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Winston Churchill Moves Up— Extraordinary
Extent of His New Duties Described
by Ex- Attache.
tOtV, ■ 191". by the Brentwoofl Company.)
Although all kinds ..... have been
rr.Wed and mailed to this country for
publication, to the effect thai the
brilliant son of the late Lord Randolph
Churchill and of his American wife, who
was M;--!= Jean • Jerome, of New York,
had forfeited the favor of Edward VII
by his vigorous attacks on the House of
Lords in connection with the latter's re
jection of the financial schemes of the
government, yet he has during the last
week been intrusted by his sovereign
vith the seals of Secretary of State for
the Home Department, in succession to
Herbert Gladstone, appointed Governor
General of the South African Union.
That Winston Churchill should have re
reired this promotion, which carries
with it a salary of ._--„. a year, in lieu
Df tli^ >-..„■. which he was receiving as
president of the Board of Trade, indi
ratcs more strongly than anything else
that he continues to enjoy not merely
;he good will but also the confidence of
:he monarch, for the nomination could
not have l>een made without the latter"?
renscnt. and in view of the fact that of
»il thr members of the administration
:here is none who is brought into such
ronstant and intimate contact- with his
majesty as the Secretary of State
"or the Home Department. Winston
rhurchiH Would never have received the
lisd he been the object of any seri
•>l;= displeasure on the part of the King.
Hrre ir; the United Siates the principal
secretary in the Cabinet — in fact, the
; :.r who bears tbe title of Secretary
■>f stale — is at the head of tho depart
■ncni of foroicn fail '■■' Great
HritEin the principal Secretary of State
•.s not tho chief of the Foreign Office, but
the head of the so-called Home part
ment, which is th** cour.ten>art of the
Department of the Interior at Washing
ton. The Secretary of the Home De
partment is. more than any other mem
ber of the Cabinet, the channel of com
munication between the monarch and
Sis subjects. All royal proclamations
are countersigned by the Home Secre
tary. If the King wishes to communi
rate some message to his people, such as
s notification of the birth, the marriage
or the death of a member of his family,
his gratitu for manifestations of
public sympathy, or his condolence with
.h^ victims of some great disaster, he
nvariably does so through the Home
~ecr r tary. -. is Through the latter that
ell petition? to tbr sovereisn hay to be
presented, no matter whether fron: pub
_>«7 bodies or from individuals, and it is
tnr-ruzh thr Home Secretary that tb^
Kint exercises his prerogative of mercy
in the matter of pardoninsr prisoners or
rommuting then sentences to some
minor penalty than that to which they
have been condemned by the tribunals.
The secretary of State for the Home
Department is also required to be in at
firianor at all royal births. This is in
le^ded t« convey an assurance to the
nation that there has been no substitu
tion, and also is designed to relieve Jh^
rant from any such suspicion as that
"»hich hnng over the head of the Old
Pretender, whoso own sisters. Queer.
THIS IS INTENDED ESPECIALLY FOR THE BUSY MAN
Constant Reader Tells Him What He Missed in
Last Week's Papers.
I ■ , f <-=-■-• "
• • • - " • m« the
To Ivjrin with." was the --ply, ."<"nv
ftTior Hughes -.-■••• dinner in this
r;v o:, Lincoln's BirUwSay that the R*^
rublican party must fa--.- courageously the
?Ituation thai ha? developed mid purer
ti .-. ir "f evil and of leaders who have mis
rrprWoiTeia the F-pV. 'Tins is no timr
to retire in dismay from any disclosure,"
1.- raid; "but to reveal the truth and show
• ;,<• r«-*-:-ir- t !-.*t i*x P&rty does not stand
.f-Jiiid anyihini titat may have b<?fn done
hy avy of i T ? r*»pires«»nta.tlves in op SM -.?itjon
„. .- nr principles of justice and fair deal-
•■j-v'l.-:; -:i'fr.!s <>f a startling character
1 'ArkfKl Tin»s.«i*y> tspssioaf of tiir Senate
md \','. r P«tjp.to eoraniittee of th<^ whole.
•-•:?'n- to investigate the" bribery charges
:-~*--:<i Ali.j^. In chronological ord«M they
included:
senator J II
„ .
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• ai
■
-
Tlk- admission by Senator Bonn Conger,
uivd'-r interrogation by Senator Joslah T.
NrwcoiriS. of New York, fnat th*sre were
t/i-klge -boodle' funds raised in I>£ and
ISOS and a partial fund in l&Ki.
"The further admission that in li«C the
Grotna Bridge O>.npany handled this cor
ruption fund.
