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Amusements.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC — S — Hamlet.
.ALHAIIBRA — 2—2 — S — Vaudeville.
UiTOR — 8:15— Seven Days.
BEI.ASCO — — Just a Wife.
-.BIJOU — B:L'O— The lottery Man.
XUSOABWAY— Th<- Jolly Bachelors.
CARNEGIE HALLr— C— Concert.
CASINO — S:IS The Chocolate Soldier.
OOIjONIAL— 2— — Vaudeville.
COMEDY — S:30 — A Man's World.
CRITERION — S:2o— The Bachelor's Baby.
T>AL.T'S— S:30 — The Inferior Sex.
KDE.V ktrSEE— WorM In Wax.
KM PI RE— S:ls— Mid-Chacrel.
<; WF.TV— S:Io — The Fortune Hunter.
■ — S — Macbeth.
GAnniCK— B:l.*.— Your Humble Servant. •
GLOBE— — Thf Old Town.
HAMMER^TEIX'S— -:ir — S:l*.— Vaudeville.
HACKETT — £:13 — Turning Point.
-.HERALD SQUARE— S:IS— The Yankee Girl.
HIPPODROME — 2—2 — B—A8 — A Trip to Japan; Inslae
( the Earth; the Ballet of Jewels.
lirDSOX— 2:U.— S:2O— A L.ueky Star.
iKVIXG PLACD-S:ls-IVr MeiFter.
KNICKERBOCKER— The Dollar Princes*.
LIBERTY — — The Arcadians.
LYCEUM— S:3O— Mm. Dot.
: ntlC— — The City. .
MAXIXE ELLIOTT 1 ? THEATRE— S:SO— The
Passing of the Third Floor Back.
MF.NDSLS.<OHN HAl.lr— — Concert.
METROPOLITAN* OPERA. HOUSE— S— Grand
Gala Performance.
NEW AMSTERDAM — S:ls— Madame X.
NEW THEATRE— B:i"»— A Son of the People.
NEW YORK — 15 — Bright Bye*.
SAVOY — S:3o Children of Destiny.
KTUTVBSANT — 6:15 — The Lily.
ST NICHOLAS RINK S:ir. toe hockey.
— S:lS — Alia* Jimmy Valentine.
WEBER"? 2:ir — :15 — Where There's a Will.
WEST END — The Melting Pot.
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TUESDAY. MARCH. 1, 1910.
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THE yEWS THIS MOR\I\G.
CONGRESS.— Senate: Mr. Aldrich's ,
bill creating: a government business
methods commission was passed. == j
House: Representative Hamilton Fish,
of this state, made his maiden speech.
Incidentally criticising the Rules Com- ,
mittee.
:l: l' r _ FOREIGN. — The House of Commons
■'without a division accepted Premier As
' ViuitU's proposal to discuss temporary i
financial measures until the Easter re- I
cess, and on the resumption of the ses
sion to deal with the abolition of the i
veto pow*>r of the House of Lords; the ]
.budget, according' to this programme, is
. shelved. ■ : A dispatch from San Juan
d*i Sur says that fifty America!.* from I
th* Canal Zone hay* 1 landed at Bluefields
to aM th* insurgents. == China made
a satipfai-tory reply to the British in- i
Quiry regarding her policy in Tib* say- '
injr that the interior administration )
would not be changed. ~-zz=.-z^ The expe- [
dition led by Mr. Roosevelt has started ;
from Gondokoro for Khart«uin. where '
In* 1 members are expected to arrive on i
Mardl 15: the ex-President and his son
have Hilled about five hundred laree
mammals. ===== Scientists are investi
natUaj! the stability of tbe Leaning: !
Tower of Pisa, which, it is feared, is be- j
irj: undermined by a spring: at its base. I
DOMESTIC — President Tuft talked to i
r.. : ." editors of foreign newspapers in th* •
Vnit<>d States on immißrati"ii. ===== :
President Taft decided not to appoint j
Deputy Police Commissioner Bugher j
Surveyor of the Port of New York. — j
S--)'.-.t-.r Elihu Root's reasons for ad
. viocatfns; the proposed income tax amend
ment and hip views on the subject as
opposed to those of Governor Hughes,
Brno has publicly opposed the amend
ment, were, presented to the Nets' York
legislature: Senator Davenport present- !
•d the letter to the Senate and it was also I
read in the Assembly. ===== Governor
',' Hughes at Albany entertained Governor ■
Fred H. Warner of Michigan.
CITY. — Stocks w^re strong and .dull.
Chancellor MacCraeken of New
York University announced that he j
would resign in April. ===== Immediate J
pushing of the extradition proceedings ;
for indicted meat directors was predict-; ;
. a by the Hudson County authorities.
?.- — — Th«» sale at public auction of the j
Third Avenue Railroad Company under j
foreclosure occurs at noon to-day. — j
German hostility has caused the calling
• •ft' of the American exposition in Berlin
planned for next summer. = = Five
boys were arrested for trying to wreck ■
fast ISew York. New Haven & Hartford
. Railroad commuters* train. - Mayor j
Gaynor i?i a letter to Dock Commissioner
Tomkins said the city ferry service cost
$:, <!<■.' i,<i a year more than it would un- i
der private control. =3=l "Red" Adams {
•st found guilty on all five counts of an i
indictment charging him with using the
<;!«■■ to fraud.
THE WEATHER. — Indications for to- j
day: Probably showers; unsettled. The i
temperature yesterday: Highest, 59 de- |
crees; lowest, 49.
MR. ROOTS LETTER.
In his letter defending the Income tax
amendment, read last night before the
two branches of the State Legislature,
Senator Iloot directly challenge the in
terpretation put u;>on that amendment
by Governor Hughes. The Senator is dis
posed to minimize the Importance of the
phrase "from whatever source derived."
used In the amendment to describe in
«»uips subject to taxation. lie argues
that it was merely intended to include
Income from the renting of real estate
and i;ioorue. derived from primal prop
erty — the two classes of income which
!he Supreme Court decided in .the Pel
lock case could be taxed only in ooai
jilianee. with the apportionment provision
t»f the Constitution with income from
■oi her sources which the court held could
In directly taxed.
