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Literary JVetvs and Criticism
5,V James Graham, an Earht Vic
lorian Reform rr.
liFB £ND rERS OF SIR JAUKS GRAHAM.
*-* ctVOND BARONET OK NKTHKUBV. V. O.
G O. B. 179r-IS6I. By Charles Stuart Parker.
With Illustrations. Two Volumes. Octavo
pp. xvL 4 47; ix. 4 53. II P. Dutton & Co.
c-r Jarr.e* Graham, whose I^ett^rs now appear
almost half a century after his death, was a
firiccrc a^id hearty reformer. He was one of
T h« four mm to whom It fell to draw up the
prest Reform Act of IS.T2. the first step on that
road to democracy which England has been
fjpwly travelling for the last Beveaty-flve years.
Orahani also was associated with Peel in the
«T5T?r--F away of the old restrictions on trade
g 1S4»; and in securing cheap food for the na
♦j^n through the abrogation of the Corn Laws.
la administrative work, whether on his own
fft&if oi twcr.ty-six thousand acres at N>ther
j.y; in county government and the working of
the nrw poor law which he had been instru
sjfr.lal to ra ?si:i S in I^4. "or in the great de
partner.ts of state. Sir James Graham was a
gz^Sess reformer. Old slipshod methods of •x
travasame and confusion had to give way.
T-idcr his vigorous guidance, to intelligible
b:vkke<Tir.p. economy in expenditure and an
ad~'-"'' stration °^ national affairs on an honest
sr.d businesslike basis.
There v.as r.n self-seeking: in Graham's long
;«'u:i"a'' career. He never grasped after the
p-eal prixes that might have easily been within
10s reach- He held high office at intervals from
l*&\ when he joined Earl Grey's Reform Ad
oialstration. i:ntil his resigTiation. in I ". from
tie Aarr.ir-alty. where he had done much ex
rtilcc: sonice during the early months of the
Crimean Wax. During the years when he was
is crP 05^' 011 or " vv * ien as a private member he
«*s p-.virc friendly ....... a government
trith ■"-• '-'h he 'was not in complete sympathy.
p^rr.uT-es were apain and again n:ade to him
tt> iriC'Jce him to enter the Cabinet. Indeed, It
is scarcely an exaggeration to ray that no
natter who was Prime Minister, and no mat
rsr whether a Tor>*. a Liberal, or a coalition
injverr.TTvrrit was in office, for the last thirty
rtar? of h:? life Graham might have been con
tfcßO-jsly of the Cabinet. His ability and
JaJttfuir.pps to duty, his prasp of detail as well
t? of first principles, and above all his integ
rity and elevation above the -'•...•■; devices of
she politicians, srave him a hold on the House
Of Commons and on the nation which more self
«*k:r;jr p-iliriclans. such as Lord John Russell
tsi Polaierston, could not overlook. They saw
the: to er.list Graham a-s their supporter meant
£3 iTT.rnrr.pe accretion to their strength, both '.-..
?Erli£Tr:er.t and in the constituencies.
Xn:T.:t^. c tant3:ns the devotion to the service
c! bis country and the zeal .... which
charactfrized Sir James Graham, even a hasty
perusal of his letters is suffic ient to show that he
bbs no believer in popular | eminent as
taflerstood by Washington End L'r.coln. Th*»
jroverr.ment of England, which was his ideal,
tras something very different from government
ty the. p^ple. , Although he was not of the
tristocxacy, although even his baronetcy had
tet •■?* geaeration beliind it when it devolved
•cpor. hir::. he belonged both by Instinct and by
U.~l':y to the great governing class of England.
H* xras one of the largest land owners in the
Honse of Common?. It is true that his vast
esta:^ was ... somewhat ungenial
ccii infertile county of Cumb-t-rland and that
■Bben Graliarn undertook its management the
*ir.:!y was decidedly land poor; but by care
iui Rjperintendence and wise expenditures
SCelherby hetamc one of the mcn'el estates in
tht North of England, and it« owner, when he
Ssjped to draw up the reform bill and to repeal
:h- C r:, Laws which protected the farmer and
feaffiord. wa* a sincere t>eliever in the right of
fix land owr.ing classes to a preponderant share
~ Or.*- govemoent of the country.
Inly".;». when Bripht w;i.< urginsr upon the Lib
era] leaders of the Opposition to the government i
cf Lord Derby a. g>'ntfr«>:s extension of the
fcxnchis* both in boroush and county constitu
«r...>--. >:• in :■. viewed his proposals with alarm
£.::.: -• ; ugnance. Writing to Lord John Russrll
fa Ja.r:uii^y. 1ST«1», concerning t!ie \"iews of
Bright, be expresses strong distrust of his
*-feat radical colleague. "Bright has avowed his
psrj*ose," he -.-•■■ considers en heredl
ttry peerage, a landed aristocracy and an inde
]>eadeixt !:--:~t of Lords Inconsistent with lib
erty; and because the second chamber Is not
representative he s^ks to render the House of
Corr.-r.:< :r.< purely dtiiKx-ratic. to deprive land of
hi ::,:! • •. - there and to change that assembly
teto a mere creature of numbers, apart from
pttjpertj' and Intelligence.*" Idra* like these tre
aot :. ■,■ considered very revolutionary, but to
Graham ; , •.■-<•,•.<.>;»! \-> treat manhood as the
basis of r- presentation instead of property was
not •.:.':;. distasteful but alarming, a^ alarming
ltd i-~ subversive of the constitution as the
*"•'-" recurring agination for secret voting and
—^ ballot. He was favorable to further reform,
tat he ; . ;• : | ack with afr<=-ttion to the rin
cjl?s (:n which the act of ISTE! was based.
