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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

Yorker has done quite as much as the
Hoosier to defeat the ends of justice in
Kentucky, and Taylor ought to have graft
tude enough to recognize It.
Meanwhile Caleb Powers is being tried
at Georgetown. Ky, for the murder for
which Taylor is also indicted. An excerpt
from letter which Powers wrote a week
before the assassination to leader of the
band of mountain assassins hired to muir
der Goebe was read at the trial Monday.
Powers said: II have had hard work to
get Taylor and the others to stand, but
| have now got them to point where
l think they will stand, and / think this
thing will be settled in short time"
The thing was settled. Goebel was
killed according to programme, and Taylor,
a fugitive from justice. is alternately the
guest of Roosevelt and Mount. Who shall
say that he is unworthy of them or they
of him?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
NEW FIREPROOF PIERS.
Plans of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company.

NEW YORK, July 11.-Chrstopher Leist,
managing director of the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company, who came to
this country with Captain Buel. chief en-
gineer of the marine service. to settle
questions connected with the fire and in
cidentaliy to prepare plans for rebuilding
the German Lloyd piers, said today, in
discussing the plans for the future:
1T may be somewhat premature to an
nounce that we have decided to construct
double decked and fireproof piers. but it
looks as though that would be done"
1t was explained at the offices of the
North German Lloyd that some time be-
fore the fire plans had been drawn up for
the rebuilding Of the two lower piers at
Hoboken. The first pier, though it burned
up almost as quickly as the others. was
double-decker and built chiefly Of iron.
1t was planned to rebuild the other two
piers on the same lines, and to enlarge
one of them.
These plans will probably not be car
ried out and new ones are now being
drawn by the company's engineers. These
are expected to be different in many par
ticuars. Valuable lessons may have been
learned from the fire, and moreover not
having to restrict their work, to re-
modelling OF the old piers, the designers
can carry out their ideas more freely.
The modern double-deck design is consd-
cred certain CT adoption The other de-
tails are not yet known
The Bremen. lying off Weehawken. has
today greater list to port, and it was
only with difficulty that the men at work
could walk her deck. Today the wreckers
were placing heavy chains under the yes
sci. preparatory to using ponto0ns to raise
Thn
long. and each will have lifting power of
500 tons.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
4 Note of Warning,


With national Administration in full SYM
pathy with their political aspirations the negro
voters Of the South would become as dangerous
and aggressive an element as they were a few
years ago. This movement is Endorsed by the
Republican leaders, and its purpose is to hu-
initiate the South and to weaken it as factor
in the National Government, else to force
negro suffrage upon that section without the
restrictions imposed upon the franchise by
the State governments. Those who have invested
capital in the South should think twice before
they advocate the triumph of a party which in
tends TO put the negro on top in the South,
or else cut down the souths representation in
Congress and reduce its electoral strength. In
either event the South will suffer, and the re-
suit may prove disastrous to those who have
sulJsta ntial interests in that section
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
A SUCCESSOR TO PHILIP.
Rear Admiral Barker Takes Charge
mt BROOKLYN yayy Yard,

NEW YORK, July 17.-Rear Admiral Al
bert S. Barker is now at his post in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard as the successor OF
the late commandment. Rear Admiral John
w. Philip. He arrived from Norfolk In the
afternoon on the Old Dominion Line steam
err and was transferred from the pier TO the
navy yard in the Government tug Nins,
under the escort Of Commander Clifford II.
West, senior aide to Commandant Philip.
Rear Admiral Barker was in civilian
dress and in compliance with his request
no military ceremony attended his arrival
at the yard. There was. however, sho
informal reception at the commandments
residence. At 9 O'Clock tomorrow morning
Rear Admiral Bankers flag will be hoisted
over the receiving ship Vermont and sl-
luted with thirteen guns. There will also
be review OF the battalion of marines
and bluejackets and at the main office OF
the commandant all the officers OF the yard
will assemble and be introduced by Capt.
Frank Wildes, the chaplain Of the yard
10 Admiral Barker.
1t is understood that a new senior aide
will soon succeed CommaEdant West, and
that this is the only change at the yard
eXDected.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
THE GAYNoR HEARING.
Testimony Given by OberIin n. Car
ter's Successor.


