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The times., 1901-04-10
The Tarben Napoleon.

10 TEE EDITOR OF THE TINES: AS you
are pleased TO commend Miss Ida Tar
bells Napoleon" l am moved to say that
unless her picture of the Great Corsican
is more Trustworthy than her treatment
of the Army of the Cumberland. it will
have wide room for skepticism among
its readers
The Emperors career belonged to a
stage a century old. while the events
around Chattanooga were 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 Sherman's
mendacities. Let any fair minded reader,
familiar with his country's real history
examine her historical article in No
Clures 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 g.
The times., 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. T0les. W. c. Hardie, and Fred
W Witte There are now ten vacancies
IN the list OF carpenters, and il is the pur-
pose Of the department 10 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
In addition to this he receives a ration
of 80 cents a day while at sea. After ten
years service he is appointed a chief car
penter and receives the same pay and
allowances as IA second lieutenant in the
Marine Corps, which is 81 400, with an ad-
dtion Of 10 per cent for each and every
period Of five years as longevity pay and
Communication while on shore duty.
amounting to S2i q month.
The times., 1901-04-10
ACQUIRED BY THE GoULDs.
Missouri Pacific Interests Secure the
Wheeling and Lake Erie.

NEW YORK. April 9.-George j. 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
terest of the Missouri Pacific system. 70
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 the
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 twofOld sgnih-
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-
tern is to be extended into Eastern terri
tory
Mr.. Sage intirated today that there was
to be some new railway construction ia
connection with the taking over of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie
The times., 1901-04-10
POWERS DEMAND EXORBlTANT
America to Protest Against the In
demnity Claimed From Chiuu.

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
&0O. 100000 In the opinion of the ,Presi-
dent and ma jority of his advisers. that
sum is exorbitant and should never be
demanded. Secretary Hay was advised TO
communicate the stand taken by this Cow
ernment to the Powers, with instructions
that the United States will not be "a party
to what is termed extoTtion.
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 s400, 000,Oe.
In comparison with this said he.
the s25, 900. 600 asked by the United States
looks paItry and Insignificant. and yet
that sum covers everything We might de-
sire in the way of indemnity.
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 Kingdom 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
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 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
1t is desired by the President that the
Powers be given TO understand that a
demand of s409, 900 600 can only mean a
general division of the Empire. since
China cannot possibly comply with the
demand in any other way. II is further
to be announced that this Government
enters it's solemn protest against the de-
mand and will take no part in it.
The times., 1901-04-10
UNITING MEXICAN RAILWAYS.
a Consolidation Brought about by
utd-Hnrrimam interests

NEW ORLEANS. April s.-R. J. 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 a number Of Mexican railroads
were consolidated under one manage
ment.
The consolidation was brought about Il
is understood. by the Gould and Harri-
man interests The Oaxaca and Egutla
Railroad is $50 miles long. extending from
Puebla to Oaxaca and thence to the 18TH
mus of Tehuantepee. The Tiacotepee 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
2.ooe miles of the British railway mileage
in Mexico. controlling all OF the roads
south of line running from TampicO 10
the City of Mexico. This consolidation. IL
IS understood. is the precursor of other
absorptions. with the view of the Amer
leans controlling all of the important rail-
road properties in the Mexican Republic
IL involves an outlay of about $50, ,e0. 800.
The times., 1901-04-10
THE DICKINSON CASE ENDED.
Famous Litigation Closed in a Penn
syIyania Court.

SCRANTON, Pa. April 9.-The famous
damage case brought by Anna Dickinson
because Of her incarceration In u Dan
vile (Pa-) 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 i'm
which Miss Dickinson sued DR.. Oglesby,
of Danyilie, for damages in the sum Of
s25.eoe 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., 1901-04-10
MR.. KNOX TAKES THE OATH
The Attorney General sworn i'm at
the white House

Philander &. 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 a 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 un-
yelling Of the Logan statue
Mr.. Knox is at present staying at the
Shoreham with his son, Philander Knox,
The times., 1901-04-10
An Anccdote of coioncI Inger.olI.

