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Tho Modern Librarian Criticized.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: The
present is witnessing the passing OF the
librarian-the librarian who knows books
and the State library school at Albany 10
primarily responsible for this condition.
This school appears TO be successful only In
turning out large number OF clerks who
can index and catalogue to perfection. re-
arrange volumes on the shelves and keep
patrons supplied with the latest in fiction.
1t Is my belief. resultant upon experience IN
several cities throughout the State, that the
genuine librarian has been replaced BY
corps of young men and women who know
but little OF literature.
For Instance, I had occasion recently to
visit q library not one hundred miles from
Troy, In search OF information that could
Be obtained IN volume that L. knSwn hS
with the department store system Of the
librarians appealed TO knew OF this reference
work, although they had been In charge OF
tho institution for nearly year. In despair
held the position Of librarian before the entry
on the stage Of letters Of the graduates OF
the State Institution. This person was
librarian and is true bookman, l was put
on the scent, the clerks at the library found
the book and Eained the Information n sou .,
lar: neither Is 1t confined TO any particular
locality. Throughout tho state the story !:
the same Incompetence and the system
are rapidly setting aside the real Librarians
and Transforming our public libraries into
shops designed for the sole beneft Of readers
OF fiction, good. bad and indifferent.
TROY. N. Y. Aug. ~. n. B. LoNo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
STRIKING BAKERS.
Cooperation Recommended as the Curt
for Their Troubles.

CoOperAtion Recommended a. the Cure
for Their Troubles.
To rup EprroR or TIE SuN-stY: I do myself
the honor 70 solicit the hospitality OF your columns
sneut the striking bake1.
How foolish for them 70 st1kei Why not COM
b,ne1 They complain Of long hours, unsanitary
warehouses; poor pay. The public doesn't seem
70 be interested In these thines. though each and
all. the hyeienio reasons especially. arc tending
20 the destruction Of themselves and their children.
Now for ali this riot and tumut the bakers and the
public VOC. have tho simplest and most effective
remedy In tho world. and Is VIII. strange 70 say.
cost them not cent.
of Clssrow were In . similar condition. They
struck. bu, could obtain redress. Being practi-
cal men and seeing tho wonderful effects OF CO.
operst,on among the working classes they sub
scribed q each and got - many OF the outsids
public 70 JOIN them - possible They started
bakehouses To day they possess the finest bakery
buildinss In the world. Bakers and public arc
eopartncr. Since thcn there has been no bakers
strike In Glasgow. Tho pronh for the nrst quarter
Nouldated the subscribed capital.
Lea the bakers in New York do likewise. Instead
OF sympathetic strikes let tho bakers who most
Interested give days pay and start the shares,
form their committee, elect their president and
secretary. Any bank will act a. treasurer. When
shey have 1000 they get real estate 70 put up
their bakeries, credit 70 get their machinery and
-Four. They have constant supply Of daily cash.
and nothing prevents them nom succeeding n they
only capitalize their faith and their honesty.
SAY. then, b practical. avoid tumult and obtain
The sympathy and assistanco of the public.
MxIAosn, Aass.. Aug u. T. COMMON.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
where Was tho Oyster Pasty,

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sfr: Where, In the
city Of New York. during tho latter part OF the
seventeenth century was tho location OF f0rti-
ncation called Oyster Pasty, and why was II %
calledI
In the Registers once md recorded decd OF
glft, dated April %. 1895, made by Daniel Cono,
conveying 70 his daughter law. Katherine
Lloyd. and her children. Timothy. Thomas and
Elizabeth Lloyd. his grandchildren. . piece OF
ground with the house thereon. lying and being
Il : certain stree. or passage which le.dc.h 30 .
fertilization called Oyster pasty. within tho city
OF New York Aforesaid
fnd another deed dated March %. 1855, which
would secm 70 DO Of premises adjoining and east
OF the above In which Isaac Deschamp talias Saviat
Bronssard) and Maria. his wife. convey 70 "Peter
Daie OF this city, clerk. piece parcel OF ground
-by the passage oriane that 70 the Halle Moone
The deed Indicates that this property was west
OF Broadway Both OF them were bounded on
the south by land OF Peter King. Peter DaiIe
was tho minister Of the French Protestant Church
In those early times.
Was the fertilization called Oyster Pasty In one
deed the same landmark referred 70 In the other 40
Halle Moonei Ia anything known OF Its history
NEW Yoax, Aug. u. ]. D. =. I.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
THE PEACE or the WORLD.

