i w l-,TW2!xyF?WB .v;;t'-- ,;rwWwv ( j w n t K . ,.? ,f ' THE SCItAOTOtf TRIBUNE-THlTJltSDAY, SEPTEMBER ,18, M L. t i- r t b tM fkmNbn CrtButie rnbllditd Dllr Bxcept Sand?, by Th Trlbanl PabHMilaf Company, t Fifty Canti Month. UVY 4 BICnABO O. F. BYXDEE ...... Kdito. BUStNEM MAMAOIR. Entered l the Poatoffic t Bcnnton, m Second Claaa Mll Matter. When apnea wilt permit, The Tribune If lwnyt Bind to print ihort letter from Hi friend bearing on current toplce, but It rule I that thtaemuetbe elgned. for pub Mention, by the writer' real name) and the condition preeedent to aeeeptanoe I that nil contribution chnll be itibject to editorial rellon. THE FCAT JIATE FOB ADVEIIT1SINO. The follbwlng table ahowa the price per Inch etch Insertion, apace to bo uled within one year: ntqpi av Hun of m" Full DISPLAY rper np0nng Poa,on Inthan&o Inchea . .50 ,r,i .60 SO Inches 40 M .44 100 " SO .31 ,SII 2(0 " 56 .275 .30 BOO " 50 XI .24 1000 "..... .10 .17S .18 For cards of thanks,'resolut lona of condolenc, and elmlUr contributions In the nature of advertising, The Tribune makes a chargo of 8 cents n line. TEN PAGES. SCRANTON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902. REPUBLIC. TICKET. V State. Govcrnor-S. AV. PKNNYPACKHn. Lieutenant Onvoi nor V. M. BIIOWN. Sccrotnry of Internal Affnlis ISAAC B. BROWN. County. OonBrcss-AVIM.IAM CONNELTj. Judfrc-A. A. VOSHTJRG. Commlbslonors-JOIIN COURIER MOR RIS. JOHN PENMAN. Mine Inspectors LLBWETA'N U. EV ANS, DAVID T. "WILLIAMS. Legislative. Senntor-JOHN B. JORDAN. Rppros-en t n tt ves First Dlstilct-JOSEPH OLIVER. Second District JOHN SCHEUER, JR. Third Dlstrlct-EDWARD JAMES. Fourth DiHtrlct--I. A. PH1LBIN". Election day, Nov. J. to Washington free-handed to do his duty in tho future as he has done It In the DOBt, Leslie's Weekly refers to Drynn ns "tho smug-faced, olly-longued polltlcnl Impostor and presidential Impossibility who Is making a forttfne out of the ruin he has wrought In the Democratic party," which Is Ingenious but unkind. Let us crddlt even the defunct with what graces we can. Bryan Is not nn Imposter. He Is simply the unconscious victim of nn unreliable temperament. T Of course the president will continue the compaign for reciprocity with Cuba. "What Is more, he will win It. The Senatorial Convention. THE TWENTIETH senatorial district, Including as It does, the city of Scranton, now grown to Important rank, requires care In the selectlo'n of Its representative In the state senate. In the person of the late Hon. J. C. Vaughan It had an admirable represen tativeone who commanded the respect of his colleagues and wielded at Harris burg a degree of Influence not surpassed by any member of the senate. The death of Mr. Vaughan makes necessary another selection. The un animous choice of the Republicans of the district Is John B. Jordan, esq., a young man of sterling character and qualities, a rising figure at our bar and a Republican well equipped to care for the important Interests of the district In the upper branch of tho general as sembly. He has a wide acquaintance among the people, possesses their con fidence and wlfh the support of his party and friends should win handsome , ly in November. The Colombian government forces, In interfering with the transit of trains across the Isthmus, are fooling with the fuse to their own gunpowder. The Trouble in Iowa. THERE SHOULD be unanimity of opinion among Iowa Re publicans with respect to one thing at least, and that is the necessity of inducing Speaker Hen derson to withdraw his decision to re tire from congress. We can hardly believe that what has come to be known as the "Iowa Idea," namely, a demand for tariff revision aimed at monopolies nnd trusts, Is so strongly entrenched In the Republican ism of Iowa that it would go to the ex tent of sacrificing the state's control of the speakership of congress, especially in view of the fact that between those who espouse and those who oppose, this "Idea" the real difference is hardly measurable. To throw away substance for shadow would be mania, and Iowa Republicans have not been suspected of Insanity. Revision of the tariff Is not objected to by any well-Informed Republican, provided It be undertaken at the right time and In a business-like manner. No tariff Is sacred; every schedule is sub ject to modification to lit changed con ditions. But revision of tariffs Is a delicate nd Intricate task, requiring skill, patience and, above all, absence of public agitation. It Is a work for business-like legislators and not for fanatics. The country Is prosperous, Its commerce has grown beyond expec tations. If there be Ills from the so called trusts It would be foolish, In try ing to correct them, to take chances of upsetting the general welfare. A period of ugltatlon for tariff revision, under conditions of uncertainty as to the spirit In which revision might be at tempted, would mean that every manu facturer would slow down, that every mefjhant would .