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DEFENSE or THE SUBWAY.
A Conductor Who Thinks That the Crit.
cism OF IL Is Not Justified.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--ssr: would like
TO say few words In favor OF tho 1nterborough
Rapid Transit Company. l am employed by II as
conductor. 1t has been said that the subway is un-
healthy and tho air impure. II you would take
trip 10 tho terminals at present Al l<sth and ls7h
streets on the Broadway division and 500 .the me
class Of men that run the trains you would
think so.
The subway was built with solid cement walls
on tho four sides, and can honestly say It Is Is
dry as a bone. There two or three places where
there Is slight drip OF water. One Is between
Ninety sixth and 10th streets on the Lenox ave
nue. division. Another Is in tho rock cut near
Forty second street. and the slight amount OF water
runs direct 10 drains. whence 1t Is pumped into tho
city sewer.
During the last week the company has, In addition
TO installing fans at the principal stations, placed
two large exhaust revolving fans for the purpose
OF drawing the air from tho subway TO the street
They are placed on nat cars and are operated by
electric motors. One Is located between Fourteenth
street and Eighteenth street, and the other at the
side track south OF tho Brooklyn Bridge station.
They pump the mir directly 10 manholes. through
which It Is conveyed to tho street. Tho wheel on
one OF these Is at least seven feet In diameter.
notice the public Is complaining about the dust
down here. We wear our white collars two or
three days, and they are not soiled then
OF ali the passengers have spoken with have
not found with a just cause for complaint
against tho road.
1t Is my opinion that the people VINO are com
planning about tho air &C.. are persons who do not
ride In the subway. who make a practise Of knock
ing every New York city improvement. The road
way in the subway is OF broken stone laid on ce-
ment noor and thing noticed Is the abseace
OF spring In crossing rail- Joints which Is found on
the elevated
The signal system IL. In my opinion. the safest
In the world Char none,. Signals are placed about
800 feet apart and are worked automatically. 4
train running past signal set at danger releases
a safety Arrangement under the hrst car. imme-
dia,ey setting the air brakes and stopping the train
Another safety appliance Is on the motorman's
cont roller handle 1t Is small knob. which has
10 be held down. To let go for one instant Will
shut of the power and apply the brake AZ once.
NEW YORK, July Z. CONDUCTOR BLANK
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generation of the clergy passes away the
Government appropriation for religious
purposes will shrink to the vanishing
point. Then, but not till then, shall we
witness in France, so far as the payment
OF stipends is concerned, that abso-
lutte divorce Of religion from the civil
power with which we are familiar in this
country.
From another point Of view, however,
the situation will be profoundly different.
On this side Of the Atlantic any form OF
religion is exempt from police super
vision and, interference 80 long as 1T re-
trains from violating the State or Federal
laws. Islamism might be propagated IN
our commonwealth with impunity, just
as Mormonism is, so long as certain
tenets are not reduced to practise. II
votary Of either Of those religions should
be prosecuted it would be as bigamst,
not as a Moslem or Mormon. That is to
say, in the United States the Church IL,
in deed as we'll as word, absolutely free.
1t will be otherwise in France, which for
upward Of hundred years has had an
intensely centralized and unified form OF
government which, nominally autono-
NOUS, has in practise been paternal The
French have lost what habits of local self
government they ever possessed, and
have been accustomed for generations to
lean upon the central authority. The
demand for incessant interposition rem
ders incessant surveillance necessary,
and as result all Frenchmen, whether
dwelling in cities or rural districts,
find themselves involved in the meshes
of police inspection and control. The
associations" to which Paris churches
and cathedrals will be leased for terms
of years under specified conditions will be
no more exempt than are purely secular
combinations from the rigorous provi-
sions of the law concerning all associa-
tons The civil authorities will possess,
and, if they choose, may exercise at
any moment, an oppressive power OF
interference and coercion, which may be
carried to the point OF closing particular
churches and cathedrals, on the ground
that the terms Of the leases have been in
fringed. A Government inspired by an
equitable spirit or DESTROYS Of concil-
iating the pious part Of the community
would, of course, refrain from applying
such pressure; but if Jacobin or So
cialist were Premier the religious "asso-
Citations" would be likely to feel the
weight Of his hand.
1t is impossible to forecast the out
come of an event which by both its
promoters and its opponents is felt to
be momentous. AS we have formerly
pointed out, the members of the French
Catholic episcopate. all of whom have
been consulted on the subject, take
divergent views Of the future. The
majority of the opinions expressed are
pessimistic, and even those which are
suffused with optimism seem to be based
on the experience of Catholicism in the
United States, where, as we have said, the
political structure and the political spirit
differ essentially from those Of France.
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Religion and the Civil Power in
France.

