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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
City Railroading.

The report of the State Railway Com
mission on the New York city passenger
transportation for the five months ended
July l contains striking evidence of
the ever-progressive complexity OF the
problem of hauling people from one part
of the city to another. The number
Of passengers carried by the lines in
Manhattan alone was greater by nearly
2o,OOO,OO during the period covered by
the report than for the corresponding
period of 1902. The increase was &c, 600 900
in Brooklyn, and pre- portionately great
In the less populous boroughs While,
in the face of this remarkable growth
in the demand for accommodation on
the elevated and surface lines, the in
creased car capacity put into service by
the companies was not capable of modi-
flying in any appreciable degree the dis
comforts Of passengers during the rush
improved train schedule on the Manhat-
tan elevated during other hours.
With an ever-increasing demand for
transportation, the necessity Of greater
power and more cars is as evident to the
companies al 1t is to the State Commits
sion, and improvements are being made
with as much rapidity as is possible
But there Is no p omise that even the
opening of the new underground railways
will do more than mitigate the rush.
hour annoyances, for the city's growth
is more rapid than the construction of
transportation lines can be.
The New York public must make up
its mind to bear the inevitable trials of
boy whose parents can't buy clothes as
fast as he outgrows them. The boy is
very uncomfortable, but he would rather
bear his ills than stop growing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
The Asbury Park Criticised.

To rHE EDITOR OF THE SuN--.Str: Passengers
by the Sandy Hook route have been antlcipat
improved service with the advent OF tho new
"palatal" steamer.
IL was currently reported last year that Cramp
would build a flyer that would eclipse the other
boats on the route Monmouth and Sandy Hook
and that the boat time would be reduced from 10
minutes to IS minutes, dock 70 dock. In making
their time table for July this reduced time was
allowed for. The past weeks experience of the
boat has bitterly disappointed tho commuters.
as her time has been hardly az good as the old
boats For several years tho 3:45 p. M. service
was largely patronleed. landing them In seventy
minutes AZ dock. Now the time table il changed to
4P. with the expectation that the new boat would
land them at the SANG time as heretofore (S15 MY
instead the tine Is actually longer than either
old boat makes.
There has been a consultation on the boat of
old commuters with the view OF inducing the line
to change back tn 3A5 y. NJ.
While the boat IL n splendid work stu IL Is evil
dcnt tnat cramps nave In some way made oRrc-
gious plumbers In building her engines II has
been said that tho boat has o ODD horse mower
engines while her boilers develop only 900 horse.
power: therefore making II impossible TO run the
engines at the speed required
The Asbury Park left Atlantic Highlands pier
Tbs morning at 500 and landed her passengers at
sunes so much time, AZ her record r. $50 10 Os6
O'Clock. IL Is quito evidena that tho line will mot
accept the boat. as sho In now unable 10 make as
good or any bettor time than tho nfteen year old
boatS. cosSnyrrTR
NHw YORK. July 1. 'A"i'"'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
Col. WattersOn's Poll Tax.

Revivifed by the June aims, Col.
HENRY WATTERsoN returns to an old
owe and hate His fiery fountain pen
flames against Tariff Robbery u; and
the telepathc eye sees the feet of the
Star-Eyed Goddess, stark in the safe
deposit vault, twitching galvanically
The Robber Barons who make hats
make the Colonel grieve. A swollen
hat-nanufacturing corporation has been
declaring big dividends for a number
of years The Colonel counts them up
with as deep a sense of loss as if they
came out of his own pocket. Why is this
minon of the Money Power able TO dis
tribute checks so fat and frequent? Be-
cause it has the privilege of holding up
the hat wearers, big and little, poor and
rich for the benefit of its stockholders.
The result of these extortions of hell
born monopoly fostered by the Robber
Tariff, is that a hat that costs SIS all over
the United States at retail is matched by
an equally good article sold in Canada
at So, and 30 on and so on"
IL IL WeIe 81, ~ "eio O SAieVouS hduib,
and it is vain for q licentious press to
ask, irrelevantly and irreverently, what
hats are to a man who lost his head as
much as twenty-five or twenty-six years
ago and has performed all his great
public functions just as successfully
without it. Equally far from the mark
and painful to the admirers of genius is
the scurrilous inslnuation that the Ken
lucky Sage uses hat not as the lid Of his
caudron of seething convolutions, but
as his habitual vehicle and medium of
speech
1t happens that he is one OF the largest
hat consumers in the world. So to say
liz not to accuse MIN Of luxury. The hats
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
No HOLIDAYS FOR THESE.
Rush Of school Children to Be Permitted
to Work in Vacation.

