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Evening journal., 1897-02-17
Hobart to Resign Many business Positions

NEW YORK, Feb, 1T.-On March Gar
ret A. Hobart, vice president elect Of the
United States, viii resign many of the
business offices which are now associated
with his name and which might be deem
ed Incompatible with his official position.
He is president of the Passaic Water COM
pany, the Paterson Railway company, the
Central Electric Railway company and
the Morris County Railway company and
Is interested rs director or officer in all
the important companies formed to bring
water to the cities of his section. As di-
rector his name appears in many concerns,
among which arc the Edison Electric Illu-
minating company Of Paterson, the New
York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad
company, the Lehigh and Hudson, the
First National bank of Paterson, the Pat
erson National bank and the Paterson
Savings institution, the Barbour Bros.
company, the Barbour Flax Spinning
company, the Pioneer Silk company, the
Butler Hard Rubber company, the Peo-
pies Gaslight company Of Passaic and
other companies.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17

after having lain dormant in the depart
ment for more than half century.
I've have number Of letters from in
diyiduals who make serious charges" he
said.
Then there is no disposition to regard
the answers Of Secretary Francis and As
sistant Attorney General Lionberger as
satisfactory
Most certainly not, ?" answered Sena-
tor Dubois "1he investigation will go
on. II the secretary ana the assistant at
torney general satisfy the committee that
the grant was all right, then, of course,
nothing further viii hc donc about it,
The committee Is desirous that the truth
shall come out That is all. The hearings
win be opca. Every one can come
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DIDD.


BANNER. On Sunday morning, Feb
ruary IA, Mrs. Ellen Banner, daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Carney.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral, from her
fathers residence, No. 5l1 Madison
street, on Thursday morning, at 8
O'Clock. High mass at st. Paul's X. G
Church. Interment New Cathedral
Cemetery.
DENNING. On February Is, James
Denning, aged &c years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral, from his
late residence, No. 719 Bennett street,
Thursday morning High mass at St..
Mary's Church at 10 o'clock. Interment
at Now Cathedral Cemetery.
HAWLEY. AT her home, in Baltimore
on February IA. 1897 Mary r., wife
of the late Martin Hawley, entered
into rest in the 58th year Of her age
HUSBANDS. S.-On February 10, Florence
e. Husbands, wife Of William ]. Hus-
bands.
KANE.-In his city, Saturday, Febru-
airy 13, thomas J. Kane, son OF
Charles and Annie Kane, aged "a
years.
SHIELDS the 18th instant, Will
liam A. Shields, in the 35th year OF
his age.
Relatives and friends of the family
also mem bers Of the C. b. L., Police and
Fire Departments, are respectfully in
vited to attend the funeral from the
residence of his mother, No. 1872 West
Second street, Thursday morning, the
18th instant. at 10 o'clock. Intermen1
in the New Cathedral Cemetery.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17
MOTHERS, CONGRESS.
a Notable Meeting Now BeinE Held In
Washington.

Washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Leading women
from all parts OF the country arc in the
city to attend tho First National Congress
Of Mothers, which began at the Arlington
hotel today and continues for three days.
Much Interest," has lecn manifested i'm the
movement, and the deliberations Of the
body and the pDpers TO be read are expect
ed to be OF unusual interest They will
treat of topics important 10 every mother.
The association has for It's object the NOR
al mental and physical training of the
young and their rescue from cruelty, crime
and unholy inaucnces. Mrs y. W Birnoy
of this city was the originator of the idea
and delivered an address Of welcome to the
delegates.
The association numhcTs among its Off
cers Mrs Phoebe a. Hearst, Mrs. Adlai
n. Stevenson. Mrs John r. Lewis Of New
York, Mrs. Mary r. Mumford of phila-
delphia, Miss Mary Louise Butler of Chi
cago, Miss Emma Morton. sister of Secrc-
tary Morton, and Mrs william l.. Wilson,
vito of tho postmaster general Associated
with the women Of the congress are a
number Of men Of national reputation,
who are expected to attend the meetings.
They include Anthony Comstock, DR..
John NJ. Vincent, Hamilton Mabie OF New
York and DR. Il. Stanley Hall of Worces-
ter, Mass. Among the arrivals was II. NJ.
Anthony, the representative of tho san
Francisco Mothers club.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17
snator Chandler on BimetaiIism.


