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A Defence Of Mic Rartsn.

To TIE EprfoA OF TIE SuH-str: Personal
knowledge Of Red Cross work for many years. and
faith In great cause. lead me 10 the favor OF
your columns and enter the Red Cross controversy
where at this time. angels might well fear to tread.
Mis- Barton Is the founder OF the American Red
Crosse fact not disputed up 10 the present time.
We might 90 further and say Miss Barton Is the Red
cross-perhaps not disputed either. She Is rsspon.
sbe for It's life and growth. She has carried u on
twenty ,yc ye,ss preceded by sight q ten year: q
carried the American Red Croes on through these
years. BY what methods. on what lines, under what
system OF m management. Hes II not been by her
own personal methods, her own lines. her own
system Of management II Red Cross members
have been for year, aware Of Ir,esulan,es" and
The American Red Gross had It's origin 10 the head
and heart Of an American woman. By her hand
II has been fled slowly but surely from It's humble.
almost unknown, BEGINNING, Through her efforts
|, has nsen sep By step y the Top where Y stand
naSy. and peace relief. Her own iife above n.
prosen, has made Il respected and admired BY Ill
The nations OF the earth.
II V 90 respected. so admired. so valued. that
10 day. Red Cross menbers-thc rich. the fashion.
able, millionaire and philanthropist-sre ready
gcy. and relieve her Of the burden Of further cam
In her declining years"
u spssk from no sentiment. no pity. None u
Would these things be posslbis--could they be
possible-f the American He'd Cross had been sua.
oonsdefstion Of TIE President Of the United states
wAsHuoroH. April 90.
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position. OF tho important American
educators and educational administrs-
tors at this time he d one OF tho aolest'
most resouroeful and most progress
sive-a natural leader, OF vigorous
and engaging personality, thoroughly
trained intellectually, and OF clear ana
definite perceptions as to the scope ana
character OF the university required 70
satisfy American needs peculiarly, Tor,
obviously, the first necessity of the free
college OF New York Is that 1t shall Do
such school. DR.. FINLEY will have
great opportunity and he Is a man TO
improve it to the utmost. At Knox
College, at Johns Hopkins University
and last at Princeton he has undergone
preparatory training for his task which
will enable him to take hold OF his
new duties in New York with the GER
tainty Of grasp and the poise Of veteran,
though he is still q young man. in his
fortieth year only. But 1t Is the vigor
and enthusiasm of youth that this COL
lege needs.
DR.. FINLEY will be installed as presi-
dent on the day Of the laying OF tho
cornerstone of the new building for
the college next September. This build
ing is to be erected on an extensive site
at lssth street and Amsterdam and st.
Nicholas avenues, and in its spaciousness,
it's architectural distinction and its APP
pointments 1t will represent adequately
the dignity and grandeur OF the great
city whose name IL bears.
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In ono short hour Of the coal strike .
greater humiliation than B1YAN could
have visited upon II in . century. He 10
the leader Of the Labor Unions OF the
United States, and they never trusted
BRYAN and they never voted for him.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT has put them above tho
law and above the Constitution, because,
for him, they are the American people.
and they proclaim to-day that they are
for him, to q man; and they are.
Mr.. BRYAN never could have accom-
plished what Mr.. ROOSEVELT has done.
He never could have acquired tho moral
support that has been the Presidents.
He lacked the essential things, the per-
sonal force, the dignity, the individual
distinction, and the style.
The President is the strong man, the
leader Of the masses. There Ia grow
ing feeling that II we do not need strong
man now the time Ia near at hand whom
we shall need him. Then let us reassure
ourselves that he Is on hand. People
compare Mr.. ROOSEVELT to Germany's
strong man, her forceful WILLIAM.
They even compare him to NAPOLEON.
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE was a strong
man. a man for great crises, great emer-
gencies. NAPOLEON moved down the
mob around the Tlileries. But NAPo-
LEON did not incite the mob to come to
the Tuileries.
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A Policy Disaster.

