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Chicago, Street RAILWAYS.

The city of Chicago shows signs of
returning common sense. For many
years and with every conceivable rea-
son the people of that city have been
thoroughly Disguised with their street
car service. The fault was distinctly
their own, but they very naturally put
the blame on the operating companies.
Their folly reached its climax in pro-
posals for municipal ownership, a dis
aster which they escaped by a narrow
margin. At all times the companies
have stood ready to install an up to date
system II they could be properly assured
Of the security of the investment.
It is now announced that the question
Is settled beyond a reasonable doubt, /"
and there is a good prospect that Chicago
will soon have a a service that is not
a shrieking disgrace to a presumably
civilized community. A settlement has
practically been reached on the basis of
an appraisal of the properties, an agree
ment that the companies shall spend
something like s4o,OOO,OOO in improve
ments and a division Of the net earn
ingS between the companies and the
city. Reservation is made to the city
of the right of purchase at any time
on six months notice. The old tangle
about franchises is wiped put and a
new ordinence will grant a blanket fran
chise for twenty years subject to the
city's right to purchase within that period
of time.
The matter is not yet finally and alb
solutely settled, but the prospects Of
its final adjustment are so good that we
feel justified in congratulating Chicago
on its display Of sanity and in congratu-
lating its residents and visitors on the
cheering outlook for a chance to get
about the city in decency and reasonable
comfort. To the probably defeated
and possibly disheartened advocates Of
municipal ownership we extend our deep
est commiseraton and our hope that
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popular and readable the refusal to
illustrate that publication looks queer.
We r no friends of daily picture
papers; but it is admitted that the Con-
OressioHdl Record must be improved and
frightened il it il TO make its way into
the affections of the producing classes.
Members Of Congress do not hesitate
10 stuff it with intolerable statistics,
with ancient editorials OF obscure news
papers, with threadbare poetry and with
letters and pamphlets Of billiards and
cranks. We should not be a bit sur
prised to find the Washington directory
appended TO a number of the Record.
Padding is always welcome to that pa
tient bosom; but when Art would shelter
itself there, not dragged in by the ears,
but spontaneous, inevitable and vital, it
is met with no glad hand.
FAIRBANKS, ALDRICH, KEAN, these are
the unresponsive and unpoetic natures
which took the lead in mutilating a
great public document and depriving
the Congressional Record of a treasure.
There were i~nexplicable silences in the
chamber when the deed was done. The
fertile lips of BEvERIDGE were barren.
LA TOILETTE, a living picture, an illus
trated as well "a illustrious statesman,
made no plea and no protest. without
one kind word Art was kicked out Of the
Government Printing Office. The rep
resentatives Of a nation that taxes itself
to publish pictures of gypsy moths and
pocket gophers deliberately and ma
liciously suppressed a part, and not the
least engaging part, of the Presidents
message. In the name Of dignity" a
gross indignity was done.
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III e CONGRESS MET.
Not I'm the Old Court House IN Trenton. but
MIR. Bergens House.

TRENTON, N. j., Dec. 1s.-Dr. c. B. Cod
frey, who has charge Of the search depart
ment Of the Adjutant Generals Office, has
demonstrated by documentary evidence
that when the Continental Congress met in
this city in lisa it's meeting place was not
the old court house and Jail, as generally
supposed, but the house of Jacob G. Bergen,
which later became famous as the city tav-
ern. The Mechanics National Bank, Of
which Gov. Stokes is president, now occu-
pies the site.
Two years ago he unearthed among the
old documents in the State House the origi-
nal lease for the house in which Congress
was to meet, but this did not describe its
location with sufficient accuracy 70 be- con-
elusive, except to demonstrate that it was
not in the old court house, q picture Of
which was published in the history promul-
gated by Congress upon the occasion of the
one ~hundredth anniversary Of the estab-
ment of the seat Of the Government at
Washington.
BY diligent search DIR. Godfrey succeeded
in establishing by other documents and
public records Just where the old house
OF Congress stood. Francis B. Lee, n Of
the historical writer's who held a contrary
opinion, said to-day that the evidence
offered was conclusive.
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has been allowed to beckon many fleets
Of ships and their crews to disaster on
the treacherous shoals from Race Point
clear TO Point Cannon and beyond.
The normal condition of Cape Cod and
Buzzards bays is one of calm, both being
well protected by curvatures Of land;
but from the extremity @! the cape to
the elbow at Chatham there is no season
when coastwise ships are safe. The wind
rises or the foGs settle down and the rips
are always calling
The marine procession through Vine
yard Sound. an endless count of craft,
has gone IN generation after genera
ton with the inevitable loss of life and
waste of capital, when a few millions
spent in dredging Barnstable at the
shoulder would have saved a vast deal
of treasure, not to speak Of the humans,
in numbers an army corps, whose bodies
have been cast up on the monotonous
stretch Of sands. II is a moderate cal
culation that $1,000 ships pass through
Vineyard Sound every year. They would
gain perhaps twice as many days by
a short cut into Massachusetts, Bay.
If the promoters of the canal do not
charge too high a toll per ton the great
majority Of these vessels would no longer
brave the dangers Of the outside route.
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The Little Brown Brothers.

