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The times., 1899-08-18
CHEERS FOR COLORADO HEROES.
Brave Boys From the philippines
Royalty Welcomed ut Frisco.


Royalty Welcomed at Frisco.
San Francisco. Aug. 1.-THE First Col
orado Regiment of Volunteers, which has
such good record for hard fighting in
the Philippines, received hearty welcome
home to American soil today The regi-
ment disembarked this afternoon, and
marched to the Preside, where they will
camp until mustered out
Battery G, of the Third Artillery, and a
detachment from Troop F, of the Sixth
Cavalry, with a battalion from the Penn
sylvania Volunteers, made up the escort.
AT the head of the Colorado boys was II
B. Mccoy, who left here as lieutenant colo
mel, but received promotion by the raising
of Colonel Hale to brigadier general b.
MS side rode Governor Thomas, of Col
orado
The Colorado boys marched well, and
though most Of them are very thin and
saliow, they seemed strong and vigorous
Fhe officers are an exceptionally fine body
OF men, most of them being six-footers.
AS the men passed by in their dingy uni
forms and carrying their tattered battle
flags the crowds cheered. Forty GONZALES
cents, in four ambulances, brought up the
rear OF the parade and came in also for
many cheers.
Fifteen thousand dollars has been raised
by the citizens of Colorado for a special
train to take the regiment to Denver
royal welcome awaits the men there
Governor Thomas states that every man
in the regiment who left work 20 go to
the front will be restored to his place as
soon as he gets back. This promise has
cheered the men greatly, for some of them
left lucrative places. One man In the regi-
ment, who was getting s4OO month as
manager of an electric plant, resigned to
become q private in the regiment.
The times., 1899-08-18
Otis Discrepancies.
1rron - A1i.naa.Ali. n.;L.... ,

(From the Minneapolis Tribune.)
General Otis incapacity to grasp the situation
in the Philippines may be CLEANED from his
various reports. On June 26 he eabled the War
Department as follows: "Insurgent armies have
suffered great losses and are scattered; only large
force held together about 1000 in Tarlac province
and Northern Pampanga. Their scattered forces
in bands of so to 500 in other portions of Luzon;
in Cavite and in Batangas provinces could assem-
bic possibly 1000, though deInoraIzed from recent
defeat; mass OF people terrorized by insurgeut
soldiers desire peace and American protection -
On August General Otis cabled that General
Macarthur with 1900 men advanced from San
Fernando, which is in the southern part of Pam
panga province, and attacked insurgent force
OF e,o00 men concentrated around Fernando
that is, facing and practically bcsieging the
American position. 1t win be seen that Otis
reports do not gibe very well. If the enemy
SO demoralized he represented, how was
it that scattered force Of 1000 in June grew
into a well organized force of COCO in August
with nerve and morale enough to take the ag-
gressiye and besiege the Americans in their
camps! Otis Should either make more accurate
reports or cultivate longer memory.
The times., 1899-08-18
senator pettigrew,s views.
CFrom the Indianapolis News)


Unlike most of the so-called anti-imps-
rialists, Senator Pettigrew has a perfectly
definite theory as to what course the Gov
ernment should pursue with reference to
the Philippines. In an interview yester-
day he said:
This Government should recall every soldier in
the Philippines Immediately and apologize TO the
world for the error have made and turn the
island over TO a native government.
We are glad to have the issue made in
this frank and honest manner. for it af-
fords a real basis for discussion. II would
Of course. be very easy to recall our SOL
diers. but it would be extremely difficult
to turn the island over TO native gov
ernment." The first response to a sum
mons to General Otis to ship his snen
home as fast as the transports could bring
them would be the appearance of enc or
more foreign fleets in Manila Harbor For
the man that imagines that Germany, or
Japan, or Great Britain would allow their
interests to be imperiled by the attempted
installation of native government" is
credulous indeed. The result would be that
some other power would undertake and
carry through the work we laid down. and
we should be the laughing stock of the
world.
The times., 1899-08-18
The Root Rcglments.

