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New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
WA YES BROUGHT GUILTHOUE
MESSENGER WHO ROBBED MAILS AND
THREW LETTERS FOUND AT OCEAN
GROVE INTO RIVER ARRESTED.

The mystery which has surrounded the finding
OF number of letters the beach at Ocean
Grove was solved yesterday. when Thomas F.
Martel. Of No, 439 West Forty ninth-st. was
locked up IN the Church-st. staIon charged
with robbing the mails.
On the morning of April ? two boys found the
letters scattered along the beach at Ocean Grove
AS nearly all the letters We're addressed to per-
sons In New-York City. they were sent here
Inspector King detailed Detectives Jacobs and
Kyle to find the thief, They found that the let
ters came to this city on Sunday morning. March
81, and were taken to the Fiftieth-st elevated
railroad station by Martel The mail lay on the
platform until $50 o'clock.
The detectives We're convinced that Martel
was the thief when they found that he had de-
posted so on an order for suit of clothes
Martel AT first denied all knowledge of th,
theft, but finally made a complete confession
He said that four packages Of straight mail mat
ter and twenty special delivery letters were in
adVertently left out and that he hid them i'm
the cellar Of Station G until II o'clock when he
was OF duty. He opened the letters in a saloon
at Fiftieth-st. and Seventh-ave., extracting cash
amounting to $40, but not disturbing the checks
and money orders. He then tied the letters in
packages as he had found them and threw them
into the North River al Fiftieth-st.
Martel and his father, with whom he lives are
employed as messengers at Station G.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
FAMINE N STBERTi

While Russia presses on ineyorably to fresh
conquests and new annexations OF territory in
Asia. famine and pestilence ravage the lands
she already owns. Famine and pestilence are.
indeed practically perennially endemic in some
parts of her i'll governed empire. But this year
they seem TO have risen to an exceptional height,
not in the crowded and Impoverished regions
north of the EuXne. but in that sparsely occu-
pied land of abundance in Siberia which has
been vaunted as the garden and the Granary of
the whrldn No garnished tales Of Indian famine
surpass in horror those which now come from
the land of the Car.
We are told that last spring and summer
drouth and the crops largely failed. Then came
the military movements toward China. The
railroad was monopolized by the army what
stores of grain and fodder the country contained
were seized for army uses the most able Bodied
Of the peasants were drafted into military ser
vice, and the land was left ravaged and desc
late. Practically the same things occurred in
Eastern Siberia. with the exception that II suf-
fered from flood instead Of drouth And now
throughout the whole land people are eating
weeds and clay and dying of starvation by
thousands, and mothers selling and often
killing their children rather than see them die
of famine, and typhus fever and diphtheria and
scurvy are more than decimating the population
Such are the appalling reports which now
come through friendly channels from Asiatic
Russn. They suggest with dreadful force the
desirabilty Of nations learning to use and to
govern we'll the land which it possesses before il
seeks more lands TO govern. But that is lesson
which conquering nations are slow to learn.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
ANOTHER AXEMAN As MAYOR.

Cleveland's new Mayor is full of hustle and
rustic. He is bent on shaking up dry bones
and making n stir and puzzng people to
what he will do next A Carrie Nation crusade
he has already set on foot against old and shaky
buildings in his bailiwick. 1t may he that he
will call later upon Patrick j. Gleason, the
celebrated ex-Mayor of Long Island City, who
swung his battleaxe vigorously in Queens
County some years ago What destructive
pair of tomahawk wielders Johnson and Gea-
son would make if they linked arms and deadly
weapons, Hugh J. Grant when Mayor of New
York took up the axe against the telegraph
poles in Broadway and down they came. Per
haps Mr.. Johnson might get some valuable
hints in his choppng campaign from the ex-
Mayor of Manhattan.
In Mt least one thing Cleyeland's new Mayor
is acting sagaciously and in the public interest.
He has issued an ukase against hideous signs
of enormous size, and is having them swept
ruthlessly off the face of the city. New-York
suffers sorely from colossal denominations of
that kind. VIII Mayor Van Wyck do nothing
TO lessen this grievOus nuisance:
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11

