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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EA0LE FRli)AYV APRIL. 9, 1897. 6 BUSINESS NOTICES. FRIDAY APRIL 9. 1S97.

(Copyrighted.) fact and calls the attention of the legislature to It in his message of disapproval he will not place himself on the defensive. At a cabinet meeting last week It was said that President Cleveland's forest reserve was too comprehensive and would have to be modified. And that statement was made while for lack of forest reserves the floods were tearing houses and levees to pieces in the Mississippi valley, burjdng farms under gravel and menacing life and causing loss and expense of millions. No, gentlemen, tjie forest reserves are far too few. More trees and more birds, or rue the lack of them.

I BUSINESS NOTIOHS. as as is is AS is is is is is AS is AS As is as As is AS As AS 4s is is is is AS AS is AS is is is is is AS is AS Mrs. Cooking In the Rorer, for Journal, the cooking Rorer market and two but to generous consideration, and there Is no disposition to begrudge the employes of our educational department any advantages they may enjoy. The bridge employes are peculiarly situated. They are hung up between two cities.

They are not responsible to Mayor Strong or to Mayor Wurster, but to a bl clty board 'of which the president, Mr. Berri, is responsible in a certain way to Mayor Wurster and of which the vice president, Mr. Heuriques. is responsible to Mayor Strong. They were not appointed under civil service reform rules, albeit they have been encouraged in the idea that they are entitled to some special degree of protection and the fact that they are considerable ill number has imparted to them a quickening sense of whatever influence they may possess.

For the life of them they cannot understand why on the bridge they should not share the same advantages as certain public servants off the bridge. There is something almost pathetic about the plan they are said to have adopted to further their desires, for it shows how easily they can be imposed upon by some person or persons of pretended influence. The amount of the alleged corruption fund, as we have said, is $3,500 and to it each one of these men has contributed $20 out of a salary the draughts on which presumably are by no means meager. There are 200 members of the legislature, 50 senators and 150 assemblymen, so that if the money were distributed on a pro rata basis it is not difficult to tell how much each legislator would receive. Mr.

Henriques did well to advise the employes of their folly. He told them for one thing that their bill was so clumsily drawn that he could have prepared a better one himself, which, If true, is additional evidence of the gullibility of the contributors. These men, however, need not be criticised on any lofty moral grounds. They are simply following the example of people who represent a higher type of cultivation than themselves, and if there is to be any preaching it should be at those at the top of the ladder, who, while denouncing bribery, do not hesitate to practice it. Our friends on the bridge are being fooled.

That is all there is to It the civil service regulations. Other men' would continue the sacking in the ways Indicated in the preceding paragraph. But if the governor does his duty the looting of the town will not begin right away. The Swami In India and In Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Et leal association is not without honor its own city, but it must be peculiarly gratifying to its members that its reputation has extended to India and that among the Hindoos its work has excited great Interest.

We are informed of the oriental fame of this occidental, or possibly we should say cosmopolitan, organization by letters which have been received from the east describing the reception that his fellow countrymen accorded to the Swami VI vekananda on his return to his native land. It is not necessary to tell the members of the Ethical association who this particular swami is, for they have sat at his feet and listened to the honeyed words of wisdom which have dropped from his lips. What they did not know about the vedas and the beliefs of the vedantists before the advent of the picturesque Hindoo was a preparation for his teachings. As air rushes into a vacuum so did the wisdom of the swami pour into the minds of the students of ethics. They learned something of the versatility of the modern Hindoo intellect along with the wisdom of the ancients.

There was presented to 'their consideration an example of the difference between theory and practice In the life of the swami himself and they were not troubled by it because of their simple faith in the sublimity of the theories and in the necessity of the practice. Vegetarianism was the right theory, but how could a man whose religion taught him that the eating of meat was wrong have that respect for its precepts if he had not learned by experience the evils that lie in disobedience? The. sight of a man who for the sake of this knowledge would run the risk of making himself an outcast in his native land moved many an Impressionable ethical student almost to hysteria. It is not often that In this workaday world we see potential martyrs and we must make the most of those who cross our path. The swami certainly had nothing to complain of in the matter of treatment while he was on this side of the world.

