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The evening times., 1900-09-17
Mr.. Roosevelt Accepts.

| MIR. Theodore RCoseyeit's acceptance of
| the Vice Presidential nomination of his
1 party IS not particularly interesting for
| the novelty OF its thought or for any
| thing else. Like Mr. Mckinley, he pre-
, tends to give paramount Importance to the
dead and gone silver issue. while devoting
the bulk OF his essay TO Imperialism
again. and also like Mr.. Mckinley. he
makes 4 desperate effort TO dodge the
question of the trusts, as TO which he
thinks that the first thing to do is to find
out the facts" Well. the country is doing
that as fast as it can. and the contempIa-
tton of those that have developed and are
| hourly developing in Pennsylvania, viii
! help ii 10 a conclusion.
! But that is moi what the cowboy candi-
| date means. His idea is that the Admin
| fstration under whose protecting care the
| trusts have multiplied and fattened. and
which is owned financed. and operated By
them, should be given four more years Of
Peyver to find out the facts" Such a
/ delay is wholly unnecessary. The Ameri-
can people are already loaded with
facts They know thai the Nicaragua
| Canal bill was buried in the Senate at the
| late session Of Congress, on the demand
| OF the transportation trust They know
that our plain duty to Porto Rico was
| ignored and the Constitution violated by
! the Administration and its majority in
! Congress, under the dictation OF the oil
| sugar, tobacco, and rum trusts. They
| know that the millions OF dollars which
| are being spent 10 effect the election OF
/ Mckinley and RooseyeIt-and in some in
| stances crimiBally- are furnished by The
trusts. because they know that their alb
| soIute power over the executive and leg
be forfeited unless the trust candidates
and trost Congress can be maintained i'll
Office. In short The voting masses have
| ali theIacts they need upon which to bas
| their judgmcl; in November.
! There are some things in the Roosevelt
letter which We look for in vain. The story
OF his lonely fight at Kettle Hill, his charge
that the negro troops over on San Juan
| Hill We're eowardly. are things entirely
missing. Mark HanRa's blue pencil evi-
| IDENTIFY has been al work. Then the Gov
| ernor does not say word about the pecu-
| liar partisan conduct of Republican Gov
| ernors in giving safe harbor 10 a fugitive
from justice under capital charge an act
| clearly in open defiance o. the letter OF the
Constitution. The effusion will not set
anything afire but it is written in the form
] of a stump speech, and will do for one in
| the absence Of anything better
The evening times., 1900-09-17
FORT sLoCUM DEsFRTIoNs
Thirty Recruits Leave the Garrison
and Cause Disturbances

NEW YORK. Sept. IA ruie adopted
last week at Fort Slocum Long Island
Sound. has been responsible for numerous
desertions among the recruits OF rhe gar
rison- The or.Eer. which was promulgated
by the officers in charge Of the recruits.
suspends their passes and prevents them
from visiting The mainland at New Ro-
chelle In the last few days there have
been about thirty deseTtions by soldiers.
who have succeeded in running he sentry
lines and swimming the Sound to the
mainland. a distance of more than a mile
On Friday night five men were fired on by
the sentries. who discovered them swim
ming away from the fort with their uni
forms rolled in bundles and loaded on a
raft.
a squad OF the missing soldiers Visited
Mount Vernon on Saturday night and az
ter becoming intoxicated started IN to
clean out a music hall in North Third
Avenue Chairs and empty bottles were
being hurled right and left when Patrol
man George AtWeH rushed in TO place the
soldiers under arrest, The officer grab
bed John Borey, an iufantryman twenty
nine years old and as he did so George
Caiterson a civilian. VINO was with Do
rey and other soldiers seized him from
behind and piuioned his arms, Do-ey
then dealt AtweIl a powerful blow in the
face and his companions started into ham
mer the policeman with chairs
Atweu WAS roughly handled. but he
mana ged to shake Catterson off Then he
used his night stick the crowd. He
hit Dorey and Catterson. who appeared
to be the ringleaders, and knocked Them
senSeIess. The two men were dragged TO
the police station, where they were lock-
ed in cells and yesterday City Judgs Ben
nett let them on with fines
Allen CuTTens. another runaway soldier,
was arrested late last night by the New
Rochelle police He was Intoxicated, and
was riding in a trolley cas without his
shoes hat. or coat. He told the officers
that he lost part of his clothes in swim
ming away from the fort Private Kim
ball. who deserted about a month ago and
stole a horse and buggy from a New Ro-
cheiIe Iivergman. has given himself UP in
Chicago and is being brought back 10
Fort SIOrITr4r for C-otfrt--naYi ia!
The evening times., 1900-09-17
The Chincse Situntinu.


