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RAILWAY EARNINGS.
A Surplus in 1893 of O4s goa 300. Against a
Deficit in 1897 of 9l,4I2, 800.

WAsHINGToN. March 23.-The preliminary
report OF the income account Of railways in thu
United States for the year ended June 80.
1898. reported to the Interstate Commerce
Commission was issued to-day. The report
includes the returns Of 100 lines. with an az.
Gregate mileage OF 1Sl 1893 miles. The receipts
OF the year were: Passenger service. S333,-
S92. 1872: freight service. SS74,Si5.4S1 other
earnings from operation. $40. TG5.lll gross
earnings. 81. 23S.5 23. $3.50: operating expenses.
1911 .24l. 45S: income from operation. S42I,-
2Sl 1922. The increase Of gross earnings over
the previous year was SlB3. 1i1, 5s3. Operat-
ing expenses increased $50. 1894 and income
S57. 1888 Gross earnings per mile increased
S1US: operating expenses. 1858: income. $40.
These are the largest figures reported since
1892. and the income account shows an in
crease of $40 a mile over the report for 1894.
The total income OF the railroads for the year
1S'7-9S was, S486. $40 lie, Dividends, vera
rail amounting to St3.@95. a15.. Other deduc.
2O2, leaving a surplus from operations Of the
for the previous year showed a deficit from
operations OF slap. 500. Statistician Adams
adds: The amount Of dividends stated does
not include those declared upon the stock N
lines operated under lease This report i CON
fined to operating roads. The amount Of diyi-
dends declared for operating roads exceeds the
amount Of dividends declared for the previous
year by S~t.S3n.337. This fact. taken in con-
nection with the increased surplus, suggests
in another way the revival OF prosperity Tor
American railways
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Gen. Miles's Plans OF Campaign.

We gave recently the plan OF campaign
submitted by Major-Gcn. MILES, on July >,
for retreating from before Santiago without
attempting To capture the city and its gar
rison, and moving off to Porto Rico. This
plan. fortunately, was not approved by the
President. Instead, Santiago surrendered
on the 18th OF July, and hostile operations
in Cub were brought to an end, relieving
the great body Of our troops from the
dangers from which they were suffering in
that tropical climate In midsummer.
Gen. MILES, however. had submitted an
other - plan OF campaign" in letters dated
May pa and 27. and he repeated it in II
single letter OF June -, printed elsewhere.
all of which form part Of his own report.
On the 18th OF April he had expressed the
opinion, in a letter to the Secretary of War,
that it would be extremely hazardous"
and "iniudicious ""to putt an army"in Cuba
lat this season OF the year, as 1t would
undoubtedly ~ drcimated by the deadly
disease, to say nothing Of having to cope
with some 10000 troops, the remnant of
2l4,OOO, that nav" been acclimated. ~
Meantime, however. CERvERA'S squadron
had arrived at Santiago on May ~, and Al
miral SANrsoN'S feet on May 30, aud ON
June - Gen. SHAFTER's army had en-
hark~i from Florida, it having become
evident that Santiago was necessarily the
objective.
Fortunately this plan also failed TO re-
ccivc the approval OF the President, for
Gen. MILES proposed to conduct his cam
paign in the rainy season, and the expert.
cnce VI our troops after the capture OF San
tiago indicates that II would have cost us
the lives Of substantially the whole force.
To save the Santiago army from such a
fate 1t had to be withdrawn precipi.
lately, but Gen. MILES proposed 10
take this exhausted force "tO conduct a
campaign In the interior of Cuba, or :" II
this proposition does not meet with your
favor" to " move the entire force 10 the
west Of Havana" though his Judgment "
VIA - decidedly in favor Of the first plan Of
campaign" II The President had adopted
either proposition our loss would have
been ten times what II was under the plan
actually adopted, and under the encourage
80. - . - '.. - a. H., L.. s-.
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The Attornry-Gcneral aud the OctO-
puseS.

