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and Work.

Il IL estimated that something like 80
per cent. more masons, stonecutters, paint
ers. and bricklaycrs are now employed in
this city than were at work here a year
ago. building operations being prosecuted
more generally than usual at this season.
To some extent this increased demand
for mechanics Is a consequence of improve.
ment In business, but the weather condi-
tions have been helpful also to an unusual
extent. Since the winter came in, the
weather, with few and brief variations, has
been mild, clement, and favorable to work
,ingmen. Hence the opportunities for what
is known as outside work" have been un-
usually great. simultaneously there has
occurred a gratifying diminution in the
amount of serious restitution In the town,
indicated by reduced demands upon the
Bureau of the Outdoor Poor. a smaller
number of police commitment in cases of
distress, and less demand for the relief af-
forded by charitable organizations.
During the first WI weeks Of January
the number of projected new buildings re-
ported at the Building Department pro-
vided for an outlay of $3,2O0,OO0 against
81, 900, 900 for the like period in 1897.
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The Foremost Measure OF Adminis-
tration Policy.

3 Il 10 we'll for every Republican Senator to
remember that the only distinctive Ad.
ministration measure now before Congress
n the Hawaiian annexation treaty.
There is nothing else Of any Importance
that comes straight from the Executive to
Congress, marked with the Presidents rec.
~ommendation and attended by his earnest
and anxious desires. Even h plan for
Rreenback retirement which was offered In
the annual message relates to q future
time; the time when the income OF the Gov
eminent shall equal it's expenditures. MI.
McKINLRY has put his annexation treaty
In the first place Of urgency.
Annexation itself is much moro than an
Administration measure; much moro than
q party measure. The demand for 1t III the
expression of an Americanism which Is
high above any consideration Of partisan
ship. But this treaty In particular, de.
signed to effect the annexation OF Hawaii
ut once and in the manner preferred by the
President and his Secretary Of State, Is
peculiarly identified with tho present Ad-
ministration, and its success or failure will
stand in history as the most conspicuous
event of Mr.. McKINLEY's term in the
White House.
It's success or failure will depend upon
Republican votes. It's rejection by Repub-
lican votes in the Senate would be q direct
reputation Of the foremost measure of
Administration policy by the Republican
Senators 30 voting.
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umpireis. The League managers have toll
Grated, II not encouraged, characterization
among their players for so long q time that
even q well-meaning and sober.minded
man like the New York shortstop has
become corrupted with the notion that it's
every man for himself and the umpire's
played out. Even DAVIS has come to think
that the players behavior on the field Is
subject to no other Law than his own
opinions and the heat Of his head.
So the whole baseball profession engaged
In the National League organization is
lost to all sense Of discipline and to the
very first principle Of games. So complete
ly has the spirit of sport gone from them
that they do not realize that there lie no
game under the sun, except baseball, In
which rebellion against the decision Of the
referee Ia dreamed Of.
La there any President In the League,
however, willing for some u~naccountable
reason to evade the question at issue, who
doesn't perceive the farce in the situation
to which h recent management of base
ball has brought the national game7
The remedy for rowdyism on the ball field
is the simple one Of letting the bewildered
and misused players understand that the
umpire is the umpire, and that his word is
what the League intended, or professed to
intend, that 1t should be-law.
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The Wild Man from Baltimore.

