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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22. 1911.

of an old church worker who says BUSINESS NOTICES. BUSINESS NOTICES. BUSINESS NOTICES. Shall Brooklyn and (Trad Mark "Eagle" Iteilitcred.) A WELL EQUIPPED COLLEGE? DON'T anybody else who tries to convince him that the American ideal of liberty to grow to a man's fullest possible stit't-ure, merely because with tho same liberty somebody else is bound not to grow so tall, will have a still harder time. Democracy, as well as wisdom, is justified of her children.

The faith In It of a man of Dr. Eliot's age and experience ought to quiet the apprelien. sions of those timid souls who have seen, done, and thought far less than this patriarch. ly (lip court and jury. It is certain Unit Histi-lct Attorney Whitman and Ills associates will tlo all Itiey can to sustain the case of the Peoplo.

We may presume that Mr. Unlihvin. who Is also Mr. Hyde's counsel, and Mr, Stiuuiifield, who is associated with Mr. Haldwin in this case, will do Ihcir best for their client.

The transactions are so involved as to make dillicult the work of. setting them plainly before an nvcrace jury. A Grand Jury, intelligent beyond the average standard, has brought in these Indictments. A trial jury beyond the average intelligence of trial Juries should, If possible, be secured, for the (rial of this defendant and of such others as may be arraigned with him or after hiin. ASS MEETING BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 8:15 P.M.

Speakers Hon. Martin W. Cadman, and Others. CHORUS OF OVER 400 STUDENTS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1911.

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Beginning to Turn on the Lights. The indictments or Indictment against William .1. Cummins may be shIiI to be based on the charge of larceny. If "grand" Is large, this may lie considered to lie grand larceny. The amount declared is which is large.

The form of the larceny is given as "borrowing." It is declared to have been borrowing on no collateral or on assurances of bogus collateral, which is a lillle worse. The "transactions" are called "note transactions." ('uni-niins is said to have "borrowed" I roiu the Van Norden Trust Com pany, and the Nineteenth VI aril Itank In Ihe snrlno- of Thn.P Is vn Ynr.ion Tr.wf i was a year ago, lull it has since been merged Into something with another name. And when (lie papers now call It the "old Van Norden Trust Company," the emphasis can be appreciated with which ihe theory of age is adopted in "high finance." Willjiim .1. Cummins was released on $5t'MKK) bail. A surely company, presumably itself insured against loss, furnished Hie bond.

The man's counsel comprised Mr. Ihililwln. who is also Hie lawyer for Mr. Hyde, and Mr. Slanchllcld, formerly of Klmira and now of New York, genl Ionian of ability anil eloquence, and also an attorney or distinct lou in cases affected by volution to the conduct or lo the liberty of notable or notorious Institutions or men.

AVe (Id not suppose that Mr. Cummins is without, means of without, defense. The lawyers representing him tlo nol demonstrate their activity in any center of Impoverished insolvency or in any desert of Isolation from moral or legal texts or pretexts. The allegation of the state is that hk.i was advanced 1o Mr. Cummins without nuy value behind it: or protection In front of It for those who gave to him the money.

That was not forgery, for no signatures were forged. That is held to be larceny, as having involved the obtaining of money on representations which are declared to have been untrue anil on paper which had no value. The company which went bail for William .1. Cummins is called the Pacific Coast Surety Company, and as it is declared Unit that company Is lire-pared to furnish ball for other defendants in this same general transaction, the name of it should not be forgotten. It may even become memorable.

The indictment charges that last April Cummins and his associates learned that certain loans had boon made by various banks on securities of the slock of certain other banks, and. if they wore not at once paid off. the collateral, held as security, would be sold. Such a sale in open market, it was feared, would impair the stock of tho institutions affected and that of institutions other than the interested two involved. An arrangement was therefore made with the Van Norden Trust Company to raise Ihe money, "lo finance the whole transaction." This was done by apparently unsecured demand notes lo Hie individuals whose names appeared upon them and the money was advanced by the Carnegie Trust Company, which has become a loser to the figures of as sot forth.

Moneys advanced on no or on bogus collateral aro unkindly ralPd as larcenies. I.oans with false or falsified securities are cruelly regarded as aggravated larcenies. The Indictment declares there wore no entries on the books of the Carnegie Trust Company to show the necessary securities, hence the indictments. Tho collapse of the Van Norden Company. Hie embarrassment of the Carnegie Company, and the disastrous consequences of all this "kiting process" have come to be understood, it is also disclotwrj that a large amount of the good money of the solvent City of New-York went into the coffers of the Carnegie Trust Company, though it is believed that it so went in as to secure the city against ultimate loss, in liquidation.

