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BODY AT KINGSTON ETEXTFIL TRIP VP RIVER Every City and Military Academy Honor First Governor. - -. ■:--•-• N. T-. May After a trip up the Hudson River from New York, through a hun dred miles or *■-> of the historic Hudson River terri tory which he had traversed many times in life. he Sxvsy of Governor George Clinton, which is to tot reburied in this city to-morrow, reached hero A board the X<"» - York Naval Reserve ship Wasp at s:* l o'clock this afternoon. The Wasp, which anchored off Kingston Point for the night, was con voyed by the dispatch boat Scorpion, the torpedo fronts Porter. Thornton. De Long and Tingey. the dispatch boat Hist and the submarines Cuttlefish S.i Viper. On board the Wasp were Lieutenant Governor Chanler. representing Governor Hughes; descendants of Governor Clinton and their per usal .--present Chaplain Roswell Randall Ho**, C S. X.: Benjamin M Brink, of Kingston. arc Adjutant General Nels-on H. Heniy. Off the Esopus Lighthouse the Wasp was met jiy the Cornell tug Rob. which carried S. D. Coy ieadall and his associate members of the Kingston citizens* committee. The committee was accom panied by Admiral Francis J. Higginson. U. S. N. ,i r ed) and Commander W. H. Webb. U. S. N. tretired). both of Kingston. Later the committee visited the other vessels of the flotilla and Mayor Ciane extended the freedom of the city to the officers. When the vessels dropped anchor off Kingston Point, the Vice-Presi «,-• s. salute of nineteen guns was fired from the jbore by a. detachment of the M Battery and an swered from the. Wasp. The Wasp and flotilla will remain at anchor until to-morrow a!;ernoor.. when Governor Clinton's bofiy will be brought ashore and buried in the First Irjtch Church >ard. Throughout the entire trip from New York salutes ■were r.red from various points. Each city along taa route fired its salute to the passing fleet, and a Vice-President's salute was also fired from West Point Military Academy, whose existence to-day is attributed to the sagacity of Clinton. IK SYMPATHY WITH MOVEMENT. Governor Favors Efforts to Suppress Bovine Tuberculosis. Albany. May 29.— Governor Hughes expressed him**!? to-day as being in entire sympathy with the State Department of Agriculture in its efforts to suppress bovine tuberculosis. Commissioner Ptarsor:, of the State- Department of Agriculture, ana Assemblyman Lansing, of Rensselaer, have bass. in conference with the Governor, and have received assurances that he it anxious to do all be can to provide the department with sufficient * .- .- for this work and for the proper compensa tive of owners of condemned cattle. 7:.» Governor made it plain that, in disapproving a b2l of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture designed to facilitate the work of the department, he acted largely on the request of the legislative cerr-mittee of the State Grange, •which, through its chairman, addressed a letter to him. declaring that -.-- measure in its final form did not meet •with its approval, and asking him to veto it, that certain administrative features of the bill appeared ■to . ■ objectionable, and that, even if it became a. law, the amount available would be entirely in- ES&cie&t to meet the increased payments which would be required under the provisions of this rne&sure. Commissioner Pearson i!« now at work on a bill which. it is understood, will be drafted to as to meet the views of the Governor, legislative leaders, the Btate Department of Agriculture and the farming interests generally. CALLS BINGHAM "BLATHERSKITE" Controller Metz Incensed Over Criticism of Chief Engineer. Controller Metr ha<9 a few more things to say yest'Tday about Commissioner Bmgham's criticism cf Chief Engineer Withington of the Department of Finance in connection with the engineers refusal IS agree to all the Police Department plans for new atataaa houses. He said that if he had his way Mr. mtßiasjTon would sue Commissioner Bingha.-n Ear libel and defamation at character, and force a retraction of Commissioner Bingham's statement that he was a "political engineer." 'It's as outrage on every city employe," said the Controller, hotly. "Here is a man who. in twenty two years of faithful service in the department has worked tip from a clerkship to chief engineer, sub let to an attack like that from any blatherskite. "What incentive is there for such a man to do his <Juty? I, or the head of any department, can af ford IS ignore such an attack, but Withington Cinnot and should not. He has saved the city tens <' thousands of dollars time and again, and he fhoula be protected from such an attack. I hope he will bring suit, and I will stand back of him if he does to." HOCK DRILLING RACE AT GAEDEN. Mining Exhibition Attracts Crowd to Look Over Ores and Machinery. Tl-.* lr.t«rr.at!ofial Mining Exposition, which was hay opened in Madison Square Garden on Mon day r.igfct. was finally opened last night, with the Nevada Stai* exhibit, which caused the delay by UUag an unscheduled trip to New Orleans, instead of coming her*. There was a large crowd to look ever tb€ Bpectoctu of ores and exhibitions of min ir.e methods. Mines in Nevada. Montana. Michi gan. Alaska, Brazil and Mexico were represented, and there will b- more in line to-<lay and Monday. a- • '. ■ r to the r".an<iiepm< l iit. Interert !ast r.ighT r*mred largely in the rock Crillirig contest. This consists of a struggle be twfen tesxsx <>f two rn*n to see which can drill the C<**,**\ hole in thirty minutes. Or.* man wields the han:ir..