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Estat* VTant#a l » v; TlestanTants — * ? . « *um**\<* * % 6 3le:iglja» Notices i "'■•? l Savinc* Banks - » ' i BChool AF^ncs«ti A ? 5 « trecial Notices - 1 5 4 Fiftasiboats . . - — * i „ Etorare. *te * ° r- To Uct Tor B:»tr,OM purpose? 1 5 » Trltiur^ Subscrt;-tioii* > 'Rat«a ' . Typewriters * | « Watcbet «ad Je^relrr * Jl o~ •Winter E«sorU _ } " tT£ Work Tt-artea J 13 ZVttt?^)otkSml|s Saißtnif* ■DXDAX, JANUAKY 17, 1909. • § This nexrfpaprr is owned and published by The Tribune Association, a Xeic York corpora tion; office and principal place of business, tribune Building, Xo. 15} Xassau Stress, Xew fFork; Ogden Mills, president; James 3/. Bar rett, secretary and treasurer. The address of the officer* »',« the office of this netcspaper. THE KBWE THIS MORXIXG. CONGRESS.— Senate: Services in memory of William Plnkney Whyte, of Maryland, were hels ■ ■■' ■ Houpe: Chairman Jenkins of the Judiciary Committee, made a statement analyz ing the Sherman anti-trust law. FOREIGN— Clemenceau of France •was preparing a change in the French election lew. providing for the election of a third of the Chamber o* Deputies every two years. == The enforcement of the French customs laws, hitherto somewhat lax, was made exceedingly rigid, = The British Tariff Commission was expected to recommend a triple tariff system, with the lowest schedule for the colonies and a maximum and minimum schedule for foreign imports. == Although the increased bank rate was not Justified by the reserve, London bankers favored another advance. : •■"';•■ The bodies of Arthur S. Cheney- the American Consul, and Mrs Cheney, who perished at Messina, were re covered and put on a steamer which started for New York. = Th« Prince Regent of China . assured the ministers from the United States 1 and Great Britain that the dismissal of Yuan f 6hih Kai did not Indicate a change in the gov- e rnments policy. : It was rumored in Vienna that Prince Nicholas of Montenegro had abdicated in favor of his son. Prince Mirko. == Orvilla Wright and his sister were in a train which was wrecked near Hebas, France, tut neither was injured. ===== The Servian Cab inet, for the third time within a fortnight, ten dered its resignation to King- Peter. DOMESTIC. — Hughes was initiated Into the rites of the Mystique Krewe of Ka- Xoo-No at Syracuse. - ' it was decided that the 5500,000 appropriated for the relief of Ital ian earthquake sufferers by the United States should be expended in buying material for three thousand substantial houses, to be shipped to Italy === Six Washington correspondents and newsboys were summoned to appear as wit nesses in the libel suit to be brought by the government on account of Panama Canal charges. == Twenty persons were reported killed and a score or more Injured in a wreck on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at Dot eero, near Glenwood Springs, Col. The Hill and Harriman lines made Colorado the battle ground of their struggle for supremacy. • It was learned in Owvgo, N. V.. that the con testant's case in the Hewitt will contest had keen weakened by the discovery that the much discussed strong box in a New York City bank contained none of the testator's effects. =: An insane man reached the anteroom of Gov ernor Draper at Boston, but was apprehended before he did any damage. ;^= By the will of Joseph E. Merrill, of Newton, Ma. Bowdoin College Is to receive $200,000. CITY. — Stocks were strong. === The Public Service Commission issued a report giving the names of stockholders in the various traction companies of the city, — — - The Rev. Thomas R. Sheer and ex-Senator Everett Colby had a hot argument on the direct primary at a City Club luncheon. ■ ■ The Public Service Com mission's report of street railway accidents dur ing the year Just closed showed that 35,060 per rons had been injured. = : Justice Tompkins decided that Harry K. Thaw had a right to B&ve his sanity passed upon, but not by a jury. V-^ — It -was announced thai the Consolidated fsatlonal Bank had voted to purchase a por tion of the assets of the Oriental Bank and ■would change the name of the institution to the National Reserve rtank of the City of New iTork. -=z^. It was said that the New York County Lawyers' Association would fight the plan to build a new court house in Washington Square, favoring the City Hall site. ===== Post master General Meyer said at a conference to discus* the congested condition of the general postofSee that he was working on a plan to make New York lead the world in the handling of mall. ■ - There was a quarrel among the men engaged in harmonizing 1 Brooklyn Demo crats, and Senator McCarren -was called upon to appear before the committee. == Members of St. John's congregation made public their final plea to Trinity Corporation. ===== Con troller M'tz said that he would discharge twenty ! •employes of his department on the ground of* {inefficiency. ===== Attorney General Bonaparte 'Ijave out an adverse opinion on the right of the jPassaic Valley Sewerage Commission of New 'Jersey to empty its proposed trunk sewer Into BSSW> York Harbor. ■- It was said that Dis trict Attorney De Witt would move the trial of Captain Hams In March. . - It was pre dicted that the strike of the hat makers would t» a long one. 1} "AyTI^JAPAXESE" LEGISLATION. The so-called i-Japanese"i -Japanese" bills are report ed to be making progress In the California Legislature, and some confidence is expressed by ! their author and supporters that they will bo I enacted into