esta blishment of small farms cities because
the farmer must provide for the consumption
tax before he could sell his products. This was
practical prohibition. Since Porto Rico came
under American rule these conditions have been
materially relieved. Tie taxes on necessaries
have been taken off the aboring people have
been set to building roads of which there were
hardly any IN the island, and the tobacco indus
try has been revived by lowering the export
duties. Flour. and rice. which were for
merly subjected to high tariff duties. are now
admitted free. The old Spanish poll taxes
which laborerS were compelled to pay have been
abolished. The money standard was changed on
August l. 1900. and many laborers are
silver
That is an excellent justification of a measure
which substituted a light indirect tax, borne
chiefly by the importers and exporters, who
were most able TO pay, for tax on the farmer
and laborer at time of transition and suffer
ing from the hurricane. when they were unable
10 bear the burden. Evidently the Republicans
knew what they were about. and the result of
their rule is a revival of industry and a large
Increase of wages. How odd, in the light of
such testimony. appear last years diatribes
about the Foraker law booming the Porto
Ricans TO Industrial slavery and more onerous
taxation than that imposed by SPAIN Such,
without eXaggeratiOn were the common descrip-
tions of that law. not by sensationalists, but by
persons who pretended to speak with measure
and sobriety on public questions as the refec-
tors of the moral sense of the intelligent COM
munity. A years experience has perhaps taught
them that prejudice and Mysteries are not the
best guide 10 practical craftsmanship.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
Amnsemeris.

ACADEMY OF MCSIc-s-rncle TOMS Cabin.
AMERICAN TEEATRE-2s:1s-East Iynne
BlJOC-s:l5-The Climbers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Price Peace.
CASINOS: s:i5-Florodora
CRITERION THEATRE-s:l5-Nhen Knishtheod
n Flower
pAlY's THEATRE-s:Io-San Toy.
EDEN MCSFE-The World IN
EMPlkE THEATRES Brother Officers,
JyIRTEENTH STREET THEATRE-s-Msvourneen
GARDEN THEATRE-s:15-Cnder Two Flags.
"ARkick THEATRE-s:30-Captsn Jinks Of the Horse
Marines.
GRAND OPERA Hor-sE-sIrhe Amer
HARLEM OPERA house,: :45-fiamiet
lHnlNS PLACE THEATRE-s:i5-Das Kaninchen.
KEITH s-Continuous Performance.
Girl
KOsTER & IAL'S-l:s5-7:45-vaudevilI.
L1CEUM THEARTE-2-s:I5-Ona and OF. followed by
The Shades Night
MADIsoN SQUARE THEATRES 3e-on the Quiet
MAtfSoN SQUARE GARDEN-2-s:lS-Wid West.
MLRRAY Hill. THEATRE-2-s-A Contented Woman
NETWORKS: :i5-vaudeyille
PASTOR 'S-DaY Night-C-ontInuous Show
PROCTOR S--Continuous Performance.
fE;l'TBLJc-s:l5-ln Palace the King
VICTORIA THEATRE-s-Mv Iady.
WAL~ACKs THEATRES :30-Are You Mason7
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
4 TE4R AFTER.

