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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
Union Music and Opera.

Let no adorer of opera singers be
alarmed lest the action of organized
labor close the doors Of the Metropolitan
Opera House. The representative Of
the choristers' union who declared on
Sunday that the local organization could
furnish a chorus as good as Mr.. CoNRIED
could import from Europe forgets that
mere ability to sing is not all that is
essential.
The choristers must have a re pertoire.
They must know some thirty or forty
operas. Mr.. SALzBERG would probably
have just as much difficulty in securing
such a chorus in New York as Mr.. Con-
RED did last winter when his choristers
formed a union and marched out,
A "scab" chorus would NJ doubt be a
sad spectacle; but by the same token
80 would union soloists. SEMBRICH,
NoRDIcA, HOMER, CARUso, PLANCoN,
ScoTTI and all that lot are scabs. Doubt
less it will not be long before organized
musical mechanics decide TO bar out
these artists, for many longing eyes are
turned toward the Metropolitan salary
list.
No harm will come of the agitation.
The Metropolitan Opera House will be
open to the public 1ext winter. Even
with a union chorus and a union ballet
neither the musical nor the terpsichorean
background supplied for the famous
principals could be much less attractive
than it is now, and Mr.. CoNRIED will lose
no sleep over this problem.
But what will organized musical labor
do to Mr.. HAMMERsTRIN? The silence
on this point is p~rodigious and porten-
tnlIa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

Sunday is election day In France. In
those districts in which an actual majority
was not given for any candidate at the
election of last Sunday, May 9, new cleo
lions wall be held on Sunday, May 20.
The present President of the republic,
NJ. F%ALLIkREs, was inaugurated on a Sun
day, that being inauguration day as well
as election day in France. In this country
Sunday is legally dies non for court pro-
ceedings, contract making and business
agreements. In Westchester county very
recently the legal point was raised that all
fines imposed on Sunday for reckless
automobile driving were void. When our
Presidential Inauguration day, March a,
falls on a Sunday, the inauguration takes
place on March S. To almost the same
extent that Sunday is observed in the
United States as a day upon which polit-
ical functions are suspended, in france it
is the one day in the week most favored
not only for elections but for political
meetings and for political campaigning.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

many nntlyos 20 oacupe excessive abor
impoDSd upon them. But" says tho re
port. 'thsao Inhabitants have been auattered
rather thnn destroyed" IL aida that those
oausos OF docreaso arc second IN importance
10 thc great smallpox Opidsmics and tho
so1urgo o! shopping sioknssj that have de-
vastated some rcgione. The report treats
fully OF tho outragss upon tho natives.
most Of which, 1t says, were committed
years ago, and adds that in spite Of the
testimony II cites IA to tho decrease OF popu-
lation in certain districts sit must not DO
believed that tho population Is everywhere
on the decrease
The language OF wild eSeggeration will
certainly not help to introduce reform In
the Congo or elsewhere.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
NEW MANHATTAN BRIDGE BIDS.
Highest Price Nearly a Million Less Than
Last Years Award.

bids for the construction Of the MAMMAL
tan Bridge were opened yesterday by
Bridge Commissioner j. w. Stevenson.
They were to have been opened last week,
but were held up by an injunction obtained
by n taxpayer. The Pennsylvania Steel
Company, which last year got the CONTRACT
on an award that the Court upset, refused
to bid again yesterday pending litigation.
The lowest bid made yesterday was nearly
81, Ooo, 900 lower than that of the bid on
which the contract was awarded 10 the
Pennsylvania Company. The bids were
American bridge Company. .sS,3l2alf N
John PIERCE Company, ...,.,,.",....... go i,aN q"
Ryan Parker Const ruction Company. o, 1878 :.
General Erecting Company .""....... 6'5Gl ,ai %
Counsel for John Gray, general manager
of the General Erecting Company, protested,
before they were opened, the bids Of all
the other companies on the ground that the
envelopes did not show the date Of prescntd-
ton. Mr.Ryan of the Ryan-Parker Company;
protested the Erecting company's bid
because it was improperly sealed.
Commissioner Stevenson said that he
would announce the awards when the
prices had been tabulated and the Comp
troller had passed upon the sureties offered.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
Clean City Day in Chicago.