We should not be surprised at the ingenuously simple letter which the Ethical association has written thanking its "Indian brethren of the great Aryan fnmilv" for isendinc the swami to this Rorer's Lessons April issue Mrs. S. T. who now writes exclusively TpE Ladies' Home gives instruction in of meat. Mrs.

also gives a page on supplies and measures, columns of valuable information in answers to correspondents. "A Page of Dainty Luncheons," for the Easter holidays, and The Business Girl's Luncheon," are two good features of this number. Should Governor Black confirm Mr. Smith's view, the full significance of the letter as an output would be seen. Between March 31 and April 5 the New York Tribune.

Evening Post and Times, the Civic club of New York, the Union League, the committee of the Bar association, the committee of the chamber of commerce and other bodies multiplied appeals to the mayor to veto the charter bill. All of the papers and some of the organizations told him that, if he vetoed it, his strength as a public man in New York city would be increased. He was introduced as "the next mayor" at several banquets and he verbally declined that flattery with very affirmative pleasure. On April 4 the Eagle took notice of these attempts. We said: "An impression is growing that Mayor Strong will veto, the charter.

We shall not believe that he will do so until he has done so. but we do not forget that he is under great pressure and is charged with having changed his mind. This is not a matter to argue against. If he is capable of reversing and effacing himself argument to him not to do so would be useless. We only call notice to the matter so that, If the interests of these cities are.

to be sacrificed in this way people may not be surprised or kept in the dark as to whom to hold responsible. We simply want to smash this rumor, if unfounded, or to nail the right man to the counter, if It should prove true." It has proved true. The man has nailed himself to the counter. The man is Mayor Strong. His "reasons" are elsewhere printed.

They are a weak dilution of the arguments which Seth Low ably wrote on February 18. 1897, for a single legislative chamber, one police commissioner, a separate board of elections and full mayoral power of removal. Those reasons which Seth Low wrote, Mayor Strong signed with him. Writhin the reasons was the distinct statement and promise of support of the charter as a whole, notwithstanding the wish of both men that it had been made different in the respects set forth. That solemn promise is incorporated into this article.

Mayor Strong's recurrence to his objections violates his word, to waive them and to be for the charter. Seth Low has not violated his word. He was twice made mayor of a great city, among other reasons, because he stood to his word. We shall see whether WTilliam L. Strong will be made mayor of any city, a second time, on his platform of violated words and broken promises.

The man's action will forfeit for him the respect even of those who urged him to take it. They are really through with Mm. though for a time they may flatter and praise him. His "reasons" leave him In simply a pitiable plight. "What, will be the effect of this?" is naturally asked by everyone.

No human being can tell, although nearly every human being will make an effort to do so. If the governor still favors consolidation and the charter, the legislature should pass the bill over Mayor Strong's veto, because this legislature has overridden every veto which Mayor Strong has sent to it. and so did the previous legislature. If there is an understanding between Governor Black and Mayor Strong, it probably extends to the legislature. In that case, the charter would not go through, and these two cities would be suspended by the eyelids, for at least a year more.

Indeed, consolidation would probably never take place, for controlling influeuces in New York have turned against it, while sentiment in Brooklyn, which was against It, is now for it. The Republican party favored consolidation and committed itself to its accomplishment, virtually under this charter, then being framed, at the state convention, where Francis Swett Black was nominated for governor. He stood on the platform, without an if or a but, and was elected. He cannot have changed, unless the party has, or unless he has determined to try to make the party change its position on the matter. Either proposition is possible; both should be improbable.

'Twill be best to wait. Unquestionably, though, political Republicanism has been influenced by the increasing likelihood of Greater New York proving to be a Democratic stronghold. Should Republicanism, however, favor consolidation, that party possibly could carry the greater city, and, if defeated there, it, could certainly retain its respect and consistency. Should it. abandon consoli datum, it would divide with Mayor Strong the distinct discredit which his own vacillation and unreliability have brought upon him.

The Eagle, however, has a measure of satisfaction in recalling and in proving that, many as those are whom Mayor Strong's course has surprised, this paper is not among their number. (Entered at the Brooklyn. N. POBt Office aa second class matter.) Sils Paper ha8 a Circulation Larger than that of any other Evening Paper in the United States. Its value as an Ad Tertising Medium is therefore apparent.

