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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

the winter has arrived it will cost at least
$40 a ton and will represent, as regards fur
mace efficiency. an outlay for hard coal OF
SIS ton. Wood Is a poor substitute for
coal in the matter of heating house. al
though it can be economically managed in
some CRATES. At 80 a cord now-and this
price will probably rise as the demand IN
creases-it stands for hard coal at fully
$40 ton. OIL can perhaps be used with
greatest economy, but when substituted for
coal for cooking It involves an initial outlay
of from 50 to So for a special burner, I'M
less the newly proposed method OF using
oil-soaked bricks proves practicable. Bar
ring this possibility. which will permit the
use OF oil in CRATES, this fuel used for heat
ing purposes likewise calls for the purchase
of special stoves.
Any way the citizen turns he is confront
ed with heavy outlay for fuel or for burn
ing appliances. If he has the price he can
perhaps keep warm through one expedient
or another If he enjoys only a modest in
come. which barely meets his usual ex-
penses, he will soon find himself seriously
embarrassed. The problem resolves itself
to that Of keeping his family from suffer
ing. The household must be brought with
in smaller compass. Rooms must be closed
for lack of heat. Compacted within a mar
rover living space a way Of escape from
actual distress is possible.
But the case of the poor man does not
end with the furnishing of heat for his
family. With the high coal prices come
higher prices for everything else. The
whole market is bounding upward at rate
far from justified by the strike The retail
dealer in table necessities will not suffer
long in pocket when he finds himself
pinched by the coal prices He must live
and will not hesitate to pass the diHculty
along to his customers by adding to his
prices. The only man who cannot dodge Is
the man who works for wages and who
buys rather than sells. He will be the chief
sufferer and his class constitutes today the
danger element in the large cities. Yester-
day coal was sold in New York by an agent
Of the anthracite companies at cost at the
rate of 10 cents a pail But only 1.50O tons
were thus offered, and they were taken as
the sands absorb the waters.
Fuel substitutes will not meet the neces-
stiles of the poor man. He must have coal,
not alone to keep himself and his family
warm, but for what his having coal means
to the general market. The immediate re-
sumption of coal mining is imperatively
necessary to avert a disaster involving
hundreds of thousands of people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
Perils Of the Coal Famine.
From the New York World

The efforts of the politicians to end the
coal strike failed again yesterday. Mr..
Thomas representing the Erie road, said:
1t was impossible to reach any conclusion
on the basis suggested" Senator Platt
said: I'VE will have to wait until Tues
day. If the operators agree to grant these
concessions then the strike will end" The
strikers are no less determined, and their
friends are planning to increase their finan-
cial support for a further struggle. Mean
while the coal famine Is already endanger-
Ing both life and property in a variety of
ways. The public health Is menaced at
many points. especially since the sudden
advent of cold weather. by the lack of fuel
for heating homes, Offices. stores and fac
tories. by the threatened failure of the
water supply and by the impending short
age of gas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
The Present Hard Coal outnut.

cite region and the operators have been
boastingly pointing of late to the fact that
the product is steadily increasing But the
public has been somewhat skepticai and
has questioned the reported figures The
strikers have charged that the coal pro-
duced has not been actually mined since the
present difficulties began. but has been
worked out of heaps already mined, or
from fallen pillars. or from accumula-
tons In the breakers and washeries.
When these sources are exhausted, they
assert, the rate Of production will. dwindle
practically to nokhing. However this may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
Vice Governor Wright.

The President. it is announced. will attend
in November the reception which the citi-
zens of Memphis will give in honor of Vice
Governor Wright, now on his way home
from the Philippines. 1t will be an honor
bestowed upon most worthy man and Of
fetal Governor Wright has acquitted him.
self well in a very difficult post A demo-
crat and southern man. he was appointed
by Mr.. Mckinley in the making up of a
board which should show in It's personnel
not only high order Of ability, but the
truly national and patriotic character of
our work in the Philippines. The board
has fully met the desires and expectations
of the country. Its labors have been well
performed, and its members have earned a
high order of praise. Governor Taft upon
his visit home was handsomely entertained
by his old friends and neighbors, and a
similar welcome awaits Governor Wright.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
The Pennsylvania Tunnel.
From the New York Tribune.

The Pennsylvania railroad tunnel fran
chise Is just where It was three weeks ago,
SO that Mayor Lows action may seem to
have had no good effect OF any sort. But
we are inclined to think that the pressure
on the board Of aldermen to sanction the
project has increased meanwhile, partly
because Of the company's frank declara-
ton that it will not pay a cent for Iubrica-
ton. and consequently that the delay may
prove advantageous, whether the mayor
was influenced by that or some unfuifilied
expectation. In any case. the rapid transit
commission has readopted the proposal,
substantially without change, and the alder
men will have another chance NEXT week
to do their duty and satisfy public opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
''if they're Rich's Shoes
they're proper"
Ten-one F-Cor. 10th.
Entire Building. Phone ''oae-nfty."