Aswe expected, the French Chamber OF
Deputies has passed the bill for the sepa-
ration of Church and State in France by
a majority of upward of hundred. and
there is no doubt that the Senate, to
which the measure now goes, Will concur
We may therefore regard as definitely
assured the abolition of the Concordat,
which for q century has regulated the
relations of the French Government not
only to Catholics, but also to Protest ants
and Jews. That not only the Catholic
priests and Bishops but also pastors OF
the Reformed CHuguenoD Church and
Jewish rabbis, have since 1904 received
stipends from the State is a fact some
times overlooked, because of the vast
preponderance of the Catholic element
In the population Of France.
Ostensibly, the abolition of the Concor-
dat will give Catholicism in the French
Republic precisely the same position that
it occupies in the United States. What we
undoubtedly see here is free Church in
a free State, and, nominally, it is a CORE
spond ing phenomenon that we are to
behold in France. There are some minor
differences that have been prescribed to
the French Legislature by sense of
equity, and there is n fundamental dis
tinction due to the fact that the structure
of the French political system differs in
principle from our own. The ministers
of religion are not to be cast abruptly on
the world to seek from laymen support
which the latter have not been accus-
toned to give, except indirectly, in their
capacity of taxpayers. If, indeed, the
Catholic, Protestant and Hebrew laity
are as pious in France as they are in the
United States they might be trusted to
accept with alacrity and cheerfulness
their new responsibilities Some doubt
upon this point, however, has been ex-
pressed by the clergy themselves and
assuming that their apprehensions might
prove we'll grounded, the Rouver Cabi-
net has mitigated some of the harsh
features of the bill as originally framed
by M. CoMBEs.
The ownership of all churches and eccle-
siastical buildings by the State is still as
serted, but leases of them will be granted
to associations locally corresponding to
parishes. These units may be grouped
to form larger associations, which by
lease may acquire the right to occupy
cathedrals and other diocesan edifices.
Moreover, the stipclds hitherto received
from the Government will continue to be
paid to the existing members of the
Catholic priesthood and episcopate, and
also, of course, TO those Protestant pas
tons and Jewish rabbis who have been
dependent on the treasury for their sal
aries. No additions to the lists of sti-
pendiaries, however, will be recognized
by the State. All new priests, ministers
and rabbs will have to look to their con-
gregations for their maintenance. For
awhile, therefore, the public worship
, budget will undergo no material abate-
ment, but as time goes on and the present
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Lost in doing It. Americans cannot do the
manual work, but hundreds Of them will DO

