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STATES WEALTH INCREASES.
Valuation Of Real Estate sea 900 900
More Thm Last Year.

ALBANY, Sept. 2.-The aggregate vafu-
alton Of real estate In the State as re-
ported to the State Board Of Equalization
this year 10 $s,5Ss, 2ss, 1877, as compared
with 81 ss. 057 .o17 in 1905, an increase Of
more than S6f coo 900.
Orange county sent a protesting dele
cation to the session Of the board
demanding a higher rating In the State
Equalization table than 10 per cent, ths
figure given by the tax commissioners.
II developed that while there was no
longer a State tax to be assessed on the
various counties, yet he' advantage in
securing a higher rating comes IN con-
neo4on with the leyying Of special fran
chise taxes. Under the law special
franchises are assessed at full v4hue by
the State Tax Commission, bat tho COR
porations have the right to apply 10 tho
courts for a change.
The State board has decided TO adj
vance the rate for Orange county from 20 to
rs per cent. A number Of changes were
also made In the ratings for other counties.
including the following advances: Albany,
IS to 90; Cayuga, 20 to 70; Clinton. SO to
IS; Columbia, 50 Il 81: Cortland, 81 to sc;
Erie, "a to 70; Genesse, u TO n; Madison.
10 TO 81: Monroe. 50 to IS; Montgomery.
rs to n; Oswego. 80 to "a; Rensselaer,, 10
to So; Soboharie. 70 to 80; Seneca, 20 to IS;
Tompkins, 70 to SO; Wayne. 72 TO rs, and
Yates, n to 90.
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perhaps ina way. a question of popular

perhaps ina way. a question OF popular
government.
OF course the politicians laugh at this.
"A few soreheads and kickers: just
talk" This 10 their universal verdict. Yet
one can hardly expect them TO know.
or knowing. to oonoede how unpopular
they really are, how their personalities
have become the target OF every sort
Of abuse. ,vituperation and Reputation.
Yet there is the fact. the fact that grows
on one each day that he travels through
this State. After all tho whole thing
smacks Of revolution; 1t 10 no merestrike'
no sort Of passive resistance. this anti
boss sentiment. Not in 1.-The least; no does
1t seem likely to die out now, even II
Hughes be renominated; rather 1t 10
likely to remain a weapon in his hand
for the years that are to follow. Perhaps
the politicians feel this now
We must kill Hughes or hs will kill u.s.
This statement quoted above rightly
defines the situation.
It L. idle, Of course. to attempt to fore
cast the result Of the turning down OF
the Governor. But IL La mere faulty
to close ones eyes and ears to the evil
dences to be had on every side that there
will be consequences. that the indignation.
resentment and passion now abroad In
the State at the proposition. the mere
proposition to reject the Governor. will
not vanish in thin air when the Job has
bean actually accomplished. There 10 no
national campaign now. and 1t is hard
to see where q national campaign, will
find entrance hereafter. while popular
sentiment 10 still unsatisfied; when. In
fact. it has been definitely affronted.
After all. however d~istasteful the idea
may be of bringing church influences
into politics, the church people Of the
State are aroused over the moral issue.
and the church people are pany.
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The Brazilian Battleships Now
Building.

DuitdhbA
So much has been said about the pos
sible sale Of the three Dreadnoughte
now being constructed for Brazil In
British shipyards and the resultant
change in the purchasers naval eff
cheney that the precise facts concern
ing these vessels may be worth atten-
ton. They Ire set forth in the latest
number of the British trade journal
Engineering.
OF the three %battleships ordered for
the account Of the Brazilian Govern
ment two are being built at the Elswick
works Of ARMSTRONG, WENTWORTH a
Co., and the other at the naval con
struction works OF VIcKERs Soss 4
MAXIM. located at Barrow-in- Furness.
They belong not so much TO the Dread
nought class, as is currently reported,
but rather to the Dreadnought era, for
they mark a decided advance in respect
Of gun power on Dreadnoughts pre-
viously constructed or ordered. In
stead OF ten. IL inch guns the new Bra
lillian ships will mount twelve, all OF
which will be fifty calibres in length.
Then again, although the English
Dreadnought can bring but eight guns
to bear on either broadside, each Of the
Brazilian ships now building will be
able to train all Of its twelve guns on
either broadside. This advantage win
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Large and Small Hotels.

