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New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
JAMAICA BAY PLANS READY.
commission Recommends $500 600
Improvement Scheme to Board

Inc Board of Estimate and Apportlon-
lhent at It's last meeting of the year yester-
oay received two reports from the speciaI
committee appointed as a Jamaica Bay I'm
p'o'enent commission recommending plans
ior the improvement of Jamaica Bay
Both reports recommended the immediate
appropriation of 100000 to enable the
city TO get the benefit OF the act of the
Legislature which provides that the CITY
may acquire title TO all lands under water
IN the bay in the event that an appropria-
tion is made
The majority report proposed the CON
struction, of channel Is feet deep and
o." rect Wide from the southeast corner
OF; barren Island to Fresh Pond Creek
together with the construction of bulk
heads, slips and the like at cost of q
5ooooo 1t recommended also that 625 acres
of upland be made with the material from
dredging.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
GAYNOR GETS TIME.
Mayor Elect Had Failed to Answer in
Bingham Libel Suit.

William J. Gaynor, who will he Mayor
of New York City tomorrow. has been
spared the displeasure OF an Official visit
from the Sheriff by the decision of Justice
Nevberser yesterday permitting MIR. Gay
nor To open the default against him in the
suit OF General Theodore A. Bingham for
100000 damages for alleged libel
Counsel for the defendant moved on
Wednesday TO have the default opened
Mr. Gaynor had neglected to file an an
swer TO the suit Of the former Police COM
missioner. He also requested further time
Counsel for General Bingham insisted on
having the damages assessed at once and
execution issued to the Sheriff
Justice Newberger allowed Mr. Sayno-
twenty days in which to interpose an
answer.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
AHEARN KEPT AT IT
no OFFICE REFORM,
Irregularities Continued, Sdys
MitcheI's Report.

That lsxity, waste and irregularities in
fsyrolis have been permitted to continue
unchecked and that the payrolls in the
offce of the President Of the Borough of
Manhattan were loaded with names of
persons who performed no real service
for the city was the conclusion arrived at
hy John Purroy Mitchell Commissioner of
Accounts. after an examination into the
charges made against Borough President
Ahearn after his first removal by Governor
Hughes
The report which Mr.. Mitchell submitted
TO Mayor Mcclellan yesterday declares
that after the reelection of Mr.. Ahearn
following Governor Hughes's action the
Borough President continued to run his
ofice practically IN the same way as be
fore In this report the Commissioners Of
Accounts states:
We called witnesses and took testimony
IN order that We might determine
whether the same class of irregularities
had continued under the administration
established by the illegal act of the Board
find that there is az present, as in 1907.
waste OF salary appropriations in this
department Of the city government; that
there are employees on the psyrolls of this
department receiving monthly or weekly
compensations who do little or no WORK
and who seldom appear at the Offices of
fne department except 20 report and re-
ceive their payroll checks.
Especial laNtty was noted in the bu-
reaus Of buildings and OF highways
II was discovered that William Sauer
assistant 10 the chief clerk. who received
r salary Of $4,000, had spent large part
Of the time during the twelve years in
which he held the Office managing q hotel
g. Sharon Springs, y. Y. of which he
the proprietor. and that his So ary
check was forwarded TO him because he
found II inconvenient TO come for it
william + AtwelI. who held the office
of confidential inspector 10 the President
Of the Borough with a salary of sl,S00
IL was found devoted the greater part OF
his time to the theatrical business OF
Sullivan & Constdine. at No. 1858 Broad
way. A number Of other men employed
81 the Bureau Of Highways We're men
toned as doing nothing but drawing their
reN.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
CRITICISM FOR PARKS HEAD
Commissioners of Accounts Charge
Smith with Obstruction.

The Commissioners Of Accounts sub
mi;ted 10 Mayor Mcclellan Yesterday their
report on investigation of charges of
irregularity and waste in the administra-
tion OF the Department OF Parks Boroughs
of Manhattan and Richmond. which had
been brought TO their attention by Con-
t-oier Metz Commissioner Smith was
severely criticised for failure to help the
investigation. Owing TO lack OF time within
the present administration the comrnis-
Eioners confined their inquiry TO two spe-
cihc cases referred TO them By the Con-
troer-
IN the case OF Mary F. p. O'Connell. a
playground attendant ar $50 a month VINO
was permitted. it was alleged, to draw her
salary while attending g private school for
physical culture several hours day. the
commissioners said:
Throughout the investigation OF this case
New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
METZ SHOU'S WAY.
Reports to GOUernor on Con-
demndtiOn 4buses.