?Tb« statement ov Senator C"np;r thaT ji!
JJHE the bridge cxnnpaniss made a contribu
tion from their accumulate fund to the
cJuin&aE of the Republican State Commit
tee, hi ISE th* state eh&n-man was teem
IV. Dunn, at Bm S i ;anUon
"Alto, th»- day's testimony disclosed th«
interesting fart that Ray B. Smith, clerk
of the Assembly, had b^ investigating
certain evidence in the AUds-Conger case
lot tomebody who, he assumes, represented
i-eriator Alidt or hie •': eta.
"Wednesday's testimony disclosed the
uaine of another legislator, who, according
to Conger, received an envelope contain
ing bribe money. That name was Jean
Burnett, who was Assemblyman from
Ontario County until he died in IC«}7. Mr
.Burnett was the close personal and polit
; <il .-:-■■■■ the late Senator John
Ealnes.
"Senator Conger also swore -..., he was
approached regarding the highway legis
lation which figures in the AlMs bribery
'-a*~, by Asfemblyman LesjM Bedell. Bedell
was chairman of :;-■ Assembly Raiiroais
! ommittec in the *oid days.' He was,
**lth Senator Good.~*-lJ the introducer or
Hit group ci railroad grab bills, so called,
which kept New York stirred up for sev
eral years.
-■; de
"That the name vf Fred Nixon, then
*P*4it*r cr tit mmmmMk was writ leg 03
ANfilO- AMERICAN NOW KING'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE
Mary and Queen Anno, endeavored to
strengthen the popular impression to the
effect that ho was a supposititious child
and not the real offspring of James II
and of Queen Mary Beatrice of Modena.
There arc hundreds of other matters in
connection with which the Home Secre
tary is brought into close and intimate
contact with the sovereign and with
member-: of the reigning house, and
under the circumstances it is inconceiv
able that any statesman should be ap
pointed to that office who was in any
way personally objectionable to the
monarch or to his family.
All ■■'■> '. there are in Great Britain
nowadays five Secretaries of State — the
principal one. who is at the head of the
Home Department, the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, the Secretary for the
Colonies, the Secretary for India and the
Secretary for the War Department. The
Secretary tor Scotland and the Secretary
for Ireland are not secretaries of state
and are not qualified to fulfil the duties
of the latter. In spite of there being
thus* rive Secretaries of State, they con
stitute. In reality, but one. the division
of their work being merely a matter of
arrangement for the more convenient
dispatch of business.
Each Secretary of State has. conse
quently, power to transact the business
of one of his colleagues should occasion
ari;-<\ and there is nothing to prevent
Winston Churchill, as Secretary of State
for the Home Department taking th
place and doinsr the work of Sir Edward
Grey, tho Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
or iif Lord Morley, the Secretary for
India, in the event of an emergency.
Thus, in Jane. iSTS. when the Cabinet
desired to give instructions to Lord Bea
consfield. the Premier, and Lord Salis
bury, the Foreign Secretary, concerning
the policies to b<? pursued by them as
British plenipotentiaries at the Congress
of Berlin, the document, dated from the
Foreign Office, was signed by Lord Cross,
as Secretary of State, although he was
at the time at the bead of the Home
Department.
Originally there was only one Secre
tary of State, who was in reality the
chief secretary to the sovereign, it being
his duty to conduct his royal master's
correspondence and to communicate his
commands in writing- to the high officers
of state when these functionaries did not
receive them verbally from the monarch
in person. Until th* reign of Queen
Elizabeth the dicrnitary In question was
known as the Kings secretary." It was
this Queen who first gave to Robert
Cecil, son of the srrcat ' >rd Furleigh,
the title or "Our Principal Secretary of
State." and pre is in existence, in the
library of the British Museum in London.
a pamphlet written by him. after his ele
vation to the Earldom of Salisbury, en
titled The State and Dignity of a Sec
retary of State's Place, with the Care
and Peril Thereof." in which be describes
the duties of bis office. Th* opening
paragraph of the pamphlet Is just as
opposite to-day as it was at the time
it was penned. It runs as follows:
"All officers and councillors of the
povereisrn have a prescribed authority
by patent, by commission or by oath. the
j Th«; second 51 ■•- envelope^ but that be <1M
| r;ot s«»e the envelope handed to Nixon,
I though h^ Introduced Mo* to the Speaker.
'■ (Mr. Nixon di-=>-J Jn BOS.)
"That the $4,000 envelope wa.« delivered
I v, Jean Burnett in his (Oongpr's) presence.
