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Either the enrolled anti-Tammany voters who go to the primaries to day want to save this city from bankrupting misgovernmeut and give its affairs sound management for the benefit of reasonable taxes: and rents, sufficient schools, well di-| tected and suitably paid policemen; and firemen, straight business and a square deal, or they want to amuse themselves at the expense of their pockets and the welfare of their families with freak issues and po litical Jokes. If they want to get Into this; municipal fight to rescue New York from Ilylanism they will go to the primaries to-day and cast their votes for Henry II. Cirran to nominate t!m for Mayor. If they don't care what befalls the city in the next four years, or how much it costs them in iollars and in civic pride, they will :.hrow away their primary votes to lay for Haskell or La Gcabdia or ?*ej*sett. To imagine that IIaskeia on a vet platform for Mayor could make t dent in the national prohibition ituation is as sensible as to imag t?e that running for Alderman on he question of more street lamps :? could gain control of the United ;tates Government. If Haskell /ants to do anything about the Vol tead act. and if voters want him to 0 it, let him run for the House of .epresentatives or the United States enate and let them elect him to ongress. To Imagine that La Gvabdia could J a elected Mayor at this time, or that 3 could be nominated for Mayor nder these circumstances, or that e could come anywhere near being omlnated, is no wilder a dream inn to Imagine that he could deliver vsr this country to the League of ; 'at ions. To Imagine that Be*sktt can cot < ay figure In th* rrimaries of Greater J ew vork?well, nobody does imag ie anything so nonsensical. Cnuus 1* the only man 1o vote, r at the prlmar'** to-day. because; abody else, ?"en I ho could be omlnatAd. wou'd liav/ a ghost of a ianc* ?o dereat Hyla*. So if the atl-Tsmmany voters mean business 1 this campaign against Htlas in . le City Hall and MnrHY on top! f New York the time and place for j icrn to show it t> at the prima r1?s ! wlay. If they don't want another j mr years of Htlax, bungling the, ty'a money, the taxes', the schools, j ?nt* and everything, and if thoy | on'? want another fonr years of ie Murphy crew fattonlni th-ough lylanism. the one thing for them > do to-day Is to vote for Ct.bban. *o it! Britain in the Baltic. Early in 1920 British banking in-j orests negotiated an jgreemcnt with he Baltic States of Lithuania, Let ia and Estbonia for special prlv leges In marketing flax crops of hose States. Much was expected of he arrangement. Timber conces lons were supposed to be toddling oward the open arms of English raders. Eventually It was hoped iritish credit would otab'llre Baltic orrency ns a beneficial result on one ide and that on the other side Jrltaln would attain a strong com nercial footing in the border Slates, :o her great future advantage in .lusstan trail?. The market for flax disappeared unexpectedly lujst year. In Llthu nia 4,000 tons of the stuff is stored ip. and in Riga warehouses another >,000 tons awaits purchasers. The lax uot been sold and neither has the currency been stabilized. ? Debased as they are, German marks ??re accepted as the currency and have gained general circulation in the Baltic States. British business acumen could not find a substitute for customers to buy the flax and furnish the gold to gag the paper money press. The agreement has been cancelled. An other threatened British monopoly which for a time stirred apprehen sion among England's competitors in the Baltic and In Russia has gone tho way of the soap bubble. Sound Taxes or Cyclone Cellars. Mr. Harding's Administration and the Congress majority need give ; themselves no concern over the un- j warranted charges of malignant par I tisanshlp that they have defaulted' on their election promises to save j hundreds of millions of dollars for i the taxpayers. They 1i?t? cut tho urmy and navy expenditures more ; than half a billion dollars a year, j | and the public knows it. They have cut thousands of men off the other payrolls, and the public knows it. They have stopped needless construc tion and put an end to wasteful buying in all directions, and the pub lic knows it. Altogether they have hauled the' Government's ordinary spendings down from some $5,687,000,000 in the l.scal year of 1920 to an estimated four billions for this fiscal year, ond the public knows it. All this the Harding Administration and the Republican Congress have done, al though it is proverbial that there is scarcely a harder feat in any busi ness, public or private, than to get expenses down ouce they have be?u allowed to go up and stay up. And the public knows that the rreat bulk of the four billions of; spendings which still remain Is made 1 up of war debt service, army and navy charges. Shipping Board defi-: cits and other obligations that are ; hangovers from the war. Nor is the ? public liable to doubt while the na-; tlonal broadaxe continues to chop ? away at the expenditures that, limi tation of armament3 or no itmlta-! tlon, the Administration heads, the Budget Commission and the leglsla- j tive appropriators are going to keep on saving for the taxpayers other, hundreds of millions of dollars. Nobody is going to be able to fool! the American people about what has j been done, is being done and will be j none to cut ott national waste and squander. But