THE SCRANTON TlUBUNJfr-TUESDAY, JAjSTTARY 16, 1900.
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SCIIANTON, JANUARY 1C, 1900.
TEN PAGES.
Would Tlionin 11. Hour, tln lntcst
objector to thu onenlni; of Wyoming
avenue-, lllto to bo the meant of ilppilv
liiK Scianton of a pi Inline plant cm
plo.lnK TOO men? U lie propnred to
make coixl thu SW.ono a yar In unqes
hlch muy be lost through delay?
An American Object Lesson.
ADOCTMUNT of present In
teiest anil lilstoilcal nlue
has just boi n Issued by the'
ro eminent. It embodies
the annual report of the depaitnient of
posts for Cuba foi the llsial tar etui
il June SO, ISO1); or, In other wemR
the 111 st sW months of American rule
In the Mtinil; and unlike the iivoi.iw
department lepoit, It Is replete with
noveltv.
It Is pei haps known that when, upon
apl llntment by I'ostinustcr Oeneral
Smith, V.. (1. Rathlmnc was sent Ij
Cuba to oiRanle a postal set vice on
Ami i lean line", the Spinlaids had pie
pired the w.iv for hlni by destiojlm;
eeiy leeotd which could possibly aid
In the peifoiinance of .Mi. Ralhbone's
task, Tlieie was not a list at hcad
quaiteis of the poMm.ihtt.rs tlnotlKli
out the IMnnel.nor a post.iKe stamp nor
a cent ol money. The Ameilean olll
clals diieeted by Mr. Rathbone h id not
only to tike hold of a Minnie task In
a MranKe land, Inhibited jy peoples
spe.ikliiK a stiange tonKUe, but they
had to culminate their woik fioin th"
founiHtlons up. Let us see how they
succeeded.
Director Oeneiil Rathbone assumed
contiol Jin. 1, 199 Refoie the last
of Tebiuaiy he had sciuied lnfoiim-
tlon Lonceinltiff 19! of the 2S" post
olllcts ltpoited to bo on the Isluiel,
and had put those its olllci.s In kooJ
lunniiiK onkr. In most Instances in
(haiRc of a nathe postmaster. ThU
may be a Rood place to say that al
though the reputation of the Cubans
for honesty doi s not stand IiIkIi, the
chief of the ele teethe buieau In con
nection with the postnl eel Ice, who
hid clnrRe of the niiu.ils of the nathe
postal emplojc-, lepoiti tint while 492
Cub.ms wue at the clii-e- of the llsc.il
ear employed In postal woik, only one
eao of undoubtt d theft 1ml ilenel
opetl ilmliiK the s months and with
in fort-el(,'ht bonis the culprit In thlj)
ease was iINcomui, ai rested and ie
niandid for til tl. In J.inu.ity M bu
le.ius weie oiKanled, Including tln
atue, chief ileik, postal accounts, ap
pointments, transposition and ti.ins
lation, the lattei of i special Import
ance, since to many of the AnieiUain
emplotd Spanthh was jet an un
known tongue. To tlu"e weie subse
fin ntly .idded btneaus lelntinc to pos
tal money oideis, special aKents, iorIs
ttatlon, dead Utteis and dlsbuise
ments. A KkiI depaitnient Is in pin
cess of oiRanlzitlon.
One of the c.uly questions to be con
sldeied was that of tianspoitatlon of
the mills, in the alienee of a lorn
plete uiilway sjstem the depaitmeit
had to negotiate larsely with the
steamship lines skirting the co.isf.
Theie arc -e'en of those lines. Iwr
of tluni, after consultation with Mi.
Rathbone, asrieed to cany the malls
free until June "0 net, Thiee mule
Might chaiKis, nKKietratlng J.'.JOO per
annum. 1'ndei SpmlMi mle the cost
of steamship ti.ins-poit.Ulnn of instil ir
malls had bun about $141,000 a jeai.
The cost of the tlilitj" l.illway route a
at present In use with a total mileage
of 1,048 Is 51,914 a je.u. Thlity-lhe
star toutes, with TO'i mileage, a fea
tiue new- under Ameilean mle, cos:
$t f.Ci a je.ir.
