TlTR BTlFFA'LO R'KVTI'CW, TIUmsiMY MOUNINO, MAY .10, 1001,

RHODES AREM ARKABLE MAN

(Jea of Naming Him Premier Well Received in South Africa.

His Napoleonistic' Nature Would Well Fit Him For ♦he Position. .

(Special to TIIK. REVIEW.) C A PE TOWN, May 29.—The idea of

framing Cecil Ithodes for Prem ier here Is well received, but It Is doubtful If h$r. Rhodes would ^accept the portfolio even If It were positively offered him. Personally Mr. Rhodes is in no way fitted to hold political office nor do his Inclinations lead him in th a t direction. L ike such men as J. P lerpont Morgan, i i t would not consider »it ^eneath his dignity to be a k ing-m aker while he jwould probably have a horror of ac ­cepting the kingly role for himself. Be-

hides this, little tac t as Cecil Rhodes Way possess, he knows th a t to the (Dutch elem ent his assum ption of any

finder being privileged to tre a t all newc o m e r s to c h a m p a g n e , t h e n retailing- a t a b o u t th r e e p o u n d s a bo t t le ,s

H is L a c k P ro v e rb ia l ,Cecil Rhodes from the first pu t his

foot down sharply on this practice. He said openly tha t he had come out to such a God-forsaken place t(o m ake money and not to spend it and declared th a t he would drink his chamoasrne when he had more leisure. N otw ith­stand ing the unpopularity Into which this conduct broUght him Rhodes: luck became proverbial. W hatever he

‘touched turned to gold, or, more ex­actly speaking, to diamonds. He lived like a herm it and In the m ost penuri­ous fashion, He existed on a scale even lower than th a t of the m iners employed by himself, buying no new clothes and indulging in no luxuries. I t did not take long for a man consti­tu ted like this to get richer than his fellows. The money th a t o thers spent In goodfellowshlp or new clothes he placed in other investm ents, soon m ak­ing enough from these side issues to enable him to buy out his b ro thers’ in ­terests and thus control the whole fam ­ily claim. One of the brothers wris sub­sequently killed on the coast of Mo- iam blque, while the o ther weht off in search of new fields, leaving his b ro th ­er to develop Kimberley. Hbw well Cecil did th is is a m a tte r of history. I t took him no longer, com paratively, to acquire a controlling In terest in the town than it had done to secure con­trol of the fam ily claim.

How thoroughly he has stood for everything th a t was aggressive in South A frican affairs Is well known to everyone. For years past he has been thb dom inating force In South A frican politics. His control of the C hartered Company assured him this.

C o n te m p t F o r B o e r s .Ills contem pt for the Boer has been

BRAVE LITTLE JOE HAS MANY FRIENDS

Bright Youngster Who Cared For His Two Little Sisters on $3 a Week.

Beautiful Girl Among Appli- 9ants«Willing to Assist Him and His Sisters.

(Special to THE REVIEW.)N EW YORK, May 29.-1 When little

Joe Phillips and the two younger s is ­ters for whom he has cared, captured by the Children’s Society, were In Je f­ferson M arket Court yesterday they found a beautiful advocate.

She was Aflgs Cora! Van Auken, whose uncles arie Van Auken Bros., en­gineers, of No/’ 1 H ow ard S treet.

“Oh, you dear boy,’’ she cried, th row ­ing her arm s about the little b read­winner and kissing him. “Mr. VanAuken has sent me here to offer him« * ? » £ « ! • ! ? * • S n S E X . “« 3 5 u S ? S &

------------— ■— — ------------ ~them of one half a^mlle, (ho palatial p a s s e n g e r s t e a m e r s C i t y o f Krio o f I lie Cleveland & Bu(jf|i]ty T ransit Co., and the Canadian bo&t rashmoo will a t the Whistle of a neai'by tug, s ta r t their m onster engines ajhd) race side by side to Erie. “

T aking in till the,qualifications of the two lake liners interested parties de­clare the boats'.'iCW3nly m atched. The City of Erie was built to run 20 miles an hour, while iJhfcfTashtnoo is claimed to have a speed of 25. B ut the former boat has several times proved th a t 25 miles an hour could^be made by her en­gines which represent 5,600-horse pow­er. The Tashm oo’s veiigines were built for 2,800 horse power but she is a lighter boat than The City of Erie, having been built, originally for river service, although she now makes dally trips between D etroit and P ort Huron.

A rrangem ents for the g reat boat race have now nearly all been completed. At the s ta r t there will be two tugs, each containing timekeepers. The sam e arrangem ent will be made a t Erie for the finish. Each of the racers will have lookouts aboard chosen by the opposite company to the ope owning- the boat on which they will ride. They will see th a t the distance of .half a mile will be m aintained between the two steam ers during the entire course. The m an­agem ent of both lines ace tak ing every precaution th a t tne occurrence of any accident will be impossible.

