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The evening times., 1899-04-17
MONDAY, APRIL II. 1899.
The Return of the Raleigh.

The people of New York are quite as
see anything in the way OF display. A
dog fight will collect a thousand men in a
few minutes. Therefore it was a matter
OF course that the town should gather
along the shore OF the Hudson River in the
rain to witness the naval parade that was
arranged as welcome to the Raleigh.
from Manila. Anybody who is acquainted
with New York crowd must have noted
its chief characteristic. 1t is cynical and
sneering; rarely sympathetic and
hearty. 1t has its own idea of
fun. and its essential element is
ridicule. 1t has a hardness of
heart and a spitefulness OF tongue that are
exhibited by a crowd in no ether large
community. 1t picks up the sarcastic
phrases of the theatre, and is also capable
of inventiDg cutting speeches of its own.
When it gathers to watch a great pro-
oession there is no joyous laughter, such
as We hear from the negroes in the South
ern cities. and not often applause for The
persons in line or for popular men, but
only shriil and pungent smartness. 1t
takes something extraordinary TO touch
The better and deeper emotions of the
metropolis.
The Raleigh did this. She was the first to
fire gun in the battle of Manila Bay in
which Spanish feet went down. 1t was
great naval battle and il was notice to a
wondering world that America had the
ships the commander. the men behind the
guns. the valOr TO uphold her claims as
world power of the first rank. This is
what The hundreds of thousands of self
contained. unsympathetic New York peo-
pie. regardless of the rain. recalled as Dew
'y's ship from the other side of the globe
steamed up the North River escorted by
two captured Spanish gunboats. This is why
they chesred with an enthusiasm that must
have astonished themselves and experienced
a sincerity and depth of feeling that was
new to them. The show itself was not cal
cuatCd to excite great interest among peo-
pie who are used TO all sorts of ships 1t
was not enough to lure them tc the river
front in a deluse. The associations of the
Raleigh did il. That these people should
DE carried into extravagant demonstrations
By the event. is proof of the intense spirit
Of Americanism that has grown out of
righteous war-a war that has brought the
young Republic into its majority IL means
heir approval Of the acquisition OF distant
lands over which TO fly the banner of our
country, in which to establish the free in
stitutions that have blest this people be-
y md all others. 1t means that they well
come it as the opportunity for America to
assume the responsibility and enjoy the ad- !
rantages of great power. The cheers
show now entirely ready and eager are
the people TO take up the burden that is
ours and necessary to our best develop
mcnt, as responsibility always is. 1t makes
u bad outlook for the towards who would
have us shirk our duty
The evening times., 1899-04-17

a lavish. free-handed style. SO that 1t does
not occur to him to economize as soon rs
he finds a slight shakiness In his business.
Very possibly he has been shaken before.
and has come back to terra hrma without
anyone's knowing that he was in danger.
He, therefore. does not always see his
peril, or consider it worth serious atten-
tion. till other people are convinced that
he should be economizing.
Secondly, when he does see it. he will
reason in this way: that il he cheapens
hts style Of living his credit will be i'm
paired-and it will; he is perfectly right
about that. When a man who has been
spending $4,000 year suddenly moves to
a less fashionable locality. stops buying ci-
gars. lets his clothes grow shabby. never
entertains his friends, and calls his sons
home from college and his daughters from
Europe. the world infers that he is penni-
less, and he cannot get credit for shoe
string after that So long as the grocery
man, and the tailor, and the real estate
man have a glimmering hope that some
day they will get part Of their money.
they will wait: but when a man has failed
ANONYMOUSLY in one part of town it is of
no use for him to try to keep up any ap-
pearance at all in another. His conduct
is. therefore based partly on logic-crazy,
unhinged logic il may be- but logic never
theless.
There is another and more subtle rea-
son for the keeping up of appearances
when man of this buoyant. hopeful tenn
permanent is actually Obliged to take in
sail it gives him very much the feeling
that some old fashioned and robust peo-
pie have when they are Obliged to go to a
doctor. So long as they can keep on th=if
feet they feel comparatively well; but II
some little accident makes it necessary
for them to take to their beds, they go TO
pieces in way that astonishes thSir
friends When this sanguine type OF man
cannot live as he has been accustomed to
live, when he has to encounter at every
turn petty disc0mforts and annoyances. 1t
takes the hope and courage out of him,
and he fails in good earnest.
Society, too. is largely responsible for
the unseientific and constituencies conduct
sN.$o~~
of society vary in different parts Of the
country. In certain parts of rural New
England it would be considered sure proof
that a man was bankrupt if he did rot pay
his debts. He might live in a mean house.
wear shabby clothing, entertain no one;
that would be IA sign OF thrift; but il he
did not pay his debts people would think
that he had no money with which to pay
them. In other parts of the country.
where living is easier and money more
abundant, it is held to be a small snd par
donable sin for a man not to pay his
debts: if he gives largesses freely, enter
tains handsomely, provides well for his
family, he can always get credit. In cities
the standard is usually the size and furni-
ture of the mans house, and the clothing
of his family. But if the community
would have men honest even when poor.
it must reward honesty with its esteem
and consideration; and sometimes it does
not.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
The Whipping Post.

