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New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
sr. ANNE's CHURCH, ANNAPOLIS.
Parish established In 1892.

the Delaware. The military company has also
arranged for all day military rife tournament.
and some of the events will be open to everybody.
The Atlantic City transportation Company which
will operate line Of steamboats, between this city,
New York and Philadelphia, beginning their sched-
ule in March, have received the backing OF the Busi
ness League IN their enterprise. and they conf
IDENTIFY expects that II will be paying ventura
They have steamer ready now that will carry
two hundred tons on seven feet OF water There is
a little more than nine feet Of water over the bar
at the inlet at low water, that with their
steamer, which draws only seven feet when heavily
loaded they will have ample room. They purpose
to carry passengers and freight and Will maks
such low rates the latter that they expect to
cut in to a great extent on the business now ex-
clusiveiy enjoyed by the railroads
J. 3. Thayer fourth vice-presdent OF the Penn
Eylvania Railroad. and his wife and two daughters
have apartments at the ChaIfonte.
Miss Alice Dwight, daughter OF Congressman and
Mrs Dwight, of New York. Is at the Marlborough
Benheim.
Dr. and Mrs. John p. Carey. OF New York, have
apartments at Young's Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs Clayton G. ScheIlinger. OF New
York spending fortnight az the Dennis
Howard c. Upham, a New York manufacturer.
and his wife and daughter spending fortnight
at the Royal Palace
F. Dineen. Of New York. Is at Hollands Hotel
Marlborough -Blenheim.
Mrs. William G.. Hanson. Of New York who Is
spending fortnight at Young's Hotel. is chaper-
oning Miss Alberta D. Frambes. Of New York
Harry T. Roberts, we'll known New Yorker who
Is at HaddOn Hall, celebrated the anniversary Of
his birth the other day. He received a postal
shower from Gotham friends
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

state-not countys charged by our statute. whiEh I
we adopted from Enc nrga o bshway s1 S In the town and
a tax payable in labor or money, Is !eHie" Spp4il
the ASSESSED valuation Of the towns outside OF the
INCORPORATED villages and cities who pay for thelr
care. The State of New York. gentlemen wants
Here is where It wants it. In the towns OF the
state s? in nqm5er TheFT ba ase thou
sand miles cared for by an average tax dGV3;
cash and labor valued somewhere in the neighpor-
hood OF $2sOo0oO. A highway commissioner Is
and he is required from the melting Of the, snow
in the spring to its Tefn for IN m Ie cers 1 1 the
bitches remove the loose stone once in thirty days
and and where there is washout or accident from
flood he must mend the road There are as you
know Ave thousand two hundred and eighty feet IN
a mile-n2ake it five thousand feet even, mduply
that M Te tho epy by & eRe' NUM- nng @ o go to take
care OF twelve inches Of road from ditch 10 dItch
provided fo %n fn 0y & to side the fu length Of
average amount that the present highway statutes
in this state puts 5o t sne oT ts }own g roa
is not enough. ana the wonder is that SO mucn
What We we need in the State of New York is an
entire change in the highway system. We should
have system similar to that OF France with a
department under the charge Of one man, ap-
the Senate, for term of years. probably five; VINO
would be reappointed and reappointed. and the
ticuiar jurisdiction Of that highway department
the main highways OF the state. some seven or
out from the total mileage Of seventy-foUr thou
sand miles in this state would permeate from
one part Of the state 10 the other that you would
have a network Of highways leading not only
from the centres of population and connecting the
cities Of New York, Buffalo. Syracuse, Elmira,
Watertown. BnghaTnton. Utica. Oswego and Al
banv but It would reach the remote parts OF the
state. into the remote valleys which cannot he
developed by a steam road or trolley road
Such a system Of highways would provide the
state so that no farm would be further away than
five miles from improved highway, and all
farms would be accessible to their market towns.
With that done. the next step would be to estab-
lsh q county system. of probably the same mile
age. seven thousand miles more: giving us In the
state seven thousand miles Of state highways,
built and maintained by the state and seven thou
sand miles OF county highways, built and main
tanned by the county authorities with the county
as the unit Of taxation Having assumed fourteen
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