In his annual report on the Philippine
Islands, Secretary TAFT says that "the
depressed condition OF business in the
islands seems to have continued Mr..
TAFr's seems is evidently a figure Of
speech. a reluctant confession that this
field in which he is so deeply interested
is not getting on as we'll as he could wish.
Somehow, the Philippines do appear to
be under a very diligent hoodoo. When
they are not having a cyclone, rinder-
pest sweeps away their carabao. If those
trouble makers are idle for a little time,
cholera occur or the ladrones become
active or the rice crop fails. Sometimes
these experiences come singly and some
times in punches.
Measured by their imports and exports,
the islands are in better shape than
they were when we took them over.
The actual Improvement, however, is
not fairly indicated by the statistics.
Spanish custom house returns, at least
so far as they nee SPANS insular
possessions, do not furnish reliable fig
ures for purposes of comparison. The
years 1899 and 1900 were a time Of active
disturbance during which the commerce
of the islands l~anguished. The trade
figures for the subsequent years are
reported thus:
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Mr.. Hughes on the Bridge.

1t is exceedingly doubtful If Mr..
CHARLES EVANS HUGHEs's personal ex-
animation of the Brooklyn Bridge at
the rush hour Monday evening resulted
in the conception in his mind of a satisfac-
tory solution Of the engineering problems
presented by that interesting structure.
The conditions under which he crossed
it were not favorable to that close study
Of stresses and strains necessary to a
full understanding of the questions in
volved. He joined the headlong rush
of homegoing Bro~oklynites when the
crush was at its worst and endured the
horrors OF a passage with the suffering
residents of Kings county. But If his
purpose was to learn whether the reports
Of indecent crowding in bridge and
trolley cars were accurate, probably it
was accomplished.
One thing may have been impressed
on Mr.. HUGHES. however, besides vari-
ous parts Of the anatomy of his fellow
travellers. Hemay have been struck with
the idea that the treatment of a bridge
as a separate and independent structure
whose sole purpose is to allow passengers
to cross a body Of water dry shod is
supremacy ridiculous. This thought has
come to others, although it has never
been harbored by the municipal authori-
ties. They are convinced that bridges
are no part of the highway system and
should be built without regard to the
streets Of the communities they con-
meet. This conviction is embodied in
the charter, the Commissioner of Bridges
being a city officer and the Superinten-
dents of Highways members Of the
borough governments.
II Mr.. HUGHES, in his private capacity
or as Governor of the State, can disabuse
the municipal administration of the
belief that no attention should be paid
to the street system when bridges are
built, his sufferings Of Monday evening
will not have been in vain.
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The Minddndo Herald reports that a Ger
man syndicate is -to exploit a large stand
OF timber near Butuan in the province OF
Surigao, comprising in the neighborhood Of
fifty square miles, The representative of
the company has deposited in a German
bank, as an earnest Of good faith" a
quarter OF a million pesos, about SIPS, 900.
Another Arm which Is out for the prizes Of
the Philippine forests is described as rep
r~esenting thirty-two of the biggest milling
corporations in the world, having its p-in-
cipal office in Australia. Its machinery
alone used In handling timber is placed at
5000, 900" The Herald adds this COM
ment to its news: when companies such
as these begin to exploit the forests Of
Mindanao, wealth will flow our way in
limpid streams. We have the timber; all
we need is capital to get it out"
The Philippines are full of valuable tim
Der. The Forestry Bureau of the insular
Government, with its force of foresters,
rangers and inspectors, supervises the
fourteen forest districts with their fifty
five stations. In 1901, 1902 and 1908 the
cutting in the species Of timber most in
demand totalled about 1000 900 cubic feet.
1t is good to hear that the timber stores
of Mindanao are to be tapped; it Is not good
to hear that the candidates for the rewards
of enterprise are Germans or Australians, OF
any but Americans.
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YALE AND INGHAM UNIVERSITY.
An Unfortunate jest brings Out Pathetic
story OF Two Good women's LirewOrk.

