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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
Ono Grand. Sweet Song.

The balmy breath Of spring and youth
and hope is blown from these sweet
words Of the Albany Journal:
Men whose mentality has kept pace With modern
progress. who keep In close touch with the worlds
donEs, who arc alive 70 the duty which As citizens
they owe 10 the communities in which they live and
70 their country, recognize that politics what
men make Il. and therefore II follows logically that
the better the men who take pan In practical poll
tics. the better its quality must be-
The better the men, the better the
politics. That is why the politics Of the
Republican organization Of New York
State Is, and for some years has been,
80 much better than good. What is
there in this for me?' the common, I'M
regenerate, low toned politician asks.
The motto Of the honored leader Of the
New York Republicans is: How Can
Do the Most Good?' He runs like a
greyhound from the slightest suggestion
Of personal advantage or pecuniary
gain. What Is best for the State? What
do the people want? By bordering and
answer these questions he has Sc
cured and points with pride at what the
insurance companies call past results :
and he keeps on unweariedly in the
paths Of rectitude and high endeavor.
State expenditures are kept down.
Extravaganza is discouraged. Taxes
are laid only to give the people the chance
Of showing their grateful appreciation
Of the merits Of the State Government.
Graft Is a thing unknown. Successive
Legislatures vie with one another in the
noble competition for the prize Of civic
virtue. The interests of no part Of the
State are sacrificed to those Of any other
part. Business energy is not fined and
fettered. The most excellent govern
ment for all Is the constant aim.
1t may be true that few grumbling
voices are heard. They come from men
whose mentality has not kept pace with
modern progress, who are not touched
by the grand, sweet song heard at Al
bany and Newburgh.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
Our Derelict Island.

Hawaii, Alaska, the Philippines, Pan
ANA and even Santo Domingo and
Cuba, are all in greater or less measure
under the care and charge Of some de-
partment or bureau in Washington.
There Is some one TO whom it is possible
to go with a case or a claim, protest or
a petition, concerning interests In al
most any country in the world-eGcept
Porto Rico.
This fact found illustration a few
days ago when the secretary Of the
American Federation Of Labor, acting in
behalf Of that organization in our for
gotten island, sought some door in Wash
ington through which he could carry
his complaint Of police interference with
meetings Of Porto Rican strikers With
the merits OF Secretary MoRRIsoN's par
ticular grievance we are not imme-
diately concerned. But he wandered, as
others have about other matters, from
department to department, from bureau
TO bureau, 70 find some one who was in
any way responsible for affairs in Porto
Rico, only 10 tote his little bundle home
again undeliyered because there was none
10 whom he might conhde it.
No department is either foster father
or guardian Of Porto Rico. 1t is out
side the paleof the War Department, the
State Department, and the Interior De-
partment The Navy Department, the
Treasury, the Department Of Agricul-
ture, acknowledge no responsibility for
II, and even the Department of Justice is
a bit shy on Porto Rican matters. The
Senate has standing committee on
Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, but the
House has washed It's hands OF the place
beyond voting a desk and a chair for
the occupation OF a resident commits
sioner. The Apaches and the Oneidas
and all other brands Of native red men
have a bureau in the Department Of the
Interior The Moro, the Tagal and
the VisRyan have the Bureau Of InsulaT
Affairs in the War Department But the
Porto Rican has no administrative haven
wherein to anchor his craft
As far as Washington Is concerned
the verdant and sun kissed island Is a
derelict,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
A Ell AMERIcAN NAMES.

