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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
ACCIDENTS TOO NUMEROUS.
Suspicious Aroused by Defective Mai
Service to Havana.

Service to Havana.
HAVANA, June 6.-The irregularity of
the mail service from Miami, Fla. is the
cause of many complaints that are finding
their way into the press. This line has
had an amazing number Of accidents.
The Post" says it would seem as
though collision was being practiced. SO
regularly do the steamers break their
shafts, go in the dry dock for repairs. run
out of coal, or have something else hap
pen to them which justifies their missing
their trips during the season when pas
senger travel is unusually light. At that
time the fine for missing trip is less
than the expense of bringing the mail,
and supposed or real accident would
ensure release from the payment of
fine.
There is something wrong which should
be investigated Immediately. Not even
during the stormy weather of winter did
the steamers fail to reach Havana as
they do now. 1t should be remembered
that the late director general of posts
spent ten days or two weeks in Florida
early in the spring arranging with the
carrying lines for their service for the
next year. 1t might be we'll to look into
this contract. If the steamers are
defaulting in their schedule they should
be mulcted heavily.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
GOMEZ WARMLY WELCOMED.
Nationals Trying to Use Him for
Campaign Purposes.

HAVANA, June 6.-Tbe demonstration
I in honor Of Gen. Maxine Gomez on his re-
turn to Havana is being used by the Ma
tionals for campaign purposes. They have
issued manifesto calling upon all patriots
to support General Rodriguez for mayor
because he is Gomez man, while Estrada
Mora, the Independent candidate, is really
e Republican, which party consists OK tie
old Assembly crowd, who are enemies Of
Gomez
General Gomez. however, will not pub
licly announce himself as favoring Rod
riguez. The old general is playing game
Of safety. After the parade last night a
crowd gathered in front Of General Corners
house and a number of speeches were
made. One excited man from the country
whose name is unknown, declared that all
Cuba was ready to follow Gomez IL the
aliens would not give the island its indie
pendence. r-.-.....4
This statement caused great erthrsiasm.
but General Gomez cooled the crowd by
declaring that such course would not be
necessary. He thought that the time for
holding constitutional convention was
near. He had faith In the intervening Gov
eminent. which he was sure would keep its
promises. This sentiment was likewise
cheered
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
wnr.hips rs Targets.
From the Philatelphia ledger.

1t mag be questioned whether the American
Navy needs to follow the English precedent Of
sacrificing of its vessels Ter the sake Of target
practice, as urged by some Of its officers. Some,
at least, OF its representative ships got 4 valu-
able and perhaps sufficient amount of practice
in that line during the war with Spain. quite
enough to settle a number OF points formerly in
debate as TO the relative efficiency OF guns and
armor but it will be remembered thai the mont
tor plan OF construction given very little
test during tina, conflict. The monitors had
some experience at and were occasionally
under fire. hut the FIRE of the Spanish was not OF
character to test their resisting qualities. The
Government has number of old monitors that
are of no value, except as old Iron. and il any
thing is to be learned by subiecting one or more
OF them TO destructive commandment, the ex-
pensc OF the experiment would be virtually
limited to that Of the powder and shells con-
sumet
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
Indiana. Rough Rider.


Not only does Federal law require that he
should give up Finley on demand of the t.yeci,-
recently enacted and approved by Governor Noun;
himself, imposes upon the Governor the duty of
issuing warrant for the arrest of fugitive
from justice on the demand OF the executive
power of the State where the fugitive is wanted
The Governor evidently makes for himself the
distinction drawn in international relations that
this is political crime which does not fall
under the laws in question, but would this be
the Indiana Republican view of il if Democrat
from Kentucky should over into Indiana
and kill Governor Mount for political reasons and
escape across the river?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07

