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The evening times., 1899-03-22
Ingaupnble Ruifdiugs.

Whether it is because tragedy OF pecu-
liar atrocity directs attention TO its fea-
lures, or for some other reason, it is unde-
niable that since the human race first be-
gan TO generalize from isolated facts it
has been affirmed that sensational events
are multiple IT is even believed that
an incident which appears 10 be unique
in character will be repeated at least twice
within short time. Even in the matter
of a fatal fire it is claimed that under
some unknown principle there will be at
least three before the incident is closed.
The natural thought would be that when
there is a shocking loss of life by fire
people viii be more careful and that for
a time at least there is likely to be an ex-
emption from destruction in that way.
Yet we are not through with the Windsor
holocaust before the report comes from
Omaha of the death and injury of more
than twenty women from an afternoon FIRE.
The women belonged to a club and held
their meeting in a prominent building.
About the time OF day that the Windsor
took fire the ianitor rushed in and called
on the women to escape. A few did, but
it was impossible for all to descend the
stairs. The most Of them leaped from the
windows and received injuries that will
prove fatal in many cases. Two are dead
and at least five Others will die
The building was supposed to De as safe
as most business blocks, and the room
was the meeting place of many secret So
eieties Yet the house burned as though
it were full of shavingS. There was fire
escape at one end, but the women did rot
think OF it, or access to it was impossible
because of the smoke The rapidty with
which an ordinary building burns is almost
/ incredible. II is amazing that American
/ ingenuity. which has given to the world so
many wonderful inventions, is uneqaul to
the task of making structures less inflam-
mable without the enormous cost OF what
is regarded as fireproof material. Perhaps,
however. the Indifference of the people
to the danger OF fire has something to dc
with it, 1t is exceptional to ask about the
means of escape in case of fire, even in a
hotel. and nobody-not even the inspectors
it appears-enQuire into the precautions
to prevent confiagrations. When The New
hall House, at Milwaukee, was burned at
the cost of more than a hundred lives
twenty years ago, il was assumed that il
would lead to better appliances and a NOR:
effective system of inspection. That it did
not is proved by the Windsorsfire. 1t saems
to be necessary that the lawmakers should
take the mater in hand and provide for in
spection that inspects.
The evening times., 1899-03-22
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1899.
The Price of fHarmony.

The Price of Harmony.
differences which are great enough 10
separate people at the polls are
great enough to separate them at
political banquets,' is another dec
laration of Mr.. Bryan that goes
tc the heart Of the matter. This was ut
tered when he had read a labored response
from Mr. Belmont to the letter in which
Mr. Bryan asked for information as to the
Democracy of the Democratic Club, Of New
York
Several Democrats have criticised Mr.
Bryan for his refusal TO attend the ten
dollar-a-plate banquet. urging that the in
yitation was an indication that those who
had opposed him by supporting Palmer in
the last campaign were willing TO strive
for harmony; that they should be encour-
aged in this in the interests of Democracy
The postscript of Mr.. Belmont does not
warrant this opinion. In this he under
takes to show wherein he differs from the
Republicans on financial questions and at
tempts TO prove that he was Democrat
in casting his vote for Palmer. But no.
where does he intimate that if the next
Democratic Convention reafffrms the plat
form of the last he viii accept it. On the
contrary, he said at meeting of his club,
that he thought 1.-The Populists are trying
70 capture the title of the Democratic par
ty'' and that this is the end
It is plain. and it is not denied, that I'M
less the next Democratic Convention re-
pudiates the platform upheld by Mr. Bryan
and the masses of the party, Mr.. Belmont
and those he represents Will once again
oppose it. The plea that in voting for
Palmer they were Democrats is too absurd
for serious consideration. II was actually
left with the Hannas and other Rspubh-
can leaders TO settle whether men of Mr..
Belmont's kind should come out for Mr..
Mckinley or advocate what was called q
Democratic gold ticket. 1t was the r.
publican managers who decided that b.
putting Palmer and Buckner in the field
more votes could be drawn from the
Democratic candidates than if the Bel
monts should support Mr.. Mckinley.
Unless the Democracy will abandon its
principles of the last convention harmony
with the Democratic Club of New York
Is impossible. There is not the remotest
prospect of any such periidy. Therefore, for
Mr.. Bryan and other leaders to accept the
invitation to the Croker banquet would be
to increase the power of the gold men 10
injure the party in the coming campaign
Every consideration of justice and common
sense required Mr.. Bryan, as every other
loyal Democrat, to give no countenanee
10 the assistant Republicans, whose sole
condition of harmony is the adoption of
their ideas, which were rejected by an
overwhelming majority of the party three
years ago.
II is always the duty of the Democracy
TO open its arms to welcome supporters
1t is never its duty to embrace and invite
10 its councils those who virtually avow
their purpose to oppose it if it does not
surrender its convictions in favor of their
ideas Harmony at the price of an aban-
donment of principle is far less desirable
than open warfare
The evening times., 1899-03-22
A PosTHUMoUs MESSAGE.
Mrs. Place Entrusted n Rrief state
ment to Miss Mary Meury


