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Il STATE FAIR IN 1901.


senator McNulty's Arguments In Its Behalf.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: I respect.
fully call attention to Senate bill No. $40.
1t provides for the holding of an Exposition
in the year 1901 to celebrate the establishment
of Greater New York. 1t seems to me that it
should be passed for n great many reasons. and
/ have taken the liberty OF mentioning the fol.
lowing as possibly the most important ones:
First-The Fair held in 1901 would furnish a
great opportunity for all the State departments,
manufacturers and exhibitors generally to show
the world the immense resources of our city
and State in an attractive manner.
Second-It will give employment to from
10000 10 10000 Of our citizens in the erection
OF buildings and laying out OF streets and neces-
sary work incidental to its preparation.
Third-lt will bring within tho confines of
Greater New York during the six months OF the
EXposition's life on an average (which has been
carefully computed from exhibitions held in
other locallties) of 10000 people per day, who
will spend OH an average of s. per day, which
will be 81 ,25O, 900 per day, or 1925. 900, OOO dur.
ing the six months.
Fourth-It is not open to the objection that it
will leave n surplus of idle population on our
hands that have been attracted by the Fair, as
has happened In other cities. for the reason that
New York has always assimilated the great tide
Of Immigration which primarily is attracted to
New York.
Ftth-lt will not cause. as has happened in
other cities. Misrepresentation with consequent
depression, in hotel buildings. &C., because in
the vicinity of New York inquiry has demon.
stratcd that 10000 people IL day can be readily
housed without the erection of any new build
ings.
.SiXth-Thcrc is no portion OF our immense ter.
ritory, in the opinion of real estate experts.
where nm investment m a site now will not yield
n profit after the exhibition has beon concluded.
Seventh 1t will afford an exceptional object
lesson TO our school children, and will assist
their minds In approaching the greatness of our
State.
Eighth-By the Fair being held in 1901. it will
enable manufacturers and exhibitors, who will
spend considerable money for the Paris Exposi.
ton In 1900, TO merely transport and retXhibit
in New York.
N~inth-Thcre is now before the Senate a bill
authorizing the Governor to appoint "a Commits
sioners who will represent this state at the
Paris exposition; md the experience that these
Commissioner will gain and the opportunities
which they will have for obtaining IA reciprocity
of exhibits between the exhibitors at the Paris
Exposition and that designed to he held in
Greater New York will materially help to make
our Exposition what We wish IL to be.
Tenth-lt has been carefully stimatc that
not over 600 people from America will visit
the Paris Exposition, on account OF The time and
expense involved, and all the exhibits which are
novel in character should be acquired to show
70 the millions who would visit u fair il held In
New York city. PETER ii. MCNULTY.
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The Names Successor.

Although in some quarters there Is still
a hope that the Maine may be raised, re-
paired and restored to the navy, Congress
is bound, in its current legislation, not to
depend on that chance, but to provide a
new ship Us her substitute.
The desire, however, that has been some.
times expressed to build q duplicate of the
wrecked vessel is not wise. The Maine
has become dear to the American public
through her awful fate and through the
good conduct Of her ships company in their
terrible experience at Havana. But just
as we kept the name of Kearsarge, and
applied it to an incomparably more power.
full ship than the one hat perished on Ron.
cador Reef, so our new Maine, IL one is
built, must be of the most powerful type OF
the worlds battleships. That will be a
better method of honoring the wrecked
vessels memory than to build her again.
The Maine and the Texas were our very
first essays in steel battleship building.
Since then we lave greatly improved on
them in the Indiana class, the Kentucky
class, and the Illinois class. Hence of the
Indiana and her sister ships Secretary
TRACY said more than six years ago:
at would certainly be poor economy to build in
their places econd.class armored vessels Of the type OF
the Maine and the Texas. for example. which. though
excellent ships for their size, are not largo enough
TO the true object of q heavily armored
vessel. One frst-class ship would cost certainly one
nth less than two of the smaller type. and yet have
q comparative force SO much greater that in IN en-.
gngement it would destroy them both without re-
ceiving material injury"
We may recall. In fact. that the Maine
was at first classed as a armored cruiser
on the navy list; but when the armored
cruiser New York was built, the Names
great inferiority in speed and coal endur.
ance and superiority in water-line belt
made her true place seem rather that OF
the second. class battleship, along with the
Texas. A good ship of her class was the
Maine, as Secretary TRACY said but our
future battleships must be better.
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SPAIN AND TIL UNITED STATES.
War Not Probable. but It's Coming Need Occa'
sion No a1iaEiyinEs.