Again ct the beginning of another week
We are compelled TO chronicle the opin-
ion that the situation in China in both
lis military and diplomatic aspects, has
developed little. if any Improvement.
From one point of view there has been q
decided clearing up OF doubt which IS good
as far as it goes. The discovery of
pIo, which originated with the Empress
Bowager. to get the legations out Of Pc
hin under promise of safe-conduct and 10
massacre them on the way to Tientsin,
and of a later plan to lure the ministers
III q body to the Tsung-li-Yamen and there
murder them. afteTWard attacking the lc-
cations, has served to settle the question
of the responsibility of the constituted au
thorities for the killing of Baron Won
KetIeIer and all that followed. It was
only the premature shooting of the Ger
man Minister that saved the lives cf his
colleagues. In another hour all would
have been assembled at the TsUng-G
Yamen. ana all would have shared his, or
Il worse, fate.
Added TO this evidence OF Chinese gov
ernmentaI treachery. we have now Jhat Of
an imperial proclamation of June 70. de
claring that all the missionary establish
nents in Pekin had been destroyed decree
ing death to any Chinaman who should
shelter a foreigner, and Offering rewards Of
fifty taels for every foreign man. forty for
every woman, and thirty for every child
captured The obvious purpose of these
rewards was to secure foreigners alive that
they might be tortured before their murder
This proclamation, issued from The office OF
the general commanding in Pekin. was
posted conspieuously in all the police sta
tons OF the capital and vicinity, and, with
The documentary evidence discovered con-
cerning the project of the Government 10
butcher the ministers, entirely disposes OF
any uncertainty that may have been enter
tanned or pretended by the Washington Ad-
ministration, in regard 10 the official ma
ture of the war il China against the civ
iJized powers.
Matters in Pekin are not in as salts
factory shape as could be wished After
apparently acquiescing in the general
plan of the other powers not to leave
the city, there are late reports to the
effect that the Russians have suddenly
suspended their preparations for WIN
tering there, which seems to justify the
presumption that they mean TO with
draw before cold weather There is a
regrettable absence of any common pro-
gramme among The ministers, which,
perhaps is chiefly due to the difficulty
each legation finds in communicating
with its Government.
Prince Ching is on the ground, claim
ing fuu power TO treat for peace; but
the suficieney of his authority is
doubted. Ii HING Chang is on his way
10 the scene. also claiming plenipoten-
Jiary power. and Yung Lu, as heretofore
; stated. has been added to the Commits
sion. As to the last named, IT is GER
tain that ne will be rejected, as his
conduct in leading the attacks upon the
legations makes him impossible of rec
osnition
The Russians. as might be expected. are
anxious to hays the powers treat with Ii
Hung Chang and are also desireus APP
The evening times., 1900-09-17
Circulation Statement.
The Great CanI Strike.

