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New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
DIR. MCCONNELL NoN-coMM1TrAL.

San Francisco. Oct II (SpeciaD.-The Rev. DR..
Mcconnell. rector OF Trinity Church. Brooklyn.
when asked to-day for expression Of his at
titude in the New-York mayoralty contest. re-
fused to discuss the matter. Il am too far
away" he said, "and have been away for
some time. I cannot say anything until I get
back. Both Or. Low and Mr.. Shepard are close
friends OF mine. Mr.. Shepard is a member Of
my church. and Or. Low is very old and dear
friend. I must decline TO say anything at this
time about the candidacy"
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
c. U. REVIEWS CALL FOR MONEY.
DIR. GOULD SAYS FUNDS ARE NEEDED 10 CARRY


DIR. GOULD SAYS FUNDS ARE NEEDED TO CARRY
COUNTY TICKET.
An appeal has gone out from the Citizens Union
for more money. 1t sent out last week by the
finance committee, Of which Isaac Selignan is the
chairman and because of the lack of response was
renewed yesterday. One hundred thousand dollars
is needed. according to DR.. e. r. l.. Gould treas
urer of the Citizens Union. and the money is want
ed Uithou: delay In speaking of the organization 5
financial situation DR.. Gould said yesterday
The Citizens Union is making particular effort
IN hep out local organizations, as they are clamor
ing for money But we have to tell the local lead
ers that we cannot do anything for them just now.
II is such pity We cannot get funds. Never be
fore have we had such chance to win the fight
and we can win If we have the money.
THE people TO think that because this Is n
fusion campaign against Tammany II is an easy
one financially That is woful error, because
This one thing is fact-the results of fusion will
cannot make the proper fight for this ticket without
II Croker carries the county ticket he will still
coIlect and control the great fund extorted by no
ATTORNEY and then what viii be able 10 do?
we want the Board of Aldermen, OF course, be-
cause under the provisions of the charter that
hodv has the custody of public property. the grant
Ing of public franchises and other immense pow
ers we cannot fight for offices in this body with
oit money In q word, shall be helpless unless
we win the county ticket.
workings OF the campaign. said:
am not worrying about the shortage OF funds
am certain that the people viii rally. and that ali
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
REWARD FOR GROVE WITHDRAWN.

Omaha Oct 14-Edward A Cudahy to-day with
drew the reward of $4,000 which he offered ten
months ago for the arrest of the abductors OF his
SON. The reward IS withdrawn Internationally and
the notice will be printed IN the newspapers. At
the suggestion OF Mr. Cudahy and at the request Of
Chief of Police Donahue. the City Council will take
up the matter tomorrow night at It's regular meet
ing and II is expected Will withdraw Its offer OF
$4,000 for the arrest Of the kidnappers-
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
JACOB A RIIs SAYS THEY HAVE CALLED TO VAN
WICK IN VAIN
WICK IN VAIN.

Under the auspices OF the Mems League OF the
Broadway Tabernacle. Jacob A. Riis last night
spoke on 1.-THE Moral Issues in This Campaign. .'
He said in part
Municipal politics has long enough been so dis
honest that man with clean hands has been
willing mix in II. Part of business in this
campaign, and one of the moral issues involved is
10 make politics such that young man can engage
in 1t and still remain decent From jefferson who
said that the true art of government was to be
honest have got to Richard Croker. who says
that the art of governing consists of how TO work
for ones pocket all the time.
Mr. Riis devoted most of his speech to the tene-
rnent house question. After telling of the work Of
the Tenement House Commission and the new
Tenement House law. he said that out Of 3s3
new tenement houses, inspection had proved that
the law had been complied with in only fifteen.
conditions in the East Side tenements" he con-
tinued las Bishop Potter said In his letter to
Mayor Van Wyck. crying to heaven for venge-
ance They are calling TO all honest citizens for
redress To the Mayor and TO the present admin
stra tion they have called in vain Shall they an
neal in vain 10 you and me Election Day? It
ali lies with you and me. Therefore. when the cleo
tion comes, vote for decency and honesty and for
the East Side children in the name Of God"
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
MORE SPEAKERS THAN PLACES.
VOLUNTEERS BEsIEGE REPUBLICAN COUNTY
HEADQUARTERs-MAN EX-TAMMANY-
TIES AMONG THEM.

