THE SCRANTON TRIBUTE-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1S90.
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TEN PAGES.
SCKANTON, FEtimTAItY 21, ISSt).
Jn any ovetu the rlly oC Sornntiii
jisust have better ami I'lcuwr streets.
The Result for Mayor.
6aiituln Molr'a election Is a natural
rest 'H of tht.' popular dissatisfaction
tvitli Democratic city rule. Mayor Dal
ley iV'cted Jlclr and thus unlntcntliui
ally 1 'epnld lilm for tho help i blch
Molr it ml bis backers gave Halley three
years a !,'o.
Captain iUoIr bns befmo blin a splen
did oppt rtunlty. He will lose. It If he
I'aili) to : recoijnlzo that lv was clio,en
tiy the vo tes of men who have no sym
pathy whatever with the narrow pro-t-r-rlptlve
t artlon with which Molr has
In the pas; t been tdcntlllcd: men who
u iv liepulill 'uti from broad party prln
ilple and firin believers In fair play.
Those men s iipporled Molr In the hope
ami I'jipn-tHt Ion that as mayor he will
rise to the llpb plane of elllclent anil
imtrimmeled administration and tt Is
fur Mm to ddtermlne how wtselv their
("iHidcneo haw been placed. It' be shall
r lot i- the eoi'R'iiTe necessary lo enforce
clean methods .In the departments un
det hi" tontiof and shall display the
will and Inclination of a man beholden
.i no class, 'aii or faction, Ihev will
stand by hlin to a man anil help to
trial;.- Ms nrimliilMtrntioii a i"-cord-bi-iiber
for stlc'esV.
On the contraiy. If .In- sh'ill clioose
tr draw liisiiltatioii exclusively fiom
the small tlrde of dfcciedlted party
v r th-ir of the WlMwf-SrraiUnii type
wltn have tiled to npumpriutc jtim us a
pi'lilhal floater to Jiivp Ihcniselves
li out xlnklliff l&to desitivcd oblivion bis
ti.'minlstiatlon will oiit-Uallcy H.illey's.
Ailtnitnl ehfey's ilclk-us.' Is a sii-muk
dm ument which throw pJ doubt upi'ii the
Jostle i' of the strictures recently put-cu
tipon him; but, after all. his proim-Jlon
to i he rank of rear aduUral satlhllos
the eipiltles of the vans and he '.m
well nffoid to be conacnt.
Tho Beef Inquiry.
The testimony thus far adduced be.
fore the aimy beef court of inquiry
liiduateti untunes In the- meat supply
but disclose" no fraud, fieneral Miles'
'xplliit disclaimer of any Intention to
iinimte lrtiudulent jirurtio's is 'iPillt
able to his sen.'e of fairness and pleas
Inn to the count r.. which bad no desire
to lote confidence in the Integrity of Its
war executive servants.
Hut tile evidence as to the inrtitness
of much of the meat supplied to the
arm warrants the investigation which
Miles has lorciil. If makes little differ
ence to the starving soldier on the
flKhtbiK line whether the meat vatfon
which his stomach cannot hold and
which would not nourish him if It
could be ditftsteil is Inedible on ac
count of fraud or on account of ignor
ance at liead'iuarteiv. As a servant of
his country ready tn fight Ids tountry's
battles and willing if necessary to die
In his country's bclialf at the hands of
the enemy th soldier 1" entitled to
food that he can ?nt if human enter
prise can supply if to him. Thus ureal
and rich nation ow s it to htm to kIw
lilm ft food 11 Hieic Is any way under
heaven to provide It and forward it.
The investigation should establish
whether there -was lemlssness or not on
tlic government's part, even though
there may no, have been fraud or wil
ful uilabl!ity. The establishment of
this fait Is necessaiy to a proper nian
ascnunt of uriny matters in futiiie.
. -
, Coincidences.
There is a markeil similarity be.
twren the cases of Stephens, the man
who burned I'aidee hall, and llom
biuiRh. who twice burned Kim Paik
htli'i'h In this city. Colli men enter
tained delusions more or less leal to
llirm of ' grievances foi which ibey
sought revnge in nelt'Jier case did
the alleged injury bear the renwlest
logical reference to their crimes. in
the church destruction, Ilombnuuh
lung to the fancy that previous own
cis of thi land on which the .n-lly
edifice was built bad w longed him and
ills family. Stephens hold a grudg-'
against the college professors, which
whs his oiilv excuse for the hideous
vi line At the trials which followed
thepilsonei'sboth were ctltlcally exam
ineil with a view to establishing evi
dences of Insanity. In both cases the
penalty was Imprisonment, Hum-b.-iugh
receiving the full sentence of
tin years and Stephens nine.
