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VrClaVMr. Teller and Mr. Hopkins took part •'• -ho debate on the AJdrich currency MIL === House: The legislative appropriation bill was cor^idpred. the proposed increase of salaries S^lSte&nt sectaries of departments beta* Ftricken out. FOREIGN — Th« American battleship fio*>t ar rived off Valparaiso, where President Monti re vWd I the warships from the Baqupdano and •SS. tihen out of the harbor: great crowds • from all parts of Chili lined the shore. ===== An Sn^nfirtn^l report from Vienna said that the Shah of Persia had be*n assassinated.^ rm 7 European powers shoW alarm over the disrup ts, n •' the rivers caused by Germany's wlth drawal from the rou in the Near Bast andttw attitude of Austria: ih<>r» are hints of an Anglo- Russian alliance for joint action in Macedonia. DOMESTIC— Oovemor Hughes, at Ainany. declined to pram the application of Attorney General Jackson for an extraordinary of UK Supreme Court for the trial of the act on nrou^ht to test the title of George B. McUellan to the office ™i Mayor of New rot* — — - A • tornado destroyed three towns in Mississippi, causing a loss of life estimated at a score or "or, a tornado at Tyler. Tex., caused a loss of life • itlmaied at twelve. =^r A federal grand Jury orousrht anti-trust Indictments against rep resentatives of practically every .union in New Orl.-ans. — ■ — The American shir Emily Reed foundered off the coast of Oregon; twelve lives were lost. Controller Glynn announced at Albany that he. would sell, or. Mar. 11. 15.000. 000 of stale highway improvement bonds — -— Secretary Taft presented diplomas to the 108 members of the graduating class of the Military Academy at West Point. : Andre Tardieu. in the fifth of his lectures, spoke about the Alge ciraF conference to the members of the Cerde Francals of Harvard University. CITY — Stocks were strong. — : It was an nounced that the United States Mortgage and Trust Company would absorb the Oriental Bank in a few days. = Deputy Chief Kroger was killed at a stubborn fire in Canal street. The committee of the American Steel Foundries ecnt a circular to stockholders explaining its new financial plan. ===== Btuyveaaai Fish blamed E. H. Harriman for any harm done to the Illinois Central's credit. ===== an indictment was found against Henry Banger Snow, farmer treasurer of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company. ===== The Continental Finance Company appealed to the federal courts to prevent the collection of a note for $60,000 obtained from It by Charles W. Morse = Bids for 5300.000.000 were made for J50.000.000 •worth of bonds offered by the city. = — It was understood that Tax Commissioner Nicholas Muller would resign this coming week. = Henry S. Thompson resigned as Commissioner ct Public "Works of the Borough of Manhattan. == There was a lively tilt between President McGowan. of the Board of Aldermen, and Com missioner Eustls. of the Public Service Com aafaalon. at a meeting of the Board of Estimate. THE "WEATHER.— lndications fur tp-day: p»in south winds. The temperature yesterday: Highest, «• decrees: lowest, 35. EASY FOR BRYAS. Wisconsin's decision to support Mr. Bryan as a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination "will dash the hopes of thane who have been counting on starting an anti-Bryan movement in the Northwest and the Middle West. The success of such a movement would depend on the creation of ■ nucleus of opposi tion la those sections pledged to the candidacy of pome promising Middle Western or North ■western leader. Colonel Watterson thought last summer that a leader bad been found in Gov ernor John A Johnson of Minnesota. Mr Johnson had carried Minnesota twice — 1904 and 11*00 ond bis two administrations have proved successful and i»pular. He has a large personal following among the Scandinavian* •who have - largely populated Minnesota, North Dakota and Northern Wisconsin. Politically and personally, therefore, he seemed to be a highly eligible candidate for the Presidency, if any other claims than those of Mr Bryan were to he considered next July at Denver. Colonel Watterson soon .alkandoued the effort to push Governor Johnson to the front. He says that the E^aaasm opponents of Mr. Bryan failed to ■pensae with him when ccHoperation might ba\e been fruitful, waking up to the opportu nity only when it was too late. The editor of ■j be Courier-Journal" recognized, however, that no Democrat could ha nominated for the Presi dency with the hllgiittwt chance of election w!.u did not have the Indorsement of Mr. Bryan. So long as the Nebraska leader himself held off. any campaign for his elimination would be hopeless. Governor Johnson also realized th existence of that limitation, for though he ban appeared at times to )*• a passive candidate be has never put himself in the attitude of tasking to antagonize hLs overshadowing Ne taask£ neighbor. In the last month or two *^ho New York World" and "The Charleston tasw* and Courier" have been conducting ■ rigorous pro-Johnson and anti-Bryan agitation But 'J3*>y can pr#]'i-e no evidence to show that Mr. Johnson ha* any intention of making au active aryj serious canvass for the nomination. If the Johnson movement is not taken se riously In the Northwestern States, how can it betaken seriously in the East or in the South? Wisconsin has many inhabitants of Scandina vian descent to whom the Minnesota Gov ernor's record and personality would naturally appeal The Democratic organization in the state since IS3O has been under the control of the conservative element in the party. At .St. Louis in 15»iM Wisconsin presented a Presiden tial candidate-Mr. Edward C. Wall, who. like Judge Parker, had voted for Mr. Bryan in 18D6 and 1000. but had disagreed with the candidate and platform on the money question. W is.