Mr. ILoot's argument doubtless har
monizes with the intentions of those who
prepared the amendment. They proba
bly had no idea of subjecting to taxation
the salaries of state officers or income
derived from the bonds of states, mu
nicipalities and towns. But the question
remains whether the use of the phrase
"from whatever source derived" would
not serve to include among sources of
Income directly taxable these supposedly
exempt sources. Mr. Root holds that the
Supreme ' Court would construe the Six
• -t-ntli Amendment, if adopted, in liar
uony with its interpretation of the gen':
?ral limitations on federal taxation iin
laaed by the (Constitution as i: now
valid*. He thinks that the old status
.touW apply in determining the force of
lie new article.
Hut others are likely Is think that
when Congress and the state legislat
ures deliberately add an amendment to
th*» Constitution that amendment in it
jtif Involves a change in status and that
..the whole text of the instrument must
■'■ H jjatergreted la Ji&rucjaj with the view
-^ — ~ T '
that a change was intended and was ef
fected. In other words. If the people of
tie United States decide by the process
of constitutional amendment that in
comes "from whatever source derived"
shall he taxed directly without appor
tionment the Supreme Court may rea
sonably hold <hat the latest expression
of popular will as expressed in the Con
stitution overrides constructive limita
Lious valid before the latest, referendum
was taken. That is the view which Gov
ernor Hughes expressed, and it is a view
which is likely to persist in spite of
assurances that the new amendment will
he judged in the HgUt of the old Consti
tution rather Than the old Constitution
iii the light of the new amendment.
A REASON FOR FAILURE.-
The study of Police Department busi
ness methods by the Bureau of Munici
pal Research indicates how little those
in authority in the department know
about what is going on under them. The
inquiry was undertaken at the request
of Police Commissioner Bingham. He
was an honest administrator, who strove
above all else to introduce system in the
department. Yet it is shown that abuses
went on all the time in the conduct of
the police business. Bills were paid
twice, supplies were lost, contractors
were favored over 'other contractors,
vouchers and requisitions were altered.
It may be said that all this has not
much bearing on the question whether
the patrolman patrols his beat and
whether the law is impartially enforced.
Directly, perhaps, It has not. But if the
heads of the department know so little
of how its business is conducted, when
■ proper system of accounting might
■take that all dear, how much can they
be presumed to know about the vastly
more complex . problem of how the in
dividual members of the force do their
duty? "The System" exists because the
head of the police knows so little about
what the men under him are doing.
Much chronicled flying trips in automo
biles from headquarters to station
houses in an effort to catch the force
napping are a striking illustration of
the real darkness of those in authority
regarding the efficiency of those over
whom they are supposed to exercise
command.
WOT /V THE ROLE.
The remarkable intimations of Mr.
Pinchot that Secretary Ballinger is at
heart a vandal working for the destruc
tion of the vast natural resources which
have >me to us as a national heritage
and tha- he Is allied with Western and
other inu-esLs intent on the spoliation
of the puV v domain are hardly sus
tained by the Secretary's action in with
drawing the Mvastt given by Secretary
Cnrfield to the t ity of San Francisco
for ihe appropriat'on of the Ileich-
Hct< liy Valley as a i^servoir site The
valley, a part of the \ »semit > reserva
tion, is a tract of rare nariral beauty,
equalling, in the opinion «>f many
Jodges, the Fosemite itself. The city of
San Francisco, rinding the basin avail
able for water storage, nought the jmt
missiort of tho Interior I>cpartmerjt t to
oam the present watercourse flowirs
from the valley and turn It into a reser
voir.
So long as Secretary Hitchcock was
in office this request was refused. But
during Mr. 'rarfield's incumbency a
concession to' San Francisco's apparent
needs was made, and authorization was
piveri to the towns and cities «b*"Ut
Han Francisco Bay to use the valiey
for aqueduct purposes. Mr. John Muir.
the naturalist, strongly opposed that
action, since he maintained that the cre
ation of a reservoir would mar. if not
entirely destroy, the beauty of one of
the choicest valleys in the T/osemite re
gion. Other naturalists and members
of societies for the preservation of the
forests and scenic marvels of the Far
West joined In the protest, but until
now no assurance has been given that
the Heteh-Hetehy Valley would be pre
served In all its integrity and natural
charm.
It musT ho surprising tn Mr. Bal
linger"s critics' to find him appearing ns
the champion of tie preserve rk>n of a
threatened portion of the Yosemit."
Park, since they impute to him a deter
mination to make the shortest ™ sihle
work Of the whole policy of «erva
tion nnd to turn over to the spoliators
not only the coal, timber and mineral
resources of the public domain, but even
to withdraw from governmental protec
tion the older reservations, like tho Y<l
lowstono and Yosemit<\ which were cre
ated from esthetic rcuhor than eco: arn
ica! motives. It will be awkward to
keep <>n denouncing as a "spoliator"' Mr.
Baliinger. who has shut the San Fra»
(Isoo water engineers out of The Hetch-
Hetchy Valley. whOe extolling in the
same breath ns ■ devoted friend of con
servation Mr. Cartield. who saw no
harm in turning the valley over to civic
and commercial uses.
THE STATUS AT WESTMINSTER.
Analysis of the results of the recent
elections in the United Kingdom and of
the composition of the House of Com
mons shows clearly how unstable is the
temporary equilibrium which the gov
ernment has established and how many
and ominous are the possibilities of its
destruction. The government has .i
majority only by virtue of a coalition,
and while \\\* Liberal parly has by the
narrowest of margin* a plurality of the
House it fell far short of a plurality
of the popular vote. The aggregate of
the latter was 6,630.402, the largest ever
polled, of which the Unionists had .;.
