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To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Str: Representa-
tive Sullivan has Just discovered London. and
among other remarkable results OF his investiga
lions he tells us that the poor cannot aHord to &c
eight miles out of the metropolis as even that dis
lance would cost them e. cents. and then he names
with resorts beyond their pockets Richmond and
Margate. Unlike New York. London is far from
the sea. Except In winter. daily excursions run to
seaside resorts like Brighton. Margate and Rams
gate for half dollar round trip. Can the New
Yorker get to any real seaside resort like Asbury
Park and back for less than thrice that sum!
Tho fare to Richmond. Kew or Bushy Park ID
four pence telght 9ents) all rail- or by tube and
electric car. To Hampstead Heath by car Is four
cents and IL cents or 10 cents round trip takes you
any day to the Crystal Palace or Alexandra Park,
London's nearest equivalents 10 Concy Island: 10
Earls Court from any point is two cents less
while the popular trips for ATTY and 'Ariet.
Gravesend shrimps and tea for q bob IA quar-
ter, and third class Southend by the and back
for 80 cents immortalized In song BY Chevaller
On the river steamboats, take you from Greenwich
to Barnes for two cents less than the trip to Brig hon
Beach or holiday car faro TO Coney Island. And
there are others. CocKNEY.
NEWARK, Aug. 10.
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The supreme and blazing question In all Cracker
land Is this. rs the Gal In the Fountain In Hoke
Smiths barroom In the Piedmont Hotel. Atlanta.
a Venus or a Bacchante'"-THE SUN, Aug. "a.
Is she Venus or Bacchante such as chilly Boston
spumed!
Does she spur, the rcd chiantl or wine that's
sugar burned
or Is she Just the lovely the Venus Aphrodite
wore a nighuc!
flushed is the honk OF Hokesome Smith. The
boom has struck a snag.
flushed is the neigh OF Pegasus. hitched 10 the
Stanton drag.
Ou,escent Is the alrship that was towing HowcIs
boom.
For the Gal that's in the Fountain Is a-cryin Gin
nc room!"
The Loyless OF Atlanta displays Apollo shape.
He syears. by hocuspocus she wears q wreath Of
Qapc.
But the artists down In Brunswick rise up and say:
We ween
The Gal she's jus, wearn' Fulton county muscs.
dine"
But the Gal that's In the Fountain Just stares
hronzy stare,
And says 81 thought you fellows was little sporty
Where
Is all yo' So'th'n chivalry,"-a tear bedlmmed her
eye
~ wish yo'd buy me somethin' s-gettin. awful
dfyi"
wAsAIxoTox. Aug. a. H.p.
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Mayor Dunne's Ordeal.

Mayor EDWARD F. DUNE of Chicago
was called before gathering of embat-
tied municipal ownership advocates
Tuesday and put through civil service
examination in his speciality, from which
he emerged considerably shaken. Mr..
dunno has found it impossible up to
date to put the city in possession of any
operating street car lines. The men
who voted him into office want to know
the reason for his delay. Three months
and more have passed since he entered
office, and the pie counter is not open
yet. The best he has been able to do
has been to suggest that Chicago philan-
thropists put up $25,OO0, 900, buy rail-
road and let trustees named by the
government run it, Neither the advo-
Gates of municipal ownership nor the
philanthropists are wildly enthusiastic
over this plan. At Tuesdays session
the examining board put these questions
to the Mayor:
who will control the nve trustees. the city or
the capitalists
lis 1t no, a fact that the nnanciers putting UP
32S,000,000 will Insist on controlling and naming
the board'
lis your plan. Mr.. Mayor. municipal ownership
or merely variation Of former Mayor HARRIsoS's
tentative ordnance"
Hard questions for the badgered
Mayor. Chicago knows its capitalists,
and the capitalists know Chicago. They
are not likely to lie awake nights scra-
ping up s25, 900, 900 for HINKY DINK and
BATH HOUSE JOHN to administer. The
Hon. CARTER HARRISON grins at Mayor
DUNES plan. and points to similar
proposals made by himself years ago.
Mr.. HARRISON did not label his sugges-
ton Immediate municipal ownership"
and he can afford to smile. Mayor
dunno 10 not Q smiler, and he 10 lees
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within the next few years, | tell you, there
will be another great Are. attended by loss Of life
In the city of London" This Ia the prophecy
which Edward Atkinson made to one OF our rep
rescntatives.
As regards the mechanical appliances. employed
by the London Fire Brigade. Mr.. Atkinson gave
II as his opinion that we are far behind the United
States. Your appliances are mere toys" he 70,
marked. II read OF your having an engine which
can throw Jet OF 500 gallons minute, but that
Is not enough. have not seen a single standpipc
In any street here. In America the standp,pe
TO the highest noor OF the Hottest building,
and Ia constructed that the engine on Its arrival
can be connected without minutes delay. No
hose Is needed. and water Is thrown on to every
floor. We do not have. as you do, few such lets
OF water thrown from tho ground level"
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Dire Eject Of . GodAssss wrath,
rrovn fks Tahton m>LS


