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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
BACK FROM ALASKA.
A Missionary Homeward Bound
After Years of Service.

VICTORIA, B. c., May 2.-Father La
Fevre has arrived here from the far away
Arctic regions. For twelve years he has
$50 miles from the mouth of the Macken-
Zie. There he has labored for years among
the Esquimaux and Indians, and has made
several trips to the whalers in their winter
quarters at Hershall Island So difficult
has been the work among the people of
that land that he was able to make only
one convert as a result of his many years
of faithful labor, and that convert was a
dying woman. ~
The returned missionary says that from
what he can leairr there is little if any
gold in this. far northern district, and the
have not found much TO reward them. AT
his stationi lat Fort Mcpherson, the Esqui-
maux are wanderers, building their huts
wherever the whalers congregate. They
are not civilized, and are cruel and rather
barbarous, but he lived safely with them,
although one attempt was made on his
life.
AS for ChristaniZing them the mission
airy says that work is indeed difficult. for
they know nothing or will know nothing
of religion. During his residence among
the Indians there was no word or rumor
of any passing balloon, nor did he hear
an iota of news which would lead to the
belief that the missing Andree was seen
in that part of the Arctic regions.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
The Mnnchurinn Question

Can ii be possible that Judge MaSoon
has written an opinion holding that our
esoteric understanding with Russia
during the Chinese war and the Rus
so-American cut and scuttle from Pekin
significant GOODNESS toward Russia in
the Administration circle which is
worthy of close attention.
From various news sources the Gov
eminent, as well as the press, has been
receiving stories of hard fighting be-
tween the Chinese troops and the Cos
sacks in Manchuria State Department
people state privately that in their
opinion these reports are manufactured
out of whole cloth, and are sent out to
cover the large addition to her military
force in ti,a province which Russia Is
now making as rapidly as transport
facilities wifi allow. 1t is even said. by
way of illustrating the altered attitude
Of the Administration, that 1t purposes
asking Russia to get out of Manchuria,
as that region is now practically paci-
fed and in a condition to return to its
owners.
This alleged intention may be exag-
gerated, yet it may be true that Mr..
Mckinley would cheerfully join with
others of the right sort in making such
a request. That 1t ssould result salts
factorily to the proponents we are in
clined to doubt. There are not a few
evidences that a secret understanding
exists between Russia and China and
with France in the way and Italy luke
warm IL is a question whether Germany
would throw down the gauntlet to the
Gear. But suppose that something of
the kind should happen. Is IL not quite
conceivable that Russia might produce
a treaty with the Manchu dynasty, con-
ceding a protectorate over Manchuria
TO the former, and reciting the fact that
the province is an imperial family pcs
session. and is not properly to be in
Guided In the Chinese Empire?
Were Japan TO declare war We are
prepared to admit that the situation
might be radically changed. But, in
that event. il would be seemingly i'm
prudent for this country to indulge in
ultimate, unless II were intended to
back the Mikado with armed force. In
a general way. II does not look as IL
muddling had ceased in connection with
the Chinese question.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
TACOMA A GREAT PORT.
A New Steamship Line Between That
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 new
line of steamers to ply between 7 rlI
and Liverpool. via the Suez Canal, touch
ing at Manila and other Philippine ports,
all the Straits ports, and India, Arabia.
Egypt, and the Mediterranean and Cos =
tinental ports.
The ships of the line are the Glen.5Clf '.
of $500 tons; Glenroy. 10000 tons: Gle
logan, 11,000 tons; Glenturret $500 to-
Glenartney, 4,2D0 tons; Glengarry, s'aJ
tons; Glengyle, 1900 tons; Glenshiel Sc
and Glenesk, of $500 tons.
This the communication states '@il.
constitute the longest steamship me in
the world, and, by saving the trans z
and other charges at Hongkong, it vii,
enable American manufactures. esFe-
cially flour, to be placed in all pc u De-
yond HongkonS at 50 per ton les than
heretofore.
This new line, in addition to the lou
established line plying between Ntcc. t
and Yokohama and Hongkong, ard
line between Tacoma and Port Artlir
Vladivostock, and Northern China, now
gives Tacoma more ships crossing the %
clfic than all other Pacific Coast !
combined
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
LAND FOR A 0oALING STATION
Intentions of Germany Regarding
the Island of Mnrrarfta

