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PROPOSED PEACE CONFERENCE.
The President Directs Secretary Hay to
Make the Initial Move.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l.--At to-day's Cabi-
net meeting President Roosevelt made good
his promise to call an international peace
conference by directing Secretary Hay to
send out instructions to the United States
diplomatic representatives abroad for their
views on the subject and the views Of the
Governments to which they are ccredited.
This will be the official initiative OF the
movement informal inquiries having been
made previously which indicated that
enough prominent nations were not averse
to participating in another effort to bring
about the adjustment Of international
disputes by arbitration.
Mr.. Hays instructions will. be in the
form Of circular letter and will be mailed
within the next three or four days, prob
ably on Monday. Russia and Japan will
ment will suggest The Hague as the place
OF meeting but will not make any sugges-
ton as to the time, The calling OF the
conference has no bearing on the Russian
Japanese War and 1t is hardly expected
that Russia and Japan will agree to any
OF the conflict.
Government officers in Washington refuse
to discuss the probable personnel Of the
commission. Before even the briefest con-
sideration is given to that phase Of the sub
Of the United States Government are re-
ceived, and the suggestions OF the various
Powers as TO what they believe to be the
proper time and place for the meeting Of
the international conference must be re-
ceived and considered. There is no desire
on the part of the Washington Government
to force. an issue on the general subject
of the proposed peace conference and even
the semblanoe Of undue haste will be care
fully avoided.
It Is not believed here that Russia. or
perhaps even Japan, would consent to
consider the general subject Of the arbitra-
ton Of national disputes just at this time,
and there is no disposition to excite the
possible ire Of either belligerent by a too
active movement In the interest Of inter-
national peace and harmony on the part of
the American Government.
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STRICT CITY ECONOMY.
Mayor PrOcIaims IL TIL Jan. NO More
Bond Issues Meanwhile.

The Board of Estimate voted yesterday
to issue $73. 900 worth OF bonds to improve
Cathedral Parkway. After the vote was
taken. the Mayor said:
Il want to say right now that will vote
for no more issues Of corporate stock until
after Jan. 1 next. OF course, am only
speaking for my own three votes. but am
firmly determined that we must be economi-
cal"
Comptroller Grout and President Fornes
of the Aldermen also have three votes each.
1t is believed that they will stand by the
Mayor. The combined votes of these
three officials constitute majority OF the
9oard the Borough Presidents being able
20 muster only seven votes.
The Mayor said after the meeting that
rigid economy at present was made neces-
sary by the fact that the city already has
under way large number of public i'm
provements, the expenditures for which
were authorized by the last administration.
He thinks, after consulting with the Comp
troller, that 1t would be well to call halt
and put lock on the city treasury for the
time being.
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THE HUDSON BAY ROUTE TO
ENGLAND.

Until full official reports are made pub
Ito It is impossible to say just how much
Canada has added to the worlds know
ledge by a recent investigation OF some OF
her northern territory The expeditionary
steamer Neptune, which sailed for the far
north little more than year ago, returned
to Halifax on Oct. IL. Search for the North
Pole had no place In the work Of the expe-
dition, and the steamer went no higher
than Cape Sabine, rs degrees IS minutes
north latitude. During It's voyage the
Neptune sailed TO- 600 miles, 1000 Of which
was through Ice.
The expedition was under the charge Of
Mr.. A. p. Low, and was made primarily for
the purpose Of studying the conditions OF
the archipelago which lies northward OF
the Canadian mainland. Its work included
geographical surveys, ocean soundings.
investigations In natural history and min
eralogy and study of the manners and GUS
toms OF the people Of the region. 1t was
estimated that Baffln Land has a popula-
ton OF 500, and that the population OF east
ern Arctic America Is about $500. Inter-
esting relics OF the III fated Franklin ex-
petition Of 1858 we're found and some were
brought back. There was also found, at
Beaohy Head, an important record, dated
Aug. "a, 1908. left there presumably at that
time by the ship Gjoa, Of the Swedish mag
netio pole expedition.
Mr.. Low reports that he is satisfied that
for three and half months in the year the
Hudson Straits are navigable for COM
mercial purposes" This Is one Of the Cana
dian dreams. and II effect can be given to 1t
1t Is a matter Of great Importance In grain
shipments from the West. The construc-
ton Of a railway, already under active
consideration. from Winnipeg to Hudson
Bay, would bring Winnipeg within 3,e2e
miles Of Liverpool, shorter by 1000 miles
than the route via New York, and the short
est and cheapest possible route between
the grain field and the European market.
Such a trade course would leave our
SOL 900 900 canal a pleasant place for house.
boats but hopeless idea as grain route.
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WARRINGTON QUILT SUIT.
Mrs. DR.. jacob Must Pay Old Woman
Who Made IL 500,

