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The evening times., 1899-05-30
PERFORMANCE.

Washington, May 29.-President McKin-
ley today issued an order removing abso-
Iutely from the operations of the Civil
Service law about 5000 of the most I'M
portant places among the $1,000 in the
classified lists.
These places include hundreds that pay
good salaries and should be and are now
filled by men who are especially qualined
for the duties.
In addition to this direct turning over as
spoils all these places for which exarnina-
tion is particularly necessary and from
which examination excludes those whose
talents are purely political" Mr.. Mckin-
ley has so modified the rules that 1t is
not possible to appoint the faithful to
laborers' positions without examination
and then advance them to any positions,
however high, without their having to pass
a competitive examination.
The order of the President is an indirect
notification of practically the whole civil
service system.
An especial feature of the order is that
it takes practically the whole of the lndian
and Alaskan services out Of the classified
lists and turns them over as spoils.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
CHICAGO's DIREFUL FATE.
Destined in Time 30 De Under Lake
Michigan.

Chicago. May 30.-That Chicago is being
slowly engulfed in Lake Michigan by a
gradual fitting of the earth's crust in the
lake region is the theory Prof. G. X Gil
bert advances in a contribution to the lat
est volume Of the Geological Survey. Ac-
cording to the professor. the water Is ris-
ing at the rate OF nine or ten .ncnes in
century, and in about l $50 years will be
flowing uainterruptedly over the natural
watershed that separates the Mississ .ppi
and the Great Lake drainage syst=ms-
Prof Giibcrt's investigations have been
in progress several years. Official records
OF water levels at four different lake
points showed him that, relatively TO
Sackett's Earbor, Charlotte sank e.,tl FOOT
in twenty-five years. Cleveland, relatively
to Port Colborne. 100 miles away. sank
IS inches in thirty seven years. Mil
waukee. as compared with Port Austin.
80 miles off, sank O.l3S foot tl6i6 inchssj
in twenty years.
In Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. says
Prof Gilbert, the general level Is rising.
At Toledo and Sandusky the average rise
is eight or nine inches century All over
Lake Huron the water is falling, most
consp:cuously at the north and northeast.
AT Iackinac the rate is six inches s11 az
the mouth of the French River ten inches
a century AT Duluth the water is rising
six inches, at Milwaukee FIVE or six inches
and at Chicago nine or ten inches. Duluth
is built upon steep hillsides and can creep
Id out of the water whenever she is re-
ouired to do so, but as Chicago is built
on low ground il is difficult to forecast her
fate. Perhaps she will have TO use stills. :.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
Marin Theresn ThnIcrs.

(yisnna Letter in the Chicago RceordD
Joseph Mueller, director OF Tie Imperial Aus
trian Mint. recently gave interesting. lecture
before the Numisruatc Society the imitation
by foreign miGts oi the Austrian LeyIn;ine Maria
Theresa thaler. These limitations only be
garIed as attempts on the part Of foreign Euro
pean states win from Austria the favor in
which the natives of the Orient hold this cour-
tty's coinage The lecturer produced specimens
of limitations coined in the last century by the
Venetian Republic and King Frederick II OF Prus-
sa. in order TO suppian; the original Maria The
resa thaler in the Orient For hundred years
TO renewed attempts made at competition
by foreign powers until 1880. Italy issued the so
called ..Eritlrca thaler." and three years later
France coined similar imitation for King Meme
lik of byssinis. Every attempt is made in these
limitations to retain far possible the original
Austrian coinage and srperscIiption. The female
figure for instance. representing on the Venetian
Levantne thaler the Republic of Venice, bears
striking resemblance to Empress Maria Theresa.
All these attempts. however, to initiate the coin
have failed lamentably to meet with the favor
of the conservative Orientals. The MsneliS thaler
may well n drastic proof Of the spirit
of Oriental conservatism. Since 1853, 500 MsnelIS
thalcrs have been issued by the Paris Mint while
during the same period I6.0oo.0o0 Austrian Maria
Theresa thalers have been coined and circulated
The evening times., 1899-05-30
OBJECTIONS TO A REVIEW.
IL Would he Unfair to Assemble Vol
unteer Troops mt st. Paul.