The Hon. JoHN W. GRInus. the Attorney
Gcherai Of the United StnteS, has written n
letter upon trusts which is of singular lucid
itv ana "uriou,ly opportune. to ho found In
another column of this copy OF THr SuN.
H." sets forth tn" relation " the Federal
Government to the corporations and coui-
hinatiOus which cngag" in manufacture In
the different States. and shows that II Is II
popular error to suppose that they are sui
j"ct to regulation and control by him. They
arr an.rnubIe. he slys. if they are am"nab,c
AT all. Ia the laws Of the respective States.
and not otherwise.
The Atturncv-Grn "ral delivered his opin-
ion in reply to II letter from Mr.. J. e. BoR-
RADAlLE Of Philadelphia. who. being sore
~ troubled over III" formation Of trusts,
Thought ~" di-r"rn"d u great opposition 10
them nmOuG III" people. and desired, rs
a good Republican, that the party would
meet the ISSUE and cauS" prosecutions 20
10 instituted undcrth" Sherman act. There
are not II few p"opl" like Mr.. BORRADAILE,
and "" think that all. or nearly all of them,
will, if they Tool into the matter duly, he
led to take another view of il.
Most sensible men who study the subject
W. ' I'lNtN Nh''lllS'tlNlN pl'S'HNl l'l
ceiv" that the opposition to them is chiefly
IN tn" newspapers. A great part of the press
appAr"ntlythinks II sells papers by bowling
against trusts. aud not bowling tn" truth.
For the rest tn" opposition is made up Of II
few statesmen in stress for party plankS,
and of professional blacknailers. Among
lahoring men there Is no opposition to
trusts, because they pay good wages and
never require strikes. Walking delegates,
however, all dccry and denoun"c trusts,
hut only out Of n sens" Of rivalry. The
labor unions entertain no real hostility to
trusts. They make some superficial noise
against them, but they are controlled in
~terlorly by the reflection that "to live and
let live" is to be wise.
In all our observation of trusts we have
known but two kinds of assault made on
them. The commOneSt was that instigated
by Wall street stock iobbcrs for the effect
it might produce upon the prices of n
trust stock in the market; and the less
frequent. but equally familiar, was that of
the hlackmaIlcr. This last divides easily
into two, the blackmailor who has not been
taken into "A trust, or who has failed to sell
out to a trust, and the blackmailer who
WINS hungry newspaper.
Mr.. GRIGGs appears to he wholly obtuse
to the claims and tn" clamor of all these
worthless. He refuses to prrvort the ma
chinrry of III" Federal law to serve
their purposes. If the trusts are amenable
at all it is to tn" courts in the Respective
States. And If they are amcnahlc il must
lie by reason of their practices, and II those
offend against the law. their authors should
be punished like individuals.
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Affairs Of h 18Th Street Church.

To THE EDITOR OF THE srS-Sir: Seeing
the letter in your paper Of to-day on "Church
Consolidation and Finances signed An In
terested Spectator" / feel II Ia my duty to
reply TO it. as many Of the statements con-
tanned therein are not true and are misleading.
Evidently Spectator is muddled. and re-
quires some light.
LIST. There has been no meeting or vote
taken by tho Session ot the Thirteenth Street
Presbyterian Church on the matter OF conaoli-
dation. Hence no such result AS nine no va. and
seven yeas out Of eight members could be
obtained.
I'd. No meeting Of the Session was. held last
week or at any other time to consider or re-
consider consolidation.
Sd DR.. Buchanan has cast 20 vote for or
against consolidation neither has he decided
an officer had a right to vote who was not
eligible.
4th. No member Of the Session has offered
fray deficit.
The congregation. whose exclusive right II
Ia. will decide the question at the proper time.
II Spectator wants to know the TRUTH OF
the matter he can get any Information he de-
sires by applying to q reliable SOURCE.
A T~HIRTEENTH STREETER.
New YORK, March %.
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For the People of Amsterdam Avenue.

