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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
LAND FOR A CoALING STATION
Intentions of Germany Regarding
the Island of Nnrearffa

There is apparently much truth in tho
report that German subjects have been
buying up land on the Island of Mar
garita. which is owned by Venezuela. wit :.
a view TO letting it be used By the Ger
man Government as coaiing station
report on the subject received at ths
Navy Department shows that German
warship paid visit 10 the island last year
and made extensive surveys and that
Germans have been purchasing land ly-
ing on magnificent Iand-loeked harbor,
said to be an ideal site for a naval coal
ing station.
Some examination Of this harbor has
been made for the Navy Department and
it is pronounced to be the best in South
America for naval purposes It's impor-
lance lies in the fact that it controls the
eastern approach to the Panama Canal
Some fear is expressed here that, IN view
of the feeling in Venezuela toward the
United States, the Venezuelan Government
may permit Germany TO use the island as
a coaling station. The Monroe Doctrine
has never been applied to the requirement
of sites for coaling depots on this c'nti-
nent by foreign nations. but the r.
of Germany's alleged intentions
cause that question to be given con 49,
Grafton. Margarita is ten hours sail
from La Guayra.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
FOR BINDING THE MAILS.
Cotton Cord TO BE Substituted for
Jute in the Near Future.

Investigations are being made by Post
Office Department officials looking to the
substitution of American cotton cord for
the imported jute binding Irvine now used.
The annual expenditures for jute Irvine
are something over $l65, 600. Several years
ago practically the same quantity of cord
cost the department only 100000. but the
price has risen 10 such an extent as to
increase the expenditures over 80 per cent
AS the output is in the hands of a trust
the Postoffice officials are powerless.
1t happens that many complaints have
been made recently against the use of the
iute product, which is said to tear
easily, to shed Il fine fuzz, which the
postal clerks breath when binding up the
mails. and to be generally unclean. Cot
ton cord is practically free from all these
objections. Heretofore the latter has been
beyond reach because of its cost, but as
ii is now cnO more expensive than Jute
the department will probably use Amer
iCan-made. clean cotton cord, instead of
imported tute Irvine.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE VOLUNTEERS HOMECOMING
"A Schedule of the Transport Service
Received by Mr.. Root.

General Bird. of the Army Transport
Service, yesterday received despatch
from Colonel Miller. Chief Quartermaster
at Manila, giving a programme for the
departure of transports, with the ten
volunteer infantry regiments in the Phil
ippines.
The despatch says that the Hancock,
Buford and Pennsylvania will sail on
May 10, with the Thirty-first. Forty
first, and Fortieth Regiments, respective
~.
Ten days later the Logan and Kilpat-
rick. with the Thirty-eighth, Forty-third
and Forty-fourth Regiments, and the In
diana, with the Forty-second. will sail
The Grant and Ohio win sail May %.
with the Forty-eighth, Forty-niuth, and
Forty-seventh Regiments.
Colonel Miller says that these are ap-
proximate, but General Bird says that he
has no doubt the last regiment will ar
rive in San Francisco in time to be mus
tered out before July l, in accordance with
the law.
The Grant and Ohio are very fast YES
sells, and are expected to make the trip
from Manila 10 this country in twenty-siN
DAYS
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Losing sight of n Principle.

(trom the Philadelphia Ilmes)
The Monroe Doctrine is not a settled principle
Of international Jlaw; il is rather a law Of
courtesy. 1t has been generally acquiesced in
tacity by European Governments in recognition
of the preponderating interest Of the United States
in the Western Hemisphere. We have not had to
enforce it, except automatically, and it is not
certain that we could. But every Administration
before Mckinley has maintained il and caused 1t
10 be respected.
When the Mckinley Administration abandoned
the principle on which il was based il abandoned
the doctrine itself Germany has clear a right
TO acquire naval station off the coast OF south
America as the United States TO establish sta
lions off the coast Of Asia. We have surrendered
the ground upon which could ask or expect
her to keep away from our sphere OF influence
II is in this way that Mckinleys colonial
policy has created a very real danger at
home While it may not be Immediately HARM
full it certainly is not desirable that Germany or
any similar power should obtain footing in
the Western Hemisphere. But have longer
any moral ground on which TO object, and if
we undertake 20 keep her of by force we may
find The task embarrassing and difficult. This is
what comes OF dsregardng American principles.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
AUTOGRAPHS DISPOSED OF.
Letters of the Booths sold Mt the
French Auction.