"Our %iev, s." he writes, in the same letttr to
Hi^fc- ;:, *••,-. -t-r<- v. i«i*-lj different when we framed
&c measure of l*-wi!. \\V Ijast-d the repr«-seiua-
<<•-. property and intelligence, and carefully |
Baistained the !'al;;nc»- of power, s<< blending
2» See .■•.- of land and numbers in the elec
»kn of the representative body that collision
tith ::.> Crown and an independent ! ' is* of
I*rcs ciight be avoided, it wu a question of
fc*lsr:'»- and proportions."
At iio time since tie uniun v. itli Scotland, in
I<"7, v.t-rr- «<-otT!Hh affairs more to the front
la the Mr c t tv.o years of Graham's tenure
tf tin Home Office. The vexed question of
**■'-: ••:,.---:.- -.\ ; ,< r*-jiding the Established Presby
tejjuj Church, and upon Graham rested much
*$ the reEponslbiliy for the gre3t disruption of
I&R. ahen more than half of the ministers of
deluding; almost all the learning: and
"**esd. left th^ir churches and manses for con
■aenoe !-...< f,r.'i without endowments or re
••rrc^s RFtabllEhed the Free Church. Ever
sV> the dajs of John Knox the principle of
fca»crati< ■■■.■■■ rherishc-d In
°* Boott»h Church: but such a principle was
Wr.-. >.; James Graham's ken. It was the
"-'■ " those la authority to care for the people.
fcid :., ;.. „ lh<J people to choose f>ir tliemKelves
*''Uia :.>,,« been a pross dereliction of duty.
"■-*»- of my most important and B&cred duties."
THE RENOWNED .
'•PJzQUIX" CORSET.
DAQUIN
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he wrote to the moderator of the General As
sembly, "is the distribution of the Church
patronage of the Crown in Scotland. I am re
solved absolutely to renounce this patronage a*
a source or political Influence. My wish is to
rive to each vacant parish an Evangelical min
ister whose preaching may be jailed to hi* hear
ers, whose life and conversation shall be pure
and- whose demeanor may edify his neigh
bors, and win them to the paths of piety and
peace." And about a month later he wrote: "I
«m anxious that the objections of the people
should be freely stated and fully considered and
that the judgment should rest with the eccle
siastical authorities. But the admission of
popular flection in the choice of ministers ap
pear* to me dangerous and derogatory to the
dignity and independence of the sacred calling."
Unfortunately, Graham had to deal with stiff
necked and unamenable Scots, who felt that
they were fighting for principle, and the firm
adherence of both parties to what they con
sidered the line of duty brought about the
rupture from which the Established Church ha*
scarcely recovered after the lapse of sixty-five
years.
In Ireland. Graham's government was the gov
ernment of a subject country by foreigners.
This alien government was as benevolent and
as efficient as good faith and ability, at a dis
tance, could make it. All through the dreadful
famine years of 1845 and IMC he worked in
defatigably for the salvation of the Irish, and
if there was a complete failure to win their con
fidence or conciliate their affections it was due
rather to the system and to long traditions of
enmity than to shortcomings on the part of the
English Home Secretary. Perhaps the greatest
! sen-ice rendered to England by Sir James Gra
ham was his remodelling of the Admiralty De
partment during his first tenure of Cabinet of
fice. In ISoO-'32— a reform which made the Ad
miralty the model government department and
which paved the way for a complete change in
government finance and bookkeeping. When
Graham became First Lord of the Admiralty, in i
1830, he found that the departments submitted
no balance sheets or statements of account to
Parliament and that the annual votes granting
appropriations for the navy were spent with
out regard to the particular purpose for which
they were voted. At his instance an act was
passed requiring the Admiralty to present an
annual account of audited naval expenditure;
and for over thirty years— the reform of
the departments. In 1 SCO— the Admiralty re
mained the only branch of the government ser- |
vice conducted on a business basis j
Sir Charles Stuart Parker, who has edited j
these volumes, had already made this period of '
English politics his own when he published the :
life of Sir Robert Peel. Xo man living is better
equipped so far as concerns an Intimate Imowl- i
edge of all the moves in the game of politics j
during the reign of William IV and the first j
half of that of Queen Victoria. Perhaps his j
knowledge is too complete and extensive to i
make him an ideal writer or editor for the gen- j
eral public. He takes for granted that his j
reader* are almost as well versed in English
affairs as himself, and especially he takes for ]
granted that no reader of the Graham letters i
has failed to become acquainted with the lives I
of English statesmen of the nineteenth century \
which have previously been published. For a j
complete understanding of the book, without j
further elucidation than Is given by Sir Charles
Stuart Parker, a reading of at least the lives of \
Peel, Russell. Palmer.«=ton. Durham and Glad- ■
stone, besides an excellent knowledge of general
hlstorj't Is necessary. But to those who have {
such a preparation the present work will be a j
most welcome addition to their sources of j
knowledge, and to their understanding of the I
Intricate moves In the game of politics in which i
the chief players were Grey, Russell, Palmers
ton. Peel. Derby and Melbourne.
