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New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
A CROWDED PART OF THE CITY.

One of the local problems which ought to be
adjusted at an early day is the Overcrowding
in East Thirty-fOurth-st. Long Island is devel-
oping with a speed which amaZes those who OBJ
serve the immense number of houses that have
been constructed between the Sound and the
ocean within the last twelve months and the
great number now going up. The pressure on
the Thirty -fourth-St ferry and on the tracks
which converge there is increasing to an extent
which involves serious public inconvenience.
The ferry is not managed with the efficiency
and promptness suitable for a line which carries
so many passengers. More boats and faster
boats are needed. The delays sometimes seem
unreasonable. and even neXcusable. When one
considers how many miles in the streets in and
about this city can be gone over for five cents
fare, it does not appear to be unjust that the
companies charging three cents for short trips
on the water shall he required to provide a
swift service with we'll appointed boats run
ming at short intervals.
The city as a rule controls these ferry fran
chses 1t ought to exact from the companies
such arrangements as will satisfy the public
while leaving an equitable margin of profit to
the corporations on capital actually invested.
Few Of the East River ferries furnish the COM
nunity with such a return for their franchises
the people may properly demand. Most Of
them should he compelled TO do better.
With the progress of Long Island and the
impressive growth of the Borough of Manhat-
tan the congestion in East Thirty y-fourth-st is
growing steadily worse. III a short time the
slow and cumbersome hOrSecarS crawling to and
from the East River Will give place to cars
moved by electric power. but the space in the
street is insufficient for the movements of the
throngs at the ferry. The companies ought To
buy private property adjoining the street so
that their cars will have room enough for rapid
handling. This is an easy solution of the diff
Guilty, but. of course the corporations are
adverse to purchasing the real estate, which is
no doubt held at high figures, and they would
like to put on the city the burden of enlargng
the available area. But traffic is swelling so
rreSistibly in that region that the companies
ought TO be forced 10 acquire adjoining prop
crty. and in that way 10 lessen the jam No
buildings of great value have so far been con
Structed near the ferry. The land may he held
at cXorhitant sums, but certainly not at figures
approaching the valuations in the Wall-St. quar-
ter. Corporations whose gains from the Of
the streets are already vast in proportion to
their actual investments, ana whose profits are
certain 10 expand year after year, should not
ALLEVIATE and offend the people by refusing to
buy the land which is needed for the expe-
ltioUs running Of tho cars
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

Democracy relinquish the Philippines? Pirates
relinquish their spoils!
But supposing for a moment that the scutte
policy is sincerely advocated by few. it is none
the less false and evil The fallacy of it lies in
the impossible assumption that it is within the
power of a government completely 10 scuttle,
and to leave everything as it was before. That
can never be done in any mortal affair
The moving finger writes: and having writ
Moves on: nor all your piety wit
Shall lure II back to cancel half a line.
Nor all your tears wash out word Of II.
We could not if would, restore the Philip
pines to the condition they were in before we
entered them any more than we could turn
back the procession of the equinOXes. And
since we could not and cannot, what worse than
wickedness is it to say that at some point in
our intervention shall halt and SCuttle, and
leave behind us only the mischief we have
wrOuCht-fOr unfinished work is mischief! How
far we may 90 and what we may do are mat
ters tlat only the future it unfOlds can de-
termine. The tangible. fixed principle of
the present, speaking hope and high promise for
all the future. is that shall not sneak away
from the task we have undertaken, we shall
not shrk the responsibilities we have assumed,
we shall not deny the duties laid upon us.
There must he no scutte policy"
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
PERSONAL.

