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The Public FutMtues Commission

TIC THE EDITOR OF Tbs SUN-Sir: Refer
ring to your editorial of to-day, unless hose
who heard and voted for him were delude ed
by his promises the destructive futility Of
the Public Service Commission must indeed
be a source Of ~grievOus concern to Governor
Hughes.
As far as Brooklyn Is concerned the condi-
ton of affairs is more intolerab BILE, disgusting
and brutal than ever before. not with nding
the windy start of the commission to effect
an amelioratiOn.
All this commission seems to ha We done was
to climb up a ladder and down again at the
end Of the Bridge in order 10 see the crowd
ing. scrouging mass of people who relied
upon Governor Hughes to appoint men who
might be able to avoid in some measure At
least this state of things.
In your editorial you hardly went far enough
to suggest that this business will be the cause
OF forcing Governor Hughes entirely out Of
consideration for future political preferment
unless he admits that he has made a mistake.
removes the chair warmers and appoints men
who will make good his promises before and
after election.
How many of your readers are aware of
what IL cost to run this life pension scheme
last year. and how much better IL would be
to I~egisIate 1t entirely out of existence?
Its present application to the Board Of Esti-
mate for 1908 expenses Is 81 .O05. OOOl Print it
for the edihcation of your readers:
once. telephone and rentals. $50 900: salaries,
@SO.OOO; furniture. $500: printing. stationery and
supplies, SIS 900; disbursements OF employees and
counsel, $4,000; maps, plant. prints and photo.
graphic apparatus, 900: engineering Instruments
and supplies, $4,000: compensation and expenses
OF special commissions, ~ 1000: advertising. se5. 600:
real estate searches and appraisals. o. 500; contin-
Eencies and rapid transit studies, $50. 900. and special
service and Investigations. $4,000.
IL seems TO be up to Comptroller Metz also.
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The Galllnger shipping Bill.

The essential feature of the shipping
bill introduced by Senator CHALLENGER is
commendable. 1t puts a premium on a
first class service. The present trouble
with our South American trade in par
ticular is not that there are no vessels to
carry freight, but that the entire system
Of communication is hOpelessly slow in
comparison with the facilities offered by
lines from Europe to South American
ports, In the matter of elapsed time
between the date of ordering merchan-
disc and its delivery Europe has an adj
vantage over this country by at least
four weeks. The matter of physical
comfort for passengers is also Of great
Importance.
The GalliAger bill proposes an extern
sion of the ocean mail law Of 1891 so that
sixteen knot steamers on South American
and Pacific Ocean routes exceeding 1000
miles shall receive 81 an outward mile.
A sixteen knot service is all that is at
present required on those routes. Ships
of that speed are vessels of size and
possible comfort. In a list of ninety-six
steamers sailing from New York to the
River Plate during the year 1906 the
largest was the African Prince, of 1882
tons, and only four others exceeded 5000
tons. From that they drop to l,4O4 tons,
and the average of all was 2,27O tons.
Neither proper speed nor decent passen-
ger comforts are possible on such ships.
They will do for the transportation of
hides, coffee and wool, for lumber and
steel rails, but they are impossible for
either mails or passengers.
With proper mail service orders will
come to our merchants, and a proper
passenger service will bring us custom
ers in person. We can at least try the
experiment for a number Of years. The
country can well afford it. and there ia
every reason for belief that it would
prove a highly profitable investment.
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There is a bose Republican attempt to
dethrOne oUe OF the most illustrious OF
Kentucky characters Colonel JACK CHINN
is a member Of the Kentucky Senate. He
Is also a member of the Kentucky State
Racing Commission. OF the latter body he
was, indeed. the creator. The Republicans
pretend that no man has a right to hold
two State Offices at ono Possibly they
are right. Colonel JACK CHM. however,
is more than a a He is a hearty and
heroic character. endeared to the world by
his spirits. his humOr and his abounding-
ness. We should say that about thirteen
jobs would be needod to keep him fairly
buaV.
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TEE SUN speaks OF him as -JEFF DAVIS H." We
protest and Insist that THE SUN shall apologize,
We do not care how mean IL 10 In hamstringing It's
own statesmen and public men, but IL Is nothing
short of indecent for II to associate the two
DAvIsEs In any way. THE SUN knows II, and ought
to take II back and say that II Is sorry .-ChdrIesfoH
Nous and ConrssT.
We are sorry-extremely sorry-that the
usually acute and alert intelligence OF the
esteemed MIR. HEMPHILL Of the Charleston
Men 8 and Courier should swoon long enough
to let him dream that THE Sun meant or
could mean anything more by JEFF DAVIS
H." than the oolorless fact that JEFF DAVIS
Of Arkansas is the second of the name to
occupy a seat in the United States Senate.
When HEMPHILL is awake he knows better.
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TEE EORRARD a
Coaches and Critics Discussing the Pm
"A Substitute GuyKcsteN.

