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POSTAL CLERkS' PAY TOO Low,
First Assistant Hitchcock Urges an In
creascd lADprOnrLatiOn.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27,-In his annual
report, just made public, First Assistant
Poatmaster- General Hitchcock declares,
that although the daily period of labor
for Post Office clerks is unusually long
the compensation received by them is
lower on the average than that of any other
class OF employees of similar rank in
the Federal service.
The Appropriation act for the fiscal year
1906 increased the amount available for
salaries of clerks in first and second class
post offices by more than one million
dollars, but the First Assistant expresses
the belief that this sum will prove inadequate
to meet the growing needs of the service,
He says it will not permit the additional
promotions and new appointments that
are needed to insure an efficient conduct
of the postal business
Mr. Hitchcock urges that better sa lares
be provided for postal clerks, as the present
low remuneration keeFs many good men out
of the service. Attention is called to an
unusual condition of affairs in the Tosta
service in the mining camTs in Nevada,
At Tonarah and Goldfeld it has been i'm
possible to procure comr etent help at 81 eco
wear, the maximum rate fixed by law for
clerks in second class ost Offices, and in
order to meet the exigency clerks have been
detail to these inn oItaEt mining camI i
from other Offices.
To meet such emergencies an increased
Appropriation for the alarv and allowance
account is asked. The demand for labor
and the general prosl Gritty existing in the
mining camys are the reasons ascribed for
the failure to got clerks for the salaries
offered by the department.
The First Assistant discusses at some
length his particular hobby, that is his
recommendsti ton that in the construction
OF public buildings in the future post Offices
shall be separate from other Government
institutions lie announces that the iEtri-
To methods heretofore en- loyed in the
mana cement Of the box rent and key deposit
system are undergoing revision with the
object Of Introducing simf Ter and more
Of box rents that will aprly uniformly
throm rhnnt the con ntrI IL henr CleNisnd
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sCoW AT CHANNEL morrow.
Conranche Seems To Have Hit Her Not
Long After che Sank.

hO'lS -NINfi NC a@Hih.
The three mastcd lumber laden schooner
Bessie Whiting, from Port Royal, s. c.,
and mud scow in tow OF the tug John
Fleming collided in thick weather of Sandy
Hook before daybrcaN yesterday, and the
Whiting was badly stove on the starboard
bow and lost her topmsat, iibboom and
other headgcar. The scow was sunk.
The Clyde liner Comanche, from Jack
sonville and Charleston, when about
mile and a quarter south of Romer Shoal
light later in tho day ran on an obstrIc-
ton in the Swash Channel which may have
been the wreck of the soow. Tho chart
shows between twenty-sir and twenty-eight
feet OF water where the Comanche struck
und she draws only seventeen feet. She
was not damaged by the contact, which
was glancng. but she heeled heavily and
her passengers were somewhat startled
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Promotion for the Rcscucr OF Nantucket
lirhtshipS Grew.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27--For bravery in
rescung thirteen persons on board the
Nantucket @hoal Iightship Capt. Charles
]. Gibbs, naster of the lighthouse tender
Agalea, has been promoted and his salary
increased from $3.50 to sl75 a month. The
promotion dates from December 10, the date
on which he, according to an official state
ment issued at the Department of Com
merce, Joy his Promptness, energy and
good seamunship succeeded in reaching the
Nantucket Shoa Light vessel No. 5S during
very heavy weather" All the officers on
the lightship that was sunk have been pro-
vided for by the I4-nthouse Board.
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Police CaptaIns Change station..