To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The pos.
sibility Of n war with Spuin-and 1t is only n
possibility. in spite of the scare over 1t which
Wall street bears set themselves to create
to.day-can DO looked Mt with entire calmncss
by Americans. Even II in duo time we are
actually brought to hostilities with Spain, there
will be no cause for alarm. Necessarily, what
ever attack Is made upon us by her must be
by her navy. against which New York. for in
stance, would be able to defend itself success
fully beyond n reasonable doubt. 1t Is not prob
able that this city would suffer any physical
damage from such an assault. for which tho
Spanish navy is i'll prepared. Two or three Of
our great monitors. with tho assistance Of land
and submarine defencos, could keep out any
ship Spain could send against 1t. 1 have no fear
of Spanish vessels getting inside Of our harbor.
Moreover, the Spanish navy would have COM
parativoly little force to expcnd In offensive
operations against us; It's chief occupation
would DO defensive. 1t would have to keep n
strong fleet in Asiatic waters to defend the
Philippines against our Asiatic squadron, and
another on the Atlantic to guard tho coast OF
Spain against annoyance by our European
SQUADRON, which, small us 1t is. could
make itself exceedingly uncomfortable for
the Spaniards. The beginning Of hostilities
would be followed Immediately by a block
ade Of Havana. against which Spain would
DO compelled to make vigorous resistance.
occupyinr n great mart Of its attention. for nv n
Cuban blockade we should sbpt ont snain from
its base on this side of tho ocean. deprivinp its
ships of tho means Of conIinp unless by tenders
ACCOMMODATING them. and ALWAYS liable to de.
s%truction or dispersion. Havana would also be
shut Off from obtaining tho supplies OF food
necessary for the maintenance of its popula.
tion, and the Cuban revolutionists would have
new and v,stIv orc,ter onnortuni,;cs for caus.
ing damage.
In n war with ,nv Euronc,n mower this co,n
try has ALWAYS IN i,s side ,be great odva,taco
of remoteness. We have only to sit stil and
wait for nm attack on us. the appressor having
:, emma from ocross tho A,l,nt;c ,,,oos ho
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mania, which, for the moment, Is afiict-
ing the French people, was made the other
day by a London newspaper, which asserted
that, II all the facts connected with the
Dreyfus case were divulged, the French
people would ~rcpudiate the alliance with
Russia. 1t is alleged that the st. Peters
burg Government agreed to communicate
to Germany all the information which
Russian agents would find 1t rela-
lively easy to procure concerning the
military plans and resources OF France;
Germany, on her part. undertaking to
perform a similar treacherous function
in the case OF another power, which
is presumed to have been Austria. Nobody
would pay much heed to this hypothesis
but for the fact revealed not long ago that
BISMARCK entered into n secret agreement
with Russia at the very time when Ger
many and Austria were bound together by
the closest ties. The disclosure does not
seem to have shocked the Austrians or the
Hungarians, but the French are more sensi-
tive, and it would incense them to know
that the information gladly impaired to
their Russian ally had been turned over to
their German enemy.
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The Ellsworth Bill.

The e~xcision of the words "libel" and
"libellous" from the Ellsworth bill, which
was reported favorably yesterday by the
Judiciary Committee of the New York Sen
ate, shows the calibre Of thought upon
which it is founded. The omission of these
words, of course, is of no substantial mo.
ment. Without them the bill enacted into
law would be a wholly extraordinary in
strument of oppression and a repulsive
innovation in the sober and considerate
method of the law.
The question why this change has been
made m be answered in one of two ways.
Either the bills sponsors have had them
selves so shallow an understanding of the
measure that they believed that the omis.
sion of the words libel and libellous would
remove the radical objections to it, or they
nave imagined that an indignant press, for
whose qualification, of course, the change
was made, could be hoodwinked into so
believing.
The bill itself, backed evidently by the
representatives of Mr.. PLATT and Mr..
CROKER, creates an amazing situation.
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Kept the Baby Quiet.
From the Chicago Post.