Practically the whole anthracite region
of Pennsylvania is tied up by the general
strike which went into effect this morning.
OF total Of one hundred and forty-three
thousand miners in the region, 1t is estl-
mated that less than three thousand are at
work today The success of the movement
initialiy IS the greatest in the history OF
labor wars in American mining districts
Only a few days ago operators were conf
IDENTIFY claiming that the majority OF the
men would not go out They were eYi-
dentIy ignorant of the perfection to which
the organization of the miners had been
brought. The event shows that the present
strike is the most universal, as 1t is the
most popular within recollection.
There are reports alleging that the Coal
Trust is picking up green Immigrant Ia
borers at the principal seaport5. and viii
attempt to resume operations with such
labor, but they are probably premature.
Should the struggle be protracted, how
ever. there IS little doubt that the trust
would resort to this means. rather than to
make concessions to the old workmen-
But resumption under such d condition
could only be tried under military protec-
lion, and that cannot be had in the alb
sence of disorders which would, give a
color of excuse fer asking 1t.
The labor leaders are doing we'll to
warn the strikers on this point. For po-
litical reasons it may be assumed that the
coal Trust will remain quiescent for a
time. and refrain from fomenting disturb
ances. All the influence of the ReDubi-
can National Committee has been used to
impress the trust magnates with the dis
astr0us effect upon the Mckinley vote
shat 4 call for troops would have. So,
they wiEl probably let matters run along
quietly for two or three weeks in the
hope that by the cad of that period, the
strikers will have been starved into sub
mission Should they be disappointed in
this hcpe. experience teaches that they
Viii begin a course of coercion. and at
tempt 30 force the situation By bringing
imported labor o the mines. OF course
1ha first step in that direction would pre-
.ipitate trouble and then the way would
he open Tor the Pinkertons with their
Niurhesters, and the infantry, cayalry,
and artillery of the State
Should such condition unfortunately
obtain, it would furnish a fresh object
lesson of the close relationship between
trust slavery and militarism.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
OCEAN GREYHoUNDs BUILDING.
Transatlantic Speed Records May
BE Again Broken.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-Two giant yes
sells are building in Germany for the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company, which
will ply between Bremen and this city, and
which will probably cut down still lower
the ocean records made this season by the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and the
Deutschland They are being constructed
by the Vulcan Works. at Stettin. and are
to be called the Kaiser Wilhelm II and the
Kron Prinz Wilhelm
Speed is being specially considered in the
building of the Kron Prinz Wilhelm 1t is
understood that the Vulcan Works have
guaranteed ttat she will eclipse everything
yet accomplished by the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse. 1t is probable that she will be
able 20 sustain a speed of nearly twenty
four knots across the Atlantic and that
she will either establish new records OF
flyer TO clip more hours from the fastest
registered crossings.
Gustav II, Schwab, manager of the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company in this
city, said yesterday that the Kron Prin7
Wilhelm. which is named in honor of the
young heir TO the throne of the FatheTland
viii be ready IN five or six months, but
she will not make her maiden voyage until
early next autumn She will be of Il, ,00l
tons burden and 80 900 horse power. Mr.
Schwab said:
The Vulcan Company has always sue
ceedcd in getting out of its ships not only
the speed IL guarantees, but little more
l expect, therefore, TO see the KrGn PFin2
Wilhelm eclipse the feats accomplished by
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
I'VE are having another big ship built
that VIII eclipse the Kaiser Wilhelm dei
| Crosse both in size and speed This is u
| be called the Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweiter
| or the Kaiser Wilhelm H. in honor OF tn,
/ present Emperor of Germany. The olC
| vessel Of that name is now running 4
! Mediterranean ports and Will have it!
name changed
| The new Kaiser Wilhelm II viii be th'
| longest ship aioat It will be about 70
fest long or a little longer than tn,
| Oceanic. about twenty feet longer than th'
| Deutschland. and nearly sixty feet ionge
| than the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. l
| will have a seVeRty foot beam.
| Mr. Schwab also said that plans for new
| piers and docNs are being considered ant
| VIII lie completed shortly. The c0mpan!
wants To come TO this side of the river
| but cannot overlook he advantages O
more room the Hoboken side. Il i
! likely. hc said. that the new piers of tb
! company wiu be built of wood encased il
j fin
The evening times., 1900-09-17
SMALL FARMS PAY BEST.
AgricuIturists Say There's To" Muci,
Work on Large Tracts.

WOODBURY.. N J.. Sept. 17.-Thsre is
a tendency among truck farmers in this
section to till less ground and a promi
neat man has asserted that several large
farms viii be offered for sale before spring.
\ farmer vino has Just moved from a large
place near Mantua 10 q ten-acre tract at
Clarksboro says he has tried both the large
and small places, and each time he mas
had more money Al The end Of the season
from the few acres than from the larger
tract One season this man ran 140-acre
farm and the next year took one of thirty
acres. He claims he had more clear money
from the latter.
At the last meeting of the County Board
of Agriculture William Hoffman, of Mickle-
ton, said the average farmer was doing
too much work; had too much land under
cultivation. and was not getting pay for
the work he was doing. 1t is claimed with
the smaller acreage less stock is required
and fewer hands needed, and above all,
says one man. it gives the shipper of pro-
fuce an opportunity TO sort and not ship it
haphazard.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
THE CREEK SHIP MINNIs.
An Hellenic Corvette Anchors In
Delaware Bay.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept 17--Philadel-
phians viii this week view for the first
time a Greek man-o' war in the Delaware
River Last night lie corvette NauaTcho5
Mfunis arrived in Delaware Bay and pro-
ceeded to Marcus Hook and cast anchor
She came direct from St. Thomas, whence
she sailed Monday The vessel is used as
a training ship having on board class OF
naval cadets taking d course in steam
and sail navigation.
The Minnis was built In France IN 1873
is 4 coupIete vessel OF l 700 tons displacc-
1nent carrying a battery of hruDD rapid
fire guns and is manned by a crew or 2se
The voyage here is in order TO give the
cadets an opportunity TO visit the ship
yards and the Bethlehem Steel Works
Last night the Consul General for Greece
was notified by telegraph from Marcus
Hook OF the arrival of the MINIS and he
is due to arrive from New York this
morning and receive the officers Of the
vessel. who sailed for here direct upon
orders issued by the King Of Greece to
visit the shipbuilding and plate-making
plants of America and particularly those
of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The
vessel Will arrive up the Delaware this
morning and probably anchor off Arch
Street.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
Our consuIs Need More Pay.
(From the Chautauq;ssn.}