Oddly enough no special evident1
was broimht out at the Stephens trial
lrgardliig Die streak of InsunUv run
ning through his family. The mar
nage of a grandfather witli his own
nit e and a progeney mentally dufec
i!e. besides several near relatives
i bus affected, afford a reasonable su
pli ion that while the man is y din
s' ijus ciank und should be guarded
for more than nine years he is still
mentally Irresponsible for the heredi
tary trait. Again the points of simil
arity are nnttd In tho two -ases un
tier uuestlon, as the man Jl imnaugh,
who was so successful In dsstroylus
Elm Park church, comes from a family
In which Insanity was noted Jn several
generations.
The election jesterday was one of
the conventional "passed off quietly"
kind.
Tor nn Interchangeable Staff and
Line.
txnator Proctor's uiopoeed amend
ment to the Hull army bill making
staff and line Interchangeable, UH Is
true in tho navy, Is favorably received
by at my experts and has the merit
thai it would provide a corps of oillcera
lamlllar with all aides and phases of
tha military service.
The amendment provides that when
a vacancy occurs In tho staff depart
pent, a Una ofllcer sluill be detailed to
fill the vacancy created In the lower
flrrade, but shall not become n perman
ent member of the start nt any time.
The vacancy In the line Is to bo Illicit
by appointment to the lower grades.
As the present staff ofllcers retire the
staff positions will be filled by line
oflleers. who will serve simply by de
tail. Senator Proctor's amendment
will In lime consolidate the Adjutant
General's and Inspector General's de
partments; also the Quartermaster
General's and Commlspury General's
depnttnients. The Medical and Pay
departments will not be aftccted by
the amendment. Senator Proctor believe.-!
that the system of permanent
staff In our army Is nil antiquated one,
and was responsible for many of the
dcllniniencles in the last war. His
proposition Is In line with the bill of
Itepresentatlve MrClellan.of the house,
nnd the suggestions of General Miles
In the bill presented to the senate,
looking to u steady transfer of olllcers
from line to staff nnd their return to
leftlments after being- trained In staff
duties.
It Is possible that In the brief lime
leinalnlng to the present congress
necessary study of details in army re
organization cannot be secured. Hut
the expeilence of Senator Proctor, who
wut sectetury of war under Harrison,
and the recoinmendutlons of practical
soldiers In tln army commands should
go far toward Inclining the senate in
laor of the Pioctor amendment.
The Superior com t has decided that
where Individuals are Injured by rea
son of defective pavements damages
are collectible not from the city or
borough but from the property owners
I-tllPiS to keep the pavements In prop
er lenijlr. This is a leyersal of pre
cedent and custom but It accotds with
colli, 'ion sense.
The One Thing; Needed.
.lust before departing from Pittsburg
for the south lion. H. K. Jones, of the
linn or Jones and Laughlins, one
of the best posted authoiltles in th
iion tiade In the world, was asked bv
u Pittsburg Times representative for
an opinion upon the business outlook.
This, Is what he said:
I find Imsiuox aki.s ,ill Hues nt tile
lion 11111I steel ttade j-itlsfaetory. with a
good demand for all el,if'ei- of lniuuifai
turnl material. Pi lees an low, and hne
In en ever since 1M, but notwithstanding
(Ills, conrervatiw niuiiiigeineiil of tin In
dlisliv inis made it possible lor niuuiilac
tureis to ecuie 11 sntislsictnrv piolll and
(ticie die no grounds for complaint. The
pies, ut (oi.dltlon i.f the trade is all that
ci.uhl he asked, except probahlv a little
advance 111 pi Ices for niaaufactuinl nvi
teilul; hnt a heavy advance in prices il
vu.s lcsults disastrm sly to till" interest,
mating panicky speculation that is hurt,
fill. A to the filtcie of tin. buslm-f it
H more than promising .iiul manufactur
ers could not wish for alivtlilnc better.
There h a large volume of business hi
"Iglil that will keei) maiiiilactureis bu-y
for 11 long time and m w biilness Is de
veloplng all over the eouutry every day.
