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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
THE q. 4. X.
Plan to Perpetuate IT After the Original
Members Are Gone.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sirt The
possibilities OF recruiting or perpetuating.
the Grand Army OF the Republic from sur
vlyng veterans OF the civil war are rapidly
dra wing to close Undoubtedly, from nat
ural causes alone, the next encampment OF
the G., A. r. will be the largest assembly
OF veteran membership that can ever be
brought together. As eligibility TO member
ship in this organization depends entirely
upon an existing record OF personal service
under the flag and in defence Of the national
Union. it would seem that nm order of asso-
ciated veterans of this kind should not en-
tirely pass from remembrance in the future:
and to this end that some suitable provision
should be made. by the order itself, to per-
petuate the story of its former existence
and OF a membership necessarily restricted
TO a record OF i'm portant national service,
II nothing more suitable or acceptable is
offered l would suggest that resolution be
framed and offered at the next national en-
campment which is to be held at san Fran
cisco, Cal, providing that the right TO wear
the ribboned star and tho bronze gun metal,
button Of former members Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic. shall pass to their
thereof. to worthy collateral branches.
ARLINGTON. n j.. May "a. GrIpoN.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
DIR. LESLIE ID. WARD ENTERTAINS
Governor Murphy and Senator Dryden
Among His Guests at Newark

DR.. Leslie d. Ward OF Newark, Vice
President OF the Prudential Insurance Com
pany and a director in the North jersey
Traction Company. gave dinner last night
In the art gallery OF his home. 1858 Broad
street, Newark, to Thomas N. McCarteT
former Attorney General Of the State,
and recently elected president Of the
Public Service Corporation. Among the
guest we're: United States Senator
John F. Dryden. Uzal H. McCarter,
president OF the Fidelity Trust Company
and brother Of the guest of honor; EdgaI
B. Ward, John D. Crimmins, Mayor Henry
NJ. Doremus, Carl Lentz, j. E. Ward, For
rest F. Dryden, Governor Franklin Muir
John I. Waterbury. Edward F. G. Young,
George W. Perkins, j. Q. b: Pitney, Charles
Bradley, Elisha B, Gaddis, William ScheereT,
Attorney General Robert H. McCarter, P.
Sanford Ross A. b, Carlton, j. f, HUI
shizer, former United States Senator
James Smith, Jr.. United States Senator
John Kean, Cass Gilbert, r. V. Lindabury,
John w. Griggs. formerly Attorney Gen
eral Of the United States, Walton Clark
Lewis Lille, John F. Stanley, Wilbur s.
johnson, Adrian Riker. Judge Gottfried
Kruger, Judge George r. Gray, Colonel
Charles A. Sterling, Congressman r. Wayne
Parker Henry Young, L. P. Ward and n,
E. Ward.
The speakers were Governor Murphy,
Senator Dryden, George W. Perkins and
Thomas n. McCarter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
Facts About tn. Death Rate.

TO THE EpIToR OF THE SUS--Sfr: read circular
recently, Issued by the Citizens Union In which,
after contrasting the death rate OF 1902 with that
OF 1901 In this city, great credit Is accorded the
Health Department OF the so called reform ad
ministratlon.
DR.. Parkhurst In his political discourse delivered
on Sunday night. falls into the mistake of giving
praise TO that department since as he says the death
rate OF 1901 was twenty and fraction per thousand
while In 1902 the death rate was eighteen and
fraction.
The Citizens Union and DIR. Parkhurst evidently
overlook the fact that the summer OF 1902 was the
coolest we have had In thirty years and as result
the death rate among children under nvc years as
the lowest per thousand In nineteen yean.
have locke ID over the records ofbrths and deaths
In BOSTON and Chicago and even greater decrease
IA shown In those cities o result OF the abnormaly
cool summer OF last year. VIII pr. Parkhurst and
the Citizens Union ascnhe the low death rate in
Boston and Chicago in the year 1902 to the Low
administration. or will they give any thanks 10 the
Almighty for the lovely weather OF last summer
JOHN r. CAMPBELL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
GETS WATCH TRADE OF CANADA.
American syndicate With Sl4, 900. 900
Capital buys Toronto Company.