New York. March 22-Mrs. Martha NJ
Place, who was put TO death in Sing Sing
prison on Monday morning. entrusted TO
Miss Mary Meury, OF Brooklyn. a short
statement of her differences with her hus-
band and Ida Place. the stepdaughter,
whom she murdered
In this statement, which was made pub
lie yesterday. Mrs. Place says her life
might have been happy had her husband
not crushed heart and soul out of her
She calls him "a wicked, stubborn and
abusive man." and expresses the convic-
tion that he will suffer for causing all
this trouble
When a reporter saw William w Place
in his Office in William Street yesterday.
and showed him the statement made by
his wife. he said:
My attention was called to that this
worthy of any answer. 1t would be use
time.
In accordance with directions left by
Mrs. Place, Warden Sage will dispose of
whatever personal effects the woman had
at the prison. She did not leave anything
of much value in the custody of the war
den. Most of her effects will be sent to her
brother. Peter Garretson, in New Bruins
wick, y. J.
Warden Sage is reticent as to when he
will fire the official report of the physi-
clans who made the autopsy and who had
an opportunity to see if there was any,
thing abnormal in the brain of the wo-
man. The law gives him ten days in which
to file this report.
The evening times., 1899-03-22
CO-EducatiOn.

The Brooklyn School Board is troubling
itself over the question of separate schools.
Superintendent Ward said that in his
opinion, if schools enough could be pro-
vided, it would be more desirable to have
the boys and girls educated in separate
schools.
This looks little like reversion to the
old-fashioned school system, in which the
girls and little boys were sent to dame
school, to learn elementary branches of
education. and sewing. embroidery, and
fancy work, while the older boys went to
academy, Latin school, or college. Perhaps
such a reversion is desirable in some
places but let US consider.
Since the Creator of the world "mixed
children up in families, it would
seem that the natural way of educating
boys and girls would be after the family
fashion, the girls learning side by side
with the boys When a mother gathers
her little ones around her to tell them
stories or teach them the alphabet she
does not have one set of stories for the
boys and another for the girls In all the
life of the family, the brothers and sis
ters mix freely. In society there is but
little separation. Why should the boys
and girls be separated in their school work
during those years when all study prac-
tically the same things?
Those who advocate separate schools al
lege that when boys and girls in their
teens are associated during school hours
there are all sorts of mild fiirtations; but
as matter of fact. the effect of co-educa-
tion in most cases is to establish matter
of-course, unsentimental relation in the
classroom which effectually prevents in
cipient love affairs. Moreover, there is no
more mereiless critic of emi-sentimentaI
friendships than a half-grown youngster,
and some friendships which might prove
dangerous are nipped in the bud by the
consciousness that ridicule would fol-
low their discovery. There is no dan
ger that association in the schoeIroom will
destroy the capacity Of either sex for real
sentiment when the time comes, but it
does give the children something to think
and talk about besides each other, and
develops fair standard by which they
may Judge one another. When youths of
The evening times., 1899-03-22
TO oUTDo THE WORLDS FAIR.
Plan to Establish a Permanent Ex-
position in New York.

