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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
NEW BRIDGE CABLES LAID.
Across the East River Bed
To be Raised Later.

NEW YORK. April 9.-The first shors
to shore connection of the new East Rive,
Bridge was completed at 12:40 O'Clock this
afternoon. This was when three wire
ropes. "a inches I'm circumference, were
paid out from reels on a large scow that
was dragged broadside from the New
York to the Brooklyn side, the wire ropes
sinking to the bed of the river, where
they will remain until they are drawn
taut by steaE; engines and lifted into
place from tower top to tower top 1t Is
expected that this will be done about I
O'Clock Thursday afternoon.
1t was just t2:2S o'clock this afternoon
when the signal to start from the New
York side was given and twelve minutes
later the reefs from which the wire ropes
were paid out were stopped on the Brook
Ign side. There was no interference with
navigation. The harbor master had a
tug on the scene. but IL had nothing to
do for the reason that there was hardly
anything created in the river in the way
of a barrier.
Fifty feet beyond the point where the
wire sank into the water any vessel
could pass. so that all the craft going up
and down had only to dodge the big craft
that was being dragged directly across
the river. When the wires are raised on
Thursday, however, there will be an abso-
lutte bar to passage up and down the river
for several minutes. and two tugs win
patrol, one on each side. to warn craft of
all kinds to keep off.
1t is expected that IL no hitch occurs
the wires will be high enough above
water in ten or fifteen minutes from the
time the work of raising them begins to
enable vessels to pass under them.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
AN ALASKAN TRUST FORMED.
Four Big Transportation Companies
United i'm One Corporation.

SAN FRANCISCO. April s.-A great
trust of all trading and transportation
companies i'm Alaska was formed here to-
day. with q capital of sl0.251 coo. under
the double title of the Northern Nayiga-
ton Company and the Northern CONNER
cial Company.
These two companies incorporated I'M
der the laws of New Jersey. include the
Alaska Commercial Company ana the
Alaska Exploration Company and the
Seattle, Yukon Transportation Company.
and the Empire Transportation Company.
The purpose of the combination is to
prevent the cutting of rates and the de-
moraiization Of traffic. which has resulted
from divided interests in Alaska 1t was
found that the only way was to make a
combination of all companies operating
In the Yukon. st. Michaels. Behring Sea,
and Port Clarence districts The North
ern Navigation Company will take over
the assets of the four companies named.
and will do a strictly transportation bust
ness. with capital of s. ESQ. 900.
The Northern Company. capitalized at
S,Oe0,0o0. will take over all the plants and
stocks of merchandise now under the con-
troll of the four companies in Alaska. The
new companies expect to improve the
service and to reduce the price OF sup
plies. as they will be able to cut down ex-
penses. The principal offices will be in
San Francisco.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
FIGHTING AGAINST A CHANGE.
Mr.. RaIston, of Brooklyn. Opposes
AboIishing Porto Rican Transports.

d. H. Ralston. of Brooklyn, is in Wash
ington making a second attempt to in
duce Secretary Root to reconsider his in
tention to suspend the army transport
service between New York and Porto
Rico and make arrangements with steam
ship lines to carry troops and supplies.
Mr. RaIston has presented a petition to
Secretary Root against the change,
signed by a number of prominent Brook
lyn men. In discussing his business here,
ne said yesterday that while it had not
been officially decided to abolish the
transport service yet. Secretary Root said
that he would do SO just as soon as the
steamship lines make bids below the cost
of the present service.
THE Secretary" ne continued. seems
to have been impressed with the idea that
once the transport service is displaced.
the steamship lines will continue to
handle the governmental freight ~ less
than the United States Government can
do it itself. The proposal which is TO be
opened on April 10 for handling the work
of the present army transport service
runs until June 80, 1901. subject to re-
newal by the Government until the end
ing of the new fiscal year, which expires
June 30, 1902. | do not see how you can
compel bidder or contractor to rerfew
a contract on the same terms unless the
very much whether the bidders in this
case will feel this way when tine trans
port service is discontinued and the pur-
chaser is at the bidders mercy.
1T Is clear that the present proposal to
abolish this important service is simply
placing a monopoly in the hands of the
steamship lines, monopoly, too. that the
taxpayers of the United States are asked
to pay for. when they are now actually
prepared for and engaged in the work of
saving these profits that this exclusive
privilege is expected to return to the
steamship lines. This feature of the ques-
ton seems to have escaped the notice of
Secretary Root.
There is. by the way, no politics in
this question. The only questions involved
are two-economy and Americanism;
economy. because the Government own
experts say and the records of the trans
port service attest, that this work can
be done cheaper by the War Department
itself tran by contracting lines; Ameri-
canism, because the lines that now pre-
tend to be competing lines employ mainly
foreign vessels. This means that Ameri-
can labor is to be excluded from handling
American business. and that profits In
American shipping are to be diverted to
the purses OF foreign bankers and capt.
talists
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
POWERS DEMAND EXORBITANT.
America to Protest Against the In
demnity Claimed From Chinn.