Swarms of children of school age invaded
the Board of Health yesterday to obtain
the certificates enabling them to 60 to
work in factories and stores between now
and Sept. IL, when the school reopens
To all of them vacation meant nothing
but a chance TO earn money TO help the
family along.
In past years those vacation certificates
were issued only at the Board of Health
building in Sixth avenue, but to facilitate
the work and enable the children to get
DIR. Lederle ESTABLISHED Il branch Office
this year at 6S Einl street, Not less than
500 children secured certificates at that
place in the last two DAYS, ara twice as many
more will probably hsve been aooom-
modated by the end Of the week. After
that the worst rush will be over.
The conditions under which the certif-
Gates are granted are that the child shall
be IA years old when wanting to work in
factory and IL years Old for work in a store,
and that they shall be in good physical
condition and that they shall prove them
selves able to read ard to write. Every
applicant is examined by physician and
then has 10 subtnIt to a knowledge test
Onlv about IS applicants have failed to
get certificates at the Elm street place in
the last two days.
This Ia the last year when such certif-
Gates will h issued The last Legislature
amended the law to end vacation labor
The new law does not go into effect until
Oct /, 30 this summer the small ones will
work as usual
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
LINDENTHAL BOUNCES NICHOLS.
Engineer who Testified TO the Tammany
View OF Eye-Bar Cables.

o. r. Nichols, the engineer in charge OF
the construction work Of the Williamsburg
bridge. has been removed by Bridge Com
missioner Lindenthal Recently Mr. Mich
OILS appeared before the Aldermen's Finance
Committee and backed up Tammany's
scheme to hold up the bridge bonds by
condemning his superior's proposal to
use eye-bar cables on the Manhattan bridge.
This was regarded as INSTRUMENTATION by
Mr. Lindenthal and in consequence Mr..
Nichols was put on trial. He has been
found guilty on this charge as well as on
another specification, that by appearing
at the meeting of the committee he had
absented himself from duty without lea We
MIR. Nichols had been in the service of
the city since 1896. He Was appointed by
the old East River Bridge Commission.
When the new Charter abolished that body
Mr.. Nichols was retained in the department.
but his salary was cut by Commissioner
Lindenthal from $4,000 to $4,000 year
Tim Sullivan and other TammRny
Aldermen who were around the City Hall
Yesterday denounced Mr.. I.indenthal's
action. They asserted that MIR. Nichols
had been dismissed because he exercised
the right Of free speech. Some of the
Aldermen Threatened to bring, charges
against Mr.. Lindenthal, but when they
were asked to specify the nature of the
charges they had in mind they were not
prepared to go into particulars.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
COALING STATIONS IN CUBA
two Secured by Treaty--Isle OF Pines
Given Over 10 the Cubans.