The second edition of Mr. Oannelt Us
Origin Of Certain Place Names IN the
United States, just issued as bulletin by
the Geological Survey, has 33' pages ano
makes a large addition TO tho funny the
fantastic the picturesque and the common
place names that appeared In tho first col
lection. We should include In the common
place the thousands Of names OF honest
6urghers whose patronymics we're en-
balmed In the town names with the add
ton Of willie" ton and burg Not
more than half Of the Jehersons, Hamiltons'
and Adamses are called after the illustrious
bearers Of those names; they commeno-
rate worthy pionsers who founded the
settlements.
The Forty-niners who built tent town
In day were looking for a name when they
saw the word Bakery painted on single
! They spelled the word backward and frekA
Is now the county seat Of sishyou county
Cal Some Pennsylvanians and Yankees
happening 10 meet on q goodly site decided
TO stay there, and the village they founded
In western New York stin bearS the name
Penn Yam Anthony's Nose In the High
lands Is admired by all tourists on our
noble Hudson, but few Of them know that
the name Of the fine mountain oommemo-
rates the remarkable protuberanoe on the
face Of Anthony de Hooges. Saint An
,hony Falls on the upper MississiPpi we're
90 named by q French missionary because
of the many fsvors received through the
intercession Of that saint
There Is no end TO the Nary, hargaTets'
Adas and other names Of wives, sweet
hearts and sisters who we're introduced
into our geographic nomenclature by their
ardent admirers but there was neither
affection, poetry nor Imagination In giving
10 a township in Illinois the name Suoiette'
simply because the contract for grading
that part Of the Illinois Central Railroad
was sublet at that place
Montana has a Hellgats River, which
was named Porte de lEnfer by Father de
Smet, because when the Blacldeet In
dians played the mischief among the set
tiers they reached them by way OF the
river. Tradition says that Coney Island
received It's name from the number oil
rabbits found there. One day Commodore
Perry put into a recess In Lake Erie with hii
feet, and the place has ever since beer
known as Put In Bay. The name Dobb'
must be rather uncommon in Sweden, but
they say 1t was a Swede Of that name who
owned a ferry across the Hudson, heno'
the name Dobbs Ferry in WestchesteT.
Our forefathers were In all their glory
when they monkeyed with foreign words
The euphorious name Of Elinore, htt'
city In Riverside county, Cal merely
corruption Of the Spanish II S. r, meaning
the gentleman But the .ouched thu
limit at a village in Arkansas, which ap
pears on the maps as Darysaw, the early
English transiteraton Of the French De
RuisseauX, signifying Of the stresmlets.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
For Republican state Conventions

The Ohio Republican State convention
meets in May. The Hon. CHARLES DICK,
the Junior Ohio Senator in Congress, Is
reported as saying that the Ohio Repub-
loans will at that time proclaim their
opposition to the principles OF the
Esch-T Townsend bill.
Mr.. DICK may not have said so and
his estimate Of Ohio Republican opinion
as TO the regulation Of railroad rates
and the ext ension Of the powers OF the
Interstate Commission may or may not
be correct. 1t IL desirable that the Ohio
Republican convention and every other
Republican State convention should
speak plainly as TO this matter and other
important policies. Mr.. ROOSEVELT s
opinions are well known. How far are
they PERSONAL To what extent are they
shared by Republicans?
The House Of Representatives OF the
Fifty-eighth Congress passed the Esch-
Townsend bill in double quick time,
knowing that the Senate would not pass
IL. The members must have supposed
that there was wild wave OF popular
ardor for Government regulation Of
railroad rates, Where is that popular
ardor? What proofs of it, even what
signs Of il, can be shown? A few Legis-
latures, Quitting in after their manner,
approved. They had no order from their
constituents 10 do so. They jumped at
the conclusion that rate regulation was
popular. Is it7
There is much stimulation Of enthusiasm
for il among the Democrats, because
they hope 70 put the Republicans 'in a
hole What is the prevailing Repub-
Hcan opinion? The Republican conven-
tons must say.
Possibly Republican politicians have
found already one class Of persons not
enamored Of rate regulation. The rail-
way employees don't understand how
you are going 70 put down rates with
out putting down wages.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
JERRY RIDDLES
A Memorial wreath Laid on the Singers
Crave.

To THB EpTIoR OF TEE SUN-Sir: About
two years ago noticed in an editorial in TIE
sun a facetious anuaon 10 the poetry o.
jeremiah Biddles.' At that time l was In
Cape Town, Cape Colony. and ! felt that was
too distant 10 rush into the arena 70 the de-
Tense Of my honored friend Now that
have returned 10 my native soil my first
task shall be 10 emblAIon the good name Of
jeremiah Biddles.
Jerry-I always called him Jerry a. he
called me "Sam'-hrst swan into my ken
some thirty-hve years ago. when be and !
we're freshmen at Columbia College. He
was a gentle. retiring Lad spending most OF
his time in the composition OF verso. He
endeared himself 70 his classmates by his
pretty knAck OF weaving q song for every &C.
casion, whether II was at class day, the funeral
Of a fellow classman or a beer night. At any
cole gi ate function, sober or ray, Jerry would
be sure TO be present. ever accompanied by
his muse.
After leaving college Jerry and ] dHftod
apart for several years. Jerry writing Tor
several magazines, whIle ] entered the glue
business in Buffalo. Nevertheless, We con-
etantly corIesponded, | In prose, Jerry ia
the choicest verse. In 1885 ] returned 70
New York and found Jerry in bis prime.
he could not stand the terrific strain long.
Jan. ), 1887 he, who had promised N indite
my In menoriam.' breRthed his last.
! do not dare 10 quote any OF Jerry's verses,
They are much too good for these beniehted
days ! simply wish 70 lay my wreath at
his crave and trust that these lines may
cause Home OF the chosen few 70 take down
from their shelves yorm,e1ten volume,
the Poems OF jeremiah Bddles;' II will
" ell repay reading. SAMUEL HosKINs.
NEW YORK, April y.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
William and the World,, Peace.