-r for thirty sKoads. while the other holds ... and th»-n the men change about. This char.g*. is rr-ade irltlwat the loss of ■ blow. and. ■rfatte it sounds raFy. the- exhaustion of the men after drilling through • •.., or twenty inches of solid rotk If *>as-y to understand when one has patched the performance. The show arfll last three •reck* doetog on Jure 2<>. A full model of under grnunfl workings in a copper mine will be com lOetci to-day. NEW "MERRY WIDOW" COMING. A -r.. "Merry Widow" will come to town to-day lo the pet*on *«f Fra deal M. Miller, of Vienna. •*9 or:g:r.ate - the chief character in Mr. Lehar'a Cheetfnl operettaJ ■be has Just closed a lone an.i tmxxstul fctison In Vienna, and comes here at the aviation of Henry W. Savage. Mr. Savage wit ««£?<: her performance during the eumm*r of IW. icfi icad* her a ■attcrfeW offer that Fhe promised to icoept m torn M she had acquired a talking kaawlcoce of EngJi^b. £« c will arrive her- to-day «« tfce French liner I* Provenc*. and may t>e bcasfl at the New Amsterdam Theatre during the — bO of July. DATE SET FOR M'INTYRE TRIAL. ?tfC« Foner in am Court of General Sewlone Kaerta, »« June 11 for the trlel of Thomas A. IWntvre. the indicts head of T. A. Mdntyre . Co.. «rf r^org« C HW. « Syr-cu^. another atabfr -.r tbc trio. Five indictment* for grand ■rot bave been found Bfjafaal them. Arthur C Train. A^lttant District Attorney, who bM eba^. cf the tmmm for us office. ■••f*2? io bring them to an early trial- Oeorpe^ *~ ***}*• tfl^OttMl ,or Ryan, objected to •****£*•£ io lose 10. mm Mclntyr^ had reserved the r.glu to char J£ t his pin of not guilty before that date-. COLONEL SNELL'S WILL SET ASIDE. MMM. ill.. May » -The jury in J**-"-"*^! « the Boel] will me brought In a veraict early ■*« t+ «*t,in P ad, .be win of Colonel Thomas Sn«l . * WiHonaire. Th« jury declared that Colon* fin cH -^ of üßida mind. Th, will " as cont«ied by I | M| , sor. who m«« rut ,,°V' * waulty of pi II w« proved to the J^**{ C010r,.! «r,,i; -« 1,-r^ne over «me». to *~« ral £ •US© h* gave large amount* of "i o "**' and lrOm «BGO> hi received i.aeEion»ie letters. SHOWERS IX TACOMA. S omen-hat Mar Festivities — Memo rial Day Parade To-day. Taconis. Wash . May 23-Acting Rear Admiral Richard Walnwright. commanding the second tt vision of the Atlantic battleship fleet, raised his blue pennant, with its two white stars, over his flagship, the Georgia, to-day, and was saluted with thirteen guns. He will be fully Invested with the honor and dimity of a roar admiral in \he course of a few weeks. Frequent showers to-day somewhat marred the pleasure of officer?, men and visitors ashore, but the scheduled entertainments MM successfully car ried out. The memorial celebration to-morrow will be the feature of the visit of the warships at this port. Rear Admiral WainwrigM will land twelve hun dred sailors and marines for the parade, which will •""insist of four divisions, cotvposed. in addition to the naval force, c-f veteran? of the Grand Army, militia and fraternal organizations. The visiting naval officers were guests of honor at a reception given to-night by the Commercial Club of Tacoma. Eureka. Cal.. May 29 —Officers of the torpedo fleet, now in this harbor, have received informa tion that the destroyer Perry is at Empire City. Coos Bay. Ore. On Wednesday morning, while the torpedo fleet was proceeding from San Fran cisco to this city, the condensers on the Perry fell down and the vessel turned back and put into Bodega Point to make repair?. It was thought that the Perry would join the fleet here, and some anxiety was felt regarding her. The fleet encoun tered a terrific storm on the run to this port, and the small craft were tossed about by huge waves for several hours. SMALLPOX ON THE KENTUCKY. Seattle. Msy 29.— A case of smallpox has devel oped or. the battleship Kentucky, now at Bremer ton navy yard. One sailor is confined with the dis ease, and several others. It is said, show signs of it. The Kentucky will be fumigated thoroughly. Should the disease become epidemic among the crew it may delay the battleship's return to San Francisco to Join the Atlantic fleet next month to complete the cruise around the world. IXTERXATIOXAL CHESS.* Schlechter and Vidmar Xow Tied for Lead in Big Tourney. [By Cable to The Tribune] Prague, Bohemia, May 29.— M. Vidmar, of this City, after a stern chase, succeeded at last in over taking C Schlechter, of Vienna, and tying with that master for first place in the international chess masters' tournament, the ninth round of which was played at the exposition here to-day. Vidmar was opposed by Bardeleben. who succumbed to the Bohemians superior tactics, while Schlechter could only draw -with Leonhardt. The. American. Marshall, was defeated by O. Duras, also of this city. It was a great day for the Bohemian school of chess players, the more so as Kvicala won his game from Spielmann. In the other games Janowski won from Prckes. Rubin stein defeated Mieses. Suechting scored against Treybal and Salwe drew with Alapin. The game between Rahinowitsch and Teichmann was ad journed :n an even position. OFFICERS FOR SOCCER FOOTBALL. At the annual meeting of the New York State Football Association, which has control of eoccer football in this state, held at the Boys' Club yesterday, officers were elected for the en suing year a? follows: President. Harry Manley, Staten Island Foot ball Club; vice-president. F. H. Tabor. Boys' Club; secretary. Kdgar O. Challenger, Brooklyn Football Club; treasurer, A. H. Dale. Cameron Football Club. The new board of directors was made up as follows: W. H. Stiles, Brooklyn Football Club; W. D. Andrews, Crescent Athletic Club; Thomas Bagnall, Columbia Oval Football Club; J. W. Gatty. Freebooters Football Club; J. O. P. Humphreys, Bensonhurst Field Club. TEN ENTRIES FOR OCEAN RACE. The