"A AWuNt4tNto BubMGaybNe
To n EDITOR or THE sUN-Sir. Ths
future Of the forward pass is the most ineer-
sstLng topic Of discussion growing out OF me
football OF 1907. It In evidently going % ~
a big question. Some lays ago in a letter
to THE SUN l argued against the pass as
tending to produce n reckless style OF play.
Repeating the idea in conversation with a
friend who studies the sport closely. "Ah.
yea." said he. every team that couldn't
work IL Ia against It," This hippant argu-
ment Is in great favor with a certain class OF
critics whose opinion Ia less TO be esteemed
than that OF certain others who have already
declared against the too free use OF the for
ward pass.
Walter Camp has publicly spoken against
10; but Yale beat Princeton with 1t. DR.. CaTlS.
williams OF the University Of Pennsylvania
favOrs restricting II. and vet Pennsylvania
made telling use OF the play In her big games.
Coach Halliday Of Cornell wan IL relegated
to Il more modest place in the football roper
tory. Cornell uD to her 1inal game at Phila-
delDhia was noted as a leading exponent NJ
the successful use OF the pass down the field
Baird Of Michigan dislikes che element Of
Others who. ACCORDING 10 n symposinm OF
expert football opinion in the Philadelphia
Press. dislike the present status OF the for
ward pass are Coaches Brooke OF Swarth-
more. Sharpe OF Yale and Roper OF princstOn.
Those who root. for the forward pass
ha ndling. OF the ball by British rugby teams.
We could incorporate work Of that brilliant
klnd m our own game without extending the
principle so far as we now do. The mistake
~ in sending the ball by a pass. down into
the enemy's territory. IL should ataV with
the team Formations might be Devised
and n Heed have been used with a degree Of
success that makes most remarkable the APP
parent indifference to their Doesihilities.in
which n runner about TO be tackled slips the
ball to a man OF his own side just behind and
outside his own path. such n play was put
through this year by at least one big team.
It's not the pass but the forward pass that
ought to be cut out. T. n, r.
NEW York. December n.
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The Right Place for a Motto,

To n EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: I do not
see that II Is OF much importance whether the
motto In God We Trust 4" appears on our gold
coins or not, for in any event the owner of
one OF them has something concerning the
value OF which there can be no question; but
IL the crazy and unOrthOdOx notions concern
ing the nature and function OF money at
present having expression in the food OF cur
rency bills which are before the Senate for
consideration are to prevail. then will IL be
both timely and appropriate that the afore-
mentioned motto appear on all our future
issues Of paper currency.
ALBERT r. GALLATIN.
NEW YORK. December n.
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THE NEW BUILDING code.
Importance OF q Thorough Understanding
Of Has Powers.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: 7 write
to call your attention TO the proposed build
ing code which was submitted to the Board
OF Aldermen on December 2. consideration Of
which was postponed for two weeks. The
provisions of this code are Of great interest
and importance to owners of real estate
throughout the city. 1'he code should receive
careful attention before its adoption. so that
such criticisms as may be proper may be
presented.
The most important provisions Of this code.
so far as real estate values are concerned, are
contained in the sections in relation to light
and ventilation, height and area and the
general provisions in relation to staircaees.
The provisions In relation to Courtyards AMI
in relation to height and area should be con-
sidered together. Their tendency Is to in
crease the value of property on which high
buildings have already been erected and to
diminish the value Of properties which have
not as yet been improved, Any person or
corporation owing a plot Of vacant ground or
owning a plot coupled by buildings which
are merely maintained for the purpose OF pay
ing taxes or carrying charges until some. per-
maneDt Improvement can be arranged for
will suffer greatly by the restrictions imposed
by this code. r. G.. BABBA0E,
Vice-Preside nt United States Realty and
Improvement Company.
NEW YORK, December II.
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The south ian Congress.