-on riß was represented by the Hon. Timothy E. Bras on the executive committee of the Demo cratic National Committee which managed the Parker canvass, and should be classed as a rtate controlled, so far as party management is concerned, by the element naturally In sym path? with efforts to eliminate Mr. Bryan, if such an elimination should appear to be feas ible and practicable. The action taken by the State convention indicates that the Wisconsin Democrats consider Mr. Bryan's nomination as -ood as made and are not to be led into mort eaaittg themselves to a non-matoriali/-'.Me oppo sition lowa. North Dakota, South Dakota. Il linois and Missouri are also ready to declare for Mr Bryan, and even Minnesota will hesi tate about "sending a hostile or uncommitted delegation to Denver. Mr. Bryan will have a walkover, because no candidate has yet been found willing to enter the field against him find do substantial militant sentiment in the Demo cratic party demands hip retirement. •REMEMBER THE MAINE." Vnniversarles are to most persons chiefly re minders of the flight of time and of the appar ently acvlerated rapidity of that flight, and to that role this tenth anniversary of the disaster Of the Maine Is doubtless no exception. It is ten years u>-nizht stem that warship was de stroyed in the harbor of Havana, and the event has long siuce. with its momentous sequences, passed into history. The war with Bpaiß, the battles at Manila and Santiago, the extinction of the Spanish empire in the Western Hem isphere. the extension of the American dominion into the Eastern Hemisphere, the erection of the Cuban Republic— all are now as truly accom plished facts as the Norman Conquest or the fall of Baase. The ten years, too, have seen other epoch making events in other lands— the Boer ■War and the consequent merging of the Boer states into the British Empire, the Boxer war and the consequent incipient awakening of China, the Russo-JajWinese War and the com plete habilitation of Japan among the great powers of the world, the approachment between England and Prance, the separation of Norway and Sweden, the Hague congresses and Euro pean recognition of Guath America, the revolu tions in Russia and Persia, and various other occurrence?, any one of them sufficient to be the theme of a voluminous history and all com pacted within the compass of ten of the most crowded and strenuous years which it has ever t»ecn the lot of this o!d earth to know. Some will exclaim "Ten years already!" and others "Only tea years!" aci-ording to their patient or precipitous temperaments. But the most profitable reflection is upon the complete ness of the processes of these ten years which have in so short a space made the occurrences of 1896 more truly a dosed book than in other ages events of really less magnitude became in a ten times longer period. That this is so may be an indication or a result of the rapidity of living which is imputed to our race in these tinier If so. then we have cause. to be grateful for that circumstance. To remember Drake at Cadiz ten years after the singejng of the Span ish Kings beard would have meant something very different from remembering the Maine to day. Hatreds endured. Animosities were < herished. Whole generations were required to puss before wounds healed. Even within our own time memory in other cases has retained embittered venom for many mere than ten \ ••;!]>. rmlwrs ot the "Lost < "ause" were fanned inio a baleful glow in our own land when more tluin teu years had passed since Appomattox. The rape of Alsace and Lorraine remained a living issue for more than one or two decades after Sedan. The royal family of Hanover has n<>t even yet acquiesced in the subversion of the Hanoverian throne. , It was only a few years I back that Austria so far forgave the tragedy I of Queretaro as to send a minister to Mexico. A century hence may see the Vatican as un reconcited to the itwHnnlzation of Rome as it was in the reign of Pius IX. To-day, however, we may remember the Maine without s loach of bitterness, and there is grate \ tm assurance than Spain regards with equal absence of embittered passion the painful occur rences of is:» 8. The results of the strife remain and are smepted by both sides as for the best but the conflict itself and its causes and drenm stances are relegated completely and permanently to the cold. <:iliu realm <>f the history of the past They may Ite recalled without resentment and may be rehearsed without passion. It is no ex. aggeration to say that relations between Spain and America are to-day more cordial and sym pathetic than they were before the war of 1886, pel haps than they ever were before There are many who exult in the expansion of the Amer tean domain which was a result of the war of 1896. There are some who deplore the costs and lite responsibilities entailed upon us by that ex pansion. But there are surely none who are not profoundly grateful for the buoyancy of t-pirit. for the facility of adaptation, for the recognition of justice, for the commanding com mon sense, or for whatever it is which has so j oomplefcetj and within so short S period as ten years effaced the scars of conflict and restored peace and good will between the two countries whose long harassed relations were so rudely strained