A strong concerted effort is being made
grand review of all the volunteers now
serving in the Philippines at st. Paul,
Mimi. during the contemplated visit OF the
President to that place in August II Is
said that the transportation OF the volun-
teers to st. Paul can be arranged without
costing the Government a cent. but II IS
not likely that even with that inducsment
the project will be carried out. The objec-
tions against the scheme are many and
practical. Some of the volunteer regi-
ments, notably those from Oregon and
Washington, are expected TO be back in
the United States within six weeks, and 1t
is urged that in addition to the expense
to the Government ii would be an outrage
on these soldiers to hold them at camps
for a month or more, simply for the pur-
pose of sending them to St. Paul to par
ticipate in a military spectacle.
Although the volunteers from the mil
ippines have been entitled to muster-out
ever since the proclamation of peace be-
tween the United States and Spain. they
have sacrificed safety. comfort, and in
many instances lucrative positions at
home to save the Government from the
embarrassment that would be caused by
their withdrawal from the Philippines. II
is contended therefore. by those who are
opposed to the st. Paul movement that th
volunteers should be sent to their homes
as soon as possible after their arrival N
the United States.
Another objection is :hat tie men would
lose a great deal of travel pay by partici-
pating in the review. II is expected that
most of the regiments vii, elect to be mus
tered out at San Francisco. thereby insur-
ing the travel allowances, much more than
sufficient to pay their expenses in proceed
ing to the places where they reside. Resi-
ments that decide TO be mustered out at
the places of enlistment will be transported
to those places at the expense OF the Gov
ernment, but VIII not receive travel pay.
Altogether, the proposition is regarded as
impracticable. and Army officers on duty
here hope that it will not be carried out.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
The Trouble in Tnm many.

Whatever may be the opinion outside OF
its own organization concerning the revolt
in Tammany Hall against the leadership
of Mr.. Croker. it may be said with conf
dence that il will not cause sleeplessnezs
or grief in the camp of the Republicans.
1t has been evident for some time that
trouble was brewing between the control
ling Croker element. and the men like Mr..
Sheehan, who we're formerly of the SAN
hedrim but who lately have been relegated
to standing room only in the synagogue.
and. soon or late, it was bound TO break
out That being the case, ii is as well
that the family disturbance should come to
head now and be fought out before the
time when the organized Democracy OF
New York must present a united front
against Republicanisn, if the Empire
State is not to appear next year In the
Hanna column. 1t is, therefore, to be
hoped that if there is to be serious in
surrection against the Croker regime 1t
will be settled one way or the other in
short order. Democrats in New York and
elsewhere are not in the best position to
gain much by fighting among themselves
If they expect to go in for national VIC
tory in 1860.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
TUESDAY, MAY 80. 1899.
Decoruti9n Day.

So many Decoration Days have come
and gone since the close of the Civil war
that many of the veterans who first march
ed to lay the tribute of love ON the graves
of their dead comrades as beardless youths,
now walk painfully to that duty as old,
grey-headed men.
Yet the occasion can never become trite,
and this particular anniversary is more
notable than any preceding one. For this
is the first Decoration Day since the Span
ish war the history and incidents of which
have served TO wipe out the last bitter
ness engendered by the struggle between
the States, and reunite the whole people
of the whole country in bonds of eternal
union and fraternity.
Ii is a consummation which the dead
heroes of the Civil War would delight in,
and perhaps their souls, marching on in
glory. know of it, and thank the AL
mighty that II is SO at last. 1t is some
thing that will impress posterity with the
= thought that the blood and tears of the
Spanish war were indeed not shed in
vain.
The evening times., 1899-05-30

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
THE temptation to stoop when Under
fire is almost irresistible" said veteran.
talking over the recent hot work in the
Philippines, .'and that accounts for so
many of the wounds received by Jaw
troops. You see. when man happens to
be hit in a STOPPING posture the chances
the that the bullet plows right through
his body from end to end. On the other
hand II he is standing erect, the proba
ties are in favor of the wound being slight.
ANYHOW not mortal. Old soldiers are well
aware of this, and while they will drop
fiat and hunt cover every chance they get
they never stoop. After soldier has been
in a few engagements he learns such
tricks and as far as the rest of it is con-
cerned he becomes simply fatalist. There
Is nothing strange about 1t. Tor almost all
his experiences appear to lend color TO
that doctrine. For instance. he never
dodges. for he has seen men dodge and get
killed when it really seemed as If they
had reached for the bullet. In fact. the
straueest things are continually happen
ing. all apparently the pure whim of
chance. l remember near Petersburg
comrade of mine, as brave fellow as ever
lived took refuge behind little hut. He
was worn out under fire and wanted to get
a moments breathing space. Twenty feet
to the rear and little to one side was
nile of crossties full of wrought-iron nails.
a bullet came along. splintered tie, and
drove out one of the nails at right angles
The Jagged iron struck my chum in the
side, penetrated his Kidneys ana killed
him That's the blind chance of war, and
after getting a few such object lessons a
fellow is apt to acquire sort of sang
froid that is immensely impressive to
recruit It isn't because he has contempt
for danger; he has merely learned the
folly of trying to evade 1t.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
Tie Civil Service order.