The Hon. J. WARREN KEIFER of the
Seventh Ohio district has introduced in
the House Of Representatives the first bill
for the reduction of the representation of
Southern States that has come TO light
in the Sixtieth Congress. Mr.. KEIFEB,
fully aware Of the policy Of evasion
adopted by his fellow Republicans on
this subject, refused TO be silent on il in
the Fifty-ninth Congress, and shows no
sign OF letting it drop now.
His present bill would cut the Alabama
delegation to the House from nine to
five members, that Of Arkansas from
seven to FIVE, that of Florida from three
10 two, that of Georgia from eleven to
six, that Of Louisiana from wen to
three. that Of Mississippi from eight to
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The Fees OF Counsel for Receivers.

The Fees OF Counsel for Receivers.
An extreme case, but a typical case,
illustrating the enormous charges made
by counsel for receivers, is now before
THOMAS +. CONWAY AZ referee. He il
taking the fourth yearly accounting Of
CHARLES VI. PRESTON as receiver of the
New York Building Loan Banking Com
pany.
This banking company had some II 900
depositOrs and So, 900 900 invested when
it failed in 1903. The depOsitors have
been paid 10 per cent, and they hope to
receive an additional and final payment
of Z per rent. Notwithstanding the
meagre and wretched showing Of the
defunct corporation, the receivers at
tOrney or counsel, young Mr.. DAYTON,
asks for $4,000 for his services from
January, 1907, to September II, 1907.
This is at the ate of $40, 900 a year. OF
course no young lawyers services are
worth any such sum, and it may well
he doubted whether they are worth One
half the mount OF ever ~one-quarter; but
this individual case is of no special
importance, except as it serves to illus
trate an existing danger; that is TO say.
the payment of excessive fees out Of the
depleted treasury of a defunct corpora
ton.
What is the remedy? What should he
done? IL is certain hat in the coming
session of the Legislature some act will
be passed limiting the fees of the attorney
or counsel for a receiver. While the
compensation of a receiver is limited by
law to $l2 200 a year, there would seem
to be no good reason why the compensa-
ton Of his lawyer should not also be re-
strained by statute.
A proper limitation would be the re-
strictiOn Of the fees of the receivers
lawyer, whether he be termed an attor-
ney or counsel, to the sum allowed to
the receiver, except in cases where the
net assets or the moneys actually paid
as dividends TO the depositors and credi-
tors shall exceed 80 per cent. of the liza
bilities Of the insOlvent concern, when
the lawyer might be paid such further
sum IL should be fixed by the Court.
When we bear in mind that in the case
of a receivership every dollar paid t a
receiver Dr. to his lawyer is taken from
the pockets of depositOrs and creditors,
the restriction of fees would seem to be
only a matter Of common justice, for
otherwise the forms of law would be
used only to increase and 3 o aggravate
the burdens and the losses of the unfor-
tunate.
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From the TammGnV Times

