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THE BRONX SEWER COMMISSION.
Its Utility and Activities Defended by Its
Secretary.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Your
columns some days since contained an attack
on the Bronx River Sewer Commission. So
called, and indicated that 1t was something
that ought to be watched carefully. and in
timated that the commission was not proper
one. ] am the secretary Of the Bronx River
Sewer Commission as it Is at present consti-
tuted and am serving the said commission
as It's secretary without compensation. This
Is certainly economy. The exact amount Of
money appropriated for the use Of the com
mission Is $500. which is certainly a small
amount Of expenditure to occasion so much
noise. The commissioners themselves are
three men Of undoubted integrity and are
Mayors OF the three largest municipalities
through which the sewer Is to rum II IL should
be built 1t appears to be reasonably certain
that John L. Andrus. the Mayor OF Yonkers
Edward r. Brush, Mayor Of Mount Vernon,
and John j. Brown. president Of the village
OF White Plains. are men who will hardly need
TO touch any portion Of the IS, 800 for their
own benefit. The only action they can take
will be In effect to report to the Legislature
and the Legislature or the people will have a
hand in saying who shall spend the money
II the Improvement goes ahead
OF the three municipalities which have to
pay the largest portion OF the burden. IL the
BE M be Gs
suits in the creation OF future one. and IL
would seem to my mind that representatives
OF the principal localities should have con-
siderable to say In the expenditure OF that
money. 1t may be possible, however, that
the newspapers which have attacked this
commission may believe In the policy Of plac
ing the handling of the money In the bands
OF people who have to pay a very small por-
tIon Of the burden In the future. or none at
all. That however. is doctrine to which
/ cannot subscribe.
The Bronx River sewer Is a necessity which
your paper has repeatedly urged In times
past, because Of the pollution Of the stream
through the Bronx River Park. The building
Of this sewer will hinder the pollution Of that
stream on the part Of any Westehester county
residents or taHpayers, i i be Pal polluted ras,
with the people Of New York city. and not
II the ultimate commission builds the sewer
the nuisance you and the residents of The
Bronx have complained Of will be abated. SO
far as Westchester county Is concerned,
The Bronx River sewer has been subject
OF contention for the last ten years. Every
year has made the nuisance greater, and
surely II the whole Of White Plains. a portion
of Yonkers and a portion Of Mount Vernon
choose to clean up the stream 40 that New
York city shall not suffer from the nuisance.
10 would appear to the average man that the
men who should expend the money are the
men whom the people in the various localities
have trusted with the highest off1ces In their
gift. II would be ridiculous TO give the
larger representation to the smallest locali
ties, although they should have and probably
will have representation.
CHARLES II. forNG.
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An Old Game That Won't Work.