A remarkable interview with Mr.. SIMON
STERNE, attorney for the residents Of Am
St"rdam avenue, was printed last night in
the EreniuG Post. The Third Avenue road
has been marked for special hostility be-
cause it has not "~rccognized the peoples
rights and proposed that they aid it in get
ting the use Of the Metropolitan tracks, :"
said Mr.. SrERSE. II it had. the Amsterdam
residents "would have helped
When the Ford bill was introduced tho
Amsterdam people were not in the state of
vindictivencss now ascribed to them by
Mr.. STERNE. They set out to avoid injus-
tice to the Third Avenue road by empower
ing it to interlace It's tracks with the Metro
politan's. The Third Avenues objections
to the removal Of their tracks could not
make them n proper subject for the piracy
now upon the Observation-Disclosures
programme.
We invite Amsterdam Avenues attention
to Mr.. STERNE's argument that the Third
Avenue road is not specifically singled out
for sacrifice to its rival. Mr.. STERNE was
thus quoted:
THE bill says:
18th" supreme Court shall determine II II is for
the public interest that any railroad tracks. the
oper ton 4 which il Affected by the 6rst section
Of this ac'. shall hc entirely removed from the avenue
and not reloc I d.
That means the METROPOLITAN as we'll as tho Thirl
Avenue crn,panr will have its position reviewed,
and that the one with least right will 20 under"
Under tho first section OF the Ford bill
f%orbidding the operation of tracks within
twenty feet OF the curb line the Third Ave-
nue. track would be taken up, leaving the
Metropolitan track untouched. There is
tan company or it's tracks before the Su-
prone Court.
Either Mr.. STERNE has been made un-
truthfully by the Erenhng Post to say what
ia not ST., or the residents of Amsterdam
avenue are represented by counsel un-
worthy OF their confidence.
WhethcrM Mr.. STERNE wasguiltyo of this dis
creditable uttcrancc or not, a sncaking et-
fort to conceal the real purport of the en-
terprise against the Third Avenue Railroad,
as il is now going on, is in the Ford amend
Inent to the original bill. The Supreme
Court shall determine whether "any railroad
tracks affected by the first section OF this
act" shall he entirely removed" As has
been said above, ANY railroad tracks" can
mean the Third Avenue tracks only.
Willingly or unwittingly. the Amsterdam
people are taking part in the perpetration
of gross injustice, OF downright connsra-
ton practically, to ono of two equal rail
ronds running through that district. They
are engaged in an enterprise which good
citizens should ahhOr and avoid.
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the opposition will be divided among com.
pettng candidates, while his forces will be
consolidated. Obviously, too, his will be the
only logical nomination, for whether nomi'
mated or not, the party will have TO stand
or fall on It's record In 1895. Nor can IL be
doubted that Mr.. BRYAN more than any man
represents the sincere and aggressive sen
timent and conviction OF the Democracy as
II is now. No other candidate suggested or
possible could hold together the Populist-
Democratic combination which east more
than $500, 900 votes in 1895. Nr. Cor
MANS nomination would smash II to pieces
at once. The Labor conference on Wednes-
day evening affords an Indication OF The
disastrous split which IL would cause, nor
Is he the sort Of man to command the sup
port OF the Mugwump faction OF the De,
mocracy.
Mr.. BRYAN's bold defiance OF the intriguers
against the Chicago platform in his let
ter refusing To come to the Croker dinner
here, repeated in his acceptance OF an in
Nitation ~ tho " one dollar opposition din
n.r, indicates how little he fears their
power in the Democratic party. Nor Is 1t
doubtful that 10y coming 10 New York on
the 10th OF April he will rekindlc Demo-
cratic enthusiasm for the Chicago platform
and make 1t increasingly difficult, ifnot abso,
lutely impossible. for his enemies to control
the Democratic delegation from this Statetu
the National Convention next year. 40 is.
the chances Of getting opposing delegates
anywhere in the State beyond the domain
OF Mr.. CROKER IN this city are very few, M
was made plain enough last year when
only candidates wno had voted for BRYAN
could he nominated by the State Conven'
tion. aud not one delegate dared to say u
word for gold, and when Tammany was
compelled 10 gag its candidates tor Con
gress suspected OF friendliness for gold,
Mr.. BRYAN and his following have a decided
advantage in being the Democracy which
Is alone in the courage of their opinions
and convictions.
AccorI. y, We DO not look for the ap
pearalc" IN the campaign Of next yeal
OF any third party which will make "A sig
~niiicunt display OF strength. The only
Democracy with any consistency OF prinri
pie, any real reason for u separate politica
existence, is the Democracy represented 10y
Mr.. BRYAN and the Chicago platform ano
the 100000 citizens who voted for then
in 1895. Tho remainder may call them
selves Democrats. but actually they ar" es
, sentially and radically hostile to everything
for which the Democratic party now stands
Their aspiration TO dominate il in 1900 is
a vain and preposterous dream. which cal
come to pass in reality only when the tai
/, succeeds in wagging the dog.
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Africa PartitiOncd.