One of the most ladlcal changes ef
fected In any one branch on the Island
took place In the lallway mall hen lee.
8is Mi. Kathbone: "We found the
postal ileikb without well dellned
methods of woik, without much idei
of the leal thuactir of the s-eiie
expected of them, woiklng the mall on
two seats tinned togethei j without
unlfoim to dlstlnguNh them, and in
many cases subonllii Uing legitimate
woik to that of caiijlng p.iueW and
een letteis which weie handed them
illreitly, foi the dellveiy of which,
both Pijieels nnd letteis, they ie,cehel
a fee; and often these fees, If Infor
mation is couott, amounted to moi
tjian; pie 'salary All thlH Is changed.
. Wtllol file jfii ogue'nov which add
gieatly to the safety of the nialK
Cluks'aie thoioughly'' Instructed Pi
tilt ii wojlc and In neaily eveiy In
stance tuko an Intelligent Inteiest In
It. Tlieir woik Is done In seasonably
v'tll ailanged tompuitments In second
class cais; a uniform has bien pre-
,scjlbed which wllliadd to the appear
ance of the cleilcs, and also, I think,
will tend to make them take pilde in
the position. The practice of allow
ing Hievelerks to enrry panels and let
teis and pcisonally deliver them to
the addressee, has been sto'pped."
., On Juno CO, 1S99, them weio 239 of-
flees In opeiatlon, distributed union;
th six provinces, as follows: Hn-
"vaiia, 00; Matanas, 4S; I'inar del RIa,
30; I'ueito I'rlnclpo, 7; Santa Uaia,
64; .Santiago, 30. At these 239 otlicea
there were, on June 30, TM emplojey
Including postmasteis and acting post-
,niastcis. Of these, C9 weie. Americans
aiuMC weie Cubans, At the dose of
Jtlu'Jfisc.al yriy, Ireo dellveiy had been
j. established at 21 ofllccs, and cariien
.eni emplojed In the dellveiy of the
mill.
r iThv money older system was n Van
n InnovaUon which nulckly estab-
J Hsliryt Jt,spR,' M'hen Mr. Rathbono took
himvjieJVrti'vi, SI inTlltnty posi sta
tion.H'jvftjr.mimi'y n(de,iif wepsoid to
soliveis. tU montliH later the'ic wti.-
J" money ordpr oltlcc open rogularlv
to nil the people. In the, first uunrtcr
1,409 domestic money orderR, ippresent
Ing not ciulte $4'),n00, were Issued; ut
this tlmn the army was ntlll In Cub.i.
In the second quartet, after the army
hml been largely reduced, 3,;i6r domes
tic orders, representing nearly $130,003,
were Issued, an Increase of 1,936 orders
nnd over M),000 In amount. For the
same quarters the domestic orders paid
nuiiibeied 712 and 3.2C7 respectlvetj",
and the amounts were tJI.934,70 and
$1 iJ,fi;s,C9, an Increase of 2,ftn In num
ber and $103,703 99 In amount. Of In
ternational orders payable In the Unit
ed States, the records show 6,"?C2 In the
first quarter, representing $174,983 91,
and, In the second quarter, 11,402 or
ders, repiesentlng $110,724 00, on In
crease of ,,010 orders representing $10),
740 lfi notwithstanding the reduction of
the nrmj So gieat did the demnn I
for International money orders beconi
nt a time subsequent to the period co -end
In the lepoit that Mr. Rathbono
hud to Incteixe the fee and make a
i tile forbidding one pel son to take out
moio than (he oiders to one pijee in
one d.tj. In one day In VJavana 1.21-'
oideis were puichaeil, representing
tin,0ifi 02.