To THE EDITOR OF TuE TINES: During the star
Route trials Colonel Ingefsoli. as counsel for
one OF the defendants, had to s,s5n,it 10 p,any
adverse rulings. He kept his temper always
while in court. But one day. after repeated
rulings against him, at recess he went oat TO
lunch with some friends stepping from the
curb to cross the street he Glanced to go near
white horse. The animal gave a scpwl and
snort. with an attempt to bite. Quckiy Colonel
Ingersoh responded saying 90 the horse: -By
IuPitcri say. whose eomt ase you the Judge ofg''
Jupiter was not the Deity invoked, but is it
not more consistent for Pssan to swear by
heathcn god?
The anecdote recently told me bv ore whs
was with the colonel AZ the time ana heard hin
utter the words. l.attctls Colonel Insersoll said
W. H. b.
The times., 1901-04-10
SERVICE FOR THE OLYMPIA
Dewey's Former Flagship To BE
Placed i'm Commission

The Navy Department has decided TO
have the cruiser Olympia, Admiral
Dewey's former flagship, placed in COM
mission in August, and succeed the Kear-
sarge as the flagship Of the North At
lantic Squadron.
She win be commanded by Capt. Henry
W. Lyon. now on duty at the New York
Navy Yard. and will take part 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 l. 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., 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. a disap-
pointed candidate for office
Governor Allen will remain in the city
for about week. when he starts for New
England.
The times., 1901-04-10
An oId-Tashioned But Good Iden,
From the Texas sun. }

IL seems, II the rising generation had its way
about all the boys would be lawyers doctors.
dentists and clerks, and the girls teachers stem
ographers, and typewriters. II is really refresh
ing 10 run across boy who is willing TO tackle
a mechanical trade some useful employment
requiring manual labor, and il Is certainly pleas
ing TO meet a girl who is willing and hones Ia
be such mans wife This Is about the way
a level-headed gentleman of the ''oid SCHOOL,
expressed himself ia presence few days ago
TO all OF which We gave hearty amen. lie
further sid it 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 IRON abroad. 1t is
suit
The times., 1901-04-10
A SPEEDY TORPEDO BOAT.
The GoIdsborouEh Makes More Than
Thirty Knots nm HOur

The Navy Department yesterday re-
ceived a despatch from the Wolf &
IWicler Shipbuildug Company, of Port
land, Ore. stating that the torpedo boat
GOldsbOrough, on her trial trip, had at
tanned a speed of 30Si knots an hour
This IS regarded as wonderful speed by
the Navy Department and higher rate
is expected at the trial over long course
The times., 1901-04-10
A BIG EASTER COLLECTION.
In Grace Church. New York. SfO7.
900 IL Taken Up.

NEW YORK, April 9--At the close Of
his sermon on Palm 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 Easter Sun
day. after the usual Sunday offerings had
been collected. TO find that the collection
boxes held Sle7. 600
This prompt response to his request was
a most pleasant surprise to DR.. Hunting
ton, and is said TO be the largest amount
ever taken in a church collection in one
daV
The times., 1901-04-10
TO ENLARGE THE PLANT.
New Wills 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 were discussed
at 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
plete in the country
The times., 1901-04-10
A SUCCESSFUL ARMoR TEST.
A Plate for the Russian BattIeshiI
Alexander III Proved.

Lieut. Joseph Strauss. in charge of the
Naval Proving Grounds at Indian Head,
Md, has made a report to the Navy De-
partment of a successful test of a five
inch Krupp-hardened arner plate, manu-
factured by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany for the Russian battleship Emperor
Alexander III.
The velocity requirement was 2,o5S feet
a second. Three armor-piercing shells
were fired from five-inch rifle at veloci-
ties OF 2.143, 2,099. and 2,072 feet a second.
The deepest penetration was three and
a half inches.
There were no cracks. The plate was
accepted.
The times., 1901-04-10
Eree S,Iteecii.