complete list of entries to date for the Marble head-Bermuda race. includes ten yachts; Class A. Fleur de Lys; Class B. Esperanza, Zuhrah and Dervish: Class C. Venona. Marchioness and Edith anna: Class D. Little Hope. Lila and Chaos. The schooner Esperanza. belonging to J. D. McKee, of the Atlantic Yacht Club, arrived in Marblehead on May 20. She is in first class condition. TESTIMONIAL TO DIRECTOR ABRAMSON. Right at the start of last night's operatic me lange at the American it took the full orchestra, aided by Mme. Korelll, who was singing Leonora in fine style, to bring M. Delli Franci, the Man rieo. within reaching distance of key in the prison scene from "Trovatore." which was the curtain raiser. With this exception, the evening was a success, notably so for Mme. Desana, who sang Nedda and Aids. M. Samollov as Canio and Rad ames. and M Arcangeli. in the. prologue to "Pag liaoci." Mm*. Norelli. who had apparently been pushed aside by Mme. Padovani when the latter joined the company, came into her own again in the "mad scene" from "Lucia" and won several recalls to which she was fully entitled. Surrounded by his whole company, after the second act of "Aidß was finished. Director Abramson made a little speech of thanks for the support be -had received, and expressed hope for the future of grand opera in New York "at a r ri~ within the reach of all." The season closes with Mmc Padovani In "Traviata"' this after noon and "Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" in the evening, with Desana as Santuzza and Ardizzoni as Nedda. PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS t>i-t m. ,\-t William Pi'lon, Boston, 11. Gow Portsmouth. } n ".. , Toledo. HOTEL Wmmmtm Little, Atlanta. THE WEATHER REPORT. The tropical di!t now central near Hattera*. Tc northward .u-n-ed Jj SST^ : tSSaS? — " and Ohl ° £*22£J?£U «- •— ] av ' ra « e from tbe in the laKe S' s \Z'l-.ih(- r will be fair, except In the. Ml»«i»*»PP' h^n Rocky iloununn di«irict«. -.vhe:e loc.l rains will occur - , „ aIonK th . New England During , 6 «'. u ,™nti~ c"*«t« will be brisk to high from and Middle A'.anM ™ AtianUe Coa«t. fresh northwent easterly, on *••*•" Ai»m Coast fr»"h f«utherly. »rd°on n fhrr,r^t J^e 1 . tr<*n to brick easterly, with ?£un<J«rr *« u n *, r ,.__ Saturday for European ports will tsrss «§ "{£"«;& e«t«rly wind- •»« — «.a»t «n d inereaelnf. Eastern Pennsylvania. JSS^fXS&f^S* i—i.ut.iv Sunday; fresh and In creasins « asl "!*2siW«lv«ai« »niJ Western New York. •ror WeMTii iXin'M 1 '" 11 " brisk *a»t winds •b9«r*r* '"-■'»> *''* ■"•■' i»i »x ' lre ' ,r..i ihunder »QU»!I». , I OfilrlaJ 11~0r,1.~T1-* following official record 1 , he U' -hr Bureau show, the changes In the from the ttf«tn r , t , w , nty .iour hours. In com ptruon wlU» ,» J^SvTiaw « a ir 7'7 ' 1!)0 ,j S -. a• • - {7 -15 pi '«•:• — Z'i */\ <5 «• m -i Crtill P- <n ;>J <• » nl «rt <V»!12 1' f.) » 2 m )J( j -ji r,C. *\^ a^ e J.'^. to,^ co.retpondmt .Ute last thirty iV >'*'»"• j;^. Bur*** ii-d*ir^«n« probably boa- NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1908. CHURCH AND SOCIALISM PREDICTS A REVOLUTION. Clergyman Says Ckristian* Can't Remain Silent. The National Christian Socialist Conference b« gan a three-day session yesterday afternoon in the parish house, building of the Church of the Ascension, Fifth avenue and 10th street. The Rev. Charles P. Fagnani. professor In the Union Theological Seminary and secretary of the Quill Club, who presided, said: "The tie which binds us this afternoon is love for our fellow men. I take it. We are here to unite in discussion of conditions which exist, which we feel should not exist, and which we are hero to improve." He then introduced Rufus W. Weeks, who read a paper on "What the Christian Socialist* Stand For." "We do not believe in Christian socialism." he said. "Properly there is none such, for there can be no more two kinds of socialism than two kinds of free trade." Then he added that socialism was politics, based on an economic principle. "The economic regeneration of the future shall be dem ocratic and not oligarchic. That is socialism," said the speaker. Following Mr. Weeks, the Rev. A. W. Wilson, pastor of the Congregational Church fn Ridge field, N. J.. caid among other things tnat ministers where espousing the cause of socialism were either attacked or forced to give up their pulpits, and that there was coming such a revolution is would wholly overturn the Christian church. "No other class of men are so subject to attack for their principles," he continued. "There is one name on this programme whose owner will not be heard at this conference. He intended to «peak. The call went out to him as it has gone out to others— silence! He. will not be here. Silence or resign has been the command elsewhere. Men have been asked to resign, have resigned, and will continue, to resign." When he had taken his seat, the chairman an nounced that the Rev. Dr. E. A. Wasson, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Newark, N. J., due to talk on "TM Fellowship and the Socialist Party," was una.