Mrs Freierika Cohen, an aged woman
who lives at 4Os East Eighty eighth street
brought suit In the Yorkville Munlcjna
Court yesterday for 500 against DR.. MARY
Putnam jacob OF 10 East Forty seventh
street, the wife OF Prof. Abraham jacob
former president Of the Academy OF Mod,
icine. The amount sued for representa-
time and material In making a bedouilt
Ioxl2 feet In size and having on 1t life.
sized figures OF George Washington and
Mrs Washington at dinner DR.. Mary
jacob Is q descendant Of Gen. Putnam ~
Revolutionary times, and fonr years aso ~,
she gave Instructions to have the oulI
made.
Mrs Cohen was two years doing the WORK
II Ii all In white and done by hand sewing
When 1t was completed she was unable t.
see DR.. Jacob, although she called at tho
months ago she went to the court and pot
q summons In civil suit which, howeyer
she was unable TO serve. One day. aha
says, the servant at the door informed her
that Mrs. jacob had got tired OF waiting
for the completion of the bed covering and
had decided that she did not want II. She
was willing, however. to reimburse the
old woman for whatever expense was in.
CURED in buying the material. This the
old woman refused.
The old woman told Justice Joseph that
she was obliged to pawn her feather bed
and other household articles. 30 the Justice
ruled that giving the summons to one Of the
servants would be sufficient. This was
DONE When the case was called yester.
day the defendant was not in court, nor
was she represented. The quilt was spread
out for inspection. The Court declared
that 1t was a fine piece of work and added,
IF the shade Of Washington is looking
down upon US he must blush at being re.
jected for the small price this suit is brought
for"
He gave judgment for 500 to the plain.
TT
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The report OF the Standing Committee
on the Relations Of Capital and Labor made
on Oct. IS to the House Of Bishops of the
Episcopal General Convention contained
this sound doctrine:
While. then. we condemn the tyranny and
turbulence Of the labor unions, and call upon the
law 10 preserve the liberty Of every citizen to
ploy whom he will and to work for whom he will.
we deprecato the hasty temper, which. In condemn
ing the errors OF the unions, condemns at the
time the whole movement with which they are
connected"
The report Of which this forms a part
was accepted and approved by the conven-
ton. The report as whole declares the
necessity, under present circumstances.
Of labor organization for the purpose Of
maintaining such a standard Of wages,
hours and conditions as shall afford every
man an opportunity to grow in mind and
in heart but it explicitly declares for the
open shop"
Will Mr.. GoMPERs put the Episcopal
Church on his boycott list and advertise it
among those 'We Don't Patronize"?
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To THE EprroR or TIE SuN-.Sh: Would It be
too much 70 ask for two letter boxes. one at each
main entrance In Brooklyn to the Brooklyn Bridget
The trains on the rapid transit are not very FIRE
quent and access the post once letter box
Is not, In some instances. convenient. and trying
TO reach either you take big chances OF missing
your train This means delay OF ten or fifteen
minutes To avoid this you are obliged to mail
your Brooklyn letter In New York, and II takes a
letter for some reason long time. however import
ant It may be. to travel from New York to Brooklyn.
or from Brooklyn to New York.
have heard msny wonder at the time II takes,
but have never succeeded In getting an e1plana-
ton OF II. BOROUGH PARk
BoRouOH PARK, Oct, 20.
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Working Girls and the Police

