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SUMMERS HERE SURE, NOW,
First Bath of tho Street Arabs in tho City
Hall Park Fountain q Certain Sign.

First Bath of tho Street Arabs in tho City
Hall Park Fountain q Certain Sign.
The street arabs along Park row gave proof
yesterday that the hot weather had come to
stay. They sweltered.in the sun all day and
waited patiently until a quarter to 9 O'Clock.
when the policemen in City Hall Park with
drew to the station to report For rollcall and
make ready for the night shift. Then, with
one accord. they made dash for thefountain
In the plaza. Within a minute there were
fully twenty OF these boys swim ming In tho
basin.
The crowd that gathered around the gam.
FMS soon attracted the attention OF the police
mon In the.station and two bluecoats were de-
tailed.to dri 20 the boys away IA they hove in
sight tho boys scam persd away. The police
men returned TO tho station then. but tho boys
were not ready to quit. They went to :the
and Broadway. and knowing that they were
out OF sight OF the station there took of all
their clothes but their trousers and started
their aquatic exhibition again.
Inc big broadway squad men stood In the
middle of the street and Rrlnned sym patheti-
caly and crowd OF men and women stood
hve deep around the fence and cheered the
lads on TO further antics. Tho Ramins dived
IN the water turned sOmersaults and fiphaps
played leap frog and ducked each other TO
Q. when tho night shift OF policemen was seen
approaching.
Cheese III De cops!" yelled picket on thu
rear steps OF the City Hall. Each boy grabbed
ran across broadway and disappeared. The
crowd melted away and tho policemen did not
hurry themselves. Exhibitions will doubtless
be given daily hereafter at the same hour
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Good Wishes for Henderson All Around.

The Rev. DR.. JULIUS A. WARD who has
had twenty years experience Of Iowa and
Iowans as pastor OF various Methodist
Episcopal churches in that conference
writes US this interesting letter concern
Ing the Hon. DAVID BREMNER HENDERSON,
whose lifelong friend he has been:
ITO THE EprroR OF THE suS-Si- In an edi.
toral article this morning you ask whether Col. D.
B. HESpERsoS ia loyal to President MCKINLEY. May
Ibe allowed to say. from personal acquaintance
dating back 70 the Colonels college days that Col
Henderson, can be counted upon to support the Ad
ministration most heartily. His characteristics
loyalty. honor, courage and kind Of chivarous de-
votion to country party and friends that renders
cunning to advance personal ends at the cost Of
mony and his countrys good impossible on hts part
Col. HESpERsoN is rugged but courteous man.
. loyal Republican and q statesman Of such breadth
that the country's need and the progress OF man
command to a service that is unvaryne and
reserved. JuIrUs A. WARD
NEW YORK. juno s."
pleasant certificate Of personal char
acter, creditabe alike to the certifer and
the certified. The Rev. DR.. WARD, however,
has read hastily our remarks upon the lead
ing candidate for Speaker il he has derived
the idea that the quality OF Gen. HENDER-
SONS Repuhlicanism Ia impugned or that
there Is any question "a tothe loyalty of his
character and his general friendliness to-
ward the Administration.
The only thing in doubt ia the specific
question Of Gen. HENDERsoNs attitude to-
ward the policy Of expansion in the Far
East and the retention OF the Philippines.
This question becomes all the more impor-
tant as the probability increases that 1t will
be Gen. HENDERSON who names the COM
mttees Of the Fifty-sixth House Of Repre-
sentatives and exercises from the Speakers
desk a powerful influence upon the course
of legislation in that body.
If DIR. WARD has any definite information
on this subject we shall cheerfully open
our columns to him again.
Meanwhile, we hear nothing but good
wishes for Gen. HENDERSON from every
point OF the compass The sectional issue
has disappeared. Massachusetts, ended 1t.
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The Democratic Rake's Progress.