As an Illustration of Spanish meth
ods, over 2,000 pieces of lindellveied
liglsteied mall matter of a declared
value of $7,000, the accumulation it
foui j eats' caielciness, were found in
the Havana postofllce when the Amerl
c ans took possession, and they had the
pleasuie of finding the owners, which
they speedily did. Slmllaily an accu
inul itlon of thousands of pieces of or
dinal y mall, some of It dated as far
back an ISM. was disposed of bv a
dead letter buieau. In all, this bu
ieau, in the six months, handled 73.0SS
pieces, of this umount, .'.7,347 pieces,
or a little moie than one-half, weie
disposed of unopened, 3",4J7 piece be
ing returned to count! lis of oilgln,
1,00 pieces leturned to senders, ns per
cards and requests, and "0 pieces deliv
ered to applicants Of the 36, 311 pieces
which wete opened, 1,741 were delivered
to addiessee-s, 1 1!09 were filed, 11 ate
awaiting evidences of delherj-, an 1
3!,2ro of no value, and which could not
be returned to wilteis, were destroj'cd.
It Is a m-uter of Inteiest to know thai
undelivered mall was received fiom
and leturned to sKty-nlne foreign
countries, cov cilng all civilised poi
tlons of the e nth.
At the be ginning of a woik so Im
poitant as all this, many expenses
ailse which, once met, do not recur.
In the Hi st sl months the postollbe
sjsteni In Cuba ot $20",,r,72 (11 and the
nctuil receipts fiom cm rent business
weie $l.u,lJS 02, leaving a deficit of
$11",,1S 02. We undei stand that the
sjstem Is now paving Its way. Rut In
any event It Is a notable object lesson
of practical American methods and as
such Is woith to Cuba and the woiU
many times Its money cost.
Dors the law permit coastcis to
mike cripples of themselves? If so,
It shouldn't.
The Alain Question.
As wii.b nr. onsr.RVnn in
another column, the Phila
delphia Record, which on
November Hi last published
the lepoit that a luge eampilgn fund
had been subseiibcd for use 111 the leg
islative districts this jear against
Qii.iv, now asserts the tiuth of Its re
pel t ns pilnted on that date The
men whom It had In mind ns the pro
moters of that fund are the same men
lipialeled daily by the Press as desir
ing to accomplish the purification of
I'ennlvinia Republican politics, b.v
eliminating the pernicious u'-e of
mono, lestoilng power to the people,
demolishing boss!.m, etc., etc.
Tor sajlng that the organizers of
this fund were boasting of It, The
Tiibuna was accused by the Press of
Iving. AVe considered the Record ar
ticle a boast and supposed, from the
Reeoid'a past co-operation with the
In'-uigents, that It was an authorized
mouthpiece responsive to the Wnna
ni.ikor influence. This supposition
having provcil eiioneous nnd unfair
to the Ricord, wo now gladly wlth
diaw It; but upon the main point tint
a huge fund intended fop use in the
Dav Id Mnrtln manner has been col
lccted by the Insmgents we refer the
Piess to the Record's asscutlon. Lit
the Press call the Recoid a liar If It
dare!
In spite of the m.ijoi's Intel mlttent
talk about closing the speak-easles nnd
dMnicetlng the h units of vice, the
devil still does a w Ide open business
In Scianton and doesn't look a bit
tcaied.
Nicaragua Canal Prospects.
IT WOULD undoubtedly gratify
the count! y If congiess nt this
session, without waiting lor the
litest commission of Inquliy to
lepoit, weie to pass thu Hepburn bill
nppiopi luting fllO.neOoOO on the Instal
ment, plan for the constiuetlon b thij
United States government, on soil of
Its own, of the Nlcatagua ennal. The
bill could not go Into effect until the)
gov ei nine nt had completed tho neces
s.uy negotiations and ai ranged tin
uqulslte piellmlnailc s; but It would
at all events constitute a stnitlug point
for definite, piogiesslve woik, and the
countiy would be lelleved of the nn
nojaiue of seeing successive congress
is, undei tho Inspiration of a trans
continental rallioad lobbj exhamt
their tnciglcs In profitless declama
tion ot In the naming of supeifiuoui
commissions Intended primal lly to
delay the woik of construction.