BOSTON, May 2.-Autographs. literary
and dramatic, constituted the second part
of the sale Of the library of the late
Frederick W. French today.
A rarity sold was the poster published
by the War Department April 20, 1865. of
ferng a reward of $4,000 for the zap
prehension of the murderer of the late be
loved President Lincoln" The best the
auctioneer could secure was $50, and it
went to a collector at that price.
The letters of the Booths brought vary
ing prices. One of John Wilkes Booth $
was sold for $12 and another for $ll. The
letters OF Edwin Booth brought prices
from $L25 TO S.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
MAIL IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Letters for Other Points Missent to
the InsuIar PostOfice.

The Director General of Posts of the
Philippine Islands, in communication
received at the Postoffice Department,
calls attention to the fact that mail
for the Province of Quebec (P. a. is
missent to the Philippines (P. u. Also
that mail for ManvilIe, r. l. is missent
to Manila.
James f. White. Superintendent OF the
Railway Mail Service. has notified post
masters and postal clerks making up
packages of mail for Manila or the Phil
ippine Islands to take notice and govern
themselves so as to prevent the mtssend-
ing of this mail matter in the future
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.
The Paris Report Considered Au-
fhentic at the State Department.

The State Department places the fullest
confidence in the report from Paris that
the foreign negotiators at Pekin have
agreed that the Chinese Government shall
not pay more than s27S. 900 900 as indemni-
ty. While this is little larger than the
sum fixed by the United States. it is as
sumed that Mr.. Rockhill, the United
States Commissioner. will be satisfied.
The Paris report that the United States
and British representatives declined to
agree TO an increase in the Chinese Gus
toms duties to provide means for paying
the indemnity, may be true. although it
was said here yesterday in official circles
that this Government might agree to an
increase in duties if the likin, or provincial
and municipal taxes on imports, were
abolished
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
INCREASE IN CIRCULATION.
Showing Based on Treasury
Statement for May 1.

The general stock of money in the Unit
ed States on May 1, according TO state
ment prepared at the Treasury Depart
ment. was g, 49,, 524, $50, of which S2SS 300, =
415 was held in the United States Treas
ury as assets of the Government. Based
on an estimated population of 1856, 600,
the circulation of money per capita was
S2S.31. Compared with the conditions on
May l. 1900, the general stock shows an
increase of $3.50, 4S1 ST. the cash in the
Treasury an increase of $25, 702. 905 the
amount in circulation an Increase of $751;
rs. ~, and the per capita an increase Of
81 u
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
TACOMA A GREAT PORT.
4 New Steamship Line Between Tina
City and Liverpool.


The Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
received communication from the Cham
Der of Commerce and Board Of Trade OF
Tacoma. Wash, yesterday, in which is
announced the establishment OF a new
line of steamers to ply between 7. 71s
and Liverpool. via the Suez Canal. touch
ing at Manila and other Philippine ports
all the Straits ports. and India. Arab.
Egypt, and the Mediterranean and Cos
tinental ports.
The ships of the line are the Glen ~ ,'..
of $500 tons; Glenroy, 10000 tons; Gle --
logan, II 900 tons; Glenturret. $500 to.
Glenartney, 400 tons; Glengarry, 500
tons; Glengyle, 4,G00 tons; Glenshiel. 5
and GIenesk, of $500 tons.
This the communication states '0ii,
constitute the longest steamship ne -
the world and, by saving the trans
and other charges at HOngkOng. It vita
enable American manufactures. eSE t-
cially -four, to be placed in all p Js &c
yond HongkOng at s. per ton les than
heretofore.
This new line, in addition to the la-
established line plying between 1'tcc-
and Yokohama and HOngkong. az
line between Tacoma and Port Art4t
VladivOstock, and Northern China. u-,s
gives Tacoma more ships crossing the i'
citlc than all other Pacific Coast
combined
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Young Authors.

