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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10

The a%eronau SPENCER has just passed
in a balloon from England to France. ascending
at the London Crystal Palace. and In a few
hours reaching Boulogne. This recalls the first
balloon journey over the Channel, an Ameri-
can, DR.. JEFFRIES, being one of the two pioneer
voyaGcrs who attempted 1t.
Or. J~EFFRIEs and the professional BLANCHARD
accomplished the feat as long ago as January,
1885, only . year and a half after the first bal
loon was sent up to a height OF 100 feet by the
MoNTGoLFIERs the paper makers of Annonay.
and a | little more than a year after PrLArRE DIES
ROSTERS and the Marquis p'ARLANDEs made
the first aerial voyage OF a balloon with passen.
gers over the roofs OF Paris.
1t seems strange that, while in other depart.
ments of human invention the modern strides
have been so prodigious, aeronautics have &C
complished comparatively little advance. Even
the journey across the British Channel has not
often been performed in the last century. al.
though much longer ones have been achieved.
such as that OF the balloon called the Touring
Club. from Paris 10 Agen. a distance OF miles.
that of the Vile d'Orleans. which started from
Paris during tho Fr~anco-German war and was
carried 10 Norway. and that OF the Gen. Chanzy.
which brought up at a town in Bavaria. In
July. 1856, the Torpilleur, with the famous
aeronaut. L'HosTE, and N. MASGoT, excited
much talk BY starting from Cherbourg and
landing at London, the very point intended.
while only last year the Channel was again sue.
c~essfully crossed. Still, the very fact that each
new performance OF tho feat arouses public
interest suggests the comparatively small ad-
vance effected since the famous Channel journey
Of l13 years ago.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
More Revenue Cutters Needed.

A bill pending in Congress authorizes
the construction Of eight new revenue cut
tiers. The proposed addition is large, but
seven out of the eight are to be substitutes
for existing craft which, according to Secre-
tary GAGE, should be CONDEMNED and sold
as soon as it is possible to replace them"
The Seward Is an old wooden s~ide-wheeler,
practically worn out, unseaworthy, and
not worth extensive repairs" The Nc.
Lane, which served as q gunboat In the
civil war, cost originally $36. 900, while on
her repairs the sum of $113,275 has been
expended, and she is of obsolete type. The
Colfax is a side-wheeler of iron, wood.
sheathed, twenty-six years old, and not
worth a large repair outlay. The Bout
we'll, owing to bad design, is not now
and never was a seaworthy vessel" The
Washington and the Chandler are small
wooden tugs, acquired from the navy in
1858. The Hamlin is also a wooden tug
past repairing" after an active service of
thirty-one years.
The first cost of these seven vessels was
$685., 100, and SCOOPS has been expended
on repairing them. They are still used
because no others are available, rather than
because it is true economy to patch them
up. The eighth vessel desired is one of
special construction for the Columbia River
bar and the neighborhood. For the Yukon
a small craft Is to be furnished under q
different bill.
The period of reconstruction has now
come for the revenue marine, as 1t came for
the navy fifteen years 20. Indeed, a few
modern vessels have already been provided.
But when we SEQ the great Importance and
variety of h duties imposed on the
revenue cutters, from sealing patrol work
In Behring Sea to the execution of the
quarantine and neutrality laws among the
Florida Keys. and of the customs and nayt-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
The Issue.

Last week the Republicans OF the Sixth
Illinois Congress district renominated the
Hon.. HENRY SHERMAN BoUTELL as their
representative and adopted q platform
which expresses simply and strongly the
issue upon which the Congress elections Of
1898 will depend:
.The Republicans OF the Sixth Congressional dis
trict congratulate the country upon the restoration
OF business confidence. through public faith In an Al.
ministration pledged to protect the national credit
We indorse the Administration OF President McKfS-
LIT and commend to the favor of q patriotic and en-
iirhtened citizenship his recent public address In
which he declared that the %country's obligations
must b raid in the best money on earth.
eve congratulate the country upon the vfndioation
OF the national honor II the popular branch o. Con-
rress, under tbs leadership Of speaker REED. in Its
defeat of the Teller resolution.
1--WE rcanirm our ~steadfast adherence TO the prin.
ciplss enunciated In the platform adopted nt Sc.
Louis and declare ourselves unequivocally and ua.
reservediy in favor Of the maintenance OF the single
gold standard"
The Sixth Illinois Congress district Is one
OF the seven Congress districts of Chicago.
It's Republicans have pledged themselvcsto
that square and unequivocating Republs-
canism which, in tho continuing struggle
against the reputation coalition, has be-
come Identical with patriotism. The cour-
age that won In 1895 is still stronger in
1898. 1t deserves to win and 1t will win.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
Our Marines at San Juan.