To THE EDITOR or Tbs SUN-Sir: With
feelings of mingled sorrow and INDIGNATION
l read In Sunday papers the statement OF
Treasurer McCmng Of Yale concerning a sale
OF Ingham University property at Leroy.
n. Y. Treasurer McCung IL quoted as say
ing:
IL is not always true that our investments are
of an Al nature. and as evldencing this | may
state that OF Yale University holdings OF property
In Leroy. N. Y, there is a defunct female college
that We should be very pleased to sell on very low
terms TO any one making due application, and II
It may prove an incentive to the OF
the deal I should be very much pleased TO throw
In a cemetery which is located on the grounds.
1t cannot be that Treasurer McCmng.
himself the graduate OF an institution whose
alumni are noted for their love and rever-
ence for their alma mater, her traditions and
her long line Of honored instru ctors. intended
needlessly to wound the feelings either OF
the alumne of Ingham or Of the family OF
one Of its founders. But Willingly or unwit-
ingly he has dOu btless done just this.
For more than fifty years, preceding
1890 Ingham University did a splendid work
at Attica, n. Y, by the two sisters Marietta
Ingham and Emily lngham ~tStaunton). re-
moved In 1897 to Leroy, where 10 was con;
about 1892, 1t meant in its prime quite as much
to women as Yale did to men. But it did
the necessary endowmsnts' and In the course
of time by means OF foreclosure IL came into
the hands Of the late William Lampson. Since
then it has existed only as an elevating intiu-
ence and a fragrant memory.
When the sisters died. surrounded by the
evidences OF their beneflcent lifework, low.
ing hands bore them TO a little plot OF shaded
ground in the rear OF one of the buildings.
and there, as the most fitting place, laid them
to rest. There to-day. in this bargain lot OF
Yale real estate. they sleep. 1t is this pathetic,
lonely little burial ground, perhaps fifty feet
square,. that points the Jest OF the Yale
treasurer.
hope that when title to Ingham University
again passes 10 will be to kindlier and more
r~everent hands than those OF Yale. and that
when the treasure has. with full honors. been
unbeaten football team. no alumnus of Yale
and surely no member Of his family will live
TO read that the Joke In finally on him because
to purchase a corporations bar gain lot Of
real estate. r. S.
NEW YORK. December ~.
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srArE can IMPORT LABORERs
south CarOIIna's Methods or Getting Imml-
grants Upheld.

