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CUBAN CENSUS c n
Gov. Mago0n Starts Programme for Resto.
ration Of Republic.
Special C0b,e Despatch 10 TIE SUN

Special C0be DtSp1ieh 10 TIE SUN.
HAVANA, May S.-Gov. Magoon issued
to-day a decree for the taking OF a census
Of the inhabitants OF the island, which is
the first step in the programme for the re-
establishment Of the republic. Municipal
elections will follow the completion OF the
census and the Presidential election will be
held later.
The decree shows that the census will
not cover economic conditions, but only the
population, conjugal condition, race, ma
~tionality, citizenship, occupation, literacy
and the school attendance OF children
under IS years Of g
The island will be divided into six sections
for census purposes, the boundaries Of
which will be the same as those OF the prov
inces. Each section will be undivided into
districts having no more than 1 500 inhab.
itants In the towns and 1000 in the country.
Article II OF the decree provides against
the possibility Of politics influencing the
appointments, saying that the enumerators
and other employees shall be selected for
their fitness only. IL stipulates that II
an employee wilfully neElects his work
he will be liable to a fine OF 500.
Making false returns will entail q fine OF
5000 or imprisonment for two years.
Givers Of false information may be pun
ished by the imposition OF a maximum
fine OF $1,000 or imprisonment for a year.
Impersonation Of a census enumerator
will render the impersonator liable 70 a
fine Of $1,000 or imprisonment for a year.
Mr.. 0lmstead, the director Of the census,
will receive a salary Of $3.50 monthly. An
assistant director, who has not yet been
named, will receive $500 monthly, In a
later decree Gov. Magoon will fx a time
limit for the actual count Of the inhab-
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GATES HASN'T CUT The WIRE.
VII. he Back Near q Ticker About Septem-
Der ] Next q Report BE Trne.

VII De Back Near q Ticker About Septems
Der ! Next Or Report he True.
John w. Gates Ia already r~epenting his
determination TO keep away from the stock
market, according TO a report vouohed for
by q number OF brokers yesterday. MIR.
Gates, II wns said. has taken Office room in
one Of the brokerage houses which has
taken over one OF the branch Offices Of
Charles G. Gates a Co. and has notified the
members Of the house that he will be
on hand on or about September 1, He has
decided, in other words, to cut down
his European trip from a year to two
months. which is Of itself a recession
from his vow Of last week. 1t is ex-
peoted that proximity to the ticker will
do the rest and that the long stereotyped
phrase Gates is buying will again be
seen on the financial bulletins. Prior to
their sailing for Europe on July / Mr., Gates
and his son. Charles @. Gates. will spend
considerable time In Texas. where they
nave business interests.
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BONNER MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED.
Grlfnth. Grandson Of Robert. Has Been q
Bridegroom Two Weeks.

Grifith Bonner. a son Of Mr.. and Mrs:
Robert Z. Bonner, and Q grandson Of the
late Robert Bonner. surprised his parents
two weeks ago by getting married TO Mrs.
Helen o. Edwards. The ceremony was
performed at the Church Of the Holy Com
munion by the Rev, R. W. woodroofe on
Thursday. April Is. Mrs. Edwards Is a
daughter OF the : late Cornelius Williams
Of Richmond, Va, and lived at that town
with her mother. She was a widow. There
was absolutely no objection to the match
by either family and Robert Z. Bonner,
talking about 1t last night. said 1t was simply
g case Of the impetuoSity Of youth The
announcement OF the marriages was made
yesterday, and the bride and bridegroom
after being congratulated by all their rela-
tives and friends are now enjoying a short
trip out Of town.
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SENATOR PLATT MOVES.
Row Boarding In West Eleventh street
VITA MIR. and Mrs. Abel.

