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partially suspended I'll

consequence partially suspended Till
rents had advanced to higher level.
The average amount Of capital invested
annually in tenement house building in
Manhattan from 1895 to 1901, inclusive,
was 29,5l2, 900. In 1902, the year after
the new law went into effect, the amount
was SIS, PSF, 900. In 1908 it was s25, l02, 900.
Now, building material prices and inter-
est rates were high last year, and a pro-
longed fight was waged between the
Building Trades Employers Association
and the labor unions However, the
members of the employers association
do not as rule engage in tenenent house
construction, and the strike tended to
benefit rather than lnjure independent
builders. Furthermore, in spite Of high
material prices and interest rates, there
was substantial increase of general
building throughout the city, compared
with the preceding period, an increase
accounted for by the city's extraordinary
growth. The investment in new build
ings of all kinds in Manhattan, The
Bronx, and Brooklyn during 1902 and
1903 shows yearly average of slo5, eOo,-
900, as against Sos, 100000 in the pre-
ceding seven years On the other hand,
the average for tenements in all these
boroughs together was several millions
below that for Manhattan alone in the
preceding seven-year period.
Evidently, the new law diverted capt.
tai from tenement house construction to
other forms OF building enterprise. The
law, in fact, has been chiefly responsible
for the great rise in rents which has taken
place in Manhattan in the last two years,
a rise amounting to rs per cent. on the
lower East Side and perhaps 80 per cent.
in Harlem. This, then, is the price that
has been paid for the citys past neglect
to enforce sanitary standards OF housing
construction. Fortunately, the penalty
is not indeterminate.
The first urgent need now is for low
price apartments, renting at from $40
to sos or even $50 a month. The opening
Of the subway provides land on which
such apartments are economically prac-
ticable. To supply this housing an un-
precedented speculation in vacant land
has developed, especially since the date
for the opening of the subway was def
nitely announced. Last week nearly
5000 lots were sold, many of them sew
eral times in as many days. Perhaps a
third of them reached the hands Of build
ers for immediate Improvement with
flats and tenements. The present lot
movement implies by its volume and
character that within a year the capacity
of the subway will be crowded by tene-
ment jewellers from upper Manhattan
and The Bronx.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
PERVASITE POLITICS
Even Creeps Into the Board OF Aldermen
and Makes ,Em Snappish.

There was a spat in the Board Of Alder
men yesterday over resolution approving
an issue of revenue bonds for the payment
of salaries of folio writers in the Registers
Office
Alderman Downing inquired whether the
object was to keep political workers in Office
until after election.
Alderman Sullivan said that election had
nothing to do with the matter.
Alderman Wirth opposed a motion to
consider the resolution as a special order.
He spoke once, and tried to speak again.
President Fornes would not recognize him.
"You are blind" said the Aide rman,
when a Republican member arises"
"Sit down." commanded the President,
-You have spoken once.
Il won't" retorted Alderman Wirth.
-The sergeant-at-arns will put the mems
dent, and Alderman With subsidized. The
motion was adopted.
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WRITE A LETTER TO THE MAYOR.
II Your Neighbours Ok or Ass Runs BrOad<
cast Over Your Six Acres.

Joseph A. Schatz, Jr., Of Union Course,
L. l., has sent the following letter to Mayor
Mcclellan:
Il being one Of your party wish to ask
you a very small favor which / know you
can afix. As / live at the above address
Of a farm of acres, wish to state that I
am terriable annoyed by animals running
broadcast through my farm, which l do
not think is right, as the Janitor of one OF
the schools has small ass who is always
destroying my crops, I have the trouble
to chase the animal out from to times
daily, which is very unpleasant. have often
told the Janitor, Mr.. Peter Biehle, and he
said for me to leave the animal alone as he
would not destroy ANYTHING But here
comes the point which did not like to-day:
/ chaced the ass out OF my property and
was threatened to get thrashing If ! did
not leave the animal in peace, as ! have
always been friendly with him, as he was
a neighbor Of mine, did not look to
make trouble for him. but now / shall
as he is not deserving the position
he holds. Hoping that you will give the
heretofore written a careful perusal and
have matters attended to 30 that / Will
not have to go urther, as know that 1t be
attended to If 90 further, so kindly give
this your mediate answer and care
The Mayor has sent the letter to Super
visor Devoe OF the Building Bureau of the
Department Of Education whose duty it is
to follow up school janitors with obnoxious
alta chments.
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A Consequence of the Opening of
the Subway.

