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The sun., 1903-01-06
SUPERFLUOUS CITY BOARDS.
GrOut Includes u. r. BOard-Thinks Board
Of Estimate Gould DO II All.

Comptroller Grout is OF the opinion that
many Of the commissions and boards
which form part Of the city's gov.
ernment might be wiped out without
harm He said yesterday that he didn't
see why the city should have to go 10 the
State Railroad Commission with local
transportation problems. and he thinks
the Board of Estimate could do the work
of the Rapid Transit Commission, the
Aqueduct Commission. the Board Of CITY
Record, the Board of Revision Of Assess
ments, the Armory Board and the Sinking
Fund Commission. The Mayor and Comp
troller are members. ex-officio, Of all these
bodies. The Board of Estimate is made
up of elected officers. No money can be
expended and no improvements can b"
undertaken without its sanction and Mr.
Grout thinks that the commissions and
boards he mentions are superfiuous.
He was careful to say that this was
personal mot an administ ration) view, but
al the same time he added that the city
would save t2OO, 600 or $500 900 a year In
salaries by adopting it, Should such prin,
ciple of concentration be carried out II would
be advisable to increase the representation
of the different boroughs in the Board Of
Estimate and to make a reapportionment
of the voting powers in the board.
The sun., 1903-01-06
Salaries Of High Federal ON GERS.

The Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial Appropriation bill passed the House
promptly just before adjournment for
the holidays, and is now with the Senate.
It provides the salaries of all the pub lie
servants employed in the three great de-
partments of the Federal Government.
We hear the proposition that the bill
be 30 amended as to increase the COM
pensation of the President, which the
law now fixes at $4,000 year.
Whether the salary of the President is
or is not adequate to the services by him
rendered, one thing is certain. the ques-
ton is not of present interest. Any
change in the Presidents salary now
enacted could not, under the Constitu-
ton, take effect before March 4. 1905:
and before that time there will have been
two more sessions of the Congress. The
matter, therefore, is in no way urgent.
The Constitution provides that the
compensation of the President shall
neither be increased nor diminished dur
ing the period for which he may have
been elected In the present case this
means the period for which Mr.. MCkIN
LEY was elected.
There is another question OF Federal
salaries, however. which Is urgent and
will continue to demand attention until
the grotesque disparity now existing
between the character Of the services
and the size of the pay has been corrected
by appropriate legislation.
We refer to the compensation of the
Federal Judges. from the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court down. Gaze at
this schedule:
Chief Justice OF the supreme Court $40 j.u
Associate Justices OF the supreme Court. 1900
Circuit JudgeS ...... ............. ....-.. 5000
District Judges ......... 300
There isn't single one Of these salaries
which ought not at least To be doubled
This proposition requires no argument
The remedy of a garng and ridiculous
system of injustice to the Federal judi
ciary can be effected just a. soon as
Congress pleases. and the new legislation
can become operative at once.
For, while the Constitution ordains
that the compensation of the Federal
Judges, both of the Supreme and Of the
inferior courts, shall not be diminished
during their continuance in office. il
fortunately does not require that the
minded and invaluable servants of the
people and ministers of the law shall
not be increased.
The sun., 1903-01-06

can mortality prominent in our vital
statistics. When exhaustion appears
it is most likely to be among the people
who pay no heed to holidays, either be-
cause they cannot afford the recreation
or because they will not take it, no matter
how many are their opportunities for
play; they prefer their work.
Generally, one day out of seven is
enough for rest, certainly with the half
holiday on Saturday added. The other
holidays are created by law not so much
because they are needed for popular
recreation as to keep alive patriotic or
religious sentiment. OF all the days in tho
year, too, it is on New Years, Christmas,
Fourth Of July and Thanksgiving, that
the people most overstrain their en-
durance. Spreeing is more wearing than
working. The happy man is the man
who is able to work and to get work, no
matter how hard. 1t keeps him out
of mischief. Proportionately, far more
people go to pieces because of idleness
than because of toll. The man who has
nothing to do. for whom all days are idle
holidays, is the one to pity.
OF course, the worn-out thousands
pushing home at night show the cry
ing need of recreation; but are they
not going to get it in the refreshing
sleep which kindly nature provides for
the tired man?
Oh, no! We have holidays enough al
ready-too many.
The sun., 1903-01-06
1902 EAST BROADWAY. Jan 3
Dr. SilS Sernan Described as Representing
the Enlight ened Jewish sentiment.