AX ARTISTIC REVOLITIOX.
Reviving the Technique of the Old
Masters in Paris.
Paris, April 20.
Paris I=> the home of artistic revolutions
Twenty years ago the impressionists were
laughed to score, and their canvases were ut
terly unsalable. It is related of one of the
most Illustrious at ''■ •■::.. whose landscapes
easily fetch nowadays from $3,000 to J5.000
apiere. that be was then living on the stray
potatoes gleaned from the fields end abandoned
by the p-asants in the picturesque Norman
countryside now chi*-fiy famous fur the magnifi
cent studio, with its unrivalled garden, which
that same artist has since built. Paris, where
impressionism first raised Its aggressive head, is
now giving 1 birth to the first serious reaction
against its principles. It to a painter of high
abilltirs. whose knowledge of his craft is sor
rowfully admitted even by those whom he most
severely condemns, v, ho is the leader of this
new movement. Louis Anquetin. a member of
the Societe dcs Beaux Arts, which was formed
by the dissident exhibitors at the Old Salon, and
called forth the creation of the New Salon, is
the painter who ha« taken in hand the difficult
task of reviving the ancient technique of paint
s::g. which he maintains has been completely
lost sight of in France since the close of the
eipht»-enih century.
For ,«u!i]*> yearn Louis Anquetln has stood
alone in this ■ • art He had against him not
only tlie painters of the official school, such as
L-efebvre. Bougut-fau and DetaUle Besnard,
Jacques Blanche. Thauiow and Raffaeili, who
without being, strictly • .-king. impressionists,
have nevertheless sought to react against the
classical formula* of the Ecole dcs Beaux Arts.
have also looked at him askance. If he
was in the right, they were apparently in the ;
wrong Anquetln preferred to be right with
Rubens, Franz Hals. Goya and Velasquez than j
with the most authoritative professors of mod
ern painting, lie does not dispute their intelli
gence, their genius, even, but holds that they j
are not masters of the medium of paint. They
are Incapable of accomplishing what they set
out to do. They do not even make ■ right be- j
ginning.
He explains his theory upon the technique of j
painting as understood to-day, compared with i
♦hat of the old masters. In the following fash-
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NEW-YORK DULY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. 1008
j ion. In the first place, he declares, there never
i was but one technique of painting, until David,
| famous in the last years of Louis XVl's reign
and during the First Empire, inspired by neo-
Greek ideas, sought to introduce Into painting
what was proper only to sculpture. He had
observed that the art of painting In France had
toot all its old dignity. It had become an
J "amiable art," frivolous and often licentious in
i its inspiration, and he net about to purify it
To achieve this he sacrificed color to form. He
started a formidable reaction against all the
old color charm of the eighteenth century, on the
ground that it was lacking In seriousness. But
by banishing all the charm— all the "ragout" as
Anquetin picturesquely puts it— of the Ftago
nar^s. Bouchers, Watteaus and Paters, who were
their immediate predecessors, David and his
disciples lost the resources of technique with
which that "ragout" had been composed. From
David to Ingres and onward tt» the modern
official school of French painting was an un
swerving progression on the lines laid down by
David. Then came another reaction. The dull
bituminous effects of the official school were
condemned, and quite rightly, by a number of
young painters, who. thinking they had dis
covered something new by the introduction of
clear tones and whites, founded Impressionism.
But this was merely "the stroke of a sword in
the water." The reverse of a mistake is not
necessarily an act of wisdom. It is no good
( pulling down an ugly building if you then pro
; ceed to erect something much more hideous In
its stead. The Impressionist reaction was like
a useless revolution which replaces bad govern
'■, mont by anarchy.
The Impressionists are inferior to David. The
portrait of lime. Rt-camier. bad as It is, is su
perior to "La' Belle Olympia." if Manet's pict
ure had been painted by Fragonard it would
have had. In addition to superior drawing, the
true "ragout" of painting. Anquetin having been
at the commencement of his career a great ad
mirer of Manet's, the reason* for his change of
opinion are interesting, for they contain In a
nutshell his whole theory of technique. Manet,
J he points out. began by reacting against the
j official school of which such a painter as Bonnat
j is a notable adherent. But a man who cannot
manipulate his own medium exactly in accord
ance with his wish Is the victim of his defi
ciencies. Manet hides under an appearance of
strength, great poverty of "metier" and of
knowledge. The poverty consists In this; When.
for Instance, he wants to paint an eye, to fix It
energetically In a face. Instead of painting the
eyelid with Its shadow, the Iris, the white, the
eye. In fact, In Its ensemble, and with proper
and natural construction, as the old masters in
variably did, he splashes a blob of paint upon
his canvas which resembles a trouser button;
and the same with the mouth and the rest of
the features. He thought that he could gain
strength of expression by gross transpositions of
nature. But grossness is not strength, and this
weakness, this impotence, of Manet's was due to
his ambition to paint "dv coup," with one stroke
of the brush, convinced that this was the es
sence of the technique, the basis of the method
practised by Velasquez, Franz Hals. Goya and
other great masters. One might think f=o, too,
if one did not know the cards. The whole secret
of the technique of the old masters lay in the
fact that so far from painting "dv coup" with
one stroke, they decomposed their work.
