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trcity whose successor il is. in the various
phases of the suits.
THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT.

Just s certain big corporations do. against
whose harmful activities it guards the public.
the commission maintains extensive legal
department This alone. it is estimated, will
cost $50 900 or $4,000 the coming year. Its
necessity may be imagined from one little ex-
ample OF it's work:
The counsel TO the commission noticed in the
newspapers that a lawsuit in which a Western
state was concerned to be carried to the
Supreme Court of the United States where
there be decided questions regarding
state control of public utilities and kindred sub
jectS of the utmost moment TO the Public Ser
vice Commission. He took up the subject, and
II was decided to retain +. b. Whitney. formerly
Assistant United States Attorney General, to aI'-
pear in the case, amiCus curiae. 10 present the
commissions views. When that lawyer, primed
with the commissions arguments. reached
Washington. ne found that the counsel fo- the
Consolidated Gas Company of this CITY, known
also as the Gas Trust" already had noted his
appearance amicus curiG. and protested IN the
most vigorous terms against the admission or
the commissions representative. 1t was case
where the CORPORATION was met with the corpo-
rationS weapons.
The legal department of the commission -
one which works overtime. When orders for
oetterment of service have been found neces-
sary the legal department drafts them. 1t
studies out the intricate and hidden points in
the franchises Of companies with which the
commission has to do business. II has not only
to defend any actions brought against the COM
mission. but it's staff is Of the greatest service
ouires which the commission always has In
progress. It's own lawyers conduct these hear
ings. and of them are specialists IN tram
sit subjects because Of the nature or this WorR
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
BUREAU OF FRANCHISES.

bureau of franchises is maintained by the
commission. consisting of four experts, who
work under the secretary One of the first acts
Of the commission was TO order each company
under its jurisdiction file certified copy of
every franchise under which 1t was doing busi-
ness or under which II was authorized to act
These have been studied, dissected. compared
and analyzcd If any company is not living up
to the obligations imposed by some franchise.
however obscure IL is safe to say that the breach
has been noted by soma toiler in busy once
and at the proper time will form the basis Tor
some proceeding of considerable moment to that
company
Statfsticians also. of great service 10 the
commission in clarifying the mazes into Whlch
corporation accountants twist their hgures
Seven expert statisticians are employed 10 hgure
out lust what each corporation meant when 1t
filed its report. and whether it neglected to file
information of great import or filed other intor-
nation of misleading character. Under the pub
tic service commissions law tho commission is
authorized to prescribe the form In which the
companies under its jurisdiction shall keep their
accounts and the manner In which they shall
make their reports. annual quarterly and
monthly, or. If necessary, special reports 10 an
swer any questions which the commission may
choose to ask All this falls to the lot of the
bureau statistics. 1t gives to the commission
such supervision over the books of the public
service companies as undoubtedly viii serve to
prevent any transactions in future such as were
disclosed in the Metropolitan investigation.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15