of the former powers and prerogatives Of the
Church, as well a repeal OF all that liberal
legislation to which the clergy had taken ex-
ceptlon.
Some idea Of the extent to which the present
Don Carlos, Duke OF Madrid has been pre-
pared to go in this direction may be gathered
from a public manifesto issued as recently as
1894, in which he proclaimed that he would
never renouncs the political principles which
he represented nor will ever consent to any
compromise with those denominations which go
by the name OF liberalism. constitutionalsm
and parliamentarianisn, to the least modih-
cation OF my religious ideas and hereditary
rights" Moreover. he intimated that II ever
he would enforce couple of DEGREES which he
issued during the last Carlist insurrection The
one numbered CXXV provides that whoever
attends any worship which is not that of the
Roman Catholic Church shall be punished with
banishment from the kingdom" The other
numbered CXXXII, announced that "the Span
lard who forsakes the Roman Catholic Church
for any other sect creed will be punished
with lifelong banishment The offender how
ever. will be permitted to return on making a
public recantation OF his errors" These were
not merely the idle vaporings Of a royal dream
er. of Bourbon Rip Van Wrinkle who had lust
awakened from sleep OF centuries. but until
ten or fifteen years ago the accepted doctrines
OF a largo and important political party For
until then the whole OF the northern portion of
Spain was Carlist to the CORE the peasantry. the
territorial aristocracy and particularly the
parish clergy being devoted to the cause Of the
Pretender, not even the repeated adInonitlona
the part OF the Pontin and OF the Spanish
prelacy being able to win the rank and file
of the priesthood from the Legttimist cause.
During the last ten years a great change has
come over Spain which has gone far toward
diminishing the number OF the adherents OF
CaElisW. and decressipg their epthusiasua In tha
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

thousand miles of the total mileage Of the state
into a state and county system the towns would
have more money-or, rather, the same money-.o
take care of a less highway mileage, ana cou4u oo
better work.
I say to you that. unless the men Of New York go
out and take this stand. the S50 100000 that have
been voted by the people for the Improvement OF
the highways will be wasted AT the present tlne
under present statute. local county initiative
first. The roads may run In a circle sthey
may pass each highway commissioners houseI tney
money will all be spent, and there is no plan for
maintenance that IS possible. You cannot maintain
a thousand miles of highway that the state mas
built unless It is built In continuous stretches so
as to put on your maintenance men, as the rail-
roads do, and have cOntnuous attention given 70
your highways day in and day out, with dally re-
If the city Of New York does not stand up and ASK
for this you going to have $5O,0OQOO0 Wasted
in this state, and your state will be the taushlns
stock of the Union for neglect Of duty on the part
Of her citizens
I am not attacking the State Engineers Depart
n-snt but the same defect exists in that depart
state The highway commissioner is elected for two
years, and at the end of two years is turned out II
there Is successful vote getter that runs Ior
the office At the end OF two years your otate Ell
gtneer is turned out irrespective of work which he
does the canal or the roads, II there ls more
successful vote getter in either party. Therefore 1t
that we have a permanent Department OF Highways
created with head appointed by the Governor IoT
a term of years take charge Of this great work
Mr. White continuing, drew comparisons between
the road systems of other states and that OF New
York and declared that Georgia. the Carolinas and
Kentucky, say nothing Of certain Eastern states,
have better roads than New York has and give
better care and better maintenance to their roads
than New York does to hers, mainly on account of
the concentration of authority and responsibility in
hy-aI ma
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
ATLANTIC CITY
Resort Wins Fight for Property
AZong Shore Front.

Atlantis City, Nov A--For years Aua"'iO -
has been working for public park along ner De%GI an
front but there has always been opposluoh- it'o
matter has been at Issue in every court u '''o
state At last the city has. won the rlgHt 10 Pu
chase or acquire by condemnation proceedings mo
riparan rights along the ocean front Inc resort
or at least the hotel men and officials are exceed
ingIv happv at the outcome for had the recent oe-
cision of the Supreme Court gone in the opposlte
direction there would have been all sorts OF oulo
Ines erected on the outside OF the Boardwalk ana
the beauty of the resort would have oeen spolleu'
With this decision of the courts in It's 1aVor, l'e
resort will go ahead and try to acquire all lands on
the ocean front which have not thus far been given
the CITY by the owners There are only feW sec
tions and perhaps, that the courts nave de-
cided the ctys rights in the premises they VIII not
have any difficulty getting hold of the balance OF
the lands.
Thanksgiving Day will large number OF
visitors In Atlantic City. Reservations are being
made IN large numbers at the leading hotels along
the beach front and there will be hundreds who
will come without taking the trouble TO make
their reservations ahead of time. There viii be a
football game at the Inlet Park in the afternoon,
and the opponents of the local team will be the
soldiers Of the heavy artillery from Fort Mott on
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