This matter should be differentiated i froin any disclosures affected by a re-! that the subscriptions and member ship of Manhattan churches are slow Iy but slendily increasing, while the proportion of attendance to member ship stands about where it did ten years ago. He adds, however, that the attendance at weekday services is considerably larger than It used to be, and that there is noticeable In crease in the number of those who, in his phrase, "live their that is, of people who take part in some form of church or philanthropic work Instead of merely giving their money to good causes. In any such discussion of church attendance a great city is at a serious disadvantage In comparison with a small one. In small towns the social compulsion toward church attendance Is very strong, while in a large city that Influence affects only the few-people so prominent that their city is like a village to them. For the rest social attraction Is away from church-going Instead of toward it In a city.

The church attendance here means real religious Interest. Race Tracks to Be Closed. The owners of the Jockey Club (rinks in and around Greater New York and at Saratoga whereon horse I racing has been conducted in the past have decided to make no application to the State Racing Commission for dates this year, unless or until the law Imposing criminal liability on directors for any betting within their in- clostires is repealed. The men in control of these properties, in which sev-t r.il millions of dollars have been invested, are substantial citizens. They are law-abiding citizens.

They will continue to fight in the courts for what they believe to be their rights, but will not risk arrest under a drastic statute which would make such arrest possible if one admission-paying citizen at a track made a wager with another admission-paying They note that the absolute exclusion from a track of every professional bookmaker or gambler would not protect the directors; and that, In this matter, the county fairs where there Is trotting racing' are no better off than the running tracks. Certain sections of Brooklyn and Queens are hardest hit by the closing of the Jockey Club tracks. The large number of men employed nt such i.lniuKi mnnna 1,1 1 "'h I'OIFIIV. K'l OUT I.IJIOII III. 1 I 111! II in 111 the neighborhood of a track.

For pleasure resorts uot too far away the mass of attendants at a track offers a large proportion of their patronage. Coney Island's prosperity does not depend on this element, but that business from the race tracks cannot lie taken away without groat loss to the higher-priced places we believe most observers will admit. In some quarters there will lie a disposition to regard tills move of the Jockey Club owners as a "bluff." We think this Is an incorrect view, and one very unjust to Mr. Belmont and those who are acting with ti i lit. The I'ercy-tiray law until repealed was the law of the land, sustained absolutely as constitutional by the Court of Appeals.

The repeal of the law was not accompanied by any legislation that, as construed by tlie courts, prohibited individual betting, or any betting oral and without record. Tlie new statutory requirements wore met, we think in good fa lib, by the Jockey Club owners. The present, law. if unrepealed. Is to be met in tlie same way, by tlie closing of the (racks.

In all the varying phases of the popular mood reflected In concrete legislation the altitude of tlie big race track men has boon Hie attitude of those who will obey the law. If they can find out what the law is. The people of the state in the second election of Governor Hughes voted flatly for the Hughes ideas of race track mending or ending. In the elec-lion of lust November can be found no mandate for a change. The people of the stale have a right to stop betting, to slop horse racing, to banish tlie horse entirely, if they like, provided that the constitutional bills of rights, state and national, are not violated.

Individuals must submll. Interests must submit. In the long run if unwise things nre done the people will be the real sufferers, and they will always have a remedy in their own hands. That is the broadest nud best view of the situation. Dr.

Eliot on Democracy. It is refreshing to find in Dr. Eliot, an ex-President, of Harvard who has lived for the whole of his almost fourscore years in what Dr. Holmes called "the Brahmin caste" of New England, so sturdy, not to say fierce, a believer in democracy. His address at the Harvard Union on Monday could hardly have been a more triumphant justification of our system.

Happily, he was not born west of the Alleghaiiies or the Mississippi, where new heresies are let loose, till they run themselves to death. Dr. Eliot believes In democracy so profoundly that he docs not think it necessary to blink lis facts, as listen to this paragraph We have had onf hundred years of democracy. No remnants of the feudal system remain. We have no castes, no privileged classes, no Inherited titles, yet notwithstanding the uniformity of our democratic institutions, no people ever exhibited such prodigious Inequalities of power as in the United States.

