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$4,000. 900. because the admitted fees Of
the receivers and their counsel viii
amount to 81, zoo, 600, while the s., ,4OO, 600
already paid in by stockholders will not
then be available This fact and the fact
that the owners Of deposits Of over
$50, ,OOO, 900 have already assented to the
resumption plan should be conclusive
in behalf of the resumption Of business
and Of the speedy discharge Of the tenn
pOrary receivers. On the other hand,
If the temporary receivers should be
made permanent it is not at all certain
that the depOsitOrs will ever receive more
than one-half Of their deposits, while
il the plan of resumption be adopted it
would seem to be morally certain that
every dollar due will eventually be paid
in full to every depositor.
Justice LESTER w. CLARK Of the
Supreme Court. sitting in Richmond
county, before whom this matter has
been heard from time to time, has shown
a fair, Just and admirable spirit thus far,
and it is to be hoped that on the hearing
be will grant such further time as may
be necessary to assure the success Of the
resumption plan.
The effect of the resumption of busi-
ness by this trust company will be not
only salutary but far reaching. and it
will tend to increase the confidence OF
the business community in the general
situation and the confidence Of the
public at large in the administration
of our courts. THE sun advises all its
readers who happen to be depositors to
assent at once to the resumption plan as
nroffered.
The sun., 1908-01-16

Spettswdod. AIR Jsnas MncLaan. Mfs, Ed
ward A. Wickes and oshsra
Mr.. CharIea P. 0ruppS has seventeeRof
his Dutch landscapes and views ae the
Oehme Galleries. Fifth avenue. northwest
corner OF Thirty-seoond street. This artist
is favorably known here for both his oils
and watcroolors. He 10 a man Of sincere
moods, though not always succsssfui IN
capturing the passing vision. A lover Of
Holland. no exploits its sunny Hatlands. It's
odd corners OF canals, itS rich meadows
with browsing cattle. With his sober palette
and q careful touch he svokes bits Of Kat
wyk. Rotterdam. Leyden. Voorburg and
Tho Hague. A canal In old Delft 10 good TO
gaze upon; 30 Is -Ketwin From the Field,
simple in motive and well realized. Ths
homely atmosphere OF his adopted country
he feels. and he sets forth this feeling with
out rhetorical nourishes and in an apprO-
pirate color Rarb.
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The FireprOoAr ProhI.u,.

lorHh EpiIoh OF NE St-7SIr: While seeking
10 place he IeSponsiohNSOr the lack OF water
ana TOT uelecuNo nose C@uN largely responsible
IoT lhe serious ehaIacNI oNhe Parker Building
nre' the Aotnonues should ioS oSfurther and deter
mine whe'her tne law was NloiN I'd In the construc-
ton OF tnAt ouliolne' ana u SOHO is responsibl.
The building was called hreprE Ira w,us snd
BOOTS were hrepIooi: out u was nEinslly an open
lon building. and IL Is said that d. of the oar,,-
uons erecteu on INC uInerens moo was nreprooL
II " eviaenl, " this Is ttue thAt su structure IL
more dangerous than q non -nreprd one owing "a
the greater height OF building permA ID
The essence OF ireproor construc,n lea IN ,b.
hreproof partitions as well as hrepr0 soovs n.,,.
lngs and outer walls. by which in ca q, A.. ,h.
blaze will be confined on all sides. toIbd no,,or,
20 q small space until II can be exits aned I, 4.
safe 20 say that In such . hreproof S,uc,urs n,
nre VIII ever gam headwsy unless 'rcn lack Of
water or lack Of attention.
hut when floor space 100 By 100 etI. yrr,o-
tected by nreproof partitions. ana isurNsr s,,,
nlshed with partitions that serve 20 "a In.ts., a,
20 check names. Il is evident thstths is nsTt q,
. certainty Of the great heat weakenx tas s,..I
ramewoTk Of the doors above and osvv. Snrsss.
ing from door TO door and nnAlly wkeninS IN.
entire structure 10 the cola psIRg point n rhe,s,
permits such constructions the auicsshe Isv, ..
mended the better. ALBxANDSDoyIw
NEW YoRK. January IS
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NEW YORK. January IS. Commissi
The Physical Condition Of Admiral Evans.