The commission is working body. II is,
perhaps the proudest boast of the officials ana
every member OF their staff that this organiza-
tion works until the work is done, not within
certain few hours prescribed by the law Inc
working hours for the day staff are from
q q m to > o. m. Yet day after day clerks.
stenograpners even members of the legal and
engineering departments, are at work before
onening time and stay long after night
fall And there are extra wages for overtime
work Chairman Wilcox of the commission
made q reputation while Postmaster for being
one Of the hardest working men who ever held
the Office Yet ne says his work there was play
in comparison to his present task. Travis H
Whitney, the secretary, averages from ten TO
twelve hours a day at his desk
This zeal for work does not stop with the
officials in this organization either. In the SIX
months of its existence the commission has had
one stenographer who went to hospital as the
result of overwork. while companion also
broke down under the strain certain letter
from Brooklyn hospital is preserved with
much care in the commissions files, since IL
bears testimony TO the efficiency OF the or
ganization's methods. This hospital had been
complaining to a gas company for three or
Tour DAYS that its light poor and part OF
the service cut out altogether. No result. AT
p H.
commission That night. the letter relates. the
company fixed the damaged lights. and the next
morning the commissions men were around 10
find out If any more complaints were on the
carpet.
Under such conditions with well directed en-
ergy, results must be reached In nan a yeai
TIE commission already has achieved results
striking results, although not yet anything oi
magnitude enough to satisfy IL. the inlerooi
ough Rapid Transit Company has been coni-
PEELED to increase its service on the subway ana
each Of the four elevated lines approximately
% per cent. This did not bring IL TO the n'aAi-
mum of possible service. so the commission mas
issued orders for further increases, hearings oii
which now under way. The BROOKLYN COM
panes have been forced to better conditions,
especially at the Brooklyn Bridge, untli WIN
the cooperation of the Police Department there,
more now are being sent across the pfiase
al rush hours than ever before. Receivershlp
proceedings have made the Manhattan surface
system difficult problem. but the coInHhss'o'i
has ordered sweeping improvements there IN In
service and equipment, which orders propaoiy
VIII ind their way into the courts
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ment instinctively proceeds to supplement us
ordinary functions. as preaching. prayer meet
ings Sunday school and pastoral visitation
with system of philanthropic and educationai
institutions. through which it endeevors TO
touch people on the physical. social and mental
sides in order to draw them within hearing or
its religious message II this way II becomes
an institutional church. Church institutionalsn
is nothing more than organized Christian kind
ness At bottom it is no new thing. Any
church that has sewing circle is in just so far
an institutional church. which only does as a
social body and in systematic way exactly
what the Individual Christian instinctivey does
when by acts of kindness he subdues the hearts
of men into receptiveness. The community is
touched in a new spot when it finds out that
the Church is interested in the welfare of the
whole man
There could hardly be devised a more efficient
phiIanthropic appliance for ameliorsting the
churches spread through it's congested places.
provided each church intelliSently and pro-
foundly interests itself in the cure OF the social
sores constantly exposed to its ptying eye
Some people are fond of tracing the roots of all
modern philanthropy back 20 Christianity; but
tie connection between the Man OF Nazareth
and the social compunction OF the present day
would seem more direct if the churches that
hear His name, instead of leaving to private
individuals or to the state to societies ex-
cIusiyeIy charitable the burden of caring for
those who suffer, should themselves engage in
should feel a certain responsibility for mans
welfare here well as hereafter
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
CHURCH FOR THE POOR.
Should Haze Best Preachers and
Best Music, Says DR.. Judson.
By the Rev. DR. Edward Judson
Pastor. Memorial Baptist Church. New York;

Italians crowded TO the edge OF old Wash
inston Square DR.. Judson. refusing TO abandon the
neghborhood established there great institutional
church In memory of his father Facing the park one
behods a slender nile
tower. pointing a finger heaven He who would
all encopassns squalor about this tower must
park. this Is the Lesson IN Dr. Judson's
article.
The local church when it finds itself In a
peculiarly unresponsve and adverse environ
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
PERSISTENT INSPECTORS.

Hand in hand with the work of the engineer
,.a a.nartment goes the work of the inspectors
:, ,s the task of these men, faithful ana Keen
% investigate every phase of transit cono''iohs
II you see man at crowded stree. '..a.e. eo,.e.
iottine down figures. numbers OF cars estimates
:, ,,s number of passengers and the time Q.
s,,~ according to q stop watch. 1t u sale ~ S1'
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also to appropriate the things that are supposed
to help people heavenward. as the best preach
ing music and architecture
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HELPING THE HELPLESS.

If each church should even in small way
befriend the misera BILE close by its sde-neg-
ected children. the aged poor. the sick. the in
temperate, the INDECENT. the faen-thsn the
workngmap he passes a place OF worship
would have the tenderness of spirit as
comes over him now when he passes some great
hospital and sees the white faces of little chill
dren at its windows and thinks to himself that
his turn may to be folded in its shelter
and embrace.
Lower New York offers rich field for insti-
tutional experimentation, and indeed upper
New York seems all the time becoming lower
New York. Here. where towering business is
danked on either hand by vast masses of teen-
ing. unassimilated population. mission Held OF
unsurpassed richness presents itself TO the
Church Children swarm n the streets like rab-
hits in a warren Night and day one is con-
fronted by the hideous spectres of prostitution.
pauperism. drunkenness. crime Materiaiistic
habits of thought pervade the thin mental soil
of the people.
Alien races. often with stin prepossessions
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
BUSY ENGINEERS.