Franz Hals, for Instance, began by a very
rapid and brutal preparation. To paint a finger
he took his brush, dipped In white paint,
crushed it at the knuckle of the first int, ran
it rapidly along the first joint, crushed It again
at the second knuckle of the second Joint, and
ran It with equal rapidity along the second
Joint to the tip of the finger, where he was still
able to give the impression of the nail by the
fashion In which he manipulated his brush at
that point. That was one "temps." one move
ment. He had constructed the "ossature,* 1 or
approximate skeleton, us it were, of the finger.
Then, with a second "temps," a second move
ment, be dressed, so to speak, this preparation
With liquid colors, and completely finished his
work. Manet's mistake consisted in believing
that one movement could be made to suffice in- I
stead of Two. When be painted, for Instance, J
the hand of the young man which Is hanging !
over the back of the chair in "Le dejeuner chez !
Lathulle," he painted and repainted it a dozen
times at least, hoping to get it right at the last |
attempt, which, however, did not bring him I
much nearer to the effect he was aiming at than j
at the beginning. Franz Hals's one-movement j
painting was in the preparation, the "dessbus," '
and he finished with glares. Paint Is a paste, i
and to manipulate paste at one stroke, with the I
needed suppleness, is Impossible. The charac- i
teristic of the old method, the only true one,
was transparency, and fluidity obtained by the
use of liquid colors. Modern painting Is en
tirely opaque because the painter employs only,
one movement and because hia medium is uni
form paste The true technique consists In
the decomposition of the paste from below with j
transparent liquids above. The fact that the
English eighteenth century school was so good |
is due to the fact that it was not until after
Lawrence's death that English painting became
corrupted by French Influences, c. I. B.
RED (ROSS IX CRUSADE.
i Taft Tells of Proposed Fight
Against Tuberculosis.
Anortier great force has been added to the fight
j against tuberculosis, the Red Cross from now on
', deciding to take part in the preventive measures
! being adopted all over the civilized world. To en
courage the move of the Red Cross Mrs. Russell
: Sa^e cave j; .-.. to start the work. It will be
spent in determining the best way to co-operate
with other similar lies to carry on the work
What the Red Cross will do was outlined yester
day by Secretary Taft. who is president of the
American National Red Cross, at ehe annual meet-
Ing In the Waldorf >■: the New York State branch,
at which the president of th.- branch. "William Cary
Sanger, presided. In speaking of the new field
taken up by the Red Cross Mr. Taft said:
Though at times In this country we have had In
our Southern States yellow fever epidemics, we
have generally been free from the pr^at pestilences
that have destroyed so many of the human race In
other lands. Still we, '- 1 company with all the other
countries of the world, make a yearly sacrifice to
what has been called '.'the ■-■■ it white plague." One
hundred and fifty thousand persona die annually in
th» United States from tuberculosis. The Bed Cross
Conference in London last June voted that this
international organization should <!o its share In
the all Important campaign Bjralnst this Insidious
pestilence — the German Red Cross having set an
example in the work it has accomplished along
this line. Alrea'ly our own Re<l Cross lms bepun
•■. work of co-cperating with th- campaign In the
Knited States, and in several localities plans art
bolriK developed to establish Red Cross day camps
for consumptives Before n»'xt Christmas the Red
Cross will place on sale ■ specially designed Christ
mas stamp for the benefit of the tuberculosis work
In the respective states, a stamp that will bear on
Its fare a "Merry Christmas" to more thai those
Whose Christmas" letter or Rift It decorates.
Mr. Taft also called attention to the need of ■
big emergency fund for the Red Cross. Efforts have
been made to rai*e this by memberships costing $1
a year. '•When a Kreat disaster comes the Red
Cross could raise millions, but the opportunity to
give small sums does not seem to be. attractive."
said Mi Taft. "In other countries the Red Cro3s
organizations nave big funds, raised by such small
contributions, b\. we cannot do it in this country,
it would appear. If we could burn down a city
every now and then, we would soon have all the
money we need, but that would be against the
Constitution."
In opening the mooting Colonel William Cary
SanfrT read this message from President Roost
\eit: '
I wish to send a special word of greeting: to
the New York State branch of the American N.i -
tional Red Cross. This is an organisation which
should X receive the heartiest «up;.ort of every
American. We should not let our people Uk be
hind in doing ivhit la really an international Uuli'.
ARcnrrrrTS' big prize
McKim, Mead & White's Design for
City Building Favored.