lost in doing 1t. Americans cannot do the
manual work, but hundreds Of them will DO
needed there in many different capacities.
But American lives are not the only con-
sideration. If the work Is to be done
speedily and effectively, every possible
safeguard must be thrown around the
lives of the thousands of toilers indispens-
able in it's execution.
A careful attention to three OF the i'm
portant factors whlah bear on the work
Of the canal will be of marked assistance
in the attainment OF the desired end.
First, the work Of sanitation should
be pushed to its utmost limits, and no
question Of expense should be allowed
to stand in its way. A few millions OF
dollars spent now in that department
will save many millions later on.
Secondly, no clerk or other employee
should DO sent down or taken on down
there until there has been laid clearly
before him fair idea Of the conditions
with which he will be surrounded. The
risks he must run and the discomforts
he must encounter should be plainly
stated. The conditions will improve
steadily, but whatever they are at any
particular time should be fully under
stood by every applicant for place.
At its best, life on the Isthmus is no pic
MIC for an American, and none should be
permitted to 60 without fair under
standing OF what lies ahead OF him.
Thirdly, American papers will do well
to exercise discrimination in publishing
the doleful walls Of the disappointed
There is no more real reason for their pub
LEGATION than there is for printing the hard
luck stories, or airing the grievances
of those who do not like or who have
been disappointed in the conditions of
some city, town, or area in the United
States. Too many Of these tales ere told
by the irresponsible. The fact that JOHN
SMITH has been to Panama and did not
like it does not necessarily make JOHN
SMITH an authority on 1sthmian affairs.
The country is beginning to under
stand that canal digging is bigger job
than many thought it would be. But
that is no reason for making it harder
lob than it really is.
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The Father Of tho Navy.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUH-sir: Gen. porter
In presenting the remains OF Paul Jones IN the
American Government said: 1T Is matter Of cN-
trcme gratincation that the body of this intrepid
commander should BIO conveyed across the sea by
war vessels OF the navy OF which he the Eonored
founder"
Now. Paul Jones was in his grave two years when
the Hrst keel OF the nrst ship OF our prcsen; navy
was laid. The namo OF that historic boat was Tic
United States. Jack Barry was made her com
mander by tho commission OF Washington him
self. Tho famous commission WAS the frst that tho
Father OF HIS Country ever issued to any naval
ofilccr.
All ,he Histories OF that time give Jack Barry the
title OF Father OF the United States Navy. Wh'
will be bold enough TO rob Barry OF the tile WHICH
he holds from the hand OF Washington
Who can erase from tho earliest records OF our
glorious navy the deeds OF the man who lies In 'he
soil drcnched by the blood OF Washingtons heroes'
CESrREPoRT, l.. L.. July 7. AscAN1u'
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PEARY sHIP LoiDlSe UP.
All Sorts of supplies Put Aboard Offer
OF . Beneflt.

Commander Robert f. Peary's Arctic
exploring vessel Roosevelt lay at her dock
foot OF West Houston street. yesterday after.
noon in a temperature which, could she
carry it with her, would melt way to thu
North Pole. Heaped on the dock ready to
be taken on board were boxes of supplies
Of various kinds. baked beans and pemrnican
predominatng, according to the labels.
Each box Is plainly branded 'Peary Arctic
Club" in addition to bearing the name Of
the commodity it contains These boxes
when empted or at all events the sides bear.
ing the brands, will be thrown overheard
from time to time when the high latitlda,
are reached, and 1t is thought they NAV
serve In way as trailers OF the expedition
in case any misfortune overtakes It.
Notwithstanding the showers and the hea.
there were number o. visitors, both men
and women. Among them was a repre-
sentative Of the Boer War show at Coney
Island, who came to tell Commander Peary
that the show was anxious to give benefit
performance for the expedition some time
this week.
Seated on pile Of pemmican boxes read.
ing a newspaper was the second officer, who
was left in charge OF affairs.
II suppose we will get away from here for
Cape Breton in the course Of week. said he
although, OF course, 1t is only Commander
Peary and the captain who can speak with
Of supplies here, though good many moe
are coming, believe. have shipped to 70
only as far as Cape Breton. The crew for
the Arctic voyage up to the point where the
Eskimos will be used will be shipped from
Cape Breton, l understand.
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ia.ures Of tho states concerned a. we'll va
Congress" to|
SECTION 8. ~The Congress shall have POW q.
ARTICLE v. "The Congress whenever Y nd
thirds Of both houses shall deem It necessary. !
ARTICLE V. Proposed by tho Congress
AMENDMENT XIV. The Congress shall have
power
AMENDMENT XIV. "The Congress shall have
power
We should not take all this trouble II
we believed that our esteemed cores
pondent possessed at the present time
a copy Of the Constitution. He seems
to have committed it to memory when a
boy, and then to have thrown the printed
text away as a superfluity. 1t is scarcely
conceivable that he would write upon
the subject in so cocksure manner with
out verifying his recollection, If he had
the immortal instrument at hand.
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Al Panama.