NEW YORK. July 17.-Capt. E. c. Gil
lette. at present in charge OF the Savannah
harbor improvements. was recalled to the
witness stand today when Commissioner
Shields resumed the hearing in the pro-
ceedings to remove John F. W. T. and E.
Fl. Gayuor aud Benjamin d. Greene to
Georgia on indictments charging conspiracy
to defraud the Government. He continued
his testimony regarding the alleged faulty
work done by the Gaynors company. the
discretion given to them by Captain Carter
and the lack Of inspection to hold them
strictly accountable to the specifications Of
their contracts.
Mr.. Rose of counsel for the defence OBJ
jected to this line of examination. but
Captain GiIlett fortified his testimony
by presenting photographs taken under his
direction, and Commissioner Shields held
he was entitled to testify as an expert.
In arguing against Mr.. Roses objection
Mr.. Erwin said: 1T seems to me, your
honor. that counsel for the defence as
sumes to possess all the common sense in
this country The witness is an engineer
officer, graduated from West Point, who
has been in charge of important Govern
ment work.
But he has testified here" replied Mr..
Rose. that he never built brush mat
tress."
Commissioner Shields said he would al
low the defence an exception. ard the
witness went'into long techni, al descIip-
tion of brush mattresses. the correct way
to make them and relative cost OF their
construction with long and short AID TIL X
and thin fascines.
Counsel objected to wasting time ia
listening to a lecture by Captain Gillette.
bu. Mr. Erwin pleaded that he desired 10
show the difference of cost to the coltrac-
tor in complying with the contract speri-
hcations of fascines from thirty to 100 feet
long and the fascines fifteen TO twenty feet
long as put in by them.
Commissioner Shields suggested that tae
plain question be put, ard the witness said
he could not tell in money, but that t1e
conversion of the bundles OF brush into
long fascines make the greatest proportion
of cost in the construction OF brush mat
tress. II he was bidding on a contract, he
said, he would ask double the price for
thirty feet fascines that he would ask
for twenty feet fasclres. The amount OF
labor required. ne thought. you'd be more
than double for the larger size work.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

From the st. Louis Republic.

Grom the ST. Louis Ropubiicl
II viii be well for the people of this country
to bear in mind that even the Mckinley impe-
ridlists themselves do not defend as right and
just the permanent holding OF the Philippines
the tariff taxation OF the Porto Ricans the ill
concealed determination to annex and govern
Cuba without the consent 81 the Cubans They
contend merely that it is "eSpedicnt;" that sit
will extend American trade that it is ''mani-
fest destiny"
Identical arguments have been possible to every
Empire under the since the sun first shonc.
Thee lave been used by Empires now crumbng
to dust under the weight of their sins. 1t was
"expedent' tpr England to oprress and mis-.
govern her American colonies in the eighteenth
century. 1t extended British trade to keep
this continent subject to Britain. 1t mani
test destiny" that t,orth America should be under
British dominion.
FSpediency the extension of trade. manifest
destiny fail To justify the overthrow of the
worlds greatest Republic. Expectancy is under
no conditions warrant for sin The extension
OF American trade must not be attained at the
cost OF the liberties Of weaker peoples.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

Taku, Shall we leave our few thousand
soldiers and marines to perish amid the
horrors Of another massacre. because Mr..
Hanna is afraid of Congress? Il laissez
faire is TO be the Mckinley Chinese policy,
let Us throw UP the whole business and
content ourselves with trying to get cur
men out OF Tientsin and back On board the
transports That course may not become
imperative. if Japan is given free hand
and is able to act quickly, but if it
should happen otherwise, what then?
Mr.. Mckinley is confronting crisis too
terrible to be paltered with, or to be dealt
with from front porches or Republican
headquarters in Cleveland. His plain duty
is TO invoke the counsel and aid of the Ma
tional Legislature. and at once.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
The Dante Anniversary at Florence.

