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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. -NEW YORK. SUNDAY. JUNE 4, 1911. stadt.

Neptune doesn't really know what shame means. estate interests. Incidentally, he was called upon to give special attention to less, or run the risk of belug excluded from the combination. help he will know where to get It. (Contracting is quite as important as (Trade Mark "Easts" Registered.) BUSINESS NOTICES.

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'-exjyr: tct lit' 'JUL Is The Standard h'euwtmnsM Pure Food Law of RSI NOT BLENDED NOT ADULTERATED SOLD ONLY IN OUR SEALED BOTTLES EVERYWHERE NEVER SOLD IN BULK WE ARE THE LARGEST BOTTLERS OF OLD-FASHIONED HAND-MADE SOUR MASH STRAIGHT PURE RYE. WHISKEY IN THE WORLD 1 H. B. KIRK CO, New York, H. Y.

It this unreasonable restraint of iiuutr, uiiut.Ti iue Herman ihw: in- haps the question will be threshed out sooner or It is clearly restraint of trade. The architects occupy a middle position between the employers of labor and the laborers. They are less covered by the probable intent of the Sherman law than building trades contractors; but more within that probable intent than carpenters and bricklayers. The anxiety of the government to restrict competition to "experienced men'' has led to their having a monopoly on Federal buildings. Yet any young man may be a genius, and plans that would make for beauty, by a display of wholesome originality are thus likely to be rejected in advance without examination.

It is conceivable thnt an architect of great skill might be desirous of having his plans accepted for a government building, even If he were to get only 2 per or 1 per or nothing at all la cash. The combination prohibits our taxpayers from profiting by any such disposition. The 0 per cent, pound of flesh is exacted. A more intricate Issue than this with regard to architects has not come up under the Sherman law; which seems to be rather more of a puzzle with every new de cision. The Eagle's Summer Resort Di rectory.

The Eagle publishes, as a section of this Issue, its annual Summer Resort Directory, a publication which has long been recognized as the best direc tory of its sort in the country. Imitators it has had since its success was established, but rivals, there are none. This year the Summer Resort Di rectory is more thorough aud inclusive thuu ever. It arranges and classifies announcements of more than 5,000 hotels and boarding houses iu the various sections of this country and Canada. The information furnished about -all of these includes the essen tial points which every vacation seeker needs, and the classification is accom panied by a series of outline maps which aid the inquirer to place, the particular resort in which he may lie Interested, The directory Is supplemented by descriptive matter in other sections of, the' paper, and further information can! be: had by inquiry at the Eagle Information Bureau, which is at the service of all inquirers without' charge.

These facts nre well known to vacation seekers, both the Eagle Information Bureau and the Eagle Summer Resort Directory Having become established institutions as to which public interest and public knowledge are widely extended. Attention is called to the matter here to remlud Eagle readers thnt tlie Summer Resort Directory is one section of this paper. It should he delivered to them at their houses or sold to them from tlie news stands with the rest of the paper, without extra charge. If that is not done, something is amiss with their news dealer, and tlie purchaser should insist on a copy of tlie directory as a part of the paper. It is printed in magazine form for convenience of preservation, and Its great popularity has led unscrupulous newsmen sometimes to save out tlie Summer Resort Directory and sell it by Itself at a special price.

The directory Is no doubt worth all thnt such deceived purchasers pay for it, hut tlie deception is reprehensible nev. ertheless. The purchaser is entitled to his directory with his Eagle to-day for three cents, nml he should see that he gets it. A very large edition has been printed to meet the demo ml for this issue of (he paper, but the Summer Resort Number of the Eagle always runs out early on the news stands, and no doubt it will do so to-day. The' wise reader will buy such extra copies as he may want early In the morning.

Harriet Tubman. When the history of tlie negro race In America is written, the characters of three men will stand out strongly Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and and. slavery orator; Robert Sumlls, tx-slave, sailor, soldier and member of the House of Representatives, and Booker T. Washington, ex-slave, the foremost leader in the education of his race. Douglass and Smalls freed themselves from slavery.

