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4 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JULY 3. 1003.

BUSINESS NOTICES. that it would be a good idea to ap a socialist newspaper in Chicago. For weeks the commissioner has been re SENATE LOSES DIGNITY ter, but more, work. It cannot bo laid down as a rule that all men over W) are more desirable. Xor should It be laid down as a rule that all men-under 50 are the more desirable.

The (Trade Mark "Eaile" Registered.) this rough fact must be recognized, with all the probability of the maintenance of it by the people and witu-iu the courts. We do not doubt that the business of the country will conclude that the President's view will obtain and will adjust itself to the lines of the President's plan. Nor do we doubt that after business has so adjusted itself, it will Itself become opposed to any disturbance of the President's plan. There is something enticing, and certainly something very strong, to business forces to place themselves under Federal control. Every large reading of nationality and every small reading of statehood may be regarded as attractive to business and as impressive to voters, though discouraging to strict constructionists and to close critics of Federal power.

Under no circumstances, however, will nny but unreachable fools or incurable pessimists "despair of the Republic." Tlie people of the United States can unite on final and fixed facts as philosophically or as enthusiastically as they can divide on the way to fixed facts. The optimism and the enterprise of the American people can be as firmly relied upon as the sentiment of government by law and as the belief tbat the Constitution itself will be found flexible enough to meet the necessities of the people or the progressive views of the people and the progressive interests of business and enterprise. In other words, civilization and constitutionalism will not be jarred merely because some of their apparent securities may be jostled. The President's views are to become law and the courts, ns we foresee, will be likely not to disturb them. State courts, though made less, will also continue.

Statehood, though apparently made less, will also continue, and statehood and the state judiciary will adjust themselves to the new conditions nt the door, just as they have adjusted themselves to even more Innovatory conditions in the past, when the issue affected manhood freedom and manhood suffrage. propriate- money for the -purchase of aeroplanes. The Wrights are not politicians. They are quiet, skillful, reserved and somewhat shy men, who will not make their Invention a public spectacle uuless it suits them so to do. The other day Congress adjourned In a hurry to witness the flights adver tised at Fort Myer.

but the Wrights not only declined to risk anything In the breeze that then prevailed, but also were at no pains to make themselves agreeable to the delegation of visiting legislators. Congress Is not an easy body through which to secure money for innovations. The War Department which will ask Congress for money for the purchase of the Wright aeroplanes must wish that the Inventors would take a little more trouble than they apparently do to make themselves popular with the appropriating powers. Our Healthy City. A report of tlie Health Department for the last six months shows a lower death rate than for any similar period in the history of the city.

A steady advance has been made against the ravages of consumption, smallpox has but one fatality to Its credit, and typhoid fever is being held in check. Deaths from cancer and pneumonia have, however, Increased. The conditions which produce these diseases are not yet within the control ot the Department of Health or Of any other human agency of prevention. New York is getting to be a better city to live in all the time. The public health otHcluls and private organizations and individuals are doing effective work in spreading abroad in the tenement neighborhoods a wider knowledge of hygienic laws, especially those that relate to the prevention of tuberculosis.

If this educational campnign is kept up, as it should be, the ultimate gain over disease will be much more marked and impressive thau it is to-day. Keep it up. It Was a Famous Victory. Cornell yesterday repented the performance of Harvard on Thursday and walked off, or, rather, rowed off, with ail the honors at Poughkeepsie. We have become somewhat hardened to these annual achievements of the Ithacans.

Mr. Courtney has the knack of turning out winning crews. No coach In the country has been so successful as this veteran professional, though Wray of Harvard has disclosed a capacity promising ninny future triumphs as decisive as any ever credited to Courtney. Columbia put up a gallant fight 'against' tlie' CbYnefr eight and the margin of victory was small, but while that is testimony to tlie pluck and brawn and trniuing of tlie youths from Morniugside Heights, it does not affect tlie general belief that the Cornell crew is the best aggregation of oarsmen assembled by any trainer in the country. It is a pity that tlie question of supremacy between Cornell and Harvard cannot be definitely settled.