Ex-President and Mrs. Harrison have gone win
their daughter 10 the Adrondacks, where tney
will remain until october l.
Colonel John W Geary. the last Alcalde and the
first Mayer of San Francisco has been invited TO
take part in the semi-centennial Admission Day
celebration San Franciscos first city charter was
adopted May /. 1880, and Alcalde Geary was
election. and in 1852 left the Pacific Coast for
Pennsylvania, where he is now living
David b. Henderson. Speaker of the House of
Representatives. is spending the summer with Mrs.
Henderson in the Adrondacks. Later he will go to
Paris to visit the EXPOSITION.
DIR. Carl X. swenson, president Of Bethany Col
lege. at Lndsberg, H., has been elected president
of Augustana College, Rock Island Ill
The will of NJ AIphonse Milne Edwards bequeaths
his valuable scientific library to the Jardin des
Plantes. in Paris. the proceeds Of the sale TO in
crease the stipend of the chair of zoology, which
ried by him. He gives 20,G0O francs TO the
Geograp phfcaI Society for an annual prize TO ex-
plOTers, and 10000 francs to the Society OF the
Friends of Science.
Professor s. S. Woolwine has resigned the presi-
dency of South Kentucky College. in Hopkins
vile. and Professor a. c. Kuykendal, a professor
in the school for years, has been elected to the
vacant presidency.
White Cloud. KAN July 14.-Congressman Champ
Clark. of Missouri, is authority for the announce
ment thai he will he a candidate for the Senate to
succeed Senator Vest
Chicago. July IA dispatch from COlorad"
Springs Col. says that Captain Coghlan. L. S. N.
$ reported in the East. The who commanded
the Raleigh the battle of Manila has had slight
attack OF pneumonia, but is out of danger, and VIII
soon recover all his accustomed vlgor-
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
NO SCUTTLE POLICY"

There must be no scuttle policy" In those
half dozen words brief. terse and unmiStakabe
in purport. the President makes clear his stand
ing upon the question of the Philippines Among
all the pregnant sayings in his address there is
not one that commands wider attention. nor one
that merits it. For it comprises in epitome the
courageous answer tC what POpocracy sneak
ingly tries 10 parade as the paramount issue
in the campaign Ii is answer, too that must
appeal with irresistible force 10 every man who
has lucid convictions and the courage Of them.
10 every man who is brave enough TO do the
right as God gives him to see the right and
who despses from the depths of a manly and
upright soul those who would run away from
the responsibilities of their own acts or would
shuttle off the duties imposed upon them by the
inexorable mandate of events.
Tie scuttle policy has always been detestable
Now and then il has been advocated for party
ends by opposition party. Still more rarely
II has actually been practised. voluntarily or
under compulsioI. with invariably disastrous re-
suits Late years have seen three conspicuous
examples of it, One enacted by Gladstone
in the Transvaal. in the face of his own prot
estations of three months before that he would
never. under any conceivable circumstances do
IT, The result is before Us in the years of bick-
ering. fighting and injustice. eliminating in the
present costly and deplorable Another was
the work of the same illustrious but erratic
statesman in the Soudan and its results were
the martyrdom of Gordon. the hideous hell of
Mahdism. and finally the long and costly river
expedition prophesied by Gordon when he said
that If Gladstone did basely scuttle out the
Prirish would some day simply have to come in
again and smash the Mahdi The third differed
from these in being under compulsion. and il
was seen when Russia, France and Germany
urted 10 compel Japan TO scuttle out of China.
Of which the sequel is 10 be seen in the ruined
legations at Peking and all the unmentonable
orgies Of lust and blood.
Such a policy. as have said has now and
then been advocated by opposition party as
II is to-day in the United States. But such advo-
cacy has almost invariably been nsincere as II
is here to-day. Those who for selfish party ends
and TO put the Administration in a hole" have
clamored for a policy of scuttle would have
ragged against il still more furiously had 1t been
practised they would do in this country at
the present time. Those who have denounced
governments for not scuttling would themselves
have been the last TO scuttle had they them
selves come into power as would be the Rrvan-
ite apostles of scnttlng should they get control
of the Government of the United States Imag-
inc the firm of Bryan and Tammany deliber-
ately abandoning the Philippines and Porto
Rico with all their immeasurable opportunities
for profitable exploitation and Office holding.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
Arto91ork Dailp Gribnme
SUNDAY. JULY II. 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The situation at Tien-Tsin is sail
TO be growing worse; it is reported that the
allies will not attempt 10 do more than hold the
city for a base == No news of the torture
and death of NJ. de Giers and his wife was re-
oeived St Petersburg. == Admiral Remey.
in a dispatch dated Che-Foo. July ii. made no
mention Of the massacre Of the foreigners at
Peking- - Troops of Sir Redvers Butler are
reported TO be moving through Van Reenen's
Pass making the occupation of Harrsmith and
the isolation of De Vets force almost certain
- General Rundle's rapid advance is said
to have placed the Beers in embarrassing
position. == General rains which fell in India
improved the situation in the famine districts
DOMESTIC.-The President issued proca-
nation putting the new reciprocity arrangement
with Germany into effect. =- United states
Senator John H Gear. Of Iowa. died suddenly
in Washington. == The Navy Department re
ceived a report from Admiral Kempf. covering
operations in China up TO June -. == Much
damage was done by a heavy storm in Calves
ton. = The work Of the Students Mission
movement was set forth at The Baptist Young
Peoples Conference in Cincinnati. == The
Yankee was victorious again in the races of
the Newly Ork Yacht Club off Newport. ==
Sidney Lucas the Turf Congress handicap
at Chicago before twenty thousand people.
CITY.-Stocks were dull aud heavy. -
Winners at Brighton: Mayor GilrOy, BounteOus,
Charagrace, Motley Sweet Lavender Intrusive.
80 II was reported that Senator Platt and
Chairman Odell were inclined TO favor the nomi-
nation OF Congressman Serene f. Payne for
Governor. - a meeting of Gold Democrats
called for July Is at the Plaza Hotel to
urge the nomination of a Gold Democratic Ma
from Europe having been at the front in South
Africa, and declared that the charges against
the hospital service were substantially true.
80 Justice McAdam in the Supreme Court
granted a writ of certiOrari review the pro-
ceedings Of the Board Of Examination upon
which Major Clinton H Smith dismissed
from the National Guard. == General ". F.
Draper United States Ambassador to Italy, ar
rived in this city, and said hearing Of the re-
ported massacre in Pekng that fifty thousand
troops should be sent to China. === The Pres
lyterian Board of Foreign Missions authorized
the withdrawal Of its missionaries from China.
THE WEATHER-Forecas for to-day: Part
~ cloudy. The temperature yesterday: Highest
- degrees; lowest, IS; average, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