With the ten additional volunteer regi-
ments authorized by Secretary Root yester-
day. the total effective fighting force In
viii be increased TO sixty-fve thousand
officers and men, including a regiment OF
marines now being modified at Cavite,
for service in the province of that name
This is something like business, and the
only pity is that it was not attended to
months ago.
Again we are impelled to enquire why
it was not? OF course, the answer viii
be that General Otis regularly insisted,
from first to last, that more than thirty
thousand men would only be in his way,
and that, with that number. he could
easily suppress the insurrection in Luz
zon. and establish American sovereignty,
laws. and trade throughout the archipel-
ago.
Now, it is very apparent that il General
Otis adopted and held to that opinion with
out any suggestion, request, or order from
Washington that he should do So he COM
mtted a military blunder which, accord
ing to the great Napoleon, lis worse than
a crime" In the case OF Otis, eminently
so, because his idiotic error of judgment
has prolonged the war at least year,
and thus. necessarily, has involved fear
fal waste Of life. health, and treasure that
might easily have been saved if be had
insisted upon an army of sixty-fve or
seventy thousand soldiers last winter.
Our observation of the inner workings
OF Mr.. McKinley's Administration does
not encourage the idea that an officer who
should SO act to destroy its hold upon pub
lie confidence would be permitted to con-
tinue in command day after the disas-
The times., 1899-08-18
GIANT POWDER IN A BONFIRE.
New York Startled by a Destructive
Exploston.

explosion.
New York, Aug. Tz.-People living in the
Morrisania district OF this city were
startled tonight by an explosion. the force
CT which shook half hundred buildings in
the nigbborhood. demolished household
furniture, upset supper tables. smashed
dishes. and broke the glass OF all the
windows in the fiat houses for a mile
around. The police reserves OF the Alex
ander Avenue station and ambulances from
two hospitals were summoned TO care for
the persons who were injured. Most of
these were only slightly hurt by being cut
by broken glass.
The explosion o. centre of
a vacant lot that
TO 18th Street.
to Brown Place
boys, who built EGL. a :. con-
tractors tool box whien was filed with
high explosive. supposed TO have been
giant powder. 1t may have been dynamite
The police we're unable TO learn tonight
Jus he explosive was. but were told
Tia "as 15O pounds OF giant powder
When the police arrived after the explo-
sion they found the sidewalks in the vi
cinity covered with glass. The box that
mad contained the powder had entirely
disappeared There was not splinter Of
it left. a big hole had been ripped in
the earth, and the curbstones and cutters
closely had been thrown cut of place
Ambulances soon arrived and were driven
up and down through various streets, the
doctors being kept busy attending to per
sons who had been cut by broken glass
Altogether the ambulance surgeons dressed
the injuries of about fifty persons.
As soon as the first excitement had
passed away the police got TO work to see
" GO had fraa
found that they had big job on hand, and
that II would take day at least to get
list of the houses damaged and details of
the damages Every house on the South,
ern Boulevard from ST. AIMS Avenue to
Willis Avenue and all on one side of 1s9th
Street. between ST. Ann Avenue and VIII
lis Avenue, had been more or less damaged
Some of the houses in ST. AIMS and Willis
Avenues were in many cases so badly
shaken that the building department may
order the tenants to vacate them. Every
where there was so much broken glass on
the sidewalks trat pedestrians found IL best
to walk in the middle of the rsad.
The most damage was done directly
across the street from where the explosion
occurred. There is situated row of fiat
houses, all of which were occupied The
ceilings in some OF these houses fell down
and a great deal of furniture was over
turned and broken. In some cases window
curtains and shades were drawn out Of the
windows as IL by an air pump and landed
blocks away. One window shade landed
ON telegraph wire. The window in which
1t was hanging was closed when the ex-
plosion occurred. In many cases window
sashes fell into the street
After the explosion the police learned
that Frederick Carlson, the janitor of an
apartment house, was employed by the
contractors to watch the powder until 10
o'clock every night, and he was arrested.
The times., 1899-08-18
Trade barriers.
lFrom the Boston Herald !


