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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

Atlantic seaports. inspecting their terminal IA
ciltles and discussing with their leading mer-
chants and officials In each port their plans and
purposes for further increasing the commerce OF
the port, were impressed with the spirit OF civic
pride and Of keen. though friendly, competition
eXhioited at each OF the other ports. In which
competition all interests seemed 20 be unitedly
alive to the possibilities OF endeavor.
The spirit thus displayed Is in marked con-
trast TO the impassfveness existing IN New York.
ineXpIicable upon any theory consistent with
visor OF enterprise. That New York Is indIf-
ferent is q matter OF comment IN other seaports.
where achievement follows upon achievement
while New York sleeps; and In the Western
cities as WELL where the exporters. discouraged
In their appeals to New York have taken adj
vantage Of the Inducements offered by her enter
prfsing rivals"
Owing TO its Importance. and with view Of
adding 20 the general knowledge OF the subject,
The Tribune Will print several articles Of an au-
thorttative character, showing the needs OF the
port, and containing the suggestions OF experts
for the systematic development OF the great
waterfront Of the whole city In such a way
70 put IL on par with it's competitors. Only by
removing the great tax now imposed on COM
merce through this port caused by the difficulty
OF handling II economically can the port main
tain the rank 10 which its natural advantages
entitle IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

All interests have felt the crampins and each
mas felt that the other should be the one to give
way and make room" The steamship men
nave said: THE only side OF Manhattan which
Is available for our use is the North River 'front.'
yet half OF this space is given up to the rail-
roads" The railroads point out that they prac-
tically supply the daily needs OF the people OF
New York, and feel that the steamships might
Wen give way for the extra space they need
And the coastwise steamship lines. transporting
much moro than one-third OF the water borne
commerce Of the port naturally think they ought
TO receive due consideration In the distribution
OF space. Back Of these stand other interested
parties. the importers and exporters. and behind
all the people OF New York, dependent upon the
complex system OF modern transportation in a
literal sense. for its bread, clothing and mate
rails for providing shelter.
The cramped conditions and uneconomically
arranged terminal facilities are a distinct menace
10 New Yorl's supremacy as a port and very
costly in actual cash. II has been estimat ted
that the trucking bill OF New York City alone is
S35.000000 a year
Recognizing that something must be done the
Chamber of Commerce. through a COMMITTEES
has taken up the problem and has begun a study
OF the conditions with idea of outlining a
systematic plan for the development OF the
waterfront OF the city as a whole
surprising thing about the situation Is the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

their own business at the same time IS that out
or SI16oOOOOO worth OF merchant imported
last year only s40O00O00 passed through With
out paying toll here. New York received a bone
fit from the remainder
The reason for this cry from all classes for
more room" on the waterfront OF Manhattan
Is easily shown It Is the same reason that
CAUSES the daily jam on the Brooklyn Bridge.
IN 1896 the total foreign commerce OF the port
or New York was in round numbers one billion
dollars. In the calendar year 1905 the figures
were approximately one billion and a half or so
per cent greater. In the fiscal year 1908 the re-
corded tonnage Of vessels entering this harbor
was 1o.12S.463 as compared with $500 147 for
the calendar year OF 1908. difference of a mill
ION and half tons, approximately an increase
OF 10 per cent. In December 1905, the largest
number OF cars containing package freight float
ed to the city by the Pennsylvania Railroad in
any single day was 750. On one day in Deem
Der, 1919. this road sent to the city 1850 cars
an increase OF more than 80 1-3 per cent The
number might have been LOO had not the rail-
road company, for the sake Of squeezing wher-
ever possible. directed that no cars containing
small fractions OF a load be sent over TO the city
Until recently IL was the custom to float across
the river all billed to New York, regardless
OF the dimensions OF their load, even II In some
cases IL consisted OF only one box.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