law. One of them, that forbidding : the holding of real estate by aliens, may be ! quite unobjectionable, but the other two seem, .according to published reports, to suggest offen sive discrimination, contrary alike to the spe- I cific terms of treaties and to the general spirit |•f American legislation. Particularly is that the Me with the proposal to segregate Japanese presidents in all communities. The proper police powers of any community can require a certain : standard of living in all parts of the place, but j, the establishment by ordinance of anything re sembling a Ghetto or a "pale*' for any class of I persons who are permitted 10 enter this country I : Is repugnant to American ideas. * Tbe proposed prohibition of ownership of real I estate by aliens may, we have said, be unobje? titmsM* There can fee no objection to it pro [ vided it is made general In terms and is not dlrpct'-d exclusively against any one or more 6: specified "races, and provided equitable allow ance is made for the aliens who may already bo fawners of land. Hitherto the civil code of Cali fornia, differing in that respect from the codes of some other states, has permitted aliens 10 I take, bold ll^ dispose of real and personal prop i Tue constitution of the state, however, I secures such, rights only to resident aliens who are eligible to naturalization as citizens of the United States. Thai means, of course, persons of the Caucasian or the African race, and not Japanese or Chinese, who have been judicially held to be ineligible to naturalization. It is a common and certainly not an odious thing for states to forbid land ownership by aliens. The United States does so and has long done so iii its federal district and territories, and various individual stales of the Union do so. So do various foreign countries. Including Japan — the law In Japan applying, of coarse, to all aliens alike. Tv amending the code so as to correspond exactly with the constitution California would in fact, though not in direct terms, discriminate against the Japanese and Chinese. But that dis crimination would be only a reflection of that already exercised by the federal government : ( i confining naturalization to "white persons" and •'aliens of African nativity" and in specifically forbidding the naturalization of Chinese— and thus logically also of Japanese and Burmese, as the courts have decided. In so far as any of this proposed legislation. however, is invidiously directed against the Japanese, it is greatly to be deplored. To enact legislation of that character weald savor most unpleasantly of bad faith, when the understand ing of two or three years ago between California and the federal government is refilled, and such bad faith would be peculiarly discreditable In view of the scrupulously good faith with which the Japanese government has checked migration to the Tnited States, as It promised to Jo, so that now the preponderance of migration is actu ally fr^m this country to Japan. MR. TAFT AT ATLAXTA. The Atlanta dinner to Mr. Taft, with its ac companiments of "possum and persimmon beer (which must be one of the many varieties of "near beer"' now in use in Georgia), testified to the high regard felt for the President-elect In Southern states which voted regretfully against him and for Mr. Bryan We do not doubt that the controlling elements in Atlanta and in many other Southern cities were at heart for Taft in the last contest for the Presidency. Only the outworn traditions of Southern politics deterred them from voting according to their secret con victions and their obvious interests. In his speech to his Atlanta hosts Mr. Taft emphasized again his attitude toward the move ment now under way to introduce a new order in Southern politics. His address to the Bir mingham delegation which visited him two weeks ago iv Augusta was misinterpreted by many of the old school of Southern leaders. These lead ers, who have found it advantageous to mini mize the intelligent discussion of politics and to insist that the South should have no other po litical aim than the permanent exclusion of the negro from the suffrage, tried to torture Mr. Taft's words into a notice that he Intended to use MB powers as President to divide the South and to build up a Republican organization on the old lines of antagonism to the Sooth's policy of suffrage restriction. What the President-elect said justified no such inference. He took oc casion, therefore; to amplify at Atlanta the re marks he had made to the Birmingham delega tion. It will be his policy to encourage the lib eralization of Southern politics, to break the tradition which now compels so many Southern men to support policies with which they have no sympathy simply because those policies are la belled Democratic and to help to lift the ban so long put on freedom of thought, speech and action. Mr. Taft sees that outside pressure to bring about such a result would be harmful rather than helpful. If the Southern people are to dl vide in politics once more according to their convictions and interests, and to support or op pose national policies on their merits, the initia tive must come from the inside. The substantial elements in Southern life must unite and work out their own salvation. They will have Mr. Taft's sympathy and assistance if they do unite to this end. But he is too wise and tolerant to believe that any permanent good can oorne from trying to force them to act before the time la ripe for an abandonment of the old order. As he told his Georgia hearers, any state, North or South, suffers when it lacks "a substantial and "intelligent minority which may become a sue "cetftsful majority in punishment of abuses th.