Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1903 — Page 4

4 TTTE IXDlAXAPOMS JOURNAL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER S, 1903. J

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1903.

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Col Louthaln & Jackson, Fifteenth And Lawrence streets, and A. Smith, 1657 Lhasa pa street. DATTON, O.J. V. Wilkle, S3 South Jefferson street. COLT-MBU8. O.-Vladuct News Stand. 3S0 High treet. "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or rigs Of thistles?" Do they fret municipal reform from Democratic victories? If Holtzman should be elected it Is quite probable that he would follow the Taggart policy of favoring, his friends and punishing his enemies in the saloon business. If the Colombian government wants another canal treaty it should first be able to give some assuran e that It will be ratified without the Interference of a lot of representatives of transcontinental railroads. The Journal believes that every Republican who votes any other than the Republican ticket in the coming election will live to regret it and to admit that he made a mistake. The great public prominence and activity of Matthew Stanley Quay has all been during the past twenty years, and he is now seventy. He is a living denial of the theory adopted by so many large corporations that a man's usefulness Is over at fifty. weam SMMMMISaaMBMMaiHeVI The published list of heavy stockholders In steel and their losses makes rather interesting reading. The endless slump in stocks has been a rich men's panic and some of them have made losses that would have caused the average newspaperman considerable financial embarrassment. The difference between a purty organ and an Independent paper, as evidenced in the present campaign, seems to be that the former tells the truth and tries to be fair, while the latter coins a new batch of falsehoods every day and is frantically malignant. Superintendent Whlttaker seems to be a case of the right man in the right place. He began his work at the JeflVrsonville Reformatory by reducing the yearly pay roll $7,000, and now he has recovered J12.5gu from prison contractors money that has beSSl due the State for several years,. If any mistake was made In appointing Mr. Whittaker to the superintendent y it has not yet been developed. There is nothing improbable in the report that Japan has sent troops to Corea to Testet the threatened aggressions of Russia In that quarter. It has been an open Secret foe years that Japan wus preparing to make such resistance, and she may think the time has come to do it. She is very plucky and has shown a disposition to fight Russia alone if Great Britain will not join her. as she woUj be almost compelled to under ths alliance treaty of last year. It is hardly likely that King Edward will Accept the suggestion of the exuberant Senator Kesrna and send Sir Thomas Upton as British ambassador to the United States, ir Thomas is a fine fellow, a game yachtsman and a good pork packer, but the questions constantly arising between the British and American governments are such as to require trained diplomats to handle tfcssa. Then the British have never learned the American way of jumping a man into any office, no matter how complicated or delicate Us duties, just because he is popular. In publishing its story about the return Of a leOO contribution made to the BookWalter campaign fund two years ago to Charles E. Haugh the News gives its readers a new light on the Bookwalter administration. It has all along gives th. m the Impressiui. that here was a crowd of rob"uers that grabbed everything they could get their hands upon, but now it appears that Asa T'su a big campaign contribution. 41 rati; 'sprecsdented thing in municipal aolitPs. 'dently Mr. Bookwalter and his friends not nearly so wicked as the News VT'iUd have us beliee. There has been no satisfactory explanation made of Mr. Holtxman's wholesale dismissal of suits for violation of the liquor and gambling laws while he was prosecutor. As the Journal has said before, this is not a charge to be denied: it Is a fact to be explained. Mr. Holtzman tried his hand St an explanstion. He not only f.iiled. but 10 statement emphasised the fact that there Is no satisfactory explanation. The truth Is there cannot be any satisfactory explanation of the wholesale dismissal of criminal indictments by a prosecutor whose duty it Is to prosecute them. No explanation can be made consistent with a faithful discharge of official duty, and the fact Is patent thst Mr. Holtsman did fall to perform his official duty. There is a legal "False in oue point, false in ail."