-oidably absent. This announce ment caused much speculation. Dr. Wasson's place was taken by Joseph Wan hope, a socialist orator, after the Rev. Mr. Wilson had ended his speech, saying: "We are only touching the fringe of the Christian church, an individual her* and there. How many churches could we get preachers into in this city?" "We have twenty open pulpits," said a man on the platform. "Yes, twenty out of a thousand," went on the speaker. "What are we going to do? Go in and make the preacher trouble. What if we do? Will it not get him awakened and thinking, and then get him to preaching his thoughts 0 The preachers are getting restless, and I am sure there is going to be a revolution. You can't transform the church to new views. It means an entire breaking up, and the forming of a union church of all bodies. The people will not stand an ecclesiastical mon archy. "We socialists made the mistake of confusing religion and the church." said Mr. Wanhope, "and, believing that the church was but one of the buttresses of capitalism, we threw out the wholfl thing. Religion has been used by capitalism for Its own nefarious purposes. But because it has prostituted patriotism, made marriage largely a matter of property, we don't propose to do away with those things altogether. Depend upon it that religion will not be wiped out by an economic change. Your movement is verging toward ortho dox scientific socialism." J. Eads How, of St. Louis, a relative of the great bridge builder and heir to much of his wealth, who prefers the life of a tramp, then took the platform. "Got any jobs for the preachers who are going to lose them for espousing socialism?" he was a»ked. "Yes, we'll find them," he said, and then himself asked a question: "Are you going to appeal to the proletariat or to the intellectuals?" "Both." said the crowd, with a laugh. "Then," said How, "let those appeals be made to the proletariat, and then come to us." "The Church and the Revolution" was the topic discussed by the Rev. Dr. Eliot White, for five years secretary of the Diocese of Western Massa chusetts. Mr. White comes from Worcester, and has found there a good deal of opposition to his socialistic theories. He said: We are going to have a revolution, and the doubt is that it will come by peaceful methods. People who do not recognize the strength of the movement will do so as it sweeps from east to west, and unless I am greatly mistaken, there will be a far keener alignment than — well, I ex pect to see trouble. If you're not ready to experience blood, wounds death, go home. There are heresy trials in our churches It is heresy of ethics, not of dogma. If we see these things about us and do nothing to remedy that is heresy. Now. I don't want to be greivsome. but sup pose in a gathering of capitalistic men and women, the day after a great mine disaster, there were brought in blood stained stretchers, bearing in heaps the shattered limbs and the fragments of the bodies of those who had been slain. Those people would turn in horror from that scene, from the scene of death in mills and railroads, too, all because there must be more and greater dividends. What could a man say but to those capitalistic men and women: "Thou art the man; tiiou art the woman." And you know revolutions have never been par ticular. 'W no was the first man ; .o go down in the French Revolution? Koulon. the banker, who said that if the people could not pay the tax they might eat grass If this revolution comss to be anything like that one was, there may come the penalty of silence. Neutrality and silence bear their burden of results. How can the Church be still or neutral? Christ never was. Let nobody think this is a fight between the rich and the poor. It is not. It is a fight be tween those who get and don't deserve, and those who deserve and don't get. Then the speaker drew a number of contrasts He u<=pfi Harry K. Thaw, with his income of $SO.<V>o and his lawyers unable yet to find that he had done anything to earn it, and John D. Rockefeller, with a JSO.OOft.flfn a year Income, on the one side, mentioning that the United States government was the loper In the Standard Oil suit, having not as yet collected one c»*nt of the $2S.CIOViOO fine, hut having had to pay $79 80 expenses to Mr. Rocke feller. He continued: That twenty millions Is a sort of pension to Rockefeller. Now, up In my town of Worcester there is a pensioned employe of the American Steel and Wire Company, who is sixty-eight years old. too old to get another job. who worked twenty-five yea-s and gets a pension of $8 a month, or $96 a year. We oatrnot keep stiil ar.d we won't keep still. Any Christian who does keep still is on the brink of hell looking down. I can imagine that Paul Kevere was called an agitator by some of the farmers whom he awoke on his way to Lexington, and pome of them rebuffed him and refused to get out. But I suspect after it was all over they were the ones who demanded the credit At the night session the Rev Stephen S . Wise upheld President Roosevelt, saying the Socialists had not understood the President, and that the latter was committed to a policy of social equity and righteousness. Rabbi 'Wise also thought the Christian Socialists had been unwise in their choice of a nnme, as the same designation had been taken by a party in Austria and all German speaking countries pledged to anti-Semitism, a thing both unchristian and unsocial, and had prostituted both the terms of Socialism and Christianity. He con tinued: There is ni one in the land that ■ abominates child labor which is child slavery, more than does Theodore Roosevelt. Although Mr. Roosevelt may find it necessary to reprobate class consciousness, for which a better term, I think, would be mass consciousness, I don't think you would nnd it on •. par with the class consciousnesi you would ex pert to nnd In the head of a Rockefeller or a Morgan. If you think Mr. Roosevelt doe? not un derstand your class consciousness, let me say that Theodore Roosevelt has rendered to this nation and the whole world a great service by bringing home to men of power and plare a realization that power means responsibility— that power spelU social re form I think Theodore Roosevelt truly and splen. didly committed to a policy of social equity and righteousness. _ PEASE MEMORIAL CORNERSTONE LAID. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.) Asheville, N. C, May 29.— An event In the history of the Home Industrial School anil the Normal and Collegiate Institute, m-sbyterlan Institutions en dowed by Mis* Helen Gould, of which Edward -P. child*, of New York, was recently elected presi dent, was the laying of the cornerstone of the pease Memorial Home, dedicated to the late Rev. IiI 'i- L M. Pease, founder of the Five Points Mls- M<Vn in New York, and Mrs. Pe.iee. The Rev. Thomas Laurence, who made the dedication ad rir*K-% spoke of the founding of the Five Points Mission by Dr. Pease, depicting the conditions of crime and vice which had been wlpcfi cut, by Dr. Pbbjbj, OBITUARY. i _ — . MRS. CASPAR F. GOODRICH. Putnam. Conn.. May 29-Mrs. Caspar T. Good rich, wife of Rear Admiral Goodrich, now In com mand of the Brooklyn navy yard, died suddenly at her summer home at Pomfret. near here, to-day. Paralysis of the. throat was given as the cause of death. Miss Gladys Goodrich, a daughter, was the only one of (he family with her. Mrs. Eleanor Miltior Goodrich went to Pomfret on May 20. the day after the launching of the United States collier Vestal at the navy ynrd, when Miss Goodrich acted as sponsor. She had been ap parently in good health up to the time of her death. The admiral was at the navy yard yesterday when word was received of his wife's denth. He was overcome and had to be assisted to his" home, where he. was placed ir^ the care of a physician. Miss Goodrich returned to Brooklyn last night. The body of Mrs. Goodrich was sent to Stone Church, N. J.. where the funeral will be held on Monday. The services will be held at All Saints' Memorial Church, whi-h was erected by the late Charles E. Milnor. Mrs. Goodrich's father. The body w'll be burled by the side of their three sons. Mrs. Goodrich was in her fifty-eighth year. She was born in Manhattan, but spent her childhood days at Stone Church. She was married on Sep tember 4. 1873. when Mr. Goodrich was an officer at the Naval Adadeaqr, with the rank of nontenant commander. Mrs. Ooodrlch was an officer of the woman's auxiliary of the national organization of the. Young Men's Christian Association. Another daughter besides Miss Glndys Goodrich. Mrs. Mary Douglass Campbell, of New York, survives Mrs. Goodrich. EX-JUSTICE CHARLES R. INGALLS. Troy, R V.. May 29.— Charles R. Ing.ills. for merly a Supreme Court Justice, died last night at his home in this city. He was bom in Green wich. Washington County, on September 14, 1819. Charles Russell Ingalls was the son of County Jud^e Charles T. Ingalls. After a district school and county academy education, he pursued the study of law with his father. In 1*44 he was admitted to the bar and practised his profession with his father and brother until IS6O. He served one term in the State- Assembly before removing to Troy in 18ft">, where he Continued the practice of law until he was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court on the Democratic ticket 'n 1863. He was twice re-elected, and he continued on the bench until retired by age on January 1. 189f. In ISTO he was assigned to the Court of Appeals, where he sat for a short time until that court was reorganized by constitutional amendment. In 1877 he was appoint ed by Governor Robinson to sit as an associate jus tice of the General Term of the Supreme Court of .the First Department In this city, where he con tinued In service for two years. JAMES VAN DERBILT LOTT. James Van Derbilt Lott, cashier of the Liberty National Bank, died at his home, No. 145 Lefferts Place. Brooklyn, on Thursday, after a brief illness Mr. Lott began his business career in the dry goods trade, serving first with Gardner. Brewer & Co. and afterward with W. W. Huntington & Co. In I&S2 he entered the service of the Mercantile National Bank as discount clerk. In November. ISSJ*. he was appointed assistant cashier, and on January 5. 1897, he was made cashier. He resigned in January, 1307. to accept the post of cashier of the Liberty National Bank. WILLIAM W. EVERETT. William W. Everett, formerly president of the People's Line of steamships running from New York to Albany on the Hudson Riv^r. died at his home, near Croton Falls. Westchester County, yes terday. He was seventy-five years old. He for merly represented Putnam County in the Assembly. Hie wife was the daughter of Daniel Drew, for years proprietor of the old Bulls Head Tavern, in Fourth avenue. Mr. Everett leaves one son, Rob ert, who lives in Tarry town. WILLIAM A. KELLY. William A. Kelly, a newspaper man for many years, died on Wednesday at the home of his daugh ter. Mrs. Mabel Hurley, at No. 221 Prospect Place. Brooklyn, from locomoter ataxia. Mr. Kelly was born in Moncton. Canada, on May 9, 1850, and came to New York when a young boy. He served in the quartermaster's department during the Civil War and then became a reporter on "The World." Later he became editor of two weekly papers, continuing in that capacity for twenty-four years, during which time he was prominent in racing circles and owned several thoroughbreds. He was successively editor of "The Billiard World." which he started. "The North Hempst>jad Times" and "The North Hempstead Record." He leaves two sons and two slaughters. ADMIRAL CROWNINSHiELD BURIED. Washington. May 29.— The body of Rear Admiral A. S. Orowninshield, who died in Philadelphia on Wednesday, was buried this afternoon with mili tary honors in the National Cemetery at Arling. ton. The escort to the cemetery included a bat talion of marines, two companies of bluejackets. a battery of artillery and two troops of cavalry, headed by the Marine Band. Chaplain P. H. Clark, on duty at the Naval Academy, conducted the religious services. STATEMENT OF J. MARTIN MILLER. Paris. May 29.