110,105, the Liberals 2,861*578, the
Laborites "iU'J.74S. the .Nationalists of
both factions 120,658 and the Socialists
15,316. By virtue of BUCh polling there
are in the House 273 Unionists, 27f» Lib
erals. Mi Laborites and 82 Nationalists.
Incidentally it will be observed that
each Unionist member represents 11,392
party votes, while each Liberal repre
sents only 10,40f>, each Lal>or member
12,583 and each Nationalist — because
of the great number of uncontested seats
— only 1,545.
There are 670 members, and 336
are needed for a bare majority. The
275 Liberals fail short of it by 61. Re
inforced with the 4<> Lnborites they an*
still '21 short of ■ majority, though, of
worse, they have ■ comfortable plural
ity Liberals and Nationalists together,
without the Laborites'. are .;.".7. a work
ing majority, and with the Labdrites
the full coalition numbers '•'>'*!, giving it
a majority of 1-4. The Nationalists,
however, are subdivided into 72 follow
ers of Mr. Redmond and ]0 followers of
Mr. O'Brien, two factions bitterly an
tagonistic Is each other, and neither Jo
be depended upon, so support the
government through {hick lad thin.
Neither can constant support be ex
pected from the Laborites. Indeed, the
275 Liberal votes themselves arc by «i»
means an indivisible unit, for there arc
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY. MARCH 1. IMP-
some extreme Radicals, U^e Sir Henry
Dnlzlel, who are prepared to vote
1 against the government on some issues,
! particularly that of the reformation of
I the House of Lords. With such factors
i the working out of the problem of high
: ly contentious legislation is likely to U?
difficult if not. impossible.
Mr. Asquith is believed by some per
1 son«. according to our London corre
spondent, to be "riding for a fall." and
we may well suppose that he would he
glad to get rid of the vexatious task
which lie lias in hand. But that would
mean a new election, and that, in turn,
would probably mean a Unionist ma
jority. Note the varying majorities of
the last quarter of a century: En 1885
the Liberals had ,172, in 1886 the .Union
ists 110. in 1892 the Liberals 412. In 1895
the Unionists 182, in 1900 the Unionists
134, in 1900 the Liberals 354, and now,
in 1910. the Liberal coalition 124. In the
late election the Liberals lost IKS from
what, they had at the dissolution, and
the Unionists gained loin Another dis
solution would be tantamount to con
fession that, the country hud not given
the Liberals power to govern, and such
a confession of weakness nud failure
would almost certainly cause further
Liberal losses and Unionist gains.
Under such circumstances "riding for
a fall" would bo nothing but the
: prompting of counsels of despair.
Undoubtedly the most serious menace
to Mr. Asquith's government is the ex
treme attitude which lias been taken by
the .Nationalists, by the Laborites and by
Liberals who resolutely refuse to coun
tenance any step toward reforming 'the
constitution of the House of Lords, who
insist that the upper chamber shall be
abolished altogether »or else shall be fet
tered and reduced as -nearly as possible
to impotence and yet retained in its
present unreformed state for the sake of
the political capital which may be got
out of it by railing against it. and who
threaten the government with ruin if it
dares to attempt reform of. the Lord*.
Thus Mr. Massingham. one of the
foremost Liberal journalists, in '"The
Nation," says that "if the anti-veto pol- j
■'icy be dropped, and the policy of a re- !
"formed second chamber substituted, ;
"the debacle would be inevitable, imme-j
"diate and overwhelming." We must j
regard that as an unfortunate and un- j
worthy attitude to assume toward a con
stitutional question of the first magni
tude, and we have no doubt that Mr.
Asquith and most of his ministerial col
leagues bo regard it. But in the present j
state Of the House of Commons they i
may be unable to defeat it. or at least
to avoid the defeat which it threatens
to bring upon them.
CHA KCELLOR MA CCRA CKE\.
The transformation of a small, dwin
dling and moribund undergraduate col
lege and a rouple of unrelated and semi
proprietary professional schools into a
genuine university organization, with a
dozen schools and faculties, four thousand
students and millions of dollars' worth
of property on unsurpassed sites, would
be iv Itself and alone an achievement
worthy of a lifetime's efforts. To have
made that institution during many years
a pioneer in several important depart
ments of university work, so as to have
put its impress in a perceptible degreo
upon the collegiate and university life of
the nation, is an additional distinction
of enviable rank.
These things are. in brief, the achieve
ment-; of Henry Mitchell MacCraeken at
New York University, for seven years as
vice-chancellor and for nineteen years
more as chancellor. When lie gave up
the chancellorship of the Western Uni
versity of Pennsylvania to become vic©>
chancellor of thc'T^niverslly of the City
of New Y'Mk. .ip* the local institution
was then known, the "Chr^alis college"
of Winthrop's romance wa- trembling on
the brink of extinction. He gave it new
life. He established the graduate 'school,
removed ihe undergraduate departments
to their splendid uptown site, created
the school of pedagogy, the school Bjf
eommerre. finance nnd accounts, the
women's law class, the downtown colle
giate division and the Important extra
murnl division. He put the law school,
the consolidated medical schools, the
veterinary school and all other depart
ments under true university organiza
tion and control. Indeed, he approxi
mated about as closely to the outright
creation of a university as it lias been
given to any man to do.
Other college and university heads
know, better than it. would be fitting here
| to say. to how considerable an extent
! his work at New York University has
' been imitated and emulated ny them and
to what extent New York University has
thus been a pioneer in true university
development in America. That extent
has not. we believe, been small. The in
stitution on Washington Square and at
University Heights has been under Dr.