BY order of Mayor DUNE dirt was
abolished in Chicago yesterday. The
details haven't reached the East, but
a part of the purifying process Is already
known. Chicago journals publish por-
traits OF well known, lei eminent,
goats. Alderman THINNER and Alder
man HOFFMAN and other statesmen are
in favor of a goat street cleaning service,
Of course with immediate municipal
ownership of these public utilities. Mr..
thinner stands practically alone in his
demand for l. NJ. o. herds of swine.
The views of this distinguished sanitarian
are worth quoting:
a goat is all right. but sometimes 10 won't eat
greasy things. What is there, however, which q
pig will not estI Drive a hundred goats through
an alley nrst and Atty pigs ftcrward. It's a COM
b,na.ion to make the alley shine"
Scientific and public attention is TO-
cussed on goats; and public utility pigs
are regarded Al provincial. Last week
Billikins sold as low as fifty cents, and
active, adult specimens could be bought
for $3.50 apiece in South Chicago. Their
prices must have advanced rapidly since
yesterday, memorable henoeforth in
Cook county annals as @Clean City Day"
Bets on favorite capricorns are fire.
quent in South Chicago, Goose Island
and other classic shrines. Detective
Sergeant KELLY, owner Of 'The Pride
of Austin, is putting that famous animal
into training and submitting him to the
simple, quiet suburban" life. Alder
man WENDLING has high hopes Of 'Bess, t"
a famous character of the Twenty-ninth
ward. According to the Alderman, "her
ambition grows with age. She has
licked every dog in the ward" or her
activity and utility there is abundant
evidence like this:
She was accustomed to take up thcS trail of
billpostinz gangs and follow them all day long.
tearing down advertisements as fast as they
were put up. Her whtskers would get stlrr with
paste, when she would seek q water trough and
Paris green In the paste. The only result, was to
make her moro clipper than ever"
Biographies and anecdotal histories
of leading goats are published. In short,
Chicago came in a serious spirit and fully
prepared to the new era which began
Yesterday. In the words of the chorus
of the Hon. BATH HOUSE JOINS latest
poem:
Vote. brothers. votel
We're go.Ig 10 81 for the /. u, o.
Of ,.,e u L. Clean Civ goat"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
Climbing Mount Mckinley.

DR.. FREDERICK A. Cook, who was
surgeon Of the Peary Arctic expedition
of 1912 and surgeon of the Belgian
Antarctic expedition of 1s97-s9, and
Professor HERsCHEL G.. PARKER of the
department Of physics Of Columbia
University, left this city yesterday to
climb Mckinley, Alaska ? 0,464 feet, the
highest mountain in North America.
In difficulty the enterprise transcends
the ascent Of Aconcagua (22, 800 feet, in
South America, which NJ. ZURBRIGGEN,
the Swiss guide, and STEWART VINES Of
Mr.. EDWARD A. FITzGERALD's party,
accomplished in 1897; that Is to say, the
attempt on Mckinley, though it may fail,
is likely to involve the intrepid climbers
in greater hardships than were encoun-
tered by the victors Of A~concagua.
FITZGERALD made a campaign Of several
months against Aconcagua, camping
higher and higher in the SHOWS before a
dash could be ventured for the summit;
every member Of his party suffered
severely from exposure, and at an ele-
walton Of 10000 feet FITZGERALD suc-
CuTnDeQ TO mountain SICKNESS.
Aconcagua breaks the clouds in lati-
tude so degrees 80 minutes 40 seconds s.;
almost due west Of it Is Valparaiso; the
base of the mountain, therefore, is in the
temperate cline. Mckinley, in latitude
63 degrees 4 minutes NJ, is very near the
Arctic Circle. The snow line on the
Alaskan mountain comes down much
lower than on Aconcagua. Professor
PARKER estimates, we believe, that there
is 1000 more feet Of o on Mckinley
than on Everest. So it follows that if a
traversable glacier can be found on any
slope of Mckinley there will be more ice
cutting for the climbers than on any
other mountain in the world in all prob
ability. Moreover, the cold on the
heights will be more intense; and DR..
Cook and Professor PARKER will have a
season of only weeks, instead OF months,
to lay siege to the giant Of the Alaskan
wilderness.
Extreme cold DR.. Cook has expert
enced in his invasions of the Arctic and
Antarctic, while Professor PARKER has
taken his degree as a mountaineer, hav-
ing made first accents of Goodsir, Daw-
son. Biddle, Deltaform. Hungabee and
LEROY in the Canadian Rockies, where
the axe and the rope are indispensable.
1t should therefore be a happy combina-
ton for the assault on Mckinley. Both
have penetrated Alaska before, and DIR.
COOK made an attempt to scale the noun
tain from the west in 1903, when he found
himself confronted at an altitude Of IL 400
feet by a granite wall pitching down
sheer 5000 feet. On his return DR.. COOK
said: Arctic conditions begin almost
at the base. Unlike Mount st. Elias, the
Glaciation is not extensive enough to
offer an all ice route. The conqueror
of this immense uplift must pick his path
over broken stones. icy barriers, sharp
cliffs and an average slope Of IS degrees
for at least 1900 feet, II is an under
taking which for difficulty and dis
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
GUNNINGFOR FRANCHISE BUREAU
Metz Approves Ahearn's Resolution 10
CurtaiI Its Power as Now Constituted.