The speakers bureau at the headquarters Of the
Republican County Committee IS daily besieged by
numbers OF volunteers who want take the
stump against Tammany Hall. Among the appIi-
cants college graduates with the ribbon just
united from their "sheepskns." Then there are
men further along in life. members OF the bar and
citizens who have endured the misrue OF Tammany
Hall in silence for years. but who see an
opportunity to rise up against it and bring about
it's overthrow.
Many from the rank and file OF Tammany
itself. A representative OF this class is William j.
McGirr, the contractor, who says he a victim
OF the Dock Board. His contracts. he declares
were taken away from him and given to the
called Dirt Trust Mr. McGirr has taken the
stump. and will make his first speech tonight at
the downtown headquarters OF the Republican
club No. PA Bowery.
our list OF speakers IS filed. and the men
primed 10 begin whrlwInd campaign this
week. said Frank T.. Bowers. chairman Of the
Republican speakers bureau, yesterday. Il have
been astoIishcd because of the great number who
have volunteered We have more volunteers than
last year. the Presidential year. Many these ara
men of prominence in the city and I'm the State
who last year stumped many States for
Of their time this year to this local campaign
have been Obliged TO refuse many offers of this
kind. There Is not opening for any moro
volunteer speakers. In this long list OF speakers
we have the names of forty Democrats. every ono
Of whom was formerly a Tammany man. To
distinguish them ] write the word Democrat after
each of their names with great deal of pleasure"
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15

the money that is needed will be forthcoming We
do not want to waste any. but we want to use all
that will bring the right results. The vast sums
which Tammany is eXpending on its campaign
make it necessary for its enemies to open their
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
MRS. #. Y. POWDERLY DEAD

Washington, Oct. H-Mrs Hannah Powdery.
wife of Terence " Powderly. Commissioner Gen
eral of immigration. and formerly general master
workman of the Knights of Labor. died her
home here last evening.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15

IRISH-AMERICAN LEAGUE 1NDORSES LOW
Resolutions indorsing the candidacy OF Seth Low
for Mayor were adopted enthusiastically yesterday
at a meeting OF the Irish-American eGgue In the
Clarendon Hotel. Fourth-ave, and Elghteenth-sL
lanes Shea and others spoke IN favor or Mr. Low
candidacy and predicted a large majority ter Aim
The league viii do all II can 20 help IN the Low
campaign
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
COMMITTEE REPORT ON VAN WICK

The Bar Association is TO hold special meeting
this evening 'to hear the report of the committee
judicial nominations regarding the candidates
nominated for judicial Offices be filled at the
coming election. and to take such further action
may he proper
Tammany members of the Bar Association were
interested yesterday In report that the commit
tee on judicial nominations would present a report
rejecting upon Mayor Van Wyck as a candidate
for Justice of the Supreme Court and referring to
some of the scandals of his administration If
such a report is made there viii he Tammany law
yers at the meeting to oppose its confirmation by
the association. A member Of the committee said
yesterday that the attention of the committee had
been called to Mayor Van WyckS administration
but the report had not been completed He ex-
pressed belief that the report would give praise to
the candidates for the Supreme Court who deserved
II and not neglect to condemn actions of any can
didate who deserved blame
The members of the committee judicial nomi-
nations are William T.. Curtis James Byrne John
l. Cadwalader William G. Choate. William
Cohen, Henry w Hayden. Paul H. Cravath. Robert
w. De Forest, Colonel Robert Grier Monroe and
T. n. Rhinelander.
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
ROBERT STEWART OUT FOR LOW.
BE SAYS THAT SHEPARD. IF ELECTED WOULD
BE HELPLESS FIGUREHEAD.