But it is not to be doubted that this city is far
behind the times as is shown by comparisons
made with the arrangements in the great ports
Of Europe. Conditions here have been some
what difficult TO deal with, but the works
are nothing beside the great docks of Europe.
The debt of this city is so heavy already that
any eXtravagant scheme of improvements
should be discouraged, but it seems about time
to approach the problem with the idea of grad
ually evolving a more credtable system of iron,
stone or concrete piers. The provision made at
this port for commerce is not nearly adequate
to its volume nor to the Importance to the COM
munity of encouraging instead of discourag
ing il.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

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New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
Undated DISPATCHES.

Several weeks ago. when the situation in
China was much less grave than it now is. we
veutured to say that official dispatches received
not only at Washington but at European cap
italS in many so unntelli@ible as 10
reflect not a little diScrcdit on those who sent
them. If there has been an improvement in this
respect since things went from bad to perhaps
the worst conceivable it has not been marked
and uniform. \ common and great defect in
the dispatches given ont at Washington and
elsewhere is the lack of a date. Being undated,
they often fail completely to serve their in
tended purpose and their only effect is to cause
perpleXity and intensity the anxiety which they
were expected to relieve, or at least remove.
Under the conditions prevailing in the neighhor-
hood of Peking the date which dispatch is
sent is likely to be the measure of its value.
and because of those conditions II may he ut
terIy impossible to determine when il was sent
by analysis and comparison.
Is il impracticabe for our own and Euro
pean Governments to require their representa-
tives and correspondents everywhere who have
information to send to tell when it is sent, and
TO secure in every case the transmission Of the
date? 1t certainly seems as if the authority and
resources of the nations of Christendom might
accomplish that urgent necessity.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

else is unconstitutional. Too long have We
been blinded TO the awful consequences of let
ting Mckinley command an army to enSlave Us
Now in the martial law of far Cape Nome
where authority exists to oppose militarism
we see the Matching of the tyrants fell brood
As Mr.. Garrison says:
When the music and the glamour cease,
Returning reason dssipates the spell,
And captive senses find a quick release.
SilenCed the siren song of All is wel"'
The fanCied picture OF a reign of peace
Fading, reveals the warning strife of hell
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

tons. It will be heard from in November by
Bryan and the anti-imperialists showing them
the new political ideas which. with the birth
of prosperity and a revised industrial o.
der, are beginning to prevail there.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