New York, March eff the legislature
passes the bill now before ii Incorporating
the Industrial and Commercial Exposition
Company, of New York and if the plans
of some of the leading business men of
the city materialize, New York, in the
spring of 1900 viii have an exposition
which will cost s25, 600 900, and which will
have a floor space one-third greater than
that of the Worlds Fair in Chicago
The bill 10 incorporate this company
has been presented to the legislature by
Assemblyman Samuel Scott Slater. of
New York, and it was said yesterday by its
incorporators that there was every reason
to believe that it would go through.
The plans for the big exposition build
ings already have been made, the ground
on which they will be built has been Sc
lected, and an option has been secured on
it. AS soon as the legislature incorporates
the company engineers will begin work
and in less than month the exposition
buildings will begin.
The plans for the buildings provide that
they shall cover eight blocks. or an erea
of more than 100000 square feeet. When
the profits have repaid the hackers. it is
proposed to turn the exhibition over to
the city of New York. The purpose is to
make the exposition permanent.
The incorporators include:
c. o. Baker, jr.. Frederick Boos. Will
liam c. Breed. William Cauldwell, George
L. Putnam, Fred a. Ringier. James Row
land, Paul Sonntag. A. G. Spaulding. c..
A. Stevens. ]. Howard Sweetser, John f.
Talmage, Seth s. Terry. L. C. Warner,
James NJ. Waterbury, Louis Windmuller.
Franklin Wiley. c. C. Willie Daniel F.
Wilson. and Edward L. Cushman.
The Merchants Association also is in
terested in the plan, and will lend every
aid to its success. The money for the
project, it is expected. will be raised with
out difficulty. Manufacturers and jobbers
of New York are interested and all will
contribute to the stock, which ii is believ-
ed will be a paying investment
The purpose of the exposition is to have
an open exhibition and central market
The exhibitions will be confined to Ameri-
can manufactured goods solely. Goods will
be SO placed on exhibition that buyers can
make their purchases in the exposition,
thereby saving manufacturers or wholesale
jobbers the expense of agents.
In speaking of the exposition yesterday
Edward L. Cushman, one of the promot-
ers. said:
We have every reason to believe that
the exposition will prove a great success
and great benefit to MERCHANTS and man.
ufacturers. The money will be forthcom-
| ing as soon as the legislature Incorporates
the company, and work will begin al
once"
The evening times., 1899-03-22
The Grand MASTER. Collar.
(From the London Chronicle J


The grand masters collar of the Order of the
Legion OF Honor. with which President Loul,et
was yesterday invested, is of finely wrought gold
and is altogether magnificent decoration, tait
very rarely assumed by the President The or
der dates from Napoleon's Consulate in 1902 1t
comprises fonr classes. namely: so grand crosses
$50 grand officers. 400 commanders, and an un
limited number of officers and chevalers Unless
by the exercise of authority on the part of the
grand master, or for some signal service to the
state all holding the order begin as chevaliers
and are not eligible until they have exercised
with distinction for twenty years civil military
duties, or have done some important service to
the state, earned distipction in art or sci
eace. A chevalier must have held that grade
for four years before he can become an officer;
two years are necessary before the grade
of commander can be attained; commander can
not become a grand officer under Ave years, and
FIVE years more are needed before grand officer
can become D grand cross. For military men
years of war services count double.
The evening times., 1899-03-22
A New Sort of Counterfeit.
From the St. Paul Globe !,