South Indian correspondent whites: Recently
a very singular report has been abroad smonr the
women OF this district respecting the bracelets they
The report Is to the eject thar certain brace.
let's are very dangerous. e., those that arc made
Of Bombay" glass and have small moous and
crescents. &C.. Embedded In Thorn. II 10 ahirmed
that certain small worm borcs ks way our Of this
glass and bites the wearen Of these III .Ated brace.
let's and that whoever Is bitten by this worm be.
comes afnctei with plague or some equally tat al
disease anc dies. The worm 10 said 70 be q ANAL
one with very hard head.
The report arose In Pithapuram. where three
women arc said TO have died from the bite, ana
spread with great rapidty over the whole OF the
Godavery district. The result has been that thou.
sands OF these bracelets have been destroyed dur
Ing the last few weeks. The report eoes on 70 say
further that this glass was mined" In quarry
where there was Idol Of certain goddess and that
In getting the glass from the mine the iAca 70.
broken. and a. a consequence the goddess has been
very angry and has sent this disease % q pun. .
ishmcnt.
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A Missouri Judge, In Kansas City, has
fned delinquent Missourian $50 for hav-
ing weeds on the sidewalk in front Of his
residence. The defense Of the Missourian
was that a sunHower wac not weed, A
flower In Kansas but a weed in Missouri,
decided the Kansas City Judge. There
is in this decision, from which appeal has
been taken, an almost contemptuous dis
regard Of the State flower Of Kansas.
Kansas is proud to be the only State in
it's preference for the sunfower. But six
States have adopted flowers as emblematic
Of their growth or aspirations, and Kansas
is one of these. The other States which
have acted by their Legislatures in this
matter are Louisiana which adopted the
magnolia: Texas the blue bonnet, Arkansas
the apple blossom, California the poppy,
and Ohio, the sixth, has a statute which
makes the scarlet carnation the official
flower Of the Buckeye State, replacing the
goldenrod formerly the favorite flower in
Ohio, as it Ia OF Missouri.
Is a sunhower a weed or a howerP A
higher tribunal in Missouri must decide,
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A. to the Maturity Of Baldnes,.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: When Is .
man nsturely bald! One of four reasons given
for the rejection Of my application for insurance
IL Q Boston life insurance company was that
was prcmaturely bald. This was, perhaps. ten
Year, ago. am no less bald now than then-nor
more. since that time ! have frequently seen
and noted the expression "prcmaturely bald
50 the question: When Ia a man maturely bald.
and when docs badness reach maturity Where
and when IL the line TO be drawn!
Perhaps your distinguished and delightful cor
respondent. Mr.. Wilson Of Denver. can give some
light on this, TO me. perplexed situation In any
event, II would AFFORD delight 70 hear from him.
And. 700. let us hear from all othep-partcuiary
those who arc maturely and premsturely bald
And again, we have heard of the league Of red.
headed mon and their cooperation. Why should
baidheaded men be thus upjsstly Disseminated
againstl II Ii true that since the time mentioned
I have procured insurance In the Equitable, but,
then. some one may have needed the money.
Authon. writers OF short stories and other
use the term "prematurely bald" Let them arise
and explain. Baby
PORT HoHI, Ont, Aug. 20.
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Ghost IN English Hotel.

". d. Hotcells IN Harper's Magazine.
With the aid Of the two candles which lighted
discovered the grate In the wall near the head OF
the bed and on examining II closely perceived
that there was nre In II. The crate would have
held quite double handful OF coal II carefully
put on; the IRE which seemed 10 be nckerng so
feebay had yet had the energy TO draw all the
warmth Of the chamber up the chimney. and
stood shivehng In the temperature of a suber-
ranesn dungeon. The place Instantly gave EVIL.
dence OF being haunted. and the testimony OF
my nerves on this point was corroborated By the
spectral play Of tho erealght on the ceiling when
blew out my candles In the middle OF the night
I woke 70 the sense Of something creeping with
rustling Noise over the floor. I rejected the hypo'
thesis Of my bed curtain falling into place though
I remembered putting II back that might have
light TO read myself drowsy. knew at once tha'
II was ghost walking the night there and walking
hard. Suddenly It ceased, and knew why
had been frozen out.
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The Population Of New York.