MacCracken's direction a force of far
more than local or even national po
tency, and the energy of that force will
doubtless remain long after its author
has ceased his active labors. The im.
pending' retirement of Dr. MacCraeken
from the chancellorship which be has so
long and so successfully tilled, although
not unexpected, will be sincerely regret
ted by thousands who have enjoyed his
personal association and instruction and
by a vastly larger constituency which has
observed his productive and profitable
labors with gratification and pride, but
that regret will be tempered by Hie re
flection that his work has been so well
conceived, bo substantial and so success
ful that it will endure despite all the
personal changes which lime nm.v make
inevitable.
/no CHINESE RAILROAD PLANB.
The nrst obvious comment upon the
Chinese railroad which the Russian
government has Baggested to our own
an an alternative to that which China
herself wishes u> build through Man
churia from Chtnehow by way of Tsi
isihur to Algun is that if would uot
be a Manchuria n road at all, but a Mon
golian. Excepting for a few miles at
the southern end it would not be on
Manchurlan soil. Instead of running
from northeast to southwest through
Manchuria it would run from northwest
to southeast through Mongolia. Jt
niighr be a profitable road and serve a
valuable purpose in opening up a vast
country which is now closed save to
caravans. But it would uot in any con
si<i<-r:<iiie sense be ■ substitute for the
llanchurian line, any more than ■ road
from Buffalo to Chicago would be :t
substitute Cor one from Baltimore to
New (Means.
No convincing reasons save one are
apparent why Russia should prefer such
a road to that which China wishes to
build in Manchuria. There are even
Home strategic reasons why she should
regard it less favorably than the latter.
The Mongolian road would connect di
rectly with the Transsiberian road at
Luke Baikal, almost in mid-onUnent,
where hostile operation? nngM be most
serious to Russian Interests. A blocking
of the road there would shut off from
communication with Europe not only
Manchuria and the A moor and maritime
provinces but also the whole of Trans
baikal .Siberia, or half of that empire.
The Mancunian rond. OB the other
hand, would stop at the A moor and not
touch the all-R-ussian line across the
Continent, which Is now being .com
pleted, while its point of intersection of
the existing Manchurlan road would be
far down In Manchuria, so thnt if it
were occupied by hostile forces Euro
pean access to Eastern Siberia and to
Manchuria itself would still be unim
paired.
The one apparently possible reason
for KusHia's preferring the Mongolian
to the Manclmrian road Is that she In
tends or desires to acquire and to re
tain permanent possession of Manchuria
and its railroads, as she once confessedly
planned to do. instead of withdrawing
and restoring them to China in accord
ance with her later treaty stipulations.
That is a design which we are not
witling to impute Io Russia. Vet it must
be apparent that efforts to debar China
from the proper u*e and development of
her own provinces wotdd be fitted to
provoke suspicion, and that the persist
ent execution of such n policy would
sorely make more difficult and more un
welcome ultimate compliance with the
terms of the existing treaty.
In the bright lexicon of the Interbor
ough Rapid Transit Company there's no
such word as 'Van."
The receiver .for Zion City expects to
be able to pay 119 cents on the dollar to
the creditors of that abandoned ro-oper
ative enterprise. We are not ready for
the communal plan of life, with its
sacrifice of Individual incentive and im
pulse to socialistic drift and irrespon
sibility. American life is full of the
wrecks of mushroom communistic col
cnle. c . fr«m Brook Farm to Zion City.
The Weather Bureau's warning' of a
general thaw and resulting floods did
not come too soon.
A silver quaigh six Inches in diameter
and weighing- less than thirteen ounces
was sold at auction In London the other
day for nearly $1,300. The man who
drinks Scotch whiskey toddy out of It
must feel that he imbibes a precious
draft. "The quaighs." wrote Scott,
''were deep, the liquor strong." They
should have been, at such a price.
It might well be wished that Mr Me-
Adoo had received and made up his
mind to accept an offer of the presi
dency of the Interborough company.
A colossal shed in which military air
ships will be built by the British War
Department is now in process of erec
tion. Strangers are to be rigidly ex
cluded when the Inclosure Is put to prac
tical use. John Bull evidently considers
it bad policy to give away his secrets.
Dr. Charcot says that if he had wanted
to reach the South Pole he would have
made the attempt by way of Victoria
Land (on Ross Sea) or Coats Land. He
adds, however, that he thinks that "those
"regions belong to the men who discov
"er«d them."
The la-A-making- authority has fluttered
I about this natural and necessary trans
■ formation [railroad consolidation] much a?
■ a fly buzzes about a horse. It can sting and
1 ennoy, but it neither hastens nor impedes
the progress of the horse unless the files
; are thick enough and i/An bite harrl enough
to bring him to a halt in the effort to drive
. them away.— James J. Hill, In "World's
j Work."
Wasn't it Mr. Hill who was saying a
, couple of years ago that if the legisla
tures did not let thp railroads alone we
J should come to "an end of the Re
public"?
"The Charlotte Observer" says that
i the elimination of Chairman Conncrs
■was "a forward step."' So far as Mr.
j Conners was concerned it looks more
.like a humiliating catapulting down the
j back stairs to oblivion.
THE TALK OF THE DAT.
| A Boston housewife whoso maid had left
\ her' advertised for a servant "to do gen
eral housework." There was only one an
swer to the advertisement, a frowzy and
impossible individual, redolent of malt and
spirituous liquor. The housewife advertised
again, adding the detail?, "steam heated
room and separate bath." There were
thirty answers this time.
Wife— John! There's a burglar going
through your pockets.
John— All right. You two fight it out be
tween yourselves.— Chicago News.
AT TENNIS.
(Wafted from Palm Beach.)
1 When Phyllis plays
The high lights from the skies ._
•Lie active in her eyes: ' '
Her glance my stroke dismays—
When Phyllis play.«. ■
When Phyllis plays
I always face the sun-
By day or eve begun
The court is all ablaze
When Phyllis plays.
When Phyllis plays.
And calls, " 'Tls fifteen, love,"
I wonder can I prove
That little word betrays—
When Phyllis plays.