To THE EDITOR or THE SrN-Sir: The un-
pardonable attack made upon Rabbi silver
man by the so-called intellectual force OF
latter-day Judaism" or the jarvon-speakine
denizens Of the New York Ghetto. because of
the opinion he saw fit to express upon the
Zionite movement, recalls to my mind the
methods usually employed in holy Russia
The expression of ones opinion in Russia -
only tolerated when il comedies with the
views held by the fanatics in power; any
trans greSsion or deviation from such views
is generally regarded as nothing short OF
criminal
Precisely such methods seem to obtain in
the Ghetto To say the least, the behavior
of the audience toward Rabbi Silverman
was decidedly abominable
A. to the Zionite movement itself, viewed
in the light of sober thought. there i but one
conclusion to be- arrived at. and that is that
this movement i sure TO dissolve itself into
grand tasco The improved conditions OF
the jews in Russia; the contemplated anchor
alton of their conditions in Roumania; the
equal rights and privileges they enjoy IN
England, in th. United states and TO great
extent in Germany and IN France, speak in
unmi-takable terms against any such move
What Is most deplorabl" is the fact of the
iiono n in tho~. nited states. the ireest coun-
try upon the face OF the earth. The reason.
however j. not far to seek. few dreamers
the gift OF CAB. seem to have conceived the
idea of proclaimng the dream OF that arch
dreamer Dr Herzl. as a consummation de-
Vou,ly to be wished for, and are stirring up
an enthusiasm among the rank ana hle
worthy Of a nober and certainly OF more
practical cause
Rabbi Silverman has struck the right key
He expressed the sentiment Of the most cul-
ttired as well a. the most practical element in
Judaism when he declared his aversion TO
this movement The Golden Ghetto" may
have it, faults vet I question II ignorance,
pre- judice. Intolerance and fanaticism can be
charged TO it, di-credit Can the East Side
Ghetto claim that much for itself?
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ?. HOMO.
The sun., 1903-01-06
THE JEWISH QUESTION.
Letters From Jews Called Out BY DR.. sil.
verman's OppositiOn 70 NOnism.

To f., n. ha1 70
~ Ihh hDrIoH OF lHE oVN-o"' pes w
INFORM you that am an Americanized Russian
Jew, and while I stand very closely with all
nv symnathies 10 ayorvthi,g annert aiming
IN tho ro,sar. -, ~ n,,' hs,ouad adonted
70 'ne "e"are OF 'hlS my oe'oveu auop'e"
country am still one with my former COM
atriots and coreligionists II pains me
when people SNEAK against them. IL grieves
ma deenIy uhan ,hav ara ,ni,,.,iv attacked
~ ~" ups u''p's "nth ,hey are un'"s'' "''"
u nils me with the keenest sorrow when
hear them denounced for sins ascribed to
them as n class Tbav have their faults and
-, a., "" N,,, 40 na, Raj.
'noI'.o",inRs % IKE o.hers' SUI ! uo uo. ~"
tate for moment TO assert that the nooier
qualities OF Others are not less represented
I'm them What pr;eyes me especially now
a" a" ~ g., "na. "'e ,e.a,,,.san, ot,on
j, ue ih,e accusa'ion ana hhis'rprre'e'v,' t' ~
OF DR.. Snverman OF Temple EMANUEL IN
regard to the ability and manners OF my
country peopIe
~ S.,' .,., -, ,h. uohrow
Dr oh'eIman speaking az 'ne ~
Institute at East Broadway ana Jenersoh
street to an audience of my people. said:
Abolish tho ;aryon from every Jewish home:
~. -, w. -, 90 -. , 80, ,,u,. ian
ie' ,he. p,opIe haar dIu op'an ,rmrn
The sun., 1903-01-06