An American watch manufacturing syn
dictate composed of the American Waltham
Watch Company, the Elgin National Watch
Company, the Keystone Watch Case Com
pany and the Crescent Watch Case Com
pany, representing a combined capital Of
Sl4 0O0, 900, has bought out the American
Watch Case Company, Ltd, Of Toronto,
Canada, thereby controlling the entire
watch trade Of Canada.
Prominent watch and jewelry manu-
facturers throughout the country regard
the formation OF the combination as pre-
lininRry to q movement TO control the
watch business in the United States as
we'll, because they say the capital repre-
sented In the combination could buy out the
Canadian company many times
They say. further, that the companies
represented produce nine-tenths in value
Of all the watches manufactured in this
country, and that the relations between
the Waltham and Elgin companies have
been growing more friendly every year,
although the sharp rivalry has kept the
price Of American watch movements down
Irving Smith. president of the Crescent
Watch Case Company, II Maiden Lane,
said Yesterday that the combination OF the
four companies was solely for the pur-
chase Of the Toronto company. In order
to better the trade conditions in Canada.
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OF his routine Like all true New York.
ers, he damns New York, but he loves it.
The amount Of material pleasure and
mere ease or luxury in the town merely
expresses one side, one part, OF this great
composite, hard to analyze. New York
is not merely the Western capital OF
finance commerce, industry, amusement,
but also of the finer and more spiritual
arts, of music, painting literature ar
chitecture. In her numberless variety
of characters the novelist has yet to lind
a treasure greater than DICKENS found
in London, for here are infinite combs
nations of blood and type. The moetly
and much derided architecture OF New
York has its Qualifications. 1t expresses,
however unbeautifully in many instances,
the mixed. democratic, independent and
devil-may-c constitution OF the IN
habitants. And these demonstrating
buildings, are they so ugly as some trav-
ellers and critics think? At least they
reflect terrific creative energy; and why
should anybody weep over the irregu-
larity of the skyline? Grow as high
as you can That is the privilege of the
individual in a democratic-republican
government; and this individualism is
built up in STEEL iron and stone in Man
haitian. There are Frenchmen who find
the Paris architecture monotonous. Like
another Mighty Mother, New York is
turritd per Undiscovered among cities.
Too many American historians and
poets have been New Englanders. The
stirring and patriotic deeds of New York
have lacked their sacred bard. and the
New Workers have never exalted their
horn. Their city has history enough if
they would read it, but the events of
every day drive the old history out.
You walk along, summoning to memory,
perhaps, the good old race Of pirates,
staggering along the Battery in blue
and cloth-of-gold, dazzling the burghers
with the gems on their sword hits, jewels
taken at the edge Of the cutass from
Dutch or English East lndiamen, or
maybe wrested from galley of the
Grand Turk himself; but fire alarm,
d IlSIt, tIt ca JioSloi VI Oil
snatches you away from fancy. The
history of New York is best pursued in
the closet here. There is plenty of it, and
much OF it is full of charm and pictur-
sequences. The New Workers come from
so many States and countries. Perhaps
they are to be forgiven for being weak
in local history.
Careless of great memories, New York
is not pulled up over the splendid present
or future of almost illimitable and un
imaginable growth and change. Pros
porous. tolerant and cheerful, she has
of the cynic humor which is
generated in all cities too great to care.
This is birthday, and the guest must
bring a little compliment with his
bouquet. We don't mind saying that
New York is good enough for us.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
TIE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
Board Of Missions for Freedmen Makes
Its Report.