To TIE Enron or THE SuN.--Siri Your
leading article In yesterdays issue on tho
desirnbllIty Of close understanding between
tho United States, France and England la
deserving Of being printed In letters Of gold
and hung UP In tho working sanctum Of every
American. French and English statesman
and politician.
Why. oh why. cannot your sensible. honor
able suggestion be carried out, and that i'm
mediately?
All honor to you for your advocacy Of such
an alliance, which would inevitably impose
peace on the rest Of the world. Every good
wish TO you and yours.
JAMES PARKINsoN.
HAzELRoYDE. Liverpool Road. Brkdale.
AuR. L.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
Panama Canal Bonds?

The transaction by which tho United
States Government came into possession
OF the Panama Canal was completed on
Nav 81. 1904. On that date all the pay
ments had been made, all,the titles and
deeds had been handed over by the
French company and the,transfer was
In every respect accomplished.
The Canal act of 1902 appropriated in
advance not only the s40,OO0,o0 which
went to the New Panama Canal Company
for its franchises and property and the
amount paid directly to the Republic OF
Panama as Colombias successor In ter
ritorial ownership, but also $4,000. 900
as a first instalment Of the American
construction money.
For the further expenses OF canal
building the same law authorizes the
Secretary OF the Urea sury to sell bonds,
from, time to time, up to the sum Of $780,
600 900.
Is the time for the appearance OF the
first batch of canal bonds approaching?
Has the entire appropriation Of $4,000
ono available for actual work on the canal
been exhausted during the last fifteen
months in preliminary expenditures,
establishment of plant, purchase OF sup
plies and 80 forth?
The plain truth is that the rate Of
progress on the Isthmus during the last
year and three months by no means
satisfies the expectations Of the people
or realizes that ideal Of efficient energy
which was in vogue at the time the en-
terprise was undertaken.
This is a statement OF fact and not a
criticism. Everybody understands that
Mr.. RoosEvELTs Administration has
been doing its best to set the work a-going
speedily. Everybody knows now that
the initial difficulties, and perhaps the
magnitude Of the whole job, have been
greatly underestimated, and that this
is no light task, TO ne achieved offhand
and jauntily during the performance
Of other national duties The collection
Of material, the experiments in santa
ton, the study of conditions, the elimi-
nation of faulty methods. and above all
the discovery of the Man for the Canal.
the fortunate person who was born to
win immortal fame as the constructor
Of the interoceanic waterway, are as
necessary to success as the direct activ-
tiles Of the digging machines.
1t is not fair to measure the progress
Of the last fifteen months, even If it has
cost every dollar Of the preliminary So
600 900, by the number OF cubic yards
excavated during that time in the Guile
bra cut and elsewhere.
Nevertheless, the call for subscriptions
to the first issue of Panama Canal bonds.
when it occurs under the provisions Of
Section OF the Act Of June 20, 1902, will
denote the previous expenditure Of a
very considerable amount Of the nations
money, and it will inevitably set people
to thinking Of the relation between
outlay and actual achievement.
That will be no misfortune. The
chronology Of the enterprise up to date
emphasizes the need of the speedy adop-
ton of what the Government thus far
lacks, a definite canal policy, promising
that sort of canal which shall provide
the greatest possible advantages with
the least possible expenditure Of time
and money.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
Our population in 1000 A. d.

The probable increase Of the negro
race in the United States during the
present century is the subject Of a very
elaborate and interesting paper by Prof.
WALTER FRANCIS WILCOX in the current
number Of the Quarterly Journal of
Economics. Mr.. WILCOX Is professor
OF political economy and statistics at
Cornell University and Is a statistician
OF distinguished reputation and varied
experience in connection with the United
8 ATS census.
About twenty years ago Prof. E. w.
GILLIAN published an estimate that the
negro population of the Southern States
alone in 1850 would be 1s2, 900, 900, and
there would be about eight million more
In the whole OF the United States. His
estimate Of tho white population of
the country in 1885 was $50, 100000. In
other words, he predicted that before
the end OF tho present century the negro
race would amount to about three
eighths Of the total. In 1904 Mr.. THOMAS
NRlsoN PAGE Of Virginia reduced Prof.
GILLIAM's estimate to between sixty
and eighty millions" before the end
of the century
Prof. WILCOX presents statistics
showing that since 1920, measured by
twenty year periods, the rate Of increase
Of the negroes has been steadily dimin-
ishing, and II the future is to be judged
by the past that decline will continue.
Prof. WILCOX gives no attention to
Prof. GIILIAM's extravagant prediction,
but examines critically Mr.. PAGES
estimate, - based on the rate Of in
crease between 1850 and 1880, I'm
doubtsdly II that rate persisted through
out the century there would be q. ooo, 900
negroes in the United States In the year
1000; but II thu rate for the twenty years
from 1880 to 1900 should persiH .aa mum.
Der would be only $4,000
Prof. WILCOX contends, however, that
the history Of this country in tho nine
tenth century testifes that even this
last rate Of negro increase is likely to
dwindle. On that assumption and after
detailed statistical calculations and con-
siderations, social and other, he comes
to the conclusion that 25,ooo.ooo is the
maximum linSit Of the probable negro
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
LANDSCAPES IN FICTION.
Acute and Accomplished Criticism by q
Lunar Henry James.

