff are the only Ones
And why do you stick to bootsi" asked tho
Post man OF the Iowa member.
well" he replied, II do not know what ra.
son Powers can give. but ! will tell you why l
wear boots. 1t Is SO much easier, when | am
riding q bicycle. to tuck in my trousers than 10
clip those little bands OF steel around my ankleGa
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A virginia Care for Consumption.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE sUE-Str: / am not q patent
medicine man nor a physician. only an old farmer.
nor am ! expecting pecuniAry benent for what I saw
but feel that we all owe 1t to humanity to add any
mite OF knowledge coming to us to the general stock.
SO FAR as ! Lnow. no remedy Is yet given n place I'm
me pbarmIeopo'ia OF medicine 10 cure consuinption'
Ihere Is a shrub which grows here which will cure
any case or bronchial or lung trouble In tho early
stages; have seer Il done frequently. and have
70 physicians who have such patients to send them
some OF IL u they WIN pay postage. I don't think ii
VIII RAISE the dead, but Will reach and cure ali In.
e,pIe n cases "can anything good come out OF Naza.
''"' WILLIAM TONNES.
~cuScownLA. Va, June II. 1897.