In q certain broad sense the engineering de-
nartment is the foundation and basis for the
urork of the commission. 1t drafts the plans for
.nv new subway: then the route having been
decided in accordance with numerous pre-
liminary surveys and plans, the hnai plans are
nrenared by the engineering department, and
contracts drafted for advertisements for bidders
These contracts awarded. the work besins' put
ritb n the work of the engineering department
continues Engineers from the commission
staff inspect the depth Of sharts: they test the
accuracy of surveys made by the contractors
engineers The commissions inspectors Watch
the setting of cement having nlst Waeciieu 80 'i
mixing of that cement 1t maintains std1 OF
fort -four inspectors of masonry step by step
fhrouyhout the entire course OF conStrucaion tno
a,,,,niss;ons engineers watch every detail OF the
n,opress that the citys interest may oe pro-
tected- ,,,,o the commissioning
aneinaers were keeping watch on the bulioing OF
the Rattery tunnel to Brooklyn, was announcer
40, achment of the staff assigned 10 see .hdt oihy
rnateriaI of a certain standard was !urnisneo IoI
This work A division engineer @ nso o,,,r
ctaa, chemist and cement testers We're eAaiiii.
ing anaIvzine testing, mixing supJec1ns the
material TO various strains, put,ihs e.osi S S
cament through every triai WHICH Se..'No t-I
nra ctical experience and ingenuity couiu et S
70 prove that this steel ana cetnen. TS,a san,e
safe to go into the tube 10 oroon, ,ar,.,s
nrocess applies TO all subway materiais. -
Even the subway problems proper o uo .sIs ~. SE
z.itute the entire sum Of the engineers '.oue 49,
In constructing subways the CITY nus ~ a,,c,s
- - ~ INV existing subterraneah pipes ". -s.
Thts means a multiplicity OF Wa.ei wiz. nd ,i,'cts
r aiac,ric wires also All Of these nave 10 oe pr Pr.
,Ided for and the work on the PIeI.a Ps,aa corna
,rav and the Brooklyn tube mas iei
of The most vexing problems encouiiteie"
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FRUITFUL INQUIRIES.

Then. slsc. there have been tho investigations.
Inquiry into = small section OF the history Of
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
PUBLIC AUDIT PLANNED.

Another project which the commission has in
view will help still further toward that end.
This is a public audit of the companies books
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15

ing department for the coming year-approxi-
mately per cent OF the cost of the work which
that engineering department will have under
way when the contracts are let for the Fourth
avenue subway In all probability plans for a
the year.
On the engineering department falls large
part of the work of the commission-work which
is out of the ken of the general public. This
body Of men prepares plans for any new sub
WAYS or new subway work, naturally. But it
does far more than that. 1t superintends the
actual building of a new subway, after the en-
tracts have been let. Never a days work Is
done when an engineer of the commission is not
present to superintend its progress. Not an
ounce of cement or a plate of iron is used until
II has been passed on by inspectors for the COM
mission Not line of rail nor a station pat
form is laid until the commissions engineers
have given the level for It,
New-York tribune., 1907-12-15
LONG WORKING HOURS.

Investigate the accidents and clerks are in {
office 10 record the particulars.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-05-02

The birthday Of the nation, three
hundred years ago last Friday, was
duly celebrated by the opening Of an
exposition near Jamestown. President
Roosevelt's speech was the chief open
ing event. He reviewed the story Of
our national growth, and he had the
graciousness to speak kindly of the
soldiers Of the Confederacy. On the
soil of Virginia, near waters rendered
historic by national events, he could
not well have done less. ooh, my
hearers, my fellow countrymen,'' he
said, great indeed has been our good
fortune; for as time clears away the
nists that once shrouded brother from
brother and made each look as through
a glass darkly' at the other, we can all
feel the same pride i'll the valor, the
devotion and the feaIty toward the
right as it vas given to each to see the
right, shown alike by the men who
wore the blue and by the men who
wore the gray"
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UNVEIL MONUMNT.
An Interesting Ceremony on
Thursday Afternoon Of
This Week.
North Carolina Society of Colonial
Danes of America will Pre-
sent Handsome Marble
Shaft to City.