Kirn. Mead & White have submitted the winning
design for the proposed municipal office building to
cost $7,000,000 and to sta-nd on the plot bounded by
Park Row. Tryon Row, Centre street and Duane
street. The jury of architects selected by all the
competing architects yesterday reported to the
Mayor that the design by McKlm. Mead & White
was the most desirable. The jury was composed of
Messrs. Klmball, Boring and Day. Under the terms
of the competition the award of the jury is a rec
ommendation. The plans will go to Chief Engineer
Ingersoll of the Bridge Department and Chief
Engineer Seaman cf the Public Service Commis
sion. These officials have Jurisdiction because th«j
two lower floors of the proposed building will in
volve Important features of the transportation prob
lem.
Everything is pleasing to the city officials about
the McKim. Mead & White design save the facade
of the building, which is to be twenty-three stories
high, following French Renaissance in general effect.
The aim of the successful architects was to provide
a floor plan with the best possible arrangement of
office room and elevator service. The successful
plan makes practically all of the rooms outside
ones, with an abundance of light and air. There
will be no interior court.
According to the requisitions for space turned in
by the heads of departments when the plans for
a municipal office building were first discussed, the
city's offices, with the exception of the City Hall,
Police, Fire and Health departments and the Hall
of Records, occupy floor space equivalent to the
area in eleven stories of the proposed new building.
This leaves ten floors for the growth of the city's
office needs and, in a pinch, will give the Supremo
Court room pending the building of a courthouse
on the Union Square site. The unused offices can
be rented to private interests.
Mayor McCk-llan and Controller iletz estimate
that by housing all the city government offices in
one building: tv cost not more than $7,000,000 there
will be a saving in rentals of nearly J500.U00 a year,
beside providing room for the city's needs for
twenty years to come.
The formal award of first prize to the successful
architects will be made in two or three days, after
which all of the desljnis— about a dozen in all—
will be placed on exhibition.
ARMY. AND NAVY NEWS.
Recommend Latitude in Means of
Propulsion for Ships.
[From The Tribune Bureau.]
Washington. April 28.
NAVY ALERT TO PROGRESS.— It will be nec
essary for the Navy Department to obtain legisla
tion to meet possible changes In the propelling
mechanism of ships of war. la view of the present
ana prospective developments of internal combus
tion engines and of the progrVea made in kindred
lines of Invention, It is believed that the Navy De
partment should have authority to utilize in naval
vessels propelling machinery of any character that
may be found most economical and efficient and
that it should rot. by the language of appropria
tions, be limited to the use of machinery propelled
by steam. It is recommended that in pending and
future acts making appropriations for naval ves
sels a clause to the following purport be inserted:
Provided, that the use of the words •team ma
ehlnery as contained in this act shall not hereafter
be construed as limiting the authority of the Be -
retary of the Navy with respect to the character
of propelling machinery for naval vessels, but that
any provision made by this act or otherwise for
the installation of steam machinery for the propul
sion of vessels «=i.all !■• construed as extending to
any method of propulsion which may, after thor
ough Investigation, in the judgment of the Secre
tary of the Navy, be for the nest interests of the
government.
This recommendation is made at the instance of
the board of construction, of which Rear Admiral
G. A. Converse is president, and of which the engi
neer in chief, the chief constructor, the chief of the
bureau of ordnance and the chief of the bureau
of equipment a: members.
ORDERS ISJ» TT ED The following orders have
:■• . issued:
ARMY
Captain LOUIS F. OARRARD, Jr.. quartermaster, from
Mobile to Fort Morgan.
Major HAl'.l'.y 1.. BAIIJ3Y, 2d Infantry. from Boston
to Kort Thomas.
Maw HKXKV C. KISHER. surgeon, from Fort Logan
to Columbus Barracks, vice -■■• I : HENRI 1.
RAYMOND, surgeon, to Fort Sam Houston
Captain WILLIAM K. VOSI assistant Burgeon, from
Columbus Barracks, to Port Blorum trice < 'attain
LEON T. LEWALD, assistant Bur ß iH>n, to Columbus
Captauf'oEOßGE H. R. QOSMAN assistant surgeon,
from Columbus Barracks to Fort Morgan E . D -, „
Leaves of absence: First Lteu>«-naiit ROBERI M.
DAN FORD sth Field Artillery, three months;
First Lieutenant WILLIAM A. KENT signal corps
(22d Infantry i. one month, fifteen day» .
NAVY.
Commander H. HALL, from Bath To naval station.
Commander J. L. GX>W continue Inspection duty,
I.leiiti"!ani' Commander .1 R. P. PRINGLE, detached
the Maine home, await orders
Lieutenant T. T. CRAVEN, detached the Kentucky;
detailed a!J ob staff commander 4th Division, _'<i
Squadron Atlantic fleet.
I leutenant )c c DAVIS detached the Georgia to
first submarine n..tii!a and command the Grampus
when commissioned.
Ensign <.;. .■ PEGRAM. detached the Porpoise, con
tinue naval hospital. New York
Ensign R K. KI'KiS. trum naval hospital. Mare Tslan,,»
to naval hospital. New Fort Lyon.