Controller Metz has sent report to Gov
ernor Hughes and the state Legislature on
the lands taken by condemnation for public
uses. with special reports the CatskiIl
water land cases. After going into many
figures OF the report Controller Metz
reaches the following conclusions:
That the city is firmly committed to the
Catskil water project.
That the Board of Water Supply is push
ing the work toward completion as rapidly
possible.
That the Board OF Water Supply has no
power. under the law. TO regulate the con-
duct Of condemnation proceedings, and can
not be held responsible, therefore, for any
excess in the cost of lands for the ex-
cessive expenses attendant upon acquiring
them.
on behalf of the city Is in the hands of the
Corporation Counsel who Is the sole city
official responsible therefor
That the state laws governing condem-
nation proceedings are opposed To econ
omy. and responsible in the largest
measure. for the waste and extravaganza
which now take place; and that reform and
retrenchment can only he brought about
by an amendment to the state constitution
That responsibility for the enormous
ratio of costs to awards must finally rest
upon the state Legislature. which has up
to the present time, failed TO press a con
stitutionai amendment. by which alone the
That the awards made for farm lands
arc. a rule. excessive. being far above
tho asCertainahe market value,
That II would appear that the percentage
~ costs TO awards is not likely 10 lie less
than 10 per cent for the whole work
whereas an individual is cited in
which the percentage of cost is more than
6S per cent.
Commenting upon the report. Controller
Metz said
No man can serve the city properly and
at the same tiHt sit on one of these con
demnhtion commissions for that involves
WORKING on commission in the citv's
time, Even though the law allows sf.eh
appointments, IL would seem that a sens.
OF propriety should prevent any one from,
Craving salary from the city while TAX
ing fees as commissioner, even though
me appointment Is made by q Supreme
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
sacramento system.

One of the speakers expressed the
sired end can be expected from the
Roman Catholic church until the idea
of primacy at Rome supplants tina,
of the papacy. Bishop Doane of AL
bany thought that visible church unity
is not likely to be realized.
A review of the congress was given
tonight by Rev. Edward T. Sullivan
of Newton, editor of the Church Mill
tant Mr.. Sullivan said
1.-THE congress was one of the most
successful sessions of recent years
both in point of attendance and in
the quality of papers and addresses
Many views held in one spirit rather
than one view held in many spirits
as Phillips Brooks said once, is the
only kind of unity that any church
should have. This principle was abund
antly illustrated at this congress. The
Episcopal church showed that it held
very many views in one spirit on every
subject that came up for discussion
The two most live subjects were gamb-
ling and psychotherapy.
"Dr. Darlington of New York, fiat
~ ucCldTeu lIldl IedlllS WdS no DuSl-
ness of the minister, and DR.. McComb
of Emmanuel church declared that doc
tors were sending their patients to his
church to be healed. He declared that
the attitude of the doctors was that
if people cannot be cured in the or
thodox way they could not be cured
at all. The clergy were in fiat oppo-
SitiOn to each other on the subject
1T was unique feature of this con-
gress that the operations on the stock
exchange were put before the people
on the Episcopal church as largely ben
Efficient and orthodox and that it was
only an exceedingly small part of the
transactions that were illegitimate''
The union discussed at the congress
today is designed to be interdenomina-
tional and to include all branches OF
Christianity
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
COMMUNICATED
A CHEAP GOOD ROAD.
An Open Letter to the County Com
:. missioners and Supervisors.