RUM ~ y osf
The woman in The lower, fiat met her at the
woman who had been out to make a few calls
rushed upstairs to her own
For heavens sake, what's the matter, John T.
she demanded as she entered.
Nothing. my dear replied hor husband. as
he looked up at her in surprise. He was on his
old while tho baby sat in tho corner. gurglinR
""Notfing!t: she exclaimed. "Nothing, Do
you know that you have knocked a square yard
Of the plasterlng from the ceiling OF the room
below this one T.
Have ]. my dear T. he asked meckly.
"havo you'll" she cried. "Of course you have.
Further than that. you upset a water pitcher or
something, and : good deal OF the paper down.
stairs is ruined
"Did ]. my dear 7"
YES, you did" she asserted. and the neigh.
bors tell inc that tho racket hero has been sim.
ply awful; and the worst Of it is that you have
been responsible"
YES. you. You needn't try to get out OF It.
They recognized your voice. They could hear
people downstairs say that you were tho one
who was gnlloping up and down the room and
jumping over tho chairs. They could tell by
the way It Jared the house. The children
couldn't possibly have made such a racket.
What in the world have you been trying TO
MY denr." he returned meekly. do you re.
member what you said to me when you went
"Distinctly." she replied. 81 told you above
all things to keen the baby quiet, for there was
We'll" he said. with the air OF a much in.
iured man. Il have kept the baby quiet in the
only way possible to me-"
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organization allows only one, which Is
enough. That is, there will be only ninety
eight Of them for the seven regiments,
against 1870 for the present five. The net
result Is that, with a gain of no fewer than
twenty.fou new batteries, there will be only
twenty-one additional officers, these being
introduced in the grade Of Second Lieuten-
ant OF course, there will be promotions,
but they are we'll deserved in this arm of
the service, where promotion has no long
been very slow. The practical result will
be to get this imperatively needed addition
to the personnel at IN annual cost OF only
a little over half a million dollars a year,
pay, clothing. and rations all told, with n
fourth of this amount expended on the
officers.
The House Military Committee meets to-
day, and should promptly report the Senate
bill with a favorable recommendation, its
subcommittee having agreed yesterday to
a favorable report. The Housc should no
less promptly pass 1t.
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A Vote of Confidence.

The entire absence of craftsmanship in the
Senate's present attitude toward the Ad-
ministration, and the readiness of that body
to trust and support the President in his
management Of our delicate relations with
Spain were shown on Wednesday in a
most gratifying fashion.
Senator ALLEN of Nebraska, a Populist
whose activity is rapidly becoming pestilen-
tial, attempted to embarrass the Admins
tration by attaching to the Diplomatic Ap-
preparation bill a resolution recognizing
Cuban belligercncy. After a spirited pro-
test by some Of the real friends of Cuba
against such a piece of folly while the in
quiry at Havana is in progress, the Vice
President properly ruled the proposed
amendment out of order, on the ground
that it was general legislation, having no
place in an appropriation bill. ALLEN ap-
pealed, but on tho vote to table the appeal
only five Senators were found supporting
him.. The five Senators were these:
WILLIAM ". ALLEN, Populist, of Ne
braska;
HENRY HEITFELD, Populist, of Idaho;
HENRY NJ. TELLER, Silver Republican, Of
Colorado;
FRANK d.. CANNON SllVer ttepuDllCAn, OF
Utah;
WILLIAM E. MASON, elected as a Repub-
lican from Illinois. What he really is the
Lord only knows.
The vote against Mr.. ALIENS stupidity or
maliciously ill-timed attempt to force the
question of recognition was in no sense q
vote against the recognition of Cuban bel
ligerency as an Independent proposition.
Indeed. a resolution identical with Mr..
ALIENS in its language had already
passed the Senate, and it is now
before the House awaiting action. The
former resolution had the earnest approval
and the recorded votes of many Senators
who declined on Wednesday to follow the
vicious lead of Mr.. ALLEN and Mr.. MASON.
Nobody questions the sincerity of Mr.. NOR
CAMS friendship for the Cuban cause, or
Mr.. LODGES or Mr.. FoRAKER's. Yet Dem
ocrats and Republicans, including some of
the best friends Cuba has in the Senate,
united to stamp contemptuously upon the
Allen-Mason policy.
The President has good reason to regard
this proceeding as a vote of confidence in
his Administration, SO far as concerns the
most urgent business now in its hands.
The country likewise will 30 regard it.
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ooAr AND TAR HAZE 4 HIT OFF
ouaaruped and Biped Locked Up AFTER .
Httnriouu NtGht or SHORE.