tfrOiu tue NC" SUM-
Florence has been celebrating a great ami
yersary the small beginnings, six hundred years
ago, OF her greatest glory aud her enduring
shame. From June Is to August 10 of the year
1870, Dante Aiighieri one OF the six pri0rs
OF the city, and that short tenure OF office was
the source of all his troubles and OF his lasting
exile. If it had not been for that the first and
greatest OF modern poems, the book that forced
the tongue of Tuscany upon Italy its Ian.
guage would probably never have been written.
The anniversary i, really that OF the ''Dvina
Con,rneda," for it was in 1900 that Dante reached
that midway in the journey of lis lie when
the progress throuGh hell and pursatory TO
heaven began.
The Florentnes turned out in body. They
flung out their old city banners from the city
rates and the hign towers from their palaces
they hung out wre- hs of flowers and laurel and
oak leaves and verses from the "COmmedia,'' and
they decorated the monument they have erected
to the poet in front Of Santa Croce They could
not decorate his tomb, however. for the poets
command that they should never have his body
has been observed reigousy, and his hatred and
scorn are ~ undyir.s his poem
That is as fresh and living now, with Its love
and its hate as it was six hundred years ago.
two hundred years before another Florentine con
trived to give his name to new continent.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
TRAIN WRECK NEAR ALTOONA.
The Presidents Special Delayed nm
Hour by the Accident

HOUR ny the Accident.
ALTOONA. Pa, July 17.-One man was
Killed and many trains, President McKin-
leys special train among them, were
delayed by an accident at 4:1O o'clock this
morning short distance west of Spruce
Creek Station on the Middle Division of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The first sec
tion of the Cleveland and Cincinnati Ex-
press, westward bound, ran into the wreck
age of four freight cars, the freight having
got into trouble few moments before the
express came by, on the track adjoining
Locomotive No 16. the big record break
er OF the Pennsylvania system, hauling the
express, bounded from the track and land
ed at the foot Of the bank after making
several complete revolutions
The engineer. Stewart Grcninger, Of
Harrisburg. was found on his seat in the
cab, his hand clutehing the throttle. He
was dead from scalds and wound in the
head. Fireman r. E. Crum. OF Harris
burg. also went down with the engine but
crawled from the wreckage more scared
than hurt.
By strange chance of railroading the
express section OF the train was run first
last night. instead OF third, as usual. Had
the heavy Chicago passenger section been
ahead as is customary there would have
been great loss of life, as several of the ex-
press cars were ground to splinters. 1t
happened that these were running without
occupants so that there was no loss of life,
save that OF the engineer.
The family of John Holleran, of Spruce
Creek, had a narrow escape, as the big
locomotive rolling down upon the frail
house happened to stop just as 1t reached
the structure. President McKinleys spe-
cial train was running as section 90. The
10 nd
formed of the trouble, dressed and walked
forward to view the wreck
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
FLOODS IN HONDURAS.
Railroad Under Water and banana
Plantations Injured.

NEW ORLEANS. July 17.-Passengers
arriving from Honduras report large part
OF the Atlantic Coast devastated b. a food
which started in the mountains ten days
ago. The Honduras Railroad is praoti ally
under water its entire length and all ira
fc has been abandoned. No attempt ID
being made to get trains over the line on
the roadbed. 1t Is very uncertain wheihsr
the food has subsidized. In some plzc>s
water stands six feet over the track.
The fruit steamer from Puerto Co-tes
brought only half q cargo and there is TO
way Of getting the fruit to the wharf. It
is the worst food ever known. No esti-
mate Of the damage done can be made un-
til the flood is over. The devastation,
however. il widespread and the lGss TO the
owners of banana plantations will be very
heavy.
The worst feature OF the food is that
the rains are from the interior and are
flooding down to the sea. The rainy ssa-
son Is expected soon, and should hocd
come on the result would be severe. The
Ulloa and ChsmiIioR rivers are doing The
most damage and since the steamers left
Puerto Cortes were still Ti1irg Two larg,
bridges on the railroad have been washed
away and it will be two or more weeks
before business can be reSumd.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
THE LoNAcoNING RIOT.
How the Mob Handled Anti-strike
Leader Dick.