There was great area Of talk-fall at the
Convention OF the Ohio Valley Bimetallo
League in Louisville last week, but the man
Of the meeting. tho man who really had
something to say was JOHN P. ALrGELD.
He has the merit Of knowing what he wants
Here Is what he said about Trusts:
1T is evident that to simply go on denouncina
Trusts is an in suit to tho OF the
people. 1t is the cheapest kind Of political dema-
goRy. The time has some whom some new method
Of dealing with these monopolies must BE- adoptod
The experience Of other countries well as a
thorough consideration Of the question, shows that
II ia impossible to reduce many Of these monopoes
back to their original element. They have como to
stay and therefore 1t Ii the mission and the duty of
the Democratic party to secure tho benent OF the
monopoly for the public. for the people. That
means municipal and governmental ownership Of
all monopoles which 1t is practicable for govern
ment a. yet to control"
practicable ms yet Is sufficiently elas-
tic. Mr. ALTGELD does not tremble before
the monster at which so many Democratic
statesmen are throwing their daggers OF
lath. He accepts concentration as an in
evtable fact Of private business. He
dreams OF infinitely mightier concentra-
tiOns, OF a monster State, an Octopus run
by the Government Instead OF being run at,
MS now. ALTGELD knows that Trusts will
not die to oblige Democratic or Republican
resolution makers. He seeks not to kill
the Trust, but to make it all-powerful.
Whcreat there IL goosefiesh among the
persons who imagine that they can he con-
servative and Democratic at the same time.
ooh, but ALTdELD is a rank Socialist" they
say. Exactly. A rank Socialist in rank
Socialist party. II here and there he may
be little in advance OF his party it is in
accord with most of his ideas. He has
the advantage Of most Of the leaders OF the
Democracy in seeing where he is and where
1t is going. The causelcss discomfort, the
social hatred, the fury against wealth, the
impatience with courts, the sympathy with
violence, which arc registered in the Chi
cago platform might indeed be set down
as symptomatic Of anarchism rather than
of socialism.
Some Of the men who are fostering these
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OUR BIGGEST TORPEDO BOIE
Tho SuinRham, Which Is to BE Launched
Next Saturday, Will Be Formidable Craft.

Tho StIinEham, Which Is to BE Launched
Next Saturday, Will BE Formidable Graft.
The torpedo-boat destroyer strnRhan
which is to be launched on June 10 at the
yards of tho Harlan Il Hollingsworth Com
pany at Wilmington. Del. Is one OF tho vessels
authorized by the act OF March, 1897, and will
be the largest and best equipped in the navy.
Her keel was laid in March. 1893 She is 225
feet long, with beam OF ~ feet, and at
her mean draught OF q feet q inches will
have a DISPLACEMENT OF $40 tons. She is 10
tons larger than the FarraRut and twice
as large as any other torpedo boat built or
20 attain speed of at least thirty knots. md
has twin screws driven by two vertical trlple
expansion engines Of 1000 horse power Ihe
aarmament, will consist OF two 1s-inch tubes for
Whitehead torpedoes. and seven 8-pounder
rapid-hre guns. One gun will be mounted on
the forward coming tower. and one on tho
after coming tower. and the other five will he
disposed about the deck N "''A W
turtleback will extend from the stem to the
Forward coming tower. A popularity OF he
Stringham will be her stem. which wifi he cmf
away instead OF straight. She will have tbTee
smokestacks, and, while following the EngIisb
model In general, will not be so nearly a repro-
In the heet NN~S' 40"
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Summer Ores. for Eauestr,snes.

To THE EDITOR or THE sUN-Sir: ssire TO say
but little moro than word to fair tuestriennes
in the matter Of becoming summer Atfe for horse
back. Tho com bnaton OF sailor hat id skirt waist.
which is much in vogue at present painfully In
conEruous. and. to say the least, In very poor
taste. II personal comfort is the oul consideration
there is reason why you should lint this letter.
But while men. on the score of me- comfort. sacri-
Ace much Of disnity in appearing don't think
our fair sisters should sacrifice oArm and attrac-
tiveness we'll Therefore. to m sister deVotees
OF eguestr ,anism say, Don't war sailor hat or
any Rat sort OF a hat on hursebao. IL gives you a
squatty appearance, II you are vor thirty. and II
under-wel an alpine hat in raw with tasteful
veil effect, will answer much bepr. And II the fair
rdor is over under thirty. sh should wear coat
or Jacket and this can be Of To hghtest material.
and need add no discomfort. JARDY.
New YORK, June 3.
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A SALE At THE NAVY YARD.
Some War Relies Among tho Condemn cd
Stores Thus Disposed OF.