suggested on reading Mr.. .shontss recent canal
report.
Hurry UP and charter ships
Load them up with poker chips,
For to play Is more important than 70 dig;
Faith the men must recrcate
And tho dirt will have to wait,
So be sure and make the cargo good and big.
And before the anchors weigh
Add some bascba and croouet,
With some tddlcywinks for OK suourbanites
Footballs. golf sticks. marbles. tops
All that grimy labor stops,
TIL mere toll is wholly yauqu!shcd with delights
Rustrd lie the pick md AK.
For on strength they arc a tax,
ma hcs.i,a " have discovered pleasant aids.
In ME- gam. you SO.
i!UnE 90 '.f"' l"" 0.'t urlli hs
EAcl|l'ed b. u. kan 'r.p acid hrc spades
AcLASppuEGH WILSON.
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Glasgow, Active and Passive.

Glasgow, the pride and hope Of all advo-
Gates of municipal operation OF street car
lines, sent JAMES DALRYMpLE, the super
intendent Of her tramway system. to this
country to instruct Mayor dunno in the
art of urban passenger transportation.
Mr.. DALRYMPLE was not enthusiastic after
he had looked carefully into conditions
in Chicago. Conditions were not the
same as those he was accustomed to, he
said, and municipal ownership and oper-
alton in which politics was to play
part he could not recommend Exit
Mr.. DALRYMPLE, while Mayor dunno
and THREE CENT Tom scowl in the
background.
President FoRNEs Of the New York
Board of Aldermen was travelling while
Mr.. DALRYMPLE was visiting Chicago.
He stopped in Glasgow, and looked
things over. The net result OF his obser-
vations he recorded thus:
The conditions In Glasgow arc 80 different
from those in any city In the United States that
believe there can be no comparison In regard to
results Ny advice Is 10 60 slow on municipal owner
ship do not say I am opposed to It, but do not
support 1t a. Enthusiastically as heretofore. Tho
time has not como for tho country to adopt It, ~
Glasgow active, in the person of Mr..
DALRYMPLE, advises go SLOW Glas-
gov passive, interpreted by Mr.. FoRNEs,
advises go slow And Mayor DUNE
is trying to get municipal ownership
and operation through a benevolent
corporation, which is to put up its cash
merely and solely for the purpose of let
ting the city manage it.
Perhaps Glasgow has had Its effect
on immediate municipalization.'
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Father JOEues.

To TIE EDITOR or THE SUN-Str: vEy Inter-
cstlne account of Father Jogues appeared In your
paper and was copied In the Boston Eren'n7 T'an'-
eript OF June 49,
In speaking of the claim OF the missionary To 'hn
reverence and honor OF postc Gritty you say that ms
torans have. TO n great extent, passed MIN py' vi
al least dismissed him as unimportant."
An execution TO this statement may he found m
Parl,nan's "Jes,itS In North America" where
full account of the Father Is given In chapters 9 "
10 ana 20. ~
PRIDE 8 CROSSING, Mass. July s.
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To THE EnToR OF THE SuN-Sir: Perhaps your
Higher Critic" may be willing TO concede 'ha'
suflccnt appro ximation 10 this statement ma
he found In L. Timothy. s. Put II any ptoH''H
ro for his own, and especially for those OF his own
hous. Nindrcdl, he hath denied the faith ana -
worse than an inhdel lGnbc,Icvcrh"
DRoQKLYN, July s. H. W. w.
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Joshua. Service to the Summer Girl.