advantage over Dalny OF being always
ice-free. This railway is Japan's reply
to Russia's Manchurian line. A glance
at the map will show with what ease and
promptitude Japanese troops could be
landed at Fusan, and thence, by means
of the railroad now under way, de-
spatched to all the strategic points OF
Corea.
When this military and commercial
coup was planned, Japan had reason to
fear that Russia would not permit her to
complete the. projected railway. Nor
was there any doubt that the combined
fleets of Russia and France would have
been able to dominate the straits between
Fus;in and the island empire. To avert
such a combination, il was indispensable
to bring about the treaty with Great
Britain. which. it will be remembered,
binds that Power to assist Japan should
the latter be attacked by more tn one
antagonist. Under the circumstances,
Russia's hands are temporarily tied in
the Far Fast. That contest must
eventually come is distinctly recognized
at Toxic. and that is why the Mikados
advisers have not only devoted the loan
made in England to the increase OF the
japanese Navy, but are also disposed
to strain the native fiscal resources to
the same end.
The more closely these facts are ex-
amined, the clearer it will appear that
the hope of commercial ascendency IN
the Far East, which Russia based on her
acquisition of the Liao-Tung peninsula.
is far from attainment.
The sun., 1903-01-06
PRESBYTERIiNS roo DIGNIFIED.
j. II. Converse Says SO and Pleads for
E,angriistic Movement.

Presbyterian pastors and elders listened
yesterday to several speakers on evan
geli-tic methods at a meeting in the Presby-
terian Building. The meeting was under
the auspices of the evangelistic committee
of the Presbyterian General Assembly, of
which John H. Converse president Of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works Of Philadelphia,
is chairman, and the Rev DR.. j. Wilbur
Chapman, former pastor Of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. is corresponding
secretary
Mr.. Converse told Of the inception Of the
..vanpelistic movement among Presbyte-
rians and said results in places other than
New York have justified the committees
appointment. He said New York ought TO
wake up and follow in Philadelphia's lead,
and begin a winter and a summer campaign
for soul for Christ He added
THE Presbyterian Church is too dignified.
II is time. II We ever hope to attain results,
to get away from some of this mistaken
dignity and get about active work among
Presbyterian church members
The sun., 1903-01-06
No New Trustee OF Columbia.

Columbia University trustees took no
action yesterday toward filing the vacancy
on the board caused by the death Of ". c.
Schermerhorn. The Rev. DR.. E. B. Coe
presided at the meeting OF the board as
temporary chairman and a minute on Mr..
Schermerhorn's death was adopted. John
b. Pine was reelected clerk of the trustees
and appointments to official committees
were made "a follows: Committee on FL
nance, Herman H. Cammann; Committee
on Education W. Barclay Parsons: Com
mittee on Honors, the Rev. Morgan T. Dix;
Committee on Buildings and Grounds, F.
Augustus Scherhmerhorn and W. Bayard
Cutting.
The sun., 1903-01-06
GET A CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR
Columbia Trustees Gail Prof. j. J. Thom.
son to Physics Department.