We pointed out some time ago that
II FREDERICK the Great, whose cynicism
was revealed Enthusiastically by the seiz-
ure Of Slesia and the partition Of Poland,
were living to-day he would doubtless
recognize In Russia's humiliation and
exhaustion an opportunity for his own
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. II begins 20 look as II
WILLIAM II coveting the laurels Of the
greatest OF Prussian sovereigns, may
seek TO vie with him in astutehess and
rapacity.
II is evident from the attitude Of the
German semi-official press that the hope
has been caressed in Berlin that the
Kamranh Bay affair, even II It did not
drag France and England into the Far
Eastern war, and thus compel them to
waste their resources In a needless con-
flict, will have one Of two results, either
Of which would be likely TO promote
German interests.
Itmight. on the one hand, be expected
that IL France should fulfil a neutrals
duty by demanding peremotorily the inn
mediate withdrawal Of RoJEsTvENsKY's
feet from French territorial waters-he
arrived on April IA, or, as the Japanese
allege, on April ~, and he did not leave
until April 22-she would eKasperate the
Russian sovereign and his people, and
thenoeforth the dual alliance would be
virtually non-existent.
II, on the Yer hand France, on some
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
OPPOSE FIREPROOF WOOD Law
RandsrS and Architects object TO
Section Of the Building Code.

Ruuderv and Architects object to .
Section Of the Building Code.
Builders and architects Of this city are
seeking relief from the requirements OF
Section 100 Of the Building Code, which
calls for ahreproof" wood in buildings
more than $50 feet high, and many Of them
have addressed letters to Fire Commits
dOnsr HAyes asking for bis aid
They assert that IN modern buildings
over $50 feet In height the construction u
such that very little wood Is used-not
enough they say 10 feed fire. Further.
they say that hreproof wood, first USED
in the construction Of battleships, has been
abandoned by the Navy Department, that
fms rance companies do not recognize II
as valuable, that wood cannot be per1lA-
nently hreproofed and that the chemicals
used in .hreproohng' destroy the strength
Of wood.
Among those who have written 10 Com
missioner Hayes are the George A. ruler
Company, the Thompson-Starrctt Company
Charles 7. Wills, Charles A. Cowen, Nor
cross Brothers, V. J. Helden a Son, Inc
Murphy Construction Company Of the
builders, and McKim, Mead White. Bruce,
Price 4 DesifOu, Francis kimbel and
Clinton 4 Russell Of the architects, Letters
20 the Commissioner are accompanied ~
detail drawings showing just how htus
wood il used in modern buildings.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
Pup,,hmsnt for False Alarm Ringers.

To THE EDITION or The suN-Sir: The violent
death Of Frank the veteran IRE hoBe OF Engine
g. adding one more tragic incident 70 the long
list Of casualties apparently inseparable from the
scent handling Of the Ere apparatus In crowded
city, emphasizes the need OF drastic measures 70
prevent the turning In Of false alarms.
do not know what the present penalty for this
WGnton mischief Is, but Il ought 20 be ten years a.
hard labor, involving. "a the ohenSs does the rsk
lng OF lives ana properly.
The brutal indifference 70 consequences that
prompts the deliberate giving Of a false IRE alarm
Is q menace 70 rs ALL Gni offenders should be sub.
jeoted 70 an entirely different kind OF excitement
from that sought punishment that would impress
the most thouEhtless minds with the settled con
vietlou that our Fire Department, the pride Of tho
city, 10 not 10 be tempered with. Nv. Z.
NEE YoRK. April q.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
BUOYs TO CUT HABSERS
since the TVwboat Men Insist On TOWNS
With Long Lines.