Stores Thus Disposed OF.
OF the 143 lots OF condemned naval stores
scheduled az for sale at the navy yard in Brook
bidders will not be certainly known for day
or two. owing to the necessity OF separating
and tabuating their bids.
Two lots. which contained articles OF much
interest. were withdrawn from the sale. One
OF them was 2t}S on the schedule and it con-
sisted OF 100 nine inch smooth bore cannon
numb ered from 70 to 1870. and weighing alto
gether l.l6l,O 900 pounds. They we're cast
during and right after the civil war and they
have long been out OF date. It Is understood
that they were withdrawn from the sale be-
cause OF many applications that, have been
who want them as souvenirs. It Is also un-
derstood that great mum Der OF the old round
solid shot and shells which are lying about the
navy yard were kept out OF tho sale for tho
As 1t was, there were sold s. 900 a-inch shells.
weighing 1.OO5.OOO pounds; thirty-one 9-inch
and 100 Founders. some 30-pound breech.
for them. a lot Of old 15- Inch shells and few
15.tnch canister shot.
had belonged to the tug Wompatuok and
which was used by Lieut. Jungen while he was
cutting cables around the Cuban coast during
the Spanish war. Although the boat was more
is still serviceable.
Among the things sold were the fittings and
furnishings OF the yachts which were con-
verified into cruisers and despatch boats and
torpedo catchers during the Spanish war and
some furnishings from regular war vessels.
Among the latter was q brass bedstead from
the New York. which Is said to have come from
son during the war
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The Movement on NIorong.

Although the rainy season put an end to
Gen. OTIs's advance in the region north OF
Ban Fernando, 1t has not prevented him
from resuming aggressive operations east
OF Manila
Gen. LAwToN, who, on being withdrawn
from his bold march to San Isidro resumed
his old command OF the lines south Of
Manila, has already vigorously attacked
and driven Off the forces OF Gen. Pho DEL
Pillar, who have been operating there. Our
outposts east Of Manila extend to Pasg,
where the Marquina empties into the
Laguna de Bay. Just east Of this stream
are Cainta and Taytay, an easy march from
our outposts. with Antlpolo a little be-
yond; and then, half dozen miles south
east, Morong, on the further side Of
peninsula iutting into LaPuna de Bay
Gen. LAwroN, whose successful campaign
against GERONIMO in the Sierra Madre,
years ago, taught him to look lightly on
any obstacles that nature could present,
seems to have planned to surround the
enemy at Cainta and Taytay; or, II he
should retreat, to drive him down the
\ Morong peninsula, where gunboats could
prevent his escape by water.
II turned out however, in the early stage
OF the movement, that natural obstacles
were serious drawback, for, what with tho
swollen streams that required fording or
bridging, the fields turned into quagmires
and the terrific heat. the hoped-for bottling
up OF the entire force proved impracticable.
In the plan as made, Gen. HALL, it appears,
with the main force, was to begin the
movement by pushing beyond Canta and
Taytay to Antipolo, where he would be east
OF these places and also in the rear OF Mo
rong. Col. WHOLLEY was to march with
another force north from Pasig. But the
obstacles that beset HALL on his long,
oircuitous route were great, and WHoLLEY
got into position at Cainta first. From
long habit tho insurgents have learned to
take to their heels after few shots, and
before HALL had reached AntipOlo some
OF them, according to the account, had
bolted in that direction, while others,
perhaps fled southeast to Morong.
Alright Gen. LAwToN sent troops by boat
around from Pasg to Morong, and soon had
force guarding tho peninsula, In order to
entrap the insurgents that had entered it,
HALL having previously come south from
Antipolo to Taytay. These various move
mcnts were accompanied by some sharp
fighting, and soon we may expect to know
something q! the enemy's loss in killed
and captured.
The lesson to the insurgents will be that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-06
CONFY ISLAND PARK.
Comptroller Gets Letters Approving the
Plan-Private Titles Impugned.


Comptroller Coler has received letters from
residents OF all sections OF the city. expressing
approval OF his plan for pu bile seaside park at
Coney Island. G. Fl. Lewis OF % Broadway
pointed out in a letter. which Mr. Coler madeI
public yesterday. that the destruction OF the
beach by the waves might be prevented by the
removal OF the bulkheads and piers which are
now on the island. OF the plan for park Mr..
Lewis says:
The millions OF respectable people should
be considered rather than the few money
making. vulgar corrupt. immoral people who
mako hell OF the place every day. Such
people should be forced out OF the State, and it
is a reproach on the name OF the city that such
can lat under any police in the United States.
III you investigate the titles OF persons holding
land you will find very little of the land which
land diverted by ]. \. Mckane and his gang OF
thieves. twill no doubt be burned down until
regenerated as was Chicago Vengeance is
mine. will repay. saith the Lord -"
The Tammnny General Commute in the
Thirty-second Assembly district has adopted
N. Smith, Nice-President and cashier of the
Bedford Bank in Brooklyn: the Rev Augustus
+ Barnett. nastor Of the Washington Heights
Methodist Episcopal Church at 153d street
Seayer Of BROOKLYN approve the plan, Mr..
urged by Mr.; Colerwas carried out at what was
Revere Beach. near Boston, which was trans-
formed into park. with the result that it's
value to the public has been greatly increased.
Mr.; Coler will bring the subject up for dis
Gusslon at the next meeting Of the Board Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-06

Has HAD Enough Of wall Street for = while
and IL Going to Europe.

