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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

though the towers of the latter, which are
merely Ornamental and are not computed
as part Of the structure, especially from a
revenue-p producing standpoint, rise to the
height Of $50 feet. The estimated annual
revenue Of this new structure. to be known
appropriately as the Wall Exchange, will
be nearly 100000. the greatest income in
the world from an equal ground space.
Here lies the secret Of this race for great
heights. Land Is SO precious now in New
York that the values must be squeezed out
of 1t by means Of many layers OF tenants.
After the foundations have been established
the cost Of few more stories Is but slight
compared with the revenue to be derived
on the part Of tenants to occupying offices In
the twentieth story. with express elevators
which minimize the time of ascending and
with complete equipments for comfort and
the transaction Of business on every door
and even in every suite. In building such
as that just started the average rental Is
two dollars a square foot a year. and the
price varies but slightly as the sky Is ap-
preached. What New York win be when
this process has continued couple E,ore
decades must be left to vivid Imagination
to conceive. With buildings towering on
every hand to a height Of from 800 to per-
haps 500 feet. or even more, the streets will
be mere chasms. and there must inevitably
be material changes in the surface condf-
TONS with the air confined within such
narrow channels and the earth subjected to
tremendous pressures
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
The President and Europe.

A piece of sculpture for President Roose-
Welt "in recognition Of his services to the
cause Of international arbitration? The
story comes from Paris, with the statement
that ''the funds for the purpose will prob
ably be raised by private subscription
among European advocates Of peace" Why,
it was only the other day that Europe was
asked to believe that the peace of the world
was threatened by the presence Of man
In our White House described to them as
the very incarnation of aggressNeness and
turmoil. 1t was solemnly warned against
him, and assured that he was eager for an
opportunity to bring on universal conflict.
How swiftly at times our European friends
change their point of viaw about America
and American public servants! 1t would
pay them to give a little time to a real
study of the subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Higher Sky-Scrapers.

The yh-building craze shows no signs
of dying out in New York. Every few
months some new enterprise ~ broa ched for
structure which will cap all others. Ex-
ecution follows to set the standards even
higher and so the process goes, until the
marvel is that engineers do not utter a
warning that the safety limit has been
reached. A few months ago freak stxlct
ure was finished at the corner Of Broadway,
Fifth avenue and 23d street. q triangular
slab rising to an enormous height with its
surfaces so placed that today it acts as a
wind buffer and causes the most remarka-
BILE and even dangerous currents In the
streets. The public looks askance at such
gigantic creations Of steel and masonry,
but as long as scientific calculations give
assurance Of safety there will probably be
a steady skyward tendency. just as It Is
now announced that the highest building
in the world Is to be erected at the corner
Of William street and Exchange place. It
is to be twenty-five stories in height and
will rise 827 feet from street level to roof.
This viii be sjghteAn feet higher than the
Park Row budding. nov he highest. al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
The Trust Fight.

No sooner does Mr.. HOar's antitrust bill
see the light than Chairman Jenkins Of the
House judiciary committee puts the seal OF
condemnation upon It. Good! That means
more discussion. That means that the sub
ject will not pass into the background. One
feels justified in exclatming, Go 1t Senate.
go 1t House,! The country wants action,
but action that will count. 1t wants the
best the lawmakers have in their shop.
The Sherman law, we are told. failed to
satisfy even the men who made It. 1t has
failed of its object. We all know. This time,
therefore, let us have something that will
accomplish what Is expected of it-some-
thing the Attorney General can take hold
Of with confidence and the courts will sus-
tain.
Need anybody wonder that laymen puzzle
over this question when eminent lawyers
not lawyers holding briefs for special In
terests, but official commissions requiring
service for the public-are at skies and
sevens about 1t? Has any question within
the past decade developed greater variety
Of opinion in legal circles as to what should
or could be done by Congress in the peo-
pies interests? Have we not heard prac-
titioners OF great renown take the ground
that the problem was simple as the day
ana called only LOT men OI courage " put
machinery in motion? Have we not heard.
on the other hand, practitioners of equal
renown declare against the whole move
ment and assert that 1t was purely Quix-
otic-that the trusts would have their day
and run their course In spite Of all that
could be done to restrain them?
And yet the antitrust movement con-
tinues. Lawyers and laymen alike discuss
1t. A feeling widely prevails that an evil
exists in some of the great combinations Of
capital, that 1t is spreading, and that I'M
less 1t Is checked and then extirpated 1t
VIII result in much harm to the freedom OF
the American opportunity. The effort to
sneer this feeling away will not prevail.
The effort to fan 1t into a flame which
would imperil all investments should not
prevail Let us somehow be put upon
safe middle course. warranting US returns
that will rebound to the general good. with
out discouraging Intelligent enterprise or
anduring anybody who may be pronting in
a Legitimate way by his foresight and cour-
age. This should not be beyond the power
of the men now charged with the public
business In the national legislature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Handling the Coal Supply.