IRON me san ITnnCtaCO ChrOnfcIf.
William +. Sullivan. q sailor. and his billy.
goat. Jack, wound up a celebration by getting
arrested for drunkenness. Jack Is the pet Of the
ship on which Sullivan 10 an able seaman, and
the two have for a long time been constant com.
panions, ashore as we'll as at sea. Their tastes,
too. run alike in many Observation-Disclosures
In the direction OF beor.
At ono stage Of his existence Jack used to guide
guileless sheep to the slaughter in the Butcher.
town handles. 1t was there that he acquired
tho liking for human society, which became a
fixed habit otter he had ceased TO be a landlub-
Der. His love for beer also came to him when
he took to tho sea.
Early Friday morning Jack and his shipmate.
Sullivan, started their spree on the water front
Every, glass Of steam the sailor bought he
share with Jack. They icy gradually worked
H,rter's beat in Powell street.
distinguish n delicate tomato can from n musty
custard pic, while the soamnn's pinnacle lnmpa
pair managed to ira %,h0 only by making UaaIs m sSort
luffs from sidewalk to sidewalk. Finally thoy
ffiG ss%u coed sseIS SnSG mort g d IL , an ;hsm.. and the po-
At six bells in the morning watch. goat and
snilor again hove in sight on Policeman Harter's
voyed by n highly amused crowd. Finally tho
goat sat helplessly on his launches in the middle
70 sido,-a very picture of hopeless lntoxlcation.
lie resisted NIL the coaxlngs Of the sailor. and
w% wien MOI tb % stree svf bas DOR at me iasst 9'i Sssom. b,o,,,,
by the crowd the disHustod policeman rang for
the central station patrol tie W ,s,c5 ;,., -.
that the goat be taken to tho city pound.
goes , UG iaif. too SS d!o sSs his sP nl. %"sss; unless Jack
Jack was laid alongside him in tho wagon, and
sfsBfs ON wh n5s Ihd he Ffem al a ,si s until / his 0i sSip .'ntisn ,
case was disposed OF.
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lola Convicted.

1t is hard to believe that EMILE lola,
the celebrated novelist, has been sentenced
to a years Imprisonment for declaring that
a French citizen cannot be convicted of
crime on evidence which neither he nor his
ounse is permitted to examine. There is
no doubt that DREYFUs was so convicted.
or that, thereby, the fundamental rights
guaranteed to every man by the law in
France and in every other civilized country
were set at naught. In the trial, too, of
lola, just concluded, there were gross vio-
lations of the French code of procedure, for
the defence was not allowed TO cross.exam-
Inc the officers who testified for the prose-
cution, nor to subpoena officers on its own
behalf. 1t seems almost certain that, on
these grounds, the Court of Cessation
would order a new trial, but. according to
a telegram from Paris to a london news
paper, lola has resolved not to appeal.
He believes. evidently, that by going to
prison, he can best prevent the public in
terest in the Dreyfus case from dying ont.
1t is n sinister fact that one is now likely
TO be mobbed in the Paris streets II he
shouts" Vive la Rfpublique ~ the cry raised
In opposition to that of "Vive rArmee !"
by those who ~disapprove of the violations
Of Justice in the DREyFus trial. This Is a
state of things more favorable to the re-
sctionists than existed on the I'd Of Deem
Der, 1851, for even the partisans of LOUIS
NAPOLEON cried "Vive la RGpublique ="
The difference between the situations is
that there is now no personality sufficiently
imposing in the public eye TO take
advantage of the general disposition
20 deity the army aud of the popu-
lar recoil from civil justice and repub-
lican institutions. Not one of the Generals
has ever won what his countrymen would
regard as a victory, for operations in Tunis.
West Africa, Madagascar, and Farther
India make but a faint impression on the
French mind. The recent attempt 10 re.
yive the Napoleonic legend seems to have
failed, for there is no sign Of a movement
In favor Of either of the sons of the late
Prince NAPOLEON, who are, of course, the
representatives of the imperial idea. The
Bourbon monarchy has apparently no par.
tisans In the army, and BoULANGER, who,
for ,an hour, got himself accepted MS u pop.
ular idol, is dead. Under the cigcum.
stances, the republic may continue to exist,
Notwithstanding the homogeneous fact that
It's name cannot be safely uttered in the
streets.
The only plausible explanation OF the
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Foreign Notea OF Reu, Intere.t.