Our trouble at the present time-and, consider
ing the possibilities that opening out.
serious troubles that trade relations with
the outer world are hampered by restrictive
legislation. There is in many parts of Europe
settled disinelnation to buy American goods.
although these are better and cheaper than the
native products, for the that 1t is believed
that America is not willing to accord equal oppor-
tunities to the people of other countries There
is net the least question that, il we had TO Gus
toms charges at all, exports, instead of being
smaller than they now, would enormously
increase, because in many lines of trade we could
then produce goods at much lower price than
that at which others making them, and
with this reduction should be able to offer
larger inducements to purchasers, and, at the
same time would be in better position to
compete in those instances where we come into
direct competition with foreign manufacturers
IT is improbable that imports would be un-
duly increased, although, naturally in some in
stances, those foreign-made goods that are now
prohibited by preposterous rates of duty would
then fnd market in this country,
The times., 1899-08-18
why Not colored Troop..
From the Philadelphia Ledger

NfTOU tllS fHildueipnlA LeuStfs)
Not only General Butler, but General
Grant, testified to the excellent qualities
OF the colored troops in the Civil War,
and in all the fighting around Santiago
the negro soldiers made themselves cen
spicuous by their achievements in the
face of the enemy. They fully shared the
honors won by the white troops. II would
be easy to raise dozen or more regiments
rom among the teeming eolOred popdla-
ion of the more tropical States of the
South. That good, effective soldiers could
be made of them there is no doubt, and
that they would suffer less than the white
soldiers from exposure TO the climate of
the Philippines is equally without doubt
They would go there as immunes, which
few white men would do. II the Philip
pines are TO be permanently held an army
of occupation, large or small, must be kept
there. 1t is confidently asserted by the
highest scientific authorities that white
men cannot endure for protracted periods
the exactions of the climatic conditions
of our distant tropical acquisitions. Col
ored men of the far South, accustomed
from birth to similar conditions, could and
would endure them without suffering
These being conceded facts. why .hould
not Secretary Root organize eolored regi-
ments for our army in the Philippines,
either as an aggressive force or as one OF
occupation merely?
The times., 1899-08-18
NOT STOLEN, BUT DROWNED.
The Body of Missing Child Found
in Pool.

PRINCETON. N. J., Aug. 17.-The body of
little Carrie Snedrecker, the -year-old
child who disappeared from her home near
Kingston Tuesday, and who, it was thought.
had been kidnapped, was found this morning
at o'clock in a pool of water partly
closed byrau odd stone quarry close TO the
Raritan Canal, about 800 yards from the
Snedrecker homestead. 1t was discovered
by farmer named Benjamin Evernham
who was on his way to the stricken house
hold for news of the lost child. He lifted
the body into the road and after some OF
the neighbors had been sent on in advance
to break the news. carried it home.
Mrs Snedrecker was completely prostrat-
ed and it is feared that the shock may un-
balance her mind. The Snedreckers have
one other child, boy two months old
There are no marks on the body which in
dicate foul play.
The times., 1899-08-18
cUBANs- GREATLY AGlTATED.
Contemplated Order Making Ameri-
cans Eligible Disfurs< Them

cans Eligible Di.furs~ Them
Havana. Aug la Discussion says
editorially that Governor General Brooke
wishes to issue decree allowing Amer
leans to hold public Offices. and that be
has instructed Secretary &C state Capote
to draft such decree. The paper points
out the danger OF Cubans being deprived OF
their Offices by Americans and declares a
decree OF the nature proposed viii cause
great discomfort. The Times correspondent
learns at the Office OF the Secretary OF
State that the decree is not intended to
especially favor Americans. but Is merely
intended to modify the Spanish law. which
foEbids any foreigners to hold Office. The
decree will be submitted to General
Brocke's Cabinet OF Tuesday next
General Brooke has asked Mayor La
ccsie TO inform him as TO the opinion OF
tae municipality regarding the contract
awarded 10 Michael Dady. Of Brooklyn,
Tor building sewerage system in the
city. II Is stated here that Secretary OF
war Hcot desires information cn this
point Mayor Lacoste told your CORE
spondent today that report favorable TO
row.
Great anxiety is felt hare concerning the
spanish steamer San Aagustin, which IeYt
Havana Friday fer New York. and which
has not since been hsard from. Several
wsll-known residents Of Havana were
aboard her General Ludlow has prepared
his report to Secretary OF War Root, on tha
suppression of the newspaper 'El Recon
centrado." He viii send copies OF the "a
per and translatiOns OF articles appearing
therein as justification OF his action in
stopping tke publication OF the journal
A Spanish woman here has been attacked
by yellow fever. There are also otter sus-
picicu5 cases
The prison In which Pinan de ViIIsgas.
formerly Cuban officer. is confined on
the charge Of poisoning his wifg is now
closely guarded in order to prevent the man
from being lynched. His wife died in the
hospital last night Her death has caused
considerable excitement, and threats OF
lynehing the prisoner have been freely
made These threats reached the ears OF
the authorities and the guards at the prison
were REINFORCED by policemen The ac-
cused was arrested several DAYS ago
The times., 1899-08-18