Since the Towboat Men Insist On TnWinG
With Long Lines.
The 300 fathom hawsers that are used
by ocean going tugs in bringing tows into
this port frequently get entan glsd IN the
channel and wreck marking buoys here
abouts and carry them out Of position,
making trouble for pilots End steamship
captains and somstmss impe Ring The
ships Themselves.
Capt Mackenzie, inspector Of the Third
lighthouse district, which compriseS tbs
harbor Of New York. thinks that hereafter
the towboat men viii steer clsar Of the
buoyS. The towboatmen refused 10 shorten
their ha wzsrS after getting inside the Hook
otherwiss 1t would not be necessary to
use q new form Of buoy, devised by George
WyEznt, a boss blacksmith At the light
house station at Tompkinsville- The buoy
+ Of the nun type, With fouruprights abo W
toe Eurface supporting the bell. On the
outsiIe edges OF the uprights are sharp
gteel tseth that viii cut any hRwser thR
happe ns 10 get foul Of them
haWser Is a valua BILE asset 10 q tugboat.
and il Is thought that careless pilots will
not foul the new buoys more than onoe
The erperirnrntal buoy viii be put IN place
on TIE northwest edge Of the Romer Shoal
10 a few days.
Con rees re fused 10 pass q bin oompe ling
ths t1Rboat men 10 shorten their hnes ate r
eettinE into the harbor, and that Ia why
the lighthouse follCs had to protect than
selves with the hawser chewers,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
HOT BLAST FROM 4 TEXAN.
General DenunelAtIOn a. the Morals or
New YoTkeTG.


New YSTkeJS.
TO Tm EDITOR OF TIN SuE-sh: In Dallas
Tx, the nnest town In America. We haven't be-
ueved All that We heard about New Yorkeu being
Erafters and cheap skates. but l. reckon ven have
70 rrvise our opinions AfteT the exhibition your
people made OF themselves Saturday. When
rain stopped The ball EGme Friday Afternoon
Ban johnson snd Frank Farrell. because they had
no raln oheokb-nne EeW York business manage.
msnt, thAtl-Announcod that The 1900 spectators
would be admitted fIVs the neXt day. johnson
and Parcel said thsy put the fans on their honor.
We'll. the result shows what New YORK honor Is,
for 1900 peBons jammed into the Eroundkl
The iS.ooo ErSfteu who lied their way into the
grounds weren't muekeu, either. Your baseball
expert says: There was no rough or undesirable
element Tue crowd vas made Up OF -sond and
respectable oiuSens--tbe men who pay feea 70
The grOoeu who sand the sugar. the druErHu who
substitute ain for druTs, ths Eet-oh quick opera
tou-An your solid and respectable" trades and
professions were represented. II was q chance
for GrAf- and. true 70 your hstlnotS you Werc out
70 TrAb
There Isn't another town In the country. unieus
Il b ChioAgo, Whero such exhibition would have
been made. There ISN'T . community IN which
the residents wouldn't have bern Ashamed 70 Fran
like your solid and ruspectAble- New YOrreu aid
saturday You did n because with you sxpedienoy
takes the place OF morals and every kind OF FAms
IL allowed. The only thing you object 70 Is being
caught You're a swell lot.
Ths men who lied themselves into the ban pAIt
would pick pockets OF blow sAfes II they WrrunI
afraid OF detection. Nov, don't wonder your
police and other city employees ART rotten. They're
your servants, and, like master. hike man.
NNW YoAH, April ~ EEvAI coAuTH.
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whose State the mule has brought inter-
national fame and local good fortune.
Eighty thousand American mules, many
II not most Of them from Missouri, were
shipped 20 Africa during the Boer war, and
now IN > mules for the work on the Panama
Canal are 10 be forwarded from New Or
loans. Local dealers there, u IL reported,
expect that fully 10 900 viii be needed They
are preparing TO submit bids, and arrange
ments are being made 20 bring In from
the plantations as many OF the animals as
NAV be needed. A former Assistant Post
naster-Oencral will do the purchasing,
and tho stimulus OF this increased demand
Is already manifest in Mlssouri.
The demand for American mules Tor cuba,
for South Africa, for the Philippines Tor
Manchuria, and more recently for Panama
has added 70 their value In tho domestic
market.
In 1895, ten years ago, by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture estimate, the value Of
the hogs in the United States was tSzo'oOo,-
900 and OF mules sllO, 900, OoO-twice a. much
national wealth in hogs as In mules This
year the estimates are: Hogs, 0sS'ooo'oooi
mules, 1881, 100000.
The American mule has gained reoogni-
ton slowly. Garlands at county tairs'
prizes at agricultural exhibits, and ever
blue ribbons at live stock shows have not
advertised him. Modest merit has won ia
own wny
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
TAXATION.
Appeal for Funds 20 Educate Legislator
and the Public.