The agreement just reached between
Great Britain and France with regard to
their spheres Of influence in central Africa
practically completes the partition Of the
continent among the European States.
There are, to be sure, some mountainous
regions and the waste of the Libyan desert
lying north aud northeast of Lake Tchad
Bnd Wadai, and for the most part still un-
explored, which no one has ever claimed.
The only part Of these regions supposed to
have any value are the districts OF Tibesti
and Borku, and as they are in touch with
the French sphere and separated by hun
dreds Of miles Of desert from any other
European Influence the coming maps will
probably show them under the French col
prs.
With the exception OF these areas and of
the independent States OF Morocco, Abys-
Sinia, Liberia ndt!le Boer republics, every
square mile Of African soil has now
been divided among the European powers
either a. colonies or rs spheres of influence
whose boundaries have been agreed upon in
general terms, and in a considerable num-
Der of cases have been delimitrd in detail.
The scramble of the past twenty years is at
W Nv W. . " ll' Ndl'IuIl' dItd6
that are not covered by existing agree
ments.
In the new arrangement between France
and Great Britain the Anglo-Egyptian pos
sessions are to include no territory that
did not belong to Egypt before the Mahdist
revolt, while the north boundary of the
French district Of the Upper Mobangi is
simply pushed about 300 miles further
north, So as to include within the French
sphere the whole Of the popuIous regions OF
Baglirmi and Wa,ai and the half desert
area of Kancm, north of Lake Tchad.
One of tn" most interesting phases Of the
arrangement il it's solution Of the unset
tlcu questions relating 20 rights Of posses
sion along tine borders of Trhad. Tie race
OF Great Britain, Franc" and Germany for
the lake. h"giuninR early in this decade,
was one OF tho mu~t striking episodes Of
the African scramble. 1t ended in Il series
OF treaties, thu las, of which WIS signed in
80 by which the possessions Of tn" three
powers secured frontage along two-thirhs
uf tn" lake coasts. France will now occupy
The remaining shores. Germany secured the
extension Of her CameIonn~ colony to the
south end OF the lake, I" which she Is tx.
plicitly confined 10y her treaties with Great
Britain and France.
1t il likely To lr long before France will
derive much material advantage from her
new sphere Of influence" in the Sudan. A
militant spirit p"rvadrS the 1000, 900 pro-
pie ri WaddI and these devoted MOhamme-
dams h"licv" that severe repression should
re visited u1On all intidrlS. Both BaghirmI
and kan"m lrr vasSal States II this power.
Ml euitnnat" and tn" whole region now
added 10 Frances sphere in the Sudan rm,
braces nhuut 22n,OOu square miles and
2,lou,unO people. In parcelling ont the
western and central Sudan the powers
have been working for the future with little
prospert al spredy advantage. While Great
Britain il acquiring some foothOld In
= IL .-L,.L. L. f-IL..- IL. L. -
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wadai, much the more powerful empire, is
ns yet utterly untouched by any European
Influences save those OF Turkish origin re.
ceived through Tripoli. The Arab element
is far larger than in any other part OF the
central or western Sudan, and its Sultan IL
All ally Of the Senusi sect OF Mohammedans,
which is Ms fanatical ana almost as tyrai-
nous As the Mahdist propaganda has been
in the Egyptian Sudan. Three of the six
explorers who have visited the country
were murdered, and most OF our knowledge
OF il has been derived from the great work
which NAcHTIGAL was seven years in writ
ing. He alone WIS gifted with u degree Of
prudence and tuct which inspired CONT
dencc aud won friends even among the
mpSt funntical Moslems.
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GEN. MILEs's PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
IN CUB4.
His Original Plan as Presented In Bis Own
OmoiAl Report.

