New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-19

through the subway construction company by
which tho work done. demands 100000 'eX-
tras' for work in the Manhattan and Bronx branch
OF the subway and 'SS,5OOOoG for the Brook
Ign branch The marlborough took the latter con
tract for 100000 and contracted build the Man
haitian Bronx sections OF the present subway for
about tS5,O000oO. Postmaster General Hitchcock
signed an order increasing the fee for the reg
istration OF mail from 10 10 cents. take effect
on November !. Charles H. Treat United States
Treasurer. resigned his place. II was announced
that the President is going 20 appoint George r.
Cotton Governor OF Porto Rico. The resignation of
Governor Post rendered a short time ago
Evidence tending TO disparage the theory that life
as 1t exists on the earth may be sustained on Mars
has been obtained by Professor W w Campbell
director OF Lick Observatory. As a result OF his
recent observations from the summit OF Mount
Whitney Professor Campbell says he has proved
that there is no water vapOr OF appreciable ausn-
tty on Mars lie also asserts that there is no evil
dence that Mars Is inhabited The public schools
or this city reopened last week with over six hun
dred thousand pupils about fifty thousand OF whom
are on part time Catholic parochial schools TO
the number OF l6s also opened for the new school
year in New York, with accommodations for 100 =
600 pupils-almost fifth many as are registered
IN the city public schools These figures show a
notable growth Six years a trife less than
$4,000 Catholic children were In parochaI class
rooms in New YORK Halleys comet for which
astronomers the world have been eagerly
watching. was seen after an absence OF seventy
years The temperance In the world of aviation
OF Santos-Dumont who few in an aeroplane at a
speed OF about hfty-fve miles an hour attracted
much attention account of the diminuti,,a s,,a
or his machine II weighs together with the nile.
only lib Kilograms (2596 pounds) II has nine
square yards OF surface. as against tWentv-tvo
square yards in the Curtss aeroplane tvveptv-six
IN the Bleriot and fifty-three In the Wright ma
chine. two-cylinder motor deveIoped thirty
horsepower and ran at the 500 revolutions
a minute. orville Wright made a new record nv
Tying at height Of about eight hundred feet m
strike at the Fall River Iron Works Cotton MN.
owned by NJ. c. d. Borden. of New York Was
ehueo "hen the seven mills OF the plant resumed
operations after shutdown OF three days The
one Thousand weavers demanded a 10 per cent in
crease, but at mass meeting accented n tnoraao
OF per cent A report covering the first three
months work OF the National EMPLOYMENT Nv,
change was published. One striking feature In I, IL
the statement that wages have advanced tx cents
day during that period. and that to-day il is aim
cult to I'LL orders for men. American tourists cars
home from Europe in droves."
THAT will give the shopkeepers over tbaro
much needed chance to count their money, cot.
BUSY Man. What has the fair sex been doing9',
ihe widow or z. II. Hartman got the entira
estate or her husband. estimated at about s1oo ooo
w. by the terms OF his will Miss Anita Stepvar+
uaushter OF Mrs. James Henry Smith, OF New
York. was married in Scotland 10 Prince M,guo,
OF Braganza. Premier AsquIth had 10 he ,,,asss
from sunragettes when he played a game NJ goIf
Dy hVe policemen. who formed unique gallery for
MN as they all strobe around the course together
Modistes are already devising the fashionable avia
u ~ costume lor women who want 10 go up in air
SHIPS and aeroplanes like the men"
The greatest trouble woman win have .ho,,
dressing becomingly for travel through tba air :,
chuckled Busy Man, twill be- for a few vea-s an.
way the i1nposslbility OF knowing whether abe ia
gong 10 come down feet arst OF head nrst~