The defeat of the latter by the former early In the season will not be everywhere accepted as conclusive in view of tlie fact that since it occurred Wray's crew has rounded Into much better form and acquired speed and style through tlie substitution of Cutler for Sargent at stroke. The impression made by the Cornell defeat of Harvard will remain, however, with who are not affected by Harvard preferences or affiliations. Harvard men will not admit the present inferiority of the Crimson. It would be wise each year hereafter to pit the winner of tlie Thames elght-onr race against the winner of the similar event at Poughkeepsie. Having a Good Time.

naving duly approved of tlie Senate amendments to the cockfighting bill, the Cuban House of Representatives passed the measure, which was promptly signed by President Gomez. To-day, a Joint committee of the Legislature will meet to discuss amendments to the lottery bill, concerning the passage of which nt an early date there Is no doubt. There are other signs that the ever faithful isle Is likely to remain ever faithful to some of its most cherished traditions. When the cat's away, the mice will play. The fun began as soon ns government under American auspices ceased, and It promises to become fast and furious.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL Cotton has advanced to 12 cents. The Tatt policies are beginning to take effect in the South. There ts Joy at. St. James, L.

which Is named for one who wrote: "Behold how great a matter a little Are klndleth!" Business men find the proposition to tax net profits reassuring, although It may Beein like counting chickens without consulting the Incubator. A friendly critic has called Mr. Metz an "alkali." This explains why the oil or gladness at the various Metz dinners is so quickly converted into Bott soap. JERSEY VERY UNSAFE. The Jersey police, on a murder-hunt.

Have scored, it is a most laughable stunt; In trying to bring a Celestial to book, They arrested the Governor's Japanese cook. Their forte Is to blunder; they brought to the court The rase of the servant of Governor Fort. The judge quickly treed him, unfortunate chap, On proof that he wasn't a Chink, but a Jap. And soon they'll be catching a negro, or two, With kinkiest hair, and without any queue; Or, maybe, a Swede, with a lingo as dire As the talk of the Tongs by a Chinatown fire. No, nobody's safe on the Jerseymatf shore.

I do not intend to go there any more. My Puritan bald-head won't save me, 1 think, From a few hours in clink aa a murderous Chink! J. A. ceiving requests for copies of his annual report. The publications of this bureau are generally popular, but the enormous demand for copies of this particular re--port created surprise.

The entire edition was exhausted and still the calls came pil ng tn. The other day the secret came out. A man wrote a letter about as follows: Dear sir I inclose 25 cents for my subscription, and please send me the report of the commissioner of labor." At the top of this letter was pasted a statement, clipped from the Chicago Socialist paper. It stated that any person sending 25 cents for a year's subscription to the "Red Flag" would be entitled to receive a copy of the report of the commissioner of labor upon writing to that official at Washington. Commissioner Neill learned that by this clever ruse the Chicago publication has added Beveral thousand new subscribers to its rolls.

When Commissioner Neill refused to honor further requests for the report, the Socialist editor denounced him for withholding documents that contained information helpful to the cause of socialism. CRIST. THE HOME GABDEN. Eben E. Rexford, well known as an amateur gardener and as a writer on thiB topic, has recently published a new boon entitled "The Home Garden" (Lippincott.

$1.25. net), which Is intended for the instruction and euldance of the man or woman, who delights in the cultivation of a small plot of ground. Probably, the strict economist would find no difficulty In demonstrating that, with the conditions which environ the suburban dweller, It would be cheaper to buy than to raise the family supply of vegetables. Of course, this does not apply to the amateur whoso home is remote from thu market garden industry. The amateur gardener, however, who is possessed with the, true spirit of love for the craft, considers prod in the sirict monetary sense as the last thing to be considered.

What he seeks for; primarily. Is the pleasure which the true nature lover finds in growing things, and secondly, the delight In growing. your own vegetables and having them frsh and crisp for the table. There is more of this than one can imagine who has not tried it and perhaps, it is, after all. the real Incentive to a good deal of amateur gardening, In this manual, "The Home Garden," Mr.

Rexford writes equally for the amateur whose area is limited to a few square feet, or who can spread bis garden over a good share of an acre. With the latter, of course, there comes the more labor, but the larger enjoyment and tho' greater experience. Our author begins with a rather -extended "foreword," In which he argues the case of tho garden and Its advantages from the viewpoint of the expert enthusiast. This is followed with chapters on location and soil, on planning and planting; on implements, on the care of the growing things, transplanting, weeding and general management. One chapter is hotbed and cold, frame management; another to the use of 'fungicides and insecticides, another to the growing of small fruits, toe planting and care of a strawberry bed: another on grape-growing.

Throughout, tho directions aro straightforward and simple, and the varieties recommended are of the more popular sorts tint are well tested. The garden lover will find Mr. Rexford a safe and reliable guide; The book carries a number of SOCIAL OBGANIZATION. Professor Charles Horton Cooley of tho chair of sociology in the University of Michigan Is the author of a new work, entitled "Social Organizations A. Story of the Larger Mind." (Scribner's, In a former volume, entitled "Human Nature and Social Order," the author discussed society as It exists in social human nature.

The present volume, as the title indicates, treats- the subject from the broader outlook, of the social organization. The Individual is kept in the still you feel his presence and force. It could nod' be otherwise, individualism Is ever assertive. So it -becomes intensely Interesting to trace this social study through all relations to others, rather than from his own personal words and conduct. He apprehends the subject from its mental rather than its material side.

