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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
BIDS FOR MANHATTAN BRIDGE.
Nobody but Established Concerns Win
Adequate Plants Need Apply.

Bridge Commissioner Best advertised
yesterday for bids for furnishing the metal
work for the anchorages and constructing
the towers and suspended superstructure
OF the new Manhattan Bridge. The bridge
will cost SIS, 500 oOo Of which about SO, oo0 900
ia for approaches. The bids advertised
for yesterday are to be opened on Aug 10,
and it Is announced in the advertisement
that as "the work can be executed only
by bridge establishments Of the first class
bids will be received only from such parties
as have the requisite plant and facilities.
The successful bidder will have to de-
posit security to the amount OF 81 500 ,00O
and time limit OF three and half years has
been set for the completion Of the work.
The specifications cover more than hun
dred pages of printed matter, and 40 care
fully have these been drawn by the en-
gineers of the Bridge Department that a
book Of illustrated plans. which accom-
panies the specifications is made out In
such detail as to show even the rivets that
are, to be used in putting the bridge to-
gether
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
RUNAWAY IN CENTRAL PARK.
Mounted Cop Catches Horse After Wagon
La SIM ashed and Two are In iured.

Is Smashed and Two are Injured.
Martin Stork OF 1856 East 1o3d street,
and Isaac Rosenthal, who lives at the
Spaulding Hotel, Broadway and Forty
third street, we're driving south on the
East Drive in Central Park yesterday
afternoon when their horse. a spirited one,
got the bit out of his mouth and bolted
down the road.
At Eighty-third street Mounted Poll &C.
man Bowling gave chase, but before he
reached the runaway the horse dashed
the light road wagon against lamppost
at Seventy third street, smashing the vehi-
Gle into bits and thro wing both men into
the road.
Rosenthal escaped with slight bruises,
but Stork was knocked unconscious. He
was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital,
where it was found that he was severely
injured.
The collision with the lamppost freed
the horse, and the frightened animal dashed
along the drive, scattering the pleasure
seekers right and left until he reached
Sixty-seventh street, where the mounted
policeman came alongside and ended the
race.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
DOMB FOR SULTAN KILLED go.
Believed Now That Attempt on Rulers
Life Was the Work Of DulgArians,
.sp,etal cable De,pa,ehe, 70 THE sun.


CoNsTANTINoPLE July PA commission
which was appointed to inquire into the
throwing Of bomb at the Sultan while he
was leaving the mosque yesterday has
ascertained that twenty five persons were
killed and fifty seven wounded. Fifty-five
horses were injured.
Preliminary Investigations tend ITO show
that the attempt to kill the Sultan was the
work of two Bulgarians.
The force OF the explosion shattered
the windows in the clock tower in the court
yard mosque, as well as the windows Of
the pavilion reserved for the Diplomatic
Corps Mr.. Smith. one OF the secretaries
OF the American Legation. was in the
pavilion at the time. Great confusion and
panic followed, and many court dignitaries
rushed up and anxiously tried to prevent
the Sultan from getting into his carriage.
His Majesty insisted, however, and. taking
the reins, drove to the Yildiz Kiosk amid
the cheers of his encourage. He did not
lose his composure for moment.
PARIS July 22.-Prime Minister Rouvier
has sent message to the Sultan through
the Turkish Embassy congratulating him
on his escape.
LONDON, July PA despatch from
Constantinople to the Central News says
the explosion was caused by subterranean
mine which was evidently controlled by
clookwork. The report was heard in re-
mote parts of the city.
The victims of the explosion include
Teherkess Mehmed Pasha, Kenan Pasha and
members of the imperial household. A
German who holds an important military
post was shockingly mangled and is dying.
Several carriages were blown to atoms.
There has been considerable discomfort
in the imperial household lately. which is
due to various causes, including the exile
of Ria Pasha and other popular notables.
1t is suspected that the outrage was the
result Of palace conspiracy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
EARTH SW.ALLOWED 4 TRAIN.
Crew Got TO Firm Ground just In Time
to He Saved.

sHAMoK1N, Pa. July 22.-Engineer
Samuel Ramsey, Conductor Luther Mace
and Brakeman Batrick, crew of a train in
No slope, Richards colliery, had a narrow
escape from death to-day. As they were
making the run to the main slope the
ground caved in and the train Of ten cars
and the locomotive was swallowed up.
The men, who suspected what was about
to happen. leaped to the ground. which had
begun to tremble. As they ran the. SUR
face began sinking, but the crew gained
a solid piece Of ground just as the train
went down.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
ROOT NOT TO boss CANAL.
Taft 10 Remain In Control OF the Great
Ditch Digging.

