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England is understood to have made a semiofficial denial to Germany of these stories. Sweden's Parliament unanimously adopts the treaty granting independence to Norway. Domestic. October 7.-The State Superintendent of Insurance of Missouri demands that President McCall of the New York Life return the $148,702 campaign contribution to the treasury, on pain of revocation of the company's license in Missouri. General Charles W. Bartlett is nominated for Governor of Massachusetts by the State Democracy, on a platform demanding tariff revision. Greene and Gaynor, who have been fugitives in Canada for three years, leave Montreal in the custody of United States officers, who are taking them to Savannah for trial on charge of defraud. ing the Government. Dan Patch, the world's champion pacer, establishes a new world's record, by covering a mile at Lexington, Ky., in 1:55. Thomas W. Lawson is organizing a "policyholders' protective committee" to take possession of the big insurance companies, and to select directors and comptrollers. October 8.-Fears are expressed that Great Britain will be able to undermine the American trade with Cuba if the island republic ratifies the pending Anglo-Cuban treaty. The general board of the navy recommends raising the two battle-ships authorized by the last Congress from 16,000 tons to 18,000 tons. A mob of negroes lynch a negro at Bainbridge, Ga. John M. Lander, famous band-leader, dies at New York. October 9.-Charles E. Hughes, counsel for the insurance investigating committee, refuses the Republican nomination for mayor of New York on the ground that duty forbids him to drop the important work which he is conducting. Edgar Allan Poe fails to receive a place in the Hall of Fame, the successful candidates being James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and William T. Sherman. The President confers with athletic advisers of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton with a view to eliminating brutality from football. New York wins the first game in the world's championship baseball series, defeating the Philadelphia Athletics 3 to 0. The United States revenue-cutter Morrill_captures the American fishing-tug Valiant in Lake Erie, the commander asserting that the tug was several miles over the Canadian line. Judge W. J. Calhoun, special commissioner appointed by the President to examine and report on conditions in Venezuela, returns to Washington. October 10.-China, according to Washington officials, is collecting claims, which may aggregate more than $1,500,000, against the United States for excluding Chinese natives. Testimony before the insurance committee shows that the New York Mutual Life contributed $92,000 to the Republican campaign fund in three campaigns. The Athletics defeat New Yorks, 3 to o, in the second game of the world's championship series. October 11.-The contract for feeding canal employees, which was awarded to J. E. Markel, of Omaha, is annulled by the canal commission. George J. Gould defeats Joseph Ramsey, Jr., in both bondholders' and stockholders' caucuses for control of the Wabash road in Toledo, Ohio. The representatives of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton sign an agreement to do all in their power to bring about the enforcement of the rules against unnecessary roughness on the football. field. Frank A. Vanderlip, in a speech before the American Bankers' Association in Washington, warns Wall street against further stock speculation at the present high prices. October 12.-Gloucester fishermen, in a letter to President Roosevelt, declare that Newfoundland fishermen are interfering with their treaty rights. William M. Ivins, a fighter of Tammany twenty years ago, is nominated for Mayor by the Republicans of New York city. By a score of 9 to o, the New Yorks defeat the Athletics in the third game of the world's championship series. Mutual Life policy-holders in Colorado, through a representative in New York, present their case before the Attorney-General and demand the retirement of the company's executive officers. October 13.- -The Cabinet discusses the participation of judges in politics and the raising of campaign funds. New York again shuts out the Athletics, I to o, in the fourth game of the championship series. The Curtis Publishing Company PATENTS Our Hand Book on Patents, Trade-Marks, etc., sent free. Patents procured through Munn & Co., receive free notice in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MUNN & CO. 859 Broadway, N. Y. BRANCH OFFICE: 625 F St., Washington, D. C. Readers of THE LITERARY DIGEST are asked to mention the publication when writing to advertisers. "J. D.." Philadelphia, Pa.-"(1) Kindly publish the pronunciation of the words 'ennui' and bonbon' as adopted by the Standard Dictionary. 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T TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE JEROME ISSUE IN NEW YORK. HE local press in New York city, in commenting upon the bitter fight in which William Travers Jerome wilfully involved himself by his bold defiance of the bosses, take such a discouraging view of his prospects that it is quite certain that they would look upon his reelection as District Attorney of New York county as the greatest surprise of the campaign. Until last August, when he issued his proclamation stating that he would not only run independently but would also wage war upon the "bosses," it was generally accepted that he would be his own successor if nothing should interfere with the natural course of events. But the collapse of the Fusion movement and the nomination of full and straight tickets by every party in the field have inspired a feeling of confidence among his enemies. But this does not mean that his cause is a hopeless one. The World and The Times among the Democratic papers, The Globe, The Sun, and The Post among the independent papers, are stanchly supporting him in spite of their disposition to despair of his success. Of these only The Post speaks at all encouragingly, and it can go no further than to say: · 'Let those who fear that he will be unable to repeat his wonderfully effective campaigning of four years ago wait and see. In his little off-hand address last night [October 18] there were obvious the