So he develops social consciousness and gradually Into the nature of social organization. Now come the groupings, the family and community and state. Then the Ideals as. they spring from truth and service and right relations. In the growth of this thought comes the democratic mind working out into public opinion tested by aggregate experiences.

Here comes in the study of social classes, that of caste and wealth and culture on one side and the working masses, ill paid and hard work, poverty and its antagonism to riches on the other. Institutions grow out of nil this and here are considered the family and its great Influence in shaping the struggle and the argument. Then the church and the interest grows. How vigorously he makes his pages and how illuminating he is to a close, clear student! He writes because he feels, and herein Is the great value of his work. SOME LIVING THINGS.

"Some Living Things" is the title of a new and attractive text book Mrs. Ella B. Hallock, State Instructor in Physiology and Hygiene in New York and Massachusetts, and edited by C. B. Gilbert of the Western Reserve University.

"First Lessons in Physiology" is the subtitle. The book Is attractive In appearance and will appeal to children. It a hnndsomeU made book, of 214 with hundreds ot tasteful pictures taat adorn the cutar rrargins and aptly Illustrate the text. The paper is softly tinted to suit the eyes. The print is large and clear.

The author shows a genius for teaching and understands the need of wise iteration. This is a conspicuous merit. The hook is Intended as a guide and assistant to the teacher, in arousing the interest of the pupil in the fundamental truths of physiology, teaching them the rudiments of the laws of health and hygiene, and helping them to understand something of their own lives and how nature intends them to care for their bodies. The book is written in a. pleasant and attractive style, making an interesting of what too often for children is a lumb science.

Mrs. Hallock is th v-i'e of Joseph N. Hallock of the Long Itlaua Traveler, and is well known as a newspaper writer on Long Island topics. PROMISE OF A QUIET FOURTH. Small Boy Papa, I'm not going to set off any fireworks on the Fourth of July thiB year.

Father (with visions of a quiet Fourth) Why, how's that? Small Boy I'm going to set 'em all off on the fifth. AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN. HOLIDA VM KBV PARADI9B ORIT TF.H DREAMLAND Jlilv S. Grnnil Plmrarfcn nixplay 1.1 N-w C'lreim Ap. All Free Rratnnranl On Pier O'er Spa Tak.

Ir'n Stpamhonls to lircamland Direct EVKRVTHISB NEW BIT THB OCKAJ SEW I Brighton Beach's KewW Re-DBIAUTnU I rt. Flfke O'Hnrn Co, BRIGHTON Blon.le Type-TUrlTDC Iwritrrn. Klfle Kay, Pres-IntAlnt 'celle. and olhern. To-rtuv Mat.

S5c. Eve. 8:15. Pop. Prices.

Seats 'at Sterling Pianos, 518 Fulton.st. Tool, Mlla Open'Beach PAIN'S BATTLE IN THF CLOUDS Special Holiday Programme To-mght rOiAKI'S GREAT OKIGIVM, LUNA PARK Copied and Imitated throufchout the world, but still supreme for Summertime Fun. STEEPLECHASE Coney'" fnnnient, cleanest and BISIBST PLACE. Great Swimming Pool Now Open. AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN.

EDEN MUSEE Hun carl an Gypey Muio Hur CINEMATOGRAPH The Quality Mark Recognized the world over as the quality-mark of finest silverplate, the name 1847 ROGERS BROS! covers a line ot knives, forks, spoons, famous for beauty and durability. 0sf fea sets, dsAes, waiters, are stamped MERIDEN BRIT4 CO. SOLD BV LEADING DEALERS Silver Tlatt that Wears" WENDELL PHILLIPS GARRISON. i "Letters and Memorials of Wendell Phillips Garrison" (Houghton, Mifflin Is a work for whjch tit's thoughtful American reader will be grateful. It Is singularly yet uniquely gotten up, and is rich in valuable material remlnis.ce.nt of the truly great maal-whom It memorializes! He was the third son of America's heroic abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, and was born in Cambridge, June 4, 1840.

He entered Harvard in 1857, and graduated in 1861 with high rank. He taught for two years, and in 1864 was associated with n-tl. 1 KlA.nUI llu 1111UU 11 1116 CUlllflBUlll Ul IU New York In 1865,. be became associated with Edwin Lawrence Godkin in founding the Nation, a journal devoted to high literary criticism and lofty political ideals. Here on this literary paper he worked forty-one years until June 28, 1906.

It is useless to da-tail the great events and marked characteristics and literary activities of this singularly gifted man. The Iatlon Is his monument, and his frfends. numbered by the hundreds, attest the loyalty of this large-hearted man and the delightful urbanity of his royal manhood. Here are gathered scores of letters to friends, here printed some of his leading editorials, here grouped some of his choicer poems. It is a book for the thoughtful American citizen.