both Congress and j the Administration do need to take heed of the popular consequences! of not getting at the work of a new ! tax system with the vigor and1 despatch which have been put Into ' choking off the spenders. It may not be possible t.o rejcct all the oppressive and dangerous tax schedules at one stroke. It may not be feasible to put Into operation sounder and safer measures all in a lump. It may not be practicable to let go the whole of the old revenues that are In hand while the new reve nues are only in the bush. But It Is possible and practicable and, in th2 ; judgment of The New York Herald, i it Is urgent and it is necessary to make a start with scientific taxes that will give American industry a j chance for its life. The American wage earners who j cannot find Jobs If they arc out of employment, or if they still hold! their jobs do not know how long they ! will last; the small business concerns which cannot make a dollar any i more than the great concerns can, j the country at large which is dc-1 pressed and alarmed over having the productive machinery of the nation deadlocked do not take any stock in the soap box ranter that spouts about shifting the tax load from the few to \ the many. They know the whole I country carries the burden in what ever terms the taxes are expressed. | They know the heaviest and the deadliest tax Is the tax that, wher-! aver It 1b applied, takes away the j public's opportunity to earn Its bread and butte*. The American public, wanting to go back to work, will bo no more tolerant of a Government control which keeps the brakes tightened on ho country's economic wheels than it is of a labor union crew that piles ties on the track. Let there be an early beginning of sane and sensible tax revision chiefly cn the basis of a minute tax on each n' the country's voluminous trade transactions, or let those who stand n the way of such national relief to American business and employment giv thought to the political cyclonc cellars they will need to hunt. Finger Prints in Art. That Leonardo i>a Vt:?ci actually painted both canvases entitled "The j Virgin of the {locks," which are In the Louvre In Tarls and the Na ! tlonal Gallery In London, Is the opin ion of the finger print expert of Scot land Yard. Mnrh of the modelling of both paintings had been done by I softening the paint with finger and) thumb tips, tho whorls of which are s declared to be clearly defined when examined with a strong glass. Un-1 der the direction of Sir Cifaki.es j Hot.MRS the Scotland Yard expert examined several of Leonardo's J works whose authenticity was un questioned. Then he put both the Louvre Virgin and thnt of the Na tional Galk*y under his glass and found them to bear identical thumb prlnta. j Thus the critics who have declared :heje canvases to bo both by the same r.rtlst are justified, white the opinion holding thnt AwnRooio pr. Prkdim ! painted the London picture Is re I luted. Some day Dr. Watson may \ tell us how Sherlock Holmes set out to prove that Scotland iard, of whose officials Sherlock never held a hig.i oplnlou, was wrong In this instance. But until then uo critic will have grounds for saying that either the Louvre or the National Gallery "Vir gin of the Rocks" was not by Leo nardo but by "another man of the same name." Harding's Armament Four. The shining quality of President IIaudi.xq's selection of the American delegates to the international con ference on the limitation of arma ments. as The New Yokk Herald said of them on Sunday, is clear to all eyes. Charles Evans Hughes. Elihu Root, Senator Lodge and Sen ator U.NDfenwooD, It is well to repeat, personify the brain power, the i knowledge, the experience, the states- ? manship, purpose and example which can best serve the ideals and the needs of this country among the great Powers of the Old World. The choice o? such men to repre sent the United States strikingly il lustrates the natural capacity of Mr. Harding to be a national leader who knows where and how to command the material for great American un dertakings and achievements. Another circumstance Is notable I about these admirable appointments by the President. Ho has re stricted the number of our delegates to four. Unquestionably they will have to assist them In the technical part of th?ir work experts in affairs military, financial, maritime and the like. But It will be this small body of trained thinkers, brilliant negoti ators and rugged Americans, not a town meeting of talkers, which can deal in a common understanding and a common Impulse with the genius and the guile that may come from Europe and Asia. This designation of only four men to assure action Instead of debate on our part is a tribute to the sensible, practical, effectual gifts of a Chief Executive who gets so many and so importaut things done and gets them done well. Pirate Lafitte's Gold Found. Treasure buried by that renowned pirate of the Gulf, Jean LArirrr, has been unearthed on the Louisiana coast, according to a despatch from New Orleans. The find consists, as a treasure of romance should, of pots of gold coins, perhaps Spanish doub loons, of seventeenth and eighteenth century mintage. The exact locality is said to be a spot near the planta tion and Southern home of the late Joseph Jefferson. The old actor had a liking for the romance of this Btrdtch of coast and a love for the pirate lore which attached to every one of its islands and bayous. What a joy it would have been