Miss ALICE SMITH, whose duties as
probation officer in the Yorkville Magis-
tratee' court have provided excellent
opportunities for the observation of the
conditions under which young women,
respectable but unfortunate, live in
New York, believes that one of the great
needs Of the city is low priced but at
tractive boarding houses, in which work.
ing women could find attractive homes.
Most of the houses charging low rates
for board are 80 dreary and gloomy that
young women living in them are driven
out OF doors evenings to find recreation
and amusement. The dangers to which
they are exposed on the street are OBJ
vious, and it is to the enormous credit
Of womanhood that so few yield to temp
tation.
Miss SMITH had in mind two young
women who had been placed on pro-
baton and under her supervision. OF
them she said:
Those girls were arrested by an utterly stupid
ofcer for lettering. when in reality they were Just
out for a walk. and 1t Is possible they would not
have taken even this after dark walk II they had
lived in a comfortable house where there was a
pleasant sitting room. with lighted lamps, where
a book could be read In the evening OF sewing
done, or with cosey hooks and corners where the
girls could gather and visit and gossip together
In the evening. or even ask their swcethearts 10
come for an agreeable hour"
There Is no question as to the desir-
ability Of such comfortable boarding
houses as those pictured by Miss SMITH,
but the more important fact brought
out in her statement is that the streets
are unsafe for women not only because
Of the presence upon them Of recognized
lawless characters or lewd men, but
also because the officers whose duty it
10 to protect ell citizens turn their au-
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New York's Cosmopolitan Political Gathering.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-.Sr: / attended
the two great political meetings at Madison Square
Garden this week, At the Democratic meeting
were some inning rants. and the sons OF inning rants
were largely In evidence. At the Republican meet
ing were more immigrants than at the other. A
stranger 10 our politics might have thought that
the Republican meeting was an immigrant gather
Ing for the discussion Of topics Of special interest
TO foreigners.
Whatever sentiments may be held elsewhere,
there seems to be little racial feeling IN New York.
Both parties heterogeneous In and religion
stranger might think that all the foreign races in
New York are divided into two political camps
with as many types on one side as on the other.
These two meetings showed that there NJ rclig-
,ous divisions In New York politics
II Prof. Barrett Wendell OF Harvard had been In
New York and had attended these two meetings.
how would he votel He could not vote for Parker
or for Roosevelt, because no would have found the
hated Immigrant on either side He would wiring
his hands. bite his finger nails, heave sigh for his
country. and then cast his ballot for Dr. Swallow.
The Prohibition party is the only one that can be
called native American II Prof. Wendell had the
courage OF his convictions he would ernigrate from
Harvard, come out into America and then take the
stump for the Prohibition ticket. T.H. J.
y NEW YORK, Oct 20. .s.t T'' :, '-''
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thority into an engine for the oppression
of women. The indictment drawn by
this observer Is against the police them
selves, who violate the laws and, instead
of protecting, hound helpless women
and sometimes treat perfectly respect
able girls as disorderly persons.
1t would be difficult to establish board
ing houses like those described by Miss
SMITH, and long time would be reY
quired to shelter all the working women
of New York in them. But to compel
the police to refrain from illegal and yn-
warranted arrests would be a simple
matter. 1t could be done in a week.
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Easy Question to Answer.

Mild amusement has been aroused by
the republication as a Democratic cam
paign document, in the form of hand
bill printed In blood-red ink, of two pas
sages from the writings Of THEODORE
ROOSEVELT.
The first is from his special message
Of Jan. 4, 1904, on the Panama Canal:
II think proper to say that, save from the re.
ports Of our military and naval oticers given above,
no one connected with this Government had any
previous knowledge Of the revolution except such
a. was accessible 10 any person Of ordinary intelli
gence who read the newspapers and kept up q cur
rent acquaintance with public affairs
The second is a passage In private
letter written by Mr.. ROOSEVELT to AL
BERT SHAW on Oct. 10, 1908, and pro-
duced night before last at Carnegie Hall
by Senator CULBERsoN Of Texas, with
all the preliminaries and ceremonies be-
fitting q sensational disclosure of the
first magnitude:
Privately. 1 freely say to you that should be
delighted Il Panama were an independent State.
or Il n made Itself % ~ this moment; but for mo
say % publicly would amount 20 an tnstigstion OF
revolt. and therefore cannot say IT.
D. SIS This, or This True3' demands the
circulars headline, in large red type,
referring to the foregoing citations.
Amazing simplicity somewhere! The
answer Is easy enough. Both state
fnents by Mr.. ROOSEVELT are undoubt-
edly true to the letter, and SHERLOCK
HOLMES. himself couldn't discover a
trace Of Inconsistency in them.
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A4Return to an Old Way OF Raising
Money Advocated.

