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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-01

Water works is all the peopi. OF
Lubec are talking about now. The
charter was secured. last winter. sur
veys have been made. and at special
town meeting IL was voted to raise
$4,000 by an issue of per cent. bonds
for the construction Of the work. The
Sourcc of supply liz about two miles
from the village.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-01

Of one Of the High school ola9ses ""',"
graduated inside Of ten years aso 20
going around with a subscription paper
for the purpose of raising u"oncs
enough 10 have the class sit agar" LOT
pictures. II IL proposed to nave '"e
pictures that are now In the c'asn
frame IN the High school taken OUT an"
replaced by the new ones so as 10 Keep
up with modern methods Of dressing.
wearing the hair. etc II seems that at
that particular period Of the wori"
history there was rather odd netnou
OF hair dressing In vogue when mas
been entirely done away with now ana
some OF those whose faces and hcads
are on exhibition are a trifle sensitive
on the subject.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-01

Last week the mail was the means OF
transportation by which pair of toads
were brought from Oklahoma to Jones
port The gray backs We're packed in
pasteboard box and. strange to say.
without food or air. when liberated
We're gaIny fellows and began breaking
their fast by a lively attack upon flies.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
STRAWBERRIES IN THE SNOW.

More than a month ago the petty street traf-
fickers began crying "Straw-ber-reeze" uptown
and this week, in spite of the cold and the
snow. they have been amazingly numerous and
vociferous. II is a constant cause for wonder
10 note the extent 10 which the distribution of
early fruits and vegetables has been carried
especially in the Northern States. On land and
sea the facilities of quick transportation have
been notably improved in recent times. and now
NewYOrk and the other large cities of the
Union are supplied with the products Of Ber-
muda and the Bahamas the West Indies, and
even Central America. i'm addition to Florida
and other Southern States. well as tho Pacific
Coast, with admirable promptness Good news
comes from the Indian River that Florida
oranges this season will be more plentiful and
luscious than in any year since "the great
freeze blighted so many of the finest groves.
The bringing of large quantities of fruit and
other attractive food hundreds and even thou
sands of miles to the chief centres of population
has been enlarged and diversified with remark
able energy and ingenuity in the last decade or
two. Production has been so stimulated in far
off places where the climate and soil are we'll
adapted for raising the fruits and vegetables
which are so eagerly welcomed in our cities.
and the transportation companies have been so
ambitious TO develop their business in handling
those products. that every important city has
added to the variety and richness of the stocks
in its markets and 10 the sales from street
wagons. In the icebOund weeks of the year the
people generally, even those of modest means,
have been able TO buy many things out of sea-
son in the North which could not have been
obtained for the tables of the rich in the winter
months quarter century earlier.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
80 COMPROMISE WITH RAuapO

The Ramapo schemers are manauvring for
delay. They have already secured some delay
or action upon the bill for the repeal of their
extraordinary powers and privileges hut they
want srin more: apparently in hope Of tiring
out their opponents or of having the repeal bill
fail because of want OF time 10 pass il al the
end OF the session. Failing success in such tac-
ncs, they seek all sorts OF compromises which
will leave their concern in existence and keen
open the possibility of fastening its rapacious
clutch upon the very lives of the people Of this
city They dodge all embarrassing questions
which legislators ask them. and brazenly insist
that they ought 20 have rights which no other
water company is permitted 10 have But if
rhey cannot have such extraordinary rights they
plead for at least ordinary rights: and IL they
are not permitted TO throttle New York for forty
years, they beg 10 be allowed 10 do so for not
more than ten years.
lt is earnestly 10 be hoped that no comnromise
VIII be made with them and no quarter will be
shown TO them, and that they will be wiped out
of corporate existence and compelled ~ they
want TO continue business, TO begin again. ON
the same basis with other concerns Thair
chief stock In trade has been, from the begin
ming, their special, extraordinary and exclusive
privileges, by virtue OF which they honad to
crush al rivalry and 10 force this CITY 10 ae-
cept whatever terms they might offer There
should not be left TO them a yestige of that nm.
holy stock. New-York City sbould he s-aaa
from the fetters which the Ramapo schemers
have fastened about II, SO that il can get its
water supply wherever IT wishes and all pri.
vate concerns should be put upon a common
footing with the validity of their claims de-
pendent upon their actual performances and
not upon speculative prospects.
The question was asked at Albany the othe,
day, Why should not the charter OF New-Yorl
be so amended as to permit the city TO max,
O ten years contract with Ramapo or any othel
company? The answer is obvious. Any sucl
contract unless under some necessity so dir,
as 10 be beyond the pale of ordinary considers
iion, would be a recognition OF a mischievoul
principle and the entering Of the thin end OF
most pernicious wedge. The city should OWL
and control its own water system, the whole OF
IT, That is the only safe rule. And any dicker
eng with Ramapo for ten years or ten days
cDuld bs evil, because It would be the first steI
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
FIFTH-AVE. AND FoRTr-sEcoyD-sr