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Mayor Strong Vetoes the Charter The Eagle Expected He Would. Mayor Scrontr of New York lias disapproved rhp charter for Greater Now York. The soneral mass of people will be surprisi'il. Their surprise will be legitimate, for Mayor Strong was morally and logically hound to approve the charter. On February IS, 1S97, the legislature received the report of the charter commission.

Its last sentence was as follows: The commissioners unite in recommendlnc the Greater New Ycrk charter to the favorable consideration of the legislature. The first signature under that sentence is that of Henjamin F. Tracy, president." The second is that of "William L. Strong, Then follow the signatures of all the other commissioners. On the same date the legislature also received a communication signed by AV.

L. Strong and Seth Low asking the legislature to favor a municipal assembly with a single chamber, a single police commissioner and an independent board of elections and a grant to the mayor of power of removal, without charges, in the public interest, throughout the whole of his term, of any official appointed by him. instead of the limitation of that power to the first six months of his term only. While making these requests Messrs. Strong and Low, however, said: "We propose to support the charter as a whole, notwithstanding that In these important particulars it differs from ivin; we think it ouprht to be, because we hclieve us a whole that its merits outweigh its defects and because we also helleve that under it consolidation can be safely brought about.

The recommendation and the promise, which was also a recommendation, both of which we have given, put upon the mayor a moral obligation to favor the charter. He asked the legislature to favor it and he promised to favor it himself. The legislature overwhelmingly adopted his recommendation. It had a right to expect, that lie would adhere to it and would keep his promise. He has repudiated his recommendation and he has violated his promise.

On Monday, April Mayor Strong employed almost truculent language against those who had asked him to veto the charter. He said to Charles Stewart Smith, Porman B. Eaton, A. B. Hepburn, James C.

Carter. Samuel I). Baheoek, W. B. Homblower, John K.

Parsons. A. S. Hewitt and other objectors: Tour of haste, of want of proper attention and to cover the several provisions of the oharter. are wholly unjust and unfair.

There were seven men on the charter not coumint; the mayors of the three cities. The men mainly responsible for the charter were Genera: Tracy. Judpe W. C. IicWilt.

Assistant 'orpcraition t'ounsei Dean and Seth Mr. DeWitt is a man of world wide reputation. Mr. Uevin was a man of recotcnized authority on municipal law. Messrs.

Dillon, Tracy and DeWitt are ait least the peers of any members cf the bar who have spt lt 'n in ppositinn to the bill. Messrs. Lh Wit't and Dean spent sixty days and nights in drafting this document. ft two months the document wa.s pin the hands of the draft committee. Nt in the whole history of this orjn try has so much or thouprht ever been be stowed up.in any charter as was given to this.

After all this was th" draft committee spent thirty jr more days over the charter. None with the slightest device respvt the Lruth can may tiiat this charter has not received due and adequate consideration at our hands. There are three chaptri 1 don't approve, and you Itnow Why. The b.ila.nc" I did and do approve, otherwise I c. tve signed the port.

More tint was never spent on any charter in the world. From this it was concluded that, the mayor was angry willi the objectors and would approve tin charter as he promised the legislature he would do on Feb bruary 1 Tin Eagle was not among those who felt sure that he would live up to his word. We knew that he had been a vacillator and we apprehended that he might again prove to be one. We expressed I he suspicion that be would veto the charter and based the suspicion on the fact that he appeared to be bound to approve it. On April 1.

the Eagle republished from the Now York Evening Post of the day before. March an open letter wrirtenb.v Cliai lcs Stewart Smith to Mayor Strong. There was no reason for Mr. Smith to give that letter to the press, except the desire to create or to accumulate public opinion against tin; charter by doing so. He said lie was not against consolidation, for all time, but was against it now under this charier.

He attacked the insli nineiit on the ground that enough linn' had not been given to it, i but that attack was apparently replied to by what the mayor said on April 5, I which we have already given in this article. Mr. Smith, however, continued: A larffe number of members of the assembly voted for tile uk.uiis". their judgment and because of the orders of the Repulylloitn organization. 1 Ijelievo the chaj ler as at present proposed will be absolutely unworkable.