-.t "are likely to grow out of the long continued and "undisputed control of one party." Pennsyl vania has suffered as much from that misfortune as any Southern state has. It is therefore a matter of serious domestic consequence to South ern as well as to Norther 1 states that too mu-ii rigidity in partisan affiliations prevails and th>it independent thinking and action are discouraged and punished. The President-elect has promised to live up to the same general standards in making appoint ments in the South as he accepts in making ap pointment* in other sections. That is only fair and just. Such a promise indicates Mr. Taft's sin cere intention to treat the South not as a section in itself, isolated politically from the rest of the Union, but as a section ready to reassante its proper role as a joint factor in all national un dertakings. TBE OOUKTHOUBE SITE. The recommendation of the Gourtnoase Com mission that a new building for the Supreme • •oiirt of the Ist Judicial District be erected In V»".-:>bington Square lacks wholehearted was and conviction. The members of the board are not at all satisfied with their own selection. They suy frankly that the choice has been (breed on them by unfortunate limitations of law and rather short-sighted considerations of economy. Three other more desirable sites, their report says, have been rejected by the Hoard of Esti mate and Apportionment, and tbe Washington Square site is now favored only as a last resort. the chief argument in its favor beiug that it Is for the moment the cheapest available. All other considerations arc to be sacrificed to a dubious policy of economy. The Tribune has many times pointed out that Washington Square is ■ disadvantageous site for a Supreme Court building. The neighbor ■sod is isolated. It is off the mam rotates of travel, and is not likely to become much more accessible or to develop into v centre for office buildings. If the court is to sit in the section of the city between 23d street and Bleccker street, T'nion Square is froru every point of riew a more satisfactory location. It is apparently proposed to appropriate a part of Washington Square for the new bufldtng, thus greatly de preciating the square's walue as ■ breathing spot in an already congested quarter. The plan Of adding an area to the park equal to that taken away Is open to the objection that it will involve the destruction of trees now in full grow th and the slow development of an annex on condemned ground behind the. new court house. The beatify of Washington Square would be much diminished by such an experiment. The Tribune Is still of the opinion that !f the T'nion Square site must be abandoned be cause of its cost the best results would be at tained by erecting a court building in Cham bers street facing City Hall Park. The judges complain of the noises from the streets which disturb court proceedings in the old-fashioned court buildings. Xo building of the old style can offer much relief In that respect; for all pan« of Manhattan are noisy now and are becoming noisier as traffic grows denser. The way to obtain peace, quietude, good light and pure air is to go far above the street level. We believe that a building of moderate superficial area but of suitable height would solve the problems of poor light, poor ventilation and dis turbing noises with which the courts have long wrestled. Such a building can easily be erected In Cbttffcibers street and New York has archi tects skilful enough to bring it into harmony with the City I!a!l Park and its surroundings*. In our opinion it would be better to wait until NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1909. legislation can be had affording the city a freer choice than to accept the admittedly de fective Bite now recommended. LAST YEAR'S OUTPUT OF COAL. So Intimate Is the relation between the con sumption of fuel and the activity of manufact uring:, transportation and other important in dustries that a report on the coal production of the country for 1908 possesses exceptional in terest. Such a statement has been prepared by Mr. Kdward W. Parker, of the United State* Geological Survey, who Is also a special ngreut of the Census Bureau. It shows, as might be expected, a considerable reduction in the output, compared with that of 1907, but that the falling on! was no greater must, .on the whole, cause surprise Th* yield of anthracite last year In round numbers was 72.000,000 short tons, or about 3,000,000 tons less than in 1907. Most of th" hard* coal mined in this country is burned m Pennsylvania, New Jersey. New York and Mew Eneland. Though more expensive than soft coal, it is still used on a rather large scale to gen erate steam for power. The demand for it for this purpose was so well sustained in IPOS that the production was diminished only 4 per cent. Of course, soft coal makes a less favorable showing. The output for 1908 is estimated at from 320.000,000 to 330.000,000 short tons. That of the year before amounted to 394,759,112 short tons. The difference is not far from 70,000.000 tons, or about 17 per cent The change was chiefly noticeable, Mr. Parker says. In the re gions where coke is manufactured, and as COS* is the favorite fuel of the blast furnace man th? lessened demand was largely due to a diminish-^ 1 production of pig Iron. Still, the iron and st« 1 business was not entirely responsible for