The last week has given us some trying
weather. and some of which could stand
great deal.
Despair may replace hope in regard to the
situation at Picking. But despair should not give
way TO frenzy. In the presence of the most
awful calamity there is greatest need of calm
ness Of Judgment and of precision of action
City officials. squirting Ramapoward. continue
to talk of the danger OF a water famine and of
the impossibiIity of relief without seeking new
sources Of supply. But there is never a word
or movement toward stopping the absolute
waste of more than half of ,he water that now
comes to the Central Park reservoirs. All Ram
apo Itself would not suffice fill a sieve like
the present system of water mains and pipes
in this city.
News Of heavy rains in India is welcome At
the same time. there should he no falling off in
contributions to the famine fund. the need for
which will continue urgent for some time to
come
Mr.. Wa Ting Fang is criticised for talking too
much and for using undiplomatic language. But
he talks only when he is asked to do SO. In his
very trying position ne is somewhat unduly
badgered with questions. most of them as inept
and futile as n dogs haying at the moon. With
fewer questions there would be fewer answers
and less talk
The leaders of the Citizens Union have some
times justified some of the aspersons of their
enemies, but nobody in his senses believes that
they are fools enough to try to turn a purely
municipal organization into a movement to run
a third National ticket. Mr.. Platt and Mr.
Croker could afford to pay for such a movement
IN perfect confidence that it would not affect
the National tickets either way but would re-
move the Citizens Union from the path toward
city supremacy
Between June 13 and 90 fourteen thousand
people were set down on the beach at Cam,
Nome, most Of them without tents with M
lumber at hand to build shelter and each one
obliged to keep strict watch over his belongings
to prevent them from being stolen RouphIv
stated. the prospects that not five in a hun
dred of the adventures will bring away as
much value they took there. The warm sea
son lasts only till October. and with the return
of winter the three miles of tents and houses
are likely he almost deserted. There is gold
there but it is not to he picked up like shincle
on the beach, and the climatic and other condi-
tions prevailing there render it perhaps the
most rugged and unpropitious gold field ever
exploited since the days of Hiram of Tyre and
Solomon.
The New South in some parts is Industrial
manufacturing and commercial and has taken
leave of the stupid old time ideas which are still
rooted in other parts, blossomng in PopuIism
and other obscene foliations with such noyfous
blue bened flesh flies as Tllman buzztng
about them. From Virginia to Texas there is
an industrial line rapidly developing and with
II a growing sentiment in favor of expansion a.
canal and an Oriental market for their produc-
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
Fr5lucss Nouoes

Carl II. SChultZ's CarbOnated Waters combine
highest efervesoence and agreeable taste with
ABSOLUTE PURITY AND CORRECT COMPOSITION.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

Despair may replace hope in regard to the
situation at Picking But despair should not give
way to frenzy. In the presence Of the most
awful calamity there is greatest need of calm
ness Of Judgment and of precision of action
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

The last week has given us some trying
weather. and some of which we could stand a
great deal
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

News Of heavy rains in India Is welcome At
the same time. there should he no falling off in
contributions to the famine fund, the need for
which will continue urgent for time to
come.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