ophthalmic and myopc. The advancing
more and more important-a fact which !:
, not yet fully recognized. When man Is
pioneer farmer and has to work with i'm
perfect tools 1t does not endanger his
health, because he does not do one thing
at time very long; but set a man to
hoeing. make him hoe all day, every day
for years, with an implement which is toe
short for him. and you will have de-
formed creature with bumped back and
various internal diseases. So. when one
! does not do much reading, it is OF little
Importance whether the print of the book
is good or not; but make a community OF
schoolchldren study for several years
frcm badly printed books, and there win
be work for the optician. When human
life is as perfectly organized. as in the
modern civilized community, all the parts
of the organization have to be adapted to
their use or the whole machine is thrown
out of joint.
Everyone has noticed that some books
do not strain the eyes as much as others,
and that, as rule, volumes published by
well-to-do firm, with a reputation for
doing excellent work. can be read with less
WEAKNESS than those cheaply got out
by poor publishers. This holds true even
when there is but little difference in the
print. The reasons are these:
In a well-bound book the margins are
wide and even, and the eye is not subjected
TO the slight unconscious strain of becoming
accustomed to different width OF margin
when leaf is turned. The inner border
is especially wide, and this reduces the
curvature which, as the journal above
quoted points out, is injurious to the eye.
Moreover, the book is SO bound that 1t Is
possible to open 1t 80 that the page will
lie nearly fiat, and the paper used is stin
enough to have tendency to flatness. The
spaces between the lines are wide. and the
type clear, IL small. The symmetrical ar
rangement of the whole page is a pleasure
to the eye, as We say, meaning that 1t de-
lights the esthetic perceptions. But it is
actually true that what we call the prin-
cip!es of art are in reality closely con-
nected with those which govern health,
and that ugliness is unhealthy, not only
metaphorically, but literally. The Greeks
had a trick of constructing their build
ings without any straight lines. The lines
appeared straight, but there was in real
ity slight curve. Pillars were not placed
at exactly the same distance from one
another; there was just enough difference
in the spaces to break the monotony. The
japanese have the same dislike Of perfect
regularity. Both Greek and japanese have
admittedly delicate artistic perceptions and
finely organized nervous systems. The tenn
peraments of both are sunny, healthy, and
may this. not be partly cause and partly
a result of what an esthete would call the
exquisite rightness of all their art and
architecture? Whether it is or not. it is
an easily demonstrated fact that a badly
bound book is not only ugly, but dangerous
to read, and that attention will have TO
be paid to this matter On the score of ty-
giene, If we do not wish TO have our eyes
ruined.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
Too Late.


VfOm lHe IhuIahdPoIIs NtWs.J
Trusts have been forming with great rapidity
ever since Mckinley became President. His
chief adviser, Mark Hanna, is avowed advo.
cafe and deflSder Of trusts. Tie Republicans Of
his State turned down. Attorney General Mon
nett, who made the most conspicuous attempt
far undertaken TO attack trusts. The Attor-
ney General Of the United States has not lifted
his hand. Only at the very end of the session,
just before the Presidential campaign opens, has
it occurred to the Republicans TO take up the
question. 1t will be difficult for them to make
thinking people believe that they are in earnest
in this matter.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
CONTRACTS NOT PERSONAL
Former Judge Dillon Gives an OpIn
ion in the Ice Cnse

NEW YORK, June 6.-Comptroller Coler
won the attempt to declare forfeited and
void any leases for piers or any contracts
for ice between the American Ice Com
pany and the City of New York Former
Judge John F. Dillon has given him an
opinion that ownership of stock in a cor
poration that contracts with the city is
not forbidden to city official by section
1,533 of the charter.
I'm my opinion" said former Judge Dill
Ion, lit cannot be affirmed as a matter
of law, that merely because person holds
shares Of stock in a corporation that he
is interested. in a legal sense, in the con-
tracts of the corporation. for In law these
contracts are the corporations contracts
and not his. and in making them their cor
poration acts through its officers and not
through its stockholders"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
AsHBR1DaE DRAWS THE CHECK.
Phiiadelphia's Mayor Completes Pay
ment for the Convention Hall.

PhtIndeipnfas mayor completes ray.
ment for the Convention Hall.
PHILADELPHIA, June 6-Mayor Ash
bridge yesterday drew check for s. 62S. 81,
which was for the final payment for the
hall which Is to be used by the Republic
can National Convention. The total cost
for reconstructing the building was about
$4,000. Several offers have already been
made to the Commercial Museums for
renting the auditorium. 1t has been sug-
gested that the Christian Endeavor Con-
vention could be held there in September
next. An enterprising Spectator is ready
to pay $1,000 for the use of the building
for one night for boxing bout.
James Hoyt. secretary to Director OF
Public Safety English. has prepared
beautifully designed police card for he
benefit Of visiting newspaper men and local
writer's to pass them through the police
lines during convention week. The card
is printed from a steel plate, which reads:
Republican National Couvention-Phila-
delphia-Pass through the lines
from June Is to %. 1900. inclusive. Harry
NJ. Quirk, Superintendent OF Police. Abb
raham L. English, Director OF Public Safe
ty." Above the centre OF the card, which
is blue. is the coat Of arms of the city,
stamped in gold.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07

II 1t is true as reported that General
Wheeler is not TO be given any regular as
signment. but is to be retired within a few
days. that will leave him at once free to
re-enter politics and come back to Con-
gress. 1t is. however, possible that he
might prefer to be Secretary of War in
President Bryan's Cabinet. an office which
perhaps he could have next spring without
the asking
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
Chances for CarneEies.
IT, Al. p.. u.,11