Truly. as the Latin poet said. Time assuages
sorrow." Rarely has the fact been made more
obvious than by the contented and peaceful
disposition with which last Years champions Of
Porto Rico's alleged wrongs now contemplate
The condition Of that island 4 year ago the
whole country filled with the din of those
who were going 10 punish right soon Republi-
ran 'perfdy' 10 Porto Rico. and much noise
lid they mako that many Republicans began 10
be afraid and wonder If they had provoked
political cyclone which would bury the party. II
WAS one Of the greatest storms record. The
very memory of the thunderclaps is enough to
raise the hair. The Porto Rican act was worse
than Spanish tyranny" Ii vas simply holding
up Porto Rico and robbing her" We were
"coine 10 make the Porto Ricans hewers Of
wood and drawers of water for this country
We were going TO starre the people OF Porto
Rico 10 fill the pockets of the trusts We were
putting n terrible handicap on the island
The Porto Ricans had come TO us seeking
friend and found Shylock" We were treating
them like Ireland" and they would be worse
off than under the worst days Of Spanish rule"
Our conduct MAS ''unspeakably disgrace
We were ''marauders' and pirates
All these phrases and many more which might
be culed from last springs controversial writ
ings We're daily used TO characterize the Repub-
lcan legislation for Porto Rico. Learned profes-
sofs and distinguished travellers were brought
forward TO prove by mathematical demonstra-
ficn that the laws proposed were tyrannical and
ruinous 10 the island, and any innocent witness
OF their tremendous indignation who did not
know how passions could be torn 10 tatters by
superior persons mistaking their prejudices for
facts would have expected 10 see Porto Rico
hopelessly ruined by that worse than Spanish'
law. But year has passed. The storm is
stilled. Porto Rico has not parted with its
pound Of flesh 10 Shylock. but finds itself much
benefited by the law. much so that the free
trade and local taxation substitute passed by
the Porto Rican Legislature finds many oppo-
nents in the island. Perhaps no better testi-
mony 70 the hysterical character and utter
falsity Of last years outcry could be found than
that Of The New-Y York Evening Post" itself q
strong opponent of the Foraker bill. After a
years experience with that measure The
Evening Post" thus describes the present Porto
Ricsn situation as compared with that under
Spanish rule. the commercial cruelty of which
were said 10 be outdoing:
Under the old Spanish regime the burden q,
taxation fell On the farmer. Jewelry dryRoods
sn6 similar articles were exempt; but the neces
series OF life, such maize. rice lard sugar
hour and coal, We're subject TO a tax levied by
the MUNICIPALITIES. This fnpost was heavy
emountine 10 81 . hundredweiGht on nour
Y % on rice and - muscovado sugar Its
snects were far reaching. 1t not only nearly
souo'eo the coet Of living. but it prevented thu
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Owing TO the length OF the programme 10 be
offered at the Janauschek testimonial tomorrow
afternoon az Wallack's Theatre. the performance
will begin promptly AT lis o'clock The eontribu-
tions will be presented in the following order: Miss
Julia Marowe and her company, in the first ect
of when knishthood Was in Flower: few
minutes entertaLnment by Mrs Annie Ieanlans
with Mr. Dodsou Mr.. Dresser, Mr.. Stursts. Miss
Irish and DR. Edeson: Miss Lillian Russell and De
Wolf Hopper in the operatic trayestv from Fiddle
de Dee Miss Viola Allen and special company. in
the third act of The Christian; Messrs. Wsoer
Robinson and Allie Gilbert. in the travesty on
Tell Me- Pretty Maiden; Miss Blanche Bates and
9p,seps s''t Messenger M James T Powers in an
original monoiozue; Miss Amelia Bingham. One
MsSde HARRISON assisted by Clarence Handysides.
AdoIph Jackson and Henry Warren
Miss Edna May and seventy persons. who ap-
reared ir The Girl from Up There" during it's
run a, the Herald Square Theatre. sailed for
England or the Germanic yesterday. The company
will open ats London season at the Duke OF Yorks
Theatre or about April %
Nine Sarah Bernhardt. Mrs. Maurice Grau and
NJ Coquelin will be the guests of Mss Elsie de
Wolfe and will see The Shades of Night at the
Lyeeum Theatre this afternoon
Tonight the first American production of Thilo
Won TrOtha's newest comedy ''Das Kaninchen.
will take place at the Irving Place Theatre for the
George Bischel. jr., and c. He-rnstadt.
The Deutschland which is due to-day. has
board Nine. Helene Odilon. whom Mr. Conried mas
secured for star engagement of two weeks at
his Irving Place Theatre Nine. odion. who 10 ae-
companied by her husband. Count Rakovzcy viii
Bahr's comedy The Star
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
PERSONAL.

The dinner given by the survivors of the defend
ers of Befort in the Franco German War, on the
anniversary of the siege, especially memorable
because of the enc woman present who provided
one of the most popular toasts. This Nine
Belfort lieutenant of the Francs-Tireurs. who
then but girl just out of her teens. enrolled
as trooper In that corps. as she was a capital
rider and shot. In this campaign she won both her
commission and tho Military Cross.
Justice Brewer. Booker r Washington. President
Garfield the Rev. DR. Hills and James Whitcomb
Riley have been invited 10 address the next meet
ing of the Kansas State Teachers Association.
Judge John S. Keyes has just completed fifty
of active and continuous service for the town
OF Concord. Mass, having in that time held every
office in the town. He delegate TO the Chi
cago Convention of 1860, which nominated Lincoln.
and served through the Civil War. Since ls4e he
has been a member of an exclusive local organza
tion. the Social Circle which organized in
l7S2. and which has numbered among It's members
the famous men who in years gone by have lived
kind in existence. and Judge Reyes is proud Of
his membership He is the senior member He
Revolutionary history Imbedded in the walls
there are bullets fred by the British during that
memorable conflict at the Old North Bridge. but
short distance away.
London. April lO-General William Booth. OF the
Salvation Army. celebrated his seventy-second
birthday to-day by attending a series of meetings,
at which he received the ngratulations of the
force, He was born in Nottingham in 1879. He
life to evangestic labor. In 1865 ne organized ne
Salvation Army.
London April lo.-Lloyd c. Griscom. secretary Of
the American Legation at Constantnopie. arrived
here from that city to-day. and sails on Saturday
for the United States. He was present at the
Kourban Bairam ceremony IN Constantinople, on
the ceremony and says that the published accounts
thereof inadequately picture the terror Of the Incl
which averted disastrous panic
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
NesoDark Ds1ily Wsibu,re
THURSDAY. APRIL II. 1901.
TIE VIEWS THIS MORNING.