In the Westminster Reriep for the
present month, the famous English
vehicle for the expression of liberal and
soeptical thought and imagination. there
is a rather remarkable plea for Lot
teries." Public and not private lotteries
are advocated, the second being dis
missed as obviously intolerable.
Unquestionably the prejudice against
lotteries, social and legal, is q compare
lively recent development. A century
ago they were deemed an entirely legiti-
mate method Of raising money for public,
religious, charitable and like purposes
In England there was lottery for the
benefit Of the British Museum, and dur
ing the succeeding half century there
were many others for similar purposes.
Even up to 1924 Parliament authorized
lotteries in which were annually raised
large sums of money, the yearly average
profit from them between 1893 and 1924
being es4e, 7e5; but in 1929 they were
prohibited.
In this country lotteries were many in
the Colonial period and long afterward.
Congress resorted to a lottery to raise
money during the Revolutionary War,
and the method was generally approved
by the statesmen Of the period, though
later, in 1910, JEFFERSON refused to urge
il, however laudable or desirable it's
object may be- Massachusetts, built
up its cotton spinning industry from
the proceeds OF lotteries. In New York
the City Hall was enlarged by such
means. Harvard, Yale and Columbia
colleges resorted to them to raise money,
In the case of Harvard up to q period as
late as 1908. Many public improvements
we're made possible by the system. As
the Westn,inster Repiew says, in the
eighteenth and even well into the nine
tenth century in England, France and
the United States "the lottery was in it's
prime as part, and no inconsiderable
part, Of public finance" Then came a
moral agitation which resulted in the
prohibition Of lotteries.
In Germany, however, as this review
points out, lotteries still flourish ex-
ceedingly," though sit is, probably, the
most carefully governed State of our
time The latest Prussian statistics,
as quoted, SHOW that the revenue de-
rived from lotteries was more than from
indirect taxation, beir.s nearly 90,0O0, 900
marks for the ysar.' It il, this example
Of 4 conspicuousiy civilized empire to
which the review adverts rs the weight
lest argument for extending the sys-
tenn. Moreover, lotteries are extensively
used in Austria-Hungary and Holland
and other countries to raise money for
public purposes One German lottery,
for example, has been established $50
years and Ia now making its seth issue.
The philosophic argument Of the
Westminster paper II that the speculative
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From he Zion Herald.

T TOW VNf ITUH HtTWus
Spanish Sunday law. passed In Naroh
last has been interpreted and applied BY com.
mission social reforms. and the conclusions Of
the commission have jus, been approved BY royh
decree. This "repose OF the Sabbath law. as u IS
called. prohibits Sunday work--with numerous
exceptions. These exceptions include various
means Of transportation. gas and electric hshI
plants. hotels and places OF amusement, industries
using perishsble raw materials. and all shops N
which food is sold. BullnIhn on Sunday. hs~sSS'
are strictly prohibited. -t
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He was put into straitjacket just as
he was about to carry out his project.
But who dare say that Mr.. DE LoBEL's
idea, though marvellous, Is impossible9
We at least have 1t on the authority OF
La Stampa Of Turin, to quote Commits
sary-General PAvoTs English version
of It's remarks, that "the scheme Is very
near being commenced to be carried
out"
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$50 900 Carnegie Building for DIcklnson
College,

CARLISLE, Pa, Oct. 21.-Dr. Reed OF
Dickinson College to-day announced that,
having succeeded in raising $4,000 for
rebuilding Denny Hail. he had received
from Andrew Carnegie check for $4,000
to be used for the erection Of the new Col.
legiate Preparatory Building. In accord
with the wish OF the donor, the building
will be named Conway Hail, in honor OF
DR.. Moncure ID. Conway, an alumnus OF
Dickinson Of the class Of so.
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Tunnelling Under Behrtng Strait.