to him to produce these pots of buried gold as proof of his abiding faith in the legends and traditions of the Gulf coast! This Is not the first time that some of Lafitte's treasure has been uncovered. Three years ago United States marines digging a trench on Paris Island found, at a Bpot where the negroes of the coast had always declared the Gulf pirate burled his Fold. an iron bound chest filled with documents yellow with age and sev eral thousand dollars worth of gold and silver. This hidden stor? of the old pirate reverted to the benefit of j the dependent families of the ma- j rines. The coast in the neighborhood of Port Arthur, Texas, and to the south of Galveston, as well as the Bayou of Baratarla, has year after year been dug over by the hopeful treas ure hunters. Most of these have acknowledged their labor was in vain with the exception of one expedition fitted out about ten years ago which reported the recovery of $50,000 in j gold bullion. No one ever proved1 that this report was untrue. L\riTii: as a pirate was a more satisfying figure to the writers of romance than our own Captain Kido. Few persons ever had any doubt but that he was a pirate, even those who gave htm and his men all possible credit for their patriotism and valor at the battle of New Or leans. Ills operations extended olong the Gulf coast from Florida to Panama and during moist of the time from liia receiving his com mission as a French privateer to his supposed murder In Yucatan Eonie thirty years afterward. But let no ambitious treasure hunter be dlscoj-ttged by this find on the Louisiana >oast. There Is treasuro in abundance still to be recovered. Besides the millions that went down In wrecks In the Atlantic there Is wealth burled on the land. There are the hidden mines of the North west, the buried gold on the old Spanish trail In California, tho hoard of Incas' gold and silver sunk in the Peruvian lake and the lost gold mines of the Sierra Madre of Sonora and Chihuahua. A short time ago the expedition which set out from New Orleans to scoop up a fortune of $1,250,000 on Hvsan Island off the Honduran coast returned empty handed. The mem bers of the expedition declared that the gold la still there and only uwalts unearthing by a patient nnd painstaking treasure hunter. Then we always have the buried loot of the Jarre* brothers nnd the ever re liable Cocoa Island treasures. Sen Francisco Revolts. The sudden collapse of a Btrike In the Han Francisco building trades which had been In progress for months and had Involved thoupands of men shows a remarkable change in Industrial conditions in this greet Pacific coast city. ? For years San Francisco has been in the power of trades unioti3 and has suffered in consequence. She ha* lagged behind lu the race with the other large competing cities on the western coast?Los Angeles In 'he south and Seattle in the north. With physical and geographical conditions so much In her favor that she should have led, she has lost ground because of the exactions and restrictions Im posed by union labor. It has only been within the pat>t year or so that San Franciscans have begun to understand what was hap pening to them. The final awaken lug to a realization of the situation and its causes came when a large and prosperous manufacturing con cern, after long continued labor union embarrassments, including the wounding and maiming of three su perintendents and many other as saults on employees, threw up its hands and announced that it would quit. It prepared to dismantle lta plant and move to Los Angeles. Then the newspapers were aroused. The labor situation in San Francisco was revealed in all its 6eriousnesh. San Francisco woke up in earnest and declared her industrial indepen dence. In tho struggle for Pacific coast leadership she refused longer to carry on the fight with her feet hobbled and her bands tied behind her back. The ending of the buiid ing trades strike is a manifestation of tho city's new attitude toward labor union tyranny. What Most Mothers Know. When tho schools of this city opened in the last September of Joiin Pckkot Mitchkl's administration the number of part time pupils was 34,431. The Mayor had been steadily reducing it. After MrrcHEX came Hixan. Yesterday, when the schools opened in the fourth (and, if New York is lucky, the last) September of John F. Hylait's administration the part time pupils numbered 128,5S6. Every mother In New York who has a boy or girl in school may well wonder what school conditions will be if Hylanlsm gets four years more of power. Every school child's mother that is en enrolled Republican can help her children to-day by voting for Curban at the primaries. The other mothers of school chil dren will have their chance on election day. No Theatre Shortage. It has been usual at this season to hear of a shortage In theatres. Accounts of the numerous promising plays that cannot be performed here i-ince there are no quarters in which to house them may usually be ex pected during the early weeks of the theatre year. The existing number of theatres has been increased this year by two that are already available. There will soon be others. But this sum mer there is no cry that there are not theatres enough for the good plays. It would be difficult to make such a complaint with two or three ot the most popular houses now empty. They are dark because there are no possible entertainments to put there. One or two lucky pro prietors have been fortunate