The intersection of Fifth-ave. and Forty-sec-
ond-st. has become an exceedingly busy spot,
with tho growth of population. the development
of business in that vicinity and the increase OF
street railroad patronage which recent improve
ments have produced. II is a point at which
strict and skilful supervision Of traffic ought
to be maintained. but that duty is now so Ill
performed that it might almost as we'll be neg
lected altogether. The public authorities should
be aware that this state of things is causing
great annoyance. and II is time they needed the
complaints which they must have received. We
believe that only policeman is stationed
there 10 manage the difficult business Of keep
ing the ways open. For aught we know 10 the
contrary. he does as we'll he could he ex-
pected 10 do. hut it is perfectly obvious that he
needs assistance
Owing 10 the fact that there are positive
regulations governing traffic. or that II there
are they cannot be enforced by a single officer.
there is almost constant trouble. This is the
way IN frequently occurs: vehicle moving
north in Fifth-ave. Is brought 10 a halt by
westbound car ia Forty second st, but instead
OF being stopped before IL reaches the crossing
il is driven forward as far as possible. and
consequently blocks an eastbOund car. Stimuli
taneously in the same manner a vehicle moving
south in Fifth-ave. Is brought 70 a halt by this
eastbound car and consequently blocks the
westbound car The inevitable result OF this
combination is a complete stoppage of traffic In
all directions and constantly lengthening lines
of cars, trucks, etc. In the cross street and OF
all sorts Of vehicles except cars in the avenue.
OF course, nobody gets the least advantage out
of the obstinacy which brings this condition of
affairs into existence, for there can be no prog
ress until. after long delay and much profane
swearing the knot has been laboriously united.
II is plain that the nuisance ought 10 be stopped
by an ADEQUATE exercise of police authority.
The way 10 stop ii is to divide the time on an
equitable basis between those using Fifth-ave.
and those using Forty-second-st. giving each
line of traffic the sole right OF way at frequent
intervals To accomplish this, with due re-
gard TO persons walking. 1t is necessary that
right Of way should be required to stop before
IL reaches the foot crossing toward which il is
moving. for otherwise, though the street might
he kent open between the curb lines, pedestrians
yould still be put 70 serious Inconvenience, as
they now are.
This is the manner in which similar con-
ditions are obviated in London at the intersec-
tions of crowded thoroughfares, and the sys-
tenn ought 10 be applied here wherever there
is plain need of il. AT first the free and in
dependent American citizen might rebel, and a
few arrests might be necessary, but il would
not take long to induce proper respect for
authority exercised with judicious frmness and
stop the reign of chaos.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
PERSONAL.