Tie Ineagrc pay OF our CoE-u-s j e matter Of
whose Importance ConGrc~snGen Who them
sclycs ESSENTIALLY provincial can never be con
ed knowing little OF any world but that in
which they have moved and had their being en-
tirely ignorant Of the established usage o. diplO-
macy and the cosmopolitan society IN which tie
Consular FeFTgstnt tive mist dwell. they forget
that a proper consideration fur appearances is
an absolute necessity; and pettineS- mean
ness auG certain sorts Of small economy bring Us
into contempt and minimize influence with
European powers which in their long experience.
have acquired 4 very s,tlutary worldly wisdom.
There i hardly consulate in the world where
the American representative Is not the most shah
billy housed. poorly served. and poorly paid mlu
amorss his consular associates. frequently his
means are 50 made qultc thar he Is tGIIic to re-
turn, III any proper degree the social tIvuIs that
have been shown him. Through parsimoHy that
curtdils expenses here that tbs Government m9s
lie wartaaiy lavish with certain species OF bold
and notorious iobhery. lis representatives abroad
are oftc1 placed in the humiliating attitude OF
mere hanScrs-ou tolerated. 7lH not respect
Cd 1t also explains who many entirely objec-
tioTaI,}e persons are appointed to Consular posts.
aside from the confessed reward for purely poll
tical service in which fitness, intelligence, ard
ordinary good breeding cut no figure Men oi re-
fiHeIaept of culturc, ard experience refuse 10 be
nh
The evening times., 1900-09-17
ICE INSULATION FOR WIRES.
Experiments on the MoHt BIanc Tel
eGraPiI Line.
(from Engineering }

lfTOn Il!9ifietlil--j
II is matter not simply Of conven-
ience but OF vital Importance that obser-
vatorfes situated On the tops OF high
mountains should be able to keep up con
stant teIegraphic communication with
stations at lower level.
Storms often rage for days and weeks
at high attitudes, with such violence as
to defeat all attempts at reaching the
Observers: telegraph posts are swept down
by bowling winds and buried under masses
Of snow, while the wires themselves fTe-
qrently give way under the severity CT
the strain.
Realizing these difficulties, the authori-
ties of Mont Blanc wisely bethought them
selves OF enquiring whether the ice which
perenniaIIy covers the slopes of the
mountain might not possess sufficient in
sulating power to replace both telegraph
pests and porcelain insulators.
TO ascertain this, some interesting ex-
perinents were made by r. Lespian at
the request Of DT. Jansen, the head of
the observatory. X double line was laid
between the Grands Mulets at the summit,
ard he peculiar mass Of rocks, known as
the Petits MUIets, near the base. Ordin-
ary galvanized iron, an eighth of an inch
III diameter, was used. 1t was stretched
bare on the ice, the two conductors, each
OF $500 feet in length, lying about sixteen
feet apart
For the purpose Of testing the insula-
ton of the line the two wires were left
disconnected at the lower station, while
at the upper they were placed in circuit
with a delicate ammeter and a battery
of eighteen large Leeianche cells On
pressing down the key, the needle of the
amTneter did rot move at all. but reEiain-
ed steadily ct its zero
The ends of the wires at the lower sta
tion were then pinned together, and when
the battery was reduced to three cells, the
needle flew at once over the limit OF the
scale, and remained there. pointing TO
fifty milIiamperes. These two measure
nents clearly indicated that the insula-
tion of the line was excellent.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
Justice Harian en- the stump.

ttFlm Inc SlIu1CIF ErGnlng ICst.@
Anvona seeing Mr. Justice Harlan, with his
silk gown on. sitting in the greatest tribunal o;
the world wuuld arcely believe, gazing upon
Eis massive head and solemn co'antenaHee. t!.at
there ever was q day when he made not only
the wcllin but the wocGS ring, not only with
logic ard eloguence but with wit, hunaor. banter
sarcasm sud all that gocS 10 make tip-top
stump speech. Yet such Is the truth OF history.
! heard him with my OWE ears in Henry Isham ;
sugar grove. at MacIYilic, ny. in July 1853;
ard if saybody doubts that Nj. Justice Harlan is
witty, humorous, sstrcastic-ttat he is tire very
prince of >tory-telers. though spe!lbirdcr no
loEger-let him snugs!e up 10 the Judge in the
s.l.lker of . sleeper or S0n2a otlIer tonve.ieHt
place. aud lsc viii discover that thc judge woui;l
have been great lurorist il he lad not come Of
j race Of great lawyers and heen p.cde>tined ior
a Iizh taTCtr Is juIiSt.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
ssn,.er Jones, strengtn.
nfrnm Tic Cleveland rlain nsalcr