CUMBERLAND, July 1.-THE second
days trial OF the alleged Homecoming riot
ers created as much interest as yester-
days proceedings. ami the court room was
filed with spectators. the bulk of whom
were miners. The most important wit
nesses today were Bailiff Perry Stump, of
Homecoming, and Attorney r. A. L. Dick,
Of Cumberland, who addressed the anti
strike meeting on the night of the alleged
riots. Bailiff Stump testified that when
Mayor Thompson ordered him to dispense
the crowd he made several unsuccessful
attempts. tried to deDutize men. but was
unsuccessful He said Warner told him
not to disperse the crowd, and told Mayor
Thompson ''if you are looking for trouble
YOU can get all you want"
Mr.. Dick stated he delivered the anti
strike address. and that after the meet
ing he was showed, jostled, and hooted at
on his way to the hotel. At the hotel
steps he was tripped and fell. at the same
time receiving blow on the head; heard
men yell Let me get at him!" Hang
hint" etc. He regarded the crowd as
simply bowling mob
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
WALTER N. CHAMBERLAIN DEAD.
Well known as IL Newspaper Cnrre-
sDOudent and Writer.

NEW YORK, July 17.-Walter n. Cham
berlin, well known newspaper man, of
this city, died at Plainfield. n. j., this
morning after brief illness. Mr.. Cham
berlin was for many years the New York
correspondent of the Providence Jour
nal" His letters on current topics were
a prominent feature of that paper and at
trscted considerable attention.
AT different times Mr. Chamberlin rep
resented here several prominent newspa
pers Of the country with conspicuous sue
cess He did valuable work here for SUCH
papers as the philadelphia Press" Phil
adelphia Times and Cincinnati CONNER
cial- Tribune.' He was thirty-two years
old
Mr.. Chamberln's brother, E. o. Cham-
berlin, who died few years ago also, was
for many years connected with the sun"
and later with the World" Of which
paper he was for a long time managing
editor. Another brother, W. j. Chamber
lin. is row or the stan of the New York
Sun"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

(From the Dies MoineS Staatz Arzciser.)
without expansion, without cuuqucsti of dis
tant countries by force OF arms. do no; need
a standing army. which is the banc oi every coun-
inv that is compelled TO maintain one, and hence
the party that Is opposed 10 expansion and I'M
pcriaiisn deserves the support oi the people OF
tbs country That party today is the Democratic
rarty and, although objection may be made To
lis ttandard bearer, he is the safest of the can
djdstas Of tho two leading parties We who come
from countries cursed 10y standing armies recog-
,,ize in the course OF the Republican Adininistra
ton the raising OF the same dangers and evils
of militarsn and will vote to prevent Caesarism
from rearing its throne upon the free soil Of
America
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
A Msn with a Spine.
Trom the Springfield Repubiican.)

IFIUW IHI SiIIhsIIVIU KtIlUUIClH.J
1t may be inferred. at any rate, that Mr.
Bryan can stand tremendous pressure and still
stick to his convictions. II he said certain
thing to do was "our plain duty he would cat
nails in order TO get it done. The people OF the
United States these days are getting Il measure
Of Mr. B.yan's resolution and his strength Of
will, and even his enemies all around are con.
ceding them to be OF the first rider. whatever
his nnininns NAV he.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
Following the Flag,

OFrom the Chicago Chronclc.)
"Trade follows the flag" repeats the Repub
lican platform, initiating the prccept and exam
pie of 4 monarchy that has slave territories in
Asia and Africa
Trade and the Constitution follow the flag"
declare the Democratic platform and William
Jennings Bryan.
Which is the true American i. ,trinc9
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
Mr. Curtis Finds n Mares Nest.

During n brief sojourn in Nebraska Mr.. viii
liam f. Curtis discovered great many things
that have no existence and accumulated vast
amount Of information that isn't so. His discoy-
cry that iusionists have organization in nearly
every county snd that every man who can be
reached il required to sign a constitution and
a ritual and take an OATH entities him to rank
with Columbus as i great discoverer Mr. Cur
lis iniormsnt must have had great sport string
ipr tine gentleman
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
EXPLOSION IN AD1RoNDAcKs.
Two Men Killed While Blasting ut
Blue MOuntnin Like.

