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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-18
THESE DEMOCRATS FOR Low.
They Feel That His Administration Has
Been Truly Nou.Partisan.

letter to Mayor Low, pledging the
support Of Charles s. rairchild, Wheeler
II. Peckham. William r. Hornblowcr and
other Democrats was made public yoster-
day after il had become known that Comp
tion. The letter says
Hon Seth Lor
Sir: There seems to b.. no question but
that substantially the same political bodies
which placed you in nomination for Mayor
two years ago will offer YOU renomina-
le,e such action to be right and
also expedent. From a public standpoint
We do not see how you can de-
joined with Their citizens. irrespective
OF party, to make you Mayor of this city
one year prior 7? an important state election 1i,
can. with equal confidence. vote 10 retain
you in that office on a year Immediately
preceding Presidential contest. tndombt-
eediy. every effort will be made TO confuse
the issues, but 1t should be remembered that
party spirit was invoked TO the utmost In
1901 by the most brilliant advocate ever
placed at the head OF Iammanys forces; IN
the paramount themes OF that candluates
addresses.
led. No one could truthfully say that Demo
four disgraceful years of the Croker-vnn Wyck
believe that future Democratic successes in
the State md nation will be made more certain
by turning over the finances of this city TO
The IT. body Of Ct. men at present in control OF
For the last two years ma jority vote OF
the Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
has been in the hands OF Democrats elected
on the fusion ticket. and when we consider
the number Of Democrats you have placed
at the head OF city departments. We feel that
the present administration has been truly
non-partisan. and that the one great national nal
party. no more than the other. can claim the
credit of giving New York the best admin
istration the city has ever had.
We can see no party disadvantage in the
continuance Of such an administration under
the conditions stated. On the other hand.
by the law Of this State a voters position in
a city election cannot affect his party stand
ing. With the city treasury eliminated
from party contests the sordd element now
in control of the Democratic machine in this
city will fall to the rear. and those
who care for principles rather then plumber.
will come to the front and true party spirit
be revived This consideration appeals as
strongly to us. but upon the ground of good
citizenship alone We urge upon you again to
come before the voters Of this city AS IN inde-
pendent non par isan candidate for Mayor.
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SALISBURY LEFT 81 ,.JOO, 900.
Besides the Ancestral Estates-AI for His
Family.

Family.
Special Cable Despatch TO The sun.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE will of the Mar
quis Of Salisbury was admitted to probate
to-day The value of the estate is placed
at f3lO $3.50, Of which the personally is eos
1872. These figures do not include the great
ancestral estates.
There are no public requests. the entire
estate being left to the family.
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Arm, Arrests Ordered a. Belgrade

special C1bIs n,spGch m THs SrN
PARIS. Sept II A despatch TO the Rnpp'i
from Belgrade saws that meeting ~
the Servian Cabinet at which King Peter
presided, it was decided to order the arrest
of four officers OF the Belgrade garrison
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II was reported recently that the Servian
authorities have discovered q military con-
spirary to avenge tho murders Of King
Alexander and Queen Draga
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Comptroller Grou, gave ont yesterday
this letter accepting denomination on the
fusion ticket and praising the Mayor
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{. :. FAIRCHILD.
W. II. PECRHAM.
+. p. WHEELER.
CALVIN ToMPKISs,
). s. MKNKEN,
Bolton HALL.
II. DE +. BALDWIN.
EDWARD s. KAUFMAN
HENRY w. BEAN.
l.. CARROLL RooT.
HAMILTON ODELL.
ROBERT l.. HARRISON
w. MACFARLANE.
HENRY B. b. STAPLER
l. y. PHELPS STONES,
W. G. CHAUSCEY.
JAMES BYRNE.
A T. " SEAMAN
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SETH s. TERLY.
JOIN r. WATERS.
W. b. HoRNBLowER.
A. +. SELIGs BERG.
JOHN j. HOPPRR,
JOHN II. j. RoNNER,
CHALMERS WOOD.
LEON HIRsCH.
K. VAN SANTyooRD.
\. G.. POWELL,
WILLIAM FITZPATRICK,
NJ. A. WELLER.
j. V. SwEENY.
MICHAEL BROWN.
THOMAS MIDDLETON.
WILLIAM 7. LYSCH,
GIBSON PuTzfL.
