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yoi LXIX.-..N° 23,072.
aUGBES PLEADS
FOR HONESTY
<jVS PKOFLB SHOULD
BE HEARD.
D.-'hess County Men Greet
Governor's Demand for
Direct Primaries.
Governor Hughes made a stirrm*
„-«•», last night to some four hundred
n^r' • of the Dutchess County Society
"their annual dinner at the Hotel
istor hi which he came out strongly in
lavnr'of the free expression of public
sentiment, saving that he was unwilling
to trust to any man or set of men to ex
ws the will or the sentiment of the
r^ople Honest expenditures, but not
Ji«rardlv ones, he said, were demanded
t,v"the "people. This expression of the
Governor was vigorously applauded by
the , bs of Dr.- bees County and the
ruinous "Dutchesses" who occupied
the boxes, as «i» every other point
as* by the State Executive.
" Governor Hughes came to the dinner
M an honorary tnembor of the society,
a* he said there was no opposition to his
candidacy when he was proposed. He
wore the handsome badge that goes with
honorary membership, and although he
paid that he the whole state,
he was treated as a most favored son.
Assemblyman Lewis Stuyvesant Chan
ler former Lieutenant Governor, who is
a native of Dutchess. was also warmly
■meted The two men did not ask each
other questions last night, as they did
during an interesting campaign a little
mere than a year ago. It was the first
public function in this city at which the
two former adversaries met since that
time but this time they were entirely
in accord on matters that affected the
weilbeing of th* state.
PEOPLE DEMAND EFFICIENCY.
And «: that gathering of more than
four hundred, with its admixture of
pMTttral affiliations and interests, there
was not a man who did not display by
vociferous cheers his entire approval of
every sentiment of advanced political
ideas expounded by Governor Hughes.
He said that Congress, the Legislature
and the Governor must expect to be
supported, directed and even controlled
fey the people. The American people, he
asserted, were not niggardly about public
expenditures, but they wanted to know
for what the money has been expended.
"The people find no trouble." said the
Governor, "'over money expended when
it is honestly expended. But they insist
.that a government employe shall not loaf
m the job. Nor do they want men ap
inimed to offlce because they supported
SFta:r. candidates or can carry prima
ries. They want to see a clear financial
sheet, and do not want either party
camping out co the public purse."
The Governor vehemently asserted
that he wished to put the finances of the
state on a sound basis and that he fa
vored the filing of all proposed expendi
tures by the Legislature with the State
Controller for analysis before the con
vening of the Legislature.
ON DIRECT PRIMARIES.
Continuing-, Governor Hughes said
alonr the line of his view's on the ques
tion of direct primaries:
There is throughout our state and nation.
s Ceraar.d constantly growing not for th-;
Mjpcss'-bie alteration of human nature or
Th»t m:ra--ies he performed, but that every
public officer attend to his work to the best
of Ub abiiity; also that men should be
cftosen according to their fitness for office,
*£d thai the sentiment of the people or-
Frjiized in parties shaJl have free expres-
■•■ so that they may get what they want
*nd really rule themselves.
v is because I believe so strongly in the
food of human nature that I want to see
th» sentiment of the average man freely
fTpressf-d. for I think there Is the salvation
ci the country. I am not willing to trust
any s»t of rr.^n or any man with the degree
of confidenop that I" am willing to repose
ypon the judgment and common sense, of
lairness and the love of right, of the Amer
ican people It is easy to epeak cynically
or talk about the people, as though they
were a mass, confused, largely ignorant.
Interested only in their own interests, self
i«i and wthout any sincere aim to achieve
u^f 1 :*: * d a "d noble in life But I be
ne»» • r- : . is something- absolutely wrong
*t»ut the heart of any man who takes that
view of all feilowman.
He must have had a very miserable per
sonal experience, if. mm he goes to and fro
t'pon the land, and comes into close per
sonal contact with his fellow citizens, he
does not realize that there is an intense de
flre to have virtue supreme, to have right
OTn:Rant. to p^t down e\-erything that is
*Tone. and. despite the. necessary inflrmi
tei of human nature and the constant ex
nicitlon of human frailtjes, this sincere.
»3ne>:t effort consistently finds expression
improvement; and so we not only co on.
put w» go uv>. and every generation sees
hatter days than the days of those that
Ban before.