These conditions uie latgel.v due to a wle
piop'etlvo turitr and r. stable national ad-
ministration on the hasls of a sound na
tional fitiarne that has re-eMabllshed the
nation's credit. instllliHl life into Invest,
melds and set to work the many grem In
dustrles of Ibis country which so Ion?
stood Idle. "What is tine of the iron anil
steel trade Is also true In all other lines
of business. Whenever you llnd this
branch of Industry prospeileg the gen
elal business of tile countr Is nlvas
good. The ir.ni and steel business Is a
barometer that Indicates the conditions.
I look for continued prcspi rlly and n
sie.ulv development of our great resources
in all parts of the com.tr. bringing
about an era of piosperity tli.it will piok
ably eclipse anything- so far reeouled In
the rtiuiaW of our manufacturing, fann
ing and nthek- interests. This will ctcnte
a demand that will keep every man In
the country busy at good living wage for
a loiur time to com'.
Mr. Jones Is a man cautious of
speech and not given to over confi
dence. 7ls statement can be rell-d,
upon Implicitly. What he says Is said
in substance by other prominent bus
iness inch elsewheie. It is the opinion
or the best judges of business In Scran
ton. One of them recently nnde a w?
ger with a friend that the outpni; i
anthracite coal for U!)!l would b? near
er .o.fiOO.0UO than 4.1.000.0un tons an ex
pression of confidence which, If it
means anything, means much more
than the recent average of employment
tn local labor In the mines and mote
piosperous conditions In all local trad"
channels. It Is a fact now generally
known that the -local steel rail plant
has orders booked ahead to keep lis
mills busier foi many months to
come than .they have been 'for a num
ber of years past, and tne meaning
of this to the business life of the com
munity al large does not have to lie
explained.
Altogether the immediate future Is
bright with promise and It Is to be
hoped that this happy condition will
pinions itself indefinitely. The perpet
uation of It can be assured, however,
only In one way and that in the man.
tier pointed out yesterday. The Indus
tries of Scranton must be further diversified.-
Plants must be established
which will reiuosont a vailed produc
tion, so that even when dull times
come some of them will be busy all the
lime and serve as bulwarks agalnsi
local depression. Scranton has the
fuel. It has the shipping facilities. Jt
has the labor. it is a popular and
piogressive city with a continually in
creasing prestige. All that It needs to
leap forward Into the forefront of the
onward procession is more active capl
tal ready for the proper eiuoutagement
of new enterprises.
lleplylng to a rnporter who had quer
ied hint as to a reported iiuarrel be.
tween himself and Governor ISoosevelt,
Senator Piatt the other day said: "I
have to sntllo some limes at these
r.torles of quarrels bptween Goteruor
Hoos-ovelt and myself, for the reason
that they am so old-fashioned. If t
were 11 political writer for a newspaper
I would forsake that old style of politi
cal Journalism and try to tret at tip;
facts. How can any man with an
ounce of common sense quarrel with
Governor Roosevelt" lie Is thoroughly
upright and honorable in all his meth
ods, political, social and business; he
isn't a political bunco stnerer. He dif
fers manfully and In stralBhtforward
fashion and tells you so: then wo all
get to work and try to find out what
is for the best interests of the Repub
llcan paity of the state of New York."
What a delightful contrast to Pennsyl
vania, I.
itIia n.,, pfIvh... i.n
,.u ,iu, ouici nun isaucu an eiau- 1
orato sipDlcmcnt with half-tone lllui-1
Irntlons which pictures and describes
the Industrial nnd commercial life of
Troy with admirable thoroughness.
The Times In vigor, enterprise anil
Influence Is easily the leader hi the In
tel lor Journalism of the Umpire state.
The fart so studiously brought by
the Invcstleatlng committee that Gen
eral Miles rile some of the embalmed
beef Is nothing' In Its favor. Vp In the
Klondike huncor linn recently forced
prospectors to eat shoe strings und ot
ter skin coats.
Agonclllo's mission to Europe will at
least sufllce to Inform hint of the fact
that no Kuropcnn nation Is anxious
to treud on Undo Barn's corns.
A prominent minister is delivering"
lectures on Ananias at Honcsdale, and
the citizens do not know whether to
feel flattered or not.
Admiral Schley appear to have kept
a little ammunition In reserve.
TOLD BY THE STARS,
Dally Horoscope Drawn by AJacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabo Cast: 1.0S a. m., for Wednes
day, Kebruaiy 22, 1W.
A child bom on this day will notice that
scvenil promising candidates of yesterday
now have a numb feeling about the solar
ple.xu;-.