q ION IIIV w V'.I'l I I7TIF I7TaIVT-I
wha.ever may be thought of tha views oi
..Geldcn RUE Jlues on peIiticsl organization
a,..t methods. il Is an evident fact mat hc las
a considerable following in the State. His de
lection from the Republican pasty IS likely to
carry along a good man{ who have, with him,
hitherto supported Republican national tickeis.
deriving the course OF the present AsI1inistra-
ton toward our new -p0ssessous' and he sees
danger to our system OF Government in the ac.
ceptance OF that idea by the Republican party.
Hence ne will take the stump ON his own account
against Mckinley and Mckneyism, and for the
election of Mr. BRYAN as the representative OF
highcs and purer idea.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
NOTES OF TIE CAMPAIGN.
Hanna,s Campaign Fund.-A saffl

Hanna's Campaign Eund.-A saffron
journalist in New York has made the
interesting discovery that Mr. Hanna
viii soon return to that city for The pur-
pose of making arrangements TO spend
500 010. GOO in the close States for Mr..
Mckinley Strictly speaking, there are
only six doubtful States. namely: New
urk, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, West
Virginia and Delaware. In round
numbers there are in these six States
3, $50 900 voters, representing nine ty-two
votes IN the Electoral College II Mr..
Hanna is going TO spend $50 000,OO0 for
little more than half of these 3.750 COS
votes it is easily demonstrable that he
viii pay about SIC a head for them.
and whatever proportion of the vote h
would have to buy each electoral vote
would cost him more than
$3G0 eG0 OF course, the doubtful
vote IN this total of 3,750,00o does
not exceed at she highest estimat e.
half million, so that each of these five
hundred thousand patriots can get $3.50 for
his vote il what the saffron journalist says
IS true. There is no intimation in the story
that Hanna is 10 spend any part of this
thirty million outside of the doubtful
States. The inference is that he has other
funds available for his purposes in the
States which are influenced by the six
named-such as Minnesota, Wisconsin,
| Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey. This
view of the case, then, leads TO the con-
clUsion that Hanna has in his war chest
row considerably more than $50. 900 600.
| When this fact becomes generally known
the apathy of which Mr.. Hanna is still
complaining viii become more pronounced.
for when puTchasable patriots learn that
ne has money to burn they Will not dis
play much activity until he starts the
nurismatic confiagTatiCn- Why it is shat
Mr. Hanna has left the saffron journalist
into his important campaign secrets can
not be understood. Sane people are pre-
| pared to believe that Mr.. McKinley's pe-
! litiCai manager has IN his treasury about
| all the cash needed but if it develops that
4 mere than $50 Geo eco is TO be used the
/ population OF the insane asylums of the
! country viii be suddenly increased through
/ the efforts Of weak minds to compass the
| meaning and the purchasing power of this
! enormous amount of money. To handle
/ $50, ,G0e coo in the short space OF seven
! weeks viii require the services OF an army
OF expert money handlers. and Mr.. Hanna
| soon Will have TO call on the banks of th6
! country for their receiving and paying
tellers. II IS ggested that the eminent
: Journalists who so lightly ana biithesomeiy
( dash of these stories involving tens oi
millions of dollars would prove of inesti-
mabie value TO Hanna in his disbursing
! bureau.
The evening times., 1900-09-17
THE THOMAS DELAYED.
Transport 10 Sail fer Manila, Via
Honolulu, Tomorrow.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. I7-Owing to
the numerous repairs to be made on
her. the transport Thomas was unable
to get away Saturday. as originally
scheduled. She viii sail at noon toner
row for Manila, via Honolulu. carrying
mails for China
IN addition to a large list CT caLin
passengers, the Thomas will take tairty-
nine enlisted men of the Hospit-l Corps.
Al recruits. headquarters and band OF
the First Battalion. Fifth Infantry, and
headquarters and band of the Second
Battalion Eighth Infantry
More than 500 sick and wounded SOL
iiers are expected TO arrive on the
transport Grant about the middle OF lis
week. They will swell tne total number
OF patients TO about 100