K. ". B. EILIorr.
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a back porch, where he tells strolling
boarders what wonderful woman his wife
is. He has never within the memory OF
man performed days work.
He crumbles the toast until it seems to
the departing lady that she will scream
through sheer nervousness,
"Do you know" he remarks confiden-
italy, II can't sleep after in the
morning.
"No?S She tries to make her tone
sympathetic.
Just az sure as that clock strikes 8, I'm
awake for all day. I've tried stopping the
clock, but that don't help
Remembering her own wakefnL mig ut,
she tries to put little more pity in her
voice
"Ive even been to specialists. Awonder-
full woman, my wife; il y she that suggested
a specialist owed her board bill
went to him, but, Lord, not bit OF good
She must say something, for he is waiting
with his pink trimmed eyes fixed on her.
what time do you go to bed'" she
ventures.
ask o'clock every night ! haven't
missed once in ten years. ! have an early
supper-just bread and milk, you. know,
so I won't dream. 1t was my wife that
suggested it. Wonderful woman"
He went to bed at 0 and couldn't sleep
after s! There was really nothing to say,
so she did not attempt to say 1t.
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Fun up the steps before she noticed tho
sign, CLOSED until September
She had chosen the tea room because 1t
was quiet and she could have an unin-
terrupted tete-a-tete. This is what she
got for her diplomacy.
She sat down on the step in discour-
aged condition. She had not made any
estimate for luncheon, and now II she paid
for her own she would not have enough
money to make her purchases.
She took out pencil and paper She added
and subtracted mostly the latter. No,
she would have no margin to invest
in sweetbreads or cafe pdrfdit.
She wondered what had become OF him.
He might have waited at least three-quarters
of an hour!
She walked listlessly down the street
and turned the corner. There was the
sign Of cheap restaurant, where they
punched cards when you ate things, and fed
the hungry for something like Is cents.
She looked up and down the street; no one
in sight. She slipped in and breathed a
sigh Of relief. Surprising he had seen herl
The men and women were herded to-
gether at long tables. She took chair
with her back to the door. 1t was at least
a minute before she ventured to raise her
eyes. When she did they encountered his
your they both exclaimed.
IL thought" he said lamely, that II |
came in here and watched the street would
see you when you came along"
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sack Of even larger size than the seaman
had produced
y got, all H. said Isl Moon. Laise
you fl bundled
And that's the way it passed back and
forth between the Chinarnan and the black
man until they counted the half-cr-d chips
In the stack and figured up the lal ,;er tally
bets that weren't represented by "hips in
the pot, and found that the negroes eleven
hundred velvet was all in on his final raise
with the raise now up to the Chinaman.
Aim all in said the dinge, but All
haint had enough yit, All don't want
no showdown eff yo' all don't, yo' mango
books, an eff yo' wants Anil wait twell
de end O de cruise an shove in all o. nah
payday TO uh show -down-uh thousan'-
doiluh show down. OATS de kin o nigguh
20 ali,s uh-playin' kyards with
All H., replied Isl Moon, with the
ut mo- good nature placing foot on his
IT was necessary for them to confer
with some of the lookers-on before they
arrived at a method whereby TO stretch
the decision on their hands out to the day
OF their final PAYING off at the Mare Island
yard The Paymaster's yeoman came for
ward from the pay room to fix up the details.
He verified the blacks statement that
he had 81 600 and over on the books, as the
blueJacketS call the money in the hands
OF the Paymaster, their cruise savings
ana lerry's pay, or the major portion of
II, for two cruises was In the Paymasers
hands, since the dinge had no bother in
coping out running liberty money with
his poker skill The Chinaman had more
than VI 500 on the ships books as a result
of his two cruises on the China station.