WAS HINGToN. Jan. I5.--The announcement
from Rio de Janeiro that Admiral Evans is
too i'll to participate in the, hospitable cere-
monies attendant on the arrival Of his feet
VIII surprise no one familiar with the man
and his physical condition AZ this end Of the
line. Robley Evans has been "A sick man"
for several years. As far back as the days
OF the Harrison administration. iss0-isn3. he
was the victim OF inflamma tory rheumatism.
Long. weary time he spent in hospitals. at
Hot Springs. Ark. and elseN here. under
going heroic surgical operations for the
removal Of chalky deposits IN his various
joints. Later We heard Of hin, as a Valetu-
dinarian reduced 10 diets Of patent foods,
denatured milk and so forth. One less opu-
lently equipped In the matter Of physique aud
stubborn vitality and indomtablc will would
long ago have declined upon The Ievel Of
hopeless invalid. But his mind was always
Clear, his courage imperturbabe. his purpose
fiXed and brilliantly defined. And so he seized
the opportunity and sailed.
The fact remains, how ever. that those hest
acquainted with his physical condition have
been expecting just such news NJ now comes
to them from Rio. What viii surprise them
really would be message from the Pacific
Coast to the effect that he had reached there
In perfect physical condition.
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A QuOtatIOn From PhlIlIps BrooL,-

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--S,r: In an
interesting little volume from the pen Of the
late Phillips BROOKS. entitled "PerenniaIs," In
which is recorded philosophical thought for
each day Of the year. he says under date Of
April !: Gravity Is not inconsistent with the
keenest perception OF the ludicrous side Of
things. II is more than consistent with--it is
even necessary tO-humor HumOr involves
the perception OF the true proportions OF life.
! on cannot encourage II too much"
In these days when the symbol Of era Wit y
Is the menacing arm and closed 1st, and the
merry face of Humor has given place to
dental trade mark. what a far cTv II seems to
the quiet times OF Phillips Brooks! But why
did he record this thought under the date OF
April !? Can II have proceeded from the
combination Of his own delicious sense Of
humor with a hitherto unsupported gift of
so-called second sight? ALFRED ORD.
TORONTO January IA
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The Assistant POstmaster-Ge eneraI.

hN AaaAsgSus
IL was difficult TO believe the recent
Washington gossip to the effect that the
Hon. FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, Assistant
Postmaster General, had agreed to make
another tour of the Southern States, on
this occasion in the special interest Of
the Hon. WILLIAM II. TAFT's Presiden-
tial aspirations.
There was a time when the idea of an
important public officer with important
public duties to perform abandoning his
post for the purpose Of exploiting the
cause Of any candidate would have mon
Opolized the entire field of popular
amazement. The particular aspeTity Of
the aforesaid proposition, however, con-
sisted in the circumstance that the Hon.
FRANK H. HITCHCOCK owes his rescue
from the three legged stool of civil
service clerkship to the Hon. GEORGE B.
CoRTELYoU, and to no one else. When
the latter became Secretary OF Com
merce and Labor HITCHCOCK was hold
ing down a dull and hopeless desk in the
Department of Agriculture. CORTRLYoU
gave him bureau. Afterward, mount
ing to the portfolio Of the General Post
Office, he took HITCHCOCK for his First
Assistant. Such fsvors may easily be
wasted, but Mr.. HITCHCOCK seems to be
a gentleman Of right feeling who knows
no migrate strain.
Who can say? For our part We incline
to the reasonable opinion that Mr.. HITCH
COCK isn't going South at all
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the SuperciliOusness OF
Labor.