it. A host of factories in Western cities have been accustomed to rely on soft coal for power. In the operation of most mines, too, power is re quired for hoisting and crushing ore. The par tial or complete suspension of work by both of these classes of consumers sensibly contributed to the result. Still another cause seems to have exerted an influence in the Southwest. Oil and natural pas are so abundant In Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas that they are steadily displacing solid fuel there. Most of those States produce coal also, though it is of Inferior qual ity, bur the oil and gas are so much cheaper that coal mining yields little profit. PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE. The corporation of Trinity Church in this city in ISH asked the Legislature of tLie state for certain legislation f<>r its great benefit, and iv order to induce favorable action u\»>n its r ■■ quest made through Its accredited agent eer tain specific promises of a policy which would by for the great benefit of the various chape b of Trinity purisJi and of the city at large. would in time. It said, become desirable to divide the corporation I\y setting off parts of it in separate churches, with suitable endowment*, and it declared that to enable it to do this w; ■ <>ne of the objects of tie desired legislation. ■The bill when passed," said Trinity's represent ative, "would have the happy consequence <)f "enabling tbe vestry of Trinity Church fro s "time to time to separate the churches with •the consent of their congregations and t" es "dow them with suitable estates." That waa H 1814 The corporation of Trinity Church in this c[:y fir the present time proposes to abandon arl destroy one of the most important ;ir:d mo*l Jntorestins and beloved of its chapels. The congregation of that chapel, relying upon the specific promises of 1814, earnestly requests that it shall be set off as ■ separate church, asking no endowineut <.r "suitable esUit'. 1 " fpiin Trinity, but merely the chance to take ,'i; d maintain at Its own expense the «]r\ pli' c >f worship which it has ion? occupied. Confronted with this modest request for merely :i partial performance of it.« promise of 1814, the poratton of Trinity Church takes only a few minutes in which to refuse it. DARWfs ANTICIPATED. In the last Issue of "Tlie New York M< Record" Dr. ,R. G. Eecles, of Brooklyn, re vives sin Interesting l • i t <«f history. The doctrl »c of "natural selection,' 1 advanced half a century ago in Darwin's "Origin <>t Species," was ; c vloosly enunciated bj Dr. W. C. Wells, <-f Charleston, s. C. In a paper which tbe \ lean sent to the Boyal Society of England In ISI3 }!,• expressed tbe opinion that oegroea and mulat tncs derived ih.ir iriiiininity from certain trop ical diseases, including malaria,from the color of then* skin. Tlie theory might have been sou id Or it might have been the n-\ erse, but the m< iv fact that it found utterance shows thai at lust a hundred years n*. r <> there were thinkers who believed that in the struggle for existence those plants and :in!ni:ils had the besj chance of bold- Ing out which had most completely adapted themselves to ihe conditions surrounding them. Darwin gave Pr. Wells due credit, too. (>' remarked iv "The Origin of Species" thai the American "observes, firstly, thai all animals ■v:iry in some'degree, ;trsd, secondly, thai aajri "l'ulturists Improve their domestic animals by "selection, arid then, he :idds. but what Is d« Be "i:i Hiis latter case by art seems to be d< oe "with equal efficacy, though more slowly, by "Nature, in the formation of varieties of man "kind fitted for the country which they in •■h:ibit." The qnotatkm Indicates that the greal English naturalist laid no claim to originality ■while elaborating his own views, though he did vastly more than I>r. Wells to reinforce them with evidence, it is also clear th:it the South Carolina physician recognised the tendency in ttie offspring of the same parents to diifer slightly from each other. Without variation, af course, division Into species would be hupx sil>l<\ and there would be no occasion t-» SSk why some varieties would thrive while others would languish and die. It is probable thai Dr. Wells concerned himself chiefly with the prac tical duties of his profession trying to heal the si-'k but lie was certainly something of a philosopher. In his contribution t<> "The Medical Record" Dr. Eecles improves tlu> opportunity to honor another of his predecessors and compatriots. Be declares that as long ago ns 1807 Dr. John Crawford, of Baltimore, propounded the theory that mosqaitees were responsible for the dis semination of malarial fever. Now that the supposition has been fully verified, it sfems sre thai no efforts were made a century ago to ascertain Ma correctness. To be sure. T':is teur's demonstration tJint some diseases hive ■ bacterial origin had not been given to the world. Not until 1880 did I.averan announce the discovery of the parasite of malaria in lmnaii blood. Yet even without these clews it. ought to have been a simple matter to test the ques tion whether Dr. Crawford was richt or not. POE POSERS. The Toe oefltenary preparations continue to provoke observations instinct with vast and varied misinformation from those who affect to think that apart from the record of that on? unhappy genius the annals of American lit erature are blank paces in the history bosks. Most of these we may easily afford to let pass with nothing more than the traditional smile, but now and