Although It Is not her blttliday Martha
w'll ho very much In evidence nt tea par
ties and dinners today.
Kpraldnt,- of Washington's birthday,
hatchets, etc., wo are reminded that sev
eral persons seeking eqice In Scranton
got It where the chicken encountered the.
cleaver.
Theie is a eiirvalure in the backbone or
winter.
Tho political groundlioijs exhibited con
siderable timidity yesterday.
Ajacchus' Advice.
lo not l.urnil from the house top if
election icsults are unsatisfactory. The
minority voter should always think grll
and sawhlekorv.
Urgent Need of an
Open Door in China.
'torn Sir Charles rseivsford's Addiess
He! ore the Chicago Hoard ot Trade.
The liiiltual resomces of the country
ato simiil.v enormous. They uie peilcctly
lucalculnhle. The possibilities ot trade
In the futiiie in limitless. Uvea now,
with the energ.v and enterprise of the
forelgnei hi I'hlra. we foreigners have
barely scratched the sutl'aee of that great
country with tegaid to the possibility of
trade In the future. There are thlee lea
souk. One is the extraordinary exclu.
slveness ot tile Chinese, the distrust of
the foreigner going Into the counti v. An
other is the dlllke of the foreigner iren
trall.v. And the third and mosl Impor
tant Is the antiquated form of govern
ment which Is existent In that country.
Those three causes really prevent tlnse
developments which are ortly natural in
11 country that has the some resources as
China,
o
Now cornea the point, of the filiate.
Whatever the government of China says,
whatever the teeling of the Chinese peo
ple may be. on thing is alisolutelv ier
taln. that China will be opei-c.il up.' The
greatest civlllzer In the world is the rail,
way, the' line of communication, and va
rious enuntiles your own country in par
ticularhave obtained citiccssteiu for
building railwas; and I i.eed not tell
you when once, the- American gels a
concession to do a thing he Is verv certain
to do It. Therefoie China is certain to
he opened up In the near future bv men -is
of these railways, (liven, then, that China
will be opemi! up, how is ft to be opened
up for the benefit o! all nations, for toe
betielll ot the Chinese themselves, in the
Interest widi h trade leptesents. the in
Idlest of civilization and the Intt rests
of humanity and tiade and commerce'.'
Hut mom than all. how is it to he opemd
up In a peaceful manner with icgard to
the claims and the wishes of all nations-.'
I have a suggestion to make as to this.
My suggestion is this: l'iist and fuie
most. it is necersary for comtneiclal en
iterprNe mid industry and Investment
that China should hold the open door all
through that empire. Now, what is Hie
open door? The open door In China Is no
new suggestion. It Is ineiely that tho
treaties as they stand :i.l uvki ..1, .,,1.1
he held to at this moment and not altered.
v Hat are the existing treaties? They
uie tieatlts thai no loiuitry Is to an
nex teriltorv. no eoimti-v li ,, in,-.. ......
L-reiRii rifflits In Chlra. The open door
means, as yon Know, a lair Ileal and no
favor to all nations:. 11 lu ,-,.u A-,.,,,.nk.u.,
by one of our lending statesmen at home.
Arthur Halfour. an equal opportunttv for
traders of all nations. That policy, as
you are very well awaie. has always been
the policy of Great Hrltaln. Jt i better
to lie honest and tt-.rifLiit rvi.t- .1.. .....
hold that pulley? Hecause wo know it is
Metier lor us.
0
llut It does liniiitt-ri in lu. , nn..., ,1...,
is not inlnilcable to any other nation, and
by which traders of all nations ca-.i
go and divide, very great advantages In
any country where we hold the domina
tion 01- where we bnv-H enlnnlpu ,,..?: ..
policy as the open door must lie for th"
xeiierai jjouu 01 me wnoie world, but
natuially it is lor the general good first
and foremost of the commercial world.