DR. William Pole. the English authority m
whist who died the other day at the age OF eighty
seven years. was not physician but a successor
civil engineer. and his doctorate was deere. for
music. conferred on him by Oxford ITnivsrsitv n,
was proof OF his ceverness that he wrote an ahIs
treatSe on the method by which the eve discriroi
mates COLOR although he himself color Hind
This dissertation caused him 10 be elected Fellow,
OF the Royal Society. ~
Charles oliver. the Railway Commissioner or
New South Wales has returned home after having
spent a month in England ard four months in this
country getting new ideas I'm regard the working
OF railways
DR. Arthur Louis Day. formerly instructor In
physics at Yale. returned to this country In Oeto-
ber, after spending three years in study and scIen
thc research in Germany. This entire period was
passed at the Reichsenstalt In CharIottenburs at
nrSt as an assistant, and later one of the reg
ular stan Of this famous institution which is
maintained by the German Government. His an
pointment there was the not eworthy in that
ne Is the nrst American TO gain this honor He
was invited last fall by the head of the United
states theological Survey. TO take charge OF a new
laboratory tor the investigation Of physical ques-
lions. al Washington, ID. c. and Is at present In
that city at work on the equipment and fitting OF
lines in which DR. Day. by his work in the Reichs
anstau mas become an authority-especially the
measurement or high temperatures Upon this
subject he has published, in cola boration with
others number OF papers IN scientific journals
here and abroad. ''
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
:sens1lprk DaiIp Gribntls.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Il. 1901.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-King Edward VII. with Queen
Alexandra rode in the gilded George III chariot
az state from buckingham Palace TO the houses
of Parliament with much pomp; the House OF
Lords was crowded with the most distinguished
persons Of the realm when the King took the
NO Popery Oath" and read his speech from the
throne, deVOtinE IL 10 brief but comprehensive
survey of the existing state Of affairs through
out the Empire; il was afterward discussed in
both the House OF Lords and in the House OF
Commons. where the South African war was
dWelt on al length. =- The Princess Of the
Asturias married at Madrid TO Prince
Charles OF Bourbon, the ceremonies taking place
within the palace and affOrding no opportunity
for a popular outbreak = Martial law was
proclaimed in Madrid and disturbances were re-
ported at various places in Spain, change n
the Ministry being threatened. == Lord
Kitchener reported that his troops are engaged
with De Vets force north of Phlipstown. with
few casualties on either side. - The death or
the King OF GoJam. Abyssinia, by poison, WAS
made known and the fact that two pretenders
are hghtfng for the throne.
CONGRESS.-Senate: The Agricultural Ap-
preparation bill was under consideration; Sena-
tors Hale and Lodge made speeches OF warning
against extravaganoe in appropriations which
attracted great attention. - House: In the
debate on the Sundry Civil bin there was an
exciting contest over the sale Of the New York
Custom House: several Democrats attacked
Secretary Gage, and Mr.. Hopkins. OF illinois,
read letters showing that Democratic leaders
had, in the Cleveland Administration urged
that certain banks be made Government de-
positories because they were managed by Demo-
crats.
DOMESTIC-The President and Mrs Nc
hinley gave dinner at the White House
IN honor OF the Diplomatic Corps. -= Presi-
dent Mckinley nominated Admrals Samp-
son and Schley and the other officers who
took part in the destruction Of Cervera's
feet for advancement, and recommended
that the thanks Of Congress he voted to them
- The plan for reapportioning the Congress
districts OF the State gives the three new ones
10 New-Hork and Kings and makes changes in
e ether districts - Governor odell sent to the
senate the nominations OF Lispenard Stewart
OF New york. as president; State Treasurer J.
y Jaeckel and c. V Collins, TO be members OF
the new State Prison Commission.
ClTG.-Stocks were strong and higher
The evidence Of handwriting experts was ruled
out an the trial Of DIR. Kennedy. - The ar
gument was presented in the trial Of Police
captain Herlihy - Counsel for the leading
steel interests in the proposed consolidation
helo conference - The ice continued 70
DOCK the rivers and the bay, and navigation
was beset with much obstruction. The
creoihllity OF Minnock, the chief witness in the
uiai of Dean the Bellevue nurse who is charged
with causing the death OF patient Was a.
tacked IN cross-exanaination.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
HELP FROM VIZ. CROKER NEEDED.