-pause, In buying stock, thaV,lnclustry In general would reef sail, rtrojJ anchor and awult developments. SIXjAnoiiths of( that kind of suspense thrgughout the land would be as harm ful vs a financial panic, if, indeed, it would not produce one. With people as prosperous as they are today, it is plainly the Judgment of common sense thu there Is no necessity warranting the "taking of such a risk. Furthermore, thojnext session of congress will be a. shorj session, 'having ull It ran do to tukljcare of the hills no,w on the culen darjwlthout plunging Into a subject whiefj, once fairly opened up, would, llkejyennyson's brook, be likely to flow on fjjrevTrT Tljjse considerations may not be as picturesque as the perfervld rhetoric of the Jtfoquent Iowa spellbinders who are Inflaming the pralrlea with the Idea that a tariff cleaver, if swung with vigor, would decapitate the trusts and instal the millennium. But men who pause to thlnjc must be Impressed by them. It wouliJbo uplty to have the Republican ism of. Iowa swept away f j'om a founda tion of common sense, and the best sign It can give that it Is not In -danger of the political Jim Jams would be to in sist that Hon. David B. .Jleiuleison .Withdraw his resignation and go back Devery. HE SUCCESS of former Chief of Police "Bill" Devory's fight for the leadership of the Ninth New York assembly district clearly foreshadows his rise to tho place In Tammany which has been vacant since the retirement of Croker. He has all the requirements of a Tam many boss. He Is coarse, Ignorant of books though learned ns to men, not too honest to offend the grafters yet honest enough to give a commercial value 'to his pledged word, nnd moreover, he knows every In nnd out of the Tam many system, Including the relations of every person of Influence nnd the sources of that Influence. Ho has the tough hide of a rhlnocerous and the grit of a bull dog. In short, he Is exact ly tho type of a man fitted to rule for a time over the Tammany organiza tion, until some other Individual o'f shrewder Intellect and more dominant will power arises to crowd him out. A word as to who Devery Is and how ho got there. The first thing heard of him was as a roundsman on the police force. From that on up to chief his progress followed the familiar lines shrewd Combinations, the successful use. of valuable Information nnd the pro duction of results among the boys. On a salary never more than $3,000 a year Devery In a few years accumulated three-quarters of a million dollars, and no questions asked. But he has been free-handed. He Is not a niggard. For the rest, we quote from a New York letter In the Washington Star, written when Devery's campaign was just be ginning to vattract nntlonal attention: Down on the west side about Twenty ninth street is the Ninth assembly dis trict. It Is a densely populated section in the. heart of, old New York. There are thirty- thousand souls tucked away in tho narrow, contracted quarters between cel lar nnd garret of the houses. There nre small tindesmen, mechanics with little funds In the savings banks, and thou sands upon thousands of people who don't eat beefsteak once a month; who never see a park, and whose only life Is the life of the pavement, of the glaie of the electric light, of the smell of the street and the crash of the immense traffic of a busy section. In his service In the police department Devery became thoroughly acquainted with his people. He knows most of the adults by their "given name," as they call it. In the old days ho was a boss In a small way. As the chief po lice authority in the district ho held sway over the fortunes of the unfortu nate, and frequently was nn ai biter of differences and a counsellor in need. There was a hydrant at a corner In his