Instead ot democracy tending to equality, it has tended the other way. That is the palpable fact, and Dr. Eliot's explanation was that the essence of democracy Is freedom in tlie development of the individual such as no people have enjoyed In Europe. He went on to insist on the value of liberty for development In the family and the college as well as in the nation. He declared the unity of the family to be a community of Ideals and that this was the only unity also in a college or state.

As an illustration he said that Hie early courses in Harvard required less time to pass examinations or secure marks than the present course, but that the old system produced sehol. ars like Emerson, Ixnvell Biid Norton because "thty gave one-tenth of their time to the proscribed course and nino-tcnlhs to what they liked." Evidently the believers in prescribed courses for students are going to have a hard time converting Dr. Eliot and Long Island Have MISS THE Littleton, Drs. Boynton and WASHINGTON SIDELIGHTS Scramble by the Democrats for Patronage Worth $744,000. 573 Jobs to Be Doled Out Among 228 Members Plan to Preserve Old Treasury Columns.

Eagle Bureau. 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, March 22 If the present movement within the party continues It will soon be as difficult to determine what a Republican really Is as it was to decide who was a rest Democrat when the first nomination of William J. Bryan split the party wide open. There are men to-day who bear the label of Re' publicans, yet whose political views and Ideals are so widely separated that they do not show the slightest resemblance to each other.

Some of the so-oalled Republicans bear a nearer relation to the Democrats than the old-line members of their party, save only for the name. There probably will be a curious assemblage at the next Republican National Convention. That President Taft can succeed in reconciling the various elements of his party and getting them united in support of a single set of principles now seems utterly impossible. A well-known Republican from Eastern state, who has occupied high public office, remarked to-day: "I am absolutely against Taft. I am through with Roosevelt.

I regard the allegedv progressives as Socialists. Who am I going to support and where do I stand? I don't want to vote the Democratic ticket In 1912 if I can help it." This situation is not peculiar to the man who uttered the above sentiments. There are a good many others like hlra who are loyal to the traditions and the name of the party and who are anxiously waiting to see what the future will bring forth. They regard the President as a failure from the party standpoint. They are not willing to go back to Roosevelt, because they think he is fan.

too much of a disturber and has become more radical out of office than he was in It. They do not for a moment accept the doctrines of the insurgent Republicans tn Congress and view with abhorence the principles which are being promulgated by the Progressive Republican League. They arc waiting for some Bate and sane Moses to lead them out of the political wilderness, but they have very little hope that he will show up between now and November, 1912. In fact, most of them look for a Democratic victory In the next Presidential year, although they still Cling to a hope that there may be soma way of avoiding It. Democratic Scramble for House Patronage.

Since the story of the "Little Red Book" that contains a list of all the jobs that are at the disposal of the new Democratic House, has come out, there Is a wild scramble on the part of the members of the majority party to get their share. Of course, most of the experienced ones knew oil about the fine patronage list that the Republicans have controlled for the past sixteen years, but a lot of the newcomers are just waking up to it. Now they are demanding their rights. Tyler Page, clerk of the Committee on Accounts of the olrt House, is the man who got up the little book. He has lost his job, but he has pointed the way to several hundred jobs for other people.

To be exact, the House has at Its disposal $744,000 worth of patronage. This even Includes the House chaplain, whose duty It Is to sy a'prayer at the opening of a day's session. The clerk of the House and the ser-geant-at-arms get the top-notch salaries; $6,500 each, with horse hire In addition. The positions then range downward to those of Janitors, who get $720 a year, and the pages. There is a doorkeeper who get $5,000, a postmaster who gets $4,000, and the official stenographers who get $3,000 each.

Altogether there are 573 jobs to he doled out by the Democrats, with 228 loyal members of the party scrambling for them. There are eighteen employes under the Speaker, seventy-five under the clerk, sixty-four under the sergeant-at-arms, 211 under the doorkeeper and thirty under the postmaster. The superintendent of buildings and grounds is entitled to forty-one, and the House com mittees employ 134 persons in various capacities. "For heaven's sake, don't let the boys at home hear about these jobs," said a Democratic member to-day. "Why, in my district they will come down on me for at least a fifth of the whole number, and I can't see how I am' even going to land two places.

Besides that, we don't get the whole 573 jobs. Some ot the old minority employes have got pull enough to be retained. But, of course, I won't be able to make my constituents understand that." Finding a Place for the Old Treasury Columns. Recently twenty-nine dorlc columns were removed from the east side of the Treasury Building. The trouble was that the columns were of sandstone, while the remainder of the building is constructed of granite, so that in recent years they had altered in color to sucn an extent that they were out of harmony with the body of the structure.