When Phyllis plays . ,
And "fault" i must confess,
Dan- Cupid's in distress.
As faultless are her ways—
When Phyllis plays.
When Phyllis plays-
But bold! False muse depart!
She's won both game and heart,
And hope she also slays —
When Phyllis plays!
GEORGE M. B. HORTON. ;
"I always take a day off on my birth
day," said the first one.
"That's nothing; my wife always takes
a year off on hers," answered the second.—
Buffalo Impress,
Alexander Simpson, one of the best
known lawyers of Jersey city, tells this
story: One of his clients was on trial on
the charge of robbing a store window, and
when on the witness stand said: "Judge, I
simply could not help taking the things,
but it was not my fault; it was the fault
of my right arm. Try as I might. 1 could
not stop my arm from reaching into the
window and taking the things I am
charged with stealing." "All right," said
the judge. "1 will sentence your right arm
to a year In Jail." Whereupon the prisoner
unscrewed his cork arm and. laying ii he
fere the judge, left the courtroom.
Angry Wife— A telegram's been waiting
for you ever since s o'clock.
Squiffy and Startled Husband— Read it to
rt;e. my dear — blc! — J left my glasses In
town.
Angry Wife (sniffing)— Yes, but you've
evidently brought the contents with you.—
Illustrated lilts.
History surely does repeat itself. "The
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle," in its
"looking Backward" column, under date
of 1865. says: "About a hundred tons of
coal waa brought to Rochester from sur
rounding villages. It was purchased at
from $10 to |H a ton, or from IS to $4 less
than was charged by the local coal com
bine." So even forty-five year* ago, ap
parently, they had coal "combines" and
boycotts against high prices And yet
most people would say offhand that thoie
things were strictly modern Invention?.
''a,',",. Crawford- What dirt he ***+
m Mri ? Crabshaw-A rteam heated flat-
Judge. . ■ ,-'. 'j ■.■':■.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
TENDS TO WEAKEN GOOD FEELING.
1 To the Editor of The Tribune. ,•//:.
Sir: However else the peopie. of tn:s
country may be, divided, they. may be as
sumed to be practically one in wishing.for
the elimination- of all feeling of animosity
between North and South. Vet 1 venture
to assert that those who. like myself, re
gard the placing of a statue of General l*e
in the Washington Capitol as something
undesirable are more genuinely Unionist
than their opponents.
It is one of the country misfortunes that
there should be found within its borders
monuments to men who fought against
each other in a civil war. . But people of
my way of thinking see another cause for
regret— for very great regret— that any
state of the Union should now. like Vir
ginia, insist on doing something In connec
tion with the great calamity which in the
nature of things must be to many Ameri
cans objectionable, to others offensive ami
to some even abhorrent. if it had com j
about that by decree of the government a.
statue of Grant or of Sherman was now to
be erected In what was once the Capitol of
the Southern Confederacy, who would won
der if thousands of Southerners, whose af
fections for the heroes of their awful
struggle were still warm and whose rever
ence for the ideals that sustained them was
as sincere as it was deep, should confess to
a sense of being affronted or oppressed?
Who can doubt the strength or the spread
or the multiplicity of the objections to a
statue of Lee In Washington?
I submit that such a use of the govern
ment's invitation on the port of Virginia
and the support of the same outside of
Virginia tend to weaken, rather than to
strengthen, a national sentiment of-soli
darity or general good feeling.
New York, Feb. 28, 1910. PAUL. DANA.
HONORS LEE AS A MAN.
To the I>litor of The Tribune
Sir: 1 resent, on behalf of the members
of the Grand Army of the Republic, the
"supposition" of Williams Carter, pub
i lished hi your Issue of this morning, that
i we need instruction to enable us to use the
I words "rebel" and "traitor"' accurately, and
not Ignorantly.
Who better than we learned the proper
application of these words In the bitter
school of war? Who more than we have
worked for forty-five years past to elimi
nate such terms as "rebel and "traitor"
from our vocabulary? Between the years
I^>l and lS6f» the men who were in rebellion
against the central government at Wash
ington were justly called rebels, as op
posed to loyalists; when they laid down
their arms they ceased to be rebels. We
I recognized tin's on the spor, and from the
I day when they came Into the Union camps,
j all over the South, on thefr way to their
I old homes, we welcomed them as cora
j radea and shared with them, our clothing
! and our food. Since then, through our vari
; 011s posts, we have fraternized with them
■ in every possible way and have answered
I every appeal to aid them !n founding sol
i diers' homes in their land for ex-Confed
j crates. We have even suggested that the
• surplus receipts for twenty-four hours be
i applied by the national treasury to the
building up and honoring the neglected
graves of those brave fellows who fell in
battle or died in hospitals while wearing
I the "gray." Had the spirit of reconcilia
j tion which has all along animated the
I "veterans" of tho North toward the "sur
j vlvors" of the South animated the rest of
: the mifk.n we should not have had to wait
for the blowing up of the Maine to reunite
! these United States as one people.
Under the influence"of this spirit I do not i
I believe that the statue of Robert E. I.cc j
would b'"" misplaced in the national Capitol. I
provided he were dressed as an American
gentlem.m and not In the uniform nf a
' -rebel" general, for ihis last would be an
! insult to the North, which treated the South
generously. Famous he certainly was. In ,
military genius great writers have ranked
him with Turenne and Marlborough. Fort
unately for the world, be failed to destroy
our majestic republic, but he bad no sooner
done so than he accepted the situation, and j
during the rest of his life, both by precept
and example, admonished Southerners to j
do likewise and to he loyal to their country.
Because, in doing this, he did what lie
could to repair damage?, instead of sulking !
In his t^nt, I respect his memory. Mean- i
while T should not like to see anything done i
that has a tendency to reopen old sores
that ought to be allowed to heal.
HENRY M. CALVERT.