The only hope of the Grocery ticket
was put forward by Mr. HIGGINS in his
speech of acceptance, and will be re-
peated over and over again by the Odell
parrots on the stump:
In the present year State and national issues
are inseparably related"
This is the old cry of corrupt State
and municipal administrations They
try to take advantage of the quickening
of political feeling which is usually gen.
Grated in Presidential year. They hang
on to the national ticket, if it happens
to be strong, and try to sneak in on it's
merits.
Seldom are State and national issues
related intimately. This year there is
no relation between them in this State.
To approve Mr.. ROOSEVELT is necessarily
to condemn Mr.. ODELL.
Honesty begins at home. This year
the most important duty of the New
York voter is to clean out Odellism. 1t
happens that he can do SO without i'm
perilling the election of the national
Republican ticket. Ordinarily, Federal
policies stir the voters the most This
year there is and can be no excitement
about them, in the North at least. RoosE-
vELT's election is generally regarded as
inevitable. There is little enthusiasm
or cause for it, The fight is not close,
and the issues are not salient enough.
Between Odellism and honest admin
istration there is sharp opposition and a
bitter struggle. The issue is simple. 1t
touches deeper forces than the more or
less mechanical and perfunctory national
issues or want of issues. 1t stings the
moral sense of the commonwealth.
The canvass of Judge PARKER has
been failure, not through his own fault
so much rs on account of distrust of the
Democratic party, which is divided into
irreconclable factions, holding prin-
ciples Numerically opposite, and only
holloway and temporarily held together.
The certain election of ROOSEVELT has
left generous field to independent
voting. The election of the Democratic
candidate for Governor OF Washington
and of the Republican electoral ticket
has been expected and desired by many
Republicans. In New York a similar
result may be looked for But the in
dependent voter has nothing to do with
ROOSEVELT or anti-RoosEvRLT The
prime business is to put into power an
honest State administration.
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The Savings Of Bahia Bharati.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-sir: Coming from,
the East Indies am naturally anxious to know who
Is that" leading Hndoo- Bahia Bharat. whose speech
at the International Peace Congress at Boston, we
are told, was greeted with "the most intense ap
plause that has been evoked thus far during the
convention" Is he all accredited delegate from
the one hundred and odd millions OF Hindoos OF
india residing In this country to decry British rule
In IndlaT
lie ought TO know that there Is no attempt on
the part OF the Christians to thrust Christianity
upon India There are missionaries doing their
work In India. In other heather" countries, but
that they are prosclytlzng by force the people OF
India Is sheer nonsense AS for the policy OF the
English people OF invading Tibet" Il Is generally
approved Of by both the native and the Anglo
Indian press. The only point land the most i'm
portant point at that In connection with 1t that Is
resented by the people Of that country Is the burden
ing OF the Indian treasury with the cost OF the
peaceful mission" In common fairness It should
be divided between the Home and the Indian
treasures. AN EAST INDIAN.
NRw NopK Oct O.,
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Their Interests Brought Into Confict by
Tribal war in Arabia.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SCN-Sir. A fierce
tribal conflict that has been waged for several
months past in central Arabia between the
Wahabites and the Bedouin clans acknowl-
edginR the suzerainty of the sultan OF Turkey
Ia said in a report from Constnntinople to
have been brought to an end by the complete
defeat OF the latter.
Ibn Sa' oud, chief OF the Wahabites, Ia an
ally OF the Sheikh Moubarak Of Koweit, who
during Lord Curzon's late visit to the Persian
Cinlf placed himself and his territories under
British protection: and his enemy is Ibn
Rechid, chief OF the Bedorins. In an earlier
battle the latter. assisted by Turkish troops,
defeated the wahabites, but Ibn Sa'oud sue.
ceeded In rallying his forces and, with as
sistance from his ally of Koweit ie now snd
to have crushed his Bedoun adversary.
Az Constantinople this result ~ regarded
az having placed the whole of the western
coast Of the Persian Gulf under Sheikh Mou-
barak Of Koweit and consequently in the
The intention OF Turkey was to send such
aid TO Sheikh Ibn Rechid OF the Bed ouins as
would enable him TO recover biz own and the
Sultan's prestige: but the British Govern
ment is stated TO have made reprcst ntation
to the Porte barring any action OF the kind
British Mediterranean feet in Greek waters
during the coming winter, In close proximity
&c sn Wias this Arabian question s IN Pa'
The Russian Government is said to have
a hand In IT. and the troubles between the
Arabian tribes are REGARDED as only u phase
Of the Anglo Russian struggle for domina-
ton In the Persian Gulf, with Germany In the
background. mindful OF the way In which her
intention OF making Kowet the terminal
Port 81 her railway thronsh Asia Minor was
Whatever may be going on under the sur
face In that part Of the world. the renewed
toward the Hedjaa from Alden, the revival
OF the Mullsh In Somsllland and the military
mission from King Menelik OF AbyEslnia to
Constantlnople are all 90 many Indications
that important events may be expected In
this quarter OF the world, r.
NEw YoRK. Oct g.
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The Measure Of Royal Blood.

Science will have the opportunity of
measuring with great exactness the di-
vnity that doth hedge king when the
Lippe-Detmold succession comes up
again for adjudication. The Kaiser's out
burst of temper is sure to blow over soon
and he will submit as gracefully as he
can to the decision of tribunal before
which Lippe, insignificant though it is,
will be regarded as a sovereign German
State OF equal rank with Prussia.
AS the actual Prince, KARL ALEXANDER,
is alive, although insane, the practical
question for the moment is about the
regency and not the sovereignty. If
primogeniture alone is regarded there
is no doubt about the rights of the Lippe-
Chesterfield branch OF the family, which
now holds the regency to the succession.
Kaiser WILHELM, however, in his eager
ness to secure the territory for his broth
er-in-law, the heir to the even more
infnitesimal Schaumburg-Lippe, raised
the question of princelv blood and that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-07
was examined and decided by the late
King ALBERT Of Saxony.
The 7 jnra al nat N rfalda thou oh amin ~