Wall street men were interested yesterday
in the Information that Jacob Field will sail
for Europe on the steamship Augusta Vic
toria on juno 49, He will be accompanied
by Mrs Field and DR.. Arnold Sturndort
OF 100 East Si1ty-second street. who is his
family physician. Mr.. Field for several
months past has been one Of the boldest
operators on the New York Stock Exchange.
He is credited with having made S750O00 In
the big bull movement early this year and in
the successive slumps In prices since then. In
one stock operation alone he Is known to have
cleared $250,0O0 He began his Wall street
career as an office boy thirty years ago or
more He joined the Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum Exchange after he had managed to
accumulate small capital. and became known
on that Exchange as one OF Its most active
traders The Consolidated became too small
field for him. and on Oct. 10 last he Joined the
New York stock Exchange. making his ofics
ii was said yesterday that no room trader OF
change In the past ten years Last saturday
he e reported to have sold out at profit line
cleared up quantity Of Atchison preferred; OF
iinS louisville aud Xashyle IND a lne q
understood to have been sold recently, He 10
reported to have made a loss in Manhattan.
Wnlcn was DOuRnt AROUND l2I' put 10 nave He-
cured one OF his biggest profits in Anaconda
copper stock. on which he was steadfast bul!
from 40 upward. bidding up the price himself
over half the way. Since that stock struck 20
a line OF morv than $4,000 shares Is said to
have been sold out for his account
Mr.. Field is small man. unassuming IN
manner excepting when he Ia on the floor OF
the Exchange personally engineering deal.
He Is domestic in his tastes and devoted to his
children. Recent summers he has spent at a
hotel which he owns at Brielle. n. j. He was
on the floor OF the Stock Exchange yesterday
and said that he expected to be abroad about
three months He will get good rest before
again undergoing the nervous strain OF carry
ing 80. 600 share lines OF stocks through panics.
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The Happy Stroke Of the Charleston

In view Of Germany's purchase from Spain
OF the Carolines. the Pelews and all the La
drones except our island Of Guam, we can
more than ever appreciate the coup by
which Capt. GLASS last summer seized that
same Guam.
1t cost only brief delay In the Charles
toms voyage to reinforce DEWEY and
not an atom Of harm to our interests at
Manila; whereas without 1t we should not
have to-day a single port or coaling station
along the great gap between Hawaii and
the Philippines. Wake Island, north Of the
Marshalls, is ours, but Commander TAUssIa
Of the Bennington, who hoisted our flag
over 1t last January, found 1t fringed with
a coral reef whose edge was in view when
ever the breakers receded, and there was no
available anchorage for him.
Coupled with satisfaction over Guam
must be feeling of regret that either the
Monterey or the Monadnock did not util-
ize its voyage to Manila, after the Charles
tons, by raising our flag at Yap or Ponapi,
or, above all, at Strong's Island. That
act would have given US certainly the
ports seized. and presumably the entire
Carolines, had we sought to claim them.
Our commissioners at Paris, months later,
sought in vain to buy Strongs Island,
otherwise known as Kusaie or Ualan, on
account Of its value as port and particu-
larly as cable station. But Spain had
already in mind, perhaps, the larger trade
with Germany now consummated.
Thus Guam appears all the more by con-
trast an instance Of the tide taken at the
food. 1t is pity that we could not have
acquired by some means the rest Of the La
drones. instead Of finding most OF them
now in the hands Of powerful neighbor
as the result SPANS clearance sale. Say
pan, the second largest island, has port
which Is said to be easily defensble, and
Pagan an extensive roadstead, with the pos
sibiities, 1t appears, Of a good port. How
ever, Jour harbor Of San Luis de Apra, on the
west coast Of Guam, Is by long odds the best
OF all, being capacious and. In spite of
reefs and isets. safe. There are said to be
other excellent anchorages too. on our
island, which, with its length Of twenty
seven miles, It's breadth Of seven Tor eight,
its nearly 10000 people and It's good soil,
Is at once the largest, most populous and
most prosperous OF ALL The Charleston
gave us the gem OF the group.
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THE JERSEY CITY DOG CASE.
Nero, Who Bit Mrs. Hay, Still Lives, ana
His Counsel Fights On.