almost to the breaking point by the ] tragedy of the Maine. JAPAVB COMMERCE. Japan's foreign trade in 1907 was marked with some significant features. Exports were $215, 500,000, against ?L' 12.000.000 In 1906, an increase of $3500.000. Imports were $247,500,000. against $209,500,000. an increase of $38,000,000. The total foreign commerce was, therefore, $463,000, 000, against $421,500,000 in 1906. an increase of $41,500,000. This growth was in accord with the rule of recent years. Statistics of Japan ese commerce are available for only thirty-six years, or since and including 1872. In the tirst sixteen years of that period the growth was very slow — from "•OO,OOO to $48,500,000. or only 125 per cent. In th« last twenty years it was rapid -from $»>5,500,000 to $463,000,000, or 007 per cent. It will be not<-d that last year the balance of trade was heavily against Japan. Imports exceeded exports by $32,000,<XK), whereas in 1906 the balance was In Japan's favor, exports exceeding imports by $2.iioo,iJoo. Thus there was an unfavorable movement In balance of trade to the extent of $34,000,000. This was in considerable part because of two things — the financial Hurry in America, which reduced this country's purchases of raw Kllk, and the fall la the price of Hiker, which caused China and Corea greatly to reduce their purchases of silks. Hut. after nil. an unfavorable balance of trade Is the usual thing in Japan. The balance of 10OU ■as the only one in Japan's favor in ;< dozen years. Whether these unfavorable balances an; draining gold out of the country is an unan swered question. Theoretically they should do »•<">. Practically they may not, because they may bo counterbalanced by the influx of gold from the profits of shipping companies, from the ex peoflltUNS of foreign visitors and residents, and from the home sendings of Japanese emigrants? It v.lll be recalled that England, too, has un favorable trade balances, buying more tban she NEW-YORK waILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1908. splls. yet she is not supposed to be destitute of gold. » , It is significant to obsorre that of Japan a Imports 37 per cent was raw materials for her factories and 18 per cent partly manufactured articles to be finished there, and 10 per cent was engines, machines, tools and petroleum fcrr her Industries, while oniy a bopgHrly />IS per cent was manufactured commodities which would not enter into Industrial operations hut would go directly to the consumer. And this insignif icant percentage of ■act nianulHctur» > d articles is steadily decreasing, while the amount of raw materials is increasing. Of course, manufact ured goods flgun» predominantly in the export trade, last year amounting to nearly SO per cent of the whole. Finally, it |a to be noted that while in ISOK of the B.<K>o.ooo tons of vessels entering Japanese ports only 2.000,000 tons, or ■_'."i per cent, were under the Japanese flag, in IWI of tho MOO6VOBB tons entered P.00n.000. or 4.-< per cent, were Japanese. In both industries ,u;il i-hipping. therefore. Japan is evidently mak ing progress toward her aim of becoming the "Kngland of the Kast." TIJE BOXD SALE. The large ov> rsubsrription t)f the city bond issue was to be expected. Four and one-half per cent municipal bonds with fifty years to run at a trifle over par are an unusually at tractive investment. As they are had at about the average price which in years past the city has been able to obtain for its 3'y per cents, they will yield to their fortunate possessors 1 per cent more interest than is ordinarily ob tuined on so high class an investment. The holder of them is nearly one-Uiird better off in the income he will receive than the holder of other city stock bought in recent years, before the advance in interest in 1900. The chief interest in the results of the auc tion lies in the light it sheds upon the con dition of the money market. Viewed in this respect the Side indicates that there has not yet been any such ji cumulation of capital re sulting from the economies practised after last fairs smash as to bring about normal condi tions in the money market or indeed to pro duce much greater ease than existed in Sep tember. The September issue brought an aver age price of mriMl It is exp^ted by the Controller that this sale will average about 104. I Miring lOW and until September, IPOT, 4 per rents sold readily at a shade above par. and before that S l^ per cents used to sell above par. The actual average percentage on investments in city bonds from 1900 to the beginning of 100<; was always less than 3V»j per cent being only 2.93 for the is<rue of January. 1901. Daring 1906. when the scarcity of capital began to show itself, it was lees than 4 per cent. Last September's brought 4.09 per rent and the present issue will yield only a shade less. From tlft-se figures it is evident that capital is still ab normally scarce and the interest rates in conse quence are abnormally -high. If economists are right in assigning the recent panic to a shortage of liquid capita] it is obvious that considerable accumulations are still needed before business will once more be easy. The results of the sale will be studied with interest by the large <ori>orations, for railroads and industrial com panics face refunding operations in their bonds and «hort term notes to the extent of $152, 000.000 before July 1. This, of course, is exclu sive of tbe demand for new capital. THE DELAYED BLOCVM SESTESCE. 