TO the EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sfr. The Man IN
the Moon received some complaints In their day
that the Tennessee Mountain stories of Charles
Egbcrt Crsddock- were overloaded with Landscape
and local color Of too pronounced q Photographic
strain. Their solar excelsior aerenity will frst
rightly apprehend this Of all things misdIrected
ctique 10 the Man IN the Moon. of all cosmc bodies
Inorganic severely. To him in his lunar chssms
respectively chilled Stag meteorc abysmsl rorees.
tho rock bottom below and primal space above
arc his accustomed and satisfying, II not, from
our organic humanised standpoint, quite salts
factory environment: his eternally sufncient at
mosphere.- In the hyperbolic sense Of ether. So
he tabled the ~Craddock- structures under the In =
operative dark edges OF spectral Anslyt!cs; com
nittiAE his answer by wireless moonshine to N.
Jules Verne.
"Mr craddock's" excess. II positive excess II be,
Is then left In the neither surface air OF tastes which
differ Certainly 10 this observer tof the Weather
Bureaus voluntary side line force) that very trait
in the Tennessee Mountain stories which some
against "craddock" oppose. Is what reveals the
whole palpable heart Of those Tennessee Mountains
themselves. The thicker the better, for me at
least. who bo also Of creations people. when you
-lay on" the natural colors the place comports
Guy NAnncring Lost on the moor brings the scene"
OF II close a. any homespun webs OF ones everyday
native heather: and II there "a occasional e1tnva
gance IN repetiuous Dickens, he "a Art throughout
In the sensible effects Of Bleak House. east winds
and the Lincolnshire wet spell; Welcome kindred
Gooms. congonial horrors hail" (wheTe was snother
great natural artist who laid II on thick" like
glonfylng Rubensf(
In meteoho relation for that matter. psfsn,hetio
though II be. to Thomson's Ncasons,' one has
reviewed them several times over. together with
Wordsworth's much plodding "Rxounion," for
precisely those intimate sure hen,eso!! touches Of
British air and skies which seemed In modern
English writer's TO DO dropping out Of favor. They
occur. Of course. and with his fccitous master
hand, In the landscape and weather" passaees
Of A. Conan Doyle: Irving and Hawthorne caught
them a. Americans best could: ono Is unqualified
TO speak Of the rarencd Milky Way ha1es OF Mr..
Henry James.
Give us. In sum. II not fastldiously. the Keats
quintessence or. entirely beyond ordinary com
parison. the Shakespearan elective atinities Of
wind and weather In 'Cymbeiine,- Hamlet, =
Macbeth" KIM Lear then a. least the full
psychic circumstantiai Influences OF the place
depicted; bring the mountain 70 Mahomet, as
"craddock" does with true born magic. wP.
LEIsiolI. Pa, Aug. H. .-..---
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
Ireland's Representation In Parlia-
ment.