It IL evident from disclosures thus far
made as to the manner Of handling the coal
supply In this city that there Is need Of more
facilities on the part Of both railroads and
dealers for transporting the fuel from the
cars to the cellars Of consumers. According
to the reports Of the railroad lines Washing
ton Is today receiving all the coal 1t needs.
But II Is evident from the exorbitant prices
which now prevail that 1t is not getting
that coal where 1t wants 1t, in its cellars,
without difficulty and delay. The railroad
officials intimate that the retailers are slow
in removing the coal from the cars, through
trying to handle an unusual business with
their normal equipment. The dealers con-
tend that they are hampered by the lack of
proper unloading facilities
II 1t Is a fact that coal Is being received
here faster than it can be unloaded and de-
livered 1t Is incumbent upon both railroads
and dealers to exert themselves to provide
additional facilities. The Commissioners
have already shown every disposition to
grant the requisite permission for the laying
OF emergency tracks for the coal trade and
doubtless there would not be the slightest
lega! difficulty In the way of expanding the
trackage to whatever capacity might be
necessary to handle the coal traffic this
winter. 1t might be impossible to erect
trestle dumps for this winters use in I'M
loading the new pattern cars. But such as
the facilities are, or may be made by the
railroads, they should be worked to the full
by the dealers on their side. If necessary
they should be utilized at night, so that the
cars can be unloaded and sent away empty
as quickly as possible.
1t has been pointed out that If circum-
stances prevent the railroads from adding
materially to their facilities nothing pre-
vents the dealers from hiring extra wagons
and horses and drivers from the surround
ing farming districts, where idleness is now
the rule. 1t is absurd to try to do this ex-
traordinary volume Of business, particularly
as 1t involves the handling of the coal in
small lots. with the equipment which serves
Ia normal years. 1t is more than absurd IL
because of slow handling and not real
scarcity the coal prices are soaring I'D to
$l2 and $14 a ton. There is evidently work
yet to be done by the Commissioners coal
committee, which performed such excellent
service few weeks ago In securing addi-
tlonal supplies from the Reading and Penn
sylvania companies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Who is the SenatorP

In his Faneuil Hall address to the ne
groes Gov. Boutwell, said:
"Your fortunes are involved in this strug-
gle. Unless the freedom OF the Phfilppfne
Islands shall be secured there can be
neither power nor justice for you IN Amer
lea. The republican party Is Indifferent TO
your fate.
"One republican senator has become re-
sponsible for the opinion that the abolition
of slavery was mistake.
The republican senator referred to was
first quoted by Mr.. Hoar in his recent adj
dress at the New England dinner In Phtla-
delphia. He did not name the man, but
the sentiment expressed coming from such
a source attracted much attention, and no
little curiosity exists as to who the author
may be.
Have we this senator's real meaning In
the brief sentiment accredited to him? Does
he, while still holding to the tenets OF his
party and urging its continuation In power,
regret the one chapter Of achievement
which above all others invests his party
with interest? Does he believe that Mr..
Lincoln made mistake in signing the
emancipation proclamation? Would he II
1t were in his power undo the work? Does
the race problem appear so very difficult to
him that African slavery seems to be its
only solution?
Or does the senator but express I'm this
form his disgust with the situation as 1t
has shaped itself out Of the drift OF things?
Does he rebuke In this way those members
of his party who while still processing
friendship for the negroes show the utmost
Indifference to the negroes welfare? Is he
but saying that If the negroes were to be
abandoned. and left without power or the
right to be heard In matters relating to
their own welfare, it would have been bet
ter to leave them to the control of those
interested on material grounds In protect
ing them? Have we in this senator man
who desires to see the negroes rescued In
some effective manner from plight which
is scarcely less perilous to them than to
those who have so placed them?
Mr.. Hoar's friend should make himself
nary statement. The subject begins to
press for attention, and next year we shall
probably hear 1t discussed both in Congress
and in the presidential campaign. The
present situation as respects the suffrage
may hardly be expected to continue much
longer. The whites have more at stake
than the negroes, but both have SO much
at stake that some solution of the problem
whereby Justice shall be done in congress
sional representation is rapidly becoming
necessity. II the negroes are to be perma-
nently barred from the ballot-box 1t is not
fair that they should be used to shape ma
tional legislat ton by the men who have de-
prived them of their constitutional rights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Congressional Culture.