No passengers will be carried on the boats other than the otllcers of the re­spective companies, the judges and representatives o f. the press. These panties wil} go from Buffalo Monday night on the C ity of (Erie. A t the con­clusion of the race they will be tra n s ­ferred a t E rie to the City of Buffalo. The la tte r steam er will leave here a t 9:30 a. m. Tuesday, m aking a special excursion trip to be on the scene a t

ISTHMIAN CANAL A VITAL

7Y

Shall We Allow England to Dominate on This Con­tinent ?

Our Merchant Marine Ren­ders Our Control o f ; Such Passage a Necessity.

prom inent office would be an insult, , „ . . - . . __(While it would be productive of no gen- a strong facto r in form ing publ c oie ra l ' benefit except E ngland should Ion on the subject In England. His heed an Iron-handed d ic ta to r in charge ido^s as to the justice of B ritish sov- of affairs in South A frica—a role which he could undehiably fill to the best ad- Akanta.e.pj W e l l F i t t e d F o r P o s i t io n .f T he Napoieonlstic n a tu re of the man (Would fjt him better for this position /than dny o ther prom inent figure In !Cape politics today. Only those who have come in close personal contact (w lth Rhodes know exactly his calibre, and to say th a t he is the m ost rem ark- i^ble m an who ever set foot on th is

ereignty in South A frica are unequivo­cal. He has not a scintilla of the apol­ogist about him. In speaking of the

possib ility o f A m erican invention* on K ruger’s behalf recently fie said: “We have as much rig h t to South A frica a s has the United S tates to Texas*, Eiauis- iana o r A laska. We paid th ir ty m il­lions of dollars to the N etherlands G overnm ent for Cape Colony vrftten it w asn’t w orth h a lf th a t sum, b u t ca r­ried w ith it the m oral r ig h t to a n y con­tiguous te rrito ry which it m ight be necessary to acquire. W e paid subse

p a r t of the continent is not to o v e r1 quently fifteen million dollars to theIptaie things in any way.

Since he first arrived in South Africa (Mr. Rhodes has shown th a t he in tend­ed to have his own way. In moulding

Dutch slave owners in Sleuth A frica to free the blacks, a generosity which the

i United S tates did not im itate in deal- I ing w itn Southern slave-holders in a

; ft B ritish South A frican Em pire he sim ilar case. W e hav* since speht i . /wfts prim arily engaged in moulding his fifty millions more to save the blacks

own fortunes. He was born with fl­it’ nancial ability and the peculiar qualR

in South Africa from oppression a t the____........ .......... . ______ ___ hands of the Boers. In leaving Cape

t tie s which go to assist In the m akeup ! Colony these Boers sought new hoijnes o f a modern money king. He possesses in the wilderness, not on account of

B ritish oppression, but because they p te ferred a sem i-savage life, had an abhorrence of b a th s and good m anners and w anted to be eternally stupidly

ftn a ttrac tiv e personality and the pow ­er of handling, or ra th e r controlling, o thers with sim ilar aggressive tastes.

Wnen Cecil Rhodes came out to the ----- ---------- xGape he was Worth, possibly, a week’s | and selfishly Dutch, board. H e came to join his two b ro th ­ers, H erbert and F rank , two typical Englishm en who were the very a n tith ­esis of Cecil in their na tu res—men of th a t generous, hearty type who have m ade friends for the B ritish race (wherever they have gone on the earth .These two men were working on the

, (Do Beers mine when Cecil arrived and .they were typical pioneer miners, gen-

B r it if th C a p ita l D e v e lo p e d M in e* .“A s . for the acquisition by British

cap ita lists of the T ransvaal mines, it is not yet fw enty years since Paul K ruger was personally begging cap i­ta lists in London to develop them . The m ines were discovered by U itlanders,

e ro u s to a f a u l t a n d wil ling t o 'g iv e ' th e 1)uU'h,, f a r m e r s everyth e ir last available g roat to help out th ^u were }wortll *ox thelr farm s.•------ .. .. ___^ But to r the sinking of enormous capl-some less fo rtuna te fellow.