The most important immediate effect
of the opening of the subway is one which
was not expected when the building of
the road was begun. 1t was then believed
that rapid transit would encourage the
construction of private dwellings and
two-family houses in the outlying regions
Of Manhattan and The Bronx.
The lot speculation which developed
after the contract for the road was
awarded proceeded on the theory that,
while Washington Heights and Harlem
would be reserved 10 a considerable
extent for apartment houses and flats,
the bulk of the building there, as well as
in The Bronx and on the lowlands of
northern Manhattan, would consist of
private residences. The subway, in a
word, was expected to induce people of
assured, though moderate, incomes to
purchase and remove to inexpensive
homes uptown, making room in the
older districts for expansion of the tene-
ment population.
The New York of to-day, however is
not the New York of four years ago. The
city has grown vastly in population. 1t
has made marvellous progress in indus
try and commerce and in the accumula-
ton of wealth. 1t has developed more
sensitive civic pride, the feeling of soil
darity has been quckened, and the COM
munity has accepted broader interrpe-,
tation of its responsibility for the main
tenance Of wholesome vital and social
conditions The advance in each Of these
directions has made encroachments on
the housing occupied by the poor. Sites
for parks Fairgrounds, schools, libra
ries, baths, bridges, railway terminals,
factories and warehouses have been pro-
vided by the demolition of thousands of
tenements. Meanwhile, the building of
new tenements has been checked by the
enactment Of more stringent Legislation
governing their construction.
Sanitary and moral benefits of ines
timable value to the city approve the
reforms embodied in the Tenement
House law of 1901. Nevertheless, these
benefits have been purchased at price.
They could have been obtained in no
other way. Tenements of fire resisting
construction, planned op hygienic prin-
ciples, cost more than fimsy, unven-
tilated, noisome barracks. The new
law cut down the speculative profits OF
tenement house building, which was in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
The Sunday Theatre.

New York has recently developed an
avidity for Sunday night amusement
which was unknown a few years ago.
Managers are not slow to supply this
demand, and last Sunday fifteen thea
tres announced sacred concerts.
Most of these entertainments were
ordinary variety shows which complied
with the letter of the law, but directly
violated its spirit, There were in addi-
ton to these advertised entertainments
many less pretentious performances.
One concert was given and the number
will be increased with the opening of the
musical season. 1t is also customary
later in the year to produce plays in
German on Sunday, escaping the action
of the law by dispensing with curtain.
Sunday afternoon concerts Of a serious
musical nature have been numerous for
the past three years, because in the short
season OF musical activity it was not
possible to crowd all that had to be done
into the week days.
Although the number of these enter
tainments has been increased so much,
there has been no tendency on the part
of the theatrical managers to give on
Sundays the plays acted during the
week That this would in many cases be
profitable, none of them doubt. Musical
and other productions of lighter char
acter would probably appeal strongly to
certain special audiences on Sunday even
ings; but the gain from this extra per-
Torrance would undoubtedly be counter
balanced by the injury to the reputation
OF the first theatre in New York to give
regular performances on Sunday, even if
the law allowed it.
None Of the New York theatres has
for years followed any definite policy.
Operetta may be succeeded by tragedy,
and beyond the effort to keep them all up
to certain high standard, there is no
similarity in the plays produced. A
theatre devoted exclusively TO musical
extravaganza or burlesque might not
lose its vogue among the best class
of theatregoers by giving Sunday per-
formances. But such course would
injure the popularity of any theatre that
offered serious plays as well.
In the Western cities where Sunday
performances are customary the best
known actors do not take part in them.
This question of Sunday night appear
ances has come, in Chicago and other
cities, to be test of an actors rank.
Those who have made their regulations
do not act on Sundays.
The situation in New York marks more
emphatioally the character of Sunday
night amusements. However general
they may be, theatrical entertainments
will always be OF secondary theatrical
Importance. Genuine concerts may be
of the highest musical standard; but
the theatres reserve their best for the
evenings on which there is no prejudice
against attendance. 1t is inconceivable
that the time should ever come when
Sunday theatregoing would be counte-
nanced in New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
Upton GETS INJUNCTION.
Baltimore Firm Forbidden to Use Certain
Labels on Tea.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 25.-Sir Thomas Upton
secured to-day a permanent injunction
from Judge Morris, in the United States
District Court, restraining Isaac NJ. Pruzan
and Isaac Cordish, Baltimore tea dealers.
from using wrappers and labels like those
which appear on the packages sold by him.
The decision is said to be the Irish Baror cts
first American legal victory.
The decree stipulates that the defendants
shall not only discontinue the use of the
wrappers and labels, but shall turn over to
Sir Thomas the plates from which they
we're printed. 1t further enjoins the de-
PENDANTS from using wrappers and labels
that resemble those OF the Upton house, or
such as may lead to deception in the mar
kets where the teas of both parties are sold.
The decree furthermore orders that each
of the parties to the proceeding shall Fay
his own costs.
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SCULPTOR HAS 81 CASH.
Roland Hinton PER-! Decides to Go Into
Bank u Ncy.