— J. Martin Millar, former American Consul at Rheims. who was mentioned in connec tion with the suit for divorce recently brought in New York by Mac Wood against Senator Thomas C. Platt, Is at present in this city. When the American newspapers arrived here to-day Mr. Milier saw for the first time the statement alleged to have been signed by him which was produced by Mis? Wood at the trial. Mr. Miller was extremely indignant. "The document is an absolute forgery," he said. "It Is fabricated and false from beginning to end." Mr. Miller is consulting attorneys with a view to having Miss Wood prosecuted for forgery. MRS. GEORGE ABBOT JAMES. [By Telegraph to The Trlbun* Boston. May 29-— Following a brief illness. Mrs. Elizabeth Cabot James, wife Of George Abbot James and only sister of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, died here to-day at her Beacon street home. She leaves besides her husband a son. Ellerton jam's. , • 1 OBITUARY NOTES. JOHN ARCHER, one of the oldest residents of Yonkrrs. died at the St. John's Hospital yesterday at the age of ninety-two. He held many village offices before Yonkers became a city in 1872. CHRISTIAN LERMANN, for many years a well known brewer and coal dealer of Marion, N. J. died on Thursday night at his home in South Orange. H» was nearly seventy-nine years Old. On March 30 his leg and several rlb6 were fractured by a trolley car OCTOPUS HAS SUCCESSFUL TRIAL. Newport. R. 1.. May 29.— After a sea service trial of twenty-four hours, a quarter of which time she was completely under water, the submarine torpedo boat Octopus, which is undergoing official trials, re turned here to-night. The Octopus carried besides her crew of fourteen men. three members of the naval board of inspection and survey and Lieu tenant Charles E. Courtney. For six hours of the twenty-four the Octopus was submerged, running at a speed of from five to eight knots under water. Although the boat carried a supply of compressed air. none of this was used while she was submersed. No air was taken in and none expelled, the occupants of the vessel breathing only such air as was carried down when she rank. Both the speed and the habitabllity tests are declared to have been satisfactory. WEST POINT RECEPTION CANCELLED. Wast Point, N. V.. May 23.— Owing to a change in the law. the board of visitors of the United States Military Academy will not convene at the uiual time in June this year, and therefore the reception in Its honor at West Point heretofore announced is necessarily cancelled. Otherwise the June exercises will be carried out. DERELICT DESTROYER A SUCCESS. Newport News. Va.. May :9.-The new steel derelict destroyer Seneca, the only craft of her type ever designed, mad* a successful trial trip off the Virginia Capes today. The vessel maintained a speed of 14 knots. The Seneca will be turned over to the Revenue Cutter Service by her builders, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany, about June V WRIGHTS' PLANS PUZZLE DON'T TELL THE SECRET. Aeronauts Discuss Airship Specifi cations Filed for Patent. Certain members of th« Aero Club of America discussed yesterday in lively fashion the plan* of the Wright brothers' airship, published In the French magazine- "L'Aerophlle." which has Just arrived in this country. Th*y united In saying "that the information did not inform." On Jan uary 28 the Wrijrht brothers filed In Taris applica tion for a French patent on their airship. Aero nauts in this city said yesterday that th« specifica tions were, so drawn, however, as to withhold com pletely all the essential particulars of the aero plane, leaving the world Just as much in IBS. dark as ever as to what "thing" it was that enabled them to make the reported long- flights. A. M. Herring, who in IS9S produced the first power-driven, man-carrying machine to travel through the air. said yesterday: "You may take it from me that the Wright brothers have n.->t disclosed in their plans ?peci.l?d when making application for a patent the main principle utilized in the making nf th*!r High's through the air. I have studied the plans asm* fully, and if the Wrirht brothers had nothing more than they have made known thus far. you may dfr penrt upon it that thoir mach-ne would not fiy. But It does fly. and that Is Just the point. "In their present machine they have one addi tional principle, the soul of. the apparatus, the thing that makes it live when they choose to mas ter the air. and that principle they do not In the least disclose in the drawings filed for patent pur poses. T am able to Judge accurately the principle involved in the Wright brothers' machine. I will go further and say that, although I did not witness their experiments in North Carolina, I knr.w ex actly how th«y accomplished their fine results. 