II has been often remarked that one
If the prominent tendencies Of the pres
ent age is the predominance Of youth in
all departments Of the worlds work
especially in this country. The in
fusion Of young blood in some depart
ments Of industry is a good thing, but
In others II is not SO good. Where
push originality, initiative, are impera-
lively needed. and the experience can
be supplied by others, the young man
often has the best Of it. He win take
chances which the more timid veteran
win not. and he has FIRE and energy,
and a capacity for endurance and in
tense labor which have too often been
crushed out Of the older man. But in
literature. especially in fiction. it is dit
ferent.
Nobodys experience but his own will
do the novelist any good. The poet
may intutlyely come upon a great
truth or a happy bit OF metaphor. and
youth and the lyrical faculty are more
or less related. Poetry deals with ele-
mental facts Of existence, whose joy
pathos. or truth may be felt as keenly
bv the man of twenty-five as by the
man of fifty. The latter rarely cares
much for poetry, especially for spon-
taneous lyrics. He has overlived most
of It. and TO him IL is good only for its
music and sweetness. IL is the young
who write poetry and read it, for the
most part When the poet grows older
he not iBfrequently becomes a drama
list. or writes some of those metrical
rorances which are studies OF the more
intricate relations of human creatures.
The novelist cannot depend wholly on
inspiration, or on ability to use Ian
guage skillfully, or on intuitive percep-
ton of the essential qualities of charac-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
TWO COTTON MILLS SOLD
An Important Deal Transacted
Fall River.

PROVIDENCE. r. l., May 2-On.
the largest cotton mill deals which
occurred in this section in many years
consummated today by the turning
of two of the mills of the Albion Comp
10 the Samoset Company. a corporate
Fail River capitalists
The mills are on opposite sides Of
Blackstone Riverein the towns of Ii
and Cumberland, and the water priv
is one of the finest in this section.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

It is admitted at the State Department
that the survey of the Island of Margari-
ia, in the Caribbean Sea, by German war
vessels, has been known to the executive
branch of this Government for some time.
1t is understood that the Kaiser desires
a coaling station and harbor handy TO the
future inter-oceanic canal Suppose he
should acquire the island. Would Mr..
Hay consider that an infringement upon
the Monroe Doctrine? If so, what would
he do about it?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
FOR A PERMANENT RECORD.
\ Report of the Rhea-WaIl.er Con
test to he Printed.

Alexander Mcdowell Clerk of the House
of Representatives, yesterday, in the
presence of General Walker, who is con-
testing the election of Representative
Rhea, Of the Ninth Congressional Dis
trict of Virginia. opened the written testi-
mony bearing on the case, and sent it
10 the Public Printer to be printed.
General Walker contested Representa-
tive Rheas seat in the last Congress. and
Elections Committee No in the closing
hours of the session reported in favor OF
Representative Rhea. This makes the
third contest filed by General Walker dur
ing the past six years.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Consul McCook Not Dead.

The report of the death of James c.
McCook. of Philadelphia, United States
Consul at Dawson City. British North
west, is contradicted in letter received
at the State Department yesterday from
- nil o He saws that Mr.. McCook con-
tracted pneumonia on his way TO Dawson
and was quite i'll for time in hospital
there. but at the date of the letter was
ont of danger, and on the road to re-
cqVerN.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Vacant Lots.