,,.. .. MI. :. p....r,.d In M. Own
Omcinl Report.
~ ,una - ,,., o,o.m
~
p"'S"' ru
v.uyISaroN n r. June "a iS.s
stp. have tho honor TO submit the follow.
Inc.
with tho c,nture of Ga ntiaso de Cuba il la
.,noo,od wo ui,, b.ve s.y.rnl thousand Span-
ish nrisopers. and with the csptnre OF the sec
ond oh;ec,ive nosition Porto RiooL now under
coneids r,,iop n ia .xnected We will add TO the
number. making, Il ia hoped. in the aggregate
a. Ioos, al oOo nrisonars
After the canture Of the ~positIon next after
santiaco de Cuba. II would be. in MY udgme
advisable 10 fax. some clearwater harbors on
the northern coast Of Cuba. which would be
available. not only for our nrmy. but also for the
p,vv no sate norts for our trnpsporta. SUNNY
ships and naval vessels between Key West and
Porto Rico. II IA olao Important that we
shouId s.lect soms polnt At which 10 disem-
bark bur mounted troops and lisht artillery,
with which orr Government ia we'll supplied.
We vii have in , few wecks nnward OF l5,OOO
cavalry. This force. with the light artillery
and n small BIO Nv OF infantry. will make n most
ormide bic army corps with which 70 conduct u
camraiRn IN the interior OF Cuba.
The most available point. II appears to me,
would he the harhor of Nueyitas. which has
29,s feet OF water. From there the command
could move TO Puerto Principe. one OF the prin-
Gina, cities in the Island OF Cuba, Using that
AS basc, II. could move through the rolling
country. which il reported to be free from
yellow fever. 10 Moron and Taguayabon and
tbence IN villa Clara ar. by a more southerly
route. from Puerto pripcipe to Clego do Ayilas.
thence 10 Sanctj spiritus. and thence to villa
Clara. A road could be builta at the rate II nve
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Politics and Strikes.

To THE EDITOR OF THF SuS-Sir: Tho newsc 'Iunn'
OF your valued journal have furnished me Y ith 'nl
information regarding the 81 and SO JefersoniAn
dinners.
Kindly allow me space to express my SINGER" a''
miration for william J. Bryan's true DrI""ciaNo
and ringing sentiments.
Even THE srS must admit that hypocrisy mas
no testing place in the mind Of the Democrats
leader.
Aud Croker and Tammany will discover N" fact
that Tammany IL not the Democratic party ana
that its power will melt like ice in cuba, once IL"
recognized az "a private club for grab which"
really Ia. A SIS READER
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objection to a james slip Park.

To INV EpIToR or THE SrS-Sir lnN'l'" fN"'A
bill has been introduced and ordered to a 'hIT ! ECU
ing in the Senat" II akinR a park in the Fourth "''''
situate in that portion bounded hy James n.y.
Roosevelt street and New Clamhcrs and 'h"H''
This bill was introduced by S .nator Nlolru. and 10
effect, II it becomes a law. will he to driy" ".i nun
drrhE Of families. hard working, honest TcoP'" w.
can i'll AZ ord the expense of moving AMI Nh.' ~
aH lonVsnuIemen and lAborCrs ncrcssltate~ '"'' 80
ing close to their work.
Let Senator Ahearu look ack At the fate . ".
tlqTetei predecessor, Tim lin tanph"N 49,
downfall and retirement was caused hF ne ''
lcars Park - scheme. Forum N'Ifh'
SEw YORK, Mar'h -.
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A salvation Army Loader for Mn'"r'