As might have been expected, represen-
tative statesmen and newspapers are today
criticisng tie civil service order of the
President issued on yesterday. The tone
OF some of the criticisms is caustic, repro
batting the action both as impolitic and
partisan, a departure from the professions
of the Chief Magistrate in his public state
ments, and from the platforms and gem
eral record of his party. 1t is said by TINS
class OF critics that the amendments to the
civil service rules are radical, although
they might have been worse; that they are
wholly in the interest Of spoilsmen, not
able instance being tine smaller place men
OF the Internal Revenue Service who are
numerous as class. and until placed by
President Cleveland's order in the classi-
fed service, were a restless mob of party
workers more devoted to personal than to
official objects. 1t is justly contended that
letting down the bars and exempting from
proper and sufficient tests four thousand
persons is not a guarantee that the princi-
pies of civil service reform will be honest
ly carried out.
The order is commented upon by Sena-
tors vino had suggested scheme OF modi
fcation of the rules. Senator Harris says
that the report made by Senators Lodge
and Wolcott and himself did not go SO far
as the President appears TO have gene.
They had no idea that there would have
been exemptions OF private secretaries for
whom no appropriations had been made by
law. He thinks likewise that wardens and
physicians of United States prisons and
engineers TO make surveys of reservation
boundary lines at Indian agencies ought TO
be under the classified service, subject 10
regular examination.
The decided drift of the criticism is ad-
verse to the scope and spirit of the Presi-
dents order. Civil service reform, it is
believed, has received severe blow at
the hands of some OF its professed friends
But il is believed that the opposition or
the most thoughtful class in the country
will have the effect to convince MIR. Nc
Kinley that his Administration will be in
jured by this action, cut of all proportion
to the political advantage sought in the
power to reward political workers with
four thousand Offices for which nearly all
of Them are untitled, and few could hope
10 obtain under the merit system.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
Is Dewey Old.
QFrom the Brooklyn Eagle.


II Admiral Dewey will recall the age Of many
well-known and active men he will cease calling
himself old. He is only a year older than John
IIay the Secretary of State, who is commonly re-
garded as a man just in the fullncss OF his pow
ers James Bryce and john Morley also sN-
tv wears old the same as Secretary Hay, Grover
Cleveland, Whitclaw Reid. Horace Porter. Will
IAN Dean Howells President Angel. and JUS
tees Brewer and PecAhan year older. the
same age as the Admiral. Generals Merritt and
Joseph Wheeler are sxty-two. and Rear
Admiral Sampson and joseph Chamberlain. The
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, Bishop Potter. Andrew
Carnegie. John G. Carlisle, General siIliter. and
Admiral Schley are sixty-three or two years
older President Eliot, Of Harvard is sixty-four,
and Chauncey NJ. Depew is siNty-tive. Ex-PreSi-
dent Harrison. Chief Justice Fuller, and Justice
Harlan are a few months older than Senator De
pcw Andrew D. White is sixty-six. and so are
Senator Quay and Lord Roberts. of the British
army President Gilman, OF Johns Hopkins, Is
sixty-sevcn; ex-Secretary Tracy is sixty eight.
There are scores of other famous men in the
United States and Europe who would call Adm-
raj Dewey still young, for they from five to
twenty wears older than he. When he gets back
to the United States and recoyers from the strain
of the responsibility Of the past year lie will dis
cover how young he is.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
The Obstructive Cnnuck.