then there appears one whici is co entirely preposterous as really to deserve a moment's notice as a "horrible example." Here is "The Press." of Columbus, Ohio, c ho iiip "The Wcrld-Jtlerald." of Omaha, Neb., in a fling at the Hall of Fame for ond it." it would be vastly interesting to know what sort of an electorate would satisfy those who pose as worshippers of Toe. Rememberinc what a fine gift of scornful invective, especially for posers, Poe had, it Is probably well for the persona] comfort of the aforesaid asvJa that he Is no longer living and writing. The Hon. John W. Kern need not despair. He can become a Chautauqna. lecturer or write a book on "The Last Battle" and break Into In diana's famous literary circle. The House Committee on Interstate and For eign Commerce again confirms the fact that however much men may condemn th« Panama Canal administration at a distance th^ir in timate contn.-t with It and accurate knowledge of it Invariably turn their blame to pratoe. The report that Governor Harmon of Ohio will not call a special election to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives created by the transfer of Theodore E. Burton to the United States Senate misrepresents, we hope, the Gov ernor's intentions. It would be a manifest In justice to deprive the £lst Ohio District of rep resentation in the lower House for a -whole Congress. It is often held to be inadvisable to call a special election to fill a vacancy occurring near the end of a. term. But there Is no excuse for leaving a seat empty when there Ip ample time to fill It even before the term in question begins. Even if "Washington had not h»<"i the Father of his Country, the "Washington heirs" might have made him a3 famous as Anneke .Tans. Th« renewed friction between Chill and Feru is much to be regretted, but it must be confessed that It is not without cause.* Chili probably feels hurt at what she regards as Peru's un graciousness in refusing to accept her tribute to the memory of the Peruvian officers who fell In the war of 1879 between those countries. If Japan and Russia can unite In honoring the dead at Port Arthur, Chilians ask, why should Peru refuse to let Chill honor her brave adver saries of so much longer ago? On the other hand. Pern regards chili as having deliberately and wickedly repudiated the terms of the Treaty of Ancon, anil declares that she wants no tributes paid to her heroes by men of bad faith. It is a lamentable thing that two nations co enlightened and progressive and so generally well disposed should remain on so bad terms. Till: TM.K OF 777 r DAY Brlgarli^r General George H. Tornny, the n«»w surgeon general of the army. I* a r..;'.tini"rea!i by birth. "The Sun" says of him: "He achieved his principal distinction, perhaps, in i!.« work of «an! tation following the Baa Francisco earth. and fire calamity in April, l?0S. Ho was then in com mand of the hospital at the Presidio, anil all the details of the army's medical relief work fell to him. The sanitary conditions of Ban Francisco were made saf« within on« week after the disas ter. This work won for the new surgeon g»n^ral enthusiastic public praise from tht> Mayor of San Francisco, the Governor of tha state. the officials of the citlzons' relief committee, the Red Cross au thorities. Surgeon General O'Reilly and even Secre tary of War Taft. Mr. Taft has born* this record in his niemocy ever since." "Our sales of Indigestion tablets are falling oft rapidly," said the proprietor of the. patent medicine establishment, "we must do something to counter act It." "Why not start a factory for the manu facture of chafing dishes?" suggested the adver tising expert.— Philadelphia Record. The proprietor of a restaurant I". Munich has adopted a novel method of paying his Walters. In stead of receiving a fixed salary each man will be paid according to the number of miles which he covers In the course of his work. "Have yon ever seen the prisoner at the har?" "Ten, lodge, and he i.in drink like a fish.'* — Har per's Weekly. • * Captain Herbert WinalOW, U. S. M , who Is ex eCUtlve officer at the CharlestOWn Navy Yard, Is a great stickler for the honor of the service. The other night he did sentry duty for half an hour when he found an unguarded post. Captain Wins low discovered that an entrance gate had been deserted by the marine. He immediately assumed the man's place and had some minutes' wait before he secured a messenger to telephone for a marine relief. Until th« post was manned by a new ma rine guard Captain Winslow eturk it out In the cold and drizzle. Gyer— There goes .a man the weather seldom agrees with. Myer— So? Who is he? Oyer 11>*'* a government weather forecaster.— <'fiicago News. A souvenir of the Civil War came into the hands of a delicatessen merchant en the East Plde a few days ago which showed how scarce small chan%« must have been in those days. It was a green 3-cont postage stamp, encased In a thin metal frame the stae of an old copper cent. The face of the stamp was protected by a disk of mica. On the reverse side the improvised coin was stamped "Good for three cents." This queer substitute for money was given along with other small change by a woman who said it was the list of a number of similar pieces which she had owned for many years, and the man who took the combination stamp, mica and tin for three cents in speaking of it, said: "The woman looked as If she was pros perous onco and was sorry to give up the piece." ■ I suppose your motto is business hefore pleas ure?" "X". fir." answered