Gentlemen:-Now that everybody
seems to be talking good roads. [ wish
to make a suggestion for the improve
ment of our roads being an expert
and pronounced satisfactory and which
Is easy of construction and cheap in
cost.
The department of agriculture has
discovered that the road most favored
by the farmers is "a firm earth road,
because it is easy on vehicles and
horses, smooth and noiseless, and en-
ables the farmers to make the larg-
est use of the unshod horse. The
trouble with such a road is that the
traction-the pull necessary to haul
the loads relatively too great. The
problem presented was to keep the
earth road for the horse, and get
something that would lessen the trac-
ton. This has been solved by an
engineer in the following manner:
Excavate a trench under the wheel
tracks a foot deep and a foot wide,
by blowing out with ordinary roao
pillow and shoveling out remainder of
the, odrCn 10 UNIFORM Q6pIn ana Wluln.
Place field rock" (any old rock you
can find) in the bottom of the trench
to a depth of five or six inches, and
tamp into place with an ordinary iron
or wooden tamper, so that when the
course is finished it will have a depth
of about five inches. Place on this a
course of five inches of crushed rock
creek powders or crushed gravel will
do-of sizes that will pass through
ring one and one-half inches in diane
ter. but not larger than three inches,
and tamp again to place. 1t has been
found that a wide tired wagon heavily
loaded will quickly and sufficiently
settle this rock in place, and can be
used instead of a tamper. When fin
ished, this course should be four
inches thick. Place on this a course
of finer crushed rock, say three inches,
and lamp or settle with the wagon,
as before. On this place a layer Of
screenings, dust and crushed rock not
larger than will pass through a three
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
JURIES AND PENALTIES.

The infliction of some rather ex-
treme punishments by judges in courts
in various parts of the country within
the last few days has given rise to con-
siderable discussion. Our only quar-
rel with any of the penalties inflicted
would be on the ground that they
were too lenient, but at the same time
there are some who protest that they
were too severe. The matter is inter
esting inasmuch as it brings into con-
sideration the fact that in police court
an innocent man is sometimes unable
to obtain justice through lack of OBJ
portunity for defense and that in a
jury case the juror who sees the pris-
oner's side of it is often constrained
to a compromise verdict of guilty in
stead of sticking out for an acqu1ttal.
Take the Hams case as an example.
Captain Hams was found guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree-to
the great surprise of the lawyers on
both sides 1t would seem as though
man who stood on a dock and deliber-
ately pumped lead into a man in a
bathing suit in a sailboat was either
committing murder in the first degree
domestic side of the case-or else that
he was insane.
Considerable comment has been
aroused in certain sections by the SEN
fences imposed upon Mr.. and Mrs.
Boyle for their participation in the
Whitla kidnapping case which began
in Sharon, Pa, and ended happily in
Cleveland. The man was given life
Imprisonment and the woman % years
in the penitentiary. There are many
who say that the penalties imposed
were excessive because the boy was
we'll treated and returned in good or
der"
Yet we believe that justice was done
Justice and no more-because if
there ever was a crime outside of de-
liberate murder which should be pun
ished by hanging, that crime is kid
mapping.
A few days ago there was a young
man arrested on street corner in
Seattle for annoying a young woman.
He was fined 800 and sentenced to
serve 80 days on the chain gang. That
penalty, too, may seem severe to some
bat it does not to any man with wife
or a daughter who is occasionally COM
PEELED to be upon the streets of this
city alone. The offense of the mash
er" is akin to that of the rapist. There
is only a difference in the quality OF
the nerve displayed. The penalty un-
der the law is. unfortunately, too light
Our juries may be wrong in com
promising upon their verdicts and some
of our judges may be either too Sc
we're or too lenient at times, but we be
lieve that in the average real justice is
done in the cases which reach then
in the criminal branch and that wher
a heavy penalty is imposed in a case i
is generally deserved.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
BUSINESS FAILURES
INCREASE FOR WEEK
BRADSTREETS REVIEW FOR PAST
SEVEN DAYS NOT VERY
OPTIMISTIC.
Wheat Exports Show Falling of
of Many Bushels-New Wool
Selling Well.