1t was decided at the Cabinet meeting
at the White House yesterday morning
that the United States will protest against
the action of the Powers in fixing the in
demnity to be demanded from China at
si00.0Jo.oo0. In the opinion of the -Presi-
dent and majority Of his advisers. that
sum is eXorbitant and should never be
demanded. Secretary Hay was advised to
communicate the stand taken By this Cow
eminent to the Powers. with instructions
that the United States will not be party
to what is termed extortion.
One member of the Cabinet. in COM
menting upon the indemnity. said that
it was nothing more nor less than robbery
to demand that China pay over such a
sum as si00 000,o9G.
In comparison with this" said he.
the s25, 900 900 asked by the United States
looks paItry and insignificant. and yet
that sum covers everything We might de-
sire in the way of indemnify
1t was pointed out by Secretary Hay, at
the meeting. that China never could pay
such a sum as that demanded. 1t was
further shown that the King iom is en-
meshed in civil war. which will prove cost
ly and materially lessen the chances OF
payment.
Some severe criticisms OF the action of
the Powers Is said to have been INDUCED
in by the members of the Cabinet and it
was suggested that the demand for such
an enormous sum was made with the
complete knowledge that it could never
be paid save by territorial concessions
The plan. as believed by7seyeral officials.
is merely an entering wedge to prepare
for a general grab. which will include the
desired portions which are hungered af-
ter by Russia. Great Britain, France. and
Japan. and will destroy all agreements,
as to territory made in the past.
II is desired by the President that the
Powers be given to understand that
demand of s4O9. G00.G 600 can only mean a
general division of the Empire. since
China cannot possibly comply with the
demand in any other way. 1t is further
to be announced that this Government
enters its solemn protest against the de-
mand and will take no part in it
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
UNITING MEXICAN RAILWAYS.
A Consolidation Brought About b,
GOuld- Intercrt.

NEW ORLEANS. April s.--R. ]. Hart
man, manager Of the Oaxaca and Egutla
and the Tlacotepec and Huaguapum Rail-
roads. of Mexico. arrived here last night.
and today met number OF New York
capitalists. Arrangements were made by
which number Of Mexican railroads
were consolidated under one manage
ment.
The consolidation was brought about. II
is understood. by the Gould and Harri-
man interests. The Oaxaca and Egutia
Railroad is $50 miles long, extending from
Puebla to Oaxaca and thence to the 18TH
mus of Tehuantcpec. The Tlacotepec and
Huaguapum is $50 miles long. Both lines
were built by American capital.
By the present consolidation. the own
ers of the American lines absorb about
1000 miles of the British railway mileage
in Mexico, controlling all OF the roads
south of line running from Tampico to
the City of Mexico. This consolidation. 1t
Is understood. Is the precursor of other
INSCRIPTIONS, with the view of the Amer
leans controlling all OF the important rail-
road properties in the Mexican Republic
1t involves an outlay of about $50 000, 900.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
The Tarbeu Napoleon.

10 TIE EDITOR OF THE TINES: As you
are pleased to commend Miss Ida Tar
bells Napoleon" / am moved to say that
unless her picture of the Cat Corsican
is more trustworthy than her treatment
of the Army of the Cumberland. 1t will
have wide room for skepticism among
its readers.
The Emperor's career belonged to a
stage a century old, while the events
around Chattanooga We're of Miss Tar
bells own generation. The data which she
must gather for the one lie buried under
whole strata of conflicting authorities.
The information she needed for the other
Is spread upon the pages of the War De-
partment records For the one she must
accept the statements of writer's whose
statements are more or less colored by
personal or national bias. For the other
she was not obliged to adopt Shermans
mendacities. Let any fair minded reader,
familiar with his countrys real history,
examine her historical article in Nc
Cures Magazine of a year or two ago
in which she handles the campaign which
included ChickamauGa and eliminated in
Chattanooga, ana then pass Judgment
upon the fair historians Veracity.
w. II. NELSON.
Washington. April Q.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
CARPENTERS FOR SEA DUTY.
increasing the Warrant Force Up to
the New Requirements.