enough to hand over their temples to the motion pictures. As a matter of fact there was never any time in the history of amusement enterprises in which there were more good plays than there were theatres. There are al ways adventurous speculators seek ing for an opportunity to try their luck in this theatre or that. Ambi tious actors sometimes secure enough capital to try to make the world view their talents as they them selves view them. Authors are often ride to persuade capitalists to in vest in an idea. In this way there may be created n demand for theatres which will lead to a fancied excess of demand over supply. But there never were more good plays waiting for a hear ing than there were stager on which to show them. If any such condition ever should arise there would bo in tho theatres only successes. The primaries to-^ay are from 3 o'clock In the afternoon until 9 o'clock In the evening. The enrolled Republi can can do in four minutes what may give him satisfaction for four years. To-day Is the flrst step toward changing Curran'b title from Major to Mayor. Nine hundred thousand New Tork Children went to school yesterday. Three of the boys were said to be emiling. Vacation*. Where did you go? How do you do? Yen, pretty view? No, rather alow. Food wann't bad? You didn't tan? One slnglo man? Mother dragged dad. That's how I feel? Trunk, but no check? Sho was a wreck? I nrver peel. Dreadfully cold-? Dead with tha heat Bath Incomplete? Every berth sold. Our car broke down? Tie never wrote? There In the boat ? Spoilt my best gown. Totally dry? Not on that line? Ian't that fine? O ood-l>y ? good-by. AUuhicb Moiaia. Governor Miller's Critics. They Make Speeches While He At tends to His Dulles. To The New York Herald: Must a Oovornor be a faker? I am Inclined to believe so after reading the eloquent attacks on Governor Miller by candl- | dates for the Mayoralty. A Governor who cannot find leisure' from the duties of his office to display j an array of political and economic nos trums seems to merit the censure of all j sincere professional politicians. From1 their point of view Governor Miller In | not playing the game. Think of itl He has Introduced business methods In run ning the State's affairs and by a series of departmental consolidations has1 stricken from the payrolls hundreds of: political parasites. Let us not forget that Oovernor Miller set Washington the example in administrative economy. L>a Guardla attacks him. Is It for raving the taxpayers millions and thus setting the Board of Estimate an ex- j ample of cold efficiency? Where was Governor Miller when' Haskell was assailing him? Very likely Inspecting the Barge Canal and pointing out Its advantages to the cities along Its route. Where was Governor Miller when Ben nett was tiring his shot? Very likely Inspecting the State Institutions for the insane, anything but an agreeable task, and assuring himself on behalf of the taxpayer that the State's wards were receiving proper care and that 100 per cent, of the appropriation was expended In 100 per cent. care. Whfre was Governor Miller when Hy lan was In Atlantic City? At his desk In Albany thinking anci using his brain for the proper administration of his office. Of course we cannot accuse any of his detractors of this serious polit ical crftne. The recent attacks on the Governor mark a low standard of politics. Ver ily, a Governor must be a faker to at tain the approval of critics like these. Harrison K. Bird. Sabbath Day Point, September 12. Hunting Licenses. Case of the Aver ace Man lVho Works Hard for His Game. To This New York Herald: I note the proposal to raise the fee for a hunt ing license for residents 300 per cent., to cut the limit In game now allowed to be taken, to require a Federal license and to establish a Bhorter season on all game. It might be well to have the Federal license, which should not be Issued to aliens. In order to have American game for Americans only. As to a $20 license fee, take the individual who must wait for a holiday or lose a day's salary In order to get a day's sport; he cannot afford to pay ?20 for a hunting license, which ho may use Just once or twice without getting any game. And as for the present bag limit be ing too liberal, how many men are there who can go out to-day and get the limit on anything? Full bags are not to be had with any kind of game any more, not because there is no game but because game Is becoming more and more wary every day. Take, for in stance, duck shooting; who Is the man who gets the most ducks on a trip? The answer Is, the man with monoy, as lie is the only one who can go after them In the easiest way. The average man enn't afford to pay J30 a day for the use jof a battery, where the birds run into buiclde, but he must work hard for the game he gets. After pushing a skiff or rowboat all day. at the end he Is con tented to have Just two or three birds, because ho knows tliat he really shot them clean and not out of a flock of a hundred. Robert G. Stehun. New York, September 12. Old Days in Malabar. | Coffee Was Kintgr and People Trav elled bj Bollock (art. To The New York Herald: The let? ter by P. M. Wis wall convinces me that there have been changes in Cochin since I was last In India, in 1870. I had been three years accountant and acting agent of the Bank of Madras at Cochin. In my time there was no tea, no railroads, no chamber of commerce. There was a municipal council, of which I was auditor, for