A prominent person. who yesterday
discussed the question of the differences
between Canada and the United States.
and who seems to have spoken as ona hav-
ing authority to speak. put the contention
of this country in very few words.
Canada is, indeed. ''land of surprises"
and the Dominion government seems to
share in many respects with the people
the peculiar principles of international
duty held by them. The treatment of
American lumbermen. who were granted
the privilege of cutting logs for export to
the United States. and to whom, after the
money for the leases had gone into the
treasury of Canada, expectation was for
hidden by Canadian laws, was only
eoualed by the manner in which the
American nurserymen were done" out of
their money. The latter had made con-
tracts to supply certain stocks to the Ca
nadians when the authorities of Canada
suddenly prohibited further importation,
setting up the pretence Of fear of the San
lose scale Nevertheless. the courts there
held the American nurserymen liable for
damages for violation Of contract.
A recapitulation Of the Canadian argu-
ment on the boundary question would show
similar state of moral disregard of obIl-
cations and mental pig -headedness. With
out protest. years ago Americans occupied
the headwaters of the Lynn Canal. estab-
fishing there a number of towns and set
Elements. They built paths over the passes
from the canal beyond the mountains and
established. through natural water connec-
Now Canada insists that there shall be no
arbitration unless the United States shall
The evening times., 1899-05-30
Representative-e elect e. A. Robbins, OF
Alabama. is at the Wellington.

E. MidIen. of the Gorfam silver man
ufacturing firm of Rhode Island and New
York. is at the Raleigh. He said last night
in conversation regarding the recent al
vance in the price of silver: the ptice
GOT as high as Ga cents an ounce Tor a lew
days short time ago, but it has now gone
hack TO 81 cents, and in my opinion 1t is
needless to expect very much higncr
rate Any advance is an incentive TO
tremendous additional output from the
mines. The recent laI ge discoveries CT soi
in various parts OF the world have tendei
10 ecIalize the price of the two metals
somewhat, but as far as one can see 1t wi
never again probably be at the relative
ratio of sixteen to one commercially unless
through governmental action. The silver
ware manufacturers are very glad OF the
advance in the price. 1t makes it possible
to charge larger prices for goods on which
there has been actually almost no pToht
whatever in the last two years. MIR. Mid
len called attention to the fact that the
sterling silver manufacturers are among
the few who have not combined into trusts
up to the present time. THE plan was
,ried short time ago. he said. 'aud $780,
Geo or more was spent in preliminary work.
but il fell through. and there is at pres
ent no prospect that it will ever be re-
y;yed. With the return of good times and
the everlasting tendency of young psopie
to get married in June, the silver business
is in a very prosperous condition at pres
emit
The evening times., 1899-05-30
FLOODED WITH LOVE LETTERS.
Pennsylvania Young woman Gets
Two Hundred "a Day.

Binghamton, n. Y. May 30.-Niiss T. 4.
Roberts. of Rush, Pa, is receiving some
200 proposals of marriage a day in spite
of every effort to discontinue them. There
is a matrimonial journal in Milwaukee. Its
editor obtained Miss Roberts address and
announced she was q wealthy unmarried
lady with 500. eco in her own name and
more in prospect, and that she desired
life partner.
The first intimation Miss Roberts had OF
the matter was when marriage proposals
came pouring through the mails. She was
besieged with petitions for her photograph,
and some of the missives were tender in
the extreme.
The postal authorities have begun suit
against the Milwaukee publication, and
Miss Roberts has gene there to testify, but
the food of proposals still continues.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
A BLOW AT NATURAL GAS.
The Ohio State GeoloisImt Predicts Its
Exhaustion.

Cincinnati. May 20-Cenerai Hicken
loper. the head of the Cincinnati Gas
Light Company, sprung surprise on the
natural gas promoters at the board o: city
affairs meeting yesterday. He produced 4
witness against the natural gas enterprise
which aims to supplant his company. the
State geologist of Ohio, Prof Edward Or
ton, of Columbus, who dealt the natural
gas people some hard blows, and they are
indignant at what they term the med
ding policy of a State official"
Orton is natural gas authority and he
made the statement that there were poor
prospects for the people of Cincinnati as
to natural gas under the plans proposed
by the Laidlaw Company. He said the
Sugar Grove field was a great gas field.
but that the drain upon il was very heavy
already. He said the whole field. IL used
exclusively to supply Cincinnati house
holders, might last only few years.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
Ti;ouEh: Better of 1t.