OYSTER BAY, July 22.--As a result OF the
conference yesterday between President
Roosevelt and Secretary Root the Presi-
dent authorized the statement that for the
present the Panama Canal will remain
under the War Department. transfer
Of the canal TO the Department. Of State
had been contemplated. Apparently Mr..
Root was against making the change.
Mr.. r OF slipped out OF Oyster Bay
before noon to-day on the naval yacht
Sylph. From New York 1t was said Mr..
Root would 20 to his country h Tome at South
ampton, l.. I. The President and his family
spent tho greater part Of the afternoon
picnicking in the ncighhorhood Of Sycamore
Hill
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
SPECIAL SESSION, AS "SUN" SAID.
Date, Nov. IL; Subjects: Panama Canal
Railroad Legislation and. Maybe. Tariff

OYSTER BAY, July 22.-THE SUNS despatch
from Lincoln Neb.. saying that special
session Of Congress will be called by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on Nov. II, was confirmed
to-day at the executive offices, The Presi-
dent il is understood desires to put through
some Panama Canal legislation. By the
time the extraordinary session begins
the plans of Chairman Theodore P. Shonts
ana Engineer j. F. Stevens OF the canal
will be in measure formulated, and the
President wishes the work to 90 on with
out a hitch The President also desires
some anti-robate and other railroad legis-
lation, and It is probable that his ideas
about tariff condisions will receive atten-
ton.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
&. ". VAN kLEECK'S WALLET
Found Anoat IN Jamaica Hay At Belle
Harbor Yacht Club Races.

Acting aptain Mott of the Harbor police.
in police launch at the races Of the Belle
Harbor Yacht Club yesterday afternoon,
found wallet Hoating.in Jamaica Bay.
The wallet contained $il in cash, an
order for $50 and number Of cards OF
Charles NJ. Van Keeck, assistant secretar y
of the Real Estate Trust Company of New
York, 80 Nassau street.
CAPT. Mott has the wallet and will notify
Mr.. Van Kleeck when he can. Mr. Van
Kleeck's house at Flushing is closed.
Mr.. Van X Geek was at the Flushing Beat
Club house early last evening.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
ATRSHIP RACE.
Over and Under East River Bridges Is
knabenshue's Idea.

Roy knabenshue OF Toledo, Ohio, came
to town last night and put up at the Hotel
Victoria. He says his purpose in coming here
is to arrange for an airship race with any
body A fair race here between airships,
he thinks, would be from the Battery over
the Brooklyn Bridge and under theWillams-
burg Bridge, and then over the later struc-
tuIe and under the Brooklyn Bridge back
to the Battery.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
JERRY SIMPSON DYING.

less" Very Low ~ New Mexico Home.
ROSWELL, N. M, July 22.-Former Con-
gresham Jerry Simpson, nationally known
as Sockless Jerry for some time danger
ously Ill at his home here, IL much worse,
and death may come at any moment.
One of the blood vessels OF his heart is
yr1pturpG.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
peary's steamer Reaches sydney.

HALIFAX, N. s., July 22.-Commander
Pearys steamer Roosevelt, which Is to
take him north In search Of the Pole, ar
rived at Sydney at II O'Clock tonight from
New York
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23

weather delightful in the Adirondack Noun.
tains. Only eight to twelve hours from New YORK
by New York Central. ASK ticket agents for par
tlculArs.--Ads.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
DEwEYs RICH CLARET WINES

II. r Dewey q Sons Co., iSs Fulton ST., New York.
--Adp.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23

The Passenger Lac Of America
the New York Central with Ia nnoctons In
All directions. entitled for convenience tho New
ork Central Lnse."-Ades
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
EIGHT HOURS TO CLAYTON

nv -Tbe Second Empire" Of the New York Central
cave New York 1861 p. NJ, Albany ass. Utica $50
arrive Clayton 1000 p. NJ. Alexandra Bay HOO
=. N.-Adr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
His Visit to the Kaiser TO 70
Seek Advice on the Pres
ent Crisis.
BAlkS At MAKING PEACE.
Regency un.er the Oowagsr
Empress Is Suggested.