Mr. Dustln Btax. "In my opinion when business is good there is no greater pleasure." — Washington Star. "Stories about umbrellas," said a New York physician, when that useful article was the subject of discussion, "are as numerous a* fish stories, and often test Just as severely the credulity of those who listen to them. This is a true one: A patient telephoned an hour after he had been at my office one morning that he had left his umbrella on the hall rack; would I see that it was kept for him? My servant found It, and that evening while we were at dinner he called, got the umbrella and came in to thank me. Then he told a long story as to how be valued the umbrella because he had carried it a long time, and It was Just the right weight and showed a dent in the silver handle which had been made by hjs little boy when ho used It as a hockey stick. I saw my wife smile while the story was being told. She understood my wink, however, and we said nothing. But when the man had gone away with the umbrella under his arm we laughed, for we had recognized the umbrella which I had' carried out and never brought back more than three years ago." "By one of detn wise provisions of nature," said Uncle Eben. "a man dat thinks he'a too good to work am' ginerally competent to do work dat 'ud amount to numn' nohow."— Washington Star. Ahotit People and Social Incident* AT THE WHITE HOUSE. [Prom Th* Tribnn* Bureau. 1 Washington, Jan. 16.— The President conferred by special appointment to-day with Senator Hale, chairman of the Senate Committee on Xaval Af fairs and acting chairman of the Appropriations Committee. The President Informed his callers that he had no intention of taking the fifty-mile walking test prescribed for army officers, as has been rumored. The President received the members of the American-Irish Historical Society In the East Room and addressed them. Among the White Hojse callers were Secretary Boot, Secretary Newberry, Justice Harlan, Sen ators Hale. Brown, Warner, McEnery, Flint. Nixon, Smoot and DuPont, Representatives Kahn. Fuller, Rennet. Kelson, Smith, of Mi- higan; Humphrey. Kale. McCleary, Wheeler. Hepburn, Scott, Stevens. Rothermel, Sturgis, French and Burton, of Delaware; ex-Secretary E. A. Hitch cock, Judge George Gray, Rear Admiral Singer. John Gardiner Coolidge, Frank Butterworth. of New Haven; the Cuban Minister, the Netherlands Minister. Commissioner Carers and E. H. Buok land, 6anitary Inspector at Porto Bello. The President rode horseback throaeh the suburbs in the snowstorm late this afternoon. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, Jan. 16.— The Austrian Ambassador and Baroness Hengelmtlller entertained at dinner at the embassy to-night the Italian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor dcs Planches, the French Ambassador a.nd Mm* Jusserand, the Turkish Am bassador, the Norwegian Minister and lime. Gud-», the Portuguese Minister, Senator and Mrs. Carter, the German Counsellor and Countess Wedel. Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill. Mr. and Mrs. Purdy. Mm. Boa la. Miss Gittings, the Hon. Maude Paunc- fote, Mlsa Laura Jackson. Princ* Koudacheff, Mr. Ekengren and Baron F. Hay merle. The Ambassador and Baroness HengelmUller are entertaining Miss Gitslr.gs, of Baltimore, for a few days. Baroness Mila HenjelmUller will be the hostes3 at a party on Monday afternoon for twenty-three chil dren of diplomatic, and resident families. The Japanese Ambassador and Baroness Taka hira had as guests nt dinner at the embassy to night the British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryos. the Swedish Minister and Mm». de Lagercrantz. the Netherlands Minister and Mine. Loudon, Justice and Mrs. Holmes, Senator Kean, Mr. Adee, Mrs. Hobson, Miss Kean, Miss de Lagercrantz. Miss Kibby. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Kennard. Mr. Innes. Eugene Chamberlain, and Mr. Matsui and Mr. Hanihara, of the Japanese Embassy. The new Turkish Ambassador. Hussein Klazlm Bey, was entertained at luncheon to-day by the French Third Secretary and Viscountess de Martel, who invited to meet him the Spanish Minister, the First Spanish Secretary and Seflora de Pastor. Mrs. Charles S. Bromwell, Miss Helen Patten, IsaM Anna Cockrell, Baron Ambrose}', Mr. do Amaral and Prince Koudacheff. Mr. Pousette. recently appointed attach* of the Swedish Legation, has arrived in Washington and taken up his duties. IN WASHINGTON. SOCIETY. [From Tfce Tribune Bureau.] Washington. Jan. IS.— The Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks, members of the Cabinet, diplo matic corps. Senate and House and others from resident society to the number of more than two hundred witnessed »he marriage at noon to-day of Miss Lena May Hemenway, daughter of Senator and Mrs. James A. Hemenway, and A. Benert Gates, of Indianapolis. Miss Eleanor "Woodward, of New York, and Miss Margaret Gray and Miss Martha Ross, of Evansvil'.e, Ind., were bridesmaids, and Richard Fairbanks, eon of the Vice-President. was best man. George Hemenway, Gary Moon, of Cleveland, and Reginald Hughes and William. Harding, Of Indianapolis. served as masters of cere monies. There was a breakfast following th- cere mony. Colonel and Mrs. Bromwell's guests to-night were the Danish Minister and Countess Moltke, Mr. Vogel, Swiss Minister; Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Crownlnshield. Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Charles L. McCawley, Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth. Mr. and Mr?. Hugh I^egare, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Slater, Miss "Wetmore, Miss Helen Patten and Mr. do AmaraL Mrs. M. A. Hanna had as guests the Vice-Presi dent and Mrs. Fairbanks, the Speaker and Mis 3 Cannon and others at dinner to-night. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Simpkins entertained at dinner to-night Miss Martha Bacon, Miss Constance Hoyt. Miss Faith Simpkins. Signor Cora, Lieuten ant Shackford, Captain Cheney and Basil Mites, whom they afterward took to the theatre. Judge and Mrs. Charles B. Howry and Mrs. James McMillan were other dinner hosts of the evening. NEW YORK SOCIETY. While, spectacular entertainments are few and , far between this winter, there are plenty of dances. ; musicals, dinners, luncheon and theatre parties to engage the attention of the fashionable world. The ialen(!ar is well filled, and the round of gay ■ •.> !-> described ns continuous. It will re- I main go until well on toward the end of February. j Lent comes unusually late this y.-ar. and doubtless ' before Its arrival many will be leaving town M s^ariii £>t warmer weather and a si:n; !er eH ! mate, on the Pacific Coast, in the Southern states ; and In the Levant, as well as in France and Italy. Boose, too, wfll make their way to Biarritz, whore King Bdwaxd and a large party of members of the Teigning house «>f Russia will arrive In f->':r weeks, and where the season will be brilliant. Among th» features of the programme of the week is the dinner dance given to-morrow night bj Mrs. \ i» n.lt rbilt at her house in Fifth avenus and West uTth street, for her nif .'". Miss Gwynne Bbepnerd, one of the debutantes season, and on Friday night MTs. Jesse Hoyt eK.-s a dance nt Sherry's for her daughter, Mtss Cor nelia Hoyt Thursday night is assigned to the Pal de TPt»» at the Pir-za. in behalf of the New York Associa tion for the Blind. A number of the patronesses, nmons; th«-m Mrs. K. H Harriman. Mrs. ("liarles B. Alexander, Mrs. Tkaodova Douglas stoMMeei and Mrs. KredTlck W. Whitridge. will give din ners at their houses on that evening, afterward t.-ikiti-r their gwsts to the dance. The women have been asked either to powder their hair or to array it in such a f.-ushion as to represent flowers. The men are expected to don papier ma.hA representa tions of the heads of domestic animals and bir.ls and "f wild beasts, while the members of the ex ecutive com:r.ittef. including Theron Stronsr. Bchuyler Schieffelin. Charles A. Dana. William Baylis. Jr.. and J. Harry Alexandie. jr.. are N be distinguished by caps and crowns of gold Striped with white. Mrs. Root, wife of the Sr, - retiiry of State, th« wives of the English and French ambassadors. Mrs. George B. McClellan. Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan and Mrs. Vanderbtlt are among the patronesses, and, judging by the num ber who have announced their intention of being at the ball, it promises to produce a large sum for the popular. and praiseworthy charity for the benefit of which it has been organized. Oth»r entertainments of the week Include Mrs. John Duncan Emmet's large dinner, followed »>y S musical nt her house In Madison avenue on Tues day evening in honor of the Archbishop of .New York; Mrs. William Bayliss luncheon party in the annex of the Metropolitan Club on Wednesday for her niece. Miss Edith Brooks, and Mr?. Elbridge T. Gerry> dinner at her house In Fifth avenue and Us* Street on the same evening. On Thursday night Mrs. August K. Heckscher has a theatre party, followed by a supper and a omail dance for M!ss Antoinette Hedwcher. while on Saturday Mrs. Mackay will have a dinner at her house in Madison avenue, followed by a musicaJ. at which Mrs. Ben jamin Lathrop and Charles Gllibert will appear. Delmonicos will be the scene, too, on that ntght. of the fourth cotillon of th* Saturday Evening Dancing Class, the senior organization of its kind in the city. Other entertainments In the near future are Mrs. F. 11. Harrlmans dance on Tuesday week ; Mrs. Charles B. Alexander's oMSsM for Miss Janetta. Alexander at her house In West sSth street on Friday. January 29; Mrs. Douglas W. Burnham s dance for Miss Susan Fish Dresser at Delmonicos on February 1 : Mrs. James B. Hagjrln's musical at her house in Fifth avenue on February 2, at which Miss Geraldlne Fnrrar and Slgnor Bond will Bin*, ana Mrs. George J. Gould's musical at the Plaza on February E. Canon Frederick G. Scott, of Quebec, will officiate at tiie wedding of his cousin, Miss Margaret Symea Scott, to Joseph R. Tru*sd*>. In the Church of ft. Epiphany here on Tuesday. The bride Is a flat ter of Justice Francis M. Scott, whose other * tar, Mrs. William H. Tew, will b* her sister's onlr attendant. William H. Tew. of Glasgow; T. Suth. •■''.and Scott. Robert C. Brown, Weld X. Steven" and Charles K. Burdick will be the ushers, «•»* Herbert L. Mills the heal man. The couple *Ci depart immediately after the wMdinsr for Soots America, and are not expected to return until aorj» time in the fall. ""n» Caruso will sing and Victor Herbert and hie or. chestra will play at Albert Morris Ba*r>7*s musical at the Waldorf-Astoria to-morrow morning. TTi<» second a* th«» series of sonata, recttals'by Jt and Mrs. DalSl M»nn»s, arranged by the Juaic^ League of the Music School Settlement for ta« benefit of the school, will tak* place on Thursday morning at the house of Mrs. Charles B. Alexaadtr in West 58th street. Tickets may be obtained from Miss, Ruth V. Twombly and from Miss Dorothea Draper. The patronesses Include Mrs. Henry Pan, Whitney. Mrs. "William Douglas