Former Lieutenant Governor Chanler
assured Governor Hughes particularly
ard his fellow members generally that
Dutrhess County had just such an *»ffl
cteat and honest administration of its
fcSairs as the Governor had Just advo
cated, h* said that a legislator could be
£n Important factor for good govern
ffl^nt, adding: "There is a tendency to
'xagg*. the importance of the cxecu-
O*e branch at the expense of the legis
lative. For my part. I consider it an
honor as well as a duty to represent
Outchegg County In the Legislature of
tte state, though some might think it a.
Repdown from the office of Lieutenant
Governor."
Mr Chanler said that he agreed with
«*rytbiasr Governor Hughes had said
£n honest eovernment. Public offices.
» said, should be filled by men who
«-'! devote themselves fearlessly to the
•fc good. Mr. Chanler said that he
uld c °ntinue supporting every good
'!f* Ul> advocated by Governor Hughes.
former Controller Herman A. Metz
* u *d m favor of more adequate com-
Ration for certain city officials. Ex
******* Counsel John J. Delany
<Vt of tbe greatness of New York
Ha-i, Other spejike «! were Judge Frank
«*»brour.k and Charles O. Mass.
Ac * lv * r lOViag cup was presented to
nun j Ro Ke# the retlrJng p reS j dent
**5 dety * Who was succeeded by Dr.
"ard Bryant Hoa
"TOUGHEST TOWN" BURNED.
«2 0P S£. Wash., Jan . *«-<*"« Forks,
imed-or m tajned _ aa the .. tougb ,
*y fir *n in Idaho, was almost destroyed
■ ! o-<ia,y
■ " J«■ hmw ot urn south.
f^uipn^nt sl« ne ' Superior Roadway,
Ir-'iy. ■£' A a t r r ic *- Four limited Trains
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_ %o-d» T . fair
To-morrow, fair and warroer
DISCIPLINE FOR 100
NAVAL OFFICERS DID
XOT TAKE TEST.
May Be Tried by Court Mar-
tial for Disobedience
of Order.
[From The Tribun* Bureau . 1
Washington. Jan. 15.— The prospect of
disciplining, perhaps in some cases to the
rxtent of trial by court martial, about
one hundred commissioned officers con
fronts the naval authorities. The final
returns of the officers who were required
by Presidential order to ride or walk a
prescribed distance in a specified time in
the calendar year f9<>9 show that about
two hundred officers have failed to take.
or have failed in taking, what is known
as the annual physical test. In even*
case where the test was not undertaken
or completed the Navy Department has
called on the officer for an explanation.
In a few cases which have come to the
attention of the department the officers
are regarded as furnishing no valid ex
cuse, and in at least one instance an
offi<'pr has been reprimanded in an offi
cial letter and required to complete th<%
test without delay. It will be placed to
his credit for the last year, and he must
take another test in 1&1 O.
In about half of the cases reported to
the department the excuses are accept
able. They show that officers "were ad
vised against taking the test by the
naval surgeons, or that they attempted
to complete the tost and were prevented
for one reason or another, sometimes by
the weather, as in the case of those in
Philadelphia and New York, who put off
their test until the last few days of the
year, and then encountered a severe
snowstorm. In a few esses officers were
injured in the walk or ride, and in others
officers have been pronounced in need of
slight surgical operations or special
treatment in hospitals before they took
the test.
This leaves, however, about one hun
dred officers who did not take the test at
all, and many of whom apparently made
110 effort to comply with the executive
order. What action shall be taken in
these cases has become a serious ques
tion. Officers who promptly complied
with the requirements are awaiting the
result with keen interest. The naval
authorities understand that something
must be done as an example to those
who may be regarded as in the attitude
cf defying or disobeying orders. It is
realized that this situation cannot be
lightly passed over, but it is out of the
question of course to court martial so
many, and it is presumed that every
officer who is in this extraordinary class
has some, sort of excuse which he can
present to a court, leaving doubt aa to
the exact extent of his culpability.
RED MITTENS FOR GAYNOB,
Mayor Now Prepared for Any Winds
That Blow.
Mayor Gaynor 1b now well prepared for
walking: across the Bridge on freezing
<lay= and for 'cross-country walking in
blinding northeast snowstorms on Long
Island. Edward F. Linton, an old friend
from East Hew York, has sent him a pair
of red mittens.
•These mittens are made from well raised
and carded wool, spun and knit on a farm
in Litchneld. Me, wrote Mr. Linton.
"They were bougnt at a country' fair from
ar. old lady, whose bony hands knit them.