'Pliers is abundant reason to pity but not much ground for sympathy with Van Sehaiek. the captain of the excursion steamer General Slo cutn, whose conviction of criminal negligence and sentence to ten years' imprisonment has just been confirmed by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. It is true that before the Slocurn disaster his record had apparently been good. It is true that at his age — seventy years —the sentence is practically for life. It is true that a grave share of responsibility was shown to rest upon unfaithful or incompetent in spectors. It is true that the owners of the boat, who profited from her operations, and in whose employ and under whose orders Van Schaick was. are sharers with him in account ability for the awful tragedy. These things, however, do not affect the para mount issue of the present case, which is the personal guilt of Van Schaick. Concerning that no ground of reasonable doubt seems to be left "His record of neglect." says the federal at torney, "is appalling.", If his record before the Slocuni disaster was good, that fact only em phasizes in blacker relief his monstrous lapse from good conduct. But It seems more prob able that his record was, as we have already said, merely apparently good. That is to say. he was lucky enough to have no serious dis aster laid to' his charge. It is quite true that his employers should have provided the boat with better lifesaving apparatus. But it is doubtless equally true that they would have done so had he demanded it. His failure -to demand It does not exculpate them, but neither does their failure to provide it without his asking exculpate him. • one unfortunate Feature of the case is the delay which has supervened between the com mission of the offence and the imposition of the penalty. That is regrettable on various grounds, but on none, perhaps, more than that of the effect upon public opinion and morals. Imme diately after the tragedy, or after the facts concerning it became known, few would have hesitated a moment in imposing the heaviest possible penalties upon all who were respon sible for it. And that would have been right. But this is a mercurial generation, and those who nearly four years ago were hot with right eous indignation are now lukewarm with easy tolerance, while it may be that some who then would have been Inexcusably ready to lynch the erring captain are now inclined to sym pathize with him as more sinned agflinst than sinning It is as true in the administration of iustice as of charity that he gives twice who gives quickly: or he doubly vindicates the law who vindicates It promptly. WHAT LANDLORDS CAS DO The salvation of the human race will, in the opinion of man.v wise men, be brought about either by nn enlightened aristocracy or by ■ benevolent despotism. America, the land of opportunity for all social science experimenters, is natur.illy the place where this theory can be most thoroughly tested. Having no aristoe racy with v:n\y made vested privileges, Amer icana may freely try all sorts ( ,f candidates for the job of klndhearted tyrant At present the landlords are up for examination and doing their loveliest to prove themselves eligible; ;iii(i thus far they have succeeded. Thry are displaying :i rare combination of high think ing and brute tone in managing the masses, They regulate the heat of steam radiators, the hot water BOPply, the telephone calls, the amount of shade and sunshine and the number of callers their tenants may have. They per mil or forbid alcohol lamps, purple wallpaper and babies, according to their own Judgment, and, as any good socialist or Henry Georgian will teii \ou. they escape! peonls to live in their Bats and apartments by erecting sucli buftdlnjcH wherever the people want to lire. Thus they get the masses in tiieir power, and the Janitors rtu the rest. But <*nn humanity be wholly delivered from pin and ignorance by these benevolent despots? The prospects are brightening every day. The foundation of modern society being the family, the landlord bold the future ..f the human race la the hollow 1 of their hands; they hnvo only to prescribe nil'-s of domestic life in owl ■ to remodel their tenants on the moat approved Hues. When Biu^lo blea&edneaa was popular gome landlords legislated married folks out of their buildings; and later, when children were voted to be obnoxious ' brats, the benevolent despots banished them. And now, havlnjr been convinced that it is well there should be heirs, If only for the sake of keeping thousands of school teachers employed, the landlords are beginning to erect "stork" apartment houses. As reports from Boston Indicate, that intellect ual cltv is the first to start the war upon the childless in this humane yet compelllnß fashion. A prominent philanthropist there is MM to be building a $250,000 apartment hoi» for the exclusive use of families with babies. As MM as other landlords see the white li ht of truth such edifices will presumably displace all other dwellings in Boston and elsewhere. Ruche lo rs and childless couples once beinc driven into the streets, the rejuvenation of society will be well under way: and if landlords can accom plish this, the rest will be as simple M eating muffins. If hotelkeepers are privileged nnOer prevailing laws to exclude from their dmin rooms women without male escorts, it is I**! that the landlords, by working in harmony, ran suppress all vires from Calvinism to^cocalne in American cities without making the Su preme Court sit up nights. So the day of glory has almost arrived. The death of Charles W. Kruger makes this city appreciably poorer In the most dangerous, the most