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New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

cents q ton and ocean and coastwise vessels
plyinc for hire in Alaskan waters 81 a ton per
annu1n on net tonnage. These taxes are clearly
unconstitutional if the constitution has any
thing to do with the matter. They are collected
by the Department of Justice of the United
States. Part of them go to pay the expenses
of the United States District Court for the Dis
trict of Alaska-a purely federal expense Could
Congress levy a non-uniform tax here or any
where under the constitution to support the
United States courts in the neiShborhood? :?
Part of the taxes are apportioned to incorpo
rated towns in the district, and part are COW
cred into the Treasury of the United States.
The validity of this law was recently attacked
and few weeks ago the Supreme Court with
out dissent handed down Il decision allowing
its continued operation Justice Brewer, one Of
the dissenters in the inslliar cases. writing the
opinion. The decision, it is true, went off on
technical point but the result was TO leave
Alaska still outside the constitution.
Governor Brady, however, does not complain
of that. 1t might be thought that the neglect
from which Alaska suffers could be cured by
erecting Territorial government with local leg
Slative powers. He denounces any such sug
gestion as ''the most braZen quackery.' He
tells anybody to study the census tables and
the map, locate the communities and their
distances, and then ask himself if he would be
'bettering the condition of this people at this
"juncture by changing the form of government
from what it is to that OF Il regularly or
''ganized Territory. Either as a district or
Territory Alaska must remain under the direct
control of Congress. Alaska as it is now gov
'-erned entails the least possible expense upon
''the people residing here. The majority of the
people here understand this quite we'll, and are
not madiy 1amOring for a change at present
We know that whatever rights Congress sees
proper to extend to us are just as secure under
the present district as under full fiedged Ter
'ritOry." The Governor says that the district
should have a delegate who can persist in
bringing TO attention matters needing action.
\ bill has already passed the House to permit
this. and it should promptly receive the assent
Of the Senate. The Governor specifically rec
ommends that the land laws should be over
hauled, that a commissioner of fisheries and
a commissioner of mines should be appointed,
and that a commission be sent to examine into
the condition of the natives. He thinks the
license law bears too heavily on steamers run
ming TO the Yukon, which can run only three
or four months, yet pay as much as vessels In
Southeast Alaska, which run all the year. He
wants the law changed to encourage transpor-
tation, and wishes a lighthouse district, and
means to show AIaskas resources at the st.
Louis Exposition.
These suggestions are sensible and SnouId
have attention. The neglect by Congress of de-
tailed work which it keeps in its own hands
and allows nobody else to do is not creditable.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
PERSONAL.

It is announced that the King of Italy will cross
from Calais to Dover in the spring. visit TO
King Edward i'm London He will travel from Paris
to Calais the Nord Railway, in the train spe-
Sa @ be pae W his s0f spo 9os by On
ing Calais by special steamer the King will De re-
ceived and saluted by the English and FTench
warships. which will escort his majesty across the
Channel
Elder Levi Shaw resigned his leadership of the
Shakers of America at New-Lebanon last Sunday.
Brother Daniel Oxford was elected elder in his
stead 1t has been the custom among the Shakers
that the elder retain the leadership until his death
but. reaching the age of eighty-three, Elder Shaw
made special request to be allowed to resign. The
Shaker elder is not only the minister of righteous
ness, the dispenser of spiritual life the human rep.
resentative of the spiritual mediator1al once but
the father and protector Of the the family & He minis Ms
new eected eIdership the financial and business
interests of the Shakers are to be united
Robert Poole. who has just died at his suburban
home near Baltimore, had charge of the work Of
building the dome of the National Capitol at Wash
column of the Treasury Building
Professor Schmidt Of the German University of
Education. who accompanied Emperor William to
England last November and went to oxford to in
vestisate educational conditions there says: THE
German Government unreservedly acknowledges
the great value of the Rhodes scholarships and
will do it's utmost to assist German students 70
prospects of our accepting the SCHOLARSHIPS are al
t9gether in Thgre I are no nfbns bt the
difference between German and English university
requirements suggests possible obstacles, the pre-
paratory education of German students being so
far i'll advance"
When Theodore Mon1Gasen received his Nobel
prize he gave 6,009 marks of it TO the Mayor of
Charlottenburg. part to be divided among the poor
and part 10 be used in the enlargement Of the
public and high school libraries.
Mrs. Julia A. Carney. who wrote Little Drops of
Water" etc. is still living. She will be eighty
years old the coming April and it is proposed that
children be invited to contribute each cent for
testimonial to be presented to her.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
American schoOners so that those vessels can
carry freight cheaper than steamships.
DISHONEST "TIPSTERS." "