The cashier in the registry department at the
postoffice is a very much indignant man. all be-
cause of the fact that some of the clerks have
been using him the butt of practical joke.
Some ingenious servant of Uncle Sam, having
time than he knew what to do with CON
ceived the idea of coating a quarter with tin
foil which he proceeded to do SO dexterously
that the tin foil looked as if made on the coin
Then another young man took the quarter around
to the registry window and showed it in for
change.
.'What is this?'' inquired the cashier as he
rung the coin and listened to the fat sound it
gave out
''It's perfectly genuine" declared the joker.
Then an argument ensued. The jokist refused
to take back the coin, and the cashier insisted
it was counterfeit. Finally he threatened to
refer the matter 10 Captain Lawrence of the
secret service, and became so positive that a
little trifing wager was laid on the genuineness
of the disputed quarter
After the stakes were in safe hands the Joker
Whitfield off the tin foil with penknife and
now the cashier is looking for q chance to get
even.
The evening times., 1899-03-22

summer months, the children would have
better place to play and sleep than
crowded. ill-ventilated room full Of piles
of unfinished garments. II law like that
proposed should ever be passed, the phi
lanthropist might find his workingmen
among those who would undoubtedly be
thrown out of work under the new regime.
Such an establishment would have to be
well advertised, and managed by busi-
ness man not too philanthropic to compete
successfully with the sweatshop. In some
of the women's clubs members are urged
TO refuse to buy clothing made under in
sanitary conditions, but they are not gain
ing ground as rapidly as they might, be-
cause the women appealed to naturally
ask. But what are we to buy? Ii they
could have positive proof that the clothing
made by at least one firm was free from
all stain of injustice and all germs OF dis
ease that firm would probably make
money
The movement toward concentration OF
population has gone already almost as far
as it can. 1t is to be hoped that the fac
tory of the future will be situated outside
large cities, each concern in tract of land
by itself, and that there will be laws to
prevent oyercrowding.
The idea of a manufacturing establish
ment situated in the country, with health
full surroundings and reasonable hours OF
work may seem chimerical at present, but
there have been at least two such expert
ments both of which resulted successfully.
- l;efto
manufacturing village in England, in
which the working people performed their
daily labor under conditions almost ideal.
Another is dressmaking establishment
conducted by a bright woman not very
many miles from this city. The head of the
establishment, and her assistant, take
orders and do the buying and fitting, but
all the sewing is done By apprentices who
live in a country village where labor and
living are cheap. The dressmaker pays hel
employees we'll, considering the scale of ex-
penses in the country they have as much
| spending money as girls in a similar es-
4 tabishment in town, yet the cost of run.
| ming the business is considerably lower
! than it would be in town, with high rent
! and high wages to be considered. The
only extra expense incurred by the en-.
ployer is railroad fare, and that amount:
/ 10 very little
The evening times., 1899-03-22
Reasons to Fee, Nervous.

(FrOm the New orleans lines democrat.
81 had a very curious adventure several years
ago. said o. noted wing shot of this city, while
on hunting trip with friend in a neighboring
State We had spent the day in the field, and
in coming back missed the road and wandered
through the woods until almost dark. At last
we got our bearings and shortly afterward saw
a good sized frame house standing in sort of
clearing We went up to get some water, and
to our surprise found the place entirely empty
There were a couple of old cot beds in a back
room and a pile of blankets in corner, and we
concluded from that that the earetakefs OCCASION
ally slept ON the premises. 1t then dusk the
town was fully five miles away, and, being thor
eughly tired out, we decided to stay there over
night Accordingly, took possession of the
beds, picked out the best blankets we could find
and made ourselves at home. | must confess, how
ever, that didn't sleep much. l couldn't get rid
of the impression that there something un-
eanny in house standing open and deserted in
such fashion, and all the ghost stories | had
ever read fitted in dismal procession through nv
brain. At the first streak of dawn got up and
walked out of doors. Then for the first time /
had good look at the front of the building. and
to my unutterable horror l read lettered over the
door: County Smallpox Hospital In less than
a minute were both on the road white as
ghosts. We batlled in a creek bought new
clothes in town and scared for a month after
ward, vet despite the fact that we had rested on
those injected beds and used the pest.soakeei
blankets of God knows how many patients, neither
of us caught the disease"
The evening times., 1899-03-22
LAWS CONCERNING TRUSTS.
Attorney General Griggs Writes a
Letter on the Subject.

