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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-15

AALlllAfA t is tAl-t-fh f.-n1A
4 queer feature Of the situation. accord
ing to this author. IS the respect and
veueration which Beers have for Queen
Victoria. He quotes one Of them as say
ing. Just before the war:
The Queen. she b good and a piuus woman who
meals Do @I lo U-. t is only that vcTlomde
kimbgr.a.U l.sL has l.l 4-ir4v tlc British people.
IN dealing with the alleged police out
RACES and laNity Of law in Johannesburg.
Mr. Hobsou denies many Of the stories
which have been printed on the English
side Of the question. and throws discredit
on others. He claims that the Boer po-
lice. while they may be a little lax. are
no more so than in many American and
English cities and that. on the whole, life
is as secure ia johannesburg as in any
other town made mp Of the curiously
mingled clements which meet about a gold
mine.
The chapter on corruption and incom-
potency among Boer officials contains a
somewhat odd defence Of the BOer on this
ground. and the reader can take 1t for
what q is worth This is the argument,
verbatim
TIE mius manage alJ other business men d
fhe Rand coming lItu contact with ignorant,
greedy 8nd not well paid officials 10 administer
complex machinery ~ ttate restrictions. have bad
no scrupic in clsiag matters for th'msslves by
bribery. which as soon as e has become custom
they deuouncc O., hi4clmail That these very mef
who have caused the corruption should assume
tonr ~ moral deiuuc'Jiiou, and should place i
IN the front Of the canlogue o. grievances is .
piece q humorous efrluicry.
An instance Of this alleged corruptinp
influence Of the mine owners upon the in
nocent Boer Is given. one mine owner was
in the habit OF handing the boiler inspector
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30

with the surety side. He has. in fact, not yet
been in position really to negotiate with u.s.
This was said before it was known that Au-
gust Belmont & Co. had come 20 Mr.. McDonalds
aid A change in tone. at least as far as one
company goes quickly followed that announce
ment Mr. BeImont's house represents the
Rothschilds in this country. and Mr.. Belmont
himself is q director Of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio Manufacturing Company, who will no doubt
be heard from when bids for the equipment of
the tunnel road are asked for. Electricity is to
be the motive power. Other corporations in
director are the Alliance Assurance Company,
the Bank of the State of New-York the Chicago.
Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railway, the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, the Guaranty Trust
Company, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company the Manhattan Trust Company. the
National Park Bank, the New-Amsterdam Gas
Company and the GAINESVILLE and Ohio Rail-
way
An effort was made yesterday to hurt the
credit of Mr.. Mcdonald by circulating report
that he was more than a year behind with the
work on his Jerome Park Reservoir contract.
Controller Coler was asked last night If this
were true, and he replied:
Mr. Mcdonald may have fallen a little behind
the Jerome Park Reservoir contract, but that
is of no Importance My engineer informs me
that Mr. Mcdonald is doing good work and
unexpected obstacles, always liable to occur
IN so vast contract and not due to negligence
on the part of the contractor The city is amply
secured on that job by bond of S5O0.000. and
viii be fortunate to get him to build its under
ground road.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
TUNNEL FRANCHISE HEARING
BROOKLYN CITIZENS DEMAND THAT IT BE
GRANTED SPEEDILY.