Washington was freed by the emancipation proclamation. Smalls, born a shire of the McKee family iu Beaufort, S. still lives, in his native town, has been for thirteen years collector of the port there, and luis many white friends iu his old age. As a slave he became an expert pilot, aud with eight other negroes, five negro women and three children, captured the Confederate steamer Planter ami took her out of Charleston Harbor to the Cnion blockading fleet. In a saturnalia of reconstruction corruption he kept his hands clean.

For two terms he represented tlie Charleston District In the House of Representatives, lie Is a full-blooded black. Beside these great men of a back- ward race will stand Harriet Tubman, the centenarian negro woman, who Is Norman Augell (not a descendant of William the Conqueror) wrote the universal peace book which another Englishman is to spend In distributing. The Angel Chorus must not be interrupted. Two-pound packages of breakfast cereal issued in 1906 are no more. The present packages are said to be twenty ounces.

The State Sealer of Weights and Measures says so. But hy disturb the minds of housewives? Policemen no longer have to file photographs. Lieutenants uo longer have to be identifiable by numbered badges. Fewer complaints against the force will be provable by citizens, anil to that extent trial-room perjury will be rendered needless. .1.

Pierpont Morgan is properly Appreciated over the water. He will be the only American non-official guest nt the Westminster coronation services, by special order of King George, who knows king of finance as a brother. A correspondent asks that autoa be barred from Fulton street in busy hours, to save the shoppers. The suggestion is a good one, but ought not to be necessary. What auto driver really yearns for the quiet of Fulton street in a pleasant afternoon? Wait Till the Stream Is Crossed.

in he judgment of Borough Presi dent McAneny, it will be "lamentably unfortunate'' should the city at this time lose the services of Public Service Commissioner Bassett, now that the commission, and the Board of Estimate have "for the first time been brought Into working relation capable of pro. lucing prompt results." Hence a let ter to the Governor from the Borough President, requesting a withdrawal of tin; nomination of Mr. Cram for the time being, lest a change seriously interfere with "the prompt completion of this great work." That the Governor will or should comply with, request coming from such a source mid prompted by such considerations, it is hardly necessary to say. It is equally unnecessary to add that. whenever he goes, jlie commissioner will return to the practice of his profession as a lawyer with the satisfaction of knowing that he has given valuable service to the city as member of tlie Board of Education, member of Congress, and in the position lie now occupies.

Ills appointment by Governor was prompted by the fact that no ma in Brooklyn had more closely studied transit conditions than he had as chairman of the Brooklyn committee. When he became Public Service Commissioner the Els-berg law' was In force, and so drastic were its provisions that they virtually prohibited transit developments, i As chairman of the legislative committee of the board, Commissioner Bassett vigorously took up the work of having the law amended so that its more 'impossible features would be eliminated and at the same time pro-teotlon for the city against long franchises be afforded. Governor Hughes vetoed the first result of these efforts, but bis signature vitalized the 'second, passed a year later, and among other things, providing that the city should after ten years always have the right to lake possession of the subways at cost, paying 'nothing, for the franchise. Provision was also made for tile payment to the city of half the net profit of-the new lines. With the preparation and passage of this law-Mr.

Unssctt had much to do, and It lias been characterized as unexcelled by transit legislation auywhere. To the details, of construction he gave much attention, having utilized every vacation season In acquiring information to be had abroad as well as at home at his own expense. It would be difficult to estimate the value to the commission of the knowledge thus obtained. Mr. Bassett was an uncompromising opponent of what Is knowu as the trunk line scheme.

lie protested that every large city in Europe had learned the lesson that such Hues could not be operated to financial advantage In suburban localities. And, though tile for-, nior engineer of the commission, Mr. Senmaus, took Issue with tills, almost every other expert has Indorsed Mr. Bassett's view. Equally uncompromising in his hostility to the construction of subways larger than economic conditions warrant, Mr Bassett persistently antagonized the Fourth avenue project.

lie urged that subways In the con. gostetl sections and more tunnels were tin vital necessities, which contention was regarded as sound even hy many who believed the city to be under a sort of obligation to consummate the Fourth avenue enterprise. When, however, the board of which he was a member look definite nctlou on the subject. Mr. Bassett subordinated his own convictions and became affirmative, loyally co-operating with his colleagues.