She Fayors Ending the War on the Hest
Terms Possible, and ". Witte's Appoint.
n,cnt as Peace Envoy WINS Her work
Gar Forced to Have Him. but De.
cl!ncs to Give Detailed Instructions
Paris Expose OF Russia's Moves In
NIanchuria Is Credited TO NJ. Wltte.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23

Latest Marine intelligence.
Calcdo Ia. Glasgow. July lo IS Saratoga, Mas.
sali
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23

eohnS Homeopathic LsxAuvea keep your livey
and in,estinss active and insure perfect health.
ADV 4.
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Continued on Second PAGE.
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OYSTER BAY, July 22.-1t was authorita-
lively denied here that President Roose-
welt had ever agreed to accept presenta-
ton copy OF @Fads and Fancies."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-23
SIx'y.sIght Men Dead and
Ten Expected to De in
The Hospitals.
HlRDToC0UNT THE MISSING
Some Survivors Of the Benning-
ton May Have Deserted.

Nh One Left to Tell Just what Happened
Between Decks when the Boilers
Blew Ip-WOunded Jackies Showed
Great IIerOism-Burial OF the Dead
To-day-Revised List OF the Dead and
iured-Iny esti alton Work started
Efforts to Get Bodies out OF Wreck.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24

ton, to the disregard and neglect Of
the vastly more important problem OF
building men at home, and creating a
citizenship which will be an enduring
national foundation forever, and en-
larging our home markets, which will
be unaffected by any foreign complica-
tons or trade disturbances.
The attention of our people of late
has been so much absorbed by the
problems of our export trade, that we
overlook the fact that the United
States today manufactures annually a
product aggregating in total value the
combined manufactured product Of
the three other greatest manufacture
ing nations Of the world. England,
France and Germany, and we con-
sumo ninety-two per cent of our entire
annually manufactured products at
home.
Create Farm Homes.
And if every farm in the United
States were cut in two, and new
home created on it so that the number
of farm homes, and the capital in
vested in, and labor devoted to agri-
culture throughout the entire United
States, were thus doubled, the result
would be an enlargement Of our popu-
lation, our home market for manu-
features, and our power as nation,
almost beyond the power Of the mag
nation to picture to the mind.
1t is to the development of its vast
| agricultural resources and the creation
Of closely settled population of far.
mers and gardeners, who will cult
vate the soil by the most intensive
g, methods, that the Middle West must
look if it is to achieve it's full destiny
in wealth, power and population.
The resources of the great territory
extending westward from the crest OF
the Allegheny Mountains to the one
hundredth meridian-the edge of the
arid region-and from the sources OF
the Mississippi River on the north tt
its outlet to the Gulf on the south, are
so largely agricultural that it offers
the ideal section Of the earth for the
development of a nation along the
lines Of Japanese development, with
a preponderating rural population.
There is no other section of the
worlds surface where latent agricul
tural resources Of such inexhaustible
richness and extent lie practically un
developed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24