Curiously enough, at the very time
when the Balfour Government has with
drawn the Redistribution BILL by which
it would have deprived Ireland Of twenty
two seats In the House OF Commons,
Mr.. EDWARD PoRRITT, known to many
American readers by his History Of
the UNIFORMED House OF Commons,
contributes to the August number Of
the North American Rerisv an article
in which he denies the existence OF any
evidence that either PITT, then Prime
Minister, or CAsTLEREAGH, then Irish
Secretary, imagined in i7s9-lso0 that In
the Act Of Union between Great Britain
and Ireland they were making a COM
pact which should be regarded a. sacred
that they were determining for all
time that the number Of Iroland's repre-
sentatives at Westminster should never,
under any conditions. fall below ono
hundred. Mr.. PoRRITT asserts that,
If it was no breach Of the Act OF Union
OF 1907 between England and Scotland
to interfere with the Parliamentary
representation OF Scotland in 1882, it
surely cannot be a breach Of the Act Of
Union Of 1900 to alter the Parliamentary
representation OF Ireland in 1905. He
even maintains that it would be much
less breach to deal with Ireland's
representation than it was to change
the electoral system Of Scotland, as
was done in 1882, because the union Of
1907 was compact between two nations,
each DESTROYS OF coalescence; while
the union Of 1900 was just vulgar deal
between CAsILEREAGH and the borough
owners of Ireland.
1t may be worth while to see what
these assertions amount to, because the
redistribution question 10 likely TO %
brought up again il the Balfour Govern
ment remains in Office. It may be no
membered that CAsTLEREAaH, who IA
vored 1923, was obliged to content him
self with giving to Ireland only 100
seats in the House Of Commons at West
minister, to offset the 300 seats in the
lower house Of the Dublin Parliament.
II is an indisputable fact, recently adj
mitted by Mr. BALYoUR, that Ireland.
By virtue of her population, compared
with that Of Great Britain. was entitled
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
subway Heat and Motors.

To THE EDITOR OF THB SuN-Str: In disousSns
SUBWAY Heat" has anything been said o! Inv
particular motors that produce that heat un.
dorstand that the motor used on the subway "...,
has temperature rise OF about o. degrees 'na'
ia. af,cr q run of, say Ave hours the Temperature
of the motor will be d degrees higher IMAM VIZ
surrounding air.
venture 10 say that " does not require run "
any such time 70 bring the temperature IN 70
for thore 10 no way 70 dlssipatc the Aechnu'"'sI
heat. Other nrst class motors are not eApe',,
70 20 above 10 degrees, and 1t Is more o"en ''
case that the temperature nse is rs degrees .,,
Eliminate the principal cause And the pa' ,sn
will not have 70 be told that the subway Is coo'e'
Shsy will know II. SUffh""
BOSTON, Aug. ~.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14

To THE EpSfoR o. TIE SuN-Str: Nay say
few words Of protest 70 r. T. Van Dcrwent's letter
publiahed In your paper on Aug. i5f In referring
70 the ciAsses who. In his opinion. should be de.
ported, no includes the "Jews."
II seems " the writer that there IL no excuse
for such injustice and lack OF appreciation. The
Jews aSe manifestly q race OF distinction, talent
and merit. Any other estimate displays lack of
knowledge and great ignorance as 10 the facts
of race precedence.
History shown where the Jews stand. and R. T.
Van Derwent should read and inform himself
The writer OF this Is not Jew. but has large knowl
edge and appreciation ofths Jewish people. c.
NEW yoRx, Aug. u.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14

The failure Of the Ziegler expedition under
Mr.. FIALA to reach q high northing will
probably end for long timo to come the
attempts to reach the North Pole by the
Franz Josef Land route. As land base
for an attack by sledges on tho pole 1T is
about seventy miles further south than the
base OF operations which PEARY hopes to
reach this summer on the shore OF the
Arctic Ocean north OF America. 1t is an
advantage to start from . land base as
near as possible to the pole and reduce to
q minimum tho difficult journey on the
SEA Ice.
The movements Of the Zoe ice; which is
often pressed with crushing force upon the
coasts Of the Franz Josef archipelago,
have also proved to be great disadvantage
of this land base. Three OF the vessels
that have attempted to winter on those
coasts, the Tegethon Of the Austrian
expedition, the Ezra Of the Leigh Smith
party and ziegler's America, have been
crushed there. The Fiala party were
more fortunate than their predecessors,
for they were saved by a rescue expedition,
while the Austrian and British parties
were compelled to drag boats to the edge
of the SEE ice and embark for Nova
Zembla; the nearest land.
Earlier explorer have proved that no
courage or skin can win in Arctic endeavor
unless good luck also attends. Tho Negler
enterprises have also shown that the lavish
expenditure Of money 10 equally Ineffective
II tho natural conditions are unfavorable.
Nothing that money could buy was lacking.
and yet the Fiala expedition might have
starved II it had not been for supplies left
on the islands by earlier expeditions. Per-
haps, however, they might have eked out
existence - LMoH SMITH did by living
on the land and sea animals, though they
are not superabundant In that bleakest Of
all Arctic lands.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
His Preference.