The Hon. CHARLES JOSEPH BoNAPARTB
of Baltimore, a Mugwump of UNUSUAL feroc-
ity, lectured in Boston Sunday night for
the benefit of a hospital for ~incurables.
His subject was "Civil and Religious Lib
erty." but he managed to weave into his
lecture a distinct approval of lynching.
backs. but their advantages are underesti-
mated" Especially by the victims. he
might nave added. "Lynching is liable to
abuse" he continued, rfor mistakes are
sometimes made, but I believe few innocent
men are lynched, and those that are SO are
not desirable members Of; society, and the
custom is certainly o great deterrent Of
crime"
MI. BoNAPARTE is q member OF the bar.
n yet he has no objections to the lynch
ing Of persons who strike him az undesira-
BILE members of society. Would he revise
his opinion If he should ever happen to
fall into the hands of persons who. unfa-
miliar with his distinction in Mugwumpia,
should by chance regard him as an unde-
sirable persona
In considering the elimination of the I'M
desirable by means of lynching, Mr.. BONA
PARTE stepped boldly from the abstract to
the concrete. At this point the reporter of
the Boston Globe. whose account we fol-
low, pitied Mr.. BoNAPARTE, and remem-
bered that the day was Sunday and that
the lecture was for a charitable purpose.
He was as gentle as his conscience would
allow him to be to Mr., B~oNAPARTE, but he
shows us that Wild Man from Baltimore
"mentioning United States Senators iden.
titled with the interests Of the trusts as
worthy of lynching."
Mr.. BoNAPARTE regards trusts as unde-
sirable, and so he wants persons connect.
ed with them to be hanged by the neck
without warrant of law. Presumably he
would advocate the lynching7of all spoils.
men and opponents of ~''ourrenoy REFORM"
In fact, in the court of BoNAPARTE LYNCH,
j., anybody unfortunate enough to be es-
teemed undesirable by that remarkable
magistrate could depend upon dancing In
the air at the end of o rope. AS the Wild
Man from Baltimore regards most of his
fellow countrymen as undesirable, lynch
ing will be the principal disease when he
is made Caliph.
In the Hospital for Incurable Mugwump
Cranks the best bed should be given to the
Wild Man from Baltimore.
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mont takes to the water. Champagne. b II OBJ
served. IL not barred from the occasion, merely
because II is not 10 be poured over the bows Of
the Kasaei. But the bird will go FREQ from its
silken bag, loosed by the daughter Of Secretary
LONG, in lieu Of q libation to Neptune.
Japan is not tho only country that adopts
In naming vessels other ceremonies than
drenching the bows with wine. The old re-
public Of Venice, whenever n war vessel slipped
from tho stocks to the sea, celebrated anew the
marriage Of the city TO the Adriatic. In lator
generations the bottle OF wine was substituted
but when the battleship Stella was launched.
some years ago. Italy restored the old custom,
tho ships godmother attaching to her prov q
copy Of the ring which is used at the Bueentoro
festival. with a small star inscribed with the
Kings initials. so that they should DO first to
touch tho water.
Probably Thursdays ceremonies, successful
az we hope they may DO. will not dislodgo our
old naming custom in favor of Japan's dove
any moro than Of Italy's nuptial ring. The
bottle will still hold Its place, although on such
occasions regrets Of various sorts may DO OK
pressed, from tho temperance man that wine
should DO used. and from others that 80 much
good liquor should be wasted.
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Republican Unity in Now York.


The efforts which are said to be making
to harmonize and consolidate the Repub-
licans of this State ought to be fully sue
c~essful, since no question Of party prIn-
ciple divides the party. Tho political con-
v~ictions which bound them together In
1895 remains unchanged In 1895.
Such difference a. has occurred among
them concerns the routine management Of
the party only, and In the nature of things
1t must be settled according to the will Of
tho party as expressed at the primaries.
The disposition of the Republican Legisla-
ture to surround the primaries with every
expression Of hat will IL unquestionable.
Tho election of next autumn will be Of
the gravest Importance; in Its political con-
sequences to this State, and ever to the
Union, 1t will be OF momentous Importance.
All true Republicans of, New York, &C.
cordingly, have the most powerful Of in
c~entives to assist In all loyal efforts to
bring about the unity requisite for the
triumph of the party.
Such q mission of peace cannot be op-
posed in any quarter without demonstrating
to all Republicans of principle and con-
viction a purpose to divide N defeat the
party; and the exhibition. If 1t shall be
made, will constitute . warning to the
party, tending to render the few would-be
disturbers powerless for mischief.
There is no reasonable obstacle to the
complete unity of all Republicans in New
York who are really devoted to their party
and desirous of its prosperity.
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Anticipation bills, full of pains and pen
altieF. continue to rain upon the House of Repre-
sentatives. A whole school OF philosophers
is chasing the wrath of the Hatch bill OF
mighty memory. Able bill.makers and able
bills. no doubt. but the punishment provided
by and in them for the wretches who deal In
options and futures" are too weak and watery.
Tax the wretches. and they will pay the fines out
Of their nefarious gains and grin In your face.
Try to imprison them, and they will find some
corporation Judge" TO find q hole in the law.
The only sure plan is to abolish all exchanges
and boards OF trade and conhscatc the prop
crty Of individual spectators. Options and
futures" as the makers of the bills against
thom we'll know, are one OF the most dangerous
OF the means by which tho Money Power en-
riches Itself at the expense of Democratic and
populist conventions.
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Who will not shudder as he learns in the