Once more our navy has landed armed
forces on the Central American isthmus, in
conformity with a policy sanctioned by
long usage and established By treaty.
1t was under the treaty requirements Of
1913, compelling us to keep open the com.
mcrcial route from Colon to Panama, that,
nearly thirteen years ago, our naval forces
landed at both these points, and ~patrolled
the railroad. At that time insurgents had
closed the route and were burning and
pillaging at Colon. In the present in.
stance, too, an instruction has been the
cause of Commander LEUTZE's landing OF
marines from the Alert at San Juan del
Sur, TO protect our consular agency and
American interests in general during a
battle delivered there.
AT the last news President ZELAYA's
forces were victorious, and were about to
reoccupy San Juan del Sur, from which the
insurgents had been driven. so that our
forces could then be withdrawn. But the
revolt ma not end with a single battle,
and the presence Of the Alert Is still needed
there. She was ordered, we believe, tC
make surveys in the harbor of Brito, the
Pacific terminus of the Nicaragua Canal
near which lies San Juan. At the Grey
town end of the canal is, or lately was, the
gunboat Newport; but the rival force,
seem to have concentrated on the Pacih,
coast, near the Costa Rican frontier.
While the protection of our consulate
was ground sufficient for Commands
LEUrzE's action, yet it may be we'll to poinl
out, in view of possible renewals of tn,
conflict, that thirty years ago we made
compact regarding the protection of tn,
Nicaragua Canal route analogous to tn,
one of fifty years ago with New Granada
relating to the Panama route.
The Dickinson'Ayon treaty, ratified Jun,
20, 1868, declares In Article XIV. tina
"the United States hereby agree to ex
tend their protection to all such routes O
communication as Aforesaid, and to guar
Antee De neutrality and innocent use o
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
From the Sphtnr.

In taking the visitor to the top the rascals
wait till they get him about half way up on some
particularly "skeery" portion OF the ascent.
obviously what the latter.day novclists call the
psychological moment, and make a unanimous
demand for baksheesh. One does not feel like
begrudging q few pisstres at such a moment
Your glance strays uneasily down the appalling
length and breadth OF that huge. steep stairway
OF jagged boulders, and you shudderingly won
der how many piastres it would take Cor re-
pairs TO your anatomy if you weEe % take
an impromptu tobo2gan slide to the bottom.
To keep up their enthusiasm and give them
an object in getting you back alive you promise
them something. You find the whole village
waiting for you with open palms at the bottom.
They swarm over you like Siberian wolves on =
belated traveller. whine and bully you out OF
al! your change. your last cigarette, everything
you've get. and then nearly mob you for not
having more. You shake of the last OF your
pursuers at the door of the hotel, pull yourself
together with a sigh OF relief. and Journey home
ward. vowing that things will be largely other
wise and better managed before you appear
amid the pyramids again.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
Foreign Note. or Real Interest.

