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New-York tribune., 1900-01-03

unprotected grade crossing would be as safe as
church. But inasmuch as people will forget
or refuse to look out for the locomotive" laws
are passed-and occasionally enforced-requir-
ing railroads TO protect the unwary.
1t is still cause of astonishment though the
astonishment may be irrational that such bait
as the Franklin Syndicate fished with commonly
finds a host of gudgeons ready to bite. But
since the fact must be admitted the State can
not afford to tolerate that sort Of fishing. Mt.
kilburn suggests that every private banker or
any person. firm or corporation receiving de-
posits should be required to deposit acceptable
bonds to the amount of $1,000 with the Con-
troller to be held in trust for the benefit of
creditors and depostors and surrendered only
upon an order of court. IF it be objected he
says, that it might sometimes be difficult for
IAN individual purposing to do a legitimate
banking business to furnish bonds to such an
amount, the reply is ready that any one so
"circumstanced lacks the means which should be
"a prerequisite to permitting him to receive on
deposit the money of Others and if it be urged
that the amount is too small to count for much
''in case like that of the Franklin Syndicate,
''it may be answered that ordinarily at the in
"ception of such a scheme its head would not
"be able to meet the proposed requirements. ="
The amount and precise form OF security appro-
pirate to the purpose are open to discussion,
as, indeed the plan itself is But Mr. Kilburn 5
answer to the most obvious objections seems TO
be sufficient and his general treatment of the
subject recommends it to the attention of the
LEGISLATURE
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
amusemenfs.

AcApEMY OF -2-s:lo-'wsy Down East
AMERICAN THEATRE-2-s:l5-Die Fledermaus
BIJOU-S15-Sister Mary
BROADWAY THEATRE-2-s-Ben-H -Hur.
CASISo-s:15-The Singing Girl.
CRITERION THEATRE-S:3o-Barbara Frfetche.
DAEy.S THEATRE-2-s-The ManHuyres Of Jane.
EDEN MUSES. a. tn IL p. m.-Waxworks, Grand
Concert ana Cinematograph.
EMPIRE THEATRE-2-S:15-My Ladys Lord. -
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-2-s;l5-Three Little
FouRTEENTF STREET THEATRE-2-s-The Village
Postmaster.
GARDEN THEATRES -s:so-The First violin
SARRICk THEATRE-2:15-S-Sherloc Holmes
GRAND OPERA HOCsE-2-s-B Because She Loved
HAMMERsTEINs vIcroRrA-s:so-chris and the
Wonderful lamp
HARLEM OPERA HoUsE-s-The Christian
HERALD SQUARE TREATRE-2-s:15-Primrose q
Dockxtaders Ministries.
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-s-Penson Schoeller
KEITH 'S-Continucus Performance
kSEckERBoCkER THEATRE-S:l5-The COWBOY sno
the Lady.
KosTER & -s:i5-yaudevile
LYCEJM THEATRE s:so-Miss Hobbs. -
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-215-s:So-W neels
Within Wheels.
METROPOLITAN oFERA HoUSE-s-Ada.
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-S-An the Comforts Oh
NATIONAL. ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Exhbi,ion of OIL
Paintings.
SEw-YoRK THEATRE-s:15-Man in the Moon, Jr.
PASTOR'S-Continuous Performance.
WAL14ACK SIS :l5-The Aneer.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
"RIs Dat QUI CITo DAT"