There is apparently much truth In the
report that German subjects have been
buying up land on the Island Of Mar
garita, which is owned by Venezuela. wit =
view to letting 1t be used by the Ger
man Government as a coaling station
report on the subject received at ths
Navy Department shows that German
'=--ssFship paid visit 10 the island last year
and made extensive surveys and that
Germans have been purchasing land ly-
ing on magnificent Iand-locked harbor,
said to be an ideal site for naval coal
ing station.
Some examination OF this harbor has
been made for the Navy Department AMI
it is pronounced to be the best in South
America for naval purposes. Its impor-
lance lies in the fact that 1t controls tbs
eastern approach to the Panama Canal
Some fear is expressed here that, in vie'7
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 Doctrirs
has never been applied to the requirement
of sites for coaling depots on this c'ntt-
nent by foreign nations. but the Re
of Germany's alleged intentions
cause that question to be given COZ.
Grafton. Margarita is ten hours sa.,
from La Guayra.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

own use and for sale. 1t is said that
has contributed six dollars worth of
vegetables have been raised, which is a
fairly good showing. 1t is also stated
that in many cases the training received
in this work has made it possible for
families to move into the country and
support themselves there.
Whether this sort of thing would
work well in every city or not can only
be known by trying the experiment. but
it certainly seems to have been profita-
BILE to Philadelphia. Every enterprise
which relieves the distress of poverty
by assisting people to help themselves is
doubly beneficial. One of the great
problems of modern life is the relief of
people who have entered the keen COM
petition of large cities and been worsted
by it. They are not accustomed to any
other life; it is doubtful whether they
would do well in the country; direct aid
makes them paupers, While in the spe-
cialized life of the city there is little
that they can do. If the children Of the
family are sent to work too early they
are demoralized. yet this often seems
to be the only solution of the problem.
The Philadelphia plan utilizes ground
which would otherwise be an unsightly
waste. and abilities which would other
wise be unused. 1t results, not in an
accumulation of goods that nobody
wants, but in produce which is directly
useful to those who brought it into be-
ing, if to nobody else. 1t provides an
employment in which all can be useful,
even the old man who is too slow and
decrepit to be of any value in the fac
tory, and the child too young TO be sent
into the world alone; and the employ
ment takes them all into the open air.
Moreover, gardening is business
which il is always useful to know. In
any place where there is a scrap of
ground large enough to raise vegetables,
the householder can reduce his expenses
materially by raising some; and since
the principles of flower culture and
market gardening are not essentially
different in their elementary develop
ment, the amateur gardeners will I'M
derstand how to beautify their homes
with flowers if they happen to want to
do so.
Last, but not least, those who are en-
abled to raise vegetables for their own
use by this scheme of benevolence VIII
be rescued from one of the great dan
gers which menace not only the health
of the poor, but of the communicable
eating of vegetables which are stale or
otherwise undesirable. Numbers of
poor families are scarcely able to buy
really good vegetables from one end of
the season to the other, and this part
of their diet is supplied from what is
practically refuse. Such a practice
creates epidemics which threaten not
only the poorer quarter of the city, but
the whole community.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
PACKAGES FROM GERMANY.
a Plan to Avoid Customs Inspection
at New York.