same conviction and the same straightforward earnestness that made him the chief figure in the whirlwind' campaign of 1901." All papers agree that Jerome with all the famous qualities mentioned by The Post is body and soul in the present campaign, but many, however, can not help noting that the situation to-day is different from what it was four years ago. As the Brooklyn Eagle (Ind.) points out, there is a Tammany candidate now who for a long while was Jerome's ablest deputy; there is a Republican candidate who is vouched for by his entire party, and there is Hearst's candidate who may take away from Mr. Jerome many votes of the poorer classes. But, above all, there is the absence of the Fusion force which, as The Sun remarks, was so powerful in 1901 that it "swept I.ow into the Mayor's office by the Jerome WHOLE NUMBER, 810 canvass." Mr. Jerome, however, is generally looked upon as a more noteworthy candidate this year than he was during his first campaign; and his success, as his friends believe, all depends on whether the people fully appreciate this fact. His record, which even his enemies admit is a good one, has now been made, and as summed up by The Sun is as follows: "He has driven from New York policy, the meanest form of organized swindling, the gambling that robbed the cupboards of the very poor. He put the king of the policy-gamblers in State prison. He broke up the syndicate that coined fortunes for its members out of the hunger and the suffering of women and babies. He has forged the only weapon that the authorities find powerful against the keepers of the big gamblinghouses. He wrote the law and forced a reluctant Legislature to put it on the books. He brought the men who for years have bribed or defied the authorities, on their knees, to his office begging mercy. He, and he alone, brought Canfield, the most powerful of all the gambling fraternity, to the bar of justice with a plea of guilty' on his lips. He has rid organized labor of its greatest danger by prosecuting and convicting the scoundrels who sold out their trusting followers for personal gain. He has placed in the hands of organized labor the law under which the corrupt and corrupting dishonest employer may be sent to jail for his misdeeds. He has treated the unionists as men, and not as children or maniacs or idiots. He has done as much in four years for honorable and honest organized labor in New York as its most vociferous champions have ever accomplished. He has dared to prosecute powerful criminals, rich criminals, criminals entrenched in political favor and social place. Wherever the finger of suspicion has pointed he has dared to go. And as these are some of the reasons why William Travers Jerome should be reelected to office, so also are they some of the reasons why all those who fear blind justice, who have guilty consciences, who dread the light of day, are so eager to crush him." The last sentence of the above quotation from The Sun suggests one of the most interesting features in the campaign. The Sun obviously refers to the men implicated in the insurance scandals, and the efforts they are alleged to have made to influence "Boss Murphy of Tammany, and ex-Governor Odell, the State Republican leader, to combine and secure the defeat of Jerome and replace him by a more facile district attorney. It is indignantly denied that such a combination has been formed, but nevertheless the charge has become so seriously believed by large numbers that no mention is made of opposition to Jerome without connecting it in some way or other with the men whose names have been blackened by the exposures in the management of insurance companies. Mr. Jerome has refrained so far from taking any part in the investigation. The explanation of his forbearance, and the promise he makes of future action, are contained in the following words taken from his opening speech in the campaign: "The cheap way would be picking out one of these fellows at this time and indicting him about election time, but there is a man working on this, this man Hughes, honest and brave, honest and brave and capable, who is developing what it is necessary to bring before us all that we should know. Much more important than the punishment of any particular malefactor is a knowledge of how rotten and how deep the rottenness of this goes, and any prosecuting attorney who would move so as to cramp the lines and make it more difficult for him to get what he is daily getting might serve his individual purposes, but certainly would not be serving those of the public. Hughes must not be hampered, but when Hughes portant as the political one, and thus make the independent candidate, who is commonly supposed to be supporting them, as prominent as the head man on any ticket in the field. The papers that favor Mr. Jerome seem to think that his defeat would be a calamity to the city. The Times remarks: "The situation is very serious. There has been a good deal of evil-doing exposed in many directions during the past year. As to some of it, it is highly probable that sufficient proof can be got to bring the evil-doers within the reach of the criminal law. It is a voter in New York County on election day. No other name submitted for the same office has the slightest claim upon any but blind partizans. His has the claim of high character and marked ability, amply tested by long and conspicuous service. Is there not enough good sense, civic virtue, self-respect in this community to bring that name out at the head of the poll?” PORTLAND'S SUCCESSFUL EXPOSITION. So many expositions have proved financial failures that the record of the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Ore., is unique, as the Pittsburg Dispatch remarks, because "it will be the one exposition in the list of enterprises of that sort that after settling up all its bills will have a cash balance to distribute among the subscribers to its stock." Tho the management has . been modest in representing the fair not as a world exposition, but as an exposition of the Pacific Northwest, the Chicago Tribune thinks it was one of the most successful affairs of the kind ever held in this country." The fair closed its doors on October 14, the total number of admissions being officially reported as 2,545,509. 