BROOKLYN CITIZENS DEMAND THAT IT BE
GRANTED SPEEDILY
A public hearing was given yesterday afternoon
in the Council Chamber by the Joint Committee on
Railroads of the Municipal Assembly on The appl-
cation Of the New-York and Long Island Terminal
Railroad Company for franchise for a tdnnel rail-
road from the Flatbush-ave. station of the Long
Island Railroad in Brooklyn to Cortlandt and West
sts. Manhattan II is proposed to make connec-
tions between the Long Island Railroad and those
railroads having their termini in Jersey City. An
other application is pending for a tunnel the
North River The application is IN the interest of
the Long Island Railroad
". H. Baldwin, jr., president of the railroad and
the tunnel companies said the question OF depress-
ing the track in Atlantic-ave. Of the great
est importance TO Brooklyn. The company had
been organized 10 build The tunnel, which would
be operated in connection with the Long Island
Railroad Eugene G. Blackford. president of the
Atlantic Avenue Improvement Commission asked
the committee 10 approve the franchise. He ad-
mitted that he was a director of the company.
The Rev. DR.. S. d. Mcconnell pastor of Trinity
NhHfch' brooklyn, read petition, signed by many
oL the pastors Of churches In Brooklyn, In favor
of the tunnel He represented, he said forty-six
congregations and sixty thousand parishoners.
The condition of travel the Bridge is SUCH -
he aided, "as civilized persons civilized beasts
should not tolerate It is hard enough for to
bring UP and daughters decently, but any
body who crosses the Bridge twice day cannot but
be struck with the demoralizing conditions attend
ing the push and crush there. morning and even
ing The morals Of the city demand that this crush
be stopped, and it cannot be stopped unless get
other means of travel
General Alfred c. Barnes said that no more
bridges should be built across the East River, as
tunnels could be built much speedily and
cheaply. and it looked like wicked waste Of the
peoples money TO expend 200 S500o0 600 on
bridge when three or four tunnels could be built
for Sl0,ooo,0e0 s120oO,O0O.
In response to a question by ex-Justice William
Watson. Councilman Cassidy replied that the COM
mittee knew Of no reason why the franchise should
not be granted. That is the first time have heard
anything that would lead have hopes that
your Intelligence predominates last" retorted
5 Judge Watson.
There is no reason why the Municipal Assembly
should act hastily in this matter said Mr. Cassidy
because the franchise Is In the interest of the
Long Island Railroad Company. but the company
does not make the application. We don't know
what the people will do
Spesches also made in favor of the project
by Senator Marshall William o. McCarroll, of the
Manufacturers Association. and others.
In opposition letter read from P Kondar,
who said that the members Of the Atlantic Avenue
Improvement Commission were stockholders in the
railroad company, and that private corporation
should be given such franchise. The committee
then adjourned.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
sUPT. KILBURN,s TINDIcATIoy.
NO DOUBT As TO THE STATE TRUST COW.
PANY's SOLvENCY. SAYS THE
GOVERNOR

Albany, Jan 29.-Governor Roosevelt said to-nighs
that there was nothing new in the matter Of the,
state Trust Company except that the Attornev-
General was looking the reports on the CON-
pany's affairs TO whether there was any in
fringement OF law. AS to the eompaEy's solvency
he said that the report of the NewYor City Clear.
ing House Committee verifying that OF Superin4
tendent OF Banks KTburn left doubt 70 the
fact.
II is learned from absolutely reliable authority
that the Clearing House Committee acted upon ths
request Of Superintendent KIlburn. who. in thu
face of adverse criticism desired be that he
had made error in his findings. he consulted
the Governor about II. and advised that whlls
finding of the committee a clear vindication
of his report.
Governor Roosevelt said tonight that he would
have considered any charges against the COM
pany's methods coming from reputable sources but
he would not take into consideration any letter or
charges sent first TO newspapers OF used publicly
for purposes Of oppression
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
NEW RETIREMENT PLAN WANTED.
ARMY OFFICERS DESIRE THE NAVAL sYs-
TEN APPLIED TO THEM

Washington Jan. % (SpeciaD.-Army officers In
all grades of the line well as Of the stan corps
favor bill which has been introduced by Repre-
sentative Mccall, of Massachusetts, extending a
feature Of the naval system of service retire
ment TO the Army. The provisions of the bill are
that his own application any officer of the ac-
tive list below the grade of brigadier-general, who
served with credit in the Civil and Spansh-Ameri~
wars. may be retired with the rank and pay
OF the next higher grade The object of the bill Is
to prevent stagnation and TO permit the advance
ment of capable officers to higher rank by en-
couraging officers whose best days of activity have
passed to stand aside for the good of the service
With such opportunity offered to them, it is be-
neved that many of the older men who are
choking.the upper grades and unfit for arduous
field duty would gladly request retirement. The
service is full Of such cases those of men serv-
ing twenty and thirty years in the grade of lieu
tenant, ana nearly long captain. These men
that they be competent gen
eral officers after being stagnant long in subordi-
nate rank but they cannot afford retire until
deaths and retirements above them finally provide
vacancies the top, which they reach in a state
of helpless inability to grasp what is going about
them.
Army officers believe that this BILL which gives
the President discretion to retire the veterans of
two wars in the next higher grade would do much
for the efficiency of the service than Secretary
Roots plan to make promotion by selection That
proposition is open to the objection that under
most circumstances pull rather than merit would
govern the selections. With the naval service re-
rement, there is deep conviction that meritoroIIs
officers reaching the higher grades would remain
without the true military genius and Spirit-would
embrace the chance to retire soon possible in
that manner. making room for more good men to
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
SUPPORT FOR FRENCH TREATY.
SENTIMENT SAID TO BE TURNING IN FAVOR
OF RATIFICATION.