If, therefore, the advocates of the Fourth avenue project are disappointed when final action conies, they cannot attribute their reverses' to Mr. Bassett. In the distribution of functions, the mutter of eliniimitin iiilc crossings engineering in politics. Immigrants and Work for Them The board of inquiry at Ellis Island made an eminently sensible decision the other day, and then it was over ruled by Commissioner Williams at the appeal of AV. E.

Davenport. For Mr. Davenport and bis work for Italian immigrants here the Eagle has the highest respect, jind it does not doubt that he will take care of his protege, for whom his intervention in the case makes him morally responsible. But at the same time we wish that the original ruling might have stood, because it seems to us to apply clear common sense where It" is greatly needed, in passing on the admission of immigrants. This particular immigrant wanted to come to Brooklyn aud had only $24 in his pockot.

The board of inquiry decided thnt the labor market for Italians in Brooklyn was congested, that the man was likely to become a public charge here, and so ordered his deportation. Mr. Davenport seems to be grieved that the board should take into account the condition of the labor market in the place the imml grant was seeking, but that Is just the point on which tlie common sense of the ruling was shown and the thing which would make it valuable as a precedent. An immigrant comes here to seek work. If there is work for him to do lie will probably be happy aud a useful addition to the population.

If there is no work, he is likely to become a public charge, a ground on which the immigration law authorizes his return. Certainly the condition of the labor market Is the vital factor in reaching that decision, and tlie board of in quiry at Ellis Island Is niuch more competent to jmss upon it than is the Immigrant or the man who may have Induced him to buy a steamer ticket. If there is work and the immigrant Is able-bodied he -ought to come in. If there is no work it Is no kindness to him, to let hlni in, while it Is a positive injury to the men competing lu an already congested market and to the taxpayers, to whose care the newcomer is liable to fall. The coudltion of the Labor Market Is the key to the whole situation, and the fact that it is considered at Ellis Island increases confidence in tlie administration of that great receiving station.

Great Oaks from little Acorns grow. Likewise a Are commissioner is now and then K'ed by the Mayor. Aeroplane drivers In France are to wear stable colors like jockeys. They ought to be all up in thealr about it, but uo indignation is manifested. Tlie Central Park owl that whipped two big policemen had fed on locusls from infancy.

Tlie light of reason shines from that owl's eyes, an inspiration from the BliM of Wisdom to every new Police Commissioner. Tlie B. R. T. motoruian who wouldn't stop for the Mayor now knows Just the feelings of the toad that became a constellation after biting the heel of Hercules.

Maybe he enjoys being a constellation. Maybe he doesn't. Tastes differ. Personal and Impersonal There will be some radical price fixing done in the matter of women's wages as soon as women vote and the Gary scheme is put through. President Taft does not think the Sherman trust law Is antiquated but that we are Just beginning to make It useful.

Our attorney generals have been antiquated. The five-cent telephone rate from Brooklyn to Manhattan has arrived after a volume of ktcklng. This is the sort of price fixing that suits the consumer ot time in talk. There were walnuts and pepper In Mrs. Ole Bull's bread.

When the Simplified Spellers are through with the English language they -can tackle this new line of jawbreaker. The Mayor writes In the Independent on "The Pleasures and Profits of Walking." But he says nothing about walking the plank. Messrs. Cropsey, Dris-coll and Booraem should contribute additional articles throwing more light o-i this broad subject. Price Collier sees Japan's logical development toward Korea and Manchuria relieving this country of any go-called yellow peril until Russia has been subjugated.

