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HORTiCILK KAL EXHIBIT.
Mrs. Pratt Shores Many Rare Deco
rative Plants.
The feature of the annual horticultural exhibit
of the American Institute. which opened yester
day. Is the exhibit by Mrs. Pratt, widow of the
rr.aa who founded Pratt Institute. Mrs. Pratt,
who has one of the finest private greenhouses
n America at her home in Brooklyn, has only
once or twice before In her life shown her floral
treasures to the public. Her exhibit at the Insti
tute consists entirely of decorative plants, and
Manage" Allen of the Institute board declared
vesierday that he had never seen so good a col
lection of its kind In any botanical garden of
America or Europe. A. number of plants in the
collection are rare, in the sense that they are
Beicorc men In greenhouses, either public or
private, brcause of the difficulty of raising
th- rr.. They are all big leaved tropical or Semi
tropical plants, w:th foliage co curiously orna
mental in many cases that it looks as if it had
bean fashioned by hand, striped and scalloped
according- to pattern, and with the greatest at
tention to material and color. There Is the allo
casia euprea, for example, which has leaves so
metallic In appearance that it seems as though
they were of hand beaten copper. The begonia
iirperiaas. near by, looks as if a delicate edge
of sage green panne civet had been applicjued
on a light wool material of paler tint. The
calathea roseo picta had great gorgeous leaves,
green above and maroon below.
•That's an absolutely perfect plant," said Mr.
Alien. "I never saw as fine in Kew, Berlin or
ar.y C * the great bctanical gardens."
But Ihe queen of the collection is the cyano
phyUum rr.agnificum. declared by Mr. Allen to
be probably the rarest plant in New-York. It Is
a, rega". thing, seven or eight feet high, and with
lower leaves three feet In length. These ieaves
loci exactly as if they had been cut out of dark,
moss green velvet, and neatly stitched with care
around the edges and up and down the veins.
The under side of the leaf is dull red and cov
ered with a One fnzz. This fuzz serves a strange
purpoec In it the little red ants pasture their
cows, the aphides. The apis, or plant louse, de
posits a fluid which is very grateful to the
palate ■:' the red ar.t. and the naturalists say
that the red ants herd and milk the aphides in
these fuzzy pastures. It .5 these agricultural
operations which make the plant hard to keep
clean and so difficult to rear.
The exhibition room is a dream of gorgeous
dahlia, ..eh bring- exclamations of delight
frorr. every woman who enters. Splendid gladi
oli assault the eye with color. 'What are you
bringing those puny little things in here for?"
said one man to another, -who was bringing In
his exhibit. The pony little things were gladioli
stems five feet long.
Upstairs th^re are cooking vegetables on one
eide and salad vegetables or. the other. Even a
list of the salad materials found on one bench
Bounds good enough to eat — watercress, escarole,
three kinds of endive, parsley, leeks, borage.
celery, Florence fennel — a curious salad herb
introduced from Italy — Swiss lard, lettuce, ro
maine, Chinese caboage, West India gherkins,
sever, varieties of radishes and thirty varieties
of per:
The young farmers of the De Witt Clinton
Park Farm School make a most creditable dis
play, and it is safe to say that those whose
garden numbers are displayed over the beets,
turnips and lettuce are proud and happy
youngsters. ,
_ WOTALKS
FLOWER SOFA PILLOWS.
Sofa cushions, which outwardly grow more
artistic year by year, are delightful v.-hen filled
with I'-agrant flowers or leaves— roses, lavender
blossoms, clover, hops, sweet fern, milkweed
ar.d balsam. Of! their coverings are embroid
ered in flov.ers like those used in the fillings or
ere made of materials In the various flower
colors. For insta.nce. a rose filled pillow has a
bur.eh of roses embroidered on the corner and a
pretty pink border or flounce of pink.
A m'lkweed pillow recently seen was covered
witn fine open network, through which the s'lky
floss of the Ikweed was plainly discernible.
Ti:s f.css will Dot shed fuzz, as might be ex
pected. No eiderdown is half so soft or fairylike
as this milkweed when used in a low. it will
take nearly a barrel or milkweed pods, but. as
co many country people know, it pays for the
trouble of gathering It.
-ather tne pods late In summer wten they are
matured, but before they turn black or
have opened.
For a clover blossom pillow only fragrant
clover should be gathered, and then quickly
dried v.-ithout exposure to the sun. A recent
writer suggests adding a sprinkle of clover
sachet powder to the dried blossoms.
A hop pillow will be new to many. Dry tne
hops thoroughly, make the covering of brown
6er.:n; arid finish the pillow in brown and gold.
A spray of hops in geld wash silk may be em
broidered on the surface.
To make a pillow of roses spread very fragrant
petais in the shade on a warm, sunny day. After
drying th^rr; thoroughly, £pr::ilc.u a tablespoon
fcd o! powdered orris "root and ten or twelve
d'ops cf attar of roses among them. Fill a slip
of glazed cambric with the mixture and cover
■ttb sHfc or satin. Tse only the best attar of
roses for the pillow, as inferior brands "ill not
hold the fra.gTar.ee of the dried petals.
Probably a pillow of fragrant violets could be
rr.&iT :r. about the same way as the rose pillow.
j^sp.^ip £^k>& M&^&
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of good cooking everywhere by supplying
housekeepers with useful cook bocks giv
ing recipes for the easy preparation of
appetizing dishes.
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PAREXTS AT SCHOOL.
First of a Series of Monthly Recep
tions at Public School No. 10.
Public School No. 10. St. Nicholas-aye. and 117th
st.. held the first of a series of monthly parents'
meetings ve«t«rday afternoon. These meetings are
nothing new at this school. Th» teachers are In
formally at home to parents one afternoon each
week, and a formal parents' meeting has been held
once a year or once a term for several years, but it
is an innovation to hold them so often as it is pro
posed to da this year. The step has been taken
because of the great helpfulness of these meetings
to the teachers. They have found, says the prin
cipal. Dr. Ernest Birkens, that there is "nothing
like them
The attendance was not very large yesterday, but
that wu entirely due to the weather; usual the
assembly room is packed on such occasions. Dr.