district they called it a "pump." Every evening about 7 o'clock the "big chief," as he was nicknamed, on account of his physical proportions, would lean against tho pump and hold court, hearing com plaints, dealing out invective, warning and advice. A ncighboilng saloon Is now called the "pump," and lieie Dev ery meets his lieutenants nightly to give instructions, to dlstilbute funds from the war bags nnd to extend the "glad hand" to the recruits, actual or prospec tive, his men bung In. Devery's campaign is unique. Probably some readers recall the excursion that he gave to the women and children in his district. He chartered six steamboats and barges to take his constituents up the Hudson. Tickets were distributed freely. On the morning of the day ap pointed It was evident that the boats couldn't hold tile crowd. "Get another steamboat;" cried Big Hill. She backed Into the slip and was filled In a Jiffy. "Hire another boat," he commanded, nnd then a thousand people wero left on the wharf. Ho furnished tons of ham, chick en, bread, corned beef, candy, cakes, barrels of tQmonade, ginger ale, pop and milk for his guests. Beer and liquor were barred, along with tho imii folks. Ho had a platoon of lifesaveis to rescue tho kids who might fall overboaid. Every body had a good time and enough to eut for onee. The scraps of coin beef and ham weio carefully wrapped up by the mothers and taken home. They say that it was the only meat some households had had for weeks. Since then Devery has gone every day over his district, distributing largesse. Ho gets lco tor tho sick folks, milk for the kids; quietly sends tho convalescents off on trips to tho countryside or up' the sound. If a man Is sick, out of work nnd behind with his rent BIk Bill sees that his family are not thrown out Into the street by nn Impoitunato landlord. Tho men he takes care, of after their fashion. It Is open house In every saloon where ho stops at night. "Everybody come up and have a dilnk," is the wntchword. The "barkeep" throws It wide open, and as long ns he Is In thero everything goes, Then ho moves on to tho next enravansary and repeats, Not content with these methods, ho opens a vaudeville theater. Between the turns of the performers his picture Is thrown on a canvas, while tho rooters In the gallery stait tho applause. Later he will appear In tho Intermissions and make speeches. The vaudeville runs In the afternoon for the women and childieu, At night the bill Is changed to suit tho tastes of tho masculine audience, The newspapers) aided Devery by giv ing liberal space and prominence to his unique. methods and terse sayings, and some of the more serious of the nblo organs or public opinion probably also helped him by Jumping on htm and giving him tho opportunity to pose be fore his people as having been perse cuted by tho aristocrats. At all events, Devery has won decisively In a light that represented the combined opposi tion of many rivals. By all tho rules of the Tammany game, he Is noyy It. by the Lackawanna by Its revenue nre met by tho Aondon nnd Northwestern by the addition of bonds and stock, Ac cording to the Times this last resource has reached lis utmost limits nnd un less tho corporation reforms Its policy, It is within measurable distance of bankruptcy. Tho London nnd Northwestern Is the oldest nnd richest railroad company In the British Isles. It Is 111 point of time, enterprise, resources nnd credit the metropolitan of nil the trunk lines of the Kingdom, Leaving London, It takes a northwestern direction through the ngrlcultural, manufacturing, mineral nnd commercial centers of the coun try, passing through or connected with such cities us Birmingham, Manchester, New Cnstle-on-Tyne, Glasgow and Ed inburgh, Englishmen swear as de votedly by the London nnd' Northwest ern ns they do by the Old Lady of Trendncedlo street herself. Surely the world must be coming to an end when the grentest and most Influential news paper In the. empire tells the directors of the oldest, richest nnd most con servative railroad that unless they model their business methods upon one of tho youngest of our great railroads bankruptcy will stare them in tho face. Tho difference between English and American railroads lies deeper than that of mere administration. There are physical and geographical Issues to be taken Into consideration, ns well