o. L. Spaulding. Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, yesterday approved a plan
to allow the Postoffice Department to
ship directly to eleven Of the large interior
cities of the United States all parcels
post packages received from Germany to
be examined at the point of their desti-
nation by the customs officers instead Of
at New York. as is the practice now.
The cities to be thus favored are Bos-
ton. Philadelphia. Baltimore, Cleveland.
Detroit, Chicago. Milwaukee, st. Louis.
Cincinnati. New Orleans. and San Fran
cisco, and the change will give the mer-
chants of those cities great satisfac-
ton For over a year the large job
bers in the interior have been COM
planning to the department over delays
in the German parcels post packages
and breakage at the New York Gus
toms office. and Mr.. Spaulding has been
working on plan to relieve them. His
only hesitancy in carrying out the plan
now proposed was owing to the fear that
the Government would lose large per
centage of the customs revenues derived
from this source, as the customs officers
of the interior cities would not have the
facilities for properly appraising dutiable
goods that the New York Office have.
He also realized that after granting this
privilege toeleven of the larger cities many
of the smaller ones would demand it and
claim that Injustice was being done them.
But he has come to the conclusion that
the merchants of New York have an un-
fair advantage over those of many of the
other large cities in this particular and
the plan will be carried out.
Under the postal treaty with Germany
the Postmaster General has the right to
designate the cities as the destination of
through parcels post matter but as the
new system will entail great deal of
extra work upon the German postoffice.
the matter will be submitted to the Ger
man postal authorities before the plan is
put into operation. Under the new regu-
lations it will be necessary for the Ger
mans to put up in twelve lots the parcels
post packages that have heretofore been
simply thrown together and directed to
New York
Letters have been addressed by the de-
partment to the customs officers of the
eleven cities named asking information as
to their facilities for transferring German
parcels post packages directly from the
railroad stations to the customs stores in
their cities so that they will not have to
go to the customs division of their re-
spective postoffices. The department has
FOUND that generally this can be done.
The facilities for appraising goods will be
better at the customs stores than in the
postoffice as a rule
While 1t is expected that the Govern
ment will lose considerable revenue at
first from this change IL is not believed
that the plan will open up a way to
smuggling, but rather to undervaluation
as the appraisers in the smaller cities
have not had the experience and are not
as expert as those in the customs service
in New York
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
Losing sight of n Principle.



The Monroe Doctrine is not settled principle
of international LAW; it is rather u law OF
courtesy. 1t has been generally acquesced in
tacitly 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 il is not
certain that We could But every Administration
before Mckinley has maintained it and caused II
TO be respected
When the Mckinley Administration abandoned
the principle which it was based. it abandoned
the doctrine itself Germany has clear a right
to acquire a naval station off the coast of South
America as the United States to establish sta
tons of the coast Of Asia. We have surrendered
the ground upon which could ask or expect
her 20 keep away from our sphere " influence.
II is in this way that MckiEley's colonial
policy has created a very real danger near at
home While ii may not be Immediately HARM
full, il certainly is not desirable that Germany or
any similar power should obtain footing In
the Western Hemisphere But we have no longer
any moral ground which to object. and il
we undertake to keep her OF by force We may
find tn, task embarrassing and difficult This is
what comes of disregarding American principles.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE PETREL ORDERED HOME.
Only One Vessel of Dewey's Fleet
Left at Manila.

The Navy Department yesterday order
ed the gunboat Petrol to return to the
United States from the Philippines. thus
leaving the Concord the only fighting ves-
sci of Dewey's fleet now in Asiatic wa
tiers.
The recall of the Petrol marks the in
auguration OF the reduction of the large
force of United States naval vessels on
the Asiatic station. natural result of the
practical collapse of the instruction in
the Philippines and the quiet conditions
prevailing in China.
1t is expected that Rear Admiral Remey
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic sta
ton and the naval force, will return to
the United States late in the summer.
Rear Admiral Kempff will probably be
left in command. Rear Admiral Rodgers.
who is senior TO Admiral Kempff, is on
his way to Manila on the flagship New
York TO become second in command to
Admiral Remey, but with the recall of so
many ships from the Far East the Navy
Department may be enabled to re-estab-
lish the European station and it is said
that Admiral Rodgers is in line for that
command.
The Petrol will be placed out of COM
mission and overhauled at the Mare ISL
and Navy Yard.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE ILLINOIS DISTRICTS.
Effect of the Reapportionment
the Republican Party.