Who will not shudder as he learns in the
Topeka papers that the Hon. THOMAS JEFFER-
BON HUDSON of Fredonia, sometime q Repre-
sentative In Congress and a statesman from
his birth. predicts q revolution in this
country similar to the French revolution r.
II we know anything about the American
people. thoy will not get a wink of sleep
as long as the Hon. THOMAS JEFFERSON
HUDSON of Fredonia is pouring forth these
smoking hot vaccinations. American poll
TICS" yells tho FREEDMAN seer. will never
DO purified except by the letting of
blood" It is we'll. Now tho country can
sleep. At 7:15 A. M. yesterday tho Hon.
THOMAS %JEFFERsoN HUDSON shaved himself.
His chin. his prominent and prophetic chin.
shows the result. Each little bit of court plaster
tells OF tho glorious phlebotomy. American
politics has been purified. The revolution has
beon ayorted.
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r1nr1ra ; nrsron1o sror.
Tahlss Get " In tire Feet Omce BY Patriots
wsnen Unveiied Yesterday.

There was q large gathering OF tho member,
of Mary Washington Chapter, Daughters Of
the American Revolution, in Room 30 in tho
Post once building yesterday. They had as
sembled TO participate In the ceremonies Incl.
dent to the unwilling OF a bronze tablet which
had been placed upon the wall Of tho Broadway
corridor on the ground floor in commemoration
Of tho shedding Of tho first patriot blood OF
the Revolution.
The Rev. Charles Russell Treat. chaplain OF
the chapter, delivered the opening address.
Then Mrs. Mary Van Buren, vanderpocl, Is.
corted by Gen. James Grant Wilson. went down
to tho first floor and removed the American
flag which has covered tho tablet since its orec-
ton about a week ago. Upon their return Gen.
Wilson delivered an address. In which he said
that the first blood Of the Revolution had TN.
doubtedly been shed at tho time and place
described in the tablet, and not AZ Lexington or
day" he said, "in front OF the City Prison. now
only surviving public building OF that pcrioSiI."
and he expressed tho hope that 1t would soon 10
to preserve It as q National History Museum.
He also read the following letter, dated Jan. -,
I77o. which he said yin ID Ate ad The chapters
I" w arc all IN confusion in this city New
York;. Tho soldiers have cut and blowed up
tween the Inhabitants. On Friday last between
Burling slip and Fly Market was an engage
| ment between the Inhabitants and the soldiers,
when much blood was split. One sailor got run
| through the body who has since died. One man
got his skull cut in tile most cruel manner.
On Saturday tho City Hall bell. rang for
an alarm. when was another battle between
| the Inhabitants and soldiers. but the soldiers
| met with Rubbers, the chiefest. part being
| sailors with clubs to avenge tho death OF their
brother. which thev did with courage and made
them all run to their barracks. What will DO
the end of this God only knows"
District Attorney Gardiner closed the proceed.
ings with an address In. which ho eulogizcd
| patriotism and those working. to perpetuate it.
Chapter say that tho erection Of the tablet re-
about q year ago. which drew their attention to
the desirability Of proyidinRa memorial Of some
sort. The tablet bears the following inscription,
together with a facsimile of the seal OF the So.
ciety Of the Daughters Of the American Revolu.
ton:
On the Common OF the city of New York, where
this building now stands, there stood from 1a8 TO
1915 q liberty pole. erected to commemorate the re.
peal of the Stamp act. It was repeatedly destroyed
by the violence Of the Tories, and as repeatedly re-
placed by the Sons of Liberty, who organized q con.
slant watch and guard. In its defence the first
martyr blood Of the American Revolution was shed
AID. 1897. Erected by the
MARY WARRINGTON COLONIAL CHATTER
It ID placed Just opposite the Bureau Of In
formation windows, In the Post Ohice.
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Tho Hon. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS Of
Washington has hurled himself against the
United States Army. and tho army will have to
retire. 1t was q splendid sight when no stood
up In front Of the Speakers desk, turned his
back on that abashed official, and turned
upon tho House his flowing face with all
its wealth OF flamboyant Gothic tracery
and ornamentation. Tho trusts are In control
Of the country" he cried. In accents wild. and
constitute tho main hand of power behind the
courts. II the army 10 increased, the people
will be justified in asking whether It is not to
be used to barricade the courts and break
down everything that means the freedom
Of the Government" Whereupon he shook and
fulmined, and the army retired behind intrench-
ments. There will be no barricading while
JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS has hair on his face
and q heart in his bosom. In his own proud
words, he has the smallest foot and the biggest
head In Congress-.
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oUBA.
ret ths bread ere Cttissus, bet the steel e
THE Usitsa States Goveruncut sheuia Ne
Oannrea Tor the Refence er Ter People.