1t ia expected that the late census OF
the State of New York will enumerate a
total population of about 100000 OF
which about four millions or more than
half, are in this city. Moreover, the gain
in the population Of the State since 1900
will probably be shown to have been in
this city wholly, for that gain seems to
have been only about equal to the increase
in the city.
New York will continue to lead all the
States in population. 1t has a popula-
ton greater by more than two millions
than the aggregate number Of inhabi-
tants in all the six New England States
The aggregate population of the whole
eleven States Of the old Southern Con-
federacy is only about twice as great.
Canada, adjoining New York to the
north, in all its provinces has popula-
ton which is about two millions less.
At the beginning Of the last century,
however, New York was only third in
population among the States Virginia
holding the first place with $50, 200, Penn
sylvania second, with COZ 1896, and New
York, 5s9,O51. In 1910 it had gone ahead
of Pennsylvania, but was still behind
Virginia, and not until 1920 did it get the
first place in the Union in population,
which it has since held.
The building Of the Erie Canal gave
New York a great impetus, and then
came the foreign immigration, so that
between 1880 and 1850 it's population more
than doubled. Pennsylvania continued
to hold the second place, but by 1850 the
population OF Virginia was much less
than half that Of New York, and in 1900
only about a quarter.
The preponderance Of the city Of New
York in the population Of the State is
steadily increasing, so that when the
next State census shall be taken, in 1915,
it is likely to be toward two-thirds Of
the whole. About four-fifths Of the
population of the city in 1900 was OF for
eign birth or parentage, and in the five
years since then this percentage must
have increased very considerably.
Leaving out the accessions by immi-
grafton, the natural increase Of the for
eign elements is much greater than Of
the native. Much less than fifth of
the births officially reported by the
Health Department in Manhattan last
year were Of native parents, and among
these parents were included very
great part who are Of comparatively
recent alien extraction, descendants Of
immigrants who settled here in the mid
die of the last century. Relatively to
their numbers, the birth rate among the
Jews was the highest, with the Italians
a close second. Among the Jews alone
this natural increase last year was about
half greater than among the native
born, including, "a we have said, those of
comparatively recent foreign descent.
Out Of toward sixty thousand births in
Manhattan last year something more
than % per cent. were children of Jews
and about 20 per cent. Of Italians.
These are very significant statistics,
and the more so because the birth rate
among the Irish and Germans is much
less. The children born last year Of Irish
and German parents were more than
- - -'.--N~--' H.
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Death Of Jane Brown.