Metz Approves Anearhs Nesoiutio' "
Curtau Its Power as Now Constituted.
Comptroller Metz gave out a statement
Yesterday approving President Ahearn's
recent proposal to curtail the power of the
franchise bureau as at present constituted.
Until the end of 1905 the bureau was an
adjunct Of the Comptroller's Office with
Harry P. Nichols at its head. By a resolu-
ton Of the Board of Estimate it was made
part of the Board of Estimate, with Mr..
Nichols responsible only to the Mayor.
Two weeks ago President Ahearn offered
a resolution that in the future all matters
pertaining to franchises be referred to the
bureau, the Comptroller, the President OF the
Board of Aldermen and the President Of the
Borough interested. AS the matter was not
on the calendar it was ruled out of order.
Mr.. Ahearn brought it up last Friday and 1t
will be regularly on the calendar this com.
ing Friday. Mr.. Metz said:
u am not at all satisfied with the way
the bureau Is being run. Mr.. Nichols does
not seem to care for any opinion but his
own. He should at least consult with the
members Of the Board Of Estimate before
publishing his reports. Formerly, when
in consultation with Comptroller Grout'
II Mr.. Grout had been reelected the con-
sultation would be still held. That was
the proper way Of doing business. When
the bureau was taken from this department
it was a direct slap a t me
II the borough preside nts stick together
and Mr.. Metz votes with them, as his words
imply, the Mayor and Mr.. MCGOWAN, who
don't want the bureau disturbed. will he
outvoted 10 to Q. President Cromwell Of
Richmond has never yet voted against the
Mayor In the board and Bermel Of Queens
should vote with the Mayor the vote would
be a tie of 8 to 8.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

The Raleigh Neos and Observer sees In
Governor FOLK a man who doesn't talk
glittering generalities and docs not deal
i in platitudes.' 1t cites in evidence his
speech made at Lexington, KY, the other
day. A reading of it shows that it is full
of original and first hand thought, the
result of long, patient ~brooding. For
example:
" Children OF to day will be the sovercigns Of
to-morrow,"
q" 1t Is not only the hight Of the State 10 offer
education as a privilege, but 1t is the duty OF the
State to demand the education gifts future citizens. "
" Every dollar a State eSpcnds on education Is
returned tenfold In higher citizenship"
These opinions reveal the long abor of
a creative and fruitful intellect. Evidently
Governor Folks speciality is what Mr..
EMERSON, shifting at RUFUS CHoATE's
famous phrase, called blazing ubiqui-
ties,' and the Governor is pretty ubiquitous
himself.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
bingham NJ Jcrome's once.

Police COMMISSIONS Bingham went 70
the District Attorneys otfce yesterday
to havea tx with Mr.. jerome. Mr.. Jerome
was before the special Aand Jury aid Gen.
Bingham callei on Assrstant District AItCr-
Dey Ely. Neither would say what me
visit was about, but IL is understood tAat u
was ~ connection with the police ,'eNe!op-
meats ia the Berthe tNiche trial, who!
MI. Ely has been investigating for -otne
time. The Claiche girl will probably DO
sentenced next week.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

rouRhs In hand. Theatre managers
succeed In controlling their audiences.
Steam railroads, and electric roads gem
orally outside tho metropolitan district,
transport largo numbers Of persons
and do II without riots, Only on the
city lines hercabouts are the corpora
tons unable to cope with the toughs
and muckers that form q portion Of
every population.
There ohould be a school for New
York transportation men at which the
art of maintaining order in public places
could be taught. The Hon. WILLIAM
STEPHEN DEvERY would make IN ideal
headmaster.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