Los ANGELES. Cal, May 25,-The frs
business Of the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, to-day was the consideration OF the re
port of the Board Of Missions for Freed
men, The Rev. Charles Payson Cheese
man, d. D., of Pittsburg, chairman OF the
board, presented the report, which showed
an encouraging condition. The receipts
were $ls2 1854, the number OF churches con-
trbuting being 1906, a gain of "a compared
with the previous year The number OF
ministers enrolled is I'll. They have charge
Of 33s churches, The total membership is
2O,748.
The Rev, Edward Cowan, ID. d., secre-
tary of the freedmens board. then ad-
dressed the assembly upon the work Of the
board during the year and what it had
brought out lively discussion on the ques-
tion Of how best to accomplish work among
the Freedmen. a question that has caused
much discussion in The past assemblies.
DR.. Page introduced a resolution that war
construed as attacking the Peoria plan,
me commissioners supporting the present
board. The report was then adopted
The Rev s. Banks Nelson, d. D., %
Rochester n Y, introduced a resolution
providing that the Assembly appoint com
mission OF nine to sct as board OF sr,,
capital The resolution was referred to
the committee on bills and overtures.
DIR. Richard S. Holmes Of Pittsburg. Pa.
read the report of the special committee
on the Presbyterian building in New York,
which was adopted DR.. Henry van Dyke
then offered resolution which was adopted,
that the Moderator appoint a new com
mittee OF five on the Presbyterian Building
to be composed OF two ministers and three
laymen, and that DR.. Holmes be made a
chairman Of thet committee.
supplementary report was made by
DR.. van Dyke, as chairman of the com
mittee on bills and overtures. The minor
and important recommendations made in
this report were adopted without dis
cussion.
DR.. James Yereance of New York city,
from the committee on Sabbath observance.
offered resolution on the subject of Sunday
travel by commissioners and precipitated
a lively debate from those commissioners
who had been obliged to travel on Sunday
on their way TO this Assembly because, as
they said, railroads had failed to keep
their contracts, Commissioner Yereance
also introduced resolution. expressing
the Assemblys profound regret that the
managers Of the St. Louis Exposition had
seen fit to permit Sunday work on the
Exposition buildings.
Another resolution approved the organi-
zation of the California Sabbath OBJ
servance Association, which has for its
object the procuring OF legislation in con-
nection with proper Sunday observance
All Of the above resolutions were adopted.
The special committee on the Assembly
Herald the official organ of the Presby-
terrain Church. then submitted it's report
The report showed q circulation OF SO, 772
copies, slight decrease from previous
reports. The committee urged against a
proposition to change the Herald from a
monthly to = weekly publication. The report
Office from New York to Philadelphia. The
report was adopted.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
Against tho Canal.

The thoughtful citizens Of our State
will attach very great importance to the
remarkably clear, succinct and powerful
statement of their reasons for opposing
the 1,0OO-ton barge canal bill just issued
by those State Senators whose names are
subscribed to the document in question:
which will be found in another column
As is we'll known, the bill only passed the
Senate, and, indeed. the entire Legislat-
ure, by very narrow majority. The
Senator's who opposed it and now make
public the considerations which animated
them are among the best-known mem
bers of that body. What they have to
say about this matter ought to be care
fully pondered by every man with vote
to cast at the forthcoming election.
Pointing out that they entirely recog-
nize that great benefits to important sec
tions of the State benefit the entire State
as we'll. they maintain that the mere
camor of powerful interests in the cities
of New York and Buffalo should not be
substituted for reason in the examina-
ton of the plan before us. The clamor
is raised chiefly by the same business in
terests whose monstrous overcharges
for all terminal facilities in these cities
have been. as matter Of fact, the chief
cause of decline in canal commerce since
1880; thence comes the request to the
State to enter upon the largest scheme
of expenditure it has ever authorized for
any purpose.
The charge that the degeneracy into
which the Erie Canal has fallen has in
jured the prosperity Of the two cities in
which it's terminals lie is utterly dis
proved when one considers the facts.
In 1920 the population OF the city of New
York as at present constituted was 1872
547 and the assessed valuation OF real
and personal property was $40 1854, l9e. In
1900 its population was 3,437, 2o2 and tho
assessed value of it's property was $3.50.
sOo,9s4. In 1920 the population Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
utomobilist to Horsem q n

10 days SUN that Col. Cooke rl Is planning TO have
Automobiles and horse drivers come together and
agree that the drivers Of automobiles shall
tain streets and the drivers OF fast horses other
streets. wish 10 propose better and more equit
able Arrangement than that. Let the owners OF
fast horses takc>them out TO places where automo
blles are most frequently to be seen and accuston
tim,d horses to the sight OF motor vehicles.
The owners have had perforce TO mako their
horses accustomed to the sight railroad trains and
Of trolley cars and as automobiles have come to
stay the better plan Is for the owners OF horses to
ACCEPT the Inevitable and Aceustom their horses TO
all sorts OF vehicles that have night to travel on
would work.
IL drivers OF horses would take half the trouble
to train their horses TO the sight Of motor vehicles
that they do TO emb8rraas auomobillsts they would
not require 10 PROPOSE impractcable e1pedents
10 prevent their animals from seeing power driven
vehicles. ANGUS SINCLAIR.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
BISHOP POTTER rs IS.
Presents Choir school Prizes on His Birth
day and Talks OF Church Music.

