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The Municipal Campaign.

The first definite step in the municipal
campaign of this fall WAS the action of the
-Tammany conference on WeClnes-
day evening in deciding to recommend
the denomination of the entire city ticket
slected in 1901. BY taking this action
the leaders of the fusion factions gave
practical force to their Endorsement OF
Mayor Lows administration by resolu-
lions adopted at previous meeting
and they committed themselves to "A
contest in which the record of the last
Two years contrasted with the previous
administration, must be the main issue.
The question before the voters will be
whether Mayor Lows system of munich
pal administration, in which no political
organization Is responsible'for the acts of
The clty's chief executive, is better than
The lammany system, under which the
personal responsibility Of the Mayor is
reduced to the smallest practical limit
and the responsibility Of the organiza-
ton putting him forward is increased
correspondingly
Mayor Low will have defensive fight
70 make, instead Of the offensive cam
ealalgns he conducted in 1907 and 1901
a a% management and attitude under the
", Ted conditions will he interesting
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The Broadway Anakim.

The glores of the Broadway Squad
are to be revived. Sergt. GRAHAM, its
commander, projects into the atmos-
phere distance Of rs inches. Men of his
order of construction are being added to
the squad. One dwarf of feet 1919
inches has crept in, but he may be thin
enough to give an illusion of height
These human skyscrapers are needed.
They match the modern architecture Of
the town. Little patrolmen may run
better or fight better, but little patrol
men are lost in Broadway Monumental
peelers are wanted there, far-seen pill
lars and peaks of safety, sea marks visi-
BILE above that ocean Of folks and teams.
These giants inspire drivers with obedi-
ence and timid crossers with confidence.
NEPTUNEs of that human food. they
calm the disturbed waves. And they
are big enough to be calm themselves,
irretrievably good-natured
Aside from its use, the Broadway
Squad is a great New York institution.
The Broadway stages with their humor-
GUS and philosophical grizzled drivers
are gone Gone is the old race of car
drivers, men of observation. who had
time to watch the stream of things. The
Broadway Squad, which used to curb
the humor and guide the sometimes &C.
centric progress of the stages, survives,
but not unimpaired 1t was mistake
to put little men on it, No New Yorker
worthy Of the name can regard with
composure small Broadway policeman.
All virtues but tall stature that police
man may have but the want of tall stat
ure is not to be forgiven The Broadway
Squad must be as it was in it's tallest days.
The town doesn't seem homelike without
those star-grazing heads. There is
something friendly and familiar about
them. Home again from foreign shore
or his vacation, the Manufacturer doesn't
feel sure that he is really home and the
town is all right until he sights one Of
these cedars of Lebanon in blue
Skilful pilots, men of many acquaint-
anees, students of human nature. The
Broadway Squad helps to show the posi-
bilities Of American growth.
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Lou Dillon the two-minu @ trottinp mare

