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The evening times., 1900-02-17
A STREET RAILWAY COMBINE.
Negotiations for Consolidation iU
Pittsburg TrRctions.

BALTIMORE. Md. Feb. 11.-Negoi-
atious have been renewed here looking 10
a consolidation OF all the street railway
properties of Pittsburg. The p-Opertizs in
volved are the United Traction Company
in which Baltimore people are largely IL
tcrested: the Consolidated Traction Com
pany. and the Mellon system. These
properties operate total o. mere than
yfG miles of track 10 Pittsburg- Alleghaney
and adjacent towns Alexander Brown
represents the United Traction interests
in the negotiations. and said today that he
believed that the negotiations would be
successful.
Il am not at liberty 20 discus The de
tails" he said but deal is psnd nS and
will probably be cOnsummated.'
From another source il is learned that
the Consolidated Traction Company had
made an offer to lease the United Traction
Company and the Mellon system. Ii is
said that the sum offered foT the lease
of the United Traction is sufficient TO pas
interest On the bonds and substantial dIyi-
deuds on both the common and preferre1
stocks.
The United Traction Company Is con-
trCIIed bv the Philadelphia company. which
Owns practically all OF its Sii ,o00. 600 COM
mon stock. The United Traction also has
g.. coo coo CT preferred stock. aud $1,000. O.o0e
in five per cent bonds outstanding. The
Maryiand Trust Company is trustee for
the mortgage. II is understood that the
proposition has been referred 10 the boards
of the three companies.
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ruthless and unsystematic destruction,
has gained considerable strength during
recent years. Eighteen States, realizing
the economic Importance of the matter,
have formed associations to protect wood
ed areas, and there is also a national
ganiZation known as the American Fores-
try Association. The rapidity with which
the trees are disappearing may be readily
understood when it is stated that the total
annual consumption of manufactured for
est products in the United States is more
than eighteen billion cubic feet, divided
approximately as follows: Lumber market
and manufactures. 2,250, ,000, 600 cubic feet;
ties. so G00. 900, cubic feet; other items, L.
000, ,000, 900 feet. 1t is officially stated that.
at the present rate of cutting, the forest
lands of America cannot long meet the de-
mands made upon them.
Using the severe floods and consequent
heavy losses to all branches of business
as an argument. the forestry associations
of the country may be able to make more
successful efforts during the ensuing
year. There is a question, however.
whether mere preservation will bring
about what is most sought, the discontin-
uance of floods in one season and droughts
in another. 1t is believed that those who
thoroughly appreciate the vital impor-
tance of the matter will find il necessary
not only to reduce timber cutting TO sci
entific basis. thereby preventing waste
and promoting preservation, but 10 begin
a crusade for forest restoration.
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BRADSTREETS WEEKLY REPORT
The Aggregate Business of the Coun-
try in Good NOIumc.

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Bradstreet says:
Satisfactory advices as to expanding
spring trade in dry goods and kindred
lines come from a number of markets.
That the aggregate business OF the coun-
try is OF good volume otherwise is. how
ever, indicated by detailed reports OF in
creases in trade, as compared with last
year, confirmed by satisfactory earnings
OF railroads, by fair gains in bank clear
ings. and by reports of better demand for
money in commercial channels.
I'm fact unseasonabIy mild weather has
had an appreciabIe effect upon several in
dustries. notably those engaged in the
manufacture OF footwear. in discouraging
sales of the same. actually causing the
shutdown Of some rubber manufacturers,
and also in the lumber and ice business
Higher prices for ice seem absolutely
certain and il is interesting to note that
complaints of short crop come not only
from the Hudson and New England river
valleys. but from points as far north as
Nova Scotia.
Amy review Of trade would be incOm-
plete if il failed TO take into account the
existing situation OF our export trade. Not
wthstanding the heavy shrinkage in ship
ments of agricultural products. notably
breadstuffs, animals, provisions. and cot
ton, there is an actual gain shown in the
total of January exports over year ago.
and, in fact. over every preceding Janu-
airy recorded. due 10 largely increased ship
ments OF American manufactured goods
Imports are steadily expanding, and i'm
proved buying power is indicated By the
quantity of luxuries now arriving. Janu-
airy receipts of champagne St New York
are reported to have been the heaviest ever
recorded in that month
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Lawyers License.