vailed until OF finding wife Of his own
rank and possessed of means On his death
the entire basis and pretext for the Carl1st
movement will ipso facto come to end, since
King Alfonso Is In point Of succession the next
heir to whatever Legitimist rights Don Carlos,
his and his brother may possess. 1t may
be recalled here that wnen King Ferdinand VII
died without male issue In 1888 his brother, the
Infant Charles who had shared his captivity at
Valencay. in France, should, according to the
laws of succession then existing In Spain. have
followed him the throne Ferdinand in his
old age had married as his fourth wife Princess
Christina OF Naples. one Of the most ambitious.
unscrupulous and altogether wicked women of
her day. She bore him two daughters, and in
duced him before his death arbitrarily TO modify
the laws OF succession in such a manner as to
beQueath his crown to his eldest daughter. Isa-
bella, then a child Of three, Queen Christina
herself becoming regent. The old aristocracy
and the Conservatives having espoused the
cause Of Don Carlos Count Of Molina, Queen
Christina threw in her lot with the Liberals and
Radicals, and. although she was personally In
clined to tyranny in its most cruel form and
fond of intrusting the powers OF q dictator to
the various generals and statesmen who fol-
lowed one another in her good graces as her
publicly acknowledged favorites, yet on the
other hand her alliance with the Liberals Jed
TO the introduction OF number Of liberal In
stitutions, and also to the curtailing OF the vast
powers and prerogatives Of the Church.
In word. she herself had allied against
her the entire reactionary forces OF the king
dom well as the clergy and religious orders,
whom she had despoied. while championing her
were the Liberals and the army until
finally the scandals of her private life became
so great that they were forced TO repudiats her
and TO drive her from the country, But, broad
iy speaking, Carlism represented until a few
years ago in Spanish politics absolutism, and
= restoration not oply Of the property but also
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
BURNED CLAY ROADS.

He explained The Of the split log drag, and
II describing different methods Of road building,
continued:
There are great sections Of our country where
count OF partial entire absence OF suitable
road materials To meet such conditions the Ofice
of Public Roads has introduced as far as possible
the south, Atlartic and the C1IIf coasts roanY
thousand miles Il sand CLAW roads nave already
been constructed This type OF road is made by
and mixing these materials by means OF a harrow
or by traffic When properly constructed these
roads compare fayOrably with the ordinary mac
adam road.
In Clarksdale, Miss, at the instance Of John
Sharp Williams, built burned clay road. We
they would say il they had the government ma
chinery they could build good roads. too. We
poughed furrows four feet across the road. and
put cordwood from crest to crest and filed the
Trenches underneath with brush. The object OF
the trenches TO give increased draft and TO
expose much surface as possible to the fire.
on top Of this we put on another layer Of wood
and another layer Of earth. Then We waited until
the WING blew parallel with the road and fired 1t.
Clay increases in volume about % per cent when
heated 10 red heat and becomes entirely non
a clay road After this the road was crowned
and opened 10 traffic. Farmers came from three
or four counties around to this work They
had heard of the experiment and thought Il was
the greatest joke they had heard Of, burning
as to the outcome, but in February I got few
letters saying IL was holding up all right: It
month for roads got many letters that
wrote 70 Major Dabney, iE charge OF levee work
near by, and asked him to make report the
road, which he did. and the report
favorable than any had seen He said 1t was
that could be ridden or driven over IN the wet
season.
From thar little experiment we made, the fol-
lowing year that community, which could raise
only 500 at that time, succeeded IN raising $500
and expended nearly all OF IL in burned clay roads.
which meet AL the requirements Of traffic.
Mr. Page said the furrow from ten to if
teen inches.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
STATE VALUES INCREASED.