BE HELPLESS FIGUREHEAD.
Robert Stewart lawyer. who was in 1894 treas
rrer Of the Kings County Democratic General
Committee. and who. delegate 10 the conven-
tion Of 1885, worked for the nomination OF Edward
NJ Grout for Mayor. has announced his intention
OF supporting Seth Low and the other fusion can
dfdates.
II believe he says that Mr.. Shepard. II elect
ed. would be helpless hgurehead, controlled or
bound down by the influence OF the present Tam
many Hall management Mr.. Low promises the
people the removal OF Murphy and Devery. Mr.
Shepard, II understand the meaning of his lam
guage says in substance that he would not
force all the laws upon the books ! should
like TO ask him II he will enforce the laws again
poolrooms and gambling and the policy shops.
Another Democrat who has for Low is
Dr. Harry Eaton, former delegate the Kings
County Democratic General Committee.
Il am for the fusion ticket" he said. when
ability experience. integrity and spotless private
character presented TO the citizens the per-
sons OF candidates such Seth Low, Edward NJ
Grout. Jacob A. Cantor J. Edward Swanstrom and
the other fusion candidates. then IL is high time
for self-respecting Democrats TO turn from an or
ganization that year after year serves up subser-
Went hacks, taken out OF political cold storage, and
this year, In spite OF the manifest temper OF the
people, purposes following the same old plan
New-York tribune., 1901-10-15
SAYS CROKER'S POWER IS WANING
THE Boss's BIoGRAPHER SEES THE SULLIVAN
STAR IN TIE ASCENDANT.


STAR IN THE ASCENDANT
Interest was expressed by some politicians Of the
city yesterday in article IN The North Ameri-
can of Philadelphia. from the pen Of Alfred Henry
Lewis. the bIographer OF Richard Croker" in
tended to show that Mr.. Croker has been losing
power in Tammany Hall and that State Senator
Dry Dollar Sullivan. Devery's friend. has been
coming 10 the front power In the organization.
AS to the manner in which Mr. Croker was in
duced to consent TO the nomination Of Edward NJ.
Shepard for Mayor. to head off the plan to force
Mr.. Coler's nomination. Mr. Lewis says:
Mr.. Croker. as prize boxers would say, side
stepped" and, abandoning Mr.. Nixon. himself
ard This took from Mr.. Coler two-thirds of his
Brooklyn strength. which, supporting him only
from motives of local pride. as between him and
Mr.. Shepard preferred the latter, and made haste
to follow his With Mr.. Shepard his man.
Mr.. Croker regained his mastery of the situa-
ton TO the extent at least of naming the candi-
date for Mayor.
The Hon. Tim and his folk. abandoned by the
Brooklyn men. gave up that element Of their war
against Mr.. Croker and Mr.. Coler wasn't even
mentioned, by the galleries in the convention.
And yet the Hon. Tim and his coplotters still
held the high ground. They could defeat Mr.. Shep-
ard at the polls. This they threatened. and still
their ally, Mr. Carroll, has been forced to allow
them 10 name the entire county and borough tick
cts. They even refused TO permit Mr. Croker 10
name his nearest adherent. Mr.. John Whalen. for
a Supreme tudgeship The once great leader
couldn't control much that single place. and
driven to yield.
Tim and Mr.. Carroll, with their followers, are
dominant in Tammany Hall. Mr., Croker's leader
strong for him 10 cope withal: This means that
Deveryism and the corrupt police ring is 10 pre-
vail should Mr.. Shepard succeed The three mill
ions year of blackmail on vice and crime is to go
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
COn%eraion Through Pork.

An old Cambridge friend of mine who
had a good deal of the wisdom of the
serpent insbim had a farmer in his par
ish in Norfolk whom he could not get
to church. Whenever he pressed UPON
him his neglect or his bad example De
was always met with the same excuse,
"You be 400 young and do not know
enough to teach such as l." At last he
gave up the farmer in despair. But
one day he happened to pass by the
farm while his parishioRer wds en-
gagged in killing a fine pig. My friend
said: "WbaI pig! Why. he weighs "a
stoneP what dOst thou know of
pigs" replied the farmer. 81 only. wish
he weighed as much" When they next
met the farmer. to his surprise, told
my friend that the pig had been found
TO weight just 81 stone. He added.
much to my friends qualification. And
thou wilt see me at church next Sun
day, parson. ."-Manchester Guardian.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06

An old farmer for many years got hi
dinner ou market days at a small bote
kept by a widow.
She hhd long suspected that be ate
more than the price lis. Cd warranted
SO she determined to test him. She ac
cOrdlngLS arranged matters so that
there WIS no room for him at table, bu,
she tooR him into a private room the
table OF (which was graced by a steam.
Ing leg Of mutton He set to in good
earnest. and soon nothing was left but
the bones
HighlHdelighted with bis cheap feed.
on pasSifg the bar be rendered z shil-
llngs tOrshis dinner and quart of ale.
The VIZ low declined TO take any pay
ment OE&the ground Of having incon-
Veniencee MIN so much.
Chucklpg to himself. the farmer lift
co dOWDs his market basket from a
nook, ane finding it rather light, he
tore on tie covering and shouted:
Here, khrS Brown, where's my leg
O. mutto1k'
"Why, sc old silly" said the widow.
'ye nave Rte your leg for your dinnerP'
answers.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
The Professors WOOfnC.