There seems to be, in three or four
States, sort of impulse toward the re-
yival of the whipping post. This is an in
stance of the action and reaction which. in
the course Of centuries. result in progress.
The man who said that revolutions never
go backward did not tell the whole truth.
Sometimes they do. France, in the first
half of the present century, offers a good
example of this. II State is not stable in
character. a revolution which affects a rad
icai change of government is likely to be
followed by another which results in a re-
turn to the old regime 1t is SO, in meas
ure. with every reform.
When the whipping post was abolished
there were overwhelmingly good reasons
for its disappearance In the minds Of M
The evening times., 1899-04-17
THREAT TO SIR HENRY IRVING.
Mad Actor sends the Tragediaa n
Death Notice.


London. April 17.-It has come to pub
licity quite accidentally that Sir Henry
Irving's life has been threatened by the
mad actor. Richard Archer Prince. the
murderer of william Terriss. Prince has
written to Irving from the prison asylum
in which he is confined, that when he is
released it is his purpose to kill him. He
will make that his first business. h. de-
clares.
Sir Henry's friends advised him that the
safe course for him 10 pursue would be TO
inform the Home Office of the threat, and
so insure Princes Incarceration for life.
The tragedian declined 10 take this step
against the unfortunate man but it Is
probable that the effect of the threatening
letter will be just the same as If il had
been formally referred to the government.
and that Prince viii never be set free.
II is not known how Prince managed to
get the letter out Of his prison, ana he
will not be permitted to send another. Az
ter the murder of Terriss at the stage
years been known Us Mad Archer" and
was supposed to he harmless, was found
TO be insane at trial in Old Bailey.
He was committed to restraint during
Her Msiesty's pleasure" and this indei-
mite sentence permits the government TO
keep him prisoner for life at will.
Sir Henry could have secured a tremen-
dous advertisement by deftly allowing the
fact that his life had been threatened 10
become public property. but he endeavored
TO conceal the incident and IL became
known only through the indiscrtticn of d
friend
The evening times., 1899-04-17
The Ethics of Rankruptcy,

puzzled Brooklyn paper comments at
length on bankrupts, whom it accuses Of
immodesty. II does not appear, however,
nate gentlemen are charged with appear
ing in public with fewer clothes than they
ought to wear, or anything of that sort;
rather the reverse. 1t also seems on ma
lure reflection, that the subjects of COM
ment are not so much bankrupts as those
ON the way to bankruptcy. For instance
The paper in question says that man who
is losing thousand dollars a week will
oiten live in hotel where his expenses
are five dollars a day. Now, why does he
not live in a modest fat or boarding
house? Why does he not go to Coney ISL
and instead of fourishing about London
in the summer? Why does he not discard
linen collars and wear the ceiluloid arti-
Gle? And why. oh. why does he not pay
his debts il by any chance he escapes bank
ruptcy and regains his standing in the bus
mess world?
This is an interesting subject, and the
character of the bankrupt is composed of
several very curious elements combined in
a fascinating way. A part of his actions
are dictated by shrewdness part by van
ity, part by irrational instinct. and
part by the laws of society; and it may
he added that the conscientious and
thoughtful Brooklyn paper is unquestion-
ably member of society. and does its du-
~ in the molding of social opinion Let
us consider. then. for the enlightenment
of Brooklyn and the world in general the
psychology of the bankrupt.
In the first place. the incipient bankrupt
that is, the man who is going down hill
In financial matters-is frequently a man
who has been accustomed to do things In
The evening times., 1899-04-17
The Courts Report.