1t is pleasure to record the signs Of
growing strfyings after culture In our es-
teemed contemporary. the Congressional
Record. In speech contributed to No. Is
Of the present series by the Hon. John F.
Lacey OF Iowa. for instance. there are allu-
siens to Napoleon. Taileyrand, the Hugue-
nots. the -AZtecs, Columbus, Austerlitz,
LongfeIIow, Julius Caesar, Augustus Gaze
fertil!zing value OF limestone, the Olympic
games, jason and the golden fleece. the
Deiphic oracles, Seneca. Adam and William
Pitt All this in short speech on the gen.
eral appropriation bills. 1t is to be hoped
that the Congressional Record will continue
hot on the trail Of culture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
A Failure to Connect.

De time fob Sanity Claus is pas,
rs sorry fob to see;
I waited fur i'm to de las;
He didn' call on me.
De travel FUN dat no'thern pole
Ain easy as a rule;
I wish. I does, wifi all my soul,
Dat Sanity had mule.
Dem RENDERS mighty fine to see,
But not so strong O. limb;
Dey ain de livestock, pears to me,
OATS suitable to him.
He wants critter dat'll go
In weather warm or cool;
In day or night, In Ice or snow;
or Sanity needs a mule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Not a Beet Sugar Question.
From the New York Mail and Express.

There is not the least likelihood that the
beet sugar interest In this country would
feel any effect from q reduction Of third
OF cent q pound in the duty upon sugar
from Cuba. We should still import from
other parts of the world, and this third
Of a cent remitted from the duty would be
paid by the importer to the Cuban produc-
er. while the price to consumers here would
not be affected. But this Is not beet sugar
question. and 1t Is no longer a sentimental
question Of relieving hard conditions In
Cuba. 1t has become commercial matter
between two countries favorahfy situated
for trade with each other. The pending
treaty Is calculated to facilitate and de-
velop this trade. and the advantage would
be quito aeAgreat for the United States as
for Cuba, 0ouSt Of course 1t IL relatively
Of much less conseQuencs to our people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

burglar was arrested in New York m
Thursday who. the police of that city de-
clare, has already served eight terms in
prison for that offense.
The query that naturally suggests Itself
to the public mind by this case is: .'Why is
not the community entitled to such protec-
ton from confirmed criminals of this class
as would be afforded by Imprisonment for
life?" Another form OF the question is:
What right has such an outlaw to be at
large for even a single day."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Cry Of the Children.

From the Syracuse Post-Standard
Young children are sometimes forced to
labor in order to keep families from suffer-
ing want. In other cases the father Of q
family lives in idleness upon the earnings
of his little children. Such contemplate
creatures are found, it Is said, in Fall River
and Lowell. In Pennsylvania and other
states where there are child labor laws,
or where the child labor laws are not en-
forced, men who are lacking in the sense OF
responsibility to Ged, to their country and
to their families. will put them in mills as
soon as they are old enough to todile, not
because the money is needed so badly, but
because It Is easier to have it than to get
along without it. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
A Fortunate Circumstance

tits fortunate" said the man who is al
ways looking for the weaknesses of human
nature, that calendars are given away so
generously every year.
Il don't see why it Is particularly lucky"
IF they had to be purchased, some peo-
pie are so closefsted that they would try
to do business a whole life time with the
same almanac" sts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

Mr.. Bryan notes that large number of
farmers with limited capital are going
from this country to Mexico. In view of
Mexico's prospective detection from silver,
this must cause Mr.. Bryan some surprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The question which the Amesican people
will soon take up Is not how to settle
strikes. but how to avoid them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
The Golf War.

From the London Tatier.
1t would be a pity to see the world Of
golf rent by a schism like that which d.
vides foot bail. And yet there appears to
be ell the makings of a similar cataclysm
in the present great ball controversy. We
fear that it is a war of determinations
case of the survival of the fittest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The people who denounced the telephone
as an impossfbility and who were forced to
yield to stubborn facts have been obliged
to go through the same program with wire
less telegraphy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The Sultan Of Turkey has long benefited
by the determination of each Of the powers
to maintain a principle very similar to that
Of the Monroe doctrine with reference to
his real estate. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The Congressional Record is the only
large publication that has been successfully
conducted without advertising. And large
number of people do not consider 1t very
Interesting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

1t Is a dull month when there Is no city
in this country holding an anniversary eel
ebra ton of some kind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

Russell Sage has not been persuaded to
express any opinions on the proit-sharing
idea that so many large corporations are
advancing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The pretender to the throne of Morocco
has been burying people alive. Whatever
turn events may take the prospects for CIV
ilization in that country are not good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

After this month is past there wifi be only
February and March during which TO ap-
prehend serious discomfort because: az the
coal situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

Owing to various preoccupations, Presi-
dent Castro did not devote great deal Of
time to happy New Year remarks this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The recognition this government has
given The Hague court win do much
toward establishing it on practical basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Senseless Din.
From the

From the New York Tribune.
Tin horns at New Year and frecrackers
at the Fourth of July. Is brutal noise our
highest ideal Of celebration?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
In Doubt.