wi sHrNGToN, Feb. l7--senator Chan
dltw's speech in the senate in the advocacy
af III netallism was ono Of the notable Of
fm.s Of the present session, not only for
shos SEA olarly care with which the senator
fyseaaual ii the question from his standpoint,
in,t gor the bitter sarcasm addressed TO
@euator Palmer and the indianapolis con-
vent sra. he arraignment Of Silver Repubs
iicans,vv I'D holted tho st. Louis convention
and for n 10 dramatic personal exchange
between Na Chandler and Mr. Pettigrew,
the latter. l eing one Of the boilers from
tho s.. I.oraa convention.
Mr. ChanM ers speech lasted three hours
and was reple te with incident 1t was an
arghment aga nst single standard of each
metal vold "A silver, and a warning
ngeinst q policy. of monometallism. Then
the senator turn led to political phases of
the question. spea king in turn of Bryan,
of Palmer and Of Mckinley. MIR. Palmer
sat across the aisle and was frequently adj
dressed bv tho spea Ser as one who had
contributed to the elact5on of Mckinley.
phe confroversy heb H'een Mr.. Chandler
and Mr. pettigrew was one of the hottest
personal episodes the senate has had in
some time, the South Dakota senator de-
claring that Mr. ChaIidlor's statement
relative to the violation of pledges at St.
Louis were wholly and absolutely false.
MIR. Chandler did not modify his state
ment, but initial explain ations restored
cordial rotations.
The peroration Of Mr. Chandler was an
appeal to the incoming president and his
advisers to heed the needs of the people,
particularly on the money question, and q
warning Of speedy political disaster GER
tain TO follow delay.
eou The Bankruptcy bill was taken up Mr.
tH Hoar, in charge OF the measure, opening
the debate IN its favor.
Pension Bills In tho House.
In the executive session, which was very
brief Senator sherman gave notice that
nc would ask the senate TO resume consid-
Grafton of the arbitration treaty next
Thursday.
Aftor the usual routine business had
been disposed of the house devoted its
time TO the consideration Of private pen.
sion bills
Thirty-nino bills in all were passed, in
Guiding bills TO pension the widow of Gen
eral Samuel A. Duncan at $50, the widow
of Colonel ID. Derussoy at $50, the widow
OF General c. a. Hickman at $50 and the
widow of General Vandever a former
member Of the house from California, az
$50.
For the first time this session the house
on a ote declined to override pension
veto Submitted TO it for action. The bill
was q at to pension Nancy G. Allabach
the widow of Peter H. Allabaeh Of th'
One Hnndred and Thirty-first Pennsylva
MIA vol unteers, at the rate of $50 pei
month. The house sustained the veto by
vote OF 10 TO 10, the requisite two third
not voting to override the presidents dis
approval
bill was passed to define the iurisdic
tion of United States courts in cases of in
frngemeit Of letters patent.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17
novx Indicted For Murder.

LITTLE Valley. Il. r., Feb i7.--The
grand jury has found indictments for
murder in tho first degree against Albert
Jones, Arthur sTrell and John Coriins,
Jr. These ara the Olcan boys who confess
ed to setting fire to the Bnrlingame gro
Gerry at East Olean in which Leon H.
Pitts lost his life.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17
Paralyzed Him.

Marriage " said the young passen-
ger, marriage always stesdies a man.
In fact, he seems to have more control
over himself "
And the weary looking man with the
armful of bundles could only say 10
himself: Control of himselfi Great
Scott Cincinnati Enquirer.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY take
Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablets. Drug
glsts refund money II 1t fails to cure. sc.
Evening journal., 1897-02-17

