receipts of this office have been largely in excess of the amount in any previous administration, and have been more than sufficient to pay all the salaries and expenses of the department. This could not have been done had it not been for the very careful and conscientious manner in which Mr. McDonough has carried on the work.

The State engineer and surveyor has entirely ignored politics in his choice and selection of subordinates, and has completely overturned established methods and reformed his department in a manner of which any State might well be proud.

The faithful, efficient, and honest administration of the canals has been a matter of public comment. The most competent authorities, without regard to party, have united to commend the department as by far the most conservatively and efficiently managed of any for many years.

The same can be said, to a smaller degree, of the department of public buildings.

Early in his administration, Governor Roosevelt adopted the holding of cabinet meetings once a week, at which all the heads of departments were present. The governor was thus brought into contact with those officers elected with him, and was able to keep in touch with those who were responsible for the various State departments.

In the matter of impressing his ideas upon legislation, there are some peculiar instancesmatters of public importance, which were little noticed at the time in the public prints. One of the first of these was the bill for the prevention of the desecration of the American flag.

In this the governor took a peculiar inter

est.

Although not a professional agriculturist, either in a political or actual sense, the governor has recognized the all-important part which the agriculturists play in State polity, and whenever occasion has occurred he has espoused the cause of the farmer and the market gardener. Amendments to the agricultural law are frequently seen in the session laws of 1899 and 1900. The governor has been particularly interested in the beet-sugar culture and the products of the dairy, while in season

and out of season he pressed laws preventing the adulteration of food products, the danger of fertilizers which were below standard, improper feeding stuffs, and other fraudulent products, whereby farmers and market gardeners in the past have suffered at the hands of unscrupulous and designing men. The betterment. by proper and legitimate means, of the life conditions of the wage-workers who reside in tenement districts has been his peculiar care.

The amendments to the labor law, which the governor initiated and urged to a successful termination, will be of the greatest benefit, and will right, and are now righting, grave wrongs. He makes it his business to see that these laws are properly enforced, and is holding the factory inspector to strict accountability for the same. More recently, he secured the passage and signed the Tenement House Commission bill, which commission is now thoroughly investigating that subject; and when its labors are completed there, the tenement population of New York and other cities will find themselves in a much better position than they have ever been before. Particularly have the beneficent results of this legislation been found in the sweat-shops of New York City; and hundreds and thousands who have been suffering in those polluted holes are reaping the benefit of the governor's wise foresight and sturdy action.

The enactment of the code of game-laws is very largely the result of the governor's own work; not the least item of which was the pas

GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT AT HIS DESK.

to prevent any such outrage to be foisted upon the public; and it was the governor's individuality and strength of character that passed the Ramapo bill through both branches of the legis lature. The comptroller of New York City complained that large sums were taken from the city treasury by confessions of judgment which he was powerless to prevent, and the strong hand of the governor stretched itself forth, and what was known as the "Confessions of Judgment bill was passed by both branches of the legislature and became a law.

The complaint of stenches which arose from Barren Island, sickening and discomforting thousands of people in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, and even permeating the borough of Manhattan, received his most careful attention, and through his instrumentality a law was passed to abate those obnoxious gases and stenches.

For a long time it has been the policy of the land board to make grants of land under water to riparian owners in fee. It was found that very large tracts were thus being ceded by the State from which neither the State nor its people received very much benefit. Under Governor Roosevelt's active operation, all this has been changed; and such grants are now made to the holders thereof as leases, which are to revert to the State after a certain number of years. It can readily be seen the very great benefit which this will be to the State at large.

Applications for pardons, executive clemency, and requisitions for extraditions have taken hours and hours of his time and attention. He holds the employees of his department to strict ac countability, but allows them wide latitude of judgment. When directing anything to be done, he simply tells the official to do it, leaving him to his own resources as to the most methodical and practical means of accomplish

ment.

These are but a few of the meritorious measures that the governor has aided and abetted; but if he has done much for the people in the

laws that have been enacted, he has also done much to prevent unjust bills from becoming laws. There is no person or municipality, however small, that has not felt his protecting care; and there is no corporation, however large, which he has not treated with fairness, with courtesy, and with consideration, and from which he does not exact the same treatment in return. It is apparent, therefore, that all the governor asks is to be met half way. Equity and justice to him are synonymous terms. He has seen to it that all persons and all aggregations of individuals receive courteous treatment and strict equity and justice in their ordinary pursuits; and this he has not done negatively or underhandedly, but positively, openly, and uprightly. Pages might be written of the untiring hours of labor that he has spent in the executive department-in many instances long after other State officials have gone to their nomes, planning and thinking as to methods to be performed, policies to be enacted, and lines of conduct to be followed out. The matter of appointments to the various boards and to various official positions he has given his most earnest and intelligent care. He has counseled alike with political Jew and political Gentile, and those who had no political religion at all. He has done nothing hastily; to all matters he has given the most patient thought and careful examination. He has examined into every detail of the executive department; nothing has been too small for his personal attention.

Always courteous to those about him, he brooks no unnecessary delay in the transaction of the public business; but, grasping a situation quickly, he disposes of the matter in hand, and quickly changes the conversation to other topics. He demands of all his subordinates full value of labor for money received, but is ever ready to recompense the laborer for the full value of his work. He has not striven to make the public service perfect, but he has striven to make it better; and he will leave the gubernatorial chair having raised to a great degree the tone of official life.

Copyright, 1900, by A. Bogart. HINDOO LAWGIVER"THE LEGENDARY MANU." BY AUGUSTUS LUKEMAN.

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ADISON SQUARE, New York, bids fair to become a marked art center, for across from the Dewey Arch,-which, it is to be hoped, may be made permanent,-and a stone's throw from St. Gaudens' Farragut," and under the shadow of his "Diana," is the just completed Appellate Courthouse, one of the most attractive buildings in the city of New York.

It was built under conditions more favorable than usual for public buildings. There was no competition. The architect, James Brown Lord, was chosen by the judges because of his previous work; an appropriation of $700,000 was put through the legislature after Mr. Lord's plan had been approved by the judges. Even in the contracts, the city was not obliged to accept the lowest bid, but was free to decide upon the competency of the bidders.

Mr. Lord chose some twenty-five artists and sculptors whom he thought best fitted to execute given portions of the work, and to their sympathetic cooperation with him is due the harmoni

ous ensemble. In the courtroom one sees what is apparently the work of one man; we never dream that the work of six painters compose the decorations. So, too, in every part of the building all is unity; there are no hiatuses of monotonous blank spaces.

The architectural embellishments are, like the sculptures on the Dewey Arch, connected with recognized basal architectural forms. The major effect of Mr. Charles R. Lamb's design lay in his taking the Arch of Titus as a model for his framework, and seeing to it that our best sculptors adorned it; and Mr. Lord's success is due to his selection of a standard Corinthian model and choice of appropriate ornament. The façade of the building is of New England marble.

When we stand below and look aloft at the statues, the sky seems by contrast to be equal to the intense lazuli of the Italian sky; and we picture to ourselves how delectable our city might be made if her sky lines were improved by the buildings shedding their pressed metal copings and replacing them with figures like these.

ANGLO-SAXON LAWGIVER -"ALFRED THE GREAT.

BY J. S. HARTLEY.