The financial misfortunes of the fash
ionable London hotels possess an in
terest for Americans apart from the
degree of responsibility for this con-
dition which may have resulted from
our country's diminished patronage.
Our " hotels are modelled largely on
these London establishments, which
marked the successful appearance Of the
company hotel and incidentally the de-
cline Of the institution which depended
on the qualities Of one person.
The international establishments rep
resent what has come to be regarded
as the life OF the well to do throughout
the world. One lives under the egis Of
these companies in about the same
manner in Rome or Paris. II there is
any national characteristic about these
places they may be considered as French,
since that Is the accepted kitchen Of
the world that patroniEos these places.
You search in vain for other particulars
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Bad News From Cuba.

The robbery in the Havana post office
n "a unfortunate as are. slndry expert
cnces of the same kind in this and in
bther countries and no more so. 1t is
|. clearly a case of individual pilfering
cleverly concealed but finally detected
b. the vigilance of the Director-General
6f Posts. 1t Is interesting to recall that
n the Gdelity of Director-General
HERNANDEZ Is due in large measure the
credit for the discovery Of tho Nicely
! htealines in 1900. He wnsat that time
nh inspector in the Post Office Depart
meutsand, If memory r us was the
}Rrst to call attention TO the Irregular
tics which led UP to the revelations | n
the Nelly case.
Details Of the scandal reported in the
Department of Public instruction are
too meagre for comment. There ap-
pear to have been irregular practices
Of the kind known here as padding the
rolls and the whole list ia being care
fully Investigated. How extensively
the game has been played and how many
are implicated in 1t is not yet known.
"a That is not all the bad news from
Cuba, mol by any means the worst
news. The recent Treasury statement
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908,
shows total receipts OF ss4.0a0,56l and
total expenditures S44.b5l, 707, n deficit OF
sie,Ssl, 1R for the year.
III rr a,f ~ tho otntnnapt the
funds belonging to special accounts,
such as the special taxes for tho pay
ment Of interest on tho national debt
and the payments made OF that account,
the general public fund shows receipts
1es,ss6, 02l, expenditures Sal COS ,s72, with
d deficit in the account amounting to
81, $50, $50. The balance on hand at the
close of the fiscal year 1905 was sle,9ol,-
10, and at the close Of the fiscal year
1907 it vas s1e.O53, 663. The apparent
balance for the year just closed ia sS,522,-
5i7. but this seems to be mortgaged sew
eral times over by outstanding accounts
and contracts for work now in process or
soon to be undertaken.
II 1t Ia our purpose to leave the island
an empty treasury and a mortgaged
future and 80 prevent and prohibit a
repetition Of that orgy of greed and
araft which prevailed during the time
Of a large surplus and the alleged pay
ment of claims Of the veterans Of the
revolution we appear to be in a fair
way to succeed.
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wireless IN the sssth Pacific.

From DAILY Con0lkS 'aYd Trade Reports.
Consul Julius D. Drcher sends from Tahiti In.
formation that capitalists who are interested In
phosphate operations on Ocean and Pleasant
islands OF the Gilbert group and IN the nev works
about to be established on the island Of hakatss
OF the Tuamstu Archipelago have recently begun
movement TO connect nearly all ne groups Of
islands In tia South Pacific by a system OF wire.
less teiegraphy. II is proposed to include In
this System the Commonwealth OF Australia, tho
Dominion OF New Zealand, the Fills, the New
Hebrdes, the Solomon. Samoan Cook. Society
and Marquesa Islands and the phosphate Islands
Of Ocean. Pleasant and Makatea.
The name OF the proposed company 10 tho
Pacific Islands Radio Telegraph Company. OF
me proposed capani Of E7o.Oo Nsao,W0 the
owners OF the phosphate deposits on o&sn and
Pleasant Islands have subscribed $1,000. In this
radta! system there will probably be tea or twelve
eirciea ne largest having a radius Of $50 miles,
and requiring for each station an engine OF sixty
horse power. 1t has not yet been decided where
the main once Of the proposed company win be,
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CONSERVE STATES RESOURCES.
GOV. Hughes Requestsstate Ofacers to Co
eperate with National Commission.