His Preference. .
yls,or-Hsve you nothing better TO do man -
on the fence and watch the train 20 by ~.
Nstiye-Wai, stranger. it's bctter'n TO sN on W.
train and watch the fence 90 BY.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
.THE SUN, DAY.vAuGUsr III, 1905.

COW. The milk buckets were sanitary.
In short, all modern devices and i'm
provemonts were used, and we dare to
say that when, after hundred pfecau-
tions and processes and ride on the
overhead trolley TO the dairy proper, /"
this milk, cooled, purified, perfumed
for all We know, rested at last in a white
tiled little paradise OF bottllng room 1t
was more healthful than health, cleaner
than "our sister the water" and as nice
az MARIE ANToINETTE playing milk
maid.
As sociologsts we commended the
Crab Tree Dairy, and we commend 1t
still.
But fashionable Lake Forest" is moro
fashionable than Mayfair ever was. The
smell Of gasoline Is an acceptable SAVIOR
to those fine nostris, but dairy, cows!
Cows are vulgar. They give village
like aspect to Lake Forest, which re-
CARDS itself as somewhat more truly
urban than New York, Paris and London.
So certain residents near the Crab Tree
have petitioned the Council to put Mrs.
DURANDs establishment out Of bust
ness. The value OF the arguments Of the
petitioners may be judged from this
one:
The bawllng Of tbs cows At night prevents the
neighbour for many blocks around from getting
their proper deep"
Mrs. DURAND denies that her COWS
bawl. She says that good dairy cows
never bawl.' Indeed, SO far as we have
heard, even bad dairy cows, even far
rer' COWS never bawl. We have yet to
hear COW bawl, yell. scream. bark, zap,
trumpet. whinny or catcall. Tho neigh
borB" have leave to amend.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14

The Hon. j. HAM LEWIS. corporation
counsel Of Chicago. is -t,etting after the
corporations. As sue ,essful corpora
ton lawyer he ought to be able to get
afSSt' tho soulless onee with neatness and
despatch. Corporation batting is common
enough; ono and only Is the wide, benefi-
cent glow, the ocean Of color that flows
from and around j. HAM. With delight
we gaze once more upon that far seen.
flashing main. For particulars SEQ Chicago
Tribune:
he wore . pink shirt protected at the wrist
banda by home made protectors OF mauyc tint
wrttue paper . The Colonies famous pink
whiskofs bristied with enthusiasm ~ no sat at his
rolltop desk, tho top Of which his walking stick
and gray suede gloves reposed amid law books"
In tho sweet words Of S1NKENzooPER:
Tho pink light breaks along the lakes.
And wreathos Win 10Y each skyey Rocky
With worldwide blush. mankind a'hush
Hears the bright whiskczs. euriod and cocky.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14

A despatch from MoGregor, Tex; at
tributes this language TO the Hon. JOSEPH
wKLDxN BAILEY 'the principal speaker
at a Confederate reunion in that town,
Aug. 10:
WHO In the Senate IL the successor Of SrHPHEN
A. DoUoLAsf nice old woman. who compares
with DOUGLAS - the glow worm compares with
the eagle Who represents ohioi Mr.. DICK. who
did not make q great success at running feed
Store"
We assume that Senator BAILEY Is @
gentleman and that he talks like one.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
soc Embroideries 1Er VorI
Widths Up to II IncheslJC i dIu

iggrade mboderies swiss cabrc edges
solid mixed work desgns
wide worked edges; widths to R inches
values orders best values Will be
r,cked Monday while they
yard 15c.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-19
Mail Order Dept. ss:.':s sss%g s:.'1s: s:.-..,...

undoubtedly the best equipped mail order department in the
sit right
furnish samples and
satisfactory II there's anything
filled the day they
ceved
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-19

biggest plum in the pudding, the
highest measure of personal pleasure
and lordship over others, no matter
if sometimes to achieve his end he mas
to trample upon the rights of others.
The beast Of every man SHOWS MS
fangs too often and until he is ele-
waited to a higher level by education
or conversion, or by whatever infiu-
ence you please, man is just as likely
to retard the progress of the race as
he is to promote it.
Considering. then. these two deeply
related forces that are preying. upon
and bruising the life of the world, II
gets on, in the main, pretty we'll. Con-
sidering all the germs floating about
and liable to lodge themselves in any
of us at any moment, is it not Won
der that people live to be so or even