Lou Dillon, the two minute trotting mare,
will make an effort tomorrow to beat
Maud SIS record OF 2:os1+ drawing high
wheeled sulky, and under conditions APP
proximating those that governed the ex-
hibition in which Maud S. made her splen-
did mark in 1885. The opinion has been
held by many breeders that the low records
made since Maud SIS day were due more
to mechanical changes in the racing gear
than to improvement in the horses that
have lowered the time. II will proba bly,
be impossible to duplicate at the Cleve-
land Gentlemen's Driving Club, where
Lou Dillon is to trot all Of the conditions
under which Maud s. went her mile, bur
the trial should be conclusive enough to
show how much faster this years queen
of the turf is than was the champion Of
eighteen years ago.
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| felons among the settlers, he had been
very economical in dispensing the truths
he had discovered.
1t is frequently contended that these
transported convicts were usually po-
litical offenders, but Mr.. HEsToN finds
that probably majority OF them were
not. In 1870 cattle killers and burners
of corn stacks became liable to trans
portation to the plantations, and when
the provincial authorities of Virginia
in the same year prohibited the impor-
tation of convicts their act was over
ruled by the King. An English statute
of IT'S provided that persons convicted
Of clergyable offences. such as burglary,
robbery, perjury, forgery and theft,
after being sentenced to death, might,
if their crimes did not seem too heinous,
at the discretion Of the Court, be trans
ported to America for at least seven
years"
Convicts, however, did not make up all
of the 4redemptioners. Besides con-
victs-and the kidnapped. or spirited,
of lowly birth, came many of better
origin, teachers, for example; and "many
ministers were imported on conditions
almost parallel with those of indentured
servants" That some of the teachers,
however, were Objectionable is indicated
by the lament of PARKE CUsTIs in 1878,
that "two-thirds of the Maryland school,
masters were convicts. GEORGE WASH
INGToN, he said, was taught by con-
vict servant whom his father had bought
for schoolmaster.
The trade OF bringing over these people
had been almost abandoned at the time
Of the debate in the Congress of 1883,
but the last sale Of ~redemptioner was
not made till as late as 1911, at Philadel-
phia. When the term Of service Of the
"redemptioners was over they were
mostly merged into the mass Of the
white population without any special
faint of servitude. MIR. HEsToN quotes
a remark from manuscript letter Of
JONATHAN DICKINSON of Pennsylvania,
dated 1922, that many who have come
over under covenants for four years are
now masters of great estates. :" We are
told in white Servitude in the Colony
of Virginia that intermarriage Of
free persons and servants was very COM
mon. There are families in New
Jersey to-day, reputable and rich, says
Mr.. HEsToN, whose ancestry goes
back to the days of servitude; whose
progenitors were bond servants"
1t will have been seen that the COM
plants which are made of the present
immigration as from the slums of Eu-
rope might be applied to large part
| of the immigration Of the Colonies.
Leaving out the people who came over
at the first European settlement here
it may be questioned if, on the whole
the best immigration to the United
States has not been in the period since
the middle of the last century.
Our Troy correspondent Of to-day
blames the Southern States for not in
viting a large part Of the immigrants
who are now arriving at the rate of
about million year, but he omits from
consideration the complication caused
by the negro labor Of the South.
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Predestination and Free viii In tho
Fusion Conference.

Mayor Low announced to MIR. CUTTING
his readiness to run for another term In
letter which is excellent in the main.
The tone is modest and frank, and the
recital Of facts intelligent, particularly
as to the weight of the reasons for choos-
ing an independent Democrat this year
instead Of Mr.. Low
Yet we think we should have liked
Mayor Lows letter little better II 1t
had not contained this passage:
THE conference must Itself take the
responsibility. II II wishes me to stand OF summon
ing me into the held on It's own motion. The once
to be filed is too lofty. the honor OF denomination
At the hand Of the fusion forces Is too great and
the responsibilities that follow an election are too
heavy to make any other attitude on my part pos
sible."
The responsibility of acceptance rests
In part upon Mayor Low, and he cannot
entirely divest himself of the same. In
one sense the conference is free agent;
in another sense predestination enters
into the affair.
Perhaps a more exact statement OF the
case would have been expressed to Mr.
CUTTING if the Mayor had written:
81 understand fully that to a certain extent the
choice of the conference is influenced. although
not constrained by considerations personally con
eernlng myself. A failure to renomlnate me would
be. under the circumstances In some degree con
demnation Of my administration. and would. Of
course. be so regarded publicly. appreciate this
fact but at the same time firmly believe no, only
that tho best interests OF the city require me to
stand again. but also that can win the election
again, Therefore divide with my friends Of the
conference the responsibility for the experiment,
cheerfuly assuming my proper share Of the same"
Would anybody have thought less Of
Mayor Low if he had written that? Does
anybody think more highly of him be-
cause of the conventional phrases in
which he thrusts the undivided RESPONSE
bility upon the conference?
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What Mr.. Riddcr has to Say.
From the duts Il citunn Of poster day.