Mr.. LoYco DE LoBEL's great scheme
is said to be in healthy condition. Its
promoter came over here from Paris
few weeks ago with a very handsome
pamphlet that is getting into circulation.
Though its English has foreign favor,
there is no ambiguity about the bright
colors that set forth the prospects OF
linking America, Asia and Europe by an
all rail route. In the language Of Com
missary- General PAvoT, who wrote the
pamphlet, the proposed railroad is "a
peace making and fertile work, we'll
worthy of drawing toward it all far
seeing minds and enthusiasting warm
hearted persons. 1t will be both the
worldly union Of interests and progress
the truly novel and noble aim of the
twentieth century,
In spite of its present preoccupations
we are assured that the Russian Govern
ment has had time to give grave con-
sideration to the project and to suggest
some alterations in the proposed route
from Behring Strait to Irkutsk, where the
line is to join the Trans-Siberian road.
On June last new memorial was SUBJ
mitted to the Russian Government con-
tanning the desired notifications. The
pamphlet was issued in August, when,
in the words of the writer: @The present
position Of the matter would 60 to show
that a solution is near at hand which
would crown tho efforts OF the Trans-
Alaska siberian Syndicate by adopting
Tho Ioyco de Iobel scheme" a
This Ia the wav in which q nassaoe IN
en- he noade under Rehr,ng Strait.
Prom the la'es. pr0spee''ns' earned out anaer
our car. w.. a,o IN ., ', ~. W.. mo, W.
sn,nr. ,",n., 40 NJ, GOOD ,ss ,,., Tn. ,unn,,
.o,,t h. hor,d N the ,ufc,en, and r.op,
ait. dep,b by mean. of easily accessible galleries.
Two islands In close proximity are situated in
the very middle of the strait and would appear
TO have boon created as point of support for
modern engineers. These are the Diomede ISLANDS.
The larger OF the two viii enable the underground
way 70 DC o'v,oed INTO TWO sections Q, heAly eeuA.
ehe'n anu WIN SEW. v.', 49, ",
800, .snn,....a .,r, n.,....,v Inv IN. min.
.. =, ,,.,,. md, ~, Main, d.n,n. a, w.,, a,
,or N. rom n,c,e ventilation Of the tunnel.
"A system of elevators will bring the passengers
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santo Domingo buys 10000 Rinss.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-Thomas Dawson
the United States Minister to Santo Do
mingo. cabled the State Department this
morning that the Dominican Government
had purchased %, 600 rifles and was drilling
the Government troops constantly. The
revolutionary party, according to Mr..
Dawson, has not yet imported any arms
or ammunition and is not particularly
active just at the present time.
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New Federal Inspector Takes Hold.

Theodore T. Mersercau, appointed by
President Roosevelt to succeed Inspector
of Boilers Barrett, removed, appeared
before United States Commissioner Shields
late yesterday afternoon and asked to Lr
sworn into his new office at once. He Will
take hold Immediately.
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PRINCETON, N. j., Oct. 2i.-At the annual
fall meeting Of the trustees of Princeton
University this afternoon, Grover CIeve-
land was appointed chairman Of the com:
mittee on the graduate school 4 gift OF
81 500 was announced from Mrs. NJ. Taylor
Pyne to establish the Robert Stockton
Pyne memorial scholarship.
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A Kansan's Gard.

From hs Topeka state journal.
never beat my wife nor did kill my COW. I
have been here in Topeka for the last thirty years
and have contracted and done business all this
time. can get all the proof want OF these facts
HEHRY GRUBRR.
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Money for the Pas,ernac,,s.

THE SUN acknowledges the receipt ~
$40 from j. r.. A. and SIS from L. VI; ;
Conn, for the Pasternach family The
babies and mother are doing well.
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Al CANT vote TO de elephant,
De donkey Aint nah style,
But votin' 70 de possum-yumi
Jes' make dc darby smile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-12
A "RaffIesr in Real Life.

Chicago, Dec. 10-Acting by day q >
superintendent in the printing depart
ment Of a local manufacturing com.
pany and at night the part Of charit.
able Tighwayman Is said to have bees
the career Of Edward B. Clark, noa
under arrest. According to his con
fession he has played the varied rol
for a year. He has admitted being im~
plicated in several holdups, which havt
puzzled the police.
Incidentally Clark declared that he
had Travelled all ever the world AMI
that on one occas on while making a
trip to China he struck down an'
killed three of crowd of sailors who
had mutinied.
Herbert Boyer, also printer. was
taken into custody as an accomplice.
In all the robberies Clark is said to
have been a charitable thief, returning
part of the stolen property to the VIC
tim. In one instance he ordered Boye-.
at the muzzle Of revolver, to return
a gold watch which they had stole.
from a woman. In another case. h
says, he and his companion were rob-
bed by a bartender, after they ha
robbed him.
Clarks' home is han Iro7- ,.'r (
nished and he has borne : co.. = II.
tation.