Change it to read, "Faithless In one point, faithless in all." and it fits this case. If Mr. Holtzman could not rise above his psrty as prosecutor, how could he be expected to do so as mayor? WHAT WILL BL OME OF THE DE.WÖ- ( It tTIt PARTY f In the light of Mr. Balfour's Sheffield speech and the coming adoption of protection and reciprocity as the economic policy of (Jr-st Britain it is pertinent to ask what will become of the Democratic party in this country? From time immemorial free trade has been the party's battle cry and England the arsenal from whence to draw ltn weapons of warfare. It has embraced and abandoned in turn scores of opportunist whims and makeshift policies and has run off after numberless politic;! vagaries, but it has stuck to free trade with a tenacity that looked almopt like conviction and has accepted the conclusions of British statesmen of the Cobden school much more implicitly, than it has any teaching of the Bible. Free trade has been the one plank in all its platforms for more than fifty years which, when all the rest were wrecked and shattered, it could climb onto and drift till it landed somewhere. Although the free-trade garment was oldfashioned, ill fitting, badly worn and withal borrowed, the Democratic party clung to it as if It was the latest and best thing out and the only thing fit to wear. It was English, you know. But with free trade discarded in England, as it will be in time, put off and thrown aside as an antiquated mi-fit entirely unsuited to modern times and conditions, what will become of the Democratic party? For more than fifty years It has been marching under the banner of Richard Cobden, yet hear Premier Balfour in his Sheffield speech: "Mr. Cobden," he said, "did not foresee the developments of the last half century which have made free trade an empty name and a vain farce." Again, he referred to existing conditions as "a state of things absolutely inconsistent with free trade as Cobden understood It." He meant the modern protective system which has made Cobdenism a barren ideality. Again he said: "There has been a development of which Cobden and his contemporaries never dreamed," meaning the development of modern commerce, of which the Democratic party takes no account. Again Mr. Balfour said: "Our grandfathers fought the battle of 1S46 in view of the actual situation. I ask the nation to-day to follow their example and not to be misled by musty Jebates." On the question of free trade the Democratic party lives in the past and dues not want any better guidance than musty debates reflecting the views of Cobden. Yet here Is a British premier throwing them all aside and actually using the sacred name of Cobden disrespectfully. With Cobdenism repudiated in Great Britain and free trade disowned in the house of its friends, what will become of the Democratic party in this country? STREET CAR.MVALS. Side by side in yesterday's Journal were two dispatches, one detailing the legal tight to prevent a proposed street carnival in Terre Haute and the other telling of the horrible tragedy arising from such an event in the quiet college town of Oxford, just across the line in Ohio. Surely It is to be hoped that the opponents of the Terre Haute carnival will succeed in heading it off. As the Journal has had occasion to remark before, it knows of nothing more generally demoralizing or undesirable thau the street fair or carnival, as it is conducted, with a lot of "fake" sideshows and a promiscuous mingling of good people and bad, innocent girls and "tough" men in jostling crowds on the streets with an appalling degree of license, known as "the carnival spirit." The affairs are got up by and for the benefit of these cheap traveling shows, which bring in their train swarms of fakirs, grafters, pickpockets and criminals of various kinds the same element with which every circus management has such difficulties, and on account of which the more responsible managers exercise a discipline that puts army regulations in the shade. But the "midway" shows have no responsible management and exercise no care whatever in this respect. Their employes and camp followers are at liberty to get whatever they can out of a town in any way they can. Nor is that all. It means a wild spree for every man in or near the town that is so disposed. The tragedy at Oxford grew directly out of the fact that a group of tough young men had gathered there from other points to "paint the town" with bad liquor and Indulge in the sort of rowdyism that seems Inseparable from the street carnival. The who'.e business Is bad, from start to finish, and without a single redeeming feature, except from the saloon keeper's aud show-owner's points of view. The two car-

nlvals we had in Indianapolis some years ago were bad enough, and from all accounts rfthose In the smaller cities are ten times worse. PHKM1ER BALFOl'R'S XEW DEPART IRK. Premier Balfour's speech delivered at Sheffield Thursday night was evidently Int ; 'Ifil to be and doubtless will be an epochal one in British politics and history, it has been known fat several weeks that Mr. Balfour was preparing to define his position aud that of the government on the proposition for the establishment of qualiiai protection, but probably no one expected he would come out so clearly and strongly in favor of an entire new departure in the economic policy of Great Britain. The speech shows careful preparation and was ends doubly effective by being delivered in one of the greatest manufacturing centers of England and before an Immense audience eom posed of the representatives of that interest. In this great manufacturing center, and before soch an audience the premier declared that the time ha 1 come for England to discard the wornout policy of a past generation and adopt one that would enable her to get her share of the w o.id's trade and of the prosperity that protective tariff countries are enjoying. One of the strongest points in the speaker's argument was that England had stubbornly persisted in contniuinj a policy whieh. wrong in the beginning, had grown more and more hurtful with passing years. To the question "Do you ItsJl't to reverse and to alter the fundamental fiscal tradition which has prevailed for two generations?" he answered unhesitatingly, "Yes, I do." He declared his purpose to ask the country "to annul altogether and to expunge from its maxims of the public conduct ths rule that it must never impose laxatn except for revenue," Implying that it mmWä Impose customs duties for pro