It Is i .'ported by observers at the
capital that the sentiment In favor of
an enily beginning of the ctinal has
veiy materially luucjsed since Dewey
captuied tho Philippines and Involved
the United States In the strategic com
maud of the Ninth Pacific ocean, nnd
the news in plausible. Any man with
an avcrngo Imagination can see that,
In consequenco of this expansion busi
ness, the United States Is soon to de
velop an enormous commercial Inter
est In the Oilent, Including a larger
nav y and nil adequate merchant mar
ine; that thu inanufactuilng cities of
tho Atlantic seaboard and of the coun
tiy botderlng on the gulf of Mexico
will not lest content to permit the
slope sfites to have nil that new trails
but will movct heaven and eaith to
compete In tho race for Oilental mar-
kcts; nnd that the only way they can
hope to compete successfully wilt be
by means of cheap ocean freights pre
dicated upon a trnnslsthmlan canal.
Thus the east and south will press for
Its construction, but not more so than
the westein states, who, In their turn,
lecognlro In the rnnnl a great stimu
lus to Intercontinental trade and a
possible means of securing western
fruit and grain ixports to Europe.
The events of the past two j-enra
have made the Nicaragua canal more
than ever tin Imperative necessity to
American growth nnd to American de
fense. The dnj ha passed when the
American people will pnidon temporiz
ing on this subject upon the part of
congress.
General Wood's action In deposing
the Cuban prosecutor In Havana who
spent most of his time In devising
means of defeating the processes of
Justice has, It Is pleasing to notice, ic
telved the cordial approval of the lend
ing Cubans, a fact Indicative of better
things In Cubi. General Wood has
again shown that he Is the right man
working In the right manner.
Men who would promptly volunteer
for their country's sake to fight a for
eign foe very often seem to think that
It Is no part of a pati lot's duty to do
battle against a inglng epidemic mote
deadly than bullets or bombs. Public
opinion should know that patriotism
Is an all-round, continuous virtue and
not a series of spasms.
A scientific enthusiast In Drooklyn
sajs that concentrated heat In solid
blocks for the generation of power will
be nmong the discoveries of the twen
tieth century. He offers no sugges
tions, however, as to how the discovery
will be brought about. This seems an
other opportunity for Prof. Coles.
In a lecture delivered nt Rochester
last week ex-Consul Oscar F. Williams
predicted that the Filipinos would be
reconciled to American rule before the
Americans had been reconciled to. the
Filipinos. Let us hope that the pacifi
cation will be simultaneous.
Sir Hugo do Bathe, the latest hus
band of the Jersej- Lllj, announces that
he Is going to fight the Roers In order
to show his w lfi and the world that
ho Is a man. Ho has a large contiact
on hand.
The Institution of pro-Roer societies
and the threatened oiganlzatlon of pro
Urltlsh clubs, may yet make the en
couragement of a pio-mlnd-j'our-own-buslnps
movement necessary In this
country.
In declining the Democratic nomina
tion for governor of Illinois, joung Car
ter Harrison demonstrates that he
knows the difference between a sure
thing and a dream.
From all accounts It looks as though
It would be necessarj' for the Biltlsh
geneials to spend a little time fighting
each other before pioceedlng against
tho Roeis.
Senator Hoar should have thought
twice befoie giving aid nnd encourage
ment to tho enemies of his country. He
was old enough to know better.
HUMAN NATURE STUDIES.
Boot as an Interviewer.
One of the chief peculiarities of Hllhu
Root, the secretaiy of war, Is, sajs
the Satuiday Evening Post, his ability
ns a listener. He listens without pieju
dlee, which Is one of the rarest of nil
gift". To n club member this gift Is
Indispensable if ho wants to ilse to
l uiiic-e aim air. iioot nas oeen picsieient
at one time or another of almost every
club he belonged to. The growth of
the war secretary has been slow. Rut
it has been sure. As a lawyer ho his
had tho genius of Industry, and early
in his professional life he learned the
vnluo of piepatlng both sides of every
case he had. As a result he frequently
knew moio about his adversarj's case
than his adversary did himself. Thli
thoioughncss gave him an enviable
standing nt the bn. Long before ho
was geneially known he was made
United States attorney for tho southern
dlstilct of Now York. That was j-ears
ago, and many laymen thought the
president was appointing an Incompet
ent man because he was comparatlve
lj' unknown, but Mi. Root s public sor
xlces demonstrated the wisdom of his
choice!.