Tho conviction and sentence to the
State prison for not less than one year
and not more than one year and nine
months. with a fine Of 81 900 thrown in
for good measure. OF ALBERT j. ADAMS,
known in New York for years as the
Policy King must have severely
jolted the great army Of soldiers Of for
tune. The point emphasized by the
sentence is that It is quite possible, in
the city Of New York, despite the lament
Of sentimental moralists and amateur
reformers, to bring a lawbreaker to
justice when he is caught with the
goods on
ADAMS has been the policy pantata OF
Manhattan Island for many years. From
the Battery to Harlem the city has been
practically at ADAMs's disposal for the
sale Of policy slips. This stretch OF coun-
try has not been all his own, because
there have been two or three kinglets
who have been the nominal lords Of
certain sections OF the demesne, but
they have ruled to some extent through
the favor or the sympathy Of the over
lord.
In many localities hardly a barber
shop or a cigar store was thought worthy
Of the patronage OF the neighborhood
unless it sold policy slips behind the rear
partition. To play policy requires no
large capital. and none is so poor as to
have his stake refused by the slip writer.
The regular gambling houses of dozen
cities probably wouldn't handle the
volume Of money poured in by the hum
BILE but well-nigh innumerable players of
policy. Its victims are almost exclu-
sively those who cannot afford to lose.
Inasmnch as ADAMS is reputed to have
Melted an annual income from his various
shops OF not far from million dollars,
that is, before the fatal moment Of divi-
sion, it can be understood readily that no
great amount Of public sympathy will be
wasted over the spoking OF his wheels.
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The I0wa's Gun.

To TIE EDITOR OF TIE suN-Si,! Your
correspondent In to-day's issue makes ouri-
Gus statement In trying TO correct the edi-
torisl remarks on the bursting Of the Iowa's
gun. He says In part: Rupture occurred
at q point at which there could have been no
eppre ciable pressure at the nome Mt OF initial
that there was no appre ciable pressure be-
tween the breech block and the mn zzle. what
Sns ,s ths shct to emerge and sives u The
1t is q. very valuable knowiedee OF the action
Of smokeless powder for II shove that the
ton and ex pansion Of the gases remained
but sli9htly undiminished at the muzkle,
who're the gun IL weakest and the rupture
at the muscle end than the army guns, and
the result Of the inyestisstion win show that
acting. Misunderstanding smokelees powder
discharges n II q
April, Al
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A correspondent sends us from Odessa
. report Of the laying Of the foundation
stone Of a new Roman Catholic church In
that Russian town. In the hope. a. he says,
that {: will serve to dissipate soma err
roneous views regarding religious tolerance
In Russia Tho Baron EDWARD RoPP,
the Roman Catholic Bishop for the diocese
Of Traspol, who presided over the ceremony.
We will explain. r Of an old Lithuanian
noble family. He was educated at the
University Of st. Petersburg and afterward
ct the Catholic theological Seminary there.
A the report we quote indicates. be speaks
Russian. Polish. German. Lettish. French.
Italian, Turkish, and, We may add. TO some
extent, English. He Ia, moreover. q thor
ough Russian and believes unreservedly
In the destiny Of Russia. He stands high
with all classes Of Russian society. and his
noble birth gives him an influence In quar-
tiers not ordinarily regarded - fsvora-
bly, disposed toward Roman Catholic
ecolesiastics
A Bishop In Russia IL a very high dig
nitary. and the Catholic Bishop ranks with
his brethren Of the Russian Church In the
eyes Of ofioial Russia. The land given by
the city Of Odessa for the new church our
correspondent describes - . very valuable
plot. The fact that the town. about Eve
years ago, also gave TO the English Church
authorities another valuable pieos Of land.
on condition that thsy erect . church within
reasonable time. Gsmonstrstes . degree
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FTdm N Aueudd CkfondS.
The Hon. James Hamilton Lewis now of Chicago.
general counsel for the Beet Sugar Trust and the
Canadian Pacno Railway. arrived In the city yestsr.
day on hurried business trip. He came from
Washington. where he had been engaged for several
days before the United States Supreme Court. 10
look sfter some legal matters In connection with
the estate OF his late uncle. Mr.. KIT Lewis. He viii
leave for home 10 day. and thence 81 once for San
Francisco on i'm portant legal business.
Col Lewis Is one Of the successful men OF his
time, and his occasional excursions into national
politics have not interfered With his reputation o.
triumphs a. lawyer. Though Identified with the
great West, and national boomer and developer
COL. Lewis has never sympathi zed with our govern
mental expansion and Assimilation" In the Philip.
pines. and thinks the Democratic party should not
let up on It's opposition 10 the Republican Philippine
policy. He thinks Roosevelt Is going 10 create
serious dissenaon In Republican ranks. and does
not think New York will furnish the next Presdsa.
ual candidate for the Democrats
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National Theatre and the Church.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE suS-Sir: an
very glad to see active steps decided upon
with regard to a national theatre. 1t il
regrettable. however. to see at the outset
Mr.. Conried comparing the educational.
ethical or moral value--or whatever he may
Of the Church. Mr. Conried TO my mind is
making q tactical blunder His remarks
are calculated to offend some OF the very peo-
pie who other wise might be induced to be-
come subscribers.
I class myself under the church Roing
head, and i never supposed that the theatre
nor could do so. Nor would patronize q
national theatre. or any other theatre. founded
and run on such prin clples: and think there
are some other people like me
Mr. Thomas deserves praise for the stand
which he took on the occasion.
NEW YORK, April 20 WKLLwsHER.
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That Pretty Kodak Girl 70 nary.