Just such a book is needed to be read by the rising literary young men. EXCURSIONS. BRIDGEPORT EXCURSION Sundav. Julv 4th. Independence Day, July Rth, 0.

THE MAMMOTH' PALATE STEEL Sir. "CITY OF WORCESTER" LarireNt itioHt lnxuriouNly farulnheA Kteaiiilout of itn I'lann In the -world. 1. vs Pier 29. K.

ft. Market St. ...10:00 A.M. Recreation ft. East.

24th St 10-M A.M. -r- HOI XI) TRIP FARE "7Krt. I Ov Lanillnc at Port Jefferson, L. WW Mnxlc. Eiilerinininent.

nnnelnjr. Dining Saloon and drill Room under management of New York HARLEM CASINO. SATURDAY, JULY THIRD DAILY THEREAFTER (Except Sunday and July uth). THE PALATIAL AND COMMODIOUS STEEL Str. "CITY OF WORCESTER'.

will leav EVERY AFTERXOOIV UP THE HISTQHC HUDSON Most Charming and Invigorating 6-Hour From Recreation Pier, ft. E. 24th Batterv Landing EVERY EVEXIXG delljrhtfnl outln UP LONG ISLAND SOUND leaving Pier foot VV. st 6:45 P.M. Battery Landing ..8:00 P.M.

Recreation Pier, E. 24th St ...8:20 P.M.' 5Qf FARE O-V EITHER TRIP 50C, Return evening trip stops only East 84th St B'or staterooms or Information phone Orchard 606 SIGHT SEEUJC-STEAMER MAXHATTAX ISLAXW evr and Spt-elal Denljrned Steamer lilCrUVDII Lvs- B- 841,1 81 CLi Hin Lvs. Battery Landlng.2:00 P.M. Dally, Except Sunday. Lecturer.

FARE 91. 4TH OF JULY EXCURSIONS NIAGARA 4, Return Jnly (All Trains. Except. Black Diamond Express.) MAICH CH1XK. I 1.50 Joly 43, RELLEWOOU PARK, 'If Aft July 4 A.

Every Sunday, SPECIAL TRAINS Leave Brooklyn for; -f MAITH CHUNK. July 4 5, 7J5 A.M. BELLEWOOD PARK. July 4 G. 8:45 A.M.

Time shown Is from Annex Ferry. Lehigh. Valley Railroad For Particulars Inquire 1460 355 and 140 Broadway. New York, and Pennsylvania Ferries; 211 -Market New-jrk; 30 Flatbush and Annex Ferry, Rrooklyn. Fare, via Annex Ferry, 15c.

additional. EXCURSION TOfiEW HAVEN SUNDAYS, ALSO JOLY 5th Superb steamer RICHARD PECK will leave Pier 2S. E. 9:30 A.M. 1 foot East 22(1 10:00 A.M.; due New Haven 2:30 P.M.

Return, due N. Y. .8:45 P.M. Two hours In New Haven. Music.

Refreshments. Tickets. Children, 60 cents. THE HUDSON SUNDAYS Splendid steamer CITY OF LOWELL leave! Pier 40, ft. Clarkson .10:00 A.M.; W.

129th 10:30 A.M., for Hudson River trip as far as Poughkeepsie. No landing. Return, due N. Y. 6 P.M.

Music, Refreshments. Tickets, 50 cents; Children, 25 cents. These excursions under management of FALL RIVER LIX'E. Tickets now on sale at City Ticket Office, 171 BROADWAY, Si. Y.

Tickets at Piei? only on day of excursions. UP THE yuDSon JULY 4th JULY 5th Montauk Steamboat Steel Screw Steamer CI MONTAUK Lve. L. I. R.

R. Dock, L. I. City. .9:00 A.M.

24th St. E. N. 9:15 A.M. Dock st (near Fultonl, 9:45 A.M.

Pier 8. E. R. (near Hanover sq." N. ,10:00 A.M.

Returning, due New York 6:00 P.M.- Faro 75c. Round Trip. Music and refreshments. GNARM1NG EXCURSIONS IDEAL FOR FIFTH OF JULY Up the Picturesque Hudson to West Point-, Newburgh Poughfc eepsie Daily (except Sunday by Palace Iron Day Line Steamers "Hendrick Hudson." "Robert Fulton" and "Albany." Brooklyn. Fulton St.

thy Annex), 8: Deshrosses 8:40 and W. 42tl 9:00 and W. 129'h 9:20 and. 10:20 A.M. Returning on either down boat due 4ii St.