Four young women Of Odessa are trying to earn q
million roubles apiece rs servant girls. A rich uncls
bequeathed his fortune Of four million Ioubles 10
such OF his four nieces as worked faithfully for m
teen months as domeStics. w"ashcrwomen nr farm
hands. All four have now served nine months ats
factorily, and have refused a hutdrsd offers II mar
riage a month.
A 7O.yearold medical student has died in VI
emma JUST before trying his examination. Re was
the ritter Vincent Won Helm. doctor of laws AMI o'
philosophy, receiving a pension as a retired bureau
chief after forty four years service In the Int rIorI"
partment. To occupy his leisure he entered himself
as a medical student in the university and md
almost completed the cour'e at the time OF hi, death
Etl4vant. tho Anarchist. who re- ,cntly muriorciH
Paris police an and wounded two Others, has innni
cut a use for lawyers. Having refused to defend h'H'
self or employ a lawyer. tho court assigned une 10
lake charge OF the defence, Etidvant wOui! hav'
nothing to do with him. declaring that he wi'loi to
be condemned 10 death. tn the lawyer explained
that no Jury could bring In a verdict involving 'ap'
tai punishment unless a defence was made; where
upon Etievant accepted his services.
Record onnces Of the British administrative Il part
ments are safe places In which TO store things that
must not be found. The Shipwrighis' CnwNanH, 'hH
OF the London guilds. has Just found It's charter Tor
which It had been hunting for a century. amons no
papers stored In Trinity House. on Tower NNl mo
office OF thu Lighthouse Board. The charter, eiarle'
by Jamcs l.. empowers tho company to inspect 'h'
construction Of shiI s in any part of fNEIani ana %
punish those who put bad work into them
Al Penacuik. scotlani. a large number ~ s''''
coins OF Edward LIS time have been found. Ih'i"
are nearly 400 Of them, pennies aud half p"nn'r' f'
ranged in rolls. Among them are coins O; A'"Ah''''
III. and of King Robert Bruce ~ Scotland. Scar" Nv
a gold demi'nOble OF King James !. was turn"in ~
the plough. The coins were dis over II through =
mole building II hill under them. which f"r '' i'
Of them TO the surface. II is believed tlHt ilr} VIC
buried by the monks OF the Clstercim mpna'''.' ''
Mount Lothian. which once stood near ry.
Prot. Msruchi. the al, hnologIst ami director - lA'
Vatican museum OF antiquities, Is Indignant '''''
cxaggcrations attached TO his guess that th"rrtAA
ion picture On the walls OF the pala e of Il.'''
may possibly have been drawn In Tiber!us'- N'".r'
The picture has been known for n long tim" anu las
been assigned usually TO the fifteenth Q ntur', ~
there Is no evidence OF the sgrddtfo process l"i'-
known earlier. Under IL Is an Inscription Of nfir'n
lines. which the professor has not yet succee i"i'n
deciphering. He has given out nothing for pa0'AS~
tIon 20 fAS.
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For nnItInE Ma:-na,es TO Consider.

From the ErdHsriIe Tribune.
There Is n CROWN; sentiment all over h, Country
for better and cleaner baseball.
The disgrlccful wrangies with umplrcs. the shocl.
in language used Ly PLAYERS and the thousand and
one tricks OF "dIrty han" have made the so.calleI
national 6 umc an Oh 'ct Of ceusura ins;rad OF admI.
ration, The pulpit has denounced baseball. and for
good rca on, yet II the game were conducted a n
good. Clean athletic sport, as Il should be, we fancy
there woud DO little opposition.
The disgust OF the public an the consequent fall.
ipG oil In AIT 'ndauce is the strongest cond.mna,,on
OF baseball as II has been Played IN the last { w years.
We hope that managers ald plaJC Will hrlny
about the much needed reform III : year. Base. all is
dear to tn American people. but IL should be Glenn,
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Oar esteemed contemporary, the Minnie.
n7oiia Tribune. which discovered that don
QuiSotc +" WAS written by SCoTT, and brought to
fame MARY RUSSELL "MELFoRD," continues It's
literary excursions vita pleasure TO Itself and
profit to III" rest OF tho learned world. II has
6XcdihcauthorShip OF Tine Old Oaken Bucket"
which 1t Describes as "WORDswORTH's once
popular souG." II would he u great happiness
to students OF literature il the Minneapolis
authority would investigate what the Buffalo
Enquirer means by asking: " Is II not the truth
that SPENCER is 10 day aS eOnseLentiously un.
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Charleston NeIps and Courier affects to com.
plain Of the South Carolina Legislature, which
adjourned the other day after passing 2O6 laws
in thirty.flve days. Probably 200 OF the BOG
cOuld have been spared without ever being
missed" says the grumbling critic. Not one OF
the BOG could have been spared. Ask the ad.
mIrers of tho Hon. BEN THLMAN. who are a ma
jority of the white citizens of South Carolina,
what they want, and they will yell with one
voice that they want more laws. They believe
that laws can do everything, and they would
like to SEQ tho Legislature sit. at its own cx-
penso, every week day in the year and pass not
less than 1865 laws Il day.