(From the Philadelphia North American)
Free speech IS too sacred right to be left to
The mercy OF the police. No doubt the Anar-
chists hold most unconventional views on the sub
!ects OF government and property but 80 long
as Their speakers do moi counsel lawess acts they
nave as clear right as other people to air
tier notions. The true American doctrine was
iaid down by Thomas Jefferson when he observed
that error can safely be tolerated so long as
truth IS left free 10 combat it.
The times., 1901-04-10
Keeping Up With the Procession
From the Baltimorc snn.l

Although tie United States has been in the
world-power business for only little more than
two years, II has assumed all the airs and yavs
Of a veteran In our parochial days we were
foolish enough to be sensitive about national obl-
cations and actually 70 innocent as 10 mean
thing now, however, and the time is fast an
proaching when our diplomacy will take rank with
that Of Russia and China which we long be-
leYed was Of supcrlatiycly ingenious character
The day Il not tar of when our statesmen will
be able to give Ii Hung Chang the Sultan of
Turkey. and the head OF the Foreign Office at
II. Petersburg all the trump cards and beat them
out IN the game
The times., 1901-04-10

General Lcgans memory is now en-
shrined in enduring bronze in the middle
of Iowa Circle, prominent and appro-
pirate 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 a step further and
push the monument along TO Appomattox
with which place the history of Grant is
considerably identified. There is no other
place in 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., 1901-04-10

Sampson continues to reap a rich re-
ward of prize money from the captures
made by the feet under my command
during the Spanish war. The Court of
Claims has just rendered Judgment in
his favor for three thousand three hun
dred and thirty dollars. From this we
learn that it Is better to be born lucky
than with brains. red blood, and honest
Amercanism.
The times., 1901-04-10
The LoyaI Dutch of Manhattan,

Since the days when the acquisitive
eye Of the navigator Hudson-who was
not Dutch but the English master Of a
Dutch vessel-frst swept the horizon
beyond Manhattan Island, and imme-
diately devoted it to the greater glory
OF the X Knickerbockers, down To the
present time. there have been many
alarming manifestations Of snObbish-
ness in the burg, which, starting as
something ultra provincial, has never
ceased to be so. We have gazed with
admirat tion upon the antics of the ''Fe-
male Descendants Of Royal Families" 4"
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-
sey with intense and admiring interest
But the worst offence OF ali against re-
publican dignity and simplicity, and the
very worst exhibition Of supinely cad
dish w2llowing before a foreign throne
comes now from the St. Nicholas Socie-
of the creme de la creme Of the splendid
Enickerbocker aristocTacy which. in the
days Of its magnificent domination over
New Amsterdam. looked with lofty
scoTn 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 carpiue way. Your real aristo-
crat in exile. even, today is not above
assuming office as a waiter, or nursing
n 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 a remote and, ia most cases, a
remarkably mixed and uncertain pos
terity
In this connection f. IS proper to men
tion the possibility that the original
Knickerbockers, when they left the
pleasant marshes and windmills Of their
dear native land behind them. to estab-
lish 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-
\slnd them and took on new ones. Only
- days ago il was related IN a ca
Ter from The Hague that the
Il and amiahle young Queen Of
ker attention being called to
of the modern Knicl,er-
Alaf she dfd 40. eaa
nsocial 6istlnc-
In the
The times., 1901-04-10
Crowned Heads Uneasy.

(From the ST. Louis Giobe-f)emocrat)
As sign of the times it must be apparent that
the crown business Is not what il Is cracked I'D
10 be- Emperor William Is being made daily
target for scrap iron. King Edward is having So
eiaI discord, an earthquake is rumbing around
The Sultan, and everybody Is taking shot at
Gar Nicholas *
The times., 1901-04-10
FruitIes. ,Journeying.
(From the Philadelphia Times.)

tFrOm the Philadelphia Times)
There will have to be new President be-
fore it will be worth while for Foulke and
Dana OF any other civil service reformers to incur
the expense OF a journey to Washington to pro-
test against the appointment OF Civil Service
Commissioners OF the Rodenberg type.
The times., 1901-04-10
Consul j. c. McCook III.

The State Department has received a
despatch from the Vice Consul at Daw-
son. British Northwest Territory. stating
that James c. McCOok. of Philadelphia.
the Consul there. is i'll with pneumonia
in the hospital. but that favorable out
come is expected.
The times., 1901-04-10

lean fathers IS supposed to stand may
look out for themselves. Pnchbeck
aristocracy is interested only in matters
of royal, or, at the very least. noble
nature.
The times., 1901-04-10
behind tLe Times.
(From The Omaha WorId-Herald.)