net ths bread er our Cttisens, Bot the steel 60
tire Waited States Goveruncat sheuia Ne
Oasrea Tor the Befenoo er Ter People.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Lately the
newspapers have devoted much space to the
presentation of Mr.. Sherman's appealfor charity
for the Cubans. While these notices are often
stirring. usually patriotic, or calculated to
arouse ones patriotism. and always strenuous,
they appear, at the same time, TO be more or
less perfunctory.
This much.lauded charity IN is only n rose
water treatment for the Cuban trouble. Tho
real issue. the vital. tho honest, the just issue.
IL open intervention, and not one Of old clothes.
condensed milk, cornmeal. or quinine.
We have done police work In the Gulf too long
for an independent nation. 1t is time We told
that decrepit Government Of tinsel, arrogance.
cruelty, and bankruptcy TO Move onl" Soon
the thunder Of tho Cuban cannon will be hoard
at Havana's gate. soon the Cuban cavalry will
ride triumphantly down the Plaza dc Armas,
soon the wretched "Espaha bancarrota" will
totter and fall with q crash into the dusty obliv-
ion Of other wornout humbugs that also had
their "divino right of kings" their Most Illus
trious this and Sir Knight that. their empty
pride, and their hollow mockery Of regal ON.
Impotence.
But until that day comes, the day that Spain
abandons her futile, fatuous efforts to retain her
last possession In the New World. IL 10 my
earnest hope that TIE Sun will continue to
give it's old-tlmo support, It's old.time fervor.
and Its old.time sledsehammer blows for inter.
vention and Cuba Librei
Out upon this CHARITY" that makes . by
word and q scorn Of that larger, broader. truer
| charity that means the liberation and salvation
of q people that have writhed for four long,
weary centuries under tho lash Of the most
cruelty tyrannical monarchy that has ever In
fested the earthl
Del tirano 60 en- balde Ia sahs
Entire Cuba Espaha
Tiende imensos sus alas Of mar.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. 16. A. r. L.
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or the 1866 ~iynchings in 1897. 1<o were in the South.
ern and 20 in tho Northern states. or the 100 per.
sons iynched 1g2 were negroes. 80 were whites. and
D were Indians.
Tho alleged crimes for which the victims were
lynched were as follows: Race prejudice. 4; arson, o;
murder. %; robbery, 10; assaults. 80; writing insult.
ing letters. I I; outlawry. 81; by White Caps. 4; burglary.
@; elopement. 2; furnishing information. 8; unknown
offences, o; train wrecking. l; mistaken identity, /;
refusing TO give evidence. l; insults. /; conce aling q
murder. /; disobedienoe of regulations. /; running
quarantine, !.
Ono i~ynching. II will be observed. was a clear and
admitted case OF mistaken identity. and It would not
be astonishing II a considerable number of other cases
OF mistaken Identity went to mako up tho list.
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Foreign Notes OF Real Interest.