WITH Mr.. N Mrs. Abel.
United States Senator Plat has removed
from the rooms he had occupied in the Hotel
Gotham since the opening Of the lace into
a small fiat on the third floor OF an apart
ment house at 1876 West Eleventh street.
He is boarding there with Mr.. and Mrs.
Abel. Mrs. Abel has been giving him mas
sage treatment for more than a year. She
used to visit him at the Gotham daily to
give the treatment.
He relinquished his rooms at the hotel a
week ago last Monday and on the same day
the Abels moved into the West Eleventh
street fiat. Senator Plat came there to
live that night and has lived there ever
since. His valet calls for him every morn
ing and assists him to a carriage and at
night he comes back in the carriage and
is helped into the elevator by the valet.
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HELD FOR BIG ART ROBBERY
London Walter Accused Or Looiing Charles
Wertheimers Collection.
Special Gable Dsspahh 10 TEE sun.

Special Gable Dsspateh 10 TEE sun.
LONDON, May s.-John Smith. 81 years
old. A waiter, was charged In the MARI
borough street police court TO-DAY with
robbing the Park Lane house Of Charles
Wertheimor, the art dealer. on January II
last. on which occasion valuable paintings
by Gainsborough and Reynolds were cut
from their frames and carried OF. and anum-
Der Of ~snuiiboxes and miniatures y'ere also
stolen
The prisoner was arrested yesterday by
means OF a ruse. A search OF his lodgings
resulted In the discovery OF much OF the
stolen property. but two miniatures. studded
with gens and the oainsborough and Rey-
nolds pictures are still missing. The paint
lnEs taken by the burglars are valued at
$4,000. H.
Smith wa remAnded for a week.
Smith 10 an allaA assumed by the pris-
onsr, his real name being Rodonl, He 10 =
Swiss. Ne "a apparently the tool Of an s1-
.pertencS6 gang Of thieves, There u hope
Of rUcovsFihE the stolen pictures
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HOME BURNED, GUEST DEAD.

Mr. and Mrs. stephen MattheWBon and q
Servant Badly Injured.
In a fire which destroyed the two story
frame house owned by Stephen Matthew
BON. a coffee broker, AZ $50 Ocean avenue,
Duppin Of Kentucky, a guest Of the Matthew.
sons, was suffocated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthewson and a oolored
servant were badly burned and were sent
TO the Kings County Hospital.
Mfr. Mattheveon has an Office at Of Wall
street. Manhattan.
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ADMIRAL EVANS REPORTED I'LL.
RumOred That He Has Relinaulshed Active
Command and May Soon Retire.

RunnOred That He Has Relinqulshed Active
Command and May Soon Retire.
NORFOLK. May s.-Rumor in naval circles
here Is that Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans.
commander -in-chief Of the Atlantic feet,
will ask to, be relieved from the command
IN account OF Ill health. and perhaps re-
tired permanently.
The Admiral several days ago relinquished
active command to Rear Admiral Charles
H. Davis. commander Of Che second division
Of the feet.
Admiral Evans, it is reported, has not
been aboard his flagship. the Connecticut,
for several days. He Is supposed TO be.
occupying a room at the Hotel C~hamberlin.
Old Point Comfort.
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THREAT TO LYNCH NEW yorker.
Thomas W. Troy Accused Of Shooting Nan
IN q Florida BaFrOOm.

WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. May S.+Thomas
w. Troy Of New York was hurried from
here TO Miami this afternoon in ar auto
mobile, which was run at top speed. In order
to prevent him from being lynched for
killing George M. Newcomb Ivy shooting
him.
The tragedy occurred In o saloon q few
minutes after Troy came ashore from the
steamer Cecilia, which put in here from
South American ports. Troy walked into
the saloon and after several drinks became
involved in q quarrel with Newcomb. who
had entered while Troy was drinking The
quarrel was caused by NegoOmb refusing
to drink with Troy.
Eyewitnesses say Troy exclaimed: Il
will make you drink. and drew his pistol.
Newcomb still refused and Troy fired
two bullets into him. causing instant death.
Troy was arrested and the Coroner sum.
moned a jury, which returned q verdict Of
murder. Newcomb's friends gathered and
swore they would lynch Troy. The crowd
started for him, hut Sheriff Martin forced
the prisoner into an automobile and dashed
TO Miami.
Troy says he. left the steamer In order
to hurry to New York by train. He seys
he shot In self defence. Troy says he and
his brother, Daniel W. Troy Of 90 Wall street,
are in the lumber business. He wired to
his brother TO come TO his aid.
Neweomb was a prominent citizen, He
recently came here from Iowa. His mother
and sister are In California.
Daniel w. Troy Is a lawyer with an Office
at 40 Wall street. and lives at III West
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WANT LUMBER TARIFF REMOVED.
wisconsin Assembly Unanimously Adopts
Memorial 20 CONGRESS.