Cocil, fresh from the fam ily home in tal by B ritish speculators in the mln-oucii, u ean lium uie lum uy nuiue an , - , , * . .£v(England, arrived a t the new diamond in terests of the T ransvaa l thefields, located where the present toWn

r Of Kimberley, then called New Rush, stands, ju s t a s the wonderful possibili­ties of the claim s there were being de-

[ ivftloped. He w as then abou t eighteen years of JLge, tall and slender of build, liylth a dark complexion. Cecil was In

1 delicate health and It was said had been sent out to join his brothers on /that account. From the first he im ­pressed those who m et him as being

'‘different, not only from his brothers b u t from the ord inary man. He was ,Very self contained and showed not the Slightest en thusiasm over anything. iWhen o thers were losing their heads over the chances th a t came to them dally this cool headed and som ew hat cynical young Englishm an held h im ­self dpwn to hard work and heeded (nothing. His two brothers had invited h im to join them In working the ir cln ms and in the ir free-handed way had given him a partnersh ip free.

B om * o f H la P e c u l ia r i t i e s .T he first time Cecil Rhodes w as

taken into one of these claim s to be shown around and m ade acquain ted /with the routine of a m iner's life the fr*ond who accom panied him picked a la rge diam ond out of a side wall of the nune and handed it to him. The stonew as w orth several hundred dollars, but Rhodes evinced no surprise a t the gen­erous act and affected to look upon it a s a mere commonplace incident. At Hie pame tim e he did not possess a (hundred dollars of his own in the iw tld , I t w as a common saying when Ihis- peculiarities became first known around the camp th a t Rhodes “beat tn e D utch,” m eaning th a t for stlngl <n«ss and self-consideration she could eclipse the self-im pregnated Boer. The vork of the cam p was any th ing bu t to

th e taste of Cecil, but he fell to with a stou t heart saying th a t as it was [necessary for him to make a Irving and fortune for him self he would try to do

Lit.*H is conduct had a restra in ing influ­

ence on his easy going bro thers and he soon became a power in the councils .Of the 'firm. The first persons to feel the effect of the new Influence were the (Kaffirs, some two dozen of whom ■were then employed by the Rhodes

l^boya These men soon learned th a t they had a m an over them who tho r­oughly understood the tactics of the slave-driver. The Katfirs were not the only ones to feel the grasping influence of the new hand. The De Beers mines (Were no exception to any pioneer o u t­posts, of the fortune hunter. The u n ­fo rtu n a te , and often the unw orthy, ex-

mmc.s would not l*e open today. .{The cuv* is of such low grade th a t m ining can only be carried on under skilful adm inistration, w ith modern scientific methods and w ith immense capital. W hat this m eans American m ining en ­gineers know quite well a s they have been conspicuous In' the operations in the T ransvaal. W hen the U itlander was first Invited to the T ran sv aa l the country w as bankrupt. The w ealth of the icountry, a liberal share of which went to the Boers, w as created by U it­landers. I t was only because of Boer selfishness and avarice th a t the present rw^r came about. No one w anted it, least of all the cap ita lists .”

W ith the cout'age of his convictions Rhodes would doubtless exercise a s trong hand in the shaping of South A frican affairs should he really ever become Prem ier.

NORMAN HENSHAW .

BRYAN WANTS TIME.

[peeled to, and did, share the luck of ,th* fortunate, for true frontier hospi­ta lity was the ,order of the day. One _ .. __ . ^ ...Of the custom* of the cemn to 10 8811 here May 29, will carry amongn V?.e (ualomS *he camp was to | passengers j . j. v un Alen, Elbridge

wet an unusually large stone, the Gerry Sind family, and Ixird Kimiaird.

R e fu s e s t o D ls e u s s tk o I n s u la r D e c is io n s .

(Special to TH E REVIEW.)LIN C O IN , Neb., May 29.—“U ntil I

have studied the full tex t of the de­cision, I aim not prepared to make any extended com m ent.” This was Mr. B ryan’s response tonight to a request for a sta tem en t on {he Supreme Court opinion in the Insular cases. E arlie r inthe evening, w ith an im perfect know l­edge of w hat the opinion m eant from the brief despatches received, Mr. B ryan ha<J said:

“I would not wish to discuss the m at­te r at any length until I had all the details on the court’s opinion. But I will say th a t I am very much g ra ti­fied to learn th a t the Constitution fol­lows the fiag.” /

On being Informed th a t the m ajority opinion was read by Justice Brown and th a t Justices W hite and Gray were among the dissenters, Mr. B ryan re­m arked: “I wonder how It Is th a t they got the fight colors and we got the brown.”

“I am not yet ready to venture an opinion of the effect of the decision in the solution of fu ture Insular problems. In some respects the Supreme Court seems to uphold the contention of the Republicans in Congress; in others it susta ins the contention of the Demo­cra ts .” »

We have a big factory and we can s ta r t him a t $5 a week with plenty of prospects to g*)t ahead .”

'The two little girls s a t on the bench before the bar. Between them was Joe Phillips, fourteen years old, who has been ca ring for his two little sisters ever since the ir m other w as sen t to the Island April 18th, for Intoxication.