boy or man are inconsiderable matters Tenn
permanent however is vital Here Is a whole
some ana handsome fellow who IS miserable.
over there IL a physical freak who is happy.
me heart Is the seat OF our Joys and HorrOws''
You peddled chromos after you left college %
i didn't want TO teach school. although a
place was offered 10 me. the salary OF which
might have been $1,000. ! had heard OF teachers
who were getting $1,000. l was determined that
present necessities-and they were pressing hard
-shouId not lure me into temptation. 7 might
Dc defeated. thought. and keep on teaching for
ever. Yet am bound 10 say that defeat now
ana then does man good. The heart is chast-
ened the mind is disciplined. and iron is driven
INTO The soul Moreover n teaches one to nay
MS debts. There are two kinds OF debts which
every man should settle with pleasure and at the
nrst convenient opportunity. These are the OBJ
hgatons which one owes 20 his friends and
enemies. To pay your tailor or grocer is a cheap
SORT or honesty Either sue You and get his
money. But II is the uncollectible debt that is
the actual test OF integrity. Don't FORGET Your
fr1ends Don't forget your enemies Pay both
ana add something for good measure"
1880 $500 ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

difficulty IN finding among those who are active
~ engaged In conducting the transportation
business OF the port persons who have thought
enough upon the subject to be able to suggest
any practical Improvement. Apparently every
person who has been trying to solve the prob
lens or greater New York has had his eye
turned upon internal transit, and the others
have been so busy attending to the details OF
the growing volume OF business that they have
found little time to think of the possibilities OF
the 400 miles Of waterfront which Is one of
New Yorks proud possessions Most Of the
people OF the city have been asleep so far as the
waterfront is concerned. When a committee OF
the Chamber OF Commerce set an investigation
on foot the other day. it did by quoting data
ana comments from reports of the New York
commerce Commission appointed by Governor
BLACK In 1898 and the board of consulting en-
gineers OF the Department Of Docks appointed
IN November 1895. Apparently no more recent
data bearing upon the subject than those eight
years old were known 10 the members OF the
committee. When these reports were made, the
terminal facilities of New York were considered
10 be pressing question. The foreign com
merce OF the port OF New York was then only
tWo-thirds what IL IL to-day. The Chamber OF
commerce committee in it's report quoted the
touowing two paragraphs from the report of
the New York Commerce Commission:
Members OF the commission in visiting other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20

COnfederates 20 pounce on me and carry mo off
Somehow believed was the very one they
were after"
Glow long did YOU rernain ON the farrnY-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
RAN A NEWSPAPER FOR So A WEEK.

I'm the state Of my finances, they We're always
bad in those days, and with employment in
view, law seemed to be utter impossibtlity
had made the acquaintance of W. NJ Ireland
owner Of The Johnstown Journal Through
the Roscoe Conkling wing OF the Republican
party he had been appointed librarian of the
New York Senate just when starvation was
about to consign me to the tomb in a strange
land Ireland hired me for So a week and INV
board TO edit his p6per-that IS to write local
news Items and editorials. pull the press collect
accounts, sweep the floor. wash the windows and
set type. On Saturday he came home and found
The Journal whooping wildly for Blaine as
against COnkling for President. On our way
from the office to his house, where boarded no
discharged me. He owed me SIS. got S1B that
day. Although dunned Ireland forty times by
mail and otherwise. never got the balance He
Is dead, and forgive him. I hope he foreave
me. had no business to fill the newspaper of
a COnlS!ing officeholder with shouting indorse-
ments for Blaine. knew better than 10 do so
suppose my frenzy for Blaine however made
me mentally irresponsible Just at that time '.-
what did you do with the SI5?"
II started for Boston. but stopped at Troy To
see a college friend and never got away am
there yet Obtaining a reporters place on n
newspaper, began to read law. NV pay was
the same old IS a week. Mrs. Ayers trusted me
Tor a room and meals at her table I told her I
might nsVer pay her, know owed her Sl0o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
GAVE UP CRIMINAL LAW.