arduous and in me particulars the most important department of its public ser vice For more than a third of a century he had been an active member of the lire fighting force, displaying from first to last; in all the capacities in which he served, • fl^ Integrity and devotion to duty. Joined with C-qual judg ment in directing and courage In personally participating in the operations of the force. A* deputy chief of the department he commanded the affection and confidence of the men in an exceptional measure, and by his example he In spired them to the highest degree of efficiency It was quite characteristic of him that he met his end in a deathtrap in which no others per ished. He had not sent his men into danger, but was himself leading the way. It is not n- C on*ruous or unworthy to bracket his fate with that of a more ' conspicuous hero, whose last command was almost identical with his. Come on men!" was John Nicholson's cry to his con quering followers in the sun-swept streets of Delhi Just fifty years ago. and the words are his best epitaph. "Come on. boys! was Charles Kruger-s cry to his followers, as with equal heroism he plunged Into the pit of death, and those words are his best memorial. Th« city laments his loss, but it will cherish his example as a precious legacy. If an automobile racing from New York to Paris via Siberia breaks down for ■ day m the suburbs of Philadelphia how many arch^olo- K i*ts will be able to decipher the advertise ments on the machine in the year when it finally gives up the* ghost somewhere, near the Aurora Borealis? No prize for the correct an swer. We are glad to see that of th* recommenda tions made by Chief Kn*inee.r Pea^an of the Public Service Commission for further improv ing the Brooklyn bridge service the first in order 1- side doors for all cars. The Tribune has repeatedly called attention to this obvious necessity. With side doors the full space of the train platforms could bo utilized and trams could be loaded much more quickly and con veniently. The. service on the bridga must re main slow, uncertain and unscientific so lone as the present .narrow end entrances to the ears arc retained. "The Charleston News and Courier" patriot ically asserts that the South Carolina General Assembly is "the highest browed and high browedest Cellbtratlve body in the known world." We dislike to dispute so positive a claim. But we. cannot help wondering what is the matter with the versatile and virgin Legislature of the new State of Oklahoma. THE TALK OF THE DAY. Old Rothschild Btorle* are popular now in Europe -Some are true." says an English writer. "some are only clever and many an simply inven tions. But all are read with Interest." Here is one from "The Bystander": _ . . -At a luncheon given by Empress Eugenic at the Tuileries the head of the Paris house of Roths child was seated opposite a great painter. Roths child was not blessed with good looks, and had. moreover, an expression of distress and resigna tion combined. The painter could not take his eyes off him and this worried Rothschild not a little. After the meal he asked the pain why he had taken so great an interest in him. and to his great amazement the painter informed him that he had studied him as a model for a beggar In a picture he whs then evolving. Rothschilds face bright ened and he said: 'I will sit for you.' And he did. One day when he was pesing a pupil of the painter's was so touched by the expression of woe on the face of the model that he clipped a five franc piece into the -poor man's' hand and van ished before an explanation was possible. Tho next day the young man received £4"0 as interest on his well invested five francs." "Water" said the scientific person, •'!« H a O." ■Yes" 'answered Mr Dustin Stax. as he laid aside the market report, "some of it Is. and a great deal of It I. O. U."— Washington Star. Consul General William H. Michael, of Calcutta, writes that the government of India, acting upon the recommendation of the telegraph committee, has authorized the employment of women oper ators. He adds: "The candidates must be be tween II and SO years of ag*. and they must b« unmarried or widows. They must undergo a train- Ing of twelve months in the telegraph training elapses, during which time they will receive $6 65 a month, the same allowance th.it is drawn by male learners. Selected candidates, on leaving the training classes, will be on probation for one year. On appointment they will receive the follow ing pay: At stations in India other than Rangoon and Madras. $13 85. increasing by annual incre ments of SO cents, commencing with the fourth year of service, to $28 65; at Rangoon, $16 65, in creasing to $30; at Madras, $10, increasing to $23 35. Service will be pensionable, and there will be no liability to transfer; but resignation will be. compulsory in the event of marriage. The hours of work of women signallers will be from S a. m. to 9 p. m.. but the whole period of duty will not exceed seven hours in the twenty-four, and there will be exemption from duty on Sundays." Manager- My stock in trade Is brains Principal Girl— You've got a funny looking sample case — Plck-Mo-Up. "If electric light and trolley cars, American labor saving machines and French luxuries excite no comment In Damascus," says Dr. Paul Hiller in a Berlin paper, "why should th.