So many communications from Richard
Croker are being published from day 10 day,
showing that, though distant, he has a keen
eye for all our thoughts and interests. that
we are encouraged to hope that he is not in
ignorance of I've know he cannot be ndiffer
ent to- the plight of the committee Of city
purifiers appointed az his instance just before
he departed three months ago. 1t takes only
short memory TO recall how earnest Mr.
Croker was about this matter 1t is true that
some unsympathetic persons insinuated that
the relation of cause and effect existed between
Bishop POtter's letter to the Mayor. made pub
lie day later. but transmitted day before,
and Mr.. Croker's curious outbreak at the
Tammany meeting: but Mr.. Croker repels this
charge with great vigOr. We confess that
there was time when we feared that Mr.
CrOker's idea Of appointing the committee had
some such origin. but now that ne has set all
this at rest we are sure that he Is not going TO
let the committee die mIserably, even though
il may seem TO him that the disturbance
aroused by Bishop Potters letter and events
Immediately following il has in a measure
blown over"
If by any chance these lines should happen
TO fall within Mr.. Croker's view. and lest some
wicked persons should succeed in keeping him
ignorant of the facts, we hasten 10 inform him
that his committee is really in a bad way.
Some persons. we must tell him. of the
opinion that already the committee is dead, so
that IL could not be resuscitated. Remember
ing how earnestly Mr.. Croker insisted that If
any men in Tammany Hall were found to
have INDUCED in blackmail or corruption they
must leave the organization which had no
for them" we feel that must inform
him that the chairman of the committee dis
covered fifteen men thus engaged. that moth
ing has been done about II, and that no one
has left the organization We think. too, that
Mr. Croker will he angry when he learns that
the committee. Of which he expected much.
was not permitted TO make it's report TO the
Executive Committee of Tammany Hall. thus
being denied. as II were, n decent burial.
This report. il is said. contained some unpleas
ant illusions 10 Senator Timothy u. Sullivan,
Commissioners Sexton and Nagle and others,
and il is quite possible that advantage OF Mr..
Crokers absence was taken by these men be-
cause they did not wish TO be alluded 10 in
an unpleasant and unfeeling manner. All this
is conceivable but, recalling Mr.. Croker's part
ing address. We cannot believe that he will
tolerate il for a moment He ought To act at
once. The committee is in need of his aid.
promptly given, sorely in need of H.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
TO sTOP POLICY CHEATING.

The policy bill which failed of passage at
Albany last year because of the trickery prac-
tised by some persons who pretended to be
working for the public welfare. but were really
in sympathy with the policy swindlers, is again
before the Legislature, and 1t ought TO become
a law. Captain Goddard and Theron G. Strong.
who have been jealous in dlsnterested and
trustworthy efforts TO suppress this form of
larceny. are again doing all they can to bring
about the passage OF this measure. Every Sen
ator and Assemblyman ought TO be heartily in
favor of the proposed legislation.
The present law is not strict enough, and
many rascals slip through its meshes because
OF the difficulty of getting evidence sufficient
TO secure convictions under the existing pro-
visions Tammany politicians of large inir-
ence are determined TO protect the policy
swindlers. and they will use every device that
INSCRIPTIONS ingenuity can suggest to defeat
the bill now at Albany. 1t will be an i'm
portant gain for honesty and fair dealing all
over the State, hut especially in this city If
policy cheating can be done away with. IL the
proposed act is adopted the policy dealers can
be punished as they should be, and the whole
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

They are telling this story in Washington about
Senator Jones. of Arkansas. chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. who is a member Of
the humane society and wears badge that en-
titles him TO investigate the condition OF any ami
NAL that appears to be ill-treated A day or two
ago. he came down from the CAPITOL he in
spected team that was standing by the curb
Here. you!' shouted the driver. what are YOU
doing there feeling about that horses neckg..
81 am an officer of the Humane Society :, renIad
Senator Jones. mildly. "and L want to see ~ this
collar fits this horse"
Well" snarled the driver IF that collar don't
fit that horse any better than your collar fits you
you Just along and get a cop and have me ar
rested"
Forge-Our Congressman made the speech of hi,
life lie got two columns in the papers
Du Brau-That is nothing Why. our Congress-
man used nerve remedy and got four columns and
his Philadelphia Record.
Thomas F. Drew mining man, who has been
prospecting In the wids OF Canada thinks he Is on
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
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New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
DINNER OF THE DELAWARE SOCIETY