And Russia sits larger on the map than Texas, so there Is only Hob-Son to fear, and in him only an inflamed osculatory organ perverted to the base uses of oratory. The Public Service Commission has kindly granted permission to the Long Island Railroad to allow interested ship- pers to heat, at their expense, the cars In which potatoes are transported next tunity.for overheating in one case and not in the other. HUNTING THE ANTHEM. I ITrrtm Vi I'levftlcnH Plain 1 the same sort of quest more than forty I yearB ago. Al1 the literary lions participated the Newell competition, but no anthem was B( th( jud flndln ln each oase I that the author's personality interfered too strongly with the national character of the poem desired.

nninoin in me wuuie uiuummg tui iueus Kerr outfit. And we fear that the Chicago seekers will have the same lack of luck, for as tn. Chicago Tribune puts it: "A new national anthem is most likely to be found when national consciousness has been Inspired and exalted by a great period ot national life." such matters as the location of stations, adequacy of service, rates, and the bearing of railroad laws upon transit problems. In these and other matters he made generous contributions to a record of hard work, done to the best of his ability. There Is much to his credit Parole and Habitual Criminals There Is no more perplexing problem In the administration of our criminal courts than-the use and abuse of the parole system.

Paroles intended to protect first offenders from asso ciation with hardened criminals and to give them a chance to do better, in case their offense was impulsive or thoughtless. It does not always work in- sin ii cases, -even, because some youth become hardened iu vice aud manage to escape arrest, so that when taken to court for the first time and apparently proper subjects for parole they are really old hands who are likely to abuse leniency from the pressure of vicious habits. But nothing Is better settled among students of criminology than that habitual criminals ought to be locked up permanently, and that their liberation, on parole or otherwise, is really an Invitation to commit further depredation. The soundness of that view Is again shown in the case of Mason, an habitual criminal who was paroled in the custody of Taul Armstrong, the playwright. Mason has been convicted a dozen times and has spent more than twenty of his fifty-six years in prison.

Armstrong, like a truly emotional playwright, became Impressed with the man, secured his parole, and gave hlni a Job In one of his vaude-tille sketches. But presently Mason got drunk and threw a brick through a store window to make a chance for him to steal. Magistrate Corrigan, lie fore whom the prisoner wiib brought for this latest offense, said that his case Illustrated the folly of the parole system. That Is a little too sweeping. It certainly shows the folly of the parole system as applied to old offenders, for whom it never was designed, and the liability of sympathetic judges and magistrates to be Imposed upon, but it offers no argument against parole for first offenders.

Opening Up the Wilderness. In the late summer or early autumn of this year the Canadian Government will begin work on the first section of the Hudson Bay Railroad, covering about two hundred miles of the distance between the terminus of the Canadian Northern's spur at The Pas on the Saskatchewan Kiver, and a point on Hudson Buy still undetermined, but which must be either Fort Churchill or Port Nelson. As the crow flies The Pas Is about four hundred miles northwest of and it Is reached from the Canadian Chicago by way of Hudson Bay Junction on the Canadian Northern. The distance between The Pas and Fort Churchill, according to the surveys submitted to the nf Hallways and Canals in 11100, is 4(15 miles. The distance between The Pas and Port Nelson is only miles.

The estimate for the Fort Churchill route biis been fixed at that for the Port Nelson route at The saving In distance and lu cost is not the only advantage of the Port Nelson route; it has a longer season of ice-free navigation at the Hudson Bay terminal than can be claimed for Fort Churchill, and It Is well situated in cne the Hudson Buy Itailrond should prove the success as a grain route which Its advocates insist it will become, in which event the Canadian Government might feel Justified in opening a canal from the head of Lake Winnipeg along the Nelson River to tlie bay. In aM probability Port Nel son will be made the terminus of the iK'w route, although the government has not yet decided to. accept the report of the engineers in Its favor. Canada wants a shorter outlet for her grain trade with Europe than can be obtained through the Georgian Canal. The Hudson Bay Road is to be in the nature of an experiment with light rails, wooden culverts and bridges, entailing a minimum of cost until Its value can he clearly established, when It may be gradually rebuilt.

