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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
RUSH AT CARPENTER STEEL WORKS
THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEGUN-A BIG SHIPMENT
OF PROJECTILES5 MADE

Reading Penn. March 1.-THE Carpenter Steel
Works awarded contract late this afternoon Tor
three buildings the largest 90 by l@ feet. TO be
erected as additions TO its plant. Work was begun
at once and tonight stonemasons and laborers arc
at work to be followed tomorrow by carpenters
and others Machinery will be introduced at once
and work pushed on the buildings with double
shifts night and day To-nisht the works present
ZION This afternoon the largest shipmen. or
nroiectiles in three months was sen: out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
BusrLE IN DEPARTMENT OF COLORADO.

Denver Col March 12.--Actng under special
ders received from the War Department. the COM
handing officer at Fort Logan has distributed
among the various companies stationed there tents
and the regulation equipments sufficient 70 pro-
vide shelter. should they he called TO The
same preparations are being made at all the posts
in the Department Of the Colorado
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
HARD TO GET MECHANICS AT wATERTowN.

WATERFOWL Mass March Fifty more ma
chnists will be at work at the arsenal or Monday.
and on that day night work In the machinery de-
partment Will be begun
Major Reilly. the commandment said to-day that
there was great difficulty in securing mechanics
who knew anything about the kind OF work which
IS done at the arsenal Most of the applicants for
work who are now out or employment.
Sklful mechanics Will not leave permanent posi-
lions in this city ard elsewhere 10 seek temporary
employment under the Government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
GOVERNMENT ASKS PRICE OF TUGS

Taunton. Mass, March l2-The Staples Coal Com,
pnny OF this city. has received requests from the
United States Government TO name the selling
price OF the two large and powerful ocean going
steam tugs owned by the company The Govern.
meht Is elso endeavoring TO purchase eight coal
being built Bath Me 49, '"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
OrFICER5 ASSIGNED TO DUTY.

Washington. March 12-IseutenantComm
T s. Phelps has been ordered to duty at the Mare
Island Navy Yard.
Pay Director +. c. Cosby has been detached from
the Board OF Inspection and Survey and assigned
20 duty $ general inspector of the Pay Corps.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
RUSH ORDER FOR COAL BASKETS

Springfield. Mass. March l2-The William. Pa q.
ket Manufacturing Company Of Northamn,on p.
ceivcd rush order for FIVE thousand baskets To-
the naval coang station at Brooklyn ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
CAPT BARKER TO Assist TIE SECRETARY

Washington, March i2-Captain A. g. Barker.
formerly In command OF the battle-ship Oregon on
the Pacific Station. who is now in this city on
waiting orders. was ordered 10 temporary duty in
the ONCE OF the Secretary OF the Navy to-day. TO
ASSIST In the consideration Of emergency prepara-
lions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
DYNAMITE CARTRIDGES ORDERED

Valparaiso. Ind. March 1.-THE Actna Powder
Company. at Miller Station has received an order
for one hundred tons OF powder and two hundred
tons or dynamite cartridges from the War De-
partment. The works viii be run day and night
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
A FRENCH PLEA FOR SPAIN.

Paris March i2-The 'Paris" to-day says:
The European Concstt. which prevented the
partition OF Turkey. owes II TO Spain not 20 allow
her TO become the hrst victim OF Pan-American-
ism"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
GERMANY NO ALLY OF SPAIN.
AN INSPIRED AND IMPORTANT STATEMENT FROM
BERLIN

Berlin. March 12-The Berlin Foreign once
has Instructed the inspired press to deny am
phatcaIly TINT Germany Will aid Spain in case
or war with the United States. and has in
structcd these newspapers to point out that the
United States is an excellent customer Of Ger
many. and that Spain. since the Carolnas
squabble, has repeatedly shown unfriend!incas 10
Germany
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
NEW DEFENCE MEASURES
CONTINUED from First Pogeo