operate with National Commission.
ALBANY, Sept. a.-when Presidens
Roosevelt appointed the National Con-
~servatiop Commission he ask ed the ov-
ernors Of the various States to take such
action that there might be cooperation
between the States and the national CON-
mission.
Gov. Hughes deemed the objects 10 view
of great Importance. but as there was no
authority Of law under which he could ap-
point q State conservation commission
and no appropriation available for the uss
Of such q commission, he concluded some
time ago that instead Of attempting to
constitute an unofficial commission OF
private citizens It would be preferable to
ask the heads Of State departments hav-
ing direct relation to. the care Of the
resources Of the State and to public inn
as q ooenpission, in order to give the
National Conservation Commission such
data az IL may ask for from time to time
and to make such recommendations as
may appear e1pedient.
Accordingly he has requested the fol.
lowing State officers to perform for the
time being the functions Of Q State
conservation board: James s. Whipple,
Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner,
chairman; Raymond A. Pearson, Com
missioner Of Agriculture; Henry y. Per-
SONS, President Of the State Water Supply
Commission; Frederick @. Stevens, Super
intendent q Public Works; Andrew 8.
Draper. Commissioners Of Education, and
Frederick Skene. State Engineer and
Surveyor.
without attempting to impose any
specified obligations apart from the
duties Of their several offices, the Cover
the designation for the purpose Of secur-
ing appropriate united cotton on behalf
of the State authorities and of aiding the
work OF the national commission.
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Conner and the Alabama Strike.