II is solemn fact that OF the Southern
colleges through whose region the shadow OF the
recent eclipse passed sent out any observation
parties. This for the simple reason that not one
OF them has lens worth mentioning for use on
such an occasion. The poverty Of the Southern
colleges is something that invites the attention
Of cur multi -millonaires who do not wish to die
disgraced.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
Nothinx 10 Do Witb H.
From the Helena independent ,

The price OF wheat and corn and cotton and
other products which the United States EXPORT
in large quantities is fixed in the markets of
Europe, where Mckinley does not rule Ameri.
can markets are based on Liverpool markets. and
the latter independent of the action OF Re
publ. an legislation. Mckinley has no more 10
do with the high or low price Of farm products
than he has with the food or drought or the
coming Of frost early OF late.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07

the moment. Whatever may be the de-
fest that the British Government has a
vital stake in finishing the Boer resist
ance and in freeing its troops from their
present service. 1t looks as if the battle
of Armageddon were not far off
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
The Problem to He Met.


tstHtIftl.J
Poison the finger and the heart will feel the
fatal virus. Rule the colony with absolutism
and absolutism will eventually strange domes.
lie liberty. Proclaim an empire in the Orient
and the empire will rise at last on the ruins OF
a constitutional democracy. The problem we
must meet and solve at the polls in November
next is The Empire or the Republic?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
POLITICAL NoTFsl AND GOSSIP.

HIPS Great Motorcycle is generally
agreed among the }Ddmocratic managers
in Washington that David Bennett Hill
stands today at the TOP Of the heap. He
goes to the Kansas City Convention as the
undisputed leader of the New York dele
CATION, and his word, rather than that Of
Richard Croker, win be the law of the
New Workers. there. This places Hill in
a position where he can be of effective
service to the party. If he had not yield
Ell to the inevitable in the matter of Mr.
bryan's denomination by reclamation Hill
would have been run over and trampled
upon for the first time in his long ca
reer His yielding was as graceful as it
was timely. He has exercised the privi-
lege OF showing unwillfngness to accept
cicta simply because that course would
make him popular. He has boldly pro-
claimed his views Of party necessity,
which In his opinion must be met in order
to ensure party victory. Having been
beaten down in that contention. he does
not sulk and whine. Irstead, he demon
strates by his action that his famous
aphorism, Il am a Democrat means
something more to him than a mere
catch phrase to please the groundlings
oA'A tuo aiSSohteuleu Ut tut odhS tAAiS-
1t is conceded even by Mr.. Hills enemies
that he will WELD an influence at Kansas
CITY commensurate with his abilities and
party loyalty. He made a courageous,
manly fight four years ago and lost. He
has been unable since then to bring the
party around to his viewpoint. Like the
sensible man and astute politician that he
is. Hill. following the example of the
prophet OF old, has gone to the mountain
since the mountain has refused to come
TO MIN. 1t Is expected that he will strive
sLrenuously to obtain some modification
OF the Chicago platform at Kansas City.
and failing that will as heartily sus-
scribe to the platform there adopted as II
he himself had written 1t. Then If the
convention should decide that Hills name
on the ticket with Mr. Bryan's would add
strength to it there is nobody at this end
OF the line who doubts that the New
Yorker would accept the second place. 1t
is obvious that Mr.. Hill is out for victory
this year. and 1t is believed that his ear
nestness and enthusiasm soon will be
communicated to the Democratic masses
in New York. So electrical has been the
effect Of Hills victory upon the minds OF
men hereabout that the representative OF
a campaign button manufacturing concern
in Washington declared yesterday that he
would advise his house Immediately to get
out big lot Of material with the pic
lures and the names of Bryan and Hill
thereon.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07
A Good Place for 1t.


(Frcm the Grand RAPIDS Defnocrat.)
Down at Atlantic City they claim to have dis.
covered q skeleton with backbone forty feet
long. II that bone is strong in proportion to its
length it might be a good thing to send to the
White House.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07

Has Hurt Hfmxelf.-From one of the
most influential Senators on the Republi-
can side Of the Senate it was learned yes
terday that the Hon. Charles w. Fair
banks has weakened himself with the rank
and file of his party1by the persistent fight
he has made for the confirmation of the
Hon. William D. Bynum's appointment
as member Of the Board of Appraisers
of New York. Peculiar Importance at
taches to this statement in view OF the
fact that it is known Senator Fairbanks
made the fight for Bynum at the behest
of Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Mckinley, whose
chief desire in urging the confirmation
of Mr.. Bynum was to practically demon
strate their gratitude to the gold Demo-
cratic boilers. Mr.. Bynum more thorough
ly than anybody else who has asked for
office under the Administration represents
the organized Democratic revolt of four
years ago without which Mr.. Mckinley
could not have been elected. AS politics
go. neither Mr.. Hanna nor the President
cares ANYTHING about Mr.. Bynum
per Sc, but by rewardfhg him they would
give indisputable proof to the irreconcil-
able gold Democrats that the Republican
managers have their cause at heart and
that, therefore, they safely could trust
future. The majority of Republican Sem
ators have not the same high opinion of
the loyalty to their party of the gold
Democrats as that which Mr.. Hanna and
Mr.. Mckinley affect to believe. For this
reason they had no especial desire to show
consideration to the Bynum folks. 1t is
said that several of them tried hard to
induce Senator Fairbanks weeks ago TO
give up the fight for Mr.. Bynum SO the
Senate would be free of the bother over
him every time an executive session was
held. But it appears that Mr.. Fairbanks
preferred to take the advice of MIR. Hanna
to that of other Senators on his side OF
the Chamber. and at last wearying of the
case and of what they call Mr.. Fairbanks
foolish obstinacy they voted down the con-
firmation of Mr.. Bynum, administering a
rebuke alike to him and to Mr. Hanna and
the President
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07