The new arc lights on Pennsyl-
vania avenue were in service last night.
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The Chamber Of Commerce, never dis
tinguishcd for its wisdom touching matters of
large public concern. was particularly inju.
dicious in choosing this particular time for
passing resolutions urging tho President and
Congress to increase tho artillery force man.
ming our harbor defences.
Undoubtedly tho end sought by tho Chamber
Is desirable and necessary. Tho artillery arm OF
our military service is deficient In numerical
strength. But tho obtrusion Of this advice
at a moment when conscienceless Sensational
newspapers are laboring to whip up alarm re.
specting the possibility Of war with Spain Is
peculiarly msladroit- Congress Ia not In SOS
sion, and tho legislation requisite TO carry out
the Chambers suggestions IN immediately i'm.
possible. Meanwhile Its urgency receives an In
depreciation which has no justification In our
actual situation with reference to Spain.
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to the present hour, we have given them
much less sympathy and encouragement
than we gave to their brethren under anal
osous circumstance In the flrst quarter of
the century.
The notion that Spain would make our
recognition of the Cuban revolutionists az
belligerents n cdsus beH is absurd. She
assumed no such attitude when we made a
similar concession to her other American
colonies. Neither did we dream of revene.
ing by a declaration Of war the conduct Of
Spain when h recognized the Confeder.
ates as belligerents before the first battle of
Bull Run. The recognition of revolution.
lists as belligerents is an act commended in
the name of advanced civilization, and the
avowed aim of 1t is to mitigate. az far an
possible, the barbarities which are ant IN
accompany civil war. Our withholding
from the Cubans a boon which we gave een.
erously and promptly to their fellow colo.
nists at a similar conjuncture can be de.
Tended upon grounds neither Of common
sense nor of humanity.
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Statesmen should ALWAYS be velcom

Statesmen should always be welcome,
and so tho news that the Cook County Democ-
racy will once more visit New York should
mako everybody hereabouts grateful. The Cook
County Democracy numbers among its nom.
bers statesmen like the Hon. JoHN POWERS,
the Hon. BATH House JOHN, tho Hon.
HINKY DINK. whose lame folds In this
orb o the earth, and the least distinguished
member has moro enthusiasm than a locomotive
going sixty miles an hour and moro voice than
a hundred Indians dancing the ghost dance
around the edge Of a crater Of arewater.
Anybody who has seen . select procession Of
these vigorous persons. 80 majestic In their
uniform and demeanor and SO inspiring In their
remarks, need not regret that he has mover seen
a legion of Texas steers in full career. The
Chicago statesmen arc coming in January. 1t
is a bad time for walking back, but they will be
welcome ut this end of their map. and no fortid.
cations will be built against them.
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Football in Georgia.

A football player happened to be injured
| fatally In q game at Atlanta the other day,
and straightway bills to prohibit football
| Legislature. There was a rush Of blood to
the head of that body, IL 1t has any. In the
| House, AwTRY Of Cobb offered q joint reso-
luton declaring that 1t was the sense Of
the Assembly that football should be pro-
hibited in all the schools and colleges which
are aided by the State, and requesting the
trustees of the State University and its
branches to forbid the students in those in
situations to play the game. In the senate
Mr.. ALLEN introduced a bill making it I'M
lawful for any person or persons to play
football in the State. Other thinkers have
brought in other bills. Senator ALLEN
went to a big tabernacle meeting in
Pickens county and found "a unanimous
sentiment against the game and in favor of
the Legislature taking some step to put a
stop to it." Hence the unanimity Of FALLEN,
AwTRY of Cobb and other minds of might.
Is there such q thing In the Georgia
General Assembly as a man with o gift for
statistical "In both branches Of the Leg
islature," says the Atlanta Constitution,
There was manifest a strong anti-football
sentiment" What was that sentiment
founded ont What statistics of the COM
parative mortality of various sports have
been considered by the Cracker BENTHAMs Z
Is it as dangerous to play football as it is
to ride or driver In proportion to numbers
engaged are more persons killed in football
games than are drowned while sailing
or rowing or skating7
The Cracker BENTHAMs must nave con-
sidered these questions or they would not
wish to prohibit football while allowing
Georgians to be killed in other forms of
amusement.
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the expectations held Of them the penalty
for their deficiencies and offences will have
to be paid by the political organisation re-
sponsible for them, for their nomination,
and for their course in Office, at the polls
on next election day.
Government by party is the rule in the
limited States. 1t is the American plan.
Under It the nation has grown powerful
and under it cities and States have adj
vnnced in material and political greatness.
A responsible municipal administration in
the City Hall in city and county depart
ments after Jan. 1 will be beneficial, no
doubt, to the material interests Of all the
people of the city, and an Improvement, in
every particular, over the present style of
municipal management.
But the friends Of disorder, the advocates
of revolutionary politics and policies, the
disgruntled, the dissatisfied, the hysterical,
and the destructive In other cities and
other States will be encouraged, nevertho-
less. by the defeat of the conservative ticket
in New York on Tuesday. The patriotic
friends of conservatism and order every
where will be required to work the harder
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-06
The staten Island TrolIe, and sldewn,Ls.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: There are portions
OF Staten Island where the high road is far more dan.
gerous to pedestrians than tho railroad track. On the
Richmond road. between Grant City and Garretsons,
and at other points, too, the sidewalks are occupied
by tho trolley tracks. leaving only a little space in
the centre OF the road for the pedestrian. There is no
protection whatever afforded to school children.
They must take the trolley track or the railroad
track. and, unfortunately, in the present condition of
the Island the latter at many places is by far tho
safer. II children, in dread OF their lives. stay at
home, NJ. de C~roquemitaine. the truant oriceT. repre-.
senting the majesty OF the law, is sent after them;
the compulsory statute Is invoked and the little ones
are forced upon the tracks.
or course. II will DO said that so far no children
have been killed, but who can read tn list OF the
trolley's future victims ? Until sidewalks are provided
the children in that neighborhood should b. kept at
home, and no law, not even the one which is infer-
preted and enforced In an inquisitorial spirit, can
compel a man TO drive his children out upon dangerous
railroad tracks.
The trolley line on the Richmond road might be made
an Immense convenience, but in its present shape It
Is a dreadful outrage. Ardent lovers OF Improvement
should not forget that the nrst requisite for It's enjoy.
ment 10 to be alive. RICHMOND.
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Advice to Some Ohio Republicans.