I bought four pairs— all she had. She waa
so astonished and pleased that she re
membered me in her prayers until her
death. Please accept them with my best
wishes. If too gay. they could be covered
with thin silk in any shade desired."
In accepting the mittens with thanks, the
Mayor wrote to Mr. Linton: "I wore mit
tens just like them when a boy, the wool of
w hich was made from our own sheep,
carded at the carding mill three miles
away and spun and knit by my grand
mother and mother. How things have
changed since then! 1 '
A Tammany Hall man who heard about
the red mittens remarked aryly: "Yes, the
Mayor needed mittens. He had tfwn all
the mittens he had left to our organiza
tion."
NO MORE GOLDEN EGGS
Wife Sues for $40 a Week Alimony
and Gets $1 50.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Pittsburg, Jan. 15. — Mrs. Martha Friel
ordered her husband out of their house two
weeks before Christmas. He went, but
each week since has sent her $40. To-day
he was a. few hours behind in the payment,
so the woman summoned him to appear ln
court.
After hearing the testimony Judge Brown
ordered Friel to pay his wife $1 50 a week
in the future. The Judge casually re
marked to Mrs. Fri. I that «he had "killed
the goose that laid the golden egg." Mrs
Fn«l wept and Friel left the courtroom
smiling
NEW- YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1* 1010._ii\E PARTS.-FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. ¥ PRICE FIVE CENTS.
EFFECTS OF THE BUZZARD IX AXD ABOUT CITY.
COASTERS IX CENTRAL PARK. THE LUSITANLVS WRECKED BRIDO«. DUMPING BNOW INTO NORTH RIVER.
STORM LEAVES CITY
PEACE FOLLOWS THE
BLIZZARD.
Ten Deaths Due to the Gale
—Traffic Xearly Xor
mal Again.
There wa? no rainbow in the sky last
niifht, but the splendor of the sunset,
the new moon uptilted to hold water and
the stars set like diamonds in a steel
deme. lightened the hearts of all those.
■who labor and are heavy laden. Even
the snow piles, glimmering blue-white in
the dusk of an old-fashioned winter's
evening, had a look of finality, like
irrejrular copies, on a smaller scale, of
the pyramids of Egypt.
Those ancient inhabitants who will
not forget or allow to be forgotten the
blizzard of '88 were at peace, for the
storm, which had threatened their oft
quoted records, stopped short of equal
ling them, and their pet flurry still re
mains the peer. "Pax vobiscum" retort
the more youthful, "'and then some."
Everybody knows that, after irregular
flurries, the snow stopped falling about
10:30 . o'clock yesterday morning:, that
in the early afternoon the sky's complex
ion cleared and that by evening the
wind was pumping vigor from the north
western plains into the cramped lungs
of New York's home scurrying hordes.
The traction lines were working fairly
smoothly again, and trains in and out
of the city were once more on time. The
world seemed a good place again, except
in those homes crippled by death or in
jury.
In all ten lives were reported lost as
a direct result of the storm. Those who
swelled the list of the dead as late as
yesterday morning are:
AUHROGRAFFE. Thomas, nertion frr»man on
Putnam Division of New York Central.
struck by pass'iippr iraln near Van Corf
lend station and instantly killed.
PIARA. Domtalck, twenty-tour; died tn Lebanon
li.irpital from Injuries received by helnjj
struck by tram while .-learing snow from the
New Ha i en traokß.
FTTNEB, John. »w^nty-on«> * ears old. Beaufort
street. Morris Park, strurk by Long Island
train and instantly lolled.
LAVATINO. Antonio, section hand, killed by
snowplow on Long Island road.
LJTTKLL. Grant, hit by locomotive !n yards of
Delaware. Larkawana & Western Railroad
In Hoboken.
BAETTO, Vinzetto. killed bj» anotvplough on
Long Island road.
Anthony Ceren. thirty-four years old,
while entering his home at No. 134
Steuben street, Jersey City, last night,
slipped on the snow and pitched head
long to the sidowalk. fracturing his skull.
He was dead when a physician arrived.
The blinding snow, which interfered
with the vision of both victim and cn
jrlneT. was responsible for the fatality
In each of these cases.
The list of those injured was also
swelled in the last few hours of the
storm's duration, but the record is nec
essarily fragmentary, and in almost
every case the victim is expected to re
cover. Many horses suffered, too. from
falls on the slippery roadways, but with
them the heavy going caused by the
lo< se snow was as child's play compared
with the danger to limb during the re
cent sleet storm.
Strange to say, the elements singhd
out the Long Island Railroad for thoir
most spiteful work, leaving the others
entering the city comparatively free from
annoyance. Even in the morning trains
were being operated at not far from
schedule time on the New York Central,
the New York. New Haven 8t Hartford
and the roads with terminals in Bay
onne, Jersey City and Hoboken. Last
night the managements of these lines
all said that truffle conditions had be
come entirely normal once more. There
was still a little trouble on the Long
lirland, however.
After twenty hours of strenuous work
the Long* IsluW Railroad announced
ContlaucU m third pus*
LONG ISLAND TRAIN STALLED TN DRIFTS.
About a mile and a half west of Hicksville. near the place where Mayor Gaynor
had to walk.
CHASE SUGAR MAX.
H. W. Walker Tried to Run
Altai i from Bench Warrant.
One of the six men indicted on charges
of complicity in the short weighing 1
frauds on the Havemeyer & Elder docks.
Harry W Walker, the assistant superin
tendent there, made a valiant but futile
effort to escape arrest yesterday. He
lives at No. 283 Perm street, Brooklyn,
and J. H. Proctor, a deputy United
States marshal, and a Secret Service
ngent were watching the house to serve
him with a bench warrant, intending
only to instruct him to appear in th».»
Federal Building here to-morrow to
plead with the other indicted men.
Proctor and the government agent >aw*
Walker coning a block away, and start
ed to meet him. They h;id not ap
proached within twenty feet of him when
he bolted. Over heaps of snow and on
slippery sidewalks they chased the in
dicted man for eight long blocks before
Proctor was able to clutch Walker. It
was then decided that mere instructions
to appear would not answer, and he was
taken before United States Commissioner
Morle. Walker waived examination and
was paroled in the deputy marshal's cus
tody until to-morrow, when he will be
arraigned.
Charles R. Heike, the secretary of the
American Sugar Refining Company, and
the other indicted men will be at the
Federal Building to plead to-morrow
morning at Hh3o o'clock. No bench war
rant was aed for Mr. Heike, as his
counsel promised to produce him when
wanted. The other indicted men are
under bail on former indictments, but
will appear to plead on the new charges.
BACK TO HIS CELL.
Man Returns After Brief
Freedom for Funeral.
[By Telpjraph to The Tribune.]
, Camden, N. J., Jan. 15— Showing that
he was a man of his word, John Sulli
van, of Gloucester City, returned to the
Camden county jail to-day after being
released to attend the funeral of his wife
yesterday. With two other men Sulli
van was arrested some days ago on a
charge of assaulting Jopl Cross, of Cam
den, a justice of the peace.
While in jail his wife died. We wanted
to attend her funeral, but it was impos
sible for him to secure a bondsman. He
was told that if he would give his word
to return to prison he would be per
mitted to go to Gloucester City. Sulli
van readily consented to the terms and
went, unattended by an officer. Bright
and early this morning he returned and
went to his cell.
ROOSEVELT STILL LOVES FIGHT.
Writes to Ex-Rough Rider About
Ketchel-Johnson Bout.
Buffalo, Jan. 15.— Theodore Roosevelt's
consideration of old friends and his love of
a lighter and a good fight haven't been
changed by his African trip, as a letter
from him received by "Tony" Gavin, a
former Rough Rider, testifies.
Gavin frequently corresponded with Colo
nel Roosevelt when he was President.
Some months ago he wrote to him in
Africa. He has received the following re
ply:
„ , . Africa. On Safari.
Here Is the flower for Alberta. 1 wish I
could have sent it with many returns on
her birthday. It was good to bear from
you. That must have been a rattling tight
between Ketchel and Johnson. Johnson is
unquestionably a first class fighter- I won
der If ••Jim" Jeffries can get back into
form: if he can. it will be a tremendous
battle when they meet.
W. J. CONNERS BUYS YACHT.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.)
Fishkill Landing, N. V.. Jan. 15.-William
J. Conners. of Buffalo, chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, has just
bought the steam yacht Oneta. owned for
merly by George XV, Kiklns. of Philudel
,P, P £ la \n£ aS «, year Mr. Conne rs chartered
the Alice, owned by Frederick D. Under-
W n °™- P 'r"hi id^ nt of r lle K " u ' Railroad Com
length. Ul ' S 1T - ff ' 1 ' >! Inches in
D m',!, SUPERIOR OLD PORT WINE
v Hie most stren*thenin« wine we make.
Yavt bOns Co ' m Fulton St " N.Y.
FLEE FROM FIRE
APARTMEXT HOUSE
BURXS OX DRIVE.
Frozen Alarm Boxes and
Heavy Snoxv Cause Delay -
Tc riant* Fight Blaze.
The south wing of the Y^ronique. a
big apartment house of six stories that
crowns the hill between 122 d and 127 th
streets, on Riverside Drive, was burned
out last night in a fire that drove every
tenant from the building. The wind
that swept across the Hudson spread
the flames from the second story to the
roof, making the fire visible all over
Harlem.
It was half an hour from the time that
a blown -out fuse set fire to the second
floor apartment of Mrs. Maud West that
the engines arrived. Two fire alarm
boxes which the Janitor tried to open
were frozen tight, and further delay was
caused by the long run at slow speed
through the snow, in the mean time
tenants were leaving everything in their
apartments and escaping into the central
court. There they joined with the occu
pants of neighboring apartments, who
came to their aid in rescuing those who
were overcome by smoke.
The fire was put out after an hour's
hard fight. The owners of the building,
the Commonwealth Mortgage Company,
suffered a loss of $50,000. the police
estimated.
While Georse OHara. the superin
tendent of the building, was rushin?
about trying to send in the alarm ten
ants in the Clairmont, the apanment to
the north, unfastened the house pipes
and directed streams into the burning
apartment. These streams did the most
effective work, because when the de
partment men finally attached their
hose It was a long time before there waa
pressure enough to make the streams
effective.
RESCUE TWO FROM SICK BED
While Trucks 23 and 30 were stuck in
the snow five blocks away, the firemen
ran with their axes to the apartment.
Some of them were working on the roof
when a number of gas pipes broke, and
they were overcome, but were revived
by a department physician.
Mrs. Maud Neas. seventy-eight years
old. who lived in the apartment where
the fire broke out, was carried down th«
.stairways from a sick bed. Earl (lu
!iik. a famous boy soprano of a few
years ago. who underwent an operation
on Wednesday, was taken from his
apartment on the first floor. Mrs. Mary
D Becker was sleeping in her apartment
on the third floor when neighbors in
formed her of the danger, just ha : t ■
escape from the apartment was cut off
by the flames.
John Falls, a fireman of Engine Com
pany 28. went into the demolished West
apartment and found Dick, a spaniel,
valued at $1,000, cowering in a corner of
one of the bedrooms, his head" almost
entirely covered by a small rug. which
he had' evidently pushed into the corner
to protect him from the water of the
tire fighters. When Falls delivered Dick
to Mrs. West she was so much pleased
that for a moment she forgot th i she
had been burned out of house and home.
Many of the tenants were dressing for
dinner when the alarm was sounded
through the building. They made their
escape in bathrobes or whatever gar
ments were handy. Those who lost
everything were received into neighbor-
Ing apartment houses. Ulysses Court and
The Ardelle. ' ■" : ; r * - V l V*^
CHICAGO MAY BUILD SUBWAY
Chicago. Jan. 15,-Clrcult Judge Carpen ,* er
upheld the right of the city of Chicago
to-day to use Its traction fund for con
structing and operating a subway for
passenger traffic. Under the ruling the city
Van expend 175,000 appropriated for subway
plan*.
WILL XOT EAT MEAT.
Move we tit tn Cut Prices Will
Reach 30,000 Working men.
Cleveland. Jan. !."».— Resolutions pledg
ing the signers to abstain from eating
meat for at least thirty days wpre set in
circulation among workingmen in large
shops here to-day and will reach rift \
thousand men. The movement has the
backing of a number of members of the
Superintendents and Foremen's Club,
and the hope is to bring down existing
prices.
At a meeting of the club to-night ten
superintendents and foremen promised
to circulate ihe petition in their shops.
In eacli of which more than one thou
sand workmen are employed. A petition
circulated in one shop to-day received
41 ">0 signatures.
MRS. FISH DESERTS
Renounces Former Vine* and
Becomes a Suffragist.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is the latest de
serter from the rank? of the anti-suf
fragists. Mrs. Fish joined the National
League for the Civic Education of
Women last year, and declared herself
to be utterly opposed to votes for
women. At the recent lecture given by
Mrs. Ida Husted Harper a t the Colony
Club. under the auspices of the Political
Equality Association, of which Mrs. • ».
H. P. Belmont is president, her convic
tions were shaken, and at the lecture "f
the Equal Franchise Society, at the Gar
den Theatre on Thursday, they appear
to have been completely uprooted, for
■fca told Mrs. Belmont that she was now
for woman suffrage and always would be.
HISS TAFT PRESEXT
Attendance at Meeting Stimu
lates Shirtzcaist Strikers.
Philadelphia. Jan. 13. — Miss Helen
Taft. daughter of the President, wtth r <=n
of her girl friends at Bryn Maw -
lege. <mie into town and attended a < in
ference i*J promru-nt women at th* home
of Mrs. Henry La Barrr Jayne. at which
the shirtwaist strike was dis><-n«sed and
plans made to aid the girls. The fact
that Miss Taft attended the conference
has gven renewed hope to the strikers.
One hundred women, many of whose
names stand for wealth and family tra
ditions in this city, attended the confer
ence. The Bryn Bfawr girls who at
tended are being trained in sociological
work to set aside class distinctions and
help solve some of the living problems of
the day Miss Taft's present 1 " was un
known to many of those in the meeting.
She slipped in and out unostentatiously,
but she followed Urn discussion with in
tense interest.
The arbitration offer of the manufact
urers is said to have been one ,->f the
matters discussed at the conference. The
manufacturers want the girls to return
to work pending arbitration proceeding??.
AFTER FIVE YEARS.
Tip to District Attorney's Of
fice Brings About Arrest.
After having been sought for five
years. Michael M. Forrest was arrested
yesterday, charged with grand larceny
in the first degree on the complaint of
John H. Cook, of No 1314 Dean street.
Brooklyn. Since he disappeared For
rest served one year of a three-year
sentence in the state prison in Trenton.
N. J. He was released on parole by the
Board of Pardons. He said he was sent
to prison for obtaining money under
false pretences.
Recently he has held the position .<f
secretary of the Florence Realty Com
pany, with offices in the Marbrid«-j»-
Building, 34th street and Sixth s»vemi>\
where he was arrested. Some one in
formed the District Attorneys office
that Forrest could be found at that ad
dress. He was arrested on a bench war
rant issued by the Court of General Ses
sions on November 23. 190..
Cook charges Forrest specifically with
th* larcony of $3.<>00 which had been in
trusted to him to be invested in real
estate There are other complainants,
and the amount of the transactions in
volved is estimated at SMfcMlt Forrest
said that prior to 1304 he had real estat-?
offices in lower Broadway, and did a
large investment business.
THINK SIDIS IS PYTHAGORAS
Boston Theosophists See Greek's Rein
carnation in Harvard Prodigy.
.. rf> [By Telegraph to Th« Tribunal
Boston, Jan. Since Willie Sldis. the
eleven-year-old son of Boris Sidis. the well
known Brookline psychologist, astounded
the Harvard professors by his knowledge
of the "fourth dimension." as given to
them in a lecture recently, the Boston
Theosophists have had him under critical
observation. Many have come to the con
clusion that this frail boy. whose mathe
matical genius has surprised the mathe
.matieians. is the reincarnation of no less
a famous personage than Pythagoras, the
Greek philosopher.
The fact that Pythagoras died twenty-six
hundred years ago does not alter tin opin
ion of Mrs. Harriet M: Drake, one of th»
best known Theosophists in this city, that
In this remarkaole . lad Pythagoraa has
Cumw Uack to earth in the flesh. ■■■■■■■
LIBERAL VICTORY
IS INDICATED
PARTY'S BIG MAJOR
ITY IS REDUCED.
Elections Held So Far Point to
i ( ' -if Present
Government.
At the close of the first day's polling
in the general elections in England yes
terday the standing' of the various par
ties, including uncontestsd seats, was as
follows:
Unionists. 43: Li&erais. 37: Labor-tsa,
6: Nationalists. 5.
Unionist gains. 18; Liberal gams, 3:
LaDor ga ns ovor Liberals, t; ns
change. 69.
Of the twelve contested seats in Lon
don, the Liberals hold seven, the Union
ists five, three of the latter being gains,
in North Lambeth. Brixton and Fulham.
In the provinces the Unionists gained
Southwest Manchester, Stalybridge.