FORETGN.-General Botha renewed negotia-
tions with Great Britain for peace in South
Africa, as De Vets irresponsibility is thought
10 devolve all authority on him, and he can Sc
cure surrender of all the forces. - The Teu-
tonic. on board of which is J. Pierpont Morgan.
arrived at Queenstown; no reporters We're al
ment has accepted Russia's assurances in regard
TO Manchuria. thereby. il is thought. ayerting
a rupture between the two nations - Presi-
dent Loubet met the Duke Of Genoa at Toulon.
and was decorated with the Collar of the Order
OF the Annunciata, the gift OF the King of Italy.
10 Wnom he sent telegram OF thanks. -
A new Cabinet appointed in Venezuela In
consequence of the assumption OF the Provis-
ional Presidency by General Castro - The
French Dreyfusite organ. lie Steele has failed
ana VII pe sold at auction =" dividend OF
40 per cent was announced by the London
ton by Lord Halsbury of the Lord Chancellor
ship was declared to he the merest breath of
idle gossip.
DOMESTIC.-The President appointed Colonel
Wallace F. Randolph Chief of the Artillery
Corps under the army reorganization law -
y. c. Knox, the Attorney General, took
formal charge Of his office. and was introduced
TO the United States Supreme Court. AM
bassador CambOn gave a ball the French
Embassy in Washington in honor of the officers
and cadets OF the training ship Duguay Trouin.
- A bill TO prohibit pigeon shooting was
prepared at Albany for introduction in the
legislature to-day. - Governor Odell denied
al Albany that ne had suggested any amend
ments to the revised charter of the city OF New
York. - Mrs. Blakeley Hall began suit in
lhe Ihlted states circuit Court at Hartford to
recover her allaged share in the estate OF the
late George f. Gilman. Of Bridgeport.
The reported purchase of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company by John w. Gates and others
was contradicte6 by the president of the
pany - A rich oil strike has been made
near Ell Paso. Tex
ClTf.-Stocks were strong and higher
Edward Stevens. graduate of West Point and
former captain in the United States Army, was
found dead in bathtub in the Hotel Dore.
- messenger OF the postal service
fessed that he stole money from the mails and
threw into the North River the letters found
on Ocean Grove Beach week ago. =- Two
negroes quarrelied over five cents in a crap
game and one shot the other dead.
noored in the Harlem River - Surgeons
who were present at the autopsy on the body OF
William Marsh Rice testified at the Patrick
hearing that the millionaire died from some
vapor administered 10 him. - The who
tried to kill himself before crowd OF five hun
dred persons in West-st.- on Tuesday, turned
to be notorious Swedish counterfeiter and
fugitive from justice 49, Republicans ex-
pressed the opinion that the new charter should
be amended at once not TO give Tamuany
campaign capital.
THE wEATHER-Forecast for to-day: Fair
The temperature yesterday: Highest 20 degrees;
lowest, AZ; average. 46.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
THE GUIDE BOOK OF TINE.

