Copyright by the American Press Association, New York be remembered, has always maintained his position as a Tammany man, and it would be hardly possible to conceive of his breaking away from that organization. If Mr. Sulzer or Mr. Hedges could be as free and untrammeled as Mr. Straus, in case of election, either one of them would make a good Governor. The contest would seem to lie between Mr. Straus and Mr. Sulzer. But no one can predict election results this year in the State of New York. (Mr. Sulzer and Mr. Glynn are at the head of the New York State Democratic ticket) England situation which Candidates gives New York three conspicuous candidates for the Governorship is repeated in many other States. Some of these situations had been completed early enough to be set forth in our issue last month. In Massachusetts, the party primaries of September 24 gave Governor Foss the renomination as a Democrat, and placed Mr. Joseph Walker in nomination as a Republican. The Progressives had previously nominated Mr. Charles S. Bird, of whom mention was made in these pages last month. In Rhode Island the Republicans have put up Governor Pothier for a fifth term, and the Progressives was the foremost Democratic leader in the have named Mr. Albert H. Humes of PawHouse to oppose his party's "no-battleship" tucket. A well-known Providence lawyer, Mr. policy in the last session, and to bring about Theodore F. Green, has been named by the the final compromise in favor of one very Democrats. The Connecticut Progressives, large and powerful ship as against the estab- late in September, nominated Mr. Herbert lished program of two battleships each year. Knox Smith, who had recently resigned as Mr. Sulzer, like Mr. Hedges, is determined, federal Commissioner of Corporations. Govin case of election, to give the State of New ernor Baldwin had previously been named by York the best services of which he is capable. the Democrats, and Judge Studley by the ReBut in case of Democratic victory Mr. Sulzer publicans. In Massachusetts and Connecticut would not be the sole governing authority. the situation seems favorable to the DemoThe rest of the State ticket is not regarded as crats. Our comment last month included a averaging up to Mr. Sulzer's level of inde- statement of the situation in New Hampshire, pendence and sense of public duty. Further- where Mr. Winston Churchill heads the Promore, a Tammany legislature would be dom- gressive ticket. The Vermont Legislature inated by Mr. Murphy rather than by has settled the Governorship contest in favor GOVERNOR FOSS, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN MASSACHUSETTS, AND HON. JOSEPH WALKER, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE in the West The Western States had for the a convention on September 20, selected Mr. Party Chaos most part completed their tickets P. V. Collins, editor of the Northwestern earlier in the season. In Minne- Agriculturist, as their candidate for Governor. sota, Governor Eberhart won his renomina- Colonel Roosevelt is reported as very strong in tion as a Republican, by virtue of the second- Minnesota. In Michigan, a Progressive ticket choice provision of the primary law. P. M. was placed in the field on October 1, headed Ringdal, of Crookston, was victorious in the by State Senator L. Whitney Watkins. In the Democratic primary. The Progressives, in State of Washington the Republican Gov Samuel D. Felker Franklin Worcester Robert T. Hodge Marion E. Hay THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR THE PROGRESSIVE AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR C. C. Parks FRANCIS E. M'GOVERN, REPUBLICAN E. P. Costigan ernor Hay was renominated in the September primaries, and the Democratic candidate is the Hon. Ernest Lister. The Progressive candidate is Mr. Robert T. Hodge. The wholly uncertain condition existing in the States of the Middle West renders it useless to venture any prediction. The State of Wisconsin furnishes a good example of this uncertainty. In that State Senator LaFollette, who is devoting his time chiefly to the recital of what he regards as his own personal grievances against Colonel Roosevelt, is strongly advocating the reëlection of Governor McGovern. Curiously enough, LaFollette praises McGovern as worthy of the fullest support and confidence in his capacity as chief executive of the State, while bitterly condemning McGovern for supporting the Presidential candidacy of Colonel Roosevelt. Senator LaFollette also THE REPUBLICAN AND PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES FOR denounces in unmeasured terms the Demo PRESIDENT AND MRS. TAFT ON THE "MAYFLOWER" DURING THE REVIEW OF THE the support of "the anti-Bryan, anti-Wilson The Navy on Exhibition objections of those who fail to see any reason for the maintenance of our navy at its present standard of efficiency. He also hoped to interest young Americans in the seemingly happy and contented lot of the sailor. Many thousands availed themselves of the opportunity to board a battleship; and they saw things, and had other things explained to them, which they will not soon forget. Uncle Sam's Last month our enterprising Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Meyer, arranged on a larger scale a repetition of last year's practical object-lesson as The work of the seaman of to-day regards the size and mobility of our navy. is not all scrubbing and polishing, For several days, 123 American warships lay at though there is a good deal of anchor in the Hudson, extending nine miles that. The "sailor" was in evidence in the up the river from a point opposite the heart wireless room, with an instrument at his ear of New York City; and anyone who wished and his