To TEE EcroR OF TIE SuN-,Sr' VIII you
please give the correct formula for the death notice
Of q wtdowf II you say Jane Brown. widow OF
John Brown" there 10 no such person as John
Brown. for ho 10 dead II you say widow OF mo
late John Broxn. that Is not correct for she was
the wife Of he late John Brown while he wa, living
Tor lato): but II you say wife OF the late John
Brown" she IA not the wife of any one. for she 70
dead. There seems 70 be . tense for which the's
ID no word 10 express ~
10 Il correct 70 give the wife's name In writing
the death police OF husband-for Instance, "Joha
Brown. husband OF Jane Brown II not, why now
NEW YoRK, Aue. q. r. 4. DIX
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GRAFTON. Article w. Of the Treaty OF
July 1904, declares the ratification OF
aall acts OF the United States during It's
military occupancy" The promulga-
ton of tho Cuban Constitution. includ-
ing the. Platt Amendment, was one OF
those acts. The Constitution for which
the United States becomes responsible
by virtue of this PRONUNCIATION declares,
as we have already quoted, that In
contracting loans the Cuban Congress
'shall be under the obligation OF decid-
ing what permanent revenues shall be
necessary for the payment OF the inter-
est and redemption thereof and that
"all action relating to loans shall require
two-thirds OF the vote Of the total number
of the members of each colegislative
body" The Cuban army bill, just
passed, makes no provision whatever
for permanent revenues. When the
bill passed the House only 81 out OF 60
members were present, bare quorum,
and only majority Of those present
voted for the bill. When it passed the
Senate only 10 OF the "a members OF
that body were present. Only II voted
in favor OF it.
The ground on which evasion is at
tempted is that the obligation constitutes
an interior debt" with which the United
States has nothing to do. We have
already shown that both the treaty and
the Platt Amendment, In definite terms,
cover the assumption or contraction OF
"any public debt" except under specified
conditions. We have also shown Presi-
dent PALMA's admission (see page IS
of official copy of message Of November,
1904 that Article H. Of the appendix
to the Constitution, which is the same
as Article IL. of the treaty Of July, 1904,
covers both interior and exterior loans.
Moreover, the bill as passed fixes no
limit to the recognition of obligations
and no limit to the bonds which may be
issued under it. The present Congress
may issue twenty, thirty or forty mil
lion dollars. Its SUCCESSOR or some one
of it's successors, may use the bill as the
basis, for an issue Of 3lOO,OOO,OO0 Of 30
called interior bonds. Aside from the
questionable legality of it's passage, the
bill itself is pernicious and dangerous
to Cuba and to the United States.
If Cuba will pass bill in accordance
with the specific provisions of her Con-
stitution, by "two-thirds vote Of the
total number of the members of each
colegislative body" and will make
therein due provision for permanent
revenues" for the payment of interest
and "a reasonable sinking fund pro-
vision" we shall have nothing more to
say. The claim that per cent. coupon
bonds payable to bearer, which may be
sold to Englishman, German, Frenchman
or Japanese do not constitute a national
debt within the scope Of either Consti-
tuition or treaty is. almost childish.
We want no Santo Domingo or Venez-
uela within ninety miles of our shores.
An unlimited interior debt in the form
of per cent. bonds payable to bearer"
is easily converted into an unlimited
foreign obligation collectable by foreign
navies. Such an obligation, unsup-
ported by lawful provision for interest
payment and final liquidation, smacks
too strongly Of unpleasant messes in
which we are already involved.
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Ju,tinable Complaint Of an Upstate Visitor

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: What Is the
reason that so many OF the streets OF New YORK
are without names, II Is very trying to the pa
thence of persons unacQualnted with the city 10
be obliged to inquire their way from block to block
To a country pumpkin like the writer Il 10 most
embarrassing. No one likes to stop people on the
sidewalk TO ask them for guidance, and the po-
llceman is not always handy
few hundreds more of those little blue and
white signs would not be great expense and
would give world OF comfort TO tho weary wan
dcrer In your grea, city.
Hence I'll ask YOU In the name OF the Prohibition
party, the W. c. T. IT, the International Highball
Club TO give this matter the powerful aid OF The
SUN and deserve the gratitude OF thousands OF un
sophisticated rustlcs who NOPE around trying TO
hnd out their whereabouts. FRANZ GoKRY.
OswEGo. Aug. y.
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Minister Quesada on Cuban Finance

One of the duties of the Cuban Minis
ter in Washington is to present in their
most favorable aspect the acts of the
Government which sent him there.
Senior GoNzALo DE QUEsADA is evil
IDENTIFY disturbed by our view Of the fiscal
affairs Of his country He has essayed
a defense in which he covers the main
issue with mass of statistics OF national
prosperity. We give our heartiest con-
CALCULATIONS to the people of Cuba for
their splendid showing in the depart
ment Of industrial and commercial
activity.
We infer that Minister QUEsADAs
statistics are used at this time for the
purpose of proving Cuba's financial
ability to do that which she is now plan
ming to do in the matter of the pay of
her army. Cuba's immediate prosperity
, and her present treasury balance are
only incidental to the main question. to
which we have called attention. Her
immediate prosperity is due to the pre-
vailing abnormal price of sugar. Two
years ago the United States bought a
little more than 1000 900 tons of Cuban
sugar for s42,897,548. Last year our
importation OF 100000 tons cost us
ss4, 1856, 1893. Cuba is for time the bene-
ficiary of world market conditions.
Her present treasury surplus ia also
susceptible Of explanation. BY Senior
QUEsADA's own figures, the revenues Of
the island last year were $40, 073, $50. 10
In all. This is an increase Of more
than S7,5OO,OOO over the receipts of the
preceding year, and an increase Of
about si2,0o0,oo0 over 1902 1t exceeds
the sum annually drawn from Cuban
pockets during the last ten years of
Spanish government, and constitutes a
very plump little burden for a nation
Of 100000 people. In view of the fact
that the budget submitted by the execu-
tive last November, and not vet acted
on by the Congress, called for little
less than $50 OO0, OOO it is no wonder that
Cuba has some money in her treasury
at the present time. AS budgets are
supposed to be in anticipation of neces-
sary expenditures, it would appear that
the Cuban people are bearing tax
nearly so per cent. greater than the
needs of their Government.
This matter has some bearing upon
the main issue, but is really aside from
1t. The question is whether Cuba, sim
ply because she has large imme-
date surplus through overtaxation. is
warranted in an indefinite bond issue.
which under the bill is also an unlimited
issue, in violation of her own Constiiu-
ton, the Platt appendix to that Consti-
tuition and the treaty which makes the
terms Of that appendix permanently
binding on the insular Government.
Cuba may be solvent and honest to-day,
out that is no guarantee of solvency
and honesty in days to come. ,...s,-,
The matter y clearly open, to cousid-
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Mr.. GOnger.

