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The times., 1898-09-03
WELCOMING THE SHIPS.
Boston Is Patriotic When War YES
sells Come Home.

sels Come Home.
Boston, Sept. 2.--At $40 this morning
the feet of United States war vessels
sailed from Provincetown. The trip up
the coast was made without special in
cident. AS the Massachusetts passed
Nantasket Beach, at about noon, the
steam whistles shrieked a welcome and
the thousands of people along shore
waved flags and shouted. At / O'Clock
near Boston light, the Massachusetts
stopped her engines and Gov. Wolcott
and staff came alongside in small
steamer and went on board.
The governors boat was at the head
of a long procession of pleasure crafts
of all descriptions that had come down
from Boston AS soon as Capt. Higgin-
son had received Gov. Woicott and the
customary formal salute had been given,
the whistles of excursion boats were let
loose and amid a perfect pandemonium
nose into the winding channel by Bos-
ton light, and crept slowly UP the harbor.
No guns We're fired at either fort, but
as the foremost ship passed Deer Island
and came in sight of the navy yard she
fired a salute of eleven guns and the
navy yard replied with seven guns. Capt
HiGginson went ashore at once and paid
his respects to Commandant Howison. OF
the navy yard. During the rest of the
afternoon the warships were open to
visitors and were literally crowded with
people.
The times., 1898-09-03
ANGLo-GERMAN AGREEMENT.
Germany VIII Support England IN.
Egyptian Matters.

London, Sept. 2.-The Berlin correspond
ent of the Leeds Mercury learns that an
Anglo-German agreement is imminent.
whereby Germany will support England
upon the question of the composition and
powers of mixed tribunals in Egypt. Il is
also believed that Austria will fall in line
with England and Germany.
The Pail Mall Gazette understands that
an agreement was signed this week by
MIR. Balfour. acting foreign minister. and
Count Won Hatzfeldt-Wi Widenberg, German
ambassador. embracing an offensive and
defensive alliance between Great Britain
and Germany in certain eyentualitieS
This is doubtless the agreement of the
Leeds Mercury as relating to the compo-
sition and powers of mixed tribunals in
Egypt.
1t is believed in many circles in the city
that the agreement concerns Delagoa
Bay. The. belief is that Germany has
withdrawn her objection to Great Britain
acquiring that harbor and that the gov
ernment will now conclude bargain
with the Portuguese.
The times., 1898-09-03
THE GOLD RESERVE.
The Balance Reported the Highest
Point Ever Reached.

Point Ever Reached.
The gold balance in the Treasury yes
terday was s219. .32O,972, the highest point
ever reached. OF gold coin. the Treasury
has S149. .6O7, 1867, and bullion, s1Oo .1Si, 9S4,
total of S254. .792 951. Against this there were
outstanding gold certificates amounting TO
ss5. .472, SO, leaving the free gold as stated
above.
Treasury officials expect still higher
mark to be reached, as the bullion now
coming from Alaska will soon find its
way into the mints and shipments of gold
coin from Australia and Europe are now
on the way, with no immediate prospect
that they will not continue.
During the month of August the gold
coin in the Treasury increased S22,35S. 025
and the bullion s5,SSl,076. total gain of
s2S, ,s339 iO1.
The total amount of gold and silver
coins and certificates, United States notes,
and national bank notes in circulation
on September 1 was 81. 1872, 096, net de-
crease for the month of s17, ,101, ,799, and an
increase of s12s. .416.447 compared with the
same date last year.
Based on an estimated population of
4790.000, the per capita circulation is
SD 96
The times., 1898-09-03
France to Establish a colony.

The State Department has received a
report from Commercial Agent Wolff, at
Noumea, which states that. according to
his information, the French government
is about to take formal possession of the
New Hebrides Islands and constitute of
them French colony. They were occu-
pied by the French about ten years ago,
but not officially. The imports and ex-
ports of this group of islands amount to
about 81. .00O0 900 per annum. Their total
area is 3.625. .957 acres, and the most south
erly island in the group is 1,555 miles from
Sydney, Australia The products are
sugar, tobacco, rubber, coffee, vanilla,
and tropical and semi-tropical fruit
The times., 1898-09-03
THE OFFICIALS OF DOVER.
Application for "A Mandamus to Re-
instate Them.