Police Commissioner MoAdoo transferred
three captains yesterday. Capt. William
Cruise asked to be shifted from the East
lo4th street station house to less lively
one. He was sent to the East Eighty
eighth street station. Capt. John j. Far
rell was sent from the latter station to West
Tooth street Capt. John Tappan goes from
lOOth street to the East 104th street station.
The last two were transferred for police
reasons, Commissioner McAdoo said.
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THE PRESIDENT OBJECTS.
Prefers That the Plan for Popular Gift
TO His Daughter he Abandoned.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27,-The plan orgi-
mating in Baker City, Ore, to raise a
fund of $500 900 or moro by popular SUBJ
scription for the purchase of a wedding gift
for Miss Alice Roosevelt does not meet with
the Presidents favor. 1t was said at the
White House this morning that although
the President appreciates the spirit which
prompted the movement, he prefers that
the project be abandoned.
The Baker City scHene contemplated the
collection of II vast number oil ten-Cent
sub bIcriptions from every city and town in
the United States and the purchase of gift
to be presented to Miss Roosevelt on the
occasion Of her marriage TO Congressman
Nicholas Longworth next February.
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Movements OF Naval Vessels.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 27.--The bat.leship
Iowa and the tug Nina have arrived at
New York, the torpedo boat Brien at
Norfolk. the cruisers Des Moines and Denver
at Culebra. the transport Lawton at Homo
lulu and the gunboat Dubuque at Monte
Crist.
The supply ship Celtic has sailed from
Punta Arenas for Bahia.
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Emerson Hall at Harvard Dc,,Ic,tc,.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dee, 27,-Emerson
Hall, the new building of the departing At
OF philosophy, was dedicated to-day in
the presence OF the members of the American
Philosophical Association and the American
Psychological Association. Prof Hugo Mum
sterbers presided and President Eliot was
the principal speaker.
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>o-Cent Gas, says Senator Stevens.

WASHINGTON, Dec 27.-state Senator
Fred C. Stevens of Attica, n, Y, char
mnn of the gas investigating committee,
said to-day that the result OF the nyestiga-
ton of his committee and the same line
of inquiry by the Gas Commission of the last
Legs lature convinced him that the next
Legislature would pass u bill fixing tho
price of gas at so cents.
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Fast Orange ehlcr OF Police net,rs,

EAST ORANGE, N. j., Dec. 27.--The East
Orange Aldermen last night decided TO re-
tire Chief of Police Henry Blaurock on baIf
pay. He will retire on january 1. Alderman
Baigrie objected, because he said he under
stood the chief had placed his resignation
in the hands of Mayor Cardwell some time
ago.
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The ScagGers.

Aboard the French liner La LORRAINE
which sails to-day for !iavre:
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Atwood, the Countess
o. l'olShobert Caste, Baroness " CraiTcnricd
Mrs. II. \; Edwards. Gen. Prrt,o Pat ha'
A. w. Fran Is. '" "'H
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These navy orders were issued,

Commander S. Cook, retired. from the Supply to
home.
Lieut.. ]. II, Holden 10 Washington. D. c,
Commander J, NJ, Robinson. to command the
lieutenant Commander G. r. Evans. from the
Oregon to the Cincinnati.
Ensign g, r. Neal, 10 the Cincinnati,
Commander G, II. Peters, 10 Cavitc station.
Lieut., L. c. Richardson, TO the Elcano.
Lieut.. p Washington from the Elcano 10 home.
lieut.. II. W. Henderson, from command OF the
CallAo 10 the MOnadnock. 80 4 .7,.-
Ensign 6. WhluoCk, 10 command the Callao.
Ensign o, c, Downing, from the Cincinnati 70
the Oregon.
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Army and NayN Orders.