-re not be lift) on the shores of the Dead Sea? That there will be 1 have no doubt. Formerly the experts who came to this part of the Holy Land were men learned In the Bible and amend history. To thorn an old Inscription or an ancient manuscript was a great discovery. They still go to the Holy Land, theso students anil dreamers, but another class of «■*[>• a are also there now. They are looking for mineral deposits oil Urn bunks of the Dead Baa; they are searching for material things. The indications an that they will ted frvougli to bring about a change; and the Dead Sea district may possibly aeon be come very much alive. "I eiupposo you were terribly distressed when your eon eloped with that chorus girl." "Oh, no. not at all. They went so far that they used up .til their money going.". Chicago Record- Herald. A SKATER AT EIGHTY-FOUR. 1 :'>m The Kennenec Journal. Kast Vassalboro people are telling about one of their neighbors down that way. and they think that It will be pretty hard to beat him. flu hi J. 3. Butterfleld. and dm age is eighty-four yean, yet every day this winter when the condition of th» Ice would allow it Mr. Biitternold would get out hit ahatea and go to the pond and skat • m well asi manj ■ quarter- hla i.- Mi Butterfleld If. a well known citlaen of the town >nd has enjoyed gnod health He take., kffn pleasure In his skating tripe, and it. making the beat of the many days that the enow )>u been off the slippery surface About Teople and Social lficidmt*. AT THE WHITE HOUSE. I From Tho Tribune Bur«-au. 1 Washington. Feb. H-Th. President to-day ro cflved an invitation to saaafe before the Interna tional Convention of Good Templars h*re next June. B. F. Parker, international secretary, and E. C. Dlnwiddle, internsitional superintendent, gaM the Invitation. The President said he would be Blad to meet the delegates if he should be m town at that time. '"i # General J. B. Taylor, eichty-or.e years old. of ftalaa. Perm.. who commanded th* Ist Pennsyl vania Cavalry in the Civil War. renewed his ac quaintance with the President to-day. General Taylor was a neighbor and friend of th« Presi dent's father forty, years ago in >*ew York City. Other callers at the White House were Senators Proctor. Daaav, Clapp. imßaiham Bourne and Curtis. Representatives ''• at, Masiiire and Gron na. ex-Governor Frank Frantz of Oklahoma and Cecil I.yon. Republican national committeeman from Texas. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. [From TV." Tribun.- Bureau. I Washington. Feb. 14.-The Belgian Minister and Baroness Mnnchpur entertained a number of KUe3t3 at dinner to-ni«ht. The Italian naval attache and Blßnora Pflfter and the latter's mother. Mrs. I.aUKhlln. of St. I,ouis, will bo to New York to-morrow, to remain until some time in March. Mrs. Herbert Grant Watson, wife of the Brlt!3h third secretary, entertained ■ number of women informally at luncheon to-day. IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY. [From th<> Tribune Bureau.] Washington, Keb. 14.— The British Amassador and Mrs. Bryce were the suests for whom Senntm- and Mrs. Hopkins entertained at dinner to-nisht. To ir.<et there were Senator Fry, Senator and Mrs«. Carter, ex-Senator and Mrs. Dryden. Mrs. Pullman. Judge and Mrs. Gary. JudK«: and Mrs. Anderson, Representative^ and Mrs. James R. Mann and Mr. and Mrs. Ackert. Major General and Mrs Alfred E. Bates cave a dinner at the Alibi Club to-nipht to the Speaker and Miss Cannon. In th« party were Senator and Mrs. Bulkeley, Lieutenant General and Mrs. Cor bin, the Third Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Huritlnsrton Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Gordor* Cumming, Brig'adler General and Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards, Mrs. Witmer, Miss Carow. Miss Williams. Miss Ernst, Senator Warren, Brigadier General Crozler. Representative Giile.tt and Gist Blair. Mr. and Mrs. I^arz Anderson entertained fifty guests at dinner to-night, and later, a him ill oth ers joined them for their dance in honor of Miss Grace, Jarvis. • The Vies- President and Mrs. Fairbanks were the guests of honor at a dinner given to-night by Rep resentative William B. McKinley and his niece. Miss Matis. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson are expected to arrive in the city from New York within a day or bo, and a number of entertainments are beip.^ planned for them. Mrs. Robert Patterson has come to the capital and opened her house in Dapast Circle after spend ing several weeks In Europe with her son-in-law and daughter, Count and Countess Glzycki. NEW. YORK SOCIETY. Miss Theodora Shonts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Perry Bhonta. will be married to-day to th* Due de Chaulnes at th*> horn" of her parents in East 35th street. Th« -wedding will be at noon, and DEPEW LIMPS TO THE WHITE HOUSE Says He Turned His Ankle Getting Off a Car Here a Few Days Ago. fProm Th» Tnih'jn<» But cat.. ' Washington. Feb. 14.— Senator Depew limped to th« White House to-day. One. of his feet was incased in a cloth athletic shoe, and he carried a heavy cane to help him over the pavement. •This in a joke on • c." Bald the Senator, "but it loses its humor ever..- time I put my foot down. I've been a railroad man all my life, and when 1 whs a few years younger took a positive delight In jumping on and off flying trains. It was ea.<*y work for Tie to board a train whizzing along at twenty miles an hour, and It was a Baal train, In deed, that I couldn't drop from with ease and grace- Just a few days ago I was over in New- York on business and had occasion to take a ride on one. of the surface electric cars. When I reached my street th« car was creeping along right slowly, so. remembering my agility of former year.