From the Stats -Zcit,tn1 OF yesterday.
The members OF the fusion organizations
yesterday selected Mayor Low, Comptroller
Grout and President Fornes Of the City Coun-
ell as their candidates. With regard to the
two last named We have no criticism to ad-
vance now: and our attitude toward the re-
nomination of the Mayor has long been known
to our readers. While we freely acknowledge
that the Low administration has. on the
whole, been ithout doubt the best New
York has had for decades, We know. too
that the Mayor has by griovous mistakes
alienated many Of his former supporters,
and that in consequence he is not so strong
as he was two years ago.
The fusion conference has disregarded
all criticism and has followed the advice Of
those who were determined to renominate
Seth Low at any cost the responsibility
for the adoption Of this cour," will rest with
those by whom it was introduced. We havs
done our part in calling attention to the dan
gers which will threaten the success of fusion
if the course entered upon yesterday is fol-
lowed
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The Merchants Association Report

The Merchants Association Report.
The amount of suffering that New
Workers. have endured on account Of the
ditch system of construction employed
In building the underground railway
was brought wildly to the attention of
the Merchants Association by the report
of it's committee on engineering and
sanitation, dealing with the passenger
transportation service in New York.
Among the causes that prevent the cars
Of the surface railways from making
good time the committee found that the
subway distractions were not incon-
siderable OF this it said in the report:
2 The delays to travel OF all kinds many OF the
city streets caused by the construction OF the sub
way have been and continue to be very great.
To large extent these unavoidable, but the
committee believes they could be materially
duced by the enforcement of proper restrictions
and remedies by the Rapid Transit Commission
The subway is rapidly approaching compile ton
however. and this source OF trouble and delay will
soon disappear. In any future work Of this char
acter that may be undertaken better provision
should be insisted upon for keeping Important
streets free for vehicular and street travel"
Now the ditchers want to turn Broad
way in its most active section, where
more surface cars are run than in any
other street in the city, into an open
canon, to delay the hundreds of thou
sands of men and women who use the
Metropolitan company's cars.
The street car traffic is heavier below
Twenty-third street, in Broadway, than
on any other street in the city. Three
hundred cars meet and pass at Twenty.
first street in the hour between and {
o'clock. Four important lines use the
tracks between Sixteenth and Four.
tenth streets. Hundreds of thousands
OF persons use these cars for pleasure
or business, and blockade on the line
affects every part of Manhattan from the
Battery to the Harlem River. The count.
less blockades on the Fourth avenue line
due to the subway ditch show what
would happen if Parsons ditch were tc
be dug in Broadway.
Well may the Merchants Association
pray for better provision for keeping
important streets free for vehicular and
street car travel.
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Tie Thirt cen Infested Twenty Ave Coat Piece

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUM- SNpe-sttIoGs
people and there are a grea, many Of them. al
ways resard he number 10 as being unlucky. They
will never undertake to start any thing nov on the
18Th OF the month: y5u couldn't pay them to spend
a night in a hotel room witt the number ~ on n"
door. likewise they wouldn't sit down TO dinn,r
II there already twelve at the table: yet these
same SuperStitlous proplc will carry any number
OF quarter dollars in their pockets and have
the least fear.
IL they Will take one Of their numerous quarters
and look at the tai" side, they will notice that
there 10 stars: the motto + I''uybrs rsurn con
talns Is letters: the shield Is made up OF 10 bars;
IN one claw the eagle is holding 10 arrows in the
other claw there are ~ leave on the small branch
Below al! thcsr thiTtecn> the value OF the coin is
given as Quarter Dollar" this also contains IS
letters.
Here We have In AL six 'hirieens on the coin.
Can any OF THE SUNS readers itll whether thus
was Intentional u. II.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. n.
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CHANGES his CREED
The Rev. A. h. Bradshaw OF the Marb,.
Church 10 Become an Episcopaiian.