NEW YORK, May 15.-Bradstreets
today said:
Irregularity still ctaracterizes the
trade, crop and industrial situation. In
Industrial lines the consensus of re-
ports is that further Improvement has
been registered, especially in the iron
and steel, coal, coke, wooden manu-
featuring and leather trades. Build
ing is active and lines of trade cater
ing to this industry are feeling bene-
fetal effects.
1T is between seasons period in
wholesale and jobbing distribution
trade; orders from retailers are mere
ly of a filling in character and hardly
equal to expectations.
Manufacturers Of wooden goods are
buying freely of the raw material at
Boston and sales of new domestic crop
wool to arrive have aggregated ten
million pounds.
Eastern shoe factories orders on
hand are below normal Buying is not
ms broad as expected. Sole leather is
active. supplies we'll controlled and
prices firmer with union sole one cent
up. Upper feathers are also more ac-
tive. Hides are firm.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with May
Is were 224 against PA last week 21S
in the like week of 1908 1874 in 1907,
161 in 1906, and 191 in 1905.
Canadian failures for the week num-
Der 81 against % last week and %
in the like week of 1908.
Wheat. including flour exports from
the United States and Canada, for the
week ending May 13 aggregated
$4,000 bushels. as against 1.452, 1853
last week and 2,701, sos this week last
year.
For the 46 weeks ending May 13 this
year the exports are 155,225,529 BUSH
els against 1S3.O75,973 in the CORE
spending period last year.
Corn exports for the week are
1924 bushels against 26S,734 last
week and 102270 in 1908
For the As weeks ending May 10
corn exports are 28.694169 bushels,
against 44,457,953 last year
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
SECRETARY WILSON AND WHEAT

ManifestIy Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson spoke with astonishing lSnor-
ance. considering his position, when ne
said i'm Chicago two or three days ago
that the recent price of wheat was
altogether speculative, and that 1t was
40 cents bushel more than actual
normal supply and demand CONDITIONS
warranted Every source of lnforma-
ton disputes this conclusion. 1t Woulo
be an utter impossibility for any man
or small clique of men to maintain the
price of wheat so much above Its true
market value for weeks and months
at time says the oregon Journal. II
was not only May wheat months ago.
and is not only July and September
wheat now, but cash wheat, for present
delivery. wheat needed by the mills,
that has been UP to extraordinary fg-
ures. If there had been the wheat in
the country it would have been pro-
duced in response to such demand
Foreign prices have corresponded all
along to what Mr.. Wilson asserts are
speculative prices here, have indeed
been higher.
The simple fact is that the con-
sumption of wheat has for years
been gaining on production, both IN
this country and abroad, and the sup
ply is practically exhausted. Specu-
lation can and does sometimes run the
price up far beyond the normal market
price fixed by the balancing forces Of
supply and demand, but this cannot
continue long, and plenty of relio5le
facts show that while the market bulls
may have pushed the price up some
what, very high wheat was the natural
and inevitable.
Viewed by five year periods, the
exports from this country are rapidly
decreasing. At the rate of decrease
during the past five years, as compared
with the preceding five years, exports
will entirely cease before the next five
year period has elapsed. This nas
not actually happen, but it will happen
unless more wheat in proportion to
consumption is produced in this coun-
try from 1909 to 1913 inclusive than
was produced from 1904 to 1898 in
elusive And when this relative de-
crease is happening to greater or
less extent in most of the old pOpulous
wheat producing countries of the world,
it is not at all strange that the price
of wheat has rapidly risen.
S cretary Wilson is certainly away
off, on his estimates as to the visible
supply" 1t isn't in sight nor in ex-
istence. He credited the Pacific north
west with nearly 9,O00,00 bushels when
it did not have more than one-fourth
that amount, and this overestimate was
probably made throughout the country.
The aged secretary may be all light in
some respects, but as a wheat esti-
mator he is a conspicuous failure.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
FORMED PLOT TO
KILL KVA[SHAUG
So Claim Authorities Who Have Ar
rested His Wife and Man SAID
to Be Her Paramour-New-
comb Confesses.

TACOMA, May 15-Mrs. Martin
kvalshaug and Charles F.. NewcOmb,
laundry wagon driver, are under ar
rest here charged with the murder of
Martin kvalshaug, who was shot down
in cold blood at midnight last night
while alighting from a street car at
Twelfth and Junette streets. It is
charged that kvalshaug is the victim
of his wife and NeWcOmbe formed a
plot to kill her husband and New
combe's wife.
kvalshaug and his wife attended a
dance last night. There was rivalry be-
tween the two men for some time.
Kvalshaug ordered his wife not to
dance with NewcOmbe. 1t is charged
that this led to the murder. Mrs.
Kvalshaug was walking several feet
ahead of her husband when five shots
were fired.
One bullet took effect in the breast
and the others in the neck. chin, right
eye, and under the chin. Death was in
stantaneous
On account of Mrs. Kvalashaug's
fondness for NeWcOmb she separated
from her husband two years ago, but
was finally recOnciled.
Newcomb Owns Up.
NeWcomb broke down in his cell this
afternoon and confessed. He said the
murder was planned by Mrs. Kval-
shaug, who wanted to be free.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
FLORIDA WAKING UP.