| Unless some member of the Court OF
| Enquiry has talked more freely than a
proper sense of his responsibility would
warrant the forecasts of the forthcoming
| report are not entitled to any degree OF
! confidence. At the very organization of
/ the Court severa, newspaper correspond
ents ntimated that the members were
! pTejudiced against General Miles and de-
! termined to crush him if possible. The
/ visit of Judge Advocate Davis to Chicago
was represented to be in the interests uf
the beef packers; that he had sought tn IN
for the purpose OF obtaining information
that would enable him TO know what tes-
timony to invite and what TO exclude in
order to defend the packers and the War
Department and confound General Miles.
The same correspondents predicted that
the finding of the Court would be more
unfavorable TO the Commanding General
than the evidence would justify, and that
Secretary Alger would be acquitted OF
blame.
These hints We're renewed when the
Judge Advocate objected to the admission
OF testimony that was favorable to General
Miles, and when it was apparent that
Thomas F. Dolan would not be called upon
to show the character of the beef that was
put on the market by the packers; but the
Court had the right 10 determine what was
relevant. without being open to the suspi-
cion CT unfairness ard desire to shield
the guilty.
The public should decline 10 accept the
forecast of the verdict that appears in
many newspapers. finding that the
canned roast beef as ii left the manufact-
urers was wholesome and nutritious" is
simply impossible in the face of the evil
dence. 1t has been proved that in cases
where the climate had in no way affected
the canned roast beef. it was urpaIatable
and utterly unfit for human food There
is proof that the cattle called Gamers
could not produce good meat. To find
that the refrigerated beef was not chemi-
cally treated would be a rejection of evil
dence that has not bee:i refuted; but to
say that lit was the only practicable sub
stitute for fresh beef in Cuba and Porto
Rico" would be TO prove that the Court
meant to trifle with justice 1t has not
DSeH SHOWN tndt tnere SnCuld have been
any substitute for fresh meat, and the
members of the Court know it. On the
the strong point against the Sec
retary of War and the commissary officers
is that there should have been fresh beef
There was every opportunity to get it, and
Secretary Alger himself decided against il.
according to Eagan.
1t is unreasonable TO suppose the Court |
would make such statement in order to |
imply, what it is bound to deny, that it |
was impracticable to supply fresh beef. |
This would indeed signify the use of lime. !
Nor could ii report that the destruction of |
ions of this food was due only to a lack of |
facilities Cor its care or to neglect in its
care in Cuba and Porto Rico. There is |
reason 10 believe it was in part the result
,f its chemical treatment as explained by
an Armour agent. AS to Porto Rico, the
spelling of the meat was chiefly due to the
refusal of General Miles request that no
more should be sent, as he could get fresh
beef If the money were provided
The evening times., 1899-04-17
FOR A THREE YEARS CRUISE.
Gunbcat Nomtgomer. Leaves Nor
folk for st. Lucia.

Norfolk. Va, April 1.-THE United
States gunboat Montgomery. Capt. II. G.
o. Colby. left the navy yard Saturday. en-
route TO ST. Lucia. West India Islands.
The little vessel has been thoroughly fit
ted out at this naval station for three
years cruise, which term will, it is UNDER
stood, be spent on TIE South Atlantic sta
ton.
II is also stated semi officially that the
Montgomery viii accompany the collier
Aberenda and the converted yacht Vixen
TO Pago-Pago, Samoan Islands. Both the
Vixen and AbeTe nda are now at the navy
yard nearly ready TO sail. The big collier
has on beard the sectional parts of steel
coal pier which the Government viii erect
at the new naval coaling station at Pago-
Paso, and it is surmised that the presence
OF vessels OF war may be necessary TO pro
tect the workmen while the work is in
progress.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
FLAG FOR THE PRESIDENT.

Merchants of Annoy. China. Send an
"AnElO-SnxOn" symbol of Silk
New York, April 1I.-Captain Tro.ter. of
the steamship Indrani, which arrived yes
terday from ports of Japan and India,
brought gift of silk flag to President
Mckinley from the Merchants Association
of Annoy The flag is a combination of the
British and United States flags. and is be-
ing forwarded to the President by United
States Consul Johnson, of Annoy.
Accompanying the sealed packet contain
ing the flag is letter addressed to Mr..
Porter, secretary Of the President. and said
to contain an address from the donors of
the flag expressing their approval of the
Presidents attitude toward expansion and
the ''Open door, in China.
Captain Trotter win forward the pack
age to Washington today.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
PASSING OF DELMoNIco.S
Famous New York Restaurant to BE
Closed Tomorrow Night.