James De Wolfe Cutting. who is this wee
guest of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish at Newport 80
20 in training for his Ions swim 20 NdIIas1-s
Pier. This project eXcises much interest," ~ d.
the younger set Mr.. Cutting was cHe Ms
party which accompanied Mrs tlsh a'y- yv-ssf
Pomeroy their jaunt through the
few weeks ago.
Dinners will be given in series at Ne"pO-s,r
season and each hostess has taken ~
evening OF the week There will OF cou's an
dozen or more of these DINERS each eVeHlHs -.
on some occasions 'he hOstesssS VIII I'm M
hold 2 dinner dance at the home OF o"V .,,sri
other the rest bringing their guests MS, uH
ii. PaECt will entertain on FRIDAYS anu 1-.rrEl
Mrs. E,iSho Dyer. jr Mrs George HensS E,sh el
viii also have FRIDAYS, Airs StuyvesaH5t y
have Saturdays Mrs. Cornelius Nan91i nL Tngr0grss
Will entertain nearly every day durnS 'Le - as g
of the races. Mrs, Ogden Goelet mas a., ~ rot 81
given entertainments, as her son iSSrsnjeroAs
ciently recovered. Mrs. Cornelius
New-York tribune., 1900-07-15

Otherwise Newport has given itself I'D i, t..,
cons and dinners and bridge The Yacht r."-'
under the auspices Of the New-Yorz Yacb, o.
engaged the attention To the exclusion of .1 -
everything else There were some original erts.
taiumeuts notably the dicner given by Nr -
Mrs. Elisha Dyer, il, at the clambake auar,a--
and the moonlight drive ~ which Mr. and NJ :
Cinch Smith. who comparatively new 10 ~
port were host and hostess Friday event.
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. jr.. Mrs Stuvvessss.
Fish. Mrs LoriaGrG spencer. Mrs. Almerie ID
PaEet Mrs Gelrc- Henry Warren and Mrs a. =
A Swan have been among those who have enTs-
tained i'm the week Many Of the dinners were givs.
n the piazzaS Of the houses. enclosed for the 60
sion. This is one Of The faGS Of the season ~
very acceptable in summer
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-17
RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY
Concerning Cuban Postal Frauds III
troiuced by Mr.. Hay.

WASHINGTON, May 16--Representatlve
HAY, of Virginia. to-day introduced in the
House the following resolution:
whereas, it is stated that E. G. Ratil-
bone. director of posts in Cuba, made
report to the ostmaster-General on April
%, 1900. in walch he stated that the postal
accounts of postal officials in CUBA were
correst; and.
Whereas, it is stated in the public prints
that the postal inspectors of the Cuban
postal service had not made any inspection
or reports up to taat date;
Resolved by the House Of Represepta-
tives. That the Postmaster-Cieneral be re
ouested to inform the House whether 4.
G. Ratnbone did on April %, 1900, or there
abouts, make such a report and what satd
report contained: and to further inform the
House whether sucl report purported TO
be based upon reports made to said E g.
Rathbone by postal inspectors in Cuoas
and whether the Postmaster-General mas
any information as to whether SAID poS'ai
inspectors in Cuba ever made such reports
to E G Ratnbone.'
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-17
OCCUPIED GLENCOE.
Boers Flying Precipitately Before
Cen HulIer,s f>iyunce

LONDON, May 16.-The most important
development in to-day's war news is the
statement cabled from Cape Town, an
nouncing that the Boer delegates had gu-
vised the Transvaalers to surrender, if
defeated at the Vaal.
This remarkable announcement is
vouched for on good authority and evident
ly obtains more credence in Cape Town
than would mere rumor.
The occupation of Glencoe was merely
logical sequel of General Buffers advance
and the Beers retiring movement AS
usual, the Beers are reported to be flying
percipitately, but also, as usual, the ac-
counts add that their transport and guns
were removed in safety, which In itsslf
is a contradiction of any statement that
the Beers were panic-stricken.
1:35 A. M.-Ttle War Ottice has posted
the following dispatch from General Bull
Ter, dated Dundee, May 18th: We oc-
cupied Glencoe yesterday. The Trans
vaalers have now evacuated Biggarsberg.
The Free Staters en- the Drakensberg are
much reduced in numbers. The Carolina,
Lydenberg. and Pretoria commanders,
rrekked north from Hlatigulu on the 18th
and 18th Of May. Eleven guns were en-
trained at Glencoe. The last train with
ambulance, left there at dawn May 18th.
This result has been largely produced
by the action of the Fifth Division. which
during the last few days, had done =
great deal of very hard work, rlarching,
mountain climbing and road-naking.
Trains are now running to Vessels Mex
Station.