From TIE 81. Louis Republic.
Naude Marquette Mcconnell. who 10 the original
OF Q Kodak picture which has been q rculsted ali
over the world - An Advertisement By promnen,
nrm OF camera manufacturers. will be married In
ST. Louis on Tuesday evening. April o. 70 Georre
ouieley OF Toronto. Canada
How Mss heConnell's photograph came 10 be
chosen the youns lady cannot explain. Thinking tina,
some Of her artist friends who had been especially
successful with their kodAks had forwarded IL 70 the
manufactured she did not take the trouble 10 in
vesugats from what source came. II has an.
peared In hundreds Of papers and periodicals.. and
scqusintances su over the country have recon.
nized her.
If the photograph was not such . pretty one I
would be VEN angry, she said for the fact 70 that
II was taken without my knowledge. and must have
been snapped BY genius. declare that did not
pose for II. The fact 10, don't believe that hook
that pretty"
Mt. and NM. ouGiey viii depart the same evening
for Toronto. where they win reside.
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All Of the 100 feet Of the Kaiser Wilhelm
II. are thoroughly welcome to this port;
likewise her 70 feet Of beam, her 2e.6oo tons
OF displacement and her forty thousand
odd horse power. In her we recognize
the very noblest link in that chain Of mutual
amity and admiration which stretches from
the shoree Of America to those OF Germany.
and which We are confident that not even
her most eminent namesake will succeed
In breaking. Her mission, though, to break
records cannot be too soon fulHlled.
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A hard case is that Of Engineer wIskER
Of the memorable wreck In the Park avenue
tunnel, now on trial. The cause Of the
accident was neither malice nor gross care
leseness, nor staggering indifference 10
the safety Of his fellow citizens. He and his
brother engineers had como to ignore the
strict letter Of the law on the running Of
locomotives. and their sense Of danger and
their sense OF discipline had been dulled.
For this the public paid a terrible price:
but. unfortunately, protection to the public
cannot lie In mercy to poor WIsKER.
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Trust Company and Clearing House.