With the Port Nelson terminus It can lie made available for grain shipments for about seven months of the year, providing a much quicker ocean passage than is now available to shippers by way of the St. Lawrence or from the winter port of Canada, the City of St. John, iu the Province of New Brunswick. At the present time much of the route traversed by the government surveys northward from The Pas is an unbroken wilderness occupied only by a few traders and trappers. Some but not all of the land adjacent to the rail lino can lie developed to agricultural uses, but the purpose of the government is not so much to build up the country along the railway as to encourage wheatgrowlng and stockrais-Ing further to the south lu Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.

Since con. federation the Canadian government has spent over In tlie construction of railways and nearly Oun.OoO in their operation, and has received In revenue from these lines a little less than The Hud- sou Hay line Is another investment In the future. Whether It shall turn out to be profitable or unprofitable time must tell. It. is certainly one of the There an Architects Trust? The House of Representatives" lines-! I' tigation of the cost of erecting public buildings hits developed one very inter- rally all those who submit pinna for Federal buildings belong.

Free Competition lias not been allowed for years. "Amateurs" are kept out by n. rule nd- inittliig only such architects as the head of the department shall invite to compete. Now it is brought out by Investigation th.it the American Institute of Architects absolutely fixes tlie percentage on cost to be demanded by lis architects, and whatever the relative rxi'ieriencp or ability of member they must usk li icr no wore and uo SUNDAY MORXINO, JIXE 4, 1911. The Sunday Morning Edition of the Eagle ha a Large and Crowing Circula- tloa throughout the United States and Europe.

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ADVERTISING IIATEK. For cost of apply or srrl for or lnake iiniuiry by telephone. No. Main. The peril of the organ grinder Is minimized this summer.

A bumper cotton crop is reported. The Vice Squad Is wiped out. The self-respect of some very good policemen is thus re-established. The Vuelta Abajo Tolmcco Trust is agricultural and impeccable. Besides, Cuba lifts no Sherman statute.

Thomas' K. Grady's war on the editorial "we" is a woe war, that needs no display-head free advertising. A baby lost in Brooklyn now has to go to Manhattan to he found. I'olice autonomy had some advantages, after all. Mure graft indictments are reported from Ohio.

One acquittal is already scored. Ohio is nothing if not conveu-lioual. No system can bent the rebellion faro game in Nicaragua. The splits are too frequent. They'll break any player In time.

Six magazines have formed one (rust. Twelve trade papers have formed another. Who's afraid of the Sherman law? Champ Clark has rejected the rop- osifiou ior a summer capital on Salt Creek, Nebraska. lie prefers the independence of AVaslilnglon. 'i An fruit trust hits' been organized.

If no apple of discord is contributed by Wlckershnm the fruit trust plans will ripen on the tree. That Turkish soldiers are not enjoying their Arabian Nights is the conclusion easily drawn from Mecca news. Arabia's- rebellion grows apace. One of the British Judges who 'decided the Hull election case got lilt with a chunk of coal. It's a lot easier to keep one's ermine unspotted on this side of the Atlantic.

The goose that saved Koine lias a rhal In the sheep that splii the Ileum-cratic party wide open over raw wool. Goslings and lambs grow ambitious as they grow mature. In spite of the tolerance of Mayor Gaynor. many citizens find in all street "holleringf a crying shame. Not all of us know how to be broad-minded or are eapable of leu ruing.

Encouraged by whiles, negroes at Shelby. lynched a negro. There is nothing like sympathetic encouragement to bring any rac up to our own level of civilization. Judge Harlan is 78 years. Cuto learned Greek at 80.

Harlan for President, on a one-plank platform, "No judge-made law," would be at least an interesting experiment. News from Honduras says Christmas has resigned ills provincial! governorship and is out of a Job. How providential for htm are Hie new and unexpected troubles in Nicaragua! New York suffragists nre in panic i over proposed law which would pro-1 rent them from being wntehers nt the! poll. How can they ever learn to vote n'itUritit- Kuril Pi 1 1 inn it in, I tctintl. I ties? A Tnmmaiiy district lender finds he hasn't time to keep that earn a aahtry from tlie state, so he.

resigns th leadership. This evidence of conscience in public life Is wholesomely refreshing. Maybe that old rubber Neptune, who fiwiptil Russia's Navy, will be snooping around and chuckling when tl; Ggr tees the American fleet at Cruu- Rye Whiskey Serial Number 2163 ROBINSONS PATENT BARLEY The Only Infant Food All (irocfr and DrngKlsta. ALL HAIR ON ARMS AXD FACE permanently re- moved, Mme. Julian's Specific i has stood the tesiC 38 years; no elec tricity, poison, pain.