The Navy Department is preparing to
increase the force of warrant officers up
to the requirements OF the act allowing
fifty additional warrant machinists and
5000 more men.
of the twenty-five applicants for car
pentcrs only twcnty-one took the exami-
nation. Three of these qualified, namely
w w. Toles. W. c. Harde, and Fred
w White. There are now ten vacancies
in the list OF carpenters, and 1t is the pur-
pose of the department to hold another
examination this spring to fill the places.
The pay of a carpenter at sea ranges
from 81 200 for the first three years serv-
ice to 81 800 after twelve years service.
I'm addition to this he receives a ration
of 30 cents a day while at sea After ten
years service he is appointed a chief ear
penter and receives the same pay and
allowances as a second lieutenant In the
Marine Corps. which is sl.4OO. with an adj
dition Of 10 per cent for each and every
period of five years as longevity pay and
Communication while or shore duty.
amounting to 81 a month.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
ACQUIRED BY THE eoULDs.
Missouri Pacific Interests Secure the
Wheeling and Lake Erie

NEW YORK. April 9.-George ]. Gould
and some of his Missouri Pacific as
sociates. including Russell Sage. have
bought the Wheeling and Lake Erie Rail-
road. This purchase was made in the in
terast of the Missouri Pacific system, to
which it will afford an eastern outlet via
the Wabash Railroad. directly to Pitts
burg. and possibly. by means of additional
construction. to the Atlantic seaboard.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie owns tine
Toledo Belt Line, which will establish a
close connection with the Wabash Rail-
road in Toledo.
Russell Sage said today that it was true
the Gould interests had bought the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. but
he did not care to anticipate an official
announcement of the fact by giving any
particulars. There is a twofold signifi-
canoe in the Gould acquisition of this
property one is that the Goulds do not
intend to part with the Wabash Rail-
road and the other is that the Gould sys-
TEN is to he extended into Eastern terri
tory.
Mr.. Sage intirated today that there was
to be some new railway construction In
connection with the taking over of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
MIR. KNOX TAKES THE OATH.
The Attorney General Sworn I'm at
the White House.

Philander c. Knox, of Pennsylvania
was yesterday sworn in as Attorney Cen
eral of the United States, succeeding
John w. Griggs.
The ceremony WAS held in the presence
of President Mckinley, Mr.. Justice
Shiras. and Secretary Cortelyou, in the
Presidents office. In the White House.
Mr.. Justice Shiras was chosen to ad-
minister the oath of office because
of the fact that he is former resident of
Pittsburg and friend of the new Attor-
ney General
At the conclusion of the ceremony, Mr.
Knox accompanied the President and the
other members OF the Cabinet TO the I'M
yelling of the Logan statue.
Mr.. Knox Is at present staying at the
Shoreham with his son, Philander Knox,
-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
An Anecdote of Colonel Ingerso11.

To TIE EDITOR OF TIM TINES: During the Star
Route trials Colonel lngersoli. As counsel for
one of the defendants had to submit . f..tt.v
adverse rulings. Re kept ms temper always
while in court. But one day after repeated
rulings against him, at recess he went out to
lunch with some friends. Stepping from the
curb to cross the street he Glanced to go near
a white horse The animal gave a scpwi and
snort with an attempt 10 bite. Quickly Colonel
Insersoll responded. saying to the horse: BY
Juptcri Say. whose court are you the Judge ofg''
Jupiter was not the Deity invoked, but is it
not more consistent for Pagan TO swear BY
heather godg
The anecdote recently told me by one whn
was with the colonel al the time and heard him
utter the words iattetly Colonel lnsersoll said
W. ii. d.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
THE DICKINSON CASE ENDED.
Famous Litigation Closed in a Penn
syIynnia Court.