MOVEMENTS OF I W"ARSiIIP3.--The following
movements* of vessels have been reported to the
Xavy Department:
ARRIVED
April 25— The Montgomery and the Vlx--n, a; League
Island
April 27 — The Nebraska, at Port Angeles; the L<-
Molnes at Guantanamo aiul target grounds: the
California and tiie South Dakota, at Bremerton
the Aileen. at navy yard. New York; the Buffalo,
at San Francisco; the I'ulgoa. at Mare i-, .<;..:. the
Deliver end the Concord, at Shanghai.
April 28 — The Rainbow and the Helena, at Shanghai;
the Padurah. at Curacao.
SAILED.
April — The Nero, from Bradford for New Orleans.
April 'JO — The Nebraska, from Bremerton for Port
An*el»».
April »7 — i!« > Do Koines, from Uuantanamo for tar
get grounds: the Ne.NrasJca. from Port Angeles for
San Francisco; the Prairie, from Hampton Hoads
far Charleston: the California and tile South I>a
k"ta. from Seattle for Bremerton the fluffald.
from Mare Island for San Francisco, thence to
Panama
The Hirmlnifham. ordered from Boston to Ouantanamo
for "shaking down" cruise: the North Carolina
delivered lo government, April 27, navy yard,
Norfolk.
FRITZ! SCHEFF ASKS FOR DIVORCE.
Friederlcke Anna yon FJardeleben. known on the
stage us Frltzi Scbeff, through Nathan Rurkan,
her counsel, asked Justice McCa.ll, in the Suprem*
Court, yesterday, to confirm the report of Edmond
E. Wise, in which the referee found that she is
entitled to a decree of absolute divorce from Fred
erick Wilhelm Quatave Carl yon Bardeleben. Jus- i
tice McCall reserved decision.
HOTEL PLAZA TO HAVE A BANK.
A trust company will soon l>e established in the
liojtel Plaza with a capital of $1,000,000. The new I
Institution will be- known as the Plaza Trust Com- !
pany of New York and will be open day and |
nlffht. William C Famsworth, of Harrlsburg. will j
be the president. The other officers ill be J. B.
Large and David M Mlnzeshelraer. vicf*-president3;
E. K. Wheeler, retar ; G. M. Minrpsh»lmer,
treasurer; Mark Potter, trust officer. j
The company will occupy offices on the ground
floor of the hotel on the :*!:: *!: ktrpet side and will ,
bepin to do ...... soon after May 1. It m said
that others of the large hotels will copy the night ;
a : , , 1 ,]•. . bank Idea In the near future.
NORTHFIELD CONFERENCE.
The second Women'! Home Mission Conference
for the East will be held at Northfleld. Mass.. from
July 16 to July 20, inclusive. The mornings will •
begin with Bible etudy. conducted by the Rev. J. ;
Holden, rector of 81 Paul*, Portnu«n Square, Lon- |
don. Then there will be talks by missionaries from j
various fields, followed by .1 general confere-nce j
hour.
The afternoons, in accordance with Northfleid '
cuetom, will he devoted '<> rerreatlon and re* At
; o'clock there will he the usual vesper hour on
Round Top. Among the speakers already secured j
are Mrs. Alfred Page, on "Work Among the Ind- I
ian*'; Miss Lydiu A. Hay.*, on •'Alaska"; .Mrs.
May Leonard Woodruff, on "Porto Rico," and Pro- j
fes-«iir Edward A. Steiner, author of "On the Trail i
of the Immigrant."
A cordial invitation is extended to all who an |
Interested in home missions, men as well us ,
women to attend this conference, and special rail- |
road rates have been secured. The anai»sfiii«>nt!i i
are in charge of. a committee of women, of which ]
Mrs. George W. Colenian, So. C 7 West Brookline j
street. Boston, !s chairman, and Mrs. James i.. I
Hill. No. i^ Uafayetie street, Salem, Mass, sec- !
rrtary.
H. Jaeckel & Sons,
Furriers and Importers
Formerly 37 Union Square, West
Are Now Located in the New
Jaeckel Building, 16, 18 and
20 West 32nd Street, Near
Fifth Avenue.
A prominent feature of this establishment is a Cold
Dry Air Storage I'Mant on the premises for the care
of furs and delicate fabrics. All poods cleaned by a
system of vacuum and compressed air.
Telephone f>46o Madison Square.
Of Interest
to XOomen.
TAFT THE BRIDEGROOM
Judge Dike's Biblienl Flight Evokes
Z^nerpeeted Response.
Judge Norman S. Dike, of Brooklyn, has a btttSf
idea to-day than he had yesterday whom the Re
publican party will nominate for President of the
United Sates at the coming convention. The Judge
was a giiest at the annual luncheon of the Wom
an's Republican Association of th« State of New
York, at Delmonico"s, yesterday, and af!°r hnMEh
eon he talked to hi? entertainers about Presi l»ntia'.
possibilities. He seemed to think the mind of mar.
quite incompetent to make any predictions as to
the ncfion of the convention, but he had rot reck
oned with the mind of woman. After speaking of
the (to him) impenetrable veil which hides r.-.e
immediate future, he said:
"Here you wait like a brMe adorned for the
bridegroom, but can any of you tell me whom ha
will be*"
He evidently did sot expect any answer. b-:t
<-;.-ar and nnbesitatinK from the hart: sf the room.
came the reply;
"Taft."