“Don’t cry, kids,” he whispered, “dey won’t h u rt yer.”

O a re d F o r H is S la te r s .One w as Lily, seven years old; the

other Mamie, nine years old./^ A gent Diamond, of the Society for the ITe~ ventlon of Cruelty to Children, h ad v is­ited the ir home, No. S G rand Street* on Saturday, where Joe w as m anfully providing for the sisters' and doing the housework besides. A neighbor had notified the sbeiety.

Jde go t $8 a week from' his employer. Adolph Zei^s, a blind man, of No. 78 Houston S treet, and he m ade a little more before and a f te r hours selling papers a t the Bowery an d H ouston streets. The little girls w ent to St. A nthony’s parophial school, No. 69 Macdougal, S treet, every day and were fed and cared for by their brave little brother.

k L ittle Joe had on a dilapidated pair of shoes when he appeared before M ag­istra te Pool, a g irl's sh irt waist, no un­dersh irt arid poor clothing. When he was taken from home he had on a pair of stout new shoes, a coat and trousers and good underclothing.

“They m ust have been taken tO( be cleaned,” said Agent Diamond when M agistrate Pool asked him about 'the transform ation.

Frederick Meyer had read the story of the little tr io an d had come from his home in Farm ingdale, L. I., to of­fer the boy work and a good home for his little /sisters.

M a n y W i l l i n g to T a k e T h em .B ut there were m any o thers who

urged the ir claims, and M agistrate Pool hesitated . .

F irs t there was the boy’s present em ­ployer, Adolph Zeiss, a salesm an inthe cordage trade. He is blind and gave little Joe $3 a week to lead him about from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.

“I ’ll give the little fellow more money,” said Zeiss, groping hie way to the bar. “He is a good boy and lives only for his sis ters.” '

“I will see th a t all three children are- cared for,” pu t In F . M Pierce, of the Pierce Engineering Company, No. 26 Cortland Street. “The U niversal B ro th­erhood Society of California, which I represent, will provide for them. I t is designed to g e t hold of children with Joe’s grit. The country needs such boys. I can g uaran tee the children’s fu ture. They will ge t a thorough ediv cation and every opportunity .” ;

There were o thers who h ad read

lim ited to ,689. The boat is scheduled t<5 .return here between 6 and 7 p. m. the'Ssame day.

Special excursions from Chicago, D etroit and Cleveland wifi b e 'ru n . Among the boats which will m ake the trip are the City .of D etroit, City of Cleveland, S ta te of Ohio and the steam er P leasure. I t was said yes­te rday th a t arrangem ents for a trip to E rie by tl © passenger steam er C hristopher Columbus of Chicago had been completed.

The steam er Am erica of the In te r ­national N avlgatibn Com pany will leave th e w harf a t the foot of F erry S treet T uesday a t 8:45 A. M„ for a trip up L ake E rie to the scene of thefinish of th e race between the City of E rie and Task moo. T he Buffalo and Saturn clubs will be aboard, going as the guests of G eneral M anager M artin C. Ebel of the steam boat line. The boat will be out all day, a rriv in g here early in the evening.

There were some lively doings yes­te rd ay a t th? w harf of the above com ­pany when iK was learned by the mart- agem ent of the In ternational N aviga­tion Company th a t the N iagara Itiver Excursion Co. Intended to land its boats a t the sew er crib. The In te r ­national has a lease of-the F erry S treet w harf and the N iagara Excursion Co. w ants a landing privilege. A fter a good m any controversies between the two com panies and* their a tto rneys it was agreed th a t the la tte r com pany should pay a stipu lated am ount for w hhrfage until such time as the legal phases of the <quosblon could be decid­ed. V s :

(Special to TJIE REVIEW.) W ASHINGTON, May 29.—Thje ques­

tion of our righ t to control the inter- oceanic highway, In this hemisphere has now assum ed an acute phase.

F la tly put, it seems to be “Shall we allow G reat B ritain to dom inate on this continent, or shall we throw a few millions into the hands of people who have backed the ir money In the supposedly inocuous P an am a rou te?”

The la test we hear made public in a sort of hushed w hisper over the cable Is th a t negotiations m ay be resumedand an entente established between our G overnm ent and. th a t of G reat B rita in in regard to the ccmtrol of the N icaragua route.

I t seems, to the minds of most Amer­icans, th a t the proprietorship and con­trol of any Isthm ian canal on th is continent should be entirely ours,

In v irtue of her necessity to hold her dependencies in the E ast, E ngland did not hesitate to w rest from pYance, a t the risk of a g rea t war, the control of fche Suez canal.