Not only has Mr. Root a genius for
) listening, but he rivals LI Hung Chang
In his ability to Interview an inter
x lower. Tho other day a well-known
Now Yoik leportei was sent to Wash
ington to obtain the secretnrj''s plans
foi ending the Philippine Insunectlon.
When he leturned he was nsked what
hu had got.
"Oot?" icplled the icporter soulfullj.
"Got nothing. The secretaiy saw me
all light, and I told him neatly all I
know nbout the newspaper business,
and was Just starting In to tell hlni
how to own jour own house on $S0 a
I it f)..1' tt 1,..., n 1, noelulint . n.,.'., n .
broke Into to consult him about a mat
ter of business, and I had to go."
Saved the Captain's Reputation.
"Thej' tpll a good story In the army
nbout Captain PatMlo, the crack phot,"
said one of a party of Into diners ac
cording to the New Oi leans Tlme
Democrat. General Miles and a high
Washington otlielal once visited a
western post wheie the captain was
stationed, and sent word that they
would like to see a llttlo exhibition
of his rUIII. Patlllo happened to be
quite sick at tho time, but lie couldn't
xery well refuse, and ptesentlj" ap
peared on the long-distance range.
"He blazed nway, and an Irish ser
geant, who had been sent out to act
as maiker, wave-el a small flag. 'What
does that mean?' asked tho distin
guished visitor. 'It means I mlsseJ
the whole taiget,' uald Patlllo. gloom
ily. He tried ngnln, with the same re
sult. 'I don't know wnnt'H tho mat
ter with mo!' ho exclaimed, In deep
mortification; 'I never did such work
In my life'
"At the third shot the distant figurs
varied tho vvlg-wagfiliig and tho as
sembled office! s applauded. Theie
upon ho tired 20 consecutive rouneW
nnd each time the flag waved back the
news that ho had plPtced tho inner
circle. It was a iiitfn clous record, nn
unparalleled score; the distinguished
visitor vvnB very giaclous In his con
gintulatlons, "Lateron Patlllo, still beaming, met
the marker crossing the pnradi
ground. 'Hello' sergeant,' ho sild; 'I
xvonder what the deuce made me miss
tho target those first two shots?'
'Whist, captain!' replied the Irishman,
drawing tlose; "tls dlvll tho tedme ye
hit It nt nil, nt all!' 'Didn't hit It at
nil!' cried Patlllo, In mnnzement; 'then
why did you slgnnl nil those bulls
ejes?' Talth, sor,' said the rergcant,
ropronchfully, 'I knew your reputa
tion was nt stake.' "
Misplaced Confidence.
A nowlj mnrrlcd couple were honey
mooning In the countrj", when the first
batch of letters from home nrrlved,
nnd the husband teaslngly proposed to
open one addressed to his wife.
"Ccrtalnlv not," she snld firmly.
"Hut, Phlllppa," he pretended to re
monstrate, "surely you nre not going
to have nny secrets fiom mo now
that we are mairled?"
"I shall not have any secrets from
you, but Phyllis might," his wife said.
"That letter Is hers, not mine. I shall
piobiblv let jou read It cfter t have,
but not till I urn rure that Phyllis
Ins told me nothing but what she
would bo willing for you to know."
"Still, doesn't It Imply a lack of
confidence when u wife won't show
her letters to her husband?"
"Not at all. Tho lack of confidence
li shown bv the husband when he de
mands to see his wife's letters."
This was unanswerable, and tho hus
band sank buck In his chair with
I'lnused delight In his wife's perfect
unconsciousness ot having said a good
thing.
Picsontly fihe prided:
"I told you so! Hero Is something
Phxllls wouldn't want you to know."
'Then why are vou going to tell
me?"
"Im not going to tell you what St
Is. You nre only tn know there is
something jou can't know at pres
ent." "Phyllis is engaged." he remaikpcl.
"And what If she Is? You nre not
to know to vv horn "
"To Radcllffo," hazairied her hus
band. "I didn't say so"
"Rut you don't say Fho Isn't."
"How could I say sho Isa't when
she "
"Is' I really think, my dear, j'or
might as well have let me read that
letter." Collier's Weekly.
Taking No Chances.
"Dai ling," he murmured, pillowing
her golden head upon his m.nilv bosom.