New York. April 1.-THE doors OF Del
monico's restaurant at Twenty
Street and Fifth Avenue will close at mid
night tomorrow. and the most famous
meeting splace of men about town on this
side of the Atlantic will have ended its
career.
Charles Delmonicc said yesterday that
he would not renew the lease that ends to-
morrow.
The closing of Delmonicos will end the
claim of that part of the city TO be The
centre of fashionable New York. That CEN
tire has now been moved up 10 Forty-fourth
Street. where the new Delmonico's and
the new Sherry's have been opened
A few years ago the Brunswick. the Vic
toria, the St. James. and Delmonico's were
favorite meeting places for the prominent
men OF political. sporting, and social cir
cles- The Victoria and the Brunswick are
closed the St James has been torn down,
and now Delmonico's Will close.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
Founder of the Red Cross.
From Notes and Queries.)

Ut
Some enquiry having been made as To ~ Hem
Dunant (not Durrant,. the following notice Of
his present position may aford tc required ir-
iormatio The extract is frnin The Christian
Of March .:
ut is painful TO learn that Henri Durrant,
the founder of the Red Cross Society, sits in a
small room in little two-storied hospital in
Heiden, Switzerland. almost il rot quite for
gotten by the world he did his best 10 serve.
Once wealthy. he spent all his money on the
great humanitarian works in which he WAS in
terested few remember hin-e. e. the Carl
ma has given him yearly pension; nevertheless
he is weighed down by heavy debt. and now
and then has been in dire straits. Some assist
ance may come 10 him IRON Sweden from the
Nobel prize. given to the person who has done
the most to promote peace; in any case. he
ought rot to be allowed to languish in want and
distress
The evening times., 1899-04-17
A Terxe Telegram.

Ffom the Pitts5urg Dispatch)
Probably no telegram of single word
barring cipher dispatches-was ever sent
that meant more than that transmitted
by cable from Hongkong to Washington
yesterday. This message was from Consul
Wildman to the State Department and the
one word it contained was plague" The
State Department interprets this to mean
that bubonic plague has broken out in that
part of Asia; tributary to Hongkong-if not
in the city aitself-and consequently that
there is danger Of the malady being carried
to Manila and disseminated among United
States troops. The danger can be appre-
ciated in the knowledge that Hongkong is
the nearest mainland port to Manila, the
principle base Of supplies. and the point
where nearly all, Manila commerce touches
The warning however, is timely and the
Government at Washington has an appor-
tunity to make an early exhibition Of the
high type of administration promised for
the Philippines. The plague should be kept
out Of Manpss4nd something better than
Algerine management should be introduced
to that end before the necessity arises for
a round robin like that for the salvation
Of the troops at Santiago last July.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
NARROW ESCAPE FROM WRECK.
The French Liner TOurafnc Mcnaccd
by n Dere!ict.

New York. April lon her voyage
from Havre TO this port. the French Line
steamship Touraine. which arrived yester-
day, brought 166 cabin and 616 steerage
passengers.
When, according to French reckoning.
the steamship was in latitude 41.5S y. and
longitude 25.i5 w, at 2:20 O'Clock last
Tuesday afternoon. the Touraine nearly
ran into the waterlogged. abandoned. and
dismasted wreck of the British bark Sid
dartha. 1t was n narrow escape. The look
cut could not be blamed for not sighting
the dangerous dcrelict earlier as the wreck
lay about even with the surface Of the
ocean.
The bark Siddartha. which was of 43S
tons, 40 feet inches in length. 81 feet
beam. and u feet inches in depth, hailed
from Sackville, n. b. She left Jacksonville
on January 16 last. for Liverpool in charge
CT Captain Gerard.
What happened to the craft has not yet
been learned. as none of her officers or
crew, if picked up by a passing vessel has
turned up at any port. 1t is believed how
ever. that the bark was in collision.
This theory is based on a report made
by the master OF the bark Cape Race,
which arrived at Plymouth England, on
March 26, from Iquique. The master of the
latter vessel then informed the English
shipping officials that on March 10. in lati-
tude 41.51 N, and longitude 1896, Green
wich reckoning, he had encountered the
Siddartha. which he considered menace
to ocean navigation.
Here is the description Of the condition
of the watterloggsd and abandoned bark
as given by the captain of the Cape Race:
For ms st s anding wi h foreyard swing
ing heavily about 1t; mainmast standing
with half Of the topmast gone; bowsprit
and jibboom gone. main hatch of and half
of the bulwarks amidships gone. all life
boats and part Of deckhouse forward
gone
Passengers on the Touraine who saw the
derelict as the steamship passed close to
it on Tuesday afternoon say the wreck
looked as if it had been caused by a COL
lision. All the masts were then gone.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
Quay's Opportunity.