The Icy pond with pleasure great
Just now appeals to him;
I wonder II he's going to skate
Or II he's going to swim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
SHOOTING STARS
Confidence Restored

"You used to be rather pessfmistie< with
reference to this governments future
YES" answered the congre ssman; but
I've gotten over that. I've concluAAdeth
an institution that can pay salaries as reg
ularly as this country does is pretty safe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

The people Of India, like the Warrington
base ball club. are still rejoicing IN the gio-
rious possibilities of future Improvement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
One Of Those Condolences.

ITS too bad said Young Mrs. Torkins,
but suppose it's one Of those coinci-
dences that can't be helped '7
whats the matter" 'ftvuz ~
Whenever I give Charley dear box OF
cigars on Christmas he makes resolution
on New Year not to smoke any more"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

Don't be envious," said Uncle Eben: re
member dat II you had been Julius Caesar
hisse'f you'd have had to take de 'sassina-
ton along Wit de res Of It,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
NIGHT Gowns.

Night Gowns. .,.,.,.
Muslin; good quality; yoke trimmed with
soc. tucks and insertion.
Muslin; good quality; yoke OF tucks anu
SOC. ruf1e
Cambria; good quality; We neck; trim-
7SC. med with insertion, tucks and edge
$Ioo ton and tue s ruie Of embroidery on
neck and sleeves
$I.oo h beadlns. ribbon sapa and edge
$1.5o n beading and edge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Our Twenty-Second
january Sale of
MUSLIN Underwear
Begins Monday, the Fifth.

AS careful preparation and timely placing OF
de enabled January sale of Muslin Underwear
thoroughly satisfactory of strictly high
Undergarnents we have yet shown.
There and danness into
And costs about what the materials would
for by the yard-in many cases. much less
There scant the entire collection for
economic comfort Not that
the least defective sye all the latest and best approved
paternngs thorough workmanship and fnisn Short possess that
degree which the Wash
ington vicinity have learned to expect from this
Besides regular and styles show special styles sizes
for large
This sale everything
SETS novelties in Paris LngerBrdal Trous
seaux Negge Matnees Breakfast Sacques Boudor Gowns
specimens Of Partisan handwo Of direct Importation
exclusive effects
The garments below the medium and goods
merely suggestive stock OF that ntrnslca
best we havee gathered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Drawers.

Drawers.
Cambria: good quality; trimmed with
soc. rufie of embroidery and tucks.
Cambria; good quality; wide ruf1e trim
oOC. med with tucks and embroidery.
Muslin and Cambria; trimmed with
7Sc. wide rufle of embroidery and tucks.
$Ioo N Na1es 9nfe o OF embroid Ssy 'e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Chemises.

=. -Nainsook; round neck: trimmed with
~. edge and ribbon.
, ~ -NansoOk; round neck; trimmed with IN
~ sertion, beading, ribbon and edge.
~ -Nainsook; trimmed with fine lace. inser.
~ tion. beading, ribbon and edge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
Long Skirts.
Corset Covers.

orc lCambric trimmed with embroidery.
Cambria; round neck: trimmed with
~. lace.
roo .-Nainsook; deliberately trimmed with In
ooS' sertion and edge.
French; trimmed with insertion, beading
sue. and lace.
SOC. and 'a Ribbon. '''""e' WIN 'A '@A''''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03

Cambria: made full. with two
rows of buttons at waist: plain
or trimmed with embroidery.
The Washington times., 1903-08-01
Jim JEFFRIES TRAINS
ON HIS COLD BOTTLES
Billy Delaney Sanctions the Cham
pion's Indulgence With Dinner.

HARDIN SPRINGS. Cal. Aug In
stead OF the projected boxing matinee
between J. J. Jeffries and Robert Fitz-
. simmons, which was the head-Iiner for
yesterday. there was absolutely moth
ing doing IN the Jenries training camp.
The weather was intensely warm. the
humidity causing 4 TO be almost surfo-
eating. so afte' a walk to MiddIetown
and jog bone Jeffries concluded h.
would not fight ths thermometer. He
spent the remainder OF the day assist
ing Proprietor Jim Hays in making re-
pairs TO a rife.
As 10 the outcome of his enlargement
On August Il. with Corbett the boiler
maker can apparently realize but one
result, and IS busying himself more now
over deer hunt 10 take place on SAL
urday next than with the big fight.
The coming contest may also mark the
last appearance in the ring OF Jefrjes-
IN the course OF conversation TODAY
Trainer Billy Delaney said that the big
fellow wanted 10 90 in strictly for fight
ing during the next three or four months
and IS willing 10 meet the best the
world can produce. one after another.
Failing 20 ind any game. Delaney init
mated that the champion might quit ths
ring for good.
Jefries stiH has his cold bottle for
dinner. but IL is with the sanction OF
Delane-.