From the TdmmdRv Times.
II the Mason and Dixon line can be wiped
out at the next national convention there il
available as DemOcracy's sta md bearer
one of the brOadest. sanest statesmen In the
land ~tO-day-SenatOr Charles A. Culberson OF
Texas.
The South furnishes the bulk Of DemOc-
raCy's electoral vote even when the party Of
jefferson triumphs. and in days of adversely
from Dixie comes practically all the vote
polled by the Democratic candidate in the
electoral college. Therefore IL seems absur
to thinking men that the prejudice inherited
from civil war times should still exist.
In fact. that buRbear OF the Democratic
party the Mason and Dixon line far ante
dates the civil war or even the Revolution.
When Lord Baltimore sought to end the dis
putes over the boundaries Of the proprietary
colony of Maryland he enRag ed two young
surveyors. Mason and Dixon by name, to
mark the border. This liz the line that in the
minds Of many would bar an able. conserve 10
tive, conscientious and popular Southern
Democrat from the Presid entail nomination
in order that it may be bestowed for the third
time on a Nebraskan who cannot carry his
own city or ward. much less his State.
His election as minority leader of the Senate
was a signal honor for Senator Culberson
As a parliamentarian he has few peers on
either side OF the Senate. His character as a
public man has won the esteem Of his asAo-
~ciates, and his ability and experience compel
their confidence. The Democratic minorit y
In the Senate is fortunate in its leader. and
the party itself would be far more fortunate
II. as a compromise candidate, the Texan
could secure the Presidential nomination.
While senator Culberson is persona gra'a
to the Bryan or radical wing OF the party, he
IL at heart a conservative. and his nomina -
ton wOuld be hailed with acclaim by many
thousands of Democrats who will never vot 2
for William Jennings Bryan or any other man
who is a victim of the Populist faint.
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form has been started when FRS did not
get busy? What good thing did he ever
let get by?
For the glory Of establishing the pub
hcity bureau, Of erecting that stupendOus
downfall Old Home Week, and Of break
ing it to an uniformed nation that BOs-
ton needed booming, who would desire
to dispute with FRS? Has he not en-
larged the cemeteries, reinforced the
debt and doubled the income to the flag
stone contractor?
Never in the annals of cities had the
man in the City Hall invited and or
dained an Investigation into his own
finances. The commission appointed by
Sugar FRS has ran like a clock that can't
be stopped. Twice a day for weeks it
has struck % for the man that wound it
up. The citizens, instead OF ~applauding
the Lord Mayor for letting the Finance
Commission lift the lid, have with typical
lack of logic blamed the grand little man
for what was found under il. Fancy
being cross with a magistrate who bares
his bosom and finds a scapeGOat for
every sin! Yet il has rained bricks in
the Mayors Office for forty days and
forty nights, and election at the end Of
It. All the wrath Of an unreasOning and
Moranized public has descended upon
the hero Of Cops Hill, COdman's Lot
and KlOus's Coal Pocket.
We do not see how the Lord Mayor
could have done more than il il now
known that he has done. Yet his can
didate for the school committee, the Hon.
JCLIA f. DUFF Of Botany Bay, is in solu-
ton, and Sugar himself is graduated.
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stranx. umcId.nt I'm On. subway.

To TIE EDITION or THE SUN-Sr: Last evening
I was returning home from a hard day at business,
worn out and tagged. when at one OF the stations
for express stops q lady entered the car aud took
up a position quite near TO me. She being of middle
age and encumbered With several bundles. I
bethouEht 20 give her my seat. I rose saying
Madam. please accept my seat" She. turning.
replied: Pray, keep It yourself. sir. YOU look
tired and have probably worked very hard. while
I have only been shopping" I persisted. how
ever. and she accepted. thanking me very era
clOusly.
Even In these sOrdld times good breeding will
ever assert itself. JAZZ. SEE.
NEW YORK, December H..
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To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-tStr, For the past
three days ! have been Witnessing the aTony OF the
horses trying 10 Keep their footing on tho slippery
streets. IL Is such a palpaDle cruelty and the
remedy ls so simple that wonder steps haven't been
taken before this TO remedy the matter.
Why not have the street sweepers scatter saw
dust after they have cleaned up; The cost would
be comparatively nothing.
What Is everybody's business Is nObOdy's bust
ness: therefore | make my humble little plea In
the hope that II will make others wake up to the
necessity OF putting a stop to this state OF affairs.
new SORK, Decembe n. Dora HUNrINoroN.
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From the AbOsVIIs PTsss ana Bdnnsv.
The old public square OF tho horse racks and
mud Is rapidly passing. The removal OF the Old
court house sounded the death knell ana now the
Mayor 10 burylng II under a macadam pavement.
Don't call our market place square any more. but
place your thumbs In the arm pits OF your ves,.
throw out your chest and call IL Plaza with . long
drawl on the =" It IL all right for places IKE
Greenwood and Ninety slE To call the public mar,
The Square" but places like AbbeVIle and And-r.
son call IC The Plaza"
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why" asks DR.. CARL KELSEY of the
University of Pennsylvania. should the
mar who is an expert chef not he placed in
the same social category as a doctor OF a
clergyman" For several reasons. He is
too much Of a plutocrat. for n thing; and
as a genius he would be disconnected among
mere talents or mediocrities.
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FROM me iO0dJn Sfdhddr7,
Mr.. william Underwood, who has died At Rose
mary Homestead. on the Rockingham Castle estate
Of the MsJcndie family. had a length Of SerVic.
which probably constitutes a record. He started
work At the age OF q. and dying At 40 had worked
on the estate for tho long period Of seventy ,wo
years. during which time he had served four xen,r-
atIons NJ MaIendles.
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To THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN-.Sir: As an illus
tratlOn OF how athletic sports are spreading some
OF your readers may be Interested 10 know thas
France beat England last month In a track meeting.
The Racing Club OF France sent q team over and
beat Cambridge University on Its own ground By
ave events 20 four. This Is the nrst time either OF
the great universities has been licked by FrOEEy
on tho clnder path. An unexpected feature OF the
meeting was that the Englishmen won the short
and the Frenchmen the long distance races.
NEW YoRK, December II. q.
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Tar Hlll Romance.
From me RufhsyfoyasOn So