I may say with regard to our policy of
the open door, the Hrltlsh polity, that wo
have extensive colonies all over the
world. Where those colonies are I have
been to every single Jtrltish colony I
find Ameilcan traders, a veiv large num.
ger of German traders and sometimes we
li".r the Uiltlsh trader sr.Wng: "Oh,
such and such an Individual, n German
or an Amcrienn. 1h limlnru.aiimi- m, in
dustry." Well, that Is not our business
iiiuiviiii.aii ministries. Uur business Is
the Volume of trade, ami Ir lu t :,. ,,i.
vantage of our colonies If any ntiinbei- ot
Germans or any number of Americans go
to these colonies and carrv out thfir
business under the laws of those col
onies, which aro open to all, because tint
Increases tho vnlnmn nf liitiuv, ,.a., 1,
is tho volumo ot llrltish trade we have to
ionic to, ami not the individual industries.
o
Durlnir once nr ininn t ,,.. ,-ijtio tn
China I found some Hritlsh merehaii's
complaining very bitterly about their In
dustries. I said: ".My dear man. 1 can
not help you tit nil. We have made our
arent riches, we linen hn,innii.i i.. m.i..
question of the open door, Jf your Indus
try is nun 1 am sincerely Knrrv for vou.
hut you must go and try something else
or go on the same lines as the man who
is crowdlmr vou out. vt n nrii,.i,u,u
cannot Intcrfero with this bold, free pol
icy 01 1110 cpen uoor wnctever we have
doinlnntlon or wherever we have any
nowcr." Tho result of 11, nt a1i,. i
that there Is not one of our colonies
which costs the Uiltlsh taxpaxer one
single shilling-. They nil work on lb"lr
own lines, they xvoik In their own xvuv.
nut iney are or enormous Importance 10
us. because lhex Inrrnnun .-,,,,. ,..,.i. ...,,
...-.-..,.. V.,., ., (,(,,- ,1111,
commerce at home, whether it Is by ttie
aid of the American, the German nr the
Hritlslier is tmmntei-li.1 1,0, ..,,,. .-i,.r.n
of trade Is Increased at home by the
poucy wmcu xve carry out with regard to
tho colonies,
0
It t lid lllin hllMInn IV....... ., .. ,. .
,' " " '" .,, ,U lllllll jl nil Ol
theories in nr.iettnul f-nnii..nw.,, tio U
, ,: ' nv ,..v.,,vu iiitv- ;vuiii.
r-i-lves. Tho great emotion is the prac
tical point, how aro ure wc to keep tbla'i
door open? t went very carefully into all
tin t ratio statistics. 1 did not only take
tho opinions of my countrymen. I went
to tho American rqi-nlly, and I shtdl
ever bo grateful for Hie way the Amer
ican merchants received mo In China.
1 xvent (o the Gormai s, ami 1 shall be
equally grateful to the. Germans; ami 1
Went very often to the Japanese. Hut 1
came to this conclusion, that Ihc oppor
tunities of great trudo In China aro cer
tainly gathered by four countries that
Is, Great Urltaln-1 pbotild ny Otcitt Urlt
olu last by courtesy Jet mo say America.
Germany, Juj-nn nnd Great Hrltaln. M
suggestion was that there should bo somo
sort ot eominciclal nlllnncc or commer
cial understaidlng between these ccun
tries. Hint oxvn tho trade, with regard
to tho future development of that trade,
and with regard to the rccurlty xxhlrh
should exist In China for the trade that
there Hat present.
0
It may be said to me, why am I not
courteous? Win- do I name these four
countries and leave out. HikkIil and
Kralico? I don't xvant to be discourteous
to any nation, and I never am, but 1 look
upon this, from n business point of view,
nnd why, when Russia and France have
no trade that Is, Import trade Into
China, ate tbev lo bo fltst considered?
That Is the reason I havo suggested these
four countries In the nature of an alli
ance. The two countries, Russia and
France, will niturally say they have
trade. So they have. They hax-e an ex
port trtule. ltusfla has a very large
amount of tea and Trance lm. a very
largo amount of silk, but both of those
"imtnodltles are carried in Hritlsh bot
toms. My point is tho import trade.
The development ot trade In China must
bo by Import trade to begin with, and tho
lour countries that have that import
trade should do somethinp In order to
keep the door open for the future. Xnxv.
these four countries nlo aro the four
countries that do not xvlsb to have tiny
territory whatever. What they want Is
slmplv commercial fneilom. I do not
xx'ant to say anything ungraceful about
France and Russia, but In the past his
tory has shown us that they ore coun
tries which like territory. 1 do not blame
France and Russia a hit. Hut the point
Is that the four countiles I name do not
xvant territory. Tli"V xx-aut a. commeicl'il
freedom, and therefore In my opink.11
they are the four countries that me to
trill: out what Is best xvlth regaid to keep
ing the door oneu In China.
SAMUEL SLOAN.
l-'tom the Chicago Tlmes-lleruld.