WASHINGTON, July I'm a telegram
which reached the State Department this
afternoon II. G. Squiers, Unite States
Minister at Havana, reported that the
coaling station treaty and the treaty defin-
ing the status of the Isle of Pines were
signed at 1l:47 o'clock this morning. Mr..
SquireS signed for the United States and
Senior Zaldo, Cuban Minister of Foreign
Affairs, for his Government.
The coaling station treaty provides for
the lease to the United States, for the DUR
pose OF erecting naval coalng stations
thereon, Of tracts of land at Guantanamo
on the southeast coast, near Santiago. and
Bahia Honda, on the northwest coast, near
Havana. The other treaty clears w the
doubtful political status of the Isle of Pines
by provision that ii shall be under Cuhln
sovereignty
Soon after Mr.. Squiers's message was
received Acting Secretary of State Loornis
had conference with Secretary of War
Root as TO whether 1t would be necessary
to send the coaling station treaty to the
Senate for ratification
Congress authorized the President TO
make agreements with Cuba for the
acquisition of sites for coaling stations,
made II unnecessary TO secure the
approval of the Senate TO the agreement.
Mr.. Root and Mr.. LOOMS did not arrive
at anything definite, but it appears to be
foregone conclusion that the treaty will
not be sent to the Senate, Tho approval
of the Cuban Congress will be required
The peace protocol of Aug. IL, 1893, pro-
vided FOR the surrender of Spanish SOW
ereignty over all the Spanish islands in
the West Indies. In transferring Cuba
TO the Cubans this Government agreed
that the political status Of the Isle of Pines
should he determined through future ne
gotations, and the treaty signed to-day
was the result Of that arrangement. This
island is adjacent to Cuba on the south
and under Spanish rule was attached to il
politically. A numerous American colony
was established there in the expectation
on the part Of the colonists that the island
would be placed under the sovereignty Of
the United States
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03

that he buys are not for himself. although,
to utter his soorn for the hatless fribblers
of Newport, he may order more lids
and dicers than his simple habits
need. For the purpose Of stimulating
interest in politics, he likes to bet hats
with his friends. Owing to the accuracy,
the real clairvoyance, of his political
judgment his after-election orders for
hats have often stiffened prices.
Presumably the Co!onel's friends are
not monopolists and oppressors Of the
people, men who refuse to wear a hat
that costs less than SIS or &c. Those fort
innate friends must be the boys in the
trenches" wool-hat Democrats, high
minded men who prefer cheap hat with
freedom to paying tribute to the Money
Devil. Now the country is full of cheap
hats. The price Of hat depends good
deal upon the prestige of the halter. You
can pay SIS to one dealer for hat that
another dealer will ask you only 81 or So
for. You can get satisfactory hats for
81, $3.50, 81, so cents. A beautiful, soft
hat, yust the thing for Col. WATTERsoN's
poll and white as the brows of the Star
Eyed may be had for 40 cents.
To suppose that the Colonel is ignorant
of these things is to suppose that he asso-
ciates with Robber Barons and not with
the plain people. 1t is not the tariff that
makes him pay high prices for hats; it
is his own chivalrous and generous nature
and his loyalty to his friends. The best
is not too good for them; and, large con-
sumner as he is, his principles will not
allow him to accept a cut price from his
halter. Equal rights to all, privileges
to none!
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
CLUB GETS DADl,S PICTURE.


The First Assembly District Republican
Club in Brooklyn had rousing time last
night at its quarters in Schcrme,horn street,
the occasion being the presentation to the
club of three-quarter size oil portrait Of
Col. Michael j. Dady, the stalwart Repub-
lican leader of this district. The presenta-
tion speech was made by j. Harry Rolston
on behalf of the donors, and in receiving it
President W. ". Wingate euloeizcd Col
Dady as man and politician, characteriz.
ing him as the Rough Rider of Brook
lyn." He also said that IL would be diff
cult to-day to find a man in the First As
sembly district, be he Republican or Demo-
crat. who was not Dsdy's friend
Many other complimentary things were
said about Dady by George +. Elliott,
County Register John X. Neal, Col. Norman
8. Dyke and Hugo Hirsh. Letters Of re-
greet al not being able 10 be present were
received from ex-Lieut. Gov. Timothy L.
Woodruff, President Of the Borough j.
Edward Swanstrom, Park Commissioner
Young and Election Commissioner Fuller.
Col, Dady, in brief response, expressed
his appreciation OF the honor conferred
by his fellow club members, and of the
many kind things said about him.
The evening was wound up with an en-
tertainment and collection.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
GOES TO SEE THE LAND BILL PASS.
Miss O'Fiaherty. specially Invited by MIR.
Redmond, Receives n Parting GIT.