New columns of granite, all in one piece, have been put In their places. The old columns were sold to a contractor at a nominal figure and Washing ton feared that they would bo broken up and used for building stone. A movement to have them preserved and erected in Potomac Park for the purpose of beautifying that pleasure ground bids fair to be a success. An architect has drafted plans and the contractor who now owns them is willing to let the citizens of the district have them at a reasonable figure. The local Society of Fine Arts and the People's Garden Association arc helping in the work of finding a use for the old columns, which are of high architectural merit.

The archiiect who has drawn a plan for the use of the columns suggests placing one on each sids of tlie six high- Opera in Brooklyn. The generally large attendance at the opera in Brooklyn this winter crowned by the great audience which heard "Parsifal" last evening, ought to make certuin the continuance of the opera in Brooklyn hereafter. The new Academy of Music, which has done much for Brooklyn In many ways, has done nothing so distinctive or so helpful as this. Thanks lo the subscription system established for opera with the opening of the new Brooklyn has become recog nized as one of the few towns in the country which has its own regular op era season. Of all the many elements which go to make up the attractive.

ness of a city a place of residence few are eq significant as Ibis- The ex istence of an established opera season connotes so many other advantages, of social and artistic sort, that the an nouncement is one of the most potent which could be made tn attracting the sort of residents whom Brooklyn needs for the support of her educational and social life. Brooklyn may well be proud of the success of her opera season. It speaks well not only for the readiness of the people of the borough to support home enterprises, but the success of the season, side by sitie with that at the Metropolitan Opera House, is proof of the good faith of tlie Metropolitan managers in sending to Brooklyn the best that they have to offer. Otherwise, Brooklyn people would neglect their home -opera to attend that In Manhattan. That tendency threatened at one time to bring the Brooklyn experiment to an untimely end.

but it has been overcome by the greater care of the Metropolitan management to maintain a high standard of performances here. The result is both satisfactory to Brooklyn and valuable to It. The Aeroplane Smuggler. It has been evident, enough since the rapid development of the lioavier-than-air flying machine began, that the use of such machines for the purposes of the smuggler would present a novel problem for the customs authorities of all Theoretically, if a ninn can just start tlie gasoline engine of a biplane or a monoplane, go as far as he likes through the air, provided lie doesn't exhaust, his power, and land where lie chooses, he can smuggle over any border any reasonable amount of light goods. Fine furs, laces, jewelry, works of art can he put into hundred-pound packages each of very heavy value.

A hundred-pound package will not worry the aviator much. He may have to wait for a dark night, but that is a minor detail. News dispatches from the border bo; tween Italy and Switzerland tell of an actual attempt of this sort, and how the luckless smuggler came to grief. He started from the Italian side. We are not yet informed what his cargo was, but it may well have been an old master canvas.

A statue would have boon too heavy. He was merrily flying along, nud already was looking down on Swiss soil when he lost control of tlie machine and bumped up against Mont, Celiis. As between Mont Cents and any known aeroplane the advantage of stability Is wllh Mont Cenis. Hence a smash. Injured and.

we suppose, heartbroken, the aviator lay helpless, waiting for assistance. He might still have "got away willi the trick" if peasants had come to him, for customs- laws nre unpopular on every national border, but it was his hard fortune to have his mishap discovered first by the alert Swiss customs men. who promptly sent him off to a hospital to be mended, and confiscated his contraband goods and his machine. The story is a sad one. of enterprise foiled by mil imely circumstance.

Nearly all pioneers have like experiences. If they persevere they stand a chance of ranking with the Colunibuses and the Franklins in the world's history. It needs not to be pointed out that the aeroplane lias its limitations in Hie smuggling lield. An aeroplane cargo of coal or wheat, or cabbages would not be of much consequence. It couldn't be sold for enough to pay for the gas oline used in the trip.

As aeroplanes have taken passengers more than once, a live chinaman could be got over the Canada or the Mexico border, in this way. with neatness and dispatch. Whether' his ebon pigtail frightened Into orectnoss by the flight could ever bo coaxed into hanging down his back again, is an open question, but for time at least standing pigtails would not be recognized as the identification marks of aeroplaued Celestials. Much is still to be learned on this subjett, and on cognate subjects. The science of aeroplane smuggling is an infant industry, which, for obvious reasons, cannot expect tariff protection.