: (Mr. Burnett <ii r -i in 1987.)
"That the 1905 demands were made by
! certain persons for * "■"■■ in consideration
I of which the highway bills affecting the
| bridge interests then pending 1 before the
• Legislature would be killed,
'That at a rn«*et<ng of representatives
■ of brides companies in Syracuse it was
I decided n«t to \f 'blackmailed.* and no
i fund "nas subscribed.
••That Ik '■■">!!= it-*-. the bill introduced
by AFSPHililyman John Yale, of Putnam
County, affecting !l< " bridge companies,
which une a law in IMS, a strike bill,
anil that the KaJby-Stevenj bill? and their
. — ,rs 'if like provisions were regarded
as strike legislation.
"That in ir«C a fund of V.''»" was Bub
s«-ri!*-<J by various bridge companies, and
that th^ highway hills that year died in
committee.
'That in ifC'C lie visited Colonel George
W. Dunn, then Republican state chairman,
in hi£ office at the State Railroad Com
mission ) <■-■■: and afterward made a con
tribution to the campaign fund for himself
and Home, bridge companies. That year th«
highway legislation died.
"That he did not consider the money
paid to A lids and the others bribery, but
blackmail.
"On Friday Conger -•■ re that what he
considered attempts to extort blackmail
were continued up to a time which clearly
comes within the period when a crime is
not .-.-.■ under the statute of limita
tions. He Mid that in 1907 Senator Allds
tnid him that the legislative committee
drafting the proposed highway code was
putting- into it "some damn bad things for
you fellows' and 'you'd better get up and
-•-•• m about it.* ■ .
" 'One thousand contributions were turned
In to m*», and the bridge companies might
have been one; I am in no position to say
whether they were or not,' said Mr. Dunn,
ex-chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee", when questioned at Glen's Falls
about the evidence given by Conger."
•■If there were co many contributions like
that one that Dunn cant even remember
the need for deeper probing Is amply dem
onstrated." said Busy Man.
•That's just what Mr Hughes seemed
to think." replied Constant Reader, "for in
order to set at rest stories of graft in th«
purchase of forest lands by. the state and
to disclose the truth, whatever it ma; be.
retarding transactions which have been
questioned recently the Governor took the
flr«t «=teps toward a general investigation
of the management and the affair- of the
Stale Forest. Fish and Game Commission
and land purchases in the forest preserve.
,-,.,,... the Moreland law giving him au
thority to investigate, state departments or
bureaus under him, the Governor appoint
ed Roger P Clark, his counsel, and H.
L*roy Austin commissioner!, for this probe.
"This investigation probably will go back
|o me time cr Governor Blade, under .wb.°m t
NEW- YORK DAILY TRTBT T XE, SF>T>\Y. FEBRUARY 20. 1010.
MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL.
Formerly Clementine Hozier.
Secretarj* only excepted. But tn the
Secretary, out of a confidence and sin
gubtr affection, there is a liberty to ne
gotiate at discretion at home and abroad,
with friends and enemies, in all matters
of speech and intelligence. AH servants
of the crown deal upon strong and wary
authority. They warrant disbursements
aa treasurers; they enter into confer
ence with enemies as generals, etc.. in
commissions in executing offices by pat
tent and instructions. Only the Secretary
of State hath no -warrant of commis
sion
And then this ancestor of the present
Marquis of Salisbury ?r»cs on to show
that the duties of Secretary of State
practical!}- included then, as they do to
day, all those which are not otherwise
definitely assigned by patent, oath or
commission.
In course of time th^ work became too
onerous for one Secretary of State, and
two were appointed, the one being known
as Secretary of the North and the other
as the Secretary of the South. The
former had charge of foreign affairs,
whereas the Secretary of the South was
intrusted more particularly with the af
fairs of the United Kingdom. Ireland.
the colonies, and even the southeast of
Europe. This arrangement continue.:
until near the close of the eighteenth
century, when the responsibilities of th^
Foreign Department were more strictly
rirrin' i"i and a third secretaryship of
stat<- was created — namely, that of War —
which was also given control of the col
onies. At the outbreak of the Crimean
War. in 1854, a Secretary of State for the
Colon iee was called into existence, In
order to relieve the overburdened War
Department of the colonial business, and
four years later, when, after the great
Indian Mutiny, the crown took over the
administration of Hindustan from the old
Bast India Company, a fifth Secretary
t=hip of State was created — namely, that
of India.