MADISON, Wis. May s.--By unanimous
vote the Assembly to-day adopted a reso-
luton memorializing Congress to remove
the tariff on lumber.
The Assembly also adopted a resolution
providing for an investigation Of the opera
tions Of the lumber trust in Wisconsin
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NAVY FOR AUSTRALIA.
Colony to Withdraw Subsidy TO England and
Start One.
.sp-eia' Caols Dt,pIieh 10 THE sun.

Sp.eia' Caoie DespIteh 70 THE Sun.
LONDON, May Sit is stated unoficislly
that the Government has acceded to the
wish of Australia to rescind her annual
contribution Of 81 100000 toward a naval
squadron for Australasia.
The Commonwealth will equip and main
tein its own navy
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Daniel w. Troy Is a lawyer with an Office
at 40 Wall street. and lives at III West
ioith street. II was said at the house last
night that he Mad gone out Of town.
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teen months OF our married life were less
than SIS a week. We paid IS a week for two
rooms in Harlem. One Of them was
water. did all the cooking except for an
restaurant and all the washing except my
husbands shirts and collars. Two dollars
and a a was the amount he allowed hims
had seven and a half for food. gas bills,
laundry and TO replenish our wardrobes.
Fortunately we both started out with a
good supply OF clothes and there was moth
ing TO do beyond keeping them in repair.
The other fl0Y Oh, we put that in
bank, Regularly every Monday morning
made a visit TO a nearby savings ban
feeling as rich a a queen. That $40 not
only represented my husbands earnings,
but my savings. You think il a small am
bition for a highly educated woman with a
degree. Yet $40 a week was more than |
had ever saved out OF my thirty-fve, and
more than my husband had saved before /
married him | knew hat each Of us was
happier for the companionship OF tho other,
that my husband was more valuable to his
employers and that well, l had changed
from a wage spender TO a wage saver.
Certainly the latter is OF more value 20 the
country than the former.
After eight months our weekly deposit
was doubled. My husbands salary was
increa sed just that much. When giving
tho raise the head ~ he firm told him that
they had been struck by the change In his
habits since his marriage. Where before
be had been continually applying Tor leave
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Office for a month before / ever gave him a
second thought. There was an error In some
calculation that he had made about the cost
Of a large building which the firm that
employed us both was constructing. had
other calculations to make based on his
figures, Mine were wofully of, and search
ing for the mistake ! found his error.
my attack was not very amiable, 90 our
acquaintance did not have a very romantic
beginning. We had been working together
in that Office for nearly two years when
he proposed TO me. Will you think any
the less Of US when you know that / was
earning ten dollars a week more than hei
l had been twice promoted and he only
once. though he had been with the firm six
months longer and had come to them with
two years experience in the same line Of
work, while | entered their employ direct
from college,
He was earning just S25 a week and l
accepted him. My friends pointed out the
career that | was giving up. but I deter
mined to bow before the great god Happi-
ness rather han the little god Success.
When he mentioned the sacrifices that !
would have to make as his wife asked il
he was willing to make his occasional
drink with friends, for I knew he never
drank at any other time, and his tobacco.
II was simply a matter OF economy.
Our weekly expenses for the first Ggh-
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again at another election" he c~ontinusd'
THAT time he got ten votes
One other man was rash enough TO come
up against the old own clerk, but the num-
Der Of votes he received is not known except
TO those who took part In the contest.
During the entire ffty-four years that
Mr.. Clark has been town clerk, the Office
has been closed only once for a period Of
two hours. on an occasion when Mr.. Clarke
and his family went TO some gathering IN
the neighborhood. II the town clerk hin'
self 10 not there one OF his three daughtsrsIs
and she can generally supply needed In
formation or can summon her father,
The old gentleman Ia one Of the hest
farmers in that section and still woTas