II any Republican who has been elected
to the Ohio Legislature thinks he can serve
the Hon. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER by cut
ting the throat of the Hon. MARK A.
HANNA as a candidate for Senator, he is a
sadly misguided individual.
Mr.. FORAKER occupies one of 0hio's two
eeats In the United States Senate. He was
elected on account Of his services to the
party and his distinguished position among
Buckeye Republicans. His term runs to
March 8, 1908; that is to say, just half way
through the Administration Of President
McKINLEY's successor.
Mr.. HANNA occupies the other Ohio seat.
He was appointed for q short remainder Of
JOHN SHERMAN's term, and he Is now q
candidate for the same post for a full term
of six years ending March 3, 1904. His
appointment on account Of notable services
to the Republican party and to the cause
of honest money and good government was
e%minently satisfactory to Republicans
everywhere. 1t was particularly satisfac-
tory to Major MCKINLEY, who Is under
deep political obligations to Mr.. HANNA,
and who warmly and manfully recognizes
those obligations. But beyond that, the
Same general reasons exist for the return of
HANNA to the Senate as determined his
appointment in the first place.
There have been hot times in Ohio Re-
publican politics in the past but how the
infection of vengeance for any ancient
grudge will promote the interests of Mr..
FORAKER at this time, or at any time dur
ing the coming five years, is not apparent.
How Mr.. FORAKER will be benefited by
having som other Republican than Mr..
HANNA sitting alongside of him in the
Senate chamber is yet to be demonstrated.
In or out of the Senate Mr.. HANNA will
exercise, and will justly and properly exer-
else, precisely the same great influence
with the Mckinley Administration as now.
In or out of the Senate he is bound to be a
potent factor in Ohio politics for several
years to come. Eliminating him from the
Senate will not eliminate him from Ohio
politics. Mr.. FoRAKER's Importance will
be neither greater nor less by reason Of Mr.,
HANNA's presence in Washington or his
absence from the nations capital.
1t is hardly credible that Senator FORA
E himself, or any real friend of Senator
FoRAKER's, could be 80 shortsighted or
30 bilious as to desire that the knife
shall enter MARK HANNA's back. What
would the results bet No imaginable
advantage to MARK HANNA's colleague.
Only q drop or two Of blood, quick recovery
on the part Of the victim of treaohery, and
the Inauguration of a fractional war raging
for years everywhere between the great
river and the great lake, and fraught with
the gravest consequences not only to the
Republican party in Ohio but to the Re
publican party in the Union.
The year 1900 is too near at hand for the
exhibition of knives in Ohio or elsewhere.
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Ono of the Fruits OF Treacberv