To the Editor of The Times:
I wish to thank you for your just and dis.
eliminating words regarding the Molineux case,
and particularly for your stand against Mr.
O,borne's attack upon Mrs Molineux. / have
been waiting to see ii some one with the soul and
bravery of a man would not take this up.
Can Won predicate much OF community and of
a iury where such thing could pass unrebukedf
Ii is not mere sentimentalism, but enduring
fact. that the best men respect women, and in
women's genuine helplessness none but towards
will attack them. Was it not enough for the
prosecution to seek a verdict that would cost
ibe prisoner his lite without stabbing to the heart
the woman he had married? Was she also on
trialg And are all persons unfortunate enough
to be drawn into a criminal case. in whatever
manner to be at the mercy of an opposing cOun.
seJ-their characters on trial, subject TO any
vicious charge or insinuation he may choose 10
make?
Is It allowable that a lawyer, In order to win
HE case shall promugate ISLANDERS, villify and
;nsult witnesses. and be they innocent or other
wise. naict wounds upon their regulations that
msv meyer be healed? Is there redress for such
thincSs hoAAA-
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JOHN PAUL JONES' REMAINS.
Their Positive Identification a Mat
ter of Conjecture.

In a letter to the Chief Of the Naviga-
tion Bureau Lieut.. william S. Sims, Naval
Attache of the United States EInf as y
in Paris, says with reference to the sup
posed location CT the remains of John Pdul
Jones, in the site of former cemetery
at the corner of Rue Grange Aux Bellies,
and Rue des EcIuses Saint Martin. that 1t
is the opinion Of Ambassador Porter that
the place of interment has been definitely
located. but it appears to be a matter OF
conjecture as to whether the actual re-
mains of the Revolutionary naval hero ran
be found
In conversation with Lieutenant Sims,
Monsieur de Ricaudy, who located the
burial place of Jones, acknowledged that
although he was absolutely convinced that
the body was buried in the area Indicated,
and had never been removed, he still con-
siders it purely conjectural whether 1t be
possible to identity the remains although
he was reasonably sure that he had estas =
lshed within a narrow limit the site
where the body was buried. Monsieur de
Ricaudy wants the United States to ac-
qure a part of the area Of the 70. mer
cemetery, and after clearing of the houses
on it to make a small park, and erect a
suitable monument to Jones.
/ Lieutenant Sims transmitted with his
letter the full report of Monsieur de
Ricaudy. the substance of which has leen
published, This full report includes a
transcript of the burial register of the
former cemetery giving the date of Jones
death. and interment, statement that he
died of dropsy CT the chest in the sentl-
ments OF the Protestant religion" and the
rf hoe u-hx at do1 tha Fffna raj
Among those who were present at tie
burial were: Samuel .,IackCen Col of
Dragons in the Service of the State of
North Carolina; s. II nes, Col. Mott
florence. formerly major in the service b
the United States; K. Ghselin of Mary
land and $. Blackden Griffith Of Philadel-
phia.
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Elootis and EOrcstrN.

The connection between costly floods
and the destruction of forest areas has
long since been established. Nature in
tended her wooded acres for other pur-
poses than supplying lumber and fuel.
Dense growths of trees and underbrush
tend to regulate the accumulated snow and
ice when the vernal period approaches,
thus holding back great volumes of water
and preventing rivers and their tributaries
from being oyertaXed as carriers. When
the trees are cut down, leaving immense
stretches Of mountainous country practi-
cally bare the first warming sun of spring
reaches the unshielded snow, converting it
RAPIDLY into water and pouring it into the
natural drainage arteries faster than they
csn carry il away. The necessary Jesuit
is the sudden upheaval of the ice. the for
nation of gorgos and consequent damage
at every city or village along the naviga-
bic waterway.
The movement for forest preservation,
becau-e of The accunulating penalties Of
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character and Physiognomy,