efficiency In which office I preserve a complimentary letter. Cocoanut oil had been a great article of export but had been knocked flat by the advent of kerosene. Coffee was king. Poolikarguth Marakar, a Mop lah, was very rich. He used to keep me in coffee one year old and therefore wholesome. Ginger, pepper, cardamom. Ac., added to the wealth of the place. Transporta tion was by water for passengorn In long barges propelled by from twelve to twenty chanting paddlcrs or by bullock cart from Trlchow, on the Backwater, twenty miles to the railroad. The bul locks travelled at the rate of two mile* an hour, accelerated by pinching their tails. Even the unchanging East has evidently got a move on. About the white Jews. It might be : mentioned that they have a gold plate | Inscribed with a charter granted by the i Zamorln of Calicut and rolls of the Old Testament which are believed to be more ancient than any otherp in exiat enoe. In the comical little tower of their synagogue is a wooden elock made 300 years ago, so they pay. Other points of interest are the ruins of the castle of Vasco da Gama at the harbor mouth, out of the windows of the habitable part of which one can fl*h. In the Episcopal church, which woe the Roman Catholic cathedral, antedating that of Ooa, the heraldlcally enriched tablet under which the dis coverer's bones first reposed before re moval to Goa and then to Lisbon was the flooring of iny pew. I'umplng sardines with a combination of hugo net and well sweep Is another arrange ment which excites the notice of the stranger. The climate doesn't suit people from the north of the tropics. W. u. D. O'Gradt. New York, September 12. Cooldn't Fool film. From the Kmmat Clip ftnr. "A. feller rama to my homo tuther day waning me to take Mock in the Dtiarma ment League, or something of the sort, at n dollar a ehare," rotated Uup Jolinnon of llumpui nidge, Ark. "I don't r<-ekon you bought none?" re turned mi acquaintance. "We're mighty diirn right t didn't! While lie was showing 'en? to me he ?topped on the tall ef one of the doge, and when the pore varmint enapped at him the Infernal cuss kicked the dog. 1 wouldn't fcuy nuth'n' from no auch Inhuman scoun drel M that, U I arm get rtabl" t Notables to Sail for Europe To-day Count Szechenyi, Count and Countess Teleki and Mrs. Vincent Astor Among Voyagers. Count I^tszlo Szechenyl, Count and Countess Paul Telekl, Mrs. Vincent As tor. Major and Mrs. Algernon E. Bur naby and Major-Gen. Hugh Keppell Bethel], Military Attache of the British Embassy In Washington, will be among the many notable persons who will sail for England to-day on board the Aqul tanta. Count Szechenyl came from Hungary early In the summer to Join the Countess, who is a daughter of Mrs. Vanderbllt, in Newport. Count Teiokl, former Premier of Hungary, cam? from his native land to lecture at Williams College and was joined in New York by Count .Szechenyl two weeks ago. Mrs. Burnaby is a daughter of the late Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page. M*\ Pago came to New York to pass a few days with them In th?? Rits-Carlton before their re turn to their home In England. The big Cunarder will take over 425 first class, 225 second class and 600 third class passengers, an unusually liirge eastbound sailing for this season of the year. Other first class passengers on board will be Mr. P. E. Bowles, chairman of board of directors of the American National Bank at San Fran cisco; Mr. Gilbert E. Fuller, Mr. E. C. Fox. managing director William E. Davles & Co. of Toronto; Mr. J. Stan ley Holmes, M. P. ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. InRersoll of Philadelphia, Capt Al bert Kiralfy, Mrs. Imrie Kiralfy, Mr. David Hunter Miller, Sir Archibald Mltciielson, Bart. ; Sir Perclval Perry, Dr. P. Pelletler, Commissioner General of the Province of Quebec; Mr. P. de Ronde. president of the Oriental Navi gation Company; Mrs. de Ronde, Mrs. John Sanford, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Smalley, the latter known on the stage n? Miss Lola Weber; Rt. Hon. Sir John Simon, Lady Simon and Col. Duncan M. Stewart. Commander and Mrs. J. K. L. Ross of Montreal, who have been passing sev eral days at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, also will sail for England to-day. Among those who will sail on the A Sylvan Cathedral. From the Montreal Oazette. Within a grove of niaple trees. Serene, we spend the hours; And peace broods o'er Its sanctuary As 'neath cathedral towers. The pillar'd trunks reach toward the skies, Through aisles of shadowy hue. To form a roof, all foliage spread, With whispering gallery true. The sunshine flecks the forest floor WlUi many patterned green; Giving the dimness a yet more Soft glorifying sheen. The birds elng anthem* of delight And hymns of purest praise; While breezes tune an organ deep Through all the forest glades! At matins and at evensong The gently tinkling bell, With lowing deep of waiting kine, Chants a soft vespers knell. The fragrant Incense of sweet fern. Wild thyme and mint aecend: Whilst clover drifte across the fields Its soothing balm to lend. Her* restless souls from busy marts Find peace in gentlest health. Find strength to fill their parts anew. Find Joy, perchance, by stealth; Find courago still to work and wait, To garner sheaves of gain, To fortify the coming hours. Bring they or Joy or pain! What'er they bring our waiting hearts. Memory must live to share This peace and quiet recompense