'The principle not shown in th<>se plans is one by which the time of correcting the effect of any dis turbance in the air is prolonged. This gives them the time that is absolutely necessary in the meet ing of emerganciee in midair to operate the levers. The method of operating the levers ia another feature not shown by the drawing*, and in actual practice is very different from what would natu rally be supposed by reference to them."' Mr. Herring took an old newspaper out of a drawer of his desk and, pointing to a picture of one ot his early models, said: "When I look at the Incomplete drawings filed by the Vv right brothers I am carried Back to the year IS9B, when I built the aeroplane you see pictured here, along precisely the same plan. I have been all through that neck of the woods, so far as con struction go«s. and as long ago as 1502 I experi mented for the last time with the principle in volved in the control of that machine, the same principle that I know the Wright brothers are now using, in view of the construction of their appa ratus. I wish to say that I believe they can do all tney claim. That does not, however, affect my statement Just made, th.it I hava progressed through the experimental stage that they are now in. and began to follow what I believe to be more advanced lines of inquiry into the subject many years ago." Mr. Herring is under contract with the United States government to furnish a machine by Au gust 13. at $20,010. which will carry two men and remain in the air an hour. The minimum amount of speed allowed by the government is thirty-six miles an hour. The Wright brothers are under a similar contract, except they are to receive $25.00rt on completion of a satisfactory test. Official trials of both aeroplanes are to be. made on August 13 at Fort Myer. Virginia. Mr. Herring announced yesterday that his machine would operate on an entirely different principle from that employed by the Wright brothers. Albert C. Triaca. general director of the Interna tional School of Aeronautics, said yesterday: "We aeronauts would like to have the Wright brothers tell us something about their machine that we do not already know. "We would very much like to know something about their engine. Except that they operate with a 25 to » horsepower motor, we know nothing «o far as that is con cerned. Evidently they have found some means of getting around the difficulty Delagrar.ge. Farman and such men experience through inability to keep their motors from overheating and thus shortening their flights. The patent plans omit entirely all really important features of their aeroplane. I have had the plans before me for several weeks, but they do not tell me anything. The secret of the Wright brothers is still shrouded in mystery. ' MORRIS PLAINS PATIENT ESCAPES. V ■ Plumber Put in Automobile and Is Taken from Insane Asylum. Morristown. N J . May 2».— Charles B. Sulke, an inmate of the State Insane Hospital, at Morris Plain?, was taken away from it this afternoon and has not been returned. t>r. Bindley D. Evans is the head of the asylum. This afternoon two visitors came in an automobile, put the man in th<> machine and went away. Sulke. a prosperous plumber in Jersey City, be came Infatuated with a woman in Newark. Mrs. Su'.ke had her husband placed under treatment. WRIGHT AIRSHIP TESTS IN FRANCE. Paris. May 29 — Wilbur Wright, the aeronaut, one of the Wright brothers, of Dayton. Ohio, arrived here to-day from America to demonstrate in Europe the capabilities of their machine. Preliminary ar rangements for the demonstrations are complete, an inclosed field, two miles square, having been obtained in Western France. Parts of the aero plane shipped here from America last year will be put together at the place selected, and a motor has been constructed here after the model used by the Wright brothers in their experiment? in America. Several weeks probably will be required to get the machine in order. The important feat ures of the invention have now been prr.tectfd by European patents. If certain tests are fulfilled at the coming experiments, it is understood that a company will be formed for the purpose of ex ploiting the machine in Europe. The French government, it is said, has offered to buy the exclusive European rights for thr*-e years, provided that the machine, carrying lbs weight of two men. flies thirty miles, returning to the point of departure. ANDREW D. WHITE ON WAY HOME. Naples. May Bl— Aadr**J V White and Mrs. White left here to-day on board th« Prinzesstn Iren« for New York. CLEVELAND TO GO TO NEW HAMPSHIRE. Princeton, N J. : May 29.— Mrs Grover Cleveland, her children and her mother. Mrs. Perrlne. left here to-day for West Oasipee, N. H It is said that Mr. Cleveland will Join his family there short ly Arrangements have been made to stay at West Ossipee until September. All reports from Lake wood regarding Mr Cleveland* health are en couraging. It is probable Mrs. Cleveland will re turn to Lakewood and accompany her husband to the New Hampshire resort. ASKS LITERATURE FOR SOLDIERS. An appeal has been made by th« International committee of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion for reading matter for the men of the army and navy In the Philippines. Current magazines are most In demand, and the association requests that any one having magazines or periodicals which they have read send them prepaid to the inter national committee at No. 121 We« 2Sta street. VISITORS TO NAVAL ACADEMY. Washington. May 29— President Roosevelt has appointed David F Barry, of Pi evidence, and Herbert L«. Satterlee, ot New Yoik. as nu-m- Ders of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Acad emy. The new appointees will take the places made vacant by the resignations of George D. Metcalf and Cyirss E Lothrop. Mr. Sattr-: president of the Nav.il League and a *on-:n-I iw of J. P. Morgan. 1.400 PERSONS TAKE UP NEW LANDS. Boise. Idaho, May 23.