The American Modern Language Asso-
risjion met recently at Columbia Univer-
sitv. and an observer states that so far as
appearances went the members might
have been stock brokers or railroad man
ngers. They were college professors and
instructors, belonging TO distinct class
in the community. yet there was nothing
about their dress or appearance to iudi-
cate that they we're different from any
company of business men.
1t is Just possible that the observer in
question was less keen of perception than
he might have been. for the men who make
uB the association in question are GER
lainly different in type from the average
stock broker or merchant. The variation
Is subtle but unmstakable. A life given
10 study and research generally gives
msn different air from one spent in &C
live contact with men and the study OF
The stock market. But there is much less
difference in the outward garb Of men in
general than there used to be, aud il is
grue enough that such a company as that
described would wear the conventional
business earb. with nothing to distinguish
them from thousands of other men walk
tag in the streets of New York. There
was time when this was not so.
ON the stage, where outwOrn types are
ant 10 linger longest, We still see the be-
spectacled professor of mathematics, long
haired and absent minded: the scientist
with his butterfly net and broad -brimmed
hat. the portIy and side whisSered banker,
and the farmer with ill-itting clothes and
untrimmed goatee. But, as a matter of
fact. these typical figures are now rare
The Thin, dreamy looking youth with
spectacles. whom you take for a student,
may turn out to be a keen-witted dry
goods salesman. and the young man you
would suspect OF prizefghting may be a
teacher OF English literature or the author
al ,he last romantic novel. There is no
longer q distinctive garb for the various
professions, and as Washington knows by
experience, il is not always easy to tell
al a glance whether the convention which
happens TO be in session is composed of
Baptist elergymen OF orthodox convictions
or physicians who believe in Darwin and
not much else. The typical statesman
has almost vanished from the halls of
Congress. and some of the members Of
our local Board of Trade look as If they
might be doctors of divinity.
To close observer of human nature. the
study of faces affords never-failing source
Of amusement and instruction. In this
country we have had such thorough mix
fag-up Of nationalities. classes. professions,
ana traditions. that the pure type Is rare.
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DUN'S TRADE REVIEW.
business Hampered by Labor
Troubles in Chicago.

NEW YORK. Feb. 17.-Dun's weekly re-
view of trade says
Business continues larger than ever at
this season in amount OF payments and on
the whole as large as ever in retail de-
liyeries. though new transactions do not
yet give assurance that it viii hold at the
same rate Conditions affecting new orders
and contracts have changed in some re-
spects most favorably. while other changes
tend to restrict operations for a time. but
a conservative judgment OF the conflicting
tendencies appears TO warrant strong hope.
Monetary fears are cleared away by
the remarkable increase in manufactured
exports. which exceeded in January by
81, ,46O 600 the heavy decrease Of $40 400, 900
in exports OF the great staples. Though
imports also increased so per cent in
January, the excess of exports over i'm
ports was 81 7s2 $50 in merchandise, and
net exports OF gold amounting TO 81. zee .0ls
for the month relieved urgent needs in
Europe.
important branches OF business are
hindered By labor troubles. OF which the
building trade strike al ChicagO affe Is the
greatest number Of contracts for Industrial
products. and the labor and wages Of the
greatest number OF men.
The rise Of cotton 10 Sc has caused
such increase ia receipts and IN purchases
for export that reaction would ordinarily
follow Goods have been further ad-
vanced. The rise in wheat also brings out
larger Western receipts, but Atlantic eN-
ports in two weeks have been only S.64J,
406 bushels. against I, ,lS2. 40I last year.
The price closed 1-2c higher iOr the week
Railroad earnings on the Baltimore and
Ohio and some other lines are surprisingly
large, and on all roads reporting for the
first week of February, 10 per cent larger
than last year and 21.5 per cent larger than
in 1898.
The suit OF Mr.. Frick against he Car
negie company to obtain an accounting
and settlement discloses enormous profits
made when prices of steel products doubled
last year but when peace was kept by the
gigantic iron and steel combinations. That
results of great Importance may spring
from d contest affecting he control Of 81
many iron works Is evident. The new
sheet steel company has united owners Of
f60 mills il is said but four widely known
concerns. controlling siNty-iiye mills. re-
fused 10 jOin.
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Out OF a hundred faces you may see in the
street pinety-nine are mixtures Of at least
two or three types. mans occupation Is
often determined. net by his natural peht'
bur by circumstances, and in TINS country
circumstances and heredity are often de-
tidedly at variance. Thus we find the de-
seendant of a long line of country clergy
men compelled TO be a, merchant or me-
chanic; the intellect self-contIol, and
sensitiveness inherited from his ancestors
may. if he falls into the right place, make
him a rich man, or they may pauperize
him. In the ordinary course OF things he
would have gone into one OF the profess
siCns. Again, We find crude ambition in the
sen of a farmer which leads him to become
Q physician. when he is about as well fitted
for that occupation as his fathers oXen are
TO compete with thoroughbred lace horse.
II be happens 10 live in a place where there
are TO physicians eXcep. himself. he may
make a good living, though his patients
viii have a Woeful time OF il. And so 1t
goes. In addition 10 all this chaotic cor
aicJ between character and circumstance,
we have the curious phenomenon Of the
mcn who inherits a face without the char
acter which goes with it. lie may have
mind sensitive TO all beautiful things, in
heriJed from some refined ancestor, and
with it the face of ploughboy or he may
cCme of refined aud intelligent parents and
be a barbarian Hence the student O..
physicgnomy quickly learns TO judge mt u
not by their features so much as by their
expression to see the difference between
The mans face as il was given to him at
birth, and the character which is shaping :
that face TO reflect itself.
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SILK-SPINNING SPIDERS.
Interesting Facts Reported by Com
sui In Venezuela.