The “coup” executed by, iMsraell 4n acquiring control of th e stock in the Suez canal Is regarded by the studen t of political events, as a m asterpiece of financing as well as of politics, two term s which seem to be becoming more or less synonymous, nowadays.

A V i t a l N e c e s s ity .>The question of necessity on our p a rt

will become keener in the next decade than m ost of us seem to imagine. Our In te rsta te shipping will dem and the use of such a passage to facilita te the cheapening of freights. The m ercantile m arine, which we m ust own, t|f handle our exports and im ports, will (render our control of such a passage ja vital necessity not alone for purposes of facility but also for economical rea ­sons. As we a re not expecting to dom ­inate the world by v irtue of oiik’ guns or arm ed suprem acy on the seas we can afford to be silent as to the naval end of the m atter.

The righ ts th a t C anada m ay claim

of ^little Joe’s brave strugg le t h e r e J .^ A pphS f^n t* ^

C O M IN G O N M A J E S T IC .(Special Gable to THE RiEVTTEW J

L1VEIHP(X>L, May 29.—'The White Star steamer Majestic, which is scheduled

to offer him work a t pay enough to care for his little sisters.

C o u r t W i l l D e c id e T o d a y .T he court pu t off the final disposition

of the case till today. 1“My fa th e r died four years ago,” said

the.youngster, “an ’ I helped my m other till last month, when she w ent to the Island. I wish she was out, ’cause I love her; she was alw ays good to me a n ’ the kids.

“We . didn’t w ant no children’s society m eddlin’ w ith us. I alw ays paid the ren t prompt, an ’ I had $1 left for g ro­ceries, 75 cents for m eat an d the rest for clothes an* candy for the kids. We lived on Easy Street. We didn’t have no roast chicken or ice cream , bu t we were getting- along all right, all right.'*1

W. F. Clooney,, traveling passenger ag en t of the RlchelJ^u, Line was herefrom Toronto yesterday. H e w as in ebriapany w ith Robert McBride of the N iagara N avigation Com pany.

Following aro th e : arrivals’ and1 clear­ances reported at this port - during the pa^t 24 hours:

Arrivals-*- 1 '3tr >P. D. Armour, corn/-Chicago, - 3tr Tuscarora, mdse., Chicago.Str Wilkesbarre, corn, Chlcago>;3tr. Owega, grain, Chicago.

•Str Susquehanna, wheat, Chicago.S tr Tom Adams, wheat, Chl^igb. .S t r . J u p i t e r , c o r n , M a n i t o w o c .Str George. T. Williams, corn, Superior. Str Japan, mdse., Duluth.•Str NOrth Wind, mdse., Superior.Str Sam Marshal, lumber,Str Armenia, wheat, Chicago.

Clearances—Str Frank Rockefeller, ’light, Superior.Str Helena, light, Chicago.Str COrdorus, mdse, Duluth..Str Armour, coal, Milwaukee.Str New Orleans, coal, Chicago,Str Iroquois, light, Chicago.Str Neptune, fight, Duluth.Str Buttirohi, light, Castile. ^

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ALONG THE DOCKS.S tr , A m e r ic a t o C a r ry B ig

P a r t y o f C lu b m en to tike S c e n e o f E r ie -T a s h m o o R a c e —M ix -U p A t F e r r y S t r e e t D o c k —D a y 's P o r t L is t .

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O OIf there is a smooth sea on liake E r ie

next Tuesday moaning a t 10:30 o’clock, Buffalo time, there will be run off one of the most exciting contests for su ­prem acy of speed yet chronicled In the region of the G feat Lakes. From the Cleveland pier, w ith a distance between

Str Northern Queen, mdse, Duluth.Str Troy, mdse., Chicago.Str Fedora, coal, Chicago.Str Fred Pabst, coal, Chicago. ,Str M. B. Morey, coal, Chicago.Sir Lehigh, mdse., Chicago. * ,Str Russell Sage, mdse>> Toledo, \S tr Our Son, coal, Green.Bay.Str Tom Adams, coal, Duluth.Str Sam Marshal, light, Duluth.Str Jupiter, light, Duluth.

The steam canal boat Dr. G. L. Mingios waa the only canal clearance recorded yAsterday, She cleared for Albany with afcargo of corn.

OFFICERS’ SALARIES.

P h ilix > p in e C om m iB gion A n n o u n c e s E s t im a te s .

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(Special to THE REVIEW.)WlAfilHHN/GTOasr, 'May '29.—In anticipa­

tion o i the .establishment of civil govern­ment on July 1, the Philippine commis­sion has Just enacted a- law defining tho salaries to be received by 'officials and employes of the central government in the Islands. In round numbers the estb mate 1r $1,200,000. Including the cost of provincial and judicial administration, the Filipino taxpayers will pay salaries amounting to several million dollars.