! the President.
| Mr.. Kennedy Provided FOr.-That
| the officeholding habit is hard to shake
off was illustrated again yesterday by the
| Presidents appointment of the Hon. r.
p Kennedy of Ohio to one of the numer-
Gus commissions through which the Gov
ernment's business is now being trans
acted. Mr. Kennedy goes on the commits
sion which has something to do with the
settlement OF some sort OF claims which
| Chile has made against this Government.
This is one of the first commissions formed
after the amiable Mr.. Mckinley took the
reins of government. Who its other mem
bers are or have been nobody seems to
know. Mr.. Kennedy was Chairman of the
farcical Insular Commission, which contri-
buted SO much to the gayety of nations
during the dog days last summer. 1. is
related of him that soon after he landed
in Porto Rico at the head of the Insuar
Commission he perceived II his first duty
to make a speech to the assembled multi
tude The entire population of San Juan
turned out to hear him, and he coared
through the oratorical empyriam for two
hours in the English tongue His audi
ence applauded him rapturously whenever
he paused in his flights of imagery, though
not q man in the crowd understood one
blessed word he spoke, and at the end of
his eloquent address an interpreter was
called for, who condensed into five min
utes the two hours speech of the Chair
man of the Insular Commission. Before
coming to Congress several years ago Mr.
Kennedy had been Lieutenant Governor
of Ohio, and previous to the incumbency
of that high office he had been a member
of the Legislature at Columbus for several
terms. He Is thoroughly capable man. f,
n LAWYER Of first class ability. and stands |
well in Ohio, but 1t is said of him by his |
friends with regret that he cannot get cured
of the itch for office, which, of course. is |
disease common to all sorts of Ohioans
without regard to political affiliations.
A Duel Promised.-The Hon. Charles |
will probably consider it his patriotic duly |
to slay an unappreciative editor in his dis
trict before tie opens his campaign for re-
election to Congress. II appears that Mr..
Wheeler has been the victim OF the stu
pidity of his clerks and other hired hands,
as was also the Hon. Willard Duncan VAN
diver. of the Fourteenth Missouri district,
which, by a peculiar fatality is just across
the Mississippi River from Wheeler's DIS
trict. Through the accidental breaking
open of one of two large chests sent to his
home at Paducah and marked public doc
uments," the opposition press in that town
is claiming that Mr.. Wheeler shipped at
Government expense certain large bundles
of clothing Mr.. Wheeler left Washington
Sc yeral days ago for his home, and as he is
a very fiery Statesman of the old school,
though in point OF years one of the young
est members of the House, Kentuchians In
this city expect that he will call to account
the editor who started the story on its
rounds. 1t is said that the editor in ques-
ton is something Of fire eater himself.
and that he will not hesitate to accept il
the Congressman challenges him to fight a
dilel
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-07

The replies Of various prominent share
holders when questioned about their stock
were as follows:
Mayor Van WICK: Nothing to say"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-06-16

and thus the total expenses Of a con-
vention may be greatly Increased or
decreased by the sergeant-at-arns. Ii
certainly may be said with truth that
he must be man Of exceptional judg-
ment. great capacity and unusual ex-
ecutive force.
If the duties Of the convention ser
geant-at-arms were fully indicated by
the foregoing paragraphs, he would
have comparatively an easy time but
his work would be only partially done
were he to stop with getting the hall
in good order and making the arrange
ments for the press.
Providing for the comfort and con.
venience Of the delegates is really the
most important Of al his tasks. This
involves arranging the seats in the
body Of the bail and the galleries SO
that ali shall be satisfied and furnish
ing the various subcommittee rooms
and the like There are tickets and
badges to be printed, and, though you
might not think it, this is job of no
small magnitude, Giving out the con
tract for printing the tickets is one of
the first things attended to. 1t has
already been looked after by the Re-