SCRANTON. Pa. April 9.-The famous
damage case brought by Anna Dickinson
because Of her Incarceration in DAN
vile tPa) asylum six or seven years ago
came to an end in the United States Dis
trict Court before Judge Burlington here
today
The first case on the list was that in
which Miss Dickinson sued DR.. Oglesby.
of Danyille. for damages in the sum of
$4,000 for signing the certificate which
made her Incarceration in the asylum pos
sible.
When the case was called today Judge
Jessup. Of counsel for Miss Dickinson. an
nounced that he was in receipt of a letter
from Attorney Hodge. In New York.
stating that the case was settled. The
case was thereupon stricken from the list
and the incident finally closed
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
Keeping Up With the Procession.


Although the United States has been in the
world-power business for only little more than
two years. II has assumed all the airs and WAYS
Of veteran. In our parochial days We were
foolish enough TO be- sensitive about national obli-
cations. and actually were innocent as TO mean
what we said There IS end to that sort of
thing now. however and the time is fast an
preaching whea our diplomacy will take rank with
that Of Russia and China. which we long be-
lieged was Of superlatiyely ingenious character
The day IL not far of when statesmen will
he able to give Ii Hung Chang, the Sultan of
Turkey. and the head Of the Foreign Office at
st. Petersburg all the trump cards and beat them
out IN the game.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
CONFERRED ON PORTO RICO.
Governor Allen Discusses the ISL
aDd's Affairs With the President.

Governor Allen, of Porto Rico. called
on the President at the White House yes
terday. and discussed the administration
of affairs in the island
Governor Allen later stated that he did
not know anything about the petition
from 5000 workmen which is being
brought to Washington by a member of
the Federation of Labor. He attributed
the agitation to Munoz Rivera dsap-
pointed candidate for office.
Governor Allen will remain in the city
Tor about week when he starts for New
England.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
A SUCCESSFUL ARMoR TEST.
A Plate for the Russian Bntt1eship
Alexander III Proved.

Lieut.. Joseph Strauss. in charge of the
Naval Proving Grounds at Indian Head,
Md. has made report to the Navy De-
partment OF successful test of five
inch Krupp-hardened arrner plate. manu-
facsured by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany for the Russian battleship Emperor
Alexander Ill
The velocity requirement was 2,o5S feet
a second. Three armor-piercing shells
were fred from a five-inch rife at veloci-
ties of 2,143 2,O99. and 2.012 feet second.
The deepest penetration was three and
a half inches.
There were no cracks. The plate was
accepted
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
The LOCAL Dutch of Manhattan.

Since the days when the acquisitive
eye of the navigator HuSson-who was
not Dutch, but the English master of a
beyond Manhattan Island, and imme
diately devoted it to the greater glory
of the Knickerbockers, down to the
present time. there have been many
alarming manifestations of snobbisn-
ness in the burg, which starting as
something ultra provincial, has never
ceased to be so. We have gazed with
admiration upon the antics of the ''Fe-
male Descendants of Royal Families, -
whose more immediate ancestors have
conducted livery stables, or taverns,
restaurants, bakeries. and laundries in
the most matter of fact and democratic
manner possible. We have watched the
Holland Danes and the spectacle Of
their Hibernian Queen Lavinia Demp-
say with intense and admiring interest.
But the worst offence of all against re-
publican dignity and simplicity, and the
very worst exhibition of supinely cad
dish wallowing before foreign throne
comes now from the St Nicholas Socie-
ty of New York, whose members are
Of the creme de la creme of the splendid
Knickerbocker aristocracy which in the
days Of its magnificent domination over
New Amsterdam, looked with lofty
scorn upon kings. and would hardly
have admitted emperors to the exclu-
sive precincts of its cabbage gardens,
blacksmith shops. cobbler's shops. and
clam boats. But let US not be critical
in any carpins way. Your real aristo-
crat in exile. even today, is not above
assuming office az a waiter, or nursing
crushed but still noble spirit under
the neat and attractive uniform of an
elevator boy or Of a hall porter 1t was
the same with the great founders of the
Knickerbocker order They concealed
their dignity and left it to be rediscov-
cred by remote and, In most cases,
remarkably mixed and uncertain pos
terity
In this connection II is proper to men
ton the possibility that the original
Knickerbockers, when they left the
pleasant marshes and windmills Of their
dear native land behind them, to estab-
fish a new settlement in the Western
Hemisphere to be entirely inhabited by
mobiles Of the bluest blood. for some rea-
son or other left their family names be-
klnd them and took on new ones. Only
~ days ago it was related in a ca
ter from The Hague that the
q and amiahle young Queen OF
ger attention being called to
a.,
Kat she did not see
In the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
An OId-Tn~hioned But Good Idea.