If you would favor a ppoposit ion that the charter lie referred back to the coruriKSSion to trive to them one year's rime to redraft it, 1 think tec interests of the city mlsrllt be served, and if you in your wisdom should con olude tiiat tills was the best course. I have some reason to thlnlt that the governor would concur with you. The Eagle commented upon that article, the day we re published it. We said the letter was either "a Hash in the pan or a very significant output." It turns out not to have been Hash in the pan," so far aa Mayor StroBg was concerned. RECENT EVENTS.

Post office fraud orders were issued against eleven firms affiliated with the B. S. Dean company. The steamship Brooklyn City arrived iu port with forepeak flooded, having been in collision with an iceberg. Plans were completed lor the propposed one million dollar wing to the museum of art.

The filibustering steamer Bermuda escaped the vigilance of officials again yesterday, and is now on her way to Cuba with arms for the Insurgents. There was no opposition in the assembly to the senate bill for the extension of Riverside drive. Anti toxin killed In forty minutes James M. Williamson, 15 years old, of St. Louis.

The gunboat Nashville developed a speed of 14 knots, or 1 knots more than the contract of her builders calls for. The Rev. George A. Hubbell of "Vineland, N. had the sight of one eye destroyed by a sun ray deflected trom his crystal inkstand.

The Cretan Insurgents have notified the foreign admirals that they will repel by force any further attempt to interfere with their proceedings. Preparations have been made for an attack on Kissamo. It was announced from Buffalo that the Erie canal would not be regularly opened until th 15th of May. Miss Caroline B. Neally, an alumna of Smith college, has been arrested at Northampton, on a charge of larceny.

President McKinley yesterday nominated Colonel William Rufus Shatter of the First infantry to be brigadier general. The City History club filed articles of incorporation at Albany yesterday. Commander C. D. Slesbee was promoted to be captain and ordered to the command of the battleship Maine.

The administration decided to take up the fur seal controversy, and secure it possible a renewal of the modus vivendl of 1891 until the regulations for killing are modified. Robert Cunningham, a man who had the reputation of having precipitated the Black Friday panic, died at the Harlem hospital. Protest was made by the National Academy of Design against the stand taken by the Fine Arts federation on the Dingley tariff bill. The sale of the first half of the Bierstadt library was completed. About 1,400 books wero sold for about $8,000.

There was a good demand for Lockers, Langs and Longfellows. Secretary Long christened torpedo boat No. 3 the Foote. Admiral Foote was the father of total abstinence from liquor in the navy. Of him the sailors used to say: "He raised our pay 10 cents a day and stopped our grog forever." France Adds Her Testimony.

The analysis by Dr. A. Gabriel Pouchet of Parle, of a collection of calculi discharged under the action of Buffalo I.lthia Water Is of interest alike to the physician and layman. Dr. Pouchet Is professor of pharmacology and materia mediea of the faculty of medicine of Paris and director of the laboratory of the con sulting committee of public hygiene of France.

In his position as director It becomes his buslr ss to analyze and inspect all mineral waters. His great ability In this work and conscientious methods making an analytical report from his pen of the highest possible value. Like Dr. R. Ogden Doro mus and other eminent men, Dr.

Pouchet found that Buffalo Llthia Water 1b a most powerful solvent of uric acid and phosphatlc formations disintegrating and eliminating stone In the bladder as ordinary water crumbles chalk. Clinical evidence of the highest character proves Buffalo Llthia Water to be Invaluable in all diseases resulting from uric acid diathesis, such as gout and rheumatism. Brlght's disease, that dreaded enemy of mankind, being completely conquered by the potency of this wonderful water. Physicians were for many years reluctant to recognize any mineral water as a remedial agent, but the results obtained with Buffalo Llthia Water were not to be denied, and to day the most emlnj ent physicians of ail schools prescribe and use Buffalo Llthia Water for all diseases having their origin in uric acid, as well as for nervous diseases and dyspepsia. Among other physicians who have tested the efficacy of Buffalo Llthia Water under the most trying conditions, are Dr.