tection to home interests and as a basis for commercial negotiations with other countries. He said that in his judgment England should never have stood self-deprived of the liberty of Imposing taxation for the purposes indicated, and that she should publicly resume in the face of Europe and the world a liberty which she ought never to have surrendered. To show how completely he had repudiated the tradition that had bound the country so long to free trade he declared that. "Free trade is indeed an empty name and a vain farce if it Is a fact that foreign nations are setting themselves to divert our industries, exclude our manufactures and limit the international play of supply and demand." Mr. lialtour's speech would have been significant coming from any British statesman of repute, but coming from the premier and one of the greatest party leaders of the time, it means a great deal. The dispatches indicate that it was exceedingly well received and is likely to be accepted as the keynote of a new economic policy for Great Britain. The two main features of the new policy will be to bring the empire and its colonies into closer trade relations and to protect home industries against foreign competition. The movement has all the elements of popularity, and with two such leaders as Messrs. Chamberlain and Balfour it will not lack of able presentation. Of course there will be strong and able opposition to breaking away from th? sacred fetish of free trade, but with the commercial element, the middle classes and young England favoring the new policy it is sure to prevail. MEXICAN DIFFICl LTIES. The bringing of Mexico to a gold basis, the task which the Diaz government has set for itself, is not going to be exactly a summer day's picnic. There are some nice questions for Mr. Limantour and his associates to work out. The proposition is to establish a fixed value of 50 cents ia gold for the Mexican silver dollar or peso, and maintain this with a gold reserve of $25,000,000. As a close estimate shows about $100,000.000 In silver now in circulation in Mexico, which would mean a gold value of $50,000,000, it will be seen that such a reserve would be 50 per cent, of the whole amount redeemable, which is a very ample reserve. But to carry out the plan the Mexican mints must necessarily be closed to the free coiuage of rilver, and this menus the death of a large and profitable business in the exportation of Mexican dollars to the Orient, In which form the metal Is more acceptable there and brings a better price than In bullion form. Then, of course, the sentimental side of it is to be met and our own experience In 1896 taught us how much of a force that is. There is much greater reason for such sentimental opposition in Mexico, and there is also a very cogent business reason In the fact that Mexico produces each year an enormous amount of silver, for which a market must be found. She Is to-day the largest producer of silver in the world. , But beyond this looms up the question of the great mass of Mexican dollars in circulation in China and other Oriental countries. There is no means of knowing how many of these dollar coins are, out, aud, with the market price of silver less than half that of gold, speculation in them would become profitable and enough of them would flow back to Mexico to wipe out her gold reserve in very short order. To guard against this a tariff, must be placed on her own coins by Mexico sufficiently high to keep them out. Aud this iu turn will necessitate recoiniug all the dollars in Mexico, so that they may be distinguished from those in circulation abroad.

The appointment of Major General Chaffee as chief of staff, in place of Major General Corbin, is the first important change made under the new army organization law. Under this law the President can appoint any general officer chiet of staff, thereby making him practically commander of the army, though General Chaffee will not assume that duty until the retirement of Major Gcneraf Young for age. In January next. General Chaffee is a soldier of conspicuous merit and long service, and the present appointment is a mark of the President s personal preference for him as his chief military adviser. General Corbin, whom he relieves, succeeds General Chaffee in command of the .Department of the East. This is a desirable assignment, and General Corbin had be?n on duty in Washington long enough to justify a change. Mr. Holtzman says he does not want to be elected mayor unless he can have a Democratic Council. "I don't want to go into office," he says, "with my hands tied and my every effort for the good of the city thwarted and baffled." Mr. Holt; man is running as a reform candidate, bat this shows he Is more of a partisan than a reformer. Why should he arrogate all the civic virtue in town to himself? Whatever Imaginary grounds he may have for abusing the Republican candidate for mayor he can have none but partisan malice for attempting to stigmatize the Republican candidates for Council as corruptionists. There is not one of them but has the welfare of the city as much at heart as Mr. Holtzman. The announcement that Senator Fairbanks will make some speeches before the city campaign closes simply means that as his other engagements will permit he will gladly aid in securing a Republican victory 'n the capital city. Of the Republican United States senators from this city Morton, Harrison, Fairbanks and Beveridge none has ever failed to stand with the party la city elections and help to win a party victory. The reason for the Vatican's recall of Mgr. Guidi from Manila is not made clear as yet, but it seems reasonable to suppose that it is due to the development of a better method of negotiation on the vexed question of the friars and their lands. The indications of friendliness toward America gtrsa by Pius X have been too many and too emphatic to admit of the belief that these negotiations have been broken off. Cloudburst in Kn usus. PRATT, Kan.. Oct. 2. A cloudburst arty Thursday eveuiug did inestimable damage to property and sent the Ninescah, an ordinary ttreum, over a mile in width in a brief time. At least three Inches of rain fell within the hour and the Santa Fe Railroad tracks are a foot under water. Lumber for the ,ggleston elevator, plied on the ground, was washed away, and the city water pumps are under six feet of water. No lives art- reported lost. An eight weeks' drought was broken. I nlted Boys' Brigade, BALTIMORE. Oct The national convention of the Cnited Boys' Brigade began here to-day and will continue three days with mi: Hary divisions present from Washington. D. C. i'ittsburg, Altcoua and Lancaster, Pa., Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. Gen. U. P. Bopc, of Pitts

burg. Is commander-in-chief. About 500 juvenile visitors are here. To-day there was a reception to delegates and athletic games at Patterson Park.