Bishop Potter presided yesterday at the
prize day of the Choir School at the Caths-
dra of st. John the Divine, The Bishop
was So years old yesterday and the pupils
of the school presented to him a riohl y
bound copy Of the Epistles OF St John
Prizes were awarded to LIE Roy V. A.
Bird, Laurence NJ. Cockaday. Lloyd A.
Dudmarsh, Harold B Jenkins, Harry c.
Kim ball and Chester H. McGirr.
Bishop Potter, in short speech, said
there was no reason why standard should
not be set for singing the English language
as well as for pronouncing it, and he pre- ised
the pupils and teachers of the school for
setting good standard okchoir music
Years ago, the Bishop said, countryman
went to Grace Church. When the choir
started to sing the country visitor joined
in. The sexton hurried to the country
man, plucked his sleeve and said:
Don't sing. They hire the choir to do
that"
"The Grace Church music was afro
cious them" said the Bishop. we still
have lot Of poor singing in our churches
and lots Of standards, Any one who comes
to worship on this hill, however. will hear
music of which the memory will be worth
taking away
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
The Paris-Mad rid Horror.

Nothing has fiercer enemies than the
automobile, but the chauffeurs engaged
in the race from Paris to Madrid are the
more hurtful, that is, those who have
been left alive. The disaster which has
attended the long string of contestants
in this horrible struggle was so serious
that the Premier OF France felt himself
constrained to order it abandoned-an
incident that cannot fail to affect the
status Of the motor car in the popular
mind.
The European chauffeur has run at
railroad speed over roads not laid out
for it and through population unac-
customed to movement of that kind.
Millions upon millions of dollars have
been spent by the great railroads in
Strengthening their lines SO that high
speed might be possible with safety, but
the ordinary highways over which auto
mobiles have to pass have been left with
the curves first imposed upon them by
economy. The increase OF power in
the motor car, of the ambition to display
it and of the number prepared to enter
long-distance competitions was certain,
sooner or later, to lead to the results
seen along the route from Paris to Bor-
deaux.
Keenly interested in all forms OF use
full progress and at the same time aprre-
catve of the dangerous possibilities of
this new invention, The Sun has steered
steadily between the undue prejudice
that would keep the speed of automobiles
bottled up entirely and the recklessness
and forgetfulness of the rights OF the
public bred of carriages built to go sixty
miles an hour in the hands Of all whose
purse would allow indulgence in them.
Consequently, we believe that no friend
of the automobile will seek to minimize
it's responsibility for the Paris-Bordeaux
disasters or to defend the unnatural use
of it that caused them.
The fact is that the manufacturer can
easily make automobiles of speed far
greater than public highways can toler-
ate. Sixty. seventy and eighty horse
power applied to cars carrying two or
three persons is in the long run incom
patible with the safety of those within or
without.
Trials of business trucks carrying
heavy loads at moderate speed will al
ways be practicable, but vehicles moving
at racers speed must be tried on the
racetrack
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
Vanderbilt CARRIAGE GATE.
Ill Tear 1t Down. Says Cantor-knicker or.
booker Trust 90. Plans Objected TO.

booker Trust 20. PianS ODJccted TO.
representative OF D. c. Weeks 4 Son,
the firm which rebuilt the outside OF George
W. Vanoerbilt's house at Fifth avenue and
Fifty-frst street, called on Borough Preei-
dent Cantor to protest against the order
for the removal Of the carriage gate which
has been extended from the house to the
stoop line. The plans had been approved
by Superintendent OF Buildings Perez M.
Stewart. before work was begun. Mr..
Cantor repeated that the carriage gate was
a violation Of tho law ana that unless 1t was
at once removed he would have it torn down
by his own men.
II is understood that an injunction will be
applied for and that his right to order the
removal OF the construction after it had
been authorized by the head OF the Building
Department will be contested in the courts.
Another building that is causing the city
authorities some trouble Is the new home
Of the Kinckerbocker Trust Company at
Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue.
The plans provide for building entrances to
Easements from the stoop line. An order
WAS secured yesterday by Assistant Corpo-
ration Counsel Cosby from Justice Dugro
directing the company to show cause why
it should not be enjoined from completing
the building as at present planned. The
oruer is returnable tomorrow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
BREMERToN DECIDES TO BE BAD.
warships Ordered There for Repairs Have
Been stoned at San Francisco.