every day from 5 in the morning until at
night.
Il don't do much hoein' these days
said Mr.. Clarke, but ] always do the moving
every year"
Indeed he does" added one Of ms
daughters, and he goes OF the roller ana
spreader and the harrow
IL 10 rather odd hat his first nomination
came as a surprise TO him. He had n'..
attended that particular town meeting NY
his friends came and woke him up AZ u
o'clock at night 10 toll him the news,
He declared he didn't know how 20 U' =
town clerk but the people elected him any
how. He moved he records and hnoss
70 his house then and he ONCE has been
there ever aimee, -
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mistake in his figures showed, and restless.
! also knew he wal energetic and OF the
highest integrity. My work as | saw il was
10 serve as his anchor, TO give him a happy
home life and an object to work for. What
would my career have amounted TO at the
very best? ! couldn't have made for myself
a more comfortable home than I now have
! would be without my husband and chill
dren and II hadn't grown selfish and
cranky II would ave been a miracle.
My husband to-day is earning "a salary
OF ten thousand a year and Ia a member Of
the firm who employed him at the time OF
our marin sc. We are both still young
and still climbing. At first we worked for
each other, now we have the added incen-
tive OF our children. And while We are by
no means wealthy we have enough to lay
aside for an investment now and then.
"ln those first days we couldn't al ford the
theatre very often, but we went for long
walks in the country every Sunday and
often OF a summer evening we sat on the
banks and watched the North River flowing
by us. Now, while we can't afford a box,
we have very comfortable seats at the
opera. Besides our country home we keep
our apartment the year around in New
York, only occupying IL in the winter.
While the profession OF wife and mother
may not seem a brilliant career, | am sure
that IL ia the most satisfying. While the
beginning may he humble enough. IL the
girl will bcstow the same amount OF devo-
ton on her husband and her home that she
would have TO bring to her work 90 make a
success in the end her reward will be far
greater
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Of absence for a hunting or fishing trip,
and was hardly ever in the Office on time,
now he was always there to the minute
and had never asked for a days leave.
At the n Of eighteen months he was
getting $50 a week. Perhaps you think
that was not reward enough For the sacri-
fee OF my career. His career had become
my career, so thoroughly my own that
neither OF US ever thought OF II otherwise.
In making plans II was always our or
we there was no mine and thine in il.
Soon after his second raise we decided TO
move into the country M we put all our
little savings into the first payment on a
home.
AT the beginning Of tho third year our
first baby came, and although our expenses
we're increased very materially by the addi-
ton Of a regular servant and many smaller
items. IL was not long before our weekly
deposits were larger than they had ever
been. You see my husband was spurred
on by having a child az well as a wife to
support and by. steady application he was
forging 10 the front.
But how did | know | was getting snch
a man. you ask? How did my friends
know that I had a brilliant ca rcer before
me? IL was all n matter Of Judgment, OF
promise il IL generally called. While |
cannot claim TO have been madly or wildly
in love with him | did trust him implicitly.
] had seen him tried In little things, and
when n man and woman stand the tests
81 the little things in life, habit, IL nothing
else, Ia apt to tide them safely over tho
great affairs.
While i knew be was careless. az the
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The section of the new river road for
four or five miles south from West Point
may be dismissed with the st atement that
it will follow the line OF an existing good
road, which is not so well known as it might
be owing to its bad condition further to
the south. 1t passes along the base OF
the Bare Rock Mountain range, and 90
leads to Fort Montgomery.
The section from Fort Montgomery to
Jones Point is only second in interest to
the portion to be built north Of West Point.
Along this five mile stretch there is a rough
road in existence. the course Of which will
in general be followed by the new road,