What impression did you bring away from
the Molineux trisl7'
when il was ended decided that should
never again defend a person who was charvad
with murder or engage in criminal practIce 7
nad nelped prosecute murderer In Troy had
been attorney for Molineux at the request OF his
ola fatner' whom came TO love. and had been
In only one other criminal trial The work "a too
hard 1t is the murder almost OF the defendants
lawyer IL he believes IN the innocence az hfs
client. He finally reaches that stage OF emotion
and interest where he feels that the Prosecution
Is trying to hang a friend or even a member
or his family. have had many other chances
70 defend persons charged with murder, but
declined them all"
IN recent speech you complained that Re-
spubiicans were forgetting their party for the
worship OF menu" ~
Il didn't put my statement in that vav. hut
your Inquiry contains the essence of what r
SAID We are forgetting our party. We are bow
ing down before men IT frequently happens
that Republicans fail to praise their narfv ~
cause they don't want TO irritate or offend Dsno-
ocrats. II must be remembered however thar
Democrats only vote for Republicans when they
are afraid or their own candidates 7 do nor ha
lieve In trading an old friend for a nav ons
eYsn yo9 get doilaB 70 boaAs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
MUCH DRUDGERY IN HIS CAREER

VIII you tell me about your boyhood2" I
asked.
Folding himself UP like foot rule. as Lin
coin would have done. Governor Black with the
irnpassiveness and almost in the voice OF John
Sherman, gave q hurried sketch OF his life In
Maine.
II was born on sixty acres Of stones" he said
There were eleven children in our family. Wo
raised corn, potatoes. apples and little wheat
for bread II ives hard work Thirteen mouths
had to be fed, and our scant crops. planted In
thin soil among the rocks. were more than
equal 20 the family appetite. But we had a good
time; remember that. My father a steady
and vociferous Wing, and after 1856 argu-
mentativs Republican. He aid everything to the
Democrats In the neighborhood but whip them
he never had a fight IN his life. so far as I can
recolleot
"A large and vigorous man. suppose his I'M
common size and strength enforced an odious
peace upon the other side and saved himself
from scandal On Saturday he read the weekly
newspaper from Biddeford TO himself. On Sum
day he read 10 aloud 10 the family-the only
time In the week when the eleven children
couldn't make all the noise they pleased. On
Monday he read Il again. further to clinch fits
facts In his mind and to give readiness and am
pllhcstion TO his argument when he went TO tho
village or met some Democrat IN the road.
After public matters my father loved poetry
/ am rather glad that he did. There was some
generality. you see. TO his interests. But his
steady intellectual diet was politics. He would
talk 20 us in the barn about Charles Summer az
Massachusetts. and BENJAMIN F. Wade of ohio
and we liked better TO listen 20 him than 70 90
into the fields and work. When the war came
on We subscribed for a. daily paper in Boston,
and late each evening was sent 70 the post-
Office 10 get It. The geography OF the war was
beyond my understanding, and I ran home
along the foot OF mountain expected tbs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
PAY YOUR ENEMIES.

mo, DO not recommend "a practice that is
common among Indians II is unscientifo and
vulgar. Officially 1t is bad. Besides II with
draws ones energy and interest from his legiti-
mate business. Just wait. Don't be in a hurry
The man who wronged you viii come from Los
Angeles. New Orleans or the City of Mexico
He will get within range. Then shoot Paying
your enemies is precisely like hunting deer I'm the
Adlrondacks. Deer have their runways. Stand
sun and you will hear them breaking through
the brush. You can fire in your tracks Man
mas his runways. If he has done O mean or dis
honorable thing by which you have suffered
walt and you will hear him breaking through
the brush. Turn aside from your business long
enough TO pay him on the spot. adding interest
II you think best"
But the Chromos?"
"A young fellow named Crafts had returned to
our netghbOrhOOd with plenty of money which
ne had earned during his summer vacation He
had as much as $40 With some boast be said
he had peddled chrOmOs A friend and Thought
we would try It. Crafts said we should do splen-
oldly. 1 wanted TO attend the law school at
Albany, and had to get money Crafts sold us
our outfits and We went to Rome We old fairly
we'll for time, and then Crafts persuaded us 10
Drancn out and sell frames for the pictures But
the work wore on us. Our room was full of
chromos. and the odor OF the varnish made us
sick Furthermore. some OF the women whom
we met on our rounds didn't treat us very
gently. Finally, the business became simply
unbearabie. Crafts said he would pay for the
chrOmOs on hand. My partner said he would
assume our board bill, went to the frame deal
err told him was penniless. never expected TO
have 500 at one time which was the amount
or our Indebtedness TO him, but II heaven spared
my life would pay him in driblets If IL took
a hundred years to square the account He good
naturedly accepted the chance There was moth
ing else, however. for him to do. I kept the in
terest paid long, long time afterward went
to Rome and the frame dealer. when he had
counted the money and made out a receipt said
he had believed from the start that he would get
his money"
But the AIbanv Law ScbooI9.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
Continually Cell Him Gold.
Saws Frank S. Black.
BY James Il. Morrow.