= . I did not stop the car, but jumped. What hap pened? Oh. I just turned my ankle and twisted, snapped or disarranged, about seventeen different ligaments. The result of it was that I had to get a. cab to make the rest of my Journey, and now the doctor assures me that it will be three weeks be fore my foot is well." QUEEN THANKS J. P. MORGAN British Sovereign and Russian Empress May See His Art Collection. London, Feb. 14.— Quern Alexandra, in a personal letter to J. P. Morgan, thanking him for his gift of the first three volumes of the, illustrated cata logue of his collection of pictures, miniatures, books and manuscripts, expressed a wish to visit Mr. Morgan's residence in Prince's Gate, S. W-, hi order to see the originals. It hi expected that the visit will be made in March, when the Empress Dowager of Russia will be here. It la likely that Mr. Morgan will be present to show the collection to their majesties. CHARLES M. SCHWAB IN LONDON A Short Trip for Rest — May Go to France, but Not to Russia. I,nndon. Feb. 14.— Charles M. Schwab and Archi bald Johnson, vice-president of the Bethlehem Pteel Corporation, arrived hen to-day from New York. In an interview Mr. Schwab said. I have no business of any kind to transact on this side of the Atlantic. I felt the need of a rest and so I came over on the L.usitanla- I shall remain here for a week, sailing for America on February 22. I may go to Paris for ■ day or two, but it is more likely that I will spend all my Hint in Eng land. I certainly am not froinsj to Russia, and I will not see anybody on business. Asked about the report that Prince Hilkoff, for mer Russian Minister of Railroads, was coming to I»ndr>n to meet him regarding a contract for armor plate for the Russian navy. Mr. Schwab said he did not know whether th« prince was com ing or not; If he did he would call on him, but not an business. Mr. Johnson is going to Parip for a few days on private, business. H G. MKINLEY AT HONOLULU. Hon.->lulu. Feb. 14 —Horace (i McKintey, who t.< ■wanted at Portland. Ore . in connection with the land fraud cases, and was arrested at Moahoaa hi it paaaenaav on the steamer America, which arrived Ban >• sterday from the Orient on the way lo 9H PYaaelaea McKlnley is in the, custody of an officer from Portland. TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS. Among the passengers who will sail to-day for Knrope are: Ml IWI 111 AUGUSTS VICTORIA. FOR HAMBURG. Mr. and M:- 1. W. Fox. ' Mr. and Mra T. R. Wheo- Mrs John M»Rre. i look. Mrs. Sl.tn.'V I). Klplcy Mr. and Mrs. LartßaH 11.. Mr. anil Baa Bmmj Dyer aaM Jordan . Mr. an 1 Mr . •;. .-c A. Mr aad Mr. c P. Vaughn. : Hnrwood. CEDRIC. FOR MEDITERRANEAN. Mr». i:<rijamin W. Butter. Dr. J. O. On Mr ana Mrs. Herbert F. Mr. and Mr*. J. B lloyt. Hall. Mr an 1 Mrs. Oliver <"n».^y. Mr. an. l Mr*. R. P. Hunt- Mrs. 11. \V. Taft. lnxton. Mr and Mrs. Anoon Thrlns A. 11, Ida. Stokos. ST. FAt FOR SOUTHAMPTON. Jarnt^s 11, Archer. J. J. Mfvrra. Mr. ami M.- CharlM M. Mr. and Mrs. L J. lttrt. Ha] - Major A. A. S. ltarne*. Mr*. KTMirriek Phillips. | L.UCANIA. FOR LIVKRPOOI- Walter 8, Olynn. I Sir John Rodger. ■I C. Ban Mr. aad Mrs. i. c Weka Oorge Kaprr. Mr. and Mr». A. R. Wilcox. NEVKAR. »oa NAPLES, Mi- QeofM B. Curry. j -■*. '' t>ine. Mr». ar) ' iimi-i | Franc!* P Venab!e. - mm 80, FOR XAPUS. Ii ana Mi». K. 1- AUIa. . Mr. itn.l Mi, M P. sJUi*. ■• I Mrs IP. T. Not in Mi: Bowles Celful* Monslsmor [, av .i!».r»r'"rif St. Patrick* • CatfciONjl will perform the ceremony, which will b* follow^ by a buffet breakfast. Miss Shonta will be art«txl«i by mm sister. Mi 33 Marguerite Shonts. and Print* Galitzine will be th^; duke's attendant. Th«»r«» wtn fee no ushers. A large number of invltatlo=» h«*« fceen IssniM. The French ambassador. M. Junae. rand, is unable to return from the W»st In Cnj» to attend the ■ Idlna ■■:• the embassy will b* represented by Mmc Jus?»rand. the counsellor ami Mme. des Fortes da la Foaa* and Mile, 4*m Port* de la Fosse. Miss HMssasaa Koh*>*. daughter of Mr. an« Mrs. Gustav Kobbe. will be married to-day to J«v seph Hutchison Stevenson. The wedding, whie* will bo -.<. small one. will take place IB Christ-; Church. Babylon. Lane Island. Miss Vtratala * KoaM aril] be the maid of honor and Miss Leonia AI-xandre and Man Marion Stevenson the brtd**. ' maids. Albert : .-'all Hoffman will be th« bat man. The members of the Friday Juniors had th#*r second dance of the season last evening at Slier* ' rjr*a A. Griswold Thompson led the cotillon. th« favors for which *ere of a valentine nature. Mr. and Mr? Elbridge T. Gerry stave the hcjliJ of a series of dfnnera last night at their hose j a East 61st street. Mrs. Charles D. Dickey also r*v» a dinner party last n!a:hf. It was for her debu tante daughter, Mi-s Frances Dickey. A rakntlna luncheon followed by bridge ■*}, given by Mrs. A. Holland Forbes yesterday at her house in East .-.Sth street. The guests lncladaa Mrs. Robert Roosevelt. Mrs. Theodora Roosevelt Pell. Mrs. William A. Hall and Mrs. Robert Cbaia- At Sherry's this afternoon th* annu.-tl St. Val entine's Kettledrum will a* held under fa*Mo». ablo auspices. a number of well known women will have charge of the varfou booths, and tbero will be special attractions for the children, to whom the affair is* always an event of rauca > tert-st. : There will be a dress rehearsal lr» th» Plaza this evening of the Junior Lessors e2t«rta!a ment, which will take place on Tuesday aaif Wednesday of next week. The programme wtn include a masque by Ben Johnson entitled. lift Hue and Cry After Cupid." Count and Countess Lad!a!a.<» Szechecyt. ,•.