Concerning the SuperciliOuSness OF
Labor.
There is heard, now and then, a be-
lated inquiry respecting the occultation
of Governor FOLK of Missouri and its
nauses. The indifference of labor to the
fortunes OF FOLK is Curiously conspicu-
pus. Is it not true of the whole body of
organized labor that it is prone to mani
Test a hearty contempt for any man in
public life who has abandoned his proper
convictions in order to ingratiate labor?
We have observed not few instances.
They recall the fate Of the hapless TAR
REIA who betrayed her city to the Sabine
toldiers, who rewarded her by heaping
heir buczlers upon her, whereby she was
crushed to death.
We hear it strongly urged that the
sDi disGnt candidacy of the amiable and
excellent Secretary of War is foredoomed
because he, as a Judge, rendered many
decisiOns that were distasteful to organ
ised labor and prejudicial to it's preten-
eions. We do not believe a word OF It.
We hold that WILLIAMH. TAFT possesses
the respect and the confidence OF the
laboring men of this country far more
completely than any man in public life
who has sedulously and Ostentatiously
devoted himself to Cultivating labor as a
class apart. We have in mind when we
eay this many public men; the number
Includes ROOSEVELT and BRYAN.
There is nothing more honorable to
she rank and file of American labor than
It's proclivity, upon occasion, for ex-
pressing its indifference, il not its hearty
oontempt, for those who have sought,
aud perhaps gained, its suffrages at the
coEt of their own convictions and to the
detriment Of what honor they ever af-
fected to possess. The slaughter of the
c4pitoline maiden was brutal deed.
but it lives in history for the best of
reasons.
Politicians like FOLK, and all his kind,
may storm as they please at the ingrati-
tttde of labor. We do not know Of an
instance in which labor ever showed
ITSELF ungrateful or unmindful of any
man who, for no selfish and passing pur-
pose of his own, devoted his energies and
his intellect TO labor's interests. We
believe equally that it has never failed
fc yield a proper regard to the Judge
who has fearlessly and faithfully ad-
n,inistered the law according to his oath
~ Office and in obedience to his honest
conviction, We never knew a man more
lhoroughly effaced and Obhterated be-
heath the disdsin of men who work than
Judge who sought their sufrrages by
Eoiline his ermine 70 enlist their favor.
The ranks Of labor are not recruited
from among knaves or fools, and labor
has ss much faculty for seIl-respect as
any other element in our social system
! We do not believe WILLIAM ". TAFT has
ghost of.a chance of heing our next
President but he won't fail of it on the
ground that he is not an honest man or
because labor is resentful of the fact that
when he was on the bench he was an
honest Judge.
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urban Investigation. The truth as % this
city is that the first fourteen days Of Janu-
ary were not as nild as the corresponding
period Of last year. In 1907. according TO
the official thermometer. the maximum
temperature was 90 degrees on January 7.
and the minimum was ~ on January and
10. The average maximum temperature
for the fourteen days in 1907 was IS degrees.
and the average minimum temperature was
36.55 The 6rst fourteen days in January.
1908. may have furnished more sunshine.
but they contained less warmth in the shade.
The maximum temperature was II degrees
on January II and the minimum was 10 de-
grees on January 5. while the average
maximum temperature for ths fourteen
days was 37.7s degrees and the average
minimum was 80.
II We 90 back to mid December. 1907.
about the time the present mild weather
began. and compare the last seventeen
days OF the year with the corresponding
period Of 1905. we find that i35 was mild
and 1906 wintry. From December Is to 81,
inclusive, 1905, the highest temperature
was 50 degrees on December IS. and the
lowest was 10 degrees on December "a.
while the average maximum for the whole
period was SS degrees and the average
minimum was 20.02 degrees. The maximum
during the corresponding time in 1907 was
also 50 degrees on December % and the
minimum was 2T degrees on December 20:
the average maximum was d3 degrees and
the average minimum 80 degrees. From
December % TO 20, inclusive. in 1905 the
weather was seasonably cold. whereas on
the same days in 1907 the temperature ranged
from 50 to SO degrees. The records cited
are for lower Manhattan. but up in the
air at that; suburban diaries should not
be used to conRute them. It will be gen.
orally agreed that for vernal mildness and
clearness Of skies the weather from Decem-
Der IS. 1907. to January Il. 1908. has not
often been equalled.
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Two English Graduates Of the ENcC-
utiYe HOSpitality.

uttNe Hospitality.
Mr. A. MAURICE Low is the very able
correspondent in this country Of the
London Morning Post, and he also CON
tributes to the first of all the English
monthly magazines, the National Re
UieW. He is writer with a most unbe-
coming propensity for distasteful facts,
and he has lately set forth certain mat
ters concerning Mr.. RoosEvELT's pOlit-
ical and financial Nriumphs in manner
which has not pleased everybody in Lon
don any more than it has proved palata-
able TO Everybody in Washington. This
hse led us TO the SOLDERING reflection that
dinners and other White House hospi-
iality are Of grave disparity of effect
We proffer the observation that all
Conspicuous writers for the press. and
We would say some also who are by no
manner Of means conspicuous, have from
time to time, Of later years. incurred the
White House hospitality. Mr. MAURICE
Low has not been immune. nor again
has Mr.. j. ST LoE STRACHEY, the dis
iinguished, learned and profoundly sus-
ceptible editor Of that great organ of
British hebdoufadal thought, the Spec
tatoT While the former has emerged
from the ordeal with only mOmentary
impairment Of his faculties, regaining
their control indeed with unusual celer-
ity, the latter has never emerged at all
from the agreeable intoxication which
is the phenomenon commonly expert
nnced by all who have undergone the
occaRion.
II has come about that while Mr.. Low
Tor a time betrayed a warm sensibility
10 Mr.. RoosEvELTs many spiritual lures
and amulets, only to relapse presently
INTO his wonted intellectual integrity,
Mr. STRAcHEY has proceeded, cUmula-
lively, from one phase Of ceI ebral pros
ration TO another. until the devotion of
The Spectator to the Roosevelt cult has
acquired an almost bacChanalian inten-
sity and abandon. The result in both
cases is of an admirable advantage 10
the British public. They enjoy on the
one hand the work Of the unimaginative
and conscientious historian Of contem-
porsTy events who chronicles the esaen-
tiaf and the consequential with cold i'm
partiAlity, while on the other hand they
are regaled with the poetic and unfet-
The sun., 1908-01-16
An Ex-Prealdent in Congress.