5:30 or P.M. MORNING AND AFTERNOON CONCERTS. UP THE SOUND Best Sunday Excursion Out of New York BRIDGErdT TTEa Round AND RETURN I WWi Trip. Every Sunday nt 10:30 A.M., from Pier 19, Eat River, foot' of Pfck( Blip, by Elegant Faat at City Dock, Bridgeport, Conn. Telephone vrno Rpekman.

EXCURSION SUNDAY, JULY 4TH TO WEST POINT and NEW BURGH STEAMER MATTEAWAN Leaves Si'Uth Fifth St. Williamsburg, P.atterv Iindlnp. 22d st. North River, at i20th st, North River, Music. Refreshments on board at city prices.

Number of passengers limited. EXC't HSION TICKETS, St.XDAY anil JAY. Lake Hopatcong $1.00 Leave W. 23d St. Liberty St.

9:00 A.M. Mauch Chunk $1.50 Leave W. St. Liberty St. 8:30.

A.M. 50 MILES UP THE sound Ti" Str. "GEXKHA1. ME" Leaves Batterv 9:30 A.M.. So.

5th St. Brooklyn 10 A.M., East 3Ut st 10:30 A.M. and East 138th st at 10:60 A.M. Music. Refreshments Excursion, 75c.

SEEING SEWY(liK-STEAM YACHT Leave V. 22d N. R. (N. 10 A.M..

2:30 P.M. Three'hours' trip; fare 11. The mosb instructive and enjoyable trip in the world. Tel. 4yV Gram.

Seeing; N. Y. Auto0 from Flatlroa v. hourly. Hot Weather Takes the Starch Out of the Solons.

Sherman Sets a Good Example in the Hatter of Attire, but Tillman and Bailey Look Warm. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, July 3 Members of the United States Senate do not look so pleasing, in personal appearance, with the thermometer at 90 as they do when weather conditions are more favorable As you look down upon them from the galleries you observe in the pit an array of mussy. tousled and sticky looking men, with here and there a linen garbed figure presenting an oasis-like picture of coolness and freshness in a desert of discomfort. The long spell ot oppressive, sticky weather has caused the Senate to abandon much ofi the traditional dignity which is supposed to be one ot the chief qualities of this body.

Negligee costumes have been the regular thing tor the past ten days. No Senator has yet gone to the length of appearing In bis shirt sleeves. The pages, however, have been running about the chamber in shirtwaist costumes, which is something never before tolerated in this body. The lads were permitted to remove their coats under a special order given by the sympathetic Vice President. The pages, when not engaged in running errands, cluster about the Vice President's dais and their distress appealed strongly to him.

Mr. Sherman gets a good example to Senators In the matter of comfort in dress. He discarded his vest long ago. He wears the conventional dark trousers with a striped linen coat nt the lightest possible cut. Armed with a large palm leaf fan and a handkerchief, to be used as a mop, the Vice President has been able to exist about as comfortably as any of his associates.

The New York Senators are of that happy, philosophical temperament which seems to defy the heat. Senator Root Is a vestlesg statesman and wears darn serge suits. He sometimes Indulges in the extravagance of a colored shirt. Senator Depew affects a silky looking ai-paca coat, dark trousers and a boiled shirt. In spite of the stiff shirt he al ways manages to convey the impression that he 1b cool and entirely Senator Tillman anDarent lacks re sourcefulness in combating the heat.

He has no hot weather conveniences. He sits in the Senate, grim, tousled and overheated. A big black tlo sprawls over his rumpled shirt front. Tillman seeks relief from the heat by drinking lemon ade, which is provided free. He will gulp down glass after glass of this beverage.

Tillman's left hand neighbor, Senator Bailey, also gives evidence of feeling the full effects of the high temperature. After speaking for ten minutes he looks as though he had paid a visit to a Turkish bath hot room. The number of Senators who have adopt ed dress other than the senatorial black is laree. The attire of Senator Shlvely ot Indiana, sometimes termed the hand somest man In the Senate, suggests the college boy at the seashore. He wears a pale gray flannel suit, a black and white striped tie, with a gaudy handkerchief falling carelessly from his coat breast pocket.

Senator Cummins also affects brilliant clothing. He has a suit practically of the same color as Shively's He wears a pale lavender tie. Half a dozen Senators are the proud owners of pongee suits. Those comfortable habiliments are worn by Burrows, Lodge, Carter, Bacon arm -Bulkeiey. Senators Dick, Fletcher and Newlands wear pure white duck suits.

Senator Newlands, who is woalthy, has half a dozen of these suits and appears in a freshly ironed outfit each morning. Senator Carter dug up from a trunk in the attic the other day a seersucker suit that must have been manufactured in the last century. Perhaps the coolest looking man in the Senate Is little La Follette. As one Senator expressed It, "LaFollette makes rae mad every time I look at him; he Is so fresh 'and cool looking." The Wisconsin man wears light crash suits with no vests and affects colored shirts In pale tlrfts and russet shoes. He has a calm manner in repose and a smiling, self-satlsfled countenance.