Washington, Jan. 29.-Mr Kasson. the Special
Commissioner charged with the negotiation OF
reciprocity treaties, returned 10 this city from
a sojourn Of ten days at Palm Beach, Florida
completely recovered from a severe attack Oh
the grip. His return will mark the resumption
of the efforts OF the friends of the pending reel
procity treaty with France to secure It's ratii-
cation by the Senate Until recently only the
interests that believed themselves to be unfavor-
ably affected by the changes in tariff rates con-
tanned in the treaty had been heard from, and
the effect was to give rise to the gravest doubts
as to the fate of this the most important of all
the reciprocity treaties. Now. however, the
tide has turned in the other direction, and the
manifold interests that expect TO profit by the
reductions in duties to be collected on Ameri-
can goods entering France under the treaty
are coming to the front supporting the treaty
They are being heard from mainly through let
ters addressed to members Of the Senate ana
House urging the prompt ratification. Atten-
ton Is being directed to the fact that at pres
ent the French Government has admitted at
the minimum tariff rate petroleum and coItoh-
seed oil In anticipation of the rauhcatloh OF
thu treaty Should it fail, the concession would
hsve to be withdrawn and the maximum rates
imposed.
Meanwhile, with the exception of one arrange
ment practically completed, all the other pro-
jected treaties have been allowd to remain IN
the stage of negotiation that commits neither
party to any very definite proposals. 1t IS re-
allied by the diplomatic representatives or the
other European Powers that If France fails 10
secure the ratification of her treaty there is no
hope for favorable action on others.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
THE CLEARING HOUSE INQUIRY.

The Clearing House Committee viii not make
public its report upon the State Trust Company's
condition, as ascertained through It's receRt In
vestigatiOn Of the company. and the report viii be-
given out, If at ALL BY the Governor. at whose
request the committee conducted the examination
Under regulation adopted by the Clearing HOuza
Association few months ago. the Clearing HOUSE
Committee has authority at any time 70 look into
the affairs OF any trust company which clears
through the local Clearing House; and il was said
downtown yesterday that Governor Roosevelt
might well have asked the cooperation weeks ago
of the Clearing House Committee. the conclusions
OF which body carry great weight and authority
The stability of the company Is now established BY
the concurrent testimony Of three autroriues-Su-
perintendeit Kilburn. General Avery D. Andrews
and the Clearing House Committee, all placing It's
surplus at well above SOoO.Ol0
President Tappen, Of the Gallatin National BANK
who is a member of the Clearing House commit
tee said yesterday. as quoted:
The committee found the company perfectly
sound with a good surplus The company clears
through a bank. a member Of the Clearing House.
and we should IN any event have the power % o- e6
anime It's affairs under our rules We DO noT
examine the companies unless there IS specLal
necessity for IT, and In this case We were re-
ouested to do so. and the result you know
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
ARNY AND N4VY ORDERS.
Washington, Jan. 2s-The following Army and
Navy orders have been ssued:

Acting Assistant surgeon ROBERT W. CUTLER, now at
Fort Columbus New-York is relieved from the
general for annumqnt of CONTRACT 10 tue
Acting Assistant su, geon CHARLES Y. BRowNLEE is
Department Pacific and will
report to the commanding general Department OF
from New-Yor1 City to Portland Me- for annul-
The transfer of Second Lieutenant LLEwELLYN w
"a to nIen be Try to RS GsVay ar and his
Acting Assistant Surgeon EDWARD c. POEY s assigned
to temporary duty at Fort Riley.
asned to the d anS % to-
Fort Thomas for instruction.
The leave granted First Lieutenant ISAAC
NEWELL 22d Infantry. December -. is extended
month.
commander 4. 1899 (the Chicago
from 20. the Chicago 5e'''' yum
Lieutenant Il 1T T. MAJ MAYO is J promoted to lieutenant
NOTED to lieutenant from March %. 1899 0he Chicago
Lieutenant dunlor grade) GEORGE W. WILLIAMS is
Monongshea,. -''' 'Ae
Assistant Paymaster P Y. MoHUN IS promoted to pny-
Lieutenant dunior gradel n, n TAYLOR is promoted to
9uFF om s4 an. n 1859 s FR sTfsus IS to
Commander GEORGE f. IDE promoted to captain from
March %, 1899 Nosemite)
Commander GEORGE NJ. BOOK Is promoted to captain
from March % 1899 (wat orders).
Commander THOMAS PERRY promoted to captain from
June IL. 1899 lighthouse Board).
Lieutenant J. b. BRIGGS promoted to com
mander from october TO- 1899 cwait orders)
Lieutenant Commander ]. OGDEN promoted 10 CON-
mander from June IL. 1899 (Richmond).
Lieutenant WILLIAM BRAUNERsREUTHER is promoted
to Lieutenant commander from November 2 1899
(Asiate Station.
Lieutenant c. H. BOUSH is promoted lieutenant-com-
rnander March 25. 1899 tYosemite).
Ensign WILLIAM P. SCOTT. to temporary duty Navy
Yard, New-York, February l. and duty in con
nection with electrical plant OF the Kentucky. Febru-
ary %
Lieutenant Commander V. l. CoTTMAN is ordered home
and orders
Ideutenant-Commander BENJAMIN TAPPAN is ordered
home and wait orders.
Lieutenant A. N WOOD is ordered home and wait orders
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
HENRY B. PLANTS ESTATE.
THE REPORT FILED BY THE EXECUTORS VALUES
IT AT NEARLY s17.OoOOOo