1t is a distressing picture which General Roy
Stone drew yesterday Of the condition of the
Puerto Rico coffee planters Deprived OF their
markets by the war; their standing and accu-
mulated crops swept away in single night
they are now appealing to Congress for protec-
ton against relentless creditors on the one hand
and for a chance to demonstrate their loyalty
TO the United States on the other. Congress, it
is true, has had no opportunity to deal with
the question: as the Executive has so far failed
to urge the necessity of prompt action except
in the most perfunctory manner We note with
pleasure, therefore, that General Davis, the
present Military Governor of the island, has
been summoned TO Washington and is on
his way to confer with the authorities there as
to the best means of averting another calamity
threatening an already sorely stricken com
munity.
In another month the Spanish creditors of
the planters will have the legal right to enforce
their claims Unless a new extension of time is
granted to the planters in which to pay off the
mOrtgag ges-and this at best is but a makeshift
or some means is found by which the claims
of the creditors may be secured, there will have
been created a condition i'll the island which it
may not be easy to deal with. The one remedy
which we can apply without turning the plant
ers into mendicants at the expense of their
pride and self-reSpect is a readjustment of the
tariff. Equity and justice demand this. The
war closed to the Puerto Ricans the markets Of
Spain and of Cuba. but it did not open to them
those of the United States. The product Of their
labor, rotting in warehouses and wharves,
breeds nothing but discomfort and disloyalty.
Shall we continue to foster that feeling because,
forsooth, it does not suit us to be our brother S
keeper shall we rise to the occasion by a
courageous discharge of our duty in the face
even of the clamor set up by selfish and short
sighted interests? There can be but one answer
to that question.
Just what this readjustment of the tariff shall
be Congress will no doubt consider with care.
The President thinks our plain duty is to wipe
the tariff out and give Puerto Rican products
free access to our markets. Others, seeing Cuba
and perhaps Hayti in the background, and re-
membering that the free admission of West
Indian products would take S600O0,000 out OF
our tariff receipts and compel a revolution in
our revenue system, may not be ready for so
sweeping measure But even they must see
that we must either furnish the Puerto Ricans a
market or give them the means to find one for
themselves. If do not admit them to our
revenue system We must provide them with one
of their own.
We hope that Congress will act promptly in
this matter and bear in mind the old Latin
adage, Bis dat qui cito dat
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
PERSONAL.

General B. E. Cook, of Northampton Mass. who
was ninety-six years old Sunday was born at
Hyde Park, VT. His ancestors took a prominent
part In the Indian and Revolutionary wars His
father was Captain Ellis Cook a Revolutionary
patriot. When scarcely out OF his teens Cook he
came lieutenant of militia company at Hudson
N Y. Soon after he removed to Northampton. In
lS2S he served as captain of the Northampton Ar
tliery. He acquired the title of general from hav-
ing been brigadier general of the Massachusetts
militia General Cook also is high degree Mason
An English paper tells this story of the late
Joseph Whitaker. the publisher of ''Whitaker's
Almanack': For the first issue he wanted along
with similar information, the amount of the sal
aries received by a number of certain high func-
tonaries in the Civil Service. Application to these
personages themselves was uniformly met with
only fiat refusals. Accordingly the Almanack
appeared with list of the officials. each credited
with purely imaginary sum. The result was in
stantaneous Hardly had the first edition came out
were impeed by amour propre' to write indg-
nant corrections. while the polite statements of the
cious where the alleged amount at ali In ex-
cess OF the actual income.
Senator Morgan. of Alabama. was once threat
ened with arrest for implication in the assassina-
ton of Lincoln. He at that time a farmer in
Dallas County, Ala, and. of course, quite in
nocent. never even hearing OF the murder until
several days afterward.
When Alderman Smith Robertson colored died IN
Jackson. Miss. the other day. the white Mayor and
Aldermen of the city acted as paIIbearers at the
funeral. tribute never before paid negro that
town.
Lord Beauchamp. the Governor OF New South
Wales, has charge OF a Bible class in the Sunday
school OF his church in Sydney.
Speaking of Mormonism a correspondent OF The
Boston Transcript says: Judge Goodwin who
edits The Salt Lake Tribune is solemn as the
Sphinx as unrelenting death and cold as a
dogs nose He will sit crossegged beneath his
green shaded electric light, and in a very quiet
voice speak things worthy of Jupiter Tonans So
far as | understand Judge Goodwin his quarrel
with the Mornnons Ia that they and all
breakers of their Pledges"
Mr.. Moody was fond OF telling how his picture
once did duty for that OF Rutherford b. Hayes.
During the Hayes campaign big Republican
rally was held In Fort Wayne, Ind Everything,
ready. when VI suggested that the meet
ing would be incomplete without picture OF Gem
eral Hayes. This brought out the discovery that
although around the walls OF the room were hung
the pictures OF many celebrities OF the day that of
Hayes was 1T among them. could picture OF
MIN be found One OF the members OF the Com
mittee Arrangements was Joe Brirnmer A
sign painter. who had natural gift of drawing
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
THE OPEN DOOR ~ CHINA.