WILL "HIKE" TO-DAY. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) ing, instructing the Indiana officers in the science of preparing topographical m&ps. On Sunday Captain Johnson will take the mihtiamen . utield for practical work. This is expected to be one of the most interesting and valuable features of the camp instruction. ART OF INTRENCHING TAUGHT. At 4 o'clock General McKee and all officers, with detachments of men, marched to a point a quarter of a mile west of brigade headquarters where Maj. John Biddle, of the United States Corps of Engineers, gave them lessons iu intrenching. Iutreuchments were thrown' up yesterday by the regulars and were used as object lessons to-d,iy. Major Biddle explained the German, English, Austrian, French, Russian and American methods of furnishing natural protection to artillery. He discussed trenches exhaustively, pointing out the best and most rapid methods of constructing shelter trenches for men lying, kneeling and standing. Hasty, or battle Iutreuchments, took up a large part of his time. Major General Bates and staff witnessed the demonstrations. Officers from all militia organizations formed the audience. Major Conde's battalion from the Second Regiment was placed in the trenches to illustrate the lecture. The regular artillery occupied the gun pits. It was a most beautiful and impressive picture, a battle scene in all except that the event was purely figurative. Major Conde's troops were the only militiamen present, so they got the first and best of the instructive programme. For the militia, lunettes, crescent-shaped fortifications, have been partly thrown up by the regulars and one of the duties of the Indiana troops will be to finish them. General McKee, speaking of the lecture and demonstration, said this evening: "It was the most complete system of fortification which has been thrown up in this country since the civil war. I consider the lecture and practical lesson in engineering of the utmost value to my own troops." The Indiana regiments mounted guard this, evening for the first time. The Second Regiment Band, playing in front of Colonel Smith's headquarters, was a feature of the ceremonies. At 7:30 the Indiana officers attended a lecture in assembly tent on "Subsistence of Armies," delievred by Maj. A. D. Nlskern, of the United States commissary department. These lectures on all military topics will be a part of the dally and evening routine of the Indiana men. FIRST "HIKE" TO-DAY. To-morrow morning the Indiana boys will go on their first "hike." Orders were issued by Major General Bates this evening, designating the First and Third Indiana to take part in the combined maneuvers to-morrow. The other troops are the First Michigan, Eighth Ohio, Second Kentucky and First Wisconsin. The Second Regiment is assigned to outpost duty. All three will go on the march at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. The health of the Indiana boys is wellnigh perfect. Major Charlton, brigade surgeon, has had few cases at the hospital, and these have been insignificant. The men's conduct so far in camp has been a source of pride to their officers. Private property has beon carefully respected, the men have kept away from the liquor dives around the camp and they have been orderly and circumspect. Not a man has been put in the guardhouse. Governor W. T. Durbin with Capt. William. E. English and Fletcher Durbin will arrive at Camp Young about 5 o'clock tomorrow evening. General McKee received a telegram from the Governor to-night saying he would be In Louisville at 3 o'clock. The Governor will be quartered with General McKee. He is expected to review the Second Brigade to-morrow evening. The Indiana troops which will take part in the maneuvers to-morrow will be a part of the "Blue" army. Their first lesson will be an easy one, it being the plan of General Bates to lead the National Guard by easy stages to rough work. Ten thousand rounds of ammunition were issued to-night to the Indianlans for tomorrow's work. EDWIN C. HILL. MADE TO DISGORGE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) lid from a mess that smells to heaven. Without going beyond surface conditions and the records of the institution, he has revealed ns features of the former administration at the Reformatory admitted thievery through falsification of requisitions, excused by the retiring regime on the ground that the aggregate stealing had been Inconsiderable; extravagance In management betraying chronic Indifference to the Interests of the taxpayers of the State; gross carelessness and neglect In the keeping of official records, accompanied by a looseness of methods which amounted to an invitation to dishonesty; total neglect of the reformatory and educational features of the prison, which constituted the sole occasion for the reform legislation leading to the separation of the two State penal institutions; a disregard of sanitary and humane considerations utterly astounding In an institution in which the people had a right to expect the realization of modern reformatory methods; the expenditure of thousands upon thousands of dollars of the State's money without the employment of the safeguards prescribed by law in public expenditure, and, finally, a sweping sacrifice of the interests of the State in dealings with contractors for prison labor, admitted by the contractors themselves in this surrender of over $12,000, not a penny of which would ' ever have reached the coffers of the State but for the change In management. KNOWN FOR SOME TIME. "The outcropplngs of this condition of affairs have been before the fiscal and administrative officials of the State for a long period. They have been a matter of comment among those familiar with the affairs of the institution for several years this does not include the former members of the boards of management, who placed such implicit confidence in the former superintendent that they seemed perfectly willing to surrender their functions to him and defend the result. Yet the Governor, because of his efforts to remedy conditions at Jeffersonvllle and to bring the Reformatory upon the same plane of honest, economical business management occupied by the other pvblic institutions of the State first moving through the board itself, which res. iit' I bis suggestions as meddlesome and tm Warranted, then through the court of last resort, the General Assembly of the State has been vilified, lampooned and cartooned by an ludianapolls newspaper which, claiming to represent the best sentiment of the State, in fact has been standing sponsor for all this rottenness. "By reason of its malicious misinterpretation of ths Governor's motives and its misrepresentation of the facts at Issue, this newspaper succeeded in temporarily misleading thousands of people who hnve been surprised to learn that it has throughout this episode been th zealous champion and not the opponent of maladministration. The sari.- paper Is now engaged in the self-imposed task of 'purifying' Indianapolis. If it Were able to discover in the reCord of the pr s in eity administration a tithe of the damning evidence revealed against the sort of public service it advocated under the cover of reform, its detective service woulu not :t this time be in so complete a condition of disorganization, The Jeffersonville er is instructive. It shows how successfully sham and pretense may for a time masquerade in the habiliments of reform." sssssMMeaaassBBBBs Murder aud Suicide. NEW YORK. Oct. 2 Fritz Shoeman today shot and killed Louis Settzel, in a grocery store sa West Thirty-seventh street, and then g"ing home, committed suicide. Settsel rsceatto bought the store from Shoeman and the men quarreled about the sale.