Miss Mary O'Flaherty, who is a sister of tho
late Edward O'Flaherty, the prominent
Irish Nationalist, and has interested her
self for many years in the Irish cause,
is to sail on Saturday for London. where she
is to be the guest of John E. Redmond
NJ. P, Miss O'Flaherty has been invited
by Mr. Redmond to be present in Parlia-
ment when the Irish Land bill comes up
for final passage.
As a farewell to her and a token of the
appreciation her work in this city has met
with gold watch and an illuminated ad-
dress we're presented to Miss O'Flaherty last
evening at the rooms of the Irish National
Club, in West Fifty-seventh street, by MEM
bers of the Daughters of '9s, the Irish Ma
tional Club and the Edward O'Flaherty
branch of the United Irish League. The
address was in Gaelic and was the work
of John G. Lee. Speeches were made and
a reception held in honor Of the recipient
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03

laws. By limiting the Presidents range
of selection, do those laws limit or en-
large the Presidents responsibility for
infdelity in execution Of all the laws?
Seventy years ago JOHN c. CALHOUN
declared that offices are public trusts, "
a current phrase which in one form or
another so many public men have since
exploited. The phrase is, as shopkeep-
ers say, always kept in stock by civil
service reformers, and yet public
office " is even now looked upon as a
party trust.
The need now OF an official exposition
of the relation Of the civil service laws
and rules to the postal frauds is sug-
gested by an interesting exposition Of
the former by the capable president Of
our Civil Service Commission in one Of
the volumes of the Encyclopaedia Brit
annica," wherein many months ago he
made pointed reference to our postal
service, and the limited application there
Of the merit system, coupled with what
Mr.. Proctor stgmatizes as the NOM
mating power now, as he describes, so
ruthlessly inflicted by the Senate upon
the President
What the voters very likely wish to
have pointed out by Mr.. PROCTOR is the
better ways and means by which the
President, at Oyster Bay, can, in execu-
ton of the laws, be informed regarding
candidates for postmasters in Texas,
California, Oregon and in other States
than by Congressional or Senatorial NOM
nations Must not some one nominate
to the President? Who else can well do
it besides Congressman and Senators?
The critical point of inquiry, however,
at this moment is whether the postal
service has been used in violation of
the Presidents civil service ethics to
pay the debts of either party incurred
in election campaign.
The postal frauds, and the idea of
which so much was heard last winter
from the President which was, in effect,
that the Washington Government shall
by its officials and clerks watch over
and regulate railways and the industrial
work Of the country, abstaining, at
present, from direct initiative and COM
plete control-which last would be
socialism-have brought thinking people
face to face with consideration of the
wisdom, efficiency, fidelity and fairness
with which such laws will be executed
if ever enacted. Legislating and judg-
ing-the functions of Congress and the
Supreme Court-have heretofore given
the country solicitude, but now, since
the postal frauds, the question is one
Of executing
Great Britain has at last compile tely
united legislating and executing in one
body, the House of Commons, Of which
the Prime Minister is both the legisla-
tive and executive head. as we are seeing
to-day in the corn tax debate by a
disunited Ministry; while we, in the
United States, continue the early English
method of separating the two functions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
RIIS SAYS ODELL rs MISTAKEN.
The City Has Not Contributed to the House
OF Refuge support for Many Years.

OF Refuge support for Many Years.
Jacob A. Riis yesterday made a state
ment bearing particularly upon one point
made by Gov Odell in defending his posi-
ton on the House of Refuge question in
his letter to Alexander f. Orr Gov 'Odell
said in his letter that the city of New York
has been helping to support the House Of
Refuge but that the amount of that help
has decreased recently. Mr.. Ris says:
THE fact is that the city of New York
never, within the recollection of Gov Odell,
contributed anything to the maintenance
Of the institution. II did and does con-
tribute so much year for the school there,
that Is, for the payment of teachers, DC,
which money comes through the Board
OF Education; but not one cent OF 1t goes
or ever went toward the purchase of meat
or clothes or any of the things that come
under the heed OF maintenance, as the
Governor puts il.
ATwenty or more years ago, up to Mayor
Hewitt's term of Office money was contrib
uted from the theatrical license fund for
the general purposes Of the institution, but
not since then. So there has been no
shrinkage of such funds, and there was
never any reason why warning of such
catastrophe should be given to the Legis-
lature."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
FAILS no PLEASE THE JUDGES.