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS.-An important de
cision, TO the effect that the prohibitions of
the contract labor law have no direct appli-
cation either to n state or TO an officer OF
a State, acting in its behalf and pursuant
TO its authority. was to-day made public
by Oscar s. Straus, I @ new Secretary of
Commerce and Labor. The opinion was
handed down by the solicitor of the Depart
ment and has the approval of Secretary
Straus.
There is thus settled until further action;
either by the Department OF Justice or
the Federal courts, a question that has for
some time been a matter OF controversy
between the Government authorities on
the one hand and labor leaders and others
opposed to unrestricted immigration on
the other. The decision will be of special
interest in the South, many States in that
section having passed laws with a view to
attracting desirable immigration.
The decision was based upon the action
Of the authorities OF the State OF South
Carolina in bringing from abroad 500 or
more immigrants for employment in various
industries. In order to relieve the scarcity
Of labor the South (arolina Legislature
passed a law creating a Department Of
Agriculture, Commerce and Immigration
and appointing a commissions at its head.
Among other things the law empowered
the commission to make such arrangements
with steamship companies and immigration
agencies In this country and abroad as
would best serve the interests Of successful
immigration.
On November 4 last the steamship witte-
kind arrived from Bremen at the port OF
Charleston, having IN board about AIS
aliens destined to various points In the
State. About 800 Of these aliens were Bel
gian mill operatives, their wives and chil-
dren. the remainder being composed Of
German farm laborers and women SEEK
ing domestic service. All OF these aliens
were induced to come to the United States
by the State Of South Carolina, the State
acting through the Medium OF its commits
sioner, who went to Europe for the purposes
and the passage money OF the aliens was
paid by the State.
Such an act performed by an individual
or a corporation would have been a VIOLA
ton of the contract labor laws. The imml-
grafton service was duly notified OF the
expected arrival of the immigrants, and
the right of such aliens to land was left to
the determination of the officers admin
istering the Federal immigration laws.
The question to be answ cred, the Solicf
tor says, Is reduced TO thbt HAS Congress
forbidden the use of the particular mode
of assistance or encouragement employed
in the present case notwithstanding that a
State Is the actor, through its authorized
agent?"
After pointing out that Congress has dis
tinctly authorized States and Territories
to encourage the immigration Of laborers,
the Solicitor concludes as follows:
The plan pursued as it is shown TO have
been carried out does not involve a violation
of the immigration law OF the United States
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HAGUE CONFERENCE IN MAY.
That Date Suggested by Holland and Like Iy
TO ne Accented

WASHINGTON, Dec. ls.-The Governments
of the Netherlands has signihed Its desire
that the next Hague peace conferences DO
held the latter part Of e May or early in
June, and it is regarded as quite certain
that that date will be fixed.
Holland is very anxious that the question
Of the date be settled soon so that proper
arrangements for the affair may be made.
II was originally designed that the second
conference should be held In July, but for
several reasons, chiefly the objection OF the
Government here to the proposed date be-
cause of its conflict with the Pan-American
conference in Rio de J~aneiro, there was an
indefinite p-ostponement.
Several months ago the Russian Govern
ment sent out a tentative programme TO the
Powers which will participate in the next
conference, and since then this has been the
subject of a general discussion among
nations. II is said now that the programme
is nearing completion.
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CUTS OFF II. n. IT'S So, 900.
Fire COMMISSIONS Lantry Refuses to Pay
for the Use OF It's Poles.


for the Use OF IT'S Poles.
Fire COMMISSIONS Lantry made public
yesterday a letter he had sent to the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company relative to the
payment Of 81 900 a year by the city for the
use Of the cOmpany's poles for carrying
fire alarm telegraph wires. Ever since
Brooklyn was taken into Greater New
York the city has had a contract with the
b. X. I. for using its poles for its fire wires.
Commissioner Lantry did not know of
the contract until he was called upon 10
pay the ~ 900 for the current year. He
refused to do so and referred the matter
to the Corporation Counsel, who told him
that inasmuch as the contract had been
signed by his predecessor the money must
be paid. The Corporation Counsel advised
against the renewal Of the contract.
The Commissioners idea il that the rail
road gets enough in the way of a franchise
and protection as "A recompense TO- the use
of its poles. Maintenance of the wires costs
the company nothing, he says. He said
he would refuse to renew the ~contvact,
Suppose the b. X. +. people tear down
your wires?" the Commissioners was asked.
I'D like to see them try IT," was the re-
Spouse They wouldn't see what I'd do,
but b the people would do"
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lMissouri's New Coat-or-arms.