n Nv ~
Il Is announced that the great Ala
hama miners strike at Birmingham has
been called of and that several thou
sands Of laborers will now return to
work ION the n%on-unien basis We
have further the assurance that the
collapse was occasioned by Governor
CoMER's threat to cnll the Alabama
legislature in extra session to deal with
the situation.
Does ony one believe that the strikers
have abandoned their contest through
fear OF anything Governor CONFER might
dop We should say, moi"
This strike has lasted several weeks.
u has been marked by unusual violence
md excess on the part Of. the strikers,
Dynamite has been freely used. Shot
runs and other deadly weapons have
been in constant employment. Gov
ernor CONFER called to the scene several
hundreds of the militia, but was careful
not to declare martial law and disarm
the disaffected. So it came about that
men were murdered for the crime Of
working for their livelihood, property
was destroyed, women and children
were widowed and orphaned, and all
this while Governor CoMER's troops
amused themselves eating the pies and
cakes prepared for them by tho strikers
and their families and civilization In
the neighborhood of Birmingham lay
PROSTATE and helpless under the heel of
rampant anarchy. The Mobile Register
has borne witness to this, and we may
well believe that IL is true as stated.
Now we are asked to believe in the
collapse of n triumphant barbarism be-
cause Governor CONFER has threatened
an extra session Of the Legislature.
In our opinion the strike has. gone TO
pieces because OF the conviction that
the employers we're not to be intimi-
dated. There have been other strikes
In the Birmingham district, and though
this has lasted longer than any of its
predecessors they have all ended in a
defeat for GoMPERs, MITCHELL 4 Co.
and d CHASTITY array Of expenditure for
the union. Under previous Governors
the violence has besn promptly sup
pressed. Under CONFER II has -four
sahed; but the upshot has been the same
n all cases. Once the union had to
support the striking miners for more
than q year and subsequently to furnish
transportation for them to other and
more congenial parts. But there has
been an awful sameness in the end.
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be obtained by altering the disposition
Of the guns. Tho fun outcome Of the
change will be that each vessel can
fire eight guns ahead, eight guns astern
and twelve on either aide. and as the
guns are each Of exceptional power
the result will be to make these Bra
lillian ships Of incompatible offensive
efficiency. We add that the displace-
ment Of each ship is to be 1880 tons
and the speed is to be u knots. For at
least the first two Of the ships recipro-
eating engines have been adopted,
while al regards the third vessel tar
bines may be preferred, though no final
decision has been reached.
Turning to the srmor protection Of
the Brazilian Dreadnoughts we observe
that the side plating will extend from
bow to stern. The greater part Of the
armor is to weigh 800 pounds asquare
foot. At the recent trial Of the resisting
power Of the armor plate II was specified
that the attack should be made by a o.
inch 20 calbre gun, using $50 pound pro-
~jectiles made by THOMAS FIRTH & Sons
Of Sheffield according to the British
standard service pattern, and that the
charge should be such as to give a strik-
ing velocity OF not less than 1850 feet a
second and as close an approximation
to 1900 feet as should be possible, the
range being 277 feet. The results as
given in Engineering are highly inter-
esting. The first round resulted in the
development Of a striking energy Of
9,4a1 foot tons, and the ~projectile, which
weighed ss1 pounds 8 ounces, vas
broken UP, the point alone remaining
embedded to a very slight extent. The
second round was an exact repetition
Of the first, the penetration Of the point
Of the pfojectile being again about two
inches. The third round released the
points Of the first and second shots.
The plate was then officially accepted
as complying with all the conditions Of
the contract. 1t was noted that the
splinters from around the points Of i'm
pact were very thin; in no case was the
penetration more than two and one-half
inches, and there was no evidence Of
cracking. The back OF the armor plate
was found to show no breakage Of sur
face. The remarkable condition Of the
plate after being subjected to these tests
suggested the idea Of firing an extra
round with a larger charge, increasing
the velocity to 1877 feet a second and
developing the striking energy to 1882
foot tons. Again the result proved very
satisfactory. There was only slightly
increased penetration, and notwith-
standing the close proximity Of the point
of impact to the impact points OF previ-
Gus rounds there was little splinterng
and no cracking. 1t was obvious that
the plate could have withstood an at
tack Possessed Of a striking velocity Of
fully 1000 feet q second.
In view Of the extreme secrecy in
which the outcome Of such tests is
usually enveloped the remarkable facts
disclosed by Engineering will be pecul-
iarly acceptable to experts in gunncry.
Beyond a doubt the three Brazilian
Drcadnoughts will be at the time of their
completion by far the most formidable
battleships afloat. though OF course
attempts to equal or surpass them will
quickly be made in England. Germany
and the United States.
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at all typical Of the land in which
these hotels may be.
The appearance Of these modern pal.
aces to quarter vagrant wealth has
BEEN responsible FOR the decline Of the
small hotel In London and the transfer
Of the restaurants patronage to the
hotel. Londoners now seek q hotel
restaurant to dine in when it Ii q ques-
ton Of eating In public. The same
result has been in a large measure ao-
complished here. Our hotels are like
their foreign models in every detail Of
management, although they are not
controlled by companies. There was
a time when few New Workers. sought
the restaurant of a hotel unless they
lodged there. Now the condition is
the reverse. The restaurants Of the
new and fashionable hotels could never
survive IL support cahse alone from
the hotel. On the other hand, there
are practically but three restaurants
opposed to this new rivalry.
The small restaurant Of the same
class as the best hotels has disappeared
from New York also. On the CONT
nent it has been better able to hold
its own against the hotels. Perhaps
1t Is wanted again in London, and there
has been a revolt against the size Of the
great places put up there, their noise
and their uniformity. New York's ho-
tells have shown no signs Of diminished
patronage, and perhaps the loss Of the
small restaurant is not deplored here.
You hear It's departure occasionally
regretted, but that must be by a small
minority. II New York felt a real need
for such places they would soon come
into existence again. So It may be that
the small restaurant Of the first class
is inconsistent with the size Of the me-
tropolis of to-day.
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The Jesssyman Above the Dollar.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-sr: am the
nader OF the money referred to In thi, paragraph
from TnE SUN
z, volk Of Y. West Thirty fourth street, Bay,
onne, N. j., picked up a dollar blu In a Newark
avenue clothing store In Jersey City on Saturday
night. He didn't want II and gave II to Police
man Mike Dundon. the policeman on post Dun,
don didn't want It either and turned Il over "a
the desk ofhcer at the dty hall station
The correct version Is that after an arrumep
arose between the clerk and myself. he ~assertins
that the dollar was the property OF the store
l saying 1t was my property as the Under unless
claimed by the nghtful owner, I asked to have
a policeman called In to decide. and he decided
that the ponoe would hold the dollar for the
owner, and u It was. not called for 1t was my
property. EMIL voLx,
NEW YoRK, September l..
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WYMAN C~OURT-MARTIAL OYER.
Verdict Reached I'm Case OF Lieutenant
VINO Said He Wasn't Married.

