New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
~ s4,,dent of Almost Sees Mkado Sitting on
the Throne of Middle Kingdom

by the carelessuess of both the motorman OF
the wrecked train and the towerman at 53d-st-
The tOwerman set the switch for oth-aNe
train to turn it into 53d-st and the motorman
despite the signals set against him. rushed INTO
the switch at full speed. The first car held 10
the rails. but the second plunged into the street
while the third car hung in midair. The COM
mission will no doubt determine changes IN the
present system to prevent such another hor-
ror A mail drivers strike has also kept New
York on the qui vive. Men who have replaced
the strikers have been stabbed to death ana
stoned Citizens have also discovered that the
contracts for the Williamsburg and Manhattan
bridges were made SO loosely that the wire COM
pany building them is not responsible Tor de-
lay, thus costing the city many thousand dol
lars. Croker and other Tammany interests are
closely associated with this company
"Talllfng of contracts" interrupted the Busy
Man, what has been done about those Panama
Canal contracts which in your last talk you sald
had kicked up such a row.
THAT big contract" said the Constant Read
or. "bv which an Omaha man is to supply 1000
FOR the Panama Canal laborers for the next five
wears for $50 600. will stand despite the pro-
tests Of other bidders An appeal was MADE 10
the President to stay the award, but he on IN
CURRY decided that it was justly made
az s,,npose both the peace ENJOYS have gone
home by this time" said the Busy Man
IN witte the chief Russian envoy. sailed
for Europe Tuesday. but Baron komura tn7
chief Japanesa representative has been so III az
the waldorf that he may have to tarry mere
several weeks more. Both Russia and Japan are
orieter than when We talked a week ago. More
troons sent to Baku and the Caucasus have
ol,oo1,od tho roobs there from destroying more
rronertv. Many of the nearby towns, however
are in ashes. and whole villages and districts
have been depopulated by massacres. The Iar-
tors oven beyond the Persian boundary are
| rs1I,,ine TO kill all the Christians, so there IS
lots of trouble still ahead. For that matter the
| bureaucracy is worried as it never was before-
Il has learned that regularly organized lnsur-
| rection was about to break out IN t1nlaIu' "li
| would no doubt, have resulted IN q Iorlnlosi"i7
! civil war Quantities of rifles and an1rnuiliIIol
| v,era cantured on their way thither. and snip
! laden with war material was run do"h' With
its crew finally blew up to escape capture Het
we should not find fault with Russia. OF her
own accord she has cut her duties on American
| in7nor+s of machinery and iron wares
.eyou said in our last talk that the japanese
r-ora burning churches and the property Of
J Americans interrupted the Busy Man. DC
| they still hate our people so bitterly o,. 81
That destruction was WTougnt pg orIv
said the Constant Reader, who II appears on
| ap+o5 70 scare the Mikado into refusing lG
| sion the peace treaty. The japanese are sun
orr friends Even the war party has oesu IN ~
| see that the only way open now IS 10 ma 4 (
naace and make up the lack of indemnify pS
| deveIonine their Countrys commerce. japan It
tbro1g, Baron Kaneko and President RooseNeLL
has Succeeded in laying the basis for uaae
treaty which will largely increase JaPa ,E5s
| nrestige in the Pacific. Americans 100 raw
! inst ob+ained the right to lay a direct csp!s
70 Tan9n which will bind 1t still closer 10 lll!S
| country Fighting now has entirely ceaset,
| The armfstice protocol has been signed. JaPaI
| sin has her woes. however The Mlkasa, hel
! best battleshfp, blew UP and ESQ men vert
| killed" $500 TO-. o1,,,t
| You said something week before last aoou'
| 2 bic earthquake in Italy, said the BUSY Man
| .fINas that as serious first reported
'The shocks killed about three thousand PEG
Pile was the reply, and SO frightened .{ Lnt
! mountafneers of Calablia who survived thai
MANY of them are emigrating to this country
| Last reports also tell of earthquakes III the
| north of Italy The whole peninsula seems
| shakv In Morocco there have been pohtlcal
| not seismic upheavals Raisula, who KIDNAPPED
| Perdicaris has started another revolution anC
| sn scared the American Minister that ne, WltE
| many others took refuge in Tangier BY tne
way, w r Powell the American Minister te
| Hayti has resigned.
! Some one was saying that the Mayor OF
| Chicago was dead said the Busy Man.
! You mean Patrick A Collins, the Mayor OF
! Boston" said the Constant Reader. He dice
| suddenly at Hot Springs, Va Others who dice