The Judge apparently concluded that further re
marks on his part were not required, and sat
down.
In the morning the annual meeting was held, and
Mrs. Cornelia ."Stewart Robinson, chairman el the
committee to study the encroachments el socialism,
appealed to the women to investigate this subject,
so that they might not be "led away, as wom°n
are prone to be. by their sympathies.'' Mrs. Fred
erick Church told of having seen at a socialist
thtatre a play intended tor presentation In social
ist Sunday schools.
"Its moral was," she said, "that stealing Is not
stealing. Because all wealth Le!ong9 to the work
ers, and that is what is being taught in the social
• Sunday schools which are springing up all over
the country."
BLACK EYE FOR "ISMS."
i Clubwomen Settle Modern Problems in Two
Hours.
Socialism, anarchism, international marriage*,
universal peace, the future of the Catted States
j and a few similar matter! were thrashed out at a
1 m«etins of the Society for Political Stud] at trie
I Hotel Astor yesterday afternoon, A mfmbfr «ho
! was a socialist mhl didn't krow it bad the r!*ht
I label pinned on ber by a socialist wno kn*-w.
; "Wealth: It* I'se, Irs Abuse, Its PossiblUUea,"
! was the subject of the paper of the day. which
! was r*ud by Mrs. Emma Eeckwtthi Mr". B*-ck
| with thought this country !n rather a bad way t>e
cause so much of it.* business Is done on credit.
"Credit," she explained parenthetically. ' 'i.« notes,
| you know, certificate?, and things DIM tnar."
The audience nodded.
•'One of the worst abuses of wealth." Mrs Beck
1 with said, "la tlsls « --.--■•.•-. •»? money for
i foreign title* that Is going on. It Is i!t*cuallßg an.l
i humiliating.
"A Kuud deal of our money Is tent out of the
i country by the Bridgets and Gretchens and Selmas
i and the rest, who ship all their savings to their
J homes In the Old World, and by Italian? who corns
; over here and scrape together everything they can
: and then sail for Italy. We Americans are imp
porting the broken down royal nobodies of Europe,
j and when one of them cornea over hero « lot more
! money is spent to feast him."
Then Mrs. Beckwith made a suggestion, bor
rowed, she confessed, from a man. "People dying
poss»-ss>>d of fortunes." she said, "should not be
allowed to dispose by will of more than Q0.000.000^
I think it would be better to say 5.000.00 Q. The
rest should go to th- state. I think then should
bo such a law; though I want It understood." she
added, "that I am no socialist or anarchist or any
thing 1 of that sort."
"Oh, yes. the speaker in ■ socialist," said lira
Klizabeth Chambers. sua\ely. "The idea of limiting
the fortune to be held by any one man la one of
the cardinal principles of socialism. She's a social
ist; It doesn't matter what she rails herself."
"A rose by any other name," murmured the so
ciety.
lira Sallie M Cory said abe believed tTiis
country had something terrible ahead of — "abject
poverty for the multitude, or » revolution. You've
been talking about the amount of money per cap
ita In this country." she added. "When nine-tenths
of the wealth is owned by a very small percentage
of the population. I don't think you. can make any
fair 'p*r capita' estimate. This country doesn't
reallz? what an awful future hi before It. Tha
money is in the hand* of a few, who can't spend
half their Incomes, and co the money goes back la
hoarded wealth."
A woman in bin murmured that she didn't be
lieve th* United States was ■.•..* lots any such
awful future Ilka what Mrs. Cory was Talking
about. "Why," she added, enthusiastically, "the
rich do a great deal for Charity. They ppend vast
sums for charity that w« don't hear anything
about."
'I think we hear about their charities." cried Mrs.
Chambers. "I don't think there's much th«"y give
that we don't hear about. And 1 don like the
idea of these hospital! and 'homes' The working
people ought to be fairly paid, so they wouldn't
have lo accept charity."
A wi mas in a red hat asserted that great wealth
was all right if honestly made.
Mrs. Cory and Mrs. Chambers sniffed. "Honest
ly:" said Mr*. Cory. "And I want to say." she
went r>n. "that when the richest man— probably—
in the world can't find anything better to do with
his money than start .1 vivisection farm. it's time
the rich were looked attei "
JgPQgfcA**? smsT^ --AT 9 I REQUtRISO SO CARRIAGE TO IMB
ZwU mr lW39mMn GifM bath-mouses, bei.sq directly
,C«M*«y, ' OPPOSiTE
*** I*' THE KAISERHOF ~WI
FIRST. LEADING AND I RESIDENCE OP AMERICA*
LARCKBT HOTEL | ARISTOCRACY.
R. Habcrland. Proprietor. Pension: Room and full board from
Art Exhibitions and Sales.
THIS WEDNESDAY and To-morrow Thursday).