President nt different times of seven
teen distinct railroads, but never a sub
oullnate transportation otllelal. This is
the extraordinary railroad career of Sam
uel Sloan, who has Jut retired from the
presidency of the Ilelaxvare, f.ackaxxnnu.i
and Western, giving way to one of the
best tiaiispurlatlon men of the xvest, a
ChlcHgoaii, W. H. Tniesdale. Otllce. boy,
clerk, merchant king, statesman, million
aire, railroad ruler. This Is an epitome
of his actixlty. Sloan rno like .1 comet,
and during a business career of half .1
century the star never waned. He ie
tired at the age of !2. commanding the n
ipect of all. his brilliancy and ability In
no xvay Impalied. In energy and ph.x st
eal endurance only Is he Impahed as com
pared with the Sloan men knew In his
prime.
0
Combatlxv when opposed, steadfast hi
npinlyns and filendshlps, xvonderfullv
adept in alisothlug facts and flguiex,
Bruit In business, the oxtieme of dem
ocracy, hating demonstration and sham,
cautious, conservative, persistent but not
obtruslxe. Samuel Sloan xvon his xvay to
the top of tho ladder and from the lowest
rung. At 13 he. xxas an olllre boy, at 27 he
was partner in a big mercantile estab
lishment, and at :iN he xvas president of a
big railroad, in all his half-century of
business life his xvay has been unevent
ful. Ills habits weie as regular as clock
xvork, and the fruit of his living is his
hale old age. Only oiue, It is said of
him, xxvts he tempted from the narrow
path. That xxas in 1SJ. xxheli he
neglected his hustmss long enough to
serve a term In the New York legislature.
lie soon lecox-ered from this, hoxvover,
and has been a model ever since.
0
Mr. Sloan came to this country at the
age of ::. xvhether against bis will is not
stated, though substquent developments
must havo convinced 1dm that his parents
made a wise move. He xvas born "of a
Cliilstmas morning" in JM", in a lit tie
town seven miles from Helfast. Ireland.
His parents were Scotch ITeshvteilans.
Young Sloan was sent to the first n gu
lar public school established in Nexv York
eltx. and he xvas known as "Ho. 1." Leav
ing there, he xvas an attendant upon the
grammar school of Columbia colli ge wh"ii
his father died, leaving the family de
pendent. There were four boys besides
himself, and the struggle for exlsuni'
xvas not an easy one. He went to xvoik
In an otllce, ills duties being chiefly to
wield the bloom, lie xvorked bard from
the start. At IT he xvas a. cleik in th"
house of McHride ,r Co. McHrlde xvas
the merchant king of New York. He had
a reputation for business ability, honesty
and Integrity. Young Sloan took him for
a model,
Al ';" Sloan had saxed a little money.
Ho became a partner hi the great house
of McHrlde .Vr Co. He made money. He
Invested his earnings In railioad proper
ties. In !i.-3 tho Hudson River Railway
company, now a part of the New York
Central, ivantnl a luisidenl. Sloan xvas
chosen. He filleted upon his railroad ea
leer without ever having served the usual
apprenticeship. The choice xx'n xvell made.
The railroad met .storms of financial ad
versity, hut Its president carried It
through tliein all. The stock xvas xx'orth
$17 a share xxhen he became the chief ex
ecutive. When tho road xvas sold to the
Vaiiderbllts In the cully T0's tho stock
brought llo a shaie. Ills leputatlon ns ,i
railroader xvas thorough!) established.
Ho was made commissioner of the Hunk
lines, including all of the hading roads
of the east, lie managed xvitb ability all
of the association affairs. During tie
xvar he became a director of the- Dela
ware, lackaxianna and Western, shortly
after the return of peace he xvas made
its president. In ISO't he also xxas presi
dent of the Green, Nexv York, l.acke
wanna and Western, tho Oswego and
Syracuse, thu Syracuse, Hlngliamloii and
Nexv York, the t'tica, Chenango and Sus
qiielianna Valley, the Morris und Hssex
Valley, the. l'asialc and Delaware, the
Fort Wax ne and Jackson, the Gramiiiu,
Winona and St. Paul, the Nexvark and
Hloomfleld and the Chester and Warren
At different times he has been president
of the Home, Watertoxvn and Ogchnshurg.
the Michigan Central, the Fort Wayne,
Jackson and Snglr-axv, the Marquette.
Houghton and Ontonagon and the Inter
national and Great Northern.