Consul Plumacher in report to the
State Department from Mlrac1ibo. says
that large silk-spinning spiders are found
i'll the palm trees 0f Venezuela. Some
produce white. some yeilpW, sIlk. The TX
ha, been made into adrdhcrchiefs. A cops
CT the report, tOgetn-r with a specimen
o. silk which accomptTiel it. was re-
fe.r'd to the Depart n.nt o, Agriculture
Under date CT Janusry .. ij,. the
ep,ouologist says thai silk produced IN
this way cannot be made valuable com
nc Ci&ny. because OF the Troublesome
Necessity OF keeping the spiier5 separated
tn Irevent their deTnIT.ng each o'her.
Their food being 'nse-'s. this also ir
wolves considerable labor in Supplying
then Attempts tc utj,.zc The silk o. d
Nctas scar spider OF tn same species
soTrc yeaTs ago result IN the discovery
thai he product was more expensive Iltn
ordinary silk.
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General MOlineuN's Letter,

The manly letter of General MolineuN
to the public, published in New York TINS
morning, will touch the heart OF every
American who has a spark of sympathy
for human suffering in his nature. or VINO
is normal enough to resent vindictiVe per
secutfon of crushed and broken hearted
women in open court by officials whose
proper business it is to see the law vindi-
Gated but who do not thereby acquire the
right 10 indulge personal malice or to prac-
tee cruelty and brutality for which they
cannot be held accountable by any power
save that of enlightened opinion.
General Molineux thanks the authors OF
suggestions that a popular subscription
should be started TO aid him in the de-
fence of his son, now under sentence OF
death but says: Il owe no man dollar,
and | neither need nor desire any assist
ance of such character | feel and am
amply able in health. strength, and the
| courage natural to man TO sustain all
! the burdens that God has placed upon me
until He wills otherwise
1t is a terrible burden indeed that has
| been placed upon this brave old man. and.
whatever may be the ultimate outcome OF
1 his and his family's troubles. there are
weary months of agonizng suspense be
! fore them. He and they are justly enii-
! tied to the sympathy and pity OF all good
people.
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AFTER THE CORPORATIONS.
Chicago Tying to Prevent Evasion
of Taxes.