Nero, Who Bit Mrs. Hay, Still Lives, and
His Counsel Fights On.
Everybod personally interested inthe case Of
Nero. the Newfoundland dog which bit Mrs.
Jennie Hay of 113 Lake street. Jersey City.
in the back on May 1o-that is. everybody ex-
cept the doR-was present In the Second Grim
inal Court yesterday morning. Mrs HAY was
hoping that sentence Of death would he passed
upon Nero and that rhe would be permitted 20
witness the execution. Police Justice Potts
was on the bench and Assistant Corporation
Attorney Puster appeared TO guard tho city's
interests The owner OF the dog. Jacob Bou-
cher. was in court. accompanied by his mother
ln-Iav. Mrs. Catharine Layman of 81 Lake
street. Charles j. Peshall. who has oonsti-
tuted himself counsel for Boucher and the
dog. took conspicuous part in the proceed
ings.
back. While, she would not admit that che
was superstitious. she confessed she was
afraid that i the dog ever got rabies she would
on having the dog killed.
Mrs. Layman r, said she had examined the
marks on Mrs. Hays back, but was unable to
determine whet they were made by Nero's
teeth or his claws.
ordinance Justice Potts made demand on
Boucher to produce the dog. Boucher said
he was TnE to do s9 but could
and refused to.tell where:he was. Mrs. Layman
remark sd hat she had advised her son- in law
to death and thus relieve Mrs Hays anxiety.
Mr. Peshall insisted that. notwithstanding
the.ordinance. the city had.no'right to have the
dog put to death. II the owner refused to pro-
duce him fine could be imnosed. but even
that. he commended. would be illegal
Justice Potts i'm posed tho maximum penal
~. $50 fine. The collection Of IL was post
roned until next Thursday at the request OF
Mr.. Peshall. who in tho meantime will apply
for writ Of certorari to have.the proce ed ngs
Of the Police Court reviewed by the Supreme
(Onrt
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All from tne nov. conway.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir, see that
am quoted by two OF your correspondents in
to-day's Sun as favorinR the imperative form
OF the text Search the Scriptures" in my
letter in last Sundays Sun Permit me to say
~ that quoted the text. not to prove the
command OF searching the Scriptures" but
to establish the fact that Christ and the Jews
whom He addressed. regarded the Scriptures
as sacred and divine: ~ that in quoting the
Douay version 1t was not my intention to
commend the imperative form as the correct
evident to me that the indicative is the prefer
able, II not the only admissible form; ~ that
the best odern commentators seem to favor
the indicative, tSee Kna ben bauer. in Joan.l
When. therefore. quoted the usual version
without modification or comment 1t was be-
cause comment was foreign to my purpose.
Should any one. however. cling to the i'm
perative form. though 1t cannot be established
violence to logic and common sense evolve
such imperative into a general law or divinel
precept. since in the context It Is no more thar
an incidental challenge Of the Master to hi
Pharisaic listeners JAMES CONWAY. T. j.
CHURCH OF ST. 1GNATIUs LoYoLA. June4
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Distribution of Trophies of tho Spanish.
American War.

WASHINGTON juno 5.-Major George Fl.
hopkins aide to the Secretary OF War. to-day
sent letters to the Governors OF all the statas
In regard to tho distribution OF the trophisa
taken by the United States forces in and about
Santiago during the war with Spain. There
are about eighty cannon in possession of the
war Department. which are obsolete or other.
wise unserviceable. and these will be distrib-
n n.ea IN accordance with the act OF Congress-
the several States for distribution To- tbe I,nsto
f 2. she GTandArmy Of the Republic, municIpai,
nan anu monument associations great
e SeId and i was finally determined that Il
s s De leit to the Governors Of States TO iss
however, will be bound by the proyisions o;
the lays lay OF congress Each Governor viii have
a snis cannon captured in the PhIlinpins.
m m pc sent to those States in lieu OF thoSe
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IL is risky to count on the rainy season for
venturing too close to our lines. Still, as
to that, they have developed a positive
genius for timely retreat and once more
east OF Manila, as 30 often north Of IL, our
well-made plans for bagging them have
been bafled by horrible roads, and espe-
clally by their hasty withdrawal at the APP
proach OF our troops before the last avenue
OF escape was closed. Yet 1t may turn out
that LAwToN has some prisoners to show
for his energetic work