Birkens presided, and the principal speaker was
the Rev. Isaac Doornail who has Just returned
from Japan, where he has been a missionary for
eichteen years. Ho told the parents what he con
siders to be the root of Japanese greatness.
"We call the Japanese smart," he said, "but that
is an indefinite word. We have a smart set, com
posed of some people whom some of us consider to
be anything but smart, and there are smart people
whom no one thinks of calling so. Ti^ Japanese
lire sir.art because they thirst for knowledge and
are not too proud to learn from any one woo can
teach them. The Chinese ar? greater individually,
but their pride blinds them to the causes of prog
ress in other nations. The Japanese are just the
level and they are never too old to learn. Men
of sixty used to come to me in Japan, asking me to
teacn them everything Imaginable, and the Jap
anese think a missionary knows everything about
this wo. -Id and something about the r.?xt, so they
cams to me to be taught mining, soapmaking, cook
ing, dressmaking — everything you can think of.
And, with ail their anxiety to learn new things.
they know how to preserve what is good in their
own institutions."
There were also addresses by Miss Hester A.
Roberts, principal of the primary department, and
Michael I. Morrisy, the musical instructor, under
whose direction the. boys gave a couple of choruses.
Besides this, there were some songs by Frederick
Wheeler and a piano solo by Master Alexander E.
Gordon.
At the sondusion of the programme Miss Roberts
and her assistants received the parents in the pri
mary department.
a™wiNG3
"Perverted as we were by cheap imitations of
Renaissance carving and by structural inanity, by
■olla podrlda' patterns In tapestries and rugs, and
by colorings so bad that there was constant de
mand for 'something new." we might have swal
lowed Art Kouvean, sinuosities and all, if decore
tive penance and fastir.g in the form of Mission
had not quickened our aesthetic perception and
made us sensitive to the enormities of omamentai
overloading- and of unlawful curves.
le that we needed — and we need
ed it in Its ■ inn. It not only
Improved the taste oi tnose who already had a
bowing acquaintance with decoration, but it used
i uajre as to appeal to multitudes
who never had a decorative thought before. It
stirred local. ■ United States to the
organization . "rafts societies modelled
after those that ' . rr:s Inspired In Bng
land. Germany and Austria, and that have done so
much to regenerate these three nations anisuo
ally."
Rabbi Hlrsch. of Chicago, addressing a meeting
o* wear. en at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, said:
"You ought to take a deep Interest in the public
schools, even If your own schools are of the best.
Till recently, the public schools have been trade
schools for clerks. "We have only addressed the
heads thus far; we need to train the ha:
heart as well. In the big cities, mast of the boys
leave school before completing the course. This
is because the boys are not interested in mere book
learn'ng. The buy feels that his success In life
does not depend on it. Destructiveness in the
nui aeiy Is only the desire to be active, and shows
that the child needs an opening for constructive
activity. This should be recogmized In the public
schools, and where It is so recognized the boys
tp their interest and stay in school till they
graduate.
"I pltad for the same education for boys and girls.
I ought to have been taught to handle a needle as
14 cjy sister, and she ought to have learned
to use the saw and plane. People say: 'Is not the
factory better than the street for children between
en and sixteen." Perhaps, but the alterna
tive is between the school and t They
learn lr. the factory what they ougiu to learn in
the school and could learn in the school much bet
tor. We should all be richer it' we were taught to
use our hands.
..t of the schools.
is become a homo for the descendants of
-3 and creeds, and out of all these appar
ently ■iis'.-ordant elements we must make a new
type of r;anhoo<i and womanhood, contain:
best qualities of all, and eliminating the worst.
It is only in the public schools that this can be
German and Italian and Jew c
gether We need appeals to the heart and con
science in our schools, and a revival of conscience.
We have now as.. tand rd. We need
thing that cannot be stolen, a standard of
ter and cor.^ he women can bring- ;t into
the schools much better than the men tan. I ap
peal for women in the scho<
"Lady Warwick is a wonderful woman." says a
correspondent of "Town, and Country." "She ought
to have been a man. because she does a man's
work, and more— without achieving the results
which most men with, but a tittle of her energies
and talent* have flung at them. She is a born
leader. She 'runs' the greater portion of the great
county of Essex as if it were her own personal
property, ar.d the peopie are glad to own her a; their
ruler. Only lust week, in speech at her agri
cultural 6chool. near Dunmow, at wnicn great
county magnates and men famous all over the
country were present, she made a speech on. the
miserable Inadequacy of the railway service. 'If
you people will only buck up.' she shouteO, 'the
Great Eastern Railway Company will scon be
brought to ita knees, ,::d if you will follow mo \<j
London, to their general office, I wil! lead y
raiding the place.' That is the sort of spirit which
rural England lot-es. and the countess, who is a
born agitator, knows exactly bow to play ar. the
sympathies and feelings of her audiences. The
rallwjiy service ta a nightmare to the people in
her district."
OUTRAGES ON ARTISTIC TASTE.