NINA fear OF an attack. II the Navy can pre-
vent an opponent from coaling In the west IN
d,.s the ARMY will never be called into acuo"
FOR defences. Dr,oos
Contract. were made to-day with the Dr'ses
seabury Gun and Ammunition company wv
range finders and S250.000 worth OF fuses' pr,
}ectiles and fixed ammunition. DELIVERIES "
begin In a week.
sI-ppIIEs FOR ADMIRAL SlCAfDo rN
rns,neer-in- Chief Melville is preparing u s'Iu
.,,r,v thousand gallons OF lubricating y" ~
Kev West for the use of the squadron ii9
one hundred thousand gallons woulo ue
IN case the fleet went into action Inns "Fi
emily enormous demand was at frst re'e''eu
Secretary Long with incredulity' Du'
Melville showed that the cruiser Ne"- i0i ,.,
g., ,.rLs for four thousand gallons, ana WIN
az, oraat activity on her part this qoan"''
wouId not last q month. If flying sG""'' -"
uere sent ont the Columbia ana 'he
oils cruising steadily, would each require nv
thousand gallons monthly 10 Iuo'i0"'e '
machinery. attain.
Surgeon General Van Reypen cailed the ave-"
tion of Secretary Long to-day 10 'he l"U' '
in time OF war the Medical Corps whieh Is eve"
now oyertaxed by the duties requreu Va
would he utterly unequal to the care OF the
t,on a letter will go TO Congress on Monday ASK
ing for the immediate re-enactmeh' Vi "e0''o"
All Of the revised statutes. which is as follows
Tho Secretary Of the Navy may appoint for Sen NJ
rorarvI seryice such acting assistant surgeons
H. sYieencies OF the service may require. VINO
shall receive the compensation OF assistant SUI
geons.
Thi, was repealed in 1879 when there was
M longer any necessity for It. Surgeon General
Va, P.vne, has already received offers from a
number OF volunteers for such appointments
.nd where the applicant is not over forty years
o,d the offer is likely to be accepted II many
more ships are placed in commission
The scarcity OF engineers who would be re-
sponsibe for the vast amount OF machine''
which constitutes the most important offensive
and defensive qualities OF modern waisHips VI
all classes causes much concern. because skilled
men cannot be readily secured hngiheer-ih-
chic, Melville saws that the amount OF ma
cb,nerv 70 be cared for has enormously IN
creased with the growth Of the new Navy while
there has been no increase Of NUMBERS III the
ENGINEER Corps Prior TO 1889 the strength or
the corps was go, but in that year II was re-
arcss 70 10 At that time there was only
fragment OF Navy with machinery Oh Hdi"''
,,ora than auxiliary power. Before the reduc-
ton had reached the limit 1t was stopped ~
orotnar act. leaving the legal number at l93
He has urged that the limit be increaseo a'
once The Columbia and the Minneapolis con-
sp,cuously the machinery ships OF the Navy
will go into commission with only three en-
eineers next Tuesday. because no more are
available Each needs ten as minimum. Sec
retary Long will take UP this matter on Moh-
day and endeavor TO secure RELIEF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13

Junction City. Kan. March n-Orders were re-
ceived at Fort Riley. this afternoon ordering
batteries y and J.. OF the An Artillery and Bat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13
SENATOR PROCTOR RETURNING.

Miami. Fla. March Ex-senator Proctor and his
party left here at s;z5 o'clock this morning for
Washington.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13

have been visiting the shipyards at Genoa and
Leghorn 10 buy warships. but have found none
available
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-13

NO WARsHIPs AVAILABLE IN ITALY.
London. March IA dispatch from Rome saws
AGENTS OF the United States Navy Department
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
TO INVESTIGATE THE SEMINOLE
LYNCHING.

Senator Quay has introduced a reso-
luton in the senate instructing the
secretary of the interior to investigate
of two Seminole Indians in Oklahoma
territory. And that the investigation
may be thorough, the sum of $4,000 is
appropriated.
We are heartily glad that this resolu-
ton has been introduced, and hope that
it will pass. If the fiends who burned
those two Indians can be caught and
punished as they deserve it will have
a most salutary effect on lynchers
throughout the Country. This particu-
lar crime having been committed on
territory that is under the jurisdiction
Of the United States, the general gov
eminent can very properly move in
I. the matter of Furnishing the perpetra-
tors of it. If the resolution passes
both houses, as it likely will, the gov
eminent machinery will soon be set in
motion, and something will doubtless
be done. 1t will have a salutary effect
on public sentiment in those sections
of the country where lynchings are
common, and will tend to arouse public
sentiment everywhere to true realiza-
ton of the horror and disgrace of
these crimes against the majesty of
the law and in defiance of the sover-
eign authority of the states.
Lynchers can be brought to justice
as well as other criminals of all kinds.
And let them he hrO1ICht 10 il1Stice in
a few cases. and it will be a very
much easier matter to bring them to
justice in subsequent cases.
Senator Quay probably desires to
have the interior department undertake
the investigation because the Indians
are under the care and supervision of
that department; otherwise. he would
probably have had the department of
justice undertake it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
TO CHANGE INAUGURATION DAY