Trial treatment at office. MME. JULIAN, nth av (20th at), T. MILK COWS IN CHAPEL Dramatic Scenes Mark' Commencement Exercises at Tus-kegee Negro School. Commencement exercises at Tuskegee Institute last week portrayed in a vivid manner the work that the students do every day in the shops, on the farm, in the hospital, and in the class room.

The were held 1n the chapel, a large and commodious building, but it could not accommodate one-half the crowd. The salutatory was delivered by Acie Jones of Thomasville, Ga. His subject was "The Care and Feeding of Cows for Milk Production." The drama, Tuskegee Institute's commencement, was on! Two cows were led upon the platform and were fed and milked. While this was going on, the speaker, clad In white working clothes, was illustrating his subject. Cotton seed, rock salt, rape, cabbage and other feed were exhibited and their feeding quali ties explained.

The cows demurely ate cn with never a sound. The difference between high grade and scrub cattle was strikingly showm Henderson Wells of Waugh, was the next speaker with this Work in Macon. County fi school is located in this county. 7 Next the attention of the audience wag directed to a stairway, not, a drawing oi scanty frame work, but a real stair way on the platform in front, of. them.

It was. built by the speaker, J. O. Thomas of Summit, whose subject was "Building a Closed Stairway." This speaker had on his working clothes and carried his tools. He explained in detail the construction of the stairway, hammering and nailing all the time.

No theory here, but a stairway as large as life. The last speaker of the forenoon was Flora Boaz, Kansas City, whose subject was "The Negro Dressmaker in Her Community." She had sewing tables and models, and all the things needed ln a dressmaking establishment. A young woman came in wearing a dress that was "out of style." With strips of velvet the speaker first produced the hobble effect. Then the old fashion sleeve was ripped off and the new style kimono 'effect produced in the sleeve. Next the collar was re-arrangcd, finally the hat was shaped up and a startling transformation was secured.

The programme for the afternoon was1 opened by a dramatic representation of, the industrial life of the school, lasting' ten minutes. Grouped on the platform was a broom making machine, a wall to be plastered, one to be painted, a sewing machine, a range, an anvil, a housa In process of erection, a steam engine, the hub and wheel of the wheelwright In short, the tools and material and machinery necessary for finished industrial work. The whistle gave a blast and immediately groups of boys and girls clad ln working clothes poured on the platform from every direction, each going to his proper place. Another blast of the whistle and every one began his work. Here a young man was papering a wall, another lettering a sign; one was milking a cow, and another shoeing a horse: one was plastering a wall and another fitting on the tin cornice; one girl wa3 making brooms, another sewing a dress, and still another arranging a hat.

In all there were twenty-nine actors in this scene. The valedictory was delivered by Julius Freeman, Wilson, N. C. He spoke on "Modprn Methods In Education." He told of the continuation schools in Germany, and of the experiments In vocational training In Cincinnati and Indianapolis and other cities. The new Idea In education now taking firm hold in the educational world Is the idea of training the head and the hand, as emphasized at Tuskegee.

He gave concrete examples of the kind of work now being done in various schools In Micon County. The commencement address was delivered by Robert H. Terrell, judge pf the Municipal Court. Washington, D. C.

Judge -Terrell Is a Harvard graduate and a very prominent colored man. The award of trade certificates and diplomas was made by Principal Washington. Two hundred and fifty-nine certificates and diplomas were awarded to 178 students. The graduating class numbers 103. Bravest of All That Julius Caesar was a bird In battling, I have often heard; A fighting cock in farther Gaul, And yet I can't believe at all That valor such as he possessed Compares with what must be confesses As his who puts his foot down flat, And dons a Nlneteen-Ten straw hat.