To tr.o Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having succeeded in reducing our venerable
City Hall to the appearance of a cheap papier mache
dolls house, divesting It of its picturesque Ivy and
making it a glaring white eyescre. I notice the
S:i:r.e process is now being applied to thp old County
Courthouse. Surely the chief charm of these old
time buildings was their antiquated appearance. In
the midst of obtrusive and hideously inartistic
•'skyscrapers" their hoary outlines were restful to
tl'e rye. Have we -Americans no sense of the
beautiful In decay? Are we such vandals that, if
It were ncssibie, we would paint the acre and yel
low leave* at autumn, the glorious tints nt the
Or-ober forest, a bright pea green? Would any but
n. vulsa'- mir.d dream of Band blasting the stones of
Venice"* An Englishman would recoil in hoiror tit
rV«> idea of scraping the evidence* of honorable
"cX fr^m the time scarred face of London's Guiid
£. !i knrrerset House or Westminster Abb<rr
h-leanKs is next to awDlness. 'tta said, but if
»t»* . nre&ent administration must "clean boose"
I,*-,?, there is enou«n to keep them bu-sy In the
• u ,7ri Or of Uieir official hives. And if this argument
£ -dSLncwJ surely it would be weU to discontinue
house H*ar!nK on the Sabbath Day. Most of the
he/ % M« ?-H* nn the walls of the Courthouse is
sard bias^irK - viobMon Qf
, ftrJraf*«Va*ys «<> :l m;in was ******* for
H v ; n ,°h s tn£t. wnrlcir.s la a brass-fitters shjp
plyln* h , !> , tr r;s vn ,^v He was sent to jail, after
In G r: in^lV"e had only been a few days In this
pleading tha. St. naa
SSJI^JrJ-xfc^S* BSTK i
-VKR.
New -York, Sept. &-
GIRLS TO LEARN TRADES.
So many girl* and young women have applied to
J£r the evenirs classes in advanced dressmaking
«V Tnil'in^rv that the Board of Education will
otr ci^Tat the Brook: OW* Hfcfc School
maxicV.
NEW<YOKK BArLY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1905.
SOUTHERN COOK PREFERRED.
Negro Mammy Exported to English Estate
to Prepare Famous Dishes of Virginia.
The exportation of a Southern cook for the coun
try estate of an American who has taken up resi
dence In England shows the appreciation accorded
to the excellence of dishes prepared by the native
"mammy" of Virginia. While of late the French
chef has almost oupted the Southern rook In tho
kitchens nf wealthy Northerners, the fact remains
that the South is still pre-eminent in the preparation
of certain dishes, such as birds, from the wild
turkey and the canvasback duck to the quail: hot
breads and beaten biscuits, terrapin and turtle,
oysters and other flsh native to Southern waters.
I-'rench chef, master nT sauces and of pas
trie?. a 1?a 1 ? well as of delicious soups and the various
decorative dishes that play such a spectacular part
in the modern banquet, is always at a loss when
tt comes to the method of cooking typically South
ern dishes.
On the other hand, the negro mammy Is quite as
much in the dark as to the exquisite niceties of
flavoring, the production of velvety consistency and
color effects in bisques and icings, and the mys
teries of casserole dishes peculiar to the French
chef. These facts go to prove that cooking is. after
a!!, an art that cannot be mastered by the study of
text books alone.
The French chef in England is equally handi
capped in the making of English dishes. England
remains faithful to the joint, the pudding and the
uncovered pie that it calls a tart. Its menus are
solid and far too plentiful for either the American
or the French ideas. More than that, England Is
very short of fresh vegetables and fruits, and Is
only beginning to take to the tinned variety.
Sooner or later tho American traveller thinks
with longing of the humble New-York chophouse
■where a certain degree of crispness Is obtainable
In steaks and chops, a quality missing in the Lon
don meat Oish, which comes to the table under a
huge metal cover that keeps it steamy and moist
ai.d hot, but never crisp and bubbling.
The London fruit and vegetables seem to be
■without savor. Even the mammoth strawberries
that astonish Americans are lacking In taste, and
from potatoes to parsley there Is a peculiar watery
vapidity that is not found In the products of any
other country. The French chef who goes to Lon
don with laurels thick upon his brow finds his
first difficulty with the bread and pastry- He can
not produce the same crusts and brioches as he
did in Paris. He Is hampered, too. 'jy the meagre
ness of market products, with the single exception
of fish. Naturally, therefore, he sets out an array
of hors d'eeuvres which almost compensate for the
other courses.
The Southern cook Is more Independent of cl!
mate and market supplies than most chefs. The
French cook especially cannot work without In
numerable pastes and wines, pans and pots and
bits of this and that to add to the various plats,
while the negro cook needs little besides butter,
pepper, sal., lemon juice and onion. But her chief
aid is the stats of the fire, the open grill of red hot
coals being her favorite altar. Even with the fry
ing pan she can conjure wonderful results with
chicken and oysters, as she uses, instead of lards
and fats, the finest butter.
The Idea that butter need not be in the best con
dition for cooking is similar to that awful economy
that declares an egg need not be so fresh for ir>-
Ing as for boiling. The negro -mammy 'K™reb
this idea when she is handling a dozen plump quail
or a celery red canvasback. For these sue con
siders the best is none too good. __„„«
It is true that the Southern hot corn bread cannot
be produced by even the best of cooks with the
ordinary cornmeal purchasable in the ■Norther
stores. People who favor tnese breakfast breads
are In the habit of having their cornmeal sent in
Quantity Tom the South in bags, carefully .packed.
That 'real American cooking will prove popular in
England is foreshadowed by the success o- Bos
ton man who a season or two ago set up a luncn
room on the Strand. He fitted its windows with
soapstone slabs, set over gas, on which men witn
white caps prepared muffins and pancakes, tie also
served coffee made in the American style, and in
the short time his establishment has been running
he has managed to acquire a fortune.
Visitors staying at the bis hotels in the neigh
borhood frequently visit his place for breakfast,
and he has a large number of regular patrons In
spite of the fact that his lunch room has gained
unpleasant notoriety by reason of the crowds that
gather to view the window spectacle, and that in
terfere with traffic. Frequently a •bobby" is
obliged to have the window shades drawn down In
order to disperse the crowds.