The Vacant Lot Association, in Phil
adelphia, seems to be doing good work
It is reported that during the past year
nearly ave hundred families made ap-
plication 10 cultivate gardens.
The object Of this association Is to Sc
cure for the poor OF the city place
where they can cultivate a small plot
Of ground and raise vegetables for their
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
The President. Not the Politician.
iFrom the Boston Transcript.)

IRON Ile bVStoh lIdhatiipJ-)
The great majority Of the Southerncrs who come
to greet the President in crowds at every station
at which his train stops are Democrats. but they
are not paying tribute of good viii 10 the Presi-
dency as political Office" but the chief
magistracy of the nation. This OF itself is a
welcome sign of the broadening Of the Southern
mind 1t is able to discriminate between poll
ties and public office, and 10 manifest a most
cordial courtesy to President who is not in
debted TO the far South for his election.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

CFrom the Chicago Journal)

IFrOm Inc tHICdHu dt7tIIII'1-I
III lind ~ smoke Chicago suffers from, ii
there is any suffering is the kind Chicago wants
and viii have so long as the city continues to
expand rs a manufacturing centre There Is
s,reet odor to il when il is realized that be-
neotb the cloud of dark vapor that sometimes
oyerhangs the city the hands OF two million
people are busy plucking prosperity and happi-
ness from various forms Of toll. Art science. ana
Iiterature and Chicago Beautiful, will follow in
the wake OF Chicago's supremacy as a CONNER
ciaI point just as surely and just as naturally
as night follows day, and there Is no use Of
fretting because perfection in either has not been
OFT pa1
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
The Law Demands Respect


(FrOm the kansls tlty Star.)
There is one thing that may be said without re-
serve in connection with the agitation against
the Sunday saloon and that is that all laws or
the books OF a municipality. State or nation
sbould be enforced until they are repealed or
proven invalid. To state the another way
an laws whose operation Is not for the best m
terests of the public, and whose validity has been
established. should be repealed, but pending re-
peal they should be enforced in order that the
Prestige OF the law may not suffer
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
FEAR A SPREAD OF TYPHUs.
Extreme Precautions Taken Along
the Mexican Border.

The Marine Hospital Service has taken
extreme precautions to prevent the spread
of typhus fever from Mexico into this
country. Instructions have been sent the
medical inspector at FL Paso Eagle Pass,
and Laredo. Tex, calling special atten-
ton to the presence of typhus in the
City of Mexico, and ordered to conduct
a very careful quarantine inspection.
Some persons have been detained on the
frontier but no infection has been re-
ported from this side of the line.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
OBITUARY.

Robert Knight. whose funeral
place on Thursday at his late hou
Brooklyn, n. Y, was one of the ea
art dealers in Brooklyn. He came {,
country from England in 1S2S ana
Ting in Brooklyn. opened an art Sra
I2S Fulton Street, which was then
business centre OF the growing
When he retired from business
years ago mis- store was located in {
Street near Court. He was one Cl
founders of the Washington Avenu
fist Church. He leaves three sons
three daughters.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Republicans and the Negro.


If a white Republican party sufficiently strong
to compete with the Democratic party springs up
in the South the black men of both sections must
commence to do a little thinking their own
account 1t can only mean that the Republican
party has formally abandoned the Southern black
10 the political fate that has menaced him for a
long time in the South, and that II has TO all in
tents and purposes consented that he be returned
to nractcal serfdom
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