hStsCI ou AAG SaDtCCt.
Philadelphia. March 22.-Mr. Bowadai'e,
of 1910 Girard Avenue, who has property
interests in New Jersey. where he has been
a voter in Representative Loudenslager's
district, wrote a letter last wesk to Attor-
ney General Griggs on the subject OF
trusts and monopolies. MIR. Bowardaiie
said that he found among the people great
opposition to combinations in restraint of
| trade, and as a Republican he hoped the
party would meet the issue by beginning
prosecution under the Sherman act. He
asked to be informed of the attitude of the
Attorney General, and yesterday he re-
ceived the following reply from Washing
ton under the date of yesterday:
! Il have your letter of the 17th inst. and
! because it is evident that you are under
serious misapprehensions as to the force
and effect of the federal law relating to
trusts, called the Sherman act, passed in
1890, l deem it proper to call your atten-
tion to some aspects of this matter, which
you are obviously ignorant of.
In the first place, the constitutionality
! Of this matter was not affirmed last fall,
I but was affirmed almost Immediately after
| the passage of the act, in the first case
! which arose, and has been regarded as set
| tied, so far as the coustitutionaiity is con-
cerned, Tor many years.
| In the next place, the Sherman trust
act does not give to the Federal courts ju-
| risdiction over any combination eonsti-
| tuting restraint and monopoly Of trade
unless such trade is what is known as in
| terstate or international trade and COM
meree. combination or trust for the
purpose of maintaining monopoly in the
manufacture of necessary OF life is not
| within the scope of the Sherman act and
cannot be suppressed by the Federal
courts. This was decided in 1884, in the
case of the United States against the COM
bination of sugar companies.
AS a matter OF fact all the companies
which you refer to as now organizing for
the purpose of securing complete or par
tial monopoly of different branches OF
manufacture are similar to the sugar COM
bination and are not within the jurisdic-
tion of the Federal courts. II amenable
to any law they are amenable to the laws
OF the respective States.
| This department never hesitates to
prosecute unlawful combinations which af-
feet interstate commerce, and if you will
examine the reports OF the Federal courts
you will find very many cases of such
prosecution, some effective and some in
effective.
1T is a popular error to assert that the
Attorney General of the United States has
control of the corporations or combina-
tions which engage in manufacture in the
various States. This is entirely matter
of State control, and unless the functions
Of interstate commerce are interfered with
| would be superoffieious to attempt a cru
sade against affairs with which | have nc
business.
With reference to these large combna-
tions of capital which are now forming
my own judgment is that the danger is not
so much to the community at large as il
is to the people who are induced to put
their money into the purchase OF the
|
The evening times., 1899-03-22
shouId DeIve as Adam Did.


The lazy and inept are an obstruction and a
burden in Havana. The lack of men and women
to work the plantations inland is crying
evil. The prosperity that waits in Cuba cannot
come il large class of its people refuse to ac-
cept employment and continue in their attempts
against the United States Treasury. There are
pensioners enough of own. thank you, who
are living dishonesty at expense, without
encouraging the rapaeity OF Others to whom we
nothing and who us everything These
people must be carried to the country They
must be carried far that il will be impossible
for them to go back They must be made to see
that long as they work they shall have plenty.
but that il they refuse to work they will staPve.
Ii is reported that planters are willing and snx-
ious to engage these people; the work is there
for them; the money is there for their pay; but
they refuse, because they do not like to work.
The condition is the in this country.
We have over 0,e9g tramps who are preying on
the community and whose constant excuse for
beggary and -zthieying is that they can find no
work. That is lie. They do not want work
They know that it is to be had in the country al
ways, and they know that in the city it is hard
to get. Send the beggars back TO the soil, and
if they will not lift their hands to earn their
living it matters little what becomes of them.
Sentiment in such is maudlin.