The Southern cook is at her best In the prepara
tion of breakfasts, as her methods do not lend
themselves so effectively to what is known as
heavy looking. She insists that the old fashioned
wav of making coffee id better than the French fil
tering plan. At one of the most famous >7ew-York
hotels old fashioned coffee is made, the coffee being
boiled In a linen bag and allowed to settle after it
has come to a boil. The cups are heated before the
beverage is served, and cream is sent to the table
with it In preference to boiled milk. A good South
ern cook never serves boiled milk with coffee.
It is by attention to such small details that the
Southern cook produces her effects. The addition
of an onion to the dressing of a canvasback duck
is apt to shock the tastes of those who esteem the
bird of ten fine a. flavor for any such disturbing
element. But the duck cooked in the South and
served with the Southern hominy is always voted
better than that to be had in any other part of the
world.
Baltimore has the credit of producing some of tha
finest oyster stews and broils. In fact, all Its
. ■■<• : : ea for the preparation of oysters are extremely
good, although remarkable for simplicity. Nine out
of ten cooks v.ill overdo an oyster, just as they
overcook small birds, but the Southern method
allows the oyster to boil up Just one moment in
the milk. Then the pan is removed from the fire
and the butter and seasoning are added. The dish
may be allowed to stand on a hot range for a few
minutes, but the actual cooking ceases after tha
first boiling up of the milk.
Baltimore is also responsible for the oyster ome
let. not often seen on Northern bills of fare. Six
oysters are stewed in their own liquor for five min
utes and then removed. The liquid 13 thickened
with a. walnut of butter rolled In flour, seasoned
with salt and cayenne and beaten to a cream.
The oysters are then chopped, added to the sauce
and simmered until it thickens. Four eggs are
beaten lightly, a tablespoon ful of cream Is arii^d,
then turned into a hot pan and fried to a golden
brown. The oysters are folded within the omelet
before it is removed from rhe pan. and the re
maining sauce poured around it.
English oysters will never produce the sama
dishes thnt Southern oysters turn out so easily, no
matter what cook prepare? them. The peculiar
English climate does not add to the taste of the
oyster, which also sterns to suffer from the lack
of rf frirfratintr f 1 ■*':•■• b.
The other !ish so plentiful on the orh»<- side — the
sole, the whitebait, salmon and turbot— have a bet
ter flavor than American fish, and '.he English
cooks have ma.sr»r r cl th^ secret of frying them to
a dry, crisn. golden brown that makes them far
more appetizing than he meats.
TEE TEIETJNE PATTERS.
The corse] skirt makes one of the new and
promising features of the incoming season, and in
ver y generally becoming, as well as very generally
graceful and smart. It is. in fact, a modification of
the prir.cesse Idea, and also gives the girdle effect,
while in reality there Is no dividing line at the
waist. For wear with blouse waists it is always
exceedingly attractive , and for the early autumn
will bo greatly in vogue with short Etons and
boleros to match. The model illustrated is one of
the best, and is adapted to the entire range of
seasonable materials, doth, the lighter wools and
Bilk, and will be found attractive, both with lingerie
wn ..^ttsSTTI: PAPER PATTERN OF
EL^iSraORKD CORSELET SKIRT. -OR
ID CENTS-
,, .s^se of matching color, but of
waists and . with tho- the .Wit. as chiffon, iae,
thinner matenal thaj^.th. E kirt is cut in etovea
dyed to match ar.d n , eat9 below the stuch
gores arid is la id '" formed by generous nta
ings. the pleats ba £S^ invisibly at the back,
eions. The f* s n * '" M required for the medium
The quantity o f ma_ei iai .^i 21 inches wide,
sise is fifteen and o«££ J Jj [ in* nßa wide or tix and
seven and one-na.i j^ , rhe s wide of material that
three-fourths y arUS -,r '"„' Y.ls a Inches wide, nva
has figure or nap; « I^,, • four and cne-half yards 52
yards -i-l inches wide jr •»
inches *lup wh^ rr o6o 6 jj^gjjj is cut in si, M for a 2, H
2C. M a-M^iich « ist f tfa^- acUlrew en receipt
The pattern wi£b« %",> umber of pattern ami
of 10 cents. F '« s^^V v Address Pattern Depart
waist measure dwnnc^J ■ Jf m a hurry fdf
meat. N^ rrtrl two-cent stamp, and we will
tern, send an extra. i»->i »-> «nv«ilope.
mail by letter postage in »e&.<~
y/
GOOD «'MP'n:w,
Hare you had ■ kledseaa Cowa-
Pus it on.
■Tm not given for y«o atone—
Pass It oc.
Let It tray«: down the yean.
Let it wtp« another' • tear*.
Till In heaven the £«cd appear*,
Put U on.
BETTING SAIL.
To-morrow I have wastes of sea to ride.
Long wastes, beneath the blue and bound
less dome.
And wild the wind and white the breakers
comb,
But yet I fear not shoal or swelling tide-
Home lies the other side!
Some other morrow I shall sail a tide
Vaster and darker. But In farther skies
Through breaking mists what shining heights
may rise.
And In great quietness I shall abide
With home the other side!
—(Harriet Prescott Spofford, la Harpers.
A HELPFUL GIFT.
A letter from R. S. Brains reads: "Although
actively engaged in business I derive so mucii
benefit from your daily thought that I take
pleasure in sending $5 for your general fund."
TROLLEY FUND.
The special T. S. S. fund contributed for trol
ley parties for poor children and mothers and
babies was more generous this year than during
any previous season. The sum of $4i)U bti was
received at the general office. The largest gift
was $51, received through Miss Florence M.
Pilgrim, a young girl at Poughkeepsie. N. Y. The
T. B. S. branches which contributed to the fund
were Elm City, New-Haven, Conn., ilorristown,
N. J.; Puritan, Manhattan; Arlington (N. J..i
Juniors, Lnited Branch, Brooklyn; Manhattan,
-No. 7; Purcnase, N. V.; Music Ciuu. jkiaiuiii.
tan; Ailendale, N. J.; Rutherford <N. J.) Juniors,
"bunbe&ms," Manhattan, and Danbury, conn.