Trenton, n. J., Sept. 2--The Supreme
Court sat in special session here today
to hear the application for writ of man
damus to permit the officers of Dover.
Morris County, TO resume the functions of
their Offices The case grew out of
recent decision by the Supreme Court de-
claring unconstitutional the city govern
ment of Dover.
The city officers appealed to the higher
court and refused to surrender their Off
ces, on the ground that the appeal acted
as a stay. Their action precipitated the
proceedings.
Argument for the mandamus was made
by Attorney General Grey and ex-Gov-
ernor George T. Worth. Joseph Coult,
of Newark, appeared for the city officers.
A decision will be given by September
Is
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sPersonaIIy Responsible. :,

1t is unsafe to fool with General
Wheeler. He is as full of ginger as the
business end Of hornet, and so the
medical staff at Camp wikoff found out
not many days ago. The usual method
of procedure at that camp has been to
lay the blame on somebody else when
ever possible and avoid responsibility.
When anything went wrong. it was
never the fault Of anybody that could
be found; it was always the other fel-
The times., 1898-09-03
LEAVING CAMP THOMAS.
Investigation of the Second Division
Hospital by Gen. BrcckfnridEe.

Chattanooga, Sept. 2.-Gen. Compton has
decided the order in which regiments are
to leave Camp Thomas. The Fourteenth
New York will be the first in order to
leave and the time designated for its
departure tomorrow Other regiments
will follow this
A steady rain has been falling for the
past twelve hours. Gen. Franks head
quarters are being moved to Admission
Gen. Breckenridge has ordered an investi-
CATION of the Second Division hospital
which will take place at once. Soldiers
who have been confined there will be
brought before a board of inquiry to tes-
tify.
The hard rain has leaked through many
of the hospital tents, wetting the patients.
This the surgeons are powerless to pre-
vent The Government is busy selling off
horses, wagons. and other condemned
property left by the army. Gen. Breckin-
ridge will not leave Chickamauga until
the removal of the entire Third Corps is
completed.
This will be the latter part of next
week.
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General sternberg is right-about there
being "a craze 10 criticise;" but he is Ut
-a,.lv and inexcusabiy wrong when he
adds. without regard 10 truth or JUS
tice" No man In this country today
has more cause to be grateful for the
moderation of public criticism than the
surgeon general He may be wholly
b!ameiess, but he must admit that ap-
pearances are all against his bu-
reau. The people will be glad of any
proofs that its work has been efficient or
that it is not responsible for every de-
fec that has been exposed.
The times., 1898-09-03

Some doctors show a surprising and de-
plorable absence of reasoning power in
their defense of Surgeon General Stern
berg. They assume that because he is an
excellent physician and famous hunter
OF the elusive bacilii. his conduct of the
medical department in time OF war
must necessarily be all right. Many a
man famous in the world of science is
without the qualities of a successful ex-
ecutfve officer. Neither the scientific at
tainments nor the personal honesty of
Gen. Sternberg has been assailed.
The times., 1898-09-03
VOLUNTEERS INDIGNANT.
They Want to Go Home Without
Any More Red Tape.


Fort Adams, Newport, r. l.. Sept. p
The Forty-seyenth Volunteers of Brook
lyn are up in arms because the order re-
turning them to Camp Black on Tuesday
next has been countermanded. They are
also thoroughly Indignant over the part
of the order which says they must parade
in Newport on Saturday. the 10th instant.
when begins the four-day fete in honor
of the naval heroes of the torpedo flo
tilla. Many of them openly threaten to
refuse to march.
Not that the soldiers would detract one
whit from the welcome home honors of
their fellows of the sea. Their indigna-
ton is directed first against Congress
man Melville Bull and the society people
of Newport, whose pull at Washington
seems TO be great enough to make the
regiment subject to their whims, and,
secondly, their indignation is against Col.
John G. Eddy and the officers under him
for meekly submitting TO the change of
program without earnest protest in the
interest of the men.
The order signed by Assistant Adjt.
Gen. Barbor came last night while the
officers We're entertaining some of their
Newport friends at dance in the Fort
Library and many of them seemed over
joyed. Not so the men. who have wives
and children at home They believed
their petition has been answered and
their letters to those depending upon
them in Brooklyn told them to be of good
cheer for they would be with them in
day or two, The delay they have been
ordered to submit to is most dishearten-
ing.
The bitterness of the men could be de-
tected in their inattention displayed dur
ing the morning drills and in sullenness
as they gathered in knots afterward in
their company streets to discuss the stu
alton. 1t was manifested by the more
excitable ones in their loudly proclaimed
avowals that they would jump the guard
and skip for home before they would
submit TO being strung out in a process
sion for the amusement of the million
aires.
The times., 1898-09-03
PASSENGER RATE RULING.
Canadian Pacific Is Not Entitled to
n DiTerentiaI.