Of God's groat open air! S. Maude Mauling Sandem. Rent Determining Rulet. Objections to One Plan of Apportion* in? the Cost of Repairs. To Thb New York Herald: Refer ring to the decision handed down by ? Justice Kelby at the Appellate Term j of the Supreme Court In Brooklyn It : would appear that one pha.se of It Is open to question, looking at It from the standpoint of an accountant. I refer to the disposition of cost of replacements. Let us, just for the purpose of Illus tration, assume an expenditure of $5,000 to rover tho replacement items of boiler sections, flooring, &c., and that In ac cordance with the decision this Item was Included as ordinary repairs. Assuming further that the house contained twenty apartments. It would result in each ten ant being forced to pay 1250 In the current year?more than $20 a month ?as a direct result of this repair Job. 1/et us now assume that In the fol lowing year no such expenditure was made. It is hardly likely that a land lord would voluntarily reduce that year's rent correspondingly, but it is very evi dent that only by such a reduction would a tenant be treated Justly. Will not this decision. If upheld, be practically certain to flood the courts cach year with Just such eases? In all other respects the decision ap pears to be eminently fair to both land lord and tenant, but in so far as It re lates to replacements and depreciation It seems like sn attempt to carry water on both shoulders. If tho property is first correctly valued the 2 per cent, de preciation allowed covers the purpose of maintaining It in the same condition that Justified the valuation. It follows therefore that if the rate so allowed ( Is a fair one it must over a period of years cover replacement expense. Rrdvclio ad abturdum Is perhaps the most conclusive way to prove the point As a hypothetical case assume tho fol lowing facts: Property assessed and valued at $40, 000, containing eight apartments hav ing an average rental of |75 each, or $7,200 annual gross rental; general ex pense, |1,600; 2 per cent, depreciation. $800 ; net Incomo, $4,900, or 12 per* | cent, on the vnlue of the property. A* ?umo further that, the building being in 1 ' danger of collapse, reconstruction cost- I , Ing $5,000 is Inescapable; also that, no j Interior repairing or renovating having been done for a great many years, It ' Is now necessary to expend som<j $3,000 | for this purpose, a total expenditure of I IS.000, more or less. According to the , decision the landlord would be permit ted to adjust the rentals to produce 10 per cent, of value $4,000 j General <xpen?o J.MtO 3 per cent, .|*preelatlori *00 Extra reconstruction and repairs.. V.00U Total $14,.too This divided among eight tenants would equal fl,7S7.00 or $146.55 a month ) for an apartment worth no more than j 1 $75 a month. Such a r*nt would not | ! bo upheld by any court, nor would any , tenant pay it. I I think I reflect the sentiments of a | majority when I suggest that this phase j of the decision receive circful recon Isiderution. Herbert W. Qwtm. Bkookxxm, September 12. Celtic next Saturday are Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert D. Bassett, who will be abroad about eight month*. AMERICANS I.Y PARTS. Sjfecial Correepondrnre to Th* N'rw Tom HWur.D. Parig, Aug. 24.?'Tha following Amer icans are registered at the office of The New York Herald of Parte: From New York: Mlas Mabell? Dens more. Mr. and Mrs. O. Frlbourg. Mrs. W. K. Wildes, Miss Isabella Sutherland, Dr. Edward Myers, Mrs. A. Davis, Mra. ! Lawrence Mott, Jordan L. Mott 3d, Mrs. ! B. Byron. Clarice F. Byron. J. W. Moore | nlcnardion, B. Hannel, Ming Margaret ! iIr- and Mrs. Joshua Velleman. Wal.er R. Denlson. Mrs. Josephine Reynolds, Mrs. p. w. Kitchlng, Mrs. John A. Kerr and MIsa Madeleine C. xverr. Prom other places: Mr. and Mrs. John U Connor. Miss Esther Richardson, To ronto; Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd Stevens. New Haven; Mrs. Cunningham Hall, Deane Hall, Richmond: Arthur Wllllam Aylward, Madison; Mr. and ^ ? A. Goodrich. Chicago; John L. Vaughan, Oil City; Mr. and Mrs. Paul ?. Hammond, Los Angeles; Mr. and ?Mrs. lrendelburg. Sew Jersey; Mr. and Albert Schornberg, Kansas City. v^0m^..f?,wer' J- U Mtthony, H. L. Young Philadelphia; Capt. J. W. Proc ?u, J r[ai^l,M" Brc<Jow. Brooklyn; Mrs. ..lirabeth M. M'agener. Miss Jessie L. Adams, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Simpson, Miss Hamilton Simpson. Kan* MS City; Mr. and Mrs. Prank J. Barany, Akron Ohio; Prank H. Poster, Mrs. L trench Hamilton, Can.; Miss Stacy B. Hill, Daniel W. Rowntrce. George A. Speer, Atlanta. MUdi-ed Marshall. Albany, Oa.; Miss Edith Barton, Louisville; Mrs. D. r S^abaker> Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. P. k' J"p,e? Mrs" c E- Ordway, Miss Dorothy Ordway, Winchester; Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Stlchler, Detroit. The Late Nathaniel Myers. To His Work Is Due the Hebrew Technical School for Girls. To The New York Herald: The death of my beloved friend Nathaniel Myers is a great loss to the commu nity. Air. Myers almost single handed built up a wonderful structure by es tablishing the Hebrew Technical School for Girls, which has been of tremendous benefit to the welfare of a large num ber of deeerving girls whose parenta ? or guardians are of moderate means. ? I By tlio splendid education they re-! celve In this post-graduate school they ! arc not only materially benefited but In addition