One thousand and two children enjoyed a day
of pleasure and sunshine either in the country
or at me sea&uore troxn the tußtriituuGn, ol uxim
fund; also parties oi motners and sick babies,
both while ana colored, in ado, mop to Uua t*
penaiture, me country board of working giria
and several small children for ono and two
weeks was paid iroro x.ai* xuno, and flve '*aau«.
lna" in lour oinierent States were given a. sun
shine drive at a cost of irona $- to $v each. Xw«j
aged memoers from an old. ladies' honoa acu
Ixifee Q--._ ..-...-.. ..-i - ilf*i lf** 111 1 r *«-j—^r-i« -j—^r- i; ~ : -■■
to country homes to which they had been in
vited, bdverai times suusta.ntiai iuncneons. were
provided lor nungry exutaren wxio neeaed more
uian me Ugai rftirniiiinem usually £iven to me
'i. H> a. truuey puxues.
Tnis report dues not include $lUO from the
Siocum lima, heid in trust by the T. a. d. for
via jenent olcne surviving enndren of that
gretix Uisaiiter, and wnicn uas ocen spent uiia
aiiiiixner, a lull report ox wnicn will Lie given
later.
THE LESSON OF GIVING.
Airs. E. Taylor, of New-Jersey, asks for the
address of a. cripple boy to vvnom her own little
son may pass on his "Youth's Companion." She
adds: "± wisQ u.-j lessac vi unseiuiLuntss may De
uiuiougaiy utu^xii. in. early youoi tv &11 uxuy
ciiiia."
LABRADOR BOXES.
President of the T. 3. 5.: The T. S. S. may
wonder why no acknowledgment has come from
Labrador. The reason is because Dr. Grenfeil is
cruising up and down the coast attending to the
various sick folk, and has not been at St. An
thony for several weeks, where. I believe the
committee addressed the things. It Is quite
likely that he may not be In a position to ac
knowledge anything before some time in Novem
ber, but he will ultimately get the boxes all
right and appreciate them, and some one will
write about them. I heard from Miss Kunz,
who returned to New-York last week, that up
to the time when she left the boxes had not
reached St. Anthony. The freightage is very
slow, but safe. Some looms that were sent up
took' two months in passage. Sometimes things
are stored in St. John's, N. F., under the care of
Dr. Grenfeil' agent there, till a schooner comes
to take them up the coast, but there is not a
doubt they will be distributed before the win
ter's cold sets in. Very truly yours.
MARY B. SAICFORD.
NEEDS WORK.
A wheel chair Invalid would like to receive or
ders for Batten burgr lace work or embroidery as
a means of self-support. She writes that win
ter is coming on and fuel will be needed. She
lives alone.
The first thing a kindness deserves is accept
ance, the next is transmission.— (George Mac-
Donald: Sir Gibble.
QUESTION OF a-WTMAT SEASON.
Mr. Long Describes Clever Things Done by
Birds and Beasts.
Readers who have taken part in the recent dis
cussion in these pages as to the ,power of thought
In animals will find much of interest in an article
in the current number of "Harper's Magazine ' by
William J. Long:
"One need only to read the enormous number
of unusual animal incidents related by Wallace,
Darwin, Romanes, Haeckel and tha French scien
tists, especially Eroca and Milne-Edwards." he
says, "to have his mind opened anew and without
prejudice to the question of animal reason, and
to see the absurdity of the Cartesian theory of
automatic mechanism. 3avages. as well as
monkeys, go behind a looking glas3 to find the
cause of the phenomenon. A doc tangled up in
his chair, pulls and tugs impoteatly; a coon or a
mor.icey in the same circumstances will often go
back to investigate and clear the tangle and untie
the knots. The chimDanzee builds a platform on
which to sleep; all the other tribes of monkeys,
with one exception, have not enough Instinct or
reason to do the thing. Otters break their young
from the strong weasel instinct to hunt, and take
them fishing instead. Osprcys do the same thing
for their nestlings. Birds change the style of their
architecture to meet new conditions. The orioles
have several times been known to fasten twigs
together to make a better foundation for their
nests. I have five authentic Instances of a wood
cock settirg a broken leg in a clay cast. Old birda
choose and build better than young. showing so-ne
capacity for improvement; and all btrr'.s and ani
mals can be taught a" multitude of things that
their ancestors never knew. If we could place
one of these educated animals beside c child that
by some fatality had been left utterly uneducated.
Without language or social restrictions, and with
only ris instincts to guide him. we would have an
object lesson that would make all further argu
ment 'innecessary. As Darwin says, after record
ing a large number of reasonable animal actions.
•Any one who Is not convinced by such facts as
thes° and by what he may observe with his own
doga, that animals reason would not be convinced
by anything I could add
"One has no right whatever." argues Mr. Loner,
"to judge an animal and a man by different stand
ards for the same action. That is. if a ma:: per
form* a certain action, and one explains « by
saying that it is the result of reasoning, one has
no right to explain the same action In an animal
on th« ground or instinct Whether the animal
be a man or a bear. I am under th* same neces
sity to watch his actions, and then infer his
mental process from what po«»s on In my own h-nd
under similar circumstances. To one who judges
animals In this rational way there is no doubt of
their reasoning. The only problem l^s In the
quality and amount of that reason, and in the
origin" and cause of that whole process of history
which stretches lU<« a wide sea between us ana
tho animal kingdom."
NEWPORT WOMEN NOW ORGANIZE.