Yesterday Senator Hoar presented a
joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution. The resolution
provides:
That the following article be proposed
to the legislatures of the several states
as an amendment to the constitution of
the United States:
The term of office of president and of
the Fifty-sixth congress shall. continue
until the Goth day of April, in the year
1901, at noon. The senators whose eX-
listing term would otherwise expire on
the 4th day of March in the year 1901,
at noon, or thereafter, shall continue in
office until noon of the 30th day of April
succeeding subsequent expiration, ana
the 30th day of April, at noon, shah
thereafter be substituted for the 4th OF
March as the commencement and ter.
mination of the official terms of presi-
dent, vice president, senators and rep
resentatives in congress.
The resolution was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections;
it viii probably be pigeonholed by the
committee. For many years there has
been more or less discussion. at times.
of the question whether it would not be
a wise thing to have the president in
augurated later in the season than now.
A chief argument urged in behalf of
the change is that the weather on the
4th of March is almost invariably bad,
and that has the effect to spoil, in large
measure, the ceremonies on Inaugural
ton day.
There would be no disadvantage in
changing inauguration day from the 4th
of March to the SOth of April, while
there would be some advantages. Tho
objection that it would prolong the term
of the president during whose admin
istration it occurred. and also the terms
of some representatives and senators,
isn't serious one, in fact, it is petty
rather than anything else. There
would be the advantage of nearly two
months time added to the short ses-
sion.
The change proposed by Senator Hoar
would seem to be advantageous ON the
whole. His resolution will serve to
draw out public opinion on the ques-
ton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
THE SALT HERALD: SATURDAY. JANUARY 10 1898

arose en- masse against any concession
whatever to silver, and yet in the face
of that demonstration last October, we
have Bill Chandler telling the ldlotic
lie that the president considers the
negotiations with the European pow
ers only temporarily suspended on ac-
count of the peculiar condition OF af-
fairs in India,"
If the Wolcot commission could not
succeed no other could. To send an
other commission to Europe to try and
accomplish what the one just returned
failed to do or to send it back again,
would be absurd and subject it and
the administration that sent it to ridi-
cule.
Senator Chandler says that he talked
with the president on the question of
bimetallism with the result given in his
interview. Is the Times-Herald au-
thorized to deny its authenticity? I'm
less it is the interview will have to
stand until the president either denies
it or authorizes its denial or until Sen
ator Chandler wirhdraws it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
TO ASCERTAIN HAWAIIAN SEN
TIMENT.

The Provo Enquirer says that
Professor Benjamin Cuff, jr., president
of the B. Y. academy, is going to
Hawaii for the special purpose of
ascertaining what the sentiment OF
the native population on annexation IS.
1t seems that he goes at the instga-
ton of Senator Cannon and will report
the result of his labors to him.
Professor Cuff is well qualified to
undertake this mission. In his early
youth he spent five years on the
islands and after he reached MANHOOD
estate he spent three and a half years
on the islands, and all the while among
the natives. Their language is as
familiar to him as his own and he has
a thorough acquaintance with the ma
tives' character. We do not know
whether Professor Cuff favors or OPP
poses annexation, but from what we
know of him we feel assured that he
will make a thorough and impartial
investigation of native Hawaiian sentl-
ment on the question of annexation
and will report it exactly as ne finds
it. He will ascertain what native senti-
ment is from the natives and will not
take any second hand statement of
what Il IS.
What the result of the professors in
vestigation will be or whether or not it
will have any influence one way or an
other on the question of annexation no
one can know, but it will be satisfac-
ton to have it made that the true senti-
ments of the Hawaiians may be known.
The congressional delegation from Utah
will feel that it knows more about the
state of affairs in the islands after
Professor Cuff has been there and
made a report if no other delegation
does, for each member Of it is person
ally acquainted with him.
We understand the professor will be
gone about five or six weeks. 1t is by
no means impossible that final action
on the question of Hawaiian annexa-
ton may be taken before that time.
At all events the result of his mission
will be awaited with interest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
FALLING FOUL OF CHANDLER.