The Quay nobody policy dogsedly pur-
sued to the rapidly-approaching close of the
Legislative session would be mistake which would
reflect upon Nj. Quay's political acumen His re.
fusai to cooperate in giving great State full
represf ntation in the Senate means political sui
eide on bis part. and an nierregnuln OF factional
strife and bitterness of far-rcaching conse0uenccs
to the Republican party. The Quay issue, if
he declines to Withdraw from The contest, will
be injected an irritant into every local election
until the Legislature again assemblies. and longer
A State deprived of its proper representation in
The Federal Senate and party rackd by internal
dissenssons are the sacrifices involved in Mr..
Quay's candidacy. Mr.. Quay can remove the only
obstacle to the election Of United States Scna-
tor and eliminate factioIa discord from his party
by withdrawing frcm contest in which the
fidelity OF his friends and adlerents has been s,f.
hcientiy tested, and in which fley have done
everything in the name Of regularity that
ought to he done. So
The evening times., 1899-04-17
PRAc11c1Ha on HulaAH 1snsos
An Expessre sf EVIL work - Euro-
ueau VivfseeAor~

An Expes1re ef EVIL Work ~ EuF0-
peaa viyiseeaoPs.
New York. April ia London cable
dispatch to the Journal says:
The "Abolitionist, "a new anti yivisec-
tien paper. contains a terrible indictment
Of inoculation and vivbection up to date.
r. E. Dudgeon. In his exposure Of the
continental practice Of experimenting on
living human beings. DIR. Dudgeon says:
The 'Deutsche Woehenschrif.. on Feb
ruary 10. 1891. describing how Prof. Scnrei-
Der. Of sKonigsberg. tried the effects OF DR..
K0ch's tubercuiin, tells Of injections on
forty newborn children at the Konigsberg
Midwifery Hospital. In which the injec-
tions were about nifty times as much rs
DR.. Koch said was the maximum dose for
children OF three to fve years. The ex-
periments were designed to ascertain the
effects Of inoculations Of various virulent
bacteria on women and were conducted on
q colossal scale.
"Dr. A. Doederiein relates how he in
oculated young unmarried woman with
a microbe OF pus. DR.. Menge. assistant
physician In the University Hospital fer
Women in Leipsic. made similar inocu-
latioEs on q woman who was In most
helpless condition. He also inOculated
newborn infants with large rumber Of
staphylococci in the Royal University Ear
Hospital, in Halle.
DR. Schimmelbusch inoculated two boys
with a pus culture taken from boil on
girls ear. Both boys died from Ius-
tules. DIR. Janson. of Stockholm. wished to
try the effects Of incubation Of black or
malignant smallpox virus. He began with
calves. but as he found them expensive he
asked Prof. Medin, chief physician of the
Founding Hospital. to allow him TO op-
crate on children under his charge. Prof
Medin consented and fourteen children
were inoculated with this virus.
''Dr. Epstein, professor Of chiidrel's
therapeutics. in Prague. infected five chill
dren with round WORMS for the sake Of
experiment.
The rest OF the article gives the chapter
and verse for the allegation that again and
again unsuspecting men and women lave
been inocuiated with the most loathso.ne
diseases by these continental vivisectors.
masquerading as ministers OF healing.
The evening times., 1899-04-17
TO HAVE A TROLLEY TRUST.
Formation of Company to 'on,ro
Traction in I'cnnsylyauiu

Philadelphia. April 1.-THE Electric
Traction Company OF America is the name
Of a $4,000 600 organization now being
perfected by Philadeiphia capitalists to
control all the trolley companies in Penn
sylvania. outside CT this city. The par
value OF the stock is to be $50 a share.
s. of which is TO be paid in Immediately
Among those said to be prominently iden-
titled with the movement, are John Lowber
Welch, Sias W. Petit, ". II. Shelmerdine.
and ex-Mayor Warwick
The head office of the company is to be
in Philadelphia. The presidency OF the
company will go to A. A. Mcleod. for
merly President of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad.