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Amusements.
ACADEMY OF — 3 — 8:15 — The Rejuvena
.- liuii ci.Aunt Mary. - •
ASTOR— 2::r-~S:l&— Seven Day*.
BFLAS?OO -:15— S:ir> — Is Matrimony a Failure?
IllJoU— 2:lß— l:ls— The Lottery Man.
UROADWAY— 2:IS— 6:IS— The Jolly Bachelor*.
CAKMCUIS liAl-i-— i M—X. ■ BttfTt.
■ «Afl.\' - - 15 — — Chocolate Soldier.
COLONIAL— 2— S— Vaudeville.
COMEDY- 2:15— — The Afllnity.
«-RITERION~2:IS—S:2O— The Bachelor's Baby. .
DAI-VS— l:ls t>:l3 — The Kin* of Cafior.la.
KDKX MCSEK— The World in Was.
EMPIRE — 2:15.— 6:13 — What Every Woman
Knows.
« AIT'S -2:ls— The Kcrtune Hunter.
OaKRICK— 2:I5 — Your HuTnble Servant.
OJJOBE— 2:I.%— S:iS— The Old Town.
MAuHKTi*— l:\:*— *:1."> — Prince o< Bohemia.
nAMMEHSTEIVS — 2:15—3:15 — Vaudeville.
HERALD SQUARE— OId Dutch.
HIPPODUOME — 2— " — A Trip to Japan; Inside
■ the Earth: the liallet'of Jewel*. , ;
HtTDSOX— 2:IS— S:IS— The Next cf Kin.
HIVING PLACE— 2:IS— Friichcn and Flotto
ltvr*ehf — S:Jft— DJ«« Foerster Chrttfl.
H 1'— — The Dollar Prince**.,
LTP-EUTY— 3:18 6:ls— The Fires of Fate.
LYCEUM— *:2« »—*:»'- VWf'ope.
L.YRI 2:ls— B:3s— The City.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN— IO a. m.—Auto
mot>ll* Shew.
SIANHVITAJC OPERA HOUSE— 2— Tales of
Hiffn«n:i-S — c*vallrria and rap v
MAXINE ELLIOTT'S THEATRE— 2:3O—S:3O—
g Th* pas=>»lnp < ? the Third Floor Hack.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE— Carblere
f.i PivtellH— «— Alda.
NT-TV AMSTERDAM— The Barrier.
NE.W TKEATltß— 2:ls— £:ls— The School for
Scandal. _
NEW YORK— 2:ls— S:l&— Man Who Owns
Bro»ev\-ay. -_
I'— -i.ii— — Th« Commanding Omct-r.
PTCTVT:«'i:CT— 2:IS— I:IS— Lily.
BT. NIC?«"iLAt« PINK— B:IS— ice Hork«»r. • #
TTAI-LArK'S— 2:ls— S:ls— A Little Erotuer of
WE!HE« m «£-a:l*— »:»»— Th« Ooddos* of Liberty.
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SATURDAY. JANUARY I-".. 1910.
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ram yews this uoßyixo.
CONGRESS. — The Senate was r.6t in
Fession. - -:-::? House: The President's
especial message on conservation was re
ceived; * the resolution providing for a
change of inauguration day narrowly es
caped defeat.
FOREIGN*.— A special dispatch from
London says the Unionists are more
cheerful over election prospects, while
the liberals are less hopeful. = A re
ception in honor of ex-Vice-Presldent
und Mrs. Fairbanks was held at th 3
American Consulate in Constantinople.
— — — Colonel Roosevelt shot a white
rhino en the shores of Lake Albert,
T'ganda. =— Chill i? sending formal
invitation? to participate in the celebra
tion of her national centenary of inde
pendence, nest September. == Many
high army officers, including a prince,
have been arrested In Spain for alleged
complicity in a military plot. r-r " A
•woman and four, children were turned
to death on a homestead in Saskatche
van.
DOMESTlC— President Taft obtained
promises from insurgents and regulars
in the House that at least a temporary
truce will be maintained between them.
== Theodore Roosevelt was chosen
president of the Harvard Alumni Asso
ciation in place of Charles W. Eliot.
==i Approval was given at Albany by
Superintendent Hotchkiss of the State
Insurance Department to the application
of the Metropolitan Insurance Company
to purchase 250 acres of land In West-
Chester County for the purpose of erect
ing a sanatorium for the treatment of
tuberculosis among its employes. ■
CITY. — were weak. — rr— r The
3ty was in the grip of a great enow-
Ftorm, which paralyzed traffic on shore
and in the harbor; much suffering re
sulted — — Michael C. Padden was re
moved as Water Register. == Facts
on which to base an appeal from the "de
cision of Justice Dowling in the award
ing of the contract for the Municipal
Building are being collated. : —
Magistrate Kernochan refused to enter
tain charges of clubbing against two po
licemen. ■■- - Charles R. Keike, secre
tary, and five employes of the American
Sugar Refining Company were indicted
for conspiracy and overt acts in
ihe sugar weighing scandals. ■ - Ex-
Justice Charles 11. Truax, of the .Su
preme Court, died from grip after an III—
ness of a week. == The Board of Esti
mate and Apportionment refused to
■ sanction proposed forms of snow con
tracts.
THE WEATHER.— lndications for to
day: ' Enow. The temperature yester
day: Highest, 32 degrees; lowest, 22.
PRACTICAL COXSERVATIOX.
President Taft's conservation message
Is specially welcome because it avoids
reneralities and gets dowu to practical
•suggestions. The advantages of the
«?cnservation policy are now generally
recognized. There bas been intelligible
opposition to it on the part of the un
developed sections of the Far West.
There are always persons who ere in a
hurry to realize on whatever asset* are
in sight. They are willing to kill the
goose which lays the golden eggs, and
ruaiiy prominent interests in certain I'ar
Western. tales are still urging the sac
rifice of all otbor considerations to that
of quick development. They prefer
iwonty years of lavish and wasteful e.T
pjyitation of natural resources to a cycle
of orderly cultivation In whose more
substantial benefits they are not to have
Ihe- lion's share.
! We take if. however, that the great
iui!j"«;i\ of the people of the country
now favor economy in the husbanding
of the nation's material resources. The
killers are in ■ small minority. It
is not necessary to fight over again the
fiiaiii issue of conservation trrsutt old
'/osbloned dissipation of the public in-
Jtcritacc-'!. The important thin- to -U>
MM IS Is devise practical measures for
c^rrvfujr the general pol!« Into effect.
The President is therefore don:,' the
<-.iuse of conservation the service which
IJt raofct needs when be suggests to Con.
jjrens some definite plans for the pro
tection and cultivation of our national
resources.
There are different [iwses of the
problem, ;nid MOM are more difficult to
deal with than others. So far as foresta
lion Is concerned, the government's task
is easy. It can maintain and oven ex
pand the lorest reserves without much
.farther cost or friction. It can ti«o
osriy on '.•arid land reclamation pKsj
oct without embarrasslnir the Treasury,
although too ambitious plan* hare made
necessary a temporary l>ond Issue of
$30,000,000.' Tho leclumjition service
will eventually pay for itself, <md the.
President sees no reason why a tem
porary advance to tide it through its
present overextended enterprises should
not be made. There remain the knottier
questions of reserving water power sites
and segregating c»ai and mineral lands
from "agricultural lands in opening up
the public domain to occupation. Only
experience will produce a sound work
ing plan, striking a fair balance between
the rights of the future and the de
mands of the present for quick develop
ment through private initiative. The
President justly says, in reference to
the reservation of mineral rights:
It is exceedingly difficult to frame a.
statute to retain government control
over a property to be developed by pri
vate capital in such manner as to secure
the governmental purpose and at the
fame time not frighten away the invest
ment of the necessary capital. Hence, It
may be necessary by laws that are really
only experimental to determine from
their practical operation what is the best
method of securing the result aimed at
Congress must go ahead carefully and
moderately. Similarly, Mr. Taft has the
true interest of the conservation pro
gramme at heart when he urges the
restriction of expenditure for waterway
improvement to projects which are
justifiable because likely to bring ade
quate returns in increased inland com
■ '•■■•. Improvement of waterway facili
ties is going to cost vast sums of money
in the near future, and a materializa
tion of the gains through the conserva
tion of power, timber and mineral re
sources belongs to a future much more
distant. The country must therefore
feel its way, and nothing would do moro
to discredit the whole scheme of con
servation than a hasty plunge into inor
dinate expenditure for waterways, sim
ply because they are waterways, or a
mistaken exaggeration of the material
benefits of conservation to a generation
which must expect to surrender most of
those benefits to posterity.
THE HOUSE OX TRIAL.
President Taft's determination not to
be drawn Into quarrels among Republi
cans In the House, involving questions of
parliamentary rules and leadership, and
his insistence that such quarrels shall
not be allowed to figure in deciding any
Republican's regularity have brought
the House factions to a clearer sense of
their responsibility to the party.
Representatives of both factions were
disposed to consider their domestic
disagreements of paramount importance
and to believe that the Republican voters
were as intensely wrought up as they
themselves were over the question of
making the Speaker of the House its
parliamentary moderator or its legis
lative master. That is an Interesting
side issue, worth considering when the
House elects a Speaker. But the coun
try was not especially concerned with
the rules and domestic management of
the House of Representatives when it
elected a Republican majority in that
body in 1908 and instructed It to co
operate with President Taft in it;
deemiug the promises of the Repub
lican national platform. The Repub
lican voters want the Republican major
ity to support the administration in
turning the pledges of 1008 into laws.
They do not greatly care whether the
laws are prepared and passed under one
set of rules or under another. The main
thing is to enforce the mandate of the
people.
President Taft is entirely right in
holding that a Representative's Repub
licanism must be judged not by his fac
tional associations in the House, but by
his willingness or unwillingness to sup
port Republican measures. That is the
only sufficient test. The couutry will
back the President in using the true
test of loyalty to the Republican pro
gramme of 1908. and discarding such
imitation tests as either devotion or
opposition to Speaker Cannon and his
methods. Instead of trying each other,
both House factions will now be put on
trial. Are they going to prove their
Republicanism by a faithful redemption
of party promises, or aren't they? De
linquency will not be pardoned because
the delinquent is an insurgent or an
organization raau.
FAITH IX MEXICO.
We are inclined to think, and we cer
tainly strongly hope, that it is a some
what exaggerated view of the "anti-Mexi
can propaganda in the United States"
which Mr. Oscar J. Braniff— Mexico,
recently in New — takes in a letter
which we have received from him. We
have ourselves been able to perceive no
such propaganda, unless it may be
In the vaporings of a few renegade
conspirators from beyond the Rio
Grande who have sought here an asylum
which they abuse, the inconsiderate ut
terances of some journals which straiu
for sensations rather than fur tact or
truth, or the outgivings of those who
stem never happy unless they are find
ing fault with either their own or some
other country. To such persons Burkes
simile of half a dozen grasshoppers under
a fern may appropriately be applied.
They do not speak for the American peo
ple.
It is, we suppose, inevitable that there
shall occasionally arise some little com
plaint in one country against the other.
That occurs among all countries which
have Intimate relations, and particularly
between those which directly abut upon
each other. It is generally caused by :\
citizen of one country going into the
other and getting into some trouble, or
being misunderstood, or in some way
[•mining counter to its laws or customs,
and then making appeal to his own gov
ernment for protection, often vt-.inly
Imagining that the laws of his own
country can be enforced over those of
the land to which be has gone. We nave
no doubt that there are in Mexico some
American;- of the type described by our
correspondent, although we should not
expect to Cud them very numerous and
certainly not dominant among Amer-
Leans there or — proportionally
no more numerous than the renegade
Mexicans' in this country to whom we
have already referred. Of coarse, sucii
persons when they are brought to book
are not entitled to immunity from just
punishment. But even they are entitled to
equitable legal procedure, and even to
the watchful regard of their own gov
ernment; and, of course, this govern
ment is bound to scrutinize every case
iii which Its protection is demanded, and
there is nothing offensive to the other
country concerned in Its exercising -such
scrutiny, precisely as all nations do in
behalf of their citizens In America.
li appears to >;*> hi^h time to dismiss
all iuvldiou3 discriminations between
this country and its peat southern
neighbor, and indeed to dismiss tun
thouirht that such discriminations are
widely cherished. We believe that the
great majority of intelllsent Americans
regard Mexico with a lar^-e degree of
Aettee as m enlightened nation
with a just government, to whose acts
KS*f-tWk I7AILY TnTBUXE. SATLRDAY, JANt T ARY 15. 1910
Pol faith and credit are properly to be
given. They have watched with pro
found gratification the progress which
that country has made under the wise
and farsigbtcd leadership ■s " President
Diaz, and they have fait? ' .at during
the remainder of his sen i and, also
under his successors when their time
comes that progress will be .maintained.
With the conclusion at which our corre
spondent arrives in his letter we cord
ially agree. Mexico acts in good faith
toward the world and is entitled to have
the world extend its faith to her; and
especially is that to be said of this
country, whose moral account with her
shows more thnn one Item for which
atonement is due.
SELF AID AND STATE AID.
Mr. Churchill and his political and
economic colleague* are logical and dis
play the courage of their logic. They
htive recently given to the people a law
which assures n certain pension to the
njred Indigent, whether or not they have
been thrifty and industrious or have con
tributed in any way to the provision of
the bounty. Baring thus Insured them
against the results of improvidence or of
non-enip'oymeut or pauper wages, these
social reformers purpose to take the
next step, which is to insure all men
against lack of employ ment. Of course
this proposition automatically and as a
matter of course implies that unemploy
ment is so widely prevalent in the
United Kingdom as to form a serious
social problem, else there would be no
need of such a measure, and also that
the average savings of the British work
man are so small that a period of idle
ness is embarrassing, if not disastrous.
There will be much dispute, for
which, indeed, there is room, over the
cause of a state of affairs in which such
Indemnity to workingmen seems neces
eary. The question will arise whether
the working force of the kingdom is
discreetly distributed, or, perhaps,
whether the industries are thus appor
tioned. Since the adoption of Oobden's
pystem of political economy, and largely
because of the effects of that system,
there have been great changes in occu
pation in the United Kingdom. In the
half century from IS-">1 to 1901 the popu
lation increased about 514! per cent.
In the same period there were great
increases in certain occupations and de
creases in others. Thus, the uumbers
engaged in building trades increased 11l
per cent, those in mining and quarrying
143 per cent and those in metal working,
engineering and shipbuilding 184 per
cent, or all much more thau the popula
tion. On the other hand, those engaged
in textile manufactures decreased 22 pet
cent and those in agriculture 38 per
cent. To what extent these changes are
responsible for unemployment and to
what extent the Cobdenite fiscal system
is responsible for the changes art ques
tions which we may leave our British
cousins to settle to their own satisfaction.
From the American point of view it
will appear that it is better to promote
steady employment than to indemnify
men for non-employment, and to promote
thrift and to pay wages which make
saving possible than to give pensions to
those who have been unthrifty or because
of small pay have been unnDle to save.
To what extent it is properly possible
to do these things by means of legisla
tion is a subject for careful consideration.
Certainly it is no more "paternal" or "so
cialistic" to create these conditions by
law, If that can be done, than to pro
vide by law for meeting the conditions
winch are caused by their absence. And
from the American point of view there
can be no question that it is better to
help men to help themselves than to
Lake care of them without auy self
help.
C AX ADA -4.YD IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
The current controversy in Canada
over the Prime Minister's proposals fo:
national and imperial defence suggest
interesting developments in Canadian
politics and some the 'ogic of which
is not apparent. Sir Wilfrid Laurier"?
plan is simple. It contemplates the or
ganization of a Canadian militia on the
same general lines as the national
guard of the United State?, and also
the building of a Canadian navy, which
shall be subject to the call of the British
Admiralty, provided the Dominion Par
liament within tiftecn days ratines the
call. Those are modest proposals, the
execution of which would surely not be
burdensome to Canada. Yet they meet
with strenuous opposition from membeis
of both parties, und their adoption, it
Sir Wilfrid effects it. may cause a new
alignment of parties.
The most obvious feature of the case
is that this plan of contributing to the
defence of the empire is put forward by
the leader of the party which for years
was considered, and In fact largely
was. anti-imperialist and at times little
short of secessionist, and is opposed by
the leader of the party which has al
ways vaunted itself upon its robust and
aggressive devotion to imperial inter
ests. Time was when it would ha\'e
seemed impossible for Sir Wilfrid Lau
rter to pursue anything like such a pol
icy ns that to which he has now com
mitted himself and when it would have
seemed natural and inevitable for Mr.
Horden to support the very thing which
he now opposes. We can Imagine what
would have been the attitude of parties
nnd their leaders in Sir John Ifacdon
ald's time. Whether the change is real
fir only apparent is interesting food for
speculation.
No less interesting and perhaps more
important are the; logical deductions
from the arguments of the opponents
Of the measure. The ground taken by
its advocates; is simple enough. They
hold that the Dominion should provide
for its own local defence and also for
participation In the defence of the em
pire whenever the Dominion govern
ment regards that as essential to Cana
dian welfare. But its opponents, or
some of them, would limit imperial aid
to grants of money, which would cost
the Dominion as much as the building
of ships, but would. benefit the empire
in an emergency far loss. Others op
pose the participation of Canada in a
war in the declaration of which that
country had no part. Since, however.
Sir Wilfrid's plan covers that point by
providing that tue prompt assent of the
Canadian government shall be neces
sary before the ship. art* lent to Eng
land, we must assume that their real
reluctance is to being placed in a posi
tion in which they may be required to
say whether they would help the em
pire or not. Of course, if Canada had
no ships she could not be asked to let
the United Kingdom use them.
To impartial orison-era it will prob
ably appear thai Sir Wilfrid's scheme I*
prudent and logical, and there' will be
wonder at the opposition to It. Those
WHO are champions of imperialism
should naturally advocate all possible
aid for the empire and Canadian par
ticipatiou iv imperial affairs, while those
who exalt the national idea above the
taperial should seek to make the Do
minion sr-lf -defensive, and should purely
tiust the Dominion itself to keep out of
all imperial quarrels which do not con
cern Canadian Interests. But expenencv
in our own laud reminds us that parti
san consUeratJans iv domestic affairs
are not always held apart from foroigu
relations and interests.
ETHER WAV* CONVERSATION.
A contributor to "The Electrical
World" this week reviews the recent
progress of wireless telephony. He says
that inventors are now at a standstill,
having exhausted the possibilities of
the different methods they have adopt
ed. They are confronted with limita
tions inherent in the nature of the ap
paratus they employ, and the opinion
Is expressed that until a new line Of ex
periment is followed there will be lit
tle prospect of further advance. The
present status Of the art Is extremely
unsatisfactory. Occasionally, when con
versation between points only ten miles
apart is undertaken a syllable or word
Is entirely lost. Frequently . there is
interference from wireless telegraph sta
tions. Sometimes the exceptional dis
tance at which articulate speech, trans
mitted by Hertz waves, can be heard
greatly encourages the inventors, but
they cannot count on such success un
failingly. Until the faults here enu
merated, to say nothing of others, have
been overcome wireless telephony will
not be trustworthy enough to be gen
erally useful.
Moreover, it is a. question whether or
not it would pay to furnish the neces
sary facilities, oven if improvements
should make it feasible for persons
three hundred or four hundred miles
'apart to talk with each other whenever
they wished. How many possible pa
trons of the wireless telephone would
feel that they could afford to install in
their homes or offices the Hertz wave
generator, which is one of the essentials
of the system of communication under
discussion? Would it always be prac
ticable to provide them with that other
requisite, the upright wire? How much
inspection would be necessary to keep
the apparatus in working order, and
hoAv much would the inspection cost?
Would those who used the new tele
phone be obliged to visit special sta
tions, like the existing telephone ex*
changes Any one in this city who
wants to use the long distance wire to
Philadelphia, Buffalo or Chicago . can
have it connected with his own private
telephone, and considerably more than
two hundred thousand telephones are
now in service in the metropolis. How
ninny persons would be willing to leave
home or office in order to reach a wiro-
U-38 telephone station? Still another
problem which apparently remains un
solved relates to the number of .on
versations which the people of a city
like New York could hold simultane
ously. To avoid interference "tuning"
would be resorted to, no doubt, but how
many different wave leneths can be em
ployed? Until such qnesMfms as these
are nnawered, it is exeusr«ne to doubt
whether the world will ever see wireless
telephony placed on a commercial basis.
Some remarks which were made
yesterday about a "good old-fashioned
winter' may as well be left unrecorded.
Tax American wheat, and America would
have something to say about her exports
of cotton. Suppose a great cotton lord in
America complained that England kept,
him out of China, and demanded the im
position of an export duty on raw cotton.
What would Lancashire do then?— The
Hon. "Tay Pay" O'Connor, at Blackburn.
"No tax or duty shall be laid on ar
ticles exported from any state."—Con
stitution of the United States, Article I,
Section 0.
Can a Democratic administration b©
really Democratic when it dispenses with
the services of warriors in the cause like
"Colonel" Michael C. Paddon? Doubt
haunts the Bowery, and the visage of
every colonist who hasn't yet headed
toward New Orleans and San Antonio Is
sLained with tears.
"Boston on Trial" Is the caption of a.
New- York Tribune editorial. Being fi. Dem
ocratic city. Boston t$ sure to be found not
Kullty.— Houston Post.
Houston should take off its hat to Bos
ton, for in re-electing "Fitz" as Mayor
the Hub shows that it ia one with Texas
iv devotion to the grand old Jeffersonian
notion that Providence created the of
fices solely in order that they might be
Tilled with good, bad and indifferent
Democrats.
It Is not often that blessings come so
abundantly as they came yesterday to
the Commissioner of Street Cleaning. In
one day the Board of Estimate refused
him the assistance of contractors and
nature deposited within his jurisdiction
a really noble snowfall. "Big Bill" views
the situation with a sorrow that re
minds us of the annual report from
Princeton of ten cripples on the eleven
which the next day is to meet Yale. He
knows the value of infusing overconfl
dence in the enemy by the judicious ex
aggeration of trifles. And that was a
perky, overconfident storm. Walt till it
encounters the crippled Street Cleaning
Department:
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
Major General Newton Martin Curtis,
who died recently, looked every one of his
six feet four inches a soldier, and. like all
real fighting men, he vva3 exceedingly
modest regarding his own exploits, In
troduced once in the lobby of the House
of Representatives as "the hero of Fort
Fisher," he acknowledged the introduc
tion with a handshake, arid then to the
introducer he said slowly: "One of the
heroes of Fort Fisher, . perhaps, my
friend." He generally wore gray clothe*
and a pray hat, which, with his , gray
hair and great size, made him a strik
ing tlgure. To one who rallied him on
"wearing the gray" he once explained
humorously, "I wore the blue when I had
to make it count, und gladly; but now I
wear the other to please myself and the
'secesh' side of my house," playfully al
luding to the family of his xlfe, a dis
tant cousin of Jefferson Davis.
"The auto followed the trolley and th«
airship follows the auto. What do you
expect to follow th« airship?"
"The ambulance." — Leader.
.The recovery of Mrs. Fitzgerald's dia
mond studded cveecent. which had lain un
noticed for days between ttvo llagstones in
the sidewalk in one of the busiest blooks
In Broadway, recalls the experience of a
woman who, ona evening last year, after
the opera, went to one of tho fashionable
restaurants In a party of six. They occu
pied a table in the crowded room and
lingered over their supper till late. On
arriving at her home the woman discov
ered that a lar*e diamond from one of
her rings had been lost. The glove was
searched In vain, and then her husband
Hastened to the restaurant, which v\aa
nearly deserted when he arrived there
Under the table where the party had been
elated he found the jewel. The recovery
cecmed remarkably fortunate, from the j
fact that the plaoe had been swept In his
absence.
"Does she keep many servants?"
"Not- more than a week."-* Harper«
Weekly.
.The Rev. Xavler Sutton, of the Passion-
Ist Order, recently^ gave a non-Catholic
mission of eight lectures at Willow Hill,
111., a town of , about 800 inhabitants, In
which there is not a single Catholic resi
dent. "The place has been styled the most
prejudiced town in the country," says
"America,* the new Catholic weekly re
view, "and Father Sutton's visit there has
already produced some very promising re
sults."
JOY OF UXCERTAINTT.
E'en though the truth you -seek to hold
In estimation great, > »*--.:-..•
'Tis sometimes comforting, we're told.
To b« inaccurate,
And Fay, when prophets bring distress
With their predictions blue. \
Deep in your inner consciousness.
"Perhaps they won't come true:
Th«y tell u« food will grow so dear
: That we must learn to fast;
That railway men will presevere
And own the earth at last;
But even when the weather man
Tells doleful tales anew.
We whisper, as their words we scan.
"Perhaps they won't come true!"
Washington Star.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
TAX DEPARTMENT DEFENDED.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In the Mayor's instructions to the
newly appointed Tax Commissioners yes
terday morning he give* to the citizens of
New York the Impression that the assessors
of the. Department of Taxes are MM and
have been in the past open to corruption,;
that they have been receiving bribes of love
and money for not assessing real property
at its full valuation.
It is only right and Just not only to the
rentpayers and taxpayers of the city of
New York in general, but to the capable,
conscientious employes of that department
in particular, that he use hi* Influence in
having removed at once any or «very man
who Is in any way connected with thesa
"manifestly wrong valuations." As I arrt
and have been tor the last seven years
connected with the department in a cleri
cal capacity, the action lie tikes in these'
alleged wrongs us of vital importance to me.
I dislike -to think of the Mayor as in
sincere in his efforts to give New York an
admirable administration, but in view of
his Opinion that it 18 a question whether
the deputy tax commissioners should be
In the competitive- Civil Service class at all, j
I*can only come to the conclusion that he '<
is entirely Ignorant of the whole subject
of the appraisal of real property for the
purposes of taxation as It Is. being dona in
the Borough of Manhattan to-day. .
Many of the assessors of this borough
have been here through changing adminis
trations Cor the last twenty years. They
came as office boy» and clerks and learned
their methods of appraisal from hard ex
perience and careful study. To think that
any Mayor could take a man. even though
he were a good real estate broker or agent,
and place him In any district In Manhattan
haphazard, to assess from ten to twelve
thousand pieces of real estato of all kinds
intelligently in the short period of three
months, is ridiculous. If, for example, Mr.
Gaynor should remove the present deputies
and in their stead place men who are as
capable as he seems to think Mi new com
missioners are, even, who does ho think
would do the work? The assessors? No,
the clerks. And by the time the clerks
had taught these appraisers how they
should value property equitably, another
Mayor would be in office, with another Idea.
When the Mayor cited the Cutting prop
erty In Brooklyn 1 wonder if he took into
consideration the fact that after the valua
tion of that property wa» made public Mr.
Murray, the father-in-law of One of the
Cuttings, in applying for a reduction of the
amount of the appraisal, swore In an affi
davit that the property was assessed then
at the rat« of ISO per cent— 'contention
being that it was ■worth only $573,000, while
assessed at $1,073,000. It has always been
the Custom of the Tax Office to give some
consideration to the owners' opinions of the
values of their realty.
Mr. Gaynor further said that he was par
ticularly anxious about the Borough of
Manhattan. He needs to be. While Man
hattan realty, in every section, Is assessed
at from SO to 110 per cent of Its value, the
property in the outlying boroughs is in
many cases so low that, without a very
careful study of the situation, it 13 almost
Impossible to say just what the percentage
is. Somewhere between 50 and 70 per cent.
In relation M tho GUlender Building,
which was also cited, the Mayor asserts
that that property brought $1,400,000. while
aaeefc^fd at $750,000. If he had been fair to
his subordinates he would have first ascer
tained the present valuation before making
the assertion that reflected upon the hon
esty and integrity of the deputy who made
that appraisal. The property is assessed
to-day at a valuation of $1,150,000. It is
only fair that h* wait and see just what
the owners say in their affidavit for a re
duction from that amount, if such an ap
plication Is filed.
In the mean time, his honor would prob
ably get off his anxious seat if he himself
would take the advice ho has given the
commissioners and leave his own office long
enough to cross the street and Interview
tho gentleman who made that assessment.
After a half hour's talk he would in all
probability return with a better opinion of
some of New York's civil servants.
EDWARD T. BRENNAN.
New York, Jan. 11, 1910.
REMINISCENCES OF CURTIS.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The- death of General N. Martin Cur
tis calls to mind the fact that we were
schoolmates at Gouverneur Wesleyan Sem
inary-, a school where maiiy of tho young
people of Jefferson and St. Lawrence coun
ties v.ere educated. Ho was flve or sin
years older than I and had reached his
Immense height when I was but a boy.
This enabled him to take me by the chin
and hold me over a deep holo in tho river,
much to my ularm and hia amusement.
I also remember that at a reception
the close of the year, when the ladies" large
hull wab crowded, he chose the shortest girl
in the room, a dwarf, and together they
promenaded \i\> and down Ox room, to the
great entertainment of the company. He
■was full of fun, and his old schoolmates
are proud of the hero of Fnrt Fisher
HENRY GRAHAM.
Albany, Jan. 11, IPIO.
A BLANKET OF SILENCE.
To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Why can t we muuagc »ornr way to
keep the anow on the surface tracki, and
the "L" coni-truction all the year, so the
nolce will be reduced to the minimum?
HSV York, Jan. IA i:io. ANTI-NOISE.
PLEA FOR ONE VAST CHURCH.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This morning with regret I read
the obituary notice of the death of the
Rev. Richard Hartley. He was a stanch,
upright preacher, whose greatest hope ru
the visible union of the Christian Church.
Can the, time bo so very far off when
petty difference* will be Ignored, and the
Church will proves, by making Itself
stronger In a. .complete union of all creeds
and denominations? Why not establish the
Church of God. without a creed, respecting
th.. tK>p*rate opinions of those who may
differ with us in minor matters? Let
Protestant churches institute the move
ment.
Cut out of Church boards the word which
signing the particular belief of a Christian
company of believers. Instead of having
"All Souls' Episcopal church" or "Gra CQ
Methodist Church." let us n.a.ko tl» in "All
BouW Church" and plain "Grace Church ■
WILLIAM g. KNICKtKBO'.rKER."
JK&w York, Jan. 14, ioio.
People and Social Incident*
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[Trom The Tribune Bureau. '
Washington. Jan. 11. -The President sent
his message en the conservation of national
resources to Congress to-day.
As a result of conference* at the execu
tive offices, in which the President, Rep
resentative Hayes and Representative
Dwight took part, a statement was given
out at Om White House IMi morning la
the effect that an agreement had been
reached by the regulars and so-called In
surgents whereby the insurgents will re
ceive fair treatment If they attend the
caucus to bo called for the purpose of
sleeting the Ballinger-Plnchot Investigat-
Ins committee and all future caucuses fcr
the consideration of party measures.
The Cabinet meeting tasted a little more
tJian two hours th!« morning. The Secretary
of War, who returned early this morning
from his trip of inspection to Porto Rico.
was present. Mr. Dickinson has begun the
preparation of his report to the President
on conditions In the island, and the Presi
dent will send a special message to Con
gress on this subject and the Philllpptnas.
President Taft addressed one hundred
delegates to the Civil Service Retirement
Association in his offlc© to-day.
Tho President's callers included Senators
Warner. Dlxon. Depew. Gamble and Root.
Representatives Kennedy. MeKlnley. Taw
ney, Austin, Guernsey, Payne. • Thomas,
Den by, Slayden. Hayes, Vreeland. Sim
mons. Knapp, Perkins and Fassett.
The President and Captain Butt went out
for a long walk fore dinner, despite' th«
inclement weather.
The President and Mr?. Taft attended the
opera to-night and had with them the
Attorney General and Mr?. Wickersham.
Senator and Mrs. Eugene Hale and Lieu
tenant Commander Leigh C. Palmer. After
the presentation of. "The Daughter of thu
Regiment". Tetrazzinl sang the polonaise
from "Mignon," at the request of . tha
President.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
* [from Th« Tribune Bureau.]
Washington, Jan. l4.—Mr? Brysa was
hostess at an afternoon tea at the British
Embassy to-day, and had' the wives of the
attache's to assist her.
A. Ru<*tem Bey. Turkish Charge d'Affaire*.
entertained at dinner to-night for the Brit
ish Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce. Hia other
guests were the Swiss Minister and Mme.
Rltter. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Gaff, the Brit
ish second secretary and Mrs. Kennard, the
French Naval Attache and Viscountess
BertOlst d'Azy, Mrs. Guidat Duryee. Mrs.
A. Chester, Countess Lulse Alexandra yon
Bernstorff. Miss Coudert. Miss Durye<\
Miss Henrietta Fitch. Mlsa Conrad, J.
Wilbur Carr, Baron Ambrozy. the Austrian
counsellor; Walter DaVidge, Mr. Hanihara.
the Japanese first secretary; Mr. Low. an
Ibrahim Rlffat Bey, the Turkish second
secretary.
Lieutenant Cumperio. Italian naval at
tach*, went to Baltimore to-night to attend
a ball, and will go to New York frcm that
city to meet the Italian collier Stcrecp-;-.
which is about dud there.
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From Tha Tribune Bureau.]
.Washington, Jan. v.— Tha Vlce-Pre«ider.t
and Mrs. Sherman were entertained at dln
n«r to-night by the Assistant Secretary ©'
State and Mrs. Huntingdon Wilson. Their
other guests were Baroness Rosen, the
Chilian "Minister and' Seflora de Crut, the
Spanish Minister, Senator Fry*. Mr».
MCSJS, Representative and Mrs. James
Breck Perkins, Representative and Mrs..
Frank O. Lowden, the American Ambas
sador to Mexico and Mrs. Henry Lane Wil
son. Edward C. O'Brien, Minister to Para
guay and Uruguay; Mr. and Mr*-. Francis
Crowninshleld. Mr. and Mra. Larz Ander
son and Miss Christian, Of Richmond.
Senator and Mrs. Dtpew had as guest* at
dinner to-night the ' Speaker and Miss can
non. Justice and Mrs. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Senator and Mrs. Burrows, Sen
ator Kean, Miss Lucy Kean, Senator and
Mrs. Scott, Senator Dilllngham, Senator dv
Pont. Senator and Mra. William Alden
Smith, Representative and Mrs. J. ; Sloat
Fassett. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Q. Bennett,
Miss Josephine Patten, Miss Shcrill and Mr.
Crist.
Mrs. Richard H. Totvnwnd was hostess
at a dinner to-night, having a* guests the
Italian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor
dcs Planches, the Austrian Ambassador
and Baroness Hengelmliller, the Danish
Minister and Countess Moltke. Senator and
Mrs. Aldrich. Senator and Mr?. Root, Sen
ator Warren, Representative Hamilton
Fish, Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrs. Adolf
Ladenburg. Of New York; Mr. and Mrs.
Page, Colonel and Mrs. McCawley. Mr. and
Mrs. Woodbury Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Townsend.- Mr. and Mrs. George
Howard. Miss Boardman, Miss Patten,
John Barrett, Commander MsbMSSM*, Ger
man naval attache, and Baron yon Harden
brock. German attache.
One of the largest and most brilliant
dances of the season was that given to
night by Mr. and Mrs. Robert 8. Roosevelt,
of New York and Washington, at Rausch
er's, to introduce their daughter. Miss Olga
Roosevelt, to society. Tha reception room
and ball rooms were decorated with few
other ilowsrs than those sent to the debu
tante to-dsy from friends in New York.
Washington and other cities. Mrs. Roose
velt wore a gown of pale pink satin em
broidered in pearls, and her opals, which
have long been famous. Miss Roosevelt
wore a soft white satin gown with crystal
trimmings and softened with tulle. Thera
was a general dance until midnight, when
supper was served, and after that came the
cotillon. The favors were six in number
and were brought by Mrs. Roosevelt from
Europe. They included gilt baskets filled
with daisies, crops and silken reins, wands
of pink roses, tambourines, pipes, ash trays
and other conceits. An altogether novel
figure was the North Pole, standing eight
feet high, and the favors embracing Amer
ican flags for the women and Cook and
Peary badges for the men. Franklin Ellis
led the cotillon. There were three hundred
guests, including the Vice-President and
Mrs. Sherman and several of the Cabinet
families. Among them were s the Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer, the Misses
Meyer, the Italian Ambassador and Baron
ess Mayor dcs Planches, the Austrian Am
bassador and Baroness Hengelraiiller. the
French Ambassador and Mine. Juaserand,
th© British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce.
the Danish Minister and Countess Moltke,
nearly all the bachelors of the diplomatic
cor and the debutantes of this and last
season. From New York were Mrs. Adolf
Ladenburg and Miss Mildred Poor, both
house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt;
REVISION OF THE VULQATE.
Abbot Oasquet Pays High Tribute to
American Generosity.
Rome. Jan. It.— Abbot Qaaquet. who was
Intrusted by the Pope with the revision of
tho vulgato. to-day delivered a lecture on
the progress of the work. Ha paid a hl«h
tribute to American generosity, saying that
of the 19.-.XW so far contributed to defray tho
expense involved a great part bad Veen
received from the United State*. Much
more motley Is needed.
The abbot estimates that th* work of re
vision, which was begun in 1907. will occupy
eight year Abbot OJasquet expressed his
appreciation of tho assistance of J. Fier-
JK>nt Morgan. who has permitted photo
graphs to be made or d (MM leaves from *
•ixth century edition of the Go. own*i
°i tho American financier.
NEW SPANISH SECRETARY
Madrid. Jan. U.-Seflor Palado has been
"» £cret^ CC ( !v. Sert -. br Don Lu\» Pastor
»'UnS2S£ " X lc S l' inl^ Legation at
Lewis Hamersley, S. Montgomery RoOf
velt. lliss Margaret Koo*«relt. Mr. Z
Mrs. Frederic R. Coudert. Mr. Boekw«i>l
Mr. Barrett. Sir. Pope, the Duke of val.v aI .
lombrosa, c *. Herbert Snipman «*
other*.
Major General and Mrs. Glilespie -ntcr.
talned at dinner to-night for ex-Sea*tsj
and Mr.*. tllfUm.
Mrs. Richard A. Balling^r was the goss«
of honor at a lunch-«n to-day, with stm
Henry S. Boutell as hostess.
Among those attending the opera to-slctit
were the Secretary of the Navy and iir«.
Meyer, th« Misses Meyer, Mrs. L. 2. Lelt*r
whose guests were the Secretary of "VTar •
and Mrs. Dickinson. Brigadier General
Clarence R. Edward*. Mri. Henderson. «•
England, and Miss Janet Fish; Mrs. Elkbji,
Mrs. Samuel Spencer, Mrs. John W. Fester,
Miss Katharine Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Joh»
Hays Hammond. Senator sad Mrs. Xc». |
lands, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworfi
and -lifts Mathilde Townsend, who eutesw
talned a box party.
NEW YORK SOC ETY.
Mr 3. John Turner Atterbury gave a la-|»
dance la^t night at Sherry's for her de!vu.
tante daughter, Miss Beatrice Flags'. Til*
guests, numbering about MS. cams on froti *
the opera and from a dinner and theatr*}
party given by J. Harry Alexanire for
hi* debutante daughter. Miss Virginia Alex
andre. Mrs. Atterotiry and her daughter
were assisted in receiving by Miss Kathar
ine S. Atterbury/' There was genera! daae»
ing until midnight, when supper was serves
at small tables, after wMch the cottllan
was danced, led by Edmund Raters, daae
!ng with Mis* Flags, and by Chalmers
Wood, jr.. who had Miss Atterbury for Us
partner. The favors consisted of «an4a
tipped with roses, baskets trimmed with
flowers and ribbons and sashes of TilTlliii
colors for the women, their partners re
ceiving silver pocket knives, boxes of ci
garettes and gardenias. Among the guest*
were Mr. and Mr*. Court'and: Dixoa
Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. Art&uf Ise'la. Hr.
and Mrs. -V. Ros«et»r Belts. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles da L. Oelrichs. Mr. and Mrs. Jos
eph 11. Chdate, jr., Mr. and Mrs. CbMSSSi
H. Mackay. Mr. and Mrs. J. Cordon Doug
las. Mr. and Mr*. E. K. Potter, jr.. Hr.
and Mrs. William Carl Do-., Mr. aai
Mrs. Robert D. Pruyn. Mr. and Mrs. James
B. Eusti3. Mr. eM Mrs. Harry T. Peters.
Mr. and Mr« Albert I Or-; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. UlUiaai
Greenousn. Mr. and Mrs. Klliaen Vaa
Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. J. Border. Hi
riman. Mr. and Mrs. V>'illiam Woodward.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Norman de R. W*iutehou»«,
Ml»s Christine Biddle. Miss V«ra and ~m**
Gladys Bloodsood, Miss Elizabeth Cuuing.
Miss Josephine Crosby. Miss Edits Deacon.
Miss Sybil Douglas. Miss Rosalind Fish.
Miss Marjorlo Gould. Miss Dorothy Hyde.
Miss M. Dorothy and Miss Rose O'Xeil
Kane. Miss Muriel and Miss MarJeMs
Kins? la r.d, Mirs Louise Kij^iUn, Miss
Laura Livingston. Miss Eleanor and sfiss
Wilfreda MorUm*r. Miss Virginia Murrsf.
Miss Josephine Osborri- Miss Anna! 1 . Ripley.
Miss Ellen ROjer*, Miss Maude Gwynae
Shepherd. Miss Eleanor Steeie. J. Harry
Alexandra. Jr.. Gfosvetior Atterbury, Jo
soph W. Burden, Robert Fetter Br*ase.
Cecil Barrett, Gaspar Bacon. William A.
Drayton. £tu>ve*ar.t Fish. jr.. Sidney W.~
Fish, Edmund C. Fairfax. Frederick T.
Frellnshuysen, Robert Walton Goelat.
Phoenix Ingraham. Monson Morris. Stephen
Marker. Psrry Osborn. Clarence PtU. Per
cy R. Pyne, 2vJ.. Howard C. Potter, Maa
curo Robinson. Lydi? Hoyt. Franklin A.
Plummer, Monroe Robinson. F. Bayard
■:-.-<*» William R. Stewart, Jr.. Robert B.
Van Cortlandt, E. . Coat«r vV;-merding. B.
Thornton Wilson. George . Henry Warrcu
jr.. M. Orme Wilson, jr.. G,eorge M. W*cl
sej% and Grenvilie P. Waterbury.
J. Harry Alexandra gave a dinner last
night at Sherry's (or his daughter. Miss)
Virginia Alexandre. The guests, who were
chaperoned by the debutante's sister, ilrs.
Samuel Adams Claris, were afterward taitaa
to see "The Goddess of Liberty. " later got:?
on to Mrs. Atterbury*» dance. The parsx
Included Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. B.
Pratt. Mr. and Mrs. David WagsiaC, Hz.
and Mrs. Gerald V. Hollins, Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. William Mar
Wright. Miss M. Civili#« Alexandra, Mis*
Lesley Frederick* PsarsCa. Miss Joan fSsf>
STStosV Miss Jeanne and Miss Ruth King.
BttSS Elizabeth Hoyt. Miss Dorothy liajd— ,
Miss Ursula Brown, Mi«s Leoni Alexandra
Miss Helena Deiaaraat, 24. s» Fraaces
Dickey, m:. Elsie, Miss Hsrwr.aa and Mfea
Nathalie Howland, Miss Katharine Greece.
Mill Katharine H. Tilford. ili.s Anita la
ger soli. Miss Dorothy Haydeu. Miss J**a
Roosevelt, Miss Justine V. R. Barber. Mi»
Virginia Murray. Miss Clara Fargo. JEsJ
Anna Street. Miss Ruth Applston, MHb
Alice a:..: m Miss Zelina Clark. Miss Wil
tr«da Mortimer. Miss Dorothy Moran, MJss
Louise MSJSJ-fS** Miss Catherine L. HimsW
ley. Miss Margaret Rutherfsrd, Miss Ele=aor
burn; 1 .. Marshall R. Kernochan. ilaarlce
Roche. William and Burrill Hoffman. 11.
Taylor Pyne, Ay mar Johnson. FreSerte
Kernocßan. Frederic de P.iiaxn. LaaMr
Winslow. William Manica. F. S. Garvis.
Thomas Potter, Louit KesSMB, Geo?2»
Woolsey. Newton Rao and Cecil St Cecrse.
Miss Cornelia Lee, daughter Of Mr. s»d
Mrs. CharlC3 H. Lee, will be married to
day to William Ladd. at the home of Mr
parents. in Gramercy Park.
Mrs. Franklin M. Warr.er gives a recep
tion with music this afternoon at Sherry's
for Mr. and Mrs. Tab^r Scars.
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. VanderbUt WB
go to Palm Beach. Fia.. next montn toe a
few weeks' stay.
. Mr. and Mrs. Charlsa de Loosey Oelrichs
have taken an apartm*:.; at Xo. 72 Par*
avenue for the rest c? the tr'.v.'.tr
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
(By "". . t"« -* to " .'- "•" ■*>■•-.•»»
JCevrport. Jan. 14. -Mrs. T. Shaw Safe **•
tertained st luncheon at her villa thfaafttf
noon.
Leonard M. Thomas has rented 0-* r "
foil, the villa of William E. Carter, in S*"
ragiir.sett avenue, for next season. He ■««
be married on January :-: • to Miss Biases*
Oelrichs. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charka
M. Oelrichs. of Xew York. They wl2 i?* 1^
their honeymoon in California and code ta
Now-port early in the season. Mr. Thoss**
• IB give his bachelor dinner at Delmoaico 1
to-morrow evening. Francis Potter went w
New York thU evening to atund It.
DR. CLAY FOR MORGAN CHA»
Pennsylvania!! Accept* New L»f»*
Professorship at Yale.
[B? Tal»«raph to Th« Trrtmw !
Philadelphia. Jan. 14.— The R*v. ©r..J>
bert T. Clay, sloe* ISS3 a*al=it*nt our^a*" «*
the Babylonia* section of th* Free Mu»*«»
of Sclenca and Art of th* University «
Pennsylvania, has accepted '.*» <■** ?f
v- tology and Babylonian - UUr * t;a ?r^
tabllshed at Yala University by J. Pterpo l "
Morgan.
The flnanciar'* «u«3owaa«nt is to &• k* 1 "?-.;
as the William M. LaCaa 9TQi&aanito> '*
memory of the late publisher of "Th* >**
York Sun." Tfca endowment is Sl*.**
Dr. Ciay was r*comaoer>4ed to tl» *V
c*nx>r»t»aß t«e I'm net* pi>fe3«*«««J|
O. M John*, of Camorlds* Uuiverttty. »*]
land. Dr. Clay t» also known to VI?. »?:>
San. having recently arranged *• aM L'
small collactlcn of cuneiform ÜbJ«<*. * .
■was bom in Hanover. Per.n,. la li* _ *
tnj.s graduated rro:n Franklin and JUJW*-
College in LSS9 and from tiia Lutß"^
Theological Seminary la 1334 . -^'V