Wm. A. Hammond, Surgeon General U. S. Army (retired), Dr.

Thomas H. Buckler, Dr. Roberts Bartholow, M. LL.D., Dr. Alfred L.

Loomls, Dr. William B. Towles, Dr. James L. Cabell, A.

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Harding Mfg. 467 469 Fulton St. AS is The Plan of the Looters. The shore driveway bill is a job. The greed of the predatory politicians protrudes from every section of it.

The attempt to mask its purpose by providing for a new commission to serve without pay is worthy of the ingenuity of the drafters of the measure. This deceives no one, however. It simply recalls tne case of the conductor on a bankrupt railroad in the western part of the state. For many months he worked without pay. yet he djd not seem to suffer.

He rather liked his job. When his friends asked him how it was that he could manage to support his family when he got no wages he replied that he got along pretty well because he had the first handling of the money. It is not intended that the new commission shall suffer. It will have the first handling of the money, which, it is hoped, the legislature will authorize it to spend. It is not necessary to explain how the mere handling of money will make men rich, even though the employes of the United States treasury department count millions every year without Increasing their own wealth.

The backers of the scheme are not ignorant. They know that some respect should be shown to appearances. Therefore they propose to have a commission which shall contain one or two good men. while the rest of the commissioners shall be that kind of good men that bad men like to have around. Concealed by this whited sepul eher will be all uneleanness and dead men's bones.

Elijah R. Kennedy has shown what sort of inducements were held out to him to consent to be one of the blocks of marble in this sarcophagus of political putridity. If he would consent to the plans for the distribution of patronage he might have the honor of being on the commission. He was even told that if he would assist, in the execution of the schemes of the grabbers the bill might not he pressed in the legislature and he might remain unmolested. If proof of the evil intent of the sponsors for the bill had been necessary their propositions to this man would have afforded it.

Not only did Mr. Kennedy refuse to be a party to the plot, but he denounced the whole scheme as a corrupt job. Beside being corrupt it was also a usurpation of the powers which it was proposed to confer on the park commission of the Greater New York. By the time the new charter goes into effect the driveway will be advanced far enough to warrant turning it over to the park department. No independent commission Is necessary to continue the work.

There is no excuse for the bill except the desire of a few men to get rich at the expense of the public, to sell to favorites privileges which the city has bought, to give good pay to a lot of subordinates who will have little to do and to award contracts for grading and paving at such figures that the contractors may retire from business with a fortune after the work is done. The prolest which Setli Low and General Tracy and William C. DeWitt and Silas H. Dntehcr and General Woodford and Thomas F. Gllroy and George M.

Pinnoy, have made to the senate cities committee against the passage of the New York concourse bill might well be repeated against this measure. Whether there is jobbery in either or not. each is an effort to burden the greater city with the expense of. local improvements which it is feared cannot stand on their own merits after consoli da tion. What the passage of the bill means to the politicians was revealed by Robert B.

Sedgwick's candid statement to an Eagle reporter yesterday. His frankness was so complete that It almost forced respect for the sodden and sordid standard of morality which it revealed. Mr. Sedgwick's views are shared by men in high political place in this town. Party leaders agree with him.

They have sought leadership because they have seen other leaders profit by the opportunities for wealth and influence which were before men without too scrupulous notions. They look upon public works as the famous general looked on London. After he had been In the city a few weeks and had seen the great wealth there he was moved to remark with deep emotion: "My God, what a city to. sack." Mr. Sedgwick wanted to begin sacking the Greater New York by securing the appointment of an unnecessary inspector and by a fraud upon eonntW.

Neither should we be aston ished to learn fhat in spite of the fact that the swami with sublime courage sat at table with men not of his own caste and disregarded the injunction to eat no meat, he was received on his return to India as if he were a conquering hero. We are told that when he landed at Colombo the road was strewn with roses for two miles from the pier to the "man sion" that had been prepared for his tem porary occupation and that his holy reet were nrotected from the ground by a car pet of cloth of the purest white, and that arches of flowers spanned Ms pathway and that at one point a huge artificial lotus was opened over his head releasing a flock of birds and showering flowers upon Mm. His arrival in Madras and Calcutta was marked by similar demonstrations. Not only is the Ethical asso ciation not without honor in its own city, but it seems that the swami is reversing the famous rule in his native land. We have had ample proof of the versatility of the Hindoo monk, so if it should trans pire that he wrote the glowing accounts of his reception at home it would not tax credulity.