TRADE IS STILL

GOOD

OI TLOOK FAVOR A II l.i-:, EXCEPT I THE PIG IKON Fl H VC I IMJl STHY. Curtailment of 20 Per Cent. In Produe tK.ii 1'robable In Order to Reduce Accumulating Stocks. MANUFACTURERS ARE BUSY WHOLESALE AD JORBIG BI SIMS iS WELL MAINTAINED, And Hnilway Earnings Continue to Iucreaiif Over the Correspond I na: Period of Lost Year. NEW YORK, Oct. 2. R. G. Dun & Co. s weekly Review of Trade to-morrow will say: "Aside from the reduction in blastfurnace activity, manufacturing plants are more fully engaged, and several eucouraging reports are received, particularly as to footwear. Wholesale and jobblug trade is well maintained, many cities reporting a larger volume thau last year, aud business at Chicago stimulated by the multitude attending the centennial. Latest returns of foreign commerce at this port are favorable, exports increasing, while imports decreased as compared with last year. Railway earnings thus far available for September exceed those of 1502 by S.4 per cent., and surpass earnings in 1901 by 19.3 per cent. It is practically certain that a reduction of pig iron output will be made, averaging about 20 per cent.; this concerted action to prevent accumulation of stocks has already had sentimental effect on the market, increasing l i number and extent of tonnage. Urgent requests for immediate shipments testify to the pressing needs of consumers who have allowed supplies to fall below anticipation of better terms. Revival of activity at Clayton and elsewhere is encouraging evidence of the fact that steel and iron are still required, and in several departmeuts of the iudustry new business appeared. The week has brought some changes in quotations. Car shortage has begun to cause trouble, but the diminished needs of blast furnaces relieve the situation at Connellsville, where the coke output has been materially curtailed. The dry goods market presents no new features. Production increases as the mills are ablt? to secur cottou. and there is an impression thtt stocks will soon be so low that purchases will be compulsory. Woolens are steady but quiet, and worsteds are dull, with more idle machinery. Carpets are strong aud in short supply. Buying of wool is limited to immediate needs. No diminution is reported in the activity of shoe factories, especally as to heavy footwear, which is delivered about a mouth late. Leather is fairly steady, except that belting butts are fully 5 cents below the extieme price secured a few mouths ag. Record-breaking receipts of cattle uaturally depress leather. Failures in the United States this week were 209, agalust 219 last week and 207 the corresponding week last year." BRADSTKEET'S REVIEW. Improvement lu Collections and Increase lu Exports of Cereals. NEW YORK, Oft. 2. Bradstreet's weekly review of trade to-day will say: "Mixed trude and crop conditions still present themselves, although some improvement in tone is noted where crop estimates, as in the case of corn, show expansion. Lower prices for cereals point the way to future large business and induce a larger foreign interest in our farm products. Trade reports vary with sections considered, the business reports coming from the Southwest, the Northwest and the Pacific coast. Spotted trade reports come from sections of the middle West. From the South the repoits are in the main faverable as to trade and collections, but crop deterioration is widespread, except from the lower Mississippi valley. Falling prices for cotton, though a hopeful sign lor our export trade and domestic manufacture, do not excite lively satisfaction among producers. Lumber