Newport. R I. Sept. 3).— At a targe gathering of
women here to-day, Including both cottagers and
all the year residents, the Civic League of New
port wa« formed. Its purpose Is "to promote by
education and co-opera lion a higher public opinion
ond better social order, and to create a wtdasyread
Interest In the immediate development of the city.-
It m oa»«rt«.d thnt the lcagruo will keep {tart m
rtcpondent of party poUUcs. Mrs il. » \V . Marsh
was elected president. Yesterday leading men
r»«jl-1er,u organized tho Citizens' Municipal Asso
ciation' to s*cur« good government la Newport.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
PHONOGKAPHY IH SCHOOLS.
Ex-President Magill Would Have Original
Pitman System Used.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your educational articles have been of very
great and living interest, but there Is one subject
of great interest, if properly understood, to which
I have seen no allusion recently made. I refer to
the teaching- of phonography in our public schools.
I do not refer to stenography, or shorthand writing.
but to phonography, or the proper representation of
the sounds of the word* It is doubtless well known
that a system of this latter klnJ was Invent by
Isaac Pitman, of England, about sixty years ago.
and soon after Introduced into this country by the
lectures and hooks of Andrews and Boyle. I heard
a course of lectures by Mr. Boyle, and Studied wl"h
care the textbook of Andrews and Boyle. Phonog
raphers were then very enthusiastic about this
Steal tiding capable of universal application in
writing.
Of the seme two hundred attempts to Introduce
a new alphabet In the last century, this was the
only one which rejected the old alphabet, and
spelled entirely by sound, by letters cf new and
very Simple form. Of course, it greatly shortened
the words, but its chief value was expected to be
by no means the reporting of public addresses. It
was felt that it was a system to be studied and
practised by all. thus saving an immense amount of
time, both in the acquisition and in the daily prac
tice of writiner. Of course reporters could use it to
very great advantage, and their notes (If phonog
raphy were generally taught> could be read by the
typesetter without reproduction in our cumber
some long hand.
A few years later a suggestion was made by
Isaac Pitman that, for certain theoretical reasons.
there shouid be an inversion of a part of the vowel
s^ale, involving, by the rules of the system, very
great changes. Many of us felt that Bfe was too
short to learn two systems of shorthand writir.s,
and we prof.:rr>=fl giving it up rather than make the
attempt. But my hold on the beautiful and simple
system, a3 nrst 'earned, was so well fixed by my
practice for the few early years that I have now
continued tha practice for nearly half a century.
A few years after Isaac Pitman had suggested
tha serious changes In the vowel scale he changed
his rr.ind and desired to return to tne system, aa at
first put forth. But his sons, who were in the busi
ness with their father, having- invested a consid
eral sum in books printed in the changed form,
refused to restore the original form, and thus have
their books thrown out of the market. But the
father (for the good of the system) urged the
change to 'he original form. But he could not sat
isfy his sons, and died soon after, a deeply discour
aged man. Their uncle, a younger brother of Isaac
Pitman, had introduced the simple and beautiful
system at first put out in this, country, to Oie
great pleasure of ua all. and he still continues >.o
publish books, papers and magazines In this form.
in connection with Jerome B. Howara. at the Pho
nographic Institute. Cincinnati. Ohio.
At different times a number of others hi our
country have introduced changes, i Q books of their
own, which the; have published, thus connecting
their names with the system, and this has done
much to prevent this beautiful and simple system
from coming into general use. But the teachers
of phonography in this country have very largely
followed the original and beautiful system of Isaac
Pitman, now published by Bonn Pitman and h*s
able and assiduous coworker. Mr Howard.
They have recently published two books of very
great value. "The Amanuensis" and -The Phono
graphic Dictionary and Phrase Book." the former
giving a complete course for self-instruction in
thg beautiful art. and the latter presenting. In a
neatly printed volume of 542 pages, every word of
the English language which Is not obsolete, archaic
or very rare, as .veil as words from foreign lan
gusg-es in frequent use. and "A Phrase List" at
several thousand useful English and foreign
phrases. It is truly a monument of the most ad
mirable, paln.=tnk!r.g ami successful work, which
must be highly appreciated by the phonographic
teachers and students of our land. The authors
have very properly called the system, the result
of long thought and great labor of the great orig
inator, and to which he so earnestly desired to
return at the close of his long and useful life, 'The
American System."
That they may very properly call It by this
name is obvious from this statement of William
T. Harris, our Commissioner of Education: "There
Is no question whatever of the truth of the state
ment that the Benn Pitman system is more gen
erally used than any other in this country. At
least this would appear from the reports made to
this bureau of the various Institutions teaching
shorthand. It may be called The American Sys
tem." "
Now I am Informed that th« Board of Educa
tion o? this city has adopted the Pitman phonog
raphy, and agreed to try it for a period of five
years !n our city schools I am further Informed
that the phonography thus introduced Is not tho
American, but th« English Bystem. with its In
verted vowel scale, and which the great Inventor
so much regretted to have introduced, and desired
bo earnestly to have changed back to Its simple,
original form before his death. If our children ar^
thus experimented upon for the next flve years it
will do much to destroy the prospect of the ulti
mate introduction of this beautiful system of writ-
Ing, -which woulJ save the coming generations much
use'les3 and painful labor. "Would It not yet be
possible for the Board of Education to modify their
decision ar.d adopt the system of Benn Pitman,
which !s adopted in the Philadelphia schools, and
far more generally taught than anr other by the
teachers of phonography throughout the country?
EDWARD H. MAGILL.
Ex-President of Swarthraore College.
Xew-Tork. Sept. 9, 1906.
TEE MACEDONIAN SITUATION,
Two of the Three Years Allotted for Reform
Have Passed and Little Has Been Bone.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Russia and Austria, as a sub-committee of
flve great powers of Europe, are Instructed to re
form the Turkish province of Macedonia. Three
years were given to them In which to perfect their
scheme. Two years of effort axe gone already, and
the work accomplished to data is fax from reas
suring.