Roland Hinton Perry, sculptor, residing
at 81 West Tenth street. has filed petition
in bankruptcy with liabilities of s9,557. He
has 81 in cash and some studio assets. 1000
shares Of the Detroit and Deadwood Mining
Company and two life insurance policies
for $4,000 pledged for debts of $1,000.
Among the creditors are Isaac Hull Platt
Of Wallingford, Pa, $4,000, secured by a
life insur nee policy Of $500, all the premi-
ums on which except two have been paid
by the creditor; one H. Perry, Montclair,
81 600, secul ed bv life insurance policy of
81 100; Irma Hinton Perry, Greenwich,
Conn, $3.50 alimony; National Scuptors'
Society, SO dues Architectural League,
SIS dues; Players Club, S54 dues and charges;
Clausen & Co., brewers. Sss, secured by two
pictures valued at ZOO; DR.. C. c. Rice, $50,
secured nv n bronze mkstand valued ut
500; Tonnele d Co., 500 for photos Jacof son
4 Co., S341, plaster casting, and H.W. Dough-
erty, agent, $40 rent.
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A Word 10 Ticket Splitters.

FToW Ht z Ucd PrCSs.
1t is in the air that Il great deal of indie
pendence is 10 be exercised next election day
nj tie polls. 1t is frequently announced that
the number of straight tickets will be less than
usual
1t Is the electors blessed privilege to vote
for one man for each Office and to select that
man from all those nominated. Unless all
signs fail. that privilege will be quite gener-
ally exercised the sth of next November. II
those who intend to split their tickets do not
fully understand the process they will do well
to study il and make themselves proficient.
Splitting ticket IL not nearly so compli-
Gated as some would have it appear. man
need spend less than minute behind the cur
tain OF n voting machine or in the booth with
the blanket ballot to vote for his favorites
on two or three different tickets. Those who
are not familiar with tho system will do well
to study up little beforehand.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
p.ep Breathing to Avoid Tak,ns Cold.

much interested In the article In The Sun OF sun
day on the different ways to avoid taking cold
| noticed. however that one very simple method
was omitted. namely. the value of deep breathing
When waiting on a cold corner for car or placed
In any other position where hot drinks not
readily obtainabe, yet where one feels chilled TO
the marrow, deep breathing strongly commcnds
Itself. Inhsle very slowly, holding the breath as
long as possible, then c1halc with equal slowncss
repeating the operation several times and you
viii be surprised 10 see how quickly you will feel
warm. In fact, taking half dozen or more deep
breaths night and morning near open window
Is the simplest kind OF physical culture. and well
repays the trinlng timo devoted 10 It, HEALTH.
NEW VoRK, Oct. rs.
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So strong Is the claim Of the multi millionaire
10 be elected the United States Senate, that that
powerful body which has twice the weight In the
Union of the representative House, may be said to
be composed Of putocrats.-London Spectator.
The Senate may be said to be composed"
of 'longshoremen, or Of apes, or of vege-
tarians, or Of anything else; but that doesn't
make it so, any more than saying that the
Senate "has twice the weight in the Union
of the House Of Representatives makes
that true. Perhaps dozen, probably fewer,
of the ninety Senators are "multi-millon-
aires" Most OF them are comfortably well
to-do; that is, they are successful profess
sional or business men. Some Senators are
so poor they have to plan their expenditures
with great precision and care to make both
ends meet. The London paper, however,
is excusable, for it simply repeats general
ization often made here, though little ex-
animation Of the list of Senators is enough
to show its baselessness.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
Latest Number of the EsOpiad,