Past Commander r. S. Grant Post.
Brooklyn, Feb. 2S, 1910.
STORED MEAT.
To tiie Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The announcement made by Health
Commissioner Lederle that his inspectors
bad destroyed 34,795 pounds of decom
posed meat, fish and poul'ry that had been
released from told storage to retail deal
cra in New York for distribution to the
people no doubt exemplifies conditions in
all the cold storage meat warehouses in
the country.
There should be no let-up of the courts
or the people on the persons that com
prise the Meat Trust. Every investiga
tion of public dealings with them or of
their business unveils remorseless cupid
ity.
The case of these manufacturers of
embalmed beef illustrates the foresight
of our lawmakers, who framed acts in
some of the states absolving butchers
from serving on Juries in criminal cases.
Did the Beef Trust refund any amount
to the government for the rotten meat it
was paid for? If not. why not? How
many soldiers are invalided for life
through -•.itiiig the stuff?
Speculation In foodstuffs must cease!
should be the people's immediate demand.
a C. \ ETW BERRY.
Bloomfietd, N J.. Feb. 2S, !:*!■'.
RARER THAN RADIUM.
Strange Traits of the Element Polo
nium, Discovered by Mme. Curie.
Paris correspondence of The London Stand-
Hrct*
The most interesting feature of yester
day's meeting of the Academy or Sciences
was the announcement by M. Ltppmann
that Mme. Curie, together with M. Debierne
had .suc.-eeded In Isolating: the tenth part
of a milligramme of polonium, a substance
which Is live thousand times more rare
than radium and which was discovered by
Mme. Curie alone before she shared in the
task of finding radium. This infinitesimal
quantity of polonium Is, nevertheless, the
largest yet obtained and was the result of
treating five tons of pitchblende with hy
drochloric acid. The achievement is, per-",
haps, more valuable scientifically than prac
tically, for, although polonium is far more
radioactive than radium, ami especially
productive Of more alpha ruys. it la far loss
permanent: While it has ot*<?n calculated
that radium does not lose any appreciable
atom of volume of strength in a thousand
years, 1 le quantity of polonium just ob
tained appears already to have wasted by
half In a hundred and forty days.
Among the distinguishing properties of
polonium 11 is found that it throws off sen
sible emanations of ozone and helium, and
its spectrum reveals the existence of seven
rays which are not detected In any other
vognatn substance, it decomposes chemi
cal and orgr.nlc ■uostance* with ftu * great
est rapidity, and though it li contained in
a vase of quartz, one of the substances
most refractory to chemlcsl action, the re
ceptacle Is spilt and cracked in ail 6irec
tlons. It In the transmutation? which po
lonium appears to undergo w - hi^!l, ,?^% « c .
most scientific interest, and if they are ie
curately defined It is believed that a ire\o
lution will nave been effected In chemical
science. ■->, I
Teopte^nd Social Incidenu\
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rFrom The Tribune B«re«u.]
W-smn-ton. Feb. ■■■■■■ Smltn. J R oh n
re'VntaK-e Johnson and ex-Governor -John
Garr Evan*, of South Carolina, urged the
Present to-day to appoint CP. t -;;:
of S»artfinburK 9. C. to one of the Judge
snipTof thTnTw C^tom. Court. President
-raft Mi S fliers that the South was
already represented by two BSSSII«isa»Sj
that In the event of the refusal of either
one to" accept the reduced «aUry sttMsl
he would consider the names of any Demo
crats recommended.
Colonel M. M. llulhall. F. 8. Cbavannej
H. D. Bush and William H. Morrow a skea
the President not to appoint I. Herbert
Scotes in place of William F. Stone -Col
lector of Customs at. the Port of Baltimore.
•I have told some of my personal friends
that I would. like to be ■■Mini of the re
sponsibility of many political appoint
ments " said postmaster General Hitchcock
when leaving the White House after Intro
ducing to the President Theodore L. ***•<!.
newly appointed chief clerk of the I'ost
offlce Department. -To one or two I r'.-e,
said that I would never manaK*" another
national campaign if It could be avoided."
The President's callers included the Sec- \
retary of State. Representatives Hammlll.
Kinkald. Austin.. Morehead, Voting. Slemp ,
Prownlow. Keifor. Cowles. Sheppard, Cal- '
derbead. Tener. Boehne. Chapman. Tirr^l!
and Cole, ex-Ser ator McCreary and ex- j
Representatives Chancy and Hepburn.
President Taft was the guest of honor
and delivered an address at the annual din
ner of the University Club of . Washington
at the New Willaid this evening. . The
President later in the evening joined Mrs.
Taft at the Columbia Theatre at the per
formance of "A Gentleman . from Missis
sippi." With Mrs. Taft were Mrs. Thomas
K. T.auglilin and Lieutenant Palmer.
Mrs. Ezra B. McCagg. of Chicago, who
has been Mrs. Taft guest at the White
House. for several weeks, left for her home ;
this afternoon. , .
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
[From The Trlburr* Bur»a:i 1
Washington, Feb. 28.-The Frfii'h Am
bassador and Mme. Jusserand entertaln<-il h
dinner party to-ni?ht in compliment Is
Major General Frederick Dent Grant and
Mrs. Grant. Their other guests were the
Minister to Denmark and Mrs Maurice
Francis Egan. Representative ani Mrs.
I^owden. the former Secretary of tne In
terior ami Mrs. James R. Garfleld. Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith. lieutenant and
Mrs. U. S. Grant. Dr. and Mrs. WsasWr,
Mrs. Hotson. Mrs. Charles Dana, of Phila
delphia; Mrs. John Phlllrps, Ml^s Georzlana
Hopkins. Mitchell Innes, British counsellor:
President .lame- of the University of Illi
nois, and Peretti ile la Rocca. first secre
tary, and Mr. Tailhand, third secretary, of
the embassy staff.
The Mi lister from Switzerland ami Mme.