II kntfre Building. Phone "oae~nfty."
\ The colder weather demands
footwear which will defy cold
and dampness. You will find it
here-for men, women and chill
dren. Shoes with heavy soles,
and of those feathers which are
almost impervious to water, to
be worn without rubbers, and vet
which will keep their shape and
dressy appearance even after a
severe wetting. OF course.
everybody sells shoes of this
character, but, like all our other
| footwear, you'll find our STYLES
are diStinctive-have character
of their own.
| Few people now can be led to
believe that shoes which are
made up dozens at time are as
good as shoes made UP individ-
ualiy, as all of ours are made
rect are not all alike, and this is
taken into consideration when
Rch,s shoes are being made.
The striking characteristics of
the footwear you buy here are
that they have characterized
they mt the feet perfectly-that
they are the creations of the best
makers and are at every point
correct.
For those who've been waiting
and those who are just ready to
buy, we are pleased to announce
the arrival of new shipment of
Ladies Carriage Boots in a va
rlety of shades from which any
color gown can be matched per
tectly. These are the correct"
exclusive fashions for this sea-
son-the creations of the best
makers and are the only cor
rect styles in town.
1t is a significant fact that we
have supplied the trousseau
footwear for seven-eighths of the
brides of the season. Shows YOU
conclusively that the correct"
styles in satin and patent leather
slippers-in travelling footwear
in carriage and house foot
wear are to be found here, and
here alone. The varieties are al
most inexhaustive, for we show
everything which fashion claims
as correct" including all the
novelties which no other store
attempts to show.
In no previous season have
the patent leather and satin slip
pers been quite so charming
trimmed exquisitely, in dozens
of different effects, and any color
gown can be matched perfectly
from the great assortment.
B. Rich's Sons,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
Utter Gloom.

You don't seem to be at all worried about
the fuel outlook"
No said the man who is quietly morose.
m not going to give the matter any more
thought. When l come to consider the sit
uation calmly 1t doesn't make any differ
ence to me whether 1 have to beg for
warmth from the janitor or the mine
owners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
A Rule,

The man who never does a thing
His dull existence through
Is always first to say the worst
OF what the others do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
His Theory.

There's no doubt that colored men often
make good soldiers"
Course dey does" answered Mr. Eras-
tus Pinkley. You put a cullud man along
of pucession an he's gwine to foller 1t to
de finish, no matter whut de danger Isl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

Hanging the operators has been utterly
dismissed a suitable remedy for the
difficulties In Pennsylvania Senator Till
man will have to guess again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

Pennsylvania widower with ten chill
dren married a thirteen-year girl. The
question Of who is to be head of that family
will be a difficult one to settle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

The sinking of an English steamship by
the Kronprinz Wilhelm was one of those
accidents which will happen. OF course,
the kaiser's relations in England will believe
that 1t was not done on purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

Proposal parties are mentioned as social
diversions for next season. The fact that
juries are often severe in breach of promise
cases and that divorce is becoming more
and more difficult Will have a tendency to
check enthusiasm in this diversion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

The suggestion that President Mitchell
may be acting in thoroughly conscientious
manner from his point of view initiates
President Baer so intensely that he is
tempted to quit in a pout.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

Perhaps the absence Of Congress prevents
the present situation from becoming even
more seriously complicated by infiamma-
tory speeches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
G. A. B. Week.

Our good old friend j. Pluvius
Has done his level best:
He welcomed we'll the coming,
And sped the parting guest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

A Kansas pOpulist who is running for the
legislature says that his demand Is the
abolition Of the cap and gown. The true
populizi can always find something novel to
worry about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

Senator Quay is evidently OF the opinion
that the settlement of the coal strike is Of
even more Importance than his pet idea OF
Christia MIXING the Chinese
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

There is distinct disposition on the part
Of Mr.. Quay and Mr.. Penrose to share the
responsibilities Of strike negotiations with
Governor Stone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

The Siamese prince is earnestly advised
not to select the Duke Boris route when he
goes sightseeing in this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

The political campaign in Nebraska is
described as cult Mr.. Bryan seems IT.
clined to contribute more excitement to
Ohio than to his home state
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
SHOOTING STARS.
Had Done His Best.

What do you think ought to be done with
the trusts?'
Il don't know" answered Senator sor-
ghum. Heaven knows. I've done my best
to make EN- give up some Of their money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

The coal operators feel that they are ricn
enough to have their own way, no matter
what 1t costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

People are inclined to remind ]. Pierpont
Morgan that If he Is the great man they
gave him credit for being. he can end the
coal famine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
Miners Needed.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The coal operators have got all the SOL
diers they want; now it's their business to
get miners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

The advice keep coof' somehow does not
apply we'll to the victim of coal famine.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-26
Steenerson's Trust Cure.