IT tVTiI N'IIINIIII
Perry Heath says he does not know whether he
will accept the position OF chief OF the Bureau Of
Publicity and Promotion for the st. Louis EN-
position at a salary OF S20.ODp q year Perry Is
behind the times. Everybody else knows that he
will accept Just as soon it is definitely offered
tn him
The times., 1901-04-10
This naive conclusion aroused the
Sum to say.

'.The election Of two Republican Senators, as
understood by the Addicks faction. and as they
are trying to have the country believe that the
President understands the phrase, means the
election OF J. Edward Addieks and another
man. Harmony means the surrender, or the
overpowering by major force. OF the regular Re-
publicans who have so long and 50 successfully
sisted Addicks' ambition to get himself into the
Senate at the expense of the good fame OF Della
ware Republcanism.
''If the President has been led to believe that
the cause Of ReIaIhlicanism throughout the coun-
try or the reputation Of his own Administration,
viii be promoted by using Federal patronage in
Delaware TO boost Addicks into the United States
Senate, that such result will be satisfae-
tory TO the majority Of his Republican friends
and well-wislers in Delaware and elsewhere, he
has been misinformed and misled."
Yet. after all. what is the President to
do? Are not Addicks and another"
better than two Democrats?
The times., 1901-04-10

So far the indemnity claims which have
been prepared against China by the
Concert Powers amount to approximately
four hundred million dollars. This sum
the Administration considers excessive
and utterly beyond the ability of the
Chinese to pay. Consequently our Peace
Commissioner at Pekin has been in
structed to protest to the council of
ENJOYS and to attempt to get the total
reduced 1t is TO be feared that Mr..
Rockhill will have no better success than
General Chaffee, had in trying TO prevent
the destruction of the Pei-Ho forts and
the permanent occupation OF the Tientsin-
Pekin railway line. 1t is highly probable
that European Cabinets are quite as well
Informed concerning Chinas financial re-
sources end ability as Mr.. Mckinley or
Mr.. Hay can be. If the European States
put their demands beyond the power Of
the Chinese TO satisfy in money. there is
not much room for doubt that they do it
with an eye to real estate security for
their claims. In short, the whole game
is drifting toward the partition of the
Empire, and moral suasion is hardly apt
10 check the tendency.
The times., 1901-04-10
GIFTS FOR CHARITABLE USE.
Senator McPherson's Widow Pro
SideS for Poor Students

NEW YORK, April BY the will of
the widow of Senator John r. McPher-
son. filed in Jersey City today, a life in
terest, valued at s5e0, coo. is bequeathed to
her daughter. going at her death to the
following: Ten thousand dollars to the
Emergency Hospital in Washington: $5O,
900 to Christ Hospital Jersey City, and
the residue to Yale University, 10 be used
for The edmcatinn of indigent studenls.
The times., 1901-04-10
Dietrich's Duality.

(From the BOSTON TrInsfript.l
The Governor of Nebraska is going 10 bc EN-
eeutve of the State and United states Senator
from the State until next December. The idea
of thrift takes up considerable space in the nind
OF a Nebraska statesman
The times., 1901-04-10
AIGiRkS.

Our esteemed contemporary the
New York Sun" continues to be per-
turbed over Addicks In its morning
issue of yesterday 1t referred to a re-
cent visit to the President made by
Governor HUM, of Delaware, and other
Republican leaders in the State, and
quoted the Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger as saying
of the results of the interview:
There is reason for the belief that If il can be
established TO the satisfaction OF the President
that the election of two Republicans can be Sc
cured by the of the Federal offices he viii
not hesitate to them regardless of per-
sons
The times., 1901-04-10

It is satisfactory to learn that the Fill
pinos are coming in by hundreds and TAX
ing the oath. We refer to the Philippine
FilipinOs. There has not been hint that
any Of their Boston comrades have done
or intend TO do likewise. They should
be admonished. and then upon refusal to
be good, should be sent to join the great
colony Of lunatics in Kansas.