The pay yeoman took the two canvas
bags belonging to the players to one of the
bunkers, accompanied by the Chinaman
and the black, and, dumping both Of them
out, took all Of the blacks 81, 100 and added
TO 1t $l,l0O from the Chinaman's coin bag
This he put into one bag and placed in the
Paymaster's safe in a little compartment
Bel aside for the yeoman's use
Before going to the bunker to do this
the .yeoman, without examining either of
the hands, sealed them in official envelopes,
writing the respective names of the two
players on the envelopes, and slowing them
safely in his desk, And that's how II was
all set on the night before the ship pulled
out OF Yokohama for the hike 10 San Fran
cisco. There was 81, eco in the pot IL was
the Chinamnns raise and II was underato God
that Isl Moop on pay-off day. three months
later, was to raise Terry for 81, 900 for a
showdown.
well from the hour that the thing was
done, all hands forward began making side
bets as to what the outcome would be,
Their bets were of all sorts Some took
the end that the Chinaman would be the
one to cave before the show down, others
that he dinge's nerve wouldn't hold out
with the chance OF all Of his duff going to
the Chink
Then they bet with each other az 10 which
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BREAKFAST BY CANDLE LIaINr
but her return ticket, carfare and The COM
muter's ticket which the landlady had given
her for the maid.
The maid met her as agreed at the ferry
house. She had added another oh lid to the
equipment ,t,, .,.o w ,, -. ,
nonchalantly San / didn't seem to know
what to do with him. My sisters got six.
He's real good company, an understand
the lady's got husband that sleeps in the
barn He'll curl up with him, reckon"
There was nothing more to be said and
the procession started.
She wondered as she took her seat in tho
outgoing train II she looked as disreputabs
a. she felt. She concluded that she did,
for three of the six business men were on
the train and held their papers before their
faces, ~ if they did not want the bother q
talking to her and escorting her in her
disheveled condition before the eyes of TIE
S o'clock crowd who always gathered on the
porches to note the incomers.
She had put the maid and her children
in another car and was free to think over the
days adventures,
As they neared the scene OF her summer
home they could see small sailboat in the
bay. There were two In IL. who waved good
humoredly toward the train with that air
OF fatuols satisfaction which the cool and
comfortable assume to the tired and de-
pressed.
Apparently Miss Brown and the pretty
cousin who had taken prize at the beauty
tournament were simply an excuse She
determined, tired as she was, to put on her
best gown that evening and once more enter
the arena. The Only Eligible should not DO
Lost without a struggle.
When she left the train she looked all
about for the maid and her membranes.
They were nowhere in sight. After every
body had gone the station master heard
her tale OF woe.
Il think it's the same woman he ex-
planned, who plays that trick every year.
She lives somewhere about and that's her
way OF getting back from the city without
paying her fare. She tried 1t twice last
summer. Oh, you can't do anything with
those people. They simple haven't any
moral responsibility.
She came up the walk with her hat on
the side, her dress dragged and torn, her
shirt waist, fresh in the morning. looking az
il it had been used to mop floor, her arms
full of bundles, tired, Gross and disappointed.
A row Of spotlessly attired women watched
her, most Of them through lorgnettes.
How tired you lookl" exclaimed they.
and, in the same breath:
Did you get MY"
She had Just patience left TO hand tho
to her room.
Half an hour after there was . chorus
outside the door. which she refused to un-
lock.
where's the maid?'
do you mind keeping the cross-barred
muslin2 have changed my mind and
think I'll 60 In tomorrow and get some
dotted instead
"The color Of the worsted 10 all right, but
It isn't the right twist"
you must have picked up the wrong
bundle. This isn't heliotrope wolfe; It's
scarlet maline.'
She put on her best gown and that even
Ing had the pleasure of seeing her rival and
Inc Inc Uhy ms6,e completely ISrSetIu OF
Of the porch lost to the world.
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of the two had the other beat In case the
scheme for big show down went through
as it had been planned.
Before the ship reached Honolulu, where
she put in to coal, the dinge had let 1t out
that his hand consisted of four sevens
and then the black became strong favor
ite to win out. But the Chinaman went on
cooking for the wardroom mess and saying
nothing.
He would blink good humoredly when
fellows who wanted to get an inside line on
the situation tried to wheedle the character
of his sealed hand out of him, but he wasn't
to be wheedled. He kept his own counsel
as to that hand upon which he stood pat
until the finish.
"The black man fell into a ruminative
sort OF manner as the ship progressed toward
San Francisco, and he used to stand with
his arms resting on the galley sill and gaze
into the galley at the Chinaman about his
work and try to get rise ont of the Chink
expressions OF confidence in the outcome
"'Ah've got yo' all skinned, yalluh man.
he would say, taking his pipe out of his
teeth.
Maybe yes. Maybe no. Money him
talk, the chink would reply, and that
would be the end Of il.