WASHINGTON Dec ?7.-Thcsc army orders were
issued TO day
Second Lieut.. George f. Nelson Third Cavalry
20 the Philippines Division.
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson 4, Miles, retired. relieved
from duty with the militia OF Massachusetts and
will proceed home,
The board OF officers al the Army Building, New
York oity. appointed November Q, 1906 for examl-
nation OF olhCers TO determine their fitness for
promotion Is dissolved.
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in tie various iaverns and tie custom
airy toasts.
In Boston there was also the newt
able parade. followed by services III
the Old South Church. The Boston
ians were intensely loyal to John
Adams. and the toaSts proposed in his
honor were often far moro ~eulOSlstlc
than those given for jefferson. IL one
this sentiment was expressed:
John Adams-too wise for Office. too
lust for liberation. Yet be it remem-
bered that the ostracism of Greece
never furnished the immortality OF
Aristides."
The Rev. Jedediah Morse. father OF
Samuel F.. B. Morse, the inventor OF
the telegraph, was then q minister III
Charlestown, and he had a prominent
part in the services. The simplicity Of
these early celebrations Is depicted in
the following extract from a Boston
paper in concluding a description of the
events in Charlestown in 1904:
I'm the evening q large number of
ladies and gentlemen assembled at the
hall, where they were served with tea
coffee and fruit. The charms of wit
and beauty adorned every countenance
with a smile and diffused throughout
the whole company q cheerfulness and
modest gayety."
An account of the celebration at
Potts Grove, Montgomery County. Pa,
is, interesting not only for the picture
of rural enjoyment. but as a sample Of
the journalistic writing commonly seen
in the early newspapers:
1.-TWO field pieces, cheerfully served,
sent abroad in the forenoon the lofty
report of both fun and frolic by sixteen
well-timed and successive discharges.
Joy beamed on every brow; the green
valleys and distant hills participated
in the gladness Of the day by reverber-
ating the magnificent and far-sent
sounds Of liberty and Independence
Mention is then made of the dinner.
with it's attendant speeches. and. in
concluding, the writer adds:
The retired SUI had just by this
time let in the gloomy shade of night.
upon which the company betook them
selves to the tavern Of James kinkead,
where they enjoyed themselves with
the sprightly dance and Toasted to a
late hour upon song. sentiment and
rosy wine"
One Of the notable features of the
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celebration 100 years ago was the
prominence given to the Louisiana
Purchase. This was but natural, as
the sale had but lately been consum-
mated, and the opposition among those
opposed to Jefferson and his policy
vas very great.
The supporters Of Jefferson naturally
did not allow the opportunity to pass
without giving him unstinted praise.
1t Is amusing, in view Of the growth
Of our country and the manifold bene-
fits that have accrued from the Louis
lana Purchase, to read the harsh criti-
cisms directed against Jefferson and
the purchase Of the territory by those
who celebrated the Fourth q century
ago In what will all this ostentation
end. was the query attached to the
toast on the Louisiana Purchase at a
dinner in Trenton.
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In the evening every tavern and COT
fee house had a special Fourth Of July
dinner. This latter custom was uni
versal. No hamlet was so small that it
could not gather its company Of patrl-
otto diners in the village tavern. where
their enthusiasm was displayed, not
only in repeated protestations of 10y
atty to their country, but in drinking
heartily to the toasts, which always
correspondent in number to the States
in the Union.
In 1904 there were seventeen States,
and this system was continued several
years longer until the accumulation Of
States became so numerous that it was
an absolute impossibility for the diners
to keep pace with them in drinking
ability, and so. perhaps somewhat re-
gretfully, the time-honored custom Of
a toast for q State vas abandoned.
The residents Of Brooklyn. 100 years
ago, were not to be outdone by their
friends in the greater city across the
river, as. according to a newspaper &C
count at the time, the Fourth Of July.
1904, was celebrated in Brooklyn as
follows:
The military Of Kings County as
sembled at the town of Brooklyn to
celebrate the day. At sunrise a salute
of seventeen guns was fired. The Uni
form Corps Of the Troop of Horse, Re
publican Riiemen, Washington Fusi-
leers and the Rising Sun companies
formed on Brooklyn Heights at 10
o'clock and marched through Sands
street. Main street, Front street, up old
Ferry street, to the parade ground"
Later in the day there were dinners
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or elsewhere-which is most OF the
time-he can be found in serene phllo-
sophie retirement at Mansfield. There
his legion Of friends troop to visit
him.
Sitting calmly to-day in his cottage
at Vevey, Switzerland, Colonel Wat
terson writes his monumental work
on Lincoln in picturesque polysyllaDles.
and looks back over one Of the most
remarkable careers in America-cer-
tainly the most kaleidoscope. He alone
survives that group Of knights Of the
Quill who made American journalism.
Gone Is Horace Greeley who boxed
the political compass, to die of disap-
pointment-the man who personally
nodded more opinions on a greater
variety Of subjects than any man OF
the nineteenth century. Gone Gree
ley's longtime associate, and later pol
itical enemy and professional rival.
the brilliant Henry ]. Raymond. The
tomb has closed over the elder James
Gordon Bennett, who made the news
end Of the modern newspaper; on the
unmerciful Manton Marble, long Wat
terson's close political ally; on Will
bur F. Story, who was never so happy
as when telegraph tolls mounted up,
who boosted that he always had a
burglar on the Chicago Times staff
to break safes and get exclusive official
reports, whose sarcastic pen drew
blood at every stroke, and whose pa
per died with him; on Joseph Medill,
the maker of the Chicago Tribune,
that pride Of American journalism a
thousand miles from Park Row; on
Thurlow Weed, Of Albany, the great
est political strategist of his age.
Alas, no more is the gray head of
Charles A. Dana seen against the
dingy window-panes Of the second
story of The Sun office-the man who
made quality supersede bulk and whose
services to American journalism can
never be fully appreciated!
A few survive in retirement. Col
onel Mcclure, the friend and agent Of
Lincoln, who was the Philadelphia
Times, lives OF in a green old age in
q comfortable official berth. Horace
White still writes, but always imper-
sonally. Field Marcbal Murat Hal
stead writes an occasional brilliant let
ter, but the Cincinnati Gazette, which
was his work alone, is now hyphenat-
ed, and editorially speaking anony-
nous.
But Watterson survives, and his per-
sonality is the more distinctive be-
cause his wit is yet as keen, his in
vective as m%addening, and his humor
as generous as of yore; because he
stands up above the dead-level of i'm
personal journalism to-day like some
lone mountain peak, casting it's shad-
ows upon the plain. A remarkable per-
Sonality, an extraordinary human de-
gelopment, a surviving primus inter
pares. No American who can read
out Is familiar with his brilliant, orig
lnal, phrase-making style Of compost
ton; no editor but reads the Courier
Journal daily when Watterson is at
the helm; no other nan whose daily
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MUST D|SARN HIS SHIPS
Admiral Enquist Given Our Interpre-
tation of Neutrality Laws.
PRESIDENT TAKES FIRM STAND