The most recent Items reported from the provlnoe
read as follows:
A Greek band killed an old man. Pena Xano. and
his wife, of Neveska. and burned their houae. Nano
sympathized with the Wallachian party.
A Bulgarian band killed Kote. o f Obsirtna, and
took from another villager £300. The viilaice la
under the Greek Patriarch.
A Bulgarian band, while fighting with a Servian
band, near Prllep, were dispersed by Turkish
soldiers.
Voyvod Dimko. of Mogila, and four of his band
took flve men of Dobromiri. and after torturing
them two hours, killed them In the presence of tha
villagers. The village is under the Patriarch.
A band of fifteen Turks entered the village of
Tsarevitch and killed eleven men and six women.
A band of one hundred Greeks plundered Kolorabl
ar.d killed sixteen vUlacerSi
Four villagers were killed In the corn fields rear
Fiorina by Turks.
A Gr^ek band plundered Beshiahta and took eight
I ra whom they ki'.kd cutslde the village.
A Bulgarian band burned the Monastery of
LJsovo.
A Greek bar.d captured ten Wallachians Jr. the
region uf Grammatikovo.
It Is up to the great powers to feel ashamed of
themselves. Some of us who have lived in Mace
donia regret exceedingly that this unhappy prov
ince is outside the sphere of Influence of our strenu
ous Ro< sevelt. R. V. ELBY.
JfAinrteld, N. J.. Sept. 18, 1936.
PLANS FOR SUBWAY VENTILATION.
' To the Editor of The New-York Tribune.
Sir: The suggestion by "S." in to-day' Tribune.
'■ to ventilate the subway by partitioning off the
tracks is not practicable, as the train (•"piston")
■would not only be required to push a column of
air. but also pull cne lr. the rear. This last would
be the one pushed by the train running In opposite
direction and would be the same dead air.
The most feasible plan I have heard proposed by
competent engineers would be to use electric air
pumps or fans between stations, forcing the foul
air ro the street above and thereby drawinjr fre3h
air !n at the stations, where it is most needed by
waiting: passengers. REASONABLE.
New-York. Sept. IS.
SAFEGUARDS OF TRUST FUNDS.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: John Claflin. who testified before the in
surance Investigating committee and defended the
action of the insurance companies !n syndicates
and other violations of the Insurance laws, is a
director In sixteen different organizations and cor
porations (.on the authority of the " 'Directory of
Directors"), organized under the laws of different
States. Thes* all require tho a.d of the law In
carrying on successfully their affairs. Mr. Clanln
cannot violate or evade laws at his pleasure, any
more than any other citizen. He has more Inter
eats to conserve by obeying the laws than most
men. He expects to have the protection of these
lame law;;. One of these companies, organized
in Hartford. Conn., with offices in Hoboken, N. J-.
Is the Associated Merchants' Company. Mr. Claf
lln's- associates in this company are, from the satns
authority. George F. Crane. Howland Davis, Wood
bury i^angdon. I Alexander E. Orr. Arthur L. Shir
man, John A. Stewart, Louis Stewart and William
Stewart Tod. The directory for 1902 gives the As
sociated Merchants' Company the control ot sub
sidiary companies as follows: The H. B. Clafltn
Company, James McCrecry & Co.. Adams Dry
Goods Company and Stewart ft Co. B*3!o>*
companies, it is asserted they have acquired ee«
troi of H. O'Neill & Co. and C G. Gunther*s Sens
in New- York; ciiampan & Co., In Brooklyn, ana.
Hahne & Co.. In Newark. N. J.. besides opening a
branch store of McCreery & Co.. in Pittsburgh
It would seem that Mr. Claflln'3 Interests so •»■
tf-r.ded as th*y appear to be. can ill affora to ••-
fend lawlessness, can ill afford to loosen the jmt+
guards around trust funds such as are the mo
of insurance companies. a poucrHOLDEIt . *
New-York. Sept. 15. ISO 6.
WHY YELLOW FEVEH DISAPPEASS
When There Are No Non-Immune Persons
It Cannot Exist.
To the Editcr of Ike Tribune.
Sir: Your issue of August IS contains a letter
from S. P. Belcher upon yellow -fever and bis ex
perience at Santiago. I agree entirely with your
reply to Mr. Belcher's letter. As Mr. Belcher says.
Santiago was well and creditably cleaned, and such
cleaning should never be omitted In yellow fever
sanitation. Old bottles, tin cans and other refuse
of this k:nl ar» good containers for rain water.
are prettfle breviers of mosquitoes, and are
di-pced of by such a course of cleanly as San
tiago went through, but alone this would not
avail The great element in the ridding of Santi
ago from yellow f«wr was the taking out of the
ri-v of a;', non-tmmnnes. people who had not had
yellow fever. General Wood ■red all the troops
out. and also collected all the non-immune ct*U
population and took them out into camp. This.
you see. has the same effect as mosquito destTße
tion.
It makes no difference how many Infected female
ateatanyia mosquitoes you have, if you have no
non-immuaes whom they car. bite you will :••••
to have yellow fever (tte natives of a constantly
infected place are not liable to yellow fever). Bat.
outside of these considerations, yellow fever ha»
many times disappeared from Santiago and Pan
ama and other small places of its own accord.
and with no sanitary measures taken for its ex
termination. The reason is obvious when yoti
come to think of It.
At the beginning of the twentieth century there
were probably only two endemic foci for yellow
fever, that is, points where yellow fever had ex
isted for an lndeSnlte number of years. These
points were Havana, in the Island of- Cuba, and
Rio Janeiro, in the republic of Brazil. These two
cities had a large non-immune Immigration coming
in every year, who furnished fresh cases and kept
up the infection. In Santiago and Panama, on
the other hand, under ordinary conditions we have
a small non-immune population. In Santiago and
Panama probably 100 or 150 non-immunes would
cover the number. If yellow fever is Introduced,
in the course of two or thrae years these 150 non
immunes have the disease, and, there being no
more fuel for it to feed upon, the disease dies eat.