The legislature will be asked this winter 10
pass a law forbiddns the publication OF ad-
vertisemeuts in which swndling "tpSters de-
clare that by means of their private and "eA-
elusive" information they can make anybody
and everybody rich who will gamble on their
selections of winning horses at the racetracks-
Such n law is needed. This sort Of advertis-
ing is as objectionable would be the CON
spicuous display of invitations to make bets
in faro banks and poolrooms. with the street
numbers of these dens printed in big figures or
letters. Such tips are dishonest. II the ras-
Gals who claim that they possess inside stable
secrets were really successful in obtaining such
valuable knowledge they would not peddle II
out TO the purchasers of tips" They could
easily roll up fortunes for themselves without
selling to their subscribers the sure things
which they assert they possess.
This sort of preying upon credulous dupes has
no excuse for liberation, and the legislature
ought to stop it. No systems were ever sue
cessful in the long run in oy grooming the per-
centage which professional gamblers have in
their favor. without regard to their additional
advantage in brace games.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA.

The boundaries of Alaska excite a consd-
erable degree Of popular interest. but the gov
ernmept of the country included within those
boundaries whatever they are, is a matter of
profound indifference TO the average citizen
and, we fear, to the average Congressman. II
does not seem exactly consistent for Americans
TO work themselves into fervor OF patriotism
lest few miles Of territory should be lost, and
then utterly neglect the territory. Not that the
territory should be lightly esteemed, or the
strategic features of unbroken coast line
regardless of the land in question itself, be
lost sight of; but adequate attention should
be given TO the problems of that part of our
domain The annual report Of Governor Brady
of the district-it is officially district and not
an organized Territory-contains some plain
speaking about this neglect which should SINK
into the minds of Congressman. He says:
What Senator or Representative since Sum-
ner's day after all these years Of quiet posses
sion has stood in his chamber and given a
mastery exposition Of what Alaska is, and mas
prophesied with full assurance what she is to
become under the benefcence or our poLtlcal
institutions? On the contrary, feeling grew
stronger and assiduously cultivated by a
few that Alaska was white eIephant. ms ms
came TO a climax and got expression IN the re
port of the Secretary OF the Treasury for ISn,
wherein he recommended the abolition of Alaska
as a customs district This was by man
whose long service in the House and Senate had
made him eminent as a statesman. Gradually
Alaska is receiving more attention, but 1t Is
from the public press than from our law
makers Some things have been done under
great pressure. but feel that Congress has
pursued a general policy of neglect since we
have owned Alaska. Congress rules Alaska
absolutely, and it is only at the hands Of Con-
gress that institutions can be extended ana
built up.
AS the Governor says, Congress rules the dis
trict absolutely. 1t ruled il outside the consti-
tuition for a quarter Of a century before the rule
Of Porto Rico with the same freedom
aroused our anti-imperiaists TO frenzy. Like
Monsieur Jourdain with his prose, they had been
enduring Imperialism all these years and never
realized its enormity. The constitution has
never been extended TO Alaska, and from the
beginning federal taxes have been levied there
which were not uniform throughout the
limited States" An act Of March 3. 1889
signed by President Cleveland, imposes license
taxes ON forty-two callings and business opera
tions Salmon canneries are taxed cents a
case salmon salteries 10 cents barrel fish
oil works 10 cents a barrel, fertilizer works 20
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
Ism'l1or.!s; aiIp Gaibn1ts.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY ,. 1903.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING

FORFIGN.-President Castro sent dispatch
70 Mr.. Bowen saying that Nenezueia ooes not
accede TO the demands OF the Poe[ toF m Wa
ezuela that in consequence OF the latter Couh-
1ry's failure to pay interest on former Gains
the right 10 collect directly Is per cent OF Ger
rain custom house dues would be exercised
- The sultan of MoTocco'S troops routed the
force of the Pretender and killed many men;
the fate Of Bu-Hanlara is unknown. - Opln-
son in England was not favorable TO captain
Mahan's views on the Monroe Doctrine -
There will probably be another attempt made
by the British Government 10 secure moolhca,
ZION of the Cuban treaty. == The KING ana
Queen of England viii go TO ChatsworIh to-oay.
- The British Board OF TRADE is at WoLh on
the improving OF the consular and co1nmerclai
representative services. = II vas re IePcl e .eu
mat representatives of the Standard OIL Com
panv may purchase all the Galician wells
DOMESTIC-Troops were ordered from Hart
ford and New-Haven by the Governor of Con-
nectieut 10 Waterbury, IN view OF the otous @
-,roceedings there The new German tariff
viii Infiict serious injury on the commerce of
this country, barring important exports from
the German market: the grain ana hour eA-
1,orting interests viii suffer especially -
The Thomas jefferson Memorial Association
through its president. Admiral Dewey, issued an
appeal for funds to build a memorial Tor Jener-
e6n in washington The friends OF anti
trust legislation in the House of Representa-
7ives have conceded the right Of way TO the
Currency hill. Attorney General Cunneen
ts expected 10 present the appeal in the Fran
chise Tax case TO the Court of Appeals to-day,
and the arguments will be heard about the
vide funds for good roads, well as canal i'm
r7rovements, has been evolved by drawing up q
hin making appropriations for internal improve
lnents for the State.
CITY-A team of horses drawing closed
carriage containing a tobacco merchant, q
-rieud and a woman dashed wildly down Fifth
ave stopping in front Of the Waldorf where
The driver became unconscious and the woman
hvsterical --= A. telephone operator saved a
woman and child from what seemed certain
death bv leaning over the platform OF a car and
seizing them - The low price of coal forced
some dealers who had been holding large sup
piles for speculation to send out agents 10 drum
1Ip trade ==A A Southerner, aroused by the re
marks from the pulpit by the Rev. DR.. Park
hurst about the treatment Of negroes in the
South argued with the minister after the ser
mon. Acting Inspector Walsh began an IN
vestigation Of recent charges of shake downs
hv Tenderloin policemen. - District At
7orrev Jerome thought that the prospect for
decisive legislation al Albany at this session on
HIS excise bill wSs excellent - clergy
man nnety-six years old was burned TO death
at Roselle, N J.
THE wEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Cloudy; probably rain by afternoon or night
The temperature yesterday: Highest, 30 degrees
lowest 34
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
Smnsemeuis.

ACADEMY OF USIC-S:l5-FloTodors.
AMERICAN THEATRI1--S 1t Nevada.
lREl.ASC< THEATRE-s-Ihs Daring of the Gods
RIJOT EH.EATRE-S:2o-Th Sir3 the cage.
BROADWAY THEATRE-S-The Silver slipper.
k-ASINO-S1S-A Chinese Honeymoon.
CRITERION THEATRES 15-The Cavalier
DAI.Y'S THEATRE-3-Lecturc. The MessteIsiaseT-S'l'
The Bilionare.
EDEN MTrSEE-2-s-T7le World ir Wax
EMPIRE THEATR F5-S. .2o-The Unforeseen
GARDEN THEATRlC-S-gf I Were King
GARiIC7[ THEATRES 15-Mice and Men.
HARLEM OPERA HOCSh-S.i3-The Stubbornress oI
Geraldine
a5FRAI.p ARE THEATRE-s:15-MrP Pickwick.
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-S:2U-FaGst-
KEITH Continuous Performance.
EN1CKERIsoC CRER TETEATRE-S-MT- Blue Beard ,
MADISON SQUARE TIL TRE-s5.,Sl--fSeatrlcc fieIiVIu
MonoloEucS.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HotSft-S--kTnani-
MAJESTIC TFiI-ATRE-s-H lizard OF oz
MANHATTAN THEATRE-S-Nsry Of Magdala
Nj RRAG HILdr-2-S-Moths. ,o
NATIONAL. ACADEMY OF DESIGN-lo to o-e % ~
Exhibition.
NEW 'SAVOY-S.20-The Girl with the Green Eyes, o
-I5-Nhen Johnny Comes Marching i10''0
PASTOR Performance
PRINCESS THEATRt-S:30-The Consul
TROCTORS TEIEATRE-N&u1eVlle.
NICTORg As .15-The Eternal city.
-TJF- Sultan OF Suiu
WEST END THEATRE-S-The volunteer oiea-'N''
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