From the RuthsvfoydfOn Sun.
Mrs.. Lula Morrow. tho charming widow Of IN.
late Horace Morrow, departed by the light OF the
moon from her home AZ her brOther~ln Law. Boyd
Smith. in RutherfoTdton az . O'Clock Mondav
morning on matrimOnyb bent In company with John
Morrow. a handsome widower Of q years, ana thsy
rode In q buggy towards Forest City. The hurx,
broke down. then the couple led by Hymen's torch
walked three miles 10 the home OF z. 2. Lawrence.
ESQ., Who At daylight performed the marriage
m
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n OuT friends UhO fdpOT US nth manuscripts for
publication IRISH 10 haps rejected ARTICLES returned heU
must IN all cases send stamps for mat purpose.
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Euclid was trying q problem propounded By Ms
wife.
The cost ~ my present - hss ss.s gear il "a IN.
cost OF her present to me last year 90 % cents 10 to
WHAT
Giving IL up ne turned TO the bank statement for
light reading.
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Won't it be dull for the Bostonians now
that they are to have An intelligent Mayor
once more?
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From me Baker and COnTeetionev.
One thing Is very necessary 70 remember: DO moi
let the batter get chilled or worried In any way:
keep n tho SAINT even temperature. and you viii
have nice crumpets.
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Headline from the Chicago Record -Hsy1ld.
n BEATTY LOSES GIFTS FROM FATHER.
JEWELS sroLEN ~ sURoLARs sxLRcrxD sg TEN
LATE MARsHALL gLRLp.
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A nne specimen Of that ancient instrument Of
torture a "scOld's chair" was recently disposed
Of by suction At Sherneld Manor, Basin RStoke
England.-BuRdIO Commercial.
A Christmas present to the White House?
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Paris once. az Rue Louis lie Grand. The daily and
Sunday editions are on sale at KlOsquc ~. near the
Grand Hotel: KiOsdue ~. Boulevard deS Capucines,
corner Place de rOpera. and KIOsque ~, Boulevard
DIES Itallens. corner Rue Louis 10 Grand.
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subscriptions by Mail. Postpaid.

Published by the sun Printing and Publishing
Association nj no Nassau street. In the Borough of
Manhattan. New York. President and Treasurer
Of the Association. william NJ. Lafan. 100 Nassau
street: Secretary Of the Association. Franklin
Bartlett. 8 Nassau street.
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I;sntIeman from Barat Corn.

From ths Montgomery Advertiser.
Mr.. william Sslter Of Burnt Corn Is attending tho
Grand Lodge OF Masona.
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New York will now be asking
Every sunday tsuch Is faten:
sister cities. pray. do tell me
Is
my
straight
.. p. PTrzkA.