From the ChicIGo Tim.s H'rn'
WICHITA. March 2o.-ln James W. IAtI W
has a reform randidate for Mayor who's II''i''" =
more sweeping than has been any other 'h'"' "
kind. even in reform Kansas. The f't'' ' V
Candidate Tapp urges are not confined pr'" :
erumept or To politics, bnt include al Hr.is 'rN !
he thinss he can make men and women l''''f '"''
they are. Mr.. TGpp il he leader II Ia" i"" >'''
tion Army. a pro.perou. merchant, real estate ""''
and ph!lanthrnp.Et.
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PARK BOARD WANTS rHEoLp CANYON
Proposes to Pay $4,000 for Eighty Old
Spanish Gums.

spanish Guns.
The Park Commissioners accepted yesterday
the recommendation Of Landscape Architect
Rose In regard to the purchase Of old Spanish
bronze cannon which were brought to this
city from Cuba a couple OF months ago. Mr.
Rose reported that he examined the old can
non and recommended that eighty OF them he
bought by the city and set up in Central Park.
the Battery Park. Washington square, Van
Cortlandt Park. and Fort Greene and Prospect
PARKS.
I'm soma cases the pieces Of ordnance Sc.
lected are Of an age to be classified a. an'ilul;
ties" Mr.. Rose wrote, They are associated
Atlantic. Their beauty Of form. decorations
and excellence Of casting give them a further
art value"
According to the architect the old cannon
will cost % cents n pound. The PARK lmati
decided to ask the Board Of Estimate for s'o''
900 to purchase them.
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The strong roots Of the pine will obtain sus-
tsnAnre where all other lHG.tation is almost extinct.
| be ieYe pne+ would thrive ON the BuwTry or any
other street IN Mtnha,tan.- ET'rarf from o IL irr
r,rommrndtng th' piaHii"g II trrrs in New FORK ciiy.
The Bowery would be worse for pines than
for the famous visitor who bought there n box
OF socks. The leaves Of evergreens, which are
their ~nostrils. would be choked with SCOT in tho
city. For that reason, only trees that lose their
leaves can live there.
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introduced into the Legislature q constitu-
tional amendment establishing the initiative
and referendum and providing that a law APP
proved by the vote OF the people cannot be
vetoed by the Governor or declared unconstt-
%tutional by the Supreme Court. Ultimately. no
doubt. lawsuits can be determined by the same
simple method and courts Of all sorts wiped
ont
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81.

oh. inner Of the Daddiea,
About your bnarl We see
Tho modest grace
or many a face
ofswect simplicity.
Oh. Dinner Of tho Daddies.
How much your charms enhance
Tie modest means
U. men In jeans
And other kinds Of pants.
Oh, Dinner Of tho Daddies.
Your appealing smell
OF pork and beans
And jowl and greens
Ia mDIe than verse can tell.
oh. Dinner fthe Daddi"s.
Your I o;hAome coTnhrtad hunks
Applaud the plan
OF every man
To save tAe.e.y nine p.unks.
Oh. Dinner of the Ia ldie-.
Yonr spirit brcath"s = prayer
And benis"n
For every one
Who happens 10 b. there.
Oh, Dinner Of the Dlddie1.
Although yol give no Pie,
Your eaters pray
To md a way
To get II by aud by.
Oh, d inner II the DAddies.
One dollar does not buy
SO much the feed
To NIL n need.
A. h you typify, ". J. L.
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The Hon. CARTER HARRISON Of Chicago
tells his hearers that he does not think II gu,
OF keeping with his character as a modest man
to claim that Of the three candidates now in
the field for Mayor he is the best fitted for the
position With II modesty 80 candid and the
brown Fedora hat. young CARTER lcels himself
10 he !nvincihle.