New-Haven, Conn. Jan. % (SpeciaD.-The estate
of Henry Bradley Plant, Of New-York City, the
head of the Plant Steamship Company, has just
been appraised by the executors, and report filed
in the Probate Court in this city. The report
shows that Mr. Plant had estate valued at
nearly ST 100000 the appraisers stated II,
SIC .9o2 545 g. The report states that Mr.. Plant
owned 1880 shares of the Henry B. Plant Com
panys $1,000 shares of stock. valued s64l2723 g.
The personal property is valued at $500. and TO
these totals the appraisers added s5 S22 from cash
hand, bills. etc. bringing the total given above.
The executors were, Morton F Plant. Robert G.
Erwin and George H. Tillings of New York, and
Judge Lynde Harrison, of this city. The APP
praisers were John A. Stewart, of New York and
Henry S. White, of this city. Mr. Plant will have
TO pay an inheritance tax under the Connecticut
law OF 100000.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
TINE CLARK JNVESTIG4TION.

Washington Jan. 29.-The Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections to-day heard number of
witnesses minor points involved in the charges
against Senator Clark of Montana The protestants
took occasion to withdraw all intimations against
j. X. Toole who withdrew from the Montana con-
test for United States Senator under circumstances
which the protestants at fist inclined to con-
slider suspiciously favorable to Mr. Clark The
prosecution also declined to put two witnesses on
the stand who mad been summoned at their in
stance, because the men had talked unsatsfac-
torily since their arrival In Washington, Both ex-
Senator Edmundg and Mr. Campbell said II would
be unfair 70 both sides 70 all the Witnesses % tea
tify w.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
THE GEORGIA SOCIETY ORGANIZED.
AN ORGANIZATION OF RESIDENT GEoRG1ANs
FORMED AND OFFICERS ELECTED

Several residents of this city, natives of Georgia.
assembled In Room No. e05 Townsend Building
Broadway and Twenty-hfth-st., last evening for
the purpose OF organizing a society of Georgfans
Ofdcers were elected; committee appointed
10 prepare constitution and bylaws. and pre-
limnary arrangements were made for gathering
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Monday evening,
February s. for the purpose OF celebrating the l23d
anniversary OF the enactment Of the Constitution
OF Georgia.
The organization is to be known as the Georgia
Society More than one hundred and fifty favor
able responses had been received last night to the
800 circulars sent out 1t is expected that the
membership viii reach 300. Four or five meetings
a year Will be held, of which will be an annual
dinner; Next Monday nights gathering at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel will be the initial social gath
ering. Among those that will speak will be
Thomas Morgan, Jr., and Gazaway Hortridge
The officers elected last night were President r.
@. Erwin. successor TO Henry B. Plant presi-
dent Of the Plant system; Vice-presdent, E. 7.
The following placed the committee
gan jr. E T. Charlton, Preston Herbert, Wallace
Wheeless. Remsen Crawford and D. G. Seligson.
Others who viii be members of the society are
Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Rail
road; L. l. Fleming. NJ. NJ. Rogers, of the Ocean
Steamship Company; L. h Mercer c. H. williams
c. 3. Walworth, A S. Silverberg and f. x. Will
far
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
4 STATE CoNsUMPTIoN HOSPITAL.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE TO HEAR DOCTORS ON
THE DAVIS BILL

LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE TO HEAR DOCTORS on
THE DAVIS BILL.
There will be a hearing tomorrow in Albany be-
fore the Senate Finance Committee and the Assem-
bly, Committee Ways and Means on a bill intro
duced recently by Senator Davis to establish a
State hospital in the Adirondacks. or in some
other suitable location for the treatment of incip
lent pulmonary tuberculosis. The hearing has been
set for tomorrow because the State Medical As
socation will In session in Albany then. 1t will
be confined to the medical side of the proposed
State saDltarum. and week later there viii be a
hearing at which those interested in the matter
from a charitable point OF view Will be heard.
Frank Tucker. general agent of the New-York
Association for Improving the Condition OF the
Poor United Charities Building, No loo East Twen-
ty-second-st., informed Tribune reporter yester-
day that the bill prepared by conference of
medical and representatives Of charitable
agencies, which held several sessions this winter
III the United Charities Building. and copies of it
had been sent to about eighty physicians and
others interested in different parts of the State.
somewhat similar bill introduced last win
ter, and favOTably considered by the Finance
Committee but was not reported, owing to the
policy laid down of not establishing any State
institution last winter.
This BILL said Mr.. Tucker, seeks to attack
consumption from one point Of view, enabling the
poor to secure treat tment under such hygenic con-
ditions will resu in their cure and their rest9-
ration , as % la Oh & Ce m ou
tact with many families who are, forced to ask ask
charitable assistance by of the disability
from sunsumption of the bread winner.
THE bill appropriates 100000 for the purchase OF
4 site in the AdironoackS or other suitable local
ity, and the erection Of suitable buildings, which
shall furnish accommodation for two hundred pa
tents 1t in no wise conflicts with the Henry bill
passed last year, enabling the municipalities to es-
tabIish isolation hospitals outside their corporate
limits. Those who interested in the bill are
also in favor of the establishment of ISOLATION hos
pitfalls for advanced cases by municipalities, but
they do not believe the two measures should De IN
corporated in bill. The present accommoda-
| tions for the care of cOnsumptves most lin
fed throughout the State. We find great difficulty
in making any provision for their hospital care and
| treatment"
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
WILD WEST SCENE IN THE rE1DERLo1N
TWO CHICAGO MEN MAKE A DISTURBANCE. AND
BOTH LAND IN JAIL.

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BOTH LAND IN JAIL.
Charles Parker, of No i96 West Twenty y-eighth-st
and William d. Miller, Of No 202 West Twenty
fourt:,-st., both came from Chicago a few weeks
ago to start a saloon. 1t be at No. 315 Sew
enth-ave Parker to be the proprietor and
Miller his head bartender 81 a week. The place
is practically fitted up, and the opening was 10 be
this week. The two men in the place last
night when Parker told Miller he guessed he could
not pay him much salary
TN make It SIS. It's all you're worth" he said
Miller told Parker what he thought of a man
who would lure fellow-worker to a great city and
then throw him down. Parker liked not Nilier's
choice appellations, and forthwith threw him down
In another sense by well planted uppercut which
landed Miller's jaw.
Miller wrathfdl, but a second time was sent
sprawling. Parker. who is about twice as big as
Miller. picked the latter up and threw him out into
the street. Miller drew a revolver in true Wild
West style and invited Parker to come forth and
be perforated. Parker without hesitation picked
up new "A calibre Gotta small cannon bought
yesterday in anticipation of a New-York rush
and sailed out He fired Eve times in Mier's di-
recton, but Miller refused stop sny of the bull
let's. Instead he fed up The street, revolver in
hand. policeman gave chase and caught him.
second policeman ran into PaTkers place and
at the policeman and threaten I'd to shoot but the
officer drew his own weapon. He ga re Parker just
G S to GF9p his gun or get killed Parker
when both men were taken to the West Thirtieth-
i Sers police station Captain Thomas happened to
SO you fellows think you can come here and
bring your Chicago methods along, Ell? said Cap
tain Thomas. We'll. I'm glad got you the
star start Mr. Parker. you won't have any opening
this week. nor next week, nor the week after this
i Will see to 1t to-day that your saloon license is
'It wouldn't have cost so much to pay tho s21
per. - Charlie?" said Miller, with grin as both
Were locked up.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
FOUND WITH THEIR THROATs CUT.

WATERFOWL N Y, Jan. 29.-"The Standard" to-
day prints letter from its correspondent with the
18th Infantry United States Volunteers dated at
Ioilo Panay Island. December 16. in which he
states that three men, William Dugan Dennis l..
Hayes and Michael Tracy, who were reported miss
ing at Calino when the column under General
Hughes stopped at that town have been murdered.
The three belonged to Company F, I'd Battalion, Of
the 26th. The bodies were found on the ground IN
a cocoanut grove the town of Ca1ino. Their
rifles and ammunition belts had been taken from
them. Their throats were cut from ear TO ear and
the bodies mutilated in a horrible manner The
homes of these three men are not known here. They
probably belonged in the central part or the State.
Tracy's home IS said to be N Ithaca, n. Y.