Great Marlborough, and Napoleon, too, Scored deeds that smack of dcrrlng-do Paul Jones has rarely been outclassed) The fame of Farragut will last; Yet bravery that puts to shame What gilds full many a glorious name Is his, that sterling Democrat, Who's wearing now last year's straw hat! J. A. TO SUMMER IN EUROPE. Captain and Mrs. S.

E. Young and Mis Jeanne Young of 31 South Elliott place will sail on Tuesday on the steamship Potsdam of the Holland-America Llnj for Europe, where they Intend to spend the summer months visiting some of France and Switzerland. URGES AGAINST CHANGE Real Estate Expert Larkin Calls Attention to Proposed Charter Amendment Thomas F. Larkin of 488 Decatur street the Teal estate expert, has called public attention to a proposed change in the tax laws, which appears in the draft ol the charter now before the Legislature. The change is a reduction from 61 to 44 days In which protesting property owners have time to tile objections to asseea-menta.

In a letter to Senator Thomas H. Cullen, Mr. Larkin says: "Section 345 aeeks to amend the pres ent law aa to the time prescribed for property owners who feel aggrieved at the assessed valuation placed on their property to present their protests to the Tax Board asking for relief. The present law makes the time from the second Mo iday In January until the last day in tiiu month of March. Thl gives about sixty-four days in all, after deducting two holidays in February and treating Saturdays as halt days.

The proposed amendment (see Sec. 346) reduces, the time to forty-tour days (from January 1 to end of February), I know of no Just reason for this change, curtailing the time when the protest may be presented. "There are about twb hundred thousand parcels of real estate in the Borough of Brooklyn (which exceeds the combined parcels in Manhattan, the Bronx nd Rlcnmond Combined), and this shortening ot the time to enter protests, might work to the disadvantage ot the property-owners of our borough. The present method has been in vogue since consolidation thirteen years ago, and the property owners are accustomed to it, and in' my opinion It should not be changed, as thre is no public demand or desire to curtail the rights and prlv- ilKned of real estate owners, wno now bear nearly all the burden for the Support of government." Ago" Fifty ears I From Th Eagle. June 4, 1861.) Recent dispatches from Washington state that 12 o'clock, on Sunday night a squad of secession cavalry mads a dash at the outposts of the Twenty- eighth Brooklyn Regiment and fired upon them.

The alarm was instantly sounded and the regiment turned out, and a scouting party dispatched in pursuit of the enemy, who retreated. The fire was returned by the outposts of the Twenty-eighth, with what effect Is not known, as the night was exceedingly dark. No damage whatever was done by the enemy. Fulton street claim to be the hotbed of patriotism, and let none its title to that honorable distinction. Flags spring up like mushrooms, in a single night, and the- great thoroughfare from the ferry to the City Hall is canopied uver with Stars and Stripes.

The Naval Lyceum of the Brooklyn Nnvy Yard will take charge ft all letters for the blockading squadron. Captain Lefferts of 47 Fulton street has in his possession a fragment of a shell fired from one of the rebel batteries on Sewall's Point. The shot struck the starboard side of the U. S. steamer Star, and passing through the vessel, exploded In the coal bunk.

TAFT ON RECIPROCITY. President Will Speak at Canadian Club Banquet at Manhattan Beach. Canadian government officials are tak lug great Interest in the dinner to be held by the Canadian Club of New York at the Manhattan Beach Hotel on June 22. The presence of President Taft and the announcement from Washington that he will address the members of the club on reciprocity hag prompted -those in authority at Ottawa to arrange to send prominent Ministers to represent the Dominion. This will probably be the last opportunity that President Taft will have of presenting his views on reciprocity prior to the presentation of the bill before the Canadian Senate in July.