A man who can discuss the relation of the universe to the Supreme Spirit in a way to convince the members of the Ethical association that he knew what he was talking about has served an apprenticeship which would qualify him to act as a newspaper reporter. The fact that reports of a different nature have come from India should not decrease our faith in those which the Ethical association has received from the swami. The truth is so big that it is not easy for one man to see on all sides of it. The stories of the flowers and the lotus and the birds and the spotless cloth may be true, and so may he the report that, the people of his own caste will not receive him because he defiled himself by eating meat and sitting at table with Americans and Europeans. The latter report would simply indicate that the relations of sympathy and the bonds of mutual helpfulness between India, England and America were not quite so perfect as the dreamers had hoped for.

But we should not expect the prejudices of generations to be cut down all at once. They are different from Jonah's gourd which grew In a night, and died in a day. Tell the Truth at Once. The bill before the mayor attempting to make permanent, the appointment of thirty one firemen is not one which can be defended on the grounds of sympathy or on any other grounds. The men were appointed temporarily, pending the preparation of an eligible list by the civil service commission.

When that list was prepared and the names of these men were not on it they had to give way to others. The courts have held that they had no right in the department after the men who had properly" passed the examination of the civil service commission had been put on the pay rolls. Sympathy for the men because they bought their uniforms does not justify a disregard of the consti lutioii. Neither does it make possible the successful violation of its provisions. The attention of the mayor was called to these facts by Truman .7.

Backus and William G. Low and Warren Greene at the hearing on the bill yesterday. If he sends the measure back to Albany with his approval it will not be because he is ignorant of its futility. It will not be because he does not know that it will foster hopes which cannot be fulfilled. It will not be because he is unwilling to jolly the men who seek permanent appointment in violation of the fundamental law of the state.

Kindness to these men demands that they be told that they are seeking the impossible. To give to them a second opportunity to hire lawyers to test the act in the courts would he to benefit the lawyers whom they would hire, and when they lost 'their case they would have a pretty good understanding of the weakness of a man who dared not tell them the truth at once. The appointment of these men cannot be made permanent, not because any man in Brooklyn is opposed to it, but because the constitution forbids it. If the mayor recognizes this One Dollar a Year Company, Philadelphia AMUSEMENTS. AMBROSE PARK TWO WEEKS ONLY.

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W. cor. 2M and 4th av. Heads.Etc. Printed in tho bent manner.

I Tho job printing department Jfflth Floor. SBJtie unnaiDg, vvasninRion ana oonnson Take large passenger elvtoi WILD BILL'S 3m That Corruption Fund. There is no occasion to attach any great amount of moral enormity to the alleged corruption fund that is being raised by the employes of the bridge. The amount is and it is to be used to facilitate the passage through the legislature of a bill providing for tenure of olliee during good behavior. It is quite natural that the bridge om ployes should have the same desire for protection and for pensions which policemen and firemen have and which has asserted among the school teachers.

Indeed, it may lie said that in all brandies of the civil service there is a growing tendency to reach out for the beucliis that are extended to the employes in these departments of government. The movement for pensions among the policemen and firemen was successful for two reasons, first, because of the large numbers combining to make it effective and wielding no small influence in politics, and secondly, because of the nature of the duty which these public servants are called upon to perform. For the protection of tiie lives and property of others they have to risk their own lives, and there Is special fitness In safeguarding their future when by injury or length of service they are compelled to retire. As in the school teachers, they strike the home life of the community, of all three departments police, lire and educational the latter is the one which sustains the most vital relation to the people and which most sensitively articulates with the life of ISrooklyn. This is seen in the vigilance that is exercised over our public school system and in the amount of attention that is devoted generally to even minor happenings in (he schools.

The relation of the teacher to the home life of the city gives to him or to her a special claim not only to just.