ns ex ecutive and financial, when estimating tho comparative merits of each sys tem. England Is only five hundred miles long from north to south. Tho Bloomsburg division of tho Lackawan na Is almost as long as the trunk line of the London and Northwestern In Eng land. Of course, the latter has feeders and feelers, which make It very much longer. Indeed, It Is a regular mesh of such confluent branches, particularly In the .mineral regions. When the Times calls upon tho directors of the London and Northwestern to assimilate Us financial policy to that of the Lacka wanna, It surely cannot be serious. The controlling financial Interest of the Lackawanna Is in the hands of a few great capitalists; the controlling Inter est of the London and Northwestern resides In an active majority of Its shareholders, which amounts probably to ten or twelve thousand. Of course, the directors of the London and North western have ultimate control so far as the executive and managerial policy of the line goes, but they work under the limitation that they are an advis ory body, whereas President Truesdale has in details and largely in policy a free hand. The president of an Ameri can road has the responsibility of its administration upon his shoulders; the chairman of the board of directors of an English railroad is a figurehead. Nothing In the whole commercial world is more ridiculous In oppressive pom posity and thoroughgoing inefficiency than a chairman and board of direc tors of an English railroad company. The number of great railroaders In Great Britain that have arisen during the last fifty years can be counted upon the fingers of one hand. The general manager of an English railway has no power of initiative if he Is blessed with originality. The most difficult problem which the reformer of the Hnglish railroad sys tem will have to face if he Is inclined to introduce the American system of expending a large part of the net earn ings In the conservation and develop ment of a railroad corporation like the London and Northwestern Is resistance to be met with by the hordes of smull shareholders who have Invested their all in railroad stock and- who count upon the interest accruing to them In part or whole for their subsistence. They have a voice and vote, and their moral Influence Is still greater. But this cannot go on indefinitely. An In creasing bonded indebtedness and a watered stock to keep abreast of the absolute needs of the system Is, as the Times remarks, a macadamized path to bankruptcy. President Palma wisely refuses to Identify himself with any of the Cuban political parties. He has troubles enough. m And still the commonwealth refuses to take the Pattlson "reform" uprising seriously. t These and Hany Other Styles Sold by & 305 Lackawanna Ave. Gent's Furnishings, Too. 1 THE CRANE STORE SCRANTON, PA. Announce Their Initial Display of AUTUMN STYLES. Entries Close October 1st. After October I, no more new con testants can enter I lis le id rales Contest Closes October 25. 1 3 Scholar- Value $fl CAA UU ships Over $7,91111 List of Scholarships Universities 2 Scholarships in Syracuse University, at $432 each..S 864 1 Scholarship In Bucknoll University 820 1 Scholarship in tho University of Bochestor 324 Preparatory Schools 1 Scholarship in Washington School for Boys .....'... .91700 J i!!o!nrslllP lu Willinmsport Dickinson Seminary 750 1 Scholarship in Dickinson Colloglnto Preparatory School 700 1 Scholarship in Nowton Collegiate- Institute 720 1 Scholarship in Keystone Academy 600 J Scholarship in Brown College Preparatory School... 600 1 Scholarship in the School of tho Lackawanna 400 1 Scholarship in tho Wilkes-Barre Institute 276 1 Scholarship in Cotuit Cottage (Summer School) 230 Music, Business and Art 4 Scholarships in Scranton Conservatory of Music, at . ?12,5 eacli , S 500 Scholarships in the Hardenbergh School of MubIc and Art 4QQ 3 Scholarships in Scranton Businosg College, at $100 each 300 5 Scholarships in International Correspondence Schools, average value $57 each 285 2 Scholarships in Lackawanna Business College, at S85 each ...T.. 170 ocnoiarsmps in Alfred Wooler's Vocal Studio 125 $1708 .