Salisbury, Rochester, Burnley, two seats
in Devonshire, Cambridge, Yarmouth,
Gloucester. Wolverhampton West and
South, Wednesbury and two seats \n
Bath.
The Liberals won Manchester (North
west), Darlington and Grimsby. The
Labor gain was in East Manchester.
[By French Cable to Th«» Tribunal •
London. Jan. 15. — The results of elec
tions to ninety -one seats in Parliament
disclose a, strong but not overwhelming
trend toward Unionism. One-ninth of the
whole number of seats were closely con
tested, and with the uncontesterl seats
included, between one-seventh and ons
eighth of them were filled by Union
ists. The Unionists should have gained
twenty contested seats and twenty-six
contested and uncontested seats in order
to command by the same percentage a
majority of twenty-six for the whole
house.
Thetr net era in at midnight was fifteen,
which was handsome, but hardly suffl
ci^nt to indicate an ultimate majortty
over the coalition. There was. however,
a heavy increase in th» Unionist noils
and a less noticeable addition to the Lib
eral and Labor voto.
In some boroughs there was a bis
shrinkage in the progressive \ote. These
may be cumulative proofs of the reac
tion against Liberalism, tf the Unionist
grains in seats themselves are not yet de
«isive. and merely justify the expecta
tion of a very large reduction in the
Liberal majority of the last House.
The rival centres of influence. Man
chester and Birmingham, were strongly
I ittcd against each other. The recapture
of the Manchester division, whs—
Churchill was defeated tn a by-election.
was offset by the loss of Southwest
Manchester. That loss was caused by a
division of the progressive frrcts. the
seat being thronn away
The majorities for Free Trade in Man
chester were large, and there was no
evidence of a conversion to tariff re
form. Birmingham, with its great
leader disabled and only able to writ*
postcards and dispatches, was more loyal
than, ever to his policies. Increased ma
jorities were practical proof that tariff
reform had gained invincible prestige in
Midlands, and W.ilverhampton. once the
stronghold of Free Trade, has gone over
to the Unionists, who have captured two
cut of three seats.
Lancashire generally 13 following the
lead sf Manchester, exceptions lika
Burnley beiaaj due to a triangular con
test, with a Socialist drawing off of the
■wiling •
The Unionists expected to - gain six
seats in the metropolis, but were com
pelled to be satisfied with three. They
recovered, however. Rochester. Salis
bury. Gloucester. Cambridge. Wednes
bury. Falmouth and Bath, which they
had lost in 190t>. They also made a
clean sweep of Devonport and defeated
Bright Staiybridge.
The meagre Liberal gains included.
Darlington and Grimsby. the last the
most unexpected achievement.
No member of the government was
exposed to the risks of political reaction
on the first polling day as Balfour was
in 100 G. The Unionists had a powerful
ally in Lord Hush Cecil, who was re
turned with Sir "William Anson, for
Oxford University. Sir Edward Carson
was unopposed for Dublin University,
and both George Wyndham and Sir Gil
bert Parker were elected for Dover and
Gravesend by substantial majorities.
Sir , Mortimer Durand and Waldorf
Astor were defeated in Plymouth, where
the Liberal majority was heavily re-,
duced. but not wiped out. Gibson
Bowles, standing for Kings Lynn as a
Free Trader, was elected at last, altar
many vicissitudes, and Bellairs. who de
feated him in 100»», was himself beaten
in Lancashire, after becoming a Tariff
Reformer, a strange example of the
eccentricities of politics
Sir Eriwurd T^nnant. the Prtnv
ister s brother-in-law, lost Salisbury hi
spit^ of his personal popularity.
Sir Henry Xorman. organizer of tl»
Budget League, was one of the victims
of Liberal disaster at Wolvertuuaptosv
although desperate efforts were mad* to
save th-- s
The election returns were displayed
at the newspaper offices to-night from
Ludgate Circus to Trafalgar Square ami
were watched by good natured crowds
hour after hour. A structure like a. gal
lows had been erected on waste ground
at Aldwych. and two figures, presumably
Asquith and Balfour. were started in a
race up election ladders. Blank wails
were covered with fluttering sheets and
limelight lanterns alternately exhibited
the returns and cartoons before mixed
audiences, which either cheered or booed.
The results of the polling were dis
played in the music halls and even re
mote boroughs were enabled to know
from illuminated screens how the elec
tions were going. The Constitutional
and the National Liberal clubs were
filled with excited loungers, and great
crowds in Northumberland avenue and
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