gallons while Syracuse. nearly onehaf me-
tered. disposes of only as gallohs head. Den
yer without meters uses or wastes la gallons.
while Providence thoroughly metered, finds -
Gallons annie for her wants. New-Bedford has
only y few meters and consumes 102 gallons
head daily while Fall River with meters in
almost universal use. is just as well served with
only 20 gallons Paterson has few meters. and
consumes I46 gallons a head each day. while
Woonsocket with practically every tap me-
tcred gets along very well on only 2S gallons.
1t cannot he maintained that the cities using
the smaller amounts of water need less. or go
more thirsty. or are less clean. than those using
the larger amounts. There is no complaint III
them that the supply of water is restricted, or
that tle cost of it is great that people cannot
afford TO use it. On the contrary, there is rea-
SOD to believe that in the metered cities fully
as much water is actually used in the un-
metered ones. The difference is that less water
is wasted outright. without pretence at use
When the water is metered people are more
careful 10 keep plumbing i'll order. and to turn
off taps when they have done using them 1hat
is what makes the contrast. 1t is sincerely to De
hoped that the Water Commissioner will pro-
ceed with his Investigations until the city gov
ernment is fully convinced of the mOnstrouS
wastefulness of the present system, and the im-
perative necessity of remedying it the very
first step in the work of perfecting the metro
politan water supply. gallon saved is a gal
Ion gained and with an immediate gain Of
S0OoOoo0 gallons day in Manhattan's supply
we could afford at least to pause and draw a
long breath before purchasing the North Woods
or Lake Ontario for an additional watershed.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
FOOTBALL OR STAGN4TION.

The head master Of a preparatory school in
a neighboring State is so fond of football that
he sounds the loud hewgag of defiance TO the
detractors of the sturdy game in these thunder
ou. words: Il would rather have one student
lied occasionally in a game of football than
have all the boys rot to death in college, II
the college boys were to rot to death, there
might possibly be a slight sentiment of regret
here and there, even though it were evanescent
But might not a few of the students, perchance
survive, even were so appalling calamity as
the extinction of football to plunge the entire
human race into the darkest Of despair? Does
the hope Of progress for mankind depend e1-
clusively upon the slugging matches on the
gridiron?
This particular head master has lost his head
Perhaps he has dyspepsia. He evidently needs
plenty of open air exercise himself.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02
HArER WASTE AND METERS.