— Registration for the open ing of eighty thousand acre* of land under the Salmon River. Twin Falls irrigation project Sf«SMMi at Twin Falls this morning, and before noon four teen hundred Und*eekers had registered. deposit- Ing nearly half a million dollars. Five thousand persons are already on hand for the drawing on Monday under the provisions of the Carey act. Nearly every state in the Union is represented. WIFE'S CHILDREN LAUGHED AT HIM Alfred Slater. " twenty-five years old, •■ No. «™ Bergen street. Newark, was charged in the First Criminal Court yesterday with falßag to support Ml wife, who is forty-eight years <"•<!. Mrs. Slater told Judge Kowell that her husband "sneaked BU clothes sal of the house one B*JBl several weeks ago" and had kept them away ever since. J Slater said that his wife has a daughter nine teen years •;.:-• sons, one a sailor on home leave, and the other fifteen years old. They aX he said, made fan of him at the table when eat ing, and their actions made home unbearable to him. He told the judge he would support his gg* but not the entire family. A truce was arraaajs*. Died. Death notice, appearing In THE TRIBI will *>• repabllubnl In the Tri- Weekly Tribune without extra chars*. Everett. ajajjaastJ Pr«at)ce. Carls*-* \ . Lett. .larr.-» V V fatter.ee. Walter, ilcl-ennan. Roderick Schalter Sopeia Neale. Dnnlel A Shle!<J». Ceorg* Xtchols-Bulkley. (Vorsiasa. PWirvin*. Lotiis« Postley. Clarenc a. Wet*. Kuth iL Powell. Kobert B. WUUasi* Tlona. EVERETT— Suddenly. May -' - 1 "* at ! his tate resi dence. Croton Fall.. N. T-. William Watts Ev«re«r in his 7"-, year. Funeral services at the *»*£"" Church. '-arm-;. X 1 . Miiriay. Jun«. 1. at - •*£ Carriages will be In t»-aitins: at Brnwater. &-> *•• •■ *■ arrival of train leaving Gran.l Central Dep<->t. ne* terminal, at 11:15 •- m Interrr-ear. Carmel. LOTT— On Thurwlay. May 29. team Van Derbi'.f. at his late residence. So. 14.'> LeSerts Fia<--. Brook i vn. ro ncral services Saturday, May 3i>. at i p. m. internwni private. AT A SPECIAL MEETING cf the B»rt cf Bireewrs aZ the Liberty National Bank. heM en Friday. May « imp*. anr.ounc«mf nt .-.ax maJ» of the death of Jam«» van derbllt Loft Cashier of the Bank, on Thursday. May **, after a trier ii:-?.*. an.l the following Minut* warn unanimous;} adopted; .... .hi, RESOLVED: That in the death •? James V. U'tf tnta Bank has lost a valued oCToer. wh" brousfit to his <Slitl ;* i Sam. discretion m,i ability, and whose faithru.ne»i i » the Bank, loyalty to his friends an-1 devotion to all "" was highest and best in business and private lite J»on for him the conndfnee and ce Ste-mS te-m of all who kn«w Bint RESOLVED: That a copy of this 3linu'« be sent to th» family of the deceased, with an expression < rh# ■"" cere sympathy of the members of this Uoard. By order of tie Board. _ . FKED B. SCHENCK. President. MXENXAX — Entered Int.-. rest at Hyrt-» park on Hud ton. V T.. May 2.>. IMAt af:»r a brief Illness. o** ericK McLennan, in the 75th year ot his age- NEALE — On Mar M ' r<l^. Daniel A. Neale. **• * years. Funeral sen-ices will be held at hi» late residence. No. 11M Bashwick aye., Brooklyn, on Saturday. May 3f>. IO"X. it % p m. Relatives ana friends respectfully invited to attend. MCHOLS-BULKLET— Entered into r#st SjBJ 27. 190% after a Ion? illness. Georgiana Bulkley Nichols, daugh ter cf the late Charles and Elizabeth Bulkier. i!« ><* rears. Funeral services will b? held at the Come or her aoa-tD-iaw. Mr J«rr.e» GrlswoM "•■=• >••"'■ 31 f "W«st S2d St.. Saturday. May 30. at 10 a, m.. and at the homestead in Southport. Conn., at - p. m.. on ar rival of 12:03 train from Grand Central depot. i POSTLET— Suddenly, on Thursday miming. May 25*. 1009 at his lM.«m . No. Bft Fifth aye.. Clarence Ash lev Postley. belov* . hcsbar.d r.i Marsaret sterling Pos. 1 >y. Funeral ser ices from his Ute residence on lion day. June 1. at »> o'clock a. in. Executive Otf.ce. » Waal Mtb Street. Brothers: Sorrowful announcement is made or tn » : death of Brother Robert B. Powell, on May 2«rh * i member of the Society for thirty-four years, wrvlns faithfully on th« Auditing Committee l/ ft l to IS>^* inclusive. Interment^t^rockvm^Canad^^ RICHARD T. DAVIES. Secretary. PRENTICE— On Friday. May 2*. 100*. Clarissa V. Prentice, in her S6th year, widow •■£ Wtm Pren tice. Funeral service win be held at oilead. conn.. on Sunday. May 31. SATTERLEE-- On May 2* IC^*. at his residence in this city, after a abort, illness. Walter Satterlee. son of the late George C and Mary L« Bo>- Livingston fedtteriee. in the €sth year of his i«» Funeral services at &t George's Church. Stuyvesant Square, on Monday. June 1. at IS IS o'clock. ALTER — On Thursday. Mr: M IMS. Sophia Schalter. beloved wife of Henry Schalt^r Services at her late residence. No 217 Fifth aye..^ Brooklyn. Saturday evening. 9 o'clock. Interment ounday. lt> a. m Greenwood Cemetery. SHIELDS— On the 25th last., at his residence Crop sey aye and Bay 2Cd" St.. Bath Beach. George Shields beloved husband of Anna C. "Van Pelt, m his Slat year. Funeral from the N»w Utrecht Re formed Church. Eighteenth aye. and «4th St.. on Sunday. May 31. 190*, at 3 p. m. SKIRTING— On May 2*. 1!»'. Louise, daughter of Marion and the late John Skirvingr. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral sen-ices, which will be held at her late residence. No. 193 Van Buren «., Brooklyn, on Saturday. May M at I p- m. WICKS — Port Washington. Lon? Island. May 27. 1»O*. Ruth Evelyn, second daughter of Dr. J. Van Pelt and Minnie D Wicks. Funeral from her late residence. Port Washington, on Saturday. 30th inst.. at 3:3i> p. m WILLIAMS — On Ma-.- 27. at his residence. No. 1"» Snyder aye.. Brooklyn. Thomas Williams, in his 91st year. Funeral services at St. Paul's P. E. Church, Flatbush, 2 p. m.. May 30. CEMETERIES. THE WOODLAWX CEMETEKT Is readily accessible by Harlem trains front Gran.J Central Station. Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys and by carriage. Lots $150 up. Telephone .- i Gramercy for Book of Views or representatives Offlce. 20 East 23et St.. New York City. IMJEST.IREK3. FRANK E. CAMPBELL. 241-3 West 23.1 St. Chapets. Private and public ambulances. Tel. 1324 Chelsea. Special Xitices. 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