The experience known as ''popping
the question is the bugbear of every
man, however confident of his charms
or fluent Of speech. Many original
ways Of asking young women to marry
them have been reSOrted to by bashful
men, but perhaps the most brilliant
suggestion came to a learned German
professor. who. having remained a
bachelor till middle life, at last tumbled
head over ears in love with a little
daxen haired maiden many years his
Junior.
One day, after vainly endeavoring to
screw his courage to the sticking point,
the learned man came upon his Gretch-
en- as she sat alone, darning a stocking.
with huge pile Of the family hosiery
on the table. The. professor aimlessly
talked on general topics, wondering
how he could lead up to the subject
nearest his heart. when all at once a
happy thought came to him.
Leaning forward. he put his big hand
on the little fist doubled up inside the
stocking and said hesitatingly:
"YOu darn very beautifully. fraulein.
Would you like to darn my stockings
only?"
Fortunately the fraulein was not so
simple as she appeared. She grasped
the significance of the question imme-
diately and lost no time in answering.
"Yes."-Youth's Companion.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
In 1870 Pennsylvania had a colored
population of 1924.

In 1870 Pennsylvania had a colored
population of 1O.274.
Why Buchanan N~ver Married.
Mr.. Buchanan. who was the first
bachelor elected to the presidency, was
, I'd years of age when elected and had
deliberately given himself to a life of
cellbacy," writes William Perrine in
The Ladies' Home Journal.
I'm the days when he was a young
lawyer Of Lancaster. Pa, he had loved
Miss Coleman, a beautiful daughter of
a citizen Of that town. They had been
engaged to be married, when one day
he was surprised to receive from iler a
request to release her from the prom
Use. According to Mr.. George Tick
nor Curtis. the separation originated in
misunderstanding on the part of the
lady, who was unusually sensitive,
over some small matter exaggerated by
giddy and indiscreet tongues. Soon
after the estrangement she was sent
to Philadelphia and there died sud.
denly.
SAC 4COI VI Ills HE, IOE
nearly half a century, Mr.. Buchanan
Is not known to have revealed to any,
body the circumstances of this ro-
mantle tragedy. He would only say
that it had changed his hopes and
plans and had led him more deeply
than ever into politics as a distraction
from his grief. In his old age, long
after he had retired permanently to
private life, he called attention to a
package containing, he said, the pa
pers and relics which would explain
the causes of his youthful sorrow and
which he preserved evidently with the
idea Of revealing them before his
death. But when he died and his will
was read it was found that he had di-
rected that the nackage should be
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
Fish and the Alphabet.


Perhaps the funniest thing to be told
respecting the antiquity of fishing re-
lates to the holy wars which were
Waged in ancient Egypt over the finny
denizens Of the water, the conflicts
arising from the circumstance that, as
often happened, one tribe would insist
with the utmost irreverence upon eat
Ing up the fishes which the inhabitants
Of an adjoining territory held in divine
alteration.
The child Of today. in learning his al.
phabet, calls the letters by their names
simply because the ancient Phenicians
were pleased to make similar figures
the symbols Of certain sounds. and It is
thought very likely that the Phpni-
clans have been driven to invent that
alphabet by the necessity Of CORE
spending with peoples of various
tongues incidentally to the great COM
merce which grew out of the fishery.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
Testing the SchOOImn.,.r.