THE ship docked at the Mare Island
yard, and as the time drew close for the
crew TO be paid off or for those whose time
was not out To be sent to the receiving ship
To Z How the cruiser to go cut Of commission
the men continued to gamble on what the
outcome of the sealed hands WAS TO he
On the day before the final pay-off the
Chinese steward of the wardroom mess
MOy Yen, came forward and calmly offered
TO bet 81 900 in sections that his countryrnan
had the black beat.
THAT was a sumner for all hands, They
instantly arrived at the conclusion. Of
course, that Moy Yen knew what Isl Moons
hand consisted OF, and AZ they knew that
Moy Yen knew that the blacks hand WAS
four sevenS, there was but one conclusion
for them TO draw, and that was that the
Chinaman's hand was the top one-else
why should Moy Yen so placidly offer to
stake 81 900 on the outcome?
Betting on the result stopped altogether
right nall hands felt confident that
the ChinamGn had the black smothered
The dinge himself rolled his eyes gloomily
when he heard Moy Yen's startling offer
to back Isl Moons hand to the tune of n
thousand, and suked,
"All hands lay aft to the Paymaster's
office for final settlements the next day
When, late IN the afternoon. the work was
done, the pay yeoman brought the canvas
bag containing the s. 200 forward, under
the fo'csle, together with the two sealed
hands. He placed the bag with the money
on top OF the capstan, and handed the
sealed hands to their respective owners.
All hands were grouped around the
capstan TO see the finish. The officers. of
course. knew what was in progress. and
were as much interest ed in il az tho men
but this was one If tho little things thai
they didn't elect 10 see.
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None TO yo' all, ehY he guffawed.
'Uh-tryin' tub git in sneaky stan pat,
Ell, yo' yalluh-faced ape? Got de papuhs
an don't want no one tub know yo' don't
need no mo, eh, yo' squeenchy-eyed
baboon"
"Tsi Moon smiled afiably
Up to you now, he said
"1he negro closed his cards up and flcked
a five dollar half-card into the stack. The
conqueriug grin still remained on his face.
'Jes' tub feel O. yo', yo' pig-tailed dope,
he said
Lase you fifty said Isl Moon, without
looking up.
"The negro looked delighted He rocked
to and fro on his launches and rubbed
his knees with an elephant like content
ment in the mere pleasure Of motion
falluh man. he said with hoarSe hap
piness, yo' all bite lax uh Mississippi bull
haid catfish whut's been stranded In uh
swamp TO up month by uh food uh
bundled mo dan yo' all
And a bundled, said Isl Moon, SEEM
ing to be studying with queer intentness a
bolt at the base OF the capstan.
Terry, the black seaman, still swayed to
and fro with kind Of Joy that caused him
to gurgle in his throat.
Io' blink-eyed monkey he said pur-
ringly to the Chinaman ALIVE been uh-
waitin TO six yeahs. on two o desc OIL
frigates o Uncle Sammy's. tub line up
uhlongside o yo' all An now Alive got
yo all, an got yo' in uh conuh. An q
bundled mo-
bundled remarked Isl Moon, Ticking
fly from Off the toe Of one of his heelless
grass slippers,
Jes' lax pickin' crab meat with uh
ice-pick, said tho dinge, every one Of his
teeth showing in the breadth of his grin.
Mex il two humid ed dis-uh-tme'
" 'HOu get ity snid vsi Moon lookin1 IN
inquiringly,
Has All got it, yo' shave-haided rat
eaterT amiably said the black, and he
pulled from underneath his white twill
blouse canvas bag about the size of
boxing-glove, pulled together at the top
with a drawstring. Dey's 'leben bundled
in this hyuh gunnysack-an' All didn't
have tub wash down no decks tub git dis
hyuh gilt, neethuh,' and he laughed up
roariously as he thought, presumably,
Of the easy fashion with which he had
enagged the velvet in the canvas bag from
his shipmates in previous poker seances.
IAN IT, said Isl Moon, refxing his
gaze on the capstan bolt, Il aee you two
bundled, and laise you r. bundled
"The negro stopped swaying on his
launches as suddenly as if the master-at-
arms of the ship had tapped him on the
shoulder and ordered him to report to the
stick, and for half n second the whites OF
his eyes were visible. II was not exactly
with his previous hoarseness of sheer de-
light that he said;
Five bundled, oh? An how does All
know dat yo' all has rot dat?'