APPEAL for Funds 90 Educate Legislator
and the PuhTc.
To The EurruR OF THH sUN-Sir; The
Governor has signed the stock transfer tax
bal. Tho next step IL 10 modify or repeal 10.
Il is doubtful II this neIt step win be taken
by those most interested. There has been
A persistent and Systematic AFitHtion and
education on the subject Of TAXATION for the
past twelve years, and the stock brokers hAvs
been oonspicuously absent With few sxoep-
tons they have neither contributed nor sI-
pressed any interest whatever ard tbey are
TettlnF exactly What they need IS ven -
HE real estate men hGve taken some In
terest In the question OF tarAton. Ia fact,
70 The Educational work, and GeorEe RI. Read
and some othcT LEADING brokers have always
displayed an Intelligent public spirit on the
Year, Years ago the New York Tar Reform Asso-
citation, when we had narrowly eecaped .
listing bll, recoF niEing that the same weed
others equally injurious, started 70 teach the
people and orEaniHe the workers In the In
YER sss, H., this IsaotStoS ~ Saes ni,lr
able support, never rettinE more than to,ooo
q yea. Is due the Passa ~ of this stock trans
mortSa rs ta1 bin. That thess nlls HrS not Taaci
worse IA 70 the credit Of this association.
There IL no use in cTyinE over eplt mix
and as Ions as thers Sre men Who are WilllnG
TO Gve their time and persistent oneTEy 70
the promotion Of wise LEGISLATION We ought
az least 20 Giye them decent support We
are spendinE nov thousands Of dollars where
hundreds six monthg arc would have been
more effective. and u we stop our defensiv e
work either when the Immediate danger a.
rassed or after the UloW has fallen We shall
have 20 learn our lesson AFain.
We need a fund Of at least SO, 600 which
ehau he devoted 20 education and 10 showing
legislators. especially in close districts, that
they are courtinE trouble In their own bor-
ders when they attempt 70 impose further
ton BOLTON HAIL.
NEW YoRE, April -.
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CRIME NOT LNcREASIN6
Number Of Prisoners AWRitmg Trial Kept
Down Z nder jerome.


Down Z nder jerome.
Statistics Of the District Attorneys
once for the first three years Of Mr.. Jerome
administration prepared by Chief Clerk
Huneberry show that i2,i7s indictments
we're disposed Of and that the average
number Of persons charged with felony
IN the Tombs each day was i7e, the lowest
90 record. In the three years the county
has saved about go, 900 In maintenance OF
prisoners by reason Of the reduction Of this
average number. The stGtistics do not
show an increase Of crime prUpoi tionate 70
the increase Of population, In 1904 81
perEons were convicted Of homicide. In
the last ten years there have been 200 hcml-
eide convictions,
In 1904 there were ESQ arrests for VIOLA
tons Of the liquor tax law. The Magistrates
discharged zee prisoners and hesi 800 Tor
trial. In Special Sessions there were s9s
convictions; 10 cases were dismissed by the
Grand Jury. In General Sessions with =
Jury there was not one conviction and hn'
four pleas Of guilty were entered.
Over ta2, coo was collected on foffeitel
bonds. The fines collected amounted 20
tit,675. The Bureau Of Special Sessions
InforInAtions' has put q stop 10 the oh.
missal Of Gases on demurrer because OF
defective complaints drawn In the police
eourtA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-24
NJ Yoioa Of Naturn.

"a heard By deniSon OF the eityJ
A bunch Of pleasing scenery
When well supplied with brooss,
Backed up By cow
Inclined 70 browue
And tnteuperBod with treea,
IL said 70 CAUSE en1oyment rars
And greatly inoonvenlenos care
Ihe bAbhis Of an eKpcTt brooh
within q standard wood.
Combined with scales
Prom niEhunEaio,
II technically good.
Il likewise said 70 sooths q Troush-
A fa0t for Whinh AZ barcn Wtn vUuoh-
Moreover, Wou constructed krns
A calming sight Ar deemed.
And any mAss
OF uncut gTaSs
Il very much esteemed
When, posing - q Turai vtsW,
u serves 70 ohosf mon up when blue.
Hence, LEI me Seef poetie charm
In soms denThtful vale
'Ts pleasing. and.
unfsrJtand,
Aocoaslb By ran
Away 70 NaturS's vented bIiasi
q might e WI iook lnto thhl
TnaltAa n TnAhnA.