CHICAGO. Feb. 17.-Chicago corpora
tions have succeeded in evading the pay
ment of millions of dollars in taxes law
fully due, according to figures of the Chi
cago Teachers Federation Committee,
which for the past six weeks has been in
yestigating the tax books How this was
done and By whom will be made known
to the public at meeting to be held in
Central Music Hall. and disclosures of an
important nature are promised by Miss
Catherine Goggin and Miss Margaret A.
Haley. who have been making the re-
searches.
The railroads, the committee asserts. are
the greatest offenders, but many other
large corporations will come in for good
share of attention at the meeting. among
them being the People Gas Light and
Coke Company and the street railways.
THE Peoples Gas Light Company owes
in taxes this very minute over s6O0,00O,
said Miss Haley.
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LOST INTEREST IN LIFE.
4 JuceIcr's Wife Dead. He Commits
Suicide.

NEW YORK. Feb. I7.-Four days ago.
man aud woman went to the Hotel Ira
falgar, at 1l5 to llS West Fourteenth. They
registered as Prince Muro and Lottie West
They we're theatrical people and the wom-
an had been known on the vaudeville stage
as a singer and dancer, while the man
was hand balancer They were man and
wife The woman was very i'll when they
arrived at the hotel and died the follow
ing day.
After her funeral the man declared that
he had no more interest on earth since his
wife was dead. He said that they had
recently come from Havana. Yesterday aft
ernoon the clerk of the hotel smelled gas
in the hall. He traced il to Muro's room
and burst in the door. He found Muro
dead in bed An ambulance surgeon from
Bellevue Hospital said that Muro had
been dead for some hours.
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THE PRESERVATION OF FORESTS.
Investigations Proposed by the De-
partment of Agriculture.

The Division OF Forestry of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has selected sou h.
ern California as the field for exhaustive
Investigations for the purpose of securing
accurate knowledge of the relation Of for
rsts to the volume of streams. This has
become an important question in those
parts OF the United States where there are
extensive numbering interests, and has
caused wide diversity OF opinion among
scientific men The best center for the
coming experiments has been decided to
be the watershed in the San Bernardine
Mountains where the MOhave River has its
source.
\ comprehensive study of the several
distinct types Of country in the region will
be made the food capacity of streams will
be carefully noted ard every detail that
will give information fer future reference
viii be noted. In the district there are
three types of land. the brush covered
district Of Holcomb shed, the denuded for
est land and that now covered by heavy
virgin forest. called the Deep Greek shed
Early next summer it is intended TO ex-
pertinent along the same lines in the ex-
tremc distribution of the trees of the
Rocky Mountains foT the benefit OF tree
planters on the plains, the successful
growing OF trees being largely a matter
Of these bes, adapted TO the conditions of
climate and soil There is reason TO be
lieve that the trees Of the Rocky Noun
taHs being accustomed 10 an arid region
will grow well Cn the plains, and posi-
tive information on this score is desir-
able
The Efforts OF the Government to in
ducc the adoption OF cons eryatiye lumber
ing ia order to preserve the forests from
destruction have been appreciated by the
numbering interests. There is therefore.
reason 10 feel that no great harm will te
done 10 the immense forests of the Pacific
Slope. as the people realize that they are
the agents of their own wealth. and it is
to their interests 10 look out for the for
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TO MOVE BY SPECIAL TRAIN.
Offices of Two Corporations to Leave
Chicago for New York.

CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-THE offices and Of
fee force of the American Tinplate Com
pany and the National Steel Company will
be taken to New York next Thursday. A
special train of four Pullman cars and four
express cars. having on board seventy-tfYe
employees of the American Tinplate Com
pany and twenty-five of the employees OF
the National Steel Company, together with
the books and Office furniture of both con-
Germs. will leave Chicago over the Penn
sylvania Road and run on express schedule
direct to Jersey City. The passengers and
freight will be ferried to Manhattan and
there installed in new offices in the Bat
terry Park Building at the lower end of the
island.
The primary cause of the migration of
the two concerns to New York is the fact
that the laws there are easier on corpora
tions of their character.