While definite assurance is still moi
given that the larger trust companies
of the city are about to sever their con-
nection with the Clearing House Asso.
citation, it seems practically certain tina,
they have decided 80 to do. The reason
assigned by them for their action Is. az
previously detailed in these columns
their conviction that the rule Of the
Clearing House requiring them to keep
q large reserve Of cash in their own
vaults and within q year to make this
reserve as large as that now kept by
State banks, is oppressive and unneces-
sary. They assert that reserve against
their deposits is already kept by the
national banks, inasmuch as all their
money, or nearly all of it, is placed in
these institutions and in, therefore, SUBJ
ject to the restrictions as to reserve con-
tanned in the National Banking act. 1t
Is needless at this time to discuss the
merits of these grounds. II Ia sufficient
to say that the trust companies have
q perfect right to withdraw from the
Clearing House, that is to say, to clear
their checks and drafts themselves, and
that their withdrawal from the Clearing
House is in no sense improper.
The proposed action Of the leading
trust companies will obviously tend to
make money easier in Wall Street. since
1t will keep in circulation sums of money
which would otherwise be deposited in
bank Golfers. The public Is interested
in knowing, however, what precautions
the trust companies do intend to take in
and Of their own motion in the matter
Of reserve and in the line OF afIording
checks against unduly extended banking
operations.
1t Is perhaps impracticable that q trust
company clearing house should be es-
tablished, for this would involve very
great expense. Many Of the trust oom-
panies not now in the Clearing House
keep and always have kept a very large
cash reserve. Many of the smaller and
newer trust companies. however, have
not adopted this course. They main
tain that neither the Clearing House
Association nor any other body has any
more right to ask them to keep reserve
than to insist that the great private
banking houses and large stock COM
mission houses in Wall Street shonld al
ways keep certain proportion Of cash
on hand and should invite public and
official inspection Of their books in order
that people may feel confidence In their
stability. We do not wish to b UNDER
stood as assailing the trust companies In
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-22
The Laws DeIay-Judges' work Hours.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-.sir: Referrina
to your article. The Laws Delay In New
York. in to-day's Sun. respectfully beg Il
say las almost every member Of the bar OF
this city has remarked TO himself when this
subject comes up In the ne wspapers-its pe-
riodicity Is about nine years) that the dihd-
Guilty Is not In the number Of Judges. but IN
the number Of hours they don't work.
Give a gentleman N7,S0o q yesr-the in
come OF $500 600 and expect him to work,
There you have the propositionl Take q
man who has worked like a galley slave for
bread and butter for thirty years. Put him
on the bench or elsewhere. practically worth
$500 900. and he is human. He considers
that he has earned his respite His hour Of
ease has come. and he takes II. You and I
would do the same thing j will prophesy
that when YOU get 2.oO0 Judges in this city.
there will still be about 5000 cases ahead OF
the calendar The maximum Judges work
in this city is o12 hours q year: the minimum
is Ies hours. The average is 40 hours. And
these figures have obtained any time these
thirty years. ] have no wish to ask you to
print this letter. As a practising lawyer
should prefer to sign an eulogium Of the Judges
II would be more useful TO my clients.
But write this letter for your personal in
formation In case you should recur to the
subject and think my statements worth while
A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK BAR.
NEW YORK, April 10.
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Champion Of Champions At awtng wood

To THE EpIToh OF TIE SuS-Sir. In to.
days srS YOU mention the wood ga win 4
feat OF the people around New Haven.
think can 20 you one better.
am from Connecticut original and - wed
wood for ten years IN the vicinity Of Derby
sometimes reaching New Haven. Two years
aso moved out here and laughed at the peo-
pie who think they have days work for ten
cords.
70 spd e. SoT + Of %1sd wcS
alt hours into four sticks. or three cut q
stick. making a rate Of forty cords q day.
We have ample witnesses here 20 prove this
q. W SHERMAN
SrRINo VALLEY. n. Y, April 90
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A Tribute That IL Due.

A tribute is due to Mr.. WILLIAM KIs-
SAM VANDERBILT for the dignity with
which he has conducted himself under the
very trying circumstances in which he
has been placed during the last eight
years. Instead OF rushing of at once to
marry a new wife after having been
divorced from the first, he has remained
unmarried during that long period, and
only now is about to wed lady Of dis
tinction in New York society.
During the time Of his domestic troubles
and the tendency of proceedings for d.
voroe he bore himself with most admira-
BILE self-oontrol, though the circumstances
must have been Notifying to him and,
according to report, peculiarly exasper-
ating. His treatment OF his divorced
wife, 80 far as concerns financial pro-
vision, was princely, magnanimous, to a
degree that even makes 1t remarkable
in history.
Thereafter his course OF life was re-
served and unoste ntatious, and not even
rnmors of an intention on his part to
enter into matrimony anew were heard.
He seems to have been governed by high
regard and high sense Of respect for his
children. to whose dignity and welfare
he subordinated any personal and selfish
inclinations TO another marriage he might
have had. Mr.. VANDERBILT gave himself
up rather to studious application to the
management Of the great railroad enter
prises in which his interests were so ex-
a
notably than before the mastery f1nan-
cial and administrative ability Of which
he lie the distinguished poesessor. He
has made himself one of the most power
full of the conservative forces in the field
OF American railroad enterprise and q
tower OF strength in the financial world.
Now, after long interval, Mr.. WANDER
BILT prepares to return to the estate OF
matrimony, an estate, as his Episcopal
Prayer Book admonishes him, not by
any means to be entered into unadvisedly
or lightly, but reverently, discreetly,
advisedly. soberly and in the fear OF
Gop.' At a time when so many husbands
and wives in the same general social
sphere to which he belongs have rushed
in hot haste from the divorce court to
the marriage altar to get new mates, the
decency and dignity of Mr.. VANDERBILT
in waiting eight years before taking that
step stand out oonspicuously for COM
mendation and celebration.
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Sir william Jshnssa.