66 According to President Goode, the exposition company will have a surplus of from $100,000 to $115,000, and will be able to pay a dividend of between 30 and 40 per cent. It is estimated in Portland that already 100,000 permanent residents have been attracted to that city and the surrounding country. "Population means trade," the Chicago Tribune says, "and of the new trade the enterprising business men of Portland may be depended upon to get their share. No doubt the exposition will prove a highly profitable investment." The Chicago Record HENRY W. GOODE, President of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, which proved a financial success. Herald, in comparing the simplicity of the Portland fair with the expensive and elaborate displays at St. Louis and Chicago, says: "One feature in particular, the Timber Temple, was a revelation of the magnificent resources of the region and most attractive to all visitors. Even those who felt some disappointment because they had formed their judgment of expositions upon the extensive displays at Chicago and St. Louis spoke of this feature in terms of wonder and praise. 'Evidently it is by some such special attraction that the expositions of the future must appeal most powerfully to the public. Excellence in certain lines will count for more than mere bigness, because the limit in size has been or should have been reached. This is clear from much of the comment that was heard during the St. Louis Fair. People actually complained because of the vastness of the grounds and the number of the buildings. They were oppressed because there was so much to be done, and because they were not always repaid for their industry as sightseers owing to the multiplication of similar exhibits." The exposition just closed has been a great boon to the Pacific Coast, thinks the Philadelphia Inquirer, which adds: siasts over the country, and it is asserted that new capital in great quantities has poured into the section. This is as it should be. Philadelphia has an intimate interest in that section. It was due to Philadelphians that the Northern Pacific was undertaken. Millions of local capital have been sent to Tacoma and Seattle, those twin marvels of Puget's Sound. Washington and Oregon may never catch up with Pennsylvania, but it is certain that each is able to support a population equal to our own, and that in natural resources they are rich beyond possibility of exhaustion in centuries. "Our best congratulations to the enterprising, fearless people beyond the Rockies, who know their own worth and are not afraid to proclaim it throughout all the world." PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S SOUTHERN TRIP. N O end of comment on the success of the President's southern trip is appearing in the press, and especially in the papers which recall the bitter feelings excited by the negro episodes in his official career, such as the Indianola post-office case, the Booker Washington luncheon, and the Crum, Anderson, and Lewis appointments. The welcome given to him in " the enemy's country," however, seems to be as cordial and enthusiastic as any he ever received in the North, East, or West. Everywhere he has gone politics and business have been laid aside, and all classes have turned out to do him honor. Some of the Southern press explain that this is merely Southern hospitality, others say that the honor is accorded to the President rather than to the man, while others refer to Mr. Roosevelt's Southern ancestry, and quote his declaration that he is "half a Southerner." Says the Baltimore American (Rep.): 66 It is quite phenomenal that a man who not so long ago was an óbject of peculiar vituperation in some parts of the South should be awaited by a great region of the Southern States with such eagerness and hailed with such applause and welcome as are vouchsafed to few public men. The unparalleled part he has played in international affairs within the last few months has lifted him above all party factional criticism and has made of him a world figure in a larger sense than has been lent to the name of any other President of the United States. One opportunity which came to him would probably not have been grasped by any other man with a fearlessness that almost seemed to savor of the reck From a stereograph, copyright 1905, by Underwood & Underwood, New York. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKING AT RICHMOND. "A man would indeed be but a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way in which, in city after city in the North as in the South, on every public occasion, the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to shoulder, giving tangible proof that we are all now in fact as well as in name a reunited people, a people infinitely richer because of the priceless memories left to all Americans by you men who fought in the great war." in the South. His speeches have been confined largely to spreading the gospel of the "square deal and fair play, "swinging the "big stick," and inculcating all his other well-known principles on the moral, strenuous, and patriotic life. Wherever he has particularized, it has been on subjects about which there is no cleavage of opinion on sectional or partizan lines. The expressions which have awakened the greatest interest have been those relating to railroad questions, but they have been emphatic and direct. At Charlotte he said: 66 'Actual experience has shown that it is not possible to leave the railroads uncontrolled. Such a system, or, rather, such a lack of system, is fertile in abuses of every kind and puts a premium upon unscrupulous and ruthless cunning in railroad management, for there are some big shippers and some railroad managers who are always willing to take unfair advantage of their weaker competitors, and they thereby force other big shippers and big railroad men who would like to do decently into similar acts of wrong and injustice, under penalty of being left behind in the race for success. Government supervision is needed quite as much in the interest of the big shipper and of the railroad man who want to do right as in the interest of the small shipper and the consumer. Experience has shown that the present laws are defective and need amendment. The effort to prohibit all restraint of competition, whether reasonable or unreasonable, is unwise. |