Everything about him suggests real comfort. Senator Derpew brought out an Inter esting puzzle of what might happen were Congress to adopt the irfcome tax plan advocated by Cummins and Bailey, when he said to-day: The Income tax law of 1894 was de clared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Both of the bills now before the Senate, one by Bailey and the other by Cummins, are copies of that law. Congress has never since the government was organized passed a bill over tie heads of and against the decision of the Supreme Court of the JJnited States. The Constitution creates the Supreme Court and recognizes it as the final arbiter of the constitutionality of the acts of the lezis- lative and executive branches.

To pass a law to re-etfact a law in the exact terms of the one which the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional is for the legislative branch to, in the first Place, defy the Supreme Court's decision If the court stands by its own judgment, or it is an attempt to reverse the decision of the Supreme Court by the legislative body and the executive first. The President takes an oath that he will support the Constitution and the law. a law is passed bv Coneres nnrt signed by the President which the Su preme court declares to be unconstitutional. If Congress re-enacts tbat law and sends It te the President with the decision of the Supreme Court before mm, can ne, as a eonstitut intra officer and under his oath of office, sign that bill wiiea toe court, wnicn is his master, tells him that bill is unlawful? Of course, this would he nii mo tion, because no such matter has ever been submitted to the President of the United States. But a President would hesitate long before afflxlifg his signature to a measure against which hH cision by the Supreme Court, declaring ii when his oath requires him to support the Constitution." The Bureau of Labor is preparing to report upon child labor in the United States.

Agents of this bureau havo marto secret Invesigations In a number of in- uustnes in ivew jrorK City. Commissioner Neill refuses to give any information on the subject. He will not even reveal the class of industries which have been Investigated. The reason for his refusal to say anything about it. is a desire to avoid being badgered by the proprietors whose shops have beeu canvassed.

They would all want to know whether or not reference is made to their establishments and would desire to be Informed what is to be said in the report, so they could have an opportunity to refute it. Commissioner Neill has concluded that the only way to handle the situation is to sav absolutely nothing until his report is published, similar inquiries have been made in other large cities of the East. The report will tie ready for distribution tn the fall. The Post Office Department has authorized the use of automobiles to collect and distribute the malls in Manhattan. Fourteen machines have been chartered for this purpose, and they will supplant the wagons and the elevated railroads, which 'have been used by the department heretofore.

The first experiments with automobiles in connection with mail deliveries were made last year at Milwaukee and Detroit. The results were entirely satisfactory and the department determined to make them a permanent feature of the postal equipment. It Is' stated tbat the cost of this service in Manhattan is practically the same as that charged by the wagons and elevated railroad service. Commissioner Neill tas been having an amusing experience with the editor of matter should be determined on the individual himself. And when so tei mined It will be surprising if it is not found that a very large per centage of men over 50 are found to be the more desirable employes.

At 00 a man's habits are fixed. 'What he Is on Monday he is quite likely to be on all the days fol lowing. At 60 a man, sound, in good. health and proportionate strength, has possibly fifteen years of good work before him. Two Excellent Appointments.

The Eagle congratulates both parties on the appointment of John E. Smith of Brooklyn to be the Republican member from this borough of the Board of Elections. It also, congratulates both parties on the designation of ex-Assemblyman Charles F. Murphy to be inheritance tax appraiser by the State Controller. Both these men are Republicans.

Mr. Smith had been appointed to the place Mr. Murphy now gets, and Mr. Murphy tynd been selected for the place Mr. Smith lias obtained, but as Mr.

Murphy was found to be ineligible to tlie Board of Elections, and Mr. Smith was eligible, the "change about" is satisfactory to each. It is also satisfactory to the public. Both men are able, honorable, faithful and sensitive to the best public opinion. Everyone knows that the places they are to hold will be justly filled and honorably administered.

The public is a gainer by the designation of each. The Sugar Indictments. The Federal Grand Jury yesterday returned an indictment against the American Sugar Refining Company and eight Individuals connected, as alleged, with the loan of $1,250,000 to Adolpli Segal. Stripped of legal verbiage and reduced to simple terms, the allegation is tills: Adolph Segal of Philadelphia owned the majority stock of the Champion Construction Company. That company held of the shares of Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company a rival of the American.