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Mr. Sloan llx-es with the regularity or
clockxvork. Ho rises at 7 o'clock In the
morning, tin has breakfast at 7..W. Ai
:).) l,o starts for his oflice. At t o'clock
bo has lunch. Promptly at 1 he starts
for home. At CM he dines. At 11 be l.
in bed. His business nffalrs are attend
ed to with the same methodical care. For
years lie kept thoroughly abreast of the
times, though bo xvas In many ways vcrv
peculiar. Ills Ideas of Sunday were of
tho Scotch Presbyterian order. He would
not permit tho running of trains on Sun
day if It could bo avoided. For this rea
son the suburban service of the road xvas
operated but six days In the xvcok.
Through trains bad to be tun. Ills finan
cial ability Is marked by the fact that tho
lMd has not paid less than 7 ixr cent,
per annum In dividends for many years.
NO FREE SHIP BILL.
From the Nexv Yoik Sun.
Tho minority ot tho house committee on
tho incicliaiit marine have submitted a
rciOrt against the Ilanna-Payno ship
bounty bill, duvlarlli'v that at $8,230,010 n
year for the prescribed Ixvrrty ears It
would cost JKft.liOO.OW. Hut xvhut substi
tute for bounties do the minority pro
pose? Froo ships. In other xvanls, they
w'ould reverse a policy which has suh
ulsteil almost from tho foundation of the
gox'crnment, and is embodied In registry
laws still on the statute book. Tim pur.
poso of tho laxv of 17M xx-as to give ua a
merchant marine that Is not dependent
on forcicn shipyards, That policy was
successful for seventy years, our tonnogo
In 1S61 havlnt; risen to tho great total of
6,53D,81 tons. Then como tho civil war,
xvlth tho raids of Anglo-Confcdcrato
cruisers, which nearly ruined our foreign
carrying trade. Nevertheless, congress,
against appeals to resort to frco ships
for recovering lost ground, clung to tho
registry laws, nnd on Juno CO, 1897, our
total documented tonnago had reached
1,709,020 tons, or about one-cighth short
of the high mark ot ISO).
o
What protection for tho American ship
yard can do has also been shown by tho
working of tho laxv passed about n dozen
years ago, which required that all xvar
shlps should thereafter bo made wholly
of American material. For a time tho
price of our xvar vcssls xvas high, but It
has slnoo been steadily falling, and sev
eral years ago Secretary Herbert was
ft bio to declaro tint the prlco per ton
for tho gunboats Nashville, Helena, and
Wilmington, built at Newport Neivs,
seemed "fully as low as is paid for simi
lar xvotk In Franco and England." Tho
reduction on the cost nf battleships tit tho
last eight years has been no less remark
able, xvhllo recently xve hnve seen Ameri
can ship armor underbidding tho foreign
product for usex In Kurope, and cruisers
and battleships ordered hi Philadelphia
and In San Francisco for the navies of
Russia and Japan. Our transatlantic
shipment of American steel rails Is ono
of the great industrial xvonders of tho
hour, and It would be bard to set a limit
to the prospects of tho steel Industry.
o
The commissioner ot navigation believes
"the time Is not many yeats distant when
wo shall build ships of Iron or steel bet
ter and more cheaply than they can be
built anywhere tn the world," and cer
tainly tho tendency Is that xvay. Tho tren
ship proposition, then, is out of the ques
tion. Instead nf being a movement or
progress It would be one of retrograde.
Whatever other policy may commend it
self to congress, It deserves no considera
tion. The laxv of May 10, ISA.', admitting
foiolgn built ships on the const! notion of
a like amount of tonnage here, has been
of benefit, nnd an extension of it is 0110
feature of the Payue-Hanna bill, Hut in
no case should any freo ship bill, In the
full sense of that term, bo passed.
PESSIMISM.
From the Nexv York Sun.
it Is very remaikable Hint at this time
xvlien there Is so much pride In American
unlvetslty development there are appar
ent no cxldetices of coh.cidcnt and corre
sponding progress in any department of
Intellectual, effort, more- especially In cur
rent literary discussion, in science clover
men aro turned out, end they begin tb.dr
careers with some paper which Is full of
promise, but almost Invariably they itop
there, Wc. should make an exception in
the field of medicine and surgery, for In
It original and progressive minds are
giving Ulstli ction to this country; but
nowhere else do we lind them. The pre
vailing Indications are of smartness and
shallowness: and In literature no suc
cessors rarulrg xvlth tho more notublo
writers xvho had 'won a right to serious
literary consideration a generation ago
are mtiklng their appearance. In both
form and substance the nexv writers aro
xv.intlng. They do not seem to havo
reached Hie stage of mature intellectual
development. If in this younger genera
tion of literary aspirants there has ap
peared a mind of distinction xve have
failed to discover it. Never since there
began to bo a. considerable American lit
erature has It seemed at so low an ebb
as It Is now, never a. time xvhen raxx and
untrained minds were so impudent in
putting themselves forward as leaders In
thought and masters In art.