Democratic hopes are rising. as far as lhe radical
element of the party Is concerned. over the grow
ing prospect that JOHN b. MORAN will be the party
nominee, Boston letter 10 the Springfield Renuolican.
Every good mans hopes will rise if
the tale be true. The Hon. JOHN BUTIN
MORAN will run as fast as anybody.
As District Attorney Of Suffolk county
he has filed the nation with JOY and
helped keep Boston in her natural post
as the great leading serio-comic artist
Of the world He writes letters In his
sleep. Subpnnas fall in drifts around
him. Hotel bars fear him. The Tutelar
Goldfish, an old friend, inciter and shoe
horn Of thirst, hangs down a guilty head
before him. He is the nightmare of
Police Commissioners and the happiness
Of the public. A gifted but strange
combination of the Irishman and the
Puritan, the complete letter writer and
the sandwich man, he is as modest as
LAWSON and as busy as the devil. The
Governor Of Massachusetts doesn't
amount to much, as a rule; doesn't have
the chance. But BuT1N MORAN would
make the cockade into a biudgeou. and
roll and reverberate from Beacon Hill to
the Berkshires. There'd be something
saying and something doing all the time
and overtime. Would the dauntless one
dispense the President and Fellows Of
Harvard with a detachment Of the
Boston Lancers or order out the militia
to attack the gypsy moth? At any rate.
we are, early, often and always, for
JOHNNY MORAN, great man..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

1t does not become a teacher and a psy-
biologist Of the standing of DIR. G. STANLEY
HALL, president of Clark University, to
make loose statements that would discredit
the examination papers of a t~en-year-old
boy. In a recent address In Potter Hall.
Boston, he is reported to have said that out
OF a population in the Congo Free State
estimated at between &c. 900 900 and 40. O0O,-
900, some 5000 900 are yearly put to death
by the avs OF King LEOPOLD. For the
population he seems to la taken STAN
LEY's estimate, d more than twenty
years ago, when he computed the whole
population by le density no found aloag
the banks of the Congo River, a basi5 Of
calculation long ago proved to be absurdly
Inaccurate. The population OF the State
is believed by most statisticians to be not
more than is, 1000 900. though DR.. SUPAS.
one OF the most scientific Of g~eographers,
computes IL at about 10. 900 600. The ques-
ton is still largely a matter OF guesswork.
As for DR., HALLS appalling statistics Of
murder, we nave the testimony of the Com
mi sion OF Inquiry. which reported In DC
tober last hat the population has been
largely decreased for about 800 miles ,Aong
the river by the disappearance OF the slav
dealers and their bands, whoss trade has
been suppressed, and by the removal Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
Career Of q Monopoiist.

when At the tender age OF tour
IN apple ne dcvourcd with est,
II proved there wGsn't any core
He took the rest,
Crown up. he had the luck to ind
\ GID with wit and bcAut' hlost:
She gave one Kiss, Just olc, nov mind
tie took the rrst,
In business a ~monopnlist
He quickly rode on fortunes crest:
No competition dared resist
tie took the rest.
A. last his health could not endure.
ny care OF millions sore Oppressed.
Physicians all advised q cure
lie took the rest,
NcLLNpnunoH VIVA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
Would the muck rakers persist with
RosEwArER in the Senate?

Mr.. GoRKY is to be prosecuted again for
melting revolution in Russia, according
to a st. Petersburg despatch. TIL lenity
Of the Cars Government TOWARD the author
in his first prosecution was generally attrib-
uted to his popularity in the United States.
Perhaps the Grand Dukes now feel that that
obstacle has been renewed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
II IL Roosevelt, Not Long.