Secretary Hay yesterday officially informed
the Cabinet that all the great Powers interested
had at last substantially agreed TO the proposal
of the United States concerning China, TO VII:
that its commercial doors shall be kept open to
all the world on equal terms. Great Britain
and the United States have the largest legit-
innate interests in the matter. The COM
nerce of the British Empire with China Is
more than twice as large as that of all the
rest of the world while that of the United
States, which a few years ago stood third, being
slightly less than that of Japan, is probably now
a good second, at least 20 per cent greater than
that Of Russia, and al least great as that Of
all other European countries put together.
Moreover, IL is evident that these two Powers
will for an indefinite time to come enjoy this
commercial supremacy, unless they voluntarily
forfeit it by some incredible act of folly. De
spite the growth OF rivals, Great Britain's enor-
nous lead cannot be overcome for many years,
while the commerce of this country with China,
now that we have foothold in mid-Pacifc and
.n the China Sea itself, is sure to increase both
rapidly and substantially. Nor is II to be over
looked thst the policy of these two Powers,
which in this case is practically one and the
same, makes for freedom of trade and for en-
tire impartlality and is thus benevolently In
cIined toward all nations Any policy of ex-
advanta geous TO some in the same degree that
II was advantageous to another. The policy
of the open door is designed for the equal ad-
vantage of all.
1t is stated that some of the European Powers
were reluctant to give their assent to the
scheme This is not in the least surprising, nor
Is it the slightest ground for resentment toward
sEy of them. No nation is expected TO enter
into an engagement Of so vast moment without
careful deliberation. Nor indeed is any to be
expected instantly TO resign all thoughts OF ex-
elusive selfish gain. Washngtons often quoted
remark about the selishness OF nations is as
true to-day as it was a century ago, and is
pretty nearly equally true of all nations. Each
wants TO do what is best for its own interests;
net necessarily to injure others, but to serve
itself. Not always can it be made convincingly
evident that the chief profit of each is to be
secured in the gain of all. Nevertheless the
slcwness of some of the Powers in entering into
the reported arrangement is not at all TO be re-
gretted II is rather q cause of congratulation,
because il indicates that they have finally done
81 not inpulsively, but deliberately and ear
nestiy. and have thus given the best possible
assurance of the permanenee of the compact
Hurriedly made il might have been hurriedly
broken Made with due deliberaton, may
hope il will not be lightly broken.
There is in truth one particularly strong and
selfish reason for maintaining the open door and
the integrity of China which is applicable all
around. That is. that while no Power wants
n see any other seize a share of China. no
Power really wants TO do so itself. beyond
perhaps, port or two. or the line Of railroad
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
NEW COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE

Governor Roosevet's designation of Justice
Edgar NJ Cullen to sit in the Court of Appeals
as one of the additional judges authorized by
the new Constitutional Amendment will awaken
just one regret in this community. lit is that he
should be removed to service elsewhere. In the
Appellate Division OF the Second Department
Justice Cullen has been a tower Of strength, and
ii is reflection on the character and ability Of
his associates on that bench TO say that he will
be missed by all having occasion to appear be-
fore it; for he is an exceptional man, freely
recognized as such by his colleagues. The in
dustry knowledge of law. strong intellect. per-
feet fairness and high sense of both judicial
dignity and judicial propriety which have al
ways characterized him in the Supreme Court
make him a cOnspicuously fit addition to the
Court of Appeals. And it is interesting to note,
in view of recent tax legislation which has not
yet been judicially passed upon, that Justice
Cullen has long been recognized as an expert on
tax laws, and his opinions in some Of the Brook
lyn railroad tax cases several years ago pointed
out the road to franchise taxation. after the law
under which franchises had been practically
taxed for nearly half a century received a new
construction from the Court Of Appeals which
exempted franchise values from assessment.
The other Justices named for the Court of Ap-
peals are less well known in this city, but their
selection has evidently been made with great
care and there is every reason to expect exc o-
lent service from them in clearing away the ac-
cumuiation of business in the Court of Appeals
Justice Landon has served On the Appellate
Division in the Third Department. He has
twice been elected. TO the Supreme Court, the
second time without opposition, and has been a
lecturer on constitutional law in the Albany
Law School for many years. Justice Werner is
a younger man, of less experience on the bench
than either Justice Cullen or Justice Landon
and has been a strong partisan and an aggres-
sive working politician. But since going on the
bench in the trial and decision of cases he has
sought to free himself entirely from all tram
mels of politics. and in his few years service
has shown both ability and power to dispatch
business His letter to Governor Roosevelt
frankly confessing his entirely honora BILE ambi-
ton TO sit in the Court Of Appeals, and telling
how he had resisted the temptation to urge his
own candidacy, indicates a sense for judicial
conduct which 1t Is pleasant to record at a time
when that sense seems to be on the wane and
seats on the bench are sometimes filled in this
State by wirepung and buying of primaries or
at the dctation of party bosses without regard
to enlightened public opinion.
On some accounts it Is to be regretted that no
Justice from the First Department, whence 10
much important litigation is carried up, should
have been found for the Court of Appeals But
II is not surprising that the Governor discovered
no available man here. Justice Patterson was
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
TIE VOICE 0, THE NATION.