After little reflection some of the m em-
bers of Gomez's army concluded it was not
a wise thing to reject the money rendered
by the United States. They have accord
ingly gone forward and, complying with
the conditions, deposited their arms and
received their individual shares.
This is an exhibition of both sense and
patriotism. Any other course seems alb
surd in view of the circumstances. No pro-
test the army of Gomez can make can az
feet the situation so far as the attitude
of the United States toward the estab-
lshment of good government in the island
is concerned Participants in movements
like that originally suggested by some of
the generals, a concerted churlishness to-
ward this country. are the only ones to suf-
fer, unless they shall drag after them a
part of the civic population. which would
involve them all in a useless controversy
with their liberators. 1t is. therefore, well
fer themselves and their friends, that the
few soldiers lately in arms against Spain
should decline to be obstructive and agree
to accept the generous offer made by the
United States.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
Hot Air in Disease.

CFrom the New York TribuncD
In late German medical Journal DR.. Bler
discusses, in interesting manner, the treat
ment of chronic rheumatism by the use Of hot
air and passive hyperemia the frst-narncd hav
ing been resorted to some years ago for the all
ment in question. after a trial for tubeTou'ous
Joints In regard to the hot-lir method. which
has RECENTLY attracted so much attention, DR..
Baer acknowledges that while it I.nl - 'dly les
sens in a striking manner both tha pain and
stiffness in the joint. almost the cllv notable
effect produced by the hot air i the active
hypcremia. though he maintains that even better
results are obtained by passive hyparemia. In rare
cases of chronic rheumatism DR.. Baer states that
he has met with patients who declared they re-
ceived benefit from hot air. when the passive
hypcremia failed and has personally seen bu, one
patieut who was not Improved by the latter
method. 4 further advantage claimed for pas
sive hyperemia is that tb,. method of using it
is simpler than in the case of hot air, and. if
properly carried out, should produce no pain.
The evening times., 1899-05-30
ENGLISH CAPITAL IN CHICAGO.
AnglO-American Investments Prove
Somewhat UnsntisfactOry.

Somewhat unsatisfactOry.
Chicago, May 30.-There is a disposition
to wind up the affairs OF two English cor
been organized to take over industrial
plants in this city. Leading stockholders
are not in favor of the English methods.
and desire to have more voice in the COM
pany's management. The Chicago Packing
and Provision Company, which was one OF
the first of the packing companies TO be
fioated in London, Is to be reorganiZed.
The capitalization consists OF GG00,000
per cent accumuiatiye preference shares,
G200. eco common stocks. and S55c0oo per
cent bonds, the latter issued b. the Amer
lean corporation. Only II per cent of the
stock is held in England, the balance be-
ing owned in Chicago. II is proposed TO
make a small assessment on stockholders.
the money to be used in improving the
plants and extending the company's opera
tions. Complete plans have not been pre-
pared for the reorganization, but they are
well under way. The company was Or
ganized in 1890, and has paid dividends On
the common stock amounting to 81 IL per
cent. and on the preferred to y per cent
Tie dividend due on preference shares the
1st of May was passd, and in the Two years
ending May l only per cent was paid On
common.
The Scboenhofen Brewing Company, al
English corporation doing business in Gil
cago also proposes to wind up its affairs.
The board OF directors advise that the
English company be closed out. and new
company organized under the laws OF the
State of Illinois with similar capital and
debenture Indebtedness in the new Ameri-
can company This movement is hastenei
by the income tax decision in England.
The company was organized in 1890 under
the English company's act. 1t is capital
ized at G200000 common and Ez0o.ooo
preference shares. each having G10 as the
par value. Preference shares are Z per
cent cumulative. Dividends were paid
regularly on preference shares until 1885,
when they were passed. the money being
used for improvements. No dividends
have been paid on common since 1888, when
7I-2 per cent was declared. The company
has a bonded debt of Gz11,C per cent
debertures due in 1910. and subject TO ell
after July. 1860.
The evening times., 1899-05-30

Delgado's threat to shoot any of his conf
mand. which has been stationed around
Guanajay, who should go to Havana and
take the American money offered them.
may make trouble in Cuba If the order is
carried out. The men were told to dis
perse to their homes, carrying their arms
Delgado was formerly bandit chief. and
his brutal order is thoroughly characterist-
ic of the occupation once followed by its
author. The Ilen gloomily rode from the
scene. and i; is not yet known whether any
of them has had the courage TO brave the
bloody command