An abandoned railroad tunnel running for q mile
under the streets OF Edinburgh has been used for
some years as q mushroom farm. II turns out nearly
5000 pounds OF mushrooms a month. and has put an
end TO the importation of fore!ga mushrooms 70
Edinburgh.
Berlin boasts Of a.oqe millionaire. reckoned on tho
basis OF incomes that would represe Mt n capital CT
1000, 900 MARKS, that Is. $4,000 . year. only l.loo
OF these. however. actually have the $3.50. 600 OF cap
itAi; seventy-eight have 1000. 900 marks or over, and
only nve have the 5000. 900 marks that would
make them m:lionairss In England.
An experiment in coAling the new bsttleships at
Portsmouth. using their own crews only. was not
very successful. Though the Mars shipped its fun
complement OF 1850 tons in nine hours and the
Prince George It's $50 tons in ak. the Majestic took
twelve hours to put in s78 Of the 1920 tons II re-
quired. and the Resolution eleven hours for 700 tons
out OF l .2G5 needed.
Paris is thin liking OF cutting down the trees on the
strip OF island projecting down stream from tho
Poni Seuf behind the statue OF Henry ", and act
ting up . monument instead In the shape OF a stone
construction repressntlns the vessel OF Lutei!A' on
the city arms As the river often ~orcraows the poins
of land. the city motto on the vessel, "F!uciua: nee
AsroitHv.' seems Inappropriate.
Egypt's population. according TO IN, census taken
last June. is .. 10000 more than double the popu.a-
ton In is46- The foreign residents are 10000 81
these $1,000 are Greeks. 24.5oo Italians, 1890
E'hlsheIrs hSiuulu6 "a army VI VENbAsN'Ns -
1900 French subjects. including Algerisns snd
Tunisians. Twelve per cent. of the raIive males can
read and write: the other Ezy ptisns are iliiterats'
Cairo has $4,000 inhabitants, Alexandra $4,000.
PORT Said 1000. and sueE 1900,
This years crop OF centennial celebrations includes
observations OF the four hundredth AuniyersariS' 81
Waco de Gana's discovery OF the way to Inf.aby "y
OF the Cape OF Good Hope. At Lisbon In MAY = 80
burning Of ssvonsroiA at Florence. also In Ma 'hi
OF the birth of Holbsin at Basil. In Switzerland Won't
pellIer will celebrate the hundredth blrIhily - 'as
philosopher AuguSte Comts; AnconA that u u" i-e'
Leopard. who WAS born at Re'snau. close ny sIa
Paris tina; Of Nichelet. the historian,
clemenee I'aure. the Provencal poetes and founder
OF the tcuS foTaux that are still the pride q lou
louise. has been wiped out of eEtGL&ace ~ an iaGEiH'
tive German named RoschGcA. Auer examining 'As
archives OF southern France. he declares that there
never was = person named Clsnenes IsAure, that
the name hrst became generally known throush a
poem o: Flonsn's q hundred years ago; that TIE
J<G[ FoToET. OF which the earliest record he cAn SUD
was In l+es. wero originally in honor OF the Virgin
AaIy, rIrgO eIsMSRS. daAa ClaEsHEsa and that the
name IsAuTe was nTst added In the folioWinE cen
tury. The original or the latter Il . Dame DertrAnds
rsALSuisr. wEoss arm1 were Appropriated by the
magistrates Of rO1i00ss became thsy bore . gaElA4A
e tA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
BIG LENS FOR THE H1G H1AxDs.
The Twin Lights to ne Replaced by nm Rlee-
trie Beacon Visible Piriy Miles nj Sea.

Iho Twin LiGhts To Ne hepiaced by an Rlec-
trie Beacon Visible Piriy Miles NJ Sea.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-The Lighthouse Board
has finally decided what 1t will do with the
great French lens with which experiments have
been made at the Staten Island depot. 1t is to
be placed in one Of the big lighthouses at the
Highlands, where its rays can sparkle far out
on the ocean without danger OF binding the
shippers approaching the Sandy Hook channel.
1t was agreed by the board some time ago that
this powerful lens should be placed in the light
house at BarnegAt, which has always been re-
garded as the most important station on the
coast next TO Fire Island. but further considera.
tion has led TO the new conclusion.
Mariners generally protested against placing
the light anywhere In the lower harbor OF New
York. and experiments with the lens at Staten
Island demonstrated that IL was too powerful
than an aid to commerce IL 90 employed. The
only place where lite full power can be nsed
prohtably Is some point on the coast where
there is a great extent OF water for the light TO
play over. For years the twin Highlands lights
have been notable TO mariner RS approaching New
York. The Lighthouse Board believes that
with the great electric light At the High
lands there can be- no possibility OF error
by shippers, who have sometimes mistaken
the Highlands lights for either the light yes
sells or some other light station. The board
says that with the light in operation the en-
trance to New York harbor can be noted By
captains nifty miles away. 1t will be necessary
light. No other lighthouse on the coast displays
an electric light. II this Is a success and can be
mointained economically. other hrst-class light
stations will be equipped with electrical power.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
TO FIGHT THE DIsPENsARr L
Its Opponents Meet and Decide 70 0end .
TO Albany.