To-da>" th«» sovereign's secretary, from
being little more than a mere elcrical In
strument Ln mediaeval times, has devel
oped into five Secretaries of State, who.
without any act of legislature, but aolelj
by of those unwritten usages thar
go to make up the Britisii constitution
have acquired such importance that the
signature of one or another of them is
hi 1537, the, state first beean to purchase
forest lan. Timothy f. Woodruff was
chairman of the Forest I-a'nd Purchasing
Board from. 1537- until it was abolished, in
1902. Many eminent i politicians served as
counsel at one time or another, among
them Senator Allds and ex-Senators Elon
R. Brown; William W. Armstrong, chair
man of the committee which investigated
the insurance scandals, and Morton E.
I^ewi?, of Rochester."
"What has beer, going on in the world of,
commerce?" asked Busy Man
"President Taft, speaking before the ex
ceptionally representative audience of Re
publicans at the Lincoln Day dinner of the
Republican Club in the "Waldorf-Astoria,
assured business interests that the ad
ministration bad not the slightest Idea of
•runnjnsr amuck." But at the. same time ho
said unequivocally that the laws would
be enforced, and made this significant state
ment: 'If the enforcement of the law is not
consistent with the present methods of
carrying on business, then it does not
speak well Tor the present methods of con
ducting business, and they must be changed
to conform to the. lav.-.* There was no
promise on the part of the Republican party
to change the anti-trust law, except to
strengthen it. he said, or to authorize mo
nopoly or a suppression of competition.
"At the annual meeting of the Mackay
companies announcement was made that
the management had decided to sell its en
tire holdings of American Telephone and
Telegraph Company stock, amounting to
eighty-two thousand shares, valued at ap
proximately $11,250,000. Among the rea
sons for the sale is deference to public
opinion, which, the report says, views
with suspicion this large holding of stock
in a company which has recently pur
chased control of the Western Union Tele
graph Company.
"Henry S. Haskins. the board member
of Lathrop. Haskins & Co., one of the
three Stock Exchange houses that failed
as a result of the collapse of the Colum
bus and Hocking Coal and Iron pool on
January 19. was declared ineligible for
reinstatement on the exchange by the gov
erning committee. This amounts prac
tically to expulsion for Mr. Haskins and
the loss of all Stock Exchange privileges
for his firm, be being its only board mem
ber.
"The Hudson County Grand Jury, sitting
in Jersey City, voted to indict the Nationa!
packing Company, or the so-called Beet
Trust. The allegation was that the trust
depressed the market to enhance the prices
of foodstuffs'.
"The formation of a $6. 000, 000 bre<id com
bination, consisting of twelve large broad
bakeries of Manhattan. Brooklyn. Hoboken,
and Jersey Cn^ . with a capacity of more
than 12.000 barrels of flour a week and
producing more than 10 per rent of the
total thread" output of New York City, was
announced
"An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
filed against the Central Foundry Com
pany, of No 37 Wall street, a New Jersey
corporation with an authorised capital
stock of 000. 000. resulted in the ap
pointment as receiver for the concern of
WacldiH CatcJblnsHj, of No <!» Wall street.
The property- consists chiefly of seven
operating foundries. • the entire capital
stock of the Central Iron and Coal Com
pany of aw Jersey, «nountin*:to 11,000.
WINSTON CHURCHILL.
The new Secretary of State for Vhe
Home Department.
requisite to legalize every act of the
crown, and whose authority to use the
King'? name, defined by no patent or
commission, cannot he disputed by any
one except th» lyng himself. Th<;-
Secretaries of State an- answerable with
their liberty and with their life to Par
liament for the constitutional and ju
dicious exercise of the prerogatives of
the crown, and in the present distribu
tion of the office among five statesmen
of more or less co-ordinate authority
perform most of the functions of the
government with all but indefinable
powers and unlimited authority.
DELIVERY OF SEALS.
The Secretaries of State are appointed,
as in former times, by th. sovereign's
delivery to them of the seals of office.
These seals of office consist of sets ■'
three seals, known respectively as the
Signet, the Seal and the Cachet, the Seal
alone being used f^r royal warrants.
Seals of office are only held bj the Sec
retaries of State, and not b: any other
members of the administration, except
ing the Lord Privy Seal, who, as hi?
title implies, had charge of the sov
ereign's Privy Seal, and the Lord High
Chancellor of the realm, who has con
fided to him the Great Seal of England.