are Improved in character! and refinement. They have the right I example and guidance, material and i ethical, eo that when they leave the I school they are greatly Improved and not only able to take care of themselves ' but in moat cases to help their families \ and others who may be dependent upon hem. By their good example they I themselves and in many cases their' families are Improved and elevated in ! every reapect. The material benefit these girls de-1 rive from the work of Mr. Myers has! been fully explained. The reporting ! graduates of the school are earning annually over 18.000.000, but the bene fits they receive in the general Improve ment which takes place in them is of much greater Importance. Mr. Myers was devoted to this cause. Aside from his interest In the school he was a man of great Intellect and abil ity and was Interested In all that is good and noble. He was a great Inter preter of Shakespeare, an ardent ad mirer of Lincoln, an eloquent orator and altogether one of our best cltlsens. and withal a man of great modesty who did not wish to have his good work o?zzzcr !r90 far as u ^ of benefit to others. The world Is bet ter for having had Nathaniel Myers in TT Adot.ph Licwjsohx. Lpper Saran-ac, September 12. Chance for a Solomon. Some of the Posers Pnt Up to the Burean of Mines. From th? Mining Ctmprttt Journal. Two letters recently broke Into thi comparatively uneventful business exist ence of a correspondence clerk In the Bureau of Mine*. One of these missives bore the postmark of a little Western mining town. The letter was written In a dragpy, uncertain scrawl, with a name of plainly foreign origin tacktrd on the end at a raking angle. The writer Bought Information, lots of It. leading off with a simple query ns to when tho bureau's 1921 reports on every thing from silk necktlcs to onyxcamcos would be ready, he stepped Into a veri table flood of question marks. "Could you drop me a line when some expedition starts off to the Cocos Islands or any other place?" he asks. "What Is radium worth a pound?" "Where are the most birds of paradise found, and how big are their eggs?" "Can you give me the names of all the foreign and domestic companies han dling eyeglasses, telegraph Instruments, water gauges, periscopes, ore Anders, j hearing horns, electrical churns, curling i Irons and aluminum cooking tools?" I And so on through three pages. The other gem par excellence which j the mall man brought told of the ambi tions of an Italian mushroom grower of New Tork city. It told such a tale as might easily have furnished O. Henry with Inspiration for one of his wonder yarns of the great metropolis. Not high ambitions were thev of the mushroom grower as they appeared between the lines of the letter. Ixjwer than a fallen Instep were they. Down deep in the murky, gloomy depths of deserted mines Is where this man's dreams of fortune led his mind. To quote his letter: "I am a mushroom grower and I am looking for somo empty mines in New ?Ter*ey In which to plant my mushrooms. Would be much obliged If you would lend me n Hat of same, especially the ones that nre good and damp." With what masses of mushrooms Is this fair land of ours due to be swamped If this man's dreams of numberless cav erns Jammed from side to side and to their roofM with monster bits of tooth someneas ever become realised! Peril# ef the Nattenal Game In Arkan*a?. LAI tk> Mulberry oarresfondefie* ClarkM'Ule llrrald Democrat. Sunday setiool was a dra* last Sunday on aerount of the mjnerlntcndi*nt p ttluir hH with a hall at T!at*on taut Saturday and not belli* able to attend. Interpreted. Knleker--f)om? think Mars Is KlgTialll i* US. Boekar?Prabably simply "Go I" "Slop r' Daily Calendar THE WEATHER. uPKr. Eaeterl? York?Fair and slightly cooler to-day ; to-morrow cloudy; west winda. cloudv N'n^>^Jer*ey? F*lr ,0"d4>': to-morrow er*t? 5 ,en-l>*ra:ure; senile mod f?.,? ^re"iJlnd northwest wind*, and JEE??? 'N<w England?Fair to-dav ueran/U? .t t?-m?rrow ? moderate tem fcw c" Ke,1"? we?terly wind*, and Ltt? New England?Fair lo-day "ire T,M to-"iorr'J*'? moderate lempera ?Si ?r"lle w?*"Tly winds. " '"J" w??l*ni Saw York?Fair to-day: to ?*ntle%aUrUWe wtn,S.C,Uln** tCmptra'ure; Jepl tropical has^wi^d ???ri2?d. over Ha>11 J"?torday and to-night its rp ^-0^atanu rt'gI ona' ^ Norma" ^ .1 -formal temperatures contre ir-n eially, except over the Northwest where It T'" TherK h,v? been EcJi ralna ^''hin the Inst twenty-four hour" In Atlantic Stale* and the New s'tatl. and n?r'h plain* Matea, and local ra.nu Hiid tnowa in Montana. ~ui*l ^n^nrn r Fair Weather was thu rule In otner paru of the country. The out" '? f01; showers to-morrow nltr'it or Medneaday In the upper lake region and lower Oh.o \ alley and for generally fuir wearher elsewhere east of the MlHs^sslnn! Hirer during the next forty-eight hours No Important temperature changes are In (Ileated for the enet half of the coSn?? 2 moirow or Wednesday. ""try lo Observations at United States Weather Bu reau stations taken at 8 p. jf. yJ^JTJ seventy-fifth meridian time: JMWnlajr, Temperature Rainfall last 24 hra. Baro- laat 14 Stations. High. Low. meter, hra. Weather Abilene M 70 Su.oo .. Cloudv Albany 74 M 30.00 .. Cloudy Atlantic City... TO 72 30.10 .. Clear Baltimore 80 72 30.08 .02 Clear Bismarck 58 42 30.20 .. Cloudy Eo;i0? 74 30-10 .04 ft. C.ldy Buffalo 74 70 80.14 .. Clear Cincinnati 83 08 30.l<) .. pt. cidy Charleston 88 78 30.02 .. Clear Chicago 70 02 30.