E. Herlley Scovil, secretary of the club, 44 Broad street, Manhattan, has the arrangements for the banquet ln hand. MAHAN ON PANAMA CANAL. The maintenance of the Panama canal in effective operation Is one of the large elements in the future developments nf sea power in the Pacific, says Rear Admiral A. T.

Mahan in the Century. No other nation has In the canal the same Interest of self-preservation that the United States has. Not only is this true as regards the Panama canal, but no similar condition of dependence upon a canal exists anywhere else to near thl tame degree. The closest parallel is Suez, as compared with the Cape of Good Hope. Sues offers Great Britain inside route to her great Australasian colontes, as well as to India, but the existence of the British empire does not depend upon that route as vitally as the ability ol our tnicKiy settien Atlantic coast to come to the aid of the Pacific depends upon Panama, as compared wim Magellan.

This necessity Is so urgent make the canal, as before ial(. essentially a part of the coast line of the United States. Tho military, or strategic, significance of the Panama canal is that it will be the most vital chord in that system of transference by which the navy of the Urited States can come promptly to the support on either coast of the local defenses, which it Is to be presumed will be organized as Australia contemplates; even though the presumption be over-sanguine, In view of our national ignorant selfsufflciency. With a competent navy; and with the Panama canal secured, not merely as to tenure, but with guns of such range as to insure deployment in the open sea at either end, a necessary condition of all seacoast formication, invasion will not be attempted, for it ian lead to no adequate now almost penniless in an institution winter. Any passenger whose toes are at Auburn, N.

which she gave most c'd in the cars on this railroad may of her resources to found. She is cred. engage counsel to cite this important Ited with managing an "underground precedent in any legal fight he may un-railroad" which took three hundred to secure warmth in transit. It Wm- ihci-ivli wn- voM certainly be class legislation, fav- She was friend of John Brown, Wlll-j lam Lloyd (Jarrison and Wendell Phil-! she did efficient spy service for fhe rnion troops In the war. She later herself a good field nurse.

Since wns ri'forrwl to Mr. For this most tnierpsttug or rniiwny venture work more than million dollars lind i unrlertnkon nnywhere in tills gonera-liocn iiiproii'liitP(l hy the state for the tlon. the war the relief of distress among mlght be well for those Chicago seek-her people hns held her attention. Con. er, or a natlonK, nthem t0 recall Rob.

gross voted her a small pension, nnflerl c. Newell's-he was much better that is nil she has now. i Known as Orpheus C. Kerr description of stuto. as (lisllnculslipil from tlie inc- the city being Ignored.

Last year, however, better results ncerued, the f'ly seeurlug fJ.KMHKi from the Ktute. thus enabling the expenditure of l.tKHXtif in tlie metropolis, ani The drama of the negro race In Slav- ery ilnys. and since slavery days, is i thrilling iu Its interest. It is legiti- mate part of American history. Doug.

I lass. Smalls. Washington n'ld Harriet Tubman will not be forgotten. oiitbiy thanks to which all the dan- estlng question as to the Anierienii In-gerouR crossings In the vicinity of stitute of Architects, lo whom practl- In the case ot William Cullen Bryant, I however, the Judges declared that his ef- I.incoln advices indicate some doubt uslon was barred because when he used In Mr. Ilryan's mild whether he is the expression "the sun sinks to his mind lleggar ltellsnrius or a Marlus 'venlng post" he adroitly introduced an i Hdvmtsement of the New ork Evening M.d the Kuins, defying the slave of whlch Mr.

Bryant was then make fin end of him. Classical selec-1 editor. tions nre sometimes very difficult to! In short, there wasn't a real national Flushing will disappear. Oeuerally regarded as being more particularly the representative nt Queens Borough In the board, resi-1 Uenls of tiiat section strenuously ad-voeiitcd his reappointment. That Is lo say, they furnished proof of their appreciation.

He ipiarreled with the South Shore KaJIroad concession, claiming It to lie monopolistic, and It is now admitted that be was right, though his hostility provoked resentment from the representatives of real tnitke. The M. .1. Iiady Engineering and Contracting Company is now Incorporated. If prospective Hepubliian Leader Dui'wlu James, wants any.