Sloane, Mrs. "Will lam P. Douglas and Mrs. Payne Whitney. The annual Charity Ball, In behalf of the Kurj. err and Child's Hospital, an entertainment whicii has been a regular feature of th© New Tork season for more than half a century, and the only a*saV public entertainment of the year where the varlsea factions of Xe-w York society are brought into eoa tact with one another, takes place at the Waldorf on February 9. and. as usual, many dinners win <-» given in connection, therexlth by tii& patroneieia Mme. Sembrlch. David Blsphara and Victor Her bert appear on the programme. of the concert wtxiea will be given at th» "Waldorf on January 3, at U a. m , in behalf of the Three Art 3 Club, cf whlc'i Mr 3. John Henry Hammond is president, Mrs. The odore Douglas Robinson vice-president aid Mr\ Henry Markoe secretary. Bishop Greer la hon orary president of the organization. Mrs. E. H. Harriman. Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, Mrs. Julian W. Bobbins, Mrs Archibald Rogsrj anil Mrs. H. Fairfleld Osborn are th* patronesses who will receive tha guest 3at the canre of be sec ond Cinderella's Cotillon, a week from Tiursdajr, at Sherry's. Mr?. Robert Goelet gave a. dinner, followed by music, last night at her home. in Ftth avenue, for Postmaster General and Mrs. G« ' ** -vest of the Italian earthquake^ sufferers. t&« P^eds from which, netting about SJUMI are to is fhrarded by Countess Masslglla to Italr- Among Use seen at the various tables were Mrs. V.:;".:a» Douglas Ploane. Mrs. Henry G. Trevor, Mrs. >rbilt. Mrs. W. Seward Webb. Mrs. Kr->r Martla Dav!e?>. Mrs. Archibald Gourlay ThacheiMrs. Ed mund L. Baylies. Mrs. Henry Clews, >s. Fred- Crick Edey. Mrs. H. B. Hoillas. Mrs. Ir. Oakley Rhlnelander. Mrs. George R. Schieffel-n. Mrs. F. Bnrral] Hoffman. Miss Justine Ervin?. MV, Rem sen, Mrs J. X:".'.3 Roosevelt. Mrs. Henry^eyer Johnson. Mrs. James Brown. Mrs. Cl^.llf E. Pel lew. Mrs. Charles Meats; Mrs. Louis Jfe Staatoa and Mrs. Leiyard Stevens. A large fete Is being aTarged ty C«ntess Mas siglia and Mrs. T. Charts* I HTatsj I aid cf th» Italian earthquake suffe.ers for Fetrury t, at the Waldorf. It will be under the ausplc»s.f President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the Ambassadoi < Italy and Baroness Mayor dcs Planches. ArchUa Farley. Mayor and Mrs. George B. McCleUaiand Count nnd Countess Masslglla. The entertalm>nt wCI ta given both in the afternoon and ever.int.tnd rfl.mj^ prominent artists will be on tha progrtEhe. Hiss Anne Morgan will have. charge of. the »a table, Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbrl el the flower bo\h. and girls in Italian peasant costume will se'.l ewers. Another entertainment, a "bal poudre." .^B bS held at -he Plaza on February 11 umlerhe aus pices cf the Ladies' Italian Relief Ccmnilte. Under the patronage of Mr-. Douglas R»tnso«. Mrs. Marcellus Hartley Podge. Mrs. Arnb%w C. Kingsland. Mrs. Sidney Dillon PJptey. Mrs. irthur M. Dodge. Mrs. Oliver Hairfanan, Mrs. R3aaM Brooks- and many others, an entertainment xH. fc» given at the Waldorf on January 23 for the &«"•!« of the New York Auxiliary of the Southerr la^S trlai Educational Association. It will lake thejjra of tableaux vlvant* of the "Rubaiyat" oi *** Khayyam, and there will be Persian «or.y.by Seftor Guetary and violin Betas by a 9* '"■ arrist. A musical for the benefit of the Peters oftij Assumption, who nurse the sick poor la © homes, will be given at the Waldorf at 11 ©"«»* on February S, under fashionable patronage- T*. tickets are SJ and may be obtained from lir.- Geraldyn Redmond. N*o. ZC$ Fifth aventie: Cor^ teas* de Laugler-VHlar?. Xo. 311 Fifth avenue. KM Miss de Barrll. No. 9 East 39th street. Mr and Mrs. J. AISSSSaa Clark wffl return * town from their Western trip to-morrow. Lady Paget. daughter of the late Mrs. P*«* Stevens. ■ booked to sail for New Tork on S3X^" day next. It will 1+ her fi>st visit to this country sine* ISM Among her fellow passengers •*& ■• Mrs. Brue- Iraoay. who wMsi In New Tor* *" make a stay with Mrs. Gust-tv Airsinck. Mr. *° Mrs. Bower Ismay are spending the wtn» r Egypt and have gone up the Nile. TO CELEBRATE POE CENTENNIAL. Columbia T'niversltv will celebrate th* SBS *"£• dredth anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allaa F"« with exercises in Earl Hall on Tuesday * renJa? ' . procession of the trustees of the university ec oil to open the programme. Thomas :: * cIS0 V^ Brander Matthews and others will speak ana fessor John Ersklne. of Amherst. will *» origin* poem. In the afternoon the origin script of Pop's "Annabel Lee." a da «™ rrs^s which has never been published and "* ™ from Poe's home which was presented t0 *"• m varsity a few years ago will be on exfciM°" the library. f :. V ~ REAR ADMIRAL BARNETTE «-t- Ensign Bradford Barnette. who was t de ** ttre d cently from the battleship Rhode Island. «^. here yesterday on the French liner I* While th» American fleet was on lts *** 6a4 tle- . the Mediterranean a message reached ""^y^t ship Rhode Island, which arrived J^r 1 f^ j^., Marseilles, announcing the Illness of "*' " jJe3t Rear Admiral William J. Barnette. »« e " a g^ga of the Naval Observatory at Washington Barnette was immediately detached ™ «*•• and Instructed to return to this rountry. w f(BkSi i of th- serious Illness of his father w^- ved jy»» from the younsr officer, and until he »m yesterday he did not know the reason been detached. He was met at the V** L^ & tenant Charles Belfcnap. from the n *7 7 tr m 1m 1 Brooklyn, and left here on an *•*'* "Washington. |