The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-07-01

exposition, to be held in 1910. May he live
to open it!-Boston Globe.
Just about now Commander Peary
might make his proposed North Pole trip
a popular excursion party.-Baltimore
Sun.
Plainly the Chinese who resent the in
PRODUCTION of trolley cars have not
thought to secure comfort by tying their
pigtails 10 the ps.-Boston Transcript.
II is quite clear that during John Tenn
pie Graves visit to Sycamore Hill the
president did not point out to him the
benefits to be derived from saving wood.
washington Post
A thousand years ago an English king,
with Mark Twain at his garden party,
would have conceived the brilliant idea
OF cornering his humor and making him
the court jester.-Springfield Republican
Grover Clevelands tribute to Thomas
+. Bayard was not a glorification of 1.-The
strenuous life." but 1t was a beautiful
sermon on American character, and IL
will have its effect-Hartford Times.
The Canal zone bids fair to become ia
nous as health resort. Disease of every
kind has been reduced to about ! per
cent. and malaria has become SO infre-
quent that In a construction camp of 723
persons there was only one case on May
25.-Baltimore News
New Workers may well take alarm at
the report of Professor Sabin OF the Unit
versity of Vermont that electrolysls is
likely to dlsintegrate the Brooklyn and
Williamsburg bridges so rapidly as to en-
danger their safety within a few years,
IL prompt measures are not taken to con-
trol the leakage from trolley and other
electric wires. Professor Sabin Is an au-
thorty who cannot be ignored.-Buffalo
Express.
The committee on railroads of the Mas
sachusetts legislature has unanimously
reported Speakers Coles bill, which post
pones for a year validating the merger
OF the New Haven railroad with the Bos-
ION and Maine In the meantime the
people OF Massachusetts, will have an
opportunity TO make up their minds
whether they want the merger or not,
and the state will have time 10 devise
puts all Its traffic into the hands OF
foreign" corporation. The difficult
problem of preventing n practical mer-
ger through the harmonious action or IN
dlviduals or interests in both companies
seems to be solved, II the courts snould
sustain certain drastic provisions of the
Cole bill.
setts corporation; the New Haven Con-
necticut corporation. The bill first for
bids any railroad company 10 acquire
stock in any domestic-that Is, Massa-
chusetts-railroad company. then pro-
hibits any domestic railroad company
from permitting any shares OF its stock to
be voted In behalf of another corporation
at the election OF directors or onloe,s,
nj Officers
| nestle company TO let the other corpora
| ton exercise any control over IL. Opvl-
| ously, so long as there are minority
stockholders n practical merger, sucn as
| has been effected between the New Ha-
ven and the Boston and Maine through
interests friendly TO the New Haven. anu
owning majority of stock In the other
| road will have no legal control OF tne
| Boston and Maine. BY July 1, lsOS, the
| date when this prohibition expires, Mas
sachusetts will have formulated its poll
| icy.
| Apparently there is no important oppo-
| stion to the proposed merger in Massa-
| chusetts and certainly the rest OF New
| England regards II with favor.
| The merger is n vital question 10 Bos-
| ton, for the combination owns the impor-
| tant steam roads OF New England except
/ one, a network OF trolley lines ana most
| Of the coastwise steamship lines, and
when IL Is completed. Boston Will be
practically dependent upon u for all its
| transportation. Then, too, the company
| i'm control of this vast system will not bo
n Massachusetts corporation. aud there
| fore completely amenablc To the state
| laws but foreign" corporation. Massa =
| chusetts Is accustomed to the state reg
| ulation of its railroad companies, ana the
| concentration of practically all the states
| trafr I'm the hands OF foreign corpora
| tion over which the states regulative au-
| thorlty Is limited. and perhaps doubtful,
| looks TO the people like questionable
| experiment. IL is "a surrender OF a large
| part of the states natural authority and
| Tho sanction OF the use of iaTea sSwers
whsct. as the history OF railroads in this
| country has taught. are open to abuse
| New York Tribune.
The race antipathies that exist else
where when persons OF the white race on
| one side. and OF the dark races on the
other. are brought into social contact
broke out In the office OF the supervising
architect OF the treasury at the national
capital yesterday and manifested itself In
q personal encounter between white