Our journalism, too, has never beforo
made so deplorable an exhibition of shal
lowness. Insincerity, intellectual feeble
ness and moral debasement us It Is mak
ing now, and among the examples cf
greatest degradation are newspapers of
the greatest pretensions to superiority.
They seem to bo Incapable of understand
ing the difference between evidence and
assertion, proof and surmise, and keep up
senseless cries on the theory that the pub
lic also is incapable of leasoning.
and
Furnaces
LiAilUKMT ASS011TMEXT OF RANUUS
IN TUB CITY.
Plymblinig
and TSeeioE
GtMSTER k 1F0IRSYTI,
325 and 327
PENN AVENUE.
.RUffiS
I very well remember the evening I arrived at Madison.
My cousin Bertha was to meet me there, coming up from Mil
waukec. She was not used to traveling and had, when she
arrived, what she called a sick headache. I induced her to
swallow a RIPANS TABULE and in half an hour she was
well enough to join me at supper at the hotel. I heard no more
of the headache, but next day Bertha bought somo RIPANS
TAHULES for herself and I know that she has not had one
of those attacks for nearly a year now.
VH IIAVF. A NUMIIElt OF FtNIJ
ODD
MPS
that we will close out
AT COST
This is a chaucc to get a
good lamp for little money.
ME OM0N& FERBBK,
ALi!EY CO.
42'J I.ockaxvauoa Avsau
ALWAYS BUSY.
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Our Slices In nunlllv always on top, al
xvays easy on your feet and very easy on
your purse keep us "Always Busy." At
tend our 25 days' sale.
Lewis, EeSFj & Mvies,
"asKnw-
You cannot think, no matter lioxv
hard you try, of a more convenient
and better equipped stationery store
than ours. In addition to the largest
lino of ofllcc supplies in Northeastern
Pennsylx-anla. We hnve Hlank Books
of every description, Typewriters' Sup
plies, Draughting Matcrlnls, Letter
Presres. Postal Scales, etc. We aro
agents for Kdison's Mimeographs and
supplies, and the famous Wernlckt Sec
tional Book Cases.
A complete line of Kauffman's Cor
poration Books in stock.
Reynolds Bros
STATIONERS nnd ENGRAVERS,
150 Wyoming Avenue.
Book
Biedfai
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IS WHAT VOU Klll-'ICINH 11'' YOU
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Will open on Wednes
day of this week and we
invite every thrifty house
keeper to make our Linen
Department her head
quarters during the nexfc
ten days.
We cannot enumerate
here the many good val
ues that are in store for
you in
Fins TaMe Llieis,
s,
m.
Towels,
it a, Etc,
But can assure you that
you will find our low
prices on Fine Goods fully
as tempting as on any of
our previous Linen 5ales.
Sale opeis 01 Weolies-
day, Feb. 22,
m tei
510 and 512
LACKAWANNA AVENUE
$-
The Modern Haiiowmib Sronr. j
Good Paint, properly applied
;ulds much to the appearance,
of articles. We have
Irase Faiits
&"
Batto Enamels
Bicycle Enamels
Yanisles aai
Yaralsli Stains
A complete stock of Paint
Brushes always on hand.
FOOTE h SiEAl CO.
110 WASHINGTON AVE.
The HMot &
Coeedl Co
Heating, Plumbing,
Gas Fitting, Electric
Light Wiring, Gas
and Electric Fixtures,
Builders Hardware;
434 Lackawanna Avenue
HENRY BEL1N, JR.,
I (jt'iitirfi Agunt for ttii Wyoinmi
I nutrloir,.
llliilnj, JilnMlnf, Kportlns, Hmoitoioil
una ititi Itepiuiuo Ulieuiloi.
I'omp.itiy' I
HIGH EXPLOSIVES.
tulcty I'm?, Cum mill KxiilcKlori
itoom luJ Coiinell HulUUa;.
tturuiHuu.
FN
Annual
Linen
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