is showing a seasonable quieting down, and some weakness in white pine is noted at the West, though aside from leading Eastern centers, the building trades are still active. "A really favorable factor this week is the improvement of collections West and Northwest, a reflection of the beginning of the bringing of delayed grain to market. "Wheat, Including Hour exports, lor the week eading Oct. L aggregate 4,082,681 bushels, against ,050,430 last week, ti,87u,j7S this week last year and 6,195,749 in 19UI, and 4,450,167 in 1900. For the thirteen weeks of the cereal year they aggregate ki.jyT.IitiJ bushels, against 65.879,715 In 1902, $0,332,824 In 1901 and 43,193,833 in 19U). Corn exports for the week aggregate 1,123,871 bushels, against 779,230 last week, 141,423 a year ago, 907,924 in 1901 and 2.364.249 In 1900. For thirteen weeks of the present eereal year the aggregate Is 12,729,122 bushels, against 11,132,510 in 1902, 12,122,616 in 1901 and 40,697,367 In 1900." a DECREASE IN BANK CLEARINGS. Total at Inulanupolla This Week Was Only ftitltyitli NEW YORK. Oct. 2. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, show the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended Oct. 1. with the percentage of increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year: Inc. Dec. New York 11,214,819.307 .... Chicago 1 .7. 127,777 .... j.i Boston lit, MS, 729 .... 7.b Philadelphia 117.Ü7',:8 6.0 st. Loui 47,2(7.!U 2.4 .... TitWburg 46.i01.P0 4.5 .... San FranclS4.o 32.8S7.502 1.4 .... lialtiniure 21. .Vi';.!! .... 13. i Cincinnati 21.23y.ioo .... 2.4 Kansas City 22,!5a.4H8 2s.0 .... CleveJaaS I4.sis.46t 12.4 Minneapolis 18.507,771 1.3 New Orleans 16, 00 1, 400 33.0 .... Detroit 8,784.447 1.2 .... Louisville 8.937.9:31 g.o Omaha 7,6r6,7ö7 1.7 Milwaukee 7.874.r,Cl .... 1.5 Providence 6.56S.700 .... 1.9 HufTalo 6.27M42 2.7 .... St. Paul 5.771. 4J9 5.3 Indianapolis 6. 918, 551 .... 10.5 iVluxnbus 4.714.500 8.4 Toledo 3.706.934 .... 37.4 Peoria 3,358.95 14.6 .... Dayton 1. "22.216 Evansvllle 1.12S.2X2 3 Bprlngaeld, 111 . r ... Springfield. O 36.4f-i 2i.2 .... L'loomirigton. Ill 331.082 16.2 Decatur, 111 '. 477 .'.7 T..tals. Cnitt-.l States 'M Outside New York 833.549,641 Balances paid in cash. 24.5 1.0 The Mystery ami Wonder of Memory. American Medicine. The newspapers are telling of the remarkable feat of a postal clerk who. In a civil service examination, dTd not make a single error in properly sorting 42.000 test postal cards, each representing a postuflicc in a certain territory assigned. This whs done at the rat.' i.f 33 cards a Miaute. Far more noteworthy i. the memory of an expert pinuo player, who will play an entire season's concerts without a note of printed music before him. His memory is so perfect that hundred? of theu.s.tHl- of DOteS must be at the orderly and instant disposal f the will. And this Is combiaed vvith 11 multiplicity of synchron es recollections of timber, tempo, expression, etc. The mystery is at present pat the hinting of any explanation, and this fact is as beautiful as it is appalling. It shows us how f.ir we are from any real StleaOS of psychology. Physicians note the strange thrusting ot disease among the mechanisms of memory, the morbid effects of some neoplasm or injury to parts of the convolutions of the brain, whereby some memories are lost temporarily or permanently, in part or completely, while others are unaffected. Even this leaves us in amazement at the inscrutable complexity and methods of the cellular machine. Hut through these morbid injuries we catch tantalizing glimpses which some day, prop