The Interstate Commerce Commission,
in an opinion by Commissioner Prouty.
announced yesterday its decision in the
matter of alleged passenger rate disturb
ances by the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Company. The case involves the propri
ETY. of differential passenger rates between
Eastern points and the Pacific Coast.
The American lines and the Canadian
Pacific have been engaged for six months
or more in a war of passenger rates be-
tween such points. and also between St
the Pacific Coast. which arose from the
refusal of American lines to longer con-
tinue allowing the Canadian Pacific diff
ferential basis under which fares from
the East to Pacific Coast points by that
route were less than those by the Ameri-
can lines by $50 on first-class and s. on
second-class business.
Very large reductions in rates were
made during the contest. The Commits
sion is unable TO find in the testimony
anything outrageous in the conduct of the
Canadian Pacific in this matter. 1t says
there may be reasons why this particular
differential ought never to have been
granted but, in insisting upon II, that
company simply claimed what numerous
American lines had claimed, and what
many more were ENJOYING.
mo line. American or Canadian. ought
to insist upon a differential unless II is at
a manifest disadvantage" reads the opin-
ion. This is especially true of the Ca
madam Pacific. If it comes into the Unit
ed States to compete for traffic between
United States points. it snould be content
to operate upon the same terms as its
American competitors, unless those terms
are clearly unjust or unreasonable"
The commission further points out that
it has also suspended the long and short
haul clause for American lines on busi-
ness to and from the Kootenai mining dis
trict, in British Columbia. and upon traf-
fic between the Province of Quebec and
Ontario and provinces of Manitoba The
commission also states that it has no
power to allow or disallow the differential
in dispute.
$50 far as our official action can affect
the matter, we conclude that we ought
not at present to rescind the suspension
orders heretofore made; but, If the diff
Guilty should be adjusted in accordance
with the views above expressed, 1t may be-
come our duty TO revoke the permission
granted by these ORDERS
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really valid. without subverting ali

really valid. Without subverting all
subordinate position cannot go against
the orders of superiors even If he
knows that the lives of helpless men
are at stake. Tt is probable that the
incompetence and careleSSneSS in the
medical service will be found to be
largely among the higher officials.
whose salaries are fat and who> have
not much to do. The doctors who went
into the service. not for money. but
for patriotism. usually proved them
selves heroes. The trouble is that
there was not enough of them. and that
they were hampered by Indifference on
the part of their superiors. In the
medical service. as in the army ana
navy, the private soldier, the man at
the gun. is all right if there is sneak
or a shrk ii is the officer, whose salary
is large enough to tempt him to go to
war for that and a title. These men,
and some of their subordinates, have
been Gripping the hospital service by
trying to show their little brief author
ity. They have insisted that certain
forms should oe observed DSiore Hece9
sary supplies could be obtaifiSd; and
they have in many cases been negii-
gent in attending TO requests for these
supplies. 1t did not take General
Wheeler long to see through this state
of affairs He called the medical stan
together and said, tersely:
This nonsense has got to stop. There are sup
plies enough Of all kinds right here in camp, ana
if the soldiers don't get them it's your fault
Men are diving for lack OF medicine because o.
your petty ways of Going th!ngs. II IT Is not
stopped at once shall hold you personally re-
sponsible for every death that occurs from iacK
of care. will accept excuses about lack OF med
ieine from no one.
Those two little words, personally
RESPONSIBLE" are wonderful quickeners
TO a sluggish conscience. 1t is like the
way the revivalist has of stopping IN
front of a half-repentant sinner ana
saying, Il mean you!" A good many
people have been prodded into church
bv that method who would never have
gotten there of their own volition.
The times., 1898-09-03
Contract for the sword.