nor military equipment, nor manu-.
featuring skill. Western nations will
fail fully to grasp the secret of the
dynamic intensity Of Japan today, and
will dangerously underestimate the
formidable possibilities of the Greater
Japan--the Dai Nippon-of tomorrow
until they begin to study seriously the
agricultural triumphs Of that empire.
For Japan, more scientifically than
any other nation, past or present, has
perfected the art of sending the roots
of it's civilization enduringly into the
soil.
Progressive experts of high author.
| ity throughout the Occident now adj
NIT that in all the annals of agri-
culture there is nothing that ever ap-
preached the scientific skill of Sunrise
husbandry. Patient diligence, with
knowledge of the chemistry of soil and
the physiology of plants, have yielded
results that have astounded the most
advanced agriculturists in Western
nations"
The Safe Foundation.
The creation of the conditions above
described under which the people Of a
nation are rooted to the soil in homes
of their own on the land, is not only
good craftsmanship and the highest
patriotism, but it is the only safe foun--
dation for an enduring national
structure.
To ignore and neglect this founda-
ton while we build battleships, equip
armies and annex islands and dig
Isthmian canals, is as fatal mistake
as it would be to build twenty-story
skyscraper in Chicago without any
foundation but the mud of Lake
Michigan.
We need not muster out our armies,
nor dismantle our battleships nor
evacuate the Philippines, nor stop
work on the 1sthmian Canal, but the
fact remains, as clear as the sun from
an unclouded sky at monday, that the
attention of our people as a nation Is
riveted on our naval and military af-
fairs and schemes of foreign eXploita-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24

Guilty In the way of 1t Is mere Gus
tom or habit, easily modified.
The terms of school OF all CIT.
schools should be changed. Inere
should be short winter term, our
ing which the time should be given tc
instruction from the books ana III
handicraft within doors.
There should be summer term OF
equal length during which the schools
would be transferred to the suburbs
and work in summer school gardens
The children should be taken back
and forth to these summer school gar
dens at public expense, as they are
now taken to and from the c0nsoll-
dated rural schools on the trolley
lines in some of the New England
states.
The vacation, which would not need
be so long, should be divided between Il
spring vacation and fall vacation,
intervening between the winter city
erm and the country summer term OF
each school.
Building a Strong Citizenship.
Of course, many will hold up their
hands and say this is impossible.
England finds it impossible, as the
result of her system of great landed
estates, to provide her people with
homes on the land, and in conse-
quence her ruin as nation is only a
question Of a comparatively brief
time.
Japan, on the contrary, put forth
her hand and solved the very problem
which, to England, seems impossible,
and behold the results in her strength
and power as nation.
1t is only question with us, as
people, whether we will follow the
lead of Japan, and profit by her les.
sons, or follow the lead of England
and share i'll her eventual ruin.
The influences which are destroying
England are at work steadily and in
sidiously in this nation, and though
it will take longer for them to work
our ruin, it is sure to come if we do
not find way to root the great
majority Of our people to the land in
homes of their own, as Japan has
done, and as we can do, unless we
are as blind and as impotent in deal
ing with our national problems as
seems to be the fate Of England.
In the carrying out of this great
patriotic purpose of building a strong
citizenship, by building rural homes
on the land, we are. at the same
time, doing that which will create
the greatest possible commercial
prosperity, and develop to the high
est attainable point, not only the re-
sources of the Middle West, but of
our entire country.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24
The Olive In america.

The annual output of olive oil in
California is about 10000 gallons; OF
pickles 100000 gallons. The imports
to the country of oil amount to about
100000 gallons per year and of
pickles to 2,116 gallons The olive was
introduced into California 1876 years
ago, which is a bad showing for use
of native olive oil, especially when
it is acknowledged to be the superior
of all foreign oils.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24

fifty million figure; it has stacked up
gold in it's treasury, has created a
great merchant marine, has captureda
growing share of European commerce,
has already outmarshaled commercial
America on the Pacific, has crowded
it's cities with roaring factories, and
has given costly and triumphant equip
ment to it's aggressive fleets and regl.
ments. And it has accomplished all
this out of the profit Of harvests
cleaned from a farm area scarcely
large enough to afford storage room
for the agricultural machinery in use
in the United States"
Could there be more striking proof
of the oft-quoted words OF David Starr
Jordan, that
stability of national character goes
with firmness of foot-hold on the
soil"
Comparison of Areas.
Now compare Japan and its devel-
opment with the possibilities Of devel-
opment in the Middle West.
The area of all the islands compris-
ing the Empire of Japan is 147, 655
square miles; of this only 10000
square miles is available for agricult.
ure, for every available acre in that
country is cultivated.
The total combined area of Wiscon.
sin, Illinois and Indiana is 146,36O
square miles, and it is safe to say that
considerably more than half of this
area-probably more than two thirds
is capable of as close cultivation
and of sustaining as dense pOpula
ton per square mile as the cultivated
area Of Japan.
The water with which to irrigate II
now runs to waste. The water which
Chicago turns into her drainage canal
instead of producing agricultural
wealth by irrigating the lands of Iii
nois, produces law suits with st. Louis
because it runs to waste past thai
city to the Gulf Of Mexico.
The time will come when irrigated
agriculture in the Middle West will
absorb every drop of water falling
within that territory.
And when the irrigation canals ant
the irrigated farms of the Middle
West will dry up the Ohio and the
Mississippi rivers, just as irrigation
in the West has dried up Tulare Lake
in California, and is rapidly drying VI
the Great Salt Lake in Utah, thu
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24