Ealvor Stevenson, the republican
nominee for congress in the ninth Min
nesota district, has a remedy for the
trusts that has the advantage Of a pre-
cedent. He would deal with them as
congress dealt with the old state banks
of ISSUE i. e., drive them from state to
national contH0l by the exercise of the
power Of taxation. When state banks of
issue were exterminated by. excessive
taxation, the government permitted their
owners to incorporate under the national
law, become national banks, subject to
federal supervision, and issue national
bank notes.
Applying this idea to trusts, Mr.. Steen-
erson would have the federal government
porations doing an interstate business
that they would be forced to reorganize
under the federal law and thus become
subject to national supervision.
At first glance this looks like a feasible
plan. It would have this advantage over
a constitutional amendment that it would
not do so much violence to the theory or
1dCt OF state sovereignty. moreover, IL
could be put into operation without the
cumbrous and tedious process Of amend
ing the constitution. If the federal gov
eminent could succeed in making the big
corporation toe the line the way it does
the national banks, there is no doubt that
trust evils would soon be reduced to a
minimum.
The suggestion Mr. Stevenson makes,
calling to mind, as it does, the fact that
the need Of financial stability caused the
people to appeal to congress for relief
from state banks of ISSUE brings up the
possibility that in the end the federal
supervision Of great corporations may be
sought as much for the same purpose of
financial stability as for the protection
of the people against misuse of their
powers. incorporated under federal law
mushroom capitalization with the bad
policies of management it entails would
not be permitted. The people would also
be protected against reckless manage
ment. The failure of one of the big
trusts might easily precipitate panic
Certainly it would have a greater tend
ency to that end than the collapse OF
many national banks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-26
manifest Destiny."

Attention is called to an interview ap-
pearing elsewhere to-day with Mr.. ]. H.
Haslam, a weI-known Canadian land
owner. Although Mr. Haslam is a Ca
madam he takes far different view of the
future relations of United States and Can
ada from that taken by our fellow towns
man, Mr.. F. E. Kenaston.
Mr.. Kenaston thinks that the day for
the establishment of reciprocity between
the United States and Canada has gone
by, and that Canada will now develop of
and by herself as much as if there We're
an insurmountable wall along the Ca
madam frontier.
Mr. Haslam, on the other hand, thinks
that the relations between the two coun-
tries will become closer and closer. We
believe he Is the true prophet He sees
that the spacious and fertile Canadian
west is bound to be settled and devel-
oped henceforth by Americans. The
Canadians have neither the men nor the
money for the great work. The United
States has abundance Of both. ~.
The center Of gravity Of Canadian. pop
ulaLlOn Will one DAY De somewhere near
Winnipeg, and the mass Of population
that will draw it to that point will be
permeated and colored and dominated by
Americanism. We do not undertake to
say that that means annexation, but it
does mean that the men Of the west will
control Canadian policy and direct it to-
wards an end of Cancellation and closer
relations with the United States.
Eastern Canada is almost stationary in
population. The west is going ahead with
leaps and bounds. Already: this new
population is largely American and will be
more and more so. These new settlers
ARE of too tough fibre and of too agrees
'sive a spirit not to hold their own in
new country, where their numbers alone
will be sufficient to make them a power.
They will be a powerful fundamentally
in realizing the manifest destiny of the
North American continent, which is to
become a continent inhabited by an es-
sentially homogeneous and unified peo-
pie. ~. 49, -. p. ..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-26
THE ALASKA BOUNDARY CASE
Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Seattle POSC lltolllSeNCeT.
F;very few weeks there is something
brought forward in connection with the
Alaska boundary question which is put
forth as finally settling the contention on
the subject. In every instance the mat
ters brought out and exploited are either
absolutely non essential, having no bear
Ing whatever on the controversy, II con-
troversy it can be called; or at the least
they contain nothing which Is not already
fully known. The main facts in the case
are not and cannot be disputed.
These facts are that the treaty between
Great Britain and Russia discarded the
boundary in certain terms. An fnterpre-
tation was p laced upon that treaty by
both partles, in exact. agreement and ac-
cordin;. to the present contention Of the
United States. The right Of Russia to the
strip which Canada now claims as in con-
troversy remained undisputed so long as
Russia owned the territory Every map
or chart of Alaska ever prepared down to
the time Of the discovery of gold son the
Yukon placed the boundary where it is at
present, including maps prepared by Off
Gals of the Dominion of Canada, the Brit
ish admiralty charts, the Russian maps
and charts and every standard atlas pub
ltshed in every country in the world. With
in the boundary line so claimed American
authority is and has been undisputed.
american cities and towns are esta blished,
American custom houses operated, Ameri-
can taxes levied and titles to land are
made Under the American law, These are
the essential elements of the American
cuse.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-26
DAILY DIVERSION