erly studied and followed up, may bring some psychologic physician to an unraveling of the mystery. ENGLISH INVADERS LAND.

Honorable Artillery Company of London ( ame Ashore Near Banker Hill. BOSTON. Oct. 2. For the first time In many years the flag of England, guarded by British muskets, was borne through the streets of Boston to-day by the Honorable Artillery Company, of London, as special guests of a similar organization, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of this city. 1. ladlBSj at Charlestown, almost on the very spot where their ancestors started on their memorable attack on Bunker Hill. 128 yours ago, the red coats of the twentieth century marched from their steamer, the II J flower, over the bridge to Boston and then through the streets resplendent with American and British flags to the hotels whieh will be their homes during their sojourn in this city. For five days they will be entertained, and after a weeks tour, whieh will include New York. Washington. Niagara Falls and Canada, they start back to their own shores. The Mayflower was sighted coming into Massachusetts bay early in the forenoon. Sidney M. Hedges, commander ot the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and several of his staff boarded the Mayflower from a tug and welcomed the visitors through their commander, the Earl of Dei -bigh. The May flow was given a hearty ovation from the harbor fleet and before the visitors landed Adjutant General Dalton boarded the steamer and extended, in behalf of Governor Bates, the official welcome of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. QUEER CASE OF FORGERY ATTEMPT TO DELAY THE KILI.1: OF THE VA WOK M Eli BROTHERS. Telegram Received liy Warden Ie o .signed "fltiwldent of I nlted States" Ordering- Stay of Execution. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 2. Forgery of the official title of the head of the Nation figures in an attempt made yesterday to save the three Van Wormer boys from the death chair at Dannetnor i prison. Less than half an hour before the time set for the execution Warden Deyo rrceled the following telegram: "West Point Station. Oct. L "To George Deyo, Warden: The Van Wormer boys must not be executed today. A stay has been granted. "By order "The President of the United States." Warden Deyo at once consulted with some Of the witnesses present and concluded that the message was a forgery sent for the purpose of delaying the execution beyond the official date, it was concluded at first that the President could not Intel it re except through Governor Odell, and second that reprieve could not be accepted by teegrapn, but must be by personal signature or in personal interview by telephone. No attention was therefore paid to the communication, but every endeavor will be made to find the sender aud prosecute him or her. Another incident of the execution yesterday was the suspension of Keeper Davis for selling to certain newspapers the contents of personal messages written by the Van Wormer boys to their friends. ONE COACH TELESCOPED DISASTROUS COLLISION 0 THE SO l Til EU ! PACIFIC RAILWAY. Passenger Killed and Twenty Hurt T. H. Byanskl, of Garrett, Ind., s Among the Injured. BEOWAWE, Nev., Oct. 2. A disastrous head-end collision occurred last night on the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific at this station. The first section of train No. 6, the Atlantic express from San Francisco, collided with a freight train. One passenger, Allen Harper, aged about thirty-four years, of Pocatelio, Ida., was killed, and twenty were Injured. Among the Injured are Mrs. I. Smith. Chicago, bruised and sprained baek; J. Tracy, San Francisco; E. Thorite. Evanston, Wyo., laceration of the right foot, amputation necessary, scalp wound; William Gross, passenger brakeman. Wads worth, Nev., bruised breast bone and knee cap; J. W. Llttlejohn, Wadsworth, Nev., engineer on passenger, left leg broken below knee; J. Stone, Wads worth, Nev., fireman passenger train, severe concussion, possibly internal injuries; J. C. Holland, Wadsworth, Nev.. conductor passenger train, cut over right eye, body bruised; James McArthur, Bavertzon, N. J., contusion cu head; F. EL Byanskl. Garrett. Ind.. leg broken; Rev. George Comfort. Lamborgo, Pa., arm fractured, laeerated hand, necessitating amputation; Thomas Crowley, Chicago, leg bruised; P. J. Fort, Quick City, bruised, hip sprained; Grant Pyle, San Francisco; Mrs. L. M. Trowbridge, Bridgeport, Conn., severe sprain of the back and lower muscles of the abdomen; Miss Mae McKinley. Kingfisher, O. T., sprained back; Mrs. J. Norman, Elko, Nev., bruised over left eye, Injured In the breast; Antonio Dlgovuo, Oakland, Cal., injured about hips; T. E. Matthews, Ogden, Utah, Wells-Fargo express messenger, cut about head. Among the passengers on the train were a doctor and trained nurse and two discharged soldiers. The latter had served in the hospital corps in the Philippines. They rendered great service to the injured before the arrival of ottrr medical assistance. The concussion was so great when the trains collided thnt a passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length. Three engines are now locked together. Mr. Harper was sitting In the rear end of the .smoker and was pinned In the wreckage, being horribly mangled. Death was not Instantaneous, but nearly two hours were consumed In extricating the body. Many remarkable escapes ffoai death are told by passengers. The second section of No. 21!, the freight train, came down the main line at Beowawe to allow another freight train to pull out. Conductor Dorsey, in charg" of No. HI saw what the engineer was doing and as No. C was about due, turned the air on the train, breaking it In twit. The head brakeman went back to chain up while the fireman went to rtag the first section of No. 6. which was coming. It being on a curve the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it Was impossible to prevent the crashing toRother of the powerful engine. Both engine en ws jumped and both engines were demolished. The ChlcnKO Method of Reform. Lincoln Steffens, in October McClure's. BSCS ward was separately studied, the politics of each was separately understood, and separately each ward was fought. Deri ting only for "aggressive honesty" at first, not competence, they did not stick even at that. They wanted to beat the rascala that were In, and, if nectssary, If they couldn't hope to elect an homst man. they helped a likely rascal to btat th- rascal that was In and known. Th. v drew up a pledge of loyalty to public inter- . st. but they didn't ii.si-t on it in some cases. Like the politicians, they were opportunists, like the politicians, too. they were non-partisans. They placed off one party nuainst another, or. if two organizations hung together, they put up an tndepei 1ent. They broke many a cherish, d re! m principle, but few rules of practical politics. Thus, while they had some of their own sort of men nominated, they did not attempt, they did not think of running "repectabla" or "business" candidates as such. Neither were they afraid to dicker with ward leaders and "corrupt politicians." They went down Into the ward, urged the minority organization leaders to name a "good man" on promise of Independent support, then campaigned against the majority nominee with circulars, house-to-house canvasses, mass meetings, bands, speakers, and parades. 1 should say that the basic, unstated principle of this reform B0VSment. struck out early in the practice of the Nine, was to let the politicians rule, but through better and better men whom the Nine forced upon them with public opinion. But again I want to emphasize the fact that they had no fine-spun theories sad no definite principles beyond that of being always (or the best available maa.