In the course of years another collection of non
immunes takes place; yellow fever is again Intro
duced from some other point, and the same proc
ess is gone through. This has been the history
of all smaller cities In the tropics. Exception oo
curred at Panama all during th» French occupa
tion, because every year and every month enough
non-immunea were brought in to keep up the dis
ease. The same thing occurred whenever they had
a revolution and brought in non-immune troops
from the interior, and tha same thing will occur
with us during the digging of the canal unless our
sanitary measures prevent It.
But I merely wrote this letter to point out the
articular cause of the disappearance of yellow
ever from Santiago during our occupation, as you
seemed nonplused as to Its explanation. Yellow
fever disappeared from all the smaller towns In
Cuba in which we did little cleaning up and no
mosquito work. M. C GROG-ANS.
Chief Sanitary Officer.
Ancon. Canal Zone. Aug. 30, 1905.
FIXE ART SCHOOL PLANS.
Co-operation Scheme Likely To Be
Carried Out This Year.
Regarding the plan for a great school of fine
arts of the highest grade, involving co-operation
among Columbia. University, the National Academy
of Design, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia.
told a Tribune reporter yesterday that It would be
carried out in the current academic year, possibly
in the winter.
Dr. Butler said that, as he had returned from
Europe only recently, he had not yet consulted
with the committees of the university and the
academy, but the details of co-operation and the
establishment of a faculty of fine arts on a place
with the faculties of law, medicine and applied
science would be worked out as Quickly as pos
sible within a short time. The delay had been
due to the absence of members of the committees
from the city during- the summer.
The transfer of the schools of the a^»^"- T to
tha university has been declared to be contingent
upon the raiding of $300,000 by the academy to
erect a building for schools on the university
gr-'^r.ds. Columbia, is said to have promised to
assist the academy in raising this sum, but a
prominent trustee of the university said recently
that Columbia's help in this direction would prob
ably be lim!-ed to suggesting to the academy peo
ple from whom subscriptions might be obtained.
Dr. Eutler was accordingly asked whether, la
case of failure of the academy to raise JW>,oflo
by public subscription, the university would pro
vide the amount. He declined to express an
opinion on that phase of the subject, but declared
that the transfer would take place anyway.
The proposed site for a fine arts building Is li
South Field, at 12«th-st. and Broadway, immediately
adjoining the subway station. Instruction will be
given ther» in architecture, archaeology, painting.
sculpture and the arts of decoration.
In regard to co-oporation between Columbia, Uni
versity and *_he Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pres
ident Butler said he expected to consult with Sir
Caspar Purcon Clarke, tha director, on his arrival
in New-York In October. It is expected to head
up at the museum collections which shall have
educational .is well as *»thibitionai value. It Is
also proposed to have crlveratty lectures on tho
history of art, in its general and special form
and on archaeology and inscription* reld at the
museum In the presence of the objects themselves,
by the best expert teachers and scholars that the
university can obtain.
MANY AFTER MRS. DALY.
Fifty Boarding House Keeper*
Think Themselves Her Victims.
9
Half a hundred boarding house mistresses gath
ered in the West Side Court yesterday afternoon
to take a 'good look" at a woman named Mrs.
Minnie Daly, who was arraigned on a charge Of
petty larceny, sworn to by Miss Elizabeth Smith.
of No. 241 West 42d-st. Superintendent of Build
ings Isaac Hopper had shown an Interest hi tha
woman by inducing a real estate dealer to furnish
her ball. She Is said to He of a good family, and
Assemblyman Prir.ce. who appeared for her, says
it Is a case of mistaken identity.
The hearing in the case was postponed yester
day, and the real estate dealer. Hymaa Kornbiott.
of No. 16 East lTTth-st.. refused to continue t!*e
bail after seeing the number of women who said
they were victimized by her. ««_
Mrs. Daly was arrested on complaint of Mies
Smith and Mrs. Cagney. both boarding house
keeper? Miss Smith said the Daly woman gave
her a $20 bill of the Ukta-beDum period in payment
of room rer.t. and that she gave her In return SIS
In "good and lawful money " The half a ?Ul"*l*s? Ul "*l*s
woiwn spectators all thought they saw la the Daly
woman a <los« resemblance to a boarder wno Baa
given them Confederate money In payment or a
board bill.
EVENING SCHOOL OPENING.
Evening School We, T2. at 106th-st. and Lexington,
aye Manhattan, will open next Monday evening
for \hr restetrstioiJ of purl:--- The hours of regis
tration wffl be from - to 9. The corps of in
structors will be In attend**^ ante the -i'.rector
ah'.r- of Mr. v Curt* Leotten, principal. <•*••*■
will be formed in ,£££■
Ercli«h to foreigner., «*tn!T. smithing. aiU»
r.ery and ojokir.?
MARRIED NURSE WHO CURED HIM.
D Arthur Began, a young man well known ta
the Bergen section of Jeraey City, was re famine
home from California last month when be was
taken sick Miss Roae L. Pierron. of Plerrtn. 111..
..„ a. passenger on the train She Is an experienced
nurU ard l ca%d for htm. He recovered, and when
Plerron left the train they were i»troth«4.
on Tuesday they were married at St. Patricks
Rn-ran ? ? atfeoHe Church. Jersey City, by th- Rev.
Fa™ - Mononar. A reception followed at tfce
home of the bridegroom. No. 230 i;r.ion-st. Mr.
ard Mrs Regan are now on a wedding tour.
6TANTON SICKLE 3 CONVALESCENT.
Brussels. Sept. 20.— Stanton Sickles, secretary of
the American Legation, is convalescent after a
serious illness.
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