Columbia correspondence Kansas CRv star.
Missouri has q new coat -of-arms. The State has
been provided with a new seal. The Missouri
Poultry Association has decided that the sturdy
Wing George Burckhartt. who suggested, and the
nrst General Assembly. which adoped. the coat,
of arms OF great seel OF the State OF Missouri, while
well enough for their day. did not ntly represent
the State OF Missouri as II is to-day.
The old coat-of-arms had two bears upon Il,
grizzly bears. too. though Missouri had no grizzly
bears at that time II ever In Its borders. The new
coat of arms which the Missouri Poultry Assocla
ton has adopted for Its own use and proposes for
adoption by the state at large as the great seal
has upon Il. instead OF the sutiquated and anachron.
istlc bears. two chickens. Otherwise the seal would
remain unchanged.
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Complaint OF the Presidents Growing military
Family,

To THR EDITOR OF THE SUN-ST; The number
Of army and navy aides appointed by the President
now amounts TO ten. Why does he require this
large military Householder No other President
ever had so many. The whole thing is ridiculous.
and reminds one OF a foreign court. They are
certainly unnecessary and are certainly wrong.
especially when the army and navy complain of
lack OF officers. One army and one navy aide
ought to be enough. II Is a scandal Of pull.
NEW YORK, december IS. CITIZEN.
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J~ournsu.tlc Experience In K~.ntucky.
Frou Oh, Novn,ld N~,ss,no,y.

From ne havneld Messenger.
Necessity is the mother OF invention. The limit
was certainly reached Monday afternoon when the
Messenger came out, About the time the forms
were made up and ready to 20 on the press q gentle
voice was heard from the central ONCE saying. as
usual, There would be no power that afternoon"
IL then became necessary TO devise ways and
means by which 10 get out the paper. For me
Messenger 20 fail TO come out brings sorrow 10 NJ.
most every home In the city.
Finally II was decided to run the big press with
an ice cream freezing machine. The devil and
every other available force IN the once were pressed
into service when the fee cream freezer was started,
and after an hours hard work enough papers were
run OF to supply the city circulation.
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Cutting Cape Cod at the Shoulder

The Cape Cod canal, which now seems
IN a fair way to be dug, dates back as a
conception to the seventeenth century.
II is related hat as early as 1875 a citizen
of Sandwich proposed a cut from Cape
Cod Bay TO tidewater on Monument
River, and in 1897 the colonial legisla-
ture actually appointed a commission
to consider the project. General ACHIN
In l776 began surveys for n canal but
never completed them, the times not
being favorable to commercial devel-
opmenk There was a revival Of the
scheme In is24, when Congress took it
%. Again on the outbreak of a great
war, In 1850, surveys were begun, and this
time they were finished, but not a spade
was struck. General FOSTER in 1875
drew up an elaborate plan for a canal
without locks. Ten years passed with no
action and then the inventor Of a patent
dredge went to work and had made a very
respectable ditch a mile long when he
died and his scheme with him.
Now the design Of FOSTER on a more
ambitious scale is to be executed-so it
is said; but the wonder is that for two
centuries the bent arm Of Cape Cod
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cIumsy Method, in City Psyma.t,r's once.

other year passes II Is 70 be hoped that Comptroller
Metz, or whoever has charge OF the City Psymaster's
once, may devise some other way than the one
now In vogue TO pay on the city's election on1cers.
This year. as in previous years, We had TO gather
in the basement OF a building in Reade street. be
kept in line by two vigorous young cops. who ought
to have been doing police duty elsewhere and who
were In turn bossed by two older cops. who ought
to have been retired, and although we were detained
more than an hour were prevented from smoking.
although the employees smoked as they wished.
There seems to be no good reason why checks
should not be mailed to those entitled to them and
time and money saved to the city and tho election
onicers. WILLIAM cADIk.
NEW YORK, December lS.
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Education Of British Princes,

From RsvnOIdSs Newspaper.
Events viii show before long that the King has
no intention OF his eldest grandson devoting him
self seriously TO the navy and that he destlnes him
for q military career.
Not every one Is aware that In the case Of children
in the direct line of succession II Ia the sovereign
that is responsible for their education and upbring.
ing. and not their parents. Hence II comes about
that the King has 10 be consulted personally upou
everything connected with the children OF the
Prince OF Wales.
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RIM Down.

II YOU hear a loud honk honk
Warning Of the highway,
You may yet avoid It's wheels
Darling down a byway.
II locomotive screech
Whistles It's derisiOn,
You can hustle on the road
And escape collision.
n you hear a DINING clang
Heralding a trolley.
You can COO and eve have
Cause 10 rue your folly.
hut you have TO stand night fast,
Joying In the Jingle.
II but once your ears have heard
Bells OF old Kris Krngie.
MclANDpuaoK WuAox