$6028 -$1840 J Rules of the Contest $95745 Ladies' High Class Tailored and Semi-Tailored Suits. " Individual Skirts & Waists. Ladies' Outer Garments for Street, Carriage and Evening Wear. The best foreign models have been utilized to produce new, original, and strikingly pretty effects. A Tempting T1TB5T Pedestrian Skirt, slot seam, kilt effect in snow flake effect in Black and Blue at , We are' afraid there will not speakerships enough to go around. be x. British and American Railroads. COMMUNICATION has recent ly nppeareq In the London Times vigorously attacking the financial and managerial policy of British railroads, and con trasting very disadvantageous their general administration with that of American roads. The Times takes for a standard of comparison the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad here and the London nnd Northwestern at home. The writer points out that while the Lackawanna devotes year by year a large portion of Its net earnings in improving the general condition of the road, tho London unci North Western practically pays out nearly ull Its net earnings on Its bonds and debenture's or dividends upon Its stock. Improve ments and replacements which are (net INFORMATION. The customs receipts at Havana for tho month of August amounted to JT35,8Sj, a decieaso of $133,810 from the amount col lected In August, liKM. This' dfecrcaso Is attributed largely to tho recent five days' strlko of tho ilnnavnn dock laborers, which suspended operations at thu custom house. The customs receipts for tho en- tit o island during the month of August amounted to $1,075,367, tho receipts from tho postofllco and other sources wero flUI.GSI, and thero was a balance on hand Sept. 1 of 1,03D,S'7. In 1S90 there wore ",8W eleetile cars in uso on btreet railways out of 3J.C03 of all kinds, and 1,-'6- miles of tiaek out of 8,1KI, By the year 1893 tho number of eleetile cars lmd Increased to CO.iwS, and tho length of track to I",9tl9 miles. In 1890 the total cnpltal and funded debt for all such railroads was $1G3,130,000, lu 1900 tha total for 871 street railway systems, chief ly electric, was $1,02,1,819,987 capital stock and $777,StU,ri71 funded debt, making a to tal of over $1,800,000,000, or about flvo times tho aggregate for ten years beforu, A not IncieiiKo of over $f300,ooo took placo la the volume of money in circu lation at tho end of August, The total amount of monoy in chcitlatlon on Sept, 1 amounted to $2,Si! 1,932,015. which jepre sents an Increaso of over $07,100,000 for tho yeur, Tho circulation per capita, based on an estimate of ,9,3t4,O00 population, Is put by tho treasury exports at $23.33. This represents an Increaso of 3 cents for the month and of 35 cents as compared with the corresponding date last year. Commercial falhues dining tho month of August numbered 810, Involving $8,003, C2."i in amount of defaulted liabilities, compared with MH last year for $9,138,866, In manufactuiliig thero wero 213 defaults tor $2,702,180, against 193 a year ago In volving $1,011,870. Trading failures were DS0 in number and $3,333,133 In amount, compared with 675 last year for $1,17-1.102, Of brokeis, transpoiters, etc., there weru 47 suspensions Involving $1,973,187, against 35 la 1901 for $072,891. .Four banking and financial failures occurred with liabilities of $1,108,730, compared with seven dis asters aggregating $100,000 a year ago. Jt Is In the classes embracing strictly com met rial failures, as Dun points out, that these, records disclose, the actual business situation and throw light on the future. Thus a decrease of 40 per cent, in liabili ties of manufacturers Is definite proof of Improved conditions, particularly lu the class covering lumber, builders, contrac tors, etc., whero losses wero exceptionally heavy a year ugo. Trading losses were 20 per vent, smaller than In August, IW1, CRANE. 324 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton, Pa lake Elevator N Tho special rewards will bo given to tho pcrbon securing tho largest num ber of points. Points will bo credited to contestants securing now subscribers to Tho Scranton Tilbuno as loilows: Pts. Ono month's subscription $ .50 1 Three months' subscription.... 1.23 3 Six months' subscription 2.G0 6 Ono year's subscription GOO 12 Tho contestant with the highest number of points will bo given a choice from tho list of special rewaids; the contestant with the second high est number of points will bo given a choice of tho remnlnlng rewards, and bo on through the llbt. 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