Whiie the principal Secretary of State
is no longer railed upon to manage he
administration of the colonies, nor yet
that of Scotland and Ireland, and the
relations with Southern Europe, as in
the eighteenth century. :•"' Winston
Spencer Churchill will find his work at
the Home Department of h very exact
ing natuif. sufficient to tax to the utter
most even his superabundance of energy
a»d exuberance of vitality. For he will
find himself there at the head of the
police, not only of the metropolis, but
also of the provinces, and responsible for
09 ft, and the slock of the Central Radiator
Companj of Ne^i Jersey, amounting to
$L'oo.ooo.
•Ju.-=ticp Martin, in uif United States Cir
cuit court, denied the special immunity
plea Interposed bj Secretary Charles K.
Heike of the Sugar Trust against his prose
cution for complicity in the sugar weigh
ing frauds on the Havemeyer & Elder
pier? at Wllliamsburg. Heikc will be pul
on triaJ on March 1 with the former em
ployes of the company with whom he was
indicted. '
"The Immunity hail: seems to have gone
dry," commented Busy Man. "Too many
men used :'. Any new developments at
the national capital?"
"It now turns out," replied Constant
Header, 'that there will be no publicity for
the returns made und«»r the provisions of
the corporation tax unless Congress shall
enact special legislation to that end, and
this Is regarded as highly Improbable, es
pecially wliilo the question of the constitu
tionality of the law is pending In the courts.
"Th« Secretary of the Treasurj baa dis
covered thru it rrill require a sp«>. lal ap
propriation of 159,890 to make the returns
under the orporati.ni tax matters of pub
lic record, and. furthermore, that Congres.s
has prohibited the use of anj part of the
smooo provided for the collection of the
tax for the payment of persons within the
District of Columbia. These facts Sir.
MacVeaph communicated to the Executive.
"Any persons of importance die?" aske.i
Busy Man.
"Colonel Roben Neville, one of the fore
most owner" of Steeplechase horses in
America, died at his home in TppcrviHe.
Lnudoun County. Va.
"The Rev. Dr. William Everett, well
known scholar and former Congressman,
died at his home In Quincy, Mass.. after
a long illness^ His death was due to gen
eral breakdown, hastened, it is believed,
by the closing of Adams Academy, found
ed by President John Quincy Adams, of
which Dr. Everett was principal for thirty
years. Gustave Bock, the cigar manufact
urer, died from pneumonia In Havana, at
the age of seventy-three years. Cuba held
no better known man nor a wealthier than
GusUtve Bock. To the world at large he
gave many famous brands of cigars. Henry
V. Donnelly, once a well known actor and
later manager of the Murray Hill Theatre,
died from Bright's disease at his home in
this city. General St. Clair A. Muiholland
died in Philadelphia, He was seventy-one
years old. and had been United States pen
sion agent in that city since 1894. Beth
Barton French, of this city, died at the
Royal Poinclana Hotel, at Palm Beach.
Fla., after a long illness. Until his re
tirement from active participation in busi
ness, four years ago. Mr. French was
prominently identified with large financial
enterprises. George Holland, actor, and
who up to a year ago was manager of the
Girard Theatre, Philadelphia, died In that
city. E. M. Holland, of The New Theatre,
is a brother of the dead man. Mr. Hol
land was a member ufa family of acton
nearly as well known on the. American
stage as the Booths or the Jeffersom
"What else happened that I ought to re
member?' asked Busy Man.
•The third Parliament of King Edward
assembled, but the ceremony was of the
eimplest character, all royal pageantry
connected with the state opening being
postponed to February 21. The interval
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.
His mother, formerly Jennie Jerome.
of New York.
the efficiency of the so-called Criminal
Investigation Department, which is re
quired to hold in check the activities of
the ordinary criminal, and of his an
archist confrere, and to maintain a con
stant watch over them, at home and
abroad. He has charge of all prisons,
reformatories and of the efficient in
spection by the government of factories,
mines, explosives, etc.. with a view to
the enforcement of the legislation for the
protection and the welfare of. the work
ing classes. He is likewise accountable
for the application of the undesirable
alien laws and for the caution in the
grant of Wt<^rs of naturalization. If
there is any miscarriage of magisterial
justice, in London or the provinces, he
i-•i -• expected to set it right, and. like his
predecessor in office, he has to bear the
brunt of all thr hostility of the suf
fragettes, from one of whom he received
the other day a cut across the face with
a cowhide whip, that left an ugly welt.
In one word, the Secretaryship or
State for the Home Department is per
haps the most difficult and arduous of
all the great offices of the Cabinet, and
has proved the grave of the political
reputation of many a man who iacked
the necessary vigor and decision of char
acter. For in addition to all the Secre
tary? other work he is responsible to the
crown and to the nation "for the main
tenance of the King's peace, for th* en
forcement of the laws of the land, and
for tlv application of all :h<> rules, writ
ten and unwritten, for the welfare of the
community."