II passes comprehension why there
should be any difference Of opinion as
to which school or faction or sect Of rate
regulators would prevail by the adoption
and enactment of the so-oalled Allison
amendment to the Hepburn bill. Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT himself disposed Of
that question authoritatively and finally
when he announced in his memorable
message to the legislative committee
Of the Pennsylvania State Grange that
, no has stood for this sort Of court re-
Vew-the broadest court review possible
from the very beginning.
Tho President states his original po-
siHon accurately, and to THE SUN 1t is
one Of the minor comforts Of life to re-
member that We have always given him
credit for desiring just such a breadth
and depth and fulness Of judicial revision
OF tho rates fixed by the administrative
body as La now contemplated by this
amendment. After studying the fine
shades Of expression In Mr.. RoosEvELT's
speech at Raleigh, on October 10. 1905,
NO person who understands the English
language can have any doubt concerning
the Presidents position. For then he
said:
In my Judgment the most important thing to
do In 10 give to this administrative body power TO
mako its findings effective, and this can be done
only by giving IL power, where complaint is made
Of q given rate. as being unjust or unreasonable, II
IL nnds the complaint proper, then itself to n1 a
maximum rate which q regards as Just and reason.
aas, this rate to go into effect practically at once
ths. Is, within q reasonable time, and to stay in
efieot. unIsss rcrer,ed bv the courts. I earnestly
hope that we shall see q law giving this power
passed BY Congress,
This Is the adamantine precept on
which we have built our faith that the
President was engaged in no attempt to
partition judicial power over a special
class Of cases and to transfer a large
measure of that judicial power from
the Judiciary, where it belongs, to the
Executive department Of the Federal
Government, where it does not belong.
The principle SO clearly set forth in the
Raleigh speech is as far removed as
is the deepest hole in the Paci6c's bed
from the heights Of Kunchinjinga
from the principle Of the Long amend
ment, which people who misunderstood
President RoosEvELT's hesitation to
speak positively on matters Of purely
legal import were crediting a month or
30 ago to his philosophy. The Long
amendment expressly limits the juris-
diction of the circuit courts to the deter
mination of mere questions of authority
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
and those involving the inalienable con-
stitutional rights Of the carrier.
What a victory the President will win
for the conservative polity of govern
ment in these times of stress, but, thank
heaven, not Of transitionl How his de-
signs have been misinterpreted by
facile t~imeservers! The hope he ex-
pressed at Raleigh is likely to be realized;
and we congratulate him accordingly
from the bottom of our intelligence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
STANDARD OIL.
How the Presidents Message and the Com.
pany's Reply Strike the Country.

From The Boston Evening Transcript.
That the Standard Oil representatives
should vigorously and anerily deny these
charges was to be expected. That has been
their treatment Of similar charges in the
past. when they have not adhered to what
was perhaps the safer policy Of saying nothing
at all. 1t is one thing, however. to ignore
Ida Tarbell. 1t Is not 80 easy to ignore the
Chief Magistrate Of the United States when
he brings against this business an indictment
30 sharp and direct as that contained In this
message which interests the people of the
country as few Of its Predecessors have done.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

No precisian will find fault with the attri-
button to Speaker CANNON by the Chaplain
Of the House Of the glory Of seventy years
Of usefulness Even during the first
twelve months of his estimable existence
the infant statesman was useful to his
country and his party in the sense that he
was on earth getting ready for the useful
ness of seventy years later.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
Proper Field for Municipal Activity

To THE Enron or THE SrV-SV Cnnsi l"Ilng
the possibility Of a graf hre destroying whole
SECTIONS ~ THIS great "fty. vita the prrE- Mt insuft
cicn, system Of IRE protection, Is II not IN oppoT
tune tins To call attention u the need Of a greater
and more effective are nghting system for the pro.
lection OF the city II. MARTIN.
BROOKLYN, May I
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

The trolley car conductor in Queens coun-
ty whose head was broken by homegoing
baseball players because he wouldn't issue
transfers knows something now Of the
troubles OF an umpire.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

The experience Of devil wagon drivers on
the measured course dow Long Island way,
with constables holding the watch, again
demonstrates that the old laws are good
enough when vigorously enforced.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

KnieNer-How did they get such a pretty name
for the summer resort
Bocker-n was done by the same woman who will
call a bald, red faced baby 0wsndoln MlgEon
EyAngeline.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

Published by The Sun Printing and Publishing
Association o. 40 Nassau street. in the Borough Of
Manhattan. New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

Mistress-You can't entertain your coupsn' %
tho pGrloT.
BndEct-oi can't' Why, mum, didnt SCI h'f
him laughin' ~ 10 sphIit'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
From the Proridence journal.

The common people" have no quarrel
with capital. except as It becomes grossly
accumulative, arrogant and dangerous. They
have no desire TO interfere with vested prop
erty rights nor are they deeply tinctured
with Socialism. But when they see the
public prosperity threatened. invaded, indeed,
by reckless aud conscienceiess trusts they
demand that a reform as immediate and
absolute "a possible shall be made effective.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

n our friends trho favor 10 tth manuscript for
publication irish to haze rejected articles returned hev
mus In al rdses send stamps fos thai pGrposs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08

Nother-vhy are you undressing
JOHNNY thought q, would be all rEhi 20 I'a'
sunday II | didn't wear any costume.