All honor to the Italian experimenter. He has come to grief. Indeed, but he has left, his dent prints on tlie side of Mont Cenis. "Footprints on tlie sands of time" 1s an obsolete figure of speech fur human ambition. lleports from Honduras say that brawl among drunken soldiers ended In 1 lip killing of two generals and twenty-live privates.

If the Hondurnn army would confine Itself to real war the mortality would be less. The liabilities of getting drunk down there nre, apparently, not limited to a bad head the noxi morning. Oraubard is the name of the Manhattan Assemblyman who Introduced the proposal to amend the State Constitution to practically double the pay of Senators and Assemblymen. "(Irau-bard, (Jraubnrd. wherefore art thou (i rnubard as the late William Sliak-speare would remark if he were stopping up In Albany.

The death of Dr. Edward F. Ashley is ycplored as that of a martyr to science, lie was a flue young man, who sacrificed himself In tho path of his' duty as thousands have done before and as thousands will do hereafter. Ills example will be valuable. But if the report be true that he was In ill-health (hiring the course of his fatal experiments with cases of meningitis a question will naturally arise ns to why a man of so much promise was nllowed by his superiors to expose himself to an Infection which, ns events proved, he was unable to resist.

Sinking the Old There are only two fates reserved for an obsolete battleship, and battleships become obsolete very rapidly In these days of fierce naval competition. Either the ship must be sold for Junk lo be broken up by those entirely re spectable merchants whom Holmes ma ligned as "the harpies of the shore" when he suspected them of a disposition to buy Old Ironsides from the government or else she must be towed to some convenient anchorage and converted into a target to test the mer its of modern guns and modern armor. Most people who know the excellent if not spectacular service performed by the Texas In the war with Spain wili be glad that she perished In an honor able and dignified fashion as the target for the guns of the New Hamp shire and the Mississippi. This, of course, is sentiment, but sentiment still preserves to the Navy the old Hart ford and the older Constitution, though neither is of the slightest practical value. The sinking of the Texas seems to have beeu accomplished with neatness and reasonable amount of dispatch.

The value of the tests made In firing with twelve-inch guns at a rauge of seven and one.hnlf miles will not be precisely determined uuless the Navy Department decides to make result public, and tlie Navy Department Is under no obligation to do any such thing. Certain facts, however, seem to be reasonably clear. The percentage of hits made at long range by the New Hampshire while steaming at a speed of ten knots an hour was very large, and the effectiveness of tlie shells Is proved beyond a doubt by the appear ance of Hie Texas and her sinking after the bombardment. There has been a vast improvement In the shooting of tlie Navy within the last ten years. Tills latest experiment, is only another demonstration of a skill that has beeu shown over and over again at station- ary targets.

Yet. one is tempted to wonder liow much disparity, if any, would exist; between the work of the New Hampshire firing nt the helpless Texas and the work of the New Hampshire firing nt an armed and skillful enemy. When Charles O'Malley assured Count Considine berore engaging in a duel that he could hit a wineglass In the stem at twelve paces the Count, a seasoned duelist, reminded him that a wineglass bad no pistol. In these nays of telephones It is unfortunate to have to do business with ail auditor who must be Been before he Is heard. The cut-rates offered by Long Island City undertakers might have stirred up more trade a tew weeks ago; to-day is the first day of spring and hope ts springing if not all Nature.

Spending other people's money without permission will soon be an extra hazard, ous business for trust company magnates. The financial genius of the future will not be a juggler at bookkeeping. Two borough presidents are to determine if the city needs an inebriates home. Will the saloons guarantee to operate it on a percentage basis? Otherwise what profit in municipal ownership? To prove that ten tons of decomposed eggs seized In a Jersey City cold storage plant were dangerous, a few were fed to animals. The animals died.

The evidence is worthless, however, as the eggs were not worked up Into cake before feeding. Lobsters were selling at 65 cents a pound, wholesale, at Boston yesterday. Shad are arriving Just In time to keep the poor man In good humor at one-third the price retail. There Is plenty of good grazing room left in the wide sea, but we are only waking up to Its value as a beef trust competitor, and It will be twenty-five years before wo can begin to reap the first fruits of fish culture in paying quantities. Professor flolrlsworthy Lowes Dickinson of Cambridge has written a play, approved G'orRe Bernard Shaw, dealing with the career of John l.