Nearly one hundred were in attendance at
the annual meeting of the Delaware Society of
New-York in the Waldorf-Astoria. last evening
when an election of officers Of the society for 1901
resulted in the choice OF the following: W. L.
Cannon president; o. b. Deakyne and t. F. Bay
ard vice-presidents; w. a. Ransom, treasurer, and
w III. Stayton. secretary. At the dinner which
followed the meeting Dr. j. H. Marshall presided
and among the guests were Governor John HUM
and Ex-Governor Tunnel of Delaware; Bishop
Coleman, Chancellor John r. Nicholson James B.
Canby Congressman w o. Hoffecker, William w.
Baldwin. Job +. Hedges, Dr. r. Nj. Dawbarn and
George Alfred Townsend jr. Most of the guests
made speeches. which abOunded In pIeasantres
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15
MRs. THOMAS G. PL4TT.

From The Brooklyn Eagle.
Sympathy will be general with Senator Thomas G.
Platt the death of his estimabic wife. which
occurred to-day. Mrs. Platt was a woman of intel
lgence diligence fidelity, earnestness, devotion and
Judgment Ths welfare and happiness OF her huS-
bend her children and her grandchildren We're ac-
cepted by her as her mission in the world. which
she admirably fulfilled Long sufferer, she was
rever q complainant, and her tOrtitude and her
faith commended her to the large circle of friends
among whom her lot was east and by whom she
Was so thoroughly respected and highly es-
teemed. The Senator and his children will have
the coincidence OF all in their bereavement.
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15

Many a wretched victim OF the instalment
plan has been sent TO Ludlow Street Jail because
be failed to make the payments to which he
had pledged himself In some OF these cases
the imprisonment seemed TO he cruel and op-
pressive. hill in the State Legislature pro-
poses 10 prevent Incarceration except when the
sum due is more than SO. This bill may be-
come law. But the better way would be to
abolish entirely the system OF Imprisonment for
debt unless the proof Of deliberate fraud is clear
and convincing. Instances there have been not
a few in New-York OF the misuse OF the order
OF arrest practice with the purpose OF collecting
claims the Justice Of which was not plainly es-
tabshed. and with regard 20 which any GRIM
inality on the part Of the debtor was by no
means settled beyond dispute
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15

toward abandonment of that rule and sur
render of one OF the most vital interests of the
city TO the tender mercies Of speculative greed.
40 compromise with Ramapo should be the
order of the day, rigidy maintained and mex
orably pursued
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15

20 De passed on in the Molineux appeal. 1t is
so squarely AT issue with the action of the
Recorder i'm that trial that Molineux's counsel
can hardly fail to quote Justice Fursman as
one of the leading authorities for reversal. If
Justice Fursman is right the Molineux con-
viction would never stand, and if it was sus-
tanned by the Court of Appeals it could only
he by completely Overrulng Justice Fursman's
views
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15

In the Massachusetts, Legislature the friends
Of canal from Boston Harbor 10 Narragansett
Bay are pushing plan for a preliminary sur
vey. Nevertheless. the Cape Cod Canal is not
yet white with the sails of a vast and increas-
ing commerce. IL would be a costly undertaking
TO connect the first city OF w-Eng:and with
Providence the second city in that part of the
United States. by an inland channel Of any con-
siderable size and the proposed canal is not
likely to he dug out until Infants now in the
cradle count their years by threescora and ten
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15

Does any passenger on ferryboat who has
been cebound this week doubt any longer the
urgent need of tunnels under both the East and
North rivers. OF Hudson River bridges. Of more
bridges between Manhattan Island and Long
Island. of spacious arches and tunnels between
Staten Island and New-Jersey?
New-York tribune., 1901-02-15

II is a pleasure TO note the fact that in spite
Of unusually cold weather and correspondngy
hot fires the defective fue is not getting in its
deadly work any such extent might rea-
sonably have been expected