Joseph John Thomson, for the last eigh-
teen years Cavendish professor Of expert
mental physics at Cambridge University
England, has accepted a call by the Colum
bia trustees TO become head Of the depart
ment of physics to succeed the late Ogden
Nicholas Rood
The trustees have voted to designate the
physical laboratories for research work by
the name of the Phoenix Physical Labora-
tories. in memory of Stephen Whitney PhG-
nix of the class of so. who left large be-
quest to Columbia
The trustees yesterday appointed DR..
Charles Lane Poor, formerly associate
professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins
University. lecturer in astronomy. DR..
l.. T.. lie Fetra was made instructor in the
diseases of children and chief clinic at the
college of physicians and surgeons. The
resignation of Judge William Albert Keener
as Kent professor of law was accepted 70
take effect on June 80.
The sun., 1903-01-06
to value zionists than -an American

how TO value zionists than -an American
born rabbi" -
seek in all prisons and find there one Zion
ist All Jews who arc In prison have already
acquired American customs and language.
The more Zionists the less Jews In prison.
The criminal records of Russia will show less
crime committed during a whole year by the
5.OOO.OO Jews OF that country than by the
jews In New York during one week WhyY
Those who reproac ch the Ghetto transgrcss
the verse: Whose mocketh the poor re-
proa cheth his Maker" tProver bs, xviii, s..
let them rather protest against those who
pay with gold for a single square foot OF land
and erect skyscrapers. which are veritable
ghettos In the mselves.
BY the way. as few Christians know the
Hebrew language. and the titles of rabbi and
doctor are oonfounded by them, 1t Is nees-
sary to make a distinction between these
two religious exponents of American Judaism.
Doctor" designates him VINO does not know
Hebrew: the IRA bb" is he who does know.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4. JoHN CorRNoS.
The sun., 1903-01-06
The Mayors Message.

Mr. Lows official message to the Al
dermen reveals most beautiful Mayoral
estimate of the value to the city of it's
chief magistrates services in the past
and of the importance of their prolonga-
tion. The message contains, however,
topics of more commonplace public in
terest Two are conspicuous above the
Others
The Stevenson plan of rearranging the
income of the Sinking Fund in order to
divert greater portion of the city's
revenues to the reduction of taxation
has already been praised by THE Sun
as financially sound and as desirable Of
adoption.
The scheme Of raising the assessment
on real estate in order to relieve the city
somewhat of the restrictions in expendi-
ture imposed upon it by the municipal
construction of the underground rail-
way has suspicion cast upon it by the
remarkable character of the argument
which Mr.. Low makes in its favor. For
example, a revaluation of the city's real
estate by the present Mayors subordi-
mates shows glaring inequalities in assess
ment; therefore, says the Mayor, let us
assess at the full value, instead of at the
so-called 81 per cent. standard now in
use. The conveyances of real estate
since the publication of the policy of real
estate assessment. the Mayor tells us,
have increased in number; therefore.
says his Honor, let lis assess at the full
value.
Peculiarities of logic like these raise
doubt about the wisdom behind the
plan.
1t is very questionable whether the pres
ent assessment of 81 per cent. does not
fairly represent the full value of property
here for purposes of municipal taxation.
Moreover. the enormous increase that
the proposed reassessment would cause
in the teachers salary fund which. by
the way, Mr.. Low refrains from men
toning. demands the taxpayers most
careful consideration.
The sun., 1903-01-06
Test Case in Trust Fighting.

\ jury on which there were ave union men ye'
l,rday found the Chicago Mssons and Builders
Association. It's president. J. {. Thompson. and
several members - the Brick Manufacturers ASS.
caiIon guilty % boy colt against George HinCs.",
a Hobart. Ind. brick manufacturer, HnCh!ir vas
given a verdict of s22 O1 against the dcfcndanu
The result Of THIS cast shows one way In which
,h. trusts be dcai With. said Russell Whitman,
counsel Tor the plslnuT "Ttlc suit against them,
brng them before a court and Jury, and you have
ono method Of bringing them to time II they have
violated the law. / consider The oAss . Doos In =
poitans one Of its kind..
The sun., 1903-01-06

One 10y one, the sons Of calamity get
tangled up with the Octopus and let the
prosperity bacillus undermine their heroic
principles The Hon JACOB CoXEY Of the
Irregular Army, o. has been a man Of cor
porations and a boated bondholder for
wears. HoGG. TowNE and BRYAN are
plcthoric of purse. And here Is our old
Greenbacker and Populist friend, Gen
JAMES b. WEAVER of Iowa. a statesman
whose appar ntly invincible disbelief in
the hunt tor happiness has long kept alive
our interest in his fortunes. Alas, he, too
is fallen. According to an esteemed Iowa
contemporary, he has gone to Sour Lake,
Tex, a. president Of an oil company, Sour
Lake mas nam" congenial 10 tho old
WEAVER. but we fear that the new WEAVER
il destined TO be an optimist and perhaps
a millionaire.
The sun., 1903-01-06
Admiral Dewey to start for Home This
Week.