The oourt-martial Of Second Lieutenant
Guy H. Wyman. who told the War De-
partnent he was single when he wasn't,
was concluded ut Governors Island
yesterday. and the court reached a verdict
after about twenty minutes deliberation.
The verdict viii not be made public for
several days.
There In an impression that the verdict
viii result In the loss Of several files to
the Lieutenant He declared that when
he answered the Question he supposed
that his first wife had procured a divorce
as she had promised to do and that he
oral months after he had turned In his
answer.
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According TO Omaha dispatches Mr.,
BRYAN sis known to have favored SHAL.
LENsERGER.' the banker candidate foI
the Democratic nomination for Governor
Of Nebraska, one Of the pirates and
traitors against whom Cowboy JIM
DAHLMAN blazed 30 ~furiously. Cowboy
jim was nominated for all that and the
rule Of the people was .vmdicated.' But
why did Mr.. BRYAN put sHALLESBERoEH
above DAHLMAS, the dollar above the
mani
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03

The Hon. COLE BLEAsR a not nomi-
mated for Governor by the South Carolina
Democrats. but he carried the Charleston
primaries: his platform Of sticking to
the men that stick TO Cole BLEAsE is sure
to be immortal and, anyway. his great
name conquers.
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4 Cook 10 Kscuiapsus.
From ne Burfseso~. a., Poa.

From me BuSifnetoW, ID, Foa.
Colonel Pate Martin IL again condusting his
business on lower jefferson street amer a long
illnoss- The skies IRE always a little lighter. the
sunshine a little more pleasant, the surface Of
the nver q little smeothsr. the Ash bite a little
better and things generally wear Q sercner a..
poet when Colonel Martin Ia able 70 be about,
May his shadow never grow iess-
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so far as actual, concrete results arg concerned,
Government and the several States have proven
Ineffective Attorney General HADiKr Of Mb.
souri,
Too quick despairer, Remember the
glory that certain politicians have laid up
and the dividends Of disaster that trust
busting politics has paid to business.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03

London once. Ennnsnam House. / Arundel
efreet, Strand. The daily and Sunday sun Is on
tale In London at Murray's Exchange, Trafalgar
Buildings. Northumberland avenue; Pail NAL
American and Colonial Exchange. Carlton street,
Regent street, and DAVIS steam ship Agency. II
Green street. Leicester Square.
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Paris once, 81 Grc Louis lie Grand. The daily
and Sunday editions are on sale al Klosque IL. near
tbe Grand Hotel. Kl,sque II, Boulevard des Capu
e.nea, corner Place dc rOpera, and Klosane 10.
Boulevard des ~Italiens. corner Rue Louis lie Grand.
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Rhode Island has recently acquired a beautiful
cSprinonsld linton.
IL will have to be a mighty beautiful
tract to live UP TO its NAME.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03

We fear that the Hon. NATHAN BAY
scorr has been trying TO make himself
popular at Oyster Bay.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03

" our ffisnds rho fdror US trtth manuscripts for
rsthernon rfsa 10 hdp rrJcetsd articles returned
fhry must In M ecsrs seid sto rps for that purpose.
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Nights shades viii then descend DER Tiny Tim
And taen wni fade his lirht, already aim:
His voice, nov fsintiy heard VIII thcn be hushed.
Tnen we shall learn the ease with which q pea
nus1 crushed.
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Knioker-what ia the soject Of Hitehcook's
card hdexf
Boeksr-To know n has cold feea
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Published by tho Sun Printing and Publishing
Association Of 10 Nassau street, 10 the Borough
~ Manhattan. New York. President and Treas
afer Of the Association, william M, Lanan, III
Eassau street: Secretary Of the Association,
Franklin bartlett. 5 Nassau street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03

Knicker-Bryan calls himself the heir Of Rooee.
velts poncies
Bocker-Bus he cut himself OF with q silver
dollar.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-03

What is the matter with Old Improba.
bilities?
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