anurch 10 become an EpiScOpalian
The Rev. Archibald H. Bradshaw for
eight years an assistant minister ia tbc
Collegiate Reformed Church, has decided
to quit the Reformed Church and bccom,
Protestant Episcopal clergyman. H.
will preach for the last time as a Reformei
Church minister next Sunday.
He has been associated with the Pav
DR.. D. j. Burrel in the Marble Collovj,.,
Church, Fifth avenue and Twenty-nin,h
street, since 1893, and this summer has bee,
the preacher there. II is in that churc,
that he will preach his final sermon on
Sunday.
Asked yesterday his reason for giving m
so important place in the Reformed Church
and beginning at the bottom in another
in the Reformed body further than 10 saw
that he had studied the matter for seven
years with a growing conviction in favor
of the Episcopal Church.
He leaves his present place without pros
poets and expects to take up mission work
as q lay reader. probably in the diocese Of
central Pennsylvania. Bishop Talbot Of
that diocese is his friend, and the Rev,
W. r. Breed, rector of st. James's Episc>-
pal Church, Lancaster, Pa. is his brother
in-law He does not expect to get into the
Episcopal ministry under year and half
The Rev. Mr.. Bradshaw is graduate OF
Princeton Seminary, having previously
attended Franklin College at Lancaster
He came from Princeton direct to Yer
milyea Chapel Of the Collegiate Church
in this city, and in two and half years
doubled the membership Of both chapel
and Sunday school.
In 1893 he went to the Marble Church.
and his special work there has been in con-
nection with strangers, especially those
stopping al hotels. Indeed the hotel work
of the Marble Church is famous all over the
country, and at the services there are proba-
bly, more strangers In attendance than in
any six other churches on Manhattan Island
Through the efforts of Mr. Bradshaw and
some young people of the Marble Church,
the Sunshine Mission was established in
Hel's Kitchen. 1t has grown under his
leadership TO an attendance of 3 900 persons
a month.
| Mr. Rradshaw's family is reputed to he
well-to-do, having interests in mines in
| Pennsylvania.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-11

The totals Of the first three separate
and independent counts in Chicago are
so nearly alike as to leave no doubt that
more than seventy thousand working
men marched in Chicago last Monday
under the banners Of organized labor.
1t was an impressive demonstration of a
mighty power.
New York is a greater city than Chicago
in population, in industries and in the
numerical strength OF its workingmen.
1t is the one city in the land where a
larger parade might reasonably be ex-
pected on that particular holiday.
Estimates of the size Of the New York
parade on Monday last ranged from
$3.50 to IS 600. The most liberal estimate
of all, that which approached most nearly
to the conjectural figures claimed by the
organizers of the demonstration, was
recorded in spirit of fairness by THE
sun. An average of seven counts or
estimates by different journals in New
York gives a total of ,57S men in tho
procession.
The comparison with Chicago at once
engages impartial attention. In Chicago
there was no SAM PARKS In New York
Labor marched behind the walking dele
gate who is under conviction on charges
of extorting 500 from contractor for
calling off strike, but who is now out Of
Sing Sing by reason Of stay of pro-
ceedings pending appeal.
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In an obituary notice of FREDERICK LAW

In an obituary notice of FREDERICK LAW
OLMsrED, in THE sun, at the time OF his
recent death, il was said tina, he had made
the plans for the Improvement Of Belle Isle
Park in Detroit. The fact is, however, that
the plans for that park prepared by Mr.
OLMsTED were never carried into execu-
ton, but were superseded, under new
Park Commission, by other and radically
different plans which had been rejected by
him. The change was made after a long and
bitter controversy The credit for the
creation Of Detrolt's beautiful pleasure
ground belongs to others. All the same,
Mr.. OLMsTEb was at the head of his pro-
fession rs a landscape architect in this
country
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The Iaborious La uTcatc on Salisbury