WASHINGTON, Jan 5-Admiral Dewey
will leave Culebra Island this week for
Washington on the cruiser yacht May
flower The manPuvres of the feet under
his command will come TO an end before
saturday. but the vessels will remain In
the West Indies after the Admirars de-
parture to engage III target practice and
squadron exercises. This work will not
last very long and on its conclusion the
European and South Atlantic squadrons
will return to their regular stat ions, while
the North Atlantic squadron will make
a cruise in West Indian waters and return
to the United States early in the spring.
The sun., 1903-01-06
Hussia's seaport Problem In Man.
(huria.

When the St Petersburg Government
obtained long lease OF the Liao-Tmg
peninsula, winch Japan had been COM
PEELED to retrocede to China, it supposed
that long step had been taken toward
the fulfilment of three important aims.
Russia wanted an ice-free port on the
Pacific; she wanted a better strategic
and commercial terminus for her Sibe-
Tian Railway than Nladivostock which
was originally contemplated, she wanted
eventually TO monopolize the foreign
trade of Manchurla and Corea.
Having discovered that Port Arthur
would not be available as an entrep0t.
the second step taken by Russia toward
the attainment of her threefold purpose
was to construct de moro harbor and
CITY on the east side of the Liao-Tung
peninsula, about twenty miles north
east of Port Arthur, henceforth h relegated
TO the single role of naval fortress. On
the new city, TO which the name Dalny.
or the Distant was given, vast sums of
money have been spent, but they would
have constituted an excellent invest
ment could the place have been made
the emporium of the foreign trade of
Manchuria and Corea. To give Dany
however, monopoly of imports into
Manchuria, it was Indispensable to sup
press the existing entrep0t, Newchwang.
This, it will be remembered, Russia tried
to do, but the attempt was ioied by the
interpOsition of Great Britain. Japan and
the United States, an interposition the
moral influence of which gained material
weight from the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
It was also the three Powers named that
caused China to insist on the withdrawal
of Russian soldiers and policemen from
all parts of Manchuria except the sta
tions on the Manchurian branch of the
Siberian Railway.
No doubt the retention of large garri-
sons at those stations may enable Russia
to assert complete control of Manchuria
at some future favorable conjuncture, but
meanwhile NewChwang remains the prin-
cipal entrepot of the country and Dalny
is stillborn. So long as this state of things
continues, there will be no dividend at
all on the enormous amount Of capital
sunk in the construction Of the new sea-
port. Nor is this all. 1t turns out that
Dalny is not ice-free during the winter,
though il is much better off in this re-
spect than is Vladivostock.
The monopoly of Manchurian COM
merce NAV be looked upon in St Peters
burg as only postponed, There Is reason
TO believe, however, that the desired
control of the trade Of Corea by Russia
will be irrevocably lost. The japanese
are pushing with all practicable speed a
railway from Fusan, the seaport which
lies at the southeastern corner of the
Corean peninsula, to Seoul the capital,
whence the line is to be continued To the
Yaloo River. which forms the boundary
between Corea and Manchuria. This
railway, when completed and provided
with the numerous branch roads which
are contemplated, may be expected to
concentrate all the exports and imports
,f Corea at Fusan, which has the signal
The sun., 1903-01-06
~ 500 From Carnegie Fund for Harvard.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass Jan. 5.-Notice has
been received at the Harvard Astronomical
Observatory of a gift of g 800 to the observa-
tory from the Carnegie Institution endow-
ment fund The award is for the year 1908
and the money is TO be used toward paying
the salaries of a corps of experts who arr TO
study the large collection Of astronomical
photographs which have been made by the
Harvard Observatory within the past few
years.
The sun., 1903-01-06