Increased state values arising from an intelli-
gently directed and systematic plan of highway
Improvement which The Tribune has used the
basis for argument on many occasions, showing
that the increased taxable value of farms resulting
from better transportation facilities would in a
short time offset the cost of the needed improve
nlents was explained by Mr.. White, who said:
If The city of New York and the State of New
York are ever again put upon the basis OF direct
taxation, remember that your assets here are in
creasng so fast that there Is question but
what, instead Of paying 50 per cent Of the state
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

tax YOU will be paying what Mr.. Page, from w asn
ington says Is 11O per cent. You VIII pc payAHep
per cent above par your portion or taXes' stote
treasury so as to develop your highways / VIZ VIZ
guarantee that IN reasonable length 3ded 81 on an
average to every Of farm land IN e rne be m
cd tSat our tventy-eight million acres VIII pe a5
oraosed in valuation $3.50 000 You VIII hot !ll
men in the Interior OF the state oD1ecths 1 * " e P 4
on see? That is what we need the M rsete
zen! q, tre inferior of the state. which Will re-
Tieve the cities of New York and Bunalo llolA 'ii'
confributions that now being nlaoe'
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
NOT A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.

You want a job. do you. young man. said the
manager Of the department store.
Yes, sir
ladder?'
NO, siree,'' answered the applicant That's the
way my father began twenty-five years ago, and
he's still carrying & hOd. want something a little
higher up than that
SO the manager. who hadn't encountered that
type of boy before put him in the packing depart
ment, the top 1oor.-Chicago Tribune
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

nature OF hostility toward the present dynasty
at Madrid Moreover. Don Carlos is now over
sixty, suffering from variety Of complains,
which would preclude his ever taking again to
the field; is. thanks TO his first wife very rich;
Is fond OF comforts and IUxuries. and knows fun
well that even if he were to obtain the throne Of
Spain he could never share it with his present
wife, a lady Of the noble House OF ROhan but
not Of royal blood, and whose position at Madrid
would be even more invidious and awkward
than that OF the cOnsOrt OF King Amadeus. Re-
aizing that she can never become Queen Of
Spain. the Duchess Of Madrid for that is ths
title borne by his wife. uses all her powers Of
persuasion on her elderly and uxorioUs hus-
band to prevent his em5arkins in any furthar
armed enterprise in behalf Of his pretensiOns
which could only impair his fortune. and thus
diminish the amount Of the property which shs
expects to receive at his death.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
CONDITIONS IN THIS STATE.

At The END OF Mr. Pages address, which had
been interrupted by many questions from his hear
en-. the president Of the Farmers. John g. Barnes
introduced Mr.. White. Of Utica, who described
highway conditions IN New York State. saying in
part:
Our villages n this state have bad and abora-
Unable highways because the assets of the VIII
isses not sufficient 10 Justify increased tax
rate over that which TIll secure money TO pay
for protection by police snd fire departments and
the education OF that particular community Out
Gks e TIA cities and villages every town "a tha
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
DON JAIME A LIBERAL.


Thoroughly disheartened by the refusal Of Don
Carlos to move. the militant members OF ths
CarIist party-that IS to say. those soldiers Of
fortune who would have everything TO gain n
the event OF the success OF his cause and nOth-
ing to lose IN the case OF his defeat-turned
their eyes in the direction OF Don Jaime. But
Don Jaime has seen good deal Of the word
since he left his English school. and his ssrvtcs
in the Russian army out in ManchUria, and sub
sequently a war correspondent at Muscovts
headquarters during the conflict between Russia
and Japan. has served to broaden his ideas. IN
fact, he has gone out OF his way publicly to ex-
press his entire disapprovaI OF those reacrionary
doctrines OF which his father had proclaimed
himself the champion. and which constituted tns
political platform OF the CarIist party IN spsini
and on July H. 1904. at banquet given by ths
French Consul at Newchwang in honor OK tbs
national fets day OF the republic the annivsr-
sary Of the fall OF the BastiIs and OF the birth
OF the French Revolution. he delivered a speech
protesting ideas so liberal. and even advanced
as completely TO destroy all hope that X ever %
became King Of Spain he would attempt TO pus
into execution the policies with which CarEsrn
had always been identified
Moreover. a few months later private letter
addressed to his sister Princess Beatrice OF
Bourbon. wife OF Prince Massino, 81 Ronie'
Aouuo us way INTO Cle ILalau anu SPAN
press. dated from Russia, IN which he aScrioed
the misfortunes OF Russia, both west and eas'
OF the Ural. to abSolutism and 70 bureaucFses'
declaring that the only hope OF the Gar iay -
following the example OF his ancestors IN caIlns
into his councils the ZemsH SbOr. or oid'ns
States General OF Russia. as representative q
the people. and the Inauguration OF a consul0-
tional instead OF an autocratic form OF govern
ment
With Don Carlos broken by III health and cAs-
inclined to move; with his only brother. Frin.1
Alfonso de Bourbon. absorbed IN his EXTREMIST
successful International Anti-Duelhng Leas~s
propaganda; with Don Jaime repudaths '"'
rsaetionary principles OF his party and pFola-
ing liberalism OF the most advanced chaISS''
and with ths bulk OF the people In NoF,n0.-
Spain. who formerly supplied without sth' -.
blood and the treasure used IN fighting i0F
Carlist cause. now reconciled TO the soVerhi''s a
by King Alfonso. II win he seen that the ela !.
Carlisnn Is in sight. It's finishing touch VIZ
the appointment OF Don Jaime. who won -
Russian Cross OF St George for two Is-
conspicuous bravery on battlenelds OF - -
churia. to the rank OF general In the op~H a
army. and his acknowledgment as a prinAo
the bleod by his extremely wide awake anu -
erous minded young cousin and heir: A-s II-sIa
fensoy A7AI1ASS|
New-York tribune., 1908-11-22
IGNORANCE AND GRAFT.