Denm3ns often misquoted words, "a mockcry
delusion and a SNARE" rise readily TO mind at
sight of book without an index and still more
ut sight OF a library without catalogue The
implied reproach is one. however. which The
tribune does not incur. Its annual files are
books of great value. whole libraries under
single title. They would not be devoid of value
were they without an index, though they Nigh.
greatly mock and deude the seeker for in
formation But with the addition of the conf
Gus, analytical and accurate Tribune Index
they are well catalosued libraries with all
their treasures of record and reminder readily
accessible TO all comers.
The surprising and unique value of this an
nual publication is not, however, confined to its
use as a guide book to the files of this journal.
great as that special value Is The Tribune
Index is veritable guide book to the intricate
and complex progress of time itself 1t is
classified dictionary of dates, more detailed and
comprehensive than any other in the world of
which we have knowledge For IL gives the
place In which an item of information is to be
found. not by volume and page and column of
The Tribune alone, though that would be of
great value %but by year and month and day
well: that he who refers TO its pares
asceriains not only where to find what The
Tribune had to say about the event but also
the exact date on which that event occurred.
regardless of the files of this journal There is
probably no question so often asked as When,
When did get married? When was ar
rested: When did die: When did this. that
or the other incident. grave gay. occur? To
such questions mutiplicate as the needs and
curiosities Of the human race, this handbook
gives instant answer 1t is n guide to the do
ings Of the world which is simply Indispensable
TO all who would keep themselves well Informed
and who would avoid hourly perplexities
The latest number of The Tribune Index. now
on sale at The Tribune counting room or sent
by mail on receipt Of 81. is more than worthy
of its predecessors, and is one of the most I'M
pressve of all conceivable records in epitome
of the closing year Of the nineteenth century
Upon its crowded yet lucid pages are to be
found between fifty thousand and fifty five thou
sand dates Of occurrences r the year 1000
What an amazing analysis of that years actiyi-
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
DINNER FOR IRVING BACHELLER.

The ST. Lawrence Club of NewYork City will
give complimentary dinner for Irving Bacheller.
author of ''Eben Holden" on next Saturday even
ing at the rooms Of the Aldine Association. Every
seat in the dining room. numbering three hun
dred and twenty-five hiss been taken, and an over
flow dinner numbering over tfty participants. viii
be held at the Cafe Leon Flouret. Fifth-ave. and
Eighteenth-st The same speakers VIII address
both dinners II 1t is found impossible for the over
flow diners to be accommodated 20 hear speeches
at the AIdine Association rooms. Many under
graduates from st. Lawrence University will be
present. An autograph copy of "Eben Holden is
to BE- given souvenir. The Rev. James NJ.
Pullman OF Massachusetts. will preside. Among
fhe speakers will be Mr.. Bacheler. Richard Wat
son Glider. E. s. Brooks. President Almon Gunni-
son OF st Lawrence University. L. p. Hale and A.
p Fitch president Of the Franklin County Society.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11

LIE Steele. of Paris. has not long outlasted
the century. 1t has failed, and is to be
sold at auction 1t goes down, however. in
honor that more than one of its survivors in the
French press might well envy. 1t and its ed-
tor, M. Yves Guyot. will long be gratefully
membered for their noble and unsehsh cham
plonship of justice in the Dreyfus case, for their
defence of true republicanism against reac-
tionary clericasm the hand and deca-
dent socialism on the other and for their efforts
to restrain petty Chauvinsm and to keep France
on the high plane Of self-respecting, self-trust-
ing and dgnfed friendship among friendly ma
tions M. Guyot admits that the policy of the
paper failed to win sufficient patronage to make
it pay. His friends may we'll boast that he was
not willing to sacrifice his principles in order to
win financial success.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-11
GOVERNMENT BIDS OPENED.
STEAMSHIP LINES MAKE ESTIMATES ON
SERVICE TO CUBA AND PORTO RICO.

Four bids were received by the War Department
and opened in the Office OF Assistant Quarternaster
General Kimball. the Army Building, yesterday
for the transportation OF and military supplies
to Cusa and Porto Rico. The bidders were the
Ward and Munson lines 10 Cuba, and the Red d
Line and the New-York and Porto Rico Steamship
Company San Juan.
II IL is decided give up the transport service 1t
will be TO accept all the bids. as there IS
no conflict between the bidders. The Ward Line
bid for the service 10 Havana, Cienfuesos and
Santiago. and the Munson Line for the Matanzas.
Gbara and Nuevitas service. The bids of the Red
D Line and the New-Yorl< and Porto Rico Steam
ship Company, which TO San Juan, were Iden-
tcaI in terms and wording
These lines explained that they maintained o.
weekly services. alternating with each other. BY
arrangement with the Postoflce Department, and
therefore only bid for such proportion of the
business as should be ready for their steamers
when they sailed. II was said that the bids were
much higher than those rejected last fall but this
could not be verified The bids opened yesterday
will be forwarded to the War Department for de-
cisiOn.