was examined and decided by the late
King ALBERT Of Saxony.
The Lppe-Biesterfelds, though spring.
ing from a prinoely house, have in
termarried frequently with the lesser
nobility. King ALBERT found that the
Schaumburg-Lppes had too, and that
so far az Count ERNST Of Uppe-Biester-
field who has just died, was concerned,
they had no, superiority in the measure
ment of princeiy blood. The Count, how
ever, had married non-princely Coun-
tess, and King ALBERT declined to give
an opinion on the status of their children.
1t was thought at the time in Germany
that he put of settling the matter once
for all in order to save the Kaiser's face"
and in the hope that he would cool down
after while, as Count ERNST might live
a good many years. The decision
aroused much ridicule in Germany and
some writer's were unkind enough to
point out that the Hohenzollern pedi-
gree itself is not wholly destitute of nom
royal alliances.
Should the arbitrator selected by the
German princes now decide that Count
ERNsT's children are not fit to succeed
in Lippe, the precise amount of dilution
of royal blood that will debar from the
throne will be determined down to a
decimal fraction, for King ALBERT had
large number of marriages to deal
with and his calculations of the merits
of the two sides were minute. There are
other families verging on royalty, like
the BATTENBERGs in Hesse and the TECKs
in Wnrtemberg, who will watch the case
with interest.
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DARTMOUTH,S NEW HAIL.
The Cornerstone to he Laid by the Ear
on Oct. 40.

HANOVER, N. H., Oct. 8-Dartmou'h
College and her alumni are looking for-
ward with interest to the visit on OCT. 20
OF the Earl Of Dartmouth to Hanover, wheh
the Earl will lay the cornerstone oil new
Dartmouth Hall, which Is TO take the place
Of the historic old building which was oe-
stroyed by fire last spring
The preliminary programme for Uhs
exercises In connection with tue laying Vi
the cornerstone and the visit OF the Earl mas
Just been issued. The exercises attending
the laying OF the cornerstone will begin
D %out Hef Nisht eSS will Be- Gel Celebrated,
Dartmouth Night" this year viii be held
on the Alumni Athletic Field at 8 O'Clock
The grand stand overlooking the running
track and the baseball diamond VIII De
reserved for the guests OF the college,
tended by covered seats sufficient 70 ao-
commodate the entire student body.
In front Of these seats, covering the base.
ball diamond, will be erected an immense
stage. 90 feet long and oorrespo r;asn
series OF ten historical tableaux, illustrating
ton. These tableaui, given under the
auspices Of the Dartmouth College Dramatic
Club, will be presented with appropriate
scenery. more tlan lou svuuch'o
part In the presentation Of these tableaux'
and rehearsals have already been begun.
On Wednesday morning, Oct: 20, there
will be exercises OF an historical character
In the college church. The trustees and
the faculty OF the college will form IN pro
cession and escort the Earl OF DARTMOUTH
and the invited guests to the church. Prof.
Francis Brown, D. Lit2, oxon., OF tne ne
s the Union N r S School, New York
will deliver the historical address. Dr:
Browns subject will be "The Origin OF
Dartmouth College, Following the his.
torical address. the honorary degree OF
doctor OF laws will be conferred upon the
Earl OF Dartmouth.
The corner stone of new Dartmouth Hall
will be laid Wednesday afternoon.
under the marshalship Of Col: Charles X.
Darling OF the class OF 's5, United States
Marshal OF Boston, the procession OF in,
vited guests, officers. students and alumni
OF the college will form in front OF College
Hall, and will march to the grave OF Eleazer
Wheelock. Here a short halt will be
made while a brief tribute is paid by Dr.
William Jewett Tucker, president OF Dart :
mouth College, to the founder and first
will then resume it's march and 90 direct
to the site OF new Dartmouth Hall. On
Wednesday evening the exercises will be
brought to a close by banquet in College
Hall, given by the president and trustees
In honor OF the Earl OF Dartmouth. Only
alumni and invited guests will be present
at the banquet
British Ambassador, will be guest Of the
college, and II Ia expected that the Right
Hon. James Bryce, LID, M. p, also will
be present,
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aIO, GOO nor TO SMOKE OR DRINK.
w. II. Ogden's widows Request to Grand.
nephew Hayen-s7OO, 900 to q Hospital.