Some of the principal Items of expenso will be: Philippines commission and stalls, $112,620); military governor, $56,000; collec­tion of customs In Manila, $108,650; ppstof- fiee in Manila, $67,770; collection of cus­toms outside of Manila, $<.25,000; municipal administration, $243,396; auditor, $52,480; police of Manila, $33,760; postoffice outside of Manila, $30,800; internal revenue col­lection, $28,106; civil service, $21,050.

'Provision is made foir native subor­dinates In the list of municipal employes in Manila.

in the case would not, except In the m ost rare, and nearly impossible event, conflict w ith our-own, E ngland’s t r a n s ­continental control through the Grand T runk-C anadian Pacific rout© being a fa ir equivalent for w hat we nilght con­trol, to the south, through th e canal.

So fa r as the fortify ing of the canal is concerned, the discussion 1 being raised is mere verbiage. The Control of the canal would never rest with the forts on land, b u t w ith the fo rts on w a te r and the question of our p re ­paredness in th a t respect would be the only logical and practical solution of our control of the Inter-oceanic highw ay. We m ay fortify the canal If by so doing we can control it In time of war, bu t the incident will be relative to the concurrence of these two ridngs.

T h e P a n a m a P r o p o s it io n .The proposition made to us by the

parties iff control of the Panam a canal suggests a se ttlem ent of the price to be made by m eans of arb itra tion . The price suggested by M. H untln Is based more or less upon the money already sunken in w hat has been considered one of the m ost d isastrous engineering undertak ings of modern times.

A comparison' of cost incurred in the work already done on the P anam a canal w ith w hat could be accomplished by modern engineering methods would &how th a t perhaps one half of the ex­pense could have been obviated. W ith steam drills and. all^the equipments of the modern m echanical engineer such w ork is enormously facilitated.

The completion of the Panam a canal today would not involve the terrible sacrifice of life ealled for a t th£ time when Ferd inand De Lesseps, a dozen or more, years ago, first sta rted to sever the two continents. The work done in the Chicago D rainage canal, which may ju stly be considered as the g rea t­est engineering feat of modern times, furnishes the best d a ta for an estim ate of cost and should enable our legisla­tors to form an accurate opinion of the relative advantages or disadvantages to us of utilizing the Panam ^'rou te .P a n a m a I n v e s t ig a t io n C o m m iss io n .

This estim ate should be coupled (With the report of the la s t commlssiQir ap ­pointed to investigate the results of the insolvent P anam a Company’s work. The commission consisted of such men as B rigadier General H enry L. Abbpt, who was connected with the en ­gineer corps of the United S tates Arm y; A. Fetley, who was chief en­gineer of the New York Aqueduct Commission; W. H enry H unter, chief engineer of the M anchester Ship Canal, In England; H err Tulscher, of the de­partm en t of public works of P russia; C. Skalkowskl, director of mines In R ussia; M. Robaglia, a governm ent In­spector of bridges and roads in France, and a num ber of o ther men of Similar professional prominence.

The report embodied the following facts; W ork done on canal equal to itwo-llfths of completion; no plans pro­jected th a t were not justified by* engi­neering practice; actual constructive work fully advanced and difficulties to be surm ounted accurately knoWn and

plated a good, port already establisheda t o i t b o r imkI; Huy.at c l o s e l y e s t i m a t e d f i r m ii d e l ailed* Td ans $110,000,000; c o m ­pletion work occupy ton years.

R o u te N o t I m p r a c t ic a b le .Gharlcs Paine, then President of the

American Society of Civil Engineers, in a report made to 'th a t body, a fte r personal investigation, said: “ I can­not understand how any practical en ­gineer could pronounce the Chagres River as presenting an imposing and irrem ediable difficulty, rendering the route im practicable for a canal. The plan of the com pany to conduct two dams, one to control the upper and the o ther life lower reaches of the river seems to me an excellent expedient. By this arrangem ent the upper artifi­cial lake will afford a perm anent sup­ply of w ater for the higher levels of the canal and the lower lake will form ah integral p a rt of tho navigable canal. Opponents of the Erie Canal scheme m ight quite as reasonably have argued th a t the Mohawk R iver would render thO Erie Canal im practicable as for op­ponents of the Panam a Oanal to argue th a t the Chagres form s -an obstacle to tho construction of a canal through the Isthm us.”

The question of isthm ian canal epp- ktruction today rests really on ah hm- ternational ethical basis. Outside of this there are speculators who would like to see the route favored which best suits their pockets.