Pursuant to a recent call there met In the
rooms OF the Transportation Club, Hotel Man
haitian. last might. representatives of o number
Of free dispensaries in New York. to take action
on tie sullivan bill. now pending at Albany.
which places free dispensaries under the direct
control of the State. Board OF Charities. Tho bill
was introduced in the Legislature at the In
stance OF a large number OF physicians. with Q
view to preventing the alleged abuse of FREQ
dispcnsaries.
J. G. Cannon was elected permanent Presi-
dent at the meeting last evening. and Charles
n. Earle Secretary. 1t was agreed that the
organization should be maintained until the
fate OF the Dill mad been decided. and that
feat. The general tenor of the discussion was
to the effect that. under the provisions OF the
bill the dispensaries would be deprived OF the
right of self.government and that licenses.
after having been granted by the state Board
board deemed il advisable.
After suSgestions were made as to amend;
the P'ocst,Graduaic Medical School and Hospl.
tai. argued for an ,unequivocal opposition to
the measure: He cha-acterlzcd il as an i'm
iensaries and dictate to men of extended ex.
rerience the manner. in which these dispen.
saries should be conducted.
Or. Wickes Washburn. who. as a representa-
tive OF the County Medical Society. had much
TO do with the formulation of the act, was
called upon to defend the measure. He read
rerorts OF Investigations which showed that
fully 80 per cent. OF the people treated at the
free dispensaries were able to pay. DIR. Wash
burns arguments and figures were laughed at.
One gentleman, who refused to give his name,
said that he would not trust the State Board Of
Charities, although no was well acquainted
with all Of its members.
oh. that bill will never pass said Dr.. &. B.
Needing. for it is in the hands OF DR.. Roosa,
and he can kill 1t II he wants to. Why, DIR.
Rosa has the Legislature under his thumb
4 motion to appoint a committee of five to
appear AT Albany at a hearing before the As
sembly on Feb. 10 was carried with
only two dissenting votes. The dissenters were
DIR. julius Weiss. representing the east side dis
pensaries. and DIR. Alexander Hadden, repre-
scntng the northeastern dispensaries.
IF you gentlemen represent dispensaries
that are guilty Of abuses. why don't you correct
themf' asked one ply stefan.
We do not believe VIC are guilty OF abuses"
srid DR.. Weiss. but we are perfectly willing
to stand the test'of investigation. and II we are
in the wrong TO be closed out OF business. We
believe there are abuses and we want them cor
rectcd, no matter who suffers"
Funds will be raised 10 fight the bill. and a
large delegation will accompany the committee
to Albany.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
MR.. BRFAN,s PRESS NOTICES.
Treatment Given 10 the Marked Copies Of
Newspapers Seat TO Him.

LINCOLN, Neb.. Feb. s9.-Eyery mail brings
copies of newspapers to W. J. Bryan. Most OF
these papers contain complimentary notices
OF Mr.. Bryan or editorials about his speeches,
and the articles are invariably marked with a
blue pencil so that Mr.. Bryan shall have no
difficulty in finding them. 1t will pain some of
the senders to learn that the newspaper mail is
rot Iken to Mr.. Bryan's house. but is dumped
on the floor OF a vacant room in the rear OF his
office downtown. When two or three bushels
OF the papers have accumulated they are sold
to a dealer in old paper. the wrappers not being
remoy ed and Mr.. Bryan not taking the trouble
even to have the matter looked over second
hand. II would appear that though Mr.. Bryan
is very anxious to receive all the newspaper
advertising he can get aud thoroughly appre-
ciates the value OF press notices. he does not
care TO spend any time in examining the compli-
mentary matter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
Tho South and Organism.