TO TIE EprroR or TEE SWISH: Referring V
Mr.. Posey S. Wilson's letter In to-days Sun de.
Tending his ancestors fame. would say that -
Sir william johnson died In iT7< he could not very
well have led the raid on Cherry Valley In 1850.
Probably the winter had In mind Sir Williams
son, SIR John Johnson. sun. a. Mr.. Wilson him
self. In his letter. assumes the role OF censor be
should be particular In hls statements OF facts.
supposed, on GOOD evidence. that had Sir William
yohnscn lived be would have espoused the cause Of
the Colonies On this point see my life OF Ef
william Johnson-r WuiSAH L, SroNu.
MOUNT vxRNoy. April 10.
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The murder Of BENEpErTo MADoNlA calls
out, a. usual. some sinister and silly CON-
ments on our Italian fellow citizens as men,
bers Of an all-pervading Malta. Surely. the
Italians have some very bad boys among
them. but can other nationslities claim
saints oply' That u q question which re-
quires no answer. Italy u . land Of poets.
patriots. artists, philosophers. lights Of
science, and bngands. Why should We
single out the brigands only1
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Let 1t Be remembered that tho CRAMPS,
whose shipysrd has passed into other hands,
were for many years ono Of tho most Inn
portsnt factors In our national defence.
The Cramp shipyard win be remembered
gratefully In this country for all time.
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A politician must feel certain Of his power
and enjoy the highest confidence In the
future when he ventures to punish his OPP
ponents after the manner Of Mr.. CHAnLHs
y. MURPHY Of Tammany Hall.
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Against the Canal,

canal proposition. even In the canal cities on
the line OF the waterway. will be voted down
Overwhelmingly. In conversation with the
men meet hnd only here and there one that
has fact or word to say In favor Of It. II will
be beaten. and beatsn badly GENEsEE.
ROCHESTER. April 20.
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Ctearettss 20 Musie.

hrs. poupe-Hsvs you seen the new cigarette
music box'
second poupe-No: what 10 ~
First Doups--Every time YOU put 10 cents In the
dot you get pack Of cigarettes and the machine
plays Nearer. Ny God, 70 Thee"
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British Rudy Hair Going.

II Is true that blondes superior TO then
darker slsters. both In morality and Intellect II
unfortunate that the blonde type In England 10
rapidly becoming extinct All the fslr-hsired
children seem 70 become dark they Grow up,
for II 70 but rarely one sees . grown person with
truly light hair and light eyes.
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Of religious Hbsrality and tolsrat'oo IN Bus.
sia which VIII surpriss people unacquainfed
with the actual situation In that empire.
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FVom ~ wtweAssssr .Ssnfnsi
n costs so Tor man 70 kin bis father In Hopkins
vile. about si>o FOR man 70 kill another In Louis
vile. end the pnos Of . osrttass 70 Nh Q member
81 The eDpesl1S fasosa b 1rsaAh1ss
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he Beur eeasous-
Tesohsr-wlifred. name the four seasons % sAs
ysar.
w,nse-oa1 sssseen ysshues esa ieesssA
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PAln-Dosquc No. 70. near Grand Hotel. and
Kiosque No. 10. Boulevard des Capucines-