Justices Truax and Scott. representing
the Supreme Court bench, called on the
Mayor yesterday to protest against the
municipal buildings of Messrs. Lindenthal
and Hornbostel to use the Broadway end
Of the ground, on which the Stewart Build
ing now stands, for new court house. The
two Judges told the Mayor that for the
proper trial Of Supreme Court cases in this
city 1t IL imperative that the new building
should DO at least eight times larger than
the present one, and that 1t should be sur
rounded by open spaces in order to per-
nit enlargement II future demands should
require it.
Another objection made was chat the
noise of traffic on Broadway would seriously
interfere with the business of the courts.
II WAS understood that during the talk
the Mayor suggested that the central part
OF the proposed extension from the new
Hall Of Records, on the northern part Of
Chambers street, might prove desirable
for new court house, and that the addi-
tional space required by the various terms
of the Supreme Court might be provided
by carrying this central building several
stories higher than has been planned.
The recently appointed Court House
Commission, OF course under the legisla-
tive bill which defines it's powers, has
the right to select the site for the new court
house.
Mayor Low appointed yesterday COM
mttee. consisting Of himself. Comptroller
Grout, Borough President Cantor and
president Fornes OF the Aldermen, to I'M
dertake the consideration Of the Lindenthal-
hornbostel suggestions. This committee
Will hold conferences with the Court House
commission before any serious effort is
made to transfer the courts to the Stewart
Building site
The heads of the city government are
doubtful If an appropriate site for new
court house eight times larger than the
present one and with surrounding open
grounds can be obtained south of Franklin
street.
1t is the Mayors intention to 20 ahead
with the terminal building part OF the
scheme, On the question OF the erection
OF the $50 feet high oampanile, city officials
hesitate to talk. While they can show
that the city is now paying more than
t90OOO0 annually in rentals to owners of
private buildings, and while the rental value
OF the space in the campanile would repre-
sent 1880 900 a year. the campanile project
will not be seriously taken up until fall.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
WITNESSES FOR CAPT. ROONEY.
Father McGrOnen Says That He Has Done
Much In Cleaning Up the Precinct.

Witnesses galore were on hand yesterday
TO testify in behalf of Police Captain Owen
Rooney of the Fulton street station, Brook
lyn, who is on trial before Deputy Commits
sioner Ebstein for laxity in enforcing
the Excise law in his precinct. The Rev.
Thomas McGronen, assistant pastor Of
St AIMS Catholic church and chaplain
in the Fire Department, said that since
Captain Rooney took command there has
been less lawlessness and rowdyism in the
district as well rs much improvement in
conditions on Sundays so far as violations
of the Excise law are concerned.
George 3, Buttling, an agent of the State
Excise Department, also testified to the
valuable aid given by the Captain in the
carrying out the provisions of the Excise
wise came forward and told how energetic
the captain had been in compelling them
to observe the Excise law.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
GREENE TO GO WITH ODELL
On a Hunting Trip IN the Northwest
Ebst elm In Command.

Police Commissioner Greene starts this
afternoon on a shooting and fishing trip
through the Northwest with Gov Odell
He wouldn't discuss his itinerary, but
mentioned Yellowstone National Park as
one Of the places they would visit. He II be
back by Aug. /.
Deputy Commissioner Ebstein will take
command during the Commissioners alb
senoe Capt. Piper will take Major Eb-
stems place in Brooklyn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-03
GRAND jury CONTENDS JUDGE.
Says AspinalI Was Right In Increasing
Sentence Of Andrew Brown.

Judge Aspinall's action in increasing the
sentence Of Andrew Brown on Monday
from four years to nine years because of his
surly and insulting remarks to the Judge
after sentence had been pronounced was
approved by the Kings county Grand Jury.
The presentment says:
THE Grand Jury has read with much
displeasure criticisms made by several daily
newspapers of your action in sentencing
one named Brown for his disrespect Of the
dignity of the court over which you preside.
In consequence thereof we wish to express
our hearty and full approval OF your action
as being proper and justifiable.'