To THE EDITOR or THE Sun Sir: n Rep
resentative Bennets bill TO give the President
at the end OF his term a seat In Congress with
out vote but with voice and salary should
pass and Mr.. Roosevelt should take a seat Ia
Congress. would any one else in that body
have . voice?
No member Of House or Senate would have
. chance to state bis OPINIONS.
Mr.. Roosevelt has too much to say already.
Give him q rest. This 10 from one of his old
admirers. u. MILLER.
NEW YoRK January IS.
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she is soon to be the BRIDE o. wealth.
As her beauty rare bedts.
Her hand. her heart. her soul she gives
To q millionaire from Pitts----
Oh. heAvenl Say no aors. pray
And must she tAus tempt fAte'
May nothing turn her from the step
Ere it Shall be 700 late.-
Too Is.@i Too lAtsi The trotb Is passed,
And she hls bride win bel
Tue wiling BRIDE % . mlIllcnsire
From pittsville, Tsnnesseeif
ED Morr.
The sun., 1908-01-16

tered divagREionS Of The man OF gsItle
ietters, unrestrained and fancy free.
Singular, and passing strange, a hos
pitality whereof the Psychic power is so
diverse that il leaves one Englishman
unsCathed and unadorneda and transforms
another into COCkney Jake Riisl
The sun., 1908-01-16

In view Of the various current inquiries,
involving criticism more or less imPera-
tive. touching the insistence in Official
circles upon -Santo" Domingo, whereas
other names Of islands, towns. &C., SINH
larly derived from the Spanish have had
to put up with the familiar contraction
San. We are reminded Of the time honored
proverb, Solo hay tres Santos" 1t is u
curious and most interesting fact that the
Spaniards admit to their nomenclature only
three full spelled saints-DOMINGo, TOMAS
and TONE. All the rest Of them, Francisco,
ANTONIO and so on, have to make the most
of the diminutive San" The diferentia-
ton is not Capricious. therefore. Our
Government authorities may have taken
liberties with the Spanish language In
changing the name of puerto Rico" to
Porto Rico but in dealing with the names
OF the saints they have followed strictly in
the footsteps Of the original tradition
The sun., 1908-01-16

There are many brave men who we're
before AoAMEAiNoN: and one OF them.
JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER, was fighting
with his regiment. the Eighty-ninth Ohio.
when THEODORE ROOSEVELT was, accord
ing to his most adoring biographer, "a
little lad in stih white petticoats. with curl
right on top Of his head Before this little
lad had reached the school which was to
prepare him for Harvard. Captain enlisted
privAte) FORAKER had been schooled in
Ohio politics well enough to make a success
full fight for q Superior Judgeship.
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Assemblyman MCGRArH, who has intr

Assemblyman MCGRArH, who has intro
duced at Albany bill amending the New
York automobile law by requiring the
driver of a car to stop and give to a person
run over by il, or to a policeman OF peace
officer the names and addresses of himself
and the owner of the car, should examine
the similar provision of the New Jersey
law. IL provides that the driver shall not
only stop but return to the scene If the
accident and give to any proper person
demanding the same his number. the nmA-
ber Of his drivers license and the regis
tration number Of the motor vehicle and
the names and residences Of each and every
male occupant of said motor vehicle" The
information thus obtained is useful not
only 70 the injured person in a suit which
he may bring but also to Nhe public pros
ecutor. Experience in New Jersey has
shown, however. that in a case that looks
like manslsughter the occupants Of car will
sometimes run away in spite of the law
The sun., 1908-01-16

EAioksr-HAs Jones an awakened Ssasa ~ 4.
virtue
BocKer-YeS he hasn't sny taIss to ,ves,
this year, ~
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Reports Of dandelionS breaking the turf
and howers in the dooryard blooming per-
sist from rural centres beyond the reach OF
The sun., 1908-01-16

Knicker--Is he In the Aospitaig
Boeksr-Ycs. but donb know whstnef he n
Z horse In an army test or the goat az the lodge.
The sun., 1908-01-16