Wilmington, \. G., April 29-All
arrangements have been completed
for the ceremonies of the unveiIing Of
the handsome monument erected by
the North Carolina Society Of Colonial
DANES of America at Fourth and Mar
ket streets, which Will take place in
this city Thursday afternoon of this
week. While cry handsomely engrav-
ed invitations, s~urmounted by the coat
Of arms OF the Societ done in gold, We're
mailed to ont-of town guests and a few
in al official way i'll Wilmington, the
general public is invited to attend the
exercises and enjoy the occasion with
the Colonial DANES. It will be an
event fraught with much interest for
the Wilmington public and all will be
welcome.
The presentation Of the monument TO
the City CT Wilmington will be by Mrs.
George w. kidder, founder ofthe North
Carolina Society OF Colonial Danes of
Americana chairman of the Cornelius
Harnett Monument Committee,
The acceptance of the monument viii
be by Hon. Alfred Moore Waddell,
Mayor Of the City of Wilmington.
The presentation of the certificate Of
transfer OF the on behalf Of
the North Carolina Society of the Colo
NAL DANES of America viii be by Mrs.
James Sprunt, president.
The orator of the occasion, DR.. G.. AL
phonzo Smith, of the University of
North Carolina, viii be introduced by
Eugene :. Martin, Esq, of the VIII
mington bar.
The unVeiling ceremonies will be
preceded by the annual meeting of the
Society at the home of the president,
Mrs. James Sprunt, on South Front
street, and on the following day the an
nual pilgrimage of the Society to the
historic ruins of old ST. Philips church.,
down the Cape Fear River, will take
place.
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United Statec Senator Al. McLaurin
announces that he Will deliver a num-
Der of political addresses in Mississ-
1ppi on national and state issues this
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The old families around the James
twon exposition will take boarders,
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Eczema and Pile Cure.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04
AT BITLIS
EIGHT PERSONS KILLED AND
MANY HOUSES BLOWN DOWN.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 4-The fol-
lowing dispatch was received here today
from the Rev. Royal NJ Cole, head of the
American mission at Bitlis:
"BITLIS, Turkish Armenia, April a.
At 10 o'clock in the forenoon of March 30
there burst upon US unannounced the worst
earthquake witnessed in forty years in
these or the Erzerum volcanic regions.
Such was its force that our city seemed to
be in the jaws of some monster who
would shake us into shreds as a mastif
does his game. Down came the plastering,
the furniture was overturned, cracks were
opened in strong walls, roofs were shat
tered and rain poured in. During the first
day there were fourteen shocks and they
still continue. There have been altogether
twenty-eight shocks. OF the 1900 houses
here over 800 have fallen and half the re-
mainder have been seriously damaged,
about $50 to $500 being needed to repair
each house The officials report that eight
persons were killed by falling walls, but
they are all unknown in Bitlis. Many
persons We're wounded and many churches,
mosques and government buildings We're
damaged The surrounding villages sus-
tanned heavy shocks, but it was in the
day time and so there was no great loss of
life.
1.-The foreigners at Bitlis are the Rus
sian consul, Charlotte E. Ely, Mary A.. C.
Ely, Royal NJ. Cole, Mrs. Lizzie Cole and
Miss Nellie A. Cole
Famine prices prevail and there is
great poverty and extreme suffering"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04
STRIKERS STONED TRAIN.
Union Men Injured Non-Union Work.
men at Lorraine, Ohio.

CLEVELAND, Ohio April "A special
train of an engine and one coach which
had been engaged to carry forty non-union
men going from Lima, Ohio to Lorain,
where the yards of the American Ship
building Company are tied up by the ship
builders strike, limped into Cleveland late
last night on the Nickel Plate road
Every window in the car had been broken
and it's sides were splintered and battered.
OF the forty men who were aboard it wnen
II left Lima only fifteen were left Hardly
one was not bruised and bleeding. One
man was so badly hurt that he had to be
sent TO hospital.
The car was stoned by mob just as 1t
was pulling into the company's yards at
Lorain last night. From behind fences and
freight cars men poured out and bombarded
the car. Before the engineer could open the
throttle and steam out Of range half the
men in the car had been struck. All on
board were panic stricken and twenty-five
men jumped from the train and fled.
The special was then started for this city.
LORAIN, Ohio, April 4.-There were prob
ably fifty women in the mob that attacked
the Nickel Plate coach carrying non-union
men to the plant of the American Ship
building Company here last night. The
cries of the women, urging that the non
union men be mobbed, could be heard above
the noise made by the smashing OF glass
and by the stones and clubs striking against
the sides of the cars.
The train pulled out as quickly as posi-
BILE an( stopped on the east side opposite
the shipyard gate. A crowd of about 600
strikers was congregated at this place, and
many of the men entered the coaches and
promised safety to the inmates.
Three of the non-union men were serious
ly injured.
The mob stoned the mold loft, inside the
uyha no 20 holm 10
housed. doing considerable damage to the
building.