Rltfer entertained at dinner to-night the
Minister from Norway and Mme. Gu.ie. th"
Minister from Denmark and Countess
Moltke. A. Rustem Bey, Ottoman Charge
d' Affaire.-; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Putnam.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins,
Baroness Preuschen yon und zu Lleben
stein. Miis Lucy Kean, Mr. Kennar<l. K»
ond Brit sh secretary', and Henri Martin,
Swiss secretary.
The Minister from Argentina and Senora
de Porteli and their son. Seflor Don Julian
Portela. second secretary, went to New
York to-lay. Senora de Portela and her
son will sail for Paris on Saturday. The
minister will return to Washington.
The Minister from Salvador and Senora
de Mejia went to New York to-day to spend
a week. Seftora de Mejia and her daugh
ters will go to Salvador at the end of
March ard will spend the summer there.
Albert Godoy, attache of the Mexican
Embassy, has gone to New York to meet
his parer.ts. the Mexican Minister to Cuba
and Sefiora dp Godoy. The Minister and
Senora de Godoy will go to Cuba from
New York, and from there to Mexico for
the summer.
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
! From TTie Tribune Bureau. 1
Washington. Feb. 28.— The Vice-President
and Mr?. Sherman were the guests for
whom Mr. and Mr?. Edson Bradley enter
tained at dinner to-night. To meet them
were Senator and Mrs. Root. Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Beekman
Winthror. the Assistant Secretary of War
and Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas T. Gaff. Dr. and Mrs. T. Morris
Murray, General and Mrs. Johnston, Mr.
and Mrs. C C. Glover. Major General Bell,
Miss Mac Williams and Mr. and Mr«.
George Marshall Allen and Mis? Beatrice
Sterling, of New York, who are house
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley.
Mrs. Richard H. Townsend had Count
and Countess i.aszii Szechenyi, who are
house guests of the Secretary of The Navy
and Mrs. Meyer, at luncheon to-day. Others
of the party were the Minister from Den
mark an.l Countess Moltke. the Minister
from Spain. Countess Gizycka, Mrs. Nicho
MR. FAIRBANKS AT PALACE.
Received by President Fallieres — To
Go to London To-day.
Paris. Feb. 28.— President Fallieies re
ceived Cliarles W. Fairbanks at the Elysee
Palace this afternoon. The American Am
bassatior. Mr. Bacon, presented the former
Vice- President, and the exchange of greet
ings waa most cordial.
During tli» stay in Paris Mrs. Fairbanks
was entertained at several luncheons and
teas by Mrs. Bacon and other American
women. Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks vi!l leave
for London to-morrow.
TOLSTOY— FROTH AM.
Paris, Feb. S3.— The marriage was cele
brated here to-day of Miss Mary Frothlng
ham. daughter of Charles F. Frothlngham,
of New York, and Count Alexander Kouto
soff Tolstoy, nephew of Count I.co Tolstoy,
the Russian author.
Miss 'otliitigham has been In Paris for
several months studying music, and sad
the count there. The civil ceremony was per
formed by the Mayor In bis office early in
the morning, while the religious marriage
\\:ts performed in the Russian church at
noon.
Miss Krothingham is twenty-f.our years
old, and was recently a student at Barnard
College. Count Tolstoy is forty-three years
old, and is the son of Paul Koutosoff Tols
toy. Mr. Mason. American Consul In Paris,
and Charles Q. N. Loeb, a lawyer, were
the witnesses.
At the Hotel St. Regis yesterday, at noon.
Miss Helen I. llaan. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. K. Mi llaan, was married to Armand
Schulz. Th© ceremony took place In the
presence of the members of th» Immediate
family, and was performed by Supreme
Court Justice James A. Blanchard.
Mr. and Mrs. Schuls will make a short
trip In this country, after which they will
sail for Europe, and on their wedding trip
they will visit lxmdon. Farl«. the Riviera.
Klorer.ce. Rome. Naple?. Venice and then
take up their permanent residence at their
country home la Hungary.
GIVES LECTURESHIP TO "SHEFF."
New Haven, Feb. 23.— Professor Russell
H. ChJttenden. director of the Sheffield
: Scientific School, announced to-day a gilt
of $r,,000 to the Sheffield trustees for the
, establishment of a lectureship on water
i storage conservation. The gift Is made by
Chester W. Lynaan, of New York City, a
graduate of Yale College in the class of
'82. The lectureship will be known as the
Chester -S. Lyman lectureship, in memory
of the giver's father, formerly professor of
physics and astronomy --in the Sheffleid
■Scientific School. ->^~ - ~*~ : *"s-iJ
! las r»ngworth. Countess r-tii» Al^xandr*
' yon Berns-orff. th»» Misses Meyer, Ml«»
Elklns. M -=■ May. M."« Townsend. Count
' Ladlslas Czlraky. Austrian Attach*; A. f.
Horstmann. German Attache; Prince '—-
de LJgn*. Belgian Secretary: Jonkfteer W.
H. de Beaufort, Netherlands Attache Craig
V,'. Wadsworth, ex-second secretary of
the embassy In Tendon: R. 3. Reynold
Hltt. secretary of the embassy in Berlin;
Captain i'.n'r. <". K. 3!mplcins and Will
, lam F. Ft. MM
' Senator and Mr« Stephen B. F.ik:n«i en
', tertained at luncheon to-day Major Gen
eral and Mr«. Frederick Dent Grant. Thel
other fruests were the> Assistant Secretary
of State and Mrs. Huntlngton Wilson, th*
German Military Attache and Mme. yon
' f.lvoniii.o and Mrs. Burton Harrison.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson Clov»r
had dfnlng with them to-night the. Post
master General, the Minister from 3weden
and Mme. de Lagercrantz. Senator and
Mr.-. Aldrlch. Representative Hamilton
bTfh. bbsßJ flsb, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
White-, Representative, and Mrs. John W.
j Dwight. Mrs. John B. Henderson, Miss
! Mabel Boarriman. Miss Clover. Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles, and Craig W.