The Populists of Georgia a called their
State Convention for March 16. This 10
three months in advance Of the time when
such conventions are held usually in Geor-
gia, and the haste 10 interpreted by the
atlanta Constitution as simply an attempt
Of the Populist leaders to magnify their
Office, which will be futile so far rs concerns
the votes of the rank and file Of the Georgia
Populists. These citizens, 1t says, "oppos.
ing every phase of disqualification" are un.
willing "to throw any obstacle in the way
Of Democratic doctrine, provided only that
the doctrine be genuine" that is, strictly
according to the Chicago platform.
The advice Of the Constitution, however,
10 that the Democrats also shall start their
campaign as soon as practicable and nomi.
nate a ticket so genuinely Democratic"
that even the I" irreconcilables among the
Populists" will have no ground on which
to oppose it. Such q nomination will &C
tually be made, says the Atlanta paper,
and "the Democrats confidently expect to
roll up a majority of 100, 600" in the cam
paign, (which, it is conceded, will be one OF
the most enthusiastic, SO far as the Demo-
Gratis are concerned, that has taken place
since the memorable campaign in the
seventies"
The situation in Georgia, as thus de-
scribed, seems to be similar to that in the
Southern States generally. The Middle-of.
the-Road Populist leaders are seeking to
keep up their separate party organization
for their personal profit, but the great Pop.
ulist vote is now in hearty accord with
genuine Democratic doctrine" and in op.
position to the Republican party. These
voters are ready to turn in eagerly to help
along. Organism by arraying the solid
South behind it. The present genuine "
Democracy suits them, their resistance
having been only to the sort in vogue be.
fore the Chicago platform.
This means hat political expediency will
dictate the running OF the Democratic am.
paign Of this year in every State of the
South On the Chicago platform strictly and
emphatically, and the sending of deleSa.
tions to the National Democratic Conven
tion in 1900 which will be solidly and un.
compromisingly for straightout Organism.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
Two Things Left Undone.

The Tammany administration has been
dilatory in the performance of two duties
laid down in the charter with a clearness
that forbids their being bundled with the
alleged uncertainties with which the char
ter is charged on other points. We refer to
the appointment of an Art Commission, for
the city at large, and a Landscape Archi-
tect for the Park Department. The ma
t~erial, we believe, from which the Art
Commission is to be made has been fur
nished to the Mayor in the n pre-
scribed, and still there is no commission.
Big as New York Is, it is, in the char
acter Of its public monuments of all sorts,
in the main crude. inferior, l%aughable to
cities of earlier enlightenment, and unsat-
isfactory, il not notifying, to the mass
Of its inhabitants.
A similar, and, on the whole, more i'm
portant duty imposed upon the Park Com
mission has been substantially neglected
also. In order to create in the Park De-
partment a bulwark of real and permanent
strength for its peculiar and delicate prop
erty against the accidents of ignorance
and of politics, there was put into the
charter a direction to the Park Board
W dppoIuS n 1aAhtoSapS SilthibSSts WIZ
should be clothed with the right of de-
Gliding negatively upon any scheme of
park reconstruction or design. The intent
was to furnish to the city the guarantee
of a professional reputation against the
misuse of park property, for which hith-
erto the powers of reckless Commission.
ers have been absolute and without re-
straint. Yet, among the Park Boards
first moves was the dismissal of the
only man in the department worthy
of consideration for the place, Mr.. SAM.
E PARSONS, the Superintendent, and a
somewhat shady appointment rs "land-
scape gardener" of n member of the park
force whose credentials for such a post are
scarcely more than a shadow. Mr.. ROSE,
who WAS appointed originally as 4 garden
err, we believe, through the agency of the
late Commissioner STILES, has been asso-
ciated mainly with flowers, which, how
ever beautiful, are the last added and least
significant element of n park. Judged by a
letter which he wrote upon his appoint
ment, of the fundamental ideas of park.
making he is wholly ignorant. lie has no
professional reputation TO lose. He is prob
ably wholly without the power or the i'm
pulse of resistance to i~gnorance's arbitrary
mal-administration of the parks which the
charter intended that he should have.
And yet, what better guarantee of inten.
tion to follow the law in good faith, and to
respect the public interest in all its vari-
cites, could Tammany have offered than the
address delivered by Mr.. RICHARD CROKER
to the important members of the organiza-
tion assembled on Jan. 81:
"Let no man be unfaithful to his trust,
for should he be. he will not find a moro
unrelenting and vigorous prosecutor than
will be the Tammany Hall organization.
Should any man attempt to induce you by
threats or otherwise to disregard your
oaths of office and the interests of the
people, report the matter to the organiza.
| tion, and be he ever so influential he will
be punished. The organization is on trial"