Some days ago THE Sun reprinted a
-ta,emen, made in another journal that
Mrs. EDDY If the Christian Science move
ment had been a spiritualist: whereupon
her representative in this city, Mr.. W. ID.
Mct RACKAS, replied with qualified denial,
leaving Mrs. EDDY To furnish its tpal con-
frmation. Then another witness averred
that Mrs. EDDY had practi ed spiritualism;
and now We have received another letter
from Mr., MCCRACKAN which, although it
quotes Mrs. EDDY herself upon the issue,
leaves the situation practically unchanged.
In the remarks quoted of Mrs EDDY there
is nothing to prove that she did not at some
time practise the practices common TO
spiritualists
The sun., 1903-01-06
New Judges Name Attendants.

justices Vernon NJ Davis. Edward F.
McCall and Edward r Amend took their
sea Il Yesterday on the Supreme Court
hrnch Justice Amend has appointed
Aphonse q. hoebe and Henry b. Henge
his private secret airy and personal attend
ant. respectively. Justices Davis and
Me all have appointed Gustavtis W Rawson
and Edward Hickey secre, aries and Charles
Knight and John T.. MaCkin attendants.
The sun., 1903-01-06
Elevated Doubling Up,

TO rHE EpItOE or ina SUN- Nr. II strikes
me that the only way TO get over The congestion
Of ,raC the elevated y IL j. To put INTO opera
ton doub, deck ears, that ,S duplicate can, ont
on top al the oihcr something after the id,t of the
Penn IL Aula Railroad ferries that run iu Twenty
tEird street.
rhcrr could ne double platforms, double eatemcn
and double uCkCt Offices at each station. Thus the
same train could carry twice a. many people IN lar
less time 1t present the hghi to lrt on and UHthc
cars dt Us 'hC train at each station aud block the
Iiuc and IuNtS much time, wGcn time - tlv most
valuable. WILLIAM HAND
PATERSON. y J.. Jan. ,.
The sun., 1903-01-06
Memorial to Cardinal Newman.

TO rHE EpIToH OF I'M SrN-.Sr. am Of the
oplnlon> that there are a great many in this city
VINO would contribute to the success OF the Rev.
Father Eaton OF the London oraiory who is IN this
country for the putpoS" Of raising funds with which
to build a Roman Catholic church IN Hrminsham
England as memorial TO the late Cardinal John
Henry Newman. IN whCh C!ly the latter spent 80
inauI ,'af> e yr his COM cr>lnu. ! am told the
Cathoiit Of birmingham ar" quii, poor.
cardinal Newman needs no Introduction To those
VINO know him through MS wuilu.S and mink
tnrrr IRE many non Catholics who would cheer
fully contrihuic to such moN cmcnt II IL was gen
orally made known. J. ",
The sun., 1903-01-06
severe on Our stamps.

To IHE EpiroR or THH SUS-.Sfr: have tray
ellcd over good part OF the world. and have used
more or less postage stamps OF whatever country
have Sojourned m ana ! aSscverate that m no
place have foln such diScrrdltahlc stamps A.
arc sold at our post Offices Made Of hntile paper,
and with rare exec ptOnS Inc rccuvely "muci lascd
they one Of the most coni"mpihle NeAauo1S
that We Americans have 10 put M WITH
The sun., 1903-01-06

We welcome the opportunity TO praise
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE as a distributor of
wealth which is afforded 10y his gift of s., 500
to the Harvard Observatory for the pur-
pose of perfecting the enormous data the
observatory possesses in It's Photographic
plates of the stars. Helping the needy
institution already named after some other
benefactor may he more beneficent than
starting "A IL " one.