Speaking Of administration and maintenance he
said:
AZ the present time the counties Of the United
States gre spending about $o0.0e0,00 annually on
per cent is expended on permanent improvements.
ThroUgh Ignorance and petty graft it is TO large
az they exist at present in most of the states I
think viii convince any one that only such results
ss we have could be expected Extreme localiza-
ton and politics, which these laws are framed 10
pubic roads almost impossible. The road systems
u the majority Of the states are under the direc-
Gon % county and township authorities. The coun-
civ1ded into road districts, and within each
As an example Of this. know of one state where
the selection Of state roads has been left TO tho
state. and it has resulted IN the county commits
sGnsFs S.diEg T15as % In ma circular manner 1 around
through the counties at all.
sidered purely from business standpoint and the
m same Ss prees - 1te9 n 70 b IS ss wGTS as are sppIea
policy that governs our public road system If ap-
the management Of one OF our great railroad sys-
section boss allowed TO purchase rolling stock and
etheT necessary suppnlSs ,ls arrange schedules and
the conditions that our rural highways are at
take place II necessary for our road laws 10 be
revised. that II would be possible TO provide one
skilled and competent man 10 direct the road work
cf The coC1ntv with md Iaborerr under his
direction selected because OF their fitness for the
work Fortunately. much new legislation for the
betterTnent OF roads is at present being enacted.
ALREADY about twenty States nave ADOPTED soma
form OF legislation which provides for aid state
supervision or both. The greatest good has re-
suited IN those states which have removed so far
as possible the building and maintenance OF state
roads from the jurisdiction OF county officials
The point regarding the manner in which roads
ere located by the various officials interested has
been dwelt upon by The Tribune at various times.
and the evil effects Of tbs system Of which Mr..
Page complained well known 20 people In sew
eT.l counties OF this state where roads have been
isid without the slightest regard TO their con-
nection with existing planned lines in the
ties adjoining
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-12
EIGHT THOUSAND men
LAY DOWN TOOLS
Canadian Pacific Strike Extends
From Coast to Coast.

Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 5.-The big
gest labor dispute which the indus
trial history Of Canada has known
eliminated in the form of a general
strike when the employees of the me.
chanical departments of the Canadian
Pacific railroad from the Atlantic to
the Pacific coast, some eight thousand
in number, laid down their tools. and
quit work because the decision of the
Cancellation board, which was appoint
ed under the Lemieux act of Canada
was not in accord with what they
wanted. Not merely in number of
men involved is the magnitude of the
walkout indicated, but in the fact that
it involves greater financial interests
and covers more territory than any
strike which has heretofore been
recorded in railway circles The local
end Of the event was represented by
the cessation from work of some one
thousand men who are employed in
Winnipeg shops. Nearly half of the
men involved are on the Western sec
lions of the road, the exact number
being $500. The total number affect
ed on Eastern lines is 1900, making
5000 men on strike.