Segal was induced to bqrrow from some unknown lender, through an agent, for a year, on his note, $1,250,000, pledging 20,000 shares of the Pennsylvania Company as collateral security. The American Sugar Company was tlie lender, and it is charged that its purpose was to get iSflfltrpi Ro vauia Company through the use of 20,000 shares given as collateral, and close its business. This was done by refusing to receive payment of the note. The business of the Pennsylvania Company, as alleged, was ruined and this is charged by the government to be an offense against tlie Sherman anti-truRt law as being a conspiracy to restraiu trade. A civil suit was brought by Segal against these same defendants, but they compromised it to the satisfaction of Segal.

What the terms of the compromise were Is not known, but rumor has it that a sum larger than the face of the note, the return of the note and collateral made the basis. It is understood that the government's criminal proceedings are based on the revelations of the civil suit. Subway Building Progress. The Board of Estimate yesterday granted the request of the Public Service Commission to advertise for bills for subway building. There are no strings to the granting.

Within tlie lines and terms of the Commission's request tlie latter will have a wide discretion. Contrary to an opinion which prevails In certain quarters it is not bound to follow the lines of any proposal made by any interest. It is true that the Commission may couslder what bidders are likely to respond and whether they will be willing to bid on any other plau than one of their own 'suggestion. This consideration may have its due weight In tlie preparation of the plans and specifications; but the Commission Is plainly committed to certain propositions ns is well known. It believes the Fourth avenue subway and the Itroadway-Lafayette subway should lie built with such utilization of the bridges as will best accommodate all people, and not a single interest.

It believes tbat the Center street loop now in process should be a part of the general system and of the Broadway-Lexington route. It will probably suggest other routes, extensions and connections, but the routes as above designated, in nil human probability, will be essential features of the plans presented by it for bidding. There is before the Commission a proposal that insures at least one bidder for these essential plans. The great matter for felicitation Is trWit by the act of the Board of Estimate yesterday substantial progress is made. During the two mouths to follow the plans and specifications for tlie work of the greatest importance can be prepared and advertised.

And also during that time all questions now pending and before the Court of Appeals as to the Fourth avenue subway and the debt limit will have been disposed of and the Board of Estimate can come to a consideration of the proposed contracts for building, iu a clear knowledge of i the financial resources of the city. Tlie summer situation of the transportation problem is very satisfactory. The Wrights and the Congress. Tlie very Interesting series of experiments now being made by the Wright brothers nt Fort Myer are ostensibly undertaken for the purpose of demonstrating to tlie military authorities the value of the aeroplane as an engine of war. As a matter of fact the military authorities long ago reached the conclusion that the aeroplane is a necessity to their trade, and decided that the Wright machine was the best of all the lieavler-thau-air devices.

The present tests are really intended to convince members of Congress that tlie faith of the War Department in the developments of aerial science has not been misplaced, and SATURDAY EVENING. JI LT 3. 1909. This Piftt has Circulation Larger than that of any other Evening Paper of Its class in the United States. Its value as an Advertising Medium is Apparent.

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For cost ot advertising, apply or send for rate card, or make inquiry by telephone. No. i2i Main. The President to Have His Way. The corporation tax measure passed the Senate ly a vote of sixty to eleven.

Several amendments which commanded a stronger support were previously defeated. The final poll comprised a large plurality of both parties with only eleven Senators-eight lteimblicaiis and three Democrats in the negative. The result is significant of the strength of the new Fusion, of the weakness of the recalcitrants, of the success of Messrs. Aldrich and Hoot, as leaders, and of the skillful driving of his motley Senatorial team by Tresideut Taft. Senator Aldrich declares that the corporation tax will cense, when future collections show that it is not needed.

Senator Koot intimates the same thing, but also adds the measure will give way to an income tax, If the Constitution shall be so amended as to make that possible. President Taft, however, at the Yale commencement, broadly intimated that a suspension or repeal of the corporation tax iu the future was not favored or expected by him, and that the law, If passed, would be retained during his Presidency, for use iu large degree or in small, as needed. This marked difference of views really contributed to the large vote for the proposition. Some of the Senators sincerely favor the idea. Another section ot the Senate represents those for the idea, but only as a makeshift.

Still another section comprises Senators who regard the measure as only a prelude to the income tax, so soon as the Constitution can be amended. Rightly or wrongly, however, the confident prophecy of Mr. Taft will outweigh the tentative promises or the tentative hopes or the tentative fears of various Senators, whatever the views or whoever the Senators. Mr. Taft is the President.

He will do what he can to vindicate his own views. The business men of the country and the voters of the country should look at this as a fact, and should act accordingly. Nothing but a declaration of the unconstitutionality of the act by the United States Supreme Court can prevent the measure from becoming a law, to stay. And it will have to become a law at the outset, to enable a suit to test its constitutionality to be brought, tried and decided at nil. That will require time.