I'HNl iN' IOHIDN NilHduru.
Lay him IN this quiet spot
Swallowed by his stately home:
PompOds ritr he n"cdrth not,
Underneath cathedral dome
simplest N his lie, OF men
Leave him nov dS he Was then
Humble heart maICStic mind
ln MN grew from self same stem.
He but nrOirrcd 20 mankind
hcighy words TO counsel them.
But VINO fAln would learn to steer
Ancient Realm. may learn II here.
AYES loud md vehement"
NcvCT were his quest or choice,
Al he cared 'Or wa assent
whispered by the stlll small voice.
And being loved and understood
liy The lust and WISE and good
Death hath CloSteIcd now his llps.
flushed his voice and sealed his eyes.
Think of how much wisdom sleeps
Ia the chuTchynrd where he hes
Who VIII guide VI now AlasI
one by one the SagPs pass
Chanting then above his bier.
inner OVeraTcDng shy,
Prayer and hymn n loved 10 hear
IN ancestral sanctuary,
lirlng him. for fUnrTesl crown
Reverence" rather than kcnoHn
Both the lordly and tho great
Here ma, learn how Virtue lar
Dut1OnrS din ana dust Of STATE,
And what tinssl HonOrs are.
AeriaImations have their day;
Quiet Fame Is fams for aye.
:. A
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New Works Foot Scrapers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-.sir, Not above
Fifty ninth street. as far as ! have observed. but
occasionally at the foot Of the steps Of old. fash
toned brown stone slOop houses south Of that
street. see small strip Of curved Iron stuck I'D
in the sidewalk. which. before the day Of asphalt
pavemenis WAS useful to scrapr he mud from one q
feet. Nowadays these "scrapcrs" stand resting
and rustins In the weather with object In being
except for the careless to stumble over but they still
stand ut the foot of the Steps OF many old house.,
landmarks along the path Of progress. and fancy
they will remain until the houses to which they
belong come down 10 give place TO some,hing
modern whose "scrapcr" is on the roof 10 scrnpe
the sky instead Of the earth. w
NEW YORK, Sept, 10
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Capt. Bob WRINGE. the plucky skipper
of Shamrock Ill, will be a welcome immi-
grant to the United States Viewing sea
and land from the deck of Sir THOMAS s
defeated single-sticker, he has decided that
the Long Island coast is a better place to
live than Brightlingsea, on the coast of
Essex, Thus the latest attempt to win back
the Americas Cup ended not only in defeat
for the British challenger, but in the loss
to England Of her best yacht sailor Some
day Capt. WRINGE may sail defender and
win an International yacht race.
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Real Democratic Bureoo.

From NE Winchester DeYnocrli
n Is Indigenous To the soil OF Kentucky where I,
only Is found in It's pristine purity. Weak imltn
lions are sometimes found in other places but they
never deceive the elect II touches the spo, as
nothing else does 1t Nils comforts and satisfies
alike the pauper and the millionaire and thus is
essentially democratic Work has begun on the
preparation for thr biz amount that will be In cv'
dcncc'herr TO morrow. In It's preparation will ne
used 400 pounds Of beet dozen hens 70 dozen ears
OF corn Is bushels tomatoes, 10 bushels POTATOES
?bushels onions, bushe salt. and ?5 pounds pepper
With the soup viii be served 500 Ioaves OF bread
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For the flrst time. the Superintendent OF Flee
tons. the Police Commissioner and the District
Attorney Will cooperate heartily in the effort to
suppress Illegal voting and promote Justice The
lack OF harmony between these onccrs heretofore
has served to prevent Justice. think II fair to
assume that Is 600 fraudulent votes. which under
old conditions would be cast. this year will be
disqualified r.. FULTON CUTTING.
The fact is that there is no more illegal
voting in this city. in proportion to its size,
than there Ia in any other community.
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A Labor Day Parade Minus Parks

The Chicago newspapers of Tuesday
morning contained accounts of the Labor
Day parade in that town with slightly
varying estimates of the number of men
who walked in the procession. Some of
these estimates Of the unions repre-
sented and of the men marching are re-
produced in the subjoined table:
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the modelling of vessels or the why and
wherefore Of their speed.
If, however, it can be proved that the
egg shape with either end forward is the
right one for racing yachts, by all means
let us have II employed in battleship
designs, for we earnestly desire to have
them get to windward Of all opponents.
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Another Record Brok on

Is there no brcaklesS record
And can nobody make
A good substantial record
Nobody else can break
Each year since man 5 creation,
For glory or for cash.
He hits some previous record
And knocks It all to smash.
In every field 81 action
Man does thc best he can.
And has his record broken
b. some succeeding man.
HIS muscle, mind and money
Exert themselves 20 make
A record hat no other
Competitor can break.
The record Is d wonder.
The latest and the best
But somehow something hits 10
And breaks II like the rest.
Slt thousand years Of records
Stretch backward to the nryt.
WIN no one guaranteeing
new one not 10 burst,
is there no bf"aklsss fecordf
Is there no power 10 make
4 rerori that 10 other AZ
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