"Dai ling" we will soon bo wed bound
tOKcther by the indissoluble ties of holy
inatilmony."
Rut she was a new woman and knew
a good thing when she saw It. He was
woith $110,000.
"Yes, a church ceremony will do foi
a staiter," she niuimuied, "but this
corporation will be oiganlzed under the
laws of New Jeisej'."
Yet there aro those who Imagine that
women have no business acumen.
Omaha World-Herald.
THAT ANTI-QUAY FUND.
Prom tho Phlladclphl i Recoid
Tho Scianton Tilbuno having stated
of the boa nts made bj the organ
Ueis of the- anti-lju.iy campiimi in the
forthcoming legislative pilnnites is tint
thej uln.idy huvo at command a $JW,iKM
w ni fund
tho stetement was denounced by the
Phil iilelplila Press as a lie. Thereupon
The- Tribune retorted.
Such boasts hive been made. One was
miiio seveial weeks ago In the columns
ol the Philadelphia Record.
And tlio Pitss rejoins:
Tho Scrantoa Tilbuno now acknowl
edges th.it Its shipment was a lie, as
It inly (,lvcs a lecal Demociatlc news
paper as authority for It, whereas 11 hid
useited the boast was made by the or
ganizers of the untl-Qiiaj' movement.
Tho Tribune was Imeeui ite In charac
terizing as an nntl-Quay boast an item
of political intelligence printed In the
Record What the Record stated In its
news columns, November 10, was that a
considerable sum of monev was said to
have been alre.idv subscribed b- leading
antl-Quajltes nnd lint the fund to be
lahul might reach half a million dollars.
The Piess, In offensively contractu ting
The Tribune, Infeientiully accuses th
Record This cannot bo pcrmlttid. Whit
the Record pilnted as a nutti r of caiient
political Infotmatlon was altogether true.
VEEY PROBABLY.
Prom tho Washington Post.
Perhaps tho follies tli it characterize
tho fight against Quav, tho malice that
shows up In pcr- movement against him,
m,i be among tho reason whv ho so
slgnallv triumphs over his enemies when
they and he go to the people.
LITEBARY NOTES.
The fiist number of a valuablo new
monthly periodical inlled The Suecesslul
Aiueiicaii, his appealed. It Is a finely
lMustiatcd quarto ot Su pages, beautifully
pilnted, and roiitalnliu authentic nlo
giuphlcul sketches, with poitiilts, of il
in eminent Americans and other matter
of contempt iiuj h.tcrot. The publiih
ns me, the Puxs lllcgr.iphlenl company
of li-.'l PaiK Ruw, New Voik, and thej
expluiu tint thcit endeavor will bo to
put their rc-dcis In posus-slun month bj
mouth of thu most noteworthy "human
documents" of the times. Prom tho
lavish inanuir in which the Initial
number Is gotten up we should Imamno
that this plcdco would be handsomolj ie
d corned Tho subset Iptiou ptlee of Ul,o
Successful American Is J a jeai.
The rumor that Rnglind Is preparing
the Island of St. Ilcbiin for tho possible
reception of Piesldent Kiue.ii lends spe
cial tlmi lines to an mticlo which will
appeal In the February Cintury the first
of tho hitherto unreported "Talks with
Napoleon," from the diary of Dr. II. R.
O'Mcara, his phvslclan at ht. Helena. The
ixtraets printed In this number mo pre
faced bj' nu account of the wtiur's re
lations with tho ex-empcior nnd the
story of tho manuscilpt's discovery by
the editor of the Ce ntury. A portrait of
O'Mcara nnd a man of tho Island nre
among tho illustrations of this Instalment.
"Tho First Stage of the Roer Wnr" (tho
(list of tho articles on tho war to ap
pear In Seilbner's Mrgczlne) will bo pub.
llshcd In tho IVbrunry number. It Is by
II. J, Whlnhnm, who m ulo bis reputi
tlon ns a correspondent In tho recent war
with Spain (befoio which he was well
known ns tho gnlf champion of America).
Mr. Whlghnm In following tho column
which Is marching to tho relief of Kim
berley. Lmither Keller
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