most Of which is now under construction.
The present road offers even to-day a drive
full of wildness and charm, strangely diff
ferent from the hustle OF the great city
scarcely an hours ride away by railroad.
Passing just above the little railroad
station OF Fort Montgomery. it goes under
a curious aerial endless chain carrying
down scores Of moving buckets from the
side OF The Torne, a mile west, where a
little narrow gauge railway has brought
them their freight. which is iron ore. The
ore comes from a historic mine five miles
back in the mountains.
lhls mne has a main SHAFT nearly 1000
feet long. and has been worked almost
continuously since 1871. except for about
a dozen years when work was stopped
by litigation. 1t furnished iron for i'm
portant Revolutionary works.
The road passes just behind the ruins
Of old Fort Montgomery itself, buried be-
meath the shade OF a splendid hemlock
forest, The West Shore Railroad runs in a
tunnel directly beneath the old fort. but
probably very few Of those who pass
through there lave ever visited the locality
on foot. Neither do they know that in
the cove behind the track just above the
little station is the site OF what was perhaps
Uncle Sans first naval shipyard.
II was there that the Continental frigates
which were burned at the time Of the forts
capture had just been launched and equipped
for battle. The ribs Of one OF them may
yet be seen in the river at low water.
Beyond the fort the road dives down n
hill to cross on a high bridge the fine stream
whose name figures in so many Revolu-
tionary papers. Above the bridge is a
waterfall. Below 1t the stream widens
into an estuary, and as one looks down,
It's expanse he sect Anthony's Nose rising
In the gap across the Hudson. Between
that mountain and the mouth Of the stream
stretched the boom and chain desiRned
to prevent The passage Of the British ships
Of war.
Then the road climbs the opposite bank,
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cheering difficulties will be over for the
Cornwell section Of the road. though the
rounding OF the nose of the south peak
would puzzle the engineer on an ordinary
road plan. By the time the surveyors
had reached this point, however, they were
ready to laugh at all but the ha rdest prob
lens.
just beyond this nose il will be necessary
to tackle new difficulties in the West Point
section. The northern boundary of the
West Point reservation comes down inland
from the top Of the south peak of Gro Nest,
under the shadow Of the biggest precipice
along the river. A part of this cliff is in
the reservation.
Having got around or through this tow
erng cliff, with a high waterfall far up
its side, another deep Glove must be crossed,
beyond which the road will be- blasted
around a third projection OF the mountain.
steep but less formidable than the two
others. Thence the road will pass TO the
northerly extension Of the plateau on which
the Military Academy stands.
WORK on this Cornwall-Wes Point sac-
ton was slated for the present spring and
summer, but the engineers have taken up
the plans again for further revision. Work
20 GA IIpklNS'lllk vi ONlt EttAlpilS
OF the road further to the south.
Some Of the stories told by the surveyors
who worked along tho side of Storm King
and Gro Nest sound like tales of Western
engineering in the field. At some points
along the face Of the mountains they hung
ropes over the rocks, and up and down
these ropes they climbed in going to and
returning from their daily labors.
Impressed with their experiences, the
members Of the survey decided one day
that they would nave some pictures taken
and induced a gentleman who owned a
camera to accompany them to the field OF
operations. He did 80, with his camera.
was hauled up the rocks on a rope and
took the pictures. but went away vowing
never to repeat the experience.
One day they were climbing Gro Nest.
just below them was one Of the little track
mems shanties which dot the line OF the
West Shore Railroad. Within it sat the
trackman himself, warming himself by
the stove. Opposite him sat two OF the
surveyors, enjoying a quiet smoke before
going up the mountain.
Suddenly II OF the climbers dislodged
a rock, which started down the mountain
slope. Gathering momentum, 1t sped
faster and faster, and, to the horror Of the
men on the hillside, made straight for the
shanty. II struck the little building full
in the centre, burst into the interior, passed
between the men sitting at either side Of