Rockefeller and with American trusts. No libel suit has been begun, as yet. A Cambridge professor has written a play; Ho-ho; ha-ha; he-he! About a philanthropist honestly gray; Ho-ho; ha-ha; he-he! His villain or hero as critics can see (And which may be which no two critics agree) Is one whom all Yankees know well as "John Ho-ho; ha-ha; he-he! The Cambridge professor for libel suits waits; Ho-ho; ha-ha; he-he! Defying the Interests, defying the Fates; Ho-ho; ha-ha: he-he! To all erudition he may hold the key, But stands, wheu 'tis wiser the tempest to flee; He's not much acquainted with silont "John Ho-ho; ha-ha; he-he! Personal and Impersonal Just a Laugk We would like to bo able to believe that (lie irial or trials, for several lni- pend. will be carried on to no couvlc. lion or acquittal of those Involved, lle-lief in that finality of procedure is interfered with by tlie history of not a (ew cognate cases.

"Kesults," however, must: be awaited, or waited for, with such an union of philosophy and faith as can lie comma tided. It is. however, warrantable to expect that the practices disclosed, whether punished or punishable, or not, ill nof lie repeated. They have been brought: to an end. Some new form of adventure or transgression will have to be, discovered by any officials or private citizens intent on taking private and confederated advantage of public funds, publi" duties or public opportunities.

Significant, Sardonic and Saccha-I irine. The Bar Association in Manhattan gave lo Mr. Justice Hughes of the Su preme Court of the United States a cordial receplion last night. His address io the members was both shrewd and suggestive. He rubbed in the fact that none of the Presidents of the association had ever been appointed to the uileil Slates Supreme Court, by merely declaring that if the whole bench of that court, at any time, had comprised the presidents of that association, a tribunal of transcendent ills.

Unction would have been secured. That was the subtlest mixture of reminder and of eulogy to which lnwycis or anyone else have been treated in a long while. The solemnity of Mr. Justice Hughes in manner equaled the subtletv and the sweetness of his "lougui e.xp.essio... i t.e mooco.or effect of it was enthusiastic The quontial effect of it on the minds of those who hoard it.

as on the minds of; thorie who road it to-day. cannot but be sardonic anil also significant. We do not think the Supreme Court of Hie I'nited States lias ever received a member who can bring to It more In. tellectual polarity and discrimination lliiiu Mr. Justice Hughes has brought lo it.

Nor do we think that the liar Association In Manhattan has ever been treated, or will ever again lie treated, to an experience involving more immediate pleasure and more subsequent hypodermic shock than It experienced last night. Tor Once Women Voted. Is it possible lliat any considerable number of women in state want to vole, or would vole if the law permitted thoiii lo do so? The first evidence in the aflirniaiive of that proposition came yesterday in the considerable participation of women in municipal elections in various towns and vil. luges of the slale under the existing la w. The limited and partial suffrage of women in Ibis state is not new.

but Hint right has been more conspicuous by Us neglect, than by its exercise hitherto. Yesterday in Tarrytown the women turned and voted in considerable numbers for an increased water supply and for bettor protection from lire. The Women's Civic league, which brought the women to Ihe polls, Is neither suffrage nor anti-suffrage, but is devoted to village improvements. But its members were willing to vote in order to secure tho improvements they wanted. Women also voted in various Westchester and Long Island village elections, in numbers! large enough to make their presence at the polls notable.

In suburban New Jersey, also, women campaigned effectively even whore they could not vote, in various school elections. While tliis wns going on. the Senate Judiciary Committee at Albany shelved the Newcomb resolutions striking the word "male" from the State Constitution, thus practically ending what HKle hope tlie woman suffragists bad of securing the franchise from the present Legislature. Heretofore the action of the Legislature, in treating woman huffrage as a joke or a fad. has pretty fairly represented the attitude of the women of the state toward that proposition.

Nobody doubts that if considerable majority of the women of this state wished to vote, the Legislature would hasten to confer that right upon them. The hopelessness of the women suffrage campaigners has always lain In convening their own sex to a wish to vote, or a willingness to vote if the franchise were conferred upon them. The municipal elections of yesterday indicate that that reluctance among women Is melting nway somewhat. That indication is the nearest thing to encouragement, that the suffragists have ever found here. It is not much, but it is at least the first swallow, which docs not make a summer all by herself.