Friday and Saturday
AFTERNOONS AT 2:30 O'CLOCK
# Fifth THE
Fifth Aye.
Art Galleries
"SILO BCTILDIXG."
546 Fifth A>e..
Cor. 45th St.
" Mr. Jaow« P. Silo. Auitiwfr
The
Lehne Antique Co.'s
n»w Tork. Baltimore. Rotterdam. uaan -
Collection
Consisting of
Rare Examples of English and Colonial
Furniture, Plat?, Potteries. Glass, Histori
cal China, etc.
Original works fey Chippendale,
Sheraton and Hepplewhite.
EVERY PIECE BILL BE
POSITIVELY IKAMEF.D
A* CATALOGUED.
A' the romjran.T are abandoning their New Tork
Galleries at >... Ml Fifth \\e. ami their narrhon<iei
at ■ E. iHth and 109 E. .'Tfh -: their entire eoa
rent« nil! be »old übaolutrly without restriction or
rfwne.
ON EXHIBITION TNTII. SALE.
TO SHELVE MBS. GRANGES
But Bay State -Daughters" Will Fight for
Their Presidential Candidate.
The first skirmish in the fisht between Massachu
setts and .New York for th<» presidency of th*
General Society of the Daughters of the Revolu
tion, who are now in convention at the Waldorf-
Astoria, to. place yesterday afternoon, when thm
report of th» nominating committee was presented.
In .spite of th» unwritten law sgjafcist th - third
term Mi*. D. PhcentX Ingraham. of New York. «ai
nominated for the presidency, wall* Mrs. Alice M.
Granger, of Massachusetts, was earned for vice
prr-sitlerit. The latter was interpreted by tn«
Massachusetts delegates as a polite way of puttins
Mrs. Uraager and the Da;- State upon the shelf,
ami so the vote X,o accept the report of the nomi
nating committee was curried in spite of their
vigorous "noes.** Then :>ne of tht-ni arose and de
clined the nomination for Mr«. Granger. Mrs.
InKruham said ti.at if Mrs. Granger wished to
withdraw her name she should have done it t>efor»
the aeroplane** of the ncniinatir.?r comxnlttee'a re
port. Accordingly her name .«:::! stiintl.-* u^on tha
official ballot, but nevertheless 1: 1* *-xpe«-te<l that
the Massachusetts people will nc-.ii:::<t»- h-r for tfc*
presidency from t'..e floor to-day.
LESSONS FOR DRIVERS.
A nuniLer of the enthusiastic wuii^n friends of
the horse, ... - of -- Auxiliary of the Sooioty
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, are ar
ranging- fur a pr-rm;iner:t feature designed to in
struct drivers In the proper handling vT their
charges The i.lea is the outgrowth of the work
horse parade set fur May i>\ of which Mr\ Jamaa
i'p^yrr, of No. — "T M.i.ti.-^'ii avenue, is treasurer.
Miss K. M. Clark Is chairman »( th" committee
on young deft-nun-* and has organized seven boys*
clubs in different parts of the city, fur the purpoa*
of teach'ng the youngsters the proper treatment or
dumb animal*. !i is r.ow purposed to use SBB
clubhouses for lectures designed fur drivers.
Thomas McCarthy, manager »f the parade, baa
br»-n int.T-sted in the project, and wiii probably si
among those ---l-ored to j;iv»- the driv-rs tlie bene
fits of wide exp'-ri^nce.
"Not more tfuir: one out of every hundred teams o?
work hors*>s In thl.s city is harneysM properly,"
s;il<l Mr. McCarthy. In discussing :he objects of th*
course, which, naturally, i." to r><> frre. "Am a Ren
ewal observation, th«? inside rein* of two-horts
trains are either ti>o -lons or too short, and :a*s
defect is mvst hurtful to the horse. Theu. ton, U
is ofien in** CAM that the hanits ar.cl broaching ■*%
out of proportion t<> the nor.-*. Trie idea s»**rns to
be that any old piece of leather is good er.ouga to
use for harness.
"Wh»n we gf-t the coury of instruction started
we shall have a wooden horse as a working model,
and drivers will be shown by practical methods Just
how to apply harness and what sort to us*". Also
we sha!l have moving pictures, which wIH illustrate
the right end wrong methods in general use. By
this moar.s we horw to brirtt; about a great better
ment in the condition of th-- work ar.ima!.-* anil
ultimately produce widespread improvf-rr.ent in th«
breed."
COLONIAL DAMES HOLD EXHIBITION.
The Colonial I>arr.es of the State of New Yor'*
announce an exhibition oi eis;hte»nih century boos;
plates at Van Cortiandt House, in Van TtlawH
Park, to continue till Jun«> 1. The exhibition Is fre«
to tns public every day exempt Thursdays, wsssi
an entrance fee cf _. cents is charjfPd.
UEBIG COMPANY^
Extract of Beef
Wonderful for its economy and good*
ness. It is all pare condensed beef,
so condensed that it contains but a
small percentage of
moisture. The beef from
which one pound of it is
made would cost over
six dollars. A 2-oz. jar
will make 10 breakfast
cups of delicious, sus
tainins bouillon
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