Russian Commander at Manila Given
Choice of Leaving Port Within
His Guns - Jap Fleet on Watch
Outside the Harbor.
Washington, D. Chime cannot be
given for the repair Of damages re-
ceived in battle. Therefore the Rus
sian vessels cannot be repaired unless
informed until the end of hostilities."
So Secretary Of War Taft cabled to
Manila to Governor-G General Wright,
who is the medium Of communication
between this Government and Admiral
Train, the naval commander in the Far
East.
After a conference with Secretaries
Taft and Morton, President Roosevelt
decided that. as the three Russian
cruisers were not damaged by sea or
storm, but in battle. this Government
must refuse them permission to repair
in an American port. On the other
hand, if Admiral Enquist wishes to put
out from Manila Bay with his ships
he is at perfect liberty to do so.
Governor Wright cabled that the
Russian Admiral had received no COM
munication from his Government, but
was expecting orders. 1t was conf
IDENTITY believed that Enquist would in
tern his cruisers and Admiral Train
would have entire charge Of the dis
armament and internment.
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editorial opinion is sent-out by the
press associations. And this man. still
we'll on the safe side Of seventy, has
been for almost fifty years q distinct
force in American affairs; long before
the Civil War broke out he was con-
sidered a coming man. No State owns
him; no pent-up Blue Grass Common
wealth contracts his powers. BE Is
an American whose words are read as
regularly in Cape Nome as in Louis
Vile; who has a friend wherever floats
the Star Spangled Banner above an
American citizen.-Booklovers' Maya.
zine.
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bS enthusiasm Tor the memories
day by both the young and old.
\ every town and village could
with pride to Revolutionary vet
and the presence Of these war
who had contributed their share
making the Declaration Of In
hence mean something to the
~ added to the deep personal in
in the day. The love for their
country rang out true and clear
|ty grafton and after-dinner toast.
Blowing toast, given by the mer-
\ of this city in 1875 at the Ton
9offee House, is but a sample Of
which the day always called
j suspicious day that rescued our
v from the hated yoke Of foreign
&y, and gave US honorable rank
4 the nations Of the earth-may
brious events never be efaced
ur memories; may the blessings
u conferred be as lasting as the
I've inhabit, and may each revolv-
Tar find US more united, more
and more free"
Ing the early years Of the last
h the celebration in New York
bly, opened with q discharge Of
i from the Battery. A parade of
tia and volunteer rifle ~organiza-
accompanied by the leading So
of the ritS in which Tammanv
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Sporting Brevitios.

Yale defeated Whippany River IL
polo by IL score Of . 10 g..
Two Oldsmobile runabouts started
from New York City in a rae to Fort
land. Ore.
Mediocre time was made in the trial
heats of the Intercollegiate Athletic
Association.
Rockaway defeated W~estchester in
the second match for the Hampstead
cups by Il score OF II to j goals.
Wylie c. Grant and Robert lie Roy
won the club championship in doubles
Of the New York Lawn Tennis Club.
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much the same shape. A short time
AGO a little timepiece was INTRODUCED
which made q hit at once because OF
its novelty and compactness. In this
the clockwork drives a spindle Oh
which are mounted leaves In the 10TH
of a book, and as the spindle revoiVes
the leaves are released one after ue
other. There are two sets OF these
leaves. the upper n being released
each hour and the latter each mlnut
Sc that the figure displayed on the top
represents the hour just elapsed n
the lower figures indicated the minutes
which have flown. This arrangement
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Is mounted in a circular case Of glass
and brass and the design is quite
pleasing to the eye.
Another novelty in this same line mas
lust been brought out, the invention Oh
Samuel P. Thrasher. of New HaVen'
Conn.,, and the latter innovation nas
the advantage over the former IN mat
it requires no winding. 1t Is supplieo
with a pendulum. but the latter IS kept
in motion by mean of electric I'M
pulses, so that the spring is enurely
dispensed with. Another new feature
of this construction is that the usuai
hands and face are also dispensed
with and the omission supplied by Ara
bic numerals, which appear at VIII
dows. Below, this is a se1nl-crcie
which indicates the seconds.
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Just as Far.