The election Of Judge PARKER to bo
Chief Justice OF the Court Of Appeals is one
of the most manifest of the consequences of
the treacherous Low conspiracy to divide
and disrupt the Republican party.
Judge PARKER announced early In the
canvass that he had voted for BRYAN last
year, yet the returns indicate that the vast
body Of the Republican deserters and trail.
tors to Low assisted directly or indirectly
in his election over Judge WALLACE, the
Republican candidate. That Is, these
treacherous Republicans either voted out
right for Judge PARKER or by voting the
Citizens Union ticket, which had no can.
didate for the Court of Appeals, lessened
by so much the vote for Judge WALLACE.
Hence Judge PARKER swept the deck east.
ly, overcoming with a great majority in
New York the large majorities Judge
WALLACE had rolled up in the State.
1t was simply vile treachery, and was q
result for which the conspirators had
worked from the beginning. Their pur-
pose was also to destroy the Republican
majority in the Assembly, but that malign
effort, fortunately, was unsuccessful.
The traitors made the p~retence of dis
tihSuioLhiS pcOWCCh Iuo OIdU6 UlCKoU ana
the municipal ticket, supporting the first
but rejecting the other, on the ground of
"Plattism." OF course, there was no dis.
tinction between the two, SO far as con-
Germs the manner of their nomination.
Each was nominated regularly and under
the same influences.
The falseness of this pretence of tho
traitors, as we have said. Is exposed In the
returns. They knew very we'll that the
difficulty and the danger of voting a split
ticket would prevent all except q very
small part of the Low voters from voting
for Judge WALLACE, the Republican can
didate. TIT Low conspiracy, accordingly,
has resulted in the election of a Bryanite
Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals.
What do decent Republicans, what do
honest men of any party, think of such
t%reachery7 In the history of American
politics is there an example Of political
baseness which goes down lowerf
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MILITARY TELEGRAPH LINES.
uen. Greedy on tho Work OF tho signal Corps-
Baioons as an Adjunct TO the Service.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Gcn. A. w. Greedy.
Chief Signal oficer of tho army, informs Secro-
tary Algcr in his annual report that at the
close OF the yoar cnded Sept. 30 the permanent
military telegraph lines operated by the Signal
Corps aggregated sO2 miles In length, exclusive
OF tho short cable in New York hnrbor. Tho
principal work OF the year was done by the Sig.
nal Corps in conncctioN with the operations
against the Arizona Indians. There highly sat
i~sfactory experiments we're made with tho com.
bined telegraph and telephone apparatus de-
vised by Capt. James Allen of tho corps. which
Gen. Greedy says is distinctly superior to any
previously constructed and admirably answers
all requirements.
operator can easily carry a combination
telegraph and telephone Office" says Gen.
Greedy, and while one soldier telegraphs q
message another may, over the same wire, talk
telephonically with another station, the distant
receiving operators hearing only their own
message. The outfit weighs only sixteen pounds.
including battery, and has been riGidly tested
up to a distance of more than GOO miles and is q
pronounced success in its various capacities as
a buzz Morse telephone and phonoplex instru.
mont"
This was tho most notable advance Of the
year. and its importance. the Chief adds, is not
confined to the field work of the corps. but Its
useful application may DO made world wide.
Regarding balloons as an adjunct of the service
Gen. Greedy says:
Z" 1t is believed that the success Of aerial navi.
cation awaits n motor considerably lighter than
those now used. Prof. Langley, in flights with
his aeroplnne, indicates that the solution OF this
interesting and important problem ia not for
taken such action to place on an efficient foot.
ing a model captive balloon section. suit
| c%iiities and appropriation have permitted,
This work has progressed at Fort Logan
Col, under the supervision of Capt. w. A,
Glassford, Signal Corps. who has now at that
post a silk balloon of II. 900 cubic feet capacity
a balloon wagon, with cable drum. captive
cables and accessories, one service wagon, n gas
generator appliance. a compressor for impound
ing gas in tubes, and $50 steel presses in which
gas Is compressed to loo or 1-120 Of its vol
ume. A balloon house. essential for economical,
practice. has been constructed at Fort Logan
and permits Of ascensions in all weathers.'
An estimate OF 5000, 900 to continue the OK
periments in this direction accompanies the
report,
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'HE sun, SATURDAY.. NOVEMBER 9, 1897.

have had to bear largely the odium Of the
failure which, undoubtedly, would have
attended his administration.
The people, however, ~repudiated non
craftsmanship emphatically. They refused
to tolerate it any longer and substituted
for 1t a strictly party government, for which
they could hold a specific party RESPONSE.
BILE. They stamped upon the humbug and
crushed it.
The attempt to revive non.partisanship,
accordingly, is hopeless. 1t is dead, beyond
the possibility of resurrection. The Citi'
ems Union has been forced into political
bankruptcy, and the people want to hear
no more Of it.