Time will be on the side of the act, when passed. Time will be favorable to the business to accept the act and to adventure with it on business, accordingly. Time will be iu favor of the growing Indisposition of tlie Supreme Court to annul or to modify the laws of Congress. This indisposition is increased when some facts are regarded. The Executive makes judges.

This one has himself been a judge. By him the successors of a majority of the present Supreme Court justices will probably have to be named. In the order of nature several of the present judges cannot long survive. By law, as it Is, a majority of them can now retire at will on full pay when they wish. Such facts are not favorable to the theory that the higher judiciary will be eager to antagonize the views of President Taft on a measure he declares he long considered.

He long withheld It, because, lie says, he hoped he would not have to obtrude it. But he unpacked It, he regarded it to be necessary, and he wants the idea, that it was a sudden afterthought, to be dismissed at once. He kept it iu reserve, but only for an emergency. The emergency occurred, and the plan was then brought out. Respect for the President rtHpiires that this statement in his own behalf made by him to the country be set forth.

Respect for themselves requires those who differ from the President as to tlie necessity or the desirability of these propositions, to reiterate their own view. The Eagle is conservative and not radical. The President's policy is radical and not conservative. W'e wish the act, long reserved and now suddenly obtruded by the President, had been longer re-Served by him, anil had never been obtruded by him at all. His plan will magnify national control over business and weaken state control over business.

His plan will make nationhood more and statehood less. Nationhood is what we would keep within present bounds. Statehood Is what we would preserve at least within present bounds. The Eagle's view and that of other conservative forces Is, however, not to prevail, and the President's view is. Facts are facts, Whether they be rough or smooth; ajnd Justice to All and Unfairness to None.

"Let justice be done, though the heavens fall." The Eagle thought and said that Senator McCarren and Tolice Commissioner Baker were friends. Mr. Baker says they have not been friends for a long while, and are not now. Senator McCarren says nothing at nil. It is like Mr.

Baker sometimes to say too much. It is like Senator McCarren to be silent in several languages, including the profane. We could not do injustice to Mr. Baker, if we would. We would not do Injustice to Senator McCarren, if we could.

We but note the statement of the Mayor that he made Mr. Baker Uoin-mlssiouer to recognize Home Rule, autonomy and borough individuality in Brooklyn and Queens by the appointment of Mr. Raker. Senator McCarren is the father, the mother, the grandfather and the godfather in politics of nil the reasons which the Mayor says induced him to make Mr. Baker Commissioner of Police.

So the reasons for Mr. Baker are McCarrenisli, though Mr. Baker says that ho is anti-McCnrren. Mr. Baker does not repudiate the reasons for his appointment, which are McCarrenisli, and so long as he does not do that, the Mayor may keep him in oliice until Mr.

McCarren requests his removal. Thus, Mr. Baker may be safe, so long as Mr. McCarren is indifferent. In the same way, Mayor McClellan denies that he is friendly to Charles F.

Murphy, and he says this, while naming for justice exactly the men with whose appointment Charles Murphy will be pleased. The latter can endure the Mayor's hostility, so long as he can bag the Mayor's appointments. So there need he no cause for friction between tlie unequal two. Murphy can afford even the hatred of a Mayor who fills justiceships with Murphy's men. A Plea for the Elderly Man.

The New York Times is engaged in commendable work in presenting the cause of men over 50 years of age, out of work. The responses from employers indicate that the supposed prejudice against men over the age is more fancied than real. There is clearly manifest a disposition to employ men over that age if they measure up to the standard of capacity. It Is just that matter of the "if" that tlie question is to be settled. Men over 5(1, being of correct habits, in good health and strength, are apt to lie of greater service than those of lesser years, for they have that result of training that makes for efficiency.

The disposition to classify and generalize is responsible for whatever of prejudice there Is In the employment of elderly men. Energy is made I the touchstone. Energy is supposed to belong to youth. But there is another quality quite as important, and that is, method. It often occurs that while energy Is raising dust and flapping conttnlls In hurried efforts, method, quiet In Its movements, but sure and precise In results, will accomplish more than uudisci- pliued energy.

Method is the result of training, of special education and of understanding. And, therefore, you are more likely to find method In I the elderly man than in tlie one of lesser age. It may be not quite so siiectacular, but it is apt to be more effective in results. The truth is that in considering the employment of a man over 50 as against one of li5, the result should depend wholly upon the determination of tlie individual. The presumption of health and strength and endurance is on the side of youth.

But training will bring about a facility of effort which minimizes friction. So, given that your Individual over 50 is without disease, is of good habits, is not weaker thau a man of Ids years should le normally, ills facility gained from practice, from knowledge and from method will make him the equal in endurauce and in tlie accomplishment of results of a younger person. There are men at 05 years who are dally, In comparison with younger men beside them, doing not only bet-.