Under 'he circumstances, it must be a
source of gratification and relief to bia
friends that in the fulfilment of all thear?
manifold duties h« will have by bis side
a singulars clever and tactful wife, who
was Misa Clementine Hozier, and a still
more brilliant American mother, namely,
the daughter ol old Leonard Jerome, un
of the best known and most popular fig
urea in N- w STbrk Bfe fifty years ago.
EX-ATTACHE.
SPARED BY PARIS FLOODS.
Prominent among the building? In Paris
t ,. escape the recent Hoods is the Grand
Hotel a favorite headquarters of Ameri
1 ( . a ns 'where all the many conveniences for
i wh ich the Grand Hotel Is famous were en-
will h» devoted to the swearing in of mem
bers , M .i the clearing away, if possible, of
the difficulties confronting the sov<rnm?nt.
t ... following Cablne'nt appointments were
announced: . Secretary for the Home De
partment. Winston Spencer Churchill:
president of the Board of Trade, Sydney
Buxton; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan
raster. J. A. Pease: Postmaster General,
Herbert Louis Samuel.
"The lower chamber re-elected the Right
James W UMam Lowther, member for
the Penrith Division of I'umberland.
Speaker.
"Herbert John Gladstone, Secretary of
State for Home Affairs, who. through a
recent appointment, is about to become
Governor General of British South Africa.
was elevated to the peerage.
"Mayor Gayn"r exploded a mine under
thr> Aqueduct Commission. Not having
power to abolish the commission, which
was created by an art of the Legislature
in 1883, the Mayor removed the commit
sioners, appointing new men. with instruc
tions to wind up its affairs at once and re
port the completion of their work. The
commissioners removed were John F.
Cowan, president, and John J. Ryan. Dem
ocrats, and William H. Ten Ey'ck and John
P. Windoiph, Republicans. The men ap
pointed are J. Noble Hayes and Michael
Furst. Republicans, and Jeremiah T. Ma
honey and Ernest Harrier, Democrats.' 1
"Surprising, but not o'erhasty." said
Busy Man. "when you consider that these
gentlemen and their numerous hangers-on
have been filling fat sinecures at the tax
payers* expense for the last twenty-seven
years. What patient beasts of burden we
are:"
"Another blow." continued Constant
Reader, "fell upon the officeholders in city
departments when Rhinelander Waldo.
Fire Commissioner, issued an order that
all automobiles of the department be
marked with letters one foot high as prop
erty of the city."
"This device, if adopted generally." said
Busy Man. would put an end to a favor
ite recreation of the Tammany officeholder
and his cronies."
■John Boyle, jr.. Chief Deputy Superin
tendent of Elections, was elected secretary
of the Republican County Committee of
this county. He succeeds Thomas W.
Whittle, who resigned to accept the place
of Commissioner of Public Works in The
Bronx.
"Upholding the title of the Wright
brothers as aerial monopolists, Judge
Learned Hand granted the injunction pen
dente lite sought by the Wright company
against Louis Paulhan. French aviator,
charged with using in his exhibition
flights a machine infringing upon the pat
ent granted to Orville and Wilbur Wright.
"W. J. Bryan came out flatfooted for
county option in Nebraska. He declared
the Democrats part) must divorce itself
from the liquor interests."
"Does he tope to inject some new spirit
into hi« next campaign?" chuckled Busy
Man.
"Formal announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Elranur Robson and August
Btflmont vvas made. Miss Rob-on dosed
her season ai the Majestic Theatre, Brook
lyn, where she was playing the part* of
Glad In Mrs. Burnett's play, The Dawn of
a To-morrow.' She will return to her
home.- where she will remain until- her
marriage with ■ the - noted banker. H«r
SPECIAL EUROPEAN COLUMNS
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BERLIN
HOTEL
The Select Home of American Society and European Aristocracy
DESCRIPTIVE MATTER WITH TARIFF. ETC. t U.IDER PEaSOSAL SUPERVISIOI
FROM AMERICAS OFFICES, 281. atb AYE.. HEW YORK f OF OWNER Wr LORE?»Z ADLOM
GRAND ["I A D M C Hotel
HOTEL I" L. V/ IX tViV# H d'ltalie
I Flic T.fatlinj: Holplh of Florence, on the Lung-Arno. with (ommandlnc view of pirtar«^<iri». »nr-
I ;ou»dinz» and River Arao. Beautiful Wlater Gardens. Private Batb«. 3 team Heat, etc.