Mrs. Mariana Arnot Ogden, who died
at I,enox, Mass, on Sept ~, made will
disposing of over 100000 in specific I've
quests, OF which S2l5, ODD ara Of a charitable
nature Mrs. Ogden was the widow of VIII
liam b. Ogden, and she Inherited IA large
estate from him.
To the Arnot OGDEN Memorial Hospital,
Elmira, she bequeathed s2OO,0oO ana 10
the Society for the Relief OF the Destitute
Blind and st. Mary's Free Hospital, for
children OF this city, and the Southern
Tier Orphan Home Of Elmira, 5000 EACH
Other specific requests are sl0J,O0O 70
Matthias A. Arnot, her brother, together
with a picture and GRANDMOTHER Tutte's
silverware;" 500 900 goes to niece Marion
Arnot Haven, daughter of George G. Haven.
with the remark: Il do not give her larger
through her mothers will what her mother
may deem may be for her best interest"
granddaughter, John Arnot Haven,
is to have IS, 900 provided he abstains from
beer, liquor, wine and tobacco until he is
20 years old. and another 5000 should he
remain abstemious for five years more.
Four nieces Of William B. Ogden, Emily
c.. Wheeler, Laura c. Wheeler Caroline
Schwab and Eleanor McCurg inherit $685. 900
each, In addition to some personal requests,
A number OF requests are made to do
mestics and attendants.
Mrs. Ogden's real estate at High Bridge,
comprising eighteen acres Of land, together
with her property on Underclif avenue,
she divided between her brother Matthias
H. Arnot, and her sister, Mrs. George &.
Haven. Mrs. Haven also inherits the
house at Madison avenue and Thirty-ninth
street, the Lenox estate and the Newport
cottage. The residuary estate IL divided
into nine parts. of which the brother and
sister are to have three each; niece. Har-
riet Arnot Rathbone two, and Fannie P.
Whitney, another niece, one.
Mrs. ogden directed that the property
in which her husband gave her life inter-
est should be disposed Of in accordance
with his wishes. and named Andrew H.
Green as a trustee for this purpose. On
his death the trust was to be assumed by
William Ogden Green Of Chicago. who will
now have charge OF the estate. The exec
utors under the will are the sister and
brother and James B. Rathbone Of Elmira.
They are to receive $4,000 each as cons
pensation for their services.
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Bishop Doane on Professionalism and
Catholicism.

A few days ago we quoted a remark
made by the venerable Rev. EDWARD
EVERETT HALE, that by the end OF this
century mo ecclesiastical organization
now existing in America will retain its
present form" The sermon by Bishop
DoANE at the opening Of the Episcopal
General Convention at Boston on Wednes-
day suggests the possibility of more or
less revolutionary ecclesiastical changes
in that time.
Bishop DoANE represents the spirit
of the High Church" school, to which no
belongs, in assuming radical distinction
between the Episcopal Church and Prot
estantism. He spoke of a convert to
that Church from the Churches of the
Reformation "a "a proselyte from Prot
estantism'; but the Church of the
Roman obedience" as he called the
Roman Catholic Church, he celebrated
for "its splendid service in the early days
in maintaining the faith and order Of the
Church, and he would go back, behind
the days of separation, to the great facts
and the great truths which we have held
in common He would plead with
the Roman to acknowledge the error
of new doctrines" and meantime would
acknowledge "the primacy of the Bishop
of Rome because of the antiquity of the
Roman see,' while continuing to reject
the Papal supremacy.
The Roman Catholic will doubtless say
.l,ot -, kAI lo,r
views Bishop DoANE himself is essen
TALLY representative of the very Prot
estantism of which he speaks with
something Of tone of contempt. Such
an utterance at an Episcopal convention
made memorable by the presence of the
first Archbishop of Canterbury to visit
this country is suggestive, however, Of
an Episcopal tendency toward the trans
formation predicted by the veteran
Unitarian preacher. The school in the
Episcopal Church to which Bishop DoANE
belongs approaches the. Roman Catholic
Church in doctrine and practice, and in
its extreme development II is hardly dis
tinguishable, except in the refusal TO
acknowledge the Papal supremacy. but
would not acknowledging the primacy
of the Pope az n Bishop, which Bishop
DoANE said ais easy" be likely to prove
a first step toward complete submission
to the Papacy?
Another step in the same direction will
be urged on the Episcopal Convention ut
Boston. 1t is the removal of the term
Protestant from the present official
designation Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church" and the substitution of "Catho-
lic." To the High school. of Episco-
palians, or at least the highest" of thcm,
everything savoring OF Professionalism
or Of any association with the Reforma-
ton is altogether odious. They would
destroy every trace of Professionalism in
Angicansm.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury, how
ever can have M svmpathv with such
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-07
The Dunraven Plan of Reform in
Ireland.