A man who drove across b country
last summer to a little town IN west
ern Kansas met q farmer hauling a
wagonload Of water.
where do you get water?" he asked.
CUP the road about seven miles, the
farmer replied.
And you haul water seven miles tor
your family and stock?'
yep"
"Why in the world don't you dig a
Well?" asked the traveller, excitedly.
Because, stranger" the farmer sa1d'
calmly, "it's just as fur one way as the
other"
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Newsy GleaningS.

The magnet is being used in surgery
in London. The other day 1t drew a.
hammer head out of a mans arm. :.
The subway and elevated roads in
New York City carried about 100000
passengers a day the last quarter.
An %uncounted treasury bill for f1U
was PRESENTED at the Bank Of England
the otter day. 1t the date of
1745.
The one hundred and fifth anniver-
sary CT the death Of the poet Cowper
was celebrated at East Dereham, Eng
land.
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A Union formed the charac-
ri teristic features of the
early Fourth Of July cele-
lions. There was less noise a cen-
/ ago than is usually the case to-
and absolutely no overindulgence
fireworks, because fireworks were
kcarce that their S was practically
ficted to the public gardens. These
tlar resorts. Of which there were
fgal in New York, Boston, Philadel-
and other large cities, were care
10 announce, often weeks before
H, the attractions prepared for the
Eersary day.
B elaborate display of fireworks was
EYys given in the famous Vauxhall
lens in this city, and the genial
trietor, Joseph D~elacroix, was &C.
Pnally more successful in his ad-
&sements than in the satisfactory
Its of his entertainments. Patriotic
3pr, then as now, frequently over
ed a multitude Of Inconvenience,
the FauShall fireworks in 1903
evidently so miserably disappoint-
that sarcastic letters on the sub
were published in the newspapers.
pm Delacroix had stated that the
would be celebrated in his gardens
style superior in taste and mag
hnce to anything hitherto exhibited
is city. No pains nor expense has
spared on his part to evince his
Pund attachment to the principles
Fhe American 'ievolution by con-
ting Spectacles analogous to the
t for the amusement Of the pub
" well this boast was fulfilled may
hferHd from the following criti-
sent to one Of the daily papers the
day:
most terrible cracking was heard
very ear, a great ligh. was seer
very eye, and, above all. mighty
OF birthstone and smoke were
led up by every n~ostril; this, how
was very patiently endured, be-
everything that had been dis
ed was considered as a mere pre-
to the astonishing spectacle al
to in Mr.. Delacroix's monstrous
ftisement. But, alas! it was soon
" evident that all was over, and
instead of bursts of applause.
ng was to be heard but exclama-
Of disappointment"
dom, however, were complaints
ely expressed. There was q SIM
in the celebrations and q spon-
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Russia LetB Enquist Decide.

st. Petersburg, Russia. Both the
Foreign and Naval Ministries said the
decision whether to disarm the three
Russian cruisers at Manila or repair
there and try to reach a Russian port
was left to Admiral Enquist. Little
doubt was felt that the cruisers would
be informed until the war ends, because
a Japanese squadron would be off Ma
Mia before the ships could be repaired,
waiting to capture or sink them.
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Colonel WatterSOH, IdIHIIIafFJ HH0""
throughout the State as "Marse
Henry"
Professionally, he is a farmer. Per-
haps you imagine that he is an editor
or author, or lecturer or politician.
If 30. never mention the matter to him;
it will give him pain.
The great trial Of Colonel Waiter
sons life il that his friends Will not
take his agricultural pursuits seriously.
Small blame to them. When Marse
Henry is not in Switzerland writing a
book. or in New York talking politics,
or lecturing on Lincoln In Kalamazoo