Wadswrrrth.
Mr.- John B. Henderson Invited a .m
ber of guest* to-night to a small danca
and to witness some classic dance?.
Mrs. William Manning Irwin and Mia*
Anna Irwin. wife and daughter of Comm
ander Irwin, who went to New York yes
trrday to meet Mr« Ir win's ssSsST. Mtn«.
Thlebaut. wife of The French- Minister to
Argentina, returned here to-night.'' M-
Thiebaut will Join hia wife here within a.
fortnight, and they will return to Argen
tina in time for the opening of the expo
sition. Mrs. U. P. McCartney, also a sis
ter of Me:". Thlebaut. went to New Torlc
to meet her and will return here to-mor
row.
Count and Countess I,aszlo Szechenyt,
who have been the gn*st3 of the Secre
tary of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer for sev
eral days, returned to New York to-night.
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Mr?. Stuyvesant Fish will give a dlhn-r
this evening at her house, in East'7Sth
street.
The sewing tlas«s that works for th«
fresh air fund of the Cathedral oC- St.
John the Divine will meet BBSS morning ai
the house of Mrs. John H. Iselln. in Easi
7?th street.
The class that works for the New York
Infant Asylum met yesterday morning ■*.
the house of Mrs. Frederic J. de Peyster,
in East S*>th street. . , ,
Mrs. William E. Strong will give a recep
tion at the Plaza on Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rl-hard T. Wilson, jr.. a-e
at their country placa at Palmetto, S. C.,
where they will remain until Apr!!.
Count and Countess Laszlo Szechenyt.
who are now in Washington, are expected
to return to town before the end of th»
week.
Mrs. Edward La Montagne and her
daughter. Miss Dolly Madison ].-. Mon
tagne, sailed for Bermuda on Saturday.
They will return to New York at the end
of the month.
Mrs. Francis Dana Winstow and her
daughter. Miss Margaret Wlnslow. who re
cently sailed for Europe, have arrived la
London and are at the Rit* Hotel.
Mr an-1 Mrs. A. Butler D-incar have -»
turned from Europe and will open rh»lr
country place on Long Island verj' shortly.
Mrs. Deiancey Nicoil has left town faa
Hot Springs. Va.. where she wiil r-mala
until the middle of the month.
Mrs. A>;gust Heckscher and Mlse An
toinette Ueckscher havq arrived at Falra
Beach for a short stay.
Mrs James B. Clews will give a dinner
at Sherry's on Friday.
March 31 hi the date set for the marria*.%
of Miss Constance Hoyt and Mr xan
Stumm, German attach?, whose engage
ment was announced some weeks ago. Th»
wedding party will be quite small. Two
of Mr. yon Stumm's brothers will coins jj
from Germany, and one of them wlli *»: 3 "
him as best man.
• " i
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT*
[By Telegraph to Th» Tribune.J ~> ,
Newport, Feb. 28 — Mrs. .Lorillard Bp«a« ><
cer has returned from New York.
Mrs. Harold Brown is visiting in Ne*J
York for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Carter, wh4
are to again occupy Quartrefoil this sum
mer, will arrive about May 15.
F. M. Davies arrived from New. Tors
this evening.
GEMSBOK FEAST FOR MR. TAFT.
Two Bucks Captured by Roosevelt
Party on Their Way.
Chicago. Feb. 28.— Sir .Michael feenni.-on.
of British Uganda, has cabled that two
buck gemsboks captured by the Roosevelt
party will probably arrive in Chicago In
time to be served at the Tart dinner, to be
held by the Irish Fellowship Club on Marc!»
17. It was announce-! by the committee in
charge of the dinner yesterday that th«
buck meat would be Included on. the menu
If the gemsboks arrive in time.
Sir Michael says the two gemabok-". a spe
cies of African antelope, ought to arrive la
New York on Mar 12.
MUNSTERBERG BERLIN LECTURER.
Cambridge. Mass.. Feb. 2S.— Professor
Hugo Miinsterd^rK. professor of psychology
""tl director of the psychological laboratory
of Harvard University, has been appotntea
exchange professor to lecture at the Uni
versity of Berlin. Professor Munsterbeifj
■ID serve during the term 1310-'!!.
PASTOR ACCEPTS NEW YORK CALL.
Denver. F**v 2S.— The Rev. Christian ■
Frelsner. pastor of Grace Methodist Epis- i
copal Church ■*•*. accepted a call to-day A
to the pastorate of Grace .Methodist Epis-
•opal Church. Ksv 131 West lOUh street.
New York City.
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GOOD COMEDY— IN SPOTS. :*J
From Th» Rochester Post-Express.
A Boston elocutionist has Introduced a
series of readings made up of selection*
from "The Congressional Record.". Th«
next thing we know Charley Fronman will
be having: the series turned into a play.
ONE THING LACKING. V
From The Albany Journal.
The New- York Tribune contends that a
baby is» as good as an alarm clock, tut that -
is not altogether true. A baby htj no j
"silencer.'"
PROBABLY ONE REASON
From The Syracuse Herald.
Governor Hujcnes dsclam thai "the.Ni
tional Guard of the State or New York H
the finest body of organized militia the
world has ever known." Maybe it is a
widespread suspicion of this fact that has
made riotous outbreaks almost a thing of
the past in New York State cities.
EIGHTY DAYS OF SLEIGHING.
From The Buffalo News.
"Unsettled weather" to-day and rain to
morrow threaten to make bad going 1 in tb«
country. Th© banks are high and the pitch
holes are deep, and with a little rain th*
roads will be impassable In many place*-
But -we have had eighty days of slei;hJn*
without a break, and that ts dotn? pretty
well in this locality. And gentl* •prta*
can't come any too soon, -' — --* -