Gov. Gilchrist of Florida, suggests in
his message that the legislature should
make the birthday of Abraham Lincoln
a legal holiday in the state because OF
his broad qualities as a national states
man and his kindly feeling for the
whole people. The idea coming from
such a quarter is unexpected, but the
reasons given for it are sound. 1t is a
pleasure to know that the state at the
extreme southeastern corner of the
country is taking a more active in
terest in public affairs. 1t is a gateway
to Cuba and the West Indies as well
as the Panama canal. A railway will
shortly bring it within 80 miles of Ha-
vana
A Florida congressman, Stephen M
Sparkman. is now the ranking demo-
cratic member of the rivers and har-
bors committee. He has just said
that The rapid growth of our COM
merce demands that we should utilize
our waterways to their greatest ca =
pacity. The rivers susceptible of i'm
provement as reasonable cost should be
thus improved in order that they may
meet IntSe requirements anu 40 lneII
work in this country just as the rivers
in European countries are made to do
their proportion of the work of COM
merce building" This statement OF
views covers the material basis of
waterway improvement. Mr.. Spark
man is also a member of the national
waterways commission which will
shortly make personal study of the
waterways of Europe. The mission is
likely to have important results for the
United States.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15

supplies at lower and uniform rates.
The order creates a general supply
committee, the chairman of which will
be the secretary of the board of
awards.
Before the end of each fiscal year
the committee is to prepare one gen.
eral schedule of all supplies needed in
common by any two or more depart
ments and establishments
The committee may include articles
Of special nature required by only
one department and may omit from
the schedule any class of supplies
deemed advisable. The articles so
omitted shall be purchased upon adj
vertisement and bids as heretofore
done.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15

quarter inch ring; wet thoroughly and
then roll with heavy roller. This last
course should be rounded up. so that
when in place it will be flush with
the roadbed. The roller settles the
earth and rock all at once.
When finished, you have the earth
road for the horses and the macadam
road for the wheels: the barefoot beass
trots contentedly along the road and
the load shoves him to the market
Try it on a small scale somewhere and
see how it will work. 1t would seem
to be the very idea for some pieces
of road that you have been cussed
about for 10, these many moons.
III. S. BLANDFORD.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15
LOOKING FOR
DOLLAR WHEAT
WALLA WALLA MILL OWNER DIS
cUssEs QUESTION OF
GREAT INTEREST.
Offers to Buy Fall Crop at That Figure
But Grower Falls Down on
Proposition.

| From the present outlook I judge
that wheat will be worth one dollar
or thereabouts this fall said prom
inent mill owner yesterday, when in
terviewed as to the probable price of
this years wheat.
although j. j. Hill is reported as
| saying that the wheat crops all over
the country Will only be fair, the
standing wheat looks fine around
Walla Walla, especially the fall
wheat. which is well rooted and wiry
and stubbly. l returned last week
from trip through central Oregon
and while there I had ample oppor-
tunity to observe the prospects.
"On account of the ground being so
Cry the farmers there SOW about one
third as much seed to the acre as the
farmers hereabouts, but one kernel of
wheat stools out remarkably. While
the wheat there will not compare with
the Washington wheat, the yield
promises to be very good for that
country. / have heard many farmers
wish that they could be assured of 81
a bushel for this years crop, but when
I offer to contract for their entire crop
for that price they invariably craw-
fish,
Nothing new is reported in the veg
etable line today. the only arrivals
worthy of mention being California
Strawberries and cucumbers. Straw
berries are holding their own at 20
cents per box, and cucumbers are SELL
ing for 6 cents per pound. Much spin
ach and rhubarb are being delivered to
local produce houses, and there is
good demand for those vegetables.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-15

failures reported themselves.
The first girl had been writing like
mad trying to get her theme done. Her
roommate brought a very unWelcome
visitor. ''AWfully glad to meet you,'
murmured the very busy girl, sitting
her inward sWears.
The second girl came in from the
golf links and declared she was never
so tired in all her life"
The third assured her roommate,
VINO was going to a dance, that she
looked absolutely perfect" How
could 1 tell her anything else when