The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-28

so the average citizen might as we'll lock
forward 10 living for the next three
months on Strawberries and cream
San Francisco Call.
THE people Of New York voted for mu-
nicipal ownership.
What they are getting from the Rapid
Transit commission is robbery on a g-
gantic scale. The terms OF the proposed
contract for the construction OF the
Brooklyn tunnel are I'm general the same
as those on which the Manhattan sub
way is being built That is. the city is TO
pay for the underground railroad ani a
corporation is TO own IL and absorb its
profits. Suppose IL should be discovered
that the elevated roads of New York were
worn out and needed replacing from the
ground up. throughout their whole length
Then suppose that the city should step
forward and say 10 Mr.. Gould and Rus
sell Sage: Don't waste your own good
money In putting up new trestles and
laying new tracks. I'll do II for you. I'll
furnish every dollar that is necessary for
the work. and when the new roads are
completed I'll hand them over to you
wealthy and enterprising gentlemen for
seventy-ive years. All. you will have TO
pay will be the interest on the bonds i
must issue to borrow the cash, say four
per cent and one per cent additional. You
will never be required TO pay the princi-
pal-the accumulated interest on what
spend for you will do that. And I'll be
even more generous. / shall tax you not
one cent on this great property during
the entire term OF your possession. Be
sides that. / will deprive myself at the
start OF the power to regulate your
charges No matter what the progress OF
invention may do toward improving and
cheapening the means of transportation,
you will be privileged 10 levy fve-cent
fare on the public. III that doesn't suit
you. you can divide up your lines into
sections and make a fve-cent fare on
each of them. More-I confer on you free
" the advertising rights at all your sta
tions, which l could readily sell for
great sum, Now, IL there is anything else
you would ftke TO have for nothing, Just
mention Il and II shall be yours Would
the city be crazy TO do all this for Gould
and Sage? Every man of sense Will say
yes Yet this is exactly what the Rapid
Transit commission has done for Bel
mont & Co. In the case of the Manhattan
subway, and is deliberately offering to do
in the case OF the Brooklyn tunnel. The
Rapid Transit commission is a legalized
fraud."-New York Journal
"The killing OF the two French airship
experts does not appear TO have given
any great encouragement TO the rest OF
the machine fiiers. Such practical Illus
trations OF the difficulty In mastering
what always must be a hazardous sci
ence are really not calculated TO make
even the present professors contemplate
the future without concern. ."-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
'If Denmark wants to sell them, the
American people will sustain their gov
ernment in buying but no member OF the
Danish parliament should think that
there Is a great demand for them In this
country. Denmark will be favoring itself
rather than the United States II it's par
lament ratifies the treaty of sale.
Denver Republican.
.'The Nicaragua canal bill. II seems Is
TO have right OF way In the senate over
the Cuban reciprocity measure. 1t is very
doubtful II the chance of it's passage Is
quite as good as II was before the recent
seismic disturbances In the West indies
and Central America. a."-Philadelphia
Times.
Mrs Curry wife OF the special envoy
from the United States at the coronation
OF King Alfonso, was made quite Ill by
attending the royal bull fight at Madrid.
The spectacle had the same effect upon
her which would probably be exerted up
on a Spanish senorita by a game of ping
pong. kansas City Star.
"The unveiing of the Rochambeau
statue In Washington on Saturday was
marked by imposing and interesting exer-
| cses, which accorded well with the mem
orable deeds associated with the name OF
Rochambeau and his compatriots, who
rendered services so splendid TO America
| I'm the dark days OF the Revolution that
France may now claim share In the
glories OF our Republic. c."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
'JTnuuestionably the sentiment OF the
| Middle West and Northwest at the pres
| ent time Is so strongly in favor OF tariff
| revision as to promise some extremely
| disagreeable surprises for the Republican
party in the near future."-St. Louis Re
| public.
Taking broad view Of the matter,
| however. the Kaisers gift should be re-
| garded simply as n means to promote in
ternational amenities and the giver GER
| taInly should be privileged to determine
| the character OF his intended memorial"
Philadelphia Record.
| HELD IN $500.