WII nilNfiFN" THEFURSTENHOF "
WV II I I I II I I II -• and La-* -
Th< mv Batki raaji • '
tire'.y uninterrupted, and. naturally, th"
hotel was .-rowdeil with visitors from other
hotels which were Inundated.
PEAK ALL AGLOW
Hoi Spring* [Ark.) Mountain
a Midnight Beacon.
A full grown mountain lighted up n:ll |
at;-! down by sixty-candlepower electric i
lights is a somewhat unusual spectacle j
even in' this electrical ase But that is j
what has been done to the south spur of j
Hot Springs Mountain. Arkansas
The federal government is the power !
thai has done this, th" paramount idea j
being to protect the medical springs from 1
miscreants or mentally unbalanced wan- •
•lerers. There are forty-nine of the hot ■
springs altogether, all being under United
States jurisdiction, and walled, sealed and 1
guarded like other national treasures, j
Their combined outflow goes into two great ;
reservoir? of approximately three hun- .
dred and fifty gallons each, and it is frD-n :
these big tonka that the water is piped to :
the bathhouses at an average temperature ;
or IS degrees, which is 6nly 5 degrees be- :
low the heat at which they come from •
the earth and 30 degrees hotter than one \
can bathe in.
Both of these reservoirs are protected by
a mesh wire entanglement through which
one cannot thrust a finger or approach
nearer than the length of a fishing rod:
and, as an- additional precaution, by day
and by light the mountains are patrolled
by mounted poHre m "= ( :'ar round? of In
spection." So far 7" !? Tenon n nobody hq?
ever attempted to fan-per wii the ■pr*nsjs>,
but it is the wire precaution of locking the
bam before tte tr.mm is stolen.
In these rfay«. when nearly every onf» is
talking about the increased cost of living.
it jr.av -be :"t?-r-iir.g to note that the
latest tjuotat?or\ on eggs ia fJM a doz«-n.
The>e are ostrich egz?. •..--, and if on"
wants to order a dozen he has to siern up
his ostrich in advarrc much as he would
a baseball n!a;»r.
NEEDS WA7».M CLIMATE
Few American people, comparatively
speaking know much aboat this fowl
beyond the fact thai his feathers cost con
siderable ronney, but i'.t&t is because the
great bird has only recently been admitted
to full citizenship Id this country and ruw
not a- yet mingled much with the public.
This is due •■ the fact that be can only
thrive in a practically ideal winter climate,
for despite his butk his constitution da
mands careful nursing from the sun an.
warm breezes.
■This valley in the Ozarka sat mi to h*
one of the few places viiere h» can roam
about all the ."ear round without .setting
a ore throat] and when an ostrich geta a
sore throat it is i serious matter with him.
for the sor« spot Is abo'it thre" feel long.
And it is from here. also, that the above
price is fixed for his or. rather, her— ?K*»
When a housewife of Hot Springs wishes
to give her guests an ostrich omelet sh -
does not go to market and ordnr them by
the dozen. Hardly. Instead, she wen a
strong boy after one and he brings it bark
in a sack. A" ostrich" eg* is about the
shape and about one-third the size of a
regulation football and weighs wmwh'r^
in the neighborhood of live pounds. The
... market quotation r.n them is XS
apiece, dray charges extra when delivered
by the doz«>n.
The opening of the Eastman In* last of
the big hotels to swing Ha doors wtd>
marked th- beginning of the full tide of
the spring season.
FUN AT MAGNOLIA SPRINGS.
Guests There Enjoy Varied Assortment
of Recreations.
Macrnoli.n Springs. Fla Feb. 19.— Bring
your bathing -"'.' to the Magnolia Springs
Hotel. once you hay*» enjoyed a plunge and
a bath i:; the big swimming poo! ber« you
will feel like b'lns in the water half the
time. Magnolia Spring* water hi piped t»
the pool and is constantly Sowing. Bathing
in this soft water la a luxury. The pool
occupies the entire space under the ball-
mother, who has long played Mrs. Wlopi | African scientific expedition arrived at
in The Cabbage Patch. 1 will also retire } Gondokoro. in the Soudan, safe out of the
from the stage, it is said. Many ardent j wilderness. All are well and enthusiastic
admirer* of Miss Robson - s aeUng recalled over their experiences ami the - >entifle
the climax of " Glad's part when she results of t.Vir explorations,
throws up her hand* dramatically to heaven "European hens" eggs are nc» eeiß<r
and exclaim? in tones of joyou* relief: Tm imported into this country. Th»lr arrival
_ it , to be took care of now— l'm gate' to Jin the wholesale grocery- district of tbe
be too) car. of now.' - - . We*t Sid»» is distrains to peculator*.