THE apportionment bill which has j
passed the Illinois Legislature at Spr
field, will, 1 think. be conceded by Il
Democrats to be fair and equitable not
withstanding the fact that in the Fifty
eighth Congress the Illinois delegation.
will stand about eighteen Republicans T.
seven Democrats" remarked Civil Service
Commissioner Rodenberg last night to a
party of friends. Under the apportion-
ment bill which was passed by the Demo-
Gratis during Altgeld's administration.
said he, the districts were so arrange
that, although the State went Republican
last year by 5000 majority, the dele
ton elected to the Fifty-seventh Cong >
was evenly divided, eleven to eleven
When the Democrats redistricted no
State they created several districts with
5000 Republican majority.
''Of the eighteen districts which will clecG
Republicans to the House in the F.
eighth Congress, only one might be crl7>-
ed as doubtful because of the small 81
publican majority. and that is the district
now represented by George w. Smith His
new district will be Republican by about
200. but if Smith is renominated. and
believe he will be, he can carry the G,s
trict against any man the Democrats '..T
IN. This fact influenced the Legisla t're
Wnen tne reappOrtlonment DlilWas uts-
up. OF course, II some other Repubii,--
should be nominated the Democrats " 70
have a good fighting chance to elect
man, whoever he might be- i know
of the Illinois Democrats say they h...-
not been treated fairly, but just to-
what the Missouri Legislature die L.
in their reapportionment bill The
souri, Democrats have so gerryma nd.
the State that in the Fifty-eighth 60
gresS the Republicans Will only have g
Representative out of fifteen. They have
placed Representative Bartholdt in Dis
trict with $1,000 Republican majority a..
have practically legislated Representative
JOY out of office. l think the Missouri
Republicans have more cause for eu-s-
plant at their treatment than have Ia !
Illinois Democrats. .
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
A FORTUNE IN UNION PACIFIC.
More Thnn n Million Dollars Cleared
by q Chicago Man.

CHICAGO, May More than 100000
clear profit on She stock of one road
through holding 1t for the rise that was
sure TO come is the fortune of Chicago
capitalist as the result of the boom in
securities which is breaking records and
exceeding the highest expectations OF
spectators here. Ii is only sample of
the fortunes realized in the last few weeks.
Arthur Orr is the man who made over
a million dollars and Union Pacific is
l=s.at brought this enormous amount He
had 1900 shares. had bought them three
years ago around 20, and is selling part
at 1871, the price to which it rose on the
New York Exchange today. His entire
original investment was 100000 At the
rate of per cent interest for holding 1t
three years. $4,000 may be added. AT 131
the block of 10000 shares today is worth
81. $40 900. Deducting $4,000 from this, the
net profit on the stock is Sl.0s00GO.
Mr.. Orr's holdings have not consisted
of Union Pacific alone, and he is dispos-
ing Of a large part of them, 1t is said,
taking profits on the ground that the mar
ket Is at its highest point. He has kept
as a speculation considerable blocks of
Northwestern, Omaha, New York Central,
Pullman and "A number Of other stocks.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
FOR BINDING THE MAILS.
Cotton Cord TO He 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 $165, 900. Several years
ago practically the same quantity of cord
cost the department only 100000. but the
price has risen to such an extent as to
increase the expenditures over 80 per cent.
AS the output is in the hands of a trust
the Postofflce officials are powerless.
1t happens that many complaints have
been inadvertently against the use of the
1ute 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
obiectionst Heretofore the latter has been
beyond reach because of its cost but as
il is now mo more expensive than jute
the department will probably use Amer
ican-made. clean cotton cord. instead of
imported Iute 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 a 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 TO- with the Thirty-first. Forty
first, and Fcrtieth Regiments, respective
ly.
Ten days later the Logan and Kilpat-
rick with the Thrty-eighth, Forty-third.
and Forty-fourth Regiments. and the In
DIANA with the Forty-second, will sail
The Grant and Ohio will sail May %.
with the Forty-eighth. Forty-ninth, 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 /, in accordance with
the law.
The Grant and Ohio are very fast yes
sells, and are expected to make the trip
from Manila to this country in twenty-siN
DAYS.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
MILITARY SURGEONS TO MEET.
Army Medical Department to BE
Represented mt st. Paul.