Judge PARKER's persistence in COB
bling flies in public begins to tickle the
public sense Of humor. One day the
worthy candidate kills Filipinos by the
hundred thousand and adds a round
$3.50, 100000 to the expense account of
the United States for his little brown
brothers. Another day be bites raven
ously at fairy tales about the suppression
of free speech and liberty of the press
and the existence OF all-around demoral-
ization and deviltry in the Philippines
Some wag or official prompter tells him
that the wicked Administration hides
the Treasury receipts and expenditures
The Judge repeats the yarn. Appar-
entity the daily papers are not allowed to
break in upon the contemplative solitude
of Esopus,
The Monday number OF the Esopiad
was devoted to revival of the good old
patter about the Money Power, the Rob-
Der Barons, and so on. Judge PARKER
puts it in the dialect OF 1904:
The excessively protected interests. which
formerly poured out their treasure In order 10
continue existing and procure the passage OF low
laws permitting Its further accumulation. have
been Joined by the combinations popularity called
trusts. Their plan is TO perpetuate the present
Administration. Such Of the combinations OF
trusts as do not pront by the aid of the tar obtain
their prohs by the exercise OF monopolles, Hence
their oficen are opposed 10 the enforcement OF
law As az ainst them.
When such forces unite TO furnish the money
TO control the election. their purpose is as clear as
MONDAY. Nh to buy Protection. TO purchase four
years more Of pront By tarin taxation or four years
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Roosevelt and the State of New
York.

York.
The betting on the election in the State
Of New York gives large odds to RoosE-
WELT, but as concerns the plurality,
whether it shall be at least $4,000, the
bets are even.
The gamblers estimate the chances
pretty correctly if we take the last ex-
preston of the political sentiment of the
State as a criterion for the coming cleo
ton.
At the election of 1902 for Governor
the Republican poll in the city OF New
York aggregated for all the boroughs
zee 204, 400 votes and the Democratic s27 1892
votes. This gave the Democrats city
plurality Of l22,733.
In the State outside OF the city the
Republican poll was 0651 and the
Democratic 327,232, or a Republican
plurality there of 1872, 4s5, which was
greater than the city Democratic plural
ity of 122,793 by e,752 votes, giving the
election to the Republicans.
The total poll of the Republicans and
Democrats in 1902 was 1,320,54s. This
was less than their poll in the Presiden-
tial election of 1900 by l79, $40 votes. The
proper standard for estimating the total
poll of the two parties in November is
their poll in 1900, increased, according
to precedent between Presidential cleo
tons, by 81 per cent. This would give
them at the coming election / 1922 POS
votes.
II the poll of the two parties should be
proportionally as it was in 1902 it would
give Roosevelt majority of about II 900
In 1902, however, the Democratic per-
centage in the city was 81 SO per cent.
of the total of the two parties fp 80. 46
per cent. for the Republicans. This gave
theDemocrats their majority of 122 1873
The highest claim we have seen made
by Tammany is of Parker plurality in
the city of 100, 900. If the total poll of the
State should increase at the average
ratio between Presidential elections and
ROOSEVELT should get the percentage
of the votes Of the outside State obtained
by the Republicans in 1902. he would have
then a plurality of about $4,000 votes
and be ahead Of PARKER as a whole by
about %, 900 votes; but the confident Re-
publican expectation is that the Roose-
welt plurality will be very much greater.
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GIFT FROM COLI MBIA ALUMNI.
A IsOth birthday Present to BE Raised
for the IniYerslty,s Expenses.