"The ensagement was announce! of Mis, who ha<l . *« ***** .lome.,ti«- eggs in
•Tim DH the was announced Mia ! «°™W m the hope that prtew would *,
„cT , , fa , , m• • ts would gp
Uarriol Ha'v tllC voi!r.g<>st <Irfiu?l>tPr ••
Tl.urmt -Marcus D-lv. of Montana and lup in tt>4 *** " art ot **** .. ' c
the York to fount* ■ Anton Slgray. an-. raise* a mcc question »:«i Busy
N^ \ork. 10 C v t An,., Sign.y the Man. "I ndf r the Payne tarilT eggs are
present head of a Hungarian family of : • . • „ .
present ne<iu l \ dutiable, at S cents a dozen. I believe; but
that name. bird's afjpi come in fr*e. Now. is a hen a
"Despite the fa. she has been marrie-1 bird or id she not. an.! if not. what is
to Herbert M, Harriman. of New York. she? ..
for more than a year and a half, the -Mme. Curie, of IB**/" continued Con
divorce of Mrs. Harriman from Major slanl Reader .. who with Mr husband, the
Charles I. Hall was not recognized m Lon- late professor curie, discovered radium,
don until this week, when .her husband, j has been suecessfyj | n research work in
Major Hall, obtained his decree from the j connect i on wUh polonium, an element
English courts on the ground that his wife w - nlcn is descr ib<.d M five thousand times
has entered into bigamous relations with rarer tßan raJ , un) She has 3UCCW>de e in
the man to whom BBM was marred in New- obtainln;r a tenth o ; a milligramme i.<Y>xst
port on August 1?. t»»- An American sraln)> the n-w element. She states
divorce from the Eri'i.^ officer had be-n I r v posseb3es a 'radio-activity superior
obtained by the present Mrs. HaiiiMßM in .to - a(il ... A3 a a nst th!s. however.
May of tm op the . ground her husband radium con3en ,- es ,t3, t3 energy for an |—^
neglected to provide for her. but the Ens?- j iilate period wnereas , polonium disappears
lish courts would ••-: accept the sut>- , rapidly During Mme. Curies experiments,
sequent marriage as legal. , which covered a p^r^pd of 00c hundred and
"Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daugh- j forty days, the quantity of polonium which
ter.Jsth<l sailed for Naples on the steam-- sne y^j dimroisced by 3«» per cent."
ship' Hamburg, of the Hamburg-American | -\ substance thai fades away as rapidly
Line." They plan to join Colonel Roosevvlt j as that Is not likely to be much use." said
at Khartouai about March IZ. ( Bu^y Alun. "but anyway its discov^rey
•At th* latjuesl of Prestdciit Taft Col- j pr.»\r-- to my mind that Mmf. Curie was
lector Loeb will arrange for the reception not the m»-re assistant of he* gifted hus
of Colonel Roosevelt i" this city, about band in discovering radium, but a genuine
the middle of June. -."-tat- investigator. All the same. I'm
"Colonel Roosevelt. Kermlt Rposerelt and i glad I- did not marry a wornu aa la*
■...• other- members at . '--• SmithianiAa * aulsltive aa that."
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nne ot the jouie^t sv-ciaf affairs of tht
season at the hotei »'. far was the valen
tine party on Monday night. The dinner
tabl'- decorations, instead cf the u«ual va?M
of flowers, rftrzr boujonnieres of blue viotet »
for th" women and whit" japomVa» for th»
m-n. -a rich wef«- worn •■*.•"■
evening. The m-nti cards were •raced
with crimson hearts. The younger set
doped th«" evening with a dance.
WINTER JOY IN SWITZERLAND.
Davo*. Switzerland. Feb. !~-There ar»
now nearly nv^ thousand visitors h»re. trn?
English and Americana being already two
hundred In cx« ess of lart season. >„ .. =
the latest arrivals is A. Santos-Dumont.
the aviator. AH present are bent on having
a good time, which the glorious weather
lias favored, and the carnival of winter
■port » bat been in full swing.
Th" fancy dress bal!. the principal social
affair of the season, proved the most suc
cessful in years. Thr*-* 1 - hundred took. part.
As indicating the extent to which bob
sleighing i« now can on at Davos, it
need only be mentioned Chat recently the
so-called bob train brought up to Davos no
fewer than fifty-four bobs that had mad«
the descent of the Davos-Klosters :rse.
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