Tho results of some of Commissioner Mon
roes investigations into the alleged waste of
water in this city, and this borough. were re-
ported in our columns Thursday The show
ing was a startling and significant one. indlcat-
ing how well founded are the charges Of whole
sale waste which have been made by competent
engineers and in the press, and which some OF
the authorities of the Water Department have
seemed inclined to resent as unwarranted
intrusion of mere laymen into a realm which
should be held sacred to the official elect
Briefly restated Colonel Monroe found in the
Murray Hill" district daily waste Of more
than forty gallons head of the resident popu-
la+ion In an East Side tenement district be
found it much less. What he would find it In
business and manufacturing districts is mat
ter of pertinent interest, and we should not be
surprised if it were found 10 be much greater
than on Murray Hill. If the average OF forty
Gallons a head should hold good among all the
100000 people supplied from the Croton, there
zvould be a preyentable waste of S0,0O0,000 gal
Ions OF 50 600 worth of water, a day. We re-
neat what we have said many times before,
even when so doing seemed much like voice
CRYING in a wilderness, that such waste, easily
r,reyentable is at least well worth looking
after as schemes for enlarging the watershed.
Here is q chance practically, at merely NOM
,na1 cost te increase the water supply of this
borough 100000 gallons day. Why not i'm
prove il:
Nor are we prepared 10 concede that the
,caste discovered by Commissioner Monroe in
-bfs one Investigation is all the waste there is
Careful and expert estimates have hitherto
,laced the amount of preventable waste at from
fifty 70 seventy-five gallons a head daily. Not
long ago some water officials pOoh-poohed the
notion that there was any preventable waste at
all Now II is demonstrated that there is such
waste amounting 10 at least forty gallons
head daily in the very part OF the city where
we should naturally expect 10 IND 1t least we
are inclined TO think that further investigations
may bring the preventable waste up 10 the ng-
71res formerly mentioned. This idea is encour-
aged by actual results attained in other cities
where thorough and rational means have been
adopted for the prevention of waste Compari-
sons between cities using water meters and
shose not using them are highly suggestive. For
eyanple Buffalo runs less than / per cent OF
ber water through meters, and "'uses" 233 gal
IONS head daily while Cleveland. metering
ahout a quarter Of her water, uses only 13S gal
Ions Pittsburg without meters uses 233 gal
Inns while Cincinnati, one-fifth metered, uses
only az Philadelphia, unmetered, uses 1856, and
Chicago. IA per cent metered, 14S gallons.
uetro,f. 10 per cent metered, uses l35. and Mil
waukee so per cent metered, only S3 gallons.
Albany, with few meters, gets ria OF l5l
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

who convicted him. and OF the newspapers NJ"
could he help himself by such biliingsgate. D"'
if he should turn States evidence ana ten '"0
whole truth he might earn lasting fame as d
Mont Poee which burst forth in consuming
Aa~,e and burned up the old Tammany system
in the Police Department
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

Cannon has almost as loose a tongue that
of Devery. the "clapper- jawed' statesman of
the Pump. Cannon has been sputtering abuse
of the courts. the District Attorney. the jurors
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

In the New-Jersey legislature nf 1901 Dill 10
prevent The slaughter of live pigeons in shooting
tournaments" and matches was adopted "S
the lower house. but it was str1nSled III the
Senate. At this session the proposed measure
will he pushed earnestly. and II ought to become
Il law. New-YOrk suppressed TINS FORM oi
cruelty to harmless creatures. and no Htd'e
which has taken action against it shows any
disposition TO retrace it's steps NeW-JefSey
should not lag behind.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

1t is not bad thing for small nation iihe
Chill to own few warships. so as to De ahie 20
sell them in an emergency to a great power at
high price.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

Keep your front doors locked. or you may find
policemen prowIi1g in your bedroom.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-02

few recent utterarces in certain police
courts of Manhattan have been lacking in dig
nifty. Loose tongues are out Of place in trial
rooms The majesty of the law should not be
brought into reproach by any magistrate. even
if the bench which he sits upon is not OF the
loftiest height. Sef-restraint and common
sense are valuable qualities everywhere.
Quinine is said to be scarce, but if the Jersey
mosquitoes are kept down we shall not need so
much for malaria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-14

that part of the country who have been
taught to believe that she lived and died
there. In an elaborate argument Prof.
Duschene explodes all these sacred rem
iniscences, and in another pamphlet has
demonstrated that the so-called sacred
shroud at Turin was painted by an ordinary
artist in the fourteenth century, and that
the artist himself publicly admitted that he
was guilty of the trick.
Father Braun goes even more into detail,
and gives the history of the shroud from
the year 1853. when 1t was painted for
Godfrey l, Lord of Savoy, who claimed to
have brought it from Jerusalem, and pre-
sented 1t to a church in the village of
Lirey as the genuine winding sheet in which
the body of the Savior was wrapped for
burial. 1t is a linen cloth fourteen feet
long and four and one-haIf feet wide.
Father Braun shows that the priest Of
the church at Lirey accepted the relic from
the Lord of SavoX without investigation.
It attracted multitudes of pilgrims, much
to the financial advantage of the church,
until the bishop of that diocese, who had no
faith In It, publicly declared 1t a clumsy
forgery and "a piece Of ordinary painting"
1t has been kept In the cathedral at
Turin for a century or more and has al
ways been recognized as authentic by the
princes of the royal house Of Savoy, re-
CARELESS Of the pope's orders.