Columbia's sesquicentennial celebration
was ushered in last night with the annual
meeting of the alumni at Sherry's. More
than 500 graduates attended and plans
were perfected for the part the alumni
are to take in the formal celebrations on
Morningside Heights later in the week.
The alumni elected these officers:
President, Julien T. Davies, SO; vice-pr
dent William b. Cutting. go; treasurer.
William c. Cammann, 81; secretary. William
Symmes, DR., '9s standing committee. Arthur
PelanS Weskes ~ TSSmpfins Mcl,Hbine
william Putnam 07; Arthur Alexander
Fowler, 90; Julian Collier Harrison. Oi.
The alumni intend to raise sum to be
presented to the university as 150th
birthday gift for general ex penses.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26

The Nebraska campaign against the
prairie dogs continues with varying results.
A landowner whose land is infested is a
maintainer OF common nuisance, and the
authorities are empowered to clean out his
land and assess the bill against him. Strych-
nine and potassium cyanide are used to
poison the dogs. They are suffocated by
fumip at ors forced into their burrows. Some
times the dogs succumb. Sometimes they
don't. The overseers of highways get 50
a day for fighting the pests, and so the
prairie dogs are responsible for some hap
piness in a world too full of sorrow
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26
Angel and Imp.

On the day the subway opened.
II bcfcll, twixt earth and sky.
That a little two horned devil
Met an angel passing by.
Then they both shook hands together
And their mutual plants began:
Their exclusveness was threatened
by the bumptlous creature Man.
Said the angel: 1T is awful:
Since their buildings higher soar,
Up In Heaven we can hear them
Scraping right along our floor"
ouoth the imp: Would you believe IT.
BY the cleft within my hoof,
declare that have heard them
Scrapng right along our rooil-
Then they parted, both agreeing
Man would soon hear something drop:
They would get out an Injunction
II the rascal didn't stop.
McLAspsunoH WILSON
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The Episcopal General Convention, in
formally allowing a minister to refuse to
solemnize the remarriage Of a person di-
vorced, without rendering himself liable to
censure or discipline, simply justifes the
present practice Of many Of the clergy of
that Church The refusal of the convention
to strike out the designation Of the Church
as the Protestant Episcopal" on the title
page OF the Prayer Book is more significant.
1t indicates that the hatred Of everything
savoring of Professionalism whichis so strong
among the High Church or Catholic"
party does not prevail in the communion,
but that the term Protestant, with all it's
historic associations, still has the affection
and expresses the conviction OF the great
mass of Episcopalians
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Enrique Cortez,
a Colombian who il said to favor the con-
structon OF the Panama Canal on lines
laid down by the United States. is slated
az Minister to the United States from
Colombia, according to reports received
here. The Colombian Government will,
1t ia said, offer 10 sell to the United States
several small islands off the coast, to be
used az coaling depots.
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ALL BIDS REJECTED
For Auxiliary High Pressure water Mains
in Brooklyn.

Commissioner Oakley Of the Department
of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity has
rejected all the bids offered for the laying
of the auxiliary high pressure water mains
in Brooklyn. The lowest bid was $3.50 ooo
Several of the contractors who had in
tended to bid alleged that they had received
false information concerning the work In
the Office of the chief engineer of the water
supply department and for that reason
were not able to bid intelligent!y. 1t wss
also charged that discrimination was made
in favor Of certain contractors. 1t was
on account of these charges that CONS
missioner Oakley rejected the bids and
decided to read ertse the week,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26

The Mikado's birthday, which comes
on Nov. 8, will be celebrated by the entire
Japanese colony in Greater New York
under the direction Of the Japanese Stu
dents Club Of Columbia University at the
New York Maennerchor building at 2oS
East Fifty-sixth street,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-26

What good, asks too irritable corre-
spondent, did BRYAN do Judge PARKER by
making twenty-one speeches in Ohio in one
day2 Nobody dreams that Ohio will vote
for PARKER" You forget that Mr.. BRYAN
did himself good, SO long as his parts Of
speech are not congested, he is all right.
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This was no excuse, so far as can see, for the
Russian attack. II can be accounted for only on
the theory that there was drunkenness aboard or
In command-.A Government Official.
drunk and disorderly fleet Of warships
assaulting peaceable citizens on the high
seas! Who Is to be the policeman?