Crossing one long. slim leg over the other
Frank SWEET Black said: "And from that day
TO this the odor OF varnish has made me sea-
sick"
You see"-he was talking about the time
when he was a pedler-'T carried the chromos
under my arm all day and at night put them
under my bed. not that was afraid Of robbers,
but that might have room enough 20 undress.
''I can smell those hideous chromos now-ina-
possible water and non-existent mountains and
trees-can see front doors slammed IN my face
and can hear the imprecations OF housewives.
who, perceiving me up the street. fed into their
back yards Jumped fences and did almost any
thing 20 escape Did you ever peddle7 Nor
Well, don't you every try It."
Mr.. Black has been Governor OF New York
and a Representative in Congress Later on
he saved Roland B. MOlineux from the hang
man. Furthermore, he recently made a speech
in which he decried hero worship in the Re-
publican party and advised q quick return to
principle and nationality. He has philosophy
OF his own IN all things-even about himself.
Also a large and busy law Office IN this city.
which tempers any desire he may have for the
honors and exhllarations Of politics.
talked with him in the evening at his New
York hotel He keeps his homo IN Troy. and
there he returns at the weeks end and there
he votes once seen, he viii be remembered
Six feet and one and one-half inches in height,
he IS lean a tiger. cold man. declare
his enemies, and desperately in earnest How
ever that may be. he has the nose Of energy and
courage and the light blue eyes which signify
shrewdness and sagacty. II he a farmer
he would know how 20 trade horses. II he were
q surgeon he would cut without a qualm. If
he were musician he would choose the soft
and suggestive classics. instead OF the tempests
and bosterous passions Of Wagner, for instance.
His ironed and creased trousers. black outaway
coat. white waistcoat and patent leather shoes,
together with his tumbled front hair and gold
spectacIes, give him the appearance OF pros
perity. preciseness and individuality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
3 YOU get into poIitics?"
FORCED INTO POLITICS.