He Took 1t All In-John r. Proctor,
president of the civil service commission,
was talking about President Roosevelt 8
marvellous ability to get things done-to
grasp the root Of question at glance
AS shown in his work as a member Of
the civil service commission, in which Mr..
Proctor was associated with him.
It remember on one OCCASION" he said,
T had occasion to consult Mr.. Roosevelt
about certain question set forth in a
foolscap page of typewriter matter. I
handed him the paper, but he Immediately
began talking about something entirely
different, simply glancing at the paper now
and again in an absent-minded manner
as he talked. ....
:: Come, now, Roosevelt said at last,
read that paper and let me have your
orilion.' ~
. I have read it, he replied, and ap-
prove entirely of your position
You have read it? When did you read
it,
while we were talking
But that's impossible. I've watched
,'ou the whole time, and you haven't had
a CHARGE
Well, if you don't believe me, I'll tell
you the contents of the paper and there
with he began and gave me a summary of
the Whole matter, which was absolutely
correct and exhaustive. I couldn't have
stated 1t better myself"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-26
Germany's Metal Trust.

The census bureaus bulletin on the
manufacture of iron and steel in 1900, just
issued, shows the value Of plant in $50 ac
tive establishments to be 1891, $50, 484;
value Of products. 1904, ,918; materials
used, 1922, 4s1,701; average number Of
wage earners, 222.607; wages paid, $780,
S36,33S. Pennsylvania contributed $321,
9s5, $50 of the total capital reported, Ohio
and Illinois following in Importance. The
production of iron and steel in 1900 aggre-
gated 29,5O7,S60 gross tons, against 49,
264,47S in 1890. Since 1900 there have been
many new plants and consultations and
a vast amount of additional capital in
vested in the business, the profitable
character of which is suggested by the
fact that the United States Steel corpora
ton made net profit last year of $111,-
900, 900. g.. 49,
We have distanced all our competitors
in this industry, and yet with all our
forces Of production at work, the demand
for steel is so great that very few new
contracts can be made for. eight or ten
months, and steel has advanced to $35 a
ton. There have been q considerable
number of inportations Iof foreign iron
and steel, Notwithstanding the heavy du-
country at $3.50 ton, while the Pitts
burg quotation is $31.
German manufacturers, after making
the most vigorous efforts to compete sue
cessfully with us, and finding that our
encroa chments on their metal market con-
Cologne, at which were representatives of
the iron and coal Industries of the en-
pire, and they decided that they would or
ganize a big trust, including all the coal
producers, the iron, steel, wire, sheet
metal, girders, structural iron manufac-
turers, and contribute to a fund out of
which bonuses are to be paid to members
exporting their products, equal to the diff
ference. between the current price Of the
merchandise in the German markets and
the price obtained for 1t abroad the
bonuses to be paid quarterly and the sys-
tenn covering the transactions of the past
six months.
Consul General Mason of Berlin, who
reports the scheme to the state depart
ment, says there is no doubt that this
strong combination intends to make the
strongest fight possible for the control OF
the iron and steel trade of both hemi-
spheres and force American manufacturers
in these lines to do their export business
on very small margins, and so reduce the
big output of this country, which has
bothered the metal men Of Germany badly
The trust proposes to 80 into the fight
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-26
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Going to the Roots.

Professor e. w. Bemis made brief
address before the employer and employe
convention yesterday afternoon, which
was remarkable for its suggestive conser-
vatism. He made the suggestion that
even so complex problem as that OF the
anthra cite coal strike might be settled or
eliminated from the possibility Of recur-
renee by such familiar measures as cor
rect taxation and the regulation Of rail-
ways.
It Is an old story that the true cause
of the trouble in the anthracite regions is
the intimate connection existing between
the coal and transportation companies.
But it was startling to hear Professor
Bemis say that the anthracite carrying
railways receive $4,000, 900 more than the
bituminous roads for performing the same
service, the actual difference in rates
being almost * of cent more per ton
mile on the anthracite than on the BIZ
luminous roads. Again, anthracite coal is
taxed, in the ground, at the rate Of only
Il cent a ton. Equitable taxation would
have a tendency to compel the railway
companies to sell their coal mines and
hustle coal to market cheaply.
Professor Bemis pointed out these facts
to show that in some instances that now
seem to call for compulsory arbitration, it
is possible to solve the problem by re-
moving the primary causes Of such
troubles as those Of the time in the an
thracite regions.