Leave our furrin frens tu chatter. let EN- huttsr
'Taint their cheerin or their sneerin' thet can
Let 'em hope We're doomed tn failure let en- say
Praps they think hs suns ,si sxsiinsuished when it's
They air hurryin' tu believe all their hatred
But the blows they fancy fatal only ciinch our
Talkins easier work than dOin. yew may take
Boys do6s E5s Sst: SR anu let EN- 'nA''S'-0u' we am
Air their hearts small an craven thes they
How we We're game tn take lickin'-an' then lick the
whut's their gauge fer measurin' greatness. how
Thet they think whene'er stumble must keep
Du they dream empires eOntured up By easy
Ours at least was shaped and builded from dts
An we've made il whut IT is. through all the
CENTRES thet hev gone.
Not without a slip blunderbut by still gon' oni
1t is good tu git the fust blow inbut best tu hsv
An they II see US stHl go fOrrard es they've
Fer each loss We hev tu suffer. each defeat thet
marks our way
In the end we hit the bulls eye though it's arter
Ell iickin' could hev beat US we'd hsv fallen long
Some may ind a knock down blow bad pissn
But we never stop tu taste It-no. Jest git Up!
Ef our empire is a-shakn'. It's a steadyin' sort Nv
shake
Thet'u warm our blood an rouse US TIL our sleepin
strengths awake.
The storm shah break its might on an when its
hour Is DER,
Yen md standin'. rock like. ruther hrmer than
afOre
An our furrin trends. I'm thinkin. may look wiser
ef they wait.
| Stead OF caStin up the total Tore the sum - ON
the slate. -
/ They've he'd cause tu know rs better. an II
strange thet they forget -.
| BOYS git on an let EN- chatter-but we amt
done yet!
Hosea Jun. IN The Spectator
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
PRIVATE GIFTS AND PUBLIC NEEDS.

The gifts Of Mr. Carnegie and the families OF
Mr.. Hewitt and Mr. Cooper to the Cooper Union
cannot be too highly commended. They are
noteworthy in size. They are bestowed upon an
institution which has long enjoyed and merited
an especial degree of confidence and gratitude
from the people of this city. They are intended
to enable an extension of its work in precisely
the direction in which 1t Is most needed, ana III
which 1t promises TO be Of greatest benehcence
to the community and indeed to the State anu
Nation. All judicious observers have long been
agreed that one of the greatest needs or our
educational system was a department or IN
struction in industrial and mechanic arts. In
that respect has New-York most Jagged behind
the great cities-and small ones, too-of Europe.
That urgent need is to be in measure supplied
by these gifts, for which the givers are entitled
to unstinted public gratitude.
The appreciation of the gift expressed by Mr..
Maxwell, the City Superintendent of Public
Education. is altogether fitting and creditable
alike to its author and it's object. But what
a bitter comment is made upon our city adj
ministraton-all the more effective because
not ostensibly intended-in Mr.. Maxwelrs state
ments that great school of mechanic art
and manual training is urgently needed in this
borough and that there is no immediate pros
pect that funds for such an institution will be
provided. No. There is plenty Of money for
the increase of salaries of Tammany office hold
ers, and for the payment of fat salaries to Tam
many heelers who have no visible occupation
save to hold down chairs in barrooms. There
is money enough to provide a municipal race
track. 1t Is possible to provide funds to build
bridge TO further the real estate specula-
tions of Tammany politicians. But to provide
a school in which the children of poor parents
may be fitted to earn honest livings and to pro-
mote the honest industries of the city and
Nation, not n cent. Why should there be, in
deed? For the boys educated in such a school
will probably know better than TO vote for
Tammany rule; while, if they are left to grow
up in ignorance, idleness. vice and crime, they
will vote the straight Tammany ticket every
time.
These private benefactions for the public good
are noble things. All honor is to be given to
those who make them. But the very making
of them brands with ineffaceable disgrace the
administration of public affairs that, while
squandering the public funds in the most profit
gate fashion for the gain of the Boss's favOrtes,
leaves such works of public good and of public
need to be done by private hands.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
MR. ROCKEFELLER'S DEER