trous consequences OF his mistake were
realized Yet, as far as one can learn
from official sources. he is to have the
large army he has considered useless
thrust upon him, and with it the burden
of directing military operations on scale
entirely beyond his capacity, for anything
that is known of his experience or that
appears in his record as soldier.
Otis, then, must join the noble company
of Administration mysteries of which
Eagan is the captain and Sampson the
camp corporal, and. being one of the nlys-
teries, he is open and will be subjected to
liberal amount of speculative considera-
ton. For example, in case he is left in
the condition of discredited commander,
to fight the autumn campaign over the
wire that connects the throne room of his
palace with points in telegraphic oemmu-
nication with subordinate fighting officers.
the opinion will obtain that he is support
ed by the Administration because some
body else, and not he, was responsible Tor
the thirty thousand man. power idiocy of
last spring! 1t win be assumed, on the
strength of appearances, that while he IN
doubtedly did override the opinions of gen
erals actually engaged in the conflict
men like Lawton, 5MacArthur, and 9TH
ers-that from seventy-five thousand TO a
hundred thousand soldiers would be need
ed to crush the mutiny, .he did so because
he knew he was expected and practically
ordered to take that view of the situation.
This is not the only theory which will
develop in the attempted solution of the
Otis riddle. DENLY will, perhaps. get into
the problem as an unknown, but suspect
ed quantity-a bothersome "x' to be di-
vlded by why" or something of that
sort In any event we can assure the Pres
ident that his fellow-citizens,. and pretty
nearly all of them. will keep figuring on
the Otis example, feeling that it is hor-
rible one, until they find the answer in
the back of the book of practical politics,
or of a less reputable work on the "Se-
cret History of Administration Deals
The times., 1899-08-18
THE PRESIDENT sERENADED.
Mrs. Mckinley walks to the Hotel
s'.'Ay yeranda to Enjoy the Music.

s'+4Ay yeranda to Enjoy the Music.
Hotel Champlain, N. Y, Aug 1.-THE
President this morning was rendered re-
eeption by the new band of the Twenty
sixth Regiment from Plattsburg Barracks.
Mrs. Mckinley came out on the verandah
and enjoyed the music and later went
driving with the President. She walked to
the carriage for the first time since her
arrival here. In the afternoon the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley, Attorney Cen
era1 Griggs, Mrs. Griggs, the Misses Griggs,
and Secretary Hitchcock went sailing on
Lake Champlain. The President viii leave
here on the 25th for Pittsburg. where he
will receive the Tenth Pennsylvania Vol
unteers from the Philippines. He starts
thus early to avoid travelling on Sunday
The fact that Dewey will visit Washington
before the New York celebration viii prob
ably be the reason that he will not partict-
pate in the New York event While this
is not decided yet, 1t can be said that he
will decline the invitation Tomorrow the
President will review the new Twenty
sixth Regiment at Plattsburg Barracks.
This regiment is ready TO go to the Phil
ippines and will probably be among the
first three to go.
The times., 1899-08-18
TMDDcE.
fFrom the chicago Herald. )

tFrom the Chlcago HeraId.)
II is fortunate for Canada and for her future
commercial relations with the United States that
the waspish and petulant Tupper Will have no
voice in the final adjustment of the Alaskan
boundary dispute. His fretful and snappish style
Of oratory in the House gives a certain amount
of spice to the otherwise dull parliamentary
proceedings, and quite often goads the Govern
ment into statement of its policies and pur-
poses, bat the settlement of boundary dispute
between such nations the United States and
Great Britain is not business for querulous
,t.tnoenarian hntheads
The times., 1899-08-18
THE VIEWS OF SENATOR BACON.
FOR Brynn and for Silver, But Op-
posed to American Expansion.