-J2 .. Cloudy Cleveland 70 70 80.20 .. pt. Cldy Denver 84 M> 20.78 .. Pt. Cldy Detroit 78 04 30.20 .. Clear Galveaton t*) 80 29.98 .. Pt. Cldy Helena r.H 30 30.14 .. Cloudy Jacksonville... 80 70 30.00 .. Clfar Kansas City... 72 04 30.0(3 .. Cloudy Los AngHea... 72 02 19.08 .. Claar Milwaukee 70 :.rt 30.12 .. Clo? ? New Orleans... 90 80 30.00 . 24 CI Oklahoma 78 72 29.00 .14 Cloudy Philadelphia... 72 70 30.14 .18 Cle?V Plttaburgh.... 82 t? 30.10 .. Clear Portland. Me.. 01 58 30.12 .. Cloudy Portland. Ore.. 70 40 30.00 .. Cloudy Salt Lake City. 78 08 20.70 .. Tt. CidT San Antonio.. 00 74 19.04 .. C.ear Kan Diego 70 02 J9.02 .. Clear San Franciaco. 04 .VI 30.02 .. Ciear .Seattle 04 48 80.12 .. Pr. Cldy St. Louis 80 C? 30.12 .. CttJUdy St. Paul 02 48 30.20 .. Rain Washington 82 72 30.10 .Ot Cloudy LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS. 8 A. M. 8 P. SC. Barometer 30.10 30.11 Humidity 80 80 Win?direction E.G. S. Wind?velocity 10 7 Weather Cloudy Pt.Cdy Precipitation 20 None The temperature In this city yesterday, as recorded by the official thermometer. Is shown In the annexed table: 8 A. M...r? i p. M...71 ?P. M...72 9 A.M...09 2 P. M...71 7 P.M...72 10 A.M...73 3 P. M...75 8P.M...71 11 A. M?73 4 P. M...75 9 P. M...70 12 M 73 P. M...73 10 P. M...70 1921. 1920. 192t. 1920. 9 A. M 09 09| 0 P. M 73 81 12 M 73 70' 9 P. M 70 78 3 P. M 75 81; 12 Mid 70 72 Hlche*t temperature, 75, at 3 P. M. Lowest temperature, 60, at 0 A. M. Average temperature, 70. EVENTS TO-DAY. Annual addresa of Pr. William L. Ettlnger to associate and district superintendents and Inspectors of special branches. Board of Ed ucation Building, Park avenue and Fifty ninth street, 2:45 P. M. Lion Club, meeting. Hotel Eossert, Brook lyn, 1 P. M. Seventh Annuat National Exposition of Oiemlcal Industries. Eighth Coast Def-ice Armory, Jeromo avenue and Klngshrldg* road. The Bronx, afternoon and evening. Charlea O. Hartlch, talk on "Wall Street Accounting.?? meeting of New York Society of Accountants. Hurr.ford Hall. 50 East r orty-flrst street, 8:1,') P. M. ? Textile Workers of America, meet* 5 P* ^roadway c?"tral Hotel. 10 A. M. to Knights of St. John and Malta, Chapfer General of America, meeting, Clinton Hall, Gates and Reld avenues, Brooklyn, 8 P. M. Insulated Wire Manufacturers, meetlnir and luncheon. Hotel Commodore, 9:30 A M BoulevardIPTl" ?raternl,y' lunch?"'. Cafe IN THE BERKSHIBES. Mra. William C. 8. Crlawold Enter* talna Lenox Garden Clnb. Bp'rial Dr?pr,tch tn Thb Niw Yosk H?ut?. Lenox. Man*.. Sept. 12.?Mra. William E. ,s Grlswold entertained the I^-nox Oarden Club at Wyndhurat thla afte noon. and later Mr*. Charles Astor Brlsted irave a tea and reception at Lakeside In honor of Mr*. Clarence Crit tenden Calhoun of Washington. Mrs. Brlsted was ??slsted by Mtsa M. Sym phorosa Brlsted, Miss Grace Brlsted and Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman. Mrs. Alexander Gait Grant of Boston had a dinner party at the Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge to-night for her mother, Mrs. Frederic A. Delano. Mr. and Mra. Delano expect to return to Washington the latt of the week. Arrivals at the Red Uon Include Mr. and Mrs. John W. Castles, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelly Prentice of New Vork; Lieut.-CoL R. M. Cutts, United States Marines: Mrs. Cutts, Midship man R. M. Cutts, U. S. N., and Miss A. O. Cutte. Mr. and Mrs. Graham K. Mtllen of Brooklyn are spending a month with his father, Charles S. Mcllen, at Stock bridge, Miss Adele Kneeland entertained nt lunchcon at Falrlawn to-day for Mrs. Russell Sturgis Codman of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Cowlea of Boston, Mr. Harold M. Acton and Mr. William Acton of Florence, Italy, are At the Curtla Hotel. GEN. CASTER TO RETIRE. T* Leave Army After Thirty Yeara* Continuous Service. Washington, Sept. 12.?Brlg.-G?n. Jetse Met. Carter, former chief of the militia bureau, will retire from active army service on October 1, ending moro than thirty years' continuous service. In announcing the order to-day Sec retary Weeks said It was granted uron the General's application. In reroiml tlon of his services the General waa awarded the decoration of the Distin guished Service Medal during the war. He i? a native of Missouri and received appointment to West Point Acadamy In 1882 from that State. ATLANTIC CITY A It RIVALS, atrial Dnpatrh to Tita N?w York Itmur.n. ATLANTIC ClTT. N. J., Sept. IS.?At the Trayniore from New York are Mr. unci Mrs. Edward Child* Carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Moore, Mm W. G. Kln?; of Brooklyn. Mis* Beth Tranklyn, W. J. Cross and W. F. Carroll. Mrs. Marshall Pnrks of New York In entertaining Ml*s D. A. Warner of Lit tle Silver. N. J. at the Brighton. Mrs. John F. llylan. wife of the Mayor of New YorK, Is expected to Join her daughter, Mrs. John F. Slnnott. at the Bhelburne. Mra D. N. MoPherson. Mlsn K. J. Hyland and F. J. Hylatul nre among the later arrivals from Brooklyn at tho Dennis. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Barrnnco of New York arrived at the Marlboro-HWnheltii to-day. Mra. S. B. Marls of New York is being entertained there by Mr*. J. Z. Plerson. slso of Sew York. Tlie Ansoctali d Prois I* exclusively entltt. 4 to ttic use for republication of all new* <le? patch'? rr?dltc<| to It or tv.t ntherwlna credited 1" "it- paper, and also tliw l?i<U news I'tibllKli 'd herein. All ri.rhia of republication of special <5?e patchM kiiiin are also raasrvad. i