-, have been spending the early dayj of their honey moon at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, on I.nn< Island, are book*) to sail for Europe to-day on the Kaiaerla. Augusts Victoria. Mrs. Anthony .1. Drexel »nd her sister. Mr*. Jam^.s Henry tfmith; the tatter's dacsrhter. Miss Anita Stew-art; Miss Margaretta Orex»!. Mrs. Al fred Chapin. Miss Grace Chapln. Mrs. Hasr* Waters Taft and Miss Taft. Mr. and Mrs. Ansoa Pbelpa Stokes and Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronald will aba pail for Europe to-day. Mrs Taft and her daughter will make an automobile trip through Spain. . . Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hobtnson left town yes terday for Washington, where they will spend the week-end. Mr. and Mrs George Jay Gould have arranged to sail for Europe early In May. They will spend the greater part of the summer abroad. PRESIDENT HADLEY LEAVES BERLIJI Final Lecture on Protection of Private Prop ertyA Parewell Address. B*»rl!n. riM 14.— Arthur T. Hadley. president cf Yale University, who has been Roos<*v»lt professor • at the University of Berlin this winter. <t*i:i-^Ted his final- lecture to-day before a large audience composed of students ard professors. His subject was the difference in the conception of the Idea of private property in the United States and Europa He said that private property was better protected in America than in either Germany, England or France. Professor Adolf WagaMr, who was Pr«si«l<?r«r Had l»y*s instructor thirty years 140 mad* th» farwwaV address to the American visitor at th» request cf the rector of the university. He said, amon? t?ier things, that he doubted whether the far-reacßtaa] protection to private property in th» United State* was a benefit to the country at large. but i: enabled him to understand why President Roosevelt encoun tered such difficulties in his struggle with '■.» cor porations of America. Addressing President Ha<l ley personally. Professor Wagner said that ■ warn an old adage that the Germans were the teachers of the world, but he now understood that ■"» pupils of Germany had laai how to teach. la conclusion. President Hadley in a few words ex pressed his thanks for the remarkably warm recep tion which had been accorded to him in Tlnilfcl President Hadley and Mrs. Hadley left Berlin ta» night for America. FURTHER BEQUESTS OF MR. JEST?. Relatives. Friends and Servants All Benear bered in Will. Sereral bequests of Morris K. Jesup in addition to the public ones announced in The Tnlwna several days 32:0 were made public yesterday when Mr. Jesup's will was filed for probate, Mrs. Jeeaa> her nephew. T. De Witt Cuyler. John E. Parsons and Ben jamij^ 'Strong are made the executors aa£ are relieved of the necessity of giving bonds. It was already known that Mr. Jesup had be queathed $t,OOO.f«X) to th© American Museum at Natural History. $1CN»,O"O to the Brick Presbytsriaa Church, $S,'ioo as a permanent fund to the tru«eß» of the Consrresatlonal Church of Weatport. Oraa. $"-,500 to the Congregational Church of Leno>» Mass.. and his picture of G«orgo Waabte(tao *• the New York Chamber of Commerce. In addition to these bequests the- will prort<!«« that Caarlea M. Jesup and hi.* wife, of. WM» Plains. N. V . shall receive $150,003 and an later** in a trust fund of $StIO.O»W. while $400,000 la *•* queathed to T. De Witt Ctiyler, of P.-u:adeipm* $1(Xm»» and an interest in the trust fund of $30*« la left to Cornelius C. Cuyler and a liks amouat tto Eleanor de Graff Cuyler. Mr. Jessy? left $5.Si to Anthony Comstock to be used la hi» wot* ■ connection with the New York Society for tht Suppression of Vice, and $5,000 to the Weetaa* Übrary. In leaving C.OOO each to John E. Parsers M* William H. Parson* Mr. Jessup said: They «• my oldest and best friends, and I request tHal tSaf will each use the amount In purclsa*!ru a«ae article in memory of me."' The rvMduary estate is left to Mrs. Jeeu? »<"» the following bequests have been provided fcr: Five thousand dollars to the R*v. "WU: i*m * Klsing. pastor of the De Witt Mesmrtal Cbuit&» $2\o«X> each to his cousins. Mrs. Nellie Blwin I*a» Mrs. Fannie Biss«?ll Patterson and Mm. Emsia C Sheldon: $r».fto to Miss Julia Helen Wilson. h» nurs*>; $2,500 to Maria Jesup Patterson: H.oo* •<• Morris Jeaup Foaa, of Hancock. Maine: V3JXO • Charlotte C. Ferry, of Washington: 53J.000 to 3** ■Mary C. Batta, of Norwalk. Conn.; $^500 to ■> iaaoeteaav Jama Martin: $500 to every »•»•••' in hi» family that had been with v him for ft** years at the time of hU death, and 1100 to •*•" other servant. The will is dated Fvbruary U. 130*, and hat it* codicils. The petition accompanying th« (Jocuasent says that laa real estate is "a» much as JlW*^ and the "personal property to) as much as I.< *••*" • ! UNCLE OF CARLOS IN SAN FRANCISCCX ! San Francisco. Keb. I».— Bishop Da SUva. a preU^ ! of the Roman Catholic Church and ancle of tj*» Lite King Curios of Portugal, arrived to-day oajj* • Korea from Honolulu, where he had beca ia*e»M* - ; satins the condition of Portuguese resident* - • AN ENGAGEMENT. ! Professor and Mrs. Franklin H. Glddtnss. cf "* : 7?th street, announce th*> (engagement ot «»• -_■ [daughter. Miss Elizabeth R. Otddlngs. M Trl»M» ' Burgea Johnson, son of J. Au«uatua Johnson. •» this city. | ./CHARLES H. STEINWAVS DECORATION- . j / Berlin. K>b Jl— Charles H. ,>t»lnw*r. «< N** » fYork. h-*» received th* decoration •■■■■*■ ""'-■'^ | Ordenof th* Red £<tj;l* of the •■■"■"'' T». •• announcement of the conferring cf this 1 . oraih")- j ' by Emperor William was mad* List moota. ■ , ■>