| ter He must know the world as it is,
! and that takes time, because it gener-
| ally proves quite different, in some re-
speCts, from the youths impression OF
! it. A clever writer once said that there
| is time when we believe everything is
white; then we are disappointed and
come to think that everything is black;
| at last we arrive at the conviction that
the majority of things are grey. The
perfect novel is not a study in black
and white, like a big checkerboard. 1t
is monochrome in grey. or n brilliant
combination of all unts, the sombre
hues being relieved by flash of scar
let or yellow or a CLINT of white.
The effect of universal youth among
novels crude and more or less superb
clal. The question now before the pub
lie is whether this state of things is
going to improve in time One might
say as King Richard the second did of
his bride, that immaturity is a fault
which every day will remedy; but there
is doubt whether youthful crudeness
who attempts big task with moderate
success. before he is ready for it, may
confirm himself in faults which he will
never quite shake off. 1t does not,
therefore, follow that the young author
who writes a popular novel will ever
write ano Their good thing. He may have
put all there was in him into that one
~ 70 OF
out of rut, being certain that he cam
not leave the course in which he has
won success to gain experience in an
other line of work. If his successful
novel is not written till he is forty or
fifty years old, on the other hand, he
will have a great mass of material
gathered during the long apprentice
ship Ct youth, from which he may select
the elements of not only one, but a
series of successful novels.
1t seems advisable. therefore, for the
young author who has written good
short stories or poems. or other things,
TO keep on writing that sort Of thing
and be content with a moderate amount
of money and long course of study of
human nature. until such time as an
idea takes hold of him and demands
embodiment. He will then have store
of knowledge of the way in which men
and women behave in any given emer-
gency, and plenty of local color which
he may lay on without a tremor; and
the result of his work Will probably be
a we'll constructed romance, without
distressing gaps in the plot or incon-
sistences in the characters.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

Conditions are so rapidly improving in
the Philippines that our military force
in the archipelago can be materially de-
creased and the larger part of the fleet
relieved from duty In its waters. Many
ships are 70 be ordered TO the home sta
ton, and it is estimated that the last of
the volunteer regiments will be at San
Francisco ready to be mustered out by
June 20 This will please the country,
much as it may grieve the Boston Fill
pinos The Philippine rebellion at last
is as good as dead.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Considerate.
(Erom Tit-Rits.N

An Irish recruit was once brought up for break
ing into baTacks-that is, getting over the wall
instead of entering by the gate.
But Murphy" said the officer, Though you
were late you should have come i'll by the gate
''Plaise yer honor" said Murphy Il was
afraid Of waking the sentry"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Nistns before Us.
nrom lhe Boston Herald.

fFTOm the Boston hefald.)
We are liking in an era involving tremendous
changes. and that these are destined to material
ly influence public opinion and TO radically change
national legislation are facts which must be APP
parent to those who are the least observing Of
the signs OF the times.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

The Boston Herald" has secured a
mail vote among the alumni of Harvard
University. and finds a large majority in
favor of making the Hon. William Mckin-
ley a doctor of laws. Senator Hoar says
the President deserves the distinction for
his protective tariff work. What would
the old gentleman think were he to learn
that DR. Mckinley and other party lead
ers had begun to see the error of their
ways, and were squirting in the direction
of free trade?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gordon
CIarkson. died in Auburndale.
aged eighty-two years. She was
Railway, n. J.. February 13,
older generation will recall he.
leading soprano in DR.. CoXs Chu
Brooklyn, y. Y.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

Later reports indicate that the Salisbury
Government is extremely uneasy over the
approaching vote on the budget As we
have said before, if the general strike of
the English and Welsh miners which is
threatened should occur, and the men
should stay out as much as a month, the
chances are that the Ministry might be
defeated in the Commons and be com
PEELED to resign office
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

]. a. Merritt, who had for man.
had charge of the Southern grain
ness of !. NJ. Parr < Son. died suo.
in New Orleans yesterday mor1in-
apopIeXy at the office OF the firm
Farmers and Merchants Bank buiic
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Too Dangerous.

(FFom LeSlie's Weekly.)
Ted thought they were going 10 be married
on St. Patrck,s Day.
Ned-She was willing enough and Pheljn SEEM
ed 10 like the idea, until he suddenly thought OK
the orange blossoms.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Humane Liquidation.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
''That anti-treating bill in New Jersey is all
right
'.Nhat makes you think soF
Some familiarity with Jeresy beverages"