In accepting the resignation OF tine
Hon. EDWIN HuRD CoNGER OF Iowa as
Ambassador to Mexico the President
expressed his cordial approval OF the
work performed by Mr.. CoSdER "in
China as formerly in Brazil We OBJ
serve a disposition to attach signlil-
canoe to the omission of Mexico in Mr..
RoosEvELT's reference to Mr.. CoNGERs
diplomatic usefulness, as il the retiring
Ambassador had failed to give. satisfac-
ton in his latest employment.
There is no reason to suppose that the
President meant anything of the sort.
Mr.. CoNGER's career at the city OF Mex
leo has been extremely brief, and unat-
tended, so far as is publicly knoYn, by
any incident out of the ordinary routine
of relations with friendly neighbor.
There is nothing to mark or distinguish
his sojourn in Mexico or to call for spe-
cial mention.
On the other hand, Mr.. CoNGER's first
term as Minister to Brazil conceded with
the inception of the revolutionary dis
turbance in that country which culmi-
mated in the events of 1893 and 1894. He
had been superseded by Democrat at
the time of the attack on the American
vessels at Rio de Janeiro, and the ener
getic action of Admiral BENHAM for their
protection; but before he left Brazil
the Intervention had become one re-
quiring tact, judgment and firmness on
the part of the American representative.
Mr.. CoNGER performed his duties so we'll
that President MCKINLEY sent him back
to Rio in 1897.
Then, again. when transferred early
in 1893 to Pekin, Mr.. CoNGER encoun-
tered one of the most unusual and diff
cult situations with which any diplomat
ever had to deal. His bearing through
out the Boxer troubles and the memoir
able siege Of the legations commanded
the respect not only Of Americans but
also of foreign observers. His name will
always be connected with the stirring
events which engaged the anxious inter
est of the whole civilized world.
1t was quite natural that in reviewing
Mr.. CoN0ER's career in diplomacy the
Presidents thoughts should rest on Brazil
and China rather than on Mexico. We
do not believe that there was on his part
the slightest intention to disparage the
Ambassadors performances in the last
named country.
For q statesman of not very large
pattern, Mr.. CoNGER has done we'll, and
It cannot be denied that he has seen some
exciting and important service.
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For the naturalization of the Irish Gulls

To rHK EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfu I was sur
prsed and pleased on a recent trip TO Scotland to
be greeted on touching the Irish shore by hun
dreds Of gulls. They surrounded our steamer, and
to all bird lovers on board seemed to DO giving
welcome.
noticed that they were only about half the size
OF our New York bay vulls, with black brown
heads gray backs and white breasts. think they
would be decidedly an Improvement on gulls,
and wonder that some AmericaniEed son Of Scotia
or Ireland does not bring over few pairs and put
them out In the fall or winter among our North
River birds.
noticed also hundreds OF them In the fields both
In Ireland and England. GEORGE RouBAUD.
NEWARK, Aug. %.
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Col. BRYAN laments the state OF the
nation. As he walks abroad he sees thou
sands Of employees on their way to the
factories. They actually have to work for
their living. Can You call that prosperity
demands COL BRYAN, MOI thousand
Noes he answers. Col. BRYAN has cause
for sorrow. Work Is an abhorrent thing.
Col. BRYAN and many other philosophers
will be unhappy until the time comes when
the Money Devil does all the work and the
rest Of lis spend the time In depreoiatory
criticism OF his best efforts.