The Chicago Times-Herald, a stanch
supporter of the administration, falls
foul of Senator Chandler because of
his recent interview in which he de-
clared that the president stands firmly
in favor of international bimetallism;
that he considers the negotiations with
the European powers only temporarily
SUSPENDED on account of the peculiar
condition of affairs in India, and that
it is the presidents intention to again
send his ENJOYS to Europe as soon as
tinuing negotiations.
No red rag Haunted in the face of a
bull ever enraged it more than this
statement of Chambers enrages the
Times-H Herald. 1t says that he is a
charlatan and q, thimble-rigger, I'M
scrupulous in his methods, with faith
only in mendacity and chicanery as the
weapons of the politicians. 1t de-
nounc his statement as a piece of
trickery, and says that it is a manifest
lie But let the Times Herald de-
nounce him in its own language, for il
does it in the finest of style. After
quoting that part of Chambers state
ment referred to above, it says:
This is a, manifest lie, for two very
good and sufficient reasons. In the
first place the president has too fine
q sense of decorum and too much pride
in his country to send back a commits
sion whose propositions have been once
rejected, and in the second place if he
had even a remote intention of re-
opening the negotiations Senator Chan
der would be the last person in the
world TO whom he would confide that
intention.
Think of Bill Chandler, who before
the providential nomination never
spoke of Major Mckinley without dis
paragement and contumely, using all
the mendacious arts at his command
to defeat him in the convention, now
posing as the spokesman of the presi<
dent on the most important issue be.
fore the countryi Believe it who viii,
but we would sooner believe that rather
than deliver a message to the people
through such a man the president
would take him by the scruff of the
neck and the tail of his coat and
gently toss him over the war depart
ment building, recommending him to
fall light
Bill Chandler the confidential spokes-
man of President Mckinley What
braggadocial
President Mckinley has fully dis
charged the obligation laid upon him
by the st. Louis platform in respect
to international bimetallism. He has
in good faith sent a commission abroad
to sound the governments of Europe on
the question, and that commission was
composed of men who have full faith in
and who had every incen-
tive to make their mission successful.
If they could not succeed, who can?
What would be the use of sending back
men who could only repeat the argu-
ments they have already presented
without effect?
We all know that the British public |
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF
EDUCATION.

About the most pressing question be-
fore the board of education is that of
selecting a treasurer. There are a
number of applicants for the position,
doubtless all competent. But the ques-
ton of who shall be treasurer is not
so much one of persons as of banks.
Each applicant is the representative Of
some bank that desires to have the
school moneys deposited with it. When
the board is out of funds it is always
necessary to make overdrafts, and it
must be accommodated in this respect.
The safety of the school moneys and
this accommodation are the elements
that enter into the question, Who shall
be appointed treasurer? By far the
more important of these two is that of
the safety of the school moneys when
on deposit. So far as this is concerned
the board should designate as the place
it deems safest and most secure; the
public interest and no other should be
consulted. A year and more ago this
city lost $4,000 by having that amount
placed on deposit with a rotten bank.
No such chance should be taken with
the school moneys; in fact, it is very
doubtful if there is such rotten bank
ing institution in the entire state as
that was.
The matter of accommodation, while
an important one, is one that can gen
orally be arranged satisfactorily. The
question of the treasurership. resolves
itself into one of banks. Let the safest
and soundest be selected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
ROME NOT IN HIS PRECINCT.
Tenderloin Sergeant Tins Declines tt
Answer Questions Touching thu
Murder of Caesar.

New York Times During the last hours
of the reporters night watch in the Ten
derloin the warmth and comfort of the
West Thirtieth street station are much
sought after. From midnight until 2 a.
m. time dragS heavily to the workers on
the morning newspapers, who can usually
be seen sitting in circle around the
stove. Half asleep, they talk of the latest
''shake-upS'' in the various offices. tell
of the large bills that they used to make
before the new journalism flooded the
Row with crafty WeSternerS or gull1ble
southerners, and look at the clock every
five minutes to see IL 1t is not yet time TO
call off the watch.
At regular intervals Sergeant Tins
takes the desk at midnight, and on these
occasions the last two hours of the Ten
derloin watch find the newspaper men
huddled closer around the stove as if for
mutual protection.
Sergeant Tins is a Tenderloin land
mark, and withal good, generous officer,
and liked by the reporters, but he has his
limitations. If necessary he will take
an extra day off to consult musty volumes
mind with knowledge or rare subjects
with which to harrass the ranks of the re-
What is the greatest depth of the Pa
cific ocean? What is the highest noun
tain of Asia? And, by the way, can any
of you young gentlemen tell me what
gives rise to the opinion that there are
open seas at both the Arctic and Ant
artic poles?"
These are samples of what Sergeant
Tins will fire at the group about the
stove in the early morning. Sometimes a
return volley of wild gueSseS Will be
launched at him. but this is only a sign
of the mental havoc played by the assault
from behind the desk, and the wilder and
more frequent the guesses the more de-
lighted is Sergeant Tins.
A few nights ago one OF the reporters
entered the station with something up his
sleeve for the well-read sergeant Just
wait until he breaks loose. said the
scribe to his fellow-sufferers. land then
watch me soak him one,
Can any of you young gentlemen give
me a concise and comprehensive definition
of the difference between the terms An
archy and Socialism,"
The reporters edged up on the stove and
hurled back a chorus of Give it up"
When the difference had been duly
launched in elegant English from the
desk, the reporter with something up his
sleeve cleared his throat and queried
Sergeant Tins to this effect:
what year was it, sergeant, that
Brutus killed Caesar, and what manner of
weapon was used in the tragedy"
A series of nudges passed from elbow to
ribs around the circle as the learned SER
geant brought the fore finger of one hand
to his brow as if TO aid him in busting off
his knowledge of history Oppressive 81
lence reigned in the station for the space
of two minutes. and it looked as If the
sergeant had beer chased I'D a tree. The
reporters We're mentally preparing O grand
iubilation in the event of Sergeant Tins
being punished with his own medicine
when his voice was heard TO answer:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15
sNowBIRDs.

Wide wastes of glittering snow.
The fields and the lanes adrift,
Wild winds that infrequent blow,
Gray clouds that remove and shift;
And swift from the ground upspring
The snow birds tiny and wary,
Blown hither on restless wing.
In january.
Packed close is the barren hedge
With white and shining wall;
The wind cuts like a wedge
Deep-driven by oaken maui;
And up from the feed-lots rise
The snow-birds agile and merry,
Under the lorn steel skies
OF January.
The sun burns sullen and red;
The woods are as black as night;
The pulse of the world is dead,
And sudden. to left and right,
Brown-sDun in a whirling faze,
The snow-birds over the prairie
Weave out through the snowy ways
OF January.
Ernest McGaffey in January Woman:
Home Companion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat makes
this very sensible comment on the dan
ger of Chinese competition;
'India's competition was a bugbear
which frightened some tinid Ameri-
cans fifteen or twenty years ago, but
nobody thinks of it now. The Chinese
menace will vanish in the same way.
What British enterprise and capital
have failed to accomplish in India will
not be achieved by Germany. France
and Russia in China. The Chinese, like
the natives of Englands big Asiatic
province, belong to an inferior race. In
fact, the former are lower in the scale
of intelligence than the latter. When
a person of an inferior race gets the ed
ucation and the skill which would make
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-15

him a dangerous rival of the Caucasian
as producer. he begins to feel the
needs and acquire the habits which
make him, like the white man, a lavish
consumer. Even if China is opened up
to civilization by Europe the United
States will not be forced out of bust
ness"
Brains have ruled the world in all
things since time was and will con-
tinue to so long as time lasts. Ameri-
cans have more brains than the Chi
nese and have nothing in the world to
fear from them.