UTICA, July 1I.-At Blue Mountain
Lake in the Adirondacks. two men were
killed and others were badly injured this
morning in the premature explosion of a
blast The dead are: Thomas Yott, of Can
ada and John Birdseye, of Indian Lake.
William Flynn. of Palmer Falls, who is
injured. may die.
The men were on raft, assisting in
the work OF dredging the outlet of Blue
Mountain Lake, through which it is pro-
posed to float large steamboat. 1t has
been found necessary to blast away rock
in the channel
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

sheng's latest fabrication, which alleges
that the legations were safe on July Q, ap-
pears TO have made a favorable impression
at some of the Departments. If any Wash
ington official is inclined to give it the
least credenee. he should be advised that
in European Cabinets and War Offices it Is
recognized as repetition Of clumsy
yarn which has been cabled over and over
again, with frequent changes Of date, for
the past ten DAYS.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
u.,;uion uc,p. the Fish Trade.
From Ainslec's Magazine.)

Though most OF the sturdy fishermen Of New
fo,ndland are Protestants they derive the larger
mart of their living from the people of Roman
tatbolic countries. The fact that in the course
of the year there are many fast days. when mil
lions al Roman Catholics eat little animal food.
except fish has been Godsend to the greatest
fishing countries, which have thus been prov. Isd
with certain and regular markets for their fish.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
Cause OF Wharf Fires.

From the Marine Jouriial)
The cause Of wharf fires in recent years has
been largely through the ignition OF cotton. pre-
su1uabIy in most cases through the careessneSs
Of s,uokers ard the lack Of care on the part OF
vatchnsn Consequently this article of merchan-
ljse si,a1ld never he out OF the of ex-
pcricnced men Let the bale be followed with
lie keen eyes of trusted wa;ehmen from the time
If rcache, the dock until it il safely slowed away
in the ship and the wharf fires will be reduced
IN minimum,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
.Cuttrev and "scu,trc.-

4 cumulative analysis of President Nc
Kinley's formal speech of acceptance of
the Philadelphia nomination shows an in
teresting and significant result. A clever
newspaper correspondent at Canton made
the analysis and a member of the Presi-
dents official household compared 1t care
fully with the original, finding it correct.
The entire number OF words in the speech
is s.056. On the issues of the campaign
iais number of words was divided as fol-
lows:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18

The cheerful confidence of Secretary
Long that nothing particular has happened
as yet to the legation people in Pekin, sug-
gests the possibility that he is not sure
the Maine was ever blown up.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-18
rlatt and His peputy.

1t appears that the Hon. Thomas Collier
Platt has retired from the management
of the Republican organization in New
York and turned it over to the Hon B. B.
Odell. jr. Announcement is made by the
followers of Plat that this course is con-
sidered advisable in the present emergency
because of the 'unpopularity'' of Platt
Substitute the phrase suspicion in which
Piatt is held and We have an apter de-
finition of the cause which has made the
change advisable.
But in making the change we cannot see
how the Republicans hope to benefit them
selves. odell is Platt's creature. That
TACT 1t as patent as anything can be.
therefore Odell will do as he is hidden by
fiatt. Not even the most credulous New
Yorker can deny this. What, then, is the
meaning Of this programme of hypocrisy
and deception? Does the New York char
acter demand this sort of treatment?
If we mistake not the Hon. B. B. OdelI.
Jr.. has refused the nomination of his party
for Governor of New York for the reason
that his acceptance of that honorable form
"os'iN tue ueNeIODmGnt
Oh RATS purpose of making him the boss
Oh the machine. The governorship of New
YORK is position which has attracted the
ambition of the most capable and patriotic
citizens of the Empire State. Its pecuniary
compensation is small, but its rewards in
enduring fame and in that surprising
sratihcation of the high-minded citizen
OF being able TO do something of benefit to
MS community are great and worthy. So
low, however. has fallen the position in
the estimation of the men who have adopt-
ed the Hon. Chauncey NJ Depew's deflnl-
tion. made in the United States Senate on
a solemn occasion. that politics is busi-
ness and business is politics." that IL is
spuFned because its occupancy would re-
move the incumbent from the control OF
the party machine. This latter position
is not conferred by the SURFACES of the
people. 1t comes to the man who displays
the most astuteress as boss, and It's re-
wards are not those. of honorable renown.
but Of dollars and cents in hand paid for
services performed in the promotion" Of
legislation. the control of courts. and
the application OF laws to suit the selfish
purposes OF special interests.