Secretary Root yesterday issued an or
der detailing the following medical officers
to represent the Medical Department of
the Army at the tenth annual meeting
of the Association of Military Surgeons of
the United States to be held in St Paul,
Mimi, May 80 to June /, 1901:
Major John Van r. Hoff, surgeon, and
Capt. Alfred F. Bradley, assistant sur
geon. L. S. Army.
Major Hon will proceed to St Paul,
Mimi, in time to reach that place on or
before May 30, 1901. and upon the adjourn
ment of the association will return to his
station in this city.
The Secretary of War has also detailed
the following medical officers to represent
the Medical Department of the Army at
the annual meeting of the American
Medical Association to be held at St. Paul.
MINI, June 4 10 4 1901:
Major Timothy z. Wilcox, surgeon, and
Major Charles Richard, surgeon, U. s.
Army.
The officers named will proceed TO st.
Paul, dinn-, in time to reach that place
on or before June 4, 1901. and upon the adj
journment Of the association will return
to their proper stations.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
WORK ON THE CUBAN TARIFF.
Americnns Interests Demand Every
thing But COncede Nothing.

NEW YoRK.T May THE Evening
Post" prints the following from its Wash
ington correspondent:
1T is understood that the commission
now at work upon the new Cuban tariff
is much disturbed by the aggressive zeal
of American producers to get their com
modities into the island on easy terms,
and at the same time their seeming indif-
ference to the Cubans' need of markets
here d.
1.-The rice planters of Louisiana are
strenuous in their desire to have the rate
of duty against their product exceedingly
low, believing that they can command
the market there against other foreign
producers. American tobacco manufac-
turers are insistent that Porto Rican to-
bacco shall not be allowed to get into
Cuba, as their interests demand that the
integrity of the Cuban product be main
tanned. Our cotton goods manufacturers
it is also asserted, are making demands
which If granted would benefit foreign
manufacturers quite as much
These are but typical instances of the
desire to get into Cuba. and yet against
her products the markets of the world
seem closed. AS one man connected with
the commission has expressed it: These
interests are all bowling like a pack of
wolves, and yet are not willing to give
Cuba anything in return, not even an
opiate to deaden her sufferings.
THE markets Of Europe are practically
closed against Cuban products. Soon af-
ter the war Spain put very high duty
upon Cuban tobacco; England already
taxes it roundly for revenue purposes.
The United States wall is very high, and
as for sugar, the great crop. 1t must
depend largely upon this market, and to
what extent it will be admitted remains to
be seen. Until these Industrial conditions
are settled the affairs on the island can
not be prosperous.
Considerable misunderstanding exists
here, it is said. as to the commercial
classes of Cuba; they are practically all
foreigners, including an insignificant num-
Der of Americans. The Cubans themselves
are agricuiturists, whose future will
chiefly depend upon close trade relations
with the United States.
1T has been decided to make the new
tariff a mixed one, but with n minimum
of ad valorem duties. The merchants in
Cuba prefer a high specific duty to a
culties in getting experts in the custom
house to assess values properly. avoiding
differentiation through dishonest impor-
tiers and the generalization of arrogant
officials. For the peculiar conditions of
the island il is felt that specific duties are
an element of safety, and so the schedule
will adopt them as far as possible.