The Chinaman reached under his blouse
and gave the black quick flash at canvas
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signs. That's the worst of getting old
Don't, my dear, ever get old.
Her airy persifage is used for a pur-
pose She notes the flicker of a smile and
rises at the psychologist moment, IN pay
you when you get back, she says 1T
won't be but a few dollars, anyway, and |
know what it is TO go into town with lot
of other peoples money One gets so wor-
ried. Not that Id care If you lost NINE
but YOU would, | know, you're SO consci-
entious. One hank Of the blue and three of
the pink, two skeins of red and fifteen OF
white. Don't forget, that's good girl
The landlady is next. She is covered
with diamonds and has on a gown that puts
to shame the most elaborate costumes of
her patrons.
Hear you are going in town. she begins
"I'd like to go myself if wasn't so poor.
It's the worst season I've ever had, No
body willing to pay for anything and ex-
mind doing a little commission? That's
good girl. Anybody could tell from your
mouth that Won were obliging. can
always tell from peoples mouths whether
l want them for boarders or not. I'm
psychic only l don't have time to develop
my talent ,,a,,. .,,rd ro,r. D., ,,.oo oo.
cies, she also las a list-"and bringing out
girl? Get me girl who don't mind Sleep
ing In the country, who amt afraid of
work, who has references as u honesty and
diligence don't mind the rest--and who
can cook entrees. l must have girl who
can help on entrees.
You don't believe you'll be able to find
one? OF course you can find one. you
could find anything. don't see how you
escaped finding a husband. You've the
sweetest expressionl | told my husband
that week you forgot to pay your board
you remember-not TO worry. that girl
with that mouth was perfectly honest"
The reference to the board bill was ac-
ourately timed There was nothing to do
but to get the girl and trust to luck.
She determined to get away before she
was again overtaken by shopping COM
missions. AS she tackled across the corner
of the porch, she ran into her rival with
the Only Eligible.
The rival speaks:
$50 sorry you are going into town to-
morrow! had just made Mr.. Smith prom
Use to stay down and take us sailing. l Of
fered you as hribe, and now you are go
ing TO desert u.s. I wish you would change
you're mind, but il s too late isn't it?"
She assents; there is nothing else to do.
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Where they go after the season is over
no ono knows. Mysteriously they come,
and mysteriously do they disappear They
people the landscape only when the active
mosquito, the soda water fountain and
the exclusive malaria are in the zenith of
their glory.
Everybody knows them, the suburban
commuters who think it is better to summer
within an hour of the city"-every place
where one summers il, Of course, within an
hour--thap to stay and stick it out in tie
heat and discomfort of the town, Year
after year they may be seen on the wide
hwrs, the deep verandas, the beaches,
the walks, this strange procession of sub
urban boardcrs
There is the New England spinster of
uncertain years and certain proprieties.
Her days are spent in crocheting and in
listening TO and commenting on the stray
bits of gossip that come her way. After
she goes the cracks and keyholes are found
L. he closely cemented with newspaper
wads, for there are young men on either
side of her, and she believes in leading not
into temptation
There are the Southern people who speak
OF the Spanish imbroglio"; there are army
people, who hum Taps and Tattoo; the
commercial traveller, who has had many
escapes from fire and flood and more love
affairs than matinee idol and whose tictions
are much stranger than truth.
There are the young married couples
VINO are never seen apart and speak IN the
plural like royalty and editors and those
who have boon two, three and four years
tied, the length of time being easily dis
Cernible by the ease with which they listen
to seductive invitations from outside
sources.
There are golfers, who play simply TO
wear golf suits, and stunning yachtsmen,
who never yacht outside of the Office; but
perhaps the most interesting of the summer
boarders s the girl who goes into town
for the day,
Her method of proNdure is something
like this: She eschewW the entertainment
offered for the evening. and while the rest
of the boarders are engaged in singing
"Hiawatha," doing a two-step or flirting,
she sits in corner where the light falls
brightly enough to attract all the Grant
of the neighborhood, and studies
the time table. She does this every time
she goes to town.
Having become hopelessly tangled with
stars, crosses. asterisks, locals and specials,
she calls in the aid of six business men who
go in and out every day and know the ropes
She learns from them that the train she
would have to take in order TO keep GER