WAsHINGToN, May 25.-A severe check
to it's ambition in the field of municipal
reform was given the Navy Department
to-day by news that Bremerton, Wash.
! which the Department had tried TO make
good, had decided to be bad again. But
the Department thinks it has the upper
hand for, if Bremerton resumes its wicked
career, the Department will stop all WORK
at the Puget Sound navy yard, upon which
Bremerton's claim to fame and prosperity
depend.
Several months ago the Navy Depart
ment announced that Bremerton was such
a modern Sodom and Gomorrah that the
morals of the workmen at the navy yard
and the sailors of the ships which went
there for repairs were imperiled. II was
represented to the Department that Front
street. which faces the yard gate. was filled
with drinking saloons, gambling bells,
confidence game dives and other houses OF
ill-repute
So the Department decreed that no war
ships should go to the yard for repairs
until Front street was cleaned. Thor"
was a loud howl from Bremerton, but III
trnatey the City Council rescinded the Ii
censes Of the Front street saloons and started
to close up the other dives, The Wash
ing on congressman and commercial bodies
in Seattle and Bremerton promised that
here would be no more temptations 10
sailors.
Putting faith in these representations,
the Department decided to have work on
warships resumed at the yard, and on Satur-
day the gunboat Ranger started from
San Francisco for Bremerton to undergo
repairs The Department also ordered the
other vessels Of the Pacific squadron, ,hc
armoed cruiser New York and the cruisers
Boston and Marblehead. to go there. This
was good news for Brcmerton. II mean.
heavy expenditures for repair work,
To-day word came to the Department
that the City Council had dec ided 10 re
LICENSE the Front street saloons Upon
hearing this, acting Secretary of the NAVY
Darling telegraphcd TO Capt. Bleecker, thu
acting commandment of the yard, u know
if the saloons were to be reopened, He
also telegraphed Rear Admiral Glass, COM
manding The Pacific squadron at San Fran
cisco, not TO sail for Bremerton until further
orders.
Naval officers say that il the Bremerton
people allow the Front street dives TO he
reopened, not another naval vessel shall
go there. II it is to be fight to a finish
the Department is willing to pit itself
against Bremerton, despite the political in
fuence which the town has behind 1t. and
declares that II Bremerton wants vice the
navy yard can't have work
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
Had a Leopard by the Tail.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER

From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Supt Sol stephan OF the Geological Garden
was busy administering to the wants Of
Susie, the black leopardess. yesterday. who
had n mix-up with her next door neighboI.
Cesar, the iaguar. which ended in the latter
biting her tail late last Monday.
For a time yesterday Mr.. Stephan feared
that blood poisoning would set in and cause
the death Of the leopardess, which Is. valued
at 500. However, the chances are that her
beautiful tail. which is hidden by bandages.
will be somewhat disfgured The two AM
mails occupy separate cages side by side.
and late Monday she inadvertently put her
tail between the bars that separate them,
teeth into it. A fight TO make the animal
loosen it's hold was futile. and finally the
keepers. armed with clubs. got into an nd
blow. causing him to let loose:
With the usual animal nature the eopaId az, :
to save the tail II possible. had her caught
and the tail wrapped with bandaRes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-26
EMERSON.
4 "Reminiscences.

met Emerson number OF times In 1877 in pn-
vnte conversation. In these inierie ws he told me-
or conveyed the Idea that the three minds 10 whom
he owed most were Plato. Jacob Behmch and Her.
bert OF Cherbury.
One day he said to me: Il am not the philosopher,
Bronson Acott is the philosopher. come with me to
see him"
l declined, replying that l would not divide my
heart
Another day asked: you have no system dear
master'" And again he said" Come with me to see
Bronson Acott; he Is the thinker"
Since that time have followed little way the
clues thus given. In coming years perhaps II will
be said America has philosophy, a spiritual mon =
ism, Its antecedents and founders being Plato,
Behmen. Herbert of Chcrbury, Emerson and Bron
son Alcou. and also a material monism ground ed
by Benjamin Franklin and Morse. and Edison and
che maenates OF Wall Street. WALLACE WOOD.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Nay 2S.