The people of the United States are only interested in the question of the availability of either route and the question of control. Their voice should be aJ dominating- one In the decision, which m ust be based on a close Inquiry into the fac ts on both bides before any fu rth e r legislation is attem pted.

The question is the most v ital one nowT before us*-

H ER B ER T E. CLAMP.

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RAILROAD NEW S.M any D ecoration D ay f i r -

eurotono to B e Ran. Today— N ovel S tr ik e F or P a n e s — C entral P res id en t to B e N am ed Tomorrow* *

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erous today and1 nearly all through and terminal roadis will either irun. specials or additional coaches on tlvelr regular itrains and the arrangenven't -premises to fill the streets with visitors during the day. Pas­senger men are a little sanguine a s to the prospects of a big travel as the weather condition's have been anything but oondupivo of a good excursion busi­ness. Traveling (passenger agents whohave returned from trips through the surrounding towns say the farming com­munities will hardly turn out in big eroudw as their work is (reported to bo In

very backward condition) but notwith- wbanchnijr these fact* they say the rail­roads assure the Eximeitlon of a fair sized crowd today.

On the Plrie Railroad five specials wifi be run to this cMy from points on that system within a radilus of 2C0 miles from EufPuto. Tho excursions will cover terri-tsifM' nn ilm Qnui<iin)mnn>i• ' j WAi « «*i/ KAMMV|WVAl.UJI»A#Xif 1 lbTioga, Allegheny & Buffalo Southwestern, Buffalo & Rochester and Attica Divisions. The trains will arrive bore between, the hours of S and IX) -a. m„ and will leave between 10 and li p. m.

The Lackawanna 'will put on addi­tional coaches on about 10 trains between points an fan* east as Elmira and Blng- larnton and at the excursion rate of a

fare and a third which has been agreed upon by interested roads, tho company predicts a fair number Of paese-ngers.

The Central will run a special train from Lockport this morning and the re turn trip will be iwado at 10 a. m. from the . Ox position groumlB. The -Lehigh, Pennsyl­vania, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg, Lake Shore a net Gra nd, Trunk wjU .take care of extra passeri^On* iri tho same maimer. Other lines have made no effort to run! special trains and -the ekeursiqp rato wifi be In forc& between stations not further away from Buffalo than 150 miles..

The ohl proverb • "To be at * peace prepare for war,” is the secret of the. la tte r part of life’s successes, whether of nations or individuals.>

The difference between the healthy, happy mother who has healthy children to nurse and nouri&h, and the weak,, nervous mother, with a weakling child, is mostly a difference of preparation.

The great preparative for motherhood is Dr, Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, It tranquilizes the nerves, encourages the appetite rind induces refreshing sleep. I t gives the mother Strength to give her child. It imparts elasticity and strength to the organs of m aternity so that the baby’s adveut is practically paintete.

«I take know iMr. fit **, r w i». | — — — *»* w .,1 1 1 ., J)ox 3 6 7 . MMy wif£ had been sick nearly ail her life, and after trying everything I could think of I made tip ray mind to try * Favorite Prescription’ I sent to Chicago and fcot) six bottles, which my wife took, a tablespoonfqt three times a day, until the baby came. She felt better after taking the firft bottlq^and when baby was born he weighed nine and a half pounds. To-day he is six months old and weighs Iwenty.two pounds. He is as good A child ns any one could wish. The doctor S&ys he is ns healthy ns any baby could be, and also the doctor says your • Favorite Pre-crlption • was the cause of such a healthy l>aby. I felt I. owed you this much for the good you did tuv wife and myself. I hope you will mention this to others who may be in need o f such help, and you may refer them to me, as I would bo glad to te ll. of the' good of such a valuable medicine.”

Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt o f 21 one -cent stamps to expense of mailing only.- Aadress R. V. Pierce/Buffalo, N. Yi •

with the other additions aftd improve* ments in the equipment of jthe office t t will present an up-to-date appearance.

AT THE THEATERS.

Passenger m e n of the New York Central say they have reason to expect that the announcement of the appointment of a new 'president of the system is expectedbefore tomorrow night. The .statement was corroborated last night by one in this city who is in a position to know obout what is going on in the matter. It was qualified, however, by tho remark that Mr. Vanderbilt had considerable to say in the selection o f a chief for the road and that it was understood tha t he would take .a stand in tho proceeding within the time mentioned.

Today being » Decoration Day , with crowds of visitors in the city, the Centralwill run its Belt Une grains 10 minutes apart, both ways.