Joshua had Just commanded the moon to stand
stu In Ajalcn.
"row perfectly sweet NJ him" exclaimed 'sri
,c.ag co;N'tS IN rot-l ria-E-s
Thus mdc,d Old Ae prove Himself hcueIac;)r
70 the race,
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wary.

Knicker-Is Jones farsightcdf
Bockcr-Very. He wouldn't invest In the Podunk
Railroad for fear the Panama Canal would reduce
Its earnings.
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wifc-That terrible bull chased mo on account OF
my gown.
Observation-Disclosures case OF Jersey Justice.
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PRIDE CROSSING, Mass. Julys,
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-10-07

cubic contents of the lake at the
! resent time as compared with the
contents in 1886, when adequate mea-
surements on which to base an esti-
mate were made. BY this method
the disappearance of the lake is SEIZED
uled to occur within twenty-five years.
Three theories have been suggested
to account for this tendency. One is
evaporation, another irrigation, and
the third that there exists a subter-
ranean outlet. The last mentioned
theory is little better than a guess,
but the first theory is unquestionably
true to certain extent, though
whether it will account for the rapid
ity with which the level has been
lowered in recent years is doubtful
AS for irrigation more evidence can
be produced to show it's effects in
decreasing the lakes water supply.
Irrigation was commenced by Brig
ham Young in the forties, but it was
not until 1880 that it was adopted
on a large scale and it is within the
period since then that the lowering
of the level has been most swift.
There are indications on the noun
| tain sides and also on the nine noun
famous islands in the lake, that the
depth of the water was once 600 feet
greater than at present. We are
therefore witnessing now the speedy
completion of physical change that
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THE LAKE DRYING UP.

That the Great Salt Lake is certain
in the near future to disappear from
the map has long been the belief of
scientists, says the Chicago Record
Herald. That it's disappearance will
come much sooner than has been ex-
pected and possibly within a quarter
of a century, is the conclusion that
has been reached by certain investi-
gators who have recently made care
full studies of it's fluctuations.
In an article in recent number of
the Scientific American an account
is given of some of these investiga-
lions. One calculation has been made
from an examination of the surface
level of the lake, which for thirty
years has been steadily lowering with
only a single period of rising tenden-
cy. In the last 16 years the net fall
has been liz feet, and in the last
three years it has been three feet.
Inasmuch as the rate of fall is in
creasing, and as the deepest part of
the lake has only 40 feet of water
this form of calculation indicates that
the lake will be dry within 40 years
at the outside.
Another calculation is based on the
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PORTLAND FAIR NOTES.

Monday, October 8, has been set
aside as Music day at the Lewis and
Clark exposition and Wednesday, Oc-
tober II, will be Pythian day.
~ ~
More than 1000 chickens and about
$50 pigeons are entered in the poul-
try show. The dates for the exhibit
ton are October to ~ inclusive.
~ ~
The evening of the last day of the
exposition has been designated as
Gocde Night in honor of II. w. Goode,
pre- gident of the exposition.
~ ~
j. ]. Underwood, Nome commits
sioner at the exposition, has just re-
ceived from Alaska a specimen of tin
ore weighing $50 pounds. The spec
linen contains GO per cent tin, and is
worth twenty cents pound.
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The total admissions to the fair up
to September 81 was 2,066,545. 1t is
expected that the grand total will be
not less than 100000 a better record
than ever before was made by an en-
terprise of similar magnitude.
~ ~
The fair closes at half past eleven
o'clock Saturday night, October IA. 1t
was originally intended that October
Is should be the closing day, but as
this date fell on Sunday, the change
was made The fair has been a ire
mendous success.
With a fare-and-one-tenth rate in
effect from towns in Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and British Columbia to
Portland and return, and a cut of
twenty per cent in the former special
round-trip rate from California points,
there is every prospect that the clos
ing weeks of the exposition will be
the most largely attended of any dur
ing the fair period. There has been
no complaint so far on account OF
Iextortionate hotel and restaurant
charges, and late visitors at the fair
/ need have no fear of being unable to
find excellent accommodations at rea-
sonable rates.