FORCED INTO POLITICS.
When began 10 practise law said should
never do anything else. Teaching school. tutor
ing. selling chromos. reporting for newspapers
and clerktng in postoffices were over at last 7
remembered the old lectures In the barn at homs
only SO Tar as they applied to my profession
Lincoln Sumner and Wade might appeal to the
IMAGINATION or my father. but did not intend
mat their great achievements and fame should
beguile me into politics. I.stuck 20 my purpose
until 1898 In that year the Troy Iron and
steel Company and the Gilbert Car Works got
into trouble and l to be attorney for both
receivers They were important concerns and
my fees would have been large. The political
BOSS or Troy put his hand into the courts and
took part OF the business away from me and
gave II to a relative. So / lost the car works
Inc boss had manipulated our schools and
JUDGES. ana here ne was interfering with the
private interests OF a lawyer. I promised 20
make trouble. but way was open TO me az
that time just waited.
Finally I was asked to be a delegate To the
constitutional convention. I ran and was beaten
by seven thousand votes. There was fraud and
i knew IT, decided TO fight. said that II the
people sustained me I would remain In Tarov
II they refused should move to Boston and IL
I failed to make living there ] should return
70 Maine and buy a farm. The men OF Troy
stood by me. man was shot on Election Day
and helped 20 prosecute the murderer The
next year was elected member OF the House
OF Representatives In Washington, getting q
majority OF 5000 votes In the same district 7
had lost when was candidate for the consti-
Cutlohai convention Two years later was
elected Governor
What prevented your denomination for that
Officer"
THE causes have never been printed ana
never VIII be. shall not give them. The other
side would find neither pleasure nor profit IN
doing So A oontributory cause was my deter
mination to complete the Capitol Building In Al
bany by contract Ten or a dozen mon from
each county in the state had been working on N
for years. When they lost their employment and
went home they became my active and bitter
enemies But the effective opposition to me was
or another character and was composed OF
men who were higher up in politics Insidious
reports which could not be met were put into
motion. Rumor Is favorite weapon In th, ar
mory OF INSCRIPTIONS politics.
Another method OF attack Is 70 say that a
man Is cold. In popular opinion he soon becomes
human tctcle. and persons who have never
seen him shiver when they hear his name and
opine that what we want when we go to Albany
is a Governor who has sympathy with the peo
PIE, ana who VIII not freeze the very marrow In
ones bones All this may happen for example,
because rascality was prevented and secret raids
upon the treasury were made impracticabls"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
WHY HE BECAME A LAWYER.

when was eleven years old my father was
appointed keeper of the jail and moved TO
Alfred and lived In the county house. There our
circumstances were improved. The county house
was really a tavern. We fed the prisoners when
there were any. The Jail was in another build
Ing. Republican lawyers who came TO court
stopped with US. The Democratic lawyers didn't
My father was as herceIy opposed to liquor as
he was to slavery, and so he what was
called a temperance tavern. Persons who were
Inclined toward the bottle never patronized u.s."
What influence did the lawyers have on your"
"Oh, j might be conventional and say that
seeing them three or four times year and hear
ling them talk and tell stories around the fire
on cold winter nights filed mo with visions OF
the future, but would be wide of the truth
My father always wanted one of his sons TO be q
lawyer. He explained in the barn. back on the
farm, which was his faVorite forum so far as
the family was concerned. that Lincoln. Sum-
ner and Wade were lawyers. Squire Macarthur,
down the road, charged so cents or 81 every
time he drew up paper. and it didn't take him
long to do 1t, either. The moral was obvious.
Prosperity and honor were In the law
MY father tried to persuade my eldest broth
eP but didn't succeed The second son died.
The third was as unImpressibe as the first. So
the family hope for lawyer was centred on me,
BY q process Of elimination l went to the law
My maternal grandfather had been a physician
but medicine was distastefuI to me- had no
head for business. The ministry was not sug-
gested for the reason that L was without repu-
tatiOn for piety. The farm couldn't support all
OF us So said: I shall get a college educa-
ton If I can and shall become a lawyer IL pos
sADlc. went no IurIner. L didn't agree TO die
in the attempt My mother thought would
succeed. MY father. am sure, was I'm some
doubt. A man comes to fame prosperity and
doesn't deny that he worked out his fortune ac-
cording to schedule. Presently he states IL as a
fact. Circumstances. however have more to do
with than plans. My own practice is 70 do
all can to-day. Tomorrow may never come
II it does conditions. possibly. viii not be the
same"
"Whero aid you prepare for coIlege?"
WELL, I GOT THROUGH
81 attended the district school when wasn't
needed on the farm. After We moved to Alfred
! got a whole year at academy began 10
teach when seventeen. A year later I
entered Dartmouth 1 had s6O During the
winter I helped my father strip hemlocl bark.
hauled IL eight miles to the railway station, and
received part OF the proceeds taught school
all the time was in college. going to New
Hampshire. Vermont and Massachusetts / was
In college ten weeks OF my Junior year.
And finally were graduated with honors?"
well, got through"
What disadvantage was there In being six
feet and one and one-half inches ia height at
the age of eighteen?"
None that know Of The size and form OF