That advertising pays the big corpora­tions is being constantly demonstrated by them in the strides made in issuing beau­tiful folders and distributing, thousands of them through tho country. Among therecent publications is that of the We?t Shore, which is as interesting, unique and instructive as any yet published concern­ing the Pan-Americaft, Its pages aro in­ter persed with dozens of pictures of the prettiest scenes of tho Exposition, to­gether with comprehensive maps of ter­ritory covered by the fines of the W^tet Shore system. ,

“Urban Population in I960,” is tho 'title Of a booklet fresh, from the printers. It is another production of v/the New York Central, /and contains 30 pages of useful information relative to the increase of population of the United States in the past decade. It also contains a fist of the. larger towns of MJncle Sam's domain, glvjng the census statistics up to ^ate in eaeh instance.

An information bureau ha^ been estab­lished in the local headquarters of the Railroad Y. M. C. A., for the convenienceof visiting members of the association. The secretary says the additional quar-

W k a t t h e H o u s e s A r e D o in g , axus T M nir# T h e y P r o m ise ,

The charm of .the acting of E. S. W illard and his fidelity to na tu re m ake him an ever welcome visitor to Buffalo. The plays he is being seen in a re being w arm ly received. This afternoon there will be a special m at- ineej a t which “The Professor’s Love S tory” will be played. Tonight “Tom Pinch" will >be pu t on, and tomorrow n igh t and a t S atu rday’s m atinee “Da­vid G arrick” /Will be seen again. S a t­urday n igh t will see “The Middle­m an.” U

The sale of seats for “The B urgo­m aster,” which opens a t the 1 8 ta r Monday begins a t the theater th is morning.

At the Lyceum T heater III H enry’s M instrels a re draw ing full patronage. A special Decoration Day m atinee will be given.

Sam B ernard will 'be the headliner a t Shea’s T heater next week. As ft speciaj feature there will be A ugustus Cook & Company in a high-class sketch entitled, “Napoleon,” Mr. Cook will be favorably remembered as the original Napoleon who toured Am erica in Sardou’s m asterpiece, “M adame Sans Gene.” Then another featu re of the bill will ‘be the fam ous F au st family, seven m arvelous Aus­tralian acrobats. Miss C lara Clark, a Buffalo woman, wifi m ake her first vaudeville appearance in this city. The show a t Shea’s this week is draw ing large audlencey u t every perform ance.

Although the first perform ance of “The Devil’s D aughter” a t th e Court S tre e t . T hea ter ran with exceptional smoothness a distinct improvem ent hag been noticeable subsequently. stage of the Court S treet T heater i* crowded to , the point of penultim ate strain , b u t the smiling, cooi-headed Mr. Van Osten, the adro it stage director, handles the m ultitude like a skilled chess player, and order is complete and unvarying.

The cast is exceptionally well select­ed and Billy B. Van, who revels a t ltft head, is happily cast and takes ad ­vantage of every chance for fun m ak­ing th a t the piece affords. Nellie O'Neil and Flo P erry are charm ing and will be g reat favorites with the Court S treet T heater audiences. Lenore W hite, who poses as the cen tral figur,e in the living pictures, although surrounded by very shapely women, is of such rare beauty* and sym m etry ari to be the lqdestono for all eyes.

ters which wore fitted up in the adjoining building in Exchange Street are filling up With railroad men, nearly all of whomhave become members of the organiza­tion. Two men have been chosen to take charge of the rooms. They are L. A. Hall, formerly secretary of the branch of the association a t Waverly. He will be assisted bv Ralph Bally, a member of the Buffalo branch.

The passenger and ticket office in Main Street of the Buffalo, Rochester & P itts­burg Railroad is being newly furnished. One of the standard counters used by all the largo offices will be installed, and

The Grand C anvas Theateiyon E lm ­wood Avenue adjoining S ta tier’s Ho­tel will ppen R« season of continuous high-class and refined vaudeville to­day. The following.-array of excellent ta len t wifi partic ipate; Helen M ay B utler’s U. 3. Tafima Ladies’ Band a n d ' o rchestra ,' W ilson's 420,000 ponies, H ale’s m onster P arisian ballet, Spencer Brothers, Irish com edians; Logan W il­liams, monologiet; Wood and Remaey, a th le tic en terta iners; The Zolas* aeria l wonders; Grim and Solora, Marie De- Wolf, May Mazelle and others. One price only, 25 cents.. The sale of seats for Bolossy K i- ra lfy ’s “Constantinople,” which opensa t the Teck T heater next M onday evening, commences tomorow a t 9 A. M. a t the Peter Paul book store and ftt 'the Teck T heater box office.

WHEN GOING WESTDon’t forget tha t the Nickel Pl«t4 Road gives the best service at the lowest rates. Modern high-back seat day coaches mak* travel a pleasure. Elegant sleeping car» and an unsurpassed dining car service. City ticket office 231 Main St., .telephone Seneca 217.

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