TOT nrSun anu for Silver, But Op-
posed to American Expansion.
Senator Bacon of Georgia stopped in
Washington few hours yesterday on his
way from Macon to the mountains of West
virginia. He was not inclined to discuss
politics, saying that he was running away
from the newspapers, stunning the cities
and hunting some quiet, peaceful spot in
the country He was prevailed upon tc
make the following statement in reference
to Bryan, free silver, and the Philippine
insurrection:
Yes he replied, in answer TO the re-
porter's question, 81 think Bryan will GER
tainly be the next nominee of the Demo-
cratic party, and I think he ought TO be-
He is the logical candidate and il the party
should discard him now it would drive
away more men who formerly supported
the ticket than 1t could possibly gain in new
recruits. The currency issue will be or
great Importance in the next Presidential
campaign. l apprehend the Republicans,
by their attempted legislation in the next
Congress, will force the financial issue into
greatvprofninence. 1t will not, however be
the only prominent issue. Nothing could
be a more vital issue than imperialism-the
kind OF expansion which looms 10 and de-
sires the subjugation and domination OF
distinct colonies which can never become
Part OF our political system, and the people
of which can never be, and never should
be. assimilated TO our own. In my opin-
ion that is the greatest and most vital
question ever presented to the American
people.
so long as a state of war continues.
said Senator Bacon, 'it is, OF course, the
duty of the Secretary of War TO prosecute
it with vigor and TO adopt such measures
as will most speedily bring it to sue
cessful conclusion. For myself, / am, for
to see the war ended. So long as it lasts
it Is exceedingly difficult to bring the
people to a dispassionate consideration
of the question whether or not we
shall hold the Philippines as yas-
sal colony. Before the outbreak of hos
tflities, was OF the opinion that war could
be avoided, and I endeayored to secure ac-
tion in Congress which / thought would
prevent war. | still think the war could
have been avoided and ought to have been
avoided.
IF we are willing to give those unfor-
tunate people their ultimate freedom think
the war could soon be brought TO a close
with perfect honor to the United States.
OF course, I do not wish the war ended In
any way that would be dishonorable TO
this country. / believe in uphoiding the
Government, right or wrong. But | shall
never hesitate to say when l think 1t IS
wrong. 1t Is my duty to say when | think
it is wrong and also to do all in my power
to set it right as see it.
The times., 1899-08-18
coUNTERFEITERs ARRESTED.
Residents of n Massachusetts Town
Find Food for Sensation

Pittsieid, Mass, Aug E.-The United
States Secret Service officers have effected
one of the most important seizures OF coun-
terfeit money ever made in this State By
the arrest of Abhie Roberts and James
Grant, coIored. OF Hinsdale. Mass, the Of
ficers were able to locate $1,000 in coun-
terfeit bills.
The money was all Of the denominations
of So and SO United States Treasury notes
with the exception of some 800 notes. The
counterfeits were Of most dangerous char
acter and would pass easily in the ordinary
channels of trade The money was Sc
cured at the house OF the late State Ssna-
tor Samuel Raymond Raymond died about
a year ago. The girl says that she first
found the counterfeit money in small guam
titles and disposed Of over 800 worth be-
fore she was detected The presence OF the
money at the house of the former State
Senator is unexplainable and has caused
great sensation here.
The times., 1899-08-18
Devil Fans in India.

An interesting and rather significant
story comes from the principaiity of KotI.
in British India The Rajah Of that State
is an enterprising and progressive man,
and 1t recently occurred to him that cleo
tric fans would be a good thing to have
about the house during the sultry season.
Accordingly be bought some-powerful
things, constructed according TO the ap-
proved patterns Of the occident Then
there was trouble.
When a native OF an Asiatie country
sees something which he does not under
stand he Immediately concludes that 1t is
the work Of devil. especially II II be in
the mechanical line. The bicycle. the To-
connective. and the trolley would all come
The times., 1899-08-18

The Administration has new and seri-
Gus danger to provide against. On Satur-
day General Dyrenforth and full staff
Moines, there to hold conclave CT the
Union Veteran Legion. The organization
itself is peaceably inclined, being COM
posed of genuine old veterans; but Dyren-
forth himself is not friendly to the Gov
ernment. and may conclude to destroy 1t.
Just how we do not know; but as he is
a world-famous rainmaker, probably by
nnod