Census of Absentees From Church. A now terror has been added to the Sunday morning snooze. 'An enterprising "church news association" in Manhattan lias hit upon the device of taking a census of church attendance on certain Sunday mornings and ooinpariiig it wiih tho number of coin- niiuiiennts on the church rolls. The morning, and that of this number wore men. The distribution of absentees among denominations seems to be pretty oven, and no remedy is yet proposed or seems obvious, though perhaps a hint can be obtained from ihe single church in which people were found standing for lack of seals, as they do at a popular play.

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HALBERT Established 1869 House Decorators Architectural Alterations Hardwood Floors Practical Suggestions 455 FULTON STREET Tel. 2890 Main ways which load from the District into Maryland at tho boundary linn, with an eagle or a light on top each. He has also prepared a design for using them in l'oiomao I'arlj, If that is finally decided. The columns cost the government a lot of money when they were erected. One of the1 local papers, commenting in a whimsical way on Ihe subject, says: "The Municipal Art Commission could take those twenty-nine sandstone columns, erect a neat little temple to the water nymphs of the Potomac, and then kick It.

down with studied negllgencei The net result would be a picturesque confusion of crumbling capitals and broken shafts, over which sentimental pilgrims from all corners of the world would weep. The lizards would learn tn love them; the Ivy and the owl would sanctify them. Watered with so many pious tears, beautiful legends would grow up about, them. The capital of tho young republic would take Its rightful place among the ancient seats of empire." A Memorial to George Washington. The Washington Chamber of Commerce has started a to ralso funds for a two and a half million dollar memorial to George Washington, to be erected in the District.

A lot of prominent men and women are behind tho movement, and organizations are being started in all of the states. Even the children are to be Interested: In this tribute to the Father of His Country. The memorial will take the Bhape of a great convention hall, which is something that the national capital (toes not now possess. To-night there will be a meeting of delegates representing the business, civic, fraternal and patriotic organizations in Washlngion to boom the movement. Promises of large subscriptions of money already have been received.

It wus announced yesterday that, one woman had offered to contribute $1,000 and that a Washington merchant will duplicate the subscription. No contribution, however, will be too small, for It Is the aim of the promoters that every man, woman and child in the country shall have some share -In th building of the memorial. Later, If necessary. Congress may be asked to help out. But it is not planned to ask for any government funds until at least a million dollars has been raised by pri vate subscription.

BRAINERD. "Me no talkee Chinese velly well," explained he hostess, upon greeting the-visitor from the Flowery Kingdom. "No matter," responded the latter. "I can converse tolerably well in English." Louisville Courier-Journal. "It looks very much." remarked T)a Trow, "as if the lecture habit was becoming popular again." "It has never lost its popularity at our house," said Henry Peck, gloomily.

Cleveland Plain Dealer. Manager What's that odor In her Insulation on Are? Living Skeleton Nopp. Fat Lady re Jected India Rubber Man and he's burning with indignation! Baltimore Evening Sun. "Can't I persuade you to subscribe for a copy of our latest book on north polar exploration?" "No. sir; you couldn't persuade' me to take It as a gift.

I spent four years carrying mails iln North Dakota, two years driving a cab in Minneapolis, and, I've just escaped from Duluth. Got book on hunting In Central Chicago Tribune. "I always made it a rule to be perfectly frank with my constituents," said the statesman. "And do they appreciate your attitude?" "No. They got an idea that so simpli and confiding a person couldn't keep ur with the gams and get the kind of legls-.

lation they wanted." Washington Star. "How time flics "Yes. indeed. Already we're talklns about going to Europe for our summer vacation. The first thing we know we'll bo packing our suit case and boardinjc a train for a two weeks rest at a tekoi resort." Detroit Free Freii.

Picked Up ih Passing lation to Joseph i. Itobln or lo any I w.m,nl(. has not been brought to confessions by him or indictments of yet. but those consusors, him. Any discredit, that might come or or whatever they to the charges handed down yesterday v.Ml,lU ln.lt I it I from nnv association with Kobin or Christian churches bis actions should be retired from theon from minds of readers.

To own transac-; attMllmK this last Sunday ilium mi.i iv ui iin i i nun to none of the transactions of Kobin and his associates. William J. Cummins must stand or fall in Ibis instance. The lawyers of Mr. Cummins, of course, declare they have a good defense.

The office of the District Attorney of New York County asserts that Ihe grounds advanced by the People re irrefragible. At. the trial, this conflict of contentions be settled.