In the town records of the CITY of
Boston tnere is a CURIOUS passage
Which records how a schoolmaster was
examined and what happened. The
manner in which the visit of inspection
Is recorded makes one incline TO tho
view that the unlucky schoolmaster
may not have had fair play, although
II he was really inefficient he NAV be
said to have been judged by his peers.
In the record for the 22d of Nav.
1G22, it is set forth that:
Coll Pen Townsend. jeremiah AL
len Esqr. & John Edwards together
with the Select men, Vissitted the
Wrlghting School at the Southerly End
OF Boston on Thursday the 24th anil
l722. and Examined the Scholars un-
DER mr. Ames Anglers tuition as to their
proficiency in Reading writing Scy-
pherlng & the masters ability of teach
ing d Instructing youth his rules G.
methods therefore And are of ODinion
That 1t will be no Service to the Town
to Continue. mr. anger in that Employ"
WhereupOn it was voted that the
said Mr.. Ames Anger should not con-
tnue master Of the said South
school,"
1t Is true that nothing is said of the
methods Of spelling inculcated at the
Wrighting School," and 1t is also DOS.
sible that a clerk rather than the COM
mlttee was responsible for the errors
Of the record, but there is certainly
something absurd in the passage as it
stands.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
Such Stun nu Dream, Are Mad. q,

Sucn stun ns Dreams Are Made OF.
The materials of dreams NAV he
enumerated as memories Of waking sen.
Satlons. memories Of waking thoughts
and new sensations received in sleep.
whether from without or within. DR..
Gregory mentions of himself that hav.
Ing on one occasion gone to bed with q
bottle Of hot water at his feet he
dreamed Of walking up the crater of
Mount Etna and feeling the ground
warm under him. He had at an early
period Of bis life visited Mount Vesu-
Vius and actually felt a strong sensa-
ton of warmth in his feet when walk.
Ing up the side of the crater, and he
mad more recently read Brydone's de-
scriptiOn Of Mount Etna.
On another occasion, having thrown;
of the bedcIOthes in his sleep. he
dreamed Of spending a winter at Hud-ll
sons bay and of suffering distress from
the intense frost He had been read.
ing few days before a very particu-
lar account of the state Of the colonies
during winter.-CasseI's Magazine.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
Prompt Juaffce


In the History of Beverly" Moss
tne following anecdote is related Of .
good justice Of the peace in the old colo
NAL times. On cold night in winter
traveller called at his house for lodg.
ing. The ready hospitality of the ius.
tice was about being displayed, when
the traveller unluckily uttered a word
winch his host considered profane.
upon this he informed his guest that
ne was magistrate. pointed out the
nature Of the offense and explained the
necessity of its being expiated by sit
ting an hour in the stocks.
Remonstrance was unavailing, for
custom at that time allowed the magis-
trate to convict and punish at once. and
In this case he acted as accuser, wit
ness, jury, judge and sheriff, all in one
Cold as it was our worthy Justice,
aided by his son. conducted the travel
er to the place Of punishment. an omen
place near the meeting house where
the stocks were placed. Here the trav
eler was confined in the usual manner.
the benevolent executor of the law re-
naming with him to beguile the time
OF its tedium by edifying conversa-
tion.
AT the expiration of the hour he was
reconducted to the house and hOspita-
bly, entertained till the next morning.
when the traveller departed with, let us
hope, a determination to consider his
words more carefully before giving
them utterance in the bearing of coz
scientious magistrate.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06

The Canadian northwest is a proba-
tionary haven for wealthy young Eng
glishmen Of nOmadic instincts. Num-
bers Of them annually purchase hunt
ing and camping outfits from the Hud-
son Bay company and strike into the
barren lands to prospect for minerals
or take up land on the prairies. But
most often they return to the civiliza-
ton Of the towns with nothing but
hard words for the wilderness.
The construction Of the Temiscaming
railroad induced the younger son of
one wealthy English family to take a
trip into that Outlandish district. He
returned to Ottawa a disappointed
man. Its the most desolate country
you can imagine" be said to his
friends. 81 have been out prospecting
sometimes for a whole day without
seeing sign Of animal life. Once the
only living thing / came across was a
bird, and it was so disgusted that it
was trying to knock its brains out
against tree.''
He had seen wOOdpecker.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-06-06
Why Girls Cannot Throw.

A great deal Of fun is poked at girls
because they cannot throw a stone or a
SNOWFALL and hit the person or thing
they are aiming at. The general idea
as to why girls cannot throw as well as
boys is that they have not acquired the
knack by practice as their brothers
have. Another explanation is given by
9 medical man which tends to show
that girls could never learn the knack.
however much they tried.
When a boy throws a stone, he
crooks his elbow and reaches back
with his forearm. and in the act of
throwing he works every joint from
shoulder to wrist. The girl throws
with her whole arm rigid, whereas the
boys arm is relaxed.
The reason of this difference is one
OF anatomy. The feminine collar bone
is longer and is set lower than in the