Senator PROCTOR of Vermont, who wants
the seining for pike by Canadians in Lake
Champlain made an international question
declares that pike are the best fish in the
lake This is generally the opinion Of Ver-
monters. They reject the pickerel and de-
clare it may be good for fertizing. but for
little else Strangers often find the pike
earthly in flavor, and prefer the bass. yellow
perch and even the despised pickerel
The sun., 1908-01-16

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indianapolis NCuS.
With respect. the adjective is Pathological.
All sociologists are eminent
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
FOREIGN

Dispute of European nations causes
postponement of reforms in Macedonia.
Hate of Russia is centered ON Ger
many, which has aided Austria in lat
ter's attempts to gain important con-
cessions
Great Britain may act Independently
In dealing with Turkey. as result of
quarrel between the other powers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
FLOODS RECEDLNG;
PTTTSBURG IS SAFE
Life Is Made Miserable for Residents,
Owing to Broken Gas Con-
nections and Lack of
Fuel

By Associated Press.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 16.--After reach
ing S07 feet at noon today and remain
ing at that stage for three hours. the
high water in the river is now slowly
receding. The danger mark in this
city is twenty-five feet.
The damage. it Is estimated, will run
up to several million dollars. but there
was no loss of life.
The suffering caused by the high
water is intense. Thousands of people
are living in the upper floors of their
homes, using skiffs as a means of
transportation to and fro. The lower
portions of their homes are filled with
water.
In many instances the household
goods were not removed, owing to a
lack of time. and chairs, tables, pianos
and bric-a-brac are floating about tho
rooms.
To add to the suffering of the victims
the weather grew cold today and snow
fell. The gas connections of the houses
have been disarranged. and In their
present damp condition life is made
miserable for the unfortunate occu-
pants.
Charitable institutions, making use
of many skiffs and RATS, have busily
beens working throughout all of last
night and today, serving hot coffee and
food to the families, most of whom arc
moor.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
BARON TAkAHIRA AND HIS WIFE
WRECKED ON SHORE
OF GLACIER, CREW
CAMPS FOR MONTHS
Nineteen Men from Japanese Fishing
Vessel Have Terrible Experience
in the Far North-Rescuers
Start

By Associated Press.
SEATTLE, WASH. Feb. 16,-Cast
ashore on Malaspinas glacier. near
Yacutat, Alaska. November s, after {.
severe gale lasting seventy-two hours,
nineteen members of the Japanese
fishing schooner Satsuma Maru lived IN
ca mp at the foot of the glacier for
three months. Then nine. of them es-
capped in their sampan to Yacutat,
where the ship Jeanie was hailed.
The Jeanie went to the glacier at
once. With seven sailors in the sam
pan, the Japs put off to rescue their
comrades. The sampan had harly en-
tered the surf when it was rolled over
repeatedly. Four of the men were
licked up unconscious by a life boat
and taken to the ship.
The officers of the Jeanie saw the
catastrophe, and the ship-wrecked men
on shore rushed into the sea and took
out the bodies of the other three sail,
ors.s Whether they are alive or dead is
not known.
The Jeanie stood off for two hours,
but the sea was running so high that
no boat could live to pass the surf,
A revenue cutter has sailed to the
glacier to rescue the other men.
Captain Y. Fujii of the Satsuma
Maru reports his vessel is high and
dry on the beach at the foot OF the
glacier and is undamaged except for
the loss of the rudder and anchors. 1t
will be practically impossible to salvage
the vessel. Two of the sailors lost
their lives during the storm.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-17
WORK OF MACEDONIAN
REFORM AT A sTANDSTlLL
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
VIENNA, Feb. 16.-Despite official
assurance that harmony has been re-
established between Austria and RUS
STA, the situation arising from the
question of railway concessions in the
Balkans has not lost Its tension.
Neither the foreign office nor the Rus
sian embassy is concealing the ract
that the action of Baron Won Arehen-
tai .~the Austrian foreign minister. has
caused deep concern in st. Petersburg.
Even should the Russian plans Tor
railroad from the Danube TO the Adri-
attic be carried out with the consent
of Austria, it is considered here that
the work of Macedonian reform has
come to standstill. 1t is pointed out
at the foreign office that Russia mas
not yet informed Austria of her plans,
and IL is therefore concluded by tne
Austrian officials that either Russia
has resolved not to carry them out at
all or contemplates some modihcation
of them,
The government is growing sensitive
under the aggressive attacks of the
French and Russian press and adverse
criticism in Great Britain, and Will
not admit that the Russian Austrian
entente has become ineffective. The
consensus of independent opinion,
however, is that the Muerzsteg scheme
has practically disappeared