finger on the telegraph key. He was could see and admire the second greatest in the executive officer's or the paymaster's war fleet ever assembled, or could board the vessels and examine them closely. The fleet was inspected by the President and the Secretary of the Navy on October 14, and on the following day it was reviewed by them as it passed out to sea. Mr. Meyer's desire has been to show as many persons as possible just what they are getting for the hundreds of millions spent each year for our chief room, using a typewriter, an adding machine, or a card-index system. Or perhaps he was perched on a turret or in a skeleton mast, waving the signal flags and conveying some message to a sailor on another ship whom the "landlubber" could not even see. Of course the greatest attention was paid to the newest additions to our navy, the super-dreadnoughts Arkansas and Wyoming, which are the most Fire Prevention argument for an efficient navy is found in a sider the equally serious if less spectacular comparison of these modern warships with matter of water conservation within the cities those of a decade ago. During our war with themselves. This work is outlined elsewhere Spain, the Iowa was the pride of the fleet. in this magazine by Prof. E. W. Bemis. The With all respect to that vessel, what chance lesson that many American cities still have would it stand, with its four 12-inch guns, in to learn is that efficient and economical conflict with a battleship like the Wyoming, maintenance of existing water-works syswith three times as many? Both these ships tems is no less the province of sound municipal were in the Hudson last month, and they engineering than the construction of vast undoubtedly converted many-as Secretary aqueducts and reservoirs designed to stand as Meyer had hoped-to the belief that we Twentieth Century monuments. Likewise, should have either an up-to-date navy or a large per capita consumption of water does none at all. not necessarily indicate a high standard of living and cleanliness, but may mean an On October 9, the forty-first an- inexcusable laxity of maintenance. It was niversary of the great Chicago only a few years ago that Washington, D. C., fire, there took place quite gen- stood face to face with the apparent necessity erally throughout the United States the more of increasing its water supply at an estimated or less formal celebration of Fire Prevention cost of some $5,000,000. It was suggested Day. In Illinois, Iowa, and New York, for that before this was done an examination of the example, Governors Deneen, Carroll, and distribution system should be made by expert Dix by official proclamation specially desig- water-works engineers, and a careful survey nated the day for observance and recom- was undertaken. By methods outlined in mended that public and private considera- an article following that of Professor Bemis, tion be given to the matter of fire dangers and underground leakage and waste were detected their prevention. In several Western States, to such a marked degree that it was found in compliance with official suggestion, the possible to postpone indefinitely the extensive day was devoted to a general overhauling new works that had been contemplated. But and cleaning of flues and heating devices, whether secured by good municipal care and while in the schools generally fire drills were housekeeping or by new and increased supply held and the children were instructed on the systems, adequate and pure water everywhere dangers of fire, warned against carelessness, is essential to the health of the community, and impressed with the necessity for uni- and throughout the United States there is versal caution. The celebration of Fire widespread interest in new aqueducts and Prevention Day is but one phase of the purification plants. Thus in Richmond, Va., national campaign of general education that the local water bureau daily exhibits on one is now being waged in the hope of removing of the principal streets samples of raw and what has been a long-standing national filtered water, and its reports and analyses menace and disgrace. In 1911 the fire loss are published by the local press. in the United States was $2.31 per capita, as compared with 81 cents in France, 53 cents in England, and 21 cents in Germany. The fire loss in New York in 1911 was $2.45 as against 60 cents in Paris, 54 cents in London, and 18 cents in Hamburg. Boston, a city of about the same size as Hamburg, had a fire loss of $3.26 per capita, or over eighteen times as great. Yet until recently little or no heed has been paid to the lesson, emphasized as it is annually by great conflagrations health. Accordingly the Fifteenth Internaand such catastrophes as the Washington Place holocaust of 1911, where 145 workers perished in a New York factory. Public So widespread has become the public interest in pure water and its relation to disease that it is only natural for the public now to concern itself with such movements as involve the safeguarding of the milk supply, the prevention of tuberculosis, the establishment of a national quarantine, and other like movements for the preservation and amelioration of the national tional Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held at Washington late in September, and the first of the kind to take place in America, aroused interest that was not confined to the With the approaching completion physicians and sanitarians in attendance. Supply of large projects for increasing the As will be seen from a special article elsewater supply of the cities of New where in this issue of the REVIEW, the many York and Los Angeles at a cost of many mil- scientific and technical papers there pre Water |