TWO OF THEM PRESENTED TO TIE BRONX zoo
LOGICAL GARDEN
Greenwich. Conn. Jan. , (SpecisD.-Tvo - rhe
young deer which have been roaming Wild IN 'N'''-
lam RocIrefe Ier's private deer park here for tn
last year we're caught to-day and shipped % rae
Bronx Geological Garden. at BrOnxville. as s-ft
from Mr.. Rockefeller. They were raised in the
sixty acres OF wooded land here which adjOi1s the
Rockefeller farm In it were placed Few import
ed deer seventeen years ago They have increased
rapidly and now there fifty of these fleet foot
ed animals there
Kind treatment has made them tame, 50 they
will eat from a strangers hands Yesterday twenty
of them were driven into a pen and they are "a
be shipped to-norrCv to Paul Smiths. IN the Adj
rondacks. where NJ. Rockefeller mas another PARK
Mr. ROckefeller'S park is the only one OF It's KIN
in his State u is composed mostly of woodland,
with a lake in it's centre, which is the home or 2
flock of wild geese A real log cabin sits uron y
knoll and is furnished in true log cabin style II
Is located opposite Crest View
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03

Baltimore. Jan. (SpeciaD--The Rev DR.. Chi
chester, OF Chicago will probably be called 10 the
pastorate OF the Brown Memorial Presbyterian
Church, OF this city. 10 succeed the Rev Dr. Malt
bic D. Babcock. who has accepted the pastoTats
Of the Brick Church. New-YOrk City The COM
mittee OF the members who visited Chicago and
other cities to hear various ministers preach
has returned. and will make report this week.
DIR. Chichester Is a BaltimOrean. who went from
here to Pennsylvania and thence 10 Los Angeles.
Cal. where he built UP Inlmanuel Church, one Of
the largest in the United States. and 70 which
tho Rev Hugh X. Walker called from the
central Presbyterian church OF Baltimore The
Rev. DR.. Chichester went 20 Chicago 20 succeed
the Rev DR. BarrOws and has been in that city
for only about two years Brown Memorial is
one of the leading Presbyterian churches in this
city DR. BabcOck's salary is said to have been
wear
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03

not the only one who might have had an ap-
pointment. Indeed, II Is understood that any OF
the New-York men in our Appellate Division
might have gone to Albany had they so wished.
But with the work here we really need all our
judges at home, and the compensation Is such
that few could afford TO accept the lesser salary
incident TO service at Albany.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03

In 4 copy OF .'Eiarper's Magazine on the table was
a small "cut" OF Evangelist ID. L. MOODY Srlm-
mer decided II enough like Hayes 70 fnake
copy from and In half hour he nad a gooa
sized sketch and labelled the product h
r Haves" 1t was hung the stage anu tne
speakers Of the evening pointed to II as they re-
ferred to that statesman" etc. t1nahy tne yOso
leaked out in the crowd and almost resulted IN
breaking up the meeting. Mr.. Moody was m
formed of the affair time later, and told u 10
New-York tribune., 1900-01-03

Lord Wolseley rises to remark that despite all
that has been said about it, the British field
artillery is as good any in Europe We are
forced, then, 20 conclude either that the British
did not send their best to South Africa which
was. If So an awful blunder. that the Boer
artillery is better than any in Europe which if
So speaks uncommonIy we'll for your philosophic
and orthodox Uncle Paul