The Navy Department yesterday con-
tracted with Tiffany, of New York, for a
jewel-studded sword, to cost s3, 0oO which
will be presented to Admiral Dewey. in
in Manila Bay.
Congress appropriated $4,000 for the
purpose of llonoring the naval heroes at
Manila. The $1,000 which viii remain
after the Dewey sword is paid for will be
used to purchase medals of honor for
those of the officers and members of the
crew of the Manila squadron who spec
tally distinguished themselves.
The times., 1898-09-03
INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
Board of Inquiry for La Gran,
Duchess.

Board of Inquiry for La Grand
Duchess.
Secretary Alger has appointed a board
of survey to meet in New York to inves-
tigate the case of the troopship La Grand
Duchess.
The board will ascertain the quantity
and condition of lot of subsistence
stores recently arrived on that vessel.
where and when loaded. to what port
shipped and fix the responsibility for
their non-delivery and condition
The board will consist of Capt Henry
l.. Harris, First Artillery; First Lieut.
Herman c. Schumm, Second Artillery;
First Lieut.. p. Frank Packard, First
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
The times., 1898-09-03
Paymnsters Are Slow.

Complaint is made that the paymaster's
department of the army is handicapped
by an insufficient and incompetent force
and is away behind with its payment of
the Porto Rican army.
Many of the troops at Santiago and
those in camp in this country are behind
in their pay. The Seventy-first New York
Regiment. particularly, has not been paid
since May 1.
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II should not be forgotten that although
the Secretary of War had cable connection
with the generals in the field at Santiago.
he knew nothing of the conditions there,
he admits, until he learned of them
through the newspapers.
The times., 1898-09-03
No Deaths Renortea

The sanitary report received at the War
Department yesterday afternoon from
Gen. Lawton at Santiago shows that
there were no deaths since his last mes
sage.
"Total number of sick 230; total fever
cases, 139; total new cases of fever, Z:
returned to duty, 22.
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TOKEN OF HER PEOPLES LOVE.
Substantial Testime niaI to the Ex-
Queen Regent of Holland.

Amsterdam, Sept. 2.-The burgomaster
OF this city today presented three hundred
thousand forms TO ex-oueen Regent En-
ma as a testimony of her peoples love
for her and the esteem in which they
held her.
Her majesty announced that she would
devote part of the money to the hospital
for consumptives and part to philanthro-
py in the Dutch East Indies.
The times., 1898-09-03
NEW JERSEY TROOPS.
The First VIII Probably Soon Be
Mustered Ont.

Camp Voorhees,. Sea Girt, n. j., Sept
2-The governor has not yet decided how
he will muster out the New Jersey troops
designated by the War Department.
Col Alexander P. Oliphant, the govern
or's aide, said today that he was not GER
tain what troops would be sent home.
He stated, however, that the First Regi-
ment, which has been at Camp Alger,
will arrive at Camp VOORHEES,, Sea Girt,
tomorrow. This is taken as a positive
Indication that the First will be one of
the regiments to be mustered out The
Third Regiment, 1t is understood. will be
ordered to Sea Girt. The First will be
paid off and discharged the latter troops
having already signed the pay roll
The times., 1898-09-03
AUXILIARY CRUISERS.
Turned Over to the International
Steamship Company.