A derelict steamship boiler floating in the English
Channel was recently picked up by = London tug
Mark Twain. like the late cristoforo Colombo.
now has q bust. 1t is the work OF the vienncso
sculptor. Hegenbarth.
Berlin has female commercial travellers who go
their rounds OIL ~tricycles. to which arc attached their
boxes Of samples.
An unexpected result OF the English c]ricketers'
visit to Australia is the engagement OF Mr.. A. C. Mao
Laren to q Melbourne young woman.
Lady birds arc being imported into Egypt from
New South Wales In order to protect fruit from para
site insects. They may provo as bad q curse as tho
sparroWs.
There are 81. ITO students matriculated at German
universities this winter semester. an increase OF 900
over last year. The largest increase 10, as usual, in
the law faculty.
Joseph Arch. the laborer member OF Parliament,
left memoirs which the Countess of Warwick. the
Lady Brooke Of tho Tranby Croft baccarat scandal.
has edited and will publish soon.
An Annamite Partisan has presented himself for
military duty in the Sixth district or the city. He'll
N. BuiQuang-C hievbachelier. es.lettres ct es-scienrcs
aad . graduate OF the agricultural college.
The British Grenadiers now possess the tailest sol.
der In the army. He stands six feet eight and three.
quarters inches In his stocking feet, and. as he is only
go years CT age may grow yet. He Is an Irishmsu.
Commander Henry James. retired. tho oldest oniccr
on tho British navy LIST. has Just died at the age OF
90 years, He entered the service In 1912. hut had no
luck in promotion. and was retired for age as a Lieu
tenant hfty-six years ago.
At Palestrina. two more fragments OF the Frames.
tine stone calendar OF N. yerrius Placcus have been
discovered. They give the observances for Aug, !. and
mention a previously unknown sacrifice to Victoria
Virgo on the Palatine hill.
Postage stamps may be reproduced once more In
England in stamp albums and catalogues by a recent
a % A.. nrlrIaI 1AawA - V.-. TlAU
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A correspondent asks: what representation
how NV NAM TammanT Hail n deieSateS and hor NAM
from the country districts p. There win be 400 dele.
gates in tho convention. Greater New York will
have ia and the country 276 delegates. This will
place the balance OF power very largely in the hands
OF the country Democrats Syrdouse Courier.
The preponderance of the country delegates
in the convention does not imply. by any means.
that Tammany will not be the controlling in
fuence in it. Tammany is likely to draw into
alliance with 1t the Democracy of interior coun-
ties. Erie county. perhaps; and the prestige of
its sweeping victory in 1897 will draw to it q
degree of consideration from the country De-
mocracy which may give 1t control In spite of
the numerical minority in which Its own dele
cation will be.
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Desperate Rapid Transit Commits
sloners.

The latest device Of the Rapid Transit
Commissioners to revive their defunct
scheme reveals the state Of desperation into
which they have fallen. 1t is to ask the
Supreme Court to amend the Rapid Transit
act by adding to section 81 Of the act q
provision not now found In IL.
The section referred to provides, that the
contractor for the proposed tunnel road
shall deposit, as security for its oonstruo-
ton and equipment, 81. 200, 900 In cash,
which said 81, 900, 900 10 to be returned to
him, with interest, upon the completion Of
his contract.
! The same section provides that, as ne.
curity. not only for the construction and
equipment Of the road, but also for its
maintenance and operation, mt for the
payment of It's annua rental for a term of
not less than thirty-flve nor more than fifty
years, q bond shall be given by the con-
tractors in such amount as the Board Of
Commissioners shall require, and with
sureties to be approved by the board.
In making application to the Supreme
Court for a confirmation Of their scheme,
the Commissioners omitted to specify tho
amount at which they intended to fix the
bond last above mentioned. This omission
the court has remedied by suggesting that
the amount be $1b,OOO,O 900, and Offering,
upon receiving a stipulation from the Com
~missioners, that the latter will exact a
bond to this amount, to grant them the
order of confirmation they ask for.
All this is regular and in conformity with
law. Now, the Commissioners announce,
that they intend to ask the court to accept,
in lieu of a stipulation Oh their part for q
bond Of sic, 00O, 900, under section "a Of
the Rapid Transit act, a stipulation to exact
another bond, not provided for In any part
of the act, to secure the construction Of the
road only, leaving it to their discretion to
fix the amount of the bond required by the
act as 1t stands. This latter bond they
propose shall be for the amount of seven
years rental only, leaving the remaining
twenty.eight years rental unsecured.
Argument Is unnecessary to show, that,
without legislative action, the Commission
ers will not be authorized to require or to
accept the new bond they propose, and that
a bond to the amount Of seven years rental
is quite inadequate to secure the rental for
thirty.ave years.
The Commissioners had better give up
their job. at once, and resign.
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From tho Nsw Jersey Trade Rsview.

FTUW 4'oW VeTStVI Tuue NepItW.
Marcus Alonzo Hanna has been chosen United States
Senator. His triumph Is more than personal. 1t has
national importance. and patriotic Americans have
cause to rejoice, Traitors in his own political house.
hold had entered into 4 d~sstardly conspiracy with po-
litical adversaries to defeat him at all hazards, no
matter what the consequences might be; and II the
plotters had succeeded the result would have been
hailed with delight as a triumph OF the economic her.
etics who were routed In 1906. when Mr.. Hanna d..
rected the campaign against them. Hence. 1t is not
surprising that business interests looked with anxiety
TO the outcome OF tho Senatorial fight. "All's well
that ENDS well" Mark Hanna's triumph is a glorious
victory for the country.