We lately directed attention to the
Irish Reform Association, which is
mainly made up of Irish landlords,
and in the organization of which the
Earl of DUNRAvEN, the well known
Unionist, has taken leading part.
At it's first meeting this association
directed committee to report promptly
a definite scheme whereby the con-
gestion of business in the Parlia-
meat at Westminster might be abated
and the people Of Ireland enabled to
manage their own affairs. The report
has been issued, and the outlines of the
scheme are now before lis.
The committee of the Irish Reform
Association proposes the creation of two
bodies, one administrative and the other
legislative, the former of which shall be
largely, and the latter exclusively, COM
posed of Irishmen. The administrative
body would be financial council COM
prising twenty-four members under the
presidency of the Lord Lieutenant and
the vioe-presidency OF the Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland. OF the twenty-four
members, one-half would be elected by
groups Of existing Parliamentary con-
stituencies, while the other half would
be nominated by the Crown A third of
the members would retire every three
years, SO that at the end of nine years
the whole number would be renewed.
The specific function of this council
would be to administer the considerable
sum of money, computed at about thirty
million dollars, which is annually ex-
pended on Irish services. BY the scheme
suggested, however, the British House
Of Commons would retain the power of
vetoing the councils decision.
q. ID will be objected by Home Rulers
that under this plan the appointees of
the Crown, whenever the Lord Lieutenant
and the Chief Secretary should happen to
be reactionary, could outvote the elective
members, and apply appropriations in
ways unacceptable to a large majority
Of the Irish people. That is true; but, on
the other hand, II the Liberals were in
power at Westminster. or such Unlonists
as Mr.. GERALD BALFovB and Mr..
wyNDHAM occupied the posts of Lord
Lieutenant and Chief Secretary, the
elective members. almost il not quite
all Of whom would be Nationalists,
would be- likely to control, or at
least powerfully influence. the action
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Msyements Of Naval Vessels.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 6.-The cruisers New
York Flagship Of Rear Admiral Goodrich,
Boston and Bennington, the collier Nero
and the destroyer Paul Jones have arr ived
at Magdalena Bay, the monitor Nevada at
Lambert's Point, the monitor Florida at
League Island, the cruiser Tacoma at San
Juan and the destroyers cambridge, Barry,
Chauncey. Dale and Decatur at Hong Kong
The cruisers Brooklyn (fagship OF Hear
Admiral Chadwickl and Atlanta and IN,
g,inboats Marietta and Castine have sailed
from Santos for Monte video. and the battle:
ship Wisconsin from Woosung, the port OF
Shanghai. for Nankin..
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NEW HUGHES WILL PRODUCED.
Said to Have Been Found In . Trunk-Makes
One Son o FavOrite.

Henry Hughes. Tweed Alderman, died
three years ago leaving an estate said to
be worth $4OO, 900. A will Of his made in
1895 WAS probated shortly after his death,
and the estate was divided under its terms,
q quarter and each OF the five children .
fifth OF the remainder.
Yesterday will purporting to have been
made by Hughes in 1901 was offered for pto-
bate In the Surrogate's office by Col. Robert
j. Hare, as attorney for one OF the sons,
Joseph Hughes. Col. Hare says that this
will was found IN a trunk on Staten Island
a few weeks ago, and by it's provisions the
widow gets third and Joseph Hughes a
third, while the remainder is to he shared by
the other children and some grandchildren.
Charles Strauss. attorney for the execu-
tors OF the original will said yesterday
that he had not much belief in the value OF
the second will as a legal document. He is
going to have it examined by experts to
show that Hughes never signed it.
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A sorry Spectacle.

From The Amsterdam Morning Sentinel
That lis a sorry spectacle presented by the
Chief Executive Of our state, who during
the last three months has been found at his
desk In the Executive chamber In Albany
three consecutive hours, He Ia being paid
$4,000 year by the taxpayers Of the State
TO care for their interests, and not TO manipu-
late Republican politics from an ONCE In
New York, where n retinue Of secretaries,
typewrters and clerks. also paid by the State,
surround him. Is there any wonder as to
why the decent Republicans Of the party
propose to unite with the Democratic party
In electinR Herrick and Harrison by over
100 600 plurality?