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LAST CHACE OF CONSOLIDATED 4 OMI'A 1 S STOCKHOLDERS. If They Wish to Save Millions of Dollars They Munt Pot I P . enti a Share Withoat Delay. NO TROUBLE AT BALTIMORE FI II. ( IHCLES XOT EXCITED OVER RE( ET DEVELOPMENTS. Aid and Sympathy Offered Prenlaeit il Hums of the Seaboard Alr-Lte, and Middendorf A Co. PHILADELPHIA, Oct- 2.-The following statement prepared for the stockholders of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company was issued to-day by John O. Carruth, receiver: "To the stockholders of the Oonsolfdated Lake Superior Company: "The sale of the property of the compsnjr Pl.dged with Speyer & Co.. of New York, for the loan of 15.060.000 was to take place to-day, but upon urgent request has been postponed until Oct. S. at 12 o'clock. It is necessary that 9280.000 should immediately be paH Into the Equitable Trust Company, of Philadelphia, which will, upon proper vouchers, liquidate indebtedness of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company, or subsidiary companies. The payment of this sum will Insure the further postponement of the sale for a period sufficient to enable the stockholders to accomplish reorganisation If they act promptly and favorably by making this payment and providing for necessary expenses. It is imperative that the stockholders should pay on or before Oct. 6 to the Equitable Trust Company an assessment of 60 cents a share. Every effort has been msde to prevent the sale and the stockholders are now asked in their n interest to prevent the sbsolute and irretrievable loss of their entire property. The amount paid will be upon the assumption of the adoption of the following plan of reorganization whieh, It Is believed, has been generally nppruved: "To be raised by means of an underwriting open to all stockholders $8.000,000. This sum will riay the Speyer loan, the floating Indebtedness of the company, all expenses of reorganization and leave about ILOOS.000 for working capital; the underK i iters to reorganize a new corporation with $40.000.000 capital which corporation will take over all the property of the company under proper legal proceedings. The new corporation will issue $10,000.000 first mortgage bonds, of which the underwriters will receive 17,143.000 and whieh lnnds. it is proposed, shall be issued by the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Coal Company to be secured also by the stocks snd bonds of all the subsidiary rnipanies. The unused 135.s". 7.000 of such bonds to remain in the tr ury for the future use of the company. The bonds taken by underwriters are to be offered to all. the stockhold-Ts at 7" with a stock bonus of 30 per cent. Stock in the new company will be offered to each stockholder upon making cash payment at reaonsb limes of $3 per share foi old stock surrendered to the underwriters. Oneahare of stock in the new company will be given for two shares of preferred stock of the old company snd one share of new stock for four shares of common stock of the old company." The receiver was officially notified fy the Imperial Bank of Canada to-day that the payment of the wages of the company's workmen at the "Soo" will be befun tomorrow. The plan of reorganization of the company was formally announced to-night and is substantially the same as stated In the statement of the receiver made public to-day. AFFAIRS AT BALTIMORE. No Serloas Trouble Over Recent Financial Devrloommti. BALTIMORE. Oct. 2.-There was no dis turbance in financial circles here to-day over the announcement that the well-known banking house of J. William Middendorf Sc Co. and John L. Williams & Sour had asked their creditors for an extension of time. After the first surprise was over ihere aas evidence on all sides that the local financial situation was in a healthy condition. Leading bankers and brokers were ready to lend helping hands to prevent say temporary unsettlement of the market from going too far, but this was unnecessary. There were reports on the streets that there would be a joint meeting of bankers and brokers for this purpose, but It was not held. Inquiry among the heads of banking institutions developed the fact that the general feeling was that the local situation did not need any help, and that as soon as people began to view conditions clearly it would show an improvement. This view was so widely held that the suggestion of a meeting to take action to protect holders of securities was dropped. President Williams, of the Seaboard Airline, und Middendorf & Co. have received during the day many telegram -j of sympathy and offers of aid. Among them was the following from Edwin Gould at New York: ' Hope you will speedily arrange temporary dihicultics. You have our best wishes, and we wish we could help you ia some way further." Pig Iron Output May Be Redseed. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 2. At ths close of a meeting of the leading makers of pig iron in the South, held here to-day, the following statement was gives out: "At a meeting held to-day of a majority of the Southern pig iron producers. It was suggested that in view of the present overproduction the output of pig iron in ths Southern district be reduced spproxlmstely 25 per cent, of their respective capacities during tne quarter ending Dec. 31, IMS, by the voluntary action of producers. A committee was appointed to see furnace Interests uot in attendance at the meeting aud to report at a meeting to be held at as sartjf date." Reaia-natlon of Offlrers. ASHLAND, Ky.. Oct. l-CoL Douglas Putnam and Gay Putnam have tendered their resignations as president snd general manager, respectively, of the Ashland Iron and Mining Company. Other officers havs also resigned and new officers will ba elected early next month. Col. Robert Peebles, who recently secured options on ths majority of th stock of the company, im here It has been rumord that the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton Railroad has an option OS the Ashland Coal aud Iron roadowned by the company. The furnaces and mines of the company are valued at several millions. banges In the Cramp Company. PHILADELPHIA. Oct, 2 At a meeting of the board of directors of William Cramp A Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company, held to-day. Charles H. Cramp tendered his resignation aa president and waa Imsen as chairman of the board. snew offh-e. The following officers were elected; President, Henry 8. Groves; vice president, Ldwin S. Cramp; general manager. R. W. Davenport. Davenport Was also chaaaa a director of the company. lie Hypnotises Aalmala. Milwaukee Letter. That Dr. Otto Fiedler, city bacteriologist, possesses hypnotic power over animals, which euables him to perform vlvisectlosi operations without the use of anaesthetics, is the announcement made to-day. It Is said he Is the first bacteriologist to use this method. The doctor places a rabbit on the table, snd, ufter making a few rapid passes, gsses into its eyes and begins slowly to stroke it. In a few moments bunny passes luto a passive state. To show that the traacs la complete any one In the room may try his best to scare the animal, but will not succeed. When he Is sure the rsbbit is overcome with coma the doctor proceeds with the operutiou. After it is all over a few more passes bring tne raoDit to com uaaa. and tt Is soo as lively as ever.

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