II seems if the rising generation had IFS way.
about all the boys would be lawyers doctors
dentists. and clerks. and the girls teachers stem
ographers, and typewriter Il is really refresh
ing TO run across bog who Is willing TO tackle
a mechanical trade some useful employment
requiring manual labor. and IT is certainly pleas
ing to meet girl who is willing and hopes TO
be such a mans wife. This Is about the way
a leyel-headed gentleman Of the ''old SCHOOL,
expressed himself in our presence a few DAYS ago
TO all OF which We gave hearty amen. lie
further said il really seemed to him, if these
things progressed in the direction they are now
taking few years longer. We would have 10
import Our mechanical labor from abroad 1t is
certainly not pleasant to contemplate the re-
suit.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
SERVICE FOR THE OLYMPIA.
Dewcy's Former Flagship 10 BE
Placed i'm Commission.

The Navy Department has decided to
have the cruiser Olympia, Admiral
Deweys former flagship, placed in COM
mission in August, and succeed the Kear-
sarge as the flagship Of the North At
lantic Squadron.
She will be commanded by Capt. Henry
w. Lyon, now on duty at the New York
Navy Yard, and will take mart in the
usual summer cruise of the squadron
along the New England coast. visiting
Newport and Bar Harbor.
Rear Admiral Higginson will relieve
Rear Admiral Farquhar of command of
the squadron on May /. He will hoist his
flag on the Kearsarge in Hampton Roads
and use that vessel as his flagship until
the Olympia joins the squadron.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
A SPEEDY TORPEDO BOAT.
The GoidsborouEh Makes More Than
Thirty Knots an Hour.

The Navy Department yesterday re-
ceived a despatch from the Wolf &
Zwicker Shipbuilding Company, Of Port
land. Ore, stating that the torpedo boat
Goldsborough, ON her trial trip, had at
tanned speed of 1854 knots an hour.
This is regarded as wonderful speed by
the Navy Department. and higher rate
is expected at the trial over a long course.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10

General Lcgan's memory is now en-
shrined in enduring bronze in the middle
of Iowa Circle, prominent and appro-
4 rate location. But the statue of Logan's
great commander. Ulysses S. Grant, is In
imminent danger of being hidden in the
back premises of the White House. II the
commission having charge Of the matter
should finally decide to move in that di-
rection. they might go 4 step further and
push the monument along to Appomattox,
with which place the history Of Grant is
considerably identified. There is no other
place I'm Washington as fitting for occu-
patton by the Grant statue as Dupont
Circle. The Dupont statue could be
planted somewhere else without the least
disrespect to the memory of the excellent
sailor and gentleman it recalls to our
minds
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
A BIG EASTER COLLECTION.
In Grace Church. New York S1O7.-
900 IL Taken Up.

NEW YORK, April 9.-At the close of
his sermon on Pal'n Sunday, DR.. Hunt
ington, pastor OF Grace Church. pointed
out that the church was badly in need
of more buildings. for which it had the
ground on Fourth Avenue. in the rear of
the present structure.
Great was his surprise on Easter Sun
day, after the usual Sunday offerings had
been collected. to find that the collection
boxes held Sl07.000.
This prompt response to his request was
a most pleasant surprise to DIR. Hunting
ton, and is said to be the largest amount
ever taken in a church collection in one
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-10
TO ENLARGE THE PLANT.
New Mills and Furnaces for the Col
OradO Fuel and Iron.

CHICAGO. April "Details of the re-
ported absorption by the American Steel
and Wire Company of the various coal
and iron interests forming the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company We're discussed
at a meeting held today in the office of
the former company in the Rookery
Building
According to persons interested. the
plans contemplate an immediate enlarge
ment of the big Pueblo plant of the COM
pany. with the addition of tin and wire
mills and blast furnaces. making the
plant one of the largest and most COM
pi-te il. .he country