steamship Company.
The naval authorities yesterday turned
over the International Steamship Com
pany operating the American line the
four Transatlantic liners used as auxili-
airy cruisers, the st. Louis, st. Paul, New
York and Paris. The latter two were
known in the navy as the Yale and the
Harvard.
A lump sum was paid the steamship
company in satisfaction of that provi-
sion of the charter which required the
Government 20 restore the vessels to the
condition In which they were when they
took possession. This sum the Navy De-
partment officials decline to disclose for
the present"
1t is believed to be in the neighborhood
of $500. coo, $50, 600 for each vessel. Besides
getting rid of the trouble and annoy
ance of making the repairs and restora-
tion, with the possibility of contro-
versy with the owners at the end, the
Government stops the payment of the
charter price at once. which, in this case
is 81 500 a day for each vessel $1,000 in
all. The Government held the ships l3S
days at a total cost of 81. 3S0, 800 in addi-
ton to the sum paid for restoration.
1t is said that the St. Louis and s..
Paul are in a dreadful condition. The
elegant mahogany and other rich hard
wood decorations and carvings have been
so hacked and cut as to be absolutely
ruined and must be replaced throughout.
The sanitary condition is said 20 be on
a par with the physical, necessitating a
thorough oySrhauling.
Assistant Secretary Allen said the naval
administration was 10th TO turn these
vessels over 10 the army for transports
but it seemed to be a work of necessity
and mercy to bring the sick and wounded
away from Cuba as rapidly as possible.
The policy Of paying ship-owners lump
sum in discharge Of the obligation TO re-
pair and restore vessels will probably be
adhered to by the department. In surren-
dering control of the auxiliary force.
The auxiliary war vessels Suwanee at
Norfolk, and Restless. at New York, have
been put out of commission. They will
be inspected by a board TO determine
whether they shall remain in the naval
service.
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While New York is in welcoming mood
she should get up fitting reception lor
General Miles. ii his ship makes tnat
port. While he made no dramatic els
play during the war, he began a cam
raign in Porto Rico that was mastery
in its inception and would have had
glorious ending but for the Intervention
of protocol, which acted as a brake on
everybody except the matchless De"ey.
The times., 1898-09-03
TWO DEAD HEROES.
Their Bodies Reach Jersey City
From ChickamauEa.

New York, Sept. I'm the baggage car
of the Pennsylvania train which arrived
at Jersey City In-s morning were the
bodies of two soldiers who died at Chick
amauga from typhoid fever. They were
Capt. Ira Stonewen, of the First New
Hampshire, and Private John Nanheimer,
Company A. Ninth New York.
The times., 1898-09-03
MISS BARTON LEAVES HAVANA
She VIII Sail mt Once for New
Orleans.

Tampa, Fla, Sept. 2.-col Bellinger.
quartermaster here, received cablegram
late last night from Miss Clara Barton.
from Havana, saying she would sail at
once on the hospital ship Clinton for New
Orleans
The times., 1898-09-03

President Mckinley will come through
the war and its sequences very great
man in the eyes of his counrymen If he
will only keep out Of politics. But we
fear the results of the visit 10 Ohio
The times., 1898-09-03

War is a dreadful and a costly thing
but there is this compensating thing
about it-when there is war the country
is able to forget there is a Hanna.
The times., 1898-09-03

Il may be true. as the Portland Ore
gonian says that Hanna is at heart and
by conviction a free silver man; but the
silver men are not Dragging about it.
The times., 1898-09-03

John Sherman is a better political ad-
wiser than Mark Hanna. and he urges an
investigation. even though it should mean
n Cabinet vacancy.
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FOR THE SOUTHERN CAMPS.
The Ohio Hospital Trnin of Fifteen
Coaches Leaves Columbus

Columbus. Ohio. Sept. 2.-The Ohio hos
pital train left Columbus today over the
Pennsylvania line for the Southern camps.
II is composed of fifteen coaches.
The times., 1898-09-03
MURDER PLOT DISCOVERED.
Report of Designs Against the Life
of Baron BanHy.

Budapest. Sept. 2.-The Posto Naplo
publishes a report of the existence of a
plot to murder Baron Banffy, the Hunga-
rian prime minister, but gives no informa-
ton as to the origin of the report or
the character of the plot
The times., 1898-09-03
REICHSRATH SUMMONED.
BY Imperial Decree 1t Will Nee
September 20.

Vienna, Sept. 2.-The Wiener Zeltung
announces that the Reichsrath has been
summoned by imperial decree to meet on
September 26.
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ANOTHER ALLIANCE RUMoR.
This Time 1t Is Jaran, America and
Great Britain.

Tacoma, Wash. Sept. 2--Late Japanese
papers persist that an alliance is about
to be entered into between Japan. he
United States and Great Britain.
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

THE TINES. in all its editions, Morning, Even
ing and Sunday. VIII be mailed TO one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month. Addresses changed
as often as desired.
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