first-class fighting nation, it is not neg,
lecting its fields of rice, genge, millet
and muji, its groves of mulberry and
bamboo, it's priceless plots of tea and
mitsumata shrubs, and its multi-mil-
lion gardens of berries, vegetables,
fruits and flowers. The thousands OF
patriots that have marched to the
front have not thinned the ranks OF
the mightier hosts tilling the soil.
Thirty million farmers are gathering
ample harvests in the diminutive fields
of Japan.
Husbandry Dlgnified.
For twenty-five centuries the Sun
rise sovereigns have dignified nus
bandry as the most important ana
most honorable industrial calling Ill
the empire, and now more than sixty
per cent of the Mikado's subjects till
with Incompatible skill the limited
soil of his islands.
"The same diligent genius that ena-
bles a landscape gardener in Japan to
compass within few square yards OF
land forest, a bridge-spanned stream,
a waterfall and lake, a chain of ter
raced hills, gardens and chrysanthe'
NUNS, hyacinths, peonies and pinks, a
beetling crag crowned with dwarfed
confer, and through all the dainty
park meandering paths, with here q
shrine and there a dainty summer
house, has made it possible for the far
mers of the empire to build up on less
than nineteen thousand square miles
of arabic land the most remarkable
agricultural nation the world has
known. If all the tillable acres Of
Japan were merged into one field, ;
man in an automobile, travelling at thu
rate of fifty miles an hour, could Skin
the entire perimeter of arabic Japal
in eleven hours. Upon this marrow
freehold Japan has reared a nation o
imperial power, which is determined
to enjoy commercial prominence owe
all the world. of wealth and opportu
nity from Siberia to Siam and already
by the force Of arms. is driving fron
the shores Of Asia the greatest mon
archy of Europe.
Roots in the Soil.
The secret of the success of the Iii
tie Daybreak Kingdom has been
mystery to many students Of nations
Patriotism does not explain the riddl
Of its strength, neither can commerce
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-11-24

ton from Japan has not yet been
learned, and when President Roose-
welt fails to see it,and demands only
more battle ships, as the lesson of the
great sea fight which has just been
fought, he unfortunately diverts the
minds Of the people of this country
from facts of supreme and overshad-
owing Importance, when should be
burned into the public mind as by a
stroke of lightning from every victory
won by the japanese.
That lesson is the profoundly i'm
portant fact that the japanese man,
the unit Of her national strength, is
the product Of mode Of life and an
environment which combines the
physical strength which comes only
from the rural life-from living next
to nature-with the mental activity
and keenness which come from con-
slant contact with his fellowmen-the
community life.
A Nation Of Gardeners.
The Japanese are not nation of
farmers, as we understand the word.
They are a nation of gardeners.
There is neither isolation nor conges-
ton in their life. They dwell, the
great majority of them, not in great
cities, but in closely settled rural COM
munities. The ranch and the tene-
ment are alike foreign to the life Of
the Japanese.
The greatprinciple that mustcontrol
our own national development hence
forth is that the land shall be subdi-
vided into the smallest tracts from
which one mans labor will sustain a
family in comfort, and that every
child, boy or girl, in the public schools
should be 50 